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* [Charles Gounod:
"Funeral March of a Marionette"]
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Oh, good evening, onlookers.
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I seem to be stuck.
I don't suppose you see
a place for a red seven.
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No, of course not.
This program isn't in color.
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That's right. You can't
distinguish colors, can you?
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There's nothing
to winning, really.
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That is, if you happen
to be blessed with a keen eye,
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an agile mind
and no scruples whatsoever.
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Tonight's play is called
"The Crack of Doom."
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As the title suggests,
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"The Crack of Doom" is a story
about Mason Bridges,
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his wife, Jessie,
his secretary, Della,
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his friends, Tom Ackley
and Sam Clinker.
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And it begins in the club car
of a New York-Chicago
streamliner.
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(TRAIN HORN BLOWING)
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Can I get you a fresh one,
Mason?
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No thanks.
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Pass the word, boys.
What's up?
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Compartment B, next car.
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Anyone who can
tell the difference between
an ace and a deuce is welcome.
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I'm a purist.
Five card stud or nothing.
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A lamb to the slaughter.
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We'll need one more to make
a good seven-handed game.
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TOM:
What do you say, Mason?
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No. Thanks,
but I don't play poker.
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It's only a fifty cent limit.
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I wouldn't care
if it were a ten cent limit
or a one cent limit.
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I don't play poker.
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Oh, come on, Mason.
Be a good sport.
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No, thank you!
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What's eating him?
I don't know.
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I've never seen Mason
act like that before.
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In college he was always ready
to gamble on anything.
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Well, come on.
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Well, how'd you do?
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Win a little, lose a little.
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Say, what's this
sudden aversion to poker?
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It isn't sudden.
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Ignore the adjective then.
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Poker nearly
ruined me once.
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Huh?
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I wouldn't go through that
again for anything
you could name.
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Sounds ominous.
Let's hear it.
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(SCOFFS)
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Come on.
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Well, you know me
as an honest man,
right, Tom?
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True.
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Well, I am.
I always have been.
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Except once.
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Once, for a few hours
I was a thief.
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Oh, come off it, Mason.
I've known you since
you were in college.
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That's... Good heavens,
that must be...
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Thirteen years.
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But there was a time in there
of about five years when
we never saw each other.
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Look, maybe you'd rather not
tell me about it, hmm?
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No.
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No, maybe my experience
will throw a little light
on some other poor sinner.
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Even you.
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Well, let's see.
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It all began a couple of years
after graduation.
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I'd settled in Clifford Hills.
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MASON: In those days, I was
in real estate investments
with three partners.
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I was the inside man,
the office manager.
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Sam Clinker is here
for the Whitman property.
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Well, business is business.
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Oh, Mr. Whitman phoned
a few minutes ago.
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He won't be able
to keep the appointment.
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He'd like to make it
for 10:00 tomorrow instead.
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It's all right with me if
it's all right with Clinker.
Ask him to come in.
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Will you come in,
Mr. Clinker?
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Afternoon, Sam.
Mason.
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Am I early?
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Whitman just phoned.
He's been detained.
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He'd like to make it
the first thing
in the morning.
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The way you fellows operate
out here, I don't see
how you ever do any business.
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Well, this isn't
Wall Street, Sam.
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We like
the slower tempo.
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Yes, so I've noticed.
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Even in your poker games.
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We don't bull the game,
if that's what you mean.
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Well, tonight we're going to
eliminate the ribbon clerks.
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My place. 8:00.
Table stakes. No limit.
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Bother you, Mason?
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Not really.
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But I don't like what's
happening to something
that started out
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a couple of years ago
as a friendly little game
among neighbors.
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Mason, friendship ceases
when the first card is dealt.
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Maybe so.
But at least nobody got hurt.
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This no-limit stuff
of yours is brutal.
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Everybody gets five cards.
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But you've got
a bigger bank roll, Sam.
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The weight of your money
wins for you.
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So I'm a bad poker player?
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I didn't say that!
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I merely said you have a
terrific advantage over anyone
who has to hedge a bet.
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Of course,
if you can't afford it...
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If I couldn't afford it,
I wouldn't sit in.
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Fine. I'll reserve
a seat for you.
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No, not tonight.
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Tonight may be your night.
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The bank's closed.
Would you keep this money
in the safe for Whitman?
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Oh, sure.
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There's $10,000 even.
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I'll give you
a receipt for it.
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No, never mind.
I trust you, Mason.
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You're an honest man.
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See you at 8:00.
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You need a change of luck,
Mason. Cut yourself a winner.
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Ace is good for $10.
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I'll stay.
Worth another card.
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I'll stay.
Try it once.
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Not me.
I'm out.
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MAN 1: Ace, jack.
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A hundred.
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MAN 1: That's too rich
for my blood.
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MAN 2: I'm anemic.
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A hundred to you, Mason.
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I'll go along.
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MAN 3: Fives.
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MAN 1: Your tens, your jacks.
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(KNOCKING ON TABLE)
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(KNOCKING ON TABLE)
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MAN 1: Two pair.
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Cost you $200, Mason.
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I'll see you.
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Full up.
Aces over jacks.
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Beats me.
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Well, that's it.
I'm clean.
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You can give this
to the janitor.
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SAM: Mason.
Yeah?
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If you get a new bank roll,
come on back.
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Sure.
We'll be here for hours.
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MAN 2: Yeah,
the night's still young.
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MAN 1: And the cards
are terrible.
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SAM: Okay, pal,
you won the deal.
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MASON: I had lost
nearly $1,000.
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But the queer vanity
of the poker player
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kept telling me
I could get Clinker,
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if I just had a new bankroll.
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So I headed for the office.
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I did have money
in the bank.
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My wife and I, that is.
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Nine thousand dollars.
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But the bank was closed
till morning and I had to
get back into that game.
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I had to wipe the smile
off Clinker's face.
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Subconsciously
I may have known
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that what I intended doing
wasn't honest,
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but, actually, at the time
it didn't worry me.
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You see, it was
common practice in our office
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to take whatever cash
we needed
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and leave a note
or a personal IOU
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which we always made good
within a day or two.
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So I helped myself to $4,000
of Sam Clinker's money.
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Tom, I didn't feel
a bit dishonest
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because, you see,
I had $9,000 in the bank.
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As a matter of fact,
I was kind of amused
at the idea
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of using Clinker's money
to win back some of mine.
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Well, you can guess
what happened.
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You lost.
In an hour.
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You couldn't believe
the bad run of luck
that I had.
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I'd been playing
with scared money
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and there still wasn't enough
to buck Clinker's bankroll.
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As I recall, I left there with
a certain sense of relief.
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I'd learned my lesson
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and in the morning I'd draw
$4,000 out of the bank.
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Thank havens
for that savings account.
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I must have said that
a dozen times on the way home.
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In between wondering
how you were gonna
explain it to your wife.
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I kept telling myself she'd be
a good sport about it.
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Jessie. Jessie, wake up.
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It's important.
I've got to talk to you.
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What?
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I've got to have some money
the first thing in the morning
as soon as the bank opens.
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You've gotta have what?
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I've gotta have money, $4,000.
But the account's
been cleaned out.
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Oh, I'm sorry.
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I'm so sorry.
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Jessie, what's the matter?
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I don't know how to tell you.
I tried so many times.
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Please don't be angry with me.
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Listen to me, Jessie.
Where is that money?
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I didn't know how to tell you.
I... I tried!
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Tell me now.
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Tell me now!
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I got a tip
on the stock market.
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One of the girls
doubled her money in a month.
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So I invested
half of our savings
in an oil company.
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I though it would be
such a wonderful surprise
for you.
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When they struck oil,
we could have used the money
to build our house right away.
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I understand.
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You said you invested
half the money.
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What did you do
with the rest of it?
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Please don't be angry.
They didn't find oil,
they had to drill deeper.
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I couldn't stop then.
I had to invest
the rest of the money.
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The whole $9,000?
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Yes.
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I've ruined us, haven't I?
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If we're ruined
it's my doing, not yours.
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Whatever happens,
it's my fault.
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No.
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No, it's my fault
because I didn't tell you.
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That's the wrong part of it.
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Now, look.
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Look, you just take it easy
and everything's
gonna be all right.
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Everything's gonna
be all right, Jessie.
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Now, come on.
Come on, lie down.
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Come on.
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Come on. Come on.
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I'll work something out.
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I went home that night
knowing that I was a fool,
but an honest fool.
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But I left a thief.
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Seems to me
that's a question of ethics.
Hmm?
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Well, you said it was standard
office procedure to leave
IOU's for cash.
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Not strictly business-like,
but the principle of the thing
wasn't dishonest.
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Oh, but that's the trouble
with gambling, Tom.
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It leaves you
in kind of a moral fog.
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You can't distinguish
the finer points of honor.
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When I thought
I had the money,
I wasn't a crook.
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But the moment I learned
I didn't have it, I was.
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But it was only $4,000.
You could have borrowed
that much.
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Yes, my partners, I think,
would have stood by me
for the sake of the firm.
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But everybody
would have found out.
I'd have been disgraced,
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I'd have had to start
all over again.
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MASON: I went back
to my office.
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I don't know
how long I sat there
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trying to figure
a way out,
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thinking of Jessie,
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and what it would be
like beginning again
at the bottom.
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Then my thoughts
took a different turn.
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Since I was already a thief,
why not go all the way?
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With the rest
of Clinker's money,
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I might win
back everything.
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If I lost...
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But a thief never
believes he's going
to get caught
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or he wouldn't
be a thief.
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I had been
a crook for only
an hour or two,
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but already
I was thinking
like one.
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Cash me in.
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Boys, we've got company again.
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Deal me in.
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What are you gonna use
for money?
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Six thousand dollars.
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Brand new bills.
244
00:15:39,300 --> 00:15:41,540
That's right.
245
00:15:41,570 --> 00:15:45,170
I hope you've kept a record
of the serial numbers, Mason.
I always do.
246
00:15:45,210 --> 00:15:46,510
Just to be safe.
247
00:15:53,110 --> 00:15:54,180
Go ahead, deal.
248
00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:57,990
He was laying it
right on the line.
249
00:15:58,090 --> 00:16:02,320
If I didn't produce
his $10,000 in the morning,
he'd prove me a thief.
250
00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:03,790
Well, we never had
liked each other.
251
00:16:03,830 --> 00:16:05,560
And he'd jump at the chance
to send me to jail.
252
00:16:05,590 --> 00:16:07,060
I know the type.
253
00:16:07,100 --> 00:16:09,530
Well, we started to play.
254
00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:14,470
There wasn't any of the usual
banter. No one spoke
except to name their bets.
255
00:16:14,500 --> 00:16:17,370
The game went on for hours.
256
00:16:17,410 --> 00:16:20,080
When I'd play recklessly
I'd do pretty good and I'd
begin to win, you know?
257
00:16:20,110 --> 00:16:22,440
And then I'd...
258
00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:23,910
I'd begin thinking
about going to jail,
259
00:16:23,950 --> 00:16:27,920
and I'd pull in
and play conservatively
and I'd lose.
260
00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:32,050
And then it came.
261
00:16:33,090 --> 00:16:34,760
The hand I'd been waiting for.
262
00:16:37,060 --> 00:16:38,430
The hand that would save me.
263
00:16:41,060 --> 00:16:43,130
Pair of tens,
264
00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:45,270
pair of queens
and a king.
265
00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:52,840
Queens bet.
266
00:17:13,930 --> 00:17:15,330
Pair of queens, bet.
267
00:17:15,360 --> 00:17:16,500
Three
268
00:17:18,270 --> 00:17:19,270
and
269
00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:22,900
two is 500.
270
00:17:24,110 --> 00:17:25,710
MAN 1: No place for an orphan.
271
00:17:26,570 --> 00:17:27,710
Just you and me, Mason.
272
00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:34,580
Five...
273
00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:38,050
Raise you five.
274
00:17:52,330 --> 00:17:53,370
Five hundred.
275
00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:57,110
Last card, gentlemen.
276
00:17:58,440 --> 00:17:59,810
MAN 1: Three tens.
277
00:18:04,110 --> 00:18:06,750
A third lady.
Your bet, Mason.
278
00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:14,760
Three queens, bet.
279
00:18:21,430 --> 00:18:23,160
Three queens bet a thousand.
280
00:18:26,130 --> 00:18:30,510
Thousand and I'll raise you
a five, ten...
281
00:18:30,540 --> 00:18:31,910
Fifteen hundred.
282
00:18:46,490 --> 00:18:48,060
See your raise
283
00:18:50,890 --> 00:18:52,530
and bump you $2,000.
284
00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:53,600
For heaven's sake, Mason!
285
00:18:53,630 --> 00:18:54,730
Wait a minute.
286
00:18:56,700 --> 00:18:58,970
You know, of course,
I've got four tens.
287
00:18:59,070 --> 00:19:02,140
I don't know anything
of the kind, Clinker.
288
00:19:02,170 --> 00:19:03,840
I think you're trying
to steal the pot
289
00:19:03,870 --> 00:19:07,010
with three tens
and a fat bankroll.
290
00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:10,350
The way you've been trying
to steal good pots
for the last six months.
291
00:19:10,380 --> 00:19:12,410
You're bluffing, Mason.
292
00:19:12,450 --> 00:19:14,180
I don't think you've got
a queen in the hole.
293
00:19:14,220 --> 00:19:17,220
Are you expressing an opinion,
or making a bet?
294
00:19:23,390 --> 00:19:24,760
Two thousand.
295
00:19:28,660 --> 00:19:30,200
And raise you two.
296
00:19:31,470 --> 00:19:32,730
Table stakes.
297
00:19:32,770 --> 00:19:34,170
That's right.
Mason's all in.
298
00:19:36,070 --> 00:19:37,270
No house rules?
299
00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:43,880
No house rules.
300
00:19:43,910 --> 00:19:45,710
Can you get some more money?
301
00:19:45,750 --> 00:19:47,520
You'll take a check?
302
00:19:47,550 --> 00:19:49,280
Sure. Go ahead.
303
00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:51,490
Don't be a fool, Mason.
You haven't got
that kind of money!
304
00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:53,220
The man knows what he's doing.
305
00:19:55,790 --> 00:19:59,590
He wouldn't be fool enough
to try to pass
a worthless check.
306
00:19:59,630 --> 00:20:01,260
You can go to jail for that.
307
00:20:02,430 --> 00:20:03,800
Don't worry about me.
308
00:20:12,570 --> 00:20:16,540
I'll see your $2,000
309
00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:21,150
and I'll raise you three.
310
00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:36,900
It begins to look as if
you really do have
four queens.
311
00:20:36,930 --> 00:20:40,840
It'll cost you exactly $3,000
312
00:20:40,870 --> 00:20:42,870
to take a look
at my hole card.
313
00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:01,090
MASON:
It wasn't a queen.
314
00:21:02,820 --> 00:21:04,230
It was a jack.
315
00:21:09,430 --> 00:21:12,100
The jack of spades,
to be exact.
316
00:21:12,130 --> 00:21:14,500
I'd misread my hole card.
317
00:21:14,540 --> 00:21:17,270
I'd been playing it
for a queen,
but it was a jack.
318
00:21:17,310 --> 00:21:19,470
And Clinker had four tens.
319
00:21:19,510 --> 00:21:21,710
Oh, he had them,
all right.
320
00:21:21,740 --> 00:21:23,910
And four tens
beats three queens.
321
00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:27,780
I was ruined.
322
00:21:27,820 --> 00:21:30,220
In moments like that, Tom,
your whole life doesn't
flash by you.
323
00:21:30,250 --> 00:21:32,090
You just stop thinking
altogether.
324
00:21:32,090 --> 00:21:33,960
I'll bet
Clinker was loving it.
325
00:21:35,420 --> 00:21:36,760
I couldn't say.
326
00:21:39,460 --> 00:21:43,160
I sat there with a dead spine
holding up a dead head
327
00:21:45,470 --> 00:21:47,270
and waited for
the crack of doom.
328
00:21:55,980 --> 00:21:58,780
Your bet, Sam.
Three thousand.
329
00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:11,960
No sense throwing good money
after bad.
330
00:22:12,060 --> 00:22:13,190
Looks like
you got them, kid.
331
00:22:14,700 --> 00:22:15,730
Your pot.
332
00:22:25,670 --> 00:22:27,280
MAN 1: I gotta take a look
at that card.
333
00:22:29,610 --> 00:22:31,710
Jack. He was bluffing.
334
00:22:32,450 --> 00:22:34,220
Mason,
you stole that pot!
335
00:22:34,250 --> 00:22:35,350
(CHUCKLES)
336
00:22:35,380 --> 00:22:36,450
Shut up!
337
00:22:38,420 --> 00:22:39,990
I'll bet that's not
the first thing
you stole tonight.
338
00:22:42,360 --> 00:22:43,490
(PANTING)
339
00:22:47,700 --> 00:22:49,400
You'll never know, Clinker.
340
00:22:52,870 --> 00:22:55,100
I need a drink.
Join me?
341
00:22:56,270 --> 00:22:57,270
No, thanks.
342
00:22:57,310 --> 00:23:00,440
Porter, refill here.
343
00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:03,580
My bluff had worked
because I didn't know
I was bluffing.
344
00:23:03,610 --> 00:23:05,150
I wouldn't have had the nerve
if I had known.
345
00:23:05,180 --> 00:23:06,680
Who would?
346
00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:10,920
The irony of it was that
I got involved by not knowing
in the first place.
347
00:23:10,950 --> 00:23:14,190
Thought I had $9,000
in the bank and I didn't.
348
00:23:14,220 --> 00:23:18,660
I thought I had four queens
and one was a jack.
349
00:23:18,690 --> 00:23:21,830
Two mistakes in the same night
and they canceled
each other out.
350
00:23:21,860 --> 00:23:24,100
You know, for a while,
you know those years
we didn't see each other,
351
00:23:24,130 --> 00:23:26,230
I thought you meant
that you'd...
Prison?
352
00:23:26,270 --> 00:23:28,140
No.
353
00:23:28,170 --> 00:23:31,710
But I don't think going
to prison could have driven
the point home any harder.
354
00:23:31,740 --> 00:23:34,140
I got a reprieve.
355
00:23:34,180 --> 00:23:37,550
And I decided
right then and there
that I'd never gamble again.
356
00:23:37,580 --> 00:23:40,450
And that's why I wouldn't
join you, even in a game
of penny ante.
357
00:23:42,580 --> 00:23:44,790
It's getting kind of late.
I think I'll turn in.
358
00:23:44,820 --> 00:23:46,120
Good night, Tom.
359
00:23:47,790 --> 00:23:49,090
Good night, Mason.
360
00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:51,360
(TRAIN HORN BLOWING)
361
00:23:57,130 --> 00:23:59,100
Porter, bring me
one of those, too, will you?
362
00:24:00,370 --> 00:24:01,470
Bet you
for the drinks, Tom.
363
00:24:01,500 --> 00:24:03,070
Not on your life, brother!
364
00:24:15,050 --> 00:24:19,850
I hope you weren't displeased
by the lack of bloodshed
in tonight's story.
365
00:24:19,890 --> 00:24:23,060
It's impossible for us
to stage a murder every night.
366
00:24:23,060 --> 00:24:25,430
We're running out of victims.
367
00:24:25,460 --> 00:24:27,900
Of course, we could
replenish our supply
368
00:24:27,930 --> 00:24:32,070
by changing this into an
audience-participation show.
369
00:24:32,070 --> 00:24:34,100
However,
for the present, at least,
370
00:24:34,140 --> 00:24:36,870
I think we'll muddle along
the old way.
371
00:24:36,910 --> 00:24:38,770
That's all for tonight.
372
00:24:38,810 --> 00:24:42,580
Next time I appear,
we shall have another story
to tell you.
373
00:24:42,610 --> 00:24:45,080
And I hope you'll allow us
to come into your living room.
374
00:24:45,110 --> 00:24:50,290
It's terribly stuffy,
closed up in this dusty
television set.
375
00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:51,350
Good night.
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