All language subtitles for The Alfred Hitchcock Hour S02E09 The Dividing Wall 1080p

- Good evening.

Welcome to tonight's program.

As you see, I have joined
those of you who enjoy

the most popular indoor hobby.

Coin collecting.

Perhaps some of you think that
the rise of the credit card

and credit buying was
spontaneous.

Actually, the reason for
these devices is quite simple.

Coin collectors have taken so
much money out of circulation,

there isn't enough to spend.

If this trend should
continue, and I see no reason

why it should not, we will
have to reintroduce barter.

With that possibility in
mind, I have already begun

collecting beaver pelts.

I'm sure it will come as
no great surprise to you

to learn that in tonight's
program,

a crime will be committed.

And I do not refer to the one
our sponsor

is about perpetrate.

- Five cents, Jimmy.

Jimmy, stop it.

Jimmy, don't.

Leave her alone.

I'll tell your mother.

- Terry, grab the wrench
for the engine mounts,

I'll rig the hoist.

Well come on, kid .

- Fred?

Fred, Fred?

I can't do it, Fred.

- What's that all about?

- Well, what do you think?

He's only been out about a
month.

- He's too nervous for my money.

- Well, I once knew a guy used
to walk up

eight flights of stairs
to see his parole officer,

because he couldn't stand
being cooped up in an elevator.

- Hi.

- Hi.

No business school today?

- Only twice a week.

- Oh.

It's warm.

- Indian summer.

I haven't seen you for a couple
of days.

- I was in yesterday for
cigarettes.

Your dad said you were out.

- School.

Father said I could have
some time off this afternoon

after I finish at the store.

I think I'll go to the park.

- Fred owes me some time,
maybe I could go with you.

It's a free park.

You don't talk much, do you?

- I guess not.

- Is the rest of your family
like that, quiet, I mean?

- I don't know.

I don't even know who they were.

I was raised in a county home.

- You mean like an orphanage?

- Now what else could it mean?

- I'm sorry.

- Maybe we oughta start back.

It's a long way.

- We can take the subway.

- I wanna walk.

You wanna take the subway, go
ahead.

- If that's the way you feel
about it,

why did you come with me?

- I, I didn't mean it like that.

It's just that it's
the rush hour now, and,

look, I got a thing about being
closed up

in places, that's all.

- Claustrophobia?

- Yeah.

- So does Mr. Calucci.

He was a prisoner of war.

- I was a prisoner once.

No war, though.

- You mean the home?

- Home, reformatory, state
prison, take your pick.

Anything else you'd like to
know?

Some date, huh?

Bet you don't have any
boyfriends like me.

No, huh?

- I don't have any boyfriends.

- Come on.

- I haven't dated since high
school.

- Girl like you?

- Why not, what do you know
about me?

- I can learn.

You like popcorn?

It's the only time we
ever got outside the home.

I loved that school bus.

Not the school, just the bus.

I thought that driver had it
made,

free, in control of things.

I watched him till I could
shift gears in my sleep.

- Is that what you stole?

- I just wanted to take it
for a drive, that's all.

- And they sent you to
a reformatory for that?

They must have known you
weren't really stealing it.

- They didn't wanna know.

All they know is locks, walls
and bars.

When I got out, I was
gonna be a racing driver,

work someplace, build my own
car.

Ever apply for a job?

- Not yet.

- Did you ever work
around cars before, kid?

Oh, where'd you learn?

Where you from, who are you?

And if you lie,

there's your probation officer.

Big brother, just dropping by to
ask

the boss how you're doing.

- What did you go to prison for?

- What they expected me to go
for.

Stealing more cars.

- Does Mr. Kruger know?

- Oh no, of course not.

- Now you have a chance
to do what you want to do.

- You bet I have.

- That's why I'm taking a
business course.

Once I get a job, maybe I can
get Papa to give up the store.

- You don't think he'll let you,
do you?

Huh?

Look, once somebody gets
you under their thumb,

they keep you there.

Why do you stay with him?

- I'm all he has.

Everybody needs someone.

- I'm sorry I made you walk.

- I liked it.

Don't, Terry, please.

- I didn't mean anything wrong.

- I know.

I just don't want to.

Goodnight, Terry.

- It's okay.

Goodnight.

- 32 minutes later, we're
back here with $112,000.

Huh, what do you think of that?

- I think you're outta your
mind.

- Why?

- I don't know, it's crazy.

I mean, chasing freight trains,
with the police to help.

I mean, that's a real beauty.

And that safe's gotta weigh 400
pounds.

Now what are you gonna do,
carry it out on your back?

- Don't you ever listen?

We roll it across the
floor on this creeper.

Lift it into the truck,
it'll take 30 seconds.

- If you're wrong, it could take
30 years.

- Now you fake your
breakdown right about here.

And one of the patrol cars
coming off duty

comes down this street at about
11:40,

give or take a minute.

You're sitting here at
the side of the road

with the flares out, all right.

He stops, you flag him down.

Ask him to get on the
radio, call the precinct.

Have the precinct telephone
here, send out a tow truck.

Terry, you should get
the call about 11:45.

You're ready to roll with
the tow truck, you take off.

You meet us here, 11:50.

We leave the tow truck.

Take off in the Packard.

All right, now from here, to the
plant,

it's four minutes, right?

- Less.

- Good.

- Okay, at 11:59, a hotshot
freight leaves the yards here,

makes the crossing at 12:04.

This is about the same
time the other patrol cars

are coming back on duty for the
midnight

to eight AM shift, you
understand?

- This is the part I don't get
at all.

- All right, will you just
listen?

So that means we got exactly
10 minutes to get from here,

to the plant, take care of the
guards,

get the safe in the track and
get back

across the railroad before this
freight makes the crossing.

None of these other patrol cars
can

possibly get here in time to
follow us.

When they do get across, we'll
be coming back from the other

side with a breakdown that
they already know about.

Huh, any questions?

- Yeah, one big one.

Suppose we don't make
the crossing in time.

- They're coming.

- Right on the button, we're in
business.

- Kruger's Tow Service.

Where?

Boy, he really picked a spot
to break down, didn't he?

Yeah, thanks.

- You followed?

- No.

- Good.

- We're a minute late.

- Well, we got a
three-minute edge,

come on, let's go.

- I thought you said
this thing weighed 400 pounds.

- Something's wrong, it
feels like it weighs a ton.

- It moved, didn't it,
come on.

Come on, all right, all together
now.

Come on.

Won't budge, the casters are
smashed.

- Look at that
clock, we gotta leave it.

- No, you don't leave it.

Wait here.

Terry, get that truck over here.

Al, stand by and give
me a hand with the safe.

Wait.

- What's the matter with this
crate?

- Feels like we broke a
spring when the safe hit it.

- Oh great.

- We're tagged.

- No police cars, huh?

- Well he musta been
delayed answering a call.

- They're gaining.

- We can't make it.

- We better make it or
it's back to the pen.

Go for broke, kid.

I hope it ain't a tie.

- That broken spring almost
cooked us.

- Well just don't cook the
money.

- 700 little paydays.

112,000 bucks, huh, you know
how much that is a minute?

Oh boy.

Listen, get the suitcase outta
my office.

- Hey, Fred.

- Yeah?

- What's this thing in
here?

- I don't know.

- What is this?

- Must be something valuable,
come on, out with it.

- I can't budge it.

- Come on, if you try it, you
can.

Oop, geez that's heavy.

You got it?

What is this, another safe or
something?

Hey you know, sometimes
these plants, they use

industrial diamonds for cutting
metal.

- This thing opens up over here.

- Good.

- Let's see.

- It's a lock.
- A lock.

- Huh?

Here.

- Watch your hand.

What is this?

- Some kinda safe, huh?

- There's another opening over
here.

Feels like just a hole.

- Let me see.

- No, Fred.

There's some kinda shield here.

- Where?

Warning, dangerous.

This shell contains cobalt 60.

Improper exposure can
lead to illness or death

from ra-, radiation?

Let's get outta here.

- I touched it.

Hey, Fred.

- What?

- I touched it.

I touched it!

- Come on.

- We have now come to what
is known as a station break,

a rent in the fabric of
television entertainment.

If you press an eye to the
opening,

one generally sees another
giant eyeball staring back,

as an announcer intones the call
letters

of the local station, after
which,

the second half of our story.

- Hello, Colonel, Frank Ludden.

You hear any newscasts
on that Long Island City

job this morning?

No, I'm afraid it was more than
a payroll.

That safe had a container of
cobalt 60

used to X-ray steel beams.

Very potent.

Multi-Curie source on government
license.

Yeah.

Colonel, how many choppers you
got

with antennae and detection
equipment?

Uh-huh.

Uh-huh, well get them up as soon

as you possibly can, will you?

If that container is
breached, we should be able

to pick it up, oh, I'd
say, about 1,500 feet.

Yes.

Yes, I want the entire city
checkerboard.

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm here with Durrell and
Polson

from the Federal Bureau, they're
with me.

Same to you, Colonel,
we'll need it.

- Seemed to have
vanished without a trace,

taking with them the firm's safe

containing a $112,000 payroll.

The company announced it will
hereafter

pay employees by check, a little
late.

Now to the national and
international.

- There, you see?

- See what?

- They didn't even mention that
cobalt.

All they're worried about's the
money.

- Well then why'd they put
the sign on that thing?

- They give you the same
baloney about too many X-rays.

You've had X-rays, haven't you?

Are you dead yet?

Anything?

- No.

- Look, don't you think they'd
say so

if that stuff could hurt you?

- But they don't know I opened
it.

I wanna go see a doctor, Fred.

- All right, Al, see a doctor
tonight.

In Mexico City.

- How do I get there?

- I called up the travel
agency, make reservations.

They're gonna call me back.

- What do we do till then?

- I don't know, I don't
know, let me think.

Listen, Al, you better
go back to your shop.

You wait there till you hear
from me.

- Where you gonna be?

- Well, I can't go back to
the garage with that thing.

- I thought you said it wasn't
dangerous.

- Well I mean, being
near it all day, come on.

- Look at my fingers.

Look at them.

- You were using the torch
without your gloves on,

so you got a little burned.

- I wore gloves, it's not a
burn.

They feel numb.

It feels like my fingers
are dying on my hand.

I'm gonna see a doc.

- Well then we better make sure
that

you need one, right, Al?

- Fred, no.

- For 30 years, I've been
living high off the hog!

Twice, twice I fell off.

Both times because some jerk
like him chickened out on me!

And that's not gonna happen
again!

Hello.

Yes, Mr. Miller.

Why not?

Monday, that's no good, I gotta
get out.

Well haven't you got anything?

Huh?

All right, all right.

Call me back if you get any
cancellations, will you please?

Right, thank you.

Friday, weekend.

Everything's booked solid until
Monday.

Al, I--

I'm sorry, forgive me, huh?

Look, you go back to your shop,

pretend like nothing happened
till we get outta here.

Because if you don't, Al,
you know it's gonna be

back to the pen for you.

It'll be back to the pen for all
of us,

and we'll never get out again.

You know that, don't you?

- Yeah.

- Sure, come on.

He needs watching.

- Fred?

- Mm.

- What about that thing in the
garage?

- What thing?

Oh.

Yeah, we gotta do something
about that, don't we?

Listen, tell you what to
do, get a sign made up.

Closed for repairs, tack
it on the front door.

Well can you think of something
better?

- I meant about the neighbors.

- What about them?

- Well they're near it.

Al's hand didn't look very good.

- Oh come on, he's an old maid.

You're not thinking about?

You're thinking about that
girl, that Carol, aren't you?

Huh?

She gave you the brush
last night, didn't she?

- Yeah.

- Yes, sure, so there's nobody
there

we care about, is there?

- No.

- Of course not.

- Can I borrow a hammer and some
tacks?

- Don't you have any at the
garage?

- I forgot my keys.

Fred's putting in some new
equipment.

- Then you won't be around for a
while.

- I was thinking about going
away.

- Oh.

Have you got a new job?

- Yeah.

In Mexico.

- Then you won't be coming back.

- No.

- I came over last night.

About 12, you weren't there.

- I was out on a call.

- I wanted to see you.

- Didn't act like it the last
time.

You let me kiss you, and then
all--

- Hey, Carol, you get any calls
for me?

- No, Mrs. Calucci.

- My sister in the Bronx,
she got an operation.

Could her husband find a phone,
no.

But tell him a tip on a horse,

and he's got a phone in his
pocket.

Give me some change, I call her.

- I'll bring these back.

- They got nobody to go and
call.

- I love you.

I've never used that word
before.

I wanted to tell you last night.

- He's dead.

Last night, when I covered
him, he was singing.

- What's the matter?

- It's Caruso, he's dead.

- Carol? You gotta come away
with me right now, today.

- Away, where?

- Mexico City, we'll get
married.

- Be sure this time, Carol.

- Be sure about what?

Carol?

Carol?

- There's something you better
know.

- What is it?

I met a boy.

In high school, when I was 15.

- Go on.

- We ran away and got married.

We were underage, it didn't work
out.

I got a divorce three months
later.

- That's not all, is it?

- I had a baby.

A little boy.

- Where is he?

- I don't know.

I never saw him.

I gave him away for adoption.

- You mean, you dumped him?

- No.

- You just gave him away, to
be brought up by somebody else?

How could you do it?

- How could you steal
cars?

- Because maybe I had a mother
like you.

- I needed somebody to love me.

- What do you think your kid
needed?

- Baker Nine, go ahead.

Yes, he's right here.

It's for you, sir.

- Ludden speaking.

Yes, Larry.

- I'm at LIC emergency.

They had a homicide here
about two hours ago,

unidentified man coming in off
the street.

Body's been posted.

Cause of death was a
bullet, but the man's hand

showed positive symptoms
of primary radiation burns.

Direct contact with a
multi-Curie agent.

- Then the container has been
breached?

- I'm afraid so, sir.

Public Health is standing
by for instructions.

- Okay.

Okay, let them hit the panic
button.

Give it to PI for immediate
release.

- We've still got 12 hours.

- Not anymore we haven't.

I want all units to converge
on the Long Island City sector.

- Yes, sir.

- And pass it on to the
choppers.

- Yes, sir.

- If the man was still around,
the cobalt must be too.

How long before it could kill
somebody?

- Not long enough.

- Hi, Terry.

Any good?

- I haven't been watching.

- Wanna beer?

- No.

Tomorrow's Saturday, Fred.

- Yeah, yeah I know, Terry.

Seems like a long time till
Monday, huh?

Listen, I'm buying a car in the
morning.

We'll drive to Miami, take
off from there for Mexico.

- I've been thinking, all
those kids with no school

tomorrow playing outside the
garage.

- Terry, you and I were within
a few feet of that thing.

Al even touched it, he's okay.

- Is he, Fred?

- Sure.

Come on, don't let your
imagination run away with you.

Think of Number One, kid.

Mexico, huh, racing cars?

You got the dough to
buy yourself the best.

And listen, those Mexican
senoritas,

they'll make that candy store
kid of yours look like a boy.

- We interrupt the
late show

for an urgent news bulletin.

A spokesman for the
Atomic Energy Commission

has just revealed--

- We got a long drive tomorrow,
kid.

- Lethal cobalt
60, used to X-ray steel beams.

The AEC warned that the
container has been breached.

The AEC personnel and agents
of the FBI have been hoping

to recover the container intact,

but that hope has faded
with the disclosure

that an unidentified man
shot to death in the entrance

of an emergency hospital
earlier this evening

was suffering from severe
radiation burns.

The man is believed to have
been one of the masked bandits.

The manhunt for his two
companions has been speeded up.

The AEC warns that the breached
container

is highly dangerous.

Continuous exposure can lead to
blood cell

deterioration and death.

- You killed him!

- What was I supposed
to do, let him kill me?

- Oh no, not you, not Number
One.

- Use your head, kid.

- I'm beginning to, Fred.

I bought a payroll heist, not
this.

- You think so, huh?

Well I'll tell you what I
bought.

I bought you, buddy boy.

I bought you with two months in
solitary,

taking the raps for you.

For the six months' good
behavior time

I lost because of you.

For the year I spent with
my nose in sweat and grease,

setting up a front for
us with that garage,

waiting for you to get out.

- Not me, a wheelman,
that's what you wanted.

- All right then, a wheelman.

That's what I paid for, and
that's what I'm gonna get.

- Oh no, you're
gonna have to kill me

the same way you killed Al.

- No.

No, kid.

Because I know what button
to push with you, you see.

- No.
- Yes.

- Fred!

Fred, Fred, please.

- Get used to it, kid.

That's what solitary's
like, only in solitary

you won't be alone, you'll have
rats

and other things to keep you
company.

- Let me out, Fred.

I'll do it, I'll do whatever you
say.

- What about that girl of yours?

- I don't care about
her, I don't care, Fred!

Fred!

I don't care if she dies.

- [Pilot] All ground units,
brief positive

multi-Curie reading on Map Area
J4.

- That's it.

Map Area J4, driver, and hit it.

All units to close in for a
fixed pattern.

Decontamination teams
and a recovery squad.

- Baker Nine to all units.

- Terry?

Terry, wait till you see the car
I bought.

Terry?

- Must have been the food last
night.

- I'll go call the doctor.

- No.

Just let me rest.

Go ahead, answer it.

- Carol?

Carol?

- What do you want?

- You gotta get outta
here.

You gotta come with me right
now.

- Let me go.

- Will you listen to me?

- I listened to you yesterday.

- I didn't mean what I said.

- I don't care anymore.

- We'll get married.

- So you can throw it up
to me the rest of my life?

Don't do me any favors, Terry.

Let me go, leave me alone.

I've gotta call the doctor for
my father.

- What's the matter with him?

- We've both been sick all
night.

- You gotta get outta here right
now.

- Terry, leave me alone!

- Terry.

Leave her alone.

Get out, or I'll call the
police.

- Get outta here.

All of you, get outta here, go
play some,

go play someplace else.

Go on!

- Happy now, kid?

There's a car outside
waiting for a driver.

- It'll wait one more minute.

The people in there are sick.

I'm gonna call the police.

- Get out to the car, kid.

- After I call.

- Fred, Fred?

Let me out.

I won't call anybody till you're
gone.

- I know you won't, kid.

- Fred?

Honest, Fred, honest.

I'll do anything you say.

- Hold everybody on the street.

Get around in the back.

- Just a minute, sir.

I said stop.

- Okay, come on, get these
people off the street.

- That's Fred Kruger.

- Do you know this guy?

- From the garage.

- You okay?

- Yeah.

- You're sure now?

- Yes.

- Okay, come on, let's go.

Stand back, everyone.

Get that house on the other
side of the candy store.

- Terry?

Terry?

- Carol?

Carol, go away.

Go back, the cobalt's here.

Call the police.

- How long they been in there?

- A few minutes, I guess.

- Over this way.

- Hurry it up.

Put him down on that curb over
there.

Officer, would you keep
an eye on him please?

- Make way, please.

- How many more in
there?

- I don't know, couple,
I guess.

- Come on, this way.

- Sir?

You heard him ask me to
call you, didn't you?

Doesn't that mean anything?

- Not for me to say.

Might mean a lot.

- This side
of the street cleared.

- I'm sorry.

I tried to tell you.

- It's all right.

- That concludes our story for
tonight.

My coin collecting has also
ended.

I had forgotten about that
greatest of all

coin collectors, the government.

It all went for taxes and is
back in circulation again.

I am too, until next week,

when I shall return with another
story.