November 12, 2025 • 24 mins
Suspense was one of the most popular and successful radio series during it's run of over 900 episodes, spanning 1940-1962. Guest stars included Orson Welles, Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball, Agnes Moorehead, Marlene Dietrich and Humphrey Bogart. The plots were mostly engaging crime dramas, science fiction and some horror - usually with a surprise ending.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And now a tale well calculated to keep you in.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Suspence, A tale of two men who are one in
just a moment, Stranger with my face, starring Bernard Grant
and written especially for suspense by Alan Sloan.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
The lovely crowd today agree, those who think young, say pepsi.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Please.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
They picked the right one, the modern like one. Now
it's pepsi for those who think young. So go ahead
and pick the drink that lets you drink young as
you think. Yes, get the right one, a modern like one.
Now it's pepsi for those who think young.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
So you're walking along the street, mining your own business
up for an occasional glance and an occasional pretty girl.
But it isn't the occasion ever, has ben never will be.
So watch the use sufficient under the days, the boeto
on there off, and why oh, why oh why doesn't
something happen? So you might as well stop at the
news stand and pick up the papers, grab the usual
quick one at the usual bar section.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
Want to get in the taxi's license? Oh give him there,
come on, give him room. He's coming to easier, easy, mister, hear,
let me help you in the curb. He talks about
your close calls.
Speaker 7 (01:36):
Mister, Hey, what what happened? Where am I? Where's my hat? Now?
Speaker 6 (01:44):
What happened?
Speaker 8 (01:44):
He was reaching for the papers I was handing here
the mob shoved.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
You in a taxi sides.
Speaker 7 (01:48):
Watch it.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
If I was you, I'd go straight to the doctor
and see if everything's still.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
In the right place.
Speaker 7 (01:52):
But but but this isn't my hat.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Well, believe me, mister, it's the one that come with
the head. You're still wearing.
Speaker 7 (01:58):
Fine, way to start the day.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
It's a real flu.
Speaker 7 (02:02):
Start today.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
Do you sure you're all right?
Speaker 7 (02:05):
Those are the evening papers?
Speaker 6 (02:07):
And you owe me fourteen.
Speaker 7 (02:08):
Cents fourteen since when.
Speaker 6 (02:11):
Times and Trips seven apiece, like any evening paper, the.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Times and Tribune, the morning papers.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
Not in Chicago, mister.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
So there you are in a strange city with a
lot of strangers mining your business and a strange sound
of the police whistles, and a strange big star in
the CoP's uniforms, and strange names.
Speaker 7 (02:35):
On the buses boulevard hoisted state.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
What you need is something familiar to clink to, like
a like a shut glass of purple.
Speaker 7 (02:46):
So up the street you find a tent you sit
down at.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
It's totally strange bar and a totally strange bartender greets you.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
With evening day You are usual?
Speaker 7 (02:56):
Are usual? What's that?
Speaker 6 (03:01):
Always?
Speaker 9 (03:01):
A kiddy scotch on a right soda?
Speaker 7 (03:04):
Ay?
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Your impulses to say I hate scotch, but you don't
say it. Something now that you've discovered where you are, Chicago,
something makes you want to know when you are.
Speaker 7 (03:14):
The newspapers will tell you.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
July thirteenth, nineteen sixty one.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
Yes, sir, all day Scott. You know scotch? You make it?
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Do swipe the warmth of the stuff clunging its way
down the taste, It leads like old iron in your mouth.
You lift the glass of soda. The bartender moves away,
and the stranger in the mirror drops his glass. Oh,
I'll clean that up, mister Marris bartender. Yes, sir, Look,
don't think I'm drunk. But do you know me? Do
(03:49):
I know you?
Speaker 6 (03:50):
What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Do I know?
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Do you know who I am?
Speaker 7 (03:54):
My name? Why? Sure, mister Marius, you're what you're?
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Mister Murray's one of my.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
Mister Morrow, it's one of your regulars. Well tell me
what's my first name? Why? Why?
Speaker 9 (04:06):
I've heard your friends, sir, I've heard them call you, ah,
mister Marsha joke.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
No no, no, no, no, no no my first name?
Speaker 8 (04:14):
Please?
Speaker 9 (04:14):
Why they call you Chuck? I guess it must be Charles. Look,
mister marrish, if you're not feeling that way, wait wait.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
When I sat down, you asked me if I.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
If I wanted the usual, and you served me it's
scotch like always. How long is always?
Speaker 9 (04:32):
Well, let's see, it must be two three years. You've
been coming in nearly every day around this time and
it's always Scotch on the rock, soda on the side.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
Two three years.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
And this is Chicago, Yes, July thirteenth, nineteen sixty one, Yes, sir,
are they?
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (04:48):
Very funny?
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Would you like to hear something really funny, very very funny?
Speaker 9 (04:52):
Why sure, mister marsh anything for a lamb?
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Laugh at this?
Speaker 7 (04:56):
As far as I know, this isn't Chicago. It's New York.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
It is in July nineteen sixty one, it's March nineteen
fifty seven, it's not evening. Okay.
Speaker 7 (05:07):
The funniest of all.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
My name is in Marris, and it isn't Chuck for Charles,
It's Wallers, Edward Eddie, ed Wallers.
Speaker 7 (05:17):
And this will kidre you will die laughing. That isn't
me in the mirror. I never saw that face before
in my life.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Up the street as a cheap hotel where they don't
care what name you register under.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
But the face in the mirror upstairs is still a
stranger's with its gray hair, heavy rimmed like glasses and mustache. Impossible.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Where am I? Later, you're on a jet from New York,
and as it arches across the minds of Manhattan, things
begin to come back.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
Accept it.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
There something missing somewhere, something you almost don't want to remember.
Try as you may. Let's see, let's see, let's see.
Let's take it from the top. That morning you left
your apartment.
Speaker 8 (06:22):
One of mister Wallas I staff don Ryan huh more
than Frank. I'm a little trip massa. How do you
know I've seen the bag said?
Speaker 7 (06:30):
That's all.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Oh well, look, Frank, if if anybody calls this morning,
don't let them disturb missus Wallace.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
She isn't beginning so well, right.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
And if anybody asks about me, well, frankly I'm sneaking
off the flooria.
Speaker 7 (06:45):
To play golf and fish, you know.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
But if anybody asks, I'm out of town on a
business trip. You don't know where I am or when
I'm coming back, right, sure.
Speaker 8 (06:54):
Think, Hey gee, thanks mister Wallace.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
That kind of door. I've never even seen you in
my life.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
So far.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
All clear, cap the Grand Central Station. All clear, drained
to Chicago, heading ultimately for heading for Los Angeles, Portland, Vegas. No, no,
that you can't recall. Oh, for the life of you
while you left after seven years, seven years with the
(07:28):
wrong woman and her men and her bottles and.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
A yackety yackety yackety yack.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
But still you can't really remember much beyond arriving in
Chicago and walking down a dark street.
Speaker 7 (07:43):
Wait, wait, it's all coming back now, mister. Yes you
got a cigarette? Ah for sure, Here help yourself, thanks man,
Oh yes, yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Yes, oh yes, here's here's my line.
Speaker 7 (08:08):
Thanks a million. Yes, nice snider, Yes, spain suit.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Look, if you don't mind, I'll take the satchels too.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
Boy, this is an outreach.
Speaker 8 (08:20):
Just just stick up, don't make waves, put him up
and keep him.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Up hour in the night, over that night in Chicago,
it comes back, his hard, expert hands going over you,
finding your wallet, finding your watch, taking every last penny
taking your train tickets, cleaning you off, holding the gun
on you while he stopped for your bags, And then
I don't like you, mister. Turn around please, I'm a
stranger here in town.
Speaker 7 (08:43):
I don't know a soul. Shit happened.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
That must have been when it began, a slugging in
the dark, and then awakening to find you nothing to
remember yourself by, when a stranger found you in this
parking lot.
Speaker 7 (09:02):
Come morning. Are you all right? I think so? Oh? No,
oh my head. Well let's have a look. Oh you're lucky.
You're alive. Man, been mugged pretty good. Look I tell
you what my office is next door. I suppose you
come in and get cleaned. No, I was going someplace,
(09:23):
but I can't remember.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
All right, If it isn't too much trouble nonsense, you
do the same for me.
Speaker 10 (09:31):
You feel better with some coffee in a shave. Come
on on your feet, fellah. Oh by the way, my
name is Shaw, Clifford Shaw. I'm in real estate.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
I'm my name is Morris, Charles Morris.
Speaker 7 (09:51):
Oh, oh, I get it.
Speaker 10 (09:53):
Marris for that building across the street, Charles for the station.
It doesn't matter, fellah, still stake you to a breakfast.
Speaker 7 (10:02):
No, no, no, you don't understand.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
I don't know my name, I don't know where I am,
who I am, or anything.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
I just don't remember anything.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
And that as the jet winds into its glide path.
For right a while, it's all you can piece together
about how you became Chuck for Charles Morris, how he
made a new life, who helped what he did?
Speaker 7 (10:33):
All gone, and it is useless to you. Now is
yesterday's newspaper.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
What you want is to find out the state of
the life of the man you really are, Ed Walters,
the state of the life and the state of the
wife Bob.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
Home?
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Were the Times and the trip start the day or
morning papers?
Speaker 7 (10:55):
Should your phone first? No, No, she's.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Probably still climbing the wall over this morning's argue. No,
not this morning four years ago. Better better, just walk
in on her surprise helen, surprise taxi, m same lobby,
(11:23):
new elevators, automated.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
Buttons, suppress depress fourteen three. What did you read once
about atnesia? Five? Nature's healing way of helping the mind?
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Forget seven, forget something to mind recoils from remembering.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
Nine.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
A knock on the head is only the trigger to
forgetting eleven What did you want to forget?
Speaker 7 (11:57):
Fourteen? Play it cool, just the truth.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
You've been sick, you've been away, but you're better now,
by gones and all that brand new starred Helen.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
And when she opens the door, smile, smile.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
She used to like your smile now fourteen c Why
didn't you think a flower?
Speaker 7 (12:27):
Stupid? Yes, I'm sorry, I was expecting someone else. Maybe
you've got the wrong apartment. This is fort No, no, no, no,
it's all right. Some friends of mine used to live here.
I've been away.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
I realized it sounds silly, but instead of phoning first,
I wanted to surprise them.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
I'm sorry, it's embarrassed. We all do silly things.
Speaker 11 (12:53):
And maybe I can help you.
Speaker 7 (12:54):
Well, I don't see how well.
Speaker 11 (12:55):
The superintendent readdresses the nail when people move, maybe they
left a forwarding address.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
Call it. She leaves the door open.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
You can see the familiar hall, the job that leads
into the living room.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
And suddenly suddenly you want to get away. Why you
don't know, you can't remember, you don't want to remember.
But but it's too late, and.
Speaker 11 (13:21):
I think I can help you.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
Well, you're really very kind. I hate the trouble you.
Speaker 11 (13:25):
Have in no trouble. The way people move around in
this time, so wonder anybody finds anybody and tear things down?
Speaker 7 (13:31):
Only last week?
Speaker 11 (13:32):
The address, please, I'm sorry, it's uh six nine five
East East fifty third mister and missus Porter, was that
the name Porter?
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Yes, thank you so much, thanks for nothing, Porter Walter's
missus Edward j No, oh, no, way a minute. She
could have moved down after you left. Sure, why keep
up that big place by yourself? Yes, she moved and
(14:07):
the porter's at.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
The apartment dead end.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
What now downtwn to the office to pick up right
where you're left off?
Speaker 7 (14:17):
What for the same old grind?
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Cook up the deal, swing the deals, foul up the deals,
and worse, walk around wondering when you're going to run
into her with another man the way you a way,
Wait a minute, porter, No, no, no, must be a
new one.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
And maybe she married him. I sure sure.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
That's it, she's married again. Grab your hat, missus Porter,
here comes Charlie. No head, I'm getting mixed up again.
Six ninety five East Ooh, Coming up in the World
by Golley Remodeled Brownstone and all that seventy five worth
(15:00):
of decorating on a twenty five thousand dollars frame. I
wonder what he does this porter? Wow, you'll find out. Yes,
missus Porter, Yes, I wonder if you can help me.
I was given your name and addressed by the superintendent
(15:21):
of the apartment house he used to live in.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
Just a moment, may ask who you are?
Speaker 7 (15:25):
Do you have any identification? Huh oh, yes, of course,
forgive me.
Speaker 8 (15:31):
Here's my card, Charles Morris, Real Estate, Chicago.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
What's this all about?
Speaker 5 (15:40):
It's a legal matter, miss Porter. You see, my firm
represents in the state in Chicago. Very complicated hold in Chicago, Washington,
New York. I see, Well, to make a long story short,
we can't seem to locate the walls. Missus Wallace to
be specific, who lived in your apartment fourteen C before you?
Speaker 11 (15:56):
I still don't understand.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
You see, Missus Wallers is one of the people who
signature my er needs to clear up the estate New
York Wise, Well, how can I help you anything?
Speaker 7 (16:06):
You might tell me about them?
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Do you know, by any chance where they went after
they moved out of fourteen C?
Speaker 7 (16:11):
Was not all we were given to understand by the
real estate agent. Was some kind of trouble between them,
Oh trouble, we would you know, No, just trouble. If
you really want to find out.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
I should think you'd go to the police.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
Well, I don't know. I'd hate to do that, so
I'll bet you would.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
The nerve of you coming here like this, I think
I know what the trouble was between the warders.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
Men like you ought to be put away?
Speaker 7 (16:38):
Dead end one? Haven't you left open? Friends, the bets,
the markers and parents? They might know, they might help,
but then again they might not. Who would know?
Speaker 9 (16:52):
Who would know?
Speaker 7 (16:53):
Who would help?
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Something happened back there in fifty seven, back there in fourteen, See,
who would know?
Speaker 7 (17:00):
I should think you'd go to the police. Maybe she
had something there.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
The real estate story is your best card. Yes, they're
missing person's.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Like on the dorm now.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Saying well, I hope so you see, it's it's rather complicated.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
They sit down, Sit down.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
My name is Charles Morris, I'm from Chicago, and here
here's my card and real estate.
Speaker 7 (17:31):
Yes, sir, my firm is involved in an estate problem.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
But some of the titles of the individual parcels aren't clear.
Now there's a missus Edward Waters Waters right, middle initial
J listed is one of the title holders of a
problem parcel.
Speaker 7 (17:44):
We just can't seem to find it. Now.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
I've checked the former addresses. Friends can't locate her.
Speaker 7 (17:50):
Just dropped out of sight. It happens every day.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
So I thought it might simplify matters before engaging a
private investigator if I came to you.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
All right, let's throw throw a check into it, Sam.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
Another copy of the typewriter swings around.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Sam, give me a search on waters Missus Edward J.
What's her first name?
Speaker 7 (18:09):
Well, that would be Helen.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
Try missus Edward J. Then try Helen.
Speaker 8 (18:13):
You take the wanteds I'll take the missing or sometimes
a missing persons wanted to some crime somewhere, so we
file them both in here. I see, but I well,
you never can't tell, never hurts to make sure.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
I want to take a minute to double check.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
And Vykowski Wald Wallace, Walsh, Walton, Walter, Walter Walters with
an ass Walters, Nope, nobody here by that name. Mister Morris, Yeah,
nothing under waters with an ass. Sorry, let me see
(18:51):
what Sam's got under the water.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Oh that's all right, Sorry, And I suppose I'll just have.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
To We might have something here.
Speaker 8 (18:59):
Well, I'm a little pressed for time, I said, hold
on a minute, mister.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Well all right, you sit there with two New York
cops mining your business, and you want to run the way.
The sergeant said, hold on a minute. That was no request,
That was a command. What a fool thing to do?
What a fool place to come to?
Speaker 3 (19:21):
What if?
Speaker 7 (19:22):
What if Helen had done something wrong and you had
to pay for it.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Now they're looking at you, the sergeant and the other cop,
the younger cops coming towards you, passing you, going to
the door.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
He's stopping. You want to.
Speaker 8 (19:38):
Turn, but mas, yes, we find a card here. Yes,
Waters is the name with a mess with an ass Yeah,
missus Edward Waters.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
No, sir, mister, oh well that's a.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
Step in the right direction. I look him up here.
Speaker 8 (19:56):
Don't understand, mister Marris, this is a wanted let me
read it to you.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
Well, I don't think that's necessary. You see, we're not
interested in mister Walters.
Speaker 8 (20:04):
We are, it says here Walters, Edward j. Aged thirty eight.
How are you, mister Morris? Thirty five, height, five feet eleven,
hair black waite.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
Wow, I don't have to go through the whole thing.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
There's a picture, no mustache, no glasses, no crew cut.
But even so, it says something else on the card.
You don't know what it says on the card. One word,
one word, mister Walters.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
All right, I'm Walters, but I got not lead you.
I really was Charles Morris for four years. I just
wanted to find my wife. I can't remember anything. What
does it say on the card you had a knee?
That's a weird story. How can you make him believe you?
Or Sam? The other cop standing with his back to the.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Door, You turn and you are looking straight into a
police positive thirty eight, and it.
Speaker 7 (21:11):
Is looking straight at you, and it is not wobbling,
but everything else is It is getting wobbled. It's hazy, strange.
Forgettish you ahead, what's happening?
Speaker 8 (21:26):
You'll never find your wife, mister Wallers. It says here
you're wanted for a murder hers now come along quiet,
mister Wallers.
Speaker 7 (21:39):
That's best.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Now, Sam mind the store.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Now I know what are you now? Well, I was
trying to forget I killed her.
Speaker 8 (21:50):
Yeah, that's what it says here where on the card.
And you better not talk anything you say, mister Wallers Walters.
Come on, let's go down the hall. You called me Walters, Walters,
marrisavag Yo.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
But who is Walters? My name is Mars.
Speaker 8 (22:09):
Sure it is Let the colorad him Sam Let the headshrinkers.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
Figure this one out my card.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
I'm Chuck Morris, Chicago. Where how did I get hear?
What city is this? What do you want with me?
Speaker 6 (22:27):
Why do you call me Walters? What do you want
with me?
Speaker 4 (22:32):
My name is Morris, Morris Morris.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Suspence? You've been listening to Stranger with My Face, starring
Bernard Grant and written especially for suspense by Alan Sloan.
In a moment the names of our players and a
word about next week's story of suspense.
Speaker 7 (23:04):
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Speaker 1 (23:07):
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Speaker 6 (23:10):
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Speaker 7 (23:11):
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Speaker 1 (23:13):
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Speaker 2 (23:35):
Suspense is produced and directed by Brunos Derato Junior. Listen
again next week when we return with You Can Die Laughing,
written by Robert Arthur, another tale well calculated to keep
you in.
Speaker 7 (23:49):
Suspense.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
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And now a tale well calculated to keep you in.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Suspence, A tale of two men who are one in
just a moment, Stranger with my face, starring Bernard Grant
and written especially for suspense by Alan Sloan.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
The lovely crowd today agree, those who think young, say pepsi.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Please.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
They picked the right one, the modern like one. Now
it's pepsi for those who think young. So go ahead
and pick the drink that lets you drink young as
you think. Yes, get the right one, a modern like one.
Now it's pepsi for those who think young.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
So you're walking along the street, mining your own business
up for an occasional glance and an occasional pretty girl.
But it isn't the occasion ever, has ben never will be.
So watch the use sufficient under the days, the boeto
on there off, and why oh, why oh why doesn't
something happen? So you might as well stop at the
news stand and pick up the papers, grab the usual
quick one at the usual bar section.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
Want to get in the taxi's license? Oh give him there,
come on, give him room. He's coming to easier, easy, mister, hear,
let me help you in the curb. He talks about
your close calls.
Speaker 7 (01:36):
Mister, Hey, what what happened? Where am I? Where's my hat? Now?
Speaker 6 (01:44):
What happened?
Speaker 8 (01:44):
He was reaching for the papers I was handing here
the mob shoved.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
You in a taxi sides.
Speaker 7 (01:48):
Watch it.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
If I was you, I'd go straight to the doctor
and see if everything's still.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
In the right place.
Speaker 7 (01:52):
But but but this isn't my hat.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Well, believe me, mister, it's the one that come with
the head. You're still wearing.
Speaker 7 (01:58):
Fine, way to start the day.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
It's a real flu.
Speaker 7 (02:02):
Start today.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
Do you sure you're all right?
Speaker 7 (02:05):
Those are the evening papers?
Speaker 6 (02:07):
And you owe me fourteen.
Speaker 7 (02:08):
Cents fourteen since when.
Speaker 6 (02:11):
Times and Trips seven apiece, like any evening paper, the.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Times and Tribune, the morning papers.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
Not in Chicago, mister.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
So there you are in a strange city with a
lot of strangers mining your business and a strange sound
of the police whistles, and a strange big star in
the CoP's uniforms, and strange names.
Speaker 7 (02:35):
On the buses boulevard hoisted state.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
What you need is something familiar to clink to, like
a like a shut glass of purple.
Speaker 7 (02:46):
So up the street you find a tent you sit
down at.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
It's totally strange bar and a totally strange bartender greets you.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
With evening day You are usual?
Speaker 7 (02:56):
Are usual? What's that?
Speaker 6 (03:01):
Always?
Speaker 9 (03:01):
A kiddy scotch on a right soda?
Speaker 7 (03:04):
Ay?
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Your impulses to say I hate scotch, but you don't
say it. Something now that you've discovered where you are, Chicago,
something makes you want to know when you are.
Speaker 7 (03:14):
The newspapers will tell you.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
July thirteenth, nineteen sixty one.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
Yes, sir, all day Scott. You know scotch? You make it?
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Do swipe the warmth of the stuff clunging its way
down the taste, It leads like old iron in your mouth.
You lift the glass of soda. The bartender moves away,
and the stranger in the mirror drops his glass. Oh,
I'll clean that up, mister Marris bartender. Yes, sir, Look,
don't think I'm drunk. But do you know me? Do
(03:49):
I know you?
Speaker 6 (03:50):
What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Do I know?
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Do you know who I am?
Speaker 7 (03:54):
My name? Why? Sure, mister Marius, you're what you're?
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Mister Murray's one of my.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
Mister Morrow, it's one of your regulars. Well tell me
what's my first name? Why? Why?
Speaker 9 (04:06):
I've heard your friends, sir, I've heard them call you, ah,
mister Marsha joke.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
No no, no, no, no, no no my first name?
Speaker 8 (04:14):
Please?
Speaker 9 (04:14):
Why they call you Chuck? I guess it must be Charles. Look,
mister marrish, if you're not feeling that way, wait wait.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
When I sat down, you asked me if I.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
If I wanted the usual, and you served me it's
scotch like always. How long is always?
Speaker 9 (04:32):
Well, let's see, it must be two three years. You've
been coming in nearly every day around this time and
it's always Scotch on the rock, soda on the side.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
Two three years.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
And this is Chicago, Yes, July thirteenth, nineteen sixty one, Yes, sir,
are they?
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (04:48):
Very funny?
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Would you like to hear something really funny, very very funny?
Speaker 9 (04:52):
Why sure, mister marsh anything for a lamb?
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Laugh at this?
Speaker 7 (04:56):
As far as I know, this isn't Chicago. It's New York.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
It is in July nineteen sixty one, it's March nineteen
fifty seven, it's not evening. Okay.
Speaker 7 (05:07):
The funniest of all.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
My name is in Marris, and it isn't Chuck for Charles,
It's Wallers, Edward Eddie, ed Wallers.
Speaker 7 (05:17):
And this will kidre you will die laughing. That isn't
me in the mirror. I never saw that face before
in my life.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Up the street as a cheap hotel where they don't
care what name you register under.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
But the face in the mirror upstairs is still a
stranger's with its gray hair, heavy rimmed like glasses and mustache. Impossible.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Where am I? Later, you're on a jet from New York,
and as it arches across the minds of Manhattan, things
begin to come back.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
Accept it.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
There something missing somewhere, something you almost don't want to remember.
Try as you may. Let's see, let's see, let's see.
Let's take it from the top. That morning you left
your apartment.
Speaker 8 (06:22):
One of mister Wallas I staff don Ryan huh more
than Frank. I'm a little trip massa. How do you
know I've seen the bag said?
Speaker 7 (06:30):
That's all.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Oh well, look, Frank, if if anybody calls this morning,
don't let them disturb missus Wallace.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
She isn't beginning so well, right.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
And if anybody asks about me, well, frankly I'm sneaking
off the flooria.
Speaker 7 (06:45):
To play golf and fish, you know.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
But if anybody asks, I'm out of town on a
business trip. You don't know where I am or when
I'm coming back, right, sure.
Speaker 8 (06:54):
Think, Hey gee, thanks mister Wallace.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
That kind of door. I've never even seen you in
my life.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
So far.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
All clear, cap the Grand Central Station. All clear, drained
to Chicago, heading ultimately for heading for Los Angeles, Portland, Vegas. No, no,
that you can't recall. Oh, for the life of you
while you left after seven years, seven years with the
(07:28):
wrong woman and her men and her bottles and.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
A yackety yackety yackety yack.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
But still you can't really remember much beyond arriving in
Chicago and walking down a dark street.
Speaker 7 (07:43):
Wait, wait, it's all coming back now, mister. Yes you
got a cigarette? Ah for sure, Here help yourself, thanks man,
Oh yes, yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Yes, oh yes, here's here's my line.
Speaker 7 (08:08):
Thanks a million. Yes, nice snider, Yes, spain suit.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Look, if you don't mind, I'll take the satchels too.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
Boy, this is an outreach.
Speaker 8 (08:20):
Just just stick up, don't make waves, put him up
and keep him.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Up hour in the night, over that night in Chicago,
it comes back, his hard, expert hands going over you,
finding your wallet, finding your watch, taking every last penny
taking your train tickets, cleaning you off, holding the gun
on you while he stopped for your bags, And then
I don't like you, mister. Turn around please, I'm a
stranger here in town.
Speaker 7 (08:43):
I don't know a soul. Shit happened.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
That must have been when it began, a slugging in
the dark, and then awakening to find you nothing to
remember yourself by, when a stranger found you in this
parking lot.
Speaker 7 (09:02):
Come morning. Are you all right? I think so? Oh? No,
oh my head. Well let's have a look. Oh you're lucky.
You're alive. Man, been mugged pretty good. Look I tell
you what my office is next door. I suppose you
come in and get cleaned. No, I was going someplace,
(09:23):
but I can't remember.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
All right, If it isn't too much trouble nonsense, you
do the same for me.
Speaker 10 (09:31):
You feel better with some coffee in a shave. Come
on on your feet, fellah. Oh by the way, my
name is Shaw, Clifford Shaw. I'm in real estate.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
I'm my name is Morris, Charles Morris.
Speaker 7 (09:51):
Oh, oh, I get it.
Speaker 10 (09:53):
Marris for that building across the street, Charles for the station.
It doesn't matter, fellah, still stake you to a breakfast.
Speaker 7 (10:02):
No, no, no, you don't understand.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
I don't know my name, I don't know where I am,
who I am, or anything.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
I just don't remember anything.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
And that as the jet winds into its glide path.
For right a while, it's all you can piece together
about how you became Chuck for Charles Morris, how he
made a new life, who helped what he did?
Speaker 7 (10:33):
All gone, and it is useless to you. Now is
yesterday's newspaper.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
What you want is to find out the state of
the life of the man you really are, Ed Walters,
the state of the life and the state of the
wife Bob.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
Home?
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Were the Times and the trip start the day or
morning papers?
Speaker 7 (10:55):
Should your phone first? No, No, she's.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Probably still climbing the wall over this morning's argue. No,
not this morning four years ago. Better better, just walk
in on her surprise helen, surprise taxi, m same lobby,
(11:23):
new elevators, automated.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
Buttons, suppress depress fourteen three. What did you read once
about atnesia? Five? Nature's healing way of helping the mind?
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Forget seven, forget something to mind recoils from remembering.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
Nine.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
A knock on the head is only the trigger to
forgetting eleven What did you want to forget?
Speaker 7 (11:57):
Fourteen? Play it cool, just the truth.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
You've been sick, you've been away, but you're better now,
by gones and all that brand new starred Helen.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
And when she opens the door, smile, smile.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
She used to like your smile now fourteen c Why
didn't you think a flower?
Speaker 7 (12:27):
Stupid? Yes, I'm sorry, I was expecting someone else. Maybe
you've got the wrong apartment. This is fort No, no, no, no,
it's all right. Some friends of mine used to live here.
I've been away.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
I realized it sounds silly, but instead of phoning first,
I wanted to surprise them.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
I'm sorry, it's embarrassed. We all do silly things.
Speaker 11 (12:53):
And maybe I can help you.
Speaker 7 (12:54):
Well, I don't see how well.
Speaker 11 (12:55):
The superintendent readdresses the nail when people move, maybe they
left a forwarding address.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
Call it. She leaves the door open.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
You can see the familiar hall, the job that leads
into the living room.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
And suddenly suddenly you want to get away. Why you
don't know, you can't remember, you don't want to remember.
But but it's too late, and.
Speaker 11 (13:21):
I think I can help you.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
Well, you're really very kind. I hate the trouble you.
Speaker 11 (13:25):
Have in no trouble. The way people move around in
this time, so wonder anybody finds anybody and tear things down?
Speaker 7 (13:31):
Only last week?
Speaker 11 (13:32):
The address, please, I'm sorry, it's uh six nine five
East East fifty third mister and missus Porter, was that
the name Porter?
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Yes, thank you so much, thanks for nothing, Porter Walter's
missus Edward j No, oh, no, way a minute. She
could have moved down after you left. Sure, why keep
up that big place by yourself? Yes, she moved and
(14:07):
the porter's at.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
The apartment dead end.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
What now downtwn to the office to pick up right
where you're left off?
Speaker 7 (14:17):
What for the same old grind?
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Cook up the deal, swing the deals, foul up the deals,
and worse, walk around wondering when you're going to run
into her with another man the way you a way,
Wait a minute, porter, No, no, no, must be a
new one.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
And maybe she married him. I sure sure.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
That's it, she's married again. Grab your hat, missus Porter,
here comes Charlie. No head, I'm getting mixed up again.
Six ninety five East Ooh, Coming up in the World
by Golley Remodeled Brownstone and all that seventy five worth
(15:00):
of decorating on a twenty five thousand dollars frame. I
wonder what he does this porter? Wow, you'll find out. Yes,
missus Porter, Yes, I wonder if you can help me.
I was given your name and addressed by the superintendent
(15:21):
of the apartment house he used to live in.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
Just a moment, may ask who you are?
Speaker 7 (15:25):
Do you have any identification? Huh oh, yes, of course,
forgive me.
Speaker 8 (15:31):
Here's my card, Charles Morris, Real Estate, Chicago.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
What's this all about?
Speaker 5 (15:40):
It's a legal matter, miss Porter. You see, my firm
represents in the state in Chicago. Very complicated hold in Chicago, Washington,
New York. I see, Well, to make a long story short,
we can't seem to locate the walls. Missus Wallace to
be specific, who lived in your apartment fourteen C before you?
Speaker 11 (15:56):
I still don't understand.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
You see, Missus Wallers is one of the people who
signature my er needs to clear up the estate New
York Wise, Well, how can I help you anything?
Speaker 7 (16:06):
You might tell me about them?
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Do you know, by any chance where they went after
they moved out of fourteen C?
Speaker 7 (16:11):
Was not all we were given to understand by the
real estate agent. Was some kind of trouble between them,
Oh trouble, we would you know, No, just trouble. If
you really want to find out.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
I should think you'd go to the police.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
Well, I don't know. I'd hate to do that, so
I'll bet you would.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
The nerve of you coming here like this, I think
I know what the trouble was between the warders.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
Men like you ought to be put away?
Speaker 7 (16:38):
Dead end one? Haven't you left open? Friends, the bets,
the markers and parents? They might know, they might help,
but then again they might not. Who would know?
Speaker 9 (16:52):
Who would know?
Speaker 7 (16:53):
Who would help?
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Something happened back there in fifty seven, back there in fourteen, See,
who would know?
Speaker 7 (17:00):
I should think you'd go to the police. Maybe she
had something there.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
The real estate story is your best card. Yes, they're
missing person's.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Like on the dorm now.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Saying well, I hope so you see, it's it's rather complicated.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
They sit down, Sit down.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
My name is Charles Morris, I'm from Chicago, and here
here's my card and real estate.
Speaker 7 (17:31):
Yes, sir, my firm is involved in an estate problem.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
But some of the titles of the individual parcels aren't clear.
Now there's a missus Edward Waters Waters right, middle initial
J listed is one of the title holders of a
problem parcel.
Speaker 7 (17:44):
We just can't seem to find it. Now.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
I've checked the former addresses. Friends can't locate her.
Speaker 7 (17:50):
Just dropped out of sight. It happens every day.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
So I thought it might simplify matters before engaging a
private investigator if I came to you.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
All right, let's throw throw a check into it, Sam.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
Another copy of the typewriter swings around.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Sam, give me a search on waters Missus Edward J.
What's her first name?
Speaker 7 (18:09):
Well, that would be Helen.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
Try missus Edward J. Then try Helen.
Speaker 8 (18:13):
You take the wanteds I'll take the missing or sometimes
a missing persons wanted to some crime somewhere, so we
file them both in here. I see, but I well,
you never can't tell, never hurts to make sure.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
I want to take a minute to double check.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
And Vykowski Wald Wallace, Walsh, Walton, Walter, Walter Walters with
an ass Walters, Nope, nobody here by that name. Mister Morris, Yeah,
nothing under waters with an ass. Sorry, let me see
(18:51):
what Sam's got under the water.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Oh that's all right, Sorry, And I suppose I'll just have.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
To We might have something here.
Speaker 8 (18:59):
Well, I'm a little pressed for time, I said, hold
on a minute, mister.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Well all right, you sit there with two New York
cops mining your business, and you want to run the way.
The sergeant said, hold on a minute. That was no request,
That was a command. What a fool thing to do?
What a fool place to come to?
Speaker 3 (19:21):
What if?
Speaker 7 (19:22):
What if Helen had done something wrong and you had
to pay for it.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Now they're looking at you, the sergeant and the other cop,
the younger cops coming towards you, passing you, going to
the door.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
He's stopping. You want to.
Speaker 8 (19:38):
Turn, but mas, yes, we find a card here. Yes,
Waters is the name with a mess with an ass Yeah,
missus Edward Waters.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
No, sir, mister, oh well that's a.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
Step in the right direction. I look him up here.
Speaker 8 (19:56):
Don't understand, mister Marris, this is a wanted let me
read it to you.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
Well, I don't think that's necessary. You see, we're not
interested in mister Walters.
Speaker 8 (20:04):
We are, it says here Walters, Edward j. Aged thirty eight.
How are you, mister Morris? Thirty five, height, five feet eleven,
hair black waite.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
Wow, I don't have to go through the whole thing.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
There's a picture, no mustache, no glasses, no crew cut.
But even so, it says something else on the card.
You don't know what it says on the card. One word,
one word, mister Walters.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
All right, I'm Walters, but I got not lead you.
I really was Charles Morris for four years. I just
wanted to find my wife. I can't remember anything. What
does it say on the card you had a knee?
That's a weird story. How can you make him believe you?
Or Sam? The other cop standing with his back to the.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Door, You turn and you are looking straight into a
police positive thirty eight, and it.
Speaker 7 (21:11):
Is looking straight at you, and it is not wobbling,
but everything else is It is getting wobbled. It's hazy, strange.
Forgettish you ahead, what's happening?
Speaker 8 (21:26):
You'll never find your wife, mister Wallers. It says here
you're wanted for a murder hers now come along quiet,
mister Wallers.
Speaker 7 (21:39):
That's best.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Now, Sam mind the store.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Now I know what are you now? Well, I was
trying to forget I killed her.
Speaker 8 (21:50):
Yeah, that's what it says here where on the card.
And you better not talk anything you say, mister Wallers Walters.
Come on, let's go down the hall. You called me Walters, Walters,
marrisavag Yo.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
But who is Walters? My name is Mars.
Speaker 8 (22:09):
Sure it is Let the colorad him Sam Let the headshrinkers.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
Figure this one out my card.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
I'm Chuck Morris, Chicago. Where how did I get hear?
What city is this? What do you want with me?
Speaker 6 (22:27):
Why do you call me Walters? What do you want
with me?
Speaker 4 (22:32):
My name is Morris, Morris Morris.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
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