September 10, 2024 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Dark fantasy.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Rendezvous with sake, My good people, Let us remember him
(00:57):
who was passed not from what he was, not from
what he did, but.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Because he was, as all of us are, a temple
of God.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Let us remember that this which is about to return
to common play, was molded from common play. Today we
gather here to pay our last tribute to this now
still place, lying here.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Before us, cold in the coldness of death. Let us
always remember. Let us always remember.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Then, you see.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
You're sure you.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
I think you though his hand moved, couldn't have car
car Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
M h what what's happened to me?
Speaker 5 (02:24):
Just lie still, carve fisher. This craft is most fragile.
But am I Where would you be after death?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Death?
Speaker 5 (02:39):
You say, dere yes, am I dead? They have your
body in a church, Carl, imagine you in a church. No, no,
you're mistaken, it says, no church.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I'm right here.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Talently you are, yes, but we are most careful when
we bring you here.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
We take every precaution to relieve the shock shock.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
I've finding yourself in the midst of fire and brimstone.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
Has so hot you get used to it.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Where am I? Your soul is here with me?
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Your body is back on Earth at present, resting within
a satin lion coffin coffin. Yes, they're soon going to
place you within a tomb.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Oh, I don't believe you. Don't you.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Personally makes no difference to me whether you do or not.
But for your own satisfaction, suppose you feel for yourself.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Well, yes, reach up.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
With your right hand and reach up, feel the casket
lining by your head.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Go right ahead, Yeah you see, Yes, but I'm lying
in the bottom of a boat.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Only your soul is this is some trick. The boat
is tracking line, I admit, Carl Fisher. I am generally
most concerned about my own comfort.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
But as far as.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Lining one of my boats with satin, no, I fear
that would be too much.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Even for Satan. Satan. Yes, yeah, let me prove to
you the boat is not.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Cloth lining where you see? You, devil, that's irony. You
are the devil, Yes, I am, but not just a
devil the devil. You mean I'm really dead one of
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the dies, Carl, The common clay perishes, Yes, but only
the common clay.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Let me out here. I'm sorry. You see you can't
move until I permit you to. But I moved my
hand a moment ago, felt the lighting in my head.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
That's because I wish you to Nothing is done here
unless I order it done.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Then I am dead, only your body.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
It might interest you to know you caused quite a
commotion up there a moment ago when you interrupted your
funeral oration by suddenly moving in your casket. Yes, quite
a commotion. Only two people saw you. One of them
was a woman. You frightened their Carl. But they've taken
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her away.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Now you mean my body actually is being preached over? Oh? Yes, indeed, yes,
you were.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
A prominent man on earth, Carl. Naturally yours the most
elegant funeral. So many flowers, half of them could be
brought into the church, people standing outside on the sidewalk,
even his lada there, Your wife, oh sat name where
else would she be hm?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
A church? You say?
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Yes, amazing you doesn't it You haven't been in a
church for thirty five years. No, you wouldn't even permit
your daughter to be buried from a church, Carl, but
she went to heaven anyway.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Stop it, stop it. Do you remember Reverend Brooks?
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Carl Brooks, Yes, he mad at you remember today he's
officiating at your funeral.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
No, no, would you like to hear what he's saying?
Speaker 7 (07:13):
God, Listen, If Carl Fisher has brought tragedy into our lives,
let us remember that out of tragedy, good can arise.
Soon that tragedy will be forgotten. But let us never
forget Carl Fisher. Let us remember him always as a Christian.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Here, Carl a Christian, he says, Stop stop that voice. Listen, Carl.
Speaker 7 (07:39):
Let us pray for him often and ask Almighty God
to grant him parton.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Let us be generous.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Towards him that finally, the Supreme Ruler may in turn
be generous towards us.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
No, no, stop him, stop him. I don't want to
hear anymore. You hear what he said. God.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
He asked your and your family, your wife to forget
you were evil, to remember only what was good about you. Yes, Carl,
but that leaves them nothing to remember. Oh, let me
a lull, know, Car, They have nothing to remember because
there was nothing about you that was good.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I didn't have a chance. Chance. You say you didn't
have a chance. Certainly not.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
Man.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
I don't waste my breath by pointing out the chances
you did have. I was forced into everything that happened. First,
I say, well, you certainly I was. Haven't you ever
heard of free will?
Speaker 8 (08:38):
Free will? Free will? You say, I haven't had a
will of my own in the last thirty years, haven't
your card?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Oh? Even though I haven't, I knew what I was
doing wrong. Sure I knew it.
Speaker 8 (08:55):
I'd never have made my millions by being any other way?
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Your million Did you enjoy them?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I was just beginning to. And when I took charge
of you, is that it? Yes? Your millions aren't worth
much here? Where am I? Certainly you haven't lost your imagination?
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Where would you be with fire on all sides and
the smell of brimstone, and with me as your pilot
on the river Sticks Sticks?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
You remember it's our largest river? Where are you taking me?
Speaker 5 (09:36):
I have a special assignment for you, mister Fisher. We
have a certain reserves base on members like you down
here Inferno.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Tell me am I am Hedes. Does that surprise you? No? No,
I can't be. I didn't want to die. I wanted
to do what was right, but I couldn't. You didn't try.
I was going to try.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
You've done nothing but evil for such of years. You
couldn't change now I could.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
I tell you I could.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
No, Car, I'll make a bargain with you, Satan bargain.
No one makes bargains with Satan.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Give me a chance, let me go back, let me
live my life over. I'll change, I swear, I will.
You never change, I will. I will. Let me go back,
let me show you, let me prove I can do
what's right. All right, Car, I'll bargain with you. It
would at least relieve the dumb monot a name. You
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give me a chance.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Yes for twenty four hours, twenty four hours only, twenty
four hours. Yes, do nothing but good for twenty four hours,
and I'll not pretend to claim you.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
But if you fail, I won't fail. I won't. I won't.
It's up to you. It's entirely up to you.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
But remember, in twenty four hours, only, twenty four hours hours.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
You really shouldn't have come tonight, Laura. You should rest,
I know, but I couldn't rest. Poor Karl.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
He needed someone so badly those last few days, and
I was away, never dreaming what was happening.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
You mustn't blame yourself, Laura.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
I can't help it. I feel I deserted my husband,
just when a man needs his wife most. There will
come a time, doctor West, when I'll be afraid to
come out here to the masleum. I wanted to come
tonight to tell him goodbye.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Goodbye.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Yes, I loved my husband David, despite everything he did.
He was the only one I ever cared for.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Here, my dear, I have the key, I say, Laura.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
It's not locked, but I saw you lock it after
the services this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
I did lock it. I'd swear I did.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Open the door.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Yes, do you have a light? Yes? Pocket flesh there.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Oh, David.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Empty the caskets empty, David.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
For Heaven's sakes, what's happened here?
Speaker 6 (12:54):
I don't know, But Carl always said he'd come back.
What Yes, he told me once he had no fear
of death because he knew he could always make a
deal with Satan.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
That. Yes, I lacked at him at the time. But
now I wonder I'd better go now, Laura, shure you're
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feeling all right?
Speaker 4 (13:33):
I know I want to sleep tonight.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
You can relax. I can send you out a nurse
if you like. I'd rather be alone, but if you
need me, please don't hesitate.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
To call good night, my dear.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Good night, David. Thank you so much for being such
a dear.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
I'll call you in the morning. Good night, Kah.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
That's strange. Yes, I'm not hearing things. That's an electric
crazer ronning. It can't be. There's no one in the
apartment but myself.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Carl.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Carl, Carl, col.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Yes, my dear, did you call me?
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Carl?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yes, Laura, what is it?
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Carl? Are you really there?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
What do you mean? Am I really here?
Speaker 5 (14:48):
Of course I'm here, heavens, I was right in the
middle of my shaving, Laura.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
What's the matter with you? Why did you call me?
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Don't come any closer, plieve me. World's gotten into you
all of a sudden, Darling, Is it really you really mean?
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Now? What are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Carl? Don't you know?
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Don't I know what?
Speaker 4 (15:17):
We buried you this afternoon?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Carl, don't look at me like that buried me?
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Yes, Oh, darling, what's happened? Tell me what happened?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
Something's wrong, car, my handling.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Dizzy. I don't remember what happened.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Oh, darling, you're alive long breeding.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
Yes, but I seem to have been away. It was
so hot. There was a boat on a river and
a satinline casket and.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
La Darling, Darling, you did come back? Doctor West said
you would. Doctor West, Yes, David, he said, you told
him once you'd come back after after you'd gone on.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Laura, I have been dead, haven't I? Yes, Carl, I
remember now.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
I was sitting at my desk, sitting alone at night
in my office, and then something happened.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
It was shocked in the back of the neck.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Everything stopped.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
The next thing I knew, I was riding in the
bottom of a boat lined with silk. Oh, that wasn't
the boat that was lying It was the casket. He
told me to move my hand and I'd feel Who Carl,
who told you.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
It was the devil? Carl? Yeah, I died went to Hades,
but I bargained with Satan.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
I bargained with him. He took me up, gave me
twenty four hours.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Twenty four hours, Darling, I don't understand twenty four hours
to prove I could do good here on earth.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Oh, is it true? Can you be real? Yes, it
is true. It's really I.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Can't believe that things like this just don't happen.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
This happened, But Carl, hal I made a bargain. I
tell you a bargain with Satan. I have a rendezvous
to keep with him twenty four hours.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
It's so confused, Carl, if only who could that be.
I'll go see to anyone we know they they won't
understand you. Go back into the bedroom, Dear, I'll see
who it is.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
But the world's got to know. Sometimes people will know
soon enough.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Please, Dear, I'm too upset for a scene. I had
to explain to anyone tonight.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
All right, my dear, if you wish.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Thank you, Darling. That's a moment, David.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
I had to come back, Laura. I couldn't stay away, David.
Please forgive me, dearest. But I've waited so.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Long, David, please get Oh.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
Not until I've talked to you some other time. I
can't wait any longer, Laura.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
It's not fair for you to ask me to not fair.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
You know I love you, Laura. You've known it for
months years, David. You have known, haven't you. Yes, I've
waited so long to have the right to tell you
about my love now.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
I know it's not right to come to you on
the night of your husband's funeral and say these things.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
But I must know, Laura, I must know.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
I have nothing to say to you, David. Nothing.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
I know you were always madly in love with that
middle of a husband of yours, but that's over.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Now you'll have to forget him. I remember, Darling.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
We're a young woman, yet your life is still ahead
of you.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
You can't go on carrying.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
A torch for someone who care more about making a
million dollars.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Than making you happy.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
I have a right to say it now. I've kept
in check all of these years, waiting and hoping, and
now Carl is dead. You hear me, dead dead?
Speaker 1 (19:25):
You belong to me now, No, David, not now? Yes, yes,
I say your mind.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
If anyone has a right to you, I have, after
everything I've done to get you.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Will you go now?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
David? Oh Laura, Laura, I need you. Oh Laura, Please, sir,
you marry me. I'll never marry, but I know you
care for me. I could make you learn to love me.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
I've had nothing for you, David, but friendship I'll never
have more.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
I know that's not true, say that it's not. You
do care for me.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
I could tell, But the way you kissed me, that's
when I first began building my hopes.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Kissed you the dark kiss.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
You haven't forgotten the party in my penthouse, not more
than three months ago, no birthday.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Yes, all the girls kissed you that night, if you remember.
We even made a sort of game out of it,
lined up like a bunch of high school girls to
compliment our hosts.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
Yes, but you meant more than just to compliment that
you imagine.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Oh No, I kissed you just like the others, in
full sight of my husband, and I might add to
his complete amusement.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Carl wasn't in the room.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
You waited until he'd left before you got into line.
I knew that night you cared for me. That's when
I began planning to make you mind.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
David. Will you please go?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Not until you've told me you'll marry me.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
I've told you I won't.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
There's someone else, only my husband, someone else, someone who's alive.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Please go, David? What's that I want you to go?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
In that other room?
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
What are you?
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Nothing at all?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
What are you doing?
Speaker 4 (21:05):
I don't want you to ever come back here?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
David? What are you doing?
Speaker 4 (21:11):
I'm locking this door. I'm in no mood to have
you go. Rundsack in my place.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
There's someone in the room, David. So you couldn't wait
till your husband was safely buried. Couldn't wait, David. Well,
he won't have you. You'll hear me. He won't have you, David.
Please go now, very well. I'm telling you this, Laura.
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He won't have you. Whoever he is, he'll never have you.
I promise you.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
That, Carl, you heard.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Yes, well, glad, Carl. She's been having an affair behind
your back, hasn't she. She deserves to be killed, doesn't
she went? Go ahead and kill her.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
I don't have to tell you, Carl, I've never cared
for him.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Go ahead, car, kill her. She's lying, don't you think?
Speaker 4 (22:33):
No one but you, Darling.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Ever, I can still tempt your car. That's my jump,
That's how I keep my fires burning.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
I know you believe me, Karl, No, don't believe her.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
She's never lied to you before, but there's always the
first time.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Darling.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Please don't stand there looking at me. Say something.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
She wants you to see something. Will go ahead, say something, Darling.
Speaker 6 (23:08):
It's all right, dearest, I believe you. I wonder what
people will say when I walk out into the world again, Carl.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Don't you think it would be best for us to
go away quietly someplace where it would never be recognized.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Oh, Laura, I have a bargain to fulfill only until
three this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
You'll spend that time with me?
Speaker 6 (23:44):
Then, I'm sorry, I can't. There's more to be done,
probably either of us. Imagine where are you going to
the authors first?
Speaker 4 (23:55):
I'll go with you, dear.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
I'll come back to you before I leave you again,
to keep my rendezvous with Say.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Good morning, miss Walling, Good morning mister Fisher. You early
this morning is to fish you than to Fisher.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
Oh oh oh wow, confounded girl, I shouldn't made a scene.
I'll spend all morning explaining, and I'm enjoying how myself
in the office.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
West Come in, Carl. I've been waiting for you, sitting
in my chair at my desk. Yes, this is your gun,
I believe. What's the meaning of this? I'm prepared to
make a bargain with you.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
Bargain? Yes, what sort of a bargain? You died without
leaving a will. I have one here, dated three months
before your death.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Sign it.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
The business becomes mine, and I'll permit you to take
away half of your seven million dollars and Laura, you
permit me. Yes, you couldn't operate your business now. People
wouldn't want to do business with the dead.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Man who I look dead to you, Lord, be facetious.
I'm serious.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
I know all about what happened to you. When I
came back to see Laura last night. I heard you
talking before I pushed the buzzer. I don't understand it all,
but I'm prepared to give Laura up for your business
and half your cash.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
You killed me what you killed me, Fisher? Keep back.
I see it clearly now. I see now that Laura
wasn't lying to me last night. She's never cared for you.
I warn you, keep back, Fisher.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
I remember what you said to her, he said, if
anyone has a right to you.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Laura, I have after everything I've done to get you this.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
Gunners loaded, Carl. Yes, I see it all clearly. Now
stay back, stay away from me. The night she kissed
you at the party, Remember what you said about that
last night? That was the night you began planning to
make her you.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
If you coming in there, I'll shoot. I'm not going
to harm you.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
Adopt her West it's like to get your hands on
this gun.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
You'd like to kill me, wouldn't you kill you? No,
I can't kill you. I've made a bargain not to
and keep back. I could kill you at all. I've
been proclaimed legally dead. You know you can't hang a
dead man. Keep back one step father and our shoot.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
I told you I don't intend to hire love.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Stop where you are. I just want you to take
a good look at me. Docter stop, not one step father,
not one.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Step Laura, Oh, darling, are you hurt?
Speaker 1 (27:11):
H it's nothing. He shot you, Carl, Laura, But that
gun in your hand. I followed you here.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
I don't know why I brought the.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Gun, Laura. You killed him. Give it to me, Give
it to me, Give it to me.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Cars Get you a doctor.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Look at the clock. No time for a doctor, doesn't matter.
Give me that gun. Give it to me. Yeah, no, no, dy,
lit't think we shot each other.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
Col h Carl, Oh.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
My darling, you have won your bargain. Carl Fisher. There's
no please here for you now.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
And.
Speaker 9 (28:39):
You have heard Rendezvous with Satan Tonight's original tale of
doc Fantasy by Scott Fisher, originating in the Studios of
w k Y. Ben Morris was Carl Fisher. Bloyce Wright
played doctor David West. Eleanor nee Lacorran was Laura Fisher.
Fred Wayne took the part of Satan. Your Height was
heard as Reverend Brooks, and Georgiana Cook played the Secretary.
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Next Friday, at this time, listen for Scott Bishop's I
Am Your Brother. Tom Paxton speaking Dark Fantasy comes to
you each Friday night from Oklahoma City.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
This is the National Broadcasting Company
Dark fantasy.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Rendezvous with sake, My good people, Let us remember him
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who was passed not from what he was, not from
what he did, but.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Because he was, as all of us are, a temple
of God.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Let us remember that this which is about to return
to common play, was molded from common play. Today we
gather here to pay our last tribute to this now
still place, lying here.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Before us, cold in the coldness of death. Let us
always remember. Let us always remember.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Then, you see.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
You're sure you.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
I think you though his hand moved, couldn't have car
car Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
M h what what's happened to me?
Speaker 5 (02:24):
Just lie still, carve fisher. This craft is most fragile.
But am I Where would you be after death?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Death?
Speaker 5 (02:39):
You say, dere yes, am I dead? They have your
body in a church, Carl, imagine you in a church. No, no,
you're mistaken, it says, no church.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I'm right here.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Talently you are, yes, but we are most careful when
we bring you here.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
We take every precaution to relieve the shock shock.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
I've finding yourself in the midst of fire and brimstone.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
Has so hot you get used to it.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Where am I? Your soul is here with me?
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Your body is back on Earth at present, resting within
a satin lion coffin coffin. Yes, they're soon going to
place you within a tomb.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Oh, I don't believe you. Don't you.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Personally makes no difference to me whether you do or not.
But for your own satisfaction, suppose you feel for yourself.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Well, yes, reach up.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
With your right hand and reach up, feel the casket
lining by your head.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Go right ahead, Yeah you see, Yes, but I'm lying
in the bottom of a boat.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Only your soul is this is some trick. The boat
is tracking line, I admit, Carl Fisher. I am generally
most concerned about my own comfort.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
But as far as.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Lining one of my boats with satin, no, I fear
that would be too much.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Even for Satan. Satan. Yes, yeah, let me prove to
you the boat is not.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Cloth lining where you see? You, devil, that's irony. You
are the devil, Yes, I am, but not just a
devil the devil. You mean I'm really dead one of
(05:09):
the dies, Carl, The common clay perishes, Yes, but only
the common clay.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Let me out here. I'm sorry. You see you can't
move until I permit you to. But I moved my
hand a moment ago, felt the lighting in my head.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
That's because I wish you to Nothing is done here
unless I order it done.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Then I am dead, only your body.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
It might interest you to know you caused quite a
commotion up there a moment ago when you interrupted your
funeral oration by suddenly moving in your casket. Yes, quite
a commotion. Only two people saw you. One of them
was a woman. You frightened their Carl. But they've taken
(06:07):
her away.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Now you mean my body actually is being preached over? Oh? Yes, indeed, yes,
you were.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
A prominent man on earth, Carl. Naturally yours the most
elegant funeral. So many flowers, half of them could be
brought into the church, people standing outside on the sidewalk,
even his lada there, Your wife, oh sat name where
else would she be hm?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
A church? You say?
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Yes, amazing you doesn't it You haven't been in a
church for thirty five years. No, you wouldn't even permit
your daughter to be buried from a church, Carl, but
she went to heaven anyway.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Stop it, stop it. Do you remember Reverend Brooks?
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Carl Brooks, Yes, he mad at you remember today he's
officiating at your funeral.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
No, no, would you like to hear what he's saying?
Speaker 7 (07:13):
God, Listen, If Carl Fisher has brought tragedy into our lives,
let us remember that out of tragedy, good can arise.
Soon that tragedy will be forgotten. But let us never
forget Carl Fisher. Let us remember him always as a Christian.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Here, Carl a Christian, he says, Stop stop that voice. Listen, Carl.
Speaker 7 (07:39):
Let us pray for him often and ask Almighty God
to grant him parton.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Let us be generous.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Towards him that finally, the Supreme Ruler may in turn
be generous towards us.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
No, no, stop him, stop him. I don't want to
hear anymore. You hear what he said. God.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
He asked your and your family, your wife to forget
you were evil, to remember only what was good about you. Yes, Carl,
but that leaves them nothing to remember. Oh, let me
a lull, know, Car, They have nothing to remember because
there was nothing about you that was good.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I didn't have a chance. Chance. You say you didn't
have a chance. Certainly not.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
Man.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
I don't waste my breath by pointing out the chances
you did have. I was forced into everything that happened. First,
I say, well, you certainly I was. Haven't you ever
heard of free will?
Speaker 8 (08:38):
Free will? Free will? You say, I haven't had a
will of my own in the last thirty years, haven't
your card?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Oh? Even though I haven't, I knew what I was
doing wrong. Sure I knew it.
Speaker 8 (08:55):
I'd never have made my millions by being any other way?
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Your million Did you enjoy them?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I was just beginning to. And when I took charge
of you, is that it? Yes? Your millions aren't worth
much here? Where am I? Certainly you haven't lost your imagination?
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Where would you be with fire on all sides and
the smell of brimstone, and with me as your pilot
on the river Sticks Sticks?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
You remember it's our largest river? Where are you taking me?
Speaker 5 (09:36):
I have a special assignment for you, mister Fisher. We
have a certain reserves base on members like you down
here Inferno.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Tell me am I am Hedes. Does that surprise you? No? No,
I can't be. I didn't want to die. I wanted
to do what was right, but I couldn't. You didn't try.
I was going to try.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
You've done nothing but evil for such of years. You
couldn't change now I could.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
I tell you I could.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
No, Car, I'll make a bargain with you, Satan bargain.
No one makes bargains with Satan.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Give me a chance, let me go back, let me
live my life over. I'll change, I swear, I will.
You never change, I will. I will. Let me go back,
let me show you, let me prove I can do
what's right. All right, Car, I'll bargain with you. It
would at least relieve the dumb monot a name. You
(10:37):
give me a chance.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Yes for twenty four hours, twenty four hours only, twenty
four hours. Yes, do nothing but good for twenty four hours,
and I'll not pretend to claim you.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
But if you fail, I won't fail. I won't. I won't.
It's up to you. It's entirely up to you.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
But remember, in twenty four hours, only, twenty four hours hours.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
You really shouldn't have come tonight, Laura. You should rest,
I know, but I couldn't rest. Poor Karl.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
He needed someone so badly those last few days, and
I was away, never dreaming what was happening.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
You mustn't blame yourself, Laura.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
I can't help it. I feel I deserted my husband,
just when a man needs his wife most. There will
come a time, doctor West, when I'll be afraid to
come out here to the masleum. I wanted to come
tonight to tell him goodbye.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Goodbye.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Yes, I loved my husband David, despite everything he did.
He was the only one I ever cared for.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Here, my dear, I have the key, I say, Laura.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
It's not locked, but I saw you lock it after
the services this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
I did lock it. I'd swear I did.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Open the door.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Yes, do you have a light? Yes? Pocket flesh there.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Oh, David.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Empty the caskets empty, David.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
For Heaven's sakes, what's happened here?
Speaker 6 (12:54):
I don't know, But Carl always said he'd come back.
What Yes, he told me once he had no fear
of death because he knew he could always make a
deal with Satan.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
That. Yes, I lacked at him at the time. But
now I wonder I'd better go now, Laura, shure you're
(13:31):
feeling all right?
Speaker 4 (13:33):
I know I want to sleep tonight.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
You can relax. I can send you out a nurse
if you like. I'd rather be alone, but if you
need me, please don't hesitate.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
To call good night, my dear.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Good night, David. Thank you so much for being such
a dear.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
I'll call you in the morning. Good night, Kah.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
That's strange. Yes, I'm not hearing things. That's an electric
crazer ronning. It can't be. There's no one in the
apartment but myself.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Carl.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Carl, Carl, col.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Yes, my dear, did you call me?
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Carl?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yes, Laura, what is it?
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Carl? Are you really there?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
What do you mean? Am I really here?
Speaker 5 (14:48):
Of course I'm here, heavens, I was right in the
middle of my shaving, Laura.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
What's the matter with you? Why did you call me?
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Don't come any closer, plieve me. World's gotten into you
all of a sudden, Darling, Is it really you really mean?
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Now? What are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Carl? Don't you know?
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Don't I know what?
Speaker 4 (15:17):
We buried you this afternoon?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Carl, don't look at me like that buried me?
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Yes, Oh, darling, what's happened? Tell me what happened?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
Something's wrong, car, my handling.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Dizzy. I don't remember what happened.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Oh, darling, you're alive long breeding.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
Yes, but I seem to have been away. It was
so hot. There was a boat on a river and
a satinline casket and.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
La Darling, Darling, you did come back? Doctor West said
you would. Doctor West, Yes, David, he said, you told
him once you'd come back after after you'd gone on.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Laura, I have been dead, haven't I? Yes, Carl, I
remember now.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
I was sitting at my desk, sitting alone at night
in my office, and then something happened.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
It was shocked in the back of the neck.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Everything stopped.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
The next thing I knew, I was riding in the
bottom of a boat lined with silk. Oh, that wasn't
the boat that was lying It was the casket. He
told me to move my hand and I'd feel Who Carl,
who told you.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
It was the devil? Carl? Yeah, I died went to Hades,
but I bargained with Satan.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
I bargained with him. He took me up, gave me
twenty four hours.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Twenty four hours, Darling, I don't understand twenty four hours
to prove I could do good here on earth.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Oh, is it true? Can you be real? Yes, it
is true. It's really I.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Can't believe that things like this just don't happen.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
This happened, But Carl, hal I made a bargain. I
tell you a bargain with Satan. I have a rendezvous
to keep with him twenty four hours.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
It's so confused, Carl, if only who could that be.
I'll go see to anyone we know they they won't
understand you. Go back into the bedroom, Dear, I'll see
who it is.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
But the world's got to know. Sometimes people will know
soon enough.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Please, Dear, I'm too upset for a scene. I had
to explain to anyone tonight.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
All right, my dear, if you wish.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Thank you, Darling. That's a moment, David.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
I had to come back, Laura. I couldn't stay away, David.
Please forgive me, dearest. But I've waited so.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Long, David, please get Oh.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
Not until I've talked to you some other time. I
can't wait any longer, Laura.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
It's not fair for you to ask me to not fair.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
You know I love you, Laura. You've known it for
months years, David. You have known, haven't you. Yes, I've
waited so long to have the right to tell you
about my love now.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
I know it's not right to come to you on
the night of your husband's funeral and say these things.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
But I must know, Laura, I must know.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
I have nothing to say to you, David. Nothing.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
I know you were always madly in love with that
middle of a husband of yours, but that's over.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Now you'll have to forget him. I remember, Darling.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
We're a young woman, yet your life is still ahead
of you.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
You can't go on carrying.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
A torch for someone who care more about making a
million dollars.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Than making you happy.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
I have a right to say it now. I've kept
in check all of these years, waiting and hoping, and
now Carl is dead. You hear me, dead dead?
Speaker 1 (19:25):
You belong to me now, No, David, not now? Yes, yes,
I say your mind.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
If anyone has a right to you, I have, after
everything I've done to get you.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Will you go now?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
David? Oh Laura, Laura, I need you. Oh Laura, Please, sir,
you marry me. I'll never marry, but I know you
care for me. I could make you learn to love me.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
I've had nothing for you, David, but friendship I'll never
have more.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
I know that's not true, say that it's not. You
do care for me.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
I could tell, But the way you kissed me, that's
when I first began building my hopes.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Kissed you the dark kiss.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
You haven't forgotten the party in my penthouse, not more
than three months ago, no birthday.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Yes, all the girls kissed you that night, if you remember.
We even made a sort of game out of it,
lined up like a bunch of high school girls to
compliment our hosts.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
Yes, but you meant more than just to compliment that
you imagine.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Oh No, I kissed you just like the others, in
full sight of my husband, and I might add to
his complete amusement.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Carl wasn't in the room.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
You waited until he'd left before you got into line.
I knew that night you cared for me. That's when
I began planning to make you mind.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
David. Will you please go?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Not until you've told me you'll marry me.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
I've told you I won't.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
There's someone else, only my husband, someone else, someone who's alive.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Please go, David? What's that I want you to go?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
In that other room?
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
What are you?
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Nothing at all?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
What are you doing?
Speaker 4 (21:05):
I don't want you to ever come back here?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
David? What are you doing?
Speaker 4 (21:11):
I'm locking this door. I'm in no mood to have
you go. Rundsack in my place.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
There's someone in the room, David. So you couldn't wait
till your husband was safely buried. Couldn't wait, David. Well,
he won't have you. You'll hear me. He won't have you, David.
Please go now, very well. I'm telling you this, Laura.
(21:43):
He won't have you. Whoever he is, he'll never have you.
I promise you.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
That, Carl, you heard.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Yes, well, glad, Carl. She's been having an affair behind
your back, hasn't she. She deserves to be killed, doesn't
she went? Go ahead and kill her.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
I don't have to tell you, Carl, I've never cared
for him.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Go ahead, car, kill her. She's lying, don't you think?
Speaker 4 (22:33):
No one but you, Darling.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Ever, I can still tempt your car. That's my jump,
That's how I keep my fires burning.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
I know you believe me, Karl, No, don't believe her.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
She's never lied to you before, but there's always the
first time.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Darling.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Please don't stand there looking at me. Say something.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
She wants you to see something. Will go ahead, say something, Darling.
Speaker 6 (23:08):
It's all right, dearest, I believe you. I wonder what
people will say when I walk out into the world again, Carl.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Don't you think it would be best for us to
go away quietly someplace where it would never be recognized.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Oh, Laura, I have a bargain to fulfill only until
three this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
You'll spend that time with me?
Speaker 6 (23:44):
Then, I'm sorry, I can't. There's more to be done,
probably either of us. Imagine where are you going to
the authors first?
Speaker 4 (23:55):
I'll go with you, dear.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
I'll come back to you before I leave you again,
to keep my rendezvous with Say.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Good morning, miss Walling, Good morning mister Fisher. You early
this morning is to fish you than to Fisher.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
Oh oh oh wow, confounded girl, I shouldn't made a scene.
I'll spend all morning explaining, and I'm enjoying how myself
in the office.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
West Come in, Carl. I've been waiting for you, sitting
in my chair at my desk. Yes, this is your gun,
I believe. What's the meaning of this? I'm prepared to
make a bargain with you.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
Bargain? Yes, what sort of a bargain? You died without
leaving a will. I have one here, dated three months
before your death.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Sign it.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
The business becomes mine, and I'll permit you to take
away half of your seven million dollars and Laura, you
permit me. Yes, you couldn't operate your business now. People
wouldn't want to do business with the dead.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Man who I look dead to you, Lord, be facetious.
I'm serious.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
I know all about what happened to you. When I
came back to see Laura last night. I heard you
talking before I pushed the buzzer. I don't understand it all,
but I'm prepared to give Laura up for your business
and half your cash.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
You killed me what you killed me, Fisher? Keep back.
I see it clearly now. I see now that Laura
wasn't lying to me last night. She's never cared for you.
I warn you, keep back, Fisher.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
I remember what you said to her, he said, if
anyone has a right to you.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Laura, I have after everything I've done to get you this.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
Gunners loaded, Carl. Yes, I see it all clearly. Now
stay back, stay away from me. The night she kissed
you at the party, Remember what you said about that
last night? That was the night you began planning to
make her you.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
If you coming in there, I'll shoot. I'm not going
to harm you.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
Adopt her West it's like to get your hands on
this gun.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
You'd like to kill me, wouldn't you kill you? No,
I can't kill you. I've made a bargain not to
and keep back. I could kill you at all. I've
been proclaimed legally dead. You know you can't hang a
dead man. Keep back one step father and our shoot.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
I told you I don't intend to hire love.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Stop where you are. I just want you to take
a good look at me. Docter stop, not one step father,
not one.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Step Laura, Oh, darling, are you hurt?
Speaker 1 (27:11):
H it's nothing. He shot you, Carl, Laura, But that
gun in your hand. I followed you here.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
I don't know why I brought the.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Gun, Laura. You killed him. Give it to me, Give
it to me, Give it to me.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Cars Get you a doctor.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Look at the clock. No time for a doctor, doesn't matter.
Give me that gun. Give it to me. Yeah, no, no, dy,
lit't think we shot each other.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
Col h Carl, Oh.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
My darling, you have won your bargain. Carl Fisher. There's
no please here for you now.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
And.
Speaker 9 (28:39):
You have heard Rendezvous with Satan Tonight's original tale of
doc Fantasy by Scott Fisher, originating in the Studios of
w k Y. Ben Morris was Carl Fisher. Bloyce Wright
played doctor David West. Eleanor nee Lacorran was Laura Fisher.
Fred Wayne took the part of Satan. Your Height was
heard as Reverend Brooks, and Georgiana Cook played the Secretary.
(29:02):
Next Friday, at this time, listen for Scott Bishop's I
Am Your Brother. Tom Paxton speaking Dark Fantasy comes to
you each Friday night from Oklahoma City.
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