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original air date December the twenty fourth, nineteen fifty two, and the title
is apturin Professors Dangerous Assignment transcribe. Sorry, Brian, don my bes,
Steve Mittel, Yeah, danger is my assignment. I get sent to a
lot of places I can't even pronounce. They all spell the same thing,
though, trouble. But when I walk into the Commissioner's office, I don't
realize this assignment's going to wind up with me getting the best Christmas present I've
ever had. Right while I'm staring down the barrel of a gun, good
morning, Commissioner just stopped in to say goodbye, good bye. Sure,
my vacation starts this morning. I remember I'm running up to New England for
Christmas. Snow on the ground, fire in the fireplace, and the little
lady I'd most like to eat a boiled dinner with. Sorry, Steve,
Do you mean because you're not going? No, I mean because you're not
going Now, Lord, I've got an assignment for you, and I can't
wait, Commissioner. For the last three years, I've been trying to get
Christmas off. So what happens? One year I'm in Alaska. Next it's
Africa, last year it was India. This year you promise. So I've
got to break that promise, Steve. And it looks like you get another
Christmas spoil. Okay, what's the deal? Have a here of international lecture
tours. Now, Look, don't tell me I'm supposed to get up on
a soapbox and lecture on the Christmas spirit. No, you won't be making
any speeches, but you'll be investigating a few people who do. This is
an organization of six European professor, Steve. They lectured at universities all over
the world, including the United States. What about them? We've had our
eye on them for quite a while. We've suspected that one of them was
using his lectures up front, that actually he's picking up secret information from contacts
in this country and taking it back to Europe. With Which professor is it.
We don't know what doctor Gerber does. He's one of the professors,
and he's waiting down the hall to talk to you. Find out what you
can from them, Steve, Then go anywhere and do anything necessary to smash
this spiry and incidentally, try to have a halfway decent Christmas. Well,
that's it, You've got your assignment. Merry Christmas. The National Broadcasting Company
is presenting Dangerous Assignment, starring Brian don Leave in the role of Steve Mitchell,
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and go poke my nose into an international spiring and have a merry Christmas.
I've gotten uneasy hunch. What kind of a Christmas present I'll get on this
deal? Probably a gift wrapped bullet. Go down the hall to the room
where doctor Gerber, one of the members of the International Lecture Tours, is
waiting for me, and he tells me he knows who the foreign agent in
the organization is, and that he'll tell me on one condition. I must
have protection. Mister Mitchell, I has no problem. You're safe in this
country, Doctor Gerber. You don't understand. I don't mean protection for myself.
Here this picture little boy. Yes, it's my son, Kurt,
ten years old. He's the one you want protection for. Yes, I
know only too well the measure of retaliation which might be employed against the boy
if I were to reveal the information I possess. Okay, so we got
a bodyguard for him. But Kurt's not with me. He's in the school
in Stockholm, Sweden, school run by an englishman, or Sweetfield. I
had to relieve Kurt. His mother passed away three years ago and he has
no other relatives. Oh, we could have somebody from our consulate there pick
him up. No, no, I'm sorry, that's not good enough.
Curtis registered under his mother's name at school. In school, no one must
know his true identity until he's absolutely safe. I see, okay, doctor
Gerber, I guess i'd better hop over there and get your boy myself.
Oh that's what I hoped you would say, mister Mitchell, when you are
attorn with Kurt, I'll give you the name of the head of the spiring.
So I grab a plane for Stockholm. Doctor Wakefield school is out of
the city a little way. As I approach his office, a little girl
with long curls comes out and wanders off towards the other children. I show
my credentials to doctor Wakefield and ask him to see Kurt. Mister Mitchell,
Curtis disappear. Well, yes, that little girl who just left my office
was Ilsa, a playmate of his. I've been questioning her, but she
has no idea where he is. I'm worried, sick. When did he
disappear? I'm not sure, really, what do you mean? When last
evening a woman came to see Kurt. She told me she was his arm.
Kurt's father told me Kurt had no other relatives. How was I to
know that? She said she was his aunt, and I saw no reason
to doubt her. Go on, I sent her to his room. I
believe she left when regular visiting hours were over. That would be at nine
o'clock last evening. What do you mean you believe she left? Aren't you
sure? Well? As a matter of fact, I turned in rather early
last night, had a splitting headache. Sounds like a pretty careless waiter on
a boarding school, Doctor Wakefield, I resaid that, mister Mitchell, ordinarily
I exercised the greatest of care and supervision, but with this headache I had,
I was obliged to go to bed. I see. And you don't
have any idea when Kurt actually disappeared. No, all I know was that
he was missing this morning. Oh great. I haven't telephoned the police yet,
but I think i'd better right now. No, no, wait a
minute, but it seems obvious the boy's been kidnapped. For he has.
I think it's to ensure somebody will keep his mouth shut. That means he's
safe as long as the kidnappers don't feel any pressure on them. Now,
this has got to be done on the cover. Let me see what I
can find out very well, if you think it best that to mister Mitchell.
Incidentally, are you familiar with an outfit called International Lecture Tours? Oh?
Yes, they have an office here in Stockholm on Doctic, Scotland,
I believe. Oh well, never mind, I'll find it. Hi,
what can I do for you? This is the headquarters of International Lecture Tours?
Sure is you in charge? Where I'm the legman and I guess you're
the boy I want to talk to. My name is Mitchell, Saunders is
mine. I'm always glad to meet anyone from the States. You say you're
the leg man for the outfit? What does that involved? You name it
the works? Shagging around the world in front of the wise men, scheduling
lecture dates, making hotel reservations, keeping them in toothpaste. Sounds like quite
a job. Well, there are probably easier ways of making a living.
How'd you get into this racket? I was stranded here in Sweden Broke.
I heard these professors need of the nurse maid, so here I am.
Look, I'd like a little information on these professors. Here are my credentials.
Well, looks pretty official. What do you want to know, miss
Mitchell? There are six professors in the circuit, right right? How well
do you know them? How well can you know these birds? They live
in an ivory tower all their own. Yeah, where are they all?
Now? This chart shows the setup Stelter's in Bombay, du Valves in Toronto,
chum Lee's and Cape don bout Chicks and Copenhagen who are really keepting spread
out? Yeah yeah, Gerber's in the United States. Aren't any of them
anywhere near? Yeah? Yeah? Doctor Friedrich right here in Stockholmer. Yeah.
As a matter of fact, I'm expecting him any minutes. He's got
some sort of beef as usual. He's a real fireball. I'd like to
meet him. Well, stick around. He ought to be here any minutes.
He is that kind of a booking agent, are you? That's a
good question. How many times have I tell you I must not now just
taking these? He doctor Friedrich? And he says, and then don't come
upstairs with his clumb clumb all night while I work on my lecture notes.
How much could a man stay? Well, there you've got me, if
you'll just rell why you scheduled be in stack on this time of year,
and you know I would rather be in the United States. I did that
because you and doctor Gerbert don't seem to get along too well, and I
like to keep you apart. How come you don't get along with them,
doctor Friedrick? Ah, because the theories he bleps about in his lecture sta
inconnect they contradict my theories. Hey, what business is this of yours?
Young man? This is Steve Mitchell, a newspaper reporter. Doctor friedriy mind
telling me where you were last night working at my lecture notes. But that
clumb clumb clump on my head? How could the man work? You know?
That's funny? Funny? He says, it's an outree. Well,
I mean I called your hotel about a lecture date last night and they told
me you were out. Oh yes, I forgot and I had an engagement
for a while. Was she nice? Nice? She was Welsh? See
here this none of your business. Turn us. I leave you with two
words, get me back the rooms with no day and no glump clump clump
overhead, or I greet the too goodbye. So now you've met doctor Friedrick,
I sure have. Well, I'll check with you later. Saunders back
in my hotel room. I go over the deal in my mind. It's
starting to take shape. Last night, a woman visits Kurt. This morning
he's gone. Friedrich doesn't like Kurt's father, and Friedrich was out with a
woman last night. Yeah. On the surface, the pattern looks good,
but I've got an uneasy feeling. It could fall apart as fast as a
smoke ring and a draft. Yeah. This is Saunders Mitchell. I got
mad him. You might be interested in shure all lat five minutes after you
left the office in Walls's doctor but check. Wait a minute, Bucheck is
supposed to be in Copenhagen. That's right, So I asked, how come
what? The good doctor says something about being tired. When did but Check
arrived there? You got me? You want the address? Yeah, hotel?
Okay, thanks Anders. I think i'd better go over there and give
doctor but check the double check. Yes. Well, Hello, I'm Steve
Mitchell, newspaper reporter from the United States. I'd like to see doctor but
check. I am doctor, but chick. You seem surprised. I am.
I thought doctor Bucheck was a man. I'm sorry to disappoint you.
This is a disappointment current. What can I do for you, mister Mitchell?
I understand you canceled your lecture tour suddenly and returned her to Stockholm.
Yes, I wish to spend Christmas with my friends. When did you get
in? I blame landed this morning, not last night, but of course
not. I just told you you also sure you weren't out at doctor Wakefield
School last night. I've never heard of the place. See here, mister
Mitchell, I'm quite certain that you're not a newspaper reporter. I'm also quite
certain that my activities are none of your business. Well, thanks to the
interview, I can check up on your arrival time. You know. Please
do a word with you, sir? Huh? Who are you? I'm
mostcare I'd like you to meet my friend or laugh right, I don't see
any This is all that's gone in your back is the strong, silent type,
but he has a very nervous trigger thing. Look what's this all about?
You shouldn't have bothered the young lady doctor you check? Now we have
to go for an ice ride, A short one, no doubt for us,
yes for you, such a long ride. I don't think you will
ever look if you think I'm gonna here and let you not expect you to
stay O. L. Steve Mitchell will continue his dangerous assignment. In just
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back to Dangerous Assignment and Brian don Laville Steve Mitchell. I don't know how
long I've been out, but when I start coming to, I realize that
dragging me out of the car, I open my eyes a crack and take
a guarded peak. Then I see they're carting me to the edge of a
cliff. I wait until they get me right to the brink. Then I
twist an arm loose and built the big guy ole right over the oscar yanks.
There's gun in his pocket, eye flatting him front of the car,
jump in and dig out along the road. The fronts near the edge of
the cliff. So car, so good, and I hear the shots.
I twist my head for a quick look. Oscar's got into his feet and
his pumping lead after me, always shot towards the bull's eye on one of
the tires. The car slows around it starts cleaning towards the edge of the
cliff, out of control. I managed to get the door open and dive
out just as it goes over the edge. I land on a ledge about
twenty feet down from the top. While there in the brush, just as
the Car bounces down to the bottom and bursts into flames. After a few
moments, Oscar sticks his head over the top of the cliff and looks down
at the burning wreck with a big grin on his face. He figures,
I'm getting a king size hot foot about now. Finally he turns and leaves.
I give him a few minutes, and I dragged myself together and head
back into town to the lecture tour office. Hey, you look like you've
been dragged through the well known not hole, Mitchell, you're so well known
ride. Hey, look, do you have a picture of doctor but check
around here anywhere? Sound it? Sure? H, here's a publicity still
we send out to the papers. Will it do very nicely? Thanks?
She kind of made a hit with you, Yeah, big hit. So
now I'm going to return the compliment. I'm so glad you came, mister
Mitchell. Something has happened that you should do about. What is it,
doctor Wakefield? You remember I told you a woman posing his Kurtsum came here
to the school to see him the night before last. Sure, the night
Kurt disappeared. What about it? That same woman was back here this morning
by yes, not an hour ago? I wasn't in my office at the
time, but my secretary told me this woman in quiet about Kurtie King.
Wait a minute, that means they don't have Kurt. Whose they I think
I know who one of them is here. Take a look her name is,
but check what's about her? Isn't that the woman who was asking about
Kurt Wright? No? What I've never seen the woman in this picture be
fault in my life? You sure about that? Course? Oh fine,
My one lead blows right up in my face. Come in, Oh you
go, hello, well, doctor Friedrich. Eh oh the nosery part.
Yeah, I gather you were expecting him in Doctor Wakefield. Of course you
go and I our old friends. He drops in for tea, and she's,
ah, you a move us. No, I guess it's my move,
gentlemen. I go outside, and I'm really stumped. I've got to
find Kurt and find out who's behind the deal, but I'm fresh out of
leads. Then, as I'm walking through the school grounds, I spot the
little girl with the curls Felds, a Kurt's playmate. She's just slipping out
a side gate with a little package under her arm. A sudden hun hits
me and I follow her. She takes off through the woods and then down
the road. I keep out of her side. Finally she disappears into an
old, deserted barn. A couple of minutes later, she comes out empty
handed until she's out of sight. Then I go into the barn as a
blond kid sitting in a feed box munching on a sandwich. Hello, Hello,
Kirk, did you come to help me? Yeah, my father sent
you. That's right, that is good. I have been praying for help.
I knew it would come. Oh yeah, what happened? Kirk?
A woman came to see me at the school. She tried to make me
go away with her. She said she was a friend of my father's,
but I knew she was lying to me. Go on, Oh, I
asked her to wait outside my room while I packed. As soon as I
was alone, I climbed out the window and ran away. You see,
I'll bet you're tired of eating sandwiches. Huh, My girlfriend Eels has when
bringing them to me. How'd you happen to pick this barn to hide in?
Well? I knew it was the right place as soon as I saw
this manger. Manger, Yes, I rid about a little boy and a
manger. Once I see, well, I guess you couldn't have picked a
better place, kurk, particularly on Christmas Eve? Will you take me to
my father? Wait? Hey, two guys, Oscar and well what do
you know? So I finally find out who's my boy in this deal and
it's too late. It's never too there will be if I can't come up
with something real fast. My eyes click around the barn looking for something anything,
Curtis on his knees and the manger praying. Then I spot a light
bulb dangling from the end of a wire. By yanked the wire loose in
the bulb and sled behind me, holding it in my left hand by the
insulated part. Then heading against the stall, kurts in and just wait.
I take a quick look at him. His eyes are closed and his lips
are moving a little. Yeah, hello Mitchell, Hello Saunders. So you're
the big boy. I'm the big boy, but some guys will do for
a buck. Huh. You sent me chasing after that? But check woman,
so your two stooges with nowhere to pick me up? Huh? Incidentally,
where's your other stude? The woman who tried to get Kirt at the
school. She's waiting at my office until I take care of this little deal.
Thanks for leading us here, don't mention it. I'm afraid you've kind
of complicated things, Mitchell. Originally I was gonna grab Kurt and keep him
so Gerbert wouldn't fill about me. But now you know the deal, so
that means I got to get rid of both of you. I'm sorry,
that's the way it is. His gun starts swinging in my direction. It's
now or never. I whipped the electric wire out from behind my back and
lash of his gun with it a sort of flame wrapped around the gun.
Sers dropped it and grabbed his hand. I give him a pistol us for
diets for the gun, but I'm waiting for him to him up with her
belts and I turned the Kurt. He's still sitting in the manger, looking
at me calmly. Is it all over, mister Mitchell? It will be
as soon as we pick up Saunder's girl at the lecture office. I prayed
that something would happen to deliver us. It happened, well, you see,
I sort of made it happen, Kirt, did you. I prayed
for a bolt of lighting. Mister Mitchell, Well, I guess you could
call that electric spark a bolt of lightning, but it was man made lightning,
was it? How did you happen to think of it? Oh?
I guess I just sort of. I mean I saw the light. Yeah,
I guess I sure did you see? Yeah? Yeah, I see.
I'm the last guy in the world. Do I get the point?
Believe me, Funny, I was the one who was screaming that my Christmas
was spoiled. Thanks great for what for one of the best Christmases I've ever
had. Come on, you're going home to your father. Our star Brian
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Bowl football games to night and tomorrow. As all of us throughout our great
country celebrate Christmas with our families, trees, and gifts, let's not forget
that it's the giving, not the getting, which is a true celebration.
And let's remind ourselves of the one gift we can all give, the gift
which costs us nothing to give. Thanks and now from all of us on
dangerous assignment to all of you, a very merry Christmas. This is John
Storm speaking and saying, be with us again next week at this time for
another transcribed Dangerous assignment. This is NBC The Night Before Christmas, Welcome Back,
a car chase, an explosion, festicuffs, getting the cutcussion, and
electrocuting your enemies. Truly the best Christmas ever. Now, this was made
as a non Christmas episode for both radio and television, and it's odd that
it wasn't always a Christmas story and it only took a few tweaks to get
there. As we're missing the Christmas episodes for both nineteen fifty and nineteen fifty
one, we don't really know if the Christmases Steve referenced were actual plots on
the radio program where Steve attempted to have a nice Christmas and was spoiled by
the commissioner, but perhaps it is a clue to those lost episodes. Now,
I will say that I will never not be annoyed by the headmaster getting
all defensive that Steve questioned his competency and that of his school. Look,
people aren't perfect. They make mistakes. It happens and there needs to be
some understanding. But be apologetache you lost someone's kid, I had a headache.
Isn't it offense, particularly when you're some super expensive boarding school. We
provide the best care money can buy, but all bets are off if I
get a headache. Also, Steve's investigative techniques were not great. He focused
on the fact that a woman came for the boy, and without even getting
a description, reached the conclusion that he was looking for a woman or for
someone who had at some point been associated with a woman, thus limiting his
suspect pool to half the population of Stockholm as well as the other half.
And Steve acted like he had a lead that was ruined when the headmaster saw
a picture of the professor and said, that's not her. I've never seen
this woman before. Didn't have a leads, you just had speculation. The
most ironic part of this episode is that the woman who took the boy does
not actually appear on stage in all seriousness. Aside from that, I think
that this was a pretty solid Christmas episode for Dangerous Assignment. I enjoyed the
man called X special on a Starlet Hill more than most, but something that
metaphysical wouldn't work for Dangerous Assignment. That sort of story would not be a
great deal for Steve, who's a far simpler and direct person than Ken Thurston.
The theme of the story ties into the after episode message. While you
can definitely appreciate Steve grousing about his spoiled Christmas plans, he did actually get
something great out of it. He saw an illustration of simple faith and also
received insight. The idea that Steve seeing the wire was inspired didn't in sold
his intelligence or quick wit, but rather gave him the gift of gratitude that
for all of his escapes and time saving the day over the years, he
really did have something to be thankful for. Now we turn to listener comments
and feedback, and we start out on YouTube with a comment from Rhinser,
who writes in regarding the episode a nursery rhyme. Lamont Cranston, who sounded
a lot like Orson Wells, used the tipewriter trick in an episode of The
Shadow from nineteen thirty seven or thirty eight. I wonder if some criminal was
actually caught that way. Well, thank you so much for the comment,
rhyn Sir. You'll find a lot of Hadio episodes and short stories where the
mystery plot and the way it solved are very similar to each other. For
example, there was a sand hog story on the Shadow, and there was
also one on Box thirteen and let George to it, and they're all very
similar in terms of whether finding the right typewriter has been used in criminal cases
to catch someone. I can answer pretty definitively that, even if it's not
quite as dramatized, Yeah, that sort of thing did happen. I took
criminalistics and forensics when I was in college back in the early two thousands.
By no means am I an exhaustive expert on the subject. I think the
course I took was kind of good basic knowledge about the field and the ways
that crime scene investigations happened. And that was my science credit. And it
definitely came up in the course that this was the sort of evidence that place
used, that finding the tope writer that actually produced to note could be a
vital part of the investigation. And of course there are all sorts of thermolar
things like tool marks, and it's not just a crowbar was used, but
can we match it back to the specific crowbar that was used. Obviously,
with some tools, it's not anywhere close to a one hundred percent man,
particularly if you don't find physical evidence remaining on a tool, Although it can
be added to your evidentiary record we apprehended this suspect, and there are so
many points that connect him to the crime as the actual suspect, and among
those points is that he possessed a crow bar of the type that was used
in the commission of the crime. Typewriters were interesting as evidence because they tended
to have different where patterns. They'd have little errors when you pressed a certain
key that would be distinct. It's not like no other typewriter in the world
would have that sort of error, but it would be typewriter has a particular
error when you press the lower case L. It's off just a little bit
in the same way that the letter was written. And if you have a
couple of different vaults that match, that really becomes indicative. Oh yeah,
that sort of thing definitely was used as evidence. And then we have a
comment. It's signed Ken Thurston, who writes regarding by stating the site called
X. I know it's formally Twitter, but every time you say it it
makes me smile. Well, thanks for the email, and of course Elon
Mosque, who owns Twitter, renamed it X. But I think it's safe
to say that the name has not taken with the general public. Myself,
I tend not to like these sort of changes. It took me, I
don't know, like six months a year to get used to Apple podcasts in
what we're supposed to say rather than iTunes. When telling people to subscribe and
with X, I think that the vast majority of people, unless they are
you know, journalists who are trying to be very precise, will refer to
it as Twitter and so like, when I am doing the openings and closings
for social media, I will say Twitter because I don't think X registers with
the majority of the public. But yeah, when I say the site called
acts, if you didn't know what I was talking about, now you know.
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Christmas crossover culminates tomorrow as I am joined by three other old time radio
podcasters, and together we'll be listening to Mister Chameleon. Where say wasn't on
the case. I've never met any of them. I would like to do
that, Commissioner, meet them, m hm. Reopen the case if I
feel it should be reopened. I think I know how to make the killer
stick his neck out if I'm convinced the killer is still lose, well and
question them by all means. Take the surgeon Dave Honold with you. John
Drake and his sons are living in the mother's house. His brother Horace and
his wife Sonya with him too. Any sevens who are with Missus Orlando Drake,
her housekeeper, I believe, and Missus Sterling. It was Missus Sterling's
testimony which convicted Helen Drake. I see you know, as sending commissioner.
Wouldn't it be nice if I could get Helen Drake released from prison in time
for Christmas? Are you kidding? I hope you'll be with us then.
And as I mentioned at the top of the podcast, A self and two
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Katy, Honey, come on, wake up, wake up. It's
the day before Christmas. Oh that's so much, miss Buff. It's light
out already. He said, you were going to wake me really early today
so we could go to the airport and meet them. Come on up,
you get let's get your dressed, Buffy. They're going to be waiting for
me and you didn't wake me. I know what's they're home already, Kesey,
Mommy, Daddy, where are you? Daddy? Mommy, Buffy?
They're not in their bedroom. Where are they, Cassy? I know,
I'll bet they're in the kitchen already having the coffee. Mommy, this buff
they're not home, I know, Honey. The o'clock in the kitchen s
at eight thirty. Catty here, put this on here. You told me
you wanted to wear this dress today, so that's why I ironed it for
you. Yes, do you? Why? Oh, they'll be here.
But when I talked to mommy on the telephone yesterday, she said she would
be here at six this morning. Then I promised her i'd meet her at
the airport her and dad, and Daddy said he had a surprise he was
bringing for me all the way from Paris. It's say thirty, Buffy,
let's go out to the airport now. But there's so many things to do.
First, you've got to get your breakfast, and we have to finish
decorating the tree, and oh, there's so many things I want you to
help me. Thinking, wait, Buffy, Sorry, I promised to meet
them. No, dear, why not? Buff? Well, I think
we'll wait for them here, Cassie. Yeah, you remember what you promised
your mommy and dad? Did you do everything I ask you while they were
away? Yes? Then we wait for them here. All right, Buffy,
it's snoon, Buffy, I know. Don't you think they might have
called and told us they'd be late. Oh, I'll go and make our
lunch. You must be very hungry. No I'm not. Oh you didn't
need your breakfast, Kathy, Miss Buff, I'm not hungry. Look.
Oh look it's snowring Honnie. We'll have a nice warm lunch, and then
we'll go out for a long walk. We should have called. I'll tell
you what, Kathy. We'll take our walk first. We'll see the shops,
we'll visit. We'll go and see Johnny and your aunt and uncle.
Maybe, if it snows hard enough, we can all build a snowman.
Wouldn't you like that? Yes, that would be fun. We'll go get
your coat and heavy goloshes to you, all right, and when we come
back, mommy and daddy you'll be home. Well, you go get your
things now. Oh, I'll get it. I'll get it, Buffy,
Mommy, Oh, who's this? Daddy? You done all from a newspaper?
I see it's a man, Buff. He says he wants to talk
to an older person here. Hello, Yes, this is the half of
residence. I'm a housekeeper. I well, just a moment, please,
Keavi. It is someone wants to talk to me. Honey. Will you
go get your things? No? Who are you talking to? Never mind?
You go and get your things. No, no, I won't hello.
I see yes, yes, I saw the papers. Yes, yes,
that was the daughter, Yes, the only child. No she doesn't
No, no, no, I wish you wouldn't. Please don't hear.
No, who was It was just a man, honey? Who was from
the newspapers? Why what did he want? Nothing he asked about me,
didn't he Why? Honestly, honey, it was nothing. It was about
mommy and daddy. Or wasn't anything important? Yes? Do you? I
don't know. Look at that snow coming down, Kathy, get your things,
dear, go on