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This is your post Adam Brand. In a moment, we're
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Patreon dot Great Detectives dot net. Well, this week we
are actually doing something a little bit different. For fifty months,
we haven't had any lost episodes on Dragnet, but unfortunately
that streak comes to a close as two episodes The
Big Love are missing. The Big Trunk is one of
those episodes where the TV adaptation circulates and we can
go ahead and listen to the soundtrack of that TV episode.
As usual, this has been Alexander as Frank Smith, but
as otherwise, the same story that would have been heard
on radio. So here based on the radio script that
aired on March twenty second, nineteen fifty one. Is the
soundtrack of the TV episode that aired January seventh, nineteen
fifty four. It's the Big Trunk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, ladies and gentlemen, the story you were of out
to see is true.
Speaker 3: The names have been changed to protect the innocent. This
is the city, Los Angeles, California. I work here, I'm
a cop. It was Wednesday, September second, was cloudy in
Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out a
homicide division. My partners Frank Smith, the boss's captain. Woman,
my name is Friday. A man had jumped from a
downtown ten story building. We checked what evidence we had,
but we were still unable to get an identification. Before
we could proceed with the investigation, we had to know
who he was and why. You know, what's doing? Well,
not much got you've seen Frank Ronnie was supposed meet
me here, as passed him in the whole communications said
to be run back playing make you think it busy?
All about the same, but I'll have to go around
the house though it's right. Don't mentioned something about that.
You're getting ready for a wedding right at your house,
aren't you. Yeah, My daughter aroundis he's getting a nice
fellow that's up. Yeah, ambitious boys smart is a part
time accountment, goes to law school at Nowtown in Loyola.
Real nice fellow. That's good when they get made from Saturday.
My wife finally got her way. It's going to be
a big church thing, so that it doesn't have enough.
Why you should have had all boys gots you're gonna
give you got away? I suppose. Yeah, so that's announced me.
You've got to be sure and send my suit of
the cleaner's. You've got a good press job on it.
It is funny, but it seems the wife's been afraid
for years. We never get Alice married off. Now it's
finally the works the wife's doing. I'm happy. Oh how's that?
She goes moping around the house, dabbing a rise with
a handkerchief, keeps muttering something about losing a little girl
or little girl's living. I don't know, how was your
daughter Alice? Pretty true? Well, I guess I better get
started on this. Hi, I think what's going? How'd you
do on that job? Is nothing? Don't make it on
the prince? Huh? A couple of long relax on his
clothes were checking him out? Ye, anything else doing? Well? Say,
they just posted the list inside the annual physical exams. Am,
I honor sure both of us were supposed to report
to Roll nineteen at the Academy Monday ten o'clock. Who's
doing the examinations? Doctor seven? Oh, what's the matter.
Speaker 4: Well, he's the one that checked me over last year,
told me to take off some weight.
Speaker 3: I haven't lost an ounce, but I thought you were
on a diet, I am Joe.
Speaker 4: You even got one of those little calorie gizmos.
Speaker 3: You know it tells you how many calories and everything. Yeah,
I hurt him, doesn't do any John still gam well.
It seems to me if you keep touch you should
lose some weight, you know me. In addition, Joe, I
WoT some lunch, hot shot, I got it y, there's
one to roll out. I'm rich. Fare one is a
fair hotel, Room twelve. Yeah. The slug murder eleven fifty
five AM relocated the Stage Hotel on West Howard Street,
half a dozen blocks from the City Hall, was in
the heart of the skid Row district, a white stuccle
building three stories. Who identified ourselves to the manager of
the hotel and missus Lorraine Washburn. She led the way
up a flight of stairs to the second floor. The
hallway was dingy. Down at the end on the left
was Room twelve. We went in. The room was crowded
with furniture bric a brac, odds and ends. The walls
were covered with pictures of old time board bill stars,
autographed programs, and theatrical posters. In the center of the
room was an open steamer trunk full of costumes and
bundles of news clippings. It looked like it had been ransacked,
tied to a chair with the body of a woman.
She looked to me about thirty years of age, red hair.
She'd been badly beaten about the face and head. Near
the body was an empty wine bottle, a pair of
broken glasses, and I liked the steel pipe about ten
inches long. There were bloodstains on her. Frank put on
a call of the office and then to the crime lamb.
The landlady identified the victim of Telma Porter. We asked
the lamaity what time she discovered the body.
Speaker 5: About eleven twenty this morning. That's where it is now.
Speaker 6: Sergeant Stuffy's can touched I haven't mentioned it to anyone
in the hotel.
Speaker 4: Of course, how long have the victim been staying here
at the hotel, Miss.
Speaker 6: Washington or at least two years, maybe a little more
than that.
Speaker 5: Easy at the tail, It just doesn't make sense.
Speaker 6: How do you mean, man, Thelma didn't have any moon?
Speaker 5: He was just like most of the people I have
his stage volks.
Speaker 3: They're all older people.
Speaker 7: Most of them don't work too often, live from hand
them out most of the times.
Speaker 3: I say, did former porter live in this room here alone? Yeah,
that's right, this is a thing.
Speaker 5: Though farmer used to be married. Her husband died in
east about ten years ago. I think name was Carl.
Speaker 7: Thelma and Kyle.
Speaker 6: There used to be an old Roadville king, the two
of them laws and behind.
Speaker 4: Did the porter woman have many friends here at the hotel?
Speaker 8: Man?
Speaker 5: Oh, yes, to everybody. All my people are friendly with
each other. Most of them are pinions. They just will
have to tell all of them about.
Speaker 3: This, Yes, ma'am, I graid so I must wash them.
Remember the last time you saw him as porter? I
mean before this morning, of course.
Speaker 6: Just after midnight last night. I was sitting down in
the lobby of eating, just about to go to bed.
Thelma came home with George Steele. Did the friend of
Falmas lives here in the hotel? Thelma said good night
and came upstairs here till the room. George and I
sat a bed and talked maybe ten fifteen minutes. Then
this money I was taking the fresh linen around to
the rooms, knocked on Thloma's door, but she didn't answer.
Finally opened up with the past key.
Speaker 3: There it was, and this George Steele that missus Porter
came in with. Had she'd been out on a date
with him?
Speaker 9: Wud you know?
Speaker 5: No, not exactly.
Speaker 7: You see Thomas Bark quite a bit of time at
the bar down the street, Jack Hamley's place.
Speaker 5: She was bare five six nights every week.
Speaker 10: I see George.
Speaker 7: Dropped in poor a bottle of beer, had one of Elma.
Speaker 3: I guess.
Speaker 7: Then the two of them came back to the hotel together.
Speaker 3: Did she have any visitors last night? You know, no, sir,
I don't. Does she have any enemies that you might
know of? Maybe somebody she didn't get along way? No,
nobody I know her, And you can't think of a
reason why anybody'd want to kill her.
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 10: Maybe somebody thought she had money. She didn't, not even
enough to bury her.
Speaker 5: I don't know what's going to happen.
Speaker 3: Joe's Washington. The manager on the way over here over
he would you need me anymore?
Speaker 5: Can I go now?
Speaker 11: With?
Speaker 3: Got a few more questions you'd like to ask you, ma'am,
if you don't mind.
Speaker 5: Well, it's quite a shock, you know, terrible thing.
Speaker 10: To have happened. That, such a terrible thing, all mixed up.
I'm going to have to explain what's happening. Tell me
she had three weeks behind in her rent. I carried
her on the books. Do you all know the hotel's
going to want the rent for me? Going to have
to come from someplace.
Speaker 3: Well, how did missus porter live? Didn't she have anyone
come at all?
Speaker 5: She worked occasionally odd jobs, and she'd have the unplumbed insurance.
Speaker 7: Even after I'm out on her two or three weeks ago.
There's no reason in the world for its sergeant killing.
Tell she wasn't too young or very pretty.
Speaker 5: She wasn't worth anything. She didn't even have a decent
coat to go outing. Yes, ma'am, that's trunk over there
full of papers. That's all she has. What sense does
that make?
Speaker 3: I don't know, ma'am. I haven't started checking yet. He
a couple of scrap books.
Speaker 5: Nobody'd kill her for that pile level?
Speaker 3: Amuse cooking? Oh no, it's been done for less. I
continued to interview the landlady, missus Washburn. She told me
that the victim had quite a few male acquaintances that
she'd met at neighborhood bonds. She gave me the names
of all those she knew of. Twelve forty five pm,
Sergeant Jay Allen and the crew from the crime lab arrived.
The body and the murder room were photographed from all angles.
Dean Bergmann processed everything in the room for lat and fingerprints.
The place was gone over thoroughly for further physical evidence.
The only thing that didn't seem to belong in the
room was the apparent murder weapon, the ten inch length
of steel pipe bound beside the body. One o five pm,
after we put in a call to the coroner's office,
we started checking with the residence of the hotel. No
one gave us any direct leads to the killing, but
more than a half a dozen of them told us
that Missus Porter had been in the habit of making
vague remarks, but what she kept in that steamer trunk
in her room. She made a point of never opening
the trunk for anyone, and she hitted constantly, even in public,
that she kept something of value inside. Four forty five pm,
we started checking out the list of the murdered woman's friends,
which Missus Washburn and the tenants had given us. It
went slow. We got little or nothing from the first
dozen names on the list. Nine to fifty pm we
went back to the office. We all, we's had better days,
that's for sure.
Speaker 4: A lousy start. Couldn't be going as slower. It must
have logged forty miles of the leg.
Speaker 3: Works not in the show for it all I got,
all right, how'd you do? Not much? How about you?
In the creedy? We checked out ten names of her
list the pot woman's friends. The only thing that could
tell us we already knew that business about the steamer
trunk was a porter hitting around. He had something valdyblo,
where's that leaves? We got a fair motive to go on.
The crime lab called just before they come in. Did
they got anything? No leg in prints? I went over
that steamer trunk though found a hundred schairs of some
kind of mining stock selling. The liner of the trunk
wasn't anything. Not the paper it's printed on never was
worth anything. According to the bogo checked it. I got
the blow ups. Yeah, thanks a wine bottle. It's a
wine drinker. It looks like he stepped in their glasses
and brow the Sure brutal in the Sure brown the
trunks in me. It sets up the motor pretty well.
The porter woman spent plenty of time at bars. She
had a lot of men friends. We know she did
a lot of talking about the nest that she was
supposed to have locked up in that trunk.
Speaker 4: So one of her boyfriends believed everyone have to have
a look through the trunk.
Speaker 3: Didn't know she was in the room. Had to kill her.
It's a good possibility. All we got the word from
the corner's office. By the way, you know what they
had to say because of death is multiple skull factors.
They're sure their links of pipers and moto weapon was
a porter dot. About four am, they figure killer Sure
gave her a vicious beating. Looks like more legworks, which
it was an easier way. Every bar she drank and
everybody she talked to. We'll have to check them off.
You know, that's just one thing that's got me stuff show. Yeah,
it's that Thelma Porter. Don't you think she had an
idea that money stuck with with us? But I guess
she did. Why she hung on with it? Why didn't
she even keep a stuck along? I don't know, Gotch well,
I thing she had left with the squab books, a
couple of theater posters she knew they'd never pay off.
Ten fifteen PM. Along with Gotcham McCready, we went back
to the West Howard Street neighborhood and started checking down
the list of people known to the dead woman. One
of them was a Miss Bab Sheldon, a singer in
a small cabaret on the corner of West Howard and Pachico.
We went back to a small dressing room where we
questioned the Sheldon girl. She said she'd known the victim
for about five years.
Speaker 12: I kept telling Tommy to get out of that hotel live.
Speaker 5: Any of those husbands wasn't any good for us.
Speaker 3: Do you know of any study boyfriends she might have
had recently?
Speaker 12: Micheldon No Telma. She couldn't get interested in any man
after call Dodd, her husband. That's what she told me. Anyway,
it needs to be a great blood vultein. You know,
she and her husband Rose and benond that's the way
to a build. Do you ever hear of them find
an acrobatic routine?
Speaker 3: No, did Miss Poor ever mentioned anything knew about a
steamer trunk that she kept in the room, anything about
what she kept on that trunk.
Speaker 12: No, not to me, she didn't. It was a kind
of a standing gag with people in New Filma.
Speaker 3: She's kind of funny about it in what way?
Speaker 12: No, Delman was a great talker.
Speaker 3: You know this Princess Donald Dalma.
Speaker 12: Told everybody about her business.
Speaker 3: Talk to Blue Street. Uh huh.
Speaker 12: She talk about her life, her prisonal affairs, especially when
she had a few drinks. But I don't think I
ever heard her mention to anybody what she had in
that trunk. She'd hand around about it. Call her a
gold mine. She never wants to let anyone see what
was in that trunk.
Speaker 3: Not one only knew one of our cards, Miss Sheldon.
Do you happen to hear anything else that might help
us with appreciate it if you give us a.
Speaker 12: Call such a terribleness. I don't know why it had
to happen. Now roud knows what I look like at
the funeral. Man, I haven't got a decent ball dress
to my right.
Speaker 3: One am we checked back into the office to a
pre arranged meeting. Sat up with gotcha, McCready all right, gotcha?
I think pretty squall. How about you might have something
you can't tell? Where's MCCREDI down on the car pool.
There's a bar down on main Street, the left hand
side for total woman used to go there quite a bit,
according to the bartender. Most of the regular customers noah,
uh huh. The bartender told us he overheard a conversation
in one of the booths four or five nights ago.
Three whinos got their names. What about them? Bartender says
they were talking about film of Porter. He says he
heard one of the men say, she keeps the trunk
in her room. We can break it open. Thursday, September third,
eight am. We round it up and in the custody
the three men who'd been overheard while apparently planning a
burglary of the murder victims hotel room, together with Sergeant
Jack Dotts and Sergeant Jack McCready. Frank and I had
little trouble locating the three men and bringing them in
for questioning. They were fairly well known along skid Row,
and they immediately took the attitude that they had nothing
to hide. We went along with them. We questioned them
individually and together. Meantime, their rooms were being searched no leaves.
Two of the men were brothers John Parkson and Arnold Parkson.
The third man was Harold Young. All three listed their
occupations as part time laborers, unemployed. All three had records vagrancy,
disorderly conduct, petty theft. We questioned Harold Young first, then
Arnold Parkson. They both had alibis. Their stories made sense,
no conflicting statements. We interrogated the other Parks and brother John,
same results.
Speaker 2: Well, they could have been yeah, trunk. The Pelmos was
kind of a jag about Tom. You know, you act
about his lot every god it kidded about it. We
even used to read Felma, tell we're going to break
in it some night. Find Old Lush had put away
just a gag.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you something. We told this to the
other two. We got an idea, what's more than a gag.
In the case of you three, we got evidence to
back that up. If you want to have anything more
to your story, now's the time to do it. Fella.
Speaker 2: I don't think I'm getting a pitch rack sag. I
told you everything. I don't know what kind of evidence
you got, but I'm clean. I know that much. Maybe
I booze it up some, but I don't run with heavy.
Murder's way out of my life.
Speaker 3: That's your story. Huh what else can I tell you?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 11: Anyway say the other two is nothing. I got it
all down pack, got a good idea. What do you think, Oh,
it's not a way around for a while, we might
get something. Just thinking if we could get a bug
in one of the offices something. It's a long way around.
Nothing much else we can do because it check it's small.
Speaker 3: We checked with Captain Morman's office and we got permission
to have the office bug. We put in a call
at the crime I haven't asked them to install listening
equipment in the Captain's office as soon as possible. They
told us that they'd have the sound crew go to
work on it immediately. Under the pretext of further questioning,
the sergeant Jack, Dodge and Frank took the suspects down
the hall to the interrogation room, where they would be
held until the Salmon could finish rigging up the equipment. Yeah,
the listening equipment was installed in such a way that
we would be able to hear the conversation in any
part of the Captain's office. Recording equipment and two sets
of airphones were set up in the locker section off
the squad room so that we could monitor the conversation
between the two suspects. First, we had the two parks
and brothers John and Arnold placed a loan in the
Captain's office. We listened to them talk between themselves for
half an hour. They didn't say so directly, but we
caught inferences, but each brother doubted the other's innocence of
the film reporter killing. At one thirty that afternoon, we
took Arnold Parkson from the Captain's office and had Herald
Young take his place.
Speaker 8: Venus again, I think I'll tell them of when they
come in here.
Speaker 9: He was waiting like this.
Speaker 8: Yeah, keep us waiting much longer than I will.
Speaker 3: Will you stop using that call, nor lawyer, but get
out of here and to hurry with the lawyer.
Speaker 8: We don't need one.
Speaker 3: Let's talk you sure about it?
Speaker 8: Here? I want it. I'm mixed up.
Speaker 9: At the killing.
Speaker 8: What do you mean? I'm I sure of it.
Speaker 9: I told him, just be sure. That's who I don't
want any part of it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well you be sure to you and your brother.
Speaker 9: You always look at me with something.
Speaker 8: I don't go to say me and my brother, we've
never been in any heavy stuff killings, no part of it. Listen,
I'm gonna tell you something. We should be talking about
killings in here. Why not?
Speaker 9: Sometimes the cops wire in these rooms. Oh, you're your mind.
Speaker 8: You've been reading too much fiction.
Speaker 9: Yes, they do. They can hear everything you say, and.
Speaker 8: Enough time to wire anything. I've been here all day.
Speaker 9: I'm gonna looking around.
Speaker 13: I'm taking no chance that I don't want to get
involved in anything. Yeah, sometimes I had the mic and files.
Speaker 8: Or any place you can't see it. Very crazy. I'm
not taking any chance.
Speaker 9: Then I check everywhere, and sometimes.
Speaker 13: They put on the chairs.
Speaker 8: What do they do broadcast? Where's the wire?
Speaker 9: You had to mic on the edge.
Speaker 3: Of the desk, cover in that too, Get in there?
What are you doing there? I could hear you cleaning
the other office, going through the files. I thought I
told you to stay putting in that chair. Why aren't
you there?
Speaker 9: Sit down?
Speaker 3: If I wanted you to probably office, i'd have told
you I both have get stay put in those chairs.
You understand.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you got any more peons?
Speaker 9: Now? You ate most of them?
Speaker 8: What do you want them? You get them hungry?
Speaker 9: You know. I think I'll hit the road and get
out of here. La is no good this time of year.
The valley's bet up around Presno.
Speaker 13: You know, if you're alone, if you go Pristmas nothing,
I'm staying here. Nobody asks you to come. I don't
think I like this partner deal anyway.
Speaker 9: I like to travel alone. Just mean nobody else somebody.
Speaker 8: I think you got a rod deal. We made out
of it, But here's sure we made out.
Speaker 9: I just want to go to the valley, that's all.
Speaker 8: I don't like it. Maybe you think I do. They
talked me over more than did you. Yeah, well, I
don't care. I don't like it. I'm getting out of here.
What's the pitch here?
Speaker 9: You got nothing to cover up for a you mean
cover up, of course not. I want to count this town.
I saw something wrong in it.
Speaker 8: You started talking about it in the truck the other night.
Speaker 9: Water Dames, dun you're crazy.
Speaker 13: Your brother Arnie did ocause you are remember that you
sure about that killing, Harry, You weren't in it.
Speaker 8: Don't go talking to anything like that.
Speaker 9: I never started any talk about getting.
Speaker 8: In the trunk. What are you getting mad about?
Speaker 12: Her?
Speaker 8: I didn't say anything by trying to get smart, that's all, asking.
Speaker 9: Me about the killing.
Speaker 8: I was in bed.
Speaker 9: Don't try to getting smart with me, all.
Speaker 8: Right, Just as sure, what are you getting mad for?
Speaker 9: I was sleeping in the bed, and you know.
Speaker 8: It, Johnny smart, I am not so sure.
Speaker 9: It wasn't You could have been sure.
Speaker 8: It could have been all of us as we get
it all right, all right, all right, I just want
to keep it straight, that's all. You gotta smoke. I
haven't had anything this morning. Lastly, cops, I got to
read them all.
Speaker 9: Sure.
Speaker 14: I think they asked something else keeping us cooped up
in here. I'm dave, it's knocked up. Why didn't have
to check on us?
Speaker 12: No?
Speaker 8: Tell her what we needs a lawyer?
Speaker 13: All this trouble over the day the truck. All she
could talk about what she had in the truck. Nothing
in it anyway, old papers?
Speaker 9: Oh pay, but you know what was in it?
Speaker 8: You're crazy. I didn't say he said old papers. You
said it wasn't anything in the truck. You opened a room,
you saw it. You're crazy.
Speaker 9: He shut up.
Speaker 1: That's enough.
Speaker 3: Come on, you know, see I'm about the trunky killer.
Speaker 8: He's lying line.
Speaker 3: He's the See how he's lying. That's left you about
the truck. So he was sitting there, he said, old papers,
old papers in the trunck. Youens to kill her.
Speaker 2: He's lying, trying to cover up.
Speaker 3: That's what he's trying. There's the line. It's addictive. Phone
in the road. We heard you, No you didn't. It's recorded.
We'll play it back for you. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2: I didn't mean it. I didn't mean any of it.
She wasn't supposed to be in her room. It wouldn't
have happened if she wasn't there, All right, why'd you
do it? I don't know. I just wanted to see
what was in that trunk. She was going to scream,
so I hit her with a pipe. She was suffering,
so I killed her. I didn't want her to suffer.
Just one thing on top of another. When I went there,
I didn't even think about killing it. I just wanted
to see what was on the truck. I just wanted
to look. I had to find out. I guess you'd know, papers,
all pieces of newspapers.
Speaker 15: That's On December seventh, trial was held in Department ninety two,
Superior Court of the State of California in and for
the County of Los Angeles. In a moment the results
of that trial, the suspect was tried and convicted of
murder in the first degree. Further investigation proved that Harold
Young and Arnold Parkson were not implicated in the crime,
and they were released from custody.
Speaker 1: Welcome Back. Like most of the TV episodes that were
adapted from radio episodes, this one rot does really adapt
well back the other way. There were a few too
long for audio pauses, but otherwise fine. The only thing
missing was the sense of the killer, which according to
the screen on the TV program, the killer was senced
to death in the lethal gas chamber. You can also
tell this was adapted from radio. The main comedy relief
bet came from the other police officer who came in
before Frank, and honestly the punchline about the daughter being
thirty two and the mother's attitude was a good twist.
It was probably more funny than that weight loss banter
between Joe and Frank. The idea of the down on
their luck performer who ended up living in a rooming
house is a common trope in the Golden Age of radio,
and it even features in the nineteen sixty TV series
in the Bank Examiner Swindle. It's handled with a great
degree of sympathy. The entertainment industry in this era was
really a rough and changing landscape as you had this
movement from various forms and media's vaudeville and burlesque to
radio and films and later television. Not everyone was able
to make that sort of transition, and even those who could,
many aged out of the profession based on the type
of roles and performances they did, or the type of
stuff that they did just became unprofitable, and certainly this
happened with many vaudeville performers. The bugging of the Captain's
officing was very tense when that guy got suspicious that
the office was bud and it was very quick thinking
by Friday to come in there and stop them. It
was also a risk because if they didn't fall for Zacht,
they'd feel like the police were listening for sure, and
then they wouldn't get anything. And I do like unlike
the more fictional detective programs, the slip about the trunk
came with a fellow suspect and associate in the room
rather than the police, where people are going to be
a lot more cautious if they're talking to a detective.
Listener comments and feedback now and we turn to our
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enjoyed today's episode as well.
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Speaker 16: The wu You don't remember now, it's been a long time.
My name is Wearing, Mike Wearing. Oh sure you're that
private dick they call a falcon. It comes back to
you now. Yeah, but I don't remember inviting you when
you just forgot your menas Yeah, what in the world
of a possession to move into a dump like this?
Speaker 9: I like the view?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 16: Better on the clear day you can see eight million flies.
Lucky it did much better for himself. I hear tell
he's got a villa in Italy that's out of this world.
How come you're two separated when you deported any your business? No,
but it's Uncle Sam's. I'm working for him these days.
What are you babbling upon a cigarette? I asked you
something worry Well, it's come to Uncle's attention that narcotics
are being smuggled into the States by way of Egypt.
We've got to hunch the traffic is being directed by
Lucky from Italy. What's that got to do with me? Well,
isn't it strange?
Speaker 3: I find you in Cairo and.
Speaker 16: I'm studying to be a maswan?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 16: What's Carol Morgan's reason? Oh, Lucky's old girlfriend?
Speaker 3: Is she here? You mean you didn't know? No, it's funny.
Speaker 16: I tell the boy to our hotel yesterday looked exactly
like you and our luckwise guy, I can't blame you
for being suspicious, Vince, with you and Carol and Cairo
looks like the gathering of the clan. I teed, I
haven't seen her. Isn't that her diamond ring?
Speaker 2: Huh?
Speaker 16: You shouldn't leave it lying around, Vince. It's much too valuable.
How comes she gave it to you?
Speaker 3: She's crazy for me.
Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime.
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