"131-A, code 1." "Quite a hacienda." "Oh, thank you so much for coming." "You reported a prowler, madame?" "Yes." "About 20 minutes ago." "I looked up, and there was this man looking in the window." "Which window?" "It was one of the back windows." "There's an empty lot on that side, isn't there?" "Yes." "When he saw that I'd seen him, he jumped away from the window, and I phoned you." "We'd better check that lot for footprints, Webb." "Roger." "Now, if you'll show me the window." "Oh, yes, of course." "Right this way." "You'd been sleeping?" "No, just resting." "I don't sleep very much at night." "And that's where you saw the face, huh?" "No." "In here." "I'd been lying on the bed resting and listening to the radio, and I thought if I took a bath, I might be able to sleep better." "And afterwards, just as I was putting my robe on," "I looked up, and there he was." "Well, if I was you, from now on, I'd keep the curtain closed." "You ever notice in a bank, they always keep the counting room out of sight so the customers won't get tempted." "I suppose you're right." "I just didn't think." "Oh, it's you." "No footprints out here." "The grass has just been cut, and they'd be kind of hard to spot." "Then again, maybe the lady's just imagining things." "He was just as plain as your friend's face just now." "I'm sorry to have caused you all this trouble, but I do get nervous at night, and..." "That's our job, ma'am." "You always alone at night?" "Yes." "The maid comes in daytimes, but she leaves right after dinner." "Well, from now on, be sure and pull the shades and lock the door." "I will." "Think you feel comfortable enough for us to leave now?" "Oh, yes, I'm perfectly all right now." "I'm sure you are." "Goodnight, ma'am." "Goodnight, and thank you." "Call us again if you need us." "Yes, I will." "That is quite a dish." "Here." "I don't suppose any use asking you to stop by tonight and take a squint at our collection." "Pretty plush, if you can get it." "You know, the wife spent the whole day today polishing up those specimens we found out around Barstow." "She's pretty proud of them." "I wish I could convince you a hobby's a good thing, especially for the good things you learn on the side." "I wonder what her angle is." "Huh?" "Say I wonder what her angle is." "Her?" "No angle." "They're well-heeled." "You know, there's history slathered over every square foot of this country of ours." "And one time or another, me and the old lady has dozed it out." "Like those ghost towns I tell you about." "We never would have seen them if it hadn't been for our rockology." "Is she married?" "Yeah." "Sure she is." "Some crackpot squeezed enough dough to retire and then works for the fun of it." "Can you tie that?" "If I had his moolah, I'd take the hills." "That house must have set him back plenty." "Yeah, maybe 35, 40 grand in this market." "Probably beats his mother." "Heads or tails?" "Nevermind, Bud." "I'll check us in." "Oh, hello." "Come in." "Thank you." "I was just passing by." "I thought I'd check to see if everything's still all right." "Why, yes." "At least I think so." "Do prowlers generally come twice in the same night?" "No, but we do." "It's part of the job." "Hope I didn't wake you up." "Oh, no." "I was just having a cup of coffee." "We're generally supposed to make check-up calls, especially where women are concerned, and when they're alone." "Well, if you're sure everything's all right," "I'll be on my way." "Wouldn't you like come coffee?" "Thanks, if it's not too much trouble." "Oh, no." "It's no trouble at all." "Well, then make mine milk, if you have it, huh?" "Just sit down and I'll get it." "Looks like somebody around here's been in show business." "That's right." "Actress, huh?" "I tried to be." "It didn't work out." "You're good-looking enough." "What's the matter, didn't you have enough pull?" "I was just a little short of talent." "Aren't you going to have your milk?" "Oh, yeah." "Sure." "You know, I've got to keep in shape." "I suppose you're married." "Most of the good-looking girls I run into are." "Is this questionnaire in the line of duty?" "Could be." "I am married." "Happily married." "If I was happily married to a girl like you," "I wouldn't leave you alone nights." "John doesn't." "He's here 24 hours a day." "Tender yellow young squash we sell down here at the Ranch Market." "I give them to the wife." "And by the way, there is a little lady who really knows squash." "Well, she puts them over a slow flame..." "I hear that program every night." "Is he your husband?" "He is." "No kidding?" "Isn't he the one always signs off with I'll be seeing you, Susan?" "That's right." "Yeah." "Well, then you're Susan." "Disappointing though it may be, I am." "That's a real coincidence, isn't it?" "My name's Webb." "Webb Garwood." "Webb Garwood." "Somehow that sounds familiar." "Hey, wait a minute." "Where are you from?" "Indiana." "Terre Haute." "Did you ever see East Indianapolis play Terre Haute High School?" "Basketball?" "Of course I have." "You're not that Webb?" "Nobody else." "You played center." "We got beat three Years in a row because of you." "Oh, well." "There were four other guys on the team, you know." "I know, but you were the only one we were really afraid of." "Didn't you get a scholarship to some college or something?" "Yeah." "I don't follow the sport pages very well." "I don't seem to remember what happened after that." "Scored the winning point on our first game." "After the second game, they put me on the bench." "Coach said they were trying to teach us to work as a team." "I got him thrown opened good, right in front of the whole squad." "From then on, he had it in for me, that's all." "Told the athletic director, and they stopped my dough." "Just another one of my lousy breaks." "Hadn't been for that, I'd have had my four years of college, have a nice, soft job in one of those big bond houses, and I'd be eating lunch every day in the university club." "I used to clip your picture out of the Terre Haute paper." "Yeah." "Who'd ever have thought..." "That I'd turn out to be just another dumb cop, huh?" "Oh, no." "I wasn't thinking that at all." "I was just thinking how funny it is the way you meet people." "Yeah." "People you never thought you'd meet." "They say there's no such thing as a native Californian." "Those were the days, no kidding." "I wish we'd met there instead of here." "What street did you live on there?" "Lakeview." "Oh, well, that explains it." "You had sidewalks and lawns out in front." "I lived down on Carrington." "My old man's idea of success was a buck 20 an hour union scale." "He's a maintenance worker in the oil fields." "He must have had a dozen chances to cut loose on his own... make himself some real dough wild-catting, but he was too yellow to risk his buck 20 an hour, so he never made it." "Well, it's just about that time, you night owls." "This is John Gilvray bringing to a close the Ranch Market..." "It's almost his signing-off time." "I've got to check out, too." "I guess you'll feel safe from now on, huh?" "Wouldn't you like to stay and have breakfast with us?" "I'd like you to meet my husband." "Sorry, but no can do." "I've got my reports to make out." "We've been having a lot of trouble with prowlers lately." "I'll drop by once in a while to see if everything's okay." "Won't that be too much trouble?" "Well, it could be, but I don't think it will." "After all, we Hoosiers have to kind of stick together, don't we?" "Sure do." "Goodnight." "Goodnight." "3:58 a.m. And 50 seconds." "I'll be with you again tomorrow night." "And good news, folks." "The cost of living is going down." "Goodnight to everyone." "I'll be seeing you, Susan." "You got one of those... businesses?" "Thanks." "Boy, if they could only see me now, I'd be the envy of the force if they knew about this, huh?" "Those guys, there's nothing but hamburgers night off or no night off." "They don't mind, though." "Hamburger's the only thing they're used to." "You don't like being a policeman, do you?" "Why should I?" "Well, for one thing, you look nice in the uniform." "This is the only uniform I like." "Quite a collection." "Got any Guy Lombardo?" "They're not what they seem." "Those are my husband's programs, all of those shelves." "He has them recorded so he can listen and improve his diction." "There's nothing wrong with being a policeman." "Nothing wrong with digging ditches, either, or delivering mail." "I'd rather be one of those guys shows up around 10:00 in the morning after having a big argument with himself over whether he'll drive the station wagon today or the convertible." "What are you looking for?" "Cigarettes?" "Yeah." "Fresh out." "You don't smoke, do you?" "No." "But my husband does, only he keeps them locked up." "Are you kidding?" "No." "He keeps a carton or more in there all the time." "If you were a good locksmith, I could give you a pack." "Hold that." "Give me a bobby pin." "Does he keep everything locked up?" "Mostly." "You, too?" "That's a leading question." "Probably does." "A mean, jealous guy like that wants his wife all to himself." "I can't say I blame him though, I'd do the same myself." "There." "See how silly it is to keep things locked up?" "Maybe." "But it did delay you for a little while." "Is that all he wants, just to delay things?" "Sometimes a little delay does the trick." "Harder to close than it was to open." "You ever dance?" "I used to." "Another thing I think you'll like is tree ripen-ripened fruit for dessert these mild September evenings." "The wife serves fruit and coffee every night, and I want to tell you that when I lean back from the table and take that first puff off my cigarette..." "Think he was watching." "Then I know all's well with the world, and the wife knows it, too." "Good idea..." "There's only one good thing about this arrangement." "What's that?" "At least you always know what he's doing." "He always knows what I'm doing, too." "Like making me sandwiches tonight?" "He'll know." "Why not?" "What's a guy like that look like, anyway?" "Oh, just like a normal, decent, middle-aged American husband, which he is." "You don't make him sound very exciting." "Lot of good things aren't exciting." "That's what's good about them." "Why did you marry him, Susan?" "Because I loved him." "Try again." "Why did you marry him?" "While I was knocking around at movie studio gates, I found out a few things about myself." "I married him because I wanted a family." "That's why we got this big house." "I wanted kids." "So, have you got them?" "No." "What other reason was there?" "To stay away from men like you." "But it didn't do any good, did it?" "You're a real cop, aren't you?" "You want everything free." "You're wrong." "People never give anything to cops for free." "They always figure to get something out of it." "I think you'd better get out of here." "Wouldn't I be a fool to do a thing like that?" "I'll report you." "Go ahead." "You know where the phone is." "Please go." "Please leave me alone." "Stop it." "What do you think I am?" "I told you to leave me alone." "Now get out of here." "All right." "Night." "And don't come back." "No, please." "I came to... to apologize for the other night." "Look, it's kind of hard to apologize like this." "Thanks for the apology, but you shouldn't have come back." "Maybe not, but I couldn't leave things the way they were." "Why not?" "Well, I..." "I just didn't want to give you the wrong impression, that's all." "There's another reason I came around, too." "Do you mind?" "This probably sounds corny, but I get lonesome once in a while." "I guess everybody does." "And the idea of both of us coming from the same part of the country and both of us being alone..." "Yes, I know." "It's kind of a home-sickness, I guess." "We used to have a record of that." "Did you?" "Did you ever go to the football dances after the" "Terre Haute/East Indianapolis games?" "I went to two of them." "I bet you're a good dancer, too." "We might have met right there in Terre Haute." "Yeah, I guess we might have." "We were both dancing there on the same floor." "Might have bumped into each other and didn't even know it." "Could be, but I doubt it." "Why?" "Because I'd have turned And looked, and I'd have remembered your face." "Even now, I'd remember it." "Things never... never turn out quite like that." "I'd have taken just one look at you, and I'd have asked you to dance." "The daytime, baby, the nighttime, baby, the right time, baby to fall in love." "Come on, please." "And I'd have asked your name, and you'd have told me." "And I'd have told you how swell you danced and how pretty you were." "I'd have liked that." "But I'd have been scared." "Maybe." "But not for long." "Why not?" "Because I..." "Please don't." "I mean it, Webb." "Please don't." "Yes, it's our time, baby, to fall in love." "Here." "Take a look at this." "No future in being a cop." "That's what some guys think." "No money, and they just don't like the work." "Well, I do." "Rose quartz." "One of the best specimens we've found." "You see, it just depends on what you figure a cop's job really is." "Now... huh?" "Oh, yes, yes, yes." "The history." "You know, not far from where we found this is the site of the one of the worst Indian massacres in the history of the whole Southwest?" "No kidding?" "Absolutely." "Here." "You see, I figure that the job of a cop is to protect lives." "Now, some of these trigger-happy guys..." "Charles, Charles, dear." "Well, they think they have to protect things." "Oh, iron pyrites." "That's fool's gold." "That's the first specimen we found." "Cost us $7.80 to have it SA'd." "Is that right?" "Charles, don't you think Webb's seen enough for tonight?" "Have you?" "No, no." "The way Bud talks about it, it makes it sort of come alive." "Sure." "Here." "You know, I've been on the force for 20 years, almost time for me to retire, and I haven't shot a gun once, except on the range, of course." "Oh." "That one came from out in the Mojave Desert, a place called Calico." "I rip-roaring mining town, and now hardly anybody" "Why, even the coyotes..." "But Charles, Webb has a date." "Look at the way he's dressed up." "No, no, no." "He smells pretty, too." "Oh, Bud, these rocks, I can see how they can kind of get you." "You can't kid me, Webb Garwood." "Ought to be ashamed of yourself." "Nice enough to come over here on his only night off, and you chew his ear off about our silly old rocks." "I know you're itching to leave." "Well, get along with you, wherever you're expected." "Okay." "I guess I have sort of out-stayed my welcome." "But that dinner was just wonderful, Grace." "And that roast beef and the cake, just stuffed right up to here." "Well, we'll take off up where we left off, Bud." "See ya, Bud boy." "Well..." "Goodnight, Webb." "Goodnight." "Be seeing you." "Oh, no." "I was nasty to him, wasn't I?" "Well, you do kind of pick on him." "Why?" "Well, maybe it's because he seemed so bored and never really listens when you talk, and hates being a cop." "Oh, for goodness sakes." "What's got into you, anyway?" "Webb?" "Huh?" "What are you thinking about?" "Hey." "Something new has been added." "He bought it for me when I told him about the prowler." "He got his permit for this pop gun?" "I don't know." "Anyway, nobody's going to use it" "That was stolen fun." "And what could be sweeter than that?" "I can't stand the oily sound of that guy's voice." "No, Webb." "I have to listen, because he always asks me how he was." "I wish he'd sign off and come home and walk in that door and find us." "Webb." "Webb, we have to stop seeing each other." "I'm scared." "Because of what I just said?" "Maybe." "Forget it, baby." "That was just talk." "Did you think I meant that?" "No, I guess not." "I know how you feel, always sneaking around, never really feeling free." "I feel the same way." "I don't want to spend just one evening with you." "I want to spend all of them." "Oh, I do, too." "My vacation begins tomorrow." "Are you going away somewhere?" "Las Vegas." "How long will you be gone?" "Two weeks." "Two weeks?" "Come with me." "Oh, I couldn't." "Why not?" "We could think up some excuse." "There's a place I want you to see." "It's a sort of a thing that I've dreamed of owning someday." "A motor court." "Every time I hit Las Vegas, I take a good look at it just to make sure it's still there." "You and I had something like that and each other, our troubles would be over." "We wouldn't have to worry about anything as long as we lived." "I know." "Man's got a place like that, it's working for him 24 hours a day." "He amounts to something." "He's got some position in the community." "You know, we could go to the mountains every summer all summer long, and that motel would still be hauling in the dough." "Even when you're sleeping, it would be making money for you." "Oh, baby, you've just got to come to Las Vegas with me." "That's the greatest little town in the world." "You know I can't." "Now, don't say that." "Well, friends, that's our goodnight tune." "And remember, folks, the cost of living is going down." "Good night to everyone." "I'll be seeing you, Susan." "Well, do you come to Las Vegas or don't you?" "There's no way I can, Webb." "If you'd given me a little warning, I might have..." "That's the way it is, let's forget about it." "I knew you'd do this sometime." "I knew it from the very beginning." "If you were just a dame, it'd be different, Susan." "But you're special." "No, darling, no." "There's a plane from here gets into Las Vegas every night at 7:00." "Listen, Webb." "You've got to listen to me." "I'll be there to meet you tomorrow night at 7:00." "I don't care what kind of an excuse you have to have." "I can't, darling, please." "You'll do it because you've got to." "Tomorrow night, 7:00" "Oh, Webb." "Webb." "Attention, please." "Passenger Whitman, step to Western Airlines counter." "Passenger Whitman, please." "Attention." "Passenger Boyer, please confirm your ticket" "It's on that 9:00 o'clock plane tonight." "I'm very sorry, madam, but that night is all filled." "Why, that's strange." "They've always..." "Hey are there two sections on that Flight 27?" "No, sir, only one tonight." "If you'll give me your name, madam, I'll put you on the next flight." "Well..." "What time is the next plane for the coast?" "8:31, sir." "If you'll give me your name, I'll put you down for another flight." "Well..." "Salt Lake 20, please." "Your name, please, madam?" "It's dangerous." "He's here." "Go away." "Come on." "Get in the car." "Or should we talk inside?" "Come on." "He suspects me." "That's why I couldn't come." "Wait a minute." "When did you find out?" "Yesterday." "He's quit his job." "How did he find out?" "What does he know?" "Lots of things." "He says little things." "And when I tried to make an excuse to get away for a few days, he accused me." "Did you admit anything?" "No." "Good." "I couldn't convince him." "He said if he Ever caught me, he'd kill me." "Bluff." "No, he means it." "What does he want?" "The gas cage?" "After he killed me, he says, he'd kill himself." "That would be a good bargain." "He wouldn't want to live, anyhow." "Oh, Webb, it would be my fault." "He loves me." "He's been so sweet to me, and I've betrayed him." "I lied to him." "I feel so rotten." "I wish I'd never seen you." "I can't see you anymore." "Did you hide that gun?" "I tried to, but it was gone." "What a crazy fool." "Webb, he'd do it, I know he would." "Did you have those lights on?" "No, Webb." "He's awake." "Susan!" "I'll go around on the side of the house in case he starts anything." "Susan!" "Where are you, Susan?" "Susan!" "I'm here, John, in the kitchen." "I woke up and I was thirsty." "I thought I heard talking." "I thought I heard voices." "You must have imagined it." "Look, I heard you." "Don't tell me I imagined it." "You must have." "It isn't even dawn yet." "All right." "All right." "Hello." "Webb, darling, I must see you." "I know, baby, I know, but it's too risky for you." "Way too risky." "I don't care." "I don't care." "I must see you." "Yeah." "But like you said, better call it quits." "You don't mean that, Webb." "Yeah." "Hello?" "Hello?" "Hello?" "Webb?" "Hello?" "Hello." "Oh, darling, I've been trying and trying to get you." "I know." "Is there anybody with you?" "No." "Please, Webb." "Please, we have to meet somewhere just tonight." "I just can't stand not seeing you." "I just can't stand it." "I know, baby." "It's tough for me, too." "Don't you miss me?" "Sure I miss you." "I'm counting the days till I go back to work so I can get you out of my mind." "Sweetheart, please, please come over Just this once, please, please." "I'm sorry, Susan, but you have to understand, I just can't take it anymore." "We have to call it quits, the end, finis." "Webb, no, no." "Yeah." "It's open." "Susan, you shouldn't have..." "Webb." "Oh, Webb." "Oh, Webb, take me away wherever you want." "Don't bring me back." "It's crazy, I know, but I love you, Webb." "I love you so much that I-I'm afraid of you." "I asked him for a divorce." "When?" "I begged." "I pleaded." "When was this?" "This afternoon." "You told him about me?" "Not who you were." "What did he say?" "He said that he'd never let me go under any conditions ever." "We haven't much choice, have we?" "We have, Webb." "We have." "Take me away now." "Don't forget, Susan, you were brought up on Lakeview." "You'd begin to miss the things you're used to, your maid and the house." "I couldn't give you any of that easy life stuff." "Webb, I'd be happy with you no matter where we lived or how, so long as it's far away." "We couldn't get far enough to forget him, Susan." "He'd always be with us and between us." "We could never really be man and wife." "Then you'd start to hate me, and that'd be worse than not having you at all." "You're saying no." "That's why I haven't been answering your calls or trying to see you." "I was..." "I was going to write it out for you." "Suppose we'll always remember each other, at least I know I'll always remember you." "But it had to end sometime." "Webb..." "Quicker the cut, the less it hurts." "I was hoping you'd say this, Webb, and mean it." "I'm glad you said it, because I've been too weak to say it myself." "I've been wrong." "I'd forgotten what it was like to have self-respect." "96 Robert 901." "There's a 1933 Chevrolet." "Thanks for checking me in." "Forget it, Bud." "Shop 7016, no delay." "Oh, Webb." "Yeah?" "131-A, code 1." "You feeling okay?" "Yeah." "Why?" "Well the last two days, you've been acting like you sat on a cactus." "Started right after your vacation." "I told the old lady, and she said you were just high-strung." "But I've been worried about it, and tonight it seemed worse than ever." "Thanks for worrying, but I guess it's nothing worse than getting back in the swing of the job." "Okay." "But if there's anything I can do, just remember little old Bud's always willing." "Goodnight." "Night." "Mingo and Harvey." "10-A, 14-B will meet you." "10-A, 14-B will meet you." "49, 1918 Orchid." "49, check." "Just dropped Crocker on my way to check in." "49, 1918 Orchid reports a prowler there." "1918 Orchid reports a prowler there." "I'm on my way." "Who's there?" "Halt!" "Halt!" "Halt!" "Please don't!" "Oh." "You, get to a phone." "Call homicide." "I parked the car out in front of the Gilvray house." "Naturally, I was ready for trouble." "And I saw something move out in the vacant lot." "I guess he must have been there hunting for the prowler himself, because he stood up suddenly and started to run." "I pulled out my gun, and I called halt three times." "Then he sort of whirled and turned, and I guess he was about 40 feet away." "I saw he had his gun on me, so I fired just once." "I was trying to shoot low." "And he went down." "So I ran over to him." "And just as I got there and bent down, he sort of pushed himself up on one elbow and fired at me point-blank." "And then I saw that he was dead." "Murderer!" "You murdered him!" "Please finish, Officer Garwood." "Well, there isn't very much more." "When I got a good look at him, I saw that he wasn't any prowler." "He had his bathrobe and slippers on." "Then I-I knew that I'd made a terrible mistake." "Do you remember anything else?" "No, sir, nothing." "Witness will be excused." "Mrs. John Gilvray." "So you've never seen her before, huh?" "No." "No, never." "Isn't the way I heard it." "So help you God?" "I do." "I hope you will understand, Mrs. Gilvray, the purpose of this hearing is to learn the whole truth of the shooting." "And if you have any reason to believe there was an irregularity on the part of Officer Garwood, it is your duty so to state." "You understand that, don't you?" "I understand." "A minute ago in the presence of the jury, you made an accusation." "I was upset." "I see." "Now, would you recount the events of that night as you recall them?" "When I heard the first shot, I..." "Could you speak a little louder, Mrs. Gilvray?" "I ran towards the front door." "There." "And when I reached the door, I heard the second shot, and I ran outside and I saw what happened." "Officer Garwood, would you please stand up and face the witness?" "Now, will you please tell us, Mrs. Gilvray, whether you ever saw this man prior to the death of your husband?" "Well, I - no." "You may sit down." "Officer Crocker, will you please rise and face the witness?" "Had you ever seen this man before the death of your husband?" "Well, I may have seen him." "I'm not at all certain." "As a matter of fact, wasn't there a prowler around your house some two months ago?" "And didn't Officers Crocker and Garwood come to your house after you called the police?" "Well, yes, there were two officers who came to the house." "One of them might have been the gentleman there." "And the other might have been Officer Garwood." "One of the officers was outside most of the time, and I was very frightened." "Why are you asking me all this?" "You may sit down." "One of the two officers here recalled the previous prowler call and brought it to my attention." "Since there had been a prowler around the house before, it would perhaps be quite natural for your husband to be alarmed by the second one, wouldn't it?" "Yes." "Now, Mrs. Gilvray, have you any reason whatsoever to believe that the circumstances attending your husband's death were other than those described by Officer Garwood?" "No." "Thank you." "You may step down from the stand." "You must be getting old." "I've known you to forget faces, but a figure like that?" "Mr. Coroner, the verdict is accidental homicide." "That is your verdict?" "It is." "Thank you very much." "The jury is dismissed, the inquest is concluded and will be so entered into the record of this office." "Care to make any statement about the shooting, (" "No." "Congratulations." "Good evening, Mr. Gilvray." "Oh, good evening, Officer." "I'm afraid it isn't Officer anymore." "I resigned from the force a couple of weeks ago." "Yeah, I know." "I read about it in the papers." "Sorry to hear it." "Mr. Gilvray, I have a kind of problem." "I wonder if you could help me out on it." "I'll be glad to if I can." "Well, it's just that - tell me, how's your sister-in-law taking it by now?" "Well, as well as can be expected." "Those things take time, you know." "I sent her some flowers, but she sent them back." "I guess it was the wrong thing to do, but I just can't seem to get this thing out of my head." "Oh, well, if I were you, I wouldn't let... ) be any way I can help, you know, with the house" "I guess she'll have enough to get by on, that is, when it's all settled up." "But in the meantime, if she needs any ready cash, it's not much considering what's happened." "It's only a little over $700, but if she'll accept it..." "Mr. Garwood, that's just about the most decent thing" "I've ever heard a man say." "And I'm going to tell her about it, too." "But just so you won't feel quite so bad, you know, you couldn't exactly say that their marriage was perfect." "No?" "No." "My brother, well, between you and me, he wasn't the easiest person in the world to get along with, and well, she wanted children, and he couldn't have any." "And so you see, it wasn't as if it was a happy marriage even before the accident." "I guess matter how much money we've got, we've all got our worries." "I was just wondering if..." "there's a lot I'd like to get off my chest." "Do you suppose she'd see me?" "Well, I don't know why she shouldn't." "The wife and I, we're spending a little time with her." "I tell you what." "I'll talk to her about it, and I'll let you know." "Will you do that?" "Sure." "I appreciate that so much." "How about a soda?" "No, thanks." "Thanks so much." "Goodnight." "Goodnight." "Oh, Mr. Garwood, how do you do?" "She's right in there." "We're packing." "I told her you were coming sometime this afternoon." "You can go right on in." "I'll go down the street and call on a neighbor." "My husband said it would be much more comfortable for both of you if you talked alone." "I see." "Thank you." "Stay away from me, Webb." "Don't ever come near me." "Say anything you want to say." "I can take it." "I haven't anything to say." "I know how terrible it's been for you, Susan, but no matter how bad it was, you can't let an accident stand in between..." "Accident?" "Accident, yes." "Don't you believe that?" "I don't know what I believe." "When you lied for me on the stand when you said you'd never seen me before, you didn't think you were lying to save a murderer, did you?" "I don't" " I don't know what I believe." "I..." "You believed I was guilty." "You must have." "No." "I" " I wasn't sure." "There were other reasons, too." "What other reasons?" "What other reasons could there be?" "I can't tell you." "They're too important." "You really thought I was guilty, didn't you?" "Don't you know me any better than that?" "I know you, Susan, and I know if you really thought I murdered him, you'd have told them." "You wouldn't have covered up for a murderer, Susan." "You couldn't." "If it was an accident, it was so terribly convenient." "I..." "Look, do you remember that medal that I used to wear, that sharp-shooters medal, and how much I used to like guns?" "Well, after what I've been through, it's like running some innocent kid down in the street." "You never want to drive a car again." "I couldn't bring myself to touch a gun again as long as I live." "Look at it this way." "If it wasn't an accident, what reason did I have?" "You'd already offered to come away with me, hadn't you?" "And I decided that wasn't right." "Maybe that was my mistake." "Maybe if I'd said yes and we'd run out on him, we'd all have been happier." "Oh, he'd rather be the way he is than alive and alone." "It's not his dying I can't forget." "It's what led up to it." "You used to say he was ordinary, dull." "To you, he was." "I didn't argue with you." "I began to believe it myself." "I almost began to hate him." "Did hate him." "And not because of what he was doing to me, but because of what I was doing to him." "Then he was killed." "I'll never be sent to jail or condemned to die for what I've done." "I've been praying that I would be." "Susan, suppose I hadn't known you, not at all." "Suppose I was just the cop on the beat." "It'd have happened, anyway, be just the same now as far as he's concerned, only you'd be alone, and so would I." "Let's face it." "If having him dead is the only way we can be together, happily together, I'm glad he's dead." "If I'd realized that was the only way, I don't know, I might have killed him." "That's how much I want you." "The whole thing turned on a freak accident." "You've got to believe that, Susan." "Webb, look at me." "I didn't do it, Susan." "I'll swear that by the only thing I ever really loved, and that's you." "No." "Now it's your turn." "You've got to tell me you believe." "I do." "I do." "I do." "I do." "Babe." "I do." "Dirty shame they won't leave them alone." "After all, just a couple of kids." "Lot of people think they ought to have waited." "But why?" "Come on, fellas, give them a break." "Give them a break there." "You must be William Gilvray." "That's right." "How do you feel about this union, Mr. Gilvray?" "Well, I was just telling Mr. Crocker here, as long as the kids love each other, why shouldn't they be married?" "Let's forget the past." "That's what I say." "How about a picture of you and the Mrs., huh?" "Why, sure." "Come on, Marty." "Hold it now." "Thanks a lot." "Wonderful guy, your Webb." "You don't have to tell me." "Hey, Webb, wait a minute." "I've got to tell it." "You know this fellow Webb?" "This fellow Webb here, well, you know what happened to my brother." "After that, he came into my store one day, and with his entire savings, his entire savings, mind you, and he wanted to give them to Susan here." "Pretty doggone square of him, I'd say." "He's the squarest guy I know." "So long, Webb." "So long, Bud." "So long, Susan." "Take good care of him, gal." "Goodbye, darling." "And do be happy." "You deserve it." "Oh, Webb." "Remember, that country around Las Vegas, best place in the state for rocks." "I'll remember, Bud." "So long." "Take care of yourself, kids." "Look this way for me." "It isn't everybody can have a Honeymoon in their own hotel." "Oh, it's wonderful." "Welcome home, Mr. Garwood." "Mrs. Garwood, I've been expecting you all afternoon." "I think you'll find everything ready." "Is that the owner's apartment?" "How's business?" "Like that all afternoon." "Wonderful." "Excuse me." "Good?" "I've got to check over at the office." "I'll be back in a minute." "Don't be long." "Oh, Mr. Garwood, Mr. And Mrs. Talbot." "How are ya?" "How do you do?" "Mr. Garwood's the new owner." "Darling, Happy wedding night." "There never was a better time for a toast." "What's wrong?" "Haven't you noticed I haven't been drinking very much lately?" "No." "Since when?" "Two or three weeks." "Why not?" "Are there any units here with more rooms than this one?" "Yeah, a couple." "Why?" "Well, you'd better start making Arrangements For one of them." "We're going to need more space by summer." "Are you saying what I think you're saying?" "In just those words." "How long has this been going on?" "Four months." "And nobody knew." "What's the matter?" "Aren't you glad?" "Sure." "Sure, I'm..." "Please come over and kiss me." "You go on and get some sleep." "Susan." "Yes?" "You've known for four months, You say, about the baby?" "Yes." "Well, why didn't you tell me before this?" "You know you and I can't have a baby yet." "What are you talking about?" "We're going to." "It's what I've always wanted." "The minute that baby's born, we're in trouble, both of us." "I don't know what you mean." "Because we wouldn't have been married Long enough for it to be mine." "And it couldn't have been your husband's." "How do you know?" "Your brother-in-law, your ex-brother-in-law." "I didn't know John had told him." "He did." "Both him and his wife." "We could keep it a secret." "They're a long way off." "They'd never have to know." "They'll know right along with everybody else." "What about those reporters this Afternoon and the photographers?" "Cop marries widow of the man he killed." "Don't you think the birth of the dead man's baby's going to make even a better story?" "It's not his." "It's ours." "Sure, and they'll all know that." "Well, I don't care who knows it." "Do I have to draw a picture for you?" "When that baby is born, they'll know that you and I were seeing each other long before the killing." "Webb." "And they'll remember your testimony, that you'd never seen me before in your life." "How do you think that's going to look?" "It's an ambulance." "What are we going to do?" "Webb?" "Yeah?" "Webb, we could get away from here before anybody has a chance to notice." "We'll go where we're not known." "I could have my baby there." "Be the record of the birth certificate, the record of the doctor's report, the record of the hospital." "We'll give a false name and we'll take the baby to some home and pretend to adopt it later." "They'll have see those pictures in the scandal sheets." "They'd recognize you." "Even the doctor who performed the delivery could appear as a witness against you later on." "It's a chance." "We could risk it." "He'd have a little talk with the local sheriff, a query'd go through." "You want me to take it from there for you?" "Headquarters, attention chief of police, Case of Officer Garwood." "What could they find?" "Chief of detectives, homicide bureau." "Please oblige with records of Gilvray inquest." "But they know all that." "Officer Crocker, report immediately." "A few questions, and he'll begin to think." "Then they'd locate that ex-brother- in-law of yours and his wife." "Then they'd talk." "But that's all they could do." "Oh, they'd know we both lied." "There'd be cops from homicide on the next plane." "People can't be convicted of something they didn't do." "That's a nice theory, only it doesn't work." "Juries decide these things, and juries are made up of human beings." "I want you to think about something just for a minute." "All right." "Try to remember how close you came to believing that I was guilty." "Webb." "Yeah." "Then think, if that baby was born what a time we'd have with all that evidence against us." "Webb." "Webb, we'll go somewhere where nobody's around, where we'll be absolutely alone." "You would be my doctor, Webb." "No." "No, that would be too dangerous for you." "Millions of women have babies without doctors." "You've had training, haven't you?" "But not enough." "There might be complications." "No, that's too risky." "It's way too risky." "Well, if I'm not afraid, why should you be?" "This is it, Bud's ghost town." "We're lucky." "No one could have been in or out of here for months." "Roger." "Shall we take the penthouse or the bridal suite?" "Into the disposal." "Got news for you." "I'm fresh out of needles." "Secrets." "John had it made to order." "The daytime, baby, the nighttime, baby." "You scared?" "I've hardly thought about it." "Don't be." "We're really - really prepared for triplets." "I don't think we've forgotten a thing." "Would you like to go out for a little walk?" "Sunset." "This will be a good story for him to tell his buddies." "His birth increased the population of his hometown by thirty three and one-third percent." "You can go for miles in any direction and find nobody but close relatives." "That's one of the things we won't ever be able to tell him." "No." "No, our kid's going to be on the beam from the second he gets into the world." "The breaks he gets are going to be good, not like his old man." "Everybody has bad breaks once in a while." "Just so we teach him to overcome them." "Check." "Just as long as he's man enough to overcome them." "And next time, ma, the biggest private room in the best hospital in Vegas." "Nurses round the clock." "Flowers, doctors, nothing but the best." "Oh, it's so beautiful." "They say that's important." "I mean for the mother." "Old Bud Crocker used to say there's Something about the desert that..." "Maybe there'll be a moon." "I hope so, don't you?" "Well, folks almost time for signing off." "But still time to tell you about the wife's recipe for plump, tender little..." "It's one of John's records." "It must have gotten mixed in." "She likes nothing better than fresh garden grown parsley and a few of our ice-crisp hearts of celery." "And the cost of living is going down." "Goodnight to everyone." "I'll be seeing you, Susan." "Is Webb Garwood here?" "No." "The Garwoods are away on a vacation." "Oh, gosh." "I'm sorry to hear that." "We're on our way home ourselves." "We was hoping to meet them." "Oh, Crocker's the name." "How do you do?" "Oh, this here's my war department." "Oh, of course." "You're the people who sent the wire." "Yeah." "Well, it seems they stay right in Frisco all the time." "You know how young folks are." "The it's a big town." "They like excitement." "However, this last one here's from Barstow." "Says they're kind of stuck on that desert country, that there's no need to expect them home for about two more weeks." "Barstow, huh?" "I bet Webb's going to Take in one of my ghost towns." "Used to pass the time telling him what I know about that country." "Gold rush, land grabs." "Mineral Canyon, you reckon?" "Or Calico." "Oh, no." "Mineral Canyon." "Calico's the tail end of creation." "Not even the coyotes will stop at Calico." "Now, Mineral Canyon, that's real pretty." "Hey, how about it?" "On the off chance Of meeting up with them?" "I'm game." "Okay." "Is he driving his Chevy?" "Oh, no." "They got a new Cadillac sedan." "Dark green." "A Caddy, huh?" "He sure made it." "Yes, sir, he sure made it now." "Well, if we miss him, tell him that Bud was by." "Little old Bud." "He'll know." "Sure will." "Come on, honey." "Okay." "Susan." "Susan, I'm going to get the doctor." "I'll be all right." "I'll be all right." "Here." "Something must be wrong, Susan." "Having a baby isn't supposed to be like this." "Something may happen to you." "I'm going to get the doctor." "No, Webb." "No." "Webb, you said yourself they can't." "Webb." "Webb." "Webb!" "Webb!" "I'm sure it's an emergency, son." "This time of night, everyone seems to Think they have an emergency." "But I'm too old." "Phil, tell him about Dr. Parrish." "Yeah, Dr. Parrish, just down the block." "He's the finest, most obliging young doctor you want to meet." "Besides, he needs the business, Phil." "But you're the one I want, Doc." "You'll just have to take my word for it." "I wish I could, son." "I can't." "Most people don't know an emergency when they see one." "Okay." "Now will you believe me?" "Well, looks like I'll have to go, Ettie." "I'm sorry, dear." "What I am going to do if Mrs. Larson calls?" "Well, I don't know what we'll do." "Drive carefully, dear." "Yeah." "Better come in my car, Doc." "I know the way." "I'll take my own." "It's right out here in the street." "I may have a call to make on the way back." "You go ahead." "I'll follow you." "No need to have lied to me about where you were going, how far it was." "You'll be all right now, little lady." "Let's just put this under your head." "Uh, if you don't mind?" "Your wife will be quite all right." "The baby's heartbeats are normal." "There won't be much happening in there for an hour or so." "Meantime, I've given her something that should help." "She'd like to see you." "But be sure she stays quiet." "What if he recognizes us, Webb?" "He won't." "It turned out lucky." "He won't recognize us." "You were so sure before that someone, anyone..." "He's an old man." "He can't even see so good." "He might have known who we are right off." "Perhaps he knows our names right this minute." "Stop imagining things." "Take my word." "Don't worry about it." "Webb?" "Hmm?" "You were so frightened before." "Now you're not." "Why?" "What is this, the third degree?" "Is it because of the gun?" "You said you'd never touch one again." "Ever." "What are you driving at?" "If he recognizes us, you'll use it, won't you?" "You're crazy." "Maybe you'll use it anyway, just to make sure." "Is that why you're so certain?" "Is it?" "You're really crazy." "You plan to kill him, don't you?" "Take it easy, baby." "You're all upset." "No one would have known." "No one." "Not even I would have known." "It would have been perfect." "Perfect." "Just like the other time." "Worse." "There was a reason last time." "You loved me." "You did, didn't you?" "Well, of course I loved you." "I always will." "What are you raving about?" "You haven't denied it." "Denied what?" "Killing my husband." "Well, that's no secret." "Of course I killed him." "That's public record." "I mean not accidentally." "I mean..." "Cut it out, Susan." "You're all mixed up." "You're bound to be." "The doc said you were supposed to keep quiet now." "Hey, Doc." "We'll talk about this tomorrow in the daylight." "You've got to think about yourself, you know." "I mean, you've got to think about the kid." "Doc, my wife is kind of excited." "Maybe you'd better see what you can do." "Boy?" "A little girl." "Your wife is fine." "It was a normal birth." "Looks just like her mother." "You know, they say this about the happiest time of a person's life." "Do they?" "Yeah, that's what they say." "What can I get you?" "Warm milk?" "A little coffee?" "Maybe I could whip the Doc and me up a celebration breakfast." "How about that, huh?" "Hey, Doc!" "Webb." "What did you tell him?" "To get away if he could." "He took the key." "Did you tell him our name?" "I didn't have to." "Your badge." "You lied to him." "He remembered seeing your face in the newspaper." "Why didn't he go last night?" "He waited till he could take the baby with him." "In 10 minutes he'll be on his way Back here with the cops." "Wait a minute." "There was another key." "There was a spare." "I'm sure there was." "You had it, didn't you?" "Where is it?" "Okay." "He's too far ahead." "I couldn't catch up with him now." "But unless I hit that highway before they start back, I'm... where is it, Susan?" "Where is that key?" "You've got to tell me." "You murdered my husband." "You would have killed the doctor." "So what?" "So I'm no good." "I'm no worse than anybody else." "You work in a store, you knock down on the cash register." "A big boss, the income tax." "War hero, you sell votes." "A lawyer, take bribes." "I was a cop." "I used a gun." "But whatever I did, I did for you." "That first night, remember, I came back by myself." "Why do you think I did that?" "And last night, I brought the doctor." "Walked right into town and stuck my head in the noose." "Why do you think I did that?" "Because I loved you, Susie." "Say anything you want to, but you've got to give me credit for that." "Like I gave you credit before." "How am I any different from those other guys?" "Some do it for a million, some for ten hundred and for 62,000." "You knew about the money." "You knew the exact amount." "Sure, I knew." "I read his will one night while his dumb voice was drooling over the radio." "Do you take me for a sucker?" "Get out." "Get out." "You haven't got a chance." "Darn fool." "All right, all right." "I can do it, too." "Charles, it's Webb!" "Webb, you old prairie dog!" "Back up." "Back up." "I've got to get through, Bud." "We've been looking for you." "We drove..." "Please, it's Susan, she's sick." "I've got to get help." "Back up!" "Do like I say and get out!" "Back up!" "Webb, this is little old Bud you're talking to, remember?" "Do like he says, Charles!" "Whatever you say." "All right, all right." "I'm going as fast as I can." "Don't get excited, Webb." "Only take a minute or two." "Just going to get my jack out of here and..." "Hey, ma, come here." "Somebody's coming." "Webb!" "Webb!" "Where you going, Webb?" "Garwood, stop!" "Hey, Garwood!" "Come on back!" "You'll never get away with it." "Do as they say, Webb!" "Webb, listen to me!" "You'll never make it, Webb!" "Webb!" "Webb!" "Come on back, Garwood!" "You haven't got a chance!" "Halt!" "Halt!" "Halt!"