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from July thirtieth, nineteen fifty, here is the case of
the previewed crime.
Speaker 2: The Adventures of the Saint, starring Vincent Price. The scene
based on characters created by Leslie Trotter and loans of
millions from books, magazines and most think The robin Hood
of Modern Crime now comes. Transcribe the radio Darling Hollywood
Brilliant and tell of the doctor Vincent Price. Let's Saint,
mister Templar, Mister Templar, I'm asleep, mister Temple.
Speaker 3: Noisy dream you're not dreaming, that's what you say. I'm
alone in my bedroom. I'm embedded home, but you're not alone.
I'm here. Go away.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry I didn't climb into your bedroom in the
middle of the night. Menutly to go away again?
Speaker 3: What did you expect a twenty one gun salute?
Speaker 4: I expect your attention. You can't see me, can you?
Speaker 3: No, I'd be even happier if I couldn't hear you.
Speaker 4: But I can see you. However, you're silhouetted against the
window behind you.
Speaker 3: That was cunning of me.
Speaker 4: It helps me aim the gun I'm pointing at you.
Speaker 3: I'm so glad. I'd hate to have your aim suffer.
What do I do? Now? Get up with the lights on?
Speaker 4: You don't do anything of the cut.
Speaker 3: Now, why are you shy?
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's I'm shy.
Speaker 3: That's why you insist on holding this conversation with me
in the dark. The conversation, obviously there wouldn't be about
the weather. What would it be about? Well, I'm a writer,
a writer, and shy.
Speaker 4: I need some advice.
Speaker 3: The only advice I can give all writers is don't
I'm writing a book about murder.
Speaker 4: I'm calling it the story of.
Speaker 3: A perfect crime sounds interesting. Thank you.
Speaker 4: What I came here for was to have you tell
me whether or not the murder my book deals with
is really a perfect crime.
Speaker 3: Go on.
Speaker 4: The man to be murdered in my book that is
suffers from heart disease. He's a completely unpleasant character, a
financier and a crooked one, A man who deserves to die.
Speaker 3: And he suffers from heart disease.
Speaker 4: For this condition, he takes daily, at stated hours, capsules
containing medicine, capsules upon which his life depends. Now, then
the murderer in my book that is this grids to
poison the financier.
Speaker 3: Well, that's not creaking, No, it's murder.
Speaker 4: Murder. That will be poisoning without poison.
Speaker 3: I'm waiting breathlessly for the next chapter.
Speaker 4: The murderer steals one of the capsules, pours the medicine out,
and replaces the medicine with powdered sugar. He returns the
capsule to the financier's pillbox. In due course, the financier
reaches the capsule, takes it. His weak heart, lacking the
medicine he needs, fails, and there you have poisoning without poison.
Speaker 3: M very ingenious? H I think so.
Speaker 4: The poisoner can't be traced through the poison he purchased,
because he didn't purchase any. The murdered man is assumed
to have died a natural death. An autopsy will show
no poison in his body, since there wasn't any. Well,
is it the perfect crime?
Speaker 3: I can't see any flaus any.
Speaker 4: And if you can't, I don't imagine.
Speaker 3: The critics will? Do you mean the tal.
Speaker 4: Why should the police be interested in the book?
Speaker 3: I'm ready? Why should the critics be interested in the
murder you're committing. You're not serious? You are? I?
Speaker 4: I rather think I must leave now, beginning light soon. No, no,
don't move. I still have the gun pointing at you.
If I had to shoot you, it wouldn't be a
perfect crime, but you'd be dead, nonetheless, But that wouldn't.
Speaker 3: Interest you, would it.
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 4: Good night, mister Templar, and pleasant dreams than lord, coffee
Templar and the morning paper.
Speaker 3: Thank you?
Speaker 2: I pully this morning, an't you?
Speaker 3: I couldn't sleep? Hey? Any resemblance between his toast and
toast is purely coincidental. What does your chef do?
Speaker 4: Tan this tiff or enormous the template.
Speaker 3: He probably uses old shoe. Leave it well, samella. Don't
you like the headlines? Can't say that I do. Frank A.
Clark noted financier dies of heart attack as police arrest
him for alleged embezzlement.
Speaker 4: Was he a friendly mister Temple?
Speaker 3: No, but he was a financier. He was crooked and
he had a weak car.
Speaker 6: No wonder he died when he got arrested.
Speaker 3: It depends on whether he took medicine in capsule. What
depends on that? S murder? My friend murder.
Speaker 7: TSI hey TXI I.
Speaker 3: Oh no, Louis, Oh yeah, Louis out of all the
tacticabs and then didy. Why do I keep getting yours?
Speaker 4: Out of all the pass in the city?
Speaker 3: Why do I keep getting you? You have a point there.
Speaker 8: I'll go right home and shop.
Speaker 3: You'll stay where you are.
Speaker 5: You want to go home with me?
Speaker 8: What's the matter with my home?
Speaker 3: Nothing?
Speaker 4: I live there on I my wife lives there, My
kids live there.
Speaker 3: You have no children. Don't get pwisonal. I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: Man spends every spare minute he has got hoping Louis.
Speaker 3: Did Julius Caesar have children? They are Alexander the great
half children.
Speaker 8: The Napoleon have children.
Speaker 4: Yeah me, they didn't send an announcement to Louie.
Speaker 3: Will you please drive me to one eight nine three
Waterview Drive. I'm in a hurry. Okay, okay, one.
Speaker 8: Eighth ninety three Water you drive?
Speaker 5: Who lives there?
Speaker 3: A gentleman named Frank A. Clark, Except that he doesn't
live there, Louis, he's dead there.
Speaker 8: You're going to keep company with a corpse, mister.
Speaker 3: Templon, I am going to visit his surviving relatives, if any.
Why does it occur to you that it might be
none of your business? Sure, it's none of your business.
Speaker 5: Now that we got that clear, Why are you going
to visit this?
Speaker 3: Really? Stop the clock? Quick stop? What happens? We've reached
one eight nine three? What have you drive?
Speaker 4: Oh? I'm jealous about little details like that, he, Louis.
Speaker 3: And don't forget to mention it to your income tax collector.
Speaker 8: I'll write to them.
Speaker 3: Hey, don't you want me to wait? No? But you will, Louis,
you will.
Speaker 5: Oh, hello there.
Speaker 3: Hello, This is the clock home, isn't it sure?
Speaker 8: And I'm a clock me and you're I'm.
Speaker 3: A templar, an old friend of your uncle. You're not
old well, and.
Speaker 5: You're not a friend of my uncle's. Come in anyway,
thank you, because maybe you can be a friend of
mine in here.
Speaker 3: Tell me do you need a friend?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 5: But I like him when they're as tall as you.
And oh, my name is i Nas and is Francis.
Speaker 3: I'm very glad to know you, Miss Francis.
Speaker 5: Probably won't be when you really get to know me.
Speaker 3: I realized perhaps I shouldn't have come today. You must
be all broken up by your uncle to death. Who me, Well,
perhaps the family.
Speaker 8: That's me.
Speaker 5: I'm the family.
Speaker 3: Your uncle must have been a lonely man.
Speaker 5: No, he didn't mind. He had me in the market
and all those people he was swindling. Oh, and of
course he had mister Hartzell and Charlie Melvin.
Speaker 3: Who are and Charlie Melvin.
Speaker 5: Charlie is sort of a weedy youth. Uncle's secretary very anemic.
I ignore him, and uncle's lawyer, and I fondly suspect as
big a crook a's uncle was, but very statye you know,
on the shoes and guardingia in the buttonhole. And I'm
a sneaking suspicion whiskey and the liver.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm tidy a nobody else close to uncle?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: And then it boils down to one of you three.
What does who's happy now that Uncle's dead?
Speaker 5: I am heartls Charlie.
Speaker 3: Is that covers the fields?
Speaker 5: Why uncle had a lot of money? I get it now,
Hartele stole some money from uncle. He won't go to
jail now. Charlie was implicated in uncle's crooked deal. Charlie
won't go to jail now.
Speaker 3: M And who has a deep, slightly hoarse voice. I
don't no, which means that you're not the one who
came to my room last night.
Speaker 5: But if you asked prettily, but I have how comes
the night?
Speaker 3: I look at your etching, I don't have any etchings.
Speaker 8: It brings them with me.
Speaker 3: Are the others.
Speaker 5: Around sitting around practicing grief? Stricken? Looks for the funeral?
That's happy? Event? Is this afternoon? Better get dressed?
Speaker 3: Fun But you are dressed, but not.
Speaker 5: For a funeral.
Speaker 8: Do you excuse me for just a minute, of course?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 5: Here you greetings, mister Templar. This is Charlie. Charlie, this
is mister Templar.
Speaker 3: Glad to meet you. How do you do.
Speaker 5: He doesn't, and he play mister templar for me, Charlie,
I gotta find a dress that's sad looking.
Speaker 6: I'd like to stay and attain you, but I've got
a hurry. You see, i'm mister Clark's secretary.
Speaker 3: In his condition, he doesn't need a secretary.
Speaker 6: Well, I'm mister Clark's former secretary. No, no, I'm the
former mister Clark.
Speaker 3: No, i'd get it. Relax.
Speaker 6: Oh, I'm relaxed.
Speaker 3: And then why are you in such a hurry?
Speaker 6: Well, I have to go out and hire some mourners,
haven't I Why, Well, it wouldn't look nice if they're
only three of us at the funeral.
Speaker 3: I know there's mister Hartsel and myself. No, especially since
you'll all be grinning from here to year. Ask your question?
Has your voice ever been deeper?
Speaker 1: Deep?
Speaker 8: Heaven't know?
Speaker 3: Good? Alright, Harley my boy? Or is he my boy?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 3: Oh, good morning, good morning. My name is Temper, and
I heart.
Speaker 8: Is my name. I'm sorry I can't talk to you now.
I'm in a hurry.
Speaker 7: Why my Taylor is expecting me, your tailor? You would
hardly expect me to attend mister Kark's funeral in.
Speaker 3: This would you impossible?
Speaker 8: You see? So if you don't mind, I'll just run along.
Oh yes, what are you doing here?
Speaker 3: Looking for a man with a deep boy? Oh?
Speaker 7: Sorry, mine isn't. But why are you looking for a
man with a deep voice?
Speaker 3: He told me how mister Clark was murdered.
Speaker 8: Well that explained it.
Speaker 3: What, Yes, he was murdered, But.
Speaker 8: Mister Kark died of heart failure.
Speaker 7: Indeed you must be I demand an explanation immediately.
Speaker 3: You've forgotten one thing, mister Harker. Your Taylor is waiting.
But Taylor's is sometimes very temperamental. Besides, we can discuss
this some other time, this evening, this evening.
Speaker 8: Here's my card.
Speaker 7: I'd appreciate your coming. If mister Klark was murdered, something
must be done about.
Speaker 3: It, Something will be Who knocked at my gates?
Speaker 1: And Templar?
Speaker 4: And I live on sufferance and breathe with difficulty?
Speaker 8: Temple?
Speaker 4: Hello, what happy winds?
Speaker 8: Rough to Hi?
Speaker 6: This?
Speaker 3: I'm in the suttle, Desmond. I'm not an audience.
Speaker 4: Templar, I'm an old ham. And contrary to what they say,
Hams do not improve by aging. Still the gate.
Speaker 3: Venture and I'm not especially gay at the moment. Murder.
Speaker 4: Oh, the last murder that was of any interest to
me was that elsinor thing. You know, when Claudius and
Gertrude put their heads together and slipped Gertrude's royal husband
a slug of poison in the ear.
Speaker 3: I remember it well.
Speaker 4: And the fat Prince Hamlet, I think his name was
mooned about like an innie, ending or feeling to a
watery grave, and the rest of the cast to a
most bloody one.
Speaker 3: You would have made a good hemn bless you.
Speaker 4: Oh, I wanted to play Hamlet instead. They preferred me
as a ventriloquist confound him.
Speaker 3: That's why I'm here. You've been a ventriloquis. I'm involved
in a case which hangs on the identity of a voice. Desmond.
Speaker 8: Could anyone change.
Speaker 3: His voice so that it would be completely different from
his real voice? Oh?
Speaker 4: Yes, but you'd always know that the second voice wasn't natural.
Speaker 3: Does what Simon? Look Desmond? Three people wanted a man
named Clark dead. Clark is dead.
Speaker 4: Presumably therefore one of the three killed Clark.
Speaker 3: Yes, now, I was told of the method whereby Clark
was going to be killed by a very distinctive voice
in the dark. Therefore, the problem was simple, find which
of my three suspects had a voice like that and
go on from there. Well, not one of the three
has that kind of voice, which leaves me with an
interesting problem, leaves the murderer free to go on murdering.
How was the copse mister Pegli's dead, Louis, I want
the nearest bookstore.
Speaker 1: You can't have it.
Speaker 3: It belongs to a guy named Pescil Fleet. Would you
please drive me there quickly?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 3: What's the matter?
Speaker 2: Suddenly decided you want to cut up in front of
a fire with a good book.
Speaker 3: For that, I'd rather have my ned No, Louis, I
merely want to find out how a man can die
of poisoning without being poisoned. You didn't stay in that book?
Speaker 8: Still very long?
Speaker 3: What's the matter? He didn't like Pescil Flight. He didn't
have the book I wanted. I know, not that kind
of book, Louis. What I wanted was a book on
heart diseases. Oh like reading? Huh interesting heart disease. These
doors had one book on heart disease in stock and
so yesterday, so yesterday the book was sold to a
man Pethel Dwaite told me who behaved in a strenuously
agitated fashion. A man named.
Speaker 4: Hotso maybe the name was bothering, which reminds me where
am I taking you?
Speaker 3: Naturally, Louis to a man named hertzale so ian or
funest way to make the.
Speaker 7: Door, mister templar it come in and come in. It
wants thank you, that shooner this afternoon.
Speaker 3: I see you well. Have you tried reading? It's very soothing?
Speaker 8: I have no patience with books.
Speaker 3: No, please, even son heart disease?
Speaker 8: Oh why excuse me?
Speaker 7: Hello?
Speaker 8: Oh yes it is?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 8: Oh how dreadful?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 8: Yes it once?
Speaker 3: Goodbye and you're pale.
Speaker 8: I'm shocked. Charlie Melvin.
Speaker 3: You know him, mister Clark secretary.
Speaker 7: Yes, well, it seems that something's happened to him.
Speaker 3: He's dead.
Speaker 8: Tell him to hurry, temper, hurry.
Speaker 3: Almost there, mister Hart though, did I know say who
discovered the body?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yes she did.
Speaker 8: She'd been visiting some friends, returned home.
Speaker 3: And couldn't have been an accidental death. Co Incidence doesn't
stretch that fire. You know, if he was murdered.
Speaker 8: You still think the police believed Clark was.
Speaker 3: Murdered too not the police need.
Speaker 5: Oh, oh, siren, I'll come in. Getting to be embarrassing.
All of a sudden death.
Speaker 3: It might be more than embarrassing, might be fatal.
Speaker 6: It was.
Speaker 3: But Charlie, how did it happen?
Speaker 5: They shot himself, the police, I just phone.
Speaker 8: This is his room in here.
Speaker 5: I heard the shot when about an hour.
Speaker 3: Ago the two phoned hat so here only fifteen minutes ago.
Speaker 5: I didn't know it was a shot at first. Charlie
was supposed to come upstairs, but he didn't. I realized, well,
there he is.
Speaker 3: Yes, he's definitely dead. And a note.
Speaker 7: Imagine that boy committing shoes.
Speaker 3: I can see what the note says. I killed Clark
because if he'd been arrested, I would have gone to
jail too. But now the police suspect he was murdered,
and they suspect me. I might as well get it
over with before they do. And it's fine, Charlie Melvin.
Speaker 5: Oh, that sort of clears up. That doesn't that?
Speaker 3: Yes, except for one thing. What's that Charlie's The voice
wasn't deep enough. Alexander Graham Bell's little invention should sometimes
be strangled. I'm asleep, and so should you be simpler. Yes, hot,
So listen.
Speaker 5: I'm at the Encant Club on Trugga Darow.
Speaker 8: Yes, I couldn't go home. Charlie's death so soon after clubs. Anyway,
remember that voice you told me about.
Speaker 3: I remember it very well.
Speaker 8: I just heard it.
Speaker 5: What the man with a voice like the one you described.
Speaker 3: Was here, I'll be right over.
Speaker 2: He's gone now.
Speaker 5: But I followed him outside and heard him give the
cab driver his address.
Speaker 3: Good boy, I have my car. I'll pick you up immediately.
Speaker 8: Fine, fine, we can go right after him. It's some
distance outside the city.
Speaker 3: God traveled to the North Pole for him. You don't
measure miles when chasing fathoms.
Speaker 8: Of course, I can't be absolutely sure it's the man
you want me.
Speaker 3: I'm grabbing at straws.
Speaker 7: But his voice did sound like your description. It was
at a club to which clock belonged.
Speaker 3: To make it worth a try, all I needed to
hear him say something anything, a word or phrase, and
I'll know.
Speaker 8: Oh, that shouldn't be difficult once we get to him.
Speaker 3: Once we get to him, anything worries me is yes,
that his voice can still be heard by the time
we get to him. Halfway to the North pole. You
didn't take me literally, did you?
Speaker 7: You shouldn't be much farther temperate here. I don't understand
about Charlie. I can't see a murdering clock.
Speaker 3: Somehow you don't believe he did it? Do you not?
A person thing? Oh?
Speaker 8: Why not?
Speaker 3: I don't know intuition. Maybe a little stranger likes the clusion,
doesn't he?
Speaker 7: Evidently you know the police accepted that suicide note without question?
Speaker 3: Did they?
Speaker 8: There's the house?
Speaker 3: There had any lights showing?
Speaker 7: Well, he must have got here some time before us.
It went to better guess probably. I wonder do you
think you'll recognize your Oh?
Speaker 3: Probably? I couldn't see him, but he saw me.
Speaker 8: That might be bad. Are you armed in case you're trigny?
Speaker 3: No, but we'll manage.
Speaker 8: Suppose he refuses to to say anything.
Speaker 3: At all that itself would answer our question, wouldn't.
Speaker 8: We ring?
Speaker 3: Certainly nothing if not curtious.
Speaker 7: It's so dark out here, so far from any.
Speaker 3: Yeah, dark and lonely.
Speaker 8: You put it beautiful, He doesn't answer.
Speaker 3: Try the door very well? That is good. Then we
can walk right in. I can can't she see? Wait
a minute, a match? They're the light switched to your
left tansle.
Speaker 8: Oh, yes, yes, of course that's much better.
Speaker 3: Now then, m the very charming house you have here,
mister Hut.
Speaker 8: What did you Shay?
Speaker 3: I said, you have a very charming house here, my house.
But you didn't really think I was fool? Did you?
That voice you heard in your club was a fiction.
It had to be a trip here was planned by
you so that it would be alone.
Speaker 8: Oh why why would I want that?
Speaker 3: The better to kill me my friend, kill you you, Shay,
That's what I say.
Speaker 7: Wow, why would I want to kill you?
Speaker 3: Because like yourself? I think that's your side. Note of
Charlie's was a fake.
Speaker 8: Oh, I never said I did.
Speaker 3: It is a fake?
Speaker 8: How did you know?
Speaker 3: The note ran to the effect that Charlie was committing
suicide because the police suspected him of murdering Clark. But
the police didn't suspect Clark of being murdered. Perhaps not,
but you did, yes, But Charlie didn't know that, mister Hartel.
I didn't tell him, Hey, very well, just stay right
where you are. What a handsome revolver.
Speaker 7: I did kill Charlie so that there wouldn't be any
investigation into Clark's death.
Speaker 8: I couldn't afford that if.
Speaker 3: You kill me there will be an investigation.
Speaker 7: No, because no one knows you came here with me.
You're not going to die, You're going to disappear.
Speaker 3: Oh, in my friend, I wouldn't like that too. Well.
Speaker 8: I'm afraid Jode likes to no longer be considered.
Speaker 3: And in that case, I'll have a cigarette, you know which,
Parker hold On, I'm oh, you dropped your revilver.
Speaker 8: Now I have to you. You said you weren't.
Speaker 3: I'm such a liar, But then, can you see I
knew when you asked me. Why you ask me? Sont?
Perhaps I'll be forgiven the templar.
Speaker 8: I killed Charlie, but I didn't Chill Clark.
Speaker 3: I swear I did happen to mister Hartsel. I never
for a moment thought you did.
Speaker 5: A beautiful night time cool and mister Hasttle all shut
up in a dungeon.
Speaker 3: Cell I'm afraid the beauties of the night are lost
to him. Those beauties are also lost to Charlie and
mister Clark.
Speaker 6: I don't think more.
Speaker 5: But they're better off dead.
Speaker 3: But it would have been nicer to leave that decision
to them.
Speaker 5: Mister hartsold bless his fussy old soul. Was really an
impulsive man, a foolish one. Let's not talk about him anymore.
Speaker 3: Let's talk why because Hartsol didn't kill him. Oh, a
man came to me in the middle of the night,
in the darkness so that I never saw him, and
told me of a plan to murder mister Clark. Was
a good plan, absolutely undetectable man left. All through this case,
I've been looking for a man with a voice like
the one that told me of murder, and there were
three people involved. Yourself would get the money. If Clark died,
Charlie would be saved from jail, Hartzell would be free
of impettlements.
Speaker 5: Uncle certainly spread a lot of joy when he died.
Speaker 3: Charlie was murdered by Hartzell. But Charlie's was not the
voice that spoke to me, nor was Hertzel's.
Speaker 5: Then whose voice could it possibly have been?
Speaker 3: That's the central problem, all right? Why did the man
come to me in the first place?
Speaker 5: According to you, to make sure his method of murder would.
Speaker 3: Never be detected. But in coming to me, my dear,
didn't he make sure the very opposite.
Speaker 5: Oh, well, then he must have wanted.
Speaker 3: You to master that's right. He wanted me to detect murder.
But why obviously not because he was going to murder anyway.
Speaker 5: I don't understand.
Speaker 3: The only voice in this case that I haven't heard
it the voice of your uncle, my uncle, he was
my visitor. But why why did he do it? Because
nobody was going to murder him?
Speaker 5: What could he hope to accomplish.
Speaker 3: What he did accomplish? And as your uncle was an
old man with heart disease on the verge of being
arrested for theft swindling, he knew he wouldn't survive even
the shortest prison term. He probably suspected that the strain
of the arrest itself might be fatal, and it was.
But before he died, he wanted revenge on the lawyer
who cheated him and on the secretary who decided him.
So he came to me with his story, figuring that
when he died perfectly naturally, murder would be suspected where
no murder had taken place him when.
Speaker 5: I work didn't because Hartzell killed Charley, Hartzell himself is
going to.
Speaker 3: Die for Yes, your uncle must have been quite a nymon.
Speaker 8: Yes, there's a moon.
Speaker 5: We've talked of unhappy things long enough, got any chin
mm hmm, I word a minute. I thought you didn't
have any of the.
Speaker 3: Last time I asked you, time you asked me, my dear,
you were a suspect for murder. Now now now you're beautiful,
You're blonde, and it's just plain murder.
Speaker 2: Oh you've been listening to another transcribed adventure of a saint,
the robin Hood of modern crime, And oh, here is
our star vincent price.
Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen. Poison doesn't always come in bottles, and
it isn't always marked with the skull and crossbones of danger.
Poison can take the form of words and phrases and
acts the venom of racial and religious hatred. Here in
the United States, perhaps more than ever before, we must
learn to recognize the poison of prejudice, and it discovered
the antidote to its dangerous effects. Evidences of racial and
religious hatred in our country place a potent weapon in
the hands of our enemies, providing them with the ammunition
of criticism. Moreover, group hatred menaces the entire fabric of
democratic life. As for the antidote, you can fight prejudice
first by recognizing it for what it is, and second
by actively accepting or rejecting people on their individual worth,
and by speaking up against prejudice and for understanding. Remember,
freedom and prejudice can't exist side by side. If you
choose freedom, fight prejudice. This Istincent Price inviting you to
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Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 1: An interesting case, and in some ways it colds to
my a Sam Spade episode, The Dry Martini Keeper, although
it's more case of similarity. It's not a direct script reuse.
But The Dry Martini Keeper, which we played a few
years ago, featured a businessman coming to Sam Spade for help,
and in order to get revenge on the horrible people
in his life, he spends some of his last money
to have someone kill him. Sam finds us out eventually,
but not before making plenty of trouble for everyone involved,
including Sam billing the last two hundred dollars of the
then grief stricken widow. Of course, here we've got a
sort of nature taking its core sort of death and
setting up a suggestion that would to our financiers' enemies
bringing about their own punishment. Now, there was an interesting
scene in here when Louis picked up Simon in his
cap where the writers just decided to lampshade the absurdity
of this. Louie is a regular recurring character, which I
think makes more sense in terms of drama and a
sense of continuity than having a bunch of random Cabby characters.
But in terms of realism, the odds are astronomically against
one person running into the same Cabby over and over
and over again, and they just decide to handle that
with a little bit of a wink to the audience.
One thing I didn't like was the conversation with the ventroloquest.
The question was simple, and it's surprising Simon didn't know it.
And if Simon didn't know for some reason, then to
paraphrase a modern saying but put it in nineteen fifties
language that could have been a phone call. It felt
like padding to make sure there was enough runtime to
the story. You just imagine the writer's thoughts, Okay, well
this is not long enough. What can I do to
fill out the time? I know I'm gonna work in
my most insane Shakespeare fan theory. Well, now we turn
to listener comments and feedback. Jeff writes regarding the problem
of the peculiar payoff. Sometimes what is supposed to be
witty dialogue becomes too cartoonish, at least for me. And
that's from Patreon. Well, thanks so much, Jeff, and I
understand the point of view. I'm not certain I agree.
It's not like Elmer Fudd appeared in that episode.
Speaker 3: Uh.
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