One Step Beyond - S2E15: The Hand_
Approved | 25min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery | TV Series (1959–1961)
In a jealous rage, a piano player at a run-down dive murders a beautiful young woman. Although he at first seems to have covered his tracks well enough, he soon discovers that, no matter how hard he tries, he cannot get the woman's blood off his hands.
Creator: Merwin Gerard
Stars: John Newland, Robert Douglas, Olan Soule
Approved | 25min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery | TV Series (1959–1961)
In a jealous rage, a piano player at a run-down dive murders a beautiful young woman. Although he at first seems to have covered his tracks well enough, he soon discovers that, no matter how hard he tries, he cannot get the woman's blood off his hands.
Creator: Merwin Gerard
Stars: John Newland, Robert Douglas, Olan Soule
Category
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Short filmTranscript
00:00I hardly know what to tell you about the next half hour,
00:02except that it has been reported as true by those to whom it happened.
00:08It has been investigated, and no one, as yet,
00:11has been able to explain it or disprove it.
00:15♪♪
00:23♪♪
00:28Yeah.
00:30♪♪
00:35Yeah, Tommy. Yeah, Tommy.
00:38Beat it.
00:40All right. But I'll be back later.
00:43♪♪
00:54Used to be a speakeasy.
00:56Then beer came back.
00:58For a long time, it was just a place for the... for rent side.
01:02And then jazz hot moved in and stayed.
01:06It's almost 2 o'clock in the morning now,
01:08and the Johnny Lane Combo has played its entire repertoire,
01:11from Who's Sorry Now to Three Little Words.
01:14Now, on a normal night,
01:16in about a half an hour, the law says lights out,
01:19and the people who just can't sleep move on.
01:23On a normal night.
01:26But this isn't going to be a normal night.
01:30Hmm. Not at all.
01:33♪♪
01:36Particularly for Alma Rodriguez.
01:41Oh!
01:43♪♪
01:57And now a short break to mop our fevered brows,
01:59and we'll be right back for the last session.
02:02Don't anyone cut out, you hear?
02:03I know there are only a few of you left,
02:05but, uh, you're a real gas.
02:08Come on, baby, let's get out of here, huh?
02:11Come on, I'll buy you something real pretty.
02:14Yeah?
02:15Yeah. Come on now.
02:39That's for you, piano man.
02:45You're coming back, aren't you, Tommy?
02:47Yeah, sure.
02:49I'll be waiting here.
02:51♪♪
02:59Don't you know girls have to breathe?
03:02Well, you do your breathing while I get the car.
03:05I'll, uh, I'll honk for you.
03:09♪♪
03:33When you put the knife in, you got a twist.
03:36Don't you, Alma?
03:39You played pretty tonight, Tommy.
03:42Pretty.
03:44How could you tell?
03:45Hmm?
03:47You were so busy laughing.
03:49The fellow I'm with likes a girl to laugh.
03:52I was listening.
03:55Where have you been, Alma?
03:57I was pounding every darn town.
04:00You shouldn't pound on anything but those black and white keys.
04:06You want to know a secret?
04:08Oh, Alma.
04:09This is what I really fell in love with.
04:13You got a pair of beautiful hands, piano man.
04:18Alma, you got a sale yet?
04:22Do you suppose you could leave me these hands in your will?
04:27I'd mount them like wild tigers.
04:32Put them in the nicest room in the house.
04:35And dust them every day.
04:36Will you shut up?
04:37Listen to me.
04:38What can you say I haven't heard?
04:41I'm crazy about you.
04:44It's one-sided, piano man.
04:47Except for those hands, you're just a face in the crowd.
04:50What did I do wrong?
04:53What did I do?
04:54Why'd you leave me?
04:55Please, come back.
04:56Please, come back.
04:58Where's my funny man?
05:00Who is he?
05:02His name escapes me.
05:05Schaefer.
05:07Smith.
05:09Or Pete.
05:10Or something.
05:13He's got a lot of funny stories.
05:16Alma, I'm dead without you.
05:20Listen to me.
05:23Save the hands for the piano.
05:30That's my funny man.
05:33Please.
05:35Let go.
05:36I can't let go.
05:37I can't, please.
05:39You're gonna have to.
05:40Please, please.
05:42Please, please.
05:43Did you know how ridiculous you sound when you talk like that?
05:50Go back to your piano, Jenna.
05:54You need a lot more rehearsing.
06:02You goofed.
06:07Huh.
06:24Come on, Heidi.
06:37Hey, sweetheart, come on.
06:39What are you doing?
06:41I got the card.
06:43Honey, come on.
06:45Let's...
06:47Thanks.
06:49Wait, honey, come on, let's...
07:14Lucky you came back.
07:15Nobody likes chopsticks anymore.
07:18Oh, I guess you think I'm kind of kooky coming in here every night, don't you?
07:22Get off my back.
07:23And now for Miss Scotch and Soda, we'd like to play a real gasser.
07:27Featuring the one and only Tom Grant on piano.
07:30Wow.
07:31Go, baby.
07:41Are you ready?
07:44Now?
07:47Yeah.
08:17I don't feel so hot.
08:47Tom?
09:07Tom?
09:08You in there?
09:12Yeah.
09:13Come on out, something's happened.
09:15He's known her better and longer than anyone.
09:17Maybe he can help you.
09:41Tom?
09:42Come on.
09:46Come on.
09:52Hey, Tom, you okay, baby?
10:00Come on.
10:03This is Detective Harmon.
10:06What's the matter?
10:07Something's happened to Elma.
10:09Right behind the club like.
10:11She's dead.
10:12Don't we know who did it?
10:14The guy she came here with.
10:16Oh, he says he didn't, but he's so drunk he don't even know whether it's five o'clock or Thursday.
10:36How long did you know this girl?
10:40Long enough.
10:41What did she do for a living?
10:45She tried singing for a while, but she wasn't much good at it.
10:50You happen to know if she had any folks?
10:55Mr. Grant?
11:00Oh, yeah, yeah.
11:01Her father, he ran a farm upstate.
11:07They tell me you and she went steady for quite a while.
11:10Please, I don't want to talk about it.
11:13Okay.
11:14You go have a cigarette.
11:16Holman, tell that broad over there at the piano to stop with the chopsticks and come on over here.
11:30I bet you if I had a few little lessons, I could play as good as anybody.
11:34Yeah, sure.
11:35Well, now, wait a minute.
11:37The detective wants to talk to you.
11:39Oh.
11:40About what?
11:41About what happened.
11:43Would you give me some lessons?
11:45Sure, why not?
11:46Oh, boy, if I could play as good as you, gee, it'd be terrific.
11:50I haven't talked to you yet, miss, have I?
11:53Misses.
11:54Oh, Mrs. Nina Olson.
11:57Mr. Olson's a rat, but I still respect the name.
12:01I'll answer all your questions.
12:03I think you can go, Mrs. Olson.
12:07No questions?
12:09No, thanks.
12:11You're welcome.
12:13Well, now, if you'll excuse me, I'll just go get my little thingsies.
12:19Be on my way.
12:25I'll be back in a minute.
12:27Be on my way.
12:35I know you.
12:42I didn't get your address.
12:47Where do you live, huh?
12:49Over on 1612 Baker Street.
12:54Why?
12:55They'll need you for the preliminary hearing tomorrow.
12:57I'll get in touch with you the first thing in the morning and let you know where or when.
13:01Okay.
13:55Ah!
14:25Ah!
14:55Ah!
15:26Who is it?
15:27Me.
15:30Nina?
15:31Lucretia?
15:33Olson!
15:35What do you want?
15:39Well, let us say...
15:44I'm sorry.
15:46I'm sorry.
15:47I'm sorry.
15:48I'm sorry.
15:49I'm sorry.
15:50I'm sorry.
15:51I'm sorry.
15:52I'm sorry.
15:53I'm sorry.
15:54Let us say...
15:57that I came for, uh...
16:00some piano lessons.
16:11Listen.
16:13Whatever you think.
16:15Whatever you say.
16:16You said you would.
16:19Said I would what?
16:20Give me some lessons.
16:24Ha, ha, ha.
16:29Are you nuts?
16:31It's three o'clock in the morning.
16:35I can't sleep?
16:38You can't sleep?
16:40What's the diff?
16:43Come on.
16:45Come on.
16:47Show me.
16:48Now just put your hands on top of mine.
16:52You know, like they do in the movies.
16:55You're no fun at all.
17:05I know what the trouble with us is.
17:09We...
17:11haven't even had a drink lately.
17:25Does your hand still hurt?
17:30Here.
17:32Let me kiss it better.
17:38Yeah.
17:40It hurts.
17:44Well, you sure made a mess of that piano.
17:48What'd you do?
17:49Cut it when you dropped the glass?
17:51Yeah.
17:53Well, here, let me look at it.
17:56Come on.
17:58You go home.
18:00Uh-oh.
18:03What's done?
18:04What'd he say, Daddy?
18:05No, that's what I call instant service.
18:09Johnny, what are you doing here?
18:11We decided to rent our old buddy's pad
18:13and have a little game of clean and sincere poker.
18:15And look who's here.
18:17Miss Scott and Sonny.
18:19Hiya.
18:20How about this guy?
18:21And we came here to cheer you up.
18:23Why, you old mother.
18:26Get a load of this, Mommy.
18:27500 years old.
18:28Knock you right off your feet.
18:30Tremendous.
18:31Can I stay?
18:32Can you make sandwiches?
18:34Oh, sure.
18:35Stay.
18:36Why don't everybody stop talking and pull up some chairs?
18:38Table stakes, jacks, or better?
18:40Lady luck be good to me and all my creditors.
18:42Come on, sit down, kid.
18:43Pick up a hand.
18:45Whoa.
18:47He's taking it pretty hard.
18:49I guess he was really hung on that Elmer like.
18:52Oh.
18:54Should've stayed.
18:56He had a full house.
19:03There's nothing you can do about it.
19:05It's all right.
19:06It's all right.
19:07It's all right.
19:08It's all right.
19:09It's all right.
19:10It's all right.
19:11It's all right.
19:12It's all right.
19:14There's nothing wrong with your hand.
19:16If you don't use it, you're going to have real trouble.
19:19How would you like another 10 bucks?
19:2110 bucks?
19:22It's yours.
19:26What for?
19:27I want you to bandage my hand.
19:28There's no reason to.
19:29Is that the worst thing you did in this crummy joint?
19:33I want you to bandage the hand.
19:36All right.
19:38I guess there's no law against a man having his hand bandaged if he wants to.
19:42Step over here.
19:47I want you to put plenty of padding on it.
19:51Tape.
19:53If you want to hide your hand so bad, why don't you wear gloves?
19:56Yeah, gloves in the middle of summer.
19:58That's fine.
19:59People do a lot of wondering about that.
20:01What do you care?
20:03Just bandage the hand.
20:07Around here?
20:09Yeah.
20:11What do you do for a living?
20:12Fix the hand, will you?
20:17It looks like blood.
20:19Come on.
20:20Hurry up.
20:21It can't be.
20:22There's no abrasion.
20:23Nothing.
20:24When did it start?
20:25Will you bandage the hand?
20:26Maybe there is something wrong.
20:28I want somebody else to look at this.
20:30No!
20:31It ought to be x-rayed.
20:33Maybe I missed something.
20:34Let me run you over to General Hospital.
20:41You're a hard man to find.
20:50Are you all right?
20:54A hundred percent.
20:55That preliminary hearing I told you about is at 10 o'clock this morning, which is now.
20:59Come on.
21:02Why?
21:03Because the fellows in the prosecutor's office say so.
21:06What can I tell them?
21:07You can tell them about Alma.
21:12I can't go.
21:13You're sending my regrets.
21:15I'm not feeling at all well.
21:17What do you think I'm going to do about this subpoena?
21:20I don't care.
21:24Look, mister.
21:25Oh.
21:26Why don't you have a little coffee?
21:28It'll make you feel better.
21:30I know you're feeling blue.
21:32And I don't want to bug you.
21:34But you've got to be there.
21:36Other people know Alma.
21:37Why don't you get somebody else?
21:39Because it's too late.
21:41Come on, mister.
21:43Don't make me get tough.
21:54Will Thomas Grant take the stand?
22:05Will you stand, please?
22:15Raise your right hand, put your left hand on the Bible, and repeat after me.
22:18I promise to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God.
22:23Mr. Grant.
22:26The oath, Mr. Grant.
22:27Raise your right hand, put your left hand on the Bible.
22:34Mr. Grant.
22:37Raise your right hand.
22:41Now your left hand on the Bible.
22:46Mr. Grant.
22:49Please, Mr. Grant.
22:56No, Josh!
22:57Hey!
23:01I can't.
23:02I can't.
23:04I can't.
23:05I can't.
23:06I can't.
23:07I can't.
23:08I can't.
23:09I can't.
23:10I can't.
23:15Read this first, then sign it at the bottom.
23:20I'd read it first.
23:21A confession is nothing to be taken lightly.
23:24I'll get a doctor in front of her to stop this blood.
23:26What blood?
23:29Do you think I ever would have told you what would happen if it wasn't for this blood?
23:32What blood?
23:34This!
23:55In this book it is written,
23:58Vengeance is mine.
24:01Sayeth the Lord.
24:04Vengeance is mine.
24:05Sayeth the Lord.
24:06Vengeance is mine.
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