August 3, 2025 • 42 mins
CBS Radio Mystery Theater - The Dark Closet
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Come in, we welcome. I'm E. G.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Marshall.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
It's pleasant out with the moon riding high, bright enough
almost to read by the very opposite of the night
that Julie Connor's story begins for us, a black and
lowering night, the atmosphere heavy with a promise of rain, dark,
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the dark, not being able to see, only to imagine
what surrounds us. For some, it is peopled with presences, things,
and unimaginable horrors.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Why that's what our story is about.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
It begins as we listened to Julie move and moan
in her sleep. Our mystery drama The Dark Closet was
written especially for the Mystery Theater by Ian Martin and
stars Fred Gwynn. It is sponsored in part by Buick
Motor Division and sin Off the Sinus Medicines. I'll be
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back shortly with that one for the goblins of Get
You if you don't watch out. No American kid of
my generation escaped the dire prediction of little orphan Annie,
for whom James Whitcomb Riley had begun his poem prophetically
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with the words came to our house to stay. I
know for me she did. I can still remember the
little boy who went to bed and when they turned
the covers down, he wasn't there at all. The little
girl who says, two great big black things are standing
by her side, who snatched her through the ceiling, for
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she knowed what she's about, For the goblins, he'll get you. Hiss,
you don't watch out. I wonder what goblin holds Julie
Connors in his stall.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Tell me help, Julie. What is it?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
The the light? Please?
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Thank god, thank god?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Why didn't you turn on the light by the bed.
Did you have to break that lamb?
Speaker 5 (02:41):
I didn't mean to. I was just so scared I
reached out to turn it on and knocked it over
by accident.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
That was one of your mother's favors.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Pop, don't blame me too much. Someone turned it off,
someone meaning me.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I told you time and time again, Julie, waste not,
want not. I looked in here when I got home
and you were sound asleep, lamp still lit.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
I only keep it that way this time of year,
when it gets dark so early. Just tell me, knowing
you're home.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Huh, Why what are you afraid of? And you don't
have to go to bed so early?
Speaker 5 (03:12):
I got nothing else to do.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Oh, we're in town. You've got the television.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
I'm tired of that old too. Living other people's lives though,
I want to live my own.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Yeah, time enough for that.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
I'm seventeen going on eighteen.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
All the more reason. You don't need lights on when
you're sleeping, and stop having those nightmares. I reckon. That's
what it was again, huh an one of them?
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Yeah, what.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Doesn't matter, m Then I'll say it for you. The
Boogeyman again. That's book. I swear. I don't know what
I'm gonna do with you, child, Child, that's the trouble.
That's what you ain't anymore, except in half the time
you act like it was one.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Maybe it would help pop if you stop trying to
cheat you like one.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
You think you're not.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Last year of high school.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
I've been keeping house for you ever since.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Mamma do we won't talk about your mom?
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Okay, Bob.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
All I meant to say was if you can trust
me to take care of the house, well you could
trust me to take care of myself.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
You work afore the midnight shift.
Speaker 7 (04:17):
Eh.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
I kept living here nights I could.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Date, except I don't want you dating, and I'm not
around me. The kind of guy you're going with, not
these days the riff raft that's abroad, because maybe a.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Guy has long hair, and whereas old jeans should make
so much difference on the.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Farm, what we wore was Jean.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
I just don't want to see you run around the trash.
He was all in the level, Julie. Don't try to
be one hair in the city. Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Ma.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
That's the way you are to turn now.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
And see.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Can't you ever for kept mo?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
What I mean?
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Try to hide her way in the back of your
mind like we all have to I think of today?
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Uh I can. I can never shut your mother away. Yeah.
I just wish you could learn and live like it,
make your peace with the world. Then maybe you could
set off these dreams that hurt you. Yeah, and it
hurt me too.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
Maybe if I just got a little more freedom.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
In a couple of months, you'll be eighteen. I have
no control over you then, But until you reach that birthday,
I will not let you run wild like all the
other kids. I promise your mother that force died.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Why don't you trust me, pop, leave me to make
my own decisions.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
I can't, I promise Mary she wanted only the best
for you.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
She isn't here to find it for me anymore.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
Let me do my own finding.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
No, by heaven, I give my word, I keep it
ten seventh, that's mean for a day tomorrow night.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Yeah, I don't hear good things about 'em.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
You mean I can't go.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I mean you better not. I have six months left
to bring you to your mother's image. I will do
everything I can to make you that. But it's about
your dream.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
I forget it. It doesn't matter anymore. I'm just being a child,
and I know it. I can see that.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
It's time for me to glow up.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Good night, Pop. You need your sleep, me too?
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Yeah? Yeah, sure you okay, don't.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Worry about me.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Three teens, Yeah, go.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Out, and they left for me. I just wish I
could make sure that the whole lifetime I might have
to feel well, Uh, turn off a life.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
No, I I mean I I'll get it.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I I have I have to.
Speaker 8 (06:33):
Go to the dockrm I, pop, Ah, I love you, sure,
I you know how I.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Try to feel. Jolie's just since Marri I yeah, there
is much together. Yeah, good night.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
It When she was alive, it wasn't much for you
to give. Oh god, well the daylight never come.
Speaker 9 (07:11):
Hey, you are pretty freaked out there, my old lady.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Thanks for the lift, and I'm not your old lady.
Speaker 9 (07:16):
Oh these last few weeks, Uh, I thought we were
finally gonna begin to make it.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Oh damn, it's not you.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
It's I know your father.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
No, No, not that so much. Something else? H Oh,
something I can't explain.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
May you ought to dump me?
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Not any good for you?
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Well?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Yeah, I've been stringing me along there.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
What's got you down?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Sneaking out with me?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Knight spine?
Speaker 3 (07:42):
You old dodos back.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
I don't like it. For what other way is there.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Still expects you to sit on the knit or something?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (07:48):
What's the way he was brought up and mom?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
They were fond people.
Speaker 9 (07:52):
Your mother's been dead for uh six years, hasn't she.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
Yeah that's a big hang up. Really, Pop goes overboard
about trying to you know, pre tech me, like he
thinks Mom would have.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Forget it.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Look, he still got a dates for tonight, right?
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Oh sure.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
I even tried to tell Pap about going out with
you when he came home.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
When he blew a gaskt, I let it go. I
didn't wanna upset him.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
I'm shut up. He's gotten out of style.
Speaker 9 (08:17):
Baby, he belongs to a wax museum. Take a good
look at yourself in the mirror. He got circles under
your eyes like some old uh broader thirty.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
I told you that.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Isn't pop it.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
It's this is crazy nightmare I have all the time.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Oh yeah, well, okay, let's see.
Speaker 9 (08:34):
I tell you what. You're gonna get a good sleep tonight.
Old Doc Tim is gonna guarantee it. Oh how I'm
gonna borrow at some wheels and take a little booze,
and you're gonna take a couple of belts.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
See what you need is to relax.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Maybe you'll write Tim, I'm so up tight. You know something.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Last few weeks night I think he's gonna flight.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
I wanta with my legs.
Speaker 9 (08:59):
Well at the night, we're gonna do better than that.
You're gonna blow your mind.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Gee, where'd you get a car like this?
Speaker 9 (09:12):
That's dove but stojing bean god, marvel a magician.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
I waved my match ground.
Speaker 10 (09:17):
And you've been drinking?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
How did you do? Hey? Open the glove compartment. Oh
it's a liquor. Where'd you get that.
Speaker 9 (09:28):
So on the family, kiddo wave, my old man boys
is down. You'll never miss one bottle? Uh here there
and the cars, m uncle Joe's go ahead, take the
bottle out.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
I don't want yet. You shouldn't have any more.
Speaker 9 (09:41):
Oh come on, I'm just putting you on. I only
had one little drink. And if I remember, you promised
you were gonna join me.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Okay, why not right out of a bottle?
Speaker 4 (09:52):
I got no glasses.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Okay, here goes hey, it's almost empty.
Speaker 9 (10:00):
No, no, no, I ain't steak a phone bottle.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Go ahead, come on and kill it.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
No, I just want a small ship. Where are we going?
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Yeah, Starland?
Speaker 9 (10:12):
Live it up, big goll and ride the games that disco?
Speaker 3 (10:15):
How liquor?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Starland?
Speaker 5 (10:17):
What ain't gonna use for money?
Speaker 9 (10:18):
That is no problem?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
What we're starting down for?
Speaker 4 (10:22):
There's uh liquor store up ahead of you.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Oh why don't we forget it? I I I don't
want anymore?
Speaker 9 (10:27):
Baby, baby, don't you remember the night? The night we're
gonna open up your skull and let all those little
men out.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
You just keep a running. I'll be right back. It's
serious so deserted. Uh yeah, tell on the radio. Keep
the company.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
Okay, put a shot.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
It sounded like joy, my joy? Kid him joy? Help
me kick him? What happen?
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Hold me?
Speaker 3 (11:02):
I can't stay.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
You gotta get to the car.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Give me hold.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
I've got you.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Kill at the gun a gun?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Kill him that?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
What are you doing?
Speaker 5 (11:10):
You the gun? I'm killing you?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Hear me?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
How curious are today?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
I just tuck your guns?
Speaker 3 (11:22):
It isn't mind up of hi.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Okay, Jake, get in the side the liaquer store and
see what happened. I'll handle this end of it. I'll
put your hand.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Behind your back.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Oh but that I do?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
You want your sidekick here to bleed the death?
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Now behind the back? All right? Oh no, I'm sorry
you too.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
I'm sorry you play rough games.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
You gotta take what comes with them.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
I climb over to the car.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I've got a radio emergency for an ambulance. Well, doctor
Sarah Browney, what are you doing here this time of night?
Speaker 10 (11:58):
Well, i'll tell you, Reverend Samuel Prior, I've been called
in as a special consultant on the.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Shooting case that was brought in.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Oh you mean the boy killed the liquor shop older
mm hmmmm, Well he doesn't need a psychiatrist Sally, he's
more out to need me. They've had he been on
R two and a half hours already.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
He's not my patient.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Little girl who was with him finally.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Took her back to the station house for questioning and.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
To lock her up.
Speaker 10 (12:24):
Mmm, only she didn't stay locked up. There's a Sergeant
Lawrence on the way back here with her. Oh, oh,
I guess I hear.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Now let me go there, Connors.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Just you pull him down now, if you'll only talk for.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Oh? Is that gonna lock me up again? This time?
Speaker 5 (12:41):
I will burst my head wide open.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
I won't let him get me.
Speaker 10 (12:45):
Of course, we won't let him get you, whoever he is, Julie,
this is a hospital. You're perfectly safe, now, aren't you
being foolish?
Speaker 3 (12:53):
How do you know me? Come on, I've been expecting you.
I'm doctor Browning. Oh sure, they head doctor. Well, don't
figure out putting me in any.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Pet itself, because if you do, you'll see the biggest
wing being yet.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
No padded sell, no keys.
Speaker 10 (13:08):
You'll have to be confined to your room, but you
don't have to close the door, and there.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Are two big windows, right honest? Or in what it's late?
I want you to get undressed and get into bed.
Speaker 10 (13:21):
Then I'll give you something to help you sleep, and
while we're waiting for it to work, we'll talk a little.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Nurse.
Speaker 10 (13:27):
When you show Ms Connors to her room, Miss, do
I have heavy sergeant?
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Does she have to be handcuffed?
Speaker 4 (13:34):
I know if you don't think she needs 'em?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Now? Doctor, no, I don't. Okay, okay, doctor, you go
with the nurse and the sergeant. I'll be up in
a moment.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
I will for you.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Well, looks like you just made a friend.
Speaker 10 (13:51):
Yes, and I need you, Sam.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Could we go to my office for a moment or two.
Something's haunting that child, something beyond tonight. You talked to
her earlier.
Speaker 10 (14:01):
Maybe you can give me a clue to who her
private boogein in is.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
It's so easy for all of us, no matter how
sure we think we are, to panic at what we
don't understand, terrors and strange noises.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
That come to us from the dark outside.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
But when the nameless fight wells up from inside, creating
our own boogeyman, call it what you want, then we
are truly possessed, and the only last hope is to
exorcise the unnamed thing within us. How the turn shortly
with that too. Exorcism is a covenient, old fashioned word.
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It conjures picture of the damned or possessed rising under
the influence of some foul demon r It once was
the sole province of the religious and even in modern
terms still is. But it is well established by now
that the psychiatrist is equally important, and church and medicine
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work as partners, like the Reverend Sam Pryor and doctor
Sarah Browning.
Speaker 10 (15:25):
So the police waught a psychiatric evaluation of Julie Connor's
They were holding her for bail and locked her in
a cell.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
And she went berserk.
Speaker 10 (15:33):
Did you see the bruises on her?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Foreheg I did claustrophogia.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Apparently, but that's for later.
Speaker 10 (15:40):
The point is that even if it is bonafide, it's
only a symptom, not a disease.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
What worries me is less a girl than the father.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Oh smarter with mister Cunners.
Speaker 10 (15:51):
What kind of father abandons a seventeen year old girl
who's never been in any real trouble to face jail
before she's been found guilty.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Well, she's a suspected accomplice, and the murder of a
liquor store hold up her.
Speaker 10 (16:04):
Even the murder, Sam, can you honestly believe that child
could handle a heavy gun like the one.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
That was used?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Was no way of proving that until the boys she
was with comes too.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
If he ever does that, bad Sam.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
He's young, but not so good Sally. Uh, what was
the bond on the girl?
Speaker 10 (16:25):
The police don't really suspect her as a principal, only
a few thousand mm.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Except that her father refused to post it.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Well, maybe he can't afford it.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
He can. I call him this morning, he repears, to
talk to me.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Do you seriously imagine that my winning personality might succeed
where yours failed?
Speaker 10 (16:44):
A doctor, you might apply a little occupational leverage. The
father is a deacon at the plane View's church, Oh.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Of which the minister happens to be a close friend
of mine.
Speaker 10 (16:58):
Sam, mm I can't judge's the girl without knowing something
about her background, her history for life. There isn't time
for deep analysis. Her father is the only one who
can tell me quickly.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Oh, no mother or relatives.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
No mother, no relatives close enough to be of value.
I know it's an imposition.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Well, that's when you ask me, Shelley. You give me
the address and I'll go beard your lion in his death.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Hello, Julie, Oh to you, Doctor H's Tim.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
He's still in the recovery room. How are you?
Speaker 5 (17:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I promise you a view from a window? Is it
all right?
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Ever since the sun came up?
Speaker 6 (17:47):
Trees and shrubs, flowers and green rolling out as far
as you can see, just like the farm was the farm.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Where I grew up before we moved to the city
about a thousand years ago, or maybe five thousand.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Okay, Doc, what always.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
Start with the lie detector?
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Don't fight me, Julie. I'm on your side. Do me
a favor.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
I guess I owe you one getting those handcuffs offt.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Of me, so i'll trade.
Speaker 10 (18:20):
Just tell me the truth about everything, good, bad and different.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Just all the truth. That's what I'm after.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
You don't ask so much.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Huh.
Speaker 10 (18:31):
When I was a little girl, my father used to
say to me, Sally, Sally. Well, my name's really Sarah,
but I always hated it, so I got to be.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Called Sally anyway. Pop.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
Uh, that's what I call my father.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Anyway.
Speaker 10 (18:46):
Pop always said to me, don't do a power of
wishing sally, cause the lord's too busy to come through
for everyone. But if you do wish, always wish big.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
So that's how it is with you and me, Julie.
I wish and bid. You'll tell me everything. Gee dot.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
Ah, what's the difference? What have I got to lose?
Speaker 3 (19:17):
So too? It's just like any other boy.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
I had to bust out of home for some kicks
some of the time.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
But you've known him for a while.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Well, sure we were in the same class at school.
Speaker 10 (19:27):
You weren't surprised when he picked you up in a
car this time.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Sure he was, especially when he said we were heading
the Star and Park, you know, the rides and all.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
And he wanted to gave a disc attack. I just
didn't feel right.
Speaker 10 (19:38):
He never had money like that before.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
But you went, yeah, I went.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
I was ready to go anywhere that night. I thought
I even had a drink. Now I don't usually because
it it it makes me feel kind of dizzy. And
I thought it right, chase away. But the guy that
follows me go on. Tim had an almost empty bottle.
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He gave me a drink and and he he said,
you wanted to stop and get more.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Tell me about the man, you say follows you.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
I don't wanna talk about that.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Then don't tell me more about what happened.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
Well, we stopped at this liquor store and Tim left
me in the car.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
M called me to turn on the radio. I heard
him throw away the empty cause it broke, and the
smashing the street. I didn't like that. Why, well, things
should be tidy and need normalways. Well, I I was
listening to the radio.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
And then.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
These two noises. I just couldn't believe they were shot.
When Tim came out, he was all bleeding, he could
hardly stand up. And then I don't know, the police
came in the ambulance. They took Tim away to the
hospital and needed stations house.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
And booked you as an accessory. Yes, do you know
the charges? Well, M, robbery, and you didn't know Tim
was driving a stolen car.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
No, he said it with his uncles and he meant
it to him. Why are you asking me all these questions?
Speaker 10 (21:17):
Well, some of them I'm asking because I felt you'd
rather have me do it than the police.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Oh, why doesn't Tim tell him the truth?
Speaker 10 (21:24):
Julie, Dear, Tim is still unconscious, he can't talk, and
Tim isn't my interest?
Speaker 3 (21:30):
You are? Tell me more about the police station.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Things took forever.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
They came, took my fingerprints, and then.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
Uh they put me to sell and uh locked the door. Yes,
they turned up the light and I try to.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
Tell him not to because my pop was coming. I
asked him to call him. They just didn't pay any
attention and got me in the wall.
Speaker 10 (22:02):
He was there.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
I knew he was gonna get me. I just screamed
and screamed it. The police lady came.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
I told her to get my bob to get me
out of there.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
And what did she say?
Speaker 6 (22:10):
She said he'd been there and he wasn't going to
let me out.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
I've just been all day. That's somebody went bananas and
beat my head against the wall. And the boy.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Then I don't know.
Speaker 10 (22:25):
Everything just went to last and when you woke up,
he'll bring me in here to the hospital when I
met you, all right, Julie, just a few more questions.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Sit on the bed, Okay, then.
Speaker 10 (22:41):
Okay, whyn't you just lie back?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
That's right.
Speaker 10 (22:47):
Look, I know you've been through a bad time and
jail would scare the daylights out of me, But why
would it drive you up the wall the way it did, because.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
It was just like like when I was a kid
and I I could in my.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Closet to punish you. F who who? What? Who? Locked
you up like my mother? And inside in the dark
you were terrified. I always to hide choke it.
Speaker 10 (23:25):
There wasn't any light nm you couldn't see.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
The walls.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
You could just feel them, you could feel the moving in.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
I closed my eyes.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
I always hope my own private dark.
Speaker 10 (23:41):
Wouldn't be scary to see other, and the other would
come the other.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
First.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
I could hear his breathing, his voice.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
Terrible whispering sound.
Speaker 10 (24:21):
But how did you know that this, this boogie man
wouldn't get you? I always knew Pop would come to
Setney free, and he always did, except this time.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
How could he do that to me?
Speaker 10 (24:34):
How could he need he shut up?
Speaker 3 (24:35):
And he loves me just the way I love him?
Speaker 5 (24:39):
How can you let me be there alone to be
swallowed up by the dark for everyone?
Speaker 10 (24:45):
All right, all right, Julie, it's gonna be all right.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Don't worry. We're gonna get you all straightened out.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
Oh don't.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
I'm afraid.
Speaker 10 (24:55):
We're all afraid, Julie of so many things. If I
asked you to call me Sally as I called you Julie,
who don't make it easier. Oh you're so kind.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (25:07):
I do trust you?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
How you say? Oh?
Speaker 8 (25:11):
I just want my Bob.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
I know you do.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Well, Please don't let him walk away from me.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
If he did, I I couldn't live.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
You don't think he really will, do you?
Speaker 7 (25:34):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Doctor Ronnie isn't back in that office, but uh, she
should be shortly.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
We can wait for her there.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
I don't know why we're talking to this except that
you and my pastor good friends, Reverend pie A a
friend in need. Uh what does that mean?
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (25:49):
That's something we all need on particular occasions, but uh
really all the time. Yes, this is doctor Browning's office.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
I can't imagine going to a woman psychiatrice.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
We neither can I.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
But because you're a minister, Uh no, no, because I
don't need one. And uh my collar you must remember
makes sex immaterial.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Yeah, cause, Hey, whatever criminal aspects this case involves, can
scarcely touch your daughter. She was by all evidence, she
was an innocent bystander, except for the impetus that we
drove her out of an empty house and involved her.
What do you trying to say, I'm not trying you say.
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I discussed this case with doctor.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Browning, and we are both in agreement.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Your daughter is possessed by uh, a malignant spirit, something
beyond her comprehension or ability to handle, which has driven
her into a horrendous situation, one innocent man's death and
another possible one. The young man was the instrument of
the first.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
But where does your daughter's get or has she any
real guild?
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Of all the bear on those young shaken shoulders. Oh,
the hold up of a liquor store goes wrong, the
owner is shocked to death. A boy is the apparent murderer,
a girl within a possible accomplice. What peculiar twist of
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fate put her there? What punishment or resolution should come
from the circumstances? We will leave you to judge that
after I return shortly with the third act. This is
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a story which wanders the fields of modern psychiatry and
tries to plumb the depths of subjective terror grown from
within rather than impressed from without. So we returned to
a minister who faces an anguished father and a history
still buried in the shadows of the past.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
I don't know why I let myself get talking of
this reverend.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
For your daughter's sake, I told you I'm truer her
Ms Connors. You cannot abandon your child. She's only been arrested,
not sentenced. She hasn't been proven guilty.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
She was in a stolee call the boy? What a record?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Oh, I don't know that. So isn't it just possible
that Julie didn't eat it?
Speaker 4 (28:28):
No, I forget it. She lied anyone to try and
take him in. But this's time she didn't get away
with it, except she managed to take away out of jail.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I mean, why are you so bitter against her?
Speaker 4 (28:38):
I'm not bitter?
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Are you sure?
Speaker 1 (28:41):
And doctor Browning doesn't think she's faking. She thinks Julie
has real claustrophobia.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Yeah, what do you mean?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
A terror of being shut away in a confined or
narrow space sick.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
So that's the story she's trying to sell.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
We all have it more or less.
Speaker 10 (28:57):
Now, perhaps your daughter I didn't mean to eat, but
I just had a long talk with your daughter, mister
Connor's I think it's true.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Who are you? Oh?
Speaker 1 (29:06):
This is doctor Browning The psychiatrist in charge of your
daughter's case.
Speaker 10 (29:09):
Huh, psychiatrist, that's right, a profession I gather may not
be too popular with you, mister Connors, but I am
going to be important in your life.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
I want to be frank and I don't want to
sound arbitrary.
Speaker 10 (29:24):
But what happens in a few weeks until the trial,
as far as Julie is concerned, is almost entirely up
to me.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
If you're trying to trick me into posting a bond
for the AD says no, let us stay in jail
learn a lesson for us.
Speaker 10 (29:36):
That's just what your daughter shouldn't Well, I'll amend that
can't do.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
She's a very insecure and disturbed girl.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Am I supposed to be responsible for Julie? Am I
to take the blame?
Speaker 10 (29:46):
I don't like the word blame. Let's say you might
be a factor along with others.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
What others Julie's mother, for example?
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Don't you say one word against Julie's mother? Mary was
a saint.
Speaker 10 (29:59):
From what Julie told me, a different picture could be imagined.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Whatever she said was lies lies possibly.
Speaker 10 (30:05):
But if she's lie, I'd like to find out why. Now,
mister Connors. Won't you sit down and help.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
I'm sorry, doctor, I have a job do. I don't
see how I can.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Help you, if you'll excuse me, I think i'm superfluous
in this discussion. And also I have word to do now.
I promise to visit your daughter. Can I tell her
you'll be up to see her?
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Mister Conno, you can tell her I never want to
see her again.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Well that's a message you'll have to convey by yourself.
Excuse me, hm, m I uh a reverend prior this
intensive care?
Speaker 7 (30:44):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Yes, I wanna ask about Tim Sadler, the boy who
was shot in the hold up.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Ah, I see. Well, if there's any change, I'll be
on four fifty. Would you will notify you please immediately? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
A lot, Miss Connors.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
Hi, Oh, excuse me, reverend?
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Well for what?
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Who?
Speaker 8 (31:09):
You're a minister and all?
Speaker 5 (31:10):
I didn't mean to be rude. I I don't wanna
answer any more questions.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Oh who does?
Speaker 1 (31:15):
So?
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Will avoid him?
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Leading ones anyway?
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Who it's a pretty nice for you.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
I had that one reminds me of the farm I was,
uh where all where I grew up.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
You like being out there that in the city.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
Mm these Papa was happy out there nice.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Well, he still seems pretty nice.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
He's here in the hospital talking to the shrink and
then a shrink, you know, doctor Browning.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
Uh Huh.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
People won't come and see me. You don't have to
tell me.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
I know.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
It doesn't matter. Nothing matters.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Talk you about pupetually.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (31:52):
I gave it up soon after mother died, when I
got old enough to realize he never wanted me.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
I could never take her place. I had to die too.
Never been able to admit it. He hates me for
being alive instead of her. Only why can't I even
it up and hate him back?
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (32:19):
And I don't mean to pry, but you did love
your wife very much, mister Connor's.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
My old life began and ended with her.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
She returned that love.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Oh yeah, Mary loved me.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Exact why she resented it when Julie arrived.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
M Mary resent Julie. She loved her, And you h
of course he who doesn't want kids? Oh sure on
a farm, maybe I was kind of disappointed. It wasn't
a boy farmer needs a boy and girls. But that
was only at first at first, well, and there was
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things went wrong. We wanted to have any more kids. Uh,
that was the Lord's will. Then, after all the years
we tried and found, God said against us. Uh, Julie
was growing up. Bad street was showing through. I told
her she was too soft on her what bad street,
The things she do. When she was eight, she climbed
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that big old maple behind the house and got a
treat like a cat. We had to get the county
hooking ladder from the fire department and set her down.
And then one summer she fooled us off. She was
drown the river.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Mm.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
By the time she was ten, she run away from
home regular not so much couldn't be found. Then at twelve, Uh,
I swear I couldn't blame 'em. The boys came swarming around.
Uh tell you true. She was lovable and damnable to.
Speaker 10 (33:43):
Handle that her and your wife tried to punish her somehow,
or at least controller so she took to locking her
in the closet.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
HU, who told you that?
Speaker 2 (33:52):
What Julie?
Speaker 4 (33:54):
That was what she said? Yes, damn if now you
don't see what a liar she is. So I one
not to punish her. Now, I was the one who
locked her in the closet.
Speaker 10 (34:04):
Oh, I see, But you were always the one who
came back to let her.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
Out up till now. Doctor. But I'm not there no
out anymore as a father or a bailiff. This time
she brought a whole problem and she can stay in
the closet for good.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Mister Connors, I want you to listen.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
To no, ma'am. You can take up for Julia all
you want, but you ain't gonna change my mind.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
I'm not taking up for Julia. I'm taking up for
both of you.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
And I'll thank you not to call me ma'am.
Speaker 10 (34:30):
I am doctor, doctor Sarah Brownie, and a specialist in
human relationships. Two minutes is all I ask? Yeah, two minutes,
well a reasonable time.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
Uh huh, No, that isn't what I mean.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
It's just.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
That's what Mary always used to say to me when
she wanted something good.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
First.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
I I like, I'll give you a two minutes, doctor.
Speaker 10 (34:58):
For what to try to get you to look at
your lives clearly yours and Julie's, to give you.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
What you need.
Speaker 10 (35:05):
Mister Connor's love I had that lusted your wife's, but
not your daughter's.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Julie, don't love me not like not, not the way.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
You couldn't be more wrong.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
All her life she was set against me, trying to
bedevil me, show me her own.
Speaker 10 (35:21):
Way, fight me, because all her life you couldn't give
her what she really wanted, a father's love. Try to
see it from her point of view, mister Connor's. She
was a child who grew up in a house where
her parents loved each other so much. She felt excluded,
an only child with nowhere.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
Else to reach for love.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
But Mary loved her.
Speaker 10 (35:40):
Of course, a girl takes her mother's love for granted,
except that she so often thinks of her as a
rival for her father's affections.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
How much love did you offer her? Did she ever
find from you?
Speaker 4 (35:53):
I was a farmer, I was up from donald sundown.
Then I still chores knights. Was so tired of.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
That much time for exactly.
Speaker 10 (36:04):
And there was always the thought that had Julie been
a boy, she could have worked with you, taken some
of those chores off your shoulders, been more of a companion.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
Yeh, don't make me out, no ogre. Maybe some of
the things you say true, But Julie didn't have to
act up the way she did.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
That's just the point of course she did.
Speaker 10 (36:21):
She was trying to win your love the only way
she could, or at least attention. She climbs a tree,
pretends to drown, runs away from home, anything to get
you to come and rescue her. Even the punishment was
worth it, the agony of the dark closet, because she
knows you'll be the one to come and save her.
Speaker 4 (36:41):
I ain't proud of that.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Oh, we're human. We do what we do. But have
you any idea what that child suffered for your love?
Speaker 2 (36:49):
What do you mean?
Speaker 10 (36:50):
Claustrophobia is the most common fear people have. Have you
ever been locked up in the dark, mister Connors?
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Mm?
Speaker 4 (36:59):
That was since I left. I Uh shut myself in
the closet. Uh hid onn't it? Because I don't wanna
wake up and open the door to life again.
Speaker 10 (37:08):
I had such love that you could have it again
a different way from Julie.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
No, she doesn't love me, sh she hates me.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
She wants to love you. Do you wanna love her?
Speaker 10 (37:22):
I don't know much now, I don't throw it away.
I've talked to her. Mister Connors. Do you know about
the Boogeyman?
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (37:30):
Not childish nonsense?
Speaker 10 (37:31):
Yeah, childish perhaps, but not nonsense. Imagine just shut your
eyes and try to think back to your kid years,
thrust into inky blackness that she turned no escape, the
gradual feeling that the air was getting too thick to breathe.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
Above all the dark and the fear that you were.
Speaker 10 (37:54):
Locked in a coffin, and then from somewhere some fairy tale,
a ghost story, you begin to your voice.
Speaker 11 (38:07):
Tryj tr Nod, tell me.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
Nord to live.
Speaker 11 (38:16):
At last, the way I am, the way I should have.
Do you feel me closing you, like the walls crush
your bread?
Speaker 4 (38:35):
Stop it, stop it. Don't you know how wrong I was?
Don't you see? No matter what she says, I know
she hates me, but she doesn't.
Speaker 10 (38:43):
In spite of everything, you couldn't be better loved, And
I can prove it to you.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
How Whose voice do you think it was? She heard?
Speaker 10 (38:52):
Because she wasn't a boy but just a little girl,
because she felt unwanted?
Speaker 3 (38:57):
Whose voice, mister Connors? Oh?
Speaker 10 (39:01):
Oh no, oh, yes, yours, God forgive me he will.
And Julie, it isn't too late, all her rebellion, everything
she's ever done, even last night.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
If she has any guilt in what happened has been
a cry for your love. Can't you offer it to
her at last?
Speaker 4 (39:29):
Pop, Julie, I I tell you, I never thought you'd
come well about time.
Speaker 5 (39:40):
I I didn't rob anybody, Pop, honest, I didn't.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
I didn't know it.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
It doesn't matter how all. All I know is you're
at least from the hospital, and you're getting dressed, and
you and me and going to the police station to
post that bond, and then we're going home, and no
matter what happens, I'm gonna fight to keep you there.
Speaker 5 (39:59):
Oh hop hop.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
I don't know what to say.
Speaker 4 (40:02):
Muh not do that much. It ain't gonna be easy
so many years to make up for you.
Speaker 5 (40:10):
You could just one way with one move, h could you?
Could you just hold out.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
Your arms, Julie, Julie, m my little girl, Oh Pop.
Speaker 5 (40:25):
Oh my life.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
Just this, It's all I ever wanted.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
All of us have closets in the mind where skeletons
rattle and boogeymen breathe heavy in the dark.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
Thank the Lord for the.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
People who open the doors for us, and pity all
those who don't have the doors open it.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
I'll be back shortly.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
Well well, Julian Seth Conners made their piece the hard way.
Perhaps this time it will stick. At least there won't
be any more dark closets. Life is too full of them,
and the trick is to find out how to open them.
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The key is easy to find, of course, it's something
very simple love. What the real trick is, however, is
to be able to give it to the right person.
Our cast included Fred Gwynn, Jodda Rowland, Christopher Tabori, Francis Sternhagen,
and Earl Hammond. The entire production was under the direction
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of Hymon Brown's Radio. Mystery Theater was sponsored in part
by Uncle Ben's Long Grain and Wild Rice and Anheuser
Busch Incorporated.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
Brewers of Budweiser.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
This is Eg Marshall inviting you to return to our
Mystery Theater for another adventure in the macabre. Until next time,
Pleasant Dreams.
Speaker 4 (42:26):
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Speaker 1 (42:30):
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The preceding program was produced by the Columbia Broadcasting System.
Speaker 4 (42:42):
You're able to set for news of John Scott, w R.
New York and Art old General visue,
Come in, we welcome. I'm E. G.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Marshall.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
It's pleasant out with the moon riding high, bright enough
almost to read by the very opposite of the night
that Julie Connor's story begins for us, a black and
lowering night, the atmosphere heavy with a promise of rain, dark,
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the dark, not being able to see, only to imagine
what surrounds us. For some, it is peopled with presences, things,
and unimaginable horrors.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Why that's what our story is about.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
It begins as we listened to Julie move and moan
in her sleep. Our mystery drama The Dark Closet was
written especially for the Mystery Theater by Ian Martin and
stars Fred Gwynn. It is sponsored in part by Buick
Motor Division and sin Off the Sinus Medicines. I'll be
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back shortly with that one for the goblins of Get
You if you don't watch out. No American kid of
my generation escaped the dire prediction of little orphan Annie,
for whom James Whitcomb Riley had begun his poem prophetically
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with the words came to our house to stay. I
know for me she did. I can still remember the
little boy who went to bed and when they turned
the covers down, he wasn't there at all. The little
girl who says, two great big black things are standing
by her side, who snatched her through the ceiling, for
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she knowed what she's about, For the goblins, he'll get you. Hiss,
you don't watch out. I wonder what goblin holds Julie
Connors in his stall.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Tell me help, Julie. What is it?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
The the light? Please?
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Thank god, thank god?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Why didn't you turn on the light by the bed.
Did you have to break that lamb?
Speaker 5 (02:41):
I didn't mean to. I was just so scared I
reached out to turn it on and knocked it over
by accident.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
That was one of your mother's favors.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Pop, don't blame me too much. Someone turned it off,
someone meaning me.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I told you time and time again, Julie, waste not,
want not. I looked in here when I got home
and you were sound asleep, lamp still lit.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
I only keep it that way this time of year,
when it gets dark so early. Just tell me, knowing
you're home.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Huh, Why what are you afraid of? And you don't
have to go to bed so early?
Speaker 5 (03:12):
I got nothing else to do.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Oh, we're in town. You've got the television.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
I'm tired of that old too. Living other people's lives though,
I want to live my own.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Yeah, time enough for that.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
I'm seventeen going on eighteen.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
All the more reason. You don't need lights on when
you're sleeping, and stop having those nightmares. I reckon. That's
what it was again, huh an one of them?
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Yeah, what.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Doesn't matter, m Then I'll say it for you. The
Boogeyman again. That's book. I swear. I don't know what
I'm gonna do with you, child, Child, that's the trouble.
That's what you ain't anymore, except in half the time
you act like it was one.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Maybe it would help pop if you stop trying to
cheat you like one.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
You think you're not.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Last year of high school.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
I've been keeping house for you ever since.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Mamma do we won't talk about your mom?
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Okay, Bob.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
All I meant to say was if you can trust
me to take care of the house, well you could
trust me to take care of myself.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
You work afore the midnight shift.
Speaker 7 (04:17):
Eh.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
I kept living here nights I could.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Date, except I don't want you dating, and I'm not
around me. The kind of guy you're going with, not
these days the riff raft that's abroad, because maybe a.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Guy has long hair, and whereas old jeans should make
so much difference on the.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Farm, what we wore was Jean.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
I just don't want to see you run around the trash.
He was all in the level, Julie. Don't try to
be one hair in the city. Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Ma.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
That's the way you are to turn now.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
And see.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Can't you ever for kept mo?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
What I mean?
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Try to hide her way in the back of your
mind like we all have to I think of today?
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Uh I can. I can never shut your mother away. Yeah.
I just wish you could learn and live like it,
make your peace with the world. Then maybe you could
set off these dreams that hurt you. Yeah, and it
hurt me too.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
Maybe if I just got a little more freedom.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
In a couple of months, you'll be eighteen. I have
no control over you then, But until you reach that birthday,
I will not let you run wild like all the
other kids. I promise your mother that force died.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Why don't you trust me, pop, leave me to make
my own decisions.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
I can't, I promise Mary she wanted only the best
for you.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
She isn't here to find it for me anymore.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
Let me do my own finding.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
No, by heaven, I give my word, I keep it
ten seventh, that's mean for a day tomorrow night.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Yeah, I don't hear good things about 'em.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
You mean I can't go.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I mean you better not. I have six months left
to bring you to your mother's image. I will do
everything I can to make you that. But it's about
your dream.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
I forget it. It doesn't matter anymore. I'm just being a child,
and I know it. I can see that.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
It's time for me to glow up.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Good night, Pop. You need your sleep, me too?
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Yeah? Yeah, sure you okay, don't.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Worry about me.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Three teens, Yeah, go.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Out, and they left for me. I just wish I
could make sure that the whole lifetime I might have
to feel well, Uh, turn off a life.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
No, I I mean I I'll get it.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I I have I have to.
Speaker 8 (06:33):
Go to the dockrm I, pop, Ah, I love you, sure,
I you know how I.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Try to feel. Jolie's just since Marri I yeah, there
is much together. Yeah, good night.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
It When she was alive, it wasn't much for you
to give. Oh god, well the daylight never come.
Speaker 9 (07:11):
Hey, you are pretty freaked out there, my old lady.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Thanks for the lift, and I'm not your old lady.
Speaker 9 (07:16):
Oh these last few weeks, Uh, I thought we were
finally gonna begin to make it.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Oh damn, it's not you.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
It's I know your father.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
No, No, not that so much. Something else? H Oh,
something I can't explain.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
May you ought to dump me?
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Not any good for you?
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Well?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Yeah, I've been stringing me along there.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
What's got you down?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Sneaking out with me?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Knight spine?
Speaker 3 (07:42):
You old dodos back.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
I don't like it. For what other way is there.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Still expects you to sit on the knit or something?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (07:48):
What's the way he was brought up and mom?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
They were fond people.
Speaker 9 (07:52):
Your mother's been dead for uh six years, hasn't she.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
Yeah that's a big hang up. Really, Pop goes overboard
about trying to you know, pre tech me, like he
thinks Mom would have.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Forget it.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Look, he still got a dates for tonight, right?
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Oh sure.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
I even tried to tell Pap about going out with
you when he came home.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
When he blew a gaskt, I let it go. I
didn't wanna upset him.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
I'm shut up. He's gotten out of style.
Speaker 9 (08:17):
Baby, he belongs to a wax museum. Take a good
look at yourself in the mirror. He got circles under
your eyes like some old uh broader thirty.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
I told you that.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Isn't pop it.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
It's this is crazy nightmare I have all the time.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Oh yeah, well, okay, let's see.
Speaker 9 (08:34):
I tell you what. You're gonna get a good sleep tonight.
Old Doc Tim is gonna guarantee it. Oh how I'm
gonna borrow at some wheels and take a little booze,
and you're gonna take a couple of belts.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
See what you need is to relax.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Maybe you'll write Tim, I'm so up tight. You know something.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Last few weeks night I think he's gonna flight.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
I wanta with my legs.
Speaker 9 (08:59):
Well at the night, we're gonna do better than that.
You're gonna blow your mind.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Gee, where'd you get a car like this?
Speaker 9 (09:12):
That's dove but stojing bean god, marvel a magician.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
I waved my match ground.
Speaker 10 (09:17):
And you've been drinking?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
How did you do? Hey? Open the glove compartment. Oh
it's a liquor. Where'd you get that.
Speaker 9 (09:28):
So on the family, kiddo wave, my old man boys
is down. You'll never miss one bottle? Uh here there
and the cars, m uncle Joe's go ahead, take the
bottle out.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
I don't want yet. You shouldn't have any more.
Speaker 9 (09:41):
Oh come on, I'm just putting you on. I only
had one little drink. And if I remember, you promised
you were gonna join me.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Okay, why not right out of a bottle?
Speaker 4 (09:52):
I got no glasses.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Okay, here goes hey, it's almost empty.
Speaker 9 (10:00):
No, no, no, I ain't steak a phone bottle.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Go ahead, come on and kill it.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
No, I just want a small ship. Where are we going?
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Yeah, Starland?
Speaker 9 (10:12):
Live it up, big goll and ride the games that disco?
Speaker 3 (10:15):
How liquor?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Starland?
Speaker 5 (10:17):
What ain't gonna use for money?
Speaker 9 (10:18):
That is no problem?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
What we're starting down for?
Speaker 4 (10:22):
There's uh liquor store up ahead of you.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Oh why don't we forget it? I I I don't
want anymore?
Speaker 9 (10:27):
Baby, baby, don't you remember the night? The night we're
gonna open up your skull and let all those little
men out.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
You just keep a running. I'll be right back. It's
serious so deserted. Uh yeah, tell on the radio. Keep
the company.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
Okay, put a shot.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
It sounded like joy, my joy? Kid him joy? Help
me kick him? What happen?
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Hold me?
Speaker 3 (11:02):
I can't stay.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
You gotta get to the car.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Give me hold.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
I've got you.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Kill at the gun a gun?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Kill him that?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
What are you doing?
Speaker 5 (11:10):
You the gun? I'm killing you?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Hear me?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
How curious are today?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
I just tuck your guns?
Speaker 3 (11:22):
It isn't mind up of hi.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Okay, Jake, get in the side the liaquer store and
see what happened. I'll handle this end of it. I'll
put your hand.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Behind your back.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Oh but that I do?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
You want your sidekick here to bleed the death?
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Now behind the back? All right? Oh no, I'm sorry
you too.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
I'm sorry you play rough games.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
You gotta take what comes with them.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
I climb over to the car.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I've got a radio emergency for an ambulance. Well, doctor
Sarah Browney, what are you doing here this time of night?
Speaker 10 (11:58):
Well, i'll tell you, Reverend Samuel Prior, I've been called
in as a special consultant on the.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Shooting case that was brought in.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Oh you mean the boy killed the liquor shop older
mm hmmmm, Well he doesn't need a psychiatrist Sally, he's
more out to need me. They've had he been on
R two and a half hours already.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
He's not my patient.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Little girl who was with him finally.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Took her back to the station house for questioning and.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
To lock her up.
Speaker 10 (12:24):
Mmm, only she didn't stay locked up. There's a Sergeant
Lawrence on the way back here with her. Oh, oh,
I guess I hear.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Now let me go there, Connors.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Just you pull him down now, if you'll only talk for.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Oh? Is that gonna lock me up again? This time?
Speaker 5 (12:41):
I will burst my head wide open.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
I won't let him get me.
Speaker 10 (12:45):
Of course, we won't let him get you, whoever he is, Julie,
this is a hospital. You're perfectly safe, now, aren't you
being foolish?
Speaker 3 (12:53):
How do you know me? Come on, I've been expecting you.
I'm doctor Browning. Oh sure, they head doctor. Well, don't
figure out putting me in any.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Pet itself, because if you do, you'll see the biggest
wing being yet.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
No padded sell, no keys.
Speaker 10 (13:08):
You'll have to be confined to your room, but you
don't have to close the door, and there.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Are two big windows, right honest? Or in what it's late?
I want you to get undressed and get into bed.
Speaker 10 (13:21):
Then I'll give you something to help you sleep, and
while we're waiting for it to work, we'll talk a little.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Nurse.
Speaker 10 (13:27):
When you show Ms Connors to her room, Miss, do
I have heavy sergeant?
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Does she have to be handcuffed?
Speaker 4 (13:34):
I know if you don't think she needs 'em?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Now? Doctor, no, I don't. Okay, okay, doctor, you go
with the nurse and the sergeant. I'll be up in
a moment.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
I will for you.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Well, looks like you just made a friend.
Speaker 10 (13:51):
Yes, and I need you, Sam.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Could we go to my office for a moment or two.
Something's haunting that child, something beyond tonight. You talked to
her earlier.
Speaker 10 (14:01):
Maybe you can give me a clue to who her
private boogein in is.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
It's so easy for all of us, no matter how
sure we think we are, to panic at what we
don't understand, terrors and strange noises.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
That come to us from the dark outside.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
But when the nameless fight wells up from inside, creating
our own boogeyman, call it what you want, then we
are truly possessed, and the only last hope is to
exorcise the unnamed thing within us. How the turn shortly
with that too. Exorcism is a covenient, old fashioned word.
(14:58):
It conjures picture of the damned or possessed rising under
the influence of some foul demon r It once was
the sole province of the religious and even in modern
terms still is. But it is well established by now
that the psychiatrist is equally important, and church and medicine
(15:19):
work as partners, like the Reverend Sam Pryor and doctor
Sarah Browning.
Speaker 10 (15:25):
So the police waught a psychiatric evaluation of Julie Connor's
They were holding her for bail and locked her in
a cell.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
And she went berserk.
Speaker 10 (15:33):
Did you see the bruises on her?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Foreheg I did claustrophogia.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Apparently, but that's for later.
Speaker 10 (15:40):
The point is that even if it is bonafide, it's
only a symptom, not a disease.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
What worries me is less a girl than the father.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Oh smarter with mister Cunners.
Speaker 10 (15:51):
What kind of father abandons a seventeen year old girl
who's never been in any real trouble to face jail
before she's been found guilty.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Well, she's a suspected accomplice, and the murder of a
liquor store hold up her.
Speaker 10 (16:04):
Even the murder, Sam, can you honestly believe that child
could handle a heavy gun like the one.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
That was used?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Was no way of proving that until the boys she
was with comes too.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
If he ever does that, bad Sam.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
He's young, but not so good Sally. Uh, what was
the bond on the girl?
Speaker 10 (16:25):
The police don't really suspect her as a principal, only
a few thousand mm.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Except that her father refused to post it.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Well, maybe he can't afford it.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
He can. I call him this morning, he repears, to
talk to me.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Do you seriously imagine that my winning personality might succeed
where yours failed?
Speaker 10 (16:44):
A doctor, you might apply a little occupational leverage. The
father is a deacon at the plane View's church, Oh.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Of which the minister happens to be a close friend
of mine.
Speaker 10 (16:58):
Sam, mm I can't judge's the girl without knowing something
about her background, her history for life. There isn't time
for deep analysis. Her father is the only one who
can tell me quickly.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Oh, no mother or relatives.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
No mother, no relatives close enough to be of value.
I know it's an imposition.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Well, that's when you ask me, Shelley. You give me
the address and I'll go beard your lion in his death.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Hello, Julie, Oh to you, Doctor H's Tim.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
He's still in the recovery room. How are you?
Speaker 5 (17:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I promise you a view from a window? Is it
all right?
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Ever since the sun came up?
Speaker 6 (17:47):
Trees and shrubs, flowers and green rolling out as far
as you can see, just like the farm was the farm.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Where I grew up before we moved to the city
about a thousand years ago, or maybe five thousand.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Okay, Doc, what always.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
Start with the lie detector?
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Don't fight me, Julie. I'm on your side. Do me
a favor.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
I guess I owe you one getting those handcuffs offt.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Of me, so i'll trade.
Speaker 10 (18:20):
Just tell me the truth about everything, good, bad and different.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Just all the truth. That's what I'm after.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
You don't ask so much.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Huh.
Speaker 10 (18:31):
When I was a little girl, my father used to
say to me, Sally, Sally. Well, my name's really Sarah,
but I always hated it, so I got to be.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Called Sally anyway. Pop.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
Uh, that's what I call my father.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Anyway.
Speaker 10 (18:46):
Pop always said to me, don't do a power of
wishing sally, cause the lord's too busy to come through
for everyone. But if you do wish, always wish big.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
So that's how it is with you and me, Julie.
I wish and bid. You'll tell me everything. Gee dot.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
Ah, what's the difference? What have I got to lose?
Speaker 3 (19:17):
So too? It's just like any other boy.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
I had to bust out of home for some kicks
some of the time.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
But you've known him for a while.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Well, sure we were in the same class at school.
Speaker 10 (19:27):
You weren't surprised when he picked you up in a
car this time.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Sure he was, especially when he said we were heading
the Star and Park, you know, the rides and all.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
And he wanted to gave a disc attack. I just
didn't feel right.
Speaker 10 (19:38):
He never had money like that before.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
But you went, yeah, I went.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
I was ready to go anywhere that night. I thought
I even had a drink. Now I don't usually because
it it it makes me feel kind of dizzy. And
I thought it right, chase away. But the guy that
follows me go on. Tim had an almost empty bottle.
(20:04):
He gave me a drink and and he he said,
you wanted to stop and get more.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Tell me about the man, you say follows you.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
I don't wanna talk about that.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Then don't tell me more about what happened.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
Well, we stopped at this liquor store and Tim left
me in the car.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
M called me to turn on the radio. I heard
him throw away the empty cause it broke, and the
smashing the street. I didn't like that. Why, well, things
should be tidy and need normalways. Well, I I was
listening to the radio.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
And then.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
These two noises. I just couldn't believe they were shot.
When Tim came out, he was all bleeding, he could
hardly stand up. And then I don't know, the police
came in the ambulance. They took Tim away to the
hospital and needed stations house.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
And booked you as an accessory. Yes, do you know
the charges? Well, M, robbery, and you didn't know Tim
was driving a stolen car.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
No, he said it with his uncles and he meant
it to him. Why are you asking me all these questions?
Speaker 10 (21:17):
Well, some of them I'm asking because I felt you'd
rather have me do it than the police.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Oh, why doesn't Tim tell him the truth?
Speaker 10 (21:24):
Julie, Dear, Tim is still unconscious, he can't talk, and
Tim isn't my interest?
Speaker 3 (21:30):
You are? Tell me more about the police station.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Things took forever.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
They came, took my fingerprints, and then.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
Uh they put me to sell and uh locked the door. Yes,
they turned up the light and I try to.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
Tell him not to because my pop was coming. I
asked him to call him. They just didn't pay any
attention and got me in the wall.
Speaker 10 (22:02):
He was there.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
I knew he was gonna get me. I just screamed
and screamed it. The police lady came.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
I told her to get my bob to get me
out of there.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
And what did she say?
Speaker 6 (22:10):
She said he'd been there and he wasn't going to
let me out.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
I've just been all day. That's somebody went bananas and
beat my head against the wall. And the boy.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Then I don't know.
Speaker 10 (22:25):
Everything just went to last and when you woke up,
he'll bring me in here to the hospital when I
met you, all right, Julie, just a few more questions.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Sit on the bed, Okay, then.
Speaker 10 (22:41):
Okay, whyn't you just lie back?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
That's right.
Speaker 10 (22:47):
Look, I know you've been through a bad time and
jail would scare the daylights out of me, But why
would it drive you up the wall the way it did, because.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
It was just like like when I was a kid
and I I could in my.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Closet to punish you. F who who? What? Who? Locked
you up like my mother? And inside in the dark
you were terrified. I always to hide choke it.
Speaker 10 (23:25):
There wasn't any light nm you couldn't see.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
The walls.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
You could just feel them, you could feel the moving in.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
I closed my eyes.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
I always hope my own private dark.
Speaker 10 (23:41):
Wouldn't be scary to see other, and the other would
come the other.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
First.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
I could hear his breathing, his voice.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
Terrible whispering sound.
Speaker 10 (24:21):
But how did you know that this, this boogie man
wouldn't get you? I always knew Pop would come to
Setney free, and he always did, except this time.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
How could he do that to me?
Speaker 10 (24:34):
How could he need he shut up?
Speaker 3 (24:35):
And he loves me just the way I love him?
Speaker 5 (24:39):
How can you let me be there alone to be
swallowed up by the dark for everyone?
Speaker 10 (24:45):
All right, all right, Julie, it's gonna be all right.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Don't worry. We're gonna get you all straightened out.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
Oh don't.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
I'm afraid.
Speaker 10 (24:55):
We're all afraid, Julie of so many things. If I
asked you to call me Sally as I called you Julie,
who don't make it easier. Oh you're so kind.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (25:07):
I do trust you?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
How you say? Oh?
Speaker 8 (25:11):
I just want my Bob.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
I know you do.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Well, Please don't let him walk away from me.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
If he did, I I couldn't live.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
You don't think he really will, do you?
Speaker 7 (25:34):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Doctor Ronnie isn't back in that office, but uh, she
should be shortly.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
We can wait for her there.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
I don't know why we're talking to this except that
you and my pastor good friends, Reverend pie A a
friend in need. Uh what does that mean?
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (25:49):
That's something we all need on particular occasions, but uh
really all the time. Yes, this is doctor Browning's office.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
I can't imagine going to a woman psychiatrice.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
We neither can I.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
But because you're a minister, Uh no, no, because I
don't need one. And uh my collar you must remember
makes sex immaterial.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Yeah, cause, Hey, whatever criminal aspects this case involves, can
scarcely touch your daughter. She was by all evidence, she
was an innocent bystander, except for the impetus that we
drove her out of an empty house and involved her.
What do you trying to say, I'm not trying you say.
(26:34):
I discussed this case with doctor.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Browning, and we are both in agreement.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Your daughter is possessed by uh, a malignant spirit, something
beyond her comprehension or ability to handle, which has driven
her into a horrendous situation, one innocent man's death and
another possible one. The young man was the instrument of
the first.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
But where does your daughter's get or has she any
real guild?
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Of all the bear on those young shaken shoulders. Oh,
the hold up of a liquor store goes wrong, the
owner is shocked to death. A boy is the apparent murderer,
a girl within a possible accomplice. What peculiar twist of
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fate put her there? What punishment or resolution should come
from the circumstances? We will leave you to judge that
after I return shortly with the third act. This is
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a story which wanders the fields of modern psychiatry and
tries to plumb the depths of subjective terror grown from
within rather than impressed from without. So we returned to
a minister who faces an anguished father and a history
still buried in the shadows of the past.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
I don't know why I let myself get talking of
this reverend.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
For your daughter's sake, I told you I'm truer her
Ms Connors. You cannot abandon your child. She's only been arrested,
not sentenced. She hasn't been proven guilty.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
She was in a stolee call the boy? What a record?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Oh, I don't know that. So isn't it just possible
that Julie didn't eat it?
Speaker 4 (28:28):
No, I forget it. She lied anyone to try and
take him in. But this's time she didn't get away
with it, except she managed to take away out of jail.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I mean, why are you so bitter against her?
Speaker 4 (28:38):
I'm not bitter?
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Are you sure?
Speaker 1 (28:41):
And doctor Browning doesn't think she's faking. She thinks Julie
has real claustrophobia.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Yeah, what do you mean?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
A terror of being shut away in a confined or
narrow space sick.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
So that's the story she's trying to sell.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
We all have it more or less.
Speaker 10 (28:57):
Now, perhaps your daughter I didn't mean to eat, but
I just had a long talk with your daughter, mister
Connor's I think it's true.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Who are you? Oh?
Speaker 1 (29:06):
This is doctor Browning The psychiatrist in charge of your
daughter's case.
Speaker 10 (29:09):
Huh, psychiatrist, that's right, a profession I gather may not
be too popular with you, mister Connors, but I am
going to be important in your life.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
I want to be frank and I don't want to
sound arbitrary.
Speaker 10 (29:24):
But what happens in a few weeks until the trial,
as far as Julie is concerned, is almost entirely up
to me.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
If you're trying to trick me into posting a bond
for the AD says no, let us stay in jail
learn a lesson for us.
Speaker 10 (29:36):
That's just what your daughter shouldn't Well, I'll amend that
can't do.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
She's a very insecure and disturbed girl.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Am I supposed to be responsible for Julie? Am I
to take the blame?
Speaker 10 (29:46):
I don't like the word blame. Let's say you might
be a factor along with others.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
What others Julie's mother, for example?
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Don't you say one word against Julie's mother? Mary was
a saint.
Speaker 10 (29:59):
From what Julie told me, a different picture could be imagined.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Whatever she said was lies lies possibly.
Speaker 10 (30:05):
But if she's lie, I'd like to find out why. Now,
mister Connors. Won't you sit down and help.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
I'm sorry, doctor, I have a job do. I don't
see how I can.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Help you, if you'll excuse me, I think i'm superfluous
in this discussion. And also I have word to do now.
I promise to visit your daughter. Can I tell her
you'll be up to see her?
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Mister Conno, you can tell her I never want to
see her again.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Well that's a message you'll have to convey by yourself.
Excuse me, hm, m I uh a reverend prior this
intensive care?
Speaker 7 (30:44):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Yes, I wanna ask about Tim Sadler, the boy who
was shot in the hold up.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Ah, I see. Well, if there's any change, I'll be
on four fifty. Would you will notify you please immediately? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
A lot, Miss Connors.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
Hi, Oh, excuse me, reverend?
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Well for what?
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Who?
Speaker 8 (31:09):
You're a minister and all?
Speaker 5 (31:10):
I didn't mean to be rude. I I don't wanna
answer any more questions.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Oh who does?
Speaker 1 (31:15):
So?
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Will avoid him?
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Leading ones anyway?
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Who it's a pretty nice for you.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
I had that one reminds me of the farm I was,
uh where all where I grew up.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
You like being out there that in the city.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
Mm these Papa was happy out there nice.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Well, he still seems pretty nice.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
He's here in the hospital talking to the shrink and
then a shrink, you know, doctor Browning.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
Uh Huh.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
People won't come and see me. You don't have to
tell me.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
I know.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
It doesn't matter. Nothing matters.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Talk you about pupetually.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (31:52):
I gave it up soon after mother died, when I
got old enough to realize he never wanted me.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
I could never take her place. I had to die too.
Never been able to admit it. He hates me for
being alive instead of her. Only why can't I even
it up and hate him back?
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (32:19):
And I don't mean to pry, but you did love
your wife very much, mister Connor's.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
My old life began and ended with her.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
She returned that love.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Oh yeah, Mary loved me.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Exact why she resented it when Julie arrived.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
M Mary resent Julie. She loved her, And you h
of course he who doesn't want kids? Oh sure on
a farm, maybe I was kind of disappointed. It wasn't
a boy farmer needs a boy and girls. But that
was only at first at first, well, and there was
(32:55):
things went wrong. We wanted to have any more kids. Uh,
that was the Lord's will. Then, after all the years
we tried and found, God said against us. Uh, Julie
was growing up. Bad street was showing through. I told
her she was too soft on her what bad street,
The things she do. When she was eight, she climbed
(33:16):
that big old maple behind the house and got a
treat like a cat. We had to get the county
hooking ladder from the fire department and set her down.
And then one summer she fooled us off. She was
drown the river.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Mm.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
By the time she was ten, she run away from
home regular not so much couldn't be found. Then at twelve, Uh,
I swear I couldn't blame 'em. The boys came swarming around.
Uh tell you true. She was lovable and damnable to.
Speaker 10 (33:43):
Handle that her and your wife tried to punish her somehow,
or at least controller so she took to locking her
in the closet.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
HU, who told you that?
Speaker 2 (33:52):
What Julie?
Speaker 4 (33:54):
That was what she said? Yes, damn if now you
don't see what a liar she is. So I one
not to punish her. Now, I was the one who
locked her in the closet.
Speaker 10 (34:04):
Oh, I see, But you were always the one who
came back to let her.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
Out up till now. Doctor. But I'm not there no
out anymore as a father or a bailiff. This time
she brought a whole problem and she can stay in
the closet for good.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Mister Connors, I want you to listen.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
To no, ma'am. You can take up for Julia all
you want, but you ain't gonna change my mind.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
I'm not taking up for Julia. I'm taking up for
both of you.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
And I'll thank you not to call me ma'am.
Speaker 10 (34:30):
I am doctor, doctor Sarah Brownie, and a specialist in
human relationships. Two minutes is all I ask? Yeah, two minutes,
well a reasonable time.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
Uh huh, No, that isn't what I mean.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
It's just.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
That's what Mary always used to say to me when
she wanted something good.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
First.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
I I like, I'll give you a two minutes, doctor.
Speaker 10 (34:58):
For what to try to get you to look at
your lives clearly yours and Julie's, to give you.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
What you need.
Speaker 10 (35:05):
Mister Connor's love I had that lusted your wife's, but
not your daughter's.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Julie, don't love me not like not, not the way.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
You couldn't be more wrong.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
All her life she was set against me, trying to
bedevil me, show me her own.
Speaker 10 (35:21):
Way, fight me, because all her life you couldn't give
her what she really wanted, a father's love. Try to
see it from her point of view, mister Connor's. She
was a child who grew up in a house where
her parents loved each other so much. She felt excluded,
an only child with nowhere.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
Else to reach for love.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
But Mary loved her.
Speaker 10 (35:40):
Of course, a girl takes her mother's love for granted,
except that she so often thinks of her as a
rival for her father's affections.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
How much love did you offer her? Did she ever
find from you?
Speaker 4 (35:53):
I was a farmer, I was up from donald sundown.
Then I still chores knights. Was so tired of.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
That much time for exactly.
Speaker 10 (36:04):
And there was always the thought that had Julie been
a boy, she could have worked with you, taken some
of those chores off your shoulders, been more of a companion.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
Yeh, don't make me out, no ogre. Maybe some of
the things you say true, But Julie didn't have to
act up the way she did.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
That's just the point of course she did.
Speaker 10 (36:21):
She was trying to win your love the only way
she could, or at least attention. She climbs a tree,
pretends to drown, runs away from home, anything to get
you to come and rescue her. Even the punishment was
worth it, the agony of the dark closet, because she
knows you'll be the one to come and save her.
Speaker 4 (36:41):
I ain't proud of that.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Oh, we're human. We do what we do. But have
you any idea what that child suffered for your love?
Speaker 2 (36:49):
What do you mean?
Speaker 10 (36:50):
Claustrophobia is the most common fear people have. Have you
ever been locked up in the dark, mister Connors?
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Mm?
Speaker 4 (36:59):
That was since I left. I Uh shut myself in
the closet. Uh hid onn't it? Because I don't wanna
wake up and open the door to life again.
Speaker 10 (37:08):
I had such love that you could have it again
a different way from Julie.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
No, she doesn't love me, sh she hates me.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
She wants to love you. Do you wanna love her?
Speaker 10 (37:22):
I don't know much now, I don't throw it away.
I've talked to her. Mister Connors. Do you know about
the Boogeyman?
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (37:30):
Not childish nonsense?
Speaker 10 (37:31):
Yeah, childish perhaps, but not nonsense. Imagine just shut your
eyes and try to think back to your kid years,
thrust into inky blackness that she turned no escape, the
gradual feeling that the air was getting too thick to breathe.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
Above all the dark and the fear that you were.
Speaker 10 (37:54):
Locked in a coffin, and then from somewhere some fairy tale,
a ghost story, you begin to your voice.
Speaker 11 (38:07):
Tryj tr Nod, tell me.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
Nord to live.
Speaker 11 (38:16):
At last, the way I am, the way I should have.
Do you feel me closing you, like the walls crush
your bread?
Speaker 4 (38:35):
Stop it, stop it. Don't you know how wrong I was?
Don't you see? No matter what she says, I know
she hates me, but she doesn't.
Speaker 10 (38:43):
In spite of everything, you couldn't be better loved, And
I can prove it to you.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
How Whose voice do you think it was? She heard?
Speaker 10 (38:52):
Because she wasn't a boy but just a little girl,
because she felt unwanted?
Speaker 3 (38:57):
Whose voice, mister Connors? Oh?
Speaker 10 (39:01):
Oh no, oh, yes, yours, God forgive me he will.
And Julie, it isn't too late, all her rebellion, everything
she's ever done, even last night.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
If she has any guilt in what happened has been
a cry for your love. Can't you offer it to
her at last?
Speaker 4 (39:29):
Pop, Julie, I I tell you, I never thought you'd
come well about time.
Speaker 5 (39:40):
I I didn't rob anybody, Pop, honest, I didn't.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
I didn't know it.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
It doesn't matter how all. All I know is you're
at least from the hospital, and you're getting dressed, and
you and me and going to the police station to
post that bond, and then we're going home, and no
matter what happens, I'm gonna fight to keep you there.
Speaker 5 (39:59):
Oh hop hop.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
I don't know what to say.
Speaker 4 (40:02):
Muh not do that much. It ain't gonna be easy
so many years to make up for you.
Speaker 5 (40:10):
You could just one way with one move, h could you?
Could you just hold out.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
Your arms, Julie, Julie, m my little girl, Oh Pop.
Speaker 5 (40:25):
Oh my life.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
Just this, It's all I ever wanted.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
All of us have closets in the mind where skeletons
rattle and boogeymen breathe heavy in the dark.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
Thank the Lord for the.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
People who open the doors for us, and pity all
those who don't have the doors open it.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
I'll be back shortly.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
Well well, Julian Seth Conners made their piece the hard way.
Perhaps this time it will stick. At least there won't
be any more dark closets. Life is too full of them,
and the trick is to find out how to open them.
(41:25):
The key is easy to find, of course, it's something
very simple love. What the real trick is, however, is
to be able to give it to the right person.
Our cast included Fred Gwynn, Jodda Rowland, Christopher Tabori, Francis Sternhagen,
and Earl Hammond. The entire production was under the direction
(41:48):
of Hymon Brown's Radio. Mystery Theater was sponsored in part
by Uncle Ben's Long Grain and Wild Rice and Anheuser
Busch Incorporated.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
Brewers of Budweiser.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
This is Eg Marshall inviting you to return to our
Mystery Theater for another adventure in the macabre. Until next time,
Pleasant Dreams.
Speaker 4 (42:26):
Tonight's w R. Mystery Fitter was also brought to you,
imparked by the Shopwright.
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Supermarkets, where you get a lot more for a little less.
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