Nothing I could do. The wicks were stored three levels below. Nothing I could do. Nothing.
10 seconds sound clip from the Three Skeleton Key (Escape) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:24:02 in the radio play.
Quote context
[...]
- And even if they'd been right there in the gallery, I couldn't have opened a window to fire them.
- That night, I tended the light, but its flame was devouring our oxygen.
- The following day, we lay thirst-tormented, starving, waiting, waiting.
- Quite suddenly, about midnight, the light went out.
- Nothing I could do. The wicks were stored three levels below. Nothing I could do. Nothing.
- Below, it had grown quiet. They'd cleaned us out and now they too were waiting. All waiting.
- And then the rats... quite suddenly... were silent.
- And then I saw the sky and the stars. The rats were gone.
[...]
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Actors: Vincent Price (Jean), Jeff Corey (Louis), Harry Bartell (Auguste)
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