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Suspense - "Murder in Black and White" (Old Time Radio, 1949) · Suspense | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Edmund Gwen stars as Rice Archer, a meticulous businessman who
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  Speaker 1: believes he has arranged a flawless crime against his partner
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  Speaker 1: Tom Hannig, in Murder in Black and White suspense, Episode four,
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  Speaker 1: originally broadcast April first, nineteen forty nine. Archer leaves the
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  Speaker 1: office with a prepared alibi and waits at a hotel
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  Speaker 1: for the news he expects. Instead, the hours bring no
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  Speaker 1: acknowledgment that anything has happened, while the careful notes and
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  Speaker 1: reactions he has planned take on a different importance. The
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  Speaker 1: radio adaptation is by Eli David from a short story
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  Speaker 1: by Anne Wormser and Jess Oppenheimer. Carlton Young, Eleanor Audley,
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  Speaker 1: Herbert Rawlinson, Terry Kilburn, and Paul Freese are also heard.
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  Speaker 1: And now we return to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Now Auto Light and It's sixty thousand dealers and service
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  Speaker 2: stations present suspense.
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  Speaker 3: Tonight auto Light brings you Edmund Gwen in Murder in
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  Speaker 3: Black and White, a suspense play produced and directed by
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  Speaker 3: Antonym Leader.
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  Speaker 2: Friends. Have you got that faraway look in your eye
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  Speaker 2: for faraway places? Well, let's spring, so let's get going.
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  Speaker 2: Replace old narrow gap spark plugs with white gap. Auto
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  Speaker 2: Light resistor spark plugs your car idle smoother, give you
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  Speaker 2: better power and performance on leaner gas mixtures, actually save gas.
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  Speaker 2: You see. Auto Light regular type spark plugs have long
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  Speaker 2: been standard factory equipment on many leading makes of cars
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  Speaker 2: and trucks. And now six, that's right, six of these
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  Speaker 2: leading makes of cars and drugs have switched to Autolite
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  Speaker 2: resistor type spark plugs for factory installation on their new
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  Speaker 2: nineteen forty nine models. The new Autolite resistor spark plugs
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  Speaker 2: are Tomorrow's spark plugs today. Remember you're right with autolite and.
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  Speaker 3: Now auto LIGHTE presents Edmund Gwen in a tail well
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  Speaker 3: calculated to keep you in suspend.
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  Speaker 4: Tom Tom, Tom, He's asleep at last.
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  Speaker 5: Now let's see I wrap this blanket around the gun
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  Speaker 5: to muffle the sound. Aim about there. Then Tom Tom
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  Speaker 5: is dead now my notebook. Tab A Preliminary procedure m
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  Speaker 5: hm mm hmm yeah yeah, tab B Performance of murder.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah mm hmmm, yes, yes, everything has been carried out
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  Speaker 5: exactly as I planned it. Tom is dead now nine
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  Speaker 5: fifteen good, everything is working out right on schedule. Now
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  Speaker 5: tab C Procedure to follow murder. Yeah, here it is.
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  Speaker 5: Replace pistol in my left jacket pocket, m froll blanket
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  Speaker 5: across foot of bed, making sure that it's not still
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  Speaker 5: smoldering from the discharge of the gun. Using clean handkerchief
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  Speaker 5: from breast pocket, wipe soda dispenser and replace on sideboards.
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  Speaker 5: Then pick up decanter and glasses. Take them to the kitchen,
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  Speaker 5: wash glasses, dry them on handkerchief from breast pocket, put
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  Speaker 5: them away, holding with handkerchiefs. Yeah, get dry handkerchief with handkerchief,
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  Speaker 5: return to Tom's room and restore it to sideboard. That's it.
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  Speaker 5: The decanter there, Replace handkerchief in breast pocket, pull covers
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  Speaker 5: up a round body on the bed, put on my hat,
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  Speaker 5: take off my gloves, put them in my left hand
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  Speaker 5: pocket with gun, and place notebook in right hand pocket.
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  Speaker 5: Remember there is no hurry. No. Now, now, let me
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  Speaker 5: see I believe I anticipated everything quite correctly. Oh yes, yes,
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  Speaker 5: the bedroom lights I'll leave on the downstairs light naturally. Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 5: now nine thirty. I'm a senor, and Clark can't possibly
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  Speaker 5: return before eleven thirty, and I doubt if they'll want
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  Speaker 5: to disturb Tomadatta. And now no, I'll just stroll across
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  Speaker 5: town to my apartment house. People are quite accustomed to
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  Speaker 5: my taking a walk each evening after dinner. Then the
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  Speaker 5: train at eleven o'clock and my usual weekly business took
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  Speaker 5: to the city. I'll go directly up and arriving in
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  Speaker 5: the city in the morning to my usual hotel and show.
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  Speaker 5: After that, someone should notify me of Tom's death. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: I believe this has been the most satisfactory murder.
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  Speaker 3: Yes for suspense, auto light is bringing you, Edmund Gwen
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  Speaker 3: in Radio's Outstanding Theater of Thrills Suspense, I.
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  Speaker 6: Say, what's that?
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  Speaker 2: That's my soundman. To make this commercial dramatic. We start
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  Speaker 2: with the deep, solemn tone of a gone sound man.
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  Speaker 2: I said, gone. Oh, Well, let's say it's a trainload
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  Speaker 2: of car owners rushing to get white gap auto light
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  Speaker 2: resistor spark plugs because they know auto light resistor spark
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  Speaker 2: plugs make an engine idle smoother, give better performance on
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  Speaker 2: leaner gas mixtures, actually save gas. Now the sound of
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  Speaker 2: a happy engine idling more smoothly because it has wide
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  Speaker 2: gap auto light resistor spark plugs instead of old narrow
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  Speaker 2: gap plugs.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Huda, that's a horn. Ah, that sound man.
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  Speaker 2: Hell, all right, let's say that's folks who miss the
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  Speaker 2: train galloping to town to get auto light resistor spark plugs,
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  Speaker 2: and next the happy hoot of a hilarious horn.
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  Speaker 7: It sounds like a big celebration.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, that's the way folks feel once they install auto
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  Speaker 2: light resistor spark plugs because their enginees idle smoother, give
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  Speaker 2: better performance on leaner gas mixtures, actually save gas.
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  Speaker 5: Hunda, before your sound man loses his head, let's get
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  Speaker 5: back to suspense.
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  Speaker 3: And now auto light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage.
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  Speaker 3: Edmund Gwen as Rice Archery and Murder in Black and White.
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  Speaker 3: A tail well calculated to keep you in suspend.
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  Speaker 5: I hope you had a nice trip, sir, Yes, very pleasant.
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  Speaker 5: Here you are, sir ah, yes, my regular room. Put
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  Speaker 5: my luggage on the floor there. Yes, thank you boy,
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  Speaker 5: this is for you. Thanks for nothing. My train was
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  Speaker 5: two mines late in arriving, so it must be yes,
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  Speaker 5: eight thirty two. Now my notebook tabs item four procedure
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  Speaker 5: upon arrival in the city. I yeah, yeah, yes, he
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  Speaker 5: is excellent, excellent. Your order please, room service please just
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  Speaker 5: a minute, sir, this is room four fifty nine. I'd
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  Speaker 5: like some grapefruit. Be sure that it's fresh. Two eggs
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  Speaker 5: boiled exactly one minute and a half. Three slices of
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  Speaker 5: whole with a toast. I'd like this toasted exactly two
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  Speaker 5: minutes on each side. Plenty of butter, A pot of
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  Speaker 5: coffee with a double order of cream. Oh yes, would
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  Speaker 5: you see up at times and find out if there's
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  Speaker 5: an Amesville gazette around? Will you let me see now
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  Speaker 5: and dress? Take a shower, then shave and get dressed.
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  Speaker 5: Wear the blue shirt with matching the tie, and by
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  Speaker 5: that time breakfast should be served. I mean.
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  Speaker 8: A service, sir. I'm sorry, sir, but there was no
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  Speaker 8: Amesil paper.
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  Speaker 5: It's not important.
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  Speaker 8: I have Anne who lives in angel She works for
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  Speaker 8: an aircraft factory, Hannigan Company.
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  Speaker 5: That's our company, but that is I'm a junior partner
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  Speaker 5: in the firm. The senior partner was is Tom Hannigan.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I must remember to tell my niece.
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  Speaker 5: Will there be anything else? No? No, no, thank you.
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  Speaker 5: I'll just sign the bill. I'm adding your gratuity to
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  Speaker 5: the bill. Thank you, sir. Perhaps you know my niece,
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  Speaker 5: so her name is If I'm afraid I'm not familiar
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  Speaker 5: with the names of the employers. That'll be all with her, Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 5: where I'm just more careful, almost referred to Tom in
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  Speaker 5: the past tense. I believe I should make a note
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  Speaker 5: of that. Yes, yes, be sure to speak of Tom
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  Speaker 5: in present tents until after the notification of his murder.
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  Speaker 5: Too bad, I couldn't get the Amesville paper, which have
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  Speaker 5: made an issue about I'm sending out for it would
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  Speaker 5: have been two pointed, perhaps the city paper. They must
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  Speaker 5: have discovered the body by this time. They probably haven't
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  Speaker 5: called or wired out of consideration of the hour. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: let's see cold war gets warmer, President, fishing in gulf stream,
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  Speaker 5: new highway, politics, benefit, prominent citizen dies, Yes, no, no,
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  Speaker 5: the wrong one, society, sports, drama, all nothing, nothing. It
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  Speaker 5: must be that it's just too early, of course, of course,
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  Speaker 5: that's it. Yes, Fortunately, I've prepared for every possibility. All
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  Speaker 5: I have to do is to look in the notebook.
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  Speaker 5: Should be right here, Yes, Yes, If nothing in the
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  Speaker 5: morning paper and no notice received by time breakfast is served,
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  Speaker 5: eat breakfast leisurely, Yeah, then proceed with normal business calls,
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  Speaker 5: checking back with hotel it frequently the pose. Yes, that's it,
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  Speaker 5: that's normalcy. Normalcy is a proper note. Now let's see
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  Speaker 5: plenty of butter toast just right.
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  Speaker 8: Well, mister Archer, I hope you didn't come in to
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  Speaker 8: tell me that the Hannegun Company can't deliver that order
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  Speaker 8: on time.
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  Speaker 5: Not at all. This is merely one of my courtesy calls. Tom,
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  Speaker 5: and I like to keep our customers happy.
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  Speaker 8: And all you have to do is to continue turning
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  Speaker 8: out precision parts as well as you have been.
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  Speaker 6: How is Tom, Tom Thomas fine, Hotel Sherman.
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  Speaker 5: Mister Archer speaking mister Rice Archer, Room four fifty nine.
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  Speaker 5: Are there any messages for me?
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  Speaker 7: I'll connect you with the desk clab, thank you.
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  Speaker 5: I must be sure I have this right tabs Yes
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  Speaker 5: here it is procedure with hotel clerk. Yeah. Ah, good good.
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  Speaker 5: I have an answer for anything you may tell me. Hello,
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  Speaker 5: desk clerk, this is mister Rice Archer, Room four fifty nine.
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  Speaker 5: Any messages piece just a minute, mister Roger. Well, probably telephone, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: mister Roger.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, there's nothing for you, mister Roger.
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  Speaker 5: Nothing, not a thing, thank you very much. I'm really
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  Speaker 5: in town on business, mister William, but I couldn't resist
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  Speaker 5: stopping in long enough to see if there was anything
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  Speaker 5: new in jade on the market.
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  Speaker 9: I don't know if you're interested, mister Archer, but I've
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  Speaker 9: just heard that Joiner in Philadelphia is willing to sell
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  Speaker 9: his snuff box from the Ming Dynasty. You know it's
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  Speaker 9: white jade with an inlaid green dragon. Joiner is asking
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  Speaker 9: twelve thousand.
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  Speaker 5: From the Ming Dynasty. Tried to get it from me.
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  Speaker 5: All right, mister Archer.
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  Speaker 9: Business must be good.
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  Speaker 5: Business is excellent.
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  Speaker 2: No, no one has called, mister Roger.
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  Speaker 8: And how's that old son of a gun, Tom.
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  Speaker 5: Tommy's I believe he's fine.
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  Speaker 2: Not a thing, mister Roger. There's nothing for you, mister Roger.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sure the eggs are one and a half minutes each,
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  Speaker 5: slices of whole week toast toasted two minutes on each side,
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  Speaker 5: plenty of butter, a double order of clean with a
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  Speaker 5: pot of coffee, and that'll be all. Twenty four hours
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  Speaker 5: since I arrived in the city. And still no word. Well,
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  Speaker 5: that must have been some sort of slip of at
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  Speaker 5: home and some manner some man a perfectly plausible if
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  Speaker 5: one knew what it was. News of Tom's death has
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  Speaker 5: been delayed. What doesn't mean anything except my plan of
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  Speaker 5: action must be held up until someone called me. I. Oh,
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  Speaker 5: surely i'll hear sometime during the day.
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  Speaker 8: Nice of you to take me to launch, Archer.
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  Speaker 2: I must say I look forward to your regular visits.
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  Speaker 5: Hour's Tom, Tom, I haven't it? I mean, he's fine,
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  Speaker 5: very fine.
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  Speaker 8: Well, Archer, you certainly know your restaurants. That was quite
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  Speaker 8: a dinner.
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  Speaker 5: Huh, thank you.
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  Speaker 8: You know, the last time I was talking to Tom,
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  Speaker 8: he mentioned you had a lot of bomber clips ordered
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  Speaker 8: by the government and then canceled. He said, you'd sell
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  Speaker 8: them cheaply since the government paid for the cancelation, if
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  Speaker 8: someone could figure out a use for them. Well, I
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  Speaker 8: believe I've got an idea, and I'd like to know
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  Speaker 8: what you and Tom think.
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  Speaker 5: Tom, why Tom's fine?
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  Speaker 7: Your order? Please this clerk, please just a minute, clerk.
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  Speaker 5: This is mister Rice Archer, Room four fifty nine. Any messages, Oh,
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  Speaker 5: no messages, mister Rosa. I see. I'll be checking out
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  Speaker 5: in a few minutes, clerk, taking the midnight train back
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  Speaker 5: to Amesville. You you might send the boy up in
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  Speaker 5: fifteen minutes, and and if there are any messages before
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  Speaker 5: I check out, you you will call me won't you
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  Speaker 5: Two days away from home and not a word from anyone. Well,
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  Speaker 5: they must have discovered the body, and I'll be home
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  Speaker 5: in the morning. I'll I'll go straight to the factory
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  Speaker 5: and then someone will tell me, surely, because it's entirely
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  Speaker 5: possible that everyone thinks I've been told why someone else?
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  Speaker 5: Of course, of course that's it. Things have been very
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  Speaker 5: strange today. Why there have been times when I almost
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  Speaker 5: felt as if I as if I hadn't killed Tom,
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  Speaker 5: that i'd imagine the whole business. Yes, it's really most
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  Speaker 5: fortunate that I wrote everything down in the notebook. I
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  Speaker 5: I only have to reread it to remember, to remember
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  Speaker 5: that Tom is dead and that I kill him. I'll
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  Speaker 5: be home in the morning. Nothing to worry about now.
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  Speaker 5: Now I have everything in the notebook ready to say
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  Speaker 5: and do when I at last hear the news. Morning,
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: good morning, mister Archer, good money, good morning, good morning.
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  Speaker 10: Good morning, mister Archer.
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  Speaker 5: Strange everyone seems to be acting quite normally, perhaps because
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  Speaker 5: they're only employees. Of course, that's it. The workers would
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  Speaker 5: feel no sorrow. They didn't know Thomas as I did. Now, now,
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  Speaker 5: let me see, normal procedure would be to let Clark
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  Speaker 5: Henley know I'm big. Yes, miss Gordon, would you inform
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  Speaker 5: a Oh never mind, morning.
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  Speaker 2: Clark, Good morning, mister Arger.
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  Speaker 11: How's your trip to the city.
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  Speaker 5: Excellent, Clark. I managed to get a couple of orders
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  Speaker 5: increased substantially. Everything go all right here, Sure, that's fine.
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  Speaker 5: How's Tom Gray?
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  Speaker 11: He'll probably be back to work in a day or two.
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  Speaker 5: He will fine, excellent.
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  Speaker 11: In fact, yeah, it'll be great to have him back
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  Speaker 11: one of mister Archer.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes, yes, yes, I'm just thinking about the additional.
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  Speaker 11: Orders, so I'll be glad to hear about those. You
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  Speaker 11: know how he worries about the business. Well, I gotta
• 19:24
  Speaker 11: get back to work. See you later, mister Archer.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Procedure following murder. What to say if notified of Tom's
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  Speaker 5: death by Thomas Cina? Why talk my police? What to
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  Speaker 5: do if read of death and paper before personal notification? Everything?
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  Speaker 5: Everything except.
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  Speaker 7: Rice? You're back? How was the Wicked City? Uncle Rice?
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: Like like it always is. Everything is normal, Uncle Rice? Eh?
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: What is it? Thomasina?
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: Purple lipstick? See, I'm going to leave leathers of it
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  Speaker 7: on Clark's cheek. You know why he proposed last night?
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  Speaker 5: Some gratulations I suppose your father will be pleased.
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  Speaker 7: Tom. He was delighted. We're going to have an engagement
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: party tomorrow night. Couldn't have it until after you got back. Tom,
• 20:27
  Speaker 7: wouldn't hear of it?
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: Tom? How is he fine?
• 20:32
  Speaker 7: Tom's fine, mister Archer.
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: I'm going home early.
• 20:41
  Speaker 11: I'm not feeling too well on Tomorrow's a big day,
• 20:44
  Speaker 11: but I'm taking some work home with me.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yes, of course.
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  Speaker 11: I suppose you'll be going over tonight to tell Tom
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  Speaker 11: about the new order.
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: Tom oh, yeah, yes, that might be a good idea.
• 20:52
  Speaker 11: How you'll be taking all the death to hear about him,
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  Speaker 11: you know, Tom?
• 21:01
  Speaker 10: Oh, mister Archer?
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah, what is it? Miss Gordon Clark?
• 21:05
  Speaker 10: Henley just called. He said he'd taken one of the
• 21:07
  Speaker 10: account books home with him and he suddenly thought you
• 21:10
  Speaker 10: might see it was missing and worry about it, so
• 21:12
  Speaker 10: he just wanted you to know he had. Mister Henley
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  Speaker 10: said he had the one covering our old government contract.
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: Why.
• 21:20
  Speaker 10: Well, mister Henley ordered a general audit for tomorrow, and
• 21:23
  Speaker 10: he said he wanted to go over that book tonight. Why,
• 21:27
  Speaker 10: mister Archer, what's wrong? You've turned as white as a sheet?
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  Speaker 12: Ordered and control those are the important things that must
• 21:44
  Speaker 12: be a logical explanation.
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: Why they haven't told me about Tom, Why doctor Orton
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: ordered and why are you're looking into our government contract?
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: Everything is in my notebook. Yes, here it is plan
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: for killing Tom, reasons why murder is necessary, the government contracts. Yes, yes,
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: it was so easy when the war was over and
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: everything was being cleaned up to make the government paid
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: twice for the orders, just a few little changes in
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: the books, and that money was mine. It wasn't I
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: taking the money from Tom or or our regular customers.
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: And it wasn't as if I as if I were
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: spending the money foolishly. No, No, it was spent on
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: my jade collection. But Tom might have misunderstood him, might
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: have called it stealing, and I have been put in jail. Yeah,
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: I wouldn't have had my jade. When Tom was ill
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: he started thinking about the government orders. Maybe Clark Henley
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: put him up to it. He yes, I didn't think
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  Speaker 5: of that.
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  Speaker 12: All I knew wasn't I could let Tom live and
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  Speaker 12: lose all that was dear to me, which was unthinkable,
• 23:00
  Speaker 12: or I could kill Tom and keep everything. Yeah, yeah,
• 23:05
  Speaker 12: now I know I did put Tom to sleep and
• 23:08
  Speaker 12: I did shoot him.
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: And here Tom's daughter, who loved him, giggles about her
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: purple lipstick or unseemly are demanded no order, order and control?
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: Now what what? What would be the normal procedure? Yes,
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: of course, mister Hannigan's residence, evening, this is mister Archer.
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  Speaker 13: Well, hello, mister Archer.
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: Mister Hannigan there, yes, sir, I want to talk to him. Hey,
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: please please just a minute.
• 23:52
  Speaker 13: Hey, Well, I guess he's sleeping, mister, but I'll tell
• 24:01
  Speaker 13: him you're called. He ain't feeling so good this afternoon.
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: Seems to be trouble.
• 24:08
  Speaker 13: Oh, he must did something, something that didn't set right.
• 24:11
  Speaker 13: He's got kind of an egge like, kind of a pain.
• 24:15
  Speaker 13: Oh you might call it heartburn or.
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: Too bad. Bye, Clark Thomasina now housekeeper heartburn. Doesn't anyone
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: know that Tom's dead except me?
• 24:35
  Speaker 14: I can't be the only one I got to tell I've.
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: Got no order and control. Yes, yes, I've got to
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: think this out I now. Yeah, I know I know
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: that Tommy is dead. I saw him die. But Clark
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: and Thomasina announced an engagement plan a party. Clark Clark
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  Speaker 5: Thomasina would do anything he says Clark ordered an audit
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  Speaker 5: of the books for tomorrow. Clark took home the Book
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  Speaker 5: of Government Accounts, the book I had to Walter Cluck.
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  Speaker 5: That's it, pipsqueak. I'll fo him right now. No, no, no, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 5: better think it out, think it out order control. Yes, yes, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 5: that that's a better idea. Now now, I shot Tom,
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  Speaker 5: and I know it did because I wasn't sure I
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: could stab him a human being, as a human beings
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  Speaker 5: afraid of this. Tom was my friend, had been for
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  Speaker 5: twenty years. It was just unthinkable that I could take
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  Speaker 5: a knife and stab him. I couldn't do a thing
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  Speaker 5: like that to a man who was my friend.
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  Speaker 15: No, no, that's why I shot him. But I I
• 25:54
  Speaker 15: can't stab young Clark Henley. Impudent, interfering Clark Henley. He
• 26:00
  Speaker 15: pierce him like a child's balloon. He's home now now
• 26:04
  Speaker 15: looking for the mistake that will catch me.
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  Speaker 5: My notebook. We'll take a new page for this, Yes, yes,
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: plan for killing Clark Henley.
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  Speaker 11: Keeping Well, Hello, mister Archer, how are you.
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  Speaker 5: I wanted to talk to you about something. I hope
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: I'm not intruding an a talk.
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  Speaker 11: I'm right in In fact, I'm glad you came. We
• 26:48
  Speaker 11: were just talking about Yes, Tom and I.
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  Speaker 5: Tom. Yes, he's in the kitchen mixing a drink.
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  Speaker 11: Come on out, Thomas to Archer's here.
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  Speaker 5: No, no, he can't be dumb Comb stayed. But what
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: did you say? How did you know Thomas dead? Well?
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: My notebook right here. It must be one of them.
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: I'll take that notebook. Yes, yes, just as I thought.
• 27:16
  Speaker 11: All right, officer, here's the whole story in this little notebook.
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  Speaker 5: I guess you were right, mister Hanley.
• 27:22
  Speaker 9: But I never thought i'd see anything like this.
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: You can you can't do this. It isn't the way
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: I plan it. I knew it trap him this way.
• 27:28
  Speaker 11: He's never been able to do anything without preparing a notebook.
• 27:30
  Speaker 11: But Tom told me you couldn't even hire a secretary
• 27:32
  Speaker 11: without planning all the dialogue in advance and writing it
• 27:35
  Speaker 11: out right. That's why I made everyone pretend Tom was
• 27:37
  Speaker 11: still alive. I knew if he didn't have all the
• 27:39
  Speaker 11: answers in his little book, you'd have to break break break.
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: Well, come along, Archer not.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: It really.
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: Wasn't fair. I'm not telling me.
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  Speaker 14: And I had it all written though, like white.
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