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Speaker 1: Oh oh temper, oh mores, said the philosopher, alas the times,
alas the manners. Alas also for some of the slogans
that seem to be in vogue today, particularly the one
that cautions don't get involved. When you see trouble ahead,
run the other way. Mind your business. But there are
those people who ask, what is my business? Isn't humanity
my business? The man's name is Marvin, and today begins
as all of his days begin, at the breakfast table
with his wife. Didn't the paper come this morning? Sally?
Speaker 4: Of course, I didn't think you wanted to read it.
Speaker 1: Why not?
Speaker 4: I thought you'd be too excited.
Speaker 5: Why oh, Darling, there's no point in reading about other
people who are making news on a day when you're
going to be making news yourself.
Speaker 1: Sally, Sally, I wish you wouldn't make such a fuss
about it. Now, where's the paper? The door was open,
so I just can't morning Peter coffee. Oh thanks, Sally,
it's late. You know. It just now occurred to me
that Marvin isn't going uptown today now that he's going
to be a television star. I don't know why I
ever agreed to that night. This is nonsense. His recognition
of what of the fact that you're concerned and involved said,
is well, isn't that what everyone is supposed to be?
Since when is that something to explode? Fireworks upong?
Speaker 5: You know, Pete, at first I thought it was just
a pose with Marvin.
Speaker 4: But over the years I've discovered something. He means it.
Speaker 5: He's not aware all that he's a most unusual mass Sally.
Speaker 1: Nonsense, we have that word again. Barvin. Take the credit,
take whatever they give you. Believe me, in this world
you get so very little one of those TV guys
coming in.
Speaker 4: Here, they said about noon.
Speaker 1: Well, have fun and Sally, don't let him be too
self effacing. Make sure he looks right into the camera,
and don't let him mumble.
Speaker 4: Don't worry.
Speaker 1: Backbone of America a TV interview program about the unsung
heroes of our country, the dedicated men and women who
quietly do the real work of this name. Hey, teach,
you're going to be late to work tonight. Backbone of
America brings you Marvin Cooper. And who is Marvin Cooper?
You may very well ask only a man. I may
have to throw you out of here. Lap it up?
See you tonight. Now where did you say that paper was?
Speaker 5: I didn't It's on the counter behind you all.
Speaker 1: Thanks, dear. Let's see what the world is all about
this morning. I'll get a kid here.
Speaker 4: Hello, Oh, yes, just a minute.
Speaker 1: Mark?
Speaker 5: Is that tommin Fellow who you know, the producer TV show?
Speaker 1: What does he want?
Speaker 4: Just a minute, mister Tomlin Marve.
Speaker 1: He wants to talk to you.
Speaker 4: Put the paper down. What is it you seem?
Speaker 1: Are you ill give me the phone? Marvin?
Speaker 4: Should I get a doctor?
Speaker 1: Doctor? Why would you call a doctor because you're so bad?
You have the phone. Hello, mister Tomlin. Oh no, no, no,
it won't be convenient for you to come over at
ten thirty. I understand, but we won't have to rehearse anything, Marvin.
Speaker 5: All these things you see on interviews, all those clever
I'd live there, all planned.
Speaker 1: We don't understand. We won't have to rehearse because I
won't be able to be on the show. I realized that,
and I'm sorry if I caused you any inconvenience, but
I simply cannot do it.
Speaker 4: Darlin, What are you saying?
Speaker 1: No, it isn't a matter of stage fright. I just
can't appear on the show, and I'm sorry. It just
isn't anything further to discuss, Marvin, happen nothing, nothing come
over you?
Speaker 4: What has suddenly come over here?
Speaker 1: I just changed my mind, that's all.
Speaker 4: What's in the newspaper?
Speaker 1: What does the newspaper have to do with it?
Speaker 4: Well, everything was fine until you look at the headlines, and.
Speaker 5: Then suddenly suddenly what I don't know, suddenly this let
me look at that paper. Budget crisis, rock City, Huh,
it's nothing new, stocks fall, third day in a row,
when we're used to that. Mcgrean named charges de fair
in New York. I'm god a foreign diplomat have to
do with you? Faith heel I found guilty of Sally.
Speaker 1: I just don't want to appear on that show. Well,
why because it suddenly occurred to me that I would
I would look like a jackhead.
Speaker 4: Oh that's not true.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, mister Cooper, your tireless efforts on behalf
of every community, endeavor, your willingness to become involved.
Speaker 4: And we've watched that show. It doesn't come over like
that at all, Rellie.
Speaker 1: I can't discuss it, not because I don't want to,
because I don't know what it is. I I I
just had this feeling.
Speaker 4: All right, let's drop it.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir and Sally? I, uh, Sally, I think we
should leave New York. You mean go on a trip,
I mean move lifts somewhere else. Wow, I don't know.
It's become it's become so messy, so so uncertain.
Speaker 4: Well no more so than anywhere else.
Speaker 1: Well, who says you have to spend your whole life
in one place?
Speaker 4: All right? Where would you like to go?
Speaker 1: Or some small town out in the west, or uh
up in New England?
Speaker 4: Darling, I'm not.
Speaker 5: Knocking small towns. But you and I we're not small
town people.
Speaker 1: We could learn to love it, Sally, could.
Speaker 5: I suppose, And then what would you do there?
Speaker 1: Well, I could teach English at a small college.
Speaker 4: Small town, small college.
Speaker 5: Suddenly the word small seems to dominate the conversation.
Speaker 1: Well, I I just want peace, Yes, the atmosphere, the
environment in the big city. Suddenly I feel it's too disturbing, right,
if that's how you feel, Yes, yes, darling, that's how
I feel. All right, I'll accept it, And I hope
that sooner or later, one day you'll decide to tell
me what's really bothering you. That's something I could never do.
That's one part of me I must keep from you, Yes,
even from you, Sally. I can't tell it to anyone.
I can't even tell it to myself. I simply must hope,
must pray that it's been forgotten by everyone whose business
it was to know about it. It's been such a
long time, maybe they have forgotten about it. One thing
I will have to do, regardless of how you feel
about it, we will have to leave the city. There
are so many removed places in this country. Those two men,
the assaulting that woman. Why doesn't somebody do something? Why
doesn't somebody help her? And help her? Somebody help her?
I can't. I would, but now it's too dangerous for me.
You're all standing around for. What am I standing around for?
Take your hands off her? You get a night clip,
y'all got let's get out of head. You're not going anywhere.
And he would you? Why are you gonna buire down
or fire down? Thanks Dimestric Cooper. Here we caught both. Mother. Hey,
you know I was a sere okay, Well, what's what's
your fight?
Speaker 4: Name?
Speaker 1: Eentlemen? Please please, I I don't want any publicity, Sergeant,
Do I have to tolster? You don't have to do anything?
Hold day pictures? Please don't. Why don't they boos heard
what the man said? Put those cameras away, gentlemen. Gentlemen,
I didn't do anything that any citizen wasn't supposed to do.
I don't want any fuss made. He hiding something off
of my guys. Give him a break, good such We
don't get a hero every day, Yes, gentlemen, I just
don't feel like talking, sergeant. Isn't there any place we
can go? Sure? Right in here? Hey? Wait a minute,
Come out, sergeant, I gotta get a picture. Do you
need me for anything else? Such a Oh, we got
it all down. I'd like to thank you on behalf
of the department for what you did. Old, I wasn't anything. Oh,
don't say that it was a lot. Go out this door.
There's an exit out back. You'll give those guys a slip.
Do you do you think anybody took my picture? And
I saw only one cameraman, Lou Dudley of the Observer. Well,
I asked him not to take my picture. Do you
think that he might? Well, Loo, you never know he
say it anyway, I can stop him from printing it.
To stop him, haven't you heard in this country we
got freedom of the press. The Observant that's on West
Broadway Blue Dudley. Well, it's the bashful mister Cooper to Dudley. Yeah,
did you take my picture back at police headquarters?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Why? Well, because it's news. I'm I'm a newspaper photographer.
Could I ask you not to print it here? You could,
but i'd have to ask why. Well, I have my reason. Okay,
I's hear them. My reasons are very private and very personal.
I'd still like to hear them. You see, I get
paid to take pictures of people who make news. You're
asking me to achieve my employees. I'm only I'm only
telling you explain why I just can't let that picture
get into the paper. Even if then if you have
to knock me down and break my camera, you're big
enough to do it. Well, Hello, their office is lattery.
You want to come up to the office I developed
those pictures for. You have a lock of a puckocrast.
Speaker 4: You look so handsome. We've got to frame.
Speaker 1: This, damn it?
Speaker 4: Then, what's wrong fool.
Speaker 1: To jump into that mess? The two of them had knives, but.
Speaker 5: You you saved that poor woman's life.
Speaker 1: She had all of nine dollars in her purse, nine dollars.
All I wanted was the money. Did you have to
risk her life and mine for nine dollars?
Speaker 5: I never heard you talk like that.
Speaker 1: What's the matter with me? Anyhow? Wherever there's trouble, I
have to poke my nose in it. No, No, don't
answer that.
Speaker 4: You don't have to stap my head off.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I try.
Speaker 4: If you don't want me to answer it, why don't you?
Speaker 1: Yes, I will, I will well well, then that's wrong.
Nothing nothing, Hello, hello, bodies. Oh, I'm afraid you've got
the wrong number.
Speaker 6: No, no, no, you're afraid they've got the right numbers.
Speaker 1: It's me. Well, I'm sorry, sir, I'm not who you
think I am.
Speaker 4: Who is it, dear?
Speaker 1: I don't know?
Speaker 6: I am sure. You don't want me to come to
your house. Therefore, boys, you will meet me at noon.
That the police called the seat cafe? Is in these forties?
Be prompted foris? We have so much work to do?
Speaker 1: Hello? Hello, Hello?
Speaker 4: Who is it Marvin?
Speaker 1: Oh? Nobody, darling, it was a wrong number.
Speaker 5: I see the rather involved conversation for a wrong number.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a wrong number. Now can't we
drop it?
Speaker 4: Sure?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 4: Where are you taking me to lunch?
Speaker 1: Today? Lunch? Oh? Uh? Well, darling, I'm sorry, but there's
a faculty thing you see. Well, I usually don't make
sight of the appointments, but this particular situation sort of
sneaked upon me. Well, something or someone sneaked up on
Marvin that we know for sure. And how did his
name to be boris? Well, by this time you are
starting to make certain assumptions about his past, and you
may be right we shall compare notes when I returned
shortly with that too. There's a special kind of beer,
maybe you know it, Budweiser. It was created nearly a
century ago by people who really shared about thais, who
took pride in brewing a quality beer, no.
Speaker 7: Matter what the cost in time, in ingredients, in anything.
Speaker 1: Today, the people who brew the King of Beer still
have that special pride, and every taste of beechwood age
Budweiser says so loud and clear, you're a talking when
you say Budweiser. You said it all. And I was
a boy, Saint Louis. I think it was the first
time I can remember really going fishing with my dad.
I'm sure i'd been with him before, but the first
time I really remember it was waiting down stream with
him in an extra big pair of waiting boots as
he felt his way very surely along the stream bed,
and I shakily held onto the willows, and we found
a spot where my dad lifted his finger to his
lips and said, we want to scare the fish away.
And I remember that fish, the biggest fish I'd ever
seen in my life, and it was on the end
of my line, and my dad boy, was he proud.
I'll never forget that as long as I live. Give
your children everything, give them your time.
Speaker 8: Apart from the Church of Jesus Christ, of Faturday Saints,
the Mormons.
Speaker 1: For most of us, the past is dead. And this
is because most of us have not been compelled to
make a bargain with the future. Therefore, we have no
ledger on which has specified our obligations. We can take
life as it comes. Marvin Cooper, however, is yes, we
can use the word mortgaged like a house is mortgaged.
Except Marvin doesn't know for how much or when, if ever,
the debt must be paid. He doesn't even know what
the debt consists of. He is about to find out. Boys, well,
sit down, glad to see me, of course not. I
see him as welcome as a case of Johndice. Won't
you even say hello? Hello? Twenty years hair's a bit grayer,
but there's just as much of it. I don't think
you've even gained a pond. I've taken the liberty of
ordering lunch in a bar. I'm not hungry, of course
you are hungry, and the way the food is prepared
in this place, you'd swear you had never left home.
What do you want, Termitry? What do you want? Dmitri? No,
if I hadn't heard it with my own ears, Is
this how you, great brother? After twenty years? The proper blood, bad,
childish romantic nonsense. Oh of course it was childish, but
why not wet with children at the time. But we
grow up together, join the party together, work together, Dmitry,
what do you want? We thought you were lost and
then that picture in the paper this morning. What fantastic
and enchanted luck? What you want? The time has come
to justify your existence here, to fulfill your missions. To Mitry,
please please listen. Can we talk as brothers? We can
always talk as brothers. Bories horrid all. I agreed to
come to this country, and you are ordered to come
to this country and to become an American because you
had the uncanny ear for language and the skill of
an aptic well I a pointed, making this complicated. Dear brother,
you were given a mission, as all members of the
party I assigned. The mission was to become an American
and to hold yourself ready for whatever task might present itself.
And you became an American. Yes, yes, Dmitri, I did
I became an American? But don't you understand I am
an American. It's no longer a cover or a pose.
I think like one, I feel like one, I believe
like one. That's because so much time has gone by,
and so much has happened back home. The old man,
he's been dead for so many years, and even those
who came after him are gone, and so many changes.
I thought everyone had forgotten about me. We lost track
of you, But how could we forget Dmitri? Dmitri, I
am not the same person who left home twenty years ago,
and now the time has come for you to fulfill
your misi. You're not listening to me. I always listen
to you, and understand. I am no longer use look orin.
I am Marvin Cooper. This is fantastic. It brings me
back more than two decades. I remember you were playing
Shakespeare at the State Theater and you said to me,
I am not borishlegoring, I am Hamlet. You listen to me.
Now you're an actor. I've always felt you must leave
the part you play, whether this is some technique and
not equipped to drunk? Look what it is you want
of me? What would you do if I refuse. Oh,
come now, Boris, You know we could manage to notify
the proper charunter espionage authorities here in America and give
them proofs that you are one of our agents. Yes,
as you could do it to me. Treat my poor Boris.
Marvin Cooper is a role the way Hamlet was a role.
But you have played the part too, law. Marvin Cooper
is a character you have created out of your own
pure fantasy. Who is really Borisley Goren or Marvin Cooper?
I read the paper this morning. You're a hero, and
this is not the first time you seek danger. You
constantly strive to help all sorts of people in every
way you can. But why, Bory I am not good
to you anymore to me? To you must understand that
you are creating an heroic part. That is all. You
didn't have to do that at home. Life itself was
a danger. Life itself was fulfillment. What do you want
me to do? First thing? Spend the whole night just thinking.
Think of how it was when we were young. Think
of how exciting our ideas were. Think of our father,
think of our dreams, Think of Maria. Whatever happened to Maria.
She was always pretty, but now she's beautiful. She never married.
I think she never got over you. She will always
be waiting. Dmitri. Dmitri, I know, I know, my boy.
I know. But now think, remember, and soon you will
realize that you are still borish leging.
Speaker 4: Any for your thoughts, Darling.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, I guess that's all you could buy for
a penny these days. My thoughts, that's all they're worth.
Speaker 4: Hm. Now listen, there's this town way up state in
New York.
Speaker 1: Oh what about it?
Speaker 5: Well, they've got a community college. It doesn't pay as
much and doesn't have the prestige of your present teaching job.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about, sarre, Well didn't you say we.
Speaker 4: Had to leave the city and find a quiet retreat?
Speaker 1: Oh? Oh was that? Well?
Speaker 4: Is it still on?
Speaker 1: Uh? No, I guess it's off. M Nietschievo.
Speaker 4: What did you say, Nitschivo? It's the great word.
Speaker 5: I saw this picture on the Late Show, and it
means I know what it means. It means Okay, who cares?
Speaker 4: Why are you so excited?
Speaker 1: The way she said it, she sounded exactly like Maria,
the same mischievous smile, the same little toss of the
head Maria I haven't thought about in years? Or is
that a lie? Though I think of Maria every day
of my life and the life back home. I I've
forgotten it completely. It was good. Oh yes, Oh there
were some bad things, but aren't they bad things everywhere
in every country. And my father, the old man was
always good to my father. He never forgot how they
were boys together, fought to get a shared together, made
the revolution to gether boris the party.
Speaker 9: Never forget the party, the Party's de beating our the busy.
Speaker 1: Brain of her mother, Lamb. The boys served the party faithfully.
Speaker 9: As I have served her, without question. She is wise
er than all of us. Live for her, die for
her father. I'm an act of card. Body is asking
me to give up break career. How instead of performing
on the artificial stage of the theater, to the party
is asking you to act on the true stage of life,
to a sumarole that does not end.
Speaker 1: At eleven o'clock each evening.
Speaker 9: This mission will require all of your talent, and Maria,
she will be more useful to the Party and our
country here at home. Barri's your brother would never hesitate.
Is he more faithful to the party than you, Dmitry. No,
it was Dmitry who suggested the mission for himself.
Speaker 1: Dmitri could never do that was obvious to everyone.
Speaker 9: And that's why you are chosen. But for Boris to
be chosen, he still be honored.
Speaker 1: Why does it all come back to me? Now? Why
do I think of it? Now? I don't know. I
don't know anything. I don't even know who I am,
Boris Lecorn or Marvin Cooper.
Speaker 5: Just a minute, o, Pete, good morning.
Speaker 1: Was our bashful all American boy. Ready? Do we have
time for a cup of coffee? Pete? Sure? If you
want to get caught up in all that East River
Drive traffic, you know, Pete, I don't hear you grossing
and gripping about that job of yours anymore. That's right.
Speaker 5: Well, if you finally made management see things your way.
Speaker 1: No, but I've I've decided to do something concrete, such
as such as something that will settle a fuel scores.
Speaker 4: Sounds grim?
Speaker 1: You should know the half of it. Well, professor, you ready?
We off? Well, it's early. I want to talk to
you about something on the way uptown. Oh, oh, excuse me? Hello? Ah?
He is hello? Oh? Who is it? Dear. Uh, it's
from the Dean Darling. He uh wants to talk about
a new examination schedule. Have you found yourself? I? Uh,
you don't know. Your work will start immediately this morning
on the drive uptown. What's that Your friend Peter Anderson
is there? Uh? Yes, yes, what would he have to
do with anything? Oh? But he has to do with everything?
Well I'm not sure.
Speaker 10: I yes, he certain problem and we have advised him
to discuss it with you, with me, and so this
morning you will listen sympathetically and that will be all
for today.
Speaker 1: Marvin, how long have we been friends? Oh? Years? You know.
There's no one in this whole world I admire more
than you, respect more than you. I have to talk
to somebody, somebody I can trust, Marvin. I can't take
it at the plant anymore. Well, then quit, quit and
leave them the metal conversion process, so it belongs to them, Pete,
does it? I put you on my side. I'm only
stating a fact. You signed an agreement. Anything you discovered
or invented would belong to the company. But that isn't fair. Yes,
I know it's worth millions. Do you realize how it
speeds up productions? Yes, I know, Pete, But what's to
be done. I've had an offer from somebody else. Oh
that's great, Now you can quit. And will you ask
me who made the offer? All right, a foreign country?
What do you mean? I mean, I've been asked to defect.
I think that's the word. And you know something. My
initial reaction has not been to contact the authorities, but
to think about it. Pete, why are you telling me this?
I was told to discuss it with you. You were
told by whom? By those people? Why? Because they know
I'm thinking about it. And they asked me, is there
one man you can trust with your life? One man
who's judgment you can have faith in? And I said yes.
They said who, I said you, And they said ask
him for advice. And so I'm asking, well, you must admit.
Life has become a fast and furious affair for Marvin
Hooper or Boris Legorn, And actually at this point he
really doesn't know which one he is. So many of
us are concerned with the search for our identity. Consider
our hero. He has two identities to worry about. And
as if that weren't enough, here is a brand new
problem tossed into his lap. We'll have even more problems
when I return with Act three. I want that sinus
medicine headache tablet.
Speaker 5: No, the sinus medicine that relieves headache and congestion, internal
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He's going to do it because he and others in
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from a Campaign for Human Development.
Speaker 11: I mean I'm leading the money, but I can lead
someone digging lad a hand, say den the Campaign for
Human Development.
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Speaker 12: Adolf Hitler came to power in nineteen thirty three and
made life miserable for people in Germany, and that's why
the International Rescue Committee the.
Speaker 4: IRC was formed.
Speaker 12: It began by helping refugees from Hitler's Germany and went
on to help millions more in World War Two, but
its work didn't end there because war and oppression didn't
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Speaker 1: Six Who is he. For the first twenty five years
of his life, his name was Boris Legorn. For the
past twenty years he has been Marvin Cooper. He has
led two full lives and played each to the hilt.
Is that the keyword played are both lives and illusion.
Is neither of them real? Right now he can't even
think about it. Another problem has been lost into his lap.
But Pete, why why do you tell me this? They said,
I should? How do they How do you know that
I won't call the police? Well that's what I said,
and they said no. Trust him. He's a decent human being.
He places his friendship above everything. They said. He will
tell you the right thing. I'm not sure I understand, Marvin.
I'll never amount to anything here. What do you make up?
Pretty well? I would be sitting on top of the world.
I should be wealthy, famous, respect Those things are relative.
A man of my ability, I am simply not appreciated.
I've been offered a free hand and money and a
title and authority. Pet You realize you'll be getting up
your country. It's not my country.
Speaker 7: Okay?
Speaker 1: I was born here, but what do I own of it?
How happy I have I been here? Marvin? Think about
what I just told you, and well we can talk
about it tomorrow, not now, But first think about it, please, Marvin. Yes, Boris,
this is why you have lived here for twenty years.
Pass to encourage this man to the fact, what did
you think you would be required to do? And they
assassinate some high public official steal the plans for a battleship.
This thing is more important. Mt. Release Man. Peter Anderson
is a production genius. We need men like him. See
how it worked out. Discuss it with your best friend,
I said to him. And who is his best friend?
Like you? And of course tomorrow you know what to
tell him. We did not know that your moment would
ever come. We did not know what it would be like.
But we have prepared for it for twenty years and
now we are ready. At would work? What would work? Feat?
And all is Iri better? Frustrated? Of course? Otherwise would
he ever listen? He deserves position, well, fame. You can't
give him those things, does it matter? Of course it matters.
He won't be much better off than he is now. Ah,
that's unfortunate for him, No for you, because he'll be
so disappointed, so furious that he won't be of any value.
As to that. We have ways of encouraging people to
work to their full potentials. Eh, but that's no concern
of yours. Dmitri. Party has made this decision.
Speaker 5: Voice Marvin, who is Dmitry Legren Well.
Speaker 1: Sally, I hear, wouldn't know him from Adam.
Speaker 5: Well, he's a diplomat, and and what what would I
know about him?
Speaker 4: Marvin, you're telling.
Speaker 1: Oh, and just what does that mean?
Speaker 5: Well, for over a week now, you've been acting in
the strangest way. And it goes back to the newspaper
you were reading that morning, the morning you cancel the
TV appearance.
Speaker 1: I don't understand what you're saying.
Speaker 5: Something you read in that paper. I still have it
at the front page. This is where mister Legran is mentioned,
and here's his picture. I've eliminated everything else. You're not
a bank rubber and you're not concerned with the city
bonds and all the other headlines. So who and what
could have had an effect on you?
Speaker 4: Well we're left with mister leg.
Speaker 1: I really don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 5: The name Dmitri Legora means nothing to.
Speaker 1: You, absolutely nothing. Then you agree that I'm doing the
right thing. Yes, are you sure? Aren't you sure? Oh?
It's a tremendous staff. I'll pet you owe it to
yourself to better yourself. I'm at home. Is where you're happiest,
Where you're recognized and rewarded. You know, I knew I
could trust you, I knew you were my friend, and
so I have chosen. Boris is the reality, Marvin is
the role on stage, and for the first time in years,
I feel I am living again, living dangerously for the party. Yes,
I am an actor who plays the part of Marvin Cooper,
but I am I always will be Boris Ivanovitch Legoran.
Speaker 4: Marvin.
Speaker 5: Yes, what is it, dear about Dmitri Legorn Sally?
Speaker 1: What is this sudden obsession you have with this, this
Dmitri Legoran.
Speaker 5: Dmitriy Legoran is the key to the mystery.
Speaker 1: What mystery?
Speaker 5: The great Marvin Cooper mystery? Why did the sight of
Dmitri Legorin's picture in the paper cause such such turbulence
in Marvin Cooper?
Speaker 1: Sally? I never heard of a man in my life. Well,
I've done some research on mister Legore. Are you saying
you don't believe me?
Speaker 4: It wasn't easy, because there isn't.
Speaker 1: Please, now, this is nice.
Speaker 5: Your name is Dmitry Ivanovitch Legory.
Speaker 1: Now what does this have to soldier.
Speaker 5: And diplomat of Ivan Vasilitch Legoran, famous hero of the Revolution, Sally.
Speaker 1: I wish I knew what you were building too.
Speaker 5: Brother of Boris legrean noted actor who died in an automobile.
Speaker 1: Act very well, very well to here, amuse yourself with
this foolish.
Speaker 5: Anis and Dmitri is married to He has been married
for twenty years to Maria Elevna, the famous actress who.
Speaker 4: Holds the metal work.
Speaker 1: Say that again.
Speaker 5: He's been married for twenty years to Maria Elevna.
Speaker 4: Oh ma, Then so I call a doctor.
Speaker 1: A doctor.
Speaker 4: That's how you look that morning, pale and frightened. Who
is Maria Elevna? Why should they mention of her name?
I know, no, it's it's not my imagination.
Speaker 5: It's these two names, Dmitri Legoron and Maria Elevna's seem
these two names they seem to have. I have stated
you why I think I'd like to go for a while.
Speaker 4: Now, Marvin, we've got to talk about.
Speaker 1: What Who is Dmitri Legora? I don't know?
Speaker 4: Who is Moriya?
Speaker 1: And lad I don't know.
Speaker 5: And now, if you have no more questions, I have
one more question, who are you?
Speaker 1: What kind of a question is that?
Speaker 13: I don't know?
Speaker 14: It's the only one I can ask who are you
since that morning?
Speaker 4: You're not Marvin Cooper?
Speaker 1: What do you mean? What do you mean? I'm not
Marvin Cooper.
Speaker 14: I don't know any other way to say it. You
live with someone, you're together, and then without warning, something
happens and that person suddenly becomes someone else.
Speaker 1: Why are you He's Sally? Please?
Speaker 4: No, that won't help either of us.
Speaker 1: Something's wrong.
Speaker 4: Now tell me, Marvin.
Speaker 5: You can tell me, you can tell me anything.
Speaker 1: No, No, I can't.
Speaker 5: And all the years we spent together, our whole married life,
right now.
Speaker 1: It seems like an illusion.
Speaker 5: And this closeness that I thought we had is gone.
Speaker 4: Did it ever exist?
Speaker 1: I have to go somewhere now. Yes, I'll be back soon.
Speaker 4: It has to do with Dimitri La garn and Maria Levna,
doesn't it.
Speaker 1: Oh, let me help you, No one, No one can
help me.
Speaker 4: Don't say that I love you.
Speaker 1: There are things a man must face alone.
Speaker 4: Understand I love him and.
Speaker 1: I love you too, Samly, But that can't change anything.
That won't help anything.
Speaker 4: When two people love each other.
Speaker 1: Let there be enough of love. There are other things
in the world. This is a country that's obsessed with love. Well,
let me tell you, despite what you've been brought up
to believe, Love does not conquer all.
Speaker 4: I've never heard your talk this way before. You referred
as this country as.
Speaker 1: If, as if, what if you're a foreigner. I'll be
back in a little while.
Speaker 5: Oh wait, I'll go with you.
Speaker 1: No, you can't.
Speaker 4: You've got to let me help you.
Speaker 1: I will, I will as I find out who I
really am. You told me she never married. You married
her yourself, But there was no point in letting her
go to waste, and this way, at least I kept
her in the family. You married her twenty years ago. Well,
when we planted that fake story of your fatal accident,
she was desolated. Then she needed comfort, and I was
there who always wanted her. You can hardly consider that,
and you arranged for me to be sent away on
a permanent foreign mission. David and your rier, Ah, how
thoroughly americanized you are, even for the bibe. Well, it's
true I did it for the part. You did it
for yourself, Pete. I rang, but no one answered, and
the door was open, so I walked in. Ah, just
in time for our appointment. Marvin, what are you doing here?
Get out? Pete? Good? You know what's good for you.
You will leave this place and never ever come back. Marvin,
I don't understand you advise me to take the job
as a friend. I don't know you were tied up
with with these people. Get out of here. Oh no, no, no,
not now. I'm sorry. It can't be done. What can't
be done. I'm afraid. Neither of you can leave now,
Not you, Peter, not you boys Boris. Why did he
call you Boris? We're both leaving. You can do your worst, Dmitri. Wait,
wait a minute, now, be careful with that gun. Both
of you will remain where you are. Some friends will
soon be here, and Dmitrie, it's the end for both
of us. Son, take another stead. Boy, you won't shoot me,
I said, don we're brothers, after all, Hey, where you are? Brothers?
Don't kill each other, Marvin, Marvin, are you all right? No? No,
I'm not. I'm not all right. Dmitri, he looks as
if he's dead. Yes, but he shot you too. Let
me call it. Oh, I don't need a doctor. Just
help me sit down. I now get out of here. Pete.
Don't be fond here, but I want to help you,
help me. You can't even help yourself. Guys like you,
it doesn't matter where you live, in what country, under
which government, you'll never make it. You'll never be anybody
because you're a chump, just a poor, hard working, talented chump.
It's the wise guys like Dmitri who will always wind
up on the top. I know, because I'm a jump myself. Marvin,
let me call it amby Les. Be thankful you're not
starving to death, But Marvin, you're badly No, I know,
and I'm glad. No, no, I'm not glad, but I
can't think of a better way too. To listen, Pete,
you couldn't have been happy over there, Pete, you'd have
been torn like I've been torn so many memories of
the old times and places. He called you Boris? Who
are you Boris? Or Marvin? Who am I Boris? Or Marvin?
I guess? I guess I'm both, and I always will
be both. And there's no way I can live with that,
no way at all, two lives diametrically opposed in the
same body. Something has to give and someone has to go. Well,
I have to go right now, but only for a
few moments, and then I shall return.
Speaker 13: I have a heart that goes bump bump, and sometimes
I can hear.
Speaker 12: It soup, and Daddy says that in.
Speaker 13: My chest, I have two things that.
Speaker 1: I'm the best. They call them.
Speaker 5: Lungs for breathing air.
Speaker 13: You never see them, but they're there.
Speaker 5: And if I breathe in air.
Speaker 13: That's clean, I'll grow up like a nothing be. Whenever
I see any smoke, I'll run away before I choke,
and something even there yet, I'll never smoke a silva rat.
I'll breathe the air that's clean and freeze so I
can keep on feeing me.
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And remember, your kids may never start if you stop.
Quitting is tough, but your lung association says it's a
matter of life and well.
Speaker 1: The first language we ever learned, the first girl we
ever kissed, the first joys, even the first sorrows, a
mother's tear, a father's smile, these are the things that
make home and country. And because these are the things
we can never forget, we can never forget our country either.
I mean the country, not necessarily who governs or misgoverns it,
but the country, the land, the people, and the Love.
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Speaker 5: You are saying that one of us may somehow be
involved in this incident.
Speaker 4: I'm sure the man is joking.
Speaker 1: Iye, for one, care not for the man's jokes. And
I say to you again, beware he who enter Albion's Castle.
Those of you who would mock this unasy resting place
will perish among these ancient stones. This is holy ground
coveted by the Celtic God. Agreed. But in case the
Druid God forgets to come at this place, I suggest
we send someone for the police.
Speaker 5: He's right, we should not wait another minute.
Speaker 1: All right, thet it's settled. While the others remain here
in guard in silence, one of us will leave immediately
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