- Alfred Hitchcock - Host: [introduction] Good evening, fellow athletes. I believe that everyone owes it to his well-being to indulge in some sport. My favorite pastime, as you can see, is, uh, filching loving cups. Naturally, I never steal too much at a time for fear of losing my amateur standing. But the people from whom I take the cups don't mind, I'm sure. After all, it isn't who wins that counts. It's how you play the game. By the way, I'm inventing a device that should make tennis much more enjoyable. It suddenly raises the net half a foot just as the victor leaps over to offer condolences to the loser. Through it, I hope to add what is lacking in tennis: laughs. Before viewing tonight's chronicle, we must identify the party who is footing the bill. I must apologize for the brevity of this announcement, but this is one of the conditions laid down by our modest sponsor.
- Laura Gild: You like a drink?
- Walter Richmond: Well, I don't want to trouble you.
- Laura Gild: I'll tell you when it's trouble. Okay?
- Walter Richmond: Okay.
- Alfred Hitchcock - Host: [afterword] Since tonight's story was an allegory, I offer this footnote to make everything clear - Walter represented youthful innocence, Mrs. Gild was unrequited love and, of course, Mr. Gild symbolized Mrs. Gild's husband. The following item could use many things, but a footnote is not one of them. When it is over, I shall flip back.
- [commercial break]
- Alfred Hitchcock - Host: Since this program is on film and will probably be shown for many years to come, I should like to address my next remarks to those of you who are watching this show in the year 2000. Please write in at once and tell us what life is like. I'm quite curious. Until next week, good night.
- Laura Gild: Does your work bring you down to La Jolla very often, Mr Richmond.
- Walter Richmond: It's beginning to look like that, Mrs Gild.
- Walter Richmond: Hi, Boss.
- Regis: Hi, I thought you'd be in La Jolla by now.
- Walter Richmond: You know I wouldn't leave without saying goodbye.
- Regis: I get all choked up insde.
- Laura Gild: I can tell a lot about a person, just looking.
- Walter Richmond: Like what?
- Laura Gild: Well, not everything of course, but a lot. Take the way you dress, the way you cut your hair. I can tell you're particular. You like nice things.
- Walter Richmond: I like nice things.
- Laura Gild: The way you move, the way you carry yourself as if you're sure. You know, it's something more than that. You some kind of athlete?
- Walter Richmond: I play a lot of tennis.
- Laura Gild: See, I can tell a lot, just looking.
- Walter Richmond: But not everything.
- Laura Gild: Well, who can tell everything?
- Walter Richmond: You play a better game than I thought.
- Laura Gild: Well, I can play other games besides tennis.
- Walter Richmond: Tennis is for kids.
- Laura Gild: This kid is thirsty.
- Walter Richmond: Always come to me with small problems I can solve.
- Laura Gild: Looks like I'm in the driver's seat, doesn't it, Walter?
- Walter Richmond: I haven't been giving you enough credit, dear.
- Laura Gild: No, but you'll learn to, darling.
- Walter Richmond: Do you trust me, darling?
- Laura Gild: Not for a moment.
- Walter Richmond: How'd you know I was here?
- Laura Gild: I had you followed all weekend. Will you give me the keys, or do I have to call on my husband?
- Walter Richmond: Boss, maybe he's got a daughter.
- Regis: Okay, maybe he's got a daughter.
- [He reaches into his wallet for a wad of notes]
- Walter Richmond: Happy weekend.
- Walter Richmond: Nice view. Must have cost a lot of money.
- Laura Gild: Herbert's view. Five year lease paid in advance. La Jolla, it's what I wanted, it's what I got.
- Walter Richmond: Who doesn't want La Jolla?
- Laura Gild: From the wrong side of the San Diego naval yard, it looks like paradise. Five miles down the road. How do you get there?
- Walter Richmond: Herbert?
- Laura Gild: He was nice, he was sweet. I liked him.
- Walter Richmond: And his money?
- Laura Gild: His money, I could have loved. Enough of it. It was a fair fight. We both got cheated a little.