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hoping once again to keep you in suspense.
Hey.
Morning.
Buker?
They can see better from here.
How do you feel, kiddo?
OK, I guess.
Flying out here from New York last night and taking a train back this morning isn't my
idea of fun, though.
Yeah, well, we'll show you LA next trip, baby.
We got about two minutes.
You better tell me what this is all about.
We got a dame who's been living with Fritzie Hollister's sweetheart for the past couple
of weeks.
You know Fritzie.
Yeah.
He's got a trunk full of hot jewelry.
I'd like to get my hands on.
Well, this is your chance, Mahoney.
Now, we figure Fritzie's ducked the old girlfriend and made a connection with a new one.
And her name is Genevieve Josephine Johnson.
Now, here's the angle.
She's heading east on this streamliner today, probably to wherever Fritzie's hanging around.
It's a sit-up train.
And right across the aisle from her.
So you work yourself in with her.
And when you get a chance, check her luggage and find out where she's going to meet him.
I know.
Don't look so sad, kiddo.
It's an easy job sitting on a train with a doll.
Hey, hey.
Hmm?
Oh, that one?
Yeah.
Genevieve Josephine Johnson.
Uh-huh.
In the flesh.
I don't know.
And I don't mean to argue with you.
To me, she just isn't the type for a Fritzie Hollister.
Oh, stop your kidding.
No job for one thing.
No family or background we can check.
An apartment in Hollywood that rented for $4.50 a month.
Part of the act, huh?
Everything else set?
All set.
Albert!
Well, so long, kid.
So long.
Albert!
Good!
Have a nice trip.
Bye, Charlie.
Bye.
Bye.
Water.
Yes, sir.
Carry your bags, sir.
The bag's okay.
My ticket says 32.
Car 32.
Yes, sir.
That'll be the next car down, sir.
You can board right here.
All reserved seats.
Yes, sir.
Thanks.
Pardon me.
Pardon me, please.
Oh, excuse me.
Oh, boy.
Oh, boy.
Oh, boy.
Oh, boy.
Oh, boy.
Oh, boy.
Oh, boy.
Oh, boy.
Oh, boy.
Oh, boy.
Oh, boy.
Oh, boy.
Oh, boy.
Oh, boy.
Oh, boy.
Oh, boy.
There.
There.
See?
Somebody...
Yes?
Can you hold up your arm for me?
I'll be right back.
Please, cut off a little less than a foot.
It's all right.
We'll be fine.
Hey.
Oh.
Oh, I'm sorry, Miss.
It's all right.
Oh.
And careful now.
Don't look at her sitting there in her little brown suit and white blouse.
Just take off your hat.
Lay it on the seat. Pick up your magazine.
But don't look over there.
No, no. Don't reach over and offer to light a cigarette.
She can do it. She's okay.
Don't lean across the aisle. I've got plenty of time.
It'll happen sooner or later.
So just relax and just let it happen.
You know what you're doing, boy. That old Mahoney technique.
It's sorry, isn't it? Yes, sorry.
Hi, bud.
Hi.
Yes, sorry. Oh, how's it?
Hello there, little lady. How are you?
Hey, you'll mind if I take your seat for a minute?
I'm on my way to the club, guys. It's a long walk.
Well, that's one way to sit down.
What's the matter? Ain't I even human?
Ain't I even looked at, huh?
Hey, how are you?
Well, Miss Hihat, hey.
Please go wherever you were going and leave me alone.
Come on, little lady. Have a nice friendly drink with old Frank Tars.
How about it?
Pardon me, miss.
Hey, you.
Hey, we...
Now, just what's the idea, buster?
What are you doing in this car anyway?
And what are you looking for?
A good punch in the mouth, maybe?
No, no. He's bothering me, yes, but I don't want any trouble about this.
Oh, boy, it's a hassle about power. I can get off in a couple of minutes.
It's the same for doing. I didn't mean to insult anybody.
All I thought to do...
Yeah, all you thought to do.
Then who asked you to sit down with the young lady, huh?
Who wanted you? Why I ought to...
Please, please, it's all right. It's all... It's perfectly all right.
Just... Just don't... Don't hit him, Morgan.
Where's your car?
It's back there.
Come on, I'll take you.
I said come on.
Please, don't... Don't hurt him.
Don't hurt him.
It's all right, miss. Don't you worry.
Come on, move on.
Hey, now, wait just a minute.
You know who I am?
Yeah, I know who you are.
Okay, you can let go now.
So you're bright eyes, huh?
You can leave off the bright eyes.
Yeah, sure, sure.
It's your day to be touchy, huh?
You look pretty good back in there.
You see her wring her hands and wink them big brown eyes?
Who will you be?
Compartment A next door whenever you need me.
Well, she's waiting for you, Mr. Hero.
You know, I wish I had poked you, Dane.
You're a nice big New York copper, Mahoney.
You got the jaw and you got the shoulders.
I heard all about you.
You look like you could do it.
Well, I'm just a beefy blot working out of L.A.'s central division,
but I could whip you, boy.
So easy.
So easy.
I'd better get back.
Yeah, sure.
I envy you, bright eyes.
You two make a nice couple.
He won't bother you again, miss?
Oh, you didn't hurt him or anything like that, did you?
Oh, no, no, no.
I just took him back to his car and asked him to stay away from you.
Oh, it was embarrassing.
This is the first time anything like this has happened to me.
I'm glad you helped out.
Thank you very much.
There's no trouble at all.
Oh, um...
What?
I'm out of matches.
Oh, well, I can help you there.
I have some in my purse, I think.
Yes, here you are.
Thanks.
Would you, uh, have a cigarette?
Well, thank you, yes.
Why don't you sit down?
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Sure.
What?
My goodness, it was kind of funny, wasn't it?
He was so typed.
Yes.
Yes, it was funny.
They all razzmatazz.
Don't ask, just answer.
Don't laugh, but smile a lot.
Better see your teeth.
Don't move close.
But let her know that you've got shoulders there, boy.
And the other trick.
Keep your hands open, spread out.
Talk.
Then stop.
Look a while.
Watch the orange groves go by.
Watch the houses go by.
Watch your life go by.
What?
Oh, my goodness.
You must have money in the bank.
You're talking to yourself.
What's the trouble?
I think I'll stop looking around out there.
It's beginning to worry me.
Too big or too empty or too something, I don't know.
You, uh, like it, do you?
Oh, it's lovely.
The most beautiful country I've ever seen in my life.
It's breathtaking.
Oh, and, um, people call me Jenny.
Jenny for Genevieve, huh?
Yep.
Jenny Johnson.
Well, they call me Mahoney.
And, um, some other things sometimes.
My name's Harry.
Oh, well, where are you heading anyway?
All the way east?
All the way and more.
Bayside Hills, Pennsylvania.
I work in a dentist's office there.
Now, that's funny.
Maybe the suntan threw me.
You know, I kind of thought you lived in L.A.
And mostly that you didn't work.
Oh, dear.
Well, I did live there for three weeks
in a simply marvelous garden apartment in Hollywood.
Right off Sunset Boulevard.
They had a heated pool.
Oh, it was wonderful.
It sounds expensive.
Oh, it was terribly.
But I shared it with a couple of other girls off and on.
Advertising the papers, you know.
Only...
Only?
Well, go on.
Something happened?
Only maybe I'm funny in some ways.
Maybe I'm old fashioned.
But some things I just...
Well, there's not much point of going into that part.
I get it.
You got stuck with a cute little blonde
who always wore your clothes or something.
Cute?
Not for my money. Thank you.
What happened anyway was that she got out last week
after one of her parties when I said what I had to say.
She got out pretty darn fast, believe you me.
I...
My goodness, did I say something?
Why are you staring at me?
Who? What?
Oh, I was staring at you.
Well, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to.
Oh, now that's all right.
My goodness.
For some reason, it seemed like you were looking at me
for the first time.
Ah, I seen you go to dinner with her.
You're doing okay, bright eyes.
Yeah, but it doesn't add up.
Too homespun for this trick.
What's she done, throwing up a smoke screen?
That homespun stuff's all part of the act.
She's Fritzie's girlfriend, all right?
Remember, you're the operator, boy, not her.
She's going to a place in Pennsylvania.
She tell you she's got a little old mother
and a little old father waiting for her back home?
Yeah.
Well, it's a great act.
She's just a better actor than you are.
Now, there's nothing in her luggage on the baggage car,
but Fritzie must have slipped her some little trick in her.
Hey, it took a lot of fixing to set this up,
getting you the space across from her and all,
so keep your eyes on her, bright eyes.
That's what you're here for.
Keep on her.
Hi.
Did you get your glass of water?
Yeah.
Well, it seems to be getting pretty late, doesn't it?
Hadn't we better call it a night?
Oh, uh...
What?
Why?
Well, couldn't we sit here another half hour
and just talk about things?
Why couldn't we?
Oh, I suppose we could.
That is, if you don't expect...
Oh, I don't expect anything.
Well, we'll talk about what?
We'll talk about you.
Oh, no, we won't.
There's nothing to talk about.
That isn't the way I heard it.
Oh, you didn't hear anything about me.
You'd be surprised, sister.
What?
Nothing.
I don't think you want to talk very much, do you?
No, I want to find out something.
Harry, Harry, Harry, no.
Anything to matter?
No, no, please.
I don't care for that sort of thing.
You promised. You said, please.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
I'm sorry, I just...
That's quite all right.
The first minute it got dark, though, you had to try it.
I told you, I'm sorry.
Forget it.
You know, I'd like to tell you something.
I'm not that kind of a guy. I never was.
I've had so much of that stupid messing around.
Oh, so much of it?
I see.
Well, I haven't.
And I don't think I'm sorry either.
I want it to mean something with me,
and it won't be stupid.
That's silly, isn't it?
No, it isn't.
It's awfully late, really, it is.
I'll see you tomorrow.
Kansas City Star, get your Kansas City Star here.
Star here. Kansas City Star.
It's about time.
Why didn't you come back last night?
I didn't feel like it.
Did you get anything else done?
I went through her suitcase when she was asleep.
Dresses and things, shoes, bathrobes,
some stuff underneath, that's all.
The dress costs maybe $15 at the outside.
It was the most expensive item there.
And that suit that she's wearing went for $40 at the sale.
You know that.
All right, so she's smart enough not only to act it,
but to have the right props.
This isn't Fritzie's girlfriend.
He wouldn't know one like this,
and she wouldn't have one like him.
That's the second time you've said that.
How do you know?
I just know, I... well, I found out.
You're getting older and you're getting dumber, bright eyes.
You're getting fed up.
She'd never have anything to do with somebody like Fritzie.
I told you that once before, too.
Hey, hey.
What?
Fritzie.
What?
Just walked by outside the window carrying a suitcase.
Kansas Star here. Kansas City Star.
Yeah, that's him, all right.
Getting on this car.
You see the little guy in the overcoat with the cigarette?
You're right.
It's Fritzie Hollister.
Yeah, sure, I'm right.
He just sat down beside Genevieve Josephine Johnson
from Pennsylvania.
Well, you know, it could be just a coincidence.
So she's a nice kid, huh?
Couldn't have anything to do with a bum like Fritzie, huh?
Come on.
Now stay where you are.
We'll make our play when the time comes.
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A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.
Now, use your head right eyes.
It's no mistake, no crazy coincidence.
Even if she sat there all day and hasn't talked to him once,
the little bird in the blue overcoat is Fretzy Hollister.
And you were trying to steal his girl.
Use your head.
She was fast enough and smart enough to spot you right off for what you were.
And she handled you last night like a schoolboy.
She couldn't warn him from the train,
but she's given him a poke in the ribs or an elbow or something
so he'll play it straight here.
Sure, she's Fitsy's one chance.
She'll work on you again bright eyes.
And watch that.
Because you don't want to let either one of them slip off the hook.
Asleep?
No.
Cup of water?
No.
I'll drink it myself.
I can't sleep.
Not with that strange man over there.
What's so strange about him?
What?
Do you feel like talking?
Sure, let's talk. Why not sit down?
Thank you.
Well, I wonder what this stop is going to be.
I'm glad you wanted to talk.
But suppose you drop the rude girl routine, huh?
My goodness.
You're all right in the daytime,
but at night you come out with the silliest things that...
Say, what do you mean by that?
Big laugh.
Big laugh for you.
What?
For a couple of minutes last night I was stupid enough to believe you, sister.
What?
Not now, though, and don't you forget it.
What on earth are you talking about?
I said cut the act.
Well, I don't have to have anyone to talk to me like that.
I think you're crazy. You must be.
You must have something all twisted up in your head
that wouldn't say things like this.
Oh, darn.
I've been so thirsty all day. I think I'll get some water.
Stay where you are. I'll get the water.
Now, sit here. I...
I'll get the water.
You know where it is?
Hi. Hi.
What's the idea of leaving them together when we come in a station?
I'm sick of it. It happens here or else.
Now, look...
Shut up.
Hey, hey, Fritzy jumped over in your seat.
Yeah.
And he's talking to her.
Yeah, yeah, too sooner or later.
Right now she's telling him I'm a cop
and they'd better scram out while the scramming's good.
You hit it on the head, boy. There he goes, heading for the door.
He won't make it.
Hey.
Come on.
Hey, Fritzy.
What?
I've been waiting for you to try something like this.
Your girlfriend's pretty smart.
Look out, right? I see he's got a gun.
No, you don't. Stay away from me.
Stay away from me.
No good, Fritzy. No good.
Hey, you okay?
Yeah. Here. Hold on to it.
All right.
Hey, where you going?
To get his girlfriend. I want to attend to her personally.
All right, stand back. Stand back. Get out of the way.
Hey, what's all this? What's...
Police officers. Keep these people back.
Oh, yes, sir. Yes, sir. I'll do that, sir.
What is this? What on earth is this?
Stole that baby. This is a pinch.
What?
Come on. Come on. Come on. Up on your feet.
We've got Fritzy in a huddle.
You're hurting me.
And you're killing me with those big brown eyes.
Why, you just...
Pretty smart you were, only you forgot one little thing.
You forgot the first rule of Broadway.
Never hustle a hustler.
Just who do you think you had, anyway?
Some clown on a train or bright-eyed Mahoney?
Cut up the tears. Come on.
Now then, what's it all about, Sergeant Mahoney?
We can keep the man for carrying a gun.
That'll do for a starter.
We've got a million charges against him.
He pulled the biggest jewelry heist in the country last year.
You can get some papers out here to me?
Sergeant Daines is phoning Los Angeles right now.
All right. Now, what about the lady?
Hold her, too, for disturbing the peace if you have to.
She's Fritzy's girlfriend. She'll be named accomplice.
Oh, I see.
Well, she sure cries a lot.
I'll hold them for you.
Anything else you want from me?
Bright-eyes. We got a mix-up.
What do you mean?
You're a little mixed up, boy. That's what I mean.
I've been on the phone to L.A. straightening it out for you.
Fritzy's old girlfriend and that other one had the apartment together in L.A., okay?
But that's all. She's not tied up with Fritzy. She never was.
Why'd you meet her on the train?
Because Fritzy's girlfriend left an old trunk after her in the store room.
How was this Johnson deemed to know that there was a couple of hundred thousand dollars
worth of stolen jewelry in the fall's bottom?
Naturally, Fritzy wanted it back, so he found out this tomato
you were bright-eyeing with was coming east,
so he just grabbed a plane so he could meet her in K.C.
He wanted that trunk, boy.
Yeah, you mentioned that.
Well, sir, that's it.
She's no more Fritzy's new girlfriend than I am.
You know, it's funny how things work out.
The trunk's been in a hawk shop in L.A. all the time.
Little Miss Muffet got rid of it to clean up the place when she moved.
What's the matter? You sick or something?
I told you she wasn't Fritzy's girlfriend. I told you.
Well, I got that all straightened out for you now, bright-eye, so you...
Right out of release. Will you show her for Jenny Johnson?
Sure. Sure, glad to.
You know, I wanted to do just what you did
ever since that fella started talking.
He bothers me.
The next one will be through tomorrow morning, Jenny.
Thank you.
It's a real nice train, a streamliner and all.
They have a compartment for you.
Jenny, can I say anything? Can I do anything?
You know, when I remember what I was beginning to feel in my heart
and what I've done to you, I just...
In what? In your heart?
Oh, you proved it, didn't you?
Oh, Jenny, look, I'm sorry.
Well, that's all right, bright-eyes.
I heard them call you that.
You're very clever with all women and I'm very stupid, I suppose.
I didn't even know the first rule of Broadway,
but I know what I want anyway.
I want you to leave me alone.
I don't ever want to see you again.
Jenny, Jenny, I know what I want.
I found out sitting in that seat beside you.
Will you just get away from me, the things you said to me
and the way you acted?
Because... because what?
Because you cared for me, I suppose.
Because I cared for you, Jenny.
You know something?
I'm going to be on that train with you tomorrow morning.
Yes, sir, Jenny.
I'm going to be on that train with you.
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Our star, Mr. Terrone Power.
That's next week on Suspense.
Suspense is transcribed and directed by Elliot Lewis,
music composed by Lucian Morwick
and conducted by Lud Gluskin.
The girl in Car 32 was written for suspense by E. Jack Newman
from the story by Thomas Walsh.
In tonight's story, Kathy Lewis was heard as Jenny
and William Conrad as Dane.
Featured in the cast were Herb Butterfield,
Joseph Kearns, Roy Glenn, and John Danaer.
Victor Mature appeared by arrangement with 20th Century Fox,
producers of Prince Valiant in Technicolor and Cinescope,
starring James Mason, Janet Leigh, and Robert Wagner.
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