WEBVTT 00:00:18.890 --> 00:00:26.809 Come in. Welcome. I'm E .G. Marshall. Welcome 00:00:26.809 --> 00:00:31.109 to the sound of suspense. To the fear you can 00:00:31.109 --> 00:00:35.289 hear. To the world of terrifying imagination. 00:00:36.829 --> 00:00:41.829 They say, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. 00:00:41.990 --> 00:00:46.170 And perhaps it's true. But the question is, how 00:00:46.170 --> 00:00:50.710 long? How long can that fury endure? How long 00:00:50.710 --> 00:00:55.549 can the passions burn? Well, Miss Charity Youngblood 00:00:55.549 --> 00:00:58.950 was left waiting at the church some 200 years 00:00:58.950 --> 00:01:06.030 ago, and she still isn't over it. Sheriff's office, 00:01:06.189 --> 00:01:10.349 Deputy Palmer speaking. Sheriff, I, uh, there's 00:01:10.349 --> 00:01:13.530 someone who wants to murder me. Yes, sir. Your 00:01:13.530 --> 00:01:20.280 name, sir? it is well I hesitate to give you 00:01:20.280 --> 00:01:23.700 my name because because you might think I'm I'm 00:01:23.700 --> 00:01:27.340 unbalanced now why would I think that because 00:01:27.340 --> 00:01:30.260 of the peculiar circumstances involved why don't 00:01:30.260 --> 00:01:54.989 you let me be the judge of that I want to kill 00:01:54.989 --> 00:02:26.069 you. was written especially for the Mystery Theatre 00:02:26.069 --> 00:02:31.490 by Sam Dan and stars Michael Tolan. I'll be back 00:02:31.490 --> 00:02:48.090 shortly with Act One. Sometimes a few notes of 00:02:48.090 --> 00:02:51.030 an incomplete melody may steal through your head. 00:02:51.610 --> 00:02:55.699 It isn't like any tune you know, and yet you've 00:02:55.699 --> 00:03:00.400 heard it before. For no reason a name, a noise, 00:03:00.719 --> 00:03:04.439 an aroma may evoke a dim and distant memory. 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:08.599 A memory of a place you cannot clearly remember, 00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:12.219 but it's a place you cannot completely forget. 00:03:13.180 --> 00:03:17.979 A great poet said, life is a dream, and even 00:03:17.979 --> 00:03:24.389 dreams are dreams. Perhaps. But sooner or later, 00:03:24.669 --> 00:03:28.990 there must be an awakening for every dream. And 00:03:28.990 --> 00:03:32.349 for Rexford Patterson, there was a rudest awakening 00:03:32.349 --> 00:03:37.650 of all. Hey, Patterson, wake up. Your lawyer's 00:03:37.650 --> 00:03:43.449 here. Huh? What? Your lawyer's here. Lawyer? 00:03:44.330 --> 00:03:48.909 Why? What? What do I want a lawyer for? Where 00:03:48.909 --> 00:03:54.000 am I? You're in a jailhouse. Jail house, how 00:03:54.000 --> 00:03:57.939 did I get I? Demand to see a lawyer mister. No 00:03:57.939 --> 00:04:00.719 sooner said than done. He's all yours counselor. 00:04:01.139 --> 00:04:04.340 All right sheriff You would leave us bang on 00:04:04.340 --> 00:04:08.360 the door when you want out counselor Who are 00:04:08.360 --> 00:04:12.879 you? Why am I in here? My name is Peter Evans. 00:04:12.879 --> 00:04:16.660 I'm an attorney. I Was retained by the university 00:04:16.660 --> 00:04:20.100 on your behalf. Why do I need a lawyer? Why? 00:04:21.610 --> 00:04:24.290 Well, you're going to be tried for murder. Who 00:04:24.290 --> 00:04:29.470 is? You are. But... but that's impossible. You 00:04:29.470 --> 00:04:36.350 don't remember? Murder? Murder? No. According 00:04:36.350 --> 00:04:39.470 to the sheriff, you were found unconscious on 00:04:39.470 --> 00:04:41.470 the floor of your study and she'd been shot. 00:04:41.970 --> 00:04:49.089 Who? Your fiance. Charity? I... I killed Charity? 00:04:49.170 --> 00:04:52.089 No, no, no, no. Madeleine... Betty, your fiance, 00:04:52.350 --> 00:04:56.149 Madeleine Betty Powers. Who's Charity? Charity. 00:04:56.629 --> 00:05:00.930 Charity Youngblood. She was my fiance. You had 00:05:00.930 --> 00:05:05.810 two of them? Look, we know you were engaged to 00:05:05.810 --> 00:05:09.350 Madeleine Betty Powers. Now you say you were 00:05:09.350 --> 00:05:14.329 also engaged to a Miss Charity Youngblood? Yes. 00:05:15.769 --> 00:05:19.069 Well, what happened to that engagement? I broke 00:05:19.069 --> 00:05:24.269 it. Was the parting amicable? No. How did Miss 00:05:24.269 --> 00:05:27.310 Youngblood take it? She was... She was hurt. 00:05:27.610 --> 00:05:31.470 Angry. She was violent. What do you mean, uh... 00:05:31.470 --> 00:05:34.509 violent? She swore she would make me regret it. 00:05:34.629 --> 00:05:37.389 She swore she would have her revenge. Can you 00:05:37.389 --> 00:05:41.990 prove any of this? Oh, yes. How? I have it in 00:05:41.990 --> 00:05:45.610 writing. Well, this may throw a new light on 00:05:45.610 --> 00:05:48.910 the case. When did you break your engagement 00:05:48.910 --> 00:05:56.529 to Miss Youngblood? When? About 200 years ago. 00:05:56.689 --> 00:06:01.850 Good. You see, if we can produce written evidence... 00:06:01.850 --> 00:06:05.810 When did you say you broke this engagement? I... 00:06:05.810 --> 00:06:08.649 I was killed at the Battle of Monmouth in 78. 00:06:09.910 --> 00:06:14.129 And three years before that would be the early 00:06:14.129 --> 00:06:18.629 spring of 1775. Allow me to suggest the only 00:06:18.629 --> 00:06:21.910 plea that will save you. insanity. No, I will 00:06:21.910 --> 00:06:24.230 insist that we plead the truth. What is the truth? 00:06:24.470 --> 00:06:27.730 Self -defense. I killed Charity Youngblood in 00:06:27.730 --> 00:06:34.029 self -defense. All right, look. Now, you may 00:06:34.029 --> 00:06:35.970 have killed Miss Youngblood in self -defense 00:06:35.970 --> 00:06:39.170 200 years ago, but that's over. It's gone. It's 00:06:39.170 --> 00:06:43.449 done with. Nobody wants you for that. You're 00:06:43.449 --> 00:06:45.389 going to be tried for the murder of Madeline 00:06:45.389 --> 00:06:50.850 Betty Powers. Exactly. Charity Youngblood. Is 00:06:50.850 --> 00:06:54.769 Madeleine Betty Powers? Professor Patterson. 00:06:54.910 --> 00:06:57.529 You're my attorney. I have to tell you the truth. 00:06:57.629 --> 00:07:00.790 But I can't believe it. But I can prove it. Look, 00:07:00.810 --> 00:07:04.089 go. Go to my apartment. In the middle drawer 00:07:04.089 --> 00:07:07.810 of my desk, there's a book. An old book. An old 00:07:07.810 --> 00:07:11.089 leather notebook. Bring it here. You'll see. 00:07:12.189 --> 00:07:24.019 You'll see for yourself. Proof. Read the book? 00:07:25.100 --> 00:07:28.360 Yes. It's a diary kept by a girl named Charity 00:07:28.360 --> 00:07:31.160 Youngblood, daughter of a Connecticut gunsmith 00:07:31.160 --> 00:07:34.220 during the Revolutionary War. She was jilted 00:07:34.220 --> 00:07:36.980 by a young officer named Eli Wallington. Naturally, 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:41.240 she was quite upset about it. But where is the 00:07:41.240 --> 00:07:44.740 proof you promised me? I was that young officer. 00:07:45.660 --> 00:07:48.560 I was Eli Wallington. Look, Professor Patterson, 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:50.480 if I'm to represent you, you'll simply have to 00:07:50.480 --> 00:07:52.439 tell me... The truth. The truth. I know the truth. 00:07:52.750 --> 00:07:55.009 But I tell you the truth and you refuse to believe 00:07:55.009 --> 00:07:57.610 me. It's impossible to believe you. Impossible, 00:07:57.649 --> 00:08:01.250 that's the key word. Well, today's commonplace 00:08:01.250 --> 00:08:04.269 was yesterday's impossibility. People said it 00:08:04.269 --> 00:08:06.949 was impossible to transplant a heart, impossible 00:08:06.949 --> 00:08:09.810 to walk on the moon. You're talking about reincarnation. 00:08:12.089 --> 00:08:15.629 Last summer, I stopped at an antique shop in 00:08:15.629 --> 00:08:18.470 central Connecticut. Heaped high on a counter 00:08:18.470 --> 00:08:23.189 was a pile of old pictures, letters, books. I 00:08:23.189 --> 00:08:24.889 picked up that little notebook, the one you're 00:08:24.889 --> 00:08:29.569 now holding. I read that name. That hand -lettered 00:08:29.569 --> 00:08:34.990 name. Charity Youngblood. And suddenly I felt 00:08:34.990 --> 00:08:37.929 as if... as if I'd been stabbed through the heart. 00:08:38.049 --> 00:08:41.830 I... I knew that name. I knew that name. Please, 00:08:42.049 --> 00:08:44.230 Professor Patterson. No, don't tell me to be 00:08:44.230 --> 00:08:47.350 calm. Don't humor me. Just listen to me. I knew 00:08:47.350 --> 00:08:51.049 that name. I knew the girl. I knew the time. 00:08:51.049 --> 00:08:54.610 I knew the place. It turned to the page where 00:08:54.610 --> 00:08:57.190 she describes how he proposed to her just don't 00:08:57.190 --> 00:09:07.289 see how all of do it This is what you want Monday 00:09:07.289 --> 00:09:11.889 Eli proposed marriage to me this morning. I read 00:09:11.889 --> 00:09:16.870 the name Eli an Electric shock went through my 00:09:16.870 --> 00:09:22.269 system. I knew I was Eli And the entire scene 00:09:22.269 --> 00:09:25.809 ran through my mind. Exactly as she wrote it 00:09:25.809 --> 00:09:37.509 in her diary. Exactly. Good morning, Charity. 00:09:37.909 --> 00:09:41.669 Oh, it's the high and mighty Lieutenant Eli Wallington. 00:09:42.289 --> 00:09:45.529 Come to see my father? Well, that pistol of yours 00:09:45.529 --> 00:09:48.629 isn't ready. I've come to see you, Charity. I've 00:09:48.629 --> 00:09:52.049 been foolish. It doesn't interest. Charity, I 00:09:52.049 --> 00:09:55.070 love you. Oh, yes, you love me. Believe me. Oh, 00:09:55.110 --> 00:09:58.909 I believe you. You love me here. You love me 00:09:58.909 --> 00:10:01.570 now. But tomorrow, you'll be somewhere else. 00:10:01.570 --> 00:10:04.450 You'll see someone else. You'll love someone 00:10:04.450 --> 00:10:07.669 else. Men are fools. We don't realize at first 00:10:07.669 --> 00:10:09.889 how important it is to have a woman who really 00:10:09.889 --> 00:10:14.190 loves us. And you love me. Please go. Marry me, 00:10:14.309 --> 00:10:16.529 Charity. Eli? We'll have the bands on Sunday 00:10:16.529 --> 00:10:19.330 and marry the week after. Now come, close the 00:10:19.330 --> 00:10:21.659 shop. We'll go riding this morning. But I promise 00:10:21.659 --> 00:10:24.799 father... Let's be together this morning. Come 00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:29.419 with me. Eli, you're a scoundrel. Yes, Charity. 00:10:30.340 --> 00:10:34.159 But I'm your scoundrel. You must never forget 00:10:34.159 --> 00:10:46.029 that, Eli. Never forget that. Don't you see, 00:10:46.470 --> 00:10:49.049 as Eli Wallington, I had lived through that scene. 00:10:49.250 --> 00:10:52.730 I knew how I felt. I loved her. How do you know 00:10:52.730 --> 00:10:54.690 you were Eli Wallington? How do we know you're 00:10:54.690 --> 00:10:57.649 Peter Evans? You know, you just know, that's 00:10:57.649 --> 00:11:00.190 all. None of this is proof in a court of law. 00:11:00.350 --> 00:11:05.450 You can read in her diary. It's Sunday. The bands 00:11:05.450 --> 00:11:10.309 were read in the church. But Eli never married 00:11:10.309 --> 00:11:15.220 her. Do you know why? Because charity was right. 00:11:16.120 --> 00:11:19.919 The very next week Eli was somewhere else. He 00:11:19.919 --> 00:11:25.519 saw someone else. He loved someone else. He never 00:11:25.519 --> 00:11:29.080 saw charity again. And three years later he was 00:11:29.080 --> 00:11:32.840 dead at Monmouth. Turn to Charity's diary. See 00:11:32.840 --> 00:11:34.820 what she wrote when she heard the news of Eli's 00:11:34.820 --> 00:11:38.039 death. Here's the evidence you need to defend 00:11:38.039 --> 00:11:48.580 me in court. Read it. This morning, the Reverend 00:11:48.580 --> 00:11:56.919 Fallowfield came into the shop with news. Charity, 00:11:57.799 --> 00:12:03.919 I am told that Eli Wallington has fallen at Monmouth. 00:12:05.080 --> 00:12:08.500 I thought you might wish to know. Thank you, 00:12:08.580 --> 00:12:13.419 Reverend. He died bravely for his country. And 00:12:13.419 --> 00:12:16.710 I hope... You can find it in your heart to forgive 00:12:16.710 --> 00:12:21.570 him. I will not forgive him. Charity. On that 00:12:21.570 --> 00:12:26.629 Sunday, that awful Sunday, I swore I'd kill him. 00:12:26.769 --> 00:12:29.830 But the boy is already dead. He'll live again. 00:12:30.590 --> 00:12:34.909 I'll live again. I'll find him and kill him. 00:12:35.330 --> 00:12:38.590 Give up this frightful hatred before it destroys 00:12:38.590 --> 00:12:41.940 you. He won't escape. If only I could... help 00:12:41.940 --> 00:12:45.340 you charity no one can help me and no one can 00:12:45.340 --> 00:12:53.159 help you somewhere somehow some day I'll have 00:12:53.159 --> 00:13:02.360 my revenge and when I picked up that diary in 00:13:02.360 --> 00:13:06.759 the antique shop mr. Evans I was almost frozen 00:13:06.759 --> 00:13:11.169 with terror I knew I had come back Why shouldn't 00:13:11.169 --> 00:13:17.610 she? But you know something After a while I began 00:13:17.610 --> 00:13:20.169 to laugh at myself why well for the same reason 00:13:20.169 --> 00:13:23.450 you're probably laughing at me After all we live 00:13:23.450 --> 00:13:27.649 in a modern rational 20th century Every night, 00:13:27.830 --> 00:13:31.389 I'd sit alone at home and wait wait for charity 00:13:31.389 --> 00:13:34.809 to come and kill me and Nothing happened. She 00:13:34.809 --> 00:13:37.850 didn't show up. No, and you can't maintain an 00:13:37.850 --> 00:13:42.440 emotional pitch forever And so soon, I... I stopped 00:13:42.440 --> 00:13:46.899 thinking about it. And then one afternoon, I 00:13:46.899 --> 00:13:52.960 was sitting in my study. Come in, it's not locked. 00:13:53.840 --> 00:13:57.200 Good afternoon, Professor Patterson. Uh, yes. 00:13:58.019 --> 00:14:00.759 Let me see, you're Miss... Powers. Madeleine 00:14:00.759 --> 00:14:03.440 Berry Powers. I'm scheduled for conference at 00:14:03.440 --> 00:14:06.320 exactly fifteen hundred hours. Fifteen hundred 00:14:06.320 --> 00:14:09.120 hours? Three p .m. We use this terminology at 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:12.220 the engineering school. Oh, I see. You're an 00:14:12.220 --> 00:14:15.879 engineering major, Miss Powers? Have you any 00:14:15.879 --> 00:14:18.759 objections? Oh, no, certainly not. Professor, 00:14:19.360 --> 00:14:21.820 I require three credits in the humanities for 00:14:21.820 --> 00:14:25.139 my degree. I chose your American history course. 00:14:25.279 --> 00:14:28.720 I am flattered. It was the only one open. You 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:30.840 shouldn't have said that. Oh, I have no interest 00:14:30.840 --> 00:14:34.220 in the dead past, only in the dynamic present. 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:38.919 How can I survive your course? First, show up 00:14:38.919 --> 00:14:41.879 for class, occasionally. Second, don't snort 00:14:41.879 --> 00:14:44.700 too loudly at my lectures. Third, write me a 00:14:44.700 --> 00:14:47.720 term paper. On what subject? Oh, any subject 00:14:47.720 --> 00:14:50.039 related to the Revolutionary War. I know what 00:14:50.039 --> 00:14:53.879 I'll do. I'll write a novel. Miss Powers, what 00:14:53.879 --> 00:14:57.279 are you saying? Yes, a novel. A novel about a 00:14:57.279 --> 00:14:59.720 girl. But Miss Powers, you ask for an easy way 00:14:59.720 --> 00:15:02.480 out. A novel is the most difficult project. You 00:15:02.480 --> 00:15:04.259 know what gave me the idea for it, Professor? 00:15:04.720 --> 00:15:09.110 This antique pistol on your desk. broken down 00:15:09.110 --> 00:15:13.809 rusty old relic just came to me by just looking 00:15:13.809 --> 00:15:18.509 at it I'll write about a girl whose father was 00:15:18.509 --> 00:15:23.210 a gunsmith what what did you say in in one of 00:15:23.210 --> 00:15:26.950 the 13 colonies and Connecticut but miss powers 00:15:26.950 --> 00:15:29.690 do you do you know anything about Connecticut 00:15:29.690 --> 00:15:33.309 during the revolution no no I'll make it up after 00:15:33.309 --> 00:15:37.259 all it's a novel have you ever Been to Connecticut 00:15:37.259 --> 00:15:41.740 no never in my life now the girl the heroine 00:15:41.740 --> 00:15:46.580 of my novel will be beautiful sexy I can see 00:15:46.580 --> 00:15:51.679 her I Can just see what she looks like and her 00:15:51.679 --> 00:15:54.679 name. I even know her name. What is it? I think 00:15:54.679 --> 00:15:57.139 I have a good one and no no don't don't tell 00:15:57.139 --> 00:16:00.759 me Write it down on a piece of paper, but don't 00:16:00.759 --> 00:16:03.379 let me see what you're writing, but please do 00:16:03.379 --> 00:16:09.539 as I ask miss powers all right You've written 00:16:09.539 --> 00:16:15.600 her name? Yes, Professor. Her name is Charity. 00:16:16.919 --> 00:16:21.259 Charity Youngblood. Professor Patterson, how 00:16:21.259 --> 00:16:32.600 did you know? How does he know? Funny how these 00:16:32.600 --> 00:16:37.080 things work out, no? You can never tell. who 00:16:37.080 --> 00:16:41.080 you'll come back as. Devil May Care adventurer 00:16:41.080 --> 00:16:44.820 Eli Warrington becomes a serious, sober professor 00:16:44.820 --> 00:16:49.320 of history. Sexy Charity returns as a budding 00:16:49.320 --> 00:16:53.120 lady scientist, but she still has a mission. 00:16:54.159 --> 00:17:10.910 Murder. We'll return shortly with Act Two. Professor 00:17:10.910 --> 00:17:14.829 Patterson, a quiet teacher of history, is in 00:17:14.829 --> 00:17:19.230 jail, accused of killing his fiancé. He doesn't 00:17:19.230 --> 00:17:22.490 deny it. What he's desperately trying to prove 00:17:22.490 --> 00:17:26.750 is that he killed the one he had 200 years ago. 00:17:27.990 --> 00:17:30.609 Where, where Miss Powers have you heard that 00:17:30.609 --> 00:17:34.450 name, Charity Youngblood, before? Nowhere. I 00:17:34.450 --> 00:17:39.750 made it up. You made it up? Charity sounds like 00:17:39.750 --> 00:17:43.970 a name a girl might have had 200 years ago and 00:17:43.970 --> 00:17:47.170 Youngblood has a kind of colonial quality to 00:17:47.170 --> 00:17:50.069 it Charity Youngblood it just sort of popped 00:17:50.069 --> 00:17:53.130 into my head and it all Everything just came 00:17:53.130 --> 00:17:56.349 to you the whole idea for the novel the heroine 00:17:56.349 --> 00:18:00.430 her name it all Occur to you just now. That's 00:18:00.430 --> 00:18:03.049 right, Professor Patterson. I simply can't account 00:18:03.049 --> 00:18:08.559 for it. It has no scientific basis suddenly I 00:18:08.559 --> 00:18:12.299 have... Feelings that I've never experienced 00:18:12.299 --> 00:18:16.900 before. What sort of feelings? I can't describe 00:18:16.900 --> 00:18:23.599 them. Vague ideas, hazy pictures. Of? But this 00:18:23.599 --> 00:18:28.240 woman, this girl, this charity young blood, she... 00:18:28.240 --> 00:18:31.700 She's a creature of my own imagination. I only 00:18:31.700 --> 00:18:34.960 conjured her up a few moments ago and yet... 00:18:34.960 --> 00:18:37.960 She's... seems to be alive. Give it up, Miss 00:18:37.960 --> 00:18:40.880 Powers. You know, sometimes when you write fiction, 00:18:41.059 --> 00:18:43.079 the character takes over. And unless you're a 00:18:43.079 --> 00:18:45.339 skilled professional author, this can be dangerous. 00:18:46.480 --> 00:18:49.920 Just attend class, look intelligent, and you'll 00:18:49.920 --> 00:18:51.779 pass the course. Well, Professor, that wouldn't 00:18:51.779 --> 00:18:55.660 be ethical. Miss Powers, we'll just let that 00:18:55.660 --> 00:19:54.299 be our secret. I didn't think it would be proper 00:19:54.299 --> 00:19:56.579 for me to go to your apartment at this hour. 00:19:57.000 --> 00:19:59.259 Well, what seems to be the problem, Miss Powers? 00:19:59.400 --> 00:20:04.779 The story. The story? The story of Charity Youngblood. 00:20:05.180 --> 00:20:07.539 Well, I thought we decided to drop it. But that's 00:20:07.539 --> 00:20:11.220 the problem. I can't seem to get it out of my 00:20:11.220 --> 00:20:13.119 mind. Well, I'm sure you... It's taken over. 00:20:13.819 --> 00:20:18.880 I can't think of anything else. Well, I'm obsessed 00:20:18.880 --> 00:20:24.220 by it. This girl. charity young blood I know 00:20:24.220 --> 00:20:31.579 her so well I sometimes think no you'll laugh 00:20:31.579 --> 00:20:38.380 no tell me I sometimes think she's me well of 00:20:38.380 --> 00:20:41.960 course she's you what are you saying well when 00:20:41.960 --> 00:20:44.799 you write fiction every character has to be yourself 00:20:44.799 --> 00:20:47.220 in one form or another no no it's more than that 00:20:47.220 --> 00:20:53.069 it's a feeling in my bones I seem to have an 00:20:53.069 --> 00:20:58.869 urge to do something. What? I don't know, but 00:20:58.869 --> 00:21:02.170 I keep writing. Now I've written 20 pages so 00:21:02.170 --> 00:21:05.190 far and most of the time it doesn't even seem 00:21:05.190 --> 00:21:08.089 that I'm the one who's doing the writing. I get 00:21:08.089 --> 00:21:12.250 the feeling that I'm just holding the pen and 00:21:12.250 --> 00:21:17.490 my hand is being guided. I'd like you to read 00:21:17.490 --> 00:21:20.109 what I've written so far. Please. Miss Powers, 00:21:20.490 --> 00:21:24.470 you've been working too hard. No. No. I just... 00:21:24.470 --> 00:21:28.170 I just feel that something is happening to me. 00:21:28.210 --> 00:21:33.269 I seem to feel I have some sort of mission. What 00:21:33.269 --> 00:21:37.190 kind of mission? Well, I don't know. But every 00:21:37.190 --> 00:21:41.109 day I feel it's becoming clearer. But I still 00:21:41.109 --> 00:21:54.079 have no idea what it is. and she would hand me 00:21:54.079 --> 00:21:57.539 a chapter of her novel. And that novel will win 00:21:57.539 --> 00:22:00.799 me acquittal in court. Why? Because each chapter 00:22:00.799 --> 00:22:04.400 is word for word a day in Charity Youngblood's 00:22:04.400 --> 00:22:08.039 original diary, in Madeleine Betty's own handwriting. 00:22:08.279 --> 00:22:13.420 Where's that novel now? In my desk. I did everything 00:22:13.420 --> 00:22:16.640 I could to get her to stop writing, hoping that 00:22:16.640 --> 00:22:19.980 somehow I could get her mind off it. But of course, 00:22:20.000 --> 00:22:23.160 that was useless. After all, if she really was 00:22:23.160 --> 00:22:25.380 Charity Youngblood, and there was no doubt in 00:22:25.380 --> 00:22:28.339 my mind about it, nothing would stop her from 00:22:28.339 --> 00:22:31.480 finding it out. And every day she was getting 00:22:31.480 --> 00:22:39.960 closer. Not just to Charity, but to me. Professor, 00:22:40.519 --> 00:22:44.599 I decided to give Charity a love interest. We're 00:22:44.599 --> 00:22:47.480 about to have the war, and I've created a young 00:22:47.480 --> 00:22:50.160 cavalry officer of the Connecticut Brigade. I 00:22:50.160 --> 00:22:55.799 have a name for him. Eli Wallington. Eli... Wallington? 00:22:56.279 --> 00:22:58.859 Yes. Miss Powers, you've already written more 00:22:58.859 --> 00:23:01.039 than enough to earn a good grade. It's already 00:23:01.039 --> 00:23:02.960 longer than the average term paper. Oh, but I 00:23:02.960 --> 00:23:05.240 have to finish. Why? This whole thing started 00:23:05.240 --> 00:23:06.940 as a term project and it's far... It may have 00:23:06.940 --> 00:23:09.759 started that way, but now it's... it's something 00:23:09.759 --> 00:23:12.619 that belongs to me and I can't help it. I have 00:23:12.619 --> 00:23:16.480 to keep writing until... Until? Until something 00:23:16.480 --> 00:23:20.480 happens. What? What? It's supposed to happen. 00:23:21.079 --> 00:23:26.279 I don't know. But I'm afraid. I'm very much afraid. 00:23:31.359 --> 00:23:35.000 I was afraid too, Mr. Evans. Afraid that at any 00:23:35.000 --> 00:23:37.660 time she would suddenly realize that she wanted 00:23:37.660 --> 00:23:40.559 to kill me. But surely you realized. You mean 00:23:40.559 --> 00:23:43.279 I had nothing to be afraid of? Suppose someone's 00:23:43.279 --> 00:23:46.039 determined to kill you and you know it. You tell 00:23:46.039 --> 00:23:50.200 me. You know what I think. Although it's academic 00:23:50.200 --> 00:23:53.319 now. I think you should have gone to a psychiatrist. 00:23:53.740 --> 00:23:57.440 I did. I went to the top. I went to the head 00:23:57.440 --> 00:23:59.460 of the Department of Psychiatry at the University 00:23:59.460 --> 00:24:10.779 Hospital. All right. Now... Let us see if we 00:24:10.779 --> 00:24:14.700 can delve into the core of these hallucinations. 00:24:14.740 --> 00:24:17.079 No, let's not, Dr. Laffer. You see, these are 00:24:17.079 --> 00:24:20.339 not hallucinations. No. No. These are matters 00:24:20.339 --> 00:24:24.099 of fact. I know them to be true. You're talking 00:24:24.099 --> 00:24:28.980 about reincarnation. Yes. And you obviously don't 00:24:28.980 --> 00:24:32.319 believe in it. That's hardly the point. It may 00:24:32.319 --> 00:24:36.220 exist, for all I know. However, if it does... 00:24:36.269 --> 00:24:39.269 And we have no way of knowing who we were in 00:24:39.269 --> 00:24:42.230 a past lifetime. Perhaps we had no way of knowing. 00:24:42.750 --> 00:24:45.470 Perhaps today, with heightened powers of communication, 00:24:46.109 --> 00:24:49.109 perhaps our modern scientific technology has 00:24:49.109 --> 00:24:53.910 upset certain natural balances. Whatever. The 00:24:53.910 --> 00:24:58.329 fact is, I know. If you know, you know. What 00:24:58.329 --> 00:25:01.349 do you want me to do? Suggest a way I can live 00:25:01.349 --> 00:25:04.420 with it. I'm afraid I... don't understand if 00:25:04.420 --> 00:25:07.900 a man was an alcoholic or a drug addict or or 00:25:07.900 --> 00:25:10.240 a gambler and he said to you this is what's wrong 00:25:10.240 --> 00:25:13.160 with me how do I live with it what would you 00:25:13.160 --> 00:25:18.039 tell him you are oversimplifying I am a I'll 00:25:18.039 --> 00:25:23.099 coin the word reincarnate how do I live with 00:25:23.099 --> 00:25:28.440 it especially since my life is in danger very 00:25:28.440 --> 00:25:34.170 well Why is your life in danger? I told you Charity 00:25:34.170 --> 00:25:37.150 Youngblood wants her revenge and she's here in 00:25:37.150 --> 00:25:39.450 the person of Madeline Betty Powers to exact 00:25:39.450 --> 00:25:44.309 it Don't you see what you must do? No This is 00:25:44.309 --> 00:25:47.690 all within the framework you yourself have created 00:25:47.690 --> 00:25:51.690 If you remove the motive you can prevent the 00:25:51.690 --> 00:25:54.529 crime I still don't know if she wants to kill 00:25:54.529 --> 00:25:58.579 you because you killed her All you have to do 00:25:58.579 --> 00:26:04.359 is give her satisfaction. How? Marry her. Marry 00:26:04.359 --> 00:26:09.140 her? Marry Madeline Betty? She's hardly my type. 00:26:09.880 --> 00:26:14.220 You're 32 years old. You're not married. Are 00:26:14.220 --> 00:26:21.539 you going with anyone? No, but marry her. How 00:26:21.539 --> 00:26:26.680 do I know she'll have me? Were you once Eli Wallington? 00:26:27.019 --> 00:26:33.279 Yes. Was she once Charity Youngblood? Yes. She'll 00:26:33.279 --> 00:26:44.380 have you. Oh, Professor Patterson, you really 00:26:44.380 --> 00:26:47.180 didn't have to take me to dinner. Well, our conference 00:26:47.180 --> 00:26:49.920 ran late. We have to eat. Well, I mean, to a 00:26:49.920 --> 00:26:52.619 place like this. Well, this is a very nice place. 00:26:52.920 --> 00:26:57.859 Or so I thought. Would you uh, would you care 00:26:57.859 --> 00:27:02.099 to dance? Oh, no thank you. I, I dance rather 00:27:02.099 --> 00:27:05.140 poorly. Oh, I can't believe that. Why can't you 00:27:05.140 --> 00:27:08.500 believe it? Because you're so charming. I don't 00:27:08.500 --> 00:27:11.619 think so. At least no one ever told me that. 00:27:11.920 --> 00:27:17.599 But I think so. Do you? Why? Well, it's, it's 00:27:17.599 --> 00:27:21.089 a subjective thing. I lied to you just now. I 00:27:21.089 --> 00:27:25.509 said I dance poorly. The truth is, I don't dance 00:27:25.509 --> 00:27:29.869 at all. How is that possible? Girls who don't 00:27:29.869 --> 00:27:34.269 get asked usually don't bother to learn. I don't 00:27:34.269 --> 00:27:35.829 know why I'm telling you all this. It's just 00:27:35.829 --> 00:27:40.430 that since the day I met you, I started thinking. 00:27:41.690 --> 00:27:44.930 I don't know how to describe it. What were you 00:27:44.930 --> 00:27:48.980 thinking? Oh, crazy things. That is for me. I 00:27:48.980 --> 00:27:51.859 suddenly wanted to write a book. Why? I'll never 00:27:51.859 --> 00:27:55.299 know. And I began thinking of a girl who lived 00:27:55.299 --> 00:27:58.440 hundreds of years ago in a place I've never heard 00:27:58.440 --> 00:28:03.599 of. I can't understand it. Madeline, Betty, maybe 00:28:03.599 --> 00:28:06.400 I can help you. Would you, Professor Patterson? 00:28:06.779 --> 00:28:13.980 Rex. Once said, call me Rex. Rex. I've also felt 00:28:13.980 --> 00:28:16.000 something since the time you walked into my study 00:28:16.000 --> 00:28:19.619 for conference. And I've been trying to analyze 00:28:19.619 --> 00:28:24.819 it, and I finally discovered what it is. It's 00:28:24.819 --> 00:28:33.579 love. Professor Patterson. Rex. And so I'm asking 00:28:33.579 --> 00:28:42.480 you, I hope that you will marry me. If you're 00:28:42.480 --> 00:28:46.059 going along with what Rex believes, they're playing 00:28:46.059 --> 00:28:50.490 the scene again. Rex and Madeline Betty have 00:28:50.490 --> 00:28:53.910 now reached the point where Eli proposed to Charity. 00:28:54.650 --> 00:28:59.890 Charity said yes, but will Madeline Betty? Yes 00:28:59.890 --> 00:29:03.009 or no will be the first word you will hear when 00:29:03.009 --> 00:29:18.519 we return shortly with Act 3. Eliminate the motive, 00:29:19.359 --> 00:29:22.640 and you prevent the crime. Excellent advice. 00:29:23.420 --> 00:29:26.400 And Rexford Patterson has taken it. He has just 00:29:26.400 --> 00:29:28.839 proposed to Madeline Betty Powers because it's 00:29:28.839 --> 00:29:31.680 the only way he can think of to keep her from 00:29:31.680 --> 00:29:36.539 killing him. And now, she looks at him and says, 00:29:36.720 --> 00:29:41.920 Yes, Professor Patterson. Yes. You can't agree 00:29:41.920 --> 00:29:44.960 to marry a man and call him Professor Patterson. 00:29:45.880 --> 00:29:49.170 Rex! I know. I know it's sudden, Madeline Betty. 00:29:50.150 --> 00:29:52.369 We can get married after you graduate. Oh, I'll 00:29:52.369 --> 00:29:57.509 marry you any time you say... Rex. I love you. 00:29:58.609 --> 00:30:03.690 I love you too. I fell in love with you. I must 00:30:03.690 --> 00:30:09.369 have been at first sight. Why? Why? Because you're 00:30:09.369 --> 00:30:12.210 handsome. I was hoping I had other qualities. 00:30:12.210 --> 00:30:16.109 Oh, you do. I do, but being handsome is part 00:30:16.109 --> 00:30:21.109 of it. Why did you fall in love with me? Because 00:30:21.109 --> 00:30:24.170 you're beautiful. Oh. No, you don't believe it. 00:30:24.190 --> 00:30:29.250 No. Well, I feel beautiful. You make me feel 00:30:29.250 --> 00:30:35.289 beautiful. Oh, Rex. I can't believe this is happening 00:30:35.289 --> 00:30:38.410 to me. It's happening. It's happening to both 00:30:38.410 --> 00:30:40.829 of us. And I'll be such a good wife for you. 00:30:42.089 --> 00:30:48.740 What? What is it? What's the matter? Suddenly 00:30:48.740 --> 00:30:53.160 feels so light, so clear. Well, that's good. 00:30:53.440 --> 00:30:59.140 And different. Different? Yes, different. How? 00:31:00.259 --> 00:31:04.839 The book. You know the novel that I'm writing 00:31:04.839 --> 00:31:09.160 for the course? Yes. All of a sudden, I don't 00:31:09.160 --> 00:31:13.480 want to write it anymore. Why not? I don't know 00:31:13.480 --> 00:31:15.140 how it came into my head in the first place. 00:31:15.400 --> 00:31:20.380 Just as suddenly as it came. It's gone out. Gone 00:31:20.380 --> 00:31:25.319 out? That girl, Charity. Oh, yes, Charity, the 00:31:25.319 --> 00:31:28.180 heroine of your book. Yes, that's her name. Yes, 00:31:28.180 --> 00:31:30.460 I seem to remember. Well, she's gone from my 00:31:30.460 --> 00:31:35.220 mind, too. I simply can't understand how it happened. 00:31:36.039 --> 00:31:40.859 Well, why bother? Yes, that's right. Why bother 00:31:40.859 --> 00:31:46.319 about anything except us? Except you and me. 00:31:54.240 --> 00:31:58.119 So you proposed to a professor and you were accepted. 00:31:58.980 --> 00:32:03.119 She seemed happy. Apparently you were reconciled. 00:32:03.440 --> 00:32:06.279 What was the problem? The problem was, Mr. Evans, 00:32:07.220 --> 00:32:10.059 I didn't really love her. Just as Eli didn't 00:32:10.059 --> 00:32:13.359 really love charity. But within the theory... 00:32:13.230 --> 00:32:15.509 you'd set up. Don't call it theory. It's a fact. 00:32:15.549 --> 00:32:18.210 Oh, whatever. But this is what you had to do. 00:32:18.289 --> 00:32:20.609 You had to marry the girl. And I tried hard. 00:32:21.349 --> 00:32:24.670 But she made it impossible. She was... What did 00:32:24.670 --> 00:32:29.190 she do? Nothing, really. She was just so grateful 00:32:29.190 --> 00:32:32.049 to me. You pay attention to a wallflower and 00:32:32.049 --> 00:32:35.289 what you create for yourself is a clinging vine. 00:32:35.950 --> 00:32:40.230 A vine that can strangle and suffocate you. And 00:32:40.230 --> 00:32:45.450 besides... Yes? Besides, there was Susan Miller. 00:32:52.829 --> 00:32:57.390 Come in, Madeleine Betty. I'm not Madeleine Betty, 00:32:57.990 --> 00:33:02.369 but I came in anyhow. Well, how do you do? Professor 00:33:02.369 --> 00:33:06.829 Patterson? Yes? I'm Susan Miller, of the English 00:33:06.829 --> 00:33:10.049 department. You're new here. Oh, I received my 00:33:10.049 --> 00:33:12.819 teaching appointment last week. Early American 00:33:12.819 --> 00:33:15.519 lit. A favorite field of mine. Well, that's the 00:33:15.519 --> 00:33:19.140 scoop on campus. Anything early American, C. 00:33:19.240 --> 00:33:23.880 Rex Patterson. I just thought we'd chat. Fix 00:33:23.880 --> 00:33:27.839 you a drink? A soft one. Naturally. A diet, if 00:33:27.839 --> 00:33:31.779 you have it. I'm watching my weight. Why? I think 00:33:31.779 --> 00:33:35.740 it's most attractive the way it is. If you think 00:33:35.740 --> 00:33:40.539 so, I'll keep it that way. Did you know that... 00:33:40.619 --> 00:33:43.940 General Burgoyne wrote a play. Yes. It was called 00:33:43.940 --> 00:33:47.000 made of the oaks and it was produced in New York 00:33:47.000 --> 00:33:49.420 during the revolution Yes, and I'll tell you 00:33:49.420 --> 00:33:58.539 who was in the cast And that's how it all started 00:33:58.539 --> 00:34:03.960 mr. Evans easy relaxed delightful There is such 00:34:03.960 --> 00:34:06.900 a thing as love at first sight and it was there 00:34:06.900 --> 00:34:10.130 for both of us, but Madeline Betty Madeleine 00:34:10.130 --> 00:34:13.210 Betty. Well, I knew I had to do something about 00:34:13.210 --> 00:34:16.550 her. Exactly. So you killed her. No. No, that's 00:34:16.550 --> 00:34:18.610 not the reason. You wanted to marry Susan Miller. 00:34:18.650 --> 00:34:21.329 It never reached that point. I mean, we didn't 00:34:21.329 --> 00:34:23.869 get that far. But the prosecution will know about 00:34:23.869 --> 00:34:27.769 Susan Miller. No. They don't have to. No one 00:34:27.769 --> 00:34:32.550 really knew. No one? No one. Except Susan, myself, 00:34:33.449 --> 00:34:57.329 and Madeleine Betty. This is for you, a Miss 00:34:57.329 --> 00:35:01.630 Susan Miller. Oh, oh, thank you, Madeline. Uh, 00:35:01.630 --> 00:35:05.849 yes, Susan? Rex? How about a drive in the country? 00:35:06.309 --> 00:35:10.510 I, um, I have considerable work to do. But I 00:35:10.510 --> 00:35:12.829 thought you had nothing to do all weekend. So 00:35:12.829 --> 00:35:16.070 did I, but, uh, I have this research project. 00:35:16.769 --> 00:35:22.010 I see. Did your project answer the phone? No. 00:35:22.570 --> 00:35:25.789 No, it's nothing like that. Well, maybe we can 00:35:25.789 --> 00:35:30.340 get Together tomorrow. Sure thing. Goodbye. Bye. 00:35:32.320 --> 00:35:36.579 And who is Susan Miller? She teaches here. I'll 00:35:36.579 --> 00:35:39.260 bet. What does she teach? English. You could 00:35:39.260 --> 00:35:43.519 look it up in the catalog. I'm sorry. I'm so 00:35:43.519 --> 00:35:47.019 jealous. Forgive me. You're forgiven. I just... 00:35:47.019 --> 00:35:49.659 I just can't believe my good luck, that's all. 00:35:51.000 --> 00:35:54.760 Rex, you said you'd marry me any time I chose. 00:35:55.239 --> 00:36:00.920 Well... Yes? Well, I choose now. Now? Well, next 00:36:00.920 --> 00:36:04.159 month. I want mother and dad and my sisters and 00:36:04.159 --> 00:36:07.219 I have some cousins. I'd like to see their looks 00:36:07.219 --> 00:36:10.699 on their faces. The first Sunday next month. 00:36:10.739 --> 00:36:13.679 That's almost four weeks from now. Is that all 00:36:13.679 --> 00:36:18.820 right? Well, um... You haven't changed your mind, 00:36:18.940 --> 00:36:25.760 have you? But I had... You changed my mind, Doctor. 00:36:26.420 --> 00:36:28.980 I see. I wish I knew what doctors meant when 00:36:28.980 --> 00:36:32.900 they say, I see. Patterson, you are the one who 00:36:32.900 --> 00:36:36.920 set up the ground rules. You said she was Charity 00:36:36.920 --> 00:36:40.119 Youngblood, reincarnated to have her revenge. 00:36:40.159 --> 00:36:44.800 I know, I know. And using that, I suggested marriage. 00:36:45.659 --> 00:36:48.260 It was your only chance. I realize that, but 00:36:48.260 --> 00:36:52.139 you see, I really don't believe that anymore. 00:36:52.659 --> 00:36:55.119 You don't? I should have listened to you when 00:36:55.119 --> 00:36:59.800 you called it an hallucination. You agree with 00:36:59.800 --> 00:37:04.860 that now? I think I do. What caused this radical 00:37:04.860 --> 00:37:10.980 change? I'm in love. With whom? A woman. A woman? 00:37:11.119 --> 00:37:15.119 Yes, a woman. Not a girl, not an immature neurotic 00:37:15.119 --> 00:37:19.500 girl, but a woman. A woman who is beautiful, 00:37:19.780 --> 00:37:21.820 intelligent, who has everything in common with 00:37:21.820 --> 00:37:25.019 me. who has something to offer me, just as I 00:37:25.019 --> 00:37:30.139 have something to offer her. And what of Madeline 00:37:30.139 --> 00:37:35.239 Betty and or Charity Youngblood? Charity Youngblood 00:37:35.239 --> 00:37:39.960 was an adolescent delusion. You're hardly an 00:37:39.960 --> 00:37:44.519 adolescent. In many respects I was. I fell in 00:37:44.519 --> 00:37:47.480 love with the idea of Charity Youngblood, this 00:37:47.480 --> 00:37:52.500 voluptuous creature, but... Yes. You grow up 00:37:52.500 --> 00:37:56.739 when you meet a real woman. As I said before, 00:37:57.539 --> 00:38:00.320 you're hardly a boy. It takes some of us longer 00:38:00.320 --> 00:38:03.800 than others. And Madeline Betty, what of her? 00:38:05.280 --> 00:38:10.039 She'll have to grow up too. Somehow, all this, 00:38:10.679 --> 00:38:14.480 it doesn't seem fair to her. Life itself is unfair, 00:38:14.719 --> 00:38:20.320 doctor. You make everything seem very neat. Somehow. 00:38:21.130 --> 00:38:24.789 I don't think you'll be able to unwrap the package 00:38:24.789 --> 00:38:35.449 as easily as you think. Why? Why? I told you, 00:38:35.550 --> 00:38:37.670 Madeleine Betty. I told you. But you said you 00:38:37.670 --> 00:38:41.250 loved me. I thought I did. No. Please, Madeleine 00:38:41.250 --> 00:38:43.190 Betty, don't make this difficult for both of 00:38:43.190 --> 00:38:48.730 us. Rex, please. Marry me! No, it wouldn't be 00:38:48.730 --> 00:38:51.710 right! I told everyone, my parents, my sister, 00:38:51.889 --> 00:38:56.550 my friends! Rex, what can I tell them now? Would 00:38:56.550 --> 00:39:00.170 you want us to live a lie? I don't care! Rex, 00:39:00.230 --> 00:39:02.849 why did you do this to me? These things happen! 00:39:02.989 --> 00:39:06.610 You loved because I was here! You went somewhere 00:39:06.610 --> 00:39:10.630 else, you saw someone else, now you love someone 00:39:10.630 --> 00:39:13.690 else! What are you saying? I don't know what 00:39:13.690 --> 00:39:19.860 I'm saying! You'll find someone else too. I'm 00:39:19.860 --> 00:39:23.760 sorry, Rex. I've been speaking to you like a 00:39:23.760 --> 00:39:26.739 fool. You want to break our engagement? Only 00:39:26.739 --> 00:39:30.320 because it would be best for both of us. For 00:39:30.320 --> 00:39:37.159 whatever reason. I won't stand in your way. Excuse 00:39:37.159 --> 00:39:42.860 me. Hello? Rex? Could you... She doesn't have 00:39:42.860 --> 00:39:47.250 to call back. I'm leaving. Before I go Rex I'd 00:39:47.250 --> 00:39:51.829 like to have a memento of us I'll leave you what 00:39:51.829 --> 00:39:55.989 I wrote about charity young blood and um Could 00:39:55.989 --> 00:39:59.250 I have anything Madeline Betty that anything? 00:39:59.269 --> 00:40:04.989 Pistol that old broken antique pistol Certainly 00:40:04.989 --> 00:40:11.750 of course Well, goodbye Eli, what did you say 00:40:11.750 --> 00:40:15.920 nothing? What did you call me? I called you by 00:40:15.920 --> 00:40:26.400 your name. Goodbye. That night, Mr. Evans, she 00:40:26.400 --> 00:40:28.840 left the college. Her roommate called me and 00:40:28.840 --> 00:40:33.820 said Madeline Fetty had disappeared. Didn't you 00:40:33.820 --> 00:40:36.380 feel that perhaps you should investigate? No. 00:40:38.440 --> 00:40:40.639 I... Well, to tell you the truth, I felt relieved. 00:40:41.409 --> 00:40:43.349 I thought she was embarrassed and had decided 00:40:43.349 --> 00:40:46.789 to go somewhere and I... Well, I forgot all about 00:40:46.789 --> 00:40:49.809 her. You forgot? How could you forget? Maybe 00:40:49.809 --> 00:40:54.489 I wanted to forget. Anyway, about a week later, 00:40:55.309 --> 00:41:05.210 I came home. It was late at night. Good evening. 00:41:06.610 --> 00:41:10.710 What? What are you doing here? I have a key. 00:41:10.760 --> 00:41:15.639 Remember? Look, I, uh... What can I do for you? 00:41:15.639 --> 00:41:21.460 Nothing. Ask me what I can do for you. What? 00:41:22.480 --> 00:41:28.500 I can kill you. What are you saying? Yes. I can 00:41:28.500 --> 00:41:33.039 kill you very easily. And I'm going to. Madeline 00:41:33.039 --> 00:41:36.059 Betty, uh... Who are you talking to? My name 00:41:36.059 --> 00:41:42.309 is Charity. Charity? Yes, Eli. Charity. Remember 00:41:42.309 --> 00:41:44.309 Charity? No, you're Madeleine Betty. It's taken 00:41:44.309 --> 00:41:47.949 me such a long time to find you, Eli. Such a 00:41:47.949 --> 00:41:50.849 long time. Listen to me. I'm not Eli. I'm Rex 00:41:50.849 --> 00:41:53.170 Patterson, and you're not Charity. You're Madeleine 00:41:53.170 --> 00:41:56.110 Betty Powers. So talk, Eli. You always could 00:41:56.110 --> 00:41:58.750 do it, but it doesn't go with me anymore. Look, 00:41:58.849 --> 00:42:00.909 Madeleine Betty, I'll have to ask you to leave. 00:42:00.929 --> 00:42:04.849 Oh, I will. After I kill you. No, you can't kill 00:42:04.849 --> 00:42:08.570 me. I can. With this. What are you talking about 00:42:08.570 --> 00:42:11.409 with that rusty old antique pistol? No, not anymore 00:42:11.409 --> 00:42:15.409 I brought it home to father to Isaiah Youngblood's 00:42:15.409 --> 00:42:20.070 gun shop, and I said father Fix this pistol and 00:42:20.070 --> 00:42:23.449 he did you see how he cleaned it and oiled it 00:42:23.449 --> 00:42:27.269 see how it shines now Madeline Betty any closer 00:42:27.269 --> 00:42:31.750 not one step closer See how it sparkles. He gave 00:42:31.750 --> 00:42:35.429 it a new frama and a fresh flint fitted a new 00:42:35.429 --> 00:42:39.219 flash pan and then Primed it, poured in the powder, 00:42:39.679 --> 00:42:42.159 rammed home the ball, and now it's ready to fire! 00:42:42.500 --> 00:42:45.340 Charity, no! No! Get away from me! Take your 00:42:45.340 --> 00:42:50.000 hands off me! Get away from me! No! No! Get away 00:42:50.000 --> 00:42:59.639 from me! Charity, drop it! We struggled for the 00:42:59.639 --> 00:43:02.719 gun, and at the last second, the barrel must 00:43:02.719 --> 00:43:05.800 have turned toward her. And she pulled the trigger. 00:43:07.360 --> 00:43:12.380 And that's your defense. That's my defense. You 00:43:12.380 --> 00:43:14.500 want me to plead that defense? I want you to 00:43:14.500 --> 00:43:17.840 tell the jury exactly what happened, why it happened, 00:43:18.119 --> 00:43:21.000 and the way it happened. Show them the written 00:43:21.000 --> 00:43:24.360 proof. You're sure that's what you want me to 00:43:24.360 --> 00:43:28.659 do? Yes, I'm sure. I'm sure because it's the 00:43:28.659 --> 00:43:39.360 truth. Well, I hope the jury buys it. Would you 00:43:39.360 --> 00:43:42.820 have bought Professor Patterson's story? You 00:43:42.820 --> 00:43:46.679 would. A pity you weren't on the jury. Because 00:43:46.679 --> 00:43:50.659 twelve good men in true, actually six of them 00:43:50.659 --> 00:43:55.019 were women, deliberated for a full week and decided 00:43:55.019 --> 00:43:58.360 that Rex would have to pay the price. Not just 00:43:58.360 --> 00:44:01.639 the price for Madeline Betty, but also, as it 00:44:01.639 --> 00:44:05.659 turned out, the price for charity. I'll be back 00:44:05.659 --> 00:44:21.219 shortly. Can a desire for revenge span the centuries? 00:44:22.800 --> 00:44:26.519 Not a comforting thought, exactly. It's all most 00:44:26.519 --> 00:44:28.559 of us can do to hew to the straight and narrow 00:44:28.559 --> 00:44:31.360 during one lifetime. If we're going to have to 00:44:31.360 --> 00:44:35.019 pay for the sins of other incarnations and existences, 00:44:35.800 --> 00:44:40.780 well, who has the price? But there is no price 00:44:40.780 --> 00:44:44.300 for our next meeting, when we shall enjoy another 00:44:44.300 --> 00:44:48.380 suspenseful experience. Our cast included Michael 00:44:48.380 --> 00:44:52.340 Tolan, Marion Selvidge, E .V. Juster, Ira Lewis, 00:44:52.880 --> 00:44:55.900 and Robert Dryden. The entire production was 00:44:55.900 --> 00:44:59.860 under the direction of Hyman Brown. And now, 00:45:00.260 --> 00:45:06.940 a preview of our next tale. Can we try and uncover 00:45:06.940 --> 00:45:09.880 the rest of the body? Of course. Jimmy, you get 00:45:09.880 --> 00:45:12.340 three or four fellows to help you. Do it carefully, 00:45:12.599 --> 00:45:14.199 please. There's no way of telling the body's 00:45:14.199 --> 00:45:17.309 position. Sure thing, Professor. Oh, this is 00:45:17.309 --> 00:45:20.769 awful. What are we going to do? Don't worry, 00:45:21.110 --> 00:45:23.190 Professor. Ancient bodies are your specialty. 00:45:23.710 --> 00:45:26.170 Fresh ones are mine. Yes, but this is liable 00:45:26.170 --> 00:45:28.349 to stop our work. This place will be crawling 00:45:28.349 --> 00:45:31.130 with police, newsmen, television crews, what 00:45:31.130 --> 00:45:35.269 -all. Really? Why? Is murder a little too common 00:45:35.269 --> 00:45:37.670 to rate that kind of attention? But how do you 00:45:37.670 --> 00:45:40.769 know it is murder? Miss Lathrop, you surprise 00:45:40.769 --> 00:45:44.059 me. A suicide may dig her own grave, but you'd 00:45:44.059 --> 00:45:47.380 hardly expect her to pull the dirt in after her. 00:45:47.539 --> 00:45:52.940 Ah! Look! Look! The hand is attached only to 00:45:52.940 --> 00:45:57.280 bones! To a skeleton! This is E .G. Marshall 00:45:57.280 --> 00:45:59.840 inviting you to return to our mystery theater 00:45:59.840 --> 00:46:04.760 for another adventure in the macabre. Until next 00:46:04.760 --> 00:46:08.420 time. Pleasant dreams?