WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.279 --> 00:00:07.839 Tired of the everyday grind, ever dream of a life 2 00:00:07.879 --> 00:00:14.320 of romantic adventure, want to get away from it all. 3 00:00:16.199 --> 00:00:17.199 We offer you. 4 00:00:18.839 --> 00:00:27.600 Escape Escape Transcribe to free you from the four walls 5 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:30.800 of today for a half hour of high adventure. 6 00:00:35.039 --> 00:00:51.000 You are traveling east on a cross country bus, while 7 00:00:51.039 --> 00:00:57.719 among your fellow passengers, seemingly innocent and friendly, are a 8 00:00:57.759 --> 00:01:03.840 man and a woman who plan to destroy you and 9 00:01:04.040 --> 00:01:08.000 one hundred and fifty million of your countrymen. 10 00:01:08.680 --> 00:01:12.799 Listen now as Escape brings you Anthony Ellis's exciting story 11 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:14.760 Classified Secret. 12 00:01:58.200 --> 00:02:06.159 Nice day kids share not spring. Look at him. 13 00:02:06.680 --> 00:02:08.960 I've been watching them. 14 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:14.120 Yeah, kind of glad though I haven't got any Oh well, 15 00:02:14.759 --> 00:02:18.280 you know, world conditions, things the way they are. Who 16 00:02:18.280 --> 00:02:19.360 wants to bring a kid into it? 17 00:02:20.319 --> 00:02:20.960 I suppose. 18 00:02:21.039 --> 00:02:25.360 So do you have a match? 19 00:02:26.039 --> 00:02:29.719 Sure? Here you are. 20 00:02:31.560 --> 00:02:32.400 Thanks? 21 00:02:35.680 --> 00:02:36.360 Have you got it? 22 00:02:39.400 --> 00:02:40.039 What's the matter? 23 00:02:41.199 --> 00:02:45.800 Well, you don't look the type. I almost hoped you weren't. 24 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:47.520 Have you got it with me? 25 00:02:48.479 --> 00:02:48.719 No? 26 00:02:48.840 --> 00:02:51.560 But I'll take you to where it is, all right. 27 00:02:52.520 --> 00:02:55.479 The money's in tens, twenties and fifties. 28 00:02:55.240 --> 00:02:57.000 In the sack with the groceries. Mmm. 29 00:02:57.199 --> 00:03:00.120 I thought it'd be safer that way. 30 00:03:00.159 --> 00:03:04.599 So how much ten thousand, ten. 31 00:03:05.319 --> 00:03:06.319 That's what you agreed to. 32 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:09.599 Uh huh, I said twenty. 33 00:03:10.520 --> 00:03:11.400 I was told ten. 34 00:03:11.520 --> 00:03:12.840 They made a mistake, then, didn't they? 35 00:03:13.919 --> 00:03:16.560 Sorry, what are you trying to do? 36 00:03:16.680 --> 00:03:18.599 Nothing? Not a thing? 37 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:21.560 I was told you were with us. 38 00:03:21.719 --> 00:03:24.360 I am, but I get paid for it too, don't you. 39 00:03:25.599 --> 00:03:27.199 I can't sit here any longer. 40 00:03:27.560 --> 00:03:28.479 We might be watched. 41 00:03:29.479 --> 00:03:30.360 Will you please give me? 42 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:34.800 Sorry, it was a misunderstanding, but unless you want to 43 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:37.120 take me to the headman, maybe he can straighten it out. 44 00:03:37.879 --> 00:03:41.840 I haven't any instructions for that. Where can I reach you? 45 00:03:42.319 --> 00:03:44.439 As of about two hours and now you can, I'm 46 00:03:44.479 --> 00:03:45.000 leaving town. 47 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:49.080 Will you give us twenty four hours? It'll take that long. 48 00:03:49.120 --> 00:03:49.439 Sorry. 49 00:03:50.759 --> 00:03:52.599 If you can't pay what I want, there's somebody else 50 00:03:52.599 --> 00:03:53.039 who will. 51 00:03:54.960 --> 00:03:55.800 I'm going. 52 00:03:57.080 --> 00:04:03.439 So long. I was sitting on a bench in a 53 00:04:03.439 --> 00:04:07.840 little park in North Hollywood, California. The early spring sun 54 00:04:07.960 --> 00:04:10.520 was warm, and there was a smell of fresh cut grass. 55 00:04:12.039 --> 00:04:14.360 I watched the woman I'd never seen before walk off 56 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:17.399 down the path. She was headed for the avenue and 57 00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:21.519 some cars parked beyond the trees. I thought, how nice 58 00:04:21.519 --> 00:04:23.720 it would have been if if she were just a 59 00:04:23.759 --> 00:04:28.240 woman in the park and nothing else. I waited until 60 00:04:28.279 --> 00:04:30.800 she was out of sight, and I got up and 61 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:48.399 walked away in the opposite direction. I got the bus 62 00:04:48.399 --> 00:04:51.399 at the Hollywood station. I had a train ticket in 63 00:04:51.439 --> 00:04:54.199 my pocket, but with a new development, it looked safer 64 00:04:54.279 --> 00:04:57.319 to ride the bus. Just before we pulled out, a 65 00:04:57.319 --> 00:04:59.600 girl climbed aboard and came down the aisle looking for 66 00:04:59.639 --> 00:04:59.959 a seat. 67 00:05:04.279 --> 00:05:06.519 Excuse me, is this number eighteen? 68 00:05:06.800 --> 00:05:06.959 Oh? 69 00:05:07.360 --> 00:05:07.759 Thank you? 70 00:05:08.279 --> 00:05:10.000 Oh here, let me put your case up. 71 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:18.040 Thank you. I was afraid I was gonna listen. 72 00:05:18.199 --> 00:05:39.279 Yeah, I know how it is. I settled back, watched 73 00:05:39.319 --> 00:05:43.639 the city drift away into desert country. As buses go, 74 00:05:43.720 --> 00:05:45.759 It was pretty quiet. There was a four or five 75 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:48.040 year old kid with his mother a couple of seats forward, 76 00:05:48.040 --> 00:05:50.639 but he dozed off almost as soon as he got running. 77 00:05:52.040 --> 00:05:53.800 I took a look at the girls sitting next to me, 78 00:05:53.879 --> 00:05:56.639 not in the way you might think, but because in 79 00:05:56.879 --> 00:05:59.800 my business you get to learn to look at people. 80 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:04.279 You never know who it might be. She must have 81 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:08.000 felt me watching. She lowered the magazine she was reading. 82 00:06:13.759 --> 00:06:15.680 Would you uh care to look at one of these? 83 00:06:16.240 --> 00:06:18.720 Well, that's nice of you. I I always forget to 84 00:06:18.759 --> 00:06:19.360 buy 'em. 85 00:06:19.639 --> 00:06:20.560 This one's a mystery. 86 00:06:21.439 --> 00:06:24.000 I don't usually read them, but on a long trip 87 00:06:24.040 --> 00:06:25.600 they kind of passed the time away. 88 00:06:25.839 --> 00:06:29.439 Yeah they do. How far are you going New York, 89 00:06:29.839 --> 00:06:31.360 m that's a long trip, all right. 90 00:06:31.759 --> 00:06:35.519 I'll say I haven't been back for ten years. 91 00:06:36.720 --> 00:06:37.480 Bet it's changed. 92 00:06:37.560 --> 00:06:44.800 Yeah, I guess so. I read the mystery well into Arizona. 93 00:06:45.720 --> 00:06:48.519 When I finished, it was beginning to get dark. The 94 00:06:48.639 --> 00:06:52.319 kid up her head was awake and hungry. There was 95 00:06:52.360 --> 00:06:55.439 a feeling of expectation on the bus as we drove 96 00:06:55.480 --> 00:06:57.040 into the first night of travel. 97 00:06:57.240 --> 00:06:59.160 Next time youth School. 98 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:01.040 Did you enjoy it? 99 00:07:02.319 --> 00:07:04.519 Oh? Yes, it was fine, Thanks a lot. 100 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:06.079 What was it about. 101 00:07:07.639 --> 00:07:09.879 Spies? Real exciting? 102 00:07:10.639 --> 00:07:14.639 I like spy movies sometimes. I think they do so 103 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:17.439 many of them. You read about it in the papers 104 00:07:17.439 --> 00:07:17.959 all the time. 105 00:07:19.439 --> 00:07:19.839 I don't know. 106 00:07:20.519 --> 00:07:21.879 I think people would get sick of it. 107 00:07:22.240 --> 00:07:23.759 Yeah, I guess you're right. 108 00:07:23.959 --> 00:07:27.759 They're exciting. Like you say, I bet it isn't really 109 00:07:27.800 --> 00:07:28.040 like that. 110 00:07:28.439 --> 00:07:33.279 I dot it. Say. My name's Charlie, Charlie Raider. 111 00:07:33.639 --> 00:07:35.959 Oh, how you do. I'm Julie Spalding. 112 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:36.199 Hi. 113 00:07:37.360 --> 00:07:39.360 That kid sounds as hungry as I am. 114 00:07:39.439 --> 00:07:39.639 Yeah. 115 00:07:39.720 --> 00:07:41.879 We ought to be stopping soon, I hope. 116 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:42.000 So. 117 00:07:54.240 --> 00:07:56.839 About fifteen minutes later, we pulled up at a restaurant 118 00:07:56.920 --> 00:08:00.600 terminal and went in for food. I watched any new 119 00:08:00.639 --> 00:08:04.120 passengers who might be getting on. I didn't see anybody, 120 00:08:04.120 --> 00:08:06.199 And as soon as I had finished my sandwich and coffee, 121 00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:08.079 I sent a telegram to New York, and then got 122 00:08:08.120 --> 00:08:11.800 back on the bus. The girl, Julie and I seem 123 00:08:11.839 --> 00:08:14.360 to be hitting it off, and it was pleasant enough 124 00:08:14.399 --> 00:08:18.399 to pass the time. After we got rolling, the kid 125 00:08:18.480 --> 00:08:20.639 up ahead decided to sing himself to sleep. 126 00:08:21.439 --> 00:08:22.079 It was like a. 127 00:08:22.079 --> 00:08:26.000 Crooning, over and over again, the same song, the same 128 00:08:26.279 --> 00:08:29.560 few notes. I guess it put everybody else to sleep 129 00:08:29.600 --> 00:08:36.799 except him. 130 00:08:37.080 --> 00:08:38.320 Makes you sleepy, doesn't it. 131 00:08:39.080 --> 00:08:42.679 Yeah, reminds me of when I was a kid. 132 00:08:43.840 --> 00:08:48.320 I used to do that. Kids are funny. 133 00:08:49.240 --> 00:08:50.720 Ah. 134 00:08:50.759 --> 00:08:55.039 Well, I don't know. I'm going back to New York 135 00:08:55.080 --> 00:08:58.200 for my sister's wedding. She's getting married next week. 136 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:03.960 She says, she want it's lots of kids. I don't know. 137 00:09:04.639 --> 00:09:05.559 Yeah, I know what you mean. 138 00:09:10.679 --> 00:09:11.879 Mind if I ask you something? 139 00:09:12.440 --> 00:09:13.320 No, I don't mind. 140 00:09:13.360 --> 00:09:15.879 What are you married? 141 00:09:16.799 --> 00:09:17.039 No? 142 00:09:18.120 --> 00:09:19.600 I don't mean it the way it sounds. 143 00:09:21.360 --> 00:09:26.840 I'm always interested in trying to guess about people. Now, 144 00:09:27.039 --> 00:09:29.279 I would have figured you were a married man with 145 00:09:29.399 --> 00:09:30.639 maybe two. 146 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:31.440 Or three kids. 147 00:09:32.720 --> 00:09:33.960 No, I'm not married. 148 00:09:34.399 --> 00:09:42.159 Oh, I hope you don't think I'm nosy. No, Well, 149 00:09:43.080 --> 00:09:44.240 kids singing fixed me. 150 00:09:45.600 --> 00:09:46.480 I'm gonna take a nap. 151 00:09:47.399 --> 00:10:10.080 Good night, Charlie, good night. I must have dropped off too. 152 00:10:11.559 --> 00:10:13.559 When I woke up, she had her head on my shoulder, 153 00:10:14.320 --> 00:10:17.159 A lock of her hair was falling over her closed eyes. 154 00:10:18.360 --> 00:10:21.679 And then I knew something was different on the bus 155 00:10:22.600 --> 00:10:25.720 somebody on the other side of the aisle watching. 156 00:10:29.279 --> 00:10:32.799 Excuse me, mister, you've got a match I'm clean out. 157 00:10:33.240 --> 00:10:46.039 M mm, sure just a minute here, you're right? Thanks, No, no, 158 00:10:46.120 --> 00:10:46.720 I'm keep 'em. 159 00:10:46.840 --> 00:10:48.639 Oh, fye, fye, thanks a lot. 160 00:10:50.600 --> 00:10:53.399 Say, have you got any idea where we are? 161 00:10:54.559 --> 00:10:57.159 I'm not sure. I got on at flagstaff for an 162 00:10:57.159 --> 00:10:57.639 hour or so. 163 00:10:57.759 --> 00:10:58.000 Back. 164 00:10:58.279 --> 00:11:03.440 M Oh boy, I envy her. I wish I could 165 00:11:03.480 --> 00:11:06.440 sleep like that your wife. 166 00:11:06.759 --> 00:11:08.519 No, h. 167 00:11:10.279 --> 00:11:14.679 Oh, Say that's rude, taking your matches and not offering 168 00:11:14.679 --> 00:11:15.399 you a cigarette. 169 00:11:15.480 --> 00:11:18.960 Oh, that's okay. No, I don't want no thanks. 170 00:11:21.240 --> 00:11:25.080 Say I want to tell you something. 171 00:11:25.720 --> 00:11:26.200 Mhmm. 172 00:11:26.919 --> 00:11:29.559 There's a lady in the seat behind you. I think 173 00:11:29.600 --> 00:11:36.000 you've met her before in the park, right m hm. 174 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:39.720 We brought her with us to identify you, but she 175 00:11:39.879 --> 00:11:41.960 gave us a pretty good description back in LA. 176 00:11:42.600 --> 00:11:44.080 Good for her. 177 00:11:46.840 --> 00:11:49.840 This is going to be a nice trip. Nothing like 178 00:11:50.039 --> 00:11:51.720 traveling with people you know? 179 00:11:51.919 --> 00:11:53.759 Is there nothing like it? 180 00:11:55.120 --> 00:11:59.279 I I don't suppose you've got any reading material you 181 00:11:59.320 --> 00:12:00.000 would let me look? 182 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:06.279 Okay, how about a mystery. It's a spy story. Pretty good. 183 00:12:06.519 --> 00:12:10.879 Now I was thinking of something else. I think you know. 184 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:21.720 Something more scientific. I'm very interested in airplanes, jet motives. 185 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:36.639 Sorry, he looked across at me, smiling, pleasant, and anybody 186 00:12:36.639 --> 00:12:39.399 watching it was nothing more than the casual conversation of 187 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:43.200 two strangers brought together by the night and sympathy of loneliness. 188 00:12:44.279 --> 00:12:47.679 Then he leaned back, and, reaching inside his jacket, brought 189 00:12:47.679 --> 00:12:51.559 out a small automatic, which he kept very carefully hidden 190 00:12:51.600 --> 00:12:52.480 from any eyes. 191 00:12:52.559 --> 00:12:56.480 But mine always carry this with me on a trip. 192 00:12:57.600 --> 00:12:58.279 You never know. 193 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:06.240 I knew, all right. If they couldn't buy what they wanted, 194 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:10.120 there were other ways, That's what he was telling me. 195 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:13.679 And I saw in the man's smiling face that I'd 196 00:13:13.720 --> 00:13:17.480 never reached New York unless I killed them before they 197 00:13:17.639 --> 00:13:18.039 killed me. 198 00:13:28.919 --> 00:13:31.759 We will return to Escape in just a moment, but first, 199 00:13:32.399 --> 00:13:35.440 the program that follows Tonight's story of Escape is a 200 00:13:35.480 --> 00:13:39.679 special repeat broadcast of CBS Radio's hard hitting drama Bomb 201 00:13:39.720 --> 00:13:43.840 Target USA, with Arthur Godfrey's narrator and a core of 202 00:13:43.879 --> 00:13:47.840 crack CBS radio newsmen reporting from spottered locations and from 203 00:13:47.879 --> 00:13:52.120 so called enemy bombing squadrons approaching our shores. Bomb Target 204 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:57.159 USA reports factually and without fanfare, exactly what America can 205 00:13:57.240 --> 00:14:01.200 expect today if enemy atomic bombers rated our major cities. 206 00:14:01.960 --> 00:14:05.600 Immediately Following Escape tonight on most of these same CBS 207 00:14:05.720 --> 00:14:12.120 radio stations, keep tuned for Bomb Target USA. Now back 208 00:14:12.200 --> 00:14:25.120 to Escape. 209 00:14:29.360 --> 00:14:32.840 Julie and I had breakfast somewhere in New Mexico. The 210 00:14:32.879 --> 00:14:35.080 woman from the park and the man who carried the 211 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:37.440 small automatic sat in a booth while we ate at 212 00:14:37.440 --> 00:14:41.039 the counter. I'd thought about things most of the night, 213 00:14:41.919 --> 00:14:44.320 and I decided to tell the girl, not too much, 214 00:14:44.399 --> 00:14:46.639 but enough so that she might be able to help. 215 00:14:47.559 --> 00:14:51.559 And I knew i'd need some help. 216 00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:58.399 Coffee's pretty good here, yeah, cigarette, No. 217 00:14:58.519 --> 00:15:06.000 Thanks, Julie. 218 00:15:06.840 --> 00:15:08.679 Yes, I want to tell you something. 219 00:15:09.440 --> 00:15:10.000 Oh. 220 00:15:10.120 --> 00:15:11.879 I don't want you to turn around and look, because 221 00:15:12.200 --> 00:15:16.960 pretend we're talking about the weather, coffee or anything, but listen. Well, sure, Charley, 222 00:15:17.399 --> 00:15:20.639 there's a couple sitting in the booth behind us. They're spies. 223 00:15:21.279 --> 00:15:21.440 Hm. 224 00:15:21.519 --> 00:15:27.000 Hm, oh you I'm not kidding. I can't tell you much, 225 00:15:27.039 --> 00:15:28.840 but as you love your life, you'll believe me. 226 00:15:29.440 --> 00:15:31.120 You're kidding, spy. 227 00:15:31.159 --> 00:15:37.200 Don't turn around, smile, just listening. But are trying to 228 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:39.120 get hold of the plans for a new jet motor. 229 00:15:39.600 --> 00:15:42.159 It's faster than anything anybody else has got. 230 00:15:42.799 --> 00:15:43.559 You are kidding? 231 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:44.120 No, I'm not. 232 00:15:44.879 --> 00:15:45.399 How do you know? 233 00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:47.519 How do you know about it? 234 00:15:47.639 --> 00:15:51.200 I'm working for the government FBI in a way. Now 235 00:15:51.240 --> 00:15:53.480 I need you to help me me. They think I've 236 00:15:53.480 --> 00:15:55.840 got the blueprints, their plans, and they're going to try 237 00:15:55.840 --> 00:15:56.639 and get them from me. 238 00:15:57.200 --> 00:15:59.200 But can't we get the police. 239 00:15:58.960 --> 00:16:03.080 No, because we're trying to get the headman, and of 240 00:16:03.080 --> 00:16:05.240 those two are arrested, will have to start all over again. 241 00:16:06.080 --> 00:16:08.799 They think I'm working with them, but I got tough 242 00:16:08.840 --> 00:16:10.639 about the money they offered, So now they're going to 243 00:16:10.639 --> 00:16:12.759 try and get rid of me and get the secret 244 00:16:12.759 --> 00:16:13.200 for nothing. 245 00:16:13.639 --> 00:16:15.320 Did they follow you from Los ask. 246 00:16:15.240 --> 00:16:17.440 Yes, they got on during the night in Flagstaff. 247 00:16:18.159 --> 00:16:18.679 I don't see. 248 00:16:19.039 --> 00:16:22.000 Well, just stick with no. I'll explain it the next stop. 249 00:16:22.039 --> 00:16:23.960 We can't talk about it on the bus because She's 250 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:25.799 sitting right behind, and he's across the aisle. 251 00:16:26.399 --> 00:16:32.639 Listen, are you pulling my No? No, you're not, are you? 252 00:16:33.559 --> 00:16:50.200 I'm not. We went on through New Mexico and the 253 00:16:50.240 --> 00:16:53.639 Pink Rock and the desert. We talked a lot of nonsense, 254 00:16:53.679 --> 00:16:56.399 and after a while I could see she was getting 255 00:16:56.399 --> 00:16:59.360 back to the idea that I'd been kidding, especially after 256 00:16:59.399 --> 00:17:02.159 the man with the gun introduced himself as mister Hutchinson 257 00:17:02.200 --> 00:17:05.200 and started to talk about fishing. It was about a 258 00:17:05.200 --> 00:17:06.759 half hour before our lunch stopped. 259 00:17:08.279 --> 00:17:11.880 Now you take some of that northern California country, talk 260 00:17:11.960 --> 00:17:14.119 about trout steal head. 261 00:17:14.440 --> 00:17:16.720 I tell you you are to take us up, my 262 00:17:16.799 --> 00:17:19.319 sister and me, take us up to a place in Maine. 263 00:17:20.039 --> 00:17:22.240 That always wanted a couple of boys, I guess, but 264 00:17:23.079 --> 00:17:24.759 when he saw what he got, he figured it wouldn't 265 00:17:24.759 --> 00:17:27.799 spoil his plans anyway, so he took his fishing every summer. 266 00:17:28.079 --> 00:17:29.400 You should have seen the fishing up there. 267 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:37.599 I'd like to someday, I'd like that. How about you, 268 00:17:37.720 --> 00:17:39.759 mister raider, Do you like fishing? 269 00:17:40.079 --> 00:17:43.039 No, not much. Did you ever try it a little 270 00:17:43.119 --> 00:17:44.000 when I was a kid. 271 00:17:44.279 --> 00:17:45.400 You ought to take it up again. 272 00:17:46.359 --> 00:17:48.200 If you have time as I might do that. 273 00:17:49.160 --> 00:17:51.680 Half a man had a little money put away, he 274 00:17:51.720 --> 00:17:53.039 could do a lot of fishing. 275 00:17:54.160 --> 00:17:55.119 That's the way to live. 276 00:17:55.400 --> 00:17:58.920 Have about ten thousand dollars, go all over the country fishing, 277 00:17:58.960 --> 00:18:00.160 no work, no worries. 278 00:18:01.359 --> 00:18:03.200 How does that sound, Miss Swalling? 279 00:18:04.119 --> 00:18:08.240 What a life it'd take more than ten thousand, Oh. 280 00:18:08.119 --> 00:18:10.720 I don't know, tens better than. 281 00:18:10.599 --> 00:18:12.680 Nothing, ten thousand dollars. 282 00:18:12.759 --> 00:18:16.920 Why they went on talking, and addition, thinking he was 283 00:18:16.960 --> 00:18:20.359 smarter than I'd thought, looked like a nice savage guy, 284 00:18:20.400 --> 00:18:23.680 and behaved like one. That's one thing I'd learned. The 285 00:18:23.720 --> 00:18:25.799 more ordinary you can be, the less you're going to 286 00:18:25.799 --> 00:18:28.920 be suspected. And these people headed down to a science. 287 00:18:29.920 --> 00:18:31.880 It wasn't going to be easy because I was going 288 00:18:31.960 --> 00:18:34.559 to have to convince Julia all over again. I could 289 00:18:34.559 --> 00:18:48.279 see that my chance didn't come until that evening, after 290 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:51.400 our dinner stop. By that time, the woman in the 291 00:18:51.440 --> 00:18:54.680 park who went with the name of Lisa Nyland Hutchinson, 292 00:18:54.720 --> 00:18:56.880 the girl and myself, all four of us were buddies. 293 00:18:57.799 --> 00:19:00.240 We'd pulled up over the Colorado border. There was some 294 00:19:00.359 --> 00:19:02.640 kind of trouble up ahead, a slide or a wreck. 295 00:19:03.359 --> 00:19:05.160 The driver told us we'd have a half hour or 296 00:19:05.160 --> 00:19:06.079 so before we went on. 297 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:08.599 You want to take a walk for a while. 298 00:19:08.640 --> 00:19:10.640 There's a cafe a couple of hundred yards back. 299 00:19:10.960 --> 00:19:12.680 I'll give you a paul and are ready to move on. 300 00:19:14.640 --> 00:19:16.640 Kind of nice to have an extra lake stretch. 301 00:19:17.119 --> 00:19:18.200 How about some coffee? 302 00:19:18.920 --> 00:19:20.119 Nice, Charlie. 303 00:19:20.279 --> 00:19:22.119 Oh, I don't know. I'd like to have a look 304 00:19:22.119 --> 00:19:24.480 at the valley down there. We might walk up the 305 00:19:24.519 --> 00:19:27.400 dirt road away get a pretty good view sunset and 306 00:19:27.440 --> 00:19:29.279 all romany? 307 00:19:30.279 --> 00:19:30.519 Sure? 308 00:19:31.039 --> 00:19:35.559 Why not, oh, Charlie, okay with you, Lisa, you feel romany? 309 00:19:36.039 --> 00:19:37.839 Want to see a valley in the sunset? 310 00:19:38.759 --> 00:19:39.000 Nice? 311 00:19:39.559 --> 00:19:42.319 Okay, let's go. 312 00:19:42.720 --> 00:19:44.519 We walked away from the bus and up a narrow 313 00:19:44.640 --> 00:19:47.160 ranch road about one hundred yards up. There was a 314 00:19:47.240 --> 00:19:50.039 curve and around to the stand of trees. When we 315 00:19:50.079 --> 00:19:52.000 got there, you couldn't hear the sounds from the highway 316 00:19:52.039 --> 00:19:56.880 any longer. It is peaceful and it was very pretty. 317 00:19:56.960 --> 00:20:00.079 I knew that Hutchinson was delighted about the suggestion. It 318 00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:02.400 was going to give him his chance, But he made 319 00:20:02.440 --> 00:20:05.200 the mistake of playing it a little too clever, and 320 00:20:05.279 --> 00:20:07.799 he kept his game of small talk going a minute 321 00:20:07.839 --> 00:20:10.839 too long. We'd got to the top of a cliff 322 00:20:10.880 --> 00:20:13.279 overlooking the valley when I stumbled on a rock and 323 00:20:13.359 --> 00:20:15.359 fell a few steps behind before they had a chance 324 00:20:15.400 --> 00:20:19.559 to stop, And when they did, I already had my 325 00:20:19.640 --> 00:20:19.920 gun on. 326 00:20:22.200 --> 00:20:26.079 Hey, what are you going to do? Target practice? 327 00:20:26.240 --> 00:20:31.200 No, Julie, get over here, you too, Say where you 328 00:20:31.240 --> 00:20:32.960 are and keep your hands behind your head. 329 00:20:33.119 --> 00:20:35.759 Charlie, Charlie, are you sure they see? 330 00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:39.799 I know what they seem now. Look, I don't want 331 00:20:39.839 --> 00:20:42.440 to do this, but it's you or me. You should 332 00:20:42.440 --> 00:20:44.599 have made the right deal in the first place. I 333 00:20:44.640 --> 00:20:45.279 can't let you go. 334 00:20:45.400 --> 00:20:47.519 You know that we might still make a deed. 335 00:20:47.640 --> 00:20:48.759 You had your chance. 336 00:20:49.319 --> 00:20:52.519 We've got the ten thousand. How about waiting till we 337 00:20:52.559 --> 00:20:54.079 get to the next town. We'll have the rest of it. 338 00:20:54.119 --> 00:20:54.559 Telegram. 339 00:20:54.640 --> 00:20:56.519 I make mistakes, but not that kind. 340 00:20:56.839 --> 00:20:59.240 If you told us what you wanted, we might have 341 00:20:59.279 --> 00:21:01.519 been able to get the twenty thousand in los Ange. 342 00:21:01.559 --> 00:21:02.559 Turn around, both of you. 343 00:21:03.039 --> 00:21:05.440 No, wait a minute, we're all in this together. We 344 00:21:05.519 --> 00:21:08.559 all want the same thing. You figure you can get 345 00:21:08.599 --> 00:21:11.519 more money from the headman in the east. Okay, okay, 346 00:21:11.559 --> 00:21:13.599 give us a chance to get it for you. We're 347 00:21:13.599 --> 00:21:14.200 in contact. 348 00:21:14.200 --> 00:21:17.160 Turn around, he gives us our orders. 349 00:21:17.400 --> 00:21:21.680 What difference does it make oh love, look, you shoot us, 350 00:21:21.720 --> 00:21:24.000 What do you think they'll do. They won't let you 351 00:21:24.000 --> 00:21:26.079 get away with it. They'll kill you. 352 00:21:26.160 --> 00:21:26.559 Charlie. 353 00:21:26.759 --> 00:21:29.480 Can't just shoot them, turn them over to the police. 354 00:21:29.960 --> 00:21:31.119 You can't just shoot them. 355 00:21:31.160 --> 00:21:34.799 He can't tell the police, Julie. He's with us. 356 00:21:34.960 --> 00:21:37.720 Only he wants money out of it, and he thinks 357 00:21:37.759 --> 00:21:39.279 he'll get more from the headman. 358 00:21:38.960 --> 00:21:39.359 In the eaves. 359 00:21:39.440 --> 00:21:41.079 Turn around. I'm not gonna say. 360 00:21:40.920 --> 00:21:43.079 It again, Charlie, don't. I know you've got a duty, 361 00:21:43.119 --> 00:21:44.279 but you can arrest them. 362 00:21:44.519 --> 00:21:45.759 Please, you can still hold. 363 00:21:45.559 --> 00:21:48.160 You to be quiet, arrest listen, Rader. 364 00:21:48.599 --> 00:21:51.680 You're not gonna get You're not gonna kill us over 365 00:21:51.839 --> 00:21:52.599 ten thousand. 366 00:21:52.680 --> 00:21:53.839 Why it's murdy even. 367 00:21:53.720 --> 00:21:53.960 If you. 368 00:21:57.240 --> 00:22:00.720 Nylon dropped without a sound. Hutchinson held his middle for 369 00:22:00.759 --> 00:22:04.799 a second and tried to keep his balance. I shot 370 00:22:04.880 --> 00:22:07.200 him in the back of the head. I knew he 371 00:22:07.319 --> 00:22:10.920 was dead before his body slipped to the ground. The 372 00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:15.480 girl just stood next to me, her hands tightly covering 373 00:22:15.480 --> 00:22:20.119 her mouth, and she was shivering. I took a look 374 00:22:20.119 --> 00:22:24.799 across the wide valley. The sky was turning purple. 375 00:22:29.759 --> 00:22:34.039 I've never seen anybody killed before. 376 00:22:34.920 --> 00:22:36.200 I'm sorry. 377 00:22:37.000 --> 00:22:42.680 Couldn't you couldn't you have arrested them or something. Couldn't you? 378 00:22:44.160 --> 00:22:44.359 Did? 379 00:22:44.400 --> 00:22:44.839 You have to? 380 00:22:44.960 --> 00:22:48.039 I had to. They wouldn't have stopped it, killing both 381 00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:49.359 of us if they'd had the chance. 382 00:22:50.720 --> 00:22:54.279 What are you going to do? What are you going 383 00:22:54.319 --> 00:22:54.839 to do now? 384 00:22:55.200 --> 00:22:57.440 I've got to get the money for evidence? 385 00:23:01.880 --> 00:23:04.960 What are you going to tell the driver? Ask where 386 00:23:05.000 --> 00:23:07.880 they are? Charlie. 387 00:23:12.400 --> 00:23:16.079 Driver's gonna wonder where they are, Charlie. 388 00:23:16.079 --> 00:23:16.720 What are you doing? 389 00:23:16.880 --> 00:23:18.440 I've got to put them over the cliff. 390 00:23:19.000 --> 00:23:21.119 No oh no, I've got to. 391 00:23:23.359 --> 00:23:31.519 Oh no, oh, you can't, Charlie. 392 00:23:31.519 --> 00:23:52.079 No, all right, come on. We got back to the bus, 393 00:23:52.119 --> 00:23:54.480 and neither of us said anything about the two we'd 394 00:23:54.480 --> 00:23:57.400 walked off with. I guess nobody had seen this together, 395 00:23:57.480 --> 00:24:00.640 And after waiting around for another half hour, the driver 396 00:24:00.759 --> 00:24:01.160 gave up. 397 00:24:02.440 --> 00:24:05.359 Well, I'll drop their baggage in Landa. 398 00:24:05.720 --> 00:24:07.160 You don't know to fight the police too. 399 00:24:07.640 --> 00:24:08.839 Screw me, all right. 400 00:24:09.119 --> 00:24:11.680 Okay, folks, sorry for the delay. 401 00:24:11.839 --> 00:24:27.160