WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:07.000 Broadway's My Beat, from Times Square to Columbus Circle, the guardiest, the most violent, the 00:07.640 --> 00:12.640 lonesomest mile in the world. 00:12.640 --> 00:33.640 Broadway's My Beat, with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Grover. 00:33.640 --> 00:34.640 Broadway, it's the neon avenue of the beggars, the gleaming alley of the scavengers who dart 00:34.640 --> 00:39.640 in search and revel in a blaze of fury, then gather in the gutters of night. There they 00:39.640 --> 00:43.640 move in catalog and compare the spoils salvaged from the litter of darkness, the materials 00:43.640 --> 00:48.640 of pain, the odds and ends of bitterness, the scraps of illusion. And you watch them and 00:48.640 --> 00:55.640 try to move away, but you can't. You're one of them. It's Broadway's My Beat. 00:55.640 --> 01:00.640 The room is dismal and cold. The walls are covered with many coats of green paint. You 01:00.640 --> 01:04.440 know that because initials have been gouged into them, because there are scars or fingers 01:04.440 --> 01:08.440 that clawed at them. It's a room where pain is brought in off the streets and wrapped 01:08.440 --> 01:13.440 in sterile gauze and sent on its way. A police emergency ward close to the East River. A 01:13.440 --> 01:17.440 girl wrapped in a brown blanket lies on the table in the center of the room. The naked 01:17.440 --> 01:22.440 light bulb draws the color out of her. Glitters on her dank hair. And finally the man who 01:22.440 --> 01:27.440 has been bent over her sighs, shudders, and finds her in a shadow. 01:27.440 --> 01:29.440 I can trouble you for a cigarette, Danny? 01:29.440 --> 01:31.440 Sure, sure. Here. 01:31.440 --> 01:33.440 Thanks. 01:33.440 --> 01:34.440 Well, Dr. Sinclair? 01:34.440 --> 01:40.440 A moment, Danny. Give me a moment. I'll never adjust to it. But the girl, she'll be all 01:40.440 --> 01:42.440 right, Danny. I think she'll be all right. 01:42.440 --> 01:43.440 Suicide attempt? 01:43.440 --> 01:47.440 This is a question, Danny. That's why I called you. Maybe suicide. Maybe somebody wanted 01:47.440 --> 01:50.440 a dead poster into the river because they wanted a dead poster. 01:50.440 --> 01:54.440 You're crazy, Doc. I've been telling you she wanted to die, so she picked the river. 01:54.440 --> 01:55.440 Who are you? 01:55.440 --> 02:00.440 I'm her husband. I don't work at it, though, so I still don't understand why I was called. 02:00.440 --> 02:02.440 Maybe you can tell me, Mr. 02:02.440 --> 02:06.440 Clover. This is Danny Clover, a good detective, a good man. Show him respect, Mr. 02:06.440 --> 02:07.440 Guilford. 02:07.440 --> 02:12.440 Yeah, okay. Please, Mr. Clover, will you tell me why I was called down here? Please. 02:12.440 --> 02:14.440 Maybe they thought you'd shed a tear over your wife. 02:14.440 --> 02:16.440 Give me another reason, Mr. Clover. 02:16.440 --> 02:20.440 We called him, Danny, to identify the girl. We found one of those ten cents store 02:20.440 --> 02:24.440 identification cards on her. Said she was Janet Guilford. Case of emergency to 02:24.440 --> 02:28.440 notify her husband, Mark Guilford. You see the result. 02:28.440 --> 02:31.440 You say your wife wanted to die, Mr. Guilford. You knew about that? 02:31.440 --> 02:35.440 Yeah, I knew. She told me often enough. She held it over me like a whip. She beat me 02:35.440 --> 02:39.440 with it how she was going to kill herself. A man like me can only take so much of 02:39.440 --> 02:40.440 that, Mr. Clover. 02:40.440 --> 02:43.440 Only so much. So you tried to make her wish come true. 02:43.440 --> 02:46.440 Try again, Mr. Clover. I haven't been near her in three months. 02:46.440 --> 02:50.440 Wait, wait. Why would I pick that? I want it to be quiet. It must be quiet. 02:54.440 --> 02:58.440 Mrs. Guilford. Don't be frightened, Mrs. Guilford. You're all right. 02:58.440 --> 03:02.440 Who are you? Who are you to tell me I'm all right? Who are you? 03:02.440 --> 03:06.440 I'm a doctor, Mrs. Guilford. Are you a mystery? Do you see the shock? 03:06.440 --> 03:07.440 Shock? 03:07.440 --> 03:09.440 Mrs. Guilford, please. 03:09.440 --> 03:15.440 I hate you. I hate you. I hate all of you good-for-merit. 03:18.440 --> 03:23.440 What do you get? A medal for saving a life I don't want? No one wants? 03:23.440 --> 03:27.440 Mrs. Guilford, we brought your husband. Come here, Mr. Guilford. 03:27.440 --> 03:32.440 Your husband, Mrs. Guilford, he is very concerned over you. 03:32.440 --> 03:35.440 Yeah. Yeah, Janice, he's... 03:35.440 --> 03:37.440 Get your hands off me! Take him off! 03:37.440 --> 03:39.440 Okay, dear. Okay. 03:39.440 --> 03:41.440 Mrs. Guilford, taking your own life again. 03:41.440 --> 03:49.440 Against the law? Against whose law? Yours? And yours? And his? My husband? 03:49.440 --> 03:50.440 Mrs. Guilford. 03:50.440 --> 03:51.440 You're a policeman, aren't you? 03:51.440 --> 03:52.440 Yes. 03:52.440 --> 03:58.440 I'll tell you something, because you're a policeman. You didn't let me die when I wanted to die. 03:58.440 --> 04:06.440 But I'll die even if I have to make you kill me. I'll do something and you have to kill me, then I'll be dead! Dead! Dead! 04:09.440 --> 04:12.440 Ben Dotsosinski became impersonal about the whole thing. 04:12.440 --> 04:15.440 Somehow there was suddenly a cotton dog in one hand to hype one the other. 04:15.440 --> 04:21.440 In a few moments, Janet Guilford's protest became sobs, and the sobs trailed off into sleep. 04:21.440 --> 04:27.440 And each morning after that, reports were put on my desk. 04:27.440 --> 04:31.440 Janet Guilford was in shock. Then she was a little better, taking nourishment. 04:31.440 --> 04:35.440 On Monday they sent me some ink blots. Translation, Janet Guilford was a lot better. 04:35.440 --> 04:40.440 Tuesday she was ashamed of what she had done. Thursday she was released. 04:43.440 --> 04:48.440 Then it was Thursday night and a squad car called into headquarters. Central Park detail calling. 04:48.440 --> 04:53.440 The spring night had just been shattered. A woman's been found shot to death a couple of hundred yards in back of the zoo. 04:53.440 --> 04:56.440 Get down here. I did. 04:56.440 --> 04:58.440 Hi, Danny. Right over here. 04:58.440 --> 05:00.440 Okay, Gloria. Brief me, what happened? 05:00.440 --> 05:03.440 Up on that flat, Danny, and it's off the big rock. Come on. 05:06.440 --> 05:09.440 Right over there. That happened. 05:10.440 --> 05:11.440 Shot in the back, huh? 05:11.440 --> 05:15.440 Mm-hmm. Come up close. I'd say someone had an arm around it with a gun. 05:15.440 --> 05:16.440 Find a weapon? 05:16.440 --> 05:19.440 No, maybe it's around the left of the way in those daylights to make sure. 05:19.440 --> 05:21.440 Attractive woman like that. 05:21.440 --> 05:25.440 Well, she tried to be. We had a little more time to look, Danny. An awful lot of makeup. 05:25.440 --> 05:27.440 And they had too much for this trolling in Central Park. 05:27.440 --> 05:28.440 Identification? 05:28.440 --> 05:31.440 Yeah, yeah, a wallet. There's a security card, driver's license. 05:31.440 --> 05:35.440 Name's Thelma Harper, 1414 Front Street, Bronx. Leave so it says in the wallet. 05:35.440 --> 05:36.440 Let's see. 05:36.440 --> 05:37.440 Yeah, in here. 05:37.440 --> 05:39.440 A little more flashlight, Gloria. 05:41.440 --> 05:42.440 She had a lot of friends. 05:42.440 --> 05:44.440 Any nice pictures? 05:44.440 --> 05:47.440 Yeah, yeah, she did. I guess one of her friends fooled her. 05:47.440 --> 05:49.440 You're gonna kill us with that light fire. 05:49.440 --> 05:50.440 Oh, sorry. 05:50.440 --> 05:51.440 I don't think so. 05:51.440 --> 05:52.440 What? 05:52.440 --> 05:58.440 I'm not sure. These Cone Island snapshots. A man and a woman with their heads stuck to a cardboard box to make them look like hula dancers. 05:58.440 --> 05:59.440 It's very clear. 05:59.440 --> 06:02.440 It's pretty clear, Danny. I'd say the woman was Thelma Harper. 06:02.440 --> 06:04.440 Me too. You know what I'd say about the man? 06:04.440 --> 06:06.440 No, I don't say it, so I know. 06:06.440 --> 06:14.440 I'd say his name was Mark Guilford. I'd say this is the man whose wife tried to commit suicide a few days ago. 06:14.440 --> 06:19.440 At headquarters, they gave me Mark Guilford's address, a rooming house on West 16th Street. 06:19.440 --> 06:28.440 It was dawn, but already the Watts women of the street were leaning out of upstairs windows, their arms folded and resting on pillows to ease the hardships of their occupation. 06:28.440 --> 06:34.440 They watched me, classified me, nodded dawn's greetings to each other, with their eyes pointed me out to each other, 06:34.440 --> 06:37.440 and then discarded me in favor of a yelping dog. 06:37.440 --> 06:42.440 In a hallway lighted with a 10 watt bulb, I found the door to Mark's room. 06:42.440 --> 06:50.440 There was no answer. I tried to knock. It was locked. 06:50.440 --> 06:55.440 Then there was the sound of someone coming up the stairs. It was Mark Guilford. 06:55.440 --> 06:57.440 Hey, you, what are you doing? You trying to play? 06:57.440 --> 06:59.440 Hey, good morning, Mark. 06:59.440 --> 07:02.440 Oh, it's Mr. Clover of the police department. 07:02.440 --> 07:05.440 What's the matter, Mr. Clover? Janet, try it again. 07:05.440 --> 07:06.440 Let's go into your room. 07:06.440 --> 07:12.440 Yeah, sure, sure. 07:12.440 --> 07:15.440 Here, I'll turn on the light. 07:15.440 --> 07:18.440 It's not cozy, but it's private. 07:18.440 --> 07:22.440 Till now. You may have the chair, Mr. Clover. 07:22.440 --> 07:23.440 You've been out, Mark? 07:23.440 --> 07:27.440 Yeah, sure, I've been out. Big night, home at dawn. Every night is that way with me. Big. 07:27.440 --> 07:29.440 Tell me about tonight. 07:29.440 --> 07:36.440 Mind if I wash my face and hands first? No, you don't mind. 07:36.440 --> 07:38.440 What's special about tonight? 07:38.440 --> 07:40.440 Thelma Hopper. 07:40.440 --> 07:44.440 You mind handing me that towel, Mr. Clover? 07:44.440 --> 07:46.440 Thanks. 07:46.440 --> 07:47.440 Thelma Hopper, Mark. 07:47.440 --> 07:51.440 Yeah, good kids, a lot of fun. Takes a man's mind off of things. 07:51.440 --> 07:52.440 Man like me. 07:52.440 --> 07:54.440 She was found dead tonight in Central Park. 07:54.440 --> 07:59.440 I'll just hang this towel out the window to dry. 07:59.440 --> 08:01.440 They always do that and never dry. 08:01.440 --> 08:04.440 You didn't hear me, Mark. Thelma Hopper was murdered, shot in the back. 08:04.440 --> 08:06.440 I heard you. 08:06.440 --> 08:10.440 What do you want me to do, to cry, scream, tear my hair out? 08:10.440 --> 08:12.440 A man like me, I don't do things like that. 08:12.440 --> 08:15.440 But a man like you has your picture taken with Thelma at Coney Island. 08:15.440 --> 08:19.440 What else does a man like you do, Mark, like tonight? 08:19.440 --> 08:20.440 I work. 08:20.440 --> 08:21.440 What? 08:21.440 --> 08:24.440 I work every night of my life. I work. Except holidays. 08:24.440 --> 08:25.440 Where? 08:25.440 --> 08:28.440 The city power plant. I miss the dynamos. 08:28.440 --> 08:33.440 Listen to their whining. One stops whining, lights go out in the street and houses. 08:33.440 --> 08:37.440 I coax the dynamo, lights go back on. I do this every night. Tonight, too. You can check. 08:37.440 --> 08:39.440 We will. 08:39.440 --> 08:41.440 Did you ask Janet about Thelma's murder? 08:41.440 --> 08:43.440 No. Should I? 08:43.440 --> 08:48.440 Yeah, you should. That's what broke Janet and me up, this Thelma kid. 08:48.440 --> 08:55.440 Between swearing to kill herself and or Thelma, Janet had me on a merry-go-round. 08:55.440 --> 08:57.440 I would figure, wouldn't it, Mr. Clover? 08:57.440 --> 09:00.440 You'll stick around, huh, Mark, in case we need you for anything. 09:00.440 --> 09:09.440 Yeah, sure, glad to. But you'll see, Mr. Clover, it's like I told you, that Janet, very confused girl. Very. 09:11.440 --> 09:15.440 Mark Fallaby, check. After that, there was only one thing to do. Pick up Janet Guilford. 09:15.440 --> 09:20.440 It should have been simple. She'd given us an address. I went there in a squad color. 09:20.440 --> 09:23.440 I would have made it except that the East River stopped me. 09:23.440 --> 09:28.440 Somewhere in the middle of the river is where she would have lived if the address had existed at all. 09:28.440 --> 09:33.440 Then an all-points bulletin, pick up Janet Guilford. She was wanted for questioning in connection with a murder. 09:33.440 --> 09:37.440 And all the while, a thought was taking shape and trying to get itself heard. 09:37.440 --> 09:41.440 Eventually, I would have put it into words if Dr. Sinsky hadn't beaten me to it. 09:41.440 --> 09:45.440 It was at headquarters, and he started off gently. 09:45.440 --> 09:46.440 Janet? 09:46.440 --> 09:47.440 Oh, come in, Dr. Sinsky. 09:47.440 --> 09:50.440 Okay. Am I interrupting you? 09:50.440 --> 09:51.440 Uh-uh. 09:51.440 --> 09:55.440 Oh, then I'll sit. I got a few things on my mind. 09:55.440 --> 09:57.440 Me too. I've been thinking that... 09:57.440 --> 10:00.440 It looks like we both were. 10:00.440 --> 10:01.440 I'm sorry, doctor. 10:01.440 --> 10:02.440 Go ahead. 10:02.440 --> 10:08.440 You know, when you practice medicine around the police department, something happens. Something rubs off and sticks. 10:08.440 --> 10:09.440 What are you trying to say? 10:09.440 --> 10:13.440 For instance, this. A police physician gets his medicine mixed up with motifs. 10:13.440 --> 10:19.440 I treat a wound, I ask myself, what circumstance, what did the will do to this person to produce this hurt? 10:19.440 --> 10:20.440 You're getting at something, Dr. Sinsky? 10:20.440 --> 10:22.440 Yeah, yeah, Danny, I am. I'm trying to explain. 10:22.440 --> 10:26.440 I'm trying to excuse myself for making a suggestion that belongs to your department. 10:26.440 --> 10:28.440 I'd be happy for it. 10:28.440 --> 10:32.440 Danny, several days ago, a woman named Janet Guilford tried to kill herself. 10:32.440 --> 10:37.440 In her hysteria, she swore she would die somehow, even if she made the police kill her. 10:37.440 --> 10:40.440 People say all sorts of things in distress, but now... 10:40.440 --> 10:42.440 Go ahead. 10:42.440 --> 10:48.440 I've been reading the reports. They suppose Janet killed Thelma Harper. Janet would be a murderess. 10:48.440 --> 10:52.440 A woman can be executed. Janet would get her wish. She'd die. 10:52.440 --> 10:53.440 Pardon me, Danny. 10:53.440 --> 10:54.440 Oh, sure. 10:54.440 --> 10:56.440 Danny Korver speaking. 10:56.440 --> 10:58.440 Muggerman, Danny. We found Janet Guilford. 10:58.440 --> 10:59.440 Good. Where is she? 10:59.440 --> 11:15.440 In a flea bag on Third Avenue, 2220. You'd better hurry, Danny. She might not be here long. 11:15.440 --> 11:23.440 Uh, in this room here, Danny. 11:23.440 --> 11:24.440 Oh, no. 11:24.440 --> 11:27.440 Yeah, suicide. Promoter squad still working on her. 11:27.440 --> 11:28.440 Who found her? 11:28.440 --> 11:33.440 I found her. I found her right there where she is now, and I didn't touch a thing except... 11:33.440 --> 11:34.440 Except what? 11:34.440 --> 11:39.440 Well, I kicked out the window. I smelled gas in here, and I saw right away what happened, so I kicked out the window and called you police. 11:39.440 --> 11:40.440 Who are you? 11:40.440 --> 11:46.440 Mrs. Lamp. I own this awful place. Mr. Lamp left it to me, and I run it as a tribute to his memory. 11:46.440 --> 11:51.440 He told me on his deathbed, he said, Mrs. Lamp, I'm leaving you the flea bag. I'd like to... 11:51.440 --> 11:53.440 Okay, okay. How did you happen to find her? 11:53.440 --> 12:03.440 Well, this lady here told me yesterday. She said she might not be home for a couple of days, so I came in to feed her canary, and I smelled gas, and I saw and kicked in the window and called you police. 12:03.440 --> 12:04.440 Yeah. 12:04.440 --> 12:05.440 Danny. 12:05.440 --> 12:06.440 Yeah, what is it, Mother? 12:06.440 --> 12:10.440 Promoter boy just gave me the nod. 12:10.440 --> 12:13.440 Dan. Janet Jopford's dead. 12:13.440 --> 12:30.440 Yeah, Danny. Dead. 12:30.440 --> 12:49.440 You are listening to Broadway's My Beat, written by Morton Fine and David Creechen, and starring Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. 12:49.440 --> 12:58.440 You've got to listen close on Broadway. That's the only way you can tell if the sound you just heard was laughter or somebody beating back a scream in his throat. 12:58.440 --> 13:04.440 Not that it makes a lot of difference. Broadway reacts to clowns and murder in putting it the same way. 13:04.440 --> 13:11.440 In the matter of Selma Hopper, a woman who died in Central Park, Broadway was appreciative of the setting. It went to spring. 13:11.440 --> 13:17.440 In the suicide of Janet Jopford, Broadway passed it off as the B production, which went with the main feature. 13:17.440 --> 13:21.440 Or as Sargentino Tataglia said it the next day in my office... 13:21.440 --> 13:23.440 This is where I came in, Danny. 13:23.440 --> 13:24.440 Huh? 13:24.440 --> 13:26.440 This is where I came, 20 years ago, this very day. 13:26.440 --> 13:28.440 What are you talking about, Detective? 13:28.440 --> 13:37.440 20 years ago, they're sat in that very desk. You are now in France, a Lieutenant Marsala. His daughter Nina came to visit him. I walked in, we looked. 13:37.440 --> 13:42.440 Without a word was hardly spoken, we walked down to the city hall and became Mr. and Mrs. Tataglia. 13:42.440 --> 13:46.440 Oh, it's your anniversary. Congratulations. 13:46.440 --> 13:55.440 I knew I dragged that out of you. Hey, look Danny, a new shave, courtesy of the ever-loving Mrs. Tataglia and the Shave Master she gave me. 13:55.440 --> 13:58.440 My face and these shaves make a handsome couple, huh? 13:58.440 --> 13:59.440 I'm striking, Detective. 13:59.440 --> 14:00.440 Then please. 14:00.440 --> 14:06.440 Now Danny, if you don't mind, I think that's enough idle chatter. How's about what's getting to work, huh? 14:06.440 --> 14:08.440 All right, if you put it that way. 14:08.440 --> 14:10.440 Frankly, Danny, work is at a roll. 14:10.440 --> 14:13.440 Imagine that. And I thought we had a murder to work on. 14:13.440 --> 14:17.440 You know, I just don't understand, Danny. I thought this case was open and sharp. 14:17.440 --> 14:18.440 Tell me how. 14:18.440 --> 14:27.440 Well, Janet Guilford tries to commit suicide, fails, is unhappy because she fails. Thelma Harper, who was gadding about with Janet's husband, is found shot to death. 14:27.440 --> 14:31.440 Then Janet tries to commit suicide again, succeeds. One and one makes two. 14:31.440 --> 14:32.440 As simple as that. 14:32.440 --> 14:37.440 Sure. Janet murders the source of her trouble, which is Thelma. Then Janet turns on the gas. 14:37.440 --> 14:41.440 Yeah, it's probably just that way. But what about Thelma Harper? Anything there? 14:41.440 --> 14:50.440 No, we have questioned Miss Harper's friends and enemies with dispatching diligence. Each one has produced a textbook type alibi, which would be tough to crack with a crowbar. 14:50.440 --> 14:51.440 All of them, huh? 14:51.440 --> 14:52.440 Except Holly Morris. 14:52.440 --> 14:53.440 Who's Holly Morris? 14:53.440 --> 14:54.440 Thelma's maid. 14:54.440 --> 14:56.440 Well, why didn't you question her? 14:56.440 --> 15:00.440 Well, we can't find her. Nowhere. As if, whoosh, she went up from the pelt to smoke. 15:00.440 --> 15:18.440 That's right. Get an all-points bulletin out on Holly Morris. Find her. Bring her in. Find her, Sotaglia. 15:18.440 --> 15:20.440 Turn her out, pay attention, Danny. It's smuggled in. 15:20.440 --> 15:22.440 Oh. Anything? 15:22.440 --> 15:25.440 Nothing, Danny. Why don't you tell somebody you're hiding out communications? 15:25.440 --> 15:27.440 You found me. What do you want? 15:27.440 --> 15:32.440 I tracked down every lead on Holly Morris. Seems everybody knows everything about her except where she's disappeared to. 15:32.440 --> 15:33.440 Stay with us. 15:33.440 --> 15:38.440 Danny, it's a plain to everybody that Janet Guilford committed the murder. What are you building? 15:38.440 --> 15:39.440 You'll stay with us, my dear. 15:39.440 --> 15:43.440 Okay. Okay. If you're interested, there's a guy waiting for you in your office. 15:43.440 --> 15:44.440 What? 15:44.440 --> 15:46.440 When I was looking for you, I peeked in your office. There's a guy there. 15:46.440 --> 15:48.440 Hey, Danny, I'll keep checking with you. 15:48.440 --> 15:58.440 Danny, Danny, Danny. Such a long time no see. Hiya, Danny. 15:58.440 --> 15:59.440 Hi, Irv. What's on your mind? 15:59.440 --> 16:04.440 Oh, Danny, I can tell by your expression you are very busy in the brain department. So I'll come right to the point. 16:04.440 --> 16:07.440 I will not tell you how is Mrs. Newman or about the lousy cab business. 16:07.440 --> 16:08.440 What is it, Irv? 16:08.440 --> 16:10.440 It's about a thing. Her name is Holly Morris. 16:10.440 --> 16:11.440 What about her? 16:11.440 --> 16:17.440 I understand the police department needs her. There are bulletins that are defecting the company garage. Her picture. Have you seen this woman? Report it to me. 16:17.440 --> 16:18.440 You know where she is? 16:18.440 --> 16:24.440 Chantle, Danny, chantle. Let me at least ram the pysy. Yesterday in the afternoon gets into my cab a thing. 16:24.440 --> 16:31.440 Take me to the park, she says. I take her to the park. She talks to me about springs and such things. Then take me home, she says. I take her home. 16:31.440 --> 16:37.440 The fare is a dollar sixty, I say. She gives me a pin for a tip. This is so you will remember me, she says. 16:37.440 --> 16:41.440 When I saw a picture in the garage, I remembered it even better. The generous lady is Holly Morris. 16:41.440 --> 16:42.440 Where'd you take her? 16:42.440 --> 16:47.440 To a basement of Cliveman and a brownstone. 2967 West 68th Street. 16:47.440 --> 17:14.440 Danny, you'll come to the house for wishes sometime. It's always open. 17:14.440 --> 17:41.440 Miss Morris? Miss Morris? Anyone home? Miss Morris? Are you asleep? I'm from the police. Miss Morris, wake up. 17:41.440 --> 17:50.440 She lay tall across the meeting, her eyes staring, her mouth open in the silent ugly grimace of a scream. 17:50.440 --> 17:54.440 A scream that was never heard because it had been cut off, strangled back into her throat. 17:54.440 --> 17:59.440 The thing that did it was the silk stalking, knotted, cutting deep into the flesh of her throat. 17:59.440 --> 18:07.440 I worked at it, the knot was tight, tight. And then it crashed across the back of my scalp. 18:07.440 --> 18:12.440 It was all pain everywhere and all. And it came again. 18:12.440 --> 18:15.440 Hey, what's going on down there? What's going on? 18:15.440 --> 18:22.440 And the far-off voice was washed away because it came again. 18:22.440 --> 18:42.440 And then it was the sound of running down a long, long corridor. And the ticking clock meant nothing. 18:42.440 --> 18:50.440 Come on, come on, come on. Wake up. Wake up, you. You say something I can understand. You hear? Wake up. Get up and talk to me. 18:50.440 --> 18:53.440 What's going on here? 18:53.440 --> 18:54.440 Who are you? 18:54.440 --> 18:57.440 Dewey. I'm Dewey. What are you doing here? What happened? 18:57.440 --> 19:01.440 Make it easy, friends. I'm a policeman. Now you tell me what happened. 19:01.440 --> 19:04.440 I'm Dewey. I'm the super here. Run things, keep the water hot, complaint the problem. 19:04.440 --> 19:06.440 What about the girl on the band Dewey? 19:06.440 --> 19:11.440 Oh, I didn't notice her. I only noticed you. I heard noises. I hurried to the scene. I found your body on the rug. 19:11.440 --> 19:13.440 Start all over, huh? What about the girl on the band? 19:13.440 --> 19:15.440 She's a tenant. I like her. 19:15.440 --> 19:16.440 She's dead, Dewey. 19:16.440 --> 19:20.440 I don't believe you. You believe she. Everyone is a potential cop. Dead? 19:20.440 --> 19:28.440 Strangled. A little while ago I walked in on it. Whoever strangled Holly Morris tried to beat me to death. I guess you disturbed him. 19:28.440 --> 19:30.440 Oh, the fellas will never believe it when I tell them. 19:30.440 --> 19:34.440 Look, Dewey, you still haven't told me very much about Holly. You want to do that now or down at headquarters? 19:34.440 --> 19:35.440 Now or at headquarters? 19:35.440 --> 19:36.440 Now. 19:36.440 --> 19:37.440 Then tell me. 19:37.440 --> 19:41.440 Well, Holly Morris was our latest tenant. She paid her rent a month in advance. 19:41.440 --> 19:47.440 Oh, she was lavish with her money in that she did profusely and gave gratuities whether the occasion called for it or not. 19:47.440 --> 19:53.440 Obviously a woman of wealth and station. Believe me, that's all I know. Oh, I'd hate to go to headquarters and have a bemish on my record. 19:53.440 --> 19:55.440 Yeah, stick around, Dewey. 19:55.440 --> 19:56.440 However, if I can be of further assistance... 19:56.440 --> 19:58.440 Don't call us. We'll call you. 20:05.440 --> 20:09.440 Oh, the blows a human skull can take both inside and outside. 20:09.440 --> 20:11.440 They'll get easy, Doctor. 20:11.440 --> 20:14.440 Still, Danny, you had so much already you can't take a little more. 20:16.440 --> 20:18.440 This is a work of art, what they did to your head. 20:18.440 --> 20:19.440 You like it, huh? 20:19.440 --> 20:23.440 It's like all art, Danny. I don't know much about it, but I know what I like. 20:23.440 --> 20:26.440 Yes, do I like this particular masterpiece of lancy? I don't like it. 20:26.440 --> 20:27.440 Thanks, Doc. 20:28.440 --> 20:29.440 Hey, watch it. 20:29.440 --> 20:35.440 Oh, you're maligning me, Danny. All my non-paying patients say I have such a beautiful bedside manner. 20:35.440 --> 20:41.440 There, you're fixed up, Danny. Till the next time. How many next plans can there be? 20:41.440 --> 20:45.440 No more for Holly Morris. Why? Can you tell me why? 20:45.440 --> 20:49.440 This is even a worse headache for you, isn't it, Danny? Three people dead. 20:49.440 --> 20:52.440 A heavy responsibility for you, for society. 20:52.440 --> 20:57.440 The suicide, Janet Gilford. That's what bothers me. If it weren't suicide... 20:57.440 --> 20:59.440 Say where you are, Danny. I'll answer. 20:59.440 --> 21:06.440 First aid room, Dr. Sinsky speaking. But you can't, Lieutenant Clover. 21:06.440 --> 21:07.440 I'll take it, Doctor. 21:09.440 --> 21:10.440 Lieutenant Clover speaking. 21:10.440 --> 21:15.440 Oh, Mr. Clover, I insisted on talking to you. You were so nice and so polite. 21:15.440 --> 21:17.440 You remember me, the fleabag lady? 21:17.440 --> 21:20.440 Huh? Oh, yes. Yes, what's on your mind, Mr. Lam? 21:20.440 --> 21:21.440 The bird, Mr. Clover. 21:21.440 --> 21:22.440 What? 21:22.440 --> 21:26.440 The bird. The little canary that belonged to poor Mrs. Gilford. 21:26.440 --> 21:29.440 The one in her room, remember? 21:29.440 --> 21:30.440 What about it? 21:30.440 --> 21:33.440 Well, I was just wondering about the law in these matters. 21:33.440 --> 21:38.440 The law about dead persons' property, you know, the heirs and so forth, and their lawful rights. 21:38.440 --> 21:39.440 Mrs. Lam, please get to the point. 21:39.440 --> 21:46.440 Well, I was just wondering, if Mrs. Gilford has no heirs, please may I keep the little bird? 21:46.440 --> 21:53.440 I've grown so attached to it. Oh, the melodies it makes up right out of its own little head. 21:53.440 --> 21:54.440 It still sings? 21:54.440 --> 21:57.440 Oh, yes, like a bird. 21:57.440 --> 22:00.440 Keep it, Mrs. Lam, keep it. There'll be no other heirs. 22:00.440 --> 22:02.440 Oh, thank you, thank you. 22:02.440 --> 22:03.440 Doctor? 22:03.440 --> 22:04.440 What, Danny? 22:04.440 --> 22:07.440 The headache. You did good. It doesn't bother me anymore. 22:18.440 --> 22:21.440 Hey, hey, who's that guy there? 22:21.440 --> 22:23.440 Danny Clover. Is that you, Mark? 22:23.440 --> 22:26.440 Hey, Danny, come on up to step further in. 22:26.440 --> 22:27.440 Okay. 22:33.440 --> 22:36.440 While the catwalk, Danny, be careful. 22:36.440 --> 22:39.440 Only got handrails at strategic places. 22:39.440 --> 22:42.440 You can walk out into the air again, careful. 22:43.440 --> 22:45.440 How you feeling, boy? 22:45.440 --> 22:46.440 It's tight. 22:46.440 --> 22:48.440 Is it tight? Does it get you the spilling? 22:48.440 --> 22:52.440 By the sight. You know, I've never been in a power plant before. 22:52.440 --> 22:53.440 Those dynamos. 22:53.440 --> 22:55.440 I like it, Danny. What's the blowtorch? 22:55.440 --> 22:56.440 Oh, yeah. 22:56.440 --> 22:59.440 This chandelier pipe sprung a leak. A little weld job. 22:59.440 --> 23:01.440 You caught me right in the midst. 23:01.440 --> 23:02.440 Don't let me disturb you. 23:02.440 --> 23:05.440 No, go ahead, go ahead, boy. What's on your mind? 23:05.440 --> 23:08.440 You and far between, then I get to talk to someone on this job. 23:08.440 --> 23:11.440 With all this machinery, the baby, I can appreciate it. 23:11.440 --> 23:15.440 Ah, these dynamos run themselves. I only wish I had that brain. 23:15.440 --> 23:18.440 Oh, why the night time call, Danny? 23:18.440 --> 23:21.440 You like it here, huh? You like your work? 23:21.440 --> 23:22.440 It plays. 23:22.440 --> 23:25.440 You're gonna have to find a replacement, Mark. 23:25.440 --> 23:28.440 I was wondering how you were gonna play with three of them. 23:28.440 --> 23:30.440 Why did you have to kill them? 23:30.440 --> 23:33.440 Wasn't easy. It's my lifetime to build up to it. 23:33.440 --> 23:35.440 You almost got away with it. 23:35.440 --> 23:37.440 I figured I did. 23:37.440 --> 23:38.440 What happened? 23:38.440 --> 23:40.440 We found out your wife didn't commit suicide. 23:40.440 --> 23:43.440 A bird this big lived in the room where your wife died. 23:43.440 --> 23:46.440 The gas in that room was meant up to kill a canary. 23:46.440 --> 23:48.440 Why should it kill your wife? 23:48.440 --> 23:50.440 Imagine that, a bird. 23:50.440 --> 23:51.440 Uh-huh. 23:51.440 --> 23:54.440 Meaning your wife was dead before you turned on the gas. 23:54.440 --> 23:57.440 Suffocated, I figure. About the same effect as illuminating gas. 23:57.440 --> 23:59.440 Yeah, I read up on that one. 23:59.440 --> 24:02.440 Imagine that, will you? A bird. 24:02.440 --> 24:05.440 Why holly, Mark? Why did you have to kill her? 24:05.440 --> 24:08.440 She was around when I had my argument with Thelma. 24:08.440 --> 24:14.440 First, that paid her off, and then she got greedy, so I changed my mind. 24:14.440 --> 24:16.440 Killing got easier all the time. 24:16.440 --> 24:18.440 Why the argument with Thelma? 24:18.440 --> 24:20.440 Thelma was saying me goodbye. 24:20.440 --> 24:25.440 After my wife tried to drown herself, Thelma suddenly wanted no part. 24:25.440 --> 24:26.440 So you killed her. 24:26.440 --> 24:27.440 Shot her. 24:27.440 --> 24:28.440 In the park. 24:28.440 --> 24:29.440 And my wife got blamed for it. 24:29.440 --> 24:31.440 For her. 24:31.440 --> 24:32.440 Let's go, Mark. 24:32.440 --> 24:36.440 You've been sensible up to now, Danny. It's been a pleasure listening to you. 24:36.440 --> 24:37.440 Let's go. 24:37.440 --> 24:40.440 After what I can do to people, kill them. 24:40.440 --> 24:43.440 I found out I can do that. 24:43.440 --> 24:45.440 Hey, where you at, Danny? Well, we'll give you that pipe. 24:45.440 --> 24:46.440 Put down that horse, Mark. 24:46.440 --> 24:49.440 Oh, you know I can't do that. 24:49.440 --> 24:51.440 Uh-oh, we see a gun again. 24:55.440 --> 24:56.440 My, uh... 24:56.440 --> 24:58.440 I picked arms, so I'm taking you. Come on. 24:58.440 --> 25:00.440 No, you won't take me. 25:00.440 --> 25:03.440 You won't take me, Danny. 25:04.440 --> 25:07.440 Mark, come back here. 25:07.440 --> 25:09.440 You'll never take me. 25:09.440 --> 25:19.440 Ah! 25:19.440 --> 25:22.440 His scream preceded him as he fell from above. 25:22.440 --> 25:26.440 Then in that sudden swift time, the face masked in horror, 25:26.440 --> 25:29.440 the eyes pleading in a mind as he clawed the air past me. 25:29.440 --> 25:32.440 A man's awful recognition that he's dead. 25:32.440 --> 25:34.440 Then the instance was over. 25:34.440 --> 25:39.440 There was nothing. 26:05.440 --> 26:07.440 Dawn touches Broadway now. 26:07.440 --> 26:10.440 It bleeds the color out of the neon, 26:10.440 --> 26:14.440 turns the gold of the speculars into drops. 26:14.440 --> 26:18.440 And the remnants of night are driven back into the earth. 26:18.440 --> 26:22.440 You walk the gray street from behind the doorway, 26:22.440 --> 26:26.440 you hear an old sound, the sound of weeping. 26:26.440 --> 26:29.440 You know that the night sign will never leave. 26:29.440 --> 26:32.440 It's found the wreckage. 26:32.440 --> 26:37.440 It's Broadway, the godless, the most violent, 26:37.440 --> 26:41.440 the lonesomest mile in the world. 26:41.440 --> 26:45.440 Broadway, my beast. 26:45.440 --> 26:50.440 Broadway's My Beast stars Larry Thor as detective Danny Clover 26:50.440 --> 26:52.440 with Charles Salvat as Tartaglia. 26:52.440 --> 26:55.440 The program was produced and directed by Elliot Lewis. 26:55.440 --> 26:59.440 The musical score was composed and conducted by Alexander Couric. 26:59.440 --> 27:02.440 Included in the cast tonight is the famous actor, 27:02.440 --> 26:49.880 the man who played the role of the 27:03.880 --> 27:05.440 The man who played the role of the 27:05.440 --> 27:07.440 The man who played the role of the 27:07.440 --> 27:09.440 The man who played the role of the 27:09.440 --> 27:11.440 The man who played the role of the 27:11.440 --> 27:16.440 The man who played the role of the 27:11.440 --> 27:37.320 man who played the role of the 27:37.320 --> 27:39.320 Thank you.