Speaker 1: Come in. Welcome, I'm e. G. Marshall. Welcome aboard. I
say aboard because this is a train, a train of thoughts,
all the dark and demoniacal thoughts that are as old
as the beginnings of the human race. If, as the
poet said, no man is an island, then is it
really true that each member of the human race is
somehow interconnected? Does an infinite network of psychic wires actually exist?
Or is it possible they have been short circuited? If
we were merely machines, this proposition could be tested. But
we are not merely machines, or are we? Your whole
career can be down the drain, Let it go. But
there are people who work for you, sacrifice for you.
It supported you. I didn't ask. I think of the country.
You are an important man, of a valuable man. There
are other men just as good, better, not all wish
for all. A woman put it anyway you like. But
you don't even know if she exists. I know how
do you know? Have you seen her? Have you spoken
to her? I tell you I know how. I hear
in my heart so clearly, so distinctly, I hear her
right now, can't you? I can't hear I've seen. It's
a pity she's saying. She loves me, Harburn, I'm sorry
for you. Oh no, I'm the one who's sorry for you.
Our mystery drama Must Hope Parish was written especially for
the Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and stars Hugh Marlowe.
It is sponsored in part by Uncle Ben's Long Grain
and Wild Rice and Buwick Motor Division. I'll be back
shortly with that one. His name is Marvin Hale Prentiss.
He is a United States Senator. Both his friends and
his opponents call him middle of the road Marvin. His
friends say that Marvin has a unique ability to see
all sides of an issue. His foes insists that Marvin
is just too slick to be pinned down. However, just recently,
Senator Marvin Hale Prentice has taken a stand, a definite,
unqualified stand. It has to do with opening trade relations
with the People's Republic of Griyage. The Senator is against it.
Till now, Marvin Hale Prentice has been a rather obscure
senator from one of the less populous states, but now
he is quoted in the papers, profiled in the magazines
talked about on the Knees broadcasts. Right now he is
the guest on Meet the Country. At this hour in
our nation's history, our thoughts should be directed towards those
principles that led to the creation of our own republic.
And what are they? Liberty and justice? How then, can
we strengthen the hand of a tyrannical dictatorship that with
halls and denies justice to its own people? Let me
turn it down, will your Marvin? There is one person,
one person who must be hurt from mom. Do we
have to listen? Come off and kill the sounder that
scared of a people cannot be stepped upon? Eh? Much better,
you know, mam? You do look good on TV? Did
the bug budgy? Which bro which bug? Indeed, let's call
it buggers? Presidential? Or come on? Popa? Now you look
at your colleagues, some of them will planned to run,
and you say, if it can happen to them, why
not me? Nothing could be further from my mind. You're
talking to old pop here. I've seen you fellas come
and go for over fifty years. One day you look
in the mirror and you say, why not me? Pop
By ever even given a thought why not you of
all you need is a few breaks. May be a
good issue, and you're riding one right now. This is
a matter of conscience. Makes it even better. You are
the most completely cynical man in Washington. Would you believe it?
In some circles, I'm considered an idealist. I remember when
we were taping this broadcast. Right about here, I say something.
I'd like you to listen. To turn up the volume.
I'm about to quote someone. Oh, I hope at Shakespeare.
Oh come on, please, I say this because Shakespeare is safe, unacceptable.
This is important. There's one person called D. K. Creston
who my quote in just a minute. Oh do you
dig these characters up? I want you to listen to
the words of B. K. Creston. Okay, okay, who is
b K. Christon? Nobody knows. Oh that's right. In Doriage
and all these dictatorships, people must write in secret. It
can't be no, they won't be published. What they write
is just passed around from hand to hand on typewritten
pieces of paper. Now turn it up. According DK quest
all right, an unknown native of dori Oars reaches out
to us D K. Creston, who writes millions reach out,
as if from the darkness of the grave, here we
are the prisoners of practicality. Poetry only in poetry is
brotherhood mentioned now? And if there be no poetry, we die,
must hope, perish. That's it. Shut the set eh mats
beyond me. I feel I know this V. K. Creston,
Marbne Are you all right? Sure? Sure it sounds crazy,
But those words, okay, what are they? The desperate cry
of someone who is even too powerless to fight for freedom?
You know you've been working through our DK Creston is
speaking to me, to me directly, all right, all right, Marvin,
I'm only asking how we we establish this. That's all.
He and I know each other. There's a bond between us,
a mysterious bond. I knew it when I read the
first poem in a little book that was smuggled out
of the country. It was addressed to me. You mean
your name was honored? No, my name was in it.
Show me what I mean is my initials are in it? Now?
You just lost me, Marvin Hale Prentice MHP. In the
poetry all of Preston's writings, the first line always starts
with a word that begins with an M. The second
line starts with a word that begins with an H,
and the third with a P. Well that could be,
that could be? What coincidence? Remember what I just quoted
over the TV show? The first line begins millions reach out,
there's your M, second line here we are prisoners. And
the third good line poetry. Only in poetry is there's
the P and the final three words sentence must hope,
perish MHP. Marvin Hale promise, Well, well, what do you
want me to tell you? Now? Do you know why
I feel DK questions reaching out to me, one man's thoughts,
reaching out across thousands of miles and touching my own.
That's why I'm fighting this trade bill. It's for BK question, Harburne,
I don't think you should mention it that way to
another living soul. This whole business, if the if the
paper's caught on atop, why don't you just once quit
being the wise old man of politics and tell me
what you really think. I don't know our transference, extrasensory perception,
we and the laughter, all that stuff, But who's really
got the answer? Or excuse me? Pop h Hello Marvin?
Speaker 2: Oh yes, Dear Marvin, you didn't come to see me
this afternoon.
Speaker 1: I know, dear, but you promised, Marvin, you promised I
I'll be out tomorrow. Why weren't you here today?
Speaker 2: They they were mean to me again.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, darling. I'll talk to them about it.
Speaker 2: I was digging in the garden and I found an
Indian airlord.
Speaker 1: Oh that's wonderful.
Speaker 2: Do you know the man I was telling you about?
Speaker 1: Oh, now, dearest, there's no such a person. Oh that's
what you say, But there isn't. You take everyone's part
but mine.
Speaker 2: He was staring at me to the garden gate.
Speaker 3: You'll come out here tomorrow, and do you catch you
for me?
Speaker 1: Promise I promise.
Speaker 4: You never keep any of your promises.
Speaker 1: I never want to see you against Dolly. Dolly well,
oh she she's not getting any better. She's going to
be a problem for you, Marv. Oh stop looking at
everything from a political point of view. Whi's just bad luck.
You and Dolly had agreed to a parting before before
this thing came over. But you divorce her now and
there isn't a woman in the country who'd vote for you, Papa.
I have no intentions, Okay, I won't say another word
good And as a reward, I'll buy you dinner tonight.
Not a chance my old lady should be if I
make her spend another night alone. Why don't you come
home with me? No, No, I've got some work to do. Marv.
You're not the kind of guy who can be alone
too much. You need someone pop. Did you ever think
of writing an advice to the lovelor and column? Well,
i'd write a damn good one, A marvel you'll be
careful of what of everything? You're becoming a hot property?
This speak K christ Why do I feel that I
know him so well? I haven't the faintest idea who
VK Criston could be? Marv? The Yeah, the party is
going to decide to approve the trade bill. You know
that that won't change my mind, Marven. You martiand ever
take politics seriously? It will break your heart. Oh well,
Major Turner, what have you to report? Nothing? At this time?
You are act seed the trade bill. There is a
certain Senator Prientice, Yes, I know. Why is he so
opposed to the bill. It seems he's made it a
personal crusade that the administration is in favor doesn't he
submit to party discipline? They have strange customs in America.
The representatives are permitted to book as they please. But
what does he have against the bill? I suppose he's
been infected by the writings of this V. K. Creston? Yes,
I'm aware of that. Who is VK. Crestin? We don't know?
What do you mean you don't know? Major? We have
no idea. That's ridiculous. V K. Kreston is obviously unowned
to prove yet, of course, but we're familiar with the
styles and techniques of most of our writers. We should
be able to tell who VK. Questing is. How what
you say your recordence is true? But obviously v. K.
Kreston is a new and unknown writer. Even so that
that I'll have to give himself away. He's been extremely cautious.
How badly are we being hurt by this? Senator Prentice were, excellency.
He's an attractive man and he has a popular issue.
And what do we have on him? Nothing? Nothing? You say,
he's attractive, no scandal. We haven't been able to find
any no women. He's married, but his wife has been
institutionalized severe nervous breakdown. How long has she been away
six months? No one knows when or if she'll be cured.
And he's an attractive man. Let's file that fact for
the future. Marvin. The parties and trying to put any
pressure on you, But most people agree the trade bill
is a good thing. Do it well. On balance. Has
a lot to be shed for and against. But from
a practical, realistic standpoint, I know all those arguments pop.
But I want you to listen to this. Uh you're
gonna quote me something are your friend? V K Preston, Preston, Ohka,
make a vow to me, hold my trembling hand, pray
we'll all be free. It's the first three lines of
a poem. The first word first line begins with M,
the first word, and the second line begins with H.
Third line P. And here's the very last line of
the poem. Three words the same three words must, hope, perish.
This is a message. It's meant for me. Now, you've
always been steady, reliable, sensible. Don't start getting cooky. You
know what I mean. I can't help it, and I
know how that must sound. The trouble that you've had
with Dolly. She's going a severe strain on both of you.
She cracked up in a visible an hour as you Yes,
whereas we're off on this psychic communication kick, There is
a psychic communication between us, between B. K. Creston and
do you know what the hometown papers would make out
of that? You can say whatever you like, but I
have this feeling and I don't know where it comes
from that I'm going to meet D. K. Creston not
too long from now. So Lestie speaking, Oh, that's impossible.
If I would interview every peasant woman who wandered in here,
we'll throw her out.
Speaker 2: Wealthy hands out of me, Your excellency, Oh dare you
burst into my office?
Speaker 1: Who do you think you are?
Speaker 3: I got information, We'll.
Speaker 1: Give it to the proper official.
Speaker 3: At the best and get cheated out of the reward.
Do you think I was born yesterday?
Speaker 1: All I have to.
Speaker 2: Say is I know where you can pick up this
DK Krestin And when I come back.
Speaker 1: For the what name? What name did you just say? Creston?
You know where we can find Creston.
Speaker 3: What do you think I'm doing here?
Speaker 1: Give me the address?
Speaker 2: Oh will as soon as I'm written down for the reward.
Business should always come first.
Speaker 1: She's right, this rather uninhibited lady. Business should always come first.
We too have a little business that must be transacted.
And then we will join the police of the People's
Republic of Doriage and meet the elusive, mysterious BK. Creston.
And that will happen when I return in just a
few moments. With that too, hearts and hands across the sea.
What does a revolutionary and unknown poet from a troubled
central European country have in common with a senator from
a western state. They have never met, They were never
aware of each other's existence. So why should the senator
become convinced that the poet was writing poetic messages specifically
for him? Or could it just be the senator's imagination?
Right now, the poet has trouble enough, and to spare,
the police are closing in. You'll get your reward.
Speaker 3: Write down my name, it's here, Colotto. Very well, you
must have heard of.
Speaker 2: My husband, Try Colotto. He used to be a star
soccer player.
Speaker 1: Now where can we find b. K. Christi?
Speaker 2: The reason we need the money? You see it, he
broke his leg in the championship. It's ten years ago. Well,
we we had the extra room and we've been taken
in boarders.
Speaker 1: Yeah the way it's important.
Speaker 2: Because it's how we knew our latest border is this
DK Creston. Well, well, this one's a typeest and does
extra work at home. Well, you know how the inflation's
killing everybody.
Speaker 3: You got a work day or night.
Speaker 2: You get to the bar, like I said, this one
types and well you know.
Speaker 3: They they make mistakes and we'll see.
Speaker 2: I'm emptying out the garbage cans and I find these
crumpled cheeks of paper.
Speaker 3: Here read fat.
Speaker 1: Must hope parish. B Kay, Christen, It's a shame.
Speaker 2: Such a nice, quiet, pretty little girl too, can't be
more twenty five?
Speaker 1: The girl? Did you say? B K Creston is a girl?
Ah ah oh, bump, it's me Marvin. Marvin, do you
know what time it is? Pop? I'm sorry I woke you,
but I I just couldn't sleep. I was wrong. I
had the strangest feeling. You think I'm crazy. I think
you're crazy anyhow, So what is it, Kristin? Did you
call me up at this hour of the night to
talk about Christen? Maybe it's just a dream, but I
I'm sure that BK Creston has been arrested. Yeah, what
is there we can do about it? What is there
we can do about it? Marvin? That's the internal affairs
of another country. Oh, come on, you've been around, you
know where the wheel term not? I Pop? Please try?
But how do you know who? You told me? If
you've had a dream, how do you know? I know? Pop?
I know well, citizen question. It's an honor to meet
such a celebrated literary figure. And what do you have
to say for yourself? Nothing? You have quite a bit
to say, however, in this treasonous poetry that flows in
such a poisonous stream from your typewriter. V K. Questioning,
Valerie Catherine, not questioning, but static. Oh it struck a nerd.
You thought we wouldn't be able to find out. So
what shall we do if you, Valerie Catherine? We could
have you shot or hanged, or sent away to a
labor camp for corrective therapy.
Speaker 5: Do your worst.
Speaker 1: Oh, she speaks such a beautiful voice.
Speaker 5: I'm not afraid.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's your problem. You're not afraid. If you were
intelligent instead of merely talented, you'd be smart enough to
be afraid, and you'd never have gotten into this scrape
to begin.
Speaker 5: With, I don't care what you do with me.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, spare me please. You're willing to die
for freedom and justice may kill me? Yes, yes, yes,
I know. But but what I believe in ChIL endure forever.
This is the romantic revolutionary nonsense of youth. I was
young once myself. A pity. You live to grow older,
and we are willing to consider your exercises on the
typewriter as childish nonsense.
Speaker 5: Then why do you fear them?
Speaker 1: You're a grown woman and the toys of childhood must
be put away finally, and I have for you a
woman's assignment. What makes you think I would only have
child interrupts, You'll be sent to prison. Miraculously, you will
escape across the border, and you will present yourself, but
the American consulate and ask for asylum. When now, don't
look at me as though I am a madman. I
know what I'm saying. In America, you will meet a
senator named Prentiss. He's quite impressed with your writings, and
looking at you, I can tell that you'll be quite
impressed with you. It should be easy for you to
become more than just a friend.
Speaker 5: My answer is no, Oh, you do it, I'll die first.
What is this talk about die? It didn't just talk?
Do you think I'm afraid?
Speaker 1: Ah? Here we have this fear business again, my girl,
depend on it. You'll do as you're told. Never. Well,
we could stay here and bandy words all day long,
but one brief experience is worth a lifetime of discussion. Major,
have the car ready, We're taking a short trip.
Speaker 5: I don't care how long you keep me here, and.
Speaker 1: We don't intend to keep you here at all. Don't
you want to visit your father? Father?
Speaker 5: What do you want with my father? My father didn't
do anything.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's not true. He had a daughter and she's
giving us trouble. God, wait a wait outside fault? Well
what is it? Oh? Oh, it's you reality? W Why
what did they what did they say? It is one
of mistakes.
Speaker 6: I've got seen my laboratory and the police came and
now here I am. It is a mistake, and I'm
sure they will check that, I cause it's.
Speaker 5: What happened to your part.
Speaker 1: Ah.
Speaker 6: One of the police officers was young and impatient.
Speaker 1: He the who really was my own vault?
Speaker 5: I should not have objected, He how long have you
been here?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 6: I I don't know. I was in the lab and
then I was here. Uh oh uh they why he
he's not that nice of them, and they let you come?
Speaker 1: How? Why are you my child?
Speaker 5: I'm fine, that's good.
Speaker 1: Good.
Speaker 6: I hope you are not talking against the government. There's
no point, is It's just that I was his passions
and anger, and the mind should be cleared for thinking. Yes, father,
and I can think here just as well as any
place else. Besides, I wouldn't stay here too long. They're
bound to find out that there's been a mistake and
then they will let me go and I will be
free soon.
Speaker 5: Yes, father, you'll be free soon.
Speaker 1: So as a committee meeting, we'll have to hurry to lunch.
I've already ordered for you. Thanks. I know you like
to kid around with that redheaded waitress. What's your name? Caroline?
And I don't kid around with Oh you think you don't.
Dolly's been away for months? What are you building puff?
I haven't even thought about another woman. You've been doing
nothing but think about another woman for two weeks now,
by your own admission, you even dream about her. When
did I ever admit that I can name the woman?
I wish you would the K Creston K Creston or
if you prefer Valerie Catherine Creston b B. K Creston
is a woman. You knew it all the time. How
can you say that because it's true? Oh maybe you
weren't aware of it consciously. Talk about psychic communication. Pooh nothing,
I get a little sex to clear a while. Hop
never in my wildest imagining more shoes. I believe that
we shouldn't have a trade bill with a country like Doriage.
And the writings of a certain DK Creston helped me
to clarify my position. That's all. But how do you
know how did you find out that she was a woman?
Well you were told about it psychically a few nights ago.
Come on, pop, layoff. Didn't you dream she was arrested?
You you mean she was? That's right, Papa. I want
to set up a meeting with someone at the state.
All right, to relax, it's been fixed. She's escaped, she
got across the border and she plied for asylum with
our embassy. Where's she now? In a plane headed for Washington?
If you, hey, where are you going to the airport?
You want to sit down, have lunch and don't go
to the airport. Why not? I've seen her picture. She's
too good looking? Or what does that have to do
with haye? Whereas the TV cameras will be there, so
what so you're a hero tour. Suppose she throws her
arms around you and turn and kisses you. I don't
think that's right. That's why you got me. I think
now people know about your wife, Marvin, they see a
cozy too short of you and a good looking name.
And if oh, I think that's ridiculous, it's also politics.
Why don't we arrange for this historic confrontation in the
privacy of your office? And what are your plans?
Speaker 7: Ms Kristen please call me Valerie Catherine. Oh, yes, of course,
I I need a job.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, well, well would uh would you like a
job in my office?
Speaker 5: Oh? That would be wonderful.
Speaker 1: I uh, I need someone on my research staff, someone
who knows foreigner.
Speaker 7: Not only my country, but I myself will have reason
to be grateful to you, Senator Marvin.
Speaker 1: Uh, we're all very informal around here. Uh. Well, UH
tell me, Valerie Catherine, were you trying to say the
The first word in each line of your poetry seems
to create a pattern where it forms my initials. Here,
I have one of your poems. See how it keeps
forming the letters MHP.
Speaker 7: But I never knew you, and I never knew you,
so how could I uh what you did?
Speaker 1: Maybe we were looking for each other. I I I
know I've been seeking, searching, hoping. Have you?
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, I have?
Speaker 1: Valerie Katherine. What a lovely name. I wanna tell you
something I don't have to. I don't have the right
to say this, but I I love you. I I've
always loved you.
Speaker 5: Well, I've always loved you.
Speaker 1: I don't understand it. I I don't know how it
came about, and I don't wanna know.
Speaker 5: Hello, good evening.
Speaker 1: Are you alone? Who?
Speaker 5: Who is this?
Speaker 1: You know who this is? Celestie?
Speaker 5: What do you want?
Speaker 1: I've had myself transfer to our embassy here. I wanna
keep an eye on you. So far, so good.
Speaker 5: I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: You work in his office, you have your own apartment.
He visits you regularly.
Speaker 5: He's leave me alone.
Speaker 1: What does that mean?
Speaker 7: He he's a wonderful human being and I love him.
Speaker 1: I should make your job easier. What job?
Speaker 5: What am I supposed to be?
Speaker 1: Doing exactly what you're doing now. Whoa Marvin. You're seeing
too much of that girl. It's my own affair. See
subconsciously you use the right word affair. Pop, we're in love.
You are also a married man. Dolly and I haven't
lived together for years. Very much in love with Dolly?
You still are I I'm not. It's over. You've missed her.
I don't want to discuss it. Man has a right
to his pipe. You've been discreet so far. You haven't
been seen in public, but you know the reporters in
this town. Nothing escapes them for too long. Yes, I
know Dolly went off the deep end because she couldn't
get used to the idea of your importance and the
demands on your time. I don't want to talk about Dolly. Well,
do you want a woman you can hide somewhere and
visit just as your schedule permit. You don't know how
far off base you are. Pop, I need this girl, Harve.
I wouldn't care if you were just another politician, but
you're not. You could go all the way. Don't drove
away the main chance. Don't give up everything because well
I guess that's how you know you're in love. I
am willing to give up everything everything in poetry, it's
all very well to say the world is well lost
for love? But is it? Men had given up all
the world for love, and that's usually the last we
know about them. Have they regretted it? Who knows? If
we are unable to feel another's pain, how can we
hope to partake in his delight? Senator Prentice will or
will not give up the world when I return in
just a few moments with Act three. His name is
Marvin Hale Prentiss. She is Valerie Clston. Until a few
months ago, neither was aware of the other. How could
they be? She was an underground poet and a Central
European dictatorship. He a United States senator, and yet it
seemed as if every thought in her mind was directed
at him. How why does it matter? Right now? They're
very much aware of each other, very much attracted to
each other. And if the situation is fraught with peril,
as some people might put it, well, love laughs at tomorrow.
After all, love always burns brightest today.
Speaker 5: I want to know everything about you.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, my wife has been dull compared to yours.
Speaker 5: No, I see what you do in your job.
Speaker 1: It's exciting, it's safe, it has no real challenges. You
lived with danger every day.
Speaker 5: Ah, I don't recommend it, Marvin.
Speaker 1: Mm to risk arrest every day to fight against.
Speaker 5: Ours t y. You mustn't make a heroine out of me.
Speaker 1: But you are. You're the most the most excited woman
I've ever met.
Speaker 5: But you do have a wife.
Speaker 1: Yes, Dolly, I knew about you before we met. Did
did you know about me?
Speaker 5: M I must have known about you.
Speaker 7: There was a name somewhere in my mind. I didn't
know the name, but it was there. It must have
been there, just as so many thoughts remain just beyond
the edge of our understanding. But this name struggled to
reveal itself to me, and the initials came forth.
Speaker 1: What's to become of us? Oh?
Speaker 5: I have yet to learn how to live with thoughts
of tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We'll have it tomorrow. I intend to divorce my wife,
marry you, and retire from public. No, oh, no, why not?
Speaker 5: I can't let you give up everything for me?
Speaker 1: What am I giving up? All I want is you?
Speaker 5: Perhaps perhaps we shouldn't see each other again?
Speaker 1: What are you saying?
Speaker 7: I can't understand why you know you are the strangest
girl I ever met.
Speaker 1: Everything about us it's so hard to understand, and yet
it's so simple. I only know that I love you.
Do you love me?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: But once you say yes, you don't have to say
but hello, what is it? Pop? I have to see why? Well,
I'd rather not say on the phone. Will you be
there for half an hour? No? I have to go
see Dolly, Dolly, yes, I I want to see if
I can get through to her, see if I can
make her understand that the two of us are finished. Oh, Marvin,
don't do anything. Just can't well, of Pop, I think
I know my own business. Something you should know about
about about Valerie. I know everything I want to know
about her. Nothing could ever change my attitude. Why not
hear me? And it's none of your business. I'll be
home at five this afternoon. How are you, Dolly?
Speaker 2: H I have a way to go yet. But I
finally stopped fighting it.
Speaker 1: What were you fighting? Oh?
Speaker 2: You know, it's a terrible thing to be a great
man's wife. There's so little in it.
Speaker 3: For a woman.
Speaker 1: I'm not a great man.
Speaker 3: Oh, but you will be in the next few years.
Speaker 2: I always felt it. I saw it coming before you did.
Speaker 3: I didn't want to give you up to the world.
The doctors may have long and involved names.
Speaker 2: For it, but what what I was doing was having tantrums.
Speaker 1: Now, Dolly, Eh, it's not that simple.
Speaker 3: Why isn't it, of course, if we'd had children.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you feel this way, Dolly, because I came
here to tell you.
Speaker 3: Came here to tell me you love me. I know,
but I you don't have to say anymore.
Speaker 2: What you just said is all I need. I'm not
out of the woods yet. I have good days and
bad This is one of my better days.
Speaker 3: Tomorrow might be a disaster.
Speaker 1: Dolly. Listen, there isn't all that.
Speaker 2: Much to say. With your health, Darling. The bad days
will become fewer fewer.
Speaker 1: Soon you'll be gone for good, Dolly.
Speaker 2: I can't make it back without you.
Speaker 3: I just can't. I need you, Darling. Tell me you
love me. Tell me.
Speaker 1: I've been asking some questions along the line. A Vowery's
father is doctor Royal Storic, the agricultural scientist. I know
that right after Valerie was arrested, he was arrested, so
and right after Valerie escaped he was released. All right,
what else Why is Valerie here because she escaped from prison?
Do you know that in the entire history of the
present Doriage government, not one single solitary prisoner ever escaped
from their jails. What are you driving earth? Until they
say to her, we let it appeal that you escaped.
Go after Senator Prentice. God it's crazy. But of course
he doesn't want to do it or say that for her,
but they say do it or it's Popo phase who
has no choice. But she loves me. That doesn't matter.
They're spinning a web around. You can't just see it.
I refuse to believe it, you refuse to face it.
And okay, where are you going? Marvid Marvin come not here?
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, it's true. Oh that's what I agreed to do.
But but when I met you, everything was different. I hate.
Speaker 1: You what I fell in love with you? Do you
expect me to believe it? Yes? If you love me? Oh?
How could you do this to me? I try to
help your country. I believe in what your people are
fighting for. I believe it's my fight too. How could
you betray me?
Speaker 7: I'm human, it meant saving my father and when I
met you, I I I fell in love with you.
Speaker 5: But I've I've taken care of everything.
Speaker 1: I could be ruined.
Speaker 5: Everything is taken care of.
Speaker 1: What what's wrong with you? Why are you superior.
Speaker 5: Because I've taken care of everything?
Speaker 1: What does that mean? It means nothing? Who are you?
I am, Celestie, I'm with a Doriage embassy. Let me
show you why you will not vote against the trade bill.
Just a minute. Photos of you entering this building and leaving.
Photos of you and miss v K Creston here in
this room. There's nothing personal in this. Believe me. I'm
there to hand these photos to you or to the press.
Tell me my course of action. The choice is yours. No,
the choice is mine, and I don't think you have
anything to say, and I have chosen. You're a fool.
You know what will happen to your father?
Speaker 5: My father is dead. I learned this from the underground.
Speaker 1: Well we don't. Where'd you get the gun? You can't
just shoot him.
Speaker 7: I told you I would take care of everything, So
don't talk.
Speaker 3: That's for me.
Speaker 1: Ah that my father bower you.
Speaker 5: But take the papers there were futures. Leave here quickly.
Speaker 1: No, No, I'm staying with you.
Speaker 5: I can't because because I won't. I won't be here.
I'll be gone, Bowery. It's a little pill.
Speaker 7: All of us in the underground carry one, and it
works quickly, pleasantly.
Speaker 1: I'll call a doctor.
Speaker 5: It's too late. And it was the only way I
said I'd fix everything.
Speaker 1: Oh, darling, like quietly, maybe maybe I can still call.
Speaker 5: Talk to me, tell me, answer me.
Speaker 7: Must hope, perish, must hope.
Speaker 1: Perish level, my darling. No, it was a sensation, the
great underground poet of the oppressed country who killed the
hated Minister of Justice and then took her own life.
The senator. Oh, we may yet hear from him on
the national scene, especially since his attractive wife is such
a campaign asset. I'll be back in just a moment.
Must hope, perish never never, as long as are those
who dare to speak and those who are brave enough
to listen, And every minute of the day there are
voice is silent voices calling for help, and sometimes if
we listen closely, we can hear them. Our cast included
Hugh Marlowe, Marion Soldis, Ian Martin E. V Ester and
Robert Dryden. The entire production was under the direction of
Hyman Brown, and now a preview of our next tale.
Sergeant Clifton, Oh, sergeant, I know you people are very busy,
and this is probably nothing. We'll let me judge that doctor.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, on the face of it, I wouldn't
even think that there's any significance.
Speaker 1: Well, you must have some reason for calling me. Well,
do you.
Speaker 4: Remember, sergeant, when you were in the hospital and we
were listening to the poor old Russian lady?
Speaker 1: She's no better of afraid, I'm sorry to hear that. Well.
Speaker 4: I remember we were saying how things were interrelated, Yes,
and that miss Brodie had been in here a week
before she died, was killed because of a severe skin irritation.
Speaker 1: Yes, I remember. Well, she has a roommate, uh ms,
Dora Hastings.
Speaker 5: Miss Hastings is here.
Speaker 4: Now with the same skin irritation. But does it mean anything?
I mean from a police point of view? Am I
wasting your time?
Speaker 1: I'll be right there radio. Mystry Theater was sponsored in
part by Buick Motor Division and Uncle Ben's Long Grain
and Wild Rice. This is E. G. Marshall inviting you
to return to our Mystery Theater for another adventure in
the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams,