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01:00the lieutenant of homicide and a vengeful woman track a pain rack killer as he prowls
01:05the city streets. Where the trail will lead, no one knows. All they do know is that they're
01:11in a deadly race against time and terror. And now on Climax, Trail of Terror.
01:42Oh, I'm sorry, Miss Felton, the doctor's been delayed. All right, I'll wait.
02:03He's not back yet? Wanted for anything special, Mrs. Morton? Anything special? Everything
02:10is special, but I'll wait.
02:12Uh-huh. I'm sorry.
02:42I'm late. Yes, doctor. Piled up, huh? You're an hour and a half behind schedule. Mm, got
02:52held up. Emergency. At the library, one of the readers suddenly developed a case of stigmatism.
02:59Well, you know, research. Lifeblood of medicine, soul of progress. And despair of efficiency.
03:05Mrs. Felton, please. Is my wife home? Yes, doctor, since five o'clock. Oh, good evening,
03:14Mrs. Pritchard. Good evening. Oh, it is late, Miss Nolan, past hours. You can run along.
03:19Oh, I don't mind. Go on, go home. I'll handle it. Good night, doctor. Good night. Well,
03:26Mrs. Pritchard, how are you coming along? Your husband still accusing you of trying
03:30to get out of cooking for him? Oh, excuse me. Good night, doctor. Good night.
03:59Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know there was anyone else out there. Oh, what can I do for you?
04:10I, uh, I don't believe I've seen you before. Your hands. What's your name? Who are you?
04:22Are you related to the figurator woman? Well, now, now, now, wait a minute. It's important
04:29that you understand. Frank! Frank! Frank? Frank?
04:59I've been trying to think of arguments or anything like that, but I can't even think
05:21of anybody who didn't like Dr. Morton. Nobody threaten him? No letters or anything of that
05:25kind? Letters. He gets hundreds and hundreds of them, but not threatening letters. Well,
05:29how about a patient who might've thought he'd gotten a bad shake from the doc? No. Well,
05:33a wrong diagnosis. A professional colleague he'd consulted on a case. No. Personal friends,
05:48his private life. Two bullets point blank, lieutenant, about five feet away. One in the
05:53heart, one in the head. The doc must've been a hard worker. Mess of research books on his
05:57desk. That's where his porphyria work. What? What's porphyria? Well, it's an inherited
06:02condition. Abdominal pains, sensitive skin on back of hands. It's rather rare. Well,
06:09I'll do my report down at the station. See you later. Now, when you left, Miss Nolan,
06:15there were five patients waiting to see the doctor. Yes. All with appointments? Yes. And
06:19no one you didn't know? No, sir. All right, Miss Nolan, I'll talk to you again tomorrow.
06:29Yes, sir. Mrs. Morton, I'm sorry. I should've stayed. If I'd been here... I was here. I'm
06:45sorry to disturb you, Mrs. Morton. It's all right. Are you up to some questioning? I'll
06:51be brief. Can we go in there? Over here. Now, there were five patients waiting with appointments
07:09to see the doctor. The last patient, a Miss Felton, said that when she came out of the
07:15doctor's office, however, someone else was waiting, a sixth person. She couldn't identify
07:20him, but she did say she thought she caught a glimpse of you turning back into this room.
07:25Yes. Well, we're trying to establish the identity of this sixth person. Will you give me a description
07:31of him, please? I can't. I was on my way into my husband's office and I saw this person
07:43sitting there, so I turned around and I went back to the kitchen. Didn't you get any kind of
07:50look at him? I can't remember what he looked like. Old, young, mustache? I don't know. Well,
08:04what kind of suit? Dark, light? I don't know. He was facing you, wasn't he? How about his
08:14voice? Did he say anything? No. Okay, Mrs. Morton. You see, I was thinking about something
08:28else. I was thinking about Frank. Dinner was almost ready and I wanted to tell him to eat.
08:36Sure, it's okay. Is anybody going to stay here with you tonight? Mrs. Morton, is somebody going to
08:47stay here with you tonight? No. You should have somebody around. You shouldn't be alone at a time
08:53like this. Somebody doesn't keep you from being alone. He's as tight as a drum. What did you find
09:13in here? I can't latch onto a motive. The doc was well-liked, seems to have been a regular guy,
09:19didn't hire or fire anyone for years. Nothing remarkable at the hospital, the New Bedford
09:24Hospital. He was on the staff there. No enemies? Somebody had to hate him. Somebody killed him.
09:32I guess I'll have to start going through his papers. Well, you've got a big job ahead of you.
09:36The doc was what you'd call a prolific correspondent. All set, boys? All set, sir. Well, don't work
09:43too late, Lieutenant. See you tomorrow, Russ. Right.
09:47I can't sleep.
10:17You know, this is quite a thing your husband was doing with this Porphyria. How he found out that
10:26somebody with Porphyria could be partially paralyzed and die if they take certain medication, the
10:31barbiturates. He was tracing back the family tree of those people with Porphyria to warn them.
10:37This letter he was sending out all over the world. Lieutenant, I wanted to tell you that I've been
10:44trying to remember. I'm not stupid. I know that man must have been the one. Sure. And I've tried.
10:55I just can't. I look straight at him. Well, I mean, I must have looked straight at him. Sometimes
11:04when we try too hard, a door closes in our minds. Why would he kill Frank? I mean, Frank was such a
11:12good man. Why would he take my husband away from me? Mrs. Morton, there's no answer to that. And it's
11:19only when you stop asking that it gets quiet inside. Good night, Lieutenant. Good night, Mrs. Morton.
11:49Morning, John. I'd like to know specifically... Morning, Matt. Hi, Russ. Miss Nolan. What got the
12:14doc started on his Porphyria research? Well, this young woman came in, Emily Figueredo of Porphyric.
12:22A patient? Well, tell me about her. Well, she'd just come up to this country recently from Brazil. Her
12:27husband had died and she had a little money. They'd operated on her down there. She had terrible abdominal
12:32pains all her life. They'd given her a barbiturate anesthetic. Oh. They didn't know at the time. Nobody
12:38knew about the reaction. It took her 16 weeks just to get out of the hospital. Because of the operation,
12:43the effect of the anesthetic, not the Porphyria. Oh, then what? She came here to Dr. Morton. But why Dr.
12:49Morton? Why not some other doctor? Dr. Morton specialized in internal medicine, Lieutenant. Her principal
12:56complaint was the terrible abdominal pains along with the hysteria and emotional imbalance. Well, where is
13:02she now? When was the last time you saw her? 11 months ago. What? The last time I saw her. As you can see
13:08on the card, Lieutenant, she died. You see, a Porphyric mustn't ever take any of the
13:20barbiturates. There was no way to save her. The damage had been done before she came to us. Good morning,
13:25Mrs. Morton. Oh, Mrs. Morton. Have you been here all night, Lieutenant? I owe you a night's lodging. I fell
13:31asleep at the desk. Would you like some coffee? None for me, thanks, Mrs. Morton. I just stopped here on
13:37my way to the station. I've got to check with the lab boys. Have you made any progress? We're working,
13:42Mrs. Morton. I keep trying. Well, don't press it. It'll come to you. There've been some messages,
13:51friends. I've spoken to the ones I want to speak to. And, Lieutenant, if you stayed because of need,
13:59because you were worried about me or something, it's all right. I'm all right now. Thank you for the
14:05coffee, Mrs. Morton. Has she been like this since yesterday? Like what? All frozen up. How did she used
14:12to be? She was always such a happy person. She used to laugh all the time. I'd like to see her cry just once.
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15:35Hello, Mrs. Morton. Oh, did I startle you? I'm sorry. I was out front sending the patrolman home. But I'm
15:45afraid you're going to be stuck with me for a while. I still have a lot of work to do here. You still doing
15:51research? You know, it is fascinating what your husband was doing. Tracing back the family line of this
15:58Emily Figueredo, corresponding with 500 people. Now listen to me. I don't care about prophetics or letters or people
16:06all over the world. I don't care about anything except getting the killer. I want him to pay for what he did. I want him
16:12dead. It's my job to catch him, Mrs. Morton. Well, then I suggest you do it.
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21:08What time is it?
21:09A little after five o'clock, what happened?
21:12Well, the killer paid me a little visit.
21:16What?
21:17Yes, he was looking for something.
21:22Probably a letter.
21:24Your husband sent warning letters to all the prophetics he had traced.
21:29One of them answered in person, then he came back now to destroy any record.
21:32Hello, this is Lieutenant Hope speaking.
21:35I got an APB I want to get out.
21:38Wanted for homicide.
21:40Male, 5'10", 190.
21:445'10", 190.
21:46Uh, 55, 60 years old.
21:50Stoop-shouldered, high cheekbones, sunburnt.
21:54Black hair streaked with gray.
21:57Uh, brown suit, brown shirt, black tie.
22:02No scars except on the backs of his hands.
22:05He speaks with a heavy accent.
22:07Probably Spanish or Portuguese.
22:09The man's a prophetic.
22:12P-O-R-P-H-Y-R-I-C. Dangerous.
22:16Under pain he can be violent, even hysterical.
22:19Yeah, I will get it right out, will you?
22:24You remember him now, don't you?
22:27The photograph.
22:30I hate him, you know.
22:33I hate him so I can feel it in my throat, my mouth.
22:39Dirty, vicious...
22:40Sure, the man's sick, Mrs. Morton.
22:42He's a killer.
22:43Nothing is ever black and white.
22:45Sure, he's a killer.
22:48What is the matter with you?
22:50How can you possibly be so calm and dispassionate about...
22:53You just relax, Mrs. Morton. We'll get him.
22:55It's just a matter of time now.
23:09Mr. Keelty, Bureau of Immigration, to see Lieutenant Hogue.
23:12Mr. Keely?
23:13Yes, that is correct.
23:14I'm Hogue. How do you do?
23:15How do you do?
23:16Come in here, please.
23:17May I sit down?
23:19Yes, please do.
23:21What happened, Lieutenant?
23:22Cut yourself shaving?
23:25This is the most unusual procedure.
23:27You said there was some urgency in the investigation.
23:30I undertook this trip on my own time.
23:33The police department thanks you.
23:35Now, the information you seek...
23:37It required a bit of doing on short notice like this.
23:41Here are the records of one Emily Hortense Figueredo.
23:44Came to this country 14 months ago.
23:46Aged 28. No relations here.
23:49Husband deceased.
23:53Sergeant Russell, Mr. Keelty.
23:55How do you do?
23:56Sergeant. Mother deceased.
23:58A father living in Boa Vista, Pernambuco, Brazil.
24:00A father?
24:01Yes.
24:02Living in Boa Vista, Pernambuco, Brazil.
24:04Yes.
24:05Living in Brazil.
24:07No record of his having entered this country.
24:09No.
24:10I said no relations here.
24:16You were going to get me a list of all the people who had been admitted...
24:19to this country from Brazil in the last year and a half.
24:22Oh, yes.
24:23I have it.
24:25Here it is.
24:27Well, that's quite a list.
24:28And quite complete.
24:30Anything else, Lieutenant? I believe that's what you asked for.
24:32Let me tell you our problem, Mr. Keelty.
24:35You know that Emily Figueredo is dead.
24:38Well, she died from taking a barbiturate anesthetic.
24:40She was a porphyric.
24:42A porphyria is a rather rare inherited condition...
24:45passed down from generation to generation.
24:47She came to this country to see an American doctor about it.
24:50It happened to be a Dr. Morton.
24:52Her dying was no fault of the doctor's...
24:54but to someone out of the country it might have seemed to be.
24:58Dr. Morton was murdered the day before yesterday.
25:01Oh, and Russ.
25:02We have evidence that his murderer is a porphyric, too.
25:06You're inferring he's a relative of Emily Figueredo's?
25:09I also saw him.
25:10I'd take him to be 55 or 60 years old.
25:13Just about the right age to be Emily's father.
25:16Why couldn't the murderer be some other porphyric?
25:19He could.
25:20But it would be an extraordinary coincidence.
25:23No, the reason I called on you, Mr. Keelty...
25:26Emily died more than 11 months ago.
25:28I thought, why would the killer wait so long for his revenge?
25:32If it was revenge.
25:33Oh, yes, it was.
25:35And I thought, the only reason might be...
25:37if he couldn't get at the doctor.
25:39And one reason he might not be able to get at the doctor...
25:42would be if he were not in this country...
25:43and had to make arrangements to get here.
25:45That's why I wanted this information from the immigration department.
25:49You see, Mr. Keelty?
25:50Perfectly.
25:51From your point of view, your logic is flawless.
25:54From mine, however, it is erroneous.
25:56Her father is in Boa Vista, Brazil.
26:02Figueiredo.
26:04Is that Emily's maiden name?
26:06No, sir.
26:07Duclerc.
26:08There is no Duclerc on the list.
26:11Then one of us must be wrong.
26:13It would seem so.
26:16What if he were in this country...
26:17without your knowing it, Mr. Keelty?
26:19If he was going to come to this country illegally...
26:22why wait 11 months?
26:24As you point out.
26:26Perhaps he entered under an alias.
26:29Perhaps one of these is an alias.
26:32Possible, Mr. Keelty?
26:34Anything is possible.
26:36But I would say it is improbable.
26:41Well, that's our job here.
26:43Checking out improbabilities.
26:45Thank you, Mr. Keelty.
26:46Not at all, Lieutenant.
26:48Sergeant.
26:49Mr. Keelty.
26:50Mr. Keelty.
26:54Everything perfectly clear, Russ?
26:56No, but you'll explain it to me...
26:58even to the all-points bulletin.
27:00What happened to your face?
27:01Get caught in a cement mixer?
27:04Oh, Miss Nolan.
27:05It's Lieutenant Hogue.
27:06I wonder if you'd do me a favor.
27:09I'm worried about Mrs. Morton.
27:10She needs somebody around.
27:13She's very distraught.
27:14Perhaps you can help her.
27:17Fine, thanks.
27:18Tell her I asked her to...
27:19stay with her for a while.
27:22Get Phillips and Bonaventure and Shoemaker.
27:24We've got to get started on this list.
27:31Not taking any calls, Miss Edwards.
27:33Just a moment.
27:39Pat Edwards.
27:41I told you I didn't want to speak to anybody.
27:43Make my excuses.
27:45I'm sorry, Miss Edwards.
27:47I think in a day or two.
27:50Yes, I'll tell her.
27:53Just wanted to know...
27:54if there was anything she could do to help.
27:57Yes, not call anymore.
28:01I've been meaning to ask you, Miss Nolan.
28:04When we went to Europe in 53...
28:07did we come back the latter part of August...
28:09or was it the first of September?
28:12Let me see.
28:13That was the year Frank gave me my ring.
28:16That was on my birthday...
28:17and that's the 5th of September.
28:19Mrs. Morton.
28:21Oh.
28:23What a wonderful trip that was, Miss Nolan.
28:27It was our honeymoon, you know.
28:30We couldn't afford it when we were first married and...
28:32and Frank promised me that...
28:34Mrs. Morton, I don't think you ought to think about things like that.
28:39Did you know that you could fall in love with a man...
28:42all over again after you'd been married to him for 8 years?
28:48Did you know that, Miss Nolan?
28:52I mean a love that's...
28:54deeper and more sure.
28:58A love that nothing can ever take away.
29:01My dear, I don't think you should dwell so much on the past.
29:08Dwell on the past?
29:09Yes.
29:11What you need now is to find some new interest.
29:16I don't need anything.
29:17I meant...
29:19I know what you meant.
29:21You meant I shouldn't think about Frank.
29:23Just not too much.
29:25Look into the future a bit or I know it's hard.
29:29I don't want your pity, Miss Nolan.
29:34I don't want Lieutenant Hogue's solicitude either.
29:37Did he send you here to keep an eye out on me?
29:39Does he think I can't be trusted alone or something?
29:42I think he just wanted to be sure you have everything you need.
29:47I need to be by myself.
29:50I don't need you...
29:52or him or friends or relatives. I need to be alone.
29:55Mrs. Morton.
29:57Don't you understand me, Miss Nolan? Go home!
30:07I'm almost through with my part of the list, Russ.
30:10Just four more to go and I'll be in.
30:13Right.
30:18Sergeant Russell.
30:20Oh, hello, Bonaventure.
30:21Yeah, just a second.
30:24Melvin?
30:26Yes, sir?
30:28I've got a letter for you.
30:30What is it?
30:32I've got a letter for you.
30:33Yeah, just a second.
30:36Melton, negative.
30:38Alvarez, negative.
30:41Wolfe, Struthers.
30:43Morabito, all negative.
30:46Okay, Bonaventure.
30:47Come on in, we'll probably need you here.
30:49The man's name is Santo.
30:51Espirito Santo.
30:52Sure, he lives here.
30:53He's been living here almost a week.
30:55But he ain't in.
30:56I expect him back about dinner time.
30:59He always comes in about that time.
31:02Here you go.
31:07Hello.
31:08Hello, operator.
31:09Is this the St. Louis operator?
31:11I've got a call in for Pedro Torrendo.
31:14Address, 914 East Buffington.
31:17Yeah.
31:18What'd they say?
31:19Oh, I see.
31:21Thanks.
31:24Went back to Brazil two months ago.
31:26How'd you make out?
31:27Just one left, Santo, and he isn't in.
31:29Who went back to Brazil?
31:30The last name on my list.
31:32Oh.
31:33Philip, Shoemaker, Bonaventure, all checked in.
31:35All clear.
31:37So far, I've spent $115.80 of the city's money on long-distance calls
31:41with nothing to show for it.
31:43Oh, yeah, there's still that call to Boa Vista, Brazil.
31:46We haven't been able to get in touch with the girl's father down there yet.
31:48Get Bonaventure.
31:49We'll need his Portuguese.
31:50He's standing by.
31:51We gotta work fast, Russ.
31:53I've been doing a lot of reading on this porphyria thing.
31:55Sometimes, under certain circumstances,
31:57a porphyric's emotional balance goes haywire.
31:59You can't tell what he'll do.
32:00Well, it's a good thing we're closing in on him.
32:02If we are.
32:03What if this Duke Clark really is in South America someplace?
32:06Then who's our boy?
32:07We'll have to start all over.
32:08And time's against us, Russ.
32:17Hey, mister.
32:18Hey, uh, mister.
32:26Hey, what's the big idea?
32:30What's that, mister?
32:34Yeah, well, you can take your complaints for a walk.
32:36All of our bar whiskey here is four years old.
32:49Get him!
32:56What's the matter with that guy?
32:58He'd like to kill me.
33:00He must be over his rocker or something.
33:04Yeah, hello?
33:05Yes, Operator, this is Bonaventure.
33:08Yeah.
33:09It's the call in to Borbis de Brazil.
33:14Alô?
33:15Alô?
33:16Alô?
33:18I want to talk to John de Clark.
33:22Isn't he in Bovista?
33:25Oh, he's in Natal.
33:27It's been a long time.
33:30Listen, where is he living in Natal?
33:34With which family?
33:38Is there any way to find him?
33:41Yes.
33:42Thank you very much.
33:44John de Clark is not in Bovista, he's visiting Natal.
33:47How long has he been away from home?
33:48Several weeks, but they expect him back soon.
33:50Was there no way to reach him in Natal?
33:51No.
33:52He was staying with some people by the name of Santo.
33:54But there's no way to reach them by phone.
33:56Santo! Espirito Santo!
33:58The last name on my list, Espirito Santo!
34:00This might be the break we're looking for!
34:03Bonaventure speaking.
34:04Yes, Eric.
34:05Just a moment.
34:08Okay, what's the name of the bar?
34:11Yeah, Elbow Room.
34:13And somebody assaulted the bartender.
34:18Oh, it's you, Mr. Santo.
34:20Somebody was looking for...
34:22Something wrong, huh?
34:24What do you take for head pain?
34:26My prescription pills.
34:29Terrible pain here!
34:31Momento! You wait, I get the fix.
34:40Hey, Mr. Santo, you don't take all of them at one time.
34:43What's wrong, huh?
34:45What's wrong, huh?
34:46What's the matter with you?
34:48Look, mister, what's such a real bad pain like that?
34:51You should go see the doctor.
35:04Is Mr. Santo home yet, ma'am?
35:06Remember, I was here before.
35:07Si, si. No, he's not here.
35:09He was here, but he left.
35:10Where did he go, do you know?
35:11We're police officers.
35:14He's got a real bad pain in his stomach.
35:16He took all of my prescription pills.
35:18He took pills?
35:19Oh, they're sick.
35:20I told him he should go see the doc.
35:22What doctor?
35:23Tell you, you pick.
35:24Plenty of them in the neighborhood.
35:27Okay, we'll get over there right away.
35:29A bartender was assaulted a half an hour ago.
35:31Someone answering DuClerc's description.
35:33A doctor's place was torn apart five minutes ago.
35:35Dr. Amos Billings, a block and a half from here.
35:37Looks like our clerk squashed himself into the open.
35:44Pain slamming in here.
35:46Breathing like a truck horse.
35:48Mumbling in broken English about something to stop a pain.
35:51Now, lieutenant, a doctor doesn't just jump for the medicine chest.
35:54He suspects a thousand different things.
35:56An appendicitis, ulcers.
35:59A narcotics addict.
36:01Especially a narcotics addict.
36:02What about a porphyric?
36:04That could be.
36:06There's abdominal pain connected with porphyria.
36:08Aggravated by alcohol, doctor.
36:10Now, where did I read about that just recently?
36:12Dr. Frank Morton published a paper on porphyria.
36:15Oh, yes, yes, the Journal of Medicine.
36:19Yes, alcohol could set him off.
36:21That would increase the abdominal pain and cause unreasoning compulsion.
36:25He also took several pills just before coming here.
36:27They might have been antidine.
36:29Well, no wonder he tore my place apart.
36:31He was looking for sedatives and drugs to kill the pain.
36:36But it won't do any good, lieutenant, because if he finds them,
36:39they'll just paralyze and kill him.
36:41Then he'll try another place, another doctor's office.
36:44Sure, Beth.
36:45For drugs. May I?
36:46Please do.
36:47On the off chance that he might go back to Doc Morton's.
37:04What do you want?
37:07There's no answer.
37:09There should be the nurse or somebody there.
37:11You know, just for a minute there, I almost hated that man.
37:14I'm going to get over to Doc Morton's.
37:15Russ, you go back to the station.
37:17All right.
37:18I guess you can't really hate a man who's sick.
37:20Well, maybe not, doctor, but you can be afraid of him.
37:24What do you want?
37:25Drugs for pain.
37:27You want me to help you? You killed my husband.
37:29He killed my daughter. You tricked me. I'll kill you.
37:31No, I'm trying to help you.
37:32You lie. They all lie.
37:35Drugs for pain.
37:40All right.
37:43All right.
37:45I'll give you something for your pain.
37:56It's not here.
37:57Where is medicine?
37:59I can't find it.
38:01Listen, I'll write you a prescription.
38:03I'll write you a prescription.
38:05I'll write you a prescription.
38:07Listen, I'll write you a prescription.
38:09A prescription, do you understand?
38:12It's all right.
38:13I know what to write.
38:15I know. I used to work for Frank.
38:18Now, look, the only thing that you have to worry about
38:22is to be sure and take this out of the neighborhood someplace.
38:25Out of the neighborhood, do you understand me?
38:27Someplace where they didn't know Frank.
38:31Now, if you have any trouble with this,
38:33you tell the druggist to phone me.
38:35Telephone, you understand?
38:36Yes, ma'am, and I'll confirm it.
38:42Now, look.
38:43Look, it's late.
38:45If you can't find a drugstore open,
38:47you go to the Grant Street Hospital.
38:50They have a pharmacy that sells it all night.
38:53And they'll give you what you want.
38:55Drugs.
39:07Ah.
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40:56during Operation Snowball.
41:04And now we return to the third act of Trail of Terror
41:08written especially for Climax by Celik Lester
41:11and starring Robert Preston, Diana Lynn, and Kurt Kastner.
41:26No!
41:43Mrs. Morton?
41:54Miss Nolan?
41:57What's the matter? Why didn't you answer me?
42:03Why was the front door open?
42:07Where is Miss Nolan?
42:11I sent her home.
42:19Well, we're closing in on Duke Clark.
42:22We found out he is Emily's father.
42:26He's been real busy in the last couple of hours.
42:29Russ!
42:30Okay, it's all right.
42:32I guess he's too smart to make a beeline back here.
42:35Not too smart, Lieutenant.
42:36Maybe with the dragnet out we...
42:38What was that?
42:41I said he wasn't too smart.
42:43Hold on, Russ. He was here?
42:46Yes.
42:47How long ago?
42:48Oh, he left about five minutes before you came.
42:54Russ, he was here. Alert the radio room.
42:57Yeah, he left about eight minutes ago.
43:00Yeah.
43:01Check all drugstores and doctor's offices in the vicinity.
43:03I'll keep in touch. Right.
43:05What did he want? Drugs?
43:07I phoned before. Was he here then?
43:10I don't know, Lieutenant. I didn't hear the phone.
43:13Well, did you give him any drugs?
43:15No.
43:17Now, let's take this slow, Mrs. Morton.
43:21He came here for drugs, and you didn't give him any,
43:24and he quietly turned and went away.
43:26Now, that's not reasonable, Mrs. Morton.
43:28The man's sick.
43:29He wouldn't just turn and walk out of here unsatisfied.
43:31You're lying about not giving him the drugs.
43:33No, I'm not.
43:36I wanted to give them to him.
43:38I looked for them. I just couldn't find them.
43:40But they'd kill him.
43:42I thought I made it clear to you, Lieutenant.
43:45I'm not the same kind of a...
43:47a good person that you are or that my husband was.
43:51Now, what does that mean?
43:53Well, this man, your clerk, turned around and walked out of here
43:56because I gave him what he came for.
43:58I forged a prescription for him.
44:01He's probably even now getting it filled,
44:03except I told him to go out of the neighborhood someplace,
44:05someplace where they didn't know Frank.
44:08Why, that's cold-blooded murder.
44:10You don't seem to understand me, Lieutenant. I hate him.
44:14He took out a gun and he shot my husband like that.
44:18And the second I was alone and Frank was gone...
44:22He was gone.
44:25You see, you didn't believe me.
44:28You didn't believe me any more than Frank would have believed me.
44:32He always used to smile and say,
44:34oh, now, Julie, you don't really mean that
44:36when you have a chance to think it all out, but I do.
44:39And this proves it.
44:41I gave him that prescription deliberately
44:43and it's too late to do anything about it.
44:48That's not true.
44:50It isn't too late. There is still something you can do.
44:53You know where he went. The drug store.
44:54No, I don't.
44:55What's the matter, then? Why are you still fighting yourself?
44:58You want me to say it's okay to take a man's life?
45:00He took Frank's life.
45:01Now, don't be stupid.
45:02Don't think your killing him is going to satisfy your hatred.
45:05It's just the beginning.
45:06Tomorrow it'll be the woman down the street because her husband's alive.
45:09And the day after, it'll be every other woman in the world
45:11because she can laugh and talk and be gay
45:13while you just indulge yourself in hate.
45:15He murdered my husband.
45:16Oh, what a terrible stroke of fate.
45:18Your husband.
45:19Why couldn't it have been somebody else's husband?
45:21I've heard the same thing 2,000 times.
45:23Me, me, me.
45:24My husband, my son, my mother.
45:30Yes?
45:31Oh, is Dr. Morton there, please?
45:34This is the Silver Eagle Pharmacy over on Baudry and Fifth.
45:37No, he's not.
45:38This is his wife.
45:39Oh, I see.
45:40Well, I have a prescription here.
45:42There are some slight irregularities.
45:44Irregularities on the prescription?
45:46Yes.
45:48Hello?
45:49Hello, Mrs. Morton?
45:50Have we been cut off?
45:52Hello? Hello?
45:55What would Frank do?
45:56Hello?
45:59What would Frank do now?
46:01Mrs. Morton, hello?
46:03He'd want you to do exactly what he'd do, wouldn't he?
46:07Hello? Hello?
46:12I could save him.
46:14Hello?
46:15Didn't Frank know you better than you know yourself?
46:21Don't, don't give it to him.
46:23No, the prescription isn't any good.
46:25He's a prophetic. It'll kill him.
46:27Do you understand me?
46:30Where is he?
46:31Mrs. Morton, we've got to call the precinct.
46:33We've got to get over there.
46:34It's the Stilger Eco Pharmacy.
46:37On Baudry and 5th.
46:43This prescription's a fake.
46:45You give me pills?
46:46No, I can't give you...
46:47You don't give me...
47:05It's insane. It's insane.
47:09Where is he?
47:10Which way did he go?
47:11Through the back.
47:17Do, clerk, get away.
47:19Oh, there are 29 alleys in the back of this building.
47:21You could have gone up any one of them.
47:23Better tell Captain Avery of the prowl cars.
47:25Be on the lookout for doctors' offices and drugstores.
47:28Yeah.
47:29It's just insane.
47:31Yeah.
47:32It's just insane.
47:34Yeah, did he get any of the drugs?
47:36Just one out of his head.
47:37Did he get any of the drugs?
47:39I don't know.
47:41Where's the prescription?
47:43Prescription?
47:51Bonnie, I'm going over to the station.
47:52Yeah, ma'am.
47:54Okay, folks, you can break it up now.
47:56Right. I want to keep someone at Dr. Morton's house,
47:59and the drugstore, and Dr. Billings, too.
48:01Yeah.
48:02And where's Shoemaker?
48:03All right, phone in every 15 minutes and let me know where you're at
48:06and how you're progressing.
48:07Now.
48:08I know I should know where he is.
48:10It's right on the tip of my tongue.
48:12It's something he said to you.
48:13Something you said.
48:15I can't think.
48:16It's like it was before when I couldn't remember what he looked like.
48:19No, you were trying too hard then.
48:20It must be something he told you,
48:22where he was going.
48:24What did he say when he took the prescription?
48:30Isn't it crazy?
48:31You were right.
48:33I'm panicked.
48:34I can't think for being afraid my husband's murderer is going to die.
48:50What was the cause of the accident?
48:52I don't know.
48:56This!
49:00Oh!
49:02Are you wounded?
49:06Well, you'd better sit down, please.
49:09Over here.
49:11Now, the doctor will be right out.
49:13Doctor!
49:14Emergency waiting room.
49:15I heard the doorbell ring and I thought it might be you,
49:18so I went to answer it.
49:20And it was him.
49:23I can...
49:24I can see his face.
49:26It was that old man's face
49:29with his eyes all filled with pain.
49:34And then after that I didn't see anything.
49:36I...
49:37I just saw something to hate.
49:39I wanted to tear him to pieces.
49:41But I was a woman and I wasn't strong enough.
49:43And what kept going through my head was,
49:45what should I do? What should I do?
49:50I can't remember.
49:53I...
49:54I...
49:55I know that I should know where he is now,
49:57but I can't remember.
49:59And all my life I'll never be able to forget
50:01that I couldn't remember.
50:02All right, now stop it!
50:05Sit down.
50:09All right, now.
50:10Quietly.
50:13Piece by piece.
50:15Every second that happened.
50:22I love that you had this pain.
50:23I have since morning.
50:25Is it getting worse?
50:30I have stomach ulcers.
50:35You take drugs.
50:37Narcotics.
50:38Are you allergic to any of the drugs?
50:40I'm not.
50:41Do you have a history of pain like this?
50:43Nurse, I want a blood count.
50:44This could be anyone of two dozen different names.
50:46Yes, doctor.
50:50And I want to ease his pain a little.
50:51Have Miss Winters prepare a hypo.
50:52Yes.
50:54And he wanted drugs.
50:56And there weren't any.
51:00And then what?
51:02He didn't believe me.
51:03He was desperate.
51:05And then I suddenly thought of writing a prescription.
51:08And so I did.
51:10I even tried to forge Frank's handwriting.
51:14And then I said to him...
51:17What?
51:19I said, be sure and go out of the neighborhood someplace.
51:23Someplace where they don't know Frank.
51:27What else?
51:29And then I said...
51:31It's late.
51:33If you can't find a drugstore open...
51:36Go to the Grant Street Hospital.
51:39Because they...
51:42Russ!
51:44Get the Grant Street Hospital on the phone.
51:45Two clerks probably there or on his way.
51:46Warn them.
51:47We'll be there in three minutes.
51:50Get me the Grant Street Hospital.
51:54Grant Street Hospital?
51:55I want to check on the arrival of a...
51:57How do I know?
51:58Probably off the street.
52:00Emergency?
52:02They're busy?
52:03Well, can't you cut in on them?
52:05All right, I'll wait.
52:07Well, she arranged with Marge to swap.
52:09And got together four full days of Memorial Day weekend.
52:13So when my turn came, I wanted to do the same thing.
52:15Only I couldn't find anybody to swap with.
52:17Miss!
52:18Oh, just a second, June.
52:19Oh, the doctor will be out in a minute.
52:21How long have you been on that phone, miss?
52:23I'll call you back.
52:24Well, here's the doctor now.
52:27He's right in there, Miss Winter.
52:28Just give it to him now.
52:29What can I do for you?
52:30Have you admitted anyone in the last half hour with severe abdominal pains?
52:33Yes. Why?
52:34You can't give him any barbiturates, doctor.
52:36He's a porphyric. It'll kill him.
52:38Winter!
52:40Give it to me!
52:42Stop it, man! I could kill you!
52:44Stop it!
52:45Pull yourself!
52:48Pull yourself! I want to help you!
52:50I want to help you!
52:52Pull yourself!
52:54You're going to be all right.
52:55What is it?
52:56We're going to take care of you.
52:57What is it?
53:05So it's all over.
53:09I nearly killed a man.
53:11If it hadn't been for you, I...
53:12No, what I said didn't stop you.
53:15Just gave you a moment to think for yourself, is all.
53:18Don't forget, I've seen it a few hundred times.
53:21Suddenly, a woman's all alone in the world.
53:24It's frightening.
53:27I want to thank you, Lieutenant.
53:30Very much.
53:32Come on, I'll take you home.
53:34How would you like to ride in a police car just once, without the siren going?
53:41No.
53:54In just a moment, you'll meet Nancy Kelly, Mona Freeman, Dean Stockwell, Fred Clark and Harry Beliver
53:59in a preview of next week's exciting Climax program.
54:10I'm great for driving downhill slow.
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55:28You know, I'm happy to remind you that all summer, Climax will continue to present for the first time on the air
55:37new programs of the highest quality, the tops in stars, and the best in stories.
55:43Now, for example, next on Climax, Murder is a Witch.
55:47It's the story of a mother and her son in desperate trouble.
55:51Normally, a kid in trouble comes to his mother.
55:55But what does a mother do if her son's not a kid anymore and the trouble isn't just a schoolboy prank?
56:02What if it's something she can't fix, like murder?
56:08I have told Les that if he keeps running around with that little hoodlum, sooner or later he has to get into trouble.
56:15It just has to happen that way.
56:17And, of course, it has happened now.
56:21Mom, Ron said all I had to do was stay in the car.
56:24He didn't say he was going to have a gun. He said he was just going to pretend like he had one.
56:28I'm scared, Mom. I'm scared.
56:33Mother, you're getting in deeper and deeper. Can't you see that?
56:37I think you should do what you should have done in the first place.
56:41Go to the police.
56:43There's no call to be offensive, Mrs. Marshall.
56:46You know, Lieutenant Barrett and I could take your son down to the station house.
56:49We could question him there without you interfering with our work.
56:54I think you're lying, Mrs. Marshall.
56:56I think you and your son have been lying right along.
56:59An innocent man with nothing to hide doesn't have to lie, Mrs. Marshall.
57:03Especially about where he was last night when a man was killed.
57:07Oh, Les. Oh, Les, my baby. He mustn't be frightened.
57:12I'll make it all right. I don't know how I'll do it, but I'll make it all right.
57:18Next week, Murder is a Witch, adapted especially for Climax by James P. Cavanaugh,
57:23from a novel by John Bingham and starring Nancy Kelly, Mona Freeman, Dean Stockwell,
57:28Fred Clark, and Harry Beliver.
57:30It's Bill Lundigan saying thank you and remember, leave sooner and drive slower.
57:34Incidentally, I'll be in Cincinnati tomorrow, August 9th and 10th,
57:38for the Time Star De Soto contest, and in Washington, D.C. on the 11th, 12th, and 13th
57:44for the Teenage Rodeo. Hope you'll drop over and say hello.
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