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Speaker 1: Hello, Yes, this is the Falcon speaking. Oh Sherry, I'm

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glad you called. I let to cancel me out tonight, Angel,

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I'm all jammed up. Some client of mine wants me

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to locate a missing girl. He doesn't care what it costs,

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so naturally I'm going to shoot the works. Once again,

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the National Broadcasting Company brings you the transcribed Adventures of

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the Falcon, dedicated to private investigators everywhere, Those hard hitting

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detectives who like Mike Wearing, risk their lives to aid

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law enforcement agencies. So join him now. When the Falcon

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solves the case of the Killer's Key, it is early

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afternoon in New York, and in a shabby rooming house

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in midtown Manhattan, a nervous young man, Larry Gordon, gives

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himself a dose of artificial courage. Then, deciding further treating

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as indicator, he starts pouring again. Who is it?

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Speaker 2: They lay?

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Speaker 1: Open up? Wait a minute, Claire, to get them everything

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you aside to Chicago and lare I made a reservation

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for you on California Limited. What names do you use?

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Larry holkm good? When's the plane leave? Eight twenty five tonight?

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Couldn't you get me out? Sooner. No, listen, Mary, I

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still think you're making a mistake. Running away is no solution.

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Are you crazy? Maybe this isn't Badgesty, it's worse. If

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whatever lays his hands on me, that's it. I think

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you're wrong. Look. I worked for the man for eight shes.

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I know how his mind operates. I never should have

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opened my apter those Treasury boys in the first place.

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You had to darling. Why with someone twisting my arm?

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They got enough on him to send him up for

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ten years. But without you they've got no cap I

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don't think that mister doesn't know it. How do you

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want to help them? Pat, Larry? I think you could

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have been followed. No, no, I was very careful. Who

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was it? Campo Internal Revenue? Oh just met a miss Camper? Look, sweetie,

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hay awful sort. They know I told you where I was.

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What do you want me to do? Get in the

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kitchen and for Pete's sake, be quiet, all right, I'm

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coming with the camper. Hello, Larry, it's the hunt. Yes,

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but I thought I would help. You'll forgive the deception.

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I did it very well, don't you think Kemper Internal

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Revenue Department? You know the stage may have lost a

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great talent. Listens to Hunt. I'm afraid I haven't time, Larry.

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I'm pretty busy these days, coming internal revenue men out

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of my hair. I wasn't gonna testify against you. No, No,

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I was beating it. See I I got the tickets

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right here. So you were bound for California. Huh. I

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have an opinion you couldn't have chosen better. Where were

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you planning to stay? Why? Well, someone should cancel the

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reservation since you're going elsewhere. No, now, don't have a

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pleasant jurny. I'm going. Yeah, I'd like to see mister Hunt. Please.

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Oh you a sergeant Corbett. You don't look like a

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soldier to me. You're right, I'm with the police. Where's Hunt? Well,

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it's like this, Sergeant Bruce to douce it. Oh, I'm sorry.

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I didn't realize we're entertaining. You ain't so entertaining you,

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Charles Hunt. That's right, I'm Sergeant Corbett. Homicide. Ya, how morbid? Well,

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somebody's got to do the job. You ever hear of

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a fellow named Larry Gordon? This? Of course he works

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for me? Or should I say he wants did? Why well?

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I'm being investigated on an income tax matter, as you

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may have heard. I've heard, and since Larry's going to

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testify against me, naturally I don't consider him in my employee. Well,

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he won't need the job anyhow, pardon. He was knocked

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off at three this afternoon. I can't believe it, or

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take my word for it. I saw the body. I

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have an idea you, sir, even before I did. You're

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not serious, I certainly am. We got enough evident evidence. Yes,

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you see, by an odd coincidence, Larry's girlfriend, Claire Marlowe

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was in the kitchen when you gunned him. Is that

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what miss Marlo friends? Well? Well, what, well, it's the

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way we figure it. We found her fingerprints. You're evading

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the question. Has miss mallow accused me? Well, I I

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haven't spoken to her yet. Why now she disappeared? She

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must have been scared that that. The fact remains until

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you discover miss marlow you have absolutely okay, I don't worry.

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We'll find her, and when we do, when you do,

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give me a call. Okay, Hannah, I'll be seeing you shortly,

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and then we'll see how you're creating a draft. Sergeant Well, Bruce,

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you hurt. How can I help? But I'm not deaf.

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What do you think I think when they find Claire Marlowe,

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other hand, suppose I find her first. Who's that private

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detective Logan mentioned the other day? You mean Mike Wearring,

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see the one they call the Falcon Yeah? Well, uh

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s a good boy and look up his address. I

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think I've got a case for him. That's the situations

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to Wearing So you see my problem? Oh, I'm afraid

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I don't, mister Hunt. Isn't it obvious? I want you

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to locate this Claire Mama. You said the police are

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looking for it. Unfortunately, I haven't much confidence in them. Well,

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the jails are loaded with people who thought that. Uh. Nevertheless,

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I'd like to see you take the assignment. I don't

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like it. Why not? It smiles to me of tampering

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with the witness corpor claims as Claire Marlowe can prove

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your guilty of Larry Gordon's murder. But there's another sign

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to the coin. If missus Marlo says someone else, she

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can establish my innocence. Yeah, I suppose that's true enough. Well,

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if the police find it first, so much the better.

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I just want the additional insurance. In my position, I

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need it, all right, Hunt, I'll do what I can,

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that's all I ask. You do what you can, and

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from that point I hunt, it's up to me. Yeah,

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you're the superintendent at Shrack. My name is Mike Wearing.

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Wonder if you could give me some information about one

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of your tenants. Oh, Claire Marlowe, you a cop? Why

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say tell the other fella everything? I knew? What other fellah?

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Twelve thin fella vot chosi. Oh you must mean Sergeant Corbett. Yeah,

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that's his name. I don't know what you've told Corbett?

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Why not tell me? I don't know nothing. Came home

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yesterday like she was scared of something, went right to

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her room. How long did she stay? Oh maybe ten

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fifteen minutes. Did she have a grip with her when

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she left? Nope, just a pocket book. And she didn't

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say where she was going Nope. And I didn't ask.

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I believe a fellow should mind is out. If it

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needs one thing, it's another. Excuse me a second? Sure? Yeah,

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what you know? Special to livery from Claire marrow Let

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me see that. Hey, what you're doing in just a minute.

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Dear Hermann, please don't tell anyone you've heard from me,

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anyone at all. I wonder if you'd be good enough

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to do me a favor. I've made arrangements with North

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American band Lines to move my stuff on Wednesday. They

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know where to deliver it. My bank book is in

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the upper right hand drawer of my dresser. If you

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take it with the enclosed with doors slip, I'm sure

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you'll have no trouble getting the money. Will you please

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bring it over to me at the Kenton Hotel. I'm

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using the name Claire O'Brien here. Why if she want

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to use her name like that for kentam Hotel? And hey,

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where you're going have to report to my client. You've

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been a great help Herman. Thanks a million, Bruce. Yeah,

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I believe that's the poon. I believe you're right. I

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don't you think you should answer? What's the point, mister Hunt?

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It's probably for you you know something, Bruce. I'm beginning

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to dislike your attitude. No answer the phone, we still

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say it's a waste of time. Yeah, I'd like to

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talk to Gerald Hunt. Please want it, But I tell

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you it's for you. Who is it the falcon? All right? Oh?

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I don't think I've been eating you anymore today? You

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mean you want me to leave? That's what I want?

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A far be it for me to hang around on

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not one. Hello, I've got good news for you, Hunts.

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Really really look at Claire Marlow. That is wonderful. He's

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staying at the Kenton Hotel. She's registered under the name

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of Claire O'Brien. I needn't tell you how happy I

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am with your services, mister Wearing. I was lucky. Let's

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say we both were. You may have been fortunate to

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find Claire, but I was lucky to find you. I

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would have had a difficult time of it without you.

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I don't think nothing of it. When are you planning

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to see Claire immediately? You're familiar with the old proverb

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he who hesitates his last, Well, in my position, I

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can't afford to waste a second. Goodbye, mister Wearing, Thanks

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ever so much. You and your children can expect to

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live long, thanks largely to better medicine and surgery. But

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you could expect to live even longer were it not

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for the danger of automobile accidents in the fifteen to

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twenty five age group alone, traffic accidents wiped out three

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one hundred thousand years of life last year. Had the

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six thousand, five hundred automobile victims in this youthful group

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lived out their lives, think how much richer and happier

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America would have been if driver education could be taught

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in all of our high schools instead of only a

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third of them. It might someday help to save the

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life of your own son or daughter. If your schools

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don't have them, demand driver education for your children and

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then your own automobile. Remember to drive as though your

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life depends on it. It does. And now back to

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the Adventures of the falcon. An hour has passed since

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Mike Wearing reported to his client Gerald Hunt where Claire

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Marlowe could be found. And now in that young lady's

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hotel room.

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Speaker 2: All right, all right, you guys, come on, let's hurry

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it up.

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Speaker 1: Get out of here.

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Speaker 2: Oh David, if you can find any prints around, I doubt.

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Speaker 1: It, and I move the body in asans.

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Speaker 2: Now you better wait for Louis. He may want some

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more pictures. Right, Hey, Ravie, how you going on that? Oh?

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Speaker 1: You boys? Carry on i't get it. I'd like to

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Sergeant Corbett, hey, what are you doing here? I came

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to see Claire Marlow? Okay, look? Oh no, oh, yes,

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there's this close enough? Or would you like to hold

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her hand? I don't think she'd get a kick out

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of it, neither do I. What do you want with it?

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That's a long story. Well, I never knew you to

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tell any other kind, So let's get started. Well, a

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client of mine wanted me to find her, and you dead.

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I was lucky. I wonder who's your client? I'd rather

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not say, Oh, you'd rather not say, uh, looked blunkhead

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and innocent girl has been murdered. Nobody knew where she

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was hiding out and if you found all right, all right,

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you don't have to draw me a diagram. I was responsible. Yes, indeed,

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you set her up for a clay pigeon. I've known

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stupid jerk in my time, but a ball. Never mind

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the name sergeant. I can think of a million to

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call myself. Well, who's your client? Or maybe I can

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guess don't bother. Look, Mike, don't try to hold out

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on me. I'm not going to I admit I was

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a patsy. In this case, you were a patsy? What

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about her? Well? I know, I know someone's going to

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pay for it. Hey, wait a minute, where are you

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going when I have a word with my client? After

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that you can have him. Frankly, I thought it will

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be much left. I'll be seeing your sergeant. Yeah, it's hunting.

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Who are you? Never mind, I'll announce myself now wait

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a sad Bruce, try and keep me off through skill.

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The gent's going to drink? Sure where you have, busty

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a little privacy because you leave me alone with your boss.

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What orders I take? I take from him? You better

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get miss walk Papers hunts really, mister Werving, and't you

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being a bit high handed? Tell him to blow? All right, Bruce,

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here me go as long as you put it that way?

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All right? Now? What was the idea? Hans? What was

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what I did? Don't give me any double talk. I'm

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in no mood for it. Oh it's easy, I'll show

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you no that you made a sucker out of me.

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You got me to find Claire Marlow so you could

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kill her. You mean Claire's dead, as if you didn't know,

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But I didn't. I suppose you don't remember me phoning

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you at one thirty this afternoon. I told you where

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you could find her. I could blow my brains out

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not calling on her first. But you didn't make that mistake.

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Did you let me go? I'm sure I'll let you go.

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My confessions are in order. You killed her, didn't you? No,

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come on hand, I'm going to get the truth. If

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I have to break every bone in your body. You

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murdered that, just as you murdered Larry God. I swear

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I didn't. Where's your coach? I'm not going with you?

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Yes you are. I promise to deliver you the sergeant

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call it down the head course. And that's one promise

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I ain't tend to keep. Now. We had to go

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quiet now, okay, so come on, get up. We got

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a long, rough trip ahead of you.

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Speaker 2: And hey, Maddie, here's sergeant Carlon reported in Yet just

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about two minutes ago, Well where's Hunts?

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Speaker 1: Hey couldn't find him? You mean he skipped?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Colin said the place was a shambles. Well, get

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a forty seven OD. I want every bus and train

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depot watch and cover the airfields. If Hunt gets away

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with he won't Hey, never mind Maddie.

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Speaker 1: All right, from inside, let me go. What's the idea, Mike,

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what's the matter with you? Sergeant? Don't you recognize him?

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Who would? He looks? Wait a minute, it's Hunt, that's right.

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Well what happened now? He had a little accident. Go on, Hunt,

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sit down. You slug him, sergeant? You know me? Well

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that's why I asked, listen, Mike, why don't we both listen?

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All right? Hunt, make like a birdie. I don't know

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what you're talking about. Look if I've got to bounce

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you around again. What's going on here? He admitted to

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me that he murdered Claremarl. I lived what I couldn't

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help myself, Sergeant, he would have killed me. And it's

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not too late, now, do you deny? I deny everything.

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I was supposed to make that admission to protect myself.

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Under the circumstances, I felt I was justified. Look, sergeant,

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could you leave us alone for a couple of minutes.

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Don't be as sad, and it's all right for you

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to talk. But I feel responsible for that girl's death.

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If I hadn't found her, she would still have been alive.

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I phoned him at one thirty and i'd to wait

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a minute. When did you phone him at one thirty? Oh? No, why,

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what's the matter. Do you realize what you've done? You've

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just given him an alibi? Are you not?

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Speaker 2: Claire Morlowe was killed at a quarter to one, what

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forty five minutes.

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Speaker 1: Before you called him? That means that means he couldn't

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have killed her. Look Hunter five onion and justice? Did

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you have I want to do any good? IDVI? I said,

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I was sorry, I'm at all. Good day, gentlemen. I

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trust I'll never see either of you again. Well, welcome home,

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misterie hot. I see you've taken over. Bruce. I didn't

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think you'd mind you like some champagne. No thanks, you

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don't know what you're missing. This is a bitter end. Hey,

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tell me, it's the only thing when you're celebrating? Is

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that what you're doing? Sure? Aren't you back? I'm flattered.

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I didn't dream you cared. Yeah, I was real worried.

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I had a feeling I was never going to see again. Hey,

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you ought to do something about that eye that Mike wearing.

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Can really dish it out, Bruce, joke is over. What's

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the meaning of this? I told you. I was celebrating.

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Surely it don't be grudge your ex employee a bottle

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of champagne. My ex employing, well away, I see it.

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I've been working for you for seven years, sir, so

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I decided it was time I bettered myself. Abster all,

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this is the land of opportunity, and you feel opportunity

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is knocking at your door. Definitely, be sure you won't

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join me in a drink. Enough of this nonsense kept

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me my robe. You don't seem to understand I'm through

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taking orders with what I got I want? Have you

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got on for one thing? You knocked off Larry Gordon

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and Claire Marlowe. This becomes a shock to you. But

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the police, I I'm satisfied I had no hand in either.

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You say I have an unimpeachable anibi. Is that a fact? Yes?

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It now develops that Ms Marler was matter at forty

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five minutes perfomance to wearing reported the whereabouts to me, Well,

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what do you know? I know you've been taking too

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much for granted, I don't think so I have to

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know how it work. You do? Yeah, I was going

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through your clothes hunt Well, I thought maybe you wanted

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me to send them out to the cleaners. Anyway, in

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your pocket I found this card Lawrence Reagan Private Investigations.

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So I wondered what you would want for two private detectives,

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And just like that, it came to me you were

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going to use wearing as an alibi. I'm mistaken. Well,

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it's an easy way to check. Who are you calling?

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The boy Sherlock Lawrence Reagan? Nothing ridiculous? Am I hello?

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Let me talk to mister Reagan. Please. This is Bruce Webster.

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I worked for mister Hunt. Well, the boss would like

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to know whether you have any luck finding Claire Marlowe.

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Speaker 2: What's the matter with the guy's he's Blona Hughes, I

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reported back to him at eleven o'clock this morning. Is

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at the Kenton Hotel, registered under the name of Claire O'Brien.

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Speaker 1: I guess it kind of slipped his mind. What's going on?

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Nothing you should worry about. Thanks a lot anyway, Well

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you win, I always do. I'm the patient type. I

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learned that from you. What do you want twenty five

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thousand dollars? That's a lot of money. Well, and Amy,

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though I was gonna throw it away, I'm gonna sock

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it into the government box at three percent pay pay.

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He'll come in mighty in now making a mistake. I

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don't think so. I always say the least a fella

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can do is be patriotic. You better get it up

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fastest to hunt. You don't want to keep Uncle Sam waiting.

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Well I don't get it, Sergeant, I don't get it

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at all. Well you would if I had my way.

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You ruined everything. But are you sure? Claire Marlow died

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at a quarter of the one positive The deskerk at

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the hotel heard the shots. Did you have any other enemies? No,

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this thing's tied up with the Larry Gordon killing. For sure.

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It doesn't make sense. There was no way in the world.

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But hello, that you're wearing? Yes, who's this Bruce Webster? Oh?

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I worked for Hunt? Remember? Oh yeah? I just thought

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you might be interested. I'm terminating my employment. That's supposed

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to mean something to me. It might mean a lot.

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If you could dig up some cash, I can let

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you know my reason. What are you talking about? Wouldn't

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you like to know why? I'll hunt me to chump

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out of you. I certainly would. How much joke can

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you raise? I'm not in Hunt's class, but every little

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bit helps. Could you lay your hands on ten grand?

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Don't be ridiculous. Five, I've got seven hundred and twenty

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dollars in the bank. Fine, I'll take it. Now, Wait

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a minute, come on, wearing, make up your mind. Where

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are you? I got a little place at the Fortuna

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Apartments in West ninety third. Drop around with you in

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the neighborhood. Okay, don't go away. I'll be in the

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neighborhood in twenty minutes at your wading Yeah, just a second,

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Come on it, mister Hunt Spry. Yeah, I thought I

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saw the last of you. You thought wrong. What's the idea?

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Fairly simple. I'm a man who hates loose ends. Naturally,

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with you dangling about, you would oh you recognize the gun. Yes,

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it's the same one I used on Larry Gordon and

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Claire Mamma. You'll never get away. Whether the council know

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for sure, are concerned for me, you needn't. Why you see,

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I'm taking the liberty of preparing a note in which

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you confess to both matters you're nuts. When the police

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break in, they'll find the note, and then again, naturally,

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it'll be in the traditional position for suicide. I'll never

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buy it. I had no motive to knock off Larry Gordon.

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You have the way I've explained it in this note.

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Seems you were madly in love with Claire. When she

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spurned you. For Larry, decided to rid yourself of the competition.

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As for Claire, she was a witness to the act,

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so regretfully you had to dispose of her too. Isn't

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that poetic? Listen, I wish I could my boy the time,

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mister essence. No doubt many of you will remember the

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Big Smog. It was a deadly cloud of man made

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factory smoke carried in fogg that settled over Donald of

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Pennsylvania in nineteen forty eight. It killed twenty persons and

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made six thousand others ill before it lifted. That tragedy

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alerted the entire nation to the peril of death dealing smog.

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But did you know that another and far deadlier man

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made fog will settle over this nation streets and highways tonight.

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It's the fog that beclouds the brain of the drinking

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driver and the pedestrian who has had one too many.

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Let's start to clear this death fog from our roads

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and begin now. Remember, if you drink, don't drive. If

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you drive, don't drink. Drive as though your life depends

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on it. It does. Now back to the Adventures of

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the Falcon. Fifteen minutes have passed since Mike promised to

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call on Bruce Webster. Now we find Sergeant Corbett helping

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him keep that promise. This must be it. Yeah, I

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suppose he won't talk. Just leave everything to me. I

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left hunt to you. And what happened? Sure, he said

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he'd meet you here. That's positive. I told him i'd

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be open twenty We get out of the way. Now

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what are you doing? What does it look like? Don't

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you know? It isn't polite to peek through key holes now,

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but it could be awfully interesting. What do you see?

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Give me a half this stior? Oh what was it?

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Come on, come on, put your shoulder to it. One? Two?

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Holy smoke? Yeah, what did he want to do that for?

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Don't ask me. I'm a stranger to hear myself. Hey,

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wait a minute, what do you make of this? To

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whom it may concern, this was the only way I

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killed Larry Gordon. It was all Claire Marlowe's fault. She

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led me on. I thought was larry out of the way.

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We'd have a deal. But I was a chump. Oh

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for they're looking for any relatives. I haven't. Hey, cut

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that out, Mike. I was only going through park. What

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you know better. I just wanted to see what he

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had on him. Well, someone was here before me. All

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he's got on him are these two keys. What do

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you make of it? One's obviously for his grip, the

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other for his car. Now this doesn't add up. What

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do you mean he didn't commit suicide? Look at the gun.

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You look at it. I tell you this was engineered

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by whom? By Haunt? Of course? Can you approve that

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to you? Where's my percentage? Let's find someone will give

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me better rods. Oh, I can't believe this. When I

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was up at Bruce's a few hours ago, and you

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admit you were there, why should I do that? He

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complained of not feeling well this evening. Naturally, the least

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I could do was show him home, and when you

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left he seemed perfectly all right. I never dreamt he

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contemplated suicide. I still don't understand why. Oh, maybe there's

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no clear things up. Let's make concern. So that explains it,

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I said, would seem to I have realized he was

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involved with Claire. Well, things are seldom what they seem.

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For instance, when we broke into Bruce's room, it looked

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as though he committed suicide. But you don't believe. No,

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you told me I found a gun in the sand. Yes,

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and it was the same weapon that was used on

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Mary Gordon and Claire Marlow. And I should imagine that

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would take care of everything. Oh not quite. There was

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one thing missing. When Corbett and I got the Bruis's room.

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The door was locked. Well, if he committed suicide, it

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had to be locked on the inside obviously, Then what

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happened to the key? That's right, It wasn't in the

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lock because you were able to peek through the keyhole,

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and it wasn't on him or in the room. That

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means the door must have been locked on the outside

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and the killer absent mindedly walked off with the key. Look,

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mister wearing a right sergeant go through his pocket? Can

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well what do we got here? So all a mistake, now,

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you said, a friend. And the beautiful part of it

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is it only takes one to land you in the chair,

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all right, sergeant, he's all yours. Well, like my father

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used to say, another day, not a dollar, And believe me,

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you didn't earn this one. I did all the work. Well,

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you schlump, you should talk. He gave Hunt that alibi.

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You're out of your mind. It hadn't been made. It

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would have been some other private day. Come again. It

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also was down to one thing. Hunt had two of

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us trying to locate Claire. He probably waited until the

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other boy came through for him before he even hired me. Oh,

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what was the point if it was other alibi? After all,

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when I told you our reported to him after the

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girl was murdered, it didn't seem possible. He could have

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been responded, well, I still women hold everything. Well, what's

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the matter? I just thought of something I never got

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paid huh by Hunt for finding Claire. Sue him? See him?

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He's going to the chair so worse. Why were you, kiddo?

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I'd really make trouble for him. Good night, Mike. The

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Case of the Grand Gamble. The Case of the Grand Gamble,

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that's the title of next week's Adventure of the Falcon.

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When Mike Wearing learns that when men play for high odds,

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there's sometimes are grave consequences. The Adventures of the Falcon

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are based on the famous character created by Brexel Drake,

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Produced and transcribed by Bernard al Schubert, Written today by

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Eugene Wangon, directed by Richard Lewis Left Damon starred as

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the Falcon