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Speaker 1: The CBS Radio Mystery Theater Presents. Come in.

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Speaker 2: Welcome.

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Speaker 1: I'm e. G. Marshall, your guide through the macabre remains

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of the occult. Love, hatred, and revenge are accepted by

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us as part of our daily lives, but those who

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claim to know the spirit world a cure us that

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these emotions don't necessarily die with the death of a mortal,

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but are sometimes carried over into the hereafter.

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Speaker 2: Our tale deals with love, hatred, and revenge that reached.

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Speaker 1: From beyond the grave and made a mockery of the

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marriage vow till death do us part?

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Speaker 3: Honestly, Jack, do you think Vinny will come along with

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us on our honeymoon?

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Speaker 2: Too?

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Speaker 1: And don't talk like a fool? Vinnie is dead, forget him.

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He won't let us.

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Speaker 3: Your dear dead twin brother just won't let us alone.

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And it doesn't seem to bother you any more than

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it did when he was alive and tagged along on

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all our dates. Jack, I can't live with a girl.

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Speaker 1: All right, Anne? What do you want me to do?

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Kill him? You know as well as I that Finny's

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already dead.

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Speaker 3: Just make him stay that way, Jack, Just make Vinnie

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stay dead.

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Speaker 1: Our mystery drama. An Identical Murder was written especially for

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the Mystery Theater by Murray Burnett and stars William Redfield

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and Elliott Reid. He'll be back shortly with Act one.

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That thin line between love and hate has been walked

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by tellers of tales ever since tales have been told.

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For other storytellers, the line between life and death became

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a thoroughfare on which they balanced fascinating tales of terror. Today,

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we cross both lines, love and hate, life and death,

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as our path leads us to the ultimate unknown terror.

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Our guide along this path is a man named Harry Carlson,

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who's more experienced climbing mountains than dealing with the unknown.

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Let's set the record straight from the start. I'm not

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a man who sees things now, a guy with both

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feet on the ground, my head on straight, darnwell better be,

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because my hobby is mountain climbing, and the icy face

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of a mountain is no place for a guy with

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jumping nerves. The funny thing about what I have to

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tell you is that this whole bizarre benure started with

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a climb. The climb I made with the Bent and Twins.

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Speaker 2: I remember the three of us sitting in the warm tap.

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Speaker 1: Room of the Reagan Off talking about the climb. The

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map shows we shouldn't have too much trouble after we

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reached this point about halfway up the north face.

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Speaker 2: Right, Vinnie.

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Speaker 1: The tough part should come when we leave the trail.

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Speaker 2: I'm Jack, he's Benny.

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Speaker 1: You keep mixing us up when you think i'd be

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able to tell you apart after the last four years. Well, Harry,

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why should you be different than everyone else? People have

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been calling Jack Vinnie and me Jack ever since I

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can remember. Well, I'd love to talk more with you

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guys about people mistaking you for one another, but I

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think we're prepared for tomorrow's climb, and I had better

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hit the sack.

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Speaker 3: I'm just a lonely young lady looking for a day

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for anyone interesting.

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Speaker 1: And what are you doing in swits? Annie Darling? Pay

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no attention to my rude twin brother. I am delighted

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you're a year ah, Benny.

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Speaker 3: And I know you're Vinnie because Jack always says my

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brother and you say my twin brother.

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Speaker 1: And since you're such an observant, makes come here and

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put your arms around me, and I'll show you just

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how glad I am to see you.

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Speaker 3: You've made yourself a Hey my ribs, Jack, leave me

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my ribs. I'll need them for the slopes tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Oh what's this about slopes? I don't know how you

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got here, but now that you're here, there'll be no skiing.

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You're climbing with us tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: Please don't take this personally, but I have no head

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for heights. I'm all right on skis, but climbing is out.

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Speaker 1: If everyone knew their own limitations, there'd be a lot

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fewer accidents. Well, good night, we'll meet here tomorrow, right

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and early. Yeah, that seems like a good idea for

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all of us. Oh, what do you say, Jack.

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Speaker 3: If you don't mind, Vinny, there's something I want to

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discuss with Jack?

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Speaker 1: Oh, private, sort of? Well, I and you want to

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know by now that Jack and I have no secrets

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from each other. He'll he'll only tell me anyway.

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Speaker 3: Perhaps, Vinny, that's exactly what I want. Oh, it's beautiful

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up here, Jack, just beautiful.

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Speaker 1: And so are you Jack?

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Speaker 3: Jack, Please stop kissing here. I want to elope tonight.

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Speaker 2: What's wrong with that?

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Speaker 1: Vinny?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 3: From the conversation back in the tap room, I gather

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you hadn't told him about that yet.

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Speaker 1: That's right?

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Speaker 3: Are you going to tell him?

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Speaker 2: You know? I am.

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Speaker 1: It's just well, you know how Vinnie feels about you,

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and he is my twin brother, and don't I know it.

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What's that supposed to mean?

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Speaker 3: That I love you, not Vinnie, That I want to

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live with you.

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Speaker 1: Not Vinnie.

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Speaker 3: That It may be hard for even me to tell

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you apart physically, but there's a world of difference between you.

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I'm in love with you, Jack, and Vinnie had better

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be told and soon.

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Speaker 1: So that's why you've come. You've traveled four thousand miles

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to pick a fight now, not really.

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Speaker 3: My boss sent me to Paris to check on some

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designs and.

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Speaker 4: I was so close.

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Speaker 3: Well, I wanted to see you, and I was right.

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You still hadn't told Vinnie about us.

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Speaker 1: And it isn't easy. Vinnie loves you too.

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Speaker 3: But it's you I'm marrying. You.

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Speaker 1: Really don't understand how close Vinnie and I are. It's

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something well, being twins.

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Speaker 2: I can't explain it.

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Speaker 3: That's been the story of our entire courtship. Wherever we went,

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there went Vinnie. Also, sometimes I felt was if I

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were getting engaged to two men.

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Speaker 1: You never told me you felt this way.

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Speaker 3: I've been thinking this way for a long time, and I'm.

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Speaker 1: Desperate an amatum. No, I'm too much.

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Speaker 3: In love with you, Jack to give you ultimatums. All

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I want to know is, am I engaged to two men?

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If I am, tell me and I'll see whether I

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want to be. But tell me or tell him?

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Speaker 1: Vinnie, I have something to tell you. Oh, it's about Anne,

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isn't it. I should get you'd know We've always been

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able to read each other's thoughts. So aren't you going

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to congratulate me? Well, you've just lost me. I knew

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it was about Anne, But where do the uh congratulations

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come in?

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Speaker 2: Ann?

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Speaker 1: And I are going to be married? You dirty? Do?

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Speaker 2: Mine my back?

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Speaker 1: I hear you? I want to kill you. I won't

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kill you. Hey hear you?

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Speaker 5: Okay, I'm not gonna sit here and.

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Speaker 1: Wait you k me? You now? Are you gonna listen

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to me? Or do I have to bounce her ahead

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against the war? Okay, okay, okay, let me. I'm sorry.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry.

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Speaker 1: I blew my tote. What happened to you? I?

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 1: I honestly don't know Jack for a minute, I I

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really wanted to kill you. You almost did. Now calm

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down and let's talk about No. The only talking I'm

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gonna do is to tell you how sorry I am.

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I make it up to you, Jack, and I'll prove

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it with my wedding. Jack. How are you doing? No us,

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We're okay, Harry.

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Speaker 5: Let us do it chet beak m tough and.

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Speaker 1: There you go again, Harry. I am Jack, and I'm Vinnie.

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I'm doing okay too. How far are we from the Senate?

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Speaker 5: He just said it comes out jutt the low man

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on the line, and Pey doing that right right?

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Speaker 1: How far from the connect? Not too far?

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Speaker 5: How long is Peter so oh trouble?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: A little? Oh?

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Speaker 2: What is it?

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Speaker 3: Here's a pretty easy players in the SunNet.

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Speaker 1: But it gets there. It looks like a tough cover, right,

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borrow me?

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Speaker 5: How tough?

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to get you got.

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Speaker 5: I started on it until I don't.

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Speaker 1: Look about it. Well, how long do you think it'll take?

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 1: Not too long?

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Speaker 5: On fine my rope.

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Speaker 1: You guys do all right, We'll be fine. Hey, Wednesday's

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been getting stronger.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was poor.

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Speaker 1: I'm to be real broke.

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Speaker 5: Send me up and forget summit and.

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Speaker 3: Start back down.

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Speaker 5: Huh No, let's give it a try, Harry, go and

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Speaker 1: Look at the traverse.

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Speaker 5: Okay, watch yourself, say you hang on to my rope all.

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Speaker 1: Right, I'm hard to get when I would turn.

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Speaker 5: Hey, that winds really rising you okay?

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Speaker 1: Jack? Fine? Ben? How about Joe. Well, I'd like it

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better if we were a little closing together. Can you

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come up a few steps?

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Speaker 3: Why not hang on to the road, Ryan, Okay, hang.

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Speaker 5: Man, don't let the rope go flat.

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Speaker 1: I'm having tumble. I'm flipping. What what did I get here?

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You are instant. I can't get a foot all of it.

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I'm flipping. I was almost across the travers and I

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heard the scream, then the slide. My stomach told me

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what had happened. I looked, and I saw the one

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man clean desperately to the face of the mountain.

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Speaker 2: The empty rope dangling from his waist.

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Speaker 5: Hang on, I'm coming to get you.

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Speaker 1: Hang on. I couldn't help it. I tried, but he

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was He was gone before I could get the rope

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around me.

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Speaker 5: Tomorrow, and don't think about it, Benny.

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Speaker 6: Just hang on to Larry.

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Speaker 4: I'm not Billy, I'm Jack.

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Speaker 5: Why wasn't Jack below you? I could have sworn that

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Vinny was were you?

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Speaker 1: And he's gone dead and I'll be following him unless

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you get to me. You can call me anything you want,

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but whatever you call me, the fact remains that I'm

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Jack and Vinny's at the bottom of the mountain.

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Speaker 2: I traded gone back to the Orangehoff.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know which I feared most, losing a man

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for my team or having to tell Anne Slater that

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Vinnie had plunged to his death. Fortunately Jack spared me

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the latter ordeal, but I was put in the middle

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of a strange and painful scene. Folt was mine, man,

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all mine. Then he called to me, and I pulled

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on the rope and it slipped, and then he was gone.

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I oh, I'll never forgive myself never.

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Speaker 2: That's the wrong way to think.

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Speaker 1: I haven't heard An say it's wrong. In fact, I

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haven't heard An say anything since we came back.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what to say. I'm too shocked.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's understandable. Maybe we ought to get a doctor.

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Speaker 3: Oh what am I saying? I called you?

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Speaker 1: Of course, of course Vinnie is on your mind, and no, Jack.

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Speaker 3: Don't don't hold me. I just wanna be alone. Oh,

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I'm sorry. I'll see you in the morning.

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Speaker 1: Look though it's gonna be a difficult situation for you, Jack,

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she'll get over it. She has to, because she's a

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girl I love and I'm going to marry. A few

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months passed, I expected to read the announcement of the

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wedding between Jack Benton and a Slater, but all I

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heard was that they were seen around town together and

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no data been set until one day at my office,

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I looked up up him and Slater stood there. Well,

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if she wasn't the vivacious, laughing girl I remembered, with

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a frightened, confused woman on the razor edge of a breakdown.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Harry, really sorry. I I shouldn't have come,

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but I Oh, you don't think I'm crazy, do you now?

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Speaker 1: I am?

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Speaker 2: Sit down, Let me get your drink.

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Speaker 3: You were there. You're the only one I could think

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of who might be able.

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Speaker 1: To to help Brandy coffee.

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Speaker 3: He's dad, isn't he?

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Speaker 1: You were there?

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Speaker 2: Uh, and try to get hold of yourself.

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Speaker 3: What is it? That's what Jack keeps telling me. He says,

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it's all in my mind.

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Speaker 1: But I know it isn't It isn't, And why didn't

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she start somewhere and explain so that I can understand?

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Speaker 3: It's Jack?

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Speaker 1: I'm Vinny, Vinny.

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Speaker 3: You know how close Jack and Vinnie were, But what

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you couldn't know is that all the time Jack and

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I were dating, Vinnie was along.

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Speaker 2: What does that happen? Do they help me?

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Speaker 3: But I think we still are. I think we still

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are a threesome.

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Speaker 1: According to medical science, identical twins have the same heartbeat,

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the same skin, hair tones, and if you took a

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voice print, you would find that, although the voice might

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vary in pitch and tom, they would follow a somewhat

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similar pattern. The question is would a woman be able

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to tell the difference between identical twins if she loves

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one of them. I'll return shortly with that too. Two's

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company and three's a crowd. But I'm puzzled about which

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kind of a third party on a date is more

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to disturbing a dull and insensitive bore who refuses to

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take any hints about leaving, or an unseen but definitely

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felt presence.

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Speaker 2: In other words, a ghost.

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Speaker 1: M slater is trying to explain how she feels about

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this ghostly third party. As we continue with our strange tale.

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Speaker 3: I feel so so disloyal. You must remember, I'm the

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one who's supposed to help Jack forget about his brother's

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unfortunate accident, and it seems I just keep reminding him

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of them instead.

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Speaker 2: Man, you still haven't made it clear to me.

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Speaker 3: Just why wherever we go then he's with us.

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Speaker 2: Well it's not possible in his.

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Speaker 3: Day, I know, I know that, but just listen. Last

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night we went to the pump room for dinner.

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Speaker 1: Ah, good evening, monsieur madame. I have your favor over here.

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As you'll see, monsieur, it's set for fall. But i'd

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have the busboy removed two pless settings and you will

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have my room. Oh thank you, Captain, I appreciate that.

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And miss your may I recommend our special salad. They

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are all on the table up front. You meself, you'll say, ah,

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thank you, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 3: And then then the strangest thing happened. Jack and I

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sat at the table, and you must believe me, we

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saw the bus boy clear away the other two place settings.

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We went to the salad table, and when we came

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back there was a third setting.

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Speaker 1: Well that's easily accounting for maybe another bus boy started

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to set up the table for four.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, then tell me how you account for the fact

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that the third place had a salad plate heaped with

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caesar salad.

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Speaker 1: Caesar salad, I remember it. That's Vinnie's favorite.

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Speaker 3: Well maybe Jack, we were together at the salad table

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every minute, and we came back together.

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Speaker 2: Well, Jack, say what.

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Speaker 3: He always says when this happens.

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Speaker 1: Forget it, man.

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Speaker 2: He isn't as concerned about this as you are.

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Speaker 3: Mm. That's another thing that's bothering me. He's concerned. I

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know he's concerned, but he won't admit it. Do you

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think he's trying to act as if everything were normal

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so as not to upset me?

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't.

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Speaker 1: You think that's a strong possibility, But.

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Speaker 3: There are other possibilities.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what you mean.

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Speaker 3: I hope you will when I tell you what happened

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a week ago at an amusement park. Oh, Mark, Jack,

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cotton candy. I haven't had cotton candy in ye.

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Speaker 1: Well, then you'll have a big giant portion.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, it's too fattening. Just a small one will

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be fine.

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Speaker 1: You'll see here you are, darling.

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Speaker 3: Oh, thank you Jack, Oh.

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Speaker 1: I wish I could make your eyes sparkle and your

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lips smile that way when I'm not bringing.

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Speaker 3: You cotton delicious but sticky and m Could you.

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Speaker 2: Hear what I said?

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Speaker 3: And I'm sorry?

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Speaker 2: Oh, what's wrong?

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Speaker 1: Why can't I make you happy the way I used to?

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Speaker 2: It's my fault.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm all mixed up about us, about us and Vinnie.

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Speaker 1: And look, Bennie's dead. We just have to forget him.

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Speaker 3: He won't let us.

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Speaker 1: He just won't.

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Speaker 3: And you don't seem to understand. Sometimes I think your

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voice sounds just like Minnie. But maybe I've mistaken you

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for Oh, forgive me. I just don't know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: All right, it's all right now. Look, I've known a

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lot of girls, you know that, but you are the

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one I want to marry, not just for your looks,

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but for your wonderful sweetness and sensitivity. I know how

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you must have felt about Benny always tagging along. It

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was only natural that when you heard he died, at

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first you well I suppose you were glad. No, to

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be honest with yourself, only at first you were glad

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that he was out of the way. And because you're

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feeling guilty about it, You're letting that feeling leave you

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into imagining all sorts of ridiculous things.

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Speaker 3: You think that should be the explanation, darling, I'm sure

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of it.

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Speaker 1: Now. Look, let's just forget all about this, let me

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and enjoy ourselves. Which do you wanna try? The slide

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or the shoot shooter?

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Speaker 2: Sah?

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Speaker 1: You wait right here, I'll get the ticket.

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Speaker 3: But Jack, I wanna Jack come back a minute. No, no, no, listen.

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I heard sweet too, just cause the jack were right

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beside me. But how could that be? He was alf

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buying tickets.

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Speaker 2: I heard it.

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Speaker 1: I heard it, alright, alright, alright then, alright now you

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thought you no one believes me.

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Speaker 2: I'm I'm not sure what did you want me to

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believe in.

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Speaker 3: You were also there when it happened on the mountain,

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you would know definitely which one of them fell.

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Speaker 1: I heard the shouts, but I didn't actually see.

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Speaker 3: There's one way we could be here, one way. There'd

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be no doubt at all.

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Speaker 1: Oh fingerprints.

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Speaker 3: If the body could be recovered, no.

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Speaker 1: Chance, not at least until the spring thaws. But and

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it still wouldn't explain the strange is happening?

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Speaker 2: Maybe not.

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Speaker 3: But can't you see that. I'm terrified I'm marrying the

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wrong man. If I knew which one had died on

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the mountain, at least i'd be sure about the man

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I'm supposed to marry. I'm coming.

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Speaker 1: Hi.

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Speaker 3: Didn't you get my note?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 2: You bet I did.

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Speaker 1: That's why I'm here alright. Now, what's this about your

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taking a trip?

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Speaker 3: I said it in the note. I just have to

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get away for a while.

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Speaker 1: And think, mmmmm where you're going.

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Speaker 3: I didn't tell you because I didn't want you to.

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Speaker 1: Know, and and what's happened to us?

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Speaker 3: That's what I'm gonna go and try and figure out.

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Speaker 1: Look, you're not going what I mean. It not what

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I'm me. I love you. I love you more than

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life itself.

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Speaker 3: Jack, That's very sweet. But if you do love me,

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you're going to have to let me get away for

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a short while to get my head straight.

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Speaker 1: Why what have I done to you?

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Speaker 3: I'm afraid I've done it to myself. Jack, It's not you,

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all right?

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Speaker 1: I well, look, may I have a cup of coffee?

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Speaker 3: It will have to be instant because I don't want

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to miss my plate.

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Speaker 1: Okay, instant, instant, Lucky.

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Speaker 3: I left the kettle out. I've put most of my

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other pots sometimes away.

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Speaker 1: Look if it's too much trouble, don't bother.

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Speaker 3: It will only take a minute. No oh no, please

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god no.

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Speaker 2: And what is it?

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Speaker 3: You've been sitting in that chair all the time, haven't you?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 3: Of course, I mean you didn't come into the kitchen,

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did you, Darling?

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Speaker 1: I told you I've been he know? And what is it?

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What happened?

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Speaker 3: Nothing?

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Speaker 1: I just got frightened, darling, Darling, Come on, tell me.

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Speaker 3: I thought thought I heard you whistling, sweet Sue, you

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put sweets?

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Speaker 1: Well, why should that kitchen so upset?

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Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, I was no, h but

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I heard it close up in the kitchen with me.

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Speaker 1: Oh you see, I'm worried about your being alone.

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Speaker 3: Hm, the kettle. I'll get your coffee alright.

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Speaker 1: Look at least let me drive you to the airport.

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Would you please forgive me?

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Speaker 3: But I have to finish packing.

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Speaker 1: Here's your coffee, alright? What about the airport?

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Speaker 3: Let me think about it while I packed three valises?

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Speaker 1: How long are you thinking of staying.

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Speaker 3: Until I feel I can handle a situation?

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 3: You can close the one on the love seat alright?

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Speaker 1: Uh? Is it alright if I uh put my coffee

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on the night table, be my guest y, Yes, I'd

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rather be your husband all loves. When are we gonna

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get married? Hum?

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Speaker 3: I always forget my toothbrush?

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Speaker 1: No, there it did? Look Anne, did you hear my question?

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Speaker 3: I heard. Well, let's go back into the living room.

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Speaker 2: All right?

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Speaker 1: What about the other police.

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Speaker 3: I'll leave it. I may have some last minute things.

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Speaker 1: Now what.

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Speaker 3: Right there on the table?

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Speaker 1: What did you mean the the coffee cup sitting there

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and the lighted cigarette.

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Speaker 3: I don't smoke and you haven't lit a cigarette since

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you came in. Now I know I brought only one

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cup in from the kitchen and you left it on

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the night table in the bedroom.

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Speaker 1: So how can I and calm down? Please?

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Speaker 3: Now you know why I'm going away, and you also

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know why I may never come back. I just can't go.

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Speaker 1: On like this, Jack, I can't harry. You know where

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she went, and you're going to tell me.

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Speaker 2: I have no idea where Anne is.

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Speaker 1: I tell you I've got to find her. Not jag

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and not much I'm getting advice. But Anne's a big girl.

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Imagine if she wanted you to know where she was,

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she'd let you know, Harry told me this. Did you

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and Anne talk about that day on the mountain. I've

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already told you I think you should ask Ann about

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our conversational. I look, Jack, I got a lot of

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work to do, so if you don't mind, h I

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get it. You're kicking me out, aren't you?

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Speaker 2: Please? Jack? I what's that?

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Speaker 1: Who's who's looking at you? And suddenly I heard your phone?

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Speaker 2: Harry?

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Speaker 1: H oh yeah, yeah, heah, excuse me?

476
00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:49,559
Speaker 2: Hello?

477
00:24:52,079 --> 00:24:54,799
Speaker 3: What well?

478
00:24:54,839 --> 00:24:57,799
Speaker 2: How did it happen? Where is she?

479
00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:02,079
Speaker 1: It's Anne? What's happened? Hold it Jack? A skiing action?

480
00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:04,359
Speaker 2: Yeah?

481
00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:11,640
Speaker 1: See, yes, yes, yes, I'll take care of it. Oh. No,

482
00:25:11,839 --> 00:25:15,680
it was about Anne, wasn't it. Yes, she's in a

483
00:25:15,759 --> 00:25:17,480
skiing accent. I thought she's alright.

484
00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:18,839
Speaker 2: Yes.

485
00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:22,160
Speaker 1: The hospital called me, alright, alright, what hospital where Jack?

486
00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:24,400
Speaker 2: She called me, m.

487
00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:32,559
Speaker 3: I was sweet of you to come. They tell me

488
00:25:32,599 --> 00:25:34,039
I should be out in a few days.

489
00:25:34,279 --> 00:25:35,240
Speaker 2: Well, what happened?

490
00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:38,680
Speaker 1: Jack has told me so many times, you're an expert skier.

491
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Speaker 3: What happened really had nothing to do with skiing. It

492
00:25:41,319 --> 00:25:46,759
was it was Beery. I was all alone at the

493
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top of the run. It was a beautiful day and

494
00:25:50,559 --> 00:25:52,640
I was just about ready to push off when I

495
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heard I heard. I looked around, but I was alone.

496
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And then and then I heard some whistling.

497
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Speaker 1: I trumme it.

498
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:07,480
Speaker 3: I dug my poles in and took off, but the

499
00:26:07,519 --> 00:26:10,200
sounds followed me. I knew I was going to thus,

500
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:11,759
but I just wanted to get away from the sound.

501
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:15,759
I wanted to go faster than all those awful sounds,

502
00:26:16,079 --> 00:26:21,440
but I couldn't. And then, well, I I never even

503
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:22,119
saw the tree.

504
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:26,920
Speaker 1: I hit MM, and I have something to tell you.

505
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:31,160
When that call came from the hospital, Jack was with

506
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me in my office. He knows about your accident.

507
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:37,240
Speaker 3: Oh well, don't suppose I could have kept it a secret.

508
00:26:37,279 --> 00:26:39,000
Speaker 1: And Hannah, you all right. I got here as fast

509
00:26:39,039 --> 00:26:41,359
as I could. I should never have let you go along. Hello, Harry,

510
00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:43,640
and please are you all right? Jack?

511
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Speaker 4: Jack?

512
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Speaker 3: I will be in a few days. The doctor says

513
00:26:47,839 --> 00:26:51,680
it isn't serious, just a mild concussion. But Jack, you

514
00:26:51,759 --> 00:26:52,559
shouldn't have come.

515
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:54,880
Speaker 1: Well, that's where you're wrong. Not only am I here,

516
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:57,039
but I'm gonna stay until you get well, and then

517
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we're gonna get married immediately.

518
00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:02,440
Speaker 3: Don't you understand that the reason I went away was

519
00:27:02,519 --> 00:27:04,240
because I wasn't sure about what.

520
00:27:04,559 --> 00:27:08,039
Speaker 1: I'm sure, darling. I'm sure you need me, and from

521
00:27:08,039 --> 00:27:10,200
now on you'll be with me, and I'll be here

522
00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:18,799
to solve all your problems. Having the man you loved

523
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:21,480
by your side in times of trouble can be a

524
00:27:21,519 --> 00:27:26,440
great comfort, but it also can be greatly disturbing if

525
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:29,160
you're not sure whether the man by your side isn't

526
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:34,839
the wrong man, the wrong twin, and perhaps even a murderer.

527
00:27:35,839 --> 00:27:49,200
We'll be back shortly with a resolution of our Anne's dilemma.

528
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:54,559
The phrase menages attois means a household made up of

529
00:27:54,759 --> 00:28:00,400
three people, usually two men and a woman. The three

530
00:28:00,559 --> 00:28:04,039
can be any combination that medical science and the new

531
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:08,920
sexual freedom can devise. In our story, and Slater, one

532
00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:12,400
week before her marriage to Jack Benton, was deeply worried

533
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:16,720
about a possible menage atwa, but her concern was that

534
00:28:16,759 --> 00:28:21,799
the third person in her menage was a ghost. Harry Carlson,

535
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:29,119
the best man, was also worried. I certainly didn't realish

536
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:32,359
the idea. Jack Benton asked me to be his best man,

537
00:28:32,519 --> 00:28:35,799
but my guilt over the death of his twin brother

538
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:40,680
left me no choice, and so three days before the wedding,

539
00:28:40,839 --> 00:28:44,400
I found myself Jack's guest in a charming cottage by

540
00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:48,799
the sea that he and his brother had inherited. It

541
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:51,359
was here that he had decided to spend their honeymoon.

542
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:56,839
We were alone that first night, just Jack and me. Well,

543
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:58,640
I'm sure glad you could make it, Harry. There's no

544
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:01,279
one in the world I'd rather have as my best man, except,

545
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:07,279
of course, Vinnie. Thank you for the compliment. Who's upstairs?

546
00:29:08,279 --> 00:29:13,319
W you're the only guests. There's somebody up there. Surely

547
00:29:13,359 --> 00:29:15,559
you can hear the footsteps. There's no one there.

548
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:17,759
Speaker 2: You must be putting me on. Jack.

549
00:29:17,799 --> 00:29:20,240
Speaker 1: I tell you there's no one now.

550
00:29:20,279 --> 00:29:20,960
Speaker 2: They don't tell me.

551
00:29:21,039 --> 00:29:26,119
Speaker 1: You don't hear those steps, must be someone making them. Okay,

552
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:29,440
if you want, you can look for yourself. That's exactly

553
00:29:29,519 --> 00:29:41,200
what I'm going to do. Hello, who's there? Let's not

554
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:53,759
play games. I'm Harry Carson. There's someone in the bedroom. Hello, Hello, Jack?

555
00:29:55,519 --> 00:29:56,119
You up here?

556
00:29:58,000 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 2: Jack?

557
00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:03,319
Speaker 1: What the devil was going on? The next day, when

558
00:30:03,359 --> 00:30:07,960
Anne called and asked to see me privately, I knew.

559
00:30:07,759 --> 00:30:10,960
Speaker 2: What it was about it and I dreaded the meeting,

560
00:30:12,359 --> 00:30:13,400
but there was no way out.

561
00:30:14,519 --> 00:30:17,440
Speaker 1: I met her, and she asked a little restaurant overlooking

562
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:19,279
the sea.

563
00:30:20,079 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 3: Well, you can't look at the ocean, but this table's

564
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:25,519
far enough away from everyone so that we'll have some privacy.

565
00:30:25,839 --> 00:30:28,799
Speaker 1: Oh An, you look completely recovered. Mm.

566
00:30:28,799 --> 00:30:33,359
Speaker 3: Physically I'm just fine. But mentally, Harry, I just have

567
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:37,000
to find out if I'm going crazy or you spend

568
00:30:37,079 --> 00:30:39,640
a night with Jack in the beach house, and I

569
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:40,480
wanna know if.

570
00:30:40,519 --> 00:30:42,880
Speaker 2: If I heard anything strange.

571
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:47,640
Speaker 3: Yes, whenever I'm with Jack, I I don't know how

572
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:51,880
exactly to describe it. There's always a feeling of another person,

573
00:30:52,599 --> 00:30:57,319
a presence, someone else there. Did you feel that too?

574
00:30:58,039 --> 00:30:59,359
Speaker 2: You're not crazy?

575
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:06,200
Speaker 3: And oh, thank Heaven you've felt it too. I think

576
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:10,640
you've saved me from what man. Sometimes I'm absolutely sure

577
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:15,680
that the man I'm going to marry isn't Jack. But Vinny,

578
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:20,000
now I know what I have to do. I'm gonna

579
00:31:20,039 --> 00:31:20,720
call a wedding off.

580
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 1: I thought it was supposed to be bad luck if

581
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the bridegroom saw the bride before the wedding.

582
00:31:30,119 --> 00:31:33,839
Speaker 3: I think it's only on the same day or something

583
00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:34,039
like that.

584
00:31:34,319 --> 00:31:36,960
Speaker 1: Uh, and alone here in your room at the motel,

585
00:31:37,039 --> 00:31:38,400
What will people say?

586
00:31:38,759 --> 00:31:41,799
Speaker 3: What will people say when they hear that there's not

587
00:31:42,119 --> 00:31:42,960
going to be a wedding.

588
00:31:44,799 --> 00:31:47,119
Speaker 1: You know, I've always loved your sense of humor until now.

589
00:31:47,279 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 3: I'm not joking.

590
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:49,599
Speaker 1: No, you're not.

591
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:54,799
Speaker 3: I don't mean I won't marry you. I will just

592
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:57,839
as soon as you level with me. Don't you see?

593
00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:00,359
I can't go into a marriage with a man just

594
00:32:00,559 --> 00:32:02,960
laughs off something that's terribly important to me.

595
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:06,480
Speaker 1: And please that I'm not doing that. I simply don't

596
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:07,720
know what you're talking about.

597
00:32:07,839 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 3: When you do, maybe we can go ahead.

598
00:32:11,839 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, all right, all right, I have been lying to.

599
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 3: You, Oh Jack?

600
00:32:20,079 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 1: But why why did you lie? Because, Darling, I didn't

601
00:32:23,759 --> 00:32:27,200
want to worry you. I thought Vinnie would go away.

602
00:32:27,759 --> 00:32:30,759
Speaker 3: Then it is Vinnie or his ghost.

603
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 1: You wanted the truth, didn't you, Yes, then you're going

604
00:32:34,759 --> 00:32:37,079
to have to be able to face it. You knew,

605
00:32:37,119 --> 00:32:39,599
of course, that Vinnie was in love with you. I knew.

606
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:41,799
I mean, I won't pretend that I can explain it.

607
00:32:41,839 --> 00:32:44,319
But we were identical twins. You must remember how sometimes

608
00:32:44,319 --> 00:32:46,400
we didn't even have to talk because we knew what

609
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:47,359
each of us was thinking.

610
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 3: I remember sometimes it drove me crazy.

611
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:54,039
Speaker 1: Well somehow, now I don't know how Vinnie is still

612
00:32:54,119 --> 00:32:57,880
with us. I feel him at times so strongly that

613
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,000
I've even started talking to him.

614
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:02,359
Speaker 3: Then you're saying that Vinnie is it?

615
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:07,119
Speaker 1: Is there a ghost? But look, there are ways of

616
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:08,240
getting rid of ghosts.

617
00:33:08,599 --> 00:33:11,519
Speaker 3: You mean something like exorcism, whatever you call it.

618
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:14,599
Speaker 1: There are people of mediums who get through to the

619
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:15,240
other world.

620
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:17,480
Speaker 3: What makes you think Vinnie can be made to leave

621
00:33:17,559 --> 00:33:18,079
us alone?

622
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:20,519
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you, I'm sure he'll do it out

623
00:33:20,559 --> 00:33:22,799
of his love for you. I know that was genuine.

624
00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:23,960
But how would I go about it?

625
00:33:24,039 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 3: I don't know anything about the spirit world.

626
00:33:26,759 --> 00:33:29,039
Speaker 1: I made some inquiries. I have the name of a

627
00:33:29,079 --> 00:33:32,440
reputable medium, no Phony, and I've spoken to him and

628
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:33,319
he's agreed.

629
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Speaker 2: To help you.

630
00:33:33,839 --> 00:33:36,240
Speaker 3: Spoke to him about me, yes, and.

631
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:40,039
Speaker 1: He feels exactly as I do that Vinnie's ghost will

632
00:33:40,039 --> 00:33:42,319
be more apt to listen to a plea from you.

633
00:33:47,079 --> 00:33:51,480
Speaker 4: This is your first visit to a medium, That's right,

634
00:33:50,519 --> 00:33:56,480
m Leitny, Explain briefly what may happen. I's going to

635
00:33:56,559 --> 00:33:59,559
a deep trance and I haven't called to him and

636
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:03,039
asked came to talk with you. If you hear him,

637
00:34:03,279 --> 00:34:06,680
you may answer him, but otherwise you must keep quiet.

638
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 2: All right, All.

639
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:15,000
Speaker 4: Right, Vincent's venting. Vincent Benton, the one you loved on

640
00:34:15,119 --> 00:34:19,440
Earth is here. You know, Vincent Benton, the girl named

641
00:34:19,519 --> 00:34:24,559
an Slater. She wants to talk with you, and you're there.

642
00:34:27,559 --> 00:34:30,519
Speaker 1: He's here, Vincent Venton.

643
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:35,960
Speaker 4: Listen, I speak fans Slater and your brother Jack.

644
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:41,639
Speaker 1: Shot that you have no reason for anger. Listen to us.

645
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:44,760
Your actions are making hands.

646
00:34:44,599 --> 00:34:48,800
Speaker 4: Later and your twin brother Jack very unhappy. You must

647
00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:53,559
realize because you will only have peace you give them peace.

648
00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:59,559
You must understand that your peace and their happiness lies

649
00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:01,719
and the marriage sage.

650
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:05,239
Speaker 1: Stop stop stop the called me get hurt me cop

651
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:05,679
get go.

652
00:35:06,039 --> 00:35:09,400
Speaker 4: I I must get back to the stare where I belong.

653
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:15,960
Speaker 1: Say let me go. I'm not one of you. Are

654
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:17,840
you all right? What hap could I?

655
00:35:20,599 --> 00:35:22,280
Speaker 3: I'm sorry he.

656
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:28,400
Speaker 1: Cannot help you. I don't believe that Ione can.

657
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:35,280
Speaker 4: We contacted the malignant every.

658
00:35:35,159 --> 00:35:39,000
Speaker 2: Heaver spirit in its space that you.

659
00:35:39,199 --> 00:35:47,920
Speaker 1: Leave immediately, and the wedding took place just as planning.

660
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:50,679
Speaker 2: As I followed.

661
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:54,360
Speaker 1: Jack and Anne up the aisle, I felt the hair

662
00:35:54,519 --> 00:35:56,440
on the back of my neck stand up.

663
00:35:57,800 --> 00:35:58,440
Speaker 2: A little proud.

664
00:36:00,079 --> 00:36:04,480
Speaker 1: Everything seemed perfectly normal until Jack took Hanne's hand.

665
00:36:06,119 --> 00:36:08,199
Speaker 3: Your hands like ice, Jack.

666
00:36:08,199 --> 00:36:10,400
Speaker 1: Harry do you have the ring.

667
00:36:11,519 --> 00:36:12,719
Speaker 2: I handed Jack the ring.

668
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:19,800
Speaker 1: He suddenly my blood ran cold, because very faintly I

669
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:20,360
heard it.

670
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:25,239
Speaker 2: I knew it and had heard it.

671
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 1: Too, because I saw her lips tightened where her.

672
00:36:29,119 --> 00:36:31,559
Speaker 2: Hand was steady as the ring went on her finger.

673
00:36:33,079 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 1: And then it was over, and they were a man

674
00:36:36,039 --> 00:36:46,599
in a wife. At the reception after the ceremony, I

675
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:49,519
was only counting the minutes until the last guest left

676
00:36:49,559 --> 00:36:53,679
and I could also decently leave. Nothing more, it happened,

677
00:36:53,679 --> 00:36:57,519
but I still desperately wanted to get away. After what

678
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:02,360
seemed an interminable length of time, only and Jack and

679
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:03,159
I were left.

680
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:06,679
Speaker 2: I took Anna's side to offer my good wishes.

681
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:08,599
Speaker 3: Thank you, Harry, thank you.

682
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:10,320
Speaker 1: I owe you a lot.

683
00:37:10,559 --> 00:37:14,960
Speaker 2: Oh, you don't owe me a thing. It's just uh,

684
00:37:15,119 --> 00:37:16,960
you sure everything's gonna be alright.

685
00:37:17,599 --> 00:37:19,760
Speaker 3: You heard the whistling at the ceremony too.

686
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 1: Don't worry.

687
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:25,840
Speaker 3: Jack and I have made up our minds. We'll be fine.

688
00:37:26,119 --> 00:37:31,480
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I'm sure you will be. I'll just go

689
00:37:31,559 --> 00:37:33,760
back to the cottage, back to my bag and clear out.

690
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:37,320
Speaker 3: Oh this is gonna sound silly, but Jack and I

691
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:39,480
decided we wanted to be in the cottage alone for

692
00:37:39,519 --> 00:37:40,519
the next few hours.

693
00:37:40,599 --> 00:37:43,719
Speaker 1: Of course, I understand what time should I drop by

694
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:44,400
half an hour?

695
00:37:44,519 --> 00:37:47,280
Speaker 3: So Jack and I are walking back along the beach.

696
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:56,400
Speaker 1: I don't ask you to believe what happened next. I

697
00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:58,639
only tell you what I saw with my own eyes,

698
00:37:59,519 --> 00:38:02,360
as I stood on the steps of the church and

699
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:04,760
watched them walk on the wooden planks and had been

700
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:08,760
laid along the beach to form a crew boardwalk their

701
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:12,679
backs would do me and Jack's arm was around Anne's

702
00:38:12,679 --> 00:38:19,840
waist when suddenly, I'll swear there were two arms around

703
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:24,719
her waist, and one of them was encased in ice.

704
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:28,199
Speaker 3: I said, suddenly, so cold.

705
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:30,920
Speaker 2: I think I think the wind has come up.

706
00:38:31,599 --> 00:38:34,880
Speaker 3: I don't feel any wind, but Jack, I'm freezing.

707
00:38:35,559 --> 00:38:40,119
Speaker 1: Let's walk faster, tarling my cat. Uh look you you

708
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,920
run on ahead and and light a fire, will you.

709
00:38:43,079 --> 00:38:46,119
I'll duh, I'll be along in a minute. Don't be long,

710
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I won't. Jack, Please let me go.

711
00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:53,199
Speaker 4: I really tried.

712
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:57,639
Speaker 1: I tried to throw you the rope. Look believe me,

713
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:01,960
you know I'm gonna all right. I had to take

714
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:12,280
your place. M's better friend. Oh please just let me live,

715
00:39:13,079 --> 00:39:22,440
Please go back to being dead. And as I watched

716
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:27,199
the arm encased in ice greve to a.

717
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:30,880
Speaker 2: Whole man, who, with his icy arm.

718
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:36,000
Speaker 1: Locked around the bridegroom's shoulders, led him inexorably off the

719
00:39:36,199 --> 00:39:43,199
planks and across the sand and into the sea, where

720
00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:52,960
they both disappeared from view. As Harry Carlson told us,

721
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:56,760
you don't have to believe it, but I have to

722
00:39:56,800 --> 00:40:00,480
report that the bridegroom's body was washed ashore of the

723
00:40:00,519 --> 00:40:07,880
following day coroner's finding death by drowning. There was, however,

724
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:11,400
no explanation offered as to why the new bridegroom had

725
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:16,280
suddenly decided to go swimming by himself with his clothes on.

726
00:40:17,519 --> 00:40:27,880
I'll be back shortly, yeah. Castor and Pollocks, the heavenly twins,

727
00:40:28,079 --> 00:40:32,000
fixed and immutable in the sky made a bargain with Zeus.

728
00:40:32,559 --> 00:40:35,440
When one died before the other, they were to be

729
00:40:35,519 --> 00:40:39,440
together always, only they were to spend six months in

730
00:40:39,519 --> 00:40:43,320
heaven and six months in hell. I like to think

731
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:46,480
that the Benton twins made the same deal to be together.

732
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:50,920
But what troubles me is which twin belonged in heaven

733
00:40:51,039 --> 00:40:58,039
and which in hell. Our cast included Elliott Reid, William Redfield, ROBERTA. Maxwell,

734
00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:01,880
and Robert Dryden. The entire production was under the direction

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00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:10,119
of Hyman Brown and now a preview of our next tale.

736
00:41:10,679 --> 00:41:11,639
It was a long wait.

737
00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:16,920
Speaker 6: The pendulum swings in his gentle arc I can feel

738
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:22,960
her presence coming closer, closer, feel myself floating back into

739
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:24,480
that special world.

740
00:41:24,159 --> 00:41:25,760
Speaker 1: Of peace and beauty.

741
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:31,119
Speaker 6: Her bacistern to me as I call as she turns.

742
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:33,840
Speaker 1: But it is no longer Wanda's face.

743
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:34,239
Speaker 2: I see.

744
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:37,760
Speaker 6: It's the face and the slovenly, mocking little witch I

745
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:40,280
have taken into my house bad enough she.

746
00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:43,039
Speaker 1: Invades my waking life. I will not let her spoil

747
00:41:43,079 --> 00:41:44,239
a few dreams I have left.

748
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:49,239
Speaker 6: Old instincts explode, and I reached towards her, ready to

749
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:52,679
strangle her for daring, the daring to try to take

750
00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:53,480
Walder's place.

751
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:56,679
Speaker 1: Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Buick Motor

752
00:41:56,760 --> 00:42:00,360
Division and Uncle Ben's Long Grain and Wild Rice.

753
00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:01,800
Speaker 2: This is E. G.

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00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:05,079
Speaker 1: Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for

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00:42:05,159 --> 00:42:22,199
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant Dreams,