April 24, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Quiet Please, Quiet Please. M The American Broadcasting Company presents.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Quiet Please, which is written and directed by Willis Cooper
and which features Ernest Chappell.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Quiet Please for today is called is this Murder?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Thank you very much for coming to see me.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I would have come to your office, but I'm sorry
infirmities than my going out.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
That's why I have to have it so dark.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
In here too.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I hope you won't mind, thank you to sit down. Uh,
let's put your coat.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
On the chair there, so anywhere would you care for?
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Drink?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
This an excellent sherrit there on the sideboard. At least
I can tell this excellent Amantiado. I think I don't
indulge myself.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
But you help yourself.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Please do.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
A'm antiado like the stuff that the good Montresort was
drowned in, and pose delightful story the cast gout of Mantiado.
You remember the story, of course, yes, so help yourself.
I asked you to come here because I think I
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need some legal advice.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
About murder.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I'm afraid, yes quite, I'm afraid I'm a little hazy
about things legal. So uh, do you mind? Like the
sherry that I've been told? It's excellent Uh, to help
yourself to.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Wait, I hardly know where to start. But uh, that door,
that's my workshop.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I haven't been in there in quite some time. Artificial limbs,
rather unusual.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Ones, if I do say so myself.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Well, I've invented a few devices, you see, and they've
been quite successful. Well, he is to the great many
persons wear hands, arms, legs and so on.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
That I invented.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
You didn't know my assistant, of course. Oh, I don't know.
I don't know where he is.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
It's a matter of fact.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
It's that I wanted to talk to you about than
Joyce Choyce was his sweetheart. No, no, I didn't murder them. Oh,
it's rather an.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Awkward story to tell. But are you sure you're comfortable? Good?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Have you ever read the words of Mellie Wolfston craft Shelley?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Ever heard of her? Well?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
She was a wife of the fold.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Percy bish Shelley.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
She was a novelist. She died in eighteen ninety, thirty
sixty years ago.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
But I'm afraid one of her novels he's more or
less er responsible for what I'm going.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
To ask you about.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
You don't I mean you want to med you with her?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Works by the best known novels.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
She wrote, it was Frankenstein.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Oh it's nothing at all like the Frankenstein you've seen
in pictures.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
No boris Hollof, no bayle nego see what a flies
you at, no weird castles.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
But it's a powerful.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Books, a very important message. You haven't read it well,
perhaps you up to.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I was talking with Dan about it one day in
the workshop.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
There, because that's about makes a monster with all his
equipment and is not a monster, Dan, old boy, I
did better than.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Mister Frankenstein did hm.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
At least mine would be good looking, wouldn't need any
spare parts of dead.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
People either, And no, indeed, how'd you get it to work?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Though? That's the problem.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
There's no arm. Almost has his own brain, not much.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Like the one that uh uh lion or rattle was
at his name. It's like uh wore in the picture
when he had to manipulate with his other hand. It's
good looking, too, okay, no good without a brain and.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Some live muscles to put it to work?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Though? Is it nothing?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Is? That's an intriguing thought, isn't it, ud H.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
A synthetic man wouldn't have to feed him wouldn't have
to pay him way, This great idea m and he'd
be good and strong through aleman arms and legs, chrome
stew fingers and plastic muscles, chromium plated head with wide
angle lenses for eyes, microphones for you.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
And what put a brain?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
You'll know what Frankenstein is h a brain, the wrong
kind of brain that was in a picture. He uh,
he got a criminal brain by mistake, remember it.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I wonder what would have happened if he'd got a
good brain.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
You've got the book and the pictures mixed up?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Boy, all right? Would happen if you could make a
synthetic man and put a real good human brain in it?
It would be something, wouldn't it be? Just think his
muscles would never tire a man, a thinking man that
couldn't be harmed by disease, that would be capable of
superhuman things, blood forever, nice but impracticable. Boy, I wonder,
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fella of bad, don't you go messing up my nice
clean workshop with mechanical man ordinary wants to trouble enough,
And that's about yours things too. I get to work
for I'll be careful with that elbow, will you? It
bends the other way.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
He try some more sherry and told his exit, Oh, yes, murder.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
We were talking about.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Well, let me see you look collect my that's.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Oh oh yes, yes.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Uh. This first conversation that I've repeated to you. It
took place about six months ago. I bet you're not.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Where is Dan?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I'm sure I had the faintest idea if you don't
mind that, I like to be orderly, methodical, m.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I think. The next occurrence was Joyce's visit to me, or.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Rather I met her in the cocktail lounge downtown.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Yeah, they haven't been there in a long time.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I dropped in one afternoon it was three or four
weeks later, and it would give me a lemonade. That
remember how long it's been since I've.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Had a lemonade? Oh no, no, thanks, no, sheety, but
you help yourself?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Can you find a bottle?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
All right, it's the doctor year.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
But I'm afraid I have to have it that way.
Forgive me do.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Well.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I was sitting quietly taking.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
My lemonade, and she suddenly appeared alongside me, sat down
on the table. Before I saw it, almost my choice,
I said.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Why Joyce, Hello, what are you drinking? Lemonade? Of course,
would you have one?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
No, thanks, I've got a run. But no, I had
a drink. I'm just leaving.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Matter of fact, I had.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Two drinks three. You must know I don't want anymore.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Hy what's the matter? Dan stood me up again, then
stood you up third time in the week. Now, why
I've come, Choyce, I thought you were You tell me what? Well?
I'm sure I don't know what I mean. You aren't
making him work nights at the workshop? I certainly am not.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Well, that's where it is, all right, that's the workshop,
That's what he says, Joyce, my dear, the workshops, right
in my own home.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
If Dan has been in, oh my goodness, not what
I said.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
He isn't the shop? Where is he?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Oh? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I happen to love that a live stick by life's choice.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
He isn't.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Not somebody else? Uh? Another girl? I mean, for his sake,
I hope he's not well, because if I catch him
cheating on me, do you know what I'll do? I'll
murder him.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
M I beg your pardon.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
No, she didn't murder him.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I'm sorry to keep you in suspants, but I'm afraid
I'll have to tell you the story in my.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Own way, if you please. Well.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Trace went away, and I thought to myself, my goodness,
that Dan's very foolish. Farm that's a very attractive girl.
I said to myself, Dan out, don't play fast tenders
with her. And she loves him too, I said to
my son. But I shuddered a little when I said it.
I didn't like the way she said.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
I am already.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
No, sir, I didn't like it. But she was a
very attractive girl. But yes, I know, I said it
was a very attractive girl.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
A slip of the tongue.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Say, as far as I know, she still is.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Well anyway, I taxed Dan with her the next morning, Dan,
I said, then you look tired. I am tired, Ann,
I say, sleeping? All right? All right.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Here, you've been working nights.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Who told you that?
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Joyce? Oh, said you were working here at the shop.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
She did, mm, I know you haven't been working here
at the shop, because I'd have done it.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Of course you work. Have you been working?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
If I've ever seen on my own time? And Joyce
seems to think it's her time too, does huh?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
What are you up to?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Dan? Listen on us? Do I have a pliant euro affair,
and how you don't need to take that tone with me? Dan, Dan,
that girl love you?
Speaker 3 (11:41):
So what?
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Well? Now, really, Dan, I'm not hungry on us, but
I've got so many things to think about that.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Can I help you? Dan? You think i'd I'm crazy
and you've never shown any signs of it.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Oh boy, well.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Alright, let's get to work. But I really do think
you want to give bored considerations the Joyce old boy.
Listen not to that. You know that talk we had
a few weeks ago. Talk Frankenstein. Frankenstein. Oh that's right.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Have you been letting that play on your mind? Then
I've done more than that? Alright, come here?
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Why? What? Come here?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Good? See?
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Well, I I told you I've done more than just think.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Do you know what he'd done?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
I looked a gleaming chromium crazy gurlum, and arms and
legs and the fingers are high test chroned steelers.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I used your industrious high hands. You see.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
I haven't installed the lenses of the eyes, but there's
the selenium cells for light to react on.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
I got two small microphones for the ears. And look
my hands and arms and the legs.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Are controlled by this sumnar. Why you're a full lession?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
But isn't he had beauty?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
And you're a fool if he only had a brain?
Was that you idiot think?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
So?
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Huh? I'll go lock that thing up.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
It's locked up?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Where is it?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Why?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Good morning, Joyce? Oh marry.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Well?
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Hello Dan? Hello, I wonder if you remember we had
a date last night. Sorry, I was busy, busy? Where here?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Ye? Here here?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Honest? Yes he was here? Oh alone? Yeah, well he was, well,
he was a lone Joyce. I don't believe I Look here, Joyce.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Tell her then listen, tell me what?
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Tell me what?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Look?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
This is all foolishness, Joyce, I hold it down. Look here, Joyce,
that's been working on a project till his own. It
isn't a her, joy No.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Shore, then now look here, stop being a fool. Shure,
I'm not the cabinet there.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Don't you see you're being a fool.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Then open the cabinet. I don't want. Well what the
world that? It's a mechanical. It's a monster.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Who do you think you are?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Dan?
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Frank And I told you let's see it? Does it work? Certainly?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Does work?
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Can it walk?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
It's made out of some of the artificial limbs I invented,
and a lot of other things too. Can it talk?
Bring it out, Dan? You can't talk yet?
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Why home marble?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Make it move, Dan, look out, I'll make it raise
it sounds caress the buffany here the other on?
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Wh ho one?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Yes? That was the first missapp.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
That mechanical alarm that I'm a sturdy drumming for the
fingers of chrome steel smashed.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Down in the back of Ben's neck like a sledgehammer.
Oh no, he wasn't killed.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
That's not the murder I'm going to ask you about.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
He was paralyzed and as his legs were paralyzed, he
was in the hospital three and a half months.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
The doctors did.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Everything they could for him, but there wasn't anything that
really could be done. He was helpless. Do have another
glass of the sherry? It's excellent. I'm told Dan used
to drink it and Joyce Joyce loved it.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Huh, yes, yes, I know.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I didn't mean to use the past tense. I suppose
she still loved it. Uh Oh no, see right, I
assure you.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
I'm telling you. What do they say in court to
the truth, the whole truth? And nothing but the truth.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Yes, indeed, oh, why we run him back here? Of course,
no relatives so far as I know. And we were
very close then, and I oh, yes, U Joyce was
here frequently. Yeah, that girl really loved loves that boy.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
I suppose it was really pretty frightful having to lie
in bed all the time.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
When they able to move, Joyce used to stay here
all day and sit with him.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Then at night I'd come in his room and the
three of us had sit around and talk, uh, mostly
about Roberts mechanical men, monsters.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
And I've brought the man, uh, the machine into his
room so we could tinker with it.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
While we talked. Then we talked a great deal about it.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
How do you know it won't work? If you put
a brain in it?
Speaker 1 (17:38):
And it is, I'm possible, then Frankenstein's worked. Then that's
a story.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Maybe maybe it's true.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
How would you get a brain? Dan, Frankenstein got a brain,
and look what happened if that was a criminal brain.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Look, Dan, even if you could, by some miracle attach
a brain to this thing, if it work, but it
will work?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Right?
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Why A because man has no business playing around with
such things. Do you think any brain would turn out
to be evil, just to punish a man for trying
to create a superhuman thing like that. That's exactly what
I think.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Where would you get a brain there?
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Stop talking this nonsense. The thing is, Ernest, I don't
think it's not real it.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Where would you get a brain if I knew a doctor?
Well you don't. How would you know the brain wouldn't
be evil?
Speaker 3 (18:27):
I'd make sure of that.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Oh, I selected very ca you stop talking about this.
Scare you, Ernest. You don't have to be so grisome.
I'd take a woman's brain. I think women are smarter
than man. Dick want to then be a brain?
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Joyce?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
How I should say that?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
You have a friend time, Joyce, you live forever. I
don't wanna live forever. Nothing could hurt you.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
You could do anything you wanted and have to live
in that metal skeleton. Knows you'd never be hungry. I
like being hungry much fun to eat and drink.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Never be tired, Yeah, I'd like to be tired. Boy,
Good night's sleep. I wish I could put my own
brain into it, and then I could get up and
walk around. Do things go place?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Moved?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Stop this morbid talk. This is a placehoy, Dan, you
talking that it's coming to life any minutes. All it
needs is a good brain.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Hoist.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Well, I tell you what I'll do. Dan. You tell
me where to get a brain, and I'll get it
for you, and we'll make a million dollars. How's that?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Well, good night, I'm going home.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
Gee, I'd certainly hate to have Frankenstein here put his
arms around me.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Oh, here's this murder?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
I mean suppers. A man does take a human brain
and put it into the frame of a mechanical robot,
charge it with colloids that simulate blood and the very
brain structure itself.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Suppose he does it successfully.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Is this murder?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
No, wait before you answer. Suppose that the brain goes
right on living. Suppose of the operation. If you want
to call it an operation, we'll suppose it works. The
brain will never die, life goes on.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
The only thing that's missing is the body it once inhabited.
Is this murder?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
The only effect is that somehow or other violet's in
the body. The brain is capable of fine global.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Feelings of love.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Affection, friendship, with all the virtues in addition to all
the vices.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Yes, that's true, but it's transplanted. But look at the
Frankenstein story. When it's transplanted, the virtues are missing. Only
the vices remain. Intelligence, yes, awareness, sentience, But good is
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gone when the evil remains.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
But that's not the question, sir.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
If the body only is killed and the mind survives forever,
is this murder?
Speaker 1 (21:35):
You don't have to answer it. Oh you you think
you know what I'm driving at? Where will I see?
Not let the babuchety? Do I've almost finished when we
can judge, because I have another question for you.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
This final thing happened night before last. I went to
the dance room and he was saving a wire out
of the round chromium plated head of the saying to
this monster. Joyce was sitting alongside him, watching clo see
she didn't see Dan wink at me as I closed
the door.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Hello, Ernest, how do you feel, Dan?
Speaker 3 (22:14):
I feel time.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I've got a little headache. I'm sorry I haven't asked.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Well, how's it going, Dan?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
I'm more convinced than ever, Arnest.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
If you only had.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
A brain, If I only had a brain, Joyce say,
I wish you could do something to snap this gull
out of this.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Why because are you starting to believe this nonsense? Joyce?
I don't think it's nonsense, Ernest.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
You see she's got a brain. On Dan, I'm gonna
take that thing away from you, take away about pretty Frankenstein.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Oh well, I should say you're not Dan listen. I
don't want to say this, but uh, I'm afraid that.
I mean, Joyce, won't you, I mean, won't you help me?
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Help you want Stan's mind off this thing?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
I mean she won't joy stop, Dan could only get
a bring.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Joyce, honest, won't you help me?
Speaker 1 (23:09):
I will not please Ernest. It's all ready now all
it needs? Stop that. Come on, Ernest help me. I
won't Ernest, Joyce, do you know what he's going to do?
Speaker 3 (23:23):
What he's going to Honest?
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I know what you're going to do. I know what's
in your mind that I won't help you? At what
you going to do? What what's in his mind? Come here, Joyce,
lean over here, Dan Darling, So Joyce, dear, don't stop?
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Stop then stop. When I came to only was in
my mind. It was a confused memory of a pain.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
In my folk, and bright lights, un confused.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Voices, and Joyce's laughter, and I tried hard to think.
I was dazed.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
I thought I was lying on the floor. I got
up slowly when I saw Dad stood lying on the bed.
He was smiling at me. He said something.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I couldn't make it out. And then I heard his
voice how he fave Arnest. And I tried to answer,
And it was a long time before my voice came, and.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Finally I said, I said, where's Joyce?
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Why here?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I am right in time?
Speaker 3 (24:52):
And I stretched out.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
My hand to steady myself.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
And I looked at my hand, arms and legs of
durrale them from there's a chromium steam.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
And I lived in the mirror and.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
I saw a round chromium plated head with lens for eyes.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
And you can turn on a light now if you
want to. I ask you the question again, is this murder?
It is?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
And if a steel and dirrelement robot takes a life
or more than one life.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Is this murder?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Because I have been murdered, You say, I do not live.
I cannot commit murder. Very well, I told you how
the force of evil is.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Taken hold of my brain. No, I didn't feel dam
no choice, not yet. I told you I didn't know
where they are. I do during the workshop back there,
I locked her in the closet where my uh my
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body used to be. Then why he's paralyzed?
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Remember whose hands are strong but against chrome steel. It
won't be murder, will it. It won't be murder either.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
When I kill you first.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
No, there isn't any more Sherry, Yes, these.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Mm.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
The title of today's Quiet Please story is.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Is this Murder? It was written and directed by Willis Cooper.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
The man who spoke to you was Ernest Chappel, and
the others were Joyce Gordon and Dan.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Overly. I usual music for Choia Please is played by
Albert Berman. Not but to worry about next week.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Here's our righted director, Willis Cooper.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Thank you for listening to Quiet Please.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
For next week, I have a story for you called
Summer Goodbye.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
And so until next week.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
At the same time, I am quietly yours famous Chapel,
and now.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
A listening reminder for predictions that have a seventy seven
percent chance of coming true and even more, listen to
Drew Pearson on ABC tonight. It's ABC Drew Pearson Tonight.
This is ABC, the American Broadcasting Company
Quiet Please, Quiet Please. M The American Broadcasting Company presents.
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Quiet Please, which is written and directed by Willis Cooper
and which features Ernest Chappell.
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Quiet Please for today is called is this Murder?
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Thank you very much for coming to see me.
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I would have come to your office, but I'm sorry
infirmities than my going out.
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That's why I have to have it so dark.
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In here too.
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I hope you won't mind, thank you to sit down. Uh,
let's put your coat.
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On the chair there, so anywhere would you care for?
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Drink?
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This an excellent sherrit there on the sideboard. At least
I can tell this excellent Amantiado. I think I don't
indulge myself.
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But you help yourself.
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Please do.
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A'm antiado like the stuff that the good Montresort was
drowned in, and pose delightful story the cast gout of Mantiado.
You remember the story, of course, yes, so help yourself.
I asked you to come here because I think I
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need some legal advice.
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About murder.
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I'm afraid, yes quite, I'm afraid I'm a little hazy
about things legal. So uh, do you mind? Like the
sherry that I've been told? It's excellent Uh, to help
yourself to.
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Wait, I hardly know where to start. But uh, that door,
that's my workshop.
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I haven't been in there in quite some time. Artificial limbs,
rather unusual.
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Ones, if I do say so myself.
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Well, I've invented a few devices, you see, and they've
been quite successful. Well, he is to the great many
persons wear hands, arms, legs and so on.
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That I invented.
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You didn't know my assistant, of course. Oh, I don't know.
I don't know where he is.
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It's a matter of fact.
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It's that I wanted to talk to you about than
Joyce Choyce was his sweetheart. No, no, I didn't murder them. Oh,
it's rather an.
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Awkward story to tell. But are you sure you're comfortable? Good?
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Have you ever read the words of Mellie Wolfston craft Shelley?
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Ever heard of her? Well?
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She was a wife of the fold.
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Percy bish Shelley.
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She was a novelist. She died in eighteen ninety, thirty
sixty years ago.
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But I'm afraid one of her novels he's more or
less er responsible for what I'm going.
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To ask you about.
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You don't I mean you want to med you with her?
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Works by the best known novels.
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She wrote, it was Frankenstein.
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Oh it's nothing at all like the Frankenstein you've seen
in pictures.
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No boris Hollof, no bayle nego see what a flies
you at, no weird castles.
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But it's a powerful.
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Books, a very important message. You haven't read it well,
perhaps you up to.
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I was talking with Dan about it one day in
the workshop.
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There, because that's about makes a monster with all his
equipment and is not a monster, Dan, old boy, I
did better than.
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Mister Frankenstein did hm.
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At least mine would be good looking, wouldn't need any
spare parts of dead.
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People either, And no, indeed, how'd you get it to work?
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Though? That's the problem.
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There's no arm. Almost has his own brain, not much.
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Like the one that uh uh lion or rattle was
at his name. It's like uh wore in the picture
when he had to manipulate with his other hand. It's
good looking, too, okay, no good without a brain and.
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Some live muscles to put it to work?
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Though? Is it nothing?
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Is? That's an intriguing thought, isn't it, ud H.
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A synthetic man wouldn't have to feed him wouldn't have
to pay him way, This great idea m and he'd
be good and strong through aleman arms and legs, chrome
stew fingers and plastic muscles, chromium plated head with wide
angle lenses for eyes, microphones for you.
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And what put a brain?
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You'll know what Frankenstein is h a brain, the wrong
kind of brain that was in a picture. He uh,
he got a criminal brain by mistake, remember it.
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I wonder what would have happened if he'd got a
good brain.
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You've got the book and the pictures mixed up?
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Boy, all right? Would happen if you could make a
synthetic man and put a real good human brain in it?
It would be something, wouldn't it be? Just think his
muscles would never tire a man, a thinking man that
couldn't be harmed by disease, that would be capable of
superhuman things, blood forever, nice but impracticable. Boy, I wonder,
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fella of bad, don't you go messing up my nice
clean workshop with mechanical man ordinary wants to trouble enough,
And that's about yours things too. I get to work
for I'll be careful with that elbow, will you? It
bends the other way.
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He try some more sherry and told his exit, Oh, yes, murder.
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We were talking about.
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Well, let me see you look collect my that's.
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Oh oh yes, yes.
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Uh. This first conversation that I've repeated to you. It
took place about six months ago. I bet you're not.
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Where is Dan?
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I'm sure I had the faintest idea if you don't
mind that, I like to be orderly, methodical, m.
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I think. The next occurrence was Joyce's visit to me, or.
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Rather I met her in the cocktail lounge downtown.
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Yeah, they haven't been there in a long time.
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I dropped in one afternoon it was three or four
weeks later, and it would give me a lemonade. That
remember how long it's been since I've.
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Had a lemonade? Oh no, no, thanks, no, sheety, but
you help yourself?
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Can you find a bottle?
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All right, it's the doctor year.
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But I'm afraid I have to have it that way.
Forgive me do.
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Well.
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I was sitting quietly taking.
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My lemonade, and she suddenly appeared alongside me, sat down
on the table. Before I saw it, almost my choice,
I said.
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Why Joyce, Hello, what are you drinking? Lemonade? Of course,
would you have one?
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No, thanks, I've got a run. But no, I had
a drink. I'm just leaving.
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Matter of fact, I had.
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Two drinks three. You must know I don't want anymore.
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Hy what's the matter? Dan stood me up again, then
stood you up third time in the week. Now, why
I've come, Choyce, I thought you were You tell me what? Well?
I'm sure I don't know what I mean. You aren't
making him work nights at the workshop? I certainly am not.
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Well, that's where it is, all right, that's the workshop,
That's what he says, Joyce, my dear, the workshops, right
in my own home.
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If Dan has been in, oh my goodness, not what
I said.
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He isn't the shop? Where is he?
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Oh? I don't know.
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I happen to love that a live stick by life's choice.
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He isn't.
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Not somebody else? Uh? Another girl? I mean, for his sake,
I hope he's not well, because if I catch him
cheating on me, do you know what I'll do? I'll
murder him.
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M I beg your pardon.
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No, she didn't murder him.
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I'm sorry to keep you in suspants, but I'm afraid
I'll have to tell you the story in my.
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Own way, if you please. Well.
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Trace went away, and I thought to myself, my goodness,
that Dan's very foolish. Farm that's a very attractive girl.
I said to myself, Dan out, don't play fast tenders
with her. And she loves him too, I said to
my son. But I shuddered a little when I said it.
I didn't like the way she said.
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I am already.
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No, sir, I didn't like it. But she was a
very attractive girl. But yes, I know, I said it
was a very attractive girl.
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A slip of the tongue.
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Say, as far as I know, she still is.
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Well anyway, I taxed Dan with her the next morning, Dan,
I said, then you look tired. I am tired, Ann,
I say, sleeping? All right? All right.
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Here, you've been working nights.
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Who told you that?
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Joyce? Oh, said you were working here at the shop.
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She did, mm, I know you haven't been working here
at the shop, because I'd have done it.
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Of course you work. Have you been working?
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If I've ever seen on my own time? And Joyce
seems to think it's her time too, does huh?
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What are you up to?
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Dan? Listen on us? Do I have a pliant euro affair,
and how you don't need to take that tone with me? Dan, Dan,
that girl love you?
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So what?
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Well? Now, really, Dan, I'm not hungry on us, but
I've got so many things to think about that.
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I'm sorry.
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Can I help you? Dan? You think i'd I'm crazy
and you've never shown any signs of it.
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Oh boy, well.
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Alright, let's get to work. But I really do think
you want to give bored considerations the Joyce old boy.
Listen not to that. You know that talk we had
a few weeks ago. Talk Frankenstein. Frankenstein. Oh that's right.
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Have you been letting that play on your mind? Then
I've done more than that? Alright, come here?
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Why? What? Come here?
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Good? See?
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Well, I I told you I've done more than just think.
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Do you know what he'd done?
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I looked a gleaming chromium crazy gurlum, and arms and
legs and the fingers are high test chroned steelers.
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I used your industrious high hands. You see.
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I haven't installed the lenses of the eyes, but there's
the selenium cells for light to react on.
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I got two small microphones for the ears. And look
my hands and arms and the legs.
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Are controlled by this sumnar. Why you're a full lession?
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But isn't he had beauty?
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And you're a fool if he only had a brain?
Was that you idiot think?
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So?
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Huh? I'll go lock that thing up.
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It's locked up?
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Where is it?
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Why?
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Good morning, Joyce? Oh marry.
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Well?
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Hello Dan? Hello, I wonder if you remember we had
a date last night. Sorry, I was busy, busy? Where here?
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Ye? Here here?
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Honest? Yes he was here? Oh alone? Yeah, well he was, well,
he was a lone Joyce. I don't believe I Look here, Joyce.
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Tell her then listen, tell me what?
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Tell me what?
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Look?
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This is all foolishness, Joyce, I hold it down. Look here, Joyce,
that's been working on a project till his own. It
isn't a her, joy No.
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Shore, then now look here, stop being a fool. Shure,
I'm not the cabinet there.
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Don't you see you're being a fool.
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Then open the cabinet. I don't want. Well what the
world that? It's a mechanical. It's a monster.
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Who do you think you are?
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Dan?
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Frank And I told you let's see it? Does it work? Certainly?
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Does work?
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Can it walk?
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It's made out of some of the artificial limbs I invented,
and a lot of other things too. Can it talk?
Bring it out, Dan? You can't talk yet?
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Why home marble?
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Make it move, Dan, look out, I'll make it raise
it sounds caress the buffany here the other on?
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Wh ho one?
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Yes? That was the first missapp.
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That mechanical alarm that I'm a sturdy drumming for the
fingers of chrome steel smashed.
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Down in the back of Ben's neck like a sledgehammer.
Oh no, he wasn't killed.
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That's not the murder I'm going to ask you about.
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He was paralyzed and as his legs were paralyzed, he
was in the hospital three and a half months.
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The doctors did.
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Everything they could for him, but there wasn't anything that
really could be done. He was helpless. Do have another
glass of the sherry? It's excellent. I'm told Dan used
to drink it and Joyce Joyce loved it.
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Huh, yes, yes, I know.
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I didn't mean to use the past tense. I suppose
she still loved it. Uh Oh no, see right, I
assure you.
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I'm telling you. What do they say in court to
the truth, the whole truth? And nothing but the truth.
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Yes, indeed, oh, why we run him back here? Of course,
no relatives so far as I know. And we were
very close then, and I oh, yes, U Joyce was
here frequently. Yeah, that girl really loved loves that boy.
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I suppose it was really pretty frightful having to lie
in bed all the time.
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When they able to move, Joyce used to stay here
all day and sit with him.
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Then at night I'd come in his room and the
three of us had sit around and talk, uh, mostly
about Roberts mechanical men, monsters.
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And I've brought the man, uh, the machine into his
room so we could tinker with it.
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While we talked. Then we talked a great deal about it.
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How do you know it won't work? If you put
a brain in it?
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And it is, I'm possible, then Frankenstein's worked. Then that's
a story.
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Maybe maybe it's true.
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How would you get a brain? Dan, Frankenstein got a brain,
and look what happened if that was a criminal brain.
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Look, Dan, even if you could, by some miracle attach
a brain to this thing, if it work, but it
will work?
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Right?
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Why A because man has no business playing around with
such things. Do you think any brain would turn out
to be evil, just to punish a man for trying
to create a superhuman thing like that. That's exactly what
I think.
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Where would you get a brain there?
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I don't know.
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Stop talking this nonsense. The thing is, Ernest, I don't
think it's not real it.
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Where would you get a brain if I knew a doctor?
Well you don't. How would you know the brain wouldn't
be evil?
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I'd make sure of that.
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Oh, I selected very ca you stop talking about this.
Scare you, Ernest. You don't have to be so grisome.
I'd take a woman's brain. I think women are smarter
than man. Dick want to then be a brain?
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Joyce?
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How I should say that?
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You have a friend time, Joyce, you live forever. I
don't wanna live forever. Nothing could hurt you.
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You could do anything you wanted and have to live
in that metal skeleton. Knows you'd never be hungry. I
like being hungry much fun to eat and drink.
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Never be tired, Yeah, I'd like to be tired. Boy,
Good night's sleep. I wish I could put my own
brain into it, and then I could get up and
walk around. Do things go place?
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Moved?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Stop this morbid talk. This is a placehoy, Dan, you
talking that it's coming to life any minutes. All it
needs is a good brain.
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Hoist.
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Well, I tell you what I'll do. Dan. You tell
me where to get a brain, and I'll get it
for you, and we'll make a million dollars. How's that?
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Well, good night, I'm going home.
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Gee, I'd certainly hate to have Frankenstein here put his
arms around me.
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Oh, here's this murder?
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I mean suppers. A man does take a human brain
and put it into the frame of a mechanical robot,
charge it with colloids that simulate blood and the very
brain structure itself.
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Suppose he does it successfully.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Is this murder?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
No, wait before you answer. Suppose that the brain goes
right on living. Suppose of the operation. If you want
to call it an operation, we'll suppose it works. The
brain will never die, life goes on.
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The only thing that's missing is the body it once inhabited.
Is this murder?
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The only effect is that somehow or other violet's in
the body. The brain is capable of fine global.
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Feelings of love.
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Affection, friendship, with all the virtues in addition to all
the vices.
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Yes, that's true, but it's transplanted. But look at the
Frankenstein story. When it's transplanted, the virtues are missing. Only
the vices remain. Intelligence, yes, awareness, sentience, But good is
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gone when the evil remains.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
But that's not the question, sir.
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If the body only is killed and the mind survives forever,
is this murder?
Speaker 1 (21:35):
You don't have to answer it. Oh you you think
you know what I'm driving at? Where will I see?
Not let the babuchety? Do I've almost finished when we
can judge, because I have another question for you.
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This final thing happened night before last. I went to
the dance room and he was saving a wire out
of the round chromium plated head of the saying to
this monster. Joyce was sitting alongside him, watching clo see
she didn't see Dan wink at me as I closed
the door.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Hello, Ernest, how do you feel, Dan?
Speaker 3 (22:14):
I feel time.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I've got a little headache. I'm sorry I haven't asked.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Well, how's it going, Dan?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
I'm more convinced than ever, Arnest.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
If you only had.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
A brain, If I only had a brain, Joyce say,
I wish you could do something to snap this gull
out of this.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Why because are you starting to believe this nonsense? Joyce?
I don't think it's nonsense, Ernest.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
You see she's got a brain. On Dan, I'm gonna
take that thing away from you, take away about pretty Frankenstein.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Oh well, I should say you're not Dan listen. I
don't want to say this, but uh, I'm afraid that.
I mean, Joyce, won't you, I mean, won't you help me?
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Help you want Stan's mind off this thing?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
I mean she won't joy stop, Dan could only get
a bring.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Joyce, honest, won't you help me?
Speaker 1 (23:09):
I will not please Ernest. It's all ready now all
it needs? Stop that. Come on, Ernest help me. I
won't Ernest, Joyce, do you know what he's going to do?
Speaker 3 (23:23):
What he's going to Honest?
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I know what you're going to do. I know what's
in your mind that I won't help you? At what
you going to do? What what's in his mind? Come here, Joyce,
lean over here, Dan Darling, So Joyce, dear, don't stop?
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Stop then stop. When I came to only was in
my mind. It was a confused memory of a pain.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
In my folk, and bright lights, un confused.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Voices, and Joyce's laughter, and I tried hard to think.
I was dazed.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
I thought I was lying on the floor. I got
up slowly when I saw Dad stood lying on the bed.
He was smiling at me. He said something.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I couldn't make it out. And then I heard his
voice how he fave Arnest. And I tried to answer,
And it was a long time before my voice came, and.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Finally I said, I said, where's Joyce?
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Why here?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I am right in time?
Speaker 3 (24:52):
And I stretched out.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
My hand to steady myself.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
And I looked at my hand, arms and legs of
durrale them from there's a chromium steam.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
And I lived in the mirror and.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
I saw a round chromium plated head with lens for eyes.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
And you can turn on a light now if you
want to. I ask you the question again, is this murder?
It is?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
And if a steel and dirrelement robot takes a life
or more than one life.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Is this murder?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Because I have been murdered, You say, I do not live.
I cannot commit murder. Very well, I told you how
the force of evil is.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Taken hold of my brain. No, I didn't feel dam
no choice, not yet. I told you I didn't know
where they are. I do during the workshop back there,
I locked her in the closet where my uh my
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body used to be. Then why he's paralyzed?
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Remember whose hands are strong but against chrome steel. It
won't be murder, will it. It won't be murder either.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
When I kill you first.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
No, there isn't any more Sherry, Yes, these.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Mm.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
The title of today's Quiet Please story is.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Is this Murder? It was written and directed by Willis Cooper.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
The man who spoke to you was Ernest Chappel, and
the others were Joyce Gordon and Dan.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Overly. I usual music for Choia Please is played by
Albert Berman. Not but to worry about next week.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Here's our righted director, Willis Cooper.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Thank you for listening to Quiet Please.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
For next week, I have a story for you called
Summer Goodbye.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
And so until next week.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
At the same time, I am quietly yours famous Chapel,
and now.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
A listening reminder for predictions that have a seventy seven
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