Whispers in the Dark

Rita

Whispers in the Dark When night falls, the secrets begin to whisper.  In a quiet little town, strange events begin to unfold after a young woman moves into her family's old house. Every night, she hears faint whispers calling her name from the darkness—voices that only appear when the lights are out.  As the whispers start to reveal fragments of a long-buried past, she realizes the house holds a dark secret connected to her own bloodline. Caught between reality and delusion, she must uncover who is whispering... before the voice becomes the last thing she ever hears.

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00:01:34Then I saw the room

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00:01:49I was inside it

00:01:52There was danger there

00:01:57I knew that

00:01:58I wanted to turn and run

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00:05:59There they were, the button and that odd-shaped key, the things out of the dream.

00:06:06I'd never seen them before.

00:06:08I didn't have them when I undressed last night.

00:06:18That button wasn't mine, the key wasn't mine.

00:06:22But if they were there, it must have happened.

00:06:26The dream, the struggle, the murder, everything, but how?

00:06:32Did something like that happen and I not know it?

00:06:36Was I going insane?

00:06:39A jackhammer started pounding inside my head.

00:06:42I had to see if the outside world was still there.

00:06:51The street below looked the same as it did last night.

00:06:55The same greasy spoon where I eat now and then.

00:06:59The same traffic noises.

00:07:01The same characters bouncing around.

00:07:07There was nothing the matter out there.

00:07:09It was in here with me.

00:07:11My stomach was riding a roller coaster.

00:07:14I was sick.

00:07:16I couldn't face going to work.

00:07:18I was going to work.

00:07:41Hello.

00:07:42Add Fitch Roy 5-1-3.

00:07:45Fremont National Bank, Bill.

00:07:47And you're speaking.

00:07:48You're speaking.

00:07:49Yes, Grayson.

00:07:50What is the problem?

00:07:52Fremont National Bank, Bill, you're speaking.

00:07:55Oh, yes, Grayson.

00:07:59Mm-hmm.

00:08:01What seems to be the trouble?

00:08:05Oh.

00:08:06It could be the flu.

00:08:09Mm-hmm.

00:08:10Yes.

00:08:12All right, all right.

00:08:13Good night.

00:08:15Good morning, Joe.

00:08:17Good morning, Mr. Jackson.

00:08:20Oh, isn't that a lovely morning?

00:08:22Lots of things I'd rather do than work today.

00:08:27Good morning, Mr. Vineyard.

00:08:29Morning, Betty.

00:08:30Vince Grayson just called.

00:08:31He's not feeling well.

00:08:32Will you take his window today?

00:08:33Oh, is Vince sick?

00:08:35What did he say it was?

00:08:36Yes.

00:08:52The more I tried to figure it out, the sicker I got.

00:09:04Suddenly, the room started spinning.

00:09:0740, 50.

00:09:23Federal 7-6-4-8.

00:09:25Hotel Commodore.

00:09:31Vince Grayson's room, please.

00:09:32He doesn't answer?

00:09:51Funny he shouldn't be there, isn't it?

00:09:58If he was sick, you know what I mean?

00:10:00No, I don't.

00:10:03I'd better check his books just to make safe.

00:10:06Miss, would you like to take this money, or should I try another bank?

00:10:13I had to get out of my room.

00:10:15Out into the sunshine.

00:10:17I had to stay out of the shadows.

00:10:18And I knew that tonight, I'd be afraid of the dark.

00:10:24I had to talk to somebody about this crazy thing.

00:10:27Betty?

00:10:29I'd get sympathy from Betty.

00:10:31What I needed was an explanation.

00:10:34Cliff, my brother-in-law, he ought to be able to figure out something.

00:10:39I got to Cliff's place just before dinner.

00:10:42My sister, Lil, told me he was out in the garage.

00:10:48Hello, Cliff.

00:10:50Oh, hiya, Vince.

00:10:51How's the boy?

00:10:53Cliff, I want to talk to you.

00:10:55Be with you, as soon as I finish sanding this.

00:10:58Exact reproduction of Martha Washington's bed.

00:11:07What's the matter, kid?

00:11:08Something on your mind?

00:11:10I need your help.

00:11:11You and Betty have a fight or something?

00:11:14Cliff, this is going to sound screwy.

00:11:16Last night, I dreamed I killed a man.

00:11:19I don't know who or where it was supposed to be.

00:11:24I stabbed him with a steel boar.

00:11:26During the fight, a button came off in my hand.

00:11:29When I'd kill him, I locked the body in a closet and took the key.

00:11:34And then when I woke up...

00:11:37Well, look.

00:11:42And this morning, there was blood on my wrist.

00:11:44I figured maybe I'd scratch myself in my sleep, my ear or my nose or someplace.

00:11:49So I just washed it off.

00:11:51That was before I saw these.

00:11:55You're all in pieces, aren't you?

00:11:57Cliff, you've got to help me.

00:11:59You don't know what I've been going through all day.

00:12:05Where'd you get this?

00:12:06I mean, where'd you first get it before you dreamed about it?

00:12:09Don't you understand what I've been telling you?

00:12:11I didn't have it before I dreamed about it.

00:12:14I'd never have saw it before then.

00:12:16Then when I wake up, it turns out real.

00:12:19Now look, Vince.

00:12:20I've warned you before.

00:12:21You're working too hard.

00:12:22Don't you understand?

00:12:24There's a door somewhere this very minute this key belongs to.

00:12:27There's a man propped up behind a dead.

00:12:28And I don't know where nor who he is or how or why it happened.

00:12:32Only that I must have been there.

00:12:33I must have done it.

00:12:34Or why would it come to me in my sleep like this?

00:12:37And these things...

00:12:37Now look.

00:12:39You had those things before.

00:12:40You picked them up somewhere.

00:12:42And you misplaced them a long time ago.

00:12:44And last night, you had a Welsh rabbit or one drink too many.

00:12:47So you dreamed up a nightmare.

00:12:49And in it, you remembered these old things and wove them in it.

00:12:52Oh, no.

00:12:53Now, don't say no.

00:12:55Either you dream a thing or it really happened.

00:12:58Don't worry.

00:12:59If you dreamed that you had a fight with a guy and rammed something in him,

00:13:03you'd wake up.

00:13:04What happened, Cliff?

00:13:05If I tell you it happened...

00:13:07You dreamed it.

00:13:08You had those things before.

00:13:13You've just been stretching your nerves thin, kid.

00:13:15Well, that's your answer.

00:13:17That's all you can tell me, huh?

00:13:19Cliff, Vince.

00:13:21Dinner's ready.

00:13:22If I tell you I didn't have these things before...

00:13:23Throw those things away.

00:13:25And look.

00:13:25Not a word of this to Lil.

00:13:29You understand?

00:13:30She's been worrying about you enough already.

00:13:36You haven't helped me a bit.

00:13:39I mean, when the knuckles were.

00:13:41Come on.

00:13:41Naturally not.

00:13:42You expect me to arrest you for murdering a man in your dream.

00:13:46Well, the rest will have to happen in a dream, too.

00:13:48Because...

00:13:49I'm off duty when I'm dreaming.

00:13:53Come on, kid.

00:13:55Let's get some dinner.

00:13:56And, uh, smile for Lil, will you?

00:13:58You men coming in or not?

00:14:05You want your soup to get cold?

00:14:09I keep cracking the polish off of that one male.

00:14:12Are you lucky?

00:14:13Lil's got a rib roast tonight.

00:14:14You know I'm getting jealous of that butcher.

00:14:16Vince, why did you tell me you've been working hard at the bank all day?

00:14:19Because I did.

00:14:20How are you feeling, Vince?

00:14:24I thought you were sick.

00:14:25I was.

00:14:26I just didn't feel well.

00:14:27I kept calling your room all day.

00:14:29No one was there.

00:14:30Mr. Billio got suspicious.

00:14:32Can't a guy take a day off?

00:14:33I just didn't feel like going to work, and I wasn't sick enough to stay in my room.

00:14:36Now, why does everybody have to make such a big thing of it?

00:14:40Vince.

00:14:43The blood.

00:14:45I washed it off.

00:14:50I don't know how long I was blacked out.

00:15:11I hazily remembered coming to for a moment and falling asleep again.

00:15:16It was sometime past midnight when something awakened me.

00:15:20What if I bite out?

00:15:36You certainly did.

00:15:38The truth?

00:15:40No.

00:15:40Not what you think.

00:15:41Not that dream business.

00:15:43The real truth.

00:15:44But you've been wearing yourself out.

00:15:46Why are you passed out like any neurotic?

00:15:49Take the key to button.

00:15:50You must have often had less than that to start out on.

00:15:53Find out where they came from, and find out what they were doing on me.

00:15:58Find out where that mirrored room is.

00:16:00Forget them once and for all.

00:16:01Forget them.

00:16:02I can't.

00:16:02They're my only clue to what happened.

00:16:04Nothing happened.

00:16:05You're just selling yourself a phony bill of goods.

00:16:07Just as phony as that idea that the nail polish was blood.

00:16:10That's the kind of trick your mind's been playing on you.

00:16:14Oh, it can't be that.

00:16:15And don't crack to Lil about this nonsense or I'll...

00:16:19Well, just don't crack.

00:16:21She's fretted about you for years, ever since your mother died.

00:16:24And right now would be the worst time of all.

00:16:27Now?

00:16:28What do you mean?

00:16:29Well, I wasn't going to tell you until later.

00:16:35Lil's going to have a kid.

00:16:37Oh, that's fine.

00:16:39That's great, Cliff.

00:16:40Okay.

00:16:41So now you know.

00:16:42So forget it.

00:16:44And if you hop on that...

00:16:46...spooky business that will help me, I'll...

00:16:48...I'll drag you off to a doctor.

00:16:52Now go on, kid.

00:16:52Try and get some sleep.

00:16:53Sleep?

00:17:06I felt I'd never sleep again until I knew the answer.

00:17:12I had to find the house where the nightmare took place.

00:17:15I had to know.

00:17:23I have a lovely house with a mirror-lined powder room on the second floor.

00:17:41Octagonal?

00:17:42No, it's only four squares.

00:17:45However, Mr. Grayson, if you'll come and look at it, I'm certain...

00:17:48No, thanks.

00:17:49I'm sorry.

00:17:49That's not what I'm looking for.

00:17:50Six days went by without a lead.

00:17:56I scoured the papers.

00:17:58Not one line about the murder.

00:18:00And all week I'd been avoiding Betty.

00:18:02I just couldn't face her with this thing gnawing at my brain.

00:18:13Who is it?

00:18:14Cliff.

00:18:18Hello, Cliff.

00:18:18Hiya, boy.

00:18:19Will you see what I've got downstairs?

00:18:21Come on.

00:18:22Put it on.

00:18:24Let's go.

00:18:25I don't want to go anywhere.

00:18:26I want you to see my new second-hand car that I just got in exchange for my old second-hand car.

00:18:30Please, Cliff.

00:18:31I don't want to go anywhere.

00:18:32What are you trying to be, a groundhog?

00:18:34Lil and I are taking a ride in the country.

00:18:36A little picnic.

00:18:37Listen, I'm all right.

00:18:38I don't need any fresh air jaunts to shake the devils out of me, if that's what you're doing.

00:18:42Now, look.

00:18:43Do you want Lil to worry any more than she is after what I told you about her?

00:18:45Come on.

00:18:59Now, look, Cliff.

00:18:59If you think this is going to do any good...

00:19:01Don't be a drip.

00:19:02Come on.

00:19:03Hello, Betty.

00:19:07Hello, Vince.

00:19:08How are you, Lil?

00:19:09I'm fine.

00:19:10Vince, I want you to know this wasn't my idea.

00:19:12What do you mean?

00:19:13I'm glad you picked me up.

00:19:14Well, where should we go, kids?

00:19:16Anywhere.

00:19:17I don't care.

00:19:17How about Solanda Canyon?

00:19:19All right.

00:19:28Solanda Canyon.

00:19:28It just popped into my head.

00:19:31Why?

00:19:33Betty and I always preferred the beach.

00:19:35But something made me say Solanda.

00:19:38Somehow, it seemed important.

00:19:40Do you know where you're going?

00:19:57Nope.

00:19:58But I got a hunch further down this road, we'll find just the right spot.

00:20:01Did you ever see anything so stubborn?

00:20:03I'm sure that the ants here are just as friendly as the ants farther down.

00:20:07Now, what's wrong with that place over there?

00:20:08Nothing, but, uh...

00:20:10Well, stop then.

00:20:11It's getting late, and besides, I'm hungry.

00:20:13Okay, okay, my love.

00:20:15That's just what I was going to do.

00:20:29Ah, this is the life.

00:20:31Toss me another one of those marshmallows, will you, beloved?

00:20:35At they wish, master.

00:20:37Plop.

00:20:38Mommy, you're wonderful.

00:20:42Uh-huh.

00:20:43Just as long as the marshmallows last.

00:20:52Vince, are you coming back to work tomorrow?

00:20:55I don't think so.

00:20:59Mr. Billio asked me to go out with him yesterday.

00:21:01Well, why didn't you go?

00:21:02Why tell me?

00:21:04Vince.

00:21:06What is it?

00:21:07What's the matter?

00:21:08Just forget about me, will you?

00:21:23What is it?

00:21:24Did I do something?

00:21:26No, it's not your fault.

00:21:28It's just that...

00:21:29Look, we're through.

00:21:32There's nothing we can do about it.

00:21:34Don't call me up.

00:21:35Don't pay any attention to me.

00:21:37Get somebody else.

00:21:38Get anybody.

00:21:38It'll be better for you.

00:21:51Lail, Lail, you're a big girl now.

00:21:54I can't help it.

00:21:55You know what lightning does to me.

00:21:57We'd better go.

00:21:58Hey, kids, it's gonna rain.

00:22:01Oh!

00:22:02Holy smoke, you didn't have to take me seriously.

00:22:05Yes, Benny, come on and go.

00:22:27Now, the wipers won't work.

00:22:35You should have tried them before you bought it, dear.

00:22:38All right, all right.

00:22:57I can't stand anymore.

00:23:00Stop at the first place you come to and let's get out of this.

00:23:03All right, baby.

00:23:04Now, calm down.

00:23:07No houses around here.

00:23:16That bridge.

00:23:18I've seen it before.

00:23:20But when?

00:23:23There's a cutoff a little ways ahead, just around the turn.

00:23:26There's a big house up there, I think.

00:23:30Do you know this section?

00:23:31Have you been here before?

00:23:34There's a cutoff.

00:23:43Are you gonna get us more lost than ever?

00:23:45No, keep going.

00:23:46You'll come to it.

00:23:47Two big posts and then turn the car in between them.

00:23:50I didn't know myself how I knew that.

00:23:53But the closer we came, the heart of my heart pounded.

00:23:56And the more frightened I got.

00:24:06There they are.

00:24:07Turn cliff between those posts like he told you.

00:24:08There we go.

00:24:09I may.

00:24:09There we go.

00:24:22Understandable Music.

00:24:24Stay tuned.

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00:24:54Let's make a dash for it

00:24:58Doesn't seem to be anybody home

00:25:22I wish we could get in

00:25:23I thought there'd be a key someplace

00:25:45Dan, are you going to stay out there all day?

00:26:03Come on in

00:26:03Let's have some light

00:26:09Not that one

00:26:11What is this, a rib?

00:26:15How do you know so much about this place?

00:26:17It's a rib

00:26:17Your brother Vince, the great joker

00:26:20Hello, anybody home?

00:26:28Don't do that

00:26:29He's cold, he's shaking

00:26:32So are you

00:26:33Let's find a place to dry out before you catch cold

00:26:36Looks like they've been away a long time

00:27:05Your being a detective comes in handy

00:27:08In case anybody shows up

00:27:10We won't get into trouble for crashing in like this

00:27:12Yeah, yeah

00:27:12Let's see what gives with the fireplace

00:27:16That's a break

00:27:22It's a gas log

00:27:23Put yourself down

00:27:33Dry out

00:27:34Before you catch a chill

00:27:36Oh, I am tired

00:27:39Come on, Betty

00:27:41Share the warmth

00:27:42I'll scout the kitchen

00:27:44Some hot tea wouldn't hurt you a bit

00:27:46Feel better already

00:27:53Vince

00:28:01Why don't you come over here by the fire?

00:28:03Grab your head

00:28:05Ready?

00:28:05Give me a backup

00:28:07Huh?

00:28:07What's this?

00:28:09Maybe I'm allowed to pour you a quarter

00:28:09h Fauci

00:28:10Or your head

00:28:11Or your head

00:28:11Can I please

00:28:12Get up

00:28:12Here境

00:28:13Oh, come on

00:28:13January

00:28:14You're not alone

00:28:14Oh, come on

00:28:16pharmacy

00:28:16Oh, come on

00:28:17Oh, come on

00:28:18Who do you live

00:28:18Oh, come on

00:28:20Give me a moment

00:28:20Oh, come on

00:28:21¶

00:28:23Overk

00:28:24Oh, come on

00:28:25Oh, come on

00:28:26Really, let's see

00:28:27Oh, come on

00:28:27He'llČ

00:28:27Oh, come on

00:28:28Oh, come on

00:29:29This is the place.

00:29:38This is the place, all right.

00:29:40Yeah.

00:29:46Wipe your brow.

00:29:50Have you got it?

00:29:51What are you two doing up there?

00:30:00Keep her downstairs.

00:30:02Keep her downstairs.

00:30:03Down a minute, Lil.

00:30:05Watch the tea in the kitchen.

00:30:06I got some water boiling.

00:30:07All right, but I wish you'd stop poking around.

00:30:10Let's go.

00:30:26Look.

00:30:26That's what he was crouched in front of, at night.

00:30:32He must have been using a blowtorch.

00:30:35That's what made that bluish light.

00:30:38Made her face stand out in the reflections like a mask.

00:30:41That must be the one I propped him up in after I...

00:30:51No, don't.

00:30:57Yeah.

00:30:58Give me a chance.

00:30:59Cut it out.

00:31:00Dried blood.

00:31:17Someone who was hurt was in here.

00:31:20Somebody who was dead.

00:31:21Ben, Claire, come on down and have some tea.

00:31:42Ben, Claire, come on down and have some tea.

00:31:44I'll take these back to the kitchen.

00:32:14I'll take it.

00:32:16The rain ought to let up soon.

00:32:18Meanwhile, catch yourselves a nap.

00:32:33Close it.

00:32:34I want them to hear this.

00:32:44Now let's hear about another dream.

00:32:51You think I lied, don't you?

00:32:54You knew how to get here from a dream, didn't you?

00:32:56You knew where the key was from a dream, didn't you?

00:32:59Oh, well, that fumbling around didn't fool me.

00:33:02You even knew where the light switch was from a dream.

00:33:04If you weren't Lil's brother, I'd push a lying face out to the back of your head.

00:33:08But I tell you, Cliff, I tried...

00:33:09You might hand him a for help.

00:33:10She didn't have guts enough to come clean.

00:33:12Just say, Cliff, I went out to such and such a place in the canyon last night and killed a guy.

00:33:16Such and such a guy for such and such a reason.

00:33:18But I tell you...

00:33:18No, you had to cook up a dream.

00:33:20I can respect a guy, no matter how rotten a crime he's committed, who'll own up to it?

00:33:24I can understand a guy who'll deny it flatly.

00:33:25But a guy that'll come to someone trading on the fact he's married to his sister abuses common sense and make a fool out of him like you did to me.

00:33:32But I didn't...

00:33:32I got no use for him.

00:33:33He's lower than the lowest rat we ever brought in for knifing somebody in an alley.

00:33:37Look, I found this key in my pocket when I woke up.

00:33:41I found this button playing on my sympathies, getting me to think in terms of doctors and medical observation.

00:33:46Was that it?

00:33:47Was it?

00:33:47No, I...

00:33:48Cliff, I swear to you, I...

00:33:49Son dream, that was.

00:33:51Well, that dream's over with.

00:33:52Babies are awake now.

00:33:53I'm going to get the facts out of you, and whether they go any further than me or not, that's my business.

00:33:57But at least I'm going to have them.

00:33:58How can I tell you what I don't know?

00:34:00What were you doing here that night?

00:34:01What brought you here?

00:34:02I was never here before.

00:34:03I never saw the place till today when I came here with you and Leo.

00:34:05Who was the guy you killed?

00:34:07What was his name?

00:34:07I'm in agony already without...

00:34:09Are you going to answer me?

00:34:10Are you?

00:34:10I can't.

00:34:11You're asking me things I can't answer.

00:34:13That's the almighty of whoever watches over us at night when we're unconscious.

00:34:16Who was the guy?

00:34:17Why did you kill him?

00:34:19Why?

00:34:20I've handled close-mouthed guys before.

00:34:22Well, you're going to tell me or I'm going to have to kill you with my own hands.

00:34:28Get over there.

00:34:30What is this?

00:34:31I'll ask the questions.

00:34:32What are you two doing in here?

00:34:33You came in out of the rain.

00:34:35That suit you?

00:34:35Not yet.

00:34:38Identify yourselves and be quick about it.

00:34:42Help yourself.

00:34:45Thanks, Earl E.

00:34:54Headquarters Homicide Division, huh?

00:34:56How about doing a little identifying yourself?

00:34:58Well, I'm a deputy attached to the county sheriff's office out this way.

00:35:01Torrance is the name.

00:35:02My brother-in-law.

00:35:03Vince Grayson.

00:35:04How do you deal?

00:35:05I'm detailed to keep an eye on this place.

00:35:06I was home having a little bite to eat.

00:35:08Now I'm on my way back to the station.

00:35:09Say, how'd you get in here?

00:35:10I thought I had it locked up.

00:35:11The key was under a flower box on the porch.

00:35:13It was?

00:35:14Must have been a spare.

00:35:15I have the original.

00:35:16We didn't know there was a second one.

00:35:17What do you mean you're detailed to keep an eye on this place?

00:35:20Didn't you know?

00:35:21There was a murder committed here last week.

00:35:23There was?

00:35:23I'd like to hear more about that.

00:35:27Sounds interesting.

00:35:30Oh, no thanks.

00:35:32I cut them on about a month ago.

00:35:34I always carry a pack of these now.

00:35:38No, thanks.

00:35:39This place belonged to a wealthy couple named Belknap.

00:35:43Husband frequently goes on long business trips.

00:35:45He was away when it happened, Mexico.

00:35:47In fact, we haven't been able to notify him yet.

00:35:51His wife was a pretty little thing.

00:35:54Was.

00:35:54Kind of flirty.

00:35:56His young duck she used to run around with.

00:35:58His name was Bob Clune.

00:35:59Was.

00:36:01Milkman found Mrs. Belknap about daybreak Monday,

00:36:04near a road that leads over here.

00:36:05Did?

00:36:06Dying.

00:36:07Unconscious.

00:36:07Both legs broken.

00:36:08Skull fractured.

00:36:09Insides all busted up.

00:36:14Kind of gets him, doesn't it?

00:36:15Things like this are new to him, I guess.

00:36:17What had happened?

00:36:18The car did it to her.

00:36:20He found the car.

00:36:21Blood and hair in the tires.

00:36:23Bob Clune's car.

00:36:27Well, then Warner, that's my chief,

00:36:29he came over here to have a look around.

00:36:31He finds a safe busted in the mirrored room upstairs.

00:36:34Take care for sure if you want.

00:36:35Mirrored room, huh?

00:36:36Well, that gave us a case.

00:36:41Clune knew that Belknap had a lot on the safely left for Mexico.

00:36:43He came here, started to heist it, and Mrs. Belknap caught him.

00:36:46She ran out afraid he'd kill her.

00:36:48He got his car, chased her down the road, and ran over.

00:36:50Pretty brutal.

00:36:50All of a sudden, life was swell again.

00:36:53I don't know how to drive, I kept thinking.

00:36:56Clif knew that, too.

00:37:00Have a smoke, kid.

00:37:02Anyway, that's a case we thought we had until Wednesday morning.

00:37:06Thought you had.

00:37:07We sent out an alarm for Clune.

00:37:08Then Wednesday, Mrs. Belknap came, too.

00:37:11The first thing she asked was, is Bob all right?

00:37:13He didn't kill Bob Clune, did he?

00:37:14He?

00:37:15Yeah.

00:37:15What she told us sent us hot pudding right back here.

00:37:18We find Clune's body propped up behind one of those mirrored doors upstairs.

00:37:21Been stabbed with an awl.

00:37:22She died that night.

00:37:23Well, it went our case.

00:37:27Did you get anything on the real killer?

00:37:29Practically everything, except the guy himself.

00:37:31All the dope's over at my chief's office.

00:37:34I was just on my way over there.

00:37:36Are you interested?

00:37:37Oh, it's right up my alley.

00:37:39Might be able to even help you find the killer.

00:37:41Glad to have you come along.

00:37:42I'll have to tell the girls we'll be gone for a while.

00:37:50Shouldn't let it get you, kid.

00:37:51This is just routine with us.

00:37:53I know.

00:37:54It's just that I'm not used to this kind of discussion, I guess.

00:37:57Yeah, I can understand that.

00:37:58I was a little bit squeaky myself when I first started on the job.

00:38:03They're both asleep.

00:38:04I left a note.

00:38:06Come on, Vince.

00:38:10I'll stay here.

00:38:12Come on, Vince.

00:38:25Funny I didn't see anything in the L.A. papers about it, Captain Warner.

00:38:27They've been playing ball with us.

00:38:30We had an idea if the killer didn't read about us finding the bodies, he might come back to

00:38:35take a look.

00:38:36Maybe to find out what happened to Mrs. Belknap.

00:38:40Here's a description she gave us before she died.

00:38:42The killer was about 24, medium build, white brown, wavy hair, worn rather long.

00:38:53His eyes were fixed and glassy as though he was mentally unbalanced.

00:38:59You got any pictures on them?

00:39:00Mrs. Belknap.

00:39:01Clun, I mean.

00:39:03We had some photographs taken in the morgue.

00:39:05Let's have a look.

00:39:05Got any ideas?

00:39:09Nothing in particular.

00:39:10Just thought it might tie in with something in our office.

00:39:15Take a look, Vince.

00:39:16Oh, no.

00:39:17You might even know these people.

00:39:20It was them, all right.

00:39:22The faces of the dream.

00:39:24That woman and the man I killed.

00:39:27Now I knew there was no escape.

00:39:28I was a murderer.

00:39:31I?

00:39:33I?

00:39:49Out like a light.

00:39:50What do you suppose did it?

00:39:51Those death pictures?

00:39:52Things like this sure get him.

00:39:54I noticed that before.

00:39:55He's not well.

00:39:56He gets these dizzy spells now, man.

00:39:59It's only since I started.

00:40:00Shut up.

00:40:03Yeah, that's better.

00:40:05He'll be all right.

00:40:07As soon as I get him home.

00:40:11Thanks, Warner.

00:40:13I'll be seeing you.

00:40:13Okay.

00:40:26Thanks, Lil.

00:40:41I'm sorry the rain spoiled at picnic.

00:40:43You take care of yourself.

00:40:44I'll call you.

00:40:47I'm going up with Vince for a while.

00:40:48My pet, you happen to be in the low.

00:40:50Well, Smiley's on this beat.

00:40:52If he says anything, just tell him whose car it is.

00:40:54I'm going up with him.

00:40:56Take care of yourself.

00:40:56I'm going up with him.

00:40:57Will give your evidence.

00:41:13What do you expect?

00:41:18Lil is waiting downstairs.

00:41:30I'm going to take her home first before I do anything.

00:41:34I love Lil.

00:41:36I think you love Betty, but that's your business.

00:41:39All I know is I love Lil.

00:41:44It's bad enough what this is going to do to her when she finds out.

00:41:46Well, I'm going to see that she gets at least one good night's sleep before she does.

00:41:54What am I going to do, Cliff?

00:41:56I don't have to ask you if you killed him.

00:41:58You passed out Cole when you saw that photograph some dead.

00:42:03In the morning, I'm going to take you down and turn in what I know at my own precinct house.

00:42:09And they can pass it on to Warner.

00:42:14And then I'm going to turn in my badge.

00:42:16I'm scared stiff.

00:42:21Killers always are.

00:42:23Afterwards.

00:42:25I'll be back in the morning.

00:42:26Well, I'll be back in the morning.

00:42:27I'm sorry.

00:42:28I'll be back in the morning.

00:44:01I beg your pardon.

00:44:09Look.

00:44:10He's trying to make up his mind.

00:44:11Can't you go any faster?

00:44:35Got her wide open.

00:44:43Die.

00:44:43Let's go!

00:44:45Let's go!

00:44:58Why didn't you let me?

00:45:26I didn't think her that way out.

00:45:34Vince!

00:45:35Oh, Vince!

00:45:37I didn't want to drag you into this.

00:45:39What is it?

00:45:40If you were in trouble so horrible that you wanted to...

00:45:42Donnie, don't.

00:45:47He won't try it again, Betty.

00:45:49Just keep that thought.

00:45:51But why, Cliff?

00:45:52Why?

00:45:52Never mind now.

00:45:54You go on down.

00:45:56Take Lil home.

00:45:57But don't tell him anything about that.

00:46:00Just say that I thought it was better if I stayed here with Vince tonight.

00:46:03He's not feeling well.

00:46:05He's not feeling well, okay?

00:46:08Cliff, whatever it is that's come between us, promise me you'll help him.

00:46:13You go on now.

00:46:14And take care of Lil.

00:46:15You go on now.

00:46:45Cliff, what about the arrest, Cliff?

00:47:14Cancel for now.

00:47:17When a guy's willing to die like you were, there must be something to his story.

00:47:21I tried to tell you.

00:47:23I don't think you really knew what you were doing that night.

00:47:26I think you're telling the truth to the best of your ability.

00:47:30I'm licked.

00:47:31I'd rather not even talk about it.

00:47:34You might as well have let me jump.

00:47:35I'm dead inside already.

00:47:40Still, I can't figure why you picked that way.

00:47:42Most of them try the bridge or poison or even gas.

00:47:46Thought of that, but this place hasn't any gas.

00:47:48Yeah, good thing, too.

00:47:50More houses didn't have gas, there'd be less.

00:47:52Yeah?

00:47:53It'd be darned inconvenient if an electric light bulb burns out unexpectedly.

00:47:58Happened to a fellow in the next room the other night.

00:48:00Yeah?

00:48:00Yeah, I had to use a candle.

00:48:02Same night I had the dream.

00:48:03Use a candle?

00:48:05How did you know?

00:48:05Were you in there with him?

00:48:06Hmm?

00:48:07No, he rapped, stuck his head in the door.

00:48:11Wanted to know if my light had gone out, too.

00:48:14What'd you have to come in here for?

00:48:16Couldn't they have towed by the hall?

00:48:18I don't know.

00:48:18There's a little night light around the bin in the hall.

00:48:22Maybe that's on a different circuit.

00:48:24Still no reason for him to barge in on you.

00:48:32I'd like to hear the rest of this.

00:48:35There isn't any rest of it.

00:48:36I've told you all there is.

00:48:38Never mind.

00:48:40Now, who was he?

00:48:41Did you know him?

00:48:42Now, tell it to me step by step.

00:48:44Like to a six-year-old kid.

00:48:46Okay.

00:48:48Well, the guy's name was Berg.

00:48:51He'd been living in the room about, uh,

00:48:53oh, a week or ten days before that.

00:48:56Used to see him in the elevator.

00:48:58Chatted with him a couple of times in the lobby.

00:49:01All right.

00:49:02Now, tell me what happened the night his light went out.

00:49:04Well, I'd been in bed for some time.

00:49:08Reading the paper like I do every night.

00:49:16Just put the lamp out and

00:49:18gotten to sleep when I heard this knock on the door.

00:49:21Who is it?

00:49:26Harry Berg from next door.

00:49:37Pardon me.

00:49:38Did I wake you?

00:49:39No, I just turned out the light.

00:49:41Oh, you did?

00:49:43The light in my room just went out.

00:49:45That's why I wanted to see you.

00:49:47I thought maybe the circuit was off.

00:49:50Your light working?

00:49:52Try it.

00:50:01Yes.

00:50:02It must have been the globe that burned out.

00:50:05Sorry I troubled you.

00:50:06Not at all.

00:50:08You're tired, aren't you?

00:50:10I can see you're pretty tired.

00:50:13I'm sorry.

00:50:15Oh, really?

00:50:15It's all right.

00:50:17You're tired.

00:50:19And I woke you up.

00:50:21It's all right.

00:50:21I guess he kind of had a one-track mind.

00:50:31Used to mumbling to himself, maybe.

00:50:33Anyway, he finally closed the door and went away,

00:50:36and I dropped off to sleep.

00:50:38Now, wait a minute.

00:50:40Are you sure the door closed after him?

00:50:42Did you see it closed?

00:50:43Did you hear it closed?

00:50:48Did it go like this?

00:50:50Did it make a click?

00:50:52Or did it go like this?

00:50:55Without a click?

00:50:57I can see you're having trouble giving me a definite answer.

00:51:00You don't remember it either way.

00:51:02Oh, what difference does it make?

00:51:04Door must have closed.

00:51:05He went away, and I went to sleep.

00:51:07He was standing there with a candle in his hand,

00:51:11and he kept saying,

00:51:12You're tired.

00:51:13So what?

00:51:15Eyes fixed and glassy,

00:51:16as though he were mentally unbalanced.

00:51:20What?

00:51:22I was just remembering something in the deathbed statement

00:51:25Mrs. Belknap gave to Warner.

00:51:27You, uh,

00:51:28you say you've chatted with this fellow once in a while.

00:51:32What about?

00:51:33Oh, sports,

00:51:35politics.

00:51:35Going down the elevator one time,

00:51:39he had a box of methylated cough drops in his pocket.

00:51:42Go ahead, have one.

00:51:44No, thanks.

00:51:45I don't like them.

00:51:47Oh, go on.

00:51:48They're good for you.

00:51:49No, thanks, really.

00:51:50You should have one.

00:51:54Your voice sounds kind of hoarse.

00:52:01I took one because I kind of felt sorry for it.

00:52:05I really hate those cough drops.

00:52:08Testing willpower.

00:52:11You seem to make something out of this silly thing.

00:52:14What is it?

00:52:14I'm just guessing, that's all.

00:52:21You get some sleep, kid.

00:52:23Where are you going?

00:52:25Hey, I thought you were going to stay here tonight.

00:52:32You're going to have to take one of your hats.

00:52:35I'm going out to the Belknap home

00:52:37in the Warner's headquarters while I'm out there.

00:52:40Now?

00:52:40All the way out there, this hour of the morning?

00:52:44I don't know what I've got yet.

00:52:45If anything.

00:52:47And Vince,

00:52:49don't try any more shortcuts.

00:53:02That clock is always a little slow.

00:53:04It's like the horse I had yesterday.

00:53:10Hello, kid.

00:53:12Come on up to your room.

00:53:18A little cold a while ago.

00:53:19She's been worried.

00:53:20Married to a cop for 15 years and still worried.

00:53:23You didn't tell her anything?

00:53:24No.

00:53:25Good.

00:53:25Have you been up there all this time till now?

00:53:40I'll be back to town once in between

00:53:42and get something I needed.

00:53:43Get a leave of absence.

00:53:44What for?

00:53:46I'll tell you later.

00:53:46Okay.

00:53:47Okay.

00:53:55Open it.

00:54:07Well?

00:54:09Who is it?

00:54:10Spurred.

00:54:35The man had the room next door.

00:54:37Where'd you get this?

00:54:38I didn't have to ask you who it was.

00:54:41I already know it from the desk clerk.

00:54:43A couple of others I showed it to

00:54:44when I stopped back here early this morning.

00:54:48He's also

00:54:49Dorothy Belknap's husband,

00:54:52Louis Belknap.

00:54:54What about me?

00:54:54Does this mean...

00:54:56Was he the one who...

00:54:58There's no out in this for you, Vince.

00:55:00Not yet.

00:55:01I checked your fingerprints

00:55:02with the ones worn from the mirrored door.

00:55:04You found your way into Belknap's home.

00:55:07You punctured Bob Clune's heart with a bore

00:55:09and shoved his body into a closet.

00:55:12Mrs. Belknap?

00:55:13You didn't kill her.

00:55:15You can't drive.

00:55:16We think Belknap drove you up there.

00:55:18Was waiting for you outside.

00:55:20Mrs. Belknap ran out

00:55:21and her husband, using Clune's car,

00:55:23deliberately ran over her.

00:55:25Why didn't I know what I was doing?

00:55:28We think we know why, Vince.

00:55:29But there's only one way to prove it.

00:55:34Show that it could have happened in the first place

00:55:35by making it happen all over again.

00:55:38You mean go back and

00:55:39commit the crime over again?

00:55:41Not exactly.

00:55:42You've killed a man, Vince.

00:55:44Right now, you're guilty.

00:55:45We've got to prove you didn't know what you were doing

00:55:47and why you didn't know.

00:55:49What do you mean?

00:55:50We haven't got much time.

00:55:52They located Belknap yesterday.

00:55:53He's flying back from Mexico this afternoon.

00:55:55He wired Warner to have his wife

00:55:57reburied in the family plot today.

00:55:59He'll be back in time for the funeral.

00:56:00Get your coat on.

00:56:01Where are we going?

00:56:02To the place you'd rather not go

00:56:03than all other places right now.

00:56:07A buried room where I...

00:56:09I know, kid.

00:56:10It's not going to be easy.

00:56:12You've got to go back there

00:56:13and stay tonight

00:56:14and wait for Belknap.

00:56:15He may be a dangerous killer,

00:56:17but it's your one chance

00:56:18to save yourself

00:56:19from paying for a murder.

00:56:21Think he can make it?

00:56:25I was scared sick,

00:56:35but I got back into that house

00:56:36before Belknap returned from the funeral.

00:56:39A couple of friends drove back with him.

00:56:41I waited upstairs,

00:56:42looking down into the living room,

00:56:44as they said goodbye.

00:56:46Why don't you come

00:56:47and stay at our place tonight, Lewis?

00:56:49Yeah, we'd love to have you.

00:56:51Don't worry yourselves about me.

00:56:52Well, goodbye.

00:56:54Goodbye.

00:56:55Good night.

00:56:57He was coming out.

00:56:59My blood turned to water.

00:57:01I wanted to scream out,

00:57:02to run away from there.

00:57:04But I had to stay.

00:57:06It was my only chance

00:57:07to save myself.

00:57:25The night of the night.

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01:01:29You're too tired to hold it up.

01:01:32Just drop it.

01:01:34You'll feel so much better.

01:01:36Just let go of it.

01:01:38Better still.

01:01:40Give the gun to me, Grayson.

01:01:43You're tired.

01:01:46Tired.

01:01:52That horrible curtain closed over me again.

01:01:55I couldn't find it.

01:01:57I knew he was taking me somewhere.

01:02:01I didn't want to go.

01:02:03But my brain was handcuffed.

01:02:08And I was walking through another nightmare.

01:02:27Stay quiet.

01:02:39We'd better get up there quick.

01:02:49He's got him out in the car by the garage.

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01:05:41All right, get out.

01:06:11Take off your coat.

01:06:33This way you'll find peace.

01:06:35All right, get out.

01:07:05All right, get out.

01:07:35All right, get out.

01:08:05All right, get out.

01:08:35All right, get out.

01:09:05Are you all right now, kid?

01:09:25Yeah.

01:09:27Yeah.

01:09:29Yeah.

01:09:31All of a sudden, I'm all right.

01:09:34I'll see you inside.

01:09:46Too bad you have to go through the uranus, Grayson, but good luck.

01:09:54Thanks a lot for everything.

01:09:55Come on.

01:09:58Vince, it must have been.

01:09:59Vince, it must have been horrible.

01:10:00Vince, it must have been horrible.

01:10:01It was.

01:10:02If I didn't read the newspapers, I'd never know what my wonderful husband's doing.

01:10:06If you knew, you'd never have let me do it.

01:10:09Vince, we'd better go face the judge.

01:10:11Don't worry.

01:10:12Don't worry.

01:10:13Don't worry.

01:10:14Don't worry.

01:10:15You've got a perfect play of self-defense.

01:10:16Come on, mother.

01:10:20You scared, darling?

01:10:21I'll be glad when it's over.

01:10:23I'll be right there with you all the time.

01:10:25I'll be right there with you all the time.

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