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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Lats, Tolly Stations Present Escape.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Oh Fantasy.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
You're gonna thank some miss.

Speaker 4 (00:26):
A man us Seal.

Speaker 5 (00:36):
Present Suspense.

Speaker 6 (00:41):
I am the Whistler.

Speaker 7 (00:43):
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me into tonight's retro Radio Old Time Radio in the Dark.

Speaker 8 (01:30):
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater Presents. Come in.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Welcome.

Speaker 7 (01:54):
I'm E. G.

Speaker 9 (01:55):
Marshall.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
People say like father, like son.

Speaker 8 (02:00):
People say the apple does not fall far from the tree.
People talk about the sins of the fathers. If you
listen to some people, and you might logically ask yourself
why bother to try to do anything or to be anyone?
After all, isn't it who and what your father was
that will determine the course of your life? Well, if

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you spend the next fifty three minutes right here, you
might get an insight into an answer.

Speaker 10 (02:31):
Who's that being quiet? Did you get in here?

Speaker 8 (02:35):
You just heard how I got in through the window?

Speaker 10 (02:39):
I mean, what do you want? I want to kill?

Speaker 8 (02:42):
You?

Speaker 6 (02:43):
Kill me?

Speaker 10 (02:45):
Why? I never heard anybody.

Speaker 6 (02:48):
Who killed my father?

Speaker 8 (02:51):
No, No, I never killed anybody who killed his memory,
the memory ahead of them, the memory I could live with.

Speaker 6 (02:58):
No, I can't think about him anymore.

Speaker 10 (03:00):
You kill them for me?

Speaker 6 (03:01):
Please?

Speaker 11 (03:02):
Please don't.

Speaker 6 (03:03):
Please.

Speaker 8 (03:12):
Our mystery drama Blood Will Tell was written especially for
the Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and stars Mason Adams.
It is sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division and
Contact the twelve hour code capsule. I'll be back shortly
with Act one. You hear endless complaints. People shake their

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heads sadly.

Speaker 6 (03:45):
They're inner rut.

Speaker 8 (03:46):
They're slaves to routine, day in, day out, the same
dreary old thing, nothing ever happens, really happens. Well, that's
how it is for most people, and the fact of
the matter is that's how most people people probably want it.

Speaker 12 (04:02):
Here we have Norman.

Speaker 8 (04:03):
Claymore, a very serious gentleman for whom life has always
been well ordered, regular and uneventful. Norman sits at his
desk where he works in the billing department of a
mammoth corporation. All day he adds figures on a machine.
Is this rewarding? Soul satisfying?

Speaker 9 (04:23):
Who knows?

Speaker 8 (04:24):
It's the sort of thing most people do, isn't it.
Well take note of the date it all begins here.

Speaker 13 (04:32):
I understand you are mister Norman Claymore, No. Middle initial
Social Security number eight nine three nine eight four.

Speaker 12 (04:41):
Well, yeah, that's me.

Speaker 13 (04:43):
I'm Alison Resnik, a personnel. I'm sorry to distant you.

Speaker 12 (04:47):
Oh well, to just let me make this entry.

Speaker 8 (04:48):
Please, if I don't put the figures down as soon
as I get the total.

Speaker 14 (04:51):
I understand.

Speaker 13 (04:54):
Now, I could have asked you to come over to personnel.

Speaker 6 (04:57):
I would have.

Speaker 13 (04:58):
All we need is the end or to a single
question on your record in your original application for employment.
Here where it says parents living or dead, you wrote
father deceased, and where it says cause you wrote die
of illness?

Speaker 8 (05:14):
Do you recall?

Speaker 13 (05:15):
Yeah, well could you specify the illness?

Speaker 8 (05:19):
Could I specify the illness?

Speaker 15 (05:21):
Yes?

Speaker 13 (05:22):
What did he die of?

Speaker 6 (05:24):
I don't know?

Speaker 13 (05:25):
Well, but you said illness. It must have.

Speaker 8 (05:28):
Been Actually I don't remember. See I was only three
or four.

Speaker 6 (05:33):
I think.

Speaker 13 (05:34):
Well, forgive me if this sounds forward. But didn't you
ever ask your mother?

Speaker 10 (05:40):
Well, I'm not sure. I wanted to know? Why do
you want to know?

Speaker 15 (05:44):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (05:44):
I assure you what it isn't merely idle curiosity. You see,
we need this information for insurance purposes. It has to
do with tables of probabilities, various technical computerized matters of
that sort. You appreciate the need for full information these days?

Speaker 15 (06:01):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (06:02):
Sure, sure of course.

Speaker 13 (06:03):
Well could you ascertain the answer?

Speaker 8 (06:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (06:05):
I suppose.

Speaker 13 (06:07):
Well, it's a vital importance because until the item can
be completed, your file will remain open. We can't have that, canry?

Speaker 10 (06:19):
What did she say?

Speaker 8 (06:20):
Her name was Melissan Resnic. What a beautiful name, and
what a beautiful woman? Yeah, a woman, not a chattering, simpering,
immature girl. But I want she must be my age.
Perhaps she's younger. In any case, she can hardly be
forty thirty five. Yep, yep, yep, yep. She has to

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look at thirty five. It's not too late for us
the home of our own children. Just one would be enough.
Mine and Melissant. Oh what am I saying? Mommy? Oh mommy,
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Speaker 6 (06:55):
I'll never leave you. What was I thinking about?

Speaker 8 (06:57):
How Melissan resmic? Indeed, hell is filled with a Melosan
resnis who tempt serious and sober, hardworking men from their
duties to their mothers, mothers who have grown old and ill,
making sacrifices for their for their ungrateful sons.

Speaker 16 (07:21):
Have some pie, know me.

Speaker 12 (07:23):
I'm supposed to be on a diet.

Speaker 17 (07:24):
You know me.

Speaker 16 (07:25):
You shouldn't be a fanatic about anything.

Speaker 10 (07:29):
I do.

Speaker 16 (07:29):
So wish you to meet a pretty girl who take you.

Speaker 8 (07:32):
Off my hands.

Speaker 12 (07:33):
I'm lucky, mommy.

Speaker 16 (07:36):
This music, this is the music your daddy and I
used to dance too.

Speaker 8 (07:41):
This was music talking about daddy.

Speaker 16 (07:43):
So many other great bands people today never heard. I
have to ask you a question, Oh are you tune
in the radio at night and kill wonderful bands from
all over the country.

Speaker 8 (07:54):
Mommy, A girl came up from personnel and she told
me that they have to know just exactly what kind
of illness it was that daddy died. A girl came
up to talk to you.

Speaker 12 (08:05):
Yeah, mommy, was about daddy's death.

Speaker 8 (08:08):
Did strike you as strange? I understand why they might
want to know. Oh, I'm not discussing that.

Speaker 16 (08:14):
Your problem has always been that you could never follow
the main line.

Speaker 18 (08:17):
Of the article.

Speaker 12 (08:18):
All I'm saying is she told me why they wanted.

Speaker 16 (08:20):
Now we'll address ourselves to that presently.

Speaker 8 (08:24):
First, why did this girl come up to see you, Tommy,
As I'm trying to tell you, she wanted to know?

Speaker 16 (08:30):
If she wanted to know, why couldn't she have elicited
that information on the telephone? You do have interoffice communication,
do you not?

Speaker 10 (08:39):
Well?

Speaker 8 (08:41):
Yes?

Speaker 11 (08:42):
Well?

Speaker 16 (08:44):
And the fact that she is with personnel only serves
to prove my point?

Speaker 19 (08:48):
What what?

Speaker 6 (08:49):
What point?

Speaker 8 (08:50):
You know?

Speaker 6 (08:51):
Me?

Speaker 8 (08:52):
There are, as you know, women who.

Speaker 16 (08:55):
Are desperate for marriage, unscrupulous women who will do anything
to ensnare a man.

Speaker 8 (09:00):
But Melissan Medisan is it?

Speaker 10 (09:03):
Well?

Speaker 8 (09:04):
She had to tell me her name, her first name.

Speaker 16 (09:08):
You see, my poor naive little Normy. She goes through
her files, a personnel picks out the unmarried men, and
since you are obviously the most eligible of the lot,
she made some pretext.

Speaker 18 (09:23):
To meet you.

Speaker 8 (09:24):
But it did sound rather legitimate to me.

Speaker 16 (09:27):
No me, no, me, You're such a babe in the woods,
so unaccustomed to the wiles of women.

Speaker 12 (09:34):
Yeah, I guess you're right, mommy.

Speaker 6 (09:37):
But what should I do about the questions she asked me?

Speaker 8 (09:41):
Do?

Speaker 16 (09:42):
But just disregard it and disregard her, and she'll get
the message.

Speaker 6 (09:50):
And that's Molly.

Speaker 8 (09:51):
Is there a fella who has a wiser or more
loving mothery? She figures every angle she catches on so quickly.
I guess I'm the luckiest guy in the world. Well,
I went back to the office the following morning, and
Miss Resnick did not contact me, nor did she the
next day or the day after, which led me to assume,

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naturally that the request she had made was, in truth
a device to make my acquaintance. However, I had underestimated
Miss Resnick, because on the following Monday.

Speaker 13 (10:28):
Mister Claymore, you never did get back to me with
that information.

Speaker 12 (10:31):
That's right, I didn't. Are are you sure it's important?

Speaker 13 (10:35):
Certainly it's important to the company, of course, why else
would I ask?

Speaker 8 (10:39):
I have no idea, mister Claymore.

Speaker 13 (10:43):
I have been told to complete your record by the
vice president in charge of personnel. Now do you want
me to tell him that you refuse to give us.

Speaker 12 (10:52):
This infor you may tell him anything you like.

Speaker 13 (10:55):
Mister Klaymer, have you considered the consequences, consequences and will
be made that you have something to hide?

Speaker 8 (11:02):
Now?

Speaker 13 (11:03):
Really, why should you create an unfavorable impression? Look, every
employee at the corporation, from the chairman of the board
down has filled out this form just as you're required
to do it.

Speaker 8 (11:15):
We'll just put down any disease, TB whatever.

Speaker 13 (11:18):
I cannot put down what I know to be false.
Mister Claymore. Can you obtain this information for me? No
later than tomorrow.

Speaker 16 (11:32):
This ruthless, unscrupulous woman appears to have upset you a great.

Speaker 12 (11:35):
Deal, Mommy. She seems to be very shy and.

Speaker 8 (11:39):
Wow, they're the worst kind.

Speaker 12 (11:40):
But I have to give them an answer. What disease
did daddy die?

Speaker 16 (11:45):
He didn't die of any disease. He was killed in
a bus accident. Well, mommy, yes, yes, he was standing
at the bus stop waiting the bus came along, he
stepped off the curb. The bus didn't fo Mommy, you said,
you see, he thought it was the local, but it
turned out to be the Express.

Speaker 8 (12:02):
But you said that he took ill and died. Did
I say that?

Speaker 6 (12:06):
Well?

Speaker 16 (12:07):
Perhaps I did, But if it wasn't true, it may
not have been true. But it was kind. After all,
being run down by a bus it is an absolutely
horrible way to be killed. And you were a little child,
and it could have done something to your psyche. You
might have become terrified of buses for the rest of
your life. And not being rich, we couldn't afford to
travel everywhere by taxicab.

Speaker 18 (12:29):
Isn't that so?

Speaker 6 (12:30):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (12:30):
Yeah, certainly you would have had bad dreams.

Speaker 8 (12:34):
Well, in four cars of Death, I could tell miss
Residik that daddy died in a bus accident. Yes, and
after you tell her that, you can tell.

Speaker 13 (12:43):
Her goodbye, you claim her. I'm sorry to disturb you again.

Speaker 12 (12:54):
What is it now?

Speaker 8 (12:55):
I did telephone the information to you, didn't I?

Speaker 13 (12:57):
Yes, you did, and I placed it in your recket.

Speaker 8 (12:59):
Well, then what is the problem.

Speaker 13 (13:01):
The vice president in charge of personnel, he asked me
to ascertain why you lied?

Speaker 6 (13:09):
Why lied?

Speaker 13 (13:10):
About what lied about the cause of your father's death.
He wants to know why if your father was killed
in a bus accident, you found it necessary to lie
about it. Why did you say he died.

Speaker 8 (13:24):
Of I well, that is the story that my mother
told me. She wanted to spare a little child's feelings.

Speaker 13 (13:30):
You appreciate that, but we must know the exact circumstances.

Speaker 6 (13:33):
I have just given them to you.

Speaker 13 (13:36):
I'm afraid that will not be sufficient. If he was
killed by a bus, there would be a police report.
If he died of illness, I'm sure there.

Speaker 8 (13:43):
Was a death certistic What does it really matter.

Speaker 13 (13:46):
Mister Claymore. Until the matter is resolved, your file will
be incomplete. This could just about destroy the computer. Would
you want that to happen?

Speaker 6 (14:01):
I love you.

Speaker 8 (14:02):
I know I'm disobeying mommy, but I love you. I
love you because you're so practical, so down to earth.
I love you for your quiet strength, for the way
you can just stick to the point. You're so much
like mommy Melison. We can't do very much about it now.
I can't marry anyone while Mommy's alive. But Mommy can't
live forever. After all, nobody lives forever.

Speaker 16 (14:28):
Oh, this band plays very much like the old hal
keemp Bok.

Speaker 8 (14:33):
Why can't we give them proof of how daddy died?
Because it's none of their business? WHOA, it's not an
unreasonable request. I see she seduced you, hasn't she?

Speaker 16 (14:45):
Who that Melison Resnik with her blonde hair a blue eye.

Speaker 12 (14:49):
How do you know she has blonde hair, blue eyes.

Speaker 16 (14:51):
With a clinging sweater and a tight scirming how do
you love it? Don't you think I would find out
at firsthand what sort of Jezebela's.

Speaker 8 (14:57):
Trying to ensnare my son? Donny, I went downtown to.

Speaker 18 (15:02):
Your office building.

Speaker 16 (15:03):
I got to look at her. Oh, very good.

Speaker 6 (15:06):
Look.

Speaker 8 (15:06):
Let me assure you I've only seen her exactly three times,
and all three times she was at my desk. And
at no time did I see her for more than
two or three minutes.

Speaker 16 (15:14):
It's all she requires the idea of her, the seductive
idea of her, has been planted in your soul. Cleanse
yourself nor me. You have strength of character.

Speaker 8 (15:27):
Driver from your mind.

Speaker 4 (15:29):
Mommy.

Speaker 8 (15:29):
If I don't bring I proove of how daddy died,
I can be forced to quit my job. Perhaps that
would be for the best. But I have seniority, an equity,
and a pension plan.

Speaker 6 (15:38):
Of forty years old.

Speaker 10 (15:40):
I mean, where can I go to start all over again?

Speaker 8 (15:42):
Nor me?

Speaker 16 (15:43):
You have a great amount of ability. You can get
a good job anyway.

Speaker 8 (15:46):
Why won't you tell me what daddy died? It's getting late.
I think I'll go to bed. Don't you understand you're
gonna fire me? Well, dear, who knows? After all, it
may just turn out to be for the best. Well, now,
little acorns suddenly sprout into great, big oaks, Tiny mold

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hills become huge mountains. Why is mommy so set against
giving normy what, after all, should only be a piece
of routine information.

Speaker 6 (16:20):
You already heard enough of our story.

Speaker 8 (16:22):
To come up with a variety of interesting possibilities. Think
about them, and let's compare notes. When I returned shortly
with that too, one thing you can now accept as gospel.

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We live in a world of forms, papers, documents, records.
There are no secrets, there is no privacy. Soon there'll
be no mystery. All of us should become open books.
Mister Congreve wrote a play in which a lady said
to a gentleman, oh, sir, you must not kiss and tell.

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That was almost three hundred years ago. Today you must
not only tell if you kissed, but also if you didn't.
And why, Molly, I know you don't understand. I'll be
fired if I don't bring in a certificate of one
sort or another, I'll be fired.

Speaker 16 (17:25):
Ting you weren't listening. I said it would be for
the bad.

Speaker 8 (17:29):
Job like mine, a good job like mine. How could
losing it be for the veston for such.

Speaker 6 (17:34):
A trivial reason.

Speaker 16 (17:36):
But it is not a trivial reason.

Speaker 8 (17:38):
They want to know is the cause of daddy's dad.
I say, that's none of their affair.

Speaker 16 (17:43):
What is involved here is the basic principle of private I.

Speaker 8 (17:47):
Am not concerned with principles. I can say that you
don't understand. No me, dear, you're the one who doesn't understand.
You're the one who doesn't sense the grave danger. What
the danger has a name, Miss.

Speaker 16 (18:04):
Menissan Resnik mommy, And you're so innocent of the world.
It's quite probably my fault. She has already seduced you.

Speaker 20 (18:13):
And that is why you.

Speaker 21 (18:14):
Must leave that boy.

Speaker 17 (18:15):
Think.

Speaker 16 (18:15):
She must not be permitted to destroy your life. And
that is your mommy's final word.

Speaker 8 (18:24):
Mommy's right, She's always right. But Melisson, she's so nice?
Is that the word? Yeah? Yeah, yeah nice? Surely she
must be exactly the kind of girl Mommy.

Speaker 6 (18:40):
Would choose for me herself.

Speaker 12 (18:42):
I don't understand.

Speaker 8 (18:44):
Melisson hasn't said one word, made one suggestion that might
even remotely be considered as improper. Yet what does Mommy
know that I don't?

Speaker 13 (18:57):
Good morning, mister Claymore. Do you have the information for me?

Speaker 12 (19:01):
No, Miss Resnick, I do not.

Speaker 13 (19:05):
Or I'm at a loss to understand your reluctance. A
most insignificant matter has been blown completely out of purpose.

Speaker 8 (19:11):
I do not agree that the matter is insignificant. The
right to privacy.

Speaker 13 (19:15):
We're concerned here with the world of practicality, the world
as it exists. All I can say is that failure
to furnish us with the information can mean your job.

Speaker 8 (19:26):
I realize that you realize that, and you still I
am prepared, as they say, to walk the last mile.

Speaker 13 (19:35):
Understand, mister claymart and please, this is off the record.
In the ordinary way, the matter would be of no significance. However,
the vice president in charge of personnel is the son
of the founder.

Speaker 12 (19:49):
I didn't know that.

Speaker 13 (19:51):
Well, it was necessary to give him a title to
keep him happy. Now he looks for things to justify
his job.

Speaker 8 (19:58):
Well, he on you, I can't do anything about that.

Speaker 13 (20:03):
You're an excellent employee. I would hate to see you.

Speaker 12 (20:06):
Lose your Sometimes a man must stand up.

Speaker 13 (20:09):
You have three weeks.

Speaker 6 (20:11):
Three weeks to do?

Speaker 13 (20:12):
What to complete the form? The Vice president left for
his vacation last night. His parting words to me were,
if that record isn't filled in fully, inaccurately with documentation,
Norman Claymore will be fired.

Speaker 6 (20:27):
Well, I guess I'll be fired.

Speaker 13 (20:29):
Oh no, you mustn't be Oh why why won't you
write down the cause of your father's dad?

Speaker 6 (20:35):
Because I don't know which?

Speaker 13 (20:37):
But that's impossible. You must know. Is your mother living?

Speaker 12 (20:42):
Yeah, she's living with me.

Speaker 13 (20:44):
Oh what does she tell you?

Speaker 8 (20:47):
It seems that every time I ask she tells me
a different story.

Speaker 13 (20:51):
Well, perhaps she's afraid of what's involved. Afraid it's possible,
I say possible, not probable or even likely, but possible.
But she doesn't want the circumstances of his death to
be known.

Speaker 6 (21:05):
But Mommy, she would tell me. She tells me everything.

Speaker 8 (21:09):
We're very close.

Speaker 13 (21:10):
Proclaimer I know we would hate to lose you. Oh,
please try to resolve this very minor problem. Somehow, there's
nothing personal in this. I'm just thinking of the good
of the company.

Speaker 8 (21:26):
Do you understand, Yes, miss Resnick, I understand. I understand,
my darling, Melisan, Oh, how I understand everything. I understand
that this is our cordship, This is how we are
wooing one another. This is the early tentative reaching out.

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But I must face the problem. Why do I know
nothing at all about Daddy's death or even his life?
Why are there no pictures, no letters, no mementos. Why
are there no stories, no family stories? Why is there
no family, no hands, uncles, cousins. Why are mommy and
I alone in the world?

Speaker 10 (22:09):
I must ask her?

Speaker 8 (22:12):
How can I ask her? What's troubling you know?

Speaker 22 (22:16):
Me?

Speaker 12 (22:16):
Well, it's about.

Speaker 8 (22:19):
It's about your daddy, isn't it.

Speaker 12 (22:22):
How did you know?

Speaker 16 (22:23):
Because I'm your poor old mommy and I know everything about.

Speaker 8 (22:27):
My little boy. Mommy, what did he die?

Speaker 10 (22:33):
No?

Speaker 16 (22:34):
Me, dear, I don't want to talk about it just
because some No, I won't say anything disparaging about Hermorrow's
even though it's true, But just say I don't want
to talk about your Daddy's death because I find.

Speaker 8 (22:46):
It painful, and let's talk about his life. I find
that painful, true.

Speaker 12 (22:51):
But Mommy, shouldn't I know something about my dad?

Speaker 8 (22:54):
Please?

Speaker 16 (22:54):
No, me, don't be disobedient. Do you want me to
fear pain?

Speaker 6 (22:57):
Mommy?

Speaker 8 (22:58):
Oh my goodness, this is my night. Where am I
playing this evening?

Speaker 23 (23:02):
Uh?

Speaker 12 (23:03):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (23:03):
At missus Selverson's. What a wonderful memory you have, Donny.
Are you sure you'll be all right tonight without me?

Speaker 6 (23:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (23:10):
Yeah, that's a good boy.

Speaker 8 (23:17):
I drove Mommy to missus Selverson's house, where she would
spend the next three hours. Usually I killed a time
til I had to pick her up in a movie.

Speaker 12 (23:26):
But tonight I drove straight back home. There was something.

Speaker 8 (23:29):
I had to know, and I had to know it
or else all would be over between Melisso and me.
I had to find the information. And where where can
I find it? Mommy will want to tell me. But
somewhere in Mommy's room is the answer. I know that,

(23:50):
I know. I know. The answer isn't Mommy's desk, or
in her chester drawers, or in some of those cardboard
boxes high up on.

Speaker 12 (23:57):
The shelves of her closet.

Speaker 8 (23:59):
The secret it must be in one of those places,
because Mommy made me promise on my honor, cross my heart,
and hope to die that I would never go into
a room unless she was there. Never could I break
my promise to Mommy. I must know about Daddy because
unless I tell Melissa on show reject me.

Speaker 6 (24:17):
And I can't live with that. And so.

Speaker 8 (24:22):
I look at Mommy's desk drawer, her check books, receipts, bills, letters, nothing.

Speaker 6 (24:27):
There about Daddy.

Speaker 8 (24:28):
I know that I know where has to be in
the cardboard box, top shelf of her closet, top shelf,
cardboard box. I reach up carefully. The box is in
my hands. I walk to the desk with it. I
don't want to look inside, but look, I don't want

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to pick up. The top newspaper from the pilot lies
in the box. When I pick it up and I
read the headline, Norman Claymore execute it, I am numb,
as if I have been struck a heavy blow.

Speaker 6 (25:10):
In the days.

Speaker 8 (25:11):
I look at the date. The paper is thirty five
years old. Norman Claymore is my father, Daddy. He has
been hanged for murder, not one murder, many murders, my daddy.

(25:32):
I read now for an article, one article of many.
Our reporter is interviewing my daddy.

Speaker 16 (25:38):
Mister Claymore. Why did you kill those people?

Speaker 6 (25:42):
Why?

Speaker 8 (25:43):
How can I tell you why? Some of us are
made that way. That's all made that way. So the blood,
it can't be helped. It goes from father to son.
My father was a murderer. There's no record of this.
Oh he's dead now, so I'm free to speak. I
saw him kill. I was a little boy, but I
remember I saw him kill. I don't know what this

(26:07):
is in my blood, this rage, I feel this rage.

Speaker 6 (26:13):
You know what it is to get angry?

Speaker 12 (26:15):
Yes, violently angry?

Speaker 8 (26:17):
Yes, I suppose angry enough to want to kill, well, truthfully,
And when you reach that point, do you kill? No,
that's where we're different.

Speaker 6 (26:31):
I kill.

Speaker 8 (26:32):
If you had it to do all over again, would
you have tried to be different. I don't believe you
followed what I said. I tried to be different this time.
I tried not to kill, but it didn't help. It's
how I made, how God made me, and therefore I
know God will forgive me. Telephone's ring.

Speaker 6 (26:51):
I'd glance at my wife. I said, I'm late. It's
Mommy calling me to pick her up. Her bridge. Game
is over hastily. I replaced the.

Speaker 8 (26:59):
Newspaper, I covered the box, I put it back on
the top shelf.

Speaker 6 (27:04):
I pick up the receiver.

Speaker 24 (27:06):
WHOA, no me, did you fall asleep?

Speaker 25 (27:10):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (27:10):
Yeah, most of them.

Speaker 17 (27:12):
It's odd.

Speaker 8 (27:13):
I never had to remind you to call.

Speaker 12 (27:16):
I'm just tired, mommy. I'll be right over.

Speaker 8 (27:19):
No me, Is everything all right?

Speaker 5 (27:22):
Yes, mommy, I don't know.

Speaker 26 (27:25):
I can usually tell when my little.

Speaker 27 (27:27):
Boy is disturbed.

Speaker 28 (27:28):
Me.

Speaker 12 (27:28):
Everything is just fine.

Speaker 8 (27:30):
Oh, you don't have to bite Tommy's head off. I'll
be over in five minutes. Oh, he'll be over in
five minutes to do what? Well, he's angry, judging from

(27:52):
the tone in his voice, he's even furious. You heard
what his father had to say about the fury and
the blood of the man in his line? Is he
that enraged with his mother? With his adored mommy? It's
a touch and go business we're involved with, and will
sort it all out in Act three in just a
few moments. There are certain pieces of news you don't

(28:23):
get every day. These qualify, perhaps as one in a
lifetime headlines. For instance, our Norman Claymore has just discovered
that his father was a murderer, not just a murderer,
but a multiple killer at that who was finally brought
to justice and hanged for his crimes. Now, he would

(28:46):
never have endeavored to discover this fact about his father
had he not been compelled to fill out a form
at his place of work which asked, if either or
both parents are deceased, list the cause of death. And
yet that's exactly what he must do if he wants
to keep his job. Whatever did get into you this evening?

Speaker 29 (29:10):
Know me?

Speaker 12 (29:10):
Hy, mommy?

Speaker 16 (29:11):
You know you must never make me wait for you
at missus Seliverton, that of the game. I simply cannot
tolerate the woman, know me?

Speaker 8 (29:20):
Are you sure you're all right?

Speaker 12 (29:21):
I said, I was denying.

Speaker 8 (29:23):
Snapping at me again? Oh I know. It's that Melissan resor.
Oh now, really, she's upset you.

Speaker 16 (29:32):
She makes you think strange, unnatural.

Speaker 30 (29:35):
Thoughts, unnatural.

Speaker 8 (29:39):
It's the natural for a man and a woman. No
wanna unnatural. You're the one who's unnatural, mommy. You're the
one who treats me like a child who finds fault
with every girl. You who are unnatural, an unnatural woman,
and therefore you must be evil. And therefore I want
to kid.

Speaker 15 (29:57):
I want to kill.

Speaker 5 (30:00):
No.

Speaker 6 (30:01):
Oh no, what am I saying? Oh?

Speaker 8 (30:06):
I understand you now, mommy, I understand why you know
what's in my blood, this evil thing that's in my blood.
That's why you watch me, why you keep me under
your thumb?

Speaker 6 (30:23):
Thank you, mommy, darling.

Speaker 8 (30:25):
Whatever you mumbling about?

Speaker 31 (30:27):
What?

Speaker 15 (30:28):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (30:28):
Oh, I'm sorry it's that girl.

Speaker 8 (30:31):
This is even worse than I feared.

Speaker 16 (30:33):
That woman has completely captured your mind.

Speaker 8 (30:40):
Mommy, How easy it is to misunderstand you. Of course
you had discouraged me from marriage. You must you know
what's in my blood. You know what I have inherited
from my father. You know I must never pass this
along to my own children. I must not have children.
You could have told me about daddy, but you refused

(31:01):
because you loved me.

Speaker 6 (31:03):
You wanted me to have.

Speaker 8 (31:04):
A happy memory of my father.

Speaker 12 (31:07):
Oh how I love you, mommy, How I love you.

Speaker 8 (31:11):
I must say goodbye to Malison, to all thoughts of Malison.
There can never be a Malison.

Speaker 13 (31:21):
Never, mister Klaymore.

Speaker 12 (31:26):
Oh, yes, miss Resnie, I haven't.

Speaker 13 (31:30):
Heard from you in all this time.

Speaker 6 (31:32):
I know.

Speaker 13 (31:34):
About that form.

Speaker 8 (31:36):
Well, I suppose if you winsists, so I don't.

Speaker 13 (31:40):
Insist, mister Claymore. It's mister Pennypack.

Speaker 12 (31:42):
Mister Pennypack, well, the.

Speaker 13 (31:43):
Vice president, he's the one.

Speaker 12 (31:46):
Then I'll have to be fired.

Speaker 13 (31:47):
That would be a shame.

Speaker 8 (31:49):
There are certain things that belong within the family, within
the bosom, with the family, and I think I understand.

Speaker 13 (31:57):
Oh, mister Klaymore, I I cannot help but admire you. Well,
you're protecting someone, now, that's obvious. Oh, but it's such
a cost. You know, you're a hero in the true
sense of the word.

Speaker 12 (32:13):
No, not really, yes, yes.

Speaker 13 (32:15):
And I must keep your secret. Oh, it's so unfair.
If it weren't for that, mister Pennypacker, we could just
disregard the whole thing.

Speaker 15 (32:23):
Is that so?

Speaker 13 (32:24):
Well, he's the one who lit the fire, He's the
one who wants the answer. No one else really cares. Oh,
he's too bad tomorrow, And I suppose that's the end.

Speaker 8 (32:38):
I looked into her eyes, into my Malaissan's beautiful blue
eyes that were filled with worry.

Speaker 6 (32:45):
No, Malisance, this.

Speaker 8 (32:47):
Is not the end, not for you and me. I
hate that Enoch penny Packer. I hate him because he
stole my father from me. I had a father I
thought was a good man. Because of Enoch Pennypacker, I
had to discover my father was a killer.

Speaker 12 (33:02):
Now I know the meaning of.

Speaker 8 (33:03):
Those secret urges, those drives, those yearnings. It's been the
desire to kill. It's in my blood. I can't deny it.
I won't deny it, and I won't deny you either.

Speaker 6 (33:16):
May sound it's.

Speaker 8 (33:16):
Wrong, I know, but we are human. My father knew,
but did he deny himself? My mother never, and I
shall not deny myself.

Speaker 5 (33:25):
You know me?

Speaker 8 (33:30):
Is something wrong wrong? No, not, darling.

Speaker 16 (33:33):
I know you better than you know yourself. Something is
burning inside of you.

Speaker 12 (33:37):
Please, everything's all right.

Speaker 8 (33:39):
You mean you won't share this with your mom?

Speaker 6 (33:43):
I don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 32 (33:44):
I know me.

Speaker 16 (33:45):
We must get to the bottom of this thing.

Speaker 6 (33:50):
No, we mustn't.

Speaker 12 (33:50):
Don't say another word. I'm fighting it.

Speaker 8 (33:52):
Can't you understand I'm fighting the bad blood. Shut up,
don't quiz me. Up, you alone, I'll fight it off.
This fury, this rage my blood, this insane desire to
killing a Pennypacker. Let there be quiet, Let there be calm.

Speaker 6 (34:06):
Please, mommy, please know me.

Speaker 16 (34:09):
We've always been able to talk out your trouble.

Speaker 10 (34:11):
Tell you I have no trouble.

Speaker 8 (34:12):
Mommy knows better.

Speaker 33 (34:13):
No me.

Speaker 8 (34:14):
Where are you going? Get this house?

Speaker 6 (34:16):
Out?

Speaker 3 (34:16):
Where?

Speaker 6 (34:16):
Nowhere?

Speaker 8 (34:17):
What are you going to do?

Speaker 10 (34:18):
I mean, who's there is?

Speaker 15 (34:31):
Someone?

Speaker 10 (34:34):
Who are you?

Speaker 8 (34:36):
How did you get you heard? I broke your window?
Mister pennypacker.

Speaker 10 (34:42):
Oh do you know my name?

Speaker 8 (34:44):
Everybody at the plant knows your name?

Speaker 6 (34:47):
What are you doing here?

Speaker 12 (34:50):
I intend to kill you?

Speaker 4 (34:54):
What for?

Speaker 8 (34:56):
Why should anyone want to kill me? You killed my
father me?

Speaker 10 (35:02):
Oh no, I never.

Speaker 8 (35:04):
Killed anyone in my life. You killed his memory, sc anyone.
I'm the mildest, but you tried to separate me from
the woman I love.

Speaker 10 (35:13):
No, I've never done anything bad in my life.

Speaker 12 (35:17):
Eyes won't save you.

Speaker 6 (35:18):
Please don't come near me.

Speaker 8 (35:20):
I'm ready to complete the form to answer the open
question on my record.

Speaker 10 (35:24):
I don't even know what you're talking.

Speaker 8 (35:26):
You cause a father's death. I'll tell you my father
was hanged. I'm truly sorry to my murder. We all
make mistake. It was no mistake. It was in his blood. No,
that's impossible, a thing like that, and it's in my blood. Listen,
Maybe it's like I can't help myself.

Speaker 1 (35:47):
I'm gonna kill you, well, don't, please don't.

Speaker 8 (35:58):
I was seized with an uncontrollable rage.

Speaker 6 (36:01):
I had to kill.

Speaker 8 (36:02):
My fury was so overpowering I could kill with my
bare hands.

Speaker 6 (36:06):
I hit him again and again and again.

Speaker 8 (36:10):
And finally I stopped him.

Speaker 12 (36:13):
All passion was spent. I looked at him.

Speaker 9 (36:17):
He was dead.

Speaker 8 (36:18):
He didn't need to feel for his pulse, to listen
for his heartbeat.

Speaker 6 (36:22):
He was dead. He could tell by the sprawl of.

Speaker 8 (36:25):
Him that he was dead.

Speaker 6 (36:28):
And I felt at peace.

Speaker 8 (36:30):
Such a delicious feeling of calm, such a satisfying feeling
of security. I had finally found my identity. I was
my father's son. Blood will tell Norman Claymore never.

Speaker 6 (36:57):
Yes, I know.

Speaker 34 (36:58):
Have you what news was a dreadful news in this
morning's paper?

Speaker 9 (37:04):
Why no, it's mister Pennypacker.

Speaker 12 (37:07):
He was murdered last night.

Speaker 34 (37:10):
No, yes, brutally murdered. They think it was some homicidal maniac.

Speaker 17 (37:16):
I'm sure it must have been.

Speaker 12 (37:18):
I'm really very sorry to hear that.

Speaker 13 (37:21):
I knew you would be, even though you had little
calls to like mister Pennypacker.

Speaker 8 (37:26):
Oh that's nothing to think of now, Oh.

Speaker 34 (37:29):
This crazy thing, well, it's an ill wind that doesn't
blow some good.

Speaker 13 (37:37):
You don't have to worry about your job anymore.

Speaker 8 (37:39):
Believe me, miss Resnik, My job is not worth mister
Pennypacker's life. Actually, if by giving it up, we could
bring that poor man back.

Speaker 17 (37:48):
Clamore, do you know what you are? You are a
beautiful human being?

Speaker 6 (37:57):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (38:02):
And so are you, miss Resnick. So are you a
beautiful human being? Well that's my invitation. What am I
waiting for? She loves me? Could she have stated it
more clearly? And I need her. Her love will keep
my bad blood in check. When I was a child,

(38:22):
mommy's love could do that. But now that I'm a man,
only the love of a woman can save me. She
will save me. Whenever I feel that rage to kill.

Speaker 6 (38:32):
Surge through my veins.

Speaker 8 (38:34):
Her love will save me. Melisson, I'm coming to you.
I know that you're waiting for me. I'm coming to
you tonight, tonight.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 35 (38:57):
Oh oh what oh ah?

Speaker 12 (39:03):
How must have the wrong address? This is three nine
eight Lauren Lane.

Speaker 9 (39:08):
You're on target, shorty.

Speaker 12 (39:10):
I thought this was the residence of malasand Resni.

Speaker 22 (39:13):
It is the Malissan some short little guy looking for
you baby?

Speaker 36 (39:20):
Well ah, it's Norman. Norman playmore.

Speaker 17 (39:24):
Come on in.

Speaker 13 (39:26):
I didn't recognize you with your clothes up, I mean
with your overcoat and hat. I mean, well, the only
times I ever saw you you were sitting at that
desk with the green eye shade and in your shirt
sleeves and banging away at that adding machine eight hours
a day. Punch punch, punch on those keys.

Speaker 8 (39:45):
Malissan hid the drink less.

Speaker 6 (39:46):
It looks like he needs it.

Speaker 10 (39:48):
What you have a I thought, I thought that who's he?

Speaker 13 (39:54):
That's a good question, that's who are you?

Speaker 22 (39:58):
Well we hang around to get her another couple of years.
I guess I'll qualify as your husband, Madison.

Speaker 6 (40:04):
I thought that you were in love with me.

Speaker 22 (40:07):
Hey, baby, you would give her the eye to chumps again.

Speaker 12 (40:12):
She can't help it, shorty.

Speaker 8 (40:14):
She tries to make every guy she be malice, but it.

Speaker 9 (40:18):
Don't mean nothing.

Speaker 12 (40:19):
The only guy she'll ever go home with is me.

Speaker 13 (40:21):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 12 (40:22):
Sure, my name is Norman.

Speaker 9 (40:23):
Nah, don't get mad.

Speaker 6 (40:25):
Norman.

Speaker 8 (40:26):
See Melisan, see what you've done?

Speaker 10 (40:29):
He's mad?

Speaker 13 (40:30):
Come on, Normany things happen. You're a big book.

Speaker 8 (40:33):
I'm gonna kid you, both of you.

Speaker 6 (40:36):
You who else?

Speaker 8 (40:37):
This is what happens when I don't listen. No, Mommy,
all right, she wants up because she called you Jezebel.

Speaker 22 (40:43):
I think you better believe your heart.

Speaker 10 (40:45):
That's enough.

Speaker 13 (41:03):
Do you want to talk about it, mister Claymore?

Speaker 12 (41:05):
What's there to talk about?

Speaker 6 (41:07):
Miss?

Speaker 12 (41:08):
I killed him?

Speaker 13 (41:08):
We know that?

Speaker 6 (41:10):
Why?

Speaker 12 (41:10):
Why? Because I'm my father's son.

Speaker 13 (41:14):
What does that mean?

Speaker 8 (41:16):
Claymore, Norman Claymore, doesn't they mean anything to you?

Speaker 12 (41:20):
Think?

Speaker 6 (41:21):
Miss?

Speaker 8 (41:21):
Many years ago there was a murderer, Norman Claymore.

Speaker 13 (41:25):
I think I remember well.

Speaker 12 (41:27):
He was my father.

Speaker 8 (41:28):
Murder was in his blood, and he passed that blood
to me, and that's why I killed him. Enoch Pennypacker too.

Speaker 13 (41:34):
You you say you also killed this penny Packer man.

Speaker 6 (41:39):
Yes, yes.

Speaker 8 (41:40):
When my blood begins to rage the way my fathers
did that, I have no control.

Speaker 13 (41:45):
Excuse me, please, Miss Himmelwright, Oh oh yes, that's my case.
I'll come out and talk to her. Mister Claymore, do
you want to see your mommy?

Speaker 10 (42:00):
Oh? Yeah, yeah, finished.

Speaker 13 (42:02):
Dictating your statement to the secretary, and I'll bring her
in to see you.

Speaker 8 (42:08):
Doctor my son, can I say my son?

Speaker 13 (42:11):
Yes, Missus Claymore in just a few minutes.

Speaker 8 (42:14):
He didn't kill most people. He couldn't kill them.

Speaker 13 (42:16):
We have with missus, missus Claymore. But why why he
says his father was a murderer.

Speaker 10 (42:23):
Is that true?

Speaker 15 (42:25):
Is it?

Speaker 37 (42:27):
Yes?

Speaker 13 (42:28):
He says his father claimed murder was in the blood.

Speaker 12 (42:33):
Is that true?

Speaker 6 (42:35):
Yes?

Speaker 13 (42:36):
And so your son says he kills because he inherited
that that murderer's blood. He can't help you.

Speaker 8 (42:45):
That's not true.

Speaker 13 (42:46):
It wasn't true about his father.

Speaker 8 (42:48):
It was true about his father, yes, but it couldn't
be true. But Norman, it.

Speaker 13 (42:53):
Couldn't be Why not, Missus Claymore, because Norman.

Speaker 8 (42:59):
Norman was adopted. So blood will tell will it? The
question is what will blood tell? And to whom will
blood tell it? And if you want to reach into

(43:21):
the heart of the matter, what is blood? We're not
talking about serum and plasma and cells and platelets. What
we have in mind is blood as a mystique. All right,
enough questions you want answers, Well, wait for me to
come back. Then are tricky business, this about blood? And

(43:54):
sometimes the blood you think you have may be more
powerful than that which actually flows through your vain names
or less. And why do we say flows through the veins?
Why not through the thoughts? As well Blood the great mystery,
the greatest mystery of our existence, which is why you

(44:16):
hear about it so often on Mystery Theater. Our cast
included Mason Adams, Briana rayburn E, V Jester, and Ken Harvey.
The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown Radio.
Mystery Theater were sponsored in part by True Value Hardware stores.

Speaker 6 (44:33):
Missus e g.

Speaker 8 (44:34):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre until next time pleasant.

Speaker 4 (45:15):
That's his version.

Speaker 38 (45:16):
Let him drive, you know, Put Grossman's daughter on the
witness stead. We'll see who crowds first.

Speaker 39 (45:21):
Jude Jackinson will buy his line of reasoning.

Speaker 3 (45:23):
I know he won't.

Speaker 4 (45:24):
I know his mind.

Speaker 40 (45:25):
I know Grossman's dreaming.

Speaker 27 (45:27):
If you think you can google past acts, why don't we?

Speaker 28 (45:35):
Maureen Fraser Marien, Yes, who says you used to go
to Queen Elizabeth School up.

Speaker 17 (45:41):
In Lake Farnet?

Speaker 38 (45:43):
Yes?

Speaker 18 (45:43):
I did.

Speaker 17 (45:44):
You lived in that Brown and Gold host up at
the end of Pine Tree.

Speaker 1 (45:48):
Listen.

Speaker 38 (45:48):
I don't have a lot of time right now. I'm
in a meeting.

Speaker 17 (45:51):
I forgot. You're a lawyer now, yes, I am.

Speaker 38 (45:54):
What do you want?

Speaker 17 (45:57):
You're always so smarty, Maureen. Yeah, you realize how many
freaking m frasiers there are in the phone book?

Speaker 38 (46:05):
Who the hell is this? You know, I'm a very
busy woman.

Speaker 17 (46:08):
You never recognize my boy?

Speaker 38 (46:10):
No, I'm sorry, I don't.

Speaker 17 (46:11):
I bet you.

Speaker 4 (46:12):
Remember my name?

Speaker 17 (46:13):
No way, Sharon Scott? Do you remember what you did?
He's still there? Maureen?

Speaker 41 (46:23):
How do you sleep?

Speaker 17 (46:24):
Mareene?

Speaker 42 (46:26):
Listen, whoever this is, don't.

Speaker 38 (46:29):
Ever phone me again?

Speaker 43 (46:30):
All right?

Speaker 6 (46:34):
Whosah?

Speaker 38 (46:36):
I have no idea?

Speaker 44 (46:42):
Don't you just hate it in the past, Like some
cold hand reaching up from a long forgotten grave, seizes
you and refuses to let go. Why won't it stay
where it was laid, buried deep in memory, covered in
the cold clay of years gone by? And why now?
Maureen has never been busier. She's at the top of

(47:03):
her game as a legal eagle, the smart attorney with
ambition and killer instinct. The last thing she needs is
some crazy from the backwoods town she fled, tracking her
down and making life help. Maybe Sharon is crazy, mind you.
There's nothing like twenty years of insomnia to make you
a little cranky. That in a child's whisper, as cold

(47:27):
as a tiny headstone lost in the woods, deep in the.

Speaker 8 (47:31):
Dark, moonless night.

Speaker 44 (47:35):
Someone Just for Me is written by Michael O'Brien.

Speaker 35 (47:42):
Even this play.

Speaker 44 (47:48):
Was written and produced for an adult audience. Your caution
and discretion is advised.

Speaker 45 (47:54):
So we'll just pick up from there. Eleven o'clock.

Speaker 39 (47:58):
Yeah, that sounds good.

Speaker 3 (47:59):
That's good.

Speaker 1 (47:59):
Help, No, bro, don't know, dude.

Speaker 46 (48:02):
I'll call a postman's daughter myself, bring her up to speak.

Speaker 3 (48:05):
Good idea.

Speaker 46 (48:06):
You know, I'm taking a cab of to you and
Saint Clara.

Speaker 1 (48:09):
You want to share?

Speaker 47 (48:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 38 (48:10):
Sure, okay, all right, let's.

Speaker 46 (48:12):
See if we can find one taxi.

Speaker 41 (48:16):
You didn't answer my question?

Speaker 44 (48:17):
My god, why did you hang up on me?

Speaker 17 (48:19):
Mauren?

Speaker 42 (48:19):
Get away from me.

Speaker 48 (48:20):
You and I have something that we need to talk about.

Speaker 38 (48:22):
I don't think we have anything. Excuse me, Dody, how
do you sleep?

Speaker 4 (48:29):
You know?

Speaker 49 (48:29):
Whose first to keep walking?

Speaker 42 (48:30):
Working for the taxi?

Speaker 1 (48:32):
Taxi?

Speaker 24 (48:33):
You listen to me, Maurene.

Speaker 50 (48:35):
Oh thank god, you got one, God's sake, don't.

Speaker 38 (48:45):
Just drive okays for press sakes? Where you just go?

Speaker 31 (48:55):
Okay?

Speaker 38 (48:57):
Yeah? Yeah, I'm fine, you know her. Yeah, it's an
old schoolmate.

Speaker 39 (49:02):
It's been one of those days.

Speaker 28 (49:06):
Sad, actually schizophrenic, I think, Yeah, I'm gonna have to
get a restraining order.

Speaker 39 (49:40):
Let me pick up the phone.

Speaker 50 (49:44):
Hello, honey, Richard, Marie was that outside?

Speaker 45 (49:53):
Well, I'm just getting up.

Speaker 50 (49:54):
What times do I don't know.

Speaker 38 (49:56):
I don't know how England England?

Speaker 15 (50:01):
England is?

Speaker 6 (50:03):
England is fine?

Speaker 37 (50:04):
Yes, very rainy?

Speaker 6 (50:05):
Thank you?

Speaker 45 (50:08):
Are you're sound of it?

Speaker 15 (50:09):
Stressed out?

Speaker 41 (50:09):
Is something wrong?

Speaker 51 (50:10):
I don't know?

Speaker 41 (50:13):
Come on, something is wrong with.

Speaker 38 (50:18):
Someone I used to know has contacted me.

Speaker 52 (50:20):
That's all right, oh.

Speaker 45 (50:24):
Old boyfriend?

Speaker 6 (50:25):
Great?

Speaker 28 (50:26):
No, thanks for Richard, nothing like that. No, listen, if
someone that you hurt as a child came looking for you, what.

Speaker 53 (50:36):
Would you do?

Speaker 9 (50:37):
What do you mean?

Speaker 38 (50:40):
Everyone did bad stuff when they were kids, didn't you?

Speaker 6 (50:44):
Yes?

Speaker 38 (50:44):
I suppose I did six I was twelve years old.
If she can't get over that, it's her problem.

Speaker 17 (50:49):
What did you do to her?

Speaker 38 (50:51):
Nothing? Ordinary stuff?

Speaker 24 (50:54):
Kid?

Speaker 38 (50:54):
Stop, it was nothing at all. You should have seen her.
It's not my fault. You can't make someone crazy.

Speaker 41 (51:03):
God, what honey?

Speaker 50 (51:06):
Someone's out there?

Speaker 38 (51:07):
Kids playing all right?

Speaker 45 (51:09):
Look, why don't you tell me the host?

Speaker 7 (51:11):
So I want to get back next week?

Speaker 10 (51:13):
Pardon?

Speaker 38 (51:15):
Oh sorry, there are these kids outside. You know they
should be in bed.

Speaker 41 (51:19):
You're right, they should and now I have a suggestion
for you.

Speaker 26 (51:24):
Finish that glass of wine.

Speaker 41 (51:25):
I hear you drinking, take an aspirin.

Speaker 47 (51:28):
And you go to bed.

Speaker 39 (51:30):
I love you.

Speaker 4 (51:32):
I love you too.

Speaker 54 (51:34):
Go on to Nate.

Speaker 41 (51:35):
Come on, get some sleep, all right?

Speaker 38 (51:38):
Bye bye bye, come back soon.

Speaker 2 (51:44):
It's just kids.

Speaker 38 (51:48):
Shut up out there.

Speaker 42 (51:53):
Who's there, Maureen Freezer?

Speaker 17 (52:28):
Hi, it's Danielle.

Speaker 42 (52:29):
Yes, Danielle.

Speaker 55 (52:30):
Sorry to bother you, but it's something just came. Who No,
I said, something came for you. It's package. It looks
like a videotape. There's no name on it. It just
says the Clark Institute. Do you want me to bring
it into you or no?

Speaker 24 (52:44):
Oh?

Speaker 28 (52:47):
Meet me in the conference room in five minutes. There's
a monitor set up in there, isn't there?

Speaker 37 (52:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (52:52):
I think so, I'll just check.

Speaker 15 (52:54):
OK.

Speaker 28 (53:01):
Thanks Danielle. That'll be all. You can shut the door
behind you. Color Constitute fingers.

Speaker 49 (53:17):
Patient is Sharon Scott, a female thirty one years old,
paranoid post traumatic stress disorder. Tape seven. Patient is asleep.
Patient complains of a strangling sensation night terrors. Patient is
unable to sleep for more than thirty minutes at a time.

(53:37):
Observing sleep patterns under prescribed medication. Are doctor M Ramsey,
Doctor H. Bergmann, and myself, doctor Jay Singh.

Speaker 29 (54:02):
M hm.

Speaker 33 (54:04):
H o.

Speaker 8 (54:18):
O job.

Speaker 41 (54:49):
What the hell's going on in here?

Speaker 38 (54:51):
Don't you know how to knock it?

Speaker 45 (54:53):
Is everything?

Speaker 6 (54:54):
Okay?

Speaker 38 (54:54):
Yes, everything's fine.

Speaker 45 (54:55):
That was the videotape. Yes, I thought it was you.

Speaker 56 (54:59):
Anyway, our meeting has been postponed until later tomorrow.

Speaker 38 (55:02):
Okay, thank you?

Speaker 19 (55:04):
Right.

Speaker 38 (55:22):
Hello, Hello, this is doctor Singh, yes speaking.

Speaker 28 (55:25):
This is Maureen Fraser. I'm a lawyer at Nicholson and Barrera.
A package was sent to me this morning from your office.
Could you please explain to me why you send it
a package? Yes, a videotape.

Speaker 4 (55:37):
No, I never sent anything to you. Wait what did
you say?

Speaker 38 (55:41):
Your name was Maureen Fraser?

Speaker 4 (55:46):
Are you Are you acquainted with miss Sharon Scott, one
of my patients. Could you actually look at the tape?
Is there a number on the side?

Speaker 38 (55:58):
Yes? There is one, eight seven five three okay.

Speaker 49 (56:03):
Okay, so she stolen and sent it to you. Maureen Fraser,
your name keeps coming up. How well do you know
my patient?

Speaker 28 (56:13):
Not very well at all. We grew up on the
same street and like Vernon, Ontario. Beyond that, I don't
know anymore.

Speaker 49 (56:19):
Well, she speaks a great deal about you, Miss Fraser.
I've been treating miss Scott for two years with medication
and cognitive therapy. Time and again, we keep coming back
to your name. This is all confidential, you understand, Miss Fraser.
But I think you might be a great deal of

(56:40):
help to me and to her.

Speaker 4 (56:44):
Hello.

Speaker 38 (56:45):
Yeah, yeah, I'm still here.

Speaker 49 (56:49):
I think you and her are deeply connected somewhere in
her mind. Do you think you could attend one of
our sessions we meet at eleven o'clock this Saturday. I mean,
you don't have to if you don't want to, but
I think it would be a great.

Speaker 38 (57:03):
Help, right, yeah, okay, fine.

Speaker 4 (57:06):
Right, I'm really glad you called.

Speaker 49 (57:14):
Let's off this, Marien Fraser d Ramsey.

Speaker 52 (57:21):
It's nice to meet you.

Speaker 45 (57:22):
Why don't you take us in him?

Speaker 52 (57:25):
Thank you for coming out, especially on such a rainy day.

Speaker 38 (57:29):
Well at least it isn't snowy, no.

Speaker 57 (57:33):
But I prefer snow to rain at this time of
the year. Anyway, Thanks for coming. Should we begin, Maureen?

Speaker 18 (57:44):
You know Sharon?

Speaker 21 (57:46):
Hello, Sharon.

Speaker 38 (57:48):
Hello, it's nice to see you again.

Speaker 28 (57:55):
I'm sorry I was rude to you the other day.

Speaker 42 (58:02):
This isn't easy for me. I don't remember everything.

Speaker 38 (58:04):
It was a long time ago.

Speaker 39 (58:06):
No, No, it wasn't.

Speaker 52 (58:10):
M Sharon, without becoming angry, can you tell me, Facer,
what do you remember?

Speaker 17 (58:20):
Okay?

Speaker 58 (58:23):
Okay, I was ten, you were twelve, and you used
to have that gang. There's you, Debbie Fitzpatrick, Christine Stewart,
five or six others. You thought you were so cool.
You all thought you were so cool. You hated me,

(58:46):
all of you did. I don't know why. I was
never the prettiest or the smartest or anything.

Speaker 6 (58:52):
I know that, and you did.

Speaker 58 (58:54):
You stayed away from me, mostly except when you wanted
to do something mean.

Speaker 52 (58:59):
Mm, that's very good, Sharon.

Speaker 58 (59:04):
You don't remember that night what you and those other
girls did. It's nine o'clock after dinner.

Speaker 39 (59:12):
You knocked, don't my door?

Speaker 3 (59:16):
I know you remember?

Speaker 39 (59:17):
I know you do.

Speaker 17 (59:20):
We've decided you can be in our game. We're going
to our height out to smoke some dope.

Speaker 41 (59:25):
Want to come. Okay, there's something really cool in those woods.

Speaker 42 (59:32):
You've got to see.

Speaker 59 (59:34):
Ah, get my shoes, hurry up, and don't tell your mom.

Speaker 8 (59:40):
Sharon.

Speaker 41 (59:41):
Okay, Sharon, over here.

Speaker 60 (59:55):
This is our hide over here, Look, Sharon, come on,
what is it in the grass?

Speaker 61 (01:00:03):
Five of them gravestones?

Speaker 19 (01:00:06):
Oh?

Speaker 62 (01:00:07):
Whoa people must have died here one hundred years ago.

Speaker 41 (01:00:12):
No one knows about them, five little stones, Sharon, Who
are they?

Speaker 42 (01:00:17):
No one knows?

Speaker 41 (01:00:19):
Go on read them.

Speaker 17 (01:00:21):
I can't read the knee.

Speaker 63 (01:00:23):
Go on, look closer, I can't read them.

Speaker 59 (01:00:27):
They're almost worn off.

Speaker 41 (01:00:29):
Well, whoever they were, they want you. They told us
to bring you here.

Speaker 24 (01:00:38):
They speak to us.

Speaker 38 (01:00:39):
We're devil worshippers.

Speaker 62 (01:00:40):
Those people are in hell and they want you, Sharon.

Speaker 41 (01:00:44):
No, we mean lo tired to that tree.

Speaker 59 (01:00:47):
If you fight, I'll take the stick and flog you.

Speaker 43 (01:00:50):
Ah, you're hurting me.

Speaker 47 (01:00:52):
Shut up, Sharon.

Speaker 59 (01:00:53):
Those people were evil, evil, the whole family Hell. You
belong to them. Now they want you all to themselves.
How please tell the side of the devil on her face?
Stick this dead barked in the front of her shirt
is Sharon's Shut her up?

Speaker 63 (01:01:14):
Put this table over her mouth.

Speaker 41 (01:01:20):
No one has pity or hues.

Speaker 38 (01:01:23):
Everyone hates you.

Speaker 62 (01:01:24):
No one wants you but them. I call upon all
evil spirits. Take this girl. You're staying here tonight. Sharon's
now in folk the spirits.

Speaker 14 (01:01:36):
Let them come die and see kid.

Speaker 64 (01:01:47):
Well what can I say? That was a long time ago, Sharon.
I'm sorry, I'm not that anymore.

Speaker 41 (01:02:05):
You don't get it.

Speaker 58 (01:02:07):
I stayed there, tied to that tree for seventeen hours
until you untied me the next day.

Speaker 42 (01:02:16):
I am sorry.

Speaker 58 (01:02:19):
Those laces retired really tight, Maureen.

Speaker 39 (01:02:23):
They cut my hands.

Speaker 58 (01:02:27):
I've been wanting to tell you this for a long time,
because you're the one who caused all of this. I
never had a relationship, I've never had a job. I've
lived that night every night of my life ever since.

Speaker 38 (01:02:46):
And you did you did that to me.

Speaker 58 (01:02:50):
You did that to me, Marian.

Speaker 28 (01:02:53):
Listen, I said, I was sorry, Yes, I remember. I'm
glad we've met to discuss this.

Speaker 38 (01:02:58):
But wait, just wait, just listen to me.

Speaker 41 (01:03:03):
There's more.

Speaker 58 (01:03:06):
That night in those woods, I cried and I cried.

Speaker 36 (01:03:10):
It was so dark.

Speaker 43 (01:03:12):
I prayed that.

Speaker 58 (01:03:13):
Someone would find me, someone would save me. And nobody
saved me. No one took pity on me. But someone came.

Speaker 39 (01:03:25):
Someone came.

Speaker 58 (01:03:27):
At first, it was just a shadow over by the grave,
remember the littlest one. For a moment I thought it
was a raccoon, but it wasn't.

Speaker 65 (01:03:36):
It stood up.

Speaker 48 (01:03:37):
I could see a shape of it. It was a boy,
little boy, and I think he was maybe three years old,
and all around it was this cloud. I can't describe it.

Speaker 58 (01:03:53):
It's a black cloud of pure evil.

Speaker 39 (01:03:57):
And he moved unto them.

Speaker 48 (01:03:58):
One night I could see his eyes black, spraying dead
like two gold marbles, and I laughed at me, God.

Speaker 50 (01:04:11):
It's a horrible, horrible laugh.

Speaker 58 (01:04:14):
And he came up to me, and you know, even
though that he was small, somehow his hands could reach
up to my throat, and this horrible smell of death
closed in on me, and he began choking me. And
at one point I heard him whispering.

Speaker 41 (01:04:32):
Somewhat. You just look away, Sarah.

Speaker 4 (01:04:42):
You've never spoken of this before.

Speaker 58 (01:04:46):
The next day, you let me go and tied me,
and I ran straight home. I thought I was free
of him.

Speaker 39 (01:04:53):
I thought he was gone at last.

Speaker 58 (01:04:55):
But that night I was lying in my bed.

Speaker 39 (01:05:00):
What there he was?

Speaker 58 (01:05:03):
I could feel just wait on my legs.

Speaker 38 (01:05:06):
He was there, sitting on me, laughing.

Speaker 58 (01:05:11):
And he was there the next night, the next night.

Speaker 41 (01:05:16):
Laughing at me, strangling.

Speaker 58 (01:05:20):
And that's how it's been, every single night, every night
for twenty one years.

Speaker 56 (01:05:30):
All right, Sharon, No, I want you to stop. I
want you to look miss Fraser in the face. Don't
say anything. Just think the word forgive.

Speaker 52 (01:05:47):
Mm hmmm.

Speaker 39 (01:05:53):
I don't forgive you.

Speaker 52 (01:05:55):
I do not forgive you.

Speaker 38 (01:05:56):
It's not fucking good enough for you to say that
you are sorry. Okay, I need to let I can
do to breathe. Please please, please free.

Speaker 40 (01:06:04):
Me from them.

Speaker 41 (01:06:06):
I'm not crazy.

Speaker 21 (01:06:07):
I'm not crazy Morian.

Speaker 18 (01:06:09):
Okay, I put that tape on.

Speaker 41 (01:06:10):
If you don't believe me, just play the tape.

Speaker 38 (01:06:11):
Play the tape, play play to bring the tape.

Speaker 41 (01:06:13):
Just go home and listen to it.

Speaker 42 (01:06:16):
Please worry.

Speaker 38 (01:06:17):
Please, only you can save me from.

Speaker 42 (01:06:19):
Please worry, moorry.

Speaker 38 (01:06:21):
Please listen everything, Please listen.

Speaker 50 (01:06:42):
There's nothing on this tape.

Speaker 38 (01:06:44):
I played it already.

Speaker 43 (01:06:49):
M m.

Speaker 50 (01:06:54):
There was a joke, Sharon, a goddamn joke. I can't
help it. If you're so, get out of here, Oh.

Speaker 48 (01:07:12):
God, gop gop.

Speaker 66 (01:07:21):
Water funy.

Speaker 19 (01:07:30):
Just a sec.

Speaker 18 (01:07:32):
I'll be right there. O.

Speaker 6 (01:07:38):
Hi, Oh.

Speaker 42 (01:07:42):
Lot of snow here.

Speaker 6 (01:07:45):
Are you all right?

Speaker 42 (01:07:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 50 (01:07:48):
Of course? And the driver's a bit hellish, but I'm fine.

Speaker 10 (01:07:51):
Well.

Speaker 67 (01:07:52):
They've been calling, no like there are twenty six messages
from your office.

Speaker 18 (01:07:56):
They've been saying, get her a call as soon as
she gets in.

Speaker 42 (01:08:01):
They said you just left work.

Speaker 38 (01:08:04):
No, Mom, they're overreacting. I just wanted to come and
see you and dad. All right, Oh yeah, I just.

Speaker 28 (01:08:12):
Wanted to start my Christmas break a little bit earlier
this year. Listen, Okay, Hi, I'm going to take a
nap before dinner.

Speaker 38 (01:08:19):
That's all right, Sure, it's all right.

Speaker 20 (01:08:21):
You know where your room is.

Speaker 38 (01:08:23):
When's that going to be home.

Speaker 3 (01:08:25):
Soon?

Speaker 45 (01:08:26):
I think?

Speaker 15 (01:08:27):
Okay.

Speaker 39 (01:08:28):
I love you, Mom, I love you too.

Speaker 38 (01:08:34):
It's good to see you.

Speaker 58 (01:08:35):
It's good to see you too.

Speaker 18 (01:08:36):
You have a good rest.

Speaker 23 (01:08:37):
Thanks.

Speaker 15 (01:08:38):
I'll call you at six.

Speaker 68 (01:08:39):
We're eating at six.

Speaker 69 (01:08:40):
Okay, Thanks, good mom.

Speaker 45 (01:08:49):
Thanks?

Speaker 38 (01:08:49):
You do you know that area on the north end
of town?

Speaker 45 (01:08:55):
Yeah? The woods were used to play.

Speaker 38 (01:08:57):
Is it still woods all that area?

Speaker 45 (01:09:00):
I think so. I don't go very often. There's been
talking about Clarry yet you're building them all Oh that place?
How about you got a lot of memories there?

Speaker 50 (01:09:12):
Yeah, I guess I do.

Speaker 45 (01:09:15):
That kang of girls used to hang around with whatever
became of them.

Speaker 6 (01:09:19):
I don't know.

Speaker 38 (01:09:21):
We went our separate ways.

Speaker 45 (01:09:22):
What a bunch one by one when you got together?

Speaker 38 (01:09:28):
Look out, Yeah, I guess we were pretty bad.

Speaker 45 (01:09:32):
I'll argue with that bad.

Speaker 39 (01:09:37):
Uh did you ever hear about the gravestones in those.

Speaker 45 (01:09:40):
Woods, graystones, m I wouldn't be surprised me. That was
the first area that was settled around here, was it?

Speaker 15 (01:09:49):
You know?

Speaker 45 (01:09:50):
I don't know much about it. Looking up in the library.

Speaker 18 (01:09:55):
It's getting colder.

Speaker 45 (01:09:58):
I think we're gonna get more snow, that's what it
says on the TV. Anyways, do you.

Speaker 38 (01:10:06):
Have to have the heat turned up so high? I'm
burning up? I need to take a walk.

Speaker 18 (01:10:14):
Oh what, Marien, it's thirty below.

Speaker 38 (01:10:17):
No it isn't.

Speaker 45 (01:10:19):
You've had a bit of drink, honey.

Speaker 38 (01:10:21):
I can take care of myself. Thanks. Anyway, Dad, I'm
a big girl.

Speaker 18 (01:10:25):
We'll put on one of your dad's parks at least.

Speaker 69 (01:10:27):
Mom, leave me alone, all right?

Speaker 39 (01:10:46):
Five little stone, Sharon more. They'll be the only ones
who knew about them. I remember one stone, tiny one.

Speaker 45 (01:11:05):
That Saniel.

Speaker 39 (01:11:10):
Jesus, not scary Saniel carved in.

Speaker 41 (01:11:13):
A little stone.

Speaker 38 (01:11:18):
Why didn't you call the others?

Speaker 41 (01:11:20):
Sharon?

Speaker 38 (01:11:20):
Why did you have to call me Christine Stewart? You
could have called her.

Speaker 28 (01:11:27):
I think she became a pediatrician. She's the one who
whipped you her tape on your mouth. She was as
bad as me little rear and Debbie. She teaches high school.

Speaker 17 (01:11:39):
Now.

Speaker 38 (01:11:40):
She was as bad as me about chanting stuff. That
was her idea. For Christ's sake. She used to carry
a knife.

Speaker 19 (01:11:48):
Right now.

Speaker 28 (01:11:50):
You could have called Jennifer or Linda, or Denise or Joanne.
You could have called and blamed any of those girls.

Speaker 17 (01:11:58):
Why is she? Why did you call it?

Speaker 41 (01:12:02):
Don't I've got an idea. Get some rope and some
duct tape. I'm gonna get Sharon Scott. Yes, such a
good idea. Bringer out here.

Speaker 38 (01:12:13):
We'll hide in this tree.

Speaker 14 (01:12:18):
I was the leader.

Speaker 39 (01:12:19):
That's why.

Speaker 14 (01:12:23):
You know the worst part, Sharon, I told you I
was sorry, but I wasn't then or now.

Speaker 39 (01:12:34):
I enjoyed hurting you.

Speaker 14 (01:12:35):
I enjoyed watching you cry. Part of me even thought
it was funny when you sat there telling me.

Speaker 41 (01:12:46):
What do you want from me?

Speaker 39 (01:12:50):
There's the woods.

Speaker 50 (01:12:54):
I'm going out there.

Speaker 39 (01:12:55):
I have to do something.

Speaker 28 (01:13:10):
I'm facing this. See, Sharon, Look, I'm not afraid of this.
I'm here after all these years.

Speaker 12 (01:13:24):
All right.

Speaker 42 (01:13:25):
Where are those stones?

Speaker 38 (01:13:27):
I'm not afraid of them either.

Speaker 28 (01:13:30):
They are only stones stones for dead people. Dead people
are just.

Speaker 8 (01:13:38):
Dead.

Speaker 38 (01:13:42):
There you are, all five of you. What the hell
are your names anyway, Benjamin Jacob, I think Bible names.

Speaker 43 (01:13:56):
Esther is a terrible man.

Speaker 38 (01:14:00):
Susannah. I can't quite read that one.

Speaker 39 (01:14:04):
There there, it is the little one.

Speaker 28 (01:14:08):
Nathaniel, Hi, Nathaniel, how did you die? Babies died a
lot back then? Was that you, Nathaniel speaking on that tape?
Go on, say something?

Speaker 38 (01:14:29):
Try it.

Speaker 28 (01:14:32):
You can't, Nathaniel, And you know why because you are
fucking dead, Because Nathaniel, you are.

Speaker 58 (01:14:43):
All right?

Speaker 38 (01:14:44):
All right, Sharon, I'll do it. I'm gonna do this.

Speaker 70 (01:14:53):
Stop following her, stop it, stop it right now. She's
afraid of you, but I'm not so Stop it stops,
stop it, you hear, I'm not afraid of you. Leave
her alone. You are bad, bad, bad.

Speaker 8 (01:15:28):
No.

Speaker 67 (01:15:28):
I don't know where she is. Well, she went out
a few hours ago, she did. Okay, just hang on
a second.

Speaker 18 (01:15:39):
Is that you, Marien?

Speaker 27 (01:15:40):
Yeah, I haven't.

Speaker 36 (01:15:44):
Someone's on the phone.

Speaker 18 (01:15:46):
I don't know who it is. Yeah, she's here right now.

Speaker 45 (01:15:51):
She just walked in the door.

Speaker 18 (01:15:53):
Yeah, yeah, okay, give me that.

Speaker 41 (01:15:59):
Hello, thank you?

Speaker 38 (01:16:00):
How did you get this number?

Speaker 4 (01:16:02):
Look?

Speaker 17 (01:16:02):
I know what you did. I feel like God. All
of a sudden, he's gone, he's gone.

Speaker 38 (01:16:06):
Listen never ever call me again?

Speaker 56 (01:16:13):
What was that all about?

Speaker 39 (01:16:18):
It's okay, I'm going to bed.

Speaker 43 (01:16:20):
Good oh, oh, oh, my god.

Speaker 38 (01:16:54):
Walking a gravestone with a stick of the.

Speaker 24 (01:17:00):
Oh.

Speaker 38 (01:17:02):
That must have been quite a picture.

Speaker 50 (01:17:07):
Ridiculous.

Speaker 41 (01:17:17):
Who said, who said that? Sounds another? Who said?

Speaker 6 (01:17:29):
Who?

Speaker 41 (01:17:33):
Daniel?

Speaker 50 (01:17:35):
Get out? Get out? Get the hellos? No, don't.

Speaker 15 (01:17:52):
Just h.

Speaker 44 (01:17:59):
Someone just Written by Michael O'Brien. Julie Stewart was Maureen
and Christina Nichol was Sharon, with Jeremy Harris as Gordon
Ann and Rajoram as Doctor Singh, Jonathan Higgins as Doctor Ramsay,
and Richard Lynn Darragon as Mom and Robert Naismith as
Dad Darre. Perlmutter was Young Maureen, Alex Laie as young Sharon,

(01:18:23):
Imogen Howorth as young Debbie, and Katy Lae as young Christine.
The recording engineer was Greg Declute, with sound by Matt Wilcott.
Casting was by Linda Grierson and the associate producer was
Colleen Woods. Original music was by Michael White. Someone Just

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for Me was produced and directed by the creator of
Deep Night, Gregory J.

Speaker 71 (01:18:48):
Sinclair, Lights Out for the Devil and Mister.

Speaker 19 (01:19:07):
Oh it is.

Speaker 65 (01:19:20):
Later then you think, turn out your lights.

Speaker 8 (01:19:37):
Now.

Speaker 15 (01:19:40):
We bring you.

Speaker 72 (01:19:41):
Stories of the supernatural and the super normal, dramatizing the
fantasies and the mysteries of the unknown. We tell you
this frankly, so that if you wish to avoid the
excitement and tention of these imaginative plays, we urge you, calmly,
but sincerely, to turn off your radio.

Speaker 65 (01:20:01):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:20:10):
This is mister O. R. Joebler.

Speaker 72 (01:20:12):
In a few moments, you're going to hear what might
be called a happening. I wrote it almost a lifetime ago,
and yet I know you'll agree with me after you
hear it. It's as if I wrote it this very morning.
Part of what I wrote over twenty five long years
ago has already become fact. The rest of the chilling prophecy. Well,

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the happening happens after a word from your station.

Speaker 63 (01:20:37):
See see the leaf right here in my hands? Oh yes,
isn't that new leaf?

Speaker 6 (01:20:43):
Yes, it is a new leaf here.

Speaker 63 (01:20:46):
I'm going to turn over a new leaf, get it
leap new?

Speaker 12 (01:20:51):
What does that mean to turn over a new leaf?

Speaker 63 (01:20:54):
Well, I'm serious. Means that you're going to have a
little change from what to what, from bad to good?

Speaker 15 (01:21:02):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (01:21:03):
Really?

Speaker 28 (01:21:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:21:04):
Well, I suppose somebody was.

Speaker 63 (01:21:05):
Crying, they could switch from tears.

Speaker 8 (01:21:08):
To a smile.

Speaker 6 (01:21:09):
Suppose they were lonely.

Speaker 63 (01:21:11):
They could go from loneliness they're having somebody to play with.

Speaker 6 (01:21:15):
Well, suppose somebody wasn't loved.

Speaker 9 (01:21:17):
Could they turn over.

Speaker 6 (01:21:18):
A new leaf?

Speaker 63 (01:21:19):
They could go from that loving somebody to.

Speaker 9 (01:21:22):
Love with somebody.

Speaker 10 (01:21:23):
How did they do that?

Speaker 63 (01:21:24):
Well they have to do is try to love somebody.

Speaker 12 (01:21:26):
Just try.

Speaker 63 (01:21:27):
Yeah, it's you see to love people.

Speaker 8 (01:21:30):
When you try, love makes all things new again.

Speaker 6 (01:21:33):
Hey, what was that?

Speaker 36 (01:21:34):
Another sound of love from the Franciscans.

Speaker 72 (01:21:39):
And now, if you haven't already done so, turn off
your lights now and listen to Rocket from Manhattan.

Speaker 6 (01:21:53):
All right, doc, but join Yes, doctor, don't you think
it's about time we had a little celebration. There's a
great deal of work to be done.

Speaker 40 (01:22:00):
Work's over, doctor.

Speaker 6 (01:22:01):
Twenty four hours more and we're back. Yes, doctor, we'll
be back. We've done it complete in twenty four hours.
If you're worried about our landing, I'm not. If you
were in Reynolds, no, sir, everything's imperfect to I'm sure
Doctor's going.

Speaker 73 (01:22:16):
To be a round trip anyway. There's twenty four hours
before we have to worry about that.

Speaker 6 (01:22:21):
I'll vent you that our adventure has gone well. Doc.
Pardon the expression, but you're a gloomy jove. I am
a realist, the doctor. The possibilities of anything's going wrong
or remote. Surely we're entitled to relax a little and
relish the fact of what we've done. Yeah, we've done it, Doc,
Even if we never get back, we've done it. We've
been to the moon and it'll always be there on
the books. But we are out of radio contact with

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the Earth.

Speaker 5 (01:22:44):
Yes, sir, but we are on course.

Speaker 6 (01:22:47):
Doc. What is wrong? Wrong? What should be wrong?

Speaker 15 (01:22:50):
Now?

Speaker 6 (01:22:51):
The kid's right. Doc.

Speaker 73 (01:22:52):
Ever since we made the circle and started back, all
these days you've been acting.

Speaker 6 (01:22:55):
As if we didn't make it. We've gone two hundred
and forty three.

Speaker 73 (01:23:00):
Miles and we're three quarters of the way back and
we're in, Doc, We're in. So what's the matter with you?

Speaker 6 (01:23:07):
How old were you major when the Second World War ended?
About five second the time? And you Reynolds, you weren't
even born now, Sir, I was twenty one on that
day in New Mexico when they set off the first
chain reaction. Twenty one, Doc, you mean to say you
were in at the beginning of it. Of course he
was Doctor Chamberlain was one of the original research men

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in the atomic bomb project back in forty five, the
only one of them alive today.

Speaker 73 (01:23:34):
Well, what do you know, So that's why you wanted
to make this trip, Doc, I mean you.

Speaker 6 (01:23:38):
Yes, Major, you wanted it as a substitution for what
you missed as a boy, the excitement and glory of
war or of Doc. That's true. And Reynolds here is
young and idealistic from the scientific wonder of it was
what he wanted. And I I was there at the
birth of an era. Now atomic power is driving me
into space, back to the Earth where it all began.

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And I'm thinking, yeah, dok, I's not putting it to
any of this. We have no time to discuss our emotions.
There's work to be done. Yere Speed twenty three four
eighty six. Yes, Speed twenty three four eighty six. Any
radio contact rolls does here?

Speaker 15 (01:24:21):
How about that?

Speaker 17 (01:24:22):
Doc?

Speaker 6 (01:24:23):
Unfortunate but not very vital. We're definitely on course. How
much longer will it be? Jack ten of us? Why
do you laugh Mejor?

Speaker 73 (01:24:33):
I was just thinking about how many millions of telescopes it.

Speaker 6 (01:24:36):
Turned in our direction.

Speaker 73 (01:24:37):
Yes, what you said a few hours ago, I mean
about my wanting the excitement and adventure.

Speaker 15 (01:24:43):
That's true.

Speaker 6 (01:24:43):
You know, I'm sixty years old, and I guess I
just lived for this chance.

Speaker 73 (01:24:49):
The army had nocayd my going, Wow, here I am.
Once we land, I'll admit, frankly, I'm going to cash
in on every bit of it and have myself a time.

Speaker 6 (01:25:01):
You know something, I get the feeling kind of depressed
when I think it'll soon be over. Poor. There's no
reason for depression, is there. I couldn't answer that. You've
been wondering, undoubtedly, why ever since we left the moon,
I've been acting strangely, That's right. I've never believed in predestination,

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and yet there's been sort of a motivation of faith
in my life. Twenty one I was part of that
research team trying to adapt atomic power to military purposes.
When that first bomb went off over the New Mexico Desert,
the newspaper man repeated the words, what hath God wrought?
And no one quite knew. I've been waiting fifty five

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years for the answer. I think I found it a
few hours ago on the moon, and it's an answer
full of horror, oh reno, Yes, sir, close the oxygen valve.

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That's why you're your mean, how the majors you're sleeping? Yes,
it's only a few more hours, isn't it. Yes, before
you spoke of finding an answer on the moon, and
then you didn't say anymore. Well, I've been thinking about it,
and I was wondering if it was something that the

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major couldn't understand, And that's why you didn't speak of
it further. And no you want to know, Yes, sir,
I haven't lived anywhere as long as you two have it.
My life has been built around atomic power. Now, all
of a sudden, the way you spoke before, as if

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all our research has been criminal. Do you mean that.

Speaker 1 (01:27:07):
Collision radar?

Speaker 6 (01:27:08):
Get at it? What's a matter?

Speaker 10 (01:27:09):
Who's spider object approaching?

Speaker 41 (01:27:11):
For?

Speaker 15 (01:27:11):
Where?

Speaker 6 (01:27:12):
Fifteen?

Speaker 10 (01:27:12):
The priest west? There?

Speaker 8 (01:27:14):
It is meteorites, It's a meteorite.

Speaker 6 (01:27:19):
It's uh, that was the closest it was. Indeed, this
idonic indeed to collide with a meteorite at this point
in our journey, I use a stronger word than sardonic. Doctor, Yeah,

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like fatal. It's all clear. Well, I I'd better get
back to Reynolds. Reynolds, you asked me a question before,
and I want to answer it you too, Major Russell,
I want you to hear this. Sure Reynolds overhead what
I said to you that i'd found the answer to
a very old question on the moon. That he felt
that somehow I thought all of the research on atomic

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power had been criminal. No, young man, I don't believe
that out of all criminal to know more about a
way of nature. No, the answer I found was something else.
I haven't even an answer, perhaps only a theory. When
we came within one hundred miles of the Moon and
then began to de accelerate to turn back, what did

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we see through the observation pots, well, dark wish No,
Please let me tell you what I saw. The craters
of the Moon, great gigantic craters. And as we came
closer and closer, the look of them was so familiar,
not because I had seen them through telescopes and in photographs,
but for some reason that I couldn't quite understand craters

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of the Moon. And suddenly, at the very moment when
we had come as close as we dared, and our
ship swung in an orbit to return, suddenly I knew
it was a memory of another crater I had seen
fifty five years before in New Mexico. So from an
observation plain high over the ground, a few hours after
the first atomic bomb had lit the sky with the

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new sun. Yes, the crater in the crust of the
Earth that bomb had left was the same as the
craters of the Moon. Do you understand the crater our
bomb had left on the Earth was the same as
the craters on the Moon. So what I don't get it? Yes, doctor,

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what are you getting at? The crater in that desert
was a thousandth of the size of the ones you're
talking about. I suddenly began to think. Was it not
possible that the Moon had gone through the same evolutionary
processes as our Earth before our Earth? Yes? Wasn't it
possible that men had come into being on the Moon

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developed their own civilization and non scientific progress even as
we have, but long before we Earth men had known it?
Say dark, you do understand these men of the Moon
had discovered the secret of atomic power long before we did,
and then had used it to blast and to tear
each other. Yes, and the craters on the Moon, that

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terrible devastation was the record of the destruction of their civilization,
a final war which had burned up the very atmosphere
and left the Moon a dead planet circling endlessly through
an airless sky. All right, doctor, presuming your theory is corrected,

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that the moonmen had started through a war, a chain
atomic reaction that they couldn't stop of what of it?
It indicates that they were fools? Yeah, that's it? Fools
are we? Anywise?

Speaker 72 (01:31:00):
We leave our the Devil and mister O's story of
rocket from Manhattan for a short pause.

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Speaker 72 (01:32:16):
And now back to our story of rocket from Manhattan.

Speaker 6 (01:32:28):
Air speed two four eighty two. You'd better cut it down.
Ride how much about fifteen? You get anything, Reynolds, No, sir,
would you come here a moment? Yes, sir, would you
help me with us pote covering? Yes? He is there
right hard you take a look? Huh, Yes, that's it.

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There she is Mama Earth six more hours. Hey, back there,
all nice. Sure we have made a mistake and headed
for Venus. That was just a bad joke, doc Oh,
there's no two ways about it.

Speaker 73 (01:33:09):
The outline of the continents. We can't make any mistake
about that. Being our home address. I wonder how much
they can see of us when I ways six seven
thousand miles out. You know, this reminds me of the
time about twenty five years ago the army set me
up to one thousand miles to take observation photographs. Well
you remember how the atomic reaction motors were there and

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we got up about five hundred.

Speaker 6 (01:33:31):
Feet in the nature. What what look down? Look what
I don't see anything? Look, Reynolds, come here.

Speaker 46 (01:33:40):
What's the matter? Something wrong that?

Speaker 6 (01:33:41):
Doctor says Reynolds, Look you see?

Speaker 8 (01:33:45):
Yes, what is it?

Speaker 6 (01:33:48):
I see it too?

Speaker 75 (01:33:49):
Bright?

Speaker 6 (01:33:50):
Lights going on and off? What's going on down there? Doctor?
Are they signaling us? Are they signaling? It's six thousand miles?
Why why should they? That's right, there's no such place.
Look at it.

Speaker 73 (01:34:01):
It is lights going on and off, but there are
from one area and you make out where.

Speaker 6 (01:34:08):
North America? Then they are signals. The candle in the
window your own question. That's six thousand miles.

Speaker 8 (01:34:16):
Wait a minute, are the explosions explosions?

Speaker 10 (01:34:20):
Major? Doctors?

Speaker 6 (01:34:21):
At it? Are the explosions? I don't know CQCQ, Hello, Hello, hello,

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cq CQ.

Speaker 26 (01:34:46):
I'm sorry, doctor, I can't raise any.

Speaker 73 (01:34:48):
Doc, doctor here, Yes, but look the closer we get,
they are explosions.

Speaker 6 (01:34:53):
Three more hours?

Speaker 1 (01:34:55):
Well know, I want to know now, REYNALDS.

Speaker 73 (01:34:57):
What's the matter with you? Why can't you make radio contact?
I'm doing everything I can Major, Major, Doc?

Speaker 6 (01:35:02):
What a creators?

Speaker 15 (01:35:03):
Look?

Speaker 6 (01:35:04):
Creates? Crators? At this attitude? You couldn't faster each flash?
I do say them?

Speaker 73 (01:35:10):
Okay, okay, what does it mean? What are you looking
at me like that?

Speaker 15 (01:35:15):
For?

Speaker 6 (01:35:16):
What does it mean?

Speaker 10 (01:35:16):
To major?

Speaker 8 (01:35:17):
Somebody's coming through?

Speaker 6 (01:35:18):
About five?

Speaker 10 (01:35:20):
I can only hear it faintly.

Speaker 6 (01:35:23):
What what? Please?

Speaker 10 (01:35:24):
Let me listen? United States?

Speaker 11 (01:35:30):
Huhnds?

Speaker 6 (01:35:32):
What is it?

Speaker 10 (01:35:33):
Tell us? What? Boy?

Speaker 3 (01:35:39):
I couldn't quite make up?

Speaker 63 (01:35:41):
He said?

Speaker 6 (01:35:44):
Said what? Tell us?

Speaker 1 (01:35:47):
Or he said?

Speaker 6 (01:35:50):
Or blasting the United States off the face of the earth, blasting?

Speaker 3 (01:35:58):
It's it's a joke, isn't it?

Speaker 10 (01:36:03):
Isn't it?

Speaker 6 (01:36:16):
What are they sending now? What?

Speaker 7 (01:36:17):
Now?

Speaker 6 (01:36:19):
It began an hour ago, no warning, projectiles, radio controlled,
point of origin.

Speaker 3 (01:36:35):
Unknown?

Speaker 6 (01:36:37):
Oh it stopped again the transmission enough doctor, doctor here
was an attack without warning. The explosions are increasing in
freaking lets letters? Anything more coming through?

Speaker 8 (01:36:47):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:36:48):
Nothing?

Speaker 5 (01:36:50):
Yes, yes, they started transmission again.

Speaker 6 (01:36:53):
Let's have it quick. Thanks it's some station in Midwestern.

Speaker 10 (01:37:00):
I can't get the call.

Speaker 9 (01:37:00):
Let it.

Speaker 6 (01:37:01):
Who cares? He says, it's hell, ground shaking. No bombs
landed near it, but a reconnaissance. It's so god I
can hardly make out. Well, well it started an hour ago.

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Everything burning. Oh, it's stopped again.

Speaker 73 (01:37:31):
There's nothing doctor, doctor, in Heaven's name, what do you
think it's all about?

Speaker 6 (01:37:36):
Stop standing out of the window and talk to me.
What are they doing? What do you mean why are
they doing up? Bombing us, blasting us?

Speaker 12 (01:37:42):
It's war?

Speaker 6 (01:37:42):
But who You've got to find out, Reynald, find out who.
It's no use, there's no transmission to those bombs. Where
are they coming from? Cantrip? Tell by the trajectory at
this distance, and what difference does the face of the
enemy make it it's happening. That's all stretched them. We
said we should have smashed them, exterminated them fifty years ago.

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They were so peaceful for so many years. And the
flashes are increasing in frequent. Donald's get on that radio.
I'll try to know who that devils.

Speaker 73 (01:38:11):
We had agreements with everyone, the international devils, all of them.

Speaker 6 (01:38:17):
Call them devils. I don't even know who they are. Donalds.

Speaker 46 (01:38:21):
You got anything?

Speaker 6 (01:38:22):
No, No, I don't. Doctor. Faster, Let's get down that faster.
Let's open it up. You know better than that rendering atmosphere,
increased speed may bring up like a meteorite.

Speaker 15 (01:38:30):
But I'm an army man.

Speaker 47 (01:38:31):
All my life is coming true.

Speaker 6 (01:38:35):
What what.

Speaker 5 (01:38:39):
The bonds?

Speaker 11 (01:38:41):
Nothing can.

Speaker 6 (01:38:45):
I can hardly make it out about it?

Speaker 10 (01:38:48):
Panic very true?

Speaker 6 (01:38:51):
Versual who class message from.

Speaker 1 (01:38:59):
United States.

Speaker 10 (01:39:02):
Of it's ended.

Speaker 6 (01:39:10):
There is no more if we'd only get down there faster,
only five hundred more miles. Look at it down there,
our air Force protective measures.

Speaker 10 (01:39:19):
What happened to them?

Speaker 9 (01:39:20):
What happened?

Speaker 6 (01:39:21):
Doctor you?

Speaker 1 (01:39:23):
Why don't you say something?

Speaker 6 (01:39:24):
We'll just sit there for hours watching. This isn't a
scientific experiment going on down there. They're blasting us to
pieces us us our atomic bomb, the great secret. Hold
it over the world and have peace forever. You said that,
yes you, I was a kid then, or heard you
say it over the radio when they gave you a medal.
Hold it over the world and have peace forever. Well,

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what do you got to say?

Speaker 76 (01:39:48):
Now?

Speaker 6 (01:39:50):
They had a wonderful fifty five years? What everybody had
a wonderful time? Reynolds, what's the matter?

Speaker 8 (01:39:58):
With him.

Speaker 6 (01:39:59):
He's gone off.

Speaker 72 (01:40:00):
Let him finish first.

Speaker 6 (01:40:02):
We hung the criminals fifty five years ago, and as
soon as their body stopped swinging, he left the crowd
and each went back to his own house and shut
the door. You said the peace would hold forever. I
I said it because I thought that when the secret
was put away, the people of the world would remember
the terror. I said to myself. Now, surely, now that

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they've seen the possibility of the disintegration of their earth,
they'll be drawn together once again into the the family
of men, as it must have been in the beginning.
I I forgot what years could do. I forgot how
quickly forgetfulness comes. I forgot that only a few years,
Hiroshima and Nagasaki would be only yesterday's sensations for a

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nation eager for sensations for to day. You keep asking
me who is sending those bombs against us? Who, I
tell you we're sending against ourselves. Yes, because had we
made our way of life something more than a confused
dream of shining machines and happy endings, those bonds of
hatred and revenge would not be flying at us. I

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said the peace would hold forever because I thought that
out of that war, at last men had learned that
there was no defense against hatred and revenge, but the
defense of education for the unity of people. It was
a race, gentleman, against time, and we wasted our last
fifty five years running backwards on a track of chrom

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human plastics. And so we've lost forever. No, we've never lost. Look,
the blasts are increasing in frequency. There's nothing left.

Speaker 15 (01:41:52):
Nothing.

Speaker 6 (01:41:53):
We'll start someplace else. We're built, doctor luck. The color
of the blast, Oh, dear God, why it's nitrogen? Isn't
it nitrogen? What are fools? The everlasting fools. I won
the blasts more and more. He started something they couldn't end.
The color of the blasts. They've set off hydrogen, atom,
I don't know what. We used, uranium, plutonium, And when

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the initial blast was over that was all but hydrogen.
That's part of life. One reaction sets off the other,
like setting off an endless chain. Until look down there,
blast faster and faster. They're spreading the fools. God help
the fools.

Speaker 11 (01:42:33):
God help the fools.

Speaker 6 (01:42:41):
Who happened the sheet of flame around the earth? Doctor?
Tell me what is it?

Speaker 77 (01:42:57):
Oh?

Speaker 15 (01:42:57):
Was it?

Speaker 6 (01:42:57):
Tell me?

Speaker 37 (01:42:57):
Me?

Speaker 73 (01:42:59):
It burned up all the atmosphere burned up, Ralph, what
does he mean.

Speaker 6 (01:43:08):
The chain reaction burned up? All the air? Oh?

Speaker 73 (01:43:16):
Major, Major, the left chat, it's all right, sorry, all right,
where are we going?

Speaker 6 (01:43:34):
And we go down there? There's no air, no knife,
the moon, the earth the same. Uh, how much fuel?
There's the gage two three hours? Yes, yes, I think

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that's right, isn't it? Major? Yeah? But what do we do?
You asked that question? Now the major no longer asks it.
Do you know the answer? Major?

Speaker 73 (01:44:15):
Sure, we'll circle around, then we'll crash.

Speaker 78 (01:44:23):
No, no, no, no, no, it'll be all right, my boy,
my words again, have peace.

Speaker 6 (01:44:36):
Forever.

Speaker 1 (01:44:44):
This is mister O. R.

Speaker 6 (01:44:45):
Joebler.

Speaker 72 (01:44:46):
The play has ended just to play something out of
my imagination, written over a quarter of a century ago.
Part of what I imagine then has come to pass.
I'm sure you pray with me that the rest of
it is it is a very false prophecy. Let's talk
about our next play. There is no prophecy in that one.

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I was in England. I met a titled old goat
who was very weary.

Speaker 6 (01:45:12):
I was very sweet, little wife.

Speaker 72 (01:45:14):
And out of that family affair comes next week's play.
But first, an interlude for a message.

Speaker 79 (01:45:22):
This is red Buttons with a suggestion on how you
can help Johnny Horizon and his campaign to clean up
America for our nation's two hundred birthday and help restore
the natural beauty of our land. Why not organize cleanup
projects for local parks, recreation areas, or the block.

Speaker 15 (01:45:38):
Where you live.

Speaker 79 (01:45:40):
The booklet how to conduct a Cleanup Campaign will help
you get started. They get this free booklet right Johnny
Horizon Program, Washington, d C.

Speaker 1 (01:45:49):
Two two Borough.

Speaker 66 (01:45:52):
This is Celeste Home. The formal cease fire in Vietnam
has not ended the suffering. The youngest victims of the
war need help from the United Nations Children's Fund. UNSEF
has been helping in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia for twenty years,
helping them with food, medical care, housing and education. They
must now work harder than ever to rebuild young lives
in Indo China as in Bangladesh. UNISEF will be there

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long after the fighting ends. They need your help. Please
send your check to UNISEF, New York one one seven.

Speaker 72 (01:46:23):
This is mister Oigain to that listener who wrote me
from Boston. Yes, I recently wrote a novel, and if
you shake your bookseller hard enough you might be able
to get a copy of it. Its title is House
on Fire, and Berthomeo House published it. Now about next
week's play, it's titled Hollywood Visitor and for you devil

(01:46:43):
Days of Horror. Yes, that's what it is. Next time.

Speaker 65 (01:46:55):
It is.

Speaker 63 (01:46:59):
Later, Then.

Speaker 3 (01:47:03):
You say.

Speaker 6 (01:47:24):
M hm.

Speaker 35 (01:47:29):
The Diary of Faith Faith play is no favorite. It
could happen to you.

Speaker 80 (01:47:46):
Okady nine hey, seven hundred and fifty.

Speaker 15 (01:47:51):
Four in the Diary of Faith.

Speaker 6 (01:48:00):
Yea.

Speaker 37 (01:48:01):
Here it is the name for occupation sports reporter. Yes, Paul,
Journalism once fascinated you, But after a few years, newspaper
reporting had become for you nothing more than a hard, hiresome,

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for paying job, a job that forced you to deal
constantly with men of wealth, fame, and power, and yet
never permitted you actually to ascend to their level as
an equal. That feeling caused you to choose for evil.

(01:48:47):
And then I Peate intervened and in your life a
little thing happened. You forgot your fight, and because of
that little thing, in a matter of minutes, you will
be dead. You yourself have uttered the words of your

(01:49:09):
death sentence in a moment, I will write again under
the name Paul ree. When I have written, I will
read from the Diary of faith. The life record of

(01:49:46):
Paul Reese now lies open before me, And for a
brief moment, I fate look ahead to an instant of
crises in his numbered day.

Speaker 40 (01:50:01):
I understand perfectly a rack.

Speaker 6 (01:50:03):
Paul.

Speaker 46 (01:50:04):
Wait a minute, let me explain.

Speaker 5 (01:50:05):
Paul put down a booking, Paul.

Speaker 37 (01:50:17):
Yes, Paul, in that instance, I fate fashioned the final
link in the chain of circumstances that soon will result
in your death. It is truly said that trifles are
the sum of life. But it is also true that

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trifles may add up to the end of life. It
is ever thus a bus lith by second, a door
left ajar, a fuse blown out, trivia. Yes, and yet
in my hands these little things become immeasurably important.

Speaker 9 (01:51:01):
You see.

Speaker 37 (01:51:02):
They are the tools with which I fate when but
the instrument of a plan shape your destiny. Remember, Paul,
how it all started. You would finish dinner in your
fiance's apartment, and you and Carol were finishing up the dishes.

Speaker 24 (01:51:22):
Oh, Paul, be careful, you'll chip the place.

Speaker 9 (01:51:24):
No, I won't, Honey, oh, mister.

Speaker 81 (01:51:26):
Reed, after we're married and have our own dishes, things
are going.

Speaker 15 (01:51:30):
To be different.

Speaker 27 (01:51:31):
Oh yeah, by that time, Carol will be too old
a care you.

Speaker 24 (01:51:35):
Weren't so stubborn. We could be married next week.

Speaker 33 (01:51:37):
Now, Honey, you know perfectly well how I feel.

Speaker 24 (01:51:39):
Yes, you just don't think we have enough money.

Speaker 15 (01:51:42):
That's right.

Speaker 33 (01:51:43):
We don't have My chances of ever having enough as
a sports reporter as slim, very slim.

Speaker 24 (01:51:48):
But you're wrong, Paul. I'm perfectly willing to keep on working.
In fact, I want to win my cash. He's sorry,
added to you.

Speaker 9 (01:51:55):
Oh wait a minute, Carol, Paul, I love.

Speaker 24 (01:51:57):
You and I want to be married to you just
as soon as possible. Why if any of young couples
get married on a lot less than roommates?

Speaker 33 (01:52:03):
Oh lesson, Carol. Someday I'm going to get a break.
When it comes, I intend to be in a position
to grab it. That's the time to talk about marriage,
and not before.

Speaker 15 (01:52:11):
All right, all right, that's a fair baby.

Speaker 33 (01:52:15):
Look, honey, how would you like to see that new
Nett Finston musical at the Orpheum?

Speaker 24 (01:52:20):
Huh, we can't afford that.

Speaker 33 (01:52:21):
I'll call a paper and see if I can get
a couple of antiopis fine, that's part of your job.

Speaker 15 (01:52:26):
Are Oh, give me a city desk.

Speaker 27 (01:52:33):
Ah.

Speaker 5 (01:52:33):
Hi, Charlie, this is Reese. Hey, listen, if you.

Speaker 27 (01:52:35):
Got a couple of what. Oh, but I'm off now
I'm at my girl's house.

Speaker 43 (01:52:43):
Oh.

Speaker 5 (01:52:43):
I don't care if he is sick.

Speaker 27 (01:52:46):
But but Charlie, all right, all right?

Speaker 15 (01:52:50):
Where is it? Oh Gridge Terrace?

Speaker 9 (01:52:52):
Yeah yeah, yeah, okay.

Speaker 33 (01:52:56):
Oh I'm sorry, honey, but a guy on the night
beat is sick.

Speaker 1 (01:52:58):
There's a hot suicide out no bridge.

Speaker 9 (01:53:00):
I gotta cover it.

Speaker 38 (01:53:01):
Oh.

Speaker 33 (01:53:04):
You see, that's what I mean about this job. Some
rich babe blows their brains.

Speaker 9 (01:53:07):
Out and everybody gets all excited.

Speaker 27 (01:53:09):
Well, if I finish in time, i'll call you.

Speaker 15 (01:53:21):
I'll give me a death.

Speaker 40 (01:53:22):
Oh, Charley, this is Reese.

Speaker 2 (01:53:24):
Listen.

Speaker 33 (01:53:24):
I've been all over this district and there's nothing going on,
absolutely nothing. That suicide Tip was a complete phony, having
a great, big, thrilling, four handed bridge party at the
address you gave me. Yeah, that's what you lost up
my entire evening for skip it.

Speaker 5 (01:53:40):
It's too late.

Speaker 37 (01:53:50):
You were angry when you slammed out of the telephone
booth and strove to your car. But then my fet
intervened and a little thing happened. You pumbled through your
pockets for your pipe, but it was not there. You
had left it in the telephone boot. So you returned

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to the drug store and walked back to the booth.

Speaker 1 (01:54:17):
But the door was.

Speaker 37 (01:54:17):
Closed now and the man sat inside. You stepped close
and looked in. Yes, your pipe was there on the shelf,
and eat the telephone. You started to move away when
the man's voice filtered to you through the door.

Speaker 9 (01:54:36):
It's a perfect frame. Okay, it's fine.

Speaker 82 (01:54:39):
In the money to your place for message of Saturday
night at eighth Yeah, that's the Grand Office.

Speaker 15 (01:54:45):
Huh oh, yeah, you.

Speaker 40 (01:54:46):
Know what you new place eleven one one ard more right, good.

Speaker 37 (01:54:50):
Boo, Yes, Paul. Because of a little thing, because you
forgot your pipe. You overheard a man talking on the telephone.
The conversation meant nothing to you, but yours was a

(01:55:13):
reporter's brain, and unconsciously the salient facts were filed away
in your memory. The next morning, you were making the
rounds of your sports beat and you stopped at the
office of Rocky Nelson fight manager.

Speaker 9 (01:55:30):
Oh sure, ra sure, my boys in a pinka condition.

Speaker 37 (01:55:33):
He's a three to one favorite already, you know, so
if you want to make some easy scratch on the.

Speaker 15 (01:55:37):
Sad, no, thanks, Rocky, It's still a big gamble. No
matter what you.

Speaker 33 (01:55:40):
Say, anything can happen in the ring.

Speaker 37 (01:55:43):
You know, Race, You're a smart boy, you know, just
between you and me, I never bet on a fighter.
Never have anything to do again Froggy Nelson, huh or
the phonograph? No, no, that goes that's not the office.
That should be delivered at my house. Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 1 (01:56:00):
Seven one more. It's a new place.

Speaker 33 (01:56:03):
Yeah, okay, are you moved into a new price a Rocky, Yeah,
but I don't like it much.

Speaker 37 (01:56:09):
Gonna get me a farm out of town. Been in
this ragon a long time. I'm getting tired. One of
these days I'm gonna retire. Yeah, we all say that,
only I'm gonna do it.

Speaker 6 (01:56:24):
Yes, Paul.

Speaker 37 (01:56:25):
As you left the office, something about the interviewed troubled you.
Then suddenly it hits you, Rocky's address. It was the
same one you had heard the man in the telephone
booth mentioned. Now your brain began to work. Soon you
would remembered almost all of that sketchy conversation. Fifty thousand

(01:56:50):
dollars to be delivered by messenger Saturday night at eight
Rocky's addressed, But the name mentioned was Arthur. Then on
an inspiration you called Rocky.

Speaker 5 (01:57:06):
Oh this is a race again, Rocky.

Speaker 27 (01:57:08):
Say that new place of yours on Ardmore got any.

Speaker 80 (01:57:11):
Vacancies in it?

Speaker 1 (01:57:12):
It's not a part of Jesus.

Speaker 9 (01:57:15):
Oh, I see.

Speaker 27 (01:57:16):
And one other thing, Rocky, while you're on the wire,
what's your real name?

Speaker 5 (01:57:20):
Your first name?

Speaker 27 (01:57:21):
I want to do a feature on you, see, and I.

Speaker 6 (01:57:26):
Don't care for what I like rock Arthur.

Speaker 9 (01:57:29):
Huh, that's just what I expected.

Speaker 3 (01:57:31):
What do you mean?

Speaker 1 (01:57:32):
I mean, Arthur, that you and I.

Speaker 33 (01:57:35):
Better get together and discuss a little business proposition, something
about the fight Saturday and the arrangements that have been made.

Speaker 40 (01:57:43):
What do you know about that?

Speaker 51 (01:57:45):
I'll meet minutes at the Pelican Club and don't feel
like Rocky.

Speaker 27 (01:57:57):
Never mind how I found out, Rocky.

Speaker 33 (01:57:59):
I know, I know the whole setup. Your boy is
free to want to win, but he's gonna lose. He's
gonna take a dive for which you were to be
paid off at your house Saturday night at eight o'clock.

Speaker 37 (01:58:09):
All right, all right, it's a fix. So now what
you're gonna do, mister wiseguy reporter, that's up to you.

Speaker 33 (01:58:15):
Okay, five gram goma hun Rocky, come on, you dirty chiseler.

Speaker 1 (01:58:20):
Okay, I'll go ten.

Speaker 26 (01:58:21):
Well, get this straight, Rocky.

Speaker 33 (01:58:22):
When I playing marbles, you're getting fifty thousand dollars, I
want half?

Speaker 5 (01:58:28):
Why you cheap, twobib reporter.

Speaker 33 (01:58:30):
Somehow, Let's have an answer, Rocky in fat or I'll
do a story on you, little boy a.

Speaker 37 (01:58:33):
Sky high Okay, Okay, you win, I'll split with you
fifty fifty, Yes, Paul, because of a liverer of thing,
because you forgot your pipe, you had an opportunity. You

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had discovered a gambling conspiracy, and you decided to tell
your islence for twenty five thousand dollars. But even that
was not enough. The odds of three to one were there,
and there was no doubt of the winner. It was
too appealing to you to be ignored. Somewhere. You had

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to find money to wave you. And then you remember
Carroll and her position is case here, Cheryl.

Speaker 33 (01:59:25):
How many times do I have to tell you this
is not a gamble, it's a sure thing.

Speaker 24 (01:59:30):
I don't care if we use that five thousand and
the store, we'll be steeing it.

Speaker 27 (01:59:34):
But nobody ever has to know.

Speaker 10 (01:59:35):
Honey.

Speaker 33 (01:59:35):
Look, Saturday, you take the cash, is usual, only you're
too late to make.

Speaker 18 (01:59:39):
The deposit at the bank.

Speaker 5 (01:59:40):
See, so you take it home.

Speaker 27 (01:59:41):
We borrow it just for Saturday night, and by Monday
morning you.

Speaker 1 (01:59:44):
Can make the deposits.

Speaker 51 (01:59:46):
We got fifteen thousand dollars for ourselves, and nobody's the wiser.

Speaker 18 (01:59:50):
Oh it's run.

Speaker 33 (01:59:51):
I don't know, Carrol, Honey, listen to me. I told
you that someday I get a break. Well this is it,
and I intend to write it out to the limit.
You want to get married, don't you.

Speaker 24 (02:00:02):
Of course you know I do.

Speaker 33 (02:00:04):
All right, and bring that five thousand dollars to me
Saturday afternoon.

Speaker 10 (02:00:10):
I'll do it.

Speaker 51 (02:00:18):
Now.

Speaker 37 (02:00:19):
Another link was added to the chain of circumstances, closing
a prop You now there could be no turning back.

Speaker 9 (02:00:28):
You get fun of the road of your choice to
its inevitable in.

Speaker 15 (02:00:34):
Soon I will.

Speaker 9 (02:00:36):
Read again from your record in a diary of faith.

Speaker 37 (02:00:58):
The road of an evil choice can lead only to
our gain destruction. But you, Paul Reice, were not thinking
of that as you sat near the window of your
room the next afternoon and stared vacantly at the rain
falling on the deserted streets below.

Speaker 1 (02:01:16):
It was almost one o'clock.

Speaker 37 (02:01:17):
When Carol arrived with the five thousand dollars.

Speaker 33 (02:01:21):
Paul, em stop worrying, Carol. Now you just sit down
and relax. What I call Rocky and see about placing
this money. Just think about Monday and the fifteen thousand,
this five grand will bring.

Speaker 10 (02:01:33):
Rocky Nelson.

Speaker 15 (02:01:34):
This is Paul, Rocky.

Speaker 33 (02:01:36):
I want to place a little folding money on the
fight tonight.

Speaker 9 (02:01:39):
Can you take care of it for me?

Speaker 15 (02:01:41):
How much?

Speaker 10 (02:01:41):
Paul, Well, it's.

Speaker 33 (02:01:42):
Five thousand, exactly, five thousand dollars.

Speaker 26 (02:01:45):
Five grand.

Speaker 80 (02:01:46):
Huh yeah, yeah, I think i'd have it for you.

Speaker 37 (02:01:49):
All right, I'll tell you be at my office at
three o'clock afternoon.

Speaker 33 (02:01:53):
Okay, Rocky, I'll be there. So long, Carol, we're all set.
Rocky he'll take care of everything. Yes, Paul, Rocky would
take care of everything in his way. For only an

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hour later, he stood in the rain and talked to
an underworld character. Yes, Rocky was taking care of everything,
even your death.

Speaker 37 (02:02:28):
So this is my proposition, Tony. You get rid of
this poor Reese and I'll make it worth of you
a while sid Price Rocky five thousand, exactly, five thousand dollars.
He's sure this guy will give me any trouble. Now,
he's sure he isn't somebody big. Oh no, he's just
a punk newspaper kid. Hell what do you say he see? Okay, fine,

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Now here's the setup.

Speaker 15 (02:02:52):
Lise.

Speaker 37 (02:02:52):
Will be at my office at three o'clock this afternoon.
I'll get him out of there by three point fifteen.
You'll be downstairs in your truck.

Speaker 83 (02:02:58):
Yeah, it make suct it's raining. We stepped from the
curb and there's an exodent. Yeah.

Speaker 84 (02:03:09):
Anyway, all right, honey, pull on park over here.

Speaker 24 (02:03:25):
Well I thought Rocky's office was on Third Avenue.

Speaker 37 (02:03:27):
It is, but you wait over there across the street
and at the drugs over day.

Speaker 10 (02:03:32):
I'll only be a few.

Speaker 24 (02:03:33):
Minutes, all right, darling, but please be careful for me, Paul, for.

Speaker 1 (02:03:37):
The lover of my Carol.

Speaker 10 (02:03:38):
Nothing can go wrong?

Speaker 5 (02:03:40):
Nothing?

Speaker 15 (02:03:48):
All right?

Speaker 9 (02:03:50):
Oh, Rocky?

Speaker 1 (02:03:52):
Oh how's it go?

Speaker 5 (02:03:54):
Oh fine, fine, Rocky?

Speaker 37 (02:03:55):
Fine?

Speaker 15 (02:03:56):
Everything all set?

Speaker 10 (02:03:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:03:57):
Yeah, in great shape.

Speaker 15 (02:03:59):
You got to go with you?

Speaker 33 (02:04:00):
Yeah, right here, five thousand and thanks for the deal, Rocky.

Speaker 37 (02:04:04):
Skip a kid. I figure business is business. You got
the drop on me, and that's all there is to it,
besides things.

Speaker 6 (02:04:10):
Leaving out the long run.

Speaker 37 (02:04:20):
At corner past three, Rocky was suddenly busy and you
left the office. But you were unmindful of the downpour,
and you walked towards the corner drug store and Carroll.
You were also unmindful of a heavy truck parallel to
you on the opposite side of the street, and in

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a moment you were at the corner and you stepped
from the curb.

Speaker 24 (02:04:49):
Stupid.

Speaker 27 (02:04:50):
K here yeham Orr, I saw that crazy drive away.

Speaker 15 (02:04:57):
Might have killed you, Cheryl. No accident.

Speaker 18 (02:05:01):
What what are you.

Speaker 3 (02:05:02):
Saying, Paul?

Speaker 33 (02:05:03):
Somebody wanted to kill me and I've got a good
idea who it was.

Speaker 5 (02:05:07):
Come on, let's get out of here.

Speaker 37 (02:05:15):
Yes, Paul Reese, you had been marked for death, and
you knew that it was Rocky who was responsible. He
went to his office at once, but he was gone.
Then you drove hurriedly with Carol to his home on
ard More Drive. You left Carol in the car and

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walked with determined stride through the door and rang the bell.

Speaker 9 (02:05:41):
Paul, Yeah, it's Paul.

Speaker 37 (02:05:45):
I'm surprised, I will what are you doing here?

Speaker 33 (02:05:49):
I just let you yeah, you just left me for dead.
Two minutes after.

Speaker 27 (02:05:52):
I stepped out of your office, a truck missed, killing
me by inches.

Speaker 15 (02:05:55):
And I wait a minute, Greece, I had nothing to
do with that truck.

Speaker 6 (02:05:58):
I swear it.

Speaker 15 (02:05:58):
You're a liar.

Speaker 37 (02:06:00):
Oh, I had nothing to do with that accident.

Speaker 1 (02:06:01):
Now listen to No, you'll listen to me.

Speaker 5 (02:06:03):
I wasn't born yesterday, Rocky.

Speaker 33 (02:06:05):
When I learned about this deal and moved in, I
knew there was one thing wrong with my plan. You
could kill me or have it done, and you wouldn't
have to make any split.

Speaker 6 (02:06:14):
Why would I wait so long?

Speaker 9 (02:06:15):
Because there was an extra.

Speaker 33 (02:06:16):
Five grand for you that way, the five grand I
gave you this afternoon.

Speaker 9 (02:06:20):
But get this, I've covered myself, Rocky.

Speaker 46 (02:06:24):
What do you mean out of your reach?

Speaker 33 (02:06:26):
There's a letter which goes to my managing editor in
case of my death.

Speaker 6 (02:06:29):
A letter? What kind of a letter?

Speaker 33 (02:06:32):
Well, it's not a bread and butter note, Rocky, the
detailed explanation of this whole dirty frame, and it names you.

Speaker 5 (02:06:38):
Understand you.

Speaker 37 (02:06:41):
Now, wait a minute. You're not trying to pull a
fast double cross.

Speaker 15 (02:06:43):
Are you?

Speaker 18 (02:06:44):
Don't be stupid?

Speaker 33 (02:06:45):
I want one thing, Rocky, I want money, then you'll
get it.

Speaker 37 (02:06:49):
Look, nothing is changed, nothing at all. A messenger will
be here at eight sooner if you want with a
fifty thousand, and you'll get your half in. The fight
will come off a ten and TIF will lose. Tomorrow
you get fifteen ran for the money you met this afternoon.

Speaker 33 (02:07:01):
All right, that makes sense, Rocky. Just make sure it
stays that way.

Speaker 10 (02:07:06):
Don't worry, Paul.

Speaker 6 (02:07:07):
If well, I swear it.

Speaker 37 (02:07:15):
No, Paul, you arrangement would not be changed if you
were pleased with yourself. As you left Rocky's house and
walked towards the car and Carrol. But as you neared
the automobile, a sudden wave of Penny guarded through you.
Carol was gone.

Speaker 27 (02:07:34):
Carol, Carol, Oh, Paul here I am.

Speaker 33 (02:07:37):
Oh, thank goodness. For a moment, I thought, Rocky, might
where have you been?

Speaker 81 (02:07:43):
Oh, mister Fitzgil is going to be at my house
today o'clock to pick up the five thousand dollars. What Oh,
I just talked to him on the phone. He discovered
a mistake on the bank apout and slip. After I
left the office this morning. I told him that I
was late in getting to the bank and took the
money home.

Speaker 15 (02:07:56):
What did he saying?

Speaker 24 (02:07:57):
Probably was glad that of all the luck, he needs
the money.

Speaker 27 (02:07:59):
Now.

Speaker 24 (02:08:00):
Well, the ship and of furniture came in late this afternoon.

Speaker 27 (02:08:02):
But why did you call him?

Speaker 33 (02:08:05):
Oh?

Speaker 81 (02:08:05):
I got nervous thinking about the money, and I called
my place. The boy a bedad said that mister Fitzgerald
isn't trying to reach me, So I called him. Oh, Paul,
what are we going to do if we don't get
that money back?

Speaker 24 (02:08:15):
So it means prison for both of us Poles.

Speaker 20 (02:08:18):
Wait a minute, sure, sure, I've got it.

Speaker 9 (02:08:22):
We'll have the money there on time.

Speaker 33 (02:08:23):
Oh wow, Well I'll go back to Rocky now see,
and I'll get him to move the delivery of the
money up to seven o'clock. That gives us an hour
to get to your place. Oh, Paul, will work, all right, Yes, Carol,
it'll work. I'm positive, Yes, Paul, your plan would work.

Speaker 37 (02:08:47):
There was no doubt of that in your mind. And
as you walk back to Rocky's door, a smile of
self satisfaction across to your faith. He thought once like
end of the wealth that with the yours in a
matter of hours. But take heed, you who listen, We

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less you think that I fate. I'm a conspiratory and
evil and accomplish in crime. Or in a few moments,
I will write again in the record of Paul Rees.
And when I have written, I will read from the
Diary of Faith. Yes, now, everything you had plotted in

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scheme for was only hours away, Paul. But as you
walked back to the door of Rocky's house, another little
thing happened. Your shoelace came untied and you stopped to
siy it. A moment later, you were going to ring

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the bell when you noticed the door was still a jaw.
You stepped into the house and we're about to call
out for Rocky when you heard these voice from the
next room. Oh no, no, operator, I want long branch
three three five to two. Yes, that's right, three three
five to two.

Speaker 10 (02:10:32):
Hello, Hello?

Speaker 37 (02:10:33):
Is that you don't he?

Speaker 15 (02:10:35):
Look?

Speaker 37 (02:10:35):
This is Rocky allis the deal's off? Forget about the money.

Speaker 1 (02:10:38):
I'm in a jam.

Speaker 37 (02:10:39):
I can't go through with it, that's all. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I'll call you upper plans are changed.

Speaker 33 (02:10:44):
Okay, howdong will you call me too, Rocky bo? What
are you doing here, you dirty double crosser? You can't
call this thing off now? I've got to have that money.

Speaker 35 (02:10:55):
Paul.

Speaker 6 (02:10:55):
Wait, Paul, you don't understand.

Speaker 24 (02:10:57):
Now wait, I understand perfectly a rack.

Speaker 37 (02:11:00):
No, no, Paul, you don't. You don't, Paul, let me explain. Paul,
put down that bucket.

Speaker 8 (02:11:04):
Paul.

Speaker 85 (02:11:07):
Upy scum. Oh yeah, fucky, Ocky did well, you had
a comment to you? Still got time? Operator, Operator?

Speaker 33 (02:11:34):
I want long branch three three five two, Yes, hurry up,
please mine uh at Walker seven four three seven?

Speaker 26 (02:11:46):
Thank you?

Speaker 27 (02:11:53):
Hello? Is it you Tony?

Speaker 31 (02:11:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 27 (02:11:58):
Well, I'm calling for Rocky.

Speaker 33 (02:12:00):
Look the deal is on again, Tony. Sure, sure, the
price is just the same, but Rocky wants you to
move the time up, make it just as soon as
you can.

Speaker 86 (02:12:14):
Why do I deliver the goods?

Speaker 33 (02:12:15):
Well, there'll be a guy waiting for you at seven
one one north ardmore.

Speaker 87 (02:12:22):
Right.

Speaker 15 (02:12:23):
Oh yeah, Tony, the right guy.

Speaker 27 (02:12:25):
You can give it to him.

Speaker 37 (02:12:30):
Yes, Pauie, in a matter of minutes you will be dead.
Or as you wait calmly for what do you think
is a messenger with money? It is a messenger of
death approaches the same man who tried to run you
down with the truck. And now it is time to

(02:12:53):
close the book. Another entry has been duly noted.

Speaker 9 (02:12:58):
And justice has been served.

Speaker 37 (02:13:02):
You see I faith, and but the instrument of a
plan and the trivia of life are the tools with
which I worked. Paul Reyes forgot his pipe, a little thing,
but as a result he overheard a conversation which led

(02:13:22):
him to a decision.

Speaker 6 (02:13:25):
He chose for evil.

Speaker 37 (02:13:28):
And then because he stopped to tie his shoelace, another
little thing, the precious seconds he consumed caused him to
overhear and misunderstand another conversation, which led him to death.

(02:13:49):
He'd well tomorrow, you who listen and remember, there is
a page.

Speaker 10 (02:13:55):
For you in the Diary of Faith.

Speaker 88 (02:13:59):
The cast included Lois Andrews, Steve Brodie, Herbert Litten, Jerry Hausner,
Ivan Dittmars ray Erlinborn, and Hal Sawyer.

Speaker 15 (02:14:16):
This is a Larry Findley transcription.

Speaker 31 (02:14:18):
Well you from.

Speaker 89 (02:14:20):
Hollywood Adventures in Time and.

Speaker 15 (02:15:29):
Space told in Future Tents.

Speaker 6 (02:15:35):
Imagine that.

Speaker 90 (02:15:48):
Can you predict what will come in one hundred years,
or in ten or in the next minute. Some people
think they can. Nuclear scientists, mathematicians, astronomers, biologists, they'll predict
the shape of the future. Why because they make the future,

(02:16:09):
because they see beyond the known dimensions of time and
space into the unknown dimension X. We go ahead now
in time to nineteen sixty five. We're on a vast
concrete runway set in the desert of the Southwest. A
giant metal ship stands before us, prow pointed for the stars,

(02:16:33):
and in five minutes the signal will flash and it
will tear up through the atmosphere to the outer limit.

Speaker 1 (02:16:43):
Attention, attention, weal or takeoff five minutes to all right,
take off, We're up, Callie. I want of all the
procedure again, Steve Hoorry, I got it straight. You just
make sure, okay.

Speaker 47 (02:17:02):
I take her up on jets to fifty thousand, and
then I cut in the rocket. No lore, or your
tail blast will burn out three counties. I climb four
minutes on rockets, then start Panova tests.

Speaker 1 (02:17:11):
Remember them, no more than four minutes.

Speaker 6 (02:17:12):
Right.

Speaker 1 (02:17:13):
This ship isn't like those strut of rockets you've been testing.
She's the first one built for outer space.

Speaker 15 (02:17:17):
She works.

Speaker 1 (02:17:18):
She can go clear to the moon.

Speaker 6 (02:17:20):
But I know that i'd have brought my toothbright'll.

Speaker 1 (02:17:22):
Not this trip. I'll get this to you. You've got
power there to clear the Erth's gravitational field. But remember,
after you cut in the rockets, you've only got ten
minutes fuel. If you go beyond the outer limit and
don't save fuel for the return, I know I won't
get down again. That's right, Steve, you will drift off
into space. Get that now. Ten minutes fuel got you.

(02:17:43):
As far as I'm concerned, this project is a lot
more important than that cosmic ray bomb they're testing out
from the Pacific tonight for.

Speaker 47 (02:17:49):
Security Commission Brass doesn't think so. I don't see any
undersecretaries under anything.

Speaker 6 (02:17:54):
Don't worry.

Speaker 1 (02:17:55):
The long run, our ship will make the cr bomb
back paid stuff. But in the meantime it's just as dangerous.
Remember half the principles and this ship of pure theory,
Steve slide rule stuff. If anything goes wrong, we may
have to scrape you off the landscape with a soup scowl.

Speaker 6 (02:18:10):
You have a charming sens a humor.

Speaker 1 (02:18:11):
And here's what I'm getting at. We're risking your neck
in this test. If anything blows, we don't want to
have the next man pull the same boner.

Speaker 6 (02:18:18):
I know'll hank.

Speaker 1 (02:18:19):
So keep your mic open and keep talking. If anything
goes wrong, we want to know exactly why and we
won't be able to ask you. Let us know before
you pull every switch, before you do anything. You got thing. Yeah,
even if you only have to blow your nose.

Speaker 40 (02:18:35):
I get the stew light the way I'll get throw.

Speaker 1 (02:18:38):
Well, I guess that's about all, Steve.

Speaker 47 (02:18:40):
If that reminds me. Look, if Mary calls, I'm just
up on a milk run. I didn't tell her today,
was that?

Speaker 6 (02:18:46):
How is she? She's okay, but she's doing about it now,
and I don't want her to be nervous.

Speaker 1 (02:18:49):
Hey, I didn't know the baby was that close. Yeah, Steve,
I really ought to be sending a single man on
this job.

Speaker 6 (02:18:55):
But cut me out of it. Paycheck forget it an Hank.
You know you can't get any body else.

Speaker 47 (02:19:00):
You can take fifteen g's acceleration when those rockets cut in.

Speaker 6 (02:19:03):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 1 (02:19:05):
It's time, Steve.

Speaker 6 (02:19:07):
Yeah, Well, see you later. I'll worry, Hank. I'll sweat
for both of this button. They're up, Shelley sr.

Speaker 71 (02:19:15):
Hank.

Speaker 6 (02:19:15):
So long.

Speaker 1 (02:19:17):
We'll give you the light from Control.

Speaker 15 (02:19:32):
Thanks Larning Control.

Speaker 6 (02:19:33):
Thanks?

Speaker 52 (02:19:35):
Are you there yet?

Speaker 1 (02:19:35):
I think okay, Steve, got you on the speaker. I'm
ready to go, mister Hanson. Ready on radars.

Speaker 24 (02:19:41):
Sergeant, mister Hanson, you better see this.

Speaker 1 (02:19:43):
What is message sener for Steve?

Speaker 21 (02:19:45):
Missus Weston just left for the hospital.

Speaker 1 (02:19:47):
Hello, Steve, stand by man.

Speaker 24 (02:19:49):
Shall we hold the take off?

Speaker 21 (02:19:50):
Mister Hans?

Speaker 1 (02:19:51):
Oh yes, no, what wait just a minute, it's it's
too late.

Speaker 8 (02:19:54):
Now are you going to tell him?

Speaker 1 (02:19:57):
Maybe he's got enough to worry about.

Speaker 26 (02:19:58):
Hey, what's filling?

Speaker 25 (02:19:59):
It's up?

Speaker 26 (02:19:59):
Hank, something on your mind?

Speaker 1 (02:20:01):
No, no, it's it's nothing, Steve. I just wanted to
say good luck. Clear for take off, Charlie, right, okay,
give him the light? All right, Steve, I'm reading you clear.

Speaker 26 (02:20:28):
I'm a twenty thousand air speed thinks something.

Speaker 6 (02:20:31):
She's running fine?

Speaker 26 (02:20:33):
It sound proof being works. There's a third degree waiver
with the ag white pressure.

Speaker 1 (02:20:38):
Got that, Charlie chick a dead center on radar.

Speaker 26 (02:20:41):
Mister hands empty thousand now cutting out the point jet.

Speaker 52 (02:20:45):
Now the stabber.

Speaker 26 (02:20:48):
Rock gets airspeed dropping opening the rocket. What switch takes
a little, Charlie ixy alcohol pressure three fifty? All right,
now I'm advancing the English key.

Speaker 4 (02:21:04):
You'll go rocket.

Speaker 1 (02:21:05):
One, Steeve, Steve you all right?

Speaker 91 (02:21:13):
Yeah, somebody's slugging with a slench amit x mee no, well,
you got number two.

Speaker 1 (02:21:33):
Hello, Steve, elapsed rocket time is now four minutes. What's
your altitude?

Speaker 15 (02:21:37):
Over to you?

Speaker 47 (02:21:39):
Speed forty four hundred still climbing attitude two hundred ninety
seven miles.

Speaker 1 (02:21:44):
All right, you're the outer limit level off from an
uber test. You've got exactly six.

Speaker 26 (02:21:49):
Minutes fuel left.

Speaker 47 (02:21:50):
Okay, starting a three degree left bank. It's a little sluggish,
that's all right. Now a low vibration someplace, maybe the
cockpit hatch. I'm straightening out. I'm starting a three degree Hey,

(02:22:12):
what's matter?

Speaker 10 (02:22:12):
What's wrong?

Speaker 6 (02:22:13):
There's something up here, something shining?

Speaker 1 (02:22:16):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 6 (02:22:17):
Something above me? Hank, I'm gonna.

Speaker 47 (02:22:19):
Chase it, Steve, Steve, you're at the older limit now
I can see it playing.

Speaker 6 (02:22:23):
Now, don't go any higher.

Speaker 1 (02:22:24):
You've only got four minute slim, you've only got etatic.

Speaker 16 (02:22:28):
I can't hear you.

Speaker 47 (02:22:29):
Hack instead ahead now I'm gonna make a pass at it.

Speaker 6 (02:22:33):
Get a good look.

Speaker 47 (02:22:36):
Hey, it's wearing to meet me instead ahead, and now
it's bed ahead.

Speaker 1 (02:22:51):
Hello, Hello, Hello, Steve, Steve, come in nine minutes?

Speaker 40 (02:22:57):
God still no sign on radar?

Speaker 1 (02:22:59):
Hello, hello Steve, Steve, what's happened?

Speaker 15 (02:23:02):
Charlie?

Speaker 77 (02:23:03):
Get out?

Speaker 1 (02:23:03):
The christ squad tell the army squadron to alert their
search planes.

Speaker 40 (02:23:06):
Right not half?

Speaker 1 (02:23:08):
Hello, Hello Steve, what's happening? Come in, Steve, the search
squad Come in. Mister Hanson is busy. Hello hello Steve,
Hello Steve.

Speaker 24 (02:23:22):
Ten minutes, mister Hanson.

Speaker 9 (02:23:25):
That's the end of this dunel.

Speaker 1 (02:23:45):
How long has it been now?

Speaker 6 (02:23:47):
I don't know, is mister Hanson?

Speaker 1 (02:23:49):
Nothing more on radar? Sergeant screens blank.

Speaker 24 (02:23:54):
Search planes are back.

Speaker 8 (02:23:56):
He didn't find anything.

Speaker 1 (02:23:57):
Should be some trace.

Speaker 24 (02:23:59):
Couldn't it failed out?

Speaker 1 (02:24:00):
Could he only hit the silk at forty four hundred
miles an hour, either went past the outer limit, ran
out of fuel, something blue and we'll find the pieces
scattered from here to the coast. Why does it have
to be the best man, always the best man. I'll
get it, Charlie, Charlie, will you know we've got to
figure out what was wrong? Something, something must have belonged.

Speaker 92 (02:24:22):
Yeah, as a message from Northside Hospital for the state,
missus Weston's fine, it's a boy, Thank.

Speaker 6 (02:24:31):
You, Elsie.

Speaker 1 (02:24:33):
It's a boy. Charlie, Oh fine, fine, it's a boy.
He didn't even know she went to the hospital. How
am I going to tell Mary that.

Speaker 6 (02:24:45):
Wasn't your fault, mister Hanison.

Speaker 9 (02:24:47):
Ship had to be tensed.

Speaker 43 (02:24:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:24:49):
Yeah, we'll build another one, and some other flying fool
shoot past the outer limit into space. Oh I'm getting old, Charlie.
You can remember when I used to take him up myself.
Now I've to send other men.

Speaker 6 (02:25:01):
It's a job, mister Hanson.

Speaker 1 (02:25:03):
Now I'm afraid. Every time I hear a jet go off,
I jump. Every time I have to send someone up
in a new model, I start to sweat.

Speaker 40 (02:25:11):
Mister Hanson. Yeah, I think there's something on the radar.

Speaker 1 (02:25:15):
No flight schedule in either, Elsie.

Speaker 24 (02:25:17):
We have a whole day.

Speaker 8 (02:25:18):
Clear it.

Speaker 40 (02:25:18):
It's coming in behind it. Here, it comes over the building.

Speaker 1 (02:25:24):
What crazy jock is buzzing the field like that? Is
not an army plane, Charlie. I can't see it's churning, Charlie,
alert the field. I know that engine, Steve, that's impossible.

Speaker 6 (02:25:39):
That's a ship. It can't be. There's no other model
like that. It's Steve.

Speaker 1 (02:25:43):
All right, it's coming in, Thank God, thank god.

Speaker 15 (02:26:04):
All right.

Speaker 1 (02:26:05):
So now Steve the quicker, we get this done.

Speaker 63 (02:26:06):
The quicker.

Speaker 1 (02:26:07):
You get over to see Mary and the baby.

Speaker 6 (02:26:08):
Hank.

Speaker 1 (02:26:09):
Elsie, give the order to check and refuel the rockets.
I don't want anybody in here till I get Steve's reports,
Bury any calls, All right, let's have it. What the
devil have here?

Speaker 6 (02:26:18):
Hank? Does that cosmic ray bomb still go off tonight?

Speaker 1 (02:26:21):
What are you talking about? Straightened out, Steve? Where you've
been for the last ten hours?

Speaker 6 (02:26:26):
Listen, Hank, there's something more.

Speaker 1 (02:26:28):
I'm come on, come on, I've got to get a
report on the screen to Washington, so let's have it.
I've got to know how you stretch ten minutes fuel
to keep you in the air for ten hours.

Speaker 47 (02:26:36):
One thing before I talk, Stey Geigerman run over the
ship before they refuel, but you run into so.

Speaker 6 (02:26:42):
Help me, Hank. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (02:26:44):
We better check and make sure it isn't radioactive. Elsie
had a Geiger report on the standard. Check Steve. Maybe
we better have a doc look you over too.

Speaker 6 (02:26:53):
No, No, I'll be all right, they said, I'd be
all right.

Speaker 37 (02:26:56):
They look, son, I know you've had a time time,
but we've had this feel on the alert for ten hours.
One of the army boys cracked up looking for you,
and he's hurt bad.

Speaker 1 (02:27:06):
So let's have a story. Let's have it straight.

Speaker 47 (02:27:10):
I don't know how to tell you, Hank. I saw
something up there at three hundred miles. I chased something
up there, Hank, and.

Speaker 6 (02:27:18):
I caught it.

Speaker 1 (02:27:19):
I don't hand me that, listen.

Speaker 47 (02:27:21):
I was cruising along, just starting the right bank, when
I spotted something must have been going about half my speed.

Speaker 6 (02:27:27):
It was bagg shaped and smooth.

Speaker 47 (02:27:30):
I made a pass at it, and I was coming
back for another and then there was a humming sound, humming,
the sort of vibration, and I blacked out. I was
headed straight forward at forty four hundred.

Speaker 6 (02:27:39):
Miles an hour.

Speaker 47 (02:27:40):
I thought it was going to be the biggest smash
in Hiroshima because they were drinking that bottle. Never mind that, Steve,
what happened I came to inside their ship.

Speaker 1 (02:27:55):
Steve, this whole thing has been a devil of a
strain on you. I'm going to call Major Donaldson from
the Army base ask him to sit in psychiatrist.

Speaker 6 (02:28:05):
Yeah, yeah, that's a good idea. Let him run his tests.

Speaker 15 (02:28:08):
He'll tell you.

Speaker 47 (02:28:08):
I'm not kidding, because, Hank, unless I miss my guests,
I've just been tipped off to the way the world ends,
all right, mister Weston, suppose you continue your story.

Speaker 1 (02:28:28):
Is let's have it, Steve, You woke up inside the.

Speaker 47 (02:28:30):
Ship, Yes, and the place was jammed with machinery, dials, blinkers.
I couldn't recognize anything.

Speaker 1 (02:28:38):
And you were surrounded by these men from Mars.

Speaker 47 (02:28:42):
I didn't say anything about men from Mars. I didn't
even say they were men. I couldn't see them clearly.
They were just there.

Speaker 1 (02:28:51):
Where did they come from?

Speaker 6 (02:28:52):
Them?

Speaker 47 (02:28:53):
Another galaxy? Millions of miles outside of our solar system.
That's all I know. You figure out where they came from,
and they came all that distance to find the Earth.

Speaker 6 (02:29:03):
Yes, did they tell you that?

Speaker 15 (02:29:04):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (02:29:05):
You mean they spoke English to you?

Speaker 93 (02:29:07):
Oh?

Speaker 47 (02:29:07):
No, they didn't. It's funny. I hadn't thought. They didn't
really speak to me at all. They just planted the
thoughts in my mind. You mean thought transfers telepathy.

Speaker 6 (02:29:19):
Yes, that's right.

Speaker 1 (02:29:20):
Well, see what brought them here?

Speaker 9 (02:29:23):
We did, Hank.

Speaker 47 (02:29:24):
We rang their bell. We brought them in with our
atomic explosions.

Speaker 6 (02:29:29):
Hank.

Speaker 47 (02:29:29):
That's why you've got to stop that bomb test tonight.
You've got to believe me, Hank. Oh, how can I
make you understand?

Speaker 6 (02:29:36):
Maybe I can help, mister West would you submit to
narcos psychometry.

Speaker 60 (02:29:42):
What's that? Under proper drugs? I can put you back
in this ship by suggestion. Then we can get a
playback record of the memory pattern on the audio circuit.

Speaker 6 (02:29:53):
How long will it take? Half an hour? We'll have
to go over to the land. Would you believe me?

Speaker 60 (02:29:57):
If it checks, it will give us an accurate memory
picture what your mind reports.

Speaker 47 (02:30:01):
All right, let's go. Thank you gotta believe me. We
haven't got much time. You should be getting drowsy. Now

(02:30:23):
count backwards.

Speaker 6 (02:30:24):
From ten.

Speaker 94 (02:30:27):
Nine eight seven sick. Say he's under Now we attach

(02:30:49):
the headplate.

Speaker 47 (02:30:50):
Electrodes cord will pick up look out for that while
mister Hanson three O.

Speaker 60 (02:30:57):
Sitting thirty one point three now throw that's witch, mister Henson.
I have to start him off by suggestion. All right, Steve,
you're in your ship. Now you're in the rocket. Fuck

(02:31:20):
you're in the rocket. You're in the rocket, and you've
just cited something strange.

Speaker 6 (02:31:27):
Now I'm starting at three degree right. Hey, there's something
up there, something shining his memory. Pat him. We're picking
it up electronically. Something above me, Hank, I'm going to
chase it. It's taped through the audio circuits.

Speaker 40 (02:31:41):
I'm getting static. I can't.

Speaker 1 (02:31:42):
Hey, Hank, this is where we lost contact with him.

Speaker 26 (02:31:45):
I'm going to make a pass atident.

Speaker 40 (02:31:47):
Hey, it's werving to meet me.

Speaker 26 (02:31:49):
It's not a hand now, it's not a hack.

Speaker 6 (02:31:55):
No, this is where he blacked out. There's no telling
how long minutes?

Speaker 1 (02:32:01):
What's that knowledge?

Speaker 6 (02:32:02):
I don't know a client? What how did I get
in here?

Speaker 10 (02:32:08):
What?

Speaker 6 (02:32:10):
Who are you?

Speaker 15 (02:32:11):
Is he seeing things?

Speaker 12 (02:32:13):
Intergalactic patrol?

Speaker 15 (02:32:15):
What's that?

Speaker 6 (02:32:17):
What are they saying? Steve? What are they saying?

Speaker 95 (02:32:20):
It's about nuclear fission. They know about it, they know
the danger of it. Long ago they had wars that
almost destroyed them.

Speaker 45 (02:32:32):
And finally they learned.

Speaker 6 (02:32:34):
How they've outlawed war.

Speaker 15 (02:32:37):
Steve.

Speaker 6 (02:32:38):
They patrol space.

Speaker 95 (02:32:40):
When their detective picks up an atomic explosion, they send
the patrol.

Speaker 6 (02:32:45):
What are they going to do? They've quarantined us quarantine.
They've isolated the.

Speaker 95 (02:32:51):
Earth because we don't know how to control ourselves yet.

Speaker 26 (02:32:55):
Until we learn, will be a menace to the whole universe.

Speaker 6 (02:33:00):
How are they going to do with Steve?

Speaker 95 (02:33:02):
They've spread a layer out here. I don't know how
to call it, all around the Earth smiles deep. When
there's an atomic explosion on Earth. The radioactive particles will
drift up to this layer and set off a chain reaction.
You'll go around the world in microseconds, and that's the end. Wait, yes, yes,

(02:33:27):
I understand. I've got to bring back the warning. You're
going to put me back in my ship to bring
the warning.

Speaker 6 (02:33:43):
Now, what blacked out again? I guess that's all?

Speaker 1 (02:33:48):
What does all that mean?

Speaker 6 (02:33:49):
It's what he remembers. I don't think that really happened.

Speaker 60 (02:33:53):
Oh no, narco psychometry circuits produced what he remembers.

Speaker 6 (02:33:56):
It just means that Steve believes this happened.

Speaker 1 (02:34:00):
See this, I've seen too many tough pilot snap Steve
is the best I've known.

Speaker 6 (02:34:07):
How bad you think he is?

Speaker 60 (02:34:09):
Frankly, outside of the presence of this well organized this hallucination,
there's no sign of unbalanced. May not be too serious.
If you had a more plausible story, I'd be inclined
to believe me.

Speaker 1 (02:34:20):
Why, Hank, It's all right boy?

Speaker 6 (02:34:24):
Did you hear it?

Speaker 1 (02:34:25):
Hank?

Speaker 6 (02:34:27):
You understand sure?

Speaker 1 (02:34:28):
Sure, we've we've been quarantine.

Speaker 6 (02:34:30):
Let me give you something to make you sleep. Steve,
don't you understand they.

Speaker 47 (02:34:34):
Fixed it so that if we set off one more
nuclear explosion, that'll be it.

Speaker 6 (02:34:38):
Of course, don't know you sleep down, you don't believe me.

Speaker 1 (02:34:41):
Non, take it easy. Steve at the test.

Speaker 47 (02:34:43):
Tonight setting off to see our bomb. Think what time
is it? Well, let's schedule for midnight. I think we
got to stop that bomb.

Speaker 1 (02:34:52):
Steve red Donalds will give you the hyphones.

Speaker 6 (02:34:53):
Thank You've got to believe me. I saw them. I
got the warning.

Speaker 47 (02:34:56):
If we touch off a bomb tonight, it'll be the
biggest galect Fourth of July of all time. The whole
earth will go up like a Roman candle April tenth,
nineteen sixty five, the end.

Speaker 1 (02:35:06):
I look, Steve, you better calm down. Don't you want
to see Mary and the baby. You've got a new son, remember, Yeah.

Speaker 6 (02:35:12):
It's just that I want to see my son. I
want him to live if that bomb goes off. I
think we've got to stop them, Mister Hanson. I think
we better get over to the base house.

Speaker 1 (02:35:20):
Thank, you've gotta believe Sure, Sure, Steve, maybe there is
something to do it. Look, it's out of your hands.
I'll put it in a report and shove it into
Washington in the morning.

Speaker 47 (02:35:28):
In the morning, there isn't gonna be any morning. Hank
don't you understand You've got to call Washington now, get
the head of the Security Commission and postpone that test.

Speaker 1 (02:35:36):
No, you know I can't do that, Steve, Mine that
could be out a mile. Besides, this is nineteen sixty five,
not forty five. Twenty countries have atomic bombs. Now, what's
the use of stopping just this one? The rest will
keep right on popping them.

Speaker 47 (02:35:49):
Moll we'll have to call an international conference, can't you understand, Hank,
the first one that Gazov finishes, it's at the end.

Speaker 6 (02:35:56):
They've given us the quarantine.

Speaker 10 (02:35:57):
Morning, Steve, I think you'd better go with this to
the base hospital.

Speaker 1 (02:36:01):
Look, Steve, we can call up for a detail if
we have to.

Speaker 6 (02:36:05):
All right, all right, I'll go with you. You don't
need a straight jacket. That's the way, Steve. You'll probably
feel better by morning. Let's go.

Speaker 1 (02:36:27):
We'll ask Steve tomorrow. I'll drive you over to the hospital.
See Mary and the kid. Sure, we'll give a ship
under the floodlights, pretty high. You'll be flying her again, soon,
don't you worry?

Speaker 47 (02:36:38):
Yeah? Yeah, I guess so. But you're doing not in
the line if you're.

Speaker 1 (02:36:44):
Yeah, we got closet it's coming in tomorrow from Denver
for another test. Figure. We give you a day off
and it's good. That's fine, Steeve, see come back, come
on do uncle Steve. Steek way, he's heading for the rocket.
Look there he goes up. Not crazy cool. You can't

(02:37:04):
get out there now that covers armor glass. He's waving
towards control. It's the radio, he means, the radio. Come on,
I should have goops some hell.

Speaker 6 (02:37:16):
On the radio.

Speaker 1 (02:37:17):
Still look kep here, Hello, hello, Steve.

Speaker 26 (02:37:21):
Listen to me, Hank, you got a Carl Washington.

Speaker 1 (02:37:23):
Now come out of that rocket, Steve.

Speaker 6 (02:37:25):
I'll call my man.

Speaker 26 (02:37:26):
Don't try anything, Hank. They reach you over the rocket
for tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (02:37:29):
Take it easy to you.

Speaker 15 (02:37:30):
Listen.

Speaker 47 (02:37:30):
You know what will happen when I fire the rocket
Tooke's down here.

Speaker 10 (02:37:32):
He don't get a parallel.

Speaker 40 (02:37:34):
Every building for five miles, all.

Speaker 26 (02:37:36):
Of us in one big flash.

Speaker 1 (02:37:37):
See what do you want?

Speaker 40 (02:37:38):
You've got to stop that, Bob.

Speaker 26 (02:37:40):
You got a Carl Washington right now.

Speaker 1 (02:37:42):
They won't believe me.

Speaker 26 (02:37:43):
You make that caller right cut in the rocket. I
mean it, Hank my screen to yours in parallel. I
want to see exactly what you're doing, all right, all right.

Speaker 1 (02:37:52):
Just don't fire those rockets.

Speaker 47 (02:37:53):
Going, Hank, you got twelve minutes to make that call
and stop that bomb.

Speaker 1 (02:37:57):
All right, I'm making the parallel hook up right now. Donaldson,
you think you'll really blash?

Speaker 6 (02:38:01):
I don't know.

Speaker 60 (02:38:01):
Up to now, I don't will say it was normal,
But now he's liable to do anything.

Speaker 1 (02:38:04):
Hanson, Steve, Steve, there you're getting it on your screen.

Speaker 6 (02:38:10):
Through.

Speaker 1 (02:38:10):
All right, Operator Business screen to Washington.

Speaker 10 (02:38:14):
The visits screen circuits are busy, sir.

Speaker 6 (02:38:16):
If you'll try again in half.

Speaker 1 (02:38:17):
An hour, this is secure decommission priority break in. Get
me a.

Speaker 26 (02:38:19):
Line, yes, sir, just a moment, please.

Speaker 1 (02:38:23):
Listen, Steve. I'm trying.

Speaker 6 (02:38:24):
Ready to take your call, sir.

Speaker 1 (02:38:26):
Washington Security Commission three. This is urgent. I want Undersecretary
Herbert Ames Washington three. One moment please hurry, will you
one moment?

Speaker 15 (02:38:35):
Please?

Speaker 6 (02:38:36):
What time is a Donaldson eleven fifty one?

Speaker 1 (02:38:37):
Do you think you'll fire those rockets?

Speaker 6 (02:38:39):
You might?

Speaker 1 (02:38:40):
Washington Visits Screen three. Mister Herbert Ames.

Speaker 24 (02:38:42):
Please, that is a code of exchange. I cannot accept
your call without clearance.

Speaker 80 (02:38:46):
Get it through.

Speaker 1 (02:38:47):
Listen, Washington, put it through. This is mister Hanson at
San Marco Air base. This is a priority call. I'm
coding one moment.

Speaker 24 (02:38:53):
Please, I will check your code number.

Speaker 1 (02:38:55):
Get that through off at Will you be reasonable, Steve,
your call has cleared.

Speaker 96 (02:38:59):
Then Washington visits screen three server Dames, please, Security Commission Aimes.

Speaker 1 (02:39:06):
Listen to Ames Aimes. You gotta get me to the chief.

Speaker 26 (02:39:09):
Are you Kidding's in the test control room?

Speaker 15 (02:39:11):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (02:39:12):
I know, but get him for me. What's up? You
look lousy or is it a bad circuit? There's no time.
I've got to get him before the test. It's about
the cur ball.

Speaker 47 (02:39:19):
I can't take that responsibility, true, Hank, play what's going
on there?

Speaker 15 (02:39:23):
Ames?

Speaker 1 (02:39:23):
My project has a high enough rating? This is a
priority eight call.

Speaker 6 (02:39:26):
What okay, it's your an ecke.

Speaker 12 (02:39:28):
I'll try to get him for you.

Speaker 47 (02:39:30):
He's in the control room, so you'll have to switch
off your screen and speaker and go on earphones to
what's going on in there?

Speaker 8 (02:39:35):
Security room.

Speaker 1 (02:39:36):
Here, let's Seeve, I've got to cut the incoming.

Speaker 97 (02:39:38):
Screen, all right, you don't try anything eight minutes Hank, Hello, Hello,
what you gottak?

Speaker 1 (02:39:53):
Yes? This is handsome to San Marco. No, sir, priority
request to cancel the test? No, No, I'm serious it's
deadly serious. We sent the X two JTR up today
to the outer limit. We uncovered evidence. Yes, on the
automatic instruments. I was no possible chain reaction. No, I
can't tell you the whole story. There isn't time here. Yes, yes,

(02:40:15):
I'll bring the readings into Washington the morning. You've got
to postpone the test till you see them. Look, I've
worked on contracts with the Commission for ten years. Yes, yes,
I have complete confidence in my information. You can record that.
All right, I'll call you back immediately.

Speaker 15 (02:40:28):
Bye.

Speaker 1 (02:40:31):
Hey, Hey, he's agreed to cancel. Steve, the bomb won't
go off, all right, boy, you can come down.

Speaker 15 (02:40:40):
I'll shoot me.

Speaker 6 (02:40:58):
He's opening up here he comes.

Speaker 1 (02:41:03):
All right, Steve, come on down.

Speaker 26 (02:41:06):
Sure, Hank, that's a second.

Speaker 6 (02:41:09):
Eh, thank you. I was scared. I was plain scared.

Speaker 1 (02:41:18):
He's in the house all over. The bomb won't.

Speaker 15 (02:41:21):
Go off, Thank god.

Speaker 47 (02:41:24):
Look, I want to see Mary and the baby. Can
you get me transportation now?

Speaker 1 (02:41:28):
Well, wait a minute, it's almost twelve. They won't let
you in the hospital.

Speaker 6 (02:41:31):
Now.

Speaker 47 (02:41:31):
I want to see the baby. Sure you do, but
you've been under the strain. I've got a shot for you.

Speaker 35 (02:41:36):
He's Steve, give you a good night sleep all right,
roll up your sleeve.

Speaker 9 (02:41:41):
Yeah yeah, yeah, that'll.

Speaker 6 (02:41:45):
Make you sleep. Roger, we'll find you a bed, yes, sir.
Come on, mister westlm okay, good night, Hank. I'm kind
of beat.

Speaker 47 (02:41:54):
It's been a tough night.

Speaker 6 (02:42:02):
It sure has. I thought for a minute he was
going to blast those rockets and send us all the
kingdom come.

Speaker 1 (02:42:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (02:42:10):
Quite a stunt getting the ray bomb test called off.

Speaker 10 (02:42:13):
It isn't called off, but.

Speaker 1 (02:42:15):
The chief Simes couldn't get the chief I was talking
to a dead circuit. Bomb goes off in a couple
of minutes.

Speaker 6 (02:42:23):
Oh, poor Steve. He was one of the best.

Speaker 1 (02:42:30):
He was the best one and ten million some story of.

Speaker 47 (02:42:35):
His Poor guy. For a while, he almost had me
believing that quarantine. That's a very common delusion, end of
the world.

Speaker 1 (02:42:44):
Yeah, I suppose.

Speaker 6 (02:42:46):
So nice night.

Speaker 1 (02:42:51):
Never saw the stars so bright.

Speaker 6 (02:42:53):
We better be getting in that wind is cold.

Speaker 1 (02:42:58):
Bomb goes off in thirty seconds, Poor Steve will Hanson.

Speaker 6 (02:43:05):
There's just one thing.

Speaker 60 (02:43:07):
Yeah, it's outside my field, but I'm curious. How did
he keep that ship in the air for ten hours
with only ten minutes fuel. You have just heard the

(02:43:36):
outer Limits by Graham Dor An adventure in time, space
and the unknown.

Speaker 90 (02:43:57):
Now about next week? Have you ever heard of the
Mark three, the amazing electronic brain at Harvard that instantly
solves the most complicated scientific problems.

Speaker 1 (02:44:11):
Suppose you had.

Speaker 90 (02:44:12):
A mechanical brain like that in your house, a robot
that was always at your service, so that you could
just sit with folded hands and relax the rest of
your life.

Speaker 6 (02:44:23):
That would be nice, would mean perfect.

Speaker 90 (02:44:26):
That's what they thought when it happened in the year
two thousand and six.

Speaker 6 (02:44:31):
But they were wrong, terribly wrong. How I'll tell you
next week.

Speaker 1 (02:44:41):
Tonight's story transcribed on Di Mansion X. The Outer Limit
by Graham Dorr was adapted for radio by Ernest Cannoy.
Featured and the cast were Joseph Julia and Steve Wendell.
Holmes was Hanked and Jordisatus as Major Donaldson.

Speaker 6 (02:44:57):
Your host is Norman Rawls.

Speaker 1 (02:45:00):
Music was by Albert Berman, sound designed by Simon Rowe.

Speaker 6 (02:45:04):
Edward King directed Tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (02:45:15):
Here's Sam Spade Now It's Truth or Consequences On NBC.

Speaker 98 (02:45:23):
The Strange, Doctor Weird.

Speaker 31 (02:45:33):
Good Evening, Come in, won't you.

Speaker 6 (02:45:40):
By?

Speaker 31 (02:45:40):
What's the murder?

Speaker 35 (02:45:41):
You seem a bit nervous, pale and distraught. Perhaps a
story would help calm your nerves. Yes, delightful little story
about a dead man who acts just as if.

Speaker 31 (02:45:54):
He were alive.

Speaker 6 (02:45:56):
And I know you like it.

Speaker 31 (02:45:58):
I call it he Woke Up Dead.

Speaker 35 (02:46:11):
My story He Woke Up Dead begins with two men
pacing back and forth at the top of a high
cliff overlooking the Pacific. They are John Raymond and his
brother Gregory, a gaunt man in whose eyes gleams a
fanatical fire.

Speaker 99 (02:46:28):
Gregory, the answer is no, you'll ask me for a
one hundred thousand dollars from the Raymond Foundation to spend
on fake yogi's and swammies trying to get in touch
with the dead. Well, you're not getting it much, John.
All my life I've been studying death and what is
in the life beyond, And now with just a little money,
I know I can penetrate its mystery. The Raymond Foundation
would be the laughing stock of the world if it

(02:46:50):
went in for such a crackpot idea.

Speaker 1 (02:46:52):
So do you think I'm a crackpot?

Speaker 99 (02:46:54):
Well, when you die, John, according to father's will, I'll
be head of.

Speaker 1 (02:46:58):
The Raymond Foundation.

Speaker 99 (02:46:59):
Then you'll see I'll turn the whole foundation into a
great research laboratory to study death.

Speaker 15 (02:47:04):
That will never be.

Speaker 99 (02:47:06):
I intend to have the courts change the will so
you'll never be ahead of the foundation.

Speaker 6 (02:47:10):
Gregory.

Speaker 10 (02:47:10):
No, no, you can't.

Speaker 99 (02:47:12):
You're bucking a tremendously important piece of work.

Speaker 1 (02:47:15):
But I won't let us.

Speaker 4 (02:47:16):
So just what can you do about it?

Speaker 6 (02:47:18):
This, John, I can do this, so freak uncle Gregory.

Speaker 99 (02:47:31):
You say father had a dizzy spell and fell from
the cliff before you could catch him.

Speaker 1 (02:47:35):
There's Jake, it happened so first I could do nothing.

Speaker 24 (02:47:38):
But father never got dizzy.

Speaker 21 (02:47:40):
His health was perfect.

Speaker 99 (02:47:42):
The groundkeeper says he saw your push father off the cliff.

Speaker 31 (02:47:44):
Lang's nonsense.

Speaker 6 (02:47:45):
I was trying to catch him, pull him back, Jack.

Speaker 18 (02:47:47):
You know, Uncle Gregory wouldn't do it.

Speaker 99 (02:47:49):
I'm not so sure, Susan. Now, listen to me, both
of you. The colner said your father died accidentally, and
the closes the matter not with me.

Speaker 15 (02:47:56):
It doesn't know.

Speaker 99 (02:47:58):
Well, I am now head of the Raymond Founding, and
I'm going to pour all the resources of the Foundation
into an effort to contact the dead.

Speaker 10 (02:48:05):
Right that's insane.

Speaker 99 (02:48:06):
The foundation scientists from the verge of a cure for
cancer for tuberculosis.

Speaker 10 (02:48:10):
You can't stop that work.

Speaker 6 (02:48:11):
Now I can, and I will.

Speaker 15 (02:48:13):
Oh no, you won't.

Speaker 99 (02:48:14):
He'll stop you somehow because you did murder Dad. You
killed him to get control of the foundation for your
crazy schemes. Set out, got out, both of you, get
out before.

Speaker 36 (02:48:24):
Jackie chipped on the rug his head hit against the fireplace.

Speaker 6 (02:48:28):
Wait see how badly he is hurt?

Speaker 52 (02:48:32):
Jack What is it is?

Speaker 63 (02:48:35):
He is he dead?

Speaker 6 (02:48:38):
Yes, Susan.

Speaker 99 (02:48:40):
All his life, Uncle Gregor has been trying to find
out what happened when you die.

Speaker 9 (02:48:46):
Now now he's going to find out.

Speaker 98 (02:48:54):
Uh, Doctor Weird, Before you give us the second half
of tonight's tale, can you tell me why you're called
doctor Easy?

Speaker 35 (02:49:01):
When people listen to this program, I show them how
to avoid such unhealthy things.

Speaker 31 (02:49:07):
Is being murdered and.

Speaker 6 (02:49:09):
A somehow doctor.

Speaker 98 (02:49:10):
I doubt whether that would cure anybody of anything, especially
a case of nerves. But I like to tell the
men in our audience how to cure something that can
be cured. It's old hat idis being addicted to the
same old weather beaten hat. The only real remedy for
old hat idis is to go out and get yourself
a good new hat or.

Speaker 15 (02:49:31):
Two or three.

Speaker 1 (02:49:32):
Now.

Speaker 98 (02:49:33):
Adam hats are priced so sensibly only three forty five
to ten dollars, you'll easily be able to afford more
than one. Combining distinctively smart styles with fine quality materials
and craftsmanship, Adam hats are a truly outstanding value. You'll
find it more than worth your while to discard your

(02:49:53):
old headpiece for a brand new Adam hat or two
or three.

Speaker 6 (02:49:59):
Now.

Speaker 15 (02:50:00):
Oh, back to doctor.

Speaker 31 (02:50:02):
Weird, and now I'll continue my story. He woke up dead.

Speaker 35 (02:50:11):
When Gregory Raymond returned to consciousness, he was alone in
a great dim room. The thick, cloying scent of flowers
was heavy in the air. Startled, he saw at the
other end of the room three coffins resting on trestles.
One of the coffins was banked with flowers, and tall
candles burned at either end of it. Dazed and bewildered,

(02:50:35):
Gregory Raymond strode toward the three coffins.

Speaker 6 (02:50:38):
This room where am I.

Speaker 9 (02:50:41):
Stinged glass windows?

Speaker 12 (02:50:44):
It's like a church.

Speaker 6 (02:50:46):
It was in this coffin with all the flowers on it.

Speaker 9 (02:50:49):
Why the buddy in this coffin is mine?

Speaker 1 (02:50:53):
No, No, it's impossible.

Speaker 10 (02:50:56):
I'm not dead.

Speaker 87 (02:50:57):
I can't be you, mushad be up set, mister. Most
of us fear that way at first.

Speaker 8 (02:51:04):
Uh, yes we did, but it will pass soon.

Speaker 31 (02:51:08):
W Who are you turning?

Speaker 35 (02:51:11):
Gregory Raymond was astounded to see dim figures coming toward
him from the shadows, A man and a woman, both
very old. They smiled at him sympathetically.

Speaker 87 (02:51:22):
I I am Joshua Benching. This is my wife, Nellie.
These are our bodies I in these other two coffins.

Speaker 1 (02:51:31):
I I don't understand.

Speaker 87 (02:51:33):
Oh you will look here in this coffin. H see
it's my body.

Speaker 15 (02:51:40):
Isn't it.

Speaker 9 (02:51:40):
It looks just like you.

Speaker 10 (02:51:43):
It is me, It it be earthly me.

Speaker 38 (02:51:46):
I mean.

Speaker 87 (02:51:46):
Oh, and now this one is Nellie.

Speaker 61 (02:51:51):
You mustn't be so upset. You'll soon be used to
the idea.

Speaker 12 (02:51:57):
We're we're really bad, all three of us.

Speaker 87 (02:52:01):
Why, of course, you died yesterday morning. You slipped and
fell and hit your head.

Speaker 1 (02:52:08):
Yes, yes, I remember.

Speaker 87 (02:52:11):
It's taken you until now to well to become aware
of things again.

Speaker 37 (02:52:17):
Death is a great shock, you know.

Speaker 6 (02:52:20):
But where am I? What is this place?

Speaker 87 (02:52:23):
And this is the mortuary chapel at the cemetery. They're
becoming for your body soon to bury it.

Speaker 61 (02:52:31):
Joshua and I were killed two nights ago in anrutal accident,
but they aren't going to bury us until tomorrow.

Speaker 99 (02:52:40):
I I never dream death would be like this one.
Why I can still see and here I can breathe,
my heart still.

Speaker 10 (02:52:47):
Be Oh not really.

Speaker 87 (02:52:48):
You're used to those things, so they let you think
there hasn't been much.

Speaker 1 (02:52:53):
Change until you've had a chance.

Speaker 10 (02:52:55):
To get over your shock.

Speaker 15 (02:52:56):
They who do you mean?

Speaker 8 (02:52:58):
The ones in charge?

Speaker 13 (02:52:59):
You'll know more about them soon that mister.

Speaker 87 (02:53:02):
Benedict will be coming for us, and I expect he'll
take you long too.

Speaker 6 (02:53:08):
Mister Benedict, who's he?

Speaker 53 (02:53:10):
The guide?

Speaker 61 (02:53:12):
He stopped by last night? Just tell us not to
worry and to wait for him.

Speaker 8 (02:53:17):
Here.

Speaker 63 (02:53:18):
He'll take us to well, to the place where we
go next.

Speaker 9 (02:53:23):
I I see.

Speaker 8 (02:53:25):
The sh change coming.

Speaker 87 (02:53:28):
Come come back here out of the way.

Speaker 1 (02:53:33):
Four men and Jack and Susan.

Speaker 61 (02:53:35):
Oh, they've come to take your body away to bury it.

Speaker 99 (02:53:39):
Alright, men may get easy now that's it all lift together.

Speaker 15 (02:53:46):
No, No, they can't bury me.

Speaker 6 (02:53:47):
I'm not dead.

Speaker 15 (02:53:48):
I I can't be.

Speaker 40 (02:53:49):
Jack, Susan, listen to me.

Speaker 53 (02:53:51):
It's Gregory, you uncle Gregory.

Speaker 61 (02:53:55):
Thank god they didn't hear me, because you're dead. The
dead can't communicate with the living.

Speaker 24 (02:54:03):
It just isn't possible.

Speaker 10 (02:54:05):
But it must be.

Speaker 99 (02:54:06):
Oh, my life, I've worked to establish such communication. No, now,
I have so much to tell the world, the people
I've worked with.

Speaker 1 (02:54:13):
I must find some way to communicate with him.

Speaker 18 (02:54:15):
I must, I must.

Speaker 9 (02:54:17):
Are you ready?

Speaker 87 (02:54:18):
H you're feeling better, mister Raymond.

Speaker 12 (02:54:21):
This is mister Bennydict.

Speaker 8 (02:54:23):
He's come for us.

Speaker 31 (02:54:25):
Yes, it is time.

Speaker 6 (02:54:28):
We must go, but I can't go.

Speaker 99 (02:54:30):
I've got to tell people, the people I work with.
I've worked so hard to find the truth.

Speaker 40 (02:54:36):
And no, no.

Speaker 10 (02:54:37):
I may not be.

Speaker 9 (02:54:38):
There can be no communication.

Speaker 31 (02:54:42):
Now, mister Benson, missus Benson.

Speaker 6 (02:54:44):
Yes, it's time.

Speaker 87 (02:54:45):
Oh, yes, mister bennydicck We're ready. But mister Raymond here
is coming with us, isn't he.

Speaker 9 (02:54:52):
It is impossible. He is doomed to stay here on earth.

Speaker 6 (02:54:56):
What do you mean?

Speaker 15 (02:54:58):
What are you saying?

Speaker 99 (02:54:59):
That is your punishment to remain forever a spirit that
moves unseen and unheard among men. It is the punishment
of all who murder and die, unrepentant and unconfessed.

Speaker 8 (02:55:13):
No, he he's a murderer. I can't believe it.

Speaker 6 (02:55:17):
That is not for me to say.

Speaker 31 (02:55:19):
Come, we must be going.

Speaker 6 (02:55:21):
No, wait, you've got to take me with you.

Speaker 99 (02:55:23):
I can't stand it being here, seeing, hearing as if
I were alive and not able to make anybody see.

Speaker 96 (02:55:28):
Or hear me.

Speaker 10 (02:55:30):
I have to go with you. I have to find
out what comes next. It may not be, but you've.

Speaker 15 (02:55:34):
Got to take me.

Speaker 99 (02:55:35):
If I confess, If I repent, will.

Speaker 18 (02:55:38):
Then make a difference.

Speaker 31 (02:55:39):
It may I cannot promise.

Speaker 1 (02:55:41):
Then I do confess.

Speaker 10 (02:55:43):
I kill my brother John.

Speaker 15 (02:55:44):
I pushed him off the cliff.

Speaker 99 (02:55:46):
I'm sorry now, but it seems so important then that
I just had to do it. You are confessing to
your brother's murder.

Speaker 25 (02:55:52):
Yes, yes, I killed him, I admitted.

Speaker 21 (02:55:54):
Don't take me with you.

Speaker 8 (02:55:55):
You can't leave me here.

Speaker 99 (02:55:56):
You can't Reverymond, listen to me. You want to arrest
for murder and under arrest for murder?

Speaker 15 (02:56:02):
What what do you say?

Speaker 5 (02:56:04):
I'm dead, You're all dead.

Speaker 99 (02:56:06):
You're not dead, You're very much alive, and you're under arrest.
These two people are witnesses to your confession.

Speaker 1 (02:56:11):
Now come along with me.

Speaker 18 (02:56:12):
Now, you can't arrest me.

Speaker 25 (02:56:14):
Don't you understand you can't arrest a dead man and
I'm dead.

Speaker 31 (02:56:29):
Was Gregory Raymond dead? How was he alive?

Speaker 78 (02:56:33):
Well?

Speaker 31 (02:56:33):
The doctors said he was alive.

Speaker 35 (02:56:35):
For you see, when his nephew found that the fall
had only knocked Gregory unconscious, a strange scheme came to him,
and with the aid of three coffins and three clever
wax dummies that looked exactly like corpters, plus several excellent actors,
he really made his uncle Gregory believe he was dead.
In fact, Gregory became so convinced of it that when

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they gold he was really alive, he wouldn't believe them.
Till this day nothing can convince him he isn't really dead.
It's probably the strangest punishment a murderer ever hanged.

Speaker 6 (02:57:15):
So I didn't know.

Speaker 35 (02:57:16):
Another man who would. Oh, you have to go, Perhaps
you'll let in again soon. Just look for the house
on the other side of the cemetery, the house of
doctor Weird.

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Speaker 9 (02:58:26):
The creaking door.

Speaker 101 (02:58:30):
M hmm, good evening, friends of the creaking door. The
creaking doors, So do gaby.

Speaker 9 (02:58:55):
Lie the force. Listening to the stream noises coming from
a badn't did it worry you?

Speaker 35 (02:59:06):
It's merely the articulation of the worried corpse. He finds
that he cannot enter injury. Spirit of the thing.

Speaker 12 (02:59:31):
Moved in world crimes.

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Speaker 15 (03:00:03):
He probab you.

Speaker 29 (03:00:04):
If the move that the are at.

Speaker 37 (03:00:05):
You can gay.

Speaker 77 (03:00:09):
Move and world God get the date of mood edit
brows three fives today.

Speaker 6 (03:00:23):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 35 (03:00:37):
In the mournful churchyard, the friends gather in the fog
to mourn a dead man, and organ drones over the scene.
The coffin is lowered into the earth, and the sad
mourners don't even watch each other. It is a day
of truce. But who would have thought his heart was

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so bad here he would have thought you and listened
to us all Carlor could be any one of us.

Speaker 9 (03:01:13):
And if you died of violence, I could have understood it.

Speaker 21 (03:01:16):
That cop Inspector's sharp.

Speaker 13 (03:01:18):
He's watching you, rat.

Speaker 9 (03:01:21):
Don't you show me respect that day?

Speaker 17 (03:01:23):
Like this?

Speaker 21 (03:01:24):
It's coming over.

Speaker 35 (03:01:28):
All right, Carlor and I inspector shop happy happy. Butch
was a good friend of mine.

Speaker 9 (03:01:36):
Carl, that is your biggest enemy.

Speaker 6 (03:01:38):
And you know it.

Speaker 21 (03:01:39):
What a thing to say.

Speaker 9 (03:01:41):
If you killed him, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
It's a lie if I've never done it. I was fraying.

Speaker 12 (03:01:46):
Oh, I know he's did.

Speaker 15 (03:01:47):
It's natural.

Speaker 9 (03:01:48):
Doctor Walla says so, and everything he says is true.

Speaker 2 (03:01:51):
That's right.

Speaker 21 (03:01:52):
He sat because.

Speaker 9 (03:01:54):
Yeah, you've got no grounds for suspicion. Unfortunately you're around me,
and you got it.

Speaker 6 (03:02:01):
I'm off now.

Speaker 9 (03:02:02):
The top Seaqueeze is over. Tops se Queeze is the
feeler rights Dolby so suspicious red By. Yeah, have another

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drop of Bumby color.

Speaker 35 (03:02:37):
Diortification not but I wish that on any matter. I
can't say the opportunity will be missed.

Speaker 21 (03:02:43):
Nobody could say that.

Speaker 35 (03:02:45):
I think of the things he controlled, Hey, all the
best records, gambling machines that race, peck, cookies, protection and cups.

Speaker 9 (03:02:52):
They do say it was spot of drug running.

Speaker 21 (03:02:54):
He got two big boats.

Speaker 35 (03:02:56):
Yeah, and all the mobsters in the city will be
running around like dogs looking for the master.

Speaker 9 (03:03:01):
I can't imagine if I was your.

Speaker 21 (03:03:03):
Master, that'll be the most read But you ain't.

Speaker 9 (03:03:06):
That's right, But I could be a big governor of
the whole scene.

Speaker 6 (03:03:10):
Carl You used to know.

Speaker 10 (03:03:13):
Butch, will you?

Speaker 24 (03:03:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 21 (03:03:15):
I knew in since he was kids.

Speaker 9 (03:03:17):
Tell me it would be second and again, I mean
after but.

Speaker 21 (03:03:22):
Black called kinkish check tap in a fight.

Speaker 15 (03:03:26):
Uh huhm us is he? I wonder?

Speaker 86 (03:03:40):
H yeah, hey, yeah at you Yeah, I don't want me.

Speaker 102 (03:04:05):
Just a friend, it's all we are.

Speaker 9 (03:04:45):
Okay, h there, Charlie. How about that? Then you've got
properly snook and ripe, Charlie. And you ain't the only
one either.

Speaker 15 (03:04:59):
You mean the old Butch in mob at.

Speaker 35 (03:05:02):
Could be boy and look Butts died from natural causes
and justus Jack was shot by an unknown tailor who
wants that mob now?

Speaker 15 (03:05:11):
Eh? No, I'd rather play this game with.

Speaker 35 (03:05:17):
Oh, we don't keep racketeering up for every boy and
that's the mistake people make.

Speaker 9 (03:05:21):
They don't know when they're bad enough.

Speaker 35 (03:05:24):
The way I see it, Tean up in a year
or two goes with Bahama or something like that.

Speaker 9 (03:05:32):
What do you say.

Speaker 103 (03:05:34):
Nobody ever quits the records never. Everybody knows too much now.
They don't quit unless they go the way. Butch In went, well,
can you check company by the way? Oh, that's the signal,
must be the cops.

Speaker 15 (03:05:49):
They're on their way.

Speaker 35 (03:05:50):
I don't worry, boy, they can be on their way.
They got nothing on me. He Inspector gets Jack was
killed last night. Read so I see it from the paper.

Speaker 9 (03:06:03):
Why you didn't have anything to do with it? Did
you ask for whatever? Can you mean, Inspective? We got
no motive early his rackets any read, you started something
I'm going to finish. I won't have violence in the city.
I'm a peace loving man, Inspector.

Speaker 37 (03:06:21):
He got me all wrong.

Speaker 9 (03:06:22):
Honest, you have, mister sharp.

Speaker 35 (03:06:23):
Read you will end up in jail for life or
face downwards in a gutter and I laugh. Believe me,
understand this red break the piece of the city and
you'll be destroyed.

Speaker 9 (03:06:36):
That's a threat, Inspector.

Speaker 35 (03:06:37):
I don't have to threaten a rat like you, your
own kind of destroy you.

Speaker 9 (03:06:43):
Did you know that butchers? He left a lot of money. No, besides,
I wouldn't touch that kind of money. Maybe you wouldn't
or couldn't somebody else.

Speaker 35 (03:06:52):
There was an opinion he said to positive box being
cleaned had nothing to do with it. Over fifty thousand
quid Come on the wind.

Speaker 6 (03:07:00):
Ask me.

Speaker 9 (03:07:01):
Yeah, I fancy that.

Speaker 15 (03:07:04):
That's right.

Speaker 35 (03:07:04):
And the old underworld we'll be looking for it. Oh,
cash red and either the butchersn't.

Speaker 9 (03:07:10):
Sleeping so sadly about it? What do you mean they
tell me that his ghost has been seen, that's all red.

Speaker 6 (03:07:31):
Color.

Speaker 9 (03:07:32):
I'll tell you I don't feel safe even in my
own flesh.

Speaker 37 (03:07:35):
That's all nonsense.

Speaker 24 (03:07:36):
Read.

Speaker 21 (03:07:37):
There's no Speaker's ghost.

Speaker 2 (03:07:38):
Everybody knows.

Speaker 9 (03:07:39):
I don't know it.

Speaker 21 (03:07:40):
I have another drink, read.

Speaker 35 (03:07:42):
Right, Yes, I will look. When I was in Carmore jail,
there was a ghostly cell. The door used to swing
open when there was nobody there. He couldn't lock it
or nothing.

Speaker 10 (03:07:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (03:07:53):
I believe in ghosts, all right, Yeah.

Speaker 37 (03:07:55):
But not ghosts of bloats like Butcher Hennessey.

Speaker 35 (03:07:58):
I do I tell you if there's ghosts of old
geezers with their heads cut off? Why not of a
smart boy like Butcher would be looking for red.

Speaker 6 (03:08:09):
Revenge.

Speaker 35 (03:08:10):
That's what revenge for the death of Kentish Jack color. Now, look,
they say all his money's gone where That's what I
want to know.

Speaker 15 (03:08:18):
Who's got it?

Speaker 21 (03:08:19):
Is it a lot?

Speaker 15 (03:08:20):
Right?

Speaker 9 (03:08:20):
And the copper sharp says it's fifty thousand quid. Any
mob would go after that kind of money.

Speaker 21 (03:08:26):
Where would that much money vanished?

Speaker 33 (03:08:28):
That?

Speaker 35 (03:08:28):
I want to find out starting with our late friend
Kentish Jack. Okay, I'm a fair cracksman. I'll take Charlie
and we'll do Jack safe.

Speaker 21 (03:08:38):
But there's nothing there.

Speaker 9 (03:08:40):
Well, there may be some kind of clue.

Speaker 15 (03:08:41):
We'll try it.

Speaker 9 (03:08:41):
Any Jack's places up at the top of our eye building.
I bet nobody's took it over yet. I'll tell you
what we're going to do. We climb the fire escape
and then right now, can I chain? My escape was easy?

Speaker 35 (03:09:12):
Here, we'll shovel and follow me. I got your gun
hit right here, read, I got the talks, the tools,
the lop. Okay, now for the sake, right, we're almost

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to the boy.

Speaker 31 (03:09:52):
It was easy to.

Speaker 9 (03:09:55):
A there. Ah, let's have a look inside.

Speaker 2 (03:10:06):
Nothing can you beat it not a thing?

Speaker 9 (03:10:14):
Well, I didn't expect the cash. But isn't there something
a clue?

Speaker 15 (03:10:19):
But there aren't.

Speaker 104 (03:10:21):
It's not something thing, it's there, it's already all but Hennes,
it's his voice.

Speaker 9 (03:10:32):
It's anywhere. But come out and show yourself.

Speaker 5 (03:10:37):
Are you worried?

Speaker 6 (03:10:38):
Boy?

Speaker 9 (03:10:39):
But look I had nothing to do with you again?

Speaker 6 (03:10:42):
Honest?

Speaker 15 (03:10:43):
Were is he rape?

Speaker 9 (03:10:44):
Shatch?

Speaker 15 (03:10:46):
Nothing?

Speaker 23 (03:10:48):
Are you looking for something?

Speaker 35 (03:10:49):
Boy?

Speaker 8 (03:10:50):
It is again?

Speaker 9 (03:10:51):
That voice is coming from the next blue metal. The
skylight's open.

Speaker 93 (03:10:54):
It will soon find out. Nobody there this is Come
on quick as you like. We'll soon find out if.

Speaker 15 (03:11:09):
He's a ghost.

Speaker 9 (03:11:14):
In a way, Telly, for he ain't a ghost, that's
for sure. But it don't make sense.

Speaker 2 (03:11:18):
You souldh berries hold doc More signed the certificates, right,
And what.

Speaker 9 (03:11:23):
I want to know is this, who was in that
cop And I saw Betty the other day? And there's
only one way to find that out. You mean, have
a look, that's just what I mean.

Speaker 35 (03:11:34):
We'll have to dig up that coffin tomorrow night. Let's
get out here before we get pitched. I don't like it, really,
that was a lovely shot, Charlie.

Speaker 15 (03:11:52):
No, I don't mean that. I mean we're digging up
that corpse.

Speaker 2 (03:11:56):
It's a bad thing to do, disturbing corpses.

Speaker 37 (03:11:59):
And better suggestion, No, I suppose not.

Speaker 9 (03:12:03):
Then play a shot like a good look boy and
leave the thinking to me, will you?

Speaker 15 (03:12:06):
I don't feel like playing reade go on.

Speaker 9 (03:12:09):
I like waiting the whole day.

Speaker 15 (03:12:10):
I'm scared.

Speaker 9 (03:12:11):
Tenure, Well, I'm scared too. I don't like goat, I
never did. I need to get hold of the records
and nothing's going to stop me. Human or in human?

Speaker 6 (03:12:19):
Who you're the boss?

Speaker 9 (03:12:21):
Because I think that's why. Which is alive?

Speaker 6 (03:12:24):
Get it?

Speaker 15 (03:12:25):
He's no ghost? Say why pretend he's dates?

Speaker 35 (03:12:28):
Look, you said a true word the other day, Charlie.
You said villains like us never leave the records because
nobody will let them. And suppose butchersy.

Speaker 9 (03:12:36):
Wants to be the first man to walk out. You
got it on you, rade, say Butcher pretended he was dead?
That way it be the care.

Speaker 6 (03:12:45):
Yeah, well they do.

Speaker 15 (03:12:46):
Was in the coffin you saw buried.

Speaker 9 (03:12:49):
The money child, the lovely money. We want to get
our hands on.

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Speaker 15 (03:13:30):
S mos.

Speaker 77 (03:13:35):
E comment you it's the smoothest big erect you can get.
Move in war crimes, get the taste of new moods.

Speaker 29 (03:13:46):
They expressed three fives today, Will.

Speaker 9 (03:14:08):
Will, Will?

Speaker 32 (03:14:10):
I wonder what we're gangsters will find in the coffin.
Treasure hunting in graves can be very dangerous, you know.
Let's find out what the police want with Charlie and
Red Cheffy.

Speaker 15 (03:14:35):
Yeah, I bet it's a copper sharp?

Speaker 6 (03:14:37):
Well what was he? Now?

Speaker 26 (03:14:39):
Lovely?

Speaker 6 (03:14:41):
My boys?

Speaker 9 (03:14:43):
I inspected why if it isn't mister sharp?

Speaker 35 (03:14:46):
Hey, soone broke into a safe last night?

Speaker 9 (03:14:49):
I thought you'd like to know. Well, I never the
things people do for a few.

Speaker 35 (03:14:52):
Quid, robbers or armed and fire a gun at somebody
or something that's.

Speaker 9 (03:14:56):
A serious charge that is, isn't it? Inspector?

Speaker 35 (03:14:59):
You wouldn't know anything abou about it.

Speaker 6 (03:15:00):
Would you me?

Speaker 9 (03:15:02):
I was home all evening, it wasn't I Charlie?

Speaker 6 (03:15:05):
Oh yes, we was at home.

Speaker 15 (03:15:07):
Anybody at mister Sharp this time.

Speaker 35 (03:15:10):
But I don't like guns, and I don't like soape breakers,
and I didn't tell you that. Both you boys are
in serious trouble. Mister Sharp.

Speaker 9 (03:15:17):
We can't be in much more trouble, can we ask Genes?

Speaker 15 (03:15:21):
He ought to know now he's dating mister Sharp.

Speaker 6 (03:15:23):
Yeah? Do you believe in ghosts? Charlie?

Speaker 15 (03:15:26):
How about the kids inspected?

Speaker 35 (03:15:27):
Now the whisper's gone around, the butcher's.

Speaker 9 (03:15:29):
Come back from the dead, and.

Speaker 35 (03:15:31):
Then you fellas don't believe in ghosts, do you?

Speaker 9 (03:15:34):
So that's all right?

Speaker 15 (03:15:35):
Oh you don't believe in ghosts, mister Sharp.

Speaker 9 (03:15:38):
I don't know, Charlie.

Speaker 6 (03:15:40):
I don't know.

Speaker 9 (03:15:41):
I didn't once.

Speaker 15 (03:15:44):
Enjoy your game. Well he's gone fast enough.

Speaker 9 (03:15:52):
You got to use your head in this record. The
point is why did he come here?

Speaker 6 (03:15:56):
What's you have?

Speaker 15 (03:15:58):
He'd keep good money to put I see in jail.

Speaker 9 (03:16:01):
Well, I'll tell you what I think he gave me.

Speaker 35 (03:16:03):
It's a reckless act, as if nothing happened. Look, I'm
going to see color and we meet tonight.

Speaker 103 (03:16:09):
Okay, okay, Yeah, I wish it was all over read.
I'd rather face a squad of cops in that graveyard tonight.

Speaker 9 (03:16:33):
Hi Carla, how's the girl all right?

Speaker 21 (03:16:35):
Red lack a drink?

Speaker 9 (03:16:37):
Yeah, thanks kidd, anyone been along?

Speaker 21 (03:16:42):
So sit down and relax.

Speaker 35 (03:16:45):
Yeah, I thought that some of them nosy coppers might
have been along. They's inspector Sharp.

Speaker 9 (03:16:48):
Somebody liked that.

Speaker 24 (03:16:49):
Now I'm red, you're just jumpy.

Speaker 35 (03:16:52):
I keep thinking of Fortenancy. I see him in the
streak everywhere. Then you turn around and he isn't there.

Speaker 21 (03:16:58):
How did you see? But we saw him Bury.

Speaker 35 (03:17:01):
I'm not so sure that's the end of them. Look,
you're safe up here in this block of lets. If
you lock the kitchen door, no one can get him
by the fire escape that leaves the front door, and
if you put the chain on it, you have got it.

Speaker 21 (03:17:13):
Bet Oh, Now, are not coming here, silly?

Speaker 8 (03:17:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (03:17:17):
Or maybe they're better safe than sorry. Yeah, you see,
if Butcher's alive, you might come after you.

Speaker 18 (03:17:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 21 (03:17:23):
I suppose you're right.

Speaker 9 (03:17:24):
But what's the.

Speaker 15 (03:17:29):
Cats?

Speaker 24 (03:17:30):
The wind?

Speaker 10 (03:17:30):
Anything?

Speaker 35 (03:17:33):
That noise came from the bedroom? Nobody could be in there. Nobody,
of course not. It's but he's in the bedroom.

Speaker 1 (03:17:45):
Well, I'm going to see.

Speaker 92 (03:17:47):
Yeah there, Why don't you look under the bed?

Speaker 9 (03:17:54):
I'm sorry, Color and jumping. That's all that could have spawned.

Speaker 15 (03:17:58):
Tlue.

Speaker 9 (03:18:00):
Didn't you hear a laugh?

Speaker 21 (03:18:01):
Of course not, I've got I heard a bump.

Speaker 9 (03:18:04):
Yeah, well, let's go back to the living room.

Speaker 21 (03:18:09):
I got ready.

Speaker 9 (03:18:12):
I see a Butcher everywhere, but I don't see him.
I hear him if he ain't the ghosties, minde you
like one?

Speaker 21 (03:18:19):
I didn't hear anything anyway.

Speaker 9 (03:18:22):
I'm going to.

Speaker 35 (03:18:22):
Settle this one way or the other. Tonight, Charlie's coming
with me and we'll dig up Butcher's grave.

Speaker 9 (03:18:28):
I reckon the money?

Speaker 6 (03:18:28):
Is there the money?

Speaker 15 (03:18:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (03:18:31):
Good color. I'm going to.

Speaker 9 (03:18:33):
Spend all the day with out of ency's way. See,
there's something you can do for me, anything at all.

Speaker 15 (03:18:38):
Read you know that.

Speaker 9 (03:18:40):
Take this gun and digit the clip, ammunition and everything.

Speaker 35 (03:18:45):
It's the gun I used to kill Kenner's Jack, and
it's too hard to carry.

Speaker 9 (03:18:50):
Understand.

Speaker 21 (03:18:51):
Whatever you say, Red.

Speaker 9 (03:18:52):
Good, I've got a sort of feeding that somebody's going
to happen. I'll get picked up or something, So drop
it in the river already.

Speaker 21 (03:19:00):
I'll put the gun where no one will ever find it.

Speaker 9 (03:19:03):
Where will you spend the day where no one will
ever find me? Kid better art gallery? So I love
that I dreamboat, but.

Speaker 21 (03:19:19):
But come out now I've gone, Thanks Carla.

Speaker 35 (03:19:28):
Oh, it was a bit clump to that wardrobe. I
had to make a noise, and that was the only
way I didn't expect him today. If he had a
pound me, it would have meant to show down.

Speaker 9 (03:19:38):
Here.

Speaker 35 (03:19:39):
You make a lousy coase, so I don't know. I
grow and crack a very convincingly, Carla. That poor boyo,
he doesn't know if I'm dead or alive.

Speaker 21 (03:19:51):
I've been seeing too much, but genis is a chap.
People don't forget in Harry.

Speaker 10 (03:19:55):
I've still got a fixed up Carla.

Speaker 15 (03:19:58):
I'm dead.

Speaker 9 (03:19:59):
We've pick up that money from the graveyard and scram
that both of us, just you and me.

Speaker 20 (03:20:03):
Sure leave these boyers to look for the ghost.

Speaker 89 (03:20:08):
Quit the rackets.

Speaker 9 (03:20:09):
Come with me overseas, and your life is waiting for us.
I'll invest in legitimate business.

Speaker 21 (03:20:14):
Oki sounds wonderful, But what are the money in your
coffin in the first place?

Speaker 35 (03:20:20):
That makes sense, don't you see? It's in cash, small notes,
negotiable currency. Every racketeer and the place was after it,
or we had to hide it somewhere. Remember what happened
to poor Kentish Jackson.

Speaker 21 (03:20:34):
That's right, did you square?

Speaker 24 (03:20:36):
Doctor?

Speaker 66 (03:20:37):
More?

Speaker 6 (03:20:37):
Sure?

Speaker 35 (03:20:38):
He's signed the death certificate for money? More if you
undertaker too, he worked for money, No, Carla, I've been
seen around. What people think I'm a ghost. I'm the
first man to break clean as a house truth.

Speaker 9 (03:20:51):
With the rackets.

Speaker 21 (03:20:52):
You make it sound wonderful, but it stays that way.

Speaker 10 (03:20:55):
I swear it will.

Speaker 12 (03:20:56):
Everything's fixed.

Speaker 9 (03:20:57):
All we have to do is go to the grave
and dig up that covent.

Speaker 92 (03:21:00):
You better be fast, Irish. Sure, cousin Red's got the
same idea as you know. I wonder what i'd do
without you, baby, This is the place.

Speaker 35 (03:21:33):
Really sure I understand what we do. We're getting that
graveyard and start digging with you.

Speaker 15 (03:21:40):
Rick? That those there for certain? That's it?

Speaker 6 (03:21:49):
Are you sure?

Speaker 37 (03:21:50):
Need?

Speaker 9 (03:21:52):
I don't very did? Didn't I? At least I saw
something very down in this grave. So'sok of the earth.
It's just been turned over.

Speaker 15 (03:21:59):
That's right, it's all loose. Let's start digging.

Speaker 9 (03:22:05):
Now, come on, put your back into it.

Speaker 2 (03:22:07):
You know when I am trying, Mate, what was that?
It was an ol Red, that's all.

Speaker 9 (03:22:14):
But I don't like ours. I don't like this place.
I don't like any of it. It smells wrong with
me somewhere you mean read, I don't know something creepy.
There is something wrong. This earth shovels too easy.

Speaker 15 (03:22:26):
Yeah, well, we'll soon know one way or the other.
That's the coffee and couple. Let's dig it out.

Speaker 9 (03:22:37):
I reckon that will do it. Yeah right, I take
a spade and leave roup with it. There's a fortune
on this for us.

Speaker 35 (03:22:47):
Yeah, yeah, let's see.

Speaker 10 (03:22:53):
What is it?

Speaker 15 (03:22:54):
Read, take a look.

Speaker 76 (03:22:57):
It's fortune's corpse. That Carla, she shot him the money.
We shouldn't have come.

Speaker 5 (03:23:11):
I told you.

Speaker 15 (03:23:12):
The old thing's crazy.

Speaker 21 (03:23:14):
Carla.

Speaker 15 (03:23:15):
We are what are you done with the money?

Speaker 10 (03:23:17):
The money?

Speaker 9 (03:23:18):
But he ain't there not a ship, Carla. I'll get
you around there.

Speaker 10 (03:23:30):
Got you as a sid.

Speaker 9 (03:23:41):
We got you into the cells of last real. Yeah,
what poor were found dropping a grape?

Speaker 35 (03:23:45):
So what got a lot of Explained to the grave
of a criminal who was supposed to have died four
days ago. Our police surgeon says in this he has
been dead for less than six hours.

Speaker 9 (03:23:53):
I never shot him.

Speaker 15 (03:23:54):
It was Carli, you hurt us.

Speaker 35 (03:23:55):
She was at the great argue me that we've got
the automatic farm by the grave side of the fingerprints
on it. It was can't save your breathe it.

Speaker 9 (03:24:01):
To the judge. Look, you know she was by the grave.

Speaker 35 (03:24:04):
You must have been following her for days, Otherwise that
would you have been by the grave side.

Speaker 9 (03:24:08):
I told her everything.

Speaker 35 (03:24:10):
Now you're trying to pray me for shooting Butcher. You're
on Red Carlo's confess to shooting Butcher. We are holding
you on a charge of murdering Kenty's Jack, otherwise known
as John Garcid.

Speaker 9 (03:24:19):
I'll be seeing you. Rotten got a good get this time.

Speaker 8 (03:24:28):
I saw your corks.

Speaker 12 (03:24:30):
This time you must be a real ga.

Speaker 6 (03:24:58):
Will Will.

Speaker 105 (03:25:00):
How confusing for poor Red and his friend Charlie. However,
the confusion will soon be resolved after they pay the penalty.

Speaker 9 (03:25:14):
Once they've made the big drop, the four of them, Kinti's.

Speaker 35 (03:25:19):
Jack, Colors Red and Charlie will all be meeting here.

Speaker 9 (03:25:26):
Behind the creaking or.

Speaker 6 (03:25:56):
Were gone yet.

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Speaker 82 (03:26:55):
This is your host back again, just to remind of
a roundezble next week where the weakering.

Speaker 15 (03:27:06):
Through the creek oak courts.

Speaker 100 (03:27:17):
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Speaker 75 (03:28:05):
Time, the silent herald of life and death, success or failure,
the unseen force that measures man's destiny, reaching its most
faithful moment as it slowly strikes the eleventh hour. It

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wouldn't have happened if Janet hadn't been in such a
filthy temper. Now, let's be fair, if we both haven't
been in such a filty temper. We always drove down
to our cottage near Aylesbury on Saturday night after the show,
for we both had long parts in the play and
felt if we needed the weekend in the country. The
play Murder Without Motive had been running for twelve months,

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and well, maybe he was getting us down a bit anyway,
that particular Saturday, Janet wanted to go on to a
party and I didn't. We spent most of the evening
arguing about it. We both got more and more stubborn.
The result was that we finished up by going to
the party, which didn't please me, and leaving it after

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an hour, which didn't please Janet. And because we were
so busy slanging each other, I forgot to fill up
with petrol before we left London.

Speaker 18 (03:29:47):
Need to drive quite so fast, Michael.

Speaker 15 (03:29:49):
Well, we've wasted enough time as it is.

Speaker 18 (03:29:51):
Oh rubbish. Were we at the cottage by.

Speaker 15 (03:29:53):
Three, we'd have been there by two a few years.

Speaker 30 (03:29:55):
But if we hadn't gone to the party, all right,
the amount of time was stayed, might just as well
have not gone at all.

Speaker 18 (03:30:02):
Now I suppose you'll moan about it for the whole weekend.

Speaker 15 (03:30:04):
Well, if you will persist in being so bad, temporarily bad.

Speaker 30 (03:30:08):
But you've done nothing but salt all the way from
town while the part look like a regular crape head
and it.

Speaker 15 (03:30:14):
Was dally and I was born so it wasn't very bright,
is that, Michael? So you would insist on going?

Speaker 75 (03:30:20):
Well, I thought Seligman might be there yes, and you
wanted to try and talk him into giving you a
part in his new film.

Speaker 18 (03:30:26):
But what's wrong with that? Oh, don't tell me you're
getting jealous.

Speaker 75 (03:30:30):
We're not bad hard enough for work it. In fact,
there's no need for you to want to talk for
a while. Why did you have a risk and.

Speaker 18 (03:30:36):
Start raising a family? I've told you I'll think about it.

Speaker 15 (03:30:40):
Yes, let's as far as you get.

Speaker 18 (03:30:46):
Michael. You took that corner much too.

Speaker 15 (03:30:48):
I know what I'm doing, and so do I.

Speaker 18 (03:30:51):
You're just being pigheaded. Now slow down for this one.

Speaker 6 (03:30:54):
Slow down, Michael, haven't you any Michael what?

Speaker 75 (03:31:18):
It wasn't my fault, but it served me right because
I was going too fast. The big lorry was slewed
three parts of the way across the lake. Quite evidently
I wasn't the only one who'd taken the corner too First,
we hit the rear of it with a glancing blow,
shot up the bank and down again, and pulled up
in the middle of the lane some thirty yards further off.

Speaker 40 (03:31:42):
You are, darling, Yes, I'm all right.

Speaker 15 (03:31:45):
It wasn't your fault, and I thought, both of you,
what's biting you? The accident wasn't outfault, are you getting out?

Speaker 6 (03:31:53):
Pull you look here, movey, hold audio, take your hands
off me?

Speaker 15 (03:31:59):
Or you want You've got to come and tell you.

Speaker 1 (03:32:02):
And then he carried out, what's the idea?

Speaker 40 (03:32:04):
Turried out?

Speaker 1 (03:32:04):
I said, I'll do with it.

Speaker 15 (03:32:06):
He's that you want me to?

Speaker 18 (03:32:07):
I said, I'll do with it.

Speaker 1 (03:32:08):
I get back to the lorrie.

Speaker 75 (03:32:12):
The big o reluctantly released me and slouched off, leaving
me wondering with the right and have a broken neck.
In another couple of seconds, and as I tried to
message some feeling back into my shoulder, I watched the
second man weird a. He he was a tough, hard
face took me to be doing, but at least he
didn't try to turn into two pieces.

Speaker 46 (03:32:32):
You've had a lucky escape, Yes, so it seems one
way and another. You took that corner too first. Yes,
and it looks as if you did just the same
a few minutes earlier. That's right, Oh, I think we'd
both better forget about it, don't you.

Speaker 75 (03:32:46):
Well, that's the thought. He's your lolly dammage and nothing
that a lick of paint one put right. Well, we've
only deered the mud god. So in that case, we'll
get going again.

Speaker 1 (03:32:58):
Yes, you do that.

Speaker 18 (03:33:00):
Your friend's a bit primitive, isn't it.

Speaker 1 (03:33:02):
You're being funnier, just being nosy.

Speaker 18 (03:33:04):
Oh you're a bit touchy as well, I.

Speaker 6 (03:33:06):
Think so.

Speaker 46 (03:33:08):
I wouldn't be too curious if I were you, lady.

Speaker 6 (03:33:11):
I don Jemmy don't want any more trouble.

Speaker 18 (03:33:22):
They are not tuble.

Speaker 6 (03:33:23):
I'm very I could think of other descriptions as well.

Speaker 18 (03:33:27):
I noticed you weren't anxious to linger, Are you kidding?

Speaker 15 (03:33:31):
Didn't you notice what the large gentleman had in his hand?

Speaker 18 (03:33:34):
No, I couldn't see.

Speaker 15 (03:33:35):
It was a crush.

Speaker 18 (03:33:37):
Well, I'm not altogether surprised. The other one kept his
hand in his right pocket all the.

Speaker 15 (03:33:41):
Time he was talking to him, as he probably had
a gun there.

Speaker 18 (03:33:43):
That's what I thought.

Speaker 15 (03:33:45):
And yet you started baiting.

Speaker 18 (03:33:47):
I wanted to see whether he call it.

Speaker 75 (03:33:50):
And we're not on the stage now. When people pull
guns in real life, they're loaded and not real blanks.

Speaker 30 (03:33:55):
Sorry, Michael, I've got used to that kind of scene
in murder without motive, there's there.

Speaker 75 (03:34:01):
I just try to remember that in this case. They
haven't got to stick to the dialogue. About three and
those sort of chaps start and libbing. The guns have
to get rough.

Speaker 18 (03:34:09):
Yes, you're right, and that being the case. Suppose you
turn off to the left just along there.

Speaker 15 (03:34:16):
Then the car track. Why because it is a car.

Speaker 18 (03:34:18):
Track and it's too narrow for the lorry.

Speaker 8 (03:34:20):
To come down it.

Speaker 15 (03:34:21):
The lorry have they stopped soon after us?

Speaker 18 (03:34:25):
They're just around the next bend and coming pretty fast.

Speaker 6 (03:34:29):
In that case, I think we have the lights out. Oh,
this track's been bumping.

Speaker 18 (03:34:34):
Better than a bump from the lorry. M.

Speaker 30 (03:34:37):
I think this is far enough, right, M see anything
just a minute. They've just gone past the end of
the track. They're going straight on without stopping. Yes, it's

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all right.

Speaker 15 (03:35:06):
We sat in the car and smoke to let them
get well out of the way.

Speaker 75 (03:35:11):
Janet cooked her little finger and linked it in mine,
a sign that peace had been restored, and the dad
came from both sides.

Speaker 18 (03:35:18):
Has gone Mickey, MM, what do you think they're up to? M?

Speaker 75 (03:35:23):
No, maybe nothing. Oh, perhaps we're letting our imaginations run right.
The place has been running too long. I'm thinking too much,
like Detective Inspector Morton.

Speaker 30 (03:35:34):
Possibly, yeah, I don't know. After all of we didn't
actually see the gun. You didn't imagine the cash that's true,
Mary Laurie. Divers don't go around cashing people just because
they nearly had an accident.

Speaker 75 (03:35:47):
There's something phony about them and dangerous. Oh well, and
if they're out of the way, now shall we go right?

Speaker 18 (03:36:00):
Well, what's wrong?

Speaker 6 (03:36:01):
Why?

Speaker 18 (03:36:01):
What it's done?

Speaker 15 (03:36:02):
I'm afraid it's not that lucky evening?

Speaker 18 (03:36:04):
Oh no, don't tell me. I forgot to fill the tank.

Speaker 15 (03:36:07):
I'm afraid. So I'm sorry dying tanks burnt dry?

Speaker 18 (03:36:09):
And what about the reserve tank?

Speaker 75 (03:36:11):
Well, I switched over to reserve coming through Uxbridge, I
thought i'd make that all night garage at Emersham.

Speaker 18 (03:36:16):
Oh there's another one more than that.

Speaker 15 (03:36:18):
Yes, well, I have to walk down to it and
borrow it.

Speaker 18 (03:36:20):
Thin, I'll come with you.

Speaker 15 (03:36:22):
Well, isn't it. Do you stay here and rest?

Speaker 6 (03:36:24):
No?

Speaker 18 (03:36:24):
Thank you?

Speaker 30 (03:36:26):
I know the lorry did go that, but all the
saying I don't fancy sitting here on my own.

Speaker 18 (03:36:31):
I'm not in the mood for admiring the beauties of nature.

Speaker 15 (03:36:34):
Perhaps you're right, Come on, then, of the gallows you're thinking?
Honest the crossroad, isn't it?

Speaker 18 (03:36:40):
Yes, but I've just realized there'll be closed.

Speaker 15 (03:36:42):
We'll have to knock them up.

Speaker 75 (03:36:44):
Come on, darling, beast foot forward. Yes, we've got twenty
minutes walk ahead of us. It took us twenty five.
Janet was quite right. The garage was they're.

Speaker 18 (03:37:02):
Probably in bed.

Speaker 75 (03:37:03):
Well, we must get some petrol somehow. I'll waive a
couple of quid if you get the child. I don't
think anyone I'm going to knock until they do wake up.

Speaker 15 (03:37:15):
You see, I'm sorry to disturb you, but we're in
a bit of difficulty.

Speaker 40 (03:37:19):
We're not telling me anybody.

Speaker 15 (03:37:20):
Now, Well, if you could just let us have our.

Speaker 6 (03:37:23):
Take, Yes, I know.

Speaker 15 (03:37:27):
How do you like bedfast service?

Speaker 18 (03:37:28):
Come on, all right, darling, we must have some petrol.
You won't get anybody shouting at him if he doesn't
have to open up. Come on, let me burn the back.

Speaker 15 (03:37:40):
Yes, that's an idea, and I find it tin somewhere
we can leave the money for it.

Speaker 18 (03:37:45):
Yes, come on, let's go along the fence here.

Speaker 15 (03:37:48):
Look there's a light in that garage. You can see
it on the closed door.

Speaker 2 (03:37:55):
At all.

Speaker 18 (03:37:57):
Somebody's up, that's certain.

Speaker 15 (03:37:58):
So we'll get our petrol.

Speaker 18 (03:38:00):
Darling. There's something odd about this, just.

Speaker 15 (03:38:03):
A silly bunch of uhcles, that's all I'll give him.
A knock on these doors.

Speaker 18 (03:38:09):
Oh, nicky, please, let's go quickly. Never mind the picture,
it doesn't matter. I feel something awful's going to happen.

Speaker 15 (03:38:19):
Well it's about Oh you would get down mood, mister,
or I'll let you have it. I'm yes.

Speaker 40 (03:38:28):
So we've got but visitors.

Speaker 46 (03:38:32):
Well, well it isn't our nosy friends from up the road,
so you wouldn't take a hint, eh, And I'll give
it to them now, not yet. I've got to hand
it to you, Lennie. You were right for once.

Speaker 15 (03:38:49):
You should have knocked him all back up the road. Sure,
that's what I said.

Speaker 46 (03:38:52):
Well it doesn't make any difference. We can soon remedy
our little error. Step inside, friends, learn what happens to snoopers.

Speaker 75 (03:39:43):
Mac's invitation wasn't the kind I welcome, but there wasn't
any choice about it. As soon as we stepped inside
the garage. Then he pushed the big door shut. The
big Lotty was there quite obviously undergo in considerable alterations.
I'd read in the newspapers of the lorries and their

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cargos which had been disappearing from the Great North Road.
Now I knew just how they disappeared. I wondered what
had happened to the real lorry driver in his mate
looking at Lenny with the tire lever in his hand,
I didn't have to wonder very hard. I tried to
think of something else. It wasn't headed pleasant by the

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thought there was a third man in the garage. He
of course would be the garage our now, the man
who didn't want to sell us any petrol. Understandable under
the circumstances.

Speaker 46 (03:40:38):
Well, you satisfied your curiosity. We'll get on with the business.

Speaker 15 (03:40:44):
Now.

Speaker 46 (03:40:44):
Well I haven't who are these people met? The bumped
into us on the road further up. They had that chance,
they had to come following.

Speaker 18 (03:40:52):
Us, but we didn't.

Speaker 46 (03:40:53):
We only shot up that stand A woman scorking.

Speaker 86 (03:40:57):
I was only trying to tell you, I'm trying to
get it anything, now, you what the boss said?

Speaker 46 (03:41:02):
No, look, Sonny, don't try and play the little hero.

Speaker 15 (03:41:06):
Oh you get hurt soul?

Speaker 17 (03:41:09):
Was she?

Speaker 46 (03:41:09):
But my wife, Chi'll do the talking, mister, all right,
time up, Lenny, I.

Speaker 9 (03:41:15):
Am Look, he'll be easier a bat, I said.

Speaker 46 (03:41:19):
Tie him up. I don't want to mark. Tie their
hands behind their backs with that cord.

Speaker 15 (03:41:24):
Alright, all I guessed as you say.

Speaker 75 (03:41:34):
It almost seemed like the third act of the play.
I put my hands behind me, as I done every
night for twelve months. But as the chords bit into
my wrists, I knew that this was grim reality, no
escape guaranteed by a fourth He made it doubly frightening.

Speaker 46 (03:41:52):
That'll do fine, Lenny, right now, sit down on those algens,
both of them.

Speaker 15 (03:41:58):
I'll fend what didn't just sit down before, Lenny.

Speaker 46 (03:42:05):
Lenny, you're always so impetuous. What petuous you'll have to
excuse my friend? He finds words are more than one syllable,
a bit difficult. He's a man of action, that's right.
Perhaps you've gathered that by now. I don't knock him about, Lenny,
unless you have to know what you know.

Speaker 15 (03:42:27):
I'll never do. I never do, but some people just
never learn.

Speaker 46 (03:42:32):
I think he's got the idea. Now, you are right,
he's all right, just if it's shaken. He's learning the
hard way.

Speaker 18 (03:42:40):
My wrists.

Speaker 40 (03:42:41):
The gods are hurting bad mind.

Speaker 46 (03:42:45):
It won't be for long. As soon where's your car?
Hets up the road. We came down here. I don't
want the story of your life. He just answered my questions.
That's all you get it? Oh learning, Wow, get in
the car in the back hold of him. You can

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take us the way you left your car. Hey, wait,
wait a wait a minute, what are you gonna do?
No need be you don't worry, but Lenny and I
will look after these two. Yeah, now that's what I
want to know. You just get cracking and fixed on lurry.

Speaker 40 (03:43:20):
Look, I'm asking you, asking asking you what Max said?

Speaker 15 (03:43:24):
Didn't you?

Speaker 40 (03:43:25):
Don't you try to rough me Lenny or you'll be
ry buddy? Oh claw, sorry, we'll be sorry. I could
break you in two hight down.

Speaker 1 (03:43:35):
But knows we've got to have his cooperation.

Speaker 6 (03:43:38):
Are you better?

Speaker 8 (03:43:38):
I do?

Speaker 1 (03:43:39):
Just keep remembering that right, all right, No sense in quarreling.

Speaker 15 (03:43:44):
You ought to know.

Speaker 46 (03:43:44):
We can't let these two go.

Speaker 1 (03:43:46):
They send your garage.

Speaker 6 (03:43:46):
You know what are they are?

Speaker 1 (03:43:47):
But I'm not haven't anything to do with murder.

Speaker 33 (03:43:49):
Nobody asked you to no when I know enough about
the Lord, I know that if you and Lenny knock
him off, I'm for it as well.

Speaker 40 (03:43:57):
I'm not letting myself hoping to take any eight o'clock
walk with the.

Speaker 1 (03:44:00):
Indire You don't want to worry.

Speaker 15 (03:44:02):
You know you'd never be up inside.

Speaker 12 (03:44:06):
Yeah, you recon clanny, but you're.

Speaker 6 (03:44:07):
Not going to do it.

Speaker 18 (03:44:09):
Look, we promise not to say anything.

Speaker 1 (03:44:11):
Play in the bag and I can't keep quiet.

Speaker 40 (03:44:12):
But don't you think I've got to attender you as we's.

Speaker 15 (03:44:15):
No good Janet?

Speaker 40 (03:44:19):
He learns quick and get in the front and the
hell driver.

Speaker 15 (03:44:23):
Okay, I listen to me.

Speaker 40 (03:44:24):
Make you tried that car in here, and I'll pick
up the fire.

Speaker 6 (03:44:27):
You'll pick up the phone.

Speaker 40 (03:44:29):
Already, I'll handle it.

Speaker 1 (03:44:33):
Look, pert, you've got.

Speaker 46 (03:44:35):
It all wrong.

Speaker 1 (03:44:37):
Nobody said anything about murder, said said.

Speaker 46 (03:44:40):
We can't let them go, so they'll have to be
an accident.

Speaker 15 (03:44:46):
What kind of an accident?

Speaker 1 (03:44:49):
I think their car is going to catch fire? And
catch fire?

Speaker 15 (03:44:56):
Well, to be sure, you can fix it to look
like an ex.

Speaker 46 (03:45:00):
Of course we can.

Speaker 6 (03:45:02):
It's different.

Speaker 40 (03:45:05):
You opened the gyard door, but stop worrying. Get alcos
of you.

Speaker 1 (03:45:10):
You're not careful.

Speaker 40 (03:45:14):
Okay, now you get that lorry fixed up. Jump belong.

Speaker 75 (03:45:27):
I could just make our Janet staring wide eyed in
the dark, and I wondered whether she was feeling like me,
that it was all some horrible nightmare. It was difficult
to believe that these two men were going to burn
us to death in a matter of minutes. But I
knew it was true. There were no blood curdling threats,
just to calm the parting of preparation, which somehow made

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it all seem more horrible.

Speaker 1 (03:45:51):
Did you bring that length of sash cord with you?
And yeah, I got it, righty right?

Speaker 46 (03:45:56):
We need it for a few I suppose you, fellows,
realize what you are heading into the police will get you.

Speaker 15 (03:46:01):
There's no such thing as a perfect murder.

Speaker 46 (03:46:04):
I quite agree, but this is going to be an accident.
The car catches, fire happens all the time.

Speaker 18 (03:46:12):
You know you're conly sitting there talking about burning us
to death. You can't do a thing like that.

Speaker 6 (03:46:18):
Why not?

Speaker 46 (03:46:20):
It couldn't be so inhuman, lady, in my business, we
can't take chances.

Speaker 1 (03:46:24):
You know too much.

Speaker 46 (03:46:26):
You've seen us and the truck. You shouldn't have come snooping.

Speaker 21 (03:46:30):
But we never meant.

Speaker 1 (03:46:31):
I'm not concerned with what you meant.

Speaker 46 (03:46:32):
I didn't mean way things are.

Speaker 6 (03:46:36):
Like I said, we.

Speaker 46 (03:46:37):
Can't take chances. But Bertie won't feel a thing. Then
he will knock you both out, providing you behave yourself, and.

Speaker 9 (03:46:48):
It'll be a dirty, great pult, but not too hot.

Speaker 46 (03:46:51):
Then he not too hard?

Speaker 15 (03:46:52):
You know. That's the trouble with him.

Speaker 1 (03:46:54):
He doesn't know his own.

Speaker 18 (03:46:57):
How can it be so cold blooded? Haven't you got
any minute at all?

Speaker 15 (03:47:00):
And avoided in my line of business? What's your business?
And the next?

Speaker 46 (03:47:05):
And you want to be used to this kind of stuff,
just regard it as a special performance without any uncous.

Speaker 6 (03:47:13):
If the car track you came along, I'm not sure.

Speaker 1 (03:47:17):
Look up to now, I've.

Speaker 46 (03:47:20):
Been very considerate. Don't make things difficult for yourself at
the end, yes, yes, this is the that's better?

Speaker 18 (03:47:28):
If is it far along?

Speaker 1 (03:47:30):
Oh no, then I can see it.

Speaker 6 (03:47:38):
Ah, here we are.

Speaker 46 (03:47:41):
How'd you get leny had?

Speaker 9 (03:47:42):
Now?

Speaker 18 (03:47:44):
How about you too?

Speaker 40 (03:47:46):
I said?

Speaker 46 (03:47:47):
How about let you make it worse and then he
has to drag you out?

Speaker 15 (03:47:54):
That's right bit of cooperation and you won't feel a thing.

Speaker 1 (03:48:00):
Right once over?

Speaker 46 (03:48:01):
Lightly, hold on a minute, I would must do something
and what does it make it snappy?

Speaker 15 (03:48:07):
Just as a matter of curiosity?

Speaker 1 (03:48:08):
What that word?

Speaker 6 (03:48:09):
Again?

Speaker 15 (03:48:10):
Must as will be consistent?

Speaker 46 (03:48:13):
Well what do you want to know? Just what do
you intend to do when Lenny knocked us out? Quite simple?
You see this bit of corn? We soak it him
petrol one end goes in the petrol trank. The two
of you go in the car, We stand back and
light the other end. Hope she goes.

Speaker 1 (03:48:33):
The final curtain.

Speaker 15 (03:48:34):
You might say, yes, I was counting on it being
something like that.

Speaker 1 (03:48:39):
You were counting on it?

Speaker 15 (03:48:41):
Well, sawtin You see you can't do it. There's no
petrol in the tank.

Speaker 9 (03:48:45):
What have a lot?

Speaker 1 (03:48:47):
Lenny probably pluffing the time.

Speaker 75 (03:48:48):
That's why we came knocking up the gallas. I tried
to tell you, but you wouldn't listen.

Speaker 40 (03:48:55):
Hey, that's nothing in a ten man draw draw us.

Speaker 6 (03:49:00):
So are did it?

Speaker 1 (03:49:01):
And we'll siphon some from our car. There's plenty there
and only want to drop.

Speaker 40 (03:49:05):
To get back to the garage. Yeah, I know that,
But what are we going to sigh for? They will, oh,
look a bit of rubber tubing.

Speaker 1 (03:49:11):
Oh you ain't got me all right?

Speaker 46 (03:49:13):
So we haven't got any rubber tubing.

Speaker 6 (03:49:16):
What to do?

Speaker 26 (03:49:17):
What we could use our car and take this it's
a better car.

Speaker 54 (03:49:21):
Can have some sense now much the police would know
it wasn't that car. No, there's nothing else for it.
I'll have to go to the garage and put some petrol.
What am I gonna do with this?

Speaker 6 (03:49:34):
Time.

Speaker 1 (03:49:35):
Nothing.

Speaker 40 (03:49:36):
Just watch it's all. I'll be back in five minutes.

Speaker 15 (03:49:38):
Okay.

Speaker 75 (03:49:49):
So we had five minutes space, but I couldn't see
what good it was going to do it. Our hands
were tied behind our backs, and I had now illusions
there about what would happen if either this tried to
run off life with our hands tied.

Speaker 15 (03:50:03):
I tried to think what detected and sped to Morton.

Speaker 6 (03:50:05):
And the play would have done. And then I thought
of the last day of Murdered without mood. It was
a slim chance, and it all depended on whether Janet
picked up a.

Speaker 15 (03:50:16):
Cube and don't move or you'll get it now. My
wrists are hurting.

Speaker 12 (03:50:22):
You won''t be feeding anything in a few minutes.

Speaker 75 (03:50:26):
What's the lines from the play I'm appearing in. You see,
we're both tied up and well, I hope you've got
good understudies tied up tightly like this, of course, and
so you get loose a sposa.

Speaker 104 (03:50:39):
And then the villain gets his and on the villain
that's all right, you know, but you're well not this time.

Speaker 6 (03:50:46):
I know.

Speaker 75 (03:50:47):
That's the difference you see in the player. I say
to him, you've been very clever about it. But there's
one thing you haven't allowed for I knew Mary hadn't
committed the murder.

Speaker 18 (03:50:56):
You mean you never really suspected me there, Yeah, just.

Speaker 15 (03:50:59):
A minute, what are you talking about?

Speaker 9 (03:51:02):
What's the cake?

Speaker 18 (03:51:02):
Bas what she.

Speaker 75 (03:51:03):
Says in the play, I only pretended to suspect you
to put friend Bellot off his guard.

Speaker 40 (03:51:11):
Well, you have to bring the curtain down now, can
hear back?

Speaker 15 (03:51:14):
You remember how it finishes? Janet? Of course, no, no,
what she's out cold.

Speaker 2 (03:51:24):
Come on quickly across the field into that wood.

Speaker 18 (03:51:26):
They'll never find us in the dark.

Speaker 75 (03:51:43):
It had been a long shot, but we'd have the
luck with us. I hope that Janet would catch on.
But unless you do it together, it's useless. It's a
tricky pick to do, and Janet and I've had a
lot of trouble over it in rehearsals, But when you've
been doing it.

Speaker 15 (03:51:58):
For twelve months, night after night, you have time. It's
pretty good.

Speaker 75 (03:52:01):
I butted Lenny in the chest with my head while
jan threw herself against the back of his.

Speaker 6 (03:52:05):
Legs, and that was curtains for Lennium.

Speaker 75 (03:52:09):
Well police caught them a few days later. But we
aren't playing in murder without motive any longer. We find
that third act a bit too grim for our liking.

Speaker 106 (03:52:20):
Now be you listening for another mounting drama of extre

(03:52:56):
and suspense when we again bring you the eleventh hour.

Speaker 107 (03:53:03):
Fed Up with the everyday grind, tied out from the
summer heat, I want to get away from it.

Speaker 96 (03:53:11):
We offer you.

Speaker 108 (03:53:15):
Escape, escape designed to free you from the four walls
of today. For a half hour of high adventure.

Speaker 107 (03:53:27):
You are prisoner in the magnificent mountain retreat of the
richest man in the world. While haunting you, terrifying you
is the knowledge that the ultimate escape will be death.

Speaker 108 (03:53:48):
Tonight we escape to an isolated Montana plateau and the
strange secret of a stranger family.

Speaker 15 (03:53:54):
As F.

Speaker 108 (03:53:54):
Scott Fitzgerald told it in his fantastic story The Diamond
As Big as the Ritz.

Speaker 3 (03:54:07):
I'd been going to Saint Midas Prep School for a
couple of years. This was my second summer vacation. I'd
met this fellow, Percy Washington, during the winter. Got to
be pretty good friends with him. Only I didn't know
about his family, or where he came from, or anything
like that. Of course, I knew he must be rich.
All the fellows at Saint Midas came from wealthy families,

(03:54:28):
so when he invited me to spend the summer at
his home out west someplace, it was okay by me.
Been on the train overnight when he first mentioned it.
I don't even remember now what led up to it.
We've been talking about, first one thing and then another, Percy,
exactly where is your home? I mean you bought the

(03:54:49):
train tickets.

Speaker 53 (03:54:50):
It's in Montana.

Speaker 3 (03:54:51):
Montana. Oh yeah, pretty wild country, isn't it. Some of
it is now. You take Haydes, Missouri, where I come from.
It's been settled for one hundred and fifty years, one
of the first towns on the Mississippi River.

Speaker 53 (03:55:04):
Indeed, Oh sure, that's very interesting.

Speaker 3 (03:55:07):
I sure to appreciate you're not making jokes about it
the way some of the fellas do. And I say,
I come from Hades. Why you know my father's huh?

Speaker 53 (03:55:16):
Do you know that my father is the richest man
in the world.

Speaker 15 (03:55:20):
Oh?

Speaker 53 (03:55:21):
By father riches.

Speaker 3 (03:55:23):
I read about a man that paid taxes on a
five million dollar income.

Speaker 53 (03:55:27):
Small fry. If my father paid tax on his real income,
he'd disrupt the whole economy of the United States.

Speaker 3 (03:55:35):
No kidding, Oh, I like rich people.

Speaker 6 (03:55:38):
The richer fella with the better I like him.

Speaker 53 (03:55:40):
My father could buy out all of the millionaires in
the country and not even know he had done it.

Speaker 3 (03:55:44):
Is that a fact. I visited the Schlitzer murphys once.
They're plenty rich. Why their daughter Vivian's got rubies as
big as hen's eggs and sapphires that glow like headlamps.

Speaker 53 (03:55:56):
I like jewels, always have.

Speaker 3 (03:55:59):
I used to collect them instead of stamps and diamonds.
The Slitzer Murphy's had diamonds as big as walnuts.

Speaker 53 (03:56:04):
Oh that's nothing, huh, nothing at all. My father has
a diamond as big as the Ritz. Please, I'm not joking, but.

Speaker 3 (03:56:16):
You mean as big as the Ritz Carlton Hotel. Exactly.

Speaker 53 (03:56:21):
My father has a diamond as big as the Ritz.

Speaker 3 (03:56:29):
We got off the train about dusk at a little
whistle stop called fish Montana. There wasn't anything there, not
even a station, just a broken down old buggy and
four or five sheep herders lounging beside the track. And
I suppose, wondering who we were anyway, Percy and I
climbed into the buggy, and without saying a word, the
driver cracked his whip, and off we went. I don't

(03:56:55):
know how far we traveled. We didn't seem to be
following any road. Though hour or so it gotten dark,
but the driver kept right on, never saying a word.

Speaker 53 (03:57:06):
I hope you'll pardon this inconvenience, John, but we have
to take certain precautions, you know.

Speaker 3 (03:57:11):
Oh that's all right.

Speaker 53 (03:57:12):
Anyway, we're almost there.

Speaker 3 (03:57:14):
You're home?

Speaker 87 (03:57:15):
You mean?

Speaker 53 (03:57:16):
Oh, no, to the place where we consider it safe
to transfer a transfer?

Speaker 3 (03:57:21):
What do you mean?

Speaker 53 (03:57:22):
Oh, there's the signal?

Speaker 3 (03:57:23):
Now headlights?

Speaker 51 (03:57:25):
Well up?

Speaker 53 (03:57:25):
The horse have some.

Speaker 15 (03:57:28):
Here.

Speaker 3 (03:57:29):
We are an automobile. But but how there's no road?

Speaker 53 (03:57:33):
Oh this cause special build doesn't need roads. Welcome home, Master,
Good evening, Gigsum. Come on, John, let's get in cars.

Speaker 1 (03:57:45):
There's this car.

Speaker 3 (03:57:46):
What's it's made out of?

Speaker 1 (03:57:47):
Silver?

Speaker 53 (03:57:48):
No platinum? Those are emeralds in the hubcaps and the
upholstering it. It's fur mink.

Speaker 15 (03:57:54):
You're ready, Master.

Speaker 53 (03:57:56):
Anytime, Gigsum. You noticed the exceptional brightness of the headlamps.
The lenses are cut from diamonds. Boy, what a card
from this old junkie who use at first station wagon.

Speaker 3 (03:58:19):
Hey yeah, why did we stop, Percy? This is just
a deserted canyon.

Speaker 53 (03:58:22):
Oh, we're not yet there yet, John. Wait, you'll see
they sent down the hooks while we were coming from
the station. The hooks, yes, to attach to the wheels,
you know, that's what Gigson's doing now. Incidentally, Gigson will
look after you during our visit, look after me, your

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personal valet. Of course, there'll be other slaves available too,
whenever you need them.

Speaker 3 (03:58:49):
Do you have a lot of slaves?

Speaker 53 (03:58:51):
Three or four hundred? I suppose? Oh, already gigsum, yes,
muster hello.

Speaker 17 (03:59:00):
Away.

Speaker 3 (03:59:05):
Look we're leaving the ground.

Speaker 53 (03:59:08):
Yes, there's a hoise up there on top of the cliff,
has cables about a quarter of a mile long. But
what four Oh, it's the only way in.

Speaker 3 (03:59:16):
Imagine hoisting an automobile a quarter of a mile up
the side of a cliff.

Speaker 53 (03:59:21):
It's really nothing. As you may have guessed, John, this
is not going to be like anything you ever saw
before in your life. Well, John, there it is.

Speaker 3 (03:59:38):
That's your home. It's magnificent Palatio.

Speaker 6 (03:59:44):
That's not bad.

Speaker 1 (03:59:45):
How big is it?

Speaker 53 (03:59:46):
I think it's around one hundred and forty rooms. The
father may remember exactly.

Speaker 51 (03:59:51):
Then.

Speaker 53 (03:59:51):
Of course there are other buildings, slaves, quarters and things.

Speaker 3 (03:59:55):
Why hasn't anyone ever found out about it? This place?

Speaker 53 (03:59:58):
I mean, well, for one thing, it's the only five
square miles in the United States that have never been surveyed.

Speaker 1 (04:00:05):
Why not?

Speaker 53 (04:00:06):
Oh, things were arranged.

Speaker 3 (04:00:09):
I don't see how that's possible.

Speaker 53 (04:00:11):
Believe me, it hasn't been easy. I understand. Grandfather had
to bribe three government bureaus, a vice president and half
of Congress. Wants to keep the place off the maps.

Speaker 3 (04:00:19):
But somebody surely stumbled onto it to prospectors people like that.

Speaker 53 (04:00:24):
Oh yes, that happens occasionally. Then, of course we have
to arrange things, you mean, not always. Usually we just
take them prisoner and keep them like the aviators.

Speaker 3 (04:00:36):
Planes come here.

Speaker 53 (04:00:38):
Once in a while, they fly over. Of course they
never get away. We have nine anti aircraft batteries around
the hills.

Speaker 3 (04:00:46):
You shoot them down.

Speaker 53 (04:00:48):
Oh yes, great sport. It does upset mother a bit,
and there's always a chance one might get away. That's
father's greatest worry.

Speaker 3 (04:01:00):
Places this whole thing, is it? It's fantastic.

Speaker 53 (04:01:02):
Oh come now, John, I picked you for a vellow
with his feet on the ground, and you haven't seen
anything yet. You know this is only the beginning.

Speaker 3 (04:01:17):
And it was only the beginning. We crossed the acres
of Wan and entered the Great Chateau, and from that
moment on, vision upon vision tumbled together in a gigantic
kaleidoscope of color, symmetry and exquisite harmony. There were corridors
lined with gleaming crystals, lit by lamps cut from emerald,
and great halls carpeted with chinchilla fur and ermine. And

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there was a white haired man, pink faced and very pleasant,
who was Percy's father, and Percy's mother, a lovely lady
with dark hair piled high on her head like a
fragile queen. Soft music came from hidden places, perfumes filled
the air, exotic foods and wine more rare than pearls.

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I thought there could be no more nor greater wonders.
I was wrong. There were many more and greater ones.
And one of them I discovered the next morning in
the garden. Hello there, yeah, yeah, Oh you're lovely.

Speaker 36 (04:02:28):
My name is kiss Mine. You're John Hunger. You're a
friend of my brother. You from the East.

Speaker 3 (04:02:35):
Oh, no, at least not exactly. I I am from Hades,
Oh misery, Oh.

Speaker 36 (04:02:43):
Would you like to sit down here?

Speaker 41 (04:02:44):
On the grass.

Speaker 3 (04:02:46):
Why, Oh, yes, sure I would.

Speaker 36 (04:02:49):
I'm going east to school this fall. Do you suppose
I like it?

Speaker 3 (04:02:53):
I think so. Of course it'll be different from all this.

Speaker 36 (04:02:58):
That's what Jasmine said.

Speaker 41 (04:03:00):
She's niece.

Speaker 36 (04:03:00):
Now I've never been outside.

Speaker 3 (04:03:04):
Who is Jasmine?

Speaker 41 (04:03:05):
My sister?

Speaker 36 (04:03:07):
She's older than I am.

Speaker 3 (04:03:09):
I hope you won't be offended. But you're the most
beautiful girl I've ever seen. Yes, I know why.

Speaker 36 (04:03:18):
I surprised you didn't I a year ago I would
have said thank you, But father says it's very necessary
to learn to take things for granted. So now I
just take it for granted that I'm beautiful.

Speaker 3 (04:03:28):
You see, you're pretty sophisticated, aren't you.

Speaker 36 (04:03:32):
Oh I'm not at all. I believe girls should enjoy
their youth in a wholesome sort of way.

Speaker 3 (04:03:37):
Oh oh so do I.

Speaker 4 (04:03:40):
I like you?

Speaker 56 (04:03:41):
John.

Speaker 36 (04:03:43):
I wish you'd spend some of your time with me
this summer, not all with Percy.

Speaker 3 (04:03:48):
I will kiss men.

Speaker 6 (04:03:50):
I will.

Speaker 36 (04:03:51):
You may be in love with me if you'd like to.
I'm absolutely fresh ground.

Speaker 33 (04:03:55):
You know.

Speaker 3 (04:03:57):
I am in love with you.

Speaker 36 (04:03:59):
Of course, have to meet secretly. My parents wouldn't permit it.

Speaker 3 (04:04:02):
If they knew then that's what we'll do. I have
to go now.

Speaker 36 (04:04:08):
I'm supposed to be with mother at eleven. Aren't you
going to ask me for a kiss? Jasmine says, boys
always do nowadays, some of.

Speaker 3 (04:04:18):
Them do, but not me. We don't expect nice girls
to do that sort of thing. In Hades, it was
a funny thing. Percy's family were polite, friendly, always smiling,

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and yet all the time I had a feeling that
some terrible and golden mystery lay hidden just around the corner.
A few days after I had met kiss Mine, Percy
remarked casually that an unusual event had occurred. A man
had escaped from the cage. I know what he meant then,

(04:05:01):
But the next morning I was walking with Percy's father
on the grounds of the estate, and mister Washington Percy
said something about a man escaping from the cage. I
didn't quite get it.

Speaker 109 (04:05:15):
The cage here, Well, perhaps you'd like to see it
wise might prove interesting just as a novelty.

Speaker 3 (04:05:20):
It's over there, these trees sixty feet tall, and they
have roses blooming all.

Speaker 109 (04:05:27):
Of Yes, yes, it's a rather interesting development by a
Swiss botanist. These are the only ones in the world.

Speaker 3 (04:05:33):
I'll we do, although I suppose you'll see them all
over the country in a few years.

Speaker 109 (04:05:38):
No, these are the only ones that was arranged.

Speaker 15 (04:05:42):
Here.

Speaker 6 (04:05:43):
We are the cage.

Speaker 3 (04:05:45):
It's a pit, dug in the ground, grading on top.

Speaker 109 (04:05:49):
Oh well, yes, it's not really a cage, except in
a certain sense. Well, boys, how are you getting along?

Speaker 63 (04:06:00):
Hower?

Speaker 3 (04:06:01):
How many of them are there down there?

Speaker 15 (04:06:03):
About fifty?

Speaker 6 (04:06:06):
As I recall, who are they?

Speaker 1 (04:06:08):
The aviators?

Speaker 109 (04:06:09):
We've shot down, wandering prospectors and many of that sort.

Speaker 3 (04:06:14):
But why are they kept there?

Speaker 109 (04:06:16):
And they've all had the common misfortune of having discovered
El Dorado?

Speaker 110 (04:06:21):
Gentlemen, gentlemen, gentleman, I am sure you would like to
know that your companion who departed without my permission has
been taken care of. Yes, he was shot by some
of my agents in fourteen different places.

Speaker 3 (04:06:40):
Golf, mister Hunger. They found him. Then the man who
got away.

Speaker 15 (04:06:46):
No, those places were towns.

Speaker 109 (04:06:48):
My agents were over eager. None of them could offer
a positive identification. I'm afraid the man may still be
at large.

Speaker 10 (04:06:57):
You see.

Speaker 1 (04:06:58):
It's not all utopia here.

Speaker 6 (04:07:00):
No, we do have our difficulties.

Speaker 3 (04:07:03):
Isn't it a little unnecessary houlding them like that not
at all.

Speaker 1 (04:07:07):
It's the only way to keep this place hidden.

Speaker 3 (04:07:10):
M Yes, I guess that must be important. Oh, Percy
was telling me something on a train. I thought he
was kidding, but he said, you had a diamond as
big as the Ritz called an hotel.

Speaker 109 (04:07:21):
Yes, yes, indeed, as a matter of fact, it's much
bigger than the Ritz, much bigger.

Speaker 3 (04:07:32):
Well, summer went on, I was more and more in
love with k his mind. She was priceless, exquisite, like
no other girl in the world. After a couple of weeks,
I kissed her, of course, and I was really in
love for the first time. I should have known, should
have put two and two together when Percy's father showed

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me the cage, but I didn't until one morning late
in the summer. I slipped off with Kis of the
Rose Gardens, kiss mine. I think we ought to Elope.

Speaker 36 (04:08:06):
I don't know. It would be much nicer to be
married here. Then it'd be more romantic to Elope. Yes,
all of Sunday Supplements would write stories about fabulous errors elopes.
I knew an heiress from Omaha once, but I don't
think you'd like her. She visited my sister here.

Speaker 3 (04:08:28):
Oh, you've had other guests.

Speaker 36 (04:08:31):
Then, well, yes, we've had a few.

Speaker 3 (04:08:35):
What wasn't your father ever afraid they might talk outside?

Speaker 36 (04:08:39):
Well, to some extent. Let's talk about something more pleasant.

Speaker 3 (04:08:44):
What's so unpleasant about it?

Speaker 36 (04:08:46):
Well, I I grew quite fond of some of them.

Speaker 3 (04:08:51):
You mean they told and you're father.

Speaker 36 (04:08:54):
They didn't get a chance to Father had to be sure.

Speaker 3 (04:08:58):
But that's murder.

Speaker 36 (04:09:00):
What else could we do in the cage. They'd have
been a constant reproach to us, and father does it
so nicely. They're always drugged in their sleep, and we
tell their families they died of scarlet fever and bewed.
I'm not sure how that affects the statistics.

Speaker 3 (04:09:17):
There are the horrible.

Speaker 36 (04:09:19):
It is not you all to be terribly boring here
without ever having anybody. My father and mother have sacrificed
some of their best friends.

Speaker 3 (04:09:29):
You're no better than that's what they plan to do
with me?

Speaker 36 (04:09:35):
Then couldn't you try to forget it? Be nice to
me until until you're put away. It's only for two
or three weeks.

Speaker 3 (04:09:45):
You you'd go on this way kissing, talking about love
when you know I'm not much better than a corpse.

Speaker 13 (04:09:52):
You're not a corpse.

Speaker 4 (04:09:53):
You're not.

Speaker 36 (04:09:54):
I won't have you saying I kissed a corp.

Speaker 3 (04:09:56):
That wasn't what I said you did to I did not.

Speaker 8 (04:09:58):
You said that a just moment.

Speaker 1 (04:10:01):
Other who kissed a corpse?

Speaker 36 (04:10:04):
Nobody?

Speaker 44 (04:10:06):
We were just joking.

Speaker 109 (04:10:07):
No, you too, haven't any business here anyway.

Speaker 1 (04:10:09):
Now, gius mine go read, go, go.

Speaker 15 (04:10:12):
Go, go, go play golf.

Speaker 109 (04:10:13):
Now, don't you let me find you here when I
come back?

Speaker 9 (04:10:16):
Yes, father, good day children.

Speaker 36 (04:10:20):
You see now he knows you've spoiled everything.

Speaker 3 (04:10:24):
You don't really love me, his mine? You what's the
use if you are rich and have this place? Why
would it be so terrible if anyone found out about it?

Speaker 36 (04:10:37):
It's on account of the diamond?

Speaker 3 (04:10:39):
Of course, diamond. What is this diamond all of you
talk about.

Speaker 36 (04:10:45):
You'd better ask Percy. I'm always getting things mixed up.

Speaker 3 (04:10:49):
I will ask him. And another thing. I'm getting out
of here tonight. If I have to dig through the mountains,
I'm going back east.

Speaker 36 (04:10:55):
Take me with you. No, why not?

Speaker 3 (04:10:57):
Your father wouldn't permit it.

Speaker 36 (04:10:59):
You won't. I'll go tell him I want to marry you.

Speaker 3 (04:11:02):
You can't do that. He'd bump me off this afternoon.

Speaker 36 (04:11:06):
Please take me, darling, he will be terribly poor and
very happy, and I'll cook things for you, herbs.

Speaker 41 (04:11:17):
And berries and stuff.

Speaker 36 (04:11:18):
Will that be fun?

Speaker 43 (04:11:21):
Oh?

Speaker 36 (04:11:21):
You will, won't you?

Speaker 43 (04:11:23):
John?

Speaker 3 (04:11:28):
Well, my head was really in a whirl. This whole
thing was fantastic, and so was the family, even kids mine.
I couldn't think of anything to do, but I rushed
to see Percy.

Speaker 53 (04:11:41):
But John, why didn't you ask me before?

Speaker 3 (04:11:43):
Because I thought you were kidding all the time.

Speaker 53 (04:11:47):
I know you wouldn't believe me if I'd told you.

Speaker 3 (04:11:50):
I'm ready to believe anything now.

Speaker 53 (04:11:52):
Well, it was my grandfather who started the whole thing,
purely by accident. He came out here from Virginia after
the war between the state and stumbled onto it under
what the diamond. Of course, that's what made all this possible.
Grandfather spent two years going around to different cities of
the world selling bits of it. Then he started building
this place. He put his money into jewels, but father

(04:12:16):
found that radium took up much less space.

Speaker 3 (04:12:19):
But why the secrecy, Oh, it just wouldn't do.

Speaker 53 (04:12:22):
If anyone found out, ruined the whole economy of the world.
The thing's too big.

Speaker 3 (04:12:27):
This has been going on for three generations when the
cage and this thing of inviting friends. Oh, yes, you.

Speaker 53 (04:12:38):
See, there wasn't really any danger before aeroplanes. They are
what worrious?

Speaker 3 (04:12:44):
And you knew when you invited me here what would happen?

Speaker 53 (04:12:47):
Please, John, I thought you'd be more sensible about it.
After all, you can see my position.

Speaker 3 (04:12:54):
Yeah, where is it? Where do you keep this diamond
that's caught so cuckyed much trouble?

Speaker 31 (04:13:00):
Oh?

Speaker 53 (04:13:00):
I thought you had guessed. You've noticed the hill the
chateau stands on. Yes, it contains a cubic mile, and
except for a thin covering of dirt, it's one big,
solid diamond.

Speaker 3 (04:13:20):
It was nearly midnight. I didn't know what awakened me,
but all of a sudden I was staring across the
patches of moonlight, spotting the ermine carpet of my bedroom,
staring at three slaves I'd never seen before. They just
slipped inside the door and stood there, each with a
vicious length of shiny copper wire, the official executioners. I

(04:13:45):
lay there on the bed watching. I'm counting heartbeats, not
daring to move, not daring not to move. They didn't
know I'd waken They began edging across the room.

Speaker 15 (04:13:54):
Come on, all three of you.

Speaker 26 (04:13:56):
There's no time now for this. All hell's broken.

Speaker 9 (04:13:58):
Loose, hurry.

Speaker 3 (04:14:00):
I took one long, deep breath, the first one in
several moments. Then I was out of the bed in
an instant, throwing on my clothes and dashing through the
long crystal corridor to kis Mine's roma. Kis Mine, are
you awake.

Speaker 36 (04:14:16):
Over here by the window? So they woke you up too?

Speaker 3 (04:14:19):
If you mean three of your father's slaves?

Speaker 36 (04:14:21):
Two airplanes?

Speaker 3 (04:14:22):
Airplanes, So that's what it is, at least a dozen.

Speaker 36 (04:14:25):
I saw them crossing against the moon. Look they're circling
way over there.

Speaker 3 (04:14:30):
You think they're here on purpose?

Speaker 36 (04:14:32):
Yes, they dropped warnings to father. It's that man who
got away from the cage, you know.

Speaker 3 (04:14:38):
Good for him, it wasn't he clever?

Speaker 36 (04:14:40):
I think we'll open up on them any second, now,
open up? Yes, are any aircraft?

Speaker 38 (04:14:45):
This is going to be thrilling, thrilling.

Speaker 36 (04:14:50):
Oh, look they're in range now, Brabo bre's mine.

Speaker 27 (04:14:54):
Get away from that window.

Speaker 19 (04:15:01):
Did you see that?

Speaker 3 (04:15:02):
Yes, And we've got to get out of here. Can't
you understand there's a little.

Speaker 36 (04:15:05):
Group of trees across the side of the mountains. We
always keep one of the cars there. We'll have a
nice view of everything.

Speaker 3 (04:15:11):
A nice view, here's mine. You don't seem to understand.
They mean business. They're out to finish off you and
your whole family.

Speaker 36 (04:15:18):
But it all seems so silly when you come right
down to it. They've never even met us. What time

(04:15:39):
is it, John, Is it morning yet?

Speaker 3 (04:15:44):
I don't know. I've lost my watch. Seems to be
getting lighter.

Speaker 36 (04:15:48):
All right, it's quieter too.

Speaker 3 (04:15:53):
Your guns and knocked out every last one of them.

Speaker 17 (04:16:00):
You are now.

Speaker 36 (04:16:01):
Seems such a shame. The family put so much work
on the place. Everything's always been so pleasant.

Speaker 3 (04:16:12):
Yeah, you better get some sleep, kis mine. I'm gonna
walk down the path a little ways.

Speaker 36 (04:16:19):
You'll come back, yes, kis.

Speaker 3 (04:16:21):
Mine, I'll come back at the edge of the wood.
I stopped and looked out across the valley toward the
wrecked chateau standing on its diamond hill. And then suddenly
three men appeared bearing a heavy burden. Among them it
was mister Washington and two of the slaves.

Speaker 26 (04:16:43):
All right, all right, this is hard enough.

Speaker 35 (04:16:46):
We'll stop here now, hoisted up and hold it there
also together.

Speaker 3 (04:16:50):
Now the burden they held up to the heavens was
an immense dimond.

Speaker 40 (04:16:56):
You out there, You're there.

Speaker 3 (04:16:59):
I could see no one anywhere in view you.

Speaker 40 (04:17:01):
You above there.

Speaker 1 (04:17:03):
I want you to understand, this is only a sample.

Speaker 40 (04:17:08):
I'll give you a thousand.

Speaker 27 (04:17:10):
Conors fine second pedestals.

Speaker 110 (04:17:13):
Of platinum, and I'll build you a temple one thousand
feet high test of solid gold, and on the top.

Speaker 1 (04:17:21):
Of it, I'll put one diamond one hundred feet across.

Speaker 3 (04:17:26):
I thought, being an adonomy, I couldn't believe it.

Speaker 110 (04:17:28):
I'll let her your name in the temple in emeralds,
and I'll see that the whole world worship second space.

Speaker 40 (04:17:37):
All you have to do, all you have to do
is take everything the way it was before.

Speaker 3 (04:17:43):
Mister Washington was offering a bribe to God. He stopped
talking and waited, and then out of the silent heavens
blossomed the white puffs of parachutes. The man who had

(04:18:06):
tried to bribe God looked up and saw them, and
he became old in an instant, and, turning with lowered head,
walked down the path toward the chateau. With sudden premonition,
I whirled and headed for the spot where I left Kismine,
his mine, and the car that needed no roads.

Speaker 36 (04:18:28):
Haven't we gone far enough?

Speaker 17 (04:18:29):
John?

Speaker 3 (04:18:30):
I suppose we're ten miles from the chateau.

Speaker 14 (04:18:33):
It's all so.

Speaker 36 (04:18:34):
Hectic, rushing about and losing sleep.

Speaker 3 (04:18:38):
In everything, and made those field glasses.

Speaker 82 (04:18:40):
Here we are.

Speaker 17 (04:18:42):
You see anything? No?

Speaker 8 (04:18:46):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (04:18:46):
Wait, what is it?

Speaker 3 (04:18:50):
It's your father and mother and Percy. They're going into
a tunnel down below the chateau. They've got an underground escape.

Speaker 36 (04:18:59):
No, no, I remember now. The mountain's wired some kind
of an atom.

Speaker 3 (04:19:07):
Bomb, adam atomic bomb.

Speaker 17 (04:19:09):
That's it.

Speaker 36 (04:19:10):
Father's had it for years. He always said it would
disintegrate the whole works, diamond and all. Of course, he
only regarded it as a last resort, so he'd.

Speaker 3 (04:19:22):
Rather have it like that. They're all inside the tunnel.
I can see the troopers moving in.

Speaker 36 (04:19:31):
I don't suppose there's really anything to be done about
it now, And there wasn't. I keep thinking about things

(04:19:58):
the way they were. It was all so pleasant. I
don't suppose it'll ever be exactly like.

Speaker 8 (04:20:08):
That again, not ever.

Speaker 3 (04:20:10):
Kis mine, and maybe it never was. Youth is a
time for dreaming. Dreams die too.

Speaker 36 (04:20:21):
I'll probably have to take in washing, but of course,
we'll be very happy. What will we do, John do.

Speaker 17 (04:20:32):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (04:20:33):
We can love a while underneath the stars. That's a
form of divine drunkenness. We can all try. And then
there there may be other diamonds in the world. Who knows.
And even though it's a shabby gift, there's always disillusion.

(04:20:54):
Turn up your color chismine before you catch pneumonia. Let's
go to sleep.

Speaker 108 (04:21:05):
Escape is produced and directed by Norman MacDonald. Tonight we
have brought you the Diamond as Big as the Ritz
by f Scott Fitzgerald, adapted for radio by Less Crutchfield,
with editorial supervision by John dougle In Tonight's cast were
Sam Edwards, Peggy Weber, Danny Merrill, John Dayner and Don Diamond.
Special music by Ivan Ditmars.

Speaker 107 (04:21:29):
Next week, each time you fall asleep, you find yourself
dreaming the same strange dream, one in which you live
out your life in the distant future, and always a
hideous fate moves closer to you, a fate from which
you cannot escape.

Speaker 108 (04:21:55):
Next week we escape with another great story by one
of the world's greatest authors. Good Night then until this
same time next week, when once again we offer you escape.
This is roy Ron Speaking or CBE as the Columbia Broadcasting.

Speaker 111 (04:22:16):
System October nineteen forty. Suddenly peace was a fraud from overseas.

(04:22:44):
The agony of the innocent massacred was rising, darkening the
light of the world, making a mockery out of the
wily stratagems of temporal political alliances.

Speaker 1 (04:22:55):
To me, the issue became a simple one.

Speaker 6 (04:22:58):
Freedom.

Speaker 111 (04:23:00):
I wrote a play, and the distinguished actor Raymond Massey said, yes,
of course, I'll do it anywhere, anytime. But the radio
network says, sorry, We're not at war, we have no enemy.

Speaker 15 (04:23:11):
We still do business with all customers.

Speaker 111 (04:23:14):
So mister Massey and I flew to New York from California,
pounded on tables until the microphones were given us in
Small Surrender.

Speaker 1 (04:23:29):
Every Man's Theater, written especially for radio by Arch Obler.
Tonight our star is the celebrated actor of stage and screen,

(04:23:51):
mister Raymond Massey in an adventure of our times. This
Precious Freedom, the second of an exciting series of plays
especially written for radio, and to you each Friday at
this time and over this station by Oxidoll. And I'm
mister Obler to tell you more about Tonight's program in
every Man's Theater.

Speaker 72 (04:24:08):
This is a fictional story, a play about it tomorrow,
which would never happen here.

Speaker 6 (04:24:32):
Morgan.

Speaker 10 (04:24:33):
Yes, sir, dan't you make this create of mine?

Speaker 86 (04:24:35):
Go fast?

Speaker 65 (04:24:35):
Dude?

Speaker 10 (04:24:36):
Sorry, Missus Stevenson.

Speaker 5 (04:24:37):
We're bucking a pretty stiff headwind drowning out.

Speaker 96 (04:24:39):
Don't tell me the heavens are conspiring to keep me
e from getting back to work.

Speaker 10 (04:24:43):
Opener up, Morgan, I've had enough vacation.

Speaker 96 (04:24:45):
Yes, sir, that's better, you know, Morgan, I should think
you'd be as eager to get back to the city
as I am. After all, a young fellow like you
month up in the woods, nothing around.

Speaker 10 (04:25:00):
But those overstuff squaws.

Speaker 96 (04:25:03):
Well, I, for one, I'm gonna be glad to get
back in harness again. Guys, I'm not going to admit
that to missus Stevenson. I talked to her for the
last ten years about cutting myself off from civilization, having
a real.

Speaker 5 (04:25:13):
Vacation, Morgan, what's the matter?

Speaker 10 (04:25:17):
Oil line? Know by choice?

Speaker 99 (04:25:20):
Take it easy, Missus Stevenson, or okay, just fashing your
safety belt.

Speaker 1 (04:25:24):
Where are you going to land?

Speaker 9 (04:25:25):
Feel the head hold on?

Speaker 10 (04:25:26):
Don't be afraid, don't be a fool.

Speaker 96 (04:25:28):
I've been in forced landing before. All I want to
do is to get down there fast. I've got to
get the city, got to get back to my business.

Speaker 1 (04:25:54):
I guess there's no one home, mister Stevenson.

Speaker 10 (04:25:56):
No one in the fields, no one to help us
fine into a vacation.

Speaker 99 (04:26:00):
I guess we'd better try to flag a ride into town.

Speaker 9 (04:26:02):
Wait a minute, Huh someone coming?

Speaker 96 (04:26:07):
Wow?

Speaker 1 (04:26:08):
How do you do it?

Speaker 96 (04:26:10):
Doesn't had a force landing out in one of your fields.

Speaker 1 (04:26:12):
What do you want?

Speaker 96 (04:26:13):
But I'm trying to tell you we had a force
landing out there in your field. Could I use your
telep Who are you? I don't see what everyth the
difference that makes. All I want is to use your
Why are you?

Speaker 10 (04:26:25):
Morgan? Did you see that sign the door in my face? Yeah?
In my face?

Speaker 5 (04:26:30):
Infernal pool, mister Stevens says.

Speaker 10 (04:26:34):
You know that guy was awful scared.

Speaker 6 (04:26:52):
This is the main road, isn't it.

Speaker 10 (04:26:54):
That's what the sign says. Then where's the traffic? He
stood here for an hour? Doesn't make sense that on
the main road.

Speaker 96 (04:27:01):
Hey wait, mister Stevenson, there comes a truck all about time.
If you don't stop, we'll make him stop.

Speaker 1 (04:27:07):
Riber driver River, Hey, driver, civer, stop.

Speaker 37 (04:27:10):
Stop.

Speaker 10 (04:27:13):
Driver, h my plane, I had a force landing out here.
Would you drive me into the city?

Speaker 1 (04:27:18):
Did you hear me?

Speaker 10 (04:27:20):
I'll give you twenty five dollars.

Speaker 5 (04:27:22):
Okay, jump in Morgan.

Speaker 10 (04:27:24):
You better stay here with a plane.

Speaker 96 (04:27:25):
I'll send someone back.

Speaker 1 (04:27:26):
Yes, I hope you're a fast driver.

Speaker 10 (04:27:33):
Fast enough.

Speaker 96 (04:27:40):
Well, for a while there, I thought there weren't any
trucks on the road anymore.

Speaker 6 (04:27:43):
Not many.

Speaker 10 (04:27:44):
But this is the main highway.

Speaker 5 (04:27:46):
Now it's practically empty.

Speaker 9 (04:27:47):
Why, master, I'm just a driver, h.

Speaker 10 (04:27:51):
Some sort of labor disturbing m you kidding me?

Speaker 9 (04:27:54):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 10 (04:27:56):
I'm not talking, mister. You are Look here.

Speaker 96 (04:27:59):
I've been vacationing up in the woods for weeks, I deliberately.

Speaker 10 (04:28:02):
I haven't read a newspaper or heard a radio in
all that time. But now that I'm back, oh well,
I might as well start taking it again.

Speaker 1 (04:28:11):
What's up?

Speaker 26 (04:28:12):
Well?

Speaker 5 (04:28:12):
Why don't you answer me?

Speaker 10 (04:28:14):
Mister?

Speaker 9 (04:28:14):
I'm just driving?

Speaker 10 (04:28:15):
What is this anyway? All I want is a civil answer.
I don't know any answers, mister.

Speaker 5 (04:28:18):
You'll find them out for yourself.

Speaker 10 (04:28:39):
Fifteen twenty twenty five.

Speaker 6 (04:28:41):
They are okay.

Speaker 10 (04:28:42):
Well, I certainly didn't get any conversation for my money.

Speaker 1 (04:28:45):
Are you getting off mister?

Speaker 96 (04:28:47):
Yes, of course, manners certainly haven't improved while I've been away. Goodbye, Yes,
yes of course.

Speaker 90 (04:29:03):
Boys.

Speaker 10 (04:29:04):
Let me have one of each, I said, one of each?

Speaker 33 (04:29:07):
Each?

Speaker 15 (04:29:07):
Newspaper?

Speaker 10 (04:29:09):
Oh you kidding?

Speaker 15 (04:29:10):
Say?

Speaker 10 (04:29:10):
What's come over? Everyone here?

Speaker 96 (04:29:12):
Give me a tribune, the news Times, all of them.

Speaker 10 (04:29:15):
Well, don't stand there. I'm gonna hurry, mister. Don't you know?

Speaker 25 (04:29:19):
No?

Speaker 8 (04:29:19):
What?

Speaker 10 (04:29:21):
What?

Speaker 8 (04:29:23):
Boy?

Speaker 40 (04:29:24):
Boy?

Speaker 1 (04:29:24):
Come back here?

Speaker 10 (04:29:25):
Where are you going? Come back here? H At least

(04:29:48):
my office is still here, George Stock find business can't
be eating into my own office?

Speaker 5 (04:29:58):
Wh hope not hope?

Speaker 8 (04:30:02):
Not no one in there?

Speaker 9 (04:30:06):
Sory lock?

Speaker 10 (04:30:07):
Where's my key?

Speaker 9 (04:30:09):
Nice business?

Speaker 96 (04:30:10):
Eleven thirty and they haven't even opened the office.

Speaker 9 (04:30:14):
That's loyalty.

Speaker 96 (04:30:14):
Boy, didn't expect me back to sooner, Ace book sire
office to have decided to take a vacation.

Speaker 37 (04:30:20):
Well, what in the.

Speaker 5 (04:30:24):
Desk file's gone off?

Speaker 6 (04:30:28):
Is emp?

Speaker 40 (04:30:30):
Where looking for something?

Speaker 15 (04:30:33):
Reagan?

Speaker 8 (04:30:33):
Eh?

Speaker 5 (04:30:35):
Reagan, Reagan?

Speaker 10 (04:30:37):
Don't you know me? What's going on here?

Speaker 96 (04:30:40):
Mister Stevenson? What's happened to my office? Where are all
my things? What's going on here? Don't stand there with
your mouth open?

Speaker 10 (04:30:46):
Tell me did I taught you was dead? What are
you talking about? Everyone knew I was going on a vacation.
What's happened to my things?

Speaker 5 (04:30:53):
Where are all my people? Answer me? You don't know
what talk words?

Speaker 69 (04:30:59):
Man?

Speaker 5 (04:30:59):
What's happened to my business?

Speaker 9 (04:31:01):
Mister Cheevens tonight?

Speaker 10 (04:31:03):
I can't tell you.

Speaker 1 (04:31:04):
What do you mean?

Speaker 10 (04:31:04):
You can't tell me?

Speaker 96 (04:31:05):
You're the manager of the building who moved out my office?

Speaker 10 (04:31:07):
Where are all my things?

Speaker 18 (04:31:08):
Answer me?

Speaker 6 (04:31:10):
Answer me?

Speaker 10 (04:31:12):
Can't ask questions, mister Stevens. What's go home? Mister Stevenson,
please go home quick. Jean Jean, Why are you Jean.

Speaker 5 (04:31:48):
Jeane to somebody?

Speaker 12 (04:31:50):
Fella who stands still?

Speaker 8 (04:31:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (04:31:54):
In your mouth?

Speaker 8 (04:31:55):
Shut?

Speaker 10 (04:31:56):
Oh damn, you get out of my house.

Speaker 9 (04:31:58):
Start walking walking?

Speaker 1 (04:31:59):
What do you mean?

Speaker 10 (04:32:00):
Somebody wants to talk to you?

Speaker 15 (04:32:02):
What are you?

Speaker 6 (04:32:03):
Please? Sure? Start moving?

Speaker 12 (04:32:05):
But why mister?

Speaker 6 (04:32:07):
They get going?

Speaker 10 (04:32:08):
No? If you're polease, where are your warrants? Yes? Where
are your warrants? No?

Speaker 9 (04:32:29):
H head room?

Speaker 6 (04:32:33):
Where?

Speaker 33 (04:32:36):
What?

Speaker 6 (04:32:40):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (04:32:40):
Man?

Speaker 15 (04:32:42):
What did he? M hm? You all right?

Speaker 6 (04:32:52):
Yes?

Speaker 24 (04:32:53):
No, you better not try to stand up?

Speaker 51 (04:32:57):
Hi.

Speaker 6 (04:32:57):
They police?

Speaker 5 (04:33:00):
Yeah, in a way someone made him mistake.

Speaker 10 (04:33:05):
No my name you know?

Speaker 23 (04:33:10):
And I used to do business with your company once.
Always treated me fine?

Speaker 6 (04:33:15):
Are you me?

Speaker 23 (04:33:17):
Nobody? Just so?

Speaker 6 (04:33:21):
Where am I?

Speaker 23 (04:33:23):
Mister Stevenson? Some things I can't tell you?

Speaker 96 (04:33:28):
State horrible mistake. I'm John Stevenson. I'm respectable citizens, all right?

Speaker 6 (04:33:39):
My wife.

Speaker 10 (04:33:40):
I got to get in touch with Jeans. Should be
worried one home.

Speaker 96 (04:33:43):
And not take it easy always the mayor, Yes, the mayor,
he's a friend of mine.

Speaker 10 (04:33:48):
He gets a telephone.

Speaker 8 (04:33:49):
Keep your.

Speaker 5 (04:33:51):
If they come in here to get them coming.

Speaker 10 (04:33:53):
I've got nothing to be afraid of.

Speaker 5 (04:33:54):
I've done nothing.

Speaker 10 (04:33:56):
Come into my house without a warrant. They've got no
right now, mister Stevenson. You don't understand. Please, mister Stevens,
understand what tell me things are different? Different?

Speaker 23 (04:34:09):
What do you mean?

Speaker 10 (04:34:10):
What's it got to do with this with me?

Speaker 23 (04:34:13):
Mister Stevens. It's something I don't understand.

Speaker 5 (04:34:18):
Where have you been been out of the city in
the woods.

Speaker 10 (04:34:20):
Don't waste time? Man call up them there, tell him.

Speaker 5 (04:34:22):
But that won't do anything.

Speaker 10 (04:34:24):
Why not been a mistake?

Speaker 23 (04:34:25):
It has been no mistake, mister Stevens. Yeah, Hey, I
guess maybe you're the only one in the whole country
don't know about well.

Speaker 5 (04:34:34):
I'm trying to.

Speaker 6 (04:34:37):
I don't know.

Speaker 9 (04:34:38):
Exactly how to say it.

Speaker 96 (04:34:39):
Well, well, first they well that part of the constitution,
they threw it out harder.

Speaker 9 (04:34:48):
What the devil are you talking about?

Speaker 23 (04:34:50):
That part of the constitution you know about rights?

Speaker 1 (04:34:55):
Threw it up.

Speaker 23 (04:34:56):
And the way I got it figured it out. When
anothers get hanged up on us, all them battleships, airplanes,
well there wasn't much.

Speaker 5 (04:35:05):
We could do now was to s well, throw in
the towel.

Speaker 10 (04:35:12):
Are you trying to tell me that while I was
away there's been an invasion? Invasion?

Speaker 23 (04:35:18):
Well there, they ain't gone all the way.

Speaker 10 (04:35:20):
I mean, just this piece of the coast. Get out
of here. You heard me, get out? Haven't I had
enough to day without listening to you? You have crazy
old food, mister Stevens.

Speaker 96 (04:35:28):
I tell you listen, someone out there got this crazy
old fool out of here.

Speaker 18 (04:35:32):
If this is a jail, get me my lawyer.

Speaker 1 (04:35:35):
What am I being killed here for? What are the charges?

Speaker 18 (04:35:37):
Get be my lawyer, Get me my lawyer.

Speaker 10 (04:35:49):
So you still insist on having a lawyer, Certainly, if
there's some criminal charge against me, I have a.

Speaker 1 (04:35:56):
Right to have a lawyer, right, right, right?

Speaker 10 (04:36:00):
What right are you talking about? You?

Speaker 96 (04:36:03):
You're obviously some sort of police official. Well, let me
tell you a horrible mistake has been made.

Speaker 10 (04:36:09):
I'm no criminal. I'm John Stevens, and an ordinary businessman.
Call Mayor Alden, who tell you'll tell us nothing. The
man is of no importance, no important but the mayor,
the mayor of what the worms worms?

Speaker 15 (04:36:22):
The man is dead.

Speaker 20 (04:36:24):
Oh, but that too is of no importance. What is
important to me is you and your activities.

Speaker 96 (04:36:29):
I I don't know what you're talking about, your so
called vacation trip meet What do you don't ask questions?

Speaker 15 (04:36:37):
Answer them?

Speaker 20 (04:36:38):
You've been out of the city for weeks, suddenly you return.
But where you wan on my vacation?

Speaker 6 (04:36:44):
Of course?

Speaker 10 (04:36:44):
Is there any law against that? For the last time,
don't try to be clever with me once and for all.

Speaker 96 (04:36:49):
Will you tell me what the charges are against me?
There's been some kind of terrible mistake, all right, but
tell me what the charges are. Give me a chance
to clear myself.

Speaker 10 (04:36:58):
I have wasted quite enough time with you, mister. Let
me postpond, Let me call my lawyer.

Speaker 40 (04:37:02):
You have no right to keep me here.

Speaker 10 (04:37:04):
My wife she wasn't home, and I was taken away
to be worried. Of course, your wife have you any
idea where your wife is, mister Stevens.

Speaker 8 (04:37:13):
Home?

Speaker 9 (04:37:13):
I suppose she must be there now if you have
me not home, believe me?

Speaker 10 (04:37:18):
Why do you say that?

Speaker 15 (04:37:19):
All right?

Speaker 10 (04:37:20):
Sergeant Jean? Jean, Jean, what are you doing here?

Speaker 8 (04:37:28):
What is it?

Speaker 6 (04:37:30):
Jean? Stop crying?

Speaker 10 (04:37:31):
I'm all right.

Speaker 5 (04:37:32):
There's been some crazy mistake, Jean. Why should you cry
like this?

Speaker 10 (04:37:38):
You never cry, Jean. The children, I'll be all right.

Speaker 5 (04:37:43):
Jean, talk to me. Stop crying and talk to me.

Speaker 10 (04:37:45):
She knows better better. What are you talking about? Jean?

Speaker 15 (04:37:50):
Slipped your face?

Speaker 10 (04:37:51):
What's happened?

Speaker 15 (04:37:51):
What's wrong?

Speaker 6 (04:37:52):
Take her away?

Speaker 10 (04:37:53):
No, she'll stay here, Jean. You tell me what this
is about. Is everyone gone crazy?

Speaker 6 (04:37:57):
What?

Speaker 10 (04:37:58):
No?

Speaker 73 (04:37:58):
Let go over your destiny gold me bring it back here,
bring it back your after your u.

Speaker 20 (04:38:23):
You will be quite calm now, eighties justus, Yes, yes,
I'm sure you will. We have quite a technique for
calming down unreasonable people, haven't we. So you're still persistent talking.
So discipline That is the first lesson you must learn

(04:38:45):
in this new state of ours. Discipline always discipline. It
is very strange, mister Stevenson. You've been here now over
an hour, and yet there is very little fear in
your face. I wonder why astonishment? Yes, yes, the sort

(04:39:07):
of astonished wonder in your faces. If you can't believe,
could you possibly be ignorant of the facts, This glorious
new state that we are planting here, this fulfillment of
the dreams some of us have had since the day
we heard a voice telling us of our destiny, a
dream that will come true. This will soon be our

(04:39:31):
nation now, mister Stephenson, ours all of it. Wo men
are fighting, yes, but we will win. Wonder in your face? Yes,
sometimes I ask myself, can it be true?

Speaker 10 (04:39:45):
The wonder of it? Yet, no wonder of it?

Speaker 20 (04:39:48):
The plan, mister Stephenson, the plan, always it was there,
and always we followed it. We poured our propaganda in
on you. Yes, we use your own weaknesses against you.
We tried let us speak. It is all right, How
simple it was to use your own rights against you.
So now you have no right Stephenson, No one has right.

Speaker 8 (04:40:02):
But do you want leaders?

Speaker 68 (04:40:04):
M I was quite carried away, wasn't I? I must
not forget to let us speak. We want to know
many things, every detail of your airplane trip, whom you saw,
which of our enemies are hiding up there where you were?
I want you answer quickly, Stephenson. Who are your friends?
Which of our enemies did you meet? Who were your friends?

Speaker 10 (04:40:26):
Who did you meet?

Speaker 95 (04:40:27):
Where did you go you meet?

Speaker 33 (04:40:29):
Where did you go.

Speaker 15 (04:40:43):
For them?

Speaker 71 (04:40:43):
Here?

Speaker 8 (04:40:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (04:40:47):
Did yet?

Speaker 9 (04:40:48):
Uh that shid?

Speaker 6 (04:41:00):
Yeah? No not yet?

Speaker 15 (04:41:05):
Who said that?

Speaker 5 (04:41:07):
I can't see all mixed up vacation enemies of the state.

Speaker 10 (04:41:17):
Plan.

Speaker 15 (04:41:18):
I don't know, m.

Speaker 10 (04:41:23):
All mixed up.

Speaker 96 (04:41:33):
No, got to stop, got to think o pain, No,
I got to think things out. What's happened to me?
What our glorious news state?

Speaker 10 (04:41:49):
We? Who are the leaders? This will be our nation soon?
Voices in my head?

Speaker 15 (04:41:53):
All mixed up?

Speaker 10 (04:41:55):
I think things out.

Speaker 96 (04:41:57):
I've got to go crazy from the start, Yes, from
the start, vacation, come back from my vacation land playing. Yes,
that farmer, that guy was awful, scared awful. Yes, Morgan,

(04:42:17):
you said that.

Speaker 37 (04:42:18):
I don't know any answers.

Speaker 23 (04:42:19):
You'll find him up for yourself.

Speaker 10 (04:42:20):
Yes, truck driver, mister don't you know?

Speaker 26 (04:42:23):
Mister don't you know?

Speaker 10 (04:42:24):
Yes, newsboy, he too.

Speaker 23 (04:42:26):
You can't ask questions, mister Stevens, he's a difference.

Speaker 10 (04:42:29):
You can't ask questions.

Speaker 96 (04:42:32):
Yes, Yes, they said that everyone said that. Everyone talking
to me, trying to tell me.

Speaker 9 (04:42:41):
I didn't know.

Speaker 15 (04:42:42):
I don't know.

Speaker 23 (04:42:43):
This will soon be our nation.

Speaker 10 (04:42:46):
It isn't true. No, it's all in my head. Gene, Gene,
where are you?

Speaker 24 (04:42:57):
Gee?

Speaker 15 (04:42:58):
Are the children?

Speaker 10 (04:43:01):
Geane?

Speaker 6 (04:43:04):
Did I just cry out?

Speaker 10 (04:43:07):
Cry out? Why should I cry out?

Speaker 15 (04:43:11):
My name is John Stephenson.

Speaker 10 (04:43:13):
I have a business in the Central Building. I have
a house in Arcade Street. I have a wife, two children,
a boy and a girl. We have good life, a
good life.

Speaker 9 (04:43:26):
That shaid dead dead?

Speaker 6 (04:43:28):
Why do I keep thinking that?

Speaker 15 (04:43:31):
Who said it to me?

Speaker 9 (04:43:32):
Dead dead dead?

Speaker 6 (04:43:34):
Yes?

Speaker 96 (04:43:35):
I know I remember going to kill me. I'm an
enemy of the state, our glorious news state. But it's
so funny.

Speaker 10 (04:43:44):
John Stephenson eight three two Arcage Street. Enemy of the state.

Speaker 96 (04:43:49):
I went on a vacation, I came home and I
am an enemy of the state. Yes, my wife, the children,
that's what he said.

Speaker 10 (04:43:59):
Everyone, enemies of the new state. Oh it's madness.

Speaker 96 (04:44:05):
I'm me.

Speaker 10 (04:44:07):
I can do what I want.

Speaker 5 (04:44:08):
I can get up out of here.

Speaker 10 (04:44:11):
Yes, I will get out of here. And John Stevenson,
you hurt me blood, Yeah, no, I will get out
of here. You can't accuse me. And not give me
a trial. You can't come into my house, you can't
take away my business. I'm a freeman, I'm an American.

(04:44:32):
This will be hardish and soon ours hours.

Speaker 18 (04:44:34):
How could that be seen?

Speaker 23 (04:44:36):
This be going great?

Speaker 80 (04:44:37):
There wasn't much good doing that.

Speaker 9 (04:44:38):
That's mind our own.

Speaker 8 (04:44:39):
Business, nothing to do with us.

Speaker 15 (04:44:41):
Who who said that?

Speaker 12 (04:44:42):
That's mind our own business?

Speaker 6 (04:44:44):
Nothing to do with that?

Speaker 112 (04:44:44):
I remember I said that, Yes, all the time I
said that. And I know none of my business were
none of my business?

Speaker 10 (04:45:00):
What none of my business? Our leader, our people, none
of my business.

Speaker 5 (04:45:09):
How could I Why did I don't Entagonize'll have to
do business with them?

Speaker 18 (04:45:13):
Let them talk.

Speaker 10 (04:45:16):
All the things I said.

Speaker 29 (04:45:18):
We weren't ready.

Speaker 10 (04:45:18):
There wasn't much we could do that way.

Speaker 12 (04:45:20):
Oh dead yet he will be dead.

Speaker 10 (04:45:25):
Yet he will be, I do understand, will be.

Speaker 96 (04:45:28):
I wanted everything, and I didn't want to risk anything
to keep what I had.

Speaker 80 (04:45:34):
What I had, what I had.

Speaker 10 (04:45:38):
Your home is your kingdom, your own God is your god.

Speaker 6 (04:45:41):
Say what you want to say, what you want to write,
trial by Jurian.

Speaker 10 (04:45:44):
Sanctity of person, who process of law.

Speaker 6 (04:45:46):
What I had?

Speaker 10 (04:45:50):
Gee? Is that you now in my head so dark?

Speaker 5 (04:45:56):
There's blood in my so dark ted, Yet he will be.
Yet he will be, Geane.

Speaker 96 (04:46:06):
I'll tell you something very funny. I'm not afraid to die. No,
I'm afraid to go on living. If all this isn't
really a dream, bad dream, then I don't.

Speaker 10 (04:46:20):
Want to go on living. Everywhere I turn they'd be there.

Speaker 12 (04:46:23):
Shut them out.

Speaker 2 (04:46:24):
You can't do that.

Speaker 10 (04:46:25):
Come with that, we accuse you.

Speaker 12 (04:46:26):
Tot them out, give us that.

Speaker 1 (04:46:31):
I can't live with that.

Speaker 10 (04:46:33):
All my life I lived with freedom, Geane. We didn't
know it was freedom. Live living in our house, a good.

Speaker 96 (04:46:45):
Life, our neighbors, not hating anybody, and driving in the
country with the kids wherever we wanted to go, and.

Speaker 10 (04:46:55):
Feeling sure the future for the kids.

Speaker 96 (04:46:57):
Because whatever was wrong here we ourselves could fix with
work and with our votes and with what.

Speaker 10 (04:47:05):
We knew was right in our hearts. I never said
this is freedom, but it was.

Speaker 87 (04:47:14):
It was.

Speaker 96 (04:47:15):
When they talked to me about losing it, I said,
don't be fools, no one will take it from us.
I thought freedom was like the air, all was with
me as long as I lived. I thought I didn't
have to do anything about it. Jeane, I was wrong.
I cut the words now to say it. What I

(04:47:37):
had wasn't a gift. It was a victory and I
can't live without it. Do you hear me out there?
I won't live without it to say what I think
is right, to do what I think is right.

Speaker 15 (04:47:51):
That's the only life I want. It is life. I'll
live for it.

Speaker 10 (04:47:57):
I'll fight for it. This precious freedom.

Speaker 9 (04:48:29):
This is arch Obler.

Speaker 72 (04:48:31):
May I present the leading actor of our play tonight,
mister Raymond Massey.

Speaker 96 (04:48:37):
Ladies and gentlemen, I want to say this. At the
opening of tonight's drama, arch Obras said, this is a
play of a tomorrow which should never happen. I know
all of you agree with me that this kind of
a tomorrow must never happen, and it can never happen
as long as we all dedicate ourselves to live with

(04:48:58):
the freedom of our fast and the future freedom of
our children.

Speaker 1 (04:49:10):
Every Man's Theater written especially for radio by arch Over.

Speaker 7 (04:49:46):
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(04:50:28):
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