1055 - The Case Of MJH (CBS)

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
A journey in the realm of the strait, and tell
avide I hope you will enjoy the chap that it
will thrill you a little and kill you a little.
So settle back, get a good grip on your nerve.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Where are we going?

Speaker 1 (00:22):
You'll find out when we get there.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater Presents come in.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Welcome.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
I'm E. G. Marshall. Sorry about this door of ours.
We've tried oiling it a hundred times, but it doesn't
do it at least bit of good. You see, this
is the door to the Radio Mystery Theater, and its
hinges have a mind of its own. And speaking of
the mind, that's the subject of the story you're about

(01:17):
to hear.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
We're going to.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Take you deep into the recesses of a human mind.
But you won't be alone on your journey. You'll be
accompanied by three people. One of them is a psychiatrist,
a man whose purpose it is to heal and cure.
But the other two, well, I'm sorry to say that
their intentions are not nearly so benevolent.

Speaker 4 (01:41):
You can't do this to that man, Jimmy. He's sick,
He's very sick. If we do something like this, We're
liable to make him worse.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
You think I care about him all I care about
his eyes.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
You might drive him out of his head. You might
make him insane.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Our mystery drama The Case of MJH. Was written especially
for the mystery theater by Henry Slesser and stars Augusta Dabney.

(02:23):
The mood of a psychiatrist's office is very special, a
quiet mood which gives no hint of the raging storms
contained in the minds of those who lie on doctor
Vernon Cooper's leather couch and murmur their way through the
secret fears and hidden angers of their lives. I must
have Bedden, I don't know, twenty or twenty one, something

(02:45):
like that. That was when I started putting on the pounds.
My god, I put on weight so fast. I had
to get rid of a suit I bought only two
months before. It was what you said. I got myself
into a spiral. I couldn't get out of it.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
I didn't have any friends.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
I didn't think any girl would look at me. Twice
fat as I was. The more I felt deprived, the
hungrier I got, and the more I ate, and the
more I ate and listen I must have told you
this story a dozen times.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Doctor Cooper. Now it doesn't matter. It's like a.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
Waste of money, isn't it becoming here twice a week
and telling you the same things over and over. There
are differences, There are always differences in the way things
are related. Those differences are going to be very significant.
Maybe why are you looking at Joe wat I tell
my times up?

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Isn't it?

Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (03:36):
But why not let me tell you when the hours up?

Speaker 3 (03:38):
I guess I'm just anxious to get out of here.
I've got something to do this evening business appointment. Like
you said, doctor, the hours up. I don't have to
say anymore, do I? Allright, Miss Darrison, we'll go on
next time. Man, listen, would it be all right if
I didn't come in at three o'clock on Wednesday? I'm busy, Pam.

(04:01):
Could we change the time? I whytn't you check with
Miss Sheardon? Yeah, I'll do that so long, Doctor Cooper's
five of Miss Sheridan. Yes, Miss Jarrison, Doctor Cooper said,
I could ask you if there was some other time
I could come on Wednesday.

Speaker 4 (04:18):
Well, let's see, let's see your schedule for three Oh huh, Wait,
a minute. I see that Doctor Cooper is a free
hour at ten if you can make it that early.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yes, that'll be okay at ten o'clock.

Speaker 4 (04:28):
Thanks by mister Harrison.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
So long.

Speaker 4 (04:36):
Doctor Cooper's office. Hi, madd it's Judy. Oh hoo, Judy.
How are you okay?

Speaker 3 (04:41):
Listen? What are you doing tonight? Oh?

Speaker 4 (04:43):
Usually I suppose eating dinner and watching television. Who knows
I might very the routine by washing my hair.

Speaker 5 (04:49):
You would like to go to that party with me? Party?

Speaker 4 (04:52):
Oh, Judy, You don't mean that dancing school thing? Yeah,
that was Judy. Why do you talk about those things?
And if they're really parties? Nobody gets invited? You pay
to be there.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
For me. It isn't oh a choice do we have.

Speaker 5 (05:06):
There's got to be some way to meet a man
in this town.

Speaker 4 (05:09):
All we ever met there dancing instructors and already wants
to sign us up for a five thousand lesson dance
course payable for the rest of our lives.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah, I guess you're right.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
What did you say?

Speaker 5 (05:21):
It was on TV tonight?

Speaker 2 (05:23):
My name?

Speaker 4 (05:24):
Excuse me, Juli? You have to go. Oh okay, I'll
call you la.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
Yes, Doctor Cooper, you.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Might as well, run along home.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
I have some notes to transcribe, and I'm not expecting
any more patients.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
Not in any hurry, doctor.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
Oh you run along and enjoy your evening. Did I
say something wrong?

Speaker 4 (05:41):
I think your pardon.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
It was quite a face you made when I said that.

Speaker 4 (05:44):
Oh, I'm sorry. My evening was just under discussion.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
Doesn't look that enjoyable?

Speaker 4 (05:51):
Wow?

Speaker 3 (05:52):
Whatever happened to that young man you were seeing a
while back, Freddy? Somebody?

Speaker 4 (05:57):
He sit a little bit behind schedule, doctor Cooper, But
he was gone with the wind just about a year ago.
Huh that I never was much there to begin with.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. I'll see you in
the morning as usual. As usual, that's the phrase.

Speaker 4 (06:13):
All right.

Speaker 5 (06:21):
Who is supposed to be having the money around here?

Speaker 4 (06:23):
You or me?

Speaker 5 (06:24):
So mister clock said, why have we got adding machines?

Speaker 4 (06:27):
Or you can not to use them? Hey, hey, Maddie,
are you still there? Yes, Judy, I'm here.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yeah, I've said a word for five minutes.

Speaker 4 (06:36):
I wonder why listen?

Speaker 5 (06:38):
Am I keeping you from something?

Speaker 4 (06:39):
Holy f my dinner? I thought I had some macaroni
and cheese left her from last night that had green
mold all but what are you going to do this
at the cafeteria. I suppose I thought you hated that place.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
He said it was full of nothing, but tied.

Speaker 4 (06:53):
Old man, Old man with fresh macaroni and cheese. I'll
talk to you tomorrow, Judy, Okay, it's all right. Hey,
you know something? Well what about now?

Speaker 2 (07:05):
I need to settle for a high at old man.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
Excuse me, miss, Yes, maybe I'm be able to give
you a hand with that tray. It looks like you're
about to drop the whole thing.

Speaker 4 (07:17):
It's this done book of mine. It's made the whole
thing unbound.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
Well, yeah, maybe if I grabbed the book.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
Oh thanks, that helped.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
It's some book, all right, must weigh ten times read.

Speaker 4 (07:27):
That way too?

Speaker 3 (07:28):
Well?

Speaker 4 (07:29):
Thanks again?

Speaker 3 (07:30):
Why not sit down here at my table?

Speaker 4 (07:33):
Well, okay, I guess it's just as good as table
as any of course.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
Maybe you'd rather be by yourself to read your book?

Speaker 4 (07:40):
No, no, no, no, I don't think I really feel
like reading tonight.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
Hey, yeah, what's the name of it? Anyway? Hey, you
know something I can't even pronounce the name of it.

Speaker 4 (07:51):
It's called The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, dingmand Freud. I'm
sure you've heard of him.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
Yeah, he's a shrink or something like that.

Speaker 4 (08:00):
Well he was just about the first shrink I get,
no kidding.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
He must be a pretty brainy type reading stuff like this.

Speaker 4 (08:08):
I'm afraid I only read it because I think I should.
Not much of it really penetrate.

Speaker 3 (08:13):
Well, that's the way I feel about most books, toy.
I never cracked one with a title like that.

Speaker 4 (08:17):
Well, you see, I work for a doctor.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
Are you a nurse?

Speaker 4 (08:22):
No, No, not really. I'm just a receptionist, the secretary.
But I did have some training, and I thought it
would be necessary in order to well, you know, to
work for that sort of person. Well, what sort a psychiatrist?
Oh you mean he's a shrink too, Well, I suppose
you could call him that.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
Oh what do you know? You know, well, my wife,
I wondered about those guys. I mean, what they do.
How that the psychoanalysis stuff works? It does work, doesn't it? Oh?

Speaker 4 (08:54):
Yes, yes, there's no doubt of that. Oh, doctor Cooper's
done wonderful things for his patient. You mean he makes
crazy people? Well, oh, you can't oversimplify it that way.
It's a well, his patients aren't a little crazy, as
you say. That they're disturbed and they have problems in
neuro seas, and well, an awful lot of people do
only you know, not all of them seek professional help.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
Well that's for sure. There more nuts walk in the street.
The psycho cathology. Oh I don't know. This kind of
stuff is too much for me. Hey, yeah, you're not
eating your dinner.

Speaker 4 (09:33):
Yeah that's right. Well, then you're not eating yours either.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
Well I'm not too hungry tonight. I'm just having coffee,
that's all. Well, that's all I came in for. Oh yeah,
I guess I'm getting a little more than a bargain for.
I mean, this nice conversation.

Speaker 4 (09:50):
Do you live around here?

Speaker 3 (09:53):
Well, not too far away. Fact, guy was thinking of
looking for a room in this neighborhood.

Speaker 4 (09:59):
Just the room?

Speaker 3 (10:00):
Well yeah, what else does a guy like me me?
I ain't a guy without a family.

Speaker 4 (10:04):
Oh I see, you.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
Know, I really can't get over what the combination?

Speaker 4 (10:12):
What do you mean?

Speaker 3 (10:13):
I mean a girl like you, A nice looking girl
like you? What brains too? Listen, my name is Jimmy French.

Speaker 5 (10:22):
How do you do?

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (10:24):
Hey, come on, fair is fair? I told you my name.
The least you can do.

Speaker 4 (10:28):
Okay, My name is Maddy Sheridan.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
Maddy.

Speaker 4 (10:31):
Yeah. Well the truth is my name is Matilda, but
I don't care for it very much, so my friends
call me Maddie.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
Well, fine, that's okay with me. My name is James. Well,
I guess I should be running along. I got to
meet a guy downtown talk of a job.

Speaker 4 (10:48):
Who you're not working right now?

Speaker 3 (10:50):
No, I'm kind of between things, you know, But it'll
be okay, I guess if I just keep trying. That's
the old American spirit, right, Yes, of course, it was
sure nice talking to him, Maddie.

Speaker 4 (11:04):
It was nice talking to you.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
Maybe i'll see it. Well, who knows, right, Yeah?

Speaker 4 (11:10):
Who knows.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
Doctor Cooper's office?

Speaker 4 (11:23):
Oh, yes, miss Harrison. No, the doctor hasn't come back
from lunch yet. Oh I'm sorry. Well, i'll tell the
doctor that when he arrives. Now, will you be able
to make your next appointment? Fine, I'll tell him, miss Harrison. Oh,
doctor Cooper, sorry, I'm back.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
So late, and I tell him mister Harrison doesn't here yet,
is he?

Speaker 3 (11:44):
No?

Speaker 4 (11:45):
He just called this minute. He said he wasn't feeling
very well and he won't be able to make it today.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
Oh. I was afraid of that. Did he say what
was bothering him? No?

Speaker 4 (11:54):
No, that's all he said. But he promised that he'd
be here for his next appointment.

Speaker 3 (11:59):
Don't worried. Yeah, I am worried about that man. Sometimes
I almost feel I should arrange another doctor for him.
He just isn't making the progress I hope for. Oh well,
if he calls again, put him through directly to me.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
Tell him I could fit him tomorrow if he wants.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
Yes, dom doctor Cooper's office.

Speaker 4 (12:25):
Why is this Maddie, Yes, it Hi'm Maddie.

Speaker 5 (12:30):
It's Jimmy French. Remember me?

Speaker 4 (12:32):
Yes, yes, I remember? Hey, how did you know where
to reach me? Well?

Speaker 3 (12:38):
I remember what you said about this doctor Cooper.

Speaker 5 (12:41):
I just looked out.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
Oh listen, I hope you don't think I'm fresh or anything,
but I was wondering if maybe you'd see me sometime
like tonight.

Speaker 4 (12:49):
Well, I really don't know. It's sort of short notice.

Speaker 5 (12:55):
Yeah, yes it is. I don't blame you for saying no.

Speaker 4 (12:58):
Well I didn't say no. I just meant that I
am well. I was going to stay home and do
some ironing, but I guess.

Speaker 3 (13:06):
That can wait.

Speaker 5 (13:08):
Hey you mean it?

Speaker 4 (13:09):
Yeah, of course I do. Do you think you can
pick me up at my apartment? Sure it it's nine
fifteen Southern Avenue on the first floor, apartment two. A. Okay,
seven thirty is fine, great, I'll see.

Speaker 5 (13:28):
You that many.

Speaker 3 (13:37):
One second. Oh is it?

Speaker 4 (13:41):
Mo? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (13:42):
That thinging is.

Speaker 3 (13:45):
I knew you would be coming around again. That's right,
Jimmy boy. I'm coming around every night and then we
get our business finished. Now, what do you say got
a little installment for me, Micha, listen, I got something
better than an installment. Come on, buddy, don't tell me
you got the whole thing. I'd keel over and die.
You never had two bills in your pocket at the

(14:05):
same time, Mike, I got something going. I got something
that's going to take a little time, but it'll be
just what I need, what we both need. You know
what I need, Jimmy boy. I need my bread, all
of it, and I need it now. You'll get it
every nickel, Mike. I'm going to start putting it all
together tonight, seven point thirty tonight. Something tells me that

(14:35):
Jimmy French isn't the best person that Maddie Sheridan could
have met in the cafeteria last night. Of course, I
might be wrong. He might be a very fine, upstanding
young man who's only interested is getting somewhere in this world?
Or is the phrase getting someone? We'll find out more
when I returned shortly with that too. Mattie Sheridan has

(15:10):
had a remarkable evening. Remarkable simply because a man, young, attractive,
and unmarried, has sought her out, treated her to dinner,
taken her to a movie, is now walking her back home.
Not a very noteworthy event for many women, but for
Mattie shared after a year of loneliness, most significant evening. Indeed,

(15:34):
I don't think you really liked the movie, Jimmy, Yeah,
it was okay.

Speaker 4 (15:38):
He seemed awfully digity.

Speaker 3 (15:41):
I like it that way sometimes, fidgety. I don't know.
Maybe it wasn't the best way to well, you know,
get to know somebody just by sitting in a movie
house watching a picture.

Speaker 4 (15:52):
See. Oh, what happened about that job? Oh, y'all, I'm
meant to ask at dinner a job interview you went
on the night we met.

Speaker 3 (16:03):
Oh that well, that didn't work out, because I'll get something.
Don't worry about me.

Speaker 4 (16:09):
What sort of work do you do to me?

Speaker 5 (16:11):
All?

Speaker 3 (16:12):
Kinds of things. Listen, what time do you have? I
don't have a watch. I mean I do, but it's broken.
It's in the shop.

Speaker 4 (16:20):
Ten min's after eleven.

Speaker 3 (16:22):
Oh he's that late. I mean, as far as you're concerned.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
Who not very well?

Speaker 3 (16:28):
Maybe I could come in for a few minutes time.

Speaker 4 (16:32):
Yeah, of course, if you want to, I could do well.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
I could make some coffee maybe, well, that'd be great.

Speaker 4 (16:44):
Or maybe you'd like some hot chocolate. I still love
hot chocolate.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
Late at night.

Speaker 4 (16:49):
Oh, I suppose I'll always be a child, even though
I'm not a child.

Speaker 3 (16:56):
Tell you the truth. What I'd really like is a beer,
if you have one.

Speaker 4 (16:58):
Yeah, sure, I think I do.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
Well. You like living alone, Maddie.

Speaker 4 (17:07):
Oh, I don't think anybody really liked being alone.

Speaker 3 (17:11):
No, that's for sure. Hey, yeah, skip the glass. I'll
drink it right off the can.

Speaker 4 (17:17):
Okay, thanks. Oh that's good. Jimmy, Can I ask you
something for sure? Why are you having trouble finding work?

Speaker 2 (17:34):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (17:35):
I don't know, it's just the times. I guess.

Speaker 4 (17:37):
Well, when you say you do all kinds of things,
what would some of them be?

Speaker 3 (17:45):
Well, I guess anything that doesn't require brains.

Speaker 4 (17:47):
Oh, come on, I don't believe that. Your very intelligence
seems to me.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (17:52):
Thanks, you know better that e. I mean, you know,
I'm not so good in the education's apartment, Like what
high school in my second term?

Speaker 2 (18:00):
Ooh, that was a big mistake.

Speaker 4 (18:01):
Oh wow, mistakes can be corrected.

Speaker 3 (18:05):
What matter? You might as well know the worst about me.
When I was a kid, I was in trouble all
the time, stealing cars stuff like that. I was even
arrested a couple of times.

Speaker 4 (18:17):
But you were young, you didn't know any better then.

Speaker 3 (18:22):
Yeah, I guess.

Speaker 4 (18:25):
Don't do any good to blame yourself for what you've
done in the past. That just gives you guilt feelings.

Speaker 3 (18:33):
Yeah, that guilt feelings, right?

Speaker 2 (18:36):
Hey?

Speaker 3 (18:36):
Yeah, how much do you charge for an hour?

Speaker 4 (18:38):
I'm serious, Jimmy.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
Yeah, I was afraid you might ask me something serious?
Would you rather I didn't? No? The truth is I
I guess I want you to be serious with me.
I haven't met anybody like you in a long long time.
Tell me about yourself to me, Okay, why you want

(19:04):
to hear the rough part. I'm a nothing.

Speaker 4 (19:08):
Oh I don't believe that.

Speaker 3 (19:11):
Oh you can believe it, Maddie. I'm nothing. I don't
have a trade. I can't do anything that'll make me
a decent living. I got five six jobs this year,
none of them worth a hundred bucks a week. I'm
not the kind of a guy who can. I don't
take a girl of fancy places stuff like that. I
don't like fancy places myself. Yeah, but you deserve something

(19:33):
a lot better than cafeterias. I mean, you're really something special, Maddie.
Didn't you know that me? Listen, I never thought a
girl like you would look at me twice?

Speaker 4 (19:51):
But why?

Speaker 3 (19:52):
Oh, come on, you know you're a million times smarter
than me. Maybe i'd better be gone.

Speaker 4 (20:01):
Well, you haven't even finished your beer.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
I'd better go. I'm just getting you all depressed, and
then me too.

Speaker 4 (20:08):
Jimmy, will you would you be calling me again?

Speaker 3 (20:15):
Why do you want to hear from a guy like me?

Speaker 2 (20:18):
What for?

Speaker 4 (20:31):
Oh, Maddie, who is it?

Speaker 3 (20:35):
Look?

Speaker 5 (20:35):
I'm sorry to be calling so late. I guess you
must have been fast asleep.

Speaker 4 (20:41):
Well I did go to bed right after you left.

Speaker 5 (20:44):
I shouldn't have done it, but I just had to
talk to you again, Mattie. I hated to see things
left the way they were.

Speaker 4 (20:53):
I don't know how things were left.

Speaker 5 (20:56):
Maddie, would you see me again?

Speaker 4 (20:59):
Of course I would. You wouldn't be just saying that
many would be silly.

Speaker 5 (21:05):
Because now you know what kind of a bum I am.

Speaker 4 (21:07):
I don't know anything of the kind.

Speaker 5 (21:10):
Listen, this is crazy. But what would you see me
tomorrow night too?

Speaker 4 (21:16):
Yes, Jimmy, sure I'd be happy to see you tomorrow night.

Speaker 3 (21:31):
Mister Harrison not here yet, No, doctor, I should have
guessed that he'd be later.

Speaker 4 (21:35):
You know this is recently, doctor Cooper, about tonight. I
know we usually work a it late on Fridays, but
I was just wondering if I could leave at five point.

Speaker 3 (21:45):
Thirty where else? Of course, something special about tonight, Yes,
sort of. I have been meaning to tell you how
well you've been looking these days?

Speaker 2 (21:57):
Doing you yeah, differently, aren't you?

Speaker 4 (21:59):
Yes? Yeah, I got sort of tired of that old maid.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
Look.

Speaker 3 (22:03):
Oh, if I had to give a professional opinion, I
might diagnose a condition of the heart. All right, I'm here.
I suppose you're all upset because I'm late.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
Oh no, mister Harrison, not at all. Please come in.

Speaker 4 (22:32):
Jimmy, it's all right. My place at seven, Darling. Here
we are roast beef specially in the house.

Speaker 3 (22:47):
Yeah, looks good.

Speaker 4 (22:49):
Do you pour the wine, Darling?

Speaker 2 (22:50):
Uh huh?

Speaker 4 (22:52):
You do like roast beef, don't you, Jimmy? Yeah, yeah, sure,
not too well done?

Speaker 3 (22:57):
Is it?

Speaker 4 (22:59):
Oven heats up like the suvia sometimes?

Speaker 1 (23:01):
No?

Speaker 3 (23:01):
No, no, no, it's just right.

Speaker 4 (23:04):
Hey, Jimmy, what is it now?

Speaker 2 (23:06):
Look?

Speaker 4 (23:07):
I can see that something is the matter.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
Well, nothing's the matter. That roast beef is great. The
table looks terrific. You look sensational. Anything's wrong with this
whole thing? Is me?

Speaker 4 (23:22):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 3 (23:24):
I'm talking about me, Maddie, about me and you and
all I talk about, you know, the future. I don't
know what made me start that junk, talking about marrying
when I can't even get a job that lasts more
than one week.

Speaker 4 (23:38):
Jimmy, did you say marrying?

Speaker 2 (23:40):
Well?

Speaker 3 (23:41):
Sure, what else?

Speaker 2 (23:42):
You know?

Speaker 3 (23:42):
That's what I want for us, Maddy, more than anything.

Speaker 4 (23:44):
But you've never mentioned that before?

Speaker 3 (23:47):
Could I? What right did I have? I've been thinking
about it so much I'm sick. No, that is you
can think about something and get sick.

Speaker 4 (23:56):
Headaches right now, Darling, poor boy, why didn't say something?

Speaker 3 (24:01):
No, it's not a case for an asper. It needs
another kind of pill, A money pill, that's what it means. Oh, Jimmy, Maddie,
I told you a lie. I told you that I
was a wild kid, of a bad kid. That that
was a lie. I was just an ordinary kid. The

(24:25):
guy I described, the crook, the punk, gustole cars, the
guy who get himself arrested twice. That's me, now, Maddie,
Right now, you don't mean that. I'm telling you the
truth about myself. I'm not just a crook. I'm a
cheap crook at that.

Speaker 4 (24:41):
I just don't believe that.

Speaker 3 (24:42):
Now, have you better? For your sake? It's even worse
than you know.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
That's not just broke.

Speaker 3 (24:48):
I'm in dead. I've been living on borrowed bread. If
I don't pay it back, I'll either go to jailer
get my head busted out. Oh Jimmy, no, well that's
what they do with guys like me.

Speaker 4 (24:59):
Jimmy, listen, listen. I have some money saved. I have
a little over three hundred dollars.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
I owe eight grand Maddie, what I owe eight thousand dollars?
How do you like them apples?

Speaker 4 (25:15):
Jerry?

Speaker 3 (25:16):
Yeah, I'd be some husband for you, wouldn't I The
best thing for you is to lose me, honey, lose me.

Speaker 4 (25:21):
But I don't want to lose you. There has to
be something that can be done to me.

Speaker 3 (25:27):
Oh and maybe I've been thinking about it a while.

Speaker 4 (25:33):
What what what have you thought?

Speaker 3 (25:35):
I thought that I can't even take Oh please, come on,
you have to Okay. It's the only time I'll ever
ask you to do something like this because I'm going
to change. Right after it's over. I'll change, Matty, so
help me.

Speaker 4 (25:49):
After what's over?

Speaker 3 (25:50):
One more job, only one, I mean, but it's got
to be something worthwhile. I'm Maddie. I want you to
bring me the files from the doctor's office. What I
want you to bring me his files, as many as
you can carry, only the current cases, the people he's

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had recently. Jimmy, let me finish. I want to borrow
those files just overnight. I'll go through them real quick,
so fast. You can have the back of the drawers
by morning. Who knows, maybe I'll find what I'm looking
for right away.

Speaker 4 (26:22):
Well, what are you looking for? What good will doctor
Cooper's files? Do you.

Speaker 3 (26:27):
Just an idea?

Speaker 2 (26:28):
I got it?

Speaker 3 (26:30):
I mean, this analyst stuff is pretty personal, isn't it.
I mean they have to tell the doctor everything, don't they.

Speaker 4 (26:37):
Yes, of course, there can't be any secrets from an analyst.
That would defeat the whole.

Speaker 3 (26:41):
Purpose, right right, No secrets. So if I could see
the doctor's notes, if I could read through them, well
there's bound to be plenty of stuff they'd like to hide,
stuff they'd pay money to keep quiet.

Speaker 4 (26:53):
Jimmy, Jimmy, you're talking about blackmailing.

Speaker 3 (26:57):
Your boss has a lot of rich patients, hasn't he.
Are you telling me how much this analysis stuff costs?
I mean sixty bucks an hour. They're gonna be loaded, Jimmy.
Please don't ask me to do this, Honey. They can
afford a few grand. It wouldn't hurt them the part.
With a few grand, if I could just get enough
to pay off the long and maybe a little extra
for us to get.

Speaker 4 (27:13):
No, no, no, no, no, I won't, Timmy, I can't.
I won't.

Speaker 3 (27:16):
You won't even listen to me. You won't even give
me a.

Speaker 4 (27:18):
I couldn't do such a thing.

Speaker 3 (27:19):
I just couldn't, not even for me, for us.

Speaker 4 (27:23):
No, No, I know all right.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
That tells me what I want to know, And I
guess you want me to beat it out of here
right now, don't you.

Speaker 4 (27:36):
No, I didn't say that either.

Speaker 3 (27:39):
It just can't be both ways.

Speaker 4 (27:41):
It isn't fair. It isn't fair to ask me to
do such a thing.

Speaker 3 (27:46):
I did this so long. Man, I'm sorry about the dinner.
You want to a lot of trouble, but I just
don't have me app kim Me. Who is it?

Speaker 4 (28:03):
It's me, Jimmy. Who it's Maddie, Maddie?

Speaker 3 (28:12):
What are you doing here?

Speaker 4 (28:14):
I just I just wanted to see you. I've been
calling you for days.

Speaker 3 (28:22):
Hey, I've been ounce.

Speaker 4 (28:24):
Why didn't you call me? You know why, Jimmy, I
missed you terribly. I missed you too, Maddy. What's the use?

Speaker 3 (28:39):
What's the good of a seeing each other? It doesn't
go nowhere? Honey?

Speaker 4 (28:41):
Don't you see Jimmy? Can't you see what I have here?

Speaker 3 (28:49):
What's that?

Speaker 4 (28:50):
It's the files. It's not all of them, it's it's
just his current patience patients. Yes, it's doctor Cooper files.

Speaker 3 (29:00):
I've brought them. Well. Well, they say that love is blind,
but in this case you might also say that love
is just a little bit larcenous too. No, we won't

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pass judgment on Maddie. Sheridan We know the pressures that
she faces, but who knows who else is going to
be pressured as a result of this night's work. We
will find out very soon when I return with Act three.

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There is frantic activity in a one room apartment rented
by Jimmy French, a steady period which has lasted for
many long hours, where after a fold or has been
peruised long copious notes full of psychiatric jargon and study.
And if Jimmy French is getting what he expected from
the notes of doctor Vernon Cooper, he certainly doesn't seem

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to be pleased with the results. Not not, then I
can make heads a tail.

Speaker 4 (30:18):
Do please let me try just to keep them in
some kind of order. If you mix up the pages,
I'll never get them back correctly in the file.

Speaker 3 (30:25):
Why can't I figure out what he's talking about?

Speaker 1 (30:27):
Half the time?

Speaker 4 (30:28):
I told you it wouldn't be easy, that they wouldn't
make sense to you.

Speaker 3 (30:32):
It's like reading a foreign language. Wait a minute, what
are those type pages?

Speaker 4 (30:36):
What are transcripts of conversations? They've taken from a tape recorder?
Doctor Cooper doesn't always take what his patients are telling
him unless he thinks it's important.

Speaker 3 (30:46):
Oh boy, this looks like a long night. I haven't
even ate me out of you.

Speaker 4 (30:50):
No. I came right from the office.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
I got some Hamburger made them refrigerator.

Speaker 4 (30:54):
Do you want me to fix it?

Speaker 3 (30:56):
That'd be great, right, Maddie. Yes, Look, I know how
you feel about this, but you're not doing your boss
any harm. These files will be back where that belong
tomorrow morning.

Speaker 4 (31:09):
All right, Jimmy, Well it's all set. I couldn't find
any Hamburger l so hope quite bread.

Speaker 3 (31:23):
Well to Maddy, Maddy, I think I got it. I
think I found a one. He did. He doesn't mention
the guy's name, just as initials MJH. Who is he?
Do you know who's mj HM?

Speaker 4 (31:36):
Oh, Jimmy, Jimmy, No, not that one.

Speaker 5 (31:39):
Why not?

Speaker 3 (31:40):
Who is he?

Speaker 4 (31:40):
Because his name is Harrison Martin J. Harrison and he's
in Wall Street. And oh, I suppose he's very wealthy.
But he's such an unhappy man, Jimmy, don't make it
any worse.

Speaker 3 (31:51):
He doesn't sound so unhappy to me.

Speaker 4 (31:53):
You read the stuff about him. No, I don't know
anything about him. Doctor Cooper types his own notes. They're confidential.

Speaker 3 (31:59):
Oh, I'll tell you one thing about the guy. He's
got a girlfriend, he does. How old guy would you say? Is?

Speaker 4 (32:05):
Oh, I don't know. I suppose he's close to sixty.

Speaker 3 (32:08):
Well, guess how old Diana is. That's her name, Diana.
She's eighteen years old. How about that? Eighteen years old.
Of course he's married, doesn't he?

Speaker 4 (32:20):
Yes, he's married.

Speaker 3 (32:22):
Diana, eighteen year old Diana. Well you should read the
way he talks about her. You put the stuff in
a book, you have a bestseller. To tell me more
about this guy.

Speaker 4 (32:34):
I don't know any more about him. All I know
is that doctor Cooper worries about him a lot. He
says he's one of his most difficult patients.

Speaker 3 (32:42):
Yeah, yeah, I can see that.

Speaker 4 (32:44):
Sometimes he said that he shouldn't be treating mister Harrison,
that he isn't helping him enough.

Speaker 3 (32:49):
Well, maybe we can help him, maybe we can help ourselves.

Speaker 4 (32:52):
Oh, jimmy, all this is so horrible.

Speaker 3 (32:56):
His wife doesn't know about Diana. Of course, he talks
about that a lot. You know the fact that his
wife doesn't know that. It would kill her if she knew.
He's worried, sick about that. I mean, he's crazy about
his wife. But he can't give up this eighteen year
old stuff either.

Speaker 4 (33:09):
Can you imagine? Please, please, Jimmy, stop it.

Speaker 3 (33:11):
You can't feel sorry for a guy like this, can you?

Speaker 4 (33:13):
Yes, of course I can feel sorry. Whatever's wrong with
the man. He can't help himself. He just can't. That's
why he's going to doctor Cooper in the first place.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
Yeah, and that's why I'm going to him. And here's
the phone book.

Speaker 4 (33:24):
Jimmy, I can't let you do this. You don't understand
about mister Harrison. If you could just see the man
the way he looks when he comes into the office,
he's so unhappy.

Speaker 3 (33:32):
Look, do you expect me to be sorry for this guy?
But he said it's soft all of his life. But
he's never had to kick around this three like a
stray cat, all right, So now he's having himself a
flinger and it needs a shrink to make excuses for himself.
I'm sorry, baby. My heart doesn't bleed for mister mjh
It pleads for me. Jimmy, fu Jimmy. They come on,

(33:55):
cut that up. Huh.

Speaker 4 (33:57):
Come on, I can't.

Speaker 3 (34:01):
Don't cry.

Speaker 4 (34:02):
You can't do this to me.

Speaker 3 (34:04):
Sick.

Speaker 4 (34:05):
He's very sick of you. If we do something like this.

Speaker 3 (34:07):
We're allable to make it work. I care about that.
All I care about is us.

Speaker 4 (34:12):
You might drive him out of his head. You might
make him say.

Speaker 3 (34:17):
No, no, I'm just gonna make him a little bit poor.

Speaker 4 (34:32):
Oh wanting mister Harrison.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
Morning.

Speaker 4 (34:36):
I'm glad you're able to keep the appointment.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
Here's the doctor in.

Speaker 4 (34:40):
Yes, I'll tell him you're here, doctor Cooper. Mister Harrison's arrived, Yes,
I will. You can go right in, Miss Harrison.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
Please come in, Miss Harrison.

Speaker 3 (34:57):
I suppose you've got a few nasty things to say
me today. Why would you think that because of the
appointments I've missed? Or maybe it doesn't matter to you
if you get paid no matter what. Right, probably a
relief to you when your patients don't show up. Please
lie down, mister Harrison. A well, is it true you're

(35:19):
glad when we screwballs don't show up.

Speaker 4 (35:21):
To bother you?

Speaker 3 (35:22):
Aren't you? You happen to be wrong about that. I'm
not glad to missus sasion. I lose something by it
more important, so do you? Sixty bucks? That's what I lose.
Can you give me any particular reason why you didn't
show up last time. You know the reason.

Speaker 2 (35:40):
Do you know very well?

Speaker 3 (35:43):
I needed a different kind of therapy, doctor, go on?
You know what I'm going to say next tide. Rather
you did the talking. I went to see her, of course, Diana,
I see, took me a whole day to figure out
how to get to Diana's place and stay a while
without my wife finding out.

Speaker 2 (36:02):
Of course. And did you succeed?

Speaker 3 (36:05):
Yes, I succeeded. I told her I was coming to
see you. That's always a good excuse, of course, going
to see my analyst. So you see, you do come
in handy sometimes, doctor Cooper. You're worth sixty.

Speaker 2 (36:17):
Dollars an hour.

Speaker 3 (36:18):
Even when I'm not here lying on your couch. I'm
on somebody else's couch. You don't really consider me an
excuse to you, mister Harrison.

Speaker 2 (36:29):
No, that's not what I meant. Doctor, You know what
I meant.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
Please continue anyway, I made sure that Elizabeth didn't know
where I was. I always have to make sure that
she doesn't suspect anything. I told you what it would
do to her. She's a sick woman. At heart of
hers is held together with tissue paper. Did I ever
tell you how sick she is?

Speaker 2 (36:50):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (36:51):
You told me it would kill her if she found
out about Diana. She just lay down and die. I
can't have that happen. Doctor, She's everything to me. She's
my whole world. Well, I know what you're thinking. If
she's my whole world? What am I doing with Diana?
That's what you want to know, isn't it? You can
answer the question, please do That's this is the thing.

Speaker 2 (37:14):
I can't answer it. I don't know. Every time I.

Speaker 3 (37:18):
See that rotten little eighteen year old tramp cramp, that's
all she is, jailbait, and yet you continue to see you.

Speaker 4 (37:26):
I've got to her.

Speaker 3 (37:27):
I can't help it. I've got to go on seeing her, Doctor, Cooper.
She's had a spell on you. Heck of some kind,
I swear it, you the God of Elizabeth ever now
gives you. Ever found out it would it would kill her.
My wife would die and then I die too.

Speaker 4 (37:54):
Jimmy, Jimmy over here?

Speaker 3 (37:56):
Oh hi, Annie, how I'm scared. I'm terribly scared, falling.
I'll forget that stuff. You had nothing to be scared about.

Speaker 4 (38:03):
It didn't you call me all day? Don't you realize
what I was going through?

Speaker 3 (38:06):
Well? I was too busy.

Speaker 4 (38:08):
Jimmy, please tell me what's happening.

Speaker 3 (38:10):
Okay, I'll teddy exactly. I called mister Harrison, you really did.
I called him in his office. I told him I
know all about his little eighteen year old and that
if he didn't want his wife to find out, my
lord and I listen to tell me about doctor Cooper.
Everything's okay. There isn't this if.

Speaker 4 (38:25):
You mean the files? No, he doesn't realize they were disturbed.

Speaker 3 (38:29):
And what about his prize patience m Jaya, Well.

Speaker 4 (38:32):
He didn't come in today. He broke his appointment today.
He always does that when something's really bothering him.

Speaker 3 (38:37):
Maddie, listen, this will all be over soon.

Speaker 4 (38:39):
When please please tell me when?

Speaker 3 (38:41):
This weekend? So soon? Always now, he was putting it off.
I set the price high so he's liable to bargain.
I'm ready for that. I know how to compromise. Matty,
don't look.

Speaker 4 (38:51):
Like that again. Help Jenny. I feel so dirty.

Speaker 3 (38:56):
I'm doing this for both of us. Honey, you know that.
Tell me you know what?

Speaker 4 (39:00):
Yes, yes, I suppose I know it.

Speaker 3 (39:04):
And you love me too, don't you.

Speaker 5 (39:06):
Say it, Maddie.

Speaker 4 (39:08):
I love you. Jimmy.

Speaker 3 (39:19):
Morning, Mammy, morning, doctor Cooper.

Speaker 4 (39:23):
How are you?

Speaker 2 (39:24):
Oh, I'm not very well this morning.

Speaker 3 (39:26):
I'm afraid.

Speaker 4 (39:28):
Why what's wrong?

Speaker 3 (39:31):
I gather you haven't heard the bad news.

Speaker 4 (39:35):
No, I haven't.

Speaker 3 (39:37):
Appears that I have lost the patient.

Speaker 2 (39:41):
Who is it my problem? Patient? Oh?

Speaker 3 (39:45):
I should have known better. I should have realized that
he needed more help than I was able to give him.
Then this might not have happened.

Speaker 4 (39:55):
You you don't mean, mister Harrison. Yes, mister Harris.

Speaker 3 (40:00):
I knew there was a dark and dangerous force within him,
that it was getting closer to the surface every day,
But I never expected anything like this.

Speaker 4 (40:10):
What happened?

Speaker 2 (40:12):
He killed a man, Maddy what.

Speaker 3 (40:15):
I saw the violence in him, but I didn't foresee this.

Speaker 4 (40:20):
Who did he kill?

Speaker 3 (40:22):
A blackmailer? A man's name was French, James French threatening
to tell Harrison's wife about a young girl Harrison was.

Speaker 2 (40:31):
In love with.

Speaker 3 (40:34):
Harrison wasn't going to pay him. Harrison went to see
the man and he brought a gun ready. He shot
him dead, and now the police have arrested him.

Speaker 4 (40:46):
Dear God, a blackmail.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
I can't understand it.

Speaker 3 (40:51):
I can't understandbody could have learned such a thing, how
he could have made such a terrible mistake.

Speaker 4 (40:57):
Mistake, What do you mean?

Speaker 3 (41:00):
There was no cause for blackmail, no real cause, only
for dark fantasies in his own soul fantasy.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
There was no girl named Diana.

Speaker 3 (41:11):
It was only Harrison's delusion, only a creation of his
own guilt written mind.

Speaker 4 (41:16):
She wasn't real.

Speaker 3 (41:17):
He was guilty about something that never existed. When a
blackmailer threatened him, he protected his delusion with murder, the
ultimate rationalization, the ultimate rationalization. And suddenly Maddy Sheridan's dream

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of the future is destroyed. But then her dream was
a rationalization too, wasn't it. She'd convinced herself that true
love was more important than truth. Now, of course she'll
never know whether the love of Jimmy French was true.
At least she's spared that cruelest of all fates. We'll

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be back shortly. We hope you've enjoyed this little journey
into neurosis. Blackmail and murder. They're the typical sort of
menu on the radio, mister, as our loyal audience has

(42:29):
already discovered, We're plan to bring you more of the
same dela fare in the future. Now, if you'll excuse me,
I have to see if I've managed to oil the
creek out of our door. Our cast included Augusta Dabney,
Jack Grimes, Alan Hewitt, Robert Maxwell, and Joan de Murray.
The entire production was under the direction of Timon Brown.

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Now a preview of our next tale.

Speaker 4 (42:58):
There's nobody in there.

Speaker 3 (43:00):
I'm telling you, there's nobody in there.

Speaker 4 (43:03):
Why they do to my house?

Speaker 3 (43:04):
Come down? Mail think? Are you sure this is the same.

Speaker 4 (43:09):
I'm sure, I know.

Speaker 3 (43:11):
Don't you try to talk me out of it.

Speaker 4 (43:12):
I know. I was here exactly one and a half
hours ago. I was here, This place was open, this
service station was operating, and there was a man here Frank.
How you know his name was.

Speaker 3 (43:24):
Frank because then he was written on his shirt. Ma'am,
I don't know what I want my husband, no, what
happened to him? I try to hold out yourself. Don't
pass out. Please don't pay Holly, I don't know what
to do. Let me make me help you back to
the cabin hole. What did they do?

Speaker 2 (43:48):
This is E. G.

Speaker 3 (43:48):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, Pleasants Dreams