Suspense - S4E24: Night Drive
25min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | TV Series (1949–1954)
Mrs. Haley takes her horse to blacksmith Bob to have its shoes checked since she'll be traveling alone by buggy to meet her husband at the train station. She's delighted when Dr. Tabor, whose wife was one of two women murdered in the woods along the way, asks if his sister can ride along. As they approach the spot of the two unsolved crimes, the behavior of Mrs. Haley's passenger becomes unsettling.
Stars: Rex Marshall, Robert Emhardt, John Baragrey
25min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | TV Series (1949–1954)
Mrs. Haley takes her horse to blacksmith Bob to have its shoes checked since she'll be traveling alone by buggy to meet her husband at the train station. She's delighted when Dr. Tabor, whose wife was one of two women murdered in the woods along the way, asks if his sister can ride along. As they approach the spot of the two unsolved crimes, the behavior of Mrs. Haley's passenger becomes unsettling.
Stars: Rex Marshall, Robert Emhardt, John Baragrey
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00:00Now the autolight family brings you, Suspense.
00:30Now the autolight family brings you,
01:01Suspense.
01:07What do I owe you, Bob?
01:08Oh, it's all right.
01:09No, no. You fix the shoe. I want to pay for it.
01:12No, it's all right.
01:16Hey, how late can you stay open?
01:18Oh, pretty soon. Soon as it gets dark.
01:20Well, I'm lucky I caught you. I have to drive over to Calumet late tonight.
01:24Yeah? Oh, you'd have made it all right. I still wouldn't have come off.
01:28I know, but I just like to be safe.
01:32Oh, oh, say, did you put kerosene in the lamp?
01:36Yes, ma'am.
01:37Oh, that's good. I'll need them. I'm going through the woods.
01:40Bye, Bob.
01:41Bye, Miss Harris.
01:48You think I look like a cannibal?
02:11You're already fishy. Why do you do it again?
02:14Your daddy always says I have a shiny nose.
02:17Can we stay open until Daddy comes?
02:19No, no, sweetie. I have to drive ten miles to get him.
02:24And I have to drive ten miles to bring him back.
02:27Oh, dear. I want one single decent hat.
02:33A man called.
02:34Oh, the feather.
02:35What man?
02:36The man with his wife that was killed.
02:38What?
02:39That's what Granny said.
02:41She said someone killed his wife going to Calumet.
02:46Oh, that must be Dr. Tabor.
02:49What did he want?
02:51He said if you were going to meet Daddy, he wanted a ride.
02:59I wonder if that really was Dr. Tabor.
03:02Why?
03:05Well, sweetie, I'm certainly not going to drive for two hours
03:08in the dark woods with somebody I don't even know.
03:20Hello?
03:22Oh, hello, Dr. Tabor.
03:24Yes.
03:26Yes.
03:28Oh, I see. It isn't you.
03:31Well, of course I'd love to.
03:34I'll pick her up.
03:35Well, I can pick her up downtown.
03:37Well, let's say on Elm just across from the church.
03:39In about 15 minutes.
03:41Oh, not at all. I'm really delighted for the company.
03:45All right.
03:47All right, Dr. Tabor. Goodbye.
03:56Oh, dear.
03:58Sweetie, you must be more careful.
04:00Oh, messages.
04:02It was Dr. Tabor's sister who wants the ride.
04:05Is she old?
04:07Well, I suppose she isn't young.
04:10What does she want the ride for?
04:12Well, I think that she's a nurse.
04:15I think she works over in Calumet.
04:18Now, you be good boys and don't you bother your grandmother.
04:22I'm going to go right to bed now, you hear me?
04:27Night, sweetheart.
04:29Night, sweetie.
04:37Miss Tabor?
04:43Miss Tabor?
04:49Miss Tabor?
04:55Miss Tabor?
05:02Miss Tabor?
05:06Yoo-hoo!
05:31Oh, it's a wonderful, soft, warmish night, isn't it?
05:41Feels as if spring was already here.
05:44Or maybe that's because I haven't seen my husband.
05:46He's a mining engineer.
05:48He's been away for six weeks in South America.
05:51Yes, I know.
05:53Don't you probably know I was going to drive over tonight?
05:56I suppose somebody told him.
05:58Oh, maybe the blacksmith's boy.
06:00Well, anyway, I'm delighted with company.
06:02Oh, there's the cuddle.
06:04Oh, ho, ho, Blake.
06:07Something wrong?
06:09Somehow, I hate to go into those woods.
06:13Why?
06:15Wasn't your brother's wife?
06:17Yes, but she was driving alone.
06:22I wonder if she stopped to pick somebody up.
06:25Nobody knows exactly.
06:28No, I suppose not with the way they ponder.
06:31The way they ponder buggy or burn.
06:35Tremendous trees, aren't they?
06:38Come on, trees at night.
06:40When they're so thick, you can't even see the sky.
06:44I really dread going through those woods.
06:47Ten miles.
06:49Not a farm.
06:50Not a lake.
06:51Not a cabin.
06:52We can go fast.
06:53There won't be fog in the woods.
06:58I think I'll let down the curtains.
07:00Anyway, some of them.
07:01Make us feel snugger.
07:06Can I help you?
07:09I don't know.
07:10Why, this is the meanest tie.
07:12I don't know why it's stuck so.
07:14Here.
07:15Here, run over.
07:17Now you did that easily.
07:19You like those strong hands.
07:24There.
07:25Now, go ahead and get the other one.
07:29There.
07:30What's what?
07:31Sounds like a sick dog.
07:36No, it's a bobcat.
07:39Oh, never mind the other curtain.
07:40You nervous?
07:43Just get going.
07:49Get up, Blaze.
07:50Get up.
08:04The woods smell wonderful, don't they?
08:08Easy, easy, Blaze.
08:11I thought you were going to have worse fog.
08:14All right, now, easy, girl.
08:18You know, your voice sounds familiar.
08:22I suppose it's like your brother's.
08:24I like a low voice.
08:28I don't think we've ever met before, have we?
08:31I almost never come over.
08:34Except now that my brother's so baffled and broody,
08:37I feel I just have to.
08:39What's he so baffled about?
08:41They've been married only three months.
08:44It must be awful for him.
08:47I suppose he hardly sleeps.
08:49He must always be wondering what really happened.
08:53Oh.
08:55Ooh.
08:56Ooh, the glass is humid as silk.
08:58Ooh.
09:02Whoa, Blaze, whoa.
09:03What's wrong now?
09:05I think I'll see if I can't turn those lamps up in the fire.
09:16And you know, there was that other girl, too.
09:19You know, that strange girl that was driving through town?
09:22Nobody knew her at all except she was found the same way, right?
09:26The same spot in the woods.
09:28Killed just like your brother's wife.
09:35He must have poured kerosene all over both of them last thing.
09:44So obviously it was the same person who killed both.
09:49Because weren't they both found in the same condition, same spot?
09:57Must be somebody around here.
10:03I can feel it.
10:04Nothing's stopping it.
10:14What I can't understand is why wouldn't he be caught?
10:22Probably he's so nice and quiet nobody would dream of him.
10:27Did you know maniacs can be very quiet?
10:35Get up, Blaze.
10:36Get up.
10:42Mrs. Henry.
10:43Yes?
10:44This is almost exactly the spot.
10:46Up the road, right up the road.
10:48We had a little lead room made out of old planks and that's where he took each one.
10:52But what baffles me so is why would he take the second one to the same spot?
10:56Why?
10:57Unless he had some strange kind of compulsion to repeat the identical pattern.
11:09Mrs. Haley, now that we're coming near the spot I must tell you something.
11:14Tell me what?
11:15It may shock you but I had to do it.
11:19I mean to try and catch the killer.
11:23Mrs. Haley, I'm really Dr. Taylor.
11:25Oh?
11:26And I dress this way because I have a hunch the killer is out tonight and he's out to get you.
11:30Me?
11:31Me, Dr. Taylor?
11:33Yes.
11:34Do you know anything about the Naico killers?
11:38Well, I don't.
11:40Get up!
11:42Every few months or so, maybe when the turn of the season, they feel this fire surging inside.
11:47Get up!
11:48Get up!
11:49Their eyes change.
11:50They glow.
11:51They're bright, restless and terribly intense.
11:53And then they feel this wakeful surging inside.
11:57They possess, obsess and they have to kill.
11:59Have to!
12:00Get up!
12:01Get up!
12:02Get up!
12:03Get up!
12:04Get up!
12:05Get up!
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14:37And now, back to the second act of Night Drive, starring Robert H. Harris and Neva Patterson.
15:07And now, back to the second act of Night Drive, starring Robert H. Harris and Neva
16:56Patterson.
16:58And now, back to the second act of Night Drive, starring Robert H. Harris and Neva
17:22Why did you call me, Margaret?
17:24Ain't that your name?
17:26Yes.
17:28That's why I called you, Margaret.
17:30Oh.
17:32As soon as I get my breath, let's get back on to the road.
17:34Sure.
17:36You shouldn't come driving through here without your husband.
17:38He's away, isn't he?
17:40I guess you and him love each other as much as anybody in town.
17:42Except maybe Dr. Tabor and his wife.
17:44She was pretty.
17:46You ever see her skin?
17:48She had brown eyes, too.
17:51Red brown eyes, too.
17:53If this is me, it's more eyes.
17:57Haney!
17:59Mrs. Haney!
18:01Is that Dr. Tabor?
18:03Mrs. Haney, do you hear me?
18:05Please listen carefully!
18:07And then call out!
18:09Mrs. Haney!
18:11I'm almost sure that boy killed my wife!
18:13He's crazy. I bet he killed his wife.
18:15Mrs. Haney, remember!
18:17Whoever killed those do it to me!
18:19He poured kerosene over both of them and burned them!
18:21Mrs. Haney!
18:23Mrs. Haney!
18:25Come on, Margaret, let's beat it.
18:49I mean, you know.
18:51He was a lunatic.
18:53He was a maniac.
18:55I'm telling you, the little dog.
18:57I'm telling you.
18:59Where is he?
19:01I don't know, Margaret.
19:03He was a lunatic.
19:05Oh, my God!
19:07He's not a lunatic!
19:09He's a maniac!
19:11He was a maniac!
19:13It was not him!
19:15He's a maniac!
19:17And you know, here's a lean-to.
19:21I guess somebody must have left it out here.
19:22Deer hunting.
19:24Oh, I'd better go back on the road.
19:26What the crazy doctor is?
19:29He keeps hiding a lean-to.
19:31He couldn't see us in here.
19:35What's the matter?
19:37Well, don't tell me you're scared of me now.
19:41Okay, go on, yell out.
19:43Go on, go on, he'll hear you yell out.
19:46Okay.
19:48So we'll hide in there.
19:50We'll catch our breath.
19:51The old geezer will be gone.
19:52We can head back for the road.
19:56Come on, tuck in.
20:10He even left us a lamp.
20:13What do you know?
20:16Well.
20:18It's real snug in here.
20:20Like a little bear's den.
20:21Bob, I want to go out.
20:24Oh, don't be afraid.
20:26I can see a light through here.
20:30What's this?
20:32What?
20:33There's a can over here.
20:35I don't know.
20:37Isn't it a kerosene can?
20:39Yeah, I guess so.
20:40I guess the hunter had it for his lamp.
20:43What?
20:44Would he leave it?
20:46Sure, why not?
20:49You know.
20:51I bet the doctor killed that other girl, too.
20:54She kind of looked like his wife.
20:56I seen her once.
20:58She was pretty.
21:00Same kind of big brown eyes.
21:03I guess he took after you for the same reason.
21:06Why, am I like her?
21:08Why, am I like her?
21:10Yeah, yeah.
21:12I thought this girl was a stranger.
21:14She was. She come from Connecticut.
21:16Nobody ever said she was from Connecticut.
21:18They didn't?
21:19No.
21:20They didn't know where she was from.
21:22How did you know?
21:24Oh.
21:25I remember because she, uh.
21:27She come into Blacksmith's and we got talking.
21:29That's all.
21:33Let's see what's in that can.
21:35Maybe just water. I could use a drink.
21:37Where are you going?
21:38Yes, I want to.
21:39No, not yet.
21:40This is where I am. I'm getting out of here.
21:41Oh, no, not yet. I couldn't let you.
21:42No.
21:43You'll be safe.
21:45Don't be afraid.
21:48I know what you're thinking.
21:49What?
21:50About what Dr. Tabor said.
21:52Say about what?
21:53Didn't he tell you that each time a body was found outside a little lean-to?
21:58And how inside the dirt was all scruffed up like there'd been a struggle?
22:04Let's get out of here.
22:07What's the matter? Can't you stand me?
22:09Don't you like my looks?
22:11Oh, you got too much class for me, is that it?
22:13Bob, no.
22:14Oh, I'm the horse face. You got too much class for me, huh?
22:16Here you are.
22:19You think it's me, don't you?
22:20Yes, I do.
22:21I think you killed his wife.
22:23And I think you killed the other girl.
22:25Sure I did.
22:27I killed them both.
22:29The dirty blacksmith and all he had was fish eyes from me.
22:32Just like you now, staring at me.
22:35I don't like that.
22:37It drives me crazy. I don't like it.
22:39You hear? You understand?
22:41I don't know.
23:00Well, Sheriff.
23:02The last time I saw them, they were headed this way.
23:30Oh, my God.
23:40Now they're going to die.
23:42Just like you're going to.
23:45Oh.
23:56If you're ever going to see that husband, you'd better start alone.
24:02Alone.
24:04Tell you what, Sheriff.
24:06Why don't you drive with Miss Haley, hmm?
24:08Suits me if it suits her.
24:10I'll take the boy back in your rig.
24:12Is that all right, ma'am?
24:20Thank you, Doctor.
24:42Hello, darling.
24:44How is everything?
24:46Fine. Fine.
24:48And how are the children?
24:50Fine.
24:52And how are you?
24:54Fine.
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