Suspense-S3E32: Go Home Dead Man
25min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | TV Series (1949–1954)
Williams is a pilot who works for Scandinavian Export, flying by night to deliver unknown shipments to somewhere in the Arctic. Feeling something's fishy, he tries to quit but is strong-armed into making another flight. His bosses are smugglers and they plot his "accidental" death. When their attempt to murder him on a train fails, they plan an explosion with the help of the woman he believes is in love with him.
Stars: Rex Marshall, Robert Emhardt, John Baragrey
25min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | TV Series (1949–1954)
Williams is a pilot who works for Scandinavian Export, flying by night to deliver unknown shipments to somewhere in the Arctic. Feeling something's fishy, he tries to quit but is strong-armed into making another flight. His bosses are smugglers and they plot his "accidental" death. When their attempt to murder him on a train fails, they plan an explosion with the help of the woman he believes is in love with him.
Stars: Rex Marshall, Robert Emhardt, John Baragrey
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00:00Now, Autolite and its 96,000 dealers everywhere present Suspense.
00:31Ticket, please.
00:51All tickets, please.
01:00Oh, thank you. Thank you very much.
01:15Surely.
01:16I don't suppose you care for an uncooked carrot?
01:19Oh, yes, I would. As a matter of fact, I'm very fond of it.
01:25Well, I think I'll have a carrot, too.
01:30Really excellent carrots. I learned to like them during the war.
01:40American, aren't you?
01:42Yes.
01:43Haven't I seen you on this train before?
01:45Well, you might have.
01:47Do you live in Scotland?
01:49Well, yes. Yeah, more or less.
01:51Go down to London about once a week?
01:54Well, more or less, yes.
01:56I met a girl a month or so ago in London.
02:02Excuse me.
02:14Thanks a lot.
02:27I wonder what Element X is.
02:32It says here there's an embargo on Element X.
02:36That's odd. Obviously means something else.
02:46What's the matter, Will?
02:49Oh, you're so quiet this trip.
02:53Scared somehow. You're always looking for someone.
02:57Oh, come on, honey. Tell Cecilia what's the matter.
03:01I'm going to quit my job.
03:03You are? What is your job?
03:06You know you never did tell me your job.
03:08Sure I told you. I bought a surplus cargo plane and I fly. Isn't that enough?
03:12Why do you quit it?
03:14I'm afraid. Something tells me if I don't get out now, I'll never get out.
03:18Well, what have you been doing?
03:20I've been flying cargo to some place in the Arctic.
03:23The Arctic? But where in the Arctic?
03:26I don't know where.
03:27What's the cargo?
03:28I don't know.
03:33But don't you see it?
03:35Just a lot of little wooden boxes, sealed.
03:38We take off from a private estate up in Scotland and fly northeast, always at night.
03:42But, honey, how can you fly if you don't know where you're flying?
03:45They furnish a navigator.
03:46But where do you think you fly?
03:49I think we fly to Lapland.
03:51But I don't know where the boxes go from there.
03:56Whatever do you think it could be?
03:58Look, Cecilia.
04:00I'm going to the office now and get my back pay and quit.
04:06You know that little fish and chips place where I first met you?
04:09Yes, darling.
04:10Meet me there in two hours, will you?
04:11All right, Will. Anything you say.
04:13Only please, kiss me first.
04:19THE WORLD IS OURS
04:41Good morning, Mr. Williams.
04:43Glad you're back safely, sir.
04:44Are you wormy? Still crawling around?
04:46How's the weather out, sir? A beastly?
04:48Mr. Harriman, Mr. Williams is back again, sir.
04:57Oh, hello, Williams. I hear you got the cargo through all right.
05:01Yeah, we had a little trouble getting back to England. Ice, lots of ice.
05:04Ah, so on. Sit down, Williams.
05:06Mr. Harriman, I'd like to resign.
05:08Resign?
05:10Peters, you didn't tell me anything about this.
05:13Well, that's news to me. He never told me.
05:15And, uh, when did you decide to quit?
05:18Just now.
05:20Oh, not satisfied with the terms?
05:23I just don't want to fly anymore.
05:25Oh, that's indeed a great pity.
05:28I...
05:34Hello, Jugs. How's the chief?
05:36Is something wrong?
05:38Yes, chief. Mr. Williams, it seems, wants to leave us.
05:41You want more money?
05:43No, just what you owe me.
05:45What's come up? What's wrong?
05:46Nothing's wrong.
05:48Then why do you quit?
05:50I'm afraid we can't let you go now, Williams.
05:53No, you don't go. Not now, you don't.
05:56I'm sorry, but I'm not going to fly anymore.
05:58See, you put us in a rather awkward position.
06:01Listen, why the pressure act?
06:03Believe me, when anyone joins our firm, he's so loyal, he never leaves, never.
06:07Am I right, gentlemen? Quite right.
06:09Yes, sir.
06:10Let me tell you, Mr. Williams, for your own good,
06:12I warn you most seriously to reconsider.
06:15I know you will.
06:19I'll tell you what I'll do.
06:20I'll make just one more trip for you, and then we'll call it quits.
06:23Is that a deal?
06:24You go back with Peters right now?
06:26Sure. It's a deal.
06:28All right. I'll see you at the station in an hour.
06:30No, no, wait.
06:32Peters, he goes with you.
06:34Don't worry, I'll be there. I just want to say goodbye to my girl.
06:39All right.
06:41Chief, may I make a suggestion?
06:45Suggest?
06:46I presume you are planning the termination of Mr. Williams' services?
06:51The point is how.
06:52How will the termination be more simple and effective?
06:55Suicide.
06:56Oh, no, no, no. He's not the type at all.
06:59He could, however, meet with an accident.
07:03Something might happen to him on a train, for instance.
07:16Will.
07:20Listen, you've got to do something for me, and do it without a question.
07:23Sure, honey, anything.
07:24A cup of tea, please.
07:26When I tried to quit just now, they put up such a scene.
07:29A cup of tea, please.
07:31When I tried to quit just now, they put up such a stink, I know something's rotten.
07:34Oh, darling, what are you going to do?
07:36I can't go to Scotland Yard, because now they're following me.
07:38Oh, darling, you're kidding.
07:40What do you say, chum? We ready?
07:42What do you say, chum? You get off my back.
07:44We ready?
07:46Will you give me two minutes to say goodbye to my girl?
07:48I'll be outside.
07:55Look, I want you to go to Scotland Yard.
07:57Me?
07:58Yes, tell them everything I've told you.
08:00Tell them I promise to make one more flight, just so I can find out what's behind all this.
08:08Here.
08:10Here's the time I get into Edinburgh, and the address.
08:13Now, please, tell Scotland Yard to have someone follow me.
08:15Oh, darling, don't worry. I'll call them right away.
08:18Because I'd like to come back and see you.
08:20I'd like very much to come back alive and see you.
08:22Oh, darling.
08:28Bye.
08:54Why not sleep? We have the night.
08:57I'm really not sleeping.
08:59It's fast train. Fastest train they say in the world.
09:01You don't want to sleep.
09:03We travel too fast for sleep.
09:06Well, well, well, look who's here.
09:08Well, this is a pleasant surprise.
09:10What are you doing on this train?
09:12Well, we thought we'd take a long weekend.
09:14With John no longer with us, we thought we'd declare a holiday and do a little shooting.
09:18Shooting?
09:20Grouse. First class grouse up on those moors.
09:22Yes, you ought to see the chief when he gets out there.
09:25He's really a marvel with a gun.
09:27Speaking of the devil.
09:34Cigarette?
09:36No, thanks.
09:37No, thank you. Not just now. I'm feeling rather sleepy.
09:39I'll take a couple for a nap.
09:42Allow me, will you?
09:45Oh, how fast we're traveling tonight.
09:48Navigator, do you know how fast we go tonight?
09:50A hundred and ten.
09:53Well, we're going to have a little shut-eye.
09:57Well, may I switch off the light, will you please?
10:02Well, good night all.
10:05Sleep soundly, sir.
10:09Anything happens, Williams, you wake us up.
10:23Thank you, Governor.
10:41Excuse me, Governor.
10:43Could you do a chap a favor?
10:45Well, I don't know. What is it?
10:47I'm from the Marshall Nursing Home.
10:50This here patient went away and I'm taking him back.
10:54Well, what am I supposed to do about that?
10:56Could we just sit in your compartment?
10:58Yeah, sure. Come on in.
11:00As a matter of fact, I'm glad for the company.
11:07Aren't you the good Samaritan, Governor?
11:10He's a nice, peaceful chap, Mulligan.
11:14A straight jacket he's wearing is only to cause the law.
11:18You've got to wear them when you're moving people like that.
11:21Say, will you excuse me while I go and get my luggage from the other car?
11:25What about Mulligan? Will he be all right?
11:27Of course, sir.
11:29Mulligan wouldn't touch even the smallest little mouse.
11:33Besides, he's got his straight jacket on.
11:49The train goes fast?
11:54The train goes fast?
11:56Yeah, it goes fast.
12:02Mulligan itches.
12:04Help take this off, please.
12:06You better go to sleep.
12:08Oh, no. I go look out the window.
12:10Hey, wait a minute. What are you trying to do?
12:12You're going to open the door?
12:14Mulligan likes fresh air.
12:16Get back here. You'll kill yourself.
12:18I want to jump.
12:19No, you can't jump.
12:20I can't jump?
12:21No.
12:22All right, then you jump.
12:24What?
12:25You jump. That's the law.
12:26The law says you jump.
12:28You break the law, you jump.
12:31Hey, Peters.
12:32Hey, Peters, help me, will you?
12:34Harriman.
12:35Harriman, wake up, you guys.
12:37Help me, will you?
12:38Harriman, Peters.
12:39Judge.
12:40Try to lock him in.
12:42Judge.
12:43Try to lock him. Can't you see he's got a knife?
12:46Help me, will you, you guys?
12:58And now, the second act of Go Home, Dead Man,
13:02starring Jackie Cooper.
13:13Help!
13:15Help, somebody!
13:17Please!
13:18Help!
13:20Wake up!
13:21Wake up!
13:22Wake up, you fools!
13:24What on earth?
13:25How can you sleep when...
13:27What is he, a madman?
13:30Excuse me.
13:31Now train is slowing down, I feel much better.
13:33If I've caused you any trouble, please excuse me.
13:35I've a good mind to report you, gentlemen.
13:38Oh, I could sleep so happy I never will now.
13:41Couldn't you hear him?
13:42I could hear him wail and sigh.
13:44It must have been the noise of the train.
13:45I can't imagine why we didn't hear him call for help.
13:47Nor me.
13:48Oh, there's something wrong here.
13:50I can tell that you're lying.
13:52This is for the police.
13:54Where is he?
13:55Hey!
13:56Stop!
13:58Stop!
14:13What we've got to do now, but fast, is to find Williams.
14:17I suppose he's gone to Scotland Yard by now.
14:19Yeah, we'd best clear out of here and make for day.
14:21Well, what's that you've got there?
14:23Clay?
14:24Plastic explosion.
14:25Very convenient.
14:27I'd like to get a chance to use it.
14:29I'd like to get a chance to use it.
14:31I'd like to get a chance to use it.
14:33I'd like to get a chance to use it.
14:35I'd like to get a chance to use it.
14:37I'd like to get a chance to use it.
14:39I'd like to get a chance to use it.
14:43Scandinavian exports.
14:45Oh, it's you, darling.
14:47Look, he got away from us.
14:49So don't call here anymore.
14:51But he's back.
14:52He just called me.
14:53No, he hasn't called anyone else yet.
14:56Just me.
14:57I'm going to the park to meet him now.
15:00Good, good.
15:01Take him to your flat.
15:03Yes, yes, he will feel safe there.
15:07I'll get a phone first.
15:09Call your flat before you bring him.
15:11Right.
15:13What did I tell you?
15:14This is our chance.
15:16No, no.
15:17We don't have no bomb explosion.
15:19It's too risky.
15:20Remember, this must look like an accident, like suicide.
15:24But suppose a gas stove blows up?
15:26How can a gas stove explode?
15:29Simple.
15:30I go to a flat.
15:32I stick this onto the gas burner
15:35and a couple of little wires no one sees.
15:38And that's the end.
15:40Must have been a leak in the stove.
15:42Yes, but what about the girl?
15:44Warner.
15:46Sounds all right with me.
15:48What about you, Chief?
15:50Any failure, my superior will hold you two responsible.
15:54This will work.
15:55I'll wager my life it will.
16:06Cecilia.
16:07Will.
16:08Boy, am I glad to see you.
16:10I thought I'd lost you forever.
16:12What did they say, Cecilia?
16:13What did Scotland Yard say?
16:14Oh, you don't know the relief it is to know
16:16that you're back and alive.
16:17Oh, I'm kind of pleased about that myself.
16:19I've been in a terrible state of worry, but it's over now.
16:23You're back.
16:24I'm back.
16:25I'm back.
16:26I'm back.
16:27I'm back.
16:28I'm back.
16:29I'm back.
16:30I'm back.
16:31I'm back.
16:32I'm back.
16:33I'm back.
16:34You're back and you're safe.
16:36I'm safe?
16:37How come you say that?
16:38Because Scotland Yard said not to worry.
16:40They said they're going to raid the office
16:42and pick everybody up right away.
16:44What'll I do, wait?
16:45You come to my flat.
16:46No, I don't want to get you mixed up in this.
16:48Oh, but darling, we could take a taxi and weave in and out
16:50and no one could ever follow us.
16:52And you'd be safe.
16:54You wouldn't have to go out at all.
16:56I'd be there to run errands for you.
16:59Okay, swell.
17:02But I'm going to have to leave you for a moment
17:04when we get to a phone.
17:05Phone?
17:06Why do you have to phone anyone?
17:07I want to get the maid out.
17:09She's such a gossip, you know.
17:11Hello, Cecilia?
17:32Listen carefully.
17:34You bring him home.
17:36You've forgotten something for supper.
17:38You have to go out again.
17:40While you're gone,
17:42ask him to light the stove under the potatoes.
17:46That's all.
17:58Come on, lock that fast.
18:03Yeah, that's better.
18:09That's the best I've felt in a long time.
18:11Oh, darling.
18:12Now you can relax and relax and relax.
18:20Fancy.
18:21What's the matter?
18:22I forgot the wine.
18:23Oh, we don't need any wine.
18:24Oh, yes, darling, we do.
18:26This is a reunion.
18:27I want a bottle of the best in the world.
18:32Please don't go out.
18:33Darling, I want everything to be perfect.
18:36Don't worry.
18:37It's just down to the corner.
18:40Oh, sweetheart.
18:41Well, I'm out.
18:42Would you do me a favor?
18:43Sure.
18:44There's some potatoes in a pan there.
18:45Would you put them on the stove and light it?
18:48And then when I get back,
18:50everything will be ready at the same time.
18:53All right?
18:54I guess I can borrow water.
19:01You don't know what your eyes do to me.
19:31It's a libium.
20:00It's a libium.
20:01Superficially, it looks like green sand, Marl.
20:30In seven minutes.
20:50Another three minutes and we'll go in and get him.
20:53That's orders.
20:54That's the chief's orders.
21:09Hello?
21:10Wormy?
21:11You're sure everything worked?
21:14Look, I'm closing up here for five days.
21:16Stay away.
21:17Don't fall.
21:18We won't come back until everything's sure.
21:20Tell Cecilia to call me at my department.
21:41I say, what happened?
21:42Gas stove blew up.
21:44Blowing the bits, poor lad, blowing the bits.
22:13To the effective termination of Mr. Williams.
22:27But our problem still remains.
22:29How do we find a successor?
22:31Yes, we must continue the shipments of element X.
22:35Yes, we've run this advertisement for five days now.
22:40And no one has answered the advertisement.
22:44Oh.
22:45Who's there?
22:46Is that you, Peters?
22:48About that ad you ran for a pilot.
22:50I've come for the job.
22:55Hiya, Jugs.
22:57Hello, Cecilia.
22:59Say, I missed you.
23:00What happened, baby?
23:01All those potatoes just for me?
23:03Just...
23:04Wait a minute, Jugs, before you do that, I think you'd like to meet a couple of friends of mine just visiting from Scotland Yard.
23:09Won't be necessary, Pat.
23:11Come along.
23:12Come along, my lad.
23:15You look surprised, honey.
23:16What's the matter?
23:17What's so mysterious, me?
23:18Not mysterious.
23:20Just lucky I dropped the matches and had to look under the burner.
23:22Honest, Willy, I didn't know a thing.
23:24So then I picked up a phone and Scotland Yard suggested I use a long wire and set it off anyway.
23:29You see, they figured as long as I were dead, you'd come back here and start your shipments all over again.
23:34Smart, aren't they?
23:36Baby, don't I get a kiss?
23:39You don't know what your eyes do to me.
23:42This way, please, miss.
24:06Next week, our story will be Foggy Night Visitor with Cloris Leachman and Leslie Nielsen.
24:33Another story well-calculated to keep you in suspense.
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