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This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're
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Counterspy and even though particularly at the beginning, it might
seem to be covering similar ground to Cloak and Dagger,
but there are many big differences. Cloaken Dagger told tales
inspired by true adventures of the OSS overseas counter spy,
particularly at the beginning, told stories of American counter intelligence
and the efforts to port the efforts of spies and
Fifth columnists. By nature, these stories were fictional, since the
US government wasn't about two all stories in the middle
of the war about our counterintelligence effort because there were
all sorts of risk in doing so. And you'd pick
up some of that from some of the post war
films that came out, Likehouse on ninety Second Street. In
that film, it was portrayed that the US had tracked
down the key to a Nazi spir ring, but found
more valuable use of it to continue to use it
to intercept true information and send some inaccurate information back
to the Germans for as long as possible, and certainly
there may have been some tricks that they picked up
during the war that they weren't eager to share with
radio audiences even after the war. Counterspy premiered at a
time when fighting Fifth columnist and spies was almost the
responsibility of every fictional character. Now, even before the war,
there had been comic book characters like spy Smasher, but
once the war was on, it seems like everybody took
a crack at the Axis. You could find Axis fighters
in the funny papers, would find them on the silver
screen in cereals. You even had a lot of Barrymore's
finally Mayor in the Mayor of the Town, having at
least one and I think maybe multiple encounters with Axis Agents.
You even had a Laurel and Hardy movie that involved
them fighting Fifth Columnist and Counterspy easily could have just
been one of those shows that aired during the war
and then disappeared forever, but it actually had a pretty
significant life on radio. It was the third series produced
by Phillips Lord, who already had Gangbusters and Mister District
Attorney under his belt. Counter Spy would actually remain on
the air until nineteen fifty seven, not quite as long
a run as Gangbusters, but a bit more than Mister
District Attorney. In today's episode takes us close to the
beginning of the series. This is actually the fourth episode
of Counterspot. The original air a eighth June the eighth,
nineteen forty two, and the title is sirse.
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Speaker 4: The Blue Network presents Philip H. Lord's Counterspy backing our
Great Army and Navy at the front is our invisible
Army of United States Counterspies who work quietly, effectively, and
sweatly against the enemies in our midst They are the
dread of the German Gestapo, the Italian Obra, and the
Japanese Black Dragon. Imagine the eighth counter spy of them
all as David Harding, especially, appointed with authority to work
however or wherever he will. Three weeks ago in Washington,
a very prominent bachelor by the name of William R.
Terris stood in the center of his expensive apartment. The
time eleven twenty five at night. A dim light burned
on the little ebony side table. But the terrorist stood there.
His face was ashen white.
Speaker 3: Great beads of perspiration stood out on his forehead.
Speaker 5: Gone, you'll betrayed your country. Go on, go on, pull
up trigger, you cowared.
Speaker 3: Go on, tell editor the hold of Prince for Mot
just committed suicide in his living room. He left a
note saying it was because of ill health. It's a
clear cutcase of suicide. Restarting. You're the chief and lets
you say, goes. But it's just the case of a
wealthy bachelor in poor health. Oh, I admit, my William
Terris probably did commit suicide. But remember this World War.
The guest stop or experts at making a murder appear
to be a suicide, then you're really going to investigate it.
I think I will at least answer a few questions. Yes, sir.
Now the no Terra's left, Mark said he was committing
suicide because of ill health. I think I'll drop in
on his doctor and see how bad his health really was.
You would know, doctor, as mister Terrace was in poor health.
I was shocked at his suicide, mister Harding.
Speaker 6: From everything I know, mister Terrace was in perfect terror.
Speaker 3: That's quite interesting. I think I'll go over to mister
Terrace's bank and see if finances were worrying him. You know,
mister Harding, mister Terrace's finances were in perfect conditions. He
was worth nearly three quarter is of a Midian. He
had many government bonds and securities. Mark. But a man
commits suicide and it isn't his health, and it isn't financials,
look for the woman's exactly. That's what I want you
to do, Mark, Yes, sir, I'll pick six men cover
Washington from head to foot and find out what woman
William Tarris paid special attention to.
Speaker 7: Yes, Johnnie, I've got completed that investigation. Man in question
was spotless, described as congenial, jo friendly, but never recorded
any particular woman was known to be very proper and
old fashioned in ideas.
Speaker 3: All right, Mark, that ends that lead. Meet me later.
I'm going to take a long chance and visit the
accounting firm which checked Terris's books.
Speaker 8: Why, yes, mister Hardy, We've been there conference for mister
Terras's firm for nine years.
Speaker 3: I want you to go to mister Terris's office and
get his office pat of appointments for the past year. Now,
check that appointment list for lapses of time. Then check
those dates against his personal checks and see what checks
were made out during those periods of absences. This should
tell us where mister Terris was during those absences.
Speaker 9: Mister Harding, we went over mister Terras's office ted and
found he was absent from his business during the past
year on four different occasions a week at each time.
Speaker 3: Jordan, Now, during those absences did he make out any checks.
Speaker 9: His first absence corresponse to a check he made out
at the Sanatoga Hotel, Statoga. During mister Terrace's second absence,
he made out a check at the Clubhouse pine Hill,
South Carolina. The third shape was made out at a Clubhouse, Atlanta, Georgia.
Speaker 3: Fine than you. It is G six calling from Saratoga Springs.
Man in questions spent week here in company.
Speaker 10: Of women that complexion about thirty one, expensively dressed, unusually attractive.
Speaker 3: Full report follows. Fine was a G eight reporting from
Fine Hills, South Carolina. Man in question stay here accompanied
by unknown woman in early thirties, most attractive, expensively gowned.
Dark follows. This is beginning to get very interesting that
you're HARDI Yet we may still be on a wild
goose chase.
Speaker 6: Mark.
Speaker 3: We have no idea who that girl was. It may
have been perfectly all right, but how can we ever
find her? If you meet me anywhere? Why, here's a
little something I dug up. April the second, William Terrace
made out a check to the Washington Jewelry Company for
eight thousand dollars. Hey, that's a pretty sizable amount for
a bachelorly making out to send you a jewelry house.
That's what I thought, Mark, I'm going to check that
jewelry house. I wonder just what William Arrest bought with
that eight thousand.
Speaker 11: Dollars, mister tres for the solid jet diamond ring tennant
one half terrace latinum setting a woman's ring. We have
no record that he said whom he was buying it for.
That is all.
Speaker 3: Thank you well mart. Now we know that mister Terriff
bought a ring for some woman. Who is she? Where
is she? That's a tough question, mister Harding. Well, let's
put two and two together and try to make five.
Check all insurance companies, mark dear and see if within
a few days after April the second, any woman insured
a ring for approximately eight thousand dollars. Hey, that's clever reasoning.
You win, Haiding, We're getting hot. Here's the insurance report
April fifth, A solitarire diamond ring platinum setting was insured
for eight thousand dollars by a Miss Avery Rollins of
thirteen seventy Lincoln Boulevard, Northwest Washington. Rollins, Avery Rollin. That
name's very familiar. She's high society. Mister Hardy lives with
her uncle and dad. Huh. I got a report on
her age thirty two, height, five feet five, light hair complexion,
very social educated at the suborne paris above reproach. But
the woman scene with William Terris, the resource was dark,
dark hair. The weights are approximately the same, both apparently wealthy,
both smart dressers. Mark, there's something wrong, something very wrong.
It's a problem that's got to be approached from some
unusual angle. Well, you have a very luxurious apartment here,
Conna Reynolds. Thank you, mister Harding. I'm pretty proud of it,
especially this library. Then I'm here to make a very
unusual request, colonel. And you may know I'm a United
States counter spy. Yes I do, now, Colonel, you knew
William Terris personally? Didn't you know it was hissue side
of Bonaphyte suicide, mister Harding, Well, if you're perfectly frank,
Colonel Reynold, I don't know. That's why I've come to you.
I need the aid of a citizen, colonel prominent, who
has some government responsibility. You're forty eight, that's correct, a bachelor,
a confirmed one. You're a very handsome man, ho come now, come, yes,
and very fascinating to women. Now wait a minute, Oh,
this is very serious business. Your chairman on the board
for the new airplane formations an armor. Yeah, that makes
you a very interesting person to certain other persons. Colonel,
do you happen to know a Miss Avery Rollins a
very gorgeous woman, but I've never happened to meet her.
She's usually surrounded by any number of admirers. Well, I'm
going to arrange for you to meet her, Colonel Renold.
I'm going to ask you to make yourself just as
interesting to her as possible. In fact, I'm going to
ask you to try and make it even a constant
attachment for a time. Huh oh, no, hiding, that's a
little too much. I don't wish to get mixed up
with women, Colonel Reynolds. You could be the principal factor
in possibly exposing one of the most cunning spir rings
in this company today. You don't think Avery Rowlins was
in any way connected with Terrace's suicide. You don't think
she's acting as a spy. That's what I want to
find out, Colonel good Lord Totty. I've arranged with Lady
Caston to give a formal ball next Friday evening. I've
given her a list of guests she's to include. Miss
Rowlands will be one, and I'd appreciate your being another
and casually meeting her naturally, Robins Hiding. Under these circumstances,
no man could refuse I thought you'd feel that way, sir. Now,
if you meet her, please don't try to contact me
in any way. Leave it up to me to find
out what you're doing.
Speaker 4: Three weeks later, martch twenty third, g.
Speaker 7: Six, the Colonel boarded train at Washington after hour, was
joined by a woman already on train.
Speaker 12: She is of dark complexion, extensively dressed, very.
Speaker 7: Attractive, black hair, hi to proximately five feet five.
Speaker 3: Nickud reads, Bob Springs, not at all, that's strange. That's
not the description of Aby rollins A.
Speaker 7: Bruce sike Y PM.
Speaker 10: The Colonel in question board the train at Washington. I
would later joined woman already on train, dark complexion, extensively dress,
very beautiful, landing, shotting weight pounds ticket re read the
lad that Joya.
Speaker 3: Who is meeting Colonel Reynolds on these trips? Did a
very rollins or who is come in? He?
Speaker 13: Hello?
Speaker 3: Mark, Hello it darny. Just've got the facts on that
dark girl who the meeting the colonel? Good? Why did
you find out you were right? Sir? After the girls
got off the train with the Colonel, I went to
her compartment. They were unmistakable signs of dark colored powder,
long hair, and black hair which showed at the end
of the hair as if it had come out of
a week. Now she must get on the train, get
a compartment, and change your appearance before she comes down
to meet the colonel. And it is a very rollam
becuse she's been absent from Markington at the same time
as the colonel has. She's probably explained to the colonel
because of their prominent standing in Washington, she misdisguised herself. Then,
the way I see it, Miss Avery Rollins must have
been the mysterious dark woman with whom William Terris went
off on trips before he was murdered, without a doubt,
and she's connected with his murder in some manner. And
I've got to make sure the Colonel isn't killed the
same way. She's off now down in Virginia Beach with him.
What a sun said, Avery, Beautiful.
Speaker 13: I love to lie on the beach check all the
others have gone in.
Speaker 3: Look at those breakers on the sea.
Speaker 13: John. Sometimes I see a look. Come over. You'll say
a look of pain.
Speaker 5: Anything cubbling you, Oh, dear something rarely you're worrying about
your responsibilities, those your war plans or something.
Speaker 3: No, I don't think I am.
Speaker 13: Oh I wish we didn't have to go back to
Washington tomorrow.
Speaker 3: We must, so I've got some important conferences here. Put
these in your bag, will you agree. I'm afraid I'll
lose them in the sand.
Speaker 13: Oh, but wore I bring keys down to the beach.
Speaker 3: I don't dare leave them in the hotel room. The
flat one is the key to the secret cabinet in
my library. It has the government plans we're drawing up.
Speaker 5: Oh no, no, John, don't get me the keys. It's
too big a responsibility.
Speaker 3: Well, all right, i'll hide them next time under the
rug at the hotel.
Speaker 13: Let's go in the water. Come on, all right, I'll beat.
Speaker 4: You to it.
Speaker 12: Oh, you just try.
Speaker 3: Oh I was looking for you, Harding. Well, Hello, Colonel Reynolds.
Glad to see you sit down here now. I thought
it might be better for us to meet openly at
the hotel here, rather than me to go again to
your apartment. A good many things have happened since we
last talked, Todding. Yes, and you've proved yourself a veteran,
a professional counter spy. Couldn't have done better anything the matter, Hanting, Well,
I think the big moment here. It's now or never.
What shall I do? I'd like to have you invite
miss Rollins up to your apartment Tuesday night for a
formal dinner, just you two'll right? You don't think, do you, Harding?
Miss Rollins rarely is a spy, Yes, Colonel, I do.
But I kept the key to my secret file where
she could get it, called her attention to it, Harding,
tell me the truth. You don't think Miss Rollins was
the girl who was with Terras on those trips before
he committed Sue side. Yes, his blood is on her hands, Colonel,
and probably the blood of a dozen other men. Now,
Tuesday night, after you've had dinner, I wish you'd go
with her and your library Dan for coffee, but under
no conditions, Colonel, drink the coffee. I'll casually drop in
a little later. You intend to break her Tuesday night
if I can, and I hope I can. With the matter, Colonel,
why does a sheet? I'm all right? But can I
get you something?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 3: What is it? Colonel? You can tell me? Hadding, I
love her? You don't mean that? Yes, yes, I do
mean it. I love her, Good heavens man, you can't
but I do. I think she's innocent. She didn't try
to copy the key, She's never tried to ask me
questions about secret government affairs. But she's a murderous colonel,
take my word for it. The blood of trast is
on her. She double cross you in a second. And
I didn't realize how lonely I've been. She's so clever, smart, beautiful,
everything about her. I can't stand it. You're not thinking
of doing what William Tarris did. No, No, not that.
I guess I can see it through. I'm sorry, Colonel,
terribly sorry. I guess there's no more to be said.
He'll go through with it tomorrow night as planned. Yes,
I remember, do not drink any coffee that's poored. I
wish I could say something, Colonel Reynold. I feel for
you from the bottom of my heart. This is bigger
than you for me, I know, But still I think
she's innocent. Some more champagne, Avery, please, John. And that's
a stunning evening gown. It blends right with your skin.
Speaker 6: Some more champagne for you, sir, Yes, and Marvin, yes, sir,
Miss Avery and I will have our brandy and coffee
in the library tonight, yes, sir, and I'd like to
have you remain this evening.
Speaker 3: Very good sir. Oh by the way, Avery, did you
ever know William R.
Speaker 14: Terris Terris Wendy, the man who committed suicide about four
months ago.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I've seen him, but I never met him.
Speaker 3: Oh awful thing, wasn't it.
Speaker 13: I've heard some people say it wasn't suicide.
Speaker 3: Yes, but you can't tell from rumors. Like the silverware.
Speaker 5: You caught me looking at it, John, Yes, I do
like him, everything about this place.
Speaker 13: It's so tasteful.
Speaker 3: I had thought I was perfectly contented, but now it
all seems so insignificant. To have something really worthwhile, you've
got to have someone to share it with.
Speaker 14: I found the same thing to John Coach, nursing comrades,
ship means more than anything.
Speaker 3: Shall I have mortm serve the coffee and brandy in
the library? Yes?
Speaker 9: Do?
Speaker 15: I let me help you o, But I'd rather sit
on a die then with you.
Speaker 3: Avery, you look like the most sophisticated woman in the world,
like one of those gorgeous paintings, And then you will
say something so tender.
Speaker 13: But a woman should be a mystery to a man.
Speaker 3: There, Avery, I know, but you don't know how much.
Speaker 14: Yes I do, John, My heart's pitter pattering the same
way it has been ever since that last trip.
Speaker 13: Do you love me Avery, Yes, John, very deeply.
Speaker 3: Avery.
Speaker 6: Pardon me, sir. But mister Harding and his friend have
caught Oh yes, yes, Martin, show them in.
Speaker 13: Why did they have to come at just this moment?
Speaker 3: Well, Harding's a very good friend. I guess he's just
dropping in. No, we were just on the way to
the club with what do we stop in? Colonel Hello Harding,
glad to see you. Have you met missus Rollins? Hi,
don't believe I've had that privilege. Good evening, Miss.
Speaker 13: Rolin, good evening me to Hiding.
Speaker 3: Mis Rollins is a friend of mine, Mister Mark.
Speaker 13: Good evening to Monk.
Speaker 3: It's a plight here, and Colonel Reynolds Mark, good evening,
mister Monk. Won't you join us in the Brandon coffee? Oh?
Thank you? We've just finished dinner. Sit down, gentlemen, and
make yourselves come for the baker.
Speaker 13: Oh why you men chat? I think I'll go and
freshen up a bit. We just finished dinner, delicious dinner,
Misto hiding, but fry chicken, and you know what that
does to hand.
Speaker 3: I've always maintained the only real place to really enjoy
fried chicken within the bath.
Speaker 13: You men chat and I'll be back in just a
few moments.
Speaker 3: If you an excuse me, Harding, it's all right to
talk in front of mister Mors. Currently's the counterss by
an active service hanting. It can't be true. She's too decent.
I'm going crazy, Colonel Reynolds. I'm gonna have to be
brutal tonight. Ordinarily I wouldn't operate this way, but I'm
going to do everything I can to expose this right
here in front of you. I believe I ought to you.
Tell me, Harding, she's really one of your agents with you.
Tell me that you suspected me and really did this
so she could check on me. Tell me that he's
my money. The only way, Colonel, is to let this unfold.
How would you rank your butler? Please? Yes, yes, Harding?
Is it the butler. You'll really have to tell me
it's he him, not Avery, isn't it, Colonel. I know
how upset you are. I sympathize, but I can't change
the facts. I don't say anything for a minute. Did
you ring for me, sir? I believe the Colonel wanted
you to pour some brandy for me.
Speaker 6: Yes, sir, thank you, sir.
Speaker 3: This is a gun in your stomach. Don't moved quiet Plyace.
Colonel cut his hands behind him. Mark tight, I've got him.
Then he's the man your apps, not Avery. I believe
he there without his wig. He looks more natural like
it pictured your butler. Colonel reynolds his hair. Franz Beckman,
one of the cleverest Austrian spy. I am not him.
I do not know whom you are talking about, Colonel.
When your butler was hurt by car six weeks ago,
you might be interested to know it was a plot.
The man at the wheel of the car which ran
down your butler was this man standing here. He wanted
to pose as a butler so we could get in
your house. Here. We've been checking on him for weeks. Here,
drink the coffee you served the colonel Gregg it now
you don't like dope coffee? H Bergman, Please herding. Avery
is coming back. Watch her when she comes in. I
think she'll be pretty surprised.
Speaker 13: It's something the matter in here? But is that your butler.
Speaker 3: It has yes, Ms Rolin, we removed his wig hi
or for the reason that he happens not to be
a butler, but hair Franz Beckman, a very noted Austrian spy.
Why he just spounds quite a cut.
Speaker 13: Oh, I'm so glad you caught him.
Speaker 3: Mark. Take Beckman over to the other side of the room.
Come on, Hitler, I'll leave you. I don't know.
Speaker 14: Oh John, you must feel terribly about this taking place
in your apartment.
Speaker 13: Do you take this? Brandy? You look like a goose?
Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you, Avery, Thanks Colonel Rynolds. I have
a record i'd like to play for you. Would you
mind my using your machine?
Speaker 14: Ye?
Speaker 3: No, no, The switch is right on the side of
the radio line, and it's just a shard recording. And
feel a little dizzy, eh, I guess I'll sit here
by you. Avery.
Speaker 13: Good. What kind of a record is it? Me to hiding?
Speaker 3: What's the purpose of it? I believe it it'll be
self explanatory. It was made last night there the lines
were spoken rather softly at the time. But I'll turn
on the full volume so we won't miss anything. Yeah, quick,
get the camera in. I can't find anything but personal people.
Speaker 16: They must be there, they Condo told me himself. He
told him in the world taking his loudrary all right,
But if.
Speaker 6: We don't find them, you would just have to keep
on playing.
Speaker 16: Him old fool, I Sidney take everyone I get near,
and I can't steal to touch him.
Speaker 3: Plans for not hear.
Speaker 12: Yes, I killed him must be there.
Speaker 6: We have paid to night, but he probably put them
in here tomorrow.
Speaker 13: I hope tonight would be the lad.
Speaker 16: Then I could break him and person to commit suicide
that terror. If he won't, we'll claim his coffee.
Speaker 12: Dog, I'll kill you.
Speaker 6: You know what you'll say.
Speaker 3: Fortunately, Colonel Reynolds, the plans weren't there, but if they
had been, you wouldn't be alive tonight. She'd have worked
on you. She'd gotten you to commit suicide, and.
Speaker 13: I would make him kill himself, just like I made
care kill him.
Speaker 3: Don't talk. She'd have told you she'd gotten the plan,
that you'd be disgraced. She'd have broken your heart. You'd
have done what all the other men have done.
Speaker 13: She's worked talking, and a loss is a stupid dog.
Speaker 3: Donald. Her real name is Maurice Schmidt, so hungry, a
paid spy, she goes to the biggest bidder. This woman
is one of the cleverest, if not the cleverest paid
woman spy in this country. And that bubber of yours,
Bronz Beckman, is her husband. Take them all. He mark
the other agents dropped the front hole. Yes, I'm sorry, Colonel,
but I had to strip it all down before you,
so you never have any doubt. I didn't know a
person who could be hurt quite this much. You may
have saved the lives, Colonel, of thousands of our boys,
I hope. So come over here by the window for
a minute. Were you gonna Why couldn't she have been
what I hoped she was. Look at those marines swing along.
You've done them and the boys like them a great service,
Colonel Reynolds. No one will probably ever know about it,
but you will, and I will. I'd opened the window.
Well that's center thrill through.
Speaker 4: It does.
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm glad I was able to help parting. Every
one of us has got to sacrifice some one way,
some another. I guess this way is.
Speaker 4: All over this country tonight has spread a great army
of counterspies men working to protect you and our boys
at the front. Special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
of the Secret Service of the Treasury and state departments
of the intelligence bureaus of the.
Speaker 3: Army and the Navy.
Speaker 4: Men who are constantly on the alert, diligently protecting our
home front.
Speaker 3: These men beg of you not to talk.
Speaker 4: Concerning truth moves, armaments, defense plants, and wartime plans. There
are many leeches, enemy agents just waiting to pounce on
every little scrap of information so their experts can piece
it together into a big compact picture of our war efforts.
Next Monday evening, counter Spy David Harding will be on
the air. Tell your friends, invite them to listen in
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Counter Spy is a Philips h Lord production which has
originated from New York.
Speaker 3: This is the Blue Network.
Speaker 1: Welcome back, okay. I think as an introduction to the series.
Even though it's not the first episode, it definitely does
get you familiar with the concept, and the opening would
remain pretty much the same even as the show evolved.
The ability for David Harding to pick his own cases.
It is a huge, huge, very dubious procedure to have
in place. But that ability to have that flexibility about
the case's poor trade is part of the reason that
Counterspy lasted for so long. As we'll hear as we
get further into the series here, it really does give
him the latitude to give this thorough investigation when the
police had just kind of been willing to go along
with it being a suicide. Although I have to say,
even a suicide that is somewhat coerced or that someone
was manipulated into, I've never heard of anyone lying in
their suicide note and telling such an and easily disproven lie,
such as that you committed suicide due to poor health
when your health was fine. I did think Harding had
a good plan with the colonel, although I think we
can look and say that it was a bit of
a mistake to just leave the colonel to his own
devices while he was going through this romantic relationship, and
I did feel bad for him the way that it
worked out. I did like the way that he came
up with alternate explanations for his mission. It was not
some total abandonment of all logic and reason, and some
of the ideas he came up with would have actually
been a really good twist, but alas it was not
to be. And I did appreciate Hardinging trying to reassure
him about it and again making the point that he
had helped save lives. And I think it's the type
of ending that would have particularly resonated during World War Two,
as a lot of people face the reality that sometimes
you don't get the happy ending, but if you can
make a difference for your nation and the future of liberty,
then you've done something worthwhile. It's not all about you.
Listener comments and feedback now, and we have comments regarding
the episode thirteen ru Madeleine with Humphrey Bogart and Itchi.
Richie says, this is a great old movie with James Cagney,
and thanks so much. I don't think I did mention
that the original screen version that was adapted was with Cagney,
but it was so appreciate that. And then have a
really good comment from Mechanics sixty six when they were
talking about Sharky going himself and getting caught. He said,
I'll have my elk tab and with one bite, I'll
be gone. So why was he taken alive? Well, that
is a really good question. And this is a case
where I have a strong preference for one hour adaptations
of films as opposed to half hours, and you really
get a lot more chance to fill in the details.
And in this case, when they adapted it down to
half an hour, they left in a line, but they
didn't really communicate why he didn't take the l tab.
If you watch the film version, he has completed the
mission he had in the film, but did not get away.
And he was hidden in the brush and there was
a gun that was just a few feet away from him,
and he had the el tab out at one point
when there were Nazi officers about, but the Nazi officers
moved and he thought he had a chance of getting
the gun. And if he can get the gun, that
creates a lot of options for him to get away,
to inflict more damage on the enemy, and Sharky, while
he's willing to take this if he's got no other choice,
I think understandably, that's not his purpose. But he goes
for the gun and is spotted before he can get
it cleanly, and he ends up getting knocked out with
the el tab in his hands, and that's actually pried
away from his hands by the Germans. But again the
radio version doesn't really make that clear. But that's what happened,
and I hope that explanation helps all right. Well, now
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