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A husband believes himself culpable for the murder of his wife. He is also convinced of his affair with another woman. But he simply can't persuade a police officer to believe either.
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00:20Welcome to the sound of suspense, to the fear you can hear.
00:25For the next 52 minutes, I'll be your companion on a journey to a place in the past.
00:31It used to be that only the mystics believed you could go back, relive your life.
00:37But didn't so eminent a scientist as Albert Einstein say that the past, the present, and the future are all
00:45intermingled somehow?
00:47Then, why should we question a gentleman named Spencer Chadwick, who is asking a very vital question?
00:53Inspector, do you believe a person can do it again?
00:58Do what again?
01:00Go back.
01:01Where?
01:03To that point in his life where it went wrong, it turned sour.
01:08And corrected.
01:09No.
01:11No, I don't believe it's possible.
01:13Well, I'm doing it, Inspector.
01:15I'm doing it.
01:16I'm changing it.
01:17I've gone back.
01:19Inspector, I've gone back.
01:28Our mystery drama, You Can Die Again, was a specially written by Sam Dan and stars Richard Mulligan.
01:35It is sponsored in part by Anheuser-Busch Incorporated, brewers of Budweiser.
01:39I'll be back shortly with Act One.
01:53This evening, we're concerned with bright young men.
01:58That is, those who began as bright young men, like Spencer Chadwick.
02:03Bright young Spencer Chadwick married his boss's daughter, but that was 23 years ago.
02:09And today, young Spencer has arrived at comfortable middle age.
02:14This morning, he will pick up his phone and dial the private number of a highly placed friend.
02:24Chief Inspector Faraday's office, Sergeant Melrose speaking.
02:27Sergeant, this is Spencer Chadwick.
02:28Good morning, Mr. Chadwick.
02:30Connect you right away.
02:32Spence, I hope you're not calling to cancel our golf date.
02:34No, no, Martin, I'm calling to tell you I murdered my wife.
02:43I won't believe it, Spence.
02:45I can't believe it.
02:46Marty, look at her.
02:47She's dead.
02:48I see she's dead, but I won't believe you killed her.
02:50She's been stabbed, Inspector.
02:52Yes, Sergeant, yes.
02:53And that's the knife, Marty.
02:54Now, Spencer...
02:55You'll surely find my fingerprints on it.
02:57What's that bruise on your head?
02:58We had a fight.
02:59She hit me with the candlestick.
03:01Inspector, a glass door here leads to a terrace.
03:03Yes, it's been broken.
03:04Spence, an intruder, a thief.
03:07Did he slug you and kill Margaret?
03:08No.
03:09No, I killed Margaret.
03:10But that broken door.
03:11She tried to get away.
03:12I dragged her back into the room.
03:14Whose place is this?
03:15Mine.
03:16I didn't know you had an apartment downtown.
03:19I've been staying with a girl.
03:21Spence, you're talking to me, your closest friend, Marty Faraday.
03:24Excuse me, Inspector.
03:25Shall I start the routine?
03:26Yes, of course, Sergeant.
03:27Are you going to arrest me, Marty?
03:29I have to.
03:30I'm ready to go now.
03:31But I'm not ready to go.
03:33Look, I can't believe what you're telling me.
03:35I can't even believe you were cheating on Margaret.
03:36How can I believe you killed her?
03:37You've been a policeman for 25 years, Marty.
03:40Do you still have illusions, faith, ideals?
03:43If I do, it was because of people like you and Margaret.
03:46I'm sorry, Marty.
03:47Look, Spence.
03:48Is this the way it happened?
03:50You were having an affair.
03:51Margaret found out about it.
03:52She came here, confronted you.
03:53One thing led to another, and you killed her.
03:55Now, is that the story?
03:57Yes.
03:58Yes.
03:58Yeah, that's it.
03:59Well, where's the girl?
04:00Well, I suppose she's dead, too.
04:04You suppose?
04:05Yes.
04:05Yes, we can say she's dead.
04:07Well, how did she die?
04:08I killed her.
04:10What?
04:11When?
04:13Oh, a long, long time ago.
04:16A long time?
04:17Spence, you're not making any sense.
04:19How could you have killed her a long time ago if Margaret confronted the two of you here today?
04:22I don't know.
04:23I don't, I don't know.
04:24Now, just arrest me, and don't ask me any more questions.
04:27I have to ask, Spence.
04:28I can't accept what you're telling me.
04:30Now, think.
04:32How could you have killed her a long time ago?
04:34Or did she kill me?
04:37Spence, please, tell me what happened.
04:39It doesn't matter.
04:40I want to help you, Spence.
04:41I'm your friend.
04:42You won't believe me.
04:43Try me.
04:43Just try me.
04:44It's even hard for me to believe it.
04:46But it's true.
04:47Spence, sit down, will you?
04:48Will you just sit down and try to pull things together?
04:50Tell me what happened.
04:52What happened?
04:54It started one morning.
04:58It was three months ago.
05:01I came downstairs.
05:04Margaret was at the breakfast table.
05:08Morning, darling.
05:09Coffee?
05:10Uh, thanks.
05:11Yes, uh, any, any mail, Margaret?
05:13Nothing worth delaying breakfast.
05:14Card from my brother.
05:15Huh?
05:16Where is he now?
05:17He had to put in for repairs at Pago Pago.
05:19That's Pango Pango.
05:21Uh, when is he coming home?
05:22Oh, next year, maybe.
05:24Or the year after, when he gets bored or tired or needs money or decides to get a new girlfriend
05:30or another boat.
05:32Then he's 38 years old.
05:33And he'll never get anywhere.
05:35Don't say that.
05:36It seems to me he goes everywhere.
05:38Oh, his life and yours, darling?
05:40A study and opposites.
05:42You were born poor and you wound up rich.
05:44He was born rich, wound up poor.
05:47Um, dinner tonight with the Satterfields.
05:51What for?
05:52What for?
05:53Oh, my God.
05:55I practiced for almost five minutes before you came down, tossing off what I just said
05:59in an offhand, casual way.
06:01Dinner with the Satterfields.
06:03This is the coup of the century.
06:05A dinner party at the home of Senator Satterfield.
06:08Ask me how I did it.
06:11Why, why do we want to have dinner with Senator Satterfield?
06:15Spence, you asked me to arrange for the invitation.
06:17I disagree completely with the man's principles.
06:19Oh, we understand all that.
06:21But you're the one who decided to give politics a whirl.
06:23Well, when did I decide to do that?
06:28Well, they say the sign of a really solid marriage is if the wife can accept jokes at breakfast.
06:35Shall I remind you of that Chinese or Indian saying that you've been spouting lately?
06:41A man spends his first 20 years living for himself, his next 20 living for his family, and his next
06:4720 living for his country.
06:50It was you who decided.
06:53Dinner's at 7.30, black tie.
06:55So be home early, hmm?
06:57Spence?
06:59You're not listening.
07:02Dying.
07:04Why are you looking at me like that?
07:06Is there something wrong?
07:10Who are you?
07:13What did you say?
07:15I...
07:17I said, who are you?
07:18Tell me.
07:19Spencer.
07:19What are you doing here?
07:20Now, look, darling.
07:21If this is...
07:22Oh, no.
07:22Oh, what am I doing here?
07:24If this is a joke, it's not in the best of taste.
07:27I'm afraid.
07:28I'm afraid I don't know where I am.
07:31Or who you are.
07:32Do you know who you are?
07:35Yes, I think I know who I am.
07:36I'm Spencer Chadwick.
07:38All right, now listen.
07:38Sit quietly for just a minute.
07:40I'm going to call Dr. Berger.
07:41Oh, please.
07:41Please, I don't want to put you through any trouble.
07:43Don't get up, Spencer.
07:44Please, don't get...
07:45Where are you going?
07:47Home.
07:49This is your home, Spencer.
07:51Please, don't be alarmed, please.
07:52I hope I haven't frightened you.
07:53I'll...
07:54I'll leave this minute.
08:00You mean that after 23 years of marriage,
08:03you look at your wife one morning
08:04and you don't know who she is?
08:06Yes, Martin.
08:08All right.
08:09You walked out of the house.
08:11Now, where did you go?
08:11Well, I held a cab.
08:18Now, where to, pal?
08:21I don't know.
08:22Ah, it's all right.
08:23Now, if it's not that we're going.
08:25Just answer this, sir.
08:26Where do you want me to take you?
08:27Just drive.
08:29Okay, you're the doctor.
08:33What do you think?
08:34The Redskins got any kind of chance this year?
08:38All right.
08:39Let's try politics.
08:40You think Satterfield's going to run again?
08:44Well, as my old man would have put it,
08:45you wasn't exactly vaccinated
08:46with a photograph needed.
08:47Driver, why are you headed north?
08:49Well, you said to drive.
08:50The Chadwick building is down on Jefferson Square.
08:52I distinctly told you to take...
08:53You distinctly told me nothing.
08:55What would I be doing in your cab
08:56at nine o'clock in the morning
08:57if I didn't intend to go to my office?
08:59Yes, sir.
09:08Good morning, Rose.
09:09Oh, good morning, Mr. Chadwick.
09:11There's Dr. Berger sitting in your office.
09:13Dr. Berger?
09:14Yes, Dr. Berger.
09:16Come in here, Spence.
09:17I don't have all day.
09:19Well, come in and shut the door.
09:22May I remind you that this is my office?
09:25Fifteen minutes ago,
09:26I received a call from Margaret.
09:27Margaret?
09:28Is she all right?
09:28About you.
09:30Me?
09:30I thought it important enough
09:32for me to stop off here
09:33on my way downtown.
09:34Hold out your wrists.
09:35Wait, why didn't Margaret call you?
09:37She told me about that little episode.
09:40What?
09:41What little episode?
09:42You don't remember saying certain things?
09:44Paul, please, what is this all about?
09:46Paul seems to be a little fast.
09:48What am I supposed to have said to Margaret?
09:50I want you to report to the hospital right now.
09:54You can't just walk into my office
09:56and tell me to report to the hospital.
09:57Who says I can't?
09:58But what's the matter with me?
10:00I don't know.
10:01That's why I'm putting you into the hospital.
10:03What did Margaret tell you?
10:04That you didn't know who she was.
10:07Well, how could I not know who she was?
10:12Have you had moments when you didn't know people
10:14or you didn't know where you were
10:16or what you were doing there?
10:18Well, certainly not.
10:19Now, level with me, Spencer.
10:21Listen, those things,
10:22they happen sometimes to everybody.
10:25How often do they happen to you?
10:27Well...
10:28The incident with Margaret.
10:29Was it the only one?
10:30Well, Spencer,
10:32I'll see you at the hospital in 30 minutes.
10:41Well, you did it.
10:42You're here, Spence.
10:43Of course I'm here.
10:44I won't keep you an hour longer than necessary.
10:47Probably get you out by the end of the day.
10:48Paul, you do what's necessary.
10:50That's a good attitude.
10:51Most of you high-powered business types
10:53are so self-important...
10:55Don't start to lecture me.
10:56I'm here.
10:57I agree I need some help.
10:58Now, what's falling is there?
10:59I am.
11:00I'm talking to you
11:01and I should be arranging for tests.
11:03Now, you just relax.
11:05Listen to some music.
11:06Read.
11:07Take a nap.
11:08I'll see you.
11:16Hello?
11:17Spencer?
11:19Peggy?
11:20Is everything all right, Spence?
11:22Peggy.
11:23Peggy, where are you?
11:24I'm at the apartment.
11:25Where else would I be?
11:27Tell me, are you all right?
11:29Oh, yes.
11:30Oh, yes.
11:32I'm certainly all right now.
11:34Oh, Peggy.
11:36Peggy.
11:36I almost lost you.
11:38How could you lose me?
11:39It could happen.
11:40How?
11:41Dr. Berger.
11:42Dr. Berger.
11:43He could make it happen.
11:45But not now.
11:46Not anymore.
11:48Do you know why?
11:49Why, Spence?
11:50You called me.
11:51Just in time.
11:52You warned me.
11:54Just in time.
11:56And I'm getting out of here.
11:57This minute.
12:06Mr. Chadwick.
12:07Yes, Ruth?
12:08Aren't you supposed to be at the hospital?
12:10I'm not supposed to be anywhere except in my office during the business day.
12:14Oh, yes, sir.
12:15This Dr. Berger, he's been calling just about every five minutes.
12:18And your wife.
12:20Shall I get them for you?
12:21No.
12:21No, I left Dr. Berger a note saying I changed my mind about the necessity for what we were
12:27discussing.
12:27Now, tell him I have nothing to add.
12:29Oh, yes, sir.
12:30Oh, call my wife and remind her we have a dinner date with Senator Satterfield.
12:34And no calls.
12:34No calls.
12:35I don't want to talk to anyone.
12:36Oh, yes, sir.
12:37Except, except a young lady.
12:41She'll call herself Peggy.
12:49Well, for 23 years, you hum the same tune, and then, suddenly, one morning, you hear
12:57the music of a different drummer, a drummer named Peggy.
13:01Or is she a piper named Peggy, who will have to be paid?
13:06We shall return shortly with Act Two.
13:19And so, we have Spencer Chadwick in complete command, ready to take hold of his life and
13:25run it his own way, starting with his wife.
13:29Spencer?
13:30Is that you?
13:31There's no problem, no problem.
13:32It's not even a quarter of seven.
13:33I can be dressed and ready to leave in 20 minutes.
13:35Spencer, there is a problem.
13:37You made Dr. Berger look like a fool today.
13:40You read my note.
13:41It explained everything.
13:41You made yourself look like a fool.
13:43You admitted to the hospital, and less than an hour later, you sneaked out.
13:47I did not sneak out.
13:49I got dressed, went to the desk, and said, I'm leaving, send me the bill.
13:52But, Spence, you're not well.
13:53I've never felt better.
13:54You should be in the hospital.
13:55Margaret, please stop running my life.
14:00What did you say just now, Spence?
14:03I'm sure you heard me.
14:04I wasn't aware that I was running your life.
14:09Spencer, would you be good enough to explain?
14:12Can you show me how?
14:13You did say this thing was black tie?
14:15Spencer, I'm entitled to an explanation of that remark.
14:19Margaret, if you can't understand what I'm saying, how can I explain it?
14:30Quite a man, this husband of yours, Miss Chadwick.
14:33Some brandy?
14:34Yes, thank you, Senator.
14:36We need men like you in public life, Spence.
14:39Fellas with their heads screwed on straight.
14:42You know, I have an opportunity to recommend a man for a presidential advisory commission on...
14:49I don't think I'd be interested, Senator.
14:51I like your style, Chadwick.
14:53You play hard to get, but you do it convincingly.
14:57The public eats that up.
14:59No.
14:59No, Senator, it's not a pose.
15:02You see, sir, it seems to me that I've spent all my life working for other people.
15:07Serving others is the most richly rewarding profession a man can follow.
15:11Well, that's if he happens to be a selfless person, but I never saw myself as a manufacturer of farm
15:18equipment.
15:19I wanted to study languages, the basic structures of human communication.
15:23An admirable calling.
15:25Margaret and I were going to leave for Tibet on our honeymoon, but my father-in-law became seriously ill.
15:29Somebody had to look after his affairs till he could get on his feet again.
15:33That was 23 years ago.
15:35He never did get back on his feet, and I never did get out of his office.
15:39But you transformed that little factory into the third largest enterprise.
15:44I know, Senator, I know, I know.
15:46I did it for my wife, my in-laws, my employees, the stockholders.
15:49But now, finally, at length and at last, I'm going into business for myself.
15:54What sort of business?
15:56The Spencer Chadwick business.
15:58The let's please and amuse and excite and develop and enhance Spencer Chadwick.
16:03Thank you for your offer, Senator, but there are many others who are more worthy not to mention more willing.
16:17Spencer, when did you decide you were no longer interested in public service?
16:22Oh, it's been building for a while.
16:25We'll have to talk.
16:27Oh, about what?
16:28About what?
16:30I don't know if this is a pose or...
16:32Margaret, I'm sure I can explain.
16:34Now, let's drop in somewhere for a nightcap.
16:37No, let's get home.
16:39Now, do you remember what you said to me this morning?
16:42No.
16:43You insist.
16:44You don't recall our little scene at breakfast?
16:47No, I'm very sorry.
16:49You looked at me this morning.
16:51You said,
16:52Who are you?
16:54You said it with sincerity and conviction.
16:56You meant it.
16:57Look, I...
16:58I don't...
16:59I may have been...
17:00You may have been what?
17:01I... daydreaming.
17:02No, it was not daydreaming.
17:04It was wishful thinking.
17:06Oh, Margaret, what are you saying?
17:09Spencer, you're having an affair.
17:12What?
17:13What?
17:14Please don't deny it.
17:16But I'm...
17:17I'm not.
17:17It fits in with what Dr. Berger told me.
17:20About what?
17:21When you say to me,
17:22Who are you?
17:23It means you no longer want to know me.
17:27You're trying to wish me out of your life.
17:29Oh, Margaret, Margaret, I can tell you...
17:32Now listen, Spencer.
17:32Don't try to insult my intelligence or yours.
17:35And then, what just happened at Senator Satterfield's?
17:39What just happened?
17:40Well, suddenly you're no longer interested in public service.
17:42Why?
17:43If you heard me talking to him,
17:45you'd know that finally I want to do things for me.
17:48But he as much as offered you a post that you dreamed about.
17:51A sensitive post.
17:53You could become an important man nationally.
17:55You've spoken about it a dozen times.
17:57Margaret, Margaret, I no longer care about it.
17:59Well, of course not.
18:00Because you've become controversial.
18:02Make enemies.
18:03And then they try to get something on you.
18:05And now that you're having an affair,
18:07you're vulnerable to scandal.
18:08But I am not having...
18:10Oh, don't lie to me.
18:12That just makes it worse.
18:19But you were lying to us, Spence.
18:21We know you were lying.
18:22We know about Peggy.
18:25Inspector.
18:25Yes, Sergeant.
18:26If you'll come into the bedroom, Inspector,
18:28I didn't want to move anything.
18:29All right.
18:31Now, sir, here are these pictures.
18:33Are these Peggy?
18:35Are they, Spence?
18:37Yes.
18:37Well, sir, if you look at the hairstyle,
18:39that went out 25 years ago.
18:41Hmm.
18:43I'm no expert, but these don't look like pictures
18:45that were taken recently.
18:45Now, the clothes in the closet, skirts, blouses, dresses.
18:48Are these Peggy's?
18:51Are they, Spence?
18:53Yes.
18:54The styles are about 25 years old.
18:56Now, here's a label in a skirt.
18:57It's a Lydia Carter.
18:59She was a designer who was fashionable 30 years ago.
19:02Well, Spence, tell us.
19:05I can't.
19:07Why can't you?
19:08I don't think I know how.
19:09Never mind how it sounds.
19:11Just tell it.
19:13Martin, did you ever think you could
19:17somehow get a second chance?
19:19To do what?
19:20To live your life over.
19:23To answer your question, no.
19:25Did you ever think you could go
19:27back to a point in time
19:28when you made a decision
19:30which changed everything for you?
19:31Well, you crossed your own particular Rubicon
19:34and if you could go back,
19:36start again,
19:37and do the thing you really wanted to do?
19:39To answer your question again?
19:41No.
19:43That's because
19:44you never regretted the course of your life.
19:46And you did?
19:48Are you trying to tell me that you did?
19:51Every day for 23 years.
19:54All right, Spence.
19:55I won't press you.
19:57No, no.
19:57No, Marty, don't put that sympathetic tone in your voice
20:00as if you think I'm some kind of nut.
20:03Look, you could plead insanity.
20:04Once again, Marty.
20:05Marty, I'm not crazy.
20:07Temporary insanity.
20:07Not for one minute.
20:09I asked you a question.
20:10Can you go back?
20:11Can you live your life over again?
20:13And I gave you my answer.
20:14No.
20:15But you can.
20:16You can do it.
20:17I did go back.
20:19Not for long.
20:20But I did go back.
20:23All right.
20:24All right, Spence.
20:25You did go back.
20:27And if I hadn't lost my head,
20:30if only I hadn't killed Margaret,
20:33I could have stayed.
20:35I could have started over.
20:43Peggy, want to go to a movie?
20:45No.
20:46I missed the news broadcast.
20:48Anything happening?
20:49They think a war just started.
20:51Oh, come on, Peggy.
20:52Come on.
20:53There aren't going to be any more wars.
20:55Everybody knows that.
20:55People may be crazy,
20:56but they're not insane.
20:58Where?
20:59I think the man said Korea.
21:01Someplace like that.
21:03Maybe I didn't hear it right.
21:05Hey, if you don't want to go to the movies,
21:07what do you want to do?
21:08Sit home.
21:10Just listen to you.
21:12Tell me about the trip you're planning.
21:14Well, first,
21:16don't call it a trip.
21:17We may never come back.
21:19It may take all our lives.
21:20Fine with me.
21:21And we may never find it.
21:22Great.
21:23What are we looking for?
21:24The origin of language.
21:26For instance,
21:27we say brother in English.
21:29German, Dutch, Scandinavian,
21:30and so on
21:31say a form of bruder.
21:33Same basic word.
21:34Latin, Greek, frater.
21:36The BR becomes FR.
21:37Russian, obra.
21:39The differences are all in pronunciation.
21:41Okay.
21:42How did this one language
21:43spread so far and wide
21:45to cover so many different kinds of people?
21:47Arbeit.
21:48How?
21:49That's what I want to find out.
21:51And we will travel and study and research
21:53and one day, maybe...
21:55Maybe what?
21:56This Indo-European language.
21:57It's only one of 30 language families.
22:00At one time,
22:02was there one single language?
22:04The mother of all?
22:05Was there?
22:06I don't know.
22:07One day,
22:08I hope to find out.
22:09Are you sure you wouldn't mind
22:11scrounging around Europe and Asia?
22:13Oh, I've been to Europe and Asia.
22:15Ah, but not with a backpack.
22:16Not with a sleeping bag.
22:17I'm going to love it.
22:19Now, one thing must be clearly understood.
22:21At no time,
22:22regardless of the bind
22:23we may find ourselves in,
22:25shall we ever,
22:25ever,
22:26under any circumstances,
22:27wire your father for money.
22:30Promise?
22:31I promise.
22:33I promise.
22:40Hello, Margaret.
22:41Where have you been, Spencer?
22:44Oh, excuse me.
22:45I hope that doesn't sound shrewish.
22:48Well, no, no, it doesn't.
22:50Or as if I'm trying to run your life.
22:52Please, Margaret, cut it out.
22:53The reason I ask
22:54is because I had prepared dinner.
22:56I know.
22:57Didn't you get my message?
22:58Yes, I did.
22:58I got it at eight.
23:00Meanwhile, at seven,
23:01the Millers, the Brownsteins,
23:02and the Gladwells arrived.
23:03No, no, the Gladwells
23:05were here at 6.30.
23:06But what, why?
23:07You had asked me
23:09to invite them to dinner.
23:10And these are your friends, Spencer.
23:13I'm sorry, Margaret.
23:14I'm sorry.
23:15Yes.
23:16Well, if there were people I like,
23:17I would have been humiliated.
23:19This way, I was merely embarrassed.
23:21Well, I got through the evening.
23:23Somehow.
23:26Spencer,
23:27tell me.
23:29Who is she?
23:30Margaret, Margaret,
23:32believe me,
23:32there is no...
23:33I start with the premise
23:34that it's my fault.
23:35Somewhere I must have failed you.
23:36I've gone wrong.
23:37But I don't know where
23:39and I don't know how.
23:41Tell me, Spence.
23:42Tell me.
23:43Margaret, please, Margaret.
23:45Please, Margaret, what?
23:46Oh, Spencer,
23:48I've been happy.
23:50You've been happy.
23:52Our marriage,
23:53it's been the envy
23:54of so many of our friends.
23:57Oh, darling,
23:58has it been a lie?
23:59Have we been living a lie
24:00all these years?
24:01Do you want the answer?
24:03I demand an answer.
24:04The answer is yes, yes.
24:06It's been a lie.
24:09Who is she, Spence?
24:11Who is she?
24:13Who is she, Spencer?
24:20Who is Peggy?
24:21I won't tell you, Martin.
24:23I should say who was Peggy.
24:24Inspector, do you remember
24:25some time ago
24:26you saw Mrs. Chadwick?
24:27It was on business,
24:28I remember.
24:29Oh, yes.
24:30Yes, yes, I do.
24:31It had to do with a burglary, Spence.
24:32A burglary in your house.
24:37Believe me, Margaret,
24:38this is no bother at all.
24:40You see,
24:40I felt if I called
24:41a local precinct,
24:42I'd have police
24:42traipsing all about the place.
24:44It just isn't worth it.
24:45Well, what happened?
24:45Well, it's silly, but
24:47well, you know us,
24:48we never throw anything out.
24:49It's a sound idea.
24:51The worthless junk of yesterday
24:52has suddenly become
24:53expensive antiques.
24:54It's incredible.
24:55Yes, Myra.
24:56All right, I'll be brief.
24:57We have a storage space
24:59where we keep old things,
25:00clothes, knick-knacks,
25:01you know, stuff that you
25:02say you'll throw out sometime.
25:03You never get around to it.
25:04You never do.
25:05And?
25:06Well, it's all been stolen.
25:08Stolen?
25:09It's missing.
25:10Well, it must have been stolen.
25:11I don't care about it,
25:12but it's just unnerving
25:14to consider that the house
25:15has been broken into.
25:16We'll send a list of the stuff
25:17to Sergeant Milrose.
25:18It's not important,
25:19but I feel that since
25:20a crime has been committed,
25:21it should be reported.
25:23Did I do the right thing?
25:24Of course.
25:24Of course you did, Margaret.
25:29That list.
25:30I gave you that list, Sergeant.
25:31It's on my desk, sir.
25:33I'm sure most of the items
25:34in this closet were on it.
25:35Spencer, you were the burglar.
25:38Technically?
25:39Yes.
25:41She needed clothes, Marty.
25:42That girl, she's a fantasy.
25:44No.
25:44No, not Peggy.
25:45All right, look.
25:46For reasons that I may never understand,
25:48you feel you wasted your life.
25:49So you fantasized
25:50a way to go back to start over.
25:52It was no fantasy.
25:55Sergeant Milrose.
25:56Well, it wasn't.
25:57You were sorry you married Margaret,
25:58which all by itself proves
25:59that you're insane, Spence.
26:01You created this Peggy
26:02and you had to dress her
26:03in a period of 25 years ago.
26:04There is no Peggy.
26:05This whole thing happened in your mind.
26:07Thank you, Lieutenant.
26:08Yes, Sergeant.
26:09Sir,
26:10that was from the lab.
26:11They scraped some grass samples
26:13from the skirt in the closet
26:14and it's been identified
26:15as Duke of Wentworth Fescue.
26:17All right.
26:18It's a new kind of seed,
26:19just been planted
26:19for the first time.
26:20When?
26:21Well, about a month ago,
26:22which means somebody
26:22wearing this skirt
26:23was sitting in the grass
26:24in Benton Park
26:25very recently.
26:29You figure if a man's been married
26:31for 23 years,
26:32he may have a tendency
26:34to fantasize a bit.
26:36But Spencer Chadwick
26:37has created more
26:38than an illusion.
26:39He has brought forth
26:41flesh and blood,
26:42particularly blood.
26:45We'll be back shortly
26:46with Act 3.
26:57It was all right
26:59while Peggy
26:59was only an illusion.
27:01She was Spencer Chadwick's
27:02private affair.
27:03But a living Peggy,
27:05or even a dead Peggy,
27:07is a serious matter
27:08for Police Chief
27:09Inspector Faraday.
27:10Spence,
27:10make it easy for all of us.
27:12Tell me,
27:13who is Peggy?
27:14Or who was Peggy?
27:16We can find out,
27:17Spence.
27:18We can check with the neighbors,
27:19the janitor,
27:19circulate your picture
27:20in the neighborhood,
27:21ask people if they've seen you
27:22around with a girl.
27:23You'll never find her.
27:24Don't say that.
27:25It's virtually impossible
27:26for a person to disappear
27:27without a trace.
27:28I still say
27:29you'll never find her.
27:31Dammit, Spence,
27:32I can't get used to it.
27:33You and Margaret
27:34and then you and Miss Peggy.
27:34How could you live
27:35with both of them?
27:36Didn't things get rough at home?
27:37Yes.
27:38Well, what brought on
27:38the showdown?
27:40Well, after a while,
27:41we couldn't go anywhere
27:43without Margaret seeing her.
27:49Come on,
27:50Rockabot!
27:51Spencer.
27:51What?
27:52Is that the girl?
27:53What?
27:54Who?
27:54That girl.
27:55She's been looking at you
27:56all afternoon.
27:56Oh, Margaret,
27:57Margaret,
27:57believe me.
27:58Won't you invite her down here?
27:59She'll have a better view
28:00from our box.
28:00Oh, Margaret.
28:01There's a reason
28:02we shouldn't all behave
28:02in a civilized manner.
28:04Introduce us.
28:05Margaret,
28:05I never saw that girl
28:06before in my life.
28:14Margaret,
28:15you're staring.
28:16No,
28:17not me.
28:18That girl's been staring
28:20at you all evening.
28:21Margaret,
28:22Margaret,
28:22believe me.
28:27Wherever we'd go,
28:28there'd be no peace.
28:30She always suspected
28:31somebody.
28:31Last week,
28:32it even happened
28:33when we were
28:34playing golf
28:35with you and Henrietta.
28:38You're up, Margaret.
28:39I'd use a three-wood
28:40on this hole, Margaret.
28:41All right.
28:43Oh,
28:44too bad.
28:45Well,
28:45you go up there
28:46and show me how,
28:47Marty.
28:47You rushed the shot,
28:48you lifted your head.
28:49I really don't care
28:50about golf.
28:51You made the date
28:52with Marty and Henrietta.
28:53We simply can't
28:54drop out of circulation.
28:56Spencer,
28:57that girl
28:58in the foursome
28:58behind us.
28:59Margaret,
28:59Margaret,
29:00she's not the one.
29:05Spencer,
29:06where were you?
29:06I had a meeting.
29:08Oh,
29:08well,
29:09we progressed.
29:10It used to be
29:11you didn't know,
29:11you couldn't remember.
29:12And now,
29:13at least,
29:13you're courteous enough
29:15to lie to me.
29:16You've been drinking,
29:17Margaret.
29:17Yes,
29:18yes,
29:18that's true.
29:18I have been drinking.
29:19Margaret,
29:20it's not good for you.
29:21Oh,
29:21I don't know.
29:22Let's consider that.
29:23Drinking is not good for me.
29:25I won't fight that.
29:27However,
29:28what you are doing,
29:30that's good for me?
29:32Although,
29:32I must say,
29:33you're treating me nicer
29:33these days.
29:34You started off
29:35by asking,
29:36who are you?
29:37As if you didn't know me,
29:38and now,
29:39at least,
29:40you don't ask.
29:41The phone rang today,
29:43and I answered it,
29:43and the line was dead.
29:45What's going to happen,
29:47Spence?
29:48I intend
29:49to go away with her.
29:51Well,
29:53finally,
29:53you've admitted it.
29:55You are having an affair.
29:57Yes.
29:57Who's the woman?
29:58Who?
29:59Yes,
29:59who?
30:00I'm not sure
30:01you'd want to know.
30:02I have a right to know.
30:04Well,
30:05perhaps you do.
30:06Who is she,
30:07Spencer?
30:09She's you.
30:12Me?
30:13Yes,
30:14Margaret.
30:15The girl
30:16is you.
30:17What kind of...
30:18No,
30:18no,
30:18no,
30:19no,
30:19that's not quite right.
30:20She isn't you.
30:21Then what were you trying to say?
30:22She was you.
30:23She isn't Margaret Chadwick.
30:26She was Peggy Wainwright.
30:29Spencer,
30:29don't look at me like that.
30:30I'm scared.
30:32Do you want me to prove it to you?
30:34Come with me.
30:36Come with me right now.
30:37This is what Dr.
30:38Berbick was concerned about.
30:40Spence,
30:41it's no disgrace to have a breakdown.
30:42It's no shame to need psychiatric help.
30:45No,
30:45no.
30:46We're past all that,
30:47Margaret.
30:48Come with me.
30:49I want you to meet
30:51Peggy.
30:53Come with me.
30:53No,
30:54Spencer.
30:54You come with me.
30:56You come with me to Dr. Berger.
30:58You know,
30:58you know,
30:58Margaret,
30:59people like you have one answer.
31:01Whenever you're up against something you don't understand,
31:04you have one answer.
31:06Whenever you're faced with something that's beyond your experience,
31:09you have one answer.
31:11See a doctor.
31:12That solves everything.
31:13That takes care of everybody.
31:15And it never occurs to you
31:17that yours might just possibly be the wrong answer.
31:22Now,
31:22why are you so sure of yourself,
31:24Margaret?
31:25Why are you so sure
31:26that I'm the one who's wrong?
31:29Come with me,
31:30Margaret.
31:31I want you
31:33to meet Peggy.
31:35Or are you afraid?
31:43Does it look familiar,
31:44Margaret?
31:45Spence.
31:46This is 32 Brenton Boulevard.
31:48It's our first address.
31:50I remember.
31:51Do you remember
31:52the apartment number?
31:533.
31:543A.
31:55Oh,
31:56don't tell me it's still there.
31:58See for yourself.
32:06Spence.
32:07Where did you...
32:09How did you...
32:10Our first table.
32:12And this bronze candlestick,
32:14our very first wedding present
32:15from my brother.
32:19These clothes.
32:21My clothes.
32:22How did they get there?
32:23They're here
32:24because they're Peggy's clothes.
32:26Oh,
32:27look,
32:28Spence,
32:28the Lydia Carter skirt.
32:29Oh,
32:29you love me in that.
32:30Do you know that style's come back?
32:32I want to put it on.
32:33Do you remember
32:34what we used to do?
32:37We'd go for a walk.
32:38In the park.
32:39Dinner at Luigi's.
32:41We never had dinner at Luigi's.
32:42Oh,
32:42that's right.
32:43We couldn't afford it.
32:44And by the time we could,
32:46we weren't living here anymore.
32:48We stopped at the burger shop.
32:50What's tonight?
32:51Thursday.
32:52That means there's a free concert in the park.
32:54And then,
32:55free dancing.
32:56Oh,
32:56let's go,
32:57Spence.
32:58Let's do it all again.
33:12I never realized
33:13how much fun we had
33:15in those days.
33:17They were,
33:18they were great days,
33:20Peggy.
33:21Peggy.
33:23I always liked Peggy better.
33:26Somewhere along the line,
33:27you stopped calling me Peggy.
33:29When exactly did you stop
33:31calling me Peggy?
33:32When you became Margaret.
33:35I always wondered about that.
33:37How did I become Margaret?
33:39Why?
33:41Take a look around.
33:43See,
33:44Peggy?
33:44All the bags,
33:46the trunk.
33:47We're packed for the trip.
33:49The trip?
33:50The trip
33:50to Tibet.
33:52Oh,
33:53oh,
33:53yes.
33:53We were all set to go.
33:56Yes.
33:57You remember?
33:59Yes.
34:00As a matter of fact,
34:01you were a little bit sick
34:02from the shots,
34:03remember?
34:05Remember?
34:08Yes.
34:10And then,
34:11the telephone rang.
34:13The phone?
34:14Yes,
34:14yes,
34:15the phone rang.
34:16It was,
34:17it was,
34:18it was,
34:18it,
34:19it was my mother.
34:21Yes,
34:21yes,
34:21it was your mother.
34:22I remember.
34:24Answer the phone.
34:26Go ahead,
34:27go ahead,
34:27answer it.
34:28You answered it that night.
34:30Hello?
34:32Yes.
34:33Yes,
34:34mother?
34:35Oh,
34:36no.
34:37Yes,
34:38all right,
34:38all right,
34:39we'll go there,
34:40right away.
34:41What is it,
34:42Peggy?
34:42My dad,
34:43he's had a stroke.
34:45How bad?
34:45Well,
34:45they don't know yet.
34:46Oh,
34:48oh,
34:48Spence,
34:49I don't think we can,
34:49I mean,
34:50I,
34:51I can't leave mother alone right now.
34:53No,
34:53we won't.
34:55Oh,
34:56Spence,
34:57I knew you'd understand.
34:59That's,
35:00when you became Margaret,
35:01that's when you were no longer my wife,
35:03but your father's daughter.
35:04Take off the skirt.
35:06Leave it here.
35:07Go home.
35:08It belongs to Peggy.
35:09Spence,
35:10what's the matter with you?
35:11I'm Peggy.
35:12That night
35:12was the start of it.
35:13The start of what?
35:14The start of a campaign
35:15to mold me into the kind of man
35:17you had in mind.
35:19The man
35:20who would enjoy
35:21the kind of existence
35:21you always had
35:23and always wanted.
35:24Safe,
35:25comfortable,
35:25secure.
35:26All you were asked to do
35:27was to help my father
35:28who was deathly ill.
35:29Who else could have done it?
35:30My brother?
35:31It was supposed to just be
35:32a temporary arrangement.
35:34But it suited you,
35:35Spence.
35:35It suited you.
35:37I started making
35:38the kind of money
35:39your folks never dreamed of.
35:40I built an empire.
35:41I never wanted it.
35:43You,
35:44you wanted it.
35:45You wanted it so badly
35:46you stopped being Peggy.
35:49You went somewhere else.
35:50You,
35:50you became lost.
35:52But not me.
35:53I'm,
35:53I'm,
35:53I'm not lost.
35:54I found my way back.
35:56And when I got there,
35:58I found Peggy again.
36:01Now,
36:02take off
36:02that skirt
36:03and give it back to Peggy.
36:05Spencer,
36:06I listened to you.
36:07Now you listen to me.
36:09I've been listening to you
36:10for 23 years.
36:13And now we've come to the end.
36:15The bags are packed
36:16and it's not too late.
36:19We're leaving
36:19for Tibet.
36:21Peggy
36:21and me.
36:23Peggy?
36:24Peggy?
36:26Yes,
36:26Spencer,
36:27darling.
36:28Spence,
36:28get this straight.
36:29I'm Peggy.
36:31Don't listen to her,
36:32Spence.
36:33She was always out
36:34to destroy you.
36:35She almost did
36:36until you came back to me.
36:37I'm Peggy.
36:38The only Peggy you have.
36:40She's lying.
36:41She's trying to stop you.
36:43We're going to Tibet.
36:45That chance.
36:47You'll take that appointment
36:48from Satterfield.
36:49That refusal was just a ploy.
36:50You know it.
36:51He knows it.
36:52Shut up, Margaret.
36:53Shut her up, Spencer.
36:55Shut her up.
36:56I didn't destroy you.
36:58You destroyed me.
37:00I have to kill her, Spence.
37:02Go ahead.
37:04Live with this
37:05fantasy of yours,
37:06this Peggy
37:07who rewrites history.
37:08She's all yours.
37:10I want my skirt.
37:13Take off that skirt.
37:14It's mine.
37:16It's all I want from you
37:17for 23 years of marriage.
37:19Don't get her out of here.
37:21She'll tell everybody about us.
37:24They'll put you away, Spence.
37:25Get away from that door.
37:27No.
37:27Spence,
37:28keep away from me.
37:31You won't get out that way.
37:32Yes, I warn you.
37:34I'll hit you with this.
37:36No, you ask for it.
37:37You ask for it.
37:38Use a knife, Spence.
37:40Use a knife.
37:49Peggy?
37:50Peggy?
37:52Where are you?
37:53Peggy?
37:57You killed us both.
37:59Oh, Spence.
38:04Margaret.
38:09Margaret.
38:10Margaret.
38:21Chief Inspector Faraday's office,
38:24Milrose speaking.
38:26Sergeant,
38:27this is
38:28Spencer Chadwick.
38:31I...
38:32I just
38:34murdered
38:35my wife.
38:42Well,
38:43as they say,
38:44all of us are two people.
38:46One is the person
38:47we think we are,
38:48and the other is the person
38:49we really are.
38:51And the secret
38:52of a long,
38:53happy life
38:53is to make sure
38:55the twain
38:55never meet.
38:57I'll be back shortly.
39:09Well,
39:10the jury's still out.
39:11Oh,
39:12not on Spencer Chadwick.
39:14With him,
39:14it was open and shut.
39:16But on the basic idea,
39:18can you go back?
39:19Can you do it again?
39:21Well,
39:22to end on a non-controversial note,
39:24here is something
39:25everybody can do again.
39:27Tune in again
39:28for more suspense
39:29and excitement.
39:31Our cast included
39:33Richard Mulligan,
39:34Mandel Kramer,
39:35Marion Seldes,
39:37Bryna Rayburn,
39:38and Gil Mack.
39:39The entire production
39:40was under the direction
39:41of Hyman Brown.
39:44Now,
39:44a preview
39:45of our next tale.
39:47You know what I'm
39:48going to do,
39:48Rory?
39:49I am going to turn
39:50this car right around
39:52and head back
39:52to the city.
39:53Oh, no, George.
39:54Please don't.
39:55What's that?
39:57You hear something
39:58like singing?
40:00Let me open the window.
40:01It's a woman
40:03singing that old
40:04nursery rhyme.
40:08What's that snapping sound?
40:10It sounds like a piece of leather.
40:12It sounds like a whip.
40:13George,
40:14what are you doing?
40:14I'm getting out.
40:16No,
40:16don't leave me, George.
40:17I'm coming with you.
40:19No, wait.
40:19Okay,
40:19but stay close to me.
40:21Radio Mystery Theater
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40:27This is E.G. Marshall
40:28inviting you
40:29to return to our
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40:31for another adventure
40:32in the macabre.
40:34Until next time,
40:36pleasant dreams.
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