 Inner Sanctum Mysteries Welcome once again friends of the Inner Sanctum Don't hesitate, come right in Once you get used to these grim surroundings, you'll never leave Nobody ever does Once you're in, you're out This is the kind of place that grips you The kind of place with a bar's hole and no hole's a bar So come right in Your only ticket of admission is your promise not to tell anybody about anything you may happen to hear tonight Brent, what a coincidence meeting you here at the post office Yeah, gotta mail a package Yeah, so do I Hey, our packages are identical That is a coincidence Yeah Same size, same kind of fiberboard boxes Even the same reinforced wrapping tape Well, I'm mailing something fragile Oh, you should see the cushioning Now, that's a coincidence I'm mailing something fragile too Two very rare unicorn lamps I wrapped each one separately Hey, it wasn't easy with those horns Let me tell you Unicorn lamps I'm mailing unicorn lamps No To a special someone in Cleveland Cleveland, that's really a coincidence I thought Katie was gonna be the only one in Cleveland with unicorn lamps Katie, did you say Katie? Yeah Talk about coincidence Whatever your package, wherever you mail it Remember the three C's of good packing Appropriate container Proper cushioning Secure closure For more information, contact your military postal service And now for tonight's tale Lady with a plan Written especially for Inner Sanctum By Michael Sklar and Richard Manoff And starring Elspeth Eric It concerns a lady living in strange confinement And her fiendish scheme for escape More penitentiary is a sprawling mass of grey granite On a deserted landscape To this grim and forbidding place Has come a man with a purpose To visit with Gladys Cross He's a newspaper writer And she is tomorrow's feature story It's not a pretty story I'll tell it right from the beginning I'm no stranger to Moore Prison I was a bride when I first came here Wife of the Wolfman First lady of Moore Prison What a laugh It was a strictly business proposition Edward got a wife and I got security And what I thought was a convenient way of life But after two years of living like a prisoner In a house that was inside the walls of the jail With a man who was 15 years older than I was I'd had enough But Edward had other ideas Divorce You don't mean a word of it, Gladys Stop telling me what I mean Will you give me a divorce? When you're feeling less excited No, you can't put it off I've had all I can take I don't understand you, Gladys I've been a model husband Model husband You've treated me the way you treat your prisoners You don't beat them You grind away at their nerves Until their minds are so much mush I'm getting out before it's too late You're staying here with me where you belong If you won't give me a divorce, I'll leave without it Gladys, don't be a fool No matter where you go, I'll bring you back And I don't want to hurt you You can't threaten me Not you, my dear I'm thinking of him Him? How do you... What are you talking about? Well, there is a man You're inhuman No, dear, just a model husband Trying to keep his home intact There was another man Stephen Brownlee and I are in love Drawn together by a hate for more prison Stephen was the assistant warden I got word to him that I had to see him To meet me that night at our secret rendezvous A deserted side road two miles from the prison When I got there in my car soon after dark I didn't have long to wait Stephen Yes, Gladys? I came as fast as I could Get in the car so we can talk Something is wrong I spoke to Edward this afternoon He refused the divorce And he threatened me if I left He suspects there's someone else What? He doesn't suspect it's me You, his assistant, he'd never suspect you He will eventually We've got to get away But Edward threatened me Where'd Edward? Look ahead, Gladys You know what'll happen? You've seen it happen to the prisoners You'll snap your nerves We'll give way, you'll break your... Stephen, stop it You know there's no way out There is Your game I know what you're thinking But that's impossible We could never get away with it If we could, would you do it? Tell me how Bucky breaks Brings the life back You haven't transferred to work in the laundry I signed to handle your stuff when you bring it down What are you getting at? Bucky hates the warden worse than you do Given half the chance he'd strangle him in a second I'll talk to him Begin to feel sorry for him Let him think you want to help him make a break Then what? All we've got to do is give him the chance to use his hands on Edward For two hours we talked By the time we parted our plan had been worked out in detail It was a plan for murder Murder with clean hands The next morning I took my soiled linens And drove across the prison yard to the laundry Bucky Briggs came out to the car He didn't even look up at me Where is he? Back of the car Here, let me open the door I've heard quite a bit about you, Briggs You want to take your fresh stuff home? But I don't really believe what they say Look, lady, the warden needles me enough I don't have to take it from you, too, see Well, I don't know what you mean now I want your fresh laundry, don't you? In a minute I just want you to know that I'm interested in your case So is your husband I'll get you a laundry now All right, Bucky The seed was planted All it needed was time I began to plan the visits to the laundry in advance The remarks I would use Stopped intimately And at close quarters out of the ear Shot of others And after a month It came like the fulfillment to a patient prayer I was at the laundry Waiting for Bucky to bring my clean stuff to the car He came up, stepped into the car Took a quick glance around And suddenly stepped close to me It's up to you, baby Get me out of here and then it'll be you and me all the way The deal? I've got it all figured out, Bucky You don't waste time, beautiful Give me the dope Tomorrow, when I come back, be ready Check, I'll get way to some friends to pick me up on the outside Just one more thing My husband It'll be a pleasure, baby I made a final check with Steven and then everything was set I was sitting in the car the next day when Bucky came out I reached over the front seat and opened the rear door for him Get in, Bucky, you stay down It's been fixed, the guards busy on the other side Where we going? To the house What about the warden? He's in town today Stop asking so many questions Okay, baby, this is your show, just make it good This is the back of the house Another stolen site Now follow me out first That's the cellar door Open it, Bucky Right The cold bin, hide in there You may have a long wait I've got patience, baby I've been waiting two years for this When it's clear, I'll call you Three bangs on the steam pipe I get you, that's when I take over Our room is directly overhead in the second floor Checking All right, Bucky, get in the bin Well done, baby It's not worth a say goodbye What? Like a personal, like this No, not now, Bucky, no More like it Something to remember you by Edward returned an hour later I was pottering around the dinner table Too jittery to sit and wait for the commotion to break And then, quicker than I expected, it happened Siren That must be the break I know they can't get away with a break here Hello What the devil's happened? Great Former searching party, wait for me I'm coming over Rich is broken out Any sign of how he did it? Nobody won't get far I'll find him And what I do, I'll break him for good You shall But instead of listening to that alarm You should have paid more attention to that wife of yours Because that siren is cooking up something That'll be a real scream Somebody, please Help me Most of us wouldn't think twice about answering a plea like that We'd help save a life in an emergency Even if it were a total stranger I'm hit Nobody give me a medic And if we can't depend on our buddies in time of need Who can we count on? But how do you help out when you don't know that there's an emergency? How can you meet a need you don't know about? One sure way is by giving blood to the Armed Services Blood Program Where your blood can help save someone's life That's because the Armed Services Blood Program Is the primary source of blood for military hospitals And they need regular donations from us and our families So contact your blood bank or the lab at your medical treatment facility Be a life saver through the Armed Services Blood Program And remember, their supply is our supply The Roberts They gave us a toaster Joanne and Ed Toaster Mrs. Perez Toaster When you're looking for the perfect gift for any occasion Don't forget about U.S. savings bonds A bond is the gift that keeps giving Because it pays competitive rates when held for at least 5 years And will continue to earn interest for up to 30 years Bill and Martha Toaster Oh, you're Aunt Libby A hot toaster Oven Ooh, the Philips Toaster U.S. savings bonds Because unlike many gifts You can never have too many bonds Contact your finance office for more information And now, back to our lady with the plan And what a plan Her husband, Warden Cross of Moopin at Entry Is searching for Bucky Briggs in escaped convict But Gladys has hidden Bucky on the cellar of the house He's waiting there now to kill the Warden And Gladys, she's waiting too For murder I went up to bed after Edward left And lay there tense The sirens had stopped For hours there was dead quiet everywhere And close to midnight I heard the door open downstairs It was Edward I could tell from his footsteps that he was tired He was heated I lay perfectly still Waiting for him to come in Gladys Yes Get up Yes By the way, credible By the way, no one knows how I didn't answer He was a different person Hared, shaken I watched him as he undressed He looked suddenly older than ever And I felt a thickening revulsion It was ejected spectacularly as he came I lay perfectly still as he slept in the bed And fell off to sleep He was fast asleep now I reached down over the side of the bed for my shoe And saw they tapped to peel against the steam pipe Edward was still asleep I lay back and waited Slowly, slowly And Bucky's silhouette stood outlined in the house right through the hall He moved quietly into the room right past me In a moment his big hulking figure looking more guerrilla-like Than ever stood towering over Edward's bed I saw his hands reach out cautiously before Edward But just a moment too late Who is it? Get away from me This is the pay-off, what? Edward was awake And like a flashing twisted out of Bucky's reach I sat there paralyzed as he moved Edward tried to tear Bucky's hands with the approach And Bucky held on tight to him Digging his fingers deeper into the soft, flashing as the bed was So good Edward said, help I didn't move, I didn't speak And he understood You'll never get away with this Bucky, easy, baby, easy Another squeeze on his throat Just like you wanted him I want to see for myself You don't have to When I twist a nick, stays twisted Dead Don't get me out of here I'll open a scaling hook behind the cellar door Check Stick close to the house until you reach the hedge Then out across the south wall gate Check All right, I'll go Thank you for getting something What? Come here Oh, please, stop Bucky, please Better do this more often I'm getting a little high Please, go Okay, just one thing Remember, read two hours before you turn in the alarm Waiting for you out there Goodbye, baby As soon as he was gone, I glanced at my watch And followed the second hand around Twice Now I was ready It's Mrs. Cross Bucky Briggs was hiding in our cellar all the time He's killed my husband What? Do something before it's too late Which way do you go? Toward the south wall Right I'll put the phone down My part was over The rest was up to Stephen in the main tower I waited five seconds, ten seconds, twenty seconds Then all of a sudden it came like a million shrieking demons From the window I saw the long fingers of the searchlights Pointed at the south wall And pin beneath the glaring lights was Bucky Frantically pulling his way up the rope I watched as the bullets hit all around him Picking cups of powder off the stone wall None of them had to find a smile Bucky shut it Briggs then caught himself He was hit and he had to fall but he didn't The hand he started up again inspired I found out Dave Now Bucky was out there Waiting for me A mic A machine gun I don't know that I'd double-crossed him And he was waiting out there To kill me The next week was a nightmare Edward's funeral, the messages of condolence No chance to see Stephen alone And then one night a week later he came to me Nervous, worried We messed it up, Gladys No trace of Briggs, which means he's alive and out there That's not so safe for you But we're safe here Of course, Gladys We just happened to be leaving here Oh no, Stephen, I'm not going That's impossible The new warden's arriving next Tuesday morning Oh, I haven't thought of that Gladys, even if you could stay on I'd argue against it But what about Briggs? It's a big world out there, remember? Look at Lost in it, you and I So Lost, no one will ever find us Not even Briggs Say you'll go Well, I have no choice, I suppose Good girl Now listen, we've got it all figured out A resignation as in takes effect next Tuesday night Tuesday morning, you take the train to New York and head straight for the Hotel Empress Don't budge out of your room I'll be along with you then, okay? You're not listening I was thinking of something What? Something Edward said when he died You'll never get away with this Tuesday morning I was on the train to New York It was a short, pleasant trip My fears began to disappear Once I reached the crowd of Grand Central Station I knew I'd be safe I threaded my way through the crowd Just one of thousands of people And suddenly there was a hand on my shoulder Hello, baby Bucky What are you doing here? How did you find me? I've been waiting for you, baby Like I said I got friends back there The great point tipped me off when you were leaving And here I am But I... The bullets... Looks like nothing Takes a lot to stop me Come on, let's get out of here before some folks bust me No, wait, Bucky Just give me a minute I've got to call my hotel To hold my room for me You can't wait Well, if I don't call, they'll cancel it Okay, but only a minute Make your call over there So I can keep my eye on you, sweetheart I don't want to lose you Bucky had nodded toward a drugstore It was a slim chance But it was better than I'd expected I entered the store Made a quick dash for the other door I flung it open And raced madly toward the taxi stand Over my shoulder I caught a glimpse of Bucky He'd seen me Hey, wait a minute I ran to the cab and jumped in Hotel Empress in a hurry And lose that cab behind us Okay, lady This is the Empress We shook that other cab I headed toward the entrance Just as I entered I caught a quick glimpse of a cab Pulling up to the curb But I couldn't stop to see I rushed into the hotel Up to my room and locked myself in Before I even had time to sink The phone rang Hello? Hello, Mrs. Cross I just had a gentleman up to see you I banged the receiver down So it was Bucky in that cab I had to get out There was only one elevator And I couldn't try the stairs Because I didn't know which Bucky would use I had only one way out The desperate way And I decided to take it I unlocked the door I turned off the light And I took a pair of scissors From my handbag And waited behind the door I wasn't a moment too soon Come in Kept the wall behind the door And watched it open slowly Then leaping forward I plunged the scissors into his back Oh Oh That's me, Stephen Stephen What? I was at the earliest to surprise you Why didn't you phone? You happened to arrive, yes Oh, Stephen Nice to see me, huh? Hey, who's that? Steve Bromley You've done him in Nice work, baby But why did Chase? I had to run I understand The screw was following you Thought you would lead him to me Yes Well, you did right, baby But let's get out of here No You've got no choice Come on Let go of me Shut up, you're the whole hotel Let go of me Come on, baby, let's break up Get away from me Come on What's going on in you? I'm getting out of here Can't we are both of you? Look to that guy on the floor You ain't going anywhere for a long time I'll see you There's no toy Neither is there Oh, my hand Now, let's get going There isn't much more to tell You were at the trial, you know the rest I'm back at more prison for goodness There's a real prison at this time And Bucky He's got a few hours before they take him to the chair Mrs. Krauss What is it? Bucky breaks it just outside the cell You have to go on 15 minutes I want to talk to you before he goes To me? Yes All right It doesn't matter anymore Bicks, it's okay Wait a minute, Bucky And we're just outside Hello, baby I don't have anything to say to you But I've got something I want to ask you before It's bothered me ever since I was nabbed All right, Art Why didn't you leave when I asked you to If I could have a hotel room? Why? As if you didn't know Know what? If I went with you, I knew it was the end for me What are you talking about? You wanted to kill me Me kill you? You figured out Oh, stop acting, Bucky It doesn't make any difference now All right So I double-crossed you when I do it I called the tower exactly two minutes after you left What? Well, that's how they picked me up so fast That's what you knew What a sad one What a sad one Bucky You dirty double-crosser Bucky, keep away Double-crosser Double-crosser Double-crosser Double-crosser Get your hand Break your neck Let it go Break All right, shoot You're too late, screw She was dead A broken neck You don't make no difference You can't kill me twice Now there's a nice, gentle character That's Bucky Just a little too restless with his hand Now here and now I'm starting a new movement For inner sanctum mysteries From now on, our slogan should be When you grab a throat, stop and think Then stroke, don't choke Before we say goodnight, friend Here's an epitaph for the tombstone Of Gladys Cross Here lies a good heart Rent a thunder By a man with a soul full of thunder A sweetheart named Stephen Tried to help her get even Now they all live in peace Six feet under Oh, by the way, this month's inner sanctum Mystery novel is I Hate Blonde Goodnight Pleasant dream Mmm Try Lipton's noodle soup And tune in next week for another Inner sanctum mystery This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System