Speaker 1: Come in.
Speaker 2: Welcome. I'm e G. Marshall. There are two worlds. The
first is the one we know. It has rules, it
has boundaries, it has structure. For lack of a better name,
we call it the real world. The second world, the
other world is always waiting somewhere, just beyond the edge
of understanding. Perhaps it is perceived most clearly in dreams.
It is a world without form or shape, without reason
or logic. And that world still threatens to overwhelm us.
That world, with its demons and dangers and madness. Our
mystery drama The Killer Inside was written especially for the
Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and stars an mirror. It
is sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division and Uncle
Ben's Long Grain and Wild Rice. I'll be back shortly
with that one. Perhaps you know a girl like Gwendolen.
Her mother generally introduces her as my unmarried daughter. What
Mama conveniently overlooks is the fact that Gwendolen may be
unmarried because she is a kid who stayed at home
to look after her parents. Gwendolen believes in being sensible.
The only non sensible thing that Gwendolen ever did was
to buy a Raffel ticket, although it wasn't completely frivolous either,
after all, it was for a charitable cause. However, maybe
doing something that isn't completely sensible might be catching because
lightning figuratively speaking, has struck and Gwendolen's was the winning
ticket and the prize is a ten day trip to London,
and that's what the argument is about.
Speaker 1: But you don't have to go on the trip, Mama.
Speaker 3: That's why I bought the raffle ticket.
Speaker 4: Well, I understand you can cash it in, but where
will I ever get another chance to see London? What's
there to see in London?
Speaker 1: Mama?
Speaker 4: London, London fairly weeks with history, and what's history?
Speaker 1: The past? And what is the past? It's dead.
Speaker 4: You should be concerned with the future. You go to London,
you spend ten days, it's very chilly, it rains all
the time. They have a lot of fried foods. The
ten days are over, the whole thing is finished and
it's gone forever, mama. Whereas if you buy yourself a
couple of outfits, Mama, I am going to London, clothes
you can wear every day for weeks, months, two years, mama,
I say, Or you can you can put the money
in the bank. Mama, I'm thirty years old, only twenty six.
You don't have to lie about my age to me. Look,
it's a woman's right, it's her duty, her obligation to
lie about her age. I'm thirty years old and I've
never done anything, and I've never gone anywhere or be practical.
Speaker 1: Consider Norman Norman? What about Norman?
Speaker 4: Can you risk leaving Norman alone for ten whole days? Well?
Speaker 1: Can you do you know how long I've known Norman? Exactly?
Speaker 4: Three years, three long years, three wasted years.
Speaker 1: Well, it's an investment. You have to protect it. What
you're saying is I'm stuck with it.
Speaker 4: But it's your fault if you don't go out with
anyone else. I don't go out with anyone else because
no one else asks me. Then it's your fault if
you don't get around. Isn't that what I'm trying to
do now by going to London? But who are you
meet in London? A bunch of foreigners?
Speaker 1: Mama? Nothing you can say will make me change my mind.
Speaker 4: Well, suppose Norman meets somebody else in ten days, It
could happen in ten minutes. Good, he can waste three
years of her life. What's gotten into you?
Speaker 1: Nothing? Usually you're so sensible. Maybe that's my problem.
Speaker 4: Oh well, if you have a problem, you better see
doctor Morris. Oh please forget it. If you have a problem,
you shouldn't let it fester. Oh my, who could that be?
Speaker 1: Mama? You know perfectly well who it is? Who else
could it be?
Speaker 2: How good, good evening? Gwynlan Norman?
Speaker 4: What a surprise?
Speaker 2: Yeah? May I come in?
Speaker 1: What would you do if I said no?
Speaker 2: I don't understand. Why would you say no?
Speaker 4: Oh, don't pay any attention to a Norman.
Speaker 2: Her head's in the cloud.
Speaker 4: We're just about to start under.
Speaker 2: The have some Yeah, thank you, I will. I saved
up three hundred galleries for you with a look.
Speaker 1: You know what.
Speaker 4: Gwendolen is down for London Norman.
Speaker 1: I just couldn't talk her out of it.
Speaker 2: Oh I think she should go, you do? Oh yes,
it'll be an enriching educational experience.
Speaker 4: Ah, you know that's exactly what I kept telling you.
Speaker 2: Now, Quenlan, I've a compiled a list of places you
mustn't miss, all the important museum.
Speaker 4: You know, I understand that London is a very romantic city.
Speaker 2: Oh, yes, rich with the romance of history.
Speaker 4: I also understand it. It's a wonderful place to.
Speaker 1: Spend a honeymoon.
Speaker 4: Mama. Look now, you're both practical, sensible people, and you're
as good as engaged, aren't you, well, Mama Norman, Norman, dear,
he is a once in a lifetime chance for a
half price honeymoon because her expenses are well that he
paid for.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you see it would be a false economy,
Missus Wilkinson. We can't afford marriage until I become an
associate professor, at which time I'll have tenure and we'll
be able to assume the responsibilities that Norman.
Speaker 1: Aren't you afraid to let Gwendolen go off alone?
Speaker 2: Why should I be afraid?
Speaker 4: Well, she could meet some titled englishman, some some.
Speaker 2: Do or no a duke, even when Earl wasn't looking
for playing girls. Really huh oh oh, Well, what I
meant was playing in the generic sense of the word
I meaning ordinary, that is off the people as opposed
to the nobility.
Speaker 3: It doesn't get any better.
Speaker 4: Well, I should leave you to alone. I'm sure you
have so much to say to each other.
Speaker 2: Oh, I was just about to leave. I have to
attend a meeting.
Speaker 4: But Norman, it's my last evening before the trip.
Speaker 2: I understand, Gwendolen.
Speaker 1: But and there's a.
Speaker 4: Very artistic Albanian film playing at you.
Speaker 1: But this is.
Speaker 2: A vitally important meeting of the language Association. I'm to
read a paper.
Speaker 4: Oh, I thought we would spend the evening together.
Speaker 2: We're always together, my dear, We're always together in spirit.
And besides, transoceanic flying is extremely fatiguing. You should get
some left.
Speaker 4: And Norman is right, Gwendolyn, I.
Speaker 2: Suppose so it's the best way to avoid jet lag.
Speaker 1: It's more pie.
Speaker 2: No, no, you mustn't tempt me. Oh, where is the
time gone? Suddenly it's late. Have a glorious trip, my dear.
And oh oh, I almost forgot. Do you suppose you
might run an erin for me while you're in London?
Speaker 1: And er Well, I got a friend.
Speaker 2: Well, we've never met personally, but we've been corresponding for years.
He teaches linguistics at the university. Would you would you
mind giving him this envelope?
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 2: Well, I've compiled what I think is a list of
hitherto unknown in the European language root words and I'm
anxious for his opinion. He's his name and an addresser
on the envelope right now, mister Toby has it at
six goldens crescents and.
Speaker 4: Make sure you don't lose it.
Speaker 2: Mom, I was going to mail it, but since you'll
be in London tomorrow it you know, it might be
fun for you to meet him. He's the story who
likes to sit around and discuss in the European roots
for hours.
Speaker 1: It should be a lock.
Speaker 2: Well, Donnie, the swiftest partings are the sweetest, as they say,
I see you in exactly eleven days. Goodbye Norman, and
the goodbye min says Wilkinson.
Speaker 4: Goodbye, yes, goodbye Norman. Well, I admit he he isn't
very exciting, but his kind makes the best husband's sure.
Speaker 1: Let me help you pack.
Speaker 4: You better take a long sensible shoes. I don't think
I have any other kind, and the heavy sweater. Mama,
maybe I shouldn't go.
Speaker 1: Why oh, what's the use?
Speaker 3: But nothing's gonna happen to me over there?
Speaker 1: Well, what do you want to happen?
Speaker 4: I don't know, something something different, something exciting, but it
won't I don't know anyone I won't meet anyone.
Speaker 1: Well, that's not true.
Speaker 4: That it is this man.
Speaker 1: Well, oh, what's his name again, Tony Hazlitz.
Speaker 4: He might be interesting, mama, How can he possibly be interesting?
Speaker 1: He's Norman's friend.
Speaker 4: Colin Street, and this corner should be Golder's crescent.
Speaker 1: Number two four.
Speaker 3: Ah sick, I'll just hand him the envelope and leaves.
Speaker 4: I don't intend to get sidetracked by any of Norman's
stuffy old.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 4: Oh uh, my name is Gwendolyn Wilkins's nice time to do?
Speaker 3: Oh I have something for a mister.
Speaker 2: Haslitt, mister Toby Haslitt. That's all I know. Man.
Speaker 5: Oh oh, but you can't be well why did you
say that? Because I uh oh do you know mister Haslet. No,
you say that like not Toby Haslett. That just sparkling
blue eyes does not give you the right to deny
people their identity.
Speaker 3: Well, I was sent here by mister Norman Bradcliffe.
Speaker 4: Ah, Norman, the Indo European root words, the new one.
Speaker 1: He can pile this list for you.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, yes, yes, of course, of course the end
European roots.
Speaker 4: That one should come in. Well, I uh uh.
Speaker 2: Chair, oh, thank you.
Speaker 1: Well, this is the most attractive place.
Speaker 2: You have here.
Speaker 4: I uh, I mean I I wouldn't have thought that
you were university professor.
Speaker 2: And why not?
Speaker 4: Well, most faculty people I know have rooms that are cluttered.
Speaker 2: With book us. And now is Norman of the Old's
candle up to these days?
Speaker 5: Well, mister haslay, No, you must call me Toby, and
I should call you Gwen.
Speaker 1: Uh no one ever called me Gwen.
Speaker 2: Well, I refuse to call you.
Speaker 1: Ms.
Speaker 2: Wilkinson two made school teacher issuer.
Speaker 4: Well, the fact is I am an old maid school teacher.
Speaker 2: Oh I can't believe it.
Speaker 1: Well why can't you?
Speaker 3: I mean, I look at don't I?
Speaker 1: Well, I'm rather playing. Oh no, no, no, no, I
have no illusions.
Speaker 2: Well, every woman should have illusions. All she needs is
is a man who can support them.
Speaker 4: Well, Norman and I, uh, we're both on the faculty
at Metropolitan University.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: What'd you teach?
Speaker 3: Higher mathematics seminars? Mostly in the theory of numbers?
Speaker 4: And uh it really has no practical application?
Speaker 2: Oh well is that why everything else about you are practical?
Speaker 4: You know, you're not at all the way I imagined you,
mister Hazlitt. Toby Toby Toby, I, y, I thought you'd
be a stuffy conservative old gentleman.
Speaker 3: Why because you're a friend of Norman.
Speaker 2: Who happens to be or of a stuffy conservative young gentleman.
Speaker 3: I uh, I really should be going. Why well, because
I'd have so many things to do?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 5: Can you have them all attended too, by say seven thirty?
Why because that's what I intend to pick you up
for dinner?
Speaker 1: Oh uh oh uh?
Speaker 3: We Well, I I couldn't go out to dinner with you?
Speaker 1: Why well?
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 1: Why not?
Speaker 2: Hm?
Speaker 3: Uh huh why not?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 4: I don't really know? Why not?
Speaker 1: Dear Mama.
Speaker 4: Here it is my first.
Speaker 3: Night in London, and I have a dinner day.
Speaker 4: Mister Toby Haslett is dirtyish, handsome and if Norman doesn't
like it, well he had no business arranging for us
to need uh uh uh just a minute, he's here now,
I'll finish the ladder later, I'm tell me.
Speaker 2: Oh uh, Miss Gwendolyn Wilkinson. Yes, my name is Inspector
Stooks of my Prudentials.
Speaker 1: Oh well, uh what can I do for you?
Speaker 2: Uh? Mister h I am afraid that you'll have to
come to headquarters now. Yes, miss Wilkinson.
Speaker 1: Now, but why what's wrong?
Speaker 2: You're wanted for questioning?
Speaker 1: Well, are you sure you're looking for me? Gwendolyn Wilkins.
Speaker 2: Oh, yes, miss, there's ner mistake.
Speaker 3: I don't understand I what is wrong?
Speaker 2: There has been a murder?
Speaker 1: Uh ah, what murderer?
Speaker 2: Oh a mister Haslett, mister Turvey Hasard.
Speaker 1: Oh but but but that's impossible.
Speaker 2: Brow.
Speaker 1: I I just su who would want to kill mister Halislet.
Speaker 2: That's what we'd like to find out from you, miss Wilkinson.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 2: Wendolyn Wilkinson is a girl of many attainments, but one
quality she doesn't have is the ability to predict the future.
Isn't she the young lady who only twenty four hours
ago sadly announced to her mother that nothing what happened
to her in London? Nothing exciting, nothing different. Well, it
isn't every day that a quiet, shy, retiring girl is
accused of murder. We'll all be present at police headquarters
when I return with Act two in just a few moments.
For most people, the world is a well ordered place.
What happens when one is no longer a working part
of the social engine, and indeed, discovers that the machine
of society is no longer something that offers protection, but
seems instead bent on one's destruction. It's bad enough to
be accused of a murder that one didn't commit. It's
infinitely worse to have to meet that accusation when one
is a stranger and alone in a foreign country spector
hasn't confessed. Oh, I'm quite sure you'll see reasons of
hydric Is that's true. We have time, We have all
the time in the world. I was a well, as
you might have assumed, Miss Wilkinson, that core concerned you.
Are you ready now to make a statement.
Speaker 3: I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2: Miss Wilkinson. We're only asking you to make it easier
for all concern you mean, make it.
Speaker 1: Easier for you.
Speaker 4: I told you I know nothing about that murder, or
any murder.
Speaker 1: I don't murder people myself.
Speaker 4: I don't associate with people who commit murdered that this
whole thing is alien to me, My.
Speaker 2: Dear Miss Wilkinson.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to explain, and you must listen.
Speaker 2: Even if you agree to cooperate.
Speaker 4: Let me remind you that I happen to be an
American citizen.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, I've got aware.
Speaker 1: I demand to see the American Concert.
Speaker 2: I can assure you, Miss Wilkinson.
Speaker 4: I can accept no assurances from you.
Speaker 1: I know my rights. I demanded very.
Speaker 2: Well, Miss Wilkinson. If you insist, I don't.
Speaker 1: Think you understand. Missus Uh Clover, Uh, missus Clover. Eh.
Speaker 4: Is it possible you haven't heard a single word I've said.
I heard every word you said, Miss Wilkinson, you heard
every word I said, and you can sit there and
tell me there's nothing you can do for me. I
thought I had explained, but I don't understand. I have
always been a law abiding citizen of the United States.
I've never asked for anything. And are you telling me
that when I am being railroaded for murder, my country,
the strongest country in the world, is just gonna stand
by a quietly. Miss Wilkinson, your American citizenship, there's not
a suit of armor that protects you from the laws
of the country you.
Speaker 1: Happen to be visiting.
Speaker 6: Missus Clover, please listen. I I am being framed. Framed.
That word hope, framed. I hear it in gangster movies.
Speaker 1: Strange word.
Speaker 4: But now, I mean, right now, this is happening to me,
I ain't been framed, and everyone.
Speaker 1: Simply stands by.
Speaker 4: Miss Wilkinson, You, ma'am, are standing by. You are subject
to the laws of this land, I admitted, and that's
the way it should be. But I didn't break any
of the laws of this country.
Speaker 1: That would be a matter for the jury to decide. Jury.
Speaker 4: Our office has discussed the case with the police, and
they have a case. They have what they have enough
evidence to go to trial? What evidence? You are entitled
to a fair trial and to comfort in counsel, and
you'll get it.
Speaker 1: There has been a mistake.
Speaker 4: It's a dreadful mistake. I never met mister Toby Haslet before.
If I murdered him, what was my motive?
Speaker 1: I mean, why would I kill him?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 4: Miss Wilkinson. We are fully aware of the other thing,
I mean.
Speaker 1: Why would I want to kill to Why? What other things?
Speaker 4: Who do you know, Miss Wilkinson, what other thing? We
are aware of the activities you've been engaged in for
the past three years at least activities, and we are
aware of mister Norman Radcliffe's activities also, Norman. Oh no,
Norman has absolutely no activities at all. Now, if you
cooperate with the police. It's possible you could get off
with a relatively short sentence.
Speaker 1: It's the.
Speaker 3: This other thing you're talking about. I mean, what is it?
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Miss Wilkinson, there's nothing we can do for you.
Speaker 2: Well, then, Miss Wilkinson, are we ready finally to face
the facts you killed Toby Hasidants.
Speaker 4: I met Toby Hazlet for the first time yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 1: I wasn't with him for more than ten minutes.
Speaker 4: I even liked him. I agreed to have dinner with him.
Those are the only facts.
Speaker 2: Oh no, the two facts you're in this folder? Shall
we go through them?
Speaker 4: Inspector Stokes. My name is Gwendolen Wilkinson.
Speaker 1: I teach mathematics. I've never done anything wrong. Why would
I want to kill Toby.
Speaker 2: Haswid because he'd decided to defect to our side?
Speaker 1: The saintest idea? What you're talking about?
Speaker 2: Toby Hazard ran the central message point for an espionage network.
Speaker 1: What would that mean to me?
Speaker 4: Please?
Speaker 2: Miss Wilkinson, we are not idiots. You delivered a message
to Toby Hazard yesterday? Will you deny it?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: Yes, that it wasn't a message? Oh of course not. Well,
I mean not in the espionage sense it with merely
a discussion of early Indo European language routs.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's been an excellent cover these past three years.
That's how Norman Radcliffe has been sending his coded messages
to Toby Hasard.
Speaker 4: Norman, Oh, oh no, And why do you say no?
Speaker 1: Because because you don't know Norman.
Speaker 2: Oh, the secret services of both our countries are very
much aware of your Norman.
Speaker 1: Do you do you mean that Norman is a spy?
Speaker 2: Please, Miss Wilkinson. Such a display of outraged innocence is
just too much. You're all in it, the three of you,
the three of us. Norman gets the information, you as
the mathematician devised the codes, and your mother my mother. Yes,
your mother provides a place for the activity, her apartment,
and also lends it a certain air of respectability.
Speaker 4: You, sir, you may be a police inspector, but you.
Speaker 2: You are mad, Miss Wilkinson. Why do you fight reality?
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe I'm the one who's mad?
Speaker 2: Shall we continue hither?
Speaker 4: I'm I'm mad? Or it's a nightmare. I'll just have
to wake up Somehow.
Speaker 2: Toby Hazard had become frightened. He decided to defect. He
had begun negotiations with us. But there must have been
a leak in our security him. Your people got wind
of it somehow.
Speaker 1: My people I don't have any people.
Speaker 2: And you were sent here to kill him.
Speaker 1: I I was sent here to kill.
Speaker 4: Him, exactly him, and that's the reason I came here
to kill him precisely. No, no, no, Willkinson.
Speaker 2: Sooner or later you'll have to.
Speaker 4: Foh yes, oh look you really you have spun a
neat little web, Inspector. But here's how it all falls apart,
becomes unstuck. Th here was how do you know why
and how I was able to come to London? I
won a prize and a raffle that accounts for my
presence here.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, your organization is extremely creative. Credit where credit
is due. That raffle was an excellent cover.
Speaker 1: How could a raffle be a cover?
Speaker 2: What a clever way to make your tip seem so
so random, so accidental, Inspector.
Speaker 4: Let's assume, for the sake of argument, that I'm a
member of some espionage group. Do you mean that this
clever organization would depend on buying a raffle ticket to
get me to London?
Speaker 1: It's like buying a sweet steaks ticket so you could.
Speaker 2: Be sure of paying the rent, Miss Williginson, Which organization
sponsored that raffle?
Speaker 1: Uh? Uh?
Speaker 4: The uh Metro University Faculty and Student Association.
Speaker 2: That's correct. Now tell me who was chairman of the
raffle committee. I don't you mustn't say you don't know.
It was Norman.
Speaker 1: But Norman would he he couldn't. He's extremely ethical.
Speaker 2: Now now we have such an innocent looking way to
get you to London, and such an excellent cover a
naive tourist.
Speaker 4: But I am naive and I am a tourist and
you killed Toby Haslet oh please please with whatever I say,
you can turn it and twist me.
Speaker 2: Miss Wilkinson, let me.
Speaker 6: Alone, please, I'm I'm just so tired.
Speaker 1: I can't the things trait. Just let me.
Speaker 2: Alone, I've been saying, not along. We have time, we
have plenty of time.
Speaker 1: My name's Gwendoline Wilkinson. I didn't do anything, never done
anything innocent.
Speaker 2: I'm not a spy.
Speaker 1: I'm out of here. Norman devised call me.
Speaker 4: Norman delivered the message to call me houseless.
Speaker 1: Mama is dead. Tell them, ain't we.
Speaker 4: Tell the all?
Speaker 2: My dear, don't talk remember.
Speaker 4: You must sa tall.
Speaker 1: You have a doctor.
Speaker 4: Bo Oh, Mama, don't excess.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm not a spy at mother.
Speaker 2: I have places, no more, no suspect of place.
Speaker 1: Girl, Well we're not We're not spies. Do not una
I Who who's dad? Oh? Oh, it's you?
Speaker 2: May I come in?
Speaker 1: What would you do if I said? No? H oh,
that's funny?
Speaker 2: What's funny? No?
Speaker 1: I I said that to someone once.
Speaker 2: Before, missus Williamson, what are we.
Speaker 4: Gonna do, inspector you'll accused, I'll deny.
Speaker 1: We'll go round and round.
Speaker 2: Will If that's the way you want it.
Speaker 4: You'll keep it up long enough, and little by little
off start losing my mind, and after a while I
might even come to believe what you're saying. I didn't
think they did that to people in a free country.
Speaker 2: I've come here this morning to suggest a way out
of the impasse. That make a deal. You have access
to certain information that's vital to us. But I'm trying
to tell you one hand washes the other. The only
way out of the difficulty is for you to become
a double agent.
Speaker 1: But I'm not even a single agent.
Speaker 2: Govec to your people, tell them we couldn't break your
story and then report to us on a regular basis.
Go back to who the other agents in your group?
But I don't great assets. Your tower of strength is
your air of innocence. You know, as one professional to another,
I pay you the highest compliment, and there's one professional
to another you owe me the courtesy of admitting. It's
just front. But I won't be released in one hour.
I remember we have your passport, and in any event,
you would be no better off at home. You will
be watched. Make contact with the other agents. Let us
know who they are and keep us informed of their plans.
Well have we made a bargain? I, Miss Wilkinson, please
accept reality? Reality, the real world? You live in.
Speaker 1: These bars, the self? These are real?
Speaker 4: And who am I? How can I keep fighting what's real?
To everyone else?
Speaker 2: Miss Wilkinson? Do you accept?
Speaker 1: But I don't know anybody? I Oh, what's the use?
I accept? I accept?
Speaker 2: Always everywhere we keep running into the age old question
what is reality? Reality is what the majority he says
it is. And if everybody says Gwendolen Wilkinson is a
foreign agent, then who is Gwendolen Wilkinson to deny it?
We'll have to sort it all out when I return
in a few moments.
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of a living, breathing, functioning organism. Rose, branch, stem, leaf, root,
all have a dynamic relationship. Each part is interconnected, each
is dependent on every other. When a rose is severed
from the bush, the color, the freshness, the beauty stays,
but briefly, for the rose is no longer a part
of a living world. It is no longer a member
of its own society, and the separated rose begins to die.
Gwendolene Wilkinson has also been abruptly plucked from the shelter
of her society, and now she struggles against an alien atmosphere.
Very well, miss Wilkinson, we'll arrange so you're release.
Speaker 1: But what am I supposed to do?
Speaker 2: Oh? I see it isn't a pose a pose?
Speaker 1: What are you talking about?
Speaker 2: And it's excellent. You create your individual character and you
will not vary from it one single eyota. That's a
tremendous technique.
Speaker 1: Is there any way that I can content?
Speaker 2: You will never relax anywhere, anytime, with anyone, and so
your pose becomes an integral part of you. It's not
just a cover. It's more than skin deep. You've actually
made yourself believe it.
Speaker 1: Please inspect. There must be And.
Speaker 2: I thought i'd seen everything in this business, thought I
knew it all. But here actually is an agent who does
her job on wear it. It must be a subconscious level.
Speaker 1: What are you saying?
Speaker 2: It's actually possible. You really don't know that you're an agent.
Your conscious mind will not accept your undercover actions. You
function on two levels. I do how else to explain it?
But I at home, half of you is the mother's
teacher of mathematics, and you don't know. You really don't
know what the other half is doing. You don't want
to know where. It certainly is good to have you
working on our side, but.
Speaker 1: I don't know I'm an agent. Oh, listen to me.
Speaker 2: I almost believe you is there another explanation?
Speaker 4: But if I don't know who the other agents are,
how do you expect me to find them?
Speaker 2: You know who they are in your subconscious mind. You'll
find them. Oh, you'll know where to go. Trust your
subconscious it's been working for you all these years.
Speaker 4: Hello, yes you talk?
Speaker 2: Yes, but who meet me downstairs at the coffee shop?
Speaker 1: Oh? But who are you?
Speaker 2: Spallow?
Speaker 1: But I don't know you?
Speaker 2: It's all right, I know you the coffee shop in
five minutes.
Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, Hello?
Speaker 2: Anyone's sitting near miss White? No, it's a kind of crowded.
What there are no empty table?
Speaker 1: So are you? It's all right?
Speaker 2: Keep your voice low, gwinny, smile a lot, that's fine.
Speaker 1: Who are you?
Speaker 2: I told her? Spell?
Speaker 1: Well what do you want?
Speaker 2: Well? How was it in the cooler?
Speaker 1: And how do you know me?
Speaker 2: We've been watching the house?
Speaker 1: So oh sent nobody sent me?
Speaker 2: Come on, love, I myself spotted you a hold in
that big white envelope.
Speaker 1: Now I was only holding ash.
Speaker 2: You were in secret service. You had to be one
of us.
Speaker 1: Now which branch branch groups? Lend me?
Speaker 2: Way you want to call it? Who's your leader?
Speaker 4: I'm going to show yourself your voice low, never know
who's around. Look, I'm not who you think I am.
Speaker 1: You're not I you think I'm a spy.
Speaker 5: That's an harsh word. B for use agent operative is
up there to ring to it.
Speaker 4: See, I have a friend back in the United States, Well,
haven't we all?
Speaker 1: He's my fiancee. He teaches linguistics at the university, and
so do I.
Speaker 4: He gave me a list of words Indo European root words.
What well, it's a primitive language from which most of
ours is descended.
Speaker 2: Hey, you know that's fascinating.
Speaker 4: Well, he wanted me to deliver them to mister Haslitt,
who is a celebrator, was a celebrated.
Speaker 5: Linguist and a the old boy Shore.
Speaker 2: Had a lot going for them.
Speaker 4: Now, missus Sparrow, Now I'd be perfectly frank. Can there's
no other way I have to get out of this
intolerable situation.
Speaker 3: The police believe I'm one of you.
Speaker 1: You mean you weren't able to please let me finish.
Speaker 4: They offered me my freedom provided Oh it's a catchy No,
provided I become a double agent.
Speaker 2: Oh well, I had to agree.
Speaker 1: I mean to get outs there, but I have no
intention of doing it.
Speaker 2: Oh why not?
Speaker 4: But because I mean, because.
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not an agent. I can't do it
if it's not my uh my thing?
Speaker 2: Oh were you kiddy? Day?
Speaker 1: You have to believe me, I uh somehow seem to.
Speaker 4: Have entered some mysterious private world.
Speaker 1: I don't belong here.
Speaker 3: Please you people can clear me?
Speaker 4: What clear me? I mean, get words of the police.
Tell them I'm not one of you.
Speaker 2: But loved, you are. Know what were you doing delivering
the envelope to Toby Hasley Day?
Speaker 3: But I explained that, Oh.
Speaker 2: Love, you went there. You were following orders and you'll
kill him.
Speaker 1: But I didn't kill him. I know, I know.
Speaker 2: I understand.
Speaker 5: Now memorize my number, just fold eleven eight nine three.
Speaker 2: That'll right. Just remember we'll be in touch. You have
to feed your information.
Speaker 1: Good luck, Love, Oh oh lord lord, these people they're right.
I'm the one who's mad.
Speaker 5: Well, if it's any consolation, how much longer did Toby have?
Speaker 1: Anyhow?
Speaker 2: He was sick, he was old, he.
Speaker 1: Was who who is old and sick?
Speaker 2: Toby? So that's why you've got nothing to talk to
yourself about it.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, maybe you're right.
Speaker 2: Aye, you see you're looking better already.
Speaker 5: Don't forget the number eleven eight nine three.
Speaker 1: Double agent.
Speaker 2: You'll be a double agent for us. Inspect us talk here? Who?
Speaker 1: Well you meet? You?
Speaker 2: Just moss fuck in broad daylight?
Speaker 1: It full of you?
Speaker 2: The whole world? Is that girl crazy?
Speaker 4: No, Sir, I was crazy because I let all of
you drive me crazy.
Speaker 1: But I am completely sane. Now.
Speaker 2: Now look here, Miss Wilkinson.
Speaker 4: Don't you dare Miss Wilkinson me.
Speaker 2: You can't openly come to headquarters. You'll probably be me followed.
All communication between us must be by Tediville.
Speaker 4: There is not going to be any more communication between us.
Speaker 2: You were given your options. Stand trial for the murder
of Toby Hasart or cooperates.
Speaker 1: With so ho, So I murdered Toby Haslet.
Speaker 2: We have enough evidence.
Speaker 4: I saw Toby Haslett, I spoke to Toby Haslett, and
when I left that house, Toby Haslett was alive and well,
young Toby Hazlitt was alive and well, now what did
the police force have to say about that?
Speaker 2: Well, I suppose we are you an explanation?
Speaker 1: You you're you're Toby Haslet and you're here.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm here, but I'm not Toby Haslet. I'm fred Spelman.
Matter of fact, he's Colonel Sir Frederick Spelman of the Counterintelligence.
Sir Frederick guess well, I happen to be the Earl
of Kenlcher, but you mustn't hold that against me.
Speaker 1: You you're an earl.
Speaker 5: But you mustn't call me earl, for I'll call.
Speaker 1: You something worse than that.
Speaker 2: I will call you, and incompetence, you'll permit me to explain.
Speaker 1: Oh, you had me believing I was a spy.
Speaker 2: No. No, the man known as Toby Haslett was a
foign agent. He was getting old, tired, scared, so he
got in touch with us.
Speaker 1: And you had me believing my own mother was a spy.
Speaker 2: I arranged a meeting at his house, but he probably
couldn't go through with it. Maybe the thought of betraying
old Fredens was too much, and so well he had
committed suicide.
Speaker 1: He had me believing my own fiancee was a spy.
Speaker 2: Norman, well, yes, he is a spy. We've been watching
that correspondence for years.
Speaker 1: No, you can't be serious.
Speaker 5: We figured you, and also all the circumstantial evidence was there.
Speaker 1: But you know I didn't kill Toby, of.
Speaker 2: Course, But since we were convinced that you are an agent.
You were fair game.
Speaker 1: And you almost had me believing it.
Speaker 3: I mean, the subconscious mumbo jumbo or.
Speaker 2: The stakes were very high. They still are. We know
nobody else, none of has lits as says it's were
you contacted? Yet?
Speaker 1: Well? I, well, why should I tell you? Were you?
But all I want to do is go home?
Speaker 2: We could use your help.
Speaker 4: Oh no, I'm not an agent. I don't want to
be an agent. I have no intention of becoming an aide.
Speaker 2: Contacted you.
Speaker 1: A man named Sparrow.
Speaker 5: Sparrow who know I'm Stokes.
Speaker 2: Well, I know that Frederick miss Wilkinson. Perhaps you would
be good enough to assist us?
Speaker 4: Oh oh now, oh this is something.
Speaker 1: Listen to that.
Speaker 4: Listen to old Takamada here, listen to that week polite.
Speaker 2: Tone was early doing his job? Will you help us?
Speaker 1: Quinn? Well? Why, I mean, why should I? What? Wait?
Speaker 3: Why shouldn't I?
Speaker 2: It is your patriotic duty. The gang is also an
enemy of your own country, Norman.
Speaker 3: That's why I'm gonna help you. Because of Norman. He
used me and.
Speaker 1: I don't even care about that so much. But all
the time, I mean the whole time, He was a man.
Speaker 4: Of mystery, an adventure and intrigue except when he was
with me. With me, he was always mister milk toast,
and I can never forgive him for that.
Speaker 1: What do you want me to do?
Speaker 2: Oh, you'll be in no danger? What's am I?
Speaker 1: And what's the good of it?
Speaker 2: Well, you'll may call Sparrow on the phone, give him
such an information that we would like him to have.
Speaker 1: Is that all I'm gonna do?
Speaker 2: Yes, that's all, except when you're having dinner with me.
Speaker 4: Dear Mama. I know I'm staying longer than planned, but
they have a job for me here teaching in London.
I can't imagine why Norman should have disappeared so suddenly. Well,
he was long about so many things. In instance, he said.
Speaker 3: I would never need an earl.
Speaker 2: You never know, obviously, Gwendolene Wilkinson has become an agent?
Is it for the first time? As you been an
agent before without knowing it? Do all of us have
another life that we're unaware of? I don't know about you,
but I have enough to do in this one, and
I shall explain when I returned shortly. Well, food fans
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code two one two. There is someone inside each of us.
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