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<v Speaker 1>Unsolved mysteries. Out of deference to people who may still

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<v Speaker 1>be living. Character names in some of these true unsolved

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<v Speaker 1>mysteries have been changed. Tonight's unsolved mystery is based on

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<v Speaker 1>records of the New York Police Department. It is called

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<v Speaker 1>the perfect crime because it has never been solved, even

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<v Speaker 1>by the most brilliant minds of the New York Police.

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<v Speaker 1>It is a crime that experts, after complete investigation, state

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<v Speaker 1>could not have happened. Yet they know that it did happen.

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<v Speaker 1>Something something, something like that. I don't think, I don't think.

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<v Speaker 2>Something at.

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<v Speaker 1>The scene is isidor thinks Little hand laundry at fifty

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<v Speaker 1>two East one hundred and thirty second Street, New York,

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<v Speaker 1>The fitful light from the smoke grimed street lamp only

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<v Speaker 1>serves isador. Fink shuffles out of the cigar store across

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<v Speaker 1>the street from his laundry, draws his threadbare jacket tightly

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<v Speaker 1>about him, as if to protect himself from the penetrating grizzle,

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<v Speaker 1>then crosses the muddy street and unlocks the two heavy

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<v Speaker 1>padlocks on his laundry door. The clerk seeses the door

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<v Speaker 1>glance fearfully up and down the darkened street, before he

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<v Speaker 1>closes the door and bolts it on the inside. The

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<v Speaker 1>transom above the door feels with a diffused glow of

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<v Speaker 1>light as isid Or turns the switch on the old

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<v Speaker 1>carbon filament lamp hanging from the ceiling. Poor old devil.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna work half the night again. They earn two bits. No,

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<v Speaker 1>I guess I was wrong. He put the light outney open,

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<v Speaker 1>repet open the pet come out of wop? Didn't you

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<v Speaker 1>hear the shots? I thought it was normal, not firing.

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<v Speaker 1>I was standing down there the corner. Where was it open?

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<v Speaker 1>Pink's laundry? All right, all right, we're coming. Who is she?

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<v Speaker 1>Old woman who rents the back half of isaor Pink's store?

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<v Speaker 1>You got a phone? Your cigar store? Has? I better

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<v Speaker 1>go down and call up the state. Okay, mm this

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<v Speaker 1>store is knocked on the inside. What happened? I don't

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<v Speaker 1>know yet. Any other way into the store, yes, my room,

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<v Speaker 1>but the door booted on kid night. I can't break

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<v Speaker 1>this store down. It's too strong. Be sure. There's no

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<v Speaker 1>other way in but through your room. You can't get

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<v Speaker 1>to that way either. That door is as strong as different. Well.

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<v Speaker 1>I can't get through that transom here one of your kids,

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<v Speaker 1>Which one of you climb through that transfer? I will

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<v Speaker 1>open there, all right? All right, you folks stand back there.

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<v Speaker 1>Come on, kid, I live up. Yep, that's it. Now

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<v Speaker 1>take my night stick. Break the glass. Hey, you watch out,

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<v Speaker 1>don't cut yourself a three yeargo drop down on the

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<v Speaker 1>other side and draw that bowl. Okay, officer, wonder where

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<v Speaker 1>that light switches? Ah? Here we are good heavens yes,

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<v Speaker 1>killed himself. Watch up here, come in, sergeant hol is

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<v Speaker 1>the door bump himself off? Where's the gun? I've been

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<v Speaker 1>able to find it yet? All right, boys, we'll take

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<v Speaker 1>a look. Okay, sarge, sure, sarge. Look where no place

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<v Speaker 1>to look except under that table. The room's bare. Oh hello, coroner,

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<v Speaker 1>you can recharge you. What have we here? Pray in

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<v Speaker 1>case of suicide? Is looking around for the gun? Suicide?

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<v Speaker 1>Eh hmm, you think so? Cary here varn no powder,

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<v Speaker 1>burns and shop in the head would have killed him.

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<v Speaker 1>Gun was at least two feet away. Sorry, gentlemen. From

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<v Speaker 1>the looks of the wounds, I'm forced to decide that

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<v Speaker 1>it was murdered, and since there's no trace of a gun,

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<v Speaker 1>the killer carried it off impossible. The place was bolted

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<v Speaker 1>on the inside. Nobody could gooda got out of here.

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<v Speaker 1>I had to get this kid here to break the transom,

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<v Speaker 1>crawl through to open the door. Yeah, I haven't got

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<v Speaker 1>the gun. What would I want with a gun? All right?

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<v Speaker 1>All right? How about that window? That window starts. It's

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<v Speaker 1>the only window in the place, and it's barred on

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<v Speaker 1>the inside, with bars so close a cat couldn't get

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<v Speaker 1>between them. Not only that, the frame is nailed in place.

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<v Speaker 1>So's the transom frame nailed in place. The star leading

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<v Speaker 1>to the other room hasn't been opened for years. Look

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<v Speaker 1>at the cobwebs. This boat, he is rusted in place.

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<v Speaker 1>Take a hammer to move it. Wait here a minute.

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<v Speaker 1>We've got to be reasonable. Somebody got in here and

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<v Speaker 1>killed old the door and then they got out. Now

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<v Speaker 1>this is a single room, one window in one transom,

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<v Speaker 1>two doors, both bolted on the inside, both window and

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<v Speaker 1>transom nailed in place, and no fireplace, nothing to hide behind,

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<v Speaker 1>no cover. Then the killer must to come in here

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<v Speaker 1>into the room with him. No he didn't. Oh, how

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<v Speaker 1>do you know who are you? I'm the clerk and

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<v Speaker 1>a cigar store across the street, or the fellow the

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<v Speaker 1>carts on the phone. Yes, the door came into my

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<v Speaker 1>store tonight, bought a pack of cigarettes and said he

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<v Speaker 1>was going in to do some more laundry. I saw

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<v Speaker 1>him cross the street. Your eyes never left him, not

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<v Speaker 1>for a second. Now, I watched him cross, So him

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<v Speaker 1>open the door and go inside. And then I saw

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<v Speaker 1>the light go on. A few moments afterwards, the light

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<v Speaker 1>went out, and then the three shot shave. This sain't

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<v Speaker 1>treasona we're telling me I got the dinners. Now. There

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<v Speaker 1>must be a trapdoor or something, a trap door. Look

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<v Speaker 1>at that rough clank floor and tell me it's got

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<v Speaker 1>a trap door in it. Oh, I guess you're right

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<v Speaker 1>at that. Well, there's nothing more we can do here.

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<v Speaker 1>Sure nobody touched the body, of course, I'm sure what

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<v Speaker 1>difference does that make? Margin the murderers what we want now,

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<v Speaker 1>and he's not going to be easy to find. Any

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<v Speaker 1>murder that can get out of this room. Yeah, through

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<v Speaker 1>two bolted doors and two nailed windows. I tell you, sars,

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<v Speaker 1>the things spooky. Well, come on, we'll get back to

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<v Speaker 1>Headquart and get the fingerprint boys out here, all right,

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<v Speaker 1>Come on. For twenty four hours, a corps of detectives

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<v Speaker 1>went over every inch of the one room laundry for

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<v Speaker 1>signs of revolver, trapped doors, of secret panels. The most

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<v Speaker 1>expert fingerprint men in New York's police department worked on

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<v Speaker 1>the case, and aside from the fingerprints of the police

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<v Speaker 1>and Isidor himself, not a thing was fond. At first.

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<v Speaker 1>The police worked with zest, then irritability, finally in complete bewilderment.

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<v Speaker 1>The scene is police headquarters six months later. Well, boys,

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<v Speaker 1>what can you tell me about this pink murder? Not

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<v Speaker 1>a thing more than our fresh repart Chief. Now, listen, sergeant,

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<v Speaker 1>We're not going to let that two percent pink murder

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<v Speaker 1>get us down. Not carn't you, chief. It has me too. Chief,

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<v Speaker 1>I was the fifty feet of that laundry when the

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<v Speaker 1>shots were fired. I know nobody left that building. Well

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<v Speaker 1>the murderer did. I'm beginning to wonder about that, Chief,

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<v Speaker 1>What do you mean? Well, listen, Chief, the front door

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<v Speaker 1>was bolted on the inside. Yes, yes, I know, and

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<v Speaker 1>the back room door was bolted too, and the windows

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<v Speaker 1>were nailed in place. No police to hide. But boys,

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<v Speaker 1>the murderer got away, and that's what hurts got clean away.

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<v Speaker 1>If I've been a long time, I'm the farce. And

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not superstitious, but something happened in there that night

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<v Speaker 1>that the books don't tell us how to shar Listen, chargeant.

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<v Speaker 1>That murder was brutal, it was physical, get me physical,

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<v Speaker 1>nothing else. We're not going to have the New York

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<v Speaker 1>Police Department throw up a case and blame it on Spoops.

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<v Speaker 1>Just about what. I'm ready to blame it on. Chief.

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<v Speaker 1>The thing that gets me down, Chief is the total

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<v Speaker 1>lack of marching, and that does make it hard. I've

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<v Speaker 1>gone through the file on his private life till I

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<v Speaker 1>know it like a book. A little bit of a

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<v Speaker 1>loundersized fellow from Galicia, works for ten years in the laundry,

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<v Speaker 1>doesn't make a friend, doesn't have an enemy, saves one

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<v Speaker 1>thousand dollars and opens his own laundry, works like a

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<v Speaker 1>dog eighteen hours a day, and makes a bear living.

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<v Speaker 1>No women in his life, nothing to rob him of,

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<v Speaker 1>not a reason in the world for killing him. Hello, yes, okay,

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<v Speaker 1>right away, all right, boys, better forget it. There's more

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<v Speaker 1>to worry about. Fat chef again killing down the tunnel.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's go. Five years have passed and the New York

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<v Speaker 1>Police know as little two days they did the night

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<v Speaker 1>of the murder. If he leaves, the entire police department

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<v Speaker 1>can be summed up in the cryptic expression of the

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<v Speaker 1>chief that two for a cent think mystery gives me

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<v Speaker 1>the creeps. In just a moment, you will hear a

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<v Speaker 1>solution to the perfect crime. Ladies and gentlemen, inasmuch as

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<v Speaker 1>any solution must have necessity be supposition, liberties of time, place,

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<v Speaker 1>and character have been taken in the solution for which

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<v Speaker 1>you have been waiting. The scene is number fifty two weeks,

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<v Speaker 1>one hundred and thirty second Street. Isador thinks little hand

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<v Speaker 1>laundry the knight of the murder. Isador says good night

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<v Speaker 1>to the clerk in the cigar store across the street

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<v Speaker 1>from his laundry, and crossing the dimly lighted street, unlocks

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<v Speaker 1>the two heavy pad locks on his laundry door. His

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<v Speaker 1>a door slips inside, closes, and the bolts the door

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<v Speaker 1>behind me. The rough board flooring creaks beneath his feet

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<v Speaker 1>as he crosses the floor to the light switch. He

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<v Speaker 1>reaches out in the dark. The switch creaks you.

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<v Speaker 2>You use it.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, he's a door, You've found me. Yes, he's a door.

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<v Speaker 2>I found you.

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<v Speaker 1>Strange, He's a door. But true I found you. He's

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<v Speaker 1>a door. I am going to kill you. No, no,

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<v Speaker 1>he's a door. I have no mercy.

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<v Speaker 2>I am going to put out the night. He's a door,

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<v Speaker 2>and then I am going to kill you. You are

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<v Speaker 2>going to die knowing that I shall live on after

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<v Speaker 2>you are gone.

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<v Speaker 1>But you can't. She'll be caught.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh no, he's a doll. I shall not be caught.

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<v Speaker 1>You bolted.

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<v Speaker 2>The door on the inside is a door. And when

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<v Speaker 2>the police come, they will have to send some one

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<v Speaker 2>through the transom.

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<v Speaker 1>That will be after you are dead. Is a door.

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<v Speaker 2>And then when the policeman steps into the room, it

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<v Speaker 2>will be in the dark. I shall step backwards out

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<v Speaker 2>of the room. And when the lights go on.

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<v Speaker 1>Is a door.

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<v Speaker 2>I shall be one of the curious, morbid crowd about

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<v Speaker 2>the door, looking horror stricken upon your dead body.

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<v Speaker 1>I am going to put out the light. Is a

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<v Speaker 1>door to a name.