WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:11.000 ["My Beat", by John Williams, playing on the radio.] 00:11.000 --> 00:19.000 Broadway's My Beat, from Times Square to Columbus Circle, the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world. 00:19.000 --> 00:23.000 ["My Beat", by John Williams, playing on the radio.] 00:23.000 --> 00:28.000 Broadway's My Beat, with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clober. 00:28.000 --> 00:38.000 ["My Beat", by John Williams, playing on the radio.] 00:38.000 --> 00:46.000 The November morning sits down over Broadway, and for a time the swarm stands bewildered, stares at its empty hands. 00:46.000 --> 00:55.000 The solitude begins to shape itself once more, out of November's winds, out of the silent, colorless neon, out of mists flaring upward from manholes. 00:55.000 --> 01:04.000 And finally, the solitude is clear and present, whispering again its desolate invitation, and the derelicts of morning run from it. 01:04.000 --> 01:11.000 Beat open a door, plead for refuge, find it in a time clock. It's another day, kid. All yours. 01:11.000 --> 01:16.000 ["My Beat", by John Williams, playing on the radio.] 01:16.000 --> 01:23.000 And at headquarters do the things of the morning. Brush the night dust off the unfinished report, wad up the paper cup with the dregs of cold coffee, 01:23.000 --> 01:27.000 toss it in the wastebasket, tear a page off a calendar. 01:27.000 --> 01:31.000 A shooting, Danny. Fold in. Man says he's shocked, wants to talk. Here's the address. 01:31.000 --> 01:37.000 Take it from the sergeant. Go to the address. Find the man standing plopped against the wall of the apartment, 01:37.000 --> 01:43.000 one hand in a fist pressed hard against his chest, pushing back the fragment of light that was still inside him. 01:43.000 --> 01:45.000 And watch it seep through his fingers. 01:45.000 --> 01:49.000 You took your time, Danny. 01:49.000 --> 01:50.000 Let me help you off. 01:50.000 --> 01:57.000 Don't touch me. Don't touch me. Just stay. Stay. Listen. 01:57.000 --> 01:58.000 Who shot you? 01:58.000 --> 02:12.000 Stanley. Stanley. He lost him. A little nothing. Worked for me. I put the bread in his mouth. Stamped. He killed me. 02:12.000 --> 02:15.000 That little nothing. He killed me. 02:15.000 --> 02:17.000 The ambulance will be here in a minute. 02:17.000 --> 02:27.000 You keep your hands off me. I'm dying. And you, all you've got to do is listen. 02:27.000 --> 02:45.000 Alex, Raymond, that's me. That's who I was. You get that little nothing. You hear it? You get it? And you burn. Burn. 02:45.000 --> 02:52.000 And the word stopped. And briefly the mouth moved over nothingness, voicing nothing, moving quickly and fitfully like quicksilver, 02:52.000 --> 03:00.000 until it froze, until the shape of it was forever. 03:00.000 --> 03:06.000 Because he was dead. 03:06.000 --> 03:14.000 And after that, Alex Raymond objectively, the measuring of his death by instruments and men with cigars, 03:14.000 --> 03:19.000 the photographing of it, the recording of it under a heading, files, active, 03:19.000 --> 03:26.000 and take a piece of the image away with you, a name of killer. Name Stanley Lawson, employee of Alex Raymond. 03:26.000 --> 03:35.000 Consult other records, make a phone call, and come up with an address. Go to it. 03:35.000 --> 03:36.000 Yes? 03:36.000 --> 03:38.000 My name's Clover. I'm from the police. 03:38.000 --> 03:39.000 What is it you want? 03:39.000 --> 03:41.000 I'm looking for Stanley Lawson. The card on your door says- 03:41.000 --> 03:45.000 Stanley Lawson, I'm noted Lawson, his wife. Why are you looking for him? 03:45.000 --> 03:49.000 Suspicion of murder, Mrs. Lawson. 03:49.000 --> 03:55.000 All right, come in. In here. Stanley isn't home. 03:55.000 --> 03:57.000 Where is he? 03:57.000 --> 04:05.000 If he committed murder, he's probably running or hiding or whatever a new murderer is supposed to do. What I'd do. 04:05.000 --> 04:07.000 Which one did he kill? 04:07.000 --> 04:08.000 What do you mean? 04:08.000 --> 04:11.000 Which one? Raymond or Harper? 04:11.000 --> 04:15.000 A little while ago, a man named Alex Raymond said your husband shot him. 04:15.000 --> 04:19.000 Then Edwin Harper must be running or hiding too. 04:19.000 --> 04:21.000 You mind telling me what you're talking about? 04:21.000 --> 04:27.000 Raymond and Harper incorporated. Together they employed my husband to make them rich. 04:27.000 --> 04:35.000 In this, my husband was successful. That he's made one of them dead will give you some idea of how important my husband was to the concern. 04:35.000 --> 04:38.000 You think your husband's going to kill Edwin Harper too? 04:38.000 --> 04:48.000 My husband is what is known among educators, among party goers, among those who conversationally psychoanalyze people as a plugger. 04:48.000 --> 04:55.000 The fact that my husband has set his mind to wiping out Raymond and Harper simply means that he had to kill one of them first. 04:55.000 --> 04:57.000 And none of this surprised you, Mrs. Lawson? 04:57.000 --> 05:02.000 Me least of all, I'm his wife. I attend his emotional moments. I know about my husband. 05:02.000 --> 05:05.000 Would you mind telling me why he killed Alex Raymond? 05:05.000 --> 05:16.000 No, nor why he'll kill Harper. Stanley has been working for them for fifteen years, a designer of their happy toys for tots. 05:16.000 --> 05:23.000 They fired him yesterday without a gold watch, without a pat on the back, just a pink slip. 05:23.000 --> 05:30.000 What does a plugger do after plugging in a pattern for fifteen years? Stanley killed. 05:30.000 --> 05:36.000 You're wasting your time talking to me, Mr. Clover. I'd find Edwin Harper if I were you. 05:36.000 --> 05:40.000 That is, if you feel the necessity of saving his life. 05:40.000 --> 05:51.000 And consider for a moment her easy acceptance of the violence that had intruded on her life, 05:51.000 --> 06:11.000 the final flourish that put an end to the meaningless pattern that had been hers, her husband's, shown in the way she wraps the tinted portrait of him in the newspaper, gives it to you, wants it back when you're through with it, and you give her the promise, leave her with it. 06:11.000 --> 06:21.000 Then a murderer's description on the wires, they all point bulletin, a woman's toneless voice in Prowlcar radios, killer at large, get it all moving. 06:21.000 --> 06:25.000 Then go to the man Mrs. Lawson told you about, the other man her husband wants dead. 06:25.000 --> 06:31.000 Edwin Harper, find him in his office at the factory, watch him nervously caress a toy as he tries to understand it. 06:31.000 --> 06:36.000 Look, you, Alex and me, we built a big thing here. With Christmas coming on, it's going to be bigger than- 06:36.000 --> 06:39.000 Alex Raymond is dead, Mr. Harper. I don't know any other way to tell you. 06:39.000 --> 06:47.000 Don't kid me, Mr. This toy I got here in my hands, our biggest novelty, Alex and me were going to flood all the kids in the country. Why, without Alex- 06:47.000 --> 06:49.000 Stanley Lawson shot him, killed him in cold blood. 06:49.000 --> 06:53.000 Why? Why would a little punk like Stanley do a thing like that? Nobody does things like that. 06:53.000 --> 06:57.000 Lawson did, because you fired him. His wife told me he'd been with you for 15 years. 06:57.000 --> 07:05.000 There are jobs, all kinds of jobs for a punk like Stanley. Defense, janiting, all kinds of jobs. We get rid of people all the time. We don't expect to get killed for it. 07:05.000 --> 07:06.000 Why did you get rid of Lawson? 07:06.000 --> 07:09.000 He was washed up, through, finished, dead. That's why. 07:09.000 --> 07:10.000 Mrs. Lawson- 07:10.000 --> 07:21.000 Who gives a thing for what she's had? What'd she tell you, huh? That her Stanley was the brains of our outfit, that he swept blood and tears for Alex and me, that he was devoted, loyal, 100 percent? That's what she told you? 07:21.000 --> 07:22.000 Something like that. 07:22.000 --> 07:34.000 So maybe it's true. Maybe that's how it was. We picked his brain and then all of a sudden he don't come up with anything anymore. Look, mister, a designer who can't design anymore, who needs him. I got to live too. You got to wait, you throw it away. 07:34.000 --> 07:39.000 Yeah. You got any ideas where Lawson might go to hide any particular place? 07:39.000 --> 07:43.000 You mean that punk, that murderer is on the loose? You haven't got him? 07:43.000 --> 07:44.000 No, I, but maybe you could help him. 07:44.000 --> 07:48.000 Help? It's me you got to help. Don't it penetrate you? Next he'd want me. 07:48.000 --> 07:49.000 We'll take care of it, Mr. Harper. 07:49.000 --> 08:10.000 Look, I got no intention of dying. None at all. Not from Stanley, not from anything. It's your responsibility. You understand that? You got it clear? I'm not going to die. 08:10.000 --> 08:11.000 Lieutenant Clover? 08:11.000 --> 08:12.000 Huh? Yeah? 08:12.000 --> 08:13.000 I'm Detective Kenny. I- 08:13.000 --> 08:21.000 Oh, sure, sure. Come on in. Yeah, I've got the notation right here on my desk. You've been assigned to me, haven't you, a while. Detective Muggerman is on vacation. 08:21.000 --> 08:28.000 That's right, sir. I've got some information for you, Lieutenant, about Stanley Lawson. Rather negative information, if I may say so. 08:28.000 --> 08:31.000 Sure, you may say so. Just tell me about it, huh? 08:31.000 --> 08:47.000 Yes, sir. All these from communications. Stanley Lawson was seen going into a theater on 42nd Street. And at the same time, this other report spotted him on Staten Island Ferry. And there's another one here from the Westside Golf Club. There's a man there on the 10th hole who's been teeing off for an hour. 08:47.000 --> 08:48.000 All of them are checked, aren't they? 08:48.000 --> 08:51.000 These and half a dozen more, sir. Still haven't gotten Stanley Lawson. 08:51.000 --> 08:53.000 Hmm. Well, thank you, Kenny. 08:53.000 --> 08:54.000 Yes, sir. 08:54.000 --> 08:56.000 Oh, pardon me. Danny Clover speaking. 08:56.000 --> 08:59.000 This is Edward Harvey. He called me. He just called me. 08:59.000 --> 09:00.000 Lawson? 09:00.000 --> 09:05.000 Yes, sir. He wants me to meet him, to bring money to him. He says he'd kill me if I don't. You're not going to let him kill me. 09:05.000 --> 09:06.000 Where are you supposed to meet him? 09:06.000 --> 09:13.000 At Tenement. Corner 16th and 9th Avenue, at 9 o'clock. If you think I'm going there, you're crazy. I'm staying right here. You've got to protect me. 09:13.000 --> 09:16.000 Don't worry about a thing. We'll take care of it. Goodbye, Mr. Harper. 09:16.000 --> 09:17.000 Kenny? 09:17.000 --> 09:17.000 Yes, sir. 09:17.000 --> 09:35.000 Call me after you've had your dinner. We've got something to take care of. 09:35.000 --> 09:36.000 Lieutenant Clover. 09:36.000 --> 09:39.000 I'm glad you're here, Lieutenant. It's just about time. 9 o'clock. 09:39.000 --> 09:40.000 Did everything set up, Kenny? 09:40.000 --> 09:46.000 Yes, sir. Lights, P.A. We've got a cordon around the whole block. As far as the stakeout's concerned, we're all ready. 09:46.000 --> 09:47.000 Good. 09:47.000 --> 09:49.000 It's the tenement across the street. 09:49.000 --> 09:50.000 Uh-huh. 09:50.000 --> 09:55.000 The tenement's unoccupied, sir. Condemned. But a few minutes ago, we saw some movement up on the second floor. 09:55.000 --> 09:58.000 But anyhow, one of the officers said he saw something move out. 09:58.000 --> 10:00.000 I'll take it from here. Hand me the P.A. 10:00.000 --> 10:01.000 Yes, sir. 10:01.000 --> 10:02.000 The spotlights, Kenny. 10:02.000 --> 10:03.000 Yes, sir. 10:03.000 --> 10:05.000 Okay, man. 10:05.000 --> 10:06.000 All ready, sir? 10:06.000 --> 10:10.000 Yeah. 10:10.000 --> 10:15.000 Lawson, this is the police. 10:15.000 --> 10:21.000 We know you're in there, Lawson. We want you to come out with your hands up. 10:21.000 --> 10:24.000 One minute to make up your mind. But we're coming in after... 10:24.000 --> 10:27.000 Let me out! 10:27.000 --> 10:44.000 Kenny! Kenny! Kenny! You, officer! Get an ambulance. You and you. Cover me. I'm going in after him. 10:44.000 --> 10:52.000 You just shot an officer, Lawson. Throw away your gun and come on down, or you won't get out of here alive. 10:52.000 --> 11:00.000 All right, Lawson. Any way you want it. 11:00.000 --> 11:04.000 You're not going to get me! 11:04.000 --> 11:15.000 Stop, Lawson! Stop! 11:15.000 --> 11:18.000 I told you to stop, Lawson. 11:18.000 --> 11:42.000 You made a mistake. I didn't kill anybody. All of it. Mistake. 11:42.000 --> 12:00.000 You are listening to Broadway is My Beach, written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin, and starring Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. 12:00.000 --> 12:07.000 The life that curtains Broadway in late November is a thing of gauze, gray stuff that touches autumn with December. 12:07.000 --> 12:14.000 It's the time when the shadows come in with the sun, the time of the three coffee breakfasts, and the sweater and the vest under the coat. 12:14.000 --> 12:20.000 But the plucked birds hang high. There are stalks of corn and pumpkin pie behind moist shop windows. 12:20.000 --> 12:25.000 It's holiday season, and up and down the furious street, chefs smile. 12:25.000 --> 12:28.000 There's no problem for Thursday's blue plate special. 12:28.000 --> 12:34.000 Forget the headlines, kid. Everywhere, everybody will be eating turkey. It says. 12:34.000 --> 12:43.000 But when the new day comes, the light that drifts into a hospital room has another texture, 12:43.000 --> 12:53.000 because it lies against clean walls and starched curtains before it touches a bed, a bed where a man named Stanley Lawson lay, a murder suspect, and his wife considers him. 12:53.000 --> 13:02.000 Look at him, Mr. Clover, in the state of shock. Isn't that what your doctors call a shock? So clinical. 13:02.000 --> 13:05.000 Meaning his mind has rejected him finally. 13:05.000 --> 13:08.000 Do you expect me to feel sorry for him, Mrs. Lawson? 13:08.000 --> 13:13.000 Only for yourself, because you were forced to do what you did, shoot him. 13:13.000 --> 13:21.000 Talk with yourself. Convince yourself you did the only thing possible. My husband can't talk. Who is the happier man? 13:21.000 --> 13:27.000 I can't answer anything about your husband, Mrs. Lawson. The only thing I know about him for sure is that he shot a police officer. 13:27.000 --> 13:30.000 And he did that tempers all my thinking about him. 13:30.000 --> 13:32.000 How is the officer? 13:32.000 --> 13:35.000 Bad. Very bad. 13:35.000 --> 13:37.000 I'm sorry. 13:37.000 --> 13:39.000 I know you are. 13:39.000 --> 13:40.000 Mr. Clover? 13:40.000 --> 13:41.000 Yes. 13:41.000 --> 13:47.000 You said you were sure only that Stanley shot a police officer. What about Alex Raymond? 13:47.000 --> 13:49.000 Your husband probably shot him too. 13:49.000 --> 13:50.000 Probably? 13:50.000 --> 13:57.000 Before he passed out, your husband said something. He said that everything was a mistake, just that. 13:57.000 --> 14:02.000 But everything is a mistake. Everything always is. 14:02.000 --> 14:10.000 Look at him. A man. A life. Look what's become of it. 14:10.000 --> 14:13.000 The resident says he has a good chance to live, Mrs. Lawson. 14:13.000 --> 14:33.000 That's fine. May I be alone with him for a while, Mr. Clover, please? 14:33.000 --> 14:36.000 Don't look for me anymore out the window, Danny. 14:36.000 --> 14:38.000 Inside, complete with your lunch. 14:38.000 --> 14:44.000 Oh, thanks, Gino. In that shopping bag, all I gave you was 35 cents per sandwich. 14:44.000 --> 14:48.000 Not only did I get you a lunch, Danny, but I brought back change. Wait and you see. 14:48.000 --> 14:50.000 All right. 14:50.000 --> 14:57.000 That's just a delegatessen, Danny. All I got to mention is I am here for Danny Clover. I don't even need a number to get waited on. 14:57.000 --> 14:59.000 What's all that stuff, Gino? 14:59.000 --> 15:06.000 Your name is magic, Danny. I ordered you your hot pastrami sandwich. The boys insisted it isn't enough. Got to have four spies. 15:06.000 --> 15:07.000 Why? 15:07.000 --> 15:13.000 Four spies, Danny. An expression meaning you got a free little delicacy from each of the four boys. 15:13.000 --> 15:25.000 Ergo, four spies. From Sid, a container coleslaw. From Eddie, a dead potato salad with celery seed. From Frank, a slice halibut. And from Irv, a-ha! 15:25.000 --> 15:26.000 What from Irv? 15:26.000 --> 15:32.000 A kosher pickle slipped into my hand under the table. Eat, Danny. Eat in good health. 15:32.000 --> 15:33.000 Quite a haul, Sergeant. 15:33.000 --> 15:39.000 You're welcome, I'm sure. I also brought along a datum you asked I should pick up on my way back upstairs. 15:39.000 --> 15:41.000 You're a ball of fire today, Gino. 15:41.000 --> 15:51.000 Thank you, I'm sure. And then datum number one. The gun with which Stanley Lawson committed murder upon Alex Raymond and did wound Detective Kenny. The boys can't find it. 15:51.000 --> 15:52.000 They haven't found it? 15:52.000 --> 15:53.000 As yet, no. 15:53.000 --> 15:59.000 Lawson shoots out of that tenement window, hits Kenny. I go in right after him. We can't find his gun. 15:59.000 --> 16:06.000 This is a puzzle, Danny. A fleeing fugitive off-porses away the weapon with which he committed mayhem. Through a window, down a pipe, or- 16:06.000 --> 16:08.000 What else have you got, Gino? 16:08.000 --> 16:15.000 Datum number two. Concerning the deceased Alex Raymond which you requested. It seems that Mr. Raymond, as it must to all men, had a girlfriend. 16:15.000 --> 16:16.000 Where? 16:16.000 --> 16:21.000 A Miss Grace Gillrin, Daddy. Regent Powers West 23rd. However, why you need such- 16:21.000 --> 16:23.000 I may answer it for you, Danny. 16:23.000 --> 16:24.000 Go ahead. 16:24.000 --> 16:27.000 Danny Clovis, Officer Sergeant Todd- 16:27.000 --> 16:28.000 What? 16:28.000 --> 16:29.000 What? 16:29.000 --> 16:36.000 No. Yeah, I'll tell him. 16:36.000 --> 16:38.000 Tell me what, Gino? 16:38.000 --> 16:44.000 Give me a minute, Danny. Kenny. Detective Kenny. He's dead. 16:44.000 --> 16:58.000 And watch Gino turn, walk quickly out of the room. Go searching for some empty place where the quicksorrow can't be seen in the herd. 16:58.000 --> 17:07.000 And in a little while, look out the window. See him, hapless, without a coat, wandering the sidewalk, wandering the autumn wind. 17:07.000 --> 17:15.000 Hand him his coat and walk with him. Try to ease it for him. Explain it to him. To yourself. 17:15.000 --> 17:25.000 The stairs of the passes by tell you you're not doing real good. 17:25.000 --> 17:34.000 Then the brief time of being alone with it, the time it takes to get to 23rd Street, to the Regent Powers, to a girl named Grace Gillrin, 17:34.000 --> 17:37.000 for her instant in your life, let go of it. 17:37.000 --> 17:40.000 You're a policeman? Why won't they think up next? 17:40.000 --> 17:43.000 I want to talk to you, Miss Gillrin, about Alex- 17:43.000 --> 17:47.000 Alex Raymond. He's dead, you know. Dead and gone. 17:47.000 --> 17:49.000 You want to talk about it here in the hall or- 17:49.000 --> 17:55.000 Oh, glad you thought of it first. Come on in. Come in. 17:55.000 --> 17:57.000 That chintz seeded a van over there. You'll look good on that. 17:57.000 --> 17:59.000 Alex Raymond. Just about him. 17:59.000 --> 18:04.000 I read how you punched a bullet hole in his killer. What more can a man ask for? 18:04.000 --> 18:06.000 There's some things I need to know. 18:06.000 --> 18:08.000 About me? About me with Alex? 18:08.000 --> 18:12.000 Ever talk to you about his factory, about the people who work for him? 18:12.000 --> 18:16.000 You mean the boy who put it to Alex. You mean Stanley Lawson, don't you now? 18:16.000 --> 18:17.000 That's right. 18:17.000 --> 18:27.000 Killer, murderer, pale little man like him. The things that go on inside these pale little men surprises a girl. 18:27.000 --> 18:29.000 What did Raymond tell you about him? 18:29.000 --> 18:33.000 Just enough to bring up the yawns, how Lawson was quite a designer. 18:33.000 --> 18:34.000 Then why did they fire him? 18:34.000 --> 18:38.000 Beats me, too. Especially after that XK-20. 18:38.000 --> 18:40.000 The XK-20? What's that? 18:40.000 --> 18:47.000 The secret weapon of the Raymond and Hopper Company. A toy rocket ship. Zooms, spits flame, beats Hoppy. 18:47.000 --> 18:49.000 You'll see him with the millions on the Christmas counters. 18:49.000 --> 18:52.000 Lawson designed it and they fired him for that? 18:52.000 --> 18:54.000 You know, now that you mention it, it makes me wonder. 18:54.000 --> 18:56.000 About what? 18:56.000 --> 19:03.000 It goes to be a surprise to Lawson. He brought in the first model of the XK-20 last June. Made it on his own time. 19:03.000 --> 19:09.000 Alex and Edwin Harper looked at it and said it was just nothing. But you know what? 19:09.000 --> 19:10.000 Just tell me, huh? 19:10.000 --> 19:16.000 They showed it to a buyer anyhow. The buyer ordered a thousand growths on the spot. Said it had a dozen other buyers. 19:16.000 --> 19:18.000 But they didn't tell Lawson about it? 19:18.000 --> 19:26.000 Ah. In fact, just to make it more of a surprise for Lawson, they had the toy manufactured by a subcontractor out of town. 19:26.000 --> 19:33.000 I'll tell you something else. Alex whispered he might make a million out of that XK-20. 19:33.000 --> 19:40.000 A million, XK-20, murder. Confuses a girl like me. 19:40.000 --> 19:55.000 Hey, Danny! Danny, wait for me! 19:55.000 --> 19:57.000 What's on your mind, Gino? 19:57.000 --> 20:00.000 Here. Exhibit A. All wrapped up, ready to go. 20:00.000 --> 20:02.000 Oh, they found the gun, huh? Where? 20:02.000 --> 20:06.000 Wedged between some debris and an old tire in the backyard of the tenement where Lawson and Don will be flung. 20:06.000 --> 20:08.000 How come it wasn't found sooner? 20:08.000 --> 20:10.000 Why ask me? I wasn't there. I don't know. 20:10.000 --> 20:11.000 Do something for me, Gino. 20:11.000 --> 20:12.000 What? 20:12.000 --> 20:15.000 Go upstairs and get the fingerprints of everybody connected with this case. 20:15.000 --> 20:19.000 Then take the prints and the gun down to Gordon in technical. Tell Gordon I'll be there in a half hour. 20:19.000 --> 20:32.000 Okay, Danny. 20:32.000 --> 20:37.000 Well, Danny Clover. 20:37.000 --> 20:40.000 I make you that happy, Gordon? 20:40.000 --> 20:51.000 Look, Gordon, a little while ago Sergeant Fertigli came down here with his grubby fists aglow with things for Gordon for me to take care of for you, because I'm the only one who can. 20:51.000 --> 20:55.000 A gun and a few sets of fingerprints. You know my advice to you... 20:55.000 --> 20:56.000 So help me, Gordon. 20:56.000 --> 21:05.000 ...bury sickly threats from such a big man, my advice to you, Lieutenant, is to keep your mouth open in amazement and let your jaw hang there. 21:05.000 --> 21:07.000 I've got a goody for you. 21:07.000 --> 21:08.000 Okay, what is it? 21:08.000 --> 21:11.000 The prints on the gun. You know who those are, Lieutenant? 21:11.000 --> 21:12.000 Lawson's? 21:12.000 --> 21:18.000 A dead man, Alex Raymond, the man who fell dead in your arms yesterday afternoon. 21:18.000 --> 21:19.000 You kidding? 21:19.000 --> 21:23.000 If I was kidding, you'd be laughing, but your jaw's hanging the way I said it would. 21:23.000 --> 21:32.000 Raymond, a man who died yesterday afternoon, also left his prints on a gun that killed an officer who died last night. 21:32.000 --> 21:35.000 Very tricky, isn't it? 21:45.000 --> 21:52.000 Look, Mr. Clow, you picked me up at my place and I came along with you without question. Don't you think it's time you told me what this is all about? 21:52.000 --> 21:58.000 The last department in this corridor is the home of Stanley Lawson, the man who used to be your toy designer. 21:58.000 --> 22:03.000 I see. What do you expect me to do? Look at it, feel sorry for the people inside? 22:03.000 --> 22:13.000 Just his wife, the only one inside. You'd better brief me on what I'm supposed to say to a woman whose husband killed my partner, murdered an officer of the law. It'll come to you. 22:18.000 --> 22:20.000 Good evening, Mr. Clover. 22:20.000 --> 22:23.000 Miss Lawson, this is Mr. Harper. 22:23.000 --> 22:28.000 Please come in. My husband talks about you often, Mr. Harper. 22:28.000 --> 22:32.000 I want you to know how sorry I am about what's happened. 22:32.000 --> 22:35.000 You're sorry? You really are? 22:35.000 --> 22:36.000 Of course I am. 22:36.000 --> 22:38.000 That's strange. 22:38.000 --> 22:41.000 Mrs. Lawson, I was brought here. For what reason I don't... 22:41.000 --> 22:48.000 I find it strange because my husband always said you were a shrewd businessman. He never told me you were a liar. 22:48.000 --> 22:54.000 Look, Clover, what is all this? You said you were sorry about what happened and Mrs. Lawson called you a liar. 22:54.000 --> 23:00.000 The fact, Mrs. Lawson, that you're the wife of a murderer makes anything you say pretty unimportant. 23:00.000 --> 23:01.000 Mr. Clover? 23:01.000 --> 23:02.000 Yes? 23:02.000 --> 23:04.000 I talked to my husband about an hour ago. 23:04.000 --> 23:06.000 I know, that's why we've come here. 23:06.000 --> 23:08.000 If you two want to chat, you mind if I do? 23:08.000 --> 23:09.000 We mind. 23:09.000 --> 23:11.000 You know all about it, Mr. Clover? 23:11.000 --> 23:15.000 The police stenographer who was in the hospital room when you spoke with your husband showed me the transcript. 23:15.000 --> 23:17.000 Do you believe what my husband told me? 23:17.000 --> 23:21.000 Yes. Is... is your husband going to live? 23:21.000 --> 23:26.000 I don't know. What about you, Mr. Harper? 23:26.000 --> 23:28.000 What? 23:28.000 --> 23:30.000 What about him, Mr. Clover? 23:30.000 --> 23:31.000 He's here, isn't he? 23:31.000 --> 23:35.000 Suppose you just take me back where you got me, Mr. Clover. Just who do you think you are? 23:35.000 --> 23:40.000 Harper, I wanted you to meet Mrs. Lawson. I wanted you to see her home. Go ahead, look around. 23:40.000 --> 23:43.000 This is a home, Mr. Harper. This is a place where two people made their lives. 23:43.000 --> 23:46.000 You never know what comes out of these homes, do you? 23:46.000 --> 23:50.000 I've got a little piece of news for you, Harper. Lawson didn't kill your partner. 23:50.000 --> 23:52.000 You're crazy. You were there. 23:52.000 --> 23:56.000 Yeah, I know, but Lawson didn't kill. Not of everything I've got fixed together, he didn't kill. 23:56.000 --> 23:58.000 Calm now. Calm, calm. 23:58.000 --> 24:04.000 Lawson went to Alex Raymond, pleaded for his job, demanded his job because he was frantic, because he'd given you and Raymond 15 years of his life. 24:04.000 --> 24:06.000 We paid him well. 24:06.000 --> 24:08.000 Thank you very much, Mr. Harper. 24:08.000 --> 24:14.000 Demanded his job. Raymond pulled a gun and told him to get out. Lawson wouldn't. Raymond threatened him. There was a fight. 24:14.000 --> 24:18.000 The gun went off. Raymond had shot himself in the struggle. Lawson fled. 24:18.000 --> 24:20.000 But Raymond told you. 24:20.000 --> 24:24.000 I know. He told me Lawson had shot him. It was Raymond's revenge for dying. 24:24.000 --> 24:27.000 The alleged killer had fled. We made only a cursed research for the murder weapon. 24:27.000 --> 24:29.000 This is ridiculous. I'm getting out of here. 24:29.000 --> 24:32.000 If you move, Mr. Harper, I'll find something to kill you with. 24:32.000 --> 24:34.000 I'll take care of him, Mrs. Hawthorne. 24:34.000 --> 24:38.000 What do you mean, you'll take care of me? What have I got to do with all this? 24:38.000 --> 24:42.000 Lawson called you, told you what had happened, asked you to meet him, begged for your help. 24:42.000 --> 24:45.000 Demanded money to leave town. I told you that. 24:45.000 --> 24:51.000 That would hold except for one thing. A gun with Raymond's prints on it. Not Lawson's because he never held the gun. 24:51.000 --> 24:54.000 Never held the gun. He killed a policeman with it, didn't he? 24:54.000 --> 25:02.000 No. After the phone call, you went to Raymond's apartment, found the gun that Raymond had hidden away to make it appear that Lawson was a murderer. 25:02.000 --> 25:05.000 Then you went to the tenement, hid. 25:05.000 --> 25:08.000 Why? Why should I do that? 25:08.000 --> 25:12.000 I'll get to that. You hid in that tenement during the stake-off when I called up to Lawson. 25:12.000 --> 25:15.000 It was you who fired those shots, killed a policeman. 25:15.000 --> 25:19.000 You wore gloves so that Raymond's prints would still be on the gun. 25:19.000 --> 25:22.000 Now I'll tell you why you did all this. 25:22.000 --> 25:25.000 If you can, here... 25:25.000 --> 25:28.000 Wherever I am, this is why you did it. 25:28.000 --> 25:33.000 Raymond was dead. You got a new toy on the market that's going to make you a lot of money. 25:33.000 --> 25:38.000 A toy that Lawson brought to you. Get him out of the way and all that money was yours. No strings. 25:38.000 --> 25:39.000 Mr. Harper? 25:39.000 --> 25:41.000 No. Give me that gun, Mrs. Lawson. 25:41.000 --> 25:46.000 Don't try to take it away from me. You understand about me, Mr. Clover. You know what I do. 25:46.000 --> 25:48.000 Yes. Yes, I know. 25:48.000 --> 25:51.000 Pray for something, Mr. Harper. 25:51.000 --> 26:01.000 All right. All right. I confess to you. I did it. I did everything he said. But don't... don't kill me. 26:01.000 --> 26:04.000 Is that what you call a prayer? 26:04.000 --> 26:10.000 Mrs. Clover, don't let her do it. Please, please. Talk to her. Tell her. Tell her I don't want her to die. 26:10.000 --> 26:16.000 She won't listen to me. She'll kill me. She'll kill me. 26:16.000 --> 26:19.000 This is what you wanted, isn't it, Mrs. Lawson? 26:19.000 --> 26:47.000 Yes. That's enough. Take him out of here. 26:47.000 --> 26:52.000 Broadway's sleeping now, and the people of the chasm have gone home. 26:52.000 --> 26:58.000 Only the sleepwalkers are there, and the dream seekers, the shadow dwellers. 26:58.000 --> 27:05.000 It's limbo time, when the sawdust dance, the derelicts, the huggers close to nothing. 27:05.000 --> 27:15.000 It's Broadway. The goddess. The most violent. The lonesomest mile in the world. 27:15.000 --> 27:30.000 Broadway. My Beat. 27:30.000 --> 27:35.000 Tonight on FPN Presents, you've been listening to some of the best in radio drama, 27:35.000 --> 27:38.000 with Biber McGee and Molly, and Broadway's My Beats. 27:38.000 --> 27:42.000 Join us again Monday evening at the same time, 9.05, 27:42.000 --> 28:03.000 when FPN presents Dragnet and Escape.