 In just a moment suspense starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.. And let's stop in at Jones for a moment believe okay, dad Hello, Ed. How's the world's greatest ignition service station tonight? I have I believe hi Yeah, I'm busy on a couple of cranky ignition job. Hey, how's car on it? Never better take a look. Sure Hey, dad. It's got his radio on is it the auto light show? Suspense is my Thursday night special Ignition system spark plugs batteries head you've got everyone in town switching to auto light Billy your dad's trying to take over the auto light announcers chore See Doug Fairbanks, Jr. Is on suspense tonight. You like him Billy? Yes, sir He's a self-start and smooth-running hum binger why he's got the pep of an auto light ignition system a set of spark plugs and a Stateful battery combined. Oh, here's the show Suspense Auto light and its 60,000 dealers and service stations bring you Radio's outstanding theater of thrills starring tonight. Mr. Douglas Fairbanks in a tale well Calculated to keep you in suspense Today everybody is switching to auto light and tonight auto light takes pleasure in presenting and ton leaders production of deep into Darkness starring Douglas Fairbanks This is a story about fear, and I'm an expert on fear me Ken Matthews That cheap broken-down hotel room is as good a place as any to start it was all I could afford New York the city of bright lights and and me stretched out on a squeaky bed Watching a spot change shape on the ceiling It's a kind of game to keep a man from going crazy For seven years I watched another spot changed it into a million shapes got to know it better than I knew myself That spot on the ceiling of my cell at jolly at penitentiary When it was over when they were finally ready to let me go back into the world The warden had something to say to me some some advice Matthews you're leaving us early because if you could behave your record now if I were you I'd start fresh on the outside Stay away from Chicago go someplace new where they don't know you I sort of figured on doing that warden good You'll find it easier Find it easier. I wonder how it is when it's tough Nobody knew me in New York. Nobody wanted to know me And as for a job well the jibble wash dishes. I washed a million When he dirty jobs nobody wants to do I did them all that's how I build up my fortune $17.50 United States currency That's how much I was worth this one morning when I saw a sign out in front of a construction job Men wanted the sign said I believed it looked up the form Looking for something bud. Yes, you you have a sign out there. Are you hiring men could be what do you do? Oh just about anything I can keep books handle your time. I used to be an accountant But if that's not what you're looking for well, I can swing a shovel too. I just want a job I like that attitude got your discharge certificate with you discharge. Yeah, honorable discharge I always like to give a break to eggs service guy. Oh, well, I I wasn't in the service. Oh for it. No, no, I I Sat out the wall. I was in jail. It's tough Got a little mixed up on your account. No, it was manslaughter. I killed a man What about the job? I really need it Look buddy. I don't want you to think this is my idea, but but you can't use me. No, I can't you see yes I see Start fresh See, you know, it is a boss's figure. There's a lot of vets looking for jobs. I got to give them the first crack of things Oh, if I was to it's all right. It isn't your fault. Maybe Maybe some other war Somehow that was the last straw. I Started to hate I hated everything and every one And then I thought of my fortune my 17 dollars and 50 cents And suddenly I knew there was something I wanted to buy what you want to use the gun for mister I I don't know. I just want to have it. Hmm. Well, we're supposed to put something down there I mean along with your name and everything. Oh, well put down target practice. That's good enough in it I guess so. What's the name put down Smith Smith? Oh, it's like that, huh? Look, mister I don't want to get into any trouble. I want a respectable place of business here You want to sell the gun, don't you? Well, sure, but you want the 14 dollars, don't you? Okay? Okay, so it's Smith and you're gonna do some target practice. Give me the 14 bucks and get lost, huh? Thanks. Thanks a lot Funny thing I still don't know why I wanted that gun. I swear I don't kill myself rob a bank or a filling station I haven't any idea I suppose I just thought that having it would make me feel better only it didn't it hung in my pocket heavy as lead Cold dead just like its owner I turned into a side street 52nd 51st, I wasn't sure I stopped to light a cigarette And the car pulled up to the curb It was a big car with a chauffeur A black car smooth and shiny The man getting out just one look and wheels started spinning around in my head Like a dizzy the sidewalk twisted and bounced around like it was having a convulsion But when he spoke the shock of hearing his voice straightened it all out Made it cold and clear his hard crystal Just a few words to that chauffeur. Wait for me, Davis. I won't be long He turned and walked past me right by me into the bank But he couldn't walk. He couldn't do anything That was Lee Burke. I was staring at Lee Burke the man I'd killed seven years ago For suspense auto light is bringing you mr. Douglas Fairbanks jr. In deep into darkness Auto lights presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills suspense It looks like young dugs got it. Hey, Billy boy. I'll say he has what a chip. He's got in his shoulder Really stop chipping and chirping like your mother. Oh, by the way, Ann That ignition system of mine scornables. I she's completely on the beam My jobs usually are especially when that auto light. Yes, sir. Money can't buy better ignition equipment for your car Auto light parts are made with the world's largest independent manufacturers of automobile electrical equipment And auto light service stations are equipped with highly trained man and specialized machines to give your car the best in automobile service That auto light ignition system sounds intelligent enough to take an IQ test. Hey, Ed Stop pulling Ed's leg, Billy. I'm used to it half But i'll tell you this Auto light makes original equipment for many of the finest cars in america Ignition systems batteries mark plugs generators lots more So it's only natural that auto light ignition is well It's a perfectly timed team with smooth on the dot performance So when your car's electrical system needs attention Drive in your nearest auto light service station or the dealer who sells your make of car and ask for original factory parts Auto light Auto light service stations are listed in your classified telephone directory under automotive electrical service And now auto light brings back to our hollywood soundstage Mr. Douglas fairbanks junior as ken in deep into darkness The tale well calculated to keep you in Suspend In those few moments of watching a man walk across his sidewalk into a bank I lived it all over again The way it happened when I killed him seven years ago back in chicago There wasn't anything about it. I couldn't remember Ken darling. Yeah, you love me ken. Do I love you? No, not at all. I just sit in that goofy nightclub night after night because the food's so good Oh ken, you're sweet. Well, why don't you forget that place? Give it up Where's it going to get a girl like you dancing in a cheap honky ton? You have something better to offer darling. I've offered it a half a dozen times. Marry me. I got a good job. It'll it'll get better Hand me my drink will you sure here? What do you say? I've told you ken over and over again. I'm not getting married Not to you anyway You're a sweet guy sure and I'm very fond of you But little lily isn't burying herself in any house with a bunch of squalling kids That's for suckers. I don't think you mean that at all. No Well, you just watch darling I'm going to wind up with a diamond so big it'll take a two ton truck to deliver it to me I'm going to have so many mink coats. I'll use them for pajamas. That's the way to talk sis. You tell him Hello, li you're beginning to sound like you're getting good sense Now what are you doing up here with this bookkeeper? Anyway, and a good evening to you too li never mind I thought I said I didn't want you wasting your time with him. He's all right Get out of here Matthews. Oh, wait a minute. If lila wants me to go I'm not satisfied with my suggestions, huh? Well, I have a good mind Please stop it. Put that gun away. Every time you have a few drinks you start waving that gun around Really li you better put it down. Stop acting like a kid acting like a kid, huh? I'll show you who's acting like a kid. I'll give me that gun. Li Come on leave. Give it to me. I'll break your arm. Go. Let's go It went off. I I was only trying to take it away from him You killed him. Can you kill my brother? I didn't mean it. I tell you I you saw what happened. I I was only trying to get the gun get out ken the police will find you Get out of here. Hurry. I tell you get out It was pouring that night and I ran down the street with a rain slapping me in the face I ran up a back alley into the darkness and then Then I stopped I didn't want to run not for the rest of my life I went to the nearest police station turned myself in They took me back to the berks and we found lila sitting in a chair glassy. I had just staring down at her brother lee He he was right where I left him sprawled on the floor face down Lee Burke was dead and they gave me 10 years for killing him Only now he wasn't dead. He couldn't be I just seen him walk into a bank Uh A nice car you got. Yeah Uh, must must be an important man to have a car like that. Yeah, he's a big guy. That's lots of money. I suppose, huh Yeah, he's crawling with it. Does that make you happy his uh, his name doesn't happen to be berk does it No, wilson keith wilson. He also happens to be a stockbroker Anything else you want to know? Keith wilson. Yeah, and I'll beat it. The boss is coming the boss Now isn't that something all right, davis. I'll go straight to the office now. Yes, sir. You know hurry lee There there must be some mistake My name isn't lee. Oh Pardon me, but it was lee. There wasn't any doubt about it and he knew me too I could see it in his eyes and in the way his face went white I didn't understand it. I I couldn't figure out why or how but lee berk was a lie The rest of the fortune went for a taxi ride, but it was worth it to me And I guess if I hadn't had enough money to follow lee's car wherever it went I'd have forced the cab driver with that gun I bought but it wasn't necessary. We went out to long island way out And then the car swung into a place with a big half circle drive lee berk now mr. Keith wilson was doing very well for himself And so was lila What's the matter lila can is it like seeing a ghost can Can it's really you I saw a ghost just now too only he was very much alive So that's what he was so excited about lee Yes, he came in rushed upstairs told me to call the airport get him a plane for miami. Did you not yet? I won't do any good Ken Ken, what do you want? Why did you come here? I just wanted to be sure lila. I absolutely sure What are you going to do? I'd like to kill him. I ought to kill you both. No ken Don't talk like that. It It wasn't me. I didn't plan it. But it was a plan wasn't it lila wasn't it Yes You want to tell me about it or do I have to choke it out of him? I'll tell you What's the difference? You didn't kill lee. You didn't kill anybody. Huh? It was a frame up Then how could I have seen him like that? Lee was on the floor dead. No That wasn't lee he He found the man ken a stumblebomb and drunk and the man looked just like him Close enough for what lee had figured out Was the crookedest scheme you ever heard Took out insurance with every company in town half a million dollars with me as beneficiary It was going to kill this drifter and disappear. Let me collect the money It was as simple as that at first keep talking I told him it wouldn't work ken that they'd never pay off not that much Not till they checked fingerprints teased everything, but he had that figure too They wouldn't check a thing if a fall guy pleaded guilty to a murder charge. So that's how it was You were the fall guy I'll let you take me home that night remember I remember lee had his gun loaded with blanks It was an act the whole thing Then when you ran he finished the job He had the drunk in the bedroom dressed in his clothes He brought him into the living room Killed him right in front of me That's who you saw when you got back Good law That's why Why I hate my brother why I don't care what happens to him. Thanks lila That's going to make it easier lila Lila did you call the airline no lee not yet, but I told you not to waste any time. You don't know what this means She knows what it means lee we all do What do you want? Why'd you follow me here? Hey, look, I think you you better get out of here. You I'd stay away from that telephone lee I'd stand still if I were you you'd better do as he says lee. He's got a gun can listen to me You can't do this not now You don't want any more trouble. Why if the police found out the police? If you told him I was going to kill you it wouldn't make sense lee Because I've already done that Remember oh, look I can explain the whole thing. It was a mistake. I'm glad you know that now I've made a lot of money ken. I've been very lucky. I'll I'll I'll split with you You look like you could use some money. Yes, I could sure that's good only Forget the gun, huh? And stop acting like you want to kill me. You wouldn't gain anything that way Come on lila fix some drinks or something. Huh? We'll we'll talk this over friendly like Ken you know lila was always crazy about you. I was always crazy about her Oh, can I let's talk about something else right now lee? Let's talk about america You know, this is a wonderful country the way the laws are set up to protect a man Every here of double jeopardy lee brings up a rather interesting fact that you can't try a man twice for the same crime Seven years I spent paying for killing you Seven years at jollyard and you weren't even dead That means I've paid for something I haven't done Yet I still have the right to kill you Once more now can't stop it. You're talking crazy There must be something you want. I only want to kill you lee because you deserve to be killed We both know that don't we only I don't think I'll kill you now not not right away We'll be reasonable is that it can? Be reasonable I say I'm going to stay right with you 24 hours a day right up to the time you deal I know exactly when and how I'm going to kill you And you won't know you'll never know lee until it happens. You just wait just sit and wait And wait, I never left the berks mansion never let them leave I was with lee from the time he got up until he went to bed I stayed with him every waking hour and I never stopped twisting his life like a piece of putty Putting fear in his mind until Well until there didn't seem to be anything else left there at all just a trembling driving fear in everything he did Everything he said Lila lila can't we do something? Get to somebody only what can I do? You could have said something to the servants. You had a chance before he sent him away I didn't it all happened too fast got rid of them as easily as he cut the telephone wires We've got to do something get in touch with somebody with with madeline. Maybe oh, yes What will your blue blood fiance think of you now when you suddenly stop calling two days before your wedding And then don't show up the wedding Oh, Lila, don't you see if anything should happen to the wedding now I'd be ruined Oh, he can't get away with this He let down some time. He's he's got to sleep. So do we Lila's right lee Who can you you were there by the door you heard about your wedding? Yes lee. I got back just in time tonight Can I pour you a Manhattan? Oh, no, no, I don't want any of your funeral. No, don't don't say that You're falling apart much faster than I thought Lee It wasn't taking long at all Lee couldn't sit still for a minute couldn't take his eyes off me Of course little things like this didn't exactly help Who who is it? can Yes, lee The gun I have the gun lee. Oh this This is the time, huh? No lee. No, I don't think so Here drink this. What is it? milk warm milk Uh, it'll put you to sleep. Yeah for good. You mean no no no just until morning You see, I wouldn't think of killing a man on his wedding day Oh, don't tell me you've forgotten your wedding to the blue-blooded mr. Haven Well, you've come a long way lee marrying into the social register. Oh, don't kill come on drink up You'll need your strength for the wedding. No, no, that's all off. I I haven't even called lila has I made a call She made some very pretty excuses for you and the wedding will go on as scheduled Who are you going to do nothing only? Behave yourself tomorrow. Do as you're told And you might live through the ceremony It's all Keith take this woman to thy wedded wife to live together after god's ordinance in the holy state of matrimony Wilt thou love her comfort her honor and keep her in sickness and in health And forsaking all others keep the unto her so long as you both shall live say no Say no, or I'll kill you right here in front of them all say it lee mr. Wilson the answer please No, no, no, I can't I I can't There was only one thing wrong with that little wedding scene I had fun sure but in the excitement I'm afraid I relaxed a little I wasn't sure how much it mattered that depended on lila When I was sure lee was asleep that night. I met her in the living room got right to the point Something on your mind ken. Yes mousy Who's mousy can you? Look so tired so thin. Tell me lila. Tell me about mousy. What do you know about him? Lee has been talking about him in his sleep talking about mousy and you lila and me You better tell me all about it. Ken you're hurting my arm I don't know anything about mousy. Maybe he was there at the wedding. Maybe you saw him. Maybe you gave him the message Did you lila can't stop it? You know, I promised I wouldn't do anything like that. Don't you trust me trust you should I lila Do you really think I should but you know how I feel about you surely you don't think Ken ken darling get away from me ken So that's it Was all just a gag to keep a little girl in line. How did you expect me to feel after all this happened? That's right I was naive wasn't I? Sure Okay Well, I won't be naive anymore. You can bet on that lila good night Ken darling When I cooled off I realized I'd gone too far She wouldn't be on my side anymore unless Unless I could talk to her again and make it make it all seem like a like a mistake a joke, maybe Yeah, that that'd be the thing But when I went to find her she wasn't around I I didn't see her again until next morning Every morning I went out to the gate for the paper but this time I waited for lila to get up and come down So I could talk to her before li came in try to try to fix things And standing there in the hallway. I fixed things all right fixed them good Lila yes, I I want you to know that well That I'm sorry about last night. It's all right. No, it isn't no I I I didn't mean what I said at all I guess I'd built up so much hate that Well, I was upset I was blind to how you feel about me how I really feel about you ken. You're asking me to be naive again Yes, I guess I am I like you that way. I I looked for you last night to tell you you weren't around Where'd you go? I Can it's all right. I don't care what you went Anyway, now you know how I really feel ken you you don't know what you're saying. Yes, I do lila. I've been thinking That's the way it ought to be. We've been a couple of lost souls But maybe by forgetting the past trying to find some peace of mind ken Think about it. Will you lila? I went out then out the door and down the driveway left her standing there staring after me But suddenly as I was almost at the gate. I heard it coming running fast And I saw it a car that had been parked down the road it was moving now gathering speed coming right past the gate ken ken look out and then she was there she threw herself right in front of me I heard the shots I felt her thrown heavily against me and then and then her body went limp in my arms I held her close for a second and and then I lowered her to the ground Up the drive alone Lee was out in front of the house sitting on a bench in front of a big tree He'd heard the shots. I'm sure but he was just sitting there Probably waiting for lila to come back and say that that mousy had taken care of me He turned and looked up as I walked toward him. Oh, no His eyes seemed to look right through me somehow. He was that full of fear, I guess His fingers gripped the tree in back of him dug deep into the bark. He was waiting for me to kill him Lila's deadly your your gunman got her instead of me Lila I'm sorry because Because there was something I didn't have time to tell her I never intended to kill you Lee I was just Just showing you how seven years looked crowded into a few days Seven years. Yeah, that's right. I guess you know now. I guess you know why and what you did Lee Lee this is ken I'm talking to you ken Ken I I don't know any ken And he didn't he didn't even know himself The way his eyes looked I don't think he ever will again They weren't lee berks eyes anymore. They belonged to someone else funny The man who tried to be somebody else had Finally made it And it was not good to look upon Thank you. Douglas Fairbanks for an outstanding performance on Suspense Talk about performance dad auto light ignition is good. But what about Doug Fairbanks? He's really got it, Billy Well, let's get going your mother mom will be as full of suspense as your auto light ignition system is full of pip per power and pistol point Performance that boy knows his auto light peas and he doesn't miss any cues. They have yes An auto light is your cue to real motoring enjoyment. So remember wherever you go Auto light means spark plug ignition engineered spark plugs Auto light means batteries stay full batteries Auto light means ignition system the lifeline of your car Now here again is mr. Douglas Fairbanks I've enjoyed this appearance on suspense very much And i've noted with great interest as a suspense fan that agnes moorhead will return to the sound stage next week The scene of her splendid performances of the past As one of the many who applauded her portrayal in the suspense classic sorry wrong number I'll be listening with anticipation next week for agnes moorhead in the yellow wallpaper A powerful study in Suspense Douglas fairbanks may soon be seen in his own production the oflin Tonight suspense play was written by edward james with music composed by lucian marwick and conducted by ludd gluskin The entire production was under the direction of anton m leader Next thursday same time you will hear miss agnes moorhead in the yellow wallpaper Suspense show signing off Good night switch to auto light. This is cbs the columbia broadcasting system