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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:25):
Me, sweetheart, how did it go?
Speaker 4 (00:28):
It was the end, but the end, Oh Sam, Not
another one who knows society.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Things to answer? What you mean by society?
Speaker 5 (00:34):
Well you know, Sam, caf society cockay up. The two
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Speaker 6 (00:39):
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Speaker 3 (00:41):
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Speaker 5 (00:48):
Oh Sam is not overdoing it.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
It was all overdone, sweetheart.
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Speaker 3 (00:52):
I'll stay right where you are. I'll be right down
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Speaker 3 (01:58):
In the Adventures of Sam.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
You look sober as an owl.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Rise is a owl? Sober is a judge.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Oh well, the way you talked on the phone, I
thought you'd drowned.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
The shamrock gives the black Betty splice, the main brace decorated,
the mahogany made a Dutch bargain, or in the word
gone to give a tineman.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
A music glasses. I wish you'd spend more time on
Harper's Bizarre while I'm gone. Unless were the thesaurus of slang,
I didn't know I could say that. Are you sober well?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
I've been riding the key tune, drinking Adam vail and
if you don't believe it's just asked me to walk
the chop.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Okay, here's hesy arms of Kimball, eyes blazed. Yes, then
the tip of the fourth finger to the tip of
the nose.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Oh seven makes me dizzy?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Is he Gilaspie Old? Exactly? And you are not sewn up, shagged, shellac, chickers,
stuck a tap, shack, gold, stiffo or real crazy? Now
you know that? Good? Now try this one? Yeah, craz
sitting fast Lynn's cruciform cheesecake. Stop. Oh that's now a
place to Northbrik just a little higher now, I apply
(03:14):
the tip of the pencil at the top of the
fool's cap and proceed. VIZ. Date August first, nineteen forty
eight to missus Netta Martini, one thousand, Marina Boulevard, San Francisco,
from Samuel said, license only wenty seventy five nine six. Subject,
Dear Netta. The first I know of the caper was
day before yesterday, morning when I saw your husband's picture
(03:36):
in the paper. It was one of those lovingly retouched
executive type photographs of a man in his late forties
or early fifties raying at the temples and wearing an
embombed man of distinction look. The story was headline, corporation
had waylaid by a mysterious assailant chauffeur foils with the
kidnappers and offices of Martini Trading Company. The item nd
(03:57):
it wasn't as thrilling as the headline sounded, as if
he'd been down for his wallet. Me attempt at kidnapping
had been dreamed up by a board city news reporter.
I tossed it in the waste basket along with my
morning mail and went back to the police gazette. On
page three of the phone round you need garage, Harry
speaking Spain. One moment it was calling Gordon Martine, not
(04:18):
Gordon Martini. The corporation head waylaid by a mysterious assailant,
cammin of.
Speaker 8 (04:22):
The board, and there's nothing but serious about it.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
And what are you doing on this phone?
Speaker 7 (04:25):
I can't talk on the phone.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Where are you in a hospital?
Speaker 8 (04:28):
I left that pest house, this morning. I'm at my residence,
one house in Marina, Bulavah. We'll take you exactly twenty
minutes by cab. You will meet me in front of
the building and we'll have our conference.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
In my car. I'll go to the office. Where's your
office downtown Post Street? Oh, why don't I meet you there?
Speaker 8 (04:40):
I'm a busy man. I have a full calendar. I'm
already late due to all that hospital red tape, but
I can fit you into my schedule if you're hurt
right now, look alive, man.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Well, it's a little early in the morning, but I'm
trying on good. What will you want for a retainer?
I'll let you know if I decided to take the job.
Left twenty minutes, I'll expect you. I have looked more alive.
It took me two minutes to get out of the straight,
one minute to fly down a cab at eighteen minutes
to reach your address. Matter in trouble of twenty one minutes.
(05:10):
As my ATTAXI drew uped the curb in front of
the canopyed affance for the corner apartment house one thousand Mirena.
I saw your husband pacing indignantly up and down in
front of the entlans, pausing only the glare of the
outsized pilometer on his left wrist. His gray Homburg was
prinched the tab an outsized turbine of gauze bandage the
decorated his head.
Speaker 8 (05:27):
Ah, I used to faith exactly one minute and twenty
two seconds.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Late.
Speaker 8 (05:32):
Hours are made of minutes, minutes are made of seconds,
and killing this seemingly negligible interval of time.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
You have wounded an hour or I have. Well, I'm sorry.
The traffic's pretty heavy out here this hour of the morning.
Speaker 8 (05:40):
You know you should have started a minute in twenty
two seconds earlier.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I'm sorry. There was a bore on the telephone, kept
talking about how valuable his time was.
Speaker 8 (05:47):
Well, don't apologize, only waste more time. I used your
check on hundred dollars my cars just around the corner.
I paid that shop at a large salary with much
and keep him waiting. In the meantime, you may as
well start earning your fee.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
I've been earning it for the past twenty to a
minutes and twenty two seconds, right, I suspected as much
you drive.
Speaker 8 (06:05):
A car, Yeah, you mean one man drives all that
I see him that rascally sche of mind sleep in
the backseat.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I like, come out of value pay. I was behind
him in a little bit of right. The shock of
the rapid fire thirty column of slugs left with him
off his feet and knocked him against me. I went
down under his three hundred pards of dead weight the
time I rolled him off at me and got up
the gunman and jumped out of the limozine and into
a grace of them that was double clock alongside in
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the water of traffic on the pull of on. I
didn't dare risk drawing a shot after him, but I
did get the first three numbers of the license plate
before it buried itself on the heavy stream of AM commuters.
That's when the air changed from exhaust fields to something
out of a Persian garden. I turned and looked for
the first time into your nile green eyes letter and
saw you twisting a handkerchief in your pale hands. I
(07:00):
might have loved beside the Shallamar, but I'm Lorena Boulevard.
They look like his histerics that ahead.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Who did it?
Speaker 5 (07:06):
I'm sawing? Don't ride to me? Why don't they come
with me? All those people said you're on the stealing it.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Stop it there, that's better. Come out over here. Who
are you his wife?
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (07:23):
And it was all my fault.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
This is the end. I called Ernie out the window
and asked him to come upstairs. I wanted him to
return some ludery they sent the wrong color piece.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Yeah, yeah, it's Ernie.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
He's a chauffeur. I was looking for the exchange that
when we heard the shots. Is he dead this time?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Yeah? I go to patients. Poor Gordon.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
He had so many enemies.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
He didn't drink.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Well, you know, people dropped us like flies dropped your husband.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Are you a policeman?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
No, that I'm doing to the real thing comes along,
which is right now. If I were you, Laddy, i'd
got back upstairs and relax. I got to use settle up.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Yes, I suppose you're wife.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Poor god.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
And it looks so natural stretched out on a pavement.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
I thinking he'll get up and stagger on into the elevator.
He didn't drink it all. Well, go on with you,
all right, I'm going, Oh, Ernie, where did you go?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Down at the garage? I had a car driving pulled
mister Martini. It's all my phone no, Ernie, it's mine if.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
I play that change player. When I called you out
the window to come and get that package.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Oh oh, that only got here. Who's the witness me?
Oh Spain lost another client? Huh not quiet, I hadn't
cashed the check yet. I only got him anyway.
Speaker 8 (08:29):
I I pull a space and I let him throw
that stucor alright, step on her head out of the crowd.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Sam, I want to get that statement. Yeah, alright, okay, Gary,
take it down. Got a pencil, yeah, and I want
it back. That's happened. This guy was Gordon Martini, who
headed up a local farm, the Martini Trading Company. Last
Naday was working right at his office, got boyed o
neigh's morning. Didn't no wife or maybe he wanted a bodyguard. Anyway,
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he needed one, got in his crouched and backseat of
the limousine and shut the car being out when Martini
opened the door, I mean didn't get a good look
at it. You can see why the way it's closed
in those side windows. Corn car and stop drilling. You
can't afford them. You're getting all this.
Speaker 7 (09:10):
What about the getaway?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Martin? He fell on top of me. I saw the
getaway car in the back of his head. Yeah, Carr
was a gray Sedan. The back of his head was
a standard makee too. Only got the first three digits
of license plates five D nine anything else? Yeah, give
me back my pencil. The homicide boys want some help.
They know my faith. Missus Steed, this is Martini. Why
(09:37):
aren't you on Ernie upstairs getting your alibis shaped up?
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Please? I can't face the questions just yet. What did
the legal if I just avoided them till I can
collect myself.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I don't know about legal, but it might be smart.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Where can we talk?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
What do you suggest?
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Well, there's a little copy of Lounge up on long
boarder and I'll I mean, well, it's it's.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Just around the car, very handy. Let's go.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Yes, my mother's advice. I should have listened, but well
that's why I married mister Martini.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Well, uh, advice is up to lafe here in forty three,
and it's only a quarter or twelve.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
You're just like him, always holding a stopwatch over my head.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Always.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
Well, he drank and all.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
You told me that, but it's.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Much more important than you think. He often fell down
and bumped.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
His head, made that mysterious as sight und waylay him.
Last night in his office was a bubble Martine two.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Pictures full before dinner, and he had to carry him
up to his office.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Oh what did he go up there for? Oh?
Speaker 5 (10:35):
We had a point in the vice president of the firm,
mister Nesbit. Something had come up and he wanted to
go in the suns and papers. I don't know what
it wasn't the first time I waited outside in the car.
After Ernie had taken him upstairs. He came back to
the car and.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
We talked, Oh, only has alibis upstairs? Downstairs long around
the house.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Well, then when the others came on and Gordon didn't,
Ernie went upstairs to see.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Why others mister Musvett and who else?
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Mary Callahan, No, she's an attorney. And if you think
everything was legal between those too, well, But after all,
who am I have called the peddle black?
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Oh what are you trying to tell me? That she
got him drunks so they could make him sign some papers,
that he got himself drunk so they couldn't write his
name of it. He just got drunk and fouled.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
Out Between you and me. I think she pushed him
down a flight of stairs. In his condition, he never remembered.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Why are you putting a finger on the caw hand day?
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Is that what you think? He's the last one out
of a building.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Why didn't you want to tell all this to the police.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Well, I didn't want to talk about his drinking. Things
were bad enough already.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
That would have been the end, all less gonna last
as Annie, what do you want me to do for you?
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Prove that she did it?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Norn, he didn't.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I'll let you take care of Bernie.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Oh no, I don't want alibiim unless I have to.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
He might get the wrong ideas you mean, I've got
the wrong idea.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
He might think it meant I still care for him,
and I don't. I can't stand him anymore. Wait, he
choose those two things.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
And besides, if this alibi is too good, I might
have trouble about that car being in the backseat of
my car.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Pardon the silent as if you said you might have
trouble about a car being in the backshit of your car.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
That's what I said.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Where is your car in the garage?
Speaker 4 (12:04):
But somebody had it out this morning. They scraped the
fender coming back in and they ran in the wall.
They must have been in an awful hurry.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Tell me this car he is, It wouldn't be a
grace Avan, yes, licens len.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Oh, wait a minute, it's on nice hearing up here.
Five nine.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
That's enough. Why didn't you tell you this before?
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Well, I couldn't get up the nerves after I heard
you tell that.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Policeman the gun that killed Gordon was a car being,
and the gray Sedan and all that.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Well, it's the end.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
I hoped you were right, but I didn't think so.
I want to look at the gray Savan in your garage,
and I knew you were wrong, dead wrong. It was
the getaway car, all right, and the car being, as
you know, always proven later to be the one that
killed your husband. But Ernie had turned into a very
poor suspect. Indeed, he was hugging the carpet between the
front and the rear seats when I nudged him. He
didn't move. He'd been shot across the range and Gordon
(12:58):
Martini and the killer had used on a one slug.
It was planted in the base of his brain, which
made it narrowly. A very poor suspect, but a very
dead one.
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Speaker 2 (14:46):
Latinixlading Company Good Afternoons.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
I'm sorry Nez that is inconstant.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
I'll see that he gets your message.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
Well, what can I do for you?
Speaker 3 (14:55):
I would like to see as Callahan.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
Miss Callahan is in conference in mister marshis good.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I would like to see them both, but I have
others not to disturbed. You do not have to.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
I will just a minute. You can't go breaking and
like that, and I'll tell you something else.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
You won't ever get away with it. Why everyone in
this town knows about your underworld connection?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Why you daughter?
Speaker 4 (15:15):
When I get through with you, if you don't go
to the gas chamber for Gordon Martine's murder, you wish.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
You If I go to the gas chamber, it'll be
for killing you, not going.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Oh oh, why didn't I have witnesses here?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Miss Callahan? You will hear that you weren't talking loud enough.
I didn't hear a thing.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
Well, come on in here and I'll tell you a
thing or two. Close that door, now, Sea.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Banks, I let some better on my faith.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Oh so you're the detective Nesta Martinium Floyd.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Eh, what's she paying you? That'll depend on.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
How much I have to do for I'll tell you
how much you will have to do for you'll have
to make a case against me, and that's not going
to be easy.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Why do you think she's not to get you? Why?
Speaker 6 (15:52):
Indeed, for years, this morfy and mouthpiece, this paw boyer Porscha,
has been victimizing poor Gordon, taking advantage of his weakness.
Now but she's liquidated him. She appears with fifty five
percent of the common stock. Bode even enough?
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Why fraudul and all who.
Speaker 9 (16:08):
Has to be all at his death and through an
attachment on those stocks on ethical but perfectly legal. But
you're not even a prophecy. You're nothing but a bumbling
all in badiness that he's gonna call in the orders
over those books.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
Of yours, that scene of double entry, and.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
It's the same work. Look, will you say this for
the court room, saying now you've convinced me you're both crooked.
I'll say that you both go up for something. That's
a promise.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
Mister Spade, I gave you Fetett for better sense.
Speaker 9 (16:29):
You know that it's maduci of the Magistrate's court, this
copy of all of Goer tricked him into changing the
beneficiary of his insurance the very night she pushed him
down the stand, And you were all in favor of
you when you thought you well the controlling interest in
the company.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Answer that it's the same.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
He can't answer that.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Good good. I'm glad one of it is temporarily lost
for words. Now I only want to know one thing,
and I want a straight answer. And if either one
of his starts off on another speech, I'm gonna push
you into the narest cloak room and lock you in together.
Why you would he did try me? Swraight? Huh?
Speaker 6 (16:58):
What do you want to know about Amazon ambulance chase?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Of this? Prove me of the crap? I watch it? Well?
What do you want to know about Martini's insurance policy?
Now you say he changed the beneficiary, please answer in
ten words or less. Who was the beneficiary? And who
is the beneficiary?
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Now I'll have to answer that question in two parts.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
The beneficiary was his wife.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
He changed it to the Martini Trading Company, a corporation
of the state of California.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Thank you and goodbye, Mary Callahan, and that Nutter took
the heat off of you for the time being, which
made things tough for me because Callahan and ness But
were so horrible I never wanted to see them again,
even to testify against them in court. I was sure
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of one thing, none of you would pulled the trigger
of that car, being there had been a hired killer
behind it, and the way he operated taking crazy chances
in broad daylight in the crowded street told me an
important thing about it. That night, I made the rounds
to the joints and a plant called the bingroom. I
found a bouncer who had tossed out a customer that
rnt up a bill and tried to play it for
a thousand dollars check. He sent me to the Atlas Hotel.
(18:17):
The Atlas Hotel is off at Third Street, down to
the railroad yards. Not even a flea bank please sickened
and died a long time ago. They couldn't take it,
and so the look of the guests sprawled out in
the mission furnisher of the lobby. They wouldn't be able
to do much longer. A half dead room clerk came
back to the land of the living long enough to
mutter a room number and wave me feebly toward a
flight of prummy stairs. Yeah what do you want you
(18:45):
hack Hartman?
Speaker 6 (18:46):
Hey, you got anything for me?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Huh, yeah, I got those for you. Get back in
the room. I'll tell you all about it. Yeah, well,
come on in.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Drop the ship, yeah, I'll drop it.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
I'll fix you. I'll cut your God. I'm glad you
did that. You make it easy for me. Now get
over there.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Leave me alone.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Leave me alone. High I'm not feeling You can feel
a lot worse. Who hires you to put the burn on? Martini?
Speaker 6 (19:11):
You don't get nothing out of me?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Who gave me that check?
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Leave me alone?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
I got all night hack and I feel better than
you do. I want you to doing that check. I'll
shake it at your teeth. Come out with it. Come on,
all right, all.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
Right, stub it, stub it.
Speaker 9 (19:26):
I don't feel so good.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Okay, where bucket god rach, I'll get it. There was
a company check, which is what I expected. It was
for one thousand dollars drawn in the golden gate Preston loan,
but I wasn't expecting to find the signature in the
bottom line. It was signed in a bold, firm hand,
(19:48):
Gordon Martini. It was the penman on this.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
He wrote it himself right in front of me.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
What was it supposed to be for? Hey?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
He wanted I should knock off his brother.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
You get mixed up. He's dead. That's what I mean.
Gordon Martini's dead.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
The papers got it wrong. That was his brother, twin
brother and another guy that Shuva kept hanging around the
garage so I couldn't get out. I had to paint
him too.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
You know what you're saying, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm
making sense. I'll get out of here. I'm getting steam.
I'll let it worry. Yeah. I got a nice, cool
place all picked out for you. After I'd turned hack
over to the cops, I did what checking I could
(20:39):
on my own at that time of night. As nearly
as I could learn, Gordon Martini could never have had
a brother, twin or otherwise. He was a first child.
His mother died in childbirth, and his father died one
month later. So I went back to the offices of
the Martini Training Company, glass keyed my way in and
made a quick frist cut it. There. I learned the
signature on the check was indeed Gordon's, but that he
(20:59):
had was out as a cat at that bank the
day he wrote it. I thought about that on the
way out to your apartment.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
They have I been calling and calling trying to reach
you up in so worried.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
It's the end, it's time. You might be right. Fix
me a drink.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Well, there's nothing in the house but those prepared martinis
Gordon used to drink.
Speaker 9 (21:21):
Is that all right?
Speaker 7 (21:22):
No?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
But fixing me on anyway? Never mind the ice. It's
not morning yet. But I hate myself already.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Why don't you just relax and let me get it
for you.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I'll relax, you get the martinis.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
What happened?
Speaker 5 (21:33):
What do you think of Mary Callan?
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Isn't she the end?
Speaker 3 (21:36):
She's cute? You're all cute?
Speaker 4 (21:38):
O me? Why I.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
I put ice in? Anyway? It's nasty with us.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
It's nasty anyway.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
I hope it doesn't make you fault on the way
did poor Gordon?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Thanks?
Speaker 5 (21:50):
What's the matter to dry?
Speaker 3 (21:53):
You? Open this bottle? Freshure?
Speaker 9 (21:54):
Why?
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (21:54):
What's the matter?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Where are they the rest of the bottles? Oh? Yeah,
more of the same. Is this all your husband ever drink?
Speaker 5 (22:07):
Yes, Gallons, it's a special brand. He even took it
with him the bars in people's houses.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
He'd sit and drink them right out of the bottle
like a little child. Then he'd be falling down, drop
the tort and that's all we lost.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
Them many friends.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
They dropped us like like like flies. It was the end.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Whom your phony.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Maxi? Sam Spain?
Speaker 7 (22:26):
Sammy?
Speaker 3 (22:27):
What can I do on you on Martini? Maxi? Yeah?
They got around to the Audipsey end. Yeah. They rushed
them through, got the report handy right in front of me.
Speaker 7 (22:36):
Funny things, Sam. The doc said they should have saved
themselves the trouble.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
He'd have been dead in the.
Speaker 7 (22:40):
Week or two without no help. What from brain tumor
Maliguean that says here?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Any alcohol in him? Not from drinking?
Speaker 7 (22:47):
Sammy?
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Uh? What about their headhones?
Speaker 7 (22:49):
Accidental fall due to periodic fanning spells part of his condition?
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Thanks Maxill? What is it?
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Sam? Where the martinis poison?
Speaker 3 (22:59):
No sweet? And my teenis were colored water?
Speaker 7 (23:03):
They couldn't well?
Speaker 5 (23:04):
What made him get so drunk?
Speaker 3 (23:06):
He didn't he was sick.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
But Sam, who killed him?
Speaker 3 (23:09):
He killed himself? He couldn't do He hired a gunman
to do what he planned his own murder?
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Well, why didn't he even noticed something? He could have
ruined us all?
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Come here, sweet on, put your little hand on uncle
Sam's shoulder. What Sam, Yes, sir, just what he wanted
you to do. He wanted to ruin you. He let
Marry Callahan flace him out of his interest in the company.
He let Nesba juggle the books. He let you go
your way with Earnie. He let all three of you
fix yourselves up with a nice a set of motives
for murder as a jury get asked for it couldn't.
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The real joker was the check he used to pay
off the man he hired to kill him. It bounced,
It also approved. He planned his own murder, but he
still has his revenge because the insurance they would have
kept the corporation from going broke won't be paid off
on account of a self liquidating cause.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
Oh, Sam, Jarlan, what's going to become of us?
Speaker 3 (23:57):
All? Well, uh Ann and Nasbitt will probably sue each
other to death. You might have to go to work
and on a living.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
Well, I have five hundred dollars. I might invest it
in something.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
You already have. Here's my bill.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
But Sam, you didn't help me. What this is the end?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
No, it isn't, sweetheart, This is the beginning, came here period,
the end of the end.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
Well you asked me you helped her? No, f Well,
it just goes to show you show what f man's ingratitudes. Man,
what did mister Martini have against you?
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Why? Nothing, Sweethearty, just needed a smart operator like well, no,
Johnny Madero was under.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
Have you cashed that check mister Martini gave you?
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Well, U Chad tam An He bartender would know better
than to take a check from a man who.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Drinks that much, Yef, you haven't been paying attention. He
didn't drink. He didn't. I was able to establish that
later on him.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
Sam, For all anybody knew, he was a hopeless drunk.
He was dam and was so wonderful and trusting. But
I do wish that you'd understand this. He was a
hopeless drunk.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
For the last time, Effie, he didn't really drink.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
I'll just chucked this up, Sam, Will you call the bank?
Speaker 3 (25:29):
I'll do that.
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Things to answer? What you mean by society?
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Oh Sam is not overdoing it.
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Speaker 2 (02:14):
You look sober as an owl.
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Rise is a owl? Sober is a judge.
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fool's cap and proceed. VIZ. Date August first, nineteen forty
eight to missus Netta Martini, one thousand, Marina Boulevard, San Francisco,
from Samuel said, license only wenty seventy five nine six. Subject,
Dear Netta. The first I know of the caper was
day before yesterday, morning when I saw your husband's picture
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in the paper. It was one of those lovingly retouched
executive type photographs of a man in his late forties
or early fifties raying at the temples and wearing an
embombed man of distinction look. The story was headline, corporation
had waylaid by a mysterious assailant chauffeur foils with the
kidnappers and offices of Martini Trading Company. The item nd
(03:57):
it wasn't as thrilling as the headline sounded, as if
he'd been down for his wallet. Me attempt at kidnapping
had been dreamed up by a board city news reporter.
I tossed it in the waste basket along with my
morning mail and went back to the police gazette. On
page three of the phone round you need garage, Harry
speaking Spain. One moment it was calling Gordon Martine, not
(04:18):
Gordon Martini. The corporation head waylaid by a mysterious assailant,
cammin of.
Speaker 8 (04:22):
The board, and there's nothing but serious about it.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
And what are you doing on this phone?
Speaker 7 (04:25):
I can't talk on the phone.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Where are you in a hospital?
Speaker 8 (04:28):
I left that pest house, this morning. I'm at my residence,
one house in Marina, Bulavah. We'll take you exactly twenty
minutes by cab. You will meet me in front of
the building and we'll have our conference.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
In my car. I'll go to the office. Where's your
office downtown Post Street? Oh, why don't I meet you there?
Speaker 8 (04:40):
I'm a busy man. I have a full calendar. I'm
already late due to all that hospital red tape, but
I can fit you into my schedule if you're hurt
right now, look alive, man.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Well, it's a little early in the morning, but I'm
trying on good. What will you want for a retainer?
I'll let you know if I decided to take the job.
Left twenty minutes, I'll expect you. I have looked more alive.
It took me two minutes to get out of the straight,
one minute to fly down a cab at eighteen minutes
to reach your address. Matter in trouble of twenty one minutes.
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As my ATTAXI drew uped the curb in front of
the canopyed affance for the corner apartment house one thousand Mirena.
I saw your husband pacing indignantly up and down in
front of the entlans, pausing only the glare of the
outsized pilometer on his left wrist. His gray Homburg was
prinched the tab an outsized turbine of gauze bandage the
decorated his head.
Speaker 8 (05:27):
Ah, I used to faith exactly one minute and twenty
two seconds.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Late.
Speaker 8 (05:32):
Hours are made of minutes, minutes are made of seconds,
and killing this seemingly negligible interval of time.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
You have wounded an hour or I have. Well, I'm sorry.
The traffic's pretty heavy out here this hour of the morning.
Speaker 8 (05:40):
You know you should have started a minute in twenty
two seconds earlier.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I'm sorry. There was a bore on the telephone, kept
talking about how valuable his time was.
Speaker 8 (05:47):
Well, don't apologize, only waste more time. I used your
check on hundred dollars my cars just around the corner.
I paid that shop at a large salary with much
and keep him waiting. In the meantime, you may as
well start earning your fee.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
I've been earning it for the past twenty to a
minutes and twenty two seconds, right, I suspected as much
you drive.
Speaker 8 (06:05):
A car, Yeah, you mean one man drives all that
I see him that rascally sche of mind sleep in
the backseat.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I like, come out of value pay. I was behind
him in a little bit of right. The shock of
the rapid fire thirty column of slugs left with him
off his feet and knocked him against me. I went
down under his three hundred pards of dead weight the
time I rolled him off at me and got up
the gunman and jumped out of the limozine and into
a grace of them that was double clock alongside in
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the water of traffic on the pull of on. I
didn't dare risk drawing a shot after him, but I
did get the first three numbers of the license plate
before it buried itself on the heavy stream of AM commuters.
That's when the air changed from exhaust fields to something
out of a Persian garden. I turned and looked for
the first time into your nile green eyes letter and
saw you twisting a handkerchief in your pale hands. I
(07:00):
might have loved beside the Shallamar, but I'm Lorena Boulevard.
They look like his histerics that ahead.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Who did it?
Speaker 5 (07:06):
I'm sawing? Don't ride to me? Why don't they come
with me? All those people said you're on the stealing it.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Stop it there, that's better. Come out over here. Who
are you his wife?
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (07:23):
And it was all my fault.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
This is the end. I called Ernie out the window
and asked him to come upstairs. I wanted him to
return some ludery they sent the wrong color piece.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Yeah, yeah, it's Ernie.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
He's a chauffeur. I was looking for the exchange that
when we heard the shots. Is he dead this time?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Yeah? I go to patients. Poor Gordon.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
He had so many enemies.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
He didn't drink.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Well, you know, people dropped us like flies dropped your husband.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Are you a policeman?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
No, that I'm doing to the real thing comes along,
which is right now. If I were you, Laddy, i'd
got back upstairs and relax. I got to use settle up.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Yes, I suppose you're wife.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Poor god.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
And it looks so natural stretched out on a pavement.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
I thinking he'll get up and stagger on into the elevator.
He didn't drink it all. Well, go on with you,
all right, I'm going, Oh, Ernie, where did you go?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Down at the garage? I had a car driving pulled
mister Martini. It's all my phone no, Ernie, it's mine if.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
I play that change player. When I called you out
the window to come and get that package.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Oh oh, that only got here. Who's the witness me?
Oh Spain lost another client? Huh not quiet, I hadn't
cashed the check yet. I only got him anyway.
Speaker 8 (08:29):
I I pull a space and I let him throw
that stucor alright, step on her head out of the crowd.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Sam, I want to get that statement. Yeah, alright, okay, Gary,
take it down. Got a pencil, yeah, and I want
it back. That's happened. This guy was Gordon Martini, who
headed up a local farm, the Martini Trading Company. Last
Naday was working right at his office, got boyed o
neigh's morning. Didn't no wife or maybe he wanted a bodyguard. Anyway,
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he needed one, got in his crouched and backseat of
the limousine and shut the car being out when Martini
opened the door, I mean didn't get a good look
at it. You can see why the way it's closed
in those side windows. Corn car and stop drilling. You
can't afford them. You're getting all this.
Speaker 7 (09:10):
What about the getaway?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Martin? He fell on top of me. I saw the
getaway car in the back of his head. Yeah, Carr
was a gray Sedan. The back of his head was
a standard makee too. Only got the first three digits
of license plates five D nine anything else? Yeah, give
me back my pencil. The homicide boys want some help.
They know my faith. Missus Steed, this is Martini. Why
(09:37):
aren't you on Ernie upstairs getting your alibis shaped up?
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Please? I can't face the questions just yet. What did
the legal if I just avoided them till I can
collect myself.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I don't know about legal, but it might be smart.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Where can we talk?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
What do you suggest?
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Well, there's a little copy of Lounge up on long
boarder and I'll I mean, well, it's it's.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Just around the car, very handy. Let's go.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Yes, my mother's advice. I should have listened, but well
that's why I married mister Martini.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Well, uh, advice is up to lafe here in forty three,
and it's only a quarter or twelve.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
You're just like him, always holding a stopwatch over my head.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Always.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
Well, he drank and all.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
You told me that, but it's.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Much more important than you think. He often fell down
and bumped.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
His head, made that mysterious as sight und waylay him.
Last night in his office was a bubble Martine two.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Pictures full before dinner, and he had to carry him
up to his office.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Oh what did he go up there for? Oh?
Speaker 5 (10:35):
We had a point in the vice president of the firm,
mister Nesbit. Something had come up and he wanted to
go in the suns and papers. I don't know what
it wasn't the first time I waited outside in the car.
After Ernie had taken him upstairs. He came back to
the car and.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
We talked, Oh, only has alibis upstairs? Downstairs long around
the house.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Well, then when the others came on and Gordon didn't,
Ernie went upstairs to see.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Why others mister Musvett and who else?
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Mary Callahan, No, she's an attorney. And if you think
everything was legal between those too, well, But after all,
who am I have called the peddle black?
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Oh what are you trying to tell me? That she
got him drunks so they could make him sign some papers,
that he got himself drunk so they couldn't write his
name of it. He just got drunk and fouled.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
Out Between you and me. I think she pushed him
down a flight of stairs. In his condition, he never remembered.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Why are you putting a finger on the caw hand day?
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Is that what you think? He's the last one out
of a building.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Why didn't you want to tell all this to the police.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Well, I didn't want to talk about his drinking. Things
were bad enough already.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
That would have been the end, all less gonna last
as Annie, what do you want me to do for you?
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Prove that she did it?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Norn, he didn't.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I'll let you take care of Bernie.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Oh no, I don't want alibiim unless I have to.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
He might get the wrong ideas you mean, I've got
the wrong idea.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
He might think it meant I still care for him,
and I don't. I can't stand him anymore. Wait, he
choose those two things.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
And besides, if this alibi is too good, I might
have trouble about that car being in the backseat of
my car.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Pardon the silent as if you said you might have
trouble about a car being in the backshit of your car.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
That's what I said.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Where is your car in the garage?
Speaker 4 (12:04):
But somebody had it out this morning. They scraped the
fender coming back in and they ran in the wall.
They must have been in an awful hurry.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Tell me this car he is, It wouldn't be a
grace Avan, yes, licens len.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Oh, wait a minute, it's on nice hearing up here.
Five nine.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
That's enough. Why didn't you tell you this before?
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Well, I couldn't get up the nerves after I heard
you tell that.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Policeman the gun that killed Gordon was a car being,
and the gray Sedan and all that.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Well, it's the end.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
I hoped you were right, but I didn't think so.
I want to look at the gray Savan in your garage,
and I knew you were wrong, dead wrong. It was
the getaway car, all right, and the car being, as
you know, always proven later to be the one that
killed your husband. But Ernie had turned into a very
poor suspect. Indeed, he was hugging the carpet between the
front and the rear seats when I nudged him. He
didn't move. He'd been shot across the range and Gordon
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Martini and the killer had used on a one slug.
It was planted in the base of his brain, which
made it narrowly. A very poor suspect, but a very
dead one.
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Speaker 2 (14:46):
Latinixlading Company Good Afternoons.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
I'm sorry Nez that is inconstant.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
I'll see that he gets your message.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
Well, what can I do for you?
Speaker 3 (14:55):
I would like to see as Callahan.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
Miss Callahan is in conference in mister marshis good.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I would like to see them both, but I have
others not to disturbed. You do not have to.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
I will just a minute. You can't go breaking and
like that, and I'll tell you something else.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
You won't ever get away with it. Why everyone in
this town knows about your underworld connection?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Why you daughter?
Speaker 4 (15:15):
When I get through with you, if you don't go
to the gas chamber for Gordon Martine's murder, you wish.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
You If I go to the gas chamber, it'll be
for killing you, not going.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Oh oh, why didn't I have witnesses here?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Miss Callahan? You will hear that you weren't talking loud enough.
I didn't hear a thing.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
Well, come on in here and I'll tell you a
thing or two. Close that door, now, Sea.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Banks, I let some better on my faith.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Oh so you're the detective Nesta Martinium Floyd.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Eh, what's she paying you? That'll depend on.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
How much I have to do for I'll tell you
how much you will have to do for you'll have
to make a case against me, and that's not going
to be easy.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Why do you think she's not to get you? Why?
Speaker 6 (15:52):
Indeed, for years, this morfy and mouthpiece, this paw boyer Porscha,
has been victimizing poor Gordon, taking advantage of his weakness.
Now but she's liquidated him. She appears with fifty five
percent of the common stock. Bode even enough?
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Why fraudul and all who.
Speaker 9 (16:08):
Has to be all at his death and through an
attachment on those stocks on ethical but perfectly legal. But
you're not even a prophecy. You're nothing but a bumbling
all in badiness that he's gonna call in the orders
over those books.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
Of yours, that scene of double entry, and.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
It's the same work. Look, will you say this for
the court room, saying now you've convinced me you're both crooked.
I'll say that you both go up for something. That's
a promise.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
Mister Spade, I gave you Fetett for better sense.
Speaker 9 (16:29):
You know that it's maduci of the Magistrate's court, this
copy of all of Goer tricked him into changing the
beneficiary of his insurance the very night she pushed him
down the stand, And you were all in favor of
you when you thought you well the controlling interest in
the company.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Answer that it's the same.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
He can't answer that.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Good good. I'm glad one of it is temporarily lost
for words. Now I only want to know one thing,
and I want a straight answer. And if either one
of his starts off on another speech, I'm gonna push
you into the narest cloak room and lock you in together.
Why you would he did try me? Swraight? Huh?
Speaker 6 (16:58):
What do you want to know about Amazon ambulance chase?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Of this? Prove me of the crap? I watch it? Well?
What do you want to know about Martini's insurance policy?
Now you say he changed the beneficiary, please answer in
ten words or less. Who was the beneficiary? And who
is the beneficiary?
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Now I'll have to answer that question in two parts.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
The beneficiary was his wife.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
He changed it to the Martini Trading Company, a corporation
of the state of California.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Thank you and goodbye, Mary Callahan, and that Nutter took
the heat off of you for the time being, which
made things tough for me because Callahan and ness But
were so horrible I never wanted to see them again,
even to testify against them in court. I was sure
(17:47):
of one thing, none of you would pulled the trigger
of that car, being there had been a hired killer
behind it, and the way he operated taking crazy chances
in broad daylight in the crowded street told me an
important thing about it. That night, I made the rounds
to the joints and a plant called the bingroom. I
found a bouncer who had tossed out a customer that
rnt up a bill and tried to play it for
a thousand dollars check. He sent me to the Atlas Hotel.
(18:17):
The Atlas Hotel is off at Third Street, down to
the railroad yards. Not even a flea bank please sickened
and died a long time ago. They couldn't take it,
and so the look of the guests sprawled out in
the mission furnisher of the lobby. They wouldn't be able
to do much longer. A half dead room clerk came
back to the land of the living long enough to
mutter a room number and wave me feebly toward a
flight of prummy stairs. Yeah what do you want you
(18:45):
hack Hartman?
Speaker 6 (18:46):
Hey, you got anything for me?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Huh, yeah, I got those for you. Get back in
the room. I'll tell you all about it. Yeah, well,
come on in.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Drop the ship, yeah, I'll drop it.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
I'll fix you. I'll cut your God. I'm glad you
did that. You make it easy for me. Now get
over there.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Leave me alone.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Leave me alone. High I'm not feeling You can feel
a lot worse. Who hires you to put the burn on? Martini?
Speaker 6 (19:11):
You don't get nothing out of me?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Who gave me that check?
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Leave me alone?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
I got all night hack and I feel better than
you do. I want you to doing that check. I'll
shake it at your teeth. Come out with it. Come on,
all right, all.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
Right, stub it, stub it.
Speaker 9 (19:26):
I don't feel so good.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Okay, where bucket god rach, I'll get it. There was
a company check, which is what I expected. It was
for one thousand dollars drawn in the golden gate Preston loan,
but I wasn't expecting to find the signature in the
bottom line. It was signed in a bold, firm hand,
(19:48):
Gordon Martini. It was the penman on this.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
He wrote it himself right in front of me.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
What was it supposed to be for? Hey?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
He wanted I should knock off his brother.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
You get mixed up. He's dead. That's what I mean.
Gordon Martini's dead.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
The papers got it wrong. That was his brother, twin
brother and another guy that Shuva kept hanging around the
garage so I couldn't get out. I had to paint
him too.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
You know what you're saying, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm
making sense. I'll get out of here. I'm getting steam.
I'll let it worry. Yeah. I got a nice, cool
place all picked out for you. After I'd turned hack
over to the cops, I did what checking I could
(20:39):
on my own at that time of night. As nearly
as I could learn, Gordon Martini could never have had
a brother, twin or otherwise. He was a first child.
His mother died in childbirth, and his father died one
month later. So I went back to the offices of
the Martini Training Company, glass keyed my way in and
made a quick frist cut it. There. I learned the
signature on the check was indeed Gordon's, but that he
(20:59):
had was out as a cat at that bank the
day he wrote it. I thought about that on the
way out to your apartment.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
They have I been calling and calling trying to reach
you up in so worried.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
It's the end, it's time. You might be right. Fix
me a drink.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Well, there's nothing in the house but those prepared martinis
Gordon used to drink.
Speaker 9 (21:21):
Is that all right?
Speaker 7 (21:22):
No?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
But fixing me on anyway? Never mind the ice. It's
not morning yet. But I hate myself already.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Why don't you just relax and let me get it
for you.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I'll relax, you get the martinis.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
What happened?
Speaker 5 (21:33):
What do you think of Mary Callan?
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Isn't she the end?
Speaker 3 (21:36):
She's cute? You're all cute?
Speaker 4 (21:38):
O me? Why I.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
I put ice in? Anyway? It's nasty with us.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
It's nasty anyway.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
I hope it doesn't make you fault on the way
did poor Gordon?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Thanks?
Speaker 5 (21:50):
What's the matter to dry?
Speaker 3 (21:53):
You? Open this bottle? Freshure?
Speaker 9 (21:54):
Why?
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (21:54):
What's the matter?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Where are they the rest of the bottles? Oh? Yeah,
more of the same. Is this all your husband ever drink?
Speaker 5 (22:07):
Yes, Gallons, it's a special brand. He even took it
with him the bars in people's houses.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
He'd sit and drink them right out of the bottle
like a little child. Then he'd be falling down, drop
the tort and that's all we lost.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
Them many friends.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
They dropped us like like like flies. It was the end.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Whom your phony.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Maxi? Sam Spain?
Speaker 7 (22:26):
Sammy?
Speaker 3 (22:27):
What can I do on you on Martini? Maxi? Yeah?
They got around to the Audipsey end. Yeah. They rushed
them through, got the report handy right in front of me.
Speaker 7 (22:36):
Funny things, Sam. The doc said they should have saved
themselves the trouble.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
He'd have been dead in the.
Speaker 7 (22:40):
Week or two without no help. What from brain tumor
Maliguean that says here?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Any alcohol in him? Not from drinking?
Speaker 7 (22:47):
Sammy?
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Uh? What about their headhones?
Speaker 7 (22:49):
Accidental fall due to periodic fanning spells part of his condition?
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Thanks Maxill? What is it?
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Sam? Where the martinis poison?
Speaker 3 (22:59):
No sweet? And my teenis were colored water?
Speaker 7 (23:03):
They couldn't well?
Speaker 5 (23:04):
What made him get so drunk?
Speaker 3 (23:06):
He didn't he was sick.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
But Sam, who killed him?
Speaker 3 (23:09):
He killed himself? He couldn't do He hired a gunman
to do what he planned his own murder?
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Well, why didn't he even noticed something? He could have
ruined us all?
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Come here, sweet on, put your little hand on uncle
Sam's shoulder. What Sam, Yes, sir, just what he wanted
you to do. He wanted to ruin you. He let
Marry Callahan flace him out of his interest in the company.
He let Nesba juggle the books. He let you go
your way with Earnie. He let all three of you
fix yourselves up with a nice a set of motives
for murder as a jury get asked for it couldn't.
(23:38):
The real joker was the check he used to pay
off the man he hired to kill him. It bounced,
It also approved. He planned his own murder, but he
still has his revenge because the insurance they would have
kept the corporation from going broke won't be paid off
on account of a self liquidating cause.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
Oh, Sam, Jarlan, what's going to become of us?
Speaker 3 (23:57):
All? Well, uh Ann and Nasbitt will probably sue each
other to death. You might have to go to work
and on a living.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
Well, I have five hundred dollars. I might invest it
in something.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
You already have. Here's my bill.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
But Sam, you didn't help me. What this is the end?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
No, it isn't, sweetheart, This is the beginning, came here period,
the end of the end.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
Well you asked me you helped her? No, f Well,
it just goes to show you show what f man's ingratitudes. Man,
what did mister Martini have against you?
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Why? Nothing, Sweethearty, just needed a smart operator like well, no,
Johnny Madero was under.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
Have you cashed that check mister Martini gave you?
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Well, U Chad tam An He bartender would know better
than to take a check from a man who.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Drinks that much, Yef, you haven't been paying attention. He
didn't drink. He didn't. I was able to establish that
later on him.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
Sam, For all anybody knew, he was a hopeless drunk.
He was dam and was so wonderful and trusting. But
I do wish that you'd understand this. He was a
hopeless drunk.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
For the last time, Effie, he didn't really drink.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
I'll just chucked this up, Sam, Will you call the bank?
Speaker 3 (25:29):
I'll do that.
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Speaker 5 (26:41):
Oh, you're so wonderful and spectic.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Effie, I am not wonderful and trusting. I am a
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