["Alfred Hitchcock" theme music]
- Good evening.
[rattling]
How do you do?
I've just been promoted.
The office hasn't been
occupied for some time
and the carpet hasn't
been properly kept up.
This area near the water cooler
will have to be completely
reseeded.
I see the former occupant
was partial to gentle rolling
landscape.
On the other hand,
I have the feeling that this may
be
the former occupant himself.
I find this quite upsetting.
They told me he had left.
To be precise they said,
he's no longer with us.
I assumed he left the normal way
one does
in the business world,
by leaping out of the window.
While I contemplate this
dilemma of the organization man,
I invite you to observe the
machinations
of an extremely well-organized
man.
It is the story of a traveling
salesman
with an intriguing design for
living.
And now, speaking of salesmen.
[suspenseful music]
[airplane roaring]
- Thank you.
[door closing]
[buzzing]
Mrs. Brown?
- Yes.
- [Marion] Your husband
asked me to look you up.
- Well have we met?
- No, no, I'm from Baltimore.
- [Bernice] But Robert
never mentioned anybody
was coming by.
- Oh well he should have.
I've flown in just to see you.
- No, not a word.
Oh, honestly I do know him.
He works for the cosmetics firm.
I even know he's comin' home
tomorrow.
- Oh well I didn't doubt you.
- Of course.
If anyone came to my door
with the kind of
information I just gave you,
I'd be pretty wary too.
- Well I'm sorry, please come
in.
- [Marion] Thank you.
- Oh forgive this place.
I'm a terrible housekeeper
when my husband isn't around.
Well, even when he is.
- It's difficult to care when
your husband's gone so much.
- Oh well won't you sit down?
I didn't even ask your name.
- Mrs. Brown.
- Mrs. Brown?
- Mrs. Raymond Brown.
We're kind of related.
- Well that's reassuring to know
I belong
to such a large family.
- Tremendous.
I'm just astonished at how many
relatives
keep showin' up in Baltimore.
- Are you here on a
pleasure trip, Mrs. Brown?
Oh, that sounds like
I'm talking to myself.
My name is Marion.
- Bernice.
- Well, it's sort of on
business for all of us.
But, your husband said that
for any big investment,
both of you have to agree.
- Oh no, not always.
- I mean, since the money is
really yours.
- He told you that?
- Well it's true isn't it?
- Well in a way.
When we were married he
needed some extra money
and I had some.
But then, husbands and
wives share don't they?
- Oh yes,
always, everything.
- You say that so pointedly.
- My dear, the Browns are
famous for gettin' to the point.
- You're not related are you?
There's something in
back of this Mrs. Brown.
What is it?
You're not remotely related to
my husband.
- That's right.
It's more than remotely.
- I don't understand.
- I'm related directly to your
husband.
- [Bernice] How?
- By a previous marriage.
- You're his ex-wife?
- His present wife.
He's my husband too.
- You're lying.
- No you just look at this.
There now.
It's my marriage certificate
and a photograph of us on our
honeymoon.
- How could he?
How could he?
- By bein' selfish.
- He was kind.
- He married both of us.
There may be others.
- He loved me.
- I know it hurts,
but you must realize what he is.
- [Bernice] How can you be
so unemotional about it?
- I've had my tears.
- [Bernice] What do you intend
to do?
- Have my marriage annulled if
you do.
- [Bernice] And then?
- Send him to prison.
I need a drink.
- So vindictive toward someone
you love.
So vengeful.
- I will not forgive him.
Now we can help each other.
We can strengthen each other you
and I.
Could I have a drink please?
With ice.
- Oh yes, yes.
I need one too.
Scotch, I'll get some ice.
[suspenseful music]
- Have any soda?
- I think so.
[liquid babbling]
[tissue rustling]
- Nevermind the soda.
I'm so nervous I just want it
straight
with a little ice.
[ice clinking]
- I don't know what I'll
say to him tomorrow morning.
- I'm flyin' back to Baltimore.
You just let me handle it.
You are a beautiful woman,
Bernice.
You'll have no trouble at
all findin' a new husband.
But a woman my age,
now I would have a problem.
[Bernice grunting and
collapsing]
[airplane roaring]
[door closing]
- What a beautiful morning,
darling.
- Oh, I love you.
- And I love you.
- Look out, you'll make me
dizzy.
I like the way you make me
dizzy.
- I better hurry.
- Could only find a job
for you here in Baltimore.
- Once a traveling man,
always a traveling man.
- I shouldn't ask for that.
I'm not bein' fair.
- You're always fair darling.
You're more than fair.
You're understanding.
You're considerate.
You never complain.
- 40 year old women are great
then.
- In Europe,
just coming into their own.
The beautiful age.
- You do love me?
- Devotedly.
- You think about me when you're
gone?
- Always.
- When you're not busy you mean.
- Well come on, honey, what is
it?
This isn't like you?
- But in Europe.
- What's in Europe?
- That attitude toward 40 year
old women.
- I'm a man with European ideas.
And if business keeps getting
better,
we might take a trip there soon.
- Really, honest?
- I'll be back in exactly 12
days.
- You'll call me from each city?
- Don't I always?
- Each one.
Newark, then Hartford, then
Boston.
- I'm the phone company's
favorite.
Now let's see.
We discussed getting the car
fixed,
the doctor's bill.
[fingers snapping]
Home three days and I haven't
even seen
the way they finished the new
fuel tank in the basement.
- Oh they didn't finish.
[light rattling]
- [Raymond] Why not?
- [Marion] I've forgotten to
call them.
- [Raymond] But they promised.
- Didn't want to do it
without your bein' here.
- I was here three days.
- They couldn't make it then.
- Well it certainly won't decay.
I'll phone 'em to come out.
We gotta get this larger
tank in by winter.
- If anything goes wrong, you'll
blame me.
- Am I such an ogre?
- It's just that I want you
here all the time, always.
[grunting and tumbling]
[sinister music]
- Take your hand off that
handle.
Take it off.
- What handle?
- Take it off,
you'll drop the tank.
There's gotta be an easier
way to keep a house warm.
- See, I do bungle everything.
- Well it could have been worse
if you'd pulled that lever.
- Wait til you get back.
- Yeah, I guess you'd better.
- Stay here.
- You mean not go out to work at
all?
- I have an awful feelin',
somethin' I don't know.
- Just because of this little
accident.
I have to go.
There's a man waitin' to meet
me in Newark in three hours.
[sinister orchestral music]
[door opening and closing]
- Morning Mr. Brown.
- Good morning, Mr. Bleeker.
- You almost hit a daily double.
- Well I'm satisfied with my
winnings
at the track as they are.
- Any instructions?
- Yes, I want to add another
to that bet I made in Boston.
And I want you to meet me there.
- Usual place?
- Oh yes indeed.
I'm a creature of habit.
- Mind if I ask you a question?
- Well that depends.
- Nothing about your work
or what business you're in.
If you want to hire me to
make bets for you, okay.
That's your business.
I need some personal advice.
- That also depends.
- You married?
- I sure am.
- Happy?
- Ecstatic.
Sometimes so happy I can't stand
it.
- You know, this is my third
time out.
I got two kids you know.
You got kids?
- It's getting late.
- I could have married a very
nice widow this last time.
Showgirl I know.
She was loaded.
But she didn't appeal.
I married this one.
Younger than me, but with
appeal.
Not money, appeal, beautiful.
But now we fight all the time.
She was nuts about me, why?
- You think you must
marry for love or money
when you could just as easily
marry for love and money.
[suspenseful music]
- [Storber] Get the
neighborhood nice and...
- Oh, no, no.
It can't be.
She's dead.
My wife is dead.
- I'm a police officer, Mr.
Brown,
Lieutenant Storber.
- She can't be dead, she can't.
- Mr. Brown,
did your wife have any
reason to commit suicide?
- Suicide?
- Did she?
- Well that's impossible.
- Why?
- It's ridiculous.
I don't mean your question.
It's perfectly logical for you
to ask such a question but...
- Well then how can you be so
sure?
- She bought a new cookbook,
a very expensive gourmet one.
- Yeah, we saw it laying on the
table.
- That's what I mean.
- Well that's hardly proof of
anything.
- Well she wanted to be an
excellent cook.
- Cooks commit suicide.
- But she wanted to please
me to be a good cook
because I like fine cooking.
- You told her she couldn't
cook?
- No I told her anything she
did was all right with me.
She was a beautiful woman,
wonderful.
I loved her.
When you love a woman you
forgive so much.
- Was there much to forgive?
- Well I didn't mean it that
way.
- [Storber] What way?
- Stop twisting what I say.
What are you trying to imply?
- Imply, nothing.
I'm tryin' to get information,
get a picture,
a feeling about this,
about her relationships.
- Did she leave a note?
- No.
- I need a drink.
- [Storber] Put that down
please.
- Well what's wrong with havin'
a drink?
It's my own house.
- Your wife died from
cyanide in the Scotch.
A soluble cyanide powder.
- Well where could she
get anything like that?
- That's what we were wondering.
Why didn't you reach for the
Scotch?
- I don't drink Scotch.
- Oh, that's a good reason.
- Now can I have a drink?
- Not until we test all the
liquor.
- You don't really think
it was suicide do you?
- We take care of first things
first.
- It smells all right.
- You know the smell of cyanide?
- Well I guess not.
But when you tell me that
something is poisoned...
- You've been gone a lot, Mr.
Brown.
- Travel, I represent a
restaurant
supply company in Boston.
- Yeah, but you've been
gone half the time at least.
- How did you know?
- We talked to the neighbors.
- Are you accusing me of
something?
- I don't think so.
- I loved her.
Ask the neighbors about that.
- Your wife was k*lled
late yesterday afternoon.
Where were you?
- Ask 'em if they ever
heard us fight or argue once
- Where were you, Mr. Brown?
- Baltimore.
- Can you prove it?
- I phoned her long distance.
They'd have a record.
I spoke to her about 3:00 p.m.
- Okay, you couldn't make up
that one.
- I could.
But I'd be a fool to.
- You have a good mind for
facts.
- Now will you please leave me
alone?
- One more thing.
Was there anyone who hated your
wife
for any special reason known to
you?
- No, no one.
She didn't have an enemy in the
world.
- There wasn't anyone who
wanted her out of the way?
- No one, no one, no one.
I told you.
Now my wife is dead.
Now let me alone, please.
- Certainly.
Oh, don't leave the city
unless you check with us first.
- Why store the furniture in a
warehouse?
- I don't want reminders.
- You want to forget my sister
and you just buried her.
- Not forget her.
Forget the terrible
circumstances of her dying.
- Well I want reminders.
She was so lonely.
- I know.
- So terribly lonely.
I won't want to forget.
- It gets lonely on the road
traveling all the time too.
- She cried a lot when you
were gone in this very room,
in these very chairs.
- I called her every day.
Do you want the rest of these
chairs?
- Yes.
She wanted you to get a job in
Newark.
- I tried.
There's a bedroom rug too.
- No, that'd have to be redyed
and that's too expensive.
She just died of loneliness.
- I did everything I could.
- That's why she's dead.
Will you pay for fixing
up the bedroom rug?
- All right, I'll pay for it.
- Don't you get huffy with me.
And don't get on your high
horse.
She told us about your
independence,
your coming and going as you
please.
- Take it all, all of it.
The refrigerator,
the extra bed,
and go away.
- Because you know you k*lled
her.
- Get out!
- Perhaps not directly.
I know you could sue me if I
said it and couldn't prove it.
But you did just as surely as
though
you had poured that poison.
- I envy you.
- Was your wife anything like
her sister?
- Exact opposites.
Complete opposites.
- Good, otherwise you'd
have had a clear motive
for k*lling your wife.
And that could have meant
a lot of trouble for you.
Where will you be living now?
- In hotels.
I gave your assistant
the names of the hotels
in Hartford and Boston.
- Just phone in.
- Yes sir.
[phone dinging]
Long distance.
I want to make a collect
call to Mrs. Brown
in Hartford, Connecticut,
Yes, her husband.
Hello Lucille.
Yes, I'm sorry I was delayed.
A little difficulty
with one business deal.
- Oh, but darling I missy you
terribly.
Well not a minute longer.
Yes, yes I love you.
No, no everything's fine
now that you're coming home.
[doorbell buzzing]
All right darling.
And dinner will be wonderful.
I'm preparing a real gourmet
menu.
I love you, bye-bye.
Coming.
[sinister chords ringing]
- Mrs. Brown?
- Yes.
- You are beautiful.
- Why thank you very much,
but who are you?
- Why did you do it, why?
- Do what?
- Why did you marry my husband?
- You're Mrs. Brown too?
- You stole my husband.
- Please don't shout in the
hall.
Come inside.
- Don't scream.
- But, can't we talk this over?
I mean let's talk it over.
- If you scream, I might sh**t.
And I haven't decided
if I'm gonna k*ll you.
- But I haven't done anything
wrong.
- You married him.
- Well but,
but you want his happiness don't
you?
- Well I wouldn't be here if I
didn't.
- Well for five years I've
been a considerate wife,
and I've tried to make
him happy, only him.
- How long did you say
you've been married to him?
- Five years.
- I stole him from you.
- Put the g*n away.
- I've only been married
to him for three years.
- Please, put the g*n away.
- Well now, we must talk this
over
like two civilized women.
- The g*n.
- Oh, oh yes of course.
[exhaling]
- I'm the husband stealer.
- Well, you didn't know.
- [Marion] Neither did you.
- Why, now why should he do such
a thing?
- It isn't love when a man does
that.
- But he was happy.
- Then why did he marry me?
- Well, he seemed happy.
- He pretended so much.
How could you tell?
- Tomorrow's our anniversary.
When I talked to him he was so
loving,
so very loving.
- A man is what he does,
not what he says.
- He kept coming back to me.
- Every three weeks.
- You want to forgive him?
- I would if I could find a way.
- Where do you think he was
during those three weeks?
- Not with you.
- [Marion] How can you be sure?
- But he always called
from different cities?
- Why should I protect you?
Why should I spare your
feelings.
We are not his only wives.
- Oh no.
- [Marion] Now he must be
punished.
- He was considerate, so
considerate.
- How much money did you
have when he married you?
- Why, is that important?
- I happen to know his
other wives had sums
ranging from 18,000 to 40,000.
- I was the 18,000.
- His prices went up with
inflation.
Mine was the 40,000.
- What a man.
- You admire him?
- I admire any man who can
get along with so many women.
- Even now, even when you know
all this?
- What an amazing man.
An astounding one, a hero.
- Maybe, but he wasn't
showin' the same interest.
- [Lucille] He was in me.
- Not me.
That's when I began to suspect.
Not me.
I'm turnin' gray.
I'm the oldest one.
The richest one, but the oldest
one.
- Why don't you have
your marriage annulled?
- Well if it becomes an
annulment.
But the charge of bigamy
would send him to jail.
- Then divorce him.
- You're right.
Why should I subject
myself to all this agony?
And if I love him,
and I do love him,
I can't destroy him.
- I hope you mean that.
- I do absolutely.
And the other two wives
will be your problem.
- Will you help me?
- Sure, why not?
- You know, you're a wonderful
woman.
I wish we were friends.
- We're even related.
I do need a drink now, a strong
one.
- Oh so do I.
- Okay now, this has
all been a shock to you.
You just sit right back there.
I'll be happy to make the
drinks.
You just tell me what to do.
- The liquor's in the kitchen
in the lower right-hand cabinet.
You know, you're a most
thoughtful woman.
I'll bet you're a good cook.
- [Marion] Superb.
- No wonder he married you.
- [Marion] You want it on the
rocks?
- No mix something in it.
[sinister chords ringing]
- What did you say?
- [Lucille] I said mix something
in it.
- Delighted.
[airplane roaring]
[suspenseful music]
- Are you Mr. Brown?
- Was that my wife?
- Death by suicide, I'm sorry.
You are Mr. Brown?
- But she didn't k*ll herself.
- Well there's no evidence of
anyone else
having been with her.
It's only one glass.
No other fingerprints on that
bottle except your wife's.
The cyanide was in the bottle.
- She loved life too much.
She was too happy to commit
suicide.
- We found the container of
cyanide in her jewelry box.
- Impossible, insane.
Out of the question.
- By the way, Mr. Brown,
What were you doing while
all this was happening?
[suspenseful music]
- In any office,
the most important moment is the
break.
It is on television too.
For the local stations that is.
Here they come now.
Following our break,
we shall all get back to work
again.
- Are you sure you want
to go traveling right now?
- I have to meet customers
in Boston, Newark,
places like that.
- It would look better
if you stayed a few days.
- Are you ordering me to?
- No, there's nothing to
book you off of, but...
- But what?
- Well I'm convinced of your
story, see.
But there's some fellas at
headquarters
that just double-check
everything.
You know what I mean?
- I have to get to my business
meetings.
- All right, but for your own
good,
not mine, you understand, I'm
convinced.
But call every day from
whatever city you're in, okay.
- Yes sir.
[phone dinging]
Get me Marion Brown in
Baltimore, Maryland.
Collect, 235-9987.
[ringing]
- Hello?
- [Raymond] Oh hello, darling.
- Well love, what a wonderful
surprise.
- [Raymond] Oh I always call.
- Yes, but not this early.
It is just a little early.
- [Raymond] I've had a change in
plans.
- In what way?
- Is something wrong?
- [Marion] No, nothing's wrong.
- You sounded strange, you're
all right?
- Just fine.
- [Raymond] I'm leaving
Hartford sooner than I expected.
- You're comin' home?
- [Raymond] No, Boston first
remember.
- I miss you terribly.
- But I have to go to Boston.
- [Marion] Why?
- Well you know why, business.
- [Marion] Can't I meet you
there.
- No, no of course not.
I'll be busy on appointments.
- [Marion] Please, I won't
get in the way, I promise.
It's terrible bein' here all
alone.
- But Marion.
- [Marion] All right, sorry I
asked.
I'll never ask again, never.
- All right, come ahead.
See what flights there are.
- I know the flights.
I've checked them for three
years
just hopin' we could be together
in one of those cities.
- All right darling, bye-bye.
- Bye.
[orchestral music]
Oh, what a wonderful day this
has been.
I don't know when I've
had such a good time.
- Well I'm glad you enjoyed it,
dear.
- Enjoyed it, I'm ecstatic.
All those shops and restaurants.
- The food in any city is good
if you know the right places.
- And you know them.
You know this city as
well you do Baltimore.
Oh unzip this, honey.
Well no, stop.
- What?
- Let's find one of those all
night spots.
There must be one in a city this
size.
- Well isn't that a little
wild for people like us?
- Old Mr. Puritan, really?
Don't you think a woman of my
age
is entitled to be giddy just
once
before middle age settles over
her?
- Why must I always reassure
you my little darling?
Do you think I would have
married you
if I hadn't found you so
attractive?
- I'm sorry.
I complain too much, way too
much.
I'm a chronic grouch.
And you're so good to me.
- It's getting late.
- And you have all those
appointments tomorrow.
- But I wanted the time with
you.
- Selfish of me.
I didn't give you time
to keep any appointments.
- Well I do have one later
tonight.
- With whom?
- No one you know.
- Tell me, please tell me.
You know I'm interested
in everything you do.
- It's a Mr. Bleeker.
- What a wonderful name.
Bleeker the baker,
or Bleeker the beekeeper,
or Bleeker the booker.
- Why did you say that?
- Baker, or beekeeper, or the
booker?
Or booker the baker.
[both laughing]
- You're charming.
It won't take long.
- It always does.
- Mr. Bleeker insisted on seeing
me.
He's leaving town in the
morning.
- Your wife has been a pest.
- I'll be back in an hour.
- A real pest.
- Maybe less time than that.
- I am goin' back home tonight.
- But that's not necessary.
- Now you just go see your Mr.
Bleeker
and don't think a thing about
it.
- But wait til morning.
- Then you'll have to
take me to the airport.
- [Raymond] I don't mind.
- I can go by myself.
- You're so determined.
- I've had a wonderful day
and a lovely evening, just
lovely.
And I know you'll be
coming home in a few days.
- That's true.
- You go to your Mr. Bleeker.
- You won't think I'm neglecting
you?
- Darling, love, you never
neglected me.
And I know I'm becoming
more important in your life
every day.
- More than you realize.
[orchestral music]
[door closing]
[crowd buzzing]
- No briefcase to exchange.
We lost in the last race.
- I'm closing up shop for a
while anyway.
- But you've been
breaking better than even.
- Well I've had some other
rather serious financial
reverses.
- You in another business?
- Oh several.
Four to be exact.
- I couldn't understand how a
guy like you
could finance a racetrack
operation.
- I had partners who had money.
- And you brought the know-how.
- I'd say that's a reasonable
definition
of my other business
relationships.
- You mean you're out for good?
No more betting at all?
- Well at least not until I can
replace
the financial backers I've lost.
- Well, easy come, easy go.
- Well that isn't quite the
way it worked in my case.
But I've no time to
quibble over definitions.
I'll call you when I'm
recapitalized.
[energetic music]
- Who are you?
Are you Mr. Brown?
Is that your wife?
[orchestral music]
[doors opening and closing]
- Marion?
Marion?
Marion!
- You frightened me.
- What do you think you did to
me?
- Why did you yell at me like
that?
- Well you were lying there
so motionless, so still.
- I couldn't sleep last night.
Actually I did go to sleep,
but then I woke up at 4:00
a.m. and I couldn't go back.
I missed you.
So I took a sleeping pill
but it didn't seem to work.
And I thought it wouldn't so I
got up.
I got dressed, read the
newspapers and had breakfast,
a huge breakfast.
Then I stretched out here and
I completely forgot about
the sleepin' pill and wham.
What time is it?
- 5:30.
- Wonderful, it's exactly the
right time.
- You planned something special.
- Just for us.
We can have a c*ck before
dinner.
- But I thought you didn't
drink.
- I do now.
I thought maybe I been missin'
something.
So I forced myself to experiment
with a c*ck here and
there these last few days.
- Here and there?
- Lately, I found I enjoyed it.
Oh where's the harm?
A drink now and then never hurt
anybody.
Least not me.
I've turned over a new leaf.
- Sounds like you turned
over a whole new tree.
- You are delicious.
What will you have an
old fashioned, a sour?
You name it.
- You're quite an expert and so
quickly.
- I read a book.
- One can find out how to do
so many technical things from
books.
- It's a do-it-yourself year.
Now you just sit right there.
Now let me serve you.
- But I want to watch you.
- Let me be a dutiful wife.
- I want to see how good
you are at making them.
- You might make me nervous.
I'm not that good.
Now please, just sit back there
and let me bring it to you.
Let me show you I can do
somethin' efficiently by myself.
[suspenseful music]
[light rattling]
- Honey, where are you?
- Be right there.
- What in the world were you
doin' down in the cellar?
- Where's the fuel tank?
- Well I had them take it away.
I hope you like your drink.
- Why?
- Well because it was
just a waste of money.
That old one is plenty big
enough.
- I thought you wanted
me to make that decision.
- Darlin', what difference does
it make?
- Why didn't you have
'em fill up the hole?
- I thought they had.
- To leave a gaping thing like
that, why?
- To you, my wonderful husband.
- Oh yes, to me.
To you.
- You look upset.
- Not at all, really.
- Somethin' happened on that
trip.
- Very uneventful.
Dullest trip I ever took.
- Well then stop actin' like
a fugitive from justice.
- Why did you say that?
- Well because you do.
As though the police had you
linked with some terrible crime
and they were lookin' for you
everywhere.
- Out with it.
- Out with what?
- Say it and get it over with.
- You are gettin' to be
a jigsaw puzzle darlin'.
And there are more pieces
missin'
every time I try to put you
together.
- And you have tried your way.
- Because of that job of yours,
travelin' I mean.
That company asks too much
expecting you to cover so much
territory.
Now I think you should tell them
that you're going to concentrate
on this area, our area.
Don't you think so?
- What for?
- 'Cause I'd love havin'
you with me all the time.
- Well what if I don't like it.
- You don't have to like it.
Just accept it.
- Then it's true.
You did it.
All of them.
- Have a drink.
- You k*lled 'em.
- You afraid to drink yours?
- And you got to Hellen while
I was talking to Bleeker.
- I'll drink yours and you drink
mine.
- I'll never give in to you.
- Well what if I drink a little
of each.
There see,
a marital bond,
a tie of love.
- The police'll find out.
- Well, whatever the police
discover,
they'll only find out
that you had a motive,
no one else.
Only you.
Just you.
Isn't that true darlin'?
And with a man as irres...
What are you doin'?
[phone clicking]
- Get me the police.
- I'll accuse you.
I'll destroy you.
- My name is Brown, Raymond
Brown.
- Raymond Richard Reynold Robert
Brown.
- Stop that.
It's a joke, a little joke.
- Four times.
You are a bigamist four times.
Now you can stay alive with me
or be dead away from me.
- One moment please.
The police accepted my
explanations.
- Explanation singular.
One m*rder yes.
Two maybe, three...
- One moment more please.
You wouldn't.
- I will see you ex*cuted
for m*rder if you leave me.
- Yes my wife thought that
she'd lost something valuable,
but she found it again.
Thank you.
- That's bein' logical.
That makes sense.
Come have a drink.
- I was a happy man.
- An unhappy man,
a very unhappy man.
- Ecstatically happy.
- A dream, a nightmare,
a false happiness.
I will cure you of it.
Now you'll see.
Everything's gonna be fine.
Your job, our life together.
If you decide differently,
anytime you want,
you can change your mind.
- And if I do?
- Well, if not the police
there's
always the hole in the cellar.
[dramatic music]
Whatever you want.
It's up to you.
- This idyllic situation
was not destined to last.
The police don't like to
leave their books unbalanced
for any length of time.
They eventually stumbled onto
the puzzle
of Richard's private life
and moved in just in time
to save him for themselves.
Richard was not only
guilty of simple bigamy.
In his case,
it was more like trigonometry.
He is now in a well-known
federal prison.
You see, the law took the
position
that he must be punished.
As though having four wives
were not punishment enough.
Incidentally,
this turned out not to
be the former occupant.
I knew you'd be pleased to know,
it was his wife.
Next week we shall bring
you another twisted tale,
scenes of which will
be on view in a trice.
["Alfred Hitchcock" theme music]
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