August 24, 2025 • 44 mins
CBS Radio Mystery Theater - The Garrison of the Dead
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Widgeting the CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents. Come in Welcome,
(00:29):
I'm e. G.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Marshall.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
And everything's in order, in its proper place, neatly sorted
and labeled, all the items of suspense, mystery, terror, and
the macabre. It only remains to mix and brew of
all sad words of tongue and pen. The saddest are these.
(00:53):
It might have been, It might have been? What might
have been? Could we but call that hasty word, that
heedless act?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yes? Indeed, had we but known then what we know now?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
How different things would be today?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Or at least that's what we like to tell ourselves.
But would things really be different? My boy?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
You take an unnecessarily dim view?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Do you realize I'm going to hang tomorrow morning?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Perhaps? Perhaps not?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
What do you mean? Perhaps not? Tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
We'll come and go and you will still be alive?
How you will not be here in this place? How
am I going to get out? Believe that?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
To me?
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Look around you guards, doors, locks, How could I possibly
get out?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
They will old disappear?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Look?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Look what.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Happened? Who are you?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Who are you?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Our mystery drama The Garrison of the Dead was written
especially for the Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and stars
Mandel Kramer. It is sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division.
I'll be back shortly with that one. The word is
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alibi from the Latin alias ivy, which means to be
somewhere else, which is precisely the idea of the thing. No,
if you are required to commit a murder in one place,
you must make sure you can prove you were someplace
else at that exact time. This point is so elementary,
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so simple, one might consider it too obvious to be
worthy of mention. Perhaps, but the executioners have been kept
busy and the prisons full by those forgetful folk who
neglected the basics. And no one is more aware of
this than Andrew Macefield. Tonight it will be necessary for
(03:17):
Andrew Macefield to murder Jerome Carlson. It is a serious
and most dangerous business, and of course Andrew would rather
not do it. But we live in a world where
a man does what he must. Hello, Jerry, and In
(03:39):
Macefield thought you were in jail at the comedy. Jerry,
you knew I was not unbail. You're gonna ask me
to come in, No, Jerry, I've got to talk to you.
Whatever you and I would have to talk about has
already been said.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Jerry.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
You got to give me a break. I know all
your stories by heart, and try to understand and remember
his sinners enticed the consent. Now, month, what's this you?
You dare to quote the Bible?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I dare?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
After all, the Bible was written more for me than
it was for you. Okay, get over this. You're gonna
make me stand outside.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Behold there has risen a new Andrew Masefield from the
ashes of the old?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Or has there enter Andrew.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Ah all alone by yourself, spoken with your usual flare
for the redundant Andrew.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Well, what revelations have you to share with me? Jerry?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Jerry, do you want me to go to jail for
ten years? Actually, I would want you to go to
jail for life and pay a half million dollars and find.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
That money never belonged to you.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Jerry, I'll give you a half that's your cup to
keep your mouth shut. So there really is and the
quarter of a million? Jerry, how many magazine stories do
you have to write before you can see a quarter
of a million.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I'm sorry, Jerry, giving you a break. I trusted you, Jerry.
I helped you.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
You came to me, you said you wanted to do
an article on how our real estate developments put together
because I thought we'd become friends.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I told you things well off the record. And now
you're going to go to court tomorrow morning and you're.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Going to testify it.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Right, And doesn't friendship impose a certain obligation?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Is a higher obligation to what to the law.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Look, what I told you was strictly on the qt, Jerry.
And why to let you win on a good thing?
Give you a chance to make some money?
Speaker 2 (05:37):
You mean, give me a chance to break the law?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Law?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
What's the holy about the law?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
People break the law every day.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Didn't you break the law a couple of years ago
when you wrote an article telling young guys how to
avoid military service.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
That was a matter of conscience.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
What you really mean is it's all a matter of
personal taste. Perhaps, but my taste doesn't run this swindling,
poor ignorant people out of their life.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Say claw up, Jerry.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
These are suckers who were born to be taken.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
We've been through all this and the I guess we have.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
So you're gonna walk into that courtroom tomorrow and explain
to the jury just how I separated those suckers from
their dough.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
I think it's time we said goodbye. Yes, it is
in more waste than one.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
You you're crazy to the point that gun at me.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Crazy.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
This is the only thing that makes any sense. I
offered your money, no dice. I tried to appeal to
your friendship.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
No good.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
So now I have to kill you.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
You can't get away with it. Why not?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Everybody knows you'd stop at nothing to prevent me from testifying.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
You threaten me in public. You're the only one with
a movie motives.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
They won't matter. I'm going to have an alibi. How
how could you hope to prove that you like me?
Never hopes, he plans.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
On my watch, I've had exactly nine fifty seven. The
coroner is going to fix the time of your death
at exactly ten PM.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Her anti fact.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
But put that got away. You think this is a joke.
Huh Now, Jerry, it's on the level.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
But I'm going to have an alibi. Marguerite.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Oh that's the best I've ever heard, Margurite.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Why is it so funny?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Because Marguerite is not that kind of woman who could
commit perjury. Your problem is you don't know people, Jerry.
You don't know what makes them go. Marguerite may have
all those letters after her name, but underneath it, she's
just a woman. Hold it, and she.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Loves to be treated like a woman. Marguerite's in love
with me.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
He launch she was until I came along. And besides,
I'm going to give her ten grand I can't believe
it with my left hand. I'll just pick up this
funny and I put it on and dial. I'm dialing Marguerite,
and you will be able to hear for yourself. Oh hello,
(08:09):
go ahead, pick it up, Jerry.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Talk to the lady yourself, Marguerite.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Who is this? It's me, Jerry, Marguerite. Andy's gone crazy.
He's here pointing a gun at me.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Oh, Jerry, And.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
He can't be there.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
He's here with me.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
No, No, he's Hereie.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
He wants to kill me, dear.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
He can't be at your place.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
He's right here, and he's angry.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
He's killing at me.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Marjorite, listen to me here for yourself.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
You're not gonna make a monk here of me. You're
not gonna run a talk that can hurry the minute book.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Shut up Andy and give me a wrist see Jerome,
Andy and I are having a fight.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
No, so call me back.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
No, no, Majorie, Margger easy hang up, Jerry.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
That's all there is.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
No Listen, my boy. This is on a tape recorder.
That apartment has thin walls. Now, you know how neighbors
love to listen to a lover's quarrel. So Marguerite will
swear that I was with her. Plenty of people will
swear they heard me. But if I'm dead, everyone will
know that you killed me. What everyone knows and what
everyone can prove at two different things.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Jerry, I've got the alibie.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
You won't get away with it.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
How could I be here to shoot you dead? At
ten pm?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
When I was in Marguerite's apartment in North Hastings, thirty
five miles away the car of yours.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
That loud, flashy car.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Someone sure those part of it?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I'm not using my car tonight.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I'm driving Marguerite's mousey little lady y what you want
to make a deal now, Jerry, it's too late. Timing, Jerry,
Timing is everything in life.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Who besides you would kill me then you watch your
ring your wallach break the back window, mo full the police.
I remember that you told me that civilized men build
the cities and then the barbarians sweep down from the
hills and destroy them.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Well a barbie work. It won't work, says, something will
go wrong things Absolutely nothing is going to go wrong.
And ten o'clock tonight.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
I won't be handy.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Marguerite will swear that I was thirty five miles away.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Think of what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Where has the time gone? It's exactly ten o'clock though, no, no,
it's fast. Good Bye, my best and only friend.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
You've got to believe. I'm sorry, Jerry, but that's the
only way you'd have it.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Hello.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Hello, Hello, we're here to bring your doll.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
This is Harvey Hopkins, old Homer out arm who brings
your doll for just being at the right place at
the right time.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Timing, as they say, is everything in life.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
It is now exactly minutes after ten pm, and we're
out of a location where we are at the intersection
of Root six at Main Street, and we have our
special police motorcycle as courts and tonight he's Seargeant Jim
Cassidy's saying out to lawahawks, Jim evening. That was Jim
saying good evening to everybody. But Jim will have a
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special good evening for you personally. If you happen to
A five pass.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
The intersection of Root six and Maine, and b if.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
You have an R and A five on your license plate, yes, sir,
an R and A five and R and five will
make the jackpot, which is six hundred and fifty dollars
all that money for an hour and to five on
your license plate. And if you're the first one to
pass the intersection.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Of Root six and Maine.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
It is now precisely four minutes after ten pm.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
And I don't believe we've.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Got to win it, because yes, yes, Sargeant Cassidy is coming.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Up that motorbike and he's after a car and is
Jeff passed by us?
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Sick a man?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Wait, knowing little Yes, I.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Guess the fuck overtaking him or her as the case baby,
and we have.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Got a winner.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Please poll overs her?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
What's the matter?
Speaker 3 (12:15):
What have I done? What do you want? Please pull
overs her? What's the meaning of this?
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Officer, Sir, I'm very happy to inform you that you.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Have crushed one in the jackpocked.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Yes, sorry, folks, he doesn't believe it.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
I can tell from a look on his face that
he does, and I'll pay to.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
See you don't have the time to reach out and
grab six hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
You mind if I just some money? Is yours?
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Now?
Speaker 3 (12:39):
What's your name?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Serious?
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Please? I don't know the rules and regulations compel us
to give this money to the driver of any car with.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
R and five on his license plate? Who bad?
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Don't haminar on a five on my place?
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Is that true?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Sergeant?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Here's plate numbers are fifty five. Man, you've got it
in spray and you I don't have it? You even
know your own life license plate number?
Speaker 3 (13:01):
This isn't my car, isn't your car?
Speaker 1 (13:03):
No?
Speaker 4 (13:03):
It longs to a friend, So you don't mind not
be on my way one moment, though?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
May I see the automobile registration? What do you want
to see the registration for? May I see it?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Please? Now?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Look, I am a law abiding citizen.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
May I see the registration and your driver's license.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I haven't done anything have.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
All we want to do is give you six hundred
and fifty dollars.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Your license please, yeah, yeah, sure, he got everybody.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Well, how do you like that we offered a fellow
six hundred and fifty dollars and he turns into.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
A wild beast.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Well, here goes Sergeant Pacity in person.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
The obvious thing here would be to quote from Bobby
Burns the best laid plans of mice and men gang
off to glade. We could quote him, but we won't
because really the plan didn't go wrong. The plan was fine.
Something else went wrong? But what and how where? When well,
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we're really only a third of the way home. You
can't expect to know everything right now, can you. I'll
return shortly with that too. You know the old Russian proverb,
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he that is fated to drown can even drown in
a cup of water. And so it is with our
friend Andrew Maysteld. Except Andrew will not drown. He will hang.
He will hang for the murder of Jerome Carlson. And
of course you know why, when that beautifully crafted alibi
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suddenly collapsed, the judge and jury made quick work.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
At the case.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
The date for the hanging has already been set, and
the days, if we may quote that beautiful song, are
dwindling down to a precious few.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yeah. I couldn't help it.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
It was hum or me.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I didn't want to do it. He was my friend.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Tell him, Jerry, Tell him we were friends. Tell him,
Tell him we were friends.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Jerry, We were friends. And you know it was nothing personal.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
You don't know it against me, do you know you?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Jerry?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Oh? No, certainly the I don't hold it against you.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
You see, he forgives me. He forgives me.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Tell him, I forgive you.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
You should have said so at the trial, Jerry.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
You should have said so.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
I did, but no one was listening to me.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I was still That helped me.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Somebody's got to help me.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I don't want to hang. I'll help you.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
As you spen me in my apartment.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
That's no good. You're supposed to have brains. You teach college.
Do you know that's no good?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
How could I have been with you when the cops
picked me up?
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Oh? She ever had much practical Dollie Cherry, Jerry.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
They're gonna hang me.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Yes, that's such an unpleasant way to die.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Somebody has to help me.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
I'll help you.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
I'll swear you were in my apartment.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Crazy dam It won't work.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Somebody's got to do something.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I don't want to hang somebody do something.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Jin Gin.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yeah, I guess you got it, I must say, mister Fallowfield,
your mind doesn't seem to be on this game. You
could be right, mister Parris, You've got a far away
look in your eyes. I'm thinking about somebody who, a
fellow named Macefield, Andrew Macefield. Andrew Macefield. Would he happen
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to be your client by any chance he would?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Well? What about him?
Speaker 3 (17:26):
He's going to hang tomorrow morning? Why murder?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Did he do it? Oh?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Yes, yes, he did it, no question about it. He
did it. Then that should be that you know? But
what well? I know what it is to be hanged.
I know from personal experience.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
The hard way.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
But you were innocent.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
That didn't make it any easier to take.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Well, what can you do? You're his guardian angel, but
you did what you could.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I still think I failed him. We can only advise.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
We're not supposed to go down there every time a
client gets in the jam.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Maybe I don't know how to communicate.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Mister Parris. You win some, you lose some. After tomorrow
you'll be assigned to somebody.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
It's not my fault.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
It's not my fault. There he goes again.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
I'm going down there, okay, but don't say I didn't
warn you.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
It's not right, it's not right.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Help me, please, somebody's not to help.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Mister Makefield, mister Makefield.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
What do you want.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
You?
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Yes? Yes, me? How the God?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
It's not time yet?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
It's not time yet. No, no, no, I ain't no
one yet.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Time you said you let me know in a dance,
you said you give me plenty of warning. Sure, sure,
sorry I had to wait you. But you gotta visit
it a visitor.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Yeah, you've got to be joking. Who would want to
see me?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
I would we?
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Who are you?
Speaker 1 (19:25):
May I come in?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
What do you want?
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Will I want to discuss your case?
Speaker 2 (19:31):
My case?
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Yes? My case? What case?
Speaker 4 (19:37):
I've been turned out everywhere by everybody?
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Is that the fact it's gone all the way to
the Supreme Court.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
I don't have a case.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
I've decided to hear it. May I come in? My
name is Fallowfield.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Are you a lawyer?
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Because if you are, you're wasting your time. I've run
out of appeals. Besides, I don't have a dime left.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
To my name.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
I'm not a lawyer. I'm your guardian angel, your might
ah got this not already?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Don't make so much noise?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
What's the angle?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Come on level with me, buddy, After all, I'm an
old hostley myself. Well, I'm really not supposed to be here.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Is that a fact?
Speaker 1 (20:12):
I want you to have another chance, but you have
to convince me this is going to be my last
night in this world. You've been saying you've got a
bad deal. Now tell me why? Why is it a
bad deal? You killed Jerry Carson, didn't you. Why shouldn't
you pay the price? Because well, go ahead? Why I
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have to know?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
All right? What's the difference? Just another nightmare? In no sense?
My getting up tight?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
You know this isn't a nightmare. You sent for me,
I sent for you. You always send for me, but
when I come to you you never listen.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Tell me why you shouldn't.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Have you know why?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Look, everybody in the world he's got his place in Well,
Jerome called it the scheme of things. Now a wolf
kills a lamb? Do we blame the wolf? How can we?
He was made for that purpose. He can't help it.
But you're not a wolf, and Jerome wasn't a lamb.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I am a wolf.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
I had to be a wolf, for it would have
been curtains from years ago. I had no parents since
I was five years old at a shine shoes, pedal papers,
or was hustle or gonder.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
But man has free will, Men decides to where the roum.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Talk to me about free will. I was brought up
in a jungle. Other men hadn't mean beginnings and lovers.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I'm not other men. I'm me.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Look something, somebody made me into what I am, the
kind of guy who would have to commit murder one day? Now,
why should I have to hang for it?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
That?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Then, is the point of your brief?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Whatever it is. The defense rests. But why do I
say defense? I should say prosecution? Why should I be
on trial?
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Whoever, whatever made me into what I am, should get
the rope.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
So you want another chance?
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Oh definitely, I've got one coming, another chance to do what,
to be what I always wanted to be?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
What I don't laugh?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
A writer, A writer like you, a friend your rope? Yeah, yeah,
you see I learned something from him. Now, he didn't
have much money. How many people ever heard of him?
But he was happy?
Speaker 2 (22:36):
You know why?
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Because he was creative and he was expressing himself in
the right way. You know my problem. No, I'm a
creative guy too, but I didn't have the education to
express it in stories and plays and scripts. So I
expressed it in creating hustles and deals.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
You see, Yes, And that.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Hustle I put together, the last one that was a
work of art. I had to kill Jerry. Even the alibi.
You've got to admit. Maybe it didn't work, but it
had a touch of class to it. Another chance, and
this time you'd become a writer, and you'd.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Express yourself in fiction. This time. Would you listen to me?
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Would I listened to you?
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Look?
Speaker 1 (23:20):
If this is on the level, would I forget how
close I came to that rope?
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Will you listen to me this time?
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Andy?
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Will you sure? Sure?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
I shouldn't say this, but my job would be on
the line with you if I guess wrong. Well, you've
got to understand. I'm going out on a limb for you.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Promise.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Promise you listen to me this time? Will you promise, Andy?
I promise, I promise. Mister Fallowfield, you're making a mistake,
but he is promising. He's promised me. Mister Parris. Okay,
mister Fallowfield, don't say.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
I didn't own you?
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Andy? Will you? Will you become a writer?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:08):
A fine writer and a credit to both of you?
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Yeah, sure he look at me, You got me believe
in it.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Andy.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
In just one minute, a strange thing is going to
happen to you. You won't be in this jail. No
where where will I be?
Speaker 3 (24:29):
I don't know?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Because you will have lived a different life, I hope,
and so you will be wherever that life has taken you.
But where are you going to be? Where I'm supposed
to be?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Andy?
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Watching over you, trying to guide you. And what will
I have become? What you claim you wanted? A writer?
A writer?
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Will I be rich? Famous?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Why is it important? As long as you're creative? Isn't
that the main thing?
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Sure? Sure, that's all that counts Andy.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
In thirty seconds, you'll be thirty seven years old, just
as you are.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Now, But instead of being in a cell.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
You will be wherever your different life has led you.
And Andy, I hope you keep your promise and listen
to me?
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Did he listen or didn't he?
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Where Even angels disagree?
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Who are we.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Mortals to express an opinion? One thing is certain if
you're about to be hanged. It's wonderful to have a
guardian angel who's willing to climb out on a limb
and cut the rope.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
So whom shall we meet?
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Three a different or the same old Andrew Mayfield. The
moving finger writes, and having writ moves on.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Nor all your piety.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
And wit can ever lure it back to cancel half
a line, nor all your tears wash out a word
of it. We humbly beg to differ with you, or great,
oh mark, I am, because our man Andrew's piety and
wit has lured back the moving finger, and his tears
have washed out every single word of it.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
In his death cell, he swore.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Give me another chance, and I'll become a great creative writer.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Let me live my life again.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
I'll make something of myself. So he is living it again,
and he has reached this day in his new life.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Hellollo, this is hop.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Around, Harvey Hopkins, hopping around all over town to where
the action is.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
And right now the action.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Is at the celebrity club party for a literary giant,
Andrew Macefield, to celebrate the publication of his latest blockbuster
of a novel, Kiss.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Away, the blood high and the Hello arm Andy.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
They tell me kiss Away has already been sold to
the flicks for the record price of one million smackers.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Congratulations, thank you.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Yes, folks, this is the fellow they call handy Andy
Macefield because he's so handy with that typing machine.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
How does it feel to.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Be the world's best selling writer? Well, I have a
deep feeling of humility and responsibility.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Andy.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
How do you answer those high brow critics who claim
your work is violent, pornographic trash.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Well, I say in all humility that Dostoevsky, Dreiser, and
Henny Way were slandered in a similar fashion. Gin Ooh,
I've got Gin, mister Fallowfield. Oh ah, so you have,
mister Parris. You know, mister Fallowfield, this is the first
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time in thirty seven years I've been able to beat
you at Gin. Your mind isn't on the game. No,
I suppose not. It's that client, Mone. It happens you
did the right thing. You saved him.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
No, mister Parris, I didn't save him.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
How can you say that he's a great success.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
No, he's a failure.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
When I saved him from the roup, he promised to
listen to me. Well, he did look at him today.
He didn't listen to a word I said. He squandered
his gifts, he frittered away his talent. He said he
wanted to be truly creative, like his friend Jerome Carson.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
But he lied to me.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
All he want, all he wanted was success. What's wrong
with success?
Speaker 2 (29:15):
You mean?
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Creative people have to starve?
Speaker 3 (29:19):
No.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
No, a man must be true to himself or his
soul becomes twisted and deformed, mean and disease. Mister Fallowfield,
you did a wonderful job with him, But.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
He promised he would be like Jerome Carlson.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
With all due respect, Jerome Carlson is a schlemil, perhaps,
But Jerry Carson has two things.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Andrew Masfield cupts. Is that so? Yes, Jerry has talent.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
And Jerry has marguerite. And for those two things, Andrew
Maysfield will be with to commit murder. And I have
to stop him somehow. I'm going down. You can't keep
going down.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
It's the only way. He doesn't listen to me. I
must confront him.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
But the brass here doesn't want us to keep going
down there all the time. Every thirty seven years. I
think that should be allowed.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
Yes, sir, Andy want to criticize all they want. You
can laugh all the way over the bag, folks. Let's
hear it for one of the sweetest, most combo guys,
Order Hanvy Andvy mace Field.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Well that's finally over. Mind if I turn the TV off?
Speaker 1 (30:52):
You know, and why didn't we go to that party?
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Why you read my dear, You'll know what I think
of those parties.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Andy begged you to come.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
I wouldn't be I know, I.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Know, you wouldn't be seen at a place where rich,
successful people get together. You like to wallow around with miserable,
neurotic loses, failures like yourself. And I don't think of
myself as a loser, and I don't believe I'm a failure.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
I write what I please.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Maybe it pleases you, doesn't seem to please anybody else.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
I have faith in myself and one day.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
More certainly, one day when we're old and gray, didn't
you feel sorry for that pompous jackass preening himself on
that program? I am filled with humility.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
You're jealous me.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Jealous of that untalented slow He's a fine, sensitive, humble
human being.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
You know, Marguerite, maybe you should have married Andy.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Maybe I should have.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Andy? Where were you?
Speaker 2 (32:02):
You didn't show up for.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
The party, and you knew Jerry would refuse to go.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
I lined up the whole gang of people for him
to meet agents, publishers, producers.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
He could have done himself some good. Why didn't he want.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
To work on his book?
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (32:14):
His book? All right, let's forget it. Where is he now?
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Where would he be at midnight? Sound asleep?
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Margareie?
Speaker 1 (32:25):
No?
Speaker 2 (32:25):
No, And don't I love you dying?
Speaker 1 (32:27):
He's your best friend.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
You mean more to me. He's short changing you, dying.
He gives you nothing. You even have to support him.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
And he's really a great writer, Yes, a great writer
who nobody ever reads Cleveland. Oh, you keep working and
he keep doing without, keep worrying about paying the bills, get.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Lines in your face and age before your time.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
I don't know what to do.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Divorce him?
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Oh I can't. He'd never let me leave him to
go with you. That would be the final outrage. He'd
kill me before he'd let you have me.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
What are you saying?
Speaker 3 (33:08):
And he.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
There's only one way I could ever leave him to
go with you, And that's if he were dead.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
I don't believe it.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
You mean you don't want to believe it. But you
are a realist. You know the things that have to
be done to get what you want.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Think about it, think about what.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Reality?
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Good evening, Andy?
Speaker 1 (33:46):
What?
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Who are you? An old friend? How did you get
in here?
Speaker 3 (33:53):
My name is Fallowfield.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
I don't believe this.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
You didn't believe at thirty seven years ago either?
Speaker 2 (34:01):
How could you have gotten in here?
Speaker 4 (34:02):
The doors locked, the window on twenty eight flours above
the ground.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Andy, thirty seven years ago, this very day you promised
you listen to me, you faced the scaffold.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
I gave you another chance.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Wow, keep talking, I'm having a vision.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
No, this is all real. I'm breaking the rules. What rules?
Speaker 1 (34:28):
I don't want you to hang hang me?
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Why?
Speaker 1 (34:34):
For the same reason you were sentenced last time for
the murder of Jerome Carson.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
You're nuts or I'm nuts?
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Do you think I'd killed Jerome just for Marguerite? I
mean I'm tempted, but no, Dyce, you wouldn't kill Jerome
just for Marguerite. Perhaps, but you wouldn't kill him for Marguerite?
And and what and his talent?
Speaker 3 (35:01):
What are you saying?
Speaker 1 (35:02):
I can't say anymore. I've said too much already. I
have to leave. I'll keep trying to advise you and
guide you in the usual way, but this time please listen.
Oh sure, Look, mister Fallowfield, where'd you go? This is
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something I'm I'm dreaming when I'm wide awake. Well it's
your oom, busy Andy, A pal knocks.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
At the door, Come on in.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
What have you up there in?
Speaker 1 (35:50):
This little carton looks like a manuscript?
Speaker 3 (35:53):
It is that.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
They call it a manuscript, hardly describes it. It represents
my entire life's work. And what a way it's my
life as a writer, Andy, Everything I ever saw fell
and this manuscript, this, these five hundred pages, they decide
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whether I have the right to call myself a novelist. Well,
I'm sure it's great. What's it called?
Speaker 2 (36:22):
The Garrison of the Dead?
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Great title? What's it about? It's about all of us?
Sounds heavy.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
You are my closest friend. I value your opinion.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
I want you to be the first to read it. Oh,
Jerry Monord, Oh, Marguerite, turn on the TV and he's
going to be on the show with that an obnoxious
(36:57):
Harvey Hopkins. Again, he's so obnoxious. Why do you listen?
I haven't seen Andyan weeks ever since I gave him
my manuscript to read.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
And one who I haven't heard from him?
Speaker 4 (37:08):
Andy. Word from your publisher is that your newest novel
is the greatest ever written by an American, different, completely
different from anything you ever did before.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
I quote a big, bruding philosophical issue.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
What's the title, Andy, The Garrison of the Dead. But
that's my title.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
Sounds like a blockbuster. It's my book.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
You see man gaps in groups, but these are truly garrisons.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
Man thinks he's fighting for life, but in reality he's
already did.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
That's a read. It's mine, it's mine. He stole my book.
Calm yourself, My dear, you stole my book?
Speaker 2 (37:48):
What book?
Speaker 3 (37:49):
The one I asked you to read?
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Jerry? Are you ill? Do you deny that you stole
my ory?
Speaker 4 (37:55):
I asked you to read it so you would see
what you could have written if you hadn't rendered away
your talents. I wanted you to read the work of
a novelist.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
You pornographic that, Jerry, You've gone crazy.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
You won't get away with it. I'll see you for plagiarism.
I'll expose you for.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
The frog duer.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Please don't make.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
A fool of yourself.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Anywhere in trouble. Why the trial tomorrow? That the plagiarism trial?
Andy Jerry has proof proof?
Speaker 2 (38:26):
How could he have proof?
Speaker 1 (38:27):
He's been writing Garrison for twenty years.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
He started when he was.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
In the army overseas. The first two chapters were published
in some obscure provincial magazine in Germany.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
What are you saying now?
Speaker 1 (38:40):
The magazine went under years ago, but he has a
copy with those two chapters and an outline. Andy tomorrow,
in course he can destroy you us.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Just Lois, I've got an idea. Suddenly, I've got an idea.
What time is it now?
Speaker 3 (39:00):
At six o'clock?
Speaker 2 (39:01):
All right, drive over to my apartment. I've got a plan, Marguerite,
and it's fool proof.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Put that gun away? And you're crazy that this trial
has generated too much publicity.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
Everyone will know that you killed me, and.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Why forget that? I'll have an alibi?
Speaker 1 (39:20):
How could I have killed you here in South Freold
at ten pm if I.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Was at my apartment in northeast mid Your.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Rates copying for you won't help. What was he doing
in your apartment anyhow? People will ask came to me
as your loyal, loving wife to beg me to go easy. No,
you won't get away with it. Oh, yes, at ten
pm when you were killed by a burglar, I'll be
able to prove I was in my apartment? Would your
wife lie to save me? So you see your own
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I get it all the woman, the fame. You won't
get the chance to show that magazine here. You won't
get away with it. He's saying that it makes you
feel better.
Speaker 4 (39:59):
No, he's having No.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
I'm sorry, Jerry, I'm really sorry.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
That I had to have that.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Hello, Margreed, it's exactly ten, and we no longer have
a problem.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
I'll get on the turnpike and see you in an hour.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
You were here with me all the time, Darling.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
I better use the automatic lane so that no collector
might see me pick up my ticket.
Speaker 4 (40:52):
Hold it, hold it, here's our main boys. What's the matter, Sudgeant, Sir,
it is my prison jud to inform you that, exactly
four minutes past ten this evening, you have become the
one million motorists to use the turnpike. But the turnfight
Authority presents you with his savings. Bond All right, take
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his picture.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
Boys, Now, So what's your name?
Speaker 1 (41:25):
I remember? Now, I remember start gin mister Paris, So
I see mister Fallowfield. Incidentally, do you hear someone calling
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to you?
Speaker 2 (41:52):
Is?
Speaker 1 (41:54):
But as you like to say, you win some.
Speaker 3 (42:00):
You lose some.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
Well, what do we know for sure? We know for
sure that back at that toll booth they asked Andy
his name, and his name turned out to be Mud.
And what does it prove? It proves that after a while,
even the most patient, kindly guardian angel will stop listening
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if you irritate him long enough. So please listen to yours.
I shall return shortly. How many chances do you get?
(42:49):
Just one?
Speaker 2 (42:51):
Well, how do you know?
Speaker 1 (42:53):
And what are you doing now? Is it something you
may have done before and paid a price for?
Speaker 2 (43:01):
How do you know?
Speaker 1 (43:03):
Since you never know, and since there's no one who
can really tell you, stay with what.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
You can count on, and you can.
Speaker 1 (43:11):
Count on being with us seven times a week right
here on my Mystery Theater. Our cast included Mandel Kramer,
Joan Lovejoy, Court, Benson, Leon Janny, and Bob Caliban. The
entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown, and
now a preview of our next tale.
Speaker 2 (43:33):
It's incredible, that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (43:35):
In just a minute, you say she was willing to
pay one thousand dollars for it imitation leopard skin, but
she wanted it and had to have it for her
twin sister.
Speaker 2 (43:45):
Well, I don't buy that mother.
Speaker 5 (43:48):
This second attempt to get a hold of the coat,
I mean by a guy who was with it'd kill
us in an accident if it turned out that way. No,
there's something about that coat, something somebody wants.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
But what anyone wants with an imitation leopard skin coat?
Speaker 3 (44:03):
Would you buy it?
Speaker 1 (44:04):
Rose Prods in London.
Speaker 5 (44:06):
I wish I knew how to straighten out the mystery
a Rose's coat.
Speaker 1 (44:09):
Oh dear, you don't straighten out a mystery.
Speaker 3 (44:12):
You solve it.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
And I ought to know.
Speaker 4 (44:14):
I've read hundreds of them every year, solve most of
them too.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
We'll try solving this one, then hunt Ruth well. As
a matter of fact, I've been thinking and I may
have the answer.
Speaker 2 (44:25):
This is E. G.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, Pleasants Dreams
Widgeting the CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents. Come in Welcome,
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I'm e. G.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Marshall.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
And everything's in order, in its proper place, neatly sorted
and labeled, all the items of suspense, mystery, terror, and
the macabre. It only remains to mix and brew of
all sad words of tongue and pen. The saddest are these.
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It might have been, It might have been? What might
have been? Could we but call that hasty word, that
heedless act?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yes? Indeed, had we but known then what we know now?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
How different things would be today?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Or at least that's what we like to tell ourselves.
But would things really be different? My boy?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
You take an unnecessarily dim view?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Do you realize I'm going to hang tomorrow morning?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Perhaps? Perhaps not?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
What do you mean? Perhaps not? Tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
We'll come and go and you will still be alive?
How you will not be here in this place? How
am I going to get out? Believe that?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
To me?
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Look around you guards, doors, locks, How could I possibly
get out?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
They will old disappear?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Look?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Look what.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Happened? Who are you?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Who are you?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Our mystery drama The Garrison of the Dead was written
especially for the Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and stars
Mandel Kramer. It is sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division.
I'll be back shortly with that one. The word is
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alibi from the Latin alias ivy, which means to be
somewhere else, which is precisely the idea of the thing. No,
if you are required to commit a murder in one place,
you must make sure you can prove you were someplace
else at that exact time. This point is so elementary,
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so simple, one might consider it too obvious to be
worthy of mention. Perhaps, but the executioners have been kept
busy and the prisons full by those forgetful folk who
neglected the basics. And no one is more aware of
this than Andrew Macefield. Tonight it will be necessary for
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Andrew Macefield to murder Jerome Carlson. It is a serious
and most dangerous business, and of course Andrew would rather
not do it. But we live in a world where
a man does what he must. Hello, Jerry, and In
(03:39):
Macefield thought you were in jail at the comedy. Jerry,
you knew I was not unbail. You're gonna ask me
to come in, No, Jerry, I've got to talk to you.
Whatever you and I would have to talk about has
already been said.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Jerry.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
You got to give me a break. I know all
your stories by heart, and try to understand and remember
his sinners enticed the consent. Now, month, what's this you?
You dare to quote the Bible?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I dare?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
After all, the Bible was written more for me than
it was for you. Okay, get over this. You're gonna
make me stand outside.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Behold there has risen a new Andrew Masefield from the
ashes of the old?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Or has there enter Andrew.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Ah all alone by yourself, spoken with your usual flare
for the redundant Andrew.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Well, what revelations have you to share with me? Jerry?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Jerry, do you want me to go to jail for
ten years? Actually, I would want you to go to
jail for life and pay a half million dollars and find.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
That money never belonged to you.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Jerry, I'll give you a half that's your cup to
keep your mouth shut. So there really is and the
quarter of a million? Jerry, how many magazine stories do
you have to write before you can see a quarter
of a million.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I'm sorry, Jerry, giving you a break. I trusted you, Jerry.
I helped you.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
You came to me, you said you wanted to do
an article on how our real estate developments put together
because I thought we'd become friends.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I told you things well off the record. And now
you're going to go to court tomorrow morning and you're.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Going to testify it.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Right, And doesn't friendship impose a certain obligation?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Is a higher obligation to what to the law.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Look, what I told you was strictly on the qt, Jerry.
And why to let you win on a good thing?
Give you a chance to make some money?
Speaker 2 (05:37):
You mean, give me a chance to break the law?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Law?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
What's the holy about the law?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
People break the law every day.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Didn't you break the law a couple of years ago
when you wrote an article telling young guys how to
avoid military service.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
That was a matter of conscience.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
What you really mean is it's all a matter of
personal taste. Perhaps, but my taste doesn't run this swindling,
poor ignorant people out of their life.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Say claw up, Jerry.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
These are suckers who were born to be taken.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
We've been through all this and the I guess we have.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
So you're gonna walk into that courtroom tomorrow and explain
to the jury just how I separated those suckers from
their dough.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
I think it's time we said goodbye. Yes, it is
in more waste than one.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
You you're crazy to the point that gun at me.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Crazy.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
This is the only thing that makes any sense. I
offered your money, no dice. I tried to appeal to
your friendship.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
No good.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
So now I have to kill you.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
You can't get away with it. Why not?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Everybody knows you'd stop at nothing to prevent me from testifying.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
You threaten me in public. You're the only one with
a movie motives.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
They won't matter. I'm going to have an alibi. How
how could you hope to prove that you like me?
Never hopes, he plans.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
On my watch, I've had exactly nine fifty seven. The
coroner is going to fix the time of your death
at exactly ten PM.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Her anti fact.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
But put that got away. You think this is a joke.
Huh Now, Jerry, it's on the level.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
But I'm going to have an alibi. Marguerite.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Oh that's the best I've ever heard, Margurite.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Why is it so funny?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Because Marguerite is not that kind of woman who could
commit perjury. Your problem is you don't know people, Jerry.
You don't know what makes them go. Marguerite may have
all those letters after her name, but underneath it, she's
just a woman. Hold it, and she.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Loves to be treated like a woman. Marguerite's in love
with me.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
He launch she was until I came along. And besides,
I'm going to give her ten grand I can't believe
it with my left hand. I'll just pick up this
funny and I put it on and dial. I'm dialing Marguerite,
and you will be able to hear for yourself. Oh hello,
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go ahead, pick it up, Jerry.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Talk to the lady yourself, Marguerite.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Who is this? It's me, Jerry, Marguerite. Andy's gone crazy.
He's here pointing a gun at me.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Oh, Jerry, And.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
He can't be there.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
He's here with me.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
No, No, he's Hereie.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
He wants to kill me, dear.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
He can't be at your place.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
He's right here, and he's angry.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
He's killing at me.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Marjorite, listen to me here for yourself.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
You're not gonna make a monk here of me. You're
not gonna run a talk that can hurry the minute book.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Shut up Andy and give me a wrist see Jerome,
Andy and I are having a fight.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
No, so call me back.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
No, no, Majorie, Margger easy hang up, Jerry.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
That's all there is.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
No Listen, my boy. This is on a tape recorder.
That apartment has thin walls. Now, you know how neighbors
love to listen to a lover's quarrel. So Marguerite will
swear that I was with her. Plenty of people will
swear they heard me. But if I'm dead, everyone will
know that you killed me. What everyone knows and what
everyone can prove at two different things.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Jerry, I've got the alibie.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
You won't get away with it.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
How could I be here to shoot you dead? At
ten pm?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
When I was in Marguerite's apartment in North Hastings, thirty
five miles away the car of yours.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
That loud, flashy car.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Someone sure those part of it?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I'm not using my car tonight.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I'm driving Marguerite's mousey little lady y what you want
to make a deal now, Jerry, it's too late. Timing, Jerry,
Timing is everything in life.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Who besides you would kill me then you watch your
ring your wallach break the back window, mo full the police.
I remember that you told me that civilized men build
the cities and then the barbarians sweep down from the
hills and destroy them.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Well a barbie work. It won't work, says, something will
go wrong things Absolutely nothing is going to go wrong.
And ten o'clock tonight.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
I won't be handy.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Marguerite will swear that I was thirty five miles away.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Think of what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Where has the time gone? It's exactly ten o'clock though, no, no,
it's fast. Good Bye, my best and only friend.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
You've got to believe. I'm sorry, Jerry, but that's the
only way you'd have it.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Hello.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Hello, Hello, we're here to bring your doll.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
This is Harvey Hopkins, old Homer out arm who brings
your doll for just being at the right place at
the right time.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Timing, as they say, is everything in life.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
It is now exactly minutes after ten pm, and we're
out of a location where we are at the intersection
of Root six at Main Street, and we have our
special police motorcycle as courts and tonight he's Seargeant Jim
Cassidy's saying out to lawahawks, Jim evening. That was Jim
saying good evening to everybody. But Jim will have a
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special good evening for you personally. If you happen to
A five pass.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
The intersection of Root six and Maine, and b if.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
You have an R and A five on your license plate, yes, sir,
an R and A five and R and five will
make the jackpot, which is six hundred and fifty dollars
all that money for an hour and to five on
your license plate. And if you're the first one to
pass the intersection.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Of Root six and Maine.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
It is now precisely four minutes after ten pm.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
And I don't believe we've.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Got to win it, because yes, yes, Sargeant Cassidy is coming.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Up that motorbike and he's after a car and is
Jeff passed by us?
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Sick a man?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Wait, knowing little Yes, I.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Guess the fuck overtaking him or her as the case baby,
and we have.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Got a winner.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Please poll overs her?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
What's the matter?
Speaker 3 (12:15):
What have I done? What do you want? Please pull
overs her? What's the meaning of this?
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Officer, Sir, I'm very happy to inform you that you.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Have crushed one in the jackpocked.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Yes, sorry, folks, he doesn't believe it.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
I can tell from a look on his face that
he does, and I'll pay to.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
See you don't have the time to reach out and
grab six hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
You mind if I just some money? Is yours?
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Now?
Speaker 3 (12:39):
What's your name?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Serious?
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Please? I don't know the rules and regulations compel us
to give this money to the driver of any car with.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
R and five on his license plate? Who bad?
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Don't haminar on a five on my place?
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Is that true?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Sergeant?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Here's plate numbers are fifty five. Man, you've got it
in spray and you I don't have it? You even
know your own life license plate number?
Speaker 3 (13:01):
This isn't my car, isn't your car?
Speaker 1 (13:03):
No?
Speaker 4 (13:03):
It longs to a friend, So you don't mind not
be on my way one moment, though?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
May I see the automobile registration? What do you want
to see the registration for? May I see it?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Please? Now?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Look, I am a law abiding citizen.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
May I see the registration and your driver's license.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I haven't done anything have.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
All we want to do is give you six hundred
and fifty dollars.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Your license please, yeah, yeah, sure, he got everybody.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Well, how do you like that we offered a fellow
six hundred and fifty dollars and he turns into.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
A wild beast.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Well, here goes Sergeant Pacity in person.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
The obvious thing here would be to quote from Bobby
Burns the best laid plans of mice and men gang
off to glade. We could quote him, but we won't
because really the plan didn't go wrong. The plan was fine.
Something else went wrong? But what and how where? When well,
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we're really only a third of the way home. You
can't expect to know everything right now, can you. I'll
return shortly with that too. You know the old Russian proverb,
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he that is fated to drown can even drown in
a cup of water. And so it is with our
friend Andrew Maysteld. Except Andrew will not drown. He will hang.
He will hang for the murder of Jerome Carlson. And
of course you know why, when that beautifully crafted alibi
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suddenly collapsed, the judge and jury made quick work.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
At the case.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
The date for the hanging has already been set, and
the days, if we may quote that beautiful song, are
dwindling down to a precious few.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yeah. I couldn't help it.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
It was hum or me.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I didn't want to do it. He was my friend.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Tell him, Jerry, Tell him we were friends. Tell him,
Tell him we were friends.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Jerry, We were friends. And you know it was nothing personal.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
You don't know it against me, do you know you?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Jerry?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Oh? No, certainly the I don't hold it against you.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
You see, he forgives me. He forgives me.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Tell him, I forgive you.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
You should have said so at the trial, Jerry.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
You should have said so.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
I did, but no one was listening to me.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I was still That helped me.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Somebody's got to help me.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I don't want to hang. I'll help you.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
As you spen me in my apartment.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
That's no good. You're supposed to have brains. You teach college.
Do you know that's no good?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
How could I have been with you when the cops
picked me up?
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Oh? She ever had much practical Dollie Cherry, Jerry.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
They're gonna hang me.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Yes, that's such an unpleasant way to die.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Somebody has to help me.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
I'll help you.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
I'll swear you were in my apartment.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Crazy dam It won't work.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Somebody's got to do something.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I don't want to hang somebody do something.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Jin Gin.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yeah, I guess you got it, I must say, mister Fallowfield,
your mind doesn't seem to be on this game. You
could be right, mister Parris, You've got a far away
look in your eyes. I'm thinking about somebody who, a
fellow named Macefield, Andrew Macefield. Andrew Macefield. Would he happen
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to be your client by any chance he would?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Well? What about him?
Speaker 3 (17:26):
He's going to hang tomorrow morning? Why murder?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Did he do it? Oh?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Yes, yes, he did it, no question about it. He
did it. Then that should be that you know? But
what well? I know what it is to be hanged.
I know from personal experience.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
The hard way.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
But you were innocent.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
That didn't make it any easier to take.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Well, what can you do? You're his guardian angel, but
you did what you could.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I still think I failed him. We can only advise.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
We're not supposed to go down there every time a
client gets in the jam.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Maybe I don't know how to communicate.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Mister Parris. You win some, you lose some. After tomorrow
you'll be assigned to somebody.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
It's not my fault.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
It's not my fault. There he goes again.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
I'm going down there, okay, but don't say I didn't
warn you.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
It's not right, it's not right.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Help me, please, somebody's not to help.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Mister Makefield, mister Makefield.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
What do you want.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
You?
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Yes? Yes, me? How the God?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
It's not time yet?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
It's not time yet. No, no, no, I ain't no
one yet.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Time you said you let me know in a dance,
you said you give me plenty of warning. Sure, sure,
sorry I had to wait you. But you gotta visit
it a visitor.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Yeah, you've got to be joking. Who would want to
see me?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
I would we?
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Who are you?
Speaker 1 (19:25):
May I come in?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
What do you want?
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Will I want to discuss your case?
Speaker 2 (19:31):
My case?
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Yes? My case? What case?
Speaker 4 (19:37):
I've been turned out everywhere by everybody?
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Is that the fact it's gone all the way to
the Supreme Court.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
I don't have a case.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
I've decided to hear it. May I come in? My
name is Fallowfield.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Are you a lawyer?
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Because if you are, you're wasting your time. I've run
out of appeals. Besides, I don't have a dime left.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
To my name.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
I'm not a lawyer. I'm your guardian angel, your might
ah got this not already?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Don't make so much noise?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
What's the angle?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Come on level with me, buddy, After all, I'm an
old hostley myself. Well, I'm really not supposed to be here.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Is that a fact?
Speaker 1 (20:12):
I want you to have another chance, but you have
to convince me this is going to be my last
night in this world. You've been saying you've got a
bad deal. Now tell me why? Why is it a
bad deal? You killed Jerry Carson, didn't you. Why shouldn't
you pay the price? Because well, go ahead? Why I
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have to know?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
All right? What's the difference? Just another nightmare? In no sense?
My getting up tight?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
You know this isn't a nightmare. You sent for me,
I sent for you. You always send for me, but
when I come to you you never listen.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Tell me why you shouldn't.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Have you know why?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Look, everybody in the world he's got his place in Well,
Jerome called it the scheme of things. Now a wolf
kills a lamb? Do we blame the wolf? How can we?
He was made for that purpose. He can't help it.
But you're not a wolf, and Jerome wasn't a lamb.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I am a wolf.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
I had to be a wolf, for it would have
been curtains from years ago. I had no parents since
I was five years old at a shine shoes, pedal papers,
or was hustle or gonder.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
But man has free will, Men decides to where the roum.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Talk to me about free will. I was brought up
in a jungle. Other men hadn't mean beginnings and lovers.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I'm not other men. I'm me.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Look something, somebody made me into what I am, the
kind of guy who would have to commit murder one day? Now,
why should I have to hang for it?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
That?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Then, is the point of your brief?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Whatever it is. The defense rests. But why do I
say defense? I should say prosecution? Why should I be
on trial?
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Whoever, whatever made me into what I am, should get
the rope.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
So you want another chance?
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Oh definitely, I've got one coming, another chance to do what,
to be what I always wanted to be?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
What I don't laugh?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
A writer, A writer like you, a friend your rope? Yeah, yeah,
you see I learned something from him. Now, he didn't
have much money. How many people ever heard of him?
But he was happy?
Speaker 2 (22:36):
You know why?
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Because he was creative and he was expressing himself in
the right way. You know my problem. No, I'm a
creative guy too, but I didn't have the education to
express it in stories and plays and scripts. So I
expressed it in creating hustles and deals.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
You see, Yes, And that.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Hustle I put together, the last one that was a
work of art. I had to kill Jerry. Even the alibi.
You've got to admit. Maybe it didn't work, but it
had a touch of class to it. Another chance, and
this time you'd become a writer, and you'd.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Express yourself in fiction. This time. Would you listen to me?
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Would I listened to you?
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Look?
Speaker 1 (23:20):
If this is on the level, would I forget how
close I came to that rope?
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Will you listen to me this time?
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Andy?
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Will you sure? Sure?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
I shouldn't say this, but my job would be on
the line with you if I guess wrong. Well, you've
got to understand. I'm going out on a limb for you.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Promise.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Promise you listen to me this time? Will you promise, Andy?
I promise, I promise. Mister Fallowfield, you're making a mistake,
but he is promising. He's promised me. Mister Parris. Okay,
mister Fallowfield, don't say.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
I didn't own you?
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Andy? Will you? Will you become a writer?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:08):
A fine writer and a credit to both of you?
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Yeah, sure he look at me, You got me believe
in it.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Andy.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
In just one minute, a strange thing is going to
happen to you. You won't be in this jail. No
where where will I be?
Speaker 3 (24:29):
I don't know?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Because you will have lived a different life, I hope,
and so you will be wherever that life has taken you.
But where are you going to be? Where I'm supposed
to be?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Andy?
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Watching over you, trying to guide you. And what will
I have become? What you claim you wanted? A writer?
A writer?
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Will I be rich? Famous?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Why is it important? As long as you're creative? Isn't
that the main thing?
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Sure? Sure, that's all that counts Andy.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
In thirty seconds, you'll be thirty seven years old, just
as you are.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Now, But instead of being in a cell.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
You will be wherever your different life has led you.
And Andy, I hope you keep your promise and listen
to me?
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Did he listen or didn't he?
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Where Even angels disagree?
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Who are we.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Mortals to express an opinion? One thing is certain if
you're about to be hanged. It's wonderful to have a
guardian angel who's willing to climb out on a limb
and cut the rope.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
So whom shall we meet?
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Three a different or the same old Andrew Mayfield. The
moving finger writes, and having writ moves on.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Nor all your piety.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
And wit can ever lure it back to cancel half
a line, nor all your tears wash out a word
of it. We humbly beg to differ with you, or great,
oh mark, I am, because our man Andrew's piety and
wit has lured back the moving finger, and his tears
have washed out every single word of it.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
In his death cell, he swore.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Give me another chance, and I'll become a great creative writer.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Let me live my life again.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
I'll make something of myself. So he is living it again,
and he has reached this day in his new life.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Hellollo, this is hop.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Around, Harvey Hopkins, hopping around all over town to where
the action is.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
And right now the action.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Is at the celebrity club party for a literary giant,
Andrew Macefield, to celebrate the publication of his latest blockbuster
of a novel, Kiss.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Away, the blood high and the Hello arm Andy.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
They tell me kiss Away has already been sold to
the flicks for the record price of one million smackers.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Congratulations, thank you.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Yes, folks, this is the fellow they call handy Andy
Macefield because he's so handy with that typing machine.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
How does it feel to.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Be the world's best selling writer? Well, I have a
deep feeling of humility and responsibility.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Andy.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
How do you answer those high brow critics who claim
your work is violent, pornographic trash.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Well, I say in all humility that Dostoevsky, Dreiser, and
Henny Way were slandered in a similar fashion. Gin Ooh,
I've got Gin, mister Fallowfield. Oh ah, so you have,
mister Parris. You know, mister Fallowfield, this is the first
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time in thirty seven years I've been able to beat
you at Gin. Your mind isn't on the game. No,
I suppose not. It's that client, Mone. It happens you
did the right thing. You saved him.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
No, mister Parris, I didn't save him.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
How can you say that he's a great success.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
No, he's a failure.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
When I saved him from the roup, he promised to
listen to me. Well, he did look at him today.
He didn't listen to a word I said. He squandered
his gifts, he frittered away his talent. He said he
wanted to be truly creative, like his friend Jerome Carson.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
But he lied to me.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
All he want, all he wanted was success. What's wrong
with success?
Speaker 2 (29:15):
You mean?
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Creative people have to starve?
Speaker 3 (29:19):
No.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
No, a man must be true to himself or his
soul becomes twisted and deformed, mean and disease. Mister Fallowfield,
you did a wonderful job with him, But.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
He promised he would be like Jerome Carlson.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
With all due respect, Jerome Carlson is a schlemil, perhaps,
But Jerry Carson has two things.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Andrew Masfield cupts. Is that so? Yes, Jerry has talent.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
And Jerry has marguerite. And for those two things, Andrew
Maysfield will be with to commit murder. And I have
to stop him somehow. I'm going down. You can't keep
going down.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
It's the only way. He doesn't listen to me. I
must confront him.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
But the brass here doesn't want us to keep going
down there all the time. Every thirty seven years. I
think that should be allowed.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
Yes, sir, Andy want to criticize all they want. You
can laugh all the way over the bag, folks. Let's
hear it for one of the sweetest, most combo guys,
Order Hanvy Andvy mace Field.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Well that's finally over. Mind if I turn the TV off?
Speaker 1 (30:52):
You know, and why didn't we go to that party?
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Why you read my dear, You'll know what I think
of those parties.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Andy begged you to come.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
I wouldn't be I know, I.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Know, you wouldn't be seen at a place where rich,
successful people get together. You like to wallow around with miserable,
neurotic loses, failures like yourself. And I don't think of
myself as a loser, and I don't believe I'm a failure.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
I write what I please.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Maybe it pleases you, doesn't seem to please anybody else.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
I have faith in myself and one day.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
More certainly, one day when we're old and gray, didn't
you feel sorry for that pompous jackass preening himself on
that program? I am filled with humility.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
You're jealous me.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Jealous of that untalented slow He's a fine, sensitive, humble
human being.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
You know, Marguerite, maybe you should have married Andy.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Maybe I should have.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Andy? Where were you?
Speaker 2 (32:02):
You didn't show up for.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
The party, and you knew Jerry would refuse to go.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
I lined up the whole gang of people for him
to meet agents, publishers, producers.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
He could have done himself some good. Why didn't he want.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
To work on his book?
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (32:14):
His book? All right, let's forget it. Where is he now?
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Where would he be at midnight? Sound asleep?
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Margareie?
Speaker 1 (32:25):
No?
Speaker 2 (32:25):
No, And don't I love you dying?
Speaker 1 (32:27):
He's your best friend.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
You mean more to me. He's short changing you, dying.
He gives you nothing. You even have to support him.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
And he's really a great writer, Yes, a great writer
who nobody ever reads Cleveland. Oh, you keep working and
he keep doing without, keep worrying about paying the bills, get.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Lines in your face and age before your time.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
I don't know what to do.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Divorce him?
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Oh I can't. He'd never let me leave him to
go with you. That would be the final outrage. He'd
kill me before he'd let you have me.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
What are you saying?
Speaker 3 (33:08):
And he.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
There's only one way I could ever leave him to
go with you, And that's if he were dead.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
I don't believe it.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
You mean you don't want to believe it. But you
are a realist. You know the things that have to
be done to get what you want.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Think about it, think about what.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Reality?
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Good evening, Andy?
Speaker 1 (33:46):
What?
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Who are you? An old friend? How did you get
in here?
Speaker 3 (33:53):
My name is Fallowfield.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
I don't believe this.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
You didn't believe at thirty seven years ago either?
Speaker 2 (34:01):
How could you have gotten in here?
Speaker 4 (34:02):
The doors locked, the window on twenty eight flours above
the ground.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Andy, thirty seven years ago, this very day you promised
you listen to me, you faced the scaffold.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
I gave you another chance.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Wow, keep talking, I'm having a vision.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
No, this is all real. I'm breaking the rules. What rules?
Speaker 1 (34:28):
I don't want you to hang hang me?
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Why?
Speaker 1 (34:34):
For the same reason you were sentenced last time for
the murder of Jerome Carson.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
You're nuts or I'm nuts?
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Do you think I'd killed Jerome just for Marguerite? I
mean I'm tempted, but no, Dyce, you wouldn't kill Jerome
just for Marguerite. Perhaps, but you wouldn't kill him for Marguerite?
And and what and his talent?
Speaker 3 (35:01):
What are you saying?
Speaker 1 (35:02):
I can't say anymore. I've said too much already. I
have to leave. I'll keep trying to advise you and
guide you in the usual way, but this time please listen.
Oh sure, Look, mister Fallowfield, where'd you go? This is
(35:25):
something I'm I'm dreaming when I'm wide awake. Well it's
your oom, busy Andy, A pal knocks.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
At the door, Come on in.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
What have you up there in?
Speaker 1 (35:50):
This little carton looks like a manuscript?
Speaker 3 (35:53):
It is that.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
They call it a manuscript, hardly describes it. It represents
my entire life's work. And what a way it's my
life as a writer, Andy, Everything I ever saw fell
and this manuscript, this, these five hundred pages, they decide
(36:17):
whether I have the right to call myself a novelist. Well,
I'm sure it's great. What's it called?
Speaker 2 (36:22):
The Garrison of the Dead?
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Great title? What's it about? It's about all of us?
Sounds heavy.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
You are my closest friend. I value your opinion.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
I want you to be the first to read it. Oh,
Jerry Monord, Oh, Marguerite, turn on the TV and he's
going to be on the show with that an obnoxious
(36:57):
Harvey Hopkins. Again, he's so obnoxious. Why do you listen?
I haven't seen Andyan weeks ever since I gave him
my manuscript to read.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
And one who I haven't heard from him?
Speaker 4 (37:08):
Andy. Word from your publisher is that your newest novel
is the greatest ever written by an American, different, completely
different from anything you ever did before.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
I quote a big, bruding philosophical issue.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
What's the title, Andy, The Garrison of the Dead. But
that's my title.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
Sounds like a blockbuster. It's my book.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
You see man gaps in groups, but these are truly garrisons.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
Man thinks he's fighting for life, but in reality he's
already did.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
That's a read. It's mine, it's mine. He stole my book.
Calm yourself, My dear, you stole my book?
Speaker 2 (37:48):
What book?
Speaker 3 (37:49):
The one I asked you to read?
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Jerry? Are you ill? Do you deny that you stole
my ory?
Speaker 4 (37:55):
I asked you to read it so you would see
what you could have written if you hadn't rendered away
your talents. I wanted you to read the work of
a novelist.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
You pornographic that, Jerry, You've gone crazy.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
You won't get away with it. I'll see you for plagiarism.
I'll expose you for.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
The frog duer.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Please don't make.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
A fool of yourself.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Anywhere in trouble. Why the trial tomorrow? That the plagiarism trial?
Andy Jerry has proof proof?
Speaker 2 (38:26):
How could he have proof?
Speaker 1 (38:27):
He's been writing Garrison for twenty years.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
He started when he was.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
In the army overseas. The first two chapters were published
in some obscure provincial magazine in Germany.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
What are you saying now?
Speaker 1 (38:40):
The magazine went under years ago, but he has a
copy with those two chapters and an outline. Andy tomorrow,
in course he can destroy you us.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Just Lois, I've got an idea. Suddenly, I've got an idea.
What time is it now?
Speaker 3 (39:00):
At six o'clock?
Speaker 2 (39:01):
All right, drive over to my apartment. I've got a plan, Marguerite,
and it's fool proof.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Put that gun away? And you're crazy that this trial
has generated too much publicity.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
Everyone will know that you killed me, and.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Why forget that? I'll have an alibi?
Speaker 1 (39:20):
How could I have killed you here in South Freold
at ten pm if I.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Was at my apartment in northeast mid Your.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Rates copying for you won't help. What was he doing
in your apartment anyhow? People will ask came to me
as your loyal, loving wife to beg me to go easy. No,
you won't get away with it. Oh, yes, at ten
pm when you were killed by a burglar, I'll be
able to prove I was in my apartment? Would your
wife lie to save me? So you see your own
(39:48):
I get it all the woman, the fame. You won't
get the chance to show that magazine here. You won't
get away with it. He's saying that it makes you
feel better.
Speaker 4 (39:59):
No, he's having No.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
I'm sorry, Jerry, I'm really sorry.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
That I had to have that.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Hello, Margreed, it's exactly ten, and we no longer have
a problem.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
I'll get on the turnpike and see you in an hour.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
You were here with me all the time, Darling.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
I better use the automatic lane so that no collector
might see me pick up my ticket.
Speaker 4 (40:52):
Hold it, hold it, here's our main boys. What's the matter, Sudgeant, Sir,
it is my prison jud to inform you that, exactly
four minutes past ten this evening, you have become the
one million motorists to use the turnpike. But the turnfight
Authority presents you with his savings. Bond All right, take
(41:15):
his picture.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
Boys, Now, So what's your name?
Speaker 1 (41:25):
I remember? Now, I remember start gin mister Paris, So
I see mister Fallowfield. Incidentally, do you hear someone calling
(41:50):
to you?
Speaker 2 (41:52):
Is?
Speaker 1 (41:54):
But as you like to say, you win some.
Speaker 3 (42:00):
You lose some.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
Well, what do we know for sure? We know for
sure that back at that toll booth they asked Andy
his name, and his name turned out to be Mud.
And what does it prove? It proves that after a while,
even the most patient, kindly guardian angel will stop listening
(42:28):
if you irritate him long enough. So please listen to yours.
I shall return shortly. How many chances do you get?
(42:49):
Just one?
Speaker 2 (42:51):
Well, how do you know?
Speaker 1 (42:53):
And what are you doing now? Is it something you
may have done before and paid a price for?
Speaker 2 (43:01):
How do you know?
Speaker 1 (43:03):
Since you never know, and since there's no one who
can really tell you, stay with what.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
You can count on, and you can.
Speaker 1 (43:11):
Count on being with us seven times a week right
here on my Mystery Theater. Our cast included Mandel Kramer,
Joan Lovejoy, Court, Benson, Leon Janny, and Bob Caliban. The
entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown, and
now a preview of our next tale.
Speaker 2 (43:33):
It's incredible, that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (43:35):
In just a minute, you say she was willing to
pay one thousand dollars for it imitation leopard skin, but
she wanted it and had to have it for her
twin sister.
Speaker 2 (43:45):
Well, I don't buy that mother.
Speaker 5 (43:48):
This second attempt to get a hold of the coat,
I mean by a guy who was with it'd kill
us in an accident if it turned out that way. No,
there's something about that coat, something somebody wants.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
But what anyone wants with an imitation leopard skin coat?
Speaker 3 (44:03):
Would you buy it?
Speaker 1 (44:04):
Rose Prods in London.
Speaker 5 (44:06):
I wish I knew how to straighten out the mystery
a Rose's coat.
Speaker 1 (44:09):
Oh dear, you don't straighten out a mystery.
Speaker 3 (44:12):
You solve it.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
And I ought to know.
Speaker 4 (44:14):
I've read hundreds of them every year, solve most of
them too.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
We'll try solving this one, then hunt Ruth well. As
a matter of fact, I've been thinking and I may
have the answer.
Speaker 2 (44:25):
This is E. G.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, Pleasants Dreams
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