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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.

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This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're

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going to bring you a yours truly Johnny Dollar Cereal omnibus.

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But I do want to encourage you, if you enjoy

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the podcast, to follow us using your favorite podcast software.

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The Cereal will bring you today. And since it's Christmas time,

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in a way, this isn't a surprise, is the Nick

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schar Matter?

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 1: Of course, long time listeners might know that I already

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did an omnibus of the Nick Sure and Matter was

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recorded back in twenty fourteen. Why am I doing it again?

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There are two reasons. First, I feel in the past

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ten years I've grown as a host, and now that

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I'm a full time podcaster, I feel like I can

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put a little bit more time into composing and thinking

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out my commentaries. And the second reason is that I

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absolutely love this story. I've said it before and I'll

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say it again, and you'll hear it when you get

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to the commentary. This is one of my all time

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favorite stories, and I really want to express how well

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I like it and why I like it, and I

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feel that I did that back in twenty twenty three

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when we did the serialized version, I was really proud

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at what I wrote and what I was able to say,

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and I want that attached to the omnibus. So we'll

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be providing that commentary for those who are going to

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listen to the whole Omnibus, with just a couple minor tweaks.

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In addition to that. In order to make this extra special,

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we are doing something different with comments and feedback. Typically,

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at the end of one of our stories, you'll hear

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listener comments that have been sent in about previous episodes. However,

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for this episode, you'll hear comments that listeners shared in

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response to the next Sharn Matter, which isn't something we've

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done before. I hope it makes for a really good

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listening experience. Now, all of that said, here, from December

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nineteenth through the twenty third, nineteen fifty six is the

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Nick Shurn Matter.

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Speaker 3: From Hollywood.

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Speaker 4: It's time now for.

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Speaker 3: Johnny Dellar WI Jenny Prime, Mutual Limitary. Oh hi, don

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thanks for the Christmas present.

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Speaker 5: Well, just don't take out the cork near and open flame. Yeah,

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doesn't see do you know anything about a guy named

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Mel Praker?

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Speaker 3: Nothing good? About him? Why got himself killed last night?

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Speaker 6: Murdered?

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Speaker 3: Franker was born to be murdered?

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Speaker 5: Maybe so, but not at our expense by holding one

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hundred thousand dollars policy on him?

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Speaker 3: Wow? What was the beneficiary?

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Speaker 6: Is a partner?

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Speaker 5: Nick Sharn?

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Speaker 3: Nick Sharn, you picked a fine pair of rats?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I know that.

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Speaker 5: Now the New York police are holding shirt, but they've

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got no evidence. I've ben there and check it out

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for us, Jenny. If Nick did the killing.

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Speaker 3: Were of any witnesses won?

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Speaker 5: Apparently the head checkerl in that night club of theirs?

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Speaker 3: What's her story?

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Speaker 5: I wish I knew? She's disappeared. We've got to find her,

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Johnny More some of Nick's Houdams.

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Speaker 3: Don Maybe they already have.

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Speaker 7: Tonight and every weekday night Bob Bailey in the transcribed

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Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expenser out

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America's Fabulous Freelance Insurance Investigator.

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Speaker 3: Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Expense account submitted by Special Investigator

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Johnny Dollar to the Home Office Primutual Insurance Limit at Hartford, Connecticut.

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The following is the account of expenditures during my investigation

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of the Nick Suar matter. Item one, twenty two eighty

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transportation to New York tips and incidentals and taxi fair

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to the office of Lieutenant Ed Rafferty Homicide Division, the

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man in charge of the case. Oh, hi you, Johnny,

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have you been that bad?

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Speaker 8: Ed?

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Speaker 3: How's the homicide business?

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Speaker 2: Terrible?

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Speaker 9: If you look at that teletype shoplifting? Five complaints in

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a row the week before Christmas. That's all we get. Shoplifters.

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Speaker 3: Mel Pranker was in shoplifting. Oh you're working on a Johnny.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: The insurance angle, Nick Sharen's the beneficiary one hundred grand policy, So.

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Speaker 9: You got a tough one.

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Speaker 9: Sean killed him, all right, but I don't think we're

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going to be able to stick him. Come on in

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the office. Hey, you know what that kid of mine

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wents for Christmas?

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Speaker 3: Marilyn Monroe.

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Speaker 6: Oh next year, Johnny.

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Speaker 3: He's only ten, you know, go ahead, okay, man, Oh

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you want a motorbike?

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Speaker 9: Can you tie that?

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Speaker 6: Ten years old?

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Speaker 3: And he says he needs a motorbike have a chair?

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Speaker 3: Well, look, I know a factory representative here. I'll make

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you a good deal on one. And oh now forget that, Johnn.

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Speaker 9: You know I was fourteen before I even had a

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pair of roller skates, and then I had to buy

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him miss head. Yeah, kids are spoiled today. That's the

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half of what's wrong with him.

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Speaker 3: Ah, there's the pylon, the case. What little we've got Okay,

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mm hmm yeah, how did that happen? Annie?

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Speaker 6: I mean, how do I think it happened?

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Speaker 3: Good enough for me?

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Speaker 9: Melt Priker and Nick Sheran were both in the rackets

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for years, as you probably know, I've heard rumors well

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a while back they teamed up and opened a string

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of supper clubs. That's where Priker got it in their

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main club, the Chess Colette, strictly little Gitleman. Huh yeah,

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more or less, I guess they could afford to be

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though they were making and arguing over according to the

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Speaker 3: That's the reason for the killing the way you see.

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could be twice as good, and the insurance on top

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of it. You're a fast one journey. Anyhow, several people

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heard the shots about two thirty in the morning. It

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was right after the club closed, but none of them

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bothered to report it. The cleanup crew came in at

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three and found piker's body. He was lying in his office,

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shut twice, gone on the floor beside him. No prince

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with his own gun, and it was kept there in

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his desk. Where was Nick?

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Speaker 9: Sheharn And they picked him up an hour later at

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another one of their clubs. The manager was with.

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Speaker 3: Him and oh, Benny Stark now he wasna, yeah, no

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trigger man for next mob in the old days, fifteen

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years overdue for hanging, that's our Benny. Anyhow, they both

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swear that Nick was there from one thirty on. What

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about a perfect test.

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Speaker 9: And positive clear to the elbow and you can throd

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it out the window.

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Speaker 3: What do you mean?

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Speaker 9: Earlier that evening Nick spent two hours at a shooting

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gallery uptown.

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Speaker 3: Hiring ooh smart. He really planned for it, he really did.

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Without a witness. We haven't got a chance. I understand

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there was a witness, some girl who was mixed up

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in it. Easy, Johnny, you're talking to a rafferty mm hmm.

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So the girl's Irish, Miss.

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Speaker 9: Kathleen O'Day old country back, three generations, county killed there.

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Speaker 3: Then, naturally she's as innocent as a newborn babe. Naturally,

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Speaker 9: Taxi driver knows her, said that he saw her leave

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the club five minutes after the shot. She denied it,

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said she left the closing time. But now, in my book,

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she was lying, scared to talk, paralyzed and with plenty

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of reason. You know Sharan's reputation. What about the cab

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driver now I changed its story. He said it might

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Speaker 3: Oh no, I'll tell me ed, let me guess that's right.

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Speaker 9: These names O two and I forgot to.

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Speaker 3: Mention that Kathleen's pretty naturally.

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Speaker 6: Anyhow, I let her go.

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Speaker 9: I had too, and when I went around to talk

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to her this morning, she'd flown the coop.

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Speaker 3: Any chance I'm a next boys grabbed her, I don't

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think so. It looked more like she came home packed

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in a hurry, took her kid and blew kidd eight

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year old daughter Irish, and a mother too. I was

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on sacred ground.

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Speaker 9: I was fingering the gun. No, seriously, Joy, would you

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find her. She may be able to break Nick's alibi,

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and it's our only chance.

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Speaker 3: And it might be her only chance. Next. Sharan's not

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the boy to leave a loose end line around.

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Speaker 9: I know I've got thirty men checking bus depots hell

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and now luck huh did this mess this time of year?

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I'm a hard boiled cop, Johnny. I've got no Christmas

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for it. I'm glad it only comes once per animal.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's not very much to go, and that's for sure.

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I'll see what I can turn up in check with

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you later. All right, that's fine. Oh by the way, Johnny, Yeah,

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about that friend of yours, well, friend the guy with

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the motorbikes. How would you be getting in touch with you? Oh? Yeah,

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his name is Ralph Sterner. He's in the phone book

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office in the Macley building. Alright, boy, car the kid's

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only young ones. Yeah.

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Speaker 9: Sure, Now you'll find that old there, find her, keep

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her alive and get her to talk.

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Speaker 3: How long have I got to find her? What do

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you mean, Nick Sharn? How much longer can you hold him? Johnny?

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He was turned loose an hour ago. So that was it.

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A lot of maybes, a lot of questions, and a

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lot of pressure, John to be done and done fast.

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Find one Kathleen Odre former hatcheck girl at the shake Colette,

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keep Nick Sharen's hoodlums away from her and persuaded the talk,

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and three to one Nick was looking for her too.

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He was free now, on the loose, and he might

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be anywhere. Only the way it turned out, he wasn't

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just any where. He was in one particular place, park

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rights back in front of the precinct station over Jenny.

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He was sitting in the backseat of a sedan and

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his trigger man, Benny Stock, was at the wheel.

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Speaker 10: Been in a long time, hasn't it, Jenny?

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Speaker 3: About five years? As I remember, Nick, it was that

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warehouse robbery over in Queens when you got away with

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forty thousand dollars worth of furze.

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Speaker 10: Ah, you've forgotten me. How was it quitted on that one? Oh?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, after they pulled the only witness out

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of the East River, his feet in a bucket of cement.

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Speaker 10: Just coincidence. I never seen him before.

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Speaker 3: You've seen miss Dare before?

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Speaker 6: Sure I have.

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Speaker 10: She works for me. She's a good kid, Jenny, So

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I hear. I wouldn't hum a hell on that girl's head.

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Speaker 3: She'll be relieved when I tell her that.

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Speaker 10: Get in I want to talk.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, no, sorry, Nick, I like it fine, just

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the way it is in the car. I'd be outnumbered.

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Speaker 10: Who got me all wrong? Johnny? I don't play that

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way anymore.

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Speaker 3: What about Benny has he reformed to?

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Speaker 10: Well, that's what Benny. Go take a walk? Yeah wash,

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I said, go take a walk.

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Speaker 11: Okay, get in Johnny.

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Speaker 3: What's any of mint, Nick, you were working on this case? Yeah,

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I'm on it.

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Speaker 12: Why that's what I figured. I was talking to my lawyer. Man,

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So you go to Rafferty's office. I guess the insurance

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company's gonna try to welsh on that clean at your party, Nick,

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you talk, I had a better idea.

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Speaker 3: What's that?

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Speaker 4: You know?

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Speaker 12: It's real nice out in Las Vegas this time of year, Johnny,

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the man can have a lot of fun out there

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for the next month with maybe ten thousand dollars to

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play with.

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Speaker 3: What man are you talking about?

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Speaker 10: You?

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Speaker 3: I don't have ten thousand dollars.

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Speaker 10: You will thirty minutes from now if.

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Speaker 3: You say it the way. Well, Nick, you're lucky. We're

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not standing out there on the sidewalk in a car seat.

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I haven't got run the Swingsoluh. I don't know. Why

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don't you write me about it? You'll have plenty of

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time hop there in the desk. Cell.

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Speaker 10: I suppose I didn't make any claim on that policy,

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and you wouldn't have any reason to.

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Speaker 3: Stay on a cake no sale, Nick, one hundred grand

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is a lot of money. I'd want to find out

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why you didn't make a claim.

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Speaker 12: You know why you're out to pennis on me and

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so the cops man with the wrecked hasn't got a chance.

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Speaker 3: You should have thought of that before you kill mil Priker.

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Speaker 10: Want to know something, Johnny, I didn't kill him.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm betting you did.

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Speaker 6: What do you care who killed him?

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Speaker 10: You're not shedding any tears over.

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Speaker 3: It, no, but I'd sure hate to see you get

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away with it. And I'd hate it even more if

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anything happened to that.

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Speaker 10: Girl, Kathy Odd. Now what could happen to her?

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Speaker 3: She just might fall in the river. She probably thinks

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she's safe as long as she hides from the police

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and refuses to talk. She doesn't know you very well.

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Speaker 10: Let me all wrong, Jenny.

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Speaker 3: You know you hear a lot about peace on earth,

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goodwill toward men around this time of year. Well, I

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don't have much goodwill toward the kind of rat you are,

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and I figured to be more peace on earth if

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you went on. It pushed me, and maybe that's what

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will happen.

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Speaker 6: At least. That's fair warning.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fair warning. I'm gonna tag you for this nick.

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You can count on it. Expense account at him two

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two dollars and forty cents taxi to the east side

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rooming house of Katy o Dare. I didn't have much

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hope of turning up anything. Had Rapperty and his men

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had already been through the place inch by inch, but

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it was the only starting point I had. The landlady

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was out in the uniformed policeman let me into Kathy's flat.

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I spent an hour and a half and got nowhere.

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I went through her mail, bills, advertisements, casual notes for

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men she'd met at the club, nothing personal, not even

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a postcard. There were no pictures, photographs of Kathy or

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her daughter anywhere in the flat. She made a clean

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sweep then left in a hurry, and obviously she didn't

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mean to be found, but I had to find her

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and fast. It was dusk when I left. The street

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lamps were on and the colored Christmas lights in the

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windows among the block. Snow was falling in big, soft

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gentle plates, and there was a holiday feeling in the air.

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It was neither the time nor the setting a murder.

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Big contribution, son, You've do something to help pol Oh. Sure,

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how's it going this year, Santa? It's better than usual,

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But it just seems it is never enough to go around,

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no matter how well. Blake you son, Thank you, Cat.

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I'll mention him. Good luck, Pop, thank you son. Wow,

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the city got to clean the streets better.

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Speaker 10: I've been waiting for you.

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Speaker 3: Sorry, Benny, it's not my day for punks.

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Speaker 10: Get some friends want to talk to you.

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Speaker 3: Start walking, Johnny, down the alley. It's stark down there.

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Speaker 10: Start walking. This ain't just my hand in my pocket.

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Speaker 3: Had better be Benny. With two cops standing up there

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on the porch watching.

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Speaker 10: Are you talking about there?

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Speaker 4: Ain't no.

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Speaker 3: I smashed him in the mouth and knocked him flat,

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followed it up and kick his gun. He rolled over,

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came to his feet and rushed me. I was talking

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you last year.

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Speaker 4: He had that coming.

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Speaker 3: He had a coming hand.

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Speaker 6: Well, he sure didn't get it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Hey, you know something, Pop, I think Benny wants

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to make a contribution to help the poor. Well he Oh,

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he's a good boy at the moment. At least here

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you go. That ought to help some five hundred dollars

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for the world, do the most good. Well, Merry Christmas Son,

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Happy New Years? Yeah, same to you, popping anymore of them? Hey,

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taxi godly? Oh yeah, that's you.

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Speaker 13: Wanted to talk to me.

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Speaker 3: That's right. I'm trying to find miss so Dare. Do

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you know where she is? I think I will be

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once I meet her. I'm gonna insurance investigator. I want

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to help her.

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Speaker 13: That's what the other one said.

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Speaker 3: What do you mean? What other one?

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Speaker 1: Here?

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Speaker 13: We'll go short, mean faced, shift the eye.

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Speaker 3: Benny Stark was that his name?

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Speaker 13: He didn't say, mister, Do I get He was too.

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Speaker 3: Busy, busy doing what breaking my good? Right arm, I'll

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be right over. From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, New York

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City to the home office Trimutual Insurance Limit at Hartford,

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Connecticut assignment. The Nick Sharan matter expense account continued. I

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had him five two dollars and thirty cents taxi to

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missus Gottler's rooming house, the place Cathy O'Dare had called

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home until she disappeared. Come in, get your hat, miss Gountler. Well, look,

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I'm Johnny Dollar. I talked to you on the phone.

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Speaker 10: It's all right.

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Speaker 3: You can put that gun down.

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Speaker 14: Well, yes, it's you all right, Sorry, mister DOLLI but

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I've only got one good arm left, and I may

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even to cheap it.

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Speaker 15: Pull up a chair.

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Speaker 3: Thanks kind of rough boy?

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Speaker 14: Huh showed him who was rough? If I could have

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got ahold of my gun, I'd have blasted him Christmas

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week or not, I'd.

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Speaker 16: Have blasted him.

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Speaker 3: Mister dol know how you feel me with all these

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presents to wrap?

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Speaker 14: How can you wrap presents with one arm? That it's

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being a paper hanger.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'll be glad to help out, Missus Gudler. I

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won't guarantee what they'll.

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Speaker 14: Look like, now, I'm sure to appreciate it, and don't

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worry about their looks. I got to get them wrapped

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at all.

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Speaker 3: Let's see.

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Speaker 10: You know.

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Speaker 14: This paper goes on that one?

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 14: The water muffler for my nephew over in Brooklyn. You

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know them terrible winters they have over there.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they're frightful. Of course. It may be better

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this year the Dodgers won the pennanty.

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Speaker 14: Nothing but luck it won't happen next year.

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Speaker 3: They tell me something, Missus Goler, I'll come Benny worked

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you over why did he break your arm?

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Speaker 13: Here?

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Speaker 14: Pick this card on it as soon as you get

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the ribbon tied. Oh okay, all the time of year

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like Christmas. He wanted to know where Kathy went, and

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I said I didn't know it. Jumped on to me,

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said I was lying if I could have got hold.

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Speaker 15: Of that one?

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Speaker 3: Where did she go?

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Speaker 14: By the way, you aiming to break my other arm?

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Mister dollar with.

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Speaker 3: All these packages to wrap, holds your finger on that

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that I had tied.

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Speaker 14: Now, impostman in Brooklyn are always busting things open.

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Speaker 3: No, that's one down. Where did you say she went?

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Speaker 16: I didn't No this one.

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Speaker 14: I'll deliver myself so I don't need to be wrapped

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to careful al Kathy lit out of here in the

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middle of the night. You think I set up twenty

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four hours a day spying on my rumors?

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Speaker 3: You might if the rumor happened to be one of

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your special favorites who told you that? What's the difference?

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She was? Wasn't she?

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Speaker 14: Kathy was everybody's favorite. Anybody that ever met her, Oh,

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you gonna meet them as make remarks about a girl

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that works in a nightclub. But I'll tell you one

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thing mister dollar, Kathleen. No, there's a final lady you'd ever.

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Speaker 3: Cared to find, and I would care to find it.

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Speaker 14: Good luck to get in, and if you do, let

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me know where she is.

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Speaker 3: You helped her pack, didn't you?

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Speaker 16: Now? How did you do?

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Speaker 3: That's about as good as I can get it. Be

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careful when you deliver it. Tho it was not time,

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very time. I didn't know, missus Gottner. I was guessing,

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but it figured. Kathy was scared half to death when

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she packed up and left here. All she had in

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her mind was to run and hide. She wouldn't have

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thought of stripping that flat, taking out every bit of

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personal identification. Somebody had to help her. How would she go?

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Speaker 15: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Look, you don't get the idea. I'm on her side.

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She's up against a rough deal and doesn't even know it.

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You've got a sample of the way those boys play,

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and that was only a sample. With Kathy, it'll be

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a whole lot worse. They're looking for her, and sooner

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or later they'll find her. Her only chance is for

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me to get to her first. So I'm not lying,

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mister Dogger.

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Speaker 14: I don't know where she went, and that's the truth.

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To help me, tried to get her to tell me,

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but she wouldn't. She said, if I knew it would.

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Speaker 15: Be dangerous for me.

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Speaker 3: I helped her pack.

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Speaker 14: Yes, but I don't know where she was going.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's said, I guess I don't know where to

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turn next. She apparently didn't have any other close friends.

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I don't even know what she looks like. I've never

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even seen a picture of her.

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Speaker 14: I was hoping you, well, if that'll do you any good,

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I've got one right here, my throwing back a picture?

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Speaker 15: What did you think?

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Speaker 3: Give it to me?

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Speaker 14: About a year ago? She's never had many taken, but

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here it's it nice, really pretty good, don't you think so?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, she's lovely. Well, at least I'll be able to

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write when was this taken? Missus Guler?

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Speaker 14: Now, how should I know?

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Speaker 15: Three or four years ago?

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Speaker 14: I guess before she came here to the city.

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Speaker 3: This photographer's address. The name of the town. Is that

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where she came from? Branbury, Michigan, Wall.

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Speaker 15: Yes, that's her hometown, Bramburry.

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Speaker 14: I'd forgotten the name of it, and she was just

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talking about it a week or so ago.

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Speaker 16: She wanted to go home for Christmas.

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Speaker 14: But she said she couldn't say, mister dollar.

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Speaker 16: Do you think she might?

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Speaker 3: Maybe it's the most likely place a scared girl would

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run to home. Anyway, It's worth chance, missus s Gottler,

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I love you.

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Speaker 11: What mister dollar?

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Speaker 16: Mister dollar.

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Speaker 3: Expense account adam six eighty eight dollars and thirty five cents.

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Hotel and Nincintal's in New York and transportation to Bramberry, Michigan.

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Bramburry turned out to be a lumber village half hidden

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among the pine covered hills. It was a little bigger

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than a wide spot in the road, but not much bigger.

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A foot of new snow had fallen within the past

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twenty four hours. A fluffy white blanket lay softly on

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the trees and the housetops, and filled the deep hollows

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in the frozen ground. Men in bright red flannel shirts

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drove horse drawn logging sleds through the forest trails, and

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their shouts sounded sharp and clear, a crystalline tinkle in

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the icy air. Bramburry looked like the place where Christmas

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was invented. It was beautiful and very quiet. When it

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came to putting out information. I found it out first

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when I tried the local telephone operator.

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Speaker 5: Number.

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Speaker 3: Please, I uh just checked in here at the hotel operator.

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There doesn't seem to be a phone book, so steal them.

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Speaker 13: That's why traveling people going.

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Speaker 3: Through, Oh, souvenir hunters. I suppose that. Look, I wanted

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to call the odaares because you brought o'dares.

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Speaker 13: There ain't but one that's old Mike.

472
00:22:19,759 --> 00:22:21,440
Speaker 3: Oh, and that's the one I want to call. Would

473
00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:21,960
you mind ringing?

474
00:22:22,319 --> 00:22:24,680
Speaker 13: We'll do no good? He ain't there. He's slabbing up

475
00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:25,880
at number four meal today.

476
00:22:26,079 --> 00:22:29,559
Speaker 3: Well, actually it's his daughter I want to talk to. Yeah,

477
00:22:29,559 --> 00:22:32,920
that's right, Kathleen, you know, just growed up with hers?

478
00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:33,160
Speaker 10: All.

479
00:22:33,319 --> 00:22:36,079
Speaker 3: Oh, well, would you mind friend her? No, I've never

480
00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:39,039
met her, but frown, I came here from New York,

481
00:22:40,319 --> 00:22:43,799
Johnny Dollar, Now, would you please ring Kathleen here in

482
00:22:43,799 --> 00:22:45,480
New York City? I know where she lives.

483
00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:47,480
Speaker 13: And what give you the idea she'd be up here?

484
00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:48,480
Speaker 3: I'm psychic?

485
00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:49,640
Speaker 2: You what?

486
00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:51,680
Speaker 3: Look? Where can I get in touch with her?

487
00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:54,000
Speaker 13: I wouldn't know anything about it, mister Dollar, and I

488
00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,200
can't give out that kind of information. You better go

489
00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:57,799
on back to New York and write her a letter.

490
00:22:57,920 --> 00:22:59,240
Speaker 3: Let me talk to your supervisor.

491
00:23:00,039 --> 00:23:04,400
Speaker 13: Supervisor. Well, I'm all there is so, I guess that's

492
00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:05,519
me started talking.

493
00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:07,839
Speaker 10: I got it, You're welcome.

494
00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:13,960
Speaker 3: I got the same kind of run around from the

495
00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:16,839
hotel proprietor. As soon as I mentioned Kathy, he suddenly

496
00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:18,880
forgot his own name age in the time of day

497
00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:22,119
one thing. Sure, this town took care of its own.

498
00:23:23,039 --> 00:23:25,000
I wondered if the law in Branbury would take the

499
00:23:25,039 --> 00:23:30,160
same attitude. I decided I'd better go find out. As

500
00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:32,079
it happened, I didn't have far to go. On the

501
00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:34,279
sidewalk in front of the hotel, the law came to

502
00:23:34,319 --> 00:23:40,119
me just a second there, I said, M'd.

503
00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:39,720
Speaker 15: Like to have a little talk with you, if you

504
00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:40,680
know mine mine.

505
00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:43,799
Speaker 3: Quite a change to find somebody here who wants to talk.

506
00:23:44,759 --> 00:23:48,839
Speaker 15: I understand you just got in from New York business.

507
00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:51,079
Speaker 3: Look, you know why I'm here. But now everybody in

508
00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:55,160
town knows got any identification on you? Yeah? Have you?

509
00:23:56,480 --> 00:24:00,000
Speaker 15: My name is Martin, Dan Martin. I'm the deputy shriff

510
00:24:00,079 --> 00:24:01,440
in charge of this part of the county.

511
00:24:01,559 --> 00:24:03,200
Speaker 3: Oh, then you're just the man I was looking for.

512
00:24:04,319 --> 00:24:04,720
Speaker 10: Is that so?

513
00:24:04,839 --> 00:24:07,680
Speaker 3: I'm Johnny Dollar Insurance investigator. I'm looking for a girl

514
00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:10,319
named Kathleen O dare Do you know where she is?

515
00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:12,240
Speaker 15: What do you want with her?

516
00:24:12,279 --> 00:24:14,519
Speaker 3: I'm working on a murder case. She's a witness.

517
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:16,799
Speaker 15: Is there any kind of a charge against her?

518
00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:17,079
Speaker 6: Oh?

519
00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:18,599
Speaker 3: I just want to talk to her.

520
00:24:19,279 --> 00:24:20,480
Speaker 15: What makes you think she's here?

521
00:24:21,559 --> 00:24:22,680
Speaker 3: Are you a friend of hers?

522
00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:26,039
Speaker 15: Mister Martin, I've been in love with Kathy since we

523
00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:28,160
went to grade school. I'd be willing to die for

524
00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:30,359
a Does that answer your question?

525
00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:32,680
Speaker 3: All right? Let me put it this way. You think

526
00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:34,480
you're helping her by hiding her out. All of you

527
00:24:34,519 --> 00:24:37,640
thinks so, but you're wrong. You're helping her right into

528
00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:38,119
her grave.

529
00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:40,359
Speaker 15: Kathy doesn't figure it that way.

530
00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:43,319
Speaker 3: She's scared. She doesn't know what she thinks. I know

531
00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:46,000
these boys who are after her, they don't play kid games,

532
00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:49,119
and sooner or later they're going to find her. So

533
00:24:49,279 --> 00:24:50,920
if you love her, and if you know where she is,

534
00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:52,720
you better take me to her before it's too late.

535
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:57,720
Speaker 15: I don't know. I don't know what it is. Kathy's

536
00:24:57,759 --> 00:24:58,160
mixed up.

537
00:24:58,160 --> 00:24:58,319
Speaker 4: Man.

538
00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:00,480
Speaker 15: I didn't want to ask her, but I know it

539
00:25:00,519 --> 00:25:03,680
isn't the police she's afraid of. And I don't think

540
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:04,200
it's you.

541
00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:04,279
Speaker 1: No.

542
00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:06,160
Speaker 3: At the time she ran out, I wasn't even in

543
00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:09,200
the picture. I'm on her side too, mister Martin, and

544
00:25:09,279 --> 00:25:10,200
I've got to see her.

545
00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:15,039
Speaker 15: Go talk to her father. Oh, Mike, see what he thinks.

546
00:25:15,559 --> 00:25:16,680
He's not at home right now?

547
00:25:16,759 --> 00:25:18,519
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know he's out at number four mill. How

548
00:25:18,519 --> 00:25:19,200
do I get there?

549
00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:23,079
Speaker 15: The County pickup trucked his park down the block.

550
00:25:31,599 --> 00:25:34,279
Speaker 3: The tire chains bit into the packed snow and pushed

551
00:25:34,279 --> 00:25:37,160
the four miles of logging road behind us. It was

552
00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:40,079
late afternoon and the sun had dropped behind the timbered slopes,

553
00:25:40,279 --> 00:25:42,960
throwing a pale sheet of cold yellow against the western sky.

554
00:25:45,079 --> 00:25:47,240
Here and there, a few scattered lights were coming on

555
00:25:47,799 --> 00:25:49,920
in the windows of the village and the bunkhouses of

556
00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:56,960
the lumberck vamps, right white smarts against the darkening shadows, emptiness, loneliness,

557
00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:01,039
and somewhere in it a frightened girl and hiding a

558
00:26:01,079 --> 00:26:02,880
girl who'd run away from the city of one hundred

559
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:13,680
million lights and from an unsolved murder. Michael Dare was

560
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:15,920
winding up a job working at the Big Slapping Song.

561
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,000
I stood by and waited front of the finish.

562
00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:21,279
Speaker 6: Good night, rid you, mister Dollar. This is the last one.

563
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:35,480
Speaker 2: Okay, that's the last of it.

564
00:26:35,559 --> 00:26:38,559
Speaker 6: Now we'll after Christmas. I'm sorry to keep you waiting.

565
00:26:38,599 --> 00:26:41,079
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, mister o'daire. My name is Johnny Mind. I

566
00:26:41,279 --> 00:26:42,039
know all about you.

567
00:26:42,759 --> 00:26:46,119
Speaker 6: Dan Martin phone said you was on your way out.

568
00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:48,880
Mister dallan, the answer is no.

569
00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:50,319
Speaker 10: I see.

570
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:53,759
Speaker 6: I've had it over since Dan called. Before i'd have

571
00:26:53,799 --> 00:26:56,720
anything happened to Kathy. I'd rather see ten murderers go

572
00:26:56,839 --> 00:26:59,599
in the home now. Look, hiding out won't help. As

573
00:26:59,599 --> 00:27:01,880
long as Nick sher And is free. Kathy's in danger.

574
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:03,640
He can't hurt her if he can't find her.

575
00:27:03,799 --> 00:27:06,359
Speaker 3: I found her, mister o'dair, just by luck.

576
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:10,680
Speaker 6: There's not one chance in a million of sounded like

577
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:14,359
a car who the Carnation had drive out here this

578
00:27:14,519 --> 00:27:15,400
time of the evening.

579
00:27:16,079 --> 00:27:17,799
Speaker 3: We walked over to the big door. As the car

580
00:27:17,839 --> 00:27:20,599
had stopped about twenty yards away. A man got out

581
00:27:20,599 --> 00:27:22,799
and turned toward us. I was standing out of the

582
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:24,960
dock light, so he recognized me. Before I got a

583
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:27,279
good look at him, he jumped back in the car

584
00:27:27,319 --> 00:27:30,920
and went for his gun. Then he stuck get back,

585
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:35,960
mister o'dair. It was too dark to get a decent shot.

586
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:39,279
I tried once more and missed, and the car disappeared

587
00:27:39,279 --> 00:27:39,960
behind the trees.

588
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:45,119
Speaker 6: Ster Dollar, who was was that one of them?

589
00:27:45,119 --> 00:28:05,799
Speaker 3: That's right, Mike, they found her, Johnny Dollar.

590
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:07,880
Speaker 13: Dan Martin here, I was up the street with you.

591
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:09,960
Speaker 3: Listen to Jarriff. They've traced Kathy. O'Dare here to you.

592
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:13,000
A nice little town of Branbury. Who has Nick Shuran's boys?

593
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:14,759
One of them, a trigger man named Benny Stark, came

594
00:28:14,759 --> 00:28:16,480
out to the sawmill hell a few minutes ago. I

595
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:17,960
traded a couple of shots with him, but he got

596
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:18,680
away in a car.

597
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 15: Did he head north or back toward town Georgetown?

598
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:22,640
Speaker 3: I think you can't see the turnoff from here?

599
00:28:23,079 --> 00:28:25,640
Speaker 15: All right, Dollar, you're packing a gun. Will you take

600
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:28,039
a pickup truck and black bet turnoff? Hold it until

601
00:28:28,039 --> 00:28:29,359
I can get somebody out there to relieve it.

602
00:28:29,519 --> 00:28:30,839
Speaker 3: Right, how many deputies you got?

603
00:28:31,079 --> 00:28:31,599
Speaker 1: Deputies?

604
00:28:31,599 --> 00:28:31,759
Speaker 10: Oh?

605
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:33,079
Speaker 3: What about volunteers?

606
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:35,839
Speaker 15: Is this Benny Stark the man Kathy's afrido.

607
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:36,279
Speaker 3: He's one of them?

608
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 15: Then I'll have volunteers. Twenty men within a half hour,

609
00:28:39,279 --> 00:28:41,480
armed with deer rifles, and every one of them a

610
00:28:41,559 --> 00:28:42,319
dead shot.

611
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:51,519
Speaker 3: From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar. Location Branbury Michigan to the

612
00:28:51,599 --> 00:28:55,400
home office Primutual Insurance Limited at Hartford, Connecticut assignment. The

613
00:28:55,519 --> 00:29:00,400
Nick Sharan matter expense account continued. I had of eight

614
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:02,759
three dollars sixty cents for two packs of cigarettes and

615
00:29:02,799 --> 00:29:04,960
a pint of applejack borrowed from the foreman's locker at

616
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:08,240
the sawmill. I figured these a standard equipment for holding

617
00:29:08,279 --> 00:29:11,359
down a roadblock at ten degrees above zero, and Michael

618
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:13,000
Dare agreed with me one hundred percent.

619
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:15,359
Speaker 6: Oh, I'll tell you one thing.

620
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:17,960
Speaker 3: They can make it out of corn ride parley, make

621
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,480
it at a gold if they want to, but they'll

622
00:29:20,519 --> 00:29:22,559
never come up with anything better than what they make

623
00:29:22,599 --> 00:29:23,119
out of apples.

624
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:24,400
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, have a short.

625
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:26,880
Speaker 3: One, john No, no thanks, I'll save it for later. Well,

626
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:27,559
I'll just.

627
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:34,279
Speaker 6: It's got the taste of Indian summer in it. You

628
00:29:34,319 --> 00:29:36,599
ought to see this country around that time of yere, Johnny,

629
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:38,079
break your heart.

630
00:29:38,119 --> 00:29:38,920
Speaker 10: It's a beautiful.

631
00:29:39,039 --> 00:29:41,640
Speaker 3: Well, it's beautiful now with the snow on, and it

632
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:43,759
would be more so if there wasn't a killer running.

633
00:29:43,759 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 6: Loosen it, Johnny. I want to ask you something about

634
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:49,960
my daughter, and I want you to answer me honest,

635
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:53,119
all right, It's no use trying to fool you. She's here,

636
00:29:53,119 --> 00:29:55,799
all right, I know, but she hasn't told me what

637
00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:58,319
it was. It happened in New York, but she ran

638
00:29:58,359 --> 00:29:59,559
away from it.

639
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 3: Now, I figured it was just as well not to

640
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:04,920
ask her. You're sure if Dan Martin said practically the

641
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:07,440
same thing. Den's been in love with Kathy since she

642
00:30:07,559 --> 00:30:10,279
was twelve years old. He's a good man, solid, so

643
00:30:10,359 --> 00:30:14,720
I forged anyway, she was scared, scared half to dick,

644
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:18,759
and she'd come home for help, so we tried to help.

645
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:20,880
What was it you wanted to ask me, mister Odare

646
00:30:21,559 --> 00:30:22,799
you mentioned a murder case?

647
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:25,960
Speaker 6: Johnny? You didn't give any of the details, just said

648
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:30,200
that Kathy was her witness? Is is she mixed up

649
00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:31,079
in this murder?

650
00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 3: And you wanted an honest dancer? All right? I'm not

651
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,759
sure they see. That's why I wanted to talk to her,

652
00:30:37,759 --> 00:30:40,880
get her story, the truth. I realized on the start

653
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:43,160
she might be guilty. I don't think so, but it's

654
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:45,119
a possibility. You may as well know about it.

655
00:30:45,559 --> 00:30:48,200
Speaker 6: I guess you realize it wouldn't make any difference not

656
00:30:48,359 --> 00:30:49,279
to me or to day.

657
00:30:49,359 --> 00:30:51,480
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I figured. In other words, you're with me

658
00:30:51,519 --> 00:30:53,440
as long as I'm trying to protect her, but you'll

659
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:55,279
fight me if I find reason to think she's guilty.

660
00:30:55,559 --> 00:30:56,799
Speaker 6: It's about it, Johnny.

661
00:30:57,759 --> 00:31:00,319
Speaker 3: Well, at least we know where we stand, and I

662
00:31:00,359 --> 00:31:01,039
hope it won't come.

663
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 6: What's your master?

664
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:05,039
Speaker 3: A car coming light on the trees there at the bend.

665
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 6: Yeah, do you suppose? Maybe?

666
00:31:08,039 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 3: Probably not, but you can't tell. Better get behind the

667
00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:13,000
truck just in case, and I'll have to shift in

668
00:31:13,039 --> 00:31:15,440
the low the wedge past us and let me get

669
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:18,640
that spotlight on it, I guess, So just have another

670
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:22,680
quick one.

671
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:25,519
Speaker 6: The wind cuts right through your bones.

672
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:27,880
Speaker 3: It's a dark colored sit Dan, it might be him.

673
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:31,680
Speaker 6: Funny, I'd been hoping for two months if Katy'd come

674
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,559
home for Christmas and they didn't figure I'd be out

675
00:31:34,599 --> 00:31:38,039
here in the woods hiding behind a truck waiting to

676
00:31:38,079 --> 00:31:39,960
shoot it out with somebody that wanted to kill.

677
00:31:40,079 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 3: It's a crazy world. Keep your head down a stilt. Yeah,

678
00:31:46,359 --> 00:31:50,039
just the driver by himself, wearing a dark cant Oh no.

679
00:31:50,759 --> 00:31:54,880
Speaker 6: You know that kind of looks like right curly it is.

680
00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:58,440
That's Ted Perkins or wreck, no doubt about it.

681
00:31:58,839 --> 00:32:01,400
Speaker 3: When the car right better wave him out past. He

682
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:04,440
probably thinks we need help. It's all right.

683
00:32:04,519 --> 00:32:06,599
Speaker 4: Did it's my good hair?

684
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 6: Goe ahead head. We don't need anything.

685
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:13,599
Speaker 3: Eh, well, right, thanks anyway.

686
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:17,839
Speaker 6: And there's one thing about people around here. They mind

687
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:20,559
their own business and don't ask no questions.

688
00:32:20,599 --> 00:32:24,200
Speaker 3: And they don't answer them often either. How's that applejack?

689
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:35,200
Holding out? Two long hours went past. Only three cars

690
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:37,839
came out from the village, and each time a long

691
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:40,799
moment of tension while we waited to identify the occupants,

692
00:32:41,359 --> 00:32:44,200
but all of them were townspeople. Then he didn't show.

693
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:47,839
One truck came down the logging road from the back hills,

694
00:32:47,839 --> 00:32:51,640
loaded with dwarf spruce and fir peace on earth, good

695
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:55,720
will toward men. We were waiting for an assassin, but

696
00:32:55,839 --> 00:32:59,759
the truck only carried Christmas trees. The night was crystal clear,

697
00:32:59,799 --> 00:33:02,200
with bright stars hanging low in the blackness, but it

698
00:33:02,359 --> 00:33:05,680
kept turning colder and colder, and leaving the apple jack

699
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:08,480
didn't help much. And the wind too, changed gradually and

700
00:33:08,559 --> 00:33:11,640
blew fitful and gusty and strange.

701
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:17,400
Speaker 6: It's kind of storm come a blizzard, maybe not tonight,

702
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:21,720
tomorrow sometime or tomorrow night. I know this country, know

703
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:22,440
the signs.

704
00:33:23,119 --> 00:33:24,839
Speaker 3: There's an odd feeling in the air all.

705
00:33:24,839 --> 00:33:27,960
Speaker 6: Right, there's an even order. When in my leg log

706
00:33:28,039 --> 00:33:30,680
rolled over on it, putting it six years ago, bothers

707
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:33,720
me some in the winter till that wears so right

708
00:33:33,759 --> 00:33:34,599
before the storm.

709
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:36,319
Speaker 3: And that's kind of a handy thing to have.

710
00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:39,480
Speaker 6: Well, that's one way of looking at it. I guess.

711
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:43,119
Like one time when Katy was little, when the mare

712
00:33:43,279 --> 00:33:47,920
was still alive, cried rostersoul. We had a big measles

713
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:51,039
epidemic here Branberry, and every night Kathy used to add

714
00:33:51,039 --> 00:33:55,039
a line to a prayer, kids say, and please let

715
00:33:55,039 --> 00:33:56,960
me catch the measles so it can stay out of

716
00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:01,160
school like the other kids know. She's wanted is a

717
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:04,880
witness in a murder case, and somebody's prowling out there

718
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:06,720
in the dark trying to find her and kill her.

719
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:10,760
Little Kathy, who never harmed anybody in her whole life.

720
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:14,480
Some things just don't make sense, Johnny.

721
00:34:15,159 --> 00:34:18,679
Speaker 3: Some things never have. There was another time once when

722
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:20,960
men like Benny were prowling in the dark trying to

723
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:24,000
find a little child and kill him, and he hadn't

724
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,559
harmed anybody either. That was nearly two thousand years ago.

725
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:33,360
Speaker 6: Yeah, sure it was. I like you, Johnny, Kathy, You'll

726
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:37,239
like it too, little jail. Huh ah, there's a pair

727
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:40,519
for that kid. Looks more like her mother did at

728
00:34:40,519 --> 00:34:44,480
her age. Another car coming aster there, Yeah, so there is,

729
00:34:45,559 --> 00:34:49,280
and this just might be the one. Maybe I wish

730
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:57,440
that apple Jack hadn't run out, But.

731
00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:59,440
Speaker 3: It was only a couple of men. Deputy Martin had

732
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:02,440
sent out from to relieve us and take over. Big men,

733
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:05,320
calm and quiet, wearing plaid mackinaws and heavy laced boots

734
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:09,079
and carrying Winchester ninety fours over their arms. They told

735
00:35:09,159 --> 00:35:11,559
us Benny Stark had been seen. He'd come up from

736
00:35:11,599 --> 00:35:14,840
the west, driven onto one of the roadblocks unexpectedly, and

737
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:17,880
a flurry of shouts he'd broken through. The men couldn't

738
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:20,920
understand his persistence. They thought he'd run for it get

739
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:23,679
out of the area once his presence was known. I

740
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:25,800
didn't bother to explain, to put him straight, but I

741
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:28,400
knew Benny had never run. Not now. He was a

742
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:31,159
trigger man, a professional killer with a reputation at stake,

743
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:40,039
and he had his orders to silence Kathy o'dair. A

744
00:35:40,119 --> 00:35:42,239
half hour later, we were back in town, turning into

745
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:45,280
the main street around the village square, strings of pilly

746
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:47,000
lights and a tall pine in the center of the

747
00:35:47,039 --> 00:35:49,239
square blinked and sparkled as they swayed in the wind.

748
00:35:50,159 --> 00:35:51,960
Around one hundred cars and trucks were parked in the

749
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:54,800
street and in the lot behind the town hall, and

750
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:58,639
the sound of singing drifted out from inside their practice

751
00:35:58,679 --> 00:36:01,960
and carols and kings the big doings on Christmas Eve,

752
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:05,320
he did beautiful. The man at the roadblock had given

753
00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:08,760
the description of Benny's car and the license number. It

754
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:15,199
was just barely possible. Got something in mind, Johnny. Let's

755
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:18,119
take a look through those park cards.

756
00:36:19,119 --> 00:36:21,639
Speaker 6: I don't know. If it was me, I sure would

757
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:24,719
be hanging around here. I'd stick to the tall timber.

758
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:26,159
Speaker 3: You have returned out a city boy and my tall

759
00:36:26,199 --> 00:36:28,760
timorous foreign soil. To Benny, he's only comfortable when he's

760
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:29,440
close to a crowd.

761
00:36:30,119 --> 00:36:32,559
Speaker 6: He the fellow that's supposed to have done that murder.

762
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:34,280
Speaker 3: Now is the man who works for a cafe on

763
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:37,960
a ex gangster, a man named Nick Shearn. Let's check

764
00:36:38,039 --> 00:36:40,599
that lot around at the side. I don't think he'd

765
00:36:40,599 --> 00:36:41,400
show here in front.

766
00:36:41,519 --> 00:36:44,360
Speaker 6: He'd be taking a big chance showing anywhere in the

767
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:46,000
town this size. People know each other.

768
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:49,639
Speaker 3: It's his job to take chances, and he probably doesn't realize.

769
00:36:50,079 --> 00:36:54,519
Whatever's that's the Dan against the building with the side

770
00:36:54,519 --> 00:36:58,760
window broken shifting. Who what.

771
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:01,119
Speaker 10: Is card? Johnny?

772
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:04,039
Speaker 3: Yeah? Wait here. I eased my gun out of the

773
00:37:04,039 --> 00:37:06,760
holster and started toward the car. There were no lights

774
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:08,840
in the lot, only the soft glow reflected from the

775
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:11,519
packed snow on the foot, and the car itself stood

776
00:37:11,519 --> 00:37:14,360
in the dark shadows next to the building. I couldn't

777
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:17,239
see whether anyone was in it or not. The singing

778
00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:20,239
seemed to swell louder as I approached. I moved slowly,

779
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:35,800
watching for any sudden movement. The car was empty. It

780
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:38,880
was time past time to talk to Kathy Odare, and,

781
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:41,119
with a pressure tightening, the danger close to home now,

782
00:37:41,159 --> 00:37:43,360
her father was ready to take me to her. We

783
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:45,400
drove over to Dan Martin's house, where it turned out

784
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:47,599
Kathy and her daughter was staying. Dan's mother had been

785
00:37:47,639 --> 00:37:50,360
looking after Dan was there when we arrived, busy on

786
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:50,679
the phone.

787
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:52,639
Speaker 15: Yeah, I know the car al right, the one Jed

788
00:37:52,679 --> 00:37:56,880
bought last spring down in Bay City seven three nine two?

789
00:37:57,920 --> 00:37:58,639
Where was it park?

790
00:38:00,079 --> 00:38:00,360
Speaker 6: All right?

791
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:03,559
Speaker 15: Keep an eye out, Charlie so on. Benny Stark had

792
00:38:03,559 --> 00:38:06,239
stole himself out of the car took Jed Wharton station wagon.

793
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:06,679
Speaker 6: We what for?

794
00:38:07,599 --> 00:38:09,960
Speaker 3: That was a better when he had Charlie says.

795
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:11,719
Speaker 15: The steering gear was sprung. I guess it happened when

796
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:13,519
he crashed that roadblock. But that was Kathy and the

797
00:38:13,519 --> 00:38:17,679
young and oh fine, they were sleep upstairs. Mom's next

798
00:38:17,679 --> 00:38:19,760
door helping missus Barton stuff a turkey.

799
00:38:20,079 --> 00:38:24,800
Speaker 6: Johnny, you figured it could wait two more.

800
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:27,719
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, mister Oldare. I've got to talk to her tonight.

801
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:43,280
Speaker 15: All right, I'll go wake her up, mister Doller. No

802
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:46,760
matter what she's done, don't hurt her anymore than you

803
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:47,079
have to.

804
00:38:48,079 --> 00:38:49,840
Speaker 3: As far as I know at the moment, Dan, all

805
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:53,440
she's guilty of is withholding information, and most people would

806
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:55,440
have done the same thing. Nick Suran's a rough boy

807
00:38:55,519 --> 00:38:57,880
to tangle with. She was scared, that's all lost her head.

808
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:02,159
Speaker 15: She never did belong in a city. She belongs right

809
00:39:02,199 --> 00:39:04,760
here in Branbury. This is her kind of life. Why

810
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:12,400
did she leave? Well, we argued one day and she

811
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:16,400
said she'd show me. So she ran off and married

812
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:22,760
that fella. He treated her bad, finally left her, but

813
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:26,400
she was too proud to come back. She wouldn't have

814
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:28,519
come back. Now she hadn't have been so scared.

815
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:30,920
Speaker 3: Well, maybe it'll work out now.

816
00:39:32,079 --> 00:39:35,440
Speaker 15: She ought to stay her kid, ought to grow up here,

817
00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:38,280
learned the outdoors in the woods like Kathy used to

818
00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:41,920
know it where she roamed through those hills like a

819
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:45,599
young Indian. Knew every trail in that forest, every timber

820
00:39:45,639 --> 00:39:49,440
camp and trapper's cabin from here to the ridge. I

821
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:51,440
remember one time the two of us were up toward

822
00:39:52,559 --> 00:39:53,920
what's the matter there?

823
00:39:54,039 --> 00:39:57,800
Speaker 3: You said, you said you did Kathy or sleep upstairs?

824
00:39:58,360 --> 00:39:59,559
Speaker 6: Is that what you said?

825
00:39:59,239 --> 00:39:59,280
Speaker 2: That?

826
00:39:59,639 --> 00:40:02,360
Speaker 15: Of course that's what I Mike, what's happened?

827
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:05,800
Speaker 3: They're not up here, They're not up there anywhere else

828
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:28,679
in the house. There, God, Johnny Dollar, Mike, go there,

829
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:31,159
Johnny any signed a cafy? No, the boys of the

830
00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:33,559
highway turn off haven't seen her or Benny either one.

831
00:40:34,119 --> 00:40:35,679
Not a soul out that way in the last hour.

832
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:37,239
Speaker 6: What about there at this Hormon.

833
00:40:37,119 --> 00:40:39,360
Speaker 3: Nothing Mike, No fresh tracks on the logging road, no

834
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:41,599
sign of her. And the worst thing is it's starting

835
00:40:41,639 --> 00:40:42,239
to snow again.

836
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:45,119
Speaker 6: Yeah, you're in town two, Dan Martin, just phone.

837
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:45,920
Speaker 4: No luck.

838
00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:48,320
Speaker 3: She hasn't shown up at any of the roadblock. She's

839
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:50,920
she's around somewhere, and we've got to find her. We will, Mike,

840
00:40:51,159 --> 00:40:52,119
and it's got to be fast.

841
00:40:52,159 --> 00:40:52,559
Speaker 5: Johnny.

842
00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:55,159
Speaker 3: There's a blizzard coming up, and that gunman Benny Stock

843
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:58,119
is around two. Maybe he's already found her, maybe even

844
00:40:58,119 --> 00:41:00,519
took her from the house hard and jail boat. Maybe

845
00:41:00,519 --> 00:41:01,800
she didn't get scared and run.

846
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:02,559
Speaker 6: Maybe it was him.

847
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:05,079
Speaker 3: Maybe I stop at that kind of thing. It's not

848
00:41:05,079 --> 00:41:07,800
gonna help anything. I don't know, but I've got a

849
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:09,719
half baked idea and I may be right. Stay there

850
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:11,320
at the house. I'm coming back to pick you up.

851
00:41:11,679 --> 00:41:13,639
And one thing you can do while you're waiting, what

852
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:29,320
Johnny pray? From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar location, Branbury, Michigan

853
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:33,199
to the home office Trimutual Insurance Limited, Hartford, Connecticut, assignment

854
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:37,199
the Nick Shuran matter, or more important, find Kathy. O'Dare

855
00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:41,440
itdem twelve on expense account four dollars and ninety cents.

856
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:43,320
A tank full of gas for the county pickup I'd

857
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:46,440
borrow from Deputy Sheriff Dan Martin. The falling snow was

858
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:48,679
thickening now, and the wind was rising and steadying in

859
00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:51,320
the northwest. The night had all the makings of a

860
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:54,199
blizzard and wherever Kathy and her daughter had gone, we

861
00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:58,719
had to find them before it hit. It was ten

862
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:01,280
fourteen PM. I pulled up at the side porch of

863
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:03,960
the adarehouse and Kathy's father came hurrying out to the truck,

864
00:42:04,039 --> 00:42:06,519
leaving the door open behind him and butting his heavy mcnaws.

865
00:42:06,519 --> 00:42:07,000
He ran.

866
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:10,159
Speaker 6: And he knew was my hut her king.

867
00:42:10,199 --> 00:42:11,360
Speaker 3: All right, get in, shut the door.

868
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:15,320
Speaker 6: Hey, we'll get a foot of snow before money with

869
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:16,440
a zero win behind it.

870
00:42:16,559 --> 00:42:19,119
Speaker 3: Now, listen, Mike, I think we can forget any idea

871
00:42:19,119 --> 00:42:20,840
that Benny found her and got her out of the house.

872
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:23,280
In that case, she wouldn't have taken your car. He's

873
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:24,039
already got one.

874
00:42:24,119 --> 00:42:24,400
Speaker 6: I know.

875
00:42:24,639 --> 00:42:26,239
Speaker 3: I thought her there, and he wouldn't have given her

876
00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:28,039
time to dress herself in jail the way she did

877
00:42:28,079 --> 00:42:30,320
with heavy clothes and snow boots, and she wouldn't have

878
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:32,800
taken the rifle. Then what has happened? She knew I'd

879
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:34,880
be there to talk to her sometime this evening. I

880
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:37,039
think she lost a nerve, couldn't face it, decided to

881
00:42:37,119 --> 00:42:39,679
run again. Maybe so, but where Johnny, That's what I

882
00:42:39,679 --> 00:42:42,480
want you to tell me that now I don't mean,

883
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:44,320
you knew what she was going to do and where

884
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:46,199
she was gonna go, or now, how do you think

885
00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:49,320
I can tell you? Look, Kathy knew about the roadblock

886
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:51,679
Stan Martin set up to trap Benny Stock, knew where

887
00:42:51,679 --> 00:42:54,079
they were, so she didn't want to be seen. Then

888
00:42:54,159 --> 00:42:56,760
naturally she'd avoid them. She couldn't not if she wanted

889
00:42:56,800 --> 00:42:59,039
to get away, take the highway to Fleet to Detroit,

890
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:01,280
she'd have to pass one of them at least. But

891
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:03,559
she hasn't passed any of them. So she's still in

892
00:43:03,559 --> 00:43:05,679
this area, and I don't think she ever meant to

893
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:08,159
leave it. But then, Martin said, Cathy used to spend

894
00:43:08,199 --> 00:43:09,519
a lot of time in the woods when she was

895
00:43:09,559 --> 00:43:11,840
growing up. He said, she knew every back trail in

896
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:13,880
these hills, logging camps, trappers, cabins.

897
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:16,280
Speaker 6: She did. She used to worry that dickens out to

898
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:16,800
be the way.

899
00:43:16,679 --> 00:43:20,239
Speaker 3: She Yeah, Now, where would she go, Mike, if she

900
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:22,039
wanted to hide out back in the hill somewhere?

901
00:43:22,039 --> 00:43:26,480
Speaker 6: There's a lot of places, Chippewa canyons, one here for

902
00:43:26,639 --> 00:43:30,039
timbercamps abandoned in the winter, some cabins along it.

903
00:43:30,599 --> 00:43:33,679
Speaker 3: No, No, she couldn't make it. There's a roadblock before

904
00:43:33,679 --> 00:43:35,480
you get to the turnout there. It's gotta be some

905
00:43:35,519 --> 00:43:37,039
place she could reach without being seen.

906
00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:41,599
Speaker 6: There's there's workers flats. Oh, but that's twelve miles of

907
00:43:41,679 --> 00:43:44,199
foot trail. She wouldn't try it in this weather, not

908
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:47,320
with Gill along anyway. Then there's.

909
00:43:48,599 --> 00:43:52,400
Speaker 3: Lake Pine. No, it's over the other way, Pine Lake

910
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:56,519
rows that runs northwestern town. Not much better than the

911
00:43:56,519 --> 00:43:59,239
wagon road. Dan didn't put a block on it because

912
00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:02,400
the dead ends lake about five miles out. What's out there?

913
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:04,920
Nothing at the lake, but you can go on up

914
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:08,239
Pine Creek about four miles on foot, and there's some cabins.

915
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:16,719
Maybe you waste the time journey. Let's get gone expense account.

916
00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:19,280
It am thirteen six dollars and ninety cents one dry

917
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:21,719
cell electric lantern, an extra pair of batteries picked up

918
00:44:21,719 --> 00:44:23,679
at the Branberry Hardware Company. And the way through town,

919
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:26,840
the falling snow, driven by a bitter cold wind, formed

920
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:29,280
a dense curtain in front of our headlights, and from

921
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:31,320
the turnoff all the way up the narrow twisting road

922
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:32,760
to Pine Lake, I had to keep the truck in

923
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:35,760
second gear. There were car tracks in the road all right,

924
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:38,239
several of them. But they were covered now with a

925
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:40,920
new blanket of snow, and it was impossible to tell

926
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:43,559
whether they'd been made earlier, tonight or a week ago.

927
00:44:46,519 --> 00:44:49,039
Speaker 6: The road ends a couple of yards past this next turn,

928
00:44:49,119 --> 00:44:52,360
and we'll soon know. There's four or five side turnoffs

929
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:55,880
clearance where you can park. We'll have to check out

930
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:58,079
of them. I guess, all right, that draw there on

931
00:44:58,159 --> 00:45:01,039
the right, that break there in the tree, that's where

932
00:45:01,039 --> 00:45:02,480
the Pine Creek trailer starts.

933
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:05,880
Speaker 3: I was swinging Mike. I guess we won't have to

934
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:06,760
check those turnops.

935
00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:07,199
Speaker 6: Eh.

936
00:45:07,559 --> 00:45:09,519
Speaker 3: Is that your car over there under the trees.

937
00:45:10,719 --> 00:45:12,519
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's it.

938
00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:16,599
Speaker 3: I left Mike waiting in the cab while I went

939
00:45:16,639 --> 00:45:20,039
over to look inside the car. It was empty, abandoned,

940
00:45:20,599 --> 00:45:22,400
and there was no note, no clue of any kind

941
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:25,239
to tell where Kathy had gone. I raised the hood

942
00:45:25,239 --> 00:45:28,039
and felt the motor block ice cold. The car had

943
00:45:28,079 --> 00:45:30,920
been here for some time. I flashed the lantern on

944
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:32,920
the ground and followed the faint tracks made by two

945
00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:35,440
pairs of snow boats the end of the deep draw

946
00:45:35,559 --> 00:45:37,360
that led back into the hills, the start of the

947
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:40,440
Pine Creek trail. I snapped off the lantern and stumbled

948
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:41,599
through the snow back to the truck.

949
00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:46,840
Speaker 6: But you're pine, Johnny.

950
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:48,880
Speaker 3: It's them all right, they've headed up the trail. I

951
00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:49,800
found tracks in the snow.

952
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:51,320
Speaker 6: Then we'd better get started.

953
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:54,159
Speaker 3: Oh wait, I'll go after the mic. You take the truck,

954
00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:56,400
go into town, find Dan Martin, bring help as fast

955
00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:57,840
as you can. That storm's getting worse.

956
00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:00,639
Speaker 6: No you don't. I know there is darting up that

957
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:03,079
trailer with a blizzard coming on. And if you think

958
00:46:03,119 --> 00:46:04,719
you got to protect me, but I said, I got

959
00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:06,559
on Mike. There's no time, and you're wrong. I'm not

960
00:46:06,599 --> 00:46:08,760
protecting you. I'm protecting myself. What do you mean that

961
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:09,599
bum lag of yours.

962
00:46:09,639 --> 00:46:11,239
Speaker 3: I don't want you on my hands too, along with

963
00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:12,400
the girls.

964
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:15,239
Speaker 6: All right, Johnny, I'll go after.

965
00:46:15,119 --> 00:46:22,519
Speaker 3: Day and hurry Mike. I'm depending on you. Yeah, good luck, Johnny,

966
00:46:22,559 --> 00:46:35,960
see you, Mike. I stood there in the snow watching

967
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:39,440
the headlights of the truck move away. Finally they swung

968
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:43,079
around the bend and disappeared, and I suddenly felt more

969
00:46:43,119 --> 00:46:46,119
alone than I ever had in my life. I'd gotten

970
00:46:46,199 --> 00:46:49,320
rid of Mike, deliberately sent him away on purpose, because

971
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:52,199
I hadn't told him everything. I could see no point

972
00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:55,480
in tearing his heart out. There was another car parked

973
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:58,840
on beyond Kathy. He's nearly hidden by the trees. Jed

974
00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:02,280
Wharton's station wagon, the car that had been stolen by

975
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:12,360
a killer named Benny Stark. It took me half an

976
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:14,519
hour to cover the first mile, and the storm kept

977
00:47:14,519 --> 00:47:17,599
getting worse. The beam of the lantern penetrated a bare

978
00:47:17,639 --> 00:47:19,599
thirty feet ahead of me before it was smothered out

979
00:47:19,599 --> 00:47:22,320
in the white blackness of the night. After a few

980
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:24,360
hundred yards, the tracks I was trying to follow it

981
00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:28,360
nearly disappeared. Snowboll were blotted out. I gave up looking

982
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:30,639
for them and struck to Old Mike's description of the

983
00:47:30,679 --> 00:47:33,920
trail following the left bank of the frozen Creek. The

984
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:36,199
drifts were deeper down along the creek bottoms, and the

985
00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:38,800
going was rougher, but I didn't dare leave it to

986
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:41,360
look for better footing. It was my only landmark. The

987
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:44,519
trail itself was buried. Any man who lost his way

988
00:47:44,559 --> 00:47:46,320
to night and wandered off into one of those side

989
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:55,280
gullies with wanted us straight to his death. An hour passed,

990
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:58,559
then an hour and a half, or two hours. Maybe

991
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:02,480
I lost all track of time. And distance. The wind

992
00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:05,000
cut through my clothes, and the numbing pole crept into

993
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:10,360
me deeper and deeper. Gradually, the walking, stumbling, breathing, even

994
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:14,719
thinking became automatic, and without feeling, the world itself seemed

995
00:48:14,719 --> 00:48:17,320
to narrow down to a tiny circle close around me,

996
00:48:18,039 --> 00:48:22,159
and all beyond was chaos, blackness, and roaring storm. I

997
00:48:22,239 --> 00:48:24,920
tripped over fallen logs and flundered back to my feet,

998
00:48:25,519 --> 00:48:28,280
dropped my landin and recovered it. Me broke through the

999
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:31,920
crested brists and struggled for footing and kept on moving

1000
00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:39,599
in the weird nightmare of the blizzard. I could highly

1001
00:48:39,679 --> 00:48:42,159
recognize reality when I came face to face with it.

1002
00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:44,800
When a beam from my lantern touched him, crouching by

1003
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:47,559
a tree a few yards away, I could barely accept

1004
00:48:47,639 --> 00:48:50,239
him as being real. He'd been watching my light as

1005
00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:53,400
I approached, waiting for me. It was Benny Stark, with

1006
00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:57,440
his gun leveled and named, don't be a fool, Benny,

1007
00:48:58,199 --> 00:49:09,119
drop that gun. A curtain of snow swept between us,

1008
00:49:09,119 --> 00:49:11,480
then plotting out the side of them, and I was grateful.

1009
00:49:12,159 --> 00:49:14,320
I turned and stumbled on into the storm, moving in

1010
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:17,519
pitch darkness. Now except for the ghostly glow from the

1011
00:49:17,559 --> 00:49:20,800
snow covered ground. The second shot had smashed my land,

1012
00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:22,960
and I had nothing left to go by but instinct

1013
00:49:22,960 --> 00:49:26,480
and luck, and they weren't enough. Within fifteen minutes, I

1014
00:49:26,519 --> 00:49:38,400
was hopelessly lost. That's when I started hearing the music

1015
00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:42,079
miles from no place where there couldn't be any music

1016
00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:46,880
except inside my head. The cold and fatigue were finally

1017
00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:49,880
doing their work. I knew the signs. The next step

1018
00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:52,840
was to start wandering in circles smaller and smaller ones,

1019
00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:56,559
and the last step to drop exhausted and go peacefully,

1020
00:49:56,599 --> 00:50:03,159
to sleep, peacefully and permanently. But the sound kept going louder,

1021
00:50:03,840 --> 00:50:05,639
and I moved in the direction it seemed to be

1022
00:50:05,639 --> 00:50:10,159
coming from. It couldn't be just illusions. It had to

1023
00:50:10,199 --> 00:50:21,199
be real. Hello, Hello there. Then suddenly, only a few

1024
00:50:21,239 --> 00:50:24,079
yards away, a brilliant blaze of light exploded from the darkness,

1025
00:50:24,599 --> 00:50:27,000
and it seemed that a golden haired girl was standing

1026
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:29,119
in the middle of it, And for a moment, my

1027
00:50:29,199 --> 00:50:32,679
sanity tottered, who's out there? My golden vision was wearing

1028
00:50:32,679 --> 00:50:34,920
blue jeans and a flannel shirt and was holding a rifle.

1029
00:50:35,519 --> 00:50:38,159
She looked exactly like the photograph I'd seen of Kathy Adare,

1030
00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:41,360
and the blaze of light came from an open cabin door.

1031
00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:41,840
Speaker 16: Who is it?

1032
00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:47,360
Speaker 3: Speak up for our shoe? Holy mystair, it's Johnny Dollar.

1033
00:50:55,280 --> 00:50:56,519
Speaker 16: Are you getting warm now?

1034
00:50:57,159 --> 00:50:58,519
Speaker 3: I don't think I'll ever get warm again?

1035
00:50:58,760 --> 00:51:00,440
Speaker 16: You will if you don't move away from stove a

1036
00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:02,320
little the back. You're sure you're starting to smoke?

1037
00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:05,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought I was beginning to feel something. How's

1038
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:06,360
the firewood?

1039
00:51:06,599 --> 00:51:09,280
Speaker 16: There's plenty. It's plenty of food and a radio.

1040
00:51:10,239 --> 00:51:12,280
Speaker 3: If I hadn't heard that music, had a blunded right

1041
00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:13,159
on past this, Kevin.

1042
00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:14,320
Speaker 10: We've got everything.

1043
00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:16,360
Speaker 16: We can hold out for a month if.

1044
00:51:16,239 --> 00:51:16,679
Speaker 8: We have to.

1045
00:51:18,159 --> 00:51:19,000
Speaker 16: I hope we have to.

1046
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:21,000
Speaker 3: What about your daughter? You all right?

1047
00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:26,320
Speaker 16: Sure she's fine? The picnic for her a camping trip

1048
00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:30,079
she's found asleep back there, and the lean too dreaming

1049
00:51:30,079 --> 00:51:35,719
about Santa Claus. I suppose I wish I could. How

1050
00:51:35,719 --> 00:51:37,119
did you find me, mister Dollar?

1051
00:51:37,599 --> 00:51:41,280
Speaker 3: Huh, guess work. I was born under a lucky story.

1052
00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:42,000
Speaker 4: I wasn't.

1053
00:51:42,719 --> 00:51:45,000
Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know. I think you've been pretty lucky

1054
00:51:45,039 --> 00:51:48,800
considering everything, more so than your landlady back in New York,

1055
00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:53,199
Missus Grappler, what do you mean very stark? Went to

1056
00:51:53,199 --> 00:51:56,320
see her, tried to find out where you were. When

1057
00:51:56,320 --> 00:52:01,119
she wouldn't tell me, broke her arm. Oh no, oh, oh,

1058
00:52:01,119 --> 00:52:03,039
it's a rough game, and so dear trying to play

1059
00:52:03,039 --> 00:52:06,239
it cozy with a mobster like Nick Shran. You know,

1060
00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:08,239
of course, that he sent Benny here to find you.

1061
00:52:08,239 --> 00:52:10,079
Speaker 16: You'll have a hard time finding me in this thing.

1062
00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:13,559
Speaker 3: He did find you, what maybe he followed you from

1063
00:52:13,559 --> 00:52:17,039
the house. I saw you drive through town anyway. I

1064
00:52:17,119 --> 00:52:18,960
ran into him back down the trailerways.

1065
00:52:19,159 --> 00:52:20,840
Speaker 16: I thought, I, you're shooting A while ago.

1066
00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:24,280
Speaker 3: You did. He tried to ambush me. He thought he

1067
00:52:24,320 --> 00:52:27,280
had the drop, and he wouldn't give up. I had

1068
00:52:27,320 --> 00:52:48,519
to kill him. Johnny Dollar, Johnny Dollar, spill it. J

1069
00:52:49,159 --> 00:52:55,719
O h n n y d O l l a R.

1070
00:52:56,679 --> 00:53:00,159
Speaker 17: That's not right. You forgot to capitalize.

1071
00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:01,000
Speaker 3: You're right, honey.

1072
00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:02,400
Speaker 4: Let me hear you.

1073
00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:07,599
Speaker 17: Spell your name, okay, capital j I L L jill,

1074
00:53:08,159 --> 00:53:14,400
capital O apostrophe, apostrophe. I never can say that capital

1075
00:53:14,519 --> 00:53:18,599
d ai dare. Of course, my last name is actually

1076
00:53:18,719 --> 00:53:21,719
something else I forget, but my mother says I'm really

1077
00:53:21,719 --> 00:53:22,840
an o' dare, not the.

1078
00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:24,719
Speaker 3: Least out about it. I can see it in my

1079
00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:28,440
minna I like you, Johnny Dollar, and I kind of

1080
00:53:28,559 --> 00:53:31,079
like you too. Jell old, Dare you.

1081
00:53:31,079 --> 00:53:32,119
Speaker 16: Think my mother's pretty?

1082
00:53:33,280 --> 00:53:34,239
Speaker 3: I think she's lovely.

1083
00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:36,800
Speaker 17: Why don't you get married to her so I can

1084
00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:37,480
have a daddy?

1085
00:53:39,079 --> 00:53:43,239
Speaker 3: Well, that's it's certainly something to think about and not

1086
00:53:43,360 --> 00:53:46,679
a bad idea. Now, I'll be quiet before you wake

1087
00:53:46,719 --> 00:53:47,000
her up.

1088
00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:49,880
Speaker 16: I'm already awaken with a plot like that being hats

1089
00:53:49,920 --> 00:53:53,000
but I think I better stay awake. Is there coffee, Johnny?

1090
00:54:02,559 --> 00:54:06,000
Speaker 3: From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, location a small cabin in

1091
00:54:06,039 --> 00:54:09,639
the timber outside Branbury, Michigan, to the home office Trimutual

1092
00:54:09,679 --> 00:54:14,480
Insurance Limited, Hartford, Connecticut. Assignment the Nick Shuran matter expense

1093
00:54:14,519 --> 00:54:18,679
account final page item fifteen one million dollars for a

1094
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:22,000
certain feeling. I realize, of course, that the amount of

1095
00:54:22,039 --> 00:54:24,840
this item is somewhat unusual. It may be cause for

1096
00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:28,760
mild criticism by your accounting department unless the accompanying report

1097
00:54:28,840 --> 00:54:32,920
includes an adequate and detailed explanation. Therefore, to avoid unnecessary

1098
00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:39,159
correspondence and delay, I am attaching said explanation herewith here's

1099
00:54:39,199 --> 00:54:40,400
your coffee, Canny day.

1100
00:54:42,920 --> 00:54:44,199
Speaker 16: How long did I sleep, Johnny?

1101
00:54:44,639 --> 00:54:47,159
Speaker 3: Oh, A couple of hours it's around four in the morning.

1102
00:54:47,480 --> 00:54:49,079
Speaker 16: Storm hasn't let up at all, has it?

1103
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:50,719
Speaker 3: Oh, it's worse if anything.

1104
00:54:51,880 --> 00:54:54,400
Speaker 16: Still, Honey, it's four o'clock in the morning and your

1105
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:56,920
eyes are just about to fall out. Now you go

1106
00:54:57,039 --> 00:54:58,159
back there and go to sleep.

1107
00:54:58,360 --> 00:54:59,480
Speaker 8: Do I have to moon?

1108
00:54:59,559 --> 00:55:03,079
Speaker 17: You have to I long now, mister Johnny Dollar, and

1109
00:55:03,159 --> 00:55:05,159
you were having a lot of fun till you wocal.

1110
00:55:05,599 --> 00:55:09,519
Speaker 16: Well, that's life, sweetie. Night now, good night.

1111
00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:12,760
Speaker 10: Proud of her.

1112
00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:15,559
Speaker 16: I'm crazy about her, that's what you mean.

1113
00:55:16,199 --> 00:55:17,280
Speaker 3: She's a great little girl.

1114
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:20,079
Speaker 16: She's the only thing I ever did in my whole

1115
00:55:20,159 --> 00:55:26,760
life that turned out right that bad. Huh, Johnny, it's

1116
00:55:26,840 --> 00:55:29,000
no good. I know why you're here. I know what

1117
00:55:29,119 --> 00:55:30,679
you expect from me, and the answer is no.

1118
00:55:31,119 --> 00:55:33,320
Speaker 3: You're jumping the gun. I haven't asked you anything.

1119
00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:33,760
Speaker 1: You will.

1120
00:55:34,159 --> 00:55:36,599
Speaker 16: You haven't done all this for nothing. You're going to

1121
00:55:36,639 --> 00:55:38,519
ask me to come back to New York and testify

1122
00:55:38,559 --> 00:55:39,440
against Nick Sharon.

1123
00:55:39,880 --> 00:55:42,440
Speaker 3: I might ask you to tell the truth. Is that

1124
00:55:42,639 --> 00:55:43,639
just another way of wording it.

1125
00:55:44,320 --> 00:55:48,519
Speaker 16: I didn't see anything, hear anything. I don't know anything

1126
00:55:48,559 --> 00:55:50,039
about it, and I have nothing to say.

1127
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:54,159
Speaker 3: So next Sharon gets away with another murder, I wouldn't

1128
00:55:54,199 --> 00:55:56,239
know anything about that, and sooner or later, of course

1129
00:55:56,320 --> 00:55:58,679
he'll kill you too. He sent Benny Stark out to

1130
00:55:58,719 --> 00:56:00,559
do it, and Benny missed. But he's got other boys,

1131
00:56:00,760 --> 00:56:02,280
or he might even handle the job himself.

1132
00:56:02,519 --> 00:56:04,599
Speaker 16: Why by now he ought to know that.

1133
00:56:04,679 --> 00:56:06,760
Speaker 3: I'm not going to tell, but there's always that chance

1134
00:56:06,800 --> 00:56:08,880
you might change your mind. And Nick's a gambler, but

1135
00:56:08,960 --> 00:56:11,440
he likes the odds on his side. He doesn't take chances.

1136
00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:13,280
Whenever he can, he stacks the deck.

1137
00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:18,760
Speaker 16: I wish I could help you, Johnny, but I don't

1138
00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:21,440
know anything about it. I left before it happened.

1139
00:56:22,239 --> 00:56:24,679
Speaker 3: How long have you worked for Nick? Sharon known him

1140
00:56:25,159 --> 00:56:25,719
two years.

1141
00:56:26,880 --> 00:56:29,960
Speaker 16: I'm not wide eyed about him, Johnny. I've heard what

1142
00:56:30,079 --> 00:56:34,960
he's been what He may even still be a gangster, hoodlum, racketeer,

1143
00:56:35,079 --> 00:56:39,360
but that's none of my business. The club was legitimate.

1144
00:56:39,519 --> 00:56:41,840
My job there was on the level, and he never

1145
00:56:41,920 --> 00:56:42,960
got out of line once.

1146
00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:45,280
Speaker 3: And now Dodd. He's always been kind to his mother

1147
00:56:45,400 --> 00:56:46,719
and loves dogs and children.

1148
00:56:46,760 --> 00:56:51,000
Speaker 16: I wouldn't know except children. He's crazy about them. He

1149
00:56:51,119 --> 00:56:54,199
was always buying something for Jill, asking about it.

1150
00:56:54,440 --> 00:56:56,559
Speaker 3: And they also shot and killed Milk Pricker.

1151
00:56:57,400 --> 00:57:00,039
Speaker 16: I couldn't say, I see.

1152
00:57:01,719 --> 00:57:05,079
Speaker 3: Well, you're letting a lot of people down, people here

1153
00:57:05,119 --> 00:57:07,639
in Branbury that you grew up with, people that love you,

1154
00:57:08,159 --> 00:57:09,519
your father, Dan Martin.

1155
00:57:09,599 --> 00:57:10,559
Speaker 16: What have they got to do with it?

1156
00:57:10,639 --> 00:57:13,079
Speaker 3: You know, it's a great country up here. I'd like

1157
00:57:13,159 --> 00:57:15,719
to spend more time in it. And it's a big country,

1158
00:57:15,880 --> 00:57:19,440
big and beautiful and dangerous like that blizzard outside there.

1159
00:57:20,639 --> 00:57:23,119
It's not the kind of country that turns out cowards.

1160
00:57:23,679 --> 00:57:24,119
Speaker 16: Cowards.

1161
00:57:24,679 --> 00:57:28,239
Speaker 3: Your father said something yesterday that some people belong in

1162
00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:30,920
cities and some don't, and that you're one of the

1163
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:31,679
second kind.

1164
00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:32,960
Speaker 4: He was right.

1165
00:57:33,719 --> 00:57:34,880
Speaker 3: The city's made a coward of you.

1166
00:57:35,280 --> 00:57:36,079
Speaker 16: You don't understand.

1167
00:57:36,199 --> 00:57:38,360
Speaker 3: They know it, oh, Mike, Dan, all of them. Of

1168
00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:41,599
course they'll never mention it, but you're letting them down,

1169
00:57:41,639 --> 00:57:43,760
and they know it, and you know it, Kathy.

1170
00:57:43,880 --> 00:57:45,119
Speaker 16: They don't have a daughter to think of it.

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00:57:45,159 --> 00:57:47,519
Speaker 3: It's not her fear. We're talking about it yours.

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00:57:47,320 --> 00:57:47,679
Speaker 13: All right.

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00:57:47,800 --> 00:57:50,519
Speaker 16: I'm scared. I've got reason to be. It's easy for

1174
00:57:50,559 --> 00:57:52,320
you to talk. You don't know what fear is, what

1175
00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:52,760
it can.

1176
00:57:52,719 --> 00:57:53,079
Speaker 6: Do to you.

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00:57:53,239 --> 00:57:53,559
Speaker 3: I don't.

1178
00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:55,320
Speaker 16: It can push you and drive you and make you

1179
00:57:55,400 --> 00:57:55,840
do things.

1180
00:57:55,719 --> 00:57:58,000
Speaker 3: You hate yourself for, and it can destroy.

1181
00:57:57,760 --> 00:58:00,679
Speaker 16: How would you know? How would any of them who

1182
00:58:00,760 --> 00:58:02,840
haven't felt it, who haven't been there.

1183
00:58:02,840 --> 00:58:06,079
Speaker 3: Jnathy, You're not alone. We've all been there. It's not

1184
00:58:06,199 --> 00:58:09,559
the fear that's important, it's the courage you bring up

1185
00:58:09,599 --> 00:58:10,000
to fight it.

1186
00:58:10,239 --> 00:58:13,320
Speaker 16: I've tried, I've I've nearly goten crazy trying to think

1187
00:58:13,360 --> 00:58:15,400
it out. But it always comes back.

1188
00:58:15,239 --> 00:58:16,679
Speaker 10: To one thing. Jill.

1189
00:58:17,280 --> 00:58:19,199
Speaker 16: She's what counts. Nothing else matters.

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00:58:19,239 --> 00:58:21,599
Speaker 3: And if you love her, teacher to grow up without fear,

1191
00:58:21,719 --> 00:58:24,079
sacrifice anything, if you have to leave in your life,

1192
00:58:24,079 --> 00:58:27,639
but teach your courage. There's nothing greater you could do for.

1193
00:58:30,599 --> 00:58:37,360
Speaker 16: Sorry, all right, Sorry, I knew what was right, Johnny,

1194
00:58:38,119 --> 00:58:39,119
I knew all time.

1195
00:58:39,679 --> 00:58:42,159
Speaker 3: Sure, of course you did. All you needed was a

1196
00:58:42,159 --> 00:58:45,920
little push. I want to tell me about it now.

1197
00:58:48,239 --> 00:58:53,599
Speaker 16: I was here at the club that night when it happened.

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00:58:54,079 --> 00:58:56,679
I stayed after closing. I had some presents for Jill,

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and I wanted to wrap them before I took them home.

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00:59:00,320 --> 00:59:02,239
Nick and north Priker were upstairs in the office.

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00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:03,119
Speaker 3: Nick was there, Yes.

1202
00:59:03,559 --> 00:59:06,440
Speaker 16: I could hear them arguing. They didn't know I'd stayed

1203
00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:10,079
in the go on. I heard Mel yell out, he

1204
00:59:10,119 --> 00:59:13,000
said no, Nick, No, And then I heard the shots.

1205
00:59:13,239 --> 00:59:14,719
Speaker 3: Yes, I didn't even think.

1206
00:59:15,280 --> 00:59:17,719
Speaker 16: I ran up to the office. Mel was lying on

1207
00:59:17,760 --> 00:59:19,559
the floor and Nick was standing there with a gun.

1208
00:59:20,320 --> 00:59:22,039
He told me to get out and to keep quiet

1209
00:59:22,559 --> 00:59:25,760
if I wanted to keep on living, that's it.

1210
00:59:26,559 --> 00:59:29,400
Speaker 3: Yes, will you make a statement to the police, testify

1211
00:59:29,440 --> 00:59:29,920
at the trial.

1212
00:59:32,119 --> 00:59:33,440
Speaker 15: Yes, I'm going there.

1213
00:59:34,760 --> 00:59:35,920
Speaker 16: Will you help me, Johnny?

1214
00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:37,920
Speaker 10: Will you stand by me?

1215
00:59:38,119 --> 00:59:40,599
Speaker 3: You know I will got too, because I'm scared.

1216
00:59:41,679 --> 00:59:44,480
Speaker 16: I'll be scared all the way, but I'll do it

1217
00:59:44,519 --> 00:59:45,119
if you will help me.

1218
00:59:45,159 --> 00:59:49,119
Speaker 3: I'll help you, Kathy all away. Why don't you curl

1219
00:59:49,159 --> 00:59:50,079
up here and get some sleep?

1220
00:59:51,039 --> 00:59:56,400
Speaker 16: Come on, maybe, No, I can't sleep. It's going to

1221
00:59:56,440 --> 01:00:02,960
be all right, thanks Johnny giving me the push. Oh sure, honey,

1222
01:00:06,320 --> 01:00:08,920
you know something, Johnny. I'm with Jill.

1223
01:00:10,480 --> 01:00:11,280
Speaker 8: I like you too.

1224
01:00:14,599 --> 01:00:16,760
Speaker 3: She went to sleep with a face against my chest,

1225
01:00:17,719 --> 01:00:20,199
and after a while little Jill came tiptoeing in and

1226
01:00:20,320 --> 01:00:23,280
curled up on the other side. And I sat there,

1227
01:00:23,360 --> 01:00:28,760
holding them both, thinking and waiting for the dawn. So

1228
01:00:28,880 --> 01:00:31,920
that's what I mean about a million dollar feeling. True.

1229
01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:34,880
It wasn't my little girl or my big girl either,

1230
01:00:35,960 --> 01:00:39,679
but for the moment at least, well, that item still

1231
01:00:39,760 --> 01:00:43,960
goes I'll still tag that feeling at one million dollars,

1232
01:00:48,280 --> 01:00:50,159
and I was sorry when the storm was over and

1233
01:00:50,239 --> 01:00:53,679
the rescue party came up from town, because I felt

1234
01:00:53,719 --> 01:00:56,760
I'd had one moment in a lifetime that I'd never

1235
01:00:56,880 --> 01:00:57,440
find again.

1236
01:00:58,360 --> 01:00:59,920
Speaker 15: Good went last.

1237
01:01:05,559 --> 01:01:07,400
Speaker 3: The big event of the year in Bramburry was the

1238
01:01:07,480 --> 01:01:09,880
Christmas Eve show in the town hall. There was music

1239
01:01:10,000 --> 01:01:12,719
and a pageant and singing, and everybody took part in it,

1240
01:01:12,840 --> 01:01:14,960
from the youngest kid in town to the toughest, old

1241
01:01:15,000 --> 01:01:18,000
grizzled lumberjack from the back hills. Jill was in the

1242
01:01:18,079 --> 01:01:20,440
children's car as and Old Mike was to operate the spotlights,

1243
01:01:20,480 --> 01:01:23,760
so they went on ahead. I took Kathy, and since

1244
01:01:23,800 --> 01:01:25,599
she wasn't quite ready to face people yet, we made

1245
01:01:25,599 --> 01:01:28,000
a point of getting there late. I didn't care when

1246
01:01:28,079 --> 01:01:29,719
we got there, as long as I was with her.

1247
01:01:32,360 --> 01:01:34,480
We slipped in quietly and took seats at the back

1248
01:01:34,519 --> 01:01:36,760
of the room. The spring group from the high school

1249
01:01:36,840 --> 01:01:39,039
orchestra was playing, and no one noticed us, not even

1250
01:01:39,079 --> 01:01:41,360
Old Mike, Cappy's father, who was working in the spotlights.

1251
01:01:42,800 --> 01:01:45,000
Speaker 16: I hope Jill Guzar actually hasn't had any time to

1252
01:01:45,079 --> 01:01:45,719
practice with him.

1253
01:01:45,760 --> 01:01:49,320
Speaker 3: Well, she'll do all right. We'd been there about ten

1254
01:01:49,400 --> 01:01:51,519
minutes when somebody else came in and slid into the

1255
01:01:51,599 --> 01:01:54,239
one seat between us and the door. I didn't look

1256
01:01:54,280 --> 01:01:57,480
around until I felt campy stiffen beside me. It was

1257
01:01:57,599 --> 01:02:01,079
Nick Shern. Nobody gets excited now, any sudden moves.

1258
01:02:01,760 --> 01:02:03,119
Speaker 10: We just said, here quiet light.

1259
01:02:03,360 --> 01:02:05,400
Speaker 3: He slid his hand over the feeling inside my coat

1260
01:02:05,519 --> 01:02:06,119
under my arm.

1261
01:02:06,480 --> 01:02:08,239
Speaker 10: I'm backing a runner perfect.

1262
01:02:08,440 --> 01:02:10,760
Speaker 3: I'd left my gun at Kathy's household. Mike had been

1263
01:02:10,800 --> 01:02:12,800
dubious about it, but with Benny dead, I'd seen no

1264
01:02:12,840 --> 01:02:15,360
reason to carry it, and after all, it was Christmas.

1265
01:02:15,039 --> 01:02:16,880
Speaker 10: Even all right now I was gonna ease out of

1266
01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:17,280
you now.

1267
01:02:17,440 --> 01:02:20,360
Speaker 3: It out attract no attention, many crazy nick yours.

1268
01:02:21,159 --> 01:02:23,119
Speaker 10: And just don't forget one thing.

1269
01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:26,679
Speaker 3: Though, and that whole that's gun, I knew, he saying,

1270
01:02:26,800 --> 01:02:31,920
right at the miller Cathy's back. Let's go, no choice, Candy.

1271
01:02:31,960 --> 01:02:36,000
Come on, the back of the room was dark, nobody

1272
01:02:36,039 --> 01:02:38,440
paid any attention, and somebody was always leaving or coming

1273
01:02:38,519 --> 01:02:38,760
back in.

1274
01:02:44,519 --> 01:02:44,760
Speaker 4: Come on.

1275
01:02:45,360 --> 01:02:49,840
Speaker 6: I got a car over to, saida Johnny, watch your dollar.

1276
01:02:50,239 --> 01:02:51,960
Speaker 3: We'll be right back. Mike.

1277
01:02:52,239 --> 01:02:55,039
Speaker 6: Just gonna get some there, all right, Johnny. But don't

1278
01:02:55,079 --> 01:02:58,119
go running out before I give you your present. Huh here,

1279
01:02:59,280 --> 01:03:01,480
and don't turn it cork that until you're ready for

1280
01:03:01,599 --> 01:03:02,679
some serious business.

1281
01:03:03,039 --> 01:03:06,840
Speaker 3: All right, I'll I'll thanks Mike, thanks a lot.

1282
01:03:06,800 --> 01:03:08,840
Speaker 6: God mention it. Good luck, Johnny.

1283
01:03:10,320 --> 01:03:12,000
Speaker 10: Hell, come on, let's get away from here.

1284
01:03:14,000 --> 01:03:22,119
Speaker 16: Johnny, Jill go back. You tell me you're coming here.

1285
01:03:22,199 --> 01:03:22,519
Speaker 10: You hear me.

1286
01:03:25,800 --> 01:03:29,679
Speaker 3: Listen, Please, Uncle, get your hands on your pocket and.

1287
01:03:29,719 --> 01:03:30,320
Speaker 17: Pick me up.

1288
01:03:31,559 --> 01:03:33,480
Speaker 10: Look, Jill, you run alone.

1289
01:03:33,559 --> 01:03:36,559
Speaker 3: Now, who's that Dan Martin. He's a deputy sheriff and

1290
01:03:36,599 --> 01:03:38,599
he's a dead shot. Better do like she says, Nick,

1291
01:03:38,679 --> 01:03:39,840
take your hand out of your pocket and.

1292
01:03:39,840 --> 01:03:40,320
Speaker 4: Pick her up.

1293
01:03:45,480 --> 01:03:48,880
Speaker 10: All right, reach in my pocket, Johnny, take my gun.

1294
01:03:58,039 --> 01:04:01,880
Speaker 3: Water. Jacky and I walked around outside. We could still

1295
01:04:01,880 --> 01:04:03,639
hear the children's cars singing inside.

1296
01:04:05,639 --> 01:04:07,840
Speaker 16: Jill saved our lives tonight.

1297
01:04:08,719 --> 01:04:12,519
Speaker 3: No, she saved Nick's life. What do you mean that

1298
01:04:12,639 --> 01:04:15,280
present your father gave me up there at the spotlights,

1299
01:04:15,559 --> 01:04:17,760
he could see what was happening, and he thought real

1300
01:04:17,840 --> 01:04:21,840
fast that present was a gun. I had Nick covered

1301
01:04:21,880 --> 01:04:23,360
from the time we stepped off the porch.

1302
01:04:23,760 --> 01:04:27,239
Speaker 16: I'm glad he didn't move. I'm glad it happened like

1303
01:04:27,360 --> 01:04:31,599
it did. Yeah, so my I thought we'd never see

1304
01:04:31,639 --> 01:04:32,840
those stars up there again.

1305
01:04:33,400 --> 01:04:37,039
Speaker 3: You kept totaling yourself, Kathy. You showed a lot of courage.

1306
01:04:37,400 --> 01:04:42,360
Speaker 8: No, but maybe I can learn to show it. I

1307
01:04:42,559 --> 01:04:45,840
was just thinking, Johnny, looking at the stars up there,

1308
01:04:47,320 --> 01:04:53,280
there was fear in the world then, two thousand years ago, and.

1309
01:04:54,559 --> 01:04:55,519
Speaker 16: He had courage.

1310
01:05:02,159 --> 01:05:04,840
Speaker 3: Expense account Item sixteen two hundred and thirty dollars and

1311
01:05:04,880 --> 01:05:08,199
forty cents. Incidentals in Brambury and transportation for two adults

1312
01:05:08,239 --> 01:05:11,920
and one child Branbury to New York. Expense account total

1313
01:05:11,960 --> 01:05:14,119
four hundred and eighty six dollars and twenty cents. End

1314
01:05:14,119 --> 01:05:18,840
of account and of report remarks, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas

1315
01:05:18,880 --> 01:05:20,679
to all of you from all of us here on

1316
01:05:20,719 --> 01:05:25,480
the program, and God bless you, yours truly, Johnny Dollar,

1317
01:05:30,320 --> 01:05:30,960
yours truly.

1318
01:05:31,079 --> 01:05:34,119
Speaker 7: Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed in Hollywood,

1319
01:05:34,159 --> 01:05:36,719
written by Les Crutchfield, It is produced and directed by

1320
01:05:36,840 --> 01:05:40,519
Jack Johnstone. Heard in this week's cast were Virginia, Greg

1321
01:05:40,679 --> 01:05:44,159
Peggy Weber, Don Diamond, Ben Wright, Jack Prussian, Barney Phillips,

1322
01:05:44,159 --> 01:05:48,239
Sam Edwards, and Ken Christie. Musical supervision by Amrigo Marino.

1323
01:05:48,679 --> 01:05:50,559
Be sure to join us on Monday night, same time

1324
01:05:50,639 --> 01:05:53,800
in station for another exciting story of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar,

1325
01:05:53,960 --> 01:05:54,760
Roy Rowan.

1326
01:05:54,559 --> 01:06:54,639
Speaker 4: Speaking welcome back.

1327
01:06:54,840 --> 01:06:59,159
Speaker 1: Well, I'll be honest, this is my all time favorite

1328
01:06:59,440 --> 01:07:02,519
Yours True, Johnny dat or Cereal, And there's so much

1329
01:07:02,599 --> 01:07:06,119
to talk about on this one. We'll start with some

1330
01:07:06,320 --> 01:07:09,239
of the smaller items and then go into the big

1331
01:07:09,440 --> 01:07:13,960
overarching themes as we get to the close of the commentary.

1332
01:07:14,800 --> 01:07:18,239
First of all, let's talk about the scene with Johnny

1333
01:07:18,920 --> 01:07:22,960
on the trail An episode four, looking for Kathleen and

1334
01:07:23,360 --> 01:07:28,119
dealing with Benny Stark and a blizzard. This is, simplite,

1335
01:07:28,480 --> 01:07:33,239
some of the best radio you will ever hear, with

1336
01:07:33,400 --> 01:07:37,760
the mix of music, sound effects and Bob Bailey's narration

1337
01:07:38,199 --> 01:07:42,519
and acting. Just grab your attention and carry the scene through.

1338
01:07:43,239 --> 01:07:47,320
And this is actually the only scene that I've ever

1339
01:07:48,119 --> 01:07:51,960
actually paid someone to animate, and I'll include a link

1340
01:07:52,039 --> 01:07:55,320
to it in the show notes. It's fascinating to see

1341
01:07:55,400 --> 01:07:59,239
how they interpreted it at even if the pictures don't

1342
01:07:59,480 --> 01:08:02,599
quite make the vivid ones that would be in the

1343
01:08:02,719 --> 01:08:07,000
heads of most listeners, it's just such a well executed

1344
01:08:07,400 --> 01:08:12,280
and suspenseful and dramatic sequence. And of course that comes

1345
01:08:12,360 --> 01:08:17,560
down to Bob Bailey, and let's just appreciate how good

1346
01:08:17,760 --> 01:08:22,640
he is in this serial. Bailey is praised oftentimes for

1347
01:08:22,880 --> 01:08:27,199
being the best Johnny Dollar actor, but in this serial,

1348
01:08:27,479 --> 01:08:31,319
I think it really is at another level. He has

1349
01:08:31,600 --> 01:08:35,560
so many great scenes and really his performance is just

1350
01:08:36,079 --> 01:08:40,920
a master class. And having listened to the serial a

1351
01:08:41,000 --> 01:08:45,119
few times this time through, I noted some of the actors,

1352
01:08:45,199 --> 01:08:48,720
and the first few times through I was so into

1353
01:08:48,800 --> 01:08:51,399
the story, I didn't pay a whole lot of attention,

1354
01:08:52,359 --> 01:08:55,800
but I noticed that you had a couple of actors

1355
01:08:55,880 --> 01:08:59,760
in this who were playing parts that were very different

1356
01:08:59,840 --> 01:09:03,159
from the sort of roles that you would associate with them.

1357
01:09:03,359 --> 01:09:03,479
Speaker 5: Now.

1358
01:09:03,720 --> 01:09:08,239
Speaker 1: Ken Christy tended to play a lot of generic cops

1359
01:09:08,439 --> 01:09:14,119
and policemen. It wasn't exclusively, but that's probably the most

1360
01:09:14,199 --> 01:09:17,039
common role I've heard him. And of course he had

1361
01:09:17,239 --> 01:09:22,520
ongoing roles as Lieutenant Johnson on Let George Do It

1362
01:09:22,760 --> 01:09:27,119
after Wally Mayer was no longer available to play Lieutenant Riley.

1363
01:09:27,399 --> 01:09:30,399
And he was also the second actor to play Noah

1364
01:09:30,520 --> 01:09:34,079
Danton on Mystery as My Hobby, and in the serials

1365
01:09:34,680 --> 01:09:39,079
Don Diamond. I've noticed he plays a lot of younger

1366
01:09:39,720 --> 01:09:45,319
edgier Hipper characters. For example, in the Broderick Catter he

1367
01:09:45,520 --> 01:09:50,239
played a jazz musician. In the Que Bono Matter, he

1368
01:09:50,439 --> 01:09:56,039
played the guy who was running the underground club sort

1369
01:09:56,079 --> 01:10:00,199
of top from the city, and that tended to be

1370
01:10:00,399 --> 01:10:04,560
his roles. Yet in this one, Ken Christie plays Old

1371
01:10:04,720 --> 01:10:10,319
Mike and Don Diamond plays the sheriff's deputy, and I

1372
01:10:10,439 --> 01:10:13,880
think it really works well. I don't think I've ever

1373
01:10:14,239 --> 01:10:18,840
enjoyed a Ken Christie performance more than in this story.

1374
01:10:19,119 --> 01:10:23,279
The start of the final episode was really interesting from

1375
01:10:23,600 --> 01:10:28,479
a character perspective, not just for the way it handled

1376
01:10:28,520 --> 01:10:33,600
the Johnny Dollar opening in a very different way, because Johnny,

1377
01:10:33,680 --> 01:10:40,439
of course is a bachelor, and that's a conscious choice.

1378
01:10:40,720 --> 01:10:41,760
Speaker 4: If there's any.

1379
01:10:42,439 --> 01:10:46,960
Speaker 1: Part of the character that carried over from the O'Brien era,

1380
01:10:47,720 --> 01:10:53,159
it may be from that one story where Johnny said

1381
01:10:53,520 --> 01:10:59,439
he didn't like policeman's wives, and it was applied to

1382
01:10:59,600 --> 01:11:04,039
both policeman detective what have you, And what he meant

1383
01:11:04,119 --> 01:11:08,640
by that is he didn't like what the job did

1384
01:11:08,720 --> 01:11:12,720
to them and how hard it was on them. And

1385
01:11:13,399 --> 01:11:20,680
so Johnny says a really strong conflict between his job

1386
01:11:21,239 --> 01:11:26,119
and having a family life, and he loves his job,

1387
01:11:26,560 --> 01:11:29,439
plus the fact that his heart has gotten broken so

1388
01:11:29,600 --> 01:11:34,760
many times probably doesn't out matters. Yet in this brief moment,

1389
01:11:35,079 --> 01:11:39,439
Johnny indulges in a bit of imagining what if or

1390
01:11:39,560 --> 01:11:43,159
what could have been, but which he never expects to happen.

1391
01:11:43,880 --> 01:11:47,760
I think that the fact that Johnny has conflicting desires

1392
01:11:47,800 --> 01:11:52,239
about family life actually makes him more interesting than those

1393
01:11:52,319 --> 01:11:56,119
sort of characters who you just know they're never going

1394
01:11:56,199 --> 01:11:59,920
to get married and have no interest in anything else

1395
01:12:00,199 --> 01:12:04,159
than their work. And I think it's really particularly well

1396
01:12:04,600 --> 01:12:09,600
handled in his interactions with Jill. As for the story itself,

1397
01:12:10,039 --> 01:12:14,319
it's such a story of striking contrast. The majority of

1398
01:12:14,439 --> 01:12:17,199
this serial, after the first episode and and a half

1399
01:12:17,279 --> 01:12:21,279
in New York, takes place in Bramberry, which feels like

1400
01:12:21,479 --> 01:12:24,319
the sort of town a Hallmark movie would be sent in.

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Instead Johnny's hunting for a killer. The contrast between the

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01:12:29,520 --> 01:12:34,680
Christmas atmosphere and the deadliness of the situation occurs time

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01:12:34,960 --> 01:12:39,960
and time again. Christmas music is often played at times

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01:12:40,000 --> 01:12:44,960
of extreme peril. It's such an odd but intentional juxtaposition.

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The conversation between Mike and Johnny in episode three, when

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01:12:51,000 --> 01:12:55,880
Johnny compares Benny to those who hunted Baby Jesus drives

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01:12:56,000 --> 01:12:59,960
home the point that this contrast between the spirit of

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01:13:00,239 --> 01:13:03,800
the season and the cruelty and harshness of the world

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has always been present. I think there can be a

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view that Christmas, with its joy and hope and peace

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on earth, really can only fit into a sort of

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idyllic place, a sort of fantasy, because reality is far harsher,

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because the more we look at the world and all

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01:13:26,119 --> 01:13:31,399
that goes on, the more Christmas and all of its

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01:13:31,560 --> 01:13:35,119
themes can seem out of place. Yet one of the

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01:13:35,239 --> 01:13:38,800
big themes of this episode is that evil in the

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world and Christmas have always coexisted, and so they coexist

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in this story. The other big theme is courage. Johnny's

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confrontation with Kathleen, as well as her final line, really

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01:13:54,800 --> 01:14:00,720
drive home thiss theme and the idea that fundamentally Christmas

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is about courage. It takes courage to celebrate peace on

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earth and goodwill toward men in the face of all

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the evil and heartache in the world, to do the

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right thing in your life all the year round, no

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matter how fearful the consequences might be. And it explores

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this idea through the Christmas story and what I think

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01:14:22,760 --> 01:14:28,079
is a really effective way. The Nick Scharn Matter manages

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01:14:28,319 --> 01:14:32,399
to be a very good detective story and also a

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01:14:32,800 --> 01:14:40,000
very good Christmas story, while also offering some unexpected thematic depth.

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It's acting is on point, and its use of music

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to drive the themes home is effective without ever feeling overbearing.

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I'm the opinion that this is one of the truly

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01:14:52,560 --> 01:14:56,600
great audio dramas ever made. It's an all time classic,

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and it's always such a pleasure to share it with here.

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Now we turn to listener comments and feedback, and we

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start with an email from Miranda. Miranda writes, Hi, Adam, first,

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01:15:10,359 --> 01:15:12,680
just want to say that I love the podcast. I

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01:15:12,800 --> 01:15:15,520
grew up listening to the old time radio shows on

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01:15:15,840 --> 01:15:20,439
Serious XM with my family. MY favorite was always Dragnet,

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01:15:20,600 --> 01:15:24,399
but I also love Johnny Dollar and Boston Blackie. Hint, hint.

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01:15:25,199 --> 01:15:28,399
Now I drive a ton for work, so it's great

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01:15:28,520 --> 01:15:31,079
having the podcast to listen to. I look forward to

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01:15:31,239 --> 01:15:35,439
my Dragnet day and my Johnny Dollar days every week.

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01:15:35,960 --> 01:15:39,520
Thank you for reviving these old detective shows. I also

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01:15:39,600 --> 01:15:42,520
wanted to comment on the nixt Shearn Matter. I grew

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up and live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, which

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is where I chose to think bran Berry is mostly

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01:15:50,239 --> 01:15:53,199
because of the references to the logging cams and the snow,

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01:15:53,960 --> 01:15:57,079
and because we tend to get overlooked in entertainment. The

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01:15:57,159 --> 01:16:01,159
writing of that serial was phenomenal and the was on point.

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01:16:01,840 --> 01:16:05,039
I was driving through some snow early in the morning

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01:16:05,119 --> 01:16:08,279
while listening to the part where Johnny meets Benny Stark

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01:16:08,359 --> 01:16:11,359
in the blizzard, and when Benny came up out of

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01:16:11,399 --> 01:16:14,760
the darkness to confront Johnny, I jumped. I liked the

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01:16:14,880 --> 01:16:18,399
part where michae O Dare asked Johnny why Benny would

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01:16:18,399 --> 01:16:22,279
go into town since staying in the woods would be safer,

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01:16:22,359 --> 01:16:25,720
because I was wondering the same thing. There's also a

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01:16:25,840 --> 01:16:30,079
moment where they referenced Chippewac Canyon, kind of a throwaway line.

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01:16:30,760 --> 01:16:33,520
But although I've never heard of a canyon by that name,

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01:16:34,039 --> 01:16:38,960
there are Chippewa counties and Chippewa River up here in

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01:16:39,159 --> 01:16:43,319
the Upper Peninsula, so I'm wondering if that's where they

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01:16:43,399 --> 01:16:47,359
got it. All that is to say that I guess

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01:16:47,640 --> 01:16:51,399
things haven't changed much here in rural Michigan since the fifties,

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01:16:51,600 --> 01:16:55,880
especially the opinions and personalities of us locals, and that

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01:16:56,000 --> 01:16:58,439
the writers of the show did a great job making

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01:16:58,520 --> 01:17:02,399
the shows accurate and the characters believable. Merry Christmas, and

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01:17:02,479 --> 01:17:07,520
thanks again for bringing us the detectives of old time Radio. Well,

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01:17:07,800 --> 01:17:11,760
thank you so much. Miranda really appreciated your email. And

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01:17:12,000 --> 01:17:15,760
it's the type of email that can really only come

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01:17:15,960 --> 01:17:19,319
from someone who happened to live in that area, and

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it's a fascinating insight. And really, when it comes to

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01:17:24,159 --> 01:17:29,399
these sort of small town portrayals, there are essentially two

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01:17:30,399 --> 01:17:35,600
different sorts of fictional small town. The first is almost

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01:17:35,760 --> 01:17:43,239
completely fictitious. It's imagined based on media portrayals based on

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01:17:44,119 --> 01:17:51,359
the author's prejudices and preconceived notions, rather than an actual place.

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01:17:51,800 --> 01:17:55,520
I mean, there are writers whose portrayal of what a

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01:17:55,640 --> 01:18:00,439
small town is wouldn't change a whole lot whether the

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01:18:00,600 --> 01:18:04,439
location was supposed to be up in Vermont or over

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01:18:04,840 --> 01:18:10,119
in eastern Montana. Even those those are very different fields

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01:18:10,159 --> 01:18:13,319
of towns. And then there are those that fight to

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01:18:13,560 --> 01:18:18,680
capture and tie into real places, capture that sort of

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01:18:19,000 --> 01:18:23,760
authentic culture and authentic field. And if the writer is

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01:18:24,039 --> 01:18:28,079
good at crafting a story, you're not going to know

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01:18:28,279 --> 01:18:33,600
the difference unless you're from that specific region. So getting

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01:18:33,800 --> 01:18:37,399
an email from someone who comes from that Upper Peninsula

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01:18:37,479 --> 01:18:42,640
region in Michigan is just incredibly helpful. I wish I

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01:18:42,680 --> 01:18:46,640
could find some insight as to how for what might

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01:18:46,920 --> 01:18:51,119
have inspired crutch Field. I looked into it, and he

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01:18:51,520 --> 01:18:56,159
was from Kansas, with no specific ties to Michigan and

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01:18:56,319 --> 01:18:59,800
certainly not to that region. That I could find was

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01:19:00,079 --> 01:19:04,199
to place he vacation once. Was it someone he knew

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01:19:04,359 --> 01:19:09,159
from that region of Michigan. I'm not certain, but to

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01:19:09,399 --> 01:19:13,800
learn that it's got that actual authenticity to place it

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01:19:14,039 --> 01:19:17,199
really does add a little bit more to what is

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01:19:17,399 --> 01:19:20,920
a really solid cereal. So so thanks so much for that.

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01:19:21,159 --> 01:19:26,720
Miranda Lauren's email has the subject line, is it even

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01:19:26,920 --> 01:19:30,319
Christmas if you don't listen to the Nick shern Matter?

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01:19:30,560 --> 01:19:34,119
Lauren writes, So, I admit I listened to my favorite

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cereal a little late in the season. Listening to the

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Nick Shearn matter is a tradition for me, and it

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01:19:39,920 --> 01:19:44,079
did not disappoint. I even noticed a few new details

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01:19:44,159 --> 01:19:48,239
this time around. For example, the not so subtle part

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01:19:48,399 --> 01:19:51,960
that radio plays in Johnny's survival during the blizzard a

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01:19:52,119 --> 01:19:55,039
sign of the time's too good I actually think I

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01:19:55,279 --> 01:19:58,880
enjoyed it more than usual. Perhaps this was because I

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01:19:59,039 --> 01:20:02,640
was anticipating this special tradition of mine, or perhaps it

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01:20:02,800 --> 01:20:06,680
was because I wasn't distracted by the seemingly endless Christmas

1508
01:20:06,760 --> 01:20:10,079
to do list, or possibly I'm just getting older and

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01:20:10,199 --> 01:20:13,680
appreciating the little joys in a different way. Also, your

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01:20:13,800 --> 01:20:17,680
commentary on the Cereal was so insightful. I especially resonated

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01:20:17,760 --> 01:20:20,920
with the cole mingling of good and evil points, which

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01:20:21,079 --> 01:20:23,880
mimics real life true words right there.

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01:20:25,039 --> 01:20:26,079
Speaker 4: Thank you so much.

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01:20:27,039 --> 01:20:32,159
Speaker 1: And from YouTube, ryan'sa writes, Adam, I agree with everything

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01:20:32,279 --> 01:20:34,800
you said about the Cereal, but you missed one of

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01:20:34,880 --> 01:20:40,239
the greatest features. Barney Phillips made a great sidewalk Santa.

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01:20:40,800 --> 01:20:44,279
I imagine he and Bob Bailey had a ball doing

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01:20:44,399 --> 01:20:47,079
that scene. Well, thanks so much for the comment Ryan.

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01:20:47,159 --> 01:20:50,119
So there is so much good to say about the

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01:20:50,239 --> 01:20:53,800
Nick Shern matter it's hard to cover it all. Plus,

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01:20:53,960 --> 01:20:56,760
I tend to be a bit light on my commentary

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01:20:57,000 --> 01:20:59,920
on the first half of the Cereal, but I think

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01:21:00,159 --> 01:21:03,600
Bartey Phillips as a sidewalk Santa it really was a

1524
01:21:03,920 --> 01:21:11,760
nice highlight. Much like Ken Christie playing Mike O'Dare Barney

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01:21:11,880 --> 01:21:16,279
Phillips as the sidewalk Santa is really different from the

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01:21:16,439 --> 01:21:20,399
typical roles we hear them in, particularly in these Johnny

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01:21:20,479 --> 01:21:23,079
Dowler cereals. And I think that one other thing I

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01:21:23,239 --> 01:21:27,359
forgot to mention now that you mentioned it. It was

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01:21:27,560 --> 01:21:32,880
Virginia Gregg who played the Landlady in episode two and

1530
01:21:33,079 --> 01:21:37,840
then played Kathy o'dair in episodes four and five. It

1531
01:21:38,119 --> 01:21:43,920
really is remarkable just the high quality of her output

1532
01:21:44,199 --> 01:21:49,920
and how she's really able to seamlessly play to characters

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01:21:50,119 --> 01:21:53,399
like that. And then I received another comment. I've made

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01:21:53,479 --> 01:21:57,319
this comment before. This is my favorite radio episode. The

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01:21:57,439 --> 01:22:01,279
exposition is perfect and the scenes are so descriptive that

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01:22:01,439 --> 01:22:07,000
I can easily visualize what's going on. And Mary says, marvelous,

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01:22:07,479 --> 01:22:11,840
simply marvelous. Thank you so much for your comments, and

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01:22:11,960 --> 01:22:17,319
I hope you enjoyed this slightly different format for this omnibus.

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01:22:17,760 --> 01:22:23,439
This version of the Nick Schurn omnibus will actually replace

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01:22:23,720 --> 01:22:28,399
the version on our Christmas feed, but the old version

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01:22:28,560 --> 01:22:31,720
will remain on the Yours truly Johnny Dollar feed and

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01:22:32,239 --> 01:22:36,800
also and also the Volume two feed and are Great

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01:22:36,920 --> 01:22:42,239
Detective's website. Now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter

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of the day, and I want to go ahead and

1545
01:22:44,520 --> 01:22:48,079
thank Delilah. Delilah has been one of our Patreon supporters

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01:22:48,159 --> 01:22:51,960
since December twenty nineteen, currently supporting the podcast at the

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01:22:52,159 --> 01:22:55,399
shamous level of four dollars or more per month. Thank

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01:22:55,439 --> 01:22:58,479
you so much for your support, Delilah, and that will

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01:22:58,600 --> 01:23:02,439
actually do it for today. If you're enjoying the podcast,

1550
01:23:02,560 --> 01:23:07,319
please follow us using your favorite podcast software. That will

1551
01:23:07,399 --> 01:23:10,760
do it for today. A reminder you can find all

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01:23:10,840 --> 01:23:16,600
of our Christmas episodes over at christmasfeed dot Greatdetectives dot net.

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01:23:17,239 --> 01:23:20,319
Check out the amazing world of radio at Amazing dot

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Great Detectives dot net, where we have three Christmas episodes

1555
01:23:25,319 --> 01:23:29,960
posted now, with one more scheduled for Christmas Eve. We'll

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01:23:30,039 --> 01:23:35,439
be back on Friday with our regular weekly Yours to

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01:23:35,600 --> 01:23:39,239
Lee Johnny Doller, but join us back here tomorrow for

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01:23:39,520 --> 01:23:47,319
the Adventures of the Falcon, where I hope you'll be

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01:23:47,479 --> 01:23:50,760
with us then. In the meantime, send your comments to

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01:23:51,000 --> 01:23:55,720
Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, follow us on

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dot com, slash Great Detectives From Boise, Idaho, this is

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your host Adam Graham signing off