Dec. 8, 2024

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In this episode, we delve into the chilling tale of "Memory of a Murder," a gripping narrative that intertwines suspense and intrigue. The story unfolds through the eyes of Harry Jonas, a seemingly ordinary man who becomes embroiled in a sinister plot involving murder and deception.

The narrative begins with Harry reflecting on a haunting memory from Wingate Cemetery, where he witnesses a murder that sets the stage for the ensuing drama. He spots a gravedigger, whose pale visage and sinister actions leave Harry shaken. As he hides behind a tombstone, he discovers a medal linked to a man named Nino, a key player in the unfolding mystery. This initial encounter foreshadows the eerie events that will lead Harry deeper into a world of illusion and treachery.

Harry soon finds himself working at a vaudeville theater, under the watchful eye of the enigmatic Constantine, who is not just a performer but a master manipulator with a flair for the dramatic. As tensions rise, Harry's attraction to Marietta, the beautiful assistant of Constantine, complicates matters further. Harry learns that Constantine may have a dark past connected to the disappearance of Nino, and the peculiar medal serves as a sinister token of fate, suggesting that those connected to its legacy are doomed.

With each act of the performance, Harry's fears manifest into reality as he realizes that Marietta's life is in danger. A series of dramatic illusions—the guillotine, the knife-throwing act—become twisted symbols of impending doom. As the events unfold on stage, they parallel the real-life danger lurking backstage. Harry's desperation to protect Marietta propels him into a frantic race against time, battling not only Constantine but the tangled web of illusions they all inhabit.

The gripping climax reveals Harry’s harrowing struggles as he confronts the truth behind Constantine’s dark intentions. The story culminates in a heart-stopping finale that leaves listeners questioning the boundaries between illusion and reality. In a masterful twist, we discover that the horror and deception are not limited to the stage but seep into the fabric of Harry's reality, blurring the lines of sanity and survival.

“Memory of a Murder” is a compelling exploration of suspense, where every revelation turns the narrative more treacherous, and every character's motive is cast in shadow. The tale leaves us pondering the echoes of the past that haunt the present and the inevitable connections that lead to one chilling conclusion: the past is never truly buried.

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Well, hello, my dear, so glad you could join me again.

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I know, I know, I know. The hustle and bustle

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of the holiday season is quite a lot to bear,

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but I'm so happy you would spend a little bit

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of your time relaxing with me. Oh what's that?

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Oh?

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Well, I'm feeling a little holly and jolly myself. I

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have the tea head along, and well the fire is roaring,

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so please have a seat in my favorite change. I've

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picked out an eerie one for him. You know, this

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holiday is full of merry cheer, but it's also holiday

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of ghosts and premonisheries and of secrets. So now I

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want to share. Not it's exactly a holiday memory, but

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a memory of a murder, and now.

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A tale well calculated to keep you in spence. In

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a moment, Act one of Memory of a Murder, starring

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Philip Sterling as Harry Jonas, and written especially for suspense

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by John Robert. This first portion of suspense is brought

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to you by the makers of Alpine Cigarettes.

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What's it like to.

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Smoke an Alpine Well, it's like many fresh little things

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that please you. It's like the stirring of leaves when

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a breeze comes out like a weather vane turning in

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a summer sky, the way the air feels in the

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morning when you open the door to get the paper.

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That's what it's like to smoke an alpine. Alpine is

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nothing at all like the sort of smoke you may

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be used to. Alpine is a fresh, free wheeling time

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of smoke, upright, bracing, even invigorating kind of taste. If

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this sounds good to you, try Albine build their cigarettes.

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There's something mark you smoking with Bine.

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Sig. I let my thoughts project once.

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It was while I was sitting on a bench in

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Cumberland Park I saw a scene suspended in time. I

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saw it just me and nobody else, like I was

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getting a sneak preview of something yet to happen. So

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maybe something that had already happened, an old scene that

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keeps wandering in space because I never found its.

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Place and time. In the scene, there's a young guy screaming.

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There's a scream of terror, the scream of the man

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looking into the face of his murderer. It's in wingate cemetery.

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In the scene, I'm hiding behind a tombstone, watching great

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digger working away by lantern light.

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There's a body on the ground.

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The young man blue in the face where the moon

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touches his cheeks, and very dead. The digging stops, and

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soon the earth is restored. The digger is a tall

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man with sunken cheeks like deep holes in his face.

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The last thing he does is pick up an object

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looks like it might have fallen from the courses pocket.

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He examines it, then heats it in the direction of

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my hiding place.

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It hits the tombstone I'm hiding behind. When I can,

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I pick it up.

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It's a metal the size of a half dollars. An

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engraving on it Queen is a Bella of Spain, and

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the words pointex he too, meaning good luck in Spanish.

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Then I lose the digger. The following day I find

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him again. I find him on a colored poster nailed

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against the wall of a pageant theater. There was his picture,

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a tall man with sunken cheeks wearing a flowing black cape.

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The poster read Constantine Prince of Illusion assisted by the

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beautiful Marietta. Constantine Prince of Illusion was a vaudeville act.

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There was a guy outside the theater nailing up sign

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man wanted it read apply inside, I applied outside. I'll

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take that job, Miss dear. What Eh, you don't even

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know what the job is. I'm adaptable, I learned fast.

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It's sweeping floors. I'm a wizard of a broom.

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It's a trouble shooting backstage if a wire shorts or

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fire stack and handling trouble says I was born. Eh,

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what's your name, Harry Jonas? All right, I'm Charlie Prince,

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the theater manager. Okay, Harry, looks like you got the job.

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Or maybe a better way to put it, mister Prince,

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the job's got me.

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The job did have me.

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I saw the floors, changed fuses when they blew, and

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announced the guys from one PM to closing. Closing was Constantine,

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Prince of Illusion, insisted by a beautiful blonde named Marietta,

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and an old lady and a kind of a wardrobe

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mistress to Marietta. Constantine's act is the one the audience

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really paid to see. It a straight terror, the regular

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routine of sewing Marietta in half knife throwing, setting her

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on fire with a new wrinkle for a smash finish,

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A girl Marietta stuck her head on a chopping block

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and an overhead knife came slashing down.

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The head roll It.

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Makes you sick.

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What what'd you say?

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I say, Constantine's act with the guillotine makes you sick.

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It was old Anna whom who got married in and

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out of her costumes. Yeah, it looks so really gave

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me the shimmers, even knowing it's funny.

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I know always you are afraid for Marietta, like Mino

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always was afraid for her.

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Who Lino stood here.

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In the wings like you sick for Marietta.

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I asked you, who's Nino?

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You have his job now, and you have his metal.

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I have his wife, Nino's metal with the face of

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Queen Isabella. I saw it in your hand today. A

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lucky matter for most, but for Nino, very unlucky. It

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is one of a kind. Take care not to lose.

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It on the way, Take care never to lose the

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Isabella medal, and Hannah had said, one of a kind.

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When there was a lot. I didn't know.

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When I got him alone, I asked Charlie Prince, the

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theater manager, a few questions. What happened to my predecessor

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here Nino, the guy whose job I've got.

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Now he's skardud What do you mean he's skaredoude quit

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He got an advance on his pay and then beat.

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It without notice, just disappeared. Why would he do that, Constantine?

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Nino and Marietta were sweet on each other, and Constantine

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was pretty jealous, as it tipped, were you on how

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to hold your job.

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Here and stay away from Marietta?

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Huh? You get the idea, Harry, you get the idea.

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I didn't stay away from Marietta, even if I had

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wanted to.

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I couldn't. I joined Marietta in a dressing room now

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before the theater open.

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Got something I have to show you, Marietta. The uh

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the lady own.

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It is Queen Isabella.

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Nino's medal.

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That's right, Heno's metal. Where educated I found it? Been

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lying about where everybody, but I'll tell you. I found

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it in Wingate Cemetery.

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He's dead.

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Constantine killed him.

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I knew Constantine would kill him.

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I only saw a Constantine bury him.

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Why would Constantine kill Nino because he was he was

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insanely jealous?

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If Nino jealous enough to commit murder, you.

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Don't know, Constantine.

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Are you Are you involved somewhere? Yes?

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Yes, And Constantin will see to it that I'm blamed

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for the murder of Nino along with with everything else.

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What is everything else?

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Robbery?

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Constantine's not just a tape performer, He's also a master thief.

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And Nino was his accomplice. Yeah, and you and me too.

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You're asking me to protect Constantine.

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No, just.

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To protect me. My reason for protecting you, it's in

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your eyes.

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Yeah. Sure, you're a man, aren't you.

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I accepted Maryetta's story, but Constantine was a master criminal

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that her fate was bound up with his fate. I

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worked at my job and I announced the acts, and

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Marietta on the chopping block still gave me the shivers.

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One night, she seemed to hesitate before putting her head

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on the block, as if she was afraid.

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Mariette is afraid, Yeah, yeah, and she looks scared.

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Stuff.

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Marietta.

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Nos, Constantine means to kill her.

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In front of a thousand people. He wouldn't there.

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It will be an accident.

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Something goes wrong and Mariette is killed Constantine.

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And I've got to stop him.

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He's too late to stop him.

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See, the night comes down.

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Very lot.

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As always I had rolled.

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If it was pony, it was a perfect to lose,

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and if it was phony, for the.

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First time, it was blood, blood, as real as if

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Marietta had been my head. A blood spotted the cage,

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and Mary had his head rolled and lay skill in

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the purple life.

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As the curtain came down.

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The audience just floting to it was only an Actually,

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when Constantine's throws Constantine, yes, oh you'll killed Marietta deliberately.

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It wasn't anything I said.

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You play more office than.

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Marietta.

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I thought I really lost my head.

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Yeah, or the blood? Examine it, idiot, Is it really blood?

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Oh?

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No, some it all seems real. Even a phony head

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looked real. The man's insane.

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Come on, Marietta, I won't forget that you try to

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strangle me. Hurry Jonas, I've fallen for a perfect illusion

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and the phony witch talk of old.

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Anna in your mind. Now you are blaming Anna for

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telling you things that are run through.

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Telling me to make a fool of myself. So Constantine

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was going to kill Marietta in the night accidentally, on purpose.

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But yes, you're not starting out again.

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But it is true.

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It is another accident. That Marietta's delas.

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One accident canceling out another.

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Huh, Yes, mister Charlie Prince saved Marietta's life. How he

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moved the guillotine knife just enough away to save Marietta's

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beautiful head.

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I checked Anna's story with Charlie Prince.

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Yes, I inspected the guillotine knife in ordered it moved

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eight to ten degrees. How come you inspect her routine?

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I do a theater wide safety check all the time.

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And how come you inspected the guillotine knife? One of

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Constanty's own professional props.

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Mary Hatta, asked me to.

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She said the act had her nervous and could I

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adjust the position of the knife, even if it meant

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the illusion would lose something? Marietta didn't want to lose

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her head for the love of the act. Harry, wasn't

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that deubinly a driving at?

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Look?

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Harry, if there's something you think, you know, I don't

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only think I know Constantine is a murderer. Why I

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know he murdered the guy whose job I've got?

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Nino?

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Oh, what's so funny as you?

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I just got a wire from Nino.

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He's in Mexico City, haven't your time of his life.

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He even wired me the advanced money he'd slipped off.

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With here read it for yourself.

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A phony.

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Constantine murdered Nino and buried him in wind Gate. Sumerpy, Harry,

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go soak your head somewhere. I like a joke as

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well as I'm like a guy, but belonged to Nino

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and Isabella Metal One of a kind, one of a kind.

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Have a look. I got am ind of them.

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It was an act here two years ago, a gal

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who billed herself as Isabella, Queen of the Dance. We

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handed these medals out to the cash customers as a stunt.

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I went to the wing Gate Cemetery for another look.

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This is stormy nice. I found the same tombstone i'd

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hidden behind before.

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I found the spot i'd seen Constantine digging out for

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no grave. No spot was flat, and even in a patch.

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Of grass and flowers or sprawling on the ground, had

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never been touched. I got back to the pache in

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theater an hour before showtime and went looking for Marietta.

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She was at a dressing table, white faced and strained.

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Beautiful Marietta. Yes, Harry, story I had told you about Nino,

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about Constantine burrying Nino and wing Gate Cemetery and me

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there watching, Yes, sir, well right now there isn't a

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grave or or Nino in wingd Gate Cemetery.

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I just came from there. I can't explain it, can you?

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That Constantine's clever.

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It's as illusion Grandmaster the Raad. He's going another thing.

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Charlie Prince says, Nino is in Mexico.

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Alive and kicking another of Constantine's chicks.

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I guess that just about covers every missing explanation. Huh

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to Constantine plan on killing you last night, I want to.

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Know, Marianna.

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Yes, and tonight again Constantine plans to kill me.

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Pretty sticks to kill a teen knife back.

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No, this time it'll try to take my life in

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a dagger thrilling.

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And you're waiting for it to happen.

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Yes, period. Huh, you're scheduled to die. You got your

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shroud all the way out.

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I can't do anything about it, Harry, I'm powerless to

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resist Constantine.

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Funny thing, I was in kind of a spell myself.

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Marietta was scheduled to die, and all I could do

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was stand in the wings and watch Constantine throw his daggers.

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The dagger's bit into the wooden frame. I watched him

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hold the last dagger, and I could tell by his

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face that this was it, and this was the dagger.

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It was going to be murdered by accident. I didn't

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need old Anna pulling at my sleeve to tell me.

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This dagger goes to the heart.

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Watch.

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I couldn't do anything for Marietta if I wanted to.

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My legs fell nailed to the floor. I saw the

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dagger rain and go Mariette.

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I hit her.

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Right into her heart. The dagger bit right into her heart,

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blood spurt it soaking her costume. I heard the audience

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applaud as the curtain dropped. They thought it was all

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part of the act. I came out of my paralysis

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and went for Constant Geane. I pulled a dag he

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I was on board. Marietta was and pale against and

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went for him. I got behind him and circled my

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arm around his neck, cos I'm.

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Going to car.

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What you came.

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Don't you watch some constant Gracola dagger hosting my arm,

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turning him laid around, and me turning the plate in

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my chat it and working a claw and opening.

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It before and finally straight God.

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Then and I heard her laugh at me, Marietta laughing,

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the old lady Anna all the constant spotty.

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She was laughing.

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Both some stay made it pay off. I got it

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finally way potsy and murdered Constantine the way Mary had

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wanted to. I've been set up to door my dollar.

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Mary had a red in my eyes. Confirmed it.

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Harry, Yeah, you bring me from Constantine.

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Wait, Constantine freed you from you?

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Yeah?

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Heo's grave.

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I moved a headstone you were hiding behind. He looked

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in the wrong place.

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And the dagger in your heart and the blood.

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Constantine was a prince of illusion.

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No, no, I'm not buying that anymore. Constantine was clever, sure,

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but you you with a real queen be a the act.

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The illusion was your trick. You're the queen mother of illusion.

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Yes, the illusion was always my part of a trick.

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What happens to me? Don't you care?

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I care a little, just a very little. Sure, Run.

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Run escape quickly.

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It's better to.

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Be a fugitive murderers than I captured one.

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Run, Harry, run.

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I ran.

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I was weak from loss of blood that I ran.

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I got my chest sewed up where Constantine ripped a

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dagger across at forty stitches, and then I kept on

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running right to the cops. But the hitch is a lieutenant.

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Belson won't let me settle down. He's nibbling in my

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confession like a guy being fed food to exotic for

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his taste. Forty eight hours now and Belson is still

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only nibbling a bout yard confession of murder. Harraine, the

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story you just told me, you read it somewhere.

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I lift it.

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Look, wasn't the murder of Constantine officially reported?

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Yes, it were on the books. Isn't unsolved, but then

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it's solved now. But it happened in the year in

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nineteen twenty two, forty years ago. I'm going to play

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right here. There was a water well I called Constantine.

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Marrietta booked into the old Pageants theater got right here

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telling what happened to Marietta. She died in a railroad crash.

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She's been dead since nineteen thirty four. Yah, Pageen zero

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was torn down nineteen thirty two, thirty years ago, still

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insists you were upawn and murder of a long ago

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what villain named constant.

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Gas I do Look here inside my shirt. I've got

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forty stitches of a scar across my chest.

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To prove it.

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Yeah, you got this, Connor. All right, there's a survivor

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coming in. See if you recognize him? You know this man, Harry?

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Yeah, sure, sure it's it's Charlie Princeville.

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He said, oh, forty years older. He was thirty and.

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He's almost seventy now, mister prince do you know this man?

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Is he the one you told me about, Lieutenant, that's

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the one. Never saw him before, never saw me before, Charlie.

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You hired me right off the sidewalk. You were nailing

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up a man wanted sign and I applied right on

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the spot.

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Yeah, that's how it happened, all right, way back. The

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lad came up and had me take down the shine

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right there. But how could you know about that? Because

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I was the lad?

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Crazy? Son? Crazy? What do you mean I'm crazy? Why

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you don't looking at me as if I am crazy? Harry?

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It all happened forty years.

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Ago, Okay, okay, So some things got lost in space,

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some things never find their place in time. But it's all.

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True, isn't forty years ago?

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Harry?

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How old are you now, Oh, I don't buy the

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answering personally at twenty fifth birthday, and then the idea

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at thirty.

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I don't even give him that much, Lieutenant, I say,

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he's not a minute more than twenty one.

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Face up to it.

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Harry, you read the story somewhere and made it.

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You're wrong? Are you sure? Are you really sure it

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happened like that? Am I sure? Harry? Of course I'm sure,

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aren't you?

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Suspence? You have been listening to Memory of a Murder,

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starring Philip Sterling as Harry Jonas and written especially for

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suspense by John Roberts. Suspence is produced and directed by

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Brunos Serrato, Junior music supervision by Ethel Hubert. Heard in

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Tonight's story were Connie Lemke as Marietta, Ralph Bell as

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Lieutenant Belson, Ethel Everett as Anna, James Monks as Constantine,

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and Larson Zerby as Charlie Prince Hm.

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A hot cup of tea and a chilling story in

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your ears, Well, very little can get better than that?

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What's that?

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Oh?

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No, no, no, that dorum locks. I assure you, it

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just won't right now anyhow? Anyhow, what say we listen

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to another one? It's the season of giving, and I

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feel quite generous. And I'm very thankful of how generous

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you are with your tie, my dear. So another log

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on the fire, another kettle on the stove, and let's

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see if we can learn with our own two ears,

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eight individual steps of murder.

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Lipton Tea and Lipton Soups present in a Sanctum Mysteries.

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Good evening, friends of the inn a Sanctum.

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When you heard the sound of a squeaking dot, it

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was exactly thirty seconds past the hour for murder.

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But I don't worry. We won't keep you waiting much longer.

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Even as I talk to you.

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Now, our hero and his victims standing beside me, wishing

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I'd dispense with formalities so they can get the more

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enjoyable pursuits like murder.

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Now, isn't it funny, mister Host, I feel the same

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way in hot weather.

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You mean the heat makes you feel murderous? Now, this

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doesn't sound like har Mary.

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Please don't misunderstand me, mister Host.

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I mean the heat makes me want to dispense with

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formalities so I can get the more enjoyable pursuits like

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serving myself and my friend's tall cooling glasses of iced

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lipped and tea in my backyard under the trees. What

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grand iced tea Lipton's makes so gloriously full bodied.

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So full of zip.

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And it's that brisk lipt and flavor that does it,

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a flavor that's never flat, but always spirited and satisfying.

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You see, Brisk is the word the tea experts themselves

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use to describe the livelier freshness of Lipton's, and those

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same tea experts agree that in iced teas, brisk flavor

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is extra important.

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That's why for the best.

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Iced tea you ever tasted, you should always insist on

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Lipton Tea.

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It's good iced because it's brisk in flavor.

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So keep a frosty picture of iced lipt and tea

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always on hand.

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Thank you for those cooling thoughts. Mary.

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Now into our sizzling thriller Eight Steps to Murder, written

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especially for Enno Sanctum by Emil Tepperman. This is the

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chronicle of a carefully calculated crime, a crime so twisted

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and subtle that it had to be blueprinted in advance.

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As Barry Kroger in the role of Mark Durfy, the

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newspaper columnist tells his story. We shall watch this crime

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develop step by step. Eight steps to murder.

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When I decided to kill Basil Archer, I went about

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it like an architect, laying out the plans for a

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complicated building project. Only a fool leaves the details of

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such an undertaking to chance. I calculated every risk, I

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weighed every possibility of failure. I blueprinted each of the

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eight necessary steps.

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I had to take.

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My first step was to get a suitable weapon. I

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went on Monday morning to the office of a pond

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broke riding you on forty eighth Street. Good morning, my friend,

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are you mister Krug? Come in, Come in, mister Darvey,

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thank you? You know what I want?

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Need?

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Yes, I have it here, exactly what you need. It's

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frully loaded. You can spin the barrency for yourself.

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A nice revolver. That's a little awkward.

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Hell you you said you want? I did with a

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silence her dead.

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Yes.

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How much for this, mister Krug? Two hundred and fifty dollars?

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What that is the price? Mister Durfy.

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You know it's against the law to sell these.

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Yes, but but two hundred and fifty you will pay it?

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Mister dafe. Wow, all right, you know what I want

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this gun for. But naturally you know I'm planning to

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kill someone with it. But naturally otherwise would you want

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a silence on it? You wouldn't be above a little

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honest blackmail, would you. Mister Krug, Please do not point

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that gun at me. It is loaded. I know that

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what you're going to do. I regret this, mister Krug.

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I'm going to have to kill you. No, I swear,

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he'll say it. He will be sorry for this. You

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will make a mistake. He will make a slip, No mistake,

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they will.

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They will.

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You cannot think of everything. I have thought of everything.

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This is the first thing.

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You.

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Yeah, you cannot, I think.

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Very I left Krug's body where it lay, and put

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the silence drive over in my inside pocket and stepped out,

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and I stopped stuck still, the rain suddenly coming down

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in buckets. I hadn't counted on it starting the rain.

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My alibi for Krugs killing was carefully planned. Everybody in

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00:31:34.920 --> 00:31:37.319
my hotel while I was still in my room, sleeping

471
00:31:37.319 --> 00:31:41.599
off a binge, carefully staged in drinking spree last night.

472
00:31:42.480 --> 00:31:46.759
But if my clothes were wet, I know I've been

473
00:31:46.759 --> 00:31:47.640
out this morning.

474
00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:50.200
You cannot think of everything.

475
00:31:51.839 --> 00:31:54.200
You cannot think of everything.

476
00:31:55.240 --> 00:31:57.599
I hurried back to my hotel, walking in the round.

477
00:31:58.319 --> 00:32:01.640
It was too dangerous to take care. I sleeped in

478
00:32:01.720 --> 00:32:05.039
the service entrance the way i'd come out, walked up

479
00:32:05.079 --> 00:32:08.160
the one flight of stairs. As soon as I got

480
00:32:08.200 --> 00:32:11.680
my room, I took off my clothes, dropped them all

481
00:32:11.720 --> 00:32:14.960
in the bathtub, and started the shower going.

482
00:32:16.960 --> 00:32:17.759
Then I went to bed.

483
00:32:30.920 --> 00:32:32.720
About noontime when the phone rang.

484
00:32:33.279 --> 00:32:36.440
I knew it was the cloak downstairs calling because I

485
00:32:36.440 --> 00:32:37.680
had left a call for twelve.

486
00:32:38.920 --> 00:32:42.720
I let the phone ring. That was step number two.

487
00:32:49.720 --> 00:32:53.240
A few minutes later, just as I expected, Whyan, the

488
00:32:53.279 --> 00:32:55.799
house detective let himself into the room with his past key.

489
00:32:56.799 --> 00:32:59.440
I pretended to be asleep, dead to the world.

490
00:33:00.440 --> 00:33:00.799
All of.

491
00:33:04.039 --> 00:33:06.079
What a lord we must have figured out last night.

492
00:33:06.200 --> 00:33:08.319
I heard Ryan go into the bathroom where the shower

493
00:33:08.400 --> 00:33:11.640
was still running, and then come out muttering and approach

494
00:33:11.720 --> 00:33:12.039
the bed.

495
00:33:12.559 --> 00:33:20.519
I got, mister Dervy, why, oh I hear you must

496
00:33:20.640 --> 00:33:23.839
be I was a kite last night. Oh you're un

497
00:33:23.880 --> 00:33:27.200
dressed in the shower. We all your clothes in the

498
00:33:27.279 --> 00:33:30.000
bed were soaking wet.

499
00:33:31.400 --> 00:33:35.200
I was safe, My tracks were completely covered. This was

500
00:33:35.240 --> 00:33:39.240
Monday afternoon. According to my schedule, Basil Archer was to

501
00:33:39.319 --> 00:33:42.759
die on Friday evening at ten o'clock shop. I was

502
00:33:42.799 --> 00:33:46.200
now free to take step three in my blue Crimp

503
00:33:46.240 --> 00:33:46.799
for murder.

504
00:33:47.720 --> 00:33:50.599
For this purpose, I went to Basil Archer's office.

505
00:33:51.319 --> 00:33:53.200
He was a theater for producer. You see.

506
00:33:53.559 --> 00:33:57.319
His office was upstairs over the famous old Fantasy Theater

507
00:33:57.880 --> 00:34:00.200
where Archer's new play was to open on Friday. Me

508
00:34:01.119 --> 00:34:03.119
As I opened the door of Basilata's office, I was

509
00:34:03.200 --> 00:34:03.799
quite cool.

510
00:34:04.640 --> 00:34:06.079
I'd rehearsed myself well.

511
00:34:06.759 --> 00:34:09.639
Basil was seated at his desk talking to Gregory Sutherland,

512
00:34:10.360 --> 00:34:14.880
a young and handsome author of the new play. Oh there, Mark,

513
00:34:15.360 --> 00:34:17.880
let us see if hi. Basil just stopped in to

514
00:34:17.880 --> 00:34:18.880
get a line on the new play.

515
00:34:19.039 --> 00:34:21.599
You know Greg Southerland, the author. Sure, Greg, this is

516
00:34:21.639 --> 00:34:22.159
Mark Duffy.

517
00:34:22.199 --> 00:34:22.840
How we've met?

518
00:34:23.519 --> 00:34:25.880
I tell you, Mark, storm Over the Highlands is going

519
00:34:25.920 --> 00:34:28.360
to be the biggest hit of the season. Greg's written

520
00:34:28.360 --> 00:34:29.079
a fine play.

521
00:34:29.199 --> 00:34:32.159
I'm glad to hear that, Basil. I go over beg

522
00:34:32.280 --> 00:34:34.840
especially with your wife during the lady Nina's a great actress.

523
00:34:35.400 --> 00:34:38.159
Confidentially, that's one of the reasons why I'm doing Storm

524
00:34:38.199 --> 00:34:40.400
over the Islands just suited Banina.

525
00:34:40.559 --> 00:34:43.599
Nina will be wonderful. I guess she likes working with you,

526
00:34:43.760 --> 00:34:47.079
mister Southerland. It's always a good idea for the author

527
00:34:47.119 --> 00:34:49.239
and the star of a play too.

528
00:34:50.800 --> 00:34:51.760
Worked together.

529
00:34:52.559 --> 00:34:55.159
Oh have you and Nina been working together?

530
00:34:55.199 --> 00:34:55.440
Greg?

531
00:34:55.800 --> 00:34:57.920
Well, yes, mister Arch we sort of thought if we

532
00:34:57.960 --> 00:35:01.840
could exchange ideas. I never saw two people put their

533
00:35:01.960 --> 00:35:06.000
heart and soul in their job like Nina and Sutherland.

534
00:35:06.000 --> 00:35:06.199
Here.

535
00:35:07.159 --> 00:35:11.559
They spend every minute they can together. I look here, Dorothy,

536
00:35:11.800 --> 00:35:15.239
I don't like the way you said that. Oh I'm sorry, Sutherland.

537
00:35:15.760 --> 00:35:19.440
You know I didn't mean anything. It's it's only what

538
00:35:19.559 --> 00:35:22.360
people are saying seeing you both together so much.

539
00:35:22.599 --> 00:35:24.920
What is this all about, mar This is the first

540
00:35:25.000 --> 00:35:25.840
I've heard of anything.

541
00:35:26.119 --> 00:35:29.280
Forget it, bas Oh by the way, here's a package.

542
00:35:29.320 --> 00:35:31.119
I want to give it to Nina an opening night.

543
00:35:31.239 --> 00:35:32.960
I wonder if you put it in your safe for

544
00:35:33.079 --> 00:35:34.480
me to find. Why? Sure, if you.

545
00:35:34.440 --> 00:35:38.559
Want me to do, I'll put it here on the

546
00:35:38.559 --> 00:35:42.039
bottom shelf, next to the payroll money. Come in Friday

547
00:35:42.039 --> 00:35:44.280
evening during the first intermission and I'll get it out

548
00:35:44.320 --> 00:35:44.519
for you.

549
00:35:44.920 --> 00:35:47.159
Are those all packages of money on the bottom shelf.

550
00:35:47.280 --> 00:35:50.039
Yes, over one hundred thousand in there, receipts from my

551
00:35:50.079 --> 00:35:51.960
other shows.

552
00:35:52.800 --> 00:35:54.400
Yeah, I mark all.

553
00:35:54.199 --> 00:35:55.079
Safely locked up.

554
00:35:56.360 --> 00:35:57.679
What kind of a present is it?

555
00:35:58.159 --> 00:36:07.320
I I'd rather keep that a secret till Friday. From

556
00:36:07.400 --> 00:36:10.719
Marcher's office, I went straight to his apartment. I knew

557
00:36:10.840 --> 00:36:13.360
Nina would be home, and it was important that I

558
00:36:13.400 --> 00:36:13.880
talked to her.

559
00:36:14.000 --> 00:36:18.880
Now. Hello, Mark, I've been wondering if.

560
00:36:18.760 --> 00:36:19.440
You'd come today.

561
00:36:19.599 --> 00:36:20.639
I told you I wouldn't, Tina.

562
00:36:20.800 --> 00:36:28.880
I've waited so long, Darling, Oh, Mark howlumn? Will it

563
00:36:28.960 --> 00:36:29.760
be now?

564
00:36:29.679 --> 00:36:30.559
How much longer?

565
00:36:31.159 --> 00:36:37.800
Friday? Darling? After Friday you'll be free of him forever, and.

566
00:36:37.840 --> 00:36:42.119
Then you and I.

567
00:36:42.199 --> 00:36:45.079
There's work to do first. This is only the fourth

568
00:36:45.119 --> 00:36:49.400
steven four more to go. Everything's working according to schedule.

569
00:36:49.519 --> 00:36:53.039
The next steps up to your Oh, I've started the

570
00:36:53.079 --> 00:36:56.320
ball rolling basis, beginning to worry about you and Sutherland.

571
00:36:56.920 --> 00:37:00.000
He's got to be encouraged to suspect as much as possible.

572
00:37:00.119 --> 00:37:02.400
You've got to be seen around with Sutherland as frequently

573
00:37:02.559 --> 00:37:02.920
you can't.

574
00:37:03.119 --> 00:37:05.960
That'll be easy. Sutherlandly more than a kid. He worships

575
00:37:05.960 --> 00:37:10.039
the ground I walk on. That'd rather be with you, Darling.

576
00:37:12.760 --> 00:37:18.079
It's five days more, Nina, then we can be together always.

577
00:37:27.760 --> 00:37:28.920
Outside Nina's house.

578
00:37:29.360 --> 00:37:31.639
I stopped for a moment with a queer sensation in

579
00:37:31.719 --> 00:37:32.599
because of my stomach.

580
00:37:33.599 --> 00:37:34.599
It was raining again.

581
00:37:35.599 --> 00:37:39.280
Reminded me of mister Krue. You can't think of everything.

582
00:37:40.719 --> 00:37:43.840
You can't think of everything. You seem to hear Kruge's

583
00:37:43.920 --> 00:37:45.519
voice drumming in my ears.

584
00:37:46.800 --> 00:37:48.119
Make a mistake, My.

585
00:37:49.880 --> 00:38:05.480
You'll make a mistake, awake a mistakes.

586
00:38:05.519 --> 00:38:09.559
Oh, poor Krub. You know, a pawnbroker's life is not

587
00:38:09.599 --> 00:38:13.000
an easy one. And Krug took such an interest in

588
00:38:13.039 --> 00:38:17.079
his business, and he never suspected Mark Durffy. In fact,

589
00:38:17.119 --> 00:38:21.039
he probably liked him or his redeeming qualities.

590
00:38:22.360 --> 00:38:24.360
Come to think about, Krug was pretty lucky at that.

591
00:38:25.280 --> 00:38:27.639
Mark didn't steal anything from the Star but the gun,

592
00:38:27.800 --> 00:38:31.559
so Krug lost practically nothing but his life.

593
00:38:33.480 --> 00:38:37.079
You know, Mark's story gives me an idea. I'd like

594
00:38:37.119 --> 00:38:38.599
to draw up a blueprint myself.

595
00:38:38.880 --> 00:38:41.400
Yes, merely another blueprint for murder.

596
00:38:41.559 --> 00:38:46.360
Oh no, mister Dost, I'd call mine a blueprint for

597
00:38:46.519 --> 00:38:47.639
summer refreshment.

598
00:38:48.320 --> 00:38:49.760
And I'd like to do it in sound.

599
00:38:50.280 --> 00:38:52.920
First, I had start with a creak of porch rockers

600
00:38:52.960 --> 00:38:56.559
on shaded summer streets and the murmur of backyard gardener

601
00:38:56.559 --> 00:38:59.679
in the lilac dust, and with the teensters home from school.

602
00:39:00.079 --> 00:39:01.880
Have to be some sweet swing music.

603
00:39:01.639 --> 00:39:04.599
Of course, And just to make my blueprint of summer

604
00:39:04.679 --> 00:39:08.320
sounds complete, you'd hear the tinkle of ice and tall

605
00:39:08.440 --> 00:39:12.719
cool glasses, glasses of refreshing ice slipped and tea.

606
00:39:13.320 --> 00:39:16.880
Yes, iced slipped and tea just goes with summertime fun

607
00:39:16.920 --> 00:39:17.679
and enjoyment.

608
00:39:18.039 --> 00:39:21.239
Flipton's has such a wide awake flavor the whole family

609
00:39:21.239 --> 00:39:24.719
will love it. And that flavor, folks, is brisk.

610
00:39:25.400 --> 00:39:26.719
Yes, that's the secret.

611
00:39:27.000 --> 00:39:29.880
Lipton's brisk flavor is what makes iced slipped and tea

612
00:39:29.960 --> 00:39:33.760
taste extra good. So for a delightful treat to beat

613
00:39:33.800 --> 00:39:37.239
the heat, serve iced tea and for the best iced

614
00:39:37.239 --> 00:39:42.239
tea ever, insist on lipt And tea brisk flavor, never flat.

615
00:39:42.480 --> 00:39:46.719
Couldn't have done better myself, Mary. But now let's catch

616
00:39:46.800 --> 00:39:51.320
up with our architect of murder. If Mark Daffy's blueprint

617
00:39:51.320 --> 00:39:53.920
works out according to schedule, our death rays should go

618
00:39:54.000 --> 00:39:59.159
up sharply to about one per person. Let's see, he

619
00:39:59.199 --> 00:40:02.440
should be up to his fifth step by now, shouldn't he.

620
00:40:03.039 --> 00:40:06.280
Tuesday was a clear day without rain, and I got better.

621
00:40:07.079 --> 00:40:09.159
I knew now that I couldn't make a mistake.

622
00:40:10.119 --> 00:40:13.519
In four days, Basil Archer would die as planned.

623
00:40:13.760 --> 00:40:15.639
And now for the fifth step.

624
00:40:16.400 --> 00:40:19.440
An easy one for Mark Diffy because he's a newspaper columnist.

625
00:40:20.079 --> 00:40:22.880
It merely requires dictating a little item for his column

626
00:40:22.880 --> 00:40:24.599
into the dictaphone at his desk.

627
00:40:25.559 --> 00:40:29.760
Oh, there's a new play opening soon, which should be

628
00:40:29.800 --> 00:40:33.159
a huge success if the author and the leading lady

629
00:40:33.199 --> 00:40:34.920
can do anything to make it click.

630
00:40:36.119 --> 00:40:38.840
They're working harder on it than the producer himself.

631
00:40:39.960 --> 00:40:48.320
It looks like they've clicked with each other too.

632
00:40:49.199 --> 00:40:53.280
And now the sixth step, Eight steps to murder, and

633
00:40:53.360 --> 00:40:57.079
this is number six. Just a couple of telephone calls

634
00:40:57.119 --> 00:40:58.920
to set the sixth step in motion.

635
00:41:00.840 --> 00:41:03.639
Hello, Hello, Nina. Did you see the paper this morning?

636
00:41:04.239 --> 00:41:07.000
Darling? It was perfect. I've had a half dozen phone

637
00:41:07.039 --> 00:41:08.480
cold everybody knows you.

638
00:41:08.440 --> 00:41:12.320
Met Sutherland and good Basil doing practice this morning?

639
00:41:13.519 --> 00:41:14.840
He did? How did he like it?

640
00:41:14.920 --> 00:41:15.039
Oh?

641
00:41:15.079 --> 00:41:16.920
It just looks along. I don't think he.

642
00:41:16.920 --> 00:41:19.039
Believes it all right.

643
00:41:19.360 --> 00:41:21.920
Now, he's what I want you to do. Get hold

644
00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:25.039
of Sutherland and make him take you out tonight. There's

645
00:41:25.079 --> 00:41:28.320
a fast little nightclub out on the island, the Pirates Hole.

646
00:41:28.599 --> 00:41:31.360
I know the place kind of disreputable, isn't it?

647
00:41:31.639 --> 00:41:31.880
Yeah?

648
00:41:31.960 --> 00:41:34.639
Right, But now, look, you'll get Sutherland to take you there.

649
00:41:34.679 --> 00:41:35.800
I think you can manage.

650
00:41:35.519 --> 00:41:37.719
That'll take me anywhere I want to go.

651
00:41:37.719 --> 00:41:41.400
Good, be sure to be there tonight about ten. I'll

652
00:41:41.440 --> 00:41:53.760
take care of the rest as large as Oh hello, Basil,

653
00:41:53.840 --> 00:41:57.800
how are you wait? Take it easy, Basil. I know

654
00:41:57.880 --> 00:41:59.480
you want to boil me out about that piece of

655
00:41:59.519 --> 00:42:00.079
the collar.

656
00:42:00.079 --> 00:42:01.039
Or you were a friend of mine.

657
00:42:01.320 --> 00:42:04.000
Look, Basil, that's why I printed that piece. I don't

658
00:42:04.079 --> 00:42:05.000
like what's going on.

659
00:42:05.119 --> 00:42:07.639
Does What do you mean if na feles like working

660
00:42:07.679 --> 00:42:08.440
with the also of the place?

661
00:42:08.639 --> 00:42:11.719
Sure, sure, that's all right, but look, why keep things secret?

662
00:42:11.760 --> 00:42:12.199
What do you mean?

663
00:42:12.800 --> 00:42:15.440
Will you ask Sutherland if he has any plans for

664
00:42:15.519 --> 00:42:15.840
the night.

665
00:42:16.119 --> 00:42:18.760
I know what plans he has for tonight. He's going

666
00:42:18.840 --> 00:42:20.400
to stay home and work on some lines in the

667
00:42:20.440 --> 00:42:21.320
last scene.

668
00:42:22.360 --> 00:42:23.320
Oh is that?

669
00:42:23.480 --> 00:42:23.519
So?

670
00:42:23.880 --> 00:42:25.239
What are you Indian Mark?

671
00:42:25.400 --> 00:42:27.079
I'm hinting that you take a run out of the

672
00:42:27.119 --> 00:42:29.519
Pirates Hold, you know where it is out on the island,

673
00:42:29.760 --> 00:42:32.639
and you'll see how hard Sutherland will be working on

674
00:42:32.719 --> 00:42:43.800
the last scene.

675
00:42:44.800 --> 00:42:49.639
Hello, Mark, this, I'm calling for the pirates. Hold Baz

676
00:42:49.880 --> 00:42:50.400
was just here.

677
00:42:50.840 --> 00:42:52.880
God did he find you with Sutherland?

678
00:42:53.079 --> 00:42:54.760
Naturally? I did just what you tell me to.

679
00:42:55.159 --> 00:42:55.840
I'm fine.

680
00:42:56.800 --> 00:42:58.039
Everything is set for tomorrow.

681
00:42:58.519 --> 00:43:00.000
You're sure everything will be all right?

682
00:43:00.199 --> 00:43:01.119
Where is quite sure?

683
00:43:01.880 --> 00:43:04.239
This is what I want you to do tomorrow. Just

684
00:43:04.280 --> 00:43:07.480
before the show opens. You'll take sick Dazil will have

685
00:43:07.519 --> 00:43:08.719
to put in an understudy for you.

686
00:43:09.360 --> 00:43:10.800
Yes, I can do that, all right.

687
00:43:11.280 --> 00:43:13.360
Then you'll dismiss the servants.

688
00:43:13.440 --> 00:43:16.639
Yes, I remember this, clearly, Nina, You're going to be

689
00:43:16.679 --> 00:43:19.199
my alibi for the hour between nine and ten.

690
00:43:19.920 --> 00:43:20.320
Understand.

691
00:43:20.559 --> 00:43:24.559
I'll be over at nine, but i'll leave a few

692
00:43:24.559 --> 00:43:25.960
minutes later by the back way.

693
00:43:26.280 --> 00:43:28.039
When the youth swear that I stayed till a few

694
00:43:28.039 --> 00:43:28.800
minutes after ten.

695
00:43:29.719 --> 00:43:32.920
Clear, Yes, Mark, and good luck.

696
00:43:42.159 --> 00:43:42.760
When I rang the.

697
00:43:42.760 --> 00:43:45.599
Door bell of Mina's Apart on Friday night, I knew

698
00:43:45.719 --> 00:43:48.559
that every step I'd taken thus far had been right.

699
00:43:49.599 --> 00:43:51.719
I couldn't fail Mark.

700
00:43:51.760 --> 00:43:53.239
I was afraid you weren't coming.

701
00:43:53.239 --> 00:43:54.639
I was tending had gone wrong.

702
00:43:55.880 --> 00:43:59.119
Nothing's gone wrong. You sent the servants.

703
00:43:58.800 --> 00:44:00.000
Away, Yes, they're all gone.

704
00:44:00.079 --> 00:44:00.480
I'm alone.

705
00:44:00.519 --> 00:44:03.639
I can swear you were here to laughter ten huh,

706
00:44:04.400 --> 00:44:06.639
how are you? How are you going to kill me?

707
00:44:07.360 --> 00:44:10.239
What this a gun?

708
00:44:12.199 --> 00:44:14.159
What's that mulky looking thing on it?

709
00:44:14.199 --> 00:44:16.000
On the muzzle?

710
00:44:15.360 --> 00:44:21.840
It's Oh, well, you better hurry, darling. You have much time.

711
00:44:22.239 --> 00:44:24.639
There's one thing more that I've got to do here

712
00:44:24.800 --> 00:44:25.559
before I go.

713
00:44:27.719 --> 00:44:29.239
Why are you pointing the gun at me?

714
00:44:30.079 --> 00:44:32.159
Because I'm going to kill you, Nina did?

715
00:44:33.000 --> 00:44:35.079
Oh my god, I don't like that kind of joke.

716
00:44:35.480 --> 00:44:37.280
It isn't a joke, my darling.

717
00:44:38.280 --> 00:44:39.159
Are you crazy?

718
00:44:39.400 --> 00:44:40.639
You little fool?

719
00:44:41.360 --> 00:44:43.800
Did you think I go to all this trouble planning

720
00:44:43.800 --> 00:44:44.840
this thing step by step?

721
00:44:45.199 --> 00:44:46.920
Did you think I was doing all of this for you?

722
00:44:47.039 --> 00:44:48.320
But I thought you loved me.

723
00:44:48.440 --> 00:44:50.320
I thought I was committing murder.

724
00:44:50.079 --> 00:44:53.480
Because I love you.

725
00:44:53.599 --> 00:44:58.400
Nina. You're just another step in my blueprint.

726
00:44:58.840 --> 00:45:04.400
Now you so your purpose, just like Krug Krug was

727
00:45:04.440 --> 00:45:18.960
step one, your step seven. I made sure Nina was dead,

728
00:45:18.960 --> 00:45:21.320
and then I hurried out and went to Basil Archer's office.

729
00:45:21.920 --> 00:45:25.159
I had to be sure my timing was right. This

730
00:45:25.360 --> 00:45:28.079
was the eighth and the final step.

731
00:45:29.320 --> 00:45:31.559
I knew Basil would be in his office during the

732
00:45:31.599 --> 00:45:32.400
first intermission.

733
00:45:34.079 --> 00:45:36.039
Hello, Basil, Oh, it's you Mark.

734
00:45:36.159 --> 00:45:36.480
Come in.

735
00:45:37.119 --> 00:45:38.360
I want to talk to you.

736
00:45:38.559 --> 00:45:40.599
What about Basil, Mark?

737
00:45:41.159 --> 00:45:43.239
What's going on between Southerland and Nina?

738
00:45:43.920 --> 00:45:47.440
Basil, You're not a fool. I can't believe it.

739
00:45:47.480 --> 00:45:49.719
Well, if you want proof, suppose you get that package

740
00:45:49.719 --> 00:45:51.000
out of the safety one I left with you.

741
00:45:51.239 --> 00:45:52.880
The package.

742
00:45:53.079 --> 00:45:54.719
You get it and I'll show you.

743
00:45:54.800 --> 00:46:03.320
All right, But here's your package. Now, what do you

744
00:46:03.360 --> 00:46:03.960
want to show me?

745
00:46:04.280 --> 00:46:06.039
Still got all that cash and safe?

746
00:46:06.639 --> 00:46:08.119
You know I always have it here?

747
00:46:08.320 --> 00:46:14.199
Yes, say what are you doing with that revolver? Look, Basil,

748
00:46:15.159 --> 00:46:19.639
look into the muzzle? What the Dat's just right off?

749
00:46:23.960 --> 00:46:25.480
I opened the package Bassel had given me.

750
00:46:25.519 --> 00:46:27.119
It was only an empty box, nothing in it, but

751
00:46:27.119 --> 00:46:28.880
there was something here I could put into it.

752
00:46:28.920 --> 00:46:29.159
Now.

753
00:46:30.079 --> 00:46:34.159
I stepped across Basil's body, knelt before they opened safe,

754
00:46:34.480 --> 00:46:37.320
and took out the neat tied bundles of money to

755
00:46:37.360 --> 00:46:38.719
put them into the empty box.

756
00:46:39.599 --> 00:46:42.199
One hundred thousand dollars.

757
00:46:43.199 --> 00:46:46.519
It was well worth than months of planning were careful

758
00:46:46.719 --> 00:46:47.440
blue printing.

759
00:46:48.400 --> 00:46:50.079
I was a rich man.

760
00:46:51.719 --> 00:46:54.559
Now I was ready for the finale, the last bit

761
00:46:54.599 --> 00:46:56.880
of routine business, which would finish.

762
00:46:56.719 --> 00:46:59.559
The whole thing off properly. To pick up the phone.

763
00:47:00.239 --> 00:47:04.000
Police, of course, wouldn't be so difficult to imitate Basil

764
00:47:04.079 --> 00:47:11.639
Archer's voice over the telephone. I'd rehearsed that too. Hello,

765
00:47:12.280 --> 00:47:16.280
this is Basil Archer speaking. I've just killed my wife.

766
00:47:17.719 --> 00:47:21.119
My wife and Sutherland they were tending to run away together.

767
00:47:21.920 --> 00:47:24.320
They stole all the money from my safe and we're

768
00:47:24.320 --> 00:47:24.880
going away.

769
00:47:25.719 --> 00:47:29.360
So I killed her. Now I'm going to kill myself too.

770
00:47:36.679 --> 00:47:44.079
Oh wow, everything was set carefully. I placed the revolver

771
00:47:44.159 --> 00:47:48.559
in Basil's cold hand and left ou prinside.

772
00:47:49.000 --> 00:47:50.679
Because I was wearing gloves.

773
00:47:51.320 --> 00:47:54.280
I picked up the package and walked out into the fall,

774
00:47:55.960 --> 00:47:57.960
but in the hall I stopped short.

775
00:47:58.760 --> 00:48:02.000
Someone ADUs came into the building downstairs. I peered down

776
00:48:02.039 --> 00:48:04.079
and I saw Gregory Sutherlan coming up.

777
00:48:04.559 --> 00:48:06.599
Roger, are you up there?

778
00:48:06.679 --> 00:48:07.039
You better?

779
00:48:07.239 --> 00:48:09.519
The second artist, Garland, was coming up the stairs. I

780
00:48:09.559 --> 00:48:12.000
couldn't get out. I wasn't trapped, you know.

781
00:48:12.519 --> 00:48:15.360
There was a porter's closet down the hall. To it

782
00:48:15.360 --> 00:48:17.880
over to it and slipped inside just as Southerland.

783
00:48:17.400 --> 00:48:18.079
Got to the landing.

784
00:48:19.000 --> 00:48:19.280
There.

785
00:48:19.559 --> 00:48:23.039
Sutherland was in Bazil's office. Now he'd be finding the body.

786
00:48:23.679 --> 00:48:26.440
This was my chance to sneak out. I opened the

787
00:48:26.480 --> 00:48:27.159
closet door.

788
00:48:28.360 --> 00:48:31.360
Kenny and his office. One play up and we can

789
00:48:31.400 --> 00:48:33.159
make it in time. The guy said he was going

790
00:48:33.159 --> 00:48:33.840
to kill himself.

791
00:48:34.239 --> 00:48:36.320
The police had come in answer to my telephone call.

792
00:48:36.880 --> 00:48:39.679
Now I couldn't get out. There'd be a crowd outside

793
00:48:39.719 --> 00:48:40.719
and might be seen leaving.

794
00:48:41.639 --> 00:48:43.199
I had to stay in the building.

795
00:48:44.679 --> 00:48:48.159
Still, I wasn't trapped. I knew just what to do.

796
00:48:49.599 --> 00:48:52.119
Instead of leaving the building, would walk out of the.

797
00:48:52.039 --> 00:48:54.880
Closet and in the Basil's office right after the police.

798
00:48:55.599 --> 00:49:00.360
They think I'd just arrived. I stepped out of the

799
00:49:00.360 --> 00:49:03.440
porter's closet. I started for the door of Basil's office.

800
00:49:05.480 --> 00:49:09.639
Then suddenly I got a sick.

801
00:49:09.519 --> 00:49:14.239
Weak feeling in the pit of my stomach. I stopped

802
00:49:14.360 --> 00:49:15.559
stuck still.

803
00:49:16.239 --> 00:49:19.000
I'd almost walked in to my death.

804
00:49:20.159 --> 00:49:21.920
It was raining outside.

805
00:49:23.280 --> 00:49:25.320
Suppose I walked in there with my clothes all dry,

806
00:49:25.400 --> 00:49:27.039
claiming that I just come in from the street.

807
00:49:27.119 --> 00:49:28.800
I know that I'd been hiding in a building all

808
00:49:28.840 --> 00:49:29.119
the time.

809
00:49:29.320 --> 00:49:31.119
The rain rain.

810
00:49:31.360 --> 00:49:35.159
It almost picked me again. You can't think of everything.

811
00:49:35.880 --> 00:49:38.639
You'll make a mistake. You can't.

812
00:49:39.360 --> 00:49:42.360
I call you, I'll show you.

813
00:49:43.119 --> 00:49:46.320
I hurried back into the porter's closet. I knew how

814
00:49:46.320 --> 00:49:49.199
to beat this too. I turned on the closet and

815
00:49:49.280 --> 00:49:54.000
miss sink flash and drenched myself from.

816
00:49:53.960 --> 00:50:01.000
Head to foot. Well now, na oh, I looked as

817
00:50:01.039 --> 00:50:02.840
if I had just come in out of the rain.

818
00:50:03.960 --> 00:50:06.480
I stepped out of the closet, went down the hall,

819
00:50:07.480 --> 00:50:08.360
entered Basil.

820
00:50:08.119 --> 00:50:09.960
Archer's office, dripping wet.

821
00:50:10.920 --> 00:50:14.719
The two policemen were standing over Basil's body with Gregory Sutherland.

822
00:50:15.480 --> 00:50:17.039
They all looked up as I came in.

823
00:50:18.760 --> 00:50:23.199
Sorry about this Ben Massinatcher, but a suicide?

824
00:50:23.719 --> 00:50:28.840
Oh no, oh, it's impossible, Sergeant Morane Brazil wouldn't do a.

825
00:50:28.840 --> 00:50:32.159
Thing like that. Why who found him?

826
00:50:32.239 --> 00:50:33.199
I did, mister Derfy.

827
00:50:33.239 --> 00:50:37.079
I came to call him for the second act and shutcase.

828
00:50:37.679 --> 00:50:39.639
He his wife then came here to knocked him Sanfar.

829
00:50:40.719 --> 00:50:44.480
What's more, mister Sutherland, Yes, if alread knocked him sand

830
00:50:44.519 --> 00:50:47.199
Far up your owned headquarters and said you'd stolen money

831
00:50:47.199 --> 00:50:52.480
from his safe. Oh that's a liar. Wait a minute, sergeant.

832
00:50:53.239 --> 00:50:57.360
Uh mister Durfy, Yes, Suthern, how did you get yourself

833
00:50:57.360 --> 00:51:00.079
all wet like that?

834
00:51:00.119 --> 00:51:02.480
You try not getting wet in that rain?

835
00:51:03.119 --> 00:51:05.159
Then hot rain.

836
00:51:05.280 --> 00:51:12.119
Mister Dorothy suddenly sne and clam me all over. I

837
00:51:12.159 --> 00:51:15.519
saw that none of them was wet. Their clothes were

838
00:51:15.559 --> 00:51:16.119
all dry.

839
00:51:18.280 --> 00:51:21.599
How could that be? They're just coming out of the

840
00:51:21.679 --> 00:51:24.239
rain rain, mister Jersey, whoa.

841
00:51:24.960 --> 00:51:27.440
You can hear it, can't you?

842
00:51:28.119 --> 00:51:29.559
It's pouring rain.

843
00:51:30.639 --> 00:51:32.559
Just listen to that thunder thunder.

844
00:51:32.920 --> 00:51:35.039
Rain, good heaven. That's the funniest thing I've ever heard,

845
00:51:35.360 --> 00:51:36.239
don't you see? Sgan.

846
00:51:36.280 --> 00:51:38.280
He's been in the building all the time, trying to

847
00:51:38.320 --> 00:51:39.719
make us think he just came in and he got

848
00:51:39.840 --> 00:51:42.760
himself all wet for nothing. Sergeant, I bet you're a

849
00:51:42.800 --> 00:51:43.719
dollar he murder.

850
00:51:43.559 --> 00:51:47.800
An't you crazy? Or it's pouring outside you can hear

851
00:51:47.880 --> 00:51:48.519
it yourself.

852
00:51:49.239 --> 00:51:52.599
But just listen to that rain beating down the thunder

853
00:51:52.840 --> 00:51:54.039
you poor a sap.

854
00:51:54.199 --> 00:51:57.880
That isn't rain you here, it's my play next door

855
00:51:59.079 --> 00:52:03.320
storm over the highlight. Remember, and those are the sound

856
00:52:03.360 --> 00:52:04.519
effects in the second act.

857
00:52:16.719 --> 00:52:20.800
So it looks like Mark Deffy was all wet.

858
00:52:21.880 --> 00:52:24.719
In fact, he got himself so soaking wet he practically

859
00:52:25.480 --> 00:52:26.760
liquidated himself.

860
00:52:27.800 --> 00:52:28.360
But chure up.

861
00:52:28.360 --> 00:52:30.960
I'm sure he won't spend more than six months in jail,

862
00:52:31.840 --> 00:52:35.039
And that wouldn't be so bad if they weren't going

863
00:52:35.119 --> 00:52:36.039
to execute him.

864
00:52:36.079 --> 00:52:40.239
Astero Mark, If only someone had.

865
00:52:40.199 --> 00:52:43.559
Told him, told him what may well look?

866
00:52:44.159 --> 00:52:47.079
Mark took eight steps to get in the cooler when

867
00:52:47.119 --> 00:52:49.760
you really only have to take one step to get cool.

868
00:52:50.760 --> 00:52:52.079
Sure, just step down to.

869
00:52:52.079 --> 00:52:54.519
The grocer's and get a large economical.

870
00:52:54.039 --> 00:52:55.840
Package of brist lipped and tea.

871
00:52:56.280 --> 00:52:58.960
Then keep a picture of ice lipped and tea always

872
00:52:59.039 --> 00:53:02.159
on hand, and help yourself to its cooling refreshment off.

873
00:53:02.079 --> 00:53:04.239
And on throughout the day. That's all there is to it.

874
00:53:04.880 --> 00:53:08.360
And you'll find Lipton's makes perfect iced tea because Lipton's

875
00:53:08.400 --> 00:53:12.800
is never flat. It always tastes delightfully tangy and full body.

876
00:53:13.719 --> 00:53:16.360
That's why this summer, when you want iced tea, you

877
00:53:16.400 --> 00:53:19.039
should be sure to use the tea with the brisk flavor.

878
00:53:19.440 --> 00:53:21.880
Ask your grocer tomorrow for Lipton's.

879
00:53:28.800 --> 00:53:32.159
And so ends our little essay on the modern methods

880
00:53:32.239 --> 00:53:36.280
of murder. Of course, our little essays on murder are

881
00:53:36.320 --> 00:53:40.119
only for the select few. As a matter of fact,

882
00:53:40.199 --> 00:53:43.800
only one person in every ten thousand is capable of murder.

883
00:53:45.920 --> 00:53:50.079
And speaking of statistics, due to our high birth rate,

884
00:53:50.199 --> 00:53:53.519
the population of this country is increasing faster than Inner

885
00:53:53.639 --> 00:53:54.880
Sanctum can kill them.

886
00:53:56.000 --> 00:53:59.559
Very discouraging, very discouraging. Indeed.

887
00:54:03.880 --> 00:54:06.280
Oh, by the way, this month's in a Sanctum mystery

888
00:54:06.320 --> 00:54:10.599
novel is The Panic stricken by Mitchell Wilson and next

889
00:54:10.639 --> 00:54:13.599
week the makers of Lipton Tea and Lipton Soups. We'll

890
00:54:13.599 --> 00:54:16.320
bring you another in a sanctum story directed by Hymon

891
00:54:16.400 --> 00:54:19.119
Brown and called Bury Me Not.

892
00:54:20.960 --> 00:54:21.119
How.

893
00:54:21.320 --> 00:54:25.679
There's a plot for you, a plot right in the graveyard.

894
00:54:26.639 --> 00:54:31.400
Trouble is the rains come and uncover it. What becomes

895
00:54:31.440 --> 00:54:37.360
of the body? Well, now that's anybody he scarce. But

896
00:54:37.519 --> 00:54:39.920
come around next week we'll be right at the graveside

897
00:54:39.960 --> 00:54:42.360
and we'd like to have you drop him.

898
00:54:45.440 --> 00:54:50.199
Until then, GNI pleasant dreams.

899
00:54:51.199 --> 00:54:51.519
M m.

900
00:55:03.119 --> 00:55:10.840
Well, that one had a lot of information to memorize. Well, no, no, no,

901
00:55:11.039 --> 00:55:16.440
my dear. You know, I like to think that hearing

902
00:55:16.519 --> 00:55:20.039
a scary story brings us a bit of peace in

903
00:55:20.199 --> 00:55:26.679
a turbulent time. Life can be very turbulent, But believe me,

904
00:55:26.920 --> 00:55:32.000
so can the alternative or what's that? Oh no, no, no,

905
00:55:33.159 --> 00:55:35.519
I have another one for you. This one is I

906
00:55:35.639 --> 00:55:39.280
think you'll enjoy quite a bit because you see, one

907
00:55:39.320 --> 00:55:42.199
of the reasons when the sun goes down we get

908
00:55:42.320 --> 00:55:47.039
so nervous is because of a little night murder.

909
00:56:00.599 --> 00:56:05.760
You come in.

910
00:56:08.320 --> 00:56:13.519
Welcome, I'm ech marshall. Welcome to the world of your

911
00:56:13.599 --> 00:56:19.800
own terrifying imagination. There are people who suddenly find themselves

912
00:56:20.119 --> 00:56:23.519
tortured and taunted by a fragile wisp of a memory.

913
00:56:24.559 --> 00:56:27.880
It's a memory of something they may have said, or

914
00:56:28.159 --> 00:56:32.400
something they think they did. Exactly what it was has

915
00:56:32.440 --> 00:56:36.760
been long forgotten, but now it must be paid for,

916
00:56:38.000 --> 00:56:41.159
and the price life itself.

917
00:56:47.599 --> 00:56:52.000
Yes, are you, missus Louise Goodman?

918
00:56:52.920 --> 00:56:53.360
That's right?

919
00:56:54.920 --> 00:56:55.599
Are you sure?

920
00:56:56.960 --> 00:56:58.360
Well, of course, I'm sure.

921
00:56:58.920 --> 00:57:02.039
It's just that I don't want to make a mistake.

922
00:57:02.920 --> 00:57:04.519
I'm missus Louise Goodman.

923
00:57:05.639 --> 00:57:06.159
Who are you?

924
00:57:07.320 --> 00:57:08.760
And what is it you want?

925
00:57:10.280 --> 00:57:11.960
I want to keep my promise.

926
00:57:13.480 --> 00:57:13.920
Promise?

927
00:57:15.559 --> 00:57:16.639
What promise.

928
00:57:17.840 --> 00:57:18.599
I promised?

929
00:57:18.760 --> 00:57:33.400
I'd to kill you? Remember our mystery drama A Little

930
00:57:33.559 --> 00:57:37.280
Night Murder was written especially for the Mystery Theater by

931
00:57:37.400 --> 00:57:42.960
Sam Dan and stars Tony Roberts. I'll be back shortly

932
00:57:43.440 --> 00:57:57.360
with that one. Downtown at night, the city is a

933
00:57:57.440 --> 00:58:02.280
deserted place. The lofty office buildings, those gleaming towers of

934
00:58:02.440 --> 00:58:09.480
glass and steel stand quiet, empty and foreboding, like ancient temples.

935
00:58:10.559 --> 00:58:14.440
And like the ancient temples, they also have their priestesses.

936
00:58:15.440 --> 00:58:18.079
These are the ladies who enter at night with mops

937
00:58:18.159 --> 00:58:21.480
and brooms and vacuum cleaners do clear away the debris

938
00:58:22.119 --> 00:58:27.360
of the day's worship and purify the offices for tomorrow's rituals.

939
00:58:28.559 --> 00:58:32.000
We are concerned now with one of these, a sturdy,

940
00:58:32.119 --> 00:58:37.239
middle aged woman named Mary Margaret Cannon, steady, hard working,

941
00:58:37.679 --> 00:58:42.800
no nonsense. But on this Friday evening, something seems amiss.

942
00:58:43.880 --> 00:58:48.360
Mary Margaret is pale, She's nervous, and every now and

943
00:58:48.480 --> 00:58:52.920
then she stops working and just listens some of there.

944
00:58:54.800 --> 00:59:12.639
H Hell, oh, Terry, Terry, I'm scared, scared you.

945
00:59:14.199 --> 00:59:16.239
Why did you be scared of? I don't know.

946
00:59:17.079 --> 00:59:20.599
He's murders, murders. These women have been getting killed.

947
00:59:21.239 --> 00:59:23.559
I'll come and stay if you want.

948
00:59:23.960 --> 00:59:26.639
Please, I'm so learned and so jumping out. I'm so scared,

949
00:59:26.880 --> 00:59:29.000
all right, I just don't know.

950
00:59:29.079 --> 00:59:36.880
It, Terry. Yes, here's someone coming here. You sure, here's someone, Terry.

951
00:59:37.480 --> 00:59:39.119
I'll hang up and call the police.

952
00:59:40.639 --> 00:59:43.840
No, Tom, it's just a guard.

953
00:59:46.119 --> 00:59:49.000
Yeah. See nor you okay.

954
00:59:49.599 --> 00:59:52.480
Look, you just forget I called and get your wrists.

955
00:59:55.119 --> 00:59:58.639
Oh good evening, Thoma. You're not Tom.

956
00:59:58.960 --> 01:00:01.840
No, I'm the new man, missus Cannon.

957
01:00:02.119 --> 01:00:04.239
Oh what happened to Tom?

958
01:00:04.639 --> 01:00:07.679
He called in earlier today? He said he was sick

959
01:00:08.400 --> 01:00:09.079
and they sent me.

960
01:00:09.159 --> 01:00:10.320
Down to relieve him.

961
01:00:12.760 --> 01:00:15.199
How do you know my name? Oh? Tom told me.

962
01:00:16.000 --> 01:00:18.840
I asked him who's in the building tonight? And he said,

963
01:00:19.679 --> 01:00:24.679
just missus Cannon. But but why but Tom?

964
01:00:25.440 --> 01:00:27.559
Tom doesn't know my last name anymore than I know his.

965
01:00:27.760 --> 01:00:31.320
We're just marrying Tom. How did you know?

966
01:00:32.039 --> 01:00:34.079
Why shouldn't I know your last name?

967
01:00:35.320 --> 01:00:36.119
You know mine?

968
01:00:37.199 --> 01:00:39.559
How how would I know your last name?

969
01:00:39.639 --> 01:00:44.800
Miss Jackson? Remember little Peter Jackson.

970
01:00:45.599 --> 01:00:47.559
I never saw you before in my life.

971
01:00:47.679 --> 01:00:51.519
Oh you did? You did? Yes, you did? What what

972
01:00:51.639 --> 01:00:55.400
do you want? I want to keep my promise? What

973
01:00:55.679 --> 01:00:57.760
promise I promised?

974
01:00:57.960 --> 01:00:58.679
I'd kill you?

975
01:01:00.239 --> 01:01:00.400
Oh?

976
01:01:01.559 --> 01:01:02.519
Why do you want to kill me?

977
01:01:03.519 --> 01:01:07.480
You don't remember? Well, let me refresh your memory. Mary

978
01:01:07.719 --> 01:01:13.199
Margaret Cannon. Twenty three years ago you lived on Baxter Street,

979
01:01:13.280 --> 01:01:18.679
and one morning you walked into a little grocery store. Ah,

980
01:01:19.280 --> 01:01:26.440
now now you remember, you have exactly thirty second mister Lynch.

981
01:01:26.679 --> 01:01:29.199
Please please don't kill me. Please please.

982
01:01:29.239 --> 01:01:30.559
You'll be saying your prayer.

983
01:01:30.639 --> 01:01:31.880
But I told the truth.

984
01:01:32.079 --> 01:01:35.039
If it was the truth, and God will forgive you. Pray,

985
01:01:35.239 --> 01:01:38.280
Mary Margaret Cannon, pray. Listen.

986
01:01:39.119 --> 01:01:41.079
My husband and I would we have a little money

987
01:01:41.119 --> 01:01:42.119
put asidem.

988
01:01:41.960 --> 01:01:43.559
I know exactly how you got.

989
01:01:43.800 --> 01:01:45.320
You can have it, all of it only.

990
01:01:45.440 --> 01:01:46.039
Don't pray.

991
01:01:46.559 --> 01:01:49.519
Pray Mary Margaret Jackson.

992
01:01:49.760 --> 01:01:52.079
Pega Jackson, maybe thirty years.

993
01:01:51.960 --> 01:01:54.480
Old, Charlson, God, don't shout.

994
01:01:54.719 --> 01:01:55.719
No one can hear you.

995
01:01:56.480 --> 01:01:56.960
Don't hear me.

996
01:01:57.400 --> 01:01:59.960
You'll arrest you and hang you. His name is John

997
01:02:00.719 --> 01:02:06.199
jack That beda jump. Don't change your feeta.

998
01:02:05.960 --> 01:02:06.559
Don't judge you.

999
01:02:10.760 --> 01:02:19.199
Number four, missus Mary Margaret Cannon. Number five coming up,

1000
01:02:20.800 --> 01:02:40.159
Miss Alice Maitland, Captain Lake, Yes, commissioner, commissioner, I understand.

1001
01:02:42.039 --> 01:02:44.360
Listen if you think somebody else can run it better

1002
01:02:44.440 --> 01:02:51.159
than get somebody else, why a Greece her? I yes, sir,

1003
01:02:51.400 --> 01:02:53.599
No need for any of us to blow his stack.

1004
01:02:53.960 --> 01:02:59.800
Absolutely say yes, I'll keep you informed. Wow, you gotta

1005
01:02:59.840 --> 01:03:00.519
pretty good one.

1006
01:03:00.599 --> 01:03:00.719
Here?

1007
01:03:02.199 --> 01:03:05.079
Is this your first mad killer assignment? Loom? Yeah, I

1008
01:03:05.119 --> 01:03:09.960
guess so. Captain, mad killers, mad bombers, mad stranglers, you

1009
01:03:10.119 --> 01:03:12.920
name it, You get whatever, ten fifteen years you can

1010
01:03:13.000 --> 01:03:16.880
count on it. You get a rash of absolutely senseless killings.

1011
01:03:16.960 --> 01:03:19.519
No motive, no rhyme, no reason. Should we talk to

1012
01:03:19.559 --> 01:03:22.960
her husband again? What four? All he's gonna tell us

1013
01:03:23.039 --> 01:03:24.639
is what a great lady she was, and how they

1014
01:03:24.920 --> 01:03:27.719
neither of them ever had any enemies. Captain Blake. Suppose

1015
01:03:28.440 --> 01:03:31.519
it's just suppose it isn't a mad killing. Four murders

1016
01:03:31.599 --> 01:03:35.519
in eleven days. Number one Missus Matt had dents in

1017
01:03:35.599 --> 01:03:38.840
the shot while parking at car late at night. Number two,

1018
01:03:39.000 --> 01:03:43.159
Missus Janet Drew shot in her backyard. Number three, Missus

1019
01:03:43.280 --> 01:03:48.119
Louise Goodman shot in her apartment. Number four, This cleaning

1020
01:03:48.199 --> 01:03:51.239
lady shot while at work. What could there be a connection?

1021
01:03:51.360 --> 01:03:55.239
Do they have something in common? There's no pattern. None

1022
01:03:55.280 --> 01:03:56.639
of them knew each other as far as we can

1023
01:03:56.719 --> 01:03:59.199
make out, or even had anything in common that we

1024
01:03:59.320 --> 01:04:03.960
know of. It's the toughest situation in our business. A

1025
01:04:04.119 --> 01:04:07.880
mad killer, Okay, he's a mad killer. Every killer is mad.

1026
01:04:08.000 --> 01:04:10.639
But does this one have a method to his madness? Yeah?

1027
01:04:11.320 --> 01:04:14.320
He uses a thirty eight caliber revolver and shoots woman.

1028
01:04:14.559 --> 01:04:17.800
The last one, missus Cannon. That's the problem. What kind

1029
01:04:17.840 --> 01:04:20.559
of problem? Well, he's a mad killer, you say.

1030
01:04:20.639 --> 01:04:20.679
So.

1031
01:04:20.840 --> 01:04:23.119
He wanders around and if he gets a chance, he'll kill.

1032
01:04:24.039 --> 01:04:26.199
He sees a woman alone in a parking lot twelve

1033
01:04:26.280 --> 01:04:30.480
thirty w he sees Missus Drew in the backyard, he

1034
01:04:30.519 --> 01:04:33.559
shoots her. He sees missus Goodman alone in her apartment,

1035
01:04:34.199 --> 01:04:37.159
he shoots it. Okay, how do you count to missus Cannon.

1036
01:04:37.599 --> 01:04:40.320
You're dealing with a madman. Lo, you can't account for

1037
01:04:40.400 --> 01:04:41.199
anything he does.

1038
01:04:41.280 --> 01:04:41.599
All right.

1039
01:04:41.679 --> 01:04:45.400
Three women are targets of opportunity. They happened along or

1040
01:04:45.639 --> 01:04:48.320
he happened along, and that was it. But he went

1041
01:04:48.360 --> 01:04:51.440
out of his way to kill Missus Cannon. Look, he

1042
01:04:51.519 --> 01:04:53.880
had the slug the night Watchman. He had to take

1043
01:04:53.920 --> 01:04:56.760
the elevator of twelve stories to find her. It means

1044
01:04:56.800 --> 01:05:02.119
he wasn't just about to kill any woman. That woman, Why,

1045
01:05:03.039 --> 01:05:06.360
that's good thinking low And if this were almost any

1046
01:05:06.400 --> 01:05:08.599
other kind of cake? Blake?

1047
01:05:10.320 --> 01:05:10.360
What?

1048
01:05:12.119 --> 01:05:12.280
Oh?

1049
01:05:12.519 --> 01:05:12.559
No?

1050
01:05:13.199 --> 01:05:19.000
Not another one? Okay, okay, I send her in. Did

1051
01:05:19.079 --> 01:05:21.800
they tell you about nuts while you were getting your

1052
01:05:21.840 --> 01:05:25.079
college degree? This one coming in sounds like a fourteen

1053
01:05:25.239 --> 01:05:26.079
carrot nut to me.

1054
01:05:27.840 --> 01:05:28.440
Captain Blake.

1055
01:05:29.039 --> 01:05:32.239
Yes, I'm Captain Blake. This detective party, how do you do?

1056
01:05:33.039 --> 01:05:37.000
I'm miss Maitland, Alice Maitland's I own a bookshop on

1057
01:05:37.159 --> 01:05:37.840
Third Street.

1058
01:05:37.920 --> 01:05:40.320
And well it's about the murders.

1059
01:05:41.360 --> 01:05:44.639
Do you know anything about the murders? Miss Maitland's right,

1060
01:05:45.320 --> 01:05:48.079
I know who's going to be killed, next you do?

1061
01:05:48.960 --> 01:05:56.039
Who me? Uh? Why do you say that I have

1062
01:05:56.159 --> 01:05:57.920
a premonition? I see.

1063
01:05:58.480 --> 01:06:01.440
I know what you gentlemen be thinking. You're convinced I'm

1064
01:06:01.440 --> 01:06:03.559
a hysterical woman or a crank.

1065
01:06:03.840 --> 01:06:06.800
No, but I've miss Maidland. Do you have any enemies?

1066
01:06:07.599 --> 01:06:08.639
I don't know of any.

1067
01:06:09.159 --> 01:06:11.880
Wow, we know there's a homicidal maniac loci. It's true.

1068
01:06:11.880 --> 01:06:13.039
He may strike at anyone.

1069
01:06:13.679 --> 01:06:17.199
That's not why I'm here. I know he's going to

1070
01:06:17.239 --> 01:06:17.880
strike at me.

1071
01:06:18.719 --> 01:06:20.760
Well, what reason would anyone have for killing you?

1072
01:06:21.679 --> 01:06:23.960
What reason was there for killing those other women?

1073
01:06:24.119 --> 01:06:27.280
Hey, you say your shop is on Third Street. I'll

1074
01:06:27.360 --> 01:06:29.679
see that. The officer on the beach keeps an eye.

1075
01:06:29.559 --> 01:06:30.039
On the place.

1076
01:06:30.960 --> 01:06:34.840
Yes, I just thought I should tell you. That's all

1077
01:06:34.880 --> 01:06:40.559
anyone can do. I suppose. Goodbye, goodbye mis Maidan.

1078
01:06:43.320 --> 01:06:46.599
Now, Lou, you have just conversed with an authentic member

1079
01:06:46.679 --> 01:06:49.400
of the Nutclub. I don't know about that, Captain. She

1080
01:06:49.519 --> 01:06:52.159
is a charter member. She belongs to the eye on

1081
01:06:52.280 --> 01:06:55.159
the next Victim chapter. I still say she's not a

1082
01:06:55.280 --> 01:06:58.480
nuts Maybe not. Maybe she's just some poor little dame

1083
01:06:58.599 --> 01:07:01.360
half scared out of her wits. Oh she was calm,

1084
01:07:01.599 --> 01:07:04.280
She was very calm. It's a matter of fact. It's

1085
01:07:04.280 --> 01:07:14.599
as if she knows what she's talking about. Oh, may

1086
01:07:14.639 --> 01:07:18.920
I help you? Oh? Hell remember me?

1087
01:07:19.360 --> 01:07:21.880
Yes, you're one of the detectives I spoke with.

1088
01:07:22.000 --> 01:07:25.679
Yeah, Lou Parker, tell me why you came to police

1089
01:07:25.679 --> 01:07:29.360
headquarters with a story that well, rationally, it doesn't make sense.

1090
01:07:29.440 --> 01:07:32.119
You said as much yourself. You felt that you had

1091
01:07:32.199 --> 01:07:36.400
made yourself seem somewhat ridiculous. But now I'll forget all that.

1092
01:07:37.199 --> 01:07:37.960
I'm willing to.

1093
01:07:38.000 --> 01:07:40.119
Assume that your story is true, that you really are

1094
01:07:40.280 --> 01:07:41.000
next on the list.

1095
01:07:42.039 --> 01:07:43.119
Then you do believe me.

1096
01:07:43.320 --> 01:07:45.480
I'm willing to accept what you say, but you have

1097
01:07:45.599 --> 01:07:48.440
to help me. Does anyone have a motive for wanting

1098
01:07:48.480 --> 01:07:52.039
to kill you? No? You never did or said anything

1099
01:07:52.079 --> 01:07:56.760
that may have hurt someone. I can't remember a disappointed boyfriend.

1100
01:07:58.760 --> 01:08:02.719
I never really disappointed anyone that way. And yet you

1101
01:08:03.000 --> 01:08:07.280
insist someone wants to kill you. I know it sounds

1102
01:08:07.360 --> 01:08:09.800
ridiculous as a reason for feeling the way you do.

1103
01:08:10.760 --> 01:08:12.360
Only we could uncover that reason.

1104
01:08:13.039 --> 01:08:26.199
Excuse me, that's my phone? Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello.

1105
01:08:29.359 --> 01:08:34.359
Chris Maitland. Yes, what is it? You seem not a pale? Oh?

1106
01:08:35.079 --> 01:08:37.520
What happened when I picked up the phone. There was

1107
01:08:37.800 --> 01:08:40.640
just a click on the other end, as if someone

1108
01:08:40.680 --> 01:08:41.439
had just hung up.

1109
01:08:42.359 --> 01:08:43.840
Well, why should that seem to upset you?

1110
01:08:45.000 --> 01:08:46.279
Well, because it's happened before.

1111
01:08:47.000 --> 01:08:51.279
It has, yes, frequently, I mean often enough so that

1112
01:08:51.359 --> 01:08:53.000
it really isn't just an accident.

1113
01:08:53.880 --> 01:08:56.720
Three, four, perhaps five times a day.

1114
01:08:57.159 --> 01:08:58.199
I wonder that it starts.

1115
01:08:58.920 --> 01:09:00.960
I'd say about two weeks ago.

1116
01:09:02.199 --> 01:09:06.239
I remember it happened three times the night the first

1117
01:09:06.279 --> 01:09:07.479
of those women was murdered.

1118
01:09:07.720 --> 01:09:10.680
So why didn't you tell us this before? I didn't

1119
01:09:10.680 --> 01:09:11.920
think it was anything important?

1120
01:09:12.359 --> 01:09:13.279
May I use your phone?

1121
01:09:13.720 --> 01:09:14.800
It's back there in the office.

1122
01:09:14.840 --> 01:09:16.119
Okay, how will I be a moment?

1123
01:09:21.000 --> 01:09:21.640
May I help you?

1124
01:09:22.560 --> 01:09:28.039
Yes? Is your name Alice Maitland's Yes?

1125
01:09:29.079 --> 01:09:30.119
Can I do anything for you?

1126
01:09:31.279 --> 01:09:31.479
Well?

1127
01:09:32.560 --> 01:09:36.039
You see, I came here because I have to keep

1128
01:09:36.319 --> 01:09:45.920
a certain promise I made. Say what you will about

1129
01:09:46.000 --> 01:09:50.039
this young man. He has at least one redeeming feature.

1130
01:09:51.039 --> 01:09:53.680
His word seems to be as good as his bond.

1131
01:09:55.039 --> 01:09:58.720
But will he be able to keep this particular promise?

1132
01:10:00.199 --> 01:10:04.079
This problem will be our primary concern when we returned

1133
01:10:04.119 --> 01:10:17.760
shortly with that too. At one time, a young man

1134
01:10:17.920 --> 01:10:22.079
named Peter Jackson has made the same promise to several

1135
01:10:22.159 --> 01:10:27.000
women a promise that he would kill them. So far,

1136
01:10:27.159 --> 01:10:31.279
he has kept his promise four times. Now he is

1137
01:10:31.319 --> 01:10:35.159
in a bookshop owned by a Miss Maitland, apparently ready

1138
01:10:35.239 --> 01:10:37.520
to fulfill promise number five.

1139
01:10:38.079 --> 01:10:41.359
I came here because I have to keep a certain

1140
01:10:41.600 --> 01:10:47.039
promise I made. You made a promise, Oh yes, and

1141
01:10:47.319 --> 01:10:49.319
I came here to keep my word.

1142
01:10:49.279 --> 01:10:52.000
Miss Maitland, I think. Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know

1143
01:10:52.039 --> 01:10:52.800
you had a customer.

1144
01:10:54.880 --> 01:10:56.800
What sort of promise are you talking about?

1145
01:10:58.439 --> 01:11:02.520
Or I had promised a special person I would buy

1146
01:11:02.600 --> 01:11:04.680
her a book, And I came in here to.

1147
01:11:05.119 --> 01:11:07.159
Any particular type of book.

1148
01:11:07.560 --> 01:11:11.640
Well, yeah, yes, and a good murder mystery.

1149
01:11:11.920 --> 01:11:14.800
Oh well, we have the latest Jonathan Merriwether.

1150
01:11:14.920 --> 01:11:20.000
No, no, I don't think him. Nothing happens. You got

1151
01:11:20.039 --> 01:11:24.760
anything by Mike Stillson. Now there's a guy who really

1152
01:11:24.840 --> 01:11:28.159
writes murders. I mean he kills somebody every other page.

1153
01:11:28.560 --> 01:11:32.239
We're sold out on the latest. It's called Blood on

1154
01:11:32.359 --> 01:11:32.800
the Street.

1155
01:11:33.159 --> 01:11:35.399
Yeah, that's that's the one in which this guy kills

1156
01:11:35.439 --> 01:11:37.720
all those names. Look, if you're interested in that kind

1157
01:11:37.720 --> 01:11:38.920
of stuff, for what you have to do is read

1158
01:11:38.920 --> 01:11:41.720
the newspapers. Do I tell you what to read? Buddy?

1159
01:11:43.319 --> 01:11:43.680
Sorry?

1160
01:11:44.640 --> 01:11:47.600
I could order the book and have a day after tomorrow.

1161
01:11:48.159 --> 01:11:49.720
No, that'll be too late.

1162
01:11:50.439 --> 01:11:52.000
Well try us again.

1163
01:11:53.199 --> 01:12:01.319
Sure, Well that's a guy with gruesome tastes.

1164
01:12:01.880 --> 01:12:03.760
Well takes all guns.

1165
01:12:04.640 --> 01:12:04.760
You know.

1166
01:12:04.840 --> 01:12:07.039
I was a great Mike Stilson fan, and he thinks

1167
01:12:07.119 --> 01:12:13.560
nobody knows it. O, my boss, Captain Blake, you're kidding. Hey,

1168
01:12:13.840 --> 01:12:16.319
this is the very first time I've ever seen you smile.

1169
01:12:16.880 --> 01:12:20.000
Oh, I smile a lot. It's just recently.

1170
01:12:20.600 --> 01:12:24.960
I told Captain Blake about the calls, and well, you

1171
01:12:25.079 --> 01:12:27.720
never know. We just grunted and said, I'll stay with him.

1172
01:12:29.880 --> 01:12:30.920
What time do you close?

1173
01:12:31.399 --> 01:12:31.960
Just about now?

1174
01:12:32.880 --> 01:12:33.479
I'll take y'all.

1175
01:12:34.439 --> 01:12:36.680
I live in this building two flights up.

1176
01:12:37.640 --> 01:12:39.840
Well, how about some dinner. Oh you don't have to

1177
01:12:40.159 --> 01:12:41.600
You asked for police protection?

1178
01:12:42.039 --> 01:12:47.600
Is that the reason line of duty? Well, yes and no,

1179
01:12:48.439 --> 01:12:51.239
I'd like to except that. Well, at the end of

1180
01:12:51.319 --> 01:12:53.039
the month, and I've swamped with paperwork.

1181
01:12:54.399 --> 01:12:56.560
Well, this neighborhood seems safe enough.

1182
01:12:56.800 --> 01:12:59.680
It's busy, and that diner across the street stays open

1183
01:12:59.720 --> 01:13:00.000
all line.

1184
01:13:00.880 --> 01:13:03.119
Look, keep this card handy at all times. It's got

1185
01:13:03.159 --> 01:13:06.000
a special phone number. I use it anytime you're disturbed

1186
01:13:06.039 --> 01:13:08.560
by anything at all, No matter house light or trivial.

1187
01:13:09.000 --> 01:13:18.960
Don't feel embarrassed. Just get on the phone. I've already

1188
01:13:19.119 --> 01:13:22.000
told you of ZERD. I know, mister Kennon, but I

1189
01:13:22.560 --> 01:13:25.760
just have one more question. It's very important. I could

1190
01:13:25.840 --> 01:13:27.880
be important here.

1191
01:13:27.960 --> 01:13:28.479
He's dead.

1192
01:13:29.239 --> 01:13:32.920
You said that missus Cannon had no enemies. I take

1193
01:13:33.000 --> 01:13:36.920
that back. She had a great many enemies. But when

1194
01:13:36.960 --> 01:13:39.079
we asked you last night, you said she had none.

1195
01:13:39.319 --> 01:13:39.520
Yeah.

1196
01:13:39.760 --> 01:13:44.039
Sometimes you think about a question, see it in a

1197
01:13:44.119 --> 01:13:46.840
whole new life? Can you name some of these enemies?

1198
01:13:47.199 --> 01:13:50.439
She was good, she was on I'm sure she was.

1199
01:13:50.520 --> 01:13:53.000
But just tell me this. During the past ten days

1200
01:13:53.079 --> 01:13:55.039
or so, would the phone ring and then go dead

1201
01:13:55.079 --> 01:13:57.640
as soon as you picked it up? Yeah? That you

1202
01:13:57.760 --> 01:13:59.039
mentioned it there.

1203
01:13:59.079 --> 01:14:03.520
It happened at least two or three, maybe four times

1204
01:14:03.560 --> 01:14:09.479
a day. And I see, is the name Alice Maitland familiar?

1205
01:14:10.880 --> 01:14:17.000
Alice Maitland. Think Alice Maitlan. You know there is something

1206
01:14:17.119 --> 01:14:21.479
familiar about it? Yeah, Alice Maitlan. Think of the type

1207
01:14:21.520 --> 01:14:24.039
person with whom you could associate that name. Now, would

1208
01:14:24.119 --> 01:14:29.399
she be a movie star, a librarian, a teacher, a

1209
01:14:30.720 --> 01:14:35.520
woman who might own a bookstore. No, No, none of those.

1210
01:14:36.359 --> 01:14:39.960
I think of a little girl, a little girl named

1211
01:14:40.119 --> 01:14:44.760
Alice Maitland. Did she live in the neighborhood? You know,

1212
01:14:45.039 --> 01:14:50.000
he's past couple of years. My memory it just comes

1213
01:14:50.079 --> 01:14:54.159
and goes. Right now it's gone. Well, if ever you

1214
01:14:54.279 --> 01:14:57.159
remember why and how you know Alice Maitland, call the

1215
01:14:57.239 --> 01:15:04.760
number on his card. I'll have another cup of coffee. Please?

1216
01:15:05.279 --> 01:15:06.439
Are you waiting for somebody?

1217
01:15:06.520 --> 01:15:06.720
Mister?

1218
01:15:07.439 --> 01:15:08.840
Well, not exactly why, he asked.

1219
01:15:09.439 --> 01:15:12.039
Oh, you've been sitting around for hours, drinking and stuff.

1220
01:15:12.680 --> 01:15:14.119
The coffee and this joint that good?

1221
01:15:15.199 --> 01:15:18.479
I love TELP You frightened? Oh who's frightened? Well you

1222
01:15:18.600 --> 01:15:20.680
are so just look at this.

1223
01:15:21.960 --> 01:15:26.439
Oh you're a coffeh I was beginning to think you

1224
01:15:26.520 --> 01:15:28.199
could be that mad killer.

1225
01:15:28.720 --> 01:15:32.359
Well, it could be just about anybody. I hope I

1226
01:15:32.399 --> 01:15:35.119
didn't scare you too badly. The truth is I wasn't

1227
01:15:35.159 --> 01:15:39.000
that much scared for myself. No, but you've just been

1228
01:15:39.039 --> 01:15:41.600
staring at that building across the street. I forgot the

1229
01:15:41.680 --> 01:15:46.000
idea you were watching for something, are you well? Maybe

1230
01:15:48.359 --> 01:15:50.720
could I have changed for the telephone?

1231
01:15:50.760 --> 01:15:53.920
Please? Thank you?

1232
01:15:59.239 --> 01:15:59.359
Now?

1233
01:15:59.560 --> 01:16:01.239
Where have I seen him before?

1234
01:16:01.960 --> 01:16:02.560
What did you say?

1235
01:16:03.760 --> 01:16:03.880
Uh?

1236
01:16:04.600 --> 01:16:06.479
Nothing, I was just talking to myself.

1237
01:16:07.199 --> 01:16:09.279
You do that a lot, don't you do?

1238
01:16:09.359 --> 01:16:10.960
What talk to yourself.

1239
01:16:12.520 --> 01:16:16.359
Wow, that was a short call. She wasn't home. It's

1240
01:16:16.399 --> 01:16:22.439
too bad. Did you find the book? What book? The

1241
01:16:22.520 --> 01:16:29.720
one by Mike Stillson? Oh? No, well keep looking.

1242
01:16:33.960 --> 01:16:36.520
You know the best way to stop talking to yourself. No,

1243
01:16:37.640 --> 01:16:38.199
get married.

1244
01:16:39.199 --> 01:16:43.000
The light went on in her room. He went to

1245
01:16:43.079 --> 01:16:45.960
the booth. He only had time to dial and the

1246
01:16:46.079 --> 01:16:49.279
light went on and Alice said, who Who's Alice? It

1247
01:16:49.560 --> 01:17:09.640
could be a coincidence. Twite a minute, Hello, Alice, It's

1248
01:17:09.680 --> 01:17:10.880
Lou Parker. Did I wake you?

1249
01:17:11.720 --> 01:17:13.239
No, I'm up.

1250
01:17:13.640 --> 01:17:15.319
Did you have a phone ring just a minute ago?

1251
01:17:16.199 --> 01:17:17.840
Did it ring? Oh?

1252
01:17:17.880 --> 01:17:18.279
I don't know.

1253
01:17:18.640 --> 01:17:20.600
What do you mean. I don't know why.

1254
01:17:20.800 --> 01:17:24.439
I've fallen asleep and I must have been having a

1255
01:17:24.479 --> 01:17:27.680
bad dream. I think I heard the phone, but it

1256
01:17:28.000 --> 01:17:28.920
could have been in the dream.

1257
01:17:30.399 --> 01:17:30.840
Anyhow.

1258
01:17:30.880 --> 01:17:33.880
I did wake up suddenly and I turned on the light,

1259
01:17:34.000 --> 01:17:36.439
but I didn't hear the phone ringing anymore.

1260
01:17:36.520 --> 01:17:38.640
Could have been the ringing of the phone that woke you.

1261
01:17:39.840 --> 01:17:40.279
I don't know.

1262
01:17:41.640 --> 01:17:43.479
Did I hear it ring or did I dream it

1263
01:17:43.640 --> 01:17:46.319
was ringing? Why do you ask?

1264
01:17:47.079 --> 01:17:52.760
I'm just checking. Anyhow. I'm glad you're okay. I'll I'll

1265
01:17:52.800 --> 01:17:59.039
see you tomorrow. Good night, that was a short phone

1266
01:17:59.079 --> 01:18:02.039
call too. Yeah, how is she?

1267
01:18:03.119 --> 01:18:03.279
Who?

1268
01:18:04.199 --> 01:18:04.239
You?

1269
01:18:04.439 --> 01:18:04.720
Girl?

1270
01:18:05.199 --> 01:18:06.520
How do you know I call my girl?

1271
01:18:07.239 --> 01:18:08.640
I told you I read character.

1272
01:18:09.479 --> 01:18:12.399
Do you also read the future like an open book?

1273
01:18:13.359 --> 01:18:13.520
Well?

1274
01:18:13.600 --> 01:18:23.079
I sure hope so, captain, we got ourselves the killer.

1275
01:18:23.319 --> 01:18:25.119
Oh how can you be sure of your guy? I

1276
01:18:25.199 --> 01:18:27.920
saw him in the bookshop? Does that make him a suspect?

1277
01:18:28.039 --> 01:18:30.119
Maybe he likes to read? Then again, in the diner,

1278
01:18:30.520 --> 01:18:32.640
he may have been hungry. He didn't eat, He just

1279
01:18:32.720 --> 01:18:34.800
went into the phone books. He didn't even make a call.

1280
01:18:35.399 --> 01:18:36.920
He was in there just long enough to let the

1281
01:18:37.000 --> 01:18:40.359
number ring, and then he was out. So the light

1282
01:18:40.439 --> 01:18:44.960
went on. Analysis. Yeah, miss Maitland's apartment. You mean he

1283
01:18:45.199 --> 01:18:46.520
called her and hung up?

1284
01:18:47.439 --> 01:18:47.640
Well?

1285
01:18:48.479 --> 01:18:48.800
Well what.

1286
01:18:50.319 --> 01:18:53.159
She isn't sure? How can she not be sure the

1287
01:18:53.279 --> 01:18:55.760
phone rang or it didn't. It isn't that simple. You see,

1288
01:18:55.800 --> 01:18:58.399
she was asleep and she can't be sure if it

1289
01:18:58.479 --> 01:18:59.960
was the ringing of the phone that woke her up,

1290
01:19:00.279 --> 01:19:01.920
or if the ringing of the phone was part of

1291
01:19:01.960 --> 01:19:05.119
her dream. Good luck well, Captain Blake. There's something about

1292
01:19:05.159 --> 01:19:10.399
this guy. He's young, about thirty ish, thin, blonde, very hardline.

1293
01:19:10.439 --> 01:19:13.319
That was not low. I think you better report it

1294
01:19:13.399 --> 01:19:17.560
for general duty. This case is getting to you well, captain, Please,

1295
01:19:17.680 --> 01:19:20.359
no reflection. It's even to your credit. It shows you

1296
01:19:20.600 --> 01:19:24.439
care about people. Captain, let me have one more day, eh,

1297
01:19:25.399 --> 01:19:28.159
all right? Love twenty four hours.

1298
01:19:34.359 --> 01:19:37.600
I'm sorry I'd cost you so much embarrassment. Loom, I'm

1299
01:19:37.680 --> 01:19:40.800
all right. Captain Blake is unhappy.

1300
01:19:41.319 --> 01:19:42.000
He'll get over it.

1301
01:19:42.560 --> 01:19:43.520
He thinks I'm crazy.

1302
01:19:44.159 --> 01:19:45.640
Well, he thinks most people are crazy.

1303
01:19:46.760 --> 01:19:48.680
No, you can't keep guarding me forever.

1304
01:19:49.159 --> 01:19:51.439
He has to strike at you soon. That's the pattern.

1305
01:19:51.479 --> 01:19:55.239
He's done four murders in twelve days. That's won every

1306
01:19:55.359 --> 01:19:58.000
three days. This is the night of the fifteenth day.

1307
01:19:58.079 --> 01:20:03.560
He's due unless yes, unless what? Unless I have scared

1308
01:20:03.600 --> 01:20:06.159
him off for a while. No, I'll keep away from

1309
01:20:06.199 --> 01:20:09.800
your window. Why well, if he's around, we'll be tipped off.

1310
01:20:11.479 --> 01:20:14.880
But could I have scared him away? After all? How

1311
01:20:14.960 --> 01:20:17.920
we know him a cop? You never saw him before?

1312
01:20:18.319 --> 01:20:18.520
Never.

1313
01:20:20.319 --> 01:20:22.399
We have to assume he's our killer. And what is

1314
01:20:22.439 --> 01:20:24.319
the only thing we know about him besides his general

1315
01:20:24.399 --> 01:20:27.600
physical description? We know he wanted a book by Mike

1316
01:20:27.680 --> 01:20:30.199
Stillson's Blood on the Streets, but he could have made

1317
01:20:30.239 --> 01:20:32.159
that up on the spur of the moment. Nah, people

1318
01:20:32.319 --> 01:20:34.079
rarely make things up in the spur of the moment.

1319
01:20:34.159 --> 01:20:36.840
He knows what he's doing. He's had to frighten you.

1320
01:20:37.479 --> 01:20:41.119
The phone calls were a part of it. That book,

1321
01:20:42.359 --> 01:20:44.760
there's something in it that would cause you to be frightened.

1322
01:20:44.960 --> 01:20:47.640
But what I don't know. I've never read it.

1323
01:20:47.920 --> 01:20:50.199
Well, he figures you did. After all, you're on a bookstore.

1324
01:20:50.600 --> 01:20:53.199
I have to sell books by Mike Stilson, but no

1325
01:20:53.279 --> 01:20:54.640
one can force me to read.

1326
01:20:54.439 --> 01:21:11.239
Them the clues in that book. Wait a minute, well,

1327
01:21:12.239 --> 01:21:16.079
Captain Blake, it's Lou Parker. You know it's two in

1328
01:21:16.159 --> 01:21:18.680
the morning. Yes, sir, but I'm calling the line of duty.

1329
01:21:19.439 --> 01:21:23.920
You live dangerously low. What is it, Captain? You've read

1330
01:21:23.920 --> 01:21:27.359
all the books by Mike Stilson. Why don't deny it, sir,

1331
01:21:27.399 --> 01:21:29.520
it's a known fact to what the department? You mean

1332
01:21:29.600 --> 01:21:31.520
you woke me up at two in the morning. Just

1333
01:21:32.079 --> 01:21:32.960
line of duty? Sir.

1334
01:21:34.079 --> 01:21:36.800
If I read those books, it's only because I get

1335
01:21:36.840 --> 01:21:40.159
a good laugh at how unrealistic they are.

1336
01:21:40.600 --> 01:21:44.600
Captain, what's the story of Blood on the Streets? Loa?

1337
01:21:45.600 --> 01:21:48.600
I hope your patrolman's uniform still fits.

1338
01:21:49.039 --> 01:21:51.039
I'll be able to prove this is the line of duty.

1339
01:21:51.800 --> 01:21:53.119
I was pick up in your extension.

1340
01:21:53.319 --> 01:21:57.079
Well, in a nutshell, A bunch of spoiled, rotten rich

1341
01:21:57.239 --> 01:21:59.880
kids are kind of high and joy riding in the

1342
01:22:00.159 --> 01:22:03.479
sports car, and they run down and kills harmless old

1343
01:22:03.560 --> 01:22:06.760
gent harmless old jin has a son.

1344
01:22:07.600 --> 01:22:10.880
The sun comes back from me at nan. He swears

1345
01:22:10.960 --> 01:22:14.000
you'll have revenge, so he shoots the joy riders one

1346
01:22:14.079 --> 01:22:16.000
by one. That's it.

1347
01:22:16.800 --> 01:22:20.159
That's it, and it better be a line of duty.

1348
01:22:22.800 --> 01:22:27.279
Well, Alice, No, I was never involved in anything like that.

1349
01:22:27.800 --> 01:22:29.680
Just to remind you of something that might be similar.

1350
01:22:29.840 --> 01:22:31.560
No, but it has to think.

1351
01:22:33.000 --> 01:22:36.680
I hope you don't mind to financy your phone. Yellow. Yes,

1352
01:22:37.199 --> 01:22:39.159
she's here, you know, Blondy.

1353
01:22:39.840 --> 01:22:41.920
He's sitting at the ground. He's having a ham sandwich

1354
01:22:41.960 --> 01:22:42.680
and a glass of Milton.

1355
01:22:42.840 --> 01:22:43.119
Thanks.

1356
01:22:43.680 --> 01:22:45.399
If you can't see me, but I can see him.

1357
01:22:45.800 --> 01:22:47.319
Oh, he's head for the phone.

1358
01:22:47.319 --> 01:22:50.600
Both, no good work. We better hang up. What is it,

1359
01:22:50.720 --> 01:22:54.039
lou Well? Right now, right here, and now we're gonna

1360
01:22:54.079 --> 01:23:12.680
find out if that telephone should ring whatever his face,

1361
01:23:13.279 --> 01:23:16.960
and we have already witnessed a rather grievous one at least.

1362
01:23:17.079 --> 01:23:20.600
Young Peter Jackson is something of a sportsman in his

1363
01:23:20.760 --> 01:23:25.600
own way. He warns his intended victims. He even tries

1364
01:23:25.720 --> 01:23:30.319
to give them clues. This time, has he given one

1365
01:23:30.520 --> 01:23:44.840
too many? We'll be back shortly with Act three. What

1366
01:23:45.079 --> 01:23:50.840
would our civilization be without the telephone? Imagine your life

1367
01:23:50.960 --> 01:23:55.600
without it? And the way the telephone works, it requires

1368
01:23:55.760 --> 01:24:00.359
two people to complete a call. However, some of the

1369
01:24:00.479 --> 01:24:04.279
most eloquent conversations can be carried on when there's no

1370
01:24:04.439 --> 01:24:10.279
one at the other end. As you shall hear answer

1371
01:24:10.359 --> 01:24:11.880
And I was answerer.

1372
01:24:13.439 --> 01:24:17.439
Hello, he hung up.

1373
01:24:18.319 --> 01:24:19.159
Now I've got him.

1374
01:24:19.840 --> 01:24:20.600
Where are you going?

1375
01:24:20.960 --> 01:24:21.520
You stay here?

1376
01:24:30.399 --> 01:24:31.119
Hi, detective?

1377
01:24:31.239 --> 01:24:33.079
Where is he blonded? Well?

1378
01:24:33.119 --> 01:24:34.880
I told you you went into the phone booth. He

1379
01:24:34.960 --> 01:24:36.800
didn't stand anymore in a couple of seconds, and then.

1380
01:24:36.720 --> 01:24:38.279
He ran out of here. Did you see which way

1381
01:24:38.279 --> 01:24:38.520
he went?

1382
01:24:38.640 --> 01:24:39.680
He didn't even pay his check.

1383
01:24:39.760 --> 01:24:40.520
Which way did he go?

1384
01:24:41.079 --> 01:24:43.000
You got nothing to worry about. You'll get him?

1385
01:24:43.039 --> 01:24:43.680
What are you saying?

1386
01:24:43.920 --> 01:24:46.680
He ran into a cab that's usually parked outside.

1387
01:24:46.279 --> 01:24:47.359
All right? Could you describe?

1388
01:24:47.399 --> 01:24:48.640
I don't have to describ.

1389
01:24:48.800 --> 01:24:50.119
I know all I wanted.

1390
01:24:50.239 --> 01:24:52.319
I know the cab drive him. He's a gold teacher

1391
01:24:52.359 --> 01:24:55.199
for Days and the Moonlights. His name is Vick Wilson.

1392
01:24:55.359 --> 01:24:56.159
Does he have a radio.

1393
01:24:56.359 --> 01:24:58.079
We all have radios. How could he make a living?

1394
01:24:58.199 --> 01:25:00.000
What's the company with a great witness?

1395
01:25:00.039 --> 01:25:02.720
If I make Jefferson, do you even get the number

1396
01:25:02.720 --> 01:25:06.359
on the card in the phone book? Blondie's in for it?

1397
01:25:06.479 --> 01:25:21.560
Huh, Jefferson Cabs, This is a police call. You have

1398
01:25:21.640 --> 01:25:24.279
a driver, Vic Wilson. He's in a job right now.

1399
01:25:24.640 --> 01:25:26.880
Diminity checks in, having report back to the diner at

1400
01:25:26.920 --> 01:25:36.439
Third Street to Detective Parker to take it Parker, Yeah,

1401
01:25:37.640 --> 01:25:38.800
how do I know? It's my badge?

1402
01:25:39.840 --> 01:25:40.079
Get in?

1403
01:25:41.359 --> 01:25:44.600
Can't be too careful that maniac running around loose? Where'd

1404
01:25:44.600 --> 01:25:47.760
you take your last fare? Seven ninety cris?

1405
01:25:48.319 --> 01:25:48.720
What is it?

1406
01:25:49.600 --> 01:25:54.760
Apartment builder? How big? Sixth? Family? Are said? Attached? Oh

1407
01:25:54.920 --> 01:25:57.800
so myself. There's an empty long and he decided to

1408
01:25:57.840 --> 01:26:01.640
renovating the neighborhoods. It's about time he lives down. Yeah,

1409
01:26:01.720 --> 01:26:03.279
we take him there for the last couple of days.

1410
01:26:04.039 --> 01:26:05.159
He comes out of the time and he.

1411
01:26:05.199 --> 01:26:07.359
Gets into the campus where we go. That's good enough.

1412
01:26:08.319 --> 01:26:09.119
Is he a bad born?

1413
01:26:09.760 --> 01:26:09.880
Right?

1414
01:26:09.920 --> 01:26:17.079
You wouldn't give my star for good conduct? Teacher? Throw

1415
01:26:17.159 --> 01:26:19.520
on the search flight Sagary and have me that bullheorn.

1416
01:26:21.680 --> 01:26:24.720
We know who you are, and we know you're in there.

1417
01:26:26.000 --> 01:26:30.239
We'll give you exactly sixty seconds to come out. Walk

1418
01:26:30.279 --> 01:26:32.960
out the front door with your hands in the air.

1419
01:26:34.319 --> 01:26:37.039
Keep behind the car, though, and not like this one

1420
01:26:37.159 --> 01:26:38.640
might want to take some people with him.

1421
01:26:42.119 --> 01:26:44.680
You have had your minute. Come out.

1422
01:26:45.319 --> 01:26:51.039
Oh well, come in all right, let's get in there fast.

1423
01:26:55.119 --> 01:26:59.039
Open up, bullie, all right, stand at the side of

1424
01:26:59.079 --> 01:26:59.359
the door.

1425
01:26:59.720 --> 01:26:59.840
Come.

1426
01:27:07.319 --> 01:27:07.760
Who is it?

1427
01:27:08.399 --> 01:27:17.159
It's me, Lou, Lou, Lou.

1428
01:27:17.239 --> 01:27:17.760
What happened?

1429
01:27:18.159 --> 01:27:23.079
Well, you didn't get him, No, we didn't get him.

1430
01:27:24.359 --> 01:27:25.439
Maybe it was the wrong house.

1431
01:27:26.119 --> 01:27:28.640
Now the cab driver insists that's where he's been taking him.

1432
01:27:29.479 --> 01:27:32.600
Then what happened? Oh he's smart. He has himself dropped

1433
01:27:32.640 --> 01:27:35.239
off at a false certain address in case he's being tailed,

1434
01:27:35.279 --> 01:27:37.319
and then then he sneaks out.

1435
01:27:38.279 --> 01:27:39.760
Makes sense, of course.

1436
01:27:39.840 --> 01:27:42.159
Captain Blake doesn't believe a word of it. But Lou,

1437
01:27:42.680 --> 01:27:46.039
come on, six families live in that house, six ordinary

1438
01:27:46.239 --> 01:27:48.760
law abiding families, and we rouse him at five in

1439
01:27:48.840 --> 01:27:50.119
the morning and search the place.

1440
01:27:50.880 --> 01:27:52.720
How angry is Captain Blake?

1441
01:27:53.800 --> 01:27:56.000
Well, if he ever gets over it, I may wind

1442
01:27:56.079 --> 01:27:58.720
up working nights in charge at the property office. Otherwise

1443
01:27:59.239 --> 01:28:01.119
I'm pounding a down along the docks.

1444
01:28:02.359 --> 01:28:06.039
It's my fault. No, how do I really know I'm

1445
01:28:06.119 --> 01:28:10.520
in danger? Why isn't this the product of an overwrought imagination?

1446
01:28:11.239 --> 01:28:12.960
And the phone calls coincidence?

1447
01:28:13.680 --> 01:28:15.920
And the guy in the bookshop we see him again

1448
01:28:15.960 --> 01:28:18.439
in the phone bulls just before your telephone rings. It

1449
01:28:18.560 --> 01:28:22.079
could all be coincidents. I can't accept that, Captain Blake does,

1450
01:28:22.159 --> 01:28:24.560
as far as I'm concerned. You're in danger, and you're

1451
01:28:24.640 --> 01:28:25.720
convinced of it too, aren't you?

1452
01:28:26.159 --> 01:28:27.239
But I don't have to be right.

1453
01:28:27.319 --> 01:28:30.920
Wouldn't take any more chances. I'm going to stay here

1454
01:28:30.960 --> 01:28:33.159
with you for another hour. Why then the stores will

1455
01:28:33.159 --> 01:28:34.840
be open and will buy you a small twenty five

1456
01:28:34.920 --> 01:28:38.319
caliber revolver. No, I'll arrange for a permit and I'll

1457
01:28:38.319 --> 01:28:40.119
show you how to use it. But I can't stand

1458
01:28:40.159 --> 01:28:42.039
the sight of a gun, Alice. If a man is

1459
01:28:42.119 --> 01:28:44.880
determined to kill you, all the advantages are on his side.

1460
01:28:45.039 --> 01:28:47.760
We have to reduce the odds. I couldn't own a gun.

1461
01:28:48.239 --> 01:28:51.439
I couldn't use one, even if it meant saving my life. Now, Alice,

1462
01:28:51.479 --> 01:28:53.199
I don't want to say that sounds silly.

1463
01:28:53.039 --> 01:28:53.119
But.

1464
01:28:56.199 --> 01:29:00.439
I don't think I can ever forget forget what.

1465
01:29:02.800 --> 01:29:03.279
Well I was.

1466
01:29:04.880 --> 01:29:07.720
I was standing right next to a man once who

1467
01:29:08.960 --> 01:29:14.600
who was killed by a gun one oh years ago

1468
01:29:14.760 --> 01:29:20.199
I was about six, who was killed? A very nice man,

1469
01:29:21.359 --> 01:29:25.920
he was out grosser mister Jackson. It was the day

1470
01:29:25.920 --> 01:29:28.319
after New Year's Mama sent me out to buy.

1471
01:29:29.720 --> 01:29:30.359
To this day.

1472
01:29:30.439 --> 01:29:33.880
I remember a quart of milk, a half pound of butter,

1473
01:29:34.399 --> 01:29:36.039
and a jar of strawberry jam.

1474
01:29:38.000 --> 01:29:40.399
And then this man came in. He had a gun.

1475
01:29:41.279 --> 01:29:46.000
It was a hold up, and suddenly there was a

1476
01:29:46.279 --> 01:29:50.720
loud explosion and a terrible flash of light.

1477
01:29:53.039 --> 01:29:56.439
Who was terrible? Mister Jackson fell to the floor.

1478
01:29:59.000 --> 01:29:59.600
She was dead.

1479
01:30:00.640 --> 01:30:01.520
The man ran away.

1480
01:30:02.439 --> 01:30:03.079
Was he ever caught?

1481
01:30:03.880 --> 01:30:07.960
Oh yes, just a few hours later. I had to

1482
01:30:08.000 --> 01:30:09.800
go to the station house to identify him.

1483
01:30:10.800 --> 01:30:12.560
Do you realize what you've just told me?

1484
01:30:14.359 --> 01:30:14.840
This is it.

1485
01:30:15.039 --> 01:30:18.760
You identified the man. He was sent to jail. Now

1486
01:30:19.039 --> 01:30:20.840
years later he wants us revenge.

1487
01:30:21.000 --> 01:30:26.000
But that's not what happened. No, Well, you see, I

1488
01:30:26.079 --> 01:30:26.960
was so frightened.

1489
01:30:27.079 --> 01:30:28.359
I was.

1490
01:30:28.439 --> 01:30:33.239
I'm sure I really couldn't identify him, and he went free.

1491
01:30:33.319 --> 01:30:35.560
If so, why would he want to kill me?

1492
01:30:35.680 --> 01:30:35.800
Now?

1493
01:30:37.520 --> 01:30:41.039
Then that gets us no where either. The others couldn't

1494
01:30:41.039 --> 01:30:46.680
identify him either. The others, yes, there were other people,

1495
01:30:46.800 --> 01:30:49.439
but no one was sure of him.

1496
01:30:51.000 --> 01:30:52.800
Now if you want to identified him and sent him

1497
01:30:52.800 --> 01:30:56.840
to prisoner, it makes sense. He suppose he'd want revenge,

1498
01:30:57.279 --> 01:31:01.199
but you didn't. Now whoever and wherever he is today,

1499
01:31:01.279 --> 01:31:05.439
he's happy. But the fact that you failed to identify

1500
01:31:05.560 --> 01:31:08.079
him could have made someone else unhappy.

1501
01:31:08.840 --> 01:31:09.359
What do you mean?

1502
01:31:09.640 --> 01:31:09.800
Oh?

1503
01:31:10.000 --> 01:31:12.319
The book Blood on the Streets, it's about a man

1504
01:31:12.399 --> 01:31:15.960
who killed people who did his father an injury. Did

1505
01:31:16.039 --> 01:31:17.000
this gross to have a son?

1506
01:31:18.039 --> 01:31:18.520
I think so.

1507
01:31:19.159 --> 01:31:21.119
I think a little boy used to play in the store.

1508
01:31:22.159 --> 01:31:25.800
But it's so long ago. Who could that be?

1509
01:31:26.000 --> 01:31:32.239
I'll take it. Hello, mister Parker, hysteric cannon remember me, yes,

1510
01:31:32.359 --> 01:31:33.439
mister kan They.

1511
01:31:33.439 --> 01:31:35.159
Said I could reach you this number.

1512
01:31:36.279 --> 01:31:38.720
Anyhow, he came to me, What can do you?

1513
01:31:39.640 --> 01:31:40.880
I was trying to puzzle out.

1514
01:31:40.960 --> 01:31:41.479
My name.

1515
01:31:41.640 --> 01:31:43.439
Alice Maitland was so familiar.

1516
01:31:44.359 --> 01:31:49.319
I'll say about twenty three years ago, Mary Margaret was

1517
01:31:49.399 --> 01:31:52.159
in the grocery store and a man was killed in

1518
01:31:52.239 --> 01:31:55.920
a hold up. They took a downstation hose to identify

1519
01:31:56.039 --> 01:31:59.840
the government. And could she well now say she really

1520
01:32:00.159 --> 01:32:03.680
couldn't be sure anyhow, Anello.

1521
01:32:03.760 --> 01:32:05.720
One of the witnesses was a little girl.

1522
01:32:06.359 --> 01:32:10.520
Her name was Alice Maitland, and I remember her because

1523
01:32:10.600 --> 01:32:14.479
she was the most terrified little thing I'd ever seen.

1524
01:32:14.359 --> 01:32:19.159
In my life. Thank you, thank you, mister Kennedy. I've

1525
01:32:19.199 --> 01:32:22.600
got you, finally, I've got you all tied together. Who

1526
01:32:23.439 --> 01:32:25.680
you and those women who were killed all come together

1527
01:32:25.760 --> 01:32:30.039
in a little grocery store some twenty three years ago. Finally,

1528
01:32:30.159 --> 01:32:32.960
now we know who we're looking for. I'd like to

1529
01:32:32.960 --> 01:32:35.199
see the look on Captain Blake's face when I tell him.

1530
01:32:35.199 --> 01:32:37.439
I'd love to see that look. Friend, who I know?

1531
01:32:37.520 --> 01:32:39.079
You got a gun on the shoulder? Host to just

1532
01:32:39.239 --> 01:32:46.319
lay the phone down, slow easy, now raise the hands,

1533
01:32:47.840 --> 01:32:55.279
slow easy, that's fine, Just keeping there. I guess your

1534
01:32:55.359 --> 01:33:00.119
name is Jackson. Peter Jackson Junior figured it out, so

1535
01:33:00.479 --> 01:33:02.800
I figured i'd have to come back and get both

1536
01:33:02.880 --> 01:33:07.600
of you. Uh uh, hand stay up. It's too late, Peter.

1537
01:33:07.760 --> 01:33:10.239
We know about you that you know about me, but

1538
01:33:10.359 --> 01:33:12.720
the other cops don't see. I was in the house

1539
01:33:12.760 --> 01:33:15.439
across the street when you staged the rain, so I

1540
01:33:15.720 --> 01:33:18.600
die laughing. I learned never to get dropped off where

1541
01:33:18.640 --> 01:33:20.760
I live. That way, you don't get surprised. He won't

1542
01:33:20.800 --> 01:33:22.239
get away with it. Oh, I'll get away with it.

1543
01:33:23.000 --> 01:33:26.439
She's the last one I'm sorry about you, but I'll

1544
01:33:26.479 --> 01:33:28.600
walk out of you. And who knew it was me?

1545
01:33:29.439 --> 01:33:32.000
But why hersh He was just a kid? She lied

1546
01:33:32.359 --> 01:33:33.119
but I didn't know.

1547
01:33:33.520 --> 01:33:34.640
I really didn't know.

1548
01:33:35.079 --> 01:33:37.880
That's what they all said. But they were lying. They

1549
01:33:37.920 --> 01:33:41.520
were bought off. All of you were bought off. Come on, Peter, talk,

1550
01:33:41.640 --> 01:33:44.520
Since my father is murdered and the law lets a

1551
01:33:44.640 --> 01:33:47.279
killer go free, and you want me to talk sense?

1552
01:33:47.680 --> 01:33:49.960
Does it make sense that five people who were standing

1553
01:33:50.079 --> 01:33:51.560
right there couldn't recognize them?

1554
01:33:51.720 --> 01:33:54.319
But I couldn't be sure. I really couldn't be sure.

1555
01:33:54.399 --> 01:33:56.880
My father he never heard a soul in his life.

1556
01:33:57.159 --> 01:33:59.399
If a hungry person didn't have a penny in his pocket,

1557
01:33:59.439 --> 01:34:01.319
against the walk out of that store with a loaf

1558
01:34:01.359 --> 01:34:03.520
of bread or a bottle of milk. If your father

1559
01:34:03.800 --> 01:34:05.520
was that kind of man, what would he think of

1560
01:34:05.600 --> 01:34:09.479
you killing innocent people? My father believed injustice. But you

1561
01:34:09.680 --> 01:34:12.439
knew who the killer was, Why didn't you go after him?

1562
01:34:12.760 --> 01:34:15.479
I did, I did, but I was cheated. I spent

1563
01:34:15.680 --> 01:34:17.600
years on his trail, and when I finally caught up

1564
01:34:17.640 --> 01:34:19.920
with him, he was in his grave. Or my father

1565
01:34:20.039 --> 01:34:22.159
wasn't going to be cheated out of everything? If I

1566
01:34:22.199 --> 01:34:23.960
couldn't have the killer. At least I could get the

1567
01:34:24.000 --> 01:34:26.760
people who helped him. Let me explain something. You you

1568
01:34:26.760 --> 01:34:28.680
don't want to explain anything. You want you want to

1569
01:34:28.720 --> 01:34:30.479
you want to store, you want a chance to go

1570
01:34:30.640 --> 01:34:33.000
for your gun. Well you won't get it. See I'll

1571
01:34:33.079 --> 01:34:35.720
kill you first and then her. There's such a thing

1572
01:34:35.800 --> 01:34:38.000
in this world as justice. If the law won't give.

1573
01:34:37.920 --> 01:34:39.000
It to you, then you make your own.

1574
01:34:39.239 --> 01:34:42.520
And that's why you're doing this. But justice, that's right,

1575
01:34:42.640 --> 01:34:46.800
that's wrong. You're doing it because you love to kill.

1576
01:34:47.720 --> 01:34:52.039
That's a lie. Ah, it's the truth. Look at yourself.

1577
01:34:53.039 --> 01:34:55.399
Look at how you're enjoying this. I'm doing what has

1578
01:34:55.439 --> 01:34:58.079
to be done. You kill those for women, and you

1579
01:34:58.279 --> 01:35:02.479
enjoyed it. Thirty seconds to live, say your prayers. How

1580
01:35:02.560 --> 01:35:05.399
long do you think you have to live? You're going

1581
01:35:05.439 --> 01:35:07.760
to keep killing and you'll be caught. You can't stop.

1582
01:35:09.159 --> 01:35:11.960
I hate killing. Come on, you'll love to see people

1583
01:35:12.119 --> 01:35:15.000
under the gun, How they squirm and sweat. You're eating

1584
01:35:15.079 --> 01:35:18.960
this up. Look at your face in that mirror. Look

1585
01:35:19.000 --> 01:35:23.039
at that grin like a wolf. See how flushed and

1586
01:35:23.159 --> 01:35:30.279
excited you are. Look at yourself, Look where you are

1587
01:35:30.520 --> 01:35:37.079
to it. Very good work, oh, very good one. More

1588
01:35:37.279 --> 01:35:39.119
second and we would have had to gun him down.

1589
01:35:39.800 --> 01:35:43.199
This way we can take him home alive, Captain Blake.

1590
01:35:43.560 --> 01:35:47.000
Somehow I'm going to get back here, get back to you,

1591
01:35:47.239 --> 01:35:52.960
Miss Alice Maitland. I'll keep my promise. Agony Garden coughing,

1592
01:35:53.279 --> 01:35:56.960
hostling back the headquarters. Look, Alice, don't worry about him.

1593
01:35:57.600 --> 01:36:01.920
You are right, Miss Maitland. Yes, I think so happy.

1594
01:36:01.960 --> 01:36:04.640
It shouldn't be. It was a rough experience. Why did

1595
01:36:04.720 --> 01:36:08.399
you come back, Captain? Well? I guess we both saw that, Lou.

1596
01:36:08.840 --> 01:36:11.760
You broke it by pure and simple brain work. And

1597
01:36:11.880 --> 01:36:14.880
I waited for a miracle or did you get it? Yeah?

1598
01:36:14.920 --> 01:36:18.359
I got it. I got it because of this little machine.

1599
01:36:19.439 --> 01:36:23.399
Mary Cannon was killed in an office. She managed somehow

1600
01:36:23.520 --> 01:36:27.319
to throw the switch on a dictating machine as secretary.

1601
01:36:27.439 --> 01:36:30.319
Came into work this morning and she heard Peter Jackson,

1602
01:36:30.520 --> 01:36:34.680
and she didn't stop running until she got to my desk. Listen,

1603
01:36:44.279 --> 01:36:53.000
missus Mary Margaret Cannon m tive coming on this place weekly.

1604
01:36:54.479 --> 01:37:04.840
You see, Lou, there's your whole story. Of course, that

1605
01:37:05.079 --> 01:37:08.800
isn't our whole story. For instance, you might want to

1606
01:37:08.880 --> 01:37:12.119
know what happened to Peter Jackson. He's in a hospital.

1607
01:37:12.159 --> 01:37:16.520
For the criminally insane, for his sterling leadership in cracking

1608
01:37:16.640 --> 01:37:21.079
the case. Captain Blake will probably become the next Chief

1609
01:37:21.119 --> 01:37:27.159
of Police, Detective Parker will probably become Detective Sergeant Parker,

1610
01:37:27.960 --> 01:37:33.720
and miss Alice Maitland will probably become missus Lou Parker.

1611
01:37:34.319 --> 01:37:38.680
So you see, sometimes we can give you a happy ending.

1612
01:37:39.640 --> 01:37:53.000
I'll be back shortly. The story you have just heard

1613
01:37:53.800 --> 01:37:57.640
was concerned with the most precious concept the human race

1614
01:37:57.840 --> 01:38:03.119
has ever created justice. And when you think of Peter Jackson,

1615
01:38:03.800 --> 01:38:06.640
perhaps he proves the point made by a great poet.

1616
01:38:07.760 --> 01:38:11.920
When a man takes justice in his own hands, he

1617
01:38:12.039 --> 01:38:16.960
will soon shape her to his own hands. Our cast

1618
01:38:17.079 --> 01:38:21.600
included Tony Roberts, Susan Grossman, Jack Grimes, Briana Raeburn, and

1619
01:38:21.760 --> 01:38:25.720
Robert Dryden. The entire production was under the direction of

1620
01:38:25.840 --> 01:38:27.600
Hyman Brown G. Marshall.

1621
01:38:27.680 --> 01:38:30.920
Inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for another

1622
01:38:31.039 --> 01:38:38.159
adventure in the macabre until next time, pleasant dreams.

1623
01:38:44.720 --> 01:38:49.199
Well, my dear, it is getting quite late, but how

1624
01:38:49.279 --> 01:38:53.359
about just one more story? This one is I think

1625
01:38:53.439 --> 01:38:57.239
you'll really enjoy. I found it by digging even deeper

1626
01:38:57.399 --> 01:39:02.279
into my dusty old r com lives, So how about

1627
01:39:02.319 --> 01:39:06.039
I heat up one more hot cup of tea, put

1628
01:39:06.079 --> 01:39:09.359
one more log on the fire. Don't worry at all.

1629
01:39:10.119 --> 01:39:16.039
These walls are solid concrete. We're safe. This story is

1630
01:39:16.119 --> 01:39:21.359
about how business can be a lot more than just

1631
01:39:21.720 --> 01:39:25.479
how to earn a living. Oh no, no, we can

1632
01:39:25.560 --> 01:39:29.760
go far beyond that, you see, my dear, It just

1633
01:39:29.880 --> 01:39:37.079
so happens, unfortunately, that business can be murder and vice

1634
01:39:37.439 --> 01:39:39.720
versas enjoy.

1635
01:40:02.960 --> 01:40:07.159
The Mutual Broadcasting System presents The Mysterious Traveler, written, produced,

1636
01:40:07.199 --> 01:40:10.319
and directed by Robert A. Arthur and David Cogan, and

1637
01:40:10.439 --> 01:40:14.039
starring tonight two of radio's foremost actors, Eric Westler and

1638
01:40:14.159 --> 01:40:18.880
John Sylvester, in an original radio drama titled Murder is

1639
01:40:19.000 --> 01:40:27.560
My Business. This is the Mysterious.

1640
01:40:27.079 --> 01:40:30.840
Chandler inviting you to join me on another journey into

1641
01:40:30.880 --> 01:40:34.399
the realm of the strange and the terrifying. I hope

1642
01:40:34.399 --> 01:40:37.439
you will enjoy the trip, and it will tree you

1643
01:40:37.560 --> 01:40:41.000
a little and chill you a little. So settle back,

1644
01:40:41.319 --> 01:40:43.800
get a good rip on your nerves, and be comfortable

1645
01:40:44.760 --> 01:40:51.560
if you can. Story tonight begins in a huge white

1646
01:40:51.680 --> 01:40:55.359
mansion overlooking a Hudson River, some fifty miles above New

1647
01:40:55.479 --> 01:41:00.760
York City in a large, comfortable room. David Phillip, a slender,

1648
01:41:00.880 --> 01:41:03.680
nervous man in his early thirties. He is seated at

1649
01:41:03.680 --> 01:41:04.880
a desk typing.

1650
01:41:10.079 --> 01:41:10.720
Dear Juliet.

1651
01:41:12.159 --> 01:41:14.159
A year has passed since we last saw each other,

1652
01:41:15.359 --> 01:41:17.920
and I am writing this letter with a hope that

1653
01:41:18.039 --> 01:41:20.119
you will understand all that I am about to reveal,

1654
01:41:21.119 --> 01:41:25.880
and understanding will forgive me. I'm a writer, Darling, and

1655
01:41:25.960 --> 01:41:29.880
yet I find it difficult to put into words the horrible.

1656
01:41:29.479 --> 01:41:30.600
Events of the past year.

1657
01:41:31.880 --> 01:41:33.680
As they flashed through my mind, I can feel the

1658
01:41:34.199 --> 01:41:36.560
quickening of my pulse, and the hatred within me surges

1659
01:41:36.600 --> 01:41:40.439
up as overwhelmingly as But I mustn't think of that.

1660
01:41:41.920 --> 01:41:44.560
It's much more important that you understand what has happened.

1661
01:41:46.560 --> 01:41:48.319
It all began the day I was in my study

1662
01:41:49.199 --> 01:41:51.840
writing a script for the Dangerous Adventure radio show.

1663
01:41:58.920 --> 01:41:59.760
Darling, it's for you.

1664
01:42:00.279 --> 01:42:00.680
Who is it?

1665
01:42:00.960 --> 01:42:02.800
It's Basil King, Basil King.

1666
01:42:03.840 --> 01:42:05.199
Dave, Wait a minute, I want to talk to you.

1667
01:42:05.319 --> 01:42:07.319
But honey, Basil King, I can't keep him with Yes

1668
01:42:07.399 --> 01:42:09.279
you can, well, we'll talk fast.

1669
01:42:09.600 --> 01:42:11.760
King's looking for a writer for his radio show, isn't it.

1670
01:42:11.880 --> 01:42:12.039
Yes?

1671
01:42:12.079 --> 01:42:13.439
Sdvan just quit quit.

1672
01:42:13.720 --> 01:42:16.039
You mean he had a nervous breakdown, and so is

1673
01:42:16.079 --> 01:42:19.239
every other writer who's ever worked for Basil King. Dave,

1674
01:42:19.279 --> 01:42:20.439
I don't want you to write.

1675
01:42:20.239 --> 01:42:22.439
For him, but Julie, his show pays six hundred bucks

1676
01:42:22.479 --> 01:42:23.840
a week. We could pay off all out. That's what

1677
01:42:23.920 --> 01:42:25.079
I kind of do, Darling.

1678
01:42:25.199 --> 01:42:26.079
Be sensible.

1679
01:42:26.319 --> 01:42:28.439
No amount of money is worth a punishment you'll.

1680
01:42:28.279 --> 01:42:29.039
Have to take from him.

1681
01:42:29.079 --> 01:42:29.159
Now.

1682
01:42:29.199 --> 01:42:31.159
Look, we'll talk about this later. He's on the phone.

1683
01:42:31.239 --> 01:42:32.800
Tell him no, you'll hear you.

1684
01:42:34.920 --> 01:42:38.039
Hello, mister Phillips, this is Basil King speaking.

1685
01:42:38.159 --> 01:42:39.000
Oh yes, mister King.

1686
01:42:39.359 --> 01:42:40.119
Several people have.

1687
01:42:40.159 --> 01:42:42.399
Spoken very highly of you as a radio writer, and

1688
01:42:42.680 --> 01:42:44.560
at the moment I'm in need of one for my show.

1689
01:42:44.760 --> 01:42:47.840
Brad Barker, private eye, Would you care to discuss the matter?

1690
01:42:48.119 --> 01:42:49.000
I like to very much.

1691
01:42:49.119 --> 01:42:50.439
Are you free for luncheon tomorrow?

1692
01:42:50.920 --> 01:42:51.119
Yes?

1693
01:42:51.199 --> 01:42:51.439
I am.

1694
01:42:51.560 --> 01:42:53.680
Shall we take one o'clock at the Algonquin? All right,

1695
01:42:53.760 --> 01:42:55.640
mister King, just to ask for my table.

1696
01:42:56.159 --> 01:43:00.560
Good Dame's Phillips, Good day, now, Honey, don't look at

1697
01:43:00.600 --> 01:43:01.600
me that way, Dave.

1698
01:43:01.680 --> 01:43:03.000
I just don't understand you.

1699
01:43:03.520 --> 01:43:06.600
It doesn't make sense wanting to write for him. Everyone

1700
01:43:06.640 --> 01:43:09.359
who's ever worked for Basil King to test him. He's

1701
01:43:09.399 --> 01:43:10.760
the most hated man in radio.

1702
01:43:10.880 --> 01:43:13.319
Be reasonable, Julie, six hundred bucks a week. There's a

1703
01:43:13.359 --> 01:43:15.479
lot of dough. If I can't get along with King,

1704
01:43:15.920 --> 01:43:23.319
I'll quit now. What more can you ask? Next day,

1705
01:43:23.319 --> 01:43:26.079
as the headwaiter led me through the crowded dining room,

1706
01:43:27.319 --> 01:43:29.319
I could see Basil King seated at a table in

1707
01:43:29.359 --> 01:43:33.199
a far corner of the room. King was a tall, slender,

1708
01:43:33.239 --> 01:43:36.560
gray haired man in his late forties. He had a cold,

1709
01:43:36.840 --> 01:43:40.479
impassive face, and his movements were stiff and precise. It

1710
01:43:40.600 --> 01:43:42.720
suddenly occurred to me that he bore an amazing resemblance

1711
01:43:42.760 --> 01:43:46.760
to Clifton Webb, the Hollywood star. As I reached King's table,

1712
01:43:46.840 --> 01:43:50.359
he stood up. How do you do, mister Phillips, I'm

1713
01:43:50.479 --> 01:43:53.439
Basil King. Have a seat, JOm thank him.

1714
01:43:53.680 --> 01:43:56.560
I suggest we talked first and order luncheon later. All right,

1715
01:43:56.640 --> 01:43:59.439
mister King. Now, mister Phillips, to begin with, I'm a

1716
01:43:59.479 --> 01:44:00.960
man who leaves in frankness.

1717
01:44:01.439 --> 01:44:03.479
I dare say this frankness of mine has led to

1718
01:44:03.560 --> 01:44:06.119
my making a large number of enemies, and has given

1719
01:44:06.159 --> 01:44:08.560
me the reputation of being an extremely difficult person who

1720
01:44:08.600 --> 01:44:11.319
get along with no doubt. You've heard quite a few

1721
01:44:11.359 --> 01:44:14.239
stories about me, yes, I have, and believe me, they're

1722
01:44:14.319 --> 01:44:18.800
highly exaggerated. Great talents such as myself have always been misunderstood.

1723
01:44:19.159 --> 01:44:21.800
The petty minds in this world, not understanding men of genius,

1724
01:44:21.840 --> 01:44:22.359
are forever.

1725
01:44:22.239 --> 01:44:23.279
Seeking to destroy us.

1726
01:44:23.520 --> 01:44:23.920
I see.

1727
01:44:24.359 --> 01:44:26.680
I wonder if you do, mister Phillips. I wonder if

1728
01:44:26.720 --> 01:44:30.399
you do. I ask very little of my writers, merely

1729
01:44:30.439 --> 01:44:33.920
a modicum of intelligence and the ability to accept constructive criticism.

1730
01:44:34.119 --> 01:44:36.920
That sounds reasonable enough, yes, one would think so, And

1731
01:44:37.039 --> 01:44:38.880
yet I haven't been able to find a writer who

1732
01:44:39.039 --> 01:44:39.800
understands me.

1733
01:44:40.039 --> 01:44:42.840
I'm sure you Wilson Roleta perhaps, but today it's been

1734
01:44:43.039 --> 01:44:43.880
very discouraging.

1735
01:44:44.479 --> 01:44:45.960
However, we must dwell on the past.

1736
01:44:47.199 --> 01:44:50.439
Now, mister Phillips, you come highly recommended, and I trust

1737
01:44:50.479 --> 01:44:52.760
that ours shall be a happy and profitable relationship.

1738
01:44:52.880 --> 01:44:55.680
I hope so. By the way, you are troubled by ulcers?

1739
01:44:55.800 --> 01:44:56.039
Are you?

1740
01:44:56.720 --> 01:44:56.960
Why?

1741
01:44:57.159 --> 01:44:57.199
Know?

1742
01:44:57.560 --> 01:44:57.800
Good?

1743
01:44:58.000 --> 01:45:01.000
For some unfathomable reason, all the writers I've had in

1744
01:45:01.079 --> 01:45:03.119
the past seem to have been afflicted with ulcers.

1745
01:45:03.640 --> 01:45:04.239
I can't stand.

1746
01:45:04.279 --> 01:45:07.399
People are always taking pills and subsisting on bland diets.

1747
01:45:08.279 --> 01:45:10.520
Tell me, are you familiar with my show Brad Barker

1748
01:45:10.600 --> 01:45:11.159
Private Eye?

1749
01:45:11.239 --> 01:45:11.359
Oh?

1750
01:45:11.479 --> 01:45:12.840
Yes, I've heard it quite often.

1751
01:45:12.960 --> 01:45:13.159
Good.

1752
01:45:13.439 --> 01:45:15.800
Then you're undoubtedly aware that there are two things I

1753
01:45:15.920 --> 01:45:20.239
insist upon in my shows. Clever plots and gimmicks that work.

1754
01:45:20.520 --> 01:45:23.600
Bear that in mind, mister Phillips, Clever plots and gimmicks

1755
01:45:24.000 --> 01:45:26.760
that work. I understand it's on those two rules that

1756
01:45:26.840 --> 01:45:29.680
I have single handedly built the most popular detective show.

1757
01:45:29.520 --> 01:45:29.920
On the air.

1758
01:45:30.199 --> 01:45:32.319
You've only to look at the Hooper rating of Brad

1759
01:45:32.399 --> 01:45:35.159
Barker Private Eye to substantiate what I'm saying.

1760
01:45:35.239 --> 01:45:38.880
Yes, I know you've got a terrific rating eighteen point six.

1761
01:45:39.960 --> 01:45:42.880
Needless to add, my sponsor, the Zestful Chewing Gum Company,

1762
01:45:42.960 --> 01:45:46.479
has increased its sales tremendously. Now, mister Phillips, I prepared

1763
01:45:46.479 --> 01:45:48.039
to pay six hundred dollars a week for the writing

1764
01:45:48.079 --> 01:45:49.680
of Brad Barker's That satisfactory?

1765
01:45:49.840 --> 01:45:52.359
Yes, that sounds fair enough. When may I expect your

1766
01:45:52.399 --> 01:45:52.880
first script?

1767
01:45:53.079 --> 01:45:56.800
Well, let's see, today is Wednesday. What about Monday morning?

1768
01:45:56.800 --> 01:45:58.159
That's satisfactory? Monday morning?

1769
01:45:58.199 --> 01:45:58.399
It is?

1770
01:45:58.720 --> 01:45:58.880
Now?

1771
01:45:59.000 --> 01:45:59.920
Shall we order luncheon?

1772
01:46:04.399 --> 01:46:06.760
An hour later, Basil King and I separated in front

1773
01:46:06.760 --> 01:46:09.960
of the outgun quin. I went home and started work

1774
01:46:10.000 --> 01:46:12.399
on the script, determined to turn out a show that

1775
01:46:12.399 --> 01:46:15.880
would make kings sit up and take notice. After four

1776
01:46:15.960 --> 01:46:18.199
days and nights of intensive writing, I completed the script

1777
01:46:19.399 --> 01:46:22.279
Monday morning. I went downtown to Basil King's luxurious office

1778
01:46:23.119 --> 01:46:25.880
and turned the script over to him. As I sat

1779
01:46:25.960 --> 01:46:28.880
by his desk watching him read it, it was hard

1780
01:46:28.920 --> 01:46:31.439
to tell what he thought of it. His face was

1781
01:46:31.560 --> 01:46:35.399
cold and impassive as he turned page after page. At last,

1782
01:46:35.439 --> 01:46:36.880
he finished reading it and looked up.

1783
01:46:38.479 --> 01:46:41.199
It won't do, mister Phillips. It won't do? Or why not?

1784
01:46:41.720 --> 01:46:44.159
First of all, you haven't caught the spirit of Brad

1785
01:46:44.279 --> 01:46:46.880
Barker in your dialogue. But more important, the plot is

1786
01:46:46.960 --> 01:46:48.680
weak and your murder gimmick won't work.

1787
01:46:48.800 --> 01:46:48.920
Well.

1788
01:46:49.039 --> 01:46:50.800
I don't see why it won't. Would you mind explaining?

1789
01:46:51.199 --> 01:46:51.840
In this script?

1790
01:46:51.920 --> 01:46:54.920
You have the victim what's his name, Charles Riker?

1791
01:46:55.079 --> 01:46:57.840
Yes, you have this fellow Charles Reiker, whose life has

1792
01:46:57.880 --> 01:47:00.960
been threatened, barricade himself in a small cat All doors

1793
01:47:01.039 --> 01:47:03.399
and windows are locked from the inside, and in addition,

1794
01:47:03.479 --> 01:47:04.399
he's armed to the teeth and.

1795
01:47:04.439 --> 01:47:06.039
Has a watchdog with him. That's right.

1796
01:47:06.479 --> 01:47:09.279
Two days after this fellow Riker has barricaded himself, Brad

1797
01:47:09.359 --> 01:47:12.720
Barker breaks into the cabin to find him dead, dead

1798
01:47:12.960 --> 01:47:16.439
a poison. Yes, your gimmick is that the murderer, unable

1799
01:47:16.479 --> 01:47:18.680
to get a Ryker, has tapped the water pipe which

1800
01:47:18.760 --> 01:47:22.079
ran from the spring to the cabin and poison the water. Yes,

1801
01:47:22.399 --> 01:47:24.239
what's wrong with it, my dear fellow. Don't you think

1802
01:47:24.279 --> 01:47:25.800
that when Ryker drew a glass of water in the

1803
01:47:25.840 --> 01:47:28.840
cabin need have tasted the poison in the water. But

1804
01:47:28.960 --> 01:47:31.239
I planted in the script that the poison was tasteless.

1805
01:47:32.000 --> 01:47:34.079
Oh, you did well.

1806
01:47:34.359 --> 01:47:35.520
Nevertheless, it won't work.

1807
01:47:35.880 --> 01:47:38.079
Why not? It just doesn't ring true.

1808
01:47:39.199 --> 01:47:39.880
I don't feel it.

1809
01:47:40.359 --> 01:47:40.680
Why not?

1810
01:47:41.439 --> 01:47:44.520
We should stop asking why not? It's obvious that I

1811
01:47:44.560 --> 01:47:46.760
don't like your gimmick, and if I don't like it,

1812
01:47:46.920 --> 01:47:50.760
fifteen million radio listeners won't like it. If our relationship

1813
01:47:50.840 --> 01:47:54.119
is to continue, must learn to accept constructive criticism and poh,

1814
01:47:54.159 --> 01:47:55.880
my dear fellow, you you have merely to look at

1815
01:47:55.880 --> 01:47:57.720
the rating of the show to realize that I am

1816
01:47:57.840 --> 01:48:00.079
never wrong. Furthermore, I should like to.

1817
01:48:00.119 --> 01:48:10.359
Point out for a good time, did you Dave?

1818
01:48:10.640 --> 01:48:12.800
Yes, Julie, how did King like your script?

1819
01:48:14.239 --> 01:48:14.920
He didn't like it?

1820
01:48:15.199 --> 01:48:16.239
That's putting it mildly.

1821
01:48:16.359 --> 01:48:18.239
Oh, but that was a good script. One of the

1822
01:48:18.359 --> 01:48:19.359
best you've ever done.

1823
01:48:19.560 --> 01:48:21.640
That's what I thought, But mister King didn't.

1824
01:48:21.800 --> 01:48:24.479
Now wonder all his writers have nervous breakdowns. That man

1825
01:48:24.520 --> 01:48:25.600
doesn't know what he wants.

1826
01:48:25.840 --> 01:48:27.039
Well, I'll give it one more try.

1827
01:48:27.880 --> 01:48:30.159
You mean you're still gonna try to write for.

1828
01:48:30.279 --> 01:48:32.640
Him now, Honey, there's no use in giving up so soon.

1829
01:48:33.199 --> 01:48:35.319
Maybe once I get to know King's likes and dislikes,

1830
01:48:35.359 --> 01:48:36.640
it won't be so tough to write for him.

1831
01:48:37.319 --> 01:48:39.720
Dave, I've never interfered before, but this is too much.

1832
01:48:40.319 --> 01:48:42.600
I want you to call that egomaniac King up and

1833
01:48:42.640 --> 01:48:43.600
tell him you're through.

1834
01:48:43.640 --> 01:48:45.720
Julie, I can. I told King that i'd turn in

1835
01:48:45.760 --> 01:48:47.359
another script by Thursday.

1836
01:48:47.039 --> 01:48:47.840
Oh day.

1837
01:48:48.119 --> 01:48:50.439
I promise you that if he doesn't like the second script.

1838
01:48:50.199 --> 01:48:50.720
I'll give up.

1839
01:48:51.640 --> 01:48:51.760
Now.

1840
01:48:51.800 --> 01:48:56.880
That's fair enough, isn't it. For the next three days

1841
01:48:56.880 --> 01:49:00.359
and nights, I sweated over a new script As I

1842
01:49:00.399 --> 01:49:03.359
worked out the plot and gimmick. I tried to anticipate

1843
01:49:03.439 --> 01:49:07.560
Basil King's every possible objection. Early Thursday morning, I went

1844
01:49:07.600 --> 01:49:09.720
downtown to King's office and turned the script over to him.

1845
01:49:10.920 --> 01:49:12.960
As he sat reading it, I began thinking of what

1846
01:49:13.039 --> 01:49:14.760
I would say to him if he tied the show down,

1847
01:49:15.920 --> 01:49:17.880
I would tell him quite firmly that it was obvious

1848
01:49:17.960 --> 01:49:19.800
I wasn't the man to write the Brad Barker show.

1849
01:49:21.039 --> 01:49:23.840
At last, King finished reading the script and looked up

1850
01:49:25.199 --> 01:49:25.960
the plot.

1851
01:49:26.159 --> 01:49:30.039
Mister Phillips, isn't exactly new, and the dialogue needs rewriting

1852
01:49:30.119 --> 01:49:31.720
here and there, but on.

1853
01:49:31.840 --> 01:49:32.840
The whole it will.

1854
01:49:33.000 --> 01:49:35.760
Do you mean you like it? I wouldn't go as

1855
01:49:35.800 --> 01:49:38.119
fars say that I like it. Rather let us say

1856
01:49:38.159 --> 01:49:42.600
that it's acceptable. I trust, mister Phillips that with time,

1857
01:49:42.800 --> 01:49:45.760
your scripts will improve. Good Day.

1858
01:49:48.920 --> 01:49:51.159
I left Basil King's office that morning, convinced that I

1859
01:49:51.199 --> 01:49:54.760
would succeed where other writers had failed. I felt it

1860
01:49:54.760 --> 01:49:56.640
would be just a question of time until I learned

1861
01:49:56.640 --> 01:50:00.640
the workings of King's mind. But then I discovered, as

1862
01:50:01.079 --> 01:50:04.479
so many of my predecessors had, that Basil King's likes

1863
01:50:04.520 --> 01:50:07.560
and dislikes were not constant from day to day. What

1864
01:50:07.680 --> 01:50:09.840
he told you on Thursday didn't hold true on Friday.

1865
01:50:11.079 --> 01:50:13.279
Weeks went by, and for every show that King accepted,

1866
01:50:13.359 --> 01:50:17.119
he'd reject too. He would criticize every script from beginning

1867
01:50:17.159 --> 01:50:21.159
to end, carrying it to bits relentlessly and coldly, and

1868
01:50:21.239 --> 01:50:23.640
he questioning of his criticism would lead to his redoubling

1869
01:50:23.720 --> 01:50:28.520
his attack. One week slipped into another, and with each

1870
01:50:28.600 --> 01:50:33.560
passing week, my hatred for Basil King grew. Life became

1871
01:50:33.600 --> 01:50:37.439
a nightmare of deadlines, of writing endlessly with one eye

1872
01:50:37.560 --> 01:50:38.640
constantly on the clock.

1873
01:50:40.920 --> 01:50:42.800
Darling, you just can't go on this way.

1874
01:50:43.079 --> 01:50:44.720
You've got to quit, Julie.

1875
01:50:44.800 --> 01:50:47.279
We've been over this a dozen times already. We need

1876
01:50:47.319 --> 01:50:49.199
the six hundred bucks a week to pay off our debt.

1877
01:50:49.359 --> 01:50:52.199
What good is that money if you have a nervous breakdown.

1878
01:50:52.920 --> 01:50:53.800
Look at yourself.

1879
01:50:54.279 --> 01:50:57.079
You've lost fifteen pounds in these past weeks, and you're

1880
01:50:57.079 --> 01:50:59.079
smoking five packs of cigarettes a day.

1881
01:50:59.279 --> 01:51:01.359
Please, Julia, I've had all I can take to day now.

1882
01:51:01.439 --> 01:51:02.560
Let's not talk about it anymore.

1883
01:51:03.359 --> 01:51:06.239
You're not kidding me, Dave. The money is only part

1884
01:51:06.279 --> 01:51:08.840
of it. It's your pride that won't let you quit.

1885
01:51:09.039 --> 01:51:09.560
My pride.

1886
01:51:09.680 --> 01:51:12.199
Yes, you can't stand the thought of quitting like the

1887
01:51:12.279 --> 01:51:15.399
others did. You've got to prove that you're better than they. Well,

1888
01:51:15.439 --> 01:51:18.000
it's the truth, isn't it. It's only your pig headed

1889
01:51:18.039 --> 01:51:19.880
pride that makes you go on when anyone with sense

1890
01:51:19.920 --> 01:51:20.359
would quit.

1891
01:51:20.439 --> 01:51:22.800
I said that's enough, Dave.

1892
01:51:22.880 --> 01:51:23.840
We can't go on like this.

1893
01:51:24.760 --> 01:51:25.279
What do you mean.

1894
01:51:25.640 --> 01:51:27.920
I'm not gonna stand around and watch you have a breakdown.

1895
01:51:28.680 --> 01:51:31.079
You'll have to choose between Basil King and myself.

1896
01:51:31.119 --> 01:51:33.600
Now, look, Julie, you're upset. You don't know what you're saying.

1897
01:51:33.680 --> 01:51:35.279
I know perfectly well what I'm saying.

1898
01:51:35.600 --> 01:51:38.479
I'm asking you to choose between Babrel King and myself.

1899
01:51:38.159 --> 01:51:40.119
Not trying to intimidate me. I told you before, I'm

1900
01:51:40.159 --> 01:51:41.119
not quitting, and I meant.

1901
01:51:41.000 --> 01:51:44.399
It all right, Dave, If that's the way you want it, unreading,

1902
01:51:44.439 --> 01:51:45.000
well go ahead.

1903
01:51:45.039 --> 01:51:47.239
No one's stopping you. Basil King may be able to

1904
01:51:47.279 --> 01:51:47.520
make you.

1905
01:51:47.560 --> 01:51:48.199
Quit, but not me.

1906
01:51:48.880 --> 01:51:51.479
You call it pride, okay, but I won't allows like

1907
01:51:51.560 --> 01:51:52.039
him beat me.

1908
01:51:52.399 --> 01:51:53.520
Somehow, I'll get the better of him.

1909
01:51:53.520 --> 01:51:55.560
You wait and see goodbye.

1910
01:52:00.920 --> 01:52:03.720
I was so emotionally worn out the night you left me, Julianne,

1911
01:52:04.760 --> 01:52:08.239
I could scarce comprehend my loss. At the time, there

1912
01:52:08.279 --> 01:52:11.479
seemed to be only two people in the world, Basil

1913
01:52:11.640 --> 01:52:15.520
King and myself. As I traveled back and forth day

1914
01:52:15.560 --> 01:52:19.479
after day between my typewriter and King's office, my hatred

1915
01:52:19.600 --> 01:52:23.439
forum increased one hundred and ford. Feeling my hatred forum,

1916
01:52:23.520 --> 01:52:27.000
King redoubled his sadistic attack. Sensing that I was determined

1917
01:52:27.039 --> 01:52:31.960
not to quit, the week slipped by and the nightmare continued.

1918
01:52:33.079 --> 01:52:34.960
King insisted that I come to all rehearsals of the

1919
01:52:35.039 --> 01:52:36.880
show so that the cast, as he put it, might

1920
01:52:36.960 --> 01:52:40.800
see that culprit who wrote the script. It was at

1921
01:52:40.840 --> 01:52:43.640
a rehearsal that I first met mister Pearson, president of

1922
01:52:43.680 --> 01:52:47.239
Possessedful Chewing Gun Company. He was sitting in the control

1923
01:52:47.319 --> 01:52:52.239
room watching with great respect as Basil King rehearsed the cast.

1924
01:52:53.319 --> 01:52:56.640
No, no, no, my dear miss Hunter. I assumed when

1925
01:52:56.680 --> 01:52:58.840
I hired you that you were a radio actress. If

1926
01:52:58.840 --> 01:53:00.479
I am wrong, pleasing enlighten me.

1927
01:53:00.840 --> 01:53:02.039
What did I do that was wrong?

1928
01:53:02.159 --> 01:53:02.680
Mister King?

1929
01:53:02.920 --> 01:53:05.239
I don't feel it. I just don't feel it.

1930
01:53:05.720 --> 01:53:08.920
Try it again, Rocky, You've got to give me a

1931
01:53:09.039 --> 01:53:12.039
chance to explain. It wasn't my fault, honest, it wasn't Rocky.

1932
01:53:12.119 --> 01:53:15.439
Cut god, it's how do you sound too young? I

1933
01:53:15.520 --> 01:53:17.880
want you to age the role one year, mind you

1934
01:53:18.039 --> 01:53:18.720
just one year.

1935
01:53:19.520 --> 01:53:24.319
Yes, Rocky, You've got to give me a chance to explain.

1936
01:53:24.680 --> 01:53:25.520
It wasn't my fault.

1937
01:53:25.560 --> 01:53:27.159
Honest, it wasn't Rocky.

1938
01:53:27.319 --> 01:53:28.159
Don't got.

1939
01:53:29.439 --> 01:53:29.600
Well.

1940
01:53:29.640 --> 01:53:31.279
If that's the best you can give me, it will

1941
01:53:31.319 --> 01:53:34.399
have to do. And mister Cooney, if you can't do better,

1942
01:53:34.439 --> 01:53:37.399
I'll have to get another sound man take fifteen minutes.

1943
01:53:38.199 --> 01:53:40.920
It's dreadful, mister King. The incompetence you have to put

1944
01:53:41.000 --> 01:53:41.199
up with.

1945
01:53:41.680 --> 01:53:44.119
Yes, mister Pearson, it often amazes me that I've been

1946
01:53:44.119 --> 01:53:47.920
as successful as I have. Oh, speaking of incompetence, mister Pearson,

1947
01:53:47.920 --> 01:53:49.439
I'd like you to meet the present writer of.

1948
01:53:49.439 --> 01:53:50.439
The show, mister Phillips.

1949
01:53:50.920 --> 01:53:52.079
How do you do, mister Phillips?

1950
01:53:53.039 --> 01:53:55.199
I have great hopes, mister Pearson, of making a radio

1951
01:53:55.239 --> 01:53:56.279
writer out of Phillips.

1952
01:53:57.079 --> 01:53:59.479
I'm sure if anyone can do it, you're that person.

1953
01:53:59.560 --> 01:53:59.920
Mister King.

1954
01:54:00.439 --> 01:54:02.720
Pardon me, mister King, would you like to hear the commercial?

1955
01:54:02.800 --> 01:54:02.960
Now?

1956
01:54:03.640 --> 01:54:07.359
Very well? Caruso go ahead, Yes, ladies and gentlemen.

1957
01:54:07.479 --> 01:54:10.159
July eighth is the big day. In just one month

1958
01:54:10.199 --> 01:54:12.359
you'll be able to buy the latest discovery in chewing

1959
01:54:12.439 --> 01:54:16.920
gum Happiness pepso gum made by the Zescful Chewing Gum Company.

1960
01:54:17.159 --> 01:54:20.119
Pepsocum is a new gum. I come with a jailed

1961
01:54:20.239 --> 01:54:24.279
in flavor designed to give you hours of chewing pleasure. Remember,

1962
01:54:24.800 --> 01:54:27.479
the big day is July eighth, when pepsicum will be

1963
01:54:27.560 --> 01:54:29.319
on sale at all candy comments.

1964
01:54:30.159 --> 01:54:33.880
I don't feel it, Caruso. I want more emphasis. I

1965
01:54:34.000 --> 01:54:36.199
want you to be so compelling that people will rush

1966
01:54:36.279 --> 01:54:38.800
to their drug stores and place orders for this new gum.

1967
01:54:39.159 --> 01:54:40.760
Exactly, yes, exactly.

1968
01:54:40.960 --> 01:54:43.079
Rehearse it a few more times, and I'll go over

1969
01:54:43.239 --> 01:54:43.760
with you later on.

1970
01:54:44.000 --> 01:54:44.680
Yes, mister King.

1971
01:54:45.199 --> 01:54:47.720
Well, I guess I'll be getting back to the office,

1972
01:54:47.760 --> 01:54:50.199
mister King. Most kind of you to allow me to

1973
01:54:50.399 --> 01:54:51.319
watch your rehearsal.

1974
01:54:51.439 --> 01:54:52.720
That's quite all right, mister Pearson.

1975
01:54:52.880 --> 01:54:54.600
There's a pleasure meeting you. Mister Phillips.

1976
01:54:55.159 --> 01:54:57.359
I assume that you'll be at the factory for next

1977
01:54:57.399 --> 01:55:00.920
week's broadcast the factory. Yes, we're doing the broadcast in

1978
01:55:00.960 --> 01:55:01.720
the factory next week.

1979
01:55:02.000 --> 01:55:05.399
Yes, it's the company's twenty fifth anniversary. You've no idea

1980
01:55:05.560 --> 01:55:10.640
how our employees are looking forward to your broadcast. Yes, indeed, huh.

1981
01:55:11.399 --> 01:55:17.760
Good days, gentlemen, goodbye person, mister Phillips. I have here

1982
01:55:17.840 --> 01:55:19.840
the script you turned in for next week's show.

1983
01:55:21.159 --> 01:55:23.239
It won't do. Why not?

1984
01:55:23.840 --> 01:55:25.439
There are so many things wrong with the script that

1985
01:55:25.479 --> 01:55:28.640
it's hard to know where to begin. Let's start with

1986
01:55:28.720 --> 01:55:31.960
your murder gimmick. You have the victim. I believe his

1987
01:55:32.079 --> 01:55:34.199
name is Roger Rodin. Yes, that's right.

1988
01:55:34.279 --> 01:55:36.199
Yes, you have this fellow Rodent picking up an envelope,

1989
01:55:36.279 --> 01:55:38.840
licking the flap and sealing the envelope. A minute later,

1990
01:55:38.920 --> 01:55:42.359
he drops dead. Your gimmick is potassium cyanide powder has

1991
01:55:42.399 --> 01:55:44.399
been mixed into the glue of the envelope flap. Yes,

1992
01:55:44.479 --> 01:55:46.880
and when Rodin licked the flap, his tondamsorbed the poison.

1993
01:55:46.920 --> 01:55:49.640
It just won't stand up for Why not For the

1994
01:55:49.680 --> 01:55:52.880
simple reason that Rodent's tongue wouldn't absorb enough potassium cyanide

1995
01:55:52.920 --> 01:55:53.560
to kill him.

1996
01:55:53.640 --> 01:55:54.159
Oh but it would.

1997
01:55:54.199 --> 01:55:56.479
Potassium cyanide is a very potent poison. Just a few

1998
01:55:56.520 --> 01:55:57.359
grains will kill a man.

1999
01:55:57.520 --> 01:56:01.199
Possibly, But I'm not convinced. And if you can't convince me,

2000
01:56:01.479 --> 01:56:03.760
you won't convince our sixteen million listeners.

2001
01:56:03.800 --> 01:56:05.239
It just won't do.

2002
01:56:05.520 --> 01:56:08.760
It will work, It will work. I'm sorry, mister Phillips,

2003
01:56:08.800 --> 01:56:11.600
but I don't agree. How soon can you have another

2004
01:56:11.640 --> 01:56:12.279
script for me?

2005
01:56:15.920 --> 01:56:18.600
It was at that moment I knew I was going

2006
01:56:18.640 --> 01:56:22.399
to murder basil King perhaps all along, it had been

2007
01:56:22.439 --> 01:56:27.239
there buried in my subconscious. For the first time in weeks,

2008
01:56:27.319 --> 01:56:30.359
my hand stopped trembling, and I was able to think

2009
01:56:30.439 --> 01:56:34.359
clearly of all that had happened. I had allowed Basil King,

2010
01:56:35.319 --> 01:56:38.319
and then it was a psychopathic case dragged me down

2011
01:56:38.359 --> 01:56:40.680
to his own level. And what was worse, I had

2012
01:56:40.720 --> 01:56:44.079
lost Julia. My stupid pride had driven the one person

2013
01:56:44.159 --> 01:56:47.439
I loved away from me. Basil King would pay for

2014
01:56:47.520 --> 01:56:51.079
that and all the anguished he'd caused so many people.

2015
01:56:52.239 --> 01:56:54.960
I thought of King's rejection of my potassium cyanide gimmick,

2016
01:56:56.319 --> 01:56:59.079
and suddenly it came to me how ironic it would

2017
01:56:59.079 --> 01:57:02.800
be if his death were what about by potassium cyanide. Yes,

2018
01:57:03.680 --> 01:57:07.279
the great Man dying by a gimmick which he declared

2019
01:57:07.279 --> 01:57:10.640
wouldn't work because I couldn't use the envelope flat. But

2020
01:57:10.680 --> 01:57:13.000
there were other ways, and I would think of one.

2021
01:57:14.279 --> 01:57:15.920
That night a plan began to form in my mind,

2022
01:57:16.800 --> 01:57:18.640
a plan which was completed a week later. As I

2023
01:57:18.720 --> 01:57:20.840
was being shown through the Zestful Chewing Gum factory by

2024
01:57:20.880 --> 01:57:22.760
mister Morris, the superintendent of the factory.

2025
01:57:25.279 --> 01:57:26.760
I had no idea the factory was so large.

2026
01:57:26.800 --> 01:57:31.680
Mister Morris, we seem to have walk miles afraid your radio.

2027
01:57:31.560 --> 01:57:34.680
Ride is just I'm used to walking gravely ride in

2028
01:57:34.760 --> 01:57:35.840
the taxi cabs.

2029
01:57:35.560 --> 01:57:36.079
All the time.

2030
01:57:36.800 --> 01:57:39.600
I guess you're right. Oh, watch this place and.

2031
01:57:39.760 --> 01:57:42.720
This is the shipping room. Huh, right of, I've complete

2032
01:57:42.760 --> 01:57:45.279
the tour, I rankon. You've seen just about everything.

2033
01:57:45.760 --> 01:57:47.920
All these boxes have pepsicon marked on the side of them.

2034
01:57:47.960 --> 01:57:48.239
That's right.

2035
01:57:48.279 --> 01:57:50.479
You're getting ready to distribute it all over the country. Yeah,

2036
01:57:50.640 --> 01:57:52.479
you gotta start shipping next week.

2037
01:57:52.920 --> 01:57:54.560
You know, I've heard so many announcements on the show

2038
01:57:54.560 --> 01:57:58.920
about pepsigon that I'm I'm curious what it taste like. Well,

2039
01:57:59.000 --> 01:58:03.000
that's hard to say. That's sort of a sharp flavor.

2040
01:58:03.119 --> 01:58:05.600
Sounds good. You have any around I'd like to taste it.

2041
01:58:05.920 --> 01:58:07.760
Well, I'd like to give you some, mister Phillips.

2042
01:58:07.840 --> 01:58:10.479
But the old man, I mean, mister Pearson, he's given

2043
01:58:10.520 --> 01:58:12.439
out strict daughters not to give any of it out

2044
01:58:12.520 --> 01:58:14.880
to Reckon. He's trying to keep it from the public

2045
01:58:14.960 --> 01:58:15.880
till the last minute.

2046
01:58:15.920 --> 01:58:18.239
Huh. But employees have tasted it, haven't they.

2047
01:58:18.319 --> 01:58:18.479
Oh?

2048
01:58:18.640 --> 01:58:21.359
Sure, Well, mister Morris, you're looking at an employee right now.

2049
01:58:21.800 --> 01:58:23.399
I do write radio shows for the company.

2050
01:58:24.680 --> 01:58:26.159
Yeah, yes, you're an employee.

2051
01:58:26.199 --> 01:58:28.560
After a I reckon, I can give you a pack

2052
01:58:28.640 --> 01:58:34.439
of pepsicum Hey, Yeah, thanks an attractive looking pack of gum.

2053
01:58:34.600 --> 01:58:36.239
Yeah, you got to catch the customer's eye. If you

2054
01:58:36.279 --> 01:58:39.239
want to sell gum, always say if we go back

2055
01:58:39.279 --> 01:58:42.239
to the auditorium, fine, I've seen the whole factory and

2056
01:58:42.319 --> 01:58:44.680
I've got a pack of the new pepsicum. What more

2057
01:58:44.720 --> 01:58:49.640
could I ask for? A few minutes later, I left

2058
01:58:49.680 --> 01:58:52.840
mister Morris and the auditorium, where the Great Basil King

2059
01:58:53.039 --> 01:58:56.560
was rehearsing the cast for the show. I walked across

2060
01:58:56.600 --> 01:58:58.000
the street to the inn where we were staying, and

2061
01:58:58.039 --> 01:58:58.800
went up to my room.

2062
01:59:00.199 --> 01:59:02.640
I took the pack of pepsigum from my pocket and

2063
01:59:02.760 --> 01:59:05.920
withdrew one of the five sticks of gum. I very

2064
01:59:05.920 --> 01:59:09.199
carefully removed the wrapper, and taking a dab and handkerchief,

2065
01:59:09.279 --> 01:59:11.319
I wiped the candy powder off the stick of gum.

2066
01:59:12.520 --> 01:59:15.399
It took but another minute to evenly sprinkle potassium cyanide

2067
01:59:15.399 --> 01:59:18.319
powder over the wet stick of gum. In a very

2068
01:59:18.359 --> 01:59:21.279
short time, the gun dry and it was impossible to

2069
01:59:21.359 --> 01:59:24.520
tell that the fine powdery coating on it was a

2070
01:59:24.600 --> 01:59:28.000
coating of death. I rewrapped the stick of gum and

2071
01:59:28.039 --> 01:59:32.000
carefully inserted it and centered the pack. When I arrived

2072
01:59:32.039 --> 01:59:35.520
at the auditorium ten minutes before airtime. The Great Man

2073
01:59:35.680 --> 01:59:38.680
was relaxing in the control room. With him were mister

2074
01:59:38.760 --> 01:59:40.760
Pearson and Bill, the broadcast engineer.

2075
01:59:41.920 --> 01:59:44.159
Ah, there you are, mister Phillips. I was afraid you

2076
01:59:44.199 --> 01:59:45.359
are going to miss the broadcast.

2077
01:59:45.760 --> 01:59:47.840
Mister Phillips may not be a good writer, but he

2078
01:59:48.000 --> 01:59:51.239
is a punctual one, mister Pearson, Mister King, here a

2079
01:59:51.319 --> 01:59:55.399
great one for bantter. Ever ready with thank you mister Eh,

2080
01:59:55.520 --> 01:59:59.039
look at that auditorium completely packed. I've never seen our

2081
01:59:59.079 --> 02:00:02.079
employee so and enthusiastic in it. Oh, due to you,

2082
02:00:02.239 --> 02:00:04.880
mister King. I hope you will say a few words

2083
02:00:04.920 --> 02:00:07.279
to them after the broadcast. Why I should be delighted

2084
02:00:07.319 --> 02:00:09.000
to him? Can you spare a minute, mister King?

2085
02:00:09.279 --> 02:00:09.720
What is it?

2086
02:00:10.359 --> 02:00:11.960
Do you remember that script I turned in a week

2087
02:00:12.000 --> 02:00:13.760
ago with the potassium cyanide guinick?

2088
02:00:14.640 --> 02:00:17.119
You mean where the victim licked the envelope flapping with

2089
02:00:17.279 --> 02:00:20.239
poisoned Yes, I remember that deplorable script.

2090
02:00:20.319 --> 02:00:20.840
What about it?

2091
02:00:21.000 --> 02:00:21.159
Well?

2092
02:00:21.199 --> 02:00:23.239
I was wondering what if we were to have switched

2093
02:00:23.279 --> 02:00:26.000
the potassium sign into something else instead of the envelope.

2094
02:00:26.039 --> 02:00:28.239
Perhaps the cyanide might be sprinkled on a piece of

2095
02:00:28.359 --> 02:00:29.359
candy or something like that.

2096
02:00:29.479 --> 02:00:31.520
No, no, no, it would never work.

2097
02:00:31.800 --> 02:00:34.279
I don't feel it. You really don't think it would

2098
02:00:34.560 --> 02:00:37.439
certainly not really, mister Phillips. You're showing less and less

2099
02:00:37.560 --> 02:00:38.960
imagination from week to week.

2100
02:00:39.159 --> 02:00:42.760
Well, I just thought i'd mentioned it. Yeah, mister Phillips,

2101
02:00:42.920 --> 02:00:45.119
that's a pack of gum you have, isn't Isn't that

2102
02:00:45.239 --> 02:00:47.720
the new Pepsi gum? Yes, miss Pearson, that's right, but

2103
02:00:47.920 --> 02:00:50.479
I gave strict orders that it wasn't to be given out.

2104
02:00:50.760 --> 02:00:51.439
How did you get it?

2105
02:00:51.640 --> 02:00:51.840
Yes?

2106
02:00:51.920 --> 02:00:52.560
How did you get it?

2107
02:00:52.840 --> 02:00:54.960
I found this pack in the shipping room. I hope

2108
02:00:55.000 --> 02:00:59.079
you don't mind my having taken it. Well, no, after all,

2109
02:00:59.199 --> 02:01:02.039
we are just one big family, you see, mister Pearson.

2110
02:01:02.520 --> 02:01:04.479
I've heard so much about the new Pepsicon that I

2111
02:01:04.640 --> 02:01:06.800
was curious to find out what it tasted like.

2112
02:01:07.079 --> 02:01:08.880
Ah, oh, what do you think of it?

2113
02:01:09.159 --> 02:01:09.319
Well?

2114
02:01:09.319 --> 02:01:11.560
I haven't tried it yet, but I guess this is

2115
02:01:11.560 --> 02:01:13.479
as good a time as ever have a piece.

2116
02:01:13.800 --> 02:01:14.800
I I do.

2117
02:01:15.640 --> 02:01:15.960
Thank you?

2118
02:01:16.439 --> 02:01:17.359
What about you, mister King?

2119
02:01:17.520 --> 02:01:18.199
No, thank you?

2120
02:01:19.039 --> 02:01:21.840
You mean you aren't even curious to know what mister

2121
02:01:21.880 --> 02:01:24.560
Pearson's new gum tastes like. Please, mister King, I'm very

2122
02:01:24.680 --> 02:01:26.359
good to know what you think of the flavor. I

2123
02:01:26.399 --> 02:01:30.079
have great respect for your opinion. Yeah, very well, mister Pearson,

2124
02:01:30.720 --> 02:01:33.880
you are, mister King, thank you. I understand it has

2125
02:01:33.880 --> 02:01:35.359
a sharp flavor, mister Pearson.

2126
02:01:35.359 --> 02:01:36.920
Yes, but delightfully so.

2127
02:01:37.840 --> 02:01:38.159
Hmm.

2128
02:01:39.479 --> 02:01:43.199
That's really I have a feeling that pepsigum is going

2129
02:01:43.279 --> 02:01:46.479
to be a tremendous success. Go ahead, mister King, put

2130
02:01:46.479 --> 02:01:50.680
it in your mouth. I'm anxious to have your opinion. Yes, yes,

2131
02:01:53.319 --> 02:01:55.239
certainly has a sharp taste.

2132
02:01:55.640 --> 02:01:56.680
Oh not that sharp.

2133
02:01:57.159 --> 02:02:00.880
Keep chewing him one minute there, mister King, thank you.

2134
02:02:02.840 --> 02:02:05.000
I watched the great man Basil King chewing a stick

2135
02:02:05.039 --> 02:02:07.720
of pepsigum. I knew that he found a flavor a

2136
02:02:07.800 --> 02:02:10.399
bit sharp, and if mister Pearson hadn't been watching him,

2137
02:02:10.399 --> 02:02:13.000
he would have spat it up. Yes, mister King didn't

2138
02:02:13.079 --> 02:02:14.720
like the flavor, but with a sponsor looking on, he

2139
02:02:14.760 --> 02:02:17.840
had to continue chewing. I watched the minute hand sweep

2140
02:02:17.880 --> 02:02:21.279
around the clock. In thirty seconds we would be on

2141
02:02:21.359 --> 02:02:24.319
the air, and according to my calculations, mister King would

2142
02:02:24.359 --> 02:02:26.920
keel over fifteen seconds after we were on the air.

2143
02:02:28.000 --> 02:02:30.399
Band Bye, I'll give you the go ahead, miss King.

2144
02:02:30.600 --> 02:02:34.720
Very well, coming up, I had.

2145
02:02:50.039 --> 02:02:54.600
Less for chewing. I'm coming and presents Brad Parker Private Eye. Conceived, produced,

2146
02:02:54.600 --> 02:02:56.960
directed and edited by Basil King.

2147
02:02:59.119 --> 02:03:02.079
My dear fellow, the monitor is too high. I had

2148
02:03:02.159 --> 02:03:04.199
to take it down. You engineers just don't know.

2149
02:03:04.680 --> 02:03:09.960
Okay, my heart, that's wrong, my heart. Catch him.

2150
02:03:09.960 --> 02:03:11.880
I've got a mismission. You better get a doctor.

2151
02:03:11.880 --> 02:03:14.600
It looks like a heart. Yes, yes, I'll get one. Immediately.

2152
02:03:14.960 --> 02:03:16.800
Turn down the monitor. Just to the best chapment.

2153
02:03:16.880 --> 02:03:18.960
Okay, take care of him and I'll take care of

2154
02:03:19.000 --> 02:03:19.319
the show.

2155
02:03:23.239 --> 02:03:23.800
Can you hear me?

2156
02:03:24.279 --> 02:03:24.840
Yes? Give it?

2157
02:03:24.920 --> 02:03:30.399
Do remember the potessium sign idem potassium and I I

2158
02:03:30.479 --> 02:03:31.479
just want you to know you're wrong.

2159
02:03:32.000 --> 02:03:33.920
It does work. That's why you're dying.

2160
02:03:34.600 --> 02:03:36.800
That's a stick of gum. I gig it was covered

2161
02:03:36.840 --> 02:03:38.479
with potessium sionary powder.

2162
02:03:38.720 --> 02:03:39.960
So no get a warrant.

2163
02:03:39.960 --> 02:03:40.840
A doctor can't help you.

2164
02:03:41.600 --> 02:03:42.319
You're going to die.

2165
02:03:43.680 --> 02:03:45.319
And I.

2166
02:03:47.439 --> 02:03:54.880
The King, You just forgot one thing. Murder is my business,

2167
02:04:06.319 --> 02:04:09.279
Julie Darling. That was a year ago, and I've never

2168
02:04:09.319 --> 02:04:13.039
ceased to regret you were leaving me. I'm writing this

2169
02:04:13.159 --> 02:04:15.079
in the hope that you will find it in your

2170
02:04:15.119 --> 02:04:19.119
heart to forgive me. I admit that it was my

2171
02:04:19.319 --> 02:04:22.840
stupid pride. It wouldn't allow me to acknowledge defeat at

2172
02:04:22.880 --> 02:04:28.000
Basil King's hands. But he's gone now, Julie. And if

2173
02:04:28.039 --> 02:04:30.960
you could only see your way clear to start all over.

2174
02:04:32.640 --> 02:04:39.079
Hey, mister Phillips, remember me, John person, mister Pearson, Yes,

2175
02:04:39.600 --> 02:04:43.319
do you remember mister Morris, my factory superintendent. Hello, we

2176
02:04:43.760 --> 02:04:45.479
happen to be driving past. And though it would be

2177
02:04:45.520 --> 02:04:47.880
a nice gesture to drop in and find out how

2178
02:04:47.920 --> 02:04:49.079
you were getting along.

2179
02:04:49.039 --> 02:04:52.439
Please please, I've got to finish this letter to my wife, Julia.

2180
02:04:53.119 --> 02:04:56.279
I've got to finish it. It doesn't seem to be

2181
02:04:56.399 --> 02:04:58.039
getting any better, doesn't, mister Pearson.

2182
02:05:01.159 --> 02:05:04.359
Look at all these letters scattered around, must beak least

2183
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one hundred I'll addressed to his wife.

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What a pity.

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Yes, yes, I'll never forget that day that Basil King

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died of a heart attack. I came back to the

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control room to find poor mister Phillips crying hysterically over

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the body. He never has gotten over the shock of

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Baso King's death. What a wonderful friendship that was. It's

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the mysterious Traveler. Did you enjoy our little trip?

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Too?

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Bad of our Dave Philip isn'ess his mind snapped in

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his Hour of Triumph sixteen weeks of Life with Basil King,

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who would be just too much for him mentally as

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a Bazil King used to say that being a radio

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writer calls for a weak mind. However, it does seem

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that Dave Phillips did get in the last word Forbezil

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King died of a gimmick he claimed would never work,

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and the police, oddly enough, never.

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Did suspect it was murder.

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Now, I would call another case in which a young

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man awoke to find himself dead and he decided, you

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have to get off here. I'm sorry, I'm sure we'll

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meet again. I take this same train every week at

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the same time.

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You have just heard The Mysterious Traveler, a series of

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dramas of the strange and terrifying. All characters in Tonight's

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story were fictitious, and any resemblance to the names of

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actual persons was purely coincidental. In Tonight's cast were Maurice Tarplin,

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Eric Drestler, John Sylvester, Shirley Blank, and Richard Cogan. Original

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music was played by Paul Taubman. Sound was by George Cooney.

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Broadcast engineer Walter Payne. Mysterious Traveler is written, produced, and

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directed by Robert A. Arthur and David Cogan.

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Well, now, I don't know about you, but I'm ready

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for a little cat nap, as it were. Well it's that. Oh, yes, yes,

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of course, of course, I figure we listen to a

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little record and you can be on your merry way.

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I do hope I get to see you again before

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the big holiday. I do so love the holidays. Now

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that I have a friend like you, someone to spend

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a little bit of time with it every so often,

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someone to share a mutual interest. It really does mean

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the world to me. Now, before I let you go,

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before you hike your way home, before you cross the

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streets and the railroad tracks and head over the bridge

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and through the river to Grandmother's house, you go, as

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it were, Please just take a moment, as you lay

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02:08:50.119 --> 02:08:54.359
your head on that warm pillow in your safe dark room,

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02:08:55.479 --> 02:08:58.880
as your eyes begin to get heavy and you head

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02:08:58.920 --> 02:09:03.920
to that land of nights, take a deep breath, ex hares,

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and just for a moment, a quick wondrous moment, be

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thankful for what you have. I'll see you so