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In this chilling episode of CBS Radio Mystery Theater, we delve into the eerie tale of Norman Meredith, a man haunted by a recurring dream of a mysterious woman wielding a knife. As Norman grapples with the unsettling dream, he encounters Sandy Lawrence, a woman who bears an uncanny resemblance to the figure in his nightmares. Despite the warnings from his psychiatrist and the pleas of his wife, Norman finds himself irresistibly drawn to Sandy, leading him down a path of obsession and fear.
As the story unfolds, Norman's life spirals into chaos, with his dreams bleeding into reality in terrifying ways. The narrative explores themes of compulsion, the blurred lines between dreams and reality, and the haunting power of the subconscious. With a gripping plot based on Wilkie Collins' classic, this episode keeps listeners on the edge of their seats, questioning the nature of dreams and the dark corners of the human mind.
(00:00) Introduction to the Uncanny
(02:31) Exploring the Nature of Dreams
(05:27) The Dream Woman Appears
(16:00) A Compulsion in Rome
(25:56) Cooking Class Revelation
(34:31) The Knife and the Dream
(42:00) A Nightmare Realized
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[00:00:01]
Unknown:
The CBS radio mystery theater presents Come in. Welcome. I need you Marshall. Welcome to the world of the uncanny, the eerie, the unearthly. Strange things happen. They have happened to me and will again. They have happened to you and will again. They happened to Norman Meredith, but they will never never happen to him again because well, listen. We've never met. Oh, you're a queen?
[00:01:14] Unknown:
No. You're a queen. I am a woman of the queen.
[00:01:21] Unknown:
The queen woman. Well, why why do you owe that knife, that long, sharp carving knife? Our mystery drama, the dream woman, is based on the classic by Wilkie Collins and was especially adapted for the mystery theater by George Lothar and stars Kevin McCarthy. It is sponsored in part by Anheuser Busch Incorporated Busch Incorporated, Brewers of Budweiser, and sign off, the sign of medicine. I'll be back shortly with act one. What is a dream? From where does it come, and why? Wiser men than I say that dreams rise like mist out of various levels of the subconscious and the unconscious.
But what is the subconscious? What is the unconscious? No one really knows. Oh, there are theories. Yes. But no one can say with certainty why we dream. Why, for instance, Norman Meredith dreamed that certain dream. You say you say you're the woman of my dreams, my dream woman. If that's so, why would you wanna kill me with that knife? So you can stay in my world always.
[00:03:23] Unknown:
Good mind. Always. No.
[00:03:26] Unknown:
I don't understand. Only when you are dead. Physically dead. I don't understand. Only when you were dead, physically dead, can your spirit really live and you come from the spirit world? A spirit world. One
[00:04:05] Unknown:
No. No. No. No. No. No. No.
[00:04:14] Unknown:
Agnes. Fight this with you. Kirsty. Oh, how will I love that? That woman. Horrible. Murderous.
[00:04:26] Unknown:
Murderous woman with a nice dream, sweetheart. Nothing but a terrible dream. No. Now Norman.
[00:04:34] Unknown:
I saw her so clearly. Her and a knife. A long carving knife. Razor shot.
[00:04:44] Unknown:
Gleaming and she struck at me with it. Struck and struck and struck.
[00:04:52] Unknown:
No one left. I thought of clearly, vividly. She was tall, long blonde hair that fell below her shoulders, a voluptuous figure, and the eyes light blue, hazel eyes flecked with green. Oh, heaven help me. I'll never, never be able to get her out of my mind. Oh, she had that knife. Well, now, Norman, I can tell you this. As a psychiatrist, I have a number of patients who are troubled with nightmares often with the same recurring nightmare, but they never come true, Norman, and neither will yours. No. No. What about that feeling? How do you explain that feeling that the woman last night in that dream last night seemed as real to me today as she did then? That's why even though I know how terribly busy you are, I had to see her today. She stayed there. She you won't leave my head. Never too busy to fit an old friend into my schedule, but that oh, excuse me.
Yes, miss. Tell me, Florence, I won't be more than another five minutes. See. Where was I? Oh, yes. I was about to say I'm all but positive you won't have this dream again, Norman.
[00:06:19] Unknown:
Frankly, I think you've been driving yourself too hard. Alright. Now what's the meaning of this, doctor Gershme? Miss Lawrence. You must have me waiting more than twenty minutes. I'm sorry, miss Lawrence. I've got a hairdresser appointment at three, and you're sorry? Bookbuster. You may be the great psychiatrist, doctor Arnold Gershme, but I am Sandy Lawrence, and nobody pushes me around. Nobody is pushing you around, miss Lawrence. Making me wait twenty minutes pushing you around. No.
[00:06:45] Unknown:
Not when an emergency comes up. See the emergency?
[00:06:50] Unknown:
Miss Lawrence, if you'll just be patient, another minute. Alright. Alright. Another minute. But no more. You understand? And I mean it. What's the matter with him? Why is he staring at me like that? Oh, what's with you, buster? Give me the will.
[00:07:08] Unknown:
One minute longer, miss Lawrence. I won't be more than another minute. What is with you, Norman? You were staring at miss Lawrence as if as if she'd shocked you, is she Arnold? Her name is Sandra Lawrence. What does she do? Well, if you claim it to be an actress, but I don't think that's quite the profession she's in. Why were you staring at her like that? Didn't you notice? Notice what? Tall, sexy, long blonde hair, hazel eyes, flecked with green. Oh, yes. Yes. She resembles the woman you saw in the movie. No. No. No. Not resembles Arnold. She is the woman in my dream. Yeah.
Oh, my name is Norman Meredith, miss Lawrence. Yes. Oh, well, I was wondering if I might, talk with you for a few minutes. Well, about what? You're selling something? No. No. No. No. I'm not a salesman. Nothing like that. I don't know. Somebody's good with my name, a client of mine? No. I'm a friend of doctor Kirsten's. I I saw you in his office this afternoon.
[00:08:25] Unknown:
Oh, hey. You're you're the character that kept staring at me. I apologize for that. It was it was very rude of me. Yeah. Well, that's okay. I mean, lots of guys stare at me. Could I? Yeah. Yeah. Come on.
[00:08:40] Unknown:
I, I followed you after you left Arnold's, doctor Gerson's office. You followed me? Mhmm. Yeah.
[00:08:49] Unknown:
Yes. You got a bag. Unless you got some other reason for playing bloodhound. Alright. How about a drink first?
[00:08:59] Unknown:
First?
[00:09:01] Unknown:
Oh, well, if you got it that bad. No. No. No. No. I I I don't think you understand.
[00:09:07] Unknown:
I wanna talk to you.
[00:09:10] Unknown:
Talk to me. Hello? If that's the way you get your text. Tell me about yourself,
[00:09:16] Unknown:
miss Lawrence. No. Tell me all about yourself. You're real flaky. You just wanna talk? I wanna know all about you. All about you. Who you are, where you come from, what you do for a living. Oh, come on. You must be kidding.
[00:09:32] Unknown:
What I do for a living? Hey, Norman. You put me away. You really do. Doctor Gibson said you're an actress? Yeah. Yeah. You could put it that way. I put on a real good act.
[00:09:49] Unknown:
If you
[00:09:50] Unknown:
mean what I think you mean. Well, what else would I mean? I mean, you can't be as square as you sound. I can't hear you. Look. Will you stop staring at me like that? I really don't like being stared at. I'm sorry. I I I I can't help myself.
[00:10:09] Unknown:
You fascinate me. Miss Lawrence. I can't read it, for Sandra. Sandra. I dreamed of you last night. Uh-huh. Well, like the guys do. Men who've never met you.
[00:10:25] Unknown:
Well, okay. So you dreamed of me last night. I mean, you know, what do you want? An Academy Award? No. I I I want to get to know you better. Come on, Norman. You must be an angle, No angle. I I I I told you,
[00:10:39] Unknown:
you are you fascinate me. Look, Nana, you level with me. You level with me right now or just below. Okay? I am leveling with you. When I say you fascinate me, I mean, well, there was a dream to begin with and then meeting you, a dream woman in the flesh in Gerson's office. There's something so strange about it, about it and you. Hello. I'm no. No. It's more than that. It's it's it's it's it's you. I I'm drawn to you. Waiting for you outside the medical center. I kept telling myself I was crazy. You know, they all just put you out of my mind, go about my business, but I couldn't do it. All the time that I was following you waiting for you, I didn't want to. I didn't want to, but I had to. I had to. I was incapable of doing anything else.
It must be like being an alcoholic or a drug addict. It's a compulsive knife. I have to be with you.
[00:11:36] Unknown:
Well, whatever you got, you said that it's bad. Now, normally, dearest heart, my time is valuable. It's $50 an hour.
[00:11:48] Unknown:
Dearest heart. You called me that in the dream, dearest heart. Oh, yeah?
[00:11:54] Unknown:
How about that? How about the $50? Well, sure. Okay. In advance. Oh,
[00:12:02] Unknown:
oh, sure. Anything you you say? Sandy.
[00:12:07] Unknown:
Yeah. Put it on the table, Nune. Attaboy. Okay. What do we talk about?
[00:12:20] Unknown:
I don't know. Anything anything. As I said, I I wanna know all about you. Tell me about yourself. Okay. But
[00:12:28] Unknown:
how did I look into something more comfortable first? Alright. You fixed yourself a drink. There are bars over there. Thanks. You got me, Scott? Yes. No. There is stuff under the bus.
[00:12:41] Unknown:
Okay. Oh, good lord. It's madder. It's knife. It's a carving knife. Where did you get it?
[00:12:55] Unknown:
How do I know? I had it for years. Oh, you you fascinated by knives too?
[00:13:02] Unknown:
No. No. Not knives. A knife. This one.
[00:13:09] Unknown:
Oh, I said it before, and I'll say it again, Norman. You put me away.
[00:13:19] Unknown:
Divorce.
[00:13:21] Unknown:
You want a divorce, Mimi? Yes. I yes. I do. To marry this champ? Yes.
[00:13:29] Unknown:
I can't really believe you're seeing it. I can understand you're being fascinated by a woman who resembles the woman you saw in your dream. She is the woman in my dream. I'm in love with her, Agnes. In love with the kind of woman you come to me?
[00:13:46] Unknown:
Be? Norman,
[00:13:48] Unknown:
in love helplessly, helplessly, compulsively. I'm I'm gripped by something out of my control. I've tried to fight it to free myself up, but and I can't.
[00:14:00] Unknown:
Agnes, I can't. My darling, you've got to. I love you. Yes. And you love me. I know you do. Yeah. We've been married for thirty years. Probably now. You passed so years away like old Jews. Destroy everything we've built together. Everything we've come to mean to each other.
[00:14:21] Unknown:
I'm powerless to do anything else. Well, I have not. What do you mean?
[00:14:27] Unknown:
I mean that you're suffering from some sort of some sort of aberration in sickness, mentally sick, and I am not letting you do anything as stupid as this dust as is marrying that girl. I will not divorce you, Norman. I'd not No. No. In a few months, it'll all be over. The sudden romance of yours will be dead. Stone cold.
[00:14:57] Unknown:
No. In a few months, I will be stone cold dead. There are, we are told, dreams of precognition, dreams with foretell events that will happen in the future. There are, in fact, many such cases on record. Explain them? I can. The truth is no one can, not even Norman Meredith. I'll be back shortly with act two. And come up with anything but a satisfactory answer. We might ask now, what is a compulsion? And find the answer equally unsatisfactory. A compulsion is, of course, the doing of something in spite of yourself, the doing of it against all the dictates of intelligence, reason, vanity, and that is precisely what Norman Meredith, well-to-do stockbroker, finds himself doing in the suite of a palatial hotel in Rome, Italy close on the 04:00 of a summer morning.
What am I doing here? 04:00 in the morning in a Roman hotel, walking up and down, pacing the floor, and talking to myself. Talking to myself like some kind of nut, some prod. The prodigal returns. Oh, still awake, Mhmm. That's right. I haven't been to sleep. Or have you been, Sandy? And that package what's that package? Oh, a little item I picked up in the flea market around two this AM. Flea markets aren't open at two in the morning. Oh, they are if you know the right people. And what creeping things have been running all over Rome with this time? Answer me, send it. Oh, no. You flake off. I don't have to answer you about it. Oh, yes. You do.
No. No. No. No. No. No. You don't. I have no hold on you.
[00:17:25] Unknown:
We're not married. You still have no hold on me, married or not.
[00:17:29] Unknown:
True enough, I guess. True enough. So anytime you want out, Norman, you just say so. Anytime you say enough for me. I'll never have enough of you and you know it. Damn you. You know it.
[00:17:41] Unknown:
How do you know it, Andy? Mommy, come on. We're not gonna have that all over again. Oh, we're not at 04:00 in the morning. I'm dead, dude. Look. I'm, I'm gonna go to bed.
[00:17:51] Unknown:
You? No. No. No. No. No. No. No. I'm not sleeping.
[00:17:55] Unknown:
When are you ever? You know something, Norman? I don't think you sleep more than an hour or two in '24. No. What are you? An insomniac or something? Are you afraid of the dream?
[00:18:10] Unknown:
The dream.
[00:18:12] Unknown:
It's the one you had about me. No. I'm not afraid.
[00:18:17] Unknown:
Why should I be? I don't know. It's just you never told me what it was. I'm just scared to think. Oh, what? Oh, what for Pete's sake? You? Would I be here in Rome with you if I was scared of you? Would I take you all over Europe these past few weeks if I was scared of you? Oh, not me. Not not scared of me in the flesh. Me in the dream.
[00:18:43] Unknown:
Come on, honey. What happened in the dream? What did I do?
[00:18:47] Unknown:
Go to bed, Sandy.
[00:18:50] Unknown:
Okay. But that must have been something. Oh, hey. Let me tell you what I picked up in the flea market. I'm not interested in flea market junk food. This isn't junk. That's some kind of royal crest on the handle. And Milo said, he's the one of the guys I was with. He knows steel. And he said the steel in this knife was the best to leave a money to buy. Hey, Lana. It's not as wide as a corpse. Why?
[00:19:18] Unknown:
Why did you buy that knife? I thought I liked it. Why? Why did you like it? What's wrong with me wanting a carving knife? Everything. Everything. There's everything wrong with you wanting a knife, a carving knife. What do you need with one? Do you cook? No. Are you even ever in the kitchen? No.
[00:19:33] Unknown:
So what do you want for the carving knife? Do you wanna know the truth? I've been sort of thinking of taking up cooking maybe. Okay? You? You learn to cook? You can't boil water. Alright, Norma. You don't have to rub it in. Look. I just thought you're really a nice guy. You're square, but you're nice. And I know I've been getting through a hard time. I mean, I'm out on the town all hours in the night living it up and, well, we'll be leaving for Paris tomorrow, and they've got a real out of sight flipping school there. And I thought if if I could just make things up to you, what do you care?
[00:20:10] Unknown:
Oh, I care I care I care a lot. If you're saying that you're thinking of maybe settling down, acting like a wife when we're married that is and don't worry Agnes will give me a divorce. Well, if that's what you've got in mind, I care. Is is that what you're thinking?
[00:20:32] Unknown:
I guess so. Yeah. I guess that's it. What else would have made me decide to learn to cook? What else would have made me buy this now?
[00:20:46] Unknown:
Sandy, will you snap it up? We've got less than forty minutes to make the plane to Paris. I'm trying to find that knife. Knife? What knife? The carving knife. The one I picked up last night at the flea market. I left it right here on the table when I went to bed, and now it's gone. Forget it. Forget it. I'll get you another. It's gotta be here somewhere. You didn't take it, didn't you? What would I want with a carving knife? You're the one who's gonna take the cooking lesson. If you didn't take it, where could it have gotten to? I don't know, and I don't care. Now come on. Oh, we'll miss that plane. You're joining?
Oh, yes. Thanks, Agnes. The scotch and water is easy on the scotch. Alright.
[00:21:25] Unknown:
You're a psychiatrist. What's wrong with Norman? What's happened to him? Why is he so fascinated by this deep common prompt?
[00:21:37] Unknown:
I can't answer that. No doctor could without at least months of investigation of talks with Norman of treatments. But you must have some feelings. I don't. Some things that happen in this world are beyond us, beyond our understanding. Now consider, Norman had a dream in which a woman tried to stab him to death. The next day, he meets in the flesh the selfsame woman of that dream. So he said, Norman is no fool like this. He meets this woman who tried to kill him in his dream, and he's irresistibly drawn to her. Now is Norman mad? He is not.
What then is the answer to all this? Who are you?
[00:22:33] Unknown:
How can you ask Norman?
[00:22:36] Unknown:
I don't know what I know you. We've never met. Oh, yes. We've never met. I'm Norman. I'm the Why do you hold that knife? That long, dark carving knife. I tell you, Norman. Why would you want to kill me with that knife? So you can stay in my world always
[00:23:09] Unknown:
in my own. I don't understand.
[00:23:19] Unknown:
No. What?
[00:23:46] Unknown:
What are you? I'm after this something?
[00:23:49] Unknown:
You're having a bad time. No. No. You're not bad. I'm not.
[00:23:53] Unknown:
Where am I? What happened? We're in Paris. We're in Paris, France. We've been here for a week. It's 02:30 in the morning, and you've been having a nightmare. And, boy, you nearly killed me. Oh, no. Oh, yeah. Look at me. You've ripped my down. Down.
[00:24:10] Unknown:
I'm in pajamas.
[00:24:12] Unknown:
You're wearing a gown? I just got in, came into the bedroom, and then you were moaning and coughing. I I tried to wake you up, and you you you attacked me. You grabbed me. You kept trying to look like you were trying to stab me. You
[00:24:29] Unknown:
you said you'd be home early. You said you wanted to be arrested fresh for tomorrow's ceremony at the cooking
[00:24:36] Unknown:
school. Yeah. One of the people I was with, they they decided to make a note of it. You know? That's they're they're still at it. Me, I broke away. So you see, I I am home early, Normie. Then stop calling me back.
[00:24:48] Unknown:
I've had you a dozen times. Stop calling me.
[00:24:54] Unknown:
I'm a star. I'm a damn. Oh. You woman? I don't know what it is with me. I mean, I try. I really try to be the way you want me to be, but I don't know what it is. And it's funny because at first, I didn't care what you thought, how you felt, but being with you all these weeks, you're really smooth, Norman. You really are. And I'd like to be more than I am for your sake, but there's just something in me. I just can't can't control it. You too. Me too.
[00:25:33] Unknown:
No. You can't help yourself. I can't help myself. We're in the same boat Sandy, and I have the feeling it's just begun to sink. Today, as the naples of this particular class in cooking here at Le Corgan Roul, it is, as you know, my pleasure to award prizes to the three best students. I'm delighted to see that mister Norman Meredith has accompanied the beautiful Sandra Laurence today because to her goes the first prize. That is not can't call her, Sandy,
[00:26:34] Unknown:
Oh, thank you. You're nicer. Thank you very much. Shall I open it so everybody can see where it is? Yes. Of course. Oh, hey. It's a nice a beautiful cardinal.
[00:26:53] Unknown:
I will, take notice Harry, the name Le Corgan Roule inscribed on the handle and your own name on the blade. Mister Meredith, are you not proud of miss Lawrence? Miss Meredith. Who knows? Who is? Mommy? No. I just I just need some pressure. Excuse me.
[00:27:18] Unknown:
You heard me, Nanny. Where is the knife? How do I know? Can you listen to me? The first time I met you, when you came to my place in New York, you acted real funny when you found that carving knife on the bar. You remember? And somehow, I never saw that knife again. It just disappeared because you took it. You don't know what you're talking about. Oh, I don't? No. Then what happened to the carving knife I picked up at the flea market in Rome? I know I left it on that table when I went to bed that night, and it wasn't there when I got up and somehow it disappeared forever.
[00:27:55] Unknown:
That's why you're accusing me.
[00:27:57] Unknown:
Took them and you hit them or you threw them away or you did something, and you've done the same thing with my coronavirus knife. Not me. Then where is it? Now you took the knife, Norman.
[00:28:09] Unknown:
You've taken them all. I don't care about the other two, but this one, it means something in there. Show you one first prize in a cooking class. What's the big deal? You can say that to me. Listen.
[00:28:22] Unknown:
I went to that class so I could learn to cook for you. Not for me. And I succeeded. I won first prize. Me, Sandy Lawrence, first prize. I don't care about the knife. I care about what it stands for. And it stands for the fact that you know, I'm falling in love with you, Norman. Sandy. Sandy, baby. I don't Sandy baby me. I want my night. Now where is it? What have you done with it?
[00:28:50] Unknown:
I threw it away, Sandy. Where? In the river. In the sand.
[00:28:56] Unknown:
Then it's gone.
[00:28:58] Unknown:
I'm afraid so, honey. Mommy, how could you do this? Why did you do it? Well
[00:29:06] Unknown:
Why?
[00:29:08] Unknown:
Oh, well, I I guess you might as well know, but because of the dream.
[00:29:15] Unknown:
What? The dream about me? Yes. What do you have in the dream have to do with knives? In the dream, you try to kill me with a knife. I
[00:29:28] Unknown:
try to kill you? With a carving knife. Exactly like the knife I took and threw away. Long, gleaming,
[00:29:36] Unknown:
razor sharp. Are you telling me that I'm going to stab you the desk with a carving knife?
[00:29:46] Unknown:
Yes. That's that's what I'm afraid of, Sandy. It's why I've been throwing away the knives, the carving knives that you somehow come up with again and again. You know something?
[00:29:58] Unknown:
You are out of your head. Please be clear that first prize is a carving knife. There's no way Mister Felipe.
[00:30:08] Unknown:
May I come in handy? Yeah. Of course. Thank you. Mister Mary. Hello? Can I get your drink? Oh, no. No. No. No. No. I stay only a minute or two. The fact of the matter is I am somewhat embarrassed to be here. Embarrassed. Something has happened which I do not understand. This morning, I presented you with a beautiful carving knife, First prize for your work in my cooking class. Yeah. Yes. Well, this afternoon, a man come to me. He had been fishing on the banks of the sand, and he looked at caught on this a knife, a carving knife, a oui mere de the knife I gave you, Sandy, as first prize.
It is, that's what I say, a puzzle to me, an embarrassment because the night could have got into the river only one way. It must have been thrown there and ruined. I don't know. What I'm trying to say is if you do not want the No. Yeah. Yeah. Is it something with none? When I gave it to you this morning, it turned white, looked sick, and now denied, bothering, and Say what?
[00:31:47] Unknown:
They kill him, miss Kimberly. They kill him.
[00:32:00] Unknown:
Well, all things considered, I think they'd kill me too. It is curious this affinity, Sandra Lawrence, has the carving knife or they for her. I'll return shortly with that tweet.
[00:32:17] Unknown:
Hi. I'm Goldilocks. She is Goldilocks, if you please, and I'm a professional taste tester. Here at my taste test laboratory, that's CTL for short, I taste test everything from porridge to diet drink. Actually, there's not that much taste testing in porridge these days. There used to be once upon a time. I mean, that's how this nizz got into the bin. But maybe it's the diet drink. I mean, with so many diet drinks going sugar free, I've been really busy conducting some tests, a rather unbearable assignment to be sure. But then I discovered sugar free diet seven up. Fresh, natural. Delicious. My only problem is that sugar free diet seven up tastes so good that it broke my Goldilocks dietary taste.
Well, sugar free diet seven up certainly has my seal of approval. This one's just right.
[00:33:22] Unknown:
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[00:34:14] Unknown:
Who's calling the man?
[00:34:16] Unknown:
82 degrees at Midway Airport on WBBM Chicago.
[00:34:32] Unknown:
Can dreams come true? Do they ever? If they do, is Norman Meredith stated to be stabbed to death by the woman who haunts his dream, the woman he finds irresistible in real life? Sandy. Yes, ma'am. Tell me where it is. Well, what is? You know what? The knife. Norman, we said we wouldn't talk about it anymore. I remember you said we wouldn't. When I came into that hotel room in Paris and asked you what you've done with the knife. You said we wouldn't talk about it anymore, not me. I I threw it away. You're a liar. Norma. You wouldn't have thrown it away? It meant too much to
[00:35:18] Unknown:
you. You've hidden it. Alright. Alright. I I hit it. Get it. But so you can throw it away? No. Listen to me. No moment. You listen to me for once. I'm listening. Now the first time we met, I was well, not what I am now. I was kinda tough. I was kinda coarse. Kind of person I I don't wanna be anymore because you showed me another kind of life. Where is the night? Listen to me, please. And I'm trying real hard to be the kind of woman who would be worthy of you. You know? The kind of woman you could really love. The kind of woman
[00:35:56] Unknown:
you'd marry. We'll talk about all this later. Right now, I want that knife. Norman, forget the knife. You get me that knife. Wherever you hit it, get it and give it to me or so help me out. Alright. Alright.
[00:36:11] Unknown:
Here. You want it? Cut it.
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You threw it at me.
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Another inch of it would have You wanted it. Normally, you got it. Pick it up. Pick it up. Well, pick it up. Alright. I'll pick it up. I'll
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that's the last you'll ever see in it. Plenty of other there's no good buying a carving knife. No. I know knives. I'm gonna get rid of this and it's the last carving knife we'll ever see in this house. We'll see about that.
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I'm telling you. Ma'am, I'm telling you. Nothing. You're telling me nothing. Norman. No. No. Nothing. Oh, what do I have?
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I don't understand. I killed it. I'm a little bit jealous. It doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense. Hello? Agnes, all I can say is you were right from the first right. Was just an aberration or infatuation maybe. I don't know. Anyway, it's over. Will you take me back?
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Of course, Norman. I never really let you go, but
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yes. Are you sure? So are you absolutely sure? Oh, yes. Yes. Yes. I left her this morning. I told her that, everything was over between us. Everything. What did she say? Nothing. She must have said something. Nothing.
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Come on. Darling. That's all. No. Oh, you
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No. No. No. Yes, sir. I'll ruin our marriage. I've been No. That's nonsense. Our marriage is never, never be the same. You know, it won't act as I did,
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leaving you running off with her. But you were caught up in something beyond your control. Too powerful for you to handle, but it is over now. Put it behind you.
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The gimme attack.
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I cannot. This is the end for us, Norman.
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It is the end
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for her. You sound a lot? Well, yes. In a way, I suppose it is. But sometimes she'll signify. She'll start living again. Don't say that. But then she will. It isn't all over for her eyes. It is. It is.
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I get that.
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What kind of nonsense are you talking? Norman, no. We're not going to talk anymore. Not now. I, I've got to go out for an hour or two, but while I'm gone, I want you to rest out. Lie down for a while. Will you do that?
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Yes.
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And, if you feel like a snack, ask Nora to fix something for you. Nora? Well, I haven't had a chance to tell you we have a maid. You're a wonderful cook too. So if you want something, just ask her. You'll find her in the kitchen. She loves it, so she practically hardly makes it. What is it, dear?
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This isn't a dream, missus, But I'm home with you. I'm not dreaming, am I, Agnes?
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If you are, it's no nightmare, darling.
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Isn't it? Isn't it?
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I am afraid I told a little lie. I don't I just said I had to go out for an hour or so, but
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because I can't stay here to see you. I'm glad you did, Agnes. I'm as worried about Norman as you are.
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He talked about Sandra Lawrence as if he had killed her. I mean, really killed her. Well, of course, what he meant was that he felt that he'd ended her happiness, ruined her future. Oh, excuse me, my mother.
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Yes? Captain who? The police? Oh, yes. Yes. Yes. Put him through. Yes, captain. This is doctor Gersing. Yes? He wants to see what a patient's mind. What's that? Stabbed to death? Oh, good heavens, like yes. Yes. Yes. Of course. I'll answer any questions you may have. No. Not at all. Goodbye. Hey, miss. You, you said you left Norman at home?
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Yes. We better go there at once. Why? I don't know what is it? That was the police.
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Sandra Lawrence was found this afternoon in her apartment stabbed to death.
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Oh, I'm in '22. She did kill it.
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It seems likely, haven't it? All too likely.
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No, ma'am. No, ma'am. He's probably in bed in his sleep. I'll go with you.
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I
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know I'm on the floor. Nice it is. Hang on to yourself. No. I'm sitting at the kitchen table. Blood all over.
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Norma, thick, sad to death.
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How long is this happening? Am I going out of my mind? Come with me.
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Douglas. Come with me. I know. I know. Now you just sit here in the living room and let me handle things out there. Nora, that is your name, isn't it Nora? Yes. What happened here?
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I don't know. I can't make any sense out of it. What happened? He came here into the kitchen. I just started dinner. He stared at me as I was some kind of ghost or something. He flung himself at me, grab me by the throat and he was Why? Why would he have killed you, Agnes? Go back into the living room, leave this thing I want to know. My husband didn't even know you, Nora. Why would he have wanted to kill you? I don't understand.
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I do. Or do I? What do you mean? When did you hire, Leonora? Yesterday. Yesterday morning. According to the police, that's about the time Sandra Lawrence was murdered. Oh, what other
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what in heaven's name has that to do with Nora?
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Look at her, Agnes. Take a good look. Tall, hazel eyes with flecks of green, long blonde hair. You never met her, but I can tell you Nora is the image to the life of Sandra Lawrence. So through one of those strange twists that faith so often takes, Norman Meredith's nightmare became reality as you always knew it would. I'll be back shortly just when you thank you. You
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remember
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that. As I said when we began, little, if anything, is known about the origin of dreams, where they come from, why they come, what they mean. I can only wish most sincerely for all your dreams to be happy ones, but I doubt that they will. Our cast included Kevin McCarthy, Terry Keane, Grace Matthews, and Robert Dryden. The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown. Now a preview of our next see
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other wings, but I only hundred thousand numberless voices of men on this planet. I've worked with you and the numberless men. And now I choose you. You must leave this woman.
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Radio mystery theater was sponsored in part by new sugar free diet seven up and Buick Motor Division. This is EG Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater for another adventure in the macabre. Until next time. Pleasant dream.
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The CBS radio mystery theater presents Come in. Welcome. I need you Marshall. Welcome to the world of the uncanny, the eerie, the unearthly. Strange things happen. They have happened to me and will again. They have happened to you and will again. They happened to Norman Meredith, but they will never never happen to him again because well, listen. We've never met. Oh, you're a queen?
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No. You're a queen. I am a woman of the queen.
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The queen woman. Well, why why do you owe that knife, that long, sharp carving knife? Our mystery drama, the dream woman, is based on the classic by Wilkie Collins and was especially adapted for the mystery theater by George Lothar and stars Kevin McCarthy. It is sponsored in part by Anheuser Busch Incorporated Busch Incorporated, Brewers of Budweiser, and sign off, the sign of medicine. I'll be back shortly with act one. What is a dream? From where does it come, and why? Wiser men than I say that dreams rise like mist out of various levels of the subconscious and the unconscious.
But what is the subconscious? What is the unconscious? No one really knows. Oh, there are theories. Yes. But no one can say with certainty why we dream. Why, for instance, Norman Meredith dreamed that certain dream. You say you say you're the woman of my dreams, my dream woman. If that's so, why would you wanna kill me with that knife? So you can stay in my world always.
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Good mind. Always. No.
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I don't understand. Only when you are dead. Physically dead. I don't understand. Only when you were dead, physically dead, can your spirit really live and you come from the spirit world? A spirit world. One
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No. No. No. No. No. No. No.
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Agnes. Fight this with you. Kirsty. Oh, how will I love that? That woman. Horrible. Murderous.
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Murderous woman with a nice dream, sweetheart. Nothing but a terrible dream. No. Now Norman.
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I saw her so clearly. Her and a knife. A long carving knife. Razor shot.
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Gleaming and she struck at me with it. Struck and struck and struck.
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No one left. I thought of clearly, vividly. She was tall, long blonde hair that fell below her shoulders, a voluptuous figure, and the eyes light blue, hazel eyes flecked with green. Oh, heaven help me. I'll never, never be able to get her out of my mind. Oh, she had that knife. Well, now, Norman, I can tell you this. As a psychiatrist, I have a number of patients who are troubled with nightmares often with the same recurring nightmare, but they never come true, Norman, and neither will yours. No. No. What about that feeling? How do you explain that feeling that the woman last night in that dream last night seemed as real to me today as she did then? That's why even though I know how terribly busy you are, I had to see her today. She stayed there. She you won't leave my head. Never too busy to fit an old friend into my schedule, but that oh, excuse me.
Yes, miss. Tell me, Florence, I won't be more than another five minutes. See. Where was I? Oh, yes. I was about to say I'm all but positive you won't have this dream again, Norman.
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Frankly, I think you've been driving yourself too hard. Alright. Now what's the meaning of this, doctor Gershme? Miss Lawrence. You must have me waiting more than twenty minutes. I'm sorry, miss Lawrence. I've got a hairdresser appointment at three, and you're sorry? Bookbuster. You may be the great psychiatrist, doctor Arnold Gershme, but I am Sandy Lawrence, and nobody pushes me around. Nobody is pushing you around, miss Lawrence. Making me wait twenty minutes pushing you around. No.
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Not when an emergency comes up. See the emergency?
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Miss Lawrence, if you'll just be patient, another minute. Alright. Alright. Another minute. But no more. You understand? And I mean it. What's the matter with him? Why is he staring at me like that? Oh, what's with you, buster? Give me the will.
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One minute longer, miss Lawrence. I won't be more than another minute. What is with you, Norman? You were staring at miss Lawrence as if as if she'd shocked you, is she Arnold? Her name is Sandra Lawrence. What does she do? Well, if you claim it to be an actress, but I don't think that's quite the profession she's in. Why were you staring at her like that? Didn't you notice? Notice what? Tall, sexy, long blonde hair, hazel eyes, flecked with green. Oh, yes. Yes. She resembles the woman you saw in the movie. No. No. No. Not resembles Arnold. She is the woman in my dream. Yeah.
Oh, my name is Norman Meredith, miss Lawrence. Yes. Oh, well, I was wondering if I might, talk with you for a few minutes. Well, about what? You're selling something? No. No. No. No. I'm not a salesman. Nothing like that. I don't know. Somebody's good with my name, a client of mine? No. I'm a friend of doctor Kirsten's. I I saw you in his office this afternoon.
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Oh, hey. You're you're the character that kept staring at me. I apologize for that. It was it was very rude of me. Yeah. Well, that's okay. I mean, lots of guys stare at me. Could I? Yeah. Yeah. Come on.
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I, I followed you after you left Arnold's, doctor Gerson's office. You followed me? Mhmm. Yeah.
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Yes. You got a bag. Unless you got some other reason for playing bloodhound. Alright. How about a drink first?
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First?
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Oh, well, if you got it that bad. No. No. No. No. I I I don't think you understand.
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I wanna talk to you.
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Talk to me. Hello? If that's the way you get your text. Tell me about yourself,
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miss Lawrence. No. Tell me all about yourself. You're real flaky. You just wanna talk? I wanna know all about you. All about you. Who you are, where you come from, what you do for a living. Oh, come on. You must be kidding.
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What I do for a living? Hey, Norman. You put me away. You really do. Doctor Gibson said you're an actress? Yeah. Yeah. You could put it that way. I put on a real good act.
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If you
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mean what I think you mean. Well, what else would I mean? I mean, you can't be as square as you sound. I can't hear you. Look. Will you stop staring at me like that? I really don't like being stared at. I'm sorry. I I I I can't help myself.
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You fascinate me. Miss Lawrence. I can't read it, for Sandra. Sandra. I dreamed of you last night. Uh-huh. Well, like the guys do. Men who've never met you.
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Well, okay. So you dreamed of me last night. I mean, you know, what do you want? An Academy Award? No. I I I want to get to know you better. Come on, Norman. You must be an angle, No angle. I I I I told you,
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you are you fascinate me. Look, Nana, you level with me. You level with me right now or just below. Okay? I am leveling with you. When I say you fascinate me, I mean, well, there was a dream to begin with and then meeting you, a dream woman in the flesh in Gerson's office. There's something so strange about it, about it and you. Hello. I'm no. No. It's more than that. It's it's it's it's it's you. I I'm drawn to you. Waiting for you outside the medical center. I kept telling myself I was crazy. You know, they all just put you out of my mind, go about my business, but I couldn't do it. All the time that I was following you waiting for you, I didn't want to. I didn't want to, but I had to. I had to. I was incapable of doing anything else.
It must be like being an alcoholic or a drug addict. It's a compulsive knife. I have to be with you.
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Well, whatever you got, you said that it's bad. Now, normally, dearest heart, my time is valuable. It's $50 an hour.
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Dearest heart. You called me that in the dream, dearest heart. Oh, yeah?
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How about that? How about the $50? Well, sure. Okay. In advance. Oh,
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oh, sure. Anything you you say? Sandy.
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Yeah. Put it on the table, Nune. Attaboy. Okay. What do we talk about?
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I don't know. Anything anything. As I said, I I wanna know all about you. Tell me about yourself. Okay. But
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how did I look into something more comfortable first? Alright. You fixed yourself a drink. There are bars over there. Thanks. You got me, Scott? Yes. No. There is stuff under the bus.
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Okay. Oh, good lord. It's madder. It's knife. It's a carving knife. Where did you get it?
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How do I know? I had it for years. Oh, you you fascinated by knives too?
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No. No. Not knives. A knife. This one.
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Oh, I said it before, and I'll say it again, Norman. You put me away.
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Divorce.
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You want a divorce, Mimi? Yes. I yes. I do. To marry this champ? Yes.
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I can't really believe you're seeing it. I can understand you're being fascinated by a woman who resembles the woman you saw in your dream. She is the woman in my dream. I'm in love with her, Agnes. In love with the kind of woman you come to me?
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Be? Norman,
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in love helplessly, helplessly, compulsively. I'm I'm gripped by something out of my control. I've tried to fight it to free myself up, but and I can't.
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Agnes, I can't. My darling, you've got to. I love you. Yes. And you love me. I know you do. Yeah. We've been married for thirty years. Probably now. You passed so years away like old Jews. Destroy everything we've built together. Everything we've come to mean to each other.
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I'm powerless to do anything else. Well, I have not. What do you mean?
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I mean that you're suffering from some sort of some sort of aberration in sickness, mentally sick, and I am not letting you do anything as stupid as this dust as is marrying that girl. I will not divorce you, Norman. I'd not No. No. In a few months, it'll all be over. The sudden romance of yours will be dead. Stone cold.
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No. In a few months, I will be stone cold dead. There are, we are told, dreams of precognition, dreams with foretell events that will happen in the future. There are, in fact, many such cases on record. Explain them? I can. The truth is no one can, not even Norman Meredith. I'll be back shortly with act two. And come up with anything but a satisfactory answer. We might ask now, what is a compulsion? And find the answer equally unsatisfactory. A compulsion is, of course, the doing of something in spite of yourself, the doing of it against all the dictates of intelligence, reason, vanity, and that is precisely what Norman Meredith, well-to-do stockbroker, finds himself doing in the suite of a palatial hotel in Rome, Italy close on the 04:00 of a summer morning.
What am I doing here? 04:00 in the morning in a Roman hotel, walking up and down, pacing the floor, and talking to myself. Talking to myself like some kind of nut, some prod. The prodigal returns. Oh, still awake, Mhmm. That's right. I haven't been to sleep. Or have you been, Sandy? And that package what's that package? Oh, a little item I picked up in the flea market around two this AM. Flea markets aren't open at two in the morning. Oh, they are if you know the right people. And what creeping things have been running all over Rome with this time? Answer me, send it. Oh, no. You flake off. I don't have to answer you about it. Oh, yes. You do.
No. No. No. No. No. No. You don't. I have no hold on you.
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We're not married. You still have no hold on me, married or not.
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True enough, I guess. True enough. So anytime you want out, Norman, you just say so. Anytime you say enough for me. I'll never have enough of you and you know it. Damn you. You know it.
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How do you know it, Andy? Mommy, come on. We're not gonna have that all over again. Oh, we're not at 04:00 in the morning. I'm dead, dude. Look. I'm, I'm gonna go to bed.
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You? No. No. No. No. No. No. No. I'm not sleeping.
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When are you ever? You know something, Norman? I don't think you sleep more than an hour or two in '24. No. What are you? An insomniac or something? Are you afraid of the dream?
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The dream.
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It's the one you had about me. No. I'm not afraid.
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Why should I be? I don't know. It's just you never told me what it was. I'm just scared to think. Oh, what? Oh, what for Pete's sake? You? Would I be here in Rome with you if I was scared of you? Would I take you all over Europe these past few weeks if I was scared of you? Oh, not me. Not not scared of me in the flesh. Me in the dream.
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Come on, honey. What happened in the dream? What did I do?
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Go to bed, Sandy.
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Okay. But that must have been something. Oh, hey. Let me tell you what I picked up in the flea market. I'm not interested in flea market junk food. This isn't junk. That's some kind of royal crest on the handle. And Milo said, he's the one of the guys I was with. He knows steel. And he said the steel in this knife was the best to leave a money to buy. Hey, Lana. It's not as wide as a corpse. Why?
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Why did you buy that knife? I thought I liked it. Why? Why did you like it? What's wrong with me wanting a carving knife? Everything. Everything. There's everything wrong with you wanting a knife, a carving knife. What do you need with one? Do you cook? No. Are you even ever in the kitchen? No.
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So what do you want for the carving knife? Do you wanna know the truth? I've been sort of thinking of taking up cooking maybe. Okay? You? You learn to cook? You can't boil water. Alright, Norma. You don't have to rub it in. Look. I just thought you're really a nice guy. You're square, but you're nice. And I know I've been getting through a hard time. I mean, I'm out on the town all hours in the night living it up and, well, we'll be leaving for Paris tomorrow, and they've got a real out of sight flipping school there. And I thought if if I could just make things up to you, what do you care?
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Oh, I care I care I care a lot. If you're saying that you're thinking of maybe settling down, acting like a wife when we're married that is and don't worry Agnes will give me a divorce. Well, if that's what you've got in mind, I care. Is is that what you're thinking?
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I guess so. Yeah. I guess that's it. What else would have made me decide to learn to cook? What else would have made me buy this now?
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Sandy, will you snap it up? We've got less than forty minutes to make the plane to Paris. I'm trying to find that knife. Knife? What knife? The carving knife. The one I picked up last night at the flea market. I left it right here on the table when I went to bed, and now it's gone. Forget it. Forget it. I'll get you another. It's gotta be here somewhere. You didn't take it, didn't you? What would I want with a carving knife? You're the one who's gonna take the cooking lesson. If you didn't take it, where could it have gotten to? I don't know, and I don't care. Now come on. Oh, we'll miss that plane. You're joining?
Oh, yes. Thanks, Agnes. The scotch and water is easy on the scotch. Alright.
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You're a psychiatrist. What's wrong with Norman? What's happened to him? Why is he so fascinated by this deep common prompt?
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I can't answer that. No doctor could without at least months of investigation of talks with Norman of treatments. But you must have some feelings. I don't. Some things that happen in this world are beyond us, beyond our understanding. Now consider, Norman had a dream in which a woman tried to stab him to death. The next day, he meets in the flesh the selfsame woman of that dream. So he said, Norman is no fool like this. He meets this woman who tried to kill him in his dream, and he's irresistibly drawn to her. Now is Norman mad? He is not.
What then is the answer to all this? Who are you?
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How can you ask Norman?
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I don't know what I know you. We've never met. Oh, yes. We've never met. I'm Norman. I'm the Why do you hold that knife? That long, dark carving knife. I tell you, Norman. Why would you want to kill me with that knife? So you can stay in my world always
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in my own. I don't understand.
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No. What?
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What are you? I'm after this something?
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You're having a bad time. No. No. You're not bad. I'm not.
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Where am I? What happened? We're in Paris. We're in Paris, France. We've been here for a week. It's 02:30 in the morning, and you've been having a nightmare. And, boy, you nearly killed me. Oh, no. Oh, yeah. Look at me. You've ripped my down. Down.
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I'm in pajamas.
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You're wearing a gown? I just got in, came into the bedroom, and then you were moaning and coughing. I I tried to wake you up, and you you you attacked me. You grabbed me. You kept trying to look like you were trying to stab me. You
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you said you'd be home early. You said you wanted to be arrested fresh for tomorrow's ceremony at the cooking
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school. Yeah. One of the people I was with, they they decided to make a note of it. You know? That's they're they're still at it. Me, I broke away. So you see, I I am home early, Normie. Then stop calling me back.
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I've had you a dozen times. Stop calling me.
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I'm a star. I'm a damn. Oh. You woman? I don't know what it is with me. I mean, I try. I really try to be the way you want me to be, but I don't know what it is. And it's funny because at first, I didn't care what you thought, how you felt, but being with you all these weeks, you're really smooth, Norman. You really are. And I'd like to be more than I am for your sake, but there's just something in me. I just can't can't control it. You too. Me too.
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No. You can't help yourself. I can't help myself. We're in the same boat Sandy, and I have the feeling it's just begun to sink. Today, as the naples of this particular class in cooking here at Le Corgan Roul, it is, as you know, my pleasure to award prizes to the three best students. I'm delighted to see that mister Norman Meredith has accompanied the beautiful Sandra Laurence today because to her goes the first prize. That is not can't call her, Sandy,
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Oh, thank you. You're nicer. Thank you very much. Shall I open it so everybody can see where it is? Yes. Of course. Oh, hey. It's a nice a beautiful cardinal.
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I will, take notice Harry, the name Le Corgan Roule inscribed on the handle and your own name on the blade. Mister Meredith, are you not proud of miss Lawrence? Miss Meredith. Who knows? Who is? Mommy? No. I just I just need some pressure. Excuse me.
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You heard me, Nanny. Where is the knife? How do I know? Can you listen to me? The first time I met you, when you came to my place in New York, you acted real funny when you found that carving knife on the bar. You remember? And somehow, I never saw that knife again. It just disappeared because you took it. You don't know what you're talking about. Oh, I don't? No. Then what happened to the carving knife I picked up at the flea market in Rome? I know I left it on that table when I went to bed that night, and it wasn't there when I got up and somehow it disappeared forever.
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That's why you're accusing me.
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Took them and you hit them or you threw them away or you did something, and you've done the same thing with my coronavirus knife. Not me. Then where is it? Now you took the knife, Norman.
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You've taken them all. I don't care about the other two, but this one, it means something in there. Show you one first prize in a cooking class. What's the big deal? You can say that to me. Listen.
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I went to that class so I could learn to cook for you. Not for me. And I succeeded. I won first prize. Me, Sandy Lawrence, first prize. I don't care about the knife. I care about what it stands for. And it stands for the fact that you know, I'm falling in love with you, Norman. Sandy. Sandy, baby. I don't Sandy baby me. I want my night. Now where is it? What have you done with it?
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I threw it away, Sandy. Where? In the river. In the sand.
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Then it's gone.
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I'm afraid so, honey. Mommy, how could you do this? Why did you do it? Well
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Why?
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Oh, well, I I guess you might as well know, but because of the dream.
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What? The dream about me? Yes. What do you have in the dream have to do with knives? In the dream, you try to kill me with a knife. I
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try to kill you? With a carving knife. Exactly like the knife I took and threw away. Long, gleaming,
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razor sharp. Are you telling me that I'm going to stab you the desk with a carving knife?
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Yes. That's that's what I'm afraid of, Sandy. It's why I've been throwing away the knives, the carving knives that you somehow come up with again and again. You know something?
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You are out of your head. Please be clear that first prize is a carving knife. There's no way Mister Felipe.
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May I come in handy? Yeah. Of course. Thank you. Mister Mary. Hello? Can I get your drink? Oh, no. No. No. No. No. I stay only a minute or two. The fact of the matter is I am somewhat embarrassed to be here. Embarrassed. Something has happened which I do not understand. This morning, I presented you with a beautiful carving knife, First prize for your work in my cooking class. Yeah. Yes. Well, this afternoon, a man come to me. He had been fishing on the banks of the sand, and he looked at caught on this a knife, a carving knife, a oui mere de the knife I gave you, Sandy, as first prize.
It is, that's what I say, a puzzle to me, an embarrassment because the night could have got into the river only one way. It must have been thrown there and ruined. I don't know. What I'm trying to say is if you do not want the No. Yeah. Yeah. Is it something with none? When I gave it to you this morning, it turned white, looked sick, and now denied, bothering, and Say what?
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They kill him, miss Kimberly. They kill him.
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Well, all things considered, I think they'd kill me too. It is curious this affinity, Sandra Lawrence, has the carving knife or they for her. I'll return shortly with that tweet.
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Who's calling the man?
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Can dreams come true? Do they ever? If they do, is Norman Meredith stated to be stabbed to death by the woman who haunts his dream, the woman he finds irresistible in real life? Sandy. Yes, ma'am. Tell me where it is. Well, what is? You know what? The knife. Norman, we said we wouldn't talk about it anymore. I remember you said we wouldn't. When I came into that hotel room in Paris and asked you what you've done with the knife. You said we wouldn't talk about it anymore, not me. I I threw it away. You're a liar. Norma. You wouldn't have thrown it away? It meant too much to
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you. You've hidden it. Alright. Alright. I I hit it. Get it. But so you can throw it away? No. Listen to me. No moment. You listen to me for once. I'm listening. Now the first time we met, I was well, not what I am now. I was kinda tough. I was kinda coarse. Kind of person I I don't wanna be anymore because you showed me another kind of life. Where is the night? Listen to me, please. And I'm trying real hard to be the kind of woman who would be worthy of you. You know? The kind of woman you could really love. The kind of woman
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you'd marry. We'll talk about all this later. Right now, I want that knife. Norman, forget the knife. You get me that knife. Wherever you hit it, get it and give it to me or so help me out. Alright. Alright.
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Here. You want it? Cut it.
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You threw it at me.
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Another inch of it would have You wanted it. Normally, you got it. Pick it up. Pick it up. Well, pick it up. Alright. I'll pick it up. I'll
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that's the last you'll ever see in it. Plenty of other there's no good buying a carving knife. No. I know knives. I'm gonna get rid of this and it's the last carving knife we'll ever see in this house. We'll see about that.
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I'm telling you. Ma'am, I'm telling you. Nothing. You're telling me nothing. Norman. No. No. Nothing. Oh, what do I have?
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I don't understand. I killed it. I'm a little bit jealous. It doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense. Hello? Agnes, all I can say is you were right from the first right. Was just an aberration or infatuation maybe. I don't know. Anyway, it's over. Will you take me back?
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Of course, Norman. I never really let you go, but
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yes. Are you sure? So are you absolutely sure? Oh, yes. Yes. Yes. I left her this morning. I told her that, everything was over between us. Everything. What did she say? Nothing. She must have said something. Nothing.
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Come on. Darling. That's all. No. Oh, you
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No. No. No. Yes, sir. I'll ruin our marriage. I've been No. That's nonsense. Our marriage is never, never be the same. You know, it won't act as I did,
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leaving you running off with her. But you were caught up in something beyond your control. Too powerful for you to handle, but it is over now. Put it behind you.
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The gimme attack.
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I cannot. This is the end for us, Norman.
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It is the end
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for her. You sound a lot? Well, yes. In a way, I suppose it is. But sometimes she'll signify. She'll start living again. Don't say that. But then she will. It isn't all over for her eyes. It is. It is.
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I get that.
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What kind of nonsense are you talking? Norman, no. We're not going to talk anymore. Not now. I, I've got to go out for an hour or two, but while I'm gone, I want you to rest out. Lie down for a while. Will you do that?
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Yes.
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And, if you feel like a snack, ask Nora to fix something for you. Nora? Well, I haven't had a chance to tell you we have a maid. You're a wonderful cook too. So if you want something, just ask her. You'll find her in the kitchen. She loves it, so she practically hardly makes it. What is it, dear?
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This isn't a dream, missus, But I'm home with you. I'm not dreaming, am I, Agnes?
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If you are, it's no nightmare, darling.
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Isn't it? Isn't it?
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I am afraid I told a little lie. I don't I just said I had to go out for an hour or so, but
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because I can't stay here to see you. I'm glad you did, Agnes. I'm as worried about Norman as you are.
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He talked about Sandra Lawrence as if he had killed her. I mean, really killed her. Well, of course, what he meant was that he felt that he'd ended her happiness, ruined her future. Oh, excuse me, my mother.
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Yes? Captain who? The police? Oh, yes. Yes. Yes. Put him through. Yes, captain. This is doctor Gersing. Yes? He wants to see what a patient's mind. What's that? Stabbed to death? Oh, good heavens, like yes. Yes. Yes. Of course. I'll answer any questions you may have. No. Not at all. Goodbye. Hey, miss. You, you said you left Norman at home?
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Yes. We better go there at once. Why? I don't know what is it? That was the police.
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Sandra Lawrence was found this afternoon in her apartment stabbed to death.
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Oh, I'm in '22. She did kill it.
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It seems likely, haven't it? All too likely.
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No, ma'am. No, ma'am. He's probably in bed in his sleep. I'll go with you.
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I
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know I'm on the floor. Nice it is. Hang on to yourself. No. I'm sitting at the kitchen table. Blood all over.
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Norma, thick, sad to death.
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How long is this happening? Am I going out of my mind? Come with me.
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Douglas. Come with me. I know. I know. Now you just sit here in the living room and let me handle things out there. Nora, that is your name, isn't it Nora? Yes. What happened here?
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I don't know. I can't make any sense out of it. What happened? He came here into the kitchen. I just started dinner. He stared at me as I was some kind of ghost or something. He flung himself at me, grab me by the throat and he was Why? Why would he have killed you, Agnes? Go back into the living room, leave this thing I want to know. My husband didn't even know you, Nora. Why would he have wanted to kill you? I don't understand.
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I do. Or do I? What do you mean? When did you hire, Leonora? Yesterday. Yesterday morning. According to the police, that's about the time Sandra Lawrence was murdered. Oh, what other
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what in heaven's name has that to do with Nora?
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Look at her, Agnes. Take a good look. Tall, hazel eyes with flecks of green, long blonde hair. You never met her, but I can tell you Nora is the image to the life of Sandra Lawrence. So through one of those strange twists that faith so often takes, Norman Meredith's nightmare became reality as you always knew it would. I'll be back shortly just when you thank you. You
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remember
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that. As I said when we began, little, if anything, is known about the origin of dreams, where they come from, why they come, what they mean. I can only wish most sincerely for all your dreams to be happy ones, but I doubt that they will. Our cast included Kevin McCarthy, Terry Keane, Grace Matthews, and Robert Dryden. The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown. Now a preview of our next see
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other wings, but I only hundred thousand numberless voices of men on this planet. I've worked with you and the numberless men. And now I choose you. You must leave this woman.
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Radio mystery theater was sponsored in part by new sugar free diet seven up and Buick Motor Division. This is EG Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater for another adventure in the macabre. Until next time. Pleasant dream.
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