And now, another tale well calculated to keep you in...
Suspense.
When desperate men seek to overthrow a government, when a dictator is fighting to retain his
power, death is the penalty for all the losers.
Now, Revolution, written by Peter Fernandez.
Female Sustrano!
Female Sustrano!
Can you see him yet, Bob?
Now with all this crowd, there's a line of motorcycles right behind the van.
That should mean he's almost here.
Then get the camera ready.
Yeah, okay.
Up down, senor.
No pictures are to be taken.
What do you mean?
No pictures of the dictator are to be taken from this spot.
But that's ridiculous.
No pictures, no pictures, you understand?
Hey, where'd he go?
He just disappeared into the car.
Fine thing.
We hold this spot for two hours just to see a real old-style dictator in the flesh.
And some wise guy says no pictures.
Is he coming yet?
Sustrano, let me see.
There's a big open car.
Yeah?
Yeah, he's standing up in back waving at everybody.
There he is.
There he is.
It's him!
He's just the way he looks in the newsroom.
Oh, Bob, he's got to get just one picture and nobody will ever believe we even saw him.
He's a traitor!
I'm sure our friend is there.
I can't see him.
Hurry, Bob!
Okay, here goes.
Hold him back when someone's inside.
Oh, my God, I'm going to get out of here.
Just a sec.
Yes?
Good afternoon.
You?
The man who told us we couldn't take the picture.
Where is your cousin?
Never mind, I can hear him in the shower.
What do you want?
You do not believe in obeying orders, Mrs. Sheldman?
Orders?
Of course I do.
But your husband went ahead and took a picture anyway.
Did he?
Where is the camera?
Who are you?
I will find it myself.
Now, just a minute.
You can't go through our things.
Bob!
Bob!
Keep quiet.
Yeah, honey?
Come out here.
I'm warning you.
I'm not dressed yet.
Well, put your robe on.
I told you to be still.
Let go of my arm.
I'll call the police.
Okay, honey, now what did you...
Hey, what are you doing here?
Let go of my wife.
Very well, senor.
Now, please give me your camera.
Camera?
I'll listen here, Max.
You listen.
A gun.
I said I want the camera.
Now.
Sure.
I'll get it.
No, I will get it.
Where is it?
Hanging on a hook in the closet.
Huh?
Yes.
Thank you.
Is the film still in here?
Sure, but...
Good.
Let me give you the camera.
I'll get it.
We'll get it in a minute.
That's a valuable camera.
Is it?
I'm sorry, but in the future, when someone tells you not to take pictures, do as you
are told.
That camera is worth over 200 bucks.
He can't get away with a thing like that.
As soon as I get dressed, we're going to the police.
Yes, senor, senora.
How can we help you?
We want to report that our camera was stolen.
Well, I am sorry we cannot help, but you see, our entire force is working on the attempted
assassination of El Supremo.
Attempted assassination?
Then he wasn't killed.
Fortunately, no.
Could you come back and file the necessary report tomorrow?
That would be impossible.
So we're just here on our honeymoon.
We're flying back to the States first thing in the morning.
Very well.
You will have to see the Capitan, though he is busy enough.
One moment, please.
Sure.
This is Garcia.
I have some Americano tourists here who have a robbery to report.
I know, Capitan, but they are very insistent.
Si, si.
Yes, sir.
Thank you.
Thank you, sir.
The Capitan is very busy, but he will take the time to see you.
Please go through those double doors over there, then down the corridor.
His office is the last one on the right.
Thanks.
Come on, listen.
Here we are.
You go in first, honey.
Come in.
Come in, my friends.
Go ahead, honey.
I...
Oh, so you were the police.
That's right.
The police is me.
Now, please, close the door after you.
Sure.
I'm very glad that you came here, both of you.
Glad.
Then you were... you were going to return our camera after all?
Where is the film you exposed at the parade this afternoon?
You've already got that.
It was in the camera when you grabbed it.
You are lying, Mr. Shelburne.
The film was developed.
Very nice pictures of you and your wife in front of some of our landmarks.
What of the parade?
Of El Supremo, those nigh?
Of the would-be assassins?
Nothing.
I...
I don't understand.
I do.
Clearly, you are trying to conceal the identity of the would-be assassins.
That's ridiculous.
For assassins, or those who protect them, there is only one penalty.
Look, we're not assassins.
We're not anything.
We're not even interested in your darn revolution.
We're on our honeymoon, that's all.
Tomorrow morning, we're going home, and I go back to work at the office.
Tomorrow morning, senor, unless you give me the right film, you will be taken outside
of the city and shot.
El Soto and Rivera report to me immediately.
However, my friends, you can walk out in freedom if you give me the photograph I want.
But if it wasn't in the camera, then it just doesn't exist.
Both I and one of my men saw you take the picture.
Ah, sergeant Rivera.
Yes, capitán.
You will take one other man with you, a man we can trust.
You will remove everything from the Shalburn's hotel room.
Hey, you...
Then, sergeant Rivera, you will go to the desk and remove their registration card and
any evidence of charges for room service.
In short, you will make certain that there is no proof of the Shalburn's ever having
stayed at the hotel.
Yes, sir.
Go and do it immediately.
Yes, sir.
Immediately, capitán.
Bob, we can't let them do that.
We don't know how we can stop them.
And you, lieutenant Soto?
Yes, capitán.
Lieutenant Soto, these people that behave as enemies of El Supremo, if they give you
any trouble, shoot them for resistance.
Yes, sir.
Now, take them away.
We'll talk to some of the other prisoners.
We'll get word out to the American consulate somehow.
You can't keep us quiet.
There will be no others to tell.
No one is allowed near these sails.
The capitán's order.
It doesn't make sense.
Why would they want to kill us just for a photograph?
Could it be that they're afraid of the picture?
Afraid?
Why would they be...
Liz, Liz, that's it.
They could have been in on the plot to kill the dictator.
That could be the reason, couldn't it?
Oh, better it is.
Sure.
Why, they must be the would-be assassins.
Bob.
If we can just get word to somebody, anybody, let them know we're in here.
Well, if we could give the captain the photograph he wants.
You don't believe we gave it to him?
Well, if we did, why hasn't he got it?
I don't know it.
Unless, unless...
What?
Oh, my God.
What is it, Bob?
I know what happened.
Oh, Liz, and all that excitement.
I forgot to take the cover off the lens.
Are you sure?
Sure, I'm sure.
Liz, there is no photograph.
We couldn't prove that the captain and his friends are the would-be assassins even if
we wanted to.
We'll never be able to convince them that they're safe from us.
I know.
But, but if their revolution is successful, we've got a chance that they'll release us.
And if their revolution fails, they'll never accept the fact that there's, there's no photograph,
that, that we're not dangerous to...
Bob, put your arms around me.
Sure, honey.
Sure.
That better?
I'm afraid.
No, there's, there's no reason to be, honey.
We'll get out of here.
You can't fool me, darling.
You're scared too?
Yes.
Yes, I am.
In just a moment, we will return for the second act of...
Suspense.
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Bob.
Yeah, Tim.
The cat is coming.
Everything has been removed from your hotel, my friends.
There is no record of you ever having been.
What about the revolution?
Revolution?
It's just about over.
And who's in power?
Our dictator, El Suprema, has retained his power.
Bob.
I see.
The film, the film.
The film.
The film.
The film.
I see, the film was not in your hotel.
Senor, this is your last chance to be truthful.
Your life depends on the truth.
I know, Captain.
I swear to you, I didn't take any picture this afternoon.
If I could believe you...
In all that excitement, I forgot to take the cover off my lens.
What you say is possible, Senor.
Barely possible.
If you fail to expose the film, you may be able to tell me what number picture it might
have been on the roll if you had exposed it.
How could I remember a thing like that?
We have a truck parked behind this building.
It's waiting to take you and your wife and everything you left in the hotel to Aranda
on the mountains.
There, you will be the spouser.
Try to remember.
Let me think.
The picture that didn't come out would have been number...
Number nine.
You are certain?
How can I be absolutely certain?
I think it was number nine.
Perhaps it could be that you're telling the truth.
I shall have to check the number of exposures.
Perhaps you will be able to leave in the morning after all.
You see for yourself, Lieutenant, it is as the Americana claims.
Eight exposed negatives.
The knife and all the ones after it.
Not exposed.
So the picture was never taken, eh, Capitán?
That is right.
So we will be able to release the Americanas after all.
But Capitán Santos, that will not be possible.
What?
What are you saying?
The Americana knows why we wanted the film.
Are you certain?
The block cell in which we are holding them, it is for political prisoners, no?
You remember the security office had it wired only a few months ago?
I remember.
I've just monitored a tape recording of all conversations held in that cell since the
Americana were put in there.
I have it on the machine.
I will play a small portion of it.
Now listen.
I'm afraid.
Why would they be?
Liz, Liz, that's it.
They could have been in on the plot to kill the dictator.
That could be the reason, Cotnett.
How better it is.
Sure, why they must be the would-be assassins.
If we can just get word to somebody, anybody.
Enough.
Shut it off.
They would not have to prove that we tried to kill at Supremo.
They would not need the photograph to hurt us.
Just to throw suspicion on us would be enough.
I know, I know.
Lieutenant.
Yes, sir?
Unfortunately, I will be detained here with emergency duties.
You and Sergeant Rivera, get them and all their things from the hotel into the truck.
Take them to the mountains.
I understand.
There must be no trace, no mistakes.
My life and yours depend on how carefully and thoroughly you get rid of them.
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You're going to free us?
Then the Captain knows the fiction never turned out.
Yes, the Captain knows.
This way please.
We have a vehicle waiting.
Don't go to any trouble.
We'll be only too glad to take a taxi instead.
No trouble, I assure you.
The vehicle is just outside this door.
Here we are.
Bob!
That's a prison van.
Hey, wait a minute.
Get in, both of you.
No.
Get in or I will shoot you right here.
You had no intention to let us go.
No.
You know who we are and what we attempted.
Get in the truck.
No, no, get in, get in.
That's better.
Now you, senora.
Yes, yes.
I will sit here in the back with you.
All right, Larry.
Let us go.
We're out of headquarters now.
I warn you, if I shoot now, anyone who hears merely will think the truck has backfired.
Look, Lieutenant, why don't you let my wife go?
No, Bob.
Hush, Liz.
If you can hold me as a hostage.
As long as you've got me, you know she won't talk to anyone outside.
Why should I bargain?
By destroying all evidence of your existence, I ensure my own safety.
You have nothing to offer.
If the dictator learns that you're one of the men who plotted to kill him, what then?
He will kill me.
And how would he, how would he treat a man he finds as very loyal to him?
A man would receive recognition.
He would be honored.
But El Supremo has his favorites.
There's no chance for others.
Isn't there?
How would the dictator reward the man who tells him about the captain and the rest of
the traitors?
You talk too much.
Alone, Bob.
The only chance.
Now listen, Lieutenant.
What about you?
Be still, Senor.
Aren't you ambitious?
And now that El Supremo is going to stay in power, he'd like to know who his would-be
assassins are.
And the man who tells him, he'll be honored, promoted.
Shut your filthy mouth.
Okay, Lieutenant.
But you think about it.
Before you pull the trigger of that gun and kill us, you give that a lot of very careful
thought.
We're almost there.
Rivera will be driving through the gates to the farm in a moment.
Oh, how about it, Lieutenant?
You can open that little window to the cabin and make your friend turn this truck around.
We'll vouch for you.
We'll tell the authorities how you saved our lives.
Am I to betray my friends?
What you ask is too much.
Look, you've betrayed your country.
What are a few friends now?
We've reached the farm.
Few moments.
Senor and Senora.
What makes you so sure your friends won't betray you by going and telling El Supremo
the truth?
Don't they want honor, promotions, to save their own skins?
Are you going to be a sucker for them?
I cannot.
What do you want, Lieutenant?
To be a captain?
To be head of the whole police force?
Or for the man that turns in the would-be assassins, who becomes a friend of the dictator?
Anything is possible, isn't it?
Yes, yes, anything.
It's the temptation.
You have tempted me beyond.
Rivera, turn the truck around.
We're going back.
What do you mean?
We must kill them first.
We're not going to kill them.
But the captain gave us orders to dispose of them.
We're going back.
I'm giving the orders now.
Turn the truck.
You shoot me?
I will shoot you this instant.
Start the truck.
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Now, back to the city.
Yes.
I'm going to kill them.
I have a chance.
But that driver is going to look for any opportunity to take care of the lieutenant and us.
We will go directly to El Supremo's headquarters.
You will tell him what I have done for you and I will reveal to him the names of the men
he wants.
You knew my weakness, senor.
It saved your life.
What are we starting?
We're at the gates again, but we're being blocked.
What do you mean?
Two of our cars have pulled in.
If this is a trick...
I swear to you, they are all around us.
There is Captain Santos.
What?
I'm sorry, my friends, but if this is true, I will have to follow the captain's orders
after all and shoot you.
I will not risk my own life.
Open this truck.
I warn you, one wrong move and it will all be over.
Is there another way out of the road?
It's too late.
Here they are, Captain.
We were merely looking for a suitable place in which to kill him.
Drop your gun, Lieutenant, or I will use this machine gun.
Bob, did you hear?
Quick, get down on the floor.
Drop your gun, Lieutenant, and get out of that truck.
I do not have a gun.
Very well.
Now get down.
Yes, sir.
Are the Americana safe?
Yes, but if you give me only a moment more, I will take care of them.
He's a hot soul, Lieutenant.
All right, men, take this trailer away.
Traitor, what are you talking about?
I already have been in touch with El Supremo.
He gave me orders to arrest and execute you and Rivera and the others and try to kill him.
Me and Rivera?
But what about you?
Yes, take out of here.
No, no, I know what you're trying to do, you traitor.
No, let go of me.
No, no.
All right, my friends, we will take care of him.
You mean you're not going to try to get rid of us, shoot us?
Perhaps that was the plan of those traitors.
They will be punished, you may be sure.
Is this some kind of trick?
Trick, senor?
No, it is not trick.
I and some of my men who are loyal to El Supremo merely have come to rescue you.
I am grateful that we have succeeded.
Yeah, I'll bet you are.
It'll mean recognition, a promotion, won't it, Captain?
Perhaps, if I am lucky.
At any rate, El Supremo will be very pleased with my work tonight.
Come, both of you may ride back to your hotel in my car.
Thanks, thanks very much.
Oh Bob, I can hardly believe it.
You will find that everything has been put back in order in your hotel room,
and that your camera has been returned to you.
Thanks again.
That's all I really came to you about, isn't it?
You'll be able to catch your plane in the morning after all.
Thank goodness.
And let me give you some good advice and you'll never, never come back to this country.
You understand?
Don't worry, I understand.
Come on, Liz.
Suspense
Suspense
You've been listening to The Revolution, written for suspense by Peter Fernandez.
In a moment, the names of our players and a word about next week's story of suspense.
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Heard in tonight's story were Rosemary Rice as Elizabeth, Phil Meader as Bob, and Santos Ortega as Captain Santos.
Others in the cast included Jim Bowles, Ronald Dawson, and Ralph Camargo.
Listen again next week when we return with Talk About Caruso by Milton Geiger.
Another tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.