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August 21, 2025 44 mins
CBS Radio Mystery Theater was a noteworthy attempt to revive in American radio dramas like Inner Sanctum (1941-1952) and Suspense (1942-1962). Radio dramas were widely considered "dead" 12 years prior to this series. CBS Radio Mystery Theater, or simply Mystery Theater, was created by Inner Sanctum creator Himan Brown and ran on CBS from 1974-1982. The show, much like older radio dramas, was introduced by a host (E.G. Marshall in this program), who steers us through the creaking door to start the episode. Many voices from the golden age of radio were featured, including Richard Widmark, Bret Morrison, Agnes Moorehead and many more.

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
I mean welcome. I'm a g Marshall. People say like
father likes. Some people say the apple does not fall
far from the tree. People talk about the sins of
the fathers. If you listen to some people, and you

(00:29):
might logically ask yourself, why bother to try to do
anything or to be anyone? After all, isn't it who
and what your father was? I will determine the course
that you were. Like, Well, if you spend the next
fifty three minutes right here, you might get an insight
into an answer. Who's that? Why did you do here?

(00:54):
Who just heard? How I got here through the window?
Do you want I want to kill?

Speaker 2 (01:01):
You?

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Kill me? Why? I never heard anybody who killed my father? No,
I never killed anybody who killed his memory, her memory,
aheart of him, her memory I could live with. No.
I can't think about him anymore. You who killed him?
For me? Please? Please don't please. Our mystery drama Blood

(01:33):
Will Tell was written especially for the Mystery Theater by
Sam Dan and stars Nathan Adams. It is sponsored in
part by a Bullish Mortar division. I'll do that shortly
with that one. If you hear endless complains, people shake

(01:59):
their it's sadly, they're in a rut. They're slaves to
routine day in day at the same dreary old thing.
Nothing ever happens, really happens. Well, that's how it is
for most people, and the fact of the matter is
that's how most people probably want it. Here we have
Norman Claymore, a very serious gentleman for whom life has

(02:22):
always been well ordered, regular, and on his ent fort.
Norman sits at his death where he works in the
billing department of a Manas corporation. All day he adds
figures on a machine. Is this rewarding? Soul satisfying? Who knows?
It's the sort of thing most people do withness? Well,

(02:44):
take note of the date. It all begins here, I.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
Understand we are mister Norman Playmoor, no little initial? Does
the security number eight nine three nine eight five?

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Well, yeah, that's me.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
I know it's not read to.

Speaker 4 (03:00):
Make a personnel. I'm sorry to disturb you.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Oh well, did you just let me make this anentry?
Peat if I help put the figures down as as
I get the tod understand?

Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah, Well I could have asked you to come over
to personnel, or I would have all we needed the
answered to a single question on your record. Oh, even
your original application for employment. Here, where it says parents
living or dead, you wrote father the deceased, And where
it says cause you wrote did it any.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
To the car? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Well could you specify the owners?

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Could I s bess so far the owners? Yes?

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Put did he die up? I?

Speaker 1 (03:41):
I don't know, but you said unest it must have
been it, I I I don't remember. See I was
only three or four, I think.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
Well, I give me if this sounds forward, that didn't
you ever asked of my house?

Speaker 1 (03:57):
Well, I'm not sure I wanted to know. Why do
you want at all? Oh?

Speaker 3 (04:01):
I assure you it. It isn't merely idle curiosity. We
can we need this information for insurance.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
Perfect thing.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
It has to do with old tables of probability, various
technical computerized matters of that sort.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
Oh, you appreciate the me for full information?

Speaker 1 (04:18):
You say, Oh, sure, sure of course.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Well couldn't we ascertain me on SR sport? Well, it's
a vital importance because until the item can be completed,
you're a fire will remain open and we can't have that.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
Henry, what did she say? Her name was Mellow? Sounds resmic.
What a beautiful name, and what a beautiful woman. Ye're
a woman, not a shaddling, simple and immature girl, but
a walk She must be my age much longer. In

(04:54):
any case, she could hardly be forty thirty five. Yep, yep,
yep up. She had to look at thirty f It's
not too late for us. The whole of our own
children just want would be enough mine and melicon. Oh
what am I saying? Mommy, Oh mommy, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
I'll never leave you. We're not thinking about how melicon redic. Indeed,

(05:18):
hall is filled with a melicon Rednics who camped, killious
and sold with white wooden med from their duties to
their mothers, mothers who have grown old and ill making
sacrifices for their and their ungrateful sons. Have some pie,

(05:39):
know I mean, I'm supposed to be on a diet,
you know.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
I mean, you shouldn't be a fanatic about anything, So
we should meet a pretty good.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Take you off my hand. I'm lucky, mommy. This music,
this is the music your daddy and I used to
dance to. This. They were talking about Daddy.

Speaker 5 (06:01):
So many other great bands.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
People so they never heard of To answer your questions, oh,
you're killing in the radio at night.

Speaker 5 (06:09):
And kill wonderful bands from all over the country of.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
Mommy, A girl came up from personnel and she told
me that they have to know exactly what kind of
illness it was that daddy died of.

Speaker 5 (06:21):
A girl came up to talk to that.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah, well he was about daddy's dad. Didn't strike you
as strange. I understand why they might want it.

Speaker 5 (06:29):
A Oh, I'm not discussing that.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Your problem has always been that you could never follow
the main line.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
Of the odd. All I'm saying is she told me
why they wanted.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
Now we'll address ourselves to that person. Dace, Chris, Why
did this girl come up.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
To think mommy, As I'm trying to tell you, she
wanted to know.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
If she wanted to know, why couldn't she have elicited
that information on the telephone?

Speaker 3 (06:54):
You do have injured office communication.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
You're not well?

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yes, well, And the fact that she is with personnel
only says to prove my point?

Speaker 1 (07:07):
What point on norm There are.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
As you know, women who are desperate the marriage, unscrupulous
women who will do anything to enclare a man.

Speaker 5 (07:18):
But military menison is this now?

Speaker 1 (07:22):
She had to tell me her name, her first name.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
You see, my poor naive little Normy. She goes through
her files to personnel, picked out the unmarried men and
think you.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
Are obviously the most eligible of the lot.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
She made some pretext to meet you, but it did
sound rather legitimately.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
No me, norm me, you're such a bathe in the woods,
so unaccustomed to the wilds of women.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
Yeah, I guess you're right, mommy. But what should I
do about the questions she asked me? Do? But just
disregot it and disregard her. And she get the message,
And that's Molly says, You're a fellow who has a
wiser or more loving mother. She figures every an she

(08:16):
tacks on so quickly. I guess I'm the luckiest guy
in the world. Well. I went back to the office
the following morning, and Miss Resnick did not contact me
ignored did she the next day or the day after,
which led me towards you. Naturally that the request she
had made was in trou a d bite to make

(08:38):
my acquaintment. However, I had underestimated Miss Rednick, because on
the following Monday.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
Mister Craymar. You never did get back to me with
that information.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
That's right, I didn't are Are you sure it's important?
It's important to whom?

Speaker 3 (08:57):
But did the company?

Speaker 1 (08:57):
Of course?

Speaker 3 (08:58):
Who knows what I am?

Speaker 4 (08:59):
I have no life deal, mister Claymore.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
I have been told to complete your record by the
vice president in charge of personnel.

Speaker 4 (09:08):
Now do you want.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
Me to tell him that you received to give us this?

Speaker 1 (09:13):
You may tell him anything in your life.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
Mister Claymer, have you considered the consequence.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
Cour an assumption will be made that.

Speaker 5 (09:20):
You have something to hide?

Speaker 1 (09:22):
Now?

Speaker 3 (09:23):
Really, why should you create an unfavorable impression of every
employee of the corporation?

Speaker 4 (09:31):
And the chairman of the.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
Board down has built out this.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
Oh, I'm just as you required to say. We just
put down any dose TB whatever.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
I cannot put down what I know to be false.
Mister Klaymore. Can you obtain this information to me? No
later than tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
It's ruthless. I'm scrupulous.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
Woman appears to have upset you a great deal, Mommy.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
She seems to be very shy and wild. Were the
worst kind. But I had to give him an answer.
What disease? Did daddy die?

Speaker 2 (10:06):
He didn't die of any disease. He was killed. It
about that accident?

Speaker 3 (10:10):
Well, mommy, yes, yes, he was standing the bust up waiting.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
The bus came along. He stepped off the curb.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
The bust didn't problem And you said, you see, he
thought it was a local but it turned out to
be the Express.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
But you said that he took ill and died. Did
I say that?

Speaker 2 (10:27):
Well, perhaps idea, but if it wasn't true, it may
not have been true. But it was kind, that's all.
Being run down.

Speaker 5 (10:36):
By a bus it is an absolutely horrible.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
Way to be killed.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
And and you were a little child, and it could
have done something to your fighting.

Speaker 5 (10:43):
You might have become terrified of busses for the.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
Rest of your life.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
And not being rich, we couldn't afford to travel ever
by taxicab.

Speaker 4 (10:50):
He met.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
Oh, yeah, certainly you would have had bad dreams.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
Well, and four cars of that. I could tell miss
resident that daddy died the buts accident.

Speaker 5 (11:00):
Yes, and after you tell her that, you can tell
her good bye. I'm sorry to disturb you again.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
Well what is it now? I did tell her on
the information, Do you didn't I?

Speaker 3 (11:19):
Yes, you did, and I taste it in your record.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
Well, then what is the problem.

Speaker 3 (11:23):
The vice president in charge of personnel, he asked me
to ascertain why you lied?

Speaker 1 (11:31):
Why? What about why.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
Lied about the cause of your father's death.

Speaker 4 (11:37):
She wants to know why if your.

Speaker 3 (11:39):
Father was killed in a bus accident, you found it
necessary to lie about it? Why did she stay me?
Die of student?

Speaker 1 (11:47):
But that is the story that my mother told me.
She wanted to spare a little child's feelings.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
I appreciate that, but we must know.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
The exact system. So I have drugs given them to you,
and I say that will.

Speaker 4 (11:59):
Not be sufficient.

Speaker 3 (12:01):
If he was killed by a bus, there would be
a police report. If he died its illness. I'm sure
there was a deist.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
What did it really matters?

Speaker 3 (12:08):
Reclaimer?

Speaker 1 (12:09):
Until the matter is resolved, you're followable and complete. This
could get about.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
The study of the computer.

Speaker 4 (12:16):
Would you want that to happen?

Speaker 1 (12:23):
I love you. I know I'm disobeying mommy, but I
love you. I love you because you're so practical, so
down to earth. I love you for your quiet strength,
for the way you can just stick to the point.
You's so much like Mommy. No usself, we can't do
very much about it now. I can't marry anyone while
mommy's alive. But mommy can't live forever after nobody lives forever.

Speaker 5 (12:52):
Oh, this man plays very much like the old hal
temporal to be.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
Why can't we give them proof of how daddy died?
Because it's none of that business?

Speaker 2 (13:01):
Who?

Speaker 1 (13:02):
It's not an unreasonable question. And see she's seduced you,
hasn't she? Who's that?

Speaker 2 (13:09):
Melason Resnick with her blonde hair, a blue eye, with
a clinging sweater and a tight gmy, how do you love?
Don't you think I would find out at first hand
what sort of Jezebel Asio and snare my son?

Speaker 1 (13:24):
Dolly? I went downtown to your office building. I got
to look at her.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
Oh very good, note clipped me, assuring, really I've only
seen her exactly.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
Three times, and all three times you was of my dance.
And at no time do I feel for more than
two or three minutes a.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
She requires his idea of her, The seductive idea of
her has been.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
Planted in your souls. Cleanse yourself nor me. Do you
have strength of character? Driver from your mind? Mmmy, If
I don't bring improve of her daddy dot, I can
be forced to quit my job. That would be for them.
But I have seniority. You're not quity a pension planet
forty years old. I mean, where can I go to

(14:05):
start all over again?

Speaker 2 (14:06):
You, Norman, you have a great amount of ability.

Speaker 5 (14:09):
You can get a good job anywhere.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
Why won't you tell me what Daddy got on getting late?
I think I'll go to they. Don't you understand they're
gonna fire me? Well, dear, who knows? After all, it
may just turn out to be for the best. Well,
a little acorns suddenly sprout into great, big bats, Tiny

(14:34):
mold hills become huge mountains. Why is mommy so set
against getting normany what? After all, should only be a
piece of routine information. You already heard enough of our
story to come up with a variety of interesting possibilities.
Think about them, and let's compare notes when I returned
shortly with that too, And one thing you can now

(15:08):
accept as gospel. We live in a world of forms, papers, documents, records.
There are no secrets, there is no privacy. Soon there
will be no mystery. All of us should become open books.
Mister Conree wrote a play in which a lady said

(15:30):
to a gentleman, oh, sir, you must not kiss and tell.
That was almost three hundred years ago. Today you must
not only tell if you kissed, but also if you didn't.
And why, Molly, I know you don't understand. I'll be
fired if I don't bring in a certificate of one

(15:50):
daughter or another, I'll be fired.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
When you weren't listening, I said it would be for
them that job like mine, a.

Speaker 1 (15:57):
Good job like mine. How could move the People's a
trivial reason, but it is not a privial Reasonly, what
I know is the cause of daddy's dad.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
I say, that's none of their affairs.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
What is involved here is the basic principle of prival.

Speaker 1 (16:13):
I am not concerned with principles.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
I can see that you don't understand. No, me, dear,
you're the one who doesn't understand. You're the one who
doesn't sense the grave danger.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
What danger?

Speaker 2 (16:28):
The danger has a name, Miss Manissan Resnic of Murlis,
And you're.

Speaker 5 (16:34):
So innocent of the world.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
It's quite probably mindfault. She has already seduced you. And
that is why you must.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
Leave that way. He must not be permitted to destroy
your life. And that is your mommy's final words. Mommy's right.
He's always right, But Melisson, she's so nice? Is that

(17:02):
the world yet? Yeah? Yeah, nice? Surely she must be
exactly the kind of girl mommy would choose for me herself.
I don't understand, well, as I haven't said one world
made one sugestion that might even remotely be considered as improperly?
What does Mommy know that I don't?

Speaker 3 (17:25):
Good morning, mister Lamar.

Speaker 4 (17:27):
Do you have information for her?

Speaker 1 (17:29):
No, Miss Resnick, I do not.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
Oh, I'm at a loss to understand your reluctance. A
most insignificant matter has been growing completely.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
Out of propriet You do not agree that the matter
is insignificant the right to privacy.

Speaker 3 (17:43):
We're concerned here with the world of practicality, the world
as it exists. All I can say is that they're
the senses with the information can mean your job.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
I realize that you realize that, and you still I
am prepared, as they say, to walk the last mile.

Speaker 3 (18:04):
Understand, mister Playmont, and please this is off the record.
In the ordinary way, the matter would be of no significance. However,
the vice president in charge of personnel is the.

Speaker 5 (18:16):
Son of the founder.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
I didn't know that.

Speaker 3 (18:20):
Well, it was necessary to give him a title to
keep him happy, and now he looks like they need
to justify his job.

Speaker 4 (18:27):
Well he he.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
Fawn you I can't do anything about that.

Speaker 3 (18:32):
You're an excellent employee. I would hate to see you, Lucas.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
Why sometimes a man must stand up.

Speaker 3 (18:38):
You have three weeks?

Speaker 1 (18:40):
Three weeks to do?

Speaker 3 (18:41):
What to complete the forum? The vice president left for
his vacation last night. His parting would to me was
if that record isn't filled in fully and accurately with documentation,
Norman Playmore will be fired.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
Well, then I guess I'll be fired.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
Oh no, you mustn't. Oh why why want you write
down the cause of your father's death?

Speaker 1 (19:05):
Because right? All wrong with it?

Speaker 3 (19:06):
But that's impossible.

Speaker 4 (19:08):
You must know. Is your mother living?

Speaker 1 (19:11):
Yeah, she's living with me. Oh h but does she
tell you the things that every time I ask you
tells me a different story.

Speaker 3 (19:20):
Well, perhaps he's afraid if what's involved, right, it's possible,
I say possible, not probable or even likely, but possible.
But she doesn't want the circumstances of his death to
be known.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
But Mommy, she would tell me. She tells me everything.
We're very close.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
Mist reclaimer, I I know we would hate to lose
you or please try to resolve this very minor problem. Somehow,
there's nothing personal in this. I'm just thinking of the
good of the company.

Speaker 1 (19:57):
Do you understand, Yes, Miss Rudby, I understand. I understand
my darling brothers on. Oh how I understand everything. I
understand that this is our courtship, This is how we
are wooing one another. This is the early dead reaching out.

(20:20):
But I must face the problem. Why do I know
nothing at all about Daddy's death or even his life?
Why are there no pictures, no letters, no mementos. Why
are there no stories, no family stories. Why is there
no family, no hands, uncle's cousins. Why are mommy and
I alone in the world? I might ask her? How

(20:44):
can I ask her? What troubling you know me? Well,
it's about It's about your daddy, isn't it. How did
you know?

Speaker 2 (20:55):
Because I'm your for all mommy, and I know everything
about my little boy, Molly whet he die?

Speaker 1 (21:06):
No, maybe I don't want to.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
Talk about it just because some some No, I won't
say anything disparaging about her mom house, even though it's true,
But just say I don't want to talk about your
daddy's de because I find it.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
Painful, and let's talk about his life.

Speaker 5 (21:22):
I find that painful.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
But Mommy, shouldn't I know something about my dad? Please?
Nor mean? Don't be disobedient? Do you want me to
feel pain of mommy? Oh? My goodness, this is my
bridge night? Where am I playing this evening? Uh? Oh,
missus Selison?

Speaker 2 (21:38):
That's what a wonderful memory you have, Johnny. Are you
sure you'll be all right tonight without failure?

Speaker 5 (21:45):
That's a good boy.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
I drove Mommy to mister Selverson's house, where she would
spend the next three hours. Usually I killed the time
to lib to pick her up in a movie, But
tonight I drove straight back home. There was something I
had to know, and I had to know it or
else all would be over between Melisson and me. I

(22:12):
had to find the information? And where where can I
find it? Mommy, Laura tell me? But somewhere in Mommy's
room is the answer? I know that, I know. I know.
The answer isn't Mommy's desk, or in her check the drawers,
or in some of those cardboard boxes high up on

(22:32):
the shelves of her closet. The secret must be in
one of those places, because Mommy made me promise on
my honor cross Martin hoped to die that I would
never go into a room unless she was there. Never
would I break my promise to mommy. I must know
about Daddy, because unless I tell Melisson, she'll reject me.

(22:52):
And I can't live with that. And so I look
at Mommy's desktower, her checkbooks, received those letters. Nothing there
about Daddy. I know that I know where it has
to be, in the cardboard box, top shelf of our closets,
top shelf, cardboard body. I reach up carefully. The box

(23:16):
is in my hands. I walk to the desk with it.
I don't want to look inside about a look. I
don't want to pick up the top newspaper from the
pilot light in the box. When I pick it up
and I read the headline Norman Claymore execute it, I

(23:40):
am numb because if I have been struck a heavy
bow in the days. I look at the date. The
paper is thirty five years old. Norman Claymore is my father, Daddy.
He has been hanged to mood. Not one murder, many

(24:05):
murders my daddy. I read now for an article, one
article of many, or reporter is interviewing my daddy.

Speaker 3 (24:15):
Need to tell him out.

Speaker 1 (24:17):
Why did you kill those people? Why? How can I
tell you why? Some of us are made that way.
It's all made that way, and the blood can't be helped.
It goes from father to such. My father was a murder.
There's no record of this. Oh he's dead, so I'm
free to doe. I saw him kill. I was a

(24:39):
little boy, but I remember I saw him kill. I
don't know what this is in my blood, this rage,
I feel this wage. You know what it is to
get angry? Yeah, violently angry? Yes, I said, Oh, angry
enough to want to kill toothfully. And when you'll reach

(25:02):
that point, do you kill? No, that's where we're different.
I killed.

Speaker 3 (25:10):
If you had it to do all over again, would
you have tried to be different.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
I don't believe you followed what I said. I tried
to be different this time. I tried not to kill,
but it didn't help. It's how I made, how God
made me, and therefore I know God will forgive me.
Don't pose r. I glance at my wife. I said,
I'm late. It's mommy calling me to pick her up.

(25:35):
Her bridge. Game is over, bastally, I replace the newspapers.
I covered the box, I put it back from the
top shelf. I pick up the receiver. WHOA made her worship?
It's God. I never had to remind you of all.
I was just tired, mommy. I'll be right over me.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
Is everything all right?

Speaker 1 (26:02):
Yes, boss, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
I can usually tell when my little boy is.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
Just their bobby. Everything is just fine.

Speaker 5 (26:10):
Oh, you don't have to bite mommy's head off.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
I'll be over in five minutes. Oh, he'll be over
in five minutes to do work. Well, he's angry, judging
from the tone in his voice, he's even furious. You

(26:37):
heard what his father had to say about the fury
and the blood of the man in his line? Is
he's that enraged with his mother, which is a gord. Mommy.
It's a touch and go business we're involved with, and
will sort it all out and act free in just
a few moments. There are certain pieces of news you

(27:06):
don't get every day. These qualify, perhaps as one in
a lifetime headlines. For instance, our Norman Claymore has just
discovered that his father was a murderer, not just the murderer,
but a multiple killer at that who was finally brought
to justice and hanged for his crimes. Now, he would

(27:29):
never have endeavored to discover this fact about his father
had he not been compelled to fill out a form
at his place of work which asked, if either or
both parents are deceased, blist the cause of death. And
yet that's exactly what you must do if he wants
to keep his job. Whatever did get into you this evening, Norman? Sorry, Marie,

(27:55):
you know you must never.

Speaker 3 (27:57):
Make me wait for you at missus Silverson back of
the game.

Speaker 5 (28:00):
You cannot tolerate the woman?

Speaker 1 (28:03):
Tell me? Are you sure you're all right? I said
I wasn't night.

Speaker 4 (28:08):
It's snappy at me again?

Speaker 1 (28:10):
Oh? I know it's that Melasson Resmo. Now, really who's
upset you?

Speaker 5 (28:17):
It makes you think strange, unnatural to.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
Natural. It's unnatural for a man and a woman. No
wanna unnatural. You're the one who's unnatural, Mobby. You're the
one who treats me like a child who finds fault
with every girl. You who are unnatural, an unnatural woman.
Therefore you must be evil, and therefore I want to
kill I want to kill you. Oh no, oh no,

(28:48):
what am I saying? Oh? I understand you now, Mobby,
I understand why you know what's in my book. But
this evil thing that's in my blood, that's why you
watch me, why you keep me under your thumb. Thank you, mommy.

(29:11):
I mean whatever you're mumbling about. What Oh oh, I'm
sorry about hit. That girl isn't even worse than I
feel it. That woman has completely captured your mind. Oh mommy,
how easy it is to misunderstand you. Of course you

(29:31):
had discouraged me from marriage. You must you know what's
in my blood. You know what I have inherited from
my father. You know I must never pass this along
to my own children. I must not have children. You
could have told me about daddy, but you refused because
you loved me. You wanted me to have a happy

(29:52):
memory of my father. Or how I love you, mommy,
How I love you. I must say goodbye to Melissot,
to all thoughts of melisauce there can never be a
Melissot never. Mister Oh yes, missus.

Speaker 3 (30:16):
Resnick, I haven't heard from you in all this time.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
I I know.

Speaker 4 (30:23):
About that form.

Speaker 1 (30:24):
Well, I suppose if you win, says Oh, I I don't.

Speaker 3 (30:28):
Think, says mister player. It's mister Pennypack. Oh, the vice president.

Speaker 4 (30:33):
He's the one.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
Then I'll have to be fired.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
That would be a shame.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
There are certain things that belong within the family, within
the bosom with the family, and I think I understand.

Speaker 3 (30:46):
Oh, missus claimer, I I cannot help but admire you. Well,
you're protecting someone, now.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
That's obvious. Oh, but it's such a.

Speaker 3 (30:56):
Cause you know, you're you know, in the true sense
of the world. No, not really, Yes, listen, I must
keep your secret, so I'm fair. If it wasn't for that,
mister Pennypacker.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
Was a just distant guy. The whole thing is that so.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
Oh he's the one who looks a science. He's the
one who wants to answer. No one else really cares. Oh,
he's too bad tomorrow, because that's.

Speaker 1 (31:24):
The I looked into her eyes, into my Melissy's beautiful
blue eyes that were filled with worry. No, Melicanio, this
is not the end, not for you and me. I
hate that mean Penny Packers. I hate him because he
stole my father from me. I had a father I

(31:46):
thought was a good man because of me, not a Pennypacker.
I had to discover my father was a killer. Oh no,
I know the meaning of those secret urges, those drives,
those yearnings. It's been the desire to kill that's in
my blood. I can't deny it. I won't deny it,
and I won't deny you either. By the sound it's wrong,

(32:08):
I know, but we are human. My father knew, but
did he deny himself? My mother never? And I shall
not deny myself.

Speaker 5 (32:16):
You, no, nanny, there's something wrong wrong, No, not dum
and I.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
Know you better than you know yourself. Something is burning
inside of me. Please, everything's all right? You mean you
won't share this with your mom? I don't know what
you're talking about. I know, Nan. We must get to
the bottom of this thing. No, we mustn't. Don't say
another word of fighting us. Can't you understand? Or fighting

(32:46):
a bad blood? Come up? Don't quit me up your wone,
I'll fight it off. Its fury, this wage in my blood,
this insane desire killing our penny packers. Let there be quiet,
Let there be calm, please mommy, please, no me. We've
always been able to talk out to trouble. How y'all
have no troubles? No me, No, it's better nor me.

(33:07):
Where are you going at the tower house? Where nowhere?
What are you going to do? I mean, who's there?
If someone? Who are you? How did you do it here?

(33:30):
You heard I broke your window? Mister Pennypacker? Oh do
you know my name? Everybody at that plan knows your name?
What are you doing here? I intend to kill you?
Who before? Why should anyone want to kill me? You

(33:52):
killed my father. I never killed anyone in my life.
You'll kill his memory as anyone. I'm my oldest per
You tried to separate me from a woman I loved. No,
I've never done anything goad in my life. Lies won't
save you. Don't come hear me. I'm ready to complete

(34:15):
the form to answer the open question on my record.
I don't even know what you're talking. Your card of
father's death. I'll tell you my father was hanged. I'm
truly sorry to murder. We all make me say it
was no mistake. It was in his blood, So it's impossible.

(34:36):
I think that it's in my blood. Maybe I I
can't help myself. I'm gonna kill you. Don't, please don't.
I was seized with an uncontrollable wage. I had to

(34:57):
kill my sury was so overpowering. I I killed with
my bare hands. I hit him again and again and again,
and finally I stopped him. Our passion was spent. I
looked at him. He was dead. He didn't need to
feel for his punge, to listen for his heartbeat. He

(35:18):
was dead. He could tell by the spoil of him
that he was dead. And I felt at peace. That's
a delicious feeling of calm, such as satisfying feeling of security.
I had finally found my identity. I was my father's son.

(35:39):
Blood will tell.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
Norman Claymore cres Yes, I know.

Speaker 1 (35:55):
Have you read the news? What news?

Speaker 3 (35:57):
What a dreadful news in this morning?

Speaker 1 (36:01):
Why?

Speaker 3 (36:01):
No, it's mister Pennypacker.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
He was murdered last night.

Speaker 3 (36:07):
No, yes, brutally murdered. They think it was some homicidal maniac.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
I'm sure it must have been. I'm really very sorry
to hear that. Oh, I knew you wouldn't pinch, even
though you had little cause to like mister Penny Paul.
That's nothing to think of now.

Speaker 3 (36:26):
Oh, this crazy thing, well, it's an ill wind.

Speaker 2 (36:32):
That doesn't blow some good.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
You don't have to worry about your job anymore, Believe me,
miss Resnick. My job is not worth mister Pennypacker's life. Actually,
if by getting it up we could bring that poor
man back.

Speaker 3 (36:45):
Oh, mister playmore, do you know what you are? You
are a beautiful human being?

Speaker 1 (36:55):
Yes? Oom, and so are you Ris Rosmie. So are
you a beautiful human being? Well that's my invitation. What
am I waiting for? She loves me? Could she have
stated it more clearly than I need her? Her love

(37:17):
will keep my bad blood in check. When I was
a child, mommy's love could do that. But now that
I'm a man, only the love of a woman can
save me. She saved me. Whenever I feel a rage
to kill her through my veins, her love will save me.
And ever was till I'm coming to you. I know

(37:39):
that you're waiting for me. I'm coming to you tonight,
tonight dead. Oh oh oh uh? How much had the

(38:04):
wrong address? This is three nine eight Lauren Lane. You're
on target, Jordy. I thought this was the residence of
Malasan resnic mamasat some short little guy looking for you baby, Well.

Speaker 3 (38:20):
It's Norman, Norman Clean.

Speaker 1 (38:24):
Let's come on in.

Speaker 3 (38:26):
I didn't recognize you with your clothes off, I mean,
with your overcoat and a hat. I mean, well, the
only time I ever saw you, you were sitting at
that dance with the green eyes shaved and in your
shirt flee It isn't banging away.

Speaker 1 (38:41):
That's adding the sea.

Speaker 2 (38:42):
Eight hours a day, punch punch, punch on those malisons.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
It looks like he needs it. What did it have?
I'm a I thought I thought that who who's he?

Speaker 3 (38:55):
That's a good question.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
That's who I am. Well, we hang around together another
couple of years, I guess don't qualify as your husband.
I thought that you were in love with me. Hey, baby,
you've been giving the eye to chumps against She can't
help it, shorty. She tries to make every guy she

(39:18):
be mall, but it don't mean nothing. The only guy
she'll ever go home with is me, and my name
is Norman. Nah, don't get mad, Norman seemli time. See
what you've done? He's mad? Can my nomine? Things happen?
I'm gonna kill you, both of you? You who? Well,

(39:40):
this is what happened on I don't listen, No, mommy,
all right to what the bucker? She called you? Jezebel nor?
I think you better believe that's enough?

Speaker 4 (39:59):
You do you want to talk about it, mister Claymore.

Speaker 1 (40:09):
What's there to talk about? Miss I killed him? We
know doubts. Why why because I'm my father's son.

Speaker 4 (40:17):
What does that mean?

Speaker 1 (40:20):
Claymore, Norman Claymore, doesn't they mean anything to their thinks? Think?
Miss many years ago there was a murderer, Norman Claymore. Mm.
I think I remember well he was my father, of course,
his murderer within his blood, and he packed that blood
to me, and that's why I killed him. Enough Pennypacker too.

Speaker 4 (40:38):
You you said you also killed this Pennypacker mine?

Speaker 1 (40:43):
Yes, yes, When my blood begins to raise the way
my father did that, I have no control it. Excuse
me to it? Uh?

Speaker 4 (40:52):
Miss him a rag?

Speaker 1 (40:54):
Oh? Oh, yes, that's my chase.

Speaker 4 (40:57):
I'll come out and talk to him.

Speaker 1 (41:01):
Mister Claymore. Do you want to see your Mamamy Long
yea yeah, mis dictated your statement to the secretary, and
I'll bring her in to see you. Doctor my son?
Can I see my son? Yes?

Speaker 4 (41:17):
Missus Lamore just a human.

Speaker 1 (41:19):
He didn't kill those people. He couldn't kill them.

Speaker 4 (41:22):
We had with missus Missus Kmore.

Speaker 1 (41:24):
But why why he said his father was a murderer?
Is that true?

Speaker 2 (41:31):
Is it?

Speaker 1 (41:33):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (41:34):
He said his father claimed the murder within the blood.

Speaker 1 (41:39):
Is that true? Yes?

Speaker 3 (41:42):
And so your son says, he chills because he inherited
that that murderer's blood, and he can't.

Speaker 1 (41:50):
Help his So that's not true.

Speaker 4 (41:52):
But it wasn't true about his father.

Speaker 5 (41:54):
It was true about his father his but she couldn't
be true.

Speaker 1 (41:58):
But Norman couldn't.

Speaker 4 (42:00):
Why not this claylaw?

Speaker 1 (42:02):
Because Norman, Norman was a stout theive. So blood will tell,
will it? The question is what will blood tell? And

(42:24):
to whom will blood tell it? And if you want
to reach into the heart of the matter, what is blood?
We're not talking about serum and plasma and cells and platelets.
What we have in mind is blood as a mystique.
All right, enough questions you want answers, Well, wait for

(42:46):
me to come back. Our tricky business. This about blood.
And sometimes the blood you think you have may be
more powerful than that which actually flows through your veins

(43:09):
or less. And why do we say flows through the veins,
Why not through the thoughts as well? Blood the great
mystery and the greatest mystery of our existence, which is
why you hear about it so often on mystery theaters.
Our cast included Mason Adams, Briana Rayburn, Easy Justter, and

(43:32):
Ken Harvey. The entire productions under the direction of Hyman
Brown and now a preview of our next tale. Has
never been afraid of anything in all my life.

Speaker 3 (43:47):
That's the way I remember it. Kink, just take a
deep breath, can come through, Float right through the lack door.

Speaker 1 (43:59):
Sep whine. There I'm more imported. It's almost as if
I were flying.

Speaker 3 (44:06):
The important thing is not to worry about it.

Speaker 1 (44:09):
Crry. I feel better if I could understand it, if
there was some kind of reasonable explanation.

Speaker 3 (44:16):
Don't cry.

Speaker 1 (44:18):
Comes through a solid door and I'm passing
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