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Well, well, well, so nice to have you back, my dear.
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I see you are well, very good, very good. What's that?
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Oh?
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Well, I'm about as good as one one can be
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in my situation. Situation, Why don't you kick back and relax?
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I know, I know the weather has been up and down,
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back and forth side to side, spinning its head around
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in three hundred and sixty degrees? Or is that? Well?
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I don't get out much, but I do hear things.
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So let me put another log on the fire, because
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the night always tends to be so very cold cold.
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Allow me to warm you a hot couple of tea,
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perhaps as we listen to a story, story all about
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what is true thicker thicker than water.
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Want I meet you, Marshall, before you cross our threshold,
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Perhaps i'd better warn you about something. If you can't
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stand the sight of blood, you may not want to
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hear our latest domping, because come in, welcome, I meet you, Marshall,
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before you cross our threshold. Perhaps I'd better warn you
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about something. If you can't stand the sight of blood,
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you may not want to hear our latest donfing because
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this is a story all about blood. Blood in its
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three variations of meaning, the blood ties of family loyalty,
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the blood of violent crime, and just plain human blood.
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I think you can take it very well. Please come in,
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pick out a comfortable chair, and try not to be
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too squeamish. Our mystery drama Thicker Than Water was written
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especially for the Mystery theater by Henry Splesser and stars
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Jay Gregory. It is sponsored in part by Buick Motor
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Division and Einheuser Busch Incorporated Breweries of Budweiser. I'll be
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back shortly with Act one. Excuse me, sir, but do
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you know what happens this time of year? Right on
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file I happen to know that right about now, a
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freak blizzard falls on Dumont, New Jersey, and they're snowed
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in for the rest of the summer. Nope, you see
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what happens this time of year is that you can
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get a particularly good deal on what is perhaps the
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most luxurious mid sized car on the market, the mid
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sized Buick Century Regal. What goods a car when you're
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hopelessly snowed in? Well, that's a point. Hey, ma'am, what's
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for dinner? Ay, ma'am, what's she can? What's for dinner?
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Your shop Right Supermarket suggests choice b first cut chuck
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steaks just fifty nine cents a pound this week. Save
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two on smoke tam shank portion sixty nine cents a pound,
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but portion seventy nine a pound. For a quick meal,
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try Swanson's frozen Hungry Man Dinner is just ninety nine
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cents each. For dessert, Shop Rights Produce Department is featuring
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fresh honeydew melons seventy nine cents each. They're great topped
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with ice cream. There's lots more for a little less
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at your shop right, so stop in soon, dud.
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She loves the family, She wants the best. She does
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all she can't do. She dots Shop Right to the
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hey maw, what's for dinner? Shop Right has the answer.
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You're listening to what some people think of as jungle noises,
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But in this case, the jungle is what they think.
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Our large metropolitan cities have become stalking places for predators
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who prowl the darkened streets, the foliage of our parks,
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the isolation booths of our elevators and hallways, looking for
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victims to satisfy their greed, their hunger, or their simple
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lust for blood. But the well dressed man who walks
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down this particular dark and quiet street in a neighborhood
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of crumbling tenements and menacing shadows doesn't seem to be
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aware of lurking danger until danger stops lurking and strikes
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Hold it, mister, what is this? Oh? Shut up? Shut
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up and hand it over. Where's walle here? Give me that?
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Now here's something for you? Help me? Somebody help me?
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May I can vose?
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Yes, come on in, Oga.
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Thanks. I didn't bring you any flowers, but from the
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looks of this room you didn't need any.
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I wish somebody would get them out of here. Place
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looks like a funeral home.
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Well, is it all right to ask how you feel?
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Go ahead and try how do you feel?
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Don't ask?
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No.
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I knew i'd fall for that old gag. Now, seriously, Nick,
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how are you?
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You certainly look like.
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Your old self? Yes, I'm my old self Oga with
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something extra an eight inch cash in my side. Fortunately
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it wasn't very deep. I keep telling me I'll heal nicely.
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Whatever nicely means you, poor man? Why did this have
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to happen to you? Why not people get mugged in
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nicer parts of town and the place I was at.
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I guess the police were right about what they asked me.
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Why I was dumb enough to be walking around that
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neighborhood like a fat cat at eleven thirty at night.
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They say, I was just baiting for it.
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Why were you there?
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I told you I had an appointment with roy Otis
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talk to him about the Parsons case. I thought I
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could ge him drop the charges if I went to
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his home personally and reason with him. Funny thing is
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I succeeded. I was feeling so pleased with myself and
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I didn't think about what I was doing.
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So you walked right into the arms of the mugger.
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I don't know what I'm gonna do with you, boss.
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I suppose you've seen the morning paper.
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No, I haven't story in this of course, the story
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isn't it. And guess what they say.
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I can imagine legal defender of muggers gets smugged. I'm
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sure they got a big kick out of that. Headline
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writers dig irony.
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Well, they don't actually call you a defender of muggers,
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but you are sort of number one in the.
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Field, aren't you. This That Wilson boy the Frederick's k I.
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Never meant to specialize, and I can tell you one
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thing will be a long time before I go to
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court defend some knife wielding punk.
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I knew you'd feel that way.
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Can you blame me? No?
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I guess I can't, But that isn't going to satisfy
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mister Bleeker.
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Who Why don't you remember all.
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Those phone messages I've been giving you for days from
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mister Arnold Bleeker.
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Yes, I remember the name. I told you to tell
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the guy that I'm hardly in any position to take
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on a new case.
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Well, from what you said about your condition, you will
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be going back to work soon, right, Yeah, I'll be
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back at the old desk in a week. I guess
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that's what I told mister Bleeker.
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Olga, will you please explain that funny look in your face.
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It's because mister Bleeker wants you to defend his son.
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He's desperate to have you defend him.
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What's his son charged with?
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Mugging? Of course? What else? Mister Wedge's office?
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Oh yes, missus Hamilton, how are you? No, he is
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in conference at the moment, but I think I know
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the answer to your question. The hearing will be held
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at the Municipal court on the twenty seventh. Oh, yes,
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of course, and mister Wedge will be talking to you
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before then. Yes, I'll tell them goodbye, good morning. Oh hello,
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mister Blaker.
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I uh idi, you're not so happy to see me,
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are you.
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Miss Well, it's not that, mister Bleaker. It says that
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well that I've told you. It won't do any good.
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Mister Wedge simply isn't able to take any more clients.
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At the moment.
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I got to get a lawyer soon. I got to
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have a lawyer right now. The judge told me either
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I get somebody or the court or appoint somebody.
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You could do a lot worse than the court appointed attorney,
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mister Bleaker. Even mister Wedge does that sort of thing
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now and then he does. Yes, most criminal lawyers do
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well without these.
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Well, then let him do it now for me, for
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my son. But I'll pay him. I'll pay him anything
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you want.
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We ain't, mister Bleacher. It isn't a matter of money.
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Yeah, yeah, I know, I know you look at me,
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you see a poor man. But I'll pay I'll get
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the money somehow old, do you still have the file
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out on the Fredericks, Mister Weggs. Please, I gotta talk
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to I've been trying to talk to you for days.
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Would you be mister Bleacher by any chance? I'm sorry,
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Nick I told them, man, you gotta say ten words
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to you. How you got the time to get ten
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words on somebody? All right, mister Bleaker, come on it,
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thank you, thank you. Have a seat. No, no, I'll stand.
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I'm too nervous to sit down, mister Bleaker. I can
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save you some words. I know about your case. I
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know that your son has been arrested for stabbing that man.
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Only he didn't do it, that's the thing. It was
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somebody else, and they arrested my Benny. Well, I'm not
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saying that isn't possible. I know it's true. My son
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told me it was true, and I believe it's fine.
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That's the way it should be between a father and
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the son. But if he really is in a mister Bleeker,
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the chances are excellent that he'll go free. No, a
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chance is rotten. The way things look, there's almost no chance.
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That's why I need somebody like you, somebody who got
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other boys out of trouble. I'm not a mastermind, mister Bleker. Yeah,
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but you got them all off, all those other boys
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I heard about. You asked around. I talked to all
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kinds of lawyers, and they all say, you get Nick Wedge,
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Nick Wedge, you'll get your boy off well, as I said,
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if he's really innocent, any decent attorney, I'll pay you
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what you want, anything. Just get my little boy out
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of that place. He's not too little, isie eighteen. He
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looked me straight in the face and said, Pop, I
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didn't do it. I den'ty for that man. You believe me, Pop,
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He said, I'm swearing it our mother's grave. Mister Bleeker,
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I'm really sorry. My schedule was full and I was
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hoping to get away for a vacation at the end
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of the month. You see, I had a little accident myself.
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For recent papers made it sound so bad. They said
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there are witnesses. They say people saw Benny with the
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knife in his hand. How can they say that? People strangers?
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Why would they say that about my boy, mister Bleeker.
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I don't say he's an angel. He runs around, he fights,
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boy without a mother. It's a wild boy sometimes. How
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what can I do? I got a twenty four hour business.
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I'll drive a fuel truck. I'll sell it, mister Wedge.
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You can have whatever I get for the truck. Mister
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Bleeker listened to me after you started coming here. I
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looked into the case as much as I could. I
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can tell you this much. It's not going to be
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easy to prove innocence. Maybe impossible, but it is the
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first offense, and with a charge of armed robbery, well
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the court might be ling it. So you looked into
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the case. Huh, it didn't look far enough, mister Wedge.
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It didn't keep up. What do you mean the man
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who was stabbed, he died last night. Who are you?
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I'm your lawyer, Benny. Maybe you're the lawyer my father
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told me about one who gets everybody off. If that's
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what he's told you, he's wrong. Sit down, Benny. We
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have things to talk about. When can I get out
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of here? They told me I get out soon as
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I got a lawyer. Whoever told you that was wrong too?
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What about bail? My father said he can raise bail
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for me. Biale has been refused. Why you heard me?
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And this is a capital offense. The victim is dead,
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the charge is now homicide. The court has refused bail.
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Do you mean, I gotta stay in this crummy place
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until the trial. Yes, Wednesday, Russias. We need every minute
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of delay we can get. I don't think this is
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going to be easy. Why shouldn't it. But I didn't
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stick that guy. I didn't have nothing to do with it.
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You admitted to the police that you were there when
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Kenneth Archer was staby. I'm sure I was there. I
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was hanging around with some guys. You were hanging around
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with a street gang called the Silver Stars. It's not
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a gang, it's like a club. We got a basketball
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squad and everything a team. We were all just walking
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down the street when this guy Archer came right in
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the middle of us. Now, maybe one of the guys
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stuck him. How should I know, Benny, what do you
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carry the Knight? It's only a boy scout knight. They
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sell them all over. I use it for carving things
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like you know, carving what totem poles? Hey, whose side
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of you are? All? Right? Sit down, let's go over
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facts the way the cops have them down. Anytime I
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say something that isn't true, you interrupt me. All right? Yeah.
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It was ten minutes to midnight on October ninth, You
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and four other guys, all members of the Silver Stars,
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were walking down Thurmann Street. Kenneth Archer was rounding the
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corner and bumped into you. Somebody shoved him and somebody
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called him a whino, and then there was a scuffle.
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Archer fell to the ground and everybody started running, everybody
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but you. You waited behind and bent over the guy. I
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wanted to see if he was okay. I don't want explanations.
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Just stop me when I say something that isn't factual.
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And you bent over Archer and then you ran off.
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By Now they were a couple of witnesses. Both of
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them say they saw you with a knife in your hand.
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When they reached Archer's side, he'd been stabbed in the chest.
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His wallet was gone. Okay, okay, so somebody stuck him.
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Why does it have to be me. Half an hour later,
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the cops caught up with you in your father's fuel
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supply office on Chester Street. A knife was still in
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your pocket. Well it wasn't me, are you saying it
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was one of you? Pass No, I don't even remember
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who they were. You mean you don't give their names.
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That's against the code, isn't it's a big club. This
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Silver Stars got maybe fifty sixty guys in it. I
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don't know them all. You're not helping yourself, Benny, and
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you're not helping me. But what do you want me
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to say? I didn't care that guy, That's all I know.
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The police have the knife. It's exhibit A. They have
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the knife, they have the witnesses, and they have you.
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Now what have I got. You're a lawyer, you tell me,
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all right, Benny, I'll tell you. I want you to
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cop a plea. I want you to plead guilty. You're crazy.
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It's the only thing that makes any sense. You put
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this case to a jury, you'll spend the rest of
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your life in a cage. Plead guilty and you'll get
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a break. I won't do it. I'm innocent. I'm not
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going to jail for something I didn't do. I'm talking
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sense to you, Benny, but I didn't do it. I
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swear it. I'm only trying to help your son. I'm
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not your son. I got a father. No, no, the wedge.
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Don't say that. You can't give up. You've got to
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help my boy. That's what I'm trying to do. I
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know how you feel about kids like many. I know
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what happened to you, and that has nothing to do
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with it. If your son won't take my advice. But
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if he takes your advice, if you please guilty to
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second degree murder, you'll go to jail for sure. Right, Yes,
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he'll go to jail for something he didn't do. Mister Bleeker.
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I know you're his father, but that doesn't give you
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the right to ignore the facts. Look, a father's faith
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is a wonderful thing, but it's not a defense. Yeah,
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you're right, I don't know what I'm talking about. I
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better go, mister Bleeker. Yeah, all right. It's the dumbest
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decision I ever made, But we will plead not guilty
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and then wait for a miracle. Well, it looks like
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mister Nicholas Wedge stands a fair chance of going into
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court with a losing case. They say that preparation is
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nine tenths of the battle for an attorney. But how
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does one prepare for a miracle? We'll find out shortly
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when I return with that two. At Suburban Savings in
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northern New Jersey, you're always the tops, So to help
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point fifty percent saving certificates, and Suburban guarantees it from
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four to ten years. Just a twenty five hundred dollars
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minimum is all you need to get your savings straight
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This is Wor in New York, your mystery theater station.
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Here we are in the Criminal Courts Building downtown and
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from the looks of the crowd, the case of the
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People versus Benjamin Bleeker has attracted more than usual interest.
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But it's not Benny Bleaker. They've come to see. Benny
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is just another young ruffian charge with just another street crime,
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but the star of the occasion, and he's the lawyer
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who will be defending him. And the point of curiosity
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is how will Nick Wedge succeed in saving his client
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in the face of some highly damning testimony. Mester Dankers,
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you reside at number eight Thurman Street, Yes, sir, have
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you lived there alone about ten years? Please describe the
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events that you personally witnessed on the night of October ninth. Well,
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I was sitting on the stoop getting the breath, and
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these kids come up the street. It was all wearing
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purple jackets. I didn't pay no attention on account if
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you see kids like that all the time. You know,
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they were marching like in a straight line, taking up
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the whole street, you know. And then this man comes
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around the corner, the man being Kenneth Archer. I didn't
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know the name at the time. He was just a
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man coming around the corner and he bumps into this
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line kids. Was there scuffle then? Oh yeah, there was
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a lot of pushing and shoving, all right. I mean
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these were the kind of kids who thought they owned
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the whole street. You know, objection, you're on her sustain
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just describe what occurred, mister Dunkers. Well, that's what I'm
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trying to do. Anyway. They all started pushing and shoving
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this man around just because he bumped into him. And
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then the next thing I know, he was on the ground.
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Had he been hurt in your opinion, or just knocked
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to the ground, Well, I couldn't tell, you know, I
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mean he was kind of on his hands and knees like.
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And what happened to the young man who knocked him down. Well,
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they all ran off, you know, I mean, kind of
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laughing and yelling stuff, all of them. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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all five of them run off. Only then one of
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them turns back all of a sudden and goes up
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to the guy. I saw him Ben do over him.
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Did he speak to the man? I don't know. I
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don't think so. I saw him reach down. I guess
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that's when he stabbed the objection justin Please don't volunteer information,
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mister Denkers. Just answer the attorney's question, all right, mister Dankers.
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What happened then? Well then he ran off just like
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the rest of them. But that's when I saw the
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knife in his hand. You actually saw the weapon. I
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should did but you didn't know that the knife had
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actually been used until you went up to Canada arch objection,
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your honor, The assumption that the wound was caused by
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the weapon that this witness presumably saw is unwarranted. All right,
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I'll be happy to amend my statements, your honor, that
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mister Dankers didn't know that a knife had actually been
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used until he went up to the fallen man. Well,
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that's satisfy your object I shouldn't, mister Wedge, Yes, sir, gone,
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mister Dankers. You say you ran up to the man
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to see how badly he was hurt. That's right. And
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by the time I got there, I saw this blood
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on the ground. Mister Dankers. How far away were you
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and all this happened, I don't know, maybe uh forty
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fifty feet. You got a good look at the people
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involved in this incident. Well, I don't remember what the
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kids looked like, the ones who ran away. But the
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one who came back, the one who did this, you
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know what I mean? Him? I saw clear as anything,
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and the knife in his hand. Do you see the
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man in the courtroom right now, Yes, sir, yes, I do.
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That's him over there. I had no further question. Towns
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for the Defense may cross examine mister Dankers. Do you
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always wear glasses? That's right? Actually, even with correction, your
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vision isn't very keen, is it. I'm sixty seven, mister
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whaley're my age. It was almost midnight on a street
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which is lighted by a street lamp. Actually thirty yards
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from your building, is that right? I never measured it. Well,
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I have, and you can take my word for it.
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The lamp is a good thirty yards from the scene
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of the crime. Yet you saw a small jack knife,
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this knife exhibit a look at it, mister Dankers. Yes,
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I saw it. It's not a very large knife, is it?
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But I saw it just the same. It was sort
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of flashing in the light, you know. To tell you
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the truth, I might not have noticed it at all
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if it wasn't for one thing. What's that missus Dankers?
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My wife she was sitting right next to me, and
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she said, look, so that boy's got a knife, all right, Benny,
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let me get this straight. You claim that you don't
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remember the names of the other boys who were with
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you that night. That's right, mister Wickerson, even though they
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were members of your own gang, god, pardon me, your
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own social club.
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I just met him.
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I mean, look, see, we all came out of this
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movie together. I mean I didn't even talk to him.
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I see, Benny. You do carry a knife, don't you. Yeah,
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I mean yes, sir, but just a boy scout knife,
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not a not a switchblader, anything like that game. In fact,
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you were carrying this night, on the night of October
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the night well, yeah, I always carry it. In fact,
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it was still in your pocket that night when the
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police picked you up. Yes, sir. Uh by the way, son,
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where are you a boy scout? Ohoh me? No, uh
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huh no further questions. You're honored, Nick.
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Would you like your coffee?
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News? Oh yeah, well go bring it in. If you
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have some whiskey, bring that into. In fact, forget the
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coffee if you got whiskey.
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Sorry, boss, but it has to be cocky.
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All right, thanks Nick.
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It's not going so well, is it.
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Well that's the understatement of the year.
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Do you think you made a mistake putting the boy
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in the stand.
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I didn't know what else to do. I don't have
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any rebublal witnesses. I don't have anyone to get up
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there and say that Benny Bleecker didn't have that knife
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in his hand, that he didn't kill Kenneth Archer. I
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figured the kid's own sincerity had to be my witness.
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Well, do you really think he came off since here?
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What do you think? Me?
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Oh, I just sharpen the pencils and make the coffee,
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and judging from your expression, not very well.
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Well, it's not the coffee, it's me. I've got a
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bad taste in my mouth. It's called premonition of disaster.
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You're going to lose, aren't you. As far as I know,
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there's only one person in the whole world convinced of
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that kid's innocence. Unfortunately that person is his father.
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Too bad, you can't get him on the stand.
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It will make a convincing character witness. Although he did
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a good job on me, didn't he hadn't been for
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that guy, I'd never have taken this case.
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Nick, You know something, You don't look well.
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Losers never look well.
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When this is over. You ought to see your doctor again.
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Maybe that knife wound is acting up.
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A headshrinker, That's what I ought to seen.
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No, I mean a doctor.
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You know something. It's a thought, maybe I ought to
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see Doc Haggerty. Who's he? You remember Haggerty on the
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hostel case nineteen sixty nine.
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Oh, he's not the kind of doctor I'm any of
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this sort of biochemist, isn't he.
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That's right, he's got an opposite Dugan hospital. I'm going out.
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If anybody wants me, I'll be back around four.
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You mean you aready to see him now.
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Yes, to find out if he's got any good medicine.
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I don't understand you, Nick. You say the police have
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already examined the boy's knife for bloodstains using this andred
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benzadeine test. It's right, it didn't show any but that
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didn't mean anything. They claim that naturally Benny would wipe
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the knife clean. Well, that stands the reason. But you
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told me once that there was a more sensitive test
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for bloodstains. Remember, yes, there's another test. It's called the
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reduced phenopathalin test. It's far more sensitive in my opinion,
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but it's not universally accepted. Why do you ask, doc
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I want to make that test? Well, all right, get
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me the boy's knife. I can't do that. It's court property.
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Exhibit A for the prosecution. But could you demonstrate the
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test for me with another knife, one just like it?
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I suppose, So if you have one like it, I
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do right here. I picked this up on the way over.
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It's identical to the knife Benjamin Bleaker carried pretty cheap too,
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but ninety eight, Well, cheaper the better. Why do you
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say that? I'll show you. First, I'll mix up some
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of the reduced phenopythaline solution. Then when it's done, we'll
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dip the knife blade into some whole blood, wipe off
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every trace, and dip it into the solution. And even
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after its wipe the stain might appear. Well, that's what
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I meant by a cheap knife being better. In a
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cheap knife, the blade is porous, so it retains microscopic
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quantities of blood even after it's wiped off. Well, let's
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see what happens, all right, Nick, you ready for the test?
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Ready when you are? CB? Okay? Now, first we'll dip
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the blade into the whole blood where you get that
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stuff from vampires. All right. Then we'll wipe it absolutely clean.
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Yeah said, look clean to you. Okay. Now we'll place
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it in the solution and watch carefully, Hey, stuffs changing
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color turning pink. You see what I mean? What appeared
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to be a perfectly clean blade isn't clean at all.
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The blood tells the story. That's really amazing, duck. In fact,
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the blood stains might have been there years ago, and
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this test would still show them up. So if I
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took the kid's knife, put it into the solution and
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it turned pink, you'd be one lousy lawyer, Nick, you'd
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be sending your client to prison. Yeah. Maybe, and maybe
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unfairly too, because you see, the test doesn't prove whose
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blood is on the knife. Even if your client just
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cut his own finger once it had work just the same,
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he'll look just as guilty. All right, That's something I
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can straighten out with him right now. Hello, Benny, Hi,
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mister witch, Benny, I want you to listen to me
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very carefully. I got something important to ask you. I've
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got an idea that may save your skin. But I
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have to know something, and it's got to be the truth.
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But is it. There's a test, Benny, a test that
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can determine whether or not there was ever blood and
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that knife of yours ever? Understand?
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Yeah?
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So what well? I intend to make that test in
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court tomorrow If it's negative, the jury will know that
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you didn't kill Kenneth Arch. I don't understand that kind
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of stuff. I'm not asking you to understand. If you
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stab that man, a jug full of chemical is going
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to turn pink and you can kiss your freedom goodbye.
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But there's something else. If you ever cut anybody with
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that knife, even yourself, that chemical will turn pink. So
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I want you to tell me, now, was there ever
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blood on that knife? Hey, you're trying to trick me.
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Answer the question. I told you I didn't cut that guy, Benny. No,
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I was brand new. I never cut nothing with it.
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Are you sure? Absolutely sure? Not even your own finger.
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No.
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You can fool me, kid, but you can't fool a
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test tube. I'm telling you the truth, all right, Benny.
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We'll see how true it is. We'll give that knife
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a bath tomorrow, and God help us both. If you
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lied to me, Well, it looks like Nicholas Wedge is
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facing a real test in that courtroom tomorrow. He'll be
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putting his own convictions on the line in order to
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avoid conviction for his client. Personally. I plan to attend
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that court session, and you will too, simply by staying
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right where you are until I returned shortly with that. Three.
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When you say when you say you see a lot
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of things nobody else to see. When you say that
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you've gone five you can go to get there. When
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you said.
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You call the world, you make away.
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When you said you see your God, you love me
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worries me when you say that you said it, and
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I was a boye Saint Louis.
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This is Marty Glickman with this week's Jets Biz this
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Sunday afternoon of the New York Jets play the Chicago Bears,
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Don't you John Me and Jetstar Dave Herman for all
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the live jet action from Soldiers Field in Chicago.
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At one thirty five. That's one thirty five for the
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Jets Bear game this Sunday afternoon, right here over WR Radio,
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flagship station of the Jets Network. Once again. The trial
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of Benjamin Bleeker is a well attended affair, but the
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spectators have no idea that they're about to witness a
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dramatic experiment in which chemical science will be matched against
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high witness testimony. But let's quiet the courtroom now because
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the judge has something to say. Mister Wickers, is the
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prosecution prepared to make it summary, Yes, your honor, Your honor, Yes,
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mister Edge, your honor, something has occurred which I consider
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of paramount importance to this case. I ask the court's
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permission to introduce new evidence for the defense objection. The
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defense has had efficient time for the introduction of evidence.
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I suggest this is a delaying tactic. What sort of evidence,
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mister Edge. It's a demonstration, your honor, A demonstration which will,
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in my opinion, clearly establish my client's innocence or for
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that matter, is guilt, Your honor. If mister Wedge would
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like a false faut, I don't want a postponement. I
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want to make this demonstration now. If I may be
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permitted to describe it to the court, mister Wickers, if
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the prosecution has no objection, Ah, right, very well, your honor.
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Thank you, mister Wickers. If I may come forward, your honor.
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What is it you have there, mister Edge? This box,
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your honor, contains a beaker with a chemical solution formulated
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for the detection of blood stains. One moment, mister Edge,
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are you introducing expert testimony? Please indulge me, your honor,
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Just let me explain what it's all about very well,
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if I may have exhibit a thank you, ladies and gentlemen.
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You've seen this exhibit many times in the course of
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this trial. The knife which presumably killed Kenneth Archer, the
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knife which was in the possession of Benjamin Bleaker on
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the night of the slain. Now, when someone is killed
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with a knife, what happens to that weapon? Invariably it
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becomes covered with blood. And yet during this entire trial,
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not one mention has been made of that word. Well,
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I mention it now blood. Oh, look carefully at this weapon.
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I'm sure you all know that it has never left
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the court's possession since my client was arrested. I look
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at this blade. See how clean and shiny it is.
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That's not surprising. Knife is new, purchased only a few
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weeks ago. But what may surprise you is that this clean,
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shiny blade can still tell a story of guilt or innocence. For,
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as every chemist knows, there is a virtually infallible test
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which can determine whether an object of such porous metal
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has ever touched even one drop of blood. Your honor,
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I intend to prove once and for all, whether I
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have been defending a young man falsely accused or a
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lying murderer. I intend to dip the blade of this
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knife in a solution of reduced phenophthaline, the most sensitive
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of all blood detection chemical. At one moment, mister wedd Yes,
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mister Wickers, you say the best baker contains what well?
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I'll try to pronounce it a second time, mister Wickers,
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although the first was tough enough reduced phenophthaline, and how
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can we be certain that it contains? This solution could
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be as far as we know. I have a statement
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here from doctor Harold Haggerty of the Dugan Hospital, testifying
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as to the content I one moment, Please, if you
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plan to produce expert testimony, why isn't that expert here
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to testify. I don't plan to call a witness, mister Wickers.
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I plan only to make this test. But you are
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aware that the accepted blood test in this county is
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the Benstein test, which, if the prosecution will allow me
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to conclude my statement. Mister Webs, do you presume to
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be a greater expert in forensic chemistry than the County
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Police laboratory. I'm not presuming anything. I'm telling you that
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if the knife blade turns the solution pink. It will
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prove beyond the doubt that there was blood on Benjamin
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Bleeker's knife. But if it remains clear, you're on our objection.
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Stand your objection, counselor. This is the most ridiculous and
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flamboyant thing I've ever seen in the courtroom. The police
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laboratory has already made the standard test of the weapon
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and found no bloodstains on the knife. It was white, Queen,
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But your honor, the sensitivity of this test. There's no
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time during this trial has the prosecution denied that absence
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of bloodstains. Mister Wedge is planning to demonstrate something we
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already know using a test which is not accepted as
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standard laboratory procedures. I suggest that this soul called demonstration
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is pure theatrics intended to mislead and confuse the jury.
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Mister Wedg, your court must agree with the prosecution. You
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are not a qualified expert in forensic chemistry. The cooperation
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of the police laboratory report is cantuitous evidence which must
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be considered inadmissible. But my client was willing to have
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me make the test, don't you see he knew the
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chance he was taking sorry, the demonstration is improper. Objection
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is a stand, But your honor, Grand mister Edge, you
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cannot make the a test. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury.
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I believe that Benjamin Bleeker is innocent. I believe this
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because of a test which I was not permitted to make.
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This boy knew that the results of this test might
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have condemned him to life in prison, and yet Benjamin
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Bleeker told me to proceed. What could be more obvious
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that no guilty person would have done so? Will the
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foreman of the jury please rise? Has the jury reached
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its verdict in this case?
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We have your honor.
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How do you find the defendant Benjamin Bleeker guilty or
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that it's guilty.
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We find the defendant not guilty.
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Bless you, mister Wedge, God bless you for what you
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did out there. Yeah, you really did a job on
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a mister Wedge. Jay, thanks a lot. I didn't ask
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you in here to congratulate me. I had another reason. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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I know we should talk about the fee. No, mister Bleacher,
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it's not my fee. I'm worrying about. It's my conscience.
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Your conscience. Why because of what I just did? Yeah,
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but you say, my boy, Yes, I know, but in
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order to do that, I had to resort to exactly
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what the prosecuting attorney called pure theatrics. What I uh,
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I don't understand. I didn't want to make that test.
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Do you understand? I didn't want to make it, didn't
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even plan on making it. I would have had to,
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I suppose if there was no objection, But that was
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the chance I took it. Man, you you didn't want to.
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If the stuff in this beaker had turned pink, it
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would have been all over for your son. I was
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counting on the prosecution objecting. I wanted their objections because
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I thought the jury would be impressed simply by the
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fact that we were volunteering this experiment. Yeah, but if
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you had made the test, it would have been all
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right too. How do you know WHOA? Because it would
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have been because what my son said was true. Well,
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there's only one way we can really know that, isn't there.
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You see this, mister blake Kery, that's my knife. That's
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right Exhibit A. What are you going to do? We're
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going to make the test that judge wouldn't allow. We're
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going to make it privately, just for us. But why
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what does it matter now? It matters to me. That's why.
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Hand me that knife, please, the knife, Give it to me.
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Don't you want to know the truth too? The truth? Papa?
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What are you doing? What are you doing with that knife? How?
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Cutting myself? What? Mister cutting my hand? Well? Hop, are
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you crazy there here? Mister Wedge? HESI and knife? Make
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your tests now? Well, that's what I would call up
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bloody good demonstration of fatherly affection. Maybe Nicholas Wedge will
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never know whether his client was guilty or innocent, but
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he'll never forget that he's seen vivid proof that blood
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is indeed thicker than water. I'll be back shortly. Pardon
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me message? Huh? Can you tell me what happens this
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time of year?
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Bob reaches its peak? Nope, Muskmelon reaches its peak?
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No?
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No, does it in any way involve something reaching its peak?
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No? Not really. What happens this time of year is
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that you can get a really outstanding deal on Buick's
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small but surprisingly elegant Apollo, And with what's happening to Price's,
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you may never have a better chance to buy a Buwer. Hey,
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I know what.
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Happened the Buzzards come back to Hinkley Ridge, Ohio.
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Oh I thought of that. Our cast included Jay Gregory,
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Robert Dryden, Bob Caliban, Grace Matthews, and Ira Lewis. The
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entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown Radio.
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Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Anheuser Bush Incorporated,
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brewers of Budweiser and Buick Motor Division.
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This is E. G.
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Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
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another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams.
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The Worr Mystery Theater has been brought to you by
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little less, by Suburban Savings with offices throughout North Jersey,
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Theater program was furnished by the CBS Radio Network.
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Oh well, I see you know what it means when
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I put the record on record. Well, my dear, it's
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00:45:59.679 --> 00:46:02.679
about time for you to head back and for me
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00:46:02.800 --> 00:46:06.320
to go back to wherever it is I came from.
709
00:46:07.599 --> 00:46:10.920
But I do hope you will take your time on
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00:46:11.039 --> 00:46:15.559
the walk home in the dark. Or was that, Oh no,
711
00:46:16.840 --> 00:46:20.000
they're not a problem, not this time of year anyway.
712
00:46:21.199 --> 00:46:26.360
But as you make your long jaunt home across the street,
713
00:46:26.559 --> 00:46:32.840
through the river, not quite to grandmother's house at all. Well,
714
00:46:34.119 --> 00:46:37.960
when you get home, when you lay down in that warm,
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00:46:38.840 --> 00:46:42.440
cozy bed of your orders, as your eyes get heavy
716
00:46:42.519 --> 00:46:46.440
and you prepare to enter into the wonderful land of nod,
717
00:46:47.599 --> 00:46:51.599
please take a moment and be thankful. Thank you for
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00:46:51.719 --> 00:46:54.880
what you have. I'll be here next time.
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00:47:00.679 --> 00:47:09.679
Calling him, call them Comma ramadi, commas the wrong, bring down,
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bringing you, brombling you, mumbling tim think of break
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