1 00:00:01,400 --> 00:00:05,760 ("Alfred Hitchcock" theme music) 2 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:24,160 - Good evening. 3 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:31,680 Someone has at last found a practical use for my talents. 4 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:35,560 He reasoned that since I have been frightening people 5 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:38,720 for years, why not birds? 6 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:41,120 The job is somewhat restricting, 7 00:00:41,160 --> 00:00:43,800 but I have a number of visitors. 8 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:48,520 One little girl and a tin woodman are quite bothersome. 9 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:51,440 They seem to be under the absurd impression 10 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:54,960 that I'm going to go dancing up the road with them. 11 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:57,960 In keeping with this bucolic mood, 12 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:00,680 tonight we are presenting a pleasant little tale 13 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:05,680 of homicide, lust, deceit, revenge, and greed. 14 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:07,160 I'm sure you'll love it. 15 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:09,400 It follows this short prologue. 16 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:15,800 (whimsical orchestral music) 17 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:06,640 - Guess they're selling off everything they can move. 18 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:09,120 - They say lawyers fees took must of it. 19 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:11,200 It's the way it goes when you're fighting for your life. 20 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:14,120 - Times like this I wish I were in some other business. 21 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:18,240 Looks like a long afternoon. 22 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:24,800 - Brass hand irons and screen, 23 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:26,440 that goes with the rest of the hardware, 24 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:28,800 and it's number 165. 25 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:33,560 Sandwich Glass, milk glass, oh, I tell ya, 26 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:37,000 we'll number these individually and use series 300. 27 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:38,000 - All right, sir. 28 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,000 (knocking on door) 29 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:48,960 (glass crashing) 30 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:50,280 I'm sorry Mr. Huckaby. 31 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:53,880 I don't know what happened. 32 00:02:53,920 --> 00:02:54,760 - What was it? 33 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:56,800 - That little milk glass vase. 34 00:02:57,920 --> 00:03:00,080 - It's only a replica, forget it. 35 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:04,200 (suspenseful music) 36 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:20,400 - [Bessie Voiceover] By the time this is found, 37 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:22,400 it ought be all over. 38 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:24,680 Justice will have had its day. 39 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:28,080 The scales will be in balance again. 40 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:30,200 It will be all over with me too. 41 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:33,400 I'm ill and tired, 42 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:36,640 and I've been dying so long I'm bored with it. 43 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:41,920 I've lived in the county a long time. 44 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:42,320 This is my home. 45 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:45,080 These are my people. 46 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:47,400 Now they've turned against me, 47 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:49,480 but still I owe them something. 48 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:52,320 I owe it to them to set history straight. 49 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:53,680 To bring to the light of day 50 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:56,560 the two lies that together make a truth. 51 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:01,560 (Bessie gasping) 52 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:05,480 - Aunt Bessie, Aunt Bessie! 53 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:07,200 You turn right around and go home. 54 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:08,200 - Not on your life. 55 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:09,840 - You know what the doctor said. 56 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:10,520 - Who was it? 57 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:11,280 Who fell off the cliff last night? 58 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:13,320 - There's nothing you can do about it now. 59 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:14,600 Go on back to the house. 60 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:15,600 - Was it Ephraim? 61 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:17,760 Camilla, tell me. 62 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:18,320 - They think so. 63 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:19,880 They haven't found him yet. 64 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:21,360 (Bessie gasping) 65 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:23,160 Aunt Bessie, come back here! 66 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:25,280 - What time did you hear him yell? 67 00:04:25,280 --> 00:04:26,480 - It was a little past eight, I'd say. 68 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:27,560 - Before eight. 69 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:29,200 - Samantha, I was in the barn by eight. 70 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:31,000 - He yelled before that. 71 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:31,560 - I could've sworn that-- 72 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:33,040 - About 10 to eight, Sheriff. 73 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:33,720 I was in the kitchen. 74 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:35,640 I heard it through the open window. 75 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:38,120 - [Pate] Bessie! 76 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:41,760 - Did you find the body? 77 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:44,440 - Well, we found where he hit his head down below. 78 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:45,320 And if he fell into that, 79 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:47,400 he probably won't be found this side of tidewater, 80 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:48,960 what's left of him that is. 81 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:49,920 He had no business walking this path, 82 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:52,360 dark coming on, with his eyes as bad as they were, Bessie. 83 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:54,320 - He wasn't used to this path. 84 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:56,440 - He could've taken the road. 85 00:04:56,440 --> 00:04:58,240 - A mile and a half out of his way. 86 00:04:59,280 --> 00:05:00,600 - Is this a piece of his mackinaw. 87 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:03,440 - He was wearing it when he left. 88 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:04,760 - Well, he probably got it caught in the fence here, 89 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:05,480 and tried to get it loose, 90 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:07,760 and well, got careless with his footing. 91 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:09,840 - He wasn't used to that fence. 92 00:05:09,840 --> 00:05:11,200 None of us are. 93 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:12,000 - I'm sorry about that. 94 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:14,640 - It's a great comfort to us all, Mrs. Wilkins. 95 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:16,520 A great comfort to us all. 96 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:18,240 Eph has a nephew in Rhode Island. 97 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:19,800 He'll feel a sight better when I tell him 98 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:20,760 that the woman who put up the fence 99 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:22,560 that killed Eph Judge is sorry. 100 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:24,600 - If he was my hired man, I would've driven him home. 101 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:25,920 - Well, if you were me, 102 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:26,600 you would've stayed in bed like the doctor ordered. 103 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:28,560 - My fence belongs on my property line. 104 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:30,120 That's where I put it and that's where it'll stay. 105 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:31,960 If it fenced off a shortcut, that's too bad. 106 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:33,120 It's legal and proper. 107 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:33,880 Make of it what you will, 108 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:35,520 but don't try to put the death of Eph Judge 109 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:36,840 on my conscience. 110 00:05:36,840 --> 00:05:38,720 - I don't have to put it there, Mrs. Wilkins. 111 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:41,000 That pass has been a public thoroughfare for over a century. 112 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:41,960 You had no right! 113 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:42,840 - Since when? 114 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:43,760 - Samantha. 115 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:45,880 - Now there's no point in hashing this thing over now. 116 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:46,520 - [Samantha] I'm not gonna stand here 117 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:46,880 and hear that old bitty blame me. 118 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:49,120 - Bitty, huh? 119 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:50,400 - Yes, and a snooper and a gossip, and a community nuisance! 120 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:51,320 - You listen to me! 121 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:52,360 - No wonder I put up that fence! 122 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:54,400 It's the only protection I've got with a neighbor like that! 123 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:55,960 - I've been a good neighbor all my life. 124 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:58,120 I'm a respected member of this community. 125 00:05:58,120 --> 00:05:58,800 I was a friend of the McKelby's 126 00:05:58,840 --> 00:06:00,440 long before you bought High Hollow. 127 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:02,440 You and that saggy kneed excuse of a husband! 128 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:03,400 - Shut your mouth. 129 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:04,640 - We got along before you! 130 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:06,160 There was this give and take between us! 131 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:07,160 None of this building of fences! 132 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:10,640 We got along, but you'll get your comeuppance, you'll see. 133 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:13,040 You'll get your come (gasping). 134 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:13,600 - Here, here. 135 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:15,320 - Aunt Bessie, Aunt Bessie! 136 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:16,720 - I'm all right. 137 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:18,960 - Just a minute, here. 138 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:19,640 - Put me down. 139 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:20,480 - No, no, no, I'll take you home. 140 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:22,760 - I can get there on my own two legs, thanks. 141 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:23,320 - If Doc Adamson knew what you was up to, 142 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:24,640 he'd have your hide, Bessie. 143 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:26,040 - It's my hide, Pate. 144 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:26,840 Now, put me down. 145 00:06:26,840 --> 00:06:28,560 - You've had enough exercise for one morning. 146 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:29,360 - Yes, after you. 147 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:30,640 - No, no, no! 148 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:38,560 - I guess I'm to blame for that too. 149 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:40,240 - Well, I wouldn't be at all surprised. 150 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:44,160 (melancholy music) 151 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:49,040 - You didn't have to do that. 152 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:51,000 - Nah, it's nothing at all. 153 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:52,400 - Go on in. 154 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:54,400 - You sure she won't throw me out? 155 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:55,520 - She didn't mean all that. 156 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:56,840 It's just her way. 157 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:11,520 (knocking on door) 158 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:12,720 - Well, a wonder you didn't catch your death 159 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:14,560 with that cold morning chill. 160 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:16,440 - I've been catching my death for three years. 161 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:18,320 Be a relief when it comes. 162 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:20,000 - [Henry] Now, now, don't talk like that. 163 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:22,160 - The whole county knows I'm gonna die. 164 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:25,600 - After all, isn't everybody? 165 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:27,520 Only thing is you paddle so much about it 166 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:29,440 sounds as though you're asking for sympathy. 167 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:30,800 - I don't need that, thank you, 168 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:33,200 and I didn't need you to tote me home. 169 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:34,720 I got two good legs. 170 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:36,040 - I just did that to prove to you 171 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:39,520 that my knees aren't as saggy as you think. 172 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:42,240 - I wasn't talking about flesh and blood knees. 173 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:44,600 I mean the backbone kind. 174 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:47,400 - There now, isn't that better? 175 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:48,560 - Expect so. 176 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:50,400 - No need to thank me. 177 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:52,760 - Sit down, rest yourself. 178 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:55,360 - You know, this is the first time 179 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:57,080 I've ever been inside of this house. 180 00:07:57,080 --> 00:07:58,400 - It's no fault of mine. 181 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:00,240 - You can't be as bad as you sound. 182 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:03,760 - I was very fond of Ephraim Judge. 183 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:06,240 He worked for me for over 20 years. 184 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:09,600 - I'm awfully sorry about that. 185 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:11,200 I want you to know that the fence on the property 186 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:12,960 was none of my doing. 187 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,600 Samantha put her mind to it and I just couldn't change it. 188 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:19,800 If Samantha wants a fence on the property line, 189 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:21,920 we put a fence on the property line. 190 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:24,400 - That's what I meant by saggy knees. 191 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:26,600 - (chuckles) I suppose you have a point. 192 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:30,120 - Doc Adamson just pulled up. 193 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:35,240 - You know, I, I think she's really feeling better. 194 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:41,400 - No fever at least. 195 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:43,200 - Guess I better be going. 196 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:44,360 - I just made some tea. 197 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:45,240 Would you like a cup. 198 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:46,160 - The man wants to go. 199 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:47,400 There's no point in holding him. 200 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:49,600 - There's no need to be rude. 201 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:51,400 - Comes easy though, doesn't it, Bessie? 202 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:52,920 Go on, have your cup of tea. 203 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:53,840 - [Henry] Thanks. 204 00:08:56,200 --> 00:08:57,840 - No point in saying something nice 205 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:01,640 when it's twice as easy to chew a man out, is there, Bessie? 206 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:04,560 - Who are to talk about chewing folks out, Sam Adamson? 207 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:05,840 - Now, you shut up. 208 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:08,360 Can't hear a thing with all that poison 209 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:10,080 boiling around inside. 210 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:11,240 - Am I still alive? 211 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:16,680 - Barely, just barely. 212 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:24,520 I don't know as it's my responsibility as a medical man 213 00:09:24,560 --> 00:09:26,160 to keep a woman like you alive 214 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:28,640 when you're so all fired bent on killing yourself. 215 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:30,400 - None of this soul searching. 216 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:32,080 Just do your job. 217 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:33,920 - [Sam] You've been nipping at that Applejack again, 218 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:34,400 haven't you, Bessie? 219 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:36,000 - [Bessie] I have not. 220 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:39,200 - [Sam] Don't you try to hoodwink me, Bessie Carnby. 221 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:41,800 (door thuds) 222 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:45,960 - What was all that about Applejack? 223 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:50,200 - She's very fond of it and he won't let her have a drop. 224 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:53,120 - What a pity. 225 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:54,040 - Lemon? 226 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:54,960 - No thanks, just plain. 227 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:56,960 To Bessie. 228 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:00,080 - That's very generous of you. 229 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:04,360 I hope you won't be too hard on her. 230 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:06,640 She's very old and very tired. 231 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:09,640 - Of course, I know just how you feel. 232 00:10:14,680 --> 00:10:16,680 You make a very good cup of tea. 233 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:21,600 - Thank you. 234 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:27,960 - The doings out at Bessie Carnby's farm the other day 235 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:31,400 moved us to reread what we always thought 236 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:33,200 was one of Robert Frost's best poems. 237 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:38,000 Something there is that doesn't love a wall, he said, huh. 238 00:10:38,640 --> 00:10:40,920 And we guess poor, old Ephraim Judge, 239 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:43,200 if he was still around, would agree. 240 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:44,480 - [Nora] Mrs. Wilkins. 241 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:45,600 - Yes, Nora? 242 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:46,480 - I finished the ironing, 243 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:48,160 and I'll do the windows first thing in the morning. 244 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:49,160 My ride's waiting. 245 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:50,040 - Go ahead. 246 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:50,880 - Night, ma'am. 247 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:51,920 - Goodnight. 248 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:53,120 - Mr. Wilkins. 249 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:57,760 - Henry and Samantha Wilkins up at High Hollow Farm, 250 00:10:57,760 --> 00:10:59,600 like the neighbor in the poem, 251 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:02,160 want every stone in place. 252 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:04,960 Good fences make good neighbors they said. 253 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:07,800 But old Ephraim, along with the poet would ask, 254 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:11,400 who are they walling in or walling out? 255 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:12,920 The fence we claim will never 256 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:15,840 make good neighbors of the Wilkins. 257 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:19,040 Eph Judge who fell off the cliff into white water rapids 258 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:23,440 because of the fence will probably never be found. 259 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:24,920 And all we can do is hope 260 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:27,840 that if ever a monument is raised to him 261 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:32,000 somebody has the good taste to include Frost's opening line, 262 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:34,320 something there is that doesn't love a wall. 263 00:11:35,560 --> 00:11:37,360 Ah, seems we're not only taking on East Huntsville 264 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:38,160 and the rest of the county, 265 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:40,880 we have to contend with Robert Frost as well. 266 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:44,600 Henry, I want you to go into town tomorrow, 267 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:46,520 and see this editor. 268 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:48,640 This is a vicious, personal attack, 269 00:11:48,680 --> 00:11:51,240 and he has got to be made to understand. 270 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:54,040 Henry, I'm talking to you. 271 00:11:55,560 --> 00:11:58,120 You know something, Henry Wilkins? 272 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:01,280 Sometimes I wish it were you who had fallen off that cliff. 273 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:04,600 If I'd been there, I might've given a push! 274 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:08,600 (whimsical orchestral music) 275 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:18,760 - Mr. Wilkins. 276 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:19,440 - Yes? 277 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:20,360 - Thank you. 278 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:21,240 - Oh, it's nothing at all. 279 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:24,240 If I had more time, I could've done a better job. 280 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:24,880 I hope it'll do for now. 281 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:28,160 - It will do very well, thank you. 282 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:29,360 - I'll be dropping in from time to time to check up on you 283 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:31,560 until you get a new hired hand. 284 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:34,000 Before I go I think I'll get you some kindling. 285 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:36,840 - Mr. Wilkins, I'm not very good at apologies, 286 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:38,240 so I won't try. 287 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:39,800 I'll just say that I'd be awfully glad 288 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:40,680 if you'd have supper with us. 289 00:12:40,680 --> 00:12:44,400 - Well, I don't know as how Samantha would except. 290 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:46,560 - Who wears the pants in your family? 291 00:12:46,560 --> 00:12:48,200 - You wouldn't be putting my sagging knees 292 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:49,800 to the test now, would you? 293 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:50,520 - I might. 294 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:51,440 - (chuckles) I better get that kindling. 295 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:57,280 - Mr. Wilkins, that was a formal invitation, you coming? 296 00:12:57,280 --> 00:12:58,680 - Well, I'll talk it over with Samantha, 297 00:12:58,680 --> 00:13:01,240 and if I'm still alive at suppertime, I'll be here. 298 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:14,160 - Supper's been ready for half an hour. 299 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:16,040 - Oh, I'm sorry, I meant to tell you 300 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:17,920 the Carnby's invited us over. 301 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:18,560 - Why? 302 00:13:18,560 --> 00:13:20,240 - Just being hospitable I suppose. 303 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:21,360 - Well, we aren't going. 304 00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:22,000 - Why not? 305 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:23,240 - Because I said so. 306 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:27,960 - Well, I'm going, and you'd better go back into the house. 307 00:13:28,640 --> 00:13:30,640 - You are not going. 308 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:33,560 Is that clear? 309 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:36,600 (dramatic music) 310 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:56,800 - Camilla, Camilla, come here! 311 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:01,040 There she goes again! 312 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:10,120 She's been out to the barn three times carrying a lantern. 313 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:11,800 What do you suppose she's up to? 314 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:13,360 - We are about to find out. 315 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:16,160 Aunt Bessie, you did an inexcusable thing 316 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:17,560 in daring him to come along. 317 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:18,840 - Don't fret about it, I don't. 318 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:20,440 - No matter what the provocation. 319 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:22,200 No matter what happened out there at the fence, 320 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:23,640 you had no right to insult her. 321 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:25,240 - I don't care if I did. 322 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:26,720 - You are old enough to know better. 323 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:27,480 - Oh. 324 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:28,160 - And you're bid enough 325 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:30,480 to bury your feelings for one evening. 326 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:31,840 Come on now. 327 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:33,960 We are going up there to invite Samantha in person. 328 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:35,600 - Oh, I will not. 329 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:37,280 - Aunt Bessie, please. 330 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:38,800 Now don't make me go up there alone. 331 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:41,600 - Oh, the man has no gumption. 332 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:43,760 He oughta stand up to her 333 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:45,080 - He has. 334 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:45,800 - No. 335 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:47,600 - The day we had tea he must've felt 336 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:49,600 like getting it off his mind. 337 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:51,200 Poor man's in a trap. 338 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:54,360 She owns everything, the farm, the furnishings, the car, 339 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:56,800 and never lets him forget it. 340 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:58,360 - Well, he could leave her. 341 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:01,200 - He did once. 342 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:02,240 She tried to kill him. 343 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:04,280 - What? 344 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:06,600 - With a pistol. 345 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:09,200 She missed and then turned it on herself. 346 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:10,920 He still has nightmares about it. 347 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:14,160 He is deathly afraid of her. 348 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:15,960 - That she'll kill him? 349 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:18,920 - That's why I don't want him to antagonize her. 350 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:21,640 I would feel responsible if anything happened. 351 00:15:21,640 --> 00:15:23,480 - [Bessie] Good heavens. 352 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:27,560 (whimsical orchestral music) 353 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:52,560 Shh! 354 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:57,880 (suspenseful music) 355 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:08,200 - [Camilla] Mrs. Wilkins! 356 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:09,840 - What do you want? 357 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:15,080 - Aunt Bessie thought she made it clear to your husband 358 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:17,800 that she wanted you both to come to dinner, 359 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:19,720 and then when we began comparing notes, 360 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:23,400 we got the feeling that you might think it was only Henry. 361 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:24,960 I hope you'll forgive us. 362 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:27,880 - I'd like to speak to Mr. Wilkins. 363 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:28,360 Where is he? 364 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:29,400 - [Samantha] He's gone. 365 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:30,400 - Where? 366 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:31,600 - He didn't say. 367 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:33,240 He left very suddenly. 368 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:34,880 - When will he be back? 369 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:39,160 - I haven't the slightest idea, goodnight. 370 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:42,240 (suspenseful music) 371 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:52,200 - What do you suppose she was doing in the barn? 372 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:55,240 (suspenseful music) 373 00:17:00,760 --> 00:17:03,600 (dramatic music) 374 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:06,000 - 21, 22, 23, 24. 375 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:12,840 Is the pain getting worse? 376 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:14,000 - Considerable. 377 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:15,240 - How bad is that? 378 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:17,520 - Well, I'd like to cry for awhile if I could. 379 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:20,360 - Well, I'll up these one a day, 34, 380 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:25,880 but don't take them if you can do without, understand? 381 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:26,760 - Sam. 382 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:27,720 - Yeah? 383 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:28,480 - Sit down a minute. 384 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:30,040 - Oh, I've got other calls to make, Bessie. 385 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:33,480 - But they can wait five minutes. 386 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:41,360 That's better. 387 00:17:41,360 --> 00:17:43,480 - I know it's getting worse, Bessie. 388 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:45,840 I wish there was something I could do. 389 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:48,800 But all we can do from here on out is to fight the pain. 390 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:51,560 - That's not what I wanted to talk about. 391 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:56,680 Sam, tell me, am I a nosy, suspicious, old bitty, 392 00:17:57,120 --> 00:17:58,960 like that Mrs. Wilkins said? 393 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:01,240 - Why do you let that woman rile you so? 394 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:02,720 That's one reason the pain's getting worse. 395 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:03,960 You sit here chewing that over all the time. 396 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:06,600 - Answer me. 397 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:08,920 (Sam sighs) 398 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:12,560 Took up birdwatching. 399 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:15,520 Got a pair of bobolinks building a nest out yonder. 400 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:19,640 - How long has he been gone? 401 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:20,560 - 10 days. 402 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:24,680 - Well, he won't be the first man 403 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:26,040 to take off after a fight with his wife. 404 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:28,680 - I think she did away with him. 405 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:31,000 Does that make me a busybody? 406 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:32,080 - It sure does. 407 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:34,040 16 cylinder, jet-propelled. 408 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:36,640 Now, why in the world you wanna meddle with that 409 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:39,360 when you got maybe six months left on this planet? 410 00:18:39,360 --> 00:18:41,480 - Well, I can't die here in peace 411 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:43,920 with a murderess next door to Camilla. 412 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:45,880 Chew on me throughout all eternity. 413 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:46,760 - Who said she's a murderess? 414 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:50,520 - I do, he told Camilla she threatened to kill him. 415 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:53,320 - Well, that's Pate Turnbull's business, not mine. 416 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:55,920 And your business is to tend to your own, 417 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:57,720 and not your neighbors. 418 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:01,320 Now, you mind what I said about those pills. 419 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:07,000 (whimsical orchestral music) 420 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:14,640 (Bessie scoffs) 421 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:22,680 (suspenseful music) 422 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:40,560 - Do you take sugar, Nora? 423 00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:41,040 - Yes, thank you. 424 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:41,760 - You might explain to her 425 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:44,480 that we only want you half day a week. 426 00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:47,280 - Well, I don't know how Mrs. Wilkins would feel about that. 427 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:49,720 - There can't be very much for you to do now 428 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:51,000 since Mr. Wilkins left. 429 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:52,880 - He'll been gone a long time they say. 430 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:54,040 - Who says? 431 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:56,160 - I just happen to hear it uptown. 432 00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:57,480 - A long time? 433 00:19:57,480 --> 00:19:59,240 - Well, after all, you should know, Nora. 434 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:01,720 You do the upstairs rooms, don't you? 435 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:02,280 - Yes, ma'am. 436 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:02,880 - Well, you'd know if he packed 437 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:05,760 for a long trip or a short one. 438 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:07,080 - Well, that's just the point. 439 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:10,280 He didn't pack at all, no suits, no clothes, 440 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:12,640 not even so much as a toothbrush. 441 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:14,760 - Well. 442 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:17,320 - Well, indeed. 443 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:18,600 - It's the Lord's truth. 444 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:21,120 Not even so much as his toothbrush. 445 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:22,680 - Doesn't that seem strange to you 446 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:24,240 that he'd go off in the dead of night 447 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:26,240 without packing a stitch? 448 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:27,920 - Well, it's a strange house. 449 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:28,960 - I mean suspicious. 450 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:30,880 - Of what? 451 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:31,200 - That she killed him. 452 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:33,600 - Killed him? 453 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:34,960 Good heavens, no. 454 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:35,880 Why, she may jump on him now and then, 455 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:40,400 but she wouldn't do a thing like that, that's illegal. 456 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:45,480 - There's no law says a man can't leave town 457 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:46,040 as if and when he wants to, 458 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:49,360 with or without a toothbrush. 459 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:52,640 Bessie. 460 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:54,960 - Thanks. 461 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:55,840 - Camilla? 462 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:56,760 - No, thank you. 463 00:20:56,760 --> 00:20:57,960 - Well, how is it, Bessie? 464 00:20:57,960 --> 00:20:59,040 - Very good. 465 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:00,520 - If I wasn't on duty, I'd join you. 466 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:02,680 You know I think old Doc Adamson 467 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:04,840 is making a big mistake denying you that. 468 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:06,960 Good belt of Applejack two or three times a day 469 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:08,520 you wouldn't be so darn mean. 470 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:12,840 - She hasn't had a phone call from him since he left, 471 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:15,920 or a letter, or a postal card. 472 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:17,880 He didn't pack a stitch of clothing, 473 00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:19,480 not even his reading glasses. 474 00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:22,640 And he didn't leave town by train or a bus, we've checked. 475 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:23,520 - Oh, you have, have you? 476 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:26,400 Well, that still doesn't mean there's any foul play. 477 00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:28,760 - [Man] Can I see you a moment, Sheriff? 478 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:30,760 - Bessie, I'm sorry. 479 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:32,160 - Are you waiting for his body 480 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:33,840 to turn up on the village green? 481 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:36,920 - Well, now if it does, just don't you hesitate to call me. 482 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:39,720 - Well. 483 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,120 - I don't think his body's 484 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:44,960 gonna turn up on the village green. 485 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:47,640 Closer to home maybe. 486 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:48,520 - [Bessie] Huh? 487 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:51,000 - I still wonder what Samantha was doing in the barn. 488 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:54,000 (suspenseful music) 489 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:01,920 - [Bessie] Peace offering. 490 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:05,640 - I don't know as I should. 491 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:06,440 - Oh, please, take it. 492 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:09,280 Whatever else I am, Mrs. Wilkins, I'm not sneaky. 493 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:11,040 I don't like doing things behind a person's back. 494 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:13,240 I was upset when your husband 495 00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:15,400 didn't come for supper two weeks ago. 496 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:17,600 I was puzzled when he didn't come by to explain, 497 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:21,040 but now a fortnight later and no word from him, 498 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:24,120 I must say, I am concerned. 499 00:22:24,120 --> 00:22:26,720 - I'm sure he'd appreciate that, I don't. 500 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:27,880 - Oh, I'm sorry. 501 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:29,480 Have you had word from him? 502 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:31,480 - It's none of your business. 503 00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:34,160 - A phone call, a telegram, a letter? 504 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:36,840 - Mrs. Carnby, I'm afraid you'll have to excuse me. 505 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:38,400 - Wait a minute, I'm not through. 506 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:40,280 He must've flown out of here, Mr. Wilkins. 507 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:43,200 There's no record of his taking either train or bus. 508 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:45,240 - So, all right, he flew, 509 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:47,800 and I suggest you fly off my property 510 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:49,840 before I call the sheriff. 511 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:51,560 - Let's save her the trouble. 512 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:54,600 (suspenseful music) 513 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:53,480 (Penny barking) 514 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:56,240 Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh. 515 00:23:57,680 --> 00:23:58,880 (bucket rattles) 516 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:01,640 (Penny barking) 517 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:15,520 - (smacks lips) Penny, be still! 518 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:20,680 (suspenseful music) 519 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:08,840 (chicken cackles) 520 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:11,880 (suspenseful music) 521 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:31,880 (bucket rattles) 522 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:34,920 (suspenseful music) 523 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:52,240 (townsfolk chattering) 524 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:53,800 - There you go. 525 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:56,920 - I knew it when I saw her going back and forth to the barn. 526 00:25:58,760 --> 00:25:59,000 How long has he been dead? 527 00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:03,400 - Can't tell, quicklime. 528 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:07,480 - It's not Henry, it can't be. 529 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:10,240 - You did buy quicklime in town just before he took off, 530 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:11,560 didn't you, Mrs. Wilkins? 531 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:12,760 - A colt died. 532 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:14,480 He send me for it. 533 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:16,560 We buried it out there in the pasture. 534 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:19,480 We had three of them sick at once. 535 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:21,320 I was doctoring the other two. 536 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,640 That's why I was going into the barn. 537 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:26,240 That's what she saw. 538 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:27,440 - You still say your husband 539 00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:29,720 just went off on a trip somewhere? 540 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:30,360 - I do. 541 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:32,840 - [Sheriff] You have no idea where? 542 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:33,960 - No. 543 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:35,880 - Maybe you better take a closer look. 544 00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:37,240 - I don't care to. 545 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:38,840 It isn't my husband. 546 00:26:42,360 --> 00:26:45,120 - Do you recognize this, Mrs. Wilkins? 547 00:26:45,120 --> 00:26:45,920 - Where'd you get it? 548 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:47,600 - Whose is it? 549 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:48,240 - It's Henry's ring! 550 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:49,280 Where'd you get it? 551 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:50,920 (suspenseful music) 552 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:53,080 No. 553 00:26:53,120 --> 00:26:56,680 - I'm afraid so, third finger, left hand. 554 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:01,760 - And this button was in the other hand. 555 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,840 (suspenseful music) 556 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:10,840 - We have arrived at the intermission. 557 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:16,840 Time for rest, relaxation, for stretching ones legs, 558 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:18,480 and identifying ones station. 559 00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:23,880 (suspenseful music) 560 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:30,720 - I can't say whether that's it. 561 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:31,720 I wanna be sure. 562 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:32,760 - Is it the same brand, Ed? 563 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:34,760 - Yeah. 564 00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:35,440 - And the quantity? 565 00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:37,960 - 25 pounds, that's what she bought. 566 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:40,640 Said Henry had a disposal job to do. 567 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:42,680 - How much would it take to do the job, Doc? 568 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:44,760 - Five pounds, even less. 569 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:46,200 She must've used 20 here. 570 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:48,120 - I talked to Henry afterwards. 571 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:50,720 Asked him what he wanted with all that quicklime. 572 00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:53,760 He give me a funny look and then he said, "What quicklime?" 573 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:57,760 - Thanks Ed, if I need ya, I'll get in touch. 574 00:27:57,760 --> 00:27:59,280 - [Ed] Right. 575 00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:01,360 - Look again, Mrs. Wilkins. 576 00:28:01,360 --> 00:28:03,400 Sure you don't recognize these things? 577 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:07,960 - Well, Mrs. Wilkins, looks like your just about whipped. 578 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:10,280 - She has no idea how this got in the stove. 579 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:16,800 - They're Henry's, I tried to burn them. 580 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:18,760 I was in a panic. 581 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:20,120 I was scared to death. 582 00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:23,680 I knew what they were all thinking. 583 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:26,160 I had no idea where Henry went. 584 00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:30,600 When I found these things, I knew what it would look like, 585 00:28:31,120 --> 00:28:33,200 so I tried to get rid of them. 586 00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:37,600 I know it sounds crazy, but it's the truth. 587 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:42,400 - You still say Henry took off that night on his own? 588 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:46,200 - We had a quarrel about Mrs. Carnby's dinner invitation. 589 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:47,760 - Nothing unusual about that, is there? 590 00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:49,200 - That's just it. 591 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:51,600 We've been quarreling all during our marriage. 592 00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:54,240 For the first time, 593 00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:57,520 Henry wanted to sit down and talk about it. 594 00:28:57,560 --> 00:28:59,120 Wanted to try and get to the bottom 595 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:01,800 of all the quarreling and the bitterness and the misery. 596 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:05,120 Thought about it for a long time. 597 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:09,720 And then he said he better go off on his own for awhile. 598 00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:11,520 - Why? 599 00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:13,160 - Well, it weren't normal for a woman 600 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:14,640 to be the head of the house. 601 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:19,160 He said he wanted to try and prove himself. 602 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:20,520 Well, prove he could make it on his own 603 00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:21,880 without any help from me. 604 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:25,880 Said he wouldn't write, no phone, 605 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:27,760 wouldn't come home until he'd done it. 606 00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:32,160 Was something so real about it this time. 607 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:33,800 As though he really meant it. 608 00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:37,920 Well, I let him go upstairs and pack. 609 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:39,200 I heard him leave. 610 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:43,280 Didn't say goodbye. 611 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:45,440 Couldn't face it somehow. 612 00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:50,240 Wasn't until the next day that I, 613 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:53,880 I found that he'd left everything behind, except some money. 614 00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:01,760 - Mrs. Wilkins, how do you recon he ended up here? 615 00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:03,800 - I don't know. 616 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:07,960 - With this in his right hand? 617 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:09,800 - I don't know. 618 00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:11,160 I don't know. 619 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:16,120 Well, I know it sounds like I'm making it up, 620 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:19,000 but it's the truth! 621 00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:22,280 (suspenseful music) 622 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:33,240 (whimsical orchestral music) 623 00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:36,160 - [Radio Announcer] We have a bulletin 624 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:37,760 from the state capitol. 625 00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:39,360 The governor denied a last appeal 626 00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:41,320 from attorneys representing Samantha Wilkins, 627 00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:41,880 convicted of murdering her husband 628 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:44,520 in the Body in the Barn case. 629 00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:46,400 The Easter season not withstanding, 630 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,120 Mrs. Wilkins was executed at seven o'clock this evening. 631 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,000 The first woman to suffer the death penalty 632 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,080 in this state in 17 years. 633 00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:55,360 She maintained her innocence to the last. 634 00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:58,160 This completes another day of programming. 635 00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:01,360 And now may we extend our cordial best wishes to you all 636 00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:04,600 at this Easter season as we bid you goodnight. 637 00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:12,320 (suspenseful music) 638 00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:40,680 (cork pops) 639 00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:42,960 - Oh, I'm sorry. 640 00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:44,520 I didn't mean to startle you. 641 00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:48,600 - (gasps) What, what are you? 642 00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:50,280 - Well, I came back to apologize 643 00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:52,520 for backing out of that dinner invitation. 644 00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:55,240 - Where've you been? 645 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:56,920 - Everywhere, South Pacific, Australia, 646 00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:58,120 East Coast of African. 647 00:31:58,160 --> 00:31:58,920 Able seaman no less, 648 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:02,120 and here's a fine bottle of brandy from France. 649 00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:04,880 - We thought you were dead. 650 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:06,400 - (chuckles) You don't mean that. 651 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:09,080 - What happened? 652 00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:10,200 - Samantha knows all about it. 653 00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:12,000 We discussed it the night I left. 654 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:13,160 Here, try it. 655 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,040 Well, don't tell me you don't like brandy anymore. 656 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:17,920 - She said, she said you-- 657 00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:20,680 - Oh, she probably didn't wanna go into it. 658 00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:23,720 It's kind of personal between the two of us, but it worked. 659 00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:24,640 I've made it. 660 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:25,200 I've got a trade. 661 00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:26,920 I can stand on my own two feet. 662 00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:28,840 I'm respected and for the first time, 663 00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:30,640 I'm coming home to her with some pride. 664 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:33,240 Oh, I brought her this. 665 00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:35,640 It's awfully pretty and I'd like your opinion. 666 00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:40,000 Now, do you think she'll like it? 667 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,840 - I, I don't know what to. 668 00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:44,600 - Of course not. 669 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:45,240 How could you? 670 00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:47,560 Every woman's taste is different. 671 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:49,000 Where's Camilla? 672 00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:50,720 - Working late at the library. 673 00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:51,560 - Don't tell her I'm back. 674 00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:52,600 I wanna surprise her. 675 00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:56,040 I expect Samantha's gone to bed. 676 00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,280 Has she said anything about my coming back? 677 00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:01,040 - Not for a long time. 678 00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:04,000 - Good, Mrs. Carnby, 679 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,200 I can't tell you how much I've missed her. 680 00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:09,600 Well, goodnight now. 681 00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:13,800 (suspenseful music) 682 00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:26,480 (Henry whistling) 683 00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:30,480 (suspenseful music) 684 00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:07,400 - Henry! 685 00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:10,400 (whimsical orchestral music) 686 00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:17,360 (suspenseful music) 687 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:21,760 - 24, 25, 26, 27, 28. 688 00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:25,360 - It's all my fault. 689 00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:26,360 - [Sam] Let's not start that. 690 00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:27,800 You've got troubles enough. 691 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:30,760 - It's true, I should go out to the village green 692 00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:32,920 and shout it to the world. 693 00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:35,960 I did it, me and my busybody mouth. 694 00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:37,440 - Why don't you hit me in the head? 695 00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:39,360 - Why, Sam. 696 00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:42,280 - Well, what your doing is worse. 697 00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:44,680 Well, you had a right to get curious, 698 00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:46,160 but it was me that killed her. 699 00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:49,320 If only I hadn't been so ready to identify the body. 700 00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:50,320 - The coroner said it was the most 701 00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:52,080 natural mistake in the world. 702 00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:54,720 What, with all that quicklime. 703 00:34:54,720 --> 00:34:55,720 - Only I'm not supposed to make mistakes. 704 00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:59,600 They'll forgive you, but they won't forgive a professional. 705 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:01,720 Eph Judge was 20 years older than Henry. 706 00:35:01,720 --> 00:35:04,000 There were differences in height and build. 707 00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:09,160 The trouble is, I was ready to believe 708 00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:11,800 it was Henry the minute they called me. 709 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:13,440 Don't matter now if they never find 710 00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:14,600 who picked that body out of the river 711 00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:16,480 and buried it in the barn. 712 00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:19,280 The fact is the people of this county 713 00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:20,840 murdered an innocent woman, 714 00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:23,480 and if any one of us is responsible, it's me. 715 00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:27,040 Raise up, raise up. 716 00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:27,920 - Huh? 717 00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:28,960 - Come on. 718 00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:29,920 - Oh. 719 00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:32,480 Oh. 720 00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:51,800 (suspenseful music) 721 00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:24,360 - [Henry Voiceover] And if I'm still alive at suppertime, 722 00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:25,280 I'll be here. 723 00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:29,600 - [Camilla Voiceover] The man's in a trap. 724 00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:31,080 She owns everything. 725 00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:35,120 - [Henry Voiceover] My knees aren't as saggy as you think. 726 00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:37,960 - [Camilla Voiceover] She tried to kill him. 727 00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:40,000 - [Henry Voiceover] They aren't as saggy as you think. 728 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:41,880 - [Camilla Voiceover] She owns everything. 729 00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:43,560 - They aren't as saggy as you think. 730 00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:46,840 (suspenseful music) 731 00:36:57,360 --> 00:36:59,360 Morning, Bessie, Camilla! 732 00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:03,120 And the wall comes tumbling down. 733 00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:10,400 Well, you're looking rather chipper this morning, Bessie. 734 00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:12,120 - You're doing this to please me? 735 00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:13,720 - Naturally. 736 00:37:13,720 --> 00:37:16,280 - Well, my innards may not be what they ought be, 737 00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:19,920 but there's nothing wrong with my head, not yet anyway. 738 00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:20,640 - What do you mean, Aunt Bessie? 739 00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:22,680 I thought you'd be pleased Mr. Wilkins 740 00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:24,640 is taking down the fence. 741 00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:27,280 - The only thing Mr. Wilkins could do to please me 742 00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:30,080 would be to march down to Pate Turnbull's office 743 00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:31,920 and tell him how Eph Judge's body 744 00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:34,120 come to be buried in his barn. 745 00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:35,960 Not only how, but why. 746 00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:36,400 - I had a little talk with Mr. Turnbull 747 00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:39,040 about that very thing. 748 00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:40,720 We decided for the sake of the town, 749 00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:42,760 and his own political future, 750 00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:44,080 and for several other reasons, 751 00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:45,440 that old Eph is best off in the cemetery 752 00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:47,840 right where they put him. 753 00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:50,400 - You're a confidence man, Henry Wilkins. 754 00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:53,360 You fooled me, your wife, Sam Adamson, 755 00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:55,000 the sheriff, all of us. 756 00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:57,240 You made a murder weapon of this county. 757 00:37:57,280 --> 00:37:58,920 - No have no right to talk to Henry that way. 758 00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:01,280 - Oh, it's Henry now, is it? 759 00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:02,960 - Camilla, I don't mind. 760 00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:05,000 Look, Bessie, you're blaming your neighbors 761 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:06,960 for a lot more than you ought to, don't you think? 762 00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:08,640 After all, it was your doing. 763 00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:10,560 Old Eph would be there still if it wasn't for you. 764 00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:11,840 - That's what you say. 765 00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:13,160 - That's what they're all saying uptown. 766 00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:13,720 You may no know it. 767 00:38:13,720 --> 00:38:14,440 You stay home all the time. 768 00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:17,640 You wouldn't have the chance to hear it. 769 00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:20,520 Bessie, you killed poor Samantha. 770 00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:22,360 You and your prying little mind 771 00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:24,440 made a grieving widower out of me. 772 00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:25,920 - They know better than that. 773 00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:27,760 - Camilla, drive Bessie up town, 774 00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:29,360 and let her hear it for herself. 775 00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:29,800 I'll see you tonight. 776 00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:31,800 - That's what you think. 777 00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:35,920 (suspenseful music) 778 00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:47,120 (door thuds) 779 00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:51,120 Camilla! 780 00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:56,160 Show the gentleman out. 781 00:38:57,640 --> 00:38:58,680 - Aunt Bessie. 782 00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:00,600 - Show the gentleman out. 783 00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:01,720 - Dear, Aunt Bessie. 784 00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:03,720 - Don't you call me that. 785 00:39:03,720 --> 00:39:05,640 - But I'm perfectly willing to forget the past. 786 00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:06,960 You took my wife from me. 787 00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:09,240 A woman who was my strength and sustenance 788 00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:11,040 for almost 15 years. 789 00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:14,080 They're all saying that I'll never forgive you, 790 00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:15,600 but I'm willing to turn the other cheek. 791 00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:17,160 - Camilla. 792 00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:20,960 - No, Aunt Bessie, this is going to be Henry's house too. 793 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:22,480 - What? 794 00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:24,240 - We're going to be married. 795 00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:25,880 That's why the fence came down. 796 00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:30,160 - Brandy, Aunt Bessie? 797 00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:33,200 (suspenseful music) 798 00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:41,040 - There's no proof, there's nothing. 799 00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:42,800 Now, the only thing we would be able to offer in court 800 00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:44,920 is that Henry Wilkins must've buried that body 801 00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:48,120 because we found it in his barn. 802 00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:49,840 Now, nobody saw anything. 803 00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:51,760 Nobody knows where he found the body if he did. 804 00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:53,360 Nobody knows anything. 805 00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:56,480 Bessie, Henry Wilkins has made fools out of us once before. 806 00:39:58,560 --> 00:39:59,680 Now, you can call it politics. 807 00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:00,320 You can call it discretion. 808 00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:02,400 You can call it anything you want, 809 00:40:03,240 --> 00:40:04,240 but from the supervisors on down 810 00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:07,240 there isn't a man that wants to take on Henry Wilkins again. 811 00:40:07,240 --> 00:40:09,720 - You're cowards, all of you. 812 00:40:09,720 --> 00:40:12,120 - Oh sure, that's easy for you to say, 813 00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:14,240 but I've got to live with these people. 814 00:40:14,240 --> 00:40:16,200 Ah, Bessie, I'm sorry, I talked to the doctor, 815 00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:16,960 and he told about you, 816 00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:19,480 and I'm honestly sorry, and you know that, 817 00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:21,920 but I've got to live with these people. 818 00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:26,480 - What if I told you he was planning to kill me? 819 00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:28,680 - [Sheriff] Now, what do you mean by that? 820 00:40:28,720 --> 00:40:31,920 - I told him I was going to disinherit Camilla. 821 00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:36,000 He's got his eye on this farm, not Camilla. 822 00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:39,880 He wants to join it to High Hollow. 823 00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:42,680 - [Sheriff] Are you sure of this? 824 00:40:42,720 --> 00:40:47,080 - He's been giving me my medicine, morphine pills. 825 00:40:47,720 --> 00:40:51,120 I've been missing them a few at a time. 826 00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:54,360 I think he's saving them up somewhere. 827 00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:59,360 Wanted you to know that just in case. 828 00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:02,800 - Yeah, Bessie, yeah, sure. 829 00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:10,080 - You sure she isn't snitching these pills on the side? 830 00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:12,200 - She dropped a half a bottle down the drain. 831 00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:13,240 - You sure? 832 00:41:13,240 --> 00:41:14,400 - That's what she said. 833 00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:19,200 - Now, I want her to have no more 834 00:41:19,240 --> 00:41:21,000 one of these every four hours. 835 00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:24,400 You see to that, will you? 836 00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:26,360 - Right. 837 00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:27,760 - She's a sick old lady. 838 00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:31,960 When it comes, I want it to be in the right way. 839 00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:33,400 You understand what I mean? 840 00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:34,480 - Of course I understand. 841 00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:35,640 Don't you worry. 842 00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:37,160 I'll take care of the pills. 843 00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:47,120 (door thuds) 844 00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:47,680 - Sorry. 845 00:41:47,720 --> 00:41:50,200 - Sure, Bessie's prescription. 846 00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:05,760 (suspenseful music) 847 00:43:42,720 --> 00:43:45,440 (bell ringing) 848 00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:47,400 - Henry. 849 00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:53,080 Henry! 850 00:44:02,240 --> 00:44:03,200 Henry. 851 00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:06,640 - What is it now? 852 00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:08,920 - Is that any way to begin? 853 00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:12,720 - What's got into you? 854 00:44:13,240 --> 00:44:14,600 - When you feel the hand on you, 855 00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:17,800 you can't dislike anyone anymore, Henry. 856 00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:19,760 I'm just finding that out. 857 00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:20,880 - You don't mean? 858 00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:23,280 - I'm afraid so. 859 00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:25,920 I can't hate anymore. 860 00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:30,480 I want you to forgive me, really. 861 00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:31,960 - Bessie. 862 00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:36,800 - Please, Henry, forgive a dying woman 863 00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:39,240 who's made a lot of mistakes. 864 00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:44,080 - Very well, what else do you want? 865 00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:47,680 - I wanna go to sleep. 866 00:44:47,680 --> 00:44:49,440 - And you'd like to have another pill? 867 00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:50,760 - Yes. 868 00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:52,640 - No, Bessie, not until midnight. 869 00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:53,600 One every four hours. 870 00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:54,360 That's what the doctor said. 871 00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:57,560 - Must you always do what the doctor says? 872 00:44:57,560 --> 00:44:58,960 - But, Bessie, I'm concerned about you. 873 00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:01,000 After all, you're my responsibility. 874 00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:03,480 I wouldn't wanna get careless at this point, would I now? 875 00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:05,000 - Some brandy then. 876 00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:07,120 - [Henry] Well. 877 00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:08,280 - Please, Henry. 878 00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:10,280 - Oh, all right. 879 00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:14,920 (suspenseful music) 880 00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:19,480 There you are. 881 00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:21,640 - Thank you, Henry. 882 00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:24,880 (suspenseful music) 883 00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:29,000 Bless you. 884 00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:38,520 Yes, by the time this is found, 885 00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:41,400 it ought be all over with Henry. 886 00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:44,000 Justice took a wild ride, 887 00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:46,360 but I hope it ends up at the right place. 888 00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:50,960 All the lies and the stupidity and the bungling 889 00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:53,360 somehow must add up to truth. 890 00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:57,160 I hope Henry Wilkins thinks of that 891 00:45:57,160 --> 00:46:00,240 when they lead him off to the execution for killing me. 892 00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:05,040 (suspenseful music) 893 00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:19,120 (Camilla whimpering) 894 00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:22,440 - Steady now, I know how much he meant to you. 895 00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:26,400 - I don't think I can go through with it, Mr. Gregg. 896 00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:27,920 - A funeral is always a trial. 897 00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:30,480 You'll do fine, come along. 898 00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:33,760 (suspenseful music) 899 00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:47,720 (Camilla whimpering) 900 00:46:49,240 --> 00:46:51,360 - He didn't kill her, he didn't. 901 00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:53,280 They hanged an innocent man. 902 00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:54,600 - Steady, steady. 903 00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:57,720 (Camilla crying) 904 00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:10,080 - That is the end of tonight's story. 905 00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:11,680 We would like to show you more, 906 00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:14,520 but we seem to be running out of characters. 907 00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:17,640 I decided to come down from my pedestal. 908 00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:21,120 The ah, the birds lacked the proper respect. 909 00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:23,680 I also took on one person's observation 910 00:47:23,720 --> 00:47:24,760 that the whole scene looked like 911 00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:26,880 a coat of arms for television. 912 00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:30,000 A large hand ramped on a field of corn. 913 00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:32,080 Until next week, goodnight. 914 00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:38,080 ("Funeral March of a Marionette") 915 00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:16,360 (dramatic orchestral music)