Feb. 16, 2025

Unknown Broadcast | "Run Faster"

Unknown Broadcast | "Run Faster"

In this episode, we explore an atmospheric tale titled "Run Faster," penned specifically for suspense by Lois Landauer. The story unfolds against the bleak backdrop of a chilling winter night, immersing listeners in a narrative that question the boundaries of safety and peril. This story serves as a reminder of the warmth we desire amidst cold and darkness, setting the stage for a gripping exploration of human emotions and vulnerabilities.

The central character, Dave Cawthon, a former military pilot, grapples with the monotony of his post-war life and the isolation of his rural existence. As he navigates the emotional distance between himself and his wife, Chris, we see him yearning for excitement that his new civilian duties can’t fulfill. The tension rises as fog rolls in, shrouding the airfield where Dave works, compounding the sense of foreboding as he faces not only the challenges of weather but also the specter of unfulfilled expectations in his marriage.

Through a twist of fate, an uninvited stranger emerges, setting off a chain reaction of dread that culminates in a race against time. The character dynamics between Dave, Chris, and the enigmatic intruder explore themes of desperation and protection. Dave's determination to shield Chris from harm propels the narrative forward, and the suspense builds as he realizes that the true danger may be closer to home than he ever anticipated.

The technical precision in the recording captures the essence of the escalating tension, with sound patterns emphasizing the isolation and urgency of the characters' plight. The storytelling meticulously maintains an air of suspense, leaving the audience on the edge of their seats as the climax approaches with an airliner hovering above and a potential killer lurking near.

As the story reaches its zenith, a collision of intentions and mistaken assumptions culminates with heart-stopping urgency. The relationship between Dave and Chris is tested under duress, revealing deeper layers of their commitment amidst chaos. Ultimately, "Run Faster" encapsulates a delicate balance between fear and love, illustrating that sometimes, the thrill we chase may bring us face to face with our darkest fears, forcing us to confront the very essence of what it means to feel safe and loved.

We depart from this chilling episode with a sense of reflection on the chilly night and the warmth of connection, reminding us what it means to run—not just in flight, but in pursuit of our most cherished bonds.

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Well, it's fancy running into you here. I'm just kidding.

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How are you, my dear. I hope you're well. I

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hope you've managed to keep yourself yourself warm. My goodness,

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it's so cold out there, so unbelievably unforgiving. It makes

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me think sometimes when the weather gets like this, that

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I wish I could. I don't know, I don't. Oh,

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please help yourself to some tea, a blanket, blanket. I

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know these stone walls get very, very cold. I guess

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sometimes I wonder if I might want to run south

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for the winter winter. I always hear about that, and

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it sounds absolutely delightful, but I never have, and that

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that's what brings me reached to Tonight's stores. Run Faster

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because sometimes it's the only option we have, so enjoy

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and stay with us.

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And now a tale well calculated to keep you in

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soft spence in a moment. Act won a Run Faster

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written especially for suspense by Lowest Landauer. Funny how a

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guy can have all the ingredients for happiness you still

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want things that are wrong for him. The whole time

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I was in the hospital after flying in Korea, I

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kept telling myself how wonderful it'd be when Chris and

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I got married, a little white house, simple happy life.

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I got my discharge and we had the house and

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the simple life, too simple. The range station where I

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got a job was on a small emergency landing field,

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so I was supposed to double on tower work for

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emergency landings only if it weren't any build. My relief

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man and my brother Dink lived with us. Dink didn't

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know beans about flying, but he got the same charge

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I did just being around it. He was over at

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the field the night the big fog moved in. Chris

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was fixing the suffare I took on the midnight shift.

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Can you think two sandwiches will be enough?

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Sure?

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I got to put in a piece of cake. You

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didn't eat much dinner.

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No sandwiches will be enough?

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Well, I'll just put it in. You can't tell.

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You might get hungry the sandwiches are enough. What's the matter, darling,

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nothing's the matter?

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Is it the dog?

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What's the dog.

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Got to do with me?

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I don't know.

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You just you just thought so funny. Every time the

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weather's like me.

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Wait, wait, wait a minute, what's the master hold?

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It just a plan to here?

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And I thought he was in trouble for a minute.

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Oh, Bill's on duty. He take care.

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Yeah, Bill always gets him. But do I I sit

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in that jack night after night and what happens? Nothing?

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Is that so important?

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Important? Do you think I made a saw dust.

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Married life getting you down?

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Dave?

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Oh for crying out?

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I guess it must be pretty dull after Korea.

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I didn't say that thinking it all right? So I

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like a little excitement once in a while. Is that

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so terrible?

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No? I guess we're just different, that's all.

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It's not that. What then you wouldn't understand You weren't there, darling.

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Well maybe if you got away from planes, Chris.

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I don't want to get away from plane.

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That job is still open in Clinton. No, we could

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afford to build our own house in town if you

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took it.

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What's wrong with this house?

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Nothing? But we're so far away from everything?

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What do you mean far? Clinton's only two hours away,

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and there's Bill and dank.

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Kank should have young people.

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You've still got a few years left, Grandma. Anyway, he

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likes it here. Look at all the time he spends

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over the field.

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Oh honey, that brother of yours are like anything you did?

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You know that if you'd get this flying bug out

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of your system, Dank would probably get over too.

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I don't want to talk about it, but it's true.

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Day. I hate to keep harping up.

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Then, don't are you about finished with those sandwiches?

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You still have half an hour?

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Bill overslept this morning, but he asked me to relieve

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him early. He's a big date in Clinton tonight.

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Oh, Dave, that's my thing.

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What's the difference, Well, of course.

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It doesn't matter to build the house he keeps. He

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has no wife waiting around at home. I think he's

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being very inconsiderate. This is the third time this month.

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Look, I want to get over to the airport. Do

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you mind?

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The thermos is on the sink. You can fill it.

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I just washed it, all right, I broke it? Is

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that so tragic?

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Oh?

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Here it is?

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Yeah?

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I know.

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If we lived in town, we'd get one of the

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corner drug store in town.

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You wouldn't have a job where you take midnight suppers.

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Well we're not in town. We're living where planes come

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in and go out. You understand now, I have to

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bust a thermos bottle to get some excitement. I'll bust

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one every five minutes.

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I like that.

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Stick and getting thicker. Before I'd gone a dozen yards,

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our house was a shapeless blur behind me, and then

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it was gone. I thought of Chris alone back there,

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cut off from the world. I felt like a great

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a heel for acting up like that. A Bill cut

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out as soon as I got to the shack. Digg's

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wheelchair was close to the radar panel as usual, but

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there wasn't a blip inside as usual. Uh, something wrong.

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That's the same old stuff, Chris. Huh, yeah, it was.

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Because she's a woman date, I guess, so it's not

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so hot for her. Those shore isn't any company for

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her when he's not on duty. He's a sleeping her

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out on a date, and with you sleeping days, it

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really isn't much of a deal for her out there,

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especially with a crippleike near and slow things up on

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nuts And I think I'll check Mercury Midland.

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Radio calling La Mercury Airline. This is Midland Radio. You there, Hank,

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This is Mark.

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Where are lines? You're on? Early, aren't you? Dave?

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Yeah?

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Bill's given the Clinton girls a break, Hey, once with

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this thick.

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Stuff hasn't hit out here yet, but we're expecting it.

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What's your ceiling?

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Oh, about four hundred feet. It's dropping fast though, better.

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Watch it, Army beels Western. You weren't landing anyone without

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zero zero cards.

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Yeah, well maybe I'll have company.

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Could be.

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Indeed, someone's coming. Well, I don't watch anybody have any

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tough flying, but be good having a plain land here

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for a change, Dave. They're holding the minu at Hank

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kid brothers trying to say something. Oh hi, there, can

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I do something for you?

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Mister?

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Talk to you later, Hank? Something wrong, Denk, No, No,

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I'll call you back. Started took me by surprise that

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I didn't hear your car wasn't money when you're running

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a gas that's right. Well, walking's no fun in that math.

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I have a see. My name's Dave Coughin. This is

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my brother Dank. What's this place? This is the Midland

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Rain Station, Dawson Field. I didn't see no planes. You

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wouldn't see planes here on a clear night. We're just

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an emergency field, you too, huh, real cozy, Just me

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and you live here here in the station. No, no,

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my place is about a mile down the road here,

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all right? Sure, I am think here lives with us?

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You know we sail in that little white house tomorrow.

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I am, I'll be the neatest stack of flat jacks waiting.

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You ever saw you'a got any gas? I'm sure have.

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We have a pump in the front yard at your house.

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Huh you got enough of your tank to get down

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the road a mile or.

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That?

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Don't move? Maybe it ain't cash even, but don't move.

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Uh huh waited, Wait a second, let's see door.

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What's that thing?

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This is state phone book out for a number Clinton

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Gables Games garage. Here it is that the Clinton two five?

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What the shoe gonner?

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Door?

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Calling a toe car for? You don't need to walk

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all that weight to the pomp back in this weather.

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If there's something wrong with your car, may not may

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not even be as long as I said. They usually

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have called out call nobody. See there's no trouble. What

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was that number again? We see Clinton garage? Hey, you

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can give me that. Come on, Hey, what do you

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don't try tourting too? Where's that pump down the road

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a mile? Huh? Dave, that's all right, it feels there

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and here's a can. Mister, there's no need to ask

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at the house about using the pump.

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You just help yourself.

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But a mile huh, that's right in the front yard.

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Why should I lie to you? All right? One of

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Miles White House front house. Oh a real sweetheart.

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Huh yeah, Chris, Chris, Hello, hello.

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Operator, I was talking to my wife. Operator, you cut

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us off. I didn't well, look, will you ring her again? Please?

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Hurry it up?

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All right, hang up and I'll call you back.

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I wouldn't worry day. He was just a screwball. Yeah,

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come on, operator ring.

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Yeah.

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I wish there was some way I could get home now.

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It was a clear night.

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I'd take a chance covering for you. But I don't

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know the first thing about radar.

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Hello, Chris, operator, your line A house is out of order.

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We're working on it now. So the trouble is at

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this end.

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That's well, he's at the house with Chris. Well, how

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long will it take? Operator?

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I do not know. Five minutes an hour?

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Maybe I had to say, oh, yeah, will you get

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me Sheriff Grover?

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Did something happen?

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Operator, I'd like to speak to Sheriff Grover. Do you mind.

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Want me to keep trying?

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Yes?

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Please, I've got a warn Chris about that character. Each

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time I'd look at my watch, only seconds had passed.

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It seemed like hours. Something was happening. Hank didn't usually

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call me.

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Murdury Airlines calling Midland Radio. Do you there, Dave?

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This is Midland Radio. What's up, Hank?

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I want to know if you've heard from our flight

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five thirty five out.

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Of LA Negative. Why are they in trouble?

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I don't know. They haven't reported in over an hour.

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Five thirty five is not to do over here. I

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think they're off course.

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I can't say they didn't report over downs. Go with

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little falls?

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What de old to do?

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That's just it. We're not sure he was cleared out

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of here at eight thousand, but with the weather doing

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tricks out your way, he may have been trying to

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contact us for a change in his flight plan. Letter

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Stick close, boy, A lot of people in that thing.

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You're reading me, Dave, I'm not going any place.

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You should have gone to Clinton with Bill. I heard

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up having plenty of excitement over there. We heard some

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metal patient walked out of the big state hospital over

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there yesterday.

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Hank.

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I've got a call that may the or five three five.

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Now, I hope you're right, radio, I better catch it.

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Mark your airline flight five three five calling Midland Radio.

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Come in Midland aircraft calling Midland Radio. Repeat your identification,

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please go ahead five.

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Three five Mercury Airlines.

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So you read me Midland go ahead, Midland Radio to

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Mercury five three five, LA has been looking for you, buddy.

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What's your problem?

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Beat sweetbby TRN to get through four hours and a

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cent to five thousand landing clearance quick estimate fifteen.

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Minutes more fuel than it is, all brother, five three

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five from Midland. We're reporting present weather of two hundred

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feet overcast, visibility half a mile dropping altimeter setting two

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nine er. I went eighty three win from the northwest

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at five over couch. Report me in. We'll do Midland

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radio calling LA LA Mercury Airlines.

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Hear anything, dire.

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Yep, just now haink. I'll bring him in here in

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about thirteen thirty.

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Good. Now, if you even just pick up that lost metal, patient,

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we'll give you a merit badge.

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Patient. Oh yeah, there's no weather for a sick man.

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What's wrong with him?

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His hands?

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Hands?

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Yeah, he's a strangler.

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I sat there staring into the thick muggy night. Chris

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might be alone with a killer, and I couldn't go

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to her because of an SOS. I'd been waiting for

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all these months. Chris only a mile away. Heavy stuff

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outside seemed to crawl in the room as we waited, talking,

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just smoking and listening. I knew any minute the plane

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might call, but I wasn't thinking of planes now. I

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wanted that phone to ring. I had to know about Chris. Yes, sir, operator,

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how about my phone?

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My phone?

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Is it fixed? Jet?

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I told you i'd let you know, sir.

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Well, what about the sheriff.

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The sheriff, Oh, yes, sir, And the line's still busy.

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Oh, break in on him.

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He's talking to Harry Waller. I can't just bust in.

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Well, cut in on him. Operator, it's important.

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Well, all right, but she's gonna be sore.

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Cheff, get off fishline? Operator, can't you see I'm talking.

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I'm very sorry.

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So I tried to tell him, Jeff, this is Dave Cautin.

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I don't care who this is. She ain't got no

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call to be button in. Jeff.

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I'm in trouble. I've gotta have some help fast. There

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was a man here, sheriff what about him. Well, I

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think it's a strangler. They're looking for cleftand he there now,

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Oh that's just it. He's gone to the house and

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Chris is there alone.

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How you know he was a strangler?

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Well, the way he acted in his hands. He tore

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my state telephone book in half.

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Now, son, just calls a man strong enough to do that.

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Don't meet me. He's a criminal.

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He is the strangler, and my wife is alone. You

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got to do something, Sheriff.

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Okay, okay, I'll take a run over there.

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Oh thanks a lot, Sheriff right away.

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Huh sure, don't you worry, our son. I'll be there

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in half an hour.

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Hah, that'll be too late.

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Sonny, my old bust only ghosto.

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But Sheriff a half an hour, he could be there now.

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Meantime, why don't you call Lawn Miller.

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Operator? Would you get me lown Miller?

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Put mister Miller's on your second set?

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What are you talking about?

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Is out of body the same as yours.

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Mercury five three five calling Midland, Coming in Midland, Midland

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to five three five full up, pull up five three

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five execute miss approach immediately.

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Mercury five three five to midland.

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Low frequency radio is out, unable to locate out of

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manor over five three five. Pull up, fast, pull up,

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pull her up fast. The big ship just missed the

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shack by a few feet. The open windows rattled, and

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papers were wild all over the place. An airliner full

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of people hungering only a fields length from me and Chris.

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A mile away. A blip showed up all radar. He

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was close five three five.

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Landing instructions fuel almost.

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Out midland of five three five. Make a ninety degree

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turn to your right acknowledged.

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Race of the right, roger over.

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Midland of five three five. We have a target at

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five miles southwest of the fields. Take aheading of zero

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four zero degrees and remain at fifteen hundred feet over

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five three five, still with you can let me.

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Take him out of hand.

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Daddy visibility zero October a Roger five three five. You're

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approaching now at twelve, Chris. The guys waiting day uh.

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We are at ten to twelve, approaching at wait five

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three way for Pete's sake, come on, turba mine operator,

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I didn't you talk? Five? What are you the request?

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Where are you? Midland to five three five you're at

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two miles over. Is she all right? Is PRIs all right?

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You sure?

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Midland to five three five? You're one mile from touchdown? Over?

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Yes?

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I think? Answer me? Is is PRIs okay? I'm on now?

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Operator huh? Five three five? Turn to a heading now

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to the left of three zero zero degrees, a left

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turn three zero zero degrees, and descend to eight hundred

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feet over five.

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Three five eight hundred feet.

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Five three five. You're now at one half miles. Expect

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to intercept the glide path in half a minute. Let's

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show many story day By three five, you're now one

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quarter of a mile from touchdown. Set your flaps before

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intercepting the glide path. You're now approaching the glide path.

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Your heading should be three zero zero degrees. Adjust your

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rate of descent to six hundred feet per minute. Five

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three five. You are now on the glidepath. Glide path

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is very good. You're tracking on the center of the runway.

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Here it comes.

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You're on the center line. You're on the glide path.

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Approach is very good. Five three five touch down in

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three seconds. Center line very good. Glide path very good.

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Continue approach you at a little more, a little more

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you're on the glide path. You're on the glide path,

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you're on the ground. Take over visually, over and up.

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I'll give you this phoning operator. Operator, Yes, sir operator.

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What happened?

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I totally, I'm a gentleman. The whole thing is, what

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are your phoneus? In six foot? I can't get any end?

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Well, you must not have been trying. Did you need

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to try?

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Sake?

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Maybe your wife says there, are you crazy? Of course

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she's there. I couldn't see five feet in front of me,

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but I knew I was going to Chris, and I

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should have done that blindfolded. The blood was pumping in

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my head and fixtures straight through the fog curtain. Chris

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with dark bruises on her throat, Chris with her mouth

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going slack. Chris, Chris. There was a light on. I

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saw it in the dim outline of the house, and

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then I was on the porch right through the door.

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She was standing with her back to me, with the

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table and moving slowly around the end of it for

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the strangler. He had chris As scarf in his hands,

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and that's all I saw is I rushed at him.

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You have to stop.

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Your scar it belongs to you.

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From my scar. It's shoe kits.

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So you okay?

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A you all right? Baby?

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Oh Dave?

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I know, honey, it's all right.

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I'm glad you got her.

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I don't know how much longer I could have held out.

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You were fine.

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I tried to be gentle. He liked the scar, so

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I gave it to him.

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I don't know why I should.

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Have been afraid. It was just like a child. All

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he wanted was Gentlenessn't it something about him?

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I was scared.

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It's all right, baby, Oh darling.

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I wanted to hear so much. In the excitement, I

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forgot who could hurt you?

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What did you say?

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I said?

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In excitement? Yeah, I guess that's what it was. All right,

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That's what you wanted, wasn't it? Day No hone, That's

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what I thought I wanted. I'll call the hospital. Saft Spence,

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you've been listening to Run Faster. Written especially for Suspense

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by Lors Lendauer. Suspense is produced and directed by Fred Hendrickson.

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Heard in Tonight's story were Jimmy Blaine, Jimsy Summers, Bill Lipton,

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Roger de Covin, Bob Reddick, Ted Pavel, and Guy Rept

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Music supervision by Ethel Huber, sound patterns by Walter Otto,

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technical direction by Fred Cusick. This is due met Speaking.

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Listen again next week when we return with The Silver Shoe,

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written by Robert Reddick. Another tale well calculated to keep

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you in suspence.

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Ah, what better way to get your blood pumping than that.

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I hope you enjoyed the story as much as I did.

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I did. Oh, I do hope this wind lets out well.

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I have plenty of firewood and plenty of company, plenty

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of hot tea. I don't suppose I should can consider

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this a bad night at all. But what's that? Oh no, no, no, no, no,

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don't you worry a little bit about me. I'll be

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just fine, Honestly. The thing I'm most concerned with now

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is that you get yourself home to that warm bed

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of yours, where you can relax and drift away to

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the land of now. I myself need to get moving.

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The sun will be up soon. It will bring warmth,

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but not the kind that I can appreciate. No, I'll

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be going back to wherever it is I come from.

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So until tomorrow, stay will day and remember and be

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thankful for what you have.

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Any mumbling virey of Patent

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Volu