Speaker 1: Come in welcome. I'm e. G.
Speaker 2: Marshall. Honor thy father and thy mother, we are told.
And since this is a commandment, it stands to reason
that honoring dad and mom was not something that ancient
and primitive people were prone to do. And so it's
possible to understand why the offspring of our ancestors might
not be kindly disposed toward their parents. After all, it
was common practice to sell one's children into slavery, or
yield them to the enemy as hostages, or sacrifice them
to the gods. Yes, children in ancient times truly had preferences,
But the children of today, the adored, indulged children of
our time, Why do so many show so little honor
or even respect for dad and mother?
Speaker 1: Where did we go wrong?
Speaker 2: I'm afraid I don't understand what you're saying.
Speaker 3: I am saying. We are the head of an army.
Speaker 4: An army, yes, a revolutionary army. We will soon take
over the whole country.
Speaker 2: What's the purpose of the revolution to create a new society?
How will it be different from what we have now?
Speaker 3: To begin with? There'll be no place in it for
men like you.
Speaker 2: And when does this revolution begin?
Speaker 3: Right now? And you have an historic place in it?
Speaker 2: What's that you will.
Speaker 4: Be the first one to be officially executed?
Speaker 2: I just as soon waive that honor if you don't
mind stand still. Our mystery drama The Primrose Past was
written especially for the Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and
stars Mason Adams and Rosemary Rice. It is sponsored in
part by Buick Motor Division and Anheuser Busch Incorporated brewers
of Budweiser. I'll be back shortly with at one. They
make a nice looking couple, Mary Anne Mellon and Jeffrey Pollard.
They look like typical students in this large university town.
Typical students out on a typical date. Let's see, they've
taken in a movie. And now Jeffrey has parked in
front of Sparkles, a popular Hamburger hangout. Suddenly two young
men appear seemingly out of nowhere. They wear stocking masks,
making identification impossible. One flings open the car door on
the driver's side and drags Jeffrey out of the automobile. Hey,
what do you think you're doing? Shut up on you
all got eyes? What do you mean I won't get hurt?
I toast him out of the way, Sipper, I'm hold
on her. I don't have to kill him. Let's get
out of him. The Elizabeth A right, that's right. Why
isn't something being done now, mister Mellon, everything is being done,
there are no results. The entire city police force and
the FBI has come in.
Speaker 1: Where is my daughter?
Speaker 2: Sir? You must be reasonable? Why why should I be reasonable?
If we are doing all we can, it's not good enough.
I know you're upset your pay to preserve law and order.
I have some questions, mister Melan. Has there been any
attempt you exist for the sole purpose of apprehending criminal?
Has there been any attempt to contact you? No, they
tried to contact me. Wouldn't I have reported it? Well, sir,
it's just that it's been three days since animals they
think they can break me down. We ask for a
list of all your daughter's friends. Why you believe some
of her friends may have kidnapped her. We're only trying
to disco already told you about her friends. Have you
told us about all of them?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: See here? Inspect were any of them jealous that you
have any enemies my daughter? Kidnappings are usually planned, mister
Melon and very often there's some inside connivance. Now, could
one of your servants have overheard your daughter and Jeffrey
Pollard make plans for the evening? You may have traitors
among your workers.
Speaker 1: I have none in mine.
Speaker 2: How would the kidnappers know they'd be parked at that
Hamburger joint?
Speaker 1: How would they know?
Speaker 2: Well, I asked you, inspector, where else the young people
end the evening in this town? Who would want to
harm your daughter?
Speaker 1: You have a one track mind, and it leads nowhere.
My daughter.
Speaker 2: Is the sweetest, most generous child, so gentle.
Speaker 1: So sensitive.
Speaker 2: She's not like so many of the day's depraved young people.
She's not a part of this drug craze whatever they
call it. Culture. Mister Manon, have you told us everything
that might help? I could talk to you about that
child for hours.
Speaker 1: I remember she was eight years old.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, well, I don't think you'll be contacted by phone.
Speaker 1: I bought her a dog. She called him Primrole.
Speaker 2: Yes, you see, the kidnappers will expect it to be tapped.
Speaker 1: He bit people. I wanted to have him destroyed, but.
Speaker 2: She said, Daddy, let's send.
Speaker 1: Him up to the farm.
Speaker 2: They'll have to get in touch with you to arrange
for the ramsom.
Speaker 1: See she felt.
Speaker 2: As soon as you receive any communication at all, you
must let us know. Is that clear, mister Mellon, It's okay, Hammer,
it's me, Jeff. Are you sure nobody told you here?
I'm sure you still don't know about this joint for
a herder. It's perfect. Who think to look for her
and Old Melon's property? Relax? I'm not supposed to relax.
I'm Army chief of security as farmhouses, and it's been
deserted for years. Nobody ever comes here. Jesse Baby, Mary Anne,
You're okay.
Speaker 4: Jesse Baby, Okay, Jeff.
Speaker 3: You have to have a new name.
Speaker 5: As commanding Officer General, I order you to get a
new name after Rob and then you're a colonel in
the blood of the People's Revolutionary Arms.
Speaker 2: That's the blood of the People's advance Revolutionary Army.
Speaker 1: Baby right on.
Speaker 5: Himmer right his reign.
Speaker 3: But you can't call me baby no more either. My
name is Chris.
Speaker 6: Tell him what.
Speaker 2: Chris means now, Marianne, we have some serious mass. God.
Speaker 5: Chris is a melee sword and I took that name
to demon straight solidarity with our civic.
Speaker 2: Comrade Hey, Charlie, you shouldn't have given us so much.
Speaker 5: Is his name isn't Charlie, It's Hammer? Yeah on Grammer,
the hammer smash away the rotten timbers that hold up
the corrupt society.
Speaker 4: Oh, I want to go to sleep.
Speaker 2: Mary. She's okay, Leave her alone. I thought we agreed
to keep her off that stuff. We can't. What do
you mean we can't? It's poison for her. When she's
off it too long, she wants to go home, she
starts trying. I want my daddy. She hates him. This
all this was her idea. I have you no dames?
How fuck? How about the another couple of days?
Speaker 1: Why wait?
Speaker 2: Let her father thinks she's dead. Then when he finds
out she's still alive, he'll be so grateful he'll even
enjoy making the payoff.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: We picked right. You're just a cat to lead this
armies psychological warpy. Yes, who mister Mallin the Arthur Melin
to see me, show me mister start. Please sit down,
mister Malin. What can I do for you?
Speaker 1: I wish to retain your services?
Speaker 2: For what purpose?
Speaker 1: I want you to find my daughter?
Speaker 2: If for you're not serious, I have just given your
receptionist a check for ten thousand dollars as a retainer.
Mister Mallan, I am just a long private investigator.
Speaker 1: I'm aware of that.
Speaker 2: All the resources of the city police plus the federal
government are working for you. None of them has produced
any results. Well, now, what makes you think that I,
or by myself, could do better. I will give you
some information that has not been released to the authorities.
You mean evidence that's been withheld in that event, sir,
I must inform you.
Speaker 1: Your young your rash.
Speaker 2: You jump to conclusions. I did not say evidence, I
said information. What sort of information? Information concerning the relationship
between my daughter and me? Yes, now this is privileged.
I didn't tell the police the truth on our way,
I can't be a party. I told them she was
an angel. I should have said a monster. Why is
she a monster? Because her values, a morality, her ethic
have become twisted, distorted, perverted by certain obscene elements that
are permitted to flourish today.
Speaker 1: In our society.
Speaker 2: In what way I am a male chauvinist. Well, aren't
we all? I am also a capitalist pig me I
am draining the heart's blood from my degraded and brutalized worker.
Where are you? I employed nine hundred and seventy eight people.
There isn't one that doesn't own a house in the
car two car where mister Melin, you know how so
many young people feel today? He says, I'm destroying the
social fabric?
Speaker 1: What am I doing? I make plastics? Why should that
bother anybody?
Speaker 2: Mister Mallon, what good does all this information do me?
He's become a radical, a violent radical. That there were
some bombings a while ago, the federal buildings downtown. If
you know that your daughter has bombed any of those buildings,
you're an accessory. And when you tell me, I become
an accessory too. I don't know that she did it.
What about Jeffrey Pollard? Whoa he agrees with her about everything.
He's studying for his master's degree in chemistry. The police
aware of that? Do they know? There might be something significant?
And as being a chemist?
Speaker 1: But I don't know for a fact that it's significant.
Speaker 2: Why does he support himself? He works part time in
my factory. The raw materials and a plastics factory, many
of them could also provide the raw materials for explosives.
Speaker 1: Certainly any fool knows that.
Speaker 2: All right, How is all of this supposed to help.
Speaker 1: Me one knife?
Speaker 2: I heard Jeff and Millianne talking about something called the
Blood of the People's Revolutionary Army or what kind of
army is that? Well, it's an army that's supposed to
destroy our sick society. And she and Jeff have been
talking about raising money to arm the poor and the oppress.
I see, what do you see the skidnapping? It's arranged
to garge some money out of you.
Speaker 1: That's what it could very well be.
Speaker 2: And that's why you need the police and the FBI.
They have information on all these groups. What do you
expect me to do? What I couldn't expect them to do.
Keep your mouth shut. I don't want it known that
she's a part of the whole subversive crowd, but those
facts will have to come out. I want you to
get to her somehow, bring her home where I could
cook some sense into her, and this whole business will
just blow over. How do you expect me to find
her when the police and the FBI.
Speaker 1: Have given you a lead.
Speaker 2: Jeffrey Poller's Jeffrey Pollard is an automatic suspect true, but
the police have no real reason to assume he's guilty,
and after a while they'll relax their surveillance. You, on
the other hand, you're wasting your money.
Speaker 1: I want my daughter.
Speaker 2: What makes you think that you can talk sense in all?
This is a ptemporary madness. He's got too much good breeding,
too much of her father and her I still insist
the police have a better chance. If I tell the
police what I've just told you, the whole world will
see my daughter as a depraved, wanton psychotic. I'd rather
see her dead first, mister Mallan, find her quickly quiet.
But it isn't possible for me. It is you know
what makes all things possible.
Speaker 1: Money. Here, I'll sign a check. Now, you just write
down your own figure.
Speaker 2: That's quite a relationship between father and daughter. One thing
we know, mister Melon has unlimited confidence in the power
of money, and anybody is for sale. Provided you add
enough zeros to the check. Well, we'll have some spirited
buying and selling. When I returned shortly with that too.
All the world's the stage, said the great poet. And
obviously the statement is so true that we tend to
overlook it. So many of us are so busy playing
a role so much at the time that it becomes
difficult to determine just.
Speaker 1: What our original motivations.
Speaker 2: Were or even why. On the face of it, a
wealthy young girl has been kidnapped, but the face, as
we have seen, is a false one. So far, most
of the principal characters in this story have already been
caught in one lie or another. You want to see me,
Inspector Brough start, Why would Arthur Melon visit your CD office?
I admit I'm not in the high rent district, but
it's really not ced answer the question started. I'm not
required to answer the questions. That's right, and neither am
I required to play ball with you when you need
cooperation next time he engaged my services? Why he isn't
satisfied with yours?
Speaker 1: What does he think you was?
Speaker 2: Sherlock Holmes, Inspector, What did you get from the eyewitnesses?
My grain headache? Two guys appear to be young. They
either were baked and fat or shortened, and they were
either wearing denims or slacks and jackets. They were dressed
in either black, blue, green, or red. The boyfriend or
Jeffrey Poulter, that's clean kid says he didn't have to
do it. He's gonna marry her and get it all
legally one day. Yeah, but we got a tail on
him just in case. Looks like it'll be a long
hot summer followed by a long cold winter. Do me
a favorite starret anything for a pile, inspector. If you
should happen to find her, let us know her. Ester Mallan,
I must know more about your daughter. Why, because there
must be a reason why she turned against you. She
never did well. Maybe I didn't spend enough time with
her after her mother died. And when her mother died.
Speaker 1: I was out of town on a business trip. Well
what would that have to do with her?
Speaker 2: I hate to speak ill of the dead, but her
mother tried to poison the child's mind against me by
saying I was neglecting the two of them, using business
as an excuse. Were you look I refused to hire me.
You pay me a fortune, but you refuse to help me.
I want to know more about your daughter. Or a
dog she was eight or ten at the time. She
named him Primrose. He developed into a vicious brute. Ester
Malin should have been killed, but she said that he
is a wild animal. He's frustrated, he needs to hunt.
Send him to the farm up to the fest doesn't
help me. That's how I remember my daughter, how she was,
her understanding, her depth of character. Did her daughter ever
bring anyone around to the house that you didn't like?
Were a great many I disapproved of, And I start
with the ones you're disapproved of the most.
Speaker 1: Well, there were two in particular, And.
Speaker 2: What were their names? I was never interested enough to
find out. They'd come over with Jeffrey and sit around
talking and describe them. One was of a very tall,
huge man about twenty five or so. Black hair, Yeah,
that was somewhat smaller, very wiry, very blig. And they
would just sit around and talk. Yes, always appeared to
be a lively kind of conversation. Well, except seems to
me that the big black haired one never.
Speaker 1: Opened his mouth at all. Mm I.
Speaker 2: He struck me as uh as a person who simply
couldn't talk.
Speaker 4: Hey, Mama, to hurry, still alive.
Speaker 2: And out of jail barely. Ever, when I'm working, Oh
what are you working on? Look?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: Then we go where it's just a little bit quieter.
Speaker 3: Oh, step right into my paw, said the spider and
I uh used to be a pretty good looking spider,
but that was before your time.
Speaker 2: Alright, alright, alright, now tell me what do you know
about the Blood of the People's Revolutionary Army?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: Uh uh you know the rules star a no info.
That's how I make sure everybody loves me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I love you, I wanna do you a
good turn. If that army ever met near joint your accessory?
Uh to uh the Melon kidnapping?
Speaker 4: Mm?
Speaker 3: The name again, the.
Speaker 2: Blood of the People's Revolutionary Army?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: No does it exist?
Speaker 4: Who?
Speaker 1: Noose? Three four kids get together?
Speaker 3: They got a political party or an army?
Speaker 2: The girl Mary Anne Melon? Is she in any of
these circles? I haven't heard the boyfriend Jeffrey Pollard.
Speaker 3: No, but you see, they could have been in the
closet waiting for the right time to come out.
Speaker 2: A big black haired guy.
Speaker 3: The world seems full of big black haired guy.
Speaker 2: Now, this one would have a kind of blondish sidekick.
Black hair would come over more or less as a dummy.
Speaker 3: Oh he made a dummy.
Speaker 2: No, No, that's a zipper. The zipper.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he don't talk.
Speaker 3: The reason is, he says, is because if you keep
your mouth.
Speaker 1: Zip it up.
Speaker 3: You'll never get in a gym tho. His friends call
him the zipper.
Speaker 2: And what's his friend's name, Blondie?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: He never said.
Speaker 2: I never asked. Did you ever see them with Mary
Anne Melon and Jeff Pollard?
Speaker 3: I'm money A couple of times, a.
Speaker 2: Little foursome at the table. When was the last time
you saw them together? Uh?
Speaker 3: The last time?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: I remember it was the night she was kidnapped.
Speaker 2: You're sure.
Speaker 3: I'm sure cause I read the paper the next morning,
and I remember telling Papa why those two were in
in the joint just a couple of hours before it happened.
Speaker 2: You haven't seen black hair Blondie since? No, what's it
all about? It's about one hundred bucks here before? To
keep your mouth shut.
Speaker 3: Oh you know me, Starreed, I never talk.
Speaker 2: Yes, my name is Starin. I'm a private investigator. I've
already told the police everything I know. Have you well,
please excuse me. You have no official I have a
pretty good unofficial capacity. I was retained by your prospective
father in law. Oh, all, i'd commember. All I know
is what I told the police. We were parked in
front of sparkles. Suddenly the car door was flung open,
A big guy dragged me out, slugged me. Then then
another fellow drove off with Mary Anne, and you couldn't
describe him. Oh they was dockingments. Well, it all happened
so far. You just weren't able to get a good look.
And besides, you were practically in a state of shock. Yes,
that's exactly what I said to the police. Oh, that's
an excellent story, sharp, clear, plausible. What do you mean plausible? Yes,
And what they saw was some excellently staged theater, four
actors playing their parts to perfection.
Speaker 1: Not just a minute.
Speaker 2: You have no right to make these completely unfounded allegations.
What you're accusing me, You're accusing Mari Anne and me
of staging this. I must say you catch on, get
out of here. I don't care who hired you, who
is the commander in chief of the Blood of the
People's Revolutionary Army. I don't know what you're talking about. Kay,
so far, no harm has been done. Now, I know
I'm on the right road, but I can't be more
than just a couple of steps ahead of the cops
and the FBI. And when they tumble. You're done. This
is preposterous telling me, okay, you'll marry Anne. You probably
believe you can start a people's revolutionary army. Why do
you persist in this kind? Zipper and blonde? You? Now,
these are just a couple of strong arm hustlers. You
think you'll see them after the old man cops up
the ransom. If he does, you think any of the
doe will go for guns for the poor and the oppressed.
It's the last you'll see of those two. You'll be
left holding the big empty sack, or you'll be dead.
You're manufacturing this fiction to justify a fee for mister Mellon. Here,
kid my card. You're gonna need help to get out
of the damn call me.
Speaker 1: Well you've been all this time.
Speaker 2: I'm being tailed to be careful. Did you shake him?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Finally?
Speaker 2: Now listen were.
Speaker 3: I want to go home? I just want to go home.
Speaker 1: That's my father.
Speaker 2: Well, look, Marianne, okay, okay, you'll feel better just a minute. Baby.
Speaker 4: What we're doing is this is crazy.
Speaker 2: You're going to feel it. Hit and take hold.
Speaker 4: We I think we could start a revolution the four
of us Ryan again.
Speaker 3: Nobody needs guns.
Speaker 4: Guns kill people.
Speaker 2: Take that deep breath, baby, go ahead, you're taking off.
Oh my okay, everybody listen to me for a minute.
Mary Anne, my name is Chris, said for ham up,
all of you listen.
Speaker 1: We have to call it off.
Speaker 2: Call it What are you talking about? Somebody's wise to
as somebody knows knows it's all stage. Yeah, And he
was telling me he knows all about the blood of
the People's Advanced Revolutionary Army. Could anybody know all that name?
Only the four of us.
Speaker 1: Let's all annoys you about?
Speaker 2: Who is this guy? A private detective? A private detective. Man.
That means he must have put it on together himself.
What's his angle? He wants me they will call it off, Yeah,
before it's too late. Private detective. Yeah, that means he
must be the only one who knows. He's the only
one right now. But he says he can't be more
than a couple of steps ahead of the cops and
the FBI.
Speaker 1: Who is this guy? Doesn't matter?
Speaker 2: Sure it matters. We don't want to kill the wrong pig.
What do you mean to kill that? So it is? What?
But what we expect to kill the only Yes, we're
in the movement right now. Couldn't he quap But it
isn't there enough reasons? Still? You want to do it
sometime liberal or something? Did you join the revolutionary movement
just because you thought it was hip? Come on, man,
we gotta take a vote all in favor of killing
this pig, now signifying a huge away by raising your
right fist A right minds up? So say Sipper, how
about you, Chris?
Speaker 5: Maybe you can't break an egg and without making eggs
or something like that.
Speaker 2: The blood of the people's court, a revolutionary justice has spoken,
we killed a pig.
Speaker 1: What's his name?
Speaker 2: Start? How would you like to be tried in absentia
and be unaware of the charges against you, and also
be oblivious to the fact that a trial is being
held in the first place?
Speaker 1: You'd be surprised.
Speaker 2: But this kind of thing is dera gerve in so
many parts of the world. Well, justice of a sort
will be done.
Speaker 1: But I returned shortly with Act three.
Speaker 2: As our society becomes ever more complex and sophisticated, it
becomes ever more fragile.
Speaker 1: A mere handful of people may hold an entire.
Speaker 2: City at their mercy.
Speaker 1: All it takes is the.
Speaker 2: Knowledge of where the vulnerable spots are so we face
the danger of attack by any small group at any time.
Speaker 1: From any quarter.
Speaker 2: Is this to be part of the price we pay
for civilization? But how how should we kill 'em? Shut 'em?
Who's gonna do with it? The only fair way?
Speaker 1: Drug card?
Speaker 2: While lie in all a better way? Okay, zipper him
in a deck. Wanna shuffle? Go ahead? Cut okay?
Speaker 1: High man's a gonna.
Speaker 2: Zipper?
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 2: That's right, Chris. You can't ask Marianne how.
Speaker 4: Many times I have to play a.
Speaker 3: Man the name Kris.
Speaker 2: But we can't ask her to tend.
Speaker 3: Me a card?
Speaker 2: Him? Man?
Speaker 1: Ooh what is it?
Speaker 3: I save him?
Speaker 2: See it's a nime, don't care?
Speaker 1: Drawing?
Speaker 2: Hey, you have a hook, baby, I got a ten? Okay, Jeffrey,
But I I couldn't kill anybody all of the people
draw Oh hey, man, when you look at that, they
hold lady yourself, the queen of Spade?
Speaker 4: Hey, you run?
Speaker 2: What am I? How am I going to my revolfice?
If until you eat it? Now, all you gotta do
is get to him when he's alone at home in
his office. You just walk up and you should have
should have It's right. Don't say nothing. Don't pull around
your shoe. But I can't. Maybe you gotta do it. Hello,
mister Starr, who is this? I would like to see you?
Why wait, it's a confidential matter. Oh this is closed?
Speaker 1: Well this is important.
Speaker 2: Could you meet me there in a half an hour.
I'll make it worth your while. Hello? Hello, hm, haff hour? Huh,
maybe i'd better be early. Come in it's open. Hey
tell you now. Let me turn on a light and
see who you are. Well, I thought your voices out.
It's Jeffrey, don't you. How course not? And look what's
on the floor. Oh god, yeah, it's it's mine. Yes,
I must have slipped out of my pocket when you
jump me.
Speaker 1: Is that a fact?
Speaker 2: Well, I must be seeing things. I thought that gun
was in your hand at any event. What are you
doing with a gun? Well? Ever, since that night, I
uh decided I needed to protect myself. Permit me to
extract the cartridges and now you may have it and
don't hurt yourself. Tell me why are we here? Well,
I know you suspect me of being part of a
plot to kidnapped Marianne. I have to play my name. Besides,
you can't prove anything if I can't prove anything. Why
should you care what I think? Well, no one likes
to be accused unjust, but I'm accusing you justly. And
here's the rest of it. You came here to kill me.
Oh no, you're no good at this business. Zipper or
blonde I don't know what you're talking about. Fin Seene
was Zipper and Blondie? At any rate, either one of
them may have had a better chance. Now why did
they send you? Well, maybe they figured I'd kill you
in self defense. One mouth less to feed when the
pie is lies up, Ryan, you have this hallucination getting
close to pie time, aren't we? Sooner or later the
old man will be asked to cough up how much?
There's nothing I can say to you. I know the story,
the whole story, but I don't have a single shred
of proof, or you'd be in the cooler this minute. Now, look, look,
let me help you. I don't need any help. You're
in over your head. You have noble, lofty motives, but
now you have to play dirty, and you don't have
the stomach for it. Is there anyway I can convince you?
We'll pass that. You have to convince yourself. The thing
is all over. It's just a hustle for Doe. Now,
let me help you. Why do you insist I need help?
Where you holding her? I can pick her up, nobody
gets hurt. We'll even pay off Zipper and Blondie to
keep their mouths shut. We can work out a heroic
rescue Paiale for the press. You can't get a better deal.
You know what you're talking about. Goodbye, mister Start help you.
I'll help you in spite of yourself. Better tell Blondie
and Zepher you killed me. You're crazy. I don't know. Start,
it's crazy. You want the girl inspector, you want the kidnappers,
and you can even have the credit. But how can
I give it out that you were found murdered tonight?
It's not in a day or two you can discover
you were mistaken. Why do you want anyone to think
you were killed? I have one lead. I have to
protect it. If his friends find out he didn't kill me,
he's dead, and I hope you know what you're doing.
Do you have any better leads? Do you have any
leads at all? All right, hey, hey, it's a sort listen.
I came back to tell you that I meant to
tell us nothing. We heard it on the radio. Look,
why don't you hear he's dead? He just found his body.
Still it is dead. They want Hey, man, you are
now one of us. But how'd you do it?
Speaker 4: Why?
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, it ain't cool to talk about it. Look,
you go inside and talk to Marianne and the ticket's
tape recorder. She's gonna make a message to the old man,
but you have her tell the old man and she's okay.
One million bucks right, small bills, eleven o'clock at night,
behind a billboard, an exit nine on a turnpike. Anybody
tries to follow the girl gets it. Okay, okay, we
gonna move fast.
Speaker 3: Ooh, you got the tape recorder. Okay, Grudy, I know
just what I'm going to say.
Speaker 2: Listen, We've been betrayed. It's no good. We have to
get out of here.
Speaker 4: Oh man, we hit a million bucks, a bike, guns
on the people.
Speaker 2: Mary Anne, they're out and back working on the car.
Let's make a run for it.
Speaker 4: Could that brother, that blood brother.
Speaker 2: Try to understand. I know you're kind of spaced out,
but try to understand. It's wrong. What we're doing is wrong.
And he said, just hoodlums. It doesn't matter. We won't
become revolutionaries or idealists. We'll just be common criminals. No, now,
let's get out of here before it's too late. I
guess it's too late right now, see Zip, but call
my attention to something. He knows all about these things.
The supporter hasn't been fired. What do you think of that?
I don't ahead to smell it. Look at it clears
a whistle, So Sterre, it isn't dead. And the two
of you, you plin him kind of a game. I
couldn't go through with it. Why did you tell him nothing?
And what's this about his being dead? He's a private detective.
He could have lots of enemies. Someone else could have
killed him. It could be a coincidence. Okay, man, you
better be telling the truth.
Speaker 3: Can I lie to a blood brother?
Speaker 2: Yes? Sure, zipp I keep a gun on him, and
if the cups show up, make sure that he gets it. Okay, Chris, Baby,
the ransom Chapehu, the take go ahead, talk into the recorder.
Don't do it, Mary Anne. They'll only kill us both
when they get the money. Talk baby talk, daddy. I
I feel so bad it look tell him you feel great, Daddy.
I feel great.
Speaker 3: I feel like I felt when when Primrose was sent away.
Speaker 2: But we're not gonna raise money for a revolution, don't
you see? Mary Anne Zipper? He opens his mouth one
more time.
Speaker 4: Plug him now, No, don't hurt Jeffrey, Please don't.
Speaker 2: Okay and start over and talk into that thing.
Speaker 3: Oh, I have to get my head together, Daddy. I
feel great.
Speaker 5: I haven't felt this could since prim Rose since well,
we'll be these gentlemen.
Speaker 4: They're very nice and.
Speaker 6: They want one million dollars. It's an outrage and they
want mister Dad to deliver the million.
Speaker 2: Don't they know? Your dad must have gone wrong.
Speaker 6: To deliver one million dollars behind the billboard at exit
nine of the turnpike. Jeez, will you do it? Teddy?
I haven't felt so good since Primrose went away? Now
you know how good I feel. He has to do
it tomorrow at eleven o'clock.
Speaker 4: I love you day, dear.
Speaker 2: A million dollars and why do they want you to
deliver it? Tell me start?
Speaker 1: Are you in league with these people all?
Speaker 2: Dad? Mister Malline inspector. He may have made early contact
and arranged it all to be able to share in
the loop. Mister Mellon, you're crazy. I acted on information
you had given me a lot of information. It's privileged dector,
star It, you dare? What is a kidnappings? All surmise
on Melon's part. He thinks the thing was rigged by
Mary Anne, Jeff and two friends, Zipper and Blondie. Why,
ask him?
Speaker 1: Well, well, it just seemed likely. That's why I have
no proof.
Speaker 2: And what are you going to do about the ransom demand?
Speaker 1: I'm going to pay it.
Speaker 2: He can deliver it. I want my daughter. Okay, star It,
we'll tell you they picked the right places. Our wide
open country. You can see a car coming for miles.
Helicopter he could spot them too. All right, we'll come
as close as we can. Let me let me listen
to that tape again.
Speaker 6: I haven't felt so good since Primrose went away.
Speaker 2: Why does she say that? Why bring up an old dog?
Well you can hear he sounds a bit stoned. She's
trying to tell us something. What Okay, I'll stay here
with our friend Zippy and you'll go for the money.
And when mister Starrett steps out of that car, you
shoot him. Why why do you have to kill him
now a radio who says he's dead. You don't want
the radio to lie, do you? All right? Start the sprum.
We've arranged for utility truck to repair a pole one
hundred yards off the exit. The man will be cops,
his old man Melon in the car with him. Yeah
good now, first, radio, your guys, who are doing the
utility pole act to bag Zipper didn't have to be Zipper.
As soon as he shows up, Brandy would be back
at the farm holding the gun. On what farm? Ask
mellon how we get to his old farmhouse?
Speaker 3: Mary Anne, Mary Anne, wake up?
Speaker 2: I'm so tired?
Speaker 7: Oh why am I so tired?
Speaker 3: Why do I want to sleep all the time?
Speaker 2: Mary Anne? If they're they're gonna kill us?
Speaker 3: No, no, they won't.
Speaker 7: They can't kill us.
Speaker 3: Nobody can kill us.
Speaker 4: My daddy is coming. He's gonna save me.
Speaker 1: Your daddy.
Speaker 2: Nobody can help us. Nobody knows where we are. Daddy
knows how How does he know? Because I told him?
You told him how I had oh spinning all around? Marianne. Oh,
how did you tell him?
Speaker 5: Oh, the whole room is spinning?
Speaker 2: How did you tell him?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 5: I said something on the tape, something I said, I remember,
I said some people.
Speaker 2: I just saw the car coming across the field. That
means the zipper has the loop and we say goodbye.
Speaker 1: And more ways than one.
Speaker 2: You don't have to kill us. No hot feelings. She'll
come on his zipper. We have to polish these two.
That's enough. Out of your hook. No armies being disbanded,
Old daddy.
Speaker 4: I knew you'd understand.
Speaker 2: Mariamne, you're all right.
Speaker 4: I knew you'd get the message about Primrod.
Speaker 2: Primrose sre. He got it. He got it in a
flash the minute he heard it. And he said, boys,
the reason she managed to say how happy she was
about Primrose is that she wanted me to remember how
we sent our old dog up to the farmhouse. The
old farmhouse, he said, boys, that's where she's being held.
Speaker 1: Good daddy, you're wonderful. Thank you started, thank you.
Speaker 2: Sterrett was so astounded at being thanked that he almost
forgot to cash his check.
Speaker 1: Mary Anne and Jeffrey were held.
Speaker 2: On technical charges of attempted extortion, but since Arthur Mellon
refused to prosecute, they were freed. I regret to say
that Hammer and the zipper also went free. In the end,
since their silence was necessary to keep the world from
knowing certain facts about Marianne.
Speaker 1: But justice, as you know, is blind.
Speaker 2: Very often I shall find my way back here in
just a few moments.
Speaker 1: The children of today, who are they?
Speaker 2: It's a generation unlike any the world has ever seen.
A generation raised to consider miracles as commonplace everyday events.
And the children struggle and strike out and amaze us,
trouble us, and there are times when we fear they
will even destroy us. But one day they grow up
and become just like us. M our cast included Mason Adams,
Rosemary Rice, Ken Harvey, Ian Martin, and Jack Rymes. The
entire production was under the direction of Hymon Brown and
now a preview of our next tale.
Speaker 7: It's not so easy to end everything, not easy at all.
And maybe that's my last message to the world. If
you think ending it all as a snap, you better
think again and think it hard.
Speaker 1: Because that's what it is.
Speaker 7: Harric He isn't just slipping out of the world the
way you slip out of a room.
Speaker 1: At a party you found boring.
Speaker 7: Why don't I feel something trowsiness or wiziness or something
I never felt so clear that in my life. I
gotta feel something. I didn't even eat the second cracker,
didn't need any breakfast, no lunch.
Speaker 1: I gotta feel something.
Speaker 7: Oh Lord, they're not gonna trick me up on this too,
not the last gesture of my life. They're not gonna
make this ridiculous too, like everything else. They're not going
to make me a failure in this tool.
Speaker 1: I won't stand for that.
Speaker 2: I won't Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by
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Speaker 1: This is E. G.
Speaker 2: Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams,