May 6, 2025 • 44 mins
A suspense series featuring mysterious tales with a twist, ranging from psychological thrillers to eerie supernatural encounters. Each episode is crafted for maximum tension.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Come in and.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Welcome.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
I am E. G.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Marshall.
Speaker 5 (00:29):
Our tale is all about dying.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Not about death, but about the actual moment of dying
and how it should.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Be approached and dealt with. I think a lot about
the moment of.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Dying my own, of course. I picture myself in a
beautiful and rather picturesque bed, something I don't own at
the moment, but I have time.
Speaker 6 (00:51):
I'll get around to it.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
My lovely wife who will survive me, holding my feeble hand,
my children at the foot of the beautiful bed, looking
at me tenderly, and me looking softly at them and
saying softly.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
It's good. Heavens, What will I say?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I've been so busy setting the scene, I haven't got
around the thinking of anything to say.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Aren't you tell me?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
All right?
Speaker 7 (01:19):
I can't why, No, it's easy, I can.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Not quight No, But you'll love it here.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Later maybe maybe later.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
But when.
Speaker 7 (01:39):
As soon as I'm finished here, I guess if you
are finished, my.
Speaker 8 (01:44):
Friend, don't you know that?
Speaker 7 (01:48):
Not quite not quite finished, not quite yet, Oh but
you are finished.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Our mystery drama Death is So Trivial, was written especially
for the Mystery.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
There by els Eric and stars.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Tony Robert and Christopher TABORI m it seems most strange
to me that men should fear seeing death unnecessary. End
will come when it will come. Those words were written
(02:41):
by William Shakespeare. The important line is the last one
will come when it will come, not when it is expected,
not when it is convenient, not even when it is desired.
No death will come when it will come, which is
(03:01):
the theme of our strange tale. There I was walking
to work as usual, taking deep breadths to expand my lung,
was noting the time at.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Regular intervals to be certain might arrive at the library
on the top, waiting for every street crossing light.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
When I was dead, well, I suppose that.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
The thumb were the last to come out of my mouth,
and nobody.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Heard it but me.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
The next fountain to reach.
Speaker 7 (03:42):
My ears were so incredibly beautiful that I lay quietly
in the street and listened.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
What else, after all, was there for me to do?
Speaker 7 (03:55):
There were voices, a marvelous blend of voices, coming from
far far away.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
And I knew.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
I don't know how I knew, but I.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Knew that these were the voices of those who had
died before me, and they were summoning me.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
To join them in a place of eternal joy.
Speaker 7 (04:19):
I was about to do so, indeed, I was anxious
to do so, when suddenly it had never happened to
me before in all my twenty four years. Suddenly I
became absolutely furious.
Speaker 9 (04:37):
Believe somebody, why is there a policemen around?
Speaker 7 (04:41):
And you didn't I heard some young female school for
a policeman, But I didn't care much.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
I James Blake, was enjoying a sensation.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I had not felt since when. I can't remember when.
It must have been many many years before, yet I
had once. It's because it swept over me. I felt
such a surge of help and strength.
Speaker 7 (05:07):
And power that it was impossible for me to think
of myself as it's dead, which is what I most
certainly was dead.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I'm hearing that I was dead.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I saw the whole thing.
Speaker 8 (05:28):
That man got in the car.
Speaker 9 (05:29):
That's a crazy man.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I thought you were doing sixty miles an hour.
Speaker 9 (05:33):
I was very nasty, went right next through.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
The red light. He never slowed down, let alone stop.
I think he was drunk.
Speaker 9 (05:39):
It must have been driving. I got one of those
expensive thought cars.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I mean it was yellow.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Yeah, yes, I'm positive it was yellow.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Unfortunately I didn't get the license number. And this poor man,
it really is dead, isn't he? Are you gonna take
him to the moors?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I listened with a sort of detached interest.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
The police questioned a few other people who have seen
the accidents the end of my life, and everyone said, yes,
the light had been with me.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I hadn't had a chance. The driver must have been
drunk or stone, et cetera, et cetera. It all seems
very unimportant, and I was completely absorbed in my.
Speaker 7 (06:16):
Own new sensation, deep implacable anger.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Who what's the ambulance for?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Oh, you're gonna take him to the city hospital.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Do you think there's a chance.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (06:30):
I hope so, But he certainly looks dead to me still,
if there's any chance at all.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
I watched them put my used up body in the ambulance.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
And I knew everyone would do his duty. I didn't care.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
I knew I was dead, and I was furious.
Speaker 9 (06:49):
I certainly hope there's a chance for him, I do hope.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
So there I was all alone, somewhere between heaven and
the well, not even my body to hold.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Me in place, n I have the quiet dimmed.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
One small voice, one sweet small voice, separated itself from
all the others and spoke to me.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
What's the matter, James?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Well? Who you speaking to me?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Of course?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Aren't you going to join us?
Speaker 10 (07:31):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
I can't.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
But you'll love it here?
Speaker 7 (07:38):
May maybe later, later, maybe, Wendy.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Soon as I'm finished here, I guess.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
But you are finished, you know that, but not quite.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Not quite finished, not quite yet.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Well, of course, if you want to stay in limbo forever?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Is that where I am in limbo?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Well, you're not with the dead and you're not with
the living.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
What would you call it?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Am I a ghost? Of course not?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
You have to be properly dead before you can be
a ghost.
Speaker 8 (08:20):
I don't know what you are really.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
However, if that's the way you want it, don't go away?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Oh please, don't go away.
Speaker 8 (08:30):
What do you want me to do? I don't wanna
live in limbo?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Couldn't you sort of stick around in a while?
Speaker 11 (08:38):
What?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Goose? I need someone to talk to right now?
Speaker 8 (08:43):
If you're a funny one, you are.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Now, what's so funny about me?
Speaker 11 (08:49):
Most people in your situation, which I might remind you,
is scarcely unique can't wait to join us.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
You keep hanging back for some reason.
Speaker 8 (08:59):
I can't father.
Speaker 7 (09:01):
I I I want to join you, especially now that
you and I have met, well sort of met.
Speaker 8 (09:10):
Why don't we really meet? Why not, James?
Speaker 5 (09:15):
You seem to know my name, but I don't know yours.
Speaker 8 (09:18):
We don't bother much with names here.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
When I was alive, they called me Cynthia.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
What a beautiful name, Cynthia.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
I do want to join you, then, why don't you
because I'm so angry? Uh, I don't want you to
see me for the first time, all all wild.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Up like this.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
I'm not like this, really never have been well.
Speaker 11 (09:45):
If you wanna stay in Rimbo indefinitely, Cynthia, how can
I explain it to you so you'll understand.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
It's the senselessness, a pure utter idiocy of it.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
I don't know why, but suddenly I can't stand it.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I suppose because it happened to me.
Speaker 7 (10:02):
I know people have to die, but but not so trivially,
not because somebody ran through a red light.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Not for that.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
It's benown to happen, Oh, Cynthia.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
I never thought it would happen to me, to die
in such.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
A stupid, senseless.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Way, How did you think it would happen?
Speaker 7 (10:21):
I don't know, But all my life I've been so sensible,
sensible above everything else, never caused trouble, never got mixed
up in anything.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Never an egg way.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
You do understand what course I do?
Speaker 10 (10:35):
And now.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Well, I may not have had much of a life.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
As I look back on it, it wasn't much, but it
could have changed.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
And anyway, damn it, it was mine.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
And no boozed up bonehead had the right to snatch
it away from me.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I'm so mad. I a spit.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Oh shame, Cynthia.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
You may not believe this, but like this second, I feel.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
More alive than I ever did while I was living.
Speaker 7 (11:01):
There must be other people, people right here in this town,
who are gonna die for no reason at all, just
by accident. Cynthia, I can't leave this earth till I
stop all these ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Deaths, all of them.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
All of them.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
I'm gonna dedicate my entire afterlife to it.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I shall not have died in.
Speaker 12 (11:23):
Vain medical Examiner's office, Doctor.
Speaker 10 (11:35):
Carling Rallier, this is doctor Hatch. Glad you're there.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I came in early, first damned job.
Speaker 7 (11:41):
You know, yes, I know, and that's why I hate
to tell you, but you may have to go alone.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
You said alone, You're you're not coming in?
Speaker 10 (11:50):
Well, my uh wife's not well.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Oh I'm sorry.
Speaker 10 (11:54):
Maybe nothing serious. But on the other hand, you'll be
able to manage, won't you.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I think so. Nobody's been brought in yet.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Uh, I'll spot you soon. Looks like a dead one
to me.
Speaker 12 (12:06):
Put 'em on the table, boys and let me have
a re fort.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
Run over by an automobile. Doctor Hatch, looks like a
dead one to me.
Speaker 10 (12:13):
Well you know the procedure, doctor Crowley, just for your.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Head, Yes, sir, I will.
Speaker 10 (12:18):
I'll be in as soon as I feel I canna
leave my wife.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Oh a doctor Hatch, Eh, yeah, what is it?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Maybe this one is be.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
Dead after all, I can't see him times of respiration.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
But on the other hand, he looks, he looks looks
how he looks so angry?
Speaker 10 (12:34):
Doctor?
Speaker 7 (12:36):
I bet I get to him right away. I never
saw anybody look so angry.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
You must be alive.
Speaker 7 (12:44):
Nobody could be dead and look so so enraged.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
How do you intend to part saying on your actor life?
Speaker 6 (12:57):
Well, well, I.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Haven't point figured that out. This is a very new
to me. You understand I.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
See dogs starting along highway?
Speaker 8 (13:06):
You too? Are you interested in dog?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Anybody anything? We're on the highway.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
You just get to the intersection, Jackson Bugabard.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
That's a terrible intersection. Nobody stops for anybody.
Speaker 7 (13:19):
Now, marvelous how you can get around when you've got
nobody in there?
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Here, little white dog, curly.
Speaker 12 (13:26):
Down or silly little thing.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Don't see that big blue station liking it's going to
hit him, don't.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
I've got it, got him from there, I've saved him.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
You'll probably get run over anyhow, one of these things.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
No he won't, No, he won't. I'm going to keep
my eye on him.
Speaker 8 (13:47):
What about all the others?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Them too?
Speaker 7 (13:49):
And cats and people and everybody?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
H then's there?
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Why did it take me too long to find out
what I was born to do?
Speaker 3 (13:59):
I could have spit by a whole.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Like doing this, Crincian.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
My after life is going to be a hundred times
more exciting.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
Than my life ever.
Speaker 13 (14:09):
Once I can't understand you and all my friends, the
official muscles should be completely relauh.
Speaker 9 (14:22):
Come in, Oh uh, I I know I I'm not
supposed to be here now.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
You're certainly not supposed to be here.
Speaker 9 (14:31):
But I I saw the accident and I was interested
in this. The officer said they'd bring him here.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Is that him?
Speaker 6 (14:38):
Look, you can't come in here.
Speaker 9 (14:40):
I I just wanna know if there's any hope.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
M may I clean.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
There's no hope.
Speaker 11 (14:48):
Yes, that's him.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
He's dead. Oh my gosh, what is it?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
What he's moved?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
He's moved.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
I I didn't see him moved.
Speaker 10 (15:00):
No.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I mean when you knocked at the door.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
I was trying to find his pulse. There wasn't any.
His arms were straight down at his side.
Speaker 9 (15:07):
Now look at them, God, just like he was hugging
something or carrying something.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
This man can't be dead.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
He can't be.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I had always thought that at the moment of dying,
the soul separated itself from the body and went his
own way, while the body stayed behind, to be finally
disposed of with some degree of circumspection at a greater
or lesser expense. But what if a particular soul is
too stubborn to leave the body it has inhabited for
(15:49):
so long, too stubborn and too angry. I'll be back
shortly with that too. Our hero, James Blake appears to
be leading a double life in spite of the fact
(16:10):
that he is dead.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
His spirit is floating in the ether.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Between heaven and Earth, pausing only long enough to save
some innocent from accidental demise. While his body lies on
a slab at the city hospital, watched with both horror
and fascination by a nervous intern and a young girl.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
He doesn't look mad anymore mad. When they first brought
him in, he had such a look.
Speaker 7 (16:36):
On his face you wouldn't believe a person could look
so so angry as that somebody had played a dirty
trick on him and he wanted.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
To get even Well.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Uh, a man who has just been run over.
Speaker 9 (16:47):
A dead many positively is dead.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
As hard as his beating, he isn't breathing.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Well, couldn't he be enough?
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Well, we'll watch him a call it coma uh maybe
or a shock.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
Even so, there ought to be some sign of life,
even if it's very faint.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
There's gotta be some reason why he's got his arms
that caught his dead like that, and.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
His hands, I mean, his fingers are bent like like
he was, I don't know, like he was.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Sort of crazily something like. But he was carrying a baby.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Excuse me?
Speaker 7 (17:21):
Oh sure, medical examiner, Dr Crowley, Doctor Crowley, everything well,
all right, I guess only doctor Hatch, the man that
was brought in just a little while ago, James Blake
getting run victim?
Speaker 10 (17:39):
What about him?
Speaker 6 (17:40):
There's no Bible.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Signs, doctor Hatch, none that I can find anyway.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
But there's something I can't figure it out.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
He was stretched down on the table and I was
looking for a postby both his hands were decided.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
And what I just left for a few seconds.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
There was someone at the door, and when when we
when I got back.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
To him, his arm had moved up to his chest.
Speaker 6 (18:01):
His elbows were then.
Speaker 10 (18:03):
Reflex action, probably a pure reflex.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
It happened, he says the doctor.
Speaker 10 (18:07):
Uh, I'll try to get in my wife. Still running
your fever, but.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
I'll do my best if you would, sir.
Speaker 10 (18:13):
Uh, But you can manage, can't you?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (18:16):
Outside, Doctor Hatch?
Speaker 10 (18:17):
How do I so long?
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Doctor Hatch?
Speaker 4 (18:22):
He says, reflect action.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
I guess that's why he doesn't look angry anymore.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Too, reflex action in his state.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
There are muscles in.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
The face, you know any of them?
Speaker 6 (18:32):
Any Believe me.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Doctor Crowley, I know you're upset.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
I'll be all right, I'll manage.
Speaker 9 (18:37):
Look, while you're on the phone, something happened, but well,
what will happened?
Speaker 10 (18:43):
Now?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
He's arm moved again.
Speaker 7 (18:47):
Let me see now they're stretched out out to the side,
up to the side like he was flying u floading
a free fall.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
With a car shoe.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
He's On'm the moving, you said, so the sort of waving.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
No, No, they're not. No, they're not moving. It's not
popable for as to be moving or waving her anything.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
Look, doctor Hatch is gonna try to come in, he said,
So you might get her any minute. I'm I'll manage somehow,
I'll manage.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Dear, sit there, wor are you oh? Having such a
good time? I think the lamb was so fast.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
It's marvelous the things I have done. Sympia up, where
are you?
Speaker 6 (19:45):
I what to tell you?
Speaker 8 (19:47):
I'm yere, I'm h garm.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Cynthia. There was a lady at a dinner party and.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
They were having lamb chops, little tiny lamb chops, and
she said, oh my, what a treat and how delicious,
And she picked one up her fingers and she started Cynthia.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
It went down the wrong way into.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Her esophagus and she was choking.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
And the other people pounded her on the back, and
she was.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Turning blue, and I just reached in and pulled out
the lamp.
Speaker 8 (20:14):
Shup, Oh she's all right.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
She was on the point of dying, but now she's
all right.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
But then I came and let me tell you about
the hold.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Up, the one in the bar. You saw it, I'm
not sure I saw the phone run.
Speaker 7 (20:29):
Well, this one was in a cheap little bar. This
man came in with a gun. He started waving it
around like a crazy man. I'm like, well, somebody's gonna
get killed for sure. So I went to the police
box on the corner and I turned an alarm, and
sure enough, well, when the hold up man heard the
police siren, he ran out of the bar so fast,
so nobody got well, wait.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Wait, I haven't been killing.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
The hold up man ran down the street, say and
with the police after him, and he turned into an
apartment building and started running up the stairs.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I guess he was. He was trying to get to
the root. So I followed him. Of course, it was
easy for me.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
So when he got to uh all about the court
for I guess, all of a sudden, door open.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Door to one of the apartments when I's gone, I well, uh,
the whole hold up.
Speaker 7 (21:15):
Man swiddled around and he had a gun in his hand,
and he pointed in a light at this man standing
in the doorway. I slammed the door so fast, Cynthia
adjusting time.
Speaker 8 (21:24):
That was very nice game.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
And and then there was this uh woman who got
up in the middle.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Of the night to take some medicine.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
And she went into the bathroom and she didn't turn.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
On the light.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
Oh, I have done that so many times.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Since I one. Well, anyway, she took.
Speaker 7 (21:38):
The wrong medicine out of the medicine chest, the wrong bottle,
a bottom full of something that would have killed her.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
I knocked out of her hand. She thought she was
just clumsy, but she did.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
Turn on the light.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
And and then, well, imagine.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
How she felt.
Speaker 7 (21:54):
And I can imagine I imagine how I felt.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Came this.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
I have a giving you a chance to say anything?
Have I It's just that I am.
Speaker 7 (22:03):
Having such a wonderful time, leading such a wonderful life.
What did you wanna say, Cynthia, I said, listen, I
am listening.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Can't you hear it? Yeah? Who what? That jetliner is
in trouble?
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Things.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
I hear it. I hear it.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Two hundred and fifty eight people on that jetliner.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I see it, I see it.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
I'm I'm coming. Wait wait for me.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
I'll get there. Oh. I wish I knew.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
About airplanes at the library once. I would have got
remember projective what it said, you'll remember.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (22:45):
We'll think of something.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
My jest, I don't think of something.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Uh, wait for me, Wait for me. I'll ring of something.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
I will, I will.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I'll get there in time.
Speaker 9 (23:00):
Oh, doctor Crawley, the fingers have been behaving very peculiarly.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
I know. I know first to crooked once in there.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I know, I know all about it.
Speaker 7 (23:15):
I was standing there too, you know, I thought, all
are those all reaf like actions?
Speaker 6 (23:21):
They've got to be, haven't they?
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I I guess they do.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
I mean, what what else?
Speaker 3 (23:26):
You look?
Speaker 10 (23:27):
Now?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Look at his fingers? Why they're moving like man, Doctor Crawley,
that's an awful lot of waf like.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
That's you. Maybe that's doctor Hatch.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
I hope.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
So hello, hello, Rally, doctor Hatch?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Is you call me?
Speaker 10 (23:46):
Yes? All right?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Hey, I'm all right, doctor Hatch.
Speaker 10 (23:50):
Well my wife's feeling better now.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
Oh that's good that's fine. I'm so glad.
Speaker 10 (23:55):
Well, I'll be leaving the house pretty soon. Uh you
managing all right?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Managing? No in a way. I mean I'm managing.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
But I'll be glad when you get here.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Dr Hatch.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
I'll be there in a little while, thank you, doctor Hatch.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Doctor Hatch will be here any minute.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
Everything will be all right.
Speaker 8 (24:22):
I hope that this light would I do it? It
bounds to the game.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I hope. What's this little gadget?
Speaker 10 (24:32):
What what.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
One for?
Speaker 3 (24:37):
People who said sends me a two hundred and fifty?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
And fine? Goodness? That best going yet?
Speaker 8 (24:44):
I think there's a war starting.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
What a war?
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Not a uniforms? Guns? Looks like mobilization.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Sink here. I can't handle a war.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
W of people are going to get killed, Jame, No.
Speaker 8 (24:58):
But all by accident.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
I suppose that's true.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
It is true.
Speaker 7 (25:04):
But to save everybody from getting children of war, Cynthia,
I'm only one, one spirit.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
I'm all by myself, and this thing fare well, maybe
they won't be a war.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
I I just couldn't handle it by myself.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Maybe it won't happen. If I just had some help,
Maybe you did, Maybe you could save all the people
who are.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Starving, starving. Who's a move starving, starving to death?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Millions of them?
Speaker 10 (25:37):
But uh, I.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Can't why are they starving?
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Well, maybe it's the weather.
Speaker 11 (25:44):
Maybe it's you know, too much food in one place
not enough in another.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
I don't know, James, I can't change the weather.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
I can't take food from one place and put it
in another place.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Cynthia, I'm all alone.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Didn't come chein us change.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
I can't. Not just yet, Sylvia, I can't, not yet.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
I got a different stethoscope.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
I thought, maybe the other one.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Yeah, he's quiet now.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
There's no heartbeat, none at all. It wasn't the stethoscope.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Oh he he's really dead, all right.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
You know, for a minute I thought it was me.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Thought I was losing my hearing.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
But I couldn't find any pulp.
Speaker 12 (26:40):
I thought maybe I've.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Gotten number some fight or nervousness or something.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Are you still masive?
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Well, not as.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Nervous as I was, now that he's stopped all that, uh.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
That, you know, recronection. Well, he's he's very quiet, very quiet.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
Oh he's dead. Y, I I suppose he is. You
suppose he is dead? Oh?
Speaker 9 (27:05):
I know that, but but what what what are you
staring at.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
He say it?
Speaker 2 (27:13):
What about his face?
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Look at it?
Speaker 7 (27:15):
He looks very, very peaceful, Just not the way he's
supposed to look, the way all dead people are supposed
to look.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
I know, but look closest, look at his eyes. Did
you ever see a dead person who was crying.
Speaker 10 (27:39):
Long?
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I've never seen a corpse who cried still. Why shouldn't
the realization that all things are swallowed up in death
be a cause for tears? But how many corpses cry?
Speaker 2 (27:56):
They cry they do for.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Their own dead, and how many cry for the deaths
of others?
Speaker 4 (28:03):
Cry that they cannot save them all from.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Being swallowed up.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
I'll be back shortly with Act three. We left the
body of our hero, James Blake, aged twenty four, lying
prone on a table in the headquarters of the Medical
Examiner's office at the City Hospital, while the spirits of
(28:31):
that Thames James Blake floated through the great spaces between
this world and the next, bound on a great mission
to rescue all those destined.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
To die, as he had died by sheer accident.
Speaker 6 (28:45):
He hasn't moved for quite a.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
While, and he isn't crying anymore.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Doctor Carl, Hi, do you do you think I ought
to to wipe his eyes A couple of tears left?
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Do you want me to?
Speaker 10 (28:58):
No?
Speaker 6 (28:58):
No, I I'll do.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
It after all.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
Well, i'm the attending physician. Oh my good to explain. H.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Maybe you won't have to explain anything. He he's very quiet.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
I wouldn't know how.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
I wouldn't know what to say after I could think
it's dreaked down.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
I'd like, oh, why don't you go get a drink?
Speaker 6 (29:17):
It might help a drink. I'm on duty.
Speaker 9 (29:19):
We'll let me go get yourself a cup of coffee. H.
I think it would do you good to get out
of here for a few minutes.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
What a doctor?
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Well, I tell him something?
Speaker 6 (29:28):
Why could you possibly tell him of who?
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Or who? Would you say you are?
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Oh, I'll say I'm your you'll see I'm saying. Oh. Oh,
by the way, my my name is is Daisy.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
My name is Fred.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Well, go on, says, go get your touch some coffee.
You need it.
Speaker 6 (29:44):
Oh well, I'll be right.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
Down the hall the nursing station.
Speaker 6 (29:47):
There's a coffee machine.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Call me if uh, if he does anything.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
I will don't worry.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
I know he's dead.
Speaker 6 (29:54):
I'm positive of that.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
But well, you know.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
I know, well run alone.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
I real I appreciate the day.
Speaker 14 (30:02):
That's all right, friend, mister James Blake, what made you
so unhappy?
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Prince?
Speaker 14 (30:15):
You looked angry and then you looked almost pleased.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Then you cried.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Followed you here.
Speaker 9 (30:22):
I was the one who called the police and they
called the ambulance. I I I never telling you when
you were alive, but I've seen you almost constantly since
the moment you died.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Oh, please tell me why you were angry, and tell
me why you were pleased. Tell me why you cried. Oh,
please tell me, mister Blake. Boy, I I didn't answer
as y.
Speaker 9 (30:55):
You wish to seak to doctor prow Oh oh yes,
doctor hat Oh uh.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Dr Crowley had to step out to him in and
give me right back. He said, to tell you if
you called us.
Speaker 6 (31:07):
Or if you came in, tell him.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
I'll uh.
Speaker 10 (31:10):
I'm just about to leave the house and I'll be
there about.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Ten or fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Oh, I'll tell him.
Speaker 10 (31:15):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Oh, please, Jane think, please tell me why you cried.
Speaker 11 (31:27):
Jane, Well, you, James and Cynthia.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
I'm here.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
Cynthia, are you ready to join us?
Speaker 10 (31:40):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (31:41):
No, I don't think so, not yet. You'll like it here.
I still like it here sort of. Did I tell
you about to stick up at the.
Speaker 6 (31:52):
Bank, No, you didn't.
Speaker 8 (31:53):
We haven't walked in a long time.
Speaker 7 (31:55):
Well, this man came into the bank, Uh, had a
gun in his hand, and kept my eye on it.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
On the gun, mostly because it wouldn't.
Speaker 7 (32:03):
Be any of my business if he just took some money,
as long as he didn't take somebody's.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Life, of course. Well, well, it was just.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
Like every stick up you've ever read about. Was a
scene in the movies. Uh, the man said, uh, uh.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
There's a stick up.
Speaker 7 (32:16):
And everybody got frightened and simply froze.
Speaker 5 (32:18):
And the man went to one of the teller's windows,
had to tell her a note.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
They all do it the same way.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Go what happened?
Speaker 5 (32:24):
Uh, Well, I said, everybody got frightened and froze.
Speaker 7 (32:27):
Everybody did, accept one old lady. This old lady wasn't frightened,
and she didn't freeze.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
She walked straight toward the man with the gun. She said,
in this loud sort of a.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Voice, just what do you think you're doing? Don't like
to take other people's money. Goes to know, I'm a
smed of you, A singed of you.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
The man would gun uh way out of a bank,
and that was that?
Speaker 3 (32:53):
What about the old lady?
Speaker 2 (32:55):
She cast her check, and then Shela was what about
the gun truck? Oh? Well, I caught the bullets in
my head. It's pretty quite easy once you get the
hang of it.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
You've done it off.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
But oh sure, crazy.
Speaker 7 (33:08):
People are always shooting up places that are dumfending themselves
against people who never meant them any harm, or just
showing off.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
And you down so got a time.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
Well, it's just that there's so much to be done,
and uh there's just.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Me to do it.
Speaker 6 (33:23):
It seems so endless. It just goes on and on.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Yes, I am tired, Cynthia.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Then why don't you stop, come be with us?
Speaker 6 (33:38):
I can't.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
I not just yet.
Speaker 7 (33:42):
I think of the poor innocent people and all the animals.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
Oh I hope.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
I don't start but crying. I will soon join you, Cynthia.
I mean, not just yet.
Speaker 6 (34:07):
I brought some cofee back for you.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Oh, thank you, said, how uh how is he? Oh
he's been very quiet. Oh doctor Hotch calls. He said,
he'll be here soon. It's ten fifteen minutes or so.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
That's good. He moved his hand.
Speaker 6 (34:21):
Yeah, just now he moved his hand.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
He's doing it again.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
But he he he, he died.
Speaker 6 (34:28):
I thought you said he was quiet?
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Who he was again? Go to snatching a thing?
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Three times? Don't tell me that three cluck at you?
Speaker 6 (34:37):
Now? After all this time?
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Which then? Who?
Speaker 6 (34:39):
What is it? How don't I know?
Speaker 3 (34:41):
It must mean something?
Speaker 6 (34:43):
The man said, How can he mean something?
Speaker 8 (34:45):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (34:46):
I don't know, but I'm weak at it.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
I sat for a minute that he was gonna cry again.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
No, no, he hasn't cried again. But oh, friendt he
looks so sad.
Speaker 14 (34:57):
I I never thought anybody looks so sad.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
James, where are you? I'm worried about you.
Speaker 8 (35:11):
James, where are you?
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (35:14):
I'm here, Cynthia, Oh my dear, you sounds so tired.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
That's because I am tired.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Tell me what you can do?
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Uh?
Speaker 13 (35:28):
Well?
Speaker 5 (35:29):
There was this uh, little old couple from Grand Falls.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Uh huh. They were shopping for sewing machine.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
She thought she wanted a sewing machine.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Oh look at that one? Hund where which one in
the corner of that window?
Speaker 5 (35:45):
How much I can't speak from here?
Speaker 14 (35:48):
Come on dialing, don't push me, but you're bullying me.
Speaker 8 (35:52):
I I am not pulling.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Oh why father hook, Look at bull.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
There's a windows.
Speaker 9 (36:00):
It must have fallen from that window, led from way
up there.
Speaker 7 (36:04):
Off, somebody's leaning out of the window. There's a whole
old window boxes and that's one tho from way up there.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
Oh, it could have landed right on top of it.
Speaker 11 (36:16):
Still, there's pose for sure, if you hadn't pused me,
if you hadn't pushed me.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
When I think what might.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Have happened if you hadn't pulled.
Speaker 12 (36:23):
You mean if you hadn't pushed me.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
I didn't push.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
That was an easy one, of course. The only easy
is the ever class. Only there's so many of them.
Speaker 5 (36:38):
I know, Cynthia, I'll never get around with the walls.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
I'm the famine. I know it's too much, it shut
too much.
Speaker 13 (36:50):
I know.
Speaker 8 (36:52):
Still I have to do what I can sing.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Close up as a man coming out of his house
on Birch Street, see him.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Carrying a little black man.
Speaker 5 (37:06):
Yeah that's the worm, Cynthia looks like a doctor gonna
get to him.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
He doesn't see it.
Speaker 9 (37:13):
He see what James Jamee, come back, come back.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
I've checked everything for the young teen's time.
Speaker 6 (37:28):
I'm positive he's dead. Imagine.
Speaker 5 (37:33):
I even did that old fashioned trick of holding a
mirror in front of his mouth to see.
Speaker 6 (37:36):
If it would cloud up.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
Well, doctor Hatch will be here soon, Daisy.
Speaker 10 (37:41):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (37:42):
We're not gonna tell him anything, are.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
We, Well, like like what like uh.
Speaker 5 (37:47):
Mike, all those movements like crying.
Speaker 14 (37:50):
Maybe maybe we just imagined all that, but you know,
we didn't imagine.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
If it's not any of it, I know, but it
is the.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Sort of thing you have to see before you believe it.
Speaker 6 (38:01):
Doctor Hatch didn't see it.
Speaker 7 (38:03):
He wasn't here morning, mowning.
Speaker 6 (38:06):
Try to be late, Crawley.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
And that's all right, doctor Hatch.
Speaker 10 (38:09):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (38:09):
Oh, why doctor, this is did this is?
Speaker 3 (38:11):
Daisy?
Speaker 10 (38:12):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Fred said I could stay here. I I saw the accident.
Speaker 7 (38:16):
Oh you're the young lady who answered the phone.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Oh, don't worry.
Speaker 7 (38:19):
I wanna set Fred because he lets you stay here.
Thank you, doctor Hatch. Uh.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Let's have a look at him.
Speaker 7 (38:25):
Fetch me my step of scrope. Crawley gets her in
my black bag. If he's dead, isn't Uh he certainly
looks sad to me. Oh, say, you know, I damned
they didn't make it this morning.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Damn this thing happened?
Speaker 3 (38:40):
Oh what was that?
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Coming out of my house? I slipped on some ice.
Speaker 7 (38:45):
Now imagine that I lost my balance completely. I tried
to stop myself every which way, but I couldn't. I thought, great, Scott,
I'm lucky if I wind up with it's nothing worse
than a concussion, and lucky if I.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Don't kill myself.
Speaker 8 (39:00):
Then you know what happened.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
I swear to you.
Speaker 7 (39:03):
My head was an inch from the sidewalk when all
of a sudden I righted myself.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
How did you do that?
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Down?
Speaker 7 (39:11):
I final I I if I just did, I must
have been a muscle coordination than I thought. I swear
I felt that though somebody had caught hold of me
and put me back on my feet.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Well this one instead, all right?
Speaker 7 (39:27):
Been dead for almost an hour, I'd say, yeah, about
an hour.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Hey, look at him? What is it, doctor Hatch?
Speaker 7 (39:36):
Look at the expression on his face.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
I never saw it. To dad, I looked like that.
Speaker 7 (39:42):
He's smiling, big, broad smile. Never saw such a happy
looking Courts in my life, actually smiling.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Sincea right here change.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
It's wonderful to see you, Cynthia. After all it's time.
Speaker 8 (40:11):
It's wonderful that then you, Jain.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Is this where we're going to live?
Speaker 8 (40:17):
This is where we all live?
Speaker 2 (40:19):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
I knew you'd like it.
Speaker 10 (40:24):
I do like it.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Cynthia. I tried, I really did try.
Speaker 8 (40:32):
I know you did change.
Speaker 10 (40:34):
I helped the few people then you did.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
But I couldn't do it all alone.
Speaker 5 (40:41):
Nobody passed, Cinthia.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
Imagine a war where no one got killed.
Speaker 7 (40:50):
Yes, imagine a world where nobody starved to death.
Speaker 5 (40:59):
You're smiling, Pallala, They're all waiting.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
Pos I was always and took in strains that might
create a soul under the ribs of death, So wrote
the great poet of the seventeenth century, John Milton. And
(41:28):
with the music of the heavenly voices, James Blake enters
the place of everlasting Blitz, having given at least a
portion of himself to his fellow man. If not in life,
then in death. Who knows what happens to us when.
Speaker 5 (41:54):
Life has left us.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
Certainly not I.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Why couldn't it be that the soul.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Lingers for a while? As long as no one really
knows for sure what the soul does when stripped of
its body, why not pretend? Why not imagine that it
leaves the body.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
Gracefully and a little.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
Regretfully, pausing to consider what it is losing before dashing
off to see what it is gaining. Our cast included
Tony Roberts, Christopher the Bori, Suzanne Grossman, Brian Rayburn and
Dan Acko. The entire production was under the direction of
Hymon Brown and now a preview of our next tale.
Speaker 8 (42:40):
So let me tell that body to that place.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
Please please, Rachel, don't talk like that.
Speaker 8 (42:45):
I let go bring me Rachel. You're so strong, you
can do anything. You can do anything.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
Rachel, You'll bring me back. Rachel. Well, I I I
for the people.
Speaker 8 (43:02):
Honey, you are wonderful. I know, I know there are
things you can do.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
Oh, Barnie, promise.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
Why I promise, and I'll help.
Speaker 8 (43:17):
I'll try as hard as I can to help it.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
And the two up. We do it together.
Speaker 8 (43:24):
We we can do it.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
We can springle that Radio Mystry Theater were sponsored in
part by Important Dino rose Wyan.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
This is Eg Marshall inviting you.
Speaker 1 (43:36):
To return to our Mystry Theater for another adventure in
the macabre. Until next time, Pleasant Dreams.
Speaker 4 (44:06):
The Tree Theater comes to you.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
From CBS Radio and Radio eighty seven WWL.
Speaker 10 (44:11):
Here in New Orleans, our.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
Studio is located in the historic Old French Bars.
Speaker 2 (44:16):
Eight minutes half
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Come in and.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Welcome.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
I am E. G.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Marshall.
Speaker 5 (00:29):
Our tale is all about dying.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Not about death, but about the actual moment of dying
and how it should.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Be approached and dealt with. I think a lot about
the moment of.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Dying my own, of course. I picture myself in a
beautiful and rather picturesque bed, something I don't own at
the moment, but I have time.
Speaker 6 (00:51):
I'll get around to it.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
My lovely wife who will survive me, holding my feeble hand,
my children at the foot of the beautiful bed, looking
at me tenderly, and me looking softly at them and
saying softly.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
It's good. Heavens, What will I say?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I've been so busy setting the scene, I haven't got
around the thinking of anything to say.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Aren't you tell me?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
All right?
Speaker 7 (01:19):
I can't why, No, it's easy, I can.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Not quight No, But you'll love it here.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Later maybe maybe later.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
But when.
Speaker 7 (01:39):
As soon as I'm finished here, I guess if you
are finished, my.
Speaker 8 (01:44):
Friend, don't you know that?
Speaker 7 (01:48):
Not quite not quite finished, not quite yet, Oh but
you are finished.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Our mystery drama Death is So Trivial, was written especially
for the Mystery.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
There by els Eric and stars.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Tony Robert and Christopher TABORI m it seems most strange
to me that men should fear seeing death unnecessary. End
will come when it will come. Those words were written
(02:41):
by William Shakespeare. The important line is the last one
will come when it will come, not when it is expected,
not when it is convenient, not even when it is desired.
No death will come when it will come, which is
(03:01):
the theme of our strange tale. There I was walking
to work as usual, taking deep breadths to expand my lung,
was noting the time at.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Regular intervals to be certain might arrive at the library
on the top, waiting for every street crossing light.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
When I was dead, well, I suppose that.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
The thumb were the last to come out of my mouth,
and nobody.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Heard it but me.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
The next fountain to reach.
Speaker 7 (03:42):
My ears were so incredibly beautiful that I lay quietly
in the street and listened.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
What else, after all, was there for me to do?
Speaker 7 (03:55):
There were voices, a marvelous blend of voices, coming from
far far away.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
And I knew.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
I don't know how I knew, but I.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Knew that these were the voices of those who had
died before me, and they were summoning me.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
To join them in a place of eternal joy.
Speaker 7 (04:19):
I was about to do so, indeed, I was anxious
to do so, when suddenly it had never happened to
me before in all my twenty four years. Suddenly I
became absolutely furious.
Speaker 9 (04:37):
Believe somebody, why is there a policemen around?
Speaker 7 (04:41):
And you didn't I heard some young female school for
a policeman, But I didn't care much.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
I James Blake, was enjoying a sensation.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I had not felt since when. I can't remember when.
It must have been many many years before, yet I
had once. It's because it swept over me. I felt
such a surge of help and strength.
Speaker 7 (05:07):
And power that it was impossible for me to think
of myself as it's dead, which is what I most
certainly was dead.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I'm hearing that I was dead.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I saw the whole thing.
Speaker 8 (05:28):
That man got in the car.
Speaker 9 (05:29):
That's a crazy man.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I thought you were doing sixty miles an hour.
Speaker 9 (05:33):
I was very nasty, went right next through.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
The red light. He never slowed down, let alone stop.
I think he was drunk.
Speaker 9 (05:39):
It must have been driving. I got one of those
expensive thought cars.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I mean it was yellow.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Yeah, yes, I'm positive it was yellow.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Unfortunately I didn't get the license number. And this poor man,
it really is dead, isn't he? Are you gonna take
him to the moors?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I listened with a sort of detached interest.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
The police questioned a few other people who have seen
the accidents the end of my life, and everyone said, yes,
the light had been with me.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I hadn't had a chance. The driver must have been
drunk or stone, et cetera, et cetera. It all seems
very unimportant, and I was completely absorbed in my.
Speaker 7 (06:16):
Own new sensation, deep implacable anger.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Who what's the ambulance for?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Oh, you're gonna take him to the city hospital.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Do you think there's a chance.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (06:30):
I hope so, But he certainly looks dead to me still,
if there's any chance at all.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
I watched them put my used up body in the ambulance.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
And I knew everyone would do his duty. I didn't care.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
I knew I was dead, and I was furious.
Speaker 9 (06:49):
I certainly hope there's a chance for him, I do hope.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
So there I was all alone, somewhere between heaven and
the well, not even my body to hold.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Me in place, n I have the quiet dimmed.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
One small voice, one sweet small voice, separated itself from
all the others and spoke to me.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
What's the matter, James?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Well? Who you speaking to me?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Of course?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Aren't you going to join us?
Speaker 10 (07:31):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
I can't.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
But you'll love it here?
Speaker 7 (07:38):
May maybe later, later, maybe, Wendy.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Soon as I'm finished here, I guess.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
But you are finished, you know that, but not quite.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Not quite finished, not quite yet.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Well, of course, if you want to stay in limbo forever?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Is that where I am in limbo?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Well, you're not with the dead and you're not with
the living.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
What would you call it?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Am I a ghost? Of course not?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
You have to be properly dead before you can be
a ghost.
Speaker 8 (08:20):
I don't know what you are really.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
However, if that's the way you want it, don't go away?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Oh please, don't go away.
Speaker 8 (08:30):
What do you want me to do? I don't wanna
live in limbo?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Couldn't you sort of stick around in a while?
Speaker 11 (08:38):
What?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Goose? I need someone to talk to right now?
Speaker 8 (08:43):
If you're a funny one, you are.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Now, what's so funny about me?
Speaker 11 (08:49):
Most people in your situation, which I might remind you,
is scarcely unique can't wait to join us.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
You keep hanging back for some reason.
Speaker 8 (08:59):
I can't father.
Speaker 7 (09:01):
I I I want to join you, especially now that
you and I have met, well sort of met.
Speaker 8 (09:10):
Why don't we really meet? Why not, James?
Speaker 5 (09:15):
You seem to know my name, but I don't know yours.
Speaker 8 (09:18):
We don't bother much with names here.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
When I was alive, they called me Cynthia.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
What a beautiful name, Cynthia.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
I do want to join you, then, why don't you
because I'm so angry? Uh, I don't want you to
see me for the first time, all all wild.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Up like this.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
I'm not like this, really never have been well.
Speaker 11 (09:45):
If you wanna stay in Rimbo indefinitely, Cynthia, how can
I explain it to you so you'll understand.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
It's the senselessness, a pure utter idiocy of it.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
I don't know why, but suddenly I can't stand it.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I suppose because it happened to me.
Speaker 7 (10:02):
I know people have to die, but but not so trivially,
not because somebody ran through a red light.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Not for that.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
It's benown to happen, Oh, Cynthia.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
I never thought it would happen to me, to die
in such.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
A stupid, senseless.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Way, How did you think it would happen?
Speaker 7 (10:21):
I don't know, But all my life I've been so sensible,
sensible above everything else, never caused trouble, never got mixed
up in anything.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Never an egg way.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
You do understand what course I do?
Speaker 10 (10:35):
And now.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Well, I may not have had much of a life.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
As I look back on it, it wasn't much, but it
could have changed.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
And anyway, damn it, it was mine.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
And no boozed up bonehead had the right to snatch
it away from me.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I'm so mad. I a spit.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Oh shame, Cynthia.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
You may not believe this, but like this second, I feel.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
More alive than I ever did while I was living.
Speaker 7 (11:01):
There must be other people, people right here in this town,
who are gonna die for no reason at all, just
by accident. Cynthia, I can't leave this earth till I
stop all these ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Deaths, all of them.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
All of them.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
I'm gonna dedicate my entire afterlife to it.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I shall not have died in.
Speaker 12 (11:23):
Vain medical Examiner's office, Doctor.
Speaker 10 (11:35):
Carling Rallier, this is doctor Hatch. Glad you're there.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I came in early, first damned job.
Speaker 7 (11:41):
You know, yes, I know, and that's why I hate
to tell you, but you may have to go alone.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
You said alone, You're you're not coming in?
Speaker 10 (11:50):
Well, my uh wife's not well.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Oh I'm sorry.
Speaker 10 (11:54):
Maybe nothing serious. But on the other hand, you'll be
able to manage, won't you.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I think so. Nobody's been brought in yet.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Uh, I'll spot you soon. Looks like a dead one
to me.
Speaker 12 (12:06):
Put 'em on the table, boys and let me have
a re fort.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
Run over by an automobile. Doctor Hatch, looks like a
dead one to me.
Speaker 10 (12:13):
Well you know the procedure, doctor Crowley, just for your.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Head, Yes, sir, I will.
Speaker 10 (12:18):
I'll be in as soon as I feel I canna
leave my wife.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Oh a doctor Hatch, Eh, yeah, what is it?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Maybe this one is be.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
Dead after all, I can't see him times of respiration.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
But on the other hand, he looks, he looks looks
how he looks so angry?
Speaker 10 (12:34):
Doctor?
Speaker 7 (12:36):
I bet I get to him right away. I never
saw anybody look so angry.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
You must be alive.
Speaker 7 (12:44):
Nobody could be dead and look so so enraged.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
How do you intend to part saying on your actor life?
Speaker 6 (12:57):
Well, well, I.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Haven't point figured that out. This is a very new
to me. You understand I.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
See dogs starting along highway?
Speaker 8 (13:06):
You too? Are you interested in dog?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Anybody anything? We're on the highway.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
You just get to the intersection, Jackson Bugabard.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
That's a terrible intersection. Nobody stops for anybody.
Speaker 7 (13:19):
Now, marvelous how you can get around when you've got
nobody in there?
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Here, little white dog, curly.
Speaker 12 (13:26):
Down or silly little thing.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Don't see that big blue station liking it's going to
hit him, don't.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
I've got it, got him from there, I've saved him.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
You'll probably get run over anyhow, one of these things.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
No he won't, No, he won't. I'm going to keep
my eye on him.
Speaker 8 (13:47):
What about all the others?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Them too?
Speaker 7 (13:49):
And cats and people and everybody?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
H then's there?
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Why did it take me too long to find out
what I was born to do?
Speaker 3 (13:59):
I could have spit by a whole.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Like doing this, Crincian.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
My after life is going to be a hundred times
more exciting.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
Than my life ever.
Speaker 13 (14:09):
Once I can't understand you and all my friends, the
official muscles should be completely relauh.
Speaker 9 (14:22):
Come in, Oh uh, I I know I I'm not
supposed to be here now.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
You're certainly not supposed to be here.
Speaker 9 (14:31):
But I I saw the accident and I was interested
in this. The officer said they'd bring him here.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Is that him?
Speaker 6 (14:38):
Look, you can't come in here.
Speaker 9 (14:40):
I I just wanna know if there's any hope.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
M may I clean.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
There's no hope.
Speaker 11 (14:48):
Yes, that's him.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
He's dead. Oh my gosh, what is it?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
What he's moved?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
He's moved.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
I I didn't see him moved.
Speaker 10 (15:00):
No.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I mean when you knocked at the door.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
I was trying to find his pulse. There wasn't any.
His arms were straight down at his side.
Speaker 9 (15:07):
Now look at them, God, just like he was hugging
something or carrying something.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
This man can't be dead.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
He can't be.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I had always thought that at the moment of dying,
the soul separated itself from the body and went his
own way, while the body stayed behind, to be finally
disposed of with some degree of circumspection at a greater
or lesser expense. But what if a particular soul is
too stubborn to leave the body it has inhabited for
(15:49):
so long, too stubborn and too angry. I'll be back
shortly with that too. Our hero, James Blake appears to
be leading a double life in spite of the fact
(16:10):
that he is dead.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
His spirit is floating in the ether.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Between heaven and Earth, pausing only long enough to save
some innocent from accidental demise. While his body lies on
a slab at the city hospital, watched with both horror
and fascination by a nervous intern and a young girl.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
He doesn't look mad anymore mad. When they first brought
him in, he had such a look.
Speaker 7 (16:36):
On his face you wouldn't believe a person could look
so so angry as that somebody had played a dirty
trick on him and he wanted.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
To get even Well.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Uh, a man who has just been run over.
Speaker 9 (16:47):
A dead many positively is dead.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
As hard as his beating, he isn't breathing.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Well, couldn't he be enough?
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Well, we'll watch him a call it coma uh maybe
or a shock.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
Even so, there ought to be some sign of life,
even if it's very faint.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
There's gotta be some reason why he's got his arms
that caught his dead like that, and.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
His hands, I mean, his fingers are bent like like
he was, I don't know, like he was.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Sort of crazily something like. But he was carrying a baby.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Excuse me?
Speaker 7 (17:21):
Oh sure, medical examiner, Dr Crowley, Doctor Crowley, everything well,
all right, I guess only doctor Hatch, the man that
was brought in just a little while ago, James Blake
getting run victim?
Speaker 10 (17:39):
What about him?
Speaker 6 (17:40):
There's no Bible.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Signs, doctor Hatch, none that I can find anyway.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
But there's something I can't figure it out.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
He was stretched down on the table and I was
looking for a postby both his hands were decided.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
And what I just left for a few seconds.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
There was someone at the door, and when when we
when I got back.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
To him, his arm had moved up to his chest.
Speaker 6 (18:01):
His elbows were then.
Speaker 10 (18:03):
Reflex action, probably a pure reflex.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
It happened, he says the doctor.
Speaker 10 (18:07):
Uh, I'll try to get in my wife. Still running
your fever, but.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
I'll do my best if you would, sir.
Speaker 10 (18:13):
Uh, But you can manage, can't you?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (18:16):
Outside, Doctor Hatch?
Speaker 10 (18:17):
How do I so long?
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Doctor Hatch?
Speaker 4 (18:22):
He says, reflect action.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
I guess that's why he doesn't look angry anymore.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Too, reflex action in his state.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
There are muscles in.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
The face, you know any of them?
Speaker 6 (18:32):
Any Believe me.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Doctor Crowley, I know you're upset.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
I'll be all right, I'll manage.
Speaker 9 (18:37):
Look, while you're on the phone, something happened, but well,
what will happened?
Speaker 10 (18:43):
Now?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
He's arm moved again.
Speaker 7 (18:47):
Let me see now they're stretched out out to the side,
up to the side like he was flying u floading
a free fall.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
With a car shoe.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
He's On'm the moving, you said, so the sort of waving.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
No, No, they're not. No, they're not moving. It's not
popable for as to be moving or waving her anything.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
Look, doctor Hatch is gonna try to come in, he said,
So you might get her any minute. I'm I'll manage somehow,
I'll manage.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Dear, sit there, wor are you oh? Having such a
good time? I think the lamb was so fast.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
It's marvelous the things I have done. Sympia up, where
are you?
Speaker 6 (19:45):
I what to tell you?
Speaker 8 (19:47):
I'm yere, I'm h garm.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Cynthia. There was a lady at a dinner party and.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
They were having lamb chops, little tiny lamb chops, and
she said, oh my, what a treat and how delicious,
And she picked one up her fingers and she started Cynthia.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
It went down the wrong way into.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Her esophagus and she was choking.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
And the other people pounded her on the back, and
she was.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Turning blue, and I just reached in and pulled out
the lamp.
Speaker 8 (20:14):
Shup, Oh she's all right.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
She was on the point of dying, but now she's
all right.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
But then I came and let me tell you about
the hold.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Up, the one in the bar. You saw it, I'm
not sure I saw the phone run.
Speaker 7 (20:29):
Well, this one was in a cheap little bar. This
man came in with a gun. He started waving it
around like a crazy man. I'm like, well, somebody's gonna
get killed for sure. So I went to the police
box on the corner and I turned an alarm, and
sure enough, well, when the hold up man heard the
police siren, he ran out of the bar so fast,
so nobody got well, wait.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Wait, I haven't been killing.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
The hold up man ran down the street, say and
with the police after him, and he turned into an
apartment building and started running up the stairs.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I guess he was. He was trying to get to
the root. So I followed him. Of course, it was
easy for me.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
So when he got to uh all about the court
for I guess, all of a sudden, door open.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Door to one of the apartments when I's gone, I well, uh,
the whole hold up.
Speaker 7 (21:15):
Man swiddled around and he had a gun in his hand,
and he pointed in a light at this man standing
in the doorway. I slammed the door so fast, Cynthia
adjusting time.
Speaker 8 (21:24):
That was very nice game.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
And and then there was this uh woman who got
up in the middle.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Of the night to take some medicine.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
And she went into the bathroom and she didn't turn.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
On the light.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
Oh, I have done that so many times.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Since I one. Well, anyway, she took.
Speaker 7 (21:38):
The wrong medicine out of the medicine chest, the wrong bottle,
a bottom full of something that would have killed her.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
I knocked out of her hand. She thought she was
just clumsy, but she did.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
Turn on the light.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
And and then, well, imagine.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
How she felt.
Speaker 7 (21:54):
And I can imagine I imagine how I felt.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Came this.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
I have a giving you a chance to say anything?
Have I It's just that I am.
Speaker 7 (22:03):
Having such a wonderful time, leading such a wonderful life.
What did you wanna say, Cynthia, I said, listen, I
am listening.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Can't you hear it? Yeah? Who what? That jetliner is
in trouble?
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Things.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
I hear it. I hear it.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Two hundred and fifty eight people on that jetliner.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I see it, I see it.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
I'm I'm coming. Wait wait for me.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
I'll get there. Oh. I wish I knew.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
About airplanes at the library once. I would have got
remember projective what it said, you'll remember.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (22:45):
We'll think of something.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
My jest, I don't think of something.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Uh, wait for me, Wait for me. I'll ring of something.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
I will, I will.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I'll get there in time.
Speaker 9 (23:00):
Oh, doctor Crawley, the fingers have been behaving very peculiarly.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
I know. I know first to crooked once in there.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I know, I know all about it.
Speaker 7 (23:15):
I was standing there too, you know, I thought, all
are those all reaf like actions?
Speaker 6 (23:21):
They've got to be, haven't they?
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I I guess they do.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
I mean, what what else?
Speaker 3 (23:26):
You look?
Speaker 10 (23:27):
Now?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Look at his fingers? Why they're moving like man, Doctor Crawley,
that's an awful lot of waf like.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
That's you. Maybe that's doctor Hatch.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
I hope.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
So hello, hello, Rally, doctor Hatch?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Is you call me?
Speaker 10 (23:46):
Yes? All right?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Hey, I'm all right, doctor Hatch.
Speaker 10 (23:50):
Well my wife's feeling better now.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
Oh that's good that's fine. I'm so glad.
Speaker 10 (23:55):
Well, I'll be leaving the house pretty soon. Uh you
managing all right?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Managing? No in a way. I mean I'm managing.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
But I'll be glad when you get here.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Dr Hatch.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
I'll be there in a little while, thank you, doctor Hatch.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Doctor Hatch will be here any minute.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
Everything will be all right.
Speaker 8 (24:22):
I hope that this light would I do it? It
bounds to the game.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I hope. What's this little gadget?
Speaker 10 (24:32):
What what.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
One for?
Speaker 3 (24:37):
People who said sends me a two hundred and fifty?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
And fine? Goodness? That best going yet?
Speaker 8 (24:44):
I think there's a war starting.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
What a war?
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Not a uniforms? Guns? Looks like mobilization.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Sink here. I can't handle a war.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
W of people are going to get killed, Jame, No.
Speaker 8 (24:58):
But all by accident.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
I suppose that's true.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
It is true.
Speaker 7 (25:04):
But to save everybody from getting children of war, Cynthia,
I'm only one, one spirit.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
I'm all by myself, and this thing fare well, maybe
they won't be a war.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
I I just couldn't handle it by myself.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Maybe it won't happen. If I just had some help,
Maybe you did, Maybe you could save all the people
who are.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Starving, starving. Who's a move starving, starving to death?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Millions of them?
Speaker 10 (25:37):
But uh, I.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Can't why are they starving?
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Well, maybe it's the weather.
Speaker 11 (25:44):
Maybe it's you know, too much food in one place
not enough in another.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
I don't know, James, I can't change the weather.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
I can't take food from one place and put it
in another place.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Cynthia, I'm all alone.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Didn't come chein us change.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
I can't. Not just yet, Sylvia, I can't, not yet.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
I got a different stethoscope.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
I thought, maybe the other one.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Yeah, he's quiet now.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
There's no heartbeat, none at all. It wasn't the stethoscope.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Oh he he's really dead, all right.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
You know, for a minute I thought it was me.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Thought I was losing my hearing.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
But I couldn't find any pulp.
Speaker 12 (26:40):
I thought maybe I've.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Gotten number some fight or nervousness or something.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Are you still masive?
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Well, not as.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Nervous as I was, now that he's stopped all that, uh.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
That, you know, recronection. Well, he's he's very quiet, very quiet.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
Oh he's dead. Y, I I suppose he is. You
suppose he is dead? Oh?
Speaker 9 (27:05):
I know that, but but what what what are you
staring at.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
He say it?
Speaker 2 (27:13):
What about his face?
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Look at it?
Speaker 7 (27:15):
He looks very, very peaceful, Just not the way he's
supposed to look, the way all dead people are supposed
to look.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
I know, but look closest, look at his eyes. Did
you ever see a dead person who was crying.
Speaker 10 (27:39):
Long?
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I've never seen a corpse who cried still. Why shouldn't
the realization that all things are swallowed up in death
be a cause for tears? But how many corpses cry?
Speaker 2 (27:56):
They cry they do for.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Their own dead, and how many cry for the deaths
of others?
Speaker 4 (28:03):
Cry that they cannot save them all from.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Being swallowed up.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
I'll be back shortly with Act three. We left the
body of our hero, James Blake, aged twenty four, lying
prone on a table in the headquarters of the Medical
Examiner's office at the City Hospital, while the spirits of
(28:31):
that Thames James Blake floated through the great spaces between
this world and the next, bound on a great mission
to rescue all those destined.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
To die, as he had died by sheer accident.
Speaker 6 (28:45):
He hasn't moved for quite a.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
While, and he isn't crying anymore.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Doctor Carl, Hi, do you do you think I ought
to to wipe his eyes A couple of tears left?
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Do you want me to?
Speaker 10 (28:58):
No?
Speaker 6 (28:58):
No, I I'll do.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
It after all.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
Well, i'm the attending physician. Oh my good to explain. H.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Maybe you won't have to explain anything. He he's very quiet.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
I wouldn't know how.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
I wouldn't know what to say after I could think
it's dreaked down.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
I'd like, oh, why don't you go get a drink?
Speaker 6 (29:17):
It might help a drink. I'm on duty.
Speaker 9 (29:19):
We'll let me go get yourself a cup of coffee. H.
I think it would do you good to get out
of here for a few minutes.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
What a doctor?
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Well, I tell him something?
Speaker 6 (29:28):
Why could you possibly tell him of who?
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Or who? Would you say you are?
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Oh, I'll say I'm your you'll see I'm saying. Oh. Oh,
by the way, my my name is is Daisy.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
My name is Fred.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Well, go on, says, go get your touch some coffee.
You need it.
Speaker 6 (29:44):
Oh well, I'll be right.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
Down the hall the nursing station.
Speaker 6 (29:47):
There's a coffee machine.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Call me if uh, if he does anything.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
I will don't worry.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
I know he's dead.
Speaker 6 (29:54):
I'm positive of that.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
But well, you know.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
I know, well run alone.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
I real I appreciate the day.
Speaker 14 (30:02):
That's all right, friend, mister James Blake, what made you
so unhappy?
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Prince?
Speaker 14 (30:15):
You looked angry and then you looked almost pleased.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Then you cried.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Followed you here.
Speaker 9 (30:22):
I was the one who called the police and they
called the ambulance. I I I never telling you when
you were alive, but I've seen you almost constantly since
the moment you died.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Oh, please tell me why you were angry, and tell
me why you were pleased. Tell me why you cried. Oh,
please tell me, mister Blake. Boy, I I didn't answer
as y.
Speaker 9 (30:55):
You wish to seak to doctor prow Oh oh yes,
doctor hat Oh uh.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Dr Crowley had to step out to him in and
give me right back. He said, to tell you if
you called us.
Speaker 6 (31:07):
Or if you came in, tell him.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
I'll uh.
Speaker 10 (31:10):
I'm just about to leave the house and I'll be
there about.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Ten or fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Oh, I'll tell him.
Speaker 10 (31:15):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Oh, please, Jane think, please tell me why you cried.
Speaker 11 (31:27):
Jane, Well, you, James and Cynthia.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
I'm here.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
Cynthia, are you ready to join us?
Speaker 10 (31:40):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (31:41):
No, I don't think so, not yet. You'll like it here.
I still like it here sort of. Did I tell
you about to stick up at the.
Speaker 6 (31:52):
Bank, No, you didn't.
Speaker 8 (31:53):
We haven't walked in a long time.
Speaker 7 (31:55):
Well, this man came into the bank, Uh, had a
gun in his hand, and kept my eye on it.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
On the gun, mostly because it wouldn't.
Speaker 7 (32:03):
Be any of my business if he just took some money,
as long as he didn't take somebody's.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Life, of course. Well, well, it was just.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
Like every stick up you've ever read about. Was a
scene in the movies. Uh, the man said, uh, uh.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
There's a stick up.
Speaker 7 (32:16):
And everybody got frightened and simply froze.
Speaker 5 (32:18):
And the man went to one of the teller's windows,
had to tell her a note.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
They all do it the same way.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Go what happened?
Speaker 5 (32:24):
Uh, Well, I said, everybody got frightened and froze.
Speaker 7 (32:27):
Everybody did, accept one old lady. This old lady wasn't frightened,
and she didn't freeze.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
She walked straight toward the man with the gun. She said,
in this loud sort of a.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Voice, just what do you think you're doing? Don't like
to take other people's money. Goes to know, I'm a
smed of you, A singed of you.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
The man would gun uh way out of a bank,
and that was that?
Speaker 3 (32:53):
What about the old lady?
Speaker 2 (32:55):
She cast her check, and then Shela was what about
the gun truck? Oh? Well, I caught the bullets in
my head. It's pretty quite easy once you get the
hang of it.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
You've done it off.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
But oh sure, crazy.
Speaker 7 (33:08):
People are always shooting up places that are dumfending themselves
against people who never meant them any harm, or just
showing off.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
And you down so got a time.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
Well, it's just that there's so much to be done,
and uh there's just.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Me to do it.
Speaker 6 (33:23):
It seems so endless. It just goes on and on.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Yes, I am tired, Cynthia.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Then why don't you stop, come be with us?
Speaker 6 (33:38):
I can't.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
I not just yet.
Speaker 7 (33:42):
I think of the poor innocent people and all the animals.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
Oh I hope.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
I don't start but crying. I will soon join you, Cynthia.
I mean, not just yet.
Speaker 6 (34:07):
I brought some cofee back for you.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Oh, thank you, said, how uh how is he? Oh
he's been very quiet. Oh doctor Hotch calls. He said,
he'll be here soon. It's ten fifteen minutes or so.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
That's good. He moved his hand.
Speaker 6 (34:21):
Yeah, just now he moved his hand.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
He's doing it again.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
But he he he, he died.
Speaker 6 (34:28):
I thought you said he was quiet?
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Who he was again? Go to snatching a thing?
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Three times? Don't tell me that three cluck at you?
Speaker 6 (34:37):
Now? After all this time?
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Which then? Who?
Speaker 6 (34:39):
What is it? How don't I know?
Speaker 3 (34:41):
It must mean something?
Speaker 6 (34:43):
The man said, How can he mean something?
Speaker 8 (34:45):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (34:46):
I don't know, but I'm weak at it.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
I sat for a minute that he was gonna cry again.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
No, no, he hasn't cried again. But oh, friendt he
looks so sad.
Speaker 14 (34:57):
I I never thought anybody looks so sad.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
James, where are you? I'm worried about you.
Speaker 8 (35:11):
James, where are you?
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (35:14):
I'm here, Cynthia, Oh my dear, you sounds so tired.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
That's because I am tired.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Tell me what you can do?
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Uh?
Speaker 13 (35:28):
Well?
Speaker 5 (35:29):
There was this uh, little old couple from Grand Falls.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Uh huh. They were shopping for sewing machine.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
She thought she wanted a sewing machine.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Oh look at that one? Hund where which one in
the corner of that window?
Speaker 5 (35:45):
How much I can't speak from here?
Speaker 14 (35:48):
Come on dialing, don't push me, but you're bullying me.
Speaker 8 (35:52):
I I am not pulling.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Oh why father hook, Look at bull.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
There's a windows.
Speaker 9 (36:00):
It must have fallen from that window, led from way
up there.
Speaker 7 (36:04):
Off, somebody's leaning out of the window. There's a whole
old window boxes and that's one tho from way up there.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
Oh, it could have landed right on top of it.
Speaker 11 (36:16):
Still, there's pose for sure, if you hadn't pused me,
if you hadn't pushed me.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
When I think what might.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Have happened if you hadn't pulled.
Speaker 12 (36:23):
You mean if you hadn't pushed me.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
I didn't push.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
That was an easy one, of course. The only easy
is the ever class. Only there's so many of them.
Speaker 5 (36:38):
I know, Cynthia, I'll never get around with the walls.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
I'm the famine. I know it's too much, it shut
too much.
Speaker 13 (36:50):
I know.
Speaker 8 (36:52):
Still I have to do what I can sing.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Close up as a man coming out of his house
on Birch Street, see him.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Carrying a little black man.
Speaker 5 (37:06):
Yeah that's the worm, Cynthia looks like a doctor gonna
get to him.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
He doesn't see it.
Speaker 9 (37:13):
He see what James Jamee, come back, come back.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
I've checked everything for the young teen's time.
Speaker 6 (37:28):
I'm positive he's dead. Imagine.
Speaker 5 (37:33):
I even did that old fashioned trick of holding a
mirror in front of his mouth to see.
Speaker 6 (37:36):
If it would cloud up.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
Well, doctor Hatch will be here soon, Daisy.
Speaker 10 (37:41):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (37:42):
We're not gonna tell him anything, are.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
We, Well, like like what like uh.
Speaker 5 (37:47):
Mike, all those movements like crying.
Speaker 14 (37:50):
Maybe maybe we just imagined all that, but you know,
we didn't imagine.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
If it's not any of it, I know, but it
is the.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Sort of thing you have to see before you believe it.
Speaker 6 (38:01):
Doctor Hatch didn't see it.
Speaker 7 (38:03):
He wasn't here morning, mowning.
Speaker 6 (38:06):
Try to be late, Crawley.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
And that's all right, doctor Hatch.
Speaker 10 (38:09):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (38:09):
Oh, why doctor, this is did this is?
Speaker 3 (38:11):
Daisy?
Speaker 10 (38:12):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Fred said I could stay here. I I saw the accident.
Speaker 7 (38:16):
Oh you're the young lady who answered the phone.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Oh, don't worry.
Speaker 7 (38:19):
I wanna set Fred because he lets you stay here.
Thank you, doctor Hatch. Uh.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Let's have a look at him.
Speaker 7 (38:25):
Fetch me my step of scrope. Crawley gets her in
my black bag. If he's dead, isn't Uh he certainly
looks sad to me. Oh, say, you know, I damned
they didn't make it this morning.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Damn this thing happened?
Speaker 3 (38:40):
Oh what was that?
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Coming out of my house? I slipped on some ice.
Speaker 7 (38:45):
Now imagine that I lost my balance completely. I tried
to stop myself every which way, but I couldn't. I thought, great, Scott,
I'm lucky if I wind up with it's nothing worse
than a concussion, and lucky if I.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Don't kill myself.
Speaker 8 (39:00):
Then you know what happened.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
I swear to you.
Speaker 7 (39:03):
My head was an inch from the sidewalk when all
of a sudden I righted myself.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
How did you do that?
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Down?
Speaker 7 (39:11):
I final I I if I just did, I must
have been a muscle coordination than I thought. I swear
I felt that though somebody had caught hold of me
and put me back on my feet.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Well this one instead, all right?
Speaker 7 (39:27):
Been dead for almost an hour, I'd say, yeah, about
an hour.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Hey, look at him? What is it, doctor Hatch?
Speaker 7 (39:36):
Look at the expression on his face.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
I never saw it. To dad, I looked like that.
Speaker 7 (39:42):
He's smiling, big, broad smile. Never saw such a happy
looking Courts in my life, actually smiling.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Sincea right here change.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
It's wonderful to see you, Cynthia. After all it's time.
Speaker 8 (40:11):
It's wonderful that then you, Jain.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Is this where we're going to live?
Speaker 8 (40:17):
This is where we all live?
Speaker 2 (40:19):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
I knew you'd like it.
Speaker 10 (40:24):
I do like it.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Cynthia. I tried, I really did try.
Speaker 8 (40:32):
I know you did change.
Speaker 10 (40:34):
I helped the few people then you did.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
But I couldn't do it all alone.
Speaker 5 (40:41):
Nobody passed, Cinthia.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
Imagine a war where no one got killed.
Speaker 7 (40:50):
Yes, imagine a world where nobody starved to death.
Speaker 5 (40:59):
You're smiling, Pallala, They're all waiting.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
Pos I was always and took in strains that might
create a soul under the ribs of death, So wrote
the great poet of the seventeenth century, John Milton. And
(41:28):
with the music of the heavenly voices, James Blake enters
the place of everlasting Blitz, having given at least a
portion of himself to his fellow man. If not in life,
then in death. Who knows what happens to us when.
Speaker 5 (41:54):
Life has left us.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
Certainly not I.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Why couldn't it be that the soul.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Lingers for a while? As long as no one really
knows for sure what the soul does when stripped of
its body, why not pretend? Why not imagine that it
leaves the body.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
Gracefully and a little.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
Regretfully, pausing to consider what it is losing before dashing
off to see what it is gaining. Our cast included
Tony Roberts, Christopher the Bori, Suzanne Grossman, Brian Rayburn and
Dan Acko. The entire production was under the direction of
Hymon Brown and now a preview of our next tale.
Speaker 8 (42:40):
So let me tell that body to that place.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
Please please, Rachel, don't talk like that.
Speaker 8 (42:45):
I let go bring me Rachel. You're so strong, you
can do anything. You can do anything.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
Rachel, You'll bring me back. Rachel. Well, I I I
for the people.
Speaker 8 (43:02):
Honey, you are wonderful. I know, I know there are
things you can do.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
Oh, Barnie, promise.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
Why I promise, and I'll help.
Speaker 8 (43:17):
I'll try as hard as I can to help it.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
And the two up. We do it together.
Speaker 8 (43:24):
We we can do it.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
We can springle that Radio Mystry Theater were sponsored in
part by Important Dino rose Wyan.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
This is Eg Marshall inviting you.
Speaker 1 (43:36):
To return to our Mystry Theater for another adventure in
the macabre. Until next time, Pleasant Dreams.
Speaker 4 (44:06):
The Tree Theater comes to you.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
From CBS Radio and Radio eighty seven WWL.
Speaker 10 (44:11):
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Speaker 1 (44:12):
Studio is located in the historic Old French Bars.
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