1 00:00:28,559 --> 00:00:34,799 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. 2 00:00:35,159 --> 00:00:38,399 This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're 3 00:00:38,399 --> 00:00:42,759 going to bring you our four thousand, seven hundredth episode special. 4 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:45,679 But first, I do want to encourage you, if you're 5 00:00:45,799 --> 00:00:51,119 enjoying the podcast, to follow us using your favorite podcast software. 6 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:54,359 Today's program is brought to you in part by the 7 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:57,159 financial support of our listeners. You can become one of 8 00:00:57,159 --> 00:01:02,679 our ongoing Patreon supporters at Great Detectives dot net for 9 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:06,439 as little as two dollars per month. The thought process 10 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:11,799 behind today's special is actually pretty simple. I had listened 11 00:01:11,799 --> 00:01:15,280 to a few episodes of The Chase recently and I thought, 12 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:18,480 you know, it has been a long time since we 13 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:22,760 featured an episode of The Chase, and I checked, and 14 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:27,840 we played an episode of The Chase back in twenty fourteen, 15 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:32,000 and that's all we've done. The Chase was a series 16 00:01:32,159 --> 00:01:37,480 created by Lawrence Klee, who also had created the series 17 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:41,040 The Clock, and honestly, some of the episodes I've heard 18 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:44,799 of The Chase were very similar to that series. The 19 00:01:44,879 --> 00:01:49,280 way the series was presented to the public, it was 20 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:57,319 NBC's attempt to have a competitor to CBS's big anthology 21 00:01:57,439 --> 00:02:02,599 programs like Escape. Some of these stories are adventure, some 22 00:02:02,879 --> 00:02:07,159 are a bit more supernatural. There are also a few mysteries, 23 00:02:07,239 --> 00:02:09,840 and I'm so glad to share one of those with you. 24 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:15,759 So here from August fourteenth, nineteen fifty two is the 25 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:18,080 episode the Amusement Park. 26 00:02:28,879 --> 00:02:32,919 Speaker 2: The National Broadcasting Company invites you by transcription to join 27 00:02:33,719 --> 00:02:55,199 the chase. In the animal world, there is the hutter 28 00:02:55,319 --> 00:03:00,599 and the hunted hound, and fox, hawk and sparrow, cat 29 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:04,919 and mouse. We on the topmost species have also joined 30 00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:08,319 the hunt. But who is to judge precisely which of 31 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:12,159 us are hounds or foxes? As we had her let chase. 32 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:23,960 Speaker 3: Hey lucky for Hey, looky, step right up and buy 33 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:24,599 your tickets. 34 00:03:24,599 --> 00:03:25,319 Speaker 4: Fire the strip. 35 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 3: Hey, looky, hey, looky, step right up and buy your ticket. 36 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:30,080 Speaker 4: Fire the strip. 37 00:03:30,319 --> 00:03:31,360 Speaker 5: One for young And. 38 00:03:31,439 --> 00:03:36,639 Speaker 6: Oh, I did it again, Kathy put both those last 39 00:03:36,639 --> 00:03:37,159 two candles. 40 00:03:37,199 --> 00:03:38,120 Speaker 4: I was just two shots. 41 00:03:38,159 --> 00:03:38,479 Speaker 2: You bad. 42 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:40,759 Speaker 5: We don't have prizes at this gallery. Mister, you'd clean 43 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:41,120 me out. 44 00:03:41,199 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 4: I told you my name was Bob. How many shots 45 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:44,800 have I got left from my quarter? 46 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:45,319 Speaker 5: Three? 47 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:47,400 Speaker 4: I think, Oh, light up those candles again and watch 48 00:03:47,439 --> 00:03:48,280 them get knocked. 49 00:03:48,039 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 5: Out you're a regular one man fired apartment. Don't you 50 00:03:51,599 --> 00:03:53,199 want to try for those tin ducks of the clay 51 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:53,759 pipes there? 52 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:56,159 Speaker 4: Light up the candles, Kathy, I'm a specialist. 53 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:57,759 Speaker 5: How'd you find out my name? 54 00:03:57,879 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 4: I wasn't too hot. I went over to Madame loranda'sa 55 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:02,039 the fortune telling booth, and made a bet with him 56 00:04:02,199 --> 00:04:03,879 about me. I better half a dollar. 57 00:04:03,879 --> 00:04:07,319 Speaker 5: Your name was Melinda and Maral Laranda told you my 58 00:04:07,439 --> 00:04:08,159 name was Kathy. 59 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 4: I had too to collect a half dollar, but I 60 00:04:11,159 --> 00:04:14,639 told you for free that my name was Bob. Whch 61 00:04:14,639 --> 00:04:15,400 you ever gonna use it? 62 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:16,560 Speaker 7: Excuse me, Bud? 63 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:17,399 Speaker 4: Kathy? 64 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:19,279 Speaker 7: Can you get the stand closed up and come over 65 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:22,160 to Adam's office for a minute? Closed there's been a 66 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:24,319 little trouble. The boss wants you to confirm a statement 67 00:04:24,319 --> 00:04:24,800 he's making. 68 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:27,879 Speaker 6: Wait a minute, Kathy, you I won't have to go 69 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:29,600 to all the trouble at closing up. I can mind 70 00:04:29,639 --> 00:04:31,319 the concession for you if this won't take too long. 71 00:04:31,439 --> 00:04:33,079 Speaker 4: This kid a friend of yours, Kathy. 72 00:04:32,839 --> 00:04:35,120 Speaker 5: Well, yes I know him, but I okay. 73 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:36,759 Speaker 7: We'll get your bills out of the register and let 74 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:39,519 him take over. The worst he can do is fire 75 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:42,319 off a few free shots. It look better if the 76 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:43,040 place days. 77 00:04:42,879 --> 00:04:44,879 Speaker 5: Opening me, Bob, you're sure you don't mind? 78 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:46,920 Speaker 4: Run along, Kathy. It'll be a pleasure to hold a 79 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:47,720 ford for you. 80 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:50,759 Speaker 7: One thing, kid, anybody asks, you don't start saying there's 81 00:04:50,759 --> 00:04:51,240 been trouble. 82 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:52,199 Speaker 4: It's all over. 83 00:04:52,399 --> 00:04:54,639 Speaker 7: We don't want to start stampeding any of this Saturday 84 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:55,199 night crowd. 85 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:56,319 Speaker 4: You got that straight. 86 00:04:56,399 --> 00:04:59,040 Speaker 6: No, I'm not even asking what the trouble is, am I. 87 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:01,439 If it'll help Kathy out, that's all I have to know. 88 00:05:01,639 --> 00:05:03,639 Speaker 5: Thanks, Bob. I'll try to be back as fast as 89 00:05:03,639 --> 00:05:04,079 I can. 90 00:05:04,199 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 4: Let's go, Kathy, Tipper. 91 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:09,120 Speaker 5: This must be real trouble. I can tell oh. 92 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:11,439 Speaker 7: I wouldn't call it real trouble, Kathy, at least not 93 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:13,199 for anybody but old Uncle Billy. 94 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:15,839 Speaker 5: Uncle Billy, that poor old man is not off on 95 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:16,639 a bender again. 96 00:05:16,959 --> 00:05:18,839 Speaker 7: Old Billy's done all the drink and he's ever gone 97 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:20,480 to do. We fished him out of the water and 98 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:23,120 the Tunnel of Love about half an hour ago, out 99 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:25,240 of it, drowning the doctor in two feet of water. 100 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:27,639 The doctors gave up trying to bring him around, and 101 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:30,160 there's an ambulance waiting on the side alley to take 102 00:05:30,199 --> 00:05:31,000 him to the morgue. 103 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:34,519 Speaker 5: Oh and you said there was just a little trouble. 104 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:37,480 Speaker 7: We're all sorry about it, but well, as Adam says, 105 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:40,639 we've still got a Saturday night crowd here. Billy had 106 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:43,079 to get blind drunk and go stumbling into the tunnel. 107 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:45,879 Is that any reason for spailing Saturday night for all 108 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:47,240 the hundreds of customers here? 109 00:05:47,439 --> 00:05:50,000 Speaker 5: Is it the customer's feelings? Adam is concerned about her. 110 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:52,639 The cash registers that wouldn't ring if this news got around. 111 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:55,519 Speaker 4: I'll take it easy, kid, take it easy. There's a 112 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:56,639 cop over in the office. 113 00:05:56,879 --> 00:05:59,079 Speaker 7: All he wants is to have Myra, Loranda, You and 114 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:01,199 a couple of more us back up with Adam told 115 00:06:01,279 --> 00:06:03,800 him about Billy always hitting the bottle and having a 116 00:06:03,839 --> 00:06:07,439 weak heart. Here we can go in the side door 117 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:14,079 that about in the front. 118 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:24,000 Speaker 4: Is this the man you knew as William Connery, Miss. 119 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:29,000 Speaker 5: Owens, Yes, we all n him his uncle Billy Officers. 120 00:06:29,079 --> 00:06:31,319 Speaker 4: Okay, his name was Connery. We got that pin down. 121 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 5: Now. 122 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:33,839 Speaker 8: You didn't know him before he came here to do 123 00:06:33,879 --> 00:06:36,360 odd jobs around the park for mister Sadlick here. No, 124 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:38,439 you don't know of any relatives he might have. 125 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:40,199 Speaker 5: You never talked about any at least next to me. 126 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:42,279 Speaker 8: But you did know him pretty well. Your boss says 127 00:06:42,279 --> 00:06:44,000 you were kind of a favor of the old man. 128 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:46,519 Speaker 5: Yes, I always liked him. 129 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:48,600 Speaker 4: Yeah, he got drunk every Saturday night? Regular, didn't he 130 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:49,519 real drunk? 131 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:52,120 Speaker 5: Billy never heard anybody but himself, and if he did 132 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:53,600 take a few drinks once in a while. 133 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:56,000 Speaker 4: Just answered Officer Keio's questions. 134 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:58,480 Speaker 5: Can't well, Adam, it's not fair with poor Billy Liner. 135 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:01,639 Speaker 9: The officer has his report to make, Kathy, and he's 136 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:03,079 only trying to confirm it. 137 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:07,240 Speaker 8: We all know happened, Thanks, mister sadlick. The old guy 138 00:07:07,279 --> 00:07:10,000 could really tie one on, couldn't he? Miss Owens get those? 139 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:11,720 He didn't know whether he was coming or going. 140 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:15,639 Speaker 5: Yes, I've seen Billy with too much, Officer, but I 141 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:17,480 saw him about two hours ago when I went over 142 00:07:17,519 --> 00:07:18,879 to get something to eat, and I'm not sure he 143 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:21,519 was drinking at all tonight. What do you mean, Well, 144 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:24,600 he was worried about something he'd found. He started to 145 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:26,519 ask me about it and then said I probably wouldn't 146 00:07:26,519 --> 00:07:28,839 know either, with just some scrap celluloid he had in 147 00:07:28,879 --> 00:07:29,959 a blue tobacca can. 148 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:38,399 Speaker 8: A blue tobacco can like this one. 149 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:39,439 Speaker 5: Yes, I'm almost sure that's the can he had, and 150 00:07:39,519 --> 00:07:41,079 he didn't seem as if he'd been drinking. 151 00:07:41,319 --> 00:07:43,519 Speaker 8: Mister Sadlick here tells me the can was empty when 152 00:07:43,519 --> 00:07:45,360 they found it on him after fishing him out of 153 00:07:45,399 --> 00:07:48,079 the water. You sure the old guy wasn't just kidding you, 154 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:48,920 Miss Owens. 155 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:51,720 Speaker 5: Of course, I don't really know whether it has anything 156 00:07:51,759 --> 00:07:52,279 to do with it. 157 00:07:52,399 --> 00:07:55,639 Speaker 4: Thanks very much, Kathy. You've confirmed with Officer Key. Oh 158 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:58,680 want to know if there any minor loose ends. Officer 159 00:07:58,759 --> 00:08:00,759 Your people can get to him to many, can't they? 160 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:04,160 Speaker 8: Well, I suppose I have got enough for this preliminary report, 161 00:08:04,879 --> 00:08:07,079 seeing as we got the doctor's findings to back it up. 162 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:08,839 Speaker 4: You're all squared away. 163 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:11,360 Speaker 9: The body can be moved out quietly the morgue with 164 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:14,680 no further trouble for anybody. All right, Kathy, you can 165 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:16,680 get back the shooting gallery now and I'll let you 166 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:19,079 know about the funeral plans and we get them worked out. 167 00:08:35,759 --> 00:08:39,240 Speaker 10: Let Madame Mirande for tell your future folks. 168 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:42,240 Speaker 5: Seventh daughter of a seventh daughter, I lift the veil 169 00:08:42,399 --> 00:08:46,279 that hides the days and nights ahead. Will you be rich? 170 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:48,360 Speaker 4: Will you be lucky in love? 171 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:52,200 Speaker 5: Will you be both or fifty cents. 172 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 4: You can know, not. 173 00:08:53,559 --> 00:08:57,759 Speaker 10: Fifty dollars, not even five fifty cents, folks, for a 174 00:08:57,840 --> 00:08:59,559 preview of your own future? 175 00:08:59,559 --> 00:09:01,440 Speaker 5: Can I see for a second? Oh? 176 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:04,320 Speaker 10: Oh, Kathy, how anybody the looks of this crowd? I've 177 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:06,480 got all the time in the world. Sit down, make 178 00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:08,240 like a customer. Maybe that'll get him started. 179 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:10,559 Speaker 5: No, I've got to get back to my stand. But well, 180 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:13,360 there's something I want to ask you about Uncle Billy. Oh, 181 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:15,480 I didn't know you knew yet, Kathy. I was afraid 182 00:09:15,519 --> 00:09:18,360 you'd be broken up with Myra. You remember last week, 183 00:09:18,399 --> 00:09:20,720 after that second big mystery fire downtown, you were telling 184 00:09:20,759 --> 00:09:23,559 us something about scrap celluloid and paraffin wicks. Can you 185 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:25,679 tell me again what it was you said about celluloid? 186 00:09:25,799 --> 00:09:28,039 But what's this got to do with old Bill Kungley? 187 00:09:28,039 --> 00:09:30,120 That's what I'm trying to find out. Billy found some 188 00:09:30,159 --> 00:09:32,039 scrap celluloid somewhere earlier tonight. 189 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:34,000 Speaker 10: And Kathy, you're not trying to say you think old 190 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:35,639 Uncle Billy was a firebug. 191 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:37,960 Speaker 5: Of all the people in the world who wouldn't go 192 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:40,279 in for ars, Myira, you said, the firebug who's been 193 00:09:40,279 --> 00:09:43,960 setting those big downtown fires probably you celluloid and paraffin wicks. 194 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:46,600 Celluloid because it burns fast and doesn't leave ash or odor, 195 00:09:46,759 --> 00:09:49,240 and paraffin wicks before that to get Kathy child, have 196 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:52,559 you lost your mind? Poor old Bill was drowned, not 197 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:55,360 burned to death. Thanks Myra, I'll explain later. I've got 198 00:09:55,399 --> 00:10:04,960 to see Adam Sadwick again. Fast. Adam, you've got to 199 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:06,840 call the police in again and clear the park. 200 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:09,200 Speaker 4: Dick it easy, Kathy, what's this all about? 201 00:10:09,399 --> 00:10:12,080 Speaker 5: I'm not sure now that Uncle Billy wasn't murdered, and 202 00:10:12,159 --> 00:10:13,559 if he was, I think I know why. 203 00:10:14,279 --> 00:10:16,720 Speaker 4: Wait a minute, where'd you get this wild idea? 204 00:10:16,879 --> 00:10:19,159 Speaker 5: You know the pipe tobacco Billy always used. Well, it 205 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:19,919 doesn't come in. 206 00:10:19,879 --> 00:10:22,279 Speaker 4: A blue can, all right, maybe it doesn't. 207 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:24,759 Speaker 5: There was scrap cellulard in that blue can when Billy 208 00:10:24,759 --> 00:10:26,240 showed it to me, and that could mean that Billy 209 00:10:26,279 --> 00:10:28,840 found signs of that firebug getting ready to operate here. 210 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:31,879 The same firebug is that those two big fires downtown 211 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:34,720 last week? And Adam, if it is the firebug, and 212 00:10:34,759 --> 00:10:36,679 if he's out there somewhere in that crowd waiting for 213 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:39,320 his chance to touch the place off, it will Kathy? 214 00:10:39,519 --> 00:10:42,720 Speaker 9: Perhaps, oh, Adam you will tomorrow or Monday at the 215 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:45,639 coroner's in quest. You can call us homicide, attempted ours 216 00:10:45,679 --> 00:10:47,759 and anything you like. And if the cops want to 217 00:10:47,799 --> 00:10:51,440 have another quiet look around, I'll cooperate all away. But 218 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:54,480 I know they won't find anything, so I'm not letting 219 00:10:54,519 --> 00:10:56,000 you go off half cock tonight. 220 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:58,080 Speaker 5: You can't really stop me, Adam. I could phone the 221 00:10:58,120 --> 00:10:58,919 police right now, and. 222 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:03,120 Speaker 9: Yeah, haven't a wrap of evidence. Get back here gallery, Cathy, 223 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:05,879 forget all this nonsense about a firebug, be it loose, 224 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:06,480 but there. 225 00:11:06,399 --> 00:11:09,639 Speaker 5: Is a firebug loose, loose and operating all through this area. 226 00:11:09,799 --> 00:11:11,679 You've seen about it in the papers yourself. 227 00:11:11,879 --> 00:11:14,440 Speaker 9: I saw where a girl has herself tripless last night 228 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:17,080 at the hospital over town. That mean I have to 229 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:20,440 open an emergency maternity clinic here next to the roller coaster. 230 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:21,679 Speaker 10: Now. 231 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:23,799 Speaker 4: The thing to remember, Kathy, A thing. 232 00:11:23,799 --> 00:11:26,559 Speaker 5: I'll remember, Adam, is that I don't think Uncle Billy 233 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:29,159 was drinking it all tonight and he was trying to 234 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:30,720 find out about that celluloid. 235 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 6: Hi, Kathy, that was a pretty long ten minutes. But 236 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,840 I took in four fifty for you four seventy five, 237 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:53,120 as a matter of fact, because I owe you a 238 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:54,919 quarter for another clip I shot off myself. 239 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:56,480 Speaker 4: How's that for your new partner? Huh? 240 00:11:56,480 --> 00:11:59,039 Speaker 5: Thanks, Bob, it was wonderful. Are you to stand by 241 00:11:59,159 --> 00:11:59,440 for me? 242 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:02,440 Speaker 4: It was a pleasure. You'll find the money there in 243 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:04,360 the register, and if you want, I'll start replacing those 244 00:12:04,399 --> 00:12:06,039 clay pipes last couple knocked off. 245 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:08,360 Speaker 5: Thanks for I think I'll be closing up the gallery now. 246 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:10,600 Speaker 4: Closing up. It isn't past ten thirty. 247 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:12,120 Speaker 5: Yet, I know, but there's something I have to do. 248 00:12:12,919 --> 00:12:16,120 Speaker 4: Hey here, let me help you with those shutters. What 249 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:18,159 is it you have to do? All of a sudden, Kathy. 250 00:12:18,399 --> 00:12:20,240 Speaker 5: I have to find a man who may be somewhere 251 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:20,480 in the. 252 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:25,399 Speaker 4: Park, A man I suppose I shouldn't ask about him. 253 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:27,559 Speaker 5: This isn't anybody I know, Bob, or anybody I want 254 00:12:27,559 --> 00:12:30,559 to know. But if he's here, I have to find him. 255 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:32,840 Speaker 6: Look, Kathy, cut me down if I'm out of line. 256 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:35,279 But I was hoping you'd let me take you out 257 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:36,799 for a while after you finished you tonight. 258 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:39,600 Speaker 5: That's sweet of you, but not tonight because. 259 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:40,480 Speaker 4: Of this man you've got to find. 260 00:12:43,759 --> 00:12:47,799 Speaker 5: Yeah, that closes the place up, Yes, Bob. Because of 261 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:50,960 this man I've got to find at least try to 262 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:51,879 find I don't. 263 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:53,600 Speaker 4: Get it, Kathy. Didn't you say it was someone you 264 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:54,720 don't know and don't want to know. 265 00:12:54,879 --> 00:12:59,039 Speaker 5: That's right. I think he's a piratemain. Isn't that what 266 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:01,320 they call a firebug? Man likes to start fires? 267 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:02,559 Speaker 4: Well? 268 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 5: Sure, And what's more, I think he may be a murderer. 269 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:08,360 Speaker 4: Oh wait a minute, Kathy. We don't know each other 270 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:11,120 very well yet. But if you think i'd let you 271 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:13,039 or any girl go off alone in search of the 272 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:14,639 kind of trouble you're talking about. 273 00:13:14,399 --> 00:13:16,279 Speaker 5: It all right, then Bob, you can come along with 274 00:13:16,279 --> 00:13:19,399 me if you want. You really mean that, well, I'd 275 00:13:19,399 --> 00:13:21,639 probably need some help anyhow, if I ever caught up 276 00:13:21,639 --> 00:13:24,799 with this man. And since Adam and Tipper Trask won't 277 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:25,360 believe me. 278 00:13:25,399 --> 00:13:28,159 Speaker 4: Kathy watched this all about. 279 00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:30,240 Speaker 5: Well, Bob, a harmless old man was drowned here tonight, 280 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:32,840 and I think he was knocked out first or held 281 00:13:32,879 --> 00:13:35,759 under the water till it happened, because I think he'd 282 00:13:35,759 --> 00:13:38,720 found a man putting celluloid or kerosene where it could 283 00:13:38,759 --> 00:13:40,519 threaten every building here in the park. 284 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:54,000 Speaker 10: And the thing I mean to find out, all right, honey, 285 00:13:54,039 --> 00:13:56,200 if you have to know, I'll tell you. But I 286 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:57,799 think you and this nice young man ought to be 287 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:01,159 off dancing somewhere instead of plaguing me about arson wicks. 288 00:14:01,519 --> 00:14:03,720 Speaker 4: That's what I've been trying to tell Kathy, Madame Miranda, 289 00:14:03,759 --> 00:14:04,600 but she won't listen. 290 00:14:04,799 --> 00:14:06,960 Speaker 5: Just describe the wicks again for me, Mara, I want 291 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:08,279 to be sure we'll know what they look like. 292 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:10,639 Speaker 10: Well, you could call it a very fancy way of 293 00:14:10,639 --> 00:14:13,080 playing with matches, Kathy. You see, the idea of the 294 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:15,519 thing is to give the firebugs some clear getaway time 295 00:14:15,639 --> 00:14:18,919 before the fire actually breaks out. If you took any 296 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:21,000 kind of a lamp wick or rolled up piece of 297 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:23,440 cloth about well as long as this pencils say, and 298 00:14:23,679 --> 00:14:25,919 soaked it in taro or a paraffe. 299 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:28,080 Speaker 4: Or bacon faed. If you don't have any paraffine. 300 00:14:27,639 --> 00:14:30,159 Speaker 10: Well yes, I suppose nearly any kind of grease would do. 301 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:33,120 The thing to do, Kathy, once you have some wicks 302 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:35,600 is to time one or two samples for their burning time. 303 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:38,440 Then you put a collar of matches in one end, 304 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:40,960 sewing a tabium on just belly enough to hold so 305 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:43,039 they'll pop out every which way when the wick burns 306 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:43,799 up to the matches. 307 00:14:43,919 --> 00:14:46,679 Speaker 5: A lot of matches fastened on dozens of them. 308 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:49,639 Speaker 10: Then if you set this wick near a pileup scrap 309 00:14:49,679 --> 00:14:53,000 celluloid a waste paper somewhere under some dry wooden shelves 310 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:54,440 or crates where if I can get a good star. 311 00:14:54,559 --> 00:14:56,240 Speaker 5: Thanks Mar. I'm pretty sure we'll know what to look 312 00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:56,679 for now. 313 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:58,919 Speaker 6: I think if the guy exists, and if he did 314 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:00,720 look in here earlier tonight, and if he had any 315 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:02,960 kind of sense, he'd be miles away by now. 316 00:15:03,039 --> 00:15:03,279 Speaker 2: Bob. 317 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:05,559 Speaker 5: If our man taught the way normal people do, he 318 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:08,519 wouldn't be what he is. Are you coming with me 319 00:15:08,559 --> 00:15:09,720 to have a look around the park or not? 320 00:15:09,919 --> 00:15:11,879 Speaker 4: I'll tag along till you give up, Kathy, And then 321 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:14,000 I still think we ought to be reconsidering that late 322 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:14,960 date I asked. 323 00:15:14,679 --> 00:15:18,320 Speaker 10: About Kathy one fifty cents worth of fortune telling for free. 324 00:15:18,519 --> 00:15:20,480 Speaker 5: I'll go ahead, Marra, make fun of me some more. 325 00:15:20,559 --> 00:15:22,679 Speaker 10: No, no, honey, I'm not making fun of you now. 326 00:15:23,519 --> 00:15:26,120 I say, if you think you've got anything, go out 327 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:28,639 and get some law in on it, whatever Adam says. 328 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:31,840 If you don't, you could well you could be taking 329 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:33,039 on more than your booin. 330 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:35,120 Speaker 5: For Thanks Mar. But I'm still gonna have my look around. 331 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:38,080 Speaker 4: We're gonna have our look, Kathy, I told you I've 332 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:41,879 signed up for the duration. Except just remember there's supposed 333 00:15:41,919 --> 00:15:44,799 to be a mighty fine moon coming up around midnight. 334 00:16:01,159 --> 00:16:04,759 Speaker 3: Hey, look at hey, Okay, buy your tickets by this strip. 335 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:08,279 A thrill for young and old and every ageing between. 336 00:16:08,679 --> 00:16:11,039 You can't take it with you and hold on to 337 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:13,720 And it's Saturday night at Adam's Paradise. 338 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:23,960 Speaker 5: Hey, Bob, Bob, look at that man just over beyond 339 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:26,679 the merry ground. Well there he's standing, half hidden by 340 00:16:26,679 --> 00:16:27,399 that poster board. 341 00:16:27,519 --> 00:16:30,240 Speaker 4: Oh oh, sure, I see him now, what's special about him? 342 00:16:30,279 --> 00:16:32,600 Speaker 5: But don't you see what he's doing? That's the hose 343 00:16:32,639 --> 00:16:34,799 outlet leading down from one of the three emergency water 344 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:35,440 tanks in the. 345 00:16:35,399 --> 00:16:37,600 Speaker 4: Park, Bullet, and he's trying to turn that thing on, 346 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:38,559 isn't it perse he is? 347 00:16:38,559 --> 00:16:40,840 Speaker 5: And it's marked hands off as plenty as you could ask. 348 00:16:40,919 --> 00:16:41,480 Speaker 4: Why would he be? 349 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:43,159 Speaker 5: He could be trying to drain off all the extra 350 00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:45,039 water pressure to hurt the fire fighting later. 351 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:46,679 Speaker 4: Come on, wait a minute, Kathy, shouldn't we wait? 352 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:52,600 Speaker 5: No, we gotta stop him, Bob, come on, Hey, what 353 00:16:52,639 --> 00:16:54,519 do you think you're trying to do? Mister? Don't you 354 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:56,639 know you're not supposed to fall around with those water tanks. 355 00:16:56,840 --> 00:16:57,600 Speaker 4: Well, what do you know? 356 00:16:57,720 --> 00:16:58,159 Speaker 7: What do you know? 357 00:16:58,559 --> 00:17:00,879 Speaker 4: You folks thirsty? To is that what you think? That 358 00:17:00,919 --> 00:17:02,240 thing is? A drinking fountain? 359 00:17:02,279 --> 00:17:03,879 Speaker 11: I don't know what it is, except they ought to 360 00:17:03,879 --> 00:17:06,319 have some water in it. If they don't have any 361 00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:07,519 fountains around they. 362 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:09,920 Speaker 5: Have, there's one just over by the roller skating right there. 363 00:17:10,079 --> 00:17:13,319 Speaker 11: Well, thank you, late, thank you. Didn't see how I 364 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:16,599 was gonna get this open without her and chennyhow you 365 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:16,920 say it? 366 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:17,880 Speaker 10: So there by the. 367 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:20,039 Speaker 5: Skating rink, Yes, you can see it from here by 368 00:17:20,039 --> 00:17:21,079 those benches, so. 369 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:23,680 Speaker 6: You can, so you can watch me go over and 370 00:17:23,839 --> 00:17:28,160 drink and ride. Well, that lets him out, doesn't the Cathy? 371 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:30,599 He's heading straight for the drinking Wait. 372 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:33,960 Speaker 5: Let's watch him for a minute. You could have been 373 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:35,400 making that up about it, Not that. 374 00:17:35,559 --> 00:17:37,759 Speaker 4: Character, Kathy. Look at him. He's got a grip on 375 00:17:37,759 --> 00:17:40,000 the fountain now, and he's drinking away like a camel 376 00:17:40,039 --> 00:17:42,640 back from a ten day desert run. He's really thirsty. 377 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:44,319 Speaker 5: Yes, admit it looks that. 378 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:46,759 Speaker 4: I'll tell you what, Kathy. We've been patrolling around out 379 00:17:46,799 --> 00:17:48,720 for nearly an hour. Let's have one ride on the 380 00:17:48,799 --> 00:17:50,480 roller coaster here before we start again. 381 00:17:50,519 --> 00:17:52,039 Speaker 5: Huh, but we won't be able to watch people in 382 00:17:52,079 --> 00:17:52,480 the croub. 383 00:17:52,519 --> 00:17:54,359 Speaker 4: From up there, you'll be able to see the whole park, 384 00:17:54,359 --> 00:17:56,599 and it'll give our feet arrest. Okay, just one ride? 385 00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 5: Well I suppose one ride won't lose this too much? 386 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:33,359 Speaker 4: A girl, let's go. 387 00:18:20,079 --> 00:18:23,279 Speaker 5: Having fun, Kathy, Bob, I really think we should refasten 388 00:18:23,319 --> 00:18:24,440 these safety billfoy, do you. 389 00:18:24,359 --> 00:18:25,799 Speaker 4: Want to take all the throw out of it? Only 390 00:18:25,839 --> 00:18:27,519 real excitement on these is taking a chance. 391 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:30,160 Speaker 5: Hang on, Bob. This drops wig again, then takes a 392 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:31,119 hard turn at the bottom. 393 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:33,599 Speaker 4: Right. I'll just hang on to you, Kathy. He's the 394 00:18:33,599 --> 00:18:34,960 best breeze we've had all night. 395 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:39,720 Speaker 5: Let's hold my head. I can't hold the bar. 396 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:42,039 Speaker 4: Okay, but what's your up with no hands? Look, I'm 397 00:18:42,039 --> 00:18:42,920 not holding on, Bob. 398 00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:43,960 Speaker 5: You'll be thrown out of the car. 399 00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:45,920 Speaker 4: Watch me. I used to stand up in these threats. 400 00:18:47,279 --> 00:18:50,440 Speaker 10: Get here, you, Kathy. 401 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:50,839 Speaker 4: What you say? 402 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:53,759 Speaker 5: Don't lean against me, You'll push me out of the car. 403 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:56,559 Get down, don't you tore on? 404 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:59,119 Speaker 4: Knock you down? You want to get yourself here? That 405 00:18:59,240 --> 00:18:59,759 man is right. 406 00:19:00,359 --> 00:19:04,440 Speaker 5: It's how many fastness? Thank you about again? Here comes 407 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:05,079 the last turn. 408 00:19:11,519 --> 00:19:15,640 Speaker 4: Golly, Kathy, I do owe you an apology. Always get 409 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:17,519 to kick out of these roller coasters. But I certainly 410 00:19:17,559 --> 00:19:18,720 didn't mean to be reckless about it. 411 00:19:18,799 --> 00:19:20,559 Speaker 5: I'm sure you didn't realize it, Bob, but you did 412 00:19:20,559 --> 00:19:23,240 almost have us in danger back there. At least you 413 00:19:23,279 --> 00:19:25,839 almost had me in danger. That man behind us hadn't 414 00:19:25,839 --> 00:19:27,720 spoken up when he did a couple of minutes there. 415 00:19:27,759 --> 00:19:30,759 Speaker 4: I guess I was acting like a ten year old, Bob. 416 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:32,160 What is it, Kathy, Bob? 417 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:34,319 Speaker 5: I just noticed something. You see the back of the 418 00:19:34,319 --> 00:19:36,799 Tunnel of Love building over there, Tunnel of Love, the 419 00:19:36,839 --> 00:19:39,440 place where Uncle Billy's body was found. From the ground, 420 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:41,319 I wouldn't have remembered how closely it backs up to 421 00:19:41,319 --> 00:19:43,319 the old House of Fun. But from up here on 422 00:19:43,319 --> 00:19:45,920 this platform you can see that there's only a narrow 423 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:46,920 alley between them. 424 00:19:47,039 --> 00:19:49,319 Speaker 4: I can see a lot of old wooden buildings down together. 425 00:19:49,359 --> 00:19:51,519 Speaker 5: You realized before that House of Fun building has been 426 00:19:51,519 --> 00:19:53,759 closed for two seasons, and of course it would be 427 00:19:53,799 --> 00:19:55,759 target number one for anybody who wanted to start a 428 00:19:55,759 --> 00:19:56,519 bad fire here. 429 00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:58,759 Speaker 4: Oh, read back on that again, back. 430 00:19:58,559 --> 00:20:00,279 Speaker 5: On it, Bob, and I think this time we may 431 00:20:00,279 --> 00:20:02,440 be near an answer. Come on, we're having a look 432 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:28,079 inside there. What a break into an old junk room 433 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:32,359 like this, someone did no longer go than the night well. 434 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:34,480 You saw how that door nearest the tunnel of love 435 00:20:34,519 --> 00:20:35,359 had been forced open. 436 00:20:35,599 --> 00:20:37,079 Speaker 4: If it hadn't been, we wouldn't have been able to 437 00:20:37,079 --> 00:20:39,640 get in ourselves. But I still don't see what anybody 438 00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:42,240 would be wanting in this dusty old barracks, except maybe 439 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:42,720 some kids. 440 00:20:42,759 --> 00:20:44,920 Speaker 5: This is exactly the kind of a place the fire 441 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:47,880 bugle to hope for, didn't you see it, Bob? See 442 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:50,559 what get a firewell started here in the whole park 443 00:20:50,599 --> 00:20:52,920 could go up before they got it under control. It's 444 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:55,519 a fire travel right, I'll grant you that. From a narcist. 445 00:20:55,519 --> 00:20:58,720 It's even better than that, Bob. Almost anywhere else on 446 00:20:58,759 --> 00:21:00,759 the grounds of fire might be no before it got 447 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:03,599 very far, but here it could be roaring up before 448 00:21:03,599 --> 00:21:04,839 anybody even knew it was starting. 449 00:21:04,839 --> 00:21:08,799 Speaker 4: Oh, Kathy, I didn't want to say this before because 450 00:21:08,839 --> 00:21:11,160 I was hoping you give up on this obsession after 451 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:14,720 a session, Yes, obsession. I was hoping you'd give up 452 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:17,559 on it and we could go out tonight. If you're 453 00:21:17,599 --> 00:21:20,079 going to waste the whole evening poking around in places 454 00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:21,000 like this, what are you. 455 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:24,960 Speaker 5: Trying to say, Bob, that you think, as the others do, 456 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:27,920 that this is a crazy notion I have about Uncle 457 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:29,799 Billy discovering the firebug at work here. 458 00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:32,680 Speaker 4: You keep saying firebug, Kathy. You think a man with 459 00:21:32,759 --> 00:21:34,960 courage and brains enough to burn up a whole warehouse 460 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:36,759 or apartment building and get away with it as someone 461 00:21:36,839 --> 00:21:39,119 to brush off with a ridiculous name like that. 462 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:44,079 Speaker 5: Bob, he wouldn't be defending a man crazy enough to know. 463 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:47,440 Speaker 4: I wasn't trying to defend him. I just think you 464 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:49,799 ought to remember there might be two sides to everything. 465 00:21:50,759 --> 00:21:55,039 Speaker 5: Robi almost frightened me. You seem bent on taking this 466 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:58,319 maniac's part, and a moment ago you were denying that 467 00:21:58,359 --> 00:21:59,920 there could be any such man. 468 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:06,559 Speaker 4: Kathy, I, I guess this is my night for arguing 469 00:22:06,599 --> 00:22:09,200 around in circles. All I really want is to get 470 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:11,279 out of this place pretty soon and get started on 471 00:22:11,319 --> 00:22:14,359 our plane, old fashioned Saturday night date, just the two 472 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:16,640 of us, with no complications at all. 473 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:19,960 Speaker 5: But Bob, I've almost enough now to prod Adam into action. 474 00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:23,200 This old house of fun broken into at the door 475 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:26,279 nearest the back of the tunnel of love, and Bob 476 00:22:26,319 --> 00:22:30,000 looked there, What there there? Were my flashlights pointing? Isn't 477 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:32,400 that a pile of scrap celluloid next to that stack 478 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:33,240 of old empty crates? 479 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:34,119 Speaker 4: Let's have a look. 480 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:38,119 Speaker 5: Come on, oh, Bob, it is, and look at all 481 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:40,960 the old excelsior crammed into these crates. This is where 482 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:42,400 the fire was supposed to be started. 483 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:45,519 Speaker 4: Wait a minute, Kathy, this looks pretty careless here, I'll admit, 484 00:22:45,559 --> 00:22:47,920 But how do we know that excelsior wasn't just some 485 00:22:48,079 --> 00:22:50,119 packing material for whatever came in the crate? 486 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:53,599 Speaker 5: This celluloid was brought in here. There's never been anything 487 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:56,000 like it around the park. This is where the fire 488 00:22:56,119 --> 00:22:58,200 was to start. Bob, all arranged and ready for the 489 00:22:58,240 --> 00:22:59,279 candle or the arson. 490 00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:03,799 Speaker 4: Wick You know, Kathy, I I guess this is the 491 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:07,119 end of the trail. You've been the only one here 492 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:09,359 at the park smart enough to suspect what was planned 493 00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:11,599 for tonight, and now you've nearly proved it all the way. 494 00:23:11,839 --> 00:23:13,400 Speaker 5: No, it won't be the end of the trail until 495 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:17,480 we catch the firebug. But this means we can call 496 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:21,039 the police in and get started, and we'll just have 497 00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:23,640 to forget his Saturday night business when we show him this. 498 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:29,480 Speaker 4: Kathy, what makes you think your boss will even know 499 00:23:29,559 --> 00:23:30,119 about this. 500 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:36,160 Speaker 5: But we'll go and tell him now, of course, will we, Bob, 501 00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:37,200 what's the matter with you? 502 00:23:37,279 --> 00:23:39,200 Speaker 6: Of course you don't think it'd be a pity to 503 00:23:39,279 --> 00:23:41,440 spoil what could be one of the best fires and 504 00:23:41,559 --> 00:23:44,359 years around here, all these wooled wooden buildings that had 505 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:46,759 go sky high in flames, if just one little match 506 00:23:46,799 --> 00:23:48,079 were dropped here and they cell you. 507 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:51,519 Speaker 5: Logob, you've been the one all along. 508 00:23:51,759 --> 00:23:55,079 Speaker 4: Where'd you think you were going, Kathy risk? Wouldn't that 509 00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:57,200 be pretty foolish of me? Kathy, now that you know 510 00:23:57,240 --> 00:23:58,519 as much as you're doing, you're. 511 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:01,799 Speaker 5: The firebug'll kill old Billy when he found you getting 512 00:24:01,839 --> 00:24:02,599 set up here. 513 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:05,759 Speaker 4: That all fool came looking for trouble and he got it. 514 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:09,359 I didn't mind about him, but but I'm really going 515 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:13,480 to be sorry about you, Kathy. I wasn't fooling before 516 00:24:13,559 --> 00:24:14,759 when I said that I'd go for you. 517 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,680 Speaker 6: How ihead scream your head off with a couple of 518 00:24:18,759 --> 00:24:20,960 hundred women out screaming on the roller coaster on every 519 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:22,920 ride in the park, do you think anyone's gonna hear you? 520 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:24,519 Speaker 5: You couldn't be crazy enough to think you could get 521 00:24:24,519 --> 00:24:25,240 away with tumors. 522 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:28,039 Speaker 4: If I thought I could trust you, Kaffe, I'd much 523 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:30,640 rather take you along with me when I clear out 524 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:32,799 of here. Oh no, I don't try to twist away 525 00:24:32,839 --> 00:24:37,119 and get it. I'd like to take you along, but 526 00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:39,599 I've learned there's only one person in the world I 527 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:41,920 can depend on, and that's myself. 528 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:43,839 Speaker 5: Who wanted to push me out of the roller coaster. 529 00:24:44,759 --> 00:24:46,279 He knew even then that you'd have to try to 530 00:24:46,279 --> 00:24:46,759 get rid of me. 531 00:24:46,839 --> 00:24:48,319 Speaker 4: You happen to be the only one around here with 532 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:51,480 bad ideas about that old watchman, And was my luck 533 00:24:51,519 --> 00:24:53,839 to find that out when all I'd actually looked you 534 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:55,599 up for was to try for a date. 535 00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:57,839 Speaker 5: What's that you're taking out of your pocket? 536 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:01,599 Speaker 4: A handy little device you heard badly described by our 537 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:06,640 friend Madame Miranda. A much better, when I promise you, 538 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:09,839 than any of the old woman ever heard about. It's 539 00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:12,640 one O'll burn for exactly nine minutes before it sets off. 540 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:14,799 To tell you, Lloyd, time enough for me to take 541 00:25:14,839 --> 00:25:16,319 care of you and get all the way out of 542 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:18,440 the park before this building starts going up. 543 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:19,440 Speaker 5: Are insane? 544 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:23,960 Speaker 4: Aren't you call? It? Different from most people? Kathy? As 545 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,279 different as a smart wolf from a flock of tame, 546 00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:29,720 brainless sheep. Wait a minute now, and I set this 547 00:25:29,799 --> 00:25:31,480 down here by the cell, you lord, where I can 548 00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:36,599 get at it with one hand. Excitement happens to be 549 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:40,400 my pleasure. Kathy, you and all the rest of the 550 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:43,880 sheep are the ones who slave away and build the buildings. 551 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:46,400 But I'm the lone wolf who can burn them down 552 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:52,680 with one scratch of a match like this. Now, I 553 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:54,960 just get my nine minute wick started. 554 00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:12,279 Speaker 10: Look, Adam, I don't care if you've got six hundred 555 00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:14,480 or six thousand customers milling around out there. 556 00:26:14,559 --> 00:26:15,799 Speaker 4: I'm worried about Kathy. 557 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:20,519 Speaker 9: Okay, we'll put a report to the office announcement on 558 00:26:20,559 --> 00:26:23,160 the amplifier, and I'll throw Tipper and all the spare 559 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:24,000 of hands we've got on it. 560 00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:25,559 Speaker 10: Thanks, Adam, But I want you to come out on 561 00:26:25,599 --> 00:26:27,839 this with me yourself, if you'd only listen to Kathy 562 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:28,200 to start. 563 00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:31,640 Speaker 9: Okay, Okay, I'll trail along, will you, Mayra, where'd you 564 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:32,599 figure to start looking? 565 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:32,839 Speaker 7: Well? 566 00:26:33,279 --> 00:26:34,720 Speaker 10: I think there are just three places in the park 567 00:26:34,759 --> 00:26:37,200 where Kathy might not be able to keep everything under control. 568 00:26:37,279 --> 00:26:39,400 Speaker 4: Done by the water where the boardwalk's being. 569 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:41,960 Speaker 10: Repaired, that one, or down the basement of the power plant, 570 00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:43,680 or anywhere in the old House of fun. 571 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,599 Speaker 9: Let's try the power plant first. If any trouble ever 572 00:26:46,640 --> 00:27:06,880 started there, it could be plenty bad. Three of the 573 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,799 nine minutes gone, Kathy made your mind up. 574 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:12,000 Speaker 5: Yet you haven't given me much of a choice. 575 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,680 Speaker 4: Bob, That's all I can afford to give you. In 576 00:27:14,759 --> 00:27:17,759 six minutes, those matches will be popping off into the celluloid, 577 00:27:17,799 --> 00:27:19,000 and I've got to be out of here, in a 578 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:22,559 couple of miles away by then. How which way do 579 00:27:22,599 --> 00:27:23,119 you want it? 580 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:25,680 Speaker 5: It just knocked out and left here to burn. 581 00:27:25,599 --> 00:27:27,720 Speaker 4: Or really dead before I go. If you don't like 582 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:31,480 the idea of fire, I've been making fast and pretty painless. 583 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:34,319 You'd keep from twisting while I use this knife. 584 00:27:34,519 --> 00:27:35,640 Speaker 5: I suppose there's no use. 585 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:38,400 Speaker 4: Oh no, I can't take you with me. 586 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:41,319 Speaker 6: Even if you pretended you wanted to play along, I 587 00:27:41,319 --> 00:27:42,839 know you'd turn on me the first chance. 588 00:27:42,839 --> 00:27:46,880 Speaker 5: You've got fire or your knife? Which would you take? 589 00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:50,000 Speaker 4: Bob, That isn't even a choice. Of course, I'd take 590 00:27:50,079 --> 00:27:53,599 fire if it came down to that. I wouldn't have 591 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:57,440 to be knocked out either. Fires the cleanest, purest thing 592 00:27:57,480 --> 00:27:58,000 in the world. 593 00:27:58,160 --> 00:27:59,960 Speaker 5: You have time to put out that burning with Bob, 594 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:02,000 And if you gave yourself up and took treatment, maybe 595 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:02,799 you'd still have a chance. 596 00:28:02,799 --> 00:28:06,079 Speaker 6: I'd give the treatments. I don't take them. And that's 597 00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:08,400 all the time you get for stolling, Kathy? 598 00:28:10,039 --> 00:28:11,519 Speaker 4: Is it the knife? Or do I tap you on 599 00:28:11,559 --> 00:28:11,880 the head? 600 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:13,720 Speaker 5: Would you light me one final cigarette? Bob? 601 00:28:13,759 --> 00:28:16,160 Speaker 4: You said you hardly ever smoked, I hardly. 602 00:28:15,839 --> 00:28:19,000 Speaker 5: Ever get murdered, and don't all condemned people have a 603 00:28:19,079 --> 00:28:20,319 right to one last cigarette. 604 00:28:20,319 --> 00:28:22,359 Speaker 4: You won't have time to smoke it all the way. 605 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:25,079 Speaker 5: Just to get it started. Then I'll leave the next 606 00:28:25,079 --> 00:28:25,720 move up to you. 607 00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:26,599 Speaker 4: You will make a choice. 608 00:28:26,839 --> 00:28:29,000 Speaker 5: Put the cigarette in my mouth and get your match lighted. 609 00:28:29,279 --> 00:28:30,319 After that, it's up to you. 610 00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:36,759 Speaker 4: Okay, there's your cigarette, and here's your match. 611 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:42,039 Speaker 5: Thanks, Kathy, you're not that lighted match, And there goes 612 00:28:42,079 --> 00:28:43,279 your place. I had a schedule. 613 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:46,000 Speaker 4: You cross me, you cross. 614 00:28:45,799 --> 00:28:48,279 Speaker 5: Not Finally, No, it's flames so clean and fure anymore, 615 00:28:48,279 --> 00:28:50,559 are you? Bob? Don't waste time trying to stap it out. 616 00:28:50,599 --> 00:28:51,119 It's too late. 617 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:53,240 Speaker 6: It's not too late to knock you right in the middle. 618 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,440 Speaker 10: Too late, Bob, Look behind you, see who's coming. 619 00:28:56,319 --> 00:28:56,880 Speaker 5: Through the window. 620 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:02,640 Speaker 4: Okay, we got him covered, all right. You drop a 621 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:04,200 knife and come out of that. Nobody takes me. 622 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:05,960 Speaker 6: Alive, mister Noboddy, We got Kathy. 623 00:29:06,039 --> 00:29:08,039 Speaker 5: Look how he's not going after herr. He's running way 624 00:29:08,079 --> 00:29:08,559 back into the bar. 625 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:10,240 Speaker 10: Bob, come that. 626 00:29:10,519 --> 00:30:09,240 Speaker 12: Nobody takes me, Kathy, Nobody. 627 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:44,240 Speaker 10: M Kathy, Kathy, Honey, you're gonna be all right now 628 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:46,000 the fire is under control. 629 00:29:47,119 --> 00:29:49,759 Speaker 5: Yes, honey, did Bob get away? 630 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:52,440 Speaker 4: No? No, Kathy. 631 00:29:53,359 --> 00:29:56,039 Speaker 10: Bob finally caught up with enough fire to last him 632 00:29:56,039 --> 00:29:56,519 for keeps. 633 00:30:20,519 --> 00:30:23,599 Speaker 2: The chase was created for the National Broadcasting Company by 634 00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:27,720 Lawrence Clee. Tonight's script was written by Charles O'Neill in. 635 00:30:27,839 --> 00:30:32,960 Tonight's cast were Patsy Campbell, Bill Lifton, Sidney Smith, Adelaide, Kleine, 636 00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:38,400 Jack Lloyd, and Walter Black. Next Week, a disembodied voice 637 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:42,519 dictates a story of love and murder on the chase. 638 00:30:46,599 --> 00:30:50,160 The chase was directed and transcribed by Dan Setter. This 639 00:30:50,359 --> 00:30:52,160 is Arthur Gary speaking. 640 00:30:54,599 --> 00:30:59,160 Speaker 13: Ray Chimes Mean Good Times on NBC This Friday Evening. 641 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:01,559 Bob and Ray of You, a half hour of sparkling 642 00:31:01,599 --> 00:31:05,039 comedy than Mario Lanza, Lovely Jaselle McKenzie and Ray Sinotrin 643 00:31:05,079 --> 00:31:08,880 The orchestrasp like your favorite songs on the Mario Lanza Show, 644 00:31:09,319 --> 00:31:12,960 later the singing violins on music by Montovanni. 645 00:31:20,519 --> 00:31:23,799 Speaker 1: Welcome Back. Patsy Campbell does a great job in this 646 00:31:23,839 --> 00:31:27,279 as the amateur sleuth who sees a threat and investigates 647 00:31:27,359 --> 00:31:31,799 even though nobody takes her seriously. Having Bill as the 648 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:35,279 arsonist was a twist, and I liked how Bill left 649 00:31:35,319 --> 00:31:38,759 him played it. I've often critiqued some of the overtaught 650 00:31:38,799 --> 00:31:42,880 performances that we got from New York radio actors, but 651 00:31:43,279 --> 00:31:47,240 his performance is great as a crazy man who believes 652 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:50,799 he's saying and has a view of the world that 653 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:54,640 is saying to him, but is totally off the rails 654 00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:58,720 to everyone else, which is more realistic and I think 655 00:31:59,119 --> 00:32:02,400 a bit more gary then you're over the top mad man. 656 00:32:02,519 --> 00:32:06,319 It also makes him harder to spot, and I think 657 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:10,880 that while once he is really revealed as a firebug, 658 00:32:11,359 --> 00:32:17,359 he changes, it's not as big of a change as 659 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:20,720 you might see on something like Mister Keane. Now, of course, 660 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:22,720 I would say we did get a bit of a 661 00:32:22,799 --> 00:32:25,640 hint that something was not quite right with Bill with 662 00:32:25,759 --> 00:32:28,519 the scene on the roller coaster, and that was probably 663 00:32:28,519 --> 00:32:32,559 our first big clue implicating him now. Patsy Campbell was 664 00:32:32,559 --> 00:32:35,720 a veteran New York radio actress. From what I could 665 00:32:35,759 --> 00:32:39,400 find out, she did a lot of soap work, nothing 666 00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:42,640 I've ever listened to. She did do a couple of 667 00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:48,400 TV shows, just guest appearances. She did play the second 668 00:32:48,599 --> 00:32:52,680 Missus Burton on radio, which was featured in our Thanksgiving 669 00:32:52,799 --> 00:32:57,079 special on the Amazing World of Radio last year, but 670 00:32:57,359 --> 00:33:01,079 she played the role long before that that was featured 671 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:05,640 in that episode. More recognizable in this were some of 672 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:09,559 the supporting players. Adelaide Clime not only had a great 673 00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:12,519 radio career, but was noted for her appearance in the 674 00:33:12,519 --> 00:33:16,519 film The Naked City. And then you had Adam, who 675 00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:20,799 was played by Sidney Smith, who also was one of 676 00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:24,480 the actors who portrayed Ellery Queen. I do hope Adam 677 00:33:24,559 --> 00:33:28,720 gave Kathy a proper apology and a bonus for saving 678 00:33:28,839 --> 00:33:34,960 the amusement park. He besmirched Adams everywhere with his lackadaisical attitude, 679 00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:38,599 and it's the least that he could do to restore 680 00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:42,359 some honor to that fine name. A name that definitely 681 00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:45,039 has some honor is our Patreon supporter of the Day, 682 00:33:45,119 --> 00:33:47,440 and I want to go ahead and think Frank. Frank's 683 00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:51,319 been one of our Patreon supporters since January twenty twenty one, 684 00:33:51,759 --> 00:33:54,960 currently supporting the podcast at the rookie level of two 685 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:58,559 dollars or more per month. Thanks so much for your support, Frank, 686 00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:01,680 and that will do it for today. If you're enjoying 687 00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:06,160 the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software 688 00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:10,360 and we will be back tomorrow with the Adventures of 689 00:34:10,519 --> 00:34:13,320 the Falcon. Where what can I do for you? 690 00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:13,800 Speaker 5: Julian? 691 00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:16,320 Speaker 14: I am what you call the house detective here. 692 00:34:16,519 --> 00:34:17,480 Speaker 13: Oh, I'm glad to meet you. 693 00:34:17,599 --> 00:34:18,679 Speaker 1: Leanor is all mine? 694 00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:21,760 Speaker 14: Signor it is a great pleasure to greet my opposite 695 00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:25,039 number from the great democracy across the Atlantic. 696 00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:25,920 Speaker 8: How's that again? 697 00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:29,079 Speaker 14: Well? Are you not the private detective they call the 698 00:34:29,119 --> 00:34:30,239 Falcon only? 699 00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:31,599 Speaker 4: When I can think of anything worse? 700 00:34:32,199 --> 00:34:33,639 Speaker 14: You are here on business. 701 00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:35,039 Speaker 7: No, I've retired, Julian. 702 00:34:35,639 --> 00:34:38,480 Speaker 14: What ti pity? I had hoped to be allowed to cooperate. 703 00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:43,199 No one knows the criminal mind like Julio Fari Nacchi. 704 00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:47,159 I trust you will forgive me for mentioning it. But 705 00:34:47,599 --> 00:34:52,079 as one in the profession, you will understand what The 706 00:34:52,159 --> 00:34:55,039 senior who was just here you call him Kirby. 707 00:34:55,599 --> 00:34:56,400 Speaker 1: What about it. 708 00:34:56,400 --> 00:35:00,400 Speaker 14: It is an unusual American name. No, not too Why 709 00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:04,480 in the lobby yesterday I heard a funny lady college gentlemen, Kirby. 710 00:35:05,199 --> 00:35:08,719 He did not look like your friend you sure, yes, 711 00:35:09,079 --> 00:35:10,719 he was a tall, blonde man. 712 00:35:11,079 --> 00:35:13,480 Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime, 713 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:18,519 send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, 714 00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:22,800 follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and check us 715 00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:29,639 out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com slash Great Detectives from Boise, Idaho. 716 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:33,000 This is your host, Adam Graham. Sign and off.