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Patreon Dot Great Detectives dot net. Well, we run into
our first true post war episode of Counterspy, and this
is actually the only episode from nineteen four and it's
a rehearsal. The rehearsal date, I guess on this is
July the twenty seventh, nineteen forty six, and the tititle
is stolen Car Racket.
Speaker 2: The maker's the ould Nick Old.
Speaker 3: Nick, Oh boy, Oh Nick is a wonderful candy bar.
Speaker 2: Instead of honey, did a honey.
Speaker 3: It's a honey honey honey of a candy bar.
Speaker 2: Present David harding conor spy.
Speaker 4: Washington calling David Hiding Counterspy Washington calling David Hunting Counterspy.
Speaker 5: Hiding Counterspy calling Washington.
Speaker 6: Before we begin today's counters by K. Sally, Let's try
another experiment in psychology with bit of Honey candy bars,
but the when they were played.
Speaker 3: In Life magazine a while back, when we did mental
telepathy for all neck Yes, except today, just for fun,
let's try conditioned reaction.
Speaker 2: Jesse Crawford will help us.
Speaker 6: And now in the bit of Honey song, these four
notes stand for the words bit of honey. Those notes
are a musical symbol for the words bit of honey.
In a few seconds, our listeners will find that little
tune brings the same sense of delicious satisfaction that is
now produced by the words bit of honey. Okay, here
we go, ladies and gentlemen. Is always fine, but especially
in the summertime. You see as a distinctive mild honey
flavor sprinkled all through our crunchy crushed almond. The separate
rapping of the six generous pieces and a candy bar
makes it extra easy and convenient to eat in summertime.
What's more, the unusual zesty flavor of candy bar is
especially appropriate this warm weather. Ye for yourself, whatever fine
candy is, sould ask for candy bar this evening. If
you can, you'll agree that yes, bit of honey is
a honey, honey, honey of a candy bar and only
five cents on Lancet Aprile eleven. Mary Linton, a dark
complexioned woman of thirty with intense piercing eyes, stood in
the center of the large Brooklyn garage which she owns,
watching several men work on some late model automobiles. Cora Lynton,
her younger sister, and a very pretty girl, watched the
repair work for a moment and then turn.
Speaker 7: To marry Mary. Mary, Sorry, Cory you think And yeah.
Speaker 3: I think I'm gonna try off to the movie.
Speaker 7: Stick Around for a Wild Coral. Oh but Mary, I
don't do it around. I'm expecting Jack Taylor soon. Taylor.
You know how I feel about Jack, and I know
how Jack feels about you. Safe trail over. I hated
me to be all right, I feel sick with me.
He's and have a good future. I'd he's crazy about you.
Oh Mary, that must be Jack. Now all right, open
it up, Tony. I am right, Hello jack.
Speaker 8: Ah, you're waiting for me, beautiful.
Speaker 7: No, I would they had to say hello to you Jack?
Speaker 8: Oh right, what do you think of this car?
Speaker 4: The real?
Speaker 7: But it ain'teen you Wick nineteen forty two?
Speaker 9: Luck?
Speaker 7: Uh huh, good enough car, didn't I tell you? Jack
is a smart boy. Yeah.
Speaker 8: You can't be a Dodo and pick up cars like
this car. You don't marry The second didn't even leave
his key's ignition. I had to switch wire at the
starter and it only took me fifty seconds.
Speaker 10: But for that fifty seconds worth, you're gonna get two
hundred and fifty bucks.
Speaker 8: Two hundred and fifty bucks. Hey, this car's worth eighteen
hundred if.
Speaker 10: You had a bill of sale for a check now,
I gotta have the serial number change which part ship
the car of the country.
Speaker 7: Two fifties A good pie for a hot car.
Speaker 8: Don't don't sound that much. Oh, I'll take it in
one condition.
Speaker 7: O' fact.
Speaker 8: Cara helps me spend it.
Speaker 7: No, I'm sure you will, Jack mine inside the office.
Speaker 11: I'll give you the money, got your rica.
Speaker 7: I don't want anything to do money which your soil.
I wish you'd listen when I want to say something.
I know what you're gonna say. You don't want the rector.
Speaker 2: Yes, be nice to those cooks.
Speaker 7: How can you do this to me? Mary? Look, my
darling sister. In my own funny way, I love you.
Speaker 3: Sure, I want you to be nice to Jack Taylor,
because if that brings me eighteen hundred dollars cars for
two hundred and fifty. But if Jack or anybody gets
freshed with you, I'll put a bulletin in myself.
Speaker 12: But it's not only Jack. I'm scared of the cops
in the countersides. If we caught I I'll see that
you slip out court.
Speaker 3: Well, the recket is paying for this swell apartments, all
our clothes, anything we want.
Speaker 12: Toness Mary, I'd rather go to.
Speaker 3: Work doing what you can't even type.
Speaker 7: Forget it. Let me do the worry in me. I'll
take that.
Speaker 3: Yep, it's Linton, which one Mary Linton speaking?
Speaker 13: I'm Clinton. My name is Sam French.
Speaker 14: I'm from Chicago. Well, I'm mutual friend of ours. Tell
me to look you're up, Alf.
Speaker 7: But yeah, Alf, Burton's a very good friend of mine.
Speaker 13: Held bodies can't moment to see her?
Speaker 7: Why not we'll be home. You've got the address, I
suppose right light by?
Speaker 3: Who is that Mary? A man named Sam French from Chicago,
he says, al Furton send him?
Speaker 7: Who alf Burt in Chicago? You don't know him? Anybody
sends over should.
Speaker 1: Be all right?
Speaker 7: Yes, not sure? Nothing like making sure. Cor. We're gonna
check before we get chummy.
Speaker 13: Does Mary Linton?
Speaker 7: Oh no, I'm Coral lion sister?
Speaker 1: Oh uh?
Speaker 7: Mary's inside? Won't you come in?
Speaker 13: Thank you have your sisters as beautiful as you.
Speaker 7: Don't move, mister French.
Speaker 13: I don't understand what's you're gun for.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you in a minute. Chor see if mister
French has a gun? All right, yes he has one bag.
I have a no step away from mister French. Now,
mister French, he may walk into.
Speaker 13: The living room. I still don't understand. I'fend m Well, but.
Speaker 7: That's what you say, Sster French. I want to hear
it myself. I'm Alfred.
Speaker 3: I'm fine now look readam phoning you? Do you stand
up a friend to see me?
Speaker 10: Sure?
Speaker 5: Did marry smart boy named Sam French?
Speaker 7: Well, there's a guy here now who claims he's Sam French.
What does he look like?
Speaker 5: A blue eyes, straight, short nose.
Speaker 7: So far, so gun.
Speaker 5: A nice looking boy with them bloyes and blonde hairs.
Speaker 7: What do you say about his hair? Don't I had again?
A little bleach?
Speaker 3: Alf?
Speaker 7: What did you say was the color of Sam French's hair?
Speaker 5: Blonde coloristraw? Can't miss man?
Speaker 7: Here is dark haired black?
Speaker 14: Hold it no, wait a minute. That'll give me a
chance to talk with your best. If I had died,
I had to pull the police. I didn't want him
to know I was going to New York.
Speaker 13: Done in my hair.
Speaker 7: You'll see it, though, Mary, Maybe he's telling the truth.
He's got well, hello.
Speaker 3: Else, I'm not sure this man anything more definite I
can identify.
Speaker 5: Yeah, come to think of it, there is same French
as a little strawberry mark and his left arm. Try
to get it off once there's a massive marker.
Speaker 7: You roll up your left please, that's right my bootmark.
Speaker 13: No the health.
Speaker 5: Card.
Speaker 7: Don't get in front of him. Just see what he's
got on his left arm.
Speaker 12: Oh but a small red MARKT booth mark is star
rabbit m.
Speaker 3: Here it could be done, thanks, Alf, drop in when
you're in New York.
Speaker 7: Be sure all right?
Speaker 13: Sam, I wouldn't want to go through that again.
Speaker 14: I had to be sure they're a smart day Mary,
like Alf said, just the kind of dame I want.
Speaker 13: To helk up with.
Speaker 3: We can talk about that at dinner. I know a
nice place where we can talk. Willow you a treat
for that scarce.
Speaker 7: Anything else you like them?
Speaker 3: Called?
Speaker 7: Nothing?
Speaker 3: Mary?
Speaker 8: Not a thing?
Speaker 15: Mary?
Speaker 13: Can I get down to business?
Speaker 7: Sure? What's on your mind?
Speaker 13: I'm looking for a New York contact.
Speaker 8: Mary?
Speaker 14: Like you, I can pick up cars in Chicago and
points west and ship them to New York.
Speaker 7: What makes you think I'm interested?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 14: Button tells me you've got some swell outlets Mexico, South America.
Speaker 7: I managed to get rid of my cars.
Speaker 13: You can make plenty getting rid of my car.
Speaker 7: Sure, but there's something else. What the citter Real mob.
So he's getting a sisteral mob.
Speaker 3: Now nobody knows whoever he is. He's a smart operator.
The sister Real Mob is my main competition. We run
into each other.
Speaker 13: That's what's buying you.
Speaker 7: They're tough. What do you think is going to happen
to you? Sam? If you steal cars in their territory and.
Speaker 13: Shipping the knee I'll take my chances. I got a
few boys on my own, plenty tough. We'll handle a
sister of mob if we have to.
Speaker 3: All right, it'll be your funeral, and you'll take my
shipments as many as you can deliver good.
Speaker 13: I'll get my first ship. Then when I get back
to Chicago. That depends on Cora.
Speaker 7: Men.
Speaker 14: I'd like to spend a few days in New York,
that is, if you will show me around.
Speaker 7: Really, Sa, Carl step out with you.
Speaker 3: Sam.
Speaker 7: You'll be glad to, won't you.
Speaker 9: Cara, I didn't know you could drive this well with Cora.
Speaker 7: Let's car, drive the stone? Where'd you get it?
Speaker 13: Into the friendship I'd bought? I wouldn't drive a store,
serve me.
Speaker 7: A bit of honey of a car.
Speaker 13: Turn into that dirt on the hand. Why that's a shortcut.
Speaker 8: Stop?
Speaker 14: I will not, and I will. I'll take the key, Sam,
Please better, relax, Cora. I won't hurt you.
Speaker 7: Sam. Please give me that key.
Speaker 12: When I tell Mary, she's not gonna like this, Sam,
But you're not going to tell her, Sam, She'll kill you.
Speaker 14: I swear I can take care of myself. What more,
I'm gonna take care of you Sam, you wouldn't not
what you think. I'm just going to I thought of
hold you in protective custody.
Speaker 7: Protect what for?
Speaker 13: I just want your sister to come to term.
Speaker 7: I thought you hadn't this evening at Redta.
Speaker 14: That's what I wanted Mary to think, Laura, she doesn't
know that I'm the leader of.
Speaker 13: The sitter rom Mom.
Speaker 10: Why are you?
Speaker 14: I don't want to have to hurt your Cora. That's
a private fight between Mary and me. I'm taking over
the New.
Speaker 7: York character and I'm going to.
Speaker 1: Get out.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 8: I just didn't like his face. I didn't like your
traveling around, I think, so I followed you very ready, girl,
I marry it's very.
Speaker 7: It didn't be nice because that it'd be nice to
a man.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to.
Speaker 8: She did. Cora, here, you take my gun. Go on
take it. Put in your pocket book. So if any
other guy tries to.
Speaker 13: Pull a face, thank that?
Speaker 7: Would it take me home?
Speaker 8: Sure? So wait a minute, I got a better idea.
Take a gun in your bag.
Speaker 16: Go on, drop it on the floor of the car
near this punk. Come on, we'll get out of here
before so many theaters, and we're gonna have a talk
with Mary.
Speaker 7: Yeah, what happened?
Speaker 8: How did you know if something happened?
Speaker 7: It's my radio, and keep a tune to the police.
Call Call what happened?
Speaker 3: Police announced it, said Sam Frencher, did is I shuting
start talking?
Speaker 8: Jack? Your little playmate from Chicago was going to play
kidnap with Cora and that you came to terms.
Speaker 7: Turns came to an agreement earlier this sevening.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, Sam was leader of the Cicero mob. What
you came here to get you out of the way.
Speaker 7: Jack, I certainly owe you something to save me.
Speaker 3: Forget it, cops think of Dame Grove Sam's car, cor
I'm must let the color hairpins or something.
Speaker 8: That's all.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I can't worry about the car with sands very.
Speaker 8: The murder gun is in the car right alongside of
Sam French.
Speaker 7: I don't get it.
Speaker 8: The cops will marry Cora's fingerprints are all over that gun.
Speaker 7: Crazy shop.
Speaker 8: Sure, sure, but I wiped up my prince and handed
the gun to Cora. Her fingerprints are all over it.
Speaker 2: Orra ran out.
Speaker 8: The police will think only one thing. Cora killed Sam, and.
Speaker 3: You do that to my kids, said the youth slimy
rat dirdy double wait draw, that's better, Commando of Insidam.
Speaker 7: Marie, why'd you do it? Why'd you pinna kill on
cor As?
Speaker 8: You played me for a sucker?
Speaker 15: Mary?
Speaker 8: That's why would Coral for me?
Speaker 2: It got me wrong?
Speaker 15: Oh?
Speaker 8: No, you got me wrong. He didn't figure me for
a guy? Use his head, did you?
Speaker 9: Well?
Speaker 8: Maybe it's little Jack Taylor who that's all they're talking
from now on?
Speaker 15: In?
Speaker 7: All right, Jack? What have you got in mine?
Speaker 3: Here?
Speaker 8: There's no police record. The cops will let her know
whose finger prints are on that murder gun unless I
tell him, and I will tell him too, unless unless
what unless you will may become partner's baby.
Speaker 7: Well that's the way it is.
Speaker 8: Yeah, fifty fifty on the whole setup.
Speaker 7: Nothing small about you?
Speaker 8: Is that Johnathan Sam French dead will take over his ciceromb?
Oh what'd he saying?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 7: I wouldn't turn Corral over the police.
Speaker 8: Okay, then we'll partner this Now, how did you come
to hook up with Sam French?
Speaker 7: Friend of mine?
Speaker 8: Alf Burton, Chicago, Alf Burton, Huh, okay, that's my first stop,
Alf Furton in Chicago.
Speaker 6: Carter's fire will continue in just a moment, but right now.
I can see that Jimmy wants to wheedle an old
neck candy bar or a nickel out of me today.
Speaker 8: Jimmy, you won't do it.
Speaker 6: I'm determined You're absolutely right, mister crump.
Speaker 8: I want to.
Speaker 6: Apologize for the way I've been putting you on the spot.
I've flattered you, asked your riddles, and teased you in
order to get old Nick candy bars.
Speaker 8: It's not fair, is it, Oh, Jimmy, I don't really mind, No, sir,
I haven't been fair.
Speaker 6: For instance, you have an old Nick candy bar in
your pocket today, haven't you. Well, certainly I always have
an old neck candy bar.
Speaker 3: Handy.
Speaker 6: It's spiney candy bars, I know, with that thick milk chocolate.
Speaker 2: Coating, creamy buttery, smooth caramel, and the fudge and the
fresh toasted nut.
Speaker 15: It sure is good eating.
Speaker 8: Well today, if I point out how much money you
make a big time radio and on Treo that is,
and how you got plenty of old Nick candy bars,
and how utterly delicious oldly candy bars are, and how
I'm broke and don't have any, and I'm so hungry
for an old.
Speaker 7: Nick, well if I did that.
Speaker 8: It'd make you sound like the worst kind of a
heel if you didn't give me one, wouldn't it?
Speaker 6: Okay, Jimmy, here you are, now tell him what you
think of old Nick, your rascal Old Nick.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, Oh, Nick is a wonderful candy bar.
Speaker 2: Get some soon, folks. Whatever fine candy is old, you'll
like Old Nick. How back to our cotar spy cakes.
Speaker 4: I'll take the support into mister Harting myself.
Speaker 13: Busy chief.
Speaker 8: Oh hello, Peters, just studying this mapley out of stolen
cars in the United States.
Speaker 4: Maybe this teletype of portal fit in Chief. Sam French,
a hot car autist from Chicago, was just killed in
New York.
Speaker 8: Oh, this may be the beginning of what this report
of stolen cars shows up the heaviest concentrations around New
York and Chicago. Sam French and Chicago mobster being killed
in New York means only one thing.
Speaker 4: The New York and Chicago gangs are beginning to cross
each other exactly, Peters.
Speaker 8: Is enough intentive in stolen cars for gangsters to start
a bloody massacre that may rival prohibition days.
Speaker 4: We've got to stop at Peter's before it gets started.
Speaker 5: Follow me out.
Speaker 8: Friend of Mary Linton is a friend of mine. Jack
glad to hear Sad there's a piece of quick change
for help Mary?
Speaker 5: In what way?
Speaker 8: Information?
Speaker 9: What do you want to know?
Speaker 8: Sam French died? Okay? Who's running the Sister A Mob?
Speaker 15: Now?
Speaker 13: It ain't settled yet. Several of the boys have ideas.
Speaker 8: I better forget those ideas. The Sister Row mob is
going to be run from New York.
Speaker 5: These boys are tough and hungry. They ain't given up nothing.
Speaker 8: I want to listen to reasons.
Speaker 13: Un it's one of them boys.
Speaker 9: Figures hedn't be the big boys.
Speaker 8: I can't waste any time.
Speaker 13: Don't see how you can rush matters. Like I said,
they have their own ideas.
Speaker 8: They have their own ideas.
Speaker 15: Huh.
Speaker 8: What are the names of the boys with the ideas?
Speaker 4: Gang warriors flaring up in Chicago? Mister hunting, what's the report?
Two more gangs just killed in Chicago. Both men were
connected with Sam French at one time.
Speaker 8: Sam French again, Peters, have they turned up on anything
on the same French killing a new.
Speaker 4: Chief the clear set of fingerprints on the gun, but
the local police haven't yet identified the prince.
Speaker 8: Peter's why are our New York field office and have
them step into the same French case. Requisition the murder weapon,
have it sent to Washington. Also have our New York office,
but the murdered car.
Speaker 5: Through the laboratory.
Speaker 8: Well do chief, Well, I guess I kind of got
this little glow art coming to.
Speaker 7: Me a working fast, Jack.
Speaker 8: These men were killed in Chicago of the baby, I'll
be plenty more killed before I'm finished. Card, I'm organizing
Chicago if I have to knock off I mean the
last months.
Speaker 3: In that time, Jack, I've been in the racket longer
than you, so I never had to do any killing.
Speaker 7: Murder is a sure way to get the cops down.
Speaker 8: You're all right for that local stuff now, but this
is big time. I'm going to combine all the hot
car set ups in the entire country, and I'm going
to do it fast and sure by killing, by knocking
off the opposition before it gets started.
Speaker 7: Now, I can't stand it. You don't make it easy,
called it's killing sealing cause enough murder and more.
Speaker 8: Murder, getting any ideas.
Speaker 7: Yes, I'm getting out to go to work some Oh no,
you won't. You can't stop me.
Speaker 8: All the way Corra the cops. I gotta set a
fingerprints on a murder gun. Remember, I just suppose they
find out whose prince they.
Speaker 7: Are top it both of you. Cora isn't going anywhere.
Speaker 8: Corra, better not get any ideas.
Speaker 7: Crying card, go Pobby your notes.
Speaker 8: All right, Marry, I don't like the way Cora acts.
Speaker 7: It's all let's talk about killing. She'll get over.
Speaker 8: Cora may be your sister, but what do you mean, sister, No, sister,
she's getting dangerous.
Speaker 7: I don't like what you're driving.
Speaker 8: You better marry. There might be a time when it'll
be either Cora or you.
Speaker 15: Shut up.
Speaker 7: Cora's no danger. I'll control her.
Speaker 8: You better.
Speaker 5: I thought i'd find you in the laboratory.
Speaker 13: Peters.
Speaker 4: We've just completed an analysis of the gun he used
in the same French Murdy Chief. We've confirmed at least
one police deduction. A woman handled the gun after the
fatal bullet was fired. We found some particles to face
powder in the battle of a gun. The girl, apparently
it put the gun in her bag, then took the
gun out and dropped.
Speaker 8: It near French's body.
Speaker 4: Was a type of powder, high grade but sold commonly
in department stores are the better kind, a deep shade.
The girl evidently is the dark brunette. This is confirmed
by a smear of lipstick on the gun. The lipstick
is dark, almost purple kind used by girls with black hair.
Speaker 13: Well, that's the big help, Peters.
Speaker 8: We've got to find that girl. She's the key to
this particular car stealing record. Chief.
Speaker 4: There are only one hundred and forty million persons in
the United States.
Speaker 5: Half are men remembered.
Speaker 8: That still leaves seventy million hardly. The murder took place
in New York, we can reasonably infer the girl of
the New York resident New York City most probably.
Speaker 4: I'll go along with you on that, Chief, But it
still leaves about seven million persons three and a half
million women.
Speaker 8: Not if you stop to think a minute, Peters, most
women have hair of varying shades of brown. Blondes and
extreme brunettes are in the minority. That's right.
Speaker 4: And here's something else. This girl was driving Sam Francis car.
It's reasonable to assume that she had driver's license.
Speaker 13: Here is exactly be that.
Speaker 8: Narrows it to a girl with black hair. I it's
probably deep brown or black. Who has a driver's license
and is on file with a motor vehicle girl in
New York.
Speaker 4: Best, Chief, there'll still be several hundred girls in New
York answering to that prescription.
Speaker 8: And that's true enough. Now, if we received an analysis
of the murder.
Speaker 4: Car, not yet, but to make them through it anytime, a.
Speaker 8: Chemical analysis of the dust on the floor of the car.
That's when the shoes of the driver will isolate still
further the neighborhood.
Speaker 7: Where this girl lives.
Speaker 8: It's logical. Peter's order a plane for New York. I've
got an idea we may be able to locate the
girl who was with Sam French with this tail wind,
will be in New York about an hour.
Speaker 1: Chief.
Speaker 8: That's fine, we're reasoning correctly.
Speaker 15: This case ought to break tomorrow.
Speaker 8: That's New York calling Chief, tiding to New York.
Speaker 4: Go ahead in New York the hiding plan fourteen putting
now operation with all preliminaris covering a waiting reaction of
subject involved.
Speaker 8: Very good jays Eggs did arrive in New York within
the hour.
Speaker 15: I'll make you a feel that quarterly.
Speaker 7: Come I move up place, lady. I got my license
to the Motor vehicle Bureau.
Speaker 2: You're in the right place, lady.
Speaker 8: You got your right license.
Speaker 2: Yes, I don't understand why.
Speaker 8: You and all the rest the people online. All we
want is your license.
Speaker 2: You'll be given new ones.
Speaker 7: Oh hidden anything wrong with it?
Speaker 8: God a thing.
Speaker 13: We're starting to issue a new form.
Speaker 5: That's all.
Speaker 8: See Karl Lenton Andrews.
Speaker 6: Good enough, sit down, You're able to be called in
the new blanks filled out, no additional theme.
Speaker 7: Oh there you are a car jack was asking about you.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and it ain't love baby. I'd just like to
see you close to home.
Speaker 7: Oh, can I leave the house for five minutes?
Speaker 8: It's been gone all afternoon.
Speaker 12: I had to go down to the Motor vehicle bureau.
Speaker 7: That's all.
Speaker 8: Maybe a drink when he said, sure, motor vehicle deer,
so matter your license expise.
Speaker 7: No, they wanted me to come there. And that's that.
There's a drink car.
Speaker 8: That motor vehicle story smells sufficient.
Speaker 7: I got to notice. I can prove it here. Take
a look at this. It's just smart money.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so you had to bring your license to the
motor vehicle bureau.
Speaker 12: They just took my license and gave me a new one.
Me and thousands of other girls. Yeah, no men, I
didn't notice. Come to think of it, No, only girls.
Speaker 7: Oh, forget about it. Women say it's the Motor Vehicle Bureau.
Have a drink yet?
Speaker 8: Uh, let's talk about it to more kra What kind
of women were there?
Speaker 7: I don't know. Girls, young women.
Speaker 8: Only young women, lots of brunettes.
Speaker 2: What do you mean?
Speaker 7: What's fighting you?
Speaker 3: Jack?
Speaker 8: Look? Suppose the cops figured out it was a black
haired young game who drove Sam francis car. Somebody might
have seen her and Sam.
Speaker 7: They couldn't have.
Speaker 2: We didn't stop anyone.
Speaker 8: You must have stopped for a red light. Somebody saw you.
So the cops play it smart. They look up all
the driver's license, They call in all the black head
dames on some phony excuse.
Speaker 7: You're crazy. There was a room full of peiti.
Speaker 8: You hand in your old license. It's got your fingerprints
all over.
Speaker 7: Don't go getting any ideas I had one all along.
Don't show it to my arms.
Speaker 1: You drop it.
Speaker 4: High.
Speaker 2: So glad you even if you are the police United States?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 8: I know card pictures for change and the wire that
that's a girl to kill Sam Prince. Her fingerprints are.
Speaker 2: On a murder, Cardine, please.
Speaker 7: Innocent? She was with Sam Prince, but Jack killing.
Speaker 1: After for you?
Speaker 2: Good in your old naked yet lit the lady.
Speaker 7: I'll talk, I'll talk pretty.
Speaker 8: I imagine you will, Miss Lynton. But at best it
will just confirm the evidence we have concerning your car
stealing set up.
Speaker 5: All right, Peter, take them the headquarters.
Speaker 6: David Harding will be back in just a moment to
tell you about next week's exciting case.
Speaker 2: Hey, I sure want to hear about that.
Speaker 6: I heard it was sensational. But uh, don't you want
to hear about Old Nick candy bars?
Speaker 2: First, Jimmy, not.
Speaker 6: Mister crap Roger. What can you tell me about Old
Nick candy bars? I enjoy one every day, That's all
I need to know. But what about those folks who
never had the pleasure of tasting old.
Speaker 7: Neck Clevi tastes an Old Nick candy bar? Is it possible?
Speaker 2: That's right?
Speaker 6: Even though Old Nick has been a favorite of minions
for over a quarter century, there are still some folks
who've never enjoyed that smooth, thick chocolate coating.
Speaker 7: The crunchy peanuts and buttery.
Speaker 2: Rich caramel, and the creamy fudge.
Speaker 6: Four famous candies blended into one delicious bar.
Speaker 1: What do you know?
Speaker 15: Well, what will we do?
Speaker 7: Tell him?
Speaker 2: Tell him Old Nick?
Speaker 3: Oh by Oh Nick is a wonderful candy bar.
Speaker 6: As Jimmy points out, you've missed a rare treat. If
you've missed Old Nick, get some Old Nick candy bar soon.
Speaker 8: Why not this evening?
Speaker 7: You'll like Old Nick.
Speaker 8: It's a David Harding speaking for a month's private first
class bred Parker stationed with the American Occupation troops in Europe,
had looked forward to his wife and family joining him.
But a certain man in this country had other ideas,
ideas which included gambling, murder, and double cross. How these
different elements, thousands of miles apart, suddenly came into focus
makes next week's Counterspy broadcast an exciting timely EXPOSA. Invite
you to listen to Sunday, August fourth, same time station,
David Hardy Counterspy The Phillip Stage LAYD.
Speaker 6: Production thirty three forty five thirty three forty five Welcome back.
Speaker 1: Well, that announcer had a case of the giggles. I
don't think there was anything particularly funny, at least that
I could hear. Maybe something in the studio was going
on that we're not privy to. It's a rehearsal. You're
not going to let that slow you down. Now you
may be asking yourself, what is a counter SBO knowledge
organization doing investigating a car tfforring. That's a great question.
I wish I had a great in universe answer it.
And one thing I came across Counterspy and I was
listening to episodes that were all post war the first
few I found, and I was like, what does this
have to do with counter intelligence? Like on every single
episode and there's not a great answer, or if they
gave an answer, it's in an episode that is lost,
and whether it was good or bad, we don't know.
I think what happened though with Counterspy in terms of
the program is that it and Don McLoughlin are an
established brand with good ratings, and they'd lock to continue
to run the program. And there was a little bit
of lag in between the end of World War Two
and the Cold War really heating up where you could
make a series based on taking on communist agents solely,
and there were actually a few episodes of The Man
Called X in nineteen forty seven and forty eight, where
he got into some investigations that were a bit of
a stretch, like he was involved in cons of servicemen,
which sounds like Counterspy would be taking on that next week.
The best in universe explanation you could offer for something
like this is that when Counterspy was created that David
Harding was given pretty broad jurisdiction and ability to intervene
in cases, and nobody ever thought to revise the powers
of the agency. For real life, this would probably be
more of a case for the FBI. I actually enjoyed
the episode overall. Usually I'm not a fan of those
cases that focus on the criminals. This was a bit
more enjoyable for a couple of reasons. First, I thought
that there was some real intelligence behind most of the
criminals' actions. This isn't a Boston Blackie situation where you're
sitting around with people with verbal techs. There's something on
the ball behind this operation, which makes it interesting. Although
that whole idea that he was going to rule all
car theft operations in the country, that's kind of Saturday
Morning supervillain. But the rest of it I think was
pretty solidly reasoned. I also liked the relationship between the
two sisters. Often it's just nasty all around in the
way the criminals relate to each other, but I think
there was a bit of humanity. Yes, Mary was using Cora,
and Cora didn't appreciate it and really would not have
liked to have been involved. But there was a limit
for Mary, and she made clear she was willing to
kill for her sister, and that ultimately does end up
playing out in the episode when she pretty much is
ready to tell all to Counterspot, even though according to
David Harding, they know it already. Some sound deductions by
David Harding, but the method of capturing the criminals, that
one is again, you know, it's kind of one of
those solutions of scale that the more you think about it,
the more you realize it's problematic. It's New York City.
Not everyone's drives or has a car. As a general rule,
women a smaller percentage of women had licenses back then.
But still it's New York City, and there were far
too many black haired female drivers to make this practical.
I mean, think about just the pure bureaucracy of this
sort of thing. How many driver's licenses you'd have to reissue.
But other than that, I thought overall a good episode.
Few implausible items, but I think really entertaining. All right,
listener comments and feedback now, and we have a comment
from Dorothy regarding Counterspy over on YouTube. She writes, first
time hearing the series, it's very good. Would like to
hear more. Well, Thanks so much, Dorothy, and we have
quite a bit more Counterspy to play over the next
year or so, and I hope you and everyone else
will keep listening.
Speaker 13: All right.
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