Who is it?
Dan Martin.
They want Hallie out front.
I haven't seen her.
I'm sorry. I was sure I heard her voice.
How are you on keyholes?
NARRATOR:
A QM Production.
Starring David Janssen as Dr. Richard Kimble.
An innocent victim of blind justice,
falsely convicted for the murder of his wife,
reprieved by fate when a train wreck
freed him en route to the death house.
Freed him to hide in lonely desperation,
to change his identity,
to toil at many jobs.
Freed him to search for a one-armed man
he saw leave the scene of the crime.
Freed him to run
before the relentless pursuit
of the police lieutenant obsessed with his capture.
The guest stars in tonight's story:
Janis Paige,
Mark Richman.
ANNOUNCER:
A roadhouse several miles south
of Salisbury, Ohio.
Richard Kimble, wearing the name Pete Glenn,
grows restless now.
He has worked here two months.
Long enough in one place.
Perhaps too long.
Time to move on.
Mr. Haywood.
I told you to have that other banner up
by the time I got back.
I know, but- Skip the buts, huh?
Just get it done, will you?
Yeah, I got it.
Thanks.
Well, they were not on the train.
That was a wire from her.
They're driving in later tonight.
One thing you can always say about her,
she's got great timing.
Could of been held up at the telegraph office,
I'll call. Don't bother, huh?
And you can bet it wasn't the telegraph company.
Is this it?
We got stiffed by a table of college kids.
That's great.
We'll make it up tomorrow night.
You know, I'm about ready to forget the whole thing.
Look, Johnny,
I know it still hurts.
But you said she was gonna cut an album here tomorrow night.
"Hallie Martin at the Log Cabin" or something like that.
Yeah, that's what I said.
Her Royal Highness has decided to throw some crumbs
to the peasants.
And we happen to be the hungriest peasants on the block.
A half a million albums floating around the country
with our name on it could do us a lot of good.
I don't, uh, need any favors from her.
Use your head, Johnny.
With a name like hers,
we'll have the press swarming around here tomorrow night,
and not just those freeloading saloon bums.
We'll get some real coverage.
Okay.
But I'm not gonna wait up for the royal coach.
Mr. Haywood, I'd like to-
Mr. Haywood.
I just wanted to tell you I'm leaving tomorrow.
What do you mean you're leaving?
I'm taking off tomorrow morning.
Well, that's great.
That's just great.
I'm sorry.
Well, that's too bad you're sorry.
But tomorrow night is a big one and I need somebody
on that light who knows what they're doing.
Well, like I told you, I've got to go.
Okay, okay, walk. Walk.
But I want you out early.
I can't afford any more free breakfasts.
Davey, bring out that old, uh, lobby sign of Hallie's.
I don't want any complaints when she gets here.
What's bothering him?
Don't you know?
Come on, give me a hand.
Do I know what?
Johnny was married to her and she walked out on him.
Another man?
I guess you'd call it another life.
She told him she wanted to make it big.
She couldn't do it if she had to drag him along.
Must have been a hundred people standing around.
It sure wasn't pretty.
Rough way to get it.
Yeah. The trouble is, she did make it.
She made it big and Johnny's still here
sweating out the payroll every Saturday night.
The whole thing shook him up pretty good.
Well, there we are.
I guess that's your last official act.
Hey, what's the matter?
Uh, I guess I'm tired now.
Get some sleep.
Good luck, Pete.
Yeah.
¶ I never thought I'd find you ¶
¶ There never come a day ¶
¶ When someone could see The future life with me ¶
¶ But love has found a way ¶
¶ I've searched The whole world over ¶
¶ When you were here All alone ¶
¶ And I have found Someone who'll stick around ¶
¶ Now love is here to stay ¶
¶ Yes, love is here To stay ¶
Hello?
Hello.
I'm Hallie Martin.
I hope I didn't wake you up or anything.
That's all right.
Come on, grab a chair. Sit down.
I'm afraid I don't sleep much these days.
You work here?
Up until tonight.
What's your name?
Pete Glenn.
That was a nice song.
Your ex-boss wrote it for me.
Johnny fire you or something?
No, I quit.
What did you do for him?
Oh, I ran the, uh, spots,
uh, hung the curtains, swept the floor. You know.
Mm.
Why did you quit?
It was about that time.
Hm.
I know what you mean.
When are you leaving?
There's a bus in a couple of hours.
Did you, uh, run the follow spot?
Yes.
Would you run it for me?
I can't.
I'd appreciate it.
I'd like to-
Please, it would just be for the one night.
I'm sorry.
No, I'm sorry.
I guess sometimes I-
I get a little too pushy.
Still friends?
Still friends.
Good.
Good night, Miss Martin.
That's not friends.
The name's Hallie.
Good night, Hallie.
Good night, Pete.
Hallie.
Honey, we've been looking all over for you.
They've got your room ready.
So?
Well, you better get some sleep.
I sleep when I'm tired.
It's 3:30 in the morning,
and tomorrow night-
Is tomorrow night.
Now, get off my back.
Hallie.
And now a word from the crown princess.
Oh, come on, Dad, let her do what she wants.
She's going to anyway.
And that, dear family, is my message to the world.
You still here, huh?
I though I'd, uh,
stay through tonight.
Unless you've made other plans.
Don't do me any favors, huh?
I'm not doing you any favors.
I need the 15 bucks.
Okay. As soon as I can I'll have you meet our star.
She'll, uh, give you her cues.
That is, uh, if she ever gets here.
She's here.
How do you know?
I talked with her.
Oh, now you're staying, huh?
That's right.
Well, I guess she hasn't lost her touch.
Pete, is the-?
Hello, Hallie.
Johnny.
You still, ruining the coffee with those rotten egg shells?
Nice to see you too.
Johnny, we ought to be over that by now, don't you think?
Yeah.
I guess we ought to.
Coffee hot yet?
What time are the record people getting here?
Around 2 they said.
Then you and Glenn here
better, uh, run over your cues before lunch.
Pete and I will take care of it.
Pete and you will take care of it, huh?
Good.
Well, thanks for staying.
I need the money.
Is that the only reason?
Maybe not.
Johnny.
Hello, Nora.
How are you?
I'm fine, Johnny.
Nice to see you.
Come on, take a ride with me.
Oh, I- I think Dad's waiting.
Come on, it won't take long.
I just have to ask the sheriff to let me off the hook tonight.
Hey, is Frank Larson still sheriff?
Yeah. He'll get a kick out of seeing you.
Come on.
What do you need from Frank?
Well, my permit's only for 150 customers.
I want 200 there tonight.
Your sister's a very big draw now.
Have you seen her?
Yeah, I've seen her.
I left her playing Cleopatra with my light man.
I'm sorry, Johnny.
The wounds still show, huh?
That's funny, I thought I stopped bleeding months ago.
I guess we all have a few wounds.
And... off.
Applause, applause, applause,
and... on.
That's good.
Come on down.
For, uh, encores I do requests,
so I'm afraid you're just gonna have to wing it.
You know, most clubs you go into, you gotta rehearse
those cues, oh, six or seven times.
Even then you're libel to end up singing the last 16 in the dark.
What'd you do before you took this job?
A lot of everything, I guess.
Around here?
Around every place.
Then you, uh...
Can't be married.
No.
Sort of like me, I guess.
Split weeks and one-nighters.
That's about it, huh?
Well, Frank, you wanted to inspect. Go ahead, inspect.
I'd better check it with Ira at the fire station.
You can use the phone in my office.
I'll, uh, tell Hallie you're here.
Good. Then you can fill me in on all the local gossip.
I'm not sure there is any gossip
to fill you in on. Oh, come on.
Sometimes I think if I have to pack one more suitcase-
I know what you mean.
Are you all right?
Whoa.
That's what I get for drinking before breakfast.
Look, um...
You wait- You wait here.
I'll- I'll be back in a couple of minutes.
You know, you're a nice guy.
Glenn.
I thought you were supposed to be rehearsing the cues.
Oh, yeah, we just finished.
Yeah, I saw.
You better get rid of this junk.
I was going to.
I'll bet you were.
I don't know what I've done but I think we ought to
get it out in the open.
It is out in the open.
You've been trying to make it with Hallie
ever since she got here.
And you don't like it?
That's right.
Or you, mister.
Johnny. I think I convinced our friend the fire chief.
You wanna start taking me through this firetrap?
I'm glad you've got an open mind, Frank.
I'll, uh, get this stuff out of here.
Well?
Come on, Frank.
Come on in.
Well, it's not much, but, uh...
A man should never turn down an invitation
to a lady's dressing room.
You know, I don't think your ex-husband
even likes me talking to you.
I'm sorry.
I didn't know it was still that bad.
Has it worked yet?
What?
The morphine.
What are you talking about?
Well, it could be insulin or heroin.
But I'd guess morphine or a derivative.
You know what you're saying?
You're carrying a hypodermic syringe in your purse.
I'd say you just used it.
I also drink.
Have you got that down?
You don't sleep. Haywood said you lost weight.
You got pain so bad that the alcohol doesn't help anymore.
It only makes it worse.
That's why the morphine.
It's inoperable, isn't it?
Nobody knows.
How long have you known?
Uh...
A year ago, the 16th of last month,
at 2:35 in the afternoon.
I'm sorry.
Well, I'm sorry you found out.
I was hoping to keep it my little secret.
Well, as far as I'm concerned, it's still your secret.
Who is it?
It's me, Hallie.
I got an old friend out here,
uh, wants to say hello.
Frank Larson.
I'll be right out.
And now while, uh-
While you're keeping my secret, I'll be busy keeping yours.
I don't follow you.
Don't you, Dr. Kimble?
Well, you just think about it.
Don't you think you've had enough?
Why don't you mind your own business.
"You shouldn't do this, you shouldn't do that.
Why don't you do this, why don't you do that?"
Why don't you go someplace and grow roses or something?
You're disgusting.
I guess it runs in the family, baby.
Hallie?
Why do you do it?
Leave me alone, Pete, I'm tired.
Let me take you back. Come on.
I can't go back.
All I want to do is go someplace and rest.
Come on.
Is this where he put you?
It's no wonder you quit.
We used to use this for storage.
Here, you can, uh, sit, lie down,
anything you want.
Can't you stay?
All right.
Why did you decide to stay tonight?
Well, I'm not sure.
I think I am.
I think I reminded you of your wife.
I could almost tell the way you look at me.
You see, during your trial...
It must have been a couple of years ago, I guess.
Well, anyhow, I-
I took quite a ribbing because of the resemblance.
So I suppose I followed the trial closer than most people.
You've darkened your hair and all that,
but your eyes are the same.
It was the eyes that made me feel
that maybe you didn't do it.
I didn't.
Have you seen Hallie?
She's supposed to do one of those radio interviews
on the phone.
She's probably in her dressing room.
Hallie?
Why do you want all this hate from everybody?
How often?
Whenever the pain starts.
Is it always bad?
Sometimes worse than others.
Well, why don't you wait and see?
Why?
So you won't start needing it when there's no pain.
She's not there.
I'll have to cancel the interview.
Look, try and find her, will you?
I'll look for her, Nora.
And now, doctor, what was your question again?
Why do you want so much hate from everybody?
Not everybody.
All right, not everybody.
Just the people who should mean the most to you.
You've got it backwards.
Only the people I mean the most to.
You understand?
I'm afraid not.
When my mother died,
I was 7 and Nora was 3.
If Dad could have crowned me queen of everything
I think he would have done it.
Hey, you're right.
I didn't need it this time.
How about your sister?
Oh, Dad loves her, all right.
But it's always kind of an afterthought,
you know what I mean?
So you're going to cushion the fall for him and Johnny.
That's why I left Johnny.
He had me so far up on that pedestal
that he forgot what I was really like.
So you're gonna cut the statue down to size.
I'm going to destroy it before it destroys them.
Hallie- Look, Pete,
I didn't, uh-
I didn't tell you all this because I need a shoulder.
I know.
But anytime.
Thanks.
But are you...?
Are you sure it's really me you're worried about?
Who is it?
Dan Martin.
They want Hallie out front.
I haven't seen her.
I'm sorry.
I was sure I heard her voice.
How are you on keyholes?
How's the crowd?
It should be sold-out by showtime.
Record people happy?
Far as I know.
And how far is that?
Hallie, it's so close to showtime, don't you think-?
Are you starting with me again?
If you don't like the way I live my life,
you can just get out of it.
I'm sorry, baby-
Dad, how can you just stand there and take it?
If he wants a free ride on the glamour train,
he can just pay for it.
No free rides for anybody.
Maybe you'd better go, Nora.
Nora doesn't want to go, do you, baby?
Don't you know, Johnny?
Nora's had a crush on you for years.
Well, Hallie, you've come a long ways.
Johnny, please, I only want...
What?
What do you want now?
That's what gets to you, isn't it?
That I've got it made and you're just hanging on.
I always told you that small time's a sickness
you're born with.
That never bothered me, Hallie.
A small-time saloon keeper or king of the world.
It didn't matter.
Know why?
Because I had something that nobody else had.
Yeah.
I had a woman
that made everybody else seem second-rate.
And then one day, this- This woman,
this beautiful woman turned ugly and rotten.
Almost while I looked at her face.
Almost while I held her in my arms.
Just like a nightmare.
You know something, Hallie?
Seeing you again,
and listening to you just now with Nora and Dan,
well, I think maybe... maybe that ended it.
Understand?
Because all I can feel right now is a kind of relief.
Relief that it's all over.
Over and dead, Hallie.
Not a mourner in the house.
Oh!
Hallie.
Well, where is she?
I don't know, Johnny.
She was here five minutes ago.
I know.
I got a $2,000 house out there and she has to-
Davey, have you seen Hallie?
Well, no, I'm looking for Glenn.
It's almost showtime.
Thanks for telling me.
We have a drug addict working for us, Davey.
Get me the sheriff on the phone.
I'm sorry, Pete.
For a minute there, I...
Even forgot you were here.
I'm glad one of us remembered.
I don't think I could have gone through with it anyway.
I couldn't wait to find out.
Anyhow, if you had gone through with it,
everything so far would have been wasted.
What do you mean?
If something happens to you, Hallie,
the public's gonna want to know why,
and then everything comes out.
I suppose you're right.
Nobody wants to die alone, Hallie.
Nobody wants to die at all.
But at least you can do it the way you want.
Everything paid.
You really lay it on the line, doc.
Maybe I was thinking of someone who didn't have that choice.
A woman who must have died angry...
hating, afraid.
You don't have to be alone, Hallie.
Nobody's expecting me anyplace.
Both of us sitting on death row, huh?
They'll be looking for us.
Yeah.
Well, I hope we're not interrupting anything.
but you were supposed to be in front of that audience
a half-hour ago. No kidding?
Look, you don't owe me any favors and I don't want any,
but those people out there paid good money to hear you.
I was just going, Mr. Ziegfeld.
I'll get on the light.
Why don't you do that.
Johnny, listen...
Not now, Dan.
But Johnny...
Johnny, I've gotta talk to you.
Dan, it'll have to wait.
It can't wait.
Where is he?
He's up there.
Good, I'll take him right now.
Frank, how about letting him work the show first?
He's not going anywhere.
Sure, if you don't mind.
I'll just alert my boys.
Thanks, Frank.
Johnny, you've got to know.
What, Dan, what?
That- That hypodermic.
It's Hallie's.
What are you talking about?
I found it in Glenn's room.
Then he probably knows too, but believe me, it's hers.
Dan, what are you trying to tell me?
That Hallie...?
It's not what you think, Johnny.
Hallie is sick.
What do you mean "sick"?
I mean real sick.
Why don't you bring her on first,
then I'll tell you.
Ladies and gentlemen.
The Log Cabin is privileged to present
a program of songs
by one of America's most exciting personalities.
Miss Hallie Martin.
¶ I never thought ¶
¶ I'd find you ¶
¶ There'd never come a day ¶
¶ When someone could see The future... ¶
You never told Nora.
I knew how hard it was to keep quiet myself.
I just wasn't sure Nora could carry it through.
I'll tell her at the right time.
You see, I- I always felt I owed it to Hallie
to let her do it like she wanted.
But Johnny, you won't-
Shh.
I wanna hear the song.
¶... Love is here To stay ¶
She's, uh...
She's quite a performer.
Hold it, buddy.
That's right, you.
Let's go.
Frank.
Frank, uh...
I don't know how to apologize,
but, there's, uh, been a mistake.
What mistake?
Well, that syringe I found
doesn't belong to Glenn here.
Well, then whose is it?
It's mine, sheriff.
I, uh- I'm a diabetic.
That syringe contains insulin.
I accidentally left it in Glenn's room.
I guess I made a fool out of myself.
Well...
Here you are.
Thank you.
I'll give you a little tip.
Next time somebody like me grabs you on a bum rap,
don't look so guilty.
I'm almost ready to take you in anyhow.
I, uh, need him more than you do.
You could give him a couple of extra bucks for the scare.
Well, we got a free show out of you, anyhow.
See you later, Johnny.
Thanks, Frank.
You know about Hallie, don't you?
She doesn't know anyone else knows.
Why-?
Why did she tell you?
I don't know.
She just wanted to talk to somebody and, besides, I'm safe.
How do you mean "safe"?
She doesn't love me.
Thanks, Glenn.
I'm, uh- I'm sorry.
Yeah.
I can't let her leave that way.
That's the way she wants it, Johnny.
Dan, I'm still in love with her.
If she didn't know that, she wouldn't be doing this.
That's crazy.
Makes sense to her, doesn't it?
Does it?
Makes no sense to me.
All right, who else matters now?
I'm sorry. I-
I gotta see her.
Can I drop you somewhere?
I'm all packed.
Well, then I'll get on my traveling clothes
and we'll travel.
Pete, is she in there?
Johnny, what are you gonna do?
I'm gonna tell her that I know.
No, don't do it.
Would you mind getting out of the way.
Now, you always tell everybody: "Don't do me any favors. "
Maybe she feels the same way.
Well, if it isn't my friend the impresario.
What are you doing back here in the slums?
Making sure I don't skip out with the company towels?
No.
I, uh, thought you had gone.
I just wanted to air out the dressing room.
So long, Johnny.
So long, Hallie.
You coming, Pete?
Going someplace, Hallie?
Where are you off to this time?
Why, I'm going anywhere Pete wants to take me.
And what do you care?
Oh, I don't care.
As long as you don't come back.
Don't, Nora. No, I am sorry, Dad.
I am sick of this phony goddess routine.
You are so selfish, sadistic.
Everything you touch turns to dirt.
I am sick of the sight of you!
See you.
Nora, I...
I wanna talk to you.
You sure you'll be all right?
Sure.
Was that for me?
I think so.
Thank you.
A chance meeting.
A thousand ghosts are stirred.
And a fugitive wonders how long
before they'll be at rest.
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