1036 - SOS (Mysterious Traveler)

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
A journey into the rail of the strain and tell by.
I hope you will enjoy the chable that it will
tree you a little and kill you a little.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
So settle back, get a good grip on your nerves.
Where are we going?

Speaker 1 (00:22):
You'll find out when we get there.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
The usual Broadcasting System presents The Mysterious Dovelers, written, produced
and directed by Robert Day, author and David Posens and
Starns an three radios almost personality, Ralph bel Loi Van
Routtens and Roger mccoan In at all.

Speaker 4 (01:20):
This is a mysterious inviting to join me on another
journey was around the strange and the terrify. I hope
you will enjoy the chip, but it will tree your
little and your little So settle back, get a good
look on your nerves, and be comfortable if through terms
as we joined three enterprising men who are in a

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very dire predicament.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
It's a story I go S O S.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
M.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
My story tonight is about a group of savory individual
at the moment discussing a little unhappily with their recent
pass Yes, uh, here we are the three of us,
I dream out here. How long is it hollow tlell me.
All that's Steve. He knows everything, he still does. Couldn't

(02:21):
miss it, couldn't miss his opportunities. You just have to
recognize them. Isn't that what you said? Steve? Is like
what you say? Shut up, Doc, shut up, I've had
enough look at him. I was gonna turn on that
automatic radio send. Isn't that right? Shut up? Shut up?

(02:43):
Do you hear any think that I was going to
hear those things?

Speaker 5 (02:46):
Nor for we're addressed out here. But you're wasting your
time with that radio sender. No one's going to pick
us up right.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
By bothers me let along.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
I can remember that day, Sty when you first s
the plan to us.

Speaker 5 (03:07):
Oh you were the mastermind, all right, remember Sev.

Speaker 6 (03:21):
Yeah, I remember all that.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
I wish I could forget that day to get everything
that's happened. There's no escaping. I can see everything that's
happened as clear as if it were only yesterday. Yeah.
I remember the way I walked into the office Mike

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and Doc was sitting there waiting waiting for the bad news.
Huh wow, and got a life sentence. The rest got
ten to twenty years. Great, Yes, great, I just can't

(04:10):
get over it, just can't. Things were running so smoothly,
the syndicate was cleaning up and then sil this happens.
The three of us were pretty lucky not being indicted
with the others. Yeah, we hadn't been in South America.
Hand on that end. We the got it in the
next two I still do not understand how could they

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smash the syndicate over night? There was no records, fous
and took every recourse.

Speaker 7 (04:39):
Let's face it, to day for guys like us is
over the camps. They have science and the side they're
using every trick in the book. You're right, television, radar,
infrared cameras, electro detectors might be alarmed, and I handed
one other scientistic gimmick.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yes, you are right. They have learned to move so
fast that they have taken all the puppet out of
the rackets they should have. I just wish I had
a small pod of all that door I once made.
Where did it go? Lowier's day prediction and got a
simple He's like, have I what about U, Steve? I've

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still got a few grand left. The way science is
turning the heat on, it looks like we'll have to
turn on us whether we want to or not. Look,
I've been working out an angle. What about sticking around
for a couple more days? Dead wise? Theave the cops
are ready for everything. He says, they're on any more angle?

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I said, I've got one. I just need a little
more time to work it out. What are you saying?
Can I do any harm to listen? How much time
do you need? Two days? Make me have the day
after tomorrow? No way out the whole plan for you?

(06:04):
Whild stage, you still got an angle? Or to blow
up in your face? For the past forty eight hours,
I've been going over detail by detail and it still
looks good. Well, what is the job? Let's have it?
The lifting of five million dollars worth of uncut Martino
diamonds from the SS Europe. What we must be out

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of your head will require an army to take over
that boat. He has a four over three hundred. Next,
his plan of mind can be worked with three men
us this time? Got a here? Just how would you
go about it? Mastermind? All right? Twoas from the night
SS Europe will be docking in London with five million

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and uncut diamonds and the shipment of three thousand pounds
of uranium under pressure. Three thousand pounds of uranium under pressure?
What are you getting in a half hour before the
europe lands. I go to the captain's quarters, you might
You go to the radio communication office and you docked.

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You go to the special room where the uranium is
stored under pressure. Then what I'd tell the captain that
I have one man in control of radio communication and
another in the uranium story room, and unless he turns
over the diamond shipment to me, a bullet will be
fired into the uranium confessor, blowing up the ship. You

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really expect the captain to pall for that while you
pull your blood. Dare you're to blow up the ship
with us? Hart? Of course he would have like that,
would never you're wrong, You're wrong Psychologically we've got the
edge of the captain. Maybe we're willing to die too
for a poll of three hundred and twice as many passengers.
He just would risk it to have to go had

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after all it brought duty is with passenger hamship. We
would probably figure that we wouldn't get fired with our diamond,
that the police would get us in no time of torn.
Of course, that's exactly the way you see it. Suppose
you to force in the turnover the diamonds, how would
we make our getaway? We use one of the ship's
emergency launchers. Sure. Meanwhile, the captain of the Ess Europe

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is radio the police, and we walked right into their
very captain walk radio the police. And why won't he
for two reasons versus radio Rome will be put out
of commission. And second, ten minutes after we leave the Europe,
it's going to blow up, blow up the Youngien. That's right.

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There won't be a piece of the ship left or
anyone to identify it. Uh five million in uncut diamonds,
at least five million. There's plan of your Steve. It's
just wild enough to sucteed. Yes, we'll see audacity. It

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might be care I though, yeah we did. Oh that's right.
What do you say that finding the thought of honest labor,
I've harrd. I'm inclined to go along with your Steve.
What about you, Mike? Yeah, it's against this, but for

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that kind of do I'll risk it. You won't regret it, Mike.
All right, now he's a setup today and tomorrow the
Ess America is that wo Bob, we'll be on her
when it leaves. You mean, so that we can study
the same layout that we'll find on the York. Yes,
that's right. By the time we bought the Europe the
return trip, we'll know every innswer the ship and I

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will have to work fast. I'll take care of getting
us passports under assumed names. Doc, I want you to
put passage for three of us are the America. Oh.
Two days later, Doctor Mike and myself boarded the SS

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America using force passports. We pushed our way through the
other passengers, mostly vacationists, to our cabin on v Day
while we were unpacking the ship's whistle groove for all
visitors to leave. A few minutes later, we were on
our way. During the next three days, we covered the

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ship from one end to the other, taking pictures of
the layout, learning the schedules of the crew. When we
walked off after the ten day clip, we knew everything
they wanted to know about. Both riders passed over fireby

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pas s Angeles. Will kindly step this way, I'll show
the FastPort command. Also, don't handed several with his face
woods stop welling wid you well, I see you FastPort
is a one. Thank you. Richard will be born in Boston,

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United States. How long do you intend to stay here,
mister Worthy? About week? Have you ever been here before?
Oh no, this is my first verson.

Speaker 8 (11:36):
Our lords are quite different than those of your country.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
You will do well to study.

Speaker 4 (11:42):
This tuplet, which is issued by my government.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
I gil will.

Speaker 8 (11:49):
Your fast sport is done, you make past, I go.
I trust you enjoy your stay with us.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
Next passenger seen, why don't we go back to the hotel?
I might as well say the local sights while we're here.
So this is where all our fellow fashion fills came

(12:19):
on this witness. I mean it gives me to greet
the natives too. I think he looks so different. All
come on now, min got's my way for a traveling
to speak, showing us puts different what is known? If
you find plenty of interest you Hey, yeah, this is
gonna be back in New York. So the same begear
next Mike, another week and we'll be back in New York.

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Really lax, he said, I don't like places get a different.
I like what I'm used to. It's crazy bird? What
do they call them? Movie? Though? I don't know? I
have a national bird called Martinos. My teams man looking
like books, thousands of Oh you get used all these
kinds you never seen nothing like. That's one of the

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great tractions here. People come from all over the earth
to see these crowds. Yeah, well they can have them.
Look at those ruins over there. Who I've been over
all these yields and yet they've never cleaned them up.
We've been, Yeah, our rocket pratish who level of the
country side? No wonder the natives aren't any tool plans there?
You say that again, We'll be glad. Will we afford

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the europe Leiser race for riven.

Speaker 6 (13:31):
Lay fire fire lave about five five that fine fire.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
Take all our luggage? Yes, I went all the emotions
of looking like an anxious tourist. Who will be enough Kevin?
When we go up up? What Kevin? Did we get
the Kevin thirty two BA thirty two B. That's just
a few feet away from the radio commutations at the
touch rhyme tun John days are dun Jhon days.

Speaker 8 (14:00):
All passengers bomb for London.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
We will now for Europe. The bucket time is all
nine hundreds. All passengers for London will please for they
ask us Europe Command. That's us. We followed the returning

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vacation and support at our passports text and we're shown
what happened. It would be ten days before we go
into action, but already the favorite felt that sense of
excitement that comes before a big job, and this would
be a big job, the biggest ever right right. The

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minutes and the hours seemed to drag on that homeward purchase.
We checked the class from stem the Stern and the
layout was exactly my fat of the SS America. The
final night out, all the passengers is celebrated, none of
us thinking them they'd never seen London for a year.

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If the liner just one hour from London. Three of
us went over our plants the last time, the incomprable
flare of the motives in our ears. Okay, this is
it both having got up, I might well take over

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radio community. There'll be just one radio operator on remember
taken quietly. You want to let up good. We shouldn't
take you more than a minutes. With the radio and
radar aquipment out of conition. I'll make sure you don't
damage the shift and the communication system. It's leaving me, Doc.

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There's one crew emver got in the storage room where
the uranium ship is being captain. Once you're taken care
of him, locked yourself in the story door. Now you
don't come out until I give the I understand now
you've got the demolish ire. I understand. Now when you've

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got the demolish ire, I've explained how it works. When
I wrap on the story room door, you plant the
demolition stick under the uranium, Professor, I won't be able
to say, well, that's moved fast. Now that's posted, will
go off ten minutes after it said. Will we be
able to get fired up the way before? Oh? Yes,

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the launch is on b deck right outside of the
story room. We'll be in the launch and away in
a matter of second. Dak, you've already to launch him. Yes,
I just came for me. Distic all right, takes care
of everything. Now let's said, I watch it. I've got
for four twenty sixth forty five seconds, oh, firty seconds,

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fifty five seconds or twenty seven right sick, Okay, let's go.
The three of us left the cabin and separated on
the deserted and simbly mid deck. I walked to the
nearest staircase. He went up to eight sex. There was

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my soule in site. As I walked to the captain's quarters,
it was exactly four twenty nine. Am I have a cigarette. Wait,
I'm the horizon far ahead. I could see the lights
of London. I could feel the miner losing speed. Exactly

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four thirty. I knocked on the captain's door. Tell tell in, Oh,
can I get it? Tell me readiot, I thought in
the silos my first up, sir, No, captain, I'm merely
one of your passions. I say to us. Excuse me,
I'm doing the control we we've been an You'll have

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to hear me out. I told it, cap, what's the
meaning of this? Good Captain? I see here that's down,
that's better? And what is it? You're carrying five millions
dollars and uncut my Pinot diamonds. I want them must

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see you. I am not alone in this Captain. At
the moment, this ship is at my mercy. Your I
might have taken over key positions. I don't please you.
That isn't possible. Now, well, this is a test. Pick
up the phone and dial the radio communications of it.

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Go ahead, radio communications office. Who is it? Tain't one
of your crew members the phone. Oh my yeah, I
don't out of control. I'll be talking to you. Maybe

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now you're beginning to realize that I'm not out of
my head. Captain, you must be. You believe you can
commit piracy and get away. I'll get away with it, Captain,
because you see you're going to help me. I help you. Yes,
that's right. One of my men has taken over the
storage room where the uranium is stored under pressure. You

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can't do that by that pressure machine, calls the constant
tale of an engineer. If the pressure pulls blow a
certain point, do your anyone explode? I think it is
you take it. That pressure machine is being looked after
by one of my nets. Nothing will happen to it,
that is, if you do exactly as I say. Do
you think I'm loving? Do you think I'm blumming about

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the storage room? Everything on the control down? Yes, the
captain sap of the phone. Tell them what your arm.
I have to put the bullet in the ivitial machine.
If I don't here for you in fifteen minutes, you

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had what he said, Well, there's blushing haalky for the
bullet and the pressure machine urinion will blow us all up,
you and your men included. That's right. But you see, Captain,
my men and I have nothing to lose, and you
and the rest do what do you mean the authorities
in London? The wading door rests murder. So as I said,

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we have nothing to lose if we are forced to
blow up the ship. Even if I turn the diamonds
over to you, how would you get away? We take
the launch on D day. I see you've got thirteen
minutes left, Captain before my man fires that bullet, and
believe me, he will. Seems I haven't any choice not

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the authorities will gets you. But don't let me worry
about that. You replve minutes left. Now, you're being sensible.
First after Philip speaking and he says it's Catain Andrews
want to go to the pursa. Have him turn over

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to you the consignment of uncut diamonds for car Bring
them to my cabin. Yes, sir, you should be here
with the diamonds a matter of minutes for your sake,
I hope so, Captain, I hope so at mister till

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it's now having command can have a diamond, Yes, sir,
turn them over to this man. But so as I say,
the safety of the ship and our passengers are at stakes. Yes,
thank you. You don't mind if I look them, averun.
What's it all about? Say? Seems it out for many
centuries piracy? Then all right, I checked them. Our captain

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of you and your first officer will escort me to
b deck there. Well, yes, after you, capleman. Our first
stop will be the radio communications are this? Yeah? Here
we are? Yeah? Why not? On deckpike? Everything all right? Yes?

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Steps in the stops all right, captain. The next stop
is the special storage roomy? Well, did you take care
of the communications? Off? Was my head? They won't they
send it out any messages for uh? Here we are, captain? Yeh, doc? Yeah,

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back where many ans door slock o enough, Doc, it's us.
There's something dray. Look, let's take the largest It is
not fault. Something happy to doctor for getting one thing
we need that. It's the only one of us knows
how to navigate that lark. Yeah, come on, let's break
down the door to get it out. Come on, what's more,

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that's first my furs snipple winds? How you long? It
won't be necessary. That's final a bora, there's our call.
Let's get him on. I'm here and here I can't
prease pracefully. Guesslet it get out of here before we
passed off? Yes? Where is that? This? Only two men

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at the third one in our cap taken out of
the throw them on the guest this person any good, sir?
H see I see you revived the third manner. Yes, sir,
three of them are all conscious games in the gulf.
He's all right too, sir. We found this, sir, in

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the third man's pockets demolition stick as I see as
they were going to cities before they left the ship
there throw up my ships and passengers. But they shall
I put them in the brigs, sir. Not. I'm not
taking them into London. I'm dealing with them here now
what I they don't understand, sir. This launch they were

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going to take have it failed with concentrated food and
water and after last thing two years petty good and
I want to launch his mother completely demolished that claff. Yes, sir,
what what are you going to do with us? You've
attempted a crime unheard of for centuries. Piracy. I'm going
to meet out the old punishment for it. I'm setting

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the three of you adrift, are drift out here? Ah?
No you care? You got figures in the world you've
got they're right there. Don't you need to turn them
over to the police. You haven't the authority to out here.
I'm the law. You carry out my order the letter. Yes,
can't give us a break for that. Don't tell us

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a draft. It will be murder, That's what it will be. Murder.
Chances out there you can't tell that I went you
add wah?

Speaker 6 (26:21):
How long have we been adrifted out here?

Speaker 2 (26:25):
Two months? Three? I guess I lost back A long
way back out here. There's nothing but the sky to
look at you, black empty sky, blazing with stars. Time

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loses all meaning the automatic radio senders keep fansminting signals,
but no one listens. No one listens, ha ha, Yes.

Speaker 9 (27:10):
The teams couldn't miss GOULDI he couldn't miss. You had
everything covered all guys. Are you missed with that automatic
gas alow they had.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
In the story? Shut up? Yes, when that gun fail
to take in, I got a good toos of that gas.
This is smarty, tell you overhall is because you're sending
out those things that some one he's going to pick
us up. Got to take us up. We've got you.
We are drifting further from the earth all the time,

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but they can't ve a structing space on the rocking loss.
I can't. Why not? We are one hundred million miles
out and going further and has anyone come after us?
Ned face but falls tender a world Never they're letting us.
The examples to anyone else who ride to hijack and
spaceline up just lifting out you an empty spring coma

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limp on in the day we die? Yeah, no, no,
we want Yes, why don't you get Will says, this
is a year of two thousand, one hundred five. Be
I don't have it anymore.

Speaker 6 (28:22):
M m, this is a serious Ever again, you do

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enjoy ours the years one eighty five.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
It seems that criminals of.

Speaker 4 (28:57):
The future I wanted to have in the future, not for.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
Science did as it gets.

Speaker 4 (29:04):
Or Steve Mike and thus imagine being a vistance stace
in a disabled market launch and being briefly ignorable.

Speaker 2 (29:12):
Yes, it seems that not only doesn't crimes day today.

Speaker 4 (29:14):
But it's going to pay even less in the years
when they were an eighty five or potent reminds me
of my story for next week to stack. It's about
a young man who figure out a perfect alibi from
murder and forgot to think we.

Speaker 6 (29:26):
Count that is, Oh, you would have to get off
your diarding, smor.

Speaker 4 (29:32):
And I'm sure you meet again. I take the same
train every week with this same time. You have just
heard The Mysterious Traveler, which is played by Murice Stuckler.
In the cast were Ralph Bell, Louis van Routon, and

(29:52):
Roger Tokof.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
Original music is composed and played by al Finelet.

Speaker 3 (29:57):
All characters in my story work fictitions and any resemblance
to the names of actual persons.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
Was Curly going to the battle Frank Warldercker speaking. This
is a new to world broadcasting systems.