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Speaker 1: The Phobs, radio mystery theater presents, come in.

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Speaker 2: Welcome, I ne g Marshall. Torture is my subject this

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time around. Oh, don't be alarmed.

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Speaker 1: I have no intention of shocking you with unmentionable horrors. Well,

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you see, there are all sorts of torments invented by

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man to be deviled his fellow man, And perhaps the

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most subtle of these is man's fear of the unknown.

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Speaker 2: We are so constructed. It seems to me that we

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can almost always cope with the know, whatever it may be.

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Speaker 1: But when we don't know what elive ahead, what nameless

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nightmare may await. Well, let's illustrate with Todd Stearns and

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his wife Tammy.

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Speaker 3: Todd. What if you tell them what they.

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Speaker 2: Want to know? Could mean the end of this country, Sammy,

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It could mean the end of the world, the world,

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the world.

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Speaker 4: It's the axtension torture, didn't he yes?

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Speaker 3: Will you be able to stand it?

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Speaker 2: I think so once I know what it is. But

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mister Rex is clever. He won't tell me. He knows

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that not knowing that's the worst torture of all.

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Speaker 1: Our mystery drama. The Pitch and the Pendulum was especially

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adapted from the Edgar Allen Poe classic for the Mystery

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Theater by George Rover and stars Tony Roberts and Marion Seldis.

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I'll do that shortly with that one. It's nothing new

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to say that men and women too have successfully endured

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the worst of physical pain one can imagine. But mental pain,

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I'm told, is something else. Again, those skilled in the

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art of extracting information well know that physical force will

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often succeed, but that mental force will always succeed. Why

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not employ it at once? Then, because it requires great skill,

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exquisite subtlety, and is in consequence it's far more difficult

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to use. Oh this is it may m much Thoughts

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held little in any interest for Todd and Tammy Stearns

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as they drove in an official government limousine.

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Speaker 2: Toward the airport of a large city. You really shouldn't

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have come to see me off this time, Tammy.

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Speaker 3: Break my record.

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Speaker 4: I've gone to the airport with you every time you've

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made one of your mysterious, deep dark secret trips.

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Speaker 3: Ever since we were married four years ago.

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Speaker 4: With Jill down with a cold man, I could certainly

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take care of us for an hour or two.

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Speaker 3: Todd. Yeah, it could it be alright.

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Speaker 2: Aren't you? What makes you ask a silly question like that?

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Speaker 3: It is it silly? And you know it.

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Speaker 4: These trips you make abroad every now and then, well

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I don't know what they're all about.

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Speaker 2: I've never known because I've.

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Speaker 5: Never told you, and I never will. Unless you know

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the better off you'll be. Well.

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Speaker 3: I'm not asking you to tell me.

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Speaker 4: I know you won't, but it's it's not knowing that

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makes me bite my.

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Speaker 3: Nail till you come safely back.

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Speaker 5: Oh I'm sorry, sweetheart, but that's funny. But I don't

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think we're we're not. Driver, Driver, why did you take

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the left turn? You're heading away from the airport, not.

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Speaker 3: Toward it, cause he don't tell you are at that?

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Speaker 4: Driver?

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Speaker 2: Driver, answer me why.

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Speaker 3: That panel's sliding up?

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Speaker 2: That devils drive on? What in blazes is going on?

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Speaker 3: It's not paying attention, sid He've been turning around.

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Speaker 2: I don't understand, driver, damn it. Tell me, let's get out.

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I'm fast.

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Speaker 5: Both doors are lots and I can't open THEMD God,

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what does this mean?

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Speaker 1: And I like to think what it means? Timmy, But

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I sure wish you.

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Speaker 2: Hadn't come along this time. Uh oh oh, come in,

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mister Sturns, come in. Uh sit down, missus Sterns. Make

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yourself comfortable. What have you done with my wife? Oh?

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She's safe and comfortable.

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Speaker 5: There's nothing for you to worry about, I assure you.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Would you care for a drink?

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Speaker 5: As a matter of fact, I could use one if

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it isn't drugged.

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Speaker 2: Drugged that's a fanciful idea.

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Speaker 5: Hm, it's no more fanciful and kidnapping me?

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Speaker 2: Who are you? What's this all about? As to who

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I am? You can call me mister X.

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Speaker 5: Mister X, come on, you can't be for real a corny,

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can you get? It's corny, I admit, but it's also safer,

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infinitely safer than any name I might use.

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Speaker 2: See X as an unknown quantity. As to what this

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is all about? All your drinks? Thanks? What is this

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all about?

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Speaker 5: I'll come now, mister Sturns, card if I may, you

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know what it's about? A pregnant You lying, of course,

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But well, no sense wasting valuable time.

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Speaker 2: Fencing with each other. So I'll tell you.

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Speaker 5: I represent a group that's in the business of selling

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top secret information of one country to another. You're in

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the business of conveying top secret information from this country

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to another. The reason you were kidnapped and brought here

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was because we want the top secret you were presently

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on your way to deliver to well, you know where.

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I haven't the slightest idea what you're talking to Let

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my sense please. I know that you are on your

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way abroad with the formula for a new bacterial gas

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which would easily tip the balance of power in favor

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of the country.

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Speaker 2: Possessing it all.

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Speaker 5: And my government is willing to uh hand over a

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weapon as vital and.

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Speaker 2: Deadly as this to another government. It is, and you

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know why.

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Speaker 5: The pact between the two governments to keep each other

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informed and thus hopefully to maintain the balance of power.

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You know you've been seeing too many James Bond moving.

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Speaker 2: Let's stop it. Card I.

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Speaker 5: I I want the formula and.

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Speaker 2: I mean to have it.

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Speaker 5: Well, then you won't get it from me because I

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haven't got it, cause I guess you know your muscle

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and searched me certaly and found nothing.

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Speaker 2: I didn't expect they would.

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Speaker 5: I'd been very surprised, indeed shocked, if you've been carrying

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such a formula worth untold millions on your person instead

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of in your head, in my head precisely, Card, I'm

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authorized to offer you fifty thousand dollars for the formula.

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Per a formula you've just told me it can be

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sold for untold millions.

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Speaker 2: Huh, alright, how much do you want?

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Speaker 5: It's an academic question, mister Exson's I don't have the formula.

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Speaker 2: Would you consider a hundred thousand?

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Speaker 5: I haven't got the formula you're talking about.

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Speaker 2: Uh, this is a tape recorder.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna leave you here alone for fifteen minutes. When

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I return, I hope you will have been sensible enough

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to record the formula for me. Look, I showing yourself

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to the liquor, and of course you won't try to escape.

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But you see there are no windows and only one door.

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I and please, please, no more nonsense about you or

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not having the formula.

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Speaker 2: You have it, Todd. You have it as surely as

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we have your wife.

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Speaker 5: Ah, missus Sterns, I see you've been made comfortable.

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Speaker 3: What if you're done with my husband? Where is now?

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Speaker 5: There's no need to distress yourself, Missus Stearns. Tandy, if

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I may, Uh, Todd is presently as safe and as

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comfortable as you are. Oh, I see that you're drinking tea,

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which like another company. What is all this?

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Speaker 3: Why will we brought here?

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Speaker 5: Please calm yourself. I beg you. You're in no dangs

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in my husband, nor is he. He's perfectly safe and

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unharmed at.

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Speaker 3: The moment, at the moment. What do you mean by that?

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Speaker 5: Nothing more nor less than what I said. But tell

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me how much do you know about Todd's affairs, his work,

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his career, the duties he performs for our government?

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Speaker 4: Nothing except he's an under secretariat well in in in

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some department or other.

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Speaker 3: I don't even know that.

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Speaker 2: This thing's rather hard to believe.

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Speaker 5: Married four years and you don't even know what department

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he works for.

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Speaker 2: No, you have a bothered to ask?

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Speaker 4: Well, yes, and Todd made plains and he wouldn't tell me,

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and that I was not to ask.

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Speaker 2: You love Todd? Of course? Of course? How much do

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you love him?

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Speaker 3: I love him. I can't say more than that.

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Speaker 2: I think you can.

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Speaker 5: I think you can say a good deal more than that.

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For instance, do you love him enough to suffer pain

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for him? A great deal of pain?

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Speaker 3: What kind of question is there?

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Speaker 2: Just answer it well?

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Speaker 3: But I can't answer it.

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Speaker 4: How would I know how much pain I could stand

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until I was standing it?

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Speaker 5: Mm, now you have a point me interesting, But I

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wouldn't to find out how much you do love, Todd?

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Speaker 2: How much pain you couldn't you are?

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Speaker 3: I don't know why you're threatening me?

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Speaker 2: Threatening you tell me, no, no, no, Tall.

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Speaker 5: Our discussion is purely theoretical, at least at this time.

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Speaker 3: At least at this time for the present.

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Speaker 4: By you're threatening me, even now you're you're torturing at

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me by by hinting it.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what.

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Speaker 5: Well, let's hope there'll be no need for you to

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find out a come in now, let's see, thank you.

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Let's stay here with her. You know what to do

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with her. If I send the signal?

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Speaker 4: Do what what are you gonna do to me?

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Speaker 3: If you sends a signal?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 3: Ask Tommy, please.

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Speaker 2: Please to me what the take is? Blank? Todd?

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Speaker 5: You recorded nothing, there's nothing to record nothing. If there

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is a formula such as you speak of, I've never

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heard of it. Now, why don't you just knock off

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as nonsense and let me and my wife get out

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of here? Simply because there is a formula and you

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carry it in your head, and you are going to

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dictate it into this machine before I'm through with you

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and your wife.

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Speaker 2: Temmy has nothing to do with this, hasn't she. She

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has only the vaguest idea of what I do with

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the department, if she has any idea at all.

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Speaker 5: Even if I had memorized her formula, which I haven't,

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I'd never have told.

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Speaker 2: Her about it. And why not? Why not?

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Speaker 5: Because your work is precisely what I say, if is

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top secret, high security. Uh No, then why wouldn't you

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tell her you love her?

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Speaker 2: Don't you? Of course, then surely you trust her. Certainly

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I trust her, but not enough to let her know

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what you do or you under raise her.

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Speaker 5: Todd, You really do that woman would do anything for you,

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suffer untold pain for you.

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Speaker 2: You know what do you mean by that, suffer untold

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pain for me? Well?

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Speaker 5: Nothing, really, she told me she would. Then, so on

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wh what amounted of the same thing? It just happened

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to come up and our talk together.

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Speaker 2: When did you talk? Only a few moments ago I

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went to see her when I left you. I had

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a very nice chat.

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Speaker 5: With a very interesting and informative chant about how much

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pain she could stand.

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Speaker 2: Oh, that was only a small part of what we

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talked about. I listened to me. She knows nothing. Of

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course she doesn't. I could she there's nothing to know,

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you say.

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Speaker 5: You hum her, and I warn you, mister act so

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whatever you are, I warn you, i'd stop acting like

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a fool. Now you'll know that you're helpless, and so

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is she. He walks to know that in one way

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or another, you're going to give me that formula, So.

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Speaker 2: Why not give it to me? Save us all a

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lot of trouble, all three of us, three of us,

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you me and tell me.

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Speaker 5: Now here's the tape recorder. Begin very well, Come along

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with me, Tad, now for it till the seller. There's

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something there. I wanna show you, something I'm sure will

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change your mind.

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Speaker 2: And here we are, so here we are. Tell me

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what you see. It's a room, not a very big room.

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Speaker 5: There's a luminum walls that look like aluminum anyway.

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Speaker 2: What else? There's a hole, big wide hole on the floor.

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What else? Nothing that I can see? Look up? What

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you see now?

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Speaker 5: Hang hanging from the ceiling. It's a better foot from

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the ceiling, and a uh of what uh looks uh

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like a headsman's axe, an oversized headman's.

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Speaker 2: Axe with a very sharp cutting edge. Raise the shark.

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Speaker 5: Note how the light gleams on it. And now there's

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something more for you to see.

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Speaker 2: Canny. No, you stay here, She stays there on the

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other side of the room. Canny. Are you all right? Yes, darling?

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Are you sure? Shut up? Todd? Two questions. Have you

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ever heard of a torture called a pendulum? Yes?

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Speaker 5: And another called the pit? Is that the hole on

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the floor, a wide hole?

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Speaker 2: The pit? Yes, you have heard of it? Because you're

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not gonna be sick, I am. No, Todd.

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Speaker 5: Don't make me subject you to the pendulum. Especially, don't

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make me subject you to the exquisite torment of a pit.

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Above all, don't make me subject Tammy to either.

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Speaker 2: No, not Tammy you what depends on you? No, the formula, Todd?

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Would you give it to me? Or would you not?

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Speaker 1: If you were Todd Sterns, what would you do if

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you have the imagination I think you have you are Todd.

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Speaker 2: Sterns or Tammy Sterns, what would be your answer? What

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would you do? Think about it? Until I return for

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Act two?

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Speaker 1: In a room, a rather curious room in the basement

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of an isolated country house. Tod and Tammy Stern's face

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a torture known as the pit and the pendulum. Face it,

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but need not undergo it if Todd will tell mister

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X what he wants to know, reveal the formula that

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he carries in his head for a new weapon of destruction,

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a bacterial gas. As Todd gazes across the yawning pit

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at his lovely wife on the other side, mister X

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repeats once again, Todd, I know it's.

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Speaker 5: A difficult decision, but it is one that you must make.

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Speaker 2: Will you give me the formula or not? I I

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told you I don't hatass enough.

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Speaker 5: You have the formula, you memorize that. I I know that,

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So no more time wasting nonsense.

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Speaker 2: Which is it to be?

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Speaker 5: Will you give me the formula without forcing me to

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torture it out of you?

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Speaker 2: Or must I use force? I have nothing to tell you.

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Perhaps if I explain how the pendulum works. No need

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for that, I know. But does Tanny nough? Do you? Tammy? No? Tammy?

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Look up toward the ceiling.

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Speaker 5: That is a blade, you see, ah, A blade shaped

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like a big headsman's axe, and it's razor sharp.

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Speaker 2: Don't listen to him, Tammy. He's tryna Fighten you.

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Speaker 5: Exactly what I'm trying to do, Tammy, for reasons that

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are quite obvious, I should think, wouldn't you. Yes, Now

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that large razor sharp blade, Tammy, is attached to a pendulum,

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a pen Jelimit swings back and forth and gets an

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inch lower on each.

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Speaker 3: Swing, an inch lower on each swing.

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Speaker 2: Yes.

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Speaker 5: And so anyone strapped to that slab on the floor.

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Look look down now, Tammy, to the floor. You see

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the slab with the straps. Yeah, anyone strapped to that

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slab will in time be cut in half.

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Speaker 2: Tammy. Don't listen slowly, cut in half? Slowly, Tammy.

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Speaker 3: You wouldn't, but you you you wouldn't you?

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Speaker 6: Please?

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Speaker 2: You can't. You won't kill him time of gracious. No,

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he has what I want.

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Speaker 5: I can't kill him unless we reach that perfectly wasteful moment.

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But I have no option but to end this whole

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scene in death. No, no, no thought of killing him.

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Speaker 2: You. Oh my god, Tammy, did you hear me? I

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hate you?

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Speaker 5: Then, my dear, would you try to do what I

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have failed to do? Convince your husband to give me

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the formula?

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Speaker 2: For Tammy.

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Speaker 3: How can I convince him if you couldn't?

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Speaker 2: God, have you no imagination? Whatever?

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Speaker 5: Do you really think that you'll be able to watch

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Tammy kill before your eyes without breaking.

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Speaker 2: No answer?

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Speaker 5: Your silence could signify several possibilities. One you're too shocked

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at the prospect to answer. Two, you could watch while

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your wife is slowly cut in half in agony Todd.

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Speaker 2: Three you couldn't a witch Todd Hm. Possibly even you

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don't know at this moment. HM. Well alright, I'll give

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you time to think it over, to talk it over,

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both of you.

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Speaker 5: Uh ms z or you know where to take missus Stearns,

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mister Sterns, and I will join.

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Speaker 2: You there shortly. Godd, I love you and I love

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you Tammy, I love you. You love her? We'll see

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how much very soon? Uh, very soon? A tally class

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of champagne. M No, it would sicken me me too.

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Just didn't the dinner they've spread before us?

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Speaker 4: It took gourmet's dream or the condemned last meal.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, darling, we we've got to talk this out. What

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isn't to talk out?

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Speaker 4: You've told me that the secret, the the formula that

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you memorize. If it got into the wrong hands, it

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could mean the death of millions.

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Speaker 3: And if you get it to mister X, it will

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certainly be in the wrong hands.

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Speaker 2: I d I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Well, what do you mean The groovy.

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Speaker 4: Represents that they'd sell the formula of the highest bidder.

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Speaker 3: They wouldn't care who who, just so that they got

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the millions.

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Speaker 2: Or maybe for once, just for once, I got to

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think of us, not the world.

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Speaker 3: But we are the world.

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Speaker 2: I know that too. You're involved now, this character X could.

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Speaker 5: Torture me to death, and well, I don't think i'd

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break I don't think I would, But you can't tell

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till you're going through it. I've no an agency. Well,

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never mind to face torture myself alone, that's one thing,

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But to watch you face it, tell me I couldn't

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bear that.

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Speaker 2: Why are you looking at me like that?

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Speaker 3: You're going to have to bear it, Todd.

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Speaker 4: You can't risk the lives of millions for for one person,

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no matter how much you love her. But that's the

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point I wanted to make. If I give X the

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form you're not going to it doesn't mean that whoever

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buys it will use it to control the world.

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Speaker 2: It could simply mean.

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Speaker 4: They would have a balance of power with us instead

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of the government whichever it is.

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Speaker 3: You won't tell me that already has a pact with.

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Speaker 2: Us, Sweetheart, I am just a courier. I'm not up

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there with the brass a pack.

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Speaker 5: Well it's supposed to mean what you think it means,

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but well, sometimes I don't know. Sometimes I think all

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it means is that both countries have the same amount

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of cloud and can't rip each other off.

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Speaker 3: How do we get into this, because this is what

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it's all about.

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Speaker 2: No, what it's all about is you.

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Speaker 5: You getting tortured, is what it's about. Tammy X is

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gonna make me watch you on that slab as the

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pendulum comes closer, inch by inch, Darling, I won't be able.

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Speaker 2: To bear it. I think you will.

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Speaker 3: I know you will.

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Speaker 2: You're a lot shorter than I am.

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Speaker 5: Oh, deal with a pity, the champagne, the food, you

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touch nothing?

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Speaker 2: Who is he?

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Speaker 1: Uh?

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Speaker 2: Oh? A little quirk of mine? He fits in.

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Speaker 5: Don't you think the black sued the Red hood with

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slits her eyes just right for an executioner, just right.

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Speaker 4: It scared the daylights out of your victims, exactly.

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Speaker 2: Tammy, are you scared.

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Speaker 5: You better know it. But you needn't be You know, Rabbit,

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you had succeeded where I found. What is Tard's answer?

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Speaker 3: Now you better ask Tard that.

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Speaker 2: Todd? You know my answer is still no. What point

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in it? To undergo? Agon? The only to give in?

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Speaker 4: Finally, if one gives in, you think you won't, but

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you seem to forget Todd, the one who has to

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get in.

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Speaker 3: I don't have the formula.

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Speaker 5: If if there is one, think now, Tadly, think your

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lying strapped to that slab, that slab beneath the penjamum.

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You cannot move scarcely a muscle of moves. You're looking up,

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staring at that great blade. It begins to move back

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and fall back and forth, swinging and coming lower with

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each swing. Suddenly time is sped by, unaccountably. Suddenly there

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it is the blade within inches of you, now within

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an inch, cutting, now cutting through your dress, delicately cutting,

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And now now.

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Speaker 2: On the next swing it is going to slat it.

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Stop it, Tammy. I can't let you. You didn't think

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that you could bring the tape recorder. Don't bother, No, Tammy, Todd.

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Speaker 3: This man is a phony.

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Speaker 4: I'll stake my life on it. You're trying to scare

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Tid into giving you the secret formula.

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Speaker 3: But if you're scared bigger, I won't go through.

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Speaker 2: With this thing. I won't mm I, I don't think

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you will. In that case, finish your champagne. I will

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proceed Todd, one final chance, mister X. It's this, it's senseless.

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Makes plenty of sense to me. It would if I

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were in your shoes.

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Speaker 5: That woman, that lovely, exceptional woman you were lucky enough

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to marry, lies strapped to the slab. When I give

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the nod to our red hooded executioner, he who press

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the button that starts the pendulum. Once started, it can't

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be stopped, can't they No, it goes right on down

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and through. Should you change your mind, it had better

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not be at the last moment. It had better be

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in time for the executioner to pull her out from

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under the blade.

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Speaker 2: Cammy, don't give in. Don't you leave me no choice?

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Simons do it?

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Speaker 7: Damn, you don't wanna do it?

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Speaker 2: Very well? I give the nod. It's begun. Its swing.

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You see your time back and forth, bang and for

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and inch lower with each swing. Here, I that's the

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microphone or the tape recorder. Take it, use it, terle

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form youa what is.

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Speaker 5: You take to you?

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Speaker 2: What?

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Speaker 3: What is the ad acaphone?

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Speaker 2: Yes, the mic is a tape recorder. Don't you'll die

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if I don't? You got die me? Girl, I can't

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let you. I can't let you. If you can't let

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her speak. You've got the mic in your hands, start talking. No,

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what's left? If I do? What's left? What she loves me?

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Speaker 5: If I let her down, if I save a life

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to lose them, any others.

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Speaker 2: Shall hate me, will be left to me?

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Speaker 5: Then there are the women you spy. There are no

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other women. There's only Tammy for me. Oh, my dearest,

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you are right.

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Speaker 2: We've got to go through with this.

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Speaker 5: For then I've met who's the like but you? It

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would have exists three at most from her body, not two.

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One cutting the dress now and now you see the

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next color?

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Speaker 2: Talk to you? Who'll talk fast? Like? Carry an equation?

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What is it? The equation of the heart? Too late?

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But what Indeed a man and a woman, just another

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man and.

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Speaker 1: A woman like you like me, stand ready to sacrifice

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or not sacrifice their own lives for others.

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Speaker 2: Certainly the woman does the man. I don't know. We'll see.

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We'll see when I return for Act three Pleats versus MS.

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takes a lot of coordination and quick response.

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Speaker 1: I had it until MS multiple scroses attack my central

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Speaker 1: Knight, my teammate, Terry and I race against the clock

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just like Ron here.

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You see, multiple sclerosis doesn't just cripple, so we all

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have to find a cure before it's too late. Help

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us get Ron back in the road to good.

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we all win.

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Speaker 3: It's not much Federal saving time, We've got more.

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Speaker 1: I have said that there are all sorts of torture,

508
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limitless degrees of mental and physical torment m and of these,

509
00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:12,880
mental anguish is worst of all. There are some who

510
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can stand physical pain better than mental and vice person.

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Moments ago, we wondered would Todd Stern's break under the

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strain of watching the torment of his wife Tammy Wood. Tammy, Well,

513
00:29:27,359 --> 00:29:32,039
let's find out, talk talk, What do you think it.

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00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:35,519
Speaker 2: Tammy.

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Speaker 5: I remember now the pendulum played, descending close, closer, coming

516
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through a dress.

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Speaker 2: She is she? What? Dead? Damn you? Is she dead?

518
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That take the corders right there in front of you.

519
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That take the formula?

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Speaker 5: Anthemy, it's Tammy dead. Did take the formula? M Now

521
00:30:00,599 --> 00:30:02,680
you will if you want the answer to whether your

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wife is dead or alive.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. If she's dead then, and at least

524
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she's safe from you. Uh. But if she's.

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Speaker 5: Alive, I see it in your eyes, it's the agony

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of not knowing.

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Speaker 2: Dictate. Now, you've got more guts than I thought. I

528
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don't know. I'm as much a coward as the next man.

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Speaker 1: But you made a mistake when you left Tammy and

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me alone together for those few hours.

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Speaker 2: Uh huh. That's a funny thing. But I don't know why.

532
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Speaker 5: Maybe it was just facing our last hours on Earth together,

533
00:30:40,839 --> 00:30:42,319
but we really got to know each other for the

534
00:30:42,359 --> 00:30:44,599
first time in our four years of married I made

535
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a mistake. You made a mistake.

536
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Speaker 2: You're licked, dead or alive. Tammy licked you and dead

537
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:55,440
or alive. I won't let her down, I say, excuse me,

538
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I'll bring her in Tammy.

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00:31:00,039 --> 00:31:02,519
Speaker 3: Oh, Tarry thank god, you're a lord, darling.

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Speaker 2: You are right, you are harmed, your whole. I'm fine,

541
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You're not your hands. I can feel it.

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Speaker 3: I'll calm down and I'll be all right.

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Speaker 2: Not if Tod goes on refusing to give me that formula.

544
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Speaker 3: You haven't given it to him.

545
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Speaker 5: No, darling, I'm so glad your happiness is doomed to

546
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a short life because.

547
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Speaker 2: I assure you Todd is going to do what I am.

548
00:31:29,279 --> 00:31:30,440
Speaker 3: No, not DoD.

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00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:32,519
Speaker 2: Oh, yes, let me say that.

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Speaker 5: I I admire you, both of you, and you have

551
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every reason to be proud of this man.

552
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Speaker 2: You marry well. I am very but he is not

553
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a superman.

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Speaker 5: He has his breaking point, as all men do. I

555
00:31:43,359 --> 00:31:45,519
haven't succeeded in reaching that point, that's all.

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Speaker 2: But unless he dictates the.

557
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Speaker 5: Formula he carries in his head, I shall take final

558
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steps to reach his breaking point and yours quickly.

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Speaker 2: Oh by the way, Uh you a little girl, Jill?

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Speaker 3: What about her?

561
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Speaker 2: I thought you wanna know? Uh?

562
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Speaker 5: Your housekeeper an are sent for the doctor a little

563
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while ago.

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Speaker 2: Why she was I I don't know. All I have

565
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is the report that the doctor was sent for me.

566
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You dirty?

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Speaker 5: No, Slowly, slowly, Todd, physical violence will get to nowhere.

568
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This is part of your next torture, isn't it making

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us worry about Jill's condition and what will become of

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us or the two of you meet what you possibly

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may meet. That you will leave me no choice but

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to subject you now to the kind of torment I

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tried to avoid.

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Speaker 3: Well, there can't be anything worse than the pendulum.

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Speaker 2: There's the pit. I see that you know something about it.

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Speaker 5: I don't know anything about it, cause I see you've

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heard of the pit, but it remains an unknown quantity.

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Speaker 2: And it will be that.

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Speaker 5: The simple fact that you don't know what awaits you

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in the pit, it will break you, just as not

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knowing why the doctor was called for your daughter has

582
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shaken you. Uh once again, will you give me the formula?

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Speaker 2: Then it's the pit. I'm afraid back where we started.

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Speaker 5: Don't no, The pendulum, you see is again in place

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in the ceiling.

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Speaker 2: I will leave you alone now with just the pit.

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Oh and uh, Todd.

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Speaker 5: When you decide that you can't take any more and

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degree to give me the formula, just say so you'll

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be heard.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I hope Jill's all right.

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Speaker 2: Don't worry she is. There's no better doctor than doctor Lynch.

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Speaker 3: He's going into her chest. You know her chest is weird.

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Speaker 2: Don't worry. It's just what that louse wants or only know.

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He could be lying and I never sent for the doctor.

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Speaker 3: Right, I'm doing just what X wants me to do.

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00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:52,079
I'm worrying myself sick. What are you looking for?

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00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 2: Something to drop down the pit? Worry? What for? Find

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out how.

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Speaker 5: Deep it is, whether the bottom is solid, are filled

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with the water, soom's as bare as a bone?

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00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:06,000
Speaker 2: Though here, oh your shoe.

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Speaker 3: You can buy me another pail to get out of here.

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Speaker 2: I'll buy you a dozen pair. Okay, Well, here it

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00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:16,880
goes funny.

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Speaker 3: They didn't hear a sound.

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00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:22,880
Speaker 2: Not a sound, no.

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Speaker 5: Splash, no further of the shoe hitting anything. Nothing, A

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damn thing can't be bottomless. Didn't either that or awfully

610
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:35,960
awfully deep, that's for sure.

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Speaker 2: Give me another shoe. Try again. Yes, the first time

612
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:43,760
could have been so slight. We didn't pick it up. Yes,

613
00:34:44,559 --> 00:34:49,000
this time listened carefully, very carefully. Ray go ahead.

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Speaker 3: They didn't have a thing.

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Speaker 2: Sh no, h.

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Speaker 3: Let's stand back. I I don't like being so near

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the edge.

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Speaker 2: I don't blame you for falling in.

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Speaker 3: Oh sorry, all right, I'll feel the same way.

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Speaker 2: Let's sit down on the floor against the wall.

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Speaker 3: Oh right, yes, that's better, Todd.

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00:35:26,119 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 2: Hm, the wolf feels warm. Mm it's a little too warm.

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Itched to move away a bit better much.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure my chair's gonna be alright. I'm just not

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gonna worry about her.

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Speaker 7: No, DoD that wolf for getting harder, or we'd have

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to move away from it a little more and closer

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to the pit.

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Speaker 2: Waite a minute, now, you don't think I share? Let

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me just see how God burn my hand. The waters

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as hot as another one. Move over to that one.

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Speaker 3: This one's as hot as the other. It's getting a horder.

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00:36:19,679 --> 00:36:23,920
Speaker 2: So that s it, don't you see? So how do

634
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:25,599
the walls get the father?

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Speaker 11: We have to get something, and the closer to the

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00:36:28,159 --> 00:36:33,639
pit and until we yeah, until say all right, but

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00:36:34,119 --> 00:36:38,400
you I and we're.

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00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:44,719
Speaker 2: Moving the pit can help us. Heat from the walls

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00:36:45,679 --> 00:36:51,800
getting worse. Me and put yours around me. We are.

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Speaker 3: What is done?

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00:36:56,320 --> 00:37:00,800
Speaker 2: Then do you go over the edge, so's a two

642
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:01,360
feet away?

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00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:03,440
Speaker 3: Now, then we go over?

644
00:37:03,559 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 7: What would it have to do?

645
00:37:04,679 --> 00:37:05,159
Speaker 12: Let's do what.

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00:37:06,639 --> 00:37:07,679
Speaker 2: That? I guess.

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00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:12,880
Speaker 5: Don't know we died like trying out the moon and

648
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:14,360
closer right.

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00:37:17,599 --> 00:37:18,079
Speaker 2: Bearable?

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00:37:19,599 --> 00:37:21,320
Speaker 3: You're moving to go to the edge too.

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00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:24,599
Speaker 2: I can't help me, hold me.

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00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:30,559
Speaker 5: Wait on, it's like this, I guess we wait.

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Speaker 3: Wait, sweet, that doesn't seem so hot. I didn't get right.

654
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Speaker 2: It's cool.

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Speaker 3: Uh the room, he's cooler.

656
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:57,760
Speaker 2: Oh that's no back, that's old. Last long. The creeps

657
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:02,559
got something else and stuff for us. See, he didn't

658
00:38:02,599 --> 00:38:05,480
go through it just to see it didn't go through

659
00:38:05,519 --> 00:38:06,039
the pendulum.

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00:38:06,159 --> 00:38:06,920
Speaker 3: No, you feed it.

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00:38:08,599 --> 00:38:10,360
Speaker 2: I don't think he would have gone through it anyway?

662
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:15,679
Why not, Todd? What mister x? Todd? I can see

663
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:16,519
you and hear you.

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Speaker 6: What's giving you the sudden idea that I won't go

665
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:22,079
through with things you want?

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00:38:22,159 --> 00:38:25,679
Speaker 2: The formula? True? But kill me if the formula dies

667
00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:26,639
with me? True?

668
00:38:27,679 --> 00:38:32,280
Speaker 6: Well, Todd, Stern's dead is worth considerable too. Oh not

669
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as much as the formula, but considerable.

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00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:36,760
Speaker 2: Why I d I don't see why.

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00:38:37,039 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 6: Simple, it's worth a great deal for a certain government

672
00:38:40,119 --> 00:38:43,119
to prevent another from getting the formula. Keeps the balance

673
00:38:43,159 --> 00:38:47,320
of power unbalanced, you see, And now that we've settled that,

674
00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:49,719
do you still refuse to change your mind?

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00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:58,599
Speaker 2: Yes? Todd I'm sorry to say that this time, I

676
00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:02,480
believe you. Wait a minute, Temmy has no part of this.

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00:39:02,599 --> 00:39:02,760
Speaker 4: Now.

678
00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:04,920
Speaker 5: You used her to break me down.

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00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,400
Speaker 2: You failed, but you used for her. Is over? Let

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00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:07,639
her go.

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00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:13,440
Speaker 3: He hasn't heard you, or if he did, he said

682
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:18,960
his final word. And I wouldn't want out anyhow. If

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00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:20,480
you die, I wanna be dead too.

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00:39:21,119 --> 00:39:24,960
Speaker 2: But it's senseless, pointless. I'm no one who has the formula,

685
00:39:25,079 --> 00:39:30,159
not you. There's no point in killing you. I what's that?

686
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:37,440
What is it? Machinery is so kind? I don't know

687
00:39:37,519 --> 00:39:48,199
what it's for. Yes, I do God? What looked at

688
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:51,920
the walls? Oh?

689
00:39:52,119 --> 00:39:55,360
Speaker 3: Four of them moving inward.

690
00:39:56,480 --> 00:40:00,599
Speaker 2: Making the room narrower and narrow und She'll.

691
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:04,360
Speaker 3: Be the space, new floor space left nothing but.

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Speaker 2: X X. Listen to me. Let me go.

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00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:17,480
Speaker 5: I beg you, let her go, the world.

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00:40:18,039 --> 00:40:19,079
Speaker 3: I think I'll do it.

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00:40:20,639 --> 00:40:21,000
Speaker 2: Let me.

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00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:25,440
Speaker 5: I can't anything.

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00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:30,840
Speaker 2: I can't. You don't have to pay anymore in the house.

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00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:48,679
Were no more, No more Champagne, Tenny, no Todd. But

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00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:50,679
I want us an explanation of all. Listen, you better

700
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:53,519
make it a good one. Mister what is your name? X?

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00:40:53,599 --> 00:40:53,880
Will do?

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00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:56,920
Speaker 5: But now we know it was all a test game

703
00:40:57,039 --> 00:40:57,719
or whatever it was.

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Speaker 2: I would still keep my cover. I don't blame you

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for being angry.

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Speaker 5: Simply put, we subjected you to a test to see

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how much you could take before you broke down.

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Speaker 2: All operatives couriers are put through the ringer. I never

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was before. I never even heard of it before.

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Speaker 5: I never would have if you hadn't reached that point

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in your career where we felt that you were ready.

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The formula you so painstakingly memorized.

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Speaker 2: Todd is worthless. There's no such thing as that bacterial weapon.

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Speaker 5: Oh no, But if there were, and you were caught

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by the kind of group I pretended to represent, we

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had to be sure that you'd never break never reveal.

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Speaker 2: It risk blowing my mind. Tammy. Now, now, you were

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never in any danger of that. From start to finish.

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Speaker 5: You were carefully monitored by stat psychiatrists. But you'd have

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known instantly if you were in any serious difficulty.

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Speaker 2: Well, I guess you'll have to do it. Yes, we

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do tell me something, what or do we fall on?

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Speaker 5: I mean, when I went over holding Tammy in my arms,

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special foam, rubber, dozens of layers of the stuff, you

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could have dropped an iron safe down that hole much

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less Tanny's shoes, and you'd have heard nothing.

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Speaker 2: Telling it over, you can relax about why.

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Speaker 5: And what's more, Todd, you have gained something that you

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didn't have before. You've learned how much you can take,

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and mister, you can take it.

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Speaker 2: I learned something a lot more important than that. If

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you ask me, what would that be taught? I learned Emmy.

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I always thought you were pretty wonderful, but you're more

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than that. You're the most wonderful woman than the wife

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in the world.

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Speaker 1: Truth is stranger than fiction, and if you feel the

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story I've just brought you is one of the strangest

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you've ever heard, I can only assure you that even

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the stranger things go on in this world of ours,

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stranger and yes, more terrifying. Let's hope you never find

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yourself involved with any of them.

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Speaker 2: Beyond your radio, that is. I'll be back shortly. Here's

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a message from your kidney Foundation.

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Speaker 3: Have you ever stood in line, my friends, not for hours.

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Speaker 4: But four years on end, not waiting for a ticket

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for a show you wanna see.

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Speaker 12: You would just for the chance to live life, love,

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waiting for.

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Speaker 3: The gift off has it all all give?

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Speaker 12: The gift good Night half it has somewhere someone depends

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on you. You can give the gift of life and

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help someone who depends on you by becoming an organ Dona.

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Now you can find a special mind on your driver's license,

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or get an organ.

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Speaker 3: Dona car from your kidney foundation.

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Speaker 12: A moment design could mean a lifetime to others. Remember

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we're talking about life.

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Speaker 6: Has it all all?

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Speaker 12: Give the gift good Night had long handle somewhere the

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money hand.

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Speaker 1: Although our version of the Pit and the Pendulum was

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only based on Edgar Allan Poe's story, it's to this

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great master of the bizarre and this connoisseur of the

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horrifying that we owe the stories, shall we say, electrifying moments.

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Speaker 2: I hope you were properly shocked.

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Speaker 1: Our cast included Tony Roberts, Marionseldas and Norman Rose. The

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entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.

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Speaker 5: Now a preview of our next talege He's for that. Look,

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the world's common property can be developed into a major

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all year resort.

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Speaker 2: Will and I. We have to know how we can

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do it. All we'll need if the money do on

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the option. Look, there is no