He begins to trust her and they keep driving, finally stopping for the night at a motel. He falls asleep and the car is stopped by a policeman, yet Lisa does not turn Ray in. Bardon tells Lisa about his time in prison, his childhood, and how he fell into a life of crime. The woman tells him that her name is Lisa and they talk as they drive through the night she seems excited by the adventure while he is exhausted and weak, struggling to remain awake and not trusting his driver. Tired and suffering from a gunshot wound in his arm that was sustained when he escaped from prison, he allows her to talk him into letting her accompany him and drive the car. She tells Bardon that she has heard about him on the radio and that she wants to live. Rushing outside, he sees a woman who has just arrived in a convertible he hides the attendant's body in the bay, retrieves his sack of money and goes back outside, where the woman waits calmly. He robs the station and shoots the attendant just as a car pulls up. The third episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents to be based on a story by Bryce Walton was "The Greatest Monster of Them All," which I discussed here in my series on Robert Bloch, who wrote the teleplay.īryce Walton's first teleplay for the series was "The Woman Who Wanted to Live," a fine adaptation of his own short story that had been published in the May 1961 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. The story begins as Ray Bardon walks into a filling station at closing time and pulls a gun on the attendant.
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