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get your podcast from now. From January seventh, nineteen forty eight,
here is Manhunt in Manhattan.
Speaker 2: The Big Story.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's Moose. Now you all know what to do.
Let him in. Hi, Hi you Joey, shit down? What Samanda?
Hey put that gun down? Joey?
Speaker 4: What matter?
Speaker 3: Nothing? Not a thing? Just read it. You just went
and sang to the cop.
Speaker 5: I didn't shut up, shut up, and start to die
because hear it.
Speaker 3: Come on, don't show we don't just a gag moose.
Speaker 6: It wasn't a loaded He was getting bored, so I
thought I'd have a laugh. Okay, now let's get to work.
I got a nice job.
Speaker 7: Oh lined up.
Speaker 2: The Big Story, another in the thrilling series based on
true experiences of newspaper reporters. Tonight to Ted Prager of
the New York Daily News goes the Pellmell Award for
the Big Story. Now the authentic and exciting story of
manhunt in Manhattan.
Speaker 8: You are Ted Prager, night reporter for the New York
Daily News, and murder is almost old hat to you.
You've covered the doings of Vincent mad Dog, Carl Dutch,
Schultzy Madden, and Murder Incorporated for your paper.
Speaker 3: You know you're underworld.
Speaker 8: You know robbery, arson, burglary, and homicide, almost inside out
away in insurance man no statistics.
Speaker 3: Yes, you know your business.
Speaker 8: You're even a little blase about crime until one night,
about one in the morning, you're in a friendly bar
on East seventh Street and the conversation is small talk
with Sandy the bartender.
Speaker 3: Oh, football is not football?
Speaker 8: Anymore too professional, Sandy, give me those college teams.
Speaker 9: I agree with you, mister Prage. You take that old
Notre Dame team. I'd rather watch them than Hey, mister Prager,
you see that what that guy just.
Speaker 3: Walk down, the one with his hair all slipped down.
Speaker 10: Yeah, looks like there's four or five wood of them.
Speaker 8: Say, I know that face from somewhere, some small time mugger.
Speaker 11: O there.
Speaker 9: What are they spreading up like that for?
Speaker 3: I don't know, Sandy. It looks like a stick up.
Here's a smart man, cute too. Give the man a cigar.
Speaker 1: That's just what it is, all.
Speaker 6: Right, everybody quiet, and you people haven't figured it out yet.
Speaker 3: This is what we call a hold up.
Speaker 5: Get your wallets out, rings, jewelry from the ladies.
Speaker 3: My boys will pass among you.
Speaker 6: Backy, you may open up that register and empty ant
a bar.
Speaker 3: Now make around, boys, and you don't have to leave.
None of these good people carve. Let them walk.
Speaker 6: What are you looking that cute guy?
Speaker 3: Nothing? I see what you got. Here's my money?
Speaker 7: What he does? I'll take your pen, go in your wallet?
Not ring?
Speaker 3: Okay, what do you think you're looking at? My face?
Actually like what you see? Maybe you want to remember me?
Is that it here? Most give me a black jack.
Speaker 6: This cute fella here is give me the once so
for all, su we got everything, cleaned it out, good,
let's go.
Speaker 3: Okay, we go, too bad, cute guy.
Speaker 6: And I was just gonna give you something to remember
me by solong dopes, And.
Speaker 8: Something incredible happens. Five crooks walked in, but only three leave.
Two of them are still standing in the bar, looking bewildered,
not knowing what to do.
Speaker 3: And you realize that they're not armed. Maybe you can
stop them. You'll move and pan the moony and breaks loose.
Speaker 12: All right, stand back there, you two stop right?
Speaker 10: Okay?
Speaker 3: Good shooting their opposer. Thanks, Well, you couldn't get the more,
but at least you got two of them.
Speaker 11: Yeah, a dead officer, I don't think so.
Speaker 7: Hey, who are you?
Speaker 1: You look for me?
Speaker 13: Then?
Speaker 11: Ted Preger the news, Oh yeah, sure I remember you,
mister Pregger.
Speaker 10: Excuse me, I gotta call the ambulance.
Speaker 3: Nice work, officer. I'd like to write you up. What's
your name?
Speaker 11: Matt Kaines twenty second precinct. I could use the story,
mister Greger. You could say it's too bad. I only
got two of them.
Speaker 10: Too bad.
Speaker 3: I only got two of them.
Speaker 6: Meant, that's the funniest thing you ever heard.
Speaker 3: That's too Joey.
Speaker 6: Listen when Joey writes, doesn't it gets it's done?
Speaker 1: Too bad?
Speaker 14: I only got two of them, said the policeman. Listen
from the paper.
Speaker 3: Get this.
Speaker 14: It was not until after the shooting that the officer
discuss but his fatal mistake.
Speaker 3: The two men who had entered the bar with the game.
Speaker 14: Were not part of the mob. I like that.
Speaker 7: Not part of the mob, Go.
Speaker 3: Ahead, finish your horses.
Speaker 14: Not part of the mob. Instead, they were two innocent
taxi drivers that the leader of the mob had forced
to stay behind to act as shields so that the
actual robbers might escape under cover of the violence directed
against the taxi drivers.
Speaker 3: Boy, is that the pay whose dope standing there? You know?
Speaker 10: I can just see if imagine what they done.
Speaker 14: They start beating up those taxi drivers, and the cop
comes and bang bang law and order laser out coal
and says, too bad, I only got two of them.
They dead, Joey, No, no, only one here.
Speaker 3: Listen.
Speaker 14: One of the drivers, George bver H fifty one, died instantly.
The other Edgar Bennedetto, thirty four, is in city hospital,
whereas condition is listed as critical.
Speaker 3: Ain't that the best scream you ever heard? Sit down games?
Why don't you sit down him? If he dies, mister Prager,
I don't know what I'll do. How I blame yourself.
You made a mistake. Any cop might have a mistake.
That's right. Anyone could have done it. No one blames you.
Speaker 11: I killed a man, an innocent man, and there's another
one inside there in the operating room, and he may
die too.
Speaker 10: I murdered two men.
Speaker 8: You didn't murder anyone. You accidentally shot two men in
the line of duty.
Speaker 3: Look.
Speaker 8: I saw the face of the man who really murdered Beaver,
the leader of that gang. It was a cruel face
and the vicious one. He's the murderer. If anyone is,
I tell you if then a dead or die, Mister Gaines,
I make you a promise. I'll find that man. I
know his face from somewhere. I don't care how long
it takes, what I have to do, but I'll find him.
Speaker 11: That man Benedetto in the operating room. I checked up
on him. He's thirty four, been driving a cab since
he was twenty one, got a wife and two kids,
a girl seven and a little baby twenty one months.
Speaker 3: I killed their father.
Speaker 10: I made a widow out of his wife.
Speaker 8: Stop at games, You've got to stop it in the
first place. Benedetto's not dead.
Speaker 3: No, only one of them's dead. Only Beaver's dead.
Speaker 10: Only a fifty one year old man's dead.
Speaker 3: That's not so bad. That's why do you torch you?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Maybe I ought to just go outside, sit down and
just wait. Mane try it. Maybe it won't be so bad. Yes,
what is it done?
Speaker 15: I'm sorry, gentlemen, mister Benedetto died on the operating table.
Speaker 3: Games? Are these all the pictures in your rogues gallery?
That's right, mister Prager.
Speaker 8: Well let's get started. That batch there'll do. I'll know
that face when I see it. You turn him, Gains,
I'll call if I see anything. All right, Nope, Nope,
it's none of those. Let's see some more.
Speaker 3: You aren't gonna find him. Keep going, Gains, just keep going.
What did you do that for? Why'd you throw him down?
What's the use We won't find him?
Speaker 1: What's the use of anything?
Speaker 8: Look, I told you before You've got to get that
crazy idea out of your head that you're responsible for
the death of those drive I killed him, didn't gaines.
Speaker 3: Try to listen to me.
Speaker 8: I'm going after the man who led that hold up,
the man who's really responsible for the death.
Speaker 3: Of those drivers.
Speaker 11: That's gonna be dangerous, mister Prager, if it gets around
you're hunting a crook.
Speaker 3: You'll lose all your contacts. You won't be able to
get the inside on anything. I'll take that chance. I
can take care of myself.
Speaker 11: You won't even be able to get a byline on
these stories.
Speaker 3: You won't dare let anyone know who's doing the job.
That's not the most important thing in the world.
Speaker 11: And you get too close to this guy, there's no
telling what might happen to you.
Speaker 8: I can still take care of myself. I'll pick up
those pictures and let's finish looking at him and get
rid of the idea you killed anyone.
Speaker 11: Yeah, okay, sure, I'll just forget the whole thing like
it never happened. Only what do I do when I
see a kid on the street and he reminds me
of Benedetto's kids?
Speaker 4: What do I do at night?
Speaker 10: To make me forget so I can go to sleep.
Speaker 8: Tell me that, and you, Ted Prager of the Daily News,
do you look at his eyes he says these words,
and you realize that this is a lot more than
a story for your paper.
Speaker 3: Important as that is.
Speaker 8: Yes, you want to help catch that crook with a
patent lever hair and the steely eyes. But a man's
sanity is at stake as well. The sanity of a
nice Irish patrol and named Matt Gaines. That's also at stake.
And you watch his big open face as he listlessly
turns the pictures in front of him, and you know
you've got a job on your hands, a big one.
Speaker 2: We'll be back in just a moment with tonight's big story.
Speaker 4: Now we return you to our narrator, Bob Sloan and
tonight's story.
Speaker 8: You, Ted Praeger, night reporter for the New York Daily News,
get moving on your search for a smooth haired Bandit
held up a bar and caused the accidental death.
Speaker 3: Of two taxi drivers.
Speaker 8: And though you know what you're doing is dangerous, may
cost you your job or maybe even your life. And
even if you get anything, you won't be able to
ride it with your byeline. You start making the rounds,
you start combing through those smoke filled bars where crimes
are hatched and dips meet to talk over their successes.
Speaker 16: And you know what she did.
Speaker 17: She went right up to him and scratched her initials
in his cheek.
Speaker 1: What did you do to her?
Speaker 8: Maid?
Speaker 16: Tell him that I drink your beer?
Speaker 3: Call it me.
Speaker 4: What do you want, Bud?
Speaker 3: Nothing? Just looking.
Speaker 8: We don't allow looking in here, scram oh, matt ted calling. No,
nothing yet. I don't give up, fellow, I've only.
Speaker 3: Been to about a dozen places.
Speaker 12: I'll find him there.
Speaker 13: Please write one bear.
Speaker 18: You never should have done it using a couple of
taxi drivers for shills. Now wey not mixi because it
makes it tough for us. They doubled the cops in
this area, watching every minute of the day for him. Yeah,
the meantime, it makes it tough on us.
Speaker 3: Oh, never thought of that.
Speaker 18: Well, I did ask mill here about him. She was
there when it happened, right.
Speaker 3: In the place.
Speaker 17: No, kid, that's right riding the place when he walked
in the bar on East seven.
Speaker 1: Did he take you for anything?
Speaker 17: Got twenty dollars out of my bag and I rang
the MAXI gave me worth eighty dollars, no kidding, sure,
and he didn't have to do that with the drivers.
I tell you, I'd like to make it hot for
that wise guy. I'd like to sing a little tune.
Speaker 18: You won't sing no tune for anybody, can't you see
there's people around.
Speaker 3: Hi.
Speaker 8: I'm interested in what you said there, Moi.
Speaker 16: I don't know you. I didn't say a word.
Speaker 3: Beat it.
Speaker 8: Look if you want to make a little money, I
said to beat it. Okay, okay, only if you change
your mind. My name is Ted Pregor. These people around
can tell you where to find me.
Speaker 3: You don't exist.
Speaker 6: Well, boys like I always say, another day, another eight grand.
Speaker 3: Joey, you're really in there.
Speaker 6: We've been quiet now a month. I think it's time
we stopped being quiet. Even hear people stop talking about me.
A job I pulled with the taxi drivers.
Speaker 3: So what's the caper, Joey? You like this one most?
Speaker 6: You like this special because this one is more my style.
Speaker 3: Listen Breager speaking Tad. This is Benson on the city desk.
You get down the east side hall, Sure, what's up?
Speaker 8: Just good word for a lot A big hold up.
Some girl was being confirmed, big party and all that,
three men at the job.
Speaker 3: Who can I see? You can see the girl herself.
She was only a kid too.
Speaker 8: Fourteen right, give me the address. I'm on my way.
Speaker 13: He came in, mister Prager, and they just took everything.
Speaker 3: I see. What did the leader of the gang look like?
Speaker 13: He was terrible. He had his hair all smoothed down
and oily, and a smile on his face.
Speaker 3: Did he did he laugh out loud?
Speaker 13: I mean, yes, sir, especially when he when he came
after me.
Speaker 3: What did he do to you? Well?
Speaker 13: I had my ring. My father just gave it to
me for my confirmation. It was a ring with diamonds,
mister Prager, so I well, to keep him from getting it,
I put it in my mouth. Yes, well, he came
up to me with that smile on his face. He
put his thumb on one side of my cheek and
his fingers on the other. He squeezed and I couldn't
steal it anymore.
Speaker 8: He's back, So he's back on the job. Don't you worry.
I'll find that man.
Speaker 10: You can't park that car here, mister Matt.
Speaker 8: Matt, Oh, it's you. I've been driving around looking for you.
Can you get in or for he's back at it again.
The guy we're looking for, he's around town. Can you
come with me?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm off duty, But what for?
Speaker 8: Because I'm going hunting for him for that patent, leather
hair and the smile I want company hop in.
Speaker 3: Now we've been driving around three hours.
Speaker 11: What do you expect to find this crook just standing
on a corner?
Speaker 3: Maybe you never can tell. He might.
Speaker 8: Matt wants Mala right there where on the corner.
Speaker 3: Wouldn't he be right on the corner of Essex and
Hester and Broad Daylight?
Speaker 8: That one one talking to the girl as if he
didn't have a care in the world.
Speaker 3: You mean it? Ted? Take him Mat yours? Oh? Brother?
Speaker 10: Will I take him?
Speaker 11: Ted?
Speaker 8: I just saw mister Dennis, the prosecuting attorney.
Speaker 3: Yep, he says he needs a positive witness.
Speaker 8: Our friend denies everything, of course, never was in the
Seventh Street bar, never held up anybody use taxi drivers
as shields.
Speaker 3: Watch him, Joey Rice.
Speaker 7: Do a thing like that.
Speaker 3: Also, that's his name, Joey Rice. Slick as they come, smooth.
It'll be tough to pin it on him. Okay, Matt,
I'll go in and see mister Dennis.
Speaker 11: Oh no, you can't identify Rice.
Speaker 3: Why not?
Speaker 11: Because it would finish you as a police reporter, cut
off all your contacts, and that's.
Speaker 3: Not all it might cut off. I'll take a chance. No, no, Ted, don't.
Speaker 8: I'll tell you what I'll do. Get Rice before me
on a one way screen. I'll identify it and let
mister Dennis prepare his case. If he needs me in court,
I'll testify it. Now you're talking sense, So are you met?
Speaker 10: All right?
Speaker 3: Rice?
Speaker 8: That way?
Speaker 3: Walk that way?
Speaker 15: What is this just a little matter of identification? Rice,
as prosecuting attorney, I thought it might be a good
idea to identify you. Get over to those chalk marks
now and just stand still, lie down him.
Speaker 3: Okay for you, mister Brigger.
Speaker 8: That's fine, mister Dennis. Well, that's the man who held
up the Seventh Street bar. Sure, yes, mister Dennis, I'm
absolutely sure.
Speaker 15: Okay, sergeant, take him away. Thanks for the identification I
needed that. Next time you see him, he'll be in
court on trial for robbery and criminal assault.
Speaker 3: I'll get him with Joe Rice smiling. Man. Yeah, but
what are we gonna do? I don't know. Maybe, mister
Dennis has an idea. He looks plenty worried. Oh, here
comes to judge.
Speaker 4: Hey, hey, ye the animal Judge Bernard Smith, presiding cardis
in session.
Speaker 15: There goes Dennis, Your honor, mister Dennis, Yes, your honor.
Speaker 19: As prosecuting attorney, I must protest the appearance of the defendant,
if it please the court. It is obvious that the
reason the defendant, Joseph Rice, came into this courtroom today
wearing a full beard, is to make absolute identification of
himself impossible, Your honor, we allege the defendant committed the
crimes he's charged with with a clean shaven face, and consequently,
he must, in the interest of justice and equity, be
ordered to shave off the beard he has grown, which
is a patent dodge and a roof.
Speaker 3: Your honor, Your honor, the attorney of all the defendant.
Speaker 5: Your honor, My client, Joseph Rice likes to wear a beard.
He thinks a beard becomes him. And I say that
every man has the Constitution all right, if not for
God given right to shave or not to shave, to
wear a beard or not to wear a beard.
Speaker 4: This is a very complicated question, gentlemen.
Speaker 3: We'll have to rule on that What is it?
Speaker 15: Gurn It's never been decided before. Could go against us
and we'd be licked before we start.
Speaker 3: He can't be ordered to shave, mister Dennis.
Speaker 15: It's never been decided before.
Speaker 3: What are we gonna do?
Speaker 10: Sir?
Speaker 15: I wish I had an idea, games.
Speaker 3: Millie, Can I talk to you any sure?
Speaker 16: Mister?
Speaker 17: I see what happened, what he pulled. I'd like to
get up on that stand. You wouldn't, really, it would
be a pleasure.
Speaker 16: Mister.
Speaker 8: Can you positively identify Joey, even with his beard, as
the man who held up the Seventh Street bar?
Speaker 16: I could do it if he was standing upside down?
Speaker 8: Okay, Milly, prosecuting attorneys right over there. But what changed
your mind that.
Speaker 16: Little tricky pulled on the girl being confirmed? Remember?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 16: I remember that little girl is my kid cousin, and.
Speaker 8: She testifies that beard or no beard was Joey Rice
who held up that bar. You look over at patrolman
Matt Gains as the trial winds up, and for the
first time in months, a man's smiling.
Speaker 3: He's a human being again, and you've got your big story.
Speaker 8: Yes, but nobody knows it. Nobody knows it until now,
this very night on a radio program called The Big Story.
Not until now, can you say, well, this is the
job I didn't, This is the role I played. Ted Prager,
Night reporter of the New York Daily News.
Speaker 2: In just a moment, we'll read you a telegram from
Ted Prager of the New York Daily News with the
final outcome of tonight's Big Story. Now we read you
that telegram from Ted Prager of the New York Daily News.
Speaker 8: Hold up man in Tonight's Big Story was quickly convicted
by jury, but while awaiting sentence, he became violent was
officially declared to be insane. He was therefore transferred to
the Asylum A Matterjuan, where he is still confined. Many
thanks for tonight's Pellmell Award.
Speaker 2: Thank you, mister Prager. The makers of Pellmell Famous Cigarettes
are proud to have named you the winner of the
pell Mell five hundred dollars Award for notable service in
the field of journalism.
Speaker 4: Listen again next week, same time, same station, when Pellmell
Famous Cigarettes will present another big story. A big story
from the pages of the Pittsburgh Press byline William A. White,
A Big Story that began when a taxi meter ticked
off moments of waiting for a man who didn't return.
Speaker 2: The Big Story is produced by Bernard J. Proctor and
directed by Harry Ingram, with music by part of Miss Lensky.
To Night's program was written by Arnold Pearl. Your narrator
was Bob Sloan, and William Quinn played the part of
Ted Prey. All names in Tonight's story except that of
mister Prigger were fictitious, but the dramatization was based on
a true and authentic case. This is Ernest Chappel speaking
for the makers of Pell Mell Famous Cigarette.
Speaker 3: This is NBC, the National Broadcasting Company.
Speaker 1: Welcome Back. In addition to William Quinn, the cast included
Wit Vernon, Francis de Sales, Everett Sloan, Jerry Lewis, Eileen Hackhart,
Stephen Chase, Evelyn Custer, and Will Clova. Once again, we
refer to the Great Story behind the Big Story website,
and this event actually was based on something that happened
in nineteen fifty eight, and the actual place that was
robbed was a speakeasy, which made it a lucrative spot
to hit because fundamentally they're forced to be an all
cash business. The robbers made off with eight thousand dollars,
and that would be around or more than one hundred
thousand dollars in today's money, and in the confusion, the
police officer shot the two thought to be accomplices. The
robber in this case was named Frank DeMarco. The incident
is one that does really rub up against modern expectations. Today,
a police officer shooting two armed civilians who weren't direct
threats and without trying to give any commands would likely
be viewed as a trigger happy cowboy cop and be
subject to criminal and civil prosecution. However, it was a
different time when this incident occurred, and even in nineteen
forty eight, and it's not necessarily the same thing, because
part of the reason that we would tend to view
the officer as some irresponsible cowboy is that doing something
like that is contrary to the way the police officers
were trained, and instead of following that training, they decided
to do their own thing, and people died as a result.
And since whenever this happened, someone will mention this. Today,
a one choice witness identification as opposed to a lineup
would be constitutionally iffy. At best, it might be excluded
or the judge might end up allowing it, but with
some jury instructions warning about the risk of it, or
with an expert witness testifying about the unreliability of eyewitness testimony. Again,
a really huge difference in either nineteen twenty eight or
not teen forty eight. And the one really curious incident
about the episode didn't have much to do with the
focus of the series, which is the action of heroic reporters,
but the whole thing with our man growing a beard
in hopes of avoiding identification, that wasn't a colorful invention
for this episode. DeMarco did actually do that, and the
judge did have to order him to shave. So yeah,
that was actually a very real detail of this case.
Listener comments and fadeback and we have some comments regarding
the case of the Corner Cat, and we start out
over on Spotify Mechanic sixty six rites. Moral of the story,
don't turn yourself in if you're facing the electric chair.
Not sure why he did or if his co conspirators
actually helped him, seems like it would have been against
their interests to have him in custody and possibly cooperating. Well.
Thanks for the comment, although I think a better moral
might be not to start your own murder ring in
the first place, but maybe that's a bit too narrow
minded in old fashion. Now, in terms of why Louis
lepke Boukhoulter, who was the person that episode was based on,
why he turned himself in, Daniel Meyer, writing on the
website the Internet Index of Tough Jus, chronicles the fact
that was key in the establishment of Murder Incorporated, which
was an organization of contract killers who eliminated problems for
the rackets. Like other gangsters. He got convicted on some
lesser charges anti truck violations, and then he got himself
indicted for narcotics while he was essentially on the lamb
for the anti trust and he also started having his
men wipe out those who might be able to testify
against him, and there was a nationwide hunt for him.
There were reports of him being lots of places in
the US overseas, even in Poland, but he was actually
hoting out in Brooklyn the whole time.
Speaker 16: There were a couple.
Speaker 1: Of things that probably contributed to his surrendering. One is
Tom Dewey the district attorney really wanted him. About a
month before he surrendered, Dewey was trying to get the
City of New York to put a twenty five thousand
dollars reward out on him, which in nineteen thirty nine
was a substantial sum of money. But the big thing
was the syndicate or a combination or Asmaya wrote, whatever
you want to call it, them ordered book Culture to
turn himself in because all of the publicity and all
of the law enforcement focus around the world was making
it hard for so many of these criminal organizations to function.
And there's a theory that he was double crossed, as
some people told him that he would only have to
face the federal narcotics charge, get off with a lot
sentense for that, and not have to face charges. I
don't know about that. I don't know if you can
get to that level of organized crime being that naive.
But he got fourteen years for the drug crime. Then
he got another long sentence on top of that for
some extortion. But his road to death row didn't start
until members of Murder Incorporated decided to cooperate and help
solve the murders, including one that a Brellas would go
ahead and testify that he overheard book Halter ordering a hit,
which was carried out. But like so much appreciate the comment.
And I have to admit that I had to actually
go back through the transcript for this comment. Harrison wrote
that anyway was a hard tonal Shiftberry, and I have
to admit that I didn't catch what Harrison had talked about.
But I went through the transcript and I found the
portion of the episode. Now I could replay it, but
I think I'll just give my own interpretation of the
reading and how it reads because I missed it. But
we'll focus on isolation. You, Walter Winshall, have a date.
You've got a date with public Enemy number one at
a theater in Yonkers at seven to nine. And this
may be the end of the nation's biggest manhunt since
the Limberg case, or it may just be the end
of you. New York reporter Walter Winschall. You could very
well end up looking like a human sieve in some
gutter or at the bottom of the East River, wearing
concrete shoes. You don't know. Anyway, before you go, you
have another dog with a jet jetkird. Oh, I mean
that is you could end up you received anyway. I mean,
I guess when it comes to writing narration in and
out in terms of transition, the ideal way to follow
that up is you state that and then dramatic musical
cue and you go right to the conversation. One of
the challenges with narration is we don't actually need to
be told everything. We can as an audience gather what's
going on. And this is just such a great example
Harrison called out of less is more when it comes
to narration. I appreciated that. I could definitely use the laugh.
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Speaker 20: He's hold up on the second floor, Danny, empty apartment, ready.
Speaker 7: Let's go. All the other tenants cleared out.
Speaker 20: Uh had a little trouble with the people in two B.
Speaker 7: I'll come.
Speaker 21: My name Morgan, and your grandmother died a funeral. We
got all the mourners out. The apartment right next to
one are killers in two A.
Speaker 7: You sure he's in there?
Speaker 3: Probably him? Danny description fits.
Speaker 7: Let's find open up, Open up, This is the police.
Speaker 20: Yeah. Hey, those windows over there, Danny, open, screen's been
kicked out.
Speaker 3: Come on.
Speaker 7: The killer left this apartment in a hurry.
Speaker 21: These windows lead to a fire escape. He could have
gone out this window onto the fire escape into the
next apartment, Danny.
Speaker 22: Let's find out. Yeah, must have done it this way.
The screen's on this apartment have been knocked out too.
Let's go see them.
Speaker 20: This is the Morgan apartment, Danny with the Morgan grandmother.
Want me to look around?
Speaker 22: So appearances, muggavin. I'm guessing our man walked out with
the mourners and got lost. Must have made him happy.
Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime.
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