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Speaker 3: Light stand By for Crime. Hi, Chuck Morgan speaking. You know,

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being a newscaster in a radio station the size of

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kop puts me in line to meet a lot of

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interesting people like Joe Stanley. For instance, Joe was a scientist.

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I've been employed by the government to work in some

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strictlyhish heisch project, the hydrogen bomb. I think he came

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out here to the coast once or twice a year

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to huddle with airplane factory executives, etc. And usually on

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such occasions they bunked with me. Last week, Joe was

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here for a couple of days. Thursday morning, Carol Curtis,

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my secretary, and I drove him out to the airport

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to catch an early plane back to Washington. We said

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our goodbyes. Watch the plane taxi down the runway for

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it's take off. Well, Glamor Puss, let's get.

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Speaker 4: Started back And no, wait, Chuck, I want to see

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the plane take on.

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Speaker 3: Why it's going to look like every other plane you've

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ever seen, Daganau Well, I don't care.

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Speaker 4: I want to see it just the same. And besides,

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Joe wouldn't like it if we left now.

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Speaker 3: And if I know, Joey sound asleep by this time.

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Speaker 5: Flight now loading at eight three Park, Kansas City, Chicago

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Speaker 4: You know, Chuck, there's something sad about saying goodbye.

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Speaker 3: You like it?

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Speaker 4: Though, Yes, it's a what do you mean?

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Speaker 3: Anytime the female can find something sad enough to weep

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Speaker 3: No that you will before we get away from there.

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Speaker 8: Oh is that so?

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Speaker 3: Is that so?

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Speaker 3: Here comes Joe's playing?

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Speaker 8: Now, Oh there's Joe. Look Chuckie's waiter. Goodbye Joe.

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Speaker 3: Wait, Joing, Chuck, Nonsense, you didn't see Joe.

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Speaker 8: I did too. He was sitting way up front in

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Speaker 3: That was a pilot. Stupid, it was not.

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Speaker 8: I guess I can tell a pilot when I see it.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Glamor plus, you win. Now, come on, let's get going.

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Speaker 8: Chuck.

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Speaker 3: Wait, what's matter now?

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Speaker 8: Joe's playing? It's coming down.

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Speaker 3: No, he's just circling around his Hey, what.

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Speaker 3: I see if something's wrong. This was the biggest news

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story of the year, the fourth disaster of its type.

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of that last crish. Fifty of them were aboard the plane,

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eighteen of them occupied in the Parkmenhows into which the

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plane had plunged. The co pilot, a man named Jenkins,

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lived long enough to be rushed to a hospital. Just

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before he died, he spoke two words, the light. Well,

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it must much to go on. But my friend Joe

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Stanley had died in that crish and I was beginning

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to get ideas. That's why I took my problem to

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Happy Man's Field, owner of Station kop.

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Speaker 5: Now, let me get this straight, Chuck. You're basing this

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cock eyed periy of yours on the fact that the

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co pilot said something about.

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Speaker 3: A light before he died. Is that right? Plus the

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fact that this has been the fourth plane crash of

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its kind within two months under exactly the same circumstances coincidence,

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two motors conked out. Can you call that coincidence? Those

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motors were checked and tested before the plane left the field.

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Check. You love Pappy for once in your life, why

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not get with me. I've never let you down.

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Speaker 5: But this theory of yours and someone who's trying to

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Speaker 3: All right, here's the airport. Yeah, over here's the apartment

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house the plane chrished into him. So now over here

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is a hill. Now there's nothing on that hill but

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an abandoned oil Well, practically every outgoing plane passes.

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Speaker 5: Over that area, and you're not going to tell me

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that someone is up there where a buck.

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Speaker 3: Rogers ray happy. No, Look that Derek, and that old

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well has been patched up and the shack at the

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bottom has been lived in.

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Speaker 5: All dozens of abandoned well shacks are occupied by hobol.

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Speaker 3: And you think that one of these hobos fixed stuff

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that tumbled down, Derek, just for the exercise? Do you will?

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Speaker 2: Will?

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Speaker 3: All right, Pappy, there's something wrong about the whole thing. Look,

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it'd be a terrific scoop for KOP if we smelled

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out the raft. Well, what do you want me to do?

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As an engineer out of the KOP transmitter named Bill Adams.

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Bill knows more about electronics in Einstein. Let me have

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him for a few days and close down the station.

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We couldn't operate with our Bill. You won't be operating anyhow.

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Someone scoops me on this story.

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Speaker 5: Well, okay, boy, we both knew when we began this conversation,

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and you'd get what you wanted, only get this unless

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you return Bill Adams to the transmitter in good health.

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Speaker 3: Well I'll renov That was Pappy, always pulling the hard

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to get along with that act and then giving in.

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I picked up Carol and we go out to where

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kop's transmitter is located, and how to talk with Bill Adams.

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Bill wanted to be helpful, but it was ours. He

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had his doubts about my sanity. Anyway, I give my

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ideas and asked him to check into them. But we

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came away from there with the feeling that we were

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wasting the time of Pappy Mansfield's highest paid senior engineer.

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Speaker 4: You know something, Chucky boy. I think Bill Adams thought

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you were nuts.

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Speaker 3: Well maybe I am, but they thought the right brothers

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were too.

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Speaker 4: M But they're older than you, though, bright remark, I think, so, well,

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where do we go from here?

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Speaker 3: You are going to the City Hall and find out

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who owns that oil?

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Speaker 7: Well, where are you going?

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Speaker 3: I'm going out to that demolished apartment house and have

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Speaker 8: Then that's where I'm going.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, you're not.

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Speaker 8: Oh yes I am.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, you're not. For the first time that I

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can remember, I went an argument with glamour Puss. This

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was accomplished by driving the city Hall and practically pushing

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or out of the car. It was late in the

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afternoon when I reached the apartment house. The workmen were

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just quitting for the day. I parked at Gilope and

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walked around back and Levi's wearing a hearing aid, was

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putting some carpenter tools back into a box. Hello, there

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you one of the workmen.

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Speaker 6: Yes, just quitting for the day.

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Speaker 3: Place was pretty badly damaged. Wasn't it about fifty dollars?

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They say, that's quite a hundred money. Now there's a

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friend of mine on that plane, or a passenger. Yeah,

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I don't suppose any of you workmen picked up any

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of the personal effects of the passengers personal effects. No,

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not that I know of the workmen. I hadn't expected

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the question. As a matter of fact, I hadn't intended

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to ask it for just something to say. His eyes

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darted to the toolbox. I took a couple of steps forward.

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There was a briefcase lying on the ground behind it.

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That's yours, Yes, give it to me. Wait, hit a

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minute now, some initials here, J. Yes, what's your name?

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Frian M. Yeah, it's a John Simpson. That's quick thinking.

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Suppose you open up the case, you show me what's inside.

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Huh Why should I do that? Because I'm telling you

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to telling or asking telling? Well, I'm telling you to

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mind you hold me take it easy, friend, Let go

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my arm. I let go your arm. That first, lets

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you and me have a little talk.

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Speaker 6: Come out, open the briefcase. I haven't gone the key.

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Speaker 3: Where is it? It's home?

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Speaker 6: I forget it.

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Speaker 3: What's in the briefcase?

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Speaker 6: Flu friends, I'm the draft. I'm gonnask before. Where's he

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he left ten minutes ago? Let go my arm?

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Speaker 3: Okay, sure there are so far mister Simpson. Everything you've

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told me is very convenient. He left the key home,

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Perfarman's gone for the day. And somehow it doesn't figure.

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That briefcase looks exactly like the one my friend Joe

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Stanley was carrying when I put him aboard the plane.

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Speaker 6: All briefcases look alike. Who are you any.

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Speaker 3: Fair The name's Morgan, Chuck Morgan. I'm a newscaster and

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station kop.

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Speaker 6: I never heard of you, fair enough.

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Speaker 3: You know something, Simpson, I think you're a liar. Why

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don't try that again this time on my freak arm.

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Speaker 6: Don't give me my briefcase?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and sticking my chin out on this When I'm

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taking a briefcase with me and.

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Speaker 6: I am swearing out a warrant for robbery.

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Speaker 3: That's your privilege. Here's my card. The address is right there.

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If you're on the level, you can have me arrested.

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If you're not, I'll have you arrested. I took the

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briefcase and drove to Kopker was there and she had

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my script ready for the seven o'clock broadcast.

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Speaker 4: Easy script, What in the world is that it's a briefcase?

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Speaker 3: I just brought it from a second hand dealer. He

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assures me that it contains a small fortune and one

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hundred dollars banknotes. But Chuck, it looks like Never mind

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what it looks like. STY should away someplace until I

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can get hold of a locksmith. What did you find

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out about the oil well?

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Speaker 4: The well and the hill are owned by Delfas and

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Oil Corporation. They quit it eight years ago. Right now

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all of their operations are in Texas.

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Speaker 3: Get hold of Bert Mayfair at police headquarters and tell

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him I want him on hand when the locksmith opens

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that briefcase.

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Speaker 8: Okay, but Chuck, where did you really get it from?

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Speaker 3: An ugly man in blue overalls was now swearing out

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a warrant for my arrest. And I did my seven

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o'clock news cast, and I told the listening public that

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at the eleven o'clock program, I hope to have some

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information that would break the airplane Christ's story wide open.

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I have expected to see the man in the levis

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and a police officer waiting for me in the card

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outside the studio, But the card was empty, so was

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my office. Not even Kara was around to needle me

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about the bragging I'd done over the air. So I

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drove out to my apartment on Wiltshire. It was dark

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by now. I un locked the door, went in before

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I could snap on the walls, which somebody beat me

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to it. I spun around and found the ugly man

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in the blue overall standing across the room. This time

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he had a gun in his hand.

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Speaker 6: All right, mister Morgan, I'll take the briefcase now, the

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conclusion of stand by for crime.

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Speaker 3: Well, the guy wasn't pretending this time. The gun was

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all he needed to give his face that ratty expression

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that it came by so naturally. So it's you again,

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rat face. What's the matter? Are you afraid the cops

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would put your name on that word instead of mine?

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Speaker 6: My time is short mister Morgan, hand over the briefcase.

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Speaker 3: There's a smart remark. How am I going to hand

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over something I haven't got?

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Speaker 6: Then you'll tell me what you did with it? Will

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or I will take measures to force you.

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Speaker 3: To tell such are shooting me, I suppose, don't be

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a jerk, Simpson or Simpson or whatever your name is.

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Shooting me would mean you'd never find a briefcase.

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Speaker 6: You're quite right. It'll be stupid of me to shoot you.

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But there are other ways. Oh, in exactly one minute,

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your telephone will ring. The man at the other end

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will have some interesting information for you about missus Carol.

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Speaker 3: Curtis about that one won't work either, pastor. I left

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Carol at the studio fifteen minutes ago.

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Speaker 6: Did you think, mister Morgan, was it before or after

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your broadcast that you last saw missus Curtis that Simpson.

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Speaker 3: If you touch that girl, I'll bring.

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Speaker 6: You do nothing, mister Morgan, nothing at all. Leave upone alone.

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This time I'm giving the orders. Hello, three four eighty six, right,

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put on the line, very well, mister Morgan.

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Speaker 3: Hello, Hello, Chuck, Chuck. Is that you Carol? Where are you?

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Speaker 4: I can't tell you, Chuck, they'll kill me if I do.

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Speaker 3: It was dirty album.

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Speaker 8: It's no use, Chuck, you can never find me. Please

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give them the briefcase, please, Chuck.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, sure, sure, I'll give it to them. But

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what about you.

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Speaker 4: As soon as they have the briefcase, they let me go.

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Speaker 3: They promised, they promised.

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Speaker 4: Huh, listen, Chuck, it's important that I get away from

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here so that I can give you that information you

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asked me to get for you at City Hall this afternoon.

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You want to know about that, don't you?

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Speaker 3: Stood there holding the throne trying to get the numbness

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out of my brain. He gradually came to me, Hall,

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if Carol was so afraid of being killed, why didn't

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she tell her captives where the briefcase was? It was

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she would stage it away. Why did you keep reminding

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me about the information she got in city Hall? She'd

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already told me about that, And suddenly I had at

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the oil well that's where she was being held prisoner.

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She was trying to tell me by referring to the

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information A smart girl, that lan secretary of mine. So

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what I could still feel? Rat pases done prussed into

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my back, and I thought of something. The phone I

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was holding had an extension card on it. I'd had

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it installed when I moved into the place because sometimes

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I like to walk around or doing my telephoning. I

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hung up slowly, my fingers curled around the heavy base

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of the phone.

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Speaker 6: Well, mister Mulligan, right, mister Simpson, walk.

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Speaker 3: Well, buster, that takes care of you. The muster seemed

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to be sleeping peacefully and deeply. I got a couple

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of belts, buckled them around his arms and legs, and

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foed them away in my bedroom closet for future reference.

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Then I got into the car and headed for the

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oil well. It was about eight fifteen when I turned

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into the side road that skirted the base of the hill.

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I'd parked at Giloppe and started up toward the summit

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when the thought occurred to me that maybe I should

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have had the police in on this. And looked like

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it was going to be big stuff. But Carol was

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up there and in trouble, and I hadn't had time

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to do much thinking about anything else. As I got

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up toward the top of the hill, I realized how

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deserted the spot was. It was a strange feeling below

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the lights of the Great sprawling city spread out endlessly

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ahead the skeleton like framework of the well. There it was,

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etched against the sky and ghostly silhouette. Then a figure

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stepped in my path, and I caught a glint of steel.

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I lunched forward, wrapped my arms around his legs. He

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fell over my shoulder and I had him in a

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firement's grip. I spun around in the gold. He landed

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about ten feet down the slope and cracked his head

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against a rock. Well that was number two. The next

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one might not be so easy to handle. The well

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shack was just ahead. Light streamed from beneath its star.

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I stopped and considered the situation. I'd be crazy to

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go budging, yet how would I Wasn't it the last

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thing anyone would expect? Then the problem was solved for me.

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The door opened and Carol Curtis that had framed against

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the light.

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Speaker 8: Carol, Hello, Chuck, is that you? We thought we heard someone?

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Speaker 3: Carol was looking at me steadily, a look that told

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me to watch myself.

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Speaker 7: He come on in. I want you to meet someone.

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Speaker 3: You're right, glama, pus.

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Speaker 8: Oh, yes, I'm fine, Chuck.

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Speaker 4: I want you to meet doctor Robert Burton he's an inventor.

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Speaker 7: How do you do, mister Morgan? How do you do? Missus?

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Curtis has been telling me about you, what an interesting

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life you have. I've heard your broadcast many many times.

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Speaker 3: Thanks.

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Speaker 4: Doctor Burton was kind enough to untire me after that

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other man left, But of course I had to promise

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not to run away.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Sure, But what other man are you talking about?

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Speaker 7: Or his name?

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Speaker 4: I think is a snide or something like that.

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Speaker 7: A dreadful person, really dreadful, not at all like Ivan, Ivan,

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Ivan Stuka. He's a gentleman who pays me to stay

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here and work on my invention.

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Speaker 3: He pays me well too, Does this Ivan happen to

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be a man with blonde hair who wears a hearing age.

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Speaker 7: Yes, yes, indeed that's exactly who he is. It was

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Ivan who repaired the derrick.

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Speaker 3: Oh you know him, man, Yeah, a telephone acquins.

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Speaker 4: Doctor Burdon has been telling me about his invention. How

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about explaining it to Chuck Doctor Burdon.

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Speaker 7: Well, I don't know. Ivan might object, and after all,

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it is his money. But if Ivan doesn't know, it

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won't make any difference. And Chuck would never tell anyone,

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would you, Chuck?

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Speaker 3: Cross my heart and hope to die. What kind of

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an invention is.

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Speaker 7: A doctor, Well, it's an electric current interceptor.

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Speaker 3: Oh what o?

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Speaker 7: Hey here and let me show you. This is a

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small model. It looks like a pistol, doesn't it. You see?

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I pointed at that electric bulb over there and puff.

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The bulb is out.

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Speaker 8: Quite a gadget, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: Chuck? Yeah? Quite? How do you do a doct with

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mirrors or something?

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Speaker 7: Oh no, no, no, no, no, not adult. It took me

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years to perfect his instrument. As a matter of fact,

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if it hadn't been driving, I might never have succeeded.

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Speaker 3: How's that? Well?

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Speaker 7: You see, during the last war I got the idea,

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but I had to have financing, and naturally I went

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to the government. I thought they might be interested in

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an invention that could put an airplane out of commission

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merely by projecting a raid toward one of its motives.

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Speaker 3: I should think they might. What happened, and.

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Speaker 7: Mister Morgan, believe it or not, no one would listen

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to me. Oh, I went by time and time again. Finally, well,

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finally I became sick, and.

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Speaker 4: Doctor Burton spent three years in a sanitarium ah, I.

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Speaker 3: Say, and when you were released.

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Speaker 7: Ivan, Yeah, Oh a fine man.

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Speaker 3: Ivan.

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Speaker 7: He felt that if I came up here to live

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away from everybody, I could work on my invention undisturbed.

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Ivn't arranged for the turning onto the power and the

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telephone and just everything. I've been quite comfortable.

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Speaker 3: When did you get this invention of yours working?

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Speaker 7: We're about six weeks ago. Oh, I tell you it

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was exciting. Ivan was most pleased.

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Speaker 3: How did you test it out?

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Speaker 6: Why?

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Speaker 7: On a plane coming out of the airport. Of course,

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that's why Ivan wanted me to come up here in

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the first place. He said we'd have plenty of subjects

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to work on.

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Speaker 3: Oh.

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Speaker 6: He was right to.

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Speaker 7: Oh, I tell you it was a thrilling moment when

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I put that first plane out of commission with me,

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the tremendous crash.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I read about it, won't you worried about the passengers?

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Worried the passengers.

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Speaker 7: That's funny.

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Speaker 3: I never thought of that. I'm bad Ivan did, particularly

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the planes of which important them when the visials were writing.

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By the way, doctor, I suppose you have the plans

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of your invention down on paper.

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Speaker 7: And that's a funny thing. I even keeps asking me

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about it. Why should I put them down on paper

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when they're all right here in my head?

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Speaker 3: No reason to do, except if you ever wanted to

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sell the I no, no, but I don't know should.

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Speaker 7: I've had my experience that sort of thing, and no

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one would listen to me, just as long as Ivan

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would pay me.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to stay right here and continue to blast

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planes out of the sky.

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Speaker 4: And does that seem quite right, doctor Burton? With all

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those passengers aboard.

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Speaker 7: Those passengers, it's funny. I never thought about them before.

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I must do something about it, I really yeah.

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Speaker 3: Well, in the meantime, doctor Burton, suppose you tell me.

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Speaker 6: Just all right, Morgan, get your hands up.

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Speaker 3: It's night.

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Speaker 6: What's the doll?

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Speaker 3: Well, well, if it isn't rat face and the gentleman

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who rode down the.

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Speaker 6: Hill, a more permanent face as a store for you,

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my friend, doctor, what have you told these people?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 7: No, no, no, no, I even't know. You mustn't be displeased.

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I merely told him about my invention.

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Speaker 3: You fall.

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Speaker 6: Now it will become necessary for me to dispose of

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both of them.

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Speaker 3: I bet that would break your heart. You're so unused

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to killing people after our Only sixty eight died because

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of that last crash.

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Speaker 6: So two more won't make any difference, will it, mister Morgan.

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Speaker 3: Except that you still don't know where the briefcase is.

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Speaker 6: The secret of the ray gun is, I think, far

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more important than the plants contained in the briefcase.

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Speaker 3: You see what kind of a ratchet friend is, doctor,

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He's going to murder Miss Curtis and me and then

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continue to induce you to blastplanes out of the sky,

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killing innocent paper.

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Speaker 7: Yes, yes, I must do something about those passengers. I

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simply must.

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Speaker 6: And you suppose that we could rae you will continue

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to experiment with the place I suggest, although will no

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longer be funds to permit you to continue working.

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Speaker 3: Are you a murderer?

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Speaker 1: Of you?

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Speaker 3: Doctor? Without your realizing that this man is an agent?

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Speaker 6: Shut up, snipe, take care of the girl, all right, Morgan?

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Speaker 3: This is it? Stopping A change would come over, Doctor Burton.

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His voice had a commanding quality of vibrant and made

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us all turn and stare at him. Ivan's gun was

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still trained on me, but he turned his face to

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watch the doctor. Snyder taken two steps toward Carroll and stopped.

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Speaker 6: Drop that.

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Speaker 7: From now on I'm giving the orders.

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Speaker 3: Ivnant didn't answer. None of us did. But also what

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was happening. Doctor Burton had his ray gun pointed at

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the electric carrying aid on Ivan's head. I could see

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the indecision on Ivan's face. He was wondering why they

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could swing his gun away from me and get the

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doctor in time to save himself. I could almost hear

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the thoughts racing through his mind. He knew that doctor

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Burton had suddenly had a change of heart. That he

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Ivan didn't succeed in shooting the gun out of the

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indented s hand, it would mean the ruination of all

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his beautiful plans. It would mean the gas chamber for

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himself at Snide. There was only one course open for him.

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Speaker 7: Drop that gun. I said, I'll drop it.

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Speaker 3: Carol and I got back to the studio on time

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for the eleven o'clock broadcast. It made a good story.

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Of course, everyone wanted to know about the ray gun.

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But Ivan's bullet had entered the inventor's heart at the

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precise instant the ray gun had sent Ivan to his

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ancestors via the hearing aid. So the secret died with

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doctor Burton. And all I know is what the doctor

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had told me and what I saw. Yeah, sure, there

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were plenty of skeptics. Even in this age of atomic

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weapons and jet planes and radar projected electric impulses, a

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lot of people weren't ready to accept ray guns. However,

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if no more motors conk out after planes leave the airport,

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it'll be pretty conclusive proofs that doctor Burden did invent

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some sort of electric current intercepter. Well, anyway, time will

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tell that story. There was one question that Carol wanted

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to clear it up, so she caught me about it

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at lunch the next day.

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Speaker 7: Hmm, this chicken salad is delicious.

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Speaker 3: I personally go for hamburgers.

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Speaker 4: You can eat chicken salad for once and like it.

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Like it, say, Chuck, there must have been some reason

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why you were convinced that Ivan was a phony.

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Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, it was. However, I'd rather not.

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Speaker 7: Mention them, rather not mention it.

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Speaker 3: But why rather not? That's all, Chuck Morgan, You tell

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me no glamor pause. You might think me a modest

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Oh Fiddley, d come on make with the words. Well,

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if you insist, I do you remember when I first

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met Ivan at a Poplin house. Yes, well, I explained

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to him that I was Chuck Morgan newscaster kop Well, well,

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he said he'd never heard of me.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back.

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Speaker 2: I actually enjoyed that episode quite a bit. Now, in

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defense of Chuck's belief that the guy was a phony,

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you have to keep in mind that he lives in

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a world where, you know, practically everywhere they go, everybody's

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heard the newscast.

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Speaker 1: Everybody knows who he is.

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Speaker 2: You know, even people hundreds of miles away that you

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know he draws from me. He said, oh yeah, Chuck Morgan,

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we've heard your newscast. And then to run into somebody

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who says never heard of you, Well, I can understand

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the suspicion. I mean, it would be like if you

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if mister Keen came up to somebody and they said,

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mister Keen, who never heard of a mister Keen, and

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then you could just immediately say spy saboteur, because he is,

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after all, the famous investigator. A neat trick with the

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phone extension cord, and it does show that unfortunately, one

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downside of our modern technology with bluetooth headsets and such

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is it leaves us with less handy lethal weapons. You know,

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in case we're being kidnapped by spies. Also, I think

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this episode was a good illustration about what that listener

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was emailing us last week when he talked about the

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relationship between Shock and Carol, Because even though there are

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things that we don't like about it from a modern perspective,

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it's still pretty clear that he cares about her and

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that she is a very intelligent, smart character who is

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able to, you know, really play a good role in

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the story and better than a lot of other female sidekicks.

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You saw that in the way that she communicated the clue,

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you know, quite cleverly and in a way that the

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kidnappers wouldn't pick up on. And then you could also

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see it in the way that Chuck rushed to a

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rescue and only when he got there thought that he

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should have called the police because he was in such

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a hurry to save her, because he cared so much,

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which is really state sweet, even if it's not particularly wise.

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And all that, plus we get another appearance by Howard mcneir. Overall,

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that's a nice that's a nice end. And I have

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to say that despite some of the problems in the

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series that I've overall enjoyed it. It's not been the

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best series we played, but I've enjoyed it more than

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some others, like that Strong Guy, and certainly we've had

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some interesting discussion. I hope you've enjoyed it, and even

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if you didn't, I hope you enjoy what we have

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in store for you over the common weeks. All right, well,

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that will actually do it for now. I do want

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to thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and thank

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you so much to Doug. Doug has been one of

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our Patreon supporters since October twenty sixteen, and he's currently

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supporting us at the Detective Sergeant level of seven dollars

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and fourteen cents or more per month. Thanks so much

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for your support, Doug. Next week we'll be back and

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we'll be presenting an episode of a series we played previously,

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but it's a newly circulated episode of Doctor Tim Detective.

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And then tomorrow we'll be bringing you Rocky Jordan. In

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the meantime, send your comments to Box thirteen at Great

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