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Speaker 1: Come in welcome. I'm g Marshall.

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Speaker 2: I forget too.

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Speaker 3: But someone once said that fate is like a madman

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with an axe waiting for us around the next corner,

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which is to say, of course, that, however serene our lives,

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we never know whether the madman is working around the

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next corner, return ready to take a vicious wipe at

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us with that axe. In point of which, consider the

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case of Lucas Laudard Warden of a certain state prison

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in a certain Western state. John, in Heaven's name, will

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you try to understanding? In less than three hours, Guy

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Richards will be executed, drop through that trap door to

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his death, which will.

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Speaker 4: Mean the end. I hope, Luke, of this whole insane

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nightmare you've been going through, yes, and putting me through.

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Speaker 1: I don't believe you still don't believe.

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Speaker 5: I have to be mad to believe.

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Speaker 4: Start raving mad.

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Speaker 6: S.

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Speaker 5: Guy Richards dies, Worse than madness may lie ahead for you, Joan.

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Speaker 1: Much worse.

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Speaker 3: Our mystery drama, The Strange Case of Lucas Lauder was

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written especially for the mystery theater by George Lowther and

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stars Robert Lansing. As we know, the death penalty is

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outlawed in many states, but in some it is still

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enforced in such special cases as the murder of a policeman,

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death through kidnapping, and or particularly vicious crimes. Our story

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begins in just such a state, in the condemned cell

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of that state's prison.

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Speaker 1: Send a message you wanted to see me, Richards.

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Speaker 3: And thank you Warden. Thanks very much for answering it

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this quickly. Won't you sit down?

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Speaker 1: What is it? Richards?

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Speaker 2: I want to discuss my case with you.

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Speaker 5: There's nothing to discuss. You were legally tried, legally convicted.

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If you think there's something I can do to say.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no no, there's nothing like that, Warden.

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And I was guilty.

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Speaker 3: I freely admitted murdering those women, all four of them,

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and mutilating them with a butcher knife.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no.

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Speaker 3: The name of the newspapers gave me was well deserved,

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Guy the Ripper.

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Speaker 1: Then what is it you want to see me about?

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Speaker 7: Warden?

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Speaker 3: Hasn't it ever struck you as odd curious that someone

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of my breeding and background could be guilty of four

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such horrible murders, murders and mutilations identical with those done

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by Jack the Ripper, nearly a century ago.

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Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, it has me and quite

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a few others. He'd been judged insane.

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Speaker 3: But I wasn't so judged, nor was I insane. No,

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I am as sane as the next one, for whatever that's.

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Speaker 1: Worth, which is a very busy man, and.

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Speaker 3: Prefer to spend as little time as possible in the

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company of anyone as vicious and paved as Guy Richards. Yes,

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I know, but that's exactly why I asked you to

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come and see me.

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Speaker 2: Warden. Before very long, you're going to be spending all

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your time in my company.

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Speaker 1: Ha ha.

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Speaker 2: I don't blame you for looking puzzled. Let me explain.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I do explain.

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Speaker 3: A little more than a year ago, Warden, I was

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a professor of psychology at the university. I was happily married,

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successful and deeply involved in my work. And then, suddenly, shockingly,

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for no apparent reason, I became well, the embodiment you

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might say of a man who has been dead for many,

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many years, Jack the Ripper.

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Speaker 2: It began, Warden.

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Speaker 3: It all began one morning in my office at State University.

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Speaker 1: Come in.

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Speaker 3: Well, Eric, Eric Nordling, It's good to see you.

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Speaker 8: Good to be back. Good to have you back.

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Speaker 3: I can't tell you how much I've missed you this

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past month. It's like missing my right arm.

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Speaker 8: No nonsense, I'll be frank with you.

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Speaker 3: When you went into the hospital for those tests a

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month ago, I didn't expect i'd missed you as much

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at all.

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Speaker 8: Why should you have just an assistant, professor?

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Speaker 2: Ah, but what an assistant you?

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Speaker 3: Remember when you left you in the class were analyzing

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those strange, gruesome murders that had taken place the three women, Remember,

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I remember well, I took over for you, and believe me,

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the class soon let me know that I just wasn't

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in it with you. They said, no one, not even me,

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he could touch you when it came to explaining the

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murderers drives and motivations. In fact, they said you understood

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and explained them so well they wouldn't be surprised.

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Speaker 2: If you were the murderer.

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Speaker 1: But what is it, Eric, Eric, guy, I was? I

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am the murderer. Ah?

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Speaker 3: Well, I can see you're not joking directly, I'm not.

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I also know that you haven't been well, in.

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Speaker 1: Fact, very sick. Guy, I'm dying.

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Speaker 8: But none of that changes the simple truth that I

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murdered those women and mutilated them.

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Speaker 1: Guy, I'm Jack the Ripper. No, I'm not crazy.

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Speaker 8: As a professor of parapsychology, you do believe that people

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can be possessed by the spirits of the dead.

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Speaker 3: Ah, I keep an open mind, or try to.

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Speaker 8: I can tell you that possession is a fact. For

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some time now, I have been possessed by the spirit

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of Jack the Ripper.

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Speaker 2: Ah.

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Speaker 3: Eric, if I didn't know you better, i'd say that

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you're already possessed of a dose of LSD.

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Speaker 2: But since I.

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Speaker 1: Die, I believe me.

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Speaker 8: What I'm telling you is the truth. Believe me, because

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you're about to become Jack the Ripper.

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Speaker 2: Eric, you're real. I can tell from looking at you.

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Your serious.

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Speaker 1: I am. I'm dying.

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Speaker 8: I told you that they've given me less than two

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months to live.

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Speaker 2: Oh right, it's terminal.

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Speaker 8: Less than two months, I'll be dead and the day

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I die, the instant I die, the Ripper's spirit will

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leave my body.

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Speaker 1: And then to yours. Don't believe me, do you?

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Speaker 2: Of course not?

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Speaker 8: Then I'll have to prove it. You've taken your pen

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knife out of your pocket and you're opening a blade.

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Speaker 3: Oh yes, to clean out my pipe. What's so unusual

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about that?

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Speaker 8: Does your pipe need cleaning?

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Speaker 1: Well? No, but you.

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Speaker 8: Acted on impulse, sudden, inexplicable desire, desire to hold a

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knife in your hand.

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Speaker 2: Oh now, bawless, it isn't senseless.

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Speaker 1: And if you think.

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Speaker 8: So, try to put the knife back in your pocket.

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Speaker 1: We'll go ahead, close the blade.

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Speaker 8: Put the knife back in your pocket.

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Speaker 3: Uh why I I haven't done what I intended to do?

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Clean out my piper?

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Speaker 8: Is that what you intended to do?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 8: In Heaven's name, guy, be honest with yourself.

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Speaker 1: Is it?

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Speaker 2: Mm? Now?

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Speaker 8: What what do.

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Speaker 1: You intend to do with that knife? But he wants

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to do with it?

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Speaker 2: I I want I want to kill with it, to

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strike and sly, I.

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Speaker 1: What is this?

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Speaker 2: What?

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Speaker 1: What?

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Speaker 8: It's Jack the Ripper using your body. You need a

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proof and he I just gave it to you. I

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took possession of you for a few moments. But when

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Eric Nordling dies, I'll become Guy Richards till he dies.

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Speaker 2: And after that, one of it's madness.

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Speaker 8: You and I you felt an overwhelming urge to strike

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Speaker 2: No, but there's got to be some explanation here is.

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Speaker 8: You can pick up your knife and put it away.

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We'll clean your pipe if you really want.

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Speaker 2: To well warden.

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Speaker 3: Those were Eric Nordling's words, almost his identical words, just

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before he told me what I'm about to.

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Speaker 2: Tell you.

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Speaker 1: That I'm about to become Jack the.

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Speaker 2: Ripper the day the instant I die.

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Speaker 1: Yes, there's anything further you want?

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Speaker 2: No, wait, wait, don't go now.

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Speaker 5: Look, Richards, your time is short and yours is and

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I want to do everything I can to make the.

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Speaker 1: Next few days easy for you.

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Speaker 5: When it comes to listening to the kind of the

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kind of story you just told me, I haven't the time.

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Speaker 3: You don't believe it either, even I didn't with all

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my knowledge of the cult the psychic, I could bring

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myself to believe in anything so impossible, seemingly impossible.

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Speaker 1: And that is the word. Do you think I've got

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a little uh what do they call it here? Stir crazy?

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Speaker 5: I haven't been in long enough for that. I'm not

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calling it anything. I'm not thinking anything. But if you

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want to get something off your chest, to get it off,

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I'll be gone.

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Speaker 3: No, no, please, Richard's I don't listen for just one

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minute more at six in the morning, two days so

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now I'll be hanging for murders. Every bitter is revolting

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as those of Jack the Ripper. Because I am Jack

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the Ripper. This body you see is the body of

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Guy Richards, once respected university professor. But I the spirit

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that inhabits this body.

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Speaker 2: But I am. I assure you Jack the Ripper.

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Speaker 3: And let me assure you, as Eric Nordling assured Guy Richards,

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at the very instant the rope snaps my neck. On

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that instant one, you will become Jack the Ripper. Further

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I can be, and I'll prove it to you.

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Speaker 2: As I made Nordling prove it to Richards.

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Speaker 3: Now before you go to bed to nights, you will

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feel that same strong, overpowering urge need to strike and

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slash with a knife before you go to bed tonight.

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Speaker 4: That's really one of the strangest stories you've ever brought

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home with you.

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Speaker 7: More potatoes.

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Speaker 1: Thanks.

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Speaker 5: It's funny, though, what well, And don't ask me why

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I did this. I certainly didn't believe a word of

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Richard's story, not a word, but I guess curiosity got

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the better of me. What I checked at the university,

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Richards did have an assistant.

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Speaker 1: Named Eric Nordley, and he did die when Richard City

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did doesn't mean anything. Still, that part of Richard's story

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was true, Johnny, What do you think?

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Speaker 7: What do I think?

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's kind of interested in that stuff, yoga

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and astrology and the psychic and all.

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Speaker 7: Oh not, you do have an interest, and not a

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serious interest.

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Speaker 1: Still, what do you think.

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Speaker 4: I think I'd like another piece of roast beef? That's

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what I think.

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Speaker 5: Okay, okay, I'll try not to be so heavy hand

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at this time.

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Speaker 4: Oh you weren't heavy handed. Just slice it a smidgeon thinner,

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that's all just a smidgeon.

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Speaker 1: Smidgeon it is, and easily done with a knife, is

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raisor sharp as.

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Speaker 4: This won't be done at all if you don't stop

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staring at that knife and cut me a slice.

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Speaker 1: Bop what It's nothing.

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Speaker 5: I was just I'm just thinking thinking what we're Richard's

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talked this afternoon. You thought I was gonna grab grab

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it the first chance I got to carve up some

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likely female you, for instance.

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Speaker 4: Don't say things like that, Luke, not even jokingly.

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Speaker 5: I'm not sorry, but can can you imagine anyone like me,

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for instance, starting to cut a spice of roast beef

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and then changing my mind and deciding to carve a

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few slices out of you.

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Speaker 4: No, I can't, And I'd just assume.

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Speaker 5: Not the table like this, holding the carving knife in

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my hand. It's a razor sharp carving knife.

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Speaker 1: I'd come around the table toward you.

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Speaker 7: Please.

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Speaker 5: When I got to you, i'd stand over you. I'd

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look look deep, look deep into your eyes, and then

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and raise the knife high over my head and please you, h.

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Speaker 4: Looke, let's come home for you. See if this is

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a joke, it isn't your kind of joke. It was

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a joke, wasn't wasn't it?

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Speaker 1: Yes? Sure, sure it was a joke. What else? What else?

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Speaker 2: Indeed, what else could it be?

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Speaker 1: It could be?

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Speaker 3: What Warden Lucas Lauder knows it was no joke at

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all that for a few moments in.

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Speaker 2: Time he was gripped by driven.

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Speaker 3: By an all but overwhelming urge to strike with that knife,

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slash with that knife, killed with that knife.

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Speaker 1: I'll return in a moment for.

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Speaker 2: That to.

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Speaker 3: As I said earlier, fate is sometimes likened to a

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madman with an axe, and it would surely seem that

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Lucas Lauder, Warden of State's Prison, has run head on

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into him. When Guy Richards told Lucas that he was

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really Jack the Ripper, that his body was possessed by

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the spirit of the Ripper, Lucas laughed, but his laugh

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turned to a worried frown when he came dangerously close

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to stabbing the wife he loves. Now in Lucas office

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at State's Prison the following afternoon, No, Jerry, no, look,

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I don't mean to.

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Speaker 5: Be harsh, but I think Maxwell's privileges should be taken

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away for a while.

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Speaker 1: Yes, a week at least? All right? Goodbye? Yes, miss comch.

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Speaker 7: He brought diy Richard telgerboy, Uh, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, tell them to bring him in.

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Speaker 2: Yes, bringing.

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Speaker 1: All right? Boys, you wait outside sun Richards.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Richard.

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Speaker 5: I want to talk to you about, among other things,

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I want to talk about your personal effects.

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Speaker 3: Well, we've talked about that. I told you I don't

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give it, damn what you do with it.

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Speaker 2: Wharton. You didn't have me brought here to talk.

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Speaker 3: About my property. You brought me here to talk about

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what happened to you last night.

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Speaker 1: If you're gonna start again on that nonsense about being

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Jack the.

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Speaker 3: Rippers nonsense, and you know it now, you also know

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that when I go through the trap less than forty

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eight hours from now, you will become Jack the Ripper.

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Speaker 2: You know it because I put you through a sort

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of trial run. You might say, last night, what did

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happen last night?

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Speaker 1: Wharton, I don't know what you're talking about.

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Speaker 3: I'm talking about what your wife Joan thought was a

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sick joke, But it was no joke at all. I'm

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talking about how you stood over her with a carving knife,

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but n if he'd been using the roast beef.

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Speaker 2: Right. Oh, look you I'm going to be sick, are you?

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Speaker 1: How do you know that's what happened?

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Speaker 2: I was there? How else you now?

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Speaker 1: Now, that's impossible. What you're saying is impossible.

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Speaker 3: Incredible, yes, but not impossible. I explained to you yesterday,

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or tried to explain that I took this body when

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Eric Nordling died just as I occupied his body. When, oh, well,

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it doesn't matter who died before him or before him.

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All that matters to you, or should matter to you,

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is that you're next on that list to shall we say,

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play host to Jack the Ripper?

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Speaker 2: But why why?

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Speaker 1: Yes, look, you must have died?

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Speaker 3: What am I saying Jack, the Ripper must have died many,

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many years ago, in nineteen o seven, of the exact

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All right, then you've been dead, I mean, damn it,

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the Ripper has been dead nearly seventy years. But his spirits,

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my spirits, has lived on in others.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm getting out.

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Speaker 3: Why because I cannot rest because of the awful crimes

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you committed. No, not because of the crimes but the

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reason behind them, the evil in me that drove me

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to to what I did, the hates.

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Speaker 1: No, I don't understand.

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Speaker 2: There is nothing to understand. It's quite simple.

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Speaker 3: A spirit, a soul, is given an earthly body and

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forced to suffer through what you call life, forced to

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go through this agony again and again and again until

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it is cleansed completely.

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Speaker 2: Of evil, of hate. Evil in me was so great

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it will take.

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 2: Only the Lord knows how many lifetimes to wipe it away. Unless, unless,

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unless it meets.

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Speaker 3: A love as pure as the hate is evil, a

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soul as tender as the hate is brutal, the spirit

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as compassionate as the hate is ruthless, And that.

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Speaker 2: That will never be.

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Speaker 3: Never, No such love exists, no such soul, no such spirit,

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not on miser.

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Speaker 5: That's for sure. You really believe what you're saying, don't you.

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You really believe that you are actually Jack the Ripper.

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I'm going to give you another taste of what it's

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going to be like.

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Speaker 1: To be Jack the Ripper.

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Speaker 3: If you think for one minute that I don't care

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what you believe, just do me a paper and send

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me back to myself.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Riches, we'll go back to a cell now.

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Speaker 7: Richard is going back.

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Speaker 3: Now. Remember what I said, Warden, I'm going to give

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you another taste.

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Speaker 2: So all right, let's go.

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Speaker 7: Warden.

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Speaker 1: Yes, miss Comley, it's.

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Speaker 7: Near time for me to go home, and the buses

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get awful crowd in weather like this, so I was

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wondering could I leave now?

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Speaker 1: Sure?

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Speaker 5: He is, of course, go ahead to wait a minute, Yes, sir,

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I was about to leave myself.

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Speaker 1: I'll drive you home.

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Speaker 7: No, sir, I couldn't take you out of your way.

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Speaker 1: It's not out of my way, but not much anyhow.

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Speaker 7: If you're sure it's no trouble.

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Speaker 1: It's no trouble at all. It'll be it'll be a pleasure.

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Speaker 7: Thanks, Warden. Off a nice of you.

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Speaker 1: I'll see to your door.

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Speaker 5: Oh, no need for that, no, insists there's been a

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lot of muggings in this neighbor to be sure that

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you get to your apartment safe and sound.

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Speaker 7: Well, thanks again, you're off the time.

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Speaker 5: Miss coming. I wonder if I could. I wonder if

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I might use your phone? Oh, sure, there's call of

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home that my wife know. I'll be a little late

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a second, though, there's no sense in calling. I won't

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be that late.

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Speaker 7: Oh, only five or ten minutes.

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Speaker 5: Why at the rain and wind against the window shows

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me to the bone just looking at it.

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Speaker 7: I couldn't give you a drink, could I?

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Speaker 1: Sir? Miss commonly? I wasn't hinting you know.

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Speaker 7: Oh I didn't think you would. But well, if you would,

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I could drink.

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Speaker 1: Why not? I love one.

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Speaker 7: I keep the liquor in the kitchen.

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Speaker 2: It's scott isn't it just a short one.

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Speaker 7: I won't be a minute.

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Speaker 1: I'll come with you if you don't mind.

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Speaker 7: Oh, of course not.

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Speaker 1: Never been in the apartment before. I'd like to see

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how my secretary lives.

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Speaker 7: I'm not very fancy.

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Speaker 1: I'm afraid it looks nice. It's comfortable. Do you live alone?

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Speaker 5: Yes?

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Speaker 7: I tried living with someone else, but it oh, it

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just didn't work out here? You are, no thanks, that's

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good Scotch, glad you like it.

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Speaker 1: Where'd you get those knives?

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Speaker 7: Knives?

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Speaker 8: Uh?

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Speaker 1: Have you got a knife set on the wall?

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Speaker 7: Oh? Oh there was a I don't know. I've had

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him so long?

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Speaker 1: Why I like knives? Good ones as that is? Those

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look good? You mind if I don't be my guest?

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Speaker 2: It's beautiful?

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Speaker 8: Do you feel that edge?

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Speaker 1: They don't often see knives kept in this good conditions.

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It's sure.

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Speaker 7: It's no thanks to me. I just use him.

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Speaker 5: Never sharpen 'em, shure fit in my hand perfectly. Its

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en most beautiful knives I've seen and over s in

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the years.

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Speaker 2: Jane, get out of my cell, Warden. I don't have

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to put.

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Speaker 1: Up when you're doing to me. You Anthony Richards, What

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are you doing?

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Speaker 3: I've told you told me a lot of nonsense about

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you being Jack the Ripper and taking possession of me

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my body when you die.

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Speaker 2: I don't buy that.

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Speaker 1: But you're up to something.

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Speaker 5: You've done something to me, and I'm not leaving this

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cell till you tell me what it is.

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Speaker 3: You're scared, Warden, what you came dangerously close to doing?

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Your secretary yesterday and will do not long after you

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hang me. Ha ha, the urge, the nearly overpowering urge.

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I stayed your head, not you, to plunge the knife

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into a to slash shop.

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Speaker 1: And see stop it now you listen to me. I'm

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no fool.

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Speaker 5: Yesterday I nearly murdered that girl somehow you know all

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about it. But I stayed my hand, not you, because

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I'm not a killer.

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Speaker 2: Then how do I know what went on in that kitchen?

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: You've devoted your life to parapsychology, and you know all

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there is to know about things like esp thought transference, hypnotism, hypnotism,

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that's it, hypnotism like nothing.

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Speaker 5: You're a You're a hypnotist.

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Speaker 3: Somehow or other. I don't know how you managed to

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hypnotize me while I was.

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Speaker 1: Talking to you.

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Speaker 3: A good ideas in my head posts post hypnotic suggestion thing.

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Speaker 2: It's called.

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Speaker 3: You cannot give a post hypnotic command that's contrary to

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the subject's normal fiber.

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Speaker 1: Ha oh.

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Speaker 2: And it would be impossible for me or anyone to

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command you to kill. It is men you to kill.

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Speaker 3: But that will all change when I am in you

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and approximately a second or two after six o'clock tomorrow morning.

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Speaker 2: Oh, which reminds me. I have a gift for you.

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Here a knife, a knife?

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Speaker 1: Where did you get this?

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Speaker 3: It was made for me in the prison machine shop,

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from a soup ladle, a soup ladle, carefully aid, ground

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down at the edges, skillfully shaped into a knife, expertly sharpened.

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Speaker 1: How did you manage to have this maid? How did

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you manage to have this maid?

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Speaker 3: Tom Warden, you know your prison as well as I,

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or you should obviously dog Anything can be done in

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a prison if you know the ropes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the knife, take.

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Speaker 1: It, ed ed.

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Speaker 3: He take that knife from Richards and get rid of it.

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See me in my office later, and you explain how

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he got it. And I wait, wait a minute, he

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g give it to me. U.

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Speaker 1: I'll get rid of.

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Speaker 3: It not til you've used it, not till I the

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ripper have used it again again. And I don't see

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this man again until his execution tomorrow morning at six.

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If he has any last minute requests, you handle them.

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If he has any questions, you answered them. He wants

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to see me for any reasons, No, tomorrow morning, Richards,

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I'll see you then, and not until then, six o'clock

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on the scaffold, Richards on the scaffold, when the noose

476
00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:31,920
will be tightened round the neck of Guy Richards, the

477
00:26:32,039 --> 00:26:35,680
trap will be sprung and he'll plummet to death.

478
00:26:37,039 --> 00:26:40,599
Speaker 2: Or will it be life? Another life to.

479
00:26:40,599 --> 00:26:42,440
Speaker 1: Be lived out in the body of.

480
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:57,759
Speaker 3: Warden Lucas later, I'll return shortly or Act three. There's

481
00:26:57,839 --> 00:27:02,079
much talk these days about possession, the control of a

482
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:03,960
human being by an evil spirit.

483
00:27:05,039 --> 00:27:06,400
Speaker 1: Probably such talk has.

484
00:27:06,319 --> 00:27:11,200
Speaker 3: Gone on since man can remember, intense discussion, even violent debate,

485
00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:16,240
as to whether possession is a form of schizophrenia or

486
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:21,440
a malignant spirit which has invaded an earthly body. For

487
00:27:21,559 --> 00:27:24,559
Lucas Lauder, warden of State's prison, it isn't a subject

488
00:27:24,559 --> 00:27:29,079
for idle debate, but a frightening reality. In the bedroom

489
00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:32,400
of his home for a short distance from the prison itself.

490
00:27:37,799 --> 00:27:42,039
Speaker 1: Luke go to slip charm.

491
00:27:44,759 --> 00:27:47,000
Speaker 4: I know it's impossible for you to sleep the night

492
00:27:47,039 --> 00:27:49,720
before an execution, but this time there's something else.

493
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:55,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, John, I'm scared.

494
00:27:56,119 --> 00:28:00,920
Speaker 5: What, dear, I haven't just been sitting here in this

495
00:28:01,039 --> 00:28:07,799
chair watching you while you slept it. Yes, I've been

496
00:28:07,799 --> 00:28:13,640
fighting a urge, powerful urge to kill you, kill me.

497
00:28:16,039 --> 00:28:16,440
Speaker 1: You know all this?

498
00:28:17,559 --> 00:28:18,359
Speaker 7: Where did you get that?

499
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:25,160
Speaker 1: Archers gave it to me? Are we looking? Knife? Isn't it?

500
00:28:27,319 --> 00:28:29,160
Speaker 5: Somebody managed to get it made in the machine shop

501
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:34,200
and have it smuggled to him. He he gave it

502
00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:37,200
to me as a present, A strange kind of present.

503
00:28:38,319 --> 00:28:40,400
It's not a present to me, Jones to himself.

504
00:28:41,359 --> 00:28:48,839
Speaker 4: T Oh, oh, of that nonsense, nonsense. How about him

505
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:51,319
being the reincarnation of Jack the Ripper?

506
00:28:51,319 --> 00:28:59,200
Speaker 1: Oh he is, he is? I I laughed too at first.

507
00:28:59,279 --> 00:29:03,440
Speaker 5: But he is the Ripper in possession of Guy Richard's body,

508
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:08,319
and at six this morning, less than three hours from now,

509
00:29:09,559 --> 00:29:11,000
he'll be in possession of mine.

510
00:29:13,119 --> 00:29:17,519
Speaker 4: Luke, Luke, Darling, you you can't be serious.

511
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:19,640
Speaker 7: You don't really believe.

512
00:29:19,319 --> 00:29:22,319
Speaker 1: That after what's happened. I'd be a fool if I didn't.

513
00:29:22,599 --> 00:29:23,559
Speaker 7: What has happened?

514
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:30,599
Speaker 5: He I, I have to bring myself to talk about it. He he,

515
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:31,960
he told me he was going to take possession of

516
00:29:32,039 --> 00:29:35,200
me temporarily for a short time, to prepare me for

517
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:36,839
what's he could come after.

518
00:29:36,839 --> 00:29:37,359
Speaker 1: He hangs.

519
00:29:37,599 --> 00:29:39,279
Speaker 4: But you didn't take that seriously?

520
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:40,559
Speaker 1: No, no, no, not then.

521
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:45,559
Speaker 5: But within an hour I'd I nearly stabbed, and this

522
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:48,240
called me to death, your secretary, you are home in

523
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:51,400
that storm day before yesterday, I invited myself in, pretended

524
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:52,880
I wanted to use the phone to call you, but

525
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:54,680
I had no intention of using that phone.

526
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:57,000
Speaker 1: I just wanted to get into her apartment.

527
00:29:56,599 --> 00:29:59,359
Speaker 4: To to kill her.

528
00:29:59,799 --> 00:30:02,200
Speaker 5: I I didn't know it then. I I didn't know

529
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:06,519
why I tricked my way in, But well then I

530
00:30:06,519 --> 00:30:08,480
I sort of led her into offering me a drink,

531
00:30:08,519 --> 00:30:09,799
and I went with her into the kitchen where she

532
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:12,319
keeps the liquor. While she was making the drink, I've

533
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:14,079
noticed a set of knives, kitchen knives, you know, on

534
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:14,759
the wall.

535
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:19,319
Speaker 3: I pretended to admire them mine. I took one to

536
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:19,920
examine it.

537
00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:23,960
Speaker 5: Only I only I wasn't examining it.

538
00:30:24,599 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 1: I was thinking.

539
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:30,799
Speaker 5: I was thinking, look, my god, don't touch me, don't

540
00:30:31,119 --> 00:30:32,359
don't touch me, don't even come near me.

541
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,079
Speaker 1: It's it's dangerous, it's dangerous.

542
00:30:34,799 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 4: Luke, what are you saying, can do to.

543
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:38,319
Speaker 1: You right now?

544
00:30:38,559 --> 00:30:41,920
Speaker 5: Right now? Well, I came close to doing to her.

545
00:30:43,839 --> 00:30:46,599
The rige was powerful then, but it's even more powerful now.

546
00:30:46,599 --> 00:30:49,039
It's almost as if, is it. The closer I get

547
00:30:49,039 --> 00:30:54,720
to Richard's hanging, the more the urge crows inside me. Look,

548
00:30:54,839 --> 00:30:59,799
I don't have any control, John, no control anymore.

549
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 3: It's knife I gave. I gave it to the guard

550
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:05,759
to get rid of No no, no I. I started

551
00:31:05,799 --> 00:31:07,759
to give it to him, and then I changed my mind.

552
00:31:09,319 --> 00:31:10,799
I mean I was forced to change it by a

553
00:31:10,839 --> 00:31:13,880
power stronger than me, and so I kept it and.

554
00:31:13,839 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 1: Brought it home.

555
00:31:17,119 --> 00:31:18,960
Speaker 5: I've been sitting here for hours, holding in my hand,

556
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:20,839
fighting off a terrible obsession to kill.

557
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:21,119
Speaker 1: You with him.

558
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:24,079
Speaker 4: Oh, my, poor darling, to think what you've been going through,

559
00:31:24,119 --> 00:31:25,759
and I never knew.

560
00:31:27,319 --> 00:31:28,799
Speaker 1: How can you think of me when you're the one

561
00:31:28,839 --> 00:31:29,640
who's in danger?

562
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 7: Why?

563
00:31:31,599 --> 00:31:34,279
Speaker 4: Because I don't believe I am in danger, not from you.

564
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:38,039
Speaker 1: I just told you.

565
00:31:38,079 --> 00:31:40,640
Speaker 4: I don't care what you told me. I care about

566
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:42,119
what I know, and I know you.

567
00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:43,519
Speaker 1: Love me, Yes, I love you.

568
00:31:43,599 --> 00:31:47,759
Speaker 4: But she'll be dead in a few hours, dead, and

569
00:31:47,839 --> 00:31:50,759
all this business about his spirit possessing you. I don't

570
00:31:50,799 --> 00:31:51,440
believe that.

571
00:31:51,799 --> 00:31:55,279
Speaker 1: I came close that close to killing miss Coomba.

572
00:31:55,079 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 7: And killing me, you say, but you didn't.

573
00:31:57,319 --> 00:31:58,839
Speaker 1: But next time there won't.

574
00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:01,359
Speaker 4: Be a next time, because once Richard dies, his power

575
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:04,920
over you will be ended. Oh, luke, luke, don't you

576
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:06,279
see what's happened to you?

577
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:08,759
Speaker 1: Yes, I see he's possessed me.

578
00:32:09,039 --> 00:32:13,480
Speaker 4: Nonsense I can give you. I don't know how many

579
00:32:13,519 --> 00:32:15,400
reasons why it is just play.

580
00:32:15,319 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 2: Nonsense, all right, can then just one?

581
00:32:19,839 --> 00:32:21,920
Speaker 4: But I've read a lot about Richard's in the papers,

582
00:32:22,119 --> 00:32:23,920
and you've told me a lot about him. He's a

583
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:27,799
skilled hypnotist. I don't know much, if anything, about hypnotism,

584
00:32:27,799 --> 00:32:29,519
but it seems to me that he could have brought

585
00:32:29,519 --> 00:32:31,440
you under some kind of hypnotic influence.

586
00:32:31,559 --> 00:32:32,559
Speaker 1: No, no, I can't believe.

587
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:37,039
Speaker 4: I another thing I know about him. His personality is strong, overpowering,

588
00:32:37,319 --> 00:32:41,079
viciously overpowering. Just talking to someone like that, being near

589
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:42,880
him could do strange things to a person.

590
00:32:43,039 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 3: No, no, no, I don't care how many reasons you

591
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:46,319
can dress up.

592
00:32:46,359 --> 00:32:48,160
Speaker 1: I know what I know. I know what I've got

593
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:48,480
to do.

594
00:32:48,759 --> 00:32:54,480
Speaker 5: What I've got to stop the execution, Luke, you can't

595
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:54,839
do that.

596
00:32:55,079 --> 00:32:55,519
Speaker 1: I can try.

597
00:32:55,559 --> 00:32:57,599
Speaker 5: It's my only hope I've got. I've got to stop

598
00:32:57,599 --> 00:33:02,279
that execution. I got to save him, to save myself.

599
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 3: I know it's only four in the morning, but this

600
00:33:08,519 --> 00:33:09,920
is a matter of life or death. You get the

601
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:10,920
district attorney out of bed.

602
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 4: I'll wait Luke, try to pull yourself together telephoning the

603
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:16,599
district attorney at this hour? What are you going to say?

604
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:16,799
Speaker 1: Tell?

605
00:33:17,119 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 3: Uh mister mcowan, I'm sorry to wake you at this hour, Sir,

606
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:23,119
I thank you.

607
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:24,960
Speaker 1: Yes it is I. It is urgent.

608
00:33:25,519 --> 00:33:27,559
Speaker 5: I wanna stop the execution of Guy Richards at six

609
00:33:27,599 --> 00:33:33,960
this morning. On what grounds? I have reason to think

610
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:38,000
he's innocent. Uh no, sir, there's no proof.

611
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:39,359
Speaker 1: I know, no real proof.

612
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:42,599
Speaker 3: But look McGowan, I want you to call the governor

613
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:43,240
if necessary.

614
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 1: McCowan, I beg you right, Yes, I see, I see

615
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:57,880
that case. I'll phone the governor myself.

616
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:01,640
Speaker 4: Luke Darling, you can't phone the governor.

617
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:05,759
Speaker 1: Operator. This is Wharton Lucas, Lauder of State's Prison.

618
00:34:05,759 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 3: I want to put through a call, an urgent call

619
00:34:07,519 --> 00:34:14,039
to Governor Morris at the state Capitol and hurry, please hurry.

620
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:17,280
Speaker 1: Well he refuse.

621
00:34:17,599 --> 00:34:18,800
Speaker 4: Well, you couldn't expect.

622
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:19,400
Speaker 1: I didn't.

623
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:22,679
Speaker 5: I hoped against hope.

624
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:25,119
Speaker 1: I had better. Get ready, Richard says, less than an

625
00:34:25,119 --> 00:34:28,920
hour ago, and so have I.

626
00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:41,480
Speaker 5: It's time Riches God telling me if you're ready?

627
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:44,920
Speaker 1: Question is are you come on? Let's go?

628
00:34:46,599 --> 00:34:51,360
Speaker 3: You're a tired one. No sleeping, don't worry about it.

629
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:54,960
You'll sleep just fine tonight. The Ripper always sleeps well

630
00:34:56,039 --> 00:35:05,480
afterward after what having killed. Well, I didn't know there'd

631
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:07,400
be an audience to see the end of Guy Richards.

632
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:13,320
The prayers straight out of the scaffold Richards, miss wedding, Warden,

633
00:35:14,119 --> 00:35:17,320
calm down, make you feel any better? There's no pain

634
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:18,719
to this over in an instant.

635
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 7: You know.

636
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:22,320
Speaker 3: I've been through it once before, the man whose body

637
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,000
I took before, Eric Nortings.

638
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:33,639
Speaker 2: Well, here we are a moment in destiny for us both.

639
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:40,599
All right, I did oh do we really need the hood? Well, yes,

640
00:35:40,679 --> 00:35:43,599
I guess we do. Spare the feelings of our audience.

641
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:50,480
Go ahead, just uh one thing to say, Warden before

642
00:35:50,519 --> 00:35:51,400
you pull the trap.

643
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:56,239
Speaker 1: Yes, this isn't goodbye.

644
00:35:56,800 --> 00:36:09,239
Speaker 9: I'll be with you again soon China.

645
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:14,199
Speaker 1: That's the latest news from the nation's capital. Guy Richards,

646
00:36:14,199 --> 00:36:17,960
the notorious Guy in the Ripper, was executed this morning

647
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:18,760
at State Sprint.

648
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:25,039
Speaker 4: That's enough news for one day. I'm for bed you, Luke, Luke,

649
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:29,000
it's after eleven. Time for bed.

650
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:38,440
Speaker 1: Oh, John, Yes, dear, where'd you put it? Put? Why

651
00:36:39,039 --> 00:36:39,599
the knife?

652
00:36:41,559 --> 00:36:42,840
Speaker 5: Don't look at me as though you didn't know what

653
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:44,920
I was talking about the knife Richards gave me.

654
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:46,920
Speaker 4: I know what knife you're talking about, but I don't

655
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:48,760
know why you're asking me where I put it.

656
00:36:50,079 --> 00:36:53,039
Speaker 5: You didn't take it. I put it in the top

657
00:36:53,119 --> 00:36:54,960
drawer of this table. You saw me put it there.

658
00:36:56,639 --> 00:36:58,119
I put it there so you could get rid of it.

659
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:00,880
Speaker 2: You didn't.

660
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:07,280
Speaker 1: No, I can't believe you'd take the chance. It didn't.

661
00:37:09,119 --> 00:37:11,760
Speaker 5: The knife is here, yes it is. I gave you

662
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:13,280
a chance to get rid of it. Why didn't you?

663
00:37:13,519 --> 00:37:15,440
Speaker 4: Why didn't you if you wanted to be rid of it,

664
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:17,039
why didn't you simply throw it away?

665
00:37:18,519 --> 00:37:21,719
Speaker 1: I don't know, I think I do.

666
00:37:22,199 --> 00:37:24,079
Speaker 4: You were testing me, testing.

667
00:37:23,679 --> 00:37:26,559
Speaker 1: My love for you, testing your love.

668
00:37:27,119 --> 00:37:30,559
Speaker 4: If I had done what you thought i'd do, it

669
00:37:30,599 --> 00:37:32,320
would have shown that my love for you isn't as

670
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:35,519
strong as I said it was. And it's quite possible

671
00:37:35,559 --> 00:37:37,719
you really might have tried to kill me. You could

672
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:40,760
always get another knife, have.

673
00:37:40,639 --> 00:37:41,840
Speaker 1: But thanks to you, I have this one.

674
00:37:43,559 --> 00:37:51,159
Speaker 4: Then use it if you can. What, Luke, We're going

675
00:37:51,199 --> 00:37:54,559
to come to this sooner or later. I don't know

676
00:37:54,559 --> 00:37:57,039
how Guy Richards persuaded you he was Jack the Ripper

677
00:37:57,559 --> 00:37:59,440
and that he would possess you once he died. But

678
00:37:59,519 --> 00:38:02,440
he did. You said last night that the urge to

679
00:38:02,519 --> 00:38:04,920
kill was growing stronger in you, and you were convinced

680
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:07,559
once Richard was hanged, it would become so strong you'd

681
00:38:07,639 --> 00:38:08,559
never be able to control.

682
00:38:08,599 --> 00:38:10,079
Speaker 1: It's all day.

683
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:16,599
Speaker 5: Growing in me, filling me with a need of lust

684
00:38:16,679 --> 00:38:18,840
to take this this knife.

685
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:19,599
Speaker 1: I know.

686
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:24,079
Speaker 4: And unless this obsession of yours is smashed now, right now,

687
00:38:24,159 --> 00:38:24,840
you'll kill.

688
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:28,199
Speaker 7: Sooner or later, you will kill. Well.

689
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:31,159
Speaker 4: If you're going to do it, do it, do it

690
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:32,199
and get it over with.

691
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:35,280
Speaker 3: You're taunting me, you're taughting me because like all women,

692
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:35,920
you have contempt.

693
00:38:36,199 --> 00:38:36,719
Speaker 6: I love it.

694
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:37,840
Speaker 5: You're lying, you don't love.

695
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 3: You don't know the meaning of love.

696
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 7: Eight.

697
00:38:41,079 --> 00:38:43,639
Speaker 3: Oh, that's something else again, that's something you know all about.

698
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:45,840
Speaker 1: You think I'm not on to you, all of you.

699
00:38:46,119 --> 00:38:46,960
Let me tell you something.

700
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:49,639
Speaker 3: I've spent months, years watching you and the likes of

701
00:38:49,679 --> 00:38:51,079
you and your.

702
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:53,280
Speaker 10: Little tricks lawn then and oh, don't think I didn't

703
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:56,119
see you today this very day left the square fraunting

704
00:38:56,199 --> 00:38:59,480
your charm square Piccadilly Fleet's feet.

705
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:01,679
Speaker 7: You can tell yourself, Luke, and.

706
00:39:01,599 --> 00:39:03,679
Speaker 4: A snap out of it, pull yourself together and.

707
00:39:03,679 --> 00:39:04,400
Speaker 1: Talk about you.

708
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:06,679
Speaker 10: Take your last long look before you die, you see

709
00:39:06,679 --> 00:39:08,760
that gaslight at the end of the alley, Well.

710
00:39:08,639 --> 00:39:09,760
Speaker 7: You see it for the last time.

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Speaker 10: Last, you hear the carriages of the coaches, the horses

712
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for the last time. And then you feel the point

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of this knife against truss rout, feel the cool steel

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00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:23,280
against your skin before the Ripper plunges it deep into

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00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:25,519
your deady little neck, plunges it.

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00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:34,400
Speaker 7: No, I can't, I want to.

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00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:39,960
Speaker 1: I can't.

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00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:49,440
Speaker 6: Why why care the because you are not Jack the Ripper,

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your Lucas load her, my husband, the Ripper hated you

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00:39:55,159 --> 00:39:58,119
love you love me every bit as much as I

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love you.

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00:39:58,719 --> 00:40:00,760
Speaker 1: What I do I do? Why do I do?

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00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:01,280
Speaker 8: I hear?

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00:40:03,559 --> 00:40:06,519
Speaker 1: He said? Richards said.

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Speaker 5: The spirit of the Ripper would never be free, never

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00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:12,559
find rest until it met a love as strong as

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00:40:12,559 --> 00:40:16,480
his hate. Heaven knows Jone, there can't be there, never

728
00:40:16,559 --> 00:40:18,559
has been a love as strong as yours.

729
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:22,639
Speaker 1: Maybe it's crazy, but I feel.

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00:40:24,039 --> 00:40:32,400
Speaker 5: I Feelia has found that rest at last, thanks to you.

731
00:40:36,119 --> 00:40:39,760
Speaker 3: Well, if you're puzzled by this strange happening to Lucas lawdie,

732
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:43,480
you've got nothing on me. Did Guy Richards in some

733
00:40:43,519 --> 00:40:49,199
way place Warden Lawder under an hypnotic influence did Richards

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00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:51,599
believe he was truly Jack the Ripper?

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00:40:53,159 --> 00:40:57,159
Speaker 1: Was he? What do you think? I'll be back shortly.

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Speaker 3: When I told this story to a friend of mine

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00:41:09,679 --> 00:41:13,199
who is a psychic a sensitive she said that, of

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00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:17,760
course Guy Richards was the reincarnate Jack the Ripper. Another friend,

739
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:22,679
a psychiatrist, said, nonsense, A clear case of a split personality.

740
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:24,000
Speaker 2: Which is right?

741
00:41:24,039 --> 00:41:24,480
Speaker 1: I don't know.

742
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Speaker 3: Maybe the truth lies somewhere in between. Wherever it lies,

743
00:41:29,679 --> 00:41:32,480
it makes a good story. I hope you enjoyed it.

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Our cast included Robert Lansing, Linka Peterson, Ralph Bell, Ira Lewis,

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and Patricia Pierton. The entire production was under the direction

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of Hymon Brown.

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Speaker 1: This is E. G.

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Speaker 3: Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for

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another adventure in the macabre.

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Speaker 5: Until next time, pleasant dreams, FI