1 00:00:02,860 --> 00:00:06,670 ("Alfred Hitchcock" theme music) 2 00:00:25,090 --> 00:00:25,920 - Good evening. 3 00:00:28,860 --> 00:00:33,160 The suggestion box is the mark of the enlightened company. 4 00:00:33,190 --> 00:00:35,360 We have had one for years. 5 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:40,240 We offer prizes to our workers for the best suggestions, 6 00:00:40,270 --> 00:00:43,770 but so far have been unable to make any awards, 7 00:00:43,810 --> 00:00:47,710 since these suggestions are usually unsigned. 8 00:00:47,740 --> 00:00:50,550 We used to have a woman do this work, 9 00:00:50,580 --> 00:00:54,280 but some of the suggestions were improper. 10 00:00:57,020 --> 00:00:59,750 This first suggestion is directed at me. 11 00:01:03,430 --> 00:01:06,130 I'm touched, but I'll have to return it. 12 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:09,430 I never accept gifts from employees. 13 00:01:10,470 --> 00:01:13,230 And now this evening's drama, it is 14 00:01:13,270 --> 00:01:17,570 about a disappearance, sudden, startling, and frightening. 15 00:01:17,610 --> 00:01:21,510 It follows this suggestion from our sponsor. 16 00:01:24,410 --> 00:01:27,780 (engaging dramatic music) 17 00:02:10,060 --> 00:02:13,260 - Dear, dear, come back here. 18 00:02:13,290 --> 00:02:14,060 Come back! 19 00:02:21,940 --> 00:02:24,440 Hey, you come away from here. 20 00:02:24,470 --> 00:02:26,740 (dark dramatic music) 21 00:02:58,370 --> 00:03:00,140 - Welcome home. 22 00:03:00,180 --> 00:03:01,380 - [Thomas] Huh? 23 00:03:01,410 --> 00:03:04,310 - Thomas, my lad, the wandering boy returns. 24 00:03:08,380 --> 00:03:12,450 Is greeted warmly, a small crowd to be sure 25 00:03:12,490 --> 00:03:15,420 but all heart, warm, friendly. 26 00:03:15,460 --> 00:03:17,390 - Knock it off Steve. 27 00:03:17,430 --> 00:03:18,660 - Knock it off? 28 00:03:18,690 --> 00:03:21,300 Is that the way they really talk in New York? 29 00:03:21,330 --> 00:03:22,800 I know you've seen the movie. 30 00:03:22,830 --> 00:03:25,370 - There's a young woman lying there strangled to death. 31 00:03:26,670 --> 00:03:28,200 You're going to be flippant about it? 32 00:03:29,900 --> 00:03:32,240 - Oh, one gets used to it. 33 00:03:32,270 --> 00:03:34,780 - I think you should know this Stevie-boy, 34 00:03:34,810 --> 00:03:36,850 cynics put my teeth on edge. 35 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:40,750 - Oh maybe that's not what I meant, and maybe it is, 36 00:03:42,750 --> 00:03:44,520 but she's the fourth in a row, four of them, 37 00:03:46,690 --> 00:03:50,090 her age, 30ish, wouldn't you say? 38 00:03:50,130 --> 00:03:52,330 All strangled to death with a silk stocking. 39 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:55,830 It began when you are on holiday in New York. 40 00:03:55,860 --> 00:03:58,270 Everybody's frightened, especially the women. 41 00:03:58,300 --> 00:03:59,830 (bell rings) 42 00:04:05,340 --> 00:04:07,310 - Hey you, stand back. 43 00:04:07,340 --> 00:04:09,340 I told you, stand back. 44 00:04:09,380 --> 00:04:11,050 - All I want-- 45 00:04:11,050 --> 00:04:13,420 - All you'll get is stand back, do you hear me, lad? 46 00:04:13,450 --> 00:04:16,280 (dramatic music) 47 00:04:34,900 --> 00:04:36,140 - Any pattern to this? 48 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:38,140 - Only the stocking. 49 00:04:39,210 --> 00:04:43,810 Something else, they're all of an age, 30ish, 50 00:04:45,780 --> 00:04:47,880 like her, wandering the streets alone, 51 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:50,590 small, anonymous lives, then found 52 00:04:50,620 --> 00:04:52,320 in an alley or at a river bank. 53 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:55,860 There's a pattern there if you want it. 54 00:05:02,730 --> 00:05:04,630 Happy Wedding Day, old boy. 55 00:05:04,670 --> 00:05:06,230 - Thanks 56 00:05:06,270 --> 00:05:07,470 - She's lovely. 57 00:05:07,500 --> 00:05:09,040 - She's lovely. 58 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:09,400 - Met her aboard ship, huh? 59 00:05:11,670 --> 00:05:13,640 - At paddle tennis. 60 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:15,340 - Enchanting. 61 00:05:15,380 --> 00:05:17,350 - Yes, we won. 62 00:05:17,380 --> 00:05:19,480 - Oh, doubles? 63 00:05:19,510 --> 00:05:22,180 - Mm hmm, not always though. 64 00:05:22,220 --> 00:05:25,290 - Oh, drenched with moonlight, the pink champagne, 65 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:26,620 all that sort of thing, huh? 66 00:05:26,650 --> 00:05:28,960 - And games, it was a pleasure cruise. 67 00:05:30,090 --> 00:05:31,730 Her mother, and father, and other planned 68 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:34,530 tour citizens to see the old world. 69 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:34,830 - Lovely, yeah? 70 00:05:37,630 --> 00:05:41,940 - From within, she loves poetry, Keats, 71 00:05:43,100 --> 00:05:45,110 Shelley, Lord Byron, that sort of thing. 72 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:48,310 - Much happiness, old boy, I'm proud to be 73 00:05:48,340 --> 00:05:51,950 your best man and a little sad too. 74 00:05:51,980 --> 00:05:53,080 - Why? 75 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:54,880 - Well, losing a jousting companion, 76 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:57,190 I'm all alone now on the field of battle. 77 00:05:57,220 --> 00:05:58,520 - Oh. 78 00:05:58,550 --> 00:06:00,220 - You know, Marie, and Jan, and Tinker, 79 00:06:00,260 --> 00:06:04,090 and oh they will miss you, they really will. 80 00:06:04,130 --> 00:06:06,800 - You have my permission to console them. 81 00:06:06,830 --> 00:06:10,070 - Thanks, oh I shall, I'd be proud to, thanks. 82 00:06:10,100 --> 00:06:11,130 I say, Tom-- 83 00:06:11,170 --> 00:06:12,270 - Mm hmm. 84 00:06:12,300 --> 00:06:14,900 - I really am, I'm really happy for you. 85 00:06:14,940 --> 00:06:16,740 I'm sorry that it had to be on a day like this. 86 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:20,740 - It has to be today. 87 00:06:20,780 --> 00:06:23,310 Her parents are sailing tomorrow to continue the cruise. 88 00:06:23,350 --> 00:06:27,120 - You love her very much, you're a lucky man, 89 00:06:27,150 --> 00:06:29,880 beautiful girl, and sensitive, poetic, young-- 90 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:31,090 - She's not all that young. 91 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:32,420 - [Steve] No. 92 00:06:32,450 --> 00:06:33,420 - 30ish I should say. 93 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:38,760 That's right, 30ish. 94 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:43,400 (dramatic music) 95 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:51,110 Oh, there's the gatehouse. 96 00:06:52,840 --> 00:06:54,410 Now there's this tradition about it 97 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:56,680 that Ben Jonson worked on it as a bricklayer with-- 98 00:06:56,710 --> 00:07:00,020 - Trowel in hand and book in pocket. 99 00:07:01,050 --> 00:07:02,020 (laughs) 100 00:07:02,020 --> 00:07:03,320 - Book in pocket. 101 00:07:04,420 --> 00:07:05,290 - Tell me more. 102 00:07:07,260 --> 00:07:09,120 - Why did you choose this place, Sally? 103 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:12,430 - The guidebook said it was lovely, and it is. 104 00:07:12,460 --> 00:07:14,330 Poets once walked here. 105 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:16,200 - Why did you ask to meet me today? 106 00:07:17,430 --> 00:07:18,600 - The guidebook says it's one 107 00:07:18,630 --> 00:07:20,440 of the most romantic spots in London. 108 00:07:22,100 --> 00:07:24,770 - It's bad luck to see one's bride on the wedding day 109 00:07:25,570 --> 00:07:27,180 Didn't you know that? 110 00:07:27,210 --> 00:07:28,110 - From childhood. 111 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:32,150 - It's not that I mind. 112 00:07:35,050 --> 00:07:37,290 You really are quite exquisite. 113 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:38,090 Do you know that-- 114 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:48,100 - It really would be bad luck to touch your bride before... 115 00:07:49,330 --> 00:07:50,430 It all happened so quickly, didn't it Tommy? 116 00:07:52,070 --> 00:07:53,770 - That's why you wanted to see me. 117 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:55,770 - So quickly, don't you feel it? 118 00:07:57,440 --> 00:07:58,340 - Perhaps. 119 00:08:00,010 --> 00:08:01,310 - You see, I felt it. 120 00:08:01,340 --> 00:08:02,840 I knew you weren't the kind of man 121 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:04,810 to do things by whirlwind, whether romance or-- 122 00:08:04,850 --> 00:08:06,880 - You wanna call it off Sally? 123 00:08:08,220 --> 00:08:11,690 - Tommy, I'm 31-years-old and unmarried. 124 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:14,020 My parents worry about that. 125 00:08:14,020 --> 00:08:15,420 I think they'd be very hurt. 126 00:08:15,460 --> 00:08:19,130 - Do you love me? 127 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:20,300 - Yes, very much. 128 00:08:21,630 --> 00:08:24,270 And so swiftly I can never believe it. 129 00:08:24,300 --> 00:08:24,470 - And it frightens you? 130 00:08:30,340 --> 00:08:33,740 - It's gonna be a lovely, romantic, and marvelous wedding. 131 00:08:34,680 --> 00:08:35,740 Will you be there? 132 00:08:37,310 --> 00:08:38,850 - My tailor would very hurt if I weren't. 133 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:40,720 He hasn't slept in 36 hours. 134 00:08:42,350 --> 00:08:45,050 - Well I guess we can't disappoint them, can we? 135 00:08:45,050 --> 00:08:46,960 My mom and dad, and your tailor. 136 00:08:47,060 --> 00:08:49,490 - And all those tour people, it'd be like having 137 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:51,960 a cricket match canceled because it rained. 138 00:08:52,060 --> 00:08:52,760 - Tommy? 139 00:08:54,260 --> 00:08:55,060 - [Tommy] Yes. 140 00:08:57,870 --> 00:08:59,100 - Touch me if you want. 141 00:09:00,740 --> 00:09:05,110 - Mm mm, bad luck, remember? 142 00:09:11,010 --> 00:09:12,750 - Tell me more about this place. 143 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:15,850 Please, Tommy. 144 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:23,020 - It had an evil reputation once, the haunt of rogues 145 00:09:23,060 --> 00:09:26,030 and beggars, there was a pillory there and many executions. 146 00:09:27,330 --> 00:09:31,200 In the year 1586, Anthony Worthington who conspired 147 00:09:31,230 --> 00:09:33,700 to murder Queen Elizabeth I was put to death there 148 00:09:33,740 --> 00:09:37,340 with nine of his accomplices. 149 00:09:37,370 --> 00:09:42,310 And in 1647, Otis Bruxton was also executed. 150 00:09:45,910 --> 00:09:47,480 Why am I talking about morbid history 151 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:50,850 when my own job is filled with it right now? 152 00:09:52,350 --> 00:09:55,060 Stocking murders, mayhem-- 153 00:09:55,060 --> 00:09:56,520 - I'm going back to the hotel, Tommy. 154 00:09:56,560 --> 00:09:57,730 - I'll come with you. 155 00:09:57,760 --> 00:10:01,260 - [Sally] No that's all right, I... 156 00:10:01,300 --> 00:10:02,100 Happy Wedding Day. 157 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:05,370 - [Tommy] You too, Sally. 158 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:08,770 (engaging romantic music) 159 00:10:29,460 --> 00:10:30,560 - What was that for? 160 00:10:30,590 --> 00:10:31,460 - Didn't you like it? 161 00:10:31,490 --> 00:10:32,760 - Sure I did, I loved it. 162 00:10:32,790 --> 00:10:34,300 I've got so many things to do, 163 00:10:34,330 --> 00:10:36,000 last-minute touches on Sally's dress, 164 00:10:36,030 --> 00:10:37,400 the caterers, the flowers-- 165 00:10:37,430 --> 00:10:39,230 - It's exciting isn't it? 166 00:10:39,270 --> 00:10:42,640 What I like is a rapid wedding, two young people meet 167 00:10:42,670 --> 00:10:44,270 and right away they wanna get married. 168 00:10:44,310 --> 00:10:47,510 It's a good omen, love should happen quickly. 169 00:10:47,540 --> 00:10:50,250 Sally, you have a nice walk? 170 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:51,010 - Fine. 171 00:10:52,750 --> 00:10:56,480 - Sally, are you all right? 172 00:10:56,520 --> 00:10:56,790 - [Sally] I'm fine. 173 00:10:58,520 --> 00:10:59,890 - I wanna see you in your dress 174 00:10:59,920 --> 00:11:01,490 in case there are any last minute changes. 175 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:01,860 - Yes, mother. 176 00:11:07,730 --> 00:11:09,430 - What's bothering our daughter is premarital jitters. 177 00:11:11,830 --> 00:11:13,130 - I've got them too. 178 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:21,580 You excited, darling? 179 00:11:23,780 --> 00:11:24,980 - I don't know, mother. 180 00:11:26,950 --> 00:11:30,620 I'm 31-years-old and I don't know what I feel, 181 00:11:30,650 --> 00:11:32,450 whether I'm excited or frightened. 182 00:11:34,390 --> 00:11:36,590 I'm 31-years-old and I don't know 183 00:11:36,620 --> 00:11:38,390 if I'm ready to get married. 184 00:11:38,430 --> 00:11:40,430 - Darling, don't be frightened. 185 00:11:40,460 --> 00:11:41,900 He's a very gentle man. 186 00:11:44,170 --> 00:11:45,300 - Yes, he is. 187 00:11:45,330 --> 00:11:48,440 - And you are 31, try on the dress. 188 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:53,210 - At my age, a white wedding dress. 189 00:11:54,340 --> 00:11:55,140 It'll fit fine. 190 00:11:55,180 --> 00:11:55,940 - But Sally-- 191 00:11:55,980 --> 00:11:56,980 - Mother, it'll fit fine. 192 00:11:59,380 --> 00:12:00,450 - Are you going out again? 193 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:02,150 - Yes. 194 00:12:02,180 --> 00:12:04,750 - Sally, you've got to be at the chapel at eight o'clock. 195 00:12:04,790 --> 00:12:06,490 That's only four hours away. 196 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:08,420 - I know mother, don't worry about it. 197 00:12:08,460 --> 00:12:09,960 - But Sally, you can't-- 198 00:12:10,060 --> 00:12:13,630 - Mother, listen, the man I'm gonna marry 199 00:12:13,660 --> 00:12:16,060 wanted to touch me this afternoon. 200 00:12:16,060 --> 00:12:16,970 It shattered me. 201 00:12:18,100 --> 00:12:20,070 What happened inside of me was terror. 202 00:12:22,940 --> 00:12:24,370 I'm going out for a while. 203 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:27,480 - Everyone woman-- 204 00:12:27,510 --> 00:12:29,480 - Please don't try to answer it for me, mother. 205 00:12:31,250 --> 00:12:32,680 I'm gonna walk and think about it, 206 00:12:32,710 --> 00:12:36,790 and when I get back I'll be fine. 207 00:12:38,490 --> 00:12:39,920 - All right, darling. 208 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:56,000 (door closes) 209 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:02,340 - Is she nervous? 210 00:13:02,380 --> 00:13:04,150 - Some women are never meant for marriage. 211 00:13:04,180 --> 00:13:05,050 Did you know that? 212 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:07,720 - Well Sally is bright, and she's lovely, 213 00:13:07,750 --> 00:13:11,290 and if you permit a cliche, I personally 214 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:13,320 don't feel I'm losing a daughter but I'm gaining a son-- 215 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:14,460 - A policeman? 216 00:13:14,490 --> 00:13:15,520 - Well they come in handy. 217 00:13:15,560 --> 00:13:17,090 - In London? 218 00:13:17,130 --> 00:13:19,660 We live in Vincennes, Indiana. 219 00:13:19,690 --> 00:13:20,760 (door knocks) 220 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:21,500 - Come in. 221 00:13:26,300 --> 00:13:28,700 - They found a girl in Soho this morning, 222 00:13:28,740 --> 00:13:30,910 strangled with a stocking. 223 00:13:30,940 --> 00:13:33,680 - How about that, uh, very British, uh, 224 00:13:33,710 --> 00:13:37,080 four in a month, very, very British. 225 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:39,680 Shades of Jack the Ripper, uh? 226 00:13:39,710 --> 00:13:40,620 - [Mrs. Benner] Shades? 227 00:13:40,650 --> 00:13:43,590 - I like London, where's Sally? 228 00:13:43,620 --> 00:13:45,490 - [Mrs. Benner] In her room. 229 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:46,450 - Is she still gonna marry that cop? 230 00:13:46,490 --> 00:13:49,490 - Son, what kind of talk is that? 231 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:51,660 - Is she still gonna marry that cop? 232 00:13:51,690 --> 00:13:52,890 - Yes. 233 00:13:52,930 --> 00:13:55,200 - Sweet of you to invite us to the wedding. 234 00:13:55,230 --> 00:13:56,500 It was very sweet. 235 00:13:56,530 --> 00:13:58,830 - She means we're just ship-board acquaintances and all-- 236 00:13:58,870 --> 00:14:02,470 - Imagine, married to a cop. 237 00:14:02,500 --> 00:14:03,170 - Elliott! 238 00:14:12,310 --> 00:14:13,480 - Hello everybody. 239 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:16,320 (greetings said) 240 00:14:19,290 --> 00:14:20,390 - Where are you going? 241 00:14:20,420 --> 00:14:21,190 - Out. 242 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:23,760 - Why would you wanna go out now? 243 00:14:23,790 --> 00:14:26,730 - For a walk, I love walking in the city, father. 244 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:29,460 And I wanna do it alone. 245 00:14:29,500 --> 00:14:32,730 After I'm married I won't be alone, ever again. 246 00:14:32,770 --> 00:14:34,840 - Of course you will, darling. 247 00:14:34,870 --> 00:14:36,870 - Never, won't be the same. 248 00:14:36,910 --> 00:14:38,440 Anyhow I have to go to the druggist 249 00:14:38,470 --> 00:14:39,940 to pick up some cosmetics. 250 00:14:39,970 --> 00:14:44,810 - Chemists, that's what the British call druggists. 251 00:14:44,850 --> 00:14:45,750 Chemists. 252 00:14:47,220 --> 00:14:48,880 - You need to trim Elliott, you're a little scraggly. 253 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:50,950 - You better be careful that's all. 254 00:14:50,990 --> 00:14:52,320 - What? 255 00:14:52,350 --> 00:14:54,590 - Well, girls are getting strangled 256 00:14:54,620 --> 00:14:56,420 all over the place in London town. 257 00:14:56,460 --> 00:14:57,890 You want me to go with you? 258 00:14:59,090 --> 00:15:01,530 - Thank you, Elliot, see you at my wedding. 259 00:15:03,230 --> 00:15:04,070 - Be careful. 260 00:15:04,100 --> 00:15:06,740 (dramatic music) 261 00:15:08,940 --> 00:15:11,110 - She should've let me go with her. 262 00:15:11,140 --> 00:15:13,710 (ominous music) 263 00:15:18,150 --> 00:15:21,180 (dark dramatic music) 264 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:14,300 (delicate piano music) 265 00:16:17,510 --> 00:16:19,270 - Wine of the country, Vino della Pace, 266 00:16:22,210 --> 00:16:23,710 it took some doing to find this, believe me, 267 00:16:23,750 --> 00:16:26,280 all the way from the good old USA, 268 00:16:26,310 --> 00:16:28,250 where the earth is the greatest. 269 00:16:29,580 --> 00:16:33,590 And the rainfall, natural rainfall 270 00:16:33,620 --> 00:16:35,890 versus man-made irrigation. 271 00:16:38,090 --> 00:16:41,600 Well, a toast before the ceremonial, shall we? 272 00:16:41,630 --> 00:16:43,600 To the blushing bride. 273 00:16:43,630 --> 00:16:44,970 Is she in her bedroom blushing? 274 00:16:45,070 --> 00:16:45,730 - She's-- 275 00:16:45,770 --> 00:16:47,440 - Well we can soon fix that. 276 00:16:47,470 --> 00:16:48,670 Let's send her in a little bubbly. 277 00:16:48,700 --> 00:16:49,900 - She's not here. 278 00:16:49,940 --> 00:16:51,610 She hasn't gotten back from her walk. 279 00:16:53,070 --> 00:16:54,840 - Well, why not? 280 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:56,310 - I really don't know. 281 00:16:56,340 --> 00:16:58,310 - Well I do, she just got interested in the landmarks. 282 00:16:58,350 --> 00:17:00,280 She forgets about the time. 283 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:01,920 - On her wedding day? 284 00:17:02,020 --> 00:17:04,490 - Oh boy, they got him here, landmarks, 285 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:07,020 Wellington, Trafalgar, Buckingham, 286 00:17:08,290 --> 00:17:11,260 Essie sneaked behind the Coldstream Guard and waved. 287 00:17:11,290 --> 00:17:13,030 I took her picture. 288 00:17:13,060 --> 00:17:16,060 (60s rock guitar music) 289 00:17:16,100 --> 00:17:19,200 * Skies where the lights are bright, pretty baby * 290 00:17:19,230 --> 00:17:22,140 * Don't you get it through your head, but you did * 291 00:17:22,170 --> 00:17:25,140 * Don't want you out at night, the pretty baby * 292 00:17:25,170 --> 00:17:28,640 * And don't want you strangled, yeah, yeah * 293 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:31,280 * Nothing could make me feel so bad * 294 00:17:31,310 --> 00:17:34,750 * As to see you stretched on a marble slab * 295 00:17:34,780 --> 00:17:38,220 * Stay where the lights are bright, the pretty baby * 296 00:17:38,250 --> 00:17:41,220 * Don't want you out at night * 297 00:17:41,260 --> 00:17:44,230 * Stay where the lights are brights, the pretty baby * 298 00:17:44,260 --> 00:17:47,330 * You're making me nervous, a wreck, yeah, yeah * 299 00:17:47,360 --> 00:17:50,570 * I don't want you found some night, the pretty baby * 300 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:53,970 * With a stocking 'round your neck, yeah, yeah. * 301 00:17:54,070 --> 00:17:56,270 * Don't let the man get a stranglehold * 302 00:17:56,300 --> 00:17:57,510 (door knocks) 303 00:17:57,540 --> 00:17:58,510 - There she is. 304 00:17:58,540 --> 00:17:59,810 - No she isn't. 305 00:17:59,840 --> 00:18:01,540 She has a key, why would she knock? 306 00:18:01,580 --> 00:18:02,410 (door knocks) 307 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:02,680 - [Myrna] Anybody home? 308 00:18:05,380 --> 00:18:05,610 - She'll be here. 309 00:18:07,180 --> 00:18:08,850 You want my word of honor on it? 310 00:18:10,220 --> 00:18:12,790 - Look who's here, hiya Ducks. 311 00:18:12,820 --> 00:18:14,020 - Myrna. 312 00:18:14,020 --> 00:18:15,020 - Hello, everybody. 313 00:18:15,060 --> 00:18:16,620 - Hello Myrna, how nice of you to come. 314 00:18:16,660 --> 00:18:18,760 - Why, maids of honor always show up don't they? 315 00:18:20,230 --> 00:18:22,230 Why didn't anybody show up I was waiting at the chapel? 316 00:18:22,260 --> 00:18:23,630 What happened? 317 00:18:23,670 --> 00:18:25,230 - Have some bubbly. 318 00:18:25,270 --> 00:18:26,600 - Thank you. 319 00:18:26,630 --> 00:18:28,470 - You know, of course this is my third wedding 320 00:18:28,500 --> 00:18:30,770 since the first of the year? 321 00:18:30,810 --> 00:18:34,640 Of course, I mean as maid of honor, being social director 322 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:37,050 on a ship, introducing people, this is my-- 323 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:42,080 - Maids of honor do, brides don't always. 324 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:43,790 Cheer up. 325 00:18:46,690 --> 00:18:48,660 - Oh, where's Sally? 326 00:18:48,690 --> 00:18:52,890 - She's not here, she just isn't here. 327 00:18:53,700 --> 00:18:54,830 - Well, where is she? 328 00:18:54,860 --> 00:18:55,360 - I don't know where she is. 329 00:18:57,200 --> 00:18:58,800 - You don't know? 330 00:18:58,830 --> 00:19:01,240 - Please, she went out for a walk 331 00:19:01,270 --> 00:19:03,370 hours ago and she hasn't come back. 332 00:19:03,410 --> 00:19:07,010 (stirring emotional music) 333 00:19:11,010 --> 00:19:15,020 - To golden palaces, strange minstrel see, 334 00:19:15,050 --> 00:19:20,020 fountains grotesque, yule trees, bespangled caves, 335 00:19:21,260 --> 00:19:24,660 echoing grottoes full of tumbling waves and moonlight. 336 00:19:28,300 --> 00:19:29,860 You say you are from America. 337 00:19:31,300 --> 00:19:32,470 - Yes. 338 00:19:32,500 --> 00:19:33,940 - [Sutherland] And you like Keats? 339 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:36,710 - Oh, I love him, read some more. 340 00:19:38,940 --> 00:19:43,180 - No, no, no, that's past my dinner time. 341 00:19:43,210 --> 00:19:44,580 However, I shall be open a bit late 342 00:19:44,610 --> 00:19:48,050 this evening if you care to return. 343 00:19:50,590 --> 00:19:51,820 - I have so much to do. 344 00:19:52,950 --> 00:19:54,220 - Yes, well I don't think you'll find 345 00:19:54,260 --> 00:19:56,460 an edition like this in America, 346 00:19:56,490 --> 00:19:59,290 privately printed, a limited edition. 347 00:20:00,260 --> 00:20:02,230 - Oh, I thank you very much. 348 00:20:02,260 --> 00:20:03,160 - Fine. 349 00:20:04,570 --> 00:20:07,300 - I almost ran away on the day of my wedding. 350 00:20:07,340 --> 00:20:11,810 - Sally didn't run away, something's happened to her. 351 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:13,780 - Nothing's happened to her, honestly, on my word of honor. 352 00:20:13,810 --> 00:20:17,180 - Did you know that, that I almost ran away? 353 00:20:17,210 --> 00:20:18,380 I almost did. 354 00:20:22,220 --> 00:20:23,180 - Your drink okay? 355 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:27,520 - Did she say where she was going? 356 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:28,990 - Landmarks. 357 00:20:29,020 --> 00:20:32,630 - Myrna, What could have happened to her? 358 00:20:38,370 --> 00:20:39,370 - Evening, dearie. 359 00:20:40,470 --> 00:20:41,700 Walk with you a bit? 360 00:20:43,170 --> 00:20:45,670 The likes of us shouldn't be walking alone, 361 00:20:45,710 --> 00:20:48,640 especially with that weirdy chap about, 362 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:50,750 and him twisting stockings around 363 00:20:50,780 --> 00:20:54,280 girls' necks, doing his murders. 364 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:56,620 Safety in numbers, I always say, 365 00:20:56,650 --> 00:20:58,850 especially for the likes of us. 366 00:20:59,690 --> 00:21:01,590 - The likes of us? 367 00:21:01,620 --> 00:21:05,060 - Yeah, else why'd you be in this part of town, huh? 368 00:21:06,730 --> 00:21:09,060 - The guidebook said Shelley once walked here. 369 00:21:09,930 --> 00:21:10,700 - Who? 370 00:21:17,270 --> 00:21:19,670 (phone rings) 371 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:21,780 - Hello. 372 00:21:21,810 --> 00:21:24,710 You have to speak up, I can't hear you. 373 00:21:24,750 --> 00:21:26,150 I'm sorry but I can't-- 374 00:21:26,180 --> 00:21:27,180 - Here, give me that. 375 00:21:27,220 --> 00:21:29,780 Hello, who is this? 376 00:21:29,820 --> 00:21:31,750 - Happy wedding, everybody. 377 00:21:31,790 --> 00:21:32,990 (hums Wedding Song) 378 00:21:33,090 --> 00:21:33,760 - Who is this? 379 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:35,820 Hello? 380 00:21:35,860 --> 00:21:36,760 - What's a matter? 381 00:21:36,790 --> 00:21:37,630 - Just shut up, Elliott, please. 382 00:21:37,660 --> 00:21:38,590 - Who is this? 383 00:21:38,630 --> 00:21:40,100 This must be a bad connection. 384 00:21:40,100 --> 00:21:41,330 - All you have to do is jiggle the receiver-- 385 00:21:41,360 --> 00:21:42,660 - Hello-- 386 00:21:42,700 --> 00:21:43,870 - Ask the operator but jiggle the receiver, 387 00:21:43,900 --> 00:21:45,100 and ask the operator to give you another line. 388 00:21:45,130 --> 00:21:47,270 Here, let me do it, let me do it. 389 00:21:47,300 --> 00:21:49,840 Hello operator, operator, hi. 390 00:21:53,140 --> 00:21:54,240 I broke the connection. 391 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:55,940 - What's a matter, what's going on? 392 00:21:59,180 --> 00:21:59,910 Mother? 393 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:03,120 Mother, what's going on? 394 00:22:04,190 --> 00:22:06,290 - Nobody seems to know, dear. 395 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:08,260 (phone rings) 396 00:22:08,290 --> 00:22:09,060 - Hello. 397 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:12,390 Oh, yes this is much better. 398 00:22:12,430 --> 00:22:12,690 Who is this? 399 00:22:15,060 --> 00:22:20,070 Oh Tommy, Tommy you can't talk to her. 400 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:24,870 Well, she isn't here. 401 00:22:24,910 --> 00:22:27,440 She went out for a walk a long time ago. 402 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:28,680 She hasn't come back. 403 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:31,610 I don't know. 404 00:22:33,580 --> 00:22:35,920 I said, I don't know. 405 00:22:37,120 --> 00:22:38,690 She's gone, that's all. 406 00:22:41,460 --> 00:22:43,460 My daughter's gone. 407 00:22:43,490 --> 00:22:46,760 (dark dramatic music) 408 00:22:54,470 --> 00:22:59,110 - The second half of our story will be on view presently. 409 00:22:59,110 --> 00:23:03,380 I have filled boxes like this with suggestions 410 00:23:03,410 --> 00:23:05,910 that the station break be abolished, 411 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:11,290 just how successful I've been will be apparent in a moment. 412 00:23:16,490 --> 00:23:17,260 - Oh, put that down Essie. 413 00:23:20,260 --> 00:23:22,930 (dramatic music) 414 00:23:26,170 --> 00:23:27,570 Thank you Essie. 415 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:38,410 - Her mother's worried, she's terribly worried. 416 00:23:38,450 --> 00:23:40,280 (dramatic music) 417 00:23:54,630 --> 00:23:57,900 - I bought you this, you and Sally, but I guess 418 00:24:00,100 --> 00:24:01,900 I can take it back since there's not gonna be a-- 419 00:24:01,940 --> 00:24:06,040 - Elliott, please be quiet, for mother. 420 00:24:07,110 --> 00:24:09,310 - Mother, if there's not gonna be any wedding-- 421 00:24:09,340 --> 00:24:11,650 - Elliott, shut up, for mother. 422 00:24:21,060 --> 00:24:23,060 (crying) 423 00:24:26,290 --> 00:24:26,630 - Darling, don't cry. 424 00:24:28,660 --> 00:24:29,960 I can't bear to see you cry. 425 00:24:32,330 --> 00:24:35,070 Sally's all right, you will see. 426 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:38,840 Tommy knows what to do, he'll find her. 427 00:24:38,870 --> 00:24:41,280 - Of course he will, Mrs. Benner. 428 00:24:41,310 --> 00:24:44,150 (dramatic music) 429 00:25:43,710 --> 00:25:46,810 (suspenseful music) 430 00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:06,260 - Maybe you don't understand, Tommy. 431 00:26:06,290 --> 00:26:09,230 Like really understand, I've known you such a short time, 432 00:26:10,570 --> 00:26:15,040 such a little time, what Sally means to us, 433 00:26:16,370 --> 00:26:19,170 how we've loved her and cared for her, 434 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:23,180 wept over every hurt and bruise. 435 00:26:27,650 --> 00:26:29,480 Do you understand? 436 00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:31,590 - Yes, Mrs. Benner. 437 00:26:33,290 --> 00:26:36,590 - I'm sure that you English cops, you're so, so-- 438 00:26:39,690 --> 00:26:42,160 - We're what Elliott? 439 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:47,170 - So polished, smooth, classy that's the word, classy. 440 00:26:48,670 --> 00:26:51,070 - How nice of you to say so, Elliott. 441 00:26:51,070 --> 00:26:54,110 But do tell us how we're, classy. 442 00:26:55,810 --> 00:26:58,080 - Yes, do tell us Elliott because we'd really like to know. 443 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:05,290 - I mean, everybody's in a panic. 444 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:08,160 Sally's gone, disappeared. 445 00:27:08,190 --> 00:27:09,620 Any you, especially you, Tommy, 446 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:12,490 she's supposed to be your wife tonight, 447 00:27:12,530 --> 00:27:16,830 and you play it so cool, so Scotland Yard. 448 00:27:17,670 --> 00:27:21,040 And these stocking murders... 449 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:25,040 Women. 450 00:27:26,780 --> 00:27:27,880 - Go on, Elliott. 451 00:27:31,510 --> 00:27:31,780 - Mother. 452 00:27:34,180 --> 00:27:35,380 - Yes dear, what is it it? 453 00:27:35,420 --> 00:27:36,890 - [Elliott] You know I mean? 454 00:27:39,750 --> 00:27:42,320 - Of course we do Ducks, you do make friends rapidly. 455 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:48,060 - Look here, Tommy... 456 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:51,300 Thomas, old boy-- 457 00:27:51,330 --> 00:27:52,770 - When did you see Sally last? 458 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:56,970 - Early this afternoon, quite early. 459 00:27:57,070 --> 00:27:58,270 - She just went out? 460 00:27:58,310 --> 00:27:59,740 You know where she went to? 461 00:27:59,770 --> 00:28:02,680 - She said to the drug store, I corrected her. 462 00:28:02,710 --> 00:28:05,210 I said you people call it chemists. 463 00:28:05,250 --> 00:28:06,850 - Oh, bully for you, Elliott. 464 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:08,350 - Well that's what you people call it. 465 00:28:08,380 --> 00:28:09,780 - Did she say which drug store? 466 00:28:09,820 --> 00:28:12,020 - The closest one I should think. 467 00:28:12,020 --> 00:28:14,660 She said she wanted to get a few things. 468 00:28:14,690 --> 00:28:16,390 - She said something else. 469 00:28:16,420 --> 00:28:18,260 Sally said something else. 470 00:28:18,290 --> 00:28:19,460 - What? 471 00:28:19,490 --> 00:28:21,730 - She said she wanted to go alone. 472 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:23,500 - Well, I tried to stop her. 473 00:28:23,530 --> 00:28:25,200 - I mentioned about the mur-- 474 00:28:25,230 --> 00:28:27,140 - To go alone. 475 00:28:27,170 --> 00:28:30,640 She said it was the last chance she'd have to be alone. 476 00:28:30,670 --> 00:28:32,840 - Do you have a recent photograph of her? 477 00:28:32,870 --> 00:28:35,040 - Yes, we have a snapshot, it was taken aboard ship. 478 00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:35,880 - That'll do. 479 00:28:35,910 --> 00:28:36,640 - I'll get it. 480 00:28:39,610 --> 00:28:41,820 - Yes, I took that snapshot. 481 00:28:41,850 --> 00:28:43,920 I posed her and I got the light just... 482 00:28:49,060 --> 00:28:50,330 Well, it's my hobby. 483 00:28:53,530 --> 00:28:55,060 - How was she dressed? 484 00:28:55,060 --> 00:28:57,700 Was she waring anything distinctive, anything that-- 485 00:28:57,730 --> 00:29:02,370 - She had on a light wool suit, 486 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:05,170 and that silver chain with a key on it, 487 00:29:05,210 --> 00:29:07,040 a wine steward's key. 488 00:29:08,110 --> 00:29:09,280 It was a souvenir she picked up on board ship. 489 00:29:13,010 --> 00:29:13,280 Find my daughter, Tommy. 490 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:17,250 Bring her back to me, she was-- 491 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:22,020 - We'll do all we can Mr. Benner. 492 00:29:22,020 --> 00:29:23,020 I'll alert the Yard. 493 00:29:24,330 --> 00:29:29,200 We'll do all we can, come on, Steve. 494 00:29:31,830 --> 00:29:36,670 - Tommy, Tommy, you were pretty 495 00:29:36,710 --> 00:29:38,210 late for the wedding yourself. 496 00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:40,910 Anybody else notice with all the goings on? 497 00:29:40,940 --> 00:29:41,710 I did. 498 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:47,550 I was thinking to myself, the bridegroom, is he gonna show? 499 00:29:49,050 --> 00:29:50,890 Or has he got second thoughts about-- 500 00:29:52,190 --> 00:29:54,260 - Remind me to get you one, one day, Elliott. 501 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:56,830 - Give me what? 502 00:29:56,860 --> 00:29:59,660 - What you said, a second thought. 503 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:02,300 (playful music) 504 00:30:07,970 --> 00:30:10,610 (dramatic music) 505 00:30:15,310 --> 00:30:15,640 What about it, Tommy? 506 00:30:18,580 --> 00:30:20,320 - What about what? 507 00:30:20,350 --> 00:30:20,450 - You were quite late. 508 00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:23,650 I waited almost two hours for you. 509 00:30:25,850 --> 00:30:30,160 The best man gets as jittery, as a, well as a-- 510 00:30:30,190 --> 00:30:31,860 - As a what? 511 00:30:31,890 --> 00:30:33,960 - The metaphor escapes me for the moment. 512 00:30:35,630 --> 00:30:38,930 Had you intended to go through with it? 513 00:30:40,370 --> 00:30:41,370 Do you really love her? 514 00:30:43,070 --> 00:30:44,810 I'm sorry, of course you must do. 515 00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:46,310 How stupid of me when... 516 00:30:48,580 --> 00:30:51,810 I suppose we'd better ask that chemist, 517 00:30:51,850 --> 00:30:54,280 though there is someone that I'd much rather ask. 518 00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:55,920 - Who's that, old man? 519 00:30:55,950 --> 00:30:57,850 - Myrna, the social director. 520 00:30:59,290 --> 00:31:00,320 I wonder if she remembers that childhood game. 521 00:31:01,690 --> 00:31:05,290 Of course she must, they always do, finally. 522 00:31:06,900 --> 00:31:09,300 (dramatic music) 523 00:31:19,610 --> 00:31:22,810 - Yes, yes she was here all right. 524 00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:24,650 - May I see that please, sir? 525 00:31:26,510 --> 00:31:30,120 Oh yes, she is a love, isn't she, Dad? 526 00:31:31,390 --> 00:31:33,090 - Give the gentleman back his photo. 527 00:31:35,590 --> 00:31:36,690 That's a good boy. 528 00:31:38,990 --> 00:31:40,660 - When was she in, Mr. Guerny? 529 00:31:40,700 --> 00:31:42,100 - [Mr. Guerny] This afternoon, sir, 530 00:31:42,100 --> 00:31:43,500 the exact hour I couldn't really say. 531 00:31:43,530 --> 00:31:46,100 - Did she buy anything, Mr. Guerny. 532 00:31:46,100 --> 00:31:46,940 - Yes. 533 00:31:46,970 --> 00:31:48,240 - [Tommy] What? 534 00:31:48,270 --> 00:31:51,470 - Lipstick, very pale pink, yes, 535 00:31:51,510 --> 00:31:54,110 some facial tissues, eyebrow pencil, 536 00:31:54,140 --> 00:31:58,710 bought a chocolate and yes, some vanishing cream, 537 00:31:58,750 --> 00:32:00,450 oh and a vial of cologne. 538 00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:02,780 - Vanishing cream and now she's vanished. 539 00:32:03,620 --> 00:32:04,890 - Oh, that is a good one. 540 00:32:08,460 --> 00:32:10,290 - Have you any idea, Mr. Guerny 541 00:32:10,330 --> 00:32:12,090 where she might have gone from here? 542 00:32:12,130 --> 00:32:13,260 Did she by any chance-- 543 00:32:13,290 --> 00:32:14,600 - I know where she went. 544 00:32:18,130 --> 00:32:18,900 - Where? 545 00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:24,310 - Well, she walked about for a bit, 546 00:32:24,340 --> 00:32:27,240 window-gazed for a bit, then she went into Sutherland's, 547 00:32:28,510 --> 00:32:31,610 you know the bookshop, poets, limited editions, 548 00:32:33,650 --> 00:32:35,420 rarities, and all that sort of thing. 549 00:32:35,450 --> 00:32:36,620 - Now how would you know that? 550 00:32:36,650 --> 00:32:38,090 - [Guerny Jr.] Because I followed her. 551 00:32:41,460 --> 00:32:42,360 - Do you mind telling me, why? 552 00:32:45,860 --> 00:32:47,300 - 'Cause I like Yanks I suppose. 553 00:32:48,930 --> 00:32:50,270 I like the way they walk. 554 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:55,640 Well they've got a style all their own, haven't they? 555 00:32:55,670 --> 00:32:58,210 So I followed her to Sutherland's and returned. 556 00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:00,340 - He has his funny little ways, you know. 557 00:33:00,380 --> 00:33:02,340 - Did you talk to her? 558 00:33:02,380 --> 00:33:03,750 - Oh no, I wouldn't have dared. 559 00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:06,550 That would've spoiled it. 560 00:33:11,550 --> 00:33:15,220 - Strange girl, a puzzlement really, 561 00:33:16,490 --> 00:33:19,530 evanescent, do you know the word, evanescent? 562 00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:20,830 - Yes sir. 563 00:33:20,860 --> 00:33:23,330 - Yes, I don't think I'm likely to forget her. 564 00:33:23,370 --> 00:33:24,830 No, not likely. 565 00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:27,570 - Why not, Mr. Sutherland? 566 00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:30,640 - Oh, she asked me to read for her. 567 00:33:30,670 --> 00:33:33,270 That's something no one has done for years, 568 00:33:34,910 --> 00:33:38,850 many years, and I felt a stirring in these old bones. 569 00:33:40,650 --> 00:33:43,850 A victim of foul play, did you say? 570 00:33:43,890 --> 00:33:46,620 - No, we didn't say that, Mr. Sutherland. 571 00:33:46,650 --> 00:33:47,360 Why did you? 572 00:33:48,690 --> 00:33:51,290 - Well, foul play is very rampant these days, 573 00:33:51,330 --> 00:33:54,100 and she had an aura of the victim about her, 574 00:33:54,130 --> 00:33:57,170 relative to the description of the other victims that is. 575 00:33:59,100 --> 00:34:01,040 It was Keats I was reading to her. 576 00:34:02,340 --> 00:34:06,570 Yes, Keats, but then it was time for my dinner. 577 00:34:06,610 --> 00:34:08,240 However, I invited her to return. 578 00:34:10,550 --> 00:34:12,050 - Did she? 579 00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:13,550 - Oh, she never left, she browsed while I was in the back 580 00:34:13,580 --> 00:34:17,920 of the shop withy my milk and sandwich. 581 00:34:17,950 --> 00:34:22,320 Yes, I recall she was particularly beguiled by the poem 582 00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:26,630 which goes, "Thou still unravished bride of quietness." 583 00:34:28,460 --> 00:34:30,900 She listened, thanked me, and left. 584 00:34:32,070 --> 00:34:33,270 - For where? 585 00:34:33,300 --> 00:34:35,940 - [Sutherland] Oh, the Hoop and Wine, I should think. 586 00:34:35,970 --> 00:34:37,140 - The pub. 587 00:34:37,170 --> 00:34:38,940 - It is the sort of place she had to go 588 00:34:38,970 --> 00:34:42,280 to and she asked and touted the Hoop and Wine. 589 00:34:42,310 --> 00:34:46,280 It has a feel about, it's musty, but there are 590 00:34:46,310 --> 00:34:50,690 distant echoes of golden tongues lathed in the wild. 591 00:34:50,720 --> 00:34:52,220 - Good night, Mr. Sutherland. 592 00:34:54,420 --> 00:34:55,860 - Strangled, you think? 593 00:34:57,290 --> 00:34:59,290 Strangled with a silken hose like the other victims? 594 00:35:04,330 --> 00:35:05,070 - We don't know. 595 00:35:07,300 --> 00:35:11,810 - Oh yes, yes, yes, yes. 596 00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:15,810 (eerie piano music) 597 00:35:29,490 --> 00:35:31,560 - Well gentleman, what's it gonna be? 598 00:35:31,590 --> 00:35:32,760 - Oh, a couple of pints for me. 599 00:35:32,790 --> 00:35:34,930 - All right so, officer. 600 00:35:36,430 --> 00:35:38,570 - Will you take a look at this? 601 00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:40,400 - Huh, the young lady done something? 602 00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:42,540 - She's missing on her wedding day. 603 00:35:42,570 --> 00:35:43,770 - [Steve] It's a pity, don't you think? 604 00:35:43,810 --> 00:35:44,540 - [Barkeep] Yeah. 605 00:35:44,570 --> 00:35:45,310 - May I see that? 606 00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:48,810 - Of course. 607 00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:51,310 - There you are sir, thank you. 608 00:35:54,720 --> 00:35:55,880 - Her wedding day. 609 00:35:58,550 --> 00:36:00,790 Thank you, chaps. 610 00:36:02,720 --> 00:36:03,630 - Lovely girl. 611 00:36:05,430 --> 00:36:09,130 - Woman, more to the woman, wouldn't you say? 612 00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:10,200 - You know her? 613 00:36:10,230 --> 00:36:11,170 - Do you? 614 00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:12,230 - Yes. 615 00:36:12,270 --> 00:36:12,370 - Strange. 616 00:36:14,300 --> 00:36:15,800 - Why do you say that? 617 00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:18,670 - I thought at first you were police. 618 00:36:18,710 --> 00:36:22,540 So thoroughly police the ever so gentle shockwave 619 00:36:22,580 --> 00:36:24,580 you chaps create wherever you... 620 00:36:26,110 --> 00:36:30,450 But then if you were, how would know a woman like Sally? 621 00:36:30,490 --> 00:36:32,120 Riddle me that. 622 00:36:32,150 --> 00:36:33,190 - That's not important. 623 00:36:40,700 --> 00:36:42,700 What's important, Mr.? 624 00:36:42,730 --> 00:36:45,170 - It's Clarke, Edward Clarke. 625 00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:47,540 - Now what's important, Edward, is that you know her. 626 00:36:47,570 --> 00:36:49,770 How did you manage that? 627 00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:54,740 - She came in, she saw me, we smiled at one another. 628 00:36:55,410 --> 00:36:56,910 I admired her necklace. 629 00:36:56,950 --> 00:36:58,880 - Oh what kind of a necklace was that? 630 00:36:59,710 --> 00:37:00,580 - A chain with a key on it. 631 00:37:02,820 --> 00:37:04,850 Women like her often speak to me. 632 00:37:06,350 --> 00:37:08,520 We had a drink, there was a rapport. 633 00:37:09,820 --> 00:37:13,460 I asked her to walk with me and she did. 634 00:37:13,500 --> 00:37:14,760 Then I came back here. 635 00:37:16,030 --> 00:37:18,130 - And now she's missing. 636 00:37:18,170 --> 00:37:20,240 We, I beg your pardon. 637 00:37:20,270 --> 00:37:22,940 We haven't had a trace, have we? 638 00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:26,240 - No, she's a loner, she told me about that, 639 00:37:26,270 --> 00:37:27,540 how solitude is like a lover. 640 00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:31,380 I'm sure that wasn't original with her. 641 00:37:31,410 --> 00:37:31,680 - Where is she? 642 00:37:33,620 --> 00:37:35,150 Do you know where she's gone? 643 00:37:36,150 --> 00:37:37,490 - I should think. 644 00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:38,950 - Think what, Edward? 645 00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:43,590 - Well I should think if I were a derring-do chap, 646 00:37:43,630 --> 00:37:48,630 or a newspaper chap, or the police, I would-- 647 00:37:49,430 --> 00:37:51,170 - You would what, Edward? 648 00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:52,600 I'm really interested. 649 00:37:53,900 --> 00:37:56,600 - Why, have the river dragged, of course. 650 00:37:56,640 --> 00:38:01,280 - Oh, it's a very long river, Edward. 651 00:38:01,310 --> 00:38:02,240 It's a... 652 00:38:05,150 --> 00:38:06,920 Where do you think one might look? 653 00:38:08,380 --> 00:38:11,190 (dramatic music) 654 00:38:44,050 --> 00:38:48,220 - We sat here for a while, Sally and I, and we talked. 655 00:38:48,260 --> 00:38:50,930 - You talked and then you strangled her, didn't you? 656 00:38:52,260 --> 00:38:54,460 - There's a chill, I'd like tea. 657 00:38:55,300 --> 00:38:56,100 - Sit down, Edward. 658 00:38:57,600 --> 00:38:59,070 - I'd like to move around a bit. 659 00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:05,610 I'd like tea. 660 00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:07,210 - We all would, there's no time for it. 661 00:39:07,240 --> 00:39:09,740 The occasion doesn't call for it. 662 00:39:11,150 --> 00:39:11,450 - What now? 663 00:39:13,420 --> 00:39:15,750 - You mentioned the river. 664 00:39:18,020 --> 00:39:22,620 - That's right and someone said it was a long river, 665 00:39:22,660 --> 00:39:25,360 and I agreed, and then someone asked 666 00:39:25,390 --> 00:39:27,530 where they start dragging, and I smiled. 667 00:39:29,030 --> 00:39:30,770 - Edward, what do you do? 668 00:39:32,130 --> 00:39:32,400 - I'm a hunter. 669 00:39:33,940 --> 00:39:35,040 - Hunter of what? 670 00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:38,310 - People, I do that, I hunt people. 671 00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:40,380 - Do you kill them? 672 00:39:44,050 --> 00:39:46,110 - We're all of us, murderers, 673 00:39:46,150 --> 00:39:48,480 in our deepest hearts murder most foul-- 674 00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:50,820 - Edward, you hunt people, tell us about that. 675 00:39:51,950 --> 00:39:56,930 - I meet them in pubs, in shops, and we talk, 676 00:39:58,660 --> 00:40:02,530 and I hunt them, what makes them cripples inside, 677 00:40:04,830 --> 00:40:09,070 and I get involved with them, sometimes, 678 00:40:09,100 --> 00:40:10,840 when we find one another interesting. 679 00:40:13,940 --> 00:40:14,980 Do you understand? 680 00:40:17,010 --> 00:40:17,780 - Yes. 681 00:40:21,020 --> 00:40:22,550 - [Edward] Do you understand? 682 00:40:23,990 --> 00:40:25,120 - How do you earn your living? 683 00:40:26,420 --> 00:40:28,960 - I don't have to worry about that. 684 00:40:29,990 --> 00:40:30,890 - Have you ever been arrested? 685 00:40:30,930 --> 00:40:34,000 - [Edward] Yes, but not convicted. 686 00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:36,360 - What was the charge? 687 00:40:37,530 --> 00:40:38,970 - It had to do with girls. 688 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:39,900 - [Steve] How? 689 00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:45,610 - The police said they were quite young, too young in fact, 690 00:40:46,740 --> 00:40:50,010 which of course is ridiculous, since girls 691 00:40:50,050 --> 00:40:53,180 inherit the knowledge and guile of grown women. 692 00:40:53,210 --> 00:40:53,480 Therefore-- 693 00:40:55,550 --> 00:40:56,450 - Therefore what? 694 00:40:57,620 --> 00:40:59,890 - I make sure the ladies are quite mature 695 00:40:59,920 --> 00:41:01,660 before I concern myself with them. 696 00:41:03,090 --> 00:41:05,390 - 30 or thereabouts? 697 00:41:05,430 --> 00:41:08,060 - Well, older than I am. 698 00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:11,670 They seem to take a delight in that, 699 00:41:11,700 --> 00:41:14,940 that I'm younger than they, I permit them that. 700 00:41:14,970 --> 00:41:16,070 - Tell us about Sally Benner. 701 00:41:17,540 --> 00:41:19,370 Sally Benner, the girl in the pub. 702 00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:22,940 - She was older than I. 703 00:41:22,980 --> 00:41:23,880 - Was? 704 00:41:25,180 --> 00:41:28,580 - But she knew right away there was a quality about me, 705 00:41:28,620 --> 00:41:33,590 a depth, sensed it, she was in a way grateful for me. 706 00:41:36,260 --> 00:41:37,430 She needed someone she could adjust to, 707 00:41:39,460 --> 00:41:41,830 for there was a kind of vagueness about her, 708 00:41:41,860 --> 00:41:45,830 something unfilled, which of course is true 709 00:41:45,870 --> 00:41:48,240 of those who use poetry as a crutch, 710 00:41:48,270 --> 00:41:51,640 who hug to themselves the seeming splendors of another age. 711 00:41:53,580 --> 00:41:55,440 I understand about things like that. 712 00:41:56,480 --> 00:42:00,220 You see, only a few people recognize 713 00:42:00,250 --> 00:42:03,820 this quality in me, a depth. 714 00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:06,820 - A depth, Edward? 715 00:42:06,860 --> 00:42:07,620 - Yes. 716 00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:11,060 - I understand exactly what you mean. 717 00:42:17,870 --> 00:42:20,640 All of us want to be known for what we are, 718 00:42:22,070 --> 00:42:26,070 what sets us apart, what makes our selves special. 719 00:42:26,110 --> 00:42:27,240 - That's right. 720 00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:29,280 - We see it everyday in the newspapers. 721 00:42:29,310 --> 00:42:30,980 - Yes. 722 00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:31,910 - Yes. 723 00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:36,950 Someone else, not us. 724 00:42:37,950 --> 00:42:38,720 - Yes. 725 00:42:40,690 --> 00:42:43,090 - Edward, you said the police should drag the river. 726 00:42:45,690 --> 00:42:47,800 - I remember, I said that. 727 00:42:49,660 --> 00:42:52,230 - You put Sally in the river, didn't you? 728 00:42:52,270 --> 00:42:55,440 She resisted you and you killed her. 729 00:42:55,470 --> 00:42:58,710 (dark dramatic music) 730 00:43:05,410 --> 00:43:06,880 - It could have been an accident. 731 00:43:08,050 --> 00:43:09,350 - Then you did kill her? 732 00:43:11,390 --> 00:43:14,620 - Strange girl, all I had to do was say 733 00:43:14,660 --> 00:43:17,730 that Byron walked here, or a prince, 734 00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:20,830 or that just there had been had been a historic bonfire, 735 00:43:20,860 --> 00:43:23,800 and I reached out my hand to here and she came-- 736 00:43:23,830 --> 00:43:26,100 - You tried to make love to her and she resisted you-- 737 00:43:26,130 --> 00:43:28,100 - Tommy, I'll take it from here. 738 00:43:28,140 --> 00:43:28,440 Tommy! 739 00:43:33,980 --> 00:43:36,410 - It could have been an accident. 740 00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:40,980 - She started to run, tripped, and she fell 741 00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:42,480 and she hit her head didn't she? 742 00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:47,990 And then you strangled her with her stocking, 743 00:43:48,090 --> 00:43:49,290 like you did all the rest. 744 00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:51,560 - I must hand it to you, I really must. 745 00:43:52,690 --> 00:43:55,700 - Where did you throw her in, show us. 746 00:43:55,730 --> 00:43:57,100 - I must compliment you on an excellent effort, 747 00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:02,040 but that's not exactly the way it happened, you know. 748 00:44:02,070 --> 00:44:05,110 I ran after her, yes, but after that it was different. 749 00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:08,480 - Where did you throw her in? 750 00:44:16,750 --> 00:44:18,050 - I'll show you. 751 00:44:18,050 --> 00:44:20,090 (dark dramatic music) 752 00:44:33,340 --> 00:44:34,940 There. 753 00:44:34,970 --> 00:44:36,070 - [Tommy] You're sure? 754 00:44:36,100 --> 00:44:36,370 - [Edward] Just there. 755 00:44:40,240 --> 00:44:42,640 - Well we better start them dragging the river. 756 00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:44,810 - Tommy, I'll do that, I'll call the Yard. 757 00:44:46,150 --> 00:44:48,080 After they get here you'd best be with the family. 758 00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:49,280 I'll call the Yard. 759 00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:51,490 - And the papers, and the photographers. 760 00:44:52,820 --> 00:44:55,460 (sinister music) 761 00:45:12,340 --> 00:45:13,340 - I'm so ashamed, you must hate me. 762 00:45:15,510 --> 00:45:17,480 Please don't hate me, Tommy. 763 00:45:17,510 --> 00:45:21,480 - [Tommy] Oh no, I love you very much. 764 00:45:23,390 --> 00:45:24,650 Where were you? 765 00:45:24,690 --> 00:45:27,190 We were looking all over London for you. 766 00:45:27,220 --> 00:45:29,360 - Walking, seeing London at night. 767 00:45:31,260 --> 00:45:33,460 There's a night tour, you know, bus. 768 00:45:33,500 --> 00:45:35,560 - [Mrs. Benner] But, Sally, this was your wedding night. 769 00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:38,070 We thought something terrible had happened to you. 770 00:45:38,070 --> 00:45:38,930 - I know mother. 771 00:45:40,070 --> 00:45:40,400 Tommy I'm sorry. 772 00:45:42,340 --> 00:45:43,670 - I thought you were dead. 773 00:45:44,770 --> 00:45:47,280 I came back to console the family, I-- 774 00:45:47,310 --> 00:45:49,080 - How could you have thought I was dead? 775 00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:53,080 - Well, all's well that end's well, bubbly for everybody. 776 00:45:53,110 --> 00:45:54,350 - I wanna talk to you. 777 00:46:01,020 --> 00:46:02,190 Now listen-- 778 00:46:02,220 --> 00:46:03,760 - First hold me. 779 00:46:07,100 --> 00:46:08,130 - [Tommy] I love you so much, Sally. 780 00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:09,560 - Oh, I'm so glad. 781 00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:16,400 - Tommy, when I left I asked myself 782 00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:19,570 if I really loved you, maybe I was just desperate 783 00:46:19,610 --> 00:46:21,740 because here I am of this age 784 00:46:21,780 --> 00:46:24,650 and nobody but you has ever asked to marry me, 785 00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:26,050 and I thought wouldn't it be terrible 786 00:46:26,050 --> 00:46:27,650 to get married and not be sure. 787 00:46:29,950 --> 00:46:31,490 So, I needed this time to thank. 788 00:46:33,050 --> 00:46:33,920 And now I am sure. 789 00:46:35,460 --> 00:46:39,330 I do love you Tommy and please marry me, oh please. 790 00:46:41,330 --> 00:46:45,430 - You know, when I phoned you tonight 791 00:46:46,570 --> 00:46:48,100 and they told me that you were missing, 792 00:46:50,810 --> 00:46:54,610 I was really phoning to tell you that I wasn't sure. 793 00:46:55,940 --> 00:46:58,410 I didn't know whether I loved you or not. 794 00:47:00,250 --> 00:47:01,380 I didn't know if I wanted to marry you. 795 00:47:04,090 --> 00:47:05,550 Now, I know. 796 00:47:07,220 --> 00:47:10,290 This thing that's happened, has made me sure. 797 00:47:23,470 --> 00:47:26,240 And we're gonna get married tonight. 798 00:47:26,270 --> 00:47:27,180 - Well, it's so late-- 799 00:47:27,210 --> 00:47:30,610 - Tonight, I'll find somebody. 800 00:47:32,310 --> 00:47:34,950 The mixture as before, the wedding is on. 801 00:47:40,820 --> 00:47:44,690 - Oh Sally, I'm so glad. 802 00:47:44,730 --> 00:47:47,060 - I don't feel I'm losing a daughter, 803 00:47:47,060 --> 00:47:48,800 I'm gaining a policeman. 804 00:47:48,830 --> 00:47:50,930 - You get dressed and look beautiful, I've got a phone call 805 00:47:50,970 --> 00:47:53,070 to make and then I must go out. 806 00:47:53,100 --> 00:47:54,700 Bye doll, I'll be back. 807 00:47:54,740 --> 00:47:55,900 It's Inspector Bonn, would you 808 00:47:55,940 --> 00:47:57,510 connect me with Scotland Yard, please? 809 00:47:59,710 --> 00:48:01,910 They're dragging the river for you, did you know that? 810 00:48:02,010 --> 00:48:03,880 - Dragging the river? 811 00:48:03,910 --> 00:48:05,780 - Some psychopath confessed to murdering you 812 00:48:05,810 --> 00:48:07,680 and throwing your body in the river. 813 00:48:07,720 --> 00:48:10,350 (sinister music) 814 00:48:30,870 --> 00:48:34,440 - I told you I killed her, but not like you said. 815 00:48:35,910 --> 00:48:40,050 I ran after her, yes, but after that it was different. 816 00:48:52,590 --> 00:48:55,200 - I discovered that the suggestion box 817 00:48:55,230 --> 00:48:57,730 hadn't been opened for years and years. 818 00:48:57,770 --> 00:49:01,200 I wish we had taken the trouble, for some of the oldest ones 819 00:49:01,240 --> 00:49:04,010 in the bottom of the box are quite good. 820 00:49:04,010 --> 00:49:05,470 This one for example. 821 00:49:05,510 --> 00:49:07,910 "Why not put wheels and a gasoline 822 00:49:08,010 --> 00:49:11,750 on the sled and call it a truck?" 823 00:49:11,780 --> 00:49:15,550 What is all the more remarkable is that when this suggestion 824 00:49:15,580 --> 00:49:19,020 was made, the wheel hadn't been invented yet. 825 00:49:19,050 --> 00:49:20,220 But, he provides a drawing. 826 00:49:20,260 --> 00:49:24,030 Unfortunately we cannot reward this man. 827 00:49:24,060 --> 00:49:25,130 He is no longer with us. 828 00:49:28,330 --> 00:49:31,030 And I'm afraid this man isn't either. 829 00:49:31,030 --> 00:49:35,100 "Help, I am being held prisoner in the secretarial pool." 830 00:49:37,140 --> 00:49:39,940 Poor fellow, it's too late now. 831 00:49:40,040 --> 00:49:42,680 We must remember to look at these sooner. 832 00:49:42,710 --> 00:49:45,080 Next week we shall return with another story 833 00:49:45,110 --> 00:49:46,380 and of course, some commercials. 834 00:49:48,250 --> 00:49:51,090 (lively mystery theme music) 835 00:50:25,150 --> 00:50:27,460 (engaging theme music)