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Speaker 1: Come in, Welcome, Welcome to mystery Theater. I am Hymen

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Brown with another tale of the Macabreough Macabre suggests the

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dance of death. Death is a skeleton who leads others

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to the grave.

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Speaker 2: In this story, a.

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Speaker 1: Respected middle aged man, Philip Chambers, becomes an agent for

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death because death placed in his hands a temptation he

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could not resist, Avarice, one of the seven mortal sins.

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Speaker 2: In the short space of three.

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Speaker 1: Days, Avarice, an almost physical greed for wealth, brought terror

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and disaster to this man and to his family.

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Speaker 2: Who are you? Where is it, mister Chambers? What are

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you doing in my basement? How did you get in here?

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Speaker 3: Let's have it, mister Chambers. You don't want to get

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hurt to you. This is a real gun. I've used

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it before, I know how to use it.

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Speaker 2: Let them have it. Neck.

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Speaker 3: Let's get out of here, not until mister Chambers turns

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it over to us. How about it, mister Chambers?

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Speaker 2: What is it? You want?

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Speaker 3: The money? Eighty grand? It's ours and you've got it

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someplace down here.

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Speaker 2: I'll turn it over warm blow your head off.

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Speaker 1: Our mystery drama, The Root of All Evil was written

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especially for the mystery theater by Roy Windsor and stars

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Norman Rose and Anne Shepherd. I'll be back shortly with

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that one. Philip Chambers and his wife Laura live in

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a small colonial house in marris Manor, a village thirty minutes.

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Speaker 2: From New York.

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Speaker 1: It's streets are tree lined and quiet. Families take pride

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in their homes and land. It's a wealthy village and

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most families have gardeners. But not Philip Chambers. He's an

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organic gardener who enjoys grinding up all kinds of refuse

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for his compost heap and returning it to the soil

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of his acre of land. And that's where the trouble

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began one Sunday morning, at breakfasts in their kitchen.

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Speaker 4: Now, phil please don't run a shredder of yours before

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nine o'clock. Some people like to sleep on Sunday morning.

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Speaker 2: I know, I know.

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Speaker 4: I'll lick up the kitchen and you'll be back in

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time to clean up for church. You want the eggshell, certainly?

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Speaker 2: What have you done with the scraps?

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Speaker 4: Oh, they're in the place, pastic bag all the week stuff.

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I put the bag in the garbage bin. Last night

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was beginning to persume in the back porch.

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Speaker 2: Get rid of it, my dear Laura. It will be

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ground to shreds within half an hour.

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Speaker 4: And don't get your fingers caught in that full machine.

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Speaker 2: A beautiful morning. Let me see. Yep, it's a pretty

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large bag full of garbage. Better get the wheelbap, What

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the what the devil? Money? Bags of money? There must

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be thousands of dollars at the bottom of the bin.

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It's a fortune. It's a fortune. Where did it come

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from her? And what do I do with it? Somebody

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hid the money there? But why? And whose is it? Phil?

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Speaker 4: Yes, Joe Shelson, just telephone, it's in the news. I'm

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gonna go across to read the article.

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Speaker 2: Well, what's in the new the robbery?

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Speaker 4: You were asleep when all the excitement happens. I'll bring

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back the newspaper clipping, and I'll tell you all about it.

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I'll be right back.

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Speaker 2: The robbery, I'll be right now. Robbery, what robbery? I

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must get to the basement. Good lord. I've never held

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so much real money in my hands in all my life.

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Packs of one hundred dollar bills, fifty in a pack.

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See ten of those? Oh, I can't believe it. And

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fifty thousand dollars and thousand dollar bills, thirty of them,

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eighty thousand dollars. Oh I'm rich. I'm rich. No more scrimping,

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no more fawning over persons for whom I have contempt,

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begging work as a freelance copywriter, people who don't know

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as much as I'm forgotten. This money, This money means

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I am free. It's got to be hidden. Whoever left

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that fortune in the garbage bin, We'll try to get

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it back. Laura said, there was a robbery. Maybe the

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thief hid the money. Let's see where I put it

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small box. First, I'll place the money in his plastic bag,

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and then into that box the iris bobes came in.

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Let's see. And then where let me see how yeh?

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Behind the basement window, under the porch, the siding runs

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to the ground. Eighty thousand dollars. That's mine and I

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won't give it up.

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Speaker 5: Yes, Laura, can you come up here for a minute?

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Speaker 2: Why? Certainly come on out on the porch.

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Speaker 4: I had that article.

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Speaker 2: Uh, Laura, there was a robbery read two am Grove

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City police raced after three men and a crashed when

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they made a sharp turn at McKinley Street and Highland Avenue,

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and Marris Man, why that a lot of that's.

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Speaker 4: Our corner, and you slept right through the whole thing.

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Speaker 2: I must do.

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Speaker 4: The sound could have wakened the dead. The police car

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was blasting at siren. Then there was a terrible crash

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when the robbers car hit old Missus Morris's elm tree

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and turned upside down. And one of the men was dead.

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Speaker 2: Huh. And the other two you said there were.

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Speaker 5: Three must have got away.

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Speaker 4: All of us had run outside, doctor Shelton and Joan

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and I and the Moors and the mclouds. But the

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police told us to get back to our houses. They

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had their guns out and they were searching for the

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missing men.

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Speaker 2: How much do they get away with?

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Speaker 4: Thousands, thousands of dollars? As much as seventy five or

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eighty thousand. They tied up the night watchmen and broke

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into the Grove City Federal Bank. Some alarm went off,

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so the police reached the bank just as the robbers

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jumped into their car, and they came tearing along this way.

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The police were right after them.

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Speaker 2: You know that that was a nice elm tree of

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missus Morris.

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Speaker 4: Is that all you've got to say? That was a

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nice elm tree of Missus Moore's. This is the most

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exciting thing we've had around here since the Hurricane Esther.

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And you're worried about Missus Moore's elm tree. You've got

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no adventure in your soul?

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Speaker 6: Phil Is that's all right? You did have?

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Speaker 4: Now the two of us are staid, old middle agers

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getting by and letting the world go by.

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Speaker 2: I suppose so, Laura, you're not offended, No, of course not.

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My future is behind me. I'm afraid.

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Speaker 4: No, it's not. You've done so much, You've written so

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many great advertising campaigns. Your skill hasn't worn away.

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Speaker 6: You'll see.

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Speaker 4: I'm certain it go well tomorrow, I hope, sir.

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Speaker 2: But Laura faced, I'm fifty five. My lunch date and

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interview tomorrow is with a twenty six year old girl

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almost fresh out of college. Laura, I'm old enough to

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be her father. Why would she want to employ me?

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I'd be an embarrassment to her because I but because

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I know too much, I.

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Speaker 4: Don't see why. Well, you have to finish with your shredding,

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and I've got address for church.

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Speaker 2: Well, I decided not to use the shredder this morning.

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Speaker 6: Oh not enough garbage in refuse.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, no, all the excitement about last night has

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unnerved me. I'll get to the shredder next week.

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Speaker 4: I'll be out of the shower in a few minutes.

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Speaker 2: Don't hurry, I have some things to do in the basement.

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Speaker 4: Oh look, I've asked doctor Shelton and Joan to come

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by at six for cocktails on the porch.

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Speaker 2: All right, Oh sure, sure, it's fine. Look a gift

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horse in the face. There's an old chestnut. When someone

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makes you a present, don't look too minutely into its

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intrinsic value. Eighty thousand dollars. Oh that's some gift horse.

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Where is it? No, no, no, it's stolen money, which

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I propose to steal. I hope it's safe behind that

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basement window. I better lock the garage, put that bag

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of garbage back in the bin, and then.

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Speaker 6: Church Paul glasses empty?

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Speaker 3: Doctor, Oh two is my limit on a Sunday night, Laura,

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doan or.

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Speaker 7: I'm not operating at seven in the morning.

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Speaker 2: Phil, Phil, Oh, yes, yes, dear.

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Speaker 4: Jan would like refill? Your mind's a million miles away.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry Joe. And now that was with water, right, Ah, Paul.

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Speaker 4: What do you think really? I mean about that robbery

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and the disappearance of the two men.

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Speaker 8: Well, after looking at the car, Laura, I wonder how

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they came out of the accident alive.

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Speaker 6: But they did.

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Speaker 4: It's remarkable, And they disappeared with a little had money

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almost one hundred thousand dollars.

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Speaker 5: Oh, not quite that much, but a small fortune.

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Speaker 2: Oh.

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Speaker 7: Could they have escaped the police? Maybe they're still hiding

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right in this neighborhood.

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Speaker 5: Here's a drink, John, thank you. They could be in hiding,

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don't you think.

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Speaker 2: So, Paul.

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Speaker 5: I can't imagine where someone's.

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Speaker 4: Basement or attic. The wings are away for the month. Yes,

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they're a candlestick lake for a month.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 8: Surely they notified the police that they'd be away. Are

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there other vacant houses in the neighborhood you know?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: The Murrays went away for the weekend to visit their son, a.

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Speaker 7: Cast So it's possible that the thieves could be hiding

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right around here.

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Speaker 2: Well, my guess is that they stole somebody's car and

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got themselves lost.

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Speaker 4: In the city with eighty thousand dollars of hard earned money.

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Speaker 8: Well insurance will cover the bank's loss. Joan, my dear,

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I'm afraid it's time for the doctor to.

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Speaker 2: Get to bed.

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Speaker 7: What time?

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Speaker 5: Oh my, it's late. It's ten o'clock. We came over

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here for cocktails. We stayed for salad and rolls.

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Speaker 4: I'm delighted you did. Phil's been fidgety all day long.

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Your visit took his mind off his problems, didn't it feel?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Yes, yes, I'm very happy for she came over.

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Speaker 8: Don't work so hard, Phil, You have seen preoccupied? Relax

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or has the chatter about the mysterious robbers upset you?

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Speaker 2: Oh? For Heaven's no as shut as a house.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, the whole light when I get the cover off.

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Stick the light inside the can when and then turn

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it off? Okay, creepy out here, flash the light in

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the bottom of the cat.

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Speaker 2: See anything, No scrounged a round. It's not there.

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Speaker 8: It's gotta be there.

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Speaker 2: Somebody beat us to it. What dirty? Shut up? Mike

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dead and eighty grand gone. Someone's got it. Maybe the

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god they just stupids. No garbage pick up on Sunday. Well,

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maybe the people in the house seeing it and quote

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the fuzz.

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Speaker 8: Maybe or maybe they kept it. You get kind of

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a surprise. You open a garbage can and find eighty

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grand right on, I wonder who lives here. We gotta

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find out if he's got the money, we'll sweat it

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out of him. But if he gave it to the

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cop that we find out first, you're crazy. We walk

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in and ask if they found the money, we'd be

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in the can in five seconds. You've heard of the telephone.

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That's how we find out. And when we know, we

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come back. Now'll put the light away, I'll put the

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cover back on the cat. Right then, let's get out

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of here.

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Speaker 5: Then, bugs that go croak give me the shakes?

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Speaker 4: Phil, Phil? Is is that you?

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Speaker 2: What is it? Laura?

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Speaker 6: Are you still awake?

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Speaker 5: What's what's the matter?

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Speaker 4: Can't you sleep? Is it cold on the port? I

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guess you're another blank?

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Speaker 2: No? No, I'm all right. Go back to bed, Laura.

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Speaker 6: Your voice is shaky.

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Speaker 4: Let me turn on the light.

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Speaker 2: No, please.

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Speaker 4: Come into the bedroom, Phil, I'll turn on the light. Phil,

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he was soaked with perspiration.

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Speaker 6: What is it?

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Speaker 4: Let me get your robe? Where do you feel ill?

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What is stomach?

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Speaker 6: But your head?

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Speaker 4: I sit down on the rock.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Laura, maybe maybe if I.

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Speaker 6: Had a brandy, I'll telephone pole.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, please, he's operating at seven. I'm

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just gonna kill or something.

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Speaker 4: Wipe your face with a wet cloth and I'll be

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right off.

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Speaker 2: I've heard them every word. They're coming back killers. Oh

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what should I do? Is it too late to call

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the police in turn in the money? Maybe not? But

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give up eighty thousand dollars because I'm afraid of a

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pair of hoodlums. What have I got to be afraid of? Say?

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They confront me. I tell them that I haven't got

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the money, but they risk shooting me. No, I won't

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give up that money. I won't.

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Speaker 4: Here's the brandy. Sweet.

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Speaker 2: Oh thanks, thanks?

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Speaker 5: That helps pl.

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Speaker 4: When I walked through the living room to the bar

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on the porch, yes, two men were staring from behind

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the front heads through the living room window. Phil I'm afraid.

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Speaker 1: Philip Chambers is already a harried man. Will his sense

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of moral values be strong enough to overcome temptation or

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will he persist in holding on to the stolen money.

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We'll find out where Mystery Theater returns with Act two.

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Philip Chambers and his wife Laura somehow got through the

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remainder of the night. After Laura's fright about seeing two

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men stare through her living room windows, Philip, in a

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brave display, turned on the front lights and walked outside

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defiantly a fireplace poker in his hand.

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Speaker 2: That assured Laura, but she.

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Speaker 1: Insisted on telephoning the police and reporting what she had seen.

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Then the Chambers went to bed and to a fitful sleep.

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The next morning over coffee, all.

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Speaker 4: Right, Phil, they look pretty ragged.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm all right. I'd better be. I'm seeing that

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girl at noon and going to lunch.

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Speaker 4: You're taking the train five, throwing her a bundle of nerves. Phil,

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who I You.

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Speaker 2: Keep telling me that, Laura, and that hardly helps. But

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I wish you'd just forget about me. I've got a

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lot on my mind out if you'll excuse me.

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Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Phil, I'm sorry, but you worry me. It

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is something bothering you that I don't know about.

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Speaker 2: Survival.

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Speaker 4: Survival. We're not that bad off. We're doing all right.

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Speaker 2: But I'll be in the basement.

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Speaker 4: Well, I'll drive you to the train.

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Speaker 2: Don't bother I'll call a cab.

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Speaker 4: But that's foolish. One minute you're talking about survival. The

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next minute you're throwing away money out on a cab or.

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Speaker 2: Just stop talking, will you please?

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Speaker 4: So strange, let's come over you. I'm just wait to

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doctor Shelton me he can find out.

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Speaker 6: Fo hie seven ah.

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Speaker 5: Doctor Schelt's residence.

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Speaker 4: Hi, Johnny, Laura, y'all. Look, when does Paul get home

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from the hospital.

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Speaker 7: This is Monday and he operated early? I say, uh,

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ought to be home by four? Why something wrong?

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Speaker 6: I think so, but I don't know. Uh, it's Phil.

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Speaker 4: Don't you tell you what? He's taking the ten oh

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five to the city. Can you come over at ten thirty.

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I'll be back then and I gotta talk this out.

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Speaker 2: Of course?

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Speaker 7: You sound serious?

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Speaker 4: I am? I am? Will you come over?

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Speaker 2: Of course?

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Speaker 7: I see at ten thirty mm.

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Speaker 2: There that ought to be safe. Who'd think of looking

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behind a basement window and under the porch? Oh? Oh,

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I got the shakes. Why don't I take the money

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with me into the city. I could leave it in

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a locker at Grand Central. Did the police find the

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money in my possession? Oh no, no, I've got to

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block my way out of this. Eighty thousand dollars dropped

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into my hands. I can't give it up now. Look,

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I mustn't be afraid. Oh my stomach keeps turning. I

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still have that lunch meeting.

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Speaker 5: You look as if you hadn't slept a wink last night, Laura.

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I didn't.

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Speaker 4: At about three o'clock, Phil was awake. He came up

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late and slept on the upstairs porch. I heard him stirring,

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so I checked on him. He was covered with perspiration,

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shaking like a leaf. And how was he this morning? Well,

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he looked exhausted, but he didn't have the shakes. He

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was all right when I dropped him at the train.

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Speaker 5: Well, he has that important lunch today, doesn't he? Could

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that be it?

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Speaker 4: It could be, but I don't think so. Phil's had

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summited meetings before. No, it's something else. I can't find

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out what it is. Maybe Paul can.

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Speaker 5: Maybe Paul's not a psychiatrist.

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Speaker 4: It's so I nobody's a doctor, and Phil might confide

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in him. Besides, Paul's his best friend.

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Speaker 5: But Phil wouldn't say what was bothering him.

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Speaker 4: No, when I persisted in my questions, he said, survival.

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Speaker 6: That's odd.

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Speaker 5: What did he mean? Continuing to live? To stay alive?

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Speaker 4: I think it has something to do with the robbery

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or the grocity bank sick.

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Speaker 6: Why what's that got to do with Phil?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 4: Ever since I mentioned the robbery to him, Phil seemed distracted.

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When he read the article in the news, he grew tense.

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He began to perspire. I didn't think anything of it

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at the time, but since what's happened, I've been trying

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to reconstruct Phil's behavior. I think it springs somehow from

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the robbery. I've never been so frightened in my life, Laura.

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I went down for Brandy when he felt so badly.

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I didn't switch on the lights. I walked down the

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stairs from the bedroom and across the living room toward

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the porch, and that's when I almost screamed, good heavens,

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what happened? Two men standing behind the hedge in front

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of the living room windows and looking in looking.

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Speaker 5: Through your windows?

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Speaker 7: You think that the stolen money was or is somewhere

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around your property.

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Speaker 4: I don't know what to think.

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Speaker 5: Have you told the police?

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Speaker 4: I telephoned them last night and they sent a prowl

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car to snoop around.

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Speaker 7: What did you mention your theory to the police, I

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mean about the money being hidden somewhere around your house.

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Speaker 4: No, First, it sounds far fetched. Second, I've got a

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feeling that somehow it concerns Phil.

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Speaker 5: How could a concern Phil?

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Speaker 7: I mean, he may know where the money is hidden.

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Speaker 4: I don't know what I mean, Joan.

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Speaker 7: Talk about imagination, Laura, you're as bad as Phil with

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his talk about survival.

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Speaker 5: He has a bad case of nerves and survival. He

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said he was worried about survival. Now, isn't that the

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word you said?

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Speaker 4: Yes, that's the word he used. I thought he meant

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our survival. What if he meant he was afraid literally

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of his own survival? That would mean he knows something

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about the robbery that he's not telling.

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Speaker 7: But you don't believe that he found the money, do you.

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I don't know that if he did. Knowing Phil the

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kind of man he is, you'd just have called the police.

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Speaker 4: No question about it, and he would have told me, Oh,

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excuse me, back door bell.

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Speaker 5: I'll be right back, Joan, take your time. I'll be

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out on the porch.

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Speaker 2: Morning. I'd like to read the water meter.

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Speaker 4: Oh uh, down the steps to the basement and watch

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your head.

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Speaker 6: The ceilings low.

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Speaker 5: The garden looks wonderful.

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Speaker 6: Laura, Yes, it does.

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Speaker 4: Phil takes such great pride in it, Laura.

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Speaker 7: If Phil meant he's afraid about his own survival, and

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I think he knows something.

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Speaker 5: Either he saw the men.

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Speaker 7: Who stole the money and can identify them, or he

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knows where the money is hidden.

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Speaker 4: Glad, I can't believe if Phil knew that I'd know it.

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And you just said Phil, being the kind of man

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he's always been, would return it.

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Speaker 7: Yes, Well, maybe Paul can drag it out of him,

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whatever it might be.

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Speaker 6: I'm worried, sick.

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Speaker 4: I have a premonition of danger or to a tragedy,

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something in the air, sense of impending evil.

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Speaker 5: Hello, Laura, something's occurred to me.

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Speaker 7: What June, I was on your porch at ten thirty

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and the doorbell rang.

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Speaker 4: Who was it with the man who reads the water meter? Why?

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Speaker 7: Well, he didn't come.

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Speaker 9: To my house.

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Speaker 7: And when a man comes from the water department, he

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reads the meters at all the houses in the neighborhood.

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Speaker 4: Yes, he does.

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Speaker 2: And another thing.

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Speaker 7: I went shopping at noon and as I drove out

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of my driveway, a man walked out from the back

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of your house. Did someone else call on you?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 4: You mean that the man who read the meter was

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in my basement from ten thirty until noon.

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Speaker 7: Some man was, but he wasn't a man from the water.

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Speaker 2: Department with him.

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Speaker 4: We're right the stolen he's around here someplace. And the

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man who is one of the thieves.

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Speaker 7: Has Phil returned from New York.

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Speaker 4: No, No, And it's after five when you.

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Speaker 5: Shouldn't be in that house alone. Until we get to

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the bottom of this strange situation. Paul got stuck with

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another emergency operation.

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Speaker 7: He won't be home until quite late, but I'll send

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him by after I tell him everything.

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Speaker 4: We think. Oh, but the poor man will be exhausted.

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Speaker 5: Why do I exhausted?

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Speaker 7: He'll be by to see Phil, and then you come

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across to see me.

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Speaker 4: All right, Phil, thank you, Joan. There's the front door. Phil.

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Speaker 2: Yea, all in one pieces.

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Speaker 4: It's Phil. He sounds a little tipsy. I'll see you later,

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Johan to go by.

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Speaker 2: I'm on the porch. Honey. You'll excuse me for having

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had one more than I should have had after lunch.

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Speaker 4: Well, you don't have to explained early. I'd take it

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to you didn't get the assignment.

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Speaker 2: How did you know that you've got second siders of me,

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no or something?

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Speaker 4: Was it unpleasant?

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Speaker 2: No? No, about as I expected, nice girl, young enough

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to be my daughter. She had white wine and I

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had a few martinis. Oh dear, yeah, oh dear.

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Speaker 4: So you proceeded to lord it over the young woman

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who SIPs white wine.

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Speaker 2: Lorded over? No, that's not so. We got talking about

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what I'd be doing as a consultant and copy. Now

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I know something about copy, Laura, Yes, you do me

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begging for a job. I used to run that joint

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before that kid was out of doctor Denton's camp. Be

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twenty six. I was about thirty when she was born.

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Speaker 4: Let me fix you a cup of cors I don't.

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Speaker 2: Want to make coffee. You say that I'm bumbed, Laura,

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Well I'm not. I never felt better. I just had

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lots of things on my mind.

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Speaker 4: Including the robbery of the Grove City bank robbery. Do

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you know who the men are who robbed the bank? Phil?

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Speaker 3: Me?

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Speaker 2: How? And I know I never saw him in my life?

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Say what is all this?

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Speaker 4: Remember the two men I saw looking in through the

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living room window this morning at three am?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: What were two men doing looking through the window? Fill?

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Speaker 2: Well? Search me?

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Speaker 6: We think they.

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Speaker 4: Had hidden the stolen money and we're looking for it.

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Speaker 2: We Laura, who is we?

471
00:26:23,519 --> 00:26:24,160
Speaker 4: Joan and me?

472
00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:26,359
Speaker 2: Have you been talking this over with Joan?

473
00:26:26,559 --> 00:26:26,960
Speaker 4: Why not?

474
00:26:27,799 --> 00:26:30,079
Speaker 6: She's my best friend and Paul is yours.

475
00:26:30,279 --> 00:26:34,039
Speaker 2: You and Joan turn amateur detectives. Huh haven't the two?

476
00:26:34,039 --> 00:26:36,279
Have you got anything better to talk about than that robbery?

477
00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:40,079
Speaker 4: Frankly no, because ever since you heard about it, you

478
00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:43,079
haven't been Philip Chambers and who have I read a

479
00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:46,279
nervous wreck and you're making a nervous wreck out of me.

480
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:51,599
Tell me, honestly, Phil, do you know anything about the

481
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:54,720
men who committed the robbery? Do you know who they are?

482
00:26:55,599 --> 00:26:58,400
Do they hide the money on our property? Are you

483
00:26:58,519 --> 00:27:01,119
in danger of survival?

484
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:02,599
Speaker 2: That's a questions.

485
00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:04,920
Speaker 4: Give me some answers, Phil.

486
00:27:04,799 --> 00:27:07,319
Speaker 2: What are you so worked up about? Laura? This is

487
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:10,880
a police matter. Just just leave it to the police.

488
00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:18,039
Speaker 4: I've notified the police. Last night and again today. A

489
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:20,920
man came to the house and said he wanted to

490
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:24,200
read the water meter. He wasn't from the water company.

491
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:26,240
He was in our basement for almost an hour and

492
00:27:26,279 --> 00:27:26,640
a half.

493
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:29,160
Speaker 5: I see what what.

494
00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:29,599
Speaker 4: Do you see?

495
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:34,279
Speaker 2: Barah? Well, maybe you're right. I don't know anything about

496
00:27:34,279 --> 00:27:37,200
any of this, but you just might be right. Maybe

497
00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:40,759
the thieves did hide that money around here. I gotta check.

498
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:42,880
Speaker 6: Let's have the police do the checking.

499
00:27:43,039 --> 00:27:43,920
Speaker 2: Don't you worry about me.

500
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:44,759
Speaker 5: I'll just look.

501
00:27:44,599 --> 00:27:48,200
Speaker 4: Around, Phil, Are you in danger now?

502
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:52,160
Speaker 2: Nothing's going to happen to me. He's getting dark outside,

503
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:53,400
starting to rain.

504
00:27:54,039 --> 00:27:55,880
Speaker 6: I'll be across the street with Joan.

505
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:09,640
Speaker 3: Hello, mister Chambers, who are you? Where have you got it?

506
00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:10,319
Mister Chambers?

507
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:11,720
Speaker 2: What are you doing in my basement? How did you

508
00:28:11,759 --> 00:28:12,200
get in here?

509
00:28:12,279 --> 00:28:15,480
Speaker 3: Let's have it, mister Chambers. They don't want to get

510
00:28:15,559 --> 00:28:18,200
hurt to you. This is a real gun. I've used

511
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:20,640
it before, I know how to use it.

512
00:28:20,759 --> 00:28:23,000
Speaker 2: Let him have it, Nick, Let's get out of here, not.

513
00:28:23,039 --> 00:28:25,079
Speaker 3: Until he turns it over to us. Now, how about it,

514
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:25,880
mister Chambers?

515
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:26,400
Speaker 2: What is it?

516
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:30,519
Speaker 3: You want money? Eighty grand? It's ours, and you have

517
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:35,240
it someplace down here. I'll turn it over. I'll blow

518
00:28:35,279 --> 00:28:35,960
your head off.

519
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:48,039
Speaker 1: Avarice is like quicksand once you've taken the first risky step,

520
00:28:48,559 --> 00:28:52,480
you cannot save yourself from its grasp. Philip Chambers may

521
00:28:52,519 --> 00:28:55,000
lose his life unless he gives up what is not

522
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:59,119
rightly his. He has everything to lose, nothing to gain,

523
00:29:00,319 --> 00:29:03,680
or has greed so infected his mind that he will

524
00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:06,880
look down the barrel of a revolver and believe that

525
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:10,039
he can stop a bullet with his beautiful dream of

526
00:29:10,079 --> 00:29:15,160
a fortune, and the security will give him mystery. Theater

527
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:32,440
will return shortly with Act three. Philip Chambers found eighty

528
00:29:32,519 --> 00:29:37,279
thousand dollars at the bottom of his garbage bin. Despite

529
00:29:37,359 --> 00:29:41,960
a lifetime of ethical exactitude, mister Chambers didn't hesitate a

530
00:29:42,039 --> 00:29:46,200
minute before deciding that fate had dropped a rich token

531
00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:51,359
into his deserving hands. He kept the money stolen from

532
00:29:51,359 --> 00:29:55,640
the bank in Grove City, but the thieves also.

533
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 2: Want the money. I'm waiting, mister Chambers. I don't know

534
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:02,440
what you talking about it, and I want you out

535
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:06,680
of here. He's gonna be tough, stud. You want me

536
00:30:06,759 --> 00:30:09,960
to soften him up. Not yet. Stud here is pretty

537
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:12,160
good at making a guy talk, mister Chambers.

538
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:14,480
Speaker 3: Now, we don't want to hurt you, so just turn

539
00:30:14,559 --> 00:30:16,200
over the money and we'll run along.

540
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:19,319
Speaker 2: I haven't got your money. We'll wasting time there. You

541
00:30:19,519 --> 00:30:20,240
got it all right.

542
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,440
Speaker 3: We hit it in the garbage can last Saturday night.

543
00:30:23,519 --> 00:30:25,839
You found it Sunday morning and hit it because when

544
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:26,799
we came back for it.

545
00:30:26,799 --> 00:30:31,079
Speaker 2: It was gone. Now where have you got it? If

546
00:30:31,119 --> 00:30:35,000
you think that there's money down here? You're crazy? If

547
00:30:35,039 --> 00:30:37,519
there were, why didn't you find it? You went down

548
00:30:37,559 --> 00:30:39,200
here for an hour and a half this morning.

549
00:30:39,279 --> 00:30:43,559
Speaker 3: I'm getting impatient, mister Chambers. You don't turn over that

550
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:46,240
money in one minute, stud he'll go to work on you.

551
00:30:46,119 --> 00:30:48,559
Speaker 2: You wouldn't get away with it. You think I'm gonna

552
00:30:48,559 --> 00:30:51,839
stand here and do nothing while that gorilla comes at me. Now, look,

553
00:30:51,839 --> 00:30:53,880
I've got a pair of pretty good fists and I'll

554
00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:56,440
yell my head off. Let me get at this hold it.

555
00:30:56,480 --> 00:31:00,359
Speaker 3: I have a better idea. We'll kill his wife. How'd

556
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:03,240
you like that, mister Chambers? You wouldn't mind killing you.

557
00:31:03,319 --> 00:31:05,519
We don't care about you, but we care about the money.

558
00:31:05,799 --> 00:31:08,880
And with you dead, we still haven't got it. But

559
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:10,960
we intend to get it because you're going to give

560
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:11,400
it to us.

561
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:14,119
Speaker 2: Now. You'll have it for us by midnight.

562
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:17,240
Speaker 3: We leave it next to the garbage bind we'll pick

563
00:31:17,279 --> 00:31:19,880
it up and then missus Chambers will be all right

564
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:20,839
and you'll be all right.

565
00:31:21,559 --> 00:31:26,079
Speaker 2: Otherwise you'll have only yourself to blame. Or what's to

566
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:28,759
prevent me from calling the police? You won't do that,

567
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:29,720
mister Chambers.

568
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 3: If you don't have the money outside by midnight, I'll

569
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:35,079
tell the police you have the money.

570
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 2: You think they'd believe you your tip against my word

571
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:39,000
and my reputation.

572
00:31:39,079 --> 00:31:42,039
Speaker 8: We got confidence in a police at wait that's right,

573
00:31:42,799 --> 00:31:45,480
Well they'll break you down, mister Chambers. We have our way,

574
00:31:45,559 --> 00:31:48,240
they have theirs, and you'll slip up, maybe not right

575
00:31:48,279 --> 00:31:49,119
away but soon.

576
00:31:50,079 --> 00:31:51,279
Speaker 2: But it won't get to the police.

577
00:31:51,279 --> 00:31:54,200
Speaker 3: You know why, because if the money isn't there tonight,

578
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:57,440
we take care of your wife tomorrow.

579
00:31:57,920 --> 00:31:59,720
Speaker 2: He ain't kidding, miss that. So why don't you give

580
00:31:59,759 --> 00:32:02,720
us the money now and save all the sweat. If

581
00:32:02,759 --> 00:32:06,359
I had the money that you're talking about it, I

582
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:10,960
would see you in hell before I gave it to you. Studdy.

583
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:19,400
He's still pretty fast, stud my boy, he was wide open.

584
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:21,000
Now let's get out.

585
00:32:20,799 --> 00:32:23,759
Speaker 3: Of here and we'll watch the house. It might be

586
00:32:23,799 --> 00:32:31,759
an interesting few hours. Good night, mister Chambers.

587
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:37,759
Speaker 7: Laura is inconceivable to me that Phil might have all

588
00:32:37,759 --> 00:32:42,279
that money. Phil My impression is that Phil's the kind

589
00:32:42,279 --> 00:32:45,160
who always returns the change if a waiter's made a mistake.

590
00:32:45,359 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 4: He is, but jon't imagine having not changed. But eighty

591
00:32:51,039 --> 00:32:56,240
thousand dollars in your hands. No, Phil's always been scrupulously honest,

592
00:32:56,599 --> 00:32:59,920
but he thinks about money all the time, the expenses,

593
00:33:00,319 --> 00:33:03,079
where's the money coming from to pay them? He reviews

594
00:33:03,079 --> 00:33:04,480
our situation almost every day.

595
00:33:04,599 --> 00:33:06,839
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's sure, of course it is.

596
00:33:07,519 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 4: But he's only fifty five. We have money, not much,

597
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:14,440
but enough to get by on. So once in a

598
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:18,759
while Phil manages to relax, not for long. There's always

599
00:33:18,799 --> 00:33:23,079
an unexpected expense. It throws his calculations out the window,

600
00:33:23,119 --> 00:33:25,960
and then he starts to fret. And when he frets,

601
00:33:26,799 --> 00:33:28,599
he begins to feel sorry for himself.

602
00:33:28,799 --> 00:33:30,559
Speaker 5: I never realized he was that upset.

603
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:33,160
Speaker 4: Well, he'd never show it to his friends. He's too

604
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:36,880
proud for that. Imagine what he must have felt when

605
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:39,119
a fortune drops into his hands.

606
00:33:40,079 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 5: You've convinced yourself that Phil does have that money, haven't you.

607
00:33:44,279 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 4: It's the only explanation I can give for his weird behavior.

608
00:33:48,279 --> 00:33:49,839
If anything happened to Phil.

609
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:50,559
Speaker 5: I know, I know.

610
00:33:51,279 --> 00:33:54,319
Speaker 7: Wait minute, I think I hit the car. If it's poor,

611
00:33:54,359 --> 00:33:56,400
we'll send him across the street to feel right away.

612
00:33:56,519 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 4: Oh, give the poor doctor a few minutes to relax

613
00:33:59,200 --> 00:33:59,839
and relax.

614
00:34:00,079 --> 00:34:02,880
Speaker 5: After he questions Phil, then.

615
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:04,519
Speaker 7: Maybe all of us will be able to relax.

616
00:34:12,119 --> 00:34:15,679
Speaker 2: Tell me about it, Phil, I'd rather not.

617
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:16,079
Speaker 7: Poor.

618
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:19,119
Speaker 8: I find your front door open, I walk in and

619
00:34:19,159 --> 00:34:23,159
call hello, no answer. I find you in the basement,

620
00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:26,079
sitting with your head in your hands, covered with perspiration,

621
00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:29,000
shaking as if you had a fever, and you won't

622
00:34:29,039 --> 00:34:29,840
tell me about it.

623
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:35,119
Speaker 2: After all, I am a doctor, Phil, I just can't.

624
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:36,280
Your face is swollen.

625
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:40,239
Speaker 8: You've been crying, But that doesn't entirely account for the

626
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:42,519
swollen face, does it? No?

627
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:49,719
Speaker 2: Did you fall down, walk into something? Poor, I got

628
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:55,519
knocked out? Ah? Interesting, ready to spill the beans. I

629
00:34:55,559 --> 00:34:57,400
don't know how I can bring myself to it, Paul.

630
00:34:57,639 --> 00:35:00,760
Speaker 8: I'm a good listener, mind, if I fix myself a drink?

631
00:35:01,079 --> 00:35:03,320
Speaker 2: No, no, of course not. Forgive me for not offering

632
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:07,079
you one. You want one? Yeah? Small? And I had

633
00:35:07,159 --> 00:35:09,920
enough at lunch in this afternoon to the shrivel my

634
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:14,000
liver to the size of a raisin. And what was

635
00:35:14,039 --> 00:35:19,840
your excuse? Well, I didn't get that consultant's job here.

636
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:24,199
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, thanks, Well that's hardly the end of the world.

637
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:29,559
Speaker 2: Film. Oh what isn't imagine being interviewed or approved of

638
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:32,400
by a twenty six year old girl with stringy hair

639
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:35,400
and no brazier. See, I felt like a captive of

640
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:36,119
the youth army.

641
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:38,880
Speaker 8: So it wasn't the lunch and the unpleasant interview that

642
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:40,000
put you into a stube.

643
00:35:40,079 --> 00:35:43,679
Speaker 2: Oh, it wasn't unpleasant, the stupid So your annoyance drove

644
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:44,199
you from.

645
00:35:44,119 --> 00:35:46,840
Speaker 8: Lunch where built more bar?

646
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:51,119
Speaker 2: Your club? The club. I sat at the bar and

647
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:52,519
the bartender.

648
00:35:52,039 --> 00:35:57,440
Speaker 9: Listen, ah, poor man, here's to all bartenders, the unlicensed

649
00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:02,119
psychiatrists or priests, to an unending line of confessors.

650
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:06,800
Speaker 8: All right, my friend, stop eating around the bush.

651
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:13,280
Speaker 2: Do you have that stolen money? Yes, we thought so.

652
00:36:13,519 --> 00:36:16,480
I found it Sunday morning in the garbage bin. I

653
00:36:16,559 --> 00:36:18,559
was going to use my shredders, so I went to

654
00:36:18,639 --> 00:36:22,199
the garbage bin and well there it was. And you

655
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:26,280
decided to keep eighty thousand dollars. Paul, you don't know

656
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:28,440
what that could mean to me and Laura. Sure, I

657
00:36:28,519 --> 00:36:31,519
do fear guilt, self destruction.

658
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:34,920
Speaker 8: Look what's happened to you, Paul in just twenty four hours.

659
00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:36,599
Speaker 2: You're a bundle of nerves.

660
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,800
Speaker 8: You lost the possibility of a good job, and you've

661
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:42,159
been knocked on your can by a hoodlum who probably

662
00:36:42,199 --> 00:36:44,800
wouldn't hesitate to shoot you down like a mad dog. Oh,

663
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:46,559
they meet business poor, I don't doubt it.

664
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:49,960
Speaker 2: Where is the money, Well, it's it's in a box

665
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:53,199
wrapped in a plastic bag behind that basement window that

666
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:56,039
opens out under the porch. Get it for me? What

667
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:57,440
bring me the box of money?

668
00:36:57,559 --> 00:36:58,039
Speaker 4: You me?

669
00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:00,559
Speaker 8: I want it, and I want it now. I'll get

670
00:37:00,599 --> 00:37:02,159
my car and turn the money into the police.

671
00:37:03,519 --> 00:37:07,639
Speaker 2: What do they think? You see? I've held out on them.

672
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:11,079
Laura will be disgraced. I can't face my friends after

673
00:37:11,119 --> 00:37:13,119
they hear that I held the money for two days.

674
00:37:13,159 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 8: I'm your friend, and you faced me. The others don't

675
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:18,119
need to know I found the money in my garage.

676
00:37:18,159 --> 00:37:21,639
Speaker 2: Oh I don't know, Paul. He's a tough guys. They

677
00:37:21,679 --> 00:37:24,280
may try something on you. You mean, mugby or worse.

678
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,159
They said they'd be back for the money at midnight.

679
00:37:27,599 --> 00:37:30,679
If it wasn't outside by the garbage bin, they'd get Laura,

680
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,519
dirty thugs. Look, maybe I should do what they asked.

681
00:37:33,679 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 8: Let berman like that get away with an eighty thousand

682
00:37:36,039 --> 00:37:39,559
dollars theft. Never that money belongs in the hands of

683
00:37:39,599 --> 00:37:42,320
the police and then the bank. You get the box

684
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:44,960
I'll get my car, and don't dawdle.

685
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:52,559
Speaker 6: It's pool.

686
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 4: He's not coming to the door. Where's he going? Driveway?

687
00:37:57,880 --> 00:37:59,840
Speaker 6: What in the world is he's backing out?

688
00:38:00,679 --> 00:38:04,039
Speaker 4: What's going on? He's parking in front of the house

689
00:38:04,079 --> 00:38:04,880
and walking to the door.

690
00:38:05,039 --> 00:38:05,320
Speaker 5: Or are you?

691
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,679
Speaker 4: I don't know what's going on. If Phil has the

692
00:38:08,679 --> 00:38:12,039
money made, maybe he'll give it to Paul. And don't look.

693
00:38:12,679 --> 00:38:15,920
Phil's handing Paul some kind of package. That must be it,

694
00:38:16,199 --> 00:38:17,559
and Paul's returning to his car.

695
00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:20,239
Speaker 7: Laura, two men have come out from behind your head.

696
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:22,480
Look they're sneaking up on Paul.

697
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:28,519
Speaker 5: What if there's a gun.

698
00:38:28,519 --> 00:38:29,079
Speaker 4: The package?

699
00:38:29,519 --> 00:38:36,119
Speaker 2: Okay, he's in his head. Come on, I didn't that's

700
00:38:36,159 --> 00:38:37,280
gonna wake the whole town.

701
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:46,679
Speaker 9: Well, where are you?

702
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:48,880
Speaker 2: I'm on the back poles. What's all the excitement?

703
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:50,760
Speaker 4: Two men? One of them?

704
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:51,760
Speaker 6: One of them?

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Speaker 4: Shut Paul?

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Speaker 2: Paul.

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Speaker 4: Paul'sman shot. He's lying in the street. He'll wake up.

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Can't you get it through your head? A man and

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shot Paul.

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Speaker 6: They stole his car and got away.

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Speaker 4: Do something, Call the police.

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00:39:09,039 --> 00:39:18,320
Speaker 2: Paul shot. He was here. We had a good talk.

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Paul's my friend, my best friend. He's a good doctor. Too.

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Nobody shoots a good doctor. Nobody shoots a doctor. Paul

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shot Darling.

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Speaker 6: You look so lod.

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Speaker 4: Your eyes they're blank, like those of a statue. Jude,

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he's lost his mind. Phil sit down?

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Speaker 2: Why?

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Speaker 6: Phil?

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Speaker 4: What? What was in the package?

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Speaker 5: M h?

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Speaker 4: I know what was in it?

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Speaker 6: But I don't. I don't want to know. It may

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have left one man?

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Speaker 4: Did my husband worse off than did?

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Speaker 1: I'll be back in a moment with a final thought.

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The phrase the root of all evil has echoed down

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the corridor of time because this man covets what another

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man has.

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Speaker 2: Civilization has never been.

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Speaker 1: Able entirely to constrain greed. Philip Chambers almost cost his

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best friend his life. Almost Doctor Sheldon had been shot

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in the back, but he survived. Philip, however, became an

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instant vegetable and weeds overgrew his mind, choking out any

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hope of a return to normal life. When so well

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educated a man as Philip Chambers can succumb to greed, beware.

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Our cast included Norman Rose and Chefford, Elliott Reid, Marion

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Seldy's and George Petrie.

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Speaker 2: Associate director Marlon Swing.

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Speaker 1: This is Hyman Brown, producer director, inviting you to return

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to our mystery theater for another adventure in the macabre

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until next time.

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Speaker 2: Then pleasan