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Speaker 1: You stare down from the height of your plane and
Speaker 1: your brain keeps whispering. It's massif Werda, That's all. It is,
Speaker 1: just an island three hundred miles off the coast of Chile.
Speaker 1: But both you and the beautiful girl besides you know
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Speaker 1: time around, a death trap from which there is no escape.
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Speaker 2: Target, the dreams. Senor. You see how, Queen, another one
Speaker 2: of your talents you can make like a waiter went
Speaker 2: necessary in Chili, Senor remind us many things to believe.
Speaker 2: The way it was busy, so I got the drinks.
Speaker 2: It's not a reason for it, all right, Peppy, all right,
Speaker 2: I forget it. You are angry. Look, let's not play games.
Speaker 2: Is an hour late? Now? Wow? Where is he prees?
Speaker 2: He will be here. I watch with great care. He
Speaker 2: has not come in yet. Trust me, I've got much
Speaker 2: choice have I as being late? Is that part of
Speaker 2: the build up, part of the sale you demand promptly
Speaker 2: seen informer Senor, you ought to be used to it
Speaker 2: by now You'll never get used to it because you
Speaker 2: want something, an assurance. At this time you're buying the
Speaker 2: right thing, the magic word, and you're whereabout Savata Madsen
Speaker 2: and your fall for it every time to move on
Speaker 2: to word, the whispered words said to go corakas and
Speaker 2: lima coachabamba and now tutan taltan sitting one more crummy
Speaker 2: little bar wait for one more sly little man with
Speaker 2: a word for sale? How long you search for him?
Speaker 2: This Artur Matson a year? You're watching that door. You're
Speaker 2: sure Perez hasn't come in. I'm sure you know him.
Speaker 2: I know Perrys, Senor, Why don't you relax yourself soon?
Speaker 2: Think of something of more pleasantness, like what like the
Speaker 2: lady of great beauty in the next booth from your country?
Speaker 2: Is she not? Senor? Yeah? Way off face okay, joint
Speaker 2: like this you must be out of her mind. That's fine.
Speaker 2: All we need now is a beef, because see what's
Speaker 2: all about Perry. See I'll be right back, Senor, Senor Kennedy,
Speaker 2: call here quickly, Hedie. What is it? Luke? Senor there
Speaker 2: on the floor? Is he dead? Senor? What do you
Speaker 2: think at Knight's gotta pinned to the floor. I I'm
Speaker 2: sorry for your sake, Senor. What are you talking about?
Speaker 2: The dead one? He's the one you are waiting for? Yes,
Speaker 2: paris another a blank? Now the dead end?
Speaker 4: What is it? What happened?
Speaker 5: Forget it?
Speaker 4: I've got to see it.
Speaker 2: You wouldn't want to it used to be a man
Speaker 2: named Perez.
Speaker 4: Listen, Get me out of here now, please, I can't
Speaker 4: be found here.
Speaker 2: Relax. It's a killing. I want to drink.
Speaker 4: I've got to get out, please.
Speaker 2: Cappy waiting here for me. Come on, lady, stay close
Speaker 2: to me. There's a cab.
Speaker 4: Aren't you coming?
Speaker 2: No, now, you'll be all right. Cops will be here
Speaker 2: in a few minutes. A lot of questions they'll want answers.
Speaker 4: Tell the driver quavers Hotel.
Speaker 2: Got a data in a La Senorita our hotel, Quavas,
Speaker 2: I'm at the Royal, call me in and or.
Speaker 5: Would I ask for Kennedy?
Speaker 2: The Kennedy my turn.
Speaker 4: If you'll call and know.
Speaker 2: She was she was lovely Senor. Yeah, and what will
Speaker 2: you say if the police asked about her, if she
Speaker 2: didn't like blood bueno? Come on, Pepper, you know what
Speaker 2: the deal will be. The cops will come, they'll see
Speaker 2: the last questions, and it'll end in drinks for everyone,
Speaker 2: because life here is cheap. No, I didn't make it
Speaker 2: that way. Man, buy a drink, we'll drink the Perez.
Speaker 2: He was an informer. Senor. You always drink to a
Speaker 2: dead man, even if you wouldn't give him the time
Speaker 2: of day while he was alive. If you say so, Senor,
Speaker 2: I say you. You are an unhappy man. Signor, I'm
Speaker 2: sorry for that. Yeah, I'm an unhappy man. Once in
Speaker 2: your room, you will sleep, Senor. I told you I
Speaker 2: want to talk.
Speaker 4: Come right, it's not just Senor.
Speaker 2: Can't do any messages for me?
Speaker 6: Sor?
Speaker 2: You sure no phone calls?
Speaker 4: No, Senor, I am sorry.
Speaker 2: Give me miss Eve Coleman at the hotel Clervice.
Speaker 4: Of course, you take it in your room.
Speaker 6: Sen I'll take it here a moment.
Speaker 2: Senor. You sure you don't want to take around pay.
Speaker 7: Hol dah, Senor Kennedy, you said, Senorita e Coan, That's
Speaker 7: what I said. I I am sorry, Senor, but there
Speaker 7: is no one registered there about that name.
Speaker 6: Senor.
Speaker 2: Alright, alright, forget it, the lovely one who did not
Speaker 2: like blood. Yeah, this ain't my day, Senor. Why did
Speaker 2: I told you I didn't wanna sleep or wanna talk?
Speaker 8: Well, well, well do come in there, boy, do.
Speaker 2: Sprive. Yeah, I was under the impression this was my room.
Speaker 8: That's not much of a greeting for a man that's
Speaker 8: come all the way from Hartford just to see you getting.
Speaker 2: All your man is Kennedy. This is Peppy Galvan, mister O'Brian,
Speaker 2: Peppy chief claims man of the company that puts clothes
Speaker 2: on my back. Be nice to him. He's a big man.
Speaker 2: I think I better a social call O'Brien come two
Speaker 2: thousand miles just to see me. You're spending company money?
Speaker 2: Are we plenty of it? Dear boy?
Speaker 8: Even after pouring your expenses down the drain considerable expenses
Speaker 8: eind sight, You.
Speaker 2: Can take me off at any time you like. You
Speaker 2: got a better man, put him on it, dear boy.
Speaker 2: Tem temper tempa.
Speaker 5: Wouldn't be fair to you with a Kennedy.
Speaker 8: After aught Arthur Manson was in your custody when he
Speaker 8: escaped with his banks hundred thousand.
Speaker 2: You come all this way, just tell me that they
Speaker 2: have a.
Speaker 8: No idea back home, Kennedy. But perhaps you're not trying
Speaker 8: too hard to find Arthur Madson. That from your point
Speaker 8: of view, it might be just the thing you don't
Speaker 8: want to do.
Speaker 2: I make myself clear. You don't have to fire me,
Speaker 2: O Brian, I quit right now. I don't be an idiot. Kennedy.
Speaker 2: You could tell them they were right. You never get
Speaker 2: another insurance job as long as you live. You know,
Speaker 2: San Diego, Kennedy, but it's still run. I can get
Speaker 2: their why. But that didn't come down here just to
Speaker 2: fight with you.
Speaker 4: You got one last chance. I listen to me.
Speaker 8: Masafuera is an island three hundred.
Speaker 2: Miles off San Diego. I know where it.
Speaker 8: A return on an office wanted describes an American living there.
Speaker 8: The description fits Arthur Madson.
Speaker 2: I heard you. I'll take a look, do.
Speaker 8: Dear boy do, and I'll tell them back in Hart that.
Speaker 5: You're still trying.
Speaker 2: By dear boy, bye, happy you really know San Diego
Speaker 2: still got a job. Get down the docks. Get passage
Speaker 2: for both of us for tomorrow. She signor he said,
Speaker 2: three day trip, you know, on a fruit boat. I'd
Speaker 2: have to make this one if it was a rowboat.
Speaker 2: Picked me up in the morning. The cabin is not
Speaker 2: so bad, Signor you wish to, I'll go out on
Speaker 2: deck for a while. You wu back, Senor, I do that.
Speaker 4: I never even said thanks, did I?
Speaker 2: Vic Dick?
Speaker 4: You're angry, No, you're angry. You helped the girl who
Speaker 4: never said things I never called?
Speaker 2: Why was it too much? Trouble?
Speaker 4: Cool?
Speaker 2: Sweet pigeon Victory? See Signor, this is a hotel wave
Speaker 2: us no Signor is no lady here by name of
Speaker 2: youve Coleman? Sorry? Why a joke? A whim? Why not
Speaker 2: a whim? I want an answer.
Speaker 4: It's too long a story, big.
Speaker 5: Sweet bag.
Speaker 2: I got the time, we got the time.
Speaker 4: You're wasting it. You're wasting Hm. You talk too much?
Speaker 4: You know that?
Speaker 2: Yeah? That hapned. Let's go sit down. I'll set up
Speaker 2: these deck chairs.
Speaker 4: Mmmm happy?
Speaker 2: What do you think.
Speaker 4: Deck chair should always touch closer?
Speaker 2: Darling? Better?
Speaker 4: You know some days somebody's gonna get smart and make
Speaker 4: a deck chair for two. You're quiet.
Speaker 2: It's the setup to sit with a girl like you,
Speaker 2: to look out at places with names like Antofagusta. Ow
Speaker 2: dare we could get to like it?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 2: Eve, yes, Eve? The way you ran out on me
Speaker 2: and tell Tan now you're.
Speaker 4: Here a questions. I can see them coming to get dressed.
Speaker 4: I see it dinner, darling.
Speaker 5: You'll be pleased, Senor said.
Speaker 2: You. You look like a man who is he loved,
Speaker 2: but he's not happy about it. Something wrong, Senor, old
Speaker 2: have it occupational hazard. You'll always add two and two.
Speaker 2: Don't come up for it's bad if it comes forth
Speaker 2: too easy? Bad again? She said, you wants you to
Speaker 2: get a radiogram off for me to Hartford, Connecticut, to
Speaker 2: an insurance company. What is it?
Speaker 1: Then?
Speaker 2: Nothing?
Speaker 4: Ah, nothing, the man says, just like that, and his
Speaker 4: eyes narrow and his lips tightened, and he wonders how
Speaker 4: to begin. And when I ask him what does he say? Nothing?
Speaker 4: That's what he says, And he fingers a sheet of
Speaker 4: paper in his pocket, hopes, I don't notice.
Speaker 2: Very pretty, you're good with words. I got a present
Speaker 2: for you and no set of words. And they hear
Speaker 2: it because they tell me something that there is no
Speaker 2: Eve Coleman, only a girl who calls herself that, a
Speaker 2: girl who's.
Speaker 4: Who's really missus Arthur Madson. That's who I am, Missus
Speaker 4: Arthur Madson, and he complaints.
Speaker 2: And Vick mm hm hi.
Speaker 10: Vic, you are listening to the Target.
Speaker 3: It's presentation of Escape Junion Monday Night and meet Carlos
Speaker 3: Archer here on CBS Radio. Remember on most of these
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Speaker 3: And now back to Escape and the second act of
Speaker 3: the Target.
Speaker 11: What is it?
Speaker 4: It's Laura, invite me and you know the way in
Speaker 4: they asked me if you were sick when you didn't
Speaker 4: show for dinner.
Speaker 2: I'm sick.
Speaker 4: I missed you. Did it hurt to stay away from you?
Speaker 11: Think?
Speaker 4: Tell me how much it hurt?
Speaker 2: Here is it?
Speaker 4: The name?
Speaker 6: Is that?
Speaker 4: What bothers you? Why don't you try it? Darling? It's easy, Laura,
Speaker 4: mats nice?
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 3: Winnie?
Speaker 2: What kind of dame are you?
Speaker 4: You ask that?
Speaker 12: You look at what a child who reached for the
Speaker 12: moon and sucks because he found it a different color.
Speaker 12: You can't afford to sulk, Vic, not you what The
Speaker 12: last time I saw my husband was an hour after
Speaker 12: his escape from you. How does a little man like
Speaker 12: Arthur Madson get away from a man your size, vic.
Speaker 9: How he buys that.
Speaker 2: You're out of your mind.
Speaker 4: You want the price five thousand dollars. Arthur told me
Speaker 4: Hurting me won't change it, Darling doesn't change anything.
Speaker 2: What I say.
Speaker 4: I don't care. Don't you understand that, not about any
Speaker 4: of it.
Speaker 2: I love you, Darling. Hi, I'd say it.
Speaker 4: I want to hear you say it. M H.
Speaker 2: I love you, Laura, Ah say Senor, to find out anything,
Speaker 2: catch my my brain? Where is she Peppy? Where? I
Speaker 2: tried her cabin, everyplace, every pace?
Speaker 6: He is he?
Speaker 2: Senor? I just found out from one of the sea men.
Speaker 2: He saw he leave there the moment with dark she
Speaker 2: she was the first one off. What she couldn't do?
Speaker 2: You sure is what he say? It must be so, Senor,
Speaker 2: she's nowhere to be found. I'm sorry, Senor. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: would take the stuff at her tell. I got things
Speaker 2: to do. Be it the San Diego police most of
Speaker 2: the day. Which hotel Senor is the best? Uh Cassa,
Speaker 2: San Diego, right on the beach. It's nice for swimming.
Speaker 2: That's it. Then last time around, I as well go
Speaker 2: first class. Must have been a long visit with the police.
Speaker 2: Is after eight Signor I haven't seen the chief yet.
Speaker 2: He's at the other end of the city all day.
Speaker 2: Be here in any minute. Then I see you in
Speaker 2: the morning.
Speaker 13: You like the room, the radio, Yeah, Senor, that's right you,
Speaker 13: Captain Delgada, very late Delgada with much apology.
Speaker 2: Oh what come on in for taking so long to.
Speaker 9: Return your court.
Speaker 2: I forget it. You didn't know I was coming, but.
Speaker 9: Of course I did, Senor.
Speaker 2: Your senor O'Brien said, so San drink nice idea, very nice.
Speaker 2: Obrian phoned you.
Speaker 9: See I think we talked for maybe twenty minutes, A
Speaker 9: long time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, O'Brien can talk.
Speaker 9: Did you drink las Yes, Akaraska. My Spanish is not
Speaker 9: good translation to each what he deserves? How you call philosophical? No, well,
Speaker 9: I'm sure O'Brien told you the whole setup and see everything.
Speaker 9: What do you think it's possible this author Madson is
Speaker 9: on Massafuera. If so, he won't be hard to find
Speaker 9: a wild island, Senor. Beautiful, but no different than it
Speaker 9: was thousands of years ago. See, they will know if
Speaker 9: an American lives on that island. Hey, don't you know, oh'brian, amigo?
Speaker 9: He asks me the same question, and I try to explain.
Speaker 2: To him, Explain, explain what elgara.
Speaker 9: The simple fact that Massafuera is just an island, and
Speaker 9: that I have no you call jurisdiction there from friendly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I understand, and then we have no problems. None.
Speaker 9: Well know, the day has been long, and the bed
Speaker 9: will be as a friend. If there is anything I
Speaker 9: can do for you here in Santiago, you will give
Speaker 9: me that pleasure.
Speaker 2: You've done it already, Senor.
Speaker 9: And then I say good night to you, Senor, and
Speaker 9: good hunting. I hope you find this Arthur medicine before
Speaker 9: she does. She the young lady, the lovely young lady
Speaker 9: who asks my lieutenant about Madson only this afternoon.
Speaker 2: Where that's not you?
Speaker 4: Open your eyes Vic for me, all right, Ala. A
Speaker 4: man all alone on the beach at night is trying
Speaker 4: to wash something out of his mind. Laura, no questions.
Speaker 4: Nowhere have you been?
Speaker 2: I know where you've been, doesn't matter.
Speaker 4: Say it, Vick, I want to hear it.
Speaker 2: I love you Laura again. I love you. Oh sweet
Speaker 2: Big Laura is worried Matson. What are we gonna do
Speaker 2: about him?
Speaker 11: Kill him?
Speaker 2: Why? Laura?
Speaker 4: Why You've always known you'd have to do it. Took
Speaker 4: a bribe, Darling. Remember I don't want my VICI prison.
Speaker 4: I want him with me, close to me. Kill him, darling, Laura,
Speaker 4: all that money a little nothing like him sitting on
Speaker 4: an island with all that money. Our money. You hear me, Darling,
Speaker 4: you understand our money.
Speaker 6: Laura.
Speaker 4: There's a plane in the morning. They must have wear it.
Speaker 4: We'll be on him together.
Speaker 2: We'll be honored like man hunting. Laura.
Speaker 4: Oh not eight hours of it?
Speaker 2: Oh god, I didn't tell me it was all uphill, Nick,
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 4: Clearing?
Speaker 6: Just a hit?
Speaker 4: I think it's the top.
Speaker 6: Come on, look in time for dinner, mister Kennedy.
Speaker 11: I waited almost a year for you. You're looking well tired,
Speaker 11: but well Hello. You want to freshen up my dear Arthur.
Speaker 11: While you do, I'll entertain, mister Kennedy, show him what
Speaker 11: my island has to recommend it. Freshen up, Laura, mats Now,
Speaker 11: let me play host, Kennedy. I'm out of practice, but
Speaker 11: let me try. You drink, Laura, yours Kennedy lost his mind?
Speaker 11: Is that what you're thinking, Kennedy? That Arthur Madson lost
Speaker 11: his mind?
Speaker 2: A man who.
Speaker 11: Shows you a shabby little house he loves, and the
Speaker 11: stone terrace built himself and makes you a drink. As
Speaker 11: civilized people do, values change, Kennedy. This is all I
Speaker 11: care about now, this terrace, the view from it, even
Speaker 11: the rocks one hundred feet below.
Speaker 2: A great lesson, Kennedy.
Speaker 6: From here, everyone's a little man.
Speaker 4: I'm glad you're a happy little man.
Speaker 6: How am I going to die?
Speaker 2: Kennedy? Will you use a knife? That's the matter with you?
Speaker 11: I don't mind, not really. I've had a year away
Speaker 11: from her, a whole year. You'll pray for your island.
Speaker 11: It will take too long.
Speaker 2: You're crazy. Laura is doing better with you, Kennedy.
Speaker 6: You're going to kill for her.
Speaker 2: I only stole for you, stole for yourself. Matten.
Speaker 11: That's what she fit you. Oh poor Kennedy. You told
Speaker 11: him I had the money, law lovely.
Speaker 4: Love killing Vick. Now what are you waiting for?
Speaker 2: Who's got it? Mas? She has you idiots, She's always
Speaker 2: had it.
Speaker 6: But I'm the only one who knows it. Aun't I Laura?
Speaker 2: With me alive, you'd never be safe, never be completely sure.
Speaker 7: Are you.
Speaker 6: Going to do your own killing?
Speaker 2: Laura?
Speaker 4: Let him live too? Long Vick. He shouldn't have said that,
Speaker 4: stop moving.
Speaker 2: You're gonna kill us both, Laura both. I could kill
Speaker 2: the little man in a bar back in twtown.
Speaker 4: I bought that, darling, you were getting too close. Say
Speaker 4: goodbye Arthur nicely.
Speaker 2: Alone. I won't go along now. You don't need help,
Speaker 2: not any more. Humm, I an't need it now.
Speaker 3: I the direction of David Friedkin and Morton Fine. Escape
Speaker 3: has brought you the Target, a story by Tony Barrett.
Speaker 3: Featured in the cast were Whitfield, Connor and Mary Jane Croft.
Speaker 3: Also heard were Edgar Barrier, Herb Butterfield, Hans Conried, Malitea
Speaker 3: Milo and Janeavello. You're announcer George Walsh. The special music
Speaker 3: for Escape is composed and conducted by Leith Stephens.
Speaker 2: Next week, you're at the end of a journey.
Speaker 1: You've committed murder to make a barren wasteland of India
Speaker 1: silent desolate, where there is a cave and a carved
Speaker 1: image of the goddess Coullie, whose heart is a ruby,
Speaker 1: big is a grenade, and which is guarded by a
Speaker 1: smiling old man from whom there is no escape.
Speaker 3: So listen next week when Escape brings you Ross Murray's
Speaker 3: story The Red Heart of Callie, an honest doctor resists
Speaker 3: temptation but gets into trouble anyway. Tomorrow night, when mister
Speaker 3: and Missus North bring us their latest thrilling mystery.
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