Speaker 1: Come in.
Speaker 2: Welcome. I'm e. G. Marshall. If your nerves are.
Speaker 1: Steady enough, I'd like to be your guide into and
through We hope a place and a time where things happen,
which we ordinarily think of as supernatural, where grisly events
do not necessarily have their moment and go their way
as time moves ahead, but may stay and stay and
still stay. The home we enter first is not the
sinister place I'm talking about. It's a well appointed apartment, right, cheerful,
normal in every way, occupied by Ken Harris, who at
this moment is reading a novel, and his wife, Martha,
who is working on a needle point project.
Speaker 3: Now, who can that be? This time of night?
Speaker 2: Only one way to find out? Oh, couldn't have waited
two more pages? I was about to find out. I've've
done it. Oh hello Stu, Okay, come on in, let
me take your coat. No, no, I can't stay.
Speaker 4: I just wanted to let you know that I've been out.
Speaker 2: To the lake Shadow Lake.
Speaker 3: What on earth for?
Speaker 4: Well, the thing is, Ken, your cottage has been broken
into unless somebody you know.
Speaker 5: Is out there, no nobody, But what makes you think?
Speaker 4: I saw lights and I saw a shadow move across
the living room window. No question about it, Ken, there
was somebody in your cottage.
Speaker 1: Our mystery drama Returned to Shadow Lake was written especially
for the mystery by Field and Farrington and stars Nat
Poland and Joan Lovejoy. When you come to think of it,
there's something rather sad about a summer cottage in midwinter.
Its purpose is negated, Its rooms built to contain the
sounds of pleasure are silent. Its meaning has been stripped
from it. It is empty, or should be. But according
to Stu Ralston, the summer cottage owned by Ken and
Martha Harris out on Shadow Lake is not empty, and
whoever is in it has no business there.
Speaker 5: You say you saw lights in the windows too, That's right, Well,
but all the utilities have.
Speaker 2: Been turned off of the winter. There's no electricity.
Speaker 3: Well, we left a couple of hurricane lamps in the
utility room, Ken, couldn't somebody have found those?
Speaker 2: It was a dim light.
Speaker 4: It could very well have been a lamp or even a.
Speaker 2: Couple of candles.
Speaker 3: Hm.
Speaker 5: Did you notice if there was a light in the
utility room windows too? U? No, I I don't think
there was a All I was aware of was the
light in the living room and the shadow of a
man walking past the front window, or maybe a woman.
Speaker 3: I couldn't be sure, Stu, What on earth were you
doing out there in the first place.
Speaker 6: I I just thought i'd drive.
Speaker 3: Out y, you know, looking for Clodia. Did you actually
think you'd find Claudia out there?
Speaker 2: No? No, and of course not.
Speaker 7: I Well, I I suppose that was in the back
of my.
Speaker 4: Mind, but I didn't really expect to find her.
Speaker 2: Uh. Our cottage was empty, Stu.
Speaker 3: Claudia has been missing since. Well it's almost a year now.
Do you think it's healthy to keep all this way?
Speaker 6: I haven't thought much about what's healthy and what isn't.
Speaker 2: Martha.
Speaker 4: The the police have Claudia listed as a miss person,
case closed. Well, that's all right for them. They went
married to her. They didn't love her, I do. I
can't just give her up that easily.
Speaker 3: But out at Shadow Lake in the middle.
Speaker 4: Of winter, she used to go there when she was
upset about things.
Speaker 2: Even in the wintertime. She liked to be alone sometimes.
Speaker 3: I know it's a hard thing for you to believe,
but don't you think it's It's likely that Claudia just
took off on her own. She was always resting.
Speaker 4: Claudia might have left me, yes, but she would never
have gone without telling me she was going.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't have thought.
Speaker 4: So, So what does that leave She was abducted, maybe killed.
I don't know if she could. I believe she'd have
got in touch with me by this time. I just well,
I just wanted to let you know about cottage.
Speaker 2: How about a brandy stool? No, no, no thanks. I
have to get back to my place too.
Speaker 3: Don't let it just devour you this way.
Speaker 5: You're very sweet to be concerned, Martha.
Speaker 3: I'll be all right, Ken, Will you come to bed.
You're gonna spend the whole night roaming around worrying.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm disturbed about the cottage. I think I'll drive
out there tomorrow to Shadow Lake.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what in the world for?
Speaker 5: I want to see if any damage has been done,
you know, just check up on things.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 3: I think it's silly. You haven't been feeling too well,
and I don't think going out there all upset would
be any good for you.
Speaker 5: I'm all right, drive into the country will do me good.
Speaker 2: But you don't have to go.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'll go if you insist.
Speaker 5: On going.
Speaker 2: Why really rather you didn't?
Speaker 3: Why?
Speaker 5: Well, what if they should still be out there, I'll
pick up a club and go for them, same as you.
Speaker 3: Oh seven thirty, Ken, can wake up?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: Did you set the radio club for seven thirty?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I want to get an early start.
Speaker 3: Oh oh, I forgot You still want to go up there?
Speaker 8: The time is seven thirty two on a miserable Sunday morning.
Heavy snow warnings are out throughout the area. Motorists are
advised to stay off the highways if possible. An accumulation
of five to eight inches of snow is predicted. The
temperature right now is eighteen degrees and it won't get
out of the twenties all day, cloudy and cold tomorrow,
with a strong possibility of continuing snow. So if you're
in bed, stay there.
Speaker 3: If you're not going back, well, so much for driving
out the Shadow Lake.
Speaker 2: I've driven in snow before.
Speaker 3: But you're still not thinking about going, are you? Can
you hear what the man just said?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he said it's snowing.
Speaker 3: Five to eight inches.
Speaker 2: It never snows as much as they say it's going to.
Speaker 5: I've got studded snow tires, even got chains in the
trunk if I need.
Speaker 3: Them, Ken, why are you so determined? It's way out
of proportion? Can't you see that?
Speaker 2: Well? I told you you don't have to go.
Speaker 3: Or actually what you told me was you'd rather I
didn't go. Nope, I'll go, Ken, Come on, enough is enough,
let's turn back. I can't even see where we're going.
Speaker 2: It's all right. As long as I can, I'll just
be still. Let me drive.
Speaker 3: All right, we've managed to get as far as Gibbsville,
the last civilized outmost before the lake. Now look at it, Ken,
it's practically buried under now, and the snow is coming
down the lever And will you be sensible for once
in your life? And let's turn around.
Speaker 9: I want to stop at Pot's Grocery.
Speaker 2: Why for heaven we kick up a few things? Is
that in the store doesn't look the same as in
the summer?
Speaker 5: Nothing does.
Speaker 3: What do you want to buy? Anyway?
Speaker 5: Well, if it's really going to keep on snowing like this,
we might be stuck at the cottage overnight, and that
all can't well, if it should, we should have to
stay over, we better load up on food.
Speaker 3: Ken, I don't want to spend the night out there,
we'll freeze. That's a summer cottage. We can't spend the
night out there, or we can.
Speaker 2: We've got the fireplace.
Speaker 5: It'll keep the living room comfortable enough. We have to
sleep over there, plenty of blankets, and.
Speaker 3: What are you going to burn the furniture having.
Speaker 5: Sake, Martha, it's a good half quart of firewood in
the utility.
Speaker 2: Room there is.
Speaker 4: Funny.
Speaker 9: I never noticed it.
Speaker 5: How often do you go into the utility room when
we're out there in the summertime? Well, just the same on,
come on.
Speaker 2: Let's let's get those groceries. The roads up ahead aren't
getting any better? Sit here, are you?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 3: I still can't understand how I could spend pricely a
whole summer in that cottage and never noticing lakes.
Speaker 5: I guess you're just not very observant in there since
amiss the last winter goad.
Speaker 2: Howdy, mister Harris.
Speaker 10: Harris, that's surprised to see you folks out this way,
whether carrying on like it is?
Speaker 2: What can I do for you?
Speaker 5: Well, we want to box load of provisions just in
case you have to stay overnight at the cottage.
Speaker 2: Martha, you know what we'll need better than I do.
Speaker 10: Well, just take one of those baskets, miss Harris, and
help yourself to whatever catches your fancy.
Speaker 3: One hundred and fifty degrees below zero and cooking over
an open fire. Boy, this is gonna.
Speaker 10: Be a lot of fun.
Speaker 5: You better get some candles too, Dear the cottage, you're saying, yeah, yeah,
Stu Rawson was out here last night and he thinks
our place was broken into.
Speaker 2: I thought i'd better just check it out now.
Speaker 10: You ain't seriously figuring on going all the way out
to Shadow Lake in this kind of weather, are you,
Miss Harris?
Speaker 2: We kiss? I thought we would.
Speaker 10: Ain't none of my affair, court, but I sure wouldn't
if it was me doing it.
Speaker 2: Not for love of money, I wouldn't.
Speaker 5: All well, it won't be easy, I suppose, but I
want to make sure nothing's been tampered with.
Speaker 2: Ain't gonna let up for a spell.
Speaker 10: You can count on that. Not that I think for
a minute you're gonna make it out the Shadow Lake.
Speaker 2: You don't, not for.
Speaker 10: A minute, not up that wagon track to the lake itself.
Speaker 3: Okay, this auto holds you want to add it up, mister.
Speaker 10: Pott, Sure thing got everything you need now? I guess so, yes,
all right, let's see dollars seventy six forty three?
Speaker 3: You ask me, I don't think we're going to need
any of it. What did mister Potts say about going
out to the lake?
Speaker 2: Tug a damn view?
Speaker 3: And you are not going to pay any attention.
Speaker 9: I suppose you.
Speaker 5: Know something, Martha. You're really getting a little tiresome about this.
Speaker 10: What twelve dollars in ninety seven cents? It comes too, folks,
seems like an almighty lot.
Speaker 5: We're used to it. Let's see ten. Let's see if
I have three ones? Yeah, here are, and.
Speaker 2: Here's your three cents change. I thank you.
Speaker 10: Come on, Martha, you take my advice. Folks, you'll turn
right around and go back. Gonna be a mess up
there towards Shadow Lake.
Speaker 3: Please? Can he knows what he's talking about.
Speaker 11: He's a native.
Speaker 2: Come on, come on.
Speaker 3: We may not even be able to turn around if
we go much further.
Speaker 5: I don't intend to turn around.
Speaker 12: Okay, you wouldn't listen to me or lups.
Speaker 3: So now we're stuck.
Speaker 2: Start something like doomsday. I can rock us out of here.
Is that the turnoff to the cottage up ahead there?
Speaker 3: Yes, there's the old open broken limbs. Are you actuate
or try to drive up that ruddy little lane to
the cottage?
Speaker 2: That look good? Does it?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 13: No?
Speaker 2: I guess I better not try it.
Speaker 3: Oh, thank goodness. Well we've had a entice Sunday morning drive. Now,
I just hope we can get back.
Speaker 2: Listen, there's plenty of gas in the tank. Are you
ware you sit here?
Speaker 5: Keep the motor idling so the heater works and you'll
be perfectly comfortable. I'm gonna walk back to the cottage.
Speaker 3: Oh, Lloyd, give me strang.
Speaker 5: I've got boots and fleece lined gloves and a warm
coat cap that pulls down over my ears. Now, why
shouldn't I walk?
Speaker 3: Snow up to his armpits? And he wants to know
why I shouldn't walk?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 11: A mile?
Speaker 2: Mile and a quarter?
Speaker 5: If I can't walk that far snow or no snow,
I'd better give up.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm coming with you.
Speaker 2: Are you out of your mind?
Speaker 5: Sure?
Speaker 3: We both are?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: What are we sitting here for?
Speaker 5: It?
Speaker 3: Let's get going. I can't can I just can't.
Speaker 2: I SpLD you that before we started. All right, Now,
do you think you can make it? Back to the
car alone. Are you going ahead to the cottage? Oh?
Speaker 14: Thanks, I'll make it somehow, can please?
Speaker 5: Don't don't lie down and this?
Speaker 2: Don't you know better? And to lie down in snow? Now?
Speaker 3: I can't.
Speaker 2: I don't stay on.
Speaker 5: Your feet, Martha, just just a little.
Speaker 2: Don't fly down. If I can get this box of
groceries flood in this tree for it.
Speaker 5: There now, Martha, I told you not to lie down?
Speaker 2: Just true? All right?
Speaker 5: I can carry you if I have to.
Speaker 3: I can't. Can we go back?
Speaker 5: It's further back to the car now than it is
to the cottage.
Speaker 3: You can't.
Speaker 2: I can't carry you.
Speaker 5: We could, we.
Speaker 3: Could rest a couple of minutes.
Speaker 5: Week No, no, if we stop now. We stopped for
one minute for rest now.
Speaker 1: With death, they say, it isn't a particularly unpleasant way
to die, freezing to death.
Speaker 2: There's no pain. You simply drift off to sleep, and
my solar is do it.
Speaker 1: Seems to me the only people who can tell you
with any authenticity what it's like to die, no matter
what way, are the people who have died, and they
don't come back to talk about it, do they. I'll
be back shortly with that too, Ken and Martha Harris
would seem to be in enough trouble just as things are.
Martha has collapsed from exhaustion and exposure, and Ken, carrying
her the rest of the way to the cottage, is
near exhaustion himself. He plods through the night mayor of snow,
to another night there for what awaits him at the cottage.
If he makes it, he's far more terrifying than any
accumulation of clean, white snow.
Speaker 5: Martha, I can see it, I can see the cottage.
Speaker 2: Oh lord, don't Martha, don't go to sleep.
Speaker 5: We're going to make it.
Speaker 9: Don't let you so sleep.
Speaker 2: Oh we're here.
Speaker 5: Look, here are the steps so heavy?
Speaker 2: Why should she be so heavy? Martha? No worse the panic.
I'm tired. That's all the keys, keys, Martha. Do you
think you could stand up for a minute? But I
just get into my pocket. I've got onto these two
hands and I haven't part. Could you just try? Hey, hey,
you are helping. Oh I cat it, you're not okay,
not just to hear me, my wit. It is.
Speaker 5: Now just just as far as.
Speaker 2: Just to the rocking chair. Remember you always like the
rocking chair.
Speaker 10: Are we home?
Speaker 2: If we're in the cottage. We made it going to
be all right?
Speaker 5: Might no, no, no, not yet.
Speaker 2: I have I've got to start a fire. It'll warm
the room up. But until it does, I want you
to stay awake.
Speaker 3: I can't.
Speaker 2: If you just stay awake, everything will be all right.
Just don't go to sleep.
Speaker 5: Okay, good fire going, You're wrapped up in blankets.
Speaker 2: Everything's going to be all right.
Speaker 3: My feet are beginning to hurt like anything, Ken, good.
Speaker 5: Sign means the circulation is coming back.
Speaker 3: I'm so tired.
Speaker 2: It's warm enough.
Speaker 5: Now you're to take a nap. I've got to go
out for a while. Oh yeah, yeah, I'm all right.
My feet don't even feel cold. I'm dressed for it
better than you are. I've got to go back and
get the box of groceries.
Speaker 3: Oh, Ken, can't, you can't. We just forget the stupid groceries.
I don't see how you can make it all by yourself.
Back to where you left that car.
Speaker 2: I've got to there.
Speaker 5: Three cans of tomato soup in the pantry, now that's all, Kendaa.
Speaker 3: Does it look like somebody's been here?
Speaker 2: Not that I can tell so far.
Speaker 5: I'll go over everything better when I get.
Speaker 3: Back I wish you wouldn't leave.
Speaker 2: Come on, it's not all that far.
Speaker 5: Well, the truth is that I'm scared, scared.
Speaker 3: Well, if somebody was in here last night, what if
they came.
Speaker 2: Back in this kind of weather? Forget it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess you're right.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, okay, I better get going maybe a while.
It'll be pretty slow, especially on the way back with
that load of groceries.
Speaker 3: Okay, sheel as though I could sleep for about a
week anyway.
Speaker 5: Good, you just sit there and then fall asleep, see
you later. Can be careful, I'll be fine.
Speaker 3: M hm, can.
Speaker 13: Cam don't make any What the hell are you doing
wandering around without even any What is its matter?
Speaker 9: Can?
Speaker 3: There's somebody in the cottage right now, right this minute.
It makes you think that I heard them right after
you left. A man and a woman.
Speaker 5: They were laughing right after I left.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I I I went to sleep. I couldn't have
been more than a minute, and they woke me up
with their laughing.
Speaker 2: Who they must have dreamed it?
Speaker 3: No, absolutely not. I was not dreaming. The laughing woke
me up, and they they kept on for a while
for a while after I was awake. Can I know
I was awake, and then then when I called out,
they stopped.
Speaker 2: What d did you look for them?
Speaker 13: No?
Speaker 3: I I I I I couldn't. I was scared.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll go check it out. Just let me get
this carton out to the kitchen. It waste a ton.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'll come with you while you look for them.
Speaker 5: All right, feet still hurt some, but not as much
as they did.
Speaker 3: I I can walk aver right.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay. I wanted to check out on the utility
room first.
Speaker 3: Well, you were in there when you got the firewood,
weren't you.
Speaker 5: Oh, I'll look again. You just stay here, just outside
the door.
Speaker 3: No, I'm coming in with you.
Speaker 5: Will you stop that just once? Will you do as
I say? Without giving me an argument? All right, just
outside the door here, just until I've.
Speaker 3: Had a look around, I said, all right.
Speaker 5: And nothing's been disturbed in here. No, everything's normal in
the utility room as far as I can tell.
Speaker 3: Well, what was all that stamping you were doing?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: Some some just some snow I had left on my boots.
Could you tell where the laughing was coming from? I
mean what direction?
Speaker 3: No? No, not really, It sounded like from kind of
all around, all around Okay, let's let's check the bedroom.
Actually it was. It was sort of odd. It seemed
to come from farther away than in the house. Silly,
of course, but you know it had to be in
the house.
Speaker 5: It could be a skating party from Gibbsville somewhere. The
lake must be frozen over.
Speaker 3: It came from inside the cottage.
Speaker 5: Well, you can see there's nobody in the bedroom.
Speaker 2: Where would it have come from. You were in the
living room.
Speaker 5: There's nobody in the kitchen, the utility room or the bedroom.
Speaker 2: Now that's all the rooms we have, Martha, I.
Speaker 3: Didn't dream it. Do you want another hot dog? Cano?
Speaker 8: Lord?
Speaker 5: No, I've had three, Not to mention about a pound
of French fries and two thirds of that big can
of baked peas. For a lady who doesn't know how
to cook over an open fire, you whip up a
pretty solid meal.
Speaker 3: I'm glad you enjoyed it. It would be kind of cozy,
it wouldn't it with only the lamp of the firelight.
Speaker 5: Excepted accepted one.
Speaker 3: I didn't dream that, laughing Ken, there was someone in here.
Speaker 2: You want to know what I think.
Speaker 5: I think you and Stu were both dreaming about last
night and about today. Now I've been over this place
with a fine toothcomb. There couldn't have been anybody in here.
No locks were broken. There's not so much as a
chair out of place. Everything is exactly the way we
left it last fall.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know about Stu. I didn't dream it.
Speaker 5: There's nobody but us in the house now, at least
we know that. And I've got a full belly, and
the fire makes the room nice and cozy.
Speaker 3: You know, Ken, I'm worried about Stu. He's so well,
he seems so lost without Claudia.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel sorry for him too, But he's not
the first guy whose wife walked out on him.
Speaker 3: No, that's just it. He can't believe she did. I mean,
he can't believe she would without at least telling him
she was going.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well she didn't tell him, did she? What more
proof does he want?
Speaker 3: Oh, You've got it just backwards from his thinking. He
thinks her not telling him is proof that something happened
to her.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. He also sees people in other people's cottages.
Speaker 5: Hey, I just had an idea. We left the scrabble
board out here, didn't We were up on the shelf
in the bedroom closet.
Speaker 2: How about a game of scrabble?
Speaker 3: I don't know it, Okay, if I can keep my
mind on it, give me a chance to beat you
for once, i'll go get it.
Speaker 5: And Martha, if you say you want to come with me,
so help me, I'll clow it.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'll sit right here.
Speaker 5: I won't, but I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 2: I left it in there, up on the closet shelf.
I won't be a second.
Speaker 3: Don't hurry, I won't be going anywhere.
Speaker 9: It's no good. I tell you I can't do it.
Speaker 3: Why did you say, Ken?
Speaker 2: I didn't say anything.
Speaker 12: I can't do it or won't do it?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 9: Won't?
Speaker 5: If you like it better that way, we'll see you
about that, Ken, Ken, what's the matter?
Speaker 2: What happened?
Speaker 3: Can I heard them again? They were talking this time?
Didn't you hear them?
Speaker 2: I didn't hear a sound. You mean the people you
thought you heard laughing before.
Speaker 3: I did hear them, But they were talking this time.
He said he couldn't do something. And Ken, where are they?
Speaker 12: Well?
Speaker 5: I'm afraid they're just in your head.
Speaker 3: Martha, Oh no, you don't just because you didn't hear
them you're not going to make me out to be
off my rocker.
Speaker 5: Come on, Martha, you're nervous, upset, and who wouldn't be so?
Speaker 2: Am I?
Speaker 5: Okay, let's play one game of scrabble and get to bed.
I pile enough blankets on that bed to smother us,
never mind keep us warm.
Speaker 3: All right? But I heard them. They've got to be
here somewhere. Ken. Can't wake up? Ken? Come on, will
you wake up?
Speaker 2: What's what is it?
Speaker 1: Martha?
Speaker 2: Look at what?
Speaker 3: Can't you see it? The flickering the fireplace in the
living room burning?
Speaker 5: Oh? Yes, probably just part of a log that wasn't
all the way burned up, smoldered for a while, and
then then caught again.
Speaker 3: Go to sleep, Marca, No, that's a fire, a whole fire.
We couldn't see an ember or something from clear back here.
Speaker 2: What are you doing?
Speaker 3: I'm going in there to see what's going on. A
fire like that just doesn't build itself out of ashes.
Somebody built it. Don't you want to catch something?
Speaker 15: All right?
Speaker 3: Don't talk. We just sneak up to the living room
door and see what's going on. Okay, okay, okay, did
you hear something?
Speaker 2: Not a damn thing.
Speaker 3: Don't talk anymore. Just let me get a look through
the door.
Speaker 12: And ah, I can't understand why you're so class. You
seemed happy enough yourself.
Speaker 3: Again, it's Claudia. Can't you see if she's come back?
If it's caught.
Speaker 2: Oh god, it's Claudia. I don't think so, Martha. I
don't think they can hear us.
Speaker 12: It's not as if I dragged heresy.
Speaker 2: You might as well have you knew I didn't.
Speaker 9: Want to come.
Speaker 16: It can't be.
Speaker 5: Cannoth.
Speaker 3: That man looks like you.
Speaker 2: Yes, but.
Speaker 3: It can't be.
Speaker 2: Apparently it can be.
Speaker 1: Ken Harris stands beside his wife, watching a scene in
which he he Ken Harris sits in front of the
fireplace talking to Claudia Rolston.
Speaker 2: That adds up to two.
Speaker 1: Ken Harris is in the same house at the same time.
Impos well, very unlikely, except that there it is, and
Claudia a long absent Claudia is she real? Will find
out when I returned shortly with Act three. It is
held by some that events of great dramatic impact may
leave their imprint so deeply stamped upon the scene of
their occurrence that it is never totally erased, not by
the absence of the participants, nor by the passage of time.
Perhaps this is what we're witnessing here in the living
room of the Harrises summer cottage. Perhaps something is about
to happen which has happened before and left its indelible
mark on Shadow Lake King.
Speaker 3: How could it be you? You were standing right here
beside me, and you're sitting there in the living and
talking to Koya. I don't see how it could be.
Speaker 5: It's something beyond our understanding. They're not really here, Martha,
I mean, not really in this place at this time.
Speaker 2: I don't understand it either. I just want to get
away from it.
Speaker 3: She's talking again.
Speaker 17: It isn't easy for me either, can not one bit
easier than it is for you.
Speaker 9: I told you in the beginning. Weekends are out. I
hate lying to Martha, you know that.
Speaker 12: So we steal a weekday when we can.
Speaker 17: We come out here and have a cold, miserable afternoon
and a short evening together, and then go back to.
Speaker 12: The city and wait for our next chance to sneak away.
Speaker 2: We said in the beginning, and you agreed.
Speaker 17: I know what we said in the beginning, and I
can't stand this hole in the corner business much longer.
Speaker 9: That was all it was ever meant to be. You'd
never let it start.
Speaker 12: Well, we did let it start. Your cand undo that,
and no it's not enough, it's too much.
Speaker 9: I think we have to stop now. It's gone much
further than we meant it too.
Speaker 3: They just faded away. They're gone.
Speaker 2: They were never here, Martha. They weren't real, and.
Speaker 3: The fire is dead and everything is just gone.
Speaker 5: It was, I don't know, some kind of illusion we
imagined it.
Speaker 3: It was something that happened before. Wasn't it something that
actually happened? You and Claudia out here together, Martha? If
you're just which weekend was it ken the time you
had to go to Chicago to close that deal with
whoever it was at that time?
Speaker 5: That's an We're going to get dressed and get the
hell out of this place before it drives us both nuts. Now, well, now,
no we're not.
Speaker 3: We're staying right here. What Marca, I'm scared that I
have a ceiling.
Speaker 16: They'll be back.
Speaker 3: And I'm staying till the end.
Speaker 5: All right, if you want to see the end, we'll stay.
You'll be sorry, but we'll stay.
Speaker 2: Operator I'm able.
Speaker 10: This is low Potts, What.
Speaker 12: Little world are you doing up this time of night?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 10: Inventory have to do it sooner or later. And I
wasn't anxious to leave the store in this kind of weather.
Speaker 12: Ain't it awful? Still snowing?
Speaker 9: Looks like the.
Speaker 10: Windows yep, still snowing?
Speaker 9: What can I do for you?
Speaker 2: Do you happen to know?
Speaker 10: Is the sheriff still in his office or did he
close up and go home in his office.
Speaker 9: Five to ten minutes ago? Why you want me to
bring him?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 10: I just thought if it turns out he's still in
his office, maybe i'd stop buy and say.
Speaker 5: Hello, some kind of trouble going on?
Speaker 17: Loo?
Speaker 2: Wouldn't you know it before I did?
Speaker 3: If there was?
Speaker 15: Oh?
Speaker 2: What are you doing out on a night like this?
For feet? Saying? Got something bothering me? Go's this cold
out there?
Speaker 6: It happens every winter, seems like, how.
Speaker 10: Come you're still around this late at night?
Speaker 6: Oh, waiting for folks like you to show up? Got
something bothering them? What is it you got on your mind?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 10: You remember the Harris has got a summer place up
there by.
Speaker 2: The lake hares Hare. Oh sure, sir.
Speaker 6: And pretty little thing she is?
Speaker 10: Well, they stopped in at the store this afternoon and
filled up with a box of provisions to take out
to the cottage with him today. I told him I'm near.
In so many words, they was damn fools. I've been
watching all day waiting for him to come, and I
ain't seen them. I would have too if they'd drove fast.
Speaker 6: I must be stuck up there. Yeah, I guess there's
nothing for it. But I go on up there and
see or try to you.
Speaker 3: I knew it can they're coming back. I knew they would.
Speaker 2: We shouldn't be here, we should have gone away.
Speaker 3: Be quiet.
Speaker 12: You want us to stop seeing each other.
Speaker 9: You've had your fun, and now you're ready to go
back to Martha said it. We agreed in the very
beginning that it would have to win this.
Speaker 2: Way, Claudia.
Speaker 12: I may have agreed to that at the start, or
seemed to, but I won't have it that way done.
Speaker 2: I don't really see that you have much choice.
Speaker 9: You don't know.
Speaker 2: I love Martha, Claudia.
Speaker 9: This was never more than just a just a little affair.
Speaker 12: Is that what you mean? A little fun? Something you
could toss aside.
Speaker 9: Whenever you got to Claudia. We both agree, Oh.
Speaker 12: You and we're both agreed. I I don't give a
damn what I agree to.
Speaker 9: All right, what do you want from me?
Speaker 12: I want you to tell Martha tomorrow that you want
a divorce.
Speaker 9: That's simple enough, isn't it? And if she asks you.
Speaker 12: Why tell her?
Speaker 2: I won't do any such thing.
Speaker 9: You know that, Claudia, do you want it better?
Speaker 2: I won't.
Speaker 3: Alright, then.
Speaker 12: I'll tell her myself, her and stew Boss.
Speaker 9: Let them do the divorcing. And don't you think they won't.
Speaker 12: I only hope that you doesn't blow your brains out.
Speaker 2: You're not going to do that, Claudia.
Speaker 12: Do you think you can stop me?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 9: I think I can. You're not a very nice person.
Speaker 5: Really, yes, I'm quite sure I can't stop you.
Speaker 3: They've faded away again, just faded away, as if there were.
Speaker 5: Nothing but here, less than here, Martha, they're nothing at all.
Speaker 2: They're a memory.
Speaker 5: Okay, you've seen the end of it. Now, will you
come away with me?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 3: No, that wasn't the end of anything, ken, and you
know it.
Speaker 5: I told her I love you. You heard me tell
her that?
Speaker 13: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yes? Sure? After you, after you.
Speaker 5: And don't please don't don't what cry?
Speaker 3: Not for a million dollars.
Speaker 2: I want us to leave this place.
Speaker 3: Now you go if you like, I'm staying for the end.
Speaker 10: Well, they must have made it as far as the
turnoff anyway, I ain't seen hiding the hair of the car.
Speaker 2: Oh that is yep, up ahead there, keep of snow.
It must be stop.
Speaker 6: Just decide to turn off to the lake.
Speaker 10: I sure hope they had enough gas to keep the
heater going. Else they're frozen to death.
Speaker 2: But now, yeah, don't.
Speaker 6: Look like there's anybody in the car, Lou, I guess
I'll just have to walk on up there myself.
Speaker 2: Are you as.
Speaker 10: Crazy as they are?
Speaker 2: Hell, yeph you sit here and stay warm.
Speaker 6: Lou, I got snowshoes in the trunk shout.
Speaker 2: Of a gun? Now, who'd think of snowshoes?
Speaker 7: And I like this as sheriff would.
Speaker 6: I don't know why I didn't open a grocery store
instead of running for sheriff.
Speaker 3: It's weird the way they just materialize it.
Speaker 2: This is real.
Speaker 12: Why are you looking at me like that? If you
have anything silly your mind, you can just forget it silly.
Just don't look at me that way?
Speaker 2: What way, Claudia?
Speaker 12: As if you could almost as if you could, I
could kill me.
Speaker 9: I wouldn't, of course, if there were any other way,
but there isn't.
Speaker 12: Come on, can't you're you're kitty Martha about you and me.
Speaker 5: I won't put her through a thing like that if
I have to kill you to prevent it by.
Speaker 12: Then, Okay, and I I'm sorry. I didn't realize you
felt so strongly about it. We'll we'll just forget the
whole thing.
Speaker 9: Okay. Well, don't just sit there.
Speaker 12: Shaking your head at me. I won't say a word
to Martha or just.
Speaker 9: Do either about us.
Speaker 5: Can I promise you?
Speaker 17: I don't believe you, but that's just the can I'm
telling you you can believe me.
Speaker 12: I promise.
Speaker 9: A moment ago you said you don't give a damn
what you promised.
Speaker 12: That was just, you know, it was just talk. Okay,
you you you've god to believe me.
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 9: But if you don't, oh no, don't, can't. Please please,
it's only one alternative.
Speaker 2: No, I'm sorry, Claudia.
Speaker 12: Keep your hands over you don't.
Speaker 5: Me a few a few fight Claudia is only going
to make it worse.
Speaker 9: Now, what's a little more?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 5: All over it?
Speaker 9: Just a minute, Just a little while and the whole.
Speaker 5: Thing will be behind us.
Speaker 3: Can can you kill her?
Speaker 5: That was?
Speaker 3: That was the weekend she disappeared. You killed her?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 5: I couldn't figure anything else to do.
Speaker 3: But oh god, a murderer.
Speaker 5: I don't say that adult and murderer.
Speaker 3: Hum, what did you do with her? What did you
do with their body?
Speaker 5: I tore some boards off the floor of the utility
room and buried her under there.
Speaker 2: The utility room.
Speaker 3: You mean she's under there now, under that floor? Right?
This minuteness? All last summer, every weekend, all last summer,
we were out here laughing and having funn't.
Speaker 2: I wasn't having much fun?
Speaker 3: So what do we do now?
Speaker 2: I go to the Sheriff's office and give myself up.
Speaker 3: You intend to confess?
Speaker 2: What else is there to do? I'm glad it's over.
Speaker 3: I I don't think I can walk to the car.
Speaker 2: I'll carry you. We can make it.
Speaker 3: There's nobody else who knows about this? Is there just me?
Nobody else even suspects.
Speaker 5: It doesn't matter. I told you, I'm going to give
myself up.
Speaker 3: I know what you told me. It would be so easy.
Speaker 2: What would be easy?
Speaker 3: You carry me part of the way, far enough so
I can't get back and then just leave me in
the snow to die the way you I'd have done, Yes,
did Martha? You're a murderer. You killed Claudia to save yourself.
Why not me?
Speaker 5: I wouldn't, Martha, You know I wouldn't.
Speaker 3: Well, there's only one way to find out for sure,
isn't there. Let's go.
Speaker 1: Ken Harris does not know that the sheriff is making
his way toward the cottage, but the going is slow.
It'll be some time before the two meet. If Ken
chooses to leave his wife to die of exposure, he
can do it and get away with it.
Speaker 2: But will he You may have it either way, you
want it or can't believe it.
Speaker 1: Whatever you decide, I'll be back in a few minutes.
Speaker 11: A Hi, Tom Bodett for Motel six. With a tip
for the gardener. All summer long, you've been out there
puttering in the yard. Sure it's good therapy, but you
can get too much of a good thing. So here's
the tip. Cut the grass, get out the weed whipper
and put a good edge along the driveway and sidewalks.
Then hang her up in the garage and take a
little vacation see some sites, get some new landscaping ideas,
and stay at Motel six. We got over five hundred
locations coast to coast, and along the way to any
of them, you can see the floor this country has
to offer, and no matter where you go, you'll get
a clean, comfortable room for around twenty four bucks, the
lowest prices of any national chain. Call five oh five,
eight nine, one, sixty one sixty one for reservations. Then
with the money you save, pick up some palladium volves.
They're a hearty little plant and do well the shade.
When they come up in the spring, you'll be the
envy of the neighborhood. I'm tamboed after Motel six, and
we'll leave the light on for it.
Speaker 16: For a young girl, growing up in today's world is
no easy job. She needs a lot of adult time
and attention, sometimes more than a busy mother can give.
A Big Sister volunteer can provide this extra support with
just a few hours a week of friendship and guidance.
For information on the Big Sisters program, call your Big
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Speaker 3: Because little people need big people.
Speaker 1: A murderer, a reluctant murderer, granted, has either been exposed
for what he is or has been prodded to the
brink of a further and even more despicable crime. And
the force that brought him to this plight was supernatural
according to our present standards of what is and what
is not natural? Could it be that there is a
department of criminal investigation operating on a level not yet
recognized by our very exact sciences. Our cast included Joan Lovejoy,
Nat Poland, Joan lor Bob Caliban, and Robert Maxwell. The
entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.
Speaker 4: Hi, this is Harry Anderson with a tip from the
Arthritis Foundation. If arthritis makes it difficult for you to
shake hands, here's something that can help. Try to grasp
the other person's wrist as they extend their hand to you.
This prevents the person from squeezing your hand. That's just
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the Arthritis Foundation.
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Speaker 2: Don't please, don't please don't do this to me.
Speaker 15: Eighteen months ago, this twenty nine year old woman looked
every woman's worst night mass.
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She got help at a rape crisis center.
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Speaker 1: Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater for
another adventure in the macabrere. Until next time, pleasant dreams.
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Speaker 2: As well well.
Speaker 7: The command tells us not a bad weekend, a lot
of sunshine. We look for a high and later today
of seventy two, and our eye on Sunday creeping into
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