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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from

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of our Patreon supporters at Patreon dot Great Detectives dot net. Well,

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now we are getting into another yours truly Johnny Dollar omnibus.

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This one is the Amy Bradshaw Matter from November twenty

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first to twenty fifth, nineteen fifty five. Let's go ahead

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and take a lesson.

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Speaker 2: From Hollywood. It's time now for.

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Speaker 3: Johnny Dollar.

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Speaker 4: George Jenkins at Northwestern Dmnity.

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Speaker 5: Oh hi, Georgie, how'd you like to go to New

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York Johnny and get into the game man world of

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the theater. Thanks a lot, Georgie, but no thanks. I'm

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not the grease paint.

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Speaker 4: Type I know.

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Speaker 3: But Amy Bradshaw is Amy Bradshaw.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we wrote a policy on her a couple of

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years ago.

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Speaker 5: Look, if it's an autograph you want, why is then me?

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Speaker 4: It's not that simple Anyhow, She's got all the fans

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she wants.

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Speaker 5: I know I'm one of them. I think she's great.

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Speaker 4: Jenny looks like somebody's trying to kill him.

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Speaker 3: Georgie.

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Speaker 2: I'll be right.

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Speaker 6: Over tonight at every weekday Night, Bob Bailey in the

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transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expense

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Account America's Fabulous Freelance Insurance Investigator.

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Speaker 3: Yours, truly, Johnny Dell.

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Speaker 5: Expense account submitted by special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the

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Northwestern and thend of the Alliance, Hartford, Connecticut. The following

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is an accounting of expendit yours during my investigation of

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the Amy Bradshaw matter.

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Speaker 3: Expense account.

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Speaker 5: Item won sixteen dollars and fifty cents transportation and incidentals

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to New York City. I checked in at the hotel

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and then went over to the Criterion Theater on West

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forty fourth, where Amy was starring in a play called

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The Unguarded Hour. David Coleman, the director, was standing in

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the wings watching the third.

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Speaker 3: Act on stage. David Coleman.

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Speaker 5: Yes, I'm Johnny Dollar, insurance investigator sent over by Northwestern.

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Speaker 7: Oh yes, mister Doller, I call them.

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Speaker 3: Let's go over here where we can talk.

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Speaker 5: Jane, how's the play going?

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Speaker 7: Twenty two weeks now? I've been going along just fine

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until this business came up?

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Speaker 3: How did that start?

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Speaker 7: Last evening? Just before a curtain time, I dropped by

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Amy's dressing room. She looked well, strange, how so feel trembling.

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She's staring at a note in her hand that sounded

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like some sort of crank milk Juno. You are an

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evil woman. You will be punished by sudden death unquote.

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Speaker 3: Have you reported this to the police?

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Speaker 7: Oh no, I was afraid that if I did, it

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might get into the papers, and we don't want that

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kind of publicity.

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Speaker 5: I see, how about if I talk to Amy after

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the show.

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Speaker 7: I told her you'd be down and she'll talk.

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Speaker 3: To you all good.

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Speaker 7: Well, mister Dollar, the strain of lists, the whole things

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being able to show up in her performance. She's making

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mistakes and it rattles the cast, especially the young ongine

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Sheila Mitchell.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'll see what I can do.

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Speaker 5: There's always a possibility that it is just a crank

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note and that Amy I'll never hear any more of it. Well,

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that's what I'm hoping, but we might as well face

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another possibility that somebody close to Amy is using the

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crank note as a cover.

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Speaker 3: Has that thought ever occurred to you?

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Speaker 7: Why? No, Oh, it hasn't, mister dollar.

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Speaker 2: We will continue with the Bradshaw matter in a moment.

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Speaker 8: Friends, how'd you like to thrill your favorite youngster with

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some of the most exciting toys of the year. Picture

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the breathless excitement of any child surrounded by six gaily colored,

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balloon like giant animals up to three feet long, and

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all for the low, low price of just one dollar. Now,

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First you get bounced over the clown with round pot

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belly and funny nose. Next comes Hoppy the austra alli

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in kangaroo. Third, there's Ruscoe the roller skating bear. He's

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two feet tall and looks almost like real. Fourth, there

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is Whitey the fat endor snowman. And fifth Mortimer the

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giant mouse eighteen inches long and sure to scare the

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whiskers off any cat. That's five different giant animals. But

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now hold your breath for the most sensational toy of all,

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the star of the whole Christmas season, the jolly giant

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talking Sata Claus, guaranteed to make everybody's Christmas a merrier one.

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He's a big, roly poly, happy Sata. He stands erect

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on two legs, is actually over three feet tall and

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thirty two inches around. Best of all, he actually talks.

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Just pull the tape and he says Merry Christmas for

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all to hear. He's the biggest merriest talking is Sata ever,

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Sure to please your youngsters and spread good cheer. Yes,

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Giant Sata proves there really is a Santa Claus.

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Speaker 2: That's a total of six giant.

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Speaker 8: Animals made of brightly colored prefarm sturdy latex, which the

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kids can easily inflate. And the cost just one dollar,

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not for each, just one dollar for all six of

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these lovable giants who'll turn your home into a circus parade.

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Speaker 2: And here's a surprise. Mail your order today.

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Speaker 8: And you'll also receive absolutely free Peter the Rabbit, actually

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over two feet tall with big radios.

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Speaker 2: Almost nine inches long.

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Speaker 8: But you must send now rush one dollar plus ten

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cents for packing and mailing for each set you want

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to Giant Animals Box fifteen eighty Grand Central Station, New

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York City.

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Speaker 2: If not delighted with every.

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Speaker 8: One of your seven Giant Animals, return them to the

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Super Animals Company for a full refund, but keep the

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Giant Talking set as our gift order.

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Speaker 2: Now supplies are limited.

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Speaker 8: Rush one dollar and ten cents for packing and mailing

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for each set, and cash check our money order to

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Giant Animals Box one five eight oh Grand Central Station,

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New York City. That's one dollar plus ten cents with

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your name of address. Mail to Giant Animals Box fifteen

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eighty Grand Central Station, New York City. That's Giant Animals

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Box fifteen eighty Grand Central Station, New York City.

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Speaker 5: I waited for Amy Bradshaw in a dressing room at

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the theater fifteen minutes later after the final hurt, and

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she swept in. I've never seen her from closer than

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the fifteenth row. Needless to say, I was impressed, ghastly,

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but I didn't have a chance to say so.

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Speaker 9: I think the second act a chance to say anything.

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Oh well, that's the way it goes. If you'll just

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give me a minute to get some of this makeup off.

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Speaker 5: Now, now, Hi, Hi. I know it was only a

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question of time until you ran down.

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Speaker 9: I'm sorry. I guess I get a little overcharged out

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on the stage. Listen, it's nice meeting you, mister Dollar,

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and I know how you've come down here, but I

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think you're wasting your time. Oh sold, things really pretty silly, you.

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Speaker 7: Know, I hope so, Miss Breadshaw you mean Amy?

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Speaker 5: Okay, Amy, say, look, how about having a drink with

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me somewhere we can talk about it.

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Speaker 9: I'd love to, but I'm afraid I have an eight tonight.

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Could we make it tomorrow?

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Speaker 3: Maybe? Sure? Okay, anytime?

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Speaker 9: Excuse me, come in.

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Speaker 3: Oh Mike, I'm sorry. I didn't know you had company.

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Speaker 9: That's all right. This is Johnny Dollar. Johnny Mike Pmroy,

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my agent. Do you think of it tonight?

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Speaker 10: Mike?

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Speaker 5: Well, I seemed like okay, Oh uh, tell you what

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I mean.

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Speaker 3: I'll see you tomorrow.

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Speaker 9: Tomorrow, Mike, I've got a.

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Speaker 5: Few things I got to take care of tonight. Contracts

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to go over, you know, things like that. Oh, of

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course we're goining to meet your dollar, not Amy.

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Speaker 9: Is that offer of a drink still good? Johnny?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 5: Sure, but I thought you said you have Oh oh sure,

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let's go.

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Speaker 9: Thanks for understanding anywhere in particular, there's a little place

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right down the street, small and quiet. Oh, would you

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mind if we crossed the stage and without the other door?

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Speaker 2: Why?

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Speaker 9: I think someone's waiting for me outside this exit. Oh,

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sort of a friend of mine, Porty Kine, But he

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can be a little wearing and I'm rather tired.

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Speaker 5: Sure I could see him through the open door, thin faced,

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rather elegant looking man in the black Homburg. We went

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out the other side and down the street to a

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bar a few doors away. I am too on expense account.

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Four dollars drinks. After the first one, Amy relaxed a little.

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I wanted to get her talking about herself, and it

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wasn't too tough to do.

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Speaker 9: There's not really much to tell about me. I've been

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acting a long time. Sometimes it seems too long. I've

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come a long way. Some people would say, up, I

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hope it is.

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Speaker 3: You make it sound pretty simple.

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Speaker 9: I guess we do what we have to, all of us.

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I had to act so so.

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Speaker 3: Just like that, huh, you just like that?

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Speaker 5: You've always gotten everything you wanted, haven't you?

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Speaker 9: I think so.

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Speaker 3: Hasn't anyone ever gotten in your way.

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Speaker 9: No, Johnny, that's never happened. If it did, it.

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Speaker 5: Looks to me like somebody's standing in your way right now.

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What do you mean that threatening letter you got the

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other day?

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Speaker 9: I told you the whole thing's silly, there's nothing to.

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Speaker 3: It, and that's what you told me. But I don't

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think you believe.

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Speaker 9: It, Okay, So maybe I have worried a little about it.

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I wouldn't have it it had it was probably only

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Speaker 3: What was amy?

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Speaker 9: Well, last night, after the show, I felt like walking

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a little. I went west on forty fourth Street Times Square.

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As usual, it was crowded. I stood on the curb

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waiting for the light to change, and suddenly I got

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shoved out into the street. Oh, right out into the traffic.

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I jumped back just in time.

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Speaker 3: You see, who did it?

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Speaker 9: How can you tell in a crowd like that. I

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know it was probably only coincidence that had happened right

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after I got that note, But oh, Johnny, I still

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just can't believe anybody is really trying to do me harm.

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But I guess what's been making me nervous during the

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performance is staring out at that blackness past the footlights.

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Wondering if there's somebody out there.

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Speaker 7: Who hates me.

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Speaker 9: Ah huh, I guess I can't stand being hated, Johnny.

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I've got to be loved.

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Speaker 5: Look, Amy, did it ever occur to you this might

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not be a crank out in the audience, that it

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might be someone closer to you?

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Speaker 9: What, Johnny, that's impossible, isn't I don't have many friends.

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They mostly to do with the play, but those I

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have a good one.

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Speaker 5: Who else besides your agent Pomroy?

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Speaker 3: How about the.

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Speaker 9: Director David Coleman. He's a very old friend and one

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of the best.

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Speaker 3: How about the producer.

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Speaker 9: Emily's the last person in the world who wished me

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harm on a dollars and sense basis if nothing else.

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Speaker 5: He and Dora Boat.

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Speaker 2: Dora his wife.

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Speaker 9: I like her very much.

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Speaker 3: Does she like you?

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Speaker 9: Why shouldn't she?

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Speaker 5: What about this man you wanted to duck tonight, the

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one who was waiting outside the theater, Portycane.

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Speaker 9: Oh, A sort of a fan. I guess a little

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eccentric maybe, but he's been very good to me, Johnny. Really,

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it couldn't be any of them.

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Speaker 3: Maybe maybe not.

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Speaker 5: Look, Amy, I was sent down here because Northwestern indemnity

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holds upon you.

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Speaker 3: Now, who's the beneficiary?

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Speaker 9: William Yorke?

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Speaker 3: Who's he?

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Speaker 9: My husband?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 3: I didn't know you were married and.

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Speaker 9: We separated six months ago. But I wanted he didn't,

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but he wanted.

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Speaker 7: I didn't.

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Speaker 9: It's as simple as that. Or is he now here

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in New York somewhere? I guess I don't know. He's

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a rider, sort of.

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Speaker 4: Johnny.

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Speaker 9: I'm tired.

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Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, sure you must be. I'm sorry I kept

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you so long.

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Speaker 9: No, I didn't mean that. It's been nice, very nice.

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It's funny. I seemed to relax a little when I'm

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with you.

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Speaker 3: We let that one lay and went outside.

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Speaker 5: I had him three unexpensed account two dollars taxi to

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Wamie's apartment. There was a car parked two doors down,

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while the man just sitting in it. I saw Amy

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give it a quick look. Then as she said good

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night to me at the door, I noticed that she

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slipped the catch on it. I saw it across the

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street and stepped into the shadows. A moment later, the

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door of the park car opened and her agent, Mike Pomroy,

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got out and went into the apartment house. Then I

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realized I wasn't the only one watching this. Half a

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block down the street, I could see a figure in

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a shadowy doorway. I ran toward him, but he took

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off around the corner. When I reached the corner, he

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was nowhere in sight. Amy might have been taking this

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thing only half seriously, but I was real serious about it.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 5: She said she had some very nice friends, but I

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had a strong hunch that one of these very nice

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friends was out to kill her. Johnny Dellar Elson, tell

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it down a precinct headquarter, Johnny, Oh, hi, al, Sorry, I.

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Speaker 4: Missed your call a few minutes ago. What's on your mind?

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Speaker 5: An actress named Amy Bradshaw. Amy one of my favorite

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me too, But right now I seem to be looking

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for a guy who doesn't feel that way about her.

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Like somebody's trying to kill Amy Bradshaw.

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Speaker 4: Better come down here and tell me all about it.

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Speaker 5: Expense accounts submitted by Special investigator Johnny Dollar, location, New

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York City to the Northwestern Indemnity Alliance, Hartford, Connecticut. The

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following is an accounting of expendit yours during my investigation

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of the Amy Bradshaw matter. The threat of an attempt

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on her well insured life expense account item five A

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dollar seventy five cab from my hotel the precinct headquarters

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to talk to Detective Lieutenant Alison. Tell him I looked

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about the same as the last time i'd seen him. Rugged, competent,

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maybe a few pounds heavy.

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Speaker 3: Year sit down, Johnny Siddan.

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Speaker 5: Thanks something about Amy Bradshaw, you said, Yeah, didn't know

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you were a friend of hers. Northwestern Indemnity holds a

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twenty five thousand dollars life insurance policy on her. Yeah,

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take a look at this note. Amy got it several

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days ago.

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Speaker 4: You are evil.

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Speaker 3: You will be punished by sudden de Oh. Come on, a.

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Speaker 5: Couple of nights ago, after the show, somebody shoved Amy

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off the curb and out into the traffic over in

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Times Square. Well, the same thing happens to me almost

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every time I'm around Times Square.

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Speaker 3: You know what I smell in all this?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Sure you probably smell at publicity. I sure.

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Speaker 5: Do you think I'd fall for a thing like that?

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Speaker 3: You know an Amy Bradshaw very long?

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Speaker 5: Oh, I'd seen her in a few shows, but last

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night was the first time I ever met her in person.

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I didn't know you pretty well I'd say you might

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be getting a little stage.

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Speaker 3: Struck on her. Uh huh.

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Speaker 5: What about the man who trailed Amy to her apartment

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last night?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 5: Oh, I don't know. I chased him, but he had

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too much of.

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Speaker 3: A lead on me.

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Speaker 5: I still wouldn't go jumping to any conclusions. Who you

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got to work on for instance, Well, for one, David Coleman,

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her director. Then there's the producer Emory Taylor and his

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wife Dora. From what Amy said, I get Dora doesn't

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like her very well anybody else, And as a ragent

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Mike Pomroy, she seems to be pretty wrapped.

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Speaker 3: Up in him old stable fooling it looks like it.

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Speaker 5: Also a fellow named Porter Kane who was usually hanging

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around the theater waiting for Amy. And finally the man

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I really came to talk to you about.

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Speaker 11: Who's that name?

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Speaker 5: Is Bill Yorke, her husband, but they're separated. Oh, she

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doesn't know where he is. You figure he might tie

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in somehow. He is the beneficiary of Amy's insurance policy.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'll see if I can turn up an address

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on him for you. Okay, thanks, Al.

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Speaker 5: In the meantime, I think I'll pay a call on

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this Porter Kin. See if I can find out just

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how good a fan he is.

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Speaker 2: We will continue with the Bradshaw met her in a moment.

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Speaker 5: Expense account Adam six to twenty five cab to the

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apartment of Porter Kine in the seventies.

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Speaker 3: It was an expensive looking place.

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Speaker 5: I got there about noon, but Porter Kin was just

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finishing breakfast, accompanied by Chopin.

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Speaker 11: May I offer you a cup of coffee? Mister Dollar.

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Speaker 3: Oh, thanks, a blind place.

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Speaker 12: Yes, now, if you came to see me about any Bradshaw,

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I believe that's right.

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Speaker 5: Mister Kane sent Northwestern and down to the Alliance. They

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hold a policy on miss Bradshaw.

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Speaker 11: You perhaps want some sort of character reference on her.

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Speaker 3: You might put it that way.

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Speaker 11: Well, in that case, you couldn't have come to one

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better qualified than I. You see, Amy is my career

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at present?

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Speaker 5: Afraid I don't understand, mister Kane.

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Speaker 12: Well, some years ago I was relieved with the sordid

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but customarily necessary task of working for my bread and butter.

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The result is that I've been able to devote myself

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to a fascinating hobby.

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Speaker 3: What kind of a hobby?

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Speaker 12: I collect things, all the objects of my interests vary,

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but they all have one thing in common.

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Speaker 11: This signet ring I'm wearing, for.

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Speaker 3: Instance, Yes, I noticed it very unusual.

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Speaker 12: The crest is out of the Medichif Family Renaissance Italy,

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the only ring of its kind in the world, so

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far as any of the authorities on that period are aware.

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Speaker 11: That a vase on the table, the painting on the wall.

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Speaker 12: That sculpture one of a kind, huh, precisely, which brings

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us quite logically to Amy, who is clear one of

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a kind. So so I plan to add Amy to

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my collection just like that.

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Speaker 3: Huh.

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Speaker 12: I'm certain Amy will see it my way in time,

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and I have time now, If you'll excuse me, I

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must dress for the matinee. Oh will I see you again, mister.

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Speaker 5: Dollar, Yes, you probably will, mister Kane. I was glad

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to get out of the hothouse atmosphere of Kane's apartment.

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Real weird this character, and I had a hunch i'd

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better keep an eye on him. It am seven a

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dollar sixty five camp fair that evening to the Criterion theater.

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I arrived half an hour before curtain time and headed

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for Amy's dressing room, and as I approached her door,

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you're listening real careful, I'll give it to you once again.

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You've been tossing wrong cues de Shila for three nights now.

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You've been doing everything you can to upstage or make

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her look bad.

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Speaker 9: Nke.

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Speaker 3: It's just that I've.

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Speaker 9: Been nervous lately. Maybe I have made a few mistakes

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in my Amy.

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Speaker 5: You know, I've got plans for Sheila, and I don't

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want her looking bad in this play.

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Speaker 9: You've got plans for Sheila?

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Speaker 2: What? Amy?

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Speaker 3: We can talk about that some other time, but for now,

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I just want you to understand. You to lay on Sheila.

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I mean, is that a threat? Mike, take it anywhere

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you like.

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Speaker 5: It sounded like Pomroy was coming outside, so I ducked

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around behind a piece of scenery and waited a moment.

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Then I went back to Amy's door. Oh, Johnny, hello, Amy,

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you look tired.

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Speaker 9: I am. I just had a little go around with

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mikem I've been fluffing some of my lines lately. He

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seems to think I've been doing it deliberately to make

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Shila Mitchell look bad, But he's wrong. Have you found

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out anything yet, Johnny, No.

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Speaker 7: Not much.

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Speaker 9: I still can't believe there's anything to it. It's so

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silly to let it upset me, silly even to give

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it a thought.

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Speaker 5: Well, try not to, Amy, let me worryorry about it,

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all right?

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Speaker 9: Did I ever tell you it's nice having you around? Johnny?

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Speaker 5: I left a dressing room and started for the alley door,

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but somebody stepped out in front of me. It was

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Mike Palmerai. Hello Dollar, Oh, Hi, Pomarai. I was just

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talking to Dave Coleman the directory. He told me he

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was the one who sent for you. He told me

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why you didn't know about the threatening letter?

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Speaker 3: Am he got? No? No, I didn't, look Dollar.

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Speaker 5: Every actors I've ever known has gotten at least one

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note like that during her career. You don't think they

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should be taken too seriously, then.

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Speaker 3: No, Miami's pretty nervous these days. As long as you're

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around stirring things up. Should be worried about it. If

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there's anything to be done about it, I can handle it.

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Speaker 5: In other words, you want me to mind my own

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business at it. You said that, Dollar, I didn't. It

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might not be a bad IDEA funny thing when somebody

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tells me to lay off a case. My interest in

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it always doubles. After the final curtain, I went backstage

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to wait for Amy. The stage door was open and

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I could see Porter Kin waiting in the alley outside,

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so I went over to him.

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Speaker 11: Well, mister Dollar, good evening.

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Speaker 5: Hello Kane on duty again tonight.

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Speaker 12: Perhaps that's one way of putting it. I thought I

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might have a little chat with Amy after she's cheat.

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Speaker 3: I'm afraid she has a date.

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Speaker 11: So do you happen to know with whom?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, me, mister Dollar.

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Speaker 11: Are you suggesting that I'm to regard you as some

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sort of rival?

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Speaker 5: Not at all, Kane. I'm just suggesting that I'm a

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friend of Amy's.

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Speaker 11: I see good night, mister Dollar.

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Speaker 5: After Kin left, I stood beside the stage door and

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tried to figure out some of the angles on this case.

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There were too many of them. But the time I

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went in, the theater was dark except for a dim

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light bulb over the stage, and everyone had gone. Everybody,

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that is, except Amy. I ran into the dock in theater.

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She was standing horrified next to the stairway by the

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dressing rooms, her eyes fixed on something that lay on

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the floor.

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Speaker 13: Johnny, I was on my way out to meet you.

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I had a swish through the air, this heavy sandbag.

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It barely missed me.

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Speaker 3: Yes, stay back against the wall, Amy, you'll be okay.

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Speaker 5: There, I climbed the long ladder up to the catwalk

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above the stage, where they sometimes used the sandbags to balance.

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Speaker 3: Hunts the scenery. It was dock up there. I started

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edging along the catwalk. Suddenly my foot hit a loose board.

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Speaker 5: I almost lost my balance, a loose board that could

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have been left for me. And it was a long,

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long drop down to the stage. Whoever had been up

476
00:22:41,519 --> 00:22:44,200
there knew the theater pretty well. Finally I went back

477
00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:48,519
down to Amy. She was trembling. Johnny, it's okay, Amy,

478
00:22:48,599 --> 00:22:49,559
It's okay, Johnny.

479
00:22:50,799 --> 00:22:53,319
Speaker 9: Maybe I didn't take it seriously before, but I do

480
00:22:53,519 --> 00:22:56,799
know somebody dropped that sandbag from up there deliberately.

481
00:22:57,359 --> 00:22:59,640
Speaker 13: Somebody is trying to kill me, and I'm scared.

482
00:23:00,799 --> 00:23:22,440
Speaker 5: I'm scared, Johnny Dollar El sin Tell at police headquarters, Johnny, Yeah,

483
00:23:22,559 --> 00:23:24,559
you hear what happened at the Criterion Theater after the

484
00:23:24,559 --> 00:23:26,720
show last night. I was off duty when you called,

485
00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:28,759
but Sergeant Rogers gave me a fill in this morning.

486
00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,079
So somebody had tried to drop a sandbag on Amy

487
00:23:31,079 --> 00:23:34,559
Bradshaw Banks Day. Yeah, a real near miss. You still

488
00:23:34,599 --> 00:23:37,480
think these attempts in our life are publicity stunts? Looks

489
00:23:37,519 --> 00:23:39,240
like your hunch was right. I'll have a couple of

490
00:23:39,279 --> 00:23:40,559
my boys keep an eye on Amy.

491
00:23:40,599 --> 00:23:41,799
Speaker 3: Thanks, Johnny.

492
00:23:42,039 --> 00:23:44,400
Speaker 5: You wanted to know the whereabouts of this guy, Bill Yorke,

493
00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:45,880
the husband Amy separated from.

494
00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:46,759
Speaker 3: What have you got on him now?

495
00:23:47,079 --> 00:23:49,920
Speaker 4: Seven six eight West Fourth Street down in Greenwich, Hilly?

496
00:23:50,039 --> 00:24:02,240
Speaker 5: Thanks, I'll check it. New York City expense account submitted

497
00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:05,839
by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the home office Northwestern

498
00:24:05,839 --> 00:24:09,400
Indemneny Alliance, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of

499
00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:15,000
expenditures during my investigation of the Amy Bradshaw matter. Expense

500
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,799
account Item eight two seventy five taxi from my hotel

501
00:24:17,839 --> 00:24:19,920
to Greenwich Village to try and locate a writer named

502
00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:22,759
Bill York who had separated from Amy six months ago.

503
00:24:23,559 --> 00:24:26,359
Amy was a good actress, but she couldn't hide the

504
00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:28,400
fact she was plenty scared by the attempts on her

505
00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:31,119
life in the last three days. My hunch was it

506
00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:33,960
was someone close to Amy, and Bill York was very

507
00:24:34,039 --> 00:24:37,160
much on my list. After all, he was the beneficiary

508
00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:40,599
on her life insurance policy. I hadn't been to this

509
00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:42,480
part of the village in two or three years, but

510
00:24:42,559 --> 00:24:45,559
from the looks of it, it hadn't changed a bit. Defiantly

511
00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:48,559
shabby and run down. A few beards here and there,

512
00:24:48,599 --> 00:24:52,119
a few gals with long straight hair, bookstores and bars

513
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:55,319
side by side. I checked at the address Al Sintella

514
00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:57,240
had given me. It was a beat up, old rooming house.

515
00:24:57,799 --> 00:25:01,279
Speaker 7: You come down here to interview the face rider something

516
00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:04,359
like that. Not exactly too bad here. I thought you

517
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:06,240
wanted to carry my message to America.

518
00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:08,240
Speaker 5: Now I'm afraid that's a little out of my department,

519
00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:10,759
mister York. Amy did mention that you were a writer.

520
00:25:10,839 --> 00:25:14,119
Speaker 7: I can tell you exactly what she said. She said,

521
00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:18,200
you know, Bill's a writer, sort of right.

522
00:25:18,559 --> 00:25:18,720
Speaker 4: Well.

523
00:25:18,759 --> 00:25:21,240
Speaker 7: As a matter of fact, Amy always felt it necessary

524
00:25:21,279 --> 00:25:24,279
to apologize for me. There was one thing about our

525
00:25:24,319 --> 00:25:25,960
marriage that was always so charming.

526
00:25:26,039 --> 00:25:28,759
Speaker 5: Well, look, I didn't come here to discuss your marriage, York.

527
00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:30,440
I don't know what you so bitter about. It's none

528
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:31,000
of my business.

529
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:34,240
Speaker 11: But oh what do I have to be bitter about here?

530
00:25:34,319 --> 00:25:37,680
Speaker 7: I am an artist living an unfettered life of freedom

531
00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:40,119
in Greenwich Village. What more could I ask?

532
00:25:40,519 --> 00:25:43,240
Speaker 5: I guess I haven't read any of your books. Don't

533
00:25:43,279 --> 00:25:46,839
worry about it. You're in good company, you and the publishers.

534
00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:49,599
It's too bad, must make a little problem in the

535
00:25:49,599 --> 00:25:50,440
grocery department.

536
00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:53,240
Speaker 7: Oh, that doesn't worry me. You see, one can always

537
00:25:53,319 --> 00:25:57,480
manage to live comfortably in huck. Oh, and if one

538
00:25:57,559 --> 00:26:00,720
is willing to huck his soul, of course, returns are

539
00:26:00,759 --> 00:26:01,240
much greater.

540
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:02,319
Speaker 3: I don't get you.

541
00:26:03,279 --> 00:26:06,519
Speaker 7: That's not surprising, because nobody else but me would call

542
00:26:06,519 --> 00:26:11,200
it my soul. It's just the manuscript for an unpublished novel,

543
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:16,319
three years of work and sweat and pain. But my

544
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:19,519
clever pawn broke mister Pomeroy has a fair idea what

545
00:26:19,559 --> 00:26:20,279
it means.

546
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:24,640
Speaker 5: To me, Mike Pomeroy, Amy's agent, Tommy Champ, quite true.

547
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,480
In other words, if you could raise some money, you

548
00:26:27,519 --> 00:26:30,079
could get this brainchild of yours out of hawk from him.

549
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:33,440
Tell me how long has it been since you've seen.

550
00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:35,559
Speaker 3: Amy several months?

551
00:26:35,759 --> 00:26:38,720
Speaker 5: Why you haven't been uptown near her apartment of the

552
00:26:38,799 --> 00:26:39,440
last few days?

553
00:26:39,519 --> 00:26:39,920
Speaker 3: Huh?

554
00:26:40,599 --> 00:26:40,920
Speaker 11: Oh?

555
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:43,400
Speaker 3: You sure, of course?

556
00:26:44,519 --> 00:26:45,440
Speaker 11: Anything else?

557
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:50,079
Speaker 3: No, not for now.

558
00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:57,400
Speaker 2: We will continue with the Bridshaw matter. In a moment.

559
00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:06,440
Speaker 5: I was getting nowhere in my attempt to find out

560
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:08,400
who was gunning for Amy Bradshaw, and I know it.

561
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:11,519
I called Mike Pomeroy, her agent, but he was out,

562
00:27:11,519 --> 00:27:13,119
so I took the next name on my list, the

563
00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:16,559
producer of Amy's play, Emory Taylor. Expense a cont item

564
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:19,079
nine one seventy five Camp Fair to Taylor's apartment in

565
00:27:19,079 --> 00:27:21,839
the mid fifties, near the Museum of Modern Art. Taylor

566
00:27:21,839 --> 00:27:24,839
wasn't in, but his wife, Dora was. She was sleep

567
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,680
looking and a little on the brittle side. She was

568
00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:30,079
sitting behind a small bar in the den and she

569
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:37,240
looked quite at home there. Drink thanks? Will your husband

570
00:27:37,279 --> 00:27:38,359
be back soon? Missus Taylor?

571
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:40,119
Speaker 13: Who knows?

572
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:42,000
Speaker 9: Yeah?

573
00:27:42,039 --> 00:27:42,559
Speaker 2: Oh? Thank you?

574
00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:46,440
Speaker 3: What do you want to see him about Amy Bradshaw?

575
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:48,480
Speaker 13: What about Amy Bradshaw?

576
00:27:49,319 --> 00:27:50,960
Speaker 5: I wanted to ask him if he knew of anyone

577
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:53,519
who might want to harm Amy for any reason.

578
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:55,599
Speaker 13: Oh, I could answer that better than Ama Ray.

579
00:27:56,119 --> 00:28:00,079
Speaker 5: There is someone there, certainly is who me.

580
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:04,119
Speaker 14: Why would you like it if your husband was knocking

581
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:07,200
himself out for your well, for a younger woman.

582
00:28:07,559 --> 00:28:09,720
Speaker 3: Well, I wasn't that part of the business.

583
00:28:09,599 --> 00:28:09,880
Speaker 9: Is it?

584
00:28:10,759 --> 00:28:14,319
Speaker 13: That's not all Amy's hurt. Plenty of people getting where

585
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:14,720
she is.

586
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:16,319
Speaker 3: Do you think your husband's one of them?

587
00:28:16,799 --> 00:28:17,359
Speaker 13: I hope not.

588
00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:19,799
Speaker 3: Who has she heard? Missus Tanney.

589
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:22,359
Speaker 13: Do you know Dave Coleman, her director?

590
00:28:22,839 --> 00:28:24,480
Speaker 14: He was very much in love with him a few

591
00:28:24,519 --> 00:28:28,279
months ago. I see, I don't like to see someone

592
00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:31,680
I like get the way he was one night here

593
00:28:31,799 --> 00:28:35,880
he had a couple too many said if he couldn't

594
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:36,519
have her?

595
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:41,400
Speaker 13: Oh funny, how quick he got over it.

596
00:28:41,359 --> 00:28:43,559
Speaker 5: Though, never says anything about it anymore.

597
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:45,240
Speaker 13: Huh, not a word?

598
00:28:46,279 --> 00:28:47,440
Speaker 3: What about Porter Kane?

599
00:28:48,119 --> 00:28:49,519
Speaker 13: Oh you've met him?

600
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:51,319
Speaker 3: Is he one of them that Amy's hurt?

601
00:28:51,759 --> 00:28:53,640
Speaker 13: No? No, he's not in that category.

602
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:57,519
Speaker 14: Whatever happened to hurt him must have happened about the

603
00:28:57,559 --> 00:28:58,519
age of five.

604
00:28:58,960 --> 00:28:59,480
Speaker 4: What do you mean?

605
00:29:00,119 --> 00:29:03,640
Speaker 13: Who isn't that when most of our troublestore I wouldn't know.

606
00:29:04,559 --> 00:29:07,519
Speaker 14: I once paid a psychiatrist five hundred dollars to tell

607
00:29:07,559 --> 00:29:09,319
me that's when mine.

608
00:29:09,039 --> 00:29:10,759
Speaker 3: Started your troubles?

609
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:16,920
Speaker 14: Sure can't you tell, mister Dollard, I'm the mixed up type.

610
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:18,359
Speaker 3: Aren't we all? Missus Tiller?

611
00:29:22,799 --> 00:29:26,240
Speaker 5: I left her still sitting behind the bar, and somehow

612
00:29:26,279 --> 00:29:27,880
I felt sorry for her.

613
00:29:28,599 --> 00:29:29,799
Speaker 3: But she had given a new lead.

614
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:33,079
Speaker 5: David Coleman, Amy's director, who'd had it bad for Amy

615
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:35,440
just a few months ago and had now completely recovered.

616
00:29:36,079 --> 00:29:38,720
Maybe I made a mental note to have a little

617
00:29:38,759 --> 00:29:40,880
chat with Coleman that night. Then I put in another

618
00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:43,440
call to Mike Pomeroy. This time he was in and

619
00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:45,079
I finally talked him into meeting me at a little

620
00:29:45,079 --> 00:29:47,759
bar on West forty fourth near the theater. But when

621
00:29:47,759 --> 00:29:49,680
I got there, I could see that he wasn't feeling

622
00:29:49,799 --> 00:29:54,680
very cooperative. Luck Dollar, I suggested once before, nice and polite,

623
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:56,440
that maybe you should try minding your own business. I

624
00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:58,599
got the message, all right, Pomroy, and now I've got

625
00:29:58,599 --> 00:30:02,480
one for you. I am minding my own business. This

626
00:30:02,559 --> 00:30:04,319
is what I was hired to do. The insurance company

627
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:07,319
I represent holes a pretty hefty life insurance policy on Amy,

628
00:30:07,599 --> 00:30:09,240
and if she's in any danger, they want to know.

629
00:30:09,359 --> 00:30:11,400
Speaker 3: But I told you before, I think this whole thing's

630
00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:13,720
pretty silly. I had a talk with Bill York, the

631
00:30:13,799 --> 00:30:14,559
riter of this morning.

632
00:30:15,359 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 5: Even though he and Amy are separated, you know, he's

633
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:20,359
still the beneficiary on are policy. So so he says

634
00:30:20,359 --> 00:30:23,640
he's in hock to you. He's a bum. He wasn't

635
00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:25,720
doing Amy any good. She was worrying about him. Only

636
00:30:25,759 --> 00:30:27,720
split up. I told him as long as he stayed

637
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:29,920
away from her, didn't try to see her, I'd keep

638
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:30,759
him in groceries.

639
00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:31,200
Speaker 4: I see.

640
00:30:31,279 --> 00:30:33,519
Speaker 3: But naturally I wanted some security.

641
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:36,119
Speaker 5: The manuscript of his book, for instance.

642
00:30:35,839 --> 00:30:38,839
Speaker 3: So great I'm born American novel.

643
00:30:38,559 --> 00:30:40,799
Speaker 5: And apparently that manuscript means a lot to That's why

644
00:30:40,799 --> 00:30:44,480
I figured it'd be good security. As a matter of dollar,

645
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:48,680
you look like you smelled something bad. I am what

646
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:51,119
am I supposed to be a philanthropist?

647
00:30:52,119 --> 00:30:53,680
Speaker 3: Let me make one thing, Claire Palmeroy.

648
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:55,319
Speaker 5: As far as the kind of loans you make, I

649
00:30:55,359 --> 00:30:58,000
agree with you, it's none of my business. But maybe

650
00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:00,960
I just got a sensitive no. Yeah, anyway, now I

651
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:02,839
want my door back. Is anything wrong with that kind

652
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:04,440
of thing? I've got a play land up. I know

653
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:06,799
we'll go over big. I want to produce it. York's

654
00:31:06,799 --> 00:31:09,359
tabs run up to several thousand bucks. Now I could

655
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:11,200
use the money, I see. The stupid part of the

656
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:12,880
whole deal is that York could pay me back within

657
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:16,119
a couple of months if he wanted to. Sure, there's

658
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:17,680
a lot of dough floating around to be made in

659
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:22,119
television these days, But that primadonna thinks he's way above

660
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:25,480
that sort of thing. This play you want to produce

661
00:31:25,519 --> 00:31:28,000
COMROI well it star Amy?

662
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:32,079
Speaker 3: No Sheela men you.

663
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:39,759
Speaker 5: Oh well, thanks for the information be seen, I doubted.

664
00:31:44,319 --> 00:31:46,480
On my way over to the Criterion Theater, I thought

665
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:50,480
about palm Roy, a rugged customer, and I felt he

666
00:31:50,599 --> 00:31:52,599
was one more who wouldn't let anyone stand in the

667
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:55,960
way of anything he wanted to do. After the show,

668
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:57,720
I picked up Amy backstage and took her back to

669
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her apartment. She looked very tired and didn't say. We

670
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:03,079
said good night at the front entrance, and I started

671
00:32:03,079 --> 00:32:06,839
walking along the sidewalk. Then I spotted somebody in the

672
00:32:06,839 --> 00:32:09,880
shadows across the street again watching. I could tell from

673
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:11,799
his hat and Cody was the same one who'd been

674
00:32:11,799 --> 00:32:14,559
there the night before last. I kept on walking until

675
00:32:14,559 --> 00:32:16,680
I reached the corner, then circled halfway around the block

676
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:18,359
to when Alley and edged up on him from behind.

677
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:24,880
He didn't see me until I dove at him. Well,

678
00:32:25,359 --> 00:32:29,759
Bill York, what are you doing here? So you haven't

679
00:32:29,759 --> 00:32:32,759
been there Amy for a long time? Huh, except tonight

680
00:32:32,839 --> 00:32:36,000
and the night before last, watching her apartment. Come on,

681
00:32:36,039 --> 00:32:55,960
New York, start talking and it better be good. Johnny

682
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,759
dellar alson tell it the police headquarters. Johnny better get

683
00:32:58,799 --> 00:33:00,720
over here to my hotel room. Now I've got company.

684
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:01,039
Speaker 11: Who is it?

685
00:33:01,119 --> 00:33:03,559
Speaker 4: Bill York, Amy Brandtshaw's X husband, right.

686
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:05,759
Speaker 5: I caught him watching her apartment half an hour ago,

687
00:33:05,799 --> 00:33:07,480
and he's the one who was watching it the other night.

688
00:33:07,759 --> 00:33:09,599
This time I had better luck catching him. Has he

689
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:10,279
opened up yet?

690
00:33:10,279 --> 00:33:11,039
Speaker 3: No, but he will.

691
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 4: Johnny take it easy with him.

692
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 5: I think he's got plenty to tell us. Looks like

693
00:33:15,039 --> 00:33:24,519
he's the boy where after l I'll be right over

694
00:33:26,759 --> 00:33:30,119
New York City. Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny

695
00:33:30,119 --> 00:33:34,240
Dollar to the home Office Northwestern Indemnity Alliance, Hartford, Connecticut.

696
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:36,960
The following is an accounting of expendit yours during my

697
00:33:37,039 --> 00:33:41,000
investigation of the Amy Brandtshaw matter. Amy star of a

698
00:33:41,039 --> 00:33:47,440
Broadway play, and somebody was out to get her expense

699
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:50,480
account adam ten three dollars repairs to one coach leave

700
00:33:51,039 --> 00:33:53,599
torn in the process of inviting Bill Yorke up to

701
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:54,440
my hotel room.

702
00:33:54,799 --> 00:33:56,599
Speaker 7: Well, Dehli, you've got no right to drag me up

703
00:33:56,599 --> 00:33:57,400
here your room this.

704
00:33:57,359 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 3: Way, York.

705
00:33:58,039 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 5: You're gonna sit right here until you open up and

706
00:34:00,079 --> 00:34:02,640
tell me all about the attempt on Amy Branshaw's life.

707
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 3: What you come in?

708
00:34:06,119 --> 00:34:09,519
Speaker 5: Oh wow, Hi, Johnny York, this is Detective Lieutenant Elson.

709
00:34:09,519 --> 00:34:11,480
Speaker 11: Tell her look kill and what's this all about?

710
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:13,719
Speaker 3: Well? I kind of thought that's what you tell us,

711
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:14,320
mister York.

712
00:34:15,119 --> 00:34:15,880
Speaker 7: This is crazy.

713
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:17,320
Speaker 11: Why would I want to kill Amy?

714
00:34:17,599 --> 00:34:20,719
Speaker 5: You're aware that you're still a beneficiary on Amy's insurance policy.

715
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:24,280
Even if I show you need money, and you need

716
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:26,440
it bad. You're several thousand bucks in debt to Mike

717
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:29,199
palmeroy Amy's agent. He's been pressing you for it lately.

718
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:31,320
Look down, you know you can't get the manuscript of

719
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:33,360
your novel, Lot of Hawk from him until you pay off.

720
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:36,719
You've got two strikes against your York motive and opportunity.

721
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:44,400
Speaker 7: Opportunity, sure, but motive, no dollar. I've never had any

722
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:47,679
reason to kill Amy. It's true she and I couldn't

723
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:49,480
make it together, but I guess that was more my

724
00:34:49,639 --> 00:34:50,480
fault than hers.

725
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:51,079
Speaker 3: Go on.

726
00:34:52,639 --> 00:34:55,199
Speaker 7: You see, Amy's never let anything stand in the way

727
00:34:55,199 --> 00:34:59,320
of what she wanted. What she wanted, I didn't. I

728
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:01,480
guess we just lived in two different worlds.

729
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:02,039
Speaker 3: What do you mean.

730
00:35:03,039 --> 00:35:06,599
Speaker 7: She's always been a success and I've always been a failure.

731
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:09,280
Speaker 5: You still haven't explained why you lied to me, York.

732
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:11,400
When I talked to you this morning, you told me

733
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:13,800
you hadn't been near Amy for a long time. But

734
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:15,039
when I caught up with you in front of her

735
00:35:15,079 --> 00:35:16,880
apartment tonight, I realized you were the same one who

736
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:18,119
was watching the night before last.

737
00:35:18,159 --> 00:35:22,280
Speaker 7: How about that, York, You fellas don't believe me much?

738
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:23,039
Speaker 3: What do you mean?

739
00:35:24,679 --> 00:35:27,239
Speaker 7: Sure, once in a while I go stand outside her

740
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:31,599
apartment house, look up at the light in the window,

741
00:35:31,599 --> 00:35:33,920
maybe think a little about how things might have been.

742
00:35:35,159 --> 00:35:35,719
That's all.

743
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:40,159
Speaker 5: Maybe you better come downtown with me, York. We'll check

744
00:35:40,199 --> 00:35:42,199
your story further. If you're clean, you got nothing to

745
00:35:42,199 --> 00:35:45,280
worry about.

746
00:35:46,519 --> 00:35:48,639
Speaker 4: Sergeant, Take mister York down to the car and wait

747
00:35:48,679 --> 00:35:49,400
for me there.

748
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:55,960
Speaker 3: Johnny, Who else have you talked to?

749
00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:57,519
Speaker 10: Oh?

750
00:35:57,559 --> 00:35:58,760
Speaker 3: Everybody close to her?

751
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:03,079
Speaker 5: The interesting most as a ragent Mike Pomeroy, he'd be

752
00:36:03,119 --> 00:36:05,519
a pretty rough customer when he wants to, and he

753
00:36:05,559 --> 00:36:07,280
thinks Amy's standing in the way of a career for

754
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:10,760
an actress he's currently interested in. Let's talk about somebody

755
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,800
else for a moment. Oh you, Johnny, I think you're

756
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:14,920
getting a little bit out of line.

757
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:15,599
Speaker 3: What do you mean.

758
00:36:16,199 --> 00:36:18,719
Speaker 5: Down at police headquarters, we got a little black book.

759
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:20,800
Speaker 3: It tells us what to do and what not to do.

760
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:25,159
Speaker 5: It doesn't say anything about insurance investigators dragging possible suspects

761
00:36:25,159 --> 00:36:27,840
to their hotel room to question them. Listen, now, when

762
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:29,719
I'm assigned to a case, I usually try to break

763
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:30,519
it any way I can.

764
00:36:30,599 --> 00:36:30,840
Speaker 6: I know.

765
00:36:31,639 --> 00:36:33,880
Speaker 3: It's just that I think you're taking this case pretty big.

766
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:36,440
Speaker 5: Meaning yesterday I told you that if I didn't know

767
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:38,440
you better, I think you were falling for Amy a

768
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:39,199
little yourself.

769
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:41,320
Speaker 3: Think it over, Johnny.

770
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:49,519
Speaker 2: We will continue with the Bradshaw matter in a moment.

771
00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:58,760
Speaker 5: Expense account out of eleven four dollars drinks for me.

772
00:37:00,159 --> 00:37:03,719
I thought about what Alison Teller had said, the possibility

773
00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:06,960
I was falling for Amy Bradshaw. I thought about it

774
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:10,760
for two hours. Finally I decided I had to find

775
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:12,719
out if he was right. I went over to Amy's apartment.

776
00:37:16,559 --> 00:37:19,800
Speaker 9: It's good of you to come over, Johnny. I just

777
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:23,880
can't seem to sleep lately. Yeah, I noticed there's a

778
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:25,639
policeman on duty down in the lobby.

779
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:27,800
Speaker 3: Lieutenants and Teller arrange for that.

780
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:32,079
Speaker 9: It's funny, it should make me feel better, but it doesn't,

781
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:35,960
just keeps reminding me of it, threat on my life.

782
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:43,679
I'm glad you're here, Johnny. It's so am I halfly glad.

783
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:46,960
Maybe I shouldn't say that.

784
00:37:47,039 --> 00:37:51,280
Speaker 3: But do you hear any objections? Well?

785
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:53,199
Speaker 9: Who could excuse me?

786
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:53,800
Speaker 3: Yes, sir?

787
00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:57,199
Speaker 4: Hello?

788
00:37:57,519 --> 00:37:57,719
Speaker 6: Yes?

789
00:37:59,039 --> 00:37:59,400
Speaker 13: Oh?

790
00:37:59,480 --> 00:37:59,800
Speaker 11: Porter?

791
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:00,280
Speaker 2: What?

792
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:06,679
Speaker 9: No, I'm sorry? No, really poor, it's out of the question.

793
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:10,119
Speaker 12: No, good night.

794
00:38:12,039 --> 00:38:13,000
Speaker 3: Can huh?

795
00:38:13,079 --> 00:38:16,000
Speaker 9: Yes? I suppose he means well, but he can be

796
00:38:16,119 --> 00:38:27,039
rather annoying. Do you have a cigarette? Johnny? Thanks? You

797
00:38:27,039 --> 00:38:28,480
seem rather quiet tonight.

798
00:38:29,519 --> 00:38:34,519
Speaker 5: Oh, just thinking, I guess.

799
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:39,920
Speaker 9: Funny, a meeting like this, Yeah, just a few days ago.

800
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:40,880
I didn't know you at all.

801
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:45,559
Speaker 4: No, I know what.

802
00:38:47,159 --> 00:38:51,480
Speaker 9: I don't know, Johnny. I don't know.

803
00:38:56,199 --> 00:38:56,519
Speaker 3: Amy.

804
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:57,880
Speaker 9: It's a mistake, Johnny.

805
00:38:57,880 --> 00:38:59,599
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, wasn't it.

806
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:04,519
Speaker 9: Yes, Johnny, I'm afraid I've heard a couple of people

807
00:39:04,559 --> 00:39:07,079
in the past. I don't want to hurt you, don't worry,

808
00:39:07,119 --> 00:39:12,039
you want And that's the wonderful thing about being an actress.

809
00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:14,760
You play so many parts.

810
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:18,400
Speaker 3: A kiss I was playing a part.

811
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:19,840
Speaker 10: Huh.

812
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:24,440
Speaker 9: Even if it weren't, Johnny, be no good, there'd always

813
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:28,119
be something between us. It's right over there in the maddle.

814
00:39:29,559 --> 00:39:30,000
Speaker 3: The clock.

815
00:39:30,679 --> 00:39:37,079
Speaker 9: Yes, we can't turn it back. If i'd met you

816
00:39:37,119 --> 00:39:41,079
a long time ago before, Mike, but I didn't.

817
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:46,039
Speaker 3: No, so is the clock so bad?

818
00:39:46,079 --> 00:39:46,400
Speaker 4: Amy?

819
00:39:46,639 --> 00:39:50,480
Speaker 9: It is to an actress. Sometimes I pretend it isn't there.

820
00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:51,719
You ever do that, Johnny.

821
00:39:52,119 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 3: It doesn't do any good that you can try.

822
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:59,159
Speaker 9: You can live a whole life trying. Isn't that really

823
00:39:59,159 --> 00:39:59,880
what we all do?

824
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:01,880
Speaker 11: I don't know.

825
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:05,159
Speaker 9: We go along, playing our parts, doing what we have

826
00:40:05,239 --> 00:40:10,719
to do, pretending o'clock isn't there. It's all the while

827
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:14,840
it is that we keep on fighting against it. We

828
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:19,360
know we can't turn it back. We can't even stop it.

829
00:40:24,039 --> 00:40:27,920
Speaker 5: One thing I'd accomplished, I guess I decided I wouldn't

830
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:30,559
be seeing Amy anymore after this case was wound up.

831
00:40:32,039 --> 00:40:34,639
Winding it up, though, was another question, and I was

832
00:40:34,679 --> 00:40:36,079
still as far from home as.

833
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:36,480
Speaker 3: Ever on it.

834
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:38,880
Speaker 5: But I couldn't seem to get port of Kine and

835
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:41,480
this quaint little hobby of collecting things out of my mind.

836
00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:48,440
Speaker 11: Why good evening, mister Dollar and almost Kane, come in,

837
00:40:48,599 --> 00:40:48,920
come in.

838
00:40:49,039 --> 00:40:51,360
Speaker 3: Thanks. I know it's late.

839
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:53,559
Speaker 12: I'm sorry, not at all. As a matter of fact,

840
00:40:53,599 --> 00:40:54,840
I was hoping i'd see you again.

841
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:56,280
Speaker 3: I don't want to keep you. I see your hat

842
00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:56,639
and cold.

843
00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:58,239
Speaker 11: I'm not going out. I've just come in.

844
00:40:58,679 --> 00:41:01,840
Speaker 5: Oh you said you were hoping you'd see me again.

845
00:41:02,039 --> 00:41:06,000
Speaker 11: Yes, I enjoyed our other little chat very much. I

846
00:41:06,039 --> 00:41:08,039
suppose you came to talk some more about Amy Bradshaw.

847
00:41:08,119 --> 00:41:10,000
Speaker 5: Matter of fact, mister Kane, I came to talk about

848
00:41:10,039 --> 00:41:11,880
you splendid and about your hobby.

849
00:41:12,039 --> 00:41:14,559
Speaker 11: Collecting a fascinating hobby, mister Dollar.

850
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:16,519
Speaker 3: You take it pretty seriously, don't you.

851
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:19,119
Speaker 12: I've devoted most of my life to it, and I

852
00:41:19,159 --> 00:41:21,239
may say that I've succeeded rather brilliantly with it.

853
00:41:21,559 --> 00:41:24,519
Speaker 11: Each item in my collection is incomparable, without equal.

854
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:26,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, one of a kind, and that.

855
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:29,360
Speaker 12: Of course, is precisely why Amy is necessary to complete

856
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:32,239
the collection, the crowning and final addition.

857
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:33,840
Speaker 3: Final.

858
00:41:34,119 --> 00:41:36,559
Speaker 11: Yes, for your information, mister Dollar.

859
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:40,400
Speaker 12: When I've acquired Amy, I intend to cease my hobby. Oh,

860
00:41:40,679 --> 00:41:43,440
she will complete my collection without her, though it is

861
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:44,320
still incomplete.

862
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:46,880
Speaker 5: Mind if I ask you a couple of questions, mister.

863
00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:47,719
Speaker 3: Kane, not at all.

864
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:50,159
Speaker 5: You seem to have been pretty successful with your collection.

865
00:41:51,119 --> 00:41:53,239
Have you ever run up against an item you wanted

866
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:53,920
but couldn't get?

867
00:41:54,159 --> 00:41:57,320
Speaker 11: Of course, not that just doesn't happen.

868
00:41:57,480 --> 00:41:58,480
Speaker 3: Has it ever happened?

869
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:00,159
Speaker 11: I can't remember that it.

870
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:05,079
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, it did happen once when.

871
00:42:05,639 --> 00:42:08,679
Speaker 12: When I was nine years old, playmate of mine at

872
00:42:08,679 --> 00:42:10,360
a lollipop that I admired greatly.

873
00:42:11,159 --> 00:42:13,559
Speaker 11: He wouldn't give it to me, and he wouldn't sell

874
00:42:13,559 --> 00:42:13,920
it to me.

875
00:42:15,159 --> 00:42:18,400
Speaker 12: What did you do? I did the only logical thing

876
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:21,719
there was to do. I smashed the lollipop as.

877
00:42:21,639 --> 00:42:22,280
Speaker 2: The dollar.

878
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:42,320
Speaker 5: Johnny Dollar Brashaw, Johnny Amy, it's one am.

879
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 3: Anything the matter?

880
00:42:43,119 --> 00:42:43,280
Speaker 4: Yes?

881
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:44,320
Speaker 15: Can you come over right away?

882
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:45,239
Speaker 3: Sure? Your apartment?

883
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:47,679
Speaker 15: No, I'm in my dressing room at the Criterion.

884
00:42:47,199 --> 00:42:49,119
Speaker 3: Theater at one o'clock. Amy.

885
00:42:49,159 --> 00:42:51,000
Speaker 5: There's a policeman assigned to you. Is he with you?

886
00:42:51,039 --> 00:42:53,840
Speaker 15: No? I would not the back way. I came over

887
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:54,440
here alone.

888
00:42:54,519 --> 00:42:56,079
Speaker 5: Why he's supposed to be protecting you?

889
00:42:56,199 --> 00:42:58,960
Speaker 15: Johnny? I can't explain now, but I think I finally

890
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:00,519
know who's been trying to kill me. I want to

891
00:43:00,559 --> 00:43:05,719
talk to you right away over here. Hurry, please hurry.

892
00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:15,079
Speaker 5: New York City expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny

893
00:43:15,079 --> 00:43:19,199
Dollar to the home Office Northwestern Indemnity Alliance, Hartford, Connecticut.

894
00:43:19,639 --> 00:43:22,039
The following is an accounting of expendit yours during my

895
00:43:22,119 --> 00:43:27,719
investigation of the Amy Bradshaw matter. Expense account ADEM twelve

896
00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:30,599
five dollars taxi from my hotel to the Criterion Theater

897
00:43:30,679 --> 00:43:33,280
on West forty fourth. Two bucks for the fair, three

898
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:36,159
bucks for getting me there. In five minutes, Amy had

899
00:43:36,159 --> 00:43:39,719
sounded plenty scared over the phone. The camp skidded to

900
00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:42,440
a stop in front. I caught a glimpse of somebody

901
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:44,719
at the other corner of the theater. It looked like

902
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:47,440
Porter Kane. I couldn't be sure, and I didn't have

903
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:51,280
time to find out right now. Backstage was quite dark

904
00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:54,119
and I had to feel my way through some The

905
00:43:54,239 --> 00:43:59,960
shot came from the direction of Amy's dressing room. Mike Palmer,

906
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:02,840
the Royal Ragent, was lying on the floor dead. There

907
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:05,000
was a gun on the floor too, just inside the door.

908
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:09,559
What happened to Amy, Amy, stop it? Tell me what

909
00:44:09,679 --> 00:44:11,559
happened the door door.

910
00:44:12,679 --> 00:44:14,960
Speaker 13: The shot came from the door.

911
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:18,679
Speaker 5: I ran outside the dressing room, across the stage into

912
00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:21,760
the alley. I went in sight back inside, I found

913
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:24,360
a light switch, so I phoned Els and tell at

914
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:26,000
police headquarters, told him what had happened.

915
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:27,800
Speaker 3: Amy was quieter.

916
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:32,039
Speaker 5: Now, Amy, look, look, I know it's tough for you

917
00:44:32,079 --> 00:44:33,639
to talk right now, but you've got to try and

918
00:44:33,679 --> 00:44:34,079
tell me.

919
00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:40,840
Speaker 9: No left him. Midnight, Mike called me at my apartment.

920
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:44,400
He said he wanted to talk to me about something important.

921
00:44:46,119 --> 00:44:48,000
His office is nearby, and he asked me to beat

922
00:44:48,079 --> 00:44:50,920
him here in my dressing room. So I came over

923
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:55,519
right away. Go on, Mike and I started talking. Suddenly

924
00:44:55,519 --> 00:44:59,719
I saw the door opening, a crack hand with a

925
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:08,320
gun and Mike, Mike, Easy, easy, Mikes.

926
00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:10,280
Speaker 13: So dude.

927
00:45:10,679 --> 00:45:14,199
Speaker 5: He dove in between me and the door and collected

928
00:45:14,199 --> 00:45:14,639
the slug.

929
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:17,280
Speaker 2: He fell against the door.

930
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:23,039
Speaker 9: That slammed on the hand. The gun dropped, and the

931
00:45:23,199 --> 00:45:26,360
next thing I remember, you were in the room.

932
00:45:26,559 --> 00:45:29,840
Speaker 3: You didn't see who was holding the gun. Oh, just

933
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:31,239
a hand, Amy.

934
00:45:33,159 --> 00:45:38,039
Speaker 9: There was something on one of the fingers that I.

935
00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:40,199
Speaker 3: Recognized, a large signet ring.

936
00:45:42,039 --> 00:45:45,320
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, yeah, it belonged to the guy out on

937
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:47,519
the sidewalk, Porter Kane.

938
00:45:53,039 --> 00:45:55,880
Speaker 2: We will continue with the Bradshaw matter in a moment.

939
00:46:01,199 --> 00:46:04,519
Speaker 5: Lieutenant Sintella arrived at Amy's dressing room and Amy repeated

940
00:46:04,519 --> 00:46:06,679
her story to him. He sent a couple of his

941
00:46:06,719 --> 00:46:09,760
boys out to pick up Porter Kane. Alan Amy and

942
00:46:09,760 --> 00:46:11,679
I went down to headquarters. We left her in one

943
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:13,880
room while we went into another to question Kan, who

944
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:15,159
had been picked up at his apartment.

945
00:46:15,559 --> 00:46:16,519
Speaker 11: See here, lieutenant.

946
00:46:16,599 --> 00:46:18,559
Speaker 12: I don't know what this is all about, but I

947
00:46:18,599 --> 00:46:20,039
certainly object to being routed.

948
00:46:20,079 --> 00:46:22,400
Speaker 3: I asshole at Kane. You know why you're down here?

949
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:23,239
Speaker 11: I certainly do not.

950
00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:25,239
Speaker 3: You don't know that Mike Palmeroy is dead.

951
00:46:25,079 --> 00:46:27,079
Speaker 11: And Amy's agent? Really?

952
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:29,320
Speaker 3: Really, I never did like that.

953
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:31,199
Speaker 11: Chap quite an insensitive person.

954
00:46:31,199 --> 00:46:33,239
Speaker 3: Well he's real insensitive. Now Kane's dead.

955
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:34,159
Speaker 11: How did it happen?

956
00:46:34,199 --> 00:46:36,480
Speaker 3: Mike was shot by mistake? The real target was Amy?

957
00:46:36,519 --> 00:46:37,119
Speaker 11: Good heavens.

958
00:46:37,159 --> 00:46:39,400
Speaker 5: No, when's the last time you saw Amy? The night

959
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:41,679
before last? I spoke to her briefly after the show.

960
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:43,000
You haven't talked to her on the telephone?

961
00:46:43,039 --> 00:46:43,719
Speaker 3: No, you're lying.

962
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:46,079
Speaker 5: I see here her apartment about eleven PM.

963
00:46:46,079 --> 00:46:46,920
Speaker 3: I was there, all.

964
00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:50,920
Speaker 12: Right, I did telephone, huh. I suggested she meet me somewhere.

965
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:53,000
I told her I'd wait for her outside of her

966
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:55,039
a park go on. I saw her come out later

967
00:46:55,079 --> 00:46:57,079
by the alley, so I followed her through the theater,

968
00:46:57,400 --> 00:46:59,039
thinking she meant for us to talk there.

969
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:01,199
Speaker 11: But then I I heard a shot.

970
00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:02,920
Speaker 3: So you admit being in the vicinity.

971
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:06,000
Speaker 5: Well, yes, but I definitely did not go into the theater,

972
00:47:06,039 --> 00:47:09,519
didn't you, Cain? Amy gotta look at the hand holding

973
00:47:09,519 --> 00:47:11,880
the gun. There was a ring on one of the fingers.

974
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:12,760
Speaker 2: Ring your ring.

975
00:47:13,039 --> 00:47:14,159
Speaker 11: She's completely mistaked.

976
00:47:14,159 --> 00:47:16,840
Speaker 3: It's a very distinctive ring. It's not one that anybody

977
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:17,639
be mistaken about.

978
00:47:17,679 --> 00:47:18,519
Speaker 11: See here, lieutenant.

979
00:47:18,559 --> 00:47:22,000
Speaker 12: All of this wild supposition is based on the assumption

980
00:47:22,079 --> 00:47:23,920
that I had a motive for wanting to kill Amy.

981
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:25,760
Speaker 5: You told me what your motive was when I talked

982
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:27,079
to you last evening in your apartment.

983
00:47:27,159 --> 00:47:27,679
Speaker 11: What do you mean.

984
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:29,440
Speaker 5: I asked you what you do if you wanted something

985
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:31,719
for your collection and couldn't get it. You told me

986
00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:33,440
a story about what happened when you were just a

987
00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:35,559
kid nine years old. But I say, the kid had

988
00:47:35,559 --> 00:47:37,440
a lollipop you wanted. He wouldn't give it to you,

989
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:40,000
so you smashed it. And that's what you were trying

990
00:47:40,039 --> 00:47:43,079
to do tonight at Amy's dressing room. You couldn't have her,

991
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:51,800
so you tried to smash her. There wasn't much point

992
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:54,599
in my hanging around, so I got alse and tell

993
00:47:54,679 --> 00:47:57,159
his permission to take Amy back to her apartment. We

994
00:47:57,199 --> 00:48:00,679
could wait there for any new developments. Amy didn't say

995
00:48:00,679 --> 00:48:03,079
a word all the way when we got there. She

996
00:48:03,159 --> 00:48:06,039
sat in a chair staring at the wall. When she

997
00:48:06,119 --> 00:48:08,920
finally spoke, it was more like she was talking to herself.

998
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:13,800
Speaker 9: He's dead, Amy, He's dead because of me.

999
00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:17,239
Speaker 5: Stop talking that way. Mike Pomeroy jumped in the way

1000
00:48:17,239 --> 00:48:25,519
of a bullet. If he hadn't, you'd be dead. Stop it, Amy, Johnny, Yeah,

1001
00:48:25,559 --> 00:48:27,280
I think you think.

1002
00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:27,480
Speaker 2: What?

1003
00:48:29,159 --> 00:48:33,559
Speaker 5: Oh, just a minute, I'll get it. It was Alisontella

1004
00:48:33,639 --> 00:48:36,960
down at police headquarters. When he finished talking, I didn't

1005
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:42,119
say anything. There wasn't anything to say. After I hung up,

1006
00:48:42,159 --> 00:48:44,039
I stood there a moment, staring out the window, and

1007
00:48:44,079 --> 00:48:48,239
it started to rain. I felt old and tired and

1008
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:52,000
empty and sick. I went back into the other room again.

1009
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:53,760
Amy was sitting there looking.

1010
00:48:53,559 --> 00:49:00,360
Speaker 9: At me, Johnny, Amy, is that cough for me?

1011
00:49:01,159 --> 00:49:01,239
Speaker 2: No?

1012
00:49:02,119 --> 00:49:02,840
Speaker 9: Who was it?

1013
00:49:03,639 --> 00:49:04,599
Speaker 3: Lieutenants and tell her?

1014
00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:09,639
Speaker 5: Oh, the gun that killed Mike Pomeroy, there were no

1015
00:49:09,719 --> 00:49:13,360
fingerprints on it. You said you saw a bare hand

1016
00:49:13,440 --> 00:49:16,320
with a ring on it holding the gun. A bare

1017
00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:22,639
hand would have left fingerprints. You killed him, didn't you. Yes, Johnny,

1018
00:49:22,719 --> 00:49:24,679
the attempts on your life you fake them, didn't you

1019
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:26,559
to convince people you were in danger so you could

1020
00:49:26,599 --> 00:49:30,400
kill Pomeroy. And we think the shot was intended for you.

1021
00:49:30,519 --> 00:49:30,800
Speaker 3: Why?

1022
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:33,760
Speaker 10: Amy, you know why?

1023
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:35,679
Speaker 4: Yeah?

1024
00:49:35,679 --> 00:49:38,280
Speaker 3: I guess. So you loved Mike.

1025
00:49:39,199 --> 00:49:42,280
Speaker 5: You knew he was growing away from you so fast,

1026
00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:46,199
so very fast. You saw him get interested in a

1027
00:49:46,239 --> 00:49:49,719
younger actress. You knew she was taking your place with him.

1028
00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:56,440
Speaker 9: Mike, I was dead. I couldn't stand that. I really couldn't.

1029
00:49:58,079 --> 00:50:01,880
So I started making it look like I was in danger.

1030
00:50:03,320 --> 00:50:05,920
It wasn't very hard, Johnny, I'm a good actress.

1031
00:50:06,639 --> 00:50:07,519
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1032
00:50:07,679 --> 00:50:09,960
Speaker 9: After a while, I almost began to believe I was

1033
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:15,679
in danger. Something was after me, was hunting me. It

1034
00:50:16,239 --> 00:50:20,880
finally caught up with me, and I did what I did.

1035
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:27,039
Which Javis is the hunter, Johnny? And which is the hunted?

1036
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:29,159
Speaker 3: Amy?

1037
00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:35,280
Speaker 5: Yes, I think one of lieutenants and Tella's men is

1038
00:50:35,320 --> 00:50:36,000
waiting for you.

1039
00:50:36,039 --> 00:50:36,480
Speaker 10: In the hall.

1040
00:50:38,039 --> 00:50:45,760
Speaker 9: All right, just one thing, Johnny, what isn't I'll need

1041
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:59,719
something now, something. Don't forget me, Johnny, give me that.

1042
00:50:56,840 --> 00:50:58,119
Speaker 3: That you can count on.

1043
00:50:58,199 --> 00:51:09,159
Speaker 10: Amy.

1044
00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:12,559
Speaker 5: She walked out of the room and she didn't look back.

1045
00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:22,199
I'm glad she didn't expense account. I am thirteen sixteen

1046
00:51:22,239 --> 00:51:25,000
dollars and fifty cents. Transportation and incidentals from New York

1047
00:51:25,039 --> 00:51:28,360
back to Hartford. Expense account total one hundred and eighty

1048
00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:31,000
five dollars and twenty cents. End of account. End of

1049
00:51:31,079 --> 00:51:36,639
report remarks. Amy repeated her confession to Lieutenant Sintella, her

1050
00:51:36,679 --> 00:51:44,639
trials coming up soon, sweet case. Well, tomorrow's another day,

1051
00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:49,239
so they tell me yours, Julie, Johnny Dollar.

1052
00:52:01,760 --> 00:52:04,000
Speaker 6: Johnny Dollar will return in a moment to tell you

1053
00:52:04,039 --> 00:52:06,000
about next week's intriguing story.

1054
00:52:07,159 --> 00:52:09,159
Speaker 8: Friends, send for your set of some of the most

1055
00:52:09,199 --> 00:52:12,360
exciting toys of the year. Six trand inflatable toys for

1056
00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:13,679
only one dollar, some.

1057
00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:14,840
Speaker 2: Up to three feet tall.

1058
00:52:15,079 --> 00:52:18,679
Speaker 8: You get bounce over the Happy clown Hoppy, the Australian kangaroo, Roscoe,

1059
00:52:18,920 --> 00:52:21,480
the two feet long roller skating bear, Whitey, the fat

1060
00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:24,760
indoor snowman, Mortimer, the Giant mouse eighteen inches long, and

1061
00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:28,119
last but not least, the Great Giant Talking Sata, a

1062
00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:30,800
roly pully giant over three feet tall and thirty two

1063
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:34,519
inches around the belly that actually says Merry Christmas.

1064
00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:35,719
Speaker 2: Out loud when you pull the tape.

1065
00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:39,480
Speaker 8: That's six sensational giant toys for only one dollar. Made

1066
00:52:39,519 --> 00:52:42,719
of sturdy giggly colored latex that the kids can easily inflate.

1067
00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:46,280
Send one dollar for each cent to Giant Animals Box

1068
00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:49,280
nineteen eighteen, Grand Central Station, New York City. And if

1069
00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:51,199
you order right now, you get Peter the Rabbit over

1070
00:52:51,239 --> 00:52:53,360
two feet tall, absolutely free.

1071
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:54,719
Speaker 2: If not delighted with your.

1072
00:52:54,639 --> 00:52:57,840
Speaker 8: Giant Animals, your money refunded, immediately order today.

1073
00:52:57,880 --> 00:52:59,280
Speaker 2: You may never hear this offer again.

1074
00:52:59,639 --> 00:53:02,199
Speaker 8: Rush one dollar plus ten cents for packing and mailing

1075
00:53:02,199 --> 00:53:05,239
in cash, check or money order to Giants Animals Box

1076
00:53:06,199 --> 00:53:09,599
eight Grand Central Station, New York City. That's one dollar

1077
00:53:09,639 --> 00:53:11,519
plus ten cents for each set with your name of

1078
00:53:11,559 --> 00:53:16,320
address to Giant Animals Box nineteen eighteen, Grand Central Station,

1079
00:53:16,440 --> 00:53:23,519
New York City. Now here's our stars to tell you

1080
00:53:23,559 --> 00:53:25,360
about next week's exciting story.

1081
00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:29,039
Speaker 5: Next week a case with a great big question, mark accident,

1082
00:53:29,320 --> 00:53:34,239
suicide or just Plaine murder? Join us, won't you? Yours truly?

1083
00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:35,440
Johnny Dollar?

1084
00:53:46,079 --> 00:53:46,800
Speaker 2: Yours truly?

1085
00:53:46,880 --> 00:53:50,119
Speaker 6: Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed in Hollywood,

1086
00:53:50,159 --> 00:53:52,800
written by Robert Rife, It is produced and directed by

1087
00:53:52,880 --> 00:53:56,719
Jack Johnstone. Heard in this week's cast where Virginia, Greg

1088
00:53:56,760 --> 00:54:01,079
Florence Walcott, Don Diamond, Larry thor Vic Perrin and Carlton Young.

1089
00:54:01,599 --> 00:54:04,400
Speaker 2: Musical supervision by A. Marigo Marino.

1090
00:54:04,679 --> 00:54:06,840
Speaker 6: Be sure to join us on Monday night at same

1091
00:54:06,920 --> 00:54:10,880
time in Station for another exciting story of yours, truly,

1092
00:54:11,119 --> 00:54:11,800
Johnny Dellar.

1093
00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:15,960
Speaker 2: This is Roy Rowlan speaking.

1094
00:54:38,320 --> 00:54:39,360
Speaker 1: Welcome back.

1095
00:54:39,800 --> 00:54:40,000
Speaker 2: Well.

1096
00:54:40,079 --> 00:54:42,519
Speaker 1: I will say that this one is a bit shorter

1097
00:54:42,599 --> 00:54:46,519
than our other omnibuses because we did come back on

1098
00:54:46,960 --> 00:54:51,320
us the John Animal commercials, which were pretty much the same,

1099
00:54:52,079 --> 00:54:54,239
but we did leave a couple in so you can

1100
00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:57,760
get a feel for them. But they were two in

1101
00:54:57,920 --> 00:55:02,679
each part, so a little bit shorter than some other ones.

1102
00:55:03,880 --> 00:55:07,559
And overall I thought this was a good actor story

1103
00:55:07,599 --> 00:55:10,920
and a good character story. It was a reminder of

1104
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:15,320
the quality of actors available to Jack Johnstone and who

1105
00:55:15,360 --> 00:55:20,719
worked on this series, particularly during the serial run. The

1106
00:55:20,760 --> 00:55:24,400
way Carlton Young played Porter Kean was great. It was

1107
00:55:24,480 --> 00:55:29,280
so creepy, and even though he was an obvious suspect,

1108
00:55:29,599 --> 00:55:32,480
because of how creepy it was, I could buy him

1109
00:55:32,519 --> 00:55:34,960
as the culprit. In fact, I think it's safe to

1110
00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:39,119
say that Porter Kane will probably murder someone eventually, even

1111
00:55:39,159 --> 00:55:42,960
if he hadn't already. And even that one scene with

1112
00:55:43,079 --> 00:55:47,239
Johnny and Dora Taylor, the producer's wife, who was played

1113
00:55:47,280 --> 00:55:51,599
by Florence Wolcott, was such a great scene. I wish

1114
00:55:51,679 --> 00:55:54,719
we'd gotten more of her, but she was just so

1115
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:58,480
engaging For having her on, It's just a shame there

1116
00:55:58,519 --> 00:56:02,639
was no plot reason for her being it further. And

1117
00:56:02,679 --> 00:56:07,280
then of course you have Virginia Gregg and another marvelous performance,

1118
00:56:07,840 --> 00:56:12,559
this time as the manipulative aging Starlett, who got to

1119
00:56:12,599 --> 00:56:16,079
the point where she nearly believed her own performance. I

1120
00:56:16,119 --> 00:56:20,639
often talk about not being a showcase for William Conrad,

1121
00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:23,480
with all the great guest characters he got to play.

1122
00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:27,159
I think the Johnny Dollar serials were much the same

1123
00:56:27,280 --> 00:56:31,599
thing for Virginia greg She got an opportunity to play,

1124
00:56:31,679 --> 00:56:35,400
if not her whole range, which is so significant, then

1125
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:39,320
a lot of her range. We of course heard her

1126
00:56:39,480 --> 00:56:42,599
from the Valentine Matter, which we played last week, but

1127
00:56:43,559 --> 00:56:46,800
several weeks before this, and she'd been in The Broader

1128
00:56:47,239 --> 00:56:51,400
Matter the previous week in nineteen fifty five, and of

1129
00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:55,760
course she continued to make appearances throughout the serial run.

1130
00:56:56,280 --> 00:57:00,840
She was Kathy o'dair and Kathy o'dair's land lord in

1131
00:57:01,480 --> 00:57:06,159
the Nick schern Matter. She was in the Lamar Matter,

1132
00:57:06,480 --> 00:57:10,480
and she was Meg in The Mag's Palace Matter and

1133
00:57:10,639 --> 00:57:15,480
so many other really memorable performances throughout this particular serial.

1134
00:57:16,400 --> 00:57:19,840
In terms of the mystery, it was entertaining enough, but

1135
00:57:19,920 --> 00:57:22,280
our hero doesn't do a whole lot to solve it.

1136
00:57:22,880 --> 00:57:26,639
The police they pretty much figure it out. The episode

1137
00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:31,719
highlights Johnny's character in its strengths and weaknesses. He has

1138
00:57:31,800 --> 00:57:35,840
a very genuine nature and can be open hearted as

1139
00:57:35,840 --> 00:57:38,719
a professional though who has seen a lot. He can

1140
00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:42,000
be suspicious and can even be over the top in

1141
00:57:42,079 --> 00:57:47,079
that suspicion. But he can also easily become personally involved

1142
00:57:47,199 --> 00:57:50,719
because he cares about people and he sympathizes with him,

1143
00:57:51,199 --> 00:57:53,679
and that can make him more determined and get him

1144
00:57:53,719 --> 00:57:56,719
to fight harder for someone in trouble. But he can

1145
00:57:56,800 --> 00:58:01,760
also be played particularly by a pretty woman. Johnny's humanity

1146
00:58:01,960 --> 00:58:05,440
can cloud his judgment and lead him to make mistakes

1147
00:58:05,480 --> 00:58:10,119
and experience heartbreak, but that ultimately makes him an interesting

1148
00:58:10,239 --> 00:58:14,519
character that we enjoy following around. All right, well, now

1149
00:58:14,599 --> 00:58:17,360
it is time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day,

1150
00:58:17,400 --> 00:58:20,440
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1151
00:58:20,519 --> 00:58:24,840
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1152
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1153
00:58:28,920 --> 00:58:31,519
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1154
00:58:31,880 --> 00:58:34,519
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1155
00:58:34,559 --> 00:58:39,159
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1156
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1157
00:58:42,320 --> 00:58:45,800
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1158
00:58:45,880 --> 00:58:50,840
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1159
00:58:50,880 --> 00:58:54,280
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1160
00:58:54,480 --> 00:58:59,079
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1161
00:58:59,159 --> 00:59:04,440
us back here tomorrow for the last adventure with the Falcon.

1162
00:59:04,800 --> 00:59:07,960
Speaker 9: Where well are you wearing?

1163
00:59:08,119 --> 00:59:10,000
Speaker 5: I'm never quite sure in the middle of a knife.

1164
00:59:10,119 --> 00:59:11,199
Speaker 15: My name is Phyllis Howard.

1165
00:59:11,199 --> 00:59:11,719
Speaker 2: I don't care.

1166
00:59:12,960 --> 00:59:14,199
Speaker 10: Did you say Phillis Howard?

1167
00:59:14,320 --> 00:59:18,199
Speaker 3: That's right, that'll come in. I'm till they let you

1168
00:59:18,239 --> 00:59:19,239
wander around loose?

1169
00:59:19,559 --> 00:59:20,159
Speaker 9: What do you mean?

1170
00:59:20,559 --> 00:59:22,360
Speaker 3: Aren't you the gal whose uncle was T. J.

1171
00:59:22,559 --> 00:59:22,920
Speaker 10: Howard?

1172
00:59:23,079 --> 00:59:23,280
Speaker 13: Yeah?

1173
00:59:23,320 --> 00:59:24,960
Speaker 5: And didn't I read in the papers when his will

1174
00:59:25,039 --> 00:59:26,079
was probated last.

1175
00:59:25,880 --> 00:59:27,639
Speaker 3: Month he left you a cool ten million?

1176
00:59:27,719 --> 00:59:28,639
Speaker 9: It was only one.

1177
00:59:29,199 --> 00:59:31,800
Speaker 5: Well, whenever I read figures containing more than three zeros,

1178
00:59:31,840 --> 00:59:33,639
I get his Stigmatismy.

1179
00:59:33,599 --> 00:59:34,599
Speaker 11: What's bothering you?

1180
00:59:34,679 --> 00:59:36,719
Speaker 3: That a million dollars can't fit murder.

1181
00:59:37,199 --> 00:59:39,519
Speaker 9: Murder, Yes, there's a dead man in my apartment.

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Speaker 3: How did he get that?

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Speaker 2: I think he came off the fire escape.

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Speaker 3: And he was alive when he walked in.

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Speaker 10: Who is he?

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Speaker 9: He called himself Paul, Paul?

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Speaker 3: What about his last name?

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Speaker 9: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Did he try to walk off with any of your property?

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Speaker 9: I my jewel box?

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Speaker 5: Okay, then we'll claim self defense, self defense?

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Speaker 11: Yes, what did you do with the goun?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 9: I didn't kill him?

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Speaker 11: And who doing?

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Speaker 13: I don't know?

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Speaker 2: Luck, miss Howard, Why didn't he try to kiss me?

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Speaker 9: And while we were struggling it was a shot from

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his gun.

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Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime,

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Speaker 3: Sign and off.