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Speaker 1: Me, they tune for my History theater. Come in, welcome him,

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g Marshall. This time I bring you not a horror story,

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not a mystery story, but a story that the ficionados

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classify as the perfect crime. In other words, you see

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what our police friends call the perpetrator plan and execute

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what appears to be a perfect crime, one for which

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he will never be brought to book. And then you

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are kept in suspense, wondering or trying to figure out

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for yourself what little mistake he will make or has made,

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that will nail him. Consider the case of Jennifer Palmer

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and her husband Nick, who framed her with murder. Our

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mystery drama Frame Up was written especially for the Mystery

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Theater by George Loather and stars Mercedes McCambridge. It is

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sponsored in part by Onheuser Busch Incorporated, brewers of Budweiser

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and sign off the Sinus Medicines. I'll be back shortly

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with that one. Lounging in this big comfortable leather chair

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of mine, I sometimes get to speculating on whether I

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could commit, try anyhow to commit for perfect crime. It

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must require a great deal of nerve and the conviction

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that one is a highly superior human being. Vanity of

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one's self, contempt of others. Hmm. These would surely be

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two characteristics of whoever planned a perfect crime. Nick Palmer

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possessed both in abundance, but they were carefully concealed most

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of the time under a veneer of charm. Unhappily so

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far as Jennifer, his wife, was concerned that veneer had

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cracked long ago. Divorce.

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Speaker 2: That's precisely the word I use, Nick, divorce.

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Speaker 1: But gender on what grounds would you divorce me? In

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the four years of our marriage?

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Speaker 2: You have been unfaithful at least four times.

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Speaker 1: Ah, you can't prove that.

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Speaker 2: And using the power of attorney, I gave you mishandled

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my money.

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Speaker 1: You can't prove that either.

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Speaker 2: Well, luckily I don't have to prove that. I had

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only to revoke the power of attorney, which I did

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this morning.

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Speaker 1: Oh dear, I don't like that. No, no, I don't

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like that at all. I didn't expect you would. I

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don't want to track the idea of divorce. Either's bad

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for my practice. A what practice?

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Speaker 3: You haven't bothered to take on a law case in

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more than a year.

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Speaker 1: That's true, I don't believe in working if you don't have.

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Speaker 2: To, and of course, using misusing my money, you haven't

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had to.

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Speaker 1: Look, let me ask you a couple of questions. You mind,

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go ahead? Have I in any way tried to interfere

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with your personal wishes? In any way as a husband

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tried to keep you from whatever you might have wanted,

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such as well, you know how I feel about Shila

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and the expense of keeping her at the Laurence School.

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Speaker 2: If you'd tried to get me to take her out

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of the Laurence School, you'd have failed.

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Speaker 1: And you know it. Sheila is my daughter, not yours.

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Speaker 2: And she is also a special child, special, yes, a

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special child who needs the special treatment she gets at

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the Laurence School.

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Speaker 1: All right, we won't go into all that again. Have

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I ever asked you to give up those so called

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art lessons of you? So called? What are you talking about?

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We were going to chat Chatterton studio twice a week

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for nearly two years and whatever it? What's wrong in

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having a hobby or is that old Chatterton is to

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you a hobby?

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Speaker 2: Chat Chatterton is an old friend and I'm very fond

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of him.

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Speaker 1: But that's all I don't like to strip you of

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your security blanket, my darling, But you leave me no option.

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What are you getting at just this, Jen? Unless you

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agree to leave things as they are, I'm afraid I

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shall have to take measures to stop you. Well there's

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nothing you can do to stop Oh yes, yes, there

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really is. I could put you behind bars for murder.

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You what frame you frame me with murder? Are you crazy?

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Frame you with the murder you didn't commit and enjoy?

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behind bars. But ten to twenty years at least more

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than sufficient time for me to enjoy your money. Now,

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then will you drop the divorce and reinstate the power

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of attorney?

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Speaker 4: Of course not.

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Speaker 3: And what's more, I want you to pack your bags

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and get out.

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Speaker 1: Of this house at once, Janey? Would I? I don't

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care where you go. All I know is I can't

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bear being in the same house with you. Well, in

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that case, shouldn't you be the one to leave? I

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like the house, and really I like you, Jen. I

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don't mind being with you one little bit.

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Speaker 4: Mute.

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Speaker 1: Oh very well, I'll leave anything to be rid of you. Goodbye,

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Not goodbye, my darling, Not yet.

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Speaker 2: Jen, would you use a warm a cool shadow here

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under the jowey line?

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Speaker 1: Jen? Huh oh what?

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Speaker 2: Oh this portrait I'm working on, I'm not sure if

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I should use a warm.

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Speaker 1: Jin. Are you all right? Yes, you're you're ele. Why

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do you ask?

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Speaker 2: All through painting class today, you or your thoughts seemed

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to be elsewhere. Something on my mind? That's all anything

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I can help you with? No, No, it's something that

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I have to work out for myself.

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Speaker 4: It's eminent. Break everybody, and then I'll have a look

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at what you've done. Hey, that portrait's coming along fine, Alexis.

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I wish I could say the same for yours. Still

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lives Jen, I wish I could too, chat. Oh, well,

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she just hasn't been with it today. Yes, I saw

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a since that, Alexis, do me a favor, will you?

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Speaker 1: Oh? You have but to command?

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Speaker 4: Have everybody arrange their paintings along the wall so I

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can just.

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Speaker 1: Walk by them. Look at him? Huh, Master, I go

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care to talk about it?

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Speaker 2: Chad Nick threatened me this morning, threatened you to frame me.

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Speaker 1: With murder? Would you run through that again? To frame

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me for murder?

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Speaker 4: You told him about divorcing him then and revoking the

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power of attorney, and he said, well, he must be

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out of his mind. How could he frame you or

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anybody for murder?

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Speaker 2: I don't know, but if anyone can, he can't. Oh,

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come on, je, No, I know him better than you do.

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He's brilliant. He's got a mind that honestly, sometimes it

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scares me.

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Speaker 4: But he doesn't scare me. I'll take care of this

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little matter in short order.

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Speaker 1: Ow Chad, what can you do? I can go and

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see that.

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Speaker 4: Creep husband of yours and make a few threats of

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my own.

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Speaker 1: Pommer.

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Speaker 4: Gen's going to get her divorce and she's already revoked

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your power of attorney, and that's that. You give her

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any trouble and I'll beat the living.

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Speaker 1: Daylight back, I assure you. Unless she gives up all

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thought of divorce and reinstates the power of attorney. I've enjoyed. Well,

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you go ahead hit me. I'd like nothing better six

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' two against my five ten. I could sue you

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for every penny you've got, if you've got anything that's

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suing for or are you just living on hope? What

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do you mean Gen's money one's free of me. If

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she gets free the field would be wide open for you,

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wouldn't it Why I could kick?

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Speaker 4: I warrant you or you did?

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Speaker 1: Ah, I was foolish not to take your warning, But

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you know I think it'll be foolish if you not

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to take mine, which is quite simply stay.

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Speaker 4: I have no intention of staying out. A large tube

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isn't white?

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Speaker 2: And then let's see, oh, a couple of tubes of ultramarine,

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cirillian cad red light.

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Speaker 1: Excuse me, but aren't you Alexis peorn is Lauren?

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Speaker 3: Alexis Lauren?

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Speaker 1: I'm afraid I'm Jenni Falmer's husband Nick. You and I

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met about a year ago. Oh wait, chat chat is

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this studio?

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Speaker 2: Of course when you attended the student artist?

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Speaker 1: That's right, Well, this says a pleasure. Jen asked me

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to pick up some paints for her, and I run

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into you. My lucky day. How nice of you. No, no, no,

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it's always a pleasure to meet the pretty girl again?

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Tell me this long? Is? Is your hobby still portrait painting?

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You remembered, Yes, it is. For the thought crossed my

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mind when I saw your work at the exhibit. Look,

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couldn't it be a nice idea to give Jen a

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portrait of me on some occasion or other birth the anniversary,

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you know, and running into you accidentally, like, look here,

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how would you like to do a portrait of me? Me? Yes,

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you see, we have a fifth wedding anniversary coming up

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in a month, and I'd like nothing better than to

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give Jen a portrait of myself. But I'm only an

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amateur in mister Palmer. What's that got to do with it?

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I'm sure Jen would be doubly pleased if the portrait

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were painted by you. Well, we guess she might. Why

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do you say that? Well, all right, I'll do it. God,

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that's well, oh not a word of Jen, of course,

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Oh of course not. Could we? Could we begin tonight?

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Do you think in my study at home? Your study?

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But if I come to your house and she says

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you won't, She's going to the Laurence School tonight to

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see her her daughter, Sheila. Oh yes, poor thing. So

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if you could come along say about eight thirty, Yes.

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Speaker 3: I can, and I will, and thanks ever so much,

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mister Palmer.

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Speaker 1: I don't mind telling you that this is my first

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commission and hopefully not your last. Hopefully Jen, don't say no.

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I beg you don't her whole marriage depends on it.

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Speaker 3: What marriage?

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Speaker 1: Jen? Give me this one more chance, and I promise

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I'll make everything up to you. I'll spend my life

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making it up to you. I have no intention of

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giving you power of it. I don't want that. That's

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what I'm trying to tell you why I want to

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talk with you. I realize what a mess I made

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of things, and I'd like the chance, just one chance

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to make amends. Oh well, he'll come, I know you will,

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nine tonight. Please all right, Jen, I I can't tell

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you how great fire.

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Speaker 3: Turn Just just a little more of the left toward

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the light of the lamp.

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Speaker 1: Uh like saw perfect the other way?

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Speaker 2: You see, we get a light effect where one side

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of the face is totally in shadow.

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Speaker 1: We don't want that. I think it's turned like a car,

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a car in your driveway. Yes, it is, a matter

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of fact. It's Jen, Jen, your wife. Do you know

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any other Jen? What is it?

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Speaker 2: Kind of game?

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Speaker 3: You don't want your port?

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Speaker 1: What you just took from the drawer. It's it done? Yes,

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I'm uh sorry to dash your hope, Selexis, Yes, my hope.

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Remember you told me this was your first commission and

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I said, hopefully it wouldn't be your last. Sorry, dear,

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it is jin Come in, DearS, come in. You're right

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on time. So Jennifer Palmer walks into a trap and

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the trap is sprung. Nick promised her head framer with

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a murder, and from where I sit, he's well on

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his way to keeping that promise. I'll return shortly for

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AC two.

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Speaker 4: This is John Scott.

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Speaker 5: Be sure to join me eight o'clock tonight for the

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latest news from the Wor New York Newsroom.

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Speaker 1: Well, now we've been discussing the perfect crime, and we

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have seen Nick Palmer take the first step toward the

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accomplishment of his perfect crime by inviting Alexis Lorne to

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paint his portrait and then in cold blood, shooting her dead.

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As his estranged wife, Jennifer rings the front door buzzer.

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But frankly, I don't get it, Neil, I mean quite

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obviously he plans to frame Jennifer for the murder of Alexis.

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But exactly how will he do that? All right, Nick,

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say what you have to say. Oh, come on, Jen,

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sit down, let's have a drinking.

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Speaker 3: No, just tell me what you have to say and

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I'll go.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Jen, I'm sorry I made you such your rotten husband.

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I'm sorry about playing around, about squandering your money, the

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whole bit. I'm sorry I made no effort to be

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more of a father than Sheila. Well, she's not your daughter,

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even so I know what she means to you.

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Speaker 2: Oh please, before you're trying to say, is that you

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want another chance?

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Speaker 1: My answer is no, everyone deserves a second chance. Yes

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that this would be about the twentieth for you. Nick,

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good night. I can't live without you. You can scarcely

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expect me to go with the truth. I don't want

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to live without you. Refuse me one more chance, and

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you might as well kill me. I think you'll survive.

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I'll let me sure you. I mean what I say, Nick,

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Are you mad? How will you put that gun down?

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Oh no, I've got it pointed straight in my head. Jen.

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I'll tell me that you'll return to me, or I

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swear I'll pull then say it. Say you'll take me back, Nick,

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I can't lie to you.

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Speaker 3: Now, give me that gun.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna kill myself.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to kill me.

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Speaker 1: No you're not. I'll give you the gun. That's better.

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Howmever thing you say I am yet I haven't even

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got the guts to shoot myself. Well, let's both be

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glad that you haven't even so I'll keep this gun

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just in case.

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Speaker 4: You took the gun away from him, just like that.

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Pretty damn cool of you.

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Speaker 1: Gin No, not at all.

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Speaker 2: Chat Nick had forgotten that he pulled this little scene

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once before. Only I felt for at that time. I

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wasn't falling for it again.

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Speaker 1: He had no intention of killing himself and I knew it.

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And why did you keep the gun? Well, just to

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play it safe, I guess because you never know, you know,

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you really never know. That's true enough.

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Speaker 4: Well, this is a great pleasure you dropping by like this.

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Speaker 1: If I had to tell somebody, sure you did.

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Speaker 4: Oh this is my night for unexpected visitors. Well, all right,

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I'm coming.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I'm detective Rights Police, my partner Jim Andrews Detectives.

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You're Jennifer Palmer. Yes, I am I this Parmer. Yeah,

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BI arrest. You're suspicion of murder, suspicion of it. It's

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my wiity to tell you that you're right through a future.

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Speaker 4: Wait a minute, what in the world I gotta stay

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out of this.

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Speaker 1: But one thing more, missus Palmer. Anything you say can

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be using evidence against you. Okay, let's go, yes, of course,

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but murder. Just a minute, when you open your bag? Please?

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This my handbag? Is sure? This the gun? You used?

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The gun? I oh no, no, never mind, just come along. No, no,

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I'll keep the handbag. I didn't hear, Missus Palmer. And

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this is her the tun Sit down, Missus Palmer. We

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found a gun twenty five automatic in a handbag. I

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sent it on to the lab for test.

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Speaker 3: Okay, thanks, noah, you want a cup of coffee?

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Speaker 1: Oh no, thank you, ma'am.

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Speaker 2: Lieutenant Oh, detective Lieutenant McCluskey. Lieutenant, I really don't know

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what this is all about. And you've been arrested on

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suspicion of murder. Rice must have told you that, well

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here's what, Well, you murdered somebody or not?

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Speaker 1: Of course not he didn't, of course not.

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Speaker 2: You know anybody named Lauren Alexis Lawn Alexis. Yes, yes,

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she's in a painting class I attend at the Chatterton Studio.

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Speaker 3: Not anymore, Missus Palmer.

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Speaker 1: What she's dead? Alexis is dead.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's why you're here on suspicion of killing her.

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I'm sure you don't want that coffee?

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Speaker 1: Oh yes, I will, thank you. Well, why why would

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I kill Alexis Lawen?

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Speaker 3: You tell me? Oh yeah, thank you. I guess maybe

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i'd better tell you.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: About two hours ago, nine to twenty five, to be exact,

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we got a call from your husband, Nicholas Palmer, from

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your home.

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Speaker 3: He said a murder had been committed. Get there.

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Speaker 2: We find this girl, Alexis Lawn has been murdered, shot

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to death.

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Speaker 1: What is that to do with me?

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Speaker 3: You care to tell it now or you want me

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to tell it?

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Speaker 2: You drink your coffee. Your husband says that this Alexis

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is painting his portrait in the den room. He says,

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his hair gets all mussed up. He doesn't have but

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we figure we know, and he goes upstairs to brush it.

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Speaker 3: He hears shots.

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Speaker 2: He comes running downstairs and Alexis is dead on the floor.

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Then he hears a car start up in the driveway.

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He runs to the window, looks out and he sees

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you drive away in your car.

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Speaker 1: How could he tell that it was me? I mean,

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after all, it was night but.

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Speaker 3: A full moon.

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Speaker 2: The moon at nine twenty thereabouts was full and bright.

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He recognized the blue Sedania drive, also that maroon coach

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you're wearing. I don't remember the moonlight, but in my

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mind was on other things. Then you were there, Oh

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yes at that time, I guess so yes. Other words,

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you found out he was full around with this Alexis

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and I didn't find out anything.

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Speaker 3: And what do you go there for?

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Speaker 1: I wish I knew.

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Speaker 2: Well, I hate him really, but I feel sorry for

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him too. And he phoned me and he said, please

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come over and let's talk things over, and so I went.

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But you wouldn't understand any of that.

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Speaker 3: I'm a woman, I've been in love. I wouldn't I understand.

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Have another cup?

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Speaker 1: No, thank you said that?

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Speaker 3: No, no, Now.

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Speaker 2: Tell me more about him asking you to come there. Well,

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I don't see what then what happened after you got there?

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I don't see what that has to do with Alexis

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being dead being culled.

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Speaker 1: I mean, why Nick.

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Speaker 3: Phoned and why I went there, and what happened after

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I got there? Don't ask, just tell, Oh, chat.

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Speaker 4: Are you doing, Jim?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Well I'm doing? Oh Jim.

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Speaker 4: I didn't know what to bring her? Candies out, figure

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and flowers, few murials, So I brought this.

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Speaker 2: Oh it's sketch pats drawing pencil.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, keeps you occupied.

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Speaker 4: I ran over to Laurence School. So Sheila, Oh, she's fine, fine,

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I don't worry about How are you? I'm awful, sure,

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But listen, you've got a friend you me. Oh, I'm

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more than a friend, you know that, anyhow I could

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be if you ever let me.

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Speaker 1: McCluskey, Lieutenant McCluskey.

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Speaker 4: I asked to see her, and she said, okay, she

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believes your story, but the evidence is against you. The

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hundred said he framed me. He said he'd do it,

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and he did it.

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Speaker 2: The way I see it is that he shot Alexis

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to death, timing it at the moment that I arrived,

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and then a little later even into that act about

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shooting himself, knowing that I'd take the gun out of

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his hand so that my fingerprints are on the gun.

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And the whole rotten mess about my divorcing him for infidelity,

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and the mishandling of money.

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Speaker 1: Chack, what about the money? I mean, I'm thinking about, Sheila.

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The money.

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Speaker 4: He's tied it up somehow. Don't ask me. It's legal

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mumbo jumbo things I don't understand, like you could have

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been free on one hundred thousand bail, but he blocked that, said.

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Speaker 1: You were unfit and so on. Unfit.

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Speaker 4: Well, I guess I shouldn't have said, what do you

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mean unfit?

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Speaker 1: Well? That sounds like something to do with Sheila? Well,

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is it? Chad? Listen now, I'm listening for Heaven's sake, Jad.

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Speaker 4: Please, all right? All right, he's moving already. He's moving

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to get control of your money, of Sheila.

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Speaker 1: Of everything. But he can't do that. Do you think

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he can?

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Speaker 4: He might as well know he can, and he is.

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But how he's still your husband with certain legal rights,

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I guess, and a brilliant lawyer. Jen, I don't understand

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these things. It takes a set of mental muscles I

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never had. But but he can't do it, and he's

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doing it, and there's only one.

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Speaker 1: Out for you, for me and Sheila. You mean Sheila. Yes,

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it's the money he's after.

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Speaker 2: That's all he's ever been after, that's all he's ever wanted.

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And if I'm convicted, if I mean the death of Sheila,

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he'll take her out of the lawn school and he'll

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put her away.

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Speaker 4: No, No, he wouldn't do that. We'll never let him

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do that. Stop him O M plusy. She says, it's

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a matter of his word against yours, plus.

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Speaker 1: The evidence against me. Well, yes that too, Yes, that too.

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Speaker 2: There are the prince my prints on the gun and

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the fact that I was divorcing him for playing around

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his story, that he was playing around with a Lexus,

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and that I heard about it and blew my stack

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and I was there and the coroner says she died

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approximately at the time I was there.

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Speaker 1: Oh, Chad, he's framed me. He's fringed me.

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Speaker 4: Good unless we can prove he's lying. Something bugs me

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about his story.

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Speaker 1: Huh.

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Speaker 4: There's something that doesn't make sense, doesn't hang right.

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Speaker 1: What I don't know.

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Speaker 4: If I knew, you wouldn't be sitting in this Sallu

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waiting trial. But there's something something I I'm looking straight

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at it and I can't see it, but it's there.

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Speaker 1: I know it's there.

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Speaker 4: And if I can find and see it, he'll be

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behind bars and you'll be free.

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Speaker 1: And if you can't find it, Sheila's life and all

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the treatment that would have made her well again, and.

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Speaker 2: All the future that lay before her until now that

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will be all gone.

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Speaker 1: Why you look at me like that.

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Speaker 4: All you want is what's best for Sheila, and all

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I want is what's best for you.

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Speaker 1: That's because you.

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Speaker 4: Love your daughter more than anything else in the world,

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and I and you love you more than anything else

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in the world. Well, whatever it is I'm looking at

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and can't see, whatever is staring me in the face

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that I can't find, I better see it, I better

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find it.

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Speaker 1: Come now, What could be staring Chatterdan in the face?

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What vital clue he can't see? If it's staring him

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in the face, it's staring us in the face too,

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And I don't see a thing, do you. I'll be

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back shortly with Act three framed into a charge of

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murder by her husband, a murder he committed. Jennifer Palmer,

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if found guilty, faces a sentence of anywhere from twenty

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years to life. But if the thought of spending years

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in prison for a crime she didn't commit is torment

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to jen the prospect of what lies ahead for her

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young daughter, Sheila is agony. For Sheila. A special child

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needs constant professional care and treatment. Care and treatment that

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will surely be withdrawn if Nick Palmer gains custody now

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as witness for the prosecution. Nick takes the stand in

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the trial of the State versus Jennifer Palmer.

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Speaker 4: Now, mister Palmer, I show you this gun. I haven't

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seen it before.

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Speaker 1: Well, yes, that's twenty five caniber automatic. We kept in

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a death store at home, you know, in case of

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needs self defense.

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Speaker 4: I see now, on the night Miss Lauren Alexis Lauren

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was shot to death with this gun, she was painting

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your portrait. Yes, would you tell this Cord how it

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was that she came to be painting your portrait in

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your study at nine o'clock at night.

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Speaker 1: Well, I wanted to give the portrait to my wife

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as an anniversary gift. I wanted it to be a surprise,

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and so the sittings had to be held when she

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wasn't at home. And that night she'd gone, well, she said,

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she said she'd gone to the Laurence School to visit

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her daughter, Sheila. That's a lie, I kept him. No,

472
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,160
I was going to you for divorce.

473
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 4: I I'm sorry, your honor, our procedure, honor. You and

474
00:29:10,759 --> 00:29:13,839
miss Lauren were alone in the house then at nine

475
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:14,559
that night.

476
00:29:15,559 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 1: Ah, yes, let's see. I oh yeah, I remember my

477
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:23,319
hair had gotten a bit of rumpled, and I went

478
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:24,559
up to my bedroom to brush it.

479
00:29:24,799 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 4: Wow, let me interrupt, How did your hair become rumbled

480
00:29:30,559 --> 00:29:31,039
messed up?

481
00:29:31,759 --> 00:29:33,000
Speaker 1: I beg your pudon.

482
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:35,480
Speaker 4: I'm sure you heard my question.

483
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,519
Speaker 1: Oh well, did it just got a little a little

484
00:29:39,559 --> 00:29:40,319
messed up? That's all.

485
00:29:41,359 --> 00:29:44,759
Speaker 4: It hadn't got that way because of, shall we say,

486
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:49,640
something that had gone on between you and miss Lauren.

487
00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:51,519
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're getting at.

488
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:53,920
Speaker 4: What I'm getting at, mister Palmer, is this the safe

489
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:57,319
contends that your wife killed miss Lauren out of jealousy,

490
00:29:58,079 --> 00:30:00,319
And what I'm getting at is that she he had

491
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:01,519
grounds for jealousy?

492
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:06,920
Speaker 1: All right? If you mean was I fooling around with Electra?

493
00:30:07,119 --> 00:30:08,119
Speaker 4: Exactly what I mean?

494
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:12,119
Speaker 1: Well, yes I was, Thank you.

495
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 4: Now you are in your bedroom brushing your hairs, and.

496
00:30:16,519 --> 00:30:19,519
Speaker 1: I hear these gunshots, three of them. I come running

497
00:30:19,519 --> 00:30:22,599
downstairs and I find Alexis dead, sprawled on the floor

498
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:25,640
of my study. Then I heard a car I start

499
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:27,279
out the driveway, so I ran to the window and

500
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:30,880
I saw my wife, Jennifer, taking off fast in her car.

501
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:34,359
I rushed to the phone. I called the police, and

502
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:38,240
well that's all. How far would you say?

503
00:30:38,279 --> 00:30:41,039
Speaker 4: The driveway is from the window you went to, Oh,

504
00:30:41,319 --> 00:30:44,000
not more than one hundred feet circular driveway.

505
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,359
Speaker 1: I believe. I guess I'll try it. Now.

506
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,119
Speaker 4: You are positive it was your wife's car you saw

507
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:51,279
and that the person driving it was your wife?

508
00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 1: Positive?

509
00:30:53,759 --> 00:30:58,839
Speaker 4: Since it was nine o'clock at night, mister palmer night, how.

510
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:01,680
Speaker 1: Can you be so positive? Oh? You see the moon?

511
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:05,400
The moon was at its fullest, its brightest. It was

512
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:06,359
practically daylight.

513
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 4: So then you recognize your wife's car.

514
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 1: Oh? Yes, it was her car, all right, dark blue

515
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,039
two door sedan, and she was driving. I saw her clearly.

516
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 4: You saw her face clearly.

517
00:31:16,319 --> 00:31:19,240
Speaker 1: Well, no, not a face, but but she was wearing

518
00:31:19,279 --> 00:31:22,200
a coat, a dark maroon coat that I recognize anywhere.

519
00:31:22,599 --> 00:31:25,279
Speaker 4: But then you cannot really swear it was your wife

520
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:26,119
driving that car.

521
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:29,200
Speaker 1: I don't know who else would be driving her car

522
00:31:29,279 --> 00:31:32,519
and wearing her coat. Do you No? No, I don't

523
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:34,759
thank you. No further questions.

524
00:31:34,799 --> 00:31:35,359
Speaker 4: You're a witness.

525
00:31:40,279 --> 00:31:42,480
Speaker 1: No, they can't. They can't do this.

526
00:31:43,559 --> 00:31:47,160
Speaker 4: I've got to see she I got to the morning away.

527
00:31:47,359 --> 00:31:48,559
Speaker 1: Quiet down, take it.

528
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,319
Speaker 3: What is going to happen to hear anymore?

529
00:31:51,359 --> 00:31:53,960
Speaker 1: To see that she's properly cared for? You know what

530
00:31:54,119 --> 00:31:55,839
Nick's going to do. Just as soon as he can

531
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:56,079
do it.

532
00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 2: He'll take her out of the Laurence School and you'll

533
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:02,400
flow her in the sub second is a great place.

534
00:32:03,119 --> 00:32:04,279
She'll leave her there to rock.

535
00:32:05,319 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 1: Please. I can't stand it. I can't stand it.

536
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:14,599
Speaker 2: I get it the case of hysterics. I heard Missus

537
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:16,119
Palmers leaving for Upstate tomorrow.

538
00:32:16,119 --> 00:32:17,599
Speaker 1: I thought I just drop by.

539
00:32:17,799 --> 00:32:18,359
Speaker 3: Was a good luck?

540
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:19,079
Speaker 1: Nice of you.

541
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 3: How would you like to buy me a cup of coffee?

542
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:23,119
Speaker 1: Later?

543
00:32:25,559 --> 00:32:32,359
Speaker 2: Meet outside then in five ten minutes. Hey, come on now,

544
00:32:32,559 --> 00:32:36,200
Missus Palmer, come on, let's let's sit up, huh and

545
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:38,000
drive the tears.

546
00:32:38,279 --> 00:32:40,279
Speaker 3: I'm like, you don't want to go to pieces. There's

547
00:32:40,359 --> 00:32:41,000
always hope.

548
00:32:41,559 --> 00:32:45,240
Speaker 2: Even when things look the worst, there's hope. And look,

549
00:32:45,799 --> 00:32:48,039
tomorrow they'll be taking you up to women's prison.

550
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:50,359
Speaker 1: I can't do.

551
00:32:50,559 --> 00:32:53,039
Speaker 2: There's another of it you can, because you've got to.

552
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:57,079
Now Captain Greenberg up there. She's an old pal of mine.

553
00:32:57,279 --> 00:32:59,640
I've talked to her about you. She's going to do

554
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:02,160
all you can to make things comfortable for you. As

555
00:33:02,279 --> 00:33:05,039
long as you keep your nose clean. You understand, yes,

556
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:07,799
I do. Now, you do as you're told.

557
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 3: When you're told to do it.

558
00:33:09,279 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 1: I know, hysterics are making scenes are like that.

559
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:15,240
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, I'll try it.

560
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:18,720
Speaker 1: You'll do it. How will I get to see my

561
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:22,640
daughter when I'm up there? All those years, oh my god,

562
00:33:24,359 --> 00:33:29,559
all those years without me? What will she do? Please?

563
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:33,079
Speaker 2: I've got to see her on a regular basis somehow,

564
00:33:34,079 --> 00:33:35,559
and it's got to be arranged so that I can

565
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:37,519
check on her and know that she's all right.

566
00:33:39,319 --> 00:33:41,160
Speaker 1: Could that be arranged.

567
00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 2: Through proper channels, the warden's office? But you believe me now,

568
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:49,319
everything that can be done.

569
00:33:50,319 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 1: Will be done no time. M'clutey.

570
00:34:00,519 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 3: Of course, send him in.

571
00:34:05,079 --> 00:34:07,559
Speaker 2: Oh don't tell me, chat And the look on your face,

572
00:34:07,599 --> 00:34:10,480
it's clear you've just come from seeing Jin in women's.

573
00:34:10,079 --> 00:34:16,400
Speaker 4: Prison, from seeing her in the infirmary in women's prison, Mac,

574
00:34:16,559 --> 00:34:17,440
I think she's dying.

575
00:34:17,519 --> 00:34:18,760
Speaker 1: Oh, come on, I mean it.

576
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:23,559
Speaker 4: Not seeing Sheila all these months, Nick refusing to bring

577
00:34:23,599 --> 00:34:26,000
her to the prison, refusing to let anybody else take her,

578
00:34:26,039 --> 00:34:30,679
and now learning that the kid's been placed in a well,

579
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:32,559
you know, the kind of institution.

580
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 3: Afraid i'd do.

581
00:34:34,079 --> 00:34:36,119
Speaker 1: But how did she learn about that? He wrote and

582
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:37,360
told her? The dirty creep?

583
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:39,679
Speaker 4: Nick wants to kill her and he's succeeding.

584
00:34:41,039 --> 00:34:41,760
Speaker 1: Should have seen her.

585
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:43,119
Speaker 3: I saw her last.

586
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:46,280
Speaker 1: Week, well chat.

587
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:48,719
Speaker 2: I wish there was something I could do, something somebody

588
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:52,320
could do, but there isn't. It was her story against his,

589
00:34:52,599 --> 00:34:55,760
but unfortunately for her, all the evidence was against her,

590
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:59,599
even to the moonlight moonlight, it being a bright moonlight night.

591
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:03,719
That didn't just happen, you know. Nick Palmer planned things

592
00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:06,360
that way, planned everything for a night when there would

593
00:35:06,519 --> 00:35:08,320
be a full moon, eh.

594
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:12,239
Speaker 4: And tricked her into grabbing the gun away from him.

595
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:17,000
Speaker 1: Damn if I could only only watch Jen.

596
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:21,239
Speaker 4: There's something For months now, it's been anoying at the

597
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:24,639
back of my mind. Something, what kind of something, Something

598
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:28,280
that's wrong with Nick Palmer's story, something that doesn't fit.

599
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 1: It's staring me in the face yet I can't see it.

600
00:35:31,599 --> 00:35:34,159
Speaker 2: Are you sure it isn't just, you know, wishful thinking?

601
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:36,400
Speaker 3: I mean, you want to prove Jen Dennison.

602
00:35:36,599 --> 00:35:38,840
Speaker 4: I want to save her life because that's what's at

603
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:42,679
stake now. I No, it isn't wishful thinking. There is something,

604
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:46,800
and by Heaven, I'm going to find it. Nick Palmer

605
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:51,400
lied in whatever. The something I'm looking for is it'll

606
00:35:51,519 --> 00:35:59,880
prove the light all right, coffee break over, clasps, settle down,

607
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:04,320
I settled down. Now we'll return out to our discussion

608
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:09,079
of color, and no questions please until I'm finished. Great

609
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:14,159
artists haven't just used colors in their work. They have

610
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:21,079
intimately understood, felt, experienced color. Now Here here is a tomato.

611
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:23,800
I hold it up to the sunlight, and we see

612
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:27,719
that its color is red, or so we mistakenly think.

613
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:31,239
The simple fact of the matter is that the tomato

614
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,920
isn't red. The tomato in and of itself has no

615
00:36:35,119 --> 00:36:35,760
color at all.

616
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:39,880
Speaker 1: It's sunlight that gives it color.

617
00:36:40,519 --> 00:36:45,639
Speaker 4: Why, Because sunlight, and only sunlight, contains color, the colors

618
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:48,320
of the solar spectrum we can see in a rainbow.

619
00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:54,199
What happens is that an object, any object, absorbs all

620
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:57,639
the colors of the spectrum, all the colors in sunlight

621
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:03,320
except one. A tomato absorbs all spectrum colors but red,

622
00:37:04,159 --> 00:37:08,119
a banana all colors but yellow, and so on. In

623
00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:16,599
other words, without without Oh, good Lord, there it is there.

624
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:23,880
Speaker 1: It is, Lieutenant m. Proosky.

625
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:30,360
Speaker 4: Please and hurry, Mac chat chattered Mac. I can prove

626
00:37:30,599 --> 00:37:34,280
Nick Palmer lied, Yes, you heard me. I can prove it.

627
00:37:35,639 --> 00:37:37,360
The thing that's been staring me in the face for

628
00:37:37,519 --> 00:37:40,119
months and I couldn't see it. Well, well I see

629
00:37:40,199 --> 00:37:43,000
it now, I see it bright and clear.

630
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:50,760
Speaker 1: Oh no, wait a minute. You barge into my house,

631
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,719
chatteron along with us Lieutenant McCloskey, and you tell me

632
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:56,440
that you're here to test out my story about what

633
00:37:56,559 --> 00:37:58,920
happened that night. No, first of all, mister Palmer, we

634
00:37:58,960 --> 00:37:59,719
didn't barge in.

635
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:03,679
Speaker 3: We asked to come in. Second of all, unless you've

636
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:06,559
got something to hide, you'll go along with my request.

637
00:38:08,039 --> 00:38:09,679
Speaker 1: What would I have to hide the.

638
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:12,199
Speaker 2: Fact that you lied when you said you recognized your

639
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:14,760
wife's card driving off out of that driveway out there,

640
00:38:15,039 --> 00:38:17,679
even noted the color of her coat, when the fact

641
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:19,400
is you couldn't have recognized either.

642
00:38:20,159 --> 00:38:22,880
Speaker 1: What are you talking about. It was a bright moonlight night.

643
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,159
It was so bright it could have been daylight.

644
00:38:25,159 --> 00:38:29,519
Speaker 4: Only it wasn't. It wasn't daylight. And there's a big

645
00:38:29,599 --> 00:38:32,760
difference between moon right and daylight, A very big difference

646
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:33,840
moonlight daylight.

647
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:36,639
Speaker 1: I saw what I saw. I saw Jem's two door

648
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:39,760
Bruce sedan and Jenn at the wheel. All right, I

649
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:42,639
didn't see her face, just a coat of dark broon coat.

650
00:38:43,199 --> 00:38:44,320
Speaker 3: You're positive event.

651
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:47,800
Speaker 1: Well, I saw it under oath, didn't I? Yes, you did.

652
00:38:48,599 --> 00:38:50,760
Speaker 2: Now, all I'm asking you to do is prove what

653
00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:54,119
you said was the truth. If you were telling the truth,

654
00:38:55,280 --> 00:39:03,199
you will. If you weren't, you won't you, mister Palmer, Okay,

655
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:05,480
what do you want me to do? Oh there's a

656
00:39:05,599 --> 00:39:06,719
full moon tonight.

657
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:08,599
Speaker 1: Come and look.

658
00:39:11,199 --> 00:39:11,440
Speaker 4: There.

659
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:14,719
Speaker 2: You can see the driveway just as you saw it

660
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:17,280
on the night of the murder, clear and bright as

661
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:18,679
the daylight.

662
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:20,679
Speaker 1: She said, that's right.

663
00:39:21,119 --> 00:39:23,440
Speaker 2: And now what I'm going to do, using this little

664
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:26,199
two way radio mine is to order one of my men,

665
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:28,159
Detective Rice, to parade.

666
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:28,920
Speaker 3: You might say.

667
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:31,679
Speaker 2: A number of cars passed you as you stand here

668
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:34,920
in the window. Don't concern yourself with the drivers. The

669
00:39:35,039 --> 00:39:37,800
colors of their coats are like that. You just pay

670
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:40,440
special attention to the colors of the cars.

671
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:49,239
Speaker 3: Okay, okay. Send the first car through the color of

672
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:51,400
that car, mister Palmer, what what is it?

673
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:58,239
Speaker 1: White? Next car?

674
00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:03,320
Speaker 3: And name that color quickly.

675
00:40:03,599 --> 00:40:05,440
Speaker 1: It's a black?

676
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:10,679
Speaker 3: Next car in what color?

677
00:40:11,119 --> 00:40:11,599
Speaker 1: It was black?

678
00:40:11,639 --> 00:40:11,800
Speaker 5: Too?

679
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:15,800
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, you could have been yes, well, I

680
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:16,400
don't know it was.

681
00:40:17,199 --> 00:40:17,679
Speaker 3: Next car?

682
00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:25,519
Speaker 1: Name it? Uh? Green? Next car? No? Hold up?

683
00:40:25,639 --> 00:40:26,519
Speaker 3: Ed I think that's enough.

684
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:31,480
Speaker 1: How are you satisfied with turned.

685
00:40:31,599 --> 00:40:35,480
Speaker 2: Satisfied enough to say this, mister Palmer, that you lied

686
00:40:35,559 --> 00:40:37,519
when you said you recognized your wife's.

687
00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:38,559
Speaker 3: Car and the coach she was wearing.

688
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:40,800
Speaker 1: Lied. I don't know what you said. The first car

689
00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:42,840
that came around the driveway was white, all right?

690
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:45,440
Speaker 3: No, it was powder blue?

691
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:46,119
Speaker 1: You said.

692
00:40:46,119 --> 00:40:49,119
Speaker 2: The second car was black, but it was a dark blue.

693
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:52,000
It was what The third car was a deep shade

694
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:53,199
of green, but you called it black.

695
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:55,440
Speaker 1: Well, I wasn't sure of that. What I started to

696
00:40:55,519 --> 00:40:56,760
change my mind exactly?

697
00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:58,360
Speaker 3: You started to change your mind?

698
00:40:58,519 --> 00:41:02,000
Speaker 2: You weren't certain because in no case with no car,

699
00:41:02,039 --> 00:41:04,760
because you really say for sure that is its color.

700
00:41:06,519 --> 00:41:09,639
Mister Palmer, you lied when you gave your first statement

701
00:41:09,679 --> 00:41:13,320
to the police, and lied under oath when you gave

702
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:14,039
testimony in.

703
00:41:14,039 --> 00:41:14,800
Speaker 3: Your wife's trial.

704
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:17,559
Speaker 1: There's more than enough evidence here.

705
00:41:17,559 --> 00:41:22,079
Speaker 2: To reopen this case, and what's more, mister Palmer, to

706
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:26,159
open an inquiry into exactly why you lied.

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Speaker 1: Well, it is said and truly said, that perfection is

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something aimed at but seldom achieved, never achieved, I may

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venture to say, when it comes to crime, did I

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say never? Well? Hardly ever, I'll be back shortly. I'm

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sure you'll want to know that Jen was quickly released

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from women's prison and is today happily married to Jack Chatterton. Sheila,

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Jen's daughter continues at a school for special children, where

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she is responding very well indeed to treatment and therapy.

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Our cast included Mercedes McCambridge, Leon, Janny Briner, Rayburn and

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Ian Martin. The entire production was under the direction of

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Hyman Brown Radio. Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by

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sign Off the Sinus Medicines and On Horzer Bush Incorporated

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Brewer's a Budweiser. This is E. G. Marshall inviting you

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to return to our Mystery Theater for another adventure in

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the macabre. Until next time, Pleasant Dreams.

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Speaker 6: Night's Mystery Theater was also brought to us in Park

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Lift Shop right Supermartints where you get a lot more

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for a little less. The preceding program was furnished by

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CBS Radio.

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Speaker 1: What is a Summer.

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Speaker 7: Festival, the Big Apple and the bi Centennial too, right,

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New York. This is Joel Gray most of this year's

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summer festival, and I want you to pop right down

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up over across to the New York Convention and Visitors

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Bureau at ninety East forty second.

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Speaker 1: Street, to pick up all the brochures that the Visitors

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Bureau has.

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Speaker 7: To give out free, which they've got a calendar of events,

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a guide, a map, a shopping guide, a restaurant, all

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free for you.

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Speaker 1: W bar in New York.

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Speaker 5: Mayor Beam, returning from Albany with precious little in the

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way of funds from the legislature. New Jersey Governor goes

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to his legislature with an eleventh hour appeal. The price

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of gasoline is going up and shortages may appear late

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in the summer. It's seventy eight degrees in partly cloudy

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mid Manhattan. The man says, partly cloudy, warm and humid tonight.

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The lower round seventy partly sunny. Continued warm and humid tomorrow,

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with a chance of a thundershower in the afternoon.

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Speaker 1: The high eighty five to ninety.

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Speaker 5: This is John Scott with the eight o'clock edition of

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the News.

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Speaker 4: This late word.

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Speaker 5: Pele and the Cosmos are playing at Randalls Island tonight,

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and the traffic from Queens into Manhattan is so heavy

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it's backed all the way up to LaGuardia On Sunday

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in an exhibition game the Cosmos to a record twenty

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one thousand fans. Tonight, in a regular game, the attendance

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is exp acted to be even greater. Mayor Bean went

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to Albany today and is flying home at this hour,

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outraged in his opinion he was shortchanged.

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Speaker 2: I want to say that I'm outraged and shocked at

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the crassness with which.

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Speaker 4: The Senate majority is treating the people of the city

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of New York.

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Speaker 1: We've heard all kinds of stories