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"The Meek Die Slowly". A ghastly story that starts with "Mr. Narco" stabbing Jane Carter to death with a pair of garden shears. Arnold Moss sports a delightful German-Transylvanian accent. The music fill after the system cue has been deleted. The script was previously used on "Inner Sanctum" on April 3, 1945.
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00:11Inner Sanctum Mysteries
00:27Good evening, friends of the Creeping Door
00:30This is your host to welcome you back into the Inner Sanctum
00:34For another half hour out of this world
00:40Say hello to one of our hapless heroines
00:42Her spouse said he was going to the club one evening
00:45But he brought it back and clouded her with it
00:50The poor girl was almost decapitated
00:53Which shows what can happen when you lose your hair
00:57Anyway, the whole affair was responsible for the song's success
01:01You hit the spa
01:12All right, friends
01:14Turn out the light
01:16Blaster your hair down
01:17Curdle close to the fire
01:20And listen to Arnold Moss tell us his weird and chivalry story
01:27It was after sundown
01:29And I was working in my garden fixing the roses when I first saw Jane Carter
01:36The soft spring air was full of the smell of flowers
01:40And in the cemetery next to my house
01:43Long shadows were covering the graves with darkness
01:48Jane Carter was standing under the dogwood tree
01:51The tree I never touched
01:52I picked up the garden she is
01:56And I came over to her
01:58Oh, I didn't notice you in the shadow
02:01Good evening
02:02I hope you don't mind
02:04I was just admiring your lovely garden
02:06Oh, do you love flowers too?
02:08I adore them
02:09Then I will give you some of the roses
02:13My roses won the county prize last year
02:17Oh, I am Franz Narco, the caretaker of the cemetery
02:21You live here alone?
02:23All alone, with my flowers
02:26Here, hold out your arms
02:29Here are some roses
02:31Thank you
02:32I imagine it must be lonely here
02:35There isn't a house for my horses
02:38Not too lonely
02:40The dead are always near
02:43Hold the flowers close to your face
02:47All right, but why?
02:50They make you look even lovelier than you are
02:53So young and charming
02:56The roses next to your neck
02:59They look like blood
03:03Really, Mr. Narco, I must...
03:05Don't move
03:05But, Mr. Narco...
03:06Quiet!
03:08Those garden shears
03:09What are you going to do?
03:11Don't be frightened
03:11There's nothing to be afraid of
03:14I'm just going to do...
03:16Please...
03:17My dear
03:18Help!
03:21Help!
03:23Help!
03:25The little birds were frightened
03:27But when she was dead
03:30They began to sing again
03:34That night
03:35There was a full moon
03:37And I buried Jane Carter
03:39Under the diary bed
03:51Police headquarters
03:52Chief Dane speaking
03:54No, Jane Carter's still missing
03:56She was last seen yesterday afternoon
03:59If we don't hear by tonight
04:01We're going to send out
04:01Nate's state alarm
04:03Yes, goodbye
04:05Good morning, Ethan
04:07Franz!
04:09How are you?
04:10Fine, fine
04:11Thank you, Ethan
04:12I brought you some flowers
04:14They're blooming early this year
04:16Today is the 27th, you know
04:18April 27th
04:20Yes, Franz
04:22I expected you
04:23You haven't missed a visit
04:24On the 27th in 20 years
04:26It seems incredible
04:27On April 27th
04:2920 years ago
04:30My wife, Martha
04:32Disappeared
04:33And at all this time
04:35You haven't found any trace of her
04:38Maybe we do know
04:40The man responsible
04:41For her disappearance
04:42You don't mean you found her
04:44Did you see the courier this morning?
04:46Yes
04:46Did you see a small item
04:48About a pretty young girl
04:49Named Jane Carter
04:50Who was reported missing?
04:52Well, yes
04:52Yes, I did notice
04:54A little story
04:55But, uh, what has that got to do
04:57With my wife?
04:58I'll tell you, Franz
04:59But this must be kept
05:01In strict confidence
05:03Every year since your wife
05:04Disappeared
05:05We've had reports of
05:06Two, sometimes three
05:08Young women
05:09Who disappeared
05:10And were never heard of again
05:11Just what are you
05:12Trying to tell me?
05:14That somewhere in this country
05:16There's a homicidal maniac
05:18A person who for some reason
05:19Or other hates
05:20Pretty young women
05:21Huh?
05:22Hates them enough
05:23To murder them
05:24And dispose of their bodies
05:26Oh, that's shocking
05:28You think Martha fell into the hands
05:30Of this maniac?
05:32Yes
05:32Well, why didn't you tell me this before?
05:35I
05:36I didn't want you to lose hope
05:39I know how you felt about Martha
05:41Oh, she was so lovely
05:42And only 19 when
05:45You've got to find this person, Ethan
05:48Franz, it's bigger than I can handle
05:51Now, look
05:52You've had more schooling than I
05:54I know you read a lot
05:55In that little cottage of yours
05:57Next to the cemetery
05:59Maybe you know more about
06:01Why a human being
06:03Would do a thing like this
06:04Oh, yes, yes, Ethan
06:05I do know
06:07It's because sometimes
06:08The, the, the murderer
06:10Has been hurt deeply
06:12Maybe by a woman he loved
06:14Who has been unfaithful
06:15And when he sees other women
06:17Pretty attractive young women
06:18They, they remind him of her
06:20And then he's suddenly overcome
06:22By a strange emotion
06:24To seize them
06:26To overpower them
06:28To make them suffer
06:29For what they did to him
06:30To destroy them
06:31To murder them
06:32To
06:34Go on, Franz
06:37But that's, that's what it says
06:38In the books I've read, Ethan
06:41I've got to go now
06:43Be, be sure to put those roses
06:45In water right away
06:46Or
06:47They'll die
06:49I won't let them die, Franz
06:51Goodbye
06:53Goodbye
07:01Goodbye
07:02I could have told him more
07:05Much more
07:06How it felt to live in a nightmare of fear
07:10How I tried to fight the wild surging of my blood
07:15That mad, insane pounding
07:17That made me kill
07:21Later that night
07:22When the dogwood scent came into my room
07:27I cried
07:29I cried like a child
07:32I, I was thinking of Martha
07:35My beautiful Martha
07:44Two days later
07:46I saw Ethan again
07:48He surprised me by
07:50Knocking at my door
07:51Late in the afternoon
07:54Franz
07:55I drove up here
07:57To ask a favor of you
07:58Of course, Ethan
07:59Anything you want
08:00I believe there's a tomb
08:02In the cemetery
08:03That's never been used
08:04You mean the
08:05One old Mrs. Smith built?
08:07Yes, that's the one
08:08Why, I, I always have to laugh
08:10When I think of it
08:11Old Mrs. Smith
08:12Was so fussy
08:13About that tomb
08:14But
08:14She died at sea
08:16And she was never buried in it
08:18Well
08:19There's someone
08:20I'd like to have buried in it
08:22There is?
08:23Yes
08:23A young girl
08:25Died of a heart attack
08:26Helen Winters is her name
08:29Judging from her clothes
08:31And those who knew her
08:32She apparently
08:32Comes from a good family
08:33But we can't seem to locate them
08:35Well, why don't you bury her
08:37In Potter's field
08:39Like the others
08:40Because I think
08:41Her family will eventually
08:42Want the body
08:44Couldn't you put her
08:45In the
08:46Smith's tomb
08:47I, I, I guess so
08:49I, I don't think
08:50Mrs. Smith would mind
08:51Good
08:52I'll have the body
08:53Brought up in an hour
09:00The body was brought
09:02In a coffin
09:03By Ethan
09:03And one of his men
09:05I opened the tomb
09:07There were no mourners
09:09No one to say
09:10A few words
09:11I cut some of my flowers
09:13And brought them
09:14To her tomb
09:15Would you like to see her
09:17Before you
09:18Mark the tomb again, Franz?
09:20Why, yes
09:25There
09:26Oh
09:28What a pity
09:29She's so young
09:31And so
09:32Strangely beautiful
09:34She looks as though
09:35She would get up
09:36Out of the coffin
09:37At any moment
09:41I, uh
09:42Brought some flowers
09:43Lilies
09:44From my greenhouse
09:45That's very thoughtful
09:47Of you, Franz
09:49You love these flowers
09:50Don't you?
09:51Well, they're all I have
09:52Since Martha
09:54Vanished
09:56What are you doing there?
09:58Just looking at the petal
09:59They're soft
10:01To the touch
10:02Like a woman's skin
10:06Yes
10:06Ethan
10:07What's the matter?
10:09You tore that petal
10:10You ripped it
10:11It's just a flower
10:12Stop it, stop it
10:13Franz
10:14Stop hurting the flowers
10:15Stop it, you fools
10:16Stop it
10:19Oh, I
10:21I'm sorry, Ethan
10:22I didn't mean to hit you
10:24I lost my head
10:25I, I
10:26I can't see any one harm
10:29Of flower
10:30Like that
10:35I couldn't sleep
10:37That night
10:37Somewhere far
10:39In the countryside
10:40A dog was
10:41Baying at the moon
10:42I went to my window
10:44My garden was all
10:45Silver in the moonlight
10:46And then
10:47I noticed it
10:49The dogwood tree
10:51A strange glow
10:53Like a fine blue fire
10:55Hung over the branch
10:57Near the patch of iris
10:58It was shining
11:00With a light
11:00That was not
11:01Of this world
11:04And then
11:05I saw the face
11:06Of Helen Winters
11:07She was staring
11:09At the glowing branch
11:10It was the dead girl
11:13Wearing the shroud
11:14She wore
11:15In the coffin
11:18I quietly
11:20Slipped
11:20Downstairs
11:22On the way
11:23Into the garden
11:24I picked up
11:24The shears
11:31Are you looking
11:32For me
11:33Mr. Narco
11:34You
11:35You're
11:36You're Helen Winters
11:37Yes
11:38That is one of my names
11:40But you can't be here
11:40You're dead
11:41Yes
11:41I am dead
11:43But this is a trick
11:44Who are you
11:45Look
11:45I have something
11:47To show you
11:47The branch
11:49Of the dogwood tree
11:51Yes
11:51You see how it shines
11:53In the moonlight
11:54Yes
11:55Look at it
11:56Closely
11:57But why
11:58What are you
11:59Oh
12:00You see it
12:01There
12:01There's a ring
12:03The branch
12:05Grew right through it
12:07Martha
12:08It's Martha's ring
12:10Is it
12:10Well how did you
12:13Give that to me
12:14No
12:14But that belonged
12:15To my wife
12:16I must have it
12:17No
12:18I looked at her
12:20Standing there
12:21Among the flowers
12:22Oh she was beautiful
12:24And the moonlight
12:25Made her look like
12:26A woman in a dream
12:28And suddenly
12:29I felt
12:30The strange power
12:32Rising in my blood
12:34I longed to touch her
12:38To seize her
12:41I tightened a grip
12:43On my shears
12:44And came
12:47Closer to her
12:54Do you still like flowers?
12:58If you do
12:58I know a way for you
12:59To get lots of them
13:00Free of charge
13:06Where were we?
13:07Oh yes
13:09The flowers were blooming
13:10Over all the bodies
13:12Of the people
13:12Franz had murdered
13:14And he was talking
13:15To a corpse
13:16Who was picking
13:16Dogwood blossoms
13:18By the light
13:19Of the moon
13:21The blossoms
13:23Have a lovely scent
13:24Have they?
13:25Those shears
13:26Yes
13:27I know why
13:29The ring was on
13:30Miss Branch
13:31Do you?
13:32And I know
13:32What you intend
13:34To do
13:35Did you kill her
13:37With the shears
13:37Too?
13:39Come here
13:40All right
13:41I have your hand
13:43And it's fresh
13:45You can't get away now
13:47I don't want to get away
13:50You're not afraid?
13:52No
13:54I'll show you
13:55How afraid I am
13:56What are you going to do?
13:58You will see
14:00Her face
14:02Came closer
14:06I felt her lips on mine
14:09It was the first time
14:11I kissed a woman
14:13In twenty years
14:14What was she a woman?
14:17It was warm flesh
14:19I kissed
14:20And I knew it
14:21I broke away from her
14:24I swung wildly
14:26With my shears
14:27And suddenly
14:28I felt her hand
14:28On my face
14:29I
14:30I smelled the scent
14:32Of a thousand flowers
14:33Overpowering me
14:34Making me
14:36Giddy
14:37She
14:38She swayed
14:39In front of me
14:40As I
14:40Plunged the shears
14:42Into her body
14:43And then
14:44Suddenly
14:45I
14:45Felt myself
14:46Sink into
14:47A sea
14:48Of flowers
14:55I
14:56I opened my eyes
14:58I was lying
15:00In a patch of iris
15:01I saw the moon
15:02Glowing
15:03Blood red
15:03Shining through
15:04The dogwood tree
15:05I got up
15:08What had happened
15:09I must have been
15:10Unconscious
15:11My shears were lying
15:13On the ground
15:13Where I had fallen
15:14Helen Mintus
15:15Had disappeared
15:16I picked up the shears
15:18Got my keys
15:19Went
15:21To the tomb
15:25I opened the door
15:27And then I opened
15:29The coffin
15:33She was lying
15:35There
15:36Not a wound
15:38On her
15:38I couldn't
15:40Believe it
15:40I raised the shears
15:42I would find
15:44Out
15:46You'd better get away
15:47From that coffin
15:48What
15:49What made you
15:50Come here
15:50Ethan
15:51Never mind
15:53What's this
15:54A sprig of
15:55Dawnwood
15:56And
15:58That ring
15:59You recognize it
16:01Yes
16:03Belonged to
16:04Martha
16:05I gave it to her
16:06Before she married you
16:10You murdered her
16:11Didn't you
16:11Is it necessary
16:13To take out
16:14Your gun
16:15Ethan
16:16I'm afraid so
16:17You really believe
16:18I killed Martha
16:19I believe you
16:20Buried her under
16:21The dogwood tree
16:22In your garden
16:22That's ridiculous
16:24Franz I want
16:25The truth
16:26I want a full
16:26Confession
16:27What makes you
16:28Think I killed
16:29Her
16:29I haven't any
16:30Proof yet
16:30That that body
16:31Can be exhumed
16:32I suppose you'd
16:33Accused me of
16:34Killing all those
16:35Girls who
16:35Disappeared too
16:36Yes Franz
16:38I think you
16:39Killed them too
16:42He looked closely
16:43At me
16:43Suddenly I realized
16:45That his hand
16:45Was shaking
16:46He was frightened
16:47He too
16:47Was stalling
16:48For time
16:49Why
16:50Of course
16:51There must be
16:52Some of his men
16:53Coming here
16:53He was afraid
16:54To take me alone
16:55What do you say
16:56Franz
16:57I can assure you
16:58It would be a lot
16:59Easier for you
17:00If you confess
17:01But I have nothing
17:02To confess
17:04What made you
17:05Come here tonight
17:05It was just a hand
17:06They're lying
17:07Look
17:08Look there
17:09There are two men
17:10Coming up here
17:10Policemen
17:11I suppose
17:12They came here
17:13By accident too
17:14Where I don't
17:14See anything
17:15I have your gun
17:18Ethan
17:19Now get up
17:20Get up
17:21Franz
17:22Franz put that gun down
17:23You don't know
17:24What you're doing
17:25Oh yes
17:25I know
17:26I know
17:27Very well
17:27I have been waiting
17:28For this moment
17:29For twenty years
17:30No Franz
17:31Please
17:31You can't
17:32You wanted a confession
17:33Well you'll have it
17:34Yes yes
17:34I killed Martha
17:35I murdered her
17:37And she is buried
17:38Under the dogwood tree
17:39That's what you wanted
17:40To know
17:40Yes but
17:41And I'll tell you
17:42About the others
17:42Now too
17:43I killed them
17:45All of them
17:46Their bodies
17:47Are in my garden
17:49And now
17:51Now is the time
17:52For you
17:54To confess
17:54Yes Ethan
17:55What do you mean
17:56I mean you
17:57And Martha
17:58Martha
17:59She loved you
18:00No no she didn't
18:01I
18:01I loved her
18:03After she met you
18:04She wouldn't have
18:05A thing to do with me
18:06If that's why
18:07You killed her
18:07Yes Ethan
18:08That's why I killed her
18:09But you as
18:10Was to blame
18:11If she was
18:12No neither of us
18:13Was to blame
18:13There was never
18:14Anything between us
18:15And I can prove it
18:15You're lying
18:16I have a letter here
18:17Let me show you
18:18Your lies won't keep me
18:19Here until you men arrive
18:20You're going to die
18:21Now
18:21No Franz
18:22Read the letter
18:25Franz
18:25Don't
18:27Read the letter
18:28He was dead
18:33And in his hand
18:35Was a letter
18:35I picked it up
18:38I heard a noise
18:39It was an abort
18:40I went to the girl
18:42Lying so still
18:43In a coffin
18:45Was she alive
18:48I would find
18:49Obscene
18:52So you are alive
18:54Get up
18:56Get up out of that coffin
18:57They're gone
18:58Please
18:59Don't
19:00Go on
19:00All right
19:03Now please
19:04Ethan put you here
19:06Didn't he
19:07Yes
19:07I'll explain everything
19:08What happened in the garden
19:09I had a little vial
19:11Of chloroform
19:12I broke it
19:12When you tried to kill me
19:13The fumes made you unconscious
19:15Chloroform
19:17That was when I felt your hand
19:18On my face
19:19And I kept stabbing you
19:20But you would not die
19:22How did he know Martha
19:24Was buried under the dogwood tree
19:26I told you
19:27I dug under that tree
19:28While you were unconscious
19:30That's strange now
19:31Isn't it
19:32You would never have known about it
19:33If the tree
19:34As it grew
19:35Hadn't caught up the ring
19:37And pushed it out
19:38On one of its branches
19:39It's as though nature itself
19:41Were accusing me
19:42Here
19:43Here
19:43Don't you try to get away
19:45Stand still
19:49Oh
19:50You are beautiful
19:52And evil
19:54Like all of them
19:57Like Martha
19:59I'm going to kill you
20:01Oh
20:02Don't
20:04The gun is empty
20:06Here
20:06Come back here
20:07You're not getting away
20:08I still have these
20:09The garden she is
20:10Yes the garden she is
20:11Let go of me
20:12Oh no I'm going
20:13Help me
20:14Are you out there
20:16Help me
20:17Hurry
20:18We're coming out
20:20I ran out of the tomb
20:21I saw four men
20:22Coming across the graveyard
20:23In the moonlight
20:24I ran
20:25The girl came out of the vault
20:26And screamed
20:29They began fire against me
20:31I ran across the moonlit cemeteries
20:33Stumbling
20:34Falling
20:35Running for my life
20:36I
20:37I
20:38Had a piercing pain in my thigh
20:40I
20:41Struck my head against a gravestone
20:54Here
20:55In the hospital
20:57They tell me
20:58I will recover
20:59From my wounds
21:02But of course
21:03I'll have to be tried
21:04I know
21:06I shall be put to death
21:08Oh yes
21:09The letter
21:10Ethan tried to show me
21:12It was just a few lines
21:13Dated April 27th
21:15Twenty years ago
21:17It read
21:19Dear Ethan
21:20Please come to see France
21:24And convince him
21:25That there never was anything between us
21:28And that I am not seeing you now
21:31It doesn't believe
21:34That I have always loved
21:38Only him
21:41Martha
21:44You see
21:45My killing her
21:47Was all a mistake
21:49A mistake that twisted
21:52A thread
21:53In my mind
21:56I would like lots of flowers
21:58On my grave
21:59Millies
22:00Roses
22:02Yes
22:04Yes
22:04Many
22:06Many
22:08Blood red
22:09Roses
22:21Send me one dozen roses
22:23And put my heart inside them
22:25Good old friends
22:27He takes his popular ballad
22:28Quite literally
22:30Which brings us to the moral
22:31For tonight's story
22:33Never decapitate the woman you love
22:36You know how angry people get
22:38When they lose their head
22:52And now friends
22:53It's time once again
22:55To close that creaking door
22:57Until next week
22:58At this same time
23:00Next week's story
23:01Is about a boy and a girl
23:03Who go off on their honeymoon
23:04And then discover that
23:06Two's fine
23:08But three's a crowd
23:10Especially when number three
23:12Is a corpse
23:13Now what the boy and girl
23:15Said to that corpse
23:16And what the corpse
23:17Said to them
23:19Well
23:20You'll just have to wait
23:22Until next week
23:22To hear about it
23:23Until then
23:25Good night
23:27Pleasant
23:29Dream
23:31Dream
23:32Dream
23:37an
23:49The education
23:49The
23:50The
23:50The
23:50The
23:50You
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