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Speaker 1: Come in welcome. I'm e. G.

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Speaker 2: Marshall. Honor thy father and thy mother, we are told.

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And since this is a commandment, it stands to reason

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that honoring dad and mom was not something that ancient

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and primitive people were prone to do. And so it's

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possible to understand why the offspring of our ancestors might

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not be kindly disposed toward their parents. After all, it

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was common practice to sell one's children into slavery, or

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yield them to the enemy as hostages, or sacrifice them

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to the gods. Yes, children in ancient times truly had preferences,

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But the children of today, the adored, indulged children of

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our time, Why do so many show so little honor

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or even respect for dad and mother?

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Speaker 1: Where did we go wrong?

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Speaker 2: I'm afraid I don't understand what you're saying.

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Speaker 3: I am saying. We are the head of an army.

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Speaker 4: An army, yes, a revolutionary army. We will soon take

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over the whole country.

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Speaker 2: What's the purpose of the revolution to create a new society?

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How will it be different from what we have now?

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Speaker 3: To begin with? There'll be no place in it for

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men like you.

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Speaker 2: And when does this revolution begin?

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Speaker 3: Right now? And you have an historic place in it?

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Speaker 2: What's that you will.

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Speaker 4: Be the first one to be officially executed?

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Speaker 2: I just as soon waive that honor if you don't

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mind stand still. Our mystery drama The Primrose Past was

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written especially for the Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and

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stars Mason Adams and Rosemary Rice. It is sponsored in

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part by Buick Motor Division and Anheuser Busch Incorporated brewers

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of Budweiser. I'll be back shortly with at one. They

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make a nice looking couple, Mary Anne Mellon and Jeffrey Pollard.

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They look like typical students in this large university town.

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Typical students out on a typical date. Let's see, they've

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taken in a movie. And now Jeffrey has parked in

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front of Sparkles, a popular Hamburger hangout. Suddenly two young

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men appear seemingly out of nowhere. They wear stocking masks,

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making identification impossible. One flings open the car door on

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the driver's side and drags Jeffrey out of the automobile. Hey,

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what do you think you're doing? Shut up on you

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all got eyes? What do you mean I won't get hurt?

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I toast him out of the way, Sipper, I'm hold

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on her. I don't have to kill him. Let's get

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out of him. The Elizabeth A right, that's right. Why

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isn't something being done now, mister Mellon, everything is being done,

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there are no results. The entire city police force and

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the FBI has come in.

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Speaker 1: Where is my daughter?

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Speaker 2: Sir? You must be reasonable? Why why should I be reasonable?

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If we are doing all we can, it's not good enough.

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I know you're upset your pay to preserve law and order.

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I have some questions, mister Melan. Has there been any

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attempt you exist for the sole purpose of apprehending criminal?

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Has there been any attempt to contact you? No, they

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tried to contact me. Wouldn't I have reported it? Well, sir,

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it's just that it's been three days since animals they

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think they can break me down. We ask for a

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list of all your daughter's friends. Why you believe some

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of her friends may have kidnapped her. We're only trying

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to disco already told you about her friends. Have you

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told us about all of them?

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Speaker 1: Now?

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Speaker 2: See here? Inspect were any of them jealous that you

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have any enemies my daughter? Kidnappings are usually planned, mister

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Melon and very often there's some inside connivance. Now, could

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one of your servants have overheard your daughter and Jeffrey

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Pollard make plans for the evening? You may have traitors

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among your workers.

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Speaker 1: I have none in mine.

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Speaker 2: How would the kidnappers know they'd be parked at that

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Hamburger joint?

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Speaker 1: How would they know?

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Speaker 2: Well, I asked you, inspector, where else the young people

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end the evening in this town? Who would want to

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harm your daughter?

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Speaker 1: You have a one track mind, and it leads nowhere.

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My daughter.

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Speaker 2: Is the sweetest, most generous child, so gentle.

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Speaker 1: So sensitive.

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Speaker 2: She's not like so many of the day's depraved young people.

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She's not a part of this drug craze whatever they

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call it. Culture. Mister Manon, have you told us everything

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that might help? I could talk to you about that

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child for hours.

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Speaker 1: I remember she was eight years old.

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Speaker 2: Yes, sir, well, I don't think you'll be contacted by phone.

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Speaker 1: I bought her a dog. She called him Primrole.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you see, the kidnappers will expect it to be tapped.

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Speaker 1: He bit people. I wanted to have him destroyed, but.

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Speaker 2: She said, Daddy, let's send.

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Speaker 1: Him up to the farm.

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Speaker 2: They'll have to get in touch with you to arrange

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for the ramsom.

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Speaker 1: See she felt.

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Speaker 2: As soon as you receive any communication at all, you

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must let us know. Is that clear, mister Mellon, It's okay, Hammer,

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it's me, Jeff. Are you sure nobody told you here?

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I'm sure you still don't know about this joint for

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a herder. It's perfect. Who think to look for her

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and Old Melon's property? Relax? I'm not supposed to relax.

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I'm Army chief of security as farmhouses, and it's been

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deserted for years. Nobody ever comes here. Jesse Baby, Mary Anne,

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You're okay.

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Speaker 4: Jesse Baby, Okay, Jeff.

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Speaker 3: You have to have a new name.

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Speaker 5: As commanding Officer General, I order you to get a

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new name after Rob and then you're a colonel in

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the blood of the People's Revolutionary Arms.

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Speaker 2: That's the blood of the People's advance Revolutionary Army.

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Speaker 1: Baby right on.

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Speaker 5: Himmer right his reign.

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Speaker 3: But you can't call me baby no more either. My

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name is Chris.

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Speaker 6: Tell him what.

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Speaker 2: Chris means now, Marianne, we have some serious mass. God.

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Speaker 5: Chris is a melee sword and I took that name

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to demon straight solidarity with our civic.

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Speaker 2: Comrade Hey, Charlie, you shouldn't have given us so much.

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Speaker 5: Is his name isn't Charlie, It's Hammer? Yeah on Grammer,

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the hammer smash away the rotten timbers that hold up

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the corrupt society.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I want to go to sleep.

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Speaker 2: Mary. She's okay, Leave her alone. I thought we agreed

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to keep her off that stuff. We can't. What do

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you mean we can't? It's poison for her. When she's

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off it too long, she wants to go home, she

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starts trying. I want my daddy. She hates him. This

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all this was her idea. I have you no dames?

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How fuck? How about the another couple of days?

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Speaker 1: Why wait?

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Speaker 2: Let her father thinks she's dead. Then when he finds

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out she's still alive, he'll be so grateful he'll even

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enjoy making the payoff.

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 2: We picked right. You're just a cat to lead this

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armies psychological warpy. Yes, who mister Mallin the Arthur Melin

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to see me, show me mister start. Please sit down,

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mister Malin. What can I do for you?

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Speaker 1: I wish to retain your services?

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Speaker 2: For what purpose?

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Speaker 1: I want you to find my daughter?

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Speaker 2: If for you're not serious, I have just given your

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receptionist a check for ten thousand dollars as a retainer.

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Mister Mallan, I am just a long private investigator.

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Speaker 1: I'm aware of that.

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Speaker 2: All the resources of the city police plus the federal

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government are working for you. None of them has produced

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any results. Well, now, what makes you think that I,

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or by myself, could do better. I will give you

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some information that has not been released to the authorities.

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You mean evidence that's been withheld in that event, sir,

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I must inform you.

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Speaker 1: Your young your rash.

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Speaker 2: You jump to conclusions. I did not say evidence, I

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said information. What sort of information? Information concerning the relationship

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between my daughter and me? Yes, now this is privileged.

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I didn't tell the police the truth on our way,

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I can't be a party. I told them she was

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an angel. I should have said a monster. Why is

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she a monster? Because her values, a morality, her ethic

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have become twisted, distorted, perverted by certain obscene elements that

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are permitted to flourish today.

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Speaker 1: In our society.

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Speaker 2: In what way I am a male chauvinist. Well, aren't

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we all? I am also a capitalist pig me I

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am draining the heart's blood from my degraded and brutalized worker.

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Where are you? I employed nine hundred and seventy eight people.

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There isn't one that doesn't own a house in the

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car two car where mister Melin, you know how so

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many young people feel today? He says, I'm destroying the

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social fabric?

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Speaker 1: What am I doing? I make plastics? Why should that

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bother anybody?

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Speaker 2: Mister Mallon, what good does all this information do me?

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He's become a radical, a violent radical. That there were

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some bombings a while ago, the federal buildings downtown. If

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you know that your daughter has bombed any of those buildings,

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you're an accessory. And when you tell me, I become

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an accessory too. I don't know that she did it.

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What about Jeffrey Pollard? Whoa he agrees with her about everything.

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He's studying for his master's degree in chemistry. The police

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aware of that? Do they know? There might be something significant?

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Speaker 1: But I don't know for a fact that it's significant.

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Speaker 2: Why does he support himself? He works part time in

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my factory. The raw materials and a plastics factory, many

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of them could also provide the raw materials for explosives.

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Speaker 1: Certainly any fool knows that.

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Speaker 2: All right, How is all of this supposed to help.

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Speaker 1: Me one knife?

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Speaker 2: I heard Jeff and Millianne talking about something called the

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Blood of the People's Revolutionary Army or what kind of

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army is that? Well, it's an army that's supposed to

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destroy our sick society. And she and Jeff have been

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talking about raising money to arm the poor and the oppress.

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I see, what do you see the skidnapping? It's arranged

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to garge some money out of you.

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Speaker 1: That's what it could very well be.

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Speaker 2: And that's why you need the police and the FBI.

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They have information on all these groups. What do you

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expect me to do? What I couldn't expect them to do.

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Keep your mouth shut. I don't want it known that

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she's a part of the whole subversive crowd, but those

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facts will have to come out. I want you to

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get to her somehow, bring her home where I could

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cook some sense into her, and this whole business will

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just blow over. How do you expect me to find

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her when the police and the FBI.

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Speaker 1: Have given you a lead.

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Speaker 2: Jeffrey Poller's Jeffrey Pollard is an automatic suspect true, but

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the police have no real reason to assume he's guilty,

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and after a while they'll relax their surveillance. You, on

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the other hand, you're wasting your money.

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Speaker 1: I want my daughter.

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Speaker 2: What makes you think that you can talk sense in all?

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This is a ptemporary madness. He's got too much good breeding,

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too much of her father and her I still insist

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the police have a better chance. If I tell the

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police what I've just told you, the whole world will

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see my daughter as a depraved, wanton psychotic. I'd rather

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see her dead first, mister Mallan, find her quickly quiet.

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But it isn't possible for me. It is you know

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what makes all things possible.

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Speaker 1: Money. Here, I'll sign a check. Now, you just write

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down your own figure.

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Speaker 2: That's quite a relationship between father and daughter. One thing

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we know, mister Melon has unlimited confidence in the power

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of money, and anybody is for sale. Provided you add

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enough zeros to the check. Well, we'll have some spirited

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buying and selling. When I returned shortly with that too.

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obviously the statement is so true that we tend to

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overlook it. So many of us are so busy playing

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a role so much at the time that it becomes

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difficult to determine just.

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Speaker 1: What our original motivations.

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Speaker 2: Were or even why. On the face of it, a

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wealthy young girl has been kidnapped, but the face, as

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we have seen, is a false one. So far, most

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of the principal characters in this story have already been

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caught in one lie or another. You want to see me,

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Inspector Brough start, Why would Arthur Melon visit your CD office?

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I admit I'm not in the high rent district, but

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it's really not ced answer the question started. I'm not

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required to answer the questions. That's right, and neither am

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I required to play ball with you when you need

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cooperation next time he engaged my services? Why he isn't

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satisfied with yours?

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Speaker 1: What does he think you was?

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Speaker 2: Sherlock Holmes, Inspector, What did you get from the eyewitnesses?

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My grain headache? Two guys appear to be young. They

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either were baked and fat or shortened, and they were

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either wearing denims or slacks and jackets. They were dressed

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in either black, blue, green, or red. The boyfriend or

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Jeffrey Poulter, that's clean kid says he didn't have to

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do it. He's gonna marry her and get it all

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legally one day. Yeah, but we got a tail on

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him just in case. Looks like it'll be a long

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hot summer followed by a long cold winter. Do me

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a favorite starret anything for a pile, inspector. If you

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should happen to find her, let us know her. Ester Mallan,

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I must know more about your daughter. Why, because there

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must be a reason why she turned against you. She

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never did well. Maybe I didn't spend enough time with

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her after her mother died. And when her mother died.

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Speaker 1: I was out of town on a business trip. Well

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what would that have to do with her?

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Speaker 2: I hate to speak ill of the dead, but her

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mother tried to poison the child's mind against me by

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saying I was neglecting the two of them, using business

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as an excuse. Were you look I refused to hire me.

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You pay me a fortune, but you refuse to help me.

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I want to know more about your daughter. Or a

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dog she was eight or ten at the time. She

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named him Primrose. He developed into a vicious brute. Ester

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Malin should have been killed, but she said that he

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is a wild animal. He's frustrated, he needs to hunt.

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Send him to the farm up to the fest doesn't

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help me. That's how I remember my daughter, how she was,

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her understanding, her depth of character. Did her daughter ever

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bring anyone around to the house that you didn't like?

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Were a great many I disapproved of, And I start

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with the ones you're disapproved of the most.

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Speaker 1: Well, there were two in particular, And.

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Speaker 2: What were their names? I was never interested enough to

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find out. They'd come over with Jeffrey and sit around

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talking and describe them. One was of a very tall,

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huge man about twenty five or so. Black hair, Yeah,

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that was somewhat smaller, very wiry, very blig. And they

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would just sit around and talk. Yes, always appeared to

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be a lively kind of conversation. Well, except seems to

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me that the big black haired one never.

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Speaker 1: Opened his mouth at all. Mm I.

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Speaker 2: He struck me as uh as a person who simply

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couldn't talk.

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Speaker 4: Hey, Mama, to hurry, still alive.

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Speaker 2: And out of jail barely. Ever, when I'm working, Oh

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what are you working on? Look?

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Speaker 4: Uh?

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Speaker 2: Then we go where it's just a little bit quieter.

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Speaker 3: Oh, step right into my paw, said the spider and

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I uh used to be a pretty good looking spider,

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but that was before your time.

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Speaker 2: Alright, alright, alright, now tell me what do you know

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about the Blood of the People's Revolutionary Army?

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Speaker 4: Uh?

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Speaker 3: Uh uh you know the rules star a no info.

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That's how I make sure everybody loves me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because I love you, I wanna do you a

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good turn. If that army ever met near joint your accessory?

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Uh to uh the Melon kidnapping?

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Speaker 4: Mm?

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Speaker 3: The name again, the.

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Speaker 2: Blood of the People's Revolutionary Army?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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Speaker 2: No does it exist?

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Speaker 4: Who?

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Speaker 1: Noose? Three four kids get together?

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Speaker 3: They got a political party or an army?

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Speaker 2: The girl Mary Anne Melon? Is she in any of

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these circles? I haven't heard the boyfriend Jeffrey Pollard.

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Speaker 3: No, but you see, they could have been in the

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closet waiting for the right time to come out.

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Speaker 2: A big black haired guy.

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Speaker 3: The world seems full of big black haired guy.

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Speaker 2: Now, this one would have a kind of blondish sidekick.

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Black hair would come over more or less as a dummy.

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Speaker 3: Oh he made a dummy.

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Speaker 2: No, No, that's a zipper. The zipper.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he don't talk.

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Speaker 3: The reason is, he says, is because if you keep

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your mouth.

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Speaker 1: Zip it up.

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Speaker 3: You'll never get in a gym tho. His friends call

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him the zipper.

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Speaker 2: And what's his friend's name, Blondie?

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: He never said.

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Speaker 2: I never asked. Did you ever see them with Mary

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Anne Melon and Jeff Pollard?

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Speaker 3: I'm money A couple of times, a.

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Speaker 2: Little foursome at the table. When was the last time

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you saw them together? Uh?

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Speaker 3: The last time?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 3: I remember it was the night she was kidnapped.

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Speaker 2: You're sure.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure cause I read the paper the next morning,

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and I remember telling Papa why those two were in

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in the joint just a couple of hours before it happened.

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Speaker 2: You haven't seen black hair Blondie since? No, what's it

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all about? It's about one hundred bucks here before? To

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keep your mouth shut.

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Speaker 3: Oh you know me, Starreed, I never talk.

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Speaker 2: Yes, my name is Starin. I'm a private investigator. I've

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already told the police everything I know. Have you well,

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please excuse me. You have no official I have a

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pretty good unofficial capacity. I was retained by your prospective

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father in law. Oh, all, i'd commember. All I know

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is what I told the police. We were parked in

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front of sparkles. Suddenly the car door was flung open,

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A big guy dragged me out, slugged me. Then then

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another fellow drove off with Mary Anne, and you couldn't

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describe him. Oh they was dockingments. Well, it all happened

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so far. You just weren't able to get a good look.

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And besides, you were practically in a state of shock. Yes,

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that's exactly what I said to the police. Oh, that's

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an excellent story, sharp, clear, plausible. What do you mean plausible? Yes,

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And what they saw was some excellently staged theater, four

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actors playing their parts to perfection.

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Speaker 1: Not just a minute.

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Speaker 2: You have no right to make these completely unfounded allegations.

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What you're accusing me, You're accusing Mari Anne and me

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of staging this. I must say you catch on, get

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out of here. I don't care who hired you, who

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is the commander in chief of the Blood of the

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People's Revolutionary Army. I don't know what you're talking about. Kay,

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so far, no harm has been done. Now, I know

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I'm on the right road, but I can't be more

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than just a couple of steps ahead of the cops

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and the FBI. And when they tumble. You're done. This

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is preposterous telling me, okay, you'll marry Anne. You probably

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believe you can start a people's revolutionary army. Why do

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you persist in this kind? Zipper and blonde? You? Now,

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these are just a couple of strong arm hustlers. You

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think you'll see them after the old man cops up

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the ransom. If he does, you think any of the

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doe will go for guns for the poor and the oppressed.

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It's the last you'll see of those two. You'll be

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left holding the big empty sack, or you'll be dead.

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You're manufacturing this fiction to justify a fee for mister Mellon. Here,

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kid my card. You're gonna need help to get out

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of the damn call me.

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Speaker 1: Well you've been all this time.

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Speaker 2: I'm being tailed to be careful. Did you shake him?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Finally?

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Speaker 2: Now listen were.

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Speaker 3: I want to go home? I just want to go home.

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Speaker 1: That's my father.

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Speaker 2: Well, look, Marianne, okay, okay, you'll feel better just a minute. Baby.

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Speaker 4: What we're doing is this is crazy.

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Speaker 2: You're going to feel it. Hit and take hold.

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Speaker 4: We I think we could start a revolution the four

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of us Ryan again.

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Speaker 3: Nobody needs guns.

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Speaker 4: Guns kill people.

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Speaker 2: Take that deep breath, baby, go ahead, you're taking off.

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Oh my okay, everybody listen to me for a minute.

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Mary Anne, my name is Chris, said for ham up,

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all of you listen.

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Speaker 1: We have to call it off.

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Speaker 2: Call it What are you talking about? Somebody's wise to

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as somebody knows knows it's all stage. Yeah, And he

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was telling me he knows all about the blood of

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the People's Advanced Revolutionary Army. Could anybody know all that name?

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Only the four of us.

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Speaker 1: Let's all annoys you about?

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Speaker 2: Who is this guy? A private detective? A private detective. Man.

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That means he must have put it on together himself.

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What's his angle? He wants me they will call it off, Yeah,

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before it's too late. Private detective. Yeah, that means he

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must be the only one who knows. He's the only

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one right now. But he says he can't be more

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than a couple of steps ahead of the cops and

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the FBI.

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Speaker 1: Who is this guy? Doesn't matter?

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Speaker 2: Sure it matters. We don't want to kill the wrong pig.

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What do you mean to kill that? So it is? What?

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But what we expect to kill the only Yes, we're

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in the movement right now. Couldn't he quap But it

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isn't there enough reasons? Still? You want to do it

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sometime liberal or something? Did you join the revolutionary movement

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just because you thought it was hip? Come on, man,

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we gotta take a vote all in favor of killing

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this pig, now signifying a huge away by raising your

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right fist A right minds up? So say Sipper, how

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about you, Chris?

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Speaker 5: Maybe you can't break an egg and without making eggs

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or something like that.

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Speaker 2: The blood of the people's court, a revolutionary justice has spoken,

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we killed a pig.

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Speaker 1: What's his name?

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Speaker 2: Start? How would you like to be tried in absentia

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and be unaware of the charges against you, and also

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be oblivious to the fact that a trial is being

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held in the first place?

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Speaker 1: You'd be surprised.

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Speaker 2: But this kind of thing is dera gerve in so

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many parts of the world. Well, justice of a sort

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will be done.

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Speaker 1: But I returned shortly with Act three.

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Speaker 2: As our society becomes ever more complex and sophisticated, it

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becomes ever more fragile.

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Speaker 1: A mere handful of people may hold an entire.

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Speaker 2: City at their mercy.

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Speaker 1: All it takes is the.

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Speaker 2: Knowledge of where the vulnerable spots are so we face

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the danger of attack by any small group at any time.

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Speaker 1: From any quarter.

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Speaker 2: Is this to be part of the price we pay

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for civilization? But how how should we kill 'em? Shut 'em?

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Who's gonna do with it? The only fair way?

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Speaker 1: Drug card?

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Speaker 2: While lie in all a better way? Okay, zipper him

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in a deck. Wanna shuffle? Go ahead? Cut okay?

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Speaker 1: High man's a gonna.

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Speaker 2: Zipper?

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Speaker 1: There you go.

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Speaker 2: That's right, Chris. You can't ask Marianne how.

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Speaker 4: Many times I have to play a.

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Speaker 3: Man the name Kris.

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Speaker 2: But we can't ask her to tend.

475
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Speaker 3: Me a card?

476
00:27:07,279 --> 00:27:07,799
Speaker 2: Him? Man?

477
00:27:08,039 --> 00:27:09,160
Speaker 1: Ooh what is it?

478
00:27:09,279 --> 00:27:09,799
Speaker 3: I save him?

479
00:27:09,839 --> 00:27:13,759
Speaker 2: See it's a nime, don't care?

480
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:14,200
Speaker 1: Drawing?

481
00:27:15,799 --> 00:27:21,079
Speaker 2: Hey, you have a hook, baby, I got a ten? Okay, Jeffrey,

482
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,039
But I I couldn't kill anybody all of the people

483
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:31,079
draw Oh hey, man, when you look at that, they

484
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:32,880
hold lady yourself, the queen of Spade?

485
00:27:33,039 --> 00:27:34,319
Speaker 4: Hey, you run?

486
00:27:34,799 --> 00:27:37,599
Speaker 2: What am I? How am I going to my revolfice?

487
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:41,160
If until you eat it? Now, all you gotta do

488
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:44,680
is get to him when he's alone at home in

489
00:27:44,799 --> 00:27:49,240
his office. You just walk up and you should have

490
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:53,440
should have It's right. Don't say nothing. Don't pull around

491
00:27:53,480 --> 00:28:08,480
your shoe. But I can't. Maybe you gotta do it. Hello,

492
00:28:09,079 --> 00:28:12,839
mister Starr, who is this? I would like to see you?

493
00:28:14,039 --> 00:28:17,799
Why wait, it's a confidential matter. Oh this is closed?

494
00:28:17,839 --> 00:28:18,920
Speaker 1: Well this is important.

495
00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:20,839
Speaker 2: Could you meet me there in a half an hour.

496
00:28:21,319 --> 00:28:28,359
I'll make it worth your while. Hello? Hello, hm, haff hour? Huh,

497
00:28:29,559 --> 00:28:41,000
maybe i'd better be early. Come in it's open. Hey

498
00:28:42,119 --> 00:28:44,480
tell you now. Let me turn on a light and

499
00:28:44,599 --> 00:28:49,279
see who you are. Well, I thought your voices out.

500
00:28:50,799 --> 00:28:55,440
It's Jeffrey, don't you. How course not? And look what's

501
00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:59,720
on the floor. Oh god, yeah, it's it's mine. Yes,

502
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:02,079
I must have slipped out of my pocket when you

503
00:29:02,799 --> 00:29:03,119
jump me.

504
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:04,079
Speaker 1: Is that a fact?

505
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 2: Well, I must be seeing things. I thought that gun

506
00:29:07,039 --> 00:29:09,680
was in your hand at any event. What are you

507
00:29:09,799 --> 00:29:12,240
doing with a gun? Well? Ever, since that night, I

508
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:16,759
uh decided I needed to protect myself. Permit me to

509
00:29:17,039 --> 00:29:22,720
extract the cartridges and now you may have it and

510
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:27,279
don't hurt yourself. Tell me why are we here? Well,

511
00:29:27,319 --> 00:29:28,920
I know you suspect me of being part of a

512
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:33,200
plot to kidnapped Marianne. I have to play my name. Besides,

513
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:35,720
you can't prove anything if I can't prove anything. Why

514
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:38,359
should you care what I think? Well, no one likes

515
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:42,160
to be accused unjust, but I'm accusing you justly. And

516
00:29:42,279 --> 00:29:44,839
here's the rest of it. You came here to kill me.

517
00:29:45,319 --> 00:29:47,920
Oh no, you're no good at this business. Zipper or

518
00:29:48,119 --> 00:29:50,960
blonde I don't know what you're talking about. Fin Seene

519
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,480
was Zipper and Blondie? At any rate, either one of

520
00:29:54,559 --> 00:29:57,480
them may have had a better chance. Now why did

521
00:29:57,519 --> 00:30:01,920
they send you? Well, maybe they figured I'd kill you

522
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:04,799
in self defense. One mouth less to feed when the

523
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:07,839
pie is lies up, Ryan, you have this hallucination getting

524
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:11,000
close to pie time, aren't we? Sooner or later the

525
00:30:11,039 --> 00:30:13,960
old man will be asked to cough up how much?

526
00:30:14,759 --> 00:30:17,440
There's nothing I can say to you. I know the story,

527
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:20,799
the whole story, but I don't have a single shred

528
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:25,400
of proof, or you'd be in the cooler this minute. Now, look, look,

529
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:28,799
let me help you. I don't need any help. You're

530
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:32,799
in over your head. You have noble, lofty motives, but

531
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,039
now you have to play dirty, and you don't have

532
00:30:35,119 --> 00:30:37,759
the stomach for it. Is there anyway I can convince you?

533
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:41,480
We'll pass that. You have to convince yourself. The thing

534
00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:45,200
is all over. It's just a hustle for Doe. Now,

535
00:30:45,359 --> 00:30:48,039
let me help you. Why do you insist I need help?

536
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:50,119
Where you holding her? I can pick her up, nobody

537
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:52,559
gets hurt. We'll even pay off Zipper and Blondie to

538
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:54,960
keep their mouths shut. We can work out a heroic

539
00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:58,160
rescue Paiale for the press. You can't get a better deal.

540
00:30:58,599 --> 00:31:02,960
You know what you're talking about. Goodbye, mister Start help you.

541
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:06,240
I'll help you in spite of yourself. Better tell Blondie

542
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:14,960
and Zepher you killed me. You're crazy. I don't know. Start,

543
00:31:15,039 --> 00:31:18,039
it's crazy. You want the girl inspector, you want the kidnappers,

544
00:31:18,079 --> 00:31:20,640
and you can even have the credit. But how can

545
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:23,319
I give it out that you were found murdered tonight?

546
00:31:23,559 --> 00:31:25,559
It's not in a day or two you can discover

547
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:27,920
you were mistaken. Why do you want anyone to think

548
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:29,799
you were killed? I have one lead. I have to

549
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,400
protect it. If his friends find out he didn't kill me,

550
00:31:32,559 --> 00:31:35,920
he's dead, and I hope you know what you're doing.

551
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:37,799
Do you have any better leads? Do you have any

552
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:49,759
leads at all? All right, hey, hey, it's a sort listen.

553
00:31:50,039 --> 00:31:51,440
I came back to tell you that I meant to

554
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:54,680
tell us nothing. We heard it on the radio. Look,

555
00:31:54,799 --> 00:31:57,279
why don't you hear he's dead? He just found his body.

556
00:31:57,359 --> 00:32:01,599
Still it is dead. They want Hey, man, you are

557
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:05,000
now one of us. But how'd you do it?

558
00:32:05,279 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 4: Why?

559
00:32:05,799 --> 00:32:09,720
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, it ain't cool to talk about it. Look,

560
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:13,079
you go inside and talk to Marianne and the ticket's

561
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:16,680
tape recorder. She's gonna make a message to the old man,

562
00:32:17,119 --> 00:32:20,160
but you have her tell the old man and she's okay.

563
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:25,599
One million bucks right, small bills, eleven o'clock at night,

564
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,839
behind a billboard, an exit nine on a turnpike. Anybody

565
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:37,759
tries to follow the girl gets it. Okay, okay, we

566
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:38,759
gonna move fast.

567
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 3: Ooh, you got the tape recorder. Okay, Grudy, I know

568
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:48,480
just what I'm going to say.

569
00:32:48,799 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 2: Listen, We've been betrayed. It's no good. We have to

570
00:32:51,759 --> 00:32:52,480
get out of here.

571
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 4: Oh man, we hit a million bucks, a bike, guns

572
00:32:55,319 --> 00:32:56,079
on the people.

573
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 2: Mary Anne, they're out and back working on the car.

574
00:32:58,640 --> 00:32:59,680
Let's make a run for it.

575
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:02,759
Speaker 4: Could that brother, that blood brother.

576
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 2: Try to understand. I know you're kind of spaced out,

577
00:33:07,079 --> 00:33:10,960
but try to understand. It's wrong. What we're doing is wrong.

578
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:15,079
And he said, just hoodlums. It doesn't matter. We won't

579
00:33:15,119 --> 00:33:20,759
become revolutionaries or idealists. We'll just be common criminals. No, now,

580
00:33:20,839 --> 00:33:22,759
let's get out of here before it's too late. I

581
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:27,359
guess it's too late right now, see Zip, but call

582
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:30,400
my attention to something. He knows all about these things.

583
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:34,200
The supporter hasn't been fired. What do you think of that?

584
00:33:35,079 --> 00:33:37,680
I don't ahead to smell it. Look at it clears

585
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:44,079
a whistle, So Sterre, it isn't dead. And the two

586
00:33:44,119 --> 00:33:45,839
of you, you plin him kind of a game. I

587
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:48,799
couldn't go through with it. Why did you tell him nothing?

588
00:33:49,079 --> 00:33:52,079
And what's this about his being dead? He's a private detective.

589
00:33:52,079 --> 00:33:53,720
He could have lots of enemies. Someone else could have

590
00:33:53,799 --> 00:33:57,839
killed him. It could be a coincidence. Okay, man, you

591
00:33:58,039 --> 00:33:59,240
better be telling the truth.

592
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:01,559
Speaker 3: Can I lie to a blood brother?

593
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:05,240
Speaker 2: Yes? Sure, zipp I keep a gun on him, and

594
00:34:05,319 --> 00:34:10,480
if the cups show up, make sure that he gets it. Okay, Chris, Baby,

595
00:34:10,599 --> 00:34:16,440
the ransom Chapehu, the take go ahead, talk into the recorder.

596
00:34:16,599 --> 00:34:18,719
Don't do it, Mary Anne. They'll only kill us both

597
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:23,239
when they get the money. Talk baby talk, daddy. I

598
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:30,920
I feel so bad it look tell him you feel great, Daddy.

599
00:34:32,079 --> 00:34:33,159
I feel great.

600
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:38,880
Speaker 3: I feel like I felt when when Primrose was sent away.

601
00:34:39,199 --> 00:34:41,480
Speaker 2: But we're not gonna raise money for a revolution, don't

602
00:34:41,519 --> 00:34:43,880
you see? Mary Anne Zipper? He opens his mouth one

603
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:44,360
more time.

604
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:47,159
Speaker 4: Plug him now, No, don't hurt Jeffrey, Please don't.

605
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:51,440
Speaker 2: Okay and start over and talk into that thing.

606
00:34:51,599 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 3: Oh, I have to get my head together, Daddy. I

607
00:34:56,559 --> 00:34:57,039
feel great.

608
00:34:57,119 --> 00:35:02,320
Speaker 5: I haven't felt this could since prim Rose since well,

609
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:03,320
we'll be these gentlemen.

610
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:04,280
Speaker 4: They're very nice and.

611
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:16,679
Speaker 6: They want one million dollars. It's an outrage and they

612
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:20,440
want mister Dad to deliver the million.

613
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,119
Speaker 2: Don't they know? Your dad must have gone wrong.

614
00:35:23,199 --> 00:35:28,599
Speaker 6: To deliver one million dollars behind the billboard at exit

615
00:35:29,039 --> 00:35:33,599
nine of the turnpike. Jeez, will you do it? Teddy?

616
00:35:33,639 --> 00:35:39,239
I haven't felt so good since Primrose went away? Now

617
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:42,639
you know how good I feel. He has to do

618
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:44,320
it tomorrow at eleven o'clock.

619
00:35:45,679 --> 00:35:47,760
Speaker 4: I love you day, dear.

620
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:52,760
Speaker 2: A million dollars and why do they want you to

621
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:55,079
deliver it? Tell me start?

622
00:35:55,639 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 1: Are you in league with these people all?

623
00:35:57,039 --> 00:36:00,599
Speaker 2: Dad? Mister Malline inspector. He may have made early contact

624
00:36:01,079 --> 00:36:02,719
and arranged it all to be able to share in

625
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:05,239
the loop. Mister Mellon, you're crazy. I acted on information

626
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:07,920
you had given me a lot of information. It's privileged dector,

627
00:36:08,079 --> 00:36:11,320
star It, you dare? What is a kidnappings? All surmise

628
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:13,880
on Melon's part. He thinks the thing was rigged by

629
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:17,480
Mary Anne, Jeff and two friends, Zipper and Blondie. Why,

630
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:18,360
ask him?

631
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:23,880
Speaker 1: Well, well, it just seemed likely. That's why I have

632
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:24,440
no proof.

633
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:26,840
Speaker 2: And what are you going to do about the ransom demand?

634
00:36:27,559 --> 00:36:28,519
Speaker 1: I'm going to pay it.

635
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 2: He can deliver it. I want my daughter. Okay, star It,

636
00:36:34,639 --> 00:36:37,320
we'll tell you they picked the right places. Our wide

637
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:39,840
open country. You can see a car coming for miles.

638
00:36:40,199 --> 00:36:43,039
Helicopter he could spot them too. All right, we'll come

639
00:36:43,119 --> 00:36:45,679
as close as we can. Let me let me listen

640
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:46,760
to that tape again.

641
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:52,239
Speaker 6: I haven't felt so good since Primrose went away.

642
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:56,360
Speaker 2: Why does she say that? Why bring up an old dog?

643
00:36:56,559 --> 00:36:59,880
Well you can hear he sounds a bit stoned. She's

644
00:37:00,159 --> 00:37:08,920
trying to tell us something. What Okay, I'll stay here

645
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:11,519
with our friend Zippy and you'll go for the money.

646
00:37:12,519 --> 00:37:16,000
And when mister Starrett steps out of that car, you

647
00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:18,960
shoot him. Why why do you have to kill him

648
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:21,639
now a radio who says he's dead. You don't want

649
00:37:21,679 --> 00:37:32,800
the radio to lie, do you? All right? Start the sprum.

650
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:36,760
We've arranged for utility truck to repair a pole one

651
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:40,119
hundred yards off the exit. The man will be cops,

652
00:37:40,599 --> 00:37:42,760
his old man Melon in the car with him. Yeah

653
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:46,159
good now, first, radio, your guys, who are doing the

654
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:49,079
utility pole act to bag Zipper didn't have to be Zipper.

655
00:37:49,159 --> 00:37:51,559
As soon as he shows up, Brandy would be back

656
00:37:51,599 --> 00:37:54,960
at the farm holding the gun. On what farm? Ask

657
00:37:55,119 --> 00:37:57,480
mellon how we get to his old farmhouse?

658
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:03,880
Speaker 3: Mary Anne, Mary Anne, wake up?

659
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:06,519
Speaker 2: I'm so tired?

660
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:09,119
Speaker 7: Oh why am I so tired?

661
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:12,199
Speaker 3: Why do I want to sleep all the time?

662
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:14,519
Speaker 2: Mary Anne? If they're they're gonna kill us?

663
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 3: No, no, they won't.

664
00:38:16,039 --> 00:38:16,960
Speaker 7: They can't kill us.

665
00:38:17,039 --> 00:38:18,199
Speaker 3: Nobody can kill us.

666
00:38:19,199 --> 00:38:21,320
Speaker 4: My daddy is coming. He's gonna save me.

667
00:38:21,599 --> 00:38:22,239
Speaker 1: Your daddy.

668
00:38:22,519 --> 00:38:25,639
Speaker 2: Nobody can help us. Nobody knows where we are. Daddy

669
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:30,039
knows how How does he know? Because I told him?

670
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:34,440
You told him how I had oh spinning all around? Marianne. Oh,

671
00:38:34,519 --> 00:38:35,559
how did you tell him?

672
00:38:35,679 --> 00:38:37,159
Speaker 5: Oh, the whole room is spinning?

673
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:38,639
Speaker 2: How did you tell him?

674
00:38:38,639 --> 00:38:38,760
Speaker 4: Oh?

675
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:42,880
Speaker 5: I said something on the tape, something I said, I remember,

676
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:43,920
I said some people.

677
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:48,400
Speaker 2: I just saw the car coming across the field. That

678
00:38:48,599 --> 00:38:51,960
means the zipper has the loop and we say goodbye.

679
00:38:52,079 --> 00:38:53,360
Speaker 1: And more ways than one.

680
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:56,920
Speaker 2: You don't have to kill us. No hot feelings. She'll

681
00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:59,920
come on his zipper. We have to polish these two.

682
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:04,079
That's enough. Out of your hook. No armies being disbanded,

683
00:39:04,519 --> 00:39:05,280
Old daddy.

684
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:06,599
Speaker 4: I knew you'd understand.

685
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:08,199
Speaker 2: Mariamne, you're all right.

686
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:10,960
Speaker 4: I knew you'd get the message about Primrod.

687
00:39:11,159 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 2: Primrose sre. He got it. He got it in a

688
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:17,159
flash the minute he heard it. And he said, boys,

689
00:39:17,639 --> 00:39:20,599
the reason she managed to say how happy she was

690
00:39:20,679 --> 00:39:24,000
about Primrose is that she wanted me to remember how

691
00:39:24,119 --> 00:39:27,119
we sent our old dog up to the farmhouse. The

692
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:30,880
old farmhouse, he said, boys, that's where she's being held.

693
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:39,320
Speaker 1: Good daddy, you're wonderful. Thank you started, thank you.

694
00:39:46,679 --> 00:39:49,840
Speaker 2: Sterrett was so astounded at being thanked that he almost

695
00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:51,119
forgot to cash his check.

696
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:53,519
Speaker 1: Mary Anne and Jeffrey were held.

697
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:57,679
Speaker 2: On technical charges of attempted extortion, but since Arthur Mellon

698
00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:01,719
refused to prosecute, they were freed. I regret to say

699
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:04,679
that Hammer and the zipper also went free. In the end,

700
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:08,079
since their silence was necessary to keep the world from

701
00:40:08,159 --> 00:40:10,679
knowing certain facts about Marianne.

702
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:14,639
Speaker 1: But justice, as you know, is blind.

703
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:19,320
Speaker 2: Very often I shall find my way back here in

704
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:20,559
just a few moments.

705
00:40:32,119 --> 00:40:34,440
Speaker 1: The children of today, who are they?

706
00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:38,480
Speaker 2: It's a generation unlike any the world has ever seen.

707
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:44,440
A generation raised to consider miracles as commonplace everyday events.

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And the children struggle and strike out and amaze us,

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trouble us, and there are times when we fear they

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will even destroy us. But one day they grow up

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and become just like us. M our cast included Mason Adams,

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Rosemary Rice, Ken Harvey, Ian Martin, and Jack Rymes. The

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entire production was under the direction of Hymon Brown and

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now a preview of our next tale.

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Speaker 7: It's not so easy to end everything, not easy at all.

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And maybe that's my last message to the world. If

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you think ending it all as a snap, you better

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think again and think it hard.

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Speaker 1: Because that's what it is.

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Speaker 7: Harric He isn't just slipping out of the world the

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way you slip out of a room.

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Speaker 1: At a party you found boring.

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Speaker 7: Why don't I feel something trowsiness or wiziness or something

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I never felt so clear that in my life. I

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gotta feel something. I didn't even eat the second cracker,

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didn't need any breakfast, no lunch.

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Speaker 1: I gotta feel something.

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Speaker 7: Oh Lord, they're not gonna trick me up on this too,

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not the last gesture of my life. They're not gonna

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make this ridiculous too, like everything else. They're not going

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to make me a failure in this tool.

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Speaker 1: I won't stand for that.

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Speaker 2: I won't Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by

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all State insurance Companies.

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Speaker 1: This is E. G.

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Speaker 2: Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for

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another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams,