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is time for this week's episode of
Mister Chameleon. The original air date is

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January nineteenth, nineteen forty nine,
and the title is The Curious Murder of

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Clubfoot Louis. Next, Mister Chameleon
and the Curious Murder of Clubfoot Louis.

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Tonight we again present the famous mister
Chameleon of Central Headquarters in his most famous

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cases of crime and murder, brought
to you by the makers of genuine Bayer

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Aspirin. You all know, of
course, who mister Chameleon is. He

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is the famed detective of Central Headquarters, known as the man of many faces

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because of his frequent use of impersonation
or disguise in solving a tough case and

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bringing a killer to justice. Tonight
he appears both has himself mister Chameleon and

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in an especially clever and effective disguise. Tonight we give you mister Chameleon in

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the Curious Murder of club Foot Louis. New Yorkers are accustomed to almost everything.

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It takes a lot to surprise them
and make them look around. But

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at nine o'clock at night in the
West forties, at one of the busiest

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intersections of the city, the crowded
street is thrown into a panic as two

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shots ring out and a man falls
to the sidewalk. Who shot him?

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It was a man in a brown
hat. No it wasn't. It was

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someone in that car that drove away. Where are the police place by,

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there's a delivery then pulling up.
Good heavens, they're putting the body in

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a van. They're gonna take the
dead man away before the police get here.

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And a little later at Central Headquarters, we find mister Cameleon, the

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Great Detective, sitting quietly listening to
the Commissioner of Police, and the commissioner

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is saying angrily, who do they
think they are? These vicious hoodlums?

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What makes them think they can get
away with a murder like that? Chameleon?

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Well, I noticed they got away
with the body too, Commissioner.

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Pretty difficult to convict anyone of murder
without the corpus DELECTI. But we know

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who was murdered. It was Clubfoot
Louis. There are enough witnesses to the

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shooting to verify that. And the
policeman who saw the murder car make its

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getaway swear that Lugo Dominic was in
the car. Well, I don't doubt

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that there's been trouble in Dominic's mob
for some time. I've been expecting Lucky

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Lugo to blow his top. Now
that rabbit foot he wears and all those

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good luck charms they can't protect him
against his own excitability. Dominic is a

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killer and a ruthless gang leader,
yet he turns pale when a black cat

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crosses his pond. That's very interesting, Chameleon, but it won't help us

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find Clubfoot Louie's body. It might, it might never know. Commissioner,

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I am convinced that Dominiq the killer
having a fast delivery van snatch up the

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body. Very clever. Sounds like
his handiwork. And you're right. We

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can't let that happen on the streets
of New York. Where you're going.

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Pay a call on our friend Lugo
Dominic. He has a new house,

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you know, in the West sixties. I understand it's quite magnificent, even

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as a greenhouse. I also understand, and you may have heard this too,

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that he has a very attractive secretary
named Clara Harlick. But as Chameleon

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stands in the center of Dominic's living
room, he decides that magnificent is too

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feeble a term for it. Overpowering
is more accurate, and he smiles with

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grim amusement as the huge figure of
Lugo Dominic enters the room. Ah,

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good morning, mister Dominic. Er
quite a place that you have here?

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What do you want? Chameleon?
And the flowers? Those roses really charming?

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How do you mention to grow them
in your greenhouse? I've tried so

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hard myself, isn't Chameleon, You're
not here to talk about flowers? And

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I'm a busy man. Ah.
Unfortunately, isn't it that in the rush

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of a busy life we so often
failed to see the beautiful? A man

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cut the fancy dog. You've got
anything on your chest? Spirit? Sad

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about club Foot Louis. Wasn't it
cut off in his prime? Oh?

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That's it. The guy may not
be dead at all. Anybody find his

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body? The first time I've ever
heard of the angels calling for a man's

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soul and taking his body along as
well. Or perhaps you don't know anything

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of the habits of angels, dumbling. Now get this trait, mister busybuddy.

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Chameleon is the name Chameleon of Central
Headquarters. If you think you can

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intimidate me, take another guess.
I'm telling you I know nothing about this

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guy club Foot Louis. Oh,
of course, of course, And I

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didn't. Really I'm here to talk
about club Foot Layer. Eh, I

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hear that you've gone very fancy and
hired a secretary. Her name is Clara

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Harllick, and I came to warn
you about her. She's a crook,

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a crook, so I'm a crook, am I? She's also an eavesdropper?

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How do you do? Clara Dominic? Who is this character? Never

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met the guy in my life?
My life? He's a liar. What

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do you mean by telling lies about
me? Nobody can say anything about me?

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Nobody. Well, of course,
your conduct at the State Prison for

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Women was rarely exemplary. So he's
a cop. That's it, A nasty

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snake and cop rochard, Clara.
This cup is Chameleon of Central Headquarters.

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He's snooping around about club foot Louise
murder. Well, I can't pign that

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on me. Get out, get
out with pleasure. But before I go,

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I should like to say that a
number of women who have graduated from

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that prison have graduated to murder.
You and Lugo Dominic will be seeing much

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more of me. Goodbye. Well
baby, you sure shoot that gup.

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You weren't afraid of him here,
but I am Luco deathly afraid. There's

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something about chameleon. I'll get it. Hello, Oh, just a minute,

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it's McGrath. Hello, Mac,
What when? But Chameleon was just

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here? Sure, sure, but
don't get excited. There's nobody is there

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without a body. You haven't got
a murder, but the cops can't do

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anything to you. Sure, I'll
give you protection. I've always given you

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protection. Wait a minute, Mac, how do you like that McGrath hung

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up on me? McGrath, my
right hand man, the guy that thinks

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I'm always right. What happened,
Dominic? He was picked up by chameleon

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sidekick, Detective Sergeant Dave Arnold.
They threatened him with some robbery charge you

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thought was dropped long ago. He's
scared, silly, swore at me in

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demanded protection. He acted like you
thought I couldn't protect my boys no longer.

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So you questioned mac grant, did
you, Detective Sergeant Dave Arnald,

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Yes, mister camellon, but I
didn't make a ten on em though he

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didn't even better an eyelash. Well, don't be too sure. He might

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put up a front with you and
talk quite differently to Lugo Dominic. Well,

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here we are. This is Clubfoot
Louis's basement apartment. Quite a contrast

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to mister Dominic's gray Stone mansion.
Louis wife should be home, though,

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whether she let us in, she
usually slams the door in my face.

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Who is it, Oh, mister
Camellon, come in, come in.

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Well, thank you, Maggie.
This is a very pleasant surprise. I

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know, I know, but I've
been waiting for you. I've been praying

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that you'd come. Who is this? This is a detective Sergeant Davon.

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Oh good, good, follow me
please into the kitchen. You uh,

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this isn't some sort of a trap. Oh no, no, no trapper.

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I have something for you, something
that my husband Louis wanted me to

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give you. Maggie. Was Louis
on bad terms with Dominique. They were

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worse than that. Louis wanted to
go straight, but Dominic was after him,

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after him all the time, to
do one more job for him.

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You haven't found my poor Louis.
No, no, not yet. Of

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course he may not be dead.
He's dead all right, for Daisy's been

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afraid for his life. That's why. Look here, mister Connedion. Look

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look this is for you. What
phonograph record? Yes, a record lou

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we had made only last week I'll
play it for you. Listen. It's

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a very bad machine. But listen. If I die, Logo Dominic might

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at me. It killed me.
I don't know when, but if I

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die, he killed me. Logo
Dominic killed me. Maggie, this is

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wonderful. This is just what I
needed. Give that record to me.

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This is the smartest thing that your
husband club Fort Louis ever did. Mister

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Cameleon, you mean you can arrest
Lugo Dominic for my Louis murder? No,

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no, no, This record of
Louis voice proves nothing except that he

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was afraid of being murdered. In
fact, until we find his body,

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we can't even prove there was a
murder. But this record will help,

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will help a good deal, Meggie. And there's one more thing that you

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can do to help me, anything
any Did Louis have any unusual characteristics like

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well, like singing in the bathtub? You know what I mean? Yes,

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he used to drive me nearly crazy
with his whistling. He was always

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whistling that that pop pop goes the
weasel. Nothing else, just that one

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thing he whistled all the time.
Thank you again, megane very much.

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Blatta Clara, where are you Gltta, Dominic, it's no matter. What

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are you doing up? It's only
five o'clock in the morning. I thought

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I heard someone downstairs. It was
whistling, whistling. Do you hear that?

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Yeah, somebody's Muslim pop goes the
ways. Then I didn't dream it.

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Where is it coming from? Where? Hello? This is Dominique.

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The cups picked up Benny, but
they can't they can't do that. Okay,

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okay, I'll call you back and
tell Magrath to keep a shirt down.

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Clara, the cops just picked up
another one of my boys and a

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charge of loitering. How do you
like that? It's a dirty cop.

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Chameleon. He's back of it,
you're telling me. Every time that phone

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rings, I jump on my lad, Clara, glad. Do you hear

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a voice? Yeah? Yes I
do. Where is it coming from from

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outside the house? I think,
Dominic. Let's look, this is one

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of Chameleon's tricks. Maybe he's around
in one of his disguises, that's what

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he dot. You know, don't
have to tell me there's someone outside the

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door. It's Chameleon. So you're
snooping around again, are you? Ah?

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Yes, sure, I know your
chameleon. Ho, are you not

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signed the garbage man? Don't try
to kid me. I don't know if

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this comedyon. Hey, why I'm
gonna keep away from Dominick White? That

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is chameleon, I tell you it
is, Clara. No, Look,

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there's chameleon walking down the street.
He's coming here to see us at five

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o'clock in the morning. Look,
I'll stay here and meet him. You

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beat it, Dominic? Well,
well, Clara, so early in the

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morning. Listen, you cheap copy. You can't come in, mister Dominic's

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not seeing anybody. It's only five
in the morning. Well, the house

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is all in time. What's meant? Clea? Have you and Dominic got

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insom name? Why don't you leave
us alone? What have we ever done

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to you? What have you done
the club for the lowis that's more to

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the point, we haven't done anything. You haven't even found his body,

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have you, Clara, Let me
handle this. Listen, cameleon, you've

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got a nerve to come here at
this hour of the morning. Well,

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I thought you were up, Dominic. I could have sworn that you were

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up. Besides, you're about to
have another visitor here he comes, Now,

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who one of your henchmen. McGrath, What does he want? I

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can't imagine, but he looks as
if he were in a very bad humor.

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Hello McGrath, Hello Chameleon, blaray, Dominic, quite a little gathering.

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What's it all about it? What
do you mean? Mac? Stop

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starling, Dominic? What's Comeleon doing
here? You're making a deal with him,

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a deal with the nick chameleon was
just passing by five o'clock in the

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morning. Yes, it's true.
I've been tailing him. I thought he

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was coming here to see you.
Dominic. I know you try to make

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a deal with him, and all
the boys think so too. Mac.

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That ain't so. You know better
than that. We've been together for years.

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You know you can try me.
I'm not so sure anymore. Well

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you'd better be sure. I'm still
that man I made you. Might just

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remember that I made you. Where
do you think you're going, Chameleon?

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Why Clara, I am simply being
tactful. That seems to be a very

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private sort of quarrel, your rotten
trouble maker. Why Clara, don't be

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disagreeable. Good night, or rather
good morning. I'll be seeing you.

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Oh, mister chameleon, how's it
going. It's going fine, Dave,

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It's going just the way I wanted
to. Clubflet Louis corpse is still among

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the missing, and I still can't
pin his murder on Lugo Dominic. But

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we're getting warmer, Detective Sergeant Arnold. We're getting warman, mister Camellion,

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And the curious murder of club Foot
Lowis continues. In just a moment,

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your own doctor will tell you that
there's no reason in the world why you

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should suffer from the painful symptoms of
a cold, especially when it's so easy

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to quickly relieve such symptoms as that
headache, feeling, and muscular aches and

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pains. Just take two Bayer Aspirin
tablets with a full glass of water,

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and you get fast relief because Bayer
aspirin is ready to go to work in

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two seconds. And if your cold
is accompanied by a sore throat, gargle

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with three Bayer aspirin tablets dissolved in
one third of a glass of water,

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this highly potent medicinal gargle almost instantly
soothes the tender throat membranes, relieves pain

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and irritation. So when you are
suffering from painful cold, symptoms. Take

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tablets for less than a penny apiece. And now back to mister Cameleon and

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the curious Murder of Clubfoot Louis.
Clubfoot Louis has been murdered. Mister Comedian

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is sure of it, but he
is also sure that Lugo Dominate the gang

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leader is the murderer, and since
the dead man's corpse cannot be found,

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no murder charge can be made.
It is one of the most amazing situations

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in mister Comedian's amazing career. But
he has his own method of wearing Dominic

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down, and those methods are beginning
to take effect. And now the next

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night, in Dominic's ornate house,
the gang leader is finding that once again

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he can't sleep, and he restlessly
paces the floor of his library dirty bums,

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deserting me like retzt deserting a sinking
ship. Only I'm not a sinking

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ship. I'm Logo Dominic, the
Lucky Lucky. Look that's me, and

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I'm not going to forget it.
No one can scare me, no one.

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Did you want me Dominic for Pete's
said, Clara, don't do that

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again. Coming up behind me,
you startled me. Sorry that you call

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me? Well, I didn't you
mean you were talking to yourself, Dominic.

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You cannot lose your nerve, are
you? No? I'm not losing

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my nerve? No, of course
not. What time is it? Nearly

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midnight? Why expecting someone? I
never know when the detective chameleon is going

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to show up? Seems to be
everywhere all the time. Gives me no

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peace. Yeah, he's just a
dumb carp Shall I answer? Then?

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H I'm sick of answering the telephone
every time it rings. It's bad news,

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more of my boys picked up by
the cops. My grat yelling his

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head off. Take the receiver off
the who can leave it off? Yeah?

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But domin it off? Clara?
Okay, you are getting nervous and

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shut up. Paying you to be
my secretary, not shoot your mouth off.

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Listen Clara let his advice again.
Do here, don't you? Yeah?

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Getting older? Where is it?
Where is it coming from? Chameleon

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is back of it? I don't
know. I don't know, but is

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now? Maybe it's my grab.
It's chameleon every time the phone rings,

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every time the door rings, it's
always chameleon in some former other. Dominic,

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take it easy, leave me alone, don't blow your time. Get

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here, you go in the ro
male hands of this time. Just keep

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out, keep well. Oh you
know me, Dominic, Harry Marvina,

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the Chicago man. Yes, yes, sure, Marvin, I know you

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come an in. At first I
didn't recognize you. Those dark glasses you're

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wedding. Yeah, I got eye
travel. Besides, it's five years since

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I seen you in Detroit. Remember
that girl I shut up for you on

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the waterfront. No, I don't
remember. Oh come on, Dominic,

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stop kidding. You don't have to
be careful in front of me. I'm

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one of the boys. Shoo.
Mcgress sent me over here, and I

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said you needed a new bodyguard since
your mouth's been running out on you too

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bad. You had to bump off
club foot Louis. Only I didn't you

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didn't what you was stupid moron.
Did you really think you could trick me

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into saying I killed club Foot Louis
next thing you would have asked me where

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I hit the boddy? What's the
matter with you? Do you think that

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I don't know you? You with
your dark glasses and you're right away mister

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chameleon in disguise, me and a
cop down playing this chameleon. I'm fed

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up to hear. I can't take
anymore hand away. Wait, you're coming

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all wrong. I'm not Chamelion,
Dominic, look at him. This isn't

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chameleon. You stop saying that it
must be committed. Well, it's not.

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When you take off as dark glasses, you can see it's naughty.

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What's that look? It's only the
doorbell. Dominic. Stop jumping out of

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your skin every time there's a sound. It's my greath Does he want or

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trouble? I suppose I'm ding stick
at you. Hello, my cut the

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dollar, No matter what your telephone, Dominate, cave Ben calling you for

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an hour, nothing but a busy
signal. I took the receiver off the

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hook. That's just fine. I
wanted to tell you one of the boys

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was coming over. Harry Marvin from
Chicago, Hardie Marvin. Then he was

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on the level. You mean,
who's that on the floor. It's Harry

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Dominic. He's dead. Dominic shot
him. He thought he was chameleon in

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disguise. You murdered one of your
own men. I thought he was comeleon

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in disguise. Didn't you hear her? Yeah? I heard it. The

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story this will be to tell the
boys what's left of him, if there's

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anybody left besides me. I'm staying
here tonight. What for Dominic needs a

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keeper. Next thing, you know, I'll be running a chameleon telling him

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what happened to Club Fort Lowis.
I never do that. That would be

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the end. You're right, Dominick, that would be the end for all

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of us. Upstairs, try to
get some sleep. He can't sleep.

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Someone whistling the tune the Club Fort
Louis to whistle, and there's a voice

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keep saying, Domini killed me.
Domini murdered me. I tell you it's

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his voice. Guy is hunting me. Clara Glada heard the voice too,

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didn't you, Clara? Yeah,
that's right, I heard it too.

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Mac. Now than you're both your
bats go upstairs. Well, yeah,

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I'll get rid of Harry's body,
and Dominic try not to dream about Club

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Foot Lowie, oh go away,
go away. Stop that infernal whistling,

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Dominic, Dominic, go away.
I tell you must have been dreaming again

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and Louis Club for Louis. Yeah, Dominic, hew, I am you

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should have known. I come back. No, I'm still dreaming. No,

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you're not dreaming, Tamaric. I
come back from the dead and I

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keep on coming back. I can't
rest. I can't rest. Clara,

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come here, and no use Colin. You never be rid of may,

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Dominic. I can't rest while I'm
without a distent barrier. I can't right,

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Clara, Dominic, Dominic, what
is it, Slara? Can you

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see him Club for Louis standing right
over there? No, I can't see

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him. You can't see him.
I can't see anyone, Dominic. You've

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been dreaming. I can't wake up
because he's standing right there. So I

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am Dominic, or only you can. There's nothing they Dominic believe me,

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and I'm losing my mind. I
can see him. It's Club for Louis.

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Everything about him is his eyes,
his hair, the color of his

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skin, and his club. Fuck
it's Louis. Shut Dominic. I'm Club

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for Loie. What do you want? What do you want? I want

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a tascent barail, take my party, our hiding place, give me a

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descent bail. But I can't.
The cups are after me. Chameleon is

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after me. We buried you under
the floor of the Greenhouse and if we

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take you home, Dominica, are
you crazy? Mac? He's here.

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Club for Louie is here, come
back from the dead to hunt me.

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He's hunting me now. I know
that you're Dominic. It's true what Lowie

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is here? You mean that you
can see him too? Yeah, sure,

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he's standing right over there. It's
Louis ghosts. He can't until here's

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a decent burial. I don't believe
it. I don't believe in ghosts.

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This may look like Chloe, but
he's flesh and blood in A bullet'll fix

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him, Mack Mack, he's dead, Dominic. This is one ghost who

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was quicker on the draw than he
was. She was quite right about one

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thing. I'm only flesh and blood
and his bullet would have fixed me.

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Aamilion, your chameleon. You're not
club foot at all. You're Chameleon the

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cup and you're a superstitious full Dominic. I counted on that. I knew

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I could. Lara Glada, You've
got a gun keeping covered while I get

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away. Sorry, Dominic, You're
the one I'm keeping covered. And her

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name isn't Clara, it's Madeline Evans. She's one of the cleverest operators we

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have at Central Headquarters. She's a
detective tool. Yes, Dominic with a

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fake prison record. It was mister
Chameleon's idea that I try to get a

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job with you as you're secretary,
and you fell for a Dominic. I

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don't blame you. Madeline's beautiful as
well as clever. Well, poor club

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Fort Louis will be laid to rest
once we've dug his body up from under

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the floor of your greenhouse, and
you, Dominic can be charged with not

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one murder, but two, Harry
Marvin's as well as club Foot Loise.

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The innocent must be protected and the
guilty must be punished. And it's amazing

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how the guilty usually keep convicting themselves. And with these words, mister Chameleon

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this same time for Mister Chameleon,
the man of Many Faces in the Orphanage

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Murder Case. The part of mister
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dialogue by Marie Baumer from the original
story by Frank and Anne Hummert. Music

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Wednesday night. At this time.
This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System,

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Welcome back. Occasionally, mister Chameleon
has a script that stands out from

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the typical upper class who'd done it. This one, along with mister Comeleion's

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Pet murder Case, are ones that
I would cite as examples. This explores

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the whole idea of mister Chameleon in
a really interesting way, and what it

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means to have someone on the force
who is this mass of disguise and who

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could be anyone and you just don't
know. It's unnerving you can't trust your

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own eyes. Fooling a superstitious killer
with a stunt to make them believe they're

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seeing or hearing a ghost is old
hat. But the idea of mister Cameleon

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conducting a psychological attack to leave the
boss unsure as to what he can actually

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believe is real is something else entirely, and that really is what made him

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ultimately susceptible to believing that he was
speaking to the ghost of club Foot Louis.

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And of course Madeleine is there to
help feed the target's paranoia in subtle

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ways. It's a really clever story. Now. The thing with Madeleine is

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that she's not been in the series
frequently. I've never forgotten about her,

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but I kind of thought the Hummertz
had stealth written her out of the series,

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as I hadn't heard her in any
of the episodes I heard after nineteen

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forty eight. Thankfully, she's apparently
still on the board and available as a

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character to use every now and again, least in January nineteen forty nine,

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which is good, as she's been
at the center of the best episodes of

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Mister Chameleon. Well, now we
turn to listener comments and feedback, and

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This is a series that has the
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possible to delete the bear ads after
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We will be back next Thursday with
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us back here tomorrow for the conclusion
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Johnny doll or where, hoping that
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driving back, and it must have been

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nearly an hour later when I pulled
into the Subdraine in garage of my hotel.

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I guess I was thinking too hard
about what had just happened. In

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any case, I wasn't quick enough. Just as I passed one of the

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garages big concrete pillars, a figure
stepped out from behind. It brought the

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business out of a cult, banging
down on my head. The ground climbed

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up and got me, but not
before I had a look at him,

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my heavy set, thuggy looking friend
who tailed me earlier in the day.

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He could talk too. Yeah,
no wrong time, hunk. I took

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the hint. I passed out.
I hope you'll be with us then.

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your host, Adam Graham signing off