good evening ladies and gentlemen i suppose
you're wondering what i'm doing here
not much actually so far i've spent most of my
time trying to get out passersby are not being
very helpful they seem to think i'm an errant
actor from the theater of the absurd actually
i was answering a real estate advertisement small
compact residence on thoroughfare close to schools
shops freeways plenty of transportation running
water and that serves to remind me that tonight's
play is called ride the nightmare and speaking
of nightmares here is our first commercial
but i got a wife that's got a
lot of money and that makes sense
hello
uh who's calling please
just a moment please
it's for you oh who is it i don't know maybe
it's one of my old girlfriends i doubt it
oh you don't think i have any huh you know one
of these days you're gonna learn to appreciate me
hello you've made a mistake my name is martin
look i said you made a mistake my name is martin
what what is it
grace what is it
he said he was gonna k*ll me
what
but that doesn't make sense what did he say
and he was coming here and he was gonna k*ll me
oh who was it i don't know
well chris that just doesn't make any sense
maybe we should call the police i know
that's probably just a some kind of crank
pulling what do you think is a funny kind of joke
or something it's a pretty weird kind of joke
now you just can't tell about people
like that i'm gonna call the police honey
all right if it'll make you feel better i'll
call her get me a brandy would you would you uh
give me the police station will you send a patrol
car to my house right away i've been threatened
that's right man called up on the phone
said he was coming over here to k*ll me
just now
christopher martin 1204 13th street
that's right yes thank you
what did they say they'll come
when as soon as they can helen
chris what if he was calling from johnson's
drugstore but sweetheart take it easy i'm
sure it's just what you said it's probably a
cray lock the kitchen door you hear me like
it
get the lights pull the blinds
get the hall light close the
bedroom windows do like i tell you
check the kitchen door yes chris shouldn't we
leave we could go to bilstein
no he might already be outside
you stay here
i thought i told you to stand up
get down
hold it
turn on the light
all right
huh you did all right for yourself she's a winner
i found you didn't i phillips you're
making a mistake can't you see he's
not the man you're after our name is martin
martin phil this is the name i know i'm by
you thought you could change your name we
wouldn't find you huh that's right baby
we for a while there i thought you did get
away and i saw that picture of you in that
magazine you know the one picture of you
in that bowling king that won the state
championship and i thought to myself here's
a picture of my old friend chris your boy
i just gotta stop in and say hello you'd better
get out of here my husband is called the police
no you didn't do that did you
no you wouldn't do that would you
chrissy boy because if you called
the police they'd send you to jail and you
don't want to go to jail do you chrissy boy
you did call him didn't you chris
you mean you didn't tell her chris oh that wasn't
nice you should have told her about your wicked
past [ __ ] don't move oh you stuck me didn't
you baby well we'll make up for that won't we
yeah that's right lady i'm gonna
k*ll him just like i said i would
only i just like to hurt him a little more first
and i just thought of a way
should i call the police
why ask me
you think i enjoyed keeping it from you why did
you then didn't you think you could trust me
i was afraid to tell you
and i never thought i'd have to
i was sure they wouldn't find me and that
bowling picture had to be taken that's funny
the secret i've kept for almost 15 years ended
in the second highest sticking bowling team
it's so funny it's hilarious where
are you going call the police no
i don't want you to be arrested you're
willing to consider doing something else
what else can we do helen if that body wasn't
found nobody would ever know what happened
okay we could take that body up in the hills and
bury it look it's either that or prison there's
nothing in between i lived a decent life ever
since it happened i've done everything i could to
make up for it is everything we've had for seven
years gonna be thrown away just because of him
i love you
i had nothing to do with it
you hear me helen i had
nothing to do with the m*rder
it's bill don't worry i'm not gonna let him in
oh hello bill we are out of ice cubes mr martin
and my mother sent me over to borrow some oh sure
honey would you get bills from my story hey
helen hello hope i didn't wake you up huh oh
no i'm glad go ahead you know we uh we never go to
bed before midnight oh good chris good you uh have
a little party over there huh okay some party
my aunt decided to pass well uh how long she
gonna be here too long i don't know when she was
coming at all i'd have grabbed the first plan for
hawaii
can't you get them honey
ah hear me help her no bill that's alright i'll
do there she is i sure appreciate this helen
colder and my whole head's hard oh
helen i hope i didn't disturb you yeah
all right a million fly scoops helen
you're welcome yeah my aunt thanks you
my mother thanks you and i thank you and you
are welcome thank you good night good night
uh
i'll have to wait until they go to bed
helen i want to tell you something
it isn't necessary yes it is
i know that you think i never
told you about it because i was
uh afraid of going to prison that's
not true i was afraid for you
you were so young when we married
someone prepared for anything like
that that was seven years ago chris
i know it's just that i i
didn't know how to tell you
as time went by i began to think
that maybe i wouldn't have to
i was only 19 when it happened
i was working for a bank
picking up deposits from all the uh big stores in
the area this was albuquerque i was living with uh
my father and my mother d*ed when i was born well
you know all that he and i didn't get along so
more to stay out of his way than anything else i
started hanging around some of
the bars that's why i met fred
later on i met steve adam those are the
other two escaped president with him we uh
hung around together we planned a robbery
we'd pick one of the bank's depositors
nice old guy who ran a jewelry store
and i was supposed to knock on the back door
like i always do when i made a collection and
they'd go inside get the money and i'd wait out
in the car as a lookout i was supposed to warn
them if something happened something happened all
right now the uh whole guy got to a alarm system
next thing i know i hired a police car coming
and i ran out of them at the time i i didn't
know that they'd k*ll the old man i just
just ran out of them because
i didn't have the guts
i drove them way as fast as i could
and uh when that car ran out of gas
i hitchhiked out of the state came to
los angeles changed my name met you
that's it
i'll call the police
if you think you can put him someplace
where they won't find him and do it
it's just that i can't hear the
chris put him out of our lives
oh
so
honey why don't you go back to
bed what about those other two men
what about what if they should come
here i want to buy the law they won't
wasn't the other one wanted by the law
he was drunk helen out of his mind
i've been awake all night
i've been trying to visualize
going on as your wife
i care chris
all the meaning seems to be gone out of it
it's not the same
it's just not the same
the same people helen are we
i don't even know who i am am i am i helen
martin am i helen phillips am i married at all
i just don't know anything chris least of all
a man i've been married to for seven years
honey
you want to leave
i don't know chris
hello hello chris remember me this is adam what
do you want to see you boy you want to meet us or
shall we drop by stay away from you i mean we'll
see you at monica on 12th street in 15 minutes
operator give me the police yes sir
honey i'm gonna take the bus
to the plant you can have a car
get in the car
it's been a long time chris you
look good i can't say i like that
what do you want a little charity that's all
brief money i know you won't
object now that you've k*lled fred
i wasn't sure you had till now ah
don't worry i'm not in mourning he was a
bungler he's too emotional like steve there
if i wasn't long to put a bottle through
your head by now for running out on us
how much well we'd like 50 or thousand
dollars but we know you haven't got that much
i gotta have some travel and
money so we'll settle for five
i haven't even got five all right four lucky
we don't leave you in a ditch somewhere bank's
open in one hour you get that money and meet
us 11 o'clock you know where latigo canyon is
yeah i'll bring the money there they'll find us
you could bring the police of course
but i don't think you will not you
indignation christopher we better make it
six six oh shut up i haven't got that much
you bring what you got then
better not be less than four
all right well that's splendid
that's really splendid keep in
mind if you fail you'll be receiving
a visit from me the rest of the police
either one of which won't be very pleasant i
said all right 11 o'clock christopher pull over
uh
what's up
so alan
helen
helen
oh
you have just witnessed the first half of our
play we now come to that part of the program which
one viewer says reminds him of a baloney
sandwich a station break between two slices of
hitchcock evening and welcome to the alfred
hitchcock hour again you have come back a
trifle early but no matter we have an excellent
little time k*ller which will keep you from
getting restless and now if you will be good
enough to give me a hand i shall get out of here
oh good morning mr martin oh well mrs
anthony i saw you standing there and i
wondered if your wife had run across that
canopy dish she said she was going to look
in the cupboard for it she thought she put it
there after the garden club meeting last week
i wouldn't fuss about it ordinarily but i'm
giving a little dinner party friday night and
i especially want that dish for canopies it's
priceless really my husband bought it in london
five no six months ago it's handmade and well
will it be all right if i stop by the house then
i'm sorry mrs anthony i i didn't hear what you
said i said do you think your wife would mind
if i dropped by the house and helped her look for
the dish oh well uh uh she's not at home right now
oh are you feeling ill mr martin oh no it's
it's just uh it's awful hot in here isn't it
well when will she be back well i don't know
if she's uh going to santa barbara oh well i
would like that dish on friday night or before
if possible you see it's absolutely surprising
look when i uh finish at the plant i'll
go home i'll pick up that dish i'll bring
it over to your place tonight
oh thank you i'd appreciate it
excuse me ma'am i'm in a terrible hurry would you
mind very much if i uh got in front of you i've
been waiting here longer than you have young
man and i'm in just as much of a hurry as you
are
thank you please i'd like it in small
bills please uh tens and twenties
yes sir and could you make it as fast as possible
hey where are you going oh one moment sir
that gentleman all right send him over
it's locked it's great
don't you sit down mr martin uh look i'm in
an awful hurry mr campbell please what is it
this withdrawal mr martin it would leave your
savings account with less than a hundred dollars
i know that well this note you signed note yes
it states that um a four thousand dollar loan
was extended to you last october just a minute
i'm conditioned that a similar amount in your
savings account service collateral so if you
withdraw four thousand dollars mr campbell
listen i've been doing business
with this bank for nine years now
during that time i've never failed to meet an
obligation my credit rating is without question
i think we can make the deal i need this
money now my mother's in financial trouble
see you this afternoon she requires it immediately
and you'll get the money back as soon as possible
mr martin please understand that it's
not as if as i personally like i've
got a good job i pay my bills i've met every
obligation to this bike i need that money now
very well mr martin i see no pressing reason
why we can't allow this it's irregular but
in view of your past credit grading i
think we can put it through thank you
where is she i didn't think it was a good
idea to stop the main road where is she at him
now where is she
adam steve is taking splendid care of her
where it's all there so let's see all right
tell me where she is adam i say help me i'll
k*ll you oh you won't haven't got the stomach
tell me where she is or i'll
blow your stinking head off
i'm not far from here you see it should not be
come on
behind the wheel climb
quite a little hero aren't we
there's only two b*ll*ts
give me the rest of them i think we waltzed
out of that pin it's all there is left
you plan on turning this over to the police
you of course realize what's going to happen if
you do you go to the pen for the rest of your life
what do you think they're gonna do with
you a little man don't worry about me
i plan on living a long long time
how much further it's beyond that bend
away
get out
hold it
what now little hero
well you're going to call them out
anything you sail you walk up
that road about 15 feet and column
and you better make it good be careful
there's only two b*ll*ts it only takes one
go on
steve
steve
what happened to you pull it
look out
i told you they're only two
now i've got your little hero
with him
you've got this sweetheart try it
keep your head down
so
so
so
so
so
so
so
the only thing we can do is
to try and climb out of here
chris
grace
ah
so
hey
i'm terribly sorry that was a nasty tumble
however we did manage to get me out of there
perhaps you can amuse yourself
by sitting in the darkness
and imagining what our next commercial
will be like sorry regulations you know
you
08x11 - Ride the Nightmare
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American anthology series featuring dramas, thrillers and mysteries.
American anthology series featuring dramas, thrillers and mysteries.