Speaker 1: Mystery theater.
Speaker 2: Come in or welcome. I'm a g Marshall.
Speaker 3: What are you doing right now? As a matter of fact,
what are you doing most of the time? Is it
something that makes your heart sing and your spirits sore?
Or do you just put in your eight hours? Is
life a challenge, an adventure, a thrill for all five senses?
If not be careful, something inside you may be trying
to tell you something, and you'd better listen before it's
too late. On the other hand, maybe you'd better not listen.
Speaker 4: But you can't be serious, Olivia.
Speaker 5: Oh, I'm deadly serious, if you'll excuse the fun.
Speaker 3: But why do you want to kill your husband?
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 5: Well, doctor, he bores me. But Olivia, that's not a
reason I disagree.
Speaker 1: It's an excellent reason, Olivia.
Speaker 3: I could say you're joking, but something tells me you're serious.
Speaker 5: I'm always serious, doctor.
Speaker 4: But why do you have to kill John?
Speaker 1: Why don't you just divorce him? If I divorce him,
I get nothing.
Speaker 6: If he dies, I get his entire estate.
Speaker 3: Oh, so that's what it's all about.
Speaker 4: Money.
Speaker 5: That's what the whole world is about, doctor, Love and money.
Right now, I have neither.
Speaker 1: Within a week, I shall have both.
Speaker 3: Our mystery drama Sleepwalker, was written especially for the mystery
by Sam Dan and stars Tammy Grimes.
Speaker 2: John Worcester is.
Speaker 3: Seventy, his wife Olivia is thirty five. And if some
of you are already saying aha, believe me you have
something to say aha about. Our story begins at two
point thirty of a dark, moonless morning in the garage
of their country home, which is called Eagle's Nest because
it's high, high on a hilltop.
Speaker 1: And why does it begin in.
Speaker 3: The garage, Well, because somebody seems to be working on
John Worcester's expensive imported sports car at.
Speaker 2: Two thirty am.
Speaker 4: Who could it be?
Speaker 3: Why it's Olivia, Blonde, slim, delicate Olivia, And what is
she doing? She appears to be doing something to the breaks,
doing it deftly and swiftly.
Speaker 2: And now she's finished.
Speaker 3: She washes her hands, romoves your coveralls, revealing only a
beautiful lacy nightgown, and walks slowly into the house.
Speaker 1: Riah glive Olivia. Hold on, hold on.
Speaker 3: Olivia, my darling, you're walking in your sleep again. Walking
you are That's impossible? Then what are you doing out
here in the hallway?
Speaker 1: And what allway then, and look at the trail of
destruction you've left. Oh, the verses, the verses you brought
home from Greece.
Speaker 6: Must be true. I do walk in my sleep.
Speaker 1: Where was I?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: What could I have been doing?
Speaker 3: And then now get back to bed and we'll worry
about all that in the morning. Good morning, dear, good morning.
May I bow you some coffee?
Speaker 1: Thank you?
Speaker 3: How did you get through the night without further ambulatory activity?
Speaker 6: I am, I would know.
Speaker 1: Now are you convinced that you walk in your sleep? Yes?
Speaker 6: I suppose, I am.
Speaker 1: Did you know.
Speaker 3: There's an opera about sleep walking? It's called Las son
Ambula by Jacomo Billini.
Speaker 1: I never would have suspected Blini.
Speaker 3: He was a contemporary of Rossini, Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti.
Speaker 1: There were great rivals. Why should I walk in my sleep?
Speaker 3: Poor Bellini died very young, thirty four, I think. But
last Sonambula was produced in New York fifty years later.
Speaker 1: Oh about all.
Speaker 5: That, honestly, darling, Sometimes sometimes what oh?
Speaker 6: Sometimes can't you just let things go? I don't have
to have a history of.
Speaker 3: Every little darling, darling, Please, I thought you'd be interested.
Speaker 5: Oh, I'm very much worried. I'm concerned. Why do I sleepwalk?
Speaker 1: That's what you're going to ask, doctor Schwartz.
Speaker 5: I don't think this is anything to see a doctor about, and.
Speaker 1: I spoke with him just a few minutes ago.
Speaker 3: You are to drop over there right away, Oh but
I can't.
Speaker 1: Why not?
Speaker 6: Because you need the car? You have a golf date.
Speaker 5: I canceled it, but you were you were looking forward
to playing.
Speaker 3: Need It would be better for all concerned if I
stayed home and started another chapter.
Speaker 1: On my book. Now I want you to see the doctor, please, dear.
Could be quite serious.
Speaker 5: All right, But what can he give me for my sleepwalking?
Speaker 1: Libby?
Speaker 3: Yes, dear, you must promise me something, Yes, dear, Promise
to go down the hill in second gear.
Speaker 1: Yes, dear, I'm serious.
Speaker 3: You know how that road twists and turns, and how
steep the grade is.
Speaker 1: Promise, yes, dear, I promise you see the rate.
Speaker 3: Of acceleration can be expressed by the formula tea equals.
Speaker 1: Darling, Have I ever broken my promise? I wait?
Speaker 3: Have a little smudge on your nose where on the
tip oho and on the lobe of your ear?
Speaker 1: Oh? How did you get there?
Speaker 3: I did wash this morning highly significant of what honor
Ed Balzac says.
Speaker 1: Oh, please you, no way this should amuse you.
Speaker 3: He said that the surest way to tell a woman's
age is by the tip of her nose and the
lobe of her ear.
Speaker 6: I've got the same kind of smudge of my thumb.
I'd better go back inside.
Speaker 1: You'll be late. The doctor's trying to fit you in.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Please please drive carefully.
Speaker 3: I always do, and remind him of Emily Dickinson's warning
to doctors. Surgeons must be very careful when they take
the knife underneath their fine incisions stirs the patient's life.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'll do that.
Speaker 6: There are times when I could kill him.
Speaker 1: No, no, I don't mean that. I just wish me
cut up.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: One are those smudges he mentioned? How did I? How
did I get them?
Speaker 6: I didn't notice it when I went to bed last night,
and so it must have happened when I was I
was sleepwalking. And I'd better slow down. I really had
better slow down. I better the breaks, the breaks? What's
wrong with the breaks? I'll never make it.
Speaker 1: I'll never get around that curve. Love, I'll love her.
I can't make it. Darnie, you're right, Yes, it is
so fine. I've been kept here, they said for observation.
Then something is wrong. Well yes, in reverse? What the
car was totaled?
Speaker 6: But me, I don't even have so much as a scratch.
And Doctor Schwartz and the rest.
Speaker 1: Well it hasn't confused. What does?
Speaker 6: Shouldn't I have suffered some injury?
Speaker 1: Well, that's true, statistically.
Speaker 6: Some token injury. I mean, look at it from their
point of view.
Speaker 5: What did happen? The brakes they failed? That's impossible on
step down the pedal.
Speaker 1: And I didn't have any breaks.
Speaker 3: But I told Teddy to take care the breaks. Last
week we had a complete new set. The breaks were perfect.
Speaker 5: They may have been perfect, but they didn't exist when
I was coming down the hill.
Speaker 3: Breaks don't go bad suddenly for all apparent reasons. Ha, Oh,
what could have happened?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I don't have the faintest idea. Theresa, did you bring
me the book I asked about, Yes, ma'am, and I
don't mind telling you. They thought I was crazy at
the library last son. I'm something I couldn't even pronounce it.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Teresa? Are you coming home today?
Speaker 6: As soon as I see doctor Schwartz. I don't know
why they capture here. Oh listen, you know the pink
lyt nightgown. Well, I never said laundry was my strong point.
Speaker 1: I mean what I am basically as a cock. What
happened to the nightgown?
Speaker 6: Well, you had a smod a smodge a dures and
well I kept rubbing ascid you know, Well I rubbed
too high and now.
Speaker 1: He got a hole there. And like I say, laundry
isn't a pink light gun? What kind of dirt? No,
That's what I couldn't figure out.
Speaker 6: It was like like grime, you know.
Speaker 1: No, I don't know.
Speaker 6: It's like what Teddy gets all over himself and his
clothes when he works.
Speaker 1: In the garage. Oh so well, how could it get
on your night gun? I don't know.
Speaker 6: There's only one way, is a figurette. He was walking
in your sleep? What would I have been doing in
the garage?
Speaker 1: Don't ask me.
Speaker 4: Sleepwalking.
Speaker 3: Somnambulism is definitely the sign of a psychic disturbance. An
unhappy person is trying to find a way out of
an intolerable situation.
Speaker 5: There's an opera Cole lass an Ambula, a Swiss farm
girl is engaged to a farm boy.
Speaker 6: A duke visits the village. They find you in the
duke's bedroom.
Speaker 3: Why was she sleepwalking in the duke's Why not ner fiances?
Speaker 1: Why was I sleep walking in the garage?
Speaker 4: How do you know you were in the garage?
Speaker 5: I had grease on my hands, face in my nightgown.
Speaker 4: What was in the garage now.
Speaker 5: Really, doctor Schwartz? What would be in the garage?
Speaker 1: The car?
Speaker 4: Nothing else, no one else.
Speaker 5: This was two thirty in the morning. I never believe
people could.
Speaker 1: Walk in their sleep. Well they can, Oh, I know that.
Speaker 5: Now tell me what else can people do in their sleep?
Speaker 3: Theoretically you can do almost anything you're able to.
Speaker 1: Do while you're awake. But you're asleep.
Speaker 2: What is sleep?
Speaker 3: Actually you disassociate yourself from your real existence.
Speaker 1: But why?
Speaker 3: You keep asking why, and I keep telling you it's
because your real existence is intolerable.
Speaker 6: I'm frightened.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm frightened. I know what I was doing in
the garage.
Speaker 2: Yes, I was.
Speaker 1: Tampering with the brakes. Could I do that in my sleep?
Speaker 2: You could?
Speaker 3: If you know anything about breaks, which you obviously don't.
Speaker 6: Why do you say obviously don't? I took a course
in automobile mechanics, you did. Why shouldn't women know about mechanics?
It's it's just that are we invading another sacred masculine domain.
Speaker 3: You haven't told me why you think you were in
the garage tampering with the brakes?
Speaker 4: Why would you want to kill yourself, Olivia?
Speaker 1: I didn't want to kill myself.
Speaker 3: Then why did you deliberately ruin the brakes? That should
have been a sure way to end your life? I
know that hill leading down from the house.
Speaker 5: Doctor, It was only about chance a fluke that I
was driving the car. If I fixed those brakes because
I wanted to kill someone, then that someone is John.
I hardly ever drive a car, Seun.
Speaker 1: I can't believe that would want to kill Job. Why
would I go to all that trouble to kill myself?
Speaker 5: Surely I could think of easier ways to die.
Speaker 4: Do you really want to kill Job?
Speaker 6: Yes, now that I think about it, now that you
bring that thought out in the life, I do want
to kill John.
Speaker 1: I really do.
Speaker 3: And they appeared to be such a happily married couple too.
Speaker 2: But that's how it goes.
Speaker 3: We all tend to make our judgments based on surface things,
and what kind of surface do you present to the world.
Speaker 2: Well, we'll be dealing more with.
Speaker 3: The subconscious, the unconscious, and even the conscious when I
returned shortly with that too.
Speaker 4: So the reason you walk in your sleep.
Speaker 3: Is because you're trying to go somewhere, and that somewhere
is away from here, because here has become an impossible place.
Olivia Worcester wants to leave her husband in the basic sense,
which means leave him dead. In her first attempt, engineered
by her subconscious, she almost killed herself.
Speaker 1: What now, But why do you want to kill John?
Because I simply cannot stand him any longer. That's hardly
a reason to kill him.
Speaker 6: Talking, the constant, everlasting, endless talking. That's driving me crazy.
Speaker 1: That's why I can't stand him.
Speaker 5: But surely, Olivia, the need to communate? Who says people
have to communicate all the time? What's so glorious about communication?
If all you communicate is boredom and nonsense? Listen, doctor,
my husband John is well, how would you like to
be married to a dictionary, an encyclopedia, a record book,
an anthology that.
Speaker 6: Just goes on and on day and night.
Speaker 1: If it's so bad, why don't you leave him?
Speaker 6: You mean divorce?
Speaker 5: Yes, I don't believe in divorce. I took a vow
to I know what you're going to say. Human beings
are changeable animals and cannot really make lifelong pledges.
Speaker 4: Well, yes, basically.
Speaker 5: Then what happens to ethics, to morality?
Speaker 3: You were willing to commit murder, and you talk about
ethics and morality.
Speaker 1: What's im moral or unethical about murder?
Speaker 5: We always can find ways to justify it in the
name of a higher purpose, especially when an entire nation
does it.
Speaker 3: You can't compare a nation's fight for freedom for independence.
Speaker 1: Why not?
Speaker 5: The reason I want to commit murder is for my freedom,
for my independence.
Speaker 1: But you have an alternative divorce.
Speaker 6: I may the vow never to divorce him. I didn't
make a vow not to murder it.
Speaker 3: That's a very convenient morality. You can't mean all this.
Speaker 1: You doctors.
Speaker 6: You want everything so nice and neat and orderly, and
most of your patients play that game with you because
they want your approval. But this is how I think
and how I feel.
Speaker 4: We have to do something about it.
Speaker 5: That's right, because if I don't kill him, then I'll
keep on walking in my sleep where I have an
excellent chance of killing myself.
Speaker 3: You need therapy, Libby. Let me recommend a psychiatrist.
Speaker 6: And what would he do make my thinking more acceptable?
Speaker 1: The word is normal?
Speaker 5: Same thing you want me to learn? To put up
with John or agree to a quiet divorce? Yes, and
if I go the divorce route, I'll lose out on
most of John's estate.
Speaker 4: So money's an issue here too.
Speaker 5: Certainly, love and money. What else is life all about, Libby?
Speaker 3: John's twice your age. He'll die along before you will, not.
Speaker 6: The way he takes care of himself.
Speaker 4: Age is age.
Speaker 3: He may die of natural causes if you give him
a chance.
Speaker 6: As a physician, aren't you required to keep what I
told you confidential?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: Not where it concerns criminal intent. But what is there
I could say to John or to the police.
Speaker 2: Who would believe me?
Speaker 1: You believe me?
Speaker 4: Yes, I believe you? But what can I do about it?
Speaker 1: Come in? What is it? Rasau? Missus Worcester?
Speaker 6: I was wondering, if, well, if if you go downstairs
and put in a good word for Teddy, why well,
mister Worcester's fixing to fire him, fire Teddy? Why would
anybody want to fire Teddy. Well, the mister's real upset
with Teddy, and well, if he fires him, I don't
know what i'd ever do you see? You see Teddy's
asked me to marry him. Well, not in so many words,
but well he's been hinting at it, so well, how
could I stay here if he comes?
Speaker 1: Well, well, we can't let that happen. Wait, what have
you got there? Set a gun?
Speaker 6: Yes, ma'am, it's Teddy's or thirty two caliber of varvar. Well,
when Tereddy loses his temporaries up, well, you see he
shouldn't be near a gun. Oh he calms down, I
see quick. But but to be on the safe side.
But could he take this and just hide it somewhere?
Speaker 1: Please?
Speaker 6: Please? He know I took it, and he gets it
out of me. All right, go downstairs. I'll hide the
gun till he comes to his senses, and you will
try to make mister Worcester see reason and not fire.
Speaker 1: And of course, how long has this been going on?
How long has what been going on?
Speaker 3: How long have I been paying for gasoline that I
never used, repairs that were never made, supplies that were
never delivered.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 3: I have here a bill for seventy two dollars for
new breaks. You got new breaks to Worcester. Rakes had
lasted less than a week. Missus Wooster was almost killed.
Speaker 1: How do you explain that? I can't explain it.
Speaker 3: I'm sure you have a very comfortable arrangement with all
the shopkeepers and down.
Speaker 1: I don't have to take that from anybody.
Speaker 6: John, Dear, I can hear you all of your fire.
Speaker 1: You can't fire me. I quit FeAs. Listen to me both.
I watch you off this property immediately. Now, pack your
things and go.
Speaker 3: You couldn't pay me fifty thousand dollars to stay here
another five minutes over the years. That's probably what you've stolen.
Once a jailbird. I'm coming back here with a gun,
and you better be ready to apologize. God, I cannot
believe me.
Speaker 1: Quiet my dear. Hello, who is this? Oh Amanda? Connect
me with the sheriff right away, John. When you keep
I will.
Speaker 3: Not be taken advantage of that. Oh Hello, Sheriff Adams.
John Wooster, No, damon, I don't want to go fishing.
All I want to tell you is if ever I
should be shot to death, the killer is Teddy Kellogg.
Speaker 1: Yes, I call him stealing John.
Speaker 3: You did no such thing. I faced him with it.
He turned nasty him. He threatened me, no, no, I
won't do it. Any good to come up. If he's
gonna do it, he can do it before you get here. Now,
I just want you to know, if it happens, who
the killer is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 6: How Teddy wouldn't kill anybody.
Speaker 1: He couldn't. Teddy Wood could and has.
Speaker 3: Thirty years ago he got into a fight over a girl. Teddy, Yeah,
he killed his rival in a fit of anger. When
he came out of jail. I was the only one
willing to give him a job. And this is how
he repays me. I caught him. He never had those
breaks fixed, and it almost killed you.
Speaker 6: I'm sure there must be some other explanation.
Speaker 3: Suppose you had been killed in that crash and Teddy
also kills me. You know the probability of both the
husband and wife meeting a violent death during peacetime. Now
in this country, the odds are now one in eighteen million.
Speaker 5: I'm thrilled to hear it. The word kill has a fascinating.
Speaker 1: Etymology, Darling. I really I'm not into.
Speaker 5: Kill and quill share the same route, or should I
to dinner? And oddly enough, so does qualm. Evidently a
qualm is what you're supposed to feel when you killed.
Speaker 1: I don't think i'd feel any at all.
Speaker 3: Oh, darling, you kill? Why that's impossible? And now, dear,
you're sure you don't mind staying alone in the house.
I'm sure it's only for one night. I do have
to meet my publisher in New.
Speaker 1: York, I said, I didn't mind. I'm sorry about Teresa Jean.
You'll miss your plane.
Speaker 3: I realized she had to quit after I fired Teddy,
but I couldn't help that.
Speaker 1: The man is so obviously a thief.
Speaker 5: Well, all that's over now, are you sure you'll be
all right?
Speaker 1: Yes? Talking about thieves?
Speaker 3: Do you know the very first time the word thief
is mentioned in written history?
Speaker 1: On Where has the time gone?
Speaker 3: I mustn't miss my plane?
Speaker 1: What who am I doing?
Speaker 2: Where?
Speaker 1: Oh? Oh? No?
Speaker 7: I was standing next John's bed, his empty bed, and
I had hired three shots into his pillow.
Speaker 1: There was a noise that had awakened me.
Speaker 6: But there I was, walking in my sleep again, trying
to kill my husband again, and I knew that I
would keep walking in my sleep until I did what
I knew I had to do, kill him. And right
there I suppose a way to do it.
Speaker 1: Formed in my mind.
Speaker 6: I would get rid of my husband and my sleep
walking at the same time.
Speaker 1: And the more I thought of it, the sound right.
How well? Mind if I joined him? Hello? Doctor, what
are you doing?
Speaker 4: Until?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 6: John is in New York today, range and to have
a new book published?
Speaker 1: What about your problem? Which problem?
Speaker 4: The basic problem? Sleepwalking?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: That are you still at it?
Speaker 6: Why should I be?
Speaker 4: Because you already haven't faced up the facts? Olivia, You
have to leave them.
Speaker 1: What kind of horrid thing is that to say?
Speaker 4: Because if you don't, you're going to kill him.
Speaker 1: What did you get that outlandish idea?
Speaker 4: You gave it to me?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 6: Oh well, I just had a harrowing escape from death.
Speaker 5: I may have been somewhat out of my head. I
love John truly.
Speaker 4: I was thinking about what you said. It makes a
terrible kind of sense.
Speaker 3: His conversation drives you crazy.
Speaker 4: Yes, he talks.
Speaker 3: He tries to be witty and entertaining because that's all
he can do now, and it's well a pathetic attempt
to cover up his inadequacy in other marital areas. You
put that so delicately, Libby, don't be a foolish December
and July.
Speaker 4: It doesn't work.
Speaker 1: It does for so many people, but not for you.
Your entire psyche is an open rebellion.
Speaker 5: Do you think there are too many calories in the
New England Crime Jowder?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 6: I hope I'm not disturbing you, darling.
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no, not at all. No books coming along,
just fine. Hey, it's all about the history of marriage,
that is, how marriages have influenced history. Oh, it's fascinating.
Speaker 1: Hey.
Speaker 3: Do you realize that the three great European kings who
were overthrown by revolutions were married to the same kind
of womanly John Nicholas of Russia, Charles the First of England,
Louis the sixteenth John.
Speaker 1: Why don't I make us a cup of tea?
Speaker 3: Oh, we'll hurry back to you. Your reactions are so
important to me.
Speaker 1: Was it said? Well, begun is half done. Listen to me.
Speaker 6: I'm even talking like him now, but I'm beginning to
do what has to be done, and the first thing
is to make a telephone call.
Speaker 1: Hello, did he It's it's missus Wooster. Yes, ma'am, at
your service, Eddy, it was.
Speaker 6: A terrible misunderstanding between you and mister Wooster.
Speaker 1: I know for a fact he's sorry, and he should be.
I know that.
Speaker 6: Well, he'd like to have you with us again.
Speaker 1: All he's got to do is call me up and apologize.
We can't do that, Teddy. You know him well, I
got my pride too.
Speaker 5: If you were just to come up here tonight and
say hello to him, it would be as if nothing.
Speaker 1: Had ever happened.
Speaker 6: Well, now, Teddy, you need the job and he needs you.
Speaker 1: Well, okay, I'll be there. That's the first thing, taking care.
Speaker 6: And now for the second thing, which is another telephone call.
Speaker 5: Did Professor Alexander Graham Bell ever consider how indispensable as
invention would be to all sorts of people?
Speaker 1: Sheriff Adam speaking Sheriff.
Speaker 6: This is Olivia Woolster. My husband just received a phone
call from Teddy Kellogg. Was a very threatening call. I
listened in on the extension.
Speaker 5: Threatening, but John refuses to take it seriously.
Speaker 1: Teddy has been threatening to kill him. Yes, I know that.
Speaker 6: You see, John fired him and won't give him a reference.
And maybe that's wrong, but right.
Speaker 1: Now I'm terrified. Maybe I'm being serious. I'll be right there.
Don't you open the door to nobody till I arrived.
And now, of course it was the third thing, the
act itself.
Speaker 6: I must get Teddy's gun from the drawer where I've
kept it hidden, and I should walk.
Speaker 1: Very quietly back to the study widely. I was fair
in sight and the knowledge of John. Like for many heroes,
you shall die with your boots on, that is, in
your case, busily created with your typewriter.
Speaker 6: Now I shall wipe my fingerprints off the gun.
Speaker 1: And do the lady like thing faint at the sight
of this awful blood and violence.
Speaker 3: Well, could the thing be more deftly done by Lucretsio
Borgia or Catherine de Medici. I realize we're using a
great many historical illusions in our tale, but they fit
the piece and really our basic problem. The true argument
of our story is stated perfectly by an old English saying,
if he is withered and she is supple, they cannot
make a happy couple. We shall resolve all of our
problems fully when I return in just a few moments.
Speaker 2: With Act three.
Speaker 3: Sleepwalking or somnambulism is a deep psychic disturbance an indication
of a dangerous problem. Therefore, if one is to rid
oneself of the affliction, one must rid oneself of the problem.
And that's just exactly what Olivia Worcester has done. She
got rid of her problem utterly, completely and permanently.
Speaker 2: She killed him.
Speaker 1: Mister Worcester. The missus said, I was a comber, mister Worcester,
Missus Worcester, what happened?
Speaker 3: Oh what happened?
Speaker 1: Don't you get him?
Speaker 6: Ah?
Speaker 1: You jell him Worster. I did no such, Missus Worcester.
You threatening to killing me? You came up here, murder?
Hold on you? You got this all wrong.
Speaker 6: I saw you do it.
Speaker 1: I was here and I saw you do it. But
I never you had your gun and you fired out him. No,
no idea, you killed him.
Speaker 6: You just called listen twenty minutes ago. You threatened his eye.
I just I heard you on the extension.
Speaker 1: I better get er.
Speaker 3: I don't believe her.
Speaker 6: You own escape.
Speaker 8: You won't escape.
Speaker 3: Hold on, hold on, tend still can't get this whole sel.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna make me pay for that murder? What murder?
John Wooster?
Speaker 3: I mean he has killed him already I didn't kill me.
Speaker 6: Shove old my house ready, he killed my board. He
gave you to his house like a mad ride.
Speaker 1: Got it. He just shot John down in cold bloody
entered the god I fake it.
Speaker 6: Oh, it's too horrible to talk about now.
Speaker 1: You just take it easy, miss Worcester. It's a lie.
Shut up. He'll get your chance.
Speaker 6: Missus Wooster, I don't know what a thaw to Raisa.
Speaker 1: I forgive him. He didn't know what he was doing.
Speaker 6: He says, you'd cause him on the phone and asked
him to come here.
Speaker 1: No, my dear, I'm sorry. He never lied to me.
Speaker 5: My dear, he has to deny his guilty. You he's
afraid to lose your love.
Speaker 6: I keep telling him I'll stand by him no matter.
Speaker 1: What a man I mean.
Speaker 6: After all, his reputation is important to him. How does
he do it that he gets a good lawyer?
Speaker 1: You? You will? After all? Part of it is John's fault.
Speaker 7: Oh, missus Wooster, you are a saint listening it.
Speaker 3: Oh hello, Olivia, doctor may I come in?
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 1: I was on my way out. So Olivia, you actually
didn't did what? O, Livy?
Speaker 4: You know what?
Speaker 1: Please? I'm busy. You killed him I killed John.
Speaker 5: Oh yes, I'm afraid your information is inadequate.
Speaker 1: Teddy killed John.
Speaker 3: No, I was right the first time you killed John
and then you framed Teddy here. You have no right
to Don't waste all this outraging lisence on me.
Speaker 4: Say it for when you'll need.
Speaker 1: You have the faintest notion of what you're talking about.
Speaker 3: We were all through this before we spoke about your
absolute need to kill John.
Speaker 1: The police have take the police, being human like the
rest of us, can make my stories. Teddy threatened.
Speaker 6: My husband warn the sheriff that Teddy might try to
kill him.
Speaker 5: My husband gave Teddy ampro motives. I know all that
further or the murder weapon was Teddy's.
Speaker 1: Gun, which was in your possession.
Speaker 5: Oh no, I had returned it to Teddy.
Speaker 1: He denies that. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: So what happens now?
Speaker 1: Does Teddy pay through the nose for your murder?
Speaker 5: H Teddy, of course, was drinking that night, He was brooding.
He felt he had been ill used. It was a
crime of passion. He may get five to ten years.
Speaker 3: On the other hand, you could plead temporary insanity, you're
psychologically disturbed.
Speaker 1: You would get an indeterminate.
Speaker 3: Sentence to be served under psychiatric supervision and treatment.
Speaker 4: You could hope to be cured.
Speaker 5: You can't inherit in a state if it comes to
you through an active murder.
Speaker 1: Olivia, I'm trying to.
Speaker 3: Say, by throwing me into prison, by trying to cure you, you
can't prove one word of what you're saying.
Speaker 2: Olivia.
Speaker 3: You're playing for the highest stakes in the world, your life.
Speaker 6: Your life is in no danger, and I'm perfectly sane.
Speaker 4: Olivia.
Speaker 3: You and I know better, you and I know what
you felt you had to do.
Speaker 6: Perhaps, but Teddy, it's obligingly.
Speaker 4: Done it for me, it won't work.
Speaker 6: Oh, but it's working nicely. Why do you want to
rock the boat?
Speaker 1: Doctor?
Speaker 5: In the long run, everyone will be happy this way.
Speaker 3: I still say it won't work, Olivia, It'll backfire.
Speaker 1: You can't get away with doctor. Can it be that
you are the one who's psychotic.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Olivia. I know what I know, and I'm
going to work on it full time. I'll see that justice.
Speaker 1: Is done off the record. Why, because it's the right
thing to do.
Speaker 5: I couldn't forget that tone in his voice. It just
terrified me. This man is out to destroy me. And
then I said to myself, don't.
Speaker 1: Be a fool. What can he do? Soon the trial.
Speaker 5: Will be over and it will all be forgotten. I
decided I had nothing to worry about. That's what I
decided consciously. A few days later, while waiting to testify
at Teddy's trial, the sheriff asked.
Speaker 1: Me, say, miss Woodster, whind you buy a gun? A gun?
Speaker 3: Yeah, thirty eight caliber revolver. I mean, it's legal in
this state and all that, but I have got Jim
Richards over at the sports shop happened to mention that
you picked one up the other day, but you really
don't need one, and people have more accidents for those things.
Speaker 9: Well, there it was in the glove compartment of my car,
the thirty eight caliber Revolver, fully loaded and the sales slip.
I looked at my checkbook and there was the stub
I had written a check to Jim Richard's sports shop.
Speaker 1: When when I had done this, and then I knew.
Speaker 6: I knew it was sleepwalking because I remembered everything doctor
Schwartz had told me. And I even knew why I
bought the gun, because I knew I had to kill and.
Speaker 1: Now I'm to sleep walking again.
Speaker 6: Now, missus Wooster, let us continue your testimony. You say
the defendant entered the room. Yes, I was reading, My
husband was typing and teddy mister Kellogg shouted at my
husband that he was going to kill him.
Speaker 1: And what happened? What happened here? He fired his revolver
at John. He emptied the gun.
Speaker 6: How do you know he emptied the gun because because
he kept pulling a trigger, you could hear it go click, click, click,
and the clicking was even more frightening than the shops.
Speaker 1: And then I don't know, I fainted.
Speaker 3: You were a very effective witness today in court, yes, believable, sympathetic,
but you made the mistake.
Speaker 1: I warned you.
Speaker 3: A look, this just isn't going to work. Now, I
read the complete report. As a matter of fact, I
performed the autopsy. Well, now you say he emptied the
revolver at John. Yes, the revolver has six chambers. Only
three bullets were found in John's body. So what happened
to the other three?
Speaker 1: I don't know. How would I know?
Speaker 3: There were six empty shellcases in the gun, but only
three bullets are accounted for.
Speaker 1: Why don't you ask the sheriff. I'll do better than that.
I'll tell the sheriff.
Speaker 3: I'll tell him that he has neglected to look for
three missing bullets.
Speaker 6: I don't see how that could prove anything.
Speaker 3: Olivia, you're lying, and if you're lying, then Teddy's telling
the truth about everything.
Speaker 4: You never gave them back the gun.
Speaker 3: You fired those first three shells at an earlier time.
It may have been an unsuccessful effort to kill John.
You may not even be aware of it.
Speaker 1: I'll have to ask you to leave, Olivia. I'm not
a detective. I'm a doctor. Your doctor.
Speaker 3: I won't say anything to anybody till tomorrow. You do
some thinking tonight, and then in the morning we'll talk
to the sheriff and to the judge.
Speaker 4: Together. It's your only chance.
Speaker 1: Said Maybia.
Speaker 3: Driving at that speed all units a sports car looked
like a seminari.
Speaker 4: I couldn't tell.
Speaker 1: Went by me too fast. Must be doing close to
ninety or one hundred head and west on trouble.
Speaker 3: We'd better bag this idiot before he kills himself and
lord knows who else.
Speaker 4: Olivia, Olivia, come in. I'm glad you decided to come. Hey, Olivia,
that that.
Speaker 1: Gun don't you don't know what you're doing. I know
what I'm doing. Olivia. Wake up.
Speaker 4: I'm up.
Speaker 1: You're sleepwalking. I'm going to kill you, Olivia.
Speaker 6: I have to kill you.
Speaker 1: You understand that, don't you. It's you and me, and
once you're gone, I'll be at peace. Olivia. Listen to
your fault. You won't let up on you, Olivia. You'll
never be John was.
Speaker 6: That's why I kill him. You also patronize me the
way he did.
Speaker 5: You're so superior, Olivia.
Speaker 1: I'll be able to help you.
Speaker 6: Know the name of the girl in the opera lass
an Ambula Amina? Yes, she had courage. She wanted the duke,
so she went to his room.
Speaker 5: Women like us, we can only express ourselves when asleep.
Speaker 6: I don't want to be cured.
Speaker 1: Please, Olivia, wake up.
Speaker 6: I never want to wake up.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, missus Wooster.
Speaker 3: I must arrest you for the murder of doctor Stephen Schwartz.
What I must advise you that you have the right
to remain silent murder your car were seeing outside the
doctor's house the shots to the tension. We have a
number of witnesses who saw you coming out. We have
looked in the glove compartment of your car, and we
have the revolver.
Speaker 1: He was my doctor. Why why would I want to
kill him? You'd know that bear than we would.
Speaker 3: Why it's worster. You were described as wearing a robe
over nightgown man. This could have been a murder of passion.
Speaker 1: How dare you imply?
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I'm only telling you what it looks like.
And since you recently purchased the gun, that's premeditation, which
could make it first degree.
Speaker 6: If people say they saw me do it, then I.
Speaker 1: Must have done it. You want to sign a confession,
But I.
Speaker 5: Was walking my sleep It was all sleepwalking.
Speaker 3: It's Worcester has an old hand. Let me give you
some advice. Don't tell that story.
Speaker 1: But it's true. I do sleepwalk.
Speaker 6: I'll stop the Schwartz.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's uh has problem.
Speaker 1: Notcor Schwartz is dead.
Speaker 6: But it's true.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, for your sake, and I can only hope
a jury will believe it. And why should they believe it?
Speaker 2: It looked like a lover's quarrel. I mean it looked
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Speaker 3: After all, she had been married to a much older man,
the victim had been their doctor, and it seemed logical
that he may have promised to marry her one day
when she was free, and had reneged on his promise,
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