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  Speaker 1: Orson Welles appears as Lamont Cranston and the Shadow, with
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  Speaker 1: Margot Stevenson as Margot Lane in this Goodrich-sponsored mutual broadcast.
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  Speaker 1: On June 12, 1938, the Shadow brought listeners episode 124,
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  Speaker 1: Murder on Approval. A mysterious disease among American soldiers draws
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  Speaker 1: Cranston and Margot Lane into a case involving military security,
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  Speaker 1: an army post, and a foreign plot. As concern reaches
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  Speaker 1: beyond the base and into its circle of friends and families,
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  Speaker 1: the shadow follows the trail behind the outbreak. And now
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  Speaker 1: we return to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
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  Speaker 3: The Shadow knows.
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  Speaker 4: The Shadow knows.
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  Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 6: a man of wealth, a student of science, and a
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  Speaker 6: master of other people's minds, devotes his life to righting wrongs,
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  Speaker 6: protecting the innocent and punishing the guilty. Cranston is known
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  Speaker 6: to the underworld as the Shadow. Never seen, only heard.
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  Speaker 6: His true identity is known only to his constant friend
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  Speaker 6: and aide, Margot Lane. Today's story, Murder on Approval.
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  Speaker 7: Murder on Approval.
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  Speaker 4: Dr. Colanza, I have read your statement.
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 8: Frankly, I am interested.
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  Speaker 3: I thought you would be, General.
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  Speaker 5: Otherwise, I never would have traveled so many thousand miles
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  Speaker 5: to see you.
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  Speaker 8: You say that you can infect a large number of
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  Speaker 8: persons with a deadly disease at will.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 8: That you can cause more deaths in an army than
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  Speaker 8: all the guns in the world.
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  Speaker 3: Your Excellency, I have read your statement.
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  Speaker 5: Once let loose, this disease would totally.
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  Speaker 3: Destroy an enemy's morale. With its aid, you can easily
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  Speaker 3: overcome any nation in the world. The general is already
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  Speaker 3: ruler of the east. But he will not stop with
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  Speaker 3: his conquest.
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  Speaker 5: I am sure his excellency is planning to extend his
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  Speaker 5: powers even further.
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  Speaker 3: I can give him victory. What is this sickness you
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  Speaker 3: can spread, doctor? I am sorry. That I cannot divulge
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  Speaker 3: at this time.
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  Speaker 4: Nor the method of infecting the enemy, Doctor.
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  Speaker 5: Nor that, Your Excellency. And only I know the cure.
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  Speaker 3: Dr.
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  Speaker 8: Colanza, your name is not unknown to us.
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  Speaker 4: You have been many things. Scientist, adventurer, spy.
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  Speaker 8: But you've not always been successful.
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  Speaker 5: General, may I suggest that you let me try an
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  Speaker 5: experiment on troops of your own choosing?
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  Speaker 4: Troops?
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  Speaker 8: I cannot sacrifice my men. If your disease is fatal.
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  Speaker 5: Not on your own soldiers, sir. But why not those
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  Speaker 5: of some other power?
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  Speaker 3: That is an idea.
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  Speaker 5: Soldiers of some country would be glad to humiliate and hurt.
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  Speaker 3: Perhaps even invade.
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  Speaker 4: But we are not at war at the present time, Doctor.
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  Speaker 4: Does that matter?
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  Speaker 3: General, pick any spot in the world. Any well-guarded garrison.
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  Speaker 3: And in two months, I shall have wiped out that garrison.
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  Speaker 3: Choose the spot for my experiment. But perhaps it would
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  Speaker 3: be better to choose some country you are interested in, yes? Yes.
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  Speaker 4: All right. We will select your guinea pig. Captain, the map. Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Here's the map.
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  Speaker 8: Alonzo, do you know this spot on the coast of
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  Speaker 8: the United States?
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  Speaker 3: No. But that does not matter.
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  Speaker 4: It is one of their army bases. A splendid choice, General.
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  Speaker 3: It is well regarded, Doctor.
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  Speaker 5: All the better to prove my point. I will leave
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  Speaker 5: for America at once. In a short time, many American
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  Speaker 5: soldiers will die in their barracks. Then, if you wish
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  Speaker 5: me to destroy the whole army of the United States,
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  Speaker 5: I can do it for you.
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  Speaker 3: Good.
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  Speaker 8: Captain, you will make the arrangements with the good doctor, please,
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  Speaker 8: to purchase his little methods for murder on approval.
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  Speaker 7: The End.
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  Speaker 4: Enjoying yourself, Miss Lane?
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  Speaker 2: Very much, Colonel Torrance. I like the army.
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  Speaker 4: So I've noticed, Margo. I think you've danced with every
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  Speaker 4: officer at the base.
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  Speaker 2: Why not, Lamont? The poor boys are due back inside
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  Speaker 2: the post at midnight.
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  Speaker 4: Awfully glad you could come tonight, Miss Lane.
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  Speaker 9: I don't get away from the base often myself. You'd
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  Speaker 9: be surprised at the trouble a couple of thousand men
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  Speaker 9: can manage to get into.
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  Speaker 4: Trouble, Colonel? Yes, if it isn't one thing, it's another.
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  Speaker 9: Yesterday, what should crop up but some new fangled disease?
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  Speaker 4: A new disease?
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  Speaker 2: Nothing serious, I hope.
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  Speaker 5: Is it catching?
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  Speaker 4: Well, nobody seems to know much about it. Fortunately, there
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  Speaker 4: are only a couple of cases. Dr.
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  Speaker 9: Harris isolated the sick man immediately, so the rest of
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  Speaker 9: us should be safe enough.
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  Speaker 4: Have I met Dr. Harris, Colonel? I think so.
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  Speaker 9: He's around someplace with a foreign doctor. Yes, the stocky
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  Speaker 9: red-faced officer coming this way.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes, I see.
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  Speaker 4: Harris promised to introduce his guest.
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  Speaker 3: Evening, Dr. Harris. Good evening, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Miss Lane, Dr. Nicholas Harris.
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  Speaker 2: How do you do?
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  Speaker 3: We met at dinner, Doctor.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, yes, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Cranston.
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  Speaker 2: Colonel, may I present my friend, Dr. Gregor Colanson.
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  Speaker 4: You're welcome, Dr. Colanson. Thank you, Colonel.
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  Speaker 8: Lamont, shall we dance?
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  Speaker 4: I'd love it, Margo. Will you excuse us, General?
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  Speaker 7: Certainly, certainly.
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  Speaker 4: Well, how are those boys in the hospital, Doctor?
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  Speaker 2: Well, they seemed a little better when I left, sir.
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  Speaker 9: Good.
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  Speaker 4: Get him to tell you about that, Dr. Colanza. A
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  Speaker 4: couple of soldiers have caught some strange disease. Really?
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  Speaker 9: Yes, seems so. They're pretty sick, too. Oh, sorry, my
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  Speaker 9: wife is looking for me. I'll see you later.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. That's quite amusing.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 3: You are to tell me... About this strange new disease.
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  Speaker 2: Not so loud.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, nonsense.
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  Speaker 5: There's nothing to fear. No one knows anything about us, Harris.
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  Speaker 5: Unless you have done some talking.
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  Speaker 2: Is it likely I'd go around telling people that I
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  Speaker 2: was betraying my country?
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  Speaker 4: You are being well paid.
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  Speaker 2: I know, but.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing can happen, Harris. The disease is unknown. It strikes
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  Speaker 3: very quickly.
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  Speaker 4: And it is fatal. Within a week.
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  Speaker 3: Well.
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  Speaker 4: I had.
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  Speaker 2: No idea when we started that I was handling such
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  Speaker 2: powerful germs.
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  Speaker 5: That's why I insisted on shooting antitoxin into you.
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  Speaker 4: Without it, we would both get the disease.
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  Speaker 2: No, I wish it were over. Oh, don't worry.
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  Speaker 4: In a few days, it will be.
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  Speaker 3: And you'll be a rich man, Harris. Yes, rich.
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  Speaker 2: After all these years in the army.
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  Speaker 5: You broke the little glass bottles as I instructed?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I dropped one of them in the barracks tonight
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  Speaker 2: just before I came away.
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  Speaker 5: There are enough jars. in those bottles to kill a regiment.
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  Speaker 5: You will have some new cases shortly.
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  Speaker 3: Be careful.
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  Speaker 2: Here comes one of the lieutenants.
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  Speaker 8: Doctor!
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  Speaker 4: Doctor, have you seen Colonel Tolent?
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  Speaker 2: Why, yes, yes, he's right over there.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yes. You better come along, sir. You'll be needed.
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  Speaker 4: There's trouble at the base.
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  Speaker 5: Trouble?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, hurry, sir.
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  Speaker 3: It seems that our plan is going smoothly, Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Be quiet, will you? Come on over to Colonel Tarnes.
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  Speaker 3: Get me inside the base. All right, all right.
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  Speaker 2: Now keep quiet.
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  Speaker 4: Colonel Tarnes. Yes? Come to base, sir. Urgent. Yes, Lieutenant.
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  Speaker 4: Let's have it. Yes, sir. Let me see. Good Lord.
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  Speaker 2: What is it, sir?
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  Speaker 4: The whole barracks has come down with that confounded disease, Harris.
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  Speaker 4: 200 men. They're pretty bad, sir.
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  Speaker 2: It's an epidemic, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, Lieutenant. Yes, sir. General order. All officers must report
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  Speaker 4: back to post immediately. Emergency.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 4: The base is already under quarantine, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Good.
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  Speaker 4: Announce the recall from the van stand. Right away, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Colonel, perhaps Dr. Colanza could give us a hand. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to need every doctor we can get.
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  Speaker 4: I would be delighted, Colonel. Well, very kind of you. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: no excitement, Colonel. Cranston, you'll have to drive us back
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  Speaker 4: at once. The base is hit by an epidemic.
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  Speaker 3: An epidemic?
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  Speaker 4: Yes. Will you have room for Dr. Harris and Dr. Colanzo?
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  Speaker 2: Certainly.
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  Speaker 4: General, order!
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  Speaker 2: All officers on report back to post for duty immediately!
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  Speaker 3: Faster, Marco, faster.
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  Speaker 4: The Colonel's in a hurry.
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  Speaker 2: The car's going as fast as it can, Lamont.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, we'll be there in a minute, Cranston.
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  Speaker 3: Dr. Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 4: I say, have you any idea.
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  Speaker 3: What this mysterious disease might be?
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  Speaker 2: Well, unfortunately, no.
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  Speaker 3: That's why I brought Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Colangelo along.
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  Speaker 5: From the symptoms described. There's something entirely new in medical science.
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  Speaker 5: We've got to save those men and check the disease.
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  Speaker 5: I'll do my best, sir. This thing has spread very rapidly, doctor.
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  Speaker 3: It might almost be some new form of oriental plague.
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  Speaker 2: Oriental plague? Here? In the United States?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, nonsense.
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  Speaker 3: Well, doctor, I've seen disease spread like wildfire in the
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  Speaker 3: Far East.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 4: I'd like to take a look at this, Colonel.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm afraid that's impossible, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Cranston. Well, why, Harris?
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  Speaker 2: The post has been quarantined by general order, sir. We
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  Speaker 2: can't ignore that order.
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  Speaker 4: But Colanza's going in. Yes. I am a doctor, Mr. Cranston.
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  Speaker 2: And besides, Mr. Cranston, you might catch the disease.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I don't mind taking that chance.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's very brave of you, sir, but I'm afraid
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  Speaker 2: we can't allow it. The order is definite quarantine against civilians.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I'm afraid the doctor's right, Lamont. In the army,
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  Speaker 4: orders are orders.
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  Speaker 3: Very well.
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  Speaker 4: Just as you say, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's just around the bend, Miss Lane.
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  Speaker 4: Pull up alongside the gate.
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  Speaker 2: You are right here, Miss Lane.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Here we are. Halt!
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  Speaker 4: Who goes there? Colonel Torrance. Advance to be recognized, Colonel Torrance. Well,
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  Speaker 4: thanks for the lift, Lamont.
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  Speaker 3: Don't mention it.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, Dr. Clemson.
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  Speaker 4: I am ready. Good night, Miss Lane.
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  Speaker 5: Good night, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 3: I still wish you'd let me go in and take
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  Speaker 3: a look around.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm afraid that's out of the question entirely, Mr. Clemson.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, Clemson.
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  Speaker 3: Coming.
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  Speaker 4: It's nice of you to walk with my boy. Goodbye.
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  Speaker 8: Goodbye, Colonel.
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  Speaker 2: I suppose we might as well drive back to the hotel.
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  Speaker 4: Just a moment, Margo. I'm getting out here.
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  Speaker 2: Getting out here? But Lamont... I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Going to take a look at this disease, Margot. You know,
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  Speaker 3: there's a queer look on Colanza's face when I mentioned
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  Speaker 3: it might have an oriental origin.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, but the sentries won't let you in, Lamont.
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  Speaker 2: The place is quarantined.
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  Speaker 3: I'll have a very hard time quarantining a shadow.
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  Speaker 1: Lamont, you mean you're going in there as the shadow?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Margot. When the car door slams, I shall immediately
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  Speaker 3: become the shadow.
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  Speaker 4: Who's there? Say, wait a minute, miss.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, well, you want something, soldier?
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  Speaker 4: Why, I just heard the car door slam. Somebody get out?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you don't see anybody, do you?
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 4: No, ma'am, but I thought I saw... Well, I guess
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  Speaker 4: it's all right. That's kind of funny. Hey, Joe! Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: I could have sworn I saw somebody get out of
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  Speaker 4: that car. Anybody go through the gate?
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  Speaker 8: Hey, there's enough floodlights here to light up the entire army.
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  Speaker 8: I didn't see a soul.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I thought I saw a man and... And just like that,
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  Speaker 4: there wasn't anybody there. You must be getting punchy.
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  Speaker 3: So congrats.
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  Speaker 4: Glass.
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  Speaker 2: Just lie still.
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  Speaker 4: He's raving again, nurse.
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  Speaker 2: He was all right a minute ago, Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Branson.
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  Speaker 4: My head, it burns. That's the fever. It comes in waves. Moments,
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  Speaker 4: he's quite rational. Who's there? Who broke the glass? I
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: heard a glass break. Get Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Harris.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe he can get that paper down. I can't.
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  Speaker 9: Right away, Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Grayson.
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  Speaker 4: I've got to go look after those other patients. Shut
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  Speaker 4: the door after a minute. I'm on fire.
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  Speaker 2: Water.
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  Speaker 4: Water, please. Glass.
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  Speaker 3: Hear it?
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  Speaker 4: Open glass.
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  Speaker 3: Steve. Steve, can you hear me? Listen to me.
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  Speaker 8: Who is it?
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: Is someone there? You must tell me something, Steve. Where
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: are you?
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  Speaker 2: I can't see.
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  Speaker 4: Don't worry.
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  Speaker 3: Even if you can't see me.
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  Speaker 4: There's only a voice. I.
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  Speaker 3: I'm here, Steve. Here in the shadows. Listen to me.
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Listen.
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  Speaker 4: Quickly.
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  Speaker 3: Before the fever returns. Tell me, why do you keep
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  Speaker 3: repeating the words? Broken glass.
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  Speaker 4: Broken glass.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. You keep saying it over and over. Why?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Think, Steve. Think.
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  Speaker 3: What is there about broken glass?
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  Speaker 4: Glass. Think, son.
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  Speaker 3: Glass.
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  Speaker 2: Broken glass.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I know.
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Last night in the barracks, when all the fellows were asleep.
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  Speaker 4: I woke up.
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  Speaker 6: I thought I heard something, like glass breaking.
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  Speaker 4: In the room, Steve? Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Just a little tinkle, like someone had dropped a tiny glass.
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  Speaker 4: Then a few hours later, we... We were all sick. I.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, my head. Who broke glass?
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Come here, Constance.
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  Speaker 8: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Shut the door, Doctor.
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  Speaker 2: The nurse tells me this one is quite bad. One
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: of the new ones. Great Scott.
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  Speaker 4: What is it? What's the matter?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my head.
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  Speaker 3: Why, this boy, he.
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  Speaker 2: He's my nephew.
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  Speaker 4: Your nephew?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, my sister's son, Steve.
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  Speaker 4: Steve.
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  Speaker 2: Steve, how do you feel, boy?
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  Speaker 3: This is unfortunate, Harris.
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  Speaker 2: I thought he was home on leave. He wasn't due
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  Speaker 2: back this week. Is he fatally ill, Colanza?
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  Speaker 4: Too bad, Harris.
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  Speaker 3: I give him two days of mourning.
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  Speaker 5: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: He can't die.
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  Speaker 3: I am sorry, but it is unavoidable.
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  Speaker 4: Uncle Nick. Uncle Nick, help me.
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  Speaker 2: Colanza, you've got to do something for him.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing can be done. Steve.
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  Speaker 2: Steve, it's Uncle Nick, Steve. I'm here. Uncle Nick.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, help. Please.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Please.
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: Glass! The boy is delirious, honey.
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  Speaker 2: Must save him.
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  Speaker 3: Impossible.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: There is no cure.
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  Speaker 2: But Steve is my nephew.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: Steve. Be quiet, you fool. Come. Let us go to
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: your office. No, no, no.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: I must stay here.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: Come up.
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: I have to drag you.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: Brace up, Harris.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: Don't lose your nerve.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: Come on, man.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Broken glass. Oh, Uncle Nick.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: Someone's broken glass. Yes, Steve. Someone broke glass. I mean
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: to learn just what your Uncle Nick had to do
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: with it. He and Gregor Colanza.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Colanza, you've got to do something for Steve.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: What can I do? I told you the disease was.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: I don't care about the others. Steve's different. He's my
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: sister's son.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: That's all you said. I am sorry.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Colanza, tell me. Isn't there some sort of serum?
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: No.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: But you gave me antitoxin.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: That was to prevent your catching the fever.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: It is different.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: Your nephew is already infected.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: There is no hope now.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: There's got to be.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: Harris, pull yourself together. You are being well paid.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: I know, but money won't give Steve back to my sister.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: I told you I was sorry. But there is nothing
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: to be done.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: Nothing.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: I am going back to the wards. The progress of
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: the disease is very interesting.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, don't be so callous.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: I am a scientist, Harris. Now get hold of yourself, man. Remember,
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: a soldier died this morning. It is murder now.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: Murder?
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: Yes. And death is the penalty for that. So you'd
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: better keep quiet about it.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: I will see you later. Oh, come on, sir.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Later.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Oh, Steve. Steve.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: Weeping won't help Steve, Dr. Harris. Who spoke?
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Who's there?
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: The shadow. Your nephew is dying, Dr. Harris.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Who are you?
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: Where are you?
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: I am here. Although you cannot see me, Dr. Harris.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: What do you want with me?
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: You and Gregor Kalanza are responsible.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: For this disease. Oh, no, you're wrong.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: I don't know anything about it.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: You cannot lie to the shadow, Doctor.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: I tell you, I know nothing.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: Then your nephew dies, Doctor. Dies horribly. Oh, stop it.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: Will you stop it?
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: The voice of the shadow is never silent. when there
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: is evil.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: I won't talk to you. I won't talk to you.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: I'm getting out of here.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: You cannot escape from the shadow.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Leave me alone.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: We shall meet again, Dr. Harris. And then....
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: Here's the test tube you wanted, Dr.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: Harris.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: All right, put it down, man. Put it down.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Now, leave me alone. I've got to find the serum
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: that will counteract the effect of this fever.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: Good luck, sir.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Where's that culture? Ah, yes. Now, this formula will only work.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: Hurry, Dr.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Harris. Steve is dying.
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: You!
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: You dropped your test tube, doctor. Just the way you
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: dropped one in the barracks. Spread the germs.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: You know that. But I didn't. I didn't.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: Tell the truth, Doctor. Think of Steve.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: Oh, you fiend.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Will you leave me alone? I must find a serum
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: that will cure him.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Only Gregor Colanza can give you that in time. Who
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: is he? Where's he from?
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: I don't know anything about him.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Is Colanza more to you than your nephew?
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: Speak, man.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: Colanza got you into this, didn't he? And now Steve
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: is dying. Dying, Harris. Stop it. Dying.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Stop it. I tell you, I can't stand it. Let
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: me out of here.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: There. There.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: It's safe in my room.
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: Now, wait.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: I must lock the door.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: Locked.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Unbolted. Now he can't get in. That voice.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: Coming from nowhere.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Always in my ears. Now I'm going crazy. Where's my bag?
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: I've got to get away.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: Leave. Dead behind you, Doctor?
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: How did you get in here?
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: I'm with you all the time, Doctor.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: Oh, please. Go away.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Please leave me in peace.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: There is no peace, Doctor, for a man who will
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: let his nephew die in agony.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'd save him if I could. Believe me, but I...
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: I don't know how.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: Alanza knows.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: But he says there's no cure.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: Did you believe him?
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: He had an antitoxin, didn't he? Perhaps he has a
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: serum that will cure the disease once it has developed.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: But he told me.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: He got you into this crime, didn't he?
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Yes. Yes, he promised me wealth. I've always been poor.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: Why did he pick this army base for his crime?
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Because if he's successful, it means the entire army will
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: be wiped out in this way.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: The United States Army?
• 23:45
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: This disease would wipe out whole armies. Then invasion would
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: be a simple matter. But you can't isolate the germ.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: There's no cure.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: There must be a cure.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: Colanza would have one.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: But he says there is none.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: There must be.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: Make him tell you what it is. Otherwise your nephew dies.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: But I can't help him. Or this country either.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: Steve is dying and you're afraid to cross the one
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: man who might cure him. What is Colanza compared to
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: your sister's son? He got you into this. Make him
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: help you.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: All right. All right, yes. Yes, I will.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: Hurry. Hurry. He's out there now, watching the soldiers die,
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: watching Steve and the other men he's poisoned, and enjoying it, Harris.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Enjoying it.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: I'll get him to my office and make him give
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: me that serum.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: I'll make him.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: Hurry, Doctor.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Hurry.
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: Hurry. This way, Colonel Torrance. Tell me, who are you?
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: I am known as the Shadow Colonel. Please do not
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: waste more time in wondering that you cannot see me.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: I told you I could clear up the mystery of
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: this epidemic. I will keep my promise, sir. Just step
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: in here, please.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: All right. Wait a minute. This is Dr. Harris' office.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: Yes. You'll know the whole story in a few moments, Colonel.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: Get behind the screen, please. Don't move until I give
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: the word.
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: Here they come.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Come in here, Kalenza.
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: Harris, have you lost your mind?
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Maybe.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: Dragging me out of the wards like that, you must
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: be mad.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: You'd be crazy, too, if that... If that thing followed
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: you around all day... That thing?
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: What are you talking about?
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: A voice, Columnser.
• 25:43
  Speaker 9: A voice.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Something that you can't see. But you can hear him,
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: all right. He keeps talking, talking.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: Oh, Harris, snap out of it.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: I tell you, I heard him. He knows all about
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: you and me and the disease.
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: Who knows all this?
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: That voice. The voice. He knows everything.
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: Oh, now.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: You're dreaming.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: Seeing your nephew sick has upset you.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: Yes. We... We made my nephew, Stephen, get the disease, Columnser.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: Well? He is not the only one.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: But he's got to be cured.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: Oh, don't start that again. There isn't any cure. You're lying.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: Harris, don't be a fool.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: I can't afford to. Then there is a serum that
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: will cure the disease.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: And what if there is? I am not wasting it
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: on your precious nephew.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, you are.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: Harris, put down that gun.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: You listen to me, Colanza. Either you give me the
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: formula for that serum or I'll kill you. I mean it.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: Formula is worth a fortune, Harris.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: It will make us both rich.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: If you will only use your head.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: Never mind the talk. Don't try reaching for your gun either.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: I'm watching you.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: How about.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: The formula for the serum, quick.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: Where is it? In my pocket.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: It never leaves my wallet.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: Give it to me. Just a minute.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: Here.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: Take it.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Thanks. Now I can save Steve.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: Do you know enough medicine to read that formula?
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: I must read it. I must read it. Yes. Yes,
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: it's plain enough. I can make this serum.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: Look.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Look. It says you take this. Fool.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: Did you think I really meant to have you get
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: my serum? Die like the others. Now, I will take
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: back my formula. No, I'll take that paper, Colanza.
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: What?
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: Who snatched that paper?
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: I did, Dr.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: Colanza.
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: A voice.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: Harris was right.
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: Dr.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: Harris was quite right.
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: Give me back my formula. I'll shoot.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: What will you shoot at, doctor?
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: You've done enough shooting, Colanzo. Drop your hands. Senator, stop
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: that gun.
• 27:38
  Speaker 8: Never.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: Take it then. Colanzo's dead, colonel. Therefore, a man deserved
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: to be shot. It's that murderer.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: Yes. Here. Take the form of the laboratory. Get the
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: serum made up in a hurry.
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: What about you, Shadow?
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: My work is finished, colonel. The rest is up to
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: your medical staff. Colanza and Harris dreamed of power and
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: wealth to be acquired through mass murder. Such dreams are
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: dearly bought. The price of Colanza's dream and Harris's traitorship
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: was death. The hidden menace to the armed strength of
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: our country has been uncovered.
• 28:24
  Speaker 7: The Weed of Crime The Weed of Crime bears bitter fruit.
• 28:58
  Speaker 7: Crime does not pay. The shadow knows.
• 29:17
  Speaker 6: All the characters and all the places named are fictitious.
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: Any similarity to persons living or dead... is purely coincidental.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: THE END.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: That concludes The Shadow in Murder on Approval. Good night,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: and thank you for joining us.