Escape - Three Good Witnesses (national broadcast)

I took the Taurus Express that night 'cause I was going home, back to the United States, back to California, and my routine job at the oil company.

Two days before, I'd given my final report to our State Department man in Istanbul, a negative report.

Then, Mr.

Ward, your considered opinion is that there is no oil in this area?

Not enough to be worth drilling for, not at this late date.

War'd be over before we could get out 10,000 barrels.

You're being optimistic, Mr.

Ward.

War isn't over yet.

Who can say when it will be?

Well, that's true, but, uh-

Well, what does Aarvark say?

He agrees with me completely.

So does Wyndham, the British engineer.

We're all agreed.

Hmm, three good witnesses, hmm? Well, then that settles it.

What do you mean, three good witnesses?

Oh, that's an old saying out here in the Middle East.

Come from the Arabs, I think.

In their old law, the testimony of three independent and trustworthy witnesses was enough to establish the guilt or innocence of an accused person.

Hmm, but why three?

I suppose two witnesses to a crime might tell the same lie, but if three fellas tell the same story, well, it must be true.

Hmm, maybe.

I suppose the odds against three making up the same story would be high, but I don't know whether I'd like to trust my neck with that kind of justice.

Yeah, it is a little different from the justice back home in Chattahoochee County.