December 9, 2025 • 24 mins
Suspense was one of the most popular and successful radio series during it's run of over 900 episodes, spanning 1940-1962. Guest stars included Orson Welles, Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball, Agnes Moorehead, Marlene Dietrich and Humphrey Bogart. The plots were mostly engaging crime dramas, science fiction and some horror - usually with a surprise ending.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
And now tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Suspense.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Tonight the story of fear in surgery. We call it
The Operation, So now, starring Mary Jane Croft with High Aberbach,
here is tonight Suspense play The Operation.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Okay, Danny, back her into the driveway.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Let's go on a little further. But for it's too
much of a run from the store.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Who's gonna run? Come on? Back her in?
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Hey, supposing someone comes out of the.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Honey, will you shut up?
Speaker 4 (01:24):
There's no one home? Well, I don't like it.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
What's the matter with you? You've gone yellow?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
No, but what's the sense.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I'll stop talking. Come on, let's get out of the car.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Come on, move.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Wait a minute, now, what's the gun for?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I thought you said, Danny, it ain't load.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Use it to scare old.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Man's showal if we have to, what are you waiting for?
Speaker 4 (01:50):
You coming?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (01:51):
I'm coming.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Okay, let's go, and you know what to do. Eyes open,
you see your cop. You come and get me.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
I know, I know how many more times you're going
to town.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
Boy, don't get scared and forget.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I'll cut it out. I'm not gonna forget it.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Okay, stay put, I'll be out in a minute.
Speaker 7 (02:18):
H how foul is a cop at the end of
(02:45):
the box.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
He's coming this way.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
Where is it, Schol?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I'm after for the last time.
Speaker 8 (02:48):
Where you're getting nothing from me, mister except maybe.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Und around me.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
You'll be all right?
Speaker 9 (03:01):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
We held up to.
Speaker 10 (03:12):
Night the two gunmen. Thomas Scholl was shot and killed. However,
it is believed that one of the gunmen was wounded
by shoal before he died and may seek many attention. Doctors,
especially those in the vicinity of the West Side, are
warned to take every precaution. They are advised not to
admit strangers to their offices. These men are armed and dangerous.
Stay tuned to this station for further Bulbetons. We return
(03:34):
you now to the concerto hour. Yes, can I see
the doctor.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
No, he's doubt His hours are from five to seven.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Well, yes, lady, I know I saw him this evening.
Oh yes, my name is He gave me some pills
in the clinic and I forgot them.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Oh well, you'll have to come back tomorrow. I'll tell him.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
You call tomorrow. Look, I can show you.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Where I left them. I'm sorry but you will have
to see the doctor about it. He'll be back in
about an hour. Oh, excuse me the phone. There's a
seat on the porch if you want to wait.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Hello, Hello, dear. Did I leave my wallet?
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Oh? Yes, I put it in your desk.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Oh good, I was worried. Everything all right. I heard
the radio bulletin on the car.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Oh yes, I heard that too. Don't worry though, I'm fine.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Better lock the doors and windows.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
I did that anyway, good.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Girl, Say missus Thomas phones and tell her I'm on
my way.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Yes, all right, I will. Oh have you Have you
got a clinic patient named Carter?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yes, because he's new. Came in about six o'clock.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Why well, he just called for some pills. He left
in the office.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Did you find him?
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Didn't look for them. I told him to wait for you.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Is he still there?
Speaker 5 (05:03):
I don't know. I left him on the porch.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I'll tell him to come in to me.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Watch.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
You'll make a good bodyguard till I get back. Be
about an hour.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
I don't need a bodyguard.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Please, I could worry with you alone there, okay.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
All right, if we'll make you happy, I'll ask him in.
If he's still there, thanks to you.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Oh, goodbye, see about an hour.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Bye dying mister Carter.
Speaker 9 (05:35):
Mister Carter, Oh, will you come in please?
Speaker 5 (05:46):
That was a doctor on the phone. He said, if
you'd like to wait, he'll be back in an hour.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
All right, pa, nice bye. Uh. I suppose it's lonely
at night for a doctor's wife.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
I'm used to it. I always had nurses. Saint James talkestable.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Oh really, it's very interesting. Well, look, lady, I'm sorry
I got to do this, but i've got to I
want some dough. I've never robbed anyone before, but I've
got to have some money. I left the pills before
(06:28):
on purpose. I figured i'd come back when the doctor
went out on the car. I've been waiting around for
two hours.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
I haven't got anything.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
I'm sorry. I figured this out for a long time.
I paid the doctor two bucks, my last two bucks
for the visit today. There must have been twenty others
like me, not at doez here, and I wanted so
please don't make any trouble. It's just just a few bucks.
That's all that'll see me through.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Why don't you just get a job instead.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
But lady, I've got no time to argue I lost
my job. That's the trouble. Come on now, all right,
get away from that.
Speaker 11 (07:15):
P'tit fuck lady, if you don't keep quiet, if you're
gonna get hurt, please don't don't do anything like that again.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I just want some cash, nothing else. Now, just tell
me where you keep it.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
There's a few dollars in my bag.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Five bucks. It's not enough. Where's the office? He keeps
his money in there, doesn't he?
Speaker 5 (07:55):
I don't know. It's luck.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Okay, maybe one of these will open the door. Let
it ring.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Come on, you better let me answer that.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
I better not. Now you stand over there, don't move. Yeah, well,
(08:43):
it's a nice wallet. I always wanted an alligator wallet.
Let's see. Listen, lady, that's better than a hundred bucks
in here. I don't need all that. Maybe you think
I'm crazy, but I'm just gonna take fifty. I'll send
it back as soon as I can. So just give
me a break. When you don't tell the cops. I'm
(09:04):
on the level. I've just got to have the dough
you sealing.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
There's no excuse.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Sorry, I I've got a lock in. I'm sorry. Goodbye,
h you got you stand still? Hey, what's the idea?
(09:41):
Turn around and walk? All right? Get through that hedge?
All right, okay, let's get it over with. Here's my
wallet now, can I go?
Speaker 10 (09:57):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Keep moving?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
It's okay, Danny, it's me ow.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
All right, shit, I.
Speaker 7 (10:08):
Got the Doc's bad.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
I'm going No.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
You won't, Danny, He's going to be all right now.
What's wrong with him? Got a slug in his guts?
Help me?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Do?
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Help me.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
I'm not a doctor. No. If Shingo says you are,
we'll see what your wallet says.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
It's not mine.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
James bell m d listen, you tell me nothing?
Speaker 8 (10:33):
Who is?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I tell yourself?
Speaker 5 (10:34):
Help me?
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I'll kill your right now. Let me talk. Going inside inside?
He got to go to a hospital. Take him up, doc,
I said, you're going back inside, but I, oh, what's
the use? Look you might a run for it.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Leave you a pal here with me.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
I'll get him to a hospital. I won't, Danny, I won't. Okay,
help me pick him up, doc. You're going to.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
Get the bullet out of the kid.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
You are listening to the operation the night's presentation in
Radio's outstanding Theater of Thrill's Suspense two Thrilling dramas of
gun Smoke will be here Saturday on most of these stations.
(11:37):
CBS Radio presents a daytime edition of gun Smoke, then
Saturday Night, an entirely news story of Matt dyllon US
Marshall in Old Dug City, shooting hard, riding hard, fighting
hard to bring civilization to America's new frontier. Gun Smoke
now twice Saturday's at the Star's address. Don't miss it.
Now we bring back to our Hollywood soundstage, Mary Jane
(11:59):
Cross and High Averback starring in tonight's production of the
Operation A Tail Well calculated to keep you in suspect.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Okay, I'll hold him. You open the door, all right, Hey,
he's passed out. Let's put him on the couch for
a minute where you gonna operate him. But I try
through there in the office side.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Let's get him in there.
Speaker 11 (12:50):
Listen, we gotta be shs it.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
She must have got locked in. We'll open it and
don't try anything. Move over.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Come on, doctor, let's get him up on the table.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I didn't want to bring him in here. I said
I'd take him to the hospital. But he is actually
gonna take care of him.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
What's the matter with him.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
He's been shot.
Speaker 9 (13:16):
Put him down, all right, now stand away, let me
look at him.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
That boy's got to go.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
To the hospital.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Shut up.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Who asked you? Why don't you give the kid a
chance we're talking and take the slug out of him. Well,
don't stand there, Come on, go do let it ring?
I said, let it ring?
Speaker 5 (13:45):
Where are you goney to shut the door? I've had
enough of your big talk. Now you listen to me
and put that gun away. If you want to help
your friend, make up your mind to take orders from
now on?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
How come I take orders from you? He's doc. If
you're trying to store me ladies or nurse? What she
says goes okay, what do I do?
Speaker 9 (14:09):
Keep an eye on the boy until the doctor and
I are washed up and ready?
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Keep your voice gun?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
What am I supposed to do? I can't do an operation.
Speaker 9 (14:23):
Take your coat off and scrub your hands.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
What's for?
Speaker 5 (14:25):
They're going to happen for me? Yes?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
You, I won't go throw it that. I can't please yourself.
I know what you're trying to do. You do, Yeah,
you're playing the time and trying to scare me. They
be waiting for the doctor to get back it's not
going to do you any good. Well, both of them?
Is it's now that counts?
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Sure he finds out I'm not a doctor. He's going
to use that gun now on you too. I'll stop talking.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Try your hands and put on this gun. You take
your coat off and get ready to scrub up.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Looks I should have taken him to a hospital. Don't
tell me what I should have done. Telling you what
you're going to do. You think it makes any difference
whether I kill you or not. You've got another thing coming.
I'll get on with it.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Hurry and get washed.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
He's a game kill I'm right here, Danny, right here.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Quiet, don't talk to him, got to keep quiet. Go away.
You're a nurse. Yes, you'll be back soon.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
How is it bad? Well? What are we going to do?
You've got to help me get a house cut. We
can't go through with us trying to get that bullet out.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Don't get me a wet.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Towel, I'll answer you.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Stay right where you are.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
It's only a patient. Here's your patient right over there.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
Come on, what are you waiting for?
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Get that wet towel quickly? Oh? Where does your friend live?
If he's got any folks. You better get them over here.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Never mind. Doc's gonna take him home as soon as
he gets through.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
If he's got a mother and father, you'd better get
them here.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
You're trying to scare me. You don't look so bad.
Speaker 9 (16:16):
That boy is awfully sick, nurse, if you didn't better, huh,
I want to ask Danny.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
I'm right here. Where's your gonna take it easy?
Speaker 4 (16:26):
You'll be home in no time. Where's your gun?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Come on, Doc, get started.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Stop talking. You'll never get better.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
You just said the gun was loaded, and he take
it easy? Why did you shoot him? Those shoulders didn't do.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Even It's all right, you just take it easy.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Usually there wasn't going to be no shooting.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Quiet. Let the doc go to work.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Close your eyes. That's good, that's fine.
Speaker 9 (16:52):
No, go well, you'll stay with him.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
You'll get the instruments.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
How long are you going to keep this up?
Speaker 5 (17:05):
We're going to get that bullet out. Now, you switch
on the stairlizer and hold this instrument tray.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
It's okay. If you get him to hold this tray,
he'll have to put his gun down. I'll grab it
and you run for the door. Please say, I'll take
the chance. All right, Oh, would you come here and
hold it? Try? Please? What's the matter with you holding well?
I've got to help her with the instruments. And that's
if you think I'm gonna put the gun down. I'll
help her.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Hi, I can manage take that job, swam, put it
on the little table.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Okay, I'm sorry, your fault. I can't do it. I can't,
all right. You tell him that, go ahead, it'll be murdered.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Here. Help me get his shirt off. Mhm.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
He's passed out again. Makes it easier.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Okay, but now he's it over there and you'll be
cline list.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Kid means a lot to me. I got him into this,
and i'm gonna see that he gets out. You make
him well, you do that. I'm gonna sit where you said,
but I'm gonna watch you. I'm gonna watch every second.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
Lady.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
If he dies, you die too.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
I got nothing to lose.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
All right, I'll give him an anesthetic, put him under. You,
get your back to a look. If we're both working,
you hand me the ins.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
No, do you know how to do this? I hope
I do.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Clod give me the hypogeic.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Oh yeah, h.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Yeah, Now that.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Okay, h.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
What those copping things were?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Quick?
Speaker 5 (19:26):
What?
Speaker 11 (19:26):
Why?
Speaker 5 (19:27):
Why?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Why?
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Most doesn't matter? Give me that.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (19:47):
What are you doing? Why isn't the dog taking the ball?
And I tried to.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Both of you, what you're killing them?
Speaker 3 (19:54):
No?
Speaker 12 (19:56):
One quick, kady?
Speaker 13 (20:17):
Okay, how about it? I think we should wait. No,
(20:37):
they're probably at a movie.
Speaker 8 (20:41):
Yeah, this might be then.
Speaker 13 (20:55):
Anything one, officers, Doctor Bell, Okay, we're just checking I
about the wounded.
Speaker 8 (21:00):
Hold it man, Yes, sir, can't be here though, because
there's no one in the home.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
My wife's there.
Speaker 8 (21:04):
I know she is headquarters. Phoned twice and got no reply.
We called all the doctors in this area.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
That's impossible. She must be home.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
I told her on keep it quiet, doctor.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
I understand.
Speaker 8 (21:24):
Maybe she's taken a bath.
Speaker 10 (21:26):
There's a light in that room.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
It's the office.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Keep me covered, right.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
Ruth a wife. Take a look at the boy I got.
Speaker 8 (21:45):
The who's the guy on the floor.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
He's one of the men who held up the store.
What happened the carter got his gun away from him.
Speaker 8 (21:53):
You better give me the gun, sir.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Oh yeah, what an ambuments?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
What are the officers?
Speaker 3 (22:01):
You did a nice job, dear.
Speaker 8 (22:04):
He's going to be all right all the hospital, Accolns.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
This must have been quite something for you, mister Carter.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Yeah, something.
Speaker 9 (22:14):
I'm very grateful to you, mister Carter, very grateful and
about that doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
You don't have to worry. I'm sure the doctor will help.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Suspense, in which Mary Jane Croft and High ever Back
starred in the operation by Charles Jakins. Next Week, the
story of a search for the murderer of his brother
a killing in Abilene. That's Next Week on Suspense. Suspense
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composed by Lucian Morlock and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. Featured
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Bill Justine and John Stephenson. Saturday Night on CBS Radio,
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And now tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Suspense.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Tonight the story of fear in surgery. We call it
The Operation, So now, starring Mary Jane Croft with High Aberbach,
here is tonight Suspense play The Operation.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Okay, Danny, back her into the driveway.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Let's go on a little further. But for it's too
much of a run from the store.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Who's gonna run? Come on? Back her in?
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Hey, supposing someone comes out of the.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Honey, will you shut up?
Speaker 4 (01:24):
There's no one home? Well, I don't like it.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
What's the matter with you? You've gone yellow?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
No, but what's the sense.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I'll stop talking. Come on, let's get out of the car.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Come on, move.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Wait a minute, now, what's the gun for?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I thought you said, Danny, it ain't load.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Use it to scare old.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Man's showal if we have to, what are you waiting for?
Speaker 4 (01:50):
You coming?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (01:51):
I'm coming.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Okay, let's go, and you know what to do. Eyes open,
you see your cop. You come and get me.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
I know, I know how many more times you're going
to town.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
Boy, don't get scared and forget.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I'll cut it out. I'm not gonna forget it.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Okay, stay put, I'll be out in a minute.
Speaker 7 (02:18):
H how foul is a cop at the end of
(02:45):
the box.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
He's coming this way.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
Where is it, Schol?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I'm after for the last time.
Speaker 8 (02:48):
Where you're getting nothing from me, mister except maybe.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Und around me.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
You'll be all right?
Speaker 9 (03:01):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
We held up to.
Speaker 10 (03:12):
Night the two gunmen. Thomas Scholl was shot and killed. However,
it is believed that one of the gunmen was wounded
by shoal before he died and may seek many attention. Doctors,
especially those in the vicinity of the West Side, are
warned to take every precaution. They are advised not to
admit strangers to their offices. These men are armed and dangerous.
Stay tuned to this station for further Bulbetons. We return
(03:34):
you now to the concerto hour. Yes, can I see
the doctor.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
No, he's doubt His hours are from five to seven.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Well, yes, lady, I know I saw him this evening.
Oh yes, my name is He gave me some pills
in the clinic and I forgot them.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Oh well, you'll have to come back tomorrow. I'll tell him.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
You call tomorrow. Look, I can show you.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Where I left them. I'm sorry but you will have
to see the doctor about it. He'll be back in
about an hour. Oh, excuse me the phone. There's a
seat on the porch if you want to wait.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Hello, Hello, dear. Did I leave my wallet?
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Oh? Yes, I put it in your desk.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Oh good, I was worried. Everything all right. I heard
the radio bulletin on the car.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Oh yes, I heard that too. Don't worry though, I'm fine.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Better lock the doors and windows.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
I did that anyway, good.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Girl, Say missus Thomas phones and tell her I'm on
my way.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Yes, all right, I will. Oh have you Have you
got a clinic patient named Carter?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yes, because he's new. Came in about six o'clock.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Why well, he just called for some pills. He left
in the office.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Did you find him?
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Didn't look for them. I told him to wait for you.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Is he still there?
Speaker 5 (05:03):
I don't know. I left him on the porch.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I'll tell him to come in to me.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Watch.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
You'll make a good bodyguard till I get back. Be
about an hour.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
I don't need a bodyguard.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Please, I could worry with you alone there, okay.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
All right, if we'll make you happy, I'll ask him in.
If he's still there, thanks to you.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Oh, goodbye, see about an hour.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Bye dying mister Carter.
Speaker 9 (05:35):
Mister Carter, Oh, will you come in please?
Speaker 5 (05:46):
That was a doctor on the phone. He said, if
you'd like to wait, he'll be back in an hour.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
All right, pa, nice bye. Uh. I suppose it's lonely
at night for a doctor's wife.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
I'm used to it. I always had nurses. Saint James talkestable.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Oh really, it's very interesting. Well, look, lady, I'm sorry
I got to do this, but i've got to I
want some dough. I've never robbed anyone before, but I've
got to have some money. I left the pills before
(06:28):
on purpose. I figured i'd come back when the doctor
went out on the car. I've been waiting around for
two hours.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
I haven't got anything.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
I'm sorry. I figured this out for a long time.
I paid the doctor two bucks, my last two bucks
for the visit today. There must have been twenty others
like me, not at doez here, and I wanted so
please don't make any trouble. It's just just a few bucks.
That's all that'll see me through.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Why don't you just get a job instead.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
But lady, I've got no time to argue I lost
my job. That's the trouble. Come on now, all right,
get away from that.
Speaker 11 (07:15):
P'tit fuck lady, if you don't keep quiet, if you're
gonna get hurt, please don't don't do anything like that again.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I just want some cash, nothing else. Now, just tell
me where you keep it.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
There's a few dollars in my bag.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Five bucks. It's not enough. Where's the office? He keeps
his money in there, doesn't he?
Speaker 5 (07:55):
I don't know. It's luck.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Okay, maybe one of these will open the door. Let
it ring.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Come on, you better let me answer that.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
I better not. Now you stand over there, don't move. Yeah, well,
(08:43):
it's a nice wallet. I always wanted an alligator wallet.
Let's see. Listen, lady, that's better than a hundred bucks
in here. I don't need all that. Maybe you think
I'm crazy, but I'm just gonna take fifty. I'll send
it back as soon as I can. So just give
me a break. When you don't tell the cops. I'm
(09:04):
on the level. I've just got to have the dough
you sealing.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
There's no excuse.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Sorry, I I've got a lock in. I'm sorry. Goodbye,
h you got you stand still? Hey, what's the idea?
(09:41):
Turn around and walk? All right? Get through that hedge?
All right, okay, let's get it over with. Here's my
wallet now, can I go?
Speaker 10 (09:57):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Keep moving?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
It's okay, Danny, it's me ow.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
All right, shit, I.
Speaker 7 (10:08):
Got the Doc's bad.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
I'm going No.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
You won't, Danny, He's going to be all right now.
What's wrong with him? Got a slug in his guts?
Help me?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Do?
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Help me.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
I'm not a doctor. No. If Shingo says you are,
we'll see what your wallet says.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
It's not mine.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
James bell m d listen, you tell me nothing?
Speaker 8 (10:33):
Who is?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I tell yourself?
Speaker 5 (10:34):
Help me?
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I'll kill your right now. Let me talk. Going inside inside?
He got to go to a hospital. Take him up, doc,
I said, you're going back inside, but I, oh, what's
the use? Look you might a run for it.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Leave you a pal here with me.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
I'll get him to a hospital. I won't, Danny, I won't. Okay,
help me pick him up, doc. You're going to.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
Get the bullet out of the kid.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
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Speaker 3 (12:32):
Okay, I'll hold him. You open the door, all right, Hey,
he's passed out. Let's put him on the couch for
a minute where you gonna operate him. But I try
through there in the office side.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Let's get him in there.
Speaker 11 (12:50):
Listen, we gotta be shs it.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
She must have got locked in. We'll open it and
don't try anything. Move over.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Come on, doctor, let's get him up on the table.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I didn't want to bring him in here. I said
I'd take him to the hospital. But he is actually
gonna take care of him.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
What's the matter with him.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
He's been shot.
Speaker 9 (13:16):
Put him down, all right, now stand away, let me
look at him.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
That boy's got to go.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
To the hospital.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Shut up.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Who asked you? Why don't you give the kid a
chance we're talking and take the slug out of him. Well,
don't stand there, Come on, go do let it ring?
I said, let it ring?
Speaker 5 (13:45):
Where are you goney to shut the door? I've had
enough of your big talk. Now you listen to me
and put that gun away. If you want to help
your friend, make up your mind to take orders from
now on?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
How come I take orders from you? He's doc. If
you're trying to store me ladies or nurse? What she
says goes okay, what do I do?
Speaker 9 (14:09):
Keep an eye on the boy until the doctor and
I are washed up and ready?
Speaker 5 (14:19):
Keep your voice gun?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
What am I supposed to do? I can't do an operation.
Speaker 9 (14:23):
Take your coat off and scrub your hands.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
What's for?
Speaker 5 (14:25):
They're going to happen for me? Yes?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
You, I won't go throw it that. I can't please yourself.
I know what you're trying to do. You do, Yeah,
you're playing the time and trying to scare me. They
be waiting for the doctor to get back it's not
going to do you any good. Well, both of them?
Is it's now that counts?
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Sure he finds out I'm not a doctor. He's going
to use that gun now on you too. I'll stop talking.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Try your hands and put on this gun. You take
your coat off and get ready to scrub up.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Looks I should have taken him to a hospital. Don't
tell me what I should have done. Telling you what
you're going to do. You think it makes any difference
whether I kill you or not. You've got another thing coming.
I'll get on with it.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Hurry and get washed.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
He's a game kill I'm right here, Danny, right here.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Quiet, don't talk to him, got to keep quiet. Go away.
You're a nurse. Yes, you'll be back soon.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
How is it bad? Well? What are we going to do?
You've got to help me get a house cut. We
can't go through with us trying to get that bullet out.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Don't get me a wet.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Towel, I'll answer you.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Stay right where you are.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
It's only a patient. Here's your patient right over there.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
Come on, what are you waiting for?
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Get that wet towel quickly? Oh? Where does your friend live?
If he's got any folks. You better get them over here.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Never mind. Doc's gonna take him home as soon as
he gets through.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
If he's got a mother and father, you'd better get
them here.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
You're trying to scare me. You don't look so bad.
Speaker 9 (16:16):
That boy is awfully sick, nurse, if you didn't better, huh,
I want to ask Danny.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
I'm right here. Where's your gonna take it easy?
Speaker 4 (16:26):
You'll be home in no time. Where's your gun?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Come on, Doc, get started.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Stop talking. You'll never get better.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
You just said the gun was loaded, and he take
it easy? Why did you shoot him? Those shoulders didn't do.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Even It's all right, you just take it easy.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Usually there wasn't going to be no shooting.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Quiet. Let the doc go to work.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Close your eyes. That's good, that's fine.
Speaker 9 (16:52):
No, go well, you'll stay with him.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
You'll get the instruments.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
How long are you going to keep this up?
Speaker 5 (17:05):
We're going to get that bullet out. Now, you switch
on the stairlizer and hold this instrument tray.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
It's okay. If you get him to hold this tray,
he'll have to put his gun down. I'll grab it
and you run for the door. Please say, I'll take
the chance. All right, Oh, would you come here and
hold it? Try? Please? What's the matter with you holding well?
I've got to help her with the instruments. And that's
if you think I'm gonna put the gun down. I'll
help her.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Hi, I can manage take that job, swam, put it
on the little table.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Okay, I'm sorry, your fault. I can't do it. I can't,
all right. You tell him that, go ahead, it'll be murdered.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Here. Help me get his shirt off. Mhm.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
He's passed out again. Makes it easier.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Okay, but now he's it over there and you'll be
cline list.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Kid means a lot to me. I got him into this,
and i'm gonna see that he gets out. You make
him well, you do that. I'm gonna sit where you said,
but I'm gonna watch you. I'm gonna watch every second.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
Lady.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
If he dies, you die too.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
I got nothing to lose.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
All right, I'll give him an anesthetic, put him under. You,
get your back to a look. If we're both working,
you hand me the ins.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
No, do you know how to do this? I hope
I do.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Clod give me the hypogeic.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Oh yeah, h.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Yeah, Now that.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Okay, h.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
What those copping things were?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Quick?
Speaker 5 (19:26):
What?
Speaker 11 (19:26):
Why?
Speaker 5 (19:27):
Why?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Why?
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Most doesn't matter? Give me that.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (19:47):
What are you doing? Why isn't the dog taking the ball?
And I tried to.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Both of you, what you're killing them?
Speaker 3 (19:54):
No?
Speaker 12 (19:56):
One quick, kady?
Speaker 13 (20:17):
Okay, how about it? I think we should wait. No,
(20:37):
they're probably at a movie.
Speaker 8 (20:41):
Yeah, this might be then.
Speaker 13 (20:55):
Anything one, officers, Doctor Bell, Okay, we're just checking I
about the wounded.
Speaker 8 (21:00):
Hold it man, Yes, sir, can't be here though, because
there's no one in the home.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
My wife's there.
Speaker 8 (21:04):
I know she is headquarters. Phoned twice and got no reply.
We called all the doctors in this area.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
That's impossible. She must be home.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
I told her on keep it quiet, doctor.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
I understand.
Speaker 8 (21:24):
Maybe she's taken a bath.
Speaker 10 (21:26):
There's a light in that room.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
It's the office.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Keep me covered, right.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
Ruth a wife. Take a look at the boy I got.
Speaker 8 (21:45):
The who's the guy on the floor.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
He's one of the men who held up the store.
What happened the carter got his gun away from him.
Speaker 8 (21:53):
You better give me the gun, sir.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Oh yeah, what an ambuments?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
What are the officers?
Speaker 3 (22:01):
You did a nice job, dear.
Speaker 8 (22:04):
He's going to be all right all the hospital, Accolns.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
This must have been quite something for you, mister Carter.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Yeah, something.
Speaker 9 (22:14):
I'm very grateful to you, mister Carter, very grateful and
about that doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
You don't have to worry. I'm sure the doctor will help.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
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