Good evening, this is Sergeant X. When an American greets another native son with a time-worn phrase, what's doing, he's very much surprised if the answer isn't not much or something to the same effect. Yes, the lives of most home folks are pretty uneventful, unless of course their names happen to be Mr. and Mrs. North. In that case, there's never a dull moment, as they demonstrate tonight in the Mystery Playhouse. Yes, tonight the Mystery Playhouse presents another exciting episode in the very eventful lives of Mr. and Mrs. North. It isn't that Jerry and Pam, as they're known to each other and their intimates, go hunting for trouble. No, it seems to be just the other way around. Of course, once it arrives, they don't run away from it. On the contrary, they usually jump in with both feet, a process that makes for interesting results. Take for instance right now, with Jerry North away on a business trip, Pam is home keeping the light burning in the window and the telephone wires humming. Hello? Yes, I'm Mrs. North. Oh, put him on. Is Jerry? Darling. Of course I'm not all right. How can I be with my husband way off in the wild? Me? Oh, I'm taking up knitting, Jerry. Uh-huh. Knit one, purl one, although I keep dropping one all the time. I just need to... Oh, what did you say, darling? Oh, nothing, just... Oh, that sound. I just dropped one. Uh-huh. Oh, I guess I'd better hang up now, darling. Why? I forgot to pick up that stitch I dropped. Of course I love you. Goodbye, darling. Oh, I wonder if... Oh dear, there are times when a woman needs a husband. Oh, family Lord, you've been a... Please, let me in, quickly! Oh, you've been shot. Quickly, please! All right, here, here, let me help you. Lie down on this couch. There. Well, I'd better phone for a doctor. No, not a doctor. He'd have to notify the police and I... Jimmy, there's no time. But you're hurt. There's a flesh wound. But you're in pain, I can't let you do... You must. What happens to me right now isn't very important. It's Jimmy who's in danger. You mean from the man who shot at you? Oh, no, from the state executioner. State executioner? Yes, they're going to kill Jimmy for a murder he didn't do. I'm the only one who believes in him and you and your husband, Mrs. North, are the only ones who can save... Oh, well, are you sure? Oh, she's fainted. Jerry's out in the wild and I mustn't call Bill Wygand. There are times, Pamela North, when I wonder about you. How on earth do you do it? There. You're feeling better now, aren't you? I guess I've tainted. You lost a lot of blood. It's all stopped now. How does your shoulder feel? Not... not very good, I'm afraid. That doesn't matter, though. Jimmy... I think you'd better tell me about it from the beginning. Oh, I'm sorry. My name is Gloria Crane. Jimmy Seldon and I were to be married until the police found Jimmy's employer dead. He'd been shot and the police said Jimmy did it, but he didn't, he didn't. Why do they think he did? Well, according to the evidence, Jimmy was the last person to be with Corsi. That's the man who was killed. And so... Well, there must have been witnesses. They lied. I don't know why, but, Mrs. North, they lied. Who were they? Well, there were three of them. The doorman at Corsi's apartment. Corsi's, um, his girlfriend, who had rooms next to his. And Corsi's partner, Ed Hall. Well, then one or perhaps all three must be lying. If Jimmy's innocent... I swear to you, Mrs. North, he is. And the only thing to do is to force one of the witnesses to admit perjury. Miss Crane, we've got to go to each one of them and... Oh, but you can't. Your shoulder... Well, that's why the murderer tried to kill me. He wanted to make sure I wouldn't try to find out the truth. He succeeded, unless... Jerry, of course, would have conniptious tits. I do have my knitting to do. All right, Miss Crane, I'll start with the doorman. Oh, Mrs. North, that's wonderful of you. But I can't take advantage of you this way. I really just came for advice. Well, if you knew the North better, you'd know that their advice is usually accompanied by in-person cooperation. At least when I have my way. And right now, it looks as if I'm going to have it. Oh, I wonder if you... Oh, hello, bartender. What? I said hello. I got the wrong place, sister. Look, I want to speak to Pete Owens. They told me he'd be here. He is. He's a one-man family. What's the problem? Oh, and they told me he'd be here. Yes. He's a one-man liquor shortage, but Okay, and table over there in the corner over there. Yeah Him yeah, oh All right, thank you Maybe I should have stood at home Oh, I said hello Goodbye I've just come. Yeah. Goodbye. Anyway, I'd like to speak to you for a few minutes. I'm busy. You see Thank you, I will sit down Yeah, you are Pete Owens. Aren't you? Yeah, don't mention it. Don't tell her soul. Goodbye Pete you're the doorman at Kilmsley Arms who testified Jimmy Selden's trial. I know go away didn't you I wouldn't and you're not gonna suck me. Why because I suck you first with this Spotty, give me that back. I look with content. I need them contents expensive brand isn't it Pete especially for a doorman mean I want Where did you get the money? Only your business. That's what you think and Mr. Owens. I represent the income tax department We'd like to have all income reported to us. Hey now wait a minute. Would you like to see my credentials? Oh, I'll handle my would you prefer to continue this discussion at the headquarter? You got me wrong. Sure. I received a gift There's nothing wrong with that is it that depends? How large again 500 in cash? Who sent it to you? There was no city sir Must have been Santa Claus Yeah, and what were you supposed to do for that money nothing try again? I'm telling you nothing that guy was sent it is well He didn't want me to get in trouble on my job go on and make it good Well, they sort of suggested when I got up on a witness stand Maybe I didn't have to say nothing about ducking away for a drink after I let the seldom guy upstairs So you sold out for $500? That's enough. Mr. Owens. Goodbye Goodbye. Hey, hey, hey. Like I always say games are no good especially the pretty one So you see Gloria we've broken down one witness well, that's wonderful except well, it's just negative isn't it? I know all it proves is that somebody might have followed Jimmy, but Well, we've got two more witnesses to go. I hope that You know, we don't have very much time left. Mrs. North. Oh, please call me Pam. Almost everybody does well Pam You see Jimmy's execution is next week. I feel so helpless lying here I know your shoulder is it worth not really but it does make me unable to I hear hear hear you stop worrying tomorrow morning. I go back to work In the meantime, I think sleep is what both of us need I'll sleep on the couch in the living room. Oh, no Pam. I hate taking your bed like this Barging into your life. Oh now don't you be silly Gloria You prevented me from brooding about Jerry and believe me publish your husband out in the wilds with a lady author Can't be brooded about Darling have I ever told you our hands and lots of people have I bet now one of them ever married you like I did Oh Jerry isn't here Gloria Gloria Oh Oh Jerry isn't here. Oh, yeah, yeah Somebody something I've got to get to it Gloria yeah, the room so dark. I oh no Oh, no, no, no Pam oh Pam you all right. Well, I'm not sure there are a lot of little men with hammers working inside my head I wish they'd go away. Oh, I couldn't help you. I couldn't get out of bed quickly enough with this shoulder somebody socked me oh I wish Jerry were here. He's the one that always gets socked. He's used to it by now. I'm not I couldn't see who it was Pam it was too dark. Could you all I noticed was a Dymphic you with his arm up raised. Oh That brute. Oh, did he hurt you very badly? No, but he ruined my best base. Oh Glory we should call the police in but they believe Jimmy did it. They won't help bill might although You will keep the doors locked at any yell for help on the slightest provocation. I promise then me for what was her name? Corsi's girlfriend Alice Arden Unlikely however keep your chin up Gloria and if my husband calls while I'm away, I'll reassure him about you Oh good heavens. No tell Jerry. I need him desperately Otherwise that she offers likely to start on a second volume Yeah You're miss Arden aren't you right the very first time to go pedal at somewhere else sister. Goodbye. I'm not peddling anything Oh, you're working your way through success school. I graduated you mind if I come in certainly. I mind I'm busy or hiding something. What do you mean? I could explain better inside Well, if you insist what you do come in Place the mess so I noticed Moving yeah, you're not a detective by any chance. Oh, let's not talk about me. Let's talk about you Why are you moving? I don't like the class of people to ring my doorbell in this house. Oh Well, there's another kind of a house you might move to that doesn't have a doorbell. Okay. Is that so? Well, you'll always be in by request look sister If you're the new type of policewoman Lord help the police department, would you like to see my dad? I've seen them before No doubt What were you insinuating by that? Corsi ran into a lot of police during his business career. Didn't he? Oh Yeah Yeah, right. You didn't like it. He was all right alive But I don't like the kind of guy that don't take care of his loved ones when he pops off You can't really blame him. He wasn't expecting to be murdered in his racket. He had a right to expect But no, he kicks off without leaving me a red scent. Oh, that's why you're moving Oh, I can't afford to pay the rent in a Tony dump like this Funny I couldn't even afford to move but hadn't been for how much did he send you a breath? Did who send me don't you know there was no signet? Listen sister. I'm talking too much at Jimmy Seldon's trial. Maybe you didn't talk enough I told the truth you saw Jimmy go into Corsi's apartment Sure, I had a suspicion course He was expecting a visitor so I was watching but it turned out it was only Jimmy so you went to the movie No, I stayed right here. I kept on watching why no reason or don't you mean because that's what the letter with a thousand dollars Instructed you to say look at the bot time you were leaving. I don't think you got nothing on me Did you tell the police about the letter with the money? They didn't ask me they might not like it. I told them Honest, I didn't mean any harm. I needed that thousand dollars. So you helped railroad an innocent boy to the chair I just didn't mention that I left after I thought Jimmy go into Corsi's apartment. That's all you didn't see anyone else go in after Jimmy Did I'm telling I didn't? Wasn't my fault. He got the chair then the doorman and Ed Hall They would have seen somebody else go in so I tell you lied and took your thousand dollars All right Don't leave town. I won't look am I gonna get in the trouble on account of this? Maybe not but I'd be rather afraid about you of home of the man who sent you that money He paid for your silence, but if he thought you might talk he could use other means besides money. You mean kill me You know coffee we can't do that to me against the law. Are you quite sure that he realizes that? Oh This is Pam bill About the Corsi murder Too late somebody already found the corpse in that one bill what business was Corsi in As a real estate man Actually, he ran a string of slot machines banning parlors and assorted brackets. Why did he leave any money when he died? No, his partner claimed Corsi had a hundred grand on him when he was killed. We never found the money Telling him well, but it's not too many good. Tell him didn't kill Corsi Proof or intuition? I'm sorry, but I don't think the governor will commute on those grounds. Yeah, why can you should know by now? That when I have an intuition things happen Welcome madam. You're like a breath of spring in these parts. Are you Mr. Hall? Yes, madam editor-in-chief Of the horseman's handy helper the only racing sheet in town with a money-back clause Precisely if our selections do not win try and get your money back Would you like something for the fifth and empire not exactly between you and me? I don't know any more than you do who's going to win horses are so darn secretive never say a word You're quite a picturesque character True at this moment. I'm beginning to wonder exactly where you fit into the picture. I'm a reporter Hmm which enlightened newspaper employs you my dear the globe they got oh, I see Oh, excuse me for a moment something in my other office be right back. Of course, Mr. Hall racing sheet Corsi owned betting policy Pamela you may have something there as a matter of fact Pamela. You'd better have something there. This is your last chance I hate oily men Wonder whether Brendan fail that author is is oily. I hope she is I hope Jerry doesn't like oily women as a matter of fact. Oh Mr. Hall here. I am back again with you my dear my sweet little reporter from the inquirer the globe. Oh, yes Yes, yes, of course the globe Mr. Hall That's a gun you're pointing at me. How clever of you to recognize it. I just phoned the globe madam They sent no one down to interview me Oh, they must have forgotten. Would you mind showing me your press card? Oh, no I'm afraid I forgot that forgetfulness is likely to cost you your life my dear What's the angle and talk fast? I was lying to you but correct so far go on I'm Pamela North. I want to clear Jimmy's tell another murder charge against assuming you mean that he's innocent He is innocent and you know it what makes you think so? Because somebody entered Corsi's apartment after Jimmy left and that somebody killed Corsi You must have seen the killer a pretty theory. How much did he pay you? Why do you want to know? Mr. Hall the murderer has bribed the three witnesses who could have cleared Jimmy and convicted him instead. I know that I Also know that you're not a man. I can scare you're a realist. Thank you my dear Suppose I match his offer you're assuming I saw the murderer entered didn't you? Possibly I can't be sure I'm that's it. Double it All right, how much he paid ten thousand? I'll have 20,000 at my apartment tonight in that case mrs. North. I'll be here. Yeah, but I don't like traps My word among the criminal elements in this city is unquestioned. You may rely on it Twenty thousand dollars tonight mrs. North and tomorrow Jimmy Selden goes free Monkey business mrs. North and Jimmy Selden dies in the chair See Pam I can't let you spend all that money. Oh cheer up Gloria. It isn't mine. It's Jerry's Jimmy'll pay us back Better oh, I can't express my don't try Gloria That money is about all the North publishing company is worth After all Jerry can always get a job Wish me wish both of us luck. It's our only chance alas Oh The horseman's handy helper front sounds like the office Golly stock inside Open Pamela doesn't like to go in Pamela had better go in Nothing and nobody Where's the light switch? There. Oh Hi, mr. Hall. You are here after all Mr. Hall He's asleep sitting in his chair behind the desk Mr. Hall, please wake up. Please Oh, oh, oh Pam yes, Gloria I'm awfully sorry as I told you over the phone Hall was dead when I got there Oh, it's not you Not anybody's fault. Just bad luck. That's all. Oh, this thing isn't over yet Gloria try not to worry somehow somewhere. We'll find the evidence. We need but where Pam? I don't know. Oh your husband phone. Oh, did he yeah right after you did. I told him you were all right I told him about Hall. He's gonna call again. Oh, thank you, dear How could the murder? I know that Hall was about to go to jail Oh nothing. I was just thinking a lot. Well, I guess I'll go to bed That must be your husband now. Good night. Good night, dear Jerry Uh-huh. Oh, I'm all right darling and just lonely for you and unhappy Yes, Hall's dead. That's right His own paper knife sitting behind his own desk before he could even get up and go to bed That's right. His own paper knife sitting behind his own desk before he could even Jerry what did you say about the paper knife? I know but how did you know it was a paper knife that was used to kill him? Say goodbye to your husband nicely and that's all I'll shoot. All right. It's very late Jerry. I'd better hang up Oh, well one thing more Jerry Bill Weigand is ready to go to press for this new book. Uh-huh right away. Hang up Oh, that's all darling. Goodbye. I Still can't believe it. Although I should have known you were the only person who knew Hall was going to change his testimony Therefore you had to be the person who killed him and if you feared his testimony so much, that's right I killed Corsi too for the hundred thousand dollars that Bill told me about the money that disappeared you took it That's where you got the money to bribe the witnesses with and enough left over to see me through quite a few rainy days After I get rid of you. You can't kill me here. It's my own apartment and Those attacks on you you must have staged them yourself to make sure that I wouldn't suspect Now she gets wise and when I reported to you that Hall had seen the murderer You killed him. That's why you had to send me to make sure I did make sure about Hall Just as I'm going to make sure about you, but the police know about you now They don't suspect you but if I'm found dead in this apartment, you won't be I'm getting dressed. This is no all dressed up and Frick to kill I'm not sure I am moving. I get nervous when my fingers on a trigger It's just so persistent. I'll go Now take down the hallway will you shot me too soon? Gloria you You're so stupid. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry You shot me Or am I wrong? Oh Bill Wagon oh, I'm so glad to see you. I'm I'm going to don't cry. I won't I think I'd rather Think Hello Jerry darling Yes, it's all over You see when you mentioned to me that Hall was stabbed with a paper knife That was the important clue because when I phoned Gloria I just told her that Hall had been murdered without the details yet when she told you about it she knew about the stabbing and Uh-huh, darling And it was very bright of you to catch on and send bill to help me. I Know darling. We're both very bright And that was tonight's mystery playhouse presentation Pamela goes it alone another adventure with Mr. And Mrs. North Like I told you at the start of tonight's performance the North's do jump in with both feet don't they? But somehow or other they always seem to come out all in one piece and ready for more Now leaving the North's for the time being anyway We invite you to visit the green room for a pre hearing of our next mystery playhouse performance Follow me, please I said and be a good boy. You got nothing to worry about as long as you stick with me Now I'll count your 15,000. I want more than that. I want 25 What and leave me only five? It's a fine way to treat a partner. I don't care about you I don't care about you. I want what's coming to me. You'll get it and no more We split this 50-50. Why should we why should you get half? I did the job I went in and got the stuff. I took all the risk. All you did was sit here and wait for me Is that so all I did is sit here and wait for you. Why you runny-nosed little brat What do you think those you're thinking for you? How far do you think you'd give that stupid brain of yours? I don't need you know how much of this 30,000 do you think you'd have now if it wasn't for me? I'll tell you enough one cent who found out about the jewels in the first place me Who case the Jordan find out about the show for being an ex con who swiped his screwdriver to plant on the same Who figured out every angle to make this one of the neatest jobs ever pulled in this bag? You'd be so stinking hot with the police right now But have meant for me you never even be able to cash the rocks in and now don't give me any more of this I'll listen easily. I'm sick of you playing a big shot. Maybe you did do all the thinking up to now But maybe now it's my turn I'm taking 25 of that pile and you ain't got nothing to say about it. Why you When you're a little rat you pull a rod on me. Yeah, and I know how to use it big shot now get count 25 for me Five for you. How do you like that? Is that a way to treat a pal Sammy? I'm no pal of yours big shot I can take care of myself. Okay. Okay. It's 25 for you and five for me only if you're so smart Why not take the whole thing? I might do that. Okay, then Better I just keep this little round for a souvenir. Are you yes? I don't teach you not to play rough with Albert easily. You see sonny. You're not as small as you thought I'm always just a little bit smarter. I get up and be Gone. What about my money? Oh, you're so impulsive. I don't think you better have so much money around loose, Sammy Yeah, maybe I better keep it for you until you grow up a little come around sometime when you've learned not to be a Double-crossing baby. I'll kill you easily. So help me. I'll kill you. Oh I'm scared to death. You will be before I'm through. I promise you. Okay. Okay, we get going or I take you over my knees You better order your flowers now big shot because I'll get you if it's a last thing I do Okay, go ahead and try it Sammy, but just remember to can play that game I could plug you now for something like it, but I'll outsmart you at that game, too. We'll see about that Just remember easily. I'm gonna kill you not if I kill you first Sammy. Okay, fair enough So long easily pleasant dreams Well, that sounds like a cute couple of kids doesn't it I know it looks very much like somebody's going to get hurt And to find out for sure You're going to have to be back in your seats next time when what looks like an open and shut case of jewel robbery turns into Triple homicide and the threat not if I kill you first takes on deadly meaning It's another strange tale from the lips of the man who knows them all the whistler See you then This is sergeant X closing the doors of the mystery playhouse Good night sleep tight This is the Armed Forces radio service You
