1 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:30,660 Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. 2 00:00:30,690 --> 00:00:33,130 [translating into French] 3 00:00:33,160 --> 00:00:35,830 You see, we are making an effort 4 00:00:35,860 --> 00:00:38,930 to reach the widest possible audience. 5 00:00:38,970 --> 00:00:43,640 -Tonight-- -[translating into Spanish] 6 00:00:43,670 --> 00:00:46,510 [translating into German] 7 00:00:46,540 --> 00:00:49,140 [translating into Russian] 8 00:00:49,180 --> 00:00:55,320 The last was included in case this program reaches the moon. 9 00:00:55,350 --> 00:00:58,250 Tonight we present-- 10 00:00:58,290 --> 00:01:00,560 [translating into French] 11 00:01:00,590 --> 00:01:02,820 [translating into Spanish] 12 00:01:02,860 --> 00:01:04,960 [translating into German] 13 00:01:05,060 --> 00:01:07,560 [translating into Russian] 14 00:01:09,730 --> 00:01:11,470 [pleading in French] 15 00:01:11,500 --> 00:01:13,270 [pleading in Spanish] 16 00:01:13,300 --> 00:01:15,200 [pleading in German] 17 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:17,370 Haven’t you forgotten something? 18 00:01:17,410 --> 00:01:19,140 [pleading in Russian] 19 00:01:22,510 --> 00:01:25,810 No offense meant to all the countries involved, 20 00:01:25,850 --> 00:01:29,920 but he was a show-off, till the very end. 21 00:01:29,950 --> 00:01:32,950 Always wanting the last word. 22 00:01:32,990 --> 00:01:38,260 And now, without further interruption, tonight’s story. 23 00:01:38,290 --> 00:01:43,330 [murmuring in French] 24 00:01:43,370 --> 00:01:47,940 [continues] 25 00:02:06,220 --> 00:02:09,160 [man] Criminals can be plenty resourceful. 26 00:02:09,190 --> 00:02:11,260 So can cops. 27 00:02:11,290 --> 00:02:15,760 Detectives still require good old horse sense and strong feet. 28 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:19,130 But in addition, we now have some help to take the weight off. 29 00:02:19,170 --> 00:02:22,340 What I mean is, scientific equipment. 30 00:02:22,370 --> 00:02:25,170 We have many ways to take care of the tough guys. 31 00:02:25,210 --> 00:02:27,110 We figure they’ll soften by the time 32 00:02:27,140 --> 00:02:28,380 we get all the evidence against them. 33 00:02:28,410 --> 00:02:30,310 With fingerprinting, 34 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:42,960 or a lie detector, 35 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:48,600 or a ballistics test. 36 00:03:08,050 --> 00:03:09,880 Yes, they match. 37 00:03:09,920 --> 00:03:12,720 But it’s the mild ones, the tame ones 38 00:03:12,750 --> 00:03:14,090 that give us the most trouble. 39 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:16,220 There was one fellow in particular, 40 00:03:16,260 --> 00:03:18,190 who made our investigation easy. 41 00:03:19,260 --> 00:03:21,760 You might even say, too easy. 42 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:28,340 -Captain. -Good morning, Hogan. 43 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:39,450 -How do you like that? -[Hogan] What happened, Captain? 44 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:42,520 Just now I got a look at this memo that came in last week, 45 00:03:42,550 --> 00:03:45,190 the one with the names of all the new parolees in the vicinity. 46 00:03:45,220 --> 00:03:47,990 -It’s got Milt Potter listed. -Who’s Milt Potter? 47 00:03:48,090 --> 00:03:49,920 Didn’t I ever tell you about him? 48 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:51,290 No, I don’t think you did. 49 00:03:51,330 --> 00:03:53,090 Take a look at the 47th file. 50 00:03:53,130 --> 00:03:54,660 You’ll find him under "Embezzlement." 51 00:03:54,700 --> 00:03:57,000 Bring it over here. 52 00:03:57,100 --> 00:04:00,540 Lieutenant, he was the tamest criminal you ever met. 53 00:04:00,570 --> 00:04:02,800 Or maybe the coolest. 54 00:04:05,540 --> 00:04:08,240 Milton Potter. Age 34. Single. 55 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:11,550 Employment, Metro Investment Services Incorporated. 56 00:04:11,580 --> 00:04:14,850 -That’s my man. -Now he’s out on parole, huh? 57 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:16,320 Two days ago. 58 00:04:16,350 --> 00:04:19,050 For 12 years I kept his release date in my calendar, 59 00:04:19,090 --> 00:04:20,860 and then I didn’t watch the memos. 60 00:04:20,890 --> 00:04:22,790 Now it doesn’t make any difference. 61 00:04:22,820 --> 00:04:24,790 Two days or two weeks. 62 00:04:24,830 --> 00:04:27,060 I got Milt Potter’s number. 63 00:04:28,530 --> 00:04:31,700 You know, it happened back in March of 1947. 64 00:04:31,730 --> 00:04:33,340 I was a looie then. 65 00:04:33,370 --> 00:04:36,140 Maybe even more of an eager beaver than you are now. 66 00:04:36,170 --> 00:04:38,470 Milton Potter had worked for Metro Investments 67 00:04:38,510 --> 00:04:41,610 since he got out of college, a total of 13 years, 68 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:44,410 and he was still making only 60 bucks a week. 69 00:04:44,450 --> 00:04:47,280 He had no family, and few friends. 70 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:51,120 He was quiet, courteous, commonplace and careful. 71 00:04:51,150 --> 00:04:53,390 Nobody could tell you anecdotes about Potter. 72 00:04:53,420 --> 00:04:55,820 Nobody could even describe him very well. 73 00:04:55,860 --> 00:04:57,760 We found that out. 74 00:04:57,790 --> 00:05:00,360 He went about his duties without ever complaining 75 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:01,930 or revealing the intention 76 00:05:02,030 --> 00:05:04,430 that must have been burning inside him for years. 77 00:05:04,470 --> 00:05:05,900 Then, it happened. 78 00:05:05,930 --> 00:05:08,640 One day, Potter didn’t report for work. 79 00:05:08,670 --> 00:05:10,410 Nobody cared very much. 80 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:13,070 In fact, nobody seemed to notice it. 81 00:05:13,110 --> 00:05:14,910 When he didn’t show up the next day, 82 00:05:14,940 --> 00:05:18,050 somebody thought it might be a good idea to call his home 83 00:05:18,050 --> 00:05:20,320 and see if he’d broken a leg or something. 84 00:05:24,590 --> 00:05:27,090 There wasn’t any answer. 85 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:29,060 They didn’t get really disturbed about it 86 00:05:29,060 --> 00:05:30,260 until the third day. 87 00:05:37,170 --> 00:05:38,570 [Halverson] Come in. 88 00:05:45,770 --> 00:05:48,080 What is it, Newton? 89 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:50,880 Out with it, man! I don’t have all day. 90 00:05:54,180 --> 00:05:56,580 What’s the matter with you? 91 00:05:56,620 --> 00:05:58,920 It’s about Potter, sir. 92 00:05:58,950 --> 00:06:01,260 Oh, he’s back, is he? 93 00:06:01,290 --> 00:06:02,620 Good man, Potter. 94 00:06:02,660 --> 00:06:04,190 I wish I had more men like him. 95 00:06:04,230 --> 00:06:06,030 Never complains, never asks for a raise. 96 00:06:06,030 --> 00:06:07,300 Where-- Where’s he been? 97 00:06:07,330 --> 00:06:09,630 It’s-It’s not that, Mr. Halverson, it... 98 00:06:09,660 --> 00:06:11,730 What is it, then? Won’t he tell? 99 00:06:11,770 --> 00:06:13,440 [Mr. Halverson laughing] 100 00:06:13,470 --> 00:06:15,700 Now, there’s a quiet man for you, eh, Newton? 101 00:06:15,740 --> 00:06:17,940 You know what they say about still water? 102 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:19,340 Yes, sir. 103 00:06:19,370 --> 00:06:21,610 You’d better show him in. I’ll get it out of him. 104 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:23,680 But he’s not here, sir. 105 00:06:23,710 --> 00:06:25,910 He-He’s still not here. 106 00:06:25,950 --> 00:06:29,880 Oh? Well, then the poor man must have met with an accident 107 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:32,220 or something. Has anyone thought of calling the hospitals? 108 00:06:32,250 --> 00:06:36,390 Sir, I-I was checking his books, and-and... 109 00:06:38,590 --> 00:06:39,930 And what, Newton? 110 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:43,730 They don’t balance, sir. 111 00:06:43,770 --> 00:06:45,930 There’s a discrepancy. 112 00:06:45,970 --> 00:06:48,600 -A discrepancy? -Yes, sir. 113 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:50,910 How much of a discrepancy? 114 00:06:52,970 --> 00:06:56,080 $200,000, sir. 115 00:07:04,050 --> 00:07:06,320 Of course, sir. 116 00:07:06,350 --> 00:07:09,290 I’ll have a man there right away. Fisher! 117 00:07:13,430 --> 00:07:14,900 Yes, Captain? 118 00:07:14,930 --> 00:07:17,400 I want you to hotfoot it down to Metro Investments. 119 00:07:17,430 --> 00:07:19,330 -They’re on Third Street. -I know where it is. 120 00:07:19,370 --> 00:07:21,940 Seems that one of their bookkeepers, a man named Milton Potter, 121 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:24,040 absconded with 200 grand. 122 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:25,640 -Two hundred thousand? -That’s what I said. 123 00:07:25,670 --> 00:07:27,040 The man to see is Halverson. 124 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:29,280 JB Halverson, the vice president. 125 00:07:29,310 --> 00:07:30,780 All right. 126 00:07:37,050 --> 00:07:39,250 Mr. Newton... 127 00:07:39,290 --> 00:07:41,460 did Potter ever mention his plans 128 00:07:41,490 --> 00:07:44,230 or give any indication at all what he was thinking of doing? 129 00:07:44,260 --> 00:07:47,200 You know, a note, a remark, a telephone call? 130 00:07:47,230 --> 00:07:49,930 No, sir, he never did. 131 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:54,140 I never knew him to get a personal telephone call. 132 00:07:54,170 --> 00:07:56,370 He had no relatives, you know. 133 00:07:56,400 --> 00:08:00,010 What about his friends? Did he have any friends? 134 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:03,750 No, I... I wouldn’t say he had. 135 00:08:03,780 --> 00:08:05,550 What would you say? You worked with him, 136 00:08:05,580 --> 00:08:07,750 you were closer to him than anyone else. 137 00:08:07,780 --> 00:08:11,420 Well, if he had any friends, sir, I didn’t know about them. 138 00:08:11,450 --> 00:08:15,020 This is incredible! He worked here for 13 years 139 00:08:15,020 --> 00:08:16,560 and you don’t know if he had any friends. 140 00:08:16,590 --> 00:08:18,330 What do you do, Newton, to live in a vacuum? 141 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:21,260 No, sir. It’s just that Mr. Potter 142 00:08:21,300 --> 00:08:22,800 never talked about himself. 143 00:08:28,740 --> 00:08:33,070 Would you remember anything unusual about him? 144 00:08:33,110 --> 00:08:37,050 -No. -[Fisher] Anything at all? 145 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:39,310 Nothing. 146 00:08:39,350 --> 00:08:41,950 You know, nobody could even remember 147 00:08:42,050 --> 00:08:44,050 what color eyes he had? 148 00:08:44,090 --> 00:08:45,220 I know. 149 00:08:46,490 --> 00:08:49,120 Oh, he... he did his work well. 150 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:51,230 But he always did that. 151 00:08:51,260 --> 00:08:55,660 And, oh, he read a lot. I could say that about him. 152 00:08:55,700 --> 00:08:59,400 -What did he read? -Well, travel books, mostly. 153 00:08:59,430 --> 00:09:01,870 [scoffs] That figures. 154 00:09:01,900 --> 00:09:05,570 All right. You can go. If I need to talk to you again, I’ll let you know. 155 00:09:05,610 --> 00:09:06,910 Yes, sir. 156 00:09:16,180 --> 00:09:18,450 That pipsqueak, Potter. 157 00:09:18,490 --> 00:09:21,060 I knew the day I hired him there was something phony about him. 158 00:09:21,090 --> 00:09:23,360 -Why do you say that? -Too quiet, too good. 159 00:09:23,390 --> 00:09:25,590 All the time he was scheming to rob the company! 160 00:09:25,630 --> 00:09:29,460 And now it comes out. A crafty, clever man, Potter. 161 00:09:29,500 --> 00:09:32,230 He’s probably in Afghanistan by this time. 162 00:09:32,270 --> 00:09:35,340 Well, if he has traveling in mind, Mr. Halverson, he hasn’t left yet. 163 00:09:35,370 --> 00:09:37,940 His clothes and luggage are still in his room. 164 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:39,940 But there were travel folders all over the place. 165 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:41,780 You should be out looking for him, young man. 166 00:09:41,810 --> 00:09:44,310 -You’ve got to nail him before he gets away. -Oh, he won’t get away. 167 00:09:44,350 --> 00:09:46,180 He’s got to be punished for what he’s done. 168 00:09:46,210 --> 00:09:48,220 He’s got to be made an example of. 169 00:09:48,250 --> 00:09:49,720 What if everyone in the office decided 170 00:09:49,750 --> 00:09:52,350 to take off with the funds? This-this would ruin us! 171 00:09:52,390 --> 00:09:54,290 I don’t think we’ve got anything to worry about. 172 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:55,590 He hasn’t covered his trail. 173 00:09:55,620 --> 00:09:57,790 It shouldn’t be too difficult finding him. 174 00:09:57,830 --> 00:09:59,790 You’ve got to get that man, Lieutenant. 175 00:09:59,830 --> 00:10:02,830 We will, Mr. Halverson, we will. 176 00:10:05,930 --> 00:10:08,100 It’s like I said, lady. 177 00:10:08,140 --> 00:10:10,070 We’d like to accommodate you 178 00:10:10,110 --> 00:10:12,070 and come down and arrest your husband 179 00:10:12,110 --> 00:10:15,580 but we can’t do that without a complaint. 180 00:10:15,610 --> 00:10:18,410 Yes, I know you’re complaining, lady, 181 00:10:18,450 --> 00:10:20,750 but I mean a signed complaint. 182 00:10:22,620 --> 00:10:24,720 Yes, you come down here. 183 00:10:24,750 --> 00:10:28,820 No, I’m sorry we can’t send a car for you. 184 00:10:28,860 --> 00:10:31,990 Yes, get one of your neighbors to drive you down. 185 00:10:33,700 --> 00:10:37,330 -Well, what do you want? -My name is Milton Potter. 186 00:10:37,370 --> 00:10:40,170 What can I do for you, Mr. Potter? 187 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:42,100 I came to give myself up. 188 00:10:42,140 --> 00:10:45,110 That’s fine, Mr. Potter. 189 00:10:45,140 --> 00:10:48,240 We always like it when people want to give themselves up. 190 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:50,050 But would you mind telling me first 191 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:53,450 what it is you think you’ve done? 192 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:55,420 I’m the man that took the money. 193 00:10:57,020 --> 00:10:58,450 The money? 194 00:11:00,060 --> 00:11:01,720 You mean you’re that Potter? 195 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:04,490 Yes, sir. That’s what I mean. 196 00:11:11,900 --> 00:11:14,940 You knew you couldn’t get away with it. Whatever made you try? 197 00:11:14,970 --> 00:11:17,270 Oh, no that’s not true, Lieutenant. I thought 198 00:11:17,310 --> 00:11:19,140 I could get away with it. I really did. 199 00:11:19,170 --> 00:11:22,140 But now you know differently, is that it? 200 00:11:22,180 --> 00:11:25,650 No. You don’t understand. You see, I didn’t realize 201 00:11:25,680 --> 00:11:27,620 the effect it was going to have on me. 202 00:11:27,650 --> 00:11:30,620 After all those years of planning to do it someday, 203 00:11:30,650 --> 00:11:33,690 I had to go through with it. Don’t you see? 204 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:36,190 But afterwards... 205 00:11:36,220 --> 00:11:40,730 Well, after it was over and I had time to think about it, 206 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:43,370 I realized I just couldn’t go through with it. That’s all. 207 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:45,500 Don’t feel badly about it, Potter. 208 00:11:45,530 --> 00:11:48,500 A lot of first-timers lose their nerve after pulling off a job. 209 00:11:48,540 --> 00:11:51,110 You did the right thing, coming here the way you did, 210 00:11:51,110 --> 00:11:53,780 giving yourself up. You know, that took courage. 211 00:11:53,810 --> 00:11:55,280 It just proves, Mr. Potter, 212 00:11:55,310 --> 00:11:57,110 that you’re really not the criminal type. 213 00:11:57,110 --> 00:11:59,380 Mr. Halverson’s gonna be real proud of you. 214 00:11:59,410 --> 00:12:02,050 Oh, I don’t think so. 215 00:12:02,050 --> 00:12:04,050 You don’t know our Mr. Halverson. 216 00:12:04,090 --> 00:12:06,860 I’m sorry about him. I’ve caused him a lot of worry. 217 00:12:06,890 --> 00:12:10,830 Mr. Newton, too. I hope they’ll understand. 218 00:12:10,860 --> 00:12:13,730 Well, they’re not worried now. 219 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:16,260 ’Cause we’re gonna tell ’em how you walked right in here 220 00:12:16,300 --> 00:12:18,070 and told us all about it. 221 00:12:18,070 --> 00:12:19,900 You know, I wish every job would end this way. 222 00:12:19,930 --> 00:12:21,240 It would make it easier for all of us. 223 00:12:21,270 --> 00:12:22,640 You said it, Captain. 224 00:12:22,670 --> 00:12:24,570 You didn’t happen to bring the money with you? 225 00:12:24,610 --> 00:12:26,610 -No, I didn’t. -Well, that’s all right. 226 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:28,580 We’ll send a couple of men out after it. 227 00:12:28,610 --> 00:12:30,180 Where is it? 228 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:38,220 You do have the money, don’t you? 229 00:12:39,850 --> 00:12:42,190 Mr. Potter, you’re not going to tell us that you’ve lost it 230 00:12:42,220 --> 00:12:43,730 or anything silly like that, are you? 231 00:12:46,560 --> 00:12:48,700 [Fisher] Where is the money, Mr. Potter? 232 00:12:50,830 --> 00:12:52,330 It’s as I told you. 233 00:12:52,370 --> 00:12:55,000 I took the money and now I’m willing to give myself up. 234 00:12:55,100 --> 00:12:57,310 Well, are you also willing to go to jail? 235 00:12:57,340 --> 00:12:59,470 ’Cause you know, that’s exactly where you’re going to land 236 00:12:59,510 --> 00:13:01,380 unless you tell us where you’ve hidden that money. 237 00:13:01,410 --> 00:13:03,550 I’m willing to go to jail if I have to. 238 00:13:03,580 --> 00:13:05,380 You don’t seem to understand. 239 00:13:05,410 --> 00:13:08,550 You could draw a long stretch for theft as large as this one. 240 00:13:08,580 --> 00:13:10,090 Doesn’t matter now. 241 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:12,420 You’ll be spending the best part of your life in jail! 242 00:13:12,450 --> 00:13:14,490 Mr. Potter, where is the money? 243 00:13:15,660 --> 00:13:17,230 I’m not gonna tell you. 244 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:29,700 You’re being a patsy, Potter. 245 00:13:29,740 --> 00:13:31,140 A patsy? 246 00:13:31,170 --> 00:13:32,940 Yeah, you’re taking a fall, you’re being set up. 247 00:13:32,970 --> 00:13:35,080 You’re a fall guy. Can’t you understand that? 248 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:36,240 I’m not sure, Lieutenant. 249 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:37,880 You’ve given the money to somebody 250 00:13:37,910 --> 00:13:39,210 and you’re willing to take the rap for it. 251 00:13:39,250 --> 00:13:40,380 No, that’s not true. 252 00:13:40,420 --> 00:13:43,220 All right, Potter. Who’s the woman? 253 00:13:43,250 --> 00:13:46,350 The woman? Captain, I’m not even married. 254 00:13:46,390 --> 00:13:48,460 All right, the doll then. 255 00:13:48,490 --> 00:13:50,660 That little hunk of something that you think’s gonna be 256 00:13:50,690 --> 00:13:53,160 waiting outside those prison walls when you get out. 257 00:13:53,190 --> 00:13:56,360 You don’t mean to tell me you think she’ll still gonna have the dough, do you? 258 00:13:56,400 --> 00:13:58,100 There’s no doll. 259 00:14:00,500 --> 00:14:02,940 Listen, Potter, what kind of fools do you think we are? 260 00:14:03,040 --> 00:14:05,370 There’s gotta be a reason you won’t turn that dough over to us. 261 00:14:05,410 --> 00:14:07,780 Now, let’s have it. And we want the truth, for a change. 262 00:14:07,810 --> 00:14:09,640 But, I’m telling you the truth. 263 00:14:09,680 --> 00:14:11,880 Don’t you realize what this means? 264 00:14:11,910 --> 00:14:13,920 15 or 20 years. 265 00:14:13,950 --> 00:14:17,050 And with that attitude of yours, I don’t know if they’ll ever let you out. 266 00:14:17,050 --> 00:14:19,690 Mr. Potter, do you have any idea what prison’s like? 267 00:14:21,460 --> 00:14:26,130 Look, why don’t you make it easy on yourself? 268 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:29,200 You’ll probably get off real light if you just return the dough. 269 00:14:29,230 --> 00:14:30,770 Hardly any prison term at all. 270 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:32,630 Lieutenant Fisher is right. 271 00:14:32,670 --> 00:14:34,200 This is your first offense. 272 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:36,710 Judges always look kindly on a man who admits his mistake, 273 00:14:36,740 --> 00:14:38,440 especially the first time. 274 00:14:38,470 --> 00:14:40,340 Now, you just give back the 200 grand, 275 00:14:40,380 --> 00:14:42,740 and both Metro and the insurance company will go easy on you. 276 00:14:42,780 --> 00:14:44,680 I practically promise it. 277 00:14:44,710 --> 00:14:47,980 Now, how about it? You look like a sane and sensible man. 278 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:49,980 You don’t wanna do a long stretch in the pen. 279 00:14:50,090 --> 00:14:52,090 I’m sorry. I’m putting you fellows 280 00:14:52,090 --> 00:14:54,290 through an awful lot of bother, and I don’t mean to. 281 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:56,520 Well, then tell us where the money is! 282 00:14:56,560 --> 00:14:58,860 It’s as I said, I took the money because 283 00:14:58,890 --> 00:15:00,630 I thought I could get away with it. 284 00:15:00,660 --> 00:15:02,700 But after I took it, 285 00:15:02,730 --> 00:15:05,900 I realized I wasn’t cut out to be a hunted criminal. 286 00:15:05,930 --> 00:15:08,170 I couldn’t stand the idea of being hounded 287 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:09,670 for the rest of my life. 288 00:15:09,700 --> 00:15:11,670 Oh, I know how Mr. Halverson would be, 289 00:15:11,710 --> 00:15:13,410 and the insurance company, too. 290 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:15,510 To say nothing of you fellows. 291 00:15:15,540 --> 00:15:18,080 So, when I thought about that, 292 00:15:18,110 --> 00:15:21,050 I realized I wasn’t cut out to be the running type. 293 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:23,550 That’s all. So I gave myself up. 294 00:15:23,590 --> 00:15:27,720 Please, please, Mr. Potter, will you just tell us where the money is? 295 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:30,590 No. 296 00:15:30,630 --> 00:15:32,890 We’ve been nice to you, Potter, 297 00:15:32,930 --> 00:15:35,060 but it gets rough from here on out. 298 00:15:35,100 --> 00:15:37,300 I suppose you’re the type who thinks he won’t mind prison life, huh? 299 00:15:37,330 --> 00:15:39,070 You think it’s gonna be like the army! 300 00:15:39,070 --> 00:15:41,070 You wanna to be told where to go, or what to do. 301 00:15:41,100 --> 00:15:42,600 You think it’s going to be like that, don’t you? 302 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:45,170 Good eats, movies, or maybe even a three-day pass. 303 00:15:45,210 --> 00:15:46,880 Well you’ve got a big surprise coming, Potter. 304 00:15:46,910 --> 00:15:48,380 A great big surprise. 305 00:15:48,410 --> 00:15:50,680 A concrete and steel room for 20 long years, Potter. 306 00:15:50,710 --> 00:15:54,250 The same meals, the same four walls, nothing to do. 307 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:56,480 And the days stretching out in front of you, never-ending. 308 00:15:56,520 --> 00:15:59,390 And your fellow convicts, murderers, thieves, arsonists. 309 00:15:59,420 --> 00:16:00,720 Is that the way you want it, Potter? 310 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:02,620 Well, is it? 311 00:16:02,660 --> 00:16:05,190 If that’s the way it has to be. 312 00:16:11,330 --> 00:16:13,940 [Fisher] I thought about Potter quite a lot over the years. 313 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:16,200 Why was he so stubborn? 314 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:18,410 He wasn’t the criminal type. 315 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:21,680 Why did he insist that was the way it had to be? 316 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:25,250 Well, Potter never broke down. 317 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:27,320 The trial was short and sweet. 318 00:16:27,350 --> 00:16:30,150 He pleaded guilty and got a 15-year sentence. 319 00:16:30,190 --> 00:16:32,290 That was back in ’47, like I said. 320 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:34,820 He got three years clipped off his sentence for good behavior. 321 00:16:34,860 --> 00:16:36,830 How did he adjust to prison life? 322 00:16:36,860 --> 00:16:38,830 He was a model prisoner from the first day 323 00:16:38,860 --> 00:16:40,530 he walked through the gates. 324 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:43,230 They put him to work in the prison library most of the time. 325 00:16:43,260 --> 00:16:44,600 He did a lot of reading. 326 00:16:44,630 --> 00:16:46,840 Travels books mainly, so I heard. 327 00:16:46,870 --> 00:16:48,700 But, If he got out two days ago, Captain, 328 00:16:48,740 --> 00:16:51,310 -he’s got a head start on you. -It won’t matter. 329 00:16:51,340 --> 00:16:53,340 You know that 200 grand doesn’t belong to him, 330 00:16:53,380 --> 00:16:56,180 even if he thinks he earned it by doing a stretch in the pen. 331 00:16:56,210 --> 00:16:58,910 Let me get his address from his parole officer. 332 00:16:58,950 --> 00:17:00,650 Pay him a little visit, 333 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:03,750 and to tell him a few of the facts of life. 334 00:17:03,790 --> 00:17:06,420 -You’re going to see him today? -Why not? 335 00:17:06,450 --> 00:17:09,120 I’ve had this appointment for a long time. 336 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:18,070 [knocking] 337 00:17:24,210 --> 00:17:25,540 Yes? 338 00:17:25,570 --> 00:17:27,140 Mr. Potter. 339 00:17:27,180 --> 00:17:29,680 I’m Captain Ernest Fisher. Remember me? 340 00:17:29,710 --> 00:17:31,510 Of course, come on in. 341 00:17:33,250 --> 00:17:36,080 I was Lieutenant Fisher the last time we met, Mr. Potter. 342 00:17:36,120 --> 00:17:38,150 That was a long time ago. 343 00:17:38,190 --> 00:17:39,950 Yes, it was a long time ago. 344 00:17:40,060 --> 00:17:42,260 Twelve long years ago. 345 00:17:45,430 --> 00:17:47,230 Going somewhere? 346 00:17:47,260 --> 00:17:49,230 I’ve just moved in. 347 00:17:49,260 --> 00:17:50,900 What’d you want, Captain? 348 00:17:50,930 --> 00:17:53,640 Well, I understand that you did real well in prison. 349 00:17:53,670 --> 00:17:56,470 At least there were no complaints about your conduct that I heard. 350 00:17:56,500 --> 00:17:58,710 Oh, I didn’t get into any trouble. 351 00:17:58,740 --> 00:18:00,280 I minded my own business. 352 00:18:00,310 --> 00:18:02,340 I didn’t bother anybody, nobody bothered me. 353 00:18:02,380 --> 00:18:05,910 Well, if I know you, they hardly knew you were there. 354 00:18:06,010 --> 00:18:07,820 I knew I was there, Captain. 355 00:18:07,850 --> 00:18:09,480 Of course you did. 356 00:18:11,390 --> 00:18:13,520 You wouldn’t listen to me 12 years ago. 357 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:16,790 -Now you know. -Yes, now I know. 358 00:18:18,090 --> 00:18:20,730 I was hoping to forget that part of my life. 359 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:23,900 Well, a person usually forgets the unpleasant things. 360 00:18:26,030 --> 00:18:27,500 And you’re probably no exception, 361 00:18:27,540 --> 00:18:30,040 now that you’re out and ready to make a clean start. 362 00:18:30,070 --> 00:18:32,040 You thought of what you’re going to do? 363 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:34,040 I’ve thought about it. 364 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:37,050 Well, we’ll help you all we can, but, of course, 365 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:39,750 you won’t be able to go back to handling money. 366 00:18:39,780 --> 00:18:44,350 I hadn’t planned on that. 367 00:18:44,390 --> 00:18:47,590 There’s no sense in beating around the bush, Mr. Potter. 368 00:18:49,060 --> 00:18:50,530 I am here for a reason. 369 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:52,590 I didn’t think you came here for nothing. 370 00:18:52,630 --> 00:18:54,060 You know what it is. 371 00:18:54,060 --> 00:18:56,830 There’s still the matter of $200,000. 372 00:18:56,870 --> 00:18:59,230 I knew you wouldn’t forget about that. 373 00:18:59,270 --> 00:19:02,270 Neither we nor the insurance company, Mr. Potter. 374 00:19:02,300 --> 00:19:04,640 The fact that you served the sentence doesn’t entitle you 375 00:19:04,670 --> 00:19:06,740 to that money, no matter what you think. 376 00:19:08,010 --> 00:19:10,010 Listen to that ship’s blast, Captain. 377 00:19:10,010 --> 00:19:11,880 I heard it. 378 00:19:11,910 --> 00:19:15,220 I always wanted to travel. 379 00:19:15,250 --> 00:19:18,090 You had travel folders all over your room 12 years ago. 380 00:19:18,120 --> 00:19:21,520 Yeah, I had wonderful plans. 381 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:24,330 I wanted to travel all around the world, 382 00:19:24,360 --> 00:19:26,900 but I wound up in prison. 383 00:19:26,930 --> 00:19:29,130 But I traveled all the time I was there. 384 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:32,530 I read every travel book in the prison library. 385 00:19:32,570 --> 00:19:34,040 When I finished those, 386 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:36,370 I started borrowing others from the state library. 387 00:19:37,710 --> 00:19:40,440 I never really got out. Not really. 388 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:42,840 There was always that prison smell. 389 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:45,150 Always a feeling of people closing in, 390 00:19:45,180 --> 00:19:46,650 the smell of other men. 391 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:48,550 It’s different out here. It smells different, 392 00:19:48,580 --> 00:19:50,850 it feels so different. 393 00:19:50,890 --> 00:19:54,460 I’ll bet it does. 394 00:19:54,490 --> 00:19:58,130 That ship, I wonder if the world smells different, 395 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:00,400 if it feels different where she’s going. 396 00:20:00,430 --> 00:20:02,630 Well, I wouldn’t know about that, Mr. Potter. 397 00:20:02,660 --> 00:20:04,600 And I wouldn’t worry about it, if I were you. 398 00:20:04,630 --> 00:20:06,270 You’re not going anyplace. 399 00:20:06,300 --> 00:20:07,870 I know. 400 00:20:09,500 --> 00:20:12,270 You know, it was obvious to everyone what your plan was. 401 00:20:12,310 --> 00:20:13,980 You thought you’d be set to enjoy that money 402 00:20:14,010 --> 00:20:15,210 when you got out of prison. 403 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:17,110 But these things aren’t done that way. 404 00:20:17,150 --> 00:20:19,450 I want you to know that I’m making it my personal duty 405 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:21,650 to see that you don’t carry out your plan. 406 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:24,150 That money does not belong to you. 407 00:20:24,190 --> 00:20:26,790 But, Captain, you’re all wrong about me. 408 00:20:26,820 --> 00:20:29,390 -Oh, really? -Yes, you are. 409 00:20:29,420 --> 00:20:31,430 I know that’s what the world thinks. 410 00:20:31,460 --> 00:20:33,660 Know what everybody thinks. But they’re wrong! 411 00:20:33,700 --> 00:20:36,600 -Are they? -Look, I’ll tell you the truth. 412 00:20:36,630 --> 00:20:39,570 I thought that life in prison wouldn’t be too hard. 413 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:41,470 At times it wasn’t, 414 00:20:41,500 --> 00:20:44,670 but other times you had nothing to do but to think. 415 00:20:44,710 --> 00:20:47,510 A lot of time. 416 00:20:47,540 --> 00:20:51,010 So I made up my mind what I had to do. 417 00:20:51,050 --> 00:20:54,920 Captain, I’m ready to give the money back. 418 00:20:54,950 --> 00:20:56,450 You’re what? 419 00:20:56,480 --> 00:20:58,090 I’m ready to give the money back. 420 00:20:58,120 --> 00:21:00,690 All I want is to be left alone, 421 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:02,260 to be able to live in peace. 422 00:21:02,290 --> 00:21:04,160 Don’t you understand? 423 00:21:04,190 --> 00:21:07,260 Well, I’m trying hard to. Where’s the money? 424 00:21:07,300 --> 00:21:09,660 Right here, in this room. 425 00:21:11,130 --> 00:21:13,130 Right here, in this suitcase. 426 00:21:14,570 --> 00:21:16,500 Every penny of it. 427 00:22:03,390 --> 00:22:05,050 I think you’re going to enjoy this. 428 00:22:05,050 --> 00:22:07,460 Oh, I shall. Imported? 429 00:22:07,490 --> 00:22:10,060 Yes, this is the best year you can buy. 430 00:22:10,090 --> 00:22:13,290 Back in the States, I never take a drink before 5 o’clock. 431 00:22:13,330 --> 00:22:16,300 Oh, this is the very best time of day to drink champagne. 432 00:22:16,330 --> 00:22:18,500 You know, I’m going on to France, to the vineyards 433 00:22:18,530 --> 00:22:20,070 where the grapes come from. 434 00:22:20,100 --> 00:22:22,070 I may buy a case or two. 435 00:22:22,070 --> 00:22:23,510 -France? -Mm-hmm. 436 00:22:23,540 --> 00:22:25,470 But this ship’s going to Hawaii. 437 00:22:25,510 --> 00:22:29,110 I know. But I intend to go on to Asia, the Orient, 438 00:22:29,140 --> 00:22:30,680 all around the world. 439 00:22:30,710 --> 00:22:32,880 I certainly envy you your trip. 440 00:22:32,910 --> 00:22:36,080 Oh, when I retired, I determined to travel. 441 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:38,090 Retired? With the way taxes are today, 442 00:22:38,090 --> 00:22:39,790 how’d you ever manage it? 443 00:22:39,820 --> 00:22:41,990 Investments. 444 00:22:42,090 --> 00:22:45,990 Did you ever stop to think how much $200,000 earns 445 00:22:46,090 --> 00:22:49,830 in 12 years in interest, compounded quarterly 446 00:22:49,860 --> 00:22:53,940 in various carefully selected savings banks? 447 00:22:56,300 --> 00:23:02,080 $154,862.25 448 00:23:03,350 --> 00:23:05,710 I see. 449 00:23:05,750 --> 00:23:08,920 But how can a man get hold of $200,000 to invest? 450 00:23:10,650 --> 00:23:13,290 You might try borrowing it. I did. 451 00:23:17,490 --> 00:23:19,190 Ahh. 452 00:23:23,630 --> 00:23:24,870 Ahh. 453 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:38,580 It is customary to announce 454 00:23:38,610 --> 00:23:40,350 to an audience when the program 455 00:23:40,380 --> 00:23:42,780 they are watching is in color. 456 00:23:42,820 --> 00:23:44,790 I can only assume that this is 457 00:23:44,820 --> 00:23:47,560 for the benefit of the colorblind, 458 00:23:47,590 --> 00:23:49,320 so that they will know 459 00:23:49,360 --> 00:23:51,230 they are missing something. 460 00:23:51,260 --> 00:23:53,090 I have good news 461 00:23:53,090 --> 00:23:54,260 for them tonight. 462 00:23:54,300 --> 00:23:56,100 The preceding program 463 00:23:56,100 --> 00:23:58,470 was not in color. 464 00:23:58,500 --> 00:24:01,200 Next time, I shall return with another story. 465 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:04,040 Until then, goodnight.