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Night of Fear delivers a dark and intense atmosphere filled with tension and mystery. This piece is designed to create a chilling mood, perfect for late-night listening, immersive visuals, or cinematic ambience. Let the sound guide you through the shadows of the night where fear quietly unfolds.
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00:00:00The End
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00:01:30At first, all I could see was this face coming toward me.
00:01:43Then I saw the room.
00:01:46A queer, mirrored room.
00:01:48Then somehow, I was inside it.
00:02:03There was danger there.
00:02:05I knew that.
00:02:07I wanted to turn and run, but I couldn't.
00:02:10It seemed as if my brain was handcuffed.
00:02:12And I had to do what I'd come to do.
00:02:15There was danger there.
00:02:18And I called it.
00:02:18It's OK.
00:02:21The End
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00:04:24A dream
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00:05:03Those two thumb prints on my neck. They weren't there last night when I undressed. But it couldn't be. It was a nightmare. Talk about your realistic dreams. I couldn't have done it to myself. Joke myself without waking up.
00:05:25I must have scratched myself.
00:05:37I'm not going to have a dream.
00:05:45Oh, yeah, there he is.
00:06:09There they were, the bottom and that odd-shaped key.
00:06:13The thing's out of the dream.
00:06:15I'd never seen them before.
00:06:17I didn't have them when I undressed last night.
00:06:27That button wasn't mine.
00:06:29The key wasn't mine.
00:06:31But if they were there, it must have happened.
00:06:35The dream.
00:06:36The struggle, the murder.
00:06:38Everything.
00:06:39But how?
00:06:41Would something like that happen and I not know it?
00:06:43Was I going insane?
00:06:48A jackhammer started pounding inside my head.
00:06:51I had to see if the outside world was still there.
00:07:00The street below looked the same as it did last night.
00:07:04The same greasy spoon where I eat now and then.
00:07:07The same traffic noises.
00:07:10The same characters houding around.
00:07:13There was nothing the matter out there.
00:07:18It was in here with me.
00:07:21My stomach was riding a roller coaster.
00:07:23I was sick.
00:07:25I couldn't face going to work.
00:07:27I couldn't face going to work.
00:07:28Oh.
00:07:53Give me Fitzroy 5103.
00:07:55Fremont National Bank there, you speaking.
00:08:00Oh, yes, Grayson.
00:08:05Mm-hmm.
00:08:07What seems to be the trouble?
00:08:10Oh.
00:08:12It could be the flu.
00:08:14Mm-hmm.
00:08:16Yes.
00:08:17All right, all right.
00:08:19Goodbye.
00:08:21Good morning.
00:08:23Good morning, Jill.
00:08:26Good morning, Mr. Jackson.
00:08:28Oh, isn't that a lovely morning?
00:08:30Lots of things.
00:08:31I'd rather do than work today.
00:08:36Good morning, Mr. Vineyard.
00:08:37Morning, Betty.
00:08:38Vince Grayson just called.
00:08:39He's not feeling well.
00:08:40Will you take his window today?
00:08:42Oh, is Vince sick?
00:08:43What did he say it was?
00:08:44What did he say it was?
00:08:45Of course.
00:08:46The more I tried to figure it out, the thicker I got, suddenly the room started spinning.
00:09:03Forty.
00:09:20Fifty.
00:09:22Federal 710.
00:09:26Federal 7-6-4-8.
00:09:34Hotel Commodore, Vince Grayson's room, please.
00:09:56He doesn't answer?
00:10:04Funny he shouldn't be there, isn't it?
00:10:06If he was sick, you know what I mean?
00:10:08No, I don't.
00:10:10I'd better check his books.
00:10:12Just to make safe.
00:10:14Miss, would you like to take this money,
00:10:16or should I try another bank?
00:10:22I had to get out of my room.
00:10:24Out into the sunshine.
00:10:26I had to stay out of the shadows.
00:10:28I knew that tonight,
00:10:30I'd be afraid of the dark.
00:10:32I had to talk to somebody about this crazy thing.
00:10:36Betty?
00:10:38I'd get sympathy from Betty.
00:10:40What I needed was an explanation.
00:10:42Cliff,
00:10:44my brother-in-law,
00:10:46he ought to be able to figure out something.
00:10:48I got to Cliff's place just before dinner.
00:10:50My sister, Lil, told me he was out there,
00:10:52my sister, Lil, told me he was out in the garage.
00:10:58Hello, Cliff.
00:11:00Oh, hiya, Vince.
00:11:01How's the boy?
00:11:02Cliff, I... I want to talk to you.
00:11:04Be with you as soon as I finish sanding it.
00:11:07Exact reproduction of Martha Washington's bed.
00:11:10What's the matter, kid?
00:11:12Something on your mind?
00:11:13I need your help.
00:11:14You and Betty have a fight for something?
00:11:16Cliff, this is gonna sound screwy.
00:11:18Last night I dreamed I killed a man.
00:11:20I... I 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.
00:11:28When I'd kill him, I locked the body in a closet
00:11:30and took the key.
00:11:32And then when I woke up...
00:11:34Well, look.
00:11:36I'm sorry.
00:11:37I'm sorry.
00:11:38I need your help.
00:11:39You and Betty have a fight for something?
00:11:41Cliff, this is gonna sound screwy.
00:11:43And then when I woke up...
00:11:47Well, look.
00:11:51And this morning there was blood on my wrist.
00:11:53I figured maybe I'd scratch myself in my sleep.
00:11:56My ear or my nose or someplace.
00:11:58So I just washed it off.
00:12:00That was before I saw Betty.
00:12:04You're all in pieces, aren't you?
00:12:06Cliff, you gotta help me.
00:12:08You don't know what I've been going through all day.
00:12:10Where'd you get this?
00:12:12I mean, where'd you first get it before you dreamed about it?
00:12:14Don't you understand what I've been telling you?
00:12:16I didn't have it before I dreamed about it.
00:12:18I never saw it before then.
00:12:20Then when I wake up, it turns out real.
00:12:22Now, look, Vince.
00:12:23I've warned you before.
00:12:24You're working too hard.
00:12:25Don't you understand?
00:12:26There's a door somewhere this very minute this key belongs to.
00:12:28There's a man propped up behind a dead.
00:12:30And I don't know where, nor who.
00:12:32There's a door somewhere this very minute this key belongs to.
00:12:35There's a man propped up behind a dead.
00:12:37There's a man propped up behind a dead.
00:12:39And I don't know where, nor who he is, or how, or why it happened.
00:12:41Only that I must have been there.
00:12:43I must have done it.
00:12:44Or why would it come to me in my sleep like this?
00:12:46And these things.
00:12:47Now, look.
00:12:48You had those things before.
00:12:50You picked them up somewhere.
00:12:51And you misplaced them a long time ago.
00:12:53And last night, you had a Welsh rabbit or one drink too many.
00:12:56So you dreamed up a nightmare.
00:12:58And in it, you remembered these old things and wove them in it.
00:13:01No, no.
00:13:02Now, don't say no.
00:13:03Either you dream a thing or it really happened.
00:13:07Don't worry.
00:13:08If you dreamed that you had a fight with a guy and rammed something in him,
00:13:12you'd wake up.
00:13:13It happened, Cliff.
00:13:14I tell you it happened.
00:13:15You dreamed it.
00:13:16You had those things before.
00:13:19You've just been stretching your nerves thin, kid.
00:13:21Well, that's your answer.
00:13:22That's all you can tell me, huh?
00:13:23Cliff!
00:13:24Finn!
00:13:25Dinner's ready.
00:13:26If I tell you I didn't have these things before.
00:13:27Throw those things away.
00:13:28And look.
00:13:29Not a word of this to Lil.
00:13:30You understand?
00:13:31She's been worrying about you enough already.
00:13:34You haven't helped me a bit.
00:13:36You haven't helped me a bit.
00:13:39I'm sorry.
00:13:40I'm sorry.
00:13:41I'm sorry.
00:13:42I'm sorry.
00:13:43I'm sorry.
00:13:44I'm sorry.
00:13:45I'm sorry.
00:13:46I'm sorry.
00:13:47Not even a knuckle's worth.
00:13:50Come on.
00:13:51Naturally not.
00:13:52You'd expect me to arrest you for murdering a man in your dream.
00:13:55The rest will have to happen in the dream too.
00:13:58Because...
00:14:00I'm off duty when I'm dreaming.
00:14:03Come on, kid.
00:14:04Let's get some dinner.
00:14:06And smile for Lil, will ya?
00:14:14You men coming in or not?
00:14:16You want your soup to get cold?
00:14:20I keep cracking the polish off of that one male.
00:14:23Are you lucky?
00:14:24Lil's got a rib roast tonight.
00:14:25You know I'm getting jealous of that butcher.
00:14:27Vince, why didn't you tell me you've been working hard at the bank all day?
00:14:30Because I did.
00:14:33How are you feeling, Vince?
00:14:35I thought you were sick.
00:14:36I was.
00:14:37I just didn't feel well.
00:14:38I kept calling your room all day.
00:14:40No one was there.
00:14:41Mr. Billio got suspicious.
00:14:43Can a guy take a day off?
00:14:44I just didn't feel like going to work, and I wasn't sick enough to stay in my room.
00:14:47Now why does everybody have to make such a big thing of it?
00:14:51Vince.
00:14:55The blood.
00:14:56I washed it off.
00:15:14I don't know how long I was blacked out.
00:15:22I hazily remembered coming to for a moment and falling asleep again.
00:15:28It was sometime past midnight when something awakened me.
00:15:30What if I...
00:15:44Fight out?
00:15:47You certainly did.
00:15:49The truth?
00:15:50No.
00:15:51Not what you think.
00:15:52Not that dream business.
00:15:54The real truth.
00:15:55That you've been wearing yourself out.
00:15:57Why, you passed out like any neurotic.
00:16:00Take the key to button.
00:16:01You must have often had less than that to start out on.
00:16:04Find out where they came from.
00:16:07Find out what they were doing on me.
00:16:09Find out where that mirrored room is.
00:16:11Forget them once and for all.
00:16:12Forget them.
00:16:13I can't.
00:16:13They're my only clue to what happened.
00:16:15Nothing happened.
00:16:16Just selling yourself a phony bill of goods.
00:16:18Just as phony as that idea that the nail polish was blood.
00:16:22That's the kind of trick your mind's been playing on you.
00:16:24Oh, it can't be, Barry.
00:16:26And don't crack to Lill about this nonsense or I'll...
00:16:30Oh, just don't crack.
00:16:32She's fretted about you for years, ever since your mother died.
00:16:35And right now would be the worst time of all.
00:16:38Now?
00:16:39What do you mean?
00:16:42Well, I wasn't going to tell you until later.
00:16:46Bell's going to have a kid.
00:16:48Oh, that's fine.
00:16:50That's great, Cliff.
00:16:51Well, OK, so now you know, so forget it.
00:16:55And if you will hop on that spooky business that will help me, I'll drag you off to a doctor.
00:17:03Now, go on.
00:17:03Try and get some sleep.
00:17:16Sleep?
00:17:17I felt I'd never sleep again until I knew the answer.
00:17:21I had to find the house where the nightmare took place.
00:17:26I had to know.
00:17:27I have a lovely house with a mirror-lined powder room on the second floor.
00:17:51Autagonal?
00:17:53No, it's only four squares.
00:17:56However, Mr. Grayson, if you'll come and look at it, I'm certain...
00:17:59No, thanks.
00:18:00I'm sorry.
00:18:00This is not what I'm looking for.
00:18:04Six days went by without a lead.
00:18:07I scoured the papers.
00:18:09Not one line about the murder.
00:18:11And all week I've been avoiding Betty.
00:18:13I just couldn't face her with this thing gnawing in my brain.
00:18:24Who is it?
00:18:25Cliff.
00:18:29Hello, Cliff.
00:18:30Hiya, boy.
00:18:30We'll just see what I've got downstairs.
00:18:32Come on.
00:18:34Put it on.
00:18:35Let's go.
00:18:36I don't want to go anywhere.
00:18:37I want you to see my new second-hand car that I just got in exchange for my old second-hand car.
00:18:42Please, Cliff.
00:18:42I don't want to go anywhere.
00:18:44What are you trying to be, a groundhog?
00:18:45Lil and I are taking a ride in the country.
00:18:47Little picnic.
00:18:48Listen, I'm all right.
00:18:49I don't need any fresh air jaunts to shake the devils out of me, if that's what you're doing.
00:18:53Now, love, do you want Lil to worry any more than she is after what I told you about her?
00:18:59Come on.
00:19:07Now, look, Cliff, if you think this is going to do any good...
00:19:13Don't be a grip.
00:19:14Come on.
00:19:18Hello, Betty.
00:19:19Hello, Vince.
00:19:20Hiya, Lil.
00:19:20I'm fine.
00:19:21Vince, I want you to know this wasn't my idea.
00:19:24What do you mean?
00:19:24I'm glad you picked me up.
00:19:25Well, where should we go, kids?
00:19:27Well, anywhere.
00:19:28I don't care.
00:19:29How about to land the canyon?
00:19:30All right.
00:19:37It just popped into my head.
00:19:43Why?
00:19:44Betty and I always preferred the beach.
00:19:46But something made me say, Zalanda.
00:19:49Somehow, it seemed important.
00:19:51You know where you're going?
00:20:08Nope.
00:20:09But I got a hunch further down this road, we'll find just the right spot.
00:20:13You ever see anything so stubborn?
00:20:15I'm sure that the ants here are just as friendly as the ants farther down.
00:20:18Now, what's wrong with that place over there?
00:20:20Nothing but, uh...
00:20:21Well, stop, then.
00:20:22It's getting late, and besides, I'm hungry.
00:20:25Okay, okay, my love.
00:20:26That's just what I was going to do.
00:20:41Ah, this is the life.
00:20:43Toss me another one of those marshmallows, will you, beloved?
00:20:46At I wish, Martha.
00:20:49Plop!
00:20:49Mommy, you're wonderful.
00:20:54Uh-huh.
00:20:55Just as long as the marshmallows last.
00:21:04Vince, are you coming back to work tomorrow?
00:21:07I don't think so.
00:21:10Mr. Billio asked me to go out with him yesterday.
00:21:13Well, why didn't you go?
00:21:14Why tell me?
00:21:16Vince.
00:21:16What is it?
00:21:18What's the matter?
00:21:33Just forget about me, will you?
00:21:35What is it?
00:21:36Did I do something?
00:21:37No, it's not your fault.
00:21:39It's just that, look, we're through.
00:21:44There's nothing we can do about it.
00:21:46Don't call me up.
00:21:47Don't pay any attention to me.
00:21:49Get somebody else.
00:21:50Get anybody.
00:21:53It'll be better for you.
00:22:02Bill, Bill, you're a big girl now.
00:22:04Well, I can't help it.
00:22:06You know what lightning does to me.
00:22:08We better go.
00:22:09Hey, kids, it's going to rain.
00:22:13Oh!
00:22:14Holy smoke, you didn't have to take me seriously.
00:22:16Yes, Benny, come on, let's go!
00:22:19Don, the wipers won't work.
00:22:47You should have tried them before you bought it, dear.
00:22:50All right.
00:22:50All right.
00:23:10I can't stand it anymore.
00:23:12Stop at the first place you come to and let's get out of this.
00:23:15All right, baby.
00:23:16Now, calm down.
00:23:16There's no houses around here.
00:23:28That bridge.
00:23:30I've seen it before.
00:23:32But when?
00:23:35There's a cutoff a little ways ahead, just around the turn.
00:23:39There's a big house up there, I think.
00:23:41Do you know this section?
00:23:44You've been here before?
00:23:46There's a cutoff.
00:23:55Are you going to get us more lost than ever?
00:23:58No, keep going.
00:23:58You'll come to it.
00:23:59Two big posts and then turn the car between them.
00:24:01I didn't know it.
00:24:02I didn't know myself how I knew that.
00:24:05But the closer we came, the harder my heart pounded.
00:24:09And the more frightened I got.
00:24:10There they are.
00:24:11Turn flip between those posts like I told you.
00:24:14There they are.
00:24:15Turn flip between those posts like you told you.
00:24:16There they are, turns left between those posts like I told you.
00:24:46Let's make a dance for it.
00:25:16There doesn't seem to be anybody home.
00:25:19Well, I wish we could get in.
00:25:46I thought there would be a key some place.
00:26:12Vince, are you going to stay out there all day? Come on in.
00:26:15Attach some light.
00:26:20Not that one.
00:26:23What is this, a rib?
00:26:24How do you know so much about this place?
00:26:26It's a rib.
00:26:27Your brother Vince, the great joker.
00:26:38Hello, anybody home? Don't do that.
00:26:40He's cold, he's shaking.
00:26:42So are you.
00:26:44Let's find a place to dry out before you catch cold.
00:26:48It looks like they've been away a long time.
00:26:51I don't know.
00:26:52I don't know.
00:26:53I don't know.
00:26:54I don't know.
00:26:55I don't know.
00:26:56It's cold.
00:26:57It looks like they've been away a long time.
00:27:04Your being a detective comes in handy.
00:27:06In case anybody shows up, we won't get into trouble for crashing in like this.
00:27:09Yeah, yeah.
00:27:10Let's see what gives with the fireplace.
00:27:14That's a break.
00:27:15It's a gas log.
00:27:19Hunk yourself down.
00:27:20Dry out.
00:27:21Before you catch a chill.
00:27:22I don't know.
00:27:23I don't know.
00:27:24I don't know.
00:27:25I don't know.
00:27:26I don't know.
00:27:27You're being a detective comes in handy.
00:27:28In case anybody shows up, we won't get into trouble for crashing in like this.
00:27:30Yeah, yeah.
00:27:31Let's see what gives with the fireplace.
00:27:34It's a gas log.
00:27:45Hunk yourself down.
00:27:46Dry out.
00:27:47Before you catch a chill.
00:27:49Oh, I am tired.
00:27:52Come on, Betty.
00:27:53Share the warmth.
00:27:55I'll scout the kitchen.
00:27:57Some hot tea wouldn't hurt you a bit.
00:28:04I feel better already.
00:28:12Vince.
00:28:13Why don't you come over here by the fire?
00:28:34Put here.
00:28:35Keep going, Mr.
00:29:27This is the place.
00:29:50This is the place, all right.
00:29:53Yeah.
00:29:57Wipe your brow.
00:30:03Have you got it?
00:30:11What are you two doing up there?
00:30:13Keep her downstairs.
00:30:14Keep her downstairs.
00:30:16Down a minute, Lil.
00:30:17Watch the tea in the kitchen.
00:30:19I got some water boiling.
00:30:20All right, but I wish you'd stop poking around.
00:30:22Look.
00:30:41That's what he was crossed in front of that night.
00:30:44He must have been using a blowtorch.
00:30:48That's what made that bluish light.
00:30:51Made her face stand out in the reflections like a mask.
00:30:58That...
00:30:59That must be the one I propped him up in after I...
00:31:09No, don't.
00:31:10Yeah.
00:31:11Give me a chance.
00:31:12Cut it out.
00:31:12Died blood.
00:31:30Someone who was hurt was in here.
00:31:33Somebody who was dead.
00:31:34Ben, Claire, come on down and have some tea.
00:31:55Ben, Claire, come on down and have some tea.
00:31:57I'll take these things.
00:32:27I'll take it.
00:32:29The rain ought to let up soon.
00:32:31Meanwhile, catch yourselves a nap.
00:32:45Close it.
00:32:47I want them to hear this.
00:32:57Now let's hear about another dream.
00:33:01You think I lied, don't you?
00:33:03You knew how to get here from a dream, didn't you?
00:33:05You knew where the key was from a dream, didn't you?
00:33:07Oh, well, that fumbling around didn't fool me.
00:33:09You even knew where the light switch was from a dream.
00:33:11If you weren't Lil's brother, I'd push a lying face out to the back of your head.
00:33:13But I tell you, Cliff, I tried to hand him a for help.
00:33:15She didn't have guts enough to come clean.
00:33:17Say, Cliff, I went out to such and such a place in the canyon last night and killed a guy.
00:33:21Such and such a guy for such and such a reason.
00:33:23But I tell you...
00:33:24No, you had to cook up a dream.
00:33:25I can respect a guy no matter how rotten a crime he's committed, who'll own up to it?
00:33:27I can understand a guy who'll deny it flatly.
00:33:30But a guy that'll come to someone trading on the fact he's married to his sister abuses common sense
00:33:34and make a fool out of him like you did to me...
00:33:36But I didn't...
00:33:37I got no use for him.
00:33:38It was lower than the lowest rat we ever brought in for knifing somebody in an alley.
00:33:41Look, I found this key in my pocket when I woke up.
00:33:46I found this button playing on my sympathy.
00:33:48I saw this button playing on my sympathy.
00:33:51Oh, my God.
00:33:53Oh, my God.
00:33:54I found this button, playing on my sympathies,
00:33:57getting me to think in terms of doctors and medical observation.
00:34:00Was that it?
00:34:00Was it?
00:34:01No, I... Cliff, I swear to you, I...
00:34:03Some dream, that was.
00:34:04Well, that dream's over with.
00:34:06The baby's awake now.
00:34:07I'm going to get the packs out of you,
00:34:08and whether they go any further than me or not, that's my business.
00:34:11But at least I'm going to have them.
00:34:12How can I tell you what I don't know?
00:34:13What were you doing here that night?
00:34:15What brought you here?
00:34:15I was never here before.
00:34:16I never saw the place till today when I came here with you and Lil.
00:34:19Who was the guy you killed?
00:34:20What was his name?
00:34:21I mean, Agni already.
00:34:22Are you going to answer me?
00:34:23Are you?
00:34:24I can't.
00:34:24You're asking me things I can't answer.
00:34:26That's the almighty of whoever watches over us at night when we're unconscious.
00:34:30Who was the guy?
00:34:31Why did you kill him?
00:34:32Why?
00:34:33I've handled close-mouthed guys before.
00:34:35You're going to tell me or I'm going to have to kill you with my own hands.
00:34:42Get over there.
00:34:43What is this?
00:34:44I'll ask the questions.
00:34:46What are you two doing in here?
00:34:47You came in out of the rain.
00:34:48That suit you?
00:34:49Not yet.
00:34:51Identify yourselves and be quick about it.
00:34:53Help yourself.
00:35:05Thanks, Earl Heady.
00:35:07Headquarters Homicide Division, huh?
00:35:10How about doing a little identifying yourself?
00:35:11I'm a deputy attached to the county sheriff's office out this way.
00:35:15Torrance is the name.
00:35:16My brother-in-law, Vince Grayson.
00:35:17How do you deal?
00:35:18I'm detailed to keep an eye on this place.
00:35:20I was home having a little bite to eat, then I'm on my way back to the station.
00:35:23Say, how'd you get in here?
00:35:24I thought I had it locked up.
00:35:25The key was under a flower box on the porch.
00:35:27It was?
00:35:27Must have been a spare.
00:35:28I have the original.
00:35:29We didn't know there was a second one.
00:35:31What do you mean, you're detailed to keep an eye on this place?
00:35:33Didn't you know?
00:35:35There was a murder committed here last week.
00:35:36It was?
00:35:37I'd like to hear more about that.
00:35:41Sounds interesting.
00:35:44Oh?
00:35:44No, thanks.
00:35:46I cut him on about a month ago.
00:35:48Always carry a pack of these now.
00:35:51Nothing.
00:35:53This place belonged to a wealthy couple named Belknap.
00:35:56Husband frequently goes on long business trips.
00:35:59He was away when it happened.
00:36:00Mexico.
00:36:01In fact, we haven't been able to notify him yet.
00:36:05His wife was a pretty little thing.
00:36:07Was.
00:36:08Kind of flirty.
00:36:10There was a young duck she used to run around with.
00:36:11His name was Bob Cloone.
00:36:13Was.
00:36:15Milkman found Mrs. Belknap about daybreak Monday.
00:36:17Near a road that leads over here.
00:36:19Did?
00:36:20Dying.
00:36:20Unconscious.
00:36:21Both legs broken.
00:36:22Skull fractured.
00:36:22Insides all busted up.
00:36:27Kind of gets him, doesn't it?
00:36:29Things like this are new to him, I guess.
00:36:31What had happened?
00:36:32A car did it to her.
00:36:33He found the car.
00:36:35Blood and hair in the tires.
00:36:36Bob Cloone's car.
00:36:41Well, then Warner, that's my chief, he's come over here to have a look around.
00:36:44He finds a safe busted in the mirrored room upstairs.
00:36:48Take care for sure if you want.
00:36:49Mirrored room, huh?
00:36:51Well, that gave us a case.
00:36:54Cloone knew that Belknap had a lot of dough in the safe when he left for Mexico.
00:36:57He came here, started to heist it, and Mrs. Belknap caught him.
00:37:00She ran out afraid he'd kill her.
00:37:01He got his car, chased her down the road, and ran over her.
00:37:04Pretty brutal.
00:37:05All of a sudden, life was swell again.
00:37:07I don't know how to drive, I kept thinking.
00:37:10Cliff knew that, too.
00:37:13Not a smoke, kid.
00:37:15Anyway, that's a case we thought we had until Wednesday morning.
00:37:19Thought you had.
00:37:20We sent out an alarm for Cloone.
00:37:21Then Wednesday, Mrs. Belknap came, too.
00:37:23The first thing she asked was, is Bob all right?
00:37:25He didn't kill Bob Cloone, did he?
00:37:27He?
00:37:27Yeah.
00:37:28What she told us sent us hot-footing right back here.
00:37:31We find Cloone's body propped behind one of those mirrored doors upstairs.
00:37:34We've been stabbed with an awl.
00:37:35She died that night.
00:37:36Well, it went our case.
00:37:37Did you get anything on the real killer?
00:37:42Practically everything, except the guy himself.
00:37:45All I don't do at my chief's office.
00:37:47I was just on the way over there.
00:37:49Are you interested?
00:37:50It's right up my alley.
00:37:52Might be able to even help you find the killer.
00:37:54Glad to have you come along.
00:37:55I'll have to tell the girls.
00:37:56We'll be gone for a while.
00:38:03Shouldn't let it get you, kid.
00:38:04This is just routine with us.
00:38:05I know, it's just that I'm not used to this kind of discussion, I guess.
00:38:10Yeah, I can understand that.
00:38:12I was a little bit squeamish myself when I first started on the job.
00:38:17They're both asleep.
00:38:18I left a note.
00:38:19Come on, Vince.
00:38:24I'll stay here.
00:38:25Come on, Vince.
00:38:35Funny, I didn't see anything in the L.A. papers about it, Captain Warner.
00:38:42They've been playing ball with us.
00:38:44We had an idea if the killer didn't read about us finding the bodies, he might come back to take a look.
00:38:49Maybe to find out what happened to Mrs. Belknap.
00:38:52Here's a description she gave us before she died.
00:38:58The killer was about 24.
00:39:01Medium-dilled.
00:39:03Light brown, wavy hair.
00:39:05Worn rather long.
00:39:07His eyes were fixed and glassy as though he was mentally unbalanced.
00:39:12You got any pictures on them?
00:39:14Mrs. Belknap.
00:39:15Cloon, I mean.
00:39:16We had some photographs taken in the morgue.
00:39:18Let's have a look.
00:39:21Got any ideas?
00:39:22Nothing in particular.
00:39:24Just thought it might tie in with something in our office.
00:39:28Take a look, Vince.
00:39:30Oh, no.
00:39:31You might even know these people.
00:39:34It was them, all right.
00:39:36The faces and the dream.
00:39:38That woman and the man I killed.
00:39:39No, I knew there was no escape.
00:39:43I was a murderer.
00:39:45I...
00:39:45I...
00:39:46Out like a light.
00:40:04What do you suppose did it?
00:40:05Those death pictures?
00:40:06Things like this sure get him.
00:40:07I noticed that before.
00:40:08He's not well.
00:40:10He gets these dizzy spells now and then.
00:40:13It's only since I started.
00:40:14Shut up.
00:40:17Yeah, that's better.
00:40:19He'll be all right.
00:40:21As soon as I get him home.
00:40:25Thanks, Warner.
00:40:26I'll be seeing you.
00:40:27Okay.
00:40:27Okay.
00:40:28Okay.
00:40:38Thanks, Lil.
00:40:56Well, I'm sorry.
00:40:57The rain has spoiled it, didn't it?
00:40:58You take care of yourself.
00:41:00I'll call you.
00:41:02I'm going up with Vince for a while.
00:41:03I bet you happen to be in the loading zone.
00:41:06Well, Smiley's on this beat.
00:41:08If he says anything, just tell him whose car it is.
00:41:09I not sure Ram.
00:41:10He can shoot.
00:41:11I know I love you.
00:41:13Yep.
00:41:22I know I got time after I-
00:41:28This is coming up.
00:41:30I've had more than I've talked about.
00:41:31I love you.
00:41:32You're coming up.
00:41:33I'm going to go with me.
00:41:34Lil's waiting downstairs.
00:41:46I'm going to take her home first before I do anything.
00:41:50I love Lil.
00:41:52I think you love Betty, but that's your business.
00:41:55All I know is I love Lil.
00:42:00Bad enough what this is going to do to her when she finds out.
00:42:03I'm going to see that she gets at least one good night's sleep before she does.
00:42:10What am I going to do, Lil?
00:42:13I don't have to ask you if you killed them.
00:42:15You passed out cold when you saw that photograph of some death.
00:42:20In the morning, I'm going to take you down, turn in what I know at my own precinct house.
00:42:26And I can pass it on to Warner.
00:42:27And then I'm going to turn in my badge.
00:42:35I'm scared stiff.
00:42:38Killers always are.
00:42:40Afterwards.
00:42:42I'll be back in the morning.
00:42:43I'll be back in the morning.
00:42:44Excuse me.
00:44:14I beg your pardon.
00:44:19Look, he's trying to make up his mind.
00:44:28Can't you go any faster?
00:44:51Got it wide open?
00:45:00Nice.
00:45:01Let's go!
00:45:12Let's go!
00:45:16Let's go!
00:45:17Let's go!
00:45:18Let's go!
00:45:19Let's go!
00:45:20Let's go!
00:45:21Let's go!
00:45:22Let's go!
00:45:23Let's go!
00:45:24Let's go!
00:45:26Let's go!
00:45:34Let's go!
00:45:36I didn't think it that way out.
00:45:51Vince!
00:45:52Oh, Vince!
00:45:54I didn't want to drag you into this.
00:45:57What is it?
00:45:58If you were in trouble so horrible that you wanted to...
00:46:01Darling, don't.
00:46:02Vince, he won't try it again, Betty.
00:46:06Just keep that thought.
00:46:08But why, Cliff? Why?
00:46:10Never mind now.
00:46:11You go on down.
00:46:13Take Lil home.
00:46:15But don't tell her anything about that.
00:46:17Just say that I thought it was better if I stayed here with Vince tonight.
00:46:21He's not feeling well.
00:46:23Okay?
00:46:25Cliff, whatever it is that's come between us,
00:46:29promise me you'll help him.
00:46:30You go on now.
00:46:31Then take care of Liv.
00:47:01Clif?
00:47:17I wake yet?
00:47:18No, I can't sleep.
00:47:20Have a smoke.
00:47:21What about the arrest, Cliff?
00:47:33Cancel for now.
00:47:35The guy's willing to die like you were.
00:47:37There must be something to his story.
00:47:38I tried to tell you.
00:47:41I don't think you really knew what you were doing that night.
00:47:44I think you're telling the truth to the best of your ability.
00:47:46Oh, I'm licked.
00:47:49I'd rather not even talk about it.
00:47:52Might as well have let me jump.
00:47:54I'm dead inside already.
00:47:57Still, I can't figure why you picked that way.
00:48:00Most of them try the bridge or poison or even gas.
00:48:04Thought of that.
00:48:05This place hasn't any gas.
00:48:06Yeah, good thing, too.
00:48:08More houses didn't have gas, there'd be less.
00:48:10Yeah?
00:48:11It'd be darned inconvenient if an electric light bulb burns out unexpectedly.
00:48:16Happened to a fellow in the next room the other night.
00:48:18Yeah?
00:48:18Yeah, I had to use a candle.
00:48:20Same night I had the dream.
00:48:21Use a candle?
00:48:22How did you know?
00:48:23Were you in there with him?
00:48:24Hmm?
00:48:26No, he rapped.
00:48:27Stuck his head in the door.
00:48:29Wanted to know if my light had gone out, too.
00:48:32What'd you have to come in here for?
00:48:34Couldn't have told by the hall?
00:48:36I don't know.
00:48:36There's a little night light around the bend in the hall.
00:48:39Maybe that's on a different circuit.
00:48:41Still no reason for him to barge in on you.
00:48:43Come on.
00:48:48I'd like to hear the rest of this.
00:48:53There isn't any rest of it.
00:48:54I've told you all there is.
00:48:56Never mind.
00:48:58Now, who was he?
00:48:59Did you know him?
00:49:00Now, tell it to me step by step.
00:49:02Like, to a six-year-old kid.
00:49:04Okay.
00:49:06Well, the guy's name was Berg.
00:49:09He'd been living in the room about, uh,
00:49:11oh, a week or ten days before that.
00:49:14Used to see him in the elevator.
00:49:16Chatted with him a couple of times
00:49:18in the lobby.
00:49:18All right.
00:49:20Now, tell me what happened the night his light went out.
00:49:23Well, I'd been in bed for some time.
00:49:26Reading the paper like I do every night.
00:49:34Just put the lamp out and got in sleep
00:49:37when I heard this knock on the door.
00:49:42Who is it?
00:49:44Harry Berg from next door.
00:49:45I'm going to go.
00:49:55Pardon me.
00:49:56Did I wake you?
00:49:57No, I just turned out the light.
00:49:59Oh, you did?
00:50:01The light in my room just went out.
00:50:03That's why I wanted to see you.
00:50:06I thought maybe the circuit was on.
00:50:08Your light working?
00:50:10I'm trying.
00:50:10Yes.
00:50:11It must have been the globe that burned out.
00:50:22Sorry I troubled you.
00:50:24Not at all.
00:50:26You're tired, aren't you?
00:50:29I can see you're pretty tired.
00:50:31I'm sorry.
00:50:33Oh, really?
00:50:33It's all right.
00:50:35You're tired.
00:50:37And I woke you up.
00:50:39It's all right.
00:50:46I guess he kind of had a one-track mind.
00:50:49Used to mumbling to himself, maybe.
00:50:51Anyway, he finally closed the door and went away,
00:50:53and I dropped off to sleep.
00:50:56Now, wait a minute.
00:50:58Are you sure the door closed after him?
00:51:00Did you see it closed?
00:51:01Did you hear it closed?
00:51:06Did it go like this?
00:51:08Did it make a click?
00:51:10Or did it go like this?
00:51:13Without a click?
00:51:15I can see you're having trouble giving me a definite answer.
00:51:18You don't remember it either way.
00:51:20Oh, what difference does it make?
00:51:22Door must have closed.
00:51:23He went away, and I went to sleep.
00:51:25He was standing there with a candle in his hand,
00:51:28and he kept saying, you're tired.
00:51:31So what?
00:51:33Eyes fixed and glassy,
00:51:34as though he were mentally unbalanced.
00:51:38What?
00:51:40I was just remembering something in the deathbed statement
00:51:43Mrs. Belknap gave to Warner.
00:51:45You, uh,
00:51:47you say you chatted with this fellow once in a while.
00:51:50What about?
00:51:51Oh, sports, politics.
00:51:53Going down the elevator one time,
00:51:57he had a box of methylated cough drops in his pocket.
00:52:00Go ahead, have one.
00:52:02No thanks, I don't like them.
00:52:05Oh, go on.
00:52:06They're good for you.
00:52:07No thanks, really.
00:52:10You should have one.
00:52:12Your voice sounds kind of hoarse.
00:52:19I took one because I kind of felt sorry for him.
00:52:22I really hate those cough drops.
00:52:26Testing willpower.
00:52:29You seem to make something out of this silly thing.
00:52:32What is it?
00:52:34Just guessing.
00:52:35That's all.
00:52:39You get some sleep, kid.
00:52:41Where are you going?
00:52:44Hey, I thought you were going to stay here tonight.
00:52:46You're going to have to take one of your hats.
00:52:53I'm going out to the Belknap home
00:52:55from the Warner's headquarters while I'm out there.
00:52:58Now?
00:52:59All the way out there?
00:53:00This hour of the morning?
00:53:02I don't know what I've got yet.
00:53:04If anything.
00:53:05And, Vince,
00:53:07don't try any more shortcuts.
00:53:08That clock is always a little slow.
00:53:22It's like the horse I had yesterday.
00:53:30Hello, kid.
00:53:31Come on up to your room.
00:53:31A little cold a while ago.
00:53:37She's been worried.
00:53:38Married to a cop for 15 years and so worried.
00:53:41You didn't tell her anything?
00:53:43No.
00:53:43Good.
00:53:56Have you been up there all this time till now?
00:53:58I'll run back to the town once in between
00:54:00and get something I needed
00:54:01and get a leave of absence.
00:54:02What for?
00:54:04I'll tell you later.
00:54:18Open it.
00:54:25Well?
00:54:25Who is it?
00:54:52It's a bird.
00:54:53The man I had the room next door.
00:54:55Where'd you get this?
00:54:56I didn't have to ask you who it was.
00:54:59I already know it from the desk clerk.
00:55:01A couple of others I showed it to.
00:55:03I may stop back here early this morning.
00:55:06He's also...
00:55:08Dorothy Belknap's husband,
00:55:10Louis Belknap.
00:55:12What about me?
00:55:13Does this mean...
00:55:14Was he the one who...
00:55:16There's no out in this for you, Vince.
00:55:18Not yet.
00:55:19I checked your fingerprints
00:55:20with the ones worn I got
00:55:21from the mirrored door.
00:55:23You found your way
00:55:23into Belknap's home.
00:55:25You punctured Bob Clune's heart
00:55:27with a bore
00:55:27and shoved his body
00:55:28into a closet.
00:55:30Mrs. Belknap?
00:55:32You didn't kill her.
00:55:33You can't drive.
00:55:35We think Belknap drove you up there.
00:55:37Was waiting for you outside.
00:55:38Mrs. Belknap ran out
00:55:40and her husband,
00:55:40using Clune's car,
00:55:41deliberately ran over her.
00:55:43Why didn't I know what I was doing?
00:55:47We think we know why, Vince.
00:55:50There's only one way to prove it.
00:55:52Show that it could have happened
00:55:53in the first place
00:55:54by making it happen all over again.
00:55:56You mean go back
00:55:58and commit the crime over again?
00:56:00Not exactly.
00:56:01You've killed a man, Vince.
00:56:02Right now, you're guilty.
00:56:04We've got to prove
00:56:05you didn't know what you were doing
00:56:06and why you didn't know.
00:56:07What do you mean?
00:56:09We haven't got much time.
00:56:10They located Belknap yesterday.
00:56:12He's flying back
00:56:12from Mexico this afternoon.
00:56:14He wired Warner
00:56:15to have his wife reburied
00:56:16in the family plot today.
00:56:17He'll be back in time
00:56:18for the funeral.
00:56:19Get your coat on.
00:56:19Where we're going?
00:56:20Where's the place
00:56:21you'd rather not go
00:56:22than all other places right now?
00:56:26There was room where I...
00:56:28I know, kid.
00:56:29It's not going to be easy.
00:56:30You've got to go back there
00:56:32and stay tonight
00:56:32and wait for Belknap.
00:56:34He may be a dangerous killer,
00:56:36but it's your one chance
00:56:37to save yourself
00:56:37from paying for a murder.
00:56:39Think he can make it?
00:56:40I was scared sick,
00:56:55but I got back into that house
00:56:56before Belknap returned
00:56:57from the funeral.
00:56:59A couple of friends
00:57:00drove back with him.
00:57:01I waited upstairs,
00:57:02looking down into the living room
00:57:04as they said goodbye.
00:57:06Why don't you come
00:57:07to the band art place
00:57:08tonight?
00:57:09Yeah, we'd love to have you.
00:57:10Don't worry yourselves
00:57:12about me.
00:57:14Good night.
00:57:17He was coming up.
00:57:19My blood turned to water.
00:57:21I wanted to scream out
00:57:22to run away from there,
00:57:24but I had to stay.
00:57:26It was my only chance
00:57:27to save myself.
00:57:40I was going to put you in a lake.
00:57:42I couldn't do it.
00:57:43I said, I don't need to do it.
00:57:45I don't know.
00:57:46I wanted to do it.
00:57:46I kind of leave you in a place
00:57:47to pray with me.
00:57:47I stayed in a place.
00:57:48I said, I should go ahead
00:57:49and find myself.
00:57:50I don't know why you're not going to be
00:57:50in a place.
00:57:51I'll come in next.
00:57:52I'll go home.
00:57:53I can't do it.
00:57:54I'll stop you.
00:57:54I've got that seat.
00:57:55I'm going to pull you in a place.
00:57:55Oh, my God.
00:58:25How'd you get here?
00:58:32You showed me the way, didn't you?
00:58:34You remembered coming here?
00:58:37You didn't think I would, did you?
00:58:39You couldn't have.
00:58:41Then how'd I get here? You explain it.
00:58:44How long have you been in here, like this?
00:58:46Since shortly before dark.
00:58:49I got in while you were at the funeral.
00:58:51Who'd you bring with you?
00:58:53Just this.
00:58:56You remembered the drive-up?
00:58:58You couldn't have.
00:59:00You had the look.
00:59:02The typical look of the hypnotized subject.
00:59:05I faked it.
00:59:06I was holding a thumbtack pressed into each palm the whole way,
00:59:09so I wouldn't go under, no matter how good you were at it.
00:59:11Then why did you do everything I directed?
00:59:13When I put the knife in your hand and told you what to do, you took it.
00:59:16I thought maybe you'd pay off to keep me quiet.
00:59:18And then if I balked, I figured I'd get a knife in my back.
00:59:21But what happened?
00:59:23What went wrong inside?
00:59:25I let you out of the car, told you what to do?
00:59:27I dropped a knife somewhere in the dark.
00:59:30But I came up anyway.
00:59:32Clune was stealing your dough and about to run out with your wife.
00:59:34Wasn't that it?
00:59:35Yes.
00:59:37Yes.
00:59:39But how?
00:59:40I would have been killed by Clune, only your wife handed me a boar by the stake.
00:59:43And I had to use it to save myself.
00:59:45Oh, that explains how she got out of the house.
00:59:48I had to finish her with his car.
00:59:51I might have known you were under imperfect control.
00:59:55Oh, your control is perfect enough, Belknap.
00:59:57Don't let that worry you.
00:59:59You still have the knack.
01:00:00But you just said...
01:00:01Yeah, and you fell for it.
01:00:03I didn't know what I was doing when I came up here to do your dirty job.
01:00:06I'd have never found you, but I saw your picture in the paper as a husband of the murdered woman and recognized you as bird.
01:00:11I didn't come here to be paid off for what I did.
01:00:14Even though your will is stronger than mine, you'd know you couldn't make me commit murder.
01:00:18I killed that man in self-defense.
01:00:22But I'll never be able to clear myself in the eyes of the law.
01:00:25Ever.
01:00:26I'm going to make you pay for doing that to me.
01:00:29Now.
01:00:31This way.
01:00:32Wait.
01:00:33Don't do that.
01:00:35Alive, maybe I can do something for you.
01:00:37I'll give you money.
01:00:37I'll get you out of the country.
01:00:39No one will know.
01:00:40My conscience will know.
01:00:41I've got an honest man's conscience in the murderer's body.
01:00:45You should have let me alone, Belknap.
01:00:47That was your mistake.
01:00:48Wait.
01:00:49One minute.
01:00:50Give me one minute to make you see.
01:00:52Just 60 seconds.
01:00:54You don't want to kill me.
01:00:56Those two were plotting against me for months.
01:00:58I knew it.
01:00:59That's why I planned the whole thing.
01:01:00I had to do it.
01:01:01Don't you understand?
01:01:02You can understand that.
01:01:04Stop it, Belknap.
01:01:05Just a few seconds, please.
01:01:07You don't want to kill me.
01:01:10Look up.
01:01:11Look up.
01:01:11Please.
01:01:12See?
01:01:14Just 30 seconds.
01:01:16And I'm sure I can make you understand.
01:01:19Just a few seconds.
01:01:21Shall we take him now?
01:01:23We've got to let him finish.
01:01:25We've got to have proof for a jury that he can actually put him under.
01:01:27Just 15 seconds.
01:01:30That's all.
01:01:31That isn't much, is it?
01:01:3315 seconds.
01:01:34Killing me won't calm your conscience.
01:01:36You don't really want to kill me, Grayson.
01:01:41Drop your gun.
01:01:43It's too heavy.
01:01:45Drop the gun, Grayson.
01:01:48Drop it.
01:01:50You're too tired to hold it up.
01:01:52Just drop it.
01:01:54You'll feel so much better.
01:01:56Just let go.
01:01:58Better still.
01:02:00Give the gun to me, Grayson.
01:02:02You're tired.
01:02:06Tired.
01:02:12That horrible curtain closed over me again.
01:02:16I couldn't find it.
01:02:18I knew he was taking me somewhere.
01:02:21I didn't want to go.
01:02:23But my brain was handcuffed.
01:02:28And I was walking through another nightmare.
01:02:30I didn't want to go.
01:02:58Stay quiet.
01:02:58We'd better get up there quick.
01:03:08He's got him on the car by the garage.
01:03:28He's got him on the car by the garage.
01:03:58Hello!
01:04:06Hey.
01:04:09Right what I say...
01:04:12I am wanted for the dead...
01:04:16Hello?
01:04:20Hi.
01:04:22Hi.
01:04:23I am wanted for the murder of those two people at the Belknap House.
01:04:30I have no chance.
01:04:36I see no other way out.
01:04:43Sign it.
01:04:47No other way out.
01:04:52Sign it.
01:04:54Vincent Grayson.
01:05:17Look down there.
01:05:46All right, get out.
01:06:15Take off your coat.
01:06:22Take off your coat.
01:06:29Take off your coat.
01:06:36This way you'll find peace.
01:06:43This way you'll find peace.
01:06:50This way you'll find peace.
01:06:57Come on.
01:07:04Come on.
01:07:07Come on.
01:07:08Come on.
01:07:11The End
01:07:41The End
01:08:11The End
01:08:41The End
01:09:11The End
01:09:41The End
01:09:43Are you all right now, kid?
01:09:47Yeah.
01:09:50Yeah.
01:09:52All of a sudden, I'm all right.
01:09:54I'll see you inside.
01:10:12Too bad you have to go through the uranus, Grayson, but good luck.
01:10:14Thanks a lot for everything.
01:10:16Thanks a lot for everything.
01:10:17What?
01:10:20Vince, it must have been horrible.
01:10:21It was.
01:10:22If I didn't read the newspapers, I'd never know what my wonderful husband's doing.
01:10:26If you knew, you'd never have let me do it.
01:10:29Vince, we'd better go face the judge.
01:10:32Don't worry.
01:10:32You've got a perfect plea of self-defense.
01:10:35Come on, mother.
01:10:36I'll be right there with you all the time.
01:10:46I'll be right there with you all the time.
01:10:46I'll be right there with you all the time.
01:10:58I'll be right there with you.
01:10:59I'll be right there with you all the time.
01:11:04Oh, my God.
01:11:05I'll be right there with you.
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