WEBVTT 00:00:13.049 --> 00:00:20.370 Come in. Welcome. I'm E .G. Marshall. Welcome 00:00:20.370 --> 00:00:24.190 to the sound of suspense. To the fear you can 00:00:24.190 --> 00:00:28.170 hear. A psychiatrist once said that the human 00:00:28.170 --> 00:00:31.850 brain is like a spider's web. Together all the 00:00:31.850 --> 00:00:35.770 strands are strong. But taken one by one, each 00:00:35.770 --> 00:00:40.390 can easily be broken and the web destroyed. There 00:00:40.390 --> 00:00:43.329 are countless cases of human brains broken and 00:00:43.329 --> 00:00:47.310 smashed in just this way, step by step, strand 00:00:47.310 --> 00:00:52.590 by strand. And I can't help wondering, is this 00:00:52.590 --> 00:00:55.310 what happened to young Jennifer Brady? Please, 00:00:55.549 --> 00:00:58.729 officer. I'm not out of my mind. I didn't say 00:00:58.729 --> 00:01:01.369 you were. No, but everybody else does, and I'm 00:01:01.369 --> 00:01:04.750 not. I'm not. I don't mean you're off crazy because 00:01:04.750 --> 00:01:07.890 you had a bad dream. It was no dream. It happened. 00:01:08.409 --> 00:01:11.530 I tell you, it happened. No, ma 'am, it didn't. 00:01:11.709 --> 00:01:14.730 You see, it couldn't have. A thing like that 00:01:14.730 --> 00:01:27.000 to happen. Impossible. Our mystery drama, Honeymoon 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:29.799 with Death, was written especially for the Radio 00:01:29.799 --> 00:01:33.739 Mystery Theatre by George Lother and stars Lois 00:01:33.739 --> 00:01:37.540 Nettleton. I'll be back shortly with Act One. 00:01:48.920 --> 00:01:52.019 What makes Jennifer Brady think she's going out 00:01:52.019 --> 00:01:56.120 of her mind? What strange thing happened that 00:01:56.120 --> 00:01:59.500 couldn't have happened? Perhaps we can find out 00:01:59.500 --> 00:02:02.319 together. It was a wonderful honeymoon, Howard. 00:02:03.140 --> 00:02:06.239 I can't tell you how much I enjoyed it. Adored 00:02:06.239 --> 00:02:11.560 it. But you know something, Howard? You know 00:02:11.560 --> 00:02:15.120 something? What, Jennifer? What? It's wonderful 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:18.819 to be back home. These last ten days driving 00:02:18.819 --> 00:02:22.360 back from San Francisco, I kept thinking... When, 00:02:22.479 --> 00:02:25.139 oh, when will I be back in my own bedroom, in 00:02:25.139 --> 00:02:28.900 my own bed, in my own little old New York brownstone 00:02:28.900 --> 00:02:32.680 house? Oh, I shouldn't have said that, should 00:02:32.680 --> 00:02:36.439 I? What? Said what, Jennifer? Am I bothering 00:02:36.439 --> 00:02:38.879 you with all my chatter, Howard? Bothering me? 00:02:39.080 --> 00:02:41.379 How could you possibly bother me, sweetheart? 00:02:41.800 --> 00:02:43.419 I'm just trying to catch up with all that nail 00:02:43.419 --> 00:02:46.780 Margaret left on the living room table. Oh, hey, 00:02:46.879 --> 00:02:49.500 I haven't seen that negligee before. I saved 00:02:49.500 --> 00:02:55.199 it for a homecoming night. Like? I can see a 00:02:55.199 --> 00:02:57.259 whole month of honeymooning hasn't changed you 00:02:57.259 --> 00:02:59.400 a bit. When I've got a bride as beautiful and 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:01.979 sexy as you, our whole life is gonna be a honeymoon. 00:03:02.379 --> 00:03:04.319 Now, tell me, what was it you shouldn't have 00:03:04.319 --> 00:03:08.680 said? What? Oh, I've forgotten. Something about 00:03:08.680 --> 00:03:10.879 your own little old New York brownstone house. 00:03:11.400 --> 00:03:16.419 Oh, well, what I meant... It's not just mine 00:03:16.419 --> 00:03:19.099 anymore. It's yours now, too And your sister 00:03:19.099 --> 00:03:21.680 Maggie's you both inherited this old brownstone 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:24.000 from your father, though I must say I think that 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:27.599 you I mean we Have the better of the bargain. 00:03:27.979 --> 00:03:30.139 What do you mean? I much prefer this top floor 00:03:30.139 --> 00:03:33.219 apartment. Don't you? Oh, yes Luckily Maggie 00:03:33.219 --> 00:03:35.939 always preferred the downstairs part. No climbing 00:03:35.939 --> 00:03:38.560 stairs stairs won't bother me I'll take them 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:41.280 two three at a time knowing that you were waiting 00:03:41.280 --> 00:03:46.340 at the top of them Well, you were better finish 00:03:46.340 --> 00:03:48.060 brushing your hair. I'll finish that mail in 00:03:48.060 --> 00:03:52.900 the living room Howard yes about the car. What 00:03:52.900 --> 00:03:54.879 about it? You think it's safe parked out in the 00:03:54.879 --> 00:03:57.539 street one night won't hurt. I'd feel awful if 00:03:57.539 --> 00:04:02.659 anything happened to it You know Sometimes on 00:04:02.659 --> 00:04:04.280 our honeymoon trip. I couldn't help wondering 00:04:04.280 --> 00:04:08.919 which you loved more your new car or me. Oh Well, 00:04:08.919 --> 00:04:10.879 I guess one night in the street is safe enough 00:04:10.879 --> 00:04:16.250 you can find a garage tomorrow Howard you lock 00:04:16.250 --> 00:04:20.350 the car you have the keys haven't you Howard 00:04:20.350 --> 00:05:14.129 Howard can't you hear me I asked you What are 00:05:14.129 --> 00:05:16.170 you doing? Come back into the house out in the 00:05:16.170 --> 00:05:17.750 street like you did in your nightgown. Scream! 00:05:17.769 --> 00:05:20.209 Maggie, it's Howard! Jennifer, come back into 00:05:20.209 --> 00:05:22.410 the house! You're going to have your attacks. 00:05:22.730 --> 00:05:27.269 No! No, Howard! He's dead! He's up there sitting 00:05:27.269 --> 00:05:29.990 in a chair with a knife in his chest! Jennifer, 00:05:30.129 --> 00:05:33.069 please, now stop it. Stop it! Come back in now. 00:05:33.209 --> 00:05:36.149 Come on. Come on. I'll phone... I'll phone Dr. 00:05:36.290 --> 00:05:38.629 Sullivan. I don't need Dr. Sullivan. I tell you 00:05:38.629 --> 00:05:44.040 how... The neighbors haven't heard or seen anything. 00:05:45.720 --> 00:05:48.519 Now look, Jen, you sit here on the couch and 00:05:48.519 --> 00:05:52.120 try to hold on. I'll phone Dr. Sullivan. Maggie! 00:05:54.079 --> 00:05:59.500 Howard is dead. He's up there in our apartment. 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:03.699 Dead! Jennifer, please now try to control yourself. 00:06:03.920 --> 00:06:07.439 There's no one named Howard here. What? What 00:06:07.439 --> 00:06:14.579 do you mean? No one named Howard? Lansing my 00:06:14.579 --> 00:06:17.459 husband the man I've been on a honeymoon with 00:06:17.459 --> 00:06:20.000 for a whole month and home just a few hours ago 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:25.459 and Stop looking at me like that. All right All 00:06:25.459 --> 00:06:28.759 right Now look Jennifer, I'll tell you what I'm 00:06:28.759 --> 00:06:33.899 going to do I'll go upstairs and I'll see if 00:06:33.899 --> 00:06:36.540 anybody's there Howard's there. All right. All 00:06:36.540 --> 00:06:40.600 right, if this Howard is there and if he's dead, 00:06:40.860 --> 00:06:44.209 then I'll phone the police All right But if he 00:06:44.209 --> 00:06:46.629 isn't, then I'm going to phone Dr. Sullivan, 00:06:46.730 --> 00:06:49.910 have him come right over. Is that agreed? What's 00:06:49.910 --> 00:06:51.910 that? It's just the front door bell, Jennifer. 00:06:55.370 --> 00:06:59.769 Oh, yes, officer? Officer Helmets, ma 'am. Ed 00:06:59.769 --> 00:07:03.560 Helmets. Anything wrong? No, no. you mean no 00:07:03.560 --> 00:07:06.360 my husband's been murdered he's upstairs dead 00:07:06.360 --> 00:07:08.980 a knife in his chest Jennifer please officer 00:07:08.980 --> 00:07:11.959 there is no one upstairs dead or alive well then 00:07:11.959 --> 00:07:14.519 what was all the screaming about I'm walking 00:07:14.519 --> 00:07:16.480 the beach just up at the corner and I hear all 00:07:16.480 --> 00:07:18.800 this screaming nothing believe me it's nothing 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:22.339 officer officer will you do me a favor sure if 00:07:22.339 --> 00:07:25.279 I can would you would you go upstairs please 00:07:25.279 --> 00:07:29.519 and see for yourself officer my sister is is 00:07:30.139 --> 00:07:34.120 A highly emotional woman. Please? Would you please? 00:07:35.540 --> 00:07:41.000 Sure. Make you feel any better? Sure. Oh, Jen. 00:07:42.040 --> 00:07:43.980 Jen, what am I going to do with you? You know 00:07:43.980 --> 00:07:46.160 what Dr. Sullivan said. Dr. Sullivan? He said 00:07:46.160 --> 00:07:47.899 if you had another one of these attacks, you 00:07:47.899 --> 00:07:51.160 were going to have to be... I am not having an 00:07:51.160 --> 00:07:55.300 attack. I am as sane as you are. Don't look at 00:07:55.300 --> 00:07:59.790 me like that, Maggie. I am. Well... Well, officer? 00:08:00.009 --> 00:08:03.670 Well, there's nobody up there, ma 'am. Nobody? 00:08:05.209 --> 00:08:10.350 But there is somebody. My husband, Howard. He's 00:08:10.350 --> 00:08:12.470 sitting in a chair with a knife in his chest, 00:08:12.550 --> 00:08:15.689 blood all over. No, no, no, ma 'am. But that's 00:08:15.689 --> 00:08:21.870 impossible. Impossible, I tell you. It's impossible. 00:08:23.009 --> 00:08:26.660 I couldn't... Maybe you want to see for yourself. 00:08:27.100 --> 00:08:29.399 I'll go up with you sir. Thank you very much, 00:08:29.399 --> 00:08:31.759 but there's no I do want to see for myself will 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:37.919 you? Sure I'll come with you No one second thought 00:08:37.919 --> 00:08:41.259 what's the use I mean I'm I'm really very tired 00:08:41.259 --> 00:08:43.919 of this sort of thing what sort of thing never 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:51.539 mind officer just You go ahead Now is this the 00:08:51.539 --> 00:08:58.049 room where you thought that Huh, I Can't believe 00:08:58.049 --> 00:09:03.370 it It's impossible you can see for yourself five 00:09:03.370 --> 00:09:08.789 minutes ago five minutes ago, I tell you in this 00:09:08.789 --> 00:09:12.190 chair He was sitting back in this chair and there 00:09:12.190 --> 00:09:15.440 was a knife sticking out of his chest The mail. 00:09:15.799 --> 00:09:17.840 The mail was scattered all over the floor. Mail? 00:09:17.960 --> 00:09:19.519 We'd just come back from our honeymoon. We'd 00:09:19.519 --> 00:09:21.600 only been in the house a few hours. And Maggie 00:09:21.600 --> 00:09:23.419 had left all the mail that had collected for 00:09:23.419 --> 00:09:26.059 a month on the table, on this table. Well, you 00:09:26.059 --> 00:09:30.059 can see, ma 'am, no mail. And blood. There was 00:09:30.059 --> 00:09:32.399 blood on the carpet, some on the mail. Well, 00:09:32.720 --> 00:09:36.659 no mail, no blood. You don't mind me saying so. 00:09:36.659 --> 00:09:41.460 I think you... Well, maybe you had a dream, a 00:09:41.460 --> 00:09:44.980 nightmare, huh? Please. I'm not out of my mind. 00:09:45.220 --> 00:09:47.440 I didn't say you were. No, but everybody else 00:09:47.440 --> 00:09:50.539 does and I'm not. I'm not. It don't mean you're 00:09:50.539 --> 00:09:53.799 out of your mind because you had a bad dream. 00:09:53.899 --> 00:09:57.720 It was no dream. It happened. I tell you it happened. 00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:00.659 Howard was here in the living room reading the 00:10:00.659 --> 00:10:02.960 mail. I was talking to him from the bedroom. 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:05.720 I had just taken a bath and I was brushing my 00:10:05.720 --> 00:10:11.700 hair. Wait. I know. I know. I hadn't emptied 00:10:11.700 --> 00:10:14.100 the tub. The water's still there. It must be. 00:10:14.419 --> 00:10:21.500 I'll show you. I don't understand it. Tub's bone 00:10:21.500 --> 00:10:25.340 dry, ma 'am. Hasn't been used. Now, not tonight, 00:10:25.440 --> 00:10:28.620 anyway. His clothes. Howard's clothes. He'd empty 00:10:28.620 --> 00:10:31.059 his suitcases and put his clothes in the closet. 00:10:31.480 --> 00:10:37.000 Here's his suitcases, too. Just ladies clothes. 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:45.600 Yours, ma 'am? Yes Now hey now hey look don't 00:10:45.600 --> 00:10:50.740 cry I am Hey, look look this dream. Yeah, it 00:10:50.740 --> 00:10:54.820 was no dream. Okay. Okay, so maybe you imagine 00:10:54.820 --> 00:11:00.220 I didn't imagine anything Do you imagine a husband? 00:11:01.039 --> 00:11:05.000 You imagine a month -long honeymoon You imagine 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:09.120 a man in a chair with a knife in his chest I 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:12.620 gotta admit, you'd have to have a darn strong 00:11:12.620 --> 00:11:17.179 imagination. But they tell me that's what artists 00:11:17.179 --> 00:11:21.740 got. Artists? You are an artist, aren't you? 00:11:22.100 --> 00:11:26.399 That painting there on the easel? Oh, that's 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:29.600 just a hobby. I haven't touched that since I 00:11:29.600 --> 00:11:36.059 left on my honeymoon. No? What do you mean? How 00:11:36.059 --> 00:11:40.740 long does it take... paint to dry. Oh, a day, 00:11:40.860 --> 00:11:43.899 thereabouts. Well, this paint's still wet. Plenty 00:11:43.899 --> 00:11:49.100 wet. Look at my finger. Oh, now don't stop crying 00:11:49.100 --> 00:11:52.379 again. A woman crying, it makes me feel awful. 00:11:52.460 --> 00:11:57.639 I'm sorry. Look, when you dreamed it or imagined 00:11:57.639 --> 00:12:03.500 it. I didn't. I didn't. Oh, yeah, well. I know, 00:12:03.500 --> 00:12:09.429 I know I've had spells. spells What what kind 00:12:09.429 --> 00:12:15.490 of spells oh? I've always been High -strung nervous 00:12:15.490 --> 00:12:19.929 you know I don't know if I know I mean me well. 00:12:20.070 --> 00:12:22.470 I'm the other way I haven't got a nerve my whole 00:12:22.470 --> 00:12:27.370 body. I envy you You've never been to a psychiatrist 00:12:27.370 --> 00:12:31.950 a Shrink no no me no me you ask me anybody goes 00:12:31.950 --> 00:12:35.519 to a shrink ought to have his head examined That's 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:39.759 a that's a joke you get it. Yes. Well, and then 00:12:39.759 --> 00:12:41.940 then laugh a little bit. Come on. Do you good? 00:12:42.980 --> 00:12:47.220 I can't No, of course you can't I'm sorry. I'm 00:12:47.220 --> 00:12:48.559 sorry. I should have known better than to even 00:12:48.559 --> 00:12:52.460 try and make a joke. I'm You you go to a psychiatrist, 00:12:52.620 --> 00:12:59.779 huh? Yes not regularly Sometimes what times? 00:13:00.759 --> 00:13:05.830 Oh When I sort of get all keyed up and start 00:13:05.830 --> 00:13:10.649 having crying spells and feeling so sad So sad 00:13:10.649 --> 00:13:15.210 I could die Well, what's to feel sad about chick 00:13:15.210 --> 00:13:18.870 like I mean, excuse me a pretty girl like you 00:13:18.870 --> 00:13:21.750 with everything in life to live for What's to 00:13:21.750 --> 00:13:26.389 be sad? I? Don't know Some people feel sad for 00:13:26.389 --> 00:13:30.990 no reason at all They just suffer from depressions 00:13:31.659 --> 00:13:36.480 Excuse me. Oh Yes, ma 'am, Jennifer. Dr. Sullivan 00:13:36.480 --> 00:13:39.980 is on his way over. I just phoned him All right, 00:13:40.399 --> 00:13:43.639 and officer. Thank you very much for trying to 00:13:43.639 --> 00:13:46.879 help. Oh, not at all ma 'am Not at all glad to 00:13:46.879 --> 00:13:48.879 do what I could I'll show you out. Well, that's 00:13:48.879 --> 00:13:51.139 okay. No, no, sorry. I'll come with you I'll 00:13:51.139 --> 00:13:56.370 be just a minute Jen Officer I am I wanted to 00:13:56.370 --> 00:13:58.570 ask you. You don't have to say anything about 00:13:58.570 --> 00:14:00.429 this, do you? I mean, put it in your report or 00:14:00.429 --> 00:14:02.889 anything. Oh, no, no, no. There's been no damage 00:14:02.889 --> 00:14:05.330 or anything like that. Does she get this way 00:14:05.330 --> 00:14:09.309 often, your sister? Well, often enough. She hallucinates, 00:14:09.309 --> 00:14:15.549 you see. Huh? Come again? Hallucinates? It means... 00:14:15.549 --> 00:14:17.610 Well, just what you saw. She was totally convinced 00:14:17.610 --> 00:14:21.110 there was a murdered man up there. Her husband, 00:14:21.190 --> 00:14:26.350 no less. Well, you saw for yourself. Husband. 00:14:26.690 --> 00:14:29.409 Jennifer's never even had a boyfriend. A cute 00:14:29.409 --> 00:14:32.730 doll? I mean, a pretty girl like that? Well, 00:14:32.769 --> 00:14:35.190 it's all part of her condition. She's afraid 00:14:35.190 --> 00:14:38.929 of people. Men, especially. I wish she could 00:14:38.929 --> 00:14:42.950 become less afraid, more outgoing. If these spells 00:14:42.950 --> 00:14:44.850 of hers get any worse, she may lose her mind 00:14:44.850 --> 00:14:48.710 altogether. Oh, say, I hope not. A sweet kid 00:14:48.710 --> 00:14:52.330 like that, I sure hope not. I know, so do I. 00:14:54.590 --> 00:14:57.289 Well... Looks like we've had a little shower. 00:14:57.710 --> 00:14:59.769 Street's wet. It was drizzling a little when 00:14:59.769 --> 00:15:03.950 I came in. Well, good night, ma 'am, and if you 00:15:03.950 --> 00:15:07.250 need... Wait! Wait! The car! The car! The car? 00:15:07.250 --> 00:15:09.690 What car? Howard's. The little red sports car 00:15:09.690 --> 00:15:14.549 he was so fond of. It... It isn't there. But 00:15:14.549 --> 00:15:19.289 it was. I know it was. Officer, thanks again, 00:15:19.450 --> 00:15:24.649 and good night. Good night, ladies. Jen, dear. 00:15:25.659 --> 00:15:28.179 Until Dr. Sullivan gets here, I think you should 00:15:28.179 --> 00:15:31.320 lie down and rest. I don't want to lie down. 00:15:31.519 --> 00:15:32.960 Well, then just stretch out on the couch and 00:15:32.960 --> 00:15:36.019 I'll make some tea for us. Well, that's probably 00:15:36.019 --> 00:15:43.039 Dr. Sullivan now. Oh. Yes? Excuse me, ma 'am. 00:15:43.039 --> 00:15:45.539 I just wanted to get something straight. Yes. 00:15:46.080 --> 00:15:49.620 Your sister, did she say... Oh, ma 'am. Yes, 00:15:49.720 --> 00:15:53.039 officer. Did you say that car was a little sports 00:15:53.039 --> 00:15:57.480 car? Yes. Why? Well, nothing, only there was 00:15:57.480 --> 00:16:00.179 one parked out there in the street. What do you 00:16:00.179 --> 00:16:03.100 mean? Well, we've had a shower, see, and I happened 00:16:03.100 --> 00:16:06.820 to notice the street's dry in one spot. There 00:16:06.820 --> 00:16:08.659 must have been a car standing there while it 00:16:08.659 --> 00:16:11.860 was raining. A small car. Officer, please don't 00:16:11.860 --> 00:16:14.120 make things worse for me or for my sister. I 00:16:14.120 --> 00:16:16.039 mean, there's nothing unusual about a car being 00:16:16.039 --> 00:16:18.639 parked in the street. No. Good night, officer. 00:16:20.399 --> 00:16:29.210 Funny, though. Funny. What exactly is it that 00:16:29.210 --> 00:16:33.129 strikes Officer Helmut as funny? Perhaps we'll 00:16:33.129 --> 00:16:49.789 know when I return shortly with Act Two. Has 00:16:49.789 --> 00:16:53.590 a horrible murder been done? Or is Jennifer Brady 00:16:53.590 --> 00:16:57.269 losing her mind? Did she find the body of her 00:16:57.269 --> 00:16:59.690 husband Howard Lansing seated in the living room 00:16:59.690 --> 00:17:02.690 with a knife in his chest? Or did she imagine 00:17:02.690 --> 00:17:07.309 the frightful scene? Is she married? Was there 00:17:07.309 --> 00:17:11.309 a honeymoon? Here's young patrolman Ed Helmer 00:17:11.309 --> 00:17:13.549 at the front door of the brownstone house where 00:17:13.549 --> 00:17:16.250 Jennifer and her sister Maggie live and it's 00:17:16.250 --> 00:17:26.680 the following morning Oh It's you yeah Well, 00:17:27.420 --> 00:17:34.559 won't you come in? Thanks. Thank you for what 00:17:34.559 --> 00:17:40.319 you did last night. Just doing my job, Mrs. I 00:17:40.319 --> 00:17:42.960 don't know what to call you. I don't know what 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:47.559 to call myself. I don't know if I'm Mrs. Howard 00:17:47.559 --> 00:17:51.700 Lansing or Miss Jennifer Brady. Not after last 00:17:51.700 --> 00:17:55.619 night. Well, I suppose I just call you Jennifer. 00:17:56.480 --> 00:18:03.400 You can call me Ed. Ed Helmut. What are you doing 00:18:03.400 --> 00:18:08.500 here? Well, I'm off duty, see. I'm on the four 00:18:08.500 --> 00:18:11.119 to midnight beat, and I just thought I'd drop 00:18:11.119 --> 00:18:14.339 around and see how you were doing. Oh, well, 00:18:15.180 --> 00:18:18.200 I'm all right. You mind if I ask you a couple 00:18:18.200 --> 00:18:21.920 of questions, Jennifer? No. It's your job, isn't 00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:26.740 it? Well, yes and no, yes and no. In fact, being 00:18:26.740 --> 00:18:29.660 off duty now, I'm kind of asking these questions 00:18:29.660 --> 00:18:36.500 on my own. You know what I mean? I don't. Not 00:18:36.500 --> 00:18:41.279 really. Well, I tell you, that car of your husband's... 00:18:41.279 --> 00:18:44.559 If I didn't just imagine a husband. Yeah, well, 00:18:44.599 --> 00:18:48.539 if you didn't, that car of his, that little red 00:18:48.539 --> 00:18:52.109 sports car you mentioned, well... There was a 00:18:52.109 --> 00:18:55.190 car parked out front last night, and it was a 00:18:55.190 --> 00:18:57.509 little sports car. If it wasn't there when you 00:18:57.509 --> 00:19:01.789 left. Well, the space it left. It rained, remember, 00:19:01.869 --> 00:19:05.410 while the car was standing at the curb? Oh, yes. 00:19:05.769 --> 00:19:07.750 So at least you were right about there being 00:19:07.750 --> 00:19:12.789 a car. I mean, you didn't dream that up. It could 00:19:12.789 --> 00:19:15.990 have been anyone's car, as Maggie said. Oh, that's 00:19:15.990 --> 00:19:19.029 for sure. Still though, it could have been a 00:19:19.029 --> 00:19:21.849 car belonging to a guy named Howard Lansing, 00:19:21.849 --> 00:19:28.069 couldn't it? Couldn't it? Why are you doing this? 00:19:28.210 --> 00:19:32.329 Come again? Well, you know that I'm not well, 00:19:33.569 --> 00:19:37.990 that all my life I've had nervous problems, that... 00:19:37.990 --> 00:19:41.349 Oh, I can't believe it, but I must have dreamed 00:19:41.349 --> 00:19:45.170 it all up. Howard Lansing marrying him going 00:19:45.170 --> 00:19:47.230 on a honeymoon across country and back coming 00:19:47.230 --> 00:19:51.349 home last night finding a murdered I Must have 00:19:51.349 --> 00:19:55.109 imagined it all Maggie says I did dr. Sullivan 00:19:55.109 --> 00:19:59.190 says I did so why are you? Why are you you know 00:19:59.190 --> 00:20:01.829 something? I I don't know maybe it's because 00:20:01.829 --> 00:20:12.309 Well, well what I am I kind of like you and Well 00:20:12.309 --> 00:20:14.690 me I didn't get much sleep either last night 00:20:14.690 --> 00:20:16.970 thinking about this whole thing thinking about 00:20:16.970 --> 00:20:21.390 you and Well, I'm kind of wishing I could straighten 00:20:21.390 --> 00:20:26.049 things out for you, that's Very sweet of you 00:20:26.049 --> 00:20:33.890 officer But call me Ed Ed It's sweet of you But 00:20:33.890 --> 00:20:39.990 you you're wasting your time I'm mentally mentally 00:20:39.990 --> 00:20:44.269 come on now come on now don't cry you had a bad 00:20:44.269 --> 00:20:47.410 dream that's all a nightmare it was more than 00:20:47.410 --> 00:20:50.750 that much more than that when you dream something 00:20:50.750 --> 00:20:53.250 you wake up and you know it was a dream I'm still 00:20:53.250 --> 00:20:58.170 living it I remember the ceremony the hotels 00:20:58.170 --> 00:21:03.529 we stayed at the things we did even Howard fussing 00:21:03.529 --> 00:21:06.670 constantly fussing with his new car there's there's 00:21:06.670 --> 00:21:09.759 that car again What do you mean, fussing with 00:21:09.759 --> 00:21:15.160 it? Oh, just that he was always polishing it, 00:21:15.279 --> 00:21:18.099 checking this and that. Fussing, that's all. 00:21:18.700 --> 00:21:22.119 And you remember all about the ceremony and the 00:21:22.119 --> 00:21:26.099 hotels and like that? It's all as vivid as if 00:21:26.099 --> 00:21:31.359 it had actually happened. Tell me about the wedding. 00:21:32.170 --> 00:21:35.910 Who married you? Nobody married me, Ed. I imagined... 00:21:35.910 --> 00:21:39.769 Okay, okay. So where did you imagine you got 00:21:39.769 --> 00:21:45.269 married? A little town in Jersey. By a Justice 00:21:45.269 --> 00:21:48.930 of the Peace. What little town? What J .P.? I 00:21:48.930 --> 00:21:51.089 don't know. It was night and we just pulled off 00:21:51.089 --> 00:21:53.950 the Garden State Parkway. Howard had said he 00:21:53.950 --> 00:21:56.849 knew a place, a Justice of the Peace. Okay, okay. 00:21:57.309 --> 00:22:04.390 What about hotels? Well... I remember we stayed 00:22:04.390 --> 00:22:06.910 at the Ambassador in Chicago and the Statler 00:22:06.910 --> 00:22:11.150 in St. Louis, the Beverly in Los Angeles, and... 00:22:11.150 --> 00:22:15.670 Oh. That you, Maggie? Yes, Jen. Well, any calls? 00:22:15.829 --> 00:22:20.609 Well, I... Oh. Uh, hello, Miss Brady. Aren't 00:22:20.609 --> 00:22:22.430 you the policeman who was here last night? Yeah, 00:22:22.430 --> 00:22:24.150 that's right. Uh, you're wondering what I'm doing 00:22:24.150 --> 00:22:27.410 here now, huh? Well, yes, I am. I just, uh, dropped 00:22:27.410 --> 00:22:30.930 in to see how Jen was doing, that's all. Jen? 00:22:32.069 --> 00:22:35.990 I mean, excuse me, Miss Brady. I was never much 00:22:35.990 --> 00:22:38.789 for being formal. Yes, obviously. Have you been 00:22:38.789 --> 00:22:42.230 here long? No, ten minutes or so. Well, I don't 00:22:42.230 --> 00:22:43.690 mean to hurry you, officer, but Jennifer and 00:22:43.690 --> 00:22:45.950 I have an appointment in one hour with her psychiatrist, 00:22:46.150 --> 00:22:49.569 Dr. Sullivan. Say, would that be Dr. Martin Sullivan 00:22:49.569 --> 00:22:53.349 on Park Avenue? No, Dr. Arnold Sullivan on East 00:22:53.349 --> 00:22:57.279 82nd. Oh. You seem terribly interested in Jennifer's 00:22:57.279 --> 00:23:01.059 psychiatrist. Me? Oh, no, no. I just ask a lot 00:23:01.059 --> 00:23:05.779 of questions. I trained myself. You trained yourself? 00:23:06.119 --> 00:23:08.460 You're going to laugh. I know you're going to 00:23:08.460 --> 00:23:12.299 laugh, but would you believe I want to be a detective 00:23:12.299 --> 00:23:15.759 someday? Of course I'd believe it. Why shouldn't 00:23:15.759 --> 00:23:19.240 I? Ask my sergeant. He thinks I'm something else 00:23:19.240 --> 00:23:21.480 wanting to be a detective. He laughs himself 00:23:21.480 --> 00:23:24.329 silly. Well, I certainly wouldn't laugh. I think 00:23:24.329 --> 00:23:26.809 it's commendable. You think I could make it, 00:23:27.009 --> 00:23:31.349 detective? Of course you could. Well, say, that's 00:23:31.349 --> 00:23:33.230 a real shot in the arm. I mean, someone like 00:23:33.230 --> 00:23:36.089 you thinking that someone like me, I mean, just 00:23:36.089 --> 00:23:39.130 a cop and new on the force at that. As I said, 00:23:39.269 --> 00:23:41.349 officer, I don't like to hurry you, but... I'm 00:23:41.349 --> 00:23:44.190 going. Going, Miss Brady. Going right now. Nice 00:23:44.190 --> 00:23:46.970 seeing you again, Jen. I'll show you out. No, 00:23:46.970 --> 00:23:50.130 that's okay. Some detective I'd make if I couldn't 00:23:50.130 --> 00:23:54.109 find the front door. Jennifer, would you answer 00:23:54.109 --> 00:23:59.630 that, please? Of course. Oh, my God. Jennifer, 00:24:00.230 --> 00:24:03.970 what is it? Help me! Oh, my God, Maggie! Ed, 00:24:04.009 --> 00:24:07.849 help me! What? He's there! At the front door, 00:24:07.970 --> 00:24:12.450 he's there! Howard! I'm sorry, is something... 00:24:12.450 --> 00:24:15.630 What was all the trouble? You were dead! Murdered! 00:24:16.079 --> 00:24:18.420 What? Last night after we got home from our honeymoon, 00:24:18.660 --> 00:24:20.960 I found you in your chair stabbed to death. Last 00:24:20.960 --> 00:24:23.859 night, honey? Stab? Maggie, what is this? Jen's 00:24:23.859 --> 00:24:25.740 having another one of her spells, Howard. That's 00:24:25.740 --> 00:24:28.180 all. Oh, I see. What do you mean, you see? You 00:24:28.180 --> 00:24:31.259 see what? We're just... Excuse me. Who are you? 00:24:31.359 --> 00:24:35.200 My name is Ed Helmut. Officer Ed Helmut. I'm 00:24:35.200 --> 00:24:37.720 a cop. A cop? Howard, I'll explain later what 00:24:37.720 --> 00:24:40.440 went on here last night. I don't understand this. 00:24:40.640 --> 00:24:42.400 I don't understand it. You're talking to Howard 00:24:42.400 --> 00:24:44.779 as if nothing had happened. Jennifer, nothing 00:24:44.779 --> 00:24:48.339 did. He exists. He's standing right here. He 00:24:48.339 --> 00:24:51.000 exists. And last night you acted as if you'd 00:24:51.000 --> 00:24:53.500 never heard of him. As if there was no such person 00:24:53.500 --> 00:24:55.880 as Howard Lansing. I don't remember. You did. 00:24:55.920 --> 00:25:00.700 You did. Stop it! Now stop it! Control yourself! 00:25:01.880 --> 00:25:05.019 Officer, you are leaving. Well, there's some 00:25:05.019 --> 00:25:08.000 questions I better get the answers to. Officer, 00:25:08.059 --> 00:25:10.259 this is a private matter. It's a family affair. 00:25:10.319 --> 00:25:13.119 Well, now that depends on how you look at it. 00:25:14.180 --> 00:25:16.680 Are you Howard Lansing? Of course I'm Howard 00:25:16.680 --> 00:25:18.559 Lansing. Why do you ask such a question? Howard, 00:25:19.619 --> 00:25:22.920 Jen had one of her mental lapses last night. 00:25:23.759 --> 00:25:26.960 She imagined that you and she... We're married 00:25:26.960 --> 00:25:30.279 and that you just come back from your honeymoon. 00:25:30.299 --> 00:25:32.960 Oh good lord. And then during this hallucination 00:25:32.960 --> 00:25:35.740 she thought she had found you with a knife in 00:25:35.740 --> 00:25:38.880 your chest, dead. Oh no, poor little Jenny. She 00:25:38.880 --> 00:25:40.680 ran screaming into the street. Luckily I got 00:25:40.680 --> 00:25:42.640 her back into the house before she caused a disturbance, 00:25:42.660 --> 00:25:44.640 although this officer did hear the screams and 00:25:44.640 --> 00:25:46.119 came to investigate. What did you call Dr. Sullivan? 00:25:46.140 --> 00:25:48.099 Of course, of course I did. He came over but 00:25:48.099 --> 00:25:49.839 there wasn't much he could do except order some 00:25:49.839 --> 00:25:52.619 new sleeping pills. We're seeing him in his office 00:25:52.619 --> 00:25:55.940 at 11 this morning. Just one more question, Mr. 00:25:56.119 --> 00:25:59.599 Lansing. Yes? Just where do you fit in here? 00:25:59.720 --> 00:26:03.440 I mean, who are you? To the family, I mean. I'm 00:26:03.440 --> 00:26:05.839 Miss Brady's fiancee. Margaret, not Jennifer. 00:26:06.640 --> 00:26:11.960 Oh. I see. No. No, I'm afraid you don't see. 00:26:11.980 --> 00:26:15.279 Not all of it. Look, since we've gone this far, 00:26:15.359 --> 00:26:18.740 you might as well know the rest of it. Jennifer 00:26:18.740 --> 00:26:22.410 has always had a... Well a thing for Howard. 00:26:22.430 --> 00:26:24.329 She's not jealous that he's going to marry me 00:26:24.329 --> 00:26:26.910 and not her don't think that but the whole situation 00:26:26.910 --> 00:26:30.369 has been a Severe strain on her a very severe 00:26:30.369 --> 00:26:32.470 strike almost certainly That's why her hallucination 00:26:32.470 --> 00:26:34.750 last night took the form that it did thinking 00:26:34.750 --> 00:26:36.390 she'd been married to me and all the rest of 00:26:36.390 --> 00:26:43.210 it Yeah, that makes sense Well I'll be on my 00:26:43.210 --> 00:26:50.039 way Hey, hey, hey now you you take it easy And 00:26:50.039 --> 00:26:53.339 me, if it's okay with you, I'm gonna be in touch. 00:26:55.099 --> 00:27:03.579 I'll see my way out. Hey. Hey, Mr. Lansing. You 00:27:03.579 --> 00:27:06.440 have got a little red sports car. Well, yes, 00:27:06.519 --> 00:27:09.559 that's it. Parked at the curb. Why? Well, Jen, 00:27:10.160 --> 00:27:13.220 Miss Brady, she seemed to make a big thing out 00:27:13.220 --> 00:27:16.039 of it. On the honeymoon that didn't happen, I 00:27:16.039 --> 00:27:20.640 mean. Big thing? Well, what I mean, she said 00:27:20.640 --> 00:27:23.119 you were always fussing with it, polishing it 00:27:23.119 --> 00:27:25.000 and like that. Sure looks as if you do. Well, 00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:28.339 I do. I'm a sports car buff if you want to know. 00:27:28.819 --> 00:27:31.740 Wish I could own a car like that. Put on a cop's 00:27:31.740 --> 00:27:35.059 salary. You had it long? Two or three months. 00:27:35.640 --> 00:27:38.640 How many miles you put on it? You ask a lot of 00:27:38.640 --> 00:27:41.700 questions. Just interested, that's all. Close 00:27:41.700 --> 00:27:44.160 to 10 ,000, I think. Well, that's a lot of miles 00:27:44.160 --> 00:27:46.460 in three months. I do a lot of driving. Your 00:27:46.460 --> 00:27:49.819 business, huh? No, I don't work. Don't have to. 00:27:50.279 --> 00:27:53.200 Just like to drive. Short trips, but they add 00:27:53.200 --> 00:27:56.900 up. If I had a car like that, I'd go for long 00:27:56.900 --> 00:28:00.380 trips, like cross -country. Well, maybe someday 00:28:00.380 --> 00:28:02.980 I will, but so far I haven't had the interest. 00:28:03.900 --> 00:28:12.039 Yeah. Well, see you. Bye. Where is she? Upstairs, 00:28:12.380 --> 00:28:15.039 changing for appointment with Sullivan. I don't 00:28:15.039 --> 00:28:17.900 like this, Maggie. You don't like it. You don't 00:28:17.900 --> 00:28:20.700 like it! All the stupid things walking in here 00:28:20.700 --> 00:28:22.500 when that cop was here. How did I know he was 00:28:22.500 --> 00:28:25.200 here? To come to that, why did you let her run 00:28:25.200 --> 00:28:26.579 screaming into the street last night? Howard, 00:28:26.619 --> 00:28:28.660 come to your senses. Was there any other way? 00:28:29.180 --> 00:28:32.019 No, I guess there wasn't. I'm afraid we're going 00:28:32.019 --> 00:28:34.079 to have to move faster than we planned. Why? 00:28:34.859 --> 00:28:38.599 That young cop's pretty nosy. Come over here 00:28:38.599 --> 00:28:50.019 to the window. What? Look down there. What the 00:28:50.019 --> 00:28:53.000 hell is he doing? He's measuring the size of 00:28:53.000 --> 00:28:55.480 your car from front to back wheels. What's he 00:28:55.480 --> 00:28:57.980 doing that for? I don't know. He's doing it. 00:28:58.119 --> 00:29:02.859 I don't like it. No, Howard, we won't commit 00:29:02.859 --> 00:29:06.599 Jennifer now. Well, if we don't commit her, what 00:29:06.599 --> 00:29:18.200 will we do with her? Kill her. Clearly Maggie 00:29:18.200 --> 00:29:22.339 and Howard faked his murder. But how could they 00:29:22.339 --> 00:29:25.900 have managed it? And how will they kill Jennifer? 00:29:27.259 --> 00:29:42.359 We'll return shortly with Act 3. Were you as 00:29:42.359 --> 00:29:44.619 shocked as I to discover that Howard Lansing 00:29:44.619 --> 00:29:49.349 is very much alive? I can't fathom it, can you? 00:29:50.329 --> 00:29:53.490 No more than, well, ten minutes could have passed 00:29:53.490 --> 00:29:55.690 between the time Jennifer saw him slumped in 00:29:55.690 --> 00:29:58.609 that chair with a knife in his chest, blood all 00:29:58.609 --> 00:30:01.250 over everything, and the time Officer Helmut 00:30:01.250 --> 00:30:05.450 entered the room to find no body, no blood, nothing 00:30:05.450 --> 00:30:08.589 to indicate that a murder had taken place. It 00:30:08.589 --> 00:30:10.650 would have been impossible for Howard Lansing 00:30:10.650 --> 00:30:13.349 and Margaret Brady to restore perfect order to 00:30:13.349 --> 00:30:16.579 that room in so short a time. Even to Howard's 00:30:16.579 --> 00:30:19.640 clothes and luggage no longer in the closet a 00:30:19.640 --> 00:30:24.720 bone -dry bathtub and the rest of it Got me puzzled 00:30:24.720 --> 00:30:28.599 Well, we'll soon have the answer as we rejoin 00:30:28.599 --> 00:30:31.500 Maggie and Howard killer. There's nothing else 00:30:31.500 --> 00:30:34.220 we can do We can do what we planned originally 00:30:34.220 --> 00:30:37.400 commit it won't work. Not now. Why not? Your 00:30:37.400 --> 00:30:39.259 answer is right out there in the street. The 00:30:39.259 --> 00:30:43.559 cop was just finished measuring your car No, 00:30:43.700 --> 00:30:46.690 what's he doing? Quite obviously getting into 00:30:46.690 --> 00:30:48.829 your car. I think I'd better get out there and 00:30:48.829 --> 00:30:50.869 see what he's up to. I was just about to suggest 00:30:50.869 --> 00:30:56.950 it, Howard. Officer, what are you doing in my 00:30:56.950 --> 00:31:00.230 car? Oh, say, Mr. Lansing. Say, I hope you don't 00:31:00.230 --> 00:31:03.130 mind. Like I told you, I want to own a little 00:31:03.130 --> 00:31:06.109 sports car like this myself someday. Well, I 00:31:06.109 --> 00:31:08.529 just couldn't help sitting behind the wheel. 00:31:08.700 --> 00:31:10.299 Say, I hope you don't mind. As a matter of fact, 00:31:10.339 --> 00:31:13.519 I do mind. Oh, well, say, please excuse me. I 00:31:13.519 --> 00:31:15.400 just kind of flip over a car like this, that's 00:31:15.400 --> 00:31:17.299 all. Is that why you were measuring the wheelbase? 00:31:18.140 --> 00:31:22.039 Measuring? Oh, that! Yes, that. I saw you from 00:31:22.039 --> 00:31:24.759 the window. Yeah, well, now I tell you, I want 00:31:24.759 --> 00:31:27.680 to get to be a detective someday, see? And I'm 00:31:27.680 --> 00:31:31.319 studying, like fingerprints and stains and like 00:31:31.319 --> 00:31:34.240 that, and measuring. Now, measuring things is 00:31:34.240 --> 00:31:37.099 important, very important. You'd be surprised 00:31:37.099 --> 00:31:40.859 how important measuring things is. So, I take 00:31:40.859 --> 00:31:43.299 every opportunity to measure things. Ah, yes. 00:31:43.339 --> 00:31:45.740 Well... Like last night. Were you here last night? 00:31:46.140 --> 00:31:49.059 No, I was not here last night. Funny. What's 00:31:49.059 --> 00:31:52.500 funny? Well, last night, Jennifer, Miss Brady, 00:31:53.119 --> 00:31:57.180 she set a car. In fact, your car was parked outside 00:31:57.180 --> 00:32:00.259 here. Only it wasn't. I mean, when we looked, 00:32:00.720 --> 00:32:02.759 no car. Well, I just told you that... Yeah, but 00:32:02.759 --> 00:32:06.680 there had been a car. You see it had rained and 00:32:06.680 --> 00:32:08.900 the car was standing out here during the rain 00:32:08.900 --> 00:32:13.319 and left a dry space in the street And I measured 00:32:13.319 --> 00:32:15.940 that too couldn't help myself become a habit, 00:32:16.099 --> 00:32:17.740 you know Well, I fail to see what this has to 00:32:17.740 --> 00:32:22.069 do with any tentacle same wheelbase that car, 00:32:22.289 --> 00:32:24.269 and this one. Look, there are probably thousands 00:32:24.269 --> 00:32:26.630 of sports cars in New York. I'm not saying it 00:32:26.630 --> 00:32:29.210 was the same car. Oh, no, nothing like that. 00:32:29.250 --> 00:32:32.289 I'm only saying the wheelbase was the same. That's 00:32:32.289 --> 00:32:33.930 very interesting, I'm sure, but if you don't 00:32:33.930 --> 00:32:36.130 mind now... Just leaving when you came out. I 00:32:36.130 --> 00:32:37.910 apologize if I have set you getting in behind 00:32:37.910 --> 00:32:39.829 the wheel without permission. That's all right. 00:32:40.049 --> 00:32:46.650 Yeah. Well, goodbye. Oh, by the way... Now what? 00:32:46.910 --> 00:32:52.190 You got 11 ,200... 43 and nine -tenths miles 00:32:52.190 --> 00:32:54.970 on the speedometer. A thousand or so more than 00:32:54.970 --> 00:32:57.190 you said you had. I just thought you'd like to 00:32:57.190 --> 00:32:59.410 know. Thank you. I'm deeply grateful for that 00:32:59.410 --> 00:33:10.279 information. He is up to something, Maggie. What 00:33:10.279 --> 00:33:12.599 else is new? He checked the mileage on the car. 00:33:12.680 --> 00:33:15.779 What of it? Over 11 ,000 miles. I could easily 00:33:15.779 --> 00:33:17.779 have driven from here to LA and back, which I 00:33:17.779 --> 00:33:20.380 did. The mileage shows only how far a car went, 00:33:20.440 --> 00:33:23.339 not where. I'm not worried about your car. I'm 00:33:23.339 --> 00:33:25.980 worried about him nosing around. The quicker 00:33:25.980 --> 00:33:28.000 we kill Jennifer, the better. Look, I didn't 00:33:28.000 --> 00:33:29.640 bargain for anything like murder. Neither did 00:33:29.640 --> 00:33:33.799 I, but that's the way it is. How will you do 00:33:33.799 --> 00:33:38.559 it? How will we do it? Sleeping pills. An overdose, 00:33:38.779 --> 00:33:44.259 that's the simplest. When? Well, tonight. Why 00:33:44.259 --> 00:33:49.359 wait? Oh, Jennifer. Ready for our appointment 00:33:49.359 --> 00:33:52.740 with Dr. Sullivan, I see. Yes, I'll just get 00:33:52.740 --> 00:33:58.980 my coat. Howard? Yes, Jennifer? I'm sorry if 00:33:58.980 --> 00:34:02.579 I... If I've caused you any trouble. Oh, no. 00:34:02.819 --> 00:34:07.759 I'm losing my mind, Howard. I must be. Marrying 00:34:07.759 --> 00:34:10.239 you, our honeymoon trip across country, returning 00:34:10.239 --> 00:34:15.099 last night, finding you dead. It was all so real. 00:34:16.000 --> 00:34:21.760 So real. And yet it wasn't. It never happened. 00:34:25.280 --> 00:34:29.159 Oh, Howard, I just can't go on like this much 00:34:29.159 --> 00:34:32.539 longer. You won't, Jennifer. Believe me, you 00:34:32.539 --> 00:34:42.780 won't. Uh, you sure of that? Did you check all 00:34:42.780 --> 00:34:45.880 marriage license applications for... And there's 00:34:45.880 --> 00:34:48.380 no Howard Lansing and Jennifer Brady, huh? All 00:34:48.380 --> 00:34:51.119 for you at Beverly Hotel Los Angeles. Uh, right 00:34:51.119 --> 00:34:57.960 there. Okay, sorry I troubled you. Thanks. Uh, 00:34:57.960 --> 00:35:01.659 hello. Yeah. Yeah, how far back did you check 00:35:01.659 --> 00:35:05.849 your guest register? And there's no Mr. And Mrs. 00:35:06.050 --> 00:35:08.289 Howard Lansing. Hey, Ed, another one. The ambassador 00:35:08.289 --> 00:35:10.050 of Chicago. You going on a trip or something, 00:35:10.309 --> 00:35:14.489 man? Thanks. Officer Ed Helmut. Yeah, I think 00:35:14.489 --> 00:35:16.269 I can tell you what you're gonna tell me before 00:35:16.269 --> 00:35:19.590 you tell me. Uh, no record of a Mr. And Mrs. 00:35:19.789 --> 00:35:28.010 Howard Lansing. Yeah. Well, thanks. Hmm. There's 00:35:28.010 --> 00:35:42.920 gotta be a clue. There's gotta be. She's asleep. 00:35:43.940 --> 00:35:47.559 How many pills did you give her? Enough. What's 00:35:47.559 --> 00:35:50.699 the matter, Howard? Why that look on your face? 00:35:51.579 --> 00:35:55.159 I'm a murderer. I'm just beginning to realize 00:35:55.159 --> 00:35:59.000 it. I am a murderer. Not yet, Howard. She won't 00:35:59.000 --> 00:36:01.760 be dead for a while. How can you be so calm? 00:36:02.719 --> 00:36:05.360 You frightened me, Maggie. I've never seen this 00:36:05.360 --> 00:36:07.099 side of you before. You've got to be kidding. 00:36:07.159 --> 00:36:09.500 All the time we spent planning this. To commit 00:36:09.500 --> 00:36:11.980 her, not murder her. What's the difference? We're 00:36:11.980 --> 00:36:15.019 not doing all this for peanuts, you know. We 00:36:15.019 --> 00:36:16.579 inherited a million and a half dollars from my 00:36:16.579 --> 00:36:18.039 father, Jennifer, and I. You and I will have 00:36:18.039 --> 00:36:21.639 all of it once she... Who could that be? I'll 00:36:21.639 --> 00:36:25.000 see. Wait. No, I guess we can't pretend no one's 00:36:25.000 --> 00:36:27.000 at home. The lights are all on. And my car's 00:36:27.000 --> 00:36:33.460 parked out front. Oh, it's you. Okay, if I come 00:36:33.460 --> 00:36:37.980 in, Mr. Lansing? Oh, well, now I... Thanks. Rotten 00:36:37.980 --> 00:36:40.780 night out there. Just plain rotten. It's, uh... 00:36:40.780 --> 00:36:44.880 It's Officer Helmut, Maggie. Yes, so I see. Getting 00:36:44.880 --> 00:36:47.300 to be a regular visitor, aren't you? To be honest 00:36:47.300 --> 00:36:49.840 with you, Miss Brady, it's a real nasty night, 00:36:50.360 --> 00:36:52.260 and walking a beat. I didn't think you'd mind 00:36:52.260 --> 00:36:54.800 if I came in for a few minutes. Also, I wanted 00:36:54.800 --> 00:36:57.000 to see how Jen's getting along. Jen is getting 00:36:57.000 --> 00:36:59.099 along very well, if it's any concern of yours, 00:36:59.179 --> 00:37:01.460 which it is not. Oh, well, I only... Officer 00:37:01.460 --> 00:37:03.880 Helmut, circumstances beyond my control brought 00:37:03.880 --> 00:37:06.099 you into this house last night, but I do control 00:37:06.099 --> 00:37:08.730 whether you'll keep coming here like this. Please 00:37:08.730 --> 00:37:11.269 leave oh well now wait a minute miss Brady I 00:37:11.269 --> 00:37:13.329 I like your sister, and I have reason to think 00:37:13.329 --> 00:37:16.190 she likes me Now now now wait in a wait a second 00:37:16.190 --> 00:37:18.849 just wait a second I also think she needs somebody 00:37:18.849 --> 00:37:22.650 like me somebody to lean on to protect it And 00:37:22.650 --> 00:37:25.550 further than that I'm here on official business 00:37:25.550 --> 00:37:27.969 official business. I'm placing you both under 00:37:27.969 --> 00:37:31.989 arrest on a charge of Where is Jen? That's no 00:37:31.989 --> 00:37:33.909 business of yours. What's all this about? Where 00:37:33.909 --> 00:37:36.449 is she? She is upstairs asleep, if you must know. 00:37:36.690 --> 00:37:38.789 Asleep? At eight o 'clock at night? She took 00:37:38.789 --> 00:37:40.969 a couple of sleeping pills. Where are you going? 00:37:41.250 --> 00:37:43.369 How dare you go up there? Maggie, Maggie, my 00:37:43.369 --> 00:37:46.289 God. Don't lose it now. But he'll know. He'll 00:37:46.289 --> 00:37:48.269 know she took an overdose. That's all he will 00:37:48.269 --> 00:37:50.449 know. He will know that we gave it to her. He's 00:37:50.449 --> 00:37:53.849 arresting us. For what? On what charge? Whatever 00:37:53.849 --> 00:37:55.409 it is, he'll never make it stick. We've covered 00:37:55.409 --> 00:37:58.809 our tracks too well for the law to... He's carrying 00:37:58.809 --> 00:38:03.250 her down. It's all right, baby. It's gonna be 00:38:03.250 --> 00:38:11.769 all right. Operator, this is Officer Ed Helmet. 00:38:11.969 --> 00:38:15.610 I want an ambulance sent to 127 Brockhurst, and 00:38:15.610 --> 00:38:19.639 fast. An ambulance? Why an ambulance? An overdose 00:38:19.639 --> 00:38:21.960 of sleeping pills. She took a... She didn't take 00:38:21.960 --> 00:38:24.619 them, buster. They were given to her. Shove down 00:38:24.619 --> 00:38:27.639 her throat, you ask me. I'm changing the charge 00:38:27.639 --> 00:38:30.059 against you two. I'm booking you for attempted 00:38:30.059 --> 00:38:31.840 murder. You must be out of your mind. You're 00:38:31.840 --> 00:38:34.920 as crazy as my sister. Who isn't crazy at all. 00:38:34.980 --> 00:38:37.539 That was a real far -out scene you two tried 00:38:37.539 --> 00:38:39.780 to pull. I gotta hand it to you two. You planned 00:38:39.780 --> 00:38:42.420 it so careful, so good. There wasn't a loophole 00:38:42.420 --> 00:38:44.980 in it. Except one. I don't know what you're talking 00:38:44.980 --> 00:38:48.559 about. You don't, huh? Then let me explain. You 00:38:48.559 --> 00:38:50.960 set the whole thing up, the two of you. The marriage, 00:38:51.139 --> 00:38:53.539 the honeymoon trip across country and back, the 00:38:53.539 --> 00:38:56.059 fake murder and the whole bit. Oh, and you played 00:38:56.059 --> 00:39:00.019 it smart. Very smart. Not a clue. I checked the 00:39:00.019 --> 00:39:02.719 marriage license bureau. No license. Easy enough. 00:39:02.800 --> 00:39:04.320 You could have bribed a clerk to destroy it. 00:39:04.460 --> 00:39:07.000 Now look, you... I checked a few hotels. The 00:39:07.000 --> 00:39:09.619 big ones like the Ambassador, the Beverly in 00:39:09.619 --> 00:39:12.900 Los Angeles. No Mr. and Mrs. Howard Lansing listed. 00:39:13.159 --> 00:39:15.420 A piece of cake. When you registered, you gave 00:39:15.420 --> 00:39:17.199 a different name. You're making yourself look 00:39:17.199 --> 00:39:18.920 like a fool. What you're saying is you could 00:39:18.920 --> 00:39:22.980 find no evidence. Oh, but I did. One little clue 00:39:22.980 --> 00:39:26.099 that neither of you thought about. The car, Mr. 00:39:26.380 --> 00:39:29.460 Lansing. Your pretty little red sports car. I 00:39:29.460 --> 00:39:32.960 don't follow. You will. I told you I found that 00:39:32.960 --> 00:39:35.079 dry space out on the street last night because 00:39:35.079 --> 00:39:38.679 a car, a little sports car like yours, had been 00:39:38.679 --> 00:39:40.239 standing there during the rain. Or it could have 00:39:40.239 --> 00:39:43.019 been anyone's car. Sure. Same size as yours? 00:39:43.500 --> 00:39:46.059 Same wheelbase? But I agree, it could have been 00:39:46.059 --> 00:39:50.460 anyone's. Only it wasn't. It was yours. You want 00:39:50.460 --> 00:39:54.699 to know how I know? We'd be enthralled. I know, 00:39:54.719 --> 00:39:58.960 because last night, that car wasn't parked outside 00:39:58.960 --> 00:40:03.380 this house, but the one next door. I got to wondering 00:40:03.380 --> 00:40:05.920 about that. I kept saying to myself, if it was 00:40:05.920 --> 00:40:09.199 his car, why did he park outside the house next 00:40:09.199 --> 00:40:12.090 door? I came up with the answer today when I 00:40:12.090 --> 00:40:15.789 entered that house. Nobody there. And found fake 00:40:15.789 --> 00:40:19.429 blood all over the upstairs room. A gag knife. 00:40:19.969 --> 00:40:23.010 The kind you attach so it looks like you're stabbed. 00:40:23.789 --> 00:40:26.849 Even your clothes. And your luggage in the closet. 00:40:28.230 --> 00:40:31.829 Mr. Lansing. Oh, God. So you see, if it hadn't 00:40:31.829 --> 00:40:34.230 been for your car, I'd never have realized that 00:40:34.230 --> 00:40:37.190 brownstone houses in a row like these are identical. 00:40:37.820 --> 00:40:40.460 You bought this place or leased it while Jen 00:40:40.460 --> 00:40:42.400 and him were on their honeymoon didn't you miss 00:40:42.400 --> 00:40:45.880 Brady I? Last night when Jen went screaming into 00:40:45.880 --> 00:40:48.059 the street you deliberately let her run into 00:40:48.059 --> 00:40:50.380 the street So you could bring her back to the 00:40:50.380 --> 00:40:54.460 house next door this house and her state wound 00:40:54.460 --> 00:40:56.380 up tight like she was she never realized what 00:40:56.380 --> 00:40:59.639 you were doing as You knew she wouldn't you'll 00:40:59.639 --> 00:41:03.360 have to prove these accusations. I will I can't 00:41:03.360 --> 00:41:05.920 With the one little clue that nails it all down 00:41:05.920 --> 00:41:09.329 at all four corners The little red sports car 00:41:09.329 --> 00:41:11.750 again. What about it? Well, you told me you'd 00:41:11.750 --> 00:41:14.650 never driven across country I never have if you're 00:41:14.650 --> 00:41:16.349 thinking of a mileage on the car that proves 00:41:16.349 --> 00:41:19.849 nothing. Well not the mileage mr. Lansing the 00:41:19.849 --> 00:41:23.469 servicing servicing you had it serviced at the 00:41:23.469 --> 00:41:27.170 Beverly Hotel in Los Angeles a lube job oil change 00:41:27.170 --> 00:41:30.110 new filter the works and Like they do at all 00:41:30.110 --> 00:41:32.170 service stations. They slapped a little sticker 00:41:32.170 --> 00:41:35.380 on the door jam That little sticker that carries 00:41:35.380 --> 00:41:37.539 the name and address of the service station. 00:41:38.260 --> 00:41:40.659 That little sticker that practically nobody ever 00:41:40.659 --> 00:41:45.059 notices. Anyhow, you didn't. And it says, Beverly 00:41:45.059 --> 00:41:49.340 Hotel Service Station. Los Angeles, California. 00:41:50.460 --> 00:42:00.480 Date and all. Easy, Chan. Easy. You're gonna 00:42:00.480 --> 00:42:05.320 be okay. From here on in you're gonna be just 00:42:05.320 --> 00:42:14.699 fine Must have been a costly business buying 00:42:14.699 --> 00:42:18.260 or leasing that identical brownstone house and 00:42:18.260 --> 00:42:21.760 furnishing exactly like the one next door But 00:42:21.760 --> 00:42:25.460 then Maggie had all the money in the world What 00:42:25.460 --> 00:42:41.190 thought she did? I'll return shortly Yes, like 00:42:41.190 --> 00:42:45.050 a spider's web, so strong and yet so weak, the 00:42:45.050 --> 00:42:49.070 human brain can be broken. But happily, again, 00:42:49.230 --> 00:42:52.889 like the spider's web, it can be repaired, as 00:42:52.889 --> 00:42:56.590 good as new. Our cast included Lois Nettleton, 00:42:56.989 --> 00:43:00.829 Tony Roberts, Terry Keen, and Norman Rose. The 00:43:00.829 --> 00:43:02.829 entire production was under the direction of 00:43:02.829 --> 00:43:06.210 Hyman Brown. This is E .G. Marshall inviting 00:43:06.210 --> 00:43:09.019 you to return to our Mystery Theatre. for another 00:43:09.019 --> 00:43:14.000 adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant 00:43:14.000 --> 00:43:14.659 dreams.