WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:26.000 Mystery House. 00:26.000 --> 00:32.000 Mystery House. That strange publishing firm owned by Dan and Barbara Glenn. 00:32.000 --> 00:38.000 Where every new novel is acted out by the Mystery House staff before it is accepted for publication. 00:38.000 --> 00:46.000 Mystery House. 00:46.000 --> 00:49.000 A new lease on death. You know, I like that title, Barbie. 00:49.000 --> 00:52.000 You'll like the story we're doing tonight too, Dan. 00:52.000 --> 00:56.000 Once in a while, some author sends in the manuscript of a book that's really different. 00:56.000 --> 00:57.000 And this is one. 00:57.000 --> 00:59.000 Well, fine. You know, that's one trouble with stories. 00:59.000 --> 01:03.000 So many writers turn out yarns that are just like all the rest of the stories they've ever written. 01:03.000 --> 01:05.000 Well, that's one thing you can't say about me, Mr. Glenn. 01:05.000 --> 01:08.000 Oh? Well, I didn't know you wrote stories, Guy. 01:08.000 --> 01:12.000 I don't write stories. What I write is the absolute truth. 01:12.000 --> 01:15.000 And here's a material you'll think is different too. 01:15.000 --> 01:31.000 The Mystery House. 01:31.000 --> 01:35.000 Well, let's get on with tonight's story, huh? Places, everybody. 01:35.000 --> 01:37.000 Is that the scene, Guy? 01:37.000 --> 01:39.000 A new lease on death. 01:39.000 --> 01:43.000 The scene is a street in a rather undesirable part of town. 01:43.000 --> 01:49.000 A well-dressed couple is stopped by a seedy-looking character who is obviously after a handout. 01:52.000 --> 01:56.000 Pardon me, bud. I suppose you could stick a guy to a sandwich and a cup of coffee. 01:56.000 --> 01:58.000 You sure it's for a sandwich? 01:58.000 --> 02:01.000 Oh, Larry, don't give the poor bum a lecture. Give him a quarter. 02:01.000 --> 02:02.000 Larry. 02:02.000 --> 02:03.000 Hmm? What? 02:03.000 --> 02:08.000 I believe that. Larry. Oh, stop him. He's running away. Get him. Bring him back quick. 02:08.000 --> 02:11.000 Hey. Hey, you. Come back here. 02:11.000 --> 02:15.000 Hold on. Let go of me. Let go. I tell you, you haven't got any right to stop me. 02:15.000 --> 02:16.000 I can go where I please without... 02:16.000 --> 02:19.000 Wait, Guy. Miriam knew what you were talking about. 02:19.000 --> 02:23.000 All right. I made a mistake. If I'd seen you, I wouldn't have stopped you. Now go on. 02:23.000 --> 02:27.000 No, no. Ken Starr. I wouldn't have known you. 02:27.000 --> 02:30.000 Well, there's no reason why you should know me, is there, Larry? 02:30.000 --> 02:32.000 Everybody was pretty happy to forget me, I guess. 02:32.000 --> 02:36.000 Ken Starr. What in the world happened to you? Well, you look like a ghost. 02:36.000 --> 02:41.000 Yeah? Well, maybe I am. You wouldn't look so good yourself, Miriam. You've been through what I've taken. 02:41.000 --> 02:43.000 Oh, you poor thing. 02:43.000 --> 02:48.000 I'm not asking for sympathy, Miriam. I can just see you at the country club. 02:48.000 --> 02:54.000 Girls, you'd never guess who I saw panhandling on the street last night. Ken Starr. He looked like a bum. 02:54.000 --> 02:56.000 You have no right to talk that way. 02:56.000 --> 02:59.000 After all, you didn't give anybody a chance to help you, Ken. 02:59.000 --> 03:02.000 You mean I didn't get on my knees and beg my friends for help? 03:02.000 --> 03:06.000 Ken, it's not too late yet. You can't throw your whole life away. 03:06.000 --> 03:11.000 I've already thrown my life away, Miriam. Once you die, you never get a chance to come back to life. 03:11.000 --> 03:13.000 You're being a little melodramatic, aren't you, Ken? 03:13.000 --> 03:20.000 No, I'm quite serious, Larry. I died during my murder trial when they brought out the story of Elsa Gaynor and me. 03:20.000 --> 03:22.000 But you weren't convicted. They set you free. 03:22.000 --> 03:29.000 I was dead as far as Elsa Gaynor was concerned. Reasons were good enough. I was dead in business. 03:29.000 --> 03:33.000 People don't trust their financial affairs to a man who's been tried for murder. 03:33.000 --> 03:39.000 But I wish we'd seen you before, Ken. It's so tragic to think of you and how successful you were. 03:39.000 --> 03:45.000 And how singularly unsuccessful I am now. It isn't so tragic, Miriam. 03:45.000 --> 03:52.000 Actually, I don't feel so badly about it. I don't feel at all. Not until somebody opens the wound again. 03:52.000 --> 03:55.000 Ken, I have a little proposition to make you. 03:55.000 --> 03:59.000 No. Thanks, Miriam, but I'm not considering charity. 03:59.000 --> 04:04.000 This isn't charity. I have a proposition to bring you back to life. 04:04.000 --> 04:05.000 Really, Miriam? 04:05.000 --> 04:08.000 You run along, Mary. I want to talk to Ken privately. 04:08.000 --> 04:14.000 But, of course, you have a perfect right to do whatever you like, Miriam, but do you think that... 04:14.000 --> 04:16.000 Oh, I'm quite harmless, Larry. 04:16.000 --> 04:17.000 I didn't mean that. 04:17.000 --> 04:22.000 I'm sorry. You know, your pride gets a little sharp when you've nothing to be proud of. 04:22.000 --> 04:27.000 Please, Larry, tell the rest of the crowd I couldn't make it, and don't tell them where I am. 04:27.000 --> 04:31.000 Don't say anything about who we saw. Promise? 04:31.000 --> 04:33.000 I don't think this is wise at all, Miriam. 04:33.000 --> 04:38.000 I didn't ask you what you thought. Well, promise? 04:38.000 --> 04:41.000 All right. Good night, Ken. 04:41.000 --> 04:52.000 ... 04:52.000 --> 04:57.000 Gosh, Miriam, I've been needing so furiously. I didn't even look at your apartment. 04:57.000 --> 04:59.000 You're very neat. 04:59.000 --> 05:04.000 Well, it's wonderful what a couple of bestseller books and a feature writer's job will do for a gal. 05:04.000 --> 05:08.000 Now, that's the best food I've had in months. It was nice of you. 05:08.000 --> 05:10.000 Now I'll help you going along. 05:10.000 --> 05:14.000 Just a minute. I said I had a proposition to make you. 05:14.000 --> 05:17.000 I'm not taking money from anybody. That's what you want. 05:17.000 --> 05:23.000 Oh, don't be a fool. When I saw you on the street, I got a simply tremendous idea for a book. 05:23.000 --> 05:31.000 The title's Comeback. It's the story of a man who deteriorates to nothing and then is given every tool to make a comeback. 05:31.000 --> 05:32.000 Very interesting. 05:32.000 --> 05:37.000 It's going to be a personal case history with nothing held back. Of course, we won't use your name, 05:37.000 --> 05:40.000 but it's going to be a story of you. 05:40.000 --> 05:42.000 A guinea pig for the laboratory? No thanks. 05:42.000 --> 05:50.000 Oh, now don't be stealthy. You earn everything you get, and what you'll get will be a chance to come back to life. 05:50.000 --> 05:55.000 Don't you think I got hurt enough before I died, Miriam, without sticking pins into me again? 05:55.000 --> 05:58.000 The apartment across the hall is vacant. I'll rent it tomorrow. 05:58.000 --> 06:03.000 We'll say you've been in South America, and you've got a new fortune down there. 06:03.000 --> 06:06.000 You've just come back, and are ready to start your business again. 06:06.000 --> 06:10.000 No, I couldn't go through with it. You don't have enough money to... 06:10.000 --> 06:14.000 I have enough money to give you a good front. That's all you'll need. 06:14.000 --> 06:17.000 You've always had more brains than any man in our crowd. 06:17.000 --> 06:22.000 With the right front, you'll soon be making a great deal, just like you did before. If... 06:22.000 --> 06:25.000 If... If I'm up to it. 06:25.000 --> 06:28.000 Well, how about it? 06:28.000 --> 06:31.000 Why, well, give me a little time. 06:31.000 --> 06:35.000 No, you'll get more and more scared. You're deciding right now. 06:35.000 --> 06:40.000 All right. All right. I'll give it a try. 06:52.000 --> 06:57.000 Miriam, you've got to stop this foolishness. You're writing for a terrible fall. 06:57.000 --> 07:00.000 If I get cracked up, Larry, it'll be my funeral. 07:00.000 --> 07:06.000 Everybody else is fooled. They think Ken Starr is wonderful. The man who came back, they're calling him. 07:06.000 --> 07:09.000 Well, I know he's the man who was brought back. 07:09.000 --> 07:11.000 He's getting away with it beautifully. 07:11.000 --> 07:14.000 But it can't last, Miriam. He doesn't have the stuff. 07:14.000 --> 07:18.000 He didn't have it when he went to trial for murder, and he's lost a lot since. An awful lot. 07:18.000 --> 07:23.000 He's a wonderful person, Larry. Life gave him some mighty swift kicks in the pants. 07:23.000 --> 07:26.000 But he's the same sweet guy always was underneath. 07:26.000 --> 07:30.000 He's just as clever and charming. Coming to the surface. 07:30.000 --> 07:34.000 And you've no idea what a thrill it is to me to see him grow. 07:34.000 --> 07:37.000 Wait till he sees Elsa and her new husband. Watch him fall apart. 07:37.000 --> 07:44.000 This is a big town, Larry. With a little handling, he doesn't need to see either Elsa or Harlan McGrath. 07:44.000 --> 07:48.000 You're in love with Ken Starr, aren't you? Oh, you don't need to answer me. 07:48.000 --> 07:51.000 You're just as simple-minded about him as you were when he was carrying a torch for Elsa. 07:51.000 --> 07:53.000 Well, what if I am? 07:53.000 --> 07:58.000 You're not going to see him throw your life away, Miriam. It isn't love, it's an old obsession. 07:58.000 --> 08:01.000 I think too much of you to let you wreck everything you have. 08:01.000 --> 08:06.000 If Ken Starr would have me, I'd marry him tonight. I've always felt that way. 08:06.000 --> 08:11.000 You're a writer and you're in love with drama. You can't tie yourself to a psychopathic case. 08:11.000 --> 08:13.000 He's not a psychopathic case. He's... 08:13.000 --> 08:17.000 All right, then arrange a dinner. Invite Ken and me. And also invite Elsa and Harlan McGrath. 08:17.000 --> 08:21.000 No. He... Well, he isn't ready. 08:21.000 --> 08:24.000 You arrange that dinner or the show's all over. 08:24.000 --> 08:25.000 You wouldn't. 08:25.000 --> 08:29.000 You fool the rest of the town with your story about Ken getting back from South America. 08:29.000 --> 08:34.000 But you can't fool me. Remember? I was there. 08:34.000 --> 08:38.000 Either you have that dinner party or I'll blow your little game sky high. 08:38.000 --> 08:50.000 Harlan had to stop off and talk to a business acquaintance for a few minutes before he could leave, Ken. 08:50.000 --> 08:54.000 And anyway, I wanted to see you alone first. 08:54.000 --> 08:57.000 You're looking very handsome, Ken. 08:57.000 --> 09:02.000 You're as lovely looking as ever, Elsa. You know, your voice still does things to me. 09:02.000 --> 09:08.000 That's very flattering. Oh, I'm so glad to know you've done so well. 09:08.000 --> 09:10.000 But I've missed you, Ken. 09:10.000 --> 09:13.000 I've never missed you, Elsa, because you've always been with me. 09:13.000 --> 09:17.000 Well, you've improved at making pretty speeches. 09:17.000 --> 09:22.000 This... this Harlan McGrath, this new husband of yours, did I annoy him? 09:22.000 --> 09:26.000 No, he was after your time. Oh, he's a grand person. You like him a lot. 09:26.000 --> 09:29.000 No, Elsa, I'm afraid I'm not that big. 09:29.000 --> 09:33.000 Ken, please. You won't make a scene. I couldn't bear it. 09:33.000 --> 09:35.000 Oh, you never could stand scenes, could you, Elsa? 09:35.000 --> 09:40.000 You've always been shielded from unpleasantness of any kind, till you married Bill Gaynor. 09:40.000 --> 09:43.000 And you've got a big dose of the wrong side of life and random e for protection. 09:43.000 --> 09:49.000 I suppose I should have testified at your trial, but I was so frightened. 09:49.000 --> 09:52.000 I never did believe you killed Bill, though. 09:52.000 --> 09:54.000 Oh, it's very big of you, Elsa. 09:54.000 --> 10:01.000 Maybe... maybe it was that I thought I knew who had killed him and I was afraid to testify. 10:01.000 --> 10:03.000 I've always been such a coward. 10:03.000 --> 10:08.000 What? You had evidence that you held back? Evidence that would have cleared me? 10:08.000 --> 10:17.000 I'm not sure. I... Ken, don't look at me like that. You... you frighten me. 10:17.000 --> 10:21.000 Well... Oh, hello, Miriam. Larry. 10:21.000 --> 10:25.000 You two have had long enough to yourselves. We decided to join the party. 10:25.000 --> 10:29.000 From the look in your eye, Ken, I'd say Elsa still has that old black magic for you. 10:29.000 --> 10:30.000 Larry. 10:30.000 --> 10:34.000 We weren't talking about black magic, Larry. As a matter of fact, I was trying to get the dope on her husband. 10:34.000 --> 10:42.000 Oh, you like him. Everybody likes Harlan. This time, I'm afraid there's no excuse for you to come dashing to Elsa's rescue, Ken. 10:42.000 --> 10:44.000 Oh, by the way, where is Harlan? 10:44.000 --> 10:49.000 There's no need to wait for him. He wasn't sure how long he'd be detained and said for us to go right ahead and start dinner. 10:49.000 --> 10:51.000 But shouldn't we wait? 10:51.000 --> 10:56.000 Nonsense. He won't mind a bit. After all, you're supposed to be on time for dinner appointments. 10:56.000 --> 10:58.000 Well, if you're sure, it's all right. 10:58.000 --> 11:02.000 Perfectly. Well, then we might as well go into the dining room right now. 11:02.000 --> 11:06.000 I've never been here for dinner before, Miriam. Which way? 11:06.000 --> 11:09.000 Right down the hall, Elsa. I'll lead the way. 11:09.000 --> 11:12.000 Here. 11:12.000 --> 11:16.000 Well, Harlan's already here. Harlan, why didn't you come into the living room? 11:16.000 --> 11:18.000 He's sitting at the table. 11:18.000 --> 11:20.000 There's something wrong. 11:20.000 --> 11:26.000 Harlan. Harlan, what's the matter? Why don't you say something? 11:26.000 --> 11:27.000 He's sick. 11:27.000 --> 11:29.000 Just a minute. 11:29.000 --> 11:31.000 Great Scott. 11:31.000 --> 11:32.000 He's dead. 11:32.000 --> 11:35.000 What? Oh no. No, that can't be. 11:35.000 --> 11:41.000 Well, here we go again. I don't suppose there's a scratch on his right hand, is there? 11:41.000 --> 11:42.000 Yes. 11:42.000 --> 11:45.000 Yes, there is. It'll be filled with the deadly South American poison. 11:45.000 --> 11:49.000 Some detective will find some of it in my apartment, somewhere. 11:49.000 --> 11:51.000 Excuse me, this is where I came in. 11:51.000 --> 11:57.000 Ken, Ken Selbert. Get him away from that window. Ken, what is this thing you're doing? 11:57.000 --> 12:01.000 Oh, get it go away. I'll jump, Miriam. I don't think I'm up to going through all this again. 12:01.000 --> 12:03.000 Oh, Mary, help me here. 12:03.000 --> 12:04.000 No. 12:04.000 --> 12:08.000 Sit down, Ken. 12:08.000 --> 12:31.000 I guess we'll have to call the police. 12:31.000 --> 12:37.000 Well, did Ken Star kill Alston McGrath's husband? What was the motive for his death? 12:37.000 --> 12:39.000 How was it accomplished? 12:39.000 --> 12:43.000 We'll find out in the second act of New Lease on Death. 12:43.000 --> 12:57.000 Meanwhile, here's a brief message from our sponsor. 12:57.000 --> 13:11.000 And now, act two of New Lease on Death. 13:11.000 --> 13:18.000 Detective Cedric Darnay has taken over and seems quite perplexed at what should be a simple case. 13:18.000 --> 13:20.000 You have no strength for me, Mr. Staff. 13:20.000 --> 13:23.000 Sure, sure, why not? I've been through all this before. 13:23.000 --> 13:28.000 It's a repeat performance. You'll find the poison in my apartment just across the hall. 13:28.000 --> 13:29.000 Where? 13:29.000 --> 13:32.000 Well, I'm afraid I can't help you there, Darnay. You'll have to look around. 13:32.000 --> 13:33.000 But it'll be there. 13:33.000 --> 13:36.000 Don't you worry. You got an admission that you killed Mr. McGrath? 13:36.000 --> 13:37.000 Sure, why not? 13:37.000 --> 13:41.000 No, he didn't do it, Mr. Darnay. He couldn't have done it. 13:41.000 --> 13:43.000 No? Why not? 13:43.000 --> 13:47.000 He was standing in the living room talking to Elsa McGrath when Mary Montag and I walked in. 13:47.000 --> 13:51.000 Elsa said her husband had been detained by a call on a business acquaintance. 13:51.000 --> 13:58.000 I see. You think then there is no possibility of collusion between Mrs. McGrath and Mr. Staff? 13:58.000 --> 14:00.000 Quite. Of course not. 14:00.000 --> 14:02.000 You concur in that opinion, Mr. Montag? 14:02.000 --> 14:07.000 Why, I... I guess so. To be honest, about it I wouldn't know. 14:07.000 --> 14:13.000 That's ridiculous. Ken and I hadn't seen each other for four years till we met here. I'll swear to that. 14:13.000 --> 14:16.000 Swering to a statement does not impress me, Mrs. McGrath. 14:16.000 --> 14:21.000 You see, a murderer has already done something so much more serious than breaking an oath. 14:21.000 --> 14:25.000 What's all the talk about? Why don't you put me under arrest and get it over with? 14:25.000 --> 14:32.000 You think because of your previous unfortunate experience with Mrs. McGrath's first husband you'll be in great trouble? 14:32.000 --> 14:36.000 What do you think? No, Donny, I know when I've been struck out. 14:36.000 --> 14:38.000 Whoever did it the first time is good enough to do it again. 14:38.000 --> 14:43.000 Certainly. Mrs. McGrath, tell me, you're having any trouble with your husband? 14:43.000 --> 14:45.000 No, certainly not. 14:45.000 --> 14:50.000 If you'll pardon me, you do not seem to be greatly bereaved. 14:50.000 --> 14:55.000 Harlan and I understood each other perfectly. Ours was no madly romantic love affair. 14:55.000 --> 15:01.000 But we were fond of each other and, well, it was a very satisfactory arrangement. 15:01.000 --> 15:05.000 She isn't capable of any real feeling for anybody but herself. 15:05.000 --> 15:08.000 She let Ken Starr go through hell rather than be smeared in court. 15:08.000 --> 15:11.000 Why, you little... And I thought you were my friend. 15:11.000 --> 15:15.000 Nobody could be a friend of yours if it involved anything on your part. 15:15.000 --> 15:18.000 You're the most selfish woman that ever lived. Oh, I am, am I? 15:18.000 --> 15:21.000 I saw what you were up to when I came into the living room tonight. 15:21.000 --> 15:24.000 You'd thrown Ken to the wolf, but he came back alive. 15:24.000 --> 15:28.000 And when you saw him, you were planning how you could put him back on your shelf. 15:28.000 --> 15:31.000 Really, Miriam? Oh, don't give me the grand dames stuff. 15:31.000 --> 15:35.000 You never wanted him in the first place, but you never wanted anybody else to have him either. 15:35.000 --> 15:38.000 You fool, what are you trying to do? Let this detective get us all into trouble. 15:38.000 --> 15:43.000 I ought to... Oh, please, go right ahead. Don't mind me. 15:43.000 --> 15:47.000 I find it most interesting. I, I'm sorry. 15:47.000 --> 15:50.000 I suppose I should be ashamed of myself. 15:50.000 --> 15:55.000 I think it, Miss Shelby, you feel you are a far more suitable mate for Mr. Starr than Mrs. McGrath. 15:55.000 --> 15:58.000 I... How dare you talk like that. 15:58.000 --> 16:04.000 I dare a great deal, Miss Shelby. You are afraid to put your emotions on display, hmm? 16:04.000 --> 16:07.000 Murder is the most primitive of all emotions. 16:07.000 --> 16:10.000 Well, I guess I've made a fool of myself. 16:10.000 --> 16:15.000 All right, I'm in love with Ken Starr, and always have been. 16:15.000 --> 16:21.000 What? Mr. Darnay, it seems that nobody's ever fallen for the right person around here. 16:21.000 --> 16:26.000 Elsa's first husband was in love with a chorus girl, and Ken Starr was in love with Elsa. 16:26.000 --> 16:30.000 Elsa was, well, in love with herself. 16:30.000 --> 16:32.000 And Miriam Shelby carried the torch for Ken. 16:32.000 --> 16:36.000 And I've been hanging around Miriam for five years, more or less, without results. 16:36.000 --> 16:42.000 But his most helpful information, if correct, Mr. Montag, oh, it's correct all right. 16:42.000 --> 16:45.000 It opens most interesting avenues of conjecture. 16:45.000 --> 16:51.000 Eh? Like what? For example, your unrequited love for Miss Shelby. 16:51.000 --> 16:56.000 See here, are you accusing me of murdering Harlan McGrath just to get Ken Starr out of the picture? 16:56.000 --> 17:00.000 I make no accusations, Mr. Montag. I merely theorize. 17:00.000 --> 17:02.000 I remember at the time of Bill Gaynor's death. 17:02.000 --> 17:07.000 Remember, I told you tonight, Ken, I had a feeling maybe I knew the murderer. 17:07.000 --> 17:09.000 Based upon what? 17:09.000 --> 17:13.000 Bill had said something about having to see Larry Montag, and said he didn't know why Larry wanted to see him. 17:13.000 --> 17:19.000 That's a lie. I had no appointment with Bill Gaynor. I never had a business appointment with him in my life or his. 17:19.000 --> 17:22.000 It's a fine time to be tossing in a thing like that. 17:22.000 --> 17:29.000 Over four years after his murder, the means of the gods grind slowly, sometimes, Mr. Montag. 17:29.000 --> 17:35.000 As I recall, the same method was used for Mr. Gaynor's murder. Is that not correct? 17:35.000 --> 17:37.000 Sure. Identical. 17:37.000 --> 17:40.000 Well, why don't you go across the hall to my apartment and find the poison? 17:40.000 --> 17:42.000 Here, here are my keys. 17:42.000 --> 17:44.000 You are very bitter, Mrs. Starr. 17:44.000 --> 17:46.000 Bitter? Why wouldn't I be bitter? 17:46.000 --> 17:50.000 Look, Mr. Donne, I've been thinking. The dining room opens up the hall. 17:50.000 --> 17:53.000 You can come into it without going through the rest of the apartment. 17:53.000 --> 17:54.000 Yes? 17:54.000 --> 18:00.000 Larry could have made a business appointment with Harlan McGrath, met him, and scratched his hand with that poison. 18:00.000 --> 18:05.000 Then he could have brought him into the dining room, left him, and come up to the front entrance of the apartment. 18:05.000 --> 18:08.000 Miriam, you don't know what you're saying. 18:08.000 --> 18:09.000 Anyway, it will stand up, Miriam. 18:09.000 --> 18:10.000 Why not? 18:10.000 --> 18:14.000 Nobody would make the mistake twice of using his own name and setting him murder rendezvous. 18:14.000 --> 18:17.000 Elsa, was the appointment made at Harlan's office? 18:17.000 --> 18:18.000 Yes, why? 18:18.000 --> 18:22.000 Five bucks will get you fifty. But the records will show his appointment was with me. 18:22.000 --> 18:28.000 You see, I've been through all this before. I know just what to expect. 18:37.000 --> 18:39.000 Oh, how do you do, Michelle B. 18:39.000 --> 18:41.000 Sit down. 18:41.000 --> 18:44.000 I'm honored by having you visit my office. 18:44.000 --> 18:49.000 Ken told me you found the poison in the back of a dresser drawer in his apartment. 18:49.000 --> 18:55.000 Yes, and the appointment was with Kenneth Star, too. At least, that name was used. 18:55.000 --> 19:02.000 You're theorizing it was white last night, Mr. Donne. It must have been Larry Montag. It had to be. 19:02.000 --> 19:05.000 He planned all this to get Ken out of the way. 19:05.000 --> 19:08.000 You seem more sure of yourself, Michelle B. 19:08.000 --> 19:13.000 I have a good reason for being positive. It was Larry Montag who planned that dinner party. 19:13.000 --> 19:18.000 He said if I didn't have it, he'd tell the whole town how I'd pick Ken up out of the gutter and reclaimed it. 19:18.000 --> 19:20.000 Why did you not tell me this before? 19:20.000 --> 19:23.000 Well, I didn't realize how important it was. 19:23.000 --> 19:26.000 It seems to be the one thing I needed. 19:26.000 --> 19:37.000 He doesn't stand for reason that a man who narrowly escaped conviction of one murder would commit a second murder in the identical manner and plant clues against himself all over the place. 19:37.000 --> 19:39.000 Then you put Larry under arrest? 19:39.000 --> 19:54.000 Yes, immediately. 19:54.000 --> 19:58.000 Hello, Ken. I thought you'd come in. 19:58.000 --> 20:00.000 Elsa, you've heard about Larry Montag? 20:00.000 --> 20:03.000 They've arrested him, haven't they? Poor fellow. 20:03.000 --> 20:05.000 Things are different this time, Elsa. 20:05.000 --> 20:06.000 What do you mean? 20:06.000 --> 20:10.000 Well, this time I'm not mixed up in it. We can get married now, can't we? 20:10.000 --> 20:14.000 You rather startle me, Ken. 20:14.000 --> 20:16.000 There's nothing new about the idea, Elsa. 20:16.000 --> 20:20.000 You've been away for more than four years. I hardly know you anymore. 20:20.000 --> 20:27.000 But in some ways I haven't changed, Elsa. I'm still just as madly in love with you as I ever was. You still mean more to me than anyone else in the world. 20:27.000 --> 20:35.000 Ken, I'm all mixed up on something. This job of yours in South America that everybody said was so tremendous. 20:35.000 --> 20:41.000 Then while the detective was there, Larry said something about Miriam having picked you up when you were down and out. 20:41.000 --> 20:42.000 What difference does it make? 20:42.000 --> 20:45.000 Well, it makes a good deal of difference. 20:45.000 --> 20:47.000 It better not, Elsa. 20:47.000 --> 20:56.000 Look at me like that, Ken. After all, I'm used to nice things. I have expensive taste. I need a husband who has a good deal of money. 20:56.000 --> 20:57.000 I'll get money all right. 20:57.000 --> 21:02.000 Oh, you'll get it. But you don't have it, is that the point? 21:02.000 --> 21:06.000 Look, look, Elsa. We're wasting time. We've wasted years. Let's go get married right now. 21:06.000 --> 21:09.000 I'm not at all sure that I want to marry you. 21:09.000 --> 21:15.000 Oh, I guess Miriam and Larry were right about you. The only person you're in love with is yourself. 21:15.000 --> 21:19.000 Please hear, Ken Star. You can't talk to me like that. I'll thank you to get right out of this house. 21:19.000 --> 21:20.000 Oh, you will, huh? 21:20.000 --> 21:21.000 And hurry up about it. 21:21.000 --> 21:25.000 You've got a lot of nerve ordering me out of your house. After all the hell you sent me through. 21:25.000 --> 21:27.000 I had nothing to do with your being arrested. 21:27.000 --> 21:34.000 Poor fool. You almost sent me to the electric chair. That telephone call to Bill Geer from Larry Montag was the important part of the whole setup. 21:34.000 --> 21:36.000 And you never came forward and told about it. 21:36.000 --> 21:37.000 What do you mean? 21:37.000 --> 21:41.000 I arranged things so that it looked like somebody had planted evidence against me, tried to frame me. 21:41.000 --> 21:44.000 But then I called for the appointment and said I was Larry Montag. 21:44.000 --> 21:46.000 You said you were Larry Montag? 21:46.000 --> 21:51.000 Of course. That was to be where his perfect crime broke down, you see. All the evidence pointing toward me. 21:51.000 --> 21:59.000 But then that telephone call was to trip him up. And you didn't have the decency to step forward with a call. I couldn't ask about it because I wasn't supposed to know. 21:59.000 --> 22:03.000 Then you really did kill Bill Geer. You're a murderer. 22:03.000 --> 22:08.000 Yes. Yes, I killed him for you. You wanted it done, didn't you? You said you wanted to marry me. 22:08.000 --> 22:12.000 That you couldn't stand living under the same roof as him. You made a bargain outside. 22:12.000 --> 22:14.000 You thought I actually wanted you to commit murder? 22:14.000 --> 22:18.000 You did want me to do it. You said you'd marry me in a minute if anything ever happened to Bill. 22:18.000 --> 22:22.000 Well, something happened to him, all right. And you well stoned your deal. 22:22.000 --> 22:24.000 You killed him. 22:24.000 --> 22:29.000 We had a contract. We're going to keep that contract if I have to kill every man who ever looks at you. 22:29.000 --> 22:31.000 You killed Holland, too. 22:31.000 --> 22:37.000 Yes. It was almost too simple. I didn't cover up a thing. I deliberately set all the evidence against me. 22:37.000 --> 22:43.000 I used my right name when I called Holland McGrath for an appointment. Said I wanted to talk to him about the death of your first husband. 22:43.000 --> 22:49.000 I didn't even bother about hiding the poison. I didn't even deny killing him. And nobody believed me. 22:49.000 --> 22:53.000 You won't get away with it. You'll go to jail. You'll be sentenced to death. 22:53.000 --> 22:59.000 You think you can scare me with death, Elsa? You think you can scare me with death? A man who's already been through it? 22:59.000 --> 23:04.000 No. I've nothing to lose, Elsa. I can risk anything to get back to life. You can give me... 23:04.000 --> 23:08.000 You're insane. I wouldn't marry you if you were the last man on earth. 23:08.000 --> 23:11.000 You'll marry me or you don't ever marry anybody else, Elsa. 23:11.000 --> 23:15.000 I'm not going to let you do that. You can't shoot me. You have to... 23:15.000 --> 23:19.000 I wouldn't try to shoot you if I were you, Mr. Star. 23:19.000 --> 23:21.000 We were just having a little argument. 23:21.000 --> 23:26.000 I heard the argument. The whole thing. You were a clever killer, Mr. Star. 23:26.000 --> 23:34.000 Allow me to congratulate you on the extreme subtlety of your methods. So subtle that they seemed almost impossible. 23:34.000 --> 23:38.000 Thanks, darling. You overlooked only one thing. 23:38.000 --> 23:41.000 What's that? The obvious motive. 23:41.000 --> 23:46.000 Twice this lady's husbands were murdered and each time you were in love with her. 23:46.000 --> 23:49.000 But you arrested Larry Montag. I fooled you enough for that. 23:49.000 --> 23:55.000 No. I arrested him because you had not spoken to the charming lady about marriage. 23:55.000 --> 23:59.000 You were afraid and I arrested Montag to give you security. 23:59.000 --> 24:01.000 You're pretty clever yourself, darling. 24:01.000 --> 24:06.000 Thank you. I consider that a compliment from an expert. And now if you will come with me to the police station... 24:06.000 --> 24:12.000 Just a second. If you'll pardon me, there's one thing I have to do first. 24:12.000 --> 24:14.000 No! 24:20.000 --> 24:24.000 I'm ready now, darling. Here's my gun. 24:24.000 --> 24:29.000 Do you realize that this brutal murder of Mrs. McGrath will inevitably mean electric chair for you? 24:29.000 --> 24:36.000 But I'm not afraid. Nothing to lose. Remember? This is where I came in. 24:56.000 --> 24:58.000 Well, Bobby, what's the story for next week? 24:58.000 --> 25:04.000 It's a story about a newspaper reporter who gets fired from his job and plots a horrible murder as a result of it. 25:04.000 --> 25:06.000 Hmm. Sore about being fired, huh? 25:06.000 --> 25:11.000 It's a fast-moving story of revenge and how a hate-inspired mind works. 25:11.000 --> 25:18.000 There's all the excitement and glamour of the newsroom, plus a murder puzzle that'll keep you on your toes right up to the final word. 25:18.000 --> 25:21.000 Well, it sounds like one of your four-star specials. What's the title? 25:21.000 --> 25:28.000 It's called Death of Deadline.