November 18, 2025 • 42 mins
CBS Radio Mystery Theater was a noteworthy attempt to revive in American radio dramas like Inner Sanctum (1941-1952) and Suspense (1942-1962). Radio dramas were widely considered "dead" 12 years prior to this series. CBS Radio Mystery Theater, or simply Mystery Theater, was created by Inner Sanctum creator Himan Brown and ran on CBS from 1974-1982. The show, much like older radio dramas, was introduced by a host (E.G. Marshall in this program), who steers us through the creaking door to start the episode. Many voices from the golden age of radio were featured, including Richard Widmark, Bret Morrison, Agnes Moorehead and many more. Find more classic, old-time radio series at Theater of the Mind - OTR | Spreaker | Apple | YouTube
Enjoy all six of our commercial-free internet radio stations at theaterofthemind-otr.com - Do you want to discover more of these classic, old-time radio series? Search "Theater of the Mind - OTR" on your favorite platform or visit Theater of the Mind - OTR | Apple | Spreaker | YouTube | Spotify | Amazon | iHeart
Enjoy all six of our commercial-free internet radio stations at theaterofthemind-otr.com - Do you want to discover more of these classic, old-time radio series? Search "Theater of the Mind - OTR" on your favorite platform or visit Theater of the Mind - OTR | Apple | Spreaker | YouTube | Spotify | Amazon | iHeart
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Radio Mystery Theater presents. Come in.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Or welcome.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
I'm a g Marshall. I'm sure you know by now
that the door you have just entered leads to a
strange world, a land of forbidden fancies, peopled by giants
and pygmies, kings and cobblers, saints and sinners. Happy children
play in its streets, while just behind lurk iniquitous monsters.
(00:43):
Unspeakable crimes are committed here, and acts of breath taking valor.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
You are the sovereign in this place.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
It is the realm of your own imagination. Our story
this time searches one of its deep recesses, the hidden
place of Seers. Our mystery drama Reunion Fever, was written
(01:13):
especially for Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and stars Phyllis Newman.
It is sponsored in part by True Value Hardware Stores
and Bwick Mortar Views. I'll be back shortly with that one.
(01:36):
The never ending struggle for existence inspired mister Darwin to
think in terms of natural selection, which in turn led
him to speculate on the concept of the survival of
the fittest. Like all great truths, survival of the fittest
applies everywhere and everything as an example, a smarter police
(02:00):
force actually creates a cleverer type of criminal, and the
science discovers more pokent germ killers. We suddenly find ourselves
trying to cope with stronger, deadlier, and more stubborn strains
of Germans. And so I'm both a social and medical front.
Humanity is running a grim race for survival. We're in
(02:22):
the city of the Southwest.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Come in, well, come in, were crying out loud. You
differ something, We don't just stand there. What do you want,
Senor Bunner?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yeah, my name is Bunner. What do you.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Want the Oh are you from the employment agency? Did
the employment Oh yeah, Julius center run.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Your name is Emiliano. Well, Julius is sently worse. Okay,
look you just keep out of sight and keep your
mouth set. Okay, I understand. Okay, friendly, you walk through
that door and Marcia will take care of you. Hey, MARSI,
this old guy just coming in as one of Julius's beauties.
(03:12):
Well he looks clean enough anyway. Make sure he washes
his hands good. Now, put him to work setting up
the table for the banquet. No, no, the one in
the grand ballroom. Yeah, I show him how to set
out the dishes and the water glass in the silver Yeah,
there's going to be some banquet.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I wish it was over.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Huh yeah, no, Hey, you know time it is. It's
Four's after four in the morning. Did they want why
(03:58):
would I want to tune in a new.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Well? What I what do I care about? What are
you saying, Marcia? I'll call you back, Hull, just let
me tune it.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
In the last three hours, the wailing of sirens just
pierced the quiet of the early morning hours.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Forty seven persons.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Have been stricken.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Hour by hour, indeed, minute.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
By minute, the red number.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Increases by w f we of completely unknown origins, with
temperatures running his highs one hundred and five and even
one hundred and six, which is not responsive to any
known antibotic a drug. Five people are already dead. The
name is being withheld temporarily tell me up. At this point,
absolutely nothing is known of the fatal fever that is
presently sending his victims to every hospital in town, except
(04:48):
that all of those stricken were attending a bank with
last evening in the Grand ballroom of the James Bowie
Hotel to celebrate the reunion of the.
Speaker 7 (04:56):
West Side High School.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Plans of nineteen sixty the City Hill Homes, Doctor Norma Schwartz,
does every resource of the municipal, state and federal government.
Will we brought the mayor on the cakes or news
as it happened.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Doctor Schwartz.
Speaker 8 (05:16):
Hello, mister Bunner.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Please sit down. Doc's what's going on?
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Have you been listening to the news, reading the newspapers
for sure? Then you know as much as anyone else.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
But forty seven people in the house.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
That's now fifty eight. Why we can't diagnose it. We're
getting help from all over the country, but nobody recognizes
this thing.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Look, do you know me?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I run the cleanest operation this time. You know that
there's never been a violation in this jointy I know.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Of any kind. How could a thing like this happened
to my hotel?
Speaker 6 (05:51):
Well that's what we're here to find out. I want
samples of every bit of food, all the liquids that
we're serving.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
You'll get them.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
I want to see every employee who worked the banquet.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Will you just tell me when and where you want
him and I'll send him.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Thank you, mister Bunner. I knew we could count.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
On you, doc, Doc, you got to get to the
bottom of this.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Who's gonna who's gonna wanna rent a ballroom? Who's even
gonna want to come into the hotel.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
The latest number in the mysterious disease, which has been
called reunion fever, now stand at thirteen dead and sixty
four in the hospital. This is from a total of
few hundred and seventy six persons would into the event.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Hey my, say, where's that list I have to send
over to the Board of health. You know, everybody who
worked at banquet? Well, oh yeah, I see, I see,
it's right in front of me. I'm sorry, I just
can't say it's trade.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
What's whose last name on the bottom of the list?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Or Emiliana?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Oh no, oh no, take take his name off, Mercie.
He can't have his name on that list. Well, can't
you figure it out, Julius, send him over. He is
an illegal alien. He'll get deported, we'll get fined. Well,
just type the sheet over again and leave this in
mediato office.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Ladies and gentlemen of the media, I am sorry to
say we are still in the dark as far as
a my serious maladies Reunion fever is concerned.
Speaker 8 (07:28):
Is that a bar?
Speaker 6 (07:29):
We don't know of a ser We don't know that either,
ladies and gentlemen. As a doctor and public health official,
I'm in the embarrassing and frustrating position of having to
say I don't know to all of your quests.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Leader, Yes, it's MAINI Well, what are you?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Where do you think I was working?
Speaker 6 (07:55):
I called your office, I called you, and I called you,
but you were out? Were you another woman?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I was not. I had to go to the highway
to check out a road crew.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
I'm so scared. You know how scared I am.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (08:11):
No, I could die, That's how scared.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Baby. You don't have to be scared. I'd ever take
up with another gown. Now you know? I only love you?
Speaker 6 (08:23):
Do you mean that?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Means?
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Do you really mean that?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Cross my heart and hope to die?
Speaker 6 (08:32):
You just made me so happy?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
What is it?
Speaker 8 (08:36):
The letter? The letter?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
What letter?
Speaker 6 (08:41):
The letter that came for you?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
This letter, President, This letter's been opened. You had no
right to open a letter addressed to money.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
I was afraid it was from some woman. I can't
help her. I'm jealous.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Well is it from another woman?
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I wish it?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Read it? Read it? All right, mister Maynard Tarbo twenty
three grasmeerteris dear sir. He attended the reunion of the
West Side High School class of nineteen sixty at the
Grand Ballroom of the James Bowie Hotel.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
What is this?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
You know by now that many of your classmates have
come down with so called reunion fever, a serious and
in many cases fatal disease that has baffled the best
efforts of medical science. Sooner or later, everyone who was
there will contract this disease. Disease is known only to us.
(09:44):
We have developed it in a laboratory. It is a
form of poison, and only we have the antidote.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Don't you see, Maynard?
Speaker 6 (09:53):
It's some kind of a plot.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
At least half of the victims will die. But you
don't have to take the chance. For the sum of
ten thousand dollars, we will supply you with the antidote
and save your life.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
Maybe.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
If you want to be sure of living, place an
ad in the personal column of the Globe that says
I love life, and you will receive further instructions. If
you attempt to contact the authorities in any manner, you
will forever forfeit any chance to receive the antidote.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
I mean, if we have to raise ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Ten thousand dollars, where would we get life? Your life, prestis.
I'm going to the police. It's my duty as a citizen.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Anecdote.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
If the police could catch these criminals and maybe get
their hands on the antidote.
Speaker 6 (10:47):
Are desperate people, clever people? Look at what they did.
They were willing to kill more than two hundred and
fifty people.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Oh but these people, they're getting away with murders.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
What can we do about it? Is it worth your life?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Ten thousand dollars? Well, why didn't they ask for ten millions?
Speaker 6 (11:04):
I can get ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Oh no, Oh I have to do.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Is say to my father, I need ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
No, I swore we would never take a nickel from
your old man.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Your fault. You wanted to go to that surreal reunion.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
It was my old high school player.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Are we standing here and arguing about do we have
a choice?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Well? Maybe maybe?
Speaker 6 (11:23):
Again, what kind of maybe is it?
Speaker 5 (11:25):
This time?
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Doctors from all over the country are working on it.
Maybe they found something to cure it.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
What's in that letter is fat. Oh maybe you've got
to get that Answerdoe. I can't see anyone. I don't
have a minute. Haven't explained it to you. Oh all right,
let him in, Yes, come on in. You're mister Targa.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
That's right, made it, Tarbell? Tell your boss. I want
to see him my boss.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Yeah, I understand.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
The head doctor here is doctor Schwartz.
Speaker 8 (12:08):
I'm doctor Schwartz.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Oh yeah, well that's me. I always put my foot in.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
Mister Tarboro. Please state your business here.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
I I really thought you had to be Dr Schwartz's seconds.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
I'm very busy.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
I want to apologize, Doctor Schwartz.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
No, look, I told you we'll make a statement to
the press as soon as we have something to go on.
At this point, we do not know the cause of
reunion fever.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Look excuse me, doctor Schwartz, but I guess we do
know the cause of reunion fever.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
What what did you say?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
That's why I came to see you.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
I decided it was the right thing to do, and
that means, no matter what happens, it's the only thing
to do.
Speaker 8 (12:54):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Well, here, read this letter.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Read.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Purpose was the best friend I had in high school.
He died last night, and show did a lot of
other guys and girls. I knew. I guess I just
I have to do something about it.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
This letter came to you in the mail? Yeah, yes, doctor,
And who else knows about it?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Er President, she's my wife.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
You're a brave man, mister Tarbell, A brave man and
a good man. Get me, Lieutenant Rayfield at Homicide.
Speaker 9 (13:35):
Yeah, this is some letter, doctor Schwartz.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
Well, obviously we are now dealing with a murder plot,
Lieutenant Rayfield.
Speaker 7 (13:41):
This is the letter in the envelope that was mailed
in Well, and also we have no chance for fingerprints.
All right, we'll just have to run it down. The
one thing I don't understand concerns you, mister Tarbell.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Yeh, yes, Lieutenant.
Speaker 7 (13:55):
Don't you believe these guys?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Believe them? Well, yes, sir, I believe them. I most
certainly do believe them.
Speaker 9 (14:02):
And what are you doing here?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Here?
Speaker 7 (14:04):
It says if you attempt to contact your authorities in
any manner, you will forever forfeit any chance to receive
the antidote. So what are you doing here? I mean,
doctor Schwarzen, myself were the authorities?
Speaker 9 (14:15):
Why did you.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Show us this letter. It's my duty as a city.
Speaker 7 (14:18):
Yeah, yeah, I know all about that, and I don't
believe a word of it.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Hey look, lieutenant, I don't have figured you out.
Speaker 7 (14:24):
Many people are dying left and right from that thing.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
In any minute, you could come down with that fever.
Speaker 7 (14:28):
Ten grand is certainly cheap enough to save your life
if by coming here you could be signing your own
death work.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
Why, oh, lieutenant, isn't it possible that some people may
be motivated by idealistic considerations?
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (14:42):
Sure, sure, sure in the movies, in the books, because
that's what we'd like to believe. But you and I
we can't afford to believe that way.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I mean, you're a doctor, I'm a cop.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
We know how people behave when life and death are
on the line.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
Still, there are those views.
Speaker 7 (14:57):
Yes, every now and then you run across a saint. Somehow,
I don't think that's you, mister Tarbell. So I'm going
to ask you that question again.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Why are you here?
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Well, Lieutenant, I I have a confession to make. Consion
and what sort of confession could it possibly be? Confession,
as we all know, is supposed to be good for
the soul. But nowhere is it written that confession is
(15:35):
beneficial to the body. Well, I too have a confession.
I shall return shortly with that too. For extreme illnesses,
(15:56):
extreme treatments are most fitting. Those are the words of
Hippocrates himself, the father and the founder of medicine. Obviously,
we're dealing here with a most extreme illness, and an
extreme treatment is absolutely in order, provided we can discover
what it is. You have a confession, mister Tarbell, Yeah,
(16:19):
yes I have, Lieutenant, I'm in a spot or my wife.
I've been a good husband, a great husband, but well
she's convinced I'm cheating on her. She's what are you
you call a paranoid on that subject?
Speaker 8 (16:36):
Are you cheating on it?
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Well?
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Yeah, here and there and now and then when I
get the chance, mister Tarbell, where's all this leading us?
But she's never once been able to prove it?
Speaker 9 (16:47):
All right, Well, let's get back to the letter.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Oh yeah, hey, the letter. I had to bring the
letter here because even though I could have said nothing
and done nothing, paid out the ten thousand, which wouldn't
mean the thing.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Believe her, old man is so rich.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
But you would get the antidote and save your life.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
I don't need the antidote.
Speaker 9 (17:07):
What do you mean you don't need the antidote?
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Because I wasn't at the banquet? I didn't go.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
But then, why couldn't you tell your wife and relieve
her mind?
Speaker 1 (17:16):
You don't understand she divorced me. I sent in my
ten bucks for a reservation. Sure it would be a
night out, and then I figured why I waste it
on a reunion? I called up some girl you know,
I know? And do I have to tell you who
she is?
Speaker 9 (17:36):
Just keep talking.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Well, the long and short of it is, I spent
the evening with this girl at her apartment. I thought
I was in the clear, and then this letter came
to the house while I was at work, and she
opened it because well, she just.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Doesn't trust me.
Speaker 9 (17:52):
I don't wonder why.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Now, look, lieutenant, this is a murder case, isn't it,
And I'm a witness. You've got to protect me, even
if it's against my wife.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
Worry, mister Tarbells, she'll never hear it from us, and
you have done your duty as a citizen.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Well what should I do now?
Speaker 7 (18:08):
You say you can get the money August like that,
I'll bring it here, we'll market and you will follow
the instructions. Any luck with the top psychologists.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Doctor Schwartz, So far nothing.
Speaker 8 (18:24):
The top people in the field are working on it.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
The class of nineteen sixty someone is trying to destroy it.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
Why, Well, high school can be a traumatic experience. Have
you checked on the kids who were unhappy on social resentful?
Speaker 7 (18:41):
Well, I had a session with the principal. She was
supposed to be at the banquet, but fortunately she who
was ill that night. We had a meet with some
of the teachers and guidance counselors who were there during
the years nineteen fifty six through sixty, and they remember
that class very well. We discussed each student, everyone who
seemed to have even the slight I is problem, the
tiniest clevance, you know something. Everyone is accounted for everyone now,
(19:08):
one way or another. One boy died in Vietnam, one
girl died in child either the most likely candidates evidently
weren't that unhappy because they attended the banquet and all
of them are in the hospital.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
But those were the ones who could be spotted. Many
kids just nurse a silent grudge until one day.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Yes, yes, I know, I know.
Speaker 7 (19:28):
I'm just saying we ran that lead as hard down
as it could go. What kind of poison could do
that kind of job on people?
Speaker 8 (19:37):
Nothing that we know of so far.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
Come in, Yes, mister Tarbell, I got the money.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
Good, we'll market with an invisible die and put the ad.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
In the globe.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yeah, I love life.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
I know.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
I know she's busy, but I got to talk to her. Yeah.
Look look you said she returned my call yesterday and
the day before and the day before that. And yeah, yeah, okay,
yeah I understand. Yes, yes, thank you, yes, goodbye, Marcy.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Well you're coming here and take a letter. Boy, I
am definitely getting a run around here.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Oh March, come come in, sit down, sit down. You
write this exactly the way I'm giving it you, Okay?
To Dr Norma Schwartz, Chief Health Officers on so so,
Dear doctor Schwartz, I know you're busy, but for crying
out loud, I cooperated with you, did I? I turned
the joint inside out and upside down? You want to
(20:47):
put me out of business? Can't you make a statement
saying that whatever happened, it wasn't the fault of the
James Volie Hotel. For fifty years, the landmark of Southwestern
hospitality unquote. Okay, now you typed it up and said
right out, and don't change a single word, even if
you did go to college.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
I'll cut for crying out loud and change joint the hotel.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Okay, okay, and don't mail it. I don't wanted to
get to the next Christmas. Have somebody deliver it by hand.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
The phone.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
There's three in the morning, street Moon answer yeah, hello, yeah, no, no, no,
don't don't worry. I'm not going to try to trace
the car.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Yeah, well, what do you want me to do?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Yeah, yeah, okay, no, no, no, I won't tell anybody.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Yeah, I got it.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
Hello, Hello, hung up.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
It's about the antidote.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Yeah, what do we have to do. I'm not allowed
to tell you what I know, honey, but it would
be dangerous.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
We have to share danger and everything. Who are you calling?
Speaker 1 (22:20):
It's Lieutenant Raphael's home number. You bet your life the police. Hello,
little lieutenant, my manor Tarbell. I just got a phone call,
and I'm supposed to go to the corner of Crescent
and Maine and just wait for somebody money in an
(22:42):
envelope in exactly one hour.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Okay, do it.
Speaker 7 (22:45):
We'll see the place is covered.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Okay, what did you do?
Speaker 2 (22:50):
What had to be done?
Speaker 6 (22:52):
These people they'll be watching the police.
Speaker 8 (22:55):
They'll see the cops crest.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Please, don't care how clever the police they they are.
They'll be spotted. Rassen a nine. It's a white boulevard.
Where can the police hide.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I have to get through.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
Oh no, I'm frightened.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
The important thing is that these killers must be called.
Speaker 6 (23:12):
No, the important thing, The only thing is to live.
You have to get that antidote.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I'm going to get the antidote.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
Not if they see the cops, and then you'll be
throughful baby.
Speaker 10 (23:27):
For thing's gonna be okay, I.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Okay, I'll be back right away. No, no, no, honey,
I have to go. And that's all there is to it.
(23:53):
Nadab Yes, do not turn around. Uh oh okay, you
will happy umble out.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Yeah yeah, with ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yes, hold it behind your back. Yeah sure. No tricks now, no, no, no, no,
no tricks.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
A gun is being pointed at you.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Uh you you can trust me.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
Host the underlop. Good, I'll take it.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Do that turn around?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
No no, I won't.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
How still the antidote. How about the antidote?
Speaker 6 (24:32):
Wait till the money is counted.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Okay, oh oh, okay, now your instructions. You will count
your fifty understand slowly?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Yeah, sure, like this what.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
Two three?
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I get it, I get it.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
You will then turn around walk two doors were.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Turn into the festival number eight eight, number eighty eight,
right inst that it's a small bottle.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
That is the.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Okay, start out well, with the help of Maynard Tarbell.
That appears that the police have led the perpetrators as
they are called into a trap. Surely the net must
catch the face. After all, this is the kind of
thing the police do extremely well. So this should be
(25:37):
the end of our story, except for the Department of
loose ends. However, the seasoned listeners among you know that
this kind of thing can never end here. With that too,
I shall return shortly with our final act. Man is
(26:04):
supposed to be the most intelligent of all the animals
on the earth. After all, man is the only living
creature on the planet who has the ability to make plans.
The making of plans, this is truly the thing that
elevates us above the beasts. And yet, when one considers
what happens to so many of the plans we make
(26:27):
here below. One wonders how great a gift it is. Indeed,
art the worse. I've got the antidote right here in
this bottle.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
The antidote.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Yeah. Look, get this to e lab or wherever you
have to have and analyze and do whatever you have
to do to well it's just supposed to do. Maybe
we can save some lives the antidote. Look, I didn't
wait for anything or anybody. I looked up your address
in the phone book and how I got here as
fast as I could.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
Doctor Kravic, I know what time it is.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Get it.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
We have an antidote to reunion fever.
Speaker 8 (27:05):
I'll explain everything later.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
Just get over here as quickly as you can, pick
it up and go to the lab.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Right.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
I got the phone call and the voice said to
go to the corner of Maine and Crescent. I tipped
off Lieutenant Rayfield to have the place stakeout.
Speaker 8 (27:19):
We were able to see anyone wasn't gonna.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Take any chances.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
I did as I was told, whoever it was, grab
the money and took off, but the cops were there
to bag wonderful.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
I knew how important the stuff was, so I didn't
hang around or anything.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
I just rushed over here with it.
Speaker 8 (27:34):
Well, you did the right thing.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
But most important, we know Lieutenant Rayfield was covering you.
Speaker 8 (27:40):
The criminal or criminals must have been caught red handed.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
We can find out from them just what the poison is.
Speaker 8 (27:47):
That that would save time.
Speaker 6 (27:49):
I mean it could take days to analyze that antidote.
It could even be possible. But this way, yes, Lieutenant Rayfield, Yes,
Lieutenant Rayfield, Frederick Rayfield. Do you mean he's off duty?
He has to be there now, Sergeant, I am doctor
(28:10):
Norma Schwartz, chief health officer.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Just a minute.
Speaker 6 (28:16):
Are you saying Lieutenant Rayfield has not been at headquarters
since he signed out at four o'clock yesterday afternoon? Sergeant,
there must be there, Mustard, Sergeant, what is Lieutenant Rayfield's
home number?
Speaker 9 (28:35):
You went there and delivered the money?
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Do you mean you didn't?
Speaker 7 (28:40):
Well, of course not.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
Then they got away, Lieutenant, I called.
Speaker 7 (28:44):
Somebody's gonna have a lot of explaining to do.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
An awful life. What are you saying?
Speaker 7 (28:48):
It couldn't have been three minutes after you called. I
wasn't even finished getting dressed. In the phone rings it
was your wife, my wife, she said, They called back
whoever they were, and they said it was off, either they.
Speaker 9 (28:57):
Didn't like the setup or something. They call again tomorrow,
I'd make another arrangement.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Said that Crestor called you.
Speaker 6 (29:10):
How can you why? I was scared?
Speaker 9 (29:13):
Just a stop value. You had no right to w
interfere with?
Speaker 2 (29:15):
What with?
Speaker 10 (29:16):
What?
Speaker 6 (29:16):
Lieutenant? How are you fellows going to be able to
plant yourself without anyone being wise to you? All I
did was protect my husband's life. That's more important to
me than anything or anybody. That's nothing. All I know
is you've got that antidote. All I know is you're
going to live, so that's all that count.
Speaker 9 (29:40):
The voice on the phone, was it a man or
a woman?
Speaker 1 (29:44):
I don't know what it could have been either. It
spoken a whisperer. How can you sell?
Speaker 9 (29:49):
And you didn't see the person who made the pick up?
I heard was a voice yes, and also a whisper
you sir?
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Uh yeah? It said there was a gun being held
on Rea. I was told to pass the money back
without looking counter fifty and go to the vestibule of
number eighty eight Crescent and pick up the antidote.
Speaker 7 (30:09):
Did you see or hear anything you might be able
to recognize.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Lieutenant, I wasn't bothering with any of that. I thought
you guys had them prapped. All I wanted to do
was get my hands on that antidote.
Speaker 8 (30:21):
Doctor Schwartz, what's that You're positive?
Speaker 9 (30:29):
Yes, doctor credit, Well, at least we got the anidote
out of it.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
I see, I'm afraid we didn't unless it's sugar and water.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Sugar and water, that is what is.
Speaker 8 (30:40):
Revealed by chemical analysis.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
But it can't be ten thousand dollars for sugar and water.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Cold blooded killers.
Speaker 8 (30:49):
All right, Let's get to some of the others on
the list.
Speaker 6 (30:52):
Ask them if they've received a similar letter.
Speaker 9 (30:54):
It's already been done.
Speaker 7 (30:55):
No one will admit to getting one, but should everyone's scared,
I can understan.
Speaker 6 (31:01):
But now we can say to them, look, don't be fooled.
Speaker 8 (31:04):
It's a scheme to get money.
Speaker 6 (31:06):
This is all It is, sugar and water.
Speaker 9 (31:08):
No one would believe you.
Speaker 8 (31:11):
So what are we going to do?
Speaker 9 (31:12):
All right, Doc, let's start at the beginning.
Speaker 7 (31:14):
Somebody is out to destroy the West Side High School
class of sixty. Oh, why we've asked the principal, some teachers.
Speaker 9 (31:22):
Okay, here we have Maynard Tarborough.
Speaker 7 (31:24):
Maynard, who among your fellow students would want to wipe
out the whole class.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Well, there was a time when I wanted to. I
did a lot of work for the school, and when
I ran for class president, they gave it to somebody
who never did a lick?
Speaker 2 (31:38):
All right? Who else?
Speaker 1 (31:40):
There was one kid who really got razzed all the time.
He stuttered and people would.
Speaker 8 (31:45):
Laugh whatever happened to him.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
His name was uh Banks, George Bank.
Speaker 9 (31:51):
I checked him out. He's the one who was killed
in Vietnam.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
Anybody else, maybe someone a teacher wouldn't know about, but
a student will.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
And forget the students. I can think of a teacher
a teacher, you know. She was kind of an old maid,
wore a lot of makeup and dressed funny. She talked
French between you and me. I don't think she was
all there anyhow.
Speaker 9 (32:14):
She's the teacher.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
The kids played all the tricks on, and some of
them were pretty mean. She'd open a desk drawer and
it'd be a snake.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
You know.
Speaker 9 (32:21):
Yeah, that sounds like a great school.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Well, the idea was to get her to lose her temper,
because then she'd turned purple and you'd swear her hair
was standing on end and she'd scream at everybody at
the top of her lungs.
Speaker 6 (32:33):
If she's the ones who did the poisoning, I'm not
really sure who side I'm on.
Speaker 9 (32:37):
What was her name?
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Le Blanc?
Speaker 5 (32:41):
Marie?
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Who gets le blank?
Speaker 9 (32:44):
Is there anyone else?
Speaker 1 (32:45):
It's like opening a can of worm.
Speaker 9 (32:48):
Yeah, oh hello, I connect me with the principal place.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
How deep does some grudges go?
Speaker 1 (32:54):
How long does some people nurses?
Speaker 7 (32:56):
So Lucas is Lieutenant Rightfield? You used to have a
French teacher there named to miss Leblank. Oh I see, no, no, no,
that's all I have to ask at this point.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
I'll let you know.
Speaker 7 (33:06):
Thank you, goodbye, Sir. Miss LeBlanc has been in a
sanitarium for the past five years. What he meant to
say was an insane asylum.
Speaker 9 (33:15):
So that lets her out.
Speaker 6 (33:17):
Lieutenant Why did mister Tarbell here get that note? He
was not at the banquet.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
You promised me my wife would never find out.
Speaker 6 (33:25):
His name was on a list, don't you see?
Speaker 9 (33:27):
Yeah, yeah, his name was on a list.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
That's obvious.
Speaker 8 (33:29):
Therefore his name was chosen from a list.
Speaker 9 (33:31):
Well, that's obvious too.
Speaker 8 (33:33):
Furthermore, there'd be no point in sending him that note.
Speaker 6 (33:36):
Actually, it would be dangerous if he were already dead
or in the hospital, so therefore his name was checked
off against a list. So the killer has a list.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Well, that's obvious.
Speaker 8 (33:48):
How did the killer get that list?
Speaker 9 (33:50):
Underd the killer get Hey just a minute.
Speaker 8 (33:54):
Mister Tarbill, whose idea was the banquet?
Speaker 2 (33:57):
That's easy.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Larry Jackson a booster, Jackson Jackson, let's have a reunion.
Everybody says, yeah, hey, Greg, but it takes work, and
only Larry was willing to do it. He got the hotel,
but dinner and everything.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
So he had this list.
Speaker 8 (34:12):
Huh Jackson Jackson, Yes, I remember the name. Now, he
was one of the first fatality.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
All right, that list.
Speaker 7 (34:20):
He had to send it to the hotel so that
they could arrange place cards.
Speaker 8 (34:24):
Okay, now who at the hotel would know about that list?
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Who? Well? Yeah me? It was sent to this office,
but I never read it. What did I care? Oh else?
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Oh it was my secretary Marcy, which reminds me I
have this letter to meil do you You might as
well take it and save me a stay.
Speaker 9 (34:48):
Look about just a second, look.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Doctor Schwartz, I cooperate all the way I need help.
Now read that letter. You'll see why very well.
Speaker 9 (34:57):
Hey, yeah, Secretary Marcy, I'd.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Like to talk.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
I have you my guess, Marcie, you want to come
in here? You see, doctor, I have a legitimate beef,
don't I. This thing can drive me out of business.
Speaker 6 (35:09):
We'll get this thing cleared up as quickly as we can.
Speaker 8 (35:12):
I understand your position, mister Benner.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
I know, I know you understand, But what can you
do about it?
Speaker 6 (35:18):
What could I do about the twenty one people who
died or the seventy who are still in the hospital.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Oh, Marcie, my name. This is the Lieutenant Rayfield and
doctor Schwartz and this young man. I'm sorry I didn't
get your name.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Why it's Marcy, Marcy Wilson.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
You remember me? Yes?
Speaker 6 (35:36):
Yeah, you mean it?
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Have them Marcy.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
She's also a member of the class of sixty.
Speaker 6 (35:44):
Did you go to the reunion?
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
I shouldn't have asked.
Speaker 6 (35:49):
Oh, I do banquet for a living. I just wouldn't
go to Lund for fun.
Speaker 9 (35:53):
Why shouldn't you have asked, mister.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Tar be Bell? Huh what do you mean, Lieutenant?
Speaker 9 (36:00):
Do you want mister Bunnet in just a minute. Why
shouldn't you have asked her if she'd gone to the banquet?
Speaker 2 (36:07):
What are you trying to.
Speaker 9 (36:07):
Hide, mister Tardell.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Oh nothing, Uh no, nothing, you said.
Speaker 9 (36:11):
I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
What does it mean?
Speaker 5 (36:14):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Nothing, It's just just a way of talking. Or I mean,
if someone didn't go to a banquet, I have no right.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
To ask why. But how do you know she didn't go?
She just said so, did didn't she? Yeah?
Speaker 9 (36:28):
She said so after you asked, Well, Marci.
Speaker 8 (36:34):
Marcie, what did you do with the ten thousand dollars?
Speaker 6 (36:39):
What are you talking about? Suppose Lieutenant Rayfield were to
get a search warrant would be fine and hidden.
Speaker 8 (36:44):
In your home.
Speaker 6 (36:45):
I don't know what you're talking about her. This letter
you typed for mister Bunner, it was addressed to me.
Now would the type be the same as the letter
you wrote to mister Tardell. No, No, I didn't do anything.
Speaker 8 (37:00):
Why did you poison those people?
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Good? Lord? No? Is it?
Speaker 1 (37:07):
I'm sorry, Marcia, I'm truly sorry, but I have to
tell you can't.
Speaker 6 (37:12):
You can't violate the school on a code. Only the
awards committee know that they.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Offer Marci, this is murder. That was the year the
students voted on who was to get the medals at graduation,
and Marcy was supposed to get the honors for chemistry.
Speaker 9 (37:27):
Chemistry.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Yeah, but Larry Jackson called a meeting of the awards
committee and charged Marcy with cheating.
Speaker 6 (37:34):
He was jealous, he wanted the mouth.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
We held a closed meeting, and after hearing all the
evidence it was all lies, we decided that Marcy was
actually guilty. Nobody else knew about the trial. Nobody else
knew why Larry Jackson got the medal instead of Marcy.
Speaker 8 (37:50):
Please, Marcy, tell us the chemical or whatever it was.
People are in danger.
Speaker 6 (37:54):
But I didn't poison them. We can prove.
Speaker 8 (37:56):
You wrote the note.
Speaker 6 (37:58):
You know we'll find the money, all right, all right, listen,
I hate everyone in that class. When that disease or
whatever it is, hit him, I said, great serves every
one of them. Right, But believe me, I didn't do
what I didn't. I sure, I figured I could. What
I did was wrong, but it was the way to
scare the rest of you to make your pay. You
(38:20):
voted against me, mans and I was gonna send letters
to everyone else on the committee who didn't die.
Speaker 8 (38:26):
Marcy, please understand. Tell us what poison did you use?
I swear to you I didn't.
Speaker 6 (38:32):
Okay, I committed a crime. I guess it's extortion. I'm guilty,
but believe me, I didn't kill anybody.
Speaker 9 (38:42):
Okay, Marcy, I'm afraid you'll have to come along with me.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Hello, oh Julius. Yeah, look, I need some kitchen help.
What about that? Uh? What's the name? Uh you Miliana?
You know the old guy.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
They make the best workers that do the job to
keep them out hut because they're ailiens. You don't have
to listen to me, you know what I mean. We
send me that the media guy. Huh, he's gone back
to his own country. Well send me somebody just as good.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
A Miliano. And they say you have come back.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Yes, I have come home, but you were sent away.
Speaker 10 (39:38):
I'm very old, heasy.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
I have come home to die.
Speaker 7 (39:43):
Yes, but I must think of every man, woman and
child in this village.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
You have been cursed.
Speaker 7 (39:53):
You'll carry in your blood the angry devil of fever,
the killing devil, and everyone you thought.
Speaker 10 (40:00):
Please effy, I shall stay here in my heart, I
shall go nowhere see Noah.
Speaker 7 (40:08):
In your blood is El Muerto del Diablo, The Devil's Death.
Speaker 10 (40:14):
I dream I must come home to die. I shall
lie down on my bed, I shall never rise again.
Let me die here no more shall I give El
muerto del Diablo.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
I will die here in peace, reunion, fever, or Elmuerto
del Diablo. That depends on where you live, the language
you speak, or the culture of your society. What happened
(40:55):
to Marcy Wilson? They may or may not bring chargers.
They have all kinds of circumstantial evidence. It depends on
how strong they think they can.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
Make the case. Is she guilty?
Speaker 1 (41:09):
Let's explore that one in just a few minutes. Is
Marcy Wilson guilty? Did she callously murder so many of
her former schoolmates? More people have been murdered for smaller motives.
(41:33):
We don't know. The story has told itself.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
Like most of life, it's a mystery.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Our cast included Phyllis Newman, Paul Heck, Bob Caliban, E. V.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
Jester, and Joe Silver.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.
Radio Mystery Theater were sponsored in part by Contact The
twelve Hour Cold Capsule. This is E. G. Marshall inviting
you to return to our Mistay Theater for another adventure
in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams.
Radio Mystery Theater presents. Come in.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Or welcome.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
I'm a g Marshall. I'm sure you know by now
that the door you have just entered leads to a
strange world, a land of forbidden fancies, peopled by giants
and pygmies, kings and cobblers, saints and sinners. Happy children
play in its streets, while just behind lurk iniquitous monsters.
(00:43):
Unspeakable crimes are committed here, and acts of breath taking valor.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
You are the sovereign in this place.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
It is the realm of your own imagination. Our story
this time searches one of its deep recesses, the hidden
place of Seers. Our mystery drama Reunion Fever, was written
(01:13):
especially for Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and stars Phyllis Newman.
It is sponsored in part by True Value Hardware Stores
and Bwick Mortar Views. I'll be back shortly with that one.
(01:36):
The never ending struggle for existence inspired mister Darwin to
think in terms of natural selection, which in turn led
him to speculate on the concept of the survival of
the fittest. Like all great truths, survival of the fittest
applies everywhere and everything as an example, a smarter police
(02:00):
force actually creates a cleverer type of criminal, and the
science discovers more pokent germ killers. We suddenly find ourselves
trying to cope with stronger, deadlier, and more stubborn strains
of Germans. And so I'm both a social and medical front.
Humanity is running a grim race for survival. We're in
(02:22):
the city of the Southwest.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Come in, well, come in, were crying out loud. You
differ something, We don't just stand there. What do you want,
Senor Bunner?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yeah, my name is Bunner. What do you.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Want the Oh are you from the employment agency? Did
the employment Oh yeah, Julius center run.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Your name is Emiliano. Well, Julius is sently worse. Okay,
look you just keep out of sight and keep your
mouth set. Okay, I understand. Okay, friendly, you walk through
that door and Marcia will take care of you. Hey, MARSI,
this old guy just coming in as one of Julius's beauties.
(03:12):
Well he looks clean enough anyway. Make sure he washes
his hands good. Now, put him to work setting up
the table for the banquet. No, no, the one in
the grand ballroom. Yeah, I show him how to set
out the dishes and the water glass in the silver Yeah,
there's going to be some banquet.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I wish it was over.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Huh yeah, no, Hey, you know time it is. It's
Four's after four in the morning. Did they want why
(03:58):
would I want to tune in a new.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Well? What I what do I care about? What are
you saying, Marcia? I'll call you back, Hull, just let
me tune it.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
In the last three hours, the wailing of sirens just
pierced the quiet of the early morning hours.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Forty seven persons.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Have been stricken.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Hour by hour, indeed, minute.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
By minute, the red number.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Increases by w f we of completely unknown origins, with
temperatures running his highs one hundred and five and even
one hundred and six, which is not responsive to any
known antibotic a drug. Five people are already dead. The
name is being withheld temporarily tell me up. At this point,
absolutely nothing is known of the fatal fever that is
presently sending his victims to every hospital in town, except
(04:48):
that all of those stricken were attending a bank with
last evening in the Grand ballroom of the James Bowie
Hotel to celebrate the reunion of the.
Speaker 7 (04:56):
West Side High School.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Plans of nineteen sixty the City Hill Homes, Doctor Norma Schwartz,
does every resource of the municipal, state and federal government.
Will we brought the mayor on the cakes or news
as it happened.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Doctor Schwartz.
Speaker 8 (05:16):
Hello, mister Bunner.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Please sit down. Doc's what's going on?
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Have you been listening to the news, reading the newspapers
for sure? Then you know as much as anyone else.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
But forty seven people in the house.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
That's now fifty eight. Why we can't diagnose it. We're
getting help from all over the country, but nobody recognizes
this thing.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Look, do you know me?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I run the cleanest operation this time. You know that
there's never been a violation in this jointy I know.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Of any kind. How could a thing like this happened
to my hotel?
Speaker 6 (05:51):
Well that's what we're here to find out. I want
samples of every bit of food, all the liquids that
we're serving.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
You'll get them.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
I want to see every employee who worked the banquet.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Will you just tell me when and where you want
him and I'll send him.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Thank you, mister Bunner. I knew we could count.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
On you, doc, Doc, you got to get to the
bottom of this.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Who's gonna who's gonna wanna rent a ballroom? Who's even
gonna want to come into the hotel.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
The latest number in the mysterious disease, which has been
called reunion fever, now stand at thirteen dead and sixty
four in the hospital. This is from a total of
few hundred and seventy six persons would into the event.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Hey my, say, where's that list I have to send
over to the Board of health. You know, everybody who
worked at banquet? Well, oh yeah, I see, I see,
it's right in front of me. I'm sorry, I just
can't say it's trade.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
What's whose last name on the bottom of the list?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Or Emiliana?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Oh no, oh no, take take his name off, Mercie.
He can't have his name on that list. Well, can't
you figure it out, Julius, send him over. He is
an illegal alien. He'll get deported, we'll get fined. Well,
just type the sheet over again and leave this in
mediato office.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Ladies and gentlemen of the media, I am sorry to
say we are still in the dark as far as
a my serious maladies Reunion fever is concerned.
Speaker 8 (07:28):
Is that a bar?
Speaker 6 (07:29):
We don't know of a ser We don't know that either,
ladies and gentlemen. As a doctor and public health official,
I'm in the embarrassing and frustrating position of having to
say I don't know to all of your quests.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Leader, Yes, it's MAINI Well, what are you?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Where do you think I was working?
Speaker 6 (07:55):
I called your office, I called you, and I called you,
but you were out? Were you another woman?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I was not. I had to go to the highway
to check out a road crew.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
I'm so scared. You know how scared I am.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (08:11):
No, I could die, That's how scared.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Baby. You don't have to be scared. I'd ever take
up with another gown. Now you know? I only love you?
Speaker 6 (08:23):
Do you mean that?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Means?
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Do you really mean that?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Cross my heart and hope to die?
Speaker 6 (08:32):
You just made me so happy?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
What is it?
Speaker 8 (08:36):
The letter? The letter?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
What letter?
Speaker 6 (08:41):
The letter that came for you?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
This letter, President, This letter's been opened. You had no
right to open a letter addressed to money.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
I was afraid it was from some woman. I can't
help her. I'm jealous.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Well is it from another woman?
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I wish it?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Read it? Read it? All right, mister Maynard Tarbo twenty
three grasmeerteris dear sir. He attended the reunion of the
West Side High School class of nineteen sixty at the
Grand Ballroom of the James Bowie Hotel.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
What is this?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
You know by now that many of your classmates have
come down with so called reunion fever, a serious and
in many cases fatal disease that has baffled the best
efforts of medical science. Sooner or later, everyone who was
there will contract this disease. Disease is known only to us.
(09:44):
We have developed it in a laboratory. It is a
form of poison, and only we have the antidote.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Don't you see, Maynard?
Speaker 6 (09:53):
It's some kind of a plot.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
At least half of the victims will die. But you
don't have to take the chance. For the sum of
ten thousand dollars, we will supply you with the antidote
and save your life.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
Maybe.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
If you want to be sure of living, place an
ad in the personal column of the Globe that says
I love life, and you will receive further instructions. If
you attempt to contact the authorities in any manner, you
will forever forfeit any chance to receive the antidote.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
I mean, if we have to raise ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Ten thousand dollars, where would we get life? Your life, prestis.
I'm going to the police. It's my duty as a citizen.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Anecdote.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
If the police could catch these criminals and maybe get
their hands on the antidote.
Speaker 6 (10:47):
Are desperate people, clever people? Look at what they did.
They were willing to kill more than two hundred and
fifty people.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Oh but these people, they're getting away with murders.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
What can we do about it? Is it worth your life?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Ten thousand dollars? Well, why didn't they ask for ten millions?
Speaker 6 (11:04):
I can get ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Oh no, Oh I have to do.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Is say to my father, I need ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
No, I swore we would never take a nickel from
your old man.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Your fault. You wanted to go to that surreal reunion.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
It was my old high school player.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Are we standing here and arguing about do we have
a choice?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Well? Maybe maybe?
Speaker 6 (11:23):
Again, what kind of maybe is it?
Speaker 5 (11:25):
This time?
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Doctors from all over the country are working on it.
Maybe they found something to cure it.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
What's in that letter is fat. Oh maybe you've got
to get that Answerdoe. I can't see anyone. I don't
have a minute. Haven't explained it to you. Oh all right,
let him in, Yes, come on in. You're mister Targa.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
That's right, made it, Tarbell? Tell your boss. I want
to see him my boss.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Yeah, I understand.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
The head doctor here is doctor Schwartz.
Speaker 8 (12:08):
I'm doctor Schwartz.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Oh yeah, well that's me. I always put my foot in.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
Mister Tarboro. Please state your business here.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
I I really thought you had to be Dr Schwartz's seconds.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
I'm very busy.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
I want to apologize, Doctor Schwartz.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
No, look, I told you we'll make a statement to
the press as soon as we have something to go on.
At this point, we do not know the cause of
reunion fever.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Look excuse me, doctor Schwartz, but I guess we do
know the cause of reunion fever.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
What what did you say?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
That's why I came to see you.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
I decided it was the right thing to do, and
that means, no matter what happens, it's the only thing
to do.
Speaker 8 (12:54):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Well, here, read this letter.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Read.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Purpose was the best friend I had in high school.
He died last night, and show did a lot of
other guys and girls. I knew. I guess I just
I have to do something about it.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
This letter came to you in the mail? Yeah, yes, doctor,
And who else knows about it?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Er President, she's my wife.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
You're a brave man, mister Tarbell, A brave man and
a good man. Get me, Lieutenant Rayfield at Homicide.
Speaker 9 (13:35):
Yeah, this is some letter, doctor Schwartz.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
Well, obviously we are now dealing with a murder plot,
Lieutenant Rayfield.
Speaker 7 (13:41):
This is the letter in the envelope that was mailed
in Well, and also we have no chance for fingerprints.
All right, we'll just have to run it down. The
one thing I don't understand concerns you, mister Tarbell.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Yeh, yes, Lieutenant.
Speaker 7 (13:55):
Don't you believe these guys?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Believe them? Well, yes, sir, I believe them. I most
certainly do believe them.
Speaker 9 (14:02):
And what are you doing here?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Here?
Speaker 7 (14:04):
It says if you attempt to contact your authorities in
any manner, you will forever forfeit any chance to receive
the antidote. So what are you doing here? I mean,
doctor Schwarzen, myself were the authorities?
Speaker 9 (14:15):
Why did you.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Show us this letter. It's my duty as a city.
Speaker 7 (14:18):
Yeah, yeah, I know all about that, and I don't
believe a word of it.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Hey look, lieutenant, I don't have figured you out.
Speaker 7 (14:24):
Many people are dying left and right from that thing.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
In any minute, you could come down with that fever.
Speaker 7 (14:28):
Ten grand is certainly cheap enough to save your life
if by coming here you could be signing your own
death work.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
Why, oh, lieutenant, isn't it possible that some people may
be motivated by idealistic considerations?
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (14:42):
Sure, sure, sure in the movies, in the books, because
that's what we'd like to believe. But you and I
we can't afford to believe that way.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I mean, you're a doctor, I'm a cop.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
We know how people behave when life and death are
on the line.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
Still, there are those views.
Speaker 7 (14:57):
Yes, every now and then you run across a saint. Somehow,
I don't think that's you, mister Tarbell. So I'm going
to ask you that question again.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Why are you here?
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Well, Lieutenant, I I have a confession to make. Consion
and what sort of confession could it possibly be? Confession,
as we all know, is supposed to be good for
the soul. But nowhere is it written that confession is
(15:35):
beneficial to the body. Well, I too have a confession.
I shall return shortly with that too. For extreme illnesses,
(15:56):
extreme treatments are most fitting. Those are the words of
Hippocrates himself, the father and the founder of medicine. Obviously,
we're dealing here with a most extreme illness, and an
extreme treatment is absolutely in order, provided we can discover
what it is. You have a confession, mister Tarbell, Yeah,
(16:19):
yes I have, Lieutenant, I'm in a spot or my wife.
I've been a good husband, a great husband, but well
she's convinced I'm cheating on her. She's what are you
you call a paranoid on that subject?
Speaker 8 (16:36):
Are you cheating on it?
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Well?
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Yeah, here and there and now and then when I
get the chance, mister Tarbell, where's all this leading us?
But she's never once been able to prove it?
Speaker 9 (16:47):
All right, Well, let's get back to the letter.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Oh yeah, hey, the letter. I had to bring the
letter here because even though I could have said nothing
and done nothing, paid out the ten thousand, which wouldn't
mean the thing.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Believe her, old man is so rich.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
But you would get the antidote and save your life.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
I don't need the antidote.
Speaker 9 (17:07):
What do you mean you don't need the antidote?
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Because I wasn't at the banquet? I didn't go.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
But then, why couldn't you tell your wife and relieve
her mind?
Speaker 1 (17:16):
You don't understand she divorced me. I sent in my
ten bucks for a reservation. Sure it would be a
night out, and then I figured why I waste it
on a reunion? I called up some girl you know,
I know? And do I have to tell you who
she is?
Speaker 9 (17:36):
Just keep talking.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Well, the long and short of it is, I spent
the evening with this girl at her apartment. I thought
I was in the clear, and then this letter came
to the house while I was at work, and she
opened it because well, she just.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Doesn't trust me.
Speaker 9 (17:52):
I don't wonder why.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Now, look, lieutenant, this is a murder case, isn't it,
And I'm a witness. You've got to protect me, even
if it's against my wife.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
Worry, mister Tarbells, she'll never hear it from us, and
you have done your duty as a citizen.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Well what should I do now?
Speaker 7 (18:08):
You say you can get the money August like that,
I'll bring it here, we'll market and you will follow
the instructions. Any luck with the top psychologists.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Doctor Schwartz, So far nothing.
Speaker 8 (18:24):
The top people in the field are working on it.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
The class of nineteen sixty someone is trying to destroy it.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
Why, Well, high school can be a traumatic experience. Have
you checked on the kids who were unhappy on social resentful?
Speaker 7 (18:41):
Well, I had a session with the principal. She was
supposed to be at the banquet, but fortunately she who
was ill that night. We had a meet with some
of the teachers and guidance counselors who were there during
the years nineteen fifty six through sixty, and they remember
that class very well. We discussed each student, everyone who
seemed to have even the slight I is problem, the
tiniest clevance, you know something. Everyone is accounted for everyone now,
(19:08):
one way or another. One boy died in Vietnam, one
girl died in child either the most likely candidates evidently
weren't that unhappy because they attended the banquet and all
of them are in the hospital.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
But those were the ones who could be spotted. Many
kids just nurse a silent grudge until one day.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Yes, yes, I know, I know.
Speaker 7 (19:28):
I'm just saying we ran that lead as hard down
as it could go. What kind of poison could do
that kind of job on people?
Speaker 8 (19:37):
Nothing that we know of so far.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
Come in, Yes, mister Tarbell, I got the money.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
Good, we'll market with an invisible die and put the ad.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
In the globe.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yeah, I love life.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
I know.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
I know she's busy, but I got to talk to her. Yeah.
Look look you said she returned my call yesterday and
the day before and the day before that. And yeah, yeah, okay,
yeah I understand. Yes, yes, thank you, yes, goodbye, Marcy.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Well you're coming here and take a letter. Boy, I
am definitely getting a run around here.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Oh March, come come in, sit down, sit down. You
write this exactly the way I'm giving it you, Okay?
To Dr Norma Schwartz, Chief Health Officers on so so,
Dear doctor Schwartz, I know you're busy, but for crying
out loud, I cooperated with you, did I? I turned
the joint inside out and upside down? You want to
(20:47):
put me out of business? Can't you make a statement
saying that whatever happened, it wasn't the fault of the
James Volie Hotel. For fifty years, the landmark of Southwestern
hospitality unquote. Okay, now you typed it up and said
right out, and don't change a single word, even if
you did go to college.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
I'll cut for crying out loud and change joint the hotel.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Okay, okay, and don't mail it. I don't wanted to
get to the next Christmas. Have somebody deliver it by hand.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
The phone.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
There's three in the morning, street Moon answer yeah, hello, yeah, no, no, no,
don't don't worry. I'm not going to try to trace
the car.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Yeah, well, what do you want me to do?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Yeah, yeah, okay, no, no, no, I won't tell anybody.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Yeah, I got it.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
Hello, Hello, hung up.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
It's about the antidote.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Yeah, what do we have to do. I'm not allowed
to tell you what I know, honey, but it would
be dangerous.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
We have to share danger and everything. Who are you calling?
Speaker 1 (22:20):
It's Lieutenant Raphael's home number. You bet your life the police. Hello,
little lieutenant, my manor Tarbell. I just got a phone call,
and I'm supposed to go to the corner of Crescent
and Maine and just wait for somebody money in an
(22:42):
envelope in exactly one hour.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Okay, do it.
Speaker 7 (22:45):
We'll see the place is covered.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Okay, what did you do?
Speaker 2 (22:50):
What had to be done?
Speaker 6 (22:52):
These people they'll be watching the police.
Speaker 8 (22:55):
They'll see the cops crest.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Please, don't care how clever the police they they are.
They'll be spotted. Rassen a nine. It's a white boulevard.
Where can the police hide.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I have to get through.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
Oh no, I'm frightened.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
The important thing is that these killers must be called.
Speaker 6 (23:12):
No, the important thing, The only thing is to live.
You have to get that antidote.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I'm going to get the antidote.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
Not if they see the cops, and then you'll be
throughful baby.
Speaker 10 (23:27):
For thing's gonna be okay, I.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Okay, I'll be back right away. No, no, no, honey,
I have to go. And that's all there is to it.
(23:53):
Nadab Yes, do not turn around. Uh oh okay, you
will happy umble out.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Yeah yeah, with ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yes, hold it behind your back. Yeah sure. No tricks now, no, no, no, no,
no tricks.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
A gun is being pointed at you.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Uh you you can trust me.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
Host the underlop. Good, I'll take it.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Do that turn around?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
No no, I won't.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
How still the antidote. How about the antidote?
Speaker 6 (24:32):
Wait till the money is counted.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Okay, oh oh, okay, now your instructions. You will count
your fifty understand slowly?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Yeah, sure, like this what.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
Two three?
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I get it, I get it.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
You will then turn around walk two doors were.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Turn into the festival number eight eight, number eighty eight,
right inst that it's a small bottle.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
That is the.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Okay, start out well, with the help of Maynard Tarbell.
That appears that the police have led the perpetrators as
they are called into a trap. Surely the net must
catch the face. After all, this is the kind of
thing the police do extremely well. So this should be
(25:37):
the end of our story, except for the Department of
loose ends. However, the seasoned listeners among you know that
this kind of thing can never end here. With that too,
I shall return shortly with our final act. Man is
(26:04):
supposed to be the most intelligent of all the animals
on the earth. After all, man is the only living
creature on the planet who has the ability to make plans.
The making of plans, this is truly the thing that
elevates us above the beasts. And yet, when one considers
what happens to so many of the plans we make
(26:27):
here below. One wonders how great a gift it is. Indeed,
art the worse. I've got the antidote right here in
this bottle.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
The antidote.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Yeah. Look, get this to e lab or wherever you
have to have and analyze and do whatever you have
to do to well it's just supposed to do. Maybe
we can save some lives the antidote. Look, I didn't
wait for anything or anybody. I looked up your address
in the phone book and how I got here as
fast as I could.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
Doctor Kravic, I know what time it is.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Get it.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
We have an antidote to reunion fever.
Speaker 8 (27:05):
I'll explain everything later.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
Just get over here as quickly as you can, pick
it up and go to the lab.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Right.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
I got the phone call and the voice said to
go to the corner of Maine and Crescent. I tipped
off Lieutenant Rayfield to have the place stakeout.
Speaker 8 (27:19):
We were able to see anyone wasn't gonna.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Take any chances.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
I did as I was told, whoever it was, grab
the money and took off, but the cops were there
to bag wonderful.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
I knew how important the stuff was, so I didn't
hang around or anything.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
I just rushed over here with it.
Speaker 8 (27:34):
Well, you did the right thing.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
But most important, we know Lieutenant Rayfield was covering you.
Speaker 8 (27:40):
The criminal or criminals must have been caught red handed.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
We can find out from them just what the poison is.
Speaker 8 (27:47):
That that would save time.
Speaker 6 (27:49):
I mean it could take days to analyze that antidote.
It could even be possible. But this way, yes, Lieutenant Rayfield, Yes,
Lieutenant Rayfield, Frederick Rayfield. Do you mean he's off duty?
He has to be there now, Sergeant, I am doctor
(28:10):
Norma Schwartz, chief health officer.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Just a minute.
Speaker 6 (28:16):
Are you saying Lieutenant Rayfield has not been at headquarters
since he signed out at four o'clock yesterday afternoon? Sergeant,
there must be there, Mustard, Sergeant, what is Lieutenant Rayfield's
home number?
Speaker 9 (28:35):
You went there and delivered the money?
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Do you mean you didn't?
Speaker 7 (28:40):
Well, of course not.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
Then they got away, Lieutenant, I called.
Speaker 7 (28:44):
Somebody's gonna have a lot of explaining to do.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
An awful life. What are you saying?
Speaker 7 (28:48):
It couldn't have been three minutes after you called. I
wasn't even finished getting dressed. In the phone rings it
was your wife, my wife, she said, They called back
whoever they were, and they said it was off, either they.
Speaker 9 (28:57):
Didn't like the setup or something. They call again tomorrow,
I'd make another arrangement.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Said that Crestor called you.
Speaker 6 (29:10):
How can you why? I was scared?
Speaker 9 (29:13):
Just a stop value. You had no right to w
interfere with?
Speaker 2 (29:15):
What with?
Speaker 10 (29:16):
What?
Speaker 6 (29:16):
Lieutenant? How are you fellows going to be able to
plant yourself without anyone being wise to you? All I
did was protect my husband's life. That's more important to
me than anything or anybody. That's nothing. All I know
is you've got that antidote. All I know is you're
going to live, so that's all that count.
Speaker 9 (29:40):
The voice on the phone, was it a man or
a woman?
Speaker 1 (29:44):
I don't know what it could have been either. It
spoken a whisperer. How can you sell?
Speaker 9 (29:49):
And you didn't see the person who made the pick up?
I heard was a voice yes, and also a whisper
you sir?
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Uh yeah? It said there was a gun being held
on Rea. I was told to pass the money back
without looking counter fifty and go to the vestibule of
number eighty eight Crescent and pick up the antidote.
Speaker 7 (30:09):
Did you see or hear anything you might be able
to recognize.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Lieutenant, I wasn't bothering with any of that. I thought
you guys had them prapped. All I wanted to do
was get my hands on that antidote.
Speaker 8 (30:21):
Doctor Schwartz, what's that You're positive?
Speaker 9 (30:29):
Yes, doctor credit, Well, at least we got the anidote
out of it.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
I see, I'm afraid we didn't unless it's sugar and water.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Sugar and water, that is what is.
Speaker 8 (30:40):
Revealed by chemical analysis.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
But it can't be ten thousand dollars for sugar and water.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Cold blooded killers.
Speaker 8 (30:49):
All right, Let's get to some of the others on
the list.
Speaker 6 (30:52):
Ask them if they've received a similar letter.
Speaker 9 (30:54):
It's already been done.
Speaker 7 (30:55):
No one will admit to getting one, but should everyone's scared,
I can understan.
Speaker 6 (31:01):
But now we can say to them, look, don't be fooled.
Speaker 8 (31:04):
It's a scheme to get money.
Speaker 6 (31:06):
This is all It is, sugar and water.
Speaker 9 (31:08):
No one would believe you.
Speaker 8 (31:11):
So what are we going to do?
Speaker 9 (31:12):
All right, Doc, let's start at the beginning.
Speaker 7 (31:14):
Somebody is out to destroy the West Side High School
class of sixty. Oh, why we've asked the principal, some teachers.
Speaker 9 (31:22):
Okay, here we have Maynard Tarborough.
Speaker 7 (31:24):
Maynard, who among your fellow students would want to wipe
out the whole class.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Well, there was a time when I wanted to. I
did a lot of work for the school, and when
I ran for class president, they gave it to somebody
who never did a lick?
Speaker 2 (31:38):
All right? Who else?
Speaker 1 (31:40):
There was one kid who really got razzed all the time.
He stuttered and people would.
Speaker 8 (31:45):
Laugh whatever happened to him.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
His name was uh Banks, George Bank.
Speaker 9 (31:51):
I checked him out. He's the one who was killed
in Vietnam.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
Anybody else, maybe someone a teacher wouldn't know about, but
a student will.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
And forget the students. I can think of a teacher
a teacher, you know. She was kind of an old maid,
wore a lot of makeup and dressed funny. She talked
French between you and me. I don't think she was
all there anyhow.
Speaker 9 (32:14):
She's the teacher.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
The kids played all the tricks on, and some of
them were pretty mean. She'd open a desk drawer and
it'd be a snake.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
You know.
Speaker 9 (32:21):
Yeah, that sounds like a great school.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Well, the idea was to get her to lose her temper,
because then she'd turned purple and you'd swear her hair
was standing on end and she'd scream at everybody at
the top of her lungs.
Speaker 6 (32:33):
If she's the ones who did the poisoning, I'm not
really sure who side I'm on.
Speaker 9 (32:37):
What was her name?
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Le Blanc?
Speaker 5 (32:41):
Marie?
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Who gets le blank?
Speaker 9 (32:44):
Is there anyone else?
Speaker 1 (32:45):
It's like opening a can of worm.
Speaker 9 (32:48):
Yeah, oh hello, I connect me with the principal place.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
How deep does some grudges go?
Speaker 1 (32:54):
How long does some people nurses?
Speaker 7 (32:56):
So Lucas is Lieutenant Rightfield? You used to have a
French teacher there named to miss Leblank. Oh I see, no, no, no,
that's all I have to ask at this point.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
I'll let you know.
Speaker 7 (33:06):
Thank you, goodbye, Sir. Miss LeBlanc has been in a
sanitarium for the past five years. What he meant to
say was an insane asylum.
Speaker 9 (33:15):
So that lets her out.
Speaker 6 (33:17):
Lieutenant Why did mister Tarbell here get that note? He
was not at the banquet.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
You promised me my wife would never find out.
Speaker 6 (33:25):
His name was on a list, don't you see?
Speaker 9 (33:27):
Yeah, yeah, his name was on a list.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
That's obvious.
Speaker 8 (33:29):
Therefore his name was chosen from a list.
Speaker 9 (33:31):
Well, that's obvious too.
Speaker 8 (33:33):
Furthermore, there'd be no point in sending him that note.
Speaker 6 (33:36):
Actually, it would be dangerous if he were already dead
or in the hospital, so therefore his name was checked
off against a list. So the killer has a list.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Well, that's obvious.
Speaker 8 (33:48):
How did the killer get that list?
Speaker 9 (33:50):
Underd the killer get Hey just a minute.
Speaker 8 (33:54):
Mister Tarbill, whose idea was the banquet?
Speaker 2 (33:57):
That's easy.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Larry Jackson a booster, Jackson Jackson, let's have a reunion.
Everybody says, yeah, hey, Greg, but it takes work, and
only Larry was willing to do it. He got the hotel,
but dinner and everything.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
So he had this list.
Speaker 8 (34:12):
Huh Jackson Jackson, Yes, I remember the name. Now, he
was one of the first fatality.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
All right, that list.
Speaker 7 (34:20):
He had to send it to the hotel so that
they could arrange place cards.
Speaker 8 (34:24):
Okay, now who at the hotel would know about that list?
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Who? Well? Yeah me? It was sent to this office,
but I never read it. What did I care? Oh else?
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Oh it was my secretary Marcy, which reminds me I
have this letter to meil do you You might as
well take it and save me a stay.
Speaker 9 (34:48):
Look about just a second, look.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Doctor Schwartz, I cooperate all the way I need help.
Now read that letter. You'll see why very well.
Speaker 9 (34:57):
Hey, yeah, Secretary Marcy, I'd.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Like to talk.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
I have you my guess, Marcie, you want to come
in here? You see, doctor, I have a legitimate beef,
don't I. This thing can drive me out of business.
Speaker 6 (35:09):
We'll get this thing cleared up as quickly as we can.
Speaker 8 (35:12):
I understand your position, mister Benner.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
I know, I know you understand, But what can you
do about it?
Speaker 6 (35:18):
What could I do about the twenty one people who
died or the seventy who are still in the hospital.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Oh, Marcie, my name. This is the Lieutenant Rayfield and
doctor Schwartz and this young man. I'm sorry I didn't
get your name.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Why it's Marcy, Marcy Wilson.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
You remember me? Yes?
Speaker 6 (35:36):
Yeah, you mean it?
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Have them Marcy.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
She's also a member of the class of sixty.
Speaker 6 (35:44):
Did you go to the reunion?
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
I shouldn't have asked.
Speaker 6 (35:49):
Oh, I do banquet for a living. I just wouldn't
go to Lund for fun.
Speaker 9 (35:53):
Why shouldn't you have asked, mister.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Tar be Bell? Huh what do you mean, Lieutenant?
Speaker 9 (36:00):
Do you want mister Bunnet in just a minute. Why
shouldn't you have asked her if she'd gone to the banquet?
Speaker 2 (36:07):
What are you trying to.
Speaker 9 (36:07):
Hide, mister Tardell.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Oh nothing, Uh no, nothing, you said.
Speaker 9 (36:11):
I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
What does it mean?
Speaker 5 (36:14):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Nothing, It's just just a way of talking. Or I mean,
if someone didn't go to a banquet, I have no right.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
To ask why. But how do you know she didn't go?
She just said so, did didn't she? Yeah?
Speaker 9 (36:28):
She said so after you asked, Well, Marci.
Speaker 8 (36:34):
Marcie, what did you do with the ten thousand dollars?
Speaker 6 (36:39):
What are you talking about? Suppose Lieutenant Rayfield were to
get a search warrant would be fine and hidden.
Speaker 8 (36:44):
In your home.
Speaker 6 (36:45):
I don't know what you're talking about her. This letter
you typed for mister Bunner, it was addressed to me.
Now would the type be the same as the letter
you wrote to mister Tardell. No, No, I didn't do anything.
Speaker 8 (37:00):
Why did you poison those people?
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Good? Lord? No? Is it?
Speaker 1 (37:07):
I'm sorry, Marcia, I'm truly sorry, but I have to
tell you can't.
Speaker 6 (37:12):
You can't violate the school on a code. Only the
awards committee know that they.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Offer Marci, this is murder. That was the year the
students voted on who was to get the medals at graduation,
and Marcy was supposed to get the honors for chemistry.
Speaker 9 (37:27):
Chemistry.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Yeah, but Larry Jackson called a meeting of the awards
committee and charged Marcy with cheating.
Speaker 6 (37:34):
He was jealous, he wanted the mouth.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
We held a closed meeting, and after hearing all the
evidence it was all lies, we decided that Marcy was
actually guilty. Nobody else knew about the trial. Nobody else
knew why Larry Jackson got the medal instead of Marcy.
Speaker 8 (37:50):
Please, Marcy, tell us the chemical or whatever it was.
People are in danger.
Speaker 6 (37:54):
But I didn't poison them. We can prove.
Speaker 8 (37:56):
You wrote the note.
Speaker 6 (37:58):
You know we'll find the money, all right, all right, listen,
I hate everyone in that class. When that disease or
whatever it is, hit him, I said, great serves every
one of them. Right, But believe me, I didn't do
what I didn't. I sure, I figured I could. What
I did was wrong, but it was the way to
scare the rest of you to make your pay. You
(38:20):
voted against me, mans and I was gonna send letters
to everyone else on the committee who didn't die.
Speaker 8 (38:26):
Marcy, please understand. Tell us what poison did you use?
I swear to you I didn't.
Speaker 6 (38:32):
Okay, I committed a crime. I guess it's extortion. I'm guilty,
but believe me, I didn't kill anybody.
Speaker 9 (38:42):
Okay, Marcy, I'm afraid you'll have to come along with me.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Hello, oh Julius. Yeah, look, I need some kitchen help.
What about that? Uh? What's the name? Uh you Miliana?
You know the old guy.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
They make the best workers that do the job to
keep them out hut because they're ailiens. You don't have
to listen to me, you know what I mean. We
send me that the media guy. Huh, he's gone back
to his own country. Well send me somebody just as good.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
A Miliano. And they say you have come back.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Yes, I have come home, but you were sent away.
Speaker 10 (39:38):
I'm very old, heasy.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
I have come home to die.
Speaker 7 (39:43):
Yes, but I must think of every man, woman and
child in this village.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
You have been cursed.
Speaker 7 (39:53):
You'll carry in your blood the angry devil of fever,
the killing devil, and everyone you thought.
Speaker 10 (40:00):
Please effy, I shall stay here in my heart, I
shall go nowhere see Noah.
Speaker 7 (40:08):
In your blood is El Muerto del Diablo, The Devil's Death.
Speaker 10 (40:14):
I dream I must come home to die. I shall
lie down on my bed, I shall never rise again.
Let me die here no more shall I give El
muerto del Diablo.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
I will die here in peace, reunion, fever, or Elmuerto
del Diablo. That depends on where you live, the language
you speak, or the culture of your society. What happened
(40:55):
to Marcy Wilson? They may or may not bring chargers.
They have all kinds of circumstantial evidence. It depends on
how strong they think they can.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
Make the case. Is she guilty?
Speaker 1 (41:09):
Let's explore that one in just a few minutes. Is
Marcy Wilson guilty? Did she callously murder so many of
her former schoolmates? More people have been murdered for smaller motives.
(41:33):
We don't know. The story has told itself.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
Like most of life, it's a mystery.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Our cast included Phyllis Newman, Paul Heck, Bob Caliban, E. V.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
Jester, and Joe Silver.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.
Radio Mystery Theater were sponsored in part by Contact The
twelve Hour Cold Capsule. This is E. G. Marshall inviting
you to return to our Mistay Theater for another adventure
in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams.
Popular Podcasts
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
Are You A Charlotte?
In 1997, actress Kristin Davis’ life was forever changed when she took on the role of Charlotte York in Sex and the City. As we watched Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte navigate relationships in NYC, the show helped push once unacceptable conversation topics out of the shadows and altered the narrative around women and sex. We all saw ourselves in them as they searched for fulfillment in life, sex and friendships. Now, Kristin Davis wants to connect with you, the fans, and share untold stories and all the behind the scenes. Together, with Kristin and special guests, what will begin with Sex and the City will evolve into talks about themes that are still so relevant today. "Are you a Charlotte?" is much more than just rewatching this beloved show, it brings the past and the present together as we talk with heart, humor and of course some optimism.
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.