Fugue in C-Minor | Case History on Edgar Lowndes - Suspense!

[00:00:00] The And with the performances of Ida Lupino and Vincentarmony I was delightful to see you here I'd like

[00:03:01] you to meet my sister Mr. Evans my sister and to be buddy delighted I'm sure it's But I've had the pipes installed all over the house. Under this floor, for example, are all the choir stops. Up in the bedroom walls are the stops for the swell manual. In the great 32-foot pedal stops, the giant diapacens are underneath the staircase. My children sleep next door to the echo chamber. So you see, we live like angels here in a paradise of music.

[00:04:23] How thrilling.

[00:04:24] Ladies, come upstairs to the second floor landing.

[00:04:26] Won't you? And I't think you would enjoy it. The idiotic tunes people play nowadays. Give me the old stern classics. They have strength and power. Give me somethingly devoted to their mother. Then of course the unfortunate circumstances of her death. I suppose your sister Mrs. Chumley is told to all about that. No, not very much, except your wife was killed in a street accident, wasn't she? Yes, in Philadelphia, a brewery wagon and four horses ran her down.

[00:07:00] Oh, how terrible.

[00:07:02] It's something I don't like to think about very often.

[00:07:05] For a beautiful market.

[00:08:02] Well, somehow hidden there. Oh, ghastly.

[00:08:04] They really think that, do they?

[00:08:06] Children can think up such very strange things in their little minds.

[00:08:11] Can't they?

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[00:09:43] traditions perfected by modern quality controls and tests. They're strange little creatures, utterly unlike their father. The girl is about eleven and the boy eight. They were both dressed in deep mourning. Their large grey eyes seemed strained with terror. They listened and trembled at every song. This is Miss Peabody children. She's a very good friend of mine. Now I want you both to shake hands with her.

[00:11:02] Oh, come now, Daphne.

[00:11:03] You can at least tell Miss Peabody how old you are.

[00:11:06] Oh, no. Please don't press her.

[00:12:06] David, you with your cornet and Daphne at the violin and Mama at the piano. Well, Miss Peabody plays the piano too.

[00:12:09] She's promised to play Narcissus. Mama's favorite piece.

[00:12:13] Well?

[00:12:15] Perhaps some other time, Theodore. When they don't feel so strange.

[00:12:18] I tell you I've humored them to death. Now come, David.

[00:12:21] There's your cornet on the mantelpiece, and Daphne?

[00:12:23] No. I insist.

[00:12:25] Look, now I'll start the poor little things were spherical. We should never have tried to persuade them. Oh, man. Just because they never looked upon her face because they never saw a line there in the coffin. My own children believe that I am a

[00:13:44] murderer. Theodore, you're making them both sick. Oh, I, I, who loved their mother so much, Yes, on May 15th, just a little less than a year ago. You weren't with her? No, she went there to take a piano lesson. There was a new teacher she'd heard about. She was always so self-conscious about her technique. But she never reached his studio. They notified me at midnight from the city morgue. And no one in Philadelphia saw her? No one except the attendants at the morgue.

[00:15:00] Of course, and the people who picked her up after the collision.

[00:15:03] It was such a brutal accident.

[00:15:05] There'd be no one from among them who could speak to the children, Of course there was a funeral, the finest funeral in town, a snow quite hers and twenty-five coaches. Everybody sent flowers. The casket wasn't open, but I've been to lots of funerals where they don't open the casket. And for what I understand, she was pretty badly mangled. But it was a beautiful funeral. Mr. Evans played the organ himself, the finest selections, all the sweet old pieces his wife liked.

[00:16:24] There was narcissus and mighty like a rose and goodbye forever. But where are the tunnels? There's a little room. There's a little room. There's a room. That's where she's hiding. That's where Mommy is. That's where Mommy is. Oh, David Darling, now look, come here.

[00:17:41] No, I hate you.

[00:17:43] But why do you hate me? Why don't you let me help you?

[00:17:46] Because... Because what? She told you about a key to that room. The children? The children? Amanda, I'm going to tell you something. Something I've tempered never told to a living soul. It may frighten you. Yes. Margaret was going mad when she died. Oh. No one knew it but me. It ran in her family. I discovered it long after we were married. After the children were born.

[00:19:00] Otherwise I'd never have...

[00:19:01] And now you think the children?

[00:19:02] I'm afraid so.

[00:19:04] It was peepling of sound she had.

[00:19:07] Just like them.

[00:19:08] A fear of the dead's returning. I won't, I won't, I won't. Here. It stopped now. Yes. It was probably nothing but the wind. Theodore, give me the key. I'm not afraid. Are you saying that I am? I don't know. But I'll be fair with you, Theodore. I couldn't marry you and live here with that any more than your children can.

[00:20:22] What do you mean?

[00:20:23] Rip out those pipes, rip out the whole pipe organ.

[00:20:25] Give it to a church, I understand. Yet it hurts a little. I've trusted you so completely, Amanda. Theodore? Yes, Amanda. Let's not go in there. I do trust you, darling. I believe everything you've told me. No. This little key to think it should mean so much.

[00:22:44] Perhaps one of the Reinberger symphonies are the great corrals of Cesar Frank's Margaret of Gorse preferred Narcissus.

[00:22:47] Margaret!

[00:22:48] You're a very gullible Amanda.

[00:22:50] And you did kill her.

[00:22:53] You killed her in this room.

[00:22:55] And you're going to kill me.

[00:22:56] Yeah, simple, isn't it?

[00:22:57] But why?

[00:22:58] Why?

[00:22:59] I don't know.

[00:23:00] One gets tired every now and then of mere music.

[00:23:02] Sometimes the classics demand competition.

[00:23:04] A scream, for example.

[00:23:06] There's something so exciting about pulling out all the stops and drowning out all the I can't breathe. Let me out, please, please. I can't breathe. I can't. No, no, no. I can't. I can't let me out. I can't breathe. I can't. I can't. Let me out. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe.

[00:24:20] I can't breathe.

[00:24:21] I can't breathe.

[00:24:22] I can't breathe.

[00:24:23] I can't breathe.

[00:24:24] I can't breathe.

[00:24:25] I can't breathe.

[00:24:26] I can't breathe.

[00:24:27] I can't breathe.

[00:24:28] I can't breathe. And I might have died there if he had not gone so quickly. But the children hated me. Tonight's tale of... Suspense! Suspense is produced and directed by William Spear.

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[00:30:41] Lowens, Lowens. Edgar Lowens?

[00:30:42] When did we get him for patient?

[00:30:44] I, uh, I think you'd better talk to him, doctor.

[00:30:46] And so now I think he'd have to go through the usual routine.

[00:30:49] I don't go through usual routines.

[00:30:52] I'm Edgar Lowens.

[00:30:53] I dare say you've heard the name before, doctor.

[00:30:55] And who hasn't?

[00:30:56] Edgar Lowens, the railroad magnet?

[00:30:58] It's a dancer.

[00:30:59] Thank you.

[00:31:00] Well, I'm a man of a few words, doctor.

[00:31:02] Frankly, I'm at my Whits Inn.

[00:31:04] Why have my business associates had any idea?

[00:31:06] I was consulting a psycho analyst. All of them are something you're... Mr. Lounds, I hope you'll forgive me for bursting in like this, but Mrs. Lounds... Yes, yes, yes. Well, she's resting quite well, Mr. Lounds, but she did have that little attack this afternoon. And I can't be here this evening. And what were the servants' night out being tonight? I thought... Yes, you thought I'd better stay with her, and I certainly will. Now, you'd just go along about your business.

[00:32:24] I'd look after Mrs. Lounds, Dr. Harrison, what would you have done under the circumstances? After all, I'd left her alone before and nothing had happened. And this dinner was important in a business way. That night was my big chance. Your big chance? Yes, I suppose it was.

[00:33:40] Well, to make a long story short, she died while I was out.

[00:33:43] Now, if only I'd stayed with it.

[00:33:45] That's what I kept telling myself. your feelings towards your wife better, Mr. Lounds, when we've discussed the others. What others? Hey, what are you trying to give me? Relief, Mr. Lounds, for those headaches of yours.

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[00:36:26] because here there is no import duty to pay, He's outside now, Doctor. Here are your notes on the case. Oh good. Just leave them here on the desk. And oh, Miss Finchley. Yes, Doctor? From now on, when Mr. Lowndes is in the consultation room, I want you to keep an eye on my private office. Make sure that the recording equipment is in operation at all times.

[00:37:40] I want a record of every word he says in his own voice.

[00:37:43] Is this a criminal case, Doctor Herronson?

[00:37:45] I don't know yet.

[00:37:46] But hadn't you ought to... I'm sorry, Doctor. at this thing squarely. Maybe you killed her. Maybe leaving the wrong medicine fire bed that night was not so much of an accident as you think it was. So what? You did her a favor. You did yourself a favor. She never really loved you anyway. If Jim Baskham had him Baskham, why, uh, he died in a railroad accident. We would break one together on the old nickel plate road.

[00:39:03] Jim and me were like twins.

[00:39:05] Room together, work together. Come in, Ed! Come in! One more kiss, baby. Oh, darling. My darling, take care of yourself, Jim. I will, baby. Don't forget to send out the invitations. I knew when I saw him kiss her like that, it was all up for me with Virginia.

[00:40:21] Jim told me when we were crossing the divide.

[00:40:23] He and Virginia were going to be married the minute they got back to Milwaukee. and the runaway cars freeze out and it ends square.

[00:41:45] I saw Jim's body jolt free of the splintering car and hittled out over the gorge. Just then we plunged into a tunnel.

[00:42:41] You're trembling.

[00:42:44] There it is again.

[00:42:47] It's happening again, Doctor.

[00:42:52] Say, Doctor, you've got to help me. You've got to.

[00:42:53] Forget what I said about getting another doctor.

[00:42:55] I need help.

[00:42:56] Mr. Lounds calm yourself.

[00:42:58] What is it?

[00:42:59] What's happening again?

[00:43:00] I'm hearing it again.

[00:43:02] The train.

[00:43:04] I can the train make it go away, Doctor.

[00:43:06] But I hear it too, Mr. Lounds. sound of a railroad train. Yes, go on from there, Miss Pinchley, a new paragraph. The train is a death symbol for this man and appears to be the subject of a recurrent dream. The danger of the present situation lies in the fact that the patient's unconscious impulses have been brought to the surface without being rationalized. There is, in my opinion, a positive

[00:44:24] danger that the patient in his present condition may commit one or even more conscious murders. There's a couple of neckties. Got any samples with you? Oh, sure thing, Mr. Hans. Right here in this case. There you are. Take your pick. Compliments at the Swallowgate-Dervade company. Oh, now this one strikes my fancy. Well, go ahead, take it. See any others you like? Well, let me think. Hey, there's another tree under there. Say it. Hey, look.

[00:45:40] What?

[00:45:41] Not the wind of that. See it?

[00:45:42] I don't see anything.

[00:45:44] Hey, hey, hey.

[00:45:45] How do you do it now? who stalked the corners of the lightning express transcort a little luxury train, claiming the total of three victims murdered in cold blood. Edgar J. Lowndes, an executive of the railroad who was aboard the train on the fatal night, has posted a personal reward of $50,000 to anyone giving information leading to the arrest of the murderer.

[00:47:02] Well, it happened. There was nothing you could have done to prevent a doctor, even if you'd sent your report to the dream, I think. Oh yes, the dream. We were getting around to that when you left here the last time. Now tell me about it. Well, I hear the sound of the train and I'm sitting there beside someone, a stranger, I think. He's wearing a checked waistcoat and there's a heavy gold watch chain get away with it. Stop blubbering. Now go wash your face. I'm driving into town today. I want you to go along. Run errands. The car my father drove was an old electric battery job.

[00:49:40] His legs were completely paralyzed and my mother had to practically lift him into it.

[00:49:44] But the car itself was entirely controlled by hand. You see a switch there. Turn it to the left where it says reserve battery. Hurry up, where? Stop right on the railroad drive. Turn the switch to the left or it says reserve battery. Yeah, yes. Hurry up. There's a train we'll be along here in a minute. Oh, yes, Father. Don't just stand there looking stupid. Go and turn the switch that old you. What's the matter with you? You gone crazy?

[00:51:02] Don't you hear the train coming, Edgar? Edgar, you want your father to be killed?

[00:51:06] I can't get out of here by me, Doctor. Well, that's the end of the story, but it's only the beginning. When I walked into this office for the first time, I was a man suffering from headaches, seemingly brought on by grief over the death of a loved one. Now I see myself as a man who murdered his father, his best

[00:52:23] friend and his wife, who must kill and kill it is again. It's murder, I tell you! Murder! Stop it! Murder! Stop it! I hear the voice! Stop it!

[00:53:40] I can't stand it, I'll kill myself!

[00:53:43] Then give me the gun, I can't!

[00:53:45] Please, doctor, make it stop.

[00:53:47] They're gonna be only here.

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