1 00:00:29,890 --> 00:00:31,460 Oh, good evening. 2 00:00:31,490 --> 00:00:34,130 I bring good news to those of you who 3 00:00:34,160 --> 00:00:36,300 are plagued with faulty television sets. 4 00:00:37,370 --> 00:00:40,140 I am prepared to repair your set. 5 00:00:40,170 --> 00:00:44,070 It only stands to reason more can be accomplished 6 00:00:44,110 --> 00:00:47,540 working from the inside-out, than from the outside-in. 7 00:00:47,580 --> 00:00:50,750 Let's see. Perhaps I should tighten this a bit. 8 00:00:55,550 --> 00:00:57,750 On second thought, it looked very good the way it was. 9 00:01:04,090 --> 00:01:07,560 Oh, here's the trouble. We can't have loose wires hanging around. 10 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:15,740 Tonight's playlet is called "The Percentage", 11 00:01:15,770 --> 00:01:18,840 and it's about a professional hoodlum named Big Eddie, 12 00:01:18,870 --> 00:01:20,780 who meets up with a television repair man. 13 00:01:25,550 --> 00:01:28,320 As you see, it has exciting prospects. 14 00:01:30,190 --> 00:01:32,450 Someone has sent me the bird. 15 00:01:32,490 --> 00:01:34,190 But let's go on with the show. 16 00:01:34,220 --> 00:01:44,270 Perhaps we should get some ideas 17 00:01:44,270 --> 00:01:54,280 Perhaps we should get some ideas 18 00:02:09,790 --> 00:02:11,360 I phoned that shop over an hour ago. 19 00:02:11,390 --> 00:02:12,730 Oh, keep your shirt on. 20 00:02:15,060 --> 00:02:17,500 Hundreds of TV repair shops in Manhattan, 21 00:02:17,530 --> 00:02:19,770 and you phone for one way out in Queens. 22 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:21,070 So? 23 00:02:21,070 --> 00:02:22,700 So how dumb do you think I am? 24 00:02:22,740 --> 00:02:24,070 I don't know what you're talking about. 25 00:02:24,070 --> 00:02:26,270 No? I'm talking how this set was working 26 00:02:26,310 --> 00:02:28,410 fine until you began fiddling with it. 27 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:30,780 Then, bingo, it goes on the blink. 28 00:02:30,810 --> 00:02:32,710 Next thing, you phone for a repair man 29 00:02:32,750 --> 00:02:34,450 miles and miles away in Queens. 30 00:02:35,150 --> 00:02:35,920 Shut up. 31 00:02:37,190 --> 00:02:38,320 Okay, I'll shut up. 32 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:43,960 Hey, stop frowning. 33 00:02:45,090 --> 00:02:46,260 Maybe I have reasons. 34 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:49,300 You got reasons? For instance? 35 00:02:49,330 --> 00:02:50,370 Ain't I good to you? 36 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:51,930 (SIGHS) 37 00:02:51,970 --> 00:02:53,340 Yeah, you're good to me. 38 00:02:53,370 --> 00:02:54,440 Then what's wrong? 39 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:58,670 Eddie, you just not in this world. 40 00:02:58,710 --> 00:03:01,280 Talking to yourself all the time, and drinking too much. 41 00:03:02,310 --> 00:03:04,810 Getting those dizzy spells. 42 00:03:04,850 --> 00:03:06,750 Something's going on inside of you. And 43 00:03:06,780 --> 00:03:08,720 it's been going on for a long, long while. 44 00:03:08,750 --> 00:03:10,790 You're eating sawdust. I'm okay. 45 00:03:10,820 --> 00:03:12,450 (DOORBELL RINGING) 46 00:03:12,490 --> 00:03:15,320 That's the repairman now. He'll fix that TV set in a jiffy. 47 00:03:16,290 --> 00:03:17,360 Leave us alone, baby. 48 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:19,460 Okay. 49 00:03:24,770 --> 00:03:26,170 Hi, Sarge. 50 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:28,540 Pete, how's the boy? Put it there. Come on in. 51 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:35,480 You don't seem surprised to see me. 52 00:03:35,510 --> 00:03:38,110 The minute the boss gave me the call, I knew it was you. 53 00:03:38,150 --> 00:03:41,350 I read in the papers how you lived here. You're a famous guy. 54 00:03:41,380 --> 00:03:42,720 I even saw you on television during 55 00:03:42,750 --> 00:03:44,150 that anti-crime committee thing. 56 00:03:44,190 --> 00:03:45,420 How did I look? 57 00:03:45,450 --> 00:03:46,450 Best dressed guy in the room. 58 00:03:46,490 --> 00:03:47,960 (CHUCKLING) 59 00:03:47,990 --> 00:03:49,090 Oh, there it is. 60 00:03:49,090 --> 00:03:51,630 Say, isn't it a coincidence you calling our 61 00:03:51,660 --> 00:03:54,330 shop way out in Queens to do a repair job? 62 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:56,200 It was no coincidence. I wanted to see you. 63 00:03:56,230 --> 00:03:57,930 I've been looking for you for years. 64 00:03:57,970 --> 00:03:59,200 Yeah? 65 00:03:59,230 --> 00:04:00,440 I even hired detectives. 66 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:02,640 No kidding. 67 00:04:02,670 --> 00:04:05,510 I couldn't find you. You sure did drop out of sight. 68 00:04:05,540 --> 00:04:08,240 How was I to know you'd changed your name from Wyzonski to Williams? 69 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:09,310 It's easier for business. 70 00:04:10,610 --> 00:04:14,050 Say, this is some place you got here. 71 00:04:14,050 --> 00:04:16,480 Yeah, this is... This is real fancy. 72 00:04:17,450 --> 00:04:19,350 Boy, you really got it made. 73 00:04:19,390 --> 00:04:20,320 (DOOR OPENING) 74 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:27,700 I said leave us alone. 75 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:30,670 I need a cigarette. 76 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:36,370 Meet Pete. This is Faye. 77 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:37,510 Hi. 78 00:04:37,540 --> 00:04:38,840 A pleasure. 79 00:04:38,870 --> 00:04:40,180 You acquainted with Eddie? 80 00:04:40,210 --> 00:04:41,580 Look, go inside and... 81 00:04:41,610 --> 00:04:43,280 And jump in the lake. 82 00:04:43,310 --> 00:04:44,210 How long have you known Eddie? 83 00:04:45,150 --> 00:04:46,510 We were in Korea together. 84 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:50,350 Thanks. 85 00:04:50,390 --> 00:04:52,520 Oh, by the way, it's just a tube. 86 00:04:52,550 --> 00:04:54,460 Eddie broke it himself on purpose. 87 00:04:56,290 --> 00:04:57,490 Did you think you fooled me? 88 00:05:03,570 --> 00:05:05,470 That dame's too smart. 89 00:05:05,500 --> 00:05:06,570 Sure nice. 90 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:11,710 Say, you went to a lot of trouble finding me. Why? 91 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:15,040 Do you know what I owe you? 92 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:19,280 Oh, sure. This visit here will set you back five bucks, 93 00:05:19,310 --> 00:05:23,490 and the tube, if that's what it is, will cost another buck. 94 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:24,650 Leave that set alone. 95 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:27,490 Tell me what I owe you. Name it. 96 00:05:28,260 --> 00:05:29,460 I don't dig you. 97 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:33,600 Boy, you really did bust this tube. 98 00:05:34,300 --> 00:05:35,360 Say it. 99 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:37,100 Huh? 100 00:05:37,130 --> 00:05:39,500 Go on, say I was a coward. 101 00:05:39,530 --> 00:05:42,270 Say I was the kind of sergeant that went chicken. 102 00:05:42,300 --> 00:05:45,540 Say I got scared and ran away. Go on. Say it. Say you covered up for me. 103 00:05:45,570 --> 00:05:47,180 So it's that patrol that's bugging you? 104 00:05:47,210 --> 00:05:48,710 (CHUCKLES) 105 00:05:48,740 --> 00:05:50,980 Forget it. I haven't thought about that in years. 106 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:54,580 I've never forgotten, not for one day. 107 00:05:54,620 --> 00:05:57,950 You think I could forget how you kept them from knowing I was chicken? 108 00:05:57,990 --> 00:06:00,820 Look, so for a minute you went chicken. We all could have. 109 00:06:00,860 --> 00:06:02,690 All of us was gonna get killed if somebody 110 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:04,860 didn't do something. So I knocked you out. 111 00:06:04,890 --> 00:06:07,900 But the patrol came through okay. So what's the difference? 112 00:06:07,930 --> 00:06:09,430 I got the credit. 113 00:06:09,460 --> 00:06:10,700 What's wrong with that? 114 00:06:11,670 --> 00:06:13,440 I don't like it that way. 115 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:17,840 Hey, what's the matter? 116 00:06:17,870 --> 00:06:19,610 Just dizzy for a minute. It'll go away. 117 00:06:21,280 --> 00:06:23,450 I've been getting them spells ever since this whole thing started. 118 00:06:24,810 --> 00:06:27,650 Trying to find you, so I could fix the percentage. 119 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:31,790 I wanna pay you for shutting up, for saving my life. 120 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:34,220 Pay me? 121 00:06:34,260 --> 00:06:35,560 How much you make a week? 122 00:06:36,220 --> 00:06:37,730 Pretty good. 123 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:39,260 How much is pretty good? 124 00:06:39,930 --> 00:06:41,630 $110 a week. 125 00:06:41,660 --> 00:06:42,660 Don't make me laugh. 126 00:06:44,930 --> 00:06:46,570 $110 suits me fine. 127 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:48,370 I say it's peanuts. You got a wife? 128 00:06:49,140 --> 00:06:50,570 The best. 129 00:06:50,610 --> 00:06:52,910 Don't she want a fur coat, a new car, a nice house? 130 00:06:54,410 --> 00:06:56,280 You think a woman's happy to spend 131 00:06:56,310 --> 00:06:57,610 her life cooking and washing your socks? 132 00:06:58,710 --> 00:07:00,480 I want to make you rich, so you can buy 133 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:02,680 your wife everything she wants. 134 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:03,850 It's certainly a temptation, Sarge. 135 00:07:05,020 --> 00:07:07,090 Stop calling me Sarge. 136 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:09,820 Look, Eddie. I can't let you hand me a lot of dough. 137 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:12,630 I owe it to you. 138 00:07:12,660 --> 00:07:14,730 You don't owe me nothing. 139 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:16,700 The whole thing's screwy, it's not even worth discussing. 140 00:07:18,030 --> 00:07:19,230 There, now. 141 00:07:20,270 --> 00:07:22,300 Let's see if it works. 142 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:27,840 You got a mortgage on your house? 143 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:30,050 Don't have a house. Hope to someday. 144 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:31,050 How much dough do you need? 145 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:33,480 (WESTERN MUSIC ON TV) 146 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:35,350 Look, Eddie, I'm not taking that kind 147 00:07:35,380 --> 00:07:36,720 of dough, and that's all there is to it. 148 00:07:38,150 --> 00:07:39,590 There, your set's working okay. 149 00:07:40,620 --> 00:07:43,160 Isn't there anything you want? 150 00:07:43,190 --> 00:07:46,290 Yeah. It would take me an hour to tell you everything I want. 151 00:07:46,330 --> 00:07:49,330 But I intend getting them on my own steam. 152 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:52,630 What's the angle? You got something on me. I was a coward. 153 00:07:52,670 --> 00:07:54,340 Why didn't you tell the world I was chicken? 154 00:07:54,370 --> 00:07:55,670 You're talking nuts. 155 00:07:56,770 --> 00:07:59,340 I don't let nobody have a percentage on me. 156 00:07:59,370 --> 00:08:01,810 I got to pay you back! 157 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:03,610 Hey, let go with the fingers, huh? 158 00:08:05,410 --> 00:08:07,150 (SIGHING) 159 00:08:07,180 --> 00:08:09,880 Name it. Name something I can do! 160 00:08:11,190 --> 00:08:12,250 Okay. 161 00:08:13,790 --> 00:08:15,890 Louise likes to go out to fancy places. 162 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:17,560 So, if you wanna take us out on the town 163 00:08:17,590 --> 00:08:19,390 some night, that much I'd like you to do. 164 00:08:19,430 --> 00:08:22,560 On account of my wife would get a kick out of going to a fancy place. 165 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:24,200 A measly hundred bucks for food, 166 00:08:24,230 --> 00:08:25,770 drinks, cover charges, so what? 167 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:27,900 I'm talking about handing you thousands. 168 00:08:27,940 --> 00:08:30,140 Eddie, I told you, it's no use. 169 00:08:30,170 --> 00:08:32,110 Now, you want to go out with us, or don't you? 170 00:08:32,140 --> 00:08:34,040 Okay, okay. When? 171 00:08:34,780 --> 00:08:36,440 Well, tomorrow's my night off. 172 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:37,550 I'll show you the town. 173 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:40,850 Okay. Here's the repair bill. 174 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:43,720 $6.43 cents. 175 00:08:44,550 --> 00:08:45,520 Six bucks. 176 00:08:50,690 --> 00:08:54,060 You got something on me nobody knows. 177 00:08:54,060 --> 00:08:56,800 Sooner or later, I'm gonna pay you back and you can't keep saying no. 178 00:08:58,070 --> 00:08:59,630 (CHUCKLING) 179 00:08:59,670 --> 00:09:01,340 Oh, gee, that's a beautiful fur. 180 00:09:01,370 --> 00:09:02,500 Thank you. 181 00:09:03,410 --> 00:09:04,670 (CHUCKLING) 182 00:09:04,710 --> 00:09:06,210 Well, here we are, the four of us. 183 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:07,680 (GIGGLING) 184 00:09:07,710 --> 00:09:10,010 Just like a dream, ain't it, Pete sweetheart? 185 00:09:10,010 --> 00:09:11,710 Sure is, hon. 186 00:09:11,750 --> 00:09:13,420 Oh, boy. To think I'm sitting with Eddie Slovak. 187 00:09:14,650 --> 00:09:16,120 I mean, you read the papers, and 188 00:09:16,150 --> 00:09:17,450 every day there's Eddie being indicted 189 00:09:17,490 --> 00:09:19,090 or something important like that. 190 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:21,660 (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING) 191 00:09:21,690 --> 00:09:23,560 Say, why don't you take a spin around with Eddie, huh? 192 00:09:23,590 --> 00:09:25,030 Yeah. I'd love to. 193 00:09:26,090 --> 00:09:27,860 Oh, you don't mind, do you? 194 00:09:27,900 --> 00:09:29,360 Oh, no, not at all. 195 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:30,400 How about it, Eddie? 196 00:09:30,430 --> 00:09:31,530 You bet. 197 00:09:36,170 --> 00:09:37,370 Eddie sure is a great guy. 198 00:09:37,410 --> 00:09:38,370 Yes, he is. 199 00:09:39,710 --> 00:09:40,510 (GIGGLING) 200 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:42,910 You dance wonderfully. 201 00:09:42,940 --> 00:09:43,880 (CHUCKLING) 202 00:09:43,910 --> 00:09:44,880 Thanks. 203 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:49,580 What did Pete say about me? I mean, way back. 204 00:09:49,620 --> 00:09:51,490 Oh, he said you was a big hero in Korea. 205 00:09:52,790 --> 00:09:54,790 He said that? Yeah. 206 00:09:54,820 --> 00:09:57,890 I bet you was, too. A real hero, I mean. 207 00:09:57,930 --> 00:09:58,630 (CHUCKLES) 208 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:02,700 How would you like to put a lot of dough in Pete's way? 209 00:10:03,570 --> 00:10:04,670 What do you mean? 210 00:10:06,030 --> 00:10:07,800 You got to help me talk Pete into letting me 211 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:09,740 stake him to a shop of his own. 212 00:10:09,770 --> 00:10:10,970 His own? 213 00:10:11,010 --> 00:10:13,210 I'd be the silent partner. 214 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:17,350 He buys the equipment, makes the place look real fancy. 215 00:10:17,380 --> 00:10:19,350 I'd pay him, let's say, $300 a week. 216 00:10:19,380 --> 00:10:20,720 $300? 217 00:10:20,750 --> 00:10:21,920 (EXCLAIMING) 218 00:10:21,950 --> 00:10:23,020 What's the catch? 219 00:10:23,050 --> 00:10:23,750 There's no catch. 220 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:27,820 I don't get it. Why should anybody want to pay Pete... 221 00:10:28,590 --> 00:10:29,890 What's the matter? 222 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:30,630 Come here. 223 00:10:32,290 --> 00:10:34,200 Pete can make a fortune. 224 00:10:34,230 --> 00:10:36,530 I know ways to pull the wool over customer's eyes... 225 00:10:36,560 --> 00:10:40,670 No. Pete wouldn't like that. He's got what he calls scruples. 226 00:10:40,700 --> 00:10:42,700 Don't you want him rich? Sure, you do. 227 00:10:42,740 --> 00:10:44,470 Then you got to make him say okay. 228 00:10:45,670 --> 00:10:47,180 I'll try. 229 00:10:47,210 --> 00:10:47,940 (BOTH CHUCKLING) 230 00:10:51,180 --> 00:10:52,380 (TELEPHONE RINGING) 231 00:10:54,050 --> 00:10:54,850 Hello? 232 00:10:56,850 --> 00:10:59,520 Boy, am I glad to hear from you. What do you think, baby? 233 00:11:02,620 --> 00:11:04,260 Sure, we'll be glad to. What time? 234 00:11:05,460 --> 00:11:06,860 7:00? Swell. 235 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:10,470 Give my regards to Pete. 236 00:11:10,500 --> 00:11:11,830 Yeah, we'll see you then. Goodbye. 237 00:11:15,340 --> 00:11:18,170 That was Pete's wife, Louise. 238 00:11:18,210 --> 00:11:20,310 I thought as much from the sounds you were making. 239 00:11:21,180 --> 00:11:22,580 Meaning what? 240 00:11:22,610 --> 00:11:24,410 Eddie, I'm not jealous. 241 00:11:24,450 --> 00:11:27,380 But I think it's rotten for you to make a play for your own friend's wife. 242 00:11:27,420 --> 00:11:29,550 Don't worry. She don't mean nothing. 243 00:11:29,580 --> 00:11:30,790 Playing both of us now? 244 00:11:31,590 --> 00:11:34,390 What are you talking about? 245 00:11:34,420 --> 00:11:36,590 Listen, tomorrow night we go to Pete's house for dinner. 246 00:11:36,620 --> 00:11:39,090 Not me. I've rehearsal. Are you glad? 247 00:11:39,130 --> 00:11:41,730 Now, you can show off for your washed-out blonde. 248 00:11:43,100 --> 00:11:45,530 But don't hurt that little guy, Eddie. 249 00:11:45,570 --> 00:11:48,600 Pete thinks the sun rises and sets with her. 250 00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:52,340 Stop worrying. She's doing Pete and me a great favor. 251 00:12:01,150 --> 00:12:02,650 (DOORBELL RINGING) 252 00:12:08,420 --> 00:12:11,190 Eddie, oh, I'm so glad to see you. 253 00:12:11,230 --> 00:12:13,260 You're early. Yeah. 254 00:12:13,290 --> 00:12:14,960 Where's Pete? 255 00:12:15,060 --> 00:12:16,560 He's getting ice cream for dessert. 256 00:12:20,340 --> 00:12:21,870 (GIGGLING) 257 00:12:21,900 --> 00:12:22,840 Sit down. 258 00:12:26,610 --> 00:12:30,080 Go on, sit down. Gosh, you're sure a nervous guy. 259 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:31,510 I don't know. 260 00:12:31,550 --> 00:12:33,420 But I guess when a man's as important as 261 00:12:33,450 --> 00:12:34,750 you are, you get nervous after a while, huh? 262 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:37,090 Did you talk to him? 263 00:12:37,090 --> 00:12:39,250 Pete? Who else? 264 00:12:39,290 --> 00:12:42,290 Yeah, I talked to him, the chowder head. He's a stubborn chowder head. 265 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:43,460 He said no? 266 00:12:43,490 --> 00:12:45,090 In spades. 267 00:12:45,130 --> 00:12:47,400 "I can't let a guy hand me a lot of dough for doing nothing. 268 00:12:47,430 --> 00:12:51,100 "I'd feel dishonest," he says. Imagine, dishonest. Did you ever? 269 00:12:51,100 --> 00:12:53,970 He's crazy about you. He'd do anything you asked him to. 270 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:56,810 Yeah, except this. We had an awful fight over it, believe me. 271 00:12:58,010 --> 00:12:59,240 He's so stubborn and proud. 272 00:13:02,510 --> 00:13:05,050 Why don't you take off your coat, and make yourself comfortable? 273 00:13:05,050 --> 00:13:07,780 You should have persuaded him. You must have said the wrong things. 274 00:13:07,820 --> 00:13:09,320 Well, don't get sore, Eddie. 275 00:13:09,350 --> 00:13:10,920 I counted on you. 276 00:13:16,060 --> 00:13:17,590 (GIGGLES) 277 00:13:17,630 --> 00:13:19,960 The dope. He was nice looking in his uniform, wasn't he? 278 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:23,770 I thought you'd get a kick out of seeing him all dolled up 279 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:25,330 the way you remember him back in Korea. 280 00:13:26,470 --> 00:13:27,570 You got a drink? 281 00:13:29,170 --> 00:13:30,340 Yeah, sure. On the table. 282 00:13:35,340 --> 00:13:36,880 Don't you feel good? 283 00:13:36,910 --> 00:13:37,710 I'm okay. 284 00:13:39,150 --> 00:13:40,320 Hey, where's Faye? 285 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:42,350 Rehearsing at a musical. 286 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:44,420 (CHUCKLES) 287 00:13:44,450 --> 00:13:46,320 Then she'll be busy for a while, huh? 288 00:13:46,350 --> 00:13:47,990 Yeah. 289 00:13:48,090 --> 00:13:51,130 Well, maybe if you and me met someplace kind of private, 290 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:53,460 you could think of some clever way to make Pete let you back him. 291 00:13:54,530 --> 00:13:58,830 Yeah. That's an idea. When? 292 00:13:58,870 --> 00:14:01,870 Maybe tomorrow? He'll be at work until late at night. 293 00:14:01,900 --> 00:14:05,170 I'm crazy about you, Eddie, and you know it. So, you be nice to me. 294 00:14:05,210 --> 00:14:08,080 You keep at Pete to take the dough, understand, honey? 295 00:14:08,110 --> 00:14:08,940 Yeah, sure, sure. 296 00:14:11,910 --> 00:14:12,880 (DOOR OPENING) 297 00:14:19,890 --> 00:14:21,860 Hi, folks. 298 00:14:21,890 --> 00:14:24,760 The flavor of the month. Chocolate Peppermint. 299 00:14:24,790 --> 00:14:27,060 I tell you, Eddie, people want too much. 300 00:14:27,100 --> 00:14:29,730 I say, when you got yourself a fine job, 301 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:32,130 a little dough in the bank, a place to live. 302 00:14:32,170 --> 00:14:34,070 A gal who loves you. 303 00:14:34,070 --> 00:14:36,840 Then, like the song says, "Why ask for anything more?" 304 00:14:38,540 --> 00:14:40,380 Hey, Louise, leave finishing the dishes until 305 00:14:40,410 --> 00:14:42,480 later. Come on out and be sociable. 306 00:14:42,510 --> 00:14:43,450 LOUISE: I'll be finished in a minute, honey. 307 00:14:43,480 --> 00:14:44,610 Leave her out there. 308 00:14:44,650 --> 00:14:46,780 I happen to like Louise around. 309 00:14:46,820 --> 00:14:49,220 Look, Pete, if you're so crazy about her, 310 00:14:49,250 --> 00:14:51,720 don't you want her to have a maid to wash the dishes? 311 00:14:51,750 --> 00:14:54,390 Move out of here to a better neighborhood? 312 00:14:54,420 --> 00:14:56,460 Just for once, Eddie, talk about something else, will you? 313 00:14:57,430 --> 00:14:59,490 Now, try and feel at home here. 314 00:14:59,530 --> 00:15:00,930 Home? You call this dump a home? 315 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:05,270 Listen. I like it fine, see. 316 00:15:06,030 --> 00:15:07,140 It's a breadbox. 317 00:15:07,170 --> 00:15:08,940 It suits me fine. 318 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:11,610 Yeah, and my jalopy suits me fine. 319 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:14,680 This suit I got on, maybe it costs 50 bucks but I like it fine, too. 320 00:15:14,710 --> 00:15:17,280 You lunkhead. You could live on Park Avenue. 321 00:15:17,310 --> 00:15:20,780 Real paintings on the wall, furs and clothes for Louise. 322 00:15:20,820 --> 00:15:23,220 I'm the one who says what goes in this family. 323 00:15:23,250 --> 00:15:25,120 Now, you stop talking to Louise. 324 00:15:25,150 --> 00:15:27,660 Either quit making trouble or stay away from here, Eddie, I mean it. 325 00:15:27,690 --> 00:15:29,960 Look at this. Nickel and dime stuff. 326 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:35,830 Okay. Get out of here, once and for all. 327 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:40,100 Oh, Pete, I didn't mean it. 328 00:15:40,140 --> 00:15:41,800 Get out. You're going nuts. 329 00:15:43,570 --> 00:15:46,210 Here, this will pay for it. 330 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:48,380 I don't want your dough. Not a dime. Just get out of here. 331 00:16:00,790 --> 00:16:02,190 What's all the shouting and yelling in here? 332 00:16:02,220 --> 00:16:03,830 Where's Eddie? 333 00:16:03,860 --> 00:16:04,660 He's gone. 334 00:16:06,460 --> 00:16:07,400 What happened? 335 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:10,400 He flipped his lid. 336 00:16:11,930 --> 00:16:13,070 Oh, look. 337 00:16:13,100 --> 00:16:14,400 (EXCLAIMING) 338 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:15,940 Leave that money alone. 339 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:17,240 He sure is generous. 340 00:16:17,270 --> 00:16:18,610 I said leave it alone. 341 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:20,380 But there's 50 bucks or more here. 342 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:21,680 Yeah. 343 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:25,350 And I'm sending it back, every dollar. 344 00:16:39,530 --> 00:16:40,900 PASSIO: Hello, Eddie. 345 00:16:48,340 --> 00:16:49,300 Sit down, Eddie. 346 00:16:51,070 --> 00:16:53,680 The boys tell me you get hot under the collar these days. 347 00:16:55,110 --> 00:16:58,450 And when the boys get sore, they don't work well with you. 348 00:17:00,580 --> 00:17:03,020 I've been a little shook up. 349 00:17:03,020 --> 00:17:05,590 You let the Lexington Avenue number bank get overloaded. 350 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:08,760 How was I to know some jerk could get 351 00:17:08,790 --> 00:17:10,830 a hunch on a number and clean up? 352 00:17:10,860 --> 00:17:15,300 Why all this drinking? Who is this mosquito who repairs TV sets? 353 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:19,900 Just an old buddy from the war. 354 00:17:19,930 --> 00:17:23,040 You've a couple of million dollars worth of assets to take care of. 355 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:26,240 I will not have you ruin those assets. 356 00:17:26,270 --> 00:17:29,040 You will stop visiting old buddies who live in neighborhoods 357 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:30,510 where people ask questions. 358 00:17:31,650 --> 00:17:33,210 You will stop seeing him. 359 00:17:34,250 --> 00:17:35,920 And his woman. 360 00:17:35,950 --> 00:17:39,750 Boss, you don't understand. I've got to see him and convince him. 361 00:17:39,790 --> 00:17:42,520 I'm taking the concessions away at Third and at Harlem. 362 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:43,530 Gordo will handle them. 363 00:17:44,360 --> 00:17:45,790 He can't clean my shoes. 364 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:48,560 Good night, Eddie. 365 00:17:49,900 --> 00:17:51,730 Boss. 366 00:17:51,770 --> 00:17:53,870 I don't appreciate people touching me. 367 00:18:11,090 --> 00:18:12,390 Hello, Beacon TV? 368 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:14,720 Is Pete Williams there? 369 00:18:16,790 --> 00:18:17,560 Yeah. 370 00:18:22,330 --> 00:18:24,930 Hello, Pete, this is Eddie. 371 00:18:25,030 --> 00:18:26,870 Look, yesterday I put twenty grand in your account. 372 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:31,270 Oh, you know about it. That's great. 373 00:18:33,170 --> 00:18:34,680 No, it's nothing. 374 00:18:37,150 --> 00:18:39,380 You did what? You sent it back? 375 00:18:39,410 --> 00:18:41,720 Oh, you can't. Pete, don't hang up. 376 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:47,220 Pete, I know you got work to do, but this is more important. 377 00:18:47,260 --> 00:18:49,460 Pete, don't hang up. 378 00:18:49,490 --> 00:18:52,190 I wanna talk to you. Pete, don't... 379 00:18:58,870 --> 00:19:00,600 (PHONE RINGING) 380 00:19:16,690 --> 00:19:17,850 Hello? 381 00:19:17,890 --> 00:19:20,420 Hello, Eddie. I want to see you. 382 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:23,760 No, the boss just called him out on an 383 00:19:23,790 --> 00:19:25,530 emergency. He won't be home for hours. 384 00:19:28,930 --> 00:19:31,800 Well, then dress and shave and get over here, honey. 385 00:19:31,830 --> 00:19:33,600 I get kind of lonely sitting here all by myself. 386 00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:42,380 I got ideas about how to make Pete 387 00:19:42,410 --> 00:19:45,510 change his mind about taking the dough you want to give him. 388 00:19:45,550 --> 00:19:47,320 I will get over there as soon as I can. 389 00:19:47,350 --> 00:19:48,450 (CHUCKLING) 390 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:50,050 Attaboy. 391 00:19:50,050 --> 00:19:51,050 (GIGGLING) 392 00:19:51,090 --> 00:19:51,850 Yeah. 393 00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:54,760 Right away, Eddie. 394 00:19:56,060 --> 00:19:57,760 (GIGGLING) 395 00:19:59,230 --> 00:20:01,430 Oh, no. You've had enough. 396 00:20:06,630 --> 00:20:08,970 It's nice, you and me together like this alone. 397 00:20:10,110 --> 00:20:11,940 You sure about Pete? 398 00:20:11,970 --> 00:20:14,440 I tell you, he had to take the subway to Brooklyn Heights. 399 00:20:17,210 --> 00:20:20,350 You know, he's crazy about you. 400 00:20:20,380 --> 00:20:22,550 Yeah, I know, that's what makes it easy. 401 00:20:22,580 --> 00:20:24,120 I mean, he believes everything. 402 00:20:24,150 --> 00:20:25,320 He thinks I'm in love with him. 403 00:20:27,120 --> 00:20:28,720 But I really fell in love with his uniform. 404 00:20:38,470 --> 00:20:40,400 You're so different from Pete, Eddie baby. 405 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:41,970 You're so strong and successful. 406 00:20:43,300 --> 00:20:44,840 Fuss over me, please. 407 00:20:47,110 --> 00:20:49,740 Tell me you like me more than that Faye. Fuss over me. 408 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:53,620 You said you had ideas about how you could get Pete 409 00:20:53,650 --> 00:20:55,380 to change his mind about taking the dough. 410 00:20:56,220 --> 00:20:57,590 I was only kidding. 411 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:02,490 Your fingers, they're so strong. 412 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:04,160 (BREATHING HEAVILY) 413 00:21:04,190 --> 00:21:05,830 Eddie, you're hurting me. 414 00:21:07,260 --> 00:21:08,800 (SCREAMING) 415 00:21:08,830 --> 00:21:10,300 You dirty cheat. 416 00:21:12,270 --> 00:21:14,700 (GROANING) 417 00:21:46,430 --> 00:21:48,100 (KNOCKING ON DOOR) 418 00:21:48,140 --> 00:21:51,110 MAN: Mrs. Williams? Mrs. Williams, are you all right in there? 419 00:21:51,140 --> 00:21:52,540 WOMAN: Let's call the police. 420 00:21:52,570 --> 00:21:54,240 MAN: I'll be right back. 421 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:55,840 WOMAN: Oh, Mr. Williams, something's happened to your wife. 422 00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:56,750 (GASPING) 423 00:22:11,090 --> 00:22:13,500 We're even now. 424 00:22:13,530 --> 00:22:15,300 She made a play for me, and I let her have it. 425 00:22:16,360 --> 00:22:17,570 I did the best thing I knew. 426 00:22:18,770 --> 00:22:19,870 For your sake, Pete, all for you. 427 00:22:21,370 --> 00:22:23,570 She was no good, a cheat. 428 00:22:23,610 --> 00:22:26,070 It's even now, Pete. The percentage, I mean. 429 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:31,580 Pete, don't look at me like that. 430 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:37,420 We'll tell them a prowler came in. 431 00:22:37,450 --> 00:22:39,950 We'll make a good story, you and me, like we did in Korea. 432 00:22:39,990 --> 00:22:41,660 MAN: This is the apartment, Officer. That's it. That's it. 433 00:22:41,690 --> 00:22:43,660 OFFICER: Open up, police. 434 00:22:43,690 --> 00:22:45,230 Don't forget to tell them about the 435 00:22:45,260 --> 00:22:46,860 prowler. You know how to do it. 436 00:22:46,900 --> 00:22:48,760 A good story, make it good story, like 437 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:50,430 you did for me before. Please, Pete. 438 00:22:50,470 --> 00:22:51,600 (KNOCKING ON DOOR) 439 00:22:51,630 --> 00:22:52,800 OFFICER: I said, open up. 440 00:22:55,100 --> 00:22:56,810 People have been phoning that there's... 441 00:22:59,710 --> 00:23:00,580 Hey? 442 00:23:07,450 --> 00:23:09,620 Pete, tell him how we found her. 443 00:23:09,650 --> 00:23:12,050 Look, officer, this is his wife. 444 00:23:12,050 --> 00:23:14,460 We just found her dead. A prowler must've killed her. 445 00:23:14,490 --> 00:23:16,590 We just come in, him and me. 446 00:23:16,620 --> 00:23:17,760 Is that your story, too? 447 00:23:19,830 --> 00:23:21,330 My name is Pete Williams. 448 00:23:23,060 --> 00:23:24,430 He's Eddie Slovak. 449 00:23:25,370 --> 00:23:26,600 He killed her. 450 00:23:33,580 --> 00:23:35,310 (DOORBELL RINGING) 451 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:43,920 Who is it? 452 00:23:43,950 --> 00:23:45,990 It's me, Pete. 453 00:23:46,090 --> 00:23:47,320 Oh, Pete. 454 00:23:49,260 --> 00:23:50,230 Come on in. 455 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:57,270 I wanted to tell you Louise is dead. 456 00:23:58,700 --> 00:24:00,340 Oh, no. 457 00:24:00,370 --> 00:24:02,870 Eddie killed her. The cops have taken him down to headquarters. 458 00:24:04,870 --> 00:24:06,540 Things are going to be all right, Faye. 459 00:24:08,110 --> 00:24:09,410 From now on. 460 00:24:22,360 --> 00:24:25,230 Well, that's the way the old body bounces. 461 00:24:25,260 --> 00:24:27,530 I can't seem to find out what's the matter with your set. 462 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:31,930 What's this? 463 00:24:31,970 --> 00:24:34,640 No wonder so many television tubes are broken. 464 00:24:34,670 --> 00:24:36,600 If you don't care for the program, turn off 465 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:38,370 the set. Don't throw your shoes at it. 466 00:24:40,940 --> 00:24:42,540 Of course, I realize that there are some 467 00:24:42,580 --> 00:24:44,950 of you who can't turn the knob. 468 00:24:44,980 --> 00:24:47,320 Your present tube seems to be in fine shape, however. 469 00:24:52,090 --> 00:24:54,260 Oh, well, I'm afraid you'll have to wait until next time 470 00:24:54,290 --> 00:24:57,090 when we shall be back with a new story and a new tube. 471 00:24:57,090 --> 00:24:58,730 Until then, good night.