November 24, 2025 • 43 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
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
BBS Radio Mystery Theater presents.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Come in.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Welcome.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
I'm e. G.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Marshall. There are those who tell us not to look
a gift horse in the mouth. Accept and be happy
to receive. Don't question the gift or the giver good
advice at times, unless, of course, you're not sure you
want to receive in the first place. If the gift
horse is a kind who may kick down your stable,
(00:46):
you might do well to think twice before accepting.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
I have your briefcase, mister Sloan. You left it in
my taxi yesterday.
Speaker 6 (00:53):
I remember, I thought you might appreciate case.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I didn't lose any briefcase. I don't know what you're.
Speaker 6 (00:58):
Talking about, but I know this is your briefcase.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
You're carrying it along with your squash racket, and you
left it in the backseat of my car.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Look, you've got the wrong man, mister.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Our mystery drama The Briefcase Blunder was written especially for
the Mystery Theater by Karen Thorson and stars Paul Heckt
and Anne Williams. It is sponsored in part by x
Lax and Buick Motor Division.
Speaker 6 (01:29):
I'll be back shortly.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Taxi cabs can be lonely places solitude on wheels, a
curious throne. With the world on the other side of
your windows and strangers staring down the back of your neck,
conversations are half hearted at best, with eye contact that
most human of exchanges relegated to chance glances in a
(02:04):
smudged rear view mirror, and with money passed gingerly between
driver and passenger. The only true constant a potentially dangerous constant,
at least so it was for Harry Owens. He drove
a taxi and tried to encourage big tippers until one
(02:24):
day when the tip turned out to be more than
he bargained.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
For a driver. This will be fine, I'll get out
of the light.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
Okays you like, sir.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
That's two ninety five to ninety five. See can you
change your ten? Yes, sir, I just give me six.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Fiftook case two three fourth six.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Okay, there you go.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
Thanks to you too, buddy.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
For some people, Hey, hey, mister, mister, your briefcase.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
You've left your Hey, mister, I'm going to tell her
that guy.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Go see.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Everybody's in such a hurry.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Let's see you dress tank.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
Let me be inside. Holy Ma, lonely, who solid green bags.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
There's snow address in here. She's talk about striking a jackpot.
Ain't got a call, Molly, Hey, Molly, guess what? No, no, no,
nothing's wrong. Everything's all right. Hey.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
You know that vacation you wanted?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Okay, we'll pack your bags.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
Molly, we're off. I am serious.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
We're rich, Molly, I mean rich, yeah, neat little packets
of ten dollar bills. Rich.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
But don't ask anymore. I'm on my way home. You'll
understand when I get there.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Bye, baby.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Boy, Paris, Here we come, Molly, Molly at home, Harry,
what is this?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Just look here, Molly, look at this, Harry.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Yeah, that's a trip to Paris and a new taxi
cab of my own.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
I'll start my own fleet.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
I don't understand it.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
There's not much to understand. I found it on the
back seat of the cab. No address, no nothing.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
We are meant to have this, Molly, meant to have Yeah.
Speaker 7 (04:21):
Oh but Harry, people don't just go around leaving briefcases
full of money.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
There must be more to it than that.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
What more do you want? I had a passenger. He
got out in a rush. He left a briefcase behind.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I called after him.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
He was lost in the crowd. No, Harry, that's not
like you.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
You've tracked people down and return things before. What was
the man's destination?
Speaker 6 (04:39):
You didn't have one.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
What I mean is he just got out at the light.
He'd has to go to a four hundred park. But
he got out near Grand Central station and I picked
him up down on the nineteenth Street. Nowhere specific, So
how do I trace it? He didn't talk much. He
didn't even say thank you. He just ran off into the.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Crowd with his squash racket and left us.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
The briefcase squash racking.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yeah, I guess that in his hand.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
He didn't miscarrying the briefcase. You know when we'll wait
a minute now.
Speaker 7 (05:04):
If he had a squash racket, he must have been
paying squash. Well, let's look in the yellow pages.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Maybe there's a squash court down in nineteen Mally.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
Here we go, all right, a squawk where.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Dad squash court?
Speaker 7 (05:20):
Oh look, look, Harry at Tennython squash club, right on
Nineteenth Street.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
You must try and find him.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Mally.
Speaker 7 (05:26):
I'm surprised at you, Harry. You've never done this honest
thing in your life.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
This money isn't ours, and you know it now.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
If you return it, there's probably a reward. From the
looks of it, there's enough there.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
For a crowd.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
And that's just what I mean.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
It's a fortune landed right in our laps, all our dreams.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
Just count it, Molly, think about it.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
I wouldn't touch the stuff. It's not ours to count now.
I don't want to hear another word until you've done
everything in your power to give that man back his money. Now,
go to the squash club when your lunch break tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Do it, Harry.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
You'll feel a lot better inside when you've done it,
you know you will.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I'm sorry, sir, but that's against club regulations. We do
have someone who might fit that description, but I'm not
allowed to give out members names. You'd have to lead
the briefcase with me and I'll find out if anyone
claims it myself.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
Hey, look, you can't have that many members.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
With a heavy eyebrows and a mole on the left cheek. Well,
let me see the guy. I'll know right away if
it's him.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I know faces.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
All I do every day is look at strange faces.
I'll put this briefcase.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
In the hands of its owner, and nowhere else this
is highly irregular.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
You can't just oh.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
All right, I suppose this is an exceptional situation and
you have come all this way.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Yeah, come along with me.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
We'll go into the squash course. The gentleman you describe
happens to be here right now.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
You can take a.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Look and see if he's the right one third quarter
down on your left.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Those two men over.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Yeah, yeah, that's a man.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
That's him.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
I thought it might be well wait while they finished
this volley there, mister Sloane. Excuse me, sir, there's someone
to see you about something you left in the taxicams.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
I can't hear you. I have your briefcase, mister Sloan.
You left it in my taxi cab yesterday. Remember, I
thought you might appreciate your case.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I don't know, I don't know there's any briefcase. I
don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
But this is your briefcase.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
You were carrying it along with your squash racket.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
You left it in the backseat of my cab.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Ook.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
If you found a briefcase, then turn it into your
cab company. They have a loss and found you got
the wrong man. I said, come on, Frank, let's finish
the game. Well, I've done what I can for you.
There's no one else here who could fit your description.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
But that was my passenger. I'd know him anywhere. Molly, Wait,
it's ours.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
What's flars?
Speaker 7 (08:02):
What are you doing home at this hour?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Again?
Speaker 7 (08:05):
Oh no, Harry, you still got that time.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
I got it because the man wouldn't take it.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
I found it Sloan. His name is right at the
squash club.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
And when I try to give him the briefcase, he
refused to take it, refused it.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
But why, well, you must have had the wrong man.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
No, Molly, I know it was him. You know, I
never forget a face, and he knew who I was.
I could see it in his eyes.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
He was living as if as if somehow I'd insulted.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Him to trying to return it.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
He practically had me thrown.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Out of the club.
Speaker 7 (08:31):
But it just doesn't make sense.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Never mind what makes sense. Molly didn't want it, and
now it is ours, conscience, free and clear.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
Well, if he didn't want it, then he must have
a reason. Well, Harry, I don't like this. Why would
anyone carry around that much cash in a briefcase anyway?
Now it has to be something illegal.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Illegal or not, there's no way we'll ever find out.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
And I want you to go to the police.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
But the police they won't know any more than we do.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
They could possibly solve this, especially when the owner himself
denies that it's his.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
I why should they have the money? We found it
and we need it more than they do. Well, what
if the bills are mark mark?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
You mean?
Speaker 7 (09:10):
Well, listen, these bills may be no good at all.
It may be a plant. Oh, Harry, I think we
should go.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
To the pree.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
But if you don't, I will.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
I want to see the commanding officer please, it's a
matter of utmost important.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
I won't see anyone else.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Lieutenant bend is a busy man.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
I assure you he'll have time for me.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Now.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
Now look at this where all that money come?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Well, if you'll get me to Lieutenant Fender, I'll tell
him and no one else. Lieutenant Bendell see you now,
I'll be down the hall if you need anything.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Lieutenant, Well, it seems to be all the urgency.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Say, I see you rank the other guy on the squash.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Court, Rank Benda. That's right. I'm a lieutenant in charge here.
So you're the cab driver who broke in in our game.
What are you doing here?
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Well, I'm returning to the briefcase. I mean, someone left
it in the back of my cab. I don't know
what to do with it.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
The thing is, well, here looks it's full of money.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Look well, indeed it is a real bundle. It looks
like maybe you'd better begin your story all over again
from the beginning.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
I told you, Lieutenant, someone left this in the back
of my cab.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
What were you doing at the Tennis and squash club.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Trying to return it?
Speaker 6 (10:40):
You see, I picked up this passenger there.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
I thought maybe it was his briefcase. But I must
have been mistaken.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
It wasn't his. You saw for yourself, so I did.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Although I had my mind more on a squash game
than on any lost briefcase. Sloan didn't seem to give
it any important I obviously had.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
The wrong man.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
Anyway, this money, I thought I'd better turn it over
to someone responsible.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
I never expected to find you.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Here, nor are you.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Yeah, but now that you have the briefcase, said lieutenant,
can I go please?
Speaker 6 (11:11):
I just wanted to turn it in. The police seemed
better than the cab company. With so much money and
all that I have.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
To get back to my job on him. Wait a minute,
we don't even know your.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
Name, Harry. Lieutenant Harry Owens. The officer outside has all
the information.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
I really have to go.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
I'll be in trouble with my boss.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
All right, we'll be in touch with you if we
have any more questions questions.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
I told you all, I know everything.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
There shouldn't be any problem. Sure there, Harry, and no.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Sir, thank you, goodbye that you Harry.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
I am all well. Here we are back in the poorhouse.
You turned it in there, Yeah, I turned in it.
It's funny. By the time I handed it over, I
was almost glad.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
To get rid of it.
Speaker 7 (11:57):
Oh, you did the right thing.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
You know.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
I haven't told you the half of it. The strangest
thing happened.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
I asked to see the command in officey, you know,
the way we'd agreed, And he was the same man
I saw on.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
A squash court.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I don't understand my passenger's squash partner. I recognized him
as soon as I was brought into his office, and
I knew his name. Frank Sloan called him Frank as
I as I left, and sure enough, Lieutenant Frank bender
sitting right there in front of me, headed.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
A whole precinct.
Speaker 7 (12:26):
Sloan squash partner. Strange?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Did he recognize you there?
Speaker 6 (12:31):
He remembered me right after.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
I called him Frank, But he was more interested in
the money than it. Haven't seen me before, And I
told him that Sloan must.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Have been the wrong man. Was he, Harry?
Speaker 5 (12:40):
No, he was My passenger was his briefcase. I always
checked the backseat after each passenger, and I always remember
a face.
Speaker 7 (12:47):
This is all very strange. A man who loses a
briefcase full.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Of money then denies it's his, and a.
Speaker 7 (12:54):
Squash partner who turns out to be a police.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Lieutenant headed a precinct.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
Yeah, well, anyway, it's no longer our problem.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I'm glad to have it out of the way.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
It was never look at that piece.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
I'll go see Can I help you?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
But your husband can a little matter about a briefcase?
Speaker 6 (13:16):
Who are you?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Hello, Harry, it's about the briefcase.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Who are you?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Just call me you? My boss sent me for his belongings.
I think you found something that.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
Oh yeah, I found a briefcase. Sure? How did you
find me?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
My boss traced you through the cab company. He makes
a habit the memorizing cabbage numbers, you know, the little
card up and the dash. It comes in handy sometimes.
So where's the case?
Speaker 6 (13:50):
I don't have it.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
You don't have it.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
No, I turned it over to the police.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Why did you do that this afternoon?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
And why did you tell him the truth?
Speaker 6 (13:58):
I found it in my cab.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
I didn't know how to.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Retch and they said nothing. What could they say? They
were as puzzled as I am. But if your boss
lost it, all he has to do is go to
the seventeenth precinct.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
They have it there.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
Unless there's some problem.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Now, no, there's no problem. We'll pick it up tonight.
Thanks for nothing.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Well, I knew I hadn't heard the last of it
when I left.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
That police station.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Something told me it just wasn't going to be all
that easy, Harry.
Speaker 7 (14:32):
If that man's boss really owns that briefcase, then who
is solon? And I was slow with police Lieutenant Bendor Molly.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
I don't know. I just hope we never see or
hear from any of them again.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Would you have turned in the briefcase?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Thanks to Molly's insistence, Harry did, and he'd be happy
never to hear that briefcase again. But it's not always
that simple. Past events can transform your life, even long
after you think they're over.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
O'ur return shortly with that too.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
A simple taxi ride can turn into a nightmare. Most
of us identify with the passenger, but in this instance
we're concentrating on the driver, Harry Owens, whose tip one
day was more than a bargained for.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Most people would be delighted to.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Come across a briefcase full of money. Harry was, but
his delight didn't last. He did his best to return it,
but the briefcase, along with its various owners, seemed determined
to haunt him. As we rejoin him and his wife, Molly,
the phone is ringing.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
Okay, i'll get it.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Hello, Yeah, this is he Yeah, yeah, I'll hold on Molly,
Lieutenant Bender.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Oh yes, sir.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Yes they're fine, sir, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
No, I told you all I knew down at the
station house.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
I understand, sir, but I'm afraid I can't help you.
The all things are complete mystery to me. Yes, sir, yes,
of course.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
I will five five five eight nine four, oh.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Your direct line, I will Okay, goodbye, sir, and what
was that all about?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
The briefcase?
Speaker 1 (16:31):
What else?
Speaker 6 (16:31):
He thinks I know more than I'm telling him. But
you do, Harry?
Speaker 7 (16:35):
You didn't tell him about that awful man?
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
The less I tell him, the better. I don't want
to be involved.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
You should have told Bender about him. You're just as
convinced he's a criminal as I am.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Oh, he's a criminal, all the more reason not to
be mixed up in it.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
Let well enough alone, Molly.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
Why Harry Owens? I never thought i'd live to see
the day, but i'd call you a coward.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
I'm not a coward.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
There's no sense in sticking our neck out when we
have no real information. What could I tell Lieutenant Bender?
A stranger named Joe?
Speaker 7 (17:01):
Now you could describe him. You could go through there.
What do they call those things? That mug sheets? Maybe
you could identify.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Him and Sloan too. Well.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
They don't know how good you are with they says
you can help them, Harry.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
They need you.
Speaker 7 (17:15):
Besides, if it's sticking your neck out that worries you,
don't bother worrying. We're already involved. They know who we are,
where we live. We'll tell them what they may decide
to do next. I mean it, Harry, we'd be better
off of the police on our side.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
What's for dinner, Molly?
Speaker 7 (17:33):
What's Aren't you going to call the lieutenant?
Speaker 6 (17:36):
He gives, I am not gonna call the lout.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
I'm sorry, mam.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
Too much has happened to me in the last forty
eight hours.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Well, I talk.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
About is the briefcase?
Speaker 1 (17:47):
The briefcase to you, to Sloan, to Lieutenant Benda, to Joe.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
I'm sorry, May you got to give.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Me a break?
Speaker 7 (17:55):
Harry?
Speaker 6 (17:56):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
Of course I'll give you a break, and a hot
meal probably wouldn't hurt either. I bet you didn't even
have lunch. What were going down to the precinct law?
You are right, we discussed this enough?
Speaker 6 (18:15):
Is that you?
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Harry?
Speaker 7 (18:17):
How was your day?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (18:18):
I guess I.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Went to see Lieutenant Bender.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
You did.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
Oh, I'm so relieved.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
I knew you'd come wrong.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Well, I couldn't help thinking about it driving around in
the cab, and I figured figured.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
I went through some mugs, sheets, and I did recognize
Joe a picture taken last year when he was arrested
on some mine or assault charge.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
He's some kind errand boy. For the tough guys. He
does a lot of their dirty work. He's done time,
but never longer than a couple of months. Oh, Harry, anyway,
Bender was real pleased. He said he's given us police
protection for the next week or so.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Look out across the street and a tail on my cab.
It's real cops and robis stuff, Molly.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
They even gave me a direct line.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
To the station house monitoring my cab radio. Looks like
we're really onto something.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
We sounds like you've joined a new club.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
I always like detective work ever since I was a kid.
You know how. I make a habit of studying faces.
Saw all the same game and Sloan.
Speaker 7 (19:16):
Did you find out about him?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Not really?
Speaker 5 (19:19):
I told him he was, without doubt, my passenger and
somehow involved with a briefcase. But Benda said I should
leave that part to him. Apparently he suspects Sloan of something,
but he won't tell me what.
Speaker 7 (19:31):
Harry, You will be careful, of course I will.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
All I have to do is keep on the lookout
for anything new and keep in touch with Bender every
hour or so.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
He'll be meeting with Sloan tomorrow morning.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
I think he has some kind of a plan.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Good game, Sloan. You're ahead of me all the way.
See you know who walked in the other day, That
funny little guy, the taxi driver who came in here
one day looking for you, finally turned in that briefcase,
not to his cab company, but to the police and
of all people, right to me.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Hey, you're you're kidding.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
I'm not kidding.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
And what's more, you will never guess what was inside
the briefcase.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Money, ten dollar bills, all in deep little stacks. Forty
thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
That's important. I can say, you're kidding.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Forty thousand smackers. I bet you wish you lung under
that briefcase.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Huh oh right, only known. Sure, So what do you
do with the frank? Have you tracked down the oer?
Speaker 3 (20:38):
No, not a chance, not a clue, Just a taxi
driver who seemed to want to get rid of it
as fast as he could. He seems scared of something
until he coughs up whatever it is, We've got nothing
to go.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
On, Oh Joe, Sloane, here they're onto that taxi driver
and a little crook.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
He looked at.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Ten grand of the bread for himself before he turned
it in.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
Yeah, but it's perfect.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Now we have a handle on him. We can scare
him at a being quiet for sure. No, no, no,
he doesn't really know anything, but I want to make
sure he doesn't get curious.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
He's stood up enough dust.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
As it is.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Yeah, that's a little.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Meeting down at the garage. You know what to do.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Just called it, Harry.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I'm not quite true for that. You you know, man me, Harry,
my boss lost his briefcase. Remember well this little meatness
to help you forget. Just don't go sticking your nose
into business and consign you forget the briefcase. Forget you
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ever saw me. The police would just love to know
about that little ten thoul you slipped out of the cave.
What ten thousand now have? Let's not argue. I said,
you're knobvious detail. We could tip off the police about
your share of the day, or we could forget where
it came from. If you can, and if you can't,
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well I'll just have to come back and help you.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Clear your memory permanently.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
Eight ur Urgent eight seven six Harry, Harry, you all right, Yeah,
I'm okay, Lieutenant, I'm okay.
Speaker 8 (22:46):
I heard the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Harry, Geo's boys came more than one in a loud
and queer. I'm gonna on his tale.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Now, Lieutenant, you got to listen to me. That that
ten thousand he mentioned.
Speaker 9 (22:55):
I know, Mary, Harry, you didn't take any ten thousand.
Speaker 8 (22:58):
We all that explain to you. Tell up, we knew
this was coming. I'm pretty sure it'd be no more
than a morning. We've seen Joe and action before. He
has never been able to nail him till now.
Speaker 9 (23:09):
That is thanks to you.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Yeah, but Lieutenant, the.
Speaker 9 (23:12):
Best thing you can do now is go home and rest.
Everything is under control. I'll fill you in on the
details tomorrow. Pick me up at second and forty seven.
Are you sure you're okay, Harry.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
I'm fine, Lieutenant. I'll go home now and Harry, yes, Lieutenant, thanks.
Oh that's okay, Lieutenant. Good night, honey, No it's hurts.
Speaker 7 (23:42):
We'll have this Spanish up in a minute. Can you
tell me once and for all just what happened. I
can't make head and to tell your story.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
I can't tell you anymore than I already told you.
Joe was waiting for me in the garage.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
He told me to keep out of his business and
forget all I know, or you tell the police. I
took ten grand out of the briefcase before.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
How would I know?
Speaker 4 (24:02):
How?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
All I know is he thinks I have ten thousand,
ten thousand I never took.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
But Lieutenant Bender is sure you don't have.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Right and how does he know?
Speaker 6 (24:11):
I don't know? He trusts me. Oh, I don't like this.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
Someone's setting you.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
Up, Molly. I'm meeting with the lieutenant tomorrow. He's going
to explain everything he told me.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
He would you really trust the lust the course?
Speaker 6 (24:22):
I trust him?
Speaker 1 (24:24):
What do you think? Well?
Speaker 7 (24:24):
I'm not so sure I trust.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
Him myself, Molly.
Speaker 7 (24:27):
What did all he wants is to share of that
money for himself?
Speaker 6 (24:29):
But he doesn't want Well, now, look.
Speaker 7 (24:31):
I don't know how he got to Joe, but he
sure knew Joe was coming, and he heard all that
Joe said over your radio thanks to his monitor. Oh
he was on the squash course with Sloan. You can't
forget that. It thun a little too pat. How much
money was in that briefcase?
Speaker 6 (24:46):
I don't know. Fifty thousand, I think.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
So if a Bender wants to keep ten for himself,
he simply declares that the briefcase held only forty thousand
dollars when you turned it in.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
Molly, you can't think I not.
Speaker 7 (24:58):
Only can think, I do. I don't know where all
that cash came from in the first place, but they
got their hooks into it and into you. I'm quite
sure of that.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
I'll stop it, Molly.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
I'm not going to think this way. I do trust
Spend there. I've been dealing with him.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
I know him. You don't.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
I know.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
It all sounds confusing tonight, and I'm sure he'll straighten
it all out tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (25:24):
Harry.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
I want to thank you again for the last night,
and I'm sorry you got roughed up.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
I know how I'm done, Lieutenant Permanent.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
He will be glad to know we telled Joe right
back to his new headquarters. Yea, the narcotics ring hold
up in the Bronx. We've had our eyes on it
for some time. I guess you're wondering how we knew
Joe would be at the garage and what that business
about the ten thousand dollars was. Yeah, yeah, it was, you, remember, Sloan.
Sure of course, I gambled on your talent for remembering
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faces and decided to find out if Sloan was indeed
mixed up in all this. Now I know that he is.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
How's that?
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Well? When I met Sloan that next day for a
squash game, I mentioned you turned into the briefcase. Sort
of a small world. What a coincidence there, you know?
I told him that the briefcase contained forty thousand dollars.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
In case forty thousand.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
That's just what Sloan said. It was obvious that struck
a nerve.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
He knew there was fifty thousand dollars and they're just
as well as I did fifty grand. But you had
a surprise, Harry. That's what you turned into me, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:30):
I just thought, who thought I might believe that you
took it?
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Well?
Speaker 6 (26:34):
I did think someone might be setting me up for
a frame.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Not a chance. You gave us fifty thousand dollars. We
still have fifty thousand. You see, the minute Sloan heard
forty thousand, he figured you took ten for yourself, and
he figured he could black me you into silence with
a threat from a slunky. See Joe, Joe has to
be working under his orders, because no one but Sloan
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could have told him about you in the missing ten grand.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
Ten grand I never took.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
A ten grand nobody too, But unfortunately none of that
will ever stand up in court. In order to tie
Sloan in with Joe and the narcotics right now, you
can catch you on quick now. In order to tie
them all in together, we have to set a new trap.
You say we, I mean we with your help, Harry.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
That is, of course, if you're still willing to help, Lieutenant,
I'd be proud to help you. Whose judgment would you trust?
Harry almost always follows Molly's advice, but this time it
looks as if they might not agree. Harry seems to
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have put his face in Lieutenant bender, while Molly's afraid
that her husband is about.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
To be framed.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Molly is a shrewd little woman, but imaginations have been
known to work overtime. Too much imagination, or perhaps not
enough for a solution to this mystery, you will have
to wait for act free. It's strange enough when you
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find a briefcase full of money, but even stranger when
you find that nobody wants it. At first, Harry thought
he'd liked to keep it, but then Molly persuaded him otherwise,
then Harry thought Sloan would be glad to have it,
but Sloane promptly denied it was his. And finally it
seemed as if Lieutenant Bender might try to snag at
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least part of it. But now even that looks unlikely.
Whose briefcase was it and who would inherit the contents?
Speaker 6 (28:50):
Lieutenant.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
I'm proud to help you.
Speaker 6 (28:52):
I have my moments of weakness, but if you'll bear
with me, I'll go along with you on whatever scheme
you cook on.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
All right, then, now here's the plan.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
That's just what the doctor order. That rank a good
massage after a good game.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Oh, it's all the kicks up, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
I don't know what I'd do without these squash games.
To break the routine. I always come out of the
shower feeling like a new man.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Yeah, ready to tackle a day over.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Again, well almost days like to day I wouldn't want
to repeat. We still have two homicides, one suspected ourson,
seven unsolved very thieveries, and not to mention that crazy
briefcase full of cash it's still sitting around unclaimed.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, the taxi drivers, big fine, that's
the one. No one else seems about to step forward
and claim it.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Strangest thing. No cash, robberies, no missing property, no clues
at all. I'm afraid it'll have to go down on
the book, says unsolvable.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
No leads left the farm, no leads, no.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Time and no manpower either.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
No.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Well, yeah, how are you doing on that narcotic's case?
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (30:11):
The same run around? One false lead after another went.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Out of that big shipment you had went to.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Disappeared into thin air.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
All the drugs got into the country, all right, we've
seen sight of them on the street. But my tip
off turned out to be some penny and his side
order no more than a couple of ounces, hardly with busting.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
They fed you just enough to keep you busy. Well
he snuck in the big stone.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
Yeah, looks that way.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
And I don't want to turn in the little guys
when it looks as if I have a chance of
backing the big one, you know, so I keep treading water.
Hope peoples to Sloane.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
There's a call.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
You can take it on the house phone on the
wall there. Okay, thanks MSL picking up in the second Yes, sir,
sorry to bother you. Sir. They don't even let you
alone in the showers. Talk about station house, addaches, conscious
lf lucky in my beat, they follow me wherever I go.
Oh Sloane here, oh oh yeah, yeah, yeah I remember.
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So what do you want something? I ought to? Well,
come on, make it snappy.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
I haven't done all the time in the world.
Speaker 6 (31:12):
What you what?
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Well, Look, I can't touch you over the phone. Yeah yeah,
tenth and Broadway in front of Grace Church.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Okay, in fifteen minutes. It never stops.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Sid Oh, you never know.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
But you always have to jump just in case.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Maybe this one's the big one, this.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
One, yeah, yeah, yeah, it could be a big one. Eric, Frank,
I'm sorry to leave you and a rush. This guy
sounded impatient. Oh uh, thanks for the game.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
My pleasure, Sloan, my pleasure.
Speaker 6 (31:57):
Make like a passenger, Get in the back.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Okay, Now, what's this all about?
Speaker 6 (32:05):
On a little different in the squash court, said mister Sloane.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Maybe I look a little more familiar to you in
my taxicab. Is that?
Speaker 2 (32:12):
It's so?
Speaker 3 (32:13):
I remember you're our big deal. Now what is this
story you were giving me over the phone?
Speaker 1 (32:18):
You say you saw me, right, mister Sloane, I saw you,
all right, and I saw more in you.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
I saw you with Joe. Joe, Joe, who.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
I don't know what you're talking about, Sloan, So past
that kind of pretend and try a little harder.
Speaker 6 (32:32):
And there were a lot more than you thought. I
knew you.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
See, I followed Joe when he left my face tailed him.
I think you'd call it, and I continue to follow
him over the next couple of days. I don't like
strangers busting into my house. Oh I still don't see
why this should matter to me.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
I have to spell it out for you, do I
all right? Then, Sloan, I find a briefcase full of
money which I tried to return to you. You deny
that it's yours.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
You've been looking sulted as a matter of fact, and
then you send you a friend, Joe, to pick up
a briefcase for of course it is yours at my house,
only to find that I have followed your suggestion and
turned it over to the authorities. I said to the
cab company, I figured your property would probably be safer
with the police.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
Now I've done a lot for you, mister Sloan.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
You don't seem to realize that.
Speaker 6 (33:19):
In fact, that's why I come to you now.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
I thought you might be a little more appreciative, appreciative
that you already got ten grand for yourself. Ah, now
we begin to speak the same language. I still don't
know what you expect to get out of me. Well,
another ten grand, for instance, another ten good tigre. There
has to be more where that first case slow came from.
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Silence is expensive these days, mister Sloan. And you think
I'm dumb enough to give in to your blackmail once
you have twenty grand once to stop you from asking
for thirty.
Speaker 6 (33:54):
Twenty grand will buy me my own taxi cab.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
I want no more than that, and you're just going
to have to trust me, mister Sloan. And I don't
think you really have any choice. Why on all we
can let the police know that you lifted at the
ten grand that disappeared somewhere between you and the police.
Speaker 6 (34:12):
So what if I did take it? The police couldn't
prove anything even.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
If you did tip them off, unless, of course, you're
prepared to go in and testify to ten grand.
Speaker 6 (34:19):
Is missing from your briefcase. Somehow I get the idea
you wouldn't want to do that.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Well, well, well you're a lot smarter than we gave
you credit for, Erry, Yeah, a lot smarter. It looks
like we may just have to do business together after all.
You realize, of course, I don't carry that can of
catch with me, so i'll.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
Have Oh, you'll have plenty of time to get the
ten grand, mister Sloane.
Speaker 6 (34:44):
We'll see each other tonight, for example.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Tonight, now the night, mister Sloan, four hours from now,
same place, tenth and Broadway. All right, and just make
sure you come on your own and make it a
personal delivery.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
All right, all right, all right, wherever I want.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
I'll be there at eight thirty tonight, alone alone.
Speaker 6 (35:12):
Hello, Molly.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Oh hi, Yeah, I called to tell you not to
wait dinner. I have a meeting with a bender. No, no,
I did see him this morning. I just have to
see him again. Yeah, he explained the whole thing to me.
There is no missing ten grand or anything there.
Speaker 6 (35:29):
I'll tell you about it.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
What No, no, no, no, nothing dangerous, mam, Just just
a little more detective work. Anyway.
Speaker 6 (35:36):
I got a run now, I'll be late.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Oh and mal, I love you.
Speaker 6 (35:40):
Bye.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Welcome back, mister Sloan, looks like you got yourself a
new briefcase. You mean I got you a new briefcase.
Speaker 6 (35:56):
But that's not all I got for you. Harry, how
does this kid, he said, a gun right on the back.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Of your neck.
Speaker 6 (36:06):
Keep driving?
Speaker 1 (36:07):
No, but Harry, just drive now. You once told me
to make like a passenger, so it's your turn to
make like a driver.
Speaker 6 (36:18):
Head west.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
We're twenty first in the river.
Speaker 6 (36:21):
Driver and step on it.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Okay, Nika left here.
Speaker 6 (36:31):
Say that's a dead end.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Nika left.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
There's a friend of yours here who's been waiting to
see you.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
All right, now pull up.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Here, well, Harry, aunts we meet again.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Harry.
Speaker 6 (36:50):
Won't stay where you are with that's a cover.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
It's a frame, Bruno, I'm a step on your boat.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
Won't bender it is you are?
Speaker 6 (36:58):
I know, stay where I'm coming in to get you.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Tell where I am.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Not your life bender.
Speaker 7 (37:02):
You're gonna have.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
To kill me, Frank, Okay, boys, better call it's an ambulance.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
Okay, Frank.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
You knew you knew all along, didn't you all along?
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Not until Harry turned up with that briefcase. Then things
began to fall into place.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Because of one lousy tetchke, Lieutenant Bender, Bender, you're you're okay. Well,
here's our hero now, Sergeant Sloan was just speaking of you, Harry, Sergeant.
But yeah, Sloan, he is a member of our police force, Harry,
or at least he.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Was until right now. As a matter of fact, he's
been in charge of investigating and heavy arc investigating.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Looks to me like he was trying to do a
little of both.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Drugs a big business after all, and dealers just love
to find cops who would blow their cover.
Speaker 6 (37:54):
Then that money in the briefcase was a payble.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
That's right, Harry, Just as you told.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Flown this afternoon. Silence is expensive these days.
Speaker 6 (38:03):
Oh there was a crooked cough after all, was that?
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Harry? That's just something my wife had said to me.
She's been trying a second guess this case all along.
You should meet her. She's quite a detective herself.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
I'd like to. As a matter of fact, Harry, I
was wondering if I couldn't stop by your house.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
A little later. I have a few things i'd like
to talk over.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Sure, Ken, we'd be proud of have you.
Speaker 7 (38:25):
Oh oh, no, Lieutenant, I knew perfectly well that tonight
had to be something crucial. Harry sounded too strange on
the phone for just a casual meet.
Speaker 6 (38:36):
And then, well, he.
Speaker 7 (38:39):
Just doesn't tell me he loves me all that often,
so I knew something was up to see him walking
that door.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
Harry was right.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
You would make a good detective, missus Owens.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
And that brings me to what I wanted to talk
to you about tonight, Harry. Beyond thanking you for all
of your help in this case, I wondered if you'd
consider helping us on a.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Permanent basis as an undercover.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
Policeman, an undercomforted keep on driving a taxi. In fact,
we'd want you to do that. What I mean is
you drive around as usual, but keep your eye open
for trouble.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
And we say in touch by radio, that sounds pretty exciting.
Speaker 5 (39:14):
I'm not so sure that the cab comes all the
way to take care of that.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
We probably have to buy you your own cab. But
you see, Harry, now that we have all that cash
from the briefcase, we could use it to beep up
the force. After all, without you, we wouldn't have had anything,
not the briefcase, or Sloan, or even Joe, not to
mention the drug busts.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
We'll probably swing in the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 7 (39:38):
Oh, Harry, I told you something else would come along.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Was that, Molly? As she's talking about my having my
own cab. You see, it's something I wanted for a
long time, And well, when I found a briefcase like.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
You couldn't help thinking that all that cash could turn.
Speaker 6 (39:53):
Into a cab of your own. Yeah, I'm afraid so.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Well, of course you've thought that anyone would. But what
counts as the bottom line, Harry, and you opted for honesty,
and that's why you'd make a.
Speaker 7 (40:03):
Good cup and why Sloane was a bad one.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
That's right, Molly. Well, Harry, what do you say.
Speaker 6 (40:10):
You just hired yourself a taxi? Lieutenant, I'm your man.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
So the briefcase was Sloan's, and he denied owning it
only because Lieutenant Bender was with him, But later when
he tried to retrieve it, it was too late, too
late to retrieve his money, and too late to stop
the chain of events that would lead to his arrest.
Greed was his downfall, as it might have been for
Harry had he kept the briefcase instead of turning it
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in I shall return shortly, the chance forgetfulness of a
crooked cup, the sharp memory of a lonely time driver,
all unexpected ingredients without which our mystery never would have existed,
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without which Lieutenant Bender never would have cracked his narcotics case.
But then police work is like that, one mystery after another,
each dependent on a fair mix of sharp wit and circumstance.
Mystery solving is satisfying, isn't it. Harry Owens find it so,
and he drives now with purpose, and each conversation holds
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the possibility of some hidden meaning. Our cast included Paul
hect Anne Williams, Ian Martin, and Jackson Beck. The entire
production was under the direction of Hyman Brown, and now
a preview of our next tale.
Speaker 6 (41:48):
Don't worry about her.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
Yeah, she doesn't mean it you no, no, Gussie.
Speaker 6 (41:53):
I know her better than you do. We're talking about predicy.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
I know everybody better than you do, I even though
you better.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
Than you Tube Bones.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
I know my name is Bong.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
I told you I know you. What's your name?
Speaker 1 (42:05):
Apple?
Speaker 4 (42:07):
Apple?
Speaker 1 (42:07):
What just ample?
Speaker 2 (42:09):
But did you get that name?
Speaker 6 (42:10):
It's a symbolic of what the garden of Eden.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
You'll look like a hustler to me, I.
Speaker 6 (42:17):
Am, I am the king of ostlers?
Speaker 4 (42:20):
Is that a fact?
Speaker 1 (42:21):
An accepted fact throughout the world.
Speaker 6 (42:23):
Accepted by Hope everybody, even you me.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Do you accept the fact that the devil is the
king of the hustlers?
Speaker 6 (42:30):
You?
Speaker 3 (42:30):
Well, I happen to be the devil?
Speaker 6 (42:34):
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Marshall. There are those who tell us not to look
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you might do well to think twice before accepting.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
I have your briefcase, mister Sloan. You left it in
my taxi yesterday.
Speaker 6 (00:53):
I remember, I thought you might appreciate case.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I didn't lose any briefcase. I don't know what you're.
Speaker 6 (00:58):
Talking about, but I know this is your briefcase.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
You're carrying it along with your squash racket, and you
left it in the backseat of my car.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Look, you've got the wrong man, mister.
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Speaker 6 (01:29):
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Speaker 1 (01:42):
Taxi cabs can be lonely places solitude on wheels, a
curious throne. With the world on the other side of
your windows and strangers staring down the back of your neck,
conversations are half hearted at best, with eye contact that
most human of exchanges relegated to chance glances in a
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smudged rear view mirror, and with money passed gingerly between
driver and passenger. The only true constant a potentially dangerous constant,
at least so it was for Harry Owens. He drove
a taxi and tried to encourage big tippers until one
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day when the tip turned out to be more than
he bargained.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
For a driver. This will be fine, I'll get out
of the light.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
Okays you like, sir.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
That's two ninety five to ninety five. See can you
change your ten? Yes, sir, I just give me six.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Fiftook case two three fourth six.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Okay, there you go.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
Thanks to you too, buddy.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
For some people, Hey, hey, mister, mister, your briefcase.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
You've left your Hey, mister, I'm going to tell her
that guy.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Go see.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Everybody's in such a hurry.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Let's see you dress tank.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
Let me be inside. Holy Ma, lonely, who solid green bags.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
There's snow address in here. She's talk about striking a jackpot.
Ain't got a call, Molly, Hey, Molly, guess what? No, no, no,
nothing's wrong. Everything's all right. Hey.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
You know that vacation you wanted?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Okay, we'll pack your bags.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
Molly, we're off. I am serious.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
We're rich, Molly, I mean rich, yeah, neat little packets
of ten dollar bills. Rich.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
But don't ask anymore. I'm on my way home. You'll
understand when I get there.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Bye, baby.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Boy, Paris, Here we come, Molly, Molly at home, Harry,
what is this?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Just look here, Molly, look at this, Harry.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Yeah, that's a trip to Paris and a new taxi
cab of my own.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
I'll start my own fleet.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
I don't understand it.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
There's not much to understand. I found it on the
back seat of the cab. No address, no nothing.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
We are meant to have this, Molly, meant to have Yeah.
Speaker 7 (04:21):
Oh but Harry, people don't just go around leaving briefcases
full of money.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
There must be more to it than that.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
What more do you want? I had a passenger. He
got out in a rush. He left a briefcase behind.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I called after him.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
He was lost in the crowd. No, Harry, that's not
like you.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
You've tracked people down and return things before. What was
the man's destination?
Speaker 6 (04:39):
You didn't have one.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
What I mean is he just got out at the light.
He'd has to go to a four hundred park. But
he got out near Grand Central station and I picked
him up down on the nineteenth Street. Nowhere specific, So
how do I trace it? He didn't talk much. He
didn't even say thank you. He just ran off into the.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Crowd with his squash racket and left us.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
The briefcase squash racking.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yeah, I guess that in his hand.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
He didn't miscarrying the briefcase. You know when we'll wait
a minute now.
Speaker 7 (05:04):
If he had a squash racket, he must have been
paying squash. Well, let's look in the yellow pages.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Maybe there's a squash court down in nineteen Mally.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
Here we go, all right, a squawk where.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Dad squash court?
Speaker 7 (05:20):
Oh look, look, Harry at Tennython squash club, right on
Nineteenth Street.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
You must try and find him.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Mally.
Speaker 7 (05:26):
I'm surprised at you, Harry. You've never done this honest
thing in your life.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
This money isn't ours, and you know it now.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
If you return it, there's probably a reward. From the
looks of it, there's enough there.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
For a crowd.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
And that's just what I mean.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
It's a fortune landed right in our laps, all our dreams.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
Just count it, Molly, think about it.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
I wouldn't touch the stuff. It's not ours to count now.
I don't want to hear another word until you've done
everything in your power to give that man back his money. Now,
go to the squash club when your lunch break tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Do it, Harry.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
You'll feel a lot better inside when you've done it,
you know you will.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I'm sorry, sir, but that's against club regulations. We do
have someone who might fit that description, but I'm not
allowed to give out members names. You'd have to lead
the briefcase with me and I'll find out if anyone
claims it myself.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
Hey, look, you can't have that many members.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
With a heavy eyebrows and a mole on the left cheek. Well,
let me see the guy. I'll know right away if
it's him.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
I know faces.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
All I do every day is look at strange faces.
I'll put this briefcase.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
In the hands of its owner, and nowhere else this
is highly irregular.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
You can't just oh.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
All right, I suppose this is an exceptional situation and
you have come all this way.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Yeah, come along with me.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
We'll go into the squash course. The gentleman you describe
happens to be here right now.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
You can take a.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Look and see if he's the right one third quarter
down on your left.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Those two men over.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Yeah, yeah, that's a man.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
That's him.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
I thought it might be well wait while they finished
this volley there, mister Sloane. Excuse me, sir, there's someone
to see you about something you left in the taxicams.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
I can't hear you. I have your briefcase, mister Sloan.
You left it in my taxi cab yesterday. Remember, I
thought you might appreciate your case.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I don't know, I don't know there's any briefcase. I
don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
But this is your briefcase.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
You were carrying it along with your squash racket.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
You left it in the backseat of my cab.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Ook.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
If you found a briefcase, then turn it into your
cab company. They have a loss and found you got
the wrong man. I said, come on, Frank, let's finish
the game. Well, I've done what I can for you.
There's no one else here who could fit your description.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
But that was my passenger. I'd know him anywhere. Molly, Wait,
it's ours.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
What's flars?
Speaker 7 (08:02):
What are you doing home at this hour?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Again?
Speaker 7 (08:05):
Oh no, Harry, you still got that time.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
I got it because the man wouldn't take it.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
I found it Sloan. His name is right at the
squash club.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
And when I try to give him the briefcase, he
refused to take it, refused it.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
But why, well, you must have had the wrong man.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
No, Molly, I know it was him. You know, I
never forget a face, and he knew who I was.
I could see it in his eyes.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
He was living as if as if somehow I'd insulted.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Him to trying to return it.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
He practically had me thrown.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Out of the club.
Speaker 7 (08:31):
But it just doesn't make sense.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Never mind what makes sense. Molly didn't want it, and
now it is ours, conscience, free and clear.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
Well, if he didn't want it, then he must have
a reason. Well, Harry, I don't like this. Why would
anyone carry around that much cash in a briefcase anyway?
Now it has to be something illegal.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Illegal or not, there's no way we'll ever find out.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
And I want you to go to the police.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
But the police they won't know any more than we do.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
They could possibly solve this, especially when the owner himself
denies that it's his.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
I why should they have the money? We found it
and we need it more than they do. Well, what
if the bills are mark mark?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
You mean?
Speaker 7 (09:10):
Well, listen, these bills may be no good at all.
It may be a plant. Oh, Harry, I think we
should go.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
To the pree.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
But if you don't, I will.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
I want to see the commanding officer please, it's a
matter of utmost important.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
I won't see anyone else.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Lieutenant bend is a busy man.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
I assure you he'll have time for me.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Now.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
Now look at this where all that money come?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Well, if you'll get me to Lieutenant Fender, I'll tell
him and no one else. Lieutenant Bendell see you now,
I'll be down the hall if you need anything.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Lieutenant, Well, it seems to be all the urgency.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Say, I see you rank the other guy on the squash.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Court, Rank Benda. That's right. I'm a lieutenant in charge here.
So you're the cab driver who broke in in our game.
What are you doing here?
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Well, I'm returning to the briefcase. I mean, someone left
it in the back of my cab. I don't know
what to do with it.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
The thing is, well, here looks it's full of money.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Look well, indeed it is a real bundle. It looks
like maybe you'd better begin your story all over again
from the beginning.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
I told you, Lieutenant, someone left this in the back
of my cab.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
What were you doing at the Tennis and squash club.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Trying to return it?
Speaker 6 (10:40):
You see, I picked up this passenger there.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
I thought maybe it was his briefcase. But I must
have been mistaken.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
It wasn't his. You saw for yourself, so I did.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Although I had my mind more on a squash game
than on any lost briefcase. Sloan didn't seem to give
it any important I obviously had.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
The wrong man.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
Anyway, this money, I thought I'd better turn it over
to someone responsible.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
I never expected to find you.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Here, nor are you.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Yeah, but now that you have the briefcase, said lieutenant,
can I go please?
Speaker 6 (11:11):
I just wanted to turn it in. The police seemed
better than the cab company. With so much money and
all that I have.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
To get back to my job on him. Wait a minute,
we don't even know your.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
Name, Harry. Lieutenant Harry Owens. The officer outside has all
the information.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
I really have to go.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
I'll be in trouble with my boss.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
All right, we'll be in touch with you if we
have any more questions questions.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
I told you all, I know everything.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
There shouldn't be any problem. Sure there, Harry, and no.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Sir, thank you, goodbye that you Harry.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
I am all well. Here we are back in the poorhouse.
You turned it in there, Yeah, I turned in it.
It's funny. By the time I handed it over, I
was almost glad.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
To get rid of it.
Speaker 7 (11:57):
Oh, you did the right thing.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
You know.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
I haven't told you the half of it. The strangest
thing happened.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
I asked to see the command in officey, you know,
the way we'd agreed, And he was the same man
I saw on.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
A squash court.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I don't understand my passenger's squash partner. I recognized him
as soon as I was brought into his office, and
I knew his name. Frank Sloan called him Frank as
I as I left, and sure enough, Lieutenant Frank bender
sitting right there in front of me, headed.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
A whole precinct.
Speaker 7 (12:26):
Sloan squash partner. Strange?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Did he recognize you there?
Speaker 6 (12:31):
He remembered me right after.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
I called him Frank, But he was more interested in
the money than it. Haven't seen me before, And I
told him that Sloan must.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Have been the wrong man. Was he, Harry?
Speaker 5 (12:40):
No, he was My passenger was his briefcase. I always
checked the backseat after each passenger, and I always remember
a face.
Speaker 7 (12:47):
This is all very strange. A man who loses a
briefcase full.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Of money then denies it's his, and a.
Speaker 7 (12:54):
Squash partner who turns out to be a police.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Lieutenant headed a precinct.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
Yeah, well, anyway, it's no longer our problem.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I'm glad to have it out of the way.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
It was never look at that piece.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
I'll go see Can I help you?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
But your husband can a little matter about a briefcase?
Speaker 6 (13:16):
Who are you?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Hello, Harry, it's about the briefcase.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Who are you?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Just call me you? My boss sent me for his belongings.
I think you found something that.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
Oh yeah, I found a briefcase. Sure? How did you
find me?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
My boss traced you through the cab company. He makes
a habit the memorizing cabbage numbers, you know, the little
card up and the dash. It comes in handy sometimes.
So where's the case?
Speaker 6 (13:50):
I don't have it.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
You don't have it.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
No, I turned it over to the police.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Why did you do that this afternoon?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
And why did you tell him the truth?
Speaker 6 (13:58):
I found it in my cab.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
I didn't know how to.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Retch and they said nothing. What could they say? They
were as puzzled as I am. But if your boss
lost it, all he has to do is go to
the seventeenth precinct.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
They have it there.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
Unless there's some problem.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Now, no, there's no problem. We'll pick it up tonight.
Thanks for nothing.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Well, I knew I hadn't heard the last of it
when I left.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
That police station.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Something told me it just wasn't going to be all
that easy, Harry.
Speaker 7 (14:32):
If that man's boss really owns that briefcase, then who
is solon? And I was slow with police Lieutenant Bendor Molly.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
I don't know. I just hope we never see or
hear from any of them again.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Would you have turned in the briefcase?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Thanks to Molly's insistence, Harry did, and he'd be happy
never to hear that briefcase again. But it's not always
that simple. Past events can transform your life, even long
after you think they're over.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
O'ur return shortly with that too.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
A simple taxi ride can turn into a nightmare. Most
of us identify with the passenger, but in this instance
we're concentrating on the driver, Harry Owens, whose tip one
day was more than a bargained for.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Most people would be delighted to.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Come across a briefcase full of money. Harry was, but
his delight didn't last. He did his best to return it,
but the briefcase, along with its various owners, seemed determined
to haunt him. As we rejoin him and his wife, Molly,
the phone is ringing.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
Okay, i'll get it.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Hello, Yeah, this is he Yeah, yeah, I'll hold on Molly,
Lieutenant Bender.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Oh yes, sir.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Yes they're fine, sir, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
No, I told you all I knew down at the
station house.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
I understand, sir, but I'm afraid I can't help you.
The all things are complete mystery to me. Yes, sir, yes,
of course.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
I will five five five eight nine four, oh.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Your direct line, I will Okay, goodbye, sir, and what
was that all about?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
The briefcase?
Speaker 1 (16:31):
What else?
Speaker 6 (16:31):
He thinks I know more than I'm telling him. But
you do, Harry?
Speaker 7 (16:35):
You didn't tell him about that awful man?
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
The less I tell him, the better. I don't want
to be involved.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
You should have told Bender about him. You're just as
convinced he's a criminal as I am.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Oh, he's a criminal, all the more reason not to
be mixed up in it.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
Let well enough alone, Molly.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
Why Harry Owens? I never thought i'd live to see
the day, but i'd call you a coward.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
I'm not a coward.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
There's no sense in sticking our neck out when we
have no real information. What could I tell Lieutenant Bender?
A stranger named Joe?
Speaker 7 (17:01):
Now you could describe him. You could go through there.
What do they call those things? That mug sheets? Maybe
you could identify.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Him and Sloan too. Well.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
They don't know how good you are with they says
you can help them, Harry.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
They need you.
Speaker 7 (17:15):
Besides, if it's sticking your neck out that worries you,
don't bother worrying. We're already involved. They know who we are,
where we live. We'll tell them what they may decide
to do next. I mean it, Harry, we'd be better
off of the police on our side.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
What's for dinner, Molly?
Speaker 7 (17:33):
What's Aren't you going to call the lieutenant?
Speaker 6 (17:36):
He gives, I am not gonna call the lout.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
I'm sorry, mam.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
Too much has happened to me in the last forty
eight hours.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Well, I talk.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
About is the briefcase?
Speaker 1 (17:47):
The briefcase to you, to Sloan, to Lieutenant Benda, to Joe.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
I'm sorry, May you got to give.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Me a break?
Speaker 7 (17:55):
Harry?
Speaker 6 (17:56):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
Of course I'll give you a break, and a hot
meal probably wouldn't hurt either. I bet you didn't even
have lunch. What were going down to the precinct law?
You are right, we discussed this enough?
Speaker 6 (18:15):
Is that you?
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Harry?
Speaker 7 (18:17):
How was your day?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (18:18):
I guess I.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Went to see Lieutenant Bender.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
You did.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
Oh, I'm so relieved.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
I knew you'd come wrong.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Well, I couldn't help thinking about it driving around in
the cab, and I figured figured.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
I went through some mugs, sheets, and I did recognize
Joe a picture taken last year when he was arrested
on some mine or assault charge.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
He's some kind errand boy. For the tough guys. He
does a lot of their dirty work. He's done time,
but never longer than a couple of months. Oh, Harry, anyway,
Bender was real pleased. He said he's given us police
protection for the next week or so.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Look out across the street and a tail on my cab.
It's real cops and robis stuff, Molly.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
They even gave me a direct line.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
To the station house monitoring my cab radio. Looks like
we're really onto something.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
We sounds like you've joined a new club.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
I always like detective work ever since I was a kid.
You know how. I make a habit of studying faces.
Saw all the same game and Sloan.
Speaker 7 (19:16):
Did you find out about him?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Not really?
Speaker 5 (19:19):
I told him he was, without doubt, my passenger and
somehow involved with a briefcase. But Benda said I should
leave that part to him. Apparently he suspects Sloan of something,
but he won't tell me what.
Speaker 7 (19:31):
Harry, You will be careful, of course I will.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
All I have to do is keep on the lookout
for anything new and keep in touch with Bender every
hour or so.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
He'll be meeting with Sloan tomorrow morning.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
I think he has some kind of a plan.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Good game, Sloan. You're ahead of me all the way.
See you know who walked in the other day, That
funny little guy, the taxi driver who came in here
one day looking for you, finally turned in that briefcase,
not to his cab company, but to the police and
of all people, right to me.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Hey, you're you're kidding.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
I'm not kidding.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
And what's more, you will never guess what was inside
the briefcase.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Money, ten dollar bills, all in deep little stacks. Forty
thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
That's important. I can say, you're kidding.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Forty thousand smackers. I bet you wish you lung under
that briefcase.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Huh oh right, only known. Sure, So what do you
do with the frank? Have you tracked down the oer?
Speaker 3 (20:38):
No, not a chance, not a clue, Just a taxi
driver who seemed to want to get rid of it
as fast as he could. He seems scared of something
until he coughs up whatever it is, We've got nothing
to go.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
On, Oh Joe, Sloane, here they're onto that taxi driver
and a little crook.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
He looked at.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Ten grand of the bread for himself before he turned
it in.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
Yeah, but it's perfect.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Now we have a handle on him. We can scare
him at a being quiet for sure. No, no, no,
he doesn't really know anything, but I want to make
sure he doesn't get curious.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
He's stood up enough dust.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
As it is.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Yeah, that's a little.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Meeting down at the garage. You know what to do.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Just called it, Harry.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I'm not quite true for that. You you know, man me, Harry,
my boss lost his briefcase. Remember well this little meatness
to help you forget. Just don't go sticking your nose
into business and consign you forget the briefcase. Forget you
(22:05):
ever saw me. The police would just love to know
about that little ten thoul you slipped out of the cave.
What ten thousand now have? Let's not argue. I said,
you're knobvious detail. We could tip off the police about
your share of the day, or we could forget where
it came from. If you can, and if you can't,
(22:30):
well I'll just have to come back and help you.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Clear your memory permanently.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
Eight ur Urgent eight seven six Harry, Harry, you all right, Yeah,
I'm okay, Lieutenant, I'm okay.
Speaker 8 (22:46):
I heard the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Harry, Geo's boys came more than one in a loud
and queer. I'm gonna on his tale.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Now, Lieutenant, you got to listen to me. That that
ten thousand he mentioned.
Speaker 9 (22:55):
I know, Mary, Harry, you didn't take any ten thousand.
Speaker 8 (22:58):
We all that explain to you. Tell up, we knew
this was coming. I'm pretty sure it'd be no more
than a morning. We've seen Joe and action before. He
has never been able to nail him till now.
Speaker 9 (23:09):
That is thanks to you.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Yeah, but Lieutenant, the.
Speaker 9 (23:12):
Best thing you can do now is go home and rest.
Everything is under control. I'll fill you in on the
details tomorrow. Pick me up at second and forty seven.
Are you sure you're okay, Harry.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
I'm fine, Lieutenant. I'll go home now and Harry, yes, Lieutenant, thanks.
Oh that's okay, Lieutenant. Good night, honey, No it's hurts.
Speaker 7 (23:42):
We'll have this Spanish up in a minute. Can you
tell me once and for all just what happened. I
can't make head and to tell your story.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
I can't tell you anymore than I already told you.
Joe was waiting for me in the garage.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
He told me to keep out of his business and
forget all I know, or you tell the police. I
took ten grand out of the briefcase before.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
How would I know?
Speaker 4 (24:02):
How?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
All I know is he thinks I have ten thousand,
ten thousand I never took.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
But Lieutenant Bender is sure you don't have.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Right and how does he know?
Speaker 6 (24:11):
I don't know? He trusts me. Oh, I don't like this.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
Someone's setting you.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
Up, Molly. I'm meeting with the lieutenant tomorrow. He's going
to explain everything he told me.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
He would you really trust the lust the course?
Speaker 6 (24:22):
I trust him?
Speaker 1 (24:24):
What do you think? Well?
Speaker 7 (24:24):
I'm not so sure I trust.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
Him myself, Molly.
Speaker 7 (24:27):
What did all he wants is to share of that
money for himself?
Speaker 6 (24:29):
But he doesn't want Well, now, look.
Speaker 7 (24:31):
I don't know how he got to Joe, but he
sure knew Joe was coming, and he heard all that
Joe said over your radio thanks to his monitor. Oh
he was on the squash course with Sloan. You can't
forget that. It thun a little too pat. How much
money was in that briefcase?
Speaker 6 (24:46):
I don't know. Fifty thousand, I think.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
So if a Bender wants to keep ten for himself,
he simply declares that the briefcase held only forty thousand
dollars when you turned it in.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
Molly, you can't think I not.
Speaker 7 (24:58):
Only can think, I do. I don't know where all
that cash came from in the first place, but they
got their hooks into it and into you. I'm quite
sure of that.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
I'll stop it, Molly.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
I'm not going to think this way. I do trust
Spend there. I've been dealing with him.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
I know him. You don't.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
I know.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
It all sounds confusing tonight, and I'm sure he'll straighten
it all out tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (25:24):
Harry.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
I want to thank you again for the last night,
and I'm sorry you got roughed up.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
I know how I'm done, Lieutenant Permanent.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
He will be glad to know we telled Joe right
back to his new headquarters. Yea, the narcotics ring hold
up in the Bronx. We've had our eyes on it
for some time. I guess you're wondering how we knew
Joe would be at the garage and what that business
about the ten thousand dollars was. Yeah, yeah, it was, you, remember, Sloan.
Sure of course, I gambled on your talent for remembering
(25:54):
faces and decided to find out if Sloan was indeed
mixed up in all this. Now I know that he is.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
How's that?
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Well? When I met Sloan that next day for a
squash game, I mentioned you turned into the briefcase. Sort
of a small world. What a coincidence there, you know?
I told him that the briefcase contained forty thousand dollars.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
In case forty thousand.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
That's just what Sloan said. It was obvious that struck
a nerve.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
He knew there was fifty thousand dollars and they're just
as well as I did fifty grand. But you had
a surprise, Harry. That's what you turned into me, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:30):
I just thought, who thought I might believe that you
took it?
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Well?
Speaker 6 (26:34):
I did think someone might be setting me up for
a frame.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Not a chance. You gave us fifty thousand dollars. We
still have fifty thousand. You see, the minute Sloan heard
forty thousand, he figured you took ten for yourself, and
he figured he could black me you into silence with
a threat from a slunky. See Joe, Joe has to
be working under his orders, because no one but Sloan
(26:57):
could have told him about you in the missing ten grand.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
Ten grand I never took.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
A ten grand nobody too, But unfortunately none of that
will ever stand up in court. In order to tie
Sloan in with Joe and the narcotics right now, you
can catch you on quick now. In order to tie
them all in together, we have to set a new trap.
You say we, I mean we with your help, Harry.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
That is, of course, if you're still willing to help, Lieutenant,
I'd be proud to help you. Whose judgment would you trust?
Harry almost always follows Molly's advice, but this time it
looks as if they might not agree. Harry seems to
(27:46):
have put his face in Lieutenant bender, while Molly's afraid
that her husband is about.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
To be framed.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Molly is a shrewd little woman, but imaginations have been
known to work overtime. Too much imagination, or perhaps not
enough for a solution to this mystery, you will have
to wait for act free. It's strange enough when you
(28:19):
find a briefcase full of money, but even stranger when
you find that nobody wants it. At first, Harry thought
he'd liked to keep it, but then Molly persuaded him otherwise,
then Harry thought Sloan would be glad to have it,
but Sloane promptly denied it was his. And finally it
seemed as if Lieutenant Bender might try to snag at
(28:40):
least part of it. But now even that looks unlikely.
Whose briefcase was it and who would inherit the contents?
Speaker 6 (28:50):
Lieutenant.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
I'm proud to help you.
Speaker 6 (28:52):
I have my moments of weakness, but if you'll bear
with me, I'll go along with you on whatever scheme
you cook on.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
All right, then, now here's the plan.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
That's just what the doctor order. That rank a good
massage after a good game.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Oh, it's all the kicks up, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
I don't know what I'd do without these squash games.
To break the routine. I always come out of the
shower feeling like a new man.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Yeah, ready to tackle a day over.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Again, well almost days like to day I wouldn't want
to repeat. We still have two homicides, one suspected ourson,
seven unsolved very thieveries, and not to mention that crazy
briefcase full of cash it's still sitting around unclaimed.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, the taxi drivers, big fine, that's
the one. No one else seems about to step forward
and claim it.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Strangest thing. No cash, robberies, no missing property, no clues
at all. I'm afraid it'll have to go down on
the book, says unsolvable.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
No leads left the farm, no leads, no.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Time and no manpower either.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
No.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Well, yeah, how are you doing on that narcotic's case?
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (30:11):
The same run around? One false lead after another went.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Out of that big shipment you had went to.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Disappeared into thin air.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
All the drugs got into the country, all right, we've
seen sight of them on the street. But my tip
off turned out to be some penny and his side
order no more than a couple of ounces, hardly with busting.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
They fed you just enough to keep you busy. Well
he snuck in the big stone.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
Yeah, looks that way.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
And I don't want to turn in the little guys
when it looks as if I have a chance of
backing the big one, you know, so I keep treading water.
Hope peoples to Sloane.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
There's a call.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
You can take it on the house phone on the
wall there. Okay, thanks MSL picking up in the second Yes, sir,
sorry to bother you. Sir. They don't even let you
alone in the showers. Talk about station house, addaches, conscious
lf lucky in my beat, they follow me wherever I go.
Oh Sloane here, oh oh yeah, yeah, yeah I remember.
(31:03):
So what do you want something? I ought to? Well,
come on, make it snappy.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
I haven't done all the time in the world.
Speaker 6 (31:12):
What you what?
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Well, Look, I can't touch you over the phone. Yeah yeah,
tenth and Broadway in front of Grace Church.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Okay, in fifteen minutes. It never stops.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Sid Oh, you never know.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
But you always have to jump just in case.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Maybe this one's the big one, this.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
One, yeah, yeah, yeah, it could be a big one. Eric, Frank,
I'm sorry to leave you and a rush. This guy
sounded impatient. Oh uh, thanks for the game.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
My pleasure, Sloan, my pleasure.
Speaker 6 (31:57):
Make like a passenger, Get in the back.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Okay, Now, what's this all about?
Speaker 6 (32:05):
On a little different in the squash court, said mister Sloane.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Maybe I look a little more familiar to you in
my taxicab. Is that?
Speaker 2 (32:12):
It's so?
Speaker 3 (32:13):
I remember you're our big deal. Now what is this
story you were giving me over the phone?
Speaker 1 (32:18):
You say you saw me, right, mister Sloane, I saw you,
all right, and I saw more in you.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
I saw you with Joe. Joe, Joe, who.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
I don't know what you're talking about, Sloan, So past
that kind of pretend and try a little harder.
Speaker 6 (32:32):
And there were a lot more than you thought. I
knew you.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
See, I followed Joe when he left my face tailed him.
I think you'd call it, and I continue to follow
him over the next couple of days. I don't like
strangers busting into my house. Oh I still don't see
why this should matter to me.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
I have to spell it out for you, do I
all right? Then, Sloan, I find a briefcase full of
money which I tried to return to you. You deny
that it's yours.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
You've been looking sulted as a matter of fact, and
then you send you a friend, Joe, to pick up
a briefcase for of course it is yours at my house,
only to find that I have followed your suggestion and
turned it over to the authorities. I said to the
cab company, I figured your property would probably be safer
with the police.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
Now I've done a lot for you, mister Sloan.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
You don't seem to realize that.
Speaker 6 (33:19):
In fact, that's why I come to you now.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
I thought you might be a little more appreciative, appreciative
that you already got ten grand for yourself. Ah, now
we begin to speak the same language. I still don't
know what you expect to get out of me. Well,
another ten grand, for instance, another ten good tigre. There
has to be more where that first case slow came from.
(33:44):
Silence is expensive these days, mister Sloan. And you think
I'm dumb enough to give in to your blackmail once
you have twenty grand once to stop you from asking
for thirty.
Speaker 6 (33:54):
Twenty grand will buy me my own taxi cab.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
I want no more than that, and you're just going
to have to trust me, mister Sloan. And I don't
think you really have any choice. Why on all we
can let the police know that you lifted at the
ten grand that disappeared somewhere between you and the police.
Speaker 6 (34:12):
So what if I did take it? The police couldn't
prove anything even.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
If you did tip them off, unless, of course, you're
prepared to go in and testify to ten grand.
Speaker 6 (34:19):
Is missing from your briefcase. Somehow I get the idea
you wouldn't want to do that.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Well, well, well you're a lot smarter than we gave
you credit for, Erry, Yeah, a lot smarter. It looks
like we may just have to do business together after all.
You realize, of course, I don't carry that can of
catch with me, so i'll.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
Have Oh, you'll have plenty of time to get the
ten grand, mister Sloane.
Speaker 6 (34:44):
We'll see each other tonight, for example.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Tonight, now the night, mister Sloan, four hours from now,
same place, tenth and Broadway. All right, and just make
sure you come on your own and make it a
personal delivery.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
All right, all right, all right, wherever I want.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
I'll be there at eight thirty tonight, alone alone.
Speaker 6 (35:12):
Hello, Molly.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Oh hi, Yeah, I called to tell you not to
wait dinner. I have a meeting with a bender. No, no,
I did see him this morning. I just have to
see him again. Yeah, he explained the whole thing to me.
There is no missing ten grand or anything there.
Speaker 6 (35:29):
I'll tell you about it.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
What No, no, no, no, nothing dangerous, mam, Just just
a little more detective work. Anyway.
Speaker 6 (35:36):
I got a run now, I'll be late.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Oh and mal, I love you.
Speaker 6 (35:40):
Bye.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Welcome back, mister Sloan, looks like you got yourself a
new briefcase. You mean I got you a new briefcase.
Speaker 6 (35:56):
But that's not all I got for you. Harry, how
does this kid, he said, a gun right on the back.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Of your neck.
Speaker 6 (36:06):
Keep driving?
Speaker 1 (36:07):
No, but Harry, just drive now. You once told me
to make like a passenger, so it's your turn to
make like a driver.
Speaker 6 (36:18):
Head west.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
We're twenty first in the river.
Speaker 6 (36:21):
Driver and step on it.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Okay, Nika left here.
Speaker 6 (36:31):
Say that's a dead end.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Nika left.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
There's a friend of yours here who's been waiting to
see you.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
All right, now pull up.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Here, well, Harry, aunts we meet again.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Harry.
Speaker 6 (36:50):
Won't stay where you are with that's a cover.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
It's a frame, Bruno, I'm a step on your boat.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
Won't bender it is you are?
Speaker 6 (36:58):
I know, stay where I'm coming in to get you.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Tell where I am.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Not your life bender.
Speaker 7 (37:02):
You're gonna have.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
To kill me, Frank, Okay, boys, better call it's an ambulance.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
Okay, Frank.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
You knew you knew all along, didn't you all along?
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Not until Harry turned up with that briefcase. Then things
began to fall into place.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Because of one lousy tetchke, Lieutenant Bender, Bender, you're you're okay. Well,
here's our hero now, Sergeant Sloan was just speaking of you, Harry, Sergeant.
But yeah, Sloan, he is a member of our police force, Harry,
or at least he.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Was until right now. As a matter of fact, he's
been in charge of investigating and heavy arc investigating.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Looks to me like he was trying to do a
little of both.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Drugs a big business after all, and dealers just love
to find cops who would blow their cover.
Speaker 6 (37:54):
Then that money in the briefcase was a payble.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
That's right, Harry, Just as you told.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Flown this afternoon. Silence is expensive these days.
Speaker 6 (38:03):
Oh there was a crooked cough after all, was that?
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Harry? That's just something my wife had said to me.
She's been trying a second guess this case all along.
You should meet her. She's quite a detective herself.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
I'd like to. As a matter of fact, Harry, I
was wondering if I couldn't stop by your house.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
A little later. I have a few things i'd like
to talk over.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Sure, Ken, we'd be proud of have you.
Speaker 7 (38:25):
Oh oh, no, Lieutenant, I knew perfectly well that tonight
had to be something crucial. Harry sounded too strange on
the phone for just a casual meet.
Speaker 6 (38:36):
And then, well, he.
Speaker 7 (38:39):
Just doesn't tell me he loves me all that often,
so I knew something was up to see him walking
that door.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
Harry was right.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
You would make a good detective, missus Owens.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
And that brings me to what I wanted to talk
to you about tonight, Harry. Beyond thanking you for all
of your help in this case, I wondered if you'd
consider helping us on a.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Permanent basis as an undercover.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
Policeman, an undercomforted keep on driving a taxi. In fact,
we'd want you to do that. What I mean is
you drive around as usual, but keep your eye open
for trouble.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
And we say in touch by radio, that sounds pretty exciting.
Speaker 5 (39:14):
I'm not so sure that the cab comes all the
way to take care of that.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
We probably have to buy you your own cab. But
you see, Harry, now that we have all that cash
from the briefcase, we could use it to beep up
the force. After all, without you, we wouldn't have had anything,
not the briefcase, or Sloan, or even Joe, not to
mention the drug busts.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
We'll probably swing in the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 7 (39:38):
Oh, Harry, I told you something else would come along.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Was that, Molly? As she's talking about my having my
own cab. You see, it's something I wanted for a
long time, And well, when I found a briefcase like.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
You couldn't help thinking that all that cash could turn.
Speaker 6 (39:53):
Into a cab of your own. Yeah, I'm afraid so.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Well, of course you've thought that anyone would. But what
counts as the bottom line, Harry, and you opted for honesty,
and that's why you'd make a.
Speaker 7 (40:03):
Good cup and why Sloane was a bad one.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
That's right, Molly. Well, Harry, what do you say.
Speaker 6 (40:10):
You just hired yourself a taxi? Lieutenant, I'm your man.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
So the briefcase was Sloan's, and he denied owning it
only because Lieutenant Bender was with him, But later when
he tried to retrieve it, it was too late, too
late to retrieve his money, and too late to stop
the chain of events that would lead to his arrest.
Greed was his downfall, as it might have been for
Harry had he kept the briefcase instead of turning it
(40:42):
in I shall return shortly, the chance forgetfulness of a
crooked cup, the sharp memory of a lonely time driver,
all unexpected ingredients without which our mystery never would have existed,
(41:06):
without which Lieutenant Bender never would have cracked his narcotics case.
But then police work is like that, one mystery after another,
each dependent on a fair mix of sharp wit and circumstance.
Mystery solving is satisfying, isn't it. Harry Owens find it so,
and he drives now with purpose, and each conversation holds
(41:28):
the possibility of some hidden meaning. Our cast included Paul
hect Anne Williams, Ian Martin, and Jackson Beck. The entire
production was under the direction of Hyman Brown, and now
a preview of our next tale.
Speaker 6 (41:48):
Don't worry about her.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
Yeah, she doesn't mean it you no, no, Gussie.
Speaker 6 (41:53):
I know her better than you do. We're talking about predicy.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
I know everybody better than you do, I even though
you better.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
Than you Tube Bones.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
I know my name is Bong.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
I told you I know you. What's your name?
Speaker 1 (42:05):
Apple?
Speaker 4 (42:07):
Apple?
Speaker 1 (42:07):
What just ample?
Speaker 2 (42:09):
But did you get that name?
Speaker 6 (42:10):
It's a symbolic of what the garden of Eden.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
You'll look like a hustler to me, I.
Speaker 6 (42:17):
Am, I am the king of ostlers?
Speaker 4 (42:20):
Is that a fact?
Speaker 1 (42:21):
An accepted fact throughout the world.
Speaker 6 (42:23):
Accepted by Hope everybody, even you me.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Do you accept the fact that the devil is the
king of the hustlers?
Speaker 6 (42:30):
You?
Speaker 3 (42:30):
Well, I happen to be the devil?
Speaker 6 (42:34):
So what the devil?
Speaker 1 (42:36):
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Speaker 4 (42:45):
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Speaker 1 (42:45):
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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.
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