1 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:24,399 Speaker 1: Come in. Welcome. I me J. Marshall. I have a 2 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:27,879 frightening and moving story for you about a man caught 3 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:31,920 up in a web of suspicion and accused of unprovoked murder. 4 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:36,719 From this beginning, point builds upon point until he is 5 00:00:36,799 --> 00:00:40,840 almost overwhelmed with prejudice and hatred, and the life he 6 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:45,799 knew and believed in is distorted and made ugly. Many 7 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:48,799 years ago, Tippling said in a poem that east was 8 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:51,840 east and west was west, and that they would never meet. 9 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:56,600 Our story concerns a similar situation that is very much 10 00:00:56,759 --> 00:01:01,479 with us today. Our mystery Grammar with Malice the Forethought 11 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:05,239 was written especially for the Mystery Theater by Sidney Sloane 12 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:10,079 and stars Carlos Carrasco. It is sponsored in part by 13 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:14,519 Enholzer Bush Incorporated, brewers of Budweiser, and sin Off the 14 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:29,879 Sinus Medicines. I'll be back shortly with that. Once, when 15 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:33,719 Sergeant Diilmore Roby climbed into the unmarked car signed to 16 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:36,760 the Naco squad that night, he had nothing on his 17 00:01:36,879 --> 00:01:40,480 mind that troubled him all the way out to the bust. 18 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:44,439 He sat quietly in the car. Oh, of course there 19 00:01:44,519 --> 00:01:48,760 was danger there always was during a bust. But after 20 00:01:48,799 --> 00:01:52,280 nearly ten years on the force and a hundred incidents 21 00:01:52,319 --> 00:01:56,280 the year, danger became routine. You knew it was there, 22 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:01,239 you were prepared, You did your job after all this time. 23 00:02:01,359 --> 00:02:04,239 You tried not to get up a sweat. You just 24 00:02:04,319 --> 00:02:07,799 couldn't do your job right. And gil Roby tried to 25 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:11,800 do his best every time. That's what was expected of him, 26 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:14,759 that's what he was paid for. And then it happened 27 00:02:15,479 --> 00:02:18,879 the thing he had always kept hidden in the back 28 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:19,560 of his mind. 29 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:20,360 Speaker 2: Kill. 30 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:26,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, you see anything now, nothing's moving. Just been talking 31 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:29,479 to the captain. He says, they're in there. They're working 32 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:34,280 in that windows look dark, snow lights and obtain it 33 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:40,680 over brownly smoke coming out the chimney. Smell it, yeah, 34 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:44,599 says none is taking that smell wood fire. That's right, 35 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:49,879 notuntain suspicious. Looks like a peaceful old suburban house. What's 36 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:52,960 the plant on? A signal? The usual. They'll bring his 37 00:02:53,039 --> 00:02:55,159 flash three times. You take the back door. On taking 38 00:02:55,159 --> 00:02:58,120 the front, they'll cover us and keep the sides under control. 39 00:02:58,439 --> 00:03:02,360 You're taking the front door? Kicked, yeah, captain a sign 40 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:05,080 it that way, No I do. All he said was 41 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:06,840 you and Roby. Take the front door on the back, 42 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:09,680 the front of the toughest spot. Why you front of back? 43 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:12,080 You're gonna give me an argument. They're both loudly. Look 44 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:15,159 if I don't know up, that's a signal. Get moving now. 45 00:03:15,199 --> 00:03:17,599 Why do you hear me that moved in white gang blasters? 46 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:24,439 Speaker 3: You are around. 47 00:03:33,599 --> 00:03:37,240 Speaker 1: Hill Bill? You are right? Oh oh good, there you are. 48 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:38,159 Speaker 2: Now. 49 00:03:38,199 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 1: We got everything all tied up in front. We dig 50 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:47,400 them all, not all. Take a look. Yeah, you got 51 00:03:47,439 --> 00:04:00,919 him right through the head. Come inside, sit down. Thanks 52 00:04:00,319 --> 00:04:03,039 you gee, that's your report in your hand. I just 53 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:06,360 typed it up. Signed it yet. I thought you might 54 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:10,000 want to read it first. Captain here Yeah yeah, thanks, 55 00:04:10,599 --> 00:04:17,279 hmm everything okay, uh Gil, don't sign this yet. Why 56 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:22,279 who's the lawyer for the Police Welfare Organization? Nowhy Hendrickson? 57 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:25,800 You know that, sir? Yeah, I thought he'd retired. Well 58 00:04:26,319 --> 00:04:29,000 before you sign any statement, better talk it over with 59 00:04:29,079 --> 00:04:32,240 Pete Henderson. I don't get a chief. The kid was 60 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:34,639 dead on arrival. It isn't good. 61 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 4: Yeah, I know. Look in ten years as a cop, 62 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:43,839 I never killed a man before. The kid had a 63 00:04:43,879 --> 00:04:46,399 pistol pointed right at me. He saw me in the 64 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:48,759 life from the door. When he came out, I yelled 65 00:04:48,759 --> 00:04:51,560 at him to stop. I saw his gun turn in 66 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:52,160 my direction. 67 00:04:52,319 --> 00:04:55,240 Speaker 1: And then I didn't put up his hands after you 68 00:04:55,399 --> 00:04:58,639 called to him and identified yourself as a police officer. No, 69 00:04:58,959 --> 00:05:03,040 not then, But he put up his hands. 70 00:05:02,879 --> 00:05:07,439 Speaker 4: After I shot him. His hands went flying up. Then 71 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:10,480 he just crumpled forward into the high grass. 72 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:14,279 Speaker 1: About the gun. You're sure you saw him point a 73 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:18,879 gun at you, as big as a cannon. Gil, I'm 74 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:20,839 gonna have to ask you for your badge and your gun. 75 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:25,879 Speaker 4: I'm being suspended. Yeah, Gil, I don't get it. I 76 00:05:25,959 --> 00:05:29,399 suspected pusher pulls a gun on me. I defend myself 77 00:05:29,399 --> 00:05:30,439 by shooting hands. 78 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:34,480 Speaker 1: The big question, Gil, the dead kid didn't have a 79 00:05:34,519 --> 00:05:35,360 gun on him. 80 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:36,600 Speaker 2: But he did. He did. 81 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:39,639 Speaker 1: Our whole area was cordoned off and searched. They went 82 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:49,839 over with a fine who comb no gun? No gun 83 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:51,040 that you honey? 84 00:05:52,199 --> 00:05:56,800 Speaker 5: Ah Here, Rita, you're lady in New Hull tonight poke 85 00:05:56,839 --> 00:05:58,160 a game at the Priescinct house. 86 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:02,480 Speaker 1: Rita. Please go back to bed. Go to bed? Are 87 00:06:02,519 --> 00:06:03,199 you crazy? 88 00:06:03,399 --> 00:06:04,360 Speaker 2: I'm starving. 89 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:07,600 Speaker 5: The doctor said my appetite would improve when I got 90 00:06:07,639 --> 00:06:10,920 into my fifth punt. He wasn't even beginning to state 91 00:06:10,959 --> 00:06:11,639 the facts. 92 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:12,839 Speaker 1: I'm collapsed. 93 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:15,920 Speaker 5: What's the matter, Gil. 94 00:06:17,399 --> 00:06:26,560 Speaker 4: Reader, I killed a man tonight, okil. 95 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:26,560 Speaker 5: Honey, oh my darling. 96 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 1: Oh, and I'm in real trouble. Trouble. 97 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:32,839 Speaker 5: What do you mean trouble? You didn't just go out 98 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:35,240 and knock somebody off a kicks. It was duty, wasn't it. 99 00:06:35,639 --> 00:06:35,920 Speaker 1: Yeah? 100 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:38,759 Speaker 4: Yeah, at least that's what I thought. That's the way 101 00:06:38,759 --> 00:06:39,360 it started. 102 00:06:39,439 --> 00:06:41,399 Speaker 5: Don't get you what are you talking about. 103 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:43,079 Speaker 1: Take a look at the paper. 104 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:47,040 Speaker 4: I just picked it up at the newstand, first edition, 105 00:06:48,079 --> 00:06:50,560 trigger happy cups dead kid. 106 00:06:51,519 --> 00:06:54,600 Speaker 1: Oh, what a damn scandal sheet. Well then he did 107 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:57,920 nineteen rida he was just a kid. 108 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:02,920 Speaker 5: Well he's nineteen. Lots of your kids are rotten, stealing, crooked, pushing, Dirk. 109 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:03,600 What did he do? 110 00:07:03,759 --> 00:07:07,199 Speaker 4: As far as we know, he didn't do anything, No record, 111 00:07:07,639 --> 00:07:11,040 nothing on him. He was suspected of being a pusher, 112 00:07:11,279 --> 00:07:13,560 but there was nothing on him to prove it. 113 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 5: Nothing on him but a gun. I know you, Gil, 114 00:07:18,199 --> 00:07:20,079 he wouldn't take a pot shot of the man without 115 00:07:20,079 --> 00:07:21,279 some kind of thumbing. 116 00:07:20,959 --> 00:07:22,839 Speaker 1: Provocation, Yes, provocation. 117 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:24,839 Speaker 5: He must have pulled a gun on you. 118 00:07:24,959 --> 00:07:25,920 Speaker 1: They say he didn't. 119 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:28,879 Speaker 4: Who says I I saw a gun? In his hand, 120 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:32,040 pointed at me, but it was never found. 121 00:07:32,199 --> 00:07:33,480 Speaker 5: Well, they didn't look hard enough. 122 00:07:33,519 --> 00:07:38,000 Speaker 4: They looked all right, then somebody did it or. 123 00:07:38,079 --> 00:07:38,759 Speaker 5: Took it away. 124 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:42,600 Speaker 4: No, no police were there, No one got near the 125 00:07:42,639 --> 00:07:44,879 place until it had been completely gone over. 126 00:07:45,079 --> 00:07:46,240 Speaker 5: Then how do you explain it? 127 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:51,720 Speaker 1: I can't. I saw a gun, okay till. 128 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:54,319 Speaker 5: Maybe there wasn't any and and you thought he was 129 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:55,959 aiming at you and it was dark. 130 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:57,759 Speaker 1: I remember that defense from my lawyer. 131 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:01,480 Speaker 5: Lawyer, you're gonna be tried. 132 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:03,680 Speaker 1: I don't know. 133 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:08,879 Speaker 4: But they couldn't yell yeah they can. A black cop 134 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:12,040 kills a white kid. How does that sound? 135 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:12,399 Speaker 1: Rita? 136 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:20,639 Speaker 4: The way you keep asking me that over and over again, 137 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:22,439 it makes me think you don't believe me. 138 00:08:22,639 --> 00:08:25,360 Speaker 1: Now, just a mineral will be. I'm your lawyer, and 139 00:08:25,399 --> 00:08:27,120 I want to do the best job I can for you. 140 00:08:27,519 --> 00:08:30,120 But if you keep fighting me, I told you the 141 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:31,240 way it happened. 142 00:08:31,759 --> 00:08:34,559 Speaker 4: He was coming out the door with that gun pointed 143 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:36,399 at me, still hanging on. 144 00:08:36,639 --> 00:08:41,279 Speaker 1: Then that's the truth. Don't you want the truth? Sure? Sure, 145 00:08:41,399 --> 00:08:45,279 but no box, that's the truth. And it just dissolved 146 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:48,919 in their sin air. I don't know. I don't know 147 00:08:49,159 --> 00:08:51,679 that you know there was a gun, and I believe you. 148 00:08:51,799 --> 00:08:53,919 But do you think a jury is gonna believe you? 149 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:54,399 Speaker 2: Jury? 150 00:08:55,159 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 1: I thought you said. A DA spoke to me this 151 00:08:57,039 --> 00:09:00,399 afternoon in my office. He's going after an indictment. He's 152 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:02,840 not happy about it. Nobody's happy about it. But the 153 00:09:02,879 --> 00:09:05,720 papers are talking about a cover up. They don't make 154 00:09:05,759 --> 00:09:08,159 a big dry to punish you. The whole political machine, 155 00:09:08,159 --> 00:09:09,639 a city or all will be in hot water the 156 00:09:09,759 --> 00:09:13,360 little blow off. So I'm gonna have to take the 157 00:09:13,519 --> 00:09:16,120 rap to keep the lid on, and I wouldn't put 158 00:09:16,159 --> 00:09:18,519 it quite that way. What other way is there? 159 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:22,200 Speaker 4: You did knock off that kid? So yeah, yeah, that's 160 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:26,080 all I've heard over and over again. A lot of 161 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:28,840 hate mail coming on you, and it isn't all from white. 162 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:31,960 Speaker 1: But what can I do? Stop trying to fight this 163 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:33,039 thing and. 164 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:35,399 Speaker 4: Start listening to people who know more about the law 165 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:39,159 and public opinion than you do, meaning you, yeah, me, 166 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:44,039 the commissioner, the mayor, the DA. Go on, I'm gonna 167 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:46,840 put in a plea of uh well, but to put 168 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:50,039 it in layman's terms, we're gonna say that, uh that 169 00:09:50,159 --> 00:09:54,200 you've been ill lately, suffering from severe headaches, that you've 170 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:57,639 been set a lot of gacious propaganda will bring in 171 00:09:57,679 --> 00:09:59,000 psychiatrists like Kla. 172 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:02,279 Speaker 1: No, no, I won't stand for that. You want a 173 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:03,919 cop a please? Insanity? 174 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:04,200 Speaker 2: Right? 175 00:10:04,639 --> 00:10:06,440 Speaker 1: Going to say I was crazy with hate when I 176 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:07,399 shot the white kid. 177 00:10:07,519 --> 00:10:08,080 Speaker 2: Not exactly. 178 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:11,320 Speaker 4: You're going to drag racism into it, making an object lesson. 179 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:16,799 Listen to me, Roby, Sergeant Roby, Sergeant Gilmore Roby, to you, 180 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:23,519 mister Watson. Okay, Sergeant Gilmore Roby, what you wanna do, 181 00:10:23,799 --> 00:10:26,639 I'll tell you what I don't want to do. I 182 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:30,399 don't want to play the black and white game. Sure, 183 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:34,600 I'm black and I know it, but I'm not anti white. 184 00:10:35,519 --> 00:10:38,039 I'm not bitter, I'm not aggressive. I don't carry it 185 00:10:38,039 --> 00:10:43,080 around like a sword. I'm a man, a citizen. I 186 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:46,039 pay my taxes, I do my job. I try to 187 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:49,240 do it well. I don't hate anybody. 188 00:10:50,039 --> 00:10:53,600 Speaker 1: Well. It seems that we have wasted one hour and 189 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:58,480 forty five minutes of my time wasted. You won't cooperate, 190 00:10:58,799 --> 00:11:01,039 you will not listen to any one. Were you trying 191 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:03,679 to put words and ideas into my head, into my 192 00:11:03,799 --> 00:11:07,120 mouth that are completely false. I'm sure you won't have 193 00:11:07,159 --> 00:11:09,879 too much trouble finding a new lawyer. You're walking out. 194 00:11:10,279 --> 00:11:13,240 Speaker 4: You're letting me out. My secretary will prepare a letter 195 00:11:13,279 --> 00:11:15,440 which you will sign releasing me. 196 00:11:16,559 --> 00:11:18,279 Speaker 1: Good day, sergeant. 197 00:11:26,799 --> 00:11:27,799 Speaker 5: Who are you calling? Gil? 198 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:31,919 Speaker 1: I'm trying to reach Kip about the fifth time I've 199 00:11:31,919 --> 00:11:41,440 tried to reach him. I guess he's not in Well, 200 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:42,360 he's married, isn't he? 201 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:43,440 Speaker 5: Isn't she ever home? 202 00:11:43,879 --> 00:11:46,320 Speaker 1: I don't know. You met his wife, Frida? 203 00:11:47,159 --> 00:11:50,919 Speaker 5: Oh yeah, dolls, isn't it once on that boat ride 204 00:11:50,919 --> 00:11:52,039 picnic two years ago? 205 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:55,559 Speaker 1: Mm? She was very nice. You too, had a long 206 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:58,159 talk and that was the end of it. 207 00:11:58,159 --> 00:11:59,799 Speaker 5: There was a lot said about the four of us 208 00:11:59,799 --> 00:12:02,039 get together, but it never happened. 209 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:04,519 Speaker 1: Oh no, done it? Rita? What are you trying to say? 210 00:12:04,559 --> 00:12:08,000 Speaker 5: It's pretty obvious, isn't it. We're not her kind and 211 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:10,000 she politely let us know it. 212 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:13,720 Speaker 4: Look, I don't worry about her. Kip and I are friends, 213 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:16,639 good friends. We pulled each other out of mini a 214 00:12:16,759 --> 00:12:19,919 tight spot. If I can count on anyone in this well, 215 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:23,200 this rotten business I find myself in, I can count 216 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:23,759 on Kip. 217 00:12:23,919 --> 00:12:25,720 Speaker 5: Where is Has he told you? 218 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:28,000 Speaker 1: Well, he's just busy or something. 219 00:12:28,159 --> 00:12:30,559 Speaker 5: When you're in one of those tight spots, Now, it's 220 00:12:30,559 --> 00:12:34,360 time for Kip and the US Marines to land. It's 221 00:12:34,399 --> 00:12:36,399 the outside, boy, there's someone downstairs. 222 00:12:36,559 --> 00:12:41,879 Speaker 1: I'll get it. Hello, it's me. Put me in a 223 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:45,600 sure Kip. Well, Ria, what have you got to say? Now? 224 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:48,879 Speaker 5: Here's the Marines have landed and have the situation well 225 00:12:48,879 --> 00:12:50,840 in hand. I'll be in the bedroom dying so you 226 00:12:50,919 --> 00:12:52,679 two buddies can have a heart to heart soul. 227 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:02,399 Speaker 4: Hi you girl, kid, I'm hit glad to see you. 228 00:13:03,159 --> 00:13:05,799 Come on, come on, want to be here or coffee? 229 00:13:05,879 --> 00:13:09,039 Speaker 1: No? I just had lunch? Well? Sit, no, no, I can 230 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:10,600 only stay a minute, Gil, I got to be on 231 00:13:10,679 --> 00:13:14,320 duty in forty five minutes, you know. Yeah? Yeah, how 232 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:16,519 quickly you forget when you ain't punching the clock. 233 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:19,399 Speaker 4: I've been trying to reach you a week. Yeah, I 234 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:22,320 got your messages of the bureau calls your apartment several 235 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:22,879 times too. 236 00:13:23,039 --> 00:13:27,480 Speaker 1: Yeah. My wife told me you called. Yeah, Gil, I 237 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:30,240 shouldn't be here. See. I was told I wasn't to 238 00:13:30,279 --> 00:13:32,960 see you or speak to you. Why the hell not? 239 00:13:33,759 --> 00:13:36,039 Because I'm going to be a witness on the other side, 240 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:40,720 Kit not you Look, I said no to the DA 241 00:13:40,799 --> 00:13:42,440 when he called me in and questioned me. It was 242 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:44,600 all about the gun. Did I see it in the 243 00:13:44,679 --> 00:13:47,039 kid's hand? I said, no, I didn't. It was a truth, Gil, 244 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:51,159 I had to tell the truth. Yeah, I said. I 245 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:52,960 didn't want to get on the stand against you. He 246 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:54,519 said he was going to call me up anyway, and 247 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:58,480 I'd have to testify. I can't do you any harm, Gil, 248 00:13:58,519 --> 00:13:59,399 I mean by. 249 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:02,799 Speaker 4: Testifying, no, no more than has been done already. 250 00:14:03,159 --> 00:14:04,879 Speaker 1: Well, anyway, I went out to the place the sight 251 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:06,840 of the trouble. I went out on my own. I 252 00:14:06,879 --> 00:14:10,720 spent three hours going over all the area. Nothing nothing, 253 00:14:10,799 --> 00:14:14,639 not even a water pistol. Look, Gil, if you say 254 00:14:14,639 --> 00:14:16,399 there was a gun in his hand, I believe you. 255 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:19,080 I've never known you to take an easy way out 256 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:22,120 of anything. I've never known you to lie. But but 257 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:26,879 you could be mistaken. Just believe me when I say 258 00:14:26,919 --> 00:14:37,600 that I'll do my very best for you. One by one, 259 00:14:37,799 --> 00:14:42,039 the pieces are falling into place. What once had seemed 260 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:45,720 like a few small stones now had grown into a 261 00:14:45,759 --> 00:14:49,960 great high wall, shutting out the sun. It seemed they 262 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:53,440 were trying to take everything away from him, his job, 263 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:59,279 his future, his friends. Gil wondered where it would end. 264 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:13,960 I'll be back shortly with that too. Three days of 265 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:18,919 silence passed. Gil was so depressed he didn't leave the 266 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:23,080 apartment either. Brought him the newspapers, which did very little 267 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:26,600 to alleviate the gloom. Then a call came from his 268 00:15:26,639 --> 00:15:30,159 superior officer, the head of his division. He wished to 269 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:40,240 meet him on a street corner. Ah, yes, captain, this 270 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:42,919 is a no park in those standard zone for me 271 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:46,720 to get a ticket there, just drive through the park. 272 00:15:46,759 --> 00:15:49,879 Carry started at roby and I are having a little conference. 273 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:53,840 Did I keep you waiting? Lost their foot dropped the 274 00:15:53,879 --> 00:15:57,240 formality kill. I'm sure The reason why I wanted to 275 00:15:57,240 --> 00:16:00,720 talk to you this way is well, it wouldn't look right. 276 00:16:00,799 --> 00:16:03,080 You're coming to my office while the grand jury is 277 00:16:03,159 --> 00:16:07,279 mulling over your case. How was it intil the grand jury? Ruff? 278 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:10,799 I was as nervous as a cat. And if the 279 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:12,879 grand jury goes to indict, you're in for the fight 280 00:16:12,919 --> 00:16:16,159 of your life. If you lose, it'll mean your job, 281 00:16:16,519 --> 00:16:19,519 pension rights that works. It might even meet a jail 282 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:21,559 sentence if you get a bad break with a jury. 283 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:26,360 Speaker 4: Ah, it's getting bigger and bigger. I'm soil down. 284 00:16:27,399 --> 00:16:29,919 Speaker 1: I wish I could just quit and run away from it. 285 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:32,799 Don't ever dream of quitting or running, they'd have nailed 286 00:16:32,879 --> 00:16:35,320 it of the door. Now you've got to have a 287 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:39,440 good defense. Who's your lawyer. I understand you're letting Watson go. 288 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:42,759 He's already gone. Just stayed with me through the grand 289 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:45,960 jury here and good. I never did like that political hack. 290 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:48,639 You got to get a good lawyer, an honest guy, 291 00:16:48,879 --> 00:16:50,120 not a shyster. 292 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:52,799 Speaker 4: Playing all the angles you even know of one. Remember, 293 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:55,120 I'm just a cop looking on a cop salary. 294 00:16:55,559 --> 00:16:58,120 Speaker 1: I can't pay a big seat. Oh, the PWRO will 295 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:01,480 help you with that. Let me worry about me, about you, 296 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:05,039 about every other man under me. I'm responsible to them 297 00:17:05,119 --> 00:17:08,240 and for them. And this whole business is thrown a 298 00:17:08,279 --> 00:17:12,160 gray cloud over our entire department. Gil. Not only was 299 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:15,359 a man killed in that raid, the raid was a 300 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:18,559 wash out, wash out. Every man picked up has been 301 00:17:18,599 --> 00:17:22,279 released lack of evidence, but they all had record, not 302 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:26,640 conic air. But we found nothing. The husband search taken 303 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:30,720 apart board by board. Oh incidentally, the mother of the 304 00:17:30,799 --> 00:17:34,200 kid just shot is suing the city and. 305 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:37,400 Speaker 2: You that's all I need. 306 00:17:37,599 --> 00:17:40,400 Speaker 1: You know. If we'd found the place loaded with heroin, 307 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:44,240 this would all sound very different in the papers. Even 308 00:17:44,279 --> 00:17:48,559 your business would be treated as regulation police work. You see, 309 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:52,240 you can't afford to fail Gil. If you do, they're 310 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:53,160 waiting to flatten you. 311 00:17:53,599 --> 00:17:56,880 Speaker 4: Or they've certainly been after me. Where can I drop 312 00:17:56,960 --> 00:18:03,119 you the next bus station? And thanks for everything, especially 313 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:06,880 wanting to see me. Well, cheer up, we'll beat them yet, 314 00:18:07,839 --> 00:18:18,519 I hope. 315 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:16,200 Speaker 5: I'll get it. 316 00:18:18,839 --> 00:18:20,759 Speaker 1: Hello what. 317 00:18:22,319 --> 00:18:23,720 Speaker 2: Huh? Oh can you. 318 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:27,160 Speaker 5: Rap? 319 00:18:28,839 --> 00:18:29,960 Speaker 1: Who was that rider? 320 00:18:31,119 --> 00:18:38,000 Speaker 5: It's nothing, it's nobody, just some not We shall let 321 00:18:38,039 --> 00:18:39,039 these things bother us. 322 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:42,839 Speaker 1: Oh but they do, honey, they do. I've gotten a 323 00:18:42,839 --> 00:18:46,880 couple too. They sink in deep and burn. 324 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:51,559 Speaker 5: I said, I was the only one getting them. 325 00:18:50,279 --> 00:18:52,200 Speaker 1: To yesterday when you were out shopping. 326 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:58,400 Speaker 5: Well, can we change a number again, an unlifted one? 327 00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:01,079 Speaker 1: Just like the celebrities run away? 328 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:04,720 Speaker 5: We are kind of like celebrities. Our name is in 329 00:19:04,799 --> 00:19:07,960 the paper, on the TV news or the radio. 330 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:10,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, except that I suspect most of them like that 331 00:19:11,039 --> 00:19:11,759 kind of attention. 332 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:16,799 Speaker 5: Well I don't, oh kill all those nasty racial remarks 333 00:19:16,799 --> 00:19:17,759 and threats. 334 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:20,599 Speaker 2: You know what this last what's set? 335 00:19:22,839 --> 00:19:27,079 Speaker 5: He said? My baby wouldn't be born alive reader, Reader 336 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:30,519 to pay for the life of the white. 337 00:19:30,279 --> 00:19:31,440 Speaker 2: Kid you killed. 338 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:34,160 Speaker 1: Oh good lord, why can't they leave you? 339 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:34,559 Speaker 2: Alone. 340 00:19:34,519 --> 00:19:38,000 Speaker 1: At least get a hold of yourself. Frieda baby. Someone 341 00:19:38,039 --> 00:19:43,319 at the door, Hi, you, Kip, come in, Come in? 342 00:19:44,559 --> 00:19:45,359 What brings you here? 343 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:47,640 Speaker 4: I thought you and I were not supposed to be 344 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:48,839 seeing each other for a while. 345 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:52,319 Speaker 1: Special Police Business Captain is worried about you and your 346 00:19:52,319 --> 00:19:54,440 wife's safety, so he's put a twenty four hour day 347 00:19:54,480 --> 00:19:55,160 guard on the house. 348 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:57,920 Speaker 5: Oh it's not any too soon, kiss. We're getting a 349 00:19:57,960 --> 00:19:59,079 lot of frightening. 350 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:03,319 Speaker 1: You want the department to put a tap on your phone? 351 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:06,720 There won't do much good. Never the same crank twice. Yeah, 352 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:09,000 you just gotta let it roll off your back. Don't 353 00:20:09,039 --> 00:20:12,000 let it get to you. That's what I've been saying. Anyway. 354 00:20:12,039 --> 00:20:14,519 My visit is official, not social, just to let you 355 00:20:14,599 --> 00:20:16,079 know that you've got protection here. 356 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:16,640 Speaker 2: Come here. 357 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:19,359 Speaker 1: Look out the window. You see that guy with the 358 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:23,960 long hair and the straggly beard, dirty blue jeans and 359 00:20:24,039 --> 00:20:30,279 open shirt. Right, that's Rinaldi. No, g Rinaldi. Yeah, the 360 00:20:30,319 --> 00:20:33,799 best dressed man on the fort. Great disguy. He hates it. 361 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:36,359 Next shift you'll have Herman Goldberg and I'll be on 362 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:38,640 the mid by eight am. I requested it. I figured 363 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:40,880 if there was going to be any nonsense, it would occur. Then, 364 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:44,000 a kid, it's good to know you'll be around. 365 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:45,480 Speaker 5: It takes a load off my mind. 366 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:48,640 Speaker 1: Thank the captain for this. You bet it was your idea. 367 00:20:49,279 --> 00:20:51,119 Maybe I don't remember. 368 00:20:52,359 --> 00:20:55,160 Speaker 4: It is kind of strange that nothing was found that night. 369 00:20:55,799 --> 00:20:56,759 It might still be there. 370 00:20:56,880 --> 00:20:59,400 Speaker 1: Well, they got the police pretty well hanging on the ropes. 371 00:21:00,079 --> 00:21:02,640 No place was searched the way that was. But in 372 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:06,400 my spare time, I'm gonna keep an eye on it anyway. Yeah, 373 00:21:06,519 --> 00:21:08,680 they might just be waiting for everything to die down, 374 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:11,759 all the noise and publicity, and then go back and 375 00:21:11,799 --> 00:21:14,400 get it. Maybe. Well I'm gonna run now, keep it 376 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:18,720 chin up, something good will happen by reader. Hey, how 377 00:21:18,799 --> 00:21:19,359 long now? 378 00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:22,240 Speaker 5: A million years? 379 00:21:22,279 --> 00:21:22,440 Speaker 2: Now? 380 00:21:22,559 --> 00:21:24,519 Speaker 1: Three and a half months, but it feels like a 381 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:27,559 million years, no time at all. You'll do it standing 382 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:30,440 on your hands, and remember I'm putting in my bid 383 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:32,200 for Godfather. I'm first. 384 00:21:32,759 --> 00:21:36,480 Speaker 4: Well, we'll take the matter under advisement, Sergeant Kidney. 385 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:46,319 Speaker 2: Skill. 386 00:21:48,319 --> 00:21:51,039 Speaker 5: Still wake up the phone? 387 00:21:52,599 --> 00:21:54,799 Speaker 1: What with the phones? You can't you hear it? 388 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:55,880 Speaker 2: Yeah? 389 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:59,160 Speaker 1: Yeah? What time is it to ten? 390 00:22:00,279 --> 00:22:03,640 Speaker 5: Do you think it's one of those crank calls? I 391 00:22:03,759 --> 00:22:05,680 hope I'm starting them at night now. 392 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:09,880 Speaker 1: There's one way to find uh. I'm coming. I'm coming 393 00:22:10,599 --> 00:22:11,640 calling at this hour. 394 00:22:15,559 --> 00:22:21,279 Speaker 2: Hello, Sergeant Gilmore Roby speaking. Sorry to disturb you at 395 00:22:21,279 --> 00:22:25,039 this hour, Sergeant, What do you want? I want to 396 00:22:25,079 --> 00:22:25,400 help you? 397 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:28,480 Speaker 1: What is it? Some kind of joke? It's a crank call? 398 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:32,440 Speaker 4: Well, just to get it, you've had your funny darn 399 00:22:32,519 --> 00:22:34,680 fool waking us up at this hour of the night. 400 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:39,240 Speaker 1: Okay, go on, let's have it. 401 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:44,279 Speaker 2: I'm afraid there's some misunderstanding, Sergeant Roby. I'm serious when 402 00:22:44,319 --> 00:22:47,160 I say I want to help you. Yeah, and you 403 00:22:47,279 --> 00:22:51,000 are definitely in need of a friend. Oh, go on, 404 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:54,400 let's hear what you have to say. I can't say 405 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:57,400 it or the phone, sergeant, for obvious reasons. 406 00:22:57,759 --> 00:23:01,079 Speaker 1: Well, the phone is not tapped. If that's your obvious reasons. 407 00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:04,319 Speaker 2: I'm happy to know that. But I still would prefer 408 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:08,599 a face to face meeting. Why one can speak more 409 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:10,559 openly or to the. 410 00:23:10,599 --> 00:23:13,640 Speaker 1: Point I suppose I won't bite. As a matter of fact, 411 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:15,319 I haven't even smelled the beat yet. 412 00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:20,839 Speaker 2: Fifty thousand in small bills. That sounds tempting. 413 00:23:21,839 --> 00:23:24,160 Speaker 1: That's the bait, eh, what's the hook. 414 00:23:24,599 --> 00:23:29,160 Speaker 2: I'm prepared to discuss that in complete detail. When in 415 00:23:29,279 --> 00:23:29,880 thirty minutes. 416 00:23:30,039 --> 00:23:32,720 Speaker 1: But it's almost three in the morning. Look before I 417 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:33,400 rush into it. 418 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:37,480 Speaker 2: Are on the hook right now, sageant. It's my intention 419 00:23:37,799 --> 00:23:41,119 to get you off of it. Oh, meet me in 420 00:23:41,279 --> 00:23:44,200 thirty minutes at the corner of Quenton Street and Fourth. 421 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:46,720 I think you know the neighborhood. 422 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:48,319 Speaker 1: I walk that beat for two years. 423 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:50,720 Speaker 2: Then you know there's a public phone on the corner, 424 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:54,920 the southeast corner. Yeah, you will receive further instructions and 425 00:23:55,039 --> 00:23:58,000 a call to you on that phone. You are not 426 00:23:58,279 --> 00:24:02,720 to tell anyone where you're going. You will be watched, agreed. 427 00:24:03,839 --> 00:24:05,839 Speaker 1: Agreed thirty minutes. 428 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:07,400 Speaker 2: Take a cab. 429 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:10,000 Speaker 1: Thirty minutes. 430 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:13,240 Speaker 5: What's going on, Gil, I'm going out Rito to meet 431 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:15,480 a guy I don't get it at this hour who 432 00:24:15,559 --> 00:24:16,440 had his quick lane. 433 00:24:16,599 --> 00:24:19,559 Speaker 1: Now, look, Kip is on duty guarding this house. Get 434 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:21,440 to him. Tell him that I am going to be 435 00:24:21,519 --> 00:24:24,119 at Quenton and Fourth in about twenty nine minutes from now. 436 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:27,720 Tell him to follow and be careful. I'll leave a 437 00:24:27,839 --> 00:24:31,279 message for him in the telephone booth on the southeast corner. 438 00:24:36,559 --> 00:25:02,680 Taxi Taxi Quentin and fourth driver keep the change. I'm 439 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:03,680 a little early. 440 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:10,920 Speaker 2: Hello, Hello, you are more than prompt, Sergeant rob me. 441 00:25:11,799 --> 00:25:15,240 Now here are your instructions. Take a cab to West 442 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:20,519 forty ninth Street, nine fifty nine West forty ninth. I'll 443 00:25:20,519 --> 00:25:22,119 be waiting for your parent. Have you got it? 444 00:25:22,799 --> 00:25:25,680 Speaker 1: Nine fifty nine West forty nine. 445 00:25:25,839 --> 00:25:27,279 Speaker 2: Are you writing? Yeah? 446 00:25:27,319 --> 00:25:28,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, I won't forget. Forget? 447 00:25:29,279 --> 00:25:31,559 Speaker 2: How could you possibly forget? That simple number? 448 00:25:31,839 --> 00:25:34,559 Speaker 1: Might get it reversed. It's something, after all, I am 449 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:35,240 kind of nervous. 450 00:25:35,319 --> 00:25:38,839 Speaker 2: Oh, yes, probably, Well, it shouldn't take you more than 451 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:41,160 ten minutes to get here at this time of night. 452 00:25:41,559 --> 00:25:43,200 Speaker 1: If I can find a taxi. 453 00:25:43,079 --> 00:25:46,200 Speaker 2: Yes, that might be a problem. I'll give you an extra. 454 00:25:46,079 --> 00:25:52,799 Speaker 4: Ten minutes if gotcha, Yes, that might be a problem. 455 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:56,960 We little kid takes this one of it, you might 456 00:25:57,039 --> 00:25:57,720 have a problem. 457 00:25:57,799 --> 00:26:05,920 Speaker 1: Mister there stuck right on the glass. He can't miss this, hey, 458 00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:11,960 taxi taxi boy, I'm luck either. I want to go through. 459 00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:14,759 That's the end of the sergeant. We're both going to 460 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:18,480 the same address. Let me take you there. You you're 461 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:22,279 a guy who i'm your collar, Sergeant Roby, come here. 462 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:27,160 That's better. But I t I anticipated but she's thought, 463 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:31,559 Sergeant Kilmore Roby, and also what you might think. I'm 464 00:26:31,559 --> 00:26:33,920 afraid your message left in the phone booth will lead 465 00:26:34,079 --> 00:26:35,079 someone on a. 466 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:36,480 Speaker 2: Wild goose chase. 467 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:40,319 Speaker 1: Then we're not going to nine fifty nine West forty nine. 468 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:41,480 Speaker 5: You wouldn't think of it. 469 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,839 Speaker 1: Don't like the neighborhood, especially at night. It was just 470 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:48,880 to prove to you that you couldn't outsmart me. 471 00:26:55,119 --> 00:27:00,079 Speaker 5: Coming just a minute, goodness sake, you'll get you a 472 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:01,279 finger off up there, will you? 473 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,839 Speaker 2: She forget you keep camp? 474 00:27:05,519 --> 00:27:06,079 Speaker 5: Where's Gil? 475 00:27:06,279 --> 00:27:07,279 Speaker 1: Rita? Can I come in? 476 00:27:07,519 --> 00:27:07,799 Speaker 2: Sure? 477 00:27:09,599 --> 00:27:10,119 Speaker 5: What's the matter? 478 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:10,359 Speaker 2: Kid? 479 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:10,880 Speaker 5: Where's Gil? 480 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:12,880 Speaker 1: I don't know. I went to the phone booth at 481 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:15,359 Quentman Forth, and just as I got there, I saw 482 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:17,799 Gil hale a cab and get in. I went into 483 00:27:17,839 --> 00:27:19,720 the booth and found his message for me stuck on 484 00:27:19,799 --> 00:27:22,319 the glass. All it said was nine to fifty nine 485 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:23,519 West forty ninth Street. 486 00:27:23,559 --> 00:27:24,960 Speaker 5: But that must have been the address he got over 487 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:25,640 the phone right. 488 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:28,559 Speaker 1: So I called headquarters and learned them told him to 489 00:27:28,599 --> 00:27:30,400 send a couple of cars to that address and cover 490 00:27:30,519 --> 00:27:33,359 the area. I commandeered a private car and the guy 491 00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:35,559 drove me there. I was there in less than ten minutes. 492 00:27:35,559 --> 00:27:40,079 After I got Gil's message, place was surrounded and well. 493 00:27:40,759 --> 00:27:43,519 Nine fifty nine West forty ninth is an empty lot. 494 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:46,359 The building was torn down over a year ago. 495 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:48,480 Speaker 5: But I don't follow you. Why would you'll give you 496 00:27:48,559 --> 00:27:49,319 the wrong address? 497 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:51,839 Speaker 1: Because he didn't know it was a phony. We've been 498 00:27:51,960 --> 00:28:03,079 out foxed. The burning question in the back of Kip's 499 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:07,799 mind is why. What was the intentions the purpose of 500 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:12,759 the unknown caller? What was wanted of his friend? If 501 00:28:12,799 --> 00:28:16,200 he had fears for Gill's safety, he didn't let Reda 502 00:28:16,319 --> 00:28:21,440 know them. On the surface, he maintained a calm, composed manner. 503 00:28:22,319 --> 00:28:27,920 Underneath his mind was racing to discover the motive. I'll 504 00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:41,920 be back shortly with Act three. After leaving Gill's apartment, 505 00:28:42,559 --> 00:28:46,000 Kip went directly to headquarters and spilled out all he 506 00:28:46,079 --> 00:28:50,039 knew to the captain. When he had finished, he looked 507 00:28:50,119 --> 00:28:53,880 up to see his superior's face crimson with anger. It 508 00:28:54,039 --> 00:28:56,799 was the first time he had seen this usually mild 509 00:28:56,880 --> 00:29:02,160 mannered man lose his temper. I'm holding you responsible, kipness. 510 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:04,119 What are we a one man operation here? 511 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:04,440 Speaker 5: What? 512 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:05,599 Speaker 2: Why do you have to go? 513 00:29:05,799 --> 00:29:08,799 Speaker 1: Please? Please, please, sir, may I explain? Where's your explanation? 514 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:10,839 You took off on your own and mess up with you. 515 00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:13,599 I didn't have time to ask for help. Gil had 516 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,200 Sergeant Roby got this call from an unknown source. He 517 00:29:17,319 --> 00:29:18,880 told his wife to get to me with the info 518 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:20,599 that he was going to Quenton and forth to a 519 00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:23,960 telephone booth on the southeast corner. Very must have received 520 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:27,079 a call that directed into nine fifty nine West forty nine. 521 00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:29,599 Now he left me that information stuck to the window 522 00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:31,759 of the boot. That's where you went wrong. If you'd 523 00:29:31,799 --> 00:29:34,000 called in for help immediately. Well, as soon as I 524 00:29:34,079 --> 00:29:37,519 got his message in the telephone, I got bed immediately, Missus. 525 00:29:37,559 --> 00:29:39,759 Roby gave you the first information we could have had 526 00:29:39,799 --> 00:29:43,559 the area under surveillus before Roby even got there. Yes, sir, 527 00:29:44,279 --> 00:29:46,759 you say you saw the cab pulling away. Anyone else 528 00:29:46,799 --> 00:29:48,880 in the cab besides Roby? I can't be sure. It 529 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:51,680 was dark out. I thought at the time, however, that 530 00:29:51,759 --> 00:29:53,759 there was more than one man in the passenger. See, 531 00:29:54,599 --> 00:29:58,640 this is all gonna look very bad for Sergeant Roby, Sir, Yeah, 532 00:29:58,799 --> 00:30:02,240 for him, for us who the grand jury voted to indict. 533 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:04,480 There's a warred out for his arrestaurant. 534 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:06,440 Speaker 2: We were supposed to pick him up today. 535 00:30:06,759 --> 00:30:09,960 Speaker 1: This will compound matters make him a fugitive. What do 536 00:30:10,039 --> 00:30:12,359 we do now. I got a pickup call out for 537 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:15,519 Roby if he can be found. I'm worried about him. 538 00:30:15,799 --> 00:30:19,200 So my look, isn't it possible, sir, that this is 539 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:21,519 all kind of a smoke screen to block out the 540 00:30:22,319 --> 00:30:26,039 real objective or objective? Well, we didn't get anything in 541 00:30:26,119 --> 00:30:29,279 that rays trouble, that's right, sir. But we did know 542 00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:32,240 that that cute little suburban house with a white picket 543 00:30:32,319 --> 00:30:35,359 fence and the rose bushes was the distribution center for 544 00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:38,519 most of the heroine in this part of it. That's right. 545 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:40,960 We've been watching it for weeks. Well, what happened to 546 00:30:41,039 --> 00:30:44,119 it all? We couldn't find even a used glassen bag. 547 00:30:44,559 --> 00:30:50,359 Go on, I believe it's still there where, Sertan Where? Yeah, 548 00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:53,960 the question is where? After the going over, we gave 549 00:30:54,039 --> 00:30:56,519 that place. What's left to search? I'm going along in 550 00:30:56,559 --> 00:31:00,519 your hunt, Chipness, that's your assignment from now on. Okay, 551 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:04,119 what about Sergeant Roby, Well, he's my first consideration. I'm 552 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:11,920 working on that myself. I don't get it. You say 553 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:15,000 you want to help me, what's in it for you? 554 00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:18,519 Isn't there an old saying about looking a gift horse 555 00:31:18,599 --> 00:31:22,599 in the mouth, don't question it? Fifty big ones and 556 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:26,200 a private plane to take me over the border. Brazil. Sergeant, 557 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:29,559 the United States and Brazil have no extradition treaty. They 558 00:31:29,599 --> 00:31:33,160 couldn't get you back to stand trial. I still don't 559 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:36,039 see what you have to gain by all this generosity. 560 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:39,759 We want you out, alive or dead. We need the 561 00:31:39,839 --> 00:31:44,000 excitement and fure your disappearance will cause. I see which 562 00:31:44,079 --> 00:31:48,440 do you prefer? If that's an easy question, what do 563 00:31:48,519 --> 00:31:51,079 you want me to do? Get your wife on the phone. 564 00:31:51,799 --> 00:32:04,759 You are to tell her this. Am sure you're gonna 565 00:32:04,759 --> 00:32:05,079 be all right? 566 00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:08,519 Speaker 5: Reader, I feel better if we knew where Gil was waiting, 567 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:13,559 waiting and driving me crazy. I didn't sleep last night. 568 00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:16,079 Speaker 1: Now look, I'm sending Darius over to stay with you. 569 00:32:16,359 --> 00:32:18,880 You shouldn't be alone at a time like this. I 570 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:19,799 got a right. 571 00:32:19,839 --> 00:32:21,720 Speaker 5: No, wait, wait, maybe it's maybe it's not Gil. 572 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:25,200 Speaker 1: Hello Riata, Oh kill honey? 573 00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:26,440 Speaker 2: Where are you tell? 574 00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:27,799 Speaker 1: You can't tell what? 575 00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:31,000 Speaker 2: I don't know myself. Now, listen carefully to what I'm 576 00:32:31,039 --> 00:32:31,559 going to say. 577 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:32,839 Speaker 5: I'm so worried about you. 578 00:32:33,039 --> 00:32:36,880 Speaker 2: Hurry, listen to me. This is important. Please listen carefully 579 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:40,680 and don't build anything foolish. Don't talk to the police. 580 00:32:41,079 --> 00:32:44,240 Don't talk to anybody. My life is in danger. Y. 581 00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:47,920 What I'm going to tell you must be kipped secret. 582 00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:52,720 What I said, you must kip it secret. Oh tonight, 583 00:32:53,279 --> 00:32:55,440 that's seven. You will be called and told to go 584 00:32:55,559 --> 00:32:58,400 to a phone booth where I don't know. You will 585 00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:02,480 be told that's seven. Right now. You might be called 586 00:33:02,559 --> 00:33:06,039 even earlier. So pack a small bag and kip it 587 00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:06,839 by the door. 588 00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:09,839 Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll I'll keep it right by the door. 589 00:33:10,119 --> 00:33:13,440 Speaker 2: Trust me, baby, I'm doing the right thing. Don't ask 590 00:33:13,559 --> 00:33:17,960 questions and kip a stiff up a lip. Bye, Honny 591 00:33:18,279 --> 00:33:20,640 w kip. 592 00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:23,119 Speaker 5: He was telling me to get you in on this. 593 00:33:23,319 --> 00:33:25,359 He kept saying kip instead of. 594 00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:29,240 Speaker 1: Keep Oh smart guy going to something. Now, watch what 595 00:33:29,359 --> 00:33:31,680 happens when the boys get cracking on this one. Rita, 596 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:32,680 hand me the phone. 597 00:33:39,279 --> 00:33:39,799 Speaker 5: That's a call. 598 00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:44,039 Speaker 1: Just be calm, Ray, answer the phone. We'll be listening. 599 00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:46,359 Keep him on as long as possible. We may be 600 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:48,240 able to trace it. Pick up the phone. 601 00:33:50,039 --> 00:33:53,640 Speaker 2: Oh, this is a call you've been expecting missus. Robie. 602 00:33:54,799 --> 00:33:58,160 Speaker 5: Oh did you speak louder? I can't hear you. 603 00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:02,400 Speaker 2: Carefully, I won't rip. Save the lights on in your apartment. 604 00:34:03,039 --> 00:34:06,640 Take your suitcase. You will not be coming back. Go 605 00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:10,079 to twentieth and third. There is a fault boof there. 606 00:34:12,079 --> 00:34:12,920 Speaker 5: Could you repeat that? 607 00:34:13,159 --> 00:34:14,239 Speaker 2: Oh? I will not repeat. 608 00:34:14,559 --> 00:34:15,199 Speaker 4: Have you got that? 609 00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:16,239 Speaker 2: Or shall I ring off? 610 00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:16,920 Speaker 5: No, I've got it. 611 00:34:17,079 --> 00:34:18,719 Speaker 3: I be there in twenty minutes. 612 00:34:19,159 --> 00:34:20,360 Speaker 2: Wait there for a call. 613 00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:29,440 Speaker 1: Wait wait, we recorded the call, Rita, but we didn't 614 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:31,519 have enough time to trace it. Technician thinks it was 615 00:34:31,559 --> 00:34:34,239 from a public phone. What do I do now? Just 616 00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:36,760 as he says, go to twenty third street. 617 00:34:36,519 --> 00:34:39,480 Speaker 5: And when he is and third kid, Oh, good. 618 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:41,239 Speaker 1: Girl, Rita, you're calmer than I am. 619 00:34:41,599 --> 00:34:41,719 Speaker 2: Now. 620 00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:44,559 Speaker 1: Look there's a taxi waiting to pick you up, driven 621 00:34:44,599 --> 00:34:47,039 by a cop, so you won't feel deserted. The order 622 00:34:47,119 --> 00:34:49,079 has gone out to a special squad who already have 623 00:34:49,159 --> 00:34:51,880 the information. They'll be all around when you get there. 624 00:34:52,159 --> 00:34:54,000 As soon as you get the directions over the phone, 625 00:34:54,039 --> 00:34:57,159 pass them along to a cop will identify himself. Rita. 626 00:34:58,039 --> 00:34:58,519 Good luck. 627 00:35:00,079 --> 00:35:10,679 Speaker 3: Yes, hello, just wanted to tell you, missus, Robie. 628 00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:13,360 Speaker 2: We are wise to your little game with the police. 629 00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:15,400 Speaker 3: You'd better go shopping. 630 00:35:15,079 --> 00:35:16,519 Speaker 2: Tomorrow for something. 631 00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:20,599 Speaker 5: Plack No, no, no, please, oh please come back on 632 00:35:20,679 --> 00:35:21,119 the phone. 633 00:35:22,119 --> 00:35:23,519 Speaker 3: Suit me help me? 634 00:35:29,639 --> 00:35:34,239 Speaker 1: Driver? Yeah, when are you going to take the tape? 635 00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:38,119 Off my eyes? Relax, will you? When we get where 636 00:35:38,119 --> 00:35:42,480 we're going the airfield, my wife's going to be there. 637 00:35:43,599 --> 00:35:47,800 Is that what you've been told? Yes, so she'll be there. 638 00:35:49,119 --> 00:35:53,440 Where's the man? I? Where's your boss? Who do you mean? Well? 639 00:35:53,519 --> 00:35:56,480 The man who arranged all this? What do you want 640 00:35:56,519 --> 00:35:59,119 to know? Why? Well? Why? What? Heals me? 641 00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:00,559 Speaker 2: Fifty dollars? 642 00:36:00,599 --> 00:36:04,679 Speaker 1: That's a good reason. Fifty gs. It's a lot of bread, mister? 643 00:36:05,559 --> 00:36:06,760 Speaker 2: What for? I? 644 00:36:07,039 --> 00:36:09,679 Speaker 1: Uh well, what does it matter to you? Is he 645 00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:12,400 going to be at the airport or should I know? 646 00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:16,559 He don't tell me his business. We are going to 647 00:36:16,639 --> 00:36:19,760 a flying field, aren't we. That's what they told you 648 00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:25,880 Brazil one, and that's right. Must be some mistake, mistake. 649 00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:29,599 I didn't have no orders to go to no flying field. 650 00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:35,199 What orders did you have? Yeah? Yeah, I'd better. 651 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,280 Speaker 2: Tell you about that. It's time. 652 00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:43,559 Speaker 1: Okay, such a robie? This is it? 653 00:36:45,559 --> 00:36:45,960 Speaker 2: Get out? 654 00:36:47,159 --> 00:36:47,719 Speaker 1: Are we there? 655 00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:49,280 Speaker 2: You are? 656 00:36:50,159 --> 00:36:53,880 Speaker 1: Oh? Pardon me? I forgot to introduce myself. 657 00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:55,360 Speaker 2: You know me. 658 00:36:55,519 --> 00:36:58,880 Speaker 1: You've probably seen my pictures in the paper. I'm the 659 00:36:59,039 --> 00:37:02,800 brother of the kid you knocked off. What the boss 660 00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:05,960 gave me a bonus, he said I could have you. 661 00:37:07,079 --> 00:37:08,960 Speaker 2: This is for my brother. 662 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:21,440 Speaker 1: There's a body on the ground. It's a gill. Oh 663 00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:23,400 the lord, he's been shot. He give me your hand 664 00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:25,239 with him, will you. We got to get him to 665 00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:25,880 a hospital. 666 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:36,000 Speaker 5: Come in, Oh, Kip, come in, come in? 667 00:37:36,679 --> 00:37:37,519 Speaker 1: How's the patient? 668 00:37:38,159 --> 00:37:38,280 Speaker 4: Hi? 669 00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:42,000 Speaker 1: You Kip? Hey? Is that you under all those bandages? 670 00:37:42,639 --> 00:37:45,480 He was a lousy shot. Second, try hit me in 671 00:37:45,559 --> 00:37:48,159 the chest. He was aiming at the head man. You 672 00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:50,639 sure had me worried when we picked you up. I 673 00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:53,119 don't get it at all. How did you know where 674 00:37:53,159 --> 00:37:53,639 to find me? 675 00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:54,400 Speaker 2: A tip? 676 00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:58,519 Speaker 1: An anonymous tip? And guess who mister anonymous was that 677 00:37:58,679 --> 00:38:02,400 guy who kidnapped me? Right? A Neil Dorcas, a biggie 678 00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:05,639 in the dope business, diversionary tactics to send us off 679 00:38:05,679 --> 00:38:08,280 on something while a big job was being done. You're 680 00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:11,599 kidnapping the business with rita big job. The dope. It 681 00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:14,960 was there all the time in the well. See we 682 00:38:15,119 --> 00:38:17,920 never thought of that. It's the funny well in the back. Yeah, 683 00:38:18,159 --> 00:38:22,239 that cute little phony well, behind that cute little suburban house, 684 00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:26,159 behind that cute little white picket fence. Over two million 685 00:38:26,199 --> 00:38:29,119 dollars worth of white powder poison at the bottom of it. Ah, 686 00:38:29,559 --> 00:38:33,480 And we took that house apart board by board. He 687 00:38:33,679 --> 00:38:36,199 was right out there, almost in plain sight. Yeah, but 688 00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:38,320 you see, they couldn't come and get it. I was 689 00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:40,440 hanging around, and when I wasn't there, I got Phil 690 00:38:40,519 --> 00:38:43,320 Markham to watch. They had to get you, right, That's 691 00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:45,639 why they made the big bid for you. Oh. I 692 00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:48,480 suppose they wanted to get you for shooting Rick Kranzit. 693 00:38:48,559 --> 00:38:51,840 But that Kransner's big brother nearly got me, and we 694 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:54,800 got him. We got them all, and I heard one 695 00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:59,320 of them is turning state's evidence. There's something missing. The 696 00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:01,960 police were alerted on the tip about me ranging away. 697 00:39:02,719 --> 00:39:05,280 How did they know that the dope was being picked up? 698 00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:09,480 The lady next door, simple as that, bless her heart, 699 00:39:09,639 --> 00:39:12,519 a terrible snoop. I spoke to her and asked her 700 00:39:12,519 --> 00:39:15,800 about neighbors. She told me that they were very suspicious 701 00:39:16,159 --> 00:39:18,199 and she knew they were no good from the day 702 00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:20,880 they moved in there. So I agreed with her and 703 00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:23,280 told her to watch as if I needed to tell 704 00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:25,840 her that, I gave her a special number to call. 705 00:39:26,079 --> 00:39:31,559 Everything was ready and waiting, and that was then. That's 706 00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:35,280 just one thing that's bothering me. Kip that charge against me. 707 00:39:36,119 --> 00:39:38,039 I'll have to face the judge as soon as I'm 708 00:39:38,079 --> 00:39:41,599 able to get out of here. The charges have been dropped, 709 00:39:41,639 --> 00:39:47,159 gil dropped? Why how that gun you saw? Yeah? But 710 00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:49,880 you really saw it. Remember you said that he pointed 711 00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:51,480 the gun at you and when you fired, his hands 712 00:39:51,519 --> 00:39:53,880 were flung up in the air. Oh that's right, Okay. 713 00:39:54,039 --> 00:39:56,119 The pistol went flying and dropped right in the well. 714 00:39:56,639 --> 00:39:59,199 They found it when they got the dope. Ballistic says 715 00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:01,639 you were very lucky guy. That gun had been fired, 716 00:40:01,679 --> 00:40:03,280 but the bullet was a dot. It didn't go off. 717 00:40:03,519 --> 00:40:08,119 Kill that really had been worried. I knew I saw 718 00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:11,800 that gun. So the indictment has been squashed, and you 719 00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:15,320 are now a member and good standing of the old club. Kip. 720 00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:17,679 I don't know how to thank you for all you've done. 721 00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:19,199 I do, Kip. 722 00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:23,360 Speaker 5: The new addition to our family, when it comes, is 723 00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:25,920 going to be called Gilmore kid. 724 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:30,639 Speaker 1: Miss Ruby. Do you like that? Oh? It's super. But 725 00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:36,280 suppose he's a girl, Well then it'll just be Kippy. 726 00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:48,320 A long time ago, Kipling wrote, East is east and 727 00:40:48,519 --> 00:40:53,079 West is west, and never the twain shall meet till 728 00:40:53,199 --> 00:40:58,480 Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great judgment. Seat 729 00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:03,039 well times have changed since that poem was written. Perhaps 730 00:41:03,079 --> 00:41:07,800 today we all can like and understand one another, despite 731 00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:12,360 the difference in creed, color, and birth. Gil Roby and 732 00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:16,599 his very good friend Kip had found that possible. I'll 733 00:41:16,639 --> 00:41:30,639 be back in a moment. Perhaps our poet anticipated the 734 00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:35,599 understanding between people of different beliefs and colors because he 735 00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:40,079 ends his poem but there is neither color, nor creed 736 00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:44,960 nor birth when two strong men stand face to face, 737 00:41:46,079 --> 00:41:49,880 though they come from the ends of the earth. Our 738 00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:54,400 cast included Carlos Carrasco, William Redfield, Mari Nzeldi's, Lenn Gotchman, 739 00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:58,280 and Robert Maxwell. The entire production was under the direction 740 00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:02,119 of Hymon Brown Radio. Mystery Theater was sponsored in part 741 00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:03,559 by Duick Motor Division. 742 00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:04,960 Speaker 2: This is E. G. 743 00:42:05,199 --> 00:42:08,559 Speaker 1: Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for 744 00:42:08,679 --> 00:42:15,960 another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams.