1 00:00:01,439 --> 00:00:20,039 Speaker 1: The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents. 2 00:00:05,519 --> 00:00:22,280 Speaker 2: Come in. 3 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:26,559 Speaker 3: Welcome. I'm e. G. 4 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:30,960 Speaker 1: Marshall. How conscious all of us are who drive the 5 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:34,439 freeways and the through ways of the beamuth of the road, 6 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:36,439 the tractor trailer truck. 7 00:00:37,399 --> 00:00:39,240 Speaker 3: Most of the time we mumble. 8 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:41,920 Speaker 1: Under our breaths at the size of these thirty forty 9 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:46,520 ton monsters, particularly on wet nights when the rain is 10 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:50,520 slanting down and that's swirling mist in their trail, fogging 11 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:55,000 and dirtying our windshields. But we seldom spare much thought 12 00:00:55,039 --> 00:00:58,719 to the men who drive them. I see that science 13 00:00:58,759 --> 00:01:01,880 theater is whether I'm lucky I can see the road? 14 00:01:02,799 --> 00:01:05,680 Speaker 3: What to say, Joe? Help pass out? Thirty four miles? 15 00:01:06,799 --> 00:01:08,239 That's thirty four miles too far? 16 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:11,560 Speaker 4: And I'm hang in Steve another hour or so and 17 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:13,239 you and me are really gonna tie you one on 18 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:14,599 and help me out? 19 00:01:14,719 --> 00:01:17,120 Speaker 3: Oh not again, I got things to do. 20 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:20,239 Speaker 4: Ever since you took over the seven runs from Big Jim, 21 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:22,239 you've been alone, and well. 22 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:23,920 Speaker 3: Maybe after this trip you won't have to put up 23 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:27,680 with me anymore. Joe, what is unlan? Well? Well, what 24 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:32,319 kind of things? Well, first off, I must find my wife, 25 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:36,359 and then I'm gonna kill Her. 26 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:49,680 Speaker 1: Or mystery drama The Reluctant Killer was written especially for 27 00:01:49,760 --> 00:02:05,000 the mystery theater by Ian Martin and stars Tony Roberts. 28 00:02:06,079 --> 00:02:07,319 Speaker 3: I'm going to kill her. 29 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:11,879 Speaker 1: There was something so final and deadly about the quiet 30 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:16,479 statement that it got to Joe. For once in his life, 31 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:19,879 he knew enough to keep quiet. He just sat in 32 00:02:19,919 --> 00:02:23,479 his corner of the cab, watching the big, darkly handsome 33 00:02:23,479 --> 00:02:26,680 man at the wheel, who handled his thirty ton rig 34 00:02:26,759 --> 00:02:29,680 as easily as if it were a small compact car. 35 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:35,680 The face was impassive, but that was an illusion, because 36 00:02:35,719 --> 00:02:39,080 a stormy sea of memory was battering against the inside 37 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:42,280 of his skull, like waves of pain that shattered every 38 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:43,879 nerve end as they broke. 39 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:49,400 Speaker 3: I was always big for my age. I'm too strong. 40 00:02:50,319 --> 00:02:52,919 My mom always kept reminding me, and it was just as. 41 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:55,439 Speaker 1: Well, even though I long ago found that out for myself. 42 00:02:56,400 --> 00:03:00,159 My cousin was eight and I was just six. On 43 00:03:00,319 --> 00:03:03,840 around just wrestling. I did something to was neck put 44 00:03:03,879 --> 00:03:04,719 him in the hospital for. 45 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:07,199 Speaker 3: Near a month. I didn't mean to hurt him. 46 00:03:07,599 --> 00:03:10,400 Speaker 5: He's my best friend, who's my uncle. 47 00:03:10,439 --> 00:03:13,000 Speaker 3: Jam got me interested in football, So. 48 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:15,840 Speaker 4: My little strong man, this is where I come every 49 00:03:15,879 --> 00:03:18,240 Saturday to pay our American. 50 00:03:17,719 --> 00:03:21,319 Speaker 1: Football a rough game but still good for. 51 00:03:21,319 --> 00:03:25,719 Speaker 4: The character, and fifty dollars extra a week during the season. 52 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 3: That's manner from heaven. 53 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:31,319 Speaker 4: You like to grow up and be football player? 54 00:03:32,039 --> 00:03:33,479 Speaker 3: Yeah, I tell you what. 55 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:36,840 Speaker 4: I bring you and your mama here next Saturday and 56 00:03:36,879 --> 00:03:37,639 you take a look. 57 00:03:37,719 --> 00:03:38,159 Speaker 5: Huh. 58 00:03:38,319 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 4: Then if you like, maybe I teach you to play. 59 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 6: You will have some coffee, young and some cake. 60 00:03:48,319 --> 00:03:51,759 Speaker 4: No, sister, I have already little time to be back 61 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:52,400 on the job. 62 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:55,080 Speaker 1: Why you call me lunchtime? 63 00:03:55,240 --> 00:04:00,319 Speaker 7: I can never find you evenings, you and your girls. 64 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:04,120 Speaker 4: Some nights I have to study, study football formations. 65 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:06,800 Speaker 3: Who to black? What sort black brush? 66 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 7: All the takedown, Liz, I do not want to hear 67 00:04:10,919 --> 00:04:14,159 it is that game you've gotten Stephan crazy about it. 68 00:04:14,159 --> 00:04:15,199 Speaker 8: It is not for him. 69 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:17,839 Speaker 5: Why you should know? 70 00:04:18,639 --> 00:04:22,920 Speaker 7: Stephan does not know his own strength. I'm afraid since 71 00:04:22,959 --> 00:04:25,879 the moment he was born, he will grow up and kill. 72 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:27,319 Speaker 8: Someone in spite of himself. 73 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:29,800 Speaker 3: How could you know this about a baby? 74 00:04:31,399 --> 00:04:35,519 Speaker 8: I see things even God himself should not allow me 75 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:36,040 to see. 76 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:40,879 Speaker 4: Are we going back to all this romany nonsense again? 77 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:43,519 Speaker 8: We go back to gypsy king? 78 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:44,560 Speaker 3: I hope not. 79 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:48,839 Speaker 4: I will be happy to settle for slav myself and 80 00:04:48,959 --> 00:04:50,279 better still American. 81 00:04:50,959 --> 00:04:52,720 Speaker 3: That cannot change. 82 00:04:52,639 --> 00:04:54,839 Speaker 1: What I know. And what do you know? 83 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:59,439 Speaker 7: Stephan was born the wrong side of midnight? 84 00:05:00,319 --> 00:05:01,399 Speaker 1: What does that mean? 85 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:05,639 Speaker 8: There is death in his future unless he walks with 86 00:05:05,759 --> 00:05:06,399 great care. 87 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:10,720 Speaker 7: The Taro cards tell me again and again. It is 88 00:05:10,759 --> 00:05:16,759 so he is death that is not revealed, only that 89 00:05:16,879 --> 00:05:20,360 it is he or someone close to him, and that 90 00:05:20,439 --> 00:05:25,680 the death might be because of him. 91 00:05:25,879 --> 00:05:28,720 Speaker 1: I never knew about that conversation till my mother died. 92 00:05:29,639 --> 00:05:32,399 I was a senior in college on a football scholarship, 93 00:05:32,439 --> 00:05:34,319 and by then she was resigned to it at last, 94 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:37,600 because it was getting me an education I couldn't have afforded. Otherwise, 95 00:05:38,639 --> 00:05:40,560 she never would have told me about her fears for me. 96 00:05:40,639 --> 00:05:43,120 I guess if it weren't for the pro offers that 97 00:05:43,199 --> 00:05:44,399 were being dangled. 98 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:44,600 Speaker 3: In front of me. 99 00:05:45,439 --> 00:05:50,399 Speaker 7: Oh, I am glad the football season is over, Stephan, Now. 100 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:51,279 Speaker 5: No more wars. 101 00:05:51,759 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 1: I don't knock it too much, Mom. It opened a 102 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:55,360 lot of doors for me. 103 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:58,879 Speaker 7: Oh, that is what I'm proud and happy for. When 104 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:02,839 you'll get your degree, he'll be an engineer, a man 105 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:04,079 with a white color. 106 00:06:04,319 --> 00:06:08,079 Speaker 1: Hey, you don't go kicking a blue collar worker around now. 107 00:06:08,079 --> 00:06:13,319 Speaker 7: Times have changed times maybe, but be what the college 108 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:14,319 has trained you to be. 109 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:19,959 Speaker 1: Its pretty tough promise to ask for, ma'am. Why, Oh, 110 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:20,959 A lot of reasons. 111 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:24,319 Speaker 3: First of all, I love the game. I regually really do. 112 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:27,160 Speaker 1: Second time, I may have big muscles, but I got 113 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:28,560 no great brain to match up. 114 00:06:29,399 --> 00:06:30,120 Speaker 3: I'm not so. 115 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:35,160 Speaker 1: Sure I could make it as a mechanical engineer. Last stuff, 116 00:06:35,319 --> 00:06:37,439 there's an awful lot of dough in a football future 117 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:37,759 for me. 118 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:39,639 Speaker 3: I'd like us to have. 119 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:40,720 Speaker 5: Some for a change. 120 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:42,120 Speaker 3: I want to set you up in a house of 121 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:44,519 your own. No more work, no more worry. 122 00:06:44,279 --> 00:06:47,639 Speaker 7: No Steve, And before you stop me, I'll give you 123 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:53,560 some first and last offs of my own. First, I 124 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:55,480 don't want to say this, but you've got to know 125 00:06:55,639 --> 00:07:01,920 sometime I haven't got too much future left. Stephan, my son, 126 00:07:03,439 --> 00:07:06,439 God is about ready to bring me home. 127 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:10,639 Speaker 3: I what is it, Stephan. 128 00:07:11,399 --> 00:07:14,199 Speaker 8: Put in the kitchen, on the spice shelf, behind the 129 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:19,079 dill bottle, a little dark medicine bottle with small white pills. 130 00:07:19,839 --> 00:07:21,199 Speaker 6: Bring them. 131 00:07:21,319 --> 00:07:22,240 Speaker 3: I'll been right back, Bob. 132 00:07:23,079 --> 00:07:28,680 Speaker 7: Oh, no, no, God, please not yet till I know 133 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:32,199 my boys is safe. 134 00:07:36,759 --> 00:07:38,959 Speaker 1: That was the first information I had in my mother 135 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:42,480 was dying. She and Uncle John had kept the secret 136 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:46,000 from me completely till that moment. How mercifully quicken was 137 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:49,399 after the years of angina paines. Less than a week later, 138 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:52,560 I sat with my mother before she died. She told 139 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:56,199 me of the long ago conversation with Uncle Johan, and then. 140 00:07:58,079 --> 00:08:00,319 Speaker 9: That is why I feel. 141 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 7: If only you were away from all the violence and fighting, 142 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:12,680 I could see happiness and peace for. 143 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:17,680 Speaker 3: You, not not for my sake. 144 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:23,800 Speaker 7: Yours promise me no more football. 145 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:29,199 Speaker 1: So money isn't to buy something for you, Mom? 146 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:30,160 Speaker 3: What's it worth? 147 00:08:31,319 --> 00:08:31,879 Speaker 5: I promise. 148 00:08:35,919 --> 00:08:38,440 Speaker 1: I could have kept my promise to my mother, and 149 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:42,080 I have been for Pat. After Mom died, with the 150 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:44,759 funeral and all and my last turn to get through, 151 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:47,440 I took a job at a gas station part time. 152 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:49,759 Speaker 3: I could have worked as much as. 153 00:08:49,679 --> 00:08:52,240 Speaker 1: I wanted, because the owners soon discovered I knew most 154 00:08:52,279 --> 00:08:53,559 everything about a car, from. 155 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:55,720 Speaker 3: Front end to universal, but I was having a. 156 00:08:55,759 --> 00:08:58,200 Speaker 1: Rough time making it with the books and getting ready 157 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:04,240 for finals, mostly weekends. It was a Saturday morning, the 158 00:09:04,279 --> 00:09:07,320 sky as blue as a robin's egg, that she drove in. 159 00:09:09,559 --> 00:09:11,960 She was driving a Maserati, which most time would have 160 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:14,960 had all my attention, but Pat could have sat in. 161 00:09:14,919 --> 00:09:17,759 Speaker 3: Some kid brothers beat up heap for all the notice. 162 00:09:17,799 --> 00:09:22,600 You'd take other car all the way. Miss, I beg 163 00:09:22,639 --> 00:09:23,159 your pardon. 164 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:29,919 Speaker 8: I mean filler up, Yes, premium, premium, that's right, the best. 165 00:09:30,799 --> 00:09:35,679 Speaker 3: Well that's what you deserve. Nothing but only only what. 166 00:09:37,159 --> 00:09:39,639 Speaker 1: She looks pretty new to me when here is she 167 00:09:39,759 --> 00:09:40,399 seventy three? 168 00:09:41,279 --> 00:09:42,320 Speaker 3: Well, then you want regularly? 169 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 8: Tell me what I want. 170 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:48,080 Speaker 3: I guess you're a wagon baby. You want to burn 171 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:50,200 out your vowels of the ninety five rating? You got it? 172 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:54,960 Speaker 8: Oh wait a minute, what's the ninety five? Well? 173 00:09:56,720 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 3: Excuse me? I was looking at your legs? What's the question? 174 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:02,000 Speaker 8: What's a ninety five rating? 175 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:06,759 Speaker 1: Gas octane eighty seven eighty eight? 176 00:10:06,759 --> 00:10:08,519 Speaker 3: So all your need and you keep your engine clean 177 00:10:08,519 --> 00:10:09,080 as a whistle? 178 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:10,120 Speaker 1: Will it be? 179 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:13,519 Speaker 8: Anybody as big as you doesn't have to be conceited 180 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:16,440 or so off? So maybe you know what you're talking about. 181 00:10:17,519 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 3: Make it regular? I'd like to what make it regular? 182 00:10:24,399 --> 00:10:25,080 Or even once? 183 00:10:25,679 --> 00:10:27,159 Speaker 8: I want you to check under the hood. 184 00:10:28,679 --> 00:10:34,200 Speaker 3: I was hoping you'd ask me that why beautiful? Ge 185 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:36,000 be beautiful? 186 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:37,639 Speaker 8: Are we starting that again? 187 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:39,879 Speaker 3: Oh? I was talking about this piece of machinery. 188 00:10:40,039 --> 00:10:42,840 Speaker 8: Oh well, well. 189 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:43,639 Speaker 3: Why do you want me to check. 190 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:49,320 Speaker 8: Well, whatever whatever you do battery oil and things. 191 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:52,679 Speaker 3: Sure, my name is Steve Jennis. 192 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:54,879 Speaker 8: I'm pot barred. 193 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:57,039 Speaker 3: What are you doing this evening? 194 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:01,320 Speaker 8: I have a date, of course, What could you do 195 00:11:01,399 --> 00:11:02,240 about it? Anyway? 196 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:07,480 Speaker 1: Oh, I'm closing early because I have to hit the books. 197 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:09,200 Speaker 3: I got a test coming up it. I don't know why. 198 00:11:09,759 --> 00:11:10,799 Speaker 8: What time are you closing? 199 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:12,679 Speaker 3: Ten thirty? 200 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:17,480 Speaker 8: I'll pick you up at ten thirty and drive you home. Why, 201 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:18,279 I don't know. 202 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:20,840 Speaker 5: I must be out of my mind. 203 00:11:22,039 --> 00:11:26,519 Speaker 3: That's like me. I mean, I've been that way since 204 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:34,360 the moment I first saw you. And that was the 205 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:35,639 beginning for Pat and me. 206 00:11:36,399 --> 00:11:39,440 Speaker 1: Beginning has only seen to signal a great, great future. 207 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:42,879 Speaker 5: It hadn't been for a mother, or not. 208 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:45,000 Speaker 1: That I'd ever been smart enough to realize what a 209 00:11:45,039 --> 00:11:47,960 trouble maker Pat's mother was, except for what happened later. 210 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:51,159 For beginnings, I thought she was a real nice woman. 211 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:54,120 I could see where all her daughter's beauty came from. 212 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:56,919 I mean, Pat and I guess the mother two in 213 00:11:57,039 --> 00:11:59,879 her day could turn on the space. 214 00:12:02,519 --> 00:12:06,759 Speaker 7: Good lord, you are one hunk of man, mister Stephen 215 00:12:06,799 --> 00:12:11,000 americanus jonosmim Oh. I know your real name, but you 216 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:15,159 look more like mister America to me, Colling, Can you 217 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:17,279 isolate your stomach muscles? 218 00:12:17,799 --> 00:12:18,240 Speaker 3: Bring upon? 219 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:21,240 Speaker 7: Never mind, just a trick anyway. 220 00:12:21,799 --> 00:12:23,440 Speaker 9: So you want to. 221 00:12:23,399 --> 00:12:24,120 Speaker 3: Marry my daughter? 222 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:25,919 Speaker 1: Huh, I'm going to marry your daughter. 223 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:29,919 Speaker 7: Oh not without my consent, buster and approval. 224 00:12:30,799 --> 00:12:32,039 Speaker 3: I didn't mean to annoy you, but. 225 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:34,240 Speaker 7: Anyone who crosses me burns me up. 226 00:12:35,639 --> 00:12:36,519 Speaker 1: Do you want to talk some more? 227 00:12:36,559 --> 00:12:45,200 Speaker 10: Let's go for swimming the pool first. You're a heck 228 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:46,759 of a swimmer, Missus Warfield. 229 00:12:46,919 --> 00:12:50,200 Speaker 1: Well you're not. You're wallowing thresh about like a bear. 230 00:12:50,799 --> 00:12:53,679 Speaker 3: It's just not my game. I know what your game is. 231 00:12:53,759 --> 00:12:55,960 Speaker 1: I've watched you play a lot of years. 232 00:12:55,960 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 5: Oh kid, no kidding. 233 00:12:58,039 --> 00:12:59,960 Speaker 10: The penalty in my lifestyle, I. 234 00:13:00,639 --> 00:13:03,399 Speaker 7: Watch a lot of games I don't enjoy even have 235 00:13:03,519 --> 00:13:05,919 to participate. 236 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:05,879 Speaker 5: In some of them. 237 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:09,559 Speaker 7: Oh I do that because my two hundred and thirty 238 00:13:09,559 --> 00:13:12,679 five pounds teddy bear. I like to live in the 239 00:13:12,759 --> 00:13:14,960 style to which I've always been accustomed. 240 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:18,279 Speaker 3: I want the same for Pat. That's why I loosened the. 241 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:19,360 Speaker 8: Apron strings on you. 242 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:20,960 Speaker 5: Excuse me? 243 00:13:22,039 --> 00:13:23,600 Speaker 1: What league are you going to sign with? 244 00:13:23,759 --> 00:13:24,000 Speaker 3: Steve? 245 00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:27,799 Speaker 1: Oh well, that's up to Uncle Jan. 246 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:30,480 Speaker 3: I like the NFL myself. But that's mostly because I 247 00:13:30,519 --> 00:13:31,679 always ruined for the Browns. 248 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:35,279 Speaker 7: I must admit I wouldn't have minded being their den 249 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:41,159 mother myself. But you are going to play pro football, yes, ma'am, 250 00:13:41,279 --> 00:13:45,440 I expect too, huh. And what kind of contract does 251 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:48,080 your uncle jan expect to negotiate for you? 252 00:13:48,919 --> 00:13:51,960 Speaker 1: Well, I think it's kind of crazy myself, but they're 253 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:55,440 talking about five hundred thousand, no cut, three year guaranteed. 254 00:13:55,519 --> 00:13:55,919 Speaker 3: Uh huh. 255 00:13:56,639 --> 00:14:00,639 Speaker 7: But just see your own protection. So wait, do we 256 00:14:00,679 --> 00:14:02,039 get that contract signed? 257 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:02,559 Speaker 3: First? 258 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:06,600 Speaker 1: Of course, I've gotta know I can support a wife. 259 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:08,360 Speaker 3: I got some pride, you know. 260 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:15,960 Speaker 1: Suddenly I was seeing my future mother in law clearly 261 00:14:16,039 --> 00:14:18,759 for the first time. I wasn't a person to her, 262 00:14:19,039 --> 00:14:21,639 just a commodity to buy or sell. 263 00:14:21,399 --> 00:14:22,840 Speaker 3: Or accept as a gift. 264 00:14:23,399 --> 00:14:26,639 Speaker 1: She didn't care about Steve Janus, only that he represented 265 00:14:26,639 --> 00:14:28,080 a half a million bucks. 266 00:14:27,759 --> 00:14:28,240 Speaker 5: On the hoof. 267 00:14:29,639 --> 00:14:31,639 Speaker 1: I'd have cut out there and obeyed my promise to 268 00:14:31,679 --> 00:14:33,159 my mother. Of it, I hadn't have been for Pat. 269 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:36,240 She was what I loved. She was the only one 270 00:14:36,279 --> 00:14:39,279 important to me. Nothing could change that. I might want 271 00:14:39,279 --> 00:14:41,879 to kill her mother, but I never could feel that 272 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:45,519 same way about Pat. I'm just not built that way. 273 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:51,519 I couldn't kill a fly, Steve. 274 00:14:52,759 --> 00:14:55,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, Joe, you okay? Yeah? 275 00:14:56,039 --> 00:14:59,080 Speaker 1: Why we just passed and he'll pass those city a limit. 276 00:14:59,159 --> 00:15:03,120 Say if I try to know, I saw you. 277 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:05,159 Speaker 4: Look like it was one hundred miles away. 278 00:15:06,159 --> 00:15:08,440 Speaker 3: Don't worry about me. Even if I was high as 279 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:10,000 a kite. I could still haul freight. 280 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:14,120 Speaker 4: Oh sure, sure you got the touch. Yeah, I just 281 00:15:14,159 --> 00:15:17,080 got the creeps. With all that talk about your planet, 282 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:20,039 that kid, your wife, I don't go for. 283 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:24,039 Speaker 3: That kind of kid, and so good. I wouldn't blame you, Joe, 284 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:25,399 because I'm not kidding. 285 00:15:31,559 --> 00:15:35,480 Speaker 1: And with that last statement from Steve, Joe returns to 286 00:15:35,559 --> 00:15:38,480 his corner for good. He wants no part of this 287 00:15:38,639 --> 00:15:43,000 personal vendetta, and yet Joe is going to find out 288 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:45,559 that he will turn up right square in the middle 289 00:15:45,559 --> 00:15:49,759 of it, with no escape and no excuse and a 290 00:15:49,840 --> 00:16:05,600 horrendous multiplication of what he thinks is terror. The whine 291 00:16:05,639 --> 00:16:08,120 of the big tires on the wet highway has slowed 292 00:16:08,159 --> 00:16:10,600 a little now that the big trailer truck is approaching 293 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:14,919 the city, but inside the cab they seem even louder. 294 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:18,919 In the silence between the two men, Joe sits hunched 295 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:22,440 over staring straight ahead through the half circle of clear glass. 296 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:24,799 Speaker 3: The windshield wiper keeps open against. 297 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:29,279 Speaker 1: The driving rain, sneaking a sidelong glance every so often 298 00:16:29,279 --> 00:16:33,679 at Steve. But Steve is lost again in his own thoughts, 299 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:39,480 driving mechanically with his body reflexes while his mind courses 300 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:43,159 through the past. We were married a week after I graduated. 301 00:16:43,919 --> 00:16:47,240 Today I signed my final contract with the Pumas. 302 00:16:47,639 --> 00:16:49,200 Speaker 3: The headlines embarrassed. 303 00:16:48,759 --> 00:16:51,039 Speaker 1: Me, but the pat of the mother really went for him. 304 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:57,440 Big star full back sign's own interference Steve Killer janas 305 00:16:57,559 --> 00:17:02,200 Weed's former Patricia Bard and captioning one picture Beauty and 306 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:04,559 the Beast, the last one really got to pack. 307 00:17:04,960 --> 00:17:08,440 Speaker 8: That's dirty pool. What this headline? 308 00:17:08,519 --> 00:17:08,759 Speaker 11: Mother? 309 00:17:09,599 --> 00:17:14,240 Speaker 7: Oh you can't deny it's true. Oh just look at 310 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:17,759 that beautiful animal you married. If you weren't my own 311 00:17:17,759 --> 00:17:19,599 little girl, I'd be fitting an hour out to my 312 00:17:19,599 --> 00:17:20,519 bow right now and. 313 00:17:20,599 --> 00:17:21,599 Speaker 8: Off on the chase. 314 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:23,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, if you did, I'd never stop running. 315 00:17:24,319 --> 00:17:26,359 Speaker 7: Why am I so bad? 316 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:28,680 Speaker 3: Ah? You know I didn't mean it that way, missus. 317 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:31,440 Speaker 1: Bard just means you're kind of a bit much for 318 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:32,240 any guy to handle. 319 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:36,240 Speaker 7: Well, never you worry about me. You just take care 320 00:17:36,279 --> 00:17:38,640 of my baby in the way to which he's accustomed. 321 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:40,920 God knows you're going to be rich enough. 322 00:17:41,039 --> 00:17:41,359 Speaker 1: Mother. 323 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:45,799 Speaker 8: Oh Pat, don't go angenou on me. Money may not 324 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:47,359 buy happiness, but. 325 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:51,200 Speaker 7: It sure makes it a lot easier to find. And Keith, 326 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:53,559 h Now, off you go, you two. 327 00:17:53,759 --> 00:17:55,759 Speaker 1: It's going to be as short enough honeymoon. 328 00:17:55,359 --> 00:17:55,839 Speaker 8: As it is. 329 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:03,920 Speaker 1: I didn't realize how true that was at the time. Sure, 330 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:06,440 I had two weeks before training camp Agan. 331 00:18:06,559 --> 00:18:07,599 Speaker 3: But there was more too. 332 00:18:07,519 --> 00:18:11,519 Speaker 1: Than that, some dark shadow that moved. 333 00:18:11,319 --> 00:18:13,440 Speaker 3: Like a warning somewhere in the back of my mind. 334 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:16,960 Speaker 1: Even during the honeymoon on a lost island in the Bahamas, 335 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:20,480 every so often it would stir enough to make Pat notice. 336 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:25,680 Speaker 12: Oh, Steve, isn't it sheer unadulterated Heaven? 337 00:18:26,759 --> 00:18:30,759 Speaker 1: Pat, standing like that with your hair streaming in the wind, 338 00:18:30,839 --> 00:18:34,240 and those white drops of water gleaming like pearls against 339 00:18:34,319 --> 00:18:34,839 your skin. 340 00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:38,119 Speaker 3: You have the most beautiful, perfect thing God. 341 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:38,720 Speaker 5: That made me. 342 00:18:39,599 --> 00:18:42,480 Speaker 12: You're pretty impressive yourself and they altogether. 343 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:45,319 Speaker 8: And I never thought of you as a poet. 344 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:48,519 Speaker 1: I'm no poison. I'm just a guy in love with 345 00:18:48,599 --> 00:18:53,319 a goddess. How can I be sure you love me 346 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:54,200 the way I love you? 347 00:18:54,759 --> 00:18:55,680 Speaker 8: Don't I show you. 348 00:18:55,960 --> 00:19:01,559 Speaker 3: Oh, I don't mean that. I mean, I mean, well, Oh, 349 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:02,039 I don't know. 350 00:19:02,079 --> 00:19:06,880 Speaker 1: I get scared sometimes it's ah, you know, it's a 351 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:07,799 celebrity bit. 352 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:10,240 Speaker 12: Don't you think I like to be the wife of 353 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:11,920 Stephen Killer Janie. 354 00:19:12,079 --> 00:19:15,759 Speaker 3: I don't say that. That's screwball nickname. They hung on me. 355 00:19:16,799 --> 00:19:18,359 Speaker 8: You two mow them down, lover. 356 00:19:19,039 --> 00:19:21,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's a game. It's a game. I don't 357 00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:22,920 want to hurt anybody. 358 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:25,920 Speaker 8: I know how gentle you can be. But I get 359 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:27,960 my kicks too watching you from the stands. 360 00:19:28,079 --> 00:19:30,279 Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's what worries me. So he's supposing it 361 00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:31,039 all ended. 362 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:33,559 Speaker 1: I blew the ligaments in a knee, I picked up 363 00:19:33,559 --> 00:19:36,319 a compound fracture in a woolence, don't. 364 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:37,440 Speaker 8: Talk about things like that. 365 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:39,880 Speaker 1: If a football player lives with injuries every time he 366 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:42,440 suits up supposing I really bought an injury that ends 367 00:19:42,519 --> 00:19:43,359 my career, like. 368 00:19:43,319 --> 00:19:44,839 Speaker 3: Tucker Frederick Center, someone. 369 00:19:44,599 --> 00:19:47,200 Speaker 8: Who won't not my iron man. 370 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:51,319 Speaker 3: But if I did, Oh. 371 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:53,920 Speaker 8: I'd miss seeing you play the excitement at all, But 372 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:56,640 it wouldn't be that bad and we'd still have the money. 373 00:19:58,240 --> 00:19:58,720 Speaker 3: The money. 374 00:19:59,359 --> 00:20:03,039 Speaker 8: Well, if you're injured or something that doesn't cancel the contract, 375 00:20:03,079 --> 00:20:03,440 does it? 376 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:08,920 Speaker 3: No? But if there wasn't that kind of money, Pat. 377 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:11,119 Speaker 1: I mean, would it make that. 378 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:12,880 Speaker 3: Much difference to you? 379 00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:14,119 Speaker 9: Steep six? 380 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:14,599 Speaker 3: Steve? 381 00:20:15,279 --> 00:20:17,480 Speaker 8: What is it a bad meaning or a honeymoon? 382 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:18,119 Speaker 3: Now? 383 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:21,599 Speaker 8: Can we just change the subject. What's the matter with you? Anyway? 384 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:27,880 Speaker 1: I didn't actually know what was the matter with me 385 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:30,640 at that moment. There was something that had been building 386 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:33,279 up for a long time without me knowing it, maybe 387 00:20:33,319 --> 00:20:36,160 without my wanting to face it. But back in training 388 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:38,680 camp I found out I was gonna have to. It 389 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:40,400 took me most of the summer to make up my mind, 390 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:43,640 but the third exhibition game did it for me. Before 391 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:46,720 I took final action, I talked it over with Uncle Jan. 392 00:20:47,799 --> 00:20:50,799 Speaker 3: Well, why do you come to me stufferent he Lordy 393 00:20:51,079 --> 00:20:53,519 said yeah the answer sure. But have I the right 394 00:20:53,559 --> 00:20:54,559 to make that decision? 395 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:57,559 Speaker 4: No one else can make it for you. But about 396 00:20:57,559 --> 00:21:01,920 that decision, yes, I will talk a little if. 397 00:21:01,759 --> 00:21:03,680 Speaker 5: You want, And that's why I came to you. 398 00:21:05,799 --> 00:21:09,000 Speaker 4: So you broke mcgosky's back on a block. 399 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:10,920 Speaker 5: Now, that is too bad. 400 00:21:11,559 --> 00:21:12,359 Speaker 3: No one likes. 401 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:16,720 Speaker 1: Injuries, but that's the game game. It stopped being a 402 00:21:16,839 --> 00:21:17,440 game a. 403 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:20,279 Speaker 3: Long time ago, Uncle Jan. But I bought me a 404 00:21:20,319 --> 00:21:22,440 college education. It'll make me a rich man. 405 00:21:22,519 --> 00:21:25,519 Speaker 4: In spite of all that, It's still a game, a 406 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:30,480 man's game, a challenge. Not many play only for the money. 407 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:34,200 No one can pay a man enough to take the 408 00:21:34,279 --> 00:21:38,799 punishment he takes in the pros. You must pay yourself 409 00:21:38,839 --> 00:21:41,920 on the inside, with the art and the mind to 410 00:21:42,039 --> 00:21:45,240 balance out the agony you ask your body to accept 411 00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:47,480 you no longer can. 412 00:21:48,039 --> 00:21:52,119 Speaker 1: I didn't have to hit mcgousky that hard. Jones already 413 00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:54,200 had him off the ball carrier. But that's what the 414 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:57,920 coach demands. He gave you the nickname. Originally, didn't he 415 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:02,079 kill her? Yes, and I was still in college. I 416 00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:02,880 always hated it. 417 00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:05,960 Speaker 3: I run the only way I know how. 418 00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:10,440 Speaker 1: I don't want to hurt anyone when that whistle blows. 419 00:22:10,519 --> 00:22:14,920 I don't see guys human beings anymore. I just want 420 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:18,559 to get out there and hit and hit and hit 421 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:21,359 till it hurts the other guy more than me. I 422 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:24,559 wanted to hurt mcgoorsky. He slipped a block on me 423 00:22:24,599 --> 00:22:27,839 early in the game. I wanted to kill. This isn't 424 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:30,119 the beginning anymore, Uncle John, this is the end. It 425 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:32,240 isn't a game anymore, and it's making me unto my name. 426 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:35,440 Speaker 3: Then you quit just like that. 427 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:37,960 Speaker 1: I have a wife, become an expensive house and even 428 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:39,200 more expensive mother in law. 429 00:22:39,279 --> 00:22:40,200 Speaker 3: How do I support him? 430 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:43,240 Speaker 1: If you're an engineer, I wouldn't be a good one. 431 00:22:43,559 --> 00:22:44,279 Speaker 5: I'm mechanic. 432 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:46,400 Speaker 1: That's what I am. That's what I like to do. 433 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:48,759 Run my own shop cars, that's it. 434 00:22:48,799 --> 00:22:51,880 Speaker 4: Then get the guys filien franchise a first. 435 00:22:52,079 --> 00:22:52,759 Speaker 5: Let's getage. 436 00:22:52,839 --> 00:22:55,640 Speaker 1: That takes money. And if I quit football, money's what 437 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:56,119 I ain't. 438 00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:56,279 Speaker 3: Going to have. 439 00:22:58,079 --> 00:22:59,920 Speaker 4: I've been saving all my life. 440 00:23:00,799 --> 00:23:01,960 Speaker 1: I opened up the money. 441 00:23:02,039 --> 00:23:02,720 Speaker 3: You run the. 442 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:08,440 Speaker 4: Front a better shop, Steffan Son, we'll go into partnership together. 443 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:15,039 Speaker 3: I want to load off my back. 444 00:23:15,839 --> 00:23:17,839 Speaker 1: I couldn't wait to get home and tell Pat she'd 445 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:19,759 been complaining, what a bear. 446 00:23:19,839 --> 00:23:22,279 Speaker 3: I went around the house, and now I could. 447 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:23,640 Speaker 1: Tell her why and we could get back to the 448 00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:25,079 way our marriage had started off. 449 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:27,279 Speaker 3: I was as happy as a kid with a brand 450 00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:28,680 new bike when I got home. 451 00:23:29,519 --> 00:23:32,720 Speaker 1: Even Pat's mother being there did dampened or stopped me. 452 00:23:32,759 --> 00:23:34,680 I broided it out for both of them in the kitchen. 453 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:37,799 Speaker 8: Quick football, What about your contract? 454 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:39,599 Speaker 3: There's no way they can make me play? 455 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:41,400 Speaker 8: Couldn't they sue for. 456 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:43,759 Speaker 1: The peanuts they paid me so far, they don't have 457 00:23:43,839 --> 00:23:44,920 to do I'll pay it back. 458 00:23:45,039 --> 00:23:46,839 Speaker 8: You couldn't play for any other team. 459 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,400 Speaker 1: I'm never gonna play football again. 460 00:23:50,079 --> 00:23:53,359 Speaker 8: You're gonna be a mechanic, a cheap, dirty grease monkey. 461 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:54,000 Speaker 3: I'll wait a. 462 00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:56,480 Speaker 8: Minute, But how can we keep this house? We won't 463 00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:57,359 be able to afford. 464 00:23:57,440 --> 00:23:59,400 Speaker 3: Oh sure, sure, we'll have to pull in our horns. 465 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:01,319 We'll have to get small apartment for a while, and 466 00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:02,000 you could take. 467 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:03,880 Speaker 5: Care of honey. 468 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:05,839 Speaker 3: You remember I. 469 00:24:05,759 --> 00:24:08,240 Speaker 1: Asked you once if the money made all that difference 470 00:24:08,279 --> 00:24:09,000 between us. 471 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:11,119 Speaker 8: And maybe you remember I didn't answer. 472 00:24:11,319 --> 00:24:12,079 Speaker 3: I should hope not. 473 00:24:13,079 --> 00:24:15,000 Speaker 7: Look are you trying to tell me that just because 474 00:24:15,039 --> 00:24:17,160 you suddenly you're getting a little squeamish about hurting your 475 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:17,799 fellow man. 476 00:24:18,079 --> 00:24:19,359 Speaker 3: You're gonna reneg on what. 477 00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:21,400 Speaker 8: You want with my daughter, but you expect to turn 478 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:24,319 her into some sort of middle class drudge or spends 479 00:24:24,319 --> 00:24:27,039 your life at a washing machine cleaning your oily overalls. 480 00:24:27,079 --> 00:24:29,000 Speaker 3: Why don't you stay out of this joy? 481 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:30,279 Speaker 8: Let me handle it. 482 00:24:30,319 --> 00:24:30,599 Speaker 1: Mother. 483 00:24:32,039 --> 00:24:35,200 Speaker 8: Honey, you're tired and you're hurt, and I know this 484 00:24:35,279 --> 00:24:38,279 period of training is awful tough on you. Why don't 485 00:24:38,319 --> 00:24:40,279 you have a little rest and then we can look. 486 00:24:41,079 --> 00:24:43,920 Speaker 1: I didn't make up my mind two seconds ago. This 487 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:46,400 took a long time, and it's final. 488 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:49,079 Speaker 8: Come on upstairs, baby, and let's you and I work 489 00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:51,359 it all out before you. 490 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:53,880 Speaker 3: I have already talked to management. I quit. 491 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:56,519 Speaker 1: It's too late without even asking Pat. 492 00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:58,000 Speaker 3: Joy. 493 00:24:58,079 --> 00:24:59,920 Speaker 1: If Pat loves me, she has to see that I 494 00:25:00,039 --> 00:25:02,319 I have to quit, otherwise I'm turning into another person 495 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:03,279 in the euar of us knows. 496 00:25:03,519 --> 00:25:08,200 Speaker 8: You can't give up all that money. Oh oh, honey, 497 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:09,720 I didn't mean that I and. 498 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:11,920 Speaker 1: I suddenly realized that yes you did. 499 00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:14,960 Speaker 3: I want to get out of here for some fresh air. 500 00:25:15,599 --> 00:25:16,400 Speaker 9: Where are you going? 501 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:18,160 Speaker 1: I'm going downstairs to the garage. 502 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:19,079 Speaker 3: You get the car. 503 00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:22,039 Speaker 1: I'm going for a ride my lawyer and make damn 504 00:25:22,079 --> 00:25:24,000 well sure I'm clean out from under. 505 00:25:24,599 --> 00:25:28,519 Speaker 8: Baby, you're so tired and confused. Let Pat talk to you. 506 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:29,799 Speaker 1: A little and should get away from me. 507 00:25:29,839 --> 00:25:31,200 Speaker 3: Pat, don't do that to me again. 508 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:33,440 Speaker 8: It's only for your own good. 509 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:39,079 Speaker 12: You kick your hands off. 510 00:25:42,839 --> 00:25:45,279 Speaker 1: I only pushed her away in a moment of revulsion, 511 00:25:45,319 --> 00:25:48,039 but as usual, I wasn't conscious of my own strength. 512 00:25:48,839 --> 00:25:53,039 Fortunately Pat wasn't seriously hurt, but on the witness stand 513 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:56,680 in the court, and with the attorney's pictures to hand around, 514 00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:58,759 and she looked as though I tried to beat her 515 00:25:58,759 --> 00:26:07,200 to a pope, because that's what my loving wife and 516 00:26:07,319 --> 00:26:08,440 mother in law did to me. 517 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,599 Speaker 3: They brought me to court for wife beating. 518 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:15,119 Speaker 1: Because my decision about the football contract was a river couple. 519 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:19,400 Speaker 3: They lied. I was given a year's sentence in jail. 520 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:25,759 Speaker 1: They let me out after eight months on parole. 521 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:29,160 Speaker 3: Big deal. I have approved myself for nothing. 522 00:26:30,079 --> 00:26:31,480 Speaker 5: Well, when I find pad, I'm going. 523 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:34,200 Speaker 1: To approve on a lot of things. Steve. 524 00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:37,559 Speaker 4: You know you're talking out loud. 525 00:26:38,799 --> 00:26:42,519 Speaker 1: What was I saying, Joe, Well, just about your marriage? 526 00:26:42,599 --> 00:26:44,480 Speaker 3: You know, you know I was in jail. 527 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:49,440 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you said that, and why yeah. 528 00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:49,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, But honestly. 529 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:54,039 Speaker 4: I believe you the way you said it. Well, the 530 00:26:54,079 --> 00:26:56,880 only thing is, what's the point of holding a. 531 00:26:56,960 --> 00:27:00,000 Speaker 3: Grudge as a matter of pride? Yeah? But well, I'm 532 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:00,400 I mean. 533 00:27:01,799 --> 00:27:06,359 Speaker 1: To kill someone, i'd you expect to get away with it. 534 00:27:06,279 --> 00:27:09,559 Speaker 3: It doesn't matter much if I do. I think you're 535 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:10,920 telling to extrain me. 536 00:27:11,559 --> 00:27:14,400 Speaker 1: Whine well, Iles McGill about knocking off someone. 537 00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:18,519 Speaker 4: I mean supposing I was to turn you into the 538 00:27:18,559 --> 00:27:23,119 parole officer, oh or even the police. 539 00:27:22,559 --> 00:27:24,400 Speaker 3: You wouldn't want to get mixed up in this, Joe, 540 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:25,279 would you? 541 00:27:25,319 --> 00:27:30,000 Speaker 1: No? But if something did happen, I'd. 542 00:27:29,839 --> 00:27:32,920 Speaker 5: Be the first one they question. I'd have to kill 543 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:33,440 a cops. 544 00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:36,559 Speaker 3: I'll be over the border by then, Mexico. 545 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:39,480 Speaker 1: Ever since I got out of jail, I've been packing 546 00:27:39,519 --> 00:27:43,200 it away a year, seventy five bucks. 547 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:44,319 Speaker 3: A week or more. 548 00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:47,880 Speaker 1: You're putting in five thousand bucks right here. 549 00:27:48,759 --> 00:27:50,279 Speaker 3: This money built goes whatever I go. 550 00:27:50,599 --> 00:27:53,000 Speaker 1: Oh whind't you if I get it right or off? 551 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:55,640 It's just another dame, another dame. 552 00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:57,759 Speaker 3: You haven't been in love. 553 00:27:57,759 --> 00:28:03,440 Speaker 4: Joe well Away, I mean, boor of am I so much? 554 00:28:04,279 --> 00:28:06,599 Speaker 3: I draw only the dogs all. 555 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:08,960 Speaker 1: But there is this girl at the Paradise restaurant. 556 00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:10,039 Speaker 3: I've been telling you about it. 557 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:13,880 Speaker 4: Hey, look, why don't we garage this heap and you 558 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,200 and me go over there and have some laughs like that? 559 00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:20,960 But like well maybe like you yeah, no, sale, I 560 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,799 couldn't look at anyone since Pat Pat There was a 561 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:31,240 name hat Bob oh once he look like this, I mean, 562 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:36,599 I bet she was some looker for old cabin buddy. 563 00:28:37,759 --> 00:28:41,359 Speaker 3: Why should I sat here? He asked for it? So here, 564 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:45,160 work for yourself. 565 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:49,359 Speaker 1: That's her your path my sometime white. 566 00:28:50,359 --> 00:28:54,599 Speaker 4: Well, she she's something to what we stopped. 567 00:28:54,359 --> 00:28:57,319 Speaker 1: For parole officers just down the street. 568 00:28:57,359 --> 00:28:59,880 Speaker 3: I might as well check you. You all a rig 569 00:29:00,079 --> 00:29:05,480 and garage it. Look, I'll buy you a dinner. Huh, meet 570 00:29:05,519 --> 00:29:07,880 you later at that paradise restaurant. 571 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,720 Speaker 4: Oh no, no, look, Steve, No, I forget it. You 572 00:29:10,759 --> 00:29:12,160 don't have to on a kind of me. 573 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:13,200 Speaker 3: Oh I want to. 574 00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:16,440 Speaker 1: I got the word that Pat's working as a waitress 575 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:17,119 at some joint. 576 00:29:17,759 --> 00:29:18,920 Speaker 3: That's one I haven't checked out. 577 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:22,480 Speaker 1: Huh, don't worry, Joe, b I find it. 578 00:29:22,519 --> 00:29:24,119 Speaker 3: You won't be involved. Check. 579 00:29:24,559 --> 00:29:26,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, Jack, just keep your nose out of this. 580 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:27,720 Speaker 3: And stay clean. 581 00:29:28,839 --> 00:29:32,880 Speaker 4: And if you only know Steve, it just doesn't happen 582 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:35,680 to be that easy, buddy. 583 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:45,200 Speaker 1: A mumble comment to himself on which we can eavesdrop, 584 00:29:45,759 --> 00:29:49,039 But that Steve doesn't hear him, What does it mean? 585 00:29:50,279 --> 00:29:53,079 How can Joe, who is no part of Steve's past, 586 00:29:53,680 --> 00:30:08,599 have any relation to his presence or his future? If 587 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,519 you have a suspicion by now that Joe is not 588 00:30:11,559 --> 00:30:15,279 telling Steve everything he could, you might be right. 589 00:30:16,519 --> 00:30:17,720 Speaker 3: But this is an. 590 00:30:17,559 --> 00:30:22,799 Speaker 1: Evening for evasion in general and suspicion, because as Steve 591 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:27,480 faces his parole officer. He obviously conceals his intentions towards 592 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,240 his wife if and when he finds her. 593 00:30:30,759 --> 00:30:34,279 Speaker 11: And I'm saying it again, Jenoes, I'm not so happy 594 00:30:34,279 --> 00:30:37,319 about this arrangement. I'm only doing it as a favorite 595 00:30:37,319 --> 00:30:39,920 of Sam Brooks, your own parole officer up in Houston. 596 00:30:40,119 --> 00:30:41,799 Speaker 3: But mister Keith, for what do you object to my 597 00:30:41,839 --> 00:30:42,599 getting a job. 598 00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:46,000 Speaker 11: You're a graduated engineer and a top mechanic. I don't 599 00:30:46,119 --> 00:30:50,359 like the shuttling between cities. What for Sam, you couldn't 600 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:53,119 hold a job like you. Yes, sir, mister Brooks has 601 00:30:53,119 --> 00:30:55,599 been real nice to me. You have a half of 602 00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:59,319 your wife, No, sir, except the one time she's sent 603 00:30:59,359 --> 00:31:03,119 me the divorce. Yeah, she's no idea where she is now. 604 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:06,720 Speaker 3: No, No, don't you care? 605 00:31:07,799 --> 00:31:11,440 Speaker 1: Well after what happened, as far as I'm concerned, to Keith, 606 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:13,359 her my wife is dead. 607 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:16,480 Speaker 11: Well, I'm not trying to rub your nose in it. 608 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:20,839 I just want to point out that your years almost 609 00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:23,880 up and then you'll have us off your back. So 610 00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:27,680 don't get in any trouble in my backyard. I'll throw 611 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:29,000 the whole book at you if you do. 612 00:31:34,079 --> 00:31:34,720 Speaker 1: I'll tell you how I. 613 00:31:34,759 --> 00:31:38,559 Speaker 11: Called you Sam your favorite parole, Steve Jenno. 614 00:31:38,279 --> 00:31:38,839 Speaker 3: So just in. 615 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:42,720 Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know what a big football fan 616 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:43,240 you are. 617 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:47,039 Speaker 3: Me it's the Ponies. What's on my mind? 618 00:31:48,359 --> 00:31:51,519 Speaker 11: I don't know, but Cleveland police just sent me down 619 00:31:51,559 --> 00:31:55,200 a picture of that wife of his and huh oh, 620 00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:59,720 she's not marked up in what I'm looking at. Sensational 621 00:31:59,759 --> 00:32:03,960 looking door, too good to just pass up. What I 622 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:05,960 want to know is, how are you coming on that 623 00:32:06,079 --> 00:32:07,039 trace you've had. 624 00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:08,079 Speaker 3: Out on her? 625 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:12,519 Speaker 11: Yeah, well, the moment anything turns up, you get on 626 00:32:12,599 --> 00:32:16,640 the pipe. Even tonight, I'll be here late. I wouldn't 627 00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:18,720 want to know that you're a boy and this girl 628 00:32:18,759 --> 00:32:20,480 were in the same town. 629 00:32:22,039 --> 00:32:23,680 Speaker 3: I could be begging for trouble. 630 00:32:29,839 --> 00:32:32,279 Speaker 8: The manager said, you had some trouble with the other waitress. 631 00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:33,240 Can I help? 632 00:32:34,559 --> 00:32:38,759 Speaker 3: Steve? Hi, pat fancy meeting you here? 633 00:32:39,799 --> 00:32:40,839 Speaker 8: How did you find me? 634 00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:43,400 Speaker 3: When I got out of jail, I. 635 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:47,559 Speaker 1: Discovered your mother had died, You sold a house and moved. 636 00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:49,799 Somebody told me you're going to work as a waitress. 637 00:32:49,839 --> 00:32:52,240 I started out combing every restaurant in Cleveland. 638 00:32:52,359 --> 00:32:55,839 Speaker 5: I came so yeah. 639 00:32:56,079 --> 00:32:58,000 Speaker 1: When I got my copy of the divorce papers, they 640 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:02,000 were postmarked. They'll postle I got a job pulling freight 641 00:33:02,079 --> 00:33:02,519 down here. 642 00:33:03,599 --> 00:33:04,960 Speaker 3: I've been looking for you ever since. 643 00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:05,720 Speaker 8: What four? 644 00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:08,839 Speaker 3: We gotta talk? Pat? You me? 645 00:33:09,599 --> 00:33:11,480 Speaker 8: I can't I work here? 646 00:33:11,599 --> 00:33:15,680 Speaker 3: What is this? This mass Karaine? You working as a waitress. 647 00:33:15,759 --> 00:33:19,160 I have to before to earn a living. I don't 648 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:19,680 believe you. 649 00:33:20,039 --> 00:33:22,200 Speaker 8: What difference does it make? Went through? 650 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:24,279 Speaker 3: No, I have to talk to you. 651 00:33:24,799 --> 00:33:25,240 Speaker 11: All right. 652 00:33:26,759 --> 00:33:29,640 Speaker 8: They're calling me from another table. I should be through 653 00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:30,319 in half an. 654 00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:30,680 Speaker 9: Hour or so. 655 00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:31,519 Speaker 3: I'll be back. 656 00:33:32,279 --> 00:33:36,119 Speaker 8: Not here. Don't make any trouble for me. I'll meet 657 00:33:36,119 --> 00:33:39,799 you at my place where I live, right down the street, 658 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:42,880 right off the dock by the river, the last cabin 659 00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:45,920 out on the jetti. I'll meet you there after i'm through. 660 00:33:46,559 --> 00:33:48,279 Speaker 3: How do I know you won't run out on me? 661 00:33:48,759 --> 00:33:49,799 Speaker 8: I promise you. 662 00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:53,200 Speaker 9: I look, here's my key. 663 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:56,880 Speaker 8: You can wait in my cabin for me. Now, I've 664 00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:58,680 got to take care of my customers. 665 00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:03,160 Speaker 1: I looked around for Joe, but I guess he decided 666 00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:04,680 he didn't want to part of me after what I 667 00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:08,079 had told him. I realized now, since the Paradise was 668 00:34:08,119 --> 00:34:10,119 his favorite joint, he must have recognized Pat from the 669 00:34:10,159 --> 00:34:12,840 picture I'd shown him. I can only hope he hadn't 670 00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:15,480 hollered Copper, but at least he hadn't tried one patent. 671 00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:21,559 Speaker 3: In the back of the restaurant was the jetty Pat 672 00:34:21,639 --> 00:34:22,360 had mentioned on me. 673 00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:24,840 Speaker 1: It was more of a stringeas bridging out to a 674 00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:28,320 small island with some summer cabins on it. The others 675 00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:30,039 were lighted, one dark. 676 00:34:30,599 --> 00:34:31,440 Speaker 5: That would be Pat's. 677 00:34:32,679 --> 00:34:33,440 Speaker 3: I would do it here. 678 00:34:34,519 --> 00:34:37,119 Speaker 1: My hands on a throat was strong enough to snap 679 00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:38,280 it rather than strangler. 680 00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:39,639 Speaker 3: And then a body into the river. 681 00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:51,480 Speaker 11: I started to wait, Oh, hell, Sam, who Patricia bar? 682 00:34:52,639 --> 00:34:55,960 Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, that's right. That was a maiden name. You're 683 00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:59,199 located at how through the waitresses union. 684 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:05,159 Speaker 11: I didn't know she was working where the paradise restaurant? 685 00:35:05,199 --> 00:35:06,280 Speaker 5: Right here now past. 686 00:35:07,599 --> 00:35:09,360 Speaker 11: I had a sneak and hunt you boy, I had 687 00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:11,639 a good reason for working this job. He's been hunting 688 00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:17,320 for her. Now he's founding yayay. It could be natural enough, 689 00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:19,559 and maybe he just wants to kindle an old flame 690 00:35:19,639 --> 00:35:19,920 with me. 691 00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:21,679 Speaker 3: I'm a cynic. 692 00:35:22,519 --> 00:35:24,880 Speaker 11: Maybe nothing's going to happen, but I'm getting my tail 693 00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:26,480 over there as fast as I can to make sure 694 00:35:26,559 --> 00:35:27,320 Enoughing does. 695 00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:35,880 Speaker 3: Who's that Steve? 696 00:35:37,599 --> 00:35:39,320 Speaker 8: Why didn't you wait in the cabin. 697 00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:41,199 Speaker 3: I wanted to make sure you were alone. 698 00:35:41,519 --> 00:35:42,679 Speaker 8: Who would I have with me? 699 00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:44,880 Speaker 3: Crops? Maybe? 700 00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:46,519 Speaker 8: Why would you think that. 701 00:35:46,519 --> 00:35:49,599 Speaker 3: You did the last time you came for me. Who 702 00:35:49,599 --> 00:35:50,039 have you been? 703 00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:50,960 Speaker 1: You know? 704 00:35:51,199 --> 00:35:54,360 Speaker 9: Have to hold me so tightly. I'm not gonna run, 705 00:35:55,559 --> 00:35:56,599 That's what I decided. 706 00:35:56,639 --> 00:36:00,159 Speaker 8: You see, when you carry something inside you, this no 707 00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:05,159 point in running away. It goes wherever you go. I 708 00:36:05,199 --> 00:36:06,320 can't leave it behind. 709 00:36:07,119 --> 00:36:08,320 Speaker 4: What my. 710 00:36:10,519 --> 00:36:14,320 Speaker 8: Shame, shame at what I did to. 711 00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:16,599 Speaker 3: You, Steve. 712 00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:22,079 Speaker 8: Please, let's go inside. I want to talk to you. 713 00:36:22,079 --> 00:36:25,719 Speaker 3: No, you and me, we don't go anywhere together ever again? 714 00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:27,719 Speaker 8: Is that all you came to tell me? 715 00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:29,400 Speaker 3: You came to get back at you for what you 716 00:36:29,519 --> 00:36:29,920 did to me. 717 00:36:30,199 --> 00:36:33,639 Speaker 8: I've been paid back for that already. Look at how 718 00:36:33,679 --> 00:36:37,599 I ended up a cheap little waitress and even cheaper 719 00:36:37,679 --> 00:36:38,679 little joints. 720 00:36:40,039 --> 00:36:44,239 Speaker 1: Eight lousy, stinking monks in the tank with drunks and 721 00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:45,760 dead beats and junkies. 722 00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:51,360 Speaker 8: Steve, please give me another chance. Let's go in the 723 00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:57,119 cabin before. Maybe we can still make things right after 724 00:36:57,199 --> 00:37:01,000 what's happened. There can't be nothing left for. 725 00:37:01,119 --> 00:37:05,719 Speaker 1: Us, that's all. There is nothing except even the score. 726 00:37:05,599 --> 00:37:09,639 Speaker 8: All right, If that's the way you want it, Why 727 00:37:09,639 --> 00:37:12,480 don't you do what you came back to do? Why 728 00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:13,320 don't you kill me? 729 00:37:17,519 --> 00:37:17,960 Speaker 3: I can't. 730 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:19,519 Speaker 8: Isn't that what you came to do? 731 00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:24,679 Speaker 1: Yes, I sent in that cell, and the shame of 732 00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:29,039 why I was there ate at my guts, hate festering 733 00:37:29,079 --> 00:37:31,000 inside me till a day I could find you and 734 00:37:31,079 --> 00:37:37,320 pay you back for what you did to me. And now, yes, now, 735 00:37:38,599 --> 00:37:40,239 now I know why I searched so long. 736 00:37:41,599 --> 00:37:45,360 Speaker 3: It wasn't hate. It's because I still love you. I 737 00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:48,679 want you. I hate myself for that worse than ever. 738 00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:50,400 Speaker 1: Why because you don't want me? 739 00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:52,679 Speaker 3: You never did. I want to come crawling. 740 00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:55,800 Speaker 9: You wouldn't have to crawl, Steve, Oh it's too late. 741 00:37:56,159 --> 00:37:57,599 Speaker 3: How could I ever trust you again? 742 00:37:58,519 --> 00:38:03,440 Speaker 8: You can trust me if only I knew I could, Steve. 743 00:38:04,519 --> 00:38:06,960 Speaker 3: Yes, If you want the. 744 00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:11,360 Speaker 8: Real reason I was late tonight because I knew what 745 00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:12,320 you planned to do. 746 00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:14,920 Speaker 9: I knew you were planning to kill me. 747 00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:17,360 Speaker 5: Oh. 748 00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:19,880 Speaker 8: The little man that rides the truck with him, Joe, 749 00:38:20,639 --> 00:38:24,079 he's been in the restaurant before and after you went out. 750 00:38:24,119 --> 00:38:26,840 He came in and warned me, said he recognized me 751 00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:29,960 from a picture you showed him. That's why I started 752 00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:30,400 to run. 753 00:38:31,679 --> 00:38:34,079 Speaker 1: Then why'd you come back, because one. 754 00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:35,960 Speaker 8: Of the things I learned in the past year is 755 00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:39,719 that I really love you too. Without you, there's nothing 756 00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:44,159 I might as well be dead. You took a chance 757 00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:45,920 that I was willing to gamble on. 758 00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:50,519 Speaker 3: You would Would you take a chance on me again? 759 00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:52,679 Speaker 8: Do you still have my key? 760 00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:53,519 Speaker 3: Yes? 761 00:38:54,559 --> 00:38:57,360 Speaker 9: And let's go in and I'll prove it to you. 762 00:39:02,599 --> 00:39:04,280 Welcome home, Steve. 763 00:39:04,559 --> 00:39:07,079 Speaker 3: Oh Pat, I love you, sord. 764 00:39:08,559 --> 00:39:09,960 Speaker 8: Did you kill him? 765 00:39:10,039 --> 00:39:10,199 Speaker 5: Joe? 766 00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:12,679 Speaker 3: No? No, I just sapped him. 767 00:39:13,119 --> 00:39:15,679 Speaker 1: I see he's out cold. 768 00:39:16,199 --> 00:39:17,840 Speaker 3: And where you been? First? 769 00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:20,400 Speaker 8: I got held up at the restaurant. Then he was 770 00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:25,079 waiting for me on the walk outside. Well, what are 771 00:39:25,079 --> 00:39:25,639 you waiting for? 772 00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:25,960 Speaker 3: Huh? 773 00:39:26,679 --> 00:39:27,400 Speaker 8: Get the money? 774 00:39:28,679 --> 00:39:30,760 Speaker 3: Just a minute? What am I getting into? 775 00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:35,400 Speaker 8: You're already in, Joe? Come on, I got my car waiting. 776 00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:37,920 We can be across the border in less than an hour, 777 00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:41,000 and in Mexico with five thousand bucks, we can. 778 00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:41,920 Speaker 5: Live like royalty. 779 00:39:42,119 --> 00:39:45,360 Speaker 1: Yeah you really mean ice, baby. 780 00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:49,039 Speaker 8: I know you go for me the way you always 781 00:39:49,119 --> 00:39:51,920 came to the restaurant, and I go for you too. 782 00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:54,039 Speaker 3: You on the level. 783 00:39:55,079 --> 00:40:01,679 Speaker 9: Just try me. That's a downtainment, all right. 784 00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:04,199 Speaker 8: Now, Let's get that money belt off him and roll 785 00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:04,800 them in the river. 786 00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:08,239 Speaker 5: Oh, wait a minute, Wait a minute, I ain't got 787 00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:08,880 for murder. 788 00:40:09,039 --> 00:40:09,880 Speaker 1: You all had her? 789 00:40:10,039 --> 00:40:11,719 Speaker 8: Joe, who are you? 790 00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:13,559 Speaker 3: Not exactly a real cop? Lady? 791 00:40:13,599 --> 00:40:17,079 Speaker 11: But the gun is reasal, you know, it's funny. All 792 00:40:17,159 --> 00:40:19,920 I was looking for was a possible parole violetder And 793 00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:22,119 now look at the can of worms I opened up. 794 00:40:23,039 --> 00:40:25,079 Speaker 3: Okay, Joe, turn around and put your hands behind you. 795 00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:29,599 Speaker 1: Oh officer, you don't know the old lady. 796 00:40:29,679 --> 00:40:31,800 Speaker 11: I get nervous when both my hands are busy. 797 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:34,400 Speaker 8: You don't know what I've been through. The man on 798 00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:37,199 the floor was my former husband. We were going to 799 00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:40,480 have a reconciliation, and then this man came from nowhere 800 00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:42,519 and hit my husband with something and knocked him out. 801 00:40:43,199 --> 00:40:45,679 He was going to steal my husband's money and force me. 802 00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:47,920 Speaker 11: All right, Sarah, burnout, turn it off. 803 00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:52,559 Speaker 3: It won't work. Cute little ladem isn't she? Joe? 804 00:40:53,519 --> 00:40:56,199 Speaker 11: How long do you think you' the lasted? She did 805 00:40:56,719 --> 00:40:58,679 you the first stop for gas? 806 00:40:59,039 --> 00:41:00,400 Speaker 5: Aren't you going to take her in two? 807 00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:02,400 Speaker 3: Now that's a question. 808 00:41:03,599 --> 00:41:04,480 Speaker 1: She's a good looker. 809 00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:07,079 Speaker 3: She might just beat the rap with. 810 00:41:07,039 --> 00:41:12,280 Speaker 11: Only my word against hers. Of course, Now, if I 811 00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:13,639 had a witness. 812 00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:15,800 Speaker 4: If I had a hand free I felt her one 813 00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:20,119 like Steve auto of in the first place. Okay, okay, officer, 814 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:22,079 you've got your witnesses. 815 00:41:22,159 --> 00:41:24,519 Speaker 8: But Officer, you don't understand. 816 00:41:24,679 --> 00:41:28,880 Speaker 11: You're right, I don't I need all kinds. Most of 817 00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:32,000 the worst got some good in them. But I sure 818 00:41:32,079 --> 00:41:33,880 don't understand anyone like you. 819 00:41:40,519 --> 00:41:42,480 Speaker 3: I wonder if you like myself. 820 00:41:42,519 --> 00:41:45,079 Speaker 1: When I first heard it, were as surprised at the 821 00:41:45,119 --> 00:41:49,239 outcome as I was. I thought, for once we had 822 00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:51,079 a love story with a happy ending. 823 00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:52,559 Speaker 11: Ah. 824 00:41:52,760 --> 00:42:09,360 Speaker 1: Mean, life is full of little disappointments. Thinking it over, 825 00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:12,199 it occurs to me that it all did have a 826 00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:16,519 happy ending. Joe and Pat were convicted of aggravated assault 827 00:42:16,559 --> 00:42:18,679 and battery and drew sentences of. 828 00:42:18,679 --> 00:42:19,679 Speaker 3: Four to five years. 829 00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:23,280 Speaker 1: It was a little rough on Steve at first, but 830 00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:25,880 the shock was enough to clear Pat Bard out of 831 00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:28,880 his mind for good, and he and his uncle Jan 832 00:42:29,039 --> 00:42:30,039 finally opened. 833 00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:31,119 Speaker 3: Their service station in Houston. 834 00:42:32,159 --> 00:42:34,840 Speaker 1: Of course, he still flies more and more often to 835 00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:38,639 El Paso. It seems that Officer Keefer has a very 836 00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:43,920 cute kid's sister, but that, of course, is another story 837 00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:49,960 they'll have to complete. Our cast included Tony Roberts, ROBERTA Maxwell, Leon, 838 00:42:50,079 --> 00:42:54,559 Janny Briana Raeburn and Ian Martin. The entire production was 839 00:42:54,639 --> 00:42:56,519 under the direction of Hyman Brown. 840 00:43:00,119 --> 00:43:03,199 Speaker 3: All a preview of our next tale. 841 00:43:03,639 --> 00:43:07,079 Speaker 6: It was just trying the whole world. Well, it's not 842 00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:10,519 good for the world. It's last unless there is a 843 00:43:10,599 --> 00:43:14,599 new thirty six men take my place. You must do 844 00:43:14,679 --> 00:43:17,679 it quickly, quickly as well. I don't know if you're not, 845 00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:20,719 don't try to get a Please say yes, Harry, say yes. 846 00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:22,679 And suddenly there's. 847 00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:24,920 Speaker 3: An end of thunder and lightning, the wind. 848 00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:31,320 Speaker 6: Suddenly every cloud will disappear. Right, sun will shine in 849 00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:32,440 a peaceful heaven. 850 00:43:32,559 --> 00:43:35,320 Speaker 3: Shast rest not try to say yes. 851 00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:38,320 Speaker 8: Only you can save the world. 852 00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:42,480 Speaker 6: Say yes me, me save the world. 853 00:43:42,599 --> 00:43:45,960 Speaker 3: Yes, you owe me, you can save the world. 854 00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:52,639 Speaker 6: Eric Harry, Say yes, Harry, Yes. 855 00:43:52,519 --> 00:43:53,559 Speaker 5: Yes, all right, Yes. 856 00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:54,880 Speaker 3: This is E. G. 857 00:43:55,079 --> 00:43:59,239 Speaker 1: Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for another. 858 00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:01,159 Speaker 3: Adventure the macabre. 859 00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:05,840 Speaker 1: Until next time, Pleasants Dreams