Speaker 1: Come in. Welcome. I me J. Marshall. I have a
frightening and moving story for you about a man caught
up in a web of suspicion and accused of unprovoked murder.
From this beginning, point builds upon point until he is
almost overwhelmed with prejudice and hatred, and the life he
knew and believed in is distorted and made ugly. Many
years ago, Tippling said in a poem that east was
east and west was west, and that they would never meet.
Our story concerns a similar situation that is very much
with us today. Our mystery Grammar with Malice the Forethought
was written especially for the Mystery Theater by Sidney Sloane
and stars Carlos Carrasco. It is sponsored in part by
Enholzer Bush Incorporated, brewers of Budweiser, and sin Off the
Sinus Medicines. I'll be back shortly with that. Once, when
Sergeant Diilmore Roby climbed into the unmarked car signed to
the Naco squad that night, he had nothing on his
mind that troubled him all the way out to the bust.
He sat quietly in the car. Oh, of course there
was danger there always was during a bust. But after
nearly ten years on the force and a hundred incidents
the year, danger became routine. You knew it was there,
you were prepared, You did your job after all this time.
You tried not to get up a sweat. You just
couldn't do your job right. And gil Roby tried to
do his best every time. That's what was expected of him,
that's what he was paid for. And then it happened
the thing he had always kept hidden in the back
of his mind.
Speaker 2: Kill.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you see anything now, nothing's moving. Just been talking
to the captain. He says, they're in there. They're working
in that windows look dark, snow lights and obtain it
over brownly smoke coming out the chimney. Smell it, yeah,
says none is taking that smell wood fire. That's right,
notuntain suspicious. Looks like a peaceful old suburban house. What's
the plant on? A signal? The usual. They'll bring his
flash three times. You take the back door. On taking
the front, they'll cover us and keep the sides under control.
You're taking the front door? Kicked, yeah, captain a sign
it that way, No I do. All he said was
you and Roby. Take the front door on the back,
the front of the toughest spot. Why you front of back?
You're gonna give me an argument. They're both loudly. Look
if I don't know up, that's a signal. Get moving now.
Why do you hear me that moved in white gang blasters?
Speaker 3: You are around.
Speaker 1: Hill Bill? You are right? Oh oh good, there you are.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: We got everything all tied up in front. We dig
them all, not all. Take a look. Yeah, you got
him right through the head. Come inside, sit down. Thanks
you gee, that's your report in your hand. I just
typed it up. Signed it yet. I thought you might
want to read it first. Captain here Yeah yeah, thanks,
hmm everything okay, uh Gil, don't sign this yet. Why
who's the lawyer for the Police Welfare Organization? Nowhy Hendrickson?
You know that, sir? Yeah, I thought he'd retired. Well
before you sign any statement, better talk it over with
Pete Henderson. I don't get a chief. The kid was
dead on arrival. It isn't good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know. Look in ten years as a cop,
I never killed a man before. The kid had a
pistol pointed right at me. He saw me in the
life from the door. When he came out, I yelled
at him to stop. I saw his gun turn in
my direction.
Speaker 1: And then I didn't put up his hands after you
called to him and identified yourself as a police officer. No,
not then, But he put up his hands.
Speaker 4: After I shot him. His hands went flying up. Then
he just crumpled forward into the high grass.
Speaker 1: About the gun. You're sure you saw him point a
gun at you, as big as a cannon. Gil, I'm
gonna have to ask you for your badge and your gun.
Speaker 4: I'm being suspended. Yeah, Gil, I don't get it. I
suspected pusher pulls a gun on me. I defend myself
by shooting hands.
Speaker 1: The big question, Gil, the dead kid didn't have a
gun on him.
Speaker 2: But he did. He did.
Speaker 1: Our whole area was cordoned off and searched. They went
over with a fine who comb no gun? No gun
that you honey?
Speaker 5: Ah Here, Rita, you're lady in New Hull tonight poke
a game at the Priescinct house.
Speaker 1: Rita. Please go back to bed. Go to bed? Are
you crazy?
Speaker 2: I'm starving.
Speaker 5: The doctor said my appetite would improve when I got
into my fifth punt. He wasn't even beginning to state
the facts.
Speaker 1: I'm collapsed.
Speaker 5: What's the matter, Gil.
Speaker 4: Reader, I killed a man tonight, okil.
Speaker 5: Honey, oh my darling.
Speaker 1: Oh, and I'm in real trouble. Trouble.
Speaker 5: What do you mean trouble? You didn't just go out
and knock somebody off a kicks. It was duty, wasn't it.
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, at least that's what I thought. That's the way
it started.
Speaker 5: Don't get you what are you talking about.
Speaker 1: Take a look at the paper.
Speaker 4: I just picked it up at the newstand, first edition,
trigger happy cups dead kid.
Speaker 1: Oh, what a damn scandal sheet. Well then he did
nineteen rida he was just a kid.
Speaker 5: Well he's nineteen. Lots of your kids are rotten, stealing, crooked, pushing, Dirk.
What did he do?
Speaker 4: As far as we know, he didn't do anything, No record,
nothing on him. He was suspected of being a pusher,
but there was nothing on him to prove it.
Speaker 5: Nothing on him but a gun. I know you, Gil,
he wouldn't take a pot shot of the man without
some kind of thumbing.
Speaker 1: Provocation, Yes, provocation.
Speaker 5: He must have pulled a gun on you.
Speaker 1: They say he didn't.
Speaker 4: Who says I I saw a gun? In his hand,
pointed at me, but it was never found.
Speaker 5: Well, they didn't look hard enough.
Speaker 4: They looked all right, then somebody did it or.
Speaker 5: Took it away.
Speaker 4: No, no police were there, No one got near the
place until it had been completely gone over.
Speaker 5: Then how do you explain it?
Speaker 1: I can't. I saw a gun, okay till.
Speaker 5: Maybe there wasn't any and and you thought he was
aiming at you and it was dark.
Speaker 1: I remember that defense from my lawyer.
Speaker 5: Lawyer, you're gonna be tried.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: But they couldn't yell yeah they can. A black cop
kills a white kid. How does that sound?
Speaker 1: Rita?
Speaker 4: The way you keep asking me that over and over again,
it makes me think you don't believe me.
Speaker 1: Now, just a mineral will be. I'm your lawyer, and
I want to do the best job I can for you.
But if you keep fighting me, I told you the
way it happened.
Speaker 4: He was coming out the door with that gun pointed
at me, still hanging on.
Speaker 1: Then that's the truth. Don't you want the truth? Sure? Sure,
but no box, that's the truth. And it just dissolved
in their sin air. I don't know. I don't know
that you know there was a gun, and I believe you.
But do you think a jury is gonna believe you?
Speaker 2: Jury?
Speaker 1: I thought you said. A DA spoke to me this
afternoon in my office. He's going after an indictment. He's
not happy about it. Nobody's happy about it. But the
papers are talking about a cover up. They don't make
a big dry to punish you. The whole political machine,
a city or all will be in hot water the
little blow off. So I'm gonna have to take the
rap to keep the lid on, and I wouldn't put
it quite that way. What other way is there?
Speaker 4: You did knock off that kid? So yeah, yeah, that's
all I've heard over and over again. A lot of
hate mail coming on you, and it isn't all from white.
Speaker 1: But what can I do? Stop trying to fight this
thing and.
Speaker 4: Start listening to people who know more about the law
and public opinion than you do, meaning you, yeah, me,
the commissioner, the mayor, the DA. Go on, I'm gonna
put in a plea of uh well, but to put
it in layman's terms, we're gonna say that, uh that
you've been ill lately, suffering from severe headaches, that you've
been set a lot of gacious propaganda will bring in
psychiatrists like Kla.
Speaker 1: No, no, I won't stand for that. You want a
cop a please? Insanity?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Going to say I was crazy with hate when I
shot the white kid.
Speaker 2: Not exactly.
Speaker 4: You're going to drag racism into it, making an object lesson.
Listen to me, Roby, Sergeant Roby, Sergeant Gilmore Roby, to you,
mister Watson. Okay, Sergeant Gilmore Roby, what you wanna do,
I'll tell you what I don't want to do. I
don't want to play the black and white game. Sure,
I'm black and I know it, but I'm not anti white.
I'm not bitter, I'm not aggressive. I don't carry it
around like a sword. I'm a man, a citizen. I
pay my taxes, I do my job. I try to
do it well. I don't hate anybody.
Speaker 1: Well. It seems that we have wasted one hour and
forty five minutes of my time wasted. You won't cooperate,
you will not listen to any one. Were you trying
to put words and ideas into my head, into my
mouth that are completely false. I'm sure you won't have
too much trouble finding a new lawyer. You're walking out.
Speaker 4: You're letting me out. My secretary will prepare a letter
which you will sign releasing me.
Speaker 1: Good day, sergeant.
Speaker 5: Who are you calling? Gil?
Speaker 1: I'm trying to reach Kip about the fifth time I've
tried to reach him. I guess he's not in Well,
he's married, isn't he?
Speaker 5: Isn't she ever home?
Speaker 1: I don't know. You met his wife, Frida?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, dolls, isn't it once on that boat ride
picnic two years ago?
Speaker 1: Mm? She was very nice. You too, had a long
talk and that was the end of it.
Speaker 5: There was a lot said about the four of us
get together, but it never happened.
Speaker 1: Oh no, done it? Rita? What are you trying to say?
Speaker 5: It's pretty obvious, isn't it. We're not her kind and
she politely let us know it.
Speaker 4: Look, I don't worry about her. Kip and I are friends,
good friends. We pulled each other out of mini a
tight spot. If I can count on anyone in this well,
this rotten business I find myself in, I can count
on Kip.
Speaker 5: Where is Has he told you?
Speaker 1: Well, he's just busy or something.
Speaker 5: When you're in one of those tight spots, Now, it's
time for Kip and the US Marines to land. It's
the outside, boy, there's someone downstairs.
Speaker 1: I'll get it. Hello, it's me. Put me in a
sure Kip. Well, Ria, what have you got to say? Now?
Speaker 5: Here's the Marines have landed and have the situation well
in hand. I'll be in the bedroom dying so you
two buddies can have a heart to heart soul.
Speaker 4: Hi you girl, kid, I'm hit glad to see you.
Come on, come on, want to be here or coffee?
Speaker 1: No? I just had lunch? Well? Sit, no, no, I can
only stay a minute, Gil, I got to be on
duty in forty five minutes, you know. Yeah? Yeah, how
quickly you forget when you ain't punching the clock.
Speaker 4: I've been trying to reach you a week. Yeah, I
got your messages of the bureau calls your apartment several
times too.
Speaker 1: Yeah. My wife told me you called. Yeah, Gil, I
shouldn't be here. See. I was told I wasn't to
see you or speak to you. Why the hell not?
Because I'm going to be a witness on the other side,
Kit not you Look, I said no to the DA
when he called me in and questioned me. It was
all about the gun. Did I see it in the
kid's hand? I said, no, I didn't. It was a truth, Gil,
I had to tell the truth. Yeah, I said. I
didn't want to get on the stand against you. He
said he was going to call me up anyway, and
I'd have to testify. I can't do you any harm, Gil,
I mean by.
Speaker 4: Testifying, no, no more than has been done already.
Speaker 1: Well, anyway, I went out to the place the sight
of the trouble. I went out on my own. I
spent three hours going over all the area. Nothing nothing,
not even a water pistol. Look, Gil, if you say
there was a gun in his hand, I believe you.
I've never known you to take an easy way out
of anything. I've never known you to lie. But but
you could be mistaken. Just believe me when I say
that I'll do my very best for you. One by one,
the pieces are falling into place. What once had seemed
like a few small stones now had grown into a
great high wall, shutting out the sun. It seemed they
were trying to take everything away from him, his job,
his future, his friends. Gil wondered where it would end.
I'll be back shortly with that too. Three days of
silence passed. Gil was so depressed he didn't leave the
apartment either. Brought him the newspapers, which did very little
to alleviate the gloom. Then a call came from his
superior officer, the head of his division. He wished to
meet him on a street corner. Ah, yes, captain, this
is a no park in those standard zone for me
to get a ticket there, just drive through the park.
Carry started at roby and I are having a little conference.
Did I keep you waiting? Lost their foot dropped the
formality kill. I'm sure The reason why I wanted to
talk to you this way is well, it wouldn't look right.
You're coming to my office while the grand jury is
mulling over your case. How was it intil the grand jury? Ruff?
I was as nervous as a cat. And if the
grand jury goes to indict, you're in for the fight
of your life. If you lose, it'll mean your job,
pension rights that works. It might even meet a jail
sentence if you get a bad break with a jury.
Speaker 4: Ah, it's getting bigger and bigger. I'm soil down.
Speaker 1: I wish I could just quit and run away from it.
Don't ever dream of quitting or running, they'd have nailed
it of the door. Now you've got to have a
good defense. Who's your lawyer. I understand you're letting Watson go.
He's already gone. Just stayed with me through the grand
jury here and good. I never did like that political hack.
You got to get a good lawyer, an honest guy,
not a shyster.
Speaker 4: Playing all the angles you even know of one. Remember,
I'm just a cop looking on a cop salary.
Speaker 1: I can't pay a big seat. Oh, the PWRO will
help you with that. Let me worry about me, about you,
about every other man under me. I'm responsible to them
and for them. And this whole business is thrown a
gray cloud over our entire department. Gil. Not only was
a man killed in that raid, the raid was a
wash out, wash out. Every man picked up has been
released lack of evidence, but they all had record, not
conic air. But we found nothing. The husband search taken
apart board by board. Oh incidentally, the mother of the
kid just shot is suing the city and.
Speaker 2: You that's all I need.
Speaker 1: You know. If we'd found the place loaded with heroin,
this would all sound very different in the papers. Even
your business would be treated as regulation police work. You see,
you can't afford to fail Gil. If you do, they're
waiting to flatten you.
Speaker 4: Or they've certainly been after me. Where can I drop
you the next bus station? And thanks for everything, especially
wanting to see me. Well, cheer up, we'll beat them yet,
I hope.
Speaker 5: I'll get it.
Speaker 1: Hello what.
Speaker 2: Huh? Oh can you.
Speaker 5: Rap?
Speaker 1: Who was that rider?
Speaker 5: It's nothing, it's nobody, just some not We shall let
these things bother us.
Speaker 1: Oh but they do, honey, they do. I've gotten a
couple too. They sink in deep and burn.
Speaker 5: I said, I was the only one getting them.
Speaker 1: To yesterday when you were out shopping.
Speaker 5: Well, can we change a number again, an unlifted one?
Speaker 1: Just like the celebrities run away?
Speaker 5: We are kind of like celebrities. Our name is in
the paper, on the TV news or the radio.
Speaker 1: Yeah, except that I suspect most of them like that
kind of attention.
Speaker 5: Well I don't, oh kill all those nasty racial remarks
and threats.
Speaker 2: You know what this last what's set?
Speaker 5: He said? My baby wouldn't be born alive reader, Reader
to pay for the life of the white.
Speaker 2: Kid you killed.
Speaker 1: Oh good lord, why can't they leave you?
Speaker 2: Alone.
Speaker 1: At least get a hold of yourself. Frieda baby. Someone
at the door, Hi, you, Kip, come in, Come in?
What brings you here?
Speaker 4: I thought you and I were not supposed to be
seeing each other for a while.
Speaker 1: Special Police Business Captain is worried about you and your
wife's safety, so he's put a twenty four hour day
guard on the house.
Speaker 5: Oh it's not any too soon, kiss. We're getting a
lot of frightening.
Speaker 1: You want the department to put a tap on your phone?
There won't do much good. Never the same crank twice. Yeah,
you just gotta let it roll off your back. Don't
let it get to you. That's what I've been saying. Anyway.
My visit is official, not social, just to let you
know that you've got protection here.
Speaker 2: Come here.
Speaker 1: Look out the window. You see that guy with the
long hair and the straggly beard, dirty blue jeans and
open shirt. Right, that's Rinaldi. No, g Rinaldi. Yeah, the
best dressed man on the fort. Great disguy. He hates it.
Next shift you'll have Herman Goldberg and I'll be on
the mid by eight am. I requested it. I figured
if there was going to be any nonsense, it would occur. Then,
a kid, it's good to know you'll be around.
Speaker 5: It takes a load off my mind.
Speaker 1: Thank the captain for this. You bet it was your idea.
Maybe I don't remember.
Speaker 4: It is kind of strange that nothing was found that night.
It might still be there.
Speaker 1: Well, they got the police pretty well hanging on the ropes.
No place was searched the way that was. But in
my spare time, I'm gonna keep an eye on it anyway. Yeah,
they might just be waiting for everything to die down,
all the noise and publicity, and then go back and
get it. Maybe. Well I'm gonna run now, keep it
chin up, something good will happen by reader. Hey, how
long now?
Speaker 5: A million years?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: Three and a half months, but it feels like a
million years, no time at all. You'll do it standing
on your hands, and remember I'm putting in my bid
for Godfather. I'm first.
Speaker 4: Well, we'll take the matter under advisement, Sergeant Kidney.
Speaker 2: Skill.
Speaker 5: Still wake up the phone?
Speaker 1: What with the phones? You can't you hear it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah? What time is it to ten?
Speaker 5: Do you think it's one of those crank calls? I
hope I'm starting them at night now.
Speaker 1: There's one way to find uh. I'm coming. I'm coming
calling at this hour.
Speaker 2: Hello, Sergeant Gilmore Roby speaking. Sorry to disturb you at
this hour, Sergeant, What do you want? I want to
help you?
Speaker 1: What is it? Some kind of joke? It's a crank call?
Speaker 4: Well, just to get it, you've had your funny darn
fool waking us up at this hour of the night.
Speaker 1: Okay, go on, let's have it.
Speaker 2: I'm afraid there's some misunderstanding, Sergeant Roby. I'm serious when
I say I want to help you. Yeah, and you
are definitely in need of a friend. Oh, go on,
let's hear what you have to say. I can't say
it or the phone, sergeant, for obvious reasons.
Speaker 1: Well, the phone is not tapped. If that's your obvious reasons.
Speaker 2: I'm happy to know that. But I still would prefer
a face to face meeting. Why one can speak more
openly or to the.
Speaker 1: Point I suppose I won't bite. As a matter of fact,
I haven't even smelled the beat yet.
Speaker 2: Fifty thousand in small bills. That sounds tempting.
Speaker 1: That's the bait, eh, what's the hook.
Speaker 2: I'm prepared to discuss that in complete detail. When in
thirty minutes.
Speaker 1: But it's almost three in the morning. Look before I
rush into it.
Speaker 2: Are on the hook right now, sageant. It's my intention
to get you off of it. Oh, meet me in
thirty minutes at the corner of Quenton Street and Fourth.
I think you know the neighborhood.
Speaker 1: I walk that beat for two years.
Speaker 2: Then you know there's a public phone on the corner,
the southeast corner. Yeah, you will receive further instructions and
a call to you on that phone. You are not
to tell anyone where you're going. You will be watched, agreed.
Speaker 1: Agreed thirty minutes.
Speaker 2: Take a cab.
Speaker 1: Thirty minutes.
Speaker 5: What's going on, Gil, I'm going out Rito to meet
a guy I don't get it at this hour who
had his quick lane.
Speaker 1: Now, look, Kip is on duty guarding this house. Get
to him. Tell him that I am going to be
at Quenton and Fourth in about twenty nine minutes from now.
Tell him to follow and be careful. I'll leave a
message for him in the telephone booth on the southeast corner.
Taxi Taxi Quentin and fourth driver keep the change. I'm
a little early.
Speaker 2: Hello, Hello, you are more than prompt, Sergeant rob me.
Now here are your instructions. Take a cab to West
forty ninth Street, nine fifty nine West forty ninth. I'll
be waiting for your parent. Have you got it?
Speaker 1: Nine fifty nine West forty nine.
Speaker 2: Are you writing? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I won't forget. Forget?
Speaker 2: How could you possibly forget? That simple number?
Speaker 1: Might get it reversed. It's something, after all, I am
kind of nervous.
Speaker 2: Oh, yes, probably, Well, it shouldn't take you more than
ten minutes to get here at this time of night.
Speaker 1: If I can find a taxi.
Speaker 2: Yes, that might be a problem. I'll give you an extra.
Speaker 4: Ten minutes if gotcha, Yes, that might be a problem.
We little kid takes this one of it, you might
have a problem.
Speaker 1: Mister there stuck right on the glass. He can't miss this, hey,
taxi taxi boy, I'm luck either. I want to go through.
That's the end of the sergeant. We're both going to
the same address. Let me take you there. You you're
a guy who i'm your collar, Sergeant Roby, come here.
That's better. But I t I anticipated but she's thought,
Sergeant Kilmore Roby, and also what you might think. I'm
afraid your message left in the phone booth will lead
someone on a.
Speaker 2: Wild goose chase.
Speaker 1: Then we're not going to nine fifty nine West forty nine.
Speaker 5: You wouldn't think of it.
Speaker 1: Don't like the neighborhood, especially at night. It was just
to prove to you that you couldn't outsmart me.
Speaker 5: Coming just a minute, goodness sake, you'll get you a
finger off up there, will you?
Speaker 2: She forget you keep camp?
Speaker 5: Where's Gil?
Speaker 1: Rita? Can I come in?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 5: What's the matter?
Speaker 2: Kid?
Speaker 5: Where's Gil?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I went to the phone booth at
Quentman Forth, and just as I got there, I saw
Gil hale a cab and get in. I went into
the booth and found his message for me stuck on
the glass. All it said was nine to fifty nine
West forty ninth Street.
Speaker 5: But that must have been the address he got over
the phone right.
Speaker 1: So I called headquarters and learned them told him to
send a couple of cars to that address and cover
the area. I commandeered a private car and the guy
drove me there. I was there in less than ten minutes.
After I got Gil's message, place was surrounded and well.
Nine fifty nine West forty ninth is an empty lot.
The building was torn down over a year ago.
Speaker 5: But I don't follow you. Why would you'll give you
the wrong address?
Speaker 1: Because he didn't know it was a phony. We've been
out foxed. The burning question in the back of Kip's
mind is why. What was the intentions the purpose of
the unknown caller? What was wanted of his friend? If
he had fears for Gill's safety, he didn't let Reda
know them. On the surface, he maintained a calm, composed manner.
Underneath his mind was racing to discover the motive. I'll
be back shortly with Act three. After leaving Gill's apartment,
Kip went directly to headquarters and spilled out all he
knew to the captain. When he had finished, he looked
up to see his superior's face crimson with anger. It
was the first time he had seen this usually mild
mannered man lose his temper. I'm holding you responsible, kipness.
What are we a one man operation here?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 2: Why do you have to go?
Speaker 1: Please? Please, please, sir, may I explain? Where's your explanation?
You took off on your own and mess up with you.
I didn't have time to ask for help. Gil had
Sergeant Roby got this call from an unknown source. He
told his wife to get to me with the info
that he was going to Quenton and forth to a
telephone booth on the southeast corner. Very must have received
a call that directed into nine fifty nine West forty nine.
Now he left me that information stuck to the window
of the boot. That's where you went wrong. If you'd
called in for help immediately. Well, as soon as I
got his message in the telephone, I got bed immediately, Missus.
Roby gave you the first information we could have had
the area under surveillus before Roby even got there. Yes, sir,
you say you saw the cab pulling away. Anyone else
in the cab besides Roby? I can't be sure. It
was dark out. I thought at the time, however, that
there was more than one man in the passenger. See,
this is all gonna look very bad for Sergeant Roby, Sir, Yeah,
for him, for us who the grand jury voted to indict.
There's a warred out for his arrestaurant.
Speaker 2: We were supposed to pick him up today.
Speaker 1: This will compound matters make him a fugitive. What do
we do now. I got a pickup call out for
Roby if he can be found. I'm worried about him.
So my look, isn't it possible, sir, that this is
all kind of a smoke screen to block out the
real objective or objective? Well, we didn't get anything in
that rays trouble, that's right, sir. But we did know
that that cute little suburban house with a white picket
fence and the rose bushes was the distribution center for
most of the heroine in this part of it. That's right.
We've been watching it for weeks. Well, what happened to
it all? We couldn't find even a used glassen bag.
Go on, I believe it's still there where, Sertan Where? Yeah,
the question is where? After the going over, we gave
that place. What's left to search? I'm going along in
your hunt, Chipness, that's your assignment from now on. Okay,
what about Sergeant Roby, Well, he's my first consideration. I'm
working on that myself. I don't get it. You say
you want to help me, what's in it for you?
Isn't there an old saying about looking a gift horse
in the mouth, don't question it? Fifty big ones and
a private plane to take me over the border. Brazil. Sergeant,
the United States and Brazil have no extradition treaty. They
couldn't get you back to stand trial. I still don't
see what you have to gain by all this generosity.
We want you out, alive or dead. We need the
excitement and fure your disappearance will cause. I see which
do you prefer? If that's an easy question, what do
you want me to do? Get your wife on the phone.
You are to tell her this. Am sure you're gonna
be all right?
Speaker 5: Reader, I feel better if we knew where Gil was waiting,
waiting and driving me crazy. I didn't sleep last night.
Speaker 1: Now look, I'm sending Darius over to stay with you.
You shouldn't be alone at a time like this. I
got a right.
Speaker 5: No, wait, wait, maybe it's maybe it's not Gil.
Speaker 1: Hello Riata, Oh kill honey?
Speaker 2: Where are you tell?
Speaker 1: You can't tell what?
Speaker 2: I don't know myself. Now, listen carefully to what I'm
going to say.
Speaker 5: I'm so worried about you.
Speaker 2: Hurry, listen to me. This is important. Please listen carefully
and don't build anything foolish. Don't talk to the police.
Don't talk to anybody. My life is in danger. Y.
What I'm going to tell you must be kipped secret.
What I said, you must kip it secret. Oh tonight,
that's seven. You will be called and told to go
to a phone booth where I don't know. You will
be told that's seven. Right now. You might be called
even earlier. So pack a small bag and kip it
by the door.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll I'll keep it right by the door.
Speaker 2: Trust me, baby, I'm doing the right thing. Don't ask
questions and kip a stiff up a lip. Bye, Honny
w kip.
Speaker 5: He was telling me to get you in on this.
He kept saying kip instead of.
Speaker 1: Keep Oh smart guy going to something. Now, watch what
happens when the boys get cracking on this one. Rita,
hand me the phone.
Speaker 5: That's a call.
Speaker 1: Just be calm, Ray, answer the phone. We'll be listening.
Keep him on as long as possible. We may be
able to trace it. Pick up the phone.
Speaker 2: Oh, this is a call you've been expecting missus. Robie.
Speaker 5: Oh did you speak louder? I can't hear you.
Speaker 2: Carefully, I won't rip. Save the lights on in your apartment.
Take your suitcase. You will not be coming back. Go
to twentieth and third. There is a fault boof there.
Speaker 5: Could you repeat that?
Speaker 2: Oh? I will not repeat.
Speaker 4: Have you got that?
Speaker 2: Or shall I ring off?
Speaker 5: No, I've got it.
Speaker 3: I be there in twenty minutes.
Speaker 2: Wait there for a call.
Speaker 1: Wait wait, we recorded the call, Rita, but we didn't
have enough time to trace it. Technician thinks it was
from a public phone. What do I do now? Just
as he says, go to twenty third street.
Speaker 5: And when he is and third kid, Oh, good.
Speaker 1: Girl, Rita, you're calmer than I am.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Look there's a taxi waiting to pick you up, driven
by a cop, so you won't feel deserted. The order
has gone out to a special squad who already have
the information. They'll be all around when you get there.
As soon as you get the directions over the phone,
pass them along to a cop will identify himself. Rita.
Good luck.
Speaker 3: Yes, hello, just wanted to tell you, missus, Robie.
Speaker 2: We are wise to your little game with the police.
Speaker 3: You'd better go shopping.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow for something.
Speaker 5: Plack No, no, no, please, oh please come back on
the phone.
Speaker 3: Suit me help me?
Speaker 1: Driver? Yeah, when are you going to take the tape?
Off my eyes? Relax, will you? When we get where
we're going the airfield, my wife's going to be there.
Is that what you've been told? Yes, so she'll be there.
Where's the man? I? Where's your boss? Who do you mean? Well?
The man who arranged all this? What do you want
to know? Why? Well? Why? What? Heals me?
Speaker 2: Fifty dollars?
Speaker 1: That's a good reason. Fifty gs. It's a lot of bread, mister?
Speaker 2: What for? I?
Speaker 1: Uh well, what does it matter to you? Is he
going to be at the airport or should I know?
He don't tell me his business. We are going to
a flying field, aren't we. That's what they told you
Brazil one, and that's right. Must be some mistake, mistake.
I didn't have no orders to go to no flying field.
What orders did you have? Yeah? Yeah, I'd better.
Speaker 2: Tell you about that. It's time.
Speaker 1: Okay, such a robie? This is it?
Speaker 2: Get out?
Speaker 1: Are we there?
Speaker 2: You are?
Speaker 1: Oh? Pardon me? I forgot to introduce myself.
Speaker 2: You know me.
Speaker 1: You've probably seen my pictures in the paper. I'm the
brother of the kid you knocked off. What the boss
gave me a bonus, he said I could have you.
Speaker 2: This is for my brother.
Speaker 1: There's a body on the ground. It's a gill. Oh
the lord, he's been shot. He give me your hand
with him, will you. We got to get him to
a hospital.
Speaker 5: Come in, Oh, Kip, come in, come in?
Speaker 1: How's the patient?
Speaker 4: Hi?
Speaker 1: You Kip? Hey? Is that you under all those bandages?
He was a lousy shot. Second, try hit me in
the chest. He was aiming at the head man. You
sure had me worried when we picked you up. I
don't get it at all. How did you know where
to find me?
Speaker 2: A tip?
Speaker 1: An anonymous tip? And guess who mister anonymous was that
guy who kidnapped me? Right? A Neil Dorcas, a biggie
in the dope business, diversionary tactics to send us off
on something while a big job was being done. You're
kidnapping the business with rita big job. The dope. It
was there all the time in the well. See we
never thought of that. It's the funny well in the back. Yeah,
that cute little phony well, behind that cute little suburban house,
behind that cute little white picket fence. Over two million
dollars worth of white powder poison at the bottom of it. Ah,
And we took that house apart board by board. He
was right out there, almost in plain sight. Yeah, but
you see, they couldn't come and get it. I was
hanging around, and when I wasn't there, I got Phil
Markham to watch. They had to get you, right, That's
why they made the big bid for you. Oh. I
suppose they wanted to get you for shooting Rick Kranzit.
But that Kransner's big brother nearly got me, and we
got him. We got them all, and I heard one
of them is turning state's evidence. There's something missing. The
police were alerted on the tip about me ranging away.
How did they know that the dope was being picked up?
The lady next door, simple as that, bless her heart,
a terrible snoop. I spoke to her and asked her
about neighbors. She told me that they were very suspicious
and she knew they were no good from the day
they moved in there. So I agreed with her and
told her to watch as if I needed to tell
her that, I gave her a special number to call.
Everything was ready and waiting, and that was then. That's
just one thing that's bothering me. Kip that charge against me.
I'll have to face the judge as soon as I'm
able to get out of here. The charges have been dropped,
gil dropped? Why how that gun you saw? Yeah? But
you really saw it. Remember you said that he pointed
the gun at you and when you fired, his hands
were flung up in the air. Oh that's right, Okay.
The pistol went flying and dropped right in the well.
They found it when they got the dope. Ballistic says
you were very lucky guy. That gun had been fired,
but the bullet was a dot. It didn't go off.
Kill that really had been worried. I knew I saw
that gun. So the indictment has been squashed, and you
are now a member and good standing of the old club. Kip.
I don't know how to thank you for all you've done.
I do, Kip.
Speaker 5: The new addition to our family, when it comes, is
going to be called Gilmore kid.
Speaker 1: Miss Ruby. Do you like that? Oh? It's super. But
suppose he's a girl, Well then it'll just be Kippy.
A long time ago, Kipling wrote, East is east and
West is west, and never the twain shall meet till
Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great judgment. Seat
well times have changed since that poem was written. Perhaps
today we all can like and understand one another, despite
the difference in creed, color, and birth. Gil Roby and
his very good friend Kip had found that possible. I'll
be back in a moment. Perhaps our poet anticipated the
understanding between people of different beliefs and colors because he
ends his poem but there is neither color, nor creed
nor birth when two strong men stand face to face,
though they come from the ends of the earth. Our
cast included Carlos Carrasco, William Redfield, Mari Nzeldi's, Lenn Gotchman,
and Robert Maxwell. The entire production was under the direction
of Hymon Brown Radio. Mystery Theater was sponsored in part
by Duick Motor Division.
Speaker 2: This is E. G.
Speaker 1: Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams.