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And soon after that, they will lead him from his cell and he will walk the last mile into everlasting darkness. But now he sits quietly.

12 seconds sound clip from the The Adventures of Superman - The Mystery of The Walking Dead classic radio series.

You can hear this line at 00:01:43 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- A feeble yellow light burns endlessly outside one of the death house cells of State Prison.

- Beyond the black steel door with its tiny barred opening, hemmed in by blank walls of ash-gray concrete, a man is seated on an iron cot.

- He is thin and gaunt, with great dark eyes and hollow sunken cheeks.

- He is an East Indian and his name is Krishna.

- Soon they will come to shave his head and slit the leg of his prison trousers.

- And soon after that, they will lead him from his cell and he will walk the last mile into everlasting darkness. But now he sits quietly.

- The yellow light passing through the barred opening in the cell door lays an eerie pattern across his lean swarthy face.

- Suddenly, his jaw tightens. He rises from the cot and moves to the steel door, his long sensitive fingers curling about the bars like snakes.

- He waits patiently while the hollow footfalls of the guard patrolling the corridor draw closer and closer. When they reach the cell, he speaks.

- I have a request to make. You will please to inform the warden it is my desire to speak with him.

- Be along pretty soon now.

[...]

The Adventures of Superman Sound Clip

The Adventures of SupermanQuotes with audio samples from the old-time radio series "The Adventures of Superman" that originally aired from 1940 to 1951

Actors: Bud Collyer (Clark Kent / Superman), Joan Alexander (Lois Lane)

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