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X Minus One - "Perigi's Wonderful Dolls" (1955) · Old Time Sci-Fi Radio | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: On June fifth, nineteen fifty five, NBC presented the seventh
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  Speaker 1: broadcast of X minus one Perigi's Wonderful Dolls.
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  Speaker 2: In Washington, d c.
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  Speaker 1: Alma Grayson and her daughter Cindy visit Santor Perighi's doll shop,
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  Speaker 1: where Cindy is permitted to take home Toto, a talking
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  Speaker 1: doll available only for rent at the Grayson home. Toto's
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  Speaker 1: presence soon coincides with matters involving Colonel Henry Grayson's Pentagon work.
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  Speaker 1: George Lefferts wrote this story, first heard on Dimension X
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty with Joe DeSantis as Santor Perighi and
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  Speaker 1: Nelson Olmsted as Colonel Grayson. Now back to the golden
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  Speaker 1: age of radio.
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  Speaker 3: Count down for blast off X minus five minus four,
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  Speaker 3: minus three minus two X minus one. Fire from the
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  Speaker 3: far horizons of the unknown come transcribed tales of new
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  Speaker 3: dimensions in time and space. These are stories of the
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  Speaker 3: future adventures in which you'll live in a million, could
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  Speaker 3: be years, on a thousand, many worlds. The National Broadcasting
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  Speaker 3: Company presents X minus one. Tonight, X minus one presents
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  Speaker 3: Puerig's Wonderful Dolls by George Leopards. The doll shop stood
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  Speaker 3: on a quiet Washington side street, not too far from
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  Speaker 3: sprawling Pentagon building. A woman and child waited outside, the
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  Speaker 3: little girl peering eagerly through the window at the dolls inside,
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  Speaker 3: and the woman glancing impatiently at her wristwatch, as if
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  Speaker 3: expecting someone who was late for an appointment. There was
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  Speaker 3: nothing about the doll shop to warn them that they
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  Speaker 3: were waiting to keep an appointment with doom.
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  Speaker 4: Mommy, lock what dear in the window of the shop,
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  Speaker 4: the tiny dolls. Oh, mommy, do you think daddy o'll
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  Speaker 4: barney won? We'll ask him when he comes. Dear, should
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  Speaker 4: be here soon, he said, three o'clock on this corner.
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  Speaker 4: I see you, mommy. See Oh Henry over here, Hello, dear, Well,
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  Speaker 4: we're all ready to go shopping Cindy's bus.
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  Speaker 2: I'm afraid we'll have to call off the shopping.
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  Speaker 4: Yell, oh, Henry, we promised.
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  Speaker 2: Sim I'm sorry, but it's just one of those things.
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  Speaker 2: You've been the wife of an army colonel long enough
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  Speaker 2: to know his life isn't his own?
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  Speaker 4: What is it this time?
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  Speaker 2: Some more of that flying sphere nonsense. The pilot, who
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  Speaker 2: says he excited it last month, crashed and was killed
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  Speaker 2: today and the general ward's the full report.
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  Speaker 4: Oh dear, what next?
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  Speaker 2: I got a staff meeting at the Pentagon A.
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  Speaker 4: Three fifteen, Daddy, Look in this window. I haven't here
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  Speaker 4: just for a minute, Daddy plays.
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  Speaker 2: And I haven't time to stop and watch a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of six inch dollars for reading around in the shop window. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: they are lifelike, aren't they Look at that alman dollars
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  Speaker 2: are marching around like a regular review. They've even got
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  Speaker 2: their own little bit.
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  Speaker 5: See the one in the red jacket, Daddy, he's the leader.
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  Speaker 5: He's bowing to us.
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  Speaker 2: They don't look human.
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  Speaker 4: Your staff meeting?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yes, yes, well I got around here.
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  Speaker 4: Can we buy one day?
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  Speaker 2: No, dear, and I'll run along. Don't go spending a
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  Speaker 2: lot of money on that nonsense, No, dear, Bye daddy.
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  Speaker 4: Oh look, mommy, the band is going to play. I've
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  Speaker 4: been wonderful, honey, Honey. I must have stood on this
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  Speaker 4: corner a thousand times. I've never noticed the shop before.
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  Speaker 4: Look at the man inside, Mommy, who's hey, that's the proprietor.
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  Speaker 2: Dear.
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  Speaker 6: It doesn't it look funny with those those red cheeks
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  Speaker 6: and white mustache.
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  Speaker 4: It's easy to see who remodels his dolls after I mean, look,
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  Speaker 4: he's coming to the door. He's coming. Good evening, How funny, toy.
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  Speaker 7: Would you like to step inside the shop of Santo.
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  Speaker 4: Pierrigi, Yes we would, but this.
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  Speaker 7: Way, mommy.
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  Speaker 4: It's like like.
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  Speaker 7: Fairy land here in the shop of Santo Pierrichi, creator
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  Speaker 7: of Peerage's Universal Wonderful Dolls. The world of adult reality
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  Speaker 7: is blended with the world of child's fantasy.
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  Speaker 4: This is a new shop, isn't it, mister Percy?
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  Speaker 7: What is new and.
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  Speaker 2: What is old?
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  Speaker 7: Come this way? Would you like to meet one of
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  Speaker 7: my little ones?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, This one in the red jacket is Toto. He's
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  Speaker 7: the leader. Handle him ever so gently, see I will
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  Speaker 7: set him on the table. Speak, little one.
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  Speaker 4: How do you do? How do you do? How do
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  Speaker 4: you do?
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  Speaker 8: Oh? My?
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  Speaker 4: He talks to downtown. Amazing, absolutely amazing.
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  Speaker 7: That is nothing for Peergi's wonderful dolls. Listen, sing sing Toto,
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  Speaker 7: Sing for the little girl.
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  Speaker 4: My name is Toto.
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  Speaker 7: Sing Toto, man not Bigganto.
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  Speaker 9: Dolls are very small. When men begin to fall, the
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  Speaker 9: dolls will roll them more and more.
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  Speaker 4: How did they work? Mister p.
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  Speaker 7: Ah. That is the secret of the great Peerigy, greatest
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  Speaker 7: of old doll makers. To make an ordinary dollar is nothing.
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  Speaker 7: To make a perfect replica that is something. But to
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  Speaker 7: make a doll with intelligence, that is the work of
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  Speaker 7: an artist.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, I suppose that they're very expensive.
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  Speaker 7: To bard Furci does not sell his dolls, Madam.
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  Speaker 4: You don't sell them.
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  Speaker 7: When I construct a doll like Toto, I cannot bear
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  Speaker 7: to be permanently separated from him. So instead of selling,
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  Speaker 7: I rent my little people.
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  Speaker 4: You do. You rent down.
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  Speaker 7: Precisely ten dollars for how long, for as long as
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  Speaker 7: they are cherished.
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  Speaker 2: My only request is.
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  Speaker 7: That when you grow tired of my dolls, you return
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  Speaker 7: them to me in good condition.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, mommy, could we take him home? Take him home,
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  Speaker 4: Take him home, take him home. Bow he wants to
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  Speaker 4: Your father said that we shouldn't spend a lot.
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  Speaker 5: Please, I'll take such good care of it.
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  Speaker 4: Please. Well, honey, we'll have to deal with your father later.
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  Speaker 4: But well, oh mommy, all right, wrap him up, mister Brigi.
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  Speaker 4: But I have a feeling that when your father comes home,
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  Speaker 4: we'll be sorry.
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  Speaker 10: Be sorry, be sorry, be sorry, be sorry.
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  Speaker 6: Now, Toto, this is my room, and you're going to
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  Speaker 6: sleep right here next to my pillar. I wish you
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  Speaker 6: wouldn't laugh like that. I'm going to have to teach
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  Speaker 6: you some manners and you'll be quiet, because my daddy'll
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  Speaker 6: be home soon and he's a colonel in the Air
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  Speaker 6: Force Staff and he'll bust you to private if you
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  Speaker 6: don't behave Come along now, I'm going to introduce you
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  Speaker 6: to my puppy dog, mister Blister, so he'll be good.
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  Speaker 5: Here, mister Blister, here, Blister, Come on, mister.
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  Speaker 4: Blister, this is Toto here. I don't think mister Blister
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  Speaker 4: likes you. Choucho. Come over here and shake hands with chaucho.
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  Speaker 4: Mister Blister.
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  Speaker 11: Come on now, come over here, Come over here, city.
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  Speaker 4: What happened?
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  Speaker 5: Mister Blister tried to bite my doll? How frightened he is?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, honey, dolls don't get frightened.
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  Speaker 5: But he was frightened, Mommy.
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  Speaker 4: He screamed, imagined it, dear, It's only a doll.
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  Speaker 5: He did, he did.
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  Speaker 4: Mister Blister didn't mean it. Now you know he's the
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  Speaker 4: gentless little papa lie. He is blessing.
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  Speaker 5: I hate him.
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  Speaker 4: Oh no, see you've heard his feelings. I don't care.
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  Speaker 5: He tried to bite my new doll, and I don't
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  Speaker 5: ever want to see him again ever.
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  Speaker 4: Dear, all right, mister blister, you come downstairs with me.
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  Speaker 4: Kill him. Cindy, where did you learn a thing like that?
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  Speaker 4: Toto said it. Honey, you've had a very exciting day.
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  Speaker 4: Now brush your teeth down and go to bed. Daddy's
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  Speaker 4: coming home late, so he'll see in the morning. Good night, dear,
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  Speaker 4: sleep well. I hate him, hate him, hate him, hate him,
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  Speaker 4: hate him.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Elma, breakfast?
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  Speaker 4: Ready, get a minute, Dear, how was the staff meeting
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  Speaker 4: last day?
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  Speaker 2: Horrible? I don't know what's got into the old man.
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  Speaker 2: Just because a few farmers corroborated the pilot's report, he
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  Speaker 2: thinks some strange aircraft has penetrated our radarszone. Well, where's
• 9:51
  Speaker 2: the little one up in her room? Now, that's funny.
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  Speaker 2: She's usually down here before me.
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  Speaker 4: Well she's probably up to something.
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  Speaker 2: Sit down here, say, remind me to take some p
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  Speaker 2: back to the war department. Well you I left them
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  Speaker 2: in my strong box.
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  Speaker 4: You haven't been bringing your reports home, mad, But you
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  Speaker 4: told me it was against regulations to bring secret papers home.
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  Speaker 2: Bell I had to finish and work for the old man,
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  Speaker 2: and nobody will ever know the difference.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. Oh, would you feed the puppy before
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  Speaker 4: we sit down? Henry his bowls under the sink?
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  Speaker 2: Where is he? Say? That's funny. Here's his supper from
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  Speaker 2: last night, only half eaten.
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  Speaker 4: He's getting fussy. Doesn't like canned dog food anymore?
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  Speaker 2: Hair blester, heir, bluster, bluster, bluster. I don't know where
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  Speaker 2: the dickens is that much.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe he's on the back porch here bluster? What is it? Dear?
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  Speaker 4: Oh my look, Henry?
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  Speaker 2: Is he he's dead?
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  Speaker 4: But how he.
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  Speaker 2: Makes up it? He might have been poisoned.
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  Speaker 4: But who would do a thing like that to an
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  Speaker 4: innocent little puppy?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how mean he is, dish. I don't
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  Speaker 2: understand this at all, not at all, dear, what is this?
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  Speaker 2: There are pieces of broken glass in this food, blue glass?
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  Speaker 2: You see.
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  Speaker 4: What I just remembered something. It may be coincidence. But
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  Speaker 4: in the bathroom, Miss Mordy, what about the bathroom with
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  Speaker 4: Cindy's blue glass, the one with a Mickey mouse out?
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  Speaker 4: It was broken. I found pieces in the waste basket.
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  Speaker 4: I meant to ask her about it.
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  Speaker 2: Alma for heaven, say, you aren't suggesting that our little girl.
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  Speaker 2: Why she loved Blister more than anyone?
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  Speaker 4: Not last night she didn't.
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  Speaker 9: Why not?
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  Speaker 4: He went after Toto?
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  Speaker 2: Now, who is Toto?
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  Speaker 4: That's her new doll? What, honey, I was meaning to.
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  Speaker 2: Tell you, but you bought her one of those dolls.
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  Speaker 4: I just readed it, readed it.
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  Speaker 2: Look here, Alma, You know we haven't got the kind
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  Speaker 2: of money.
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  Speaker 4: To throw over, but she had her heart set on it. Dear,
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  Speaker 4: I used my dividend, all right?
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  Speaker 2: But what happened with Blister?
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  Speaker 4: But he went for the doll? And Cindy said she
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  Speaker 4: hated him. Oh, well, she said she'd kill him.
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  Speaker 2: Where'd she get a thought like that? I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: watching those chillers on television.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's too ridiculous. Good heaven's a nine year old
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  Speaker 2: child putting ground glass and dog food. She'd have to
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  Speaker 2: be a monster. Don't say anything. I'll talk to her.
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  Speaker 4: Morning dear, Morning, mommy, Morning daddy. What's the matter?
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  Speaker 2: Sit down there? Yes, your mother tells me you broke
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  Speaker 2: your blue drinking glass.
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  Speaker 4: Oh no, I didn't break it.
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  Speaker 2: Indeed, I didn't allow somebody broke it. It wasn't your mother,
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  Speaker 2: and it wasn't me, Sidney. You know Toto is only
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  Speaker 2: a doll. Now, a doll couldn't have broken your glass,
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  Speaker 2: could he? Well? I guess so we can't very well
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  Speaker 2: blame it on a doll, and can we?
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  Speaker 4: But he must have done it, daddy, Jinny, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know how daddy feels about little girls who tell FIBs. Now,
• 12:51
  Speaker 2: did you break your glass and maybe accidentally get some
• 12:54
  Speaker 2: pieces into mister Blister's dish to sort of punish him
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  Speaker 2: for biting your doll? No, Daddy, I hate to think
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  Speaker 2: you've done something you knew was wrong and you were
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  Speaker 2: blaming it on it all?
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  Speaker 4: Something wrong with mister Blister? Is he sick?
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  Speaker 2: Worse than that, the child has to face reality.
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  Speaker 4: What's the matter with mister Blister?
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  Speaker 2: He's dead, Cindy.
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  Speaker 5: Oh no, we can't be dead. He isn't dead, Daddy, No,
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  Speaker 5: he isn't.
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  Speaker 4: He isn't, Mommy, He is dead, Cindy. He'll come back,
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  Speaker 4: he has to come back, No, darling, he won't come
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  Speaker 4: back ever, not ever.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, huh, now that we've told you, Cindy, do you
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  Speaker 2: want to change your mind about the glass and we
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  Speaker 2: leave her alone?
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  Speaker 4: Please? Did you guy killed it? Now look what you've done.
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  Speaker 4: The child is guilty enough, dear.
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  Speaker 2: This is no time for feelings to interfere.
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  Speaker 4: Your money, daddy, not have you up in a minute.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to leave, Cindy. Now we'll be right, please,
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  Speaker 4: that's a good girl. Close is the kitchen door behind you.
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  Speaker 5: Mister Blister is dead. He isn't coming back ever ever.
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  Speaker 4: Did anythink that was me?
• 14:24
  Speaker 5: But it was you.
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  Speaker 7: It was you.
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  Speaker 4: Eat your supper day hungry, You scarcely touched your lunch.
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  Speaker 4: I don't feel like edie, is it, mister Blister?
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  Speaker 2: No answer your mother.
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  Speaker 4: She'll work it out her own way.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know when I was a boy there was
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  Speaker 2: such a thing. Is disciplined another way. This child is
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  Speaker 2: being brought up Henry. Well, it's true. There's no respect,
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  Speaker 2: lying and all.
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  Speaker 4: They're there, honey. Now your father's upset. He doesn't mean it.
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  Speaker 2: What's happened to us? We were a nice, peaceful, happy
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  Speaker 2: family until you bought that curse of doll.
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  Speaker 4: Now who's blaming things on the doll?
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  Speaker 2: It's true. I've spilled.
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  Speaker 4: I'll get you another never mind, I'm late now I
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  Speaker 4: better be going. Oh you wanted to get some papers
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  Speaker 4: from the strong box. Oh yeah, Cindy, please try to
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  Speaker 4: eat something.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am, Alma, alma?
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  Speaker 4: What is it?
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  Speaker 2: Alma? It's gone?
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  Speaker 4: What's gone?
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  Speaker 2: The box? The strong box is gone.
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  Speaker 7: It can't be.
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  Speaker 4: The door to your study's always locked. You and I
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  Speaker 4: have the only key.
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: I know all that, and I tell you it isn't there.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: Tell them of those confidential reports if they ever got into.
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  Speaker 4: Their own I warned you about keeping them there.
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  Speaker 2: What if it ever came out in the open. Can't
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: you see the papers? Call the police, Henry, and throw
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: my army career in a waste basket after seventeen years. No,
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  Speaker 2: we've got to find it ourselves.
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  Speaker 4: But it was there when I went in to clean
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  Speaker 4: this morning.
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  Speaker 2: What about your key?
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  Speaker 4: That's right here. I always keep it with me. Oh no,
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  Speaker 4: my other keys are on the ring.
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  Speaker 2: You lost it.
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  Speaker 4: I don't see how elm could you Henry?
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  Speaker 2: Please, we'll search the house. I can't think of anything
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  Speaker 2: else to do.
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: Will you miss the staff meeting?
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  Speaker 2: My whole career goes up and smoke. If we don't
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  Speaker 2: find those reports. Somebody got hold of your key and
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: opened that room. And I know, Cindy, you leave.
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  Speaker 4: The child alone. She's been through enough. You know she
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: wouldn't do a thing like that.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: I don't know anything anymore. I don't even know my
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  Speaker 2: own child. I don't even know you. All I know
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  Speaker 2: is that strong box has gone and contains papers that
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: are dynamited if the wrong person gets them. The question
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: being who, What's that?
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: It's coming from upstairs? It must be Cindy's doll.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I blasted doll again.
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: Something must have set it off. I don't know how
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  Speaker 4: to the mechanism works.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: For Heaven's sake. Let's go up and shut it off.
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  Speaker 4: Don't do, don't do, don't do. Give him, get him,
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: get him? How do you do? How do you do? Henry?
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  Speaker 2: Henry? What? Look? Where? What?
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: Around the doll's neck? The key? The key to your study?
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  Speaker 2: You see? It was Cindy Afterno, I don't believe, good heavens,
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: do you have to have it spelled out for you?
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  Speaker 2: Here's our doll with a key around the ship.
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  Speaker 4: Wouldn't Henry? You know she would?
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: Oh? Ever, since you got this, Frother's pooled out. She's
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: been acting happ insane the first of dog and now this.
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  Speaker 4: I think she hates your s Henry, Cindy is my child.
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  Speaker 4: I know her. I know she's a good, sensitive person
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  Speaker 4: with no malicine.
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  Speaker 2: You're simply refusing to face the facts.
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  Speaker 4: My dear, What are you ready to do?
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: I'm going downstairs and have a talk with that young lady.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: You're not telling the truth.
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  Speaker 4: I am.
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  Speaker 2: I ass Cindy. Now you know that strong box is
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: very important to me. Now I can understand that you
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: might have been angry at me because I scolded you,
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  Speaker 2: and so you took it and hid it just despite me.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: All I asked is for you to tell me the truth.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't take it, Daddy, Honest, I didn't take it.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: I suppose you're going to tell me now that a
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: little six inch dollar took it and hid it. Well,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: i'm speaking to you, young lady.
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  Speaker 4: But I didn't take it, Daddy. You don't understand.
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  Speaker 5: Toto did it.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: He's terrible, awful. He says things. He's going to kill everybody.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: Cindy, you're inventing things.
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: It's true.
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: Now when I'm sleeping, he stands next to my pillow
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: and whispers things to me, awful things.
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: He told me he'd kill me too if I scold
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: I told you.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: I think this child is sick. I think she needs
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: a doction, him trembling like a leaf.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: Come on, dear, we'll go up to your room. You
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: don't want to go up there, Honey, Mommy will stay
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: with you.
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: I'm afraid he's up there.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Total he won't be up there for long. Mister Toto
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: is going right back to Peerage's wonderful doll shop before
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: I lose my sanity, which means right.
• 19:20
  Speaker 7: Now, Fellel Grayson, Welcome to the home of Peerage is
• 19:39
  Speaker 7: wonderful doll, are you, peery gy Santo Peeragy, creator the universal.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Doll, the doll with the mine, the doll which I'm
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: returning one of your masterpieces, Old, if you will step
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: into the rear of my shop.
• 19:57
  Speaker 7: Now the complaint, no complaint. Here's your good rance, My
• 20:02
  Speaker 7: little Toto rejected. You found the world of men too
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: filled with hate? Help we will change all that later on.
• 20:13
  Speaker 7: Return to your conrades in the window, little one. And now,
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: Colonel Grace, I think we have no further business. Ah,
• 20:25
  Speaker 7: but we do, Colonel. Let me see. Ah, yes, here
• 20:30
  Speaker 7: it is. Do you recognize the strong box, Colonel, my
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: strong box will my little Toto is very clever, Sir are.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: You trying to tell me your dolls stole that from me?
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: Let us not say stole. I am merely keeping it
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: in custody. What's the game, Peeriogy? The game, as you
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: call it, is blackmail. You give me what I want,
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: and I do not ruin your career. What do you
• 20:54
  Speaker 7: want information? We already know something from the reports of
• 20:58
  Speaker 7: the War Department concerning a certain strange looking sphere, reported
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: by one of your pilots.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: What government do you represent?
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: I represent Peerag's wonderful dolls, none other.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: I am not so naive, sir.
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: Perhaps I should explain each man hides something from the world,
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: each man loves something more than life. With the help
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: of my wonderful dolls, I obtain personal information which enables
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: me to control the men who control the world. You're
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: a madman, a genius. You would be surprised at the
• 21:37
  Speaker 7: list of men who have become the confidants for my dolls.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Do you think you can blackmail me into betraying my country?
• 21:43
  Speaker 7: The price is right, and in this case, sir, the
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: price is your career and the lives of your wife
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: and child. Why are you so interested in the flying
• 21:52
  Speaker 7: so let us say for reasons of my own. Well, Colonel,
• 21:57
  Speaker 7: hand over the strong box now, I warn you, I
• 22:00
  Speaker 7: have a gun.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Give it to me. You are being foolish.
• 22:03
  Speaker 7: Put down that walking stick now, no closer now.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Hello, give me the police. Hello, this is Colonel
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Henry Grayson. I've just killed a man. Yes, Parigi's Dollars shop,
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: corner of Fourth and Lexington. The body is in the
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: back room. Yes, I'll wait for you. Shut up. Shut
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: up your little fiend, Colonel Grayson. Did did I hear it? Speak?
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: Colonel Henry Grayson?
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: I must be going out of my six Shut up.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Your master's dead.
• 22:55
  Speaker 9: You are mistaken, Colonel Hi Toto, I am the master.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: What do you mean?
• 23:01
  Speaker 9: If you will examine the body of Santor Parigi, you
• 23:05
  Speaker 9: will see that he does not bleed. And he does
• 23:09
  Speaker 9: not bleed, Colonel, because Santaur Porigi never.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Lived, never lived.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: Centaur Porigi is a doll.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: A doll, but that's impossible. He's a man. He talks,
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: he walks.
• 23:27
  Speaker 9: The people of Meritrix are skillful daur builders.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: People of Meretrix Dalba Who are you?
• 23:34
  Speaker 9: I am Xanthus Simpirito, commander of the Legions of the
• 23:39
  Speaker 9: third planetoid.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: Meretrix Legions planetoid.
• 23:44
  Speaker 9: My people and I, whom you regard as dolls, come
• 23:48
  Speaker 9: from a tiny planet beyond the Moon, so small that
• 23:52
  Speaker 9: it cannot support our population. We landed one of our
• 23:56
  Speaker 9: space fears on Earth three months ago with the intention
• 24:01
  Speaker 9: of colonizing. Unfortunately, one of your pilots intercepted us.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: So that's why you wanted our information precisely are you?
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Are you a human?
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 24:13
  Speaker 9: Quite human, of course. In order to deal with Earth
• 24:17
  Speaker 9: people without suspicion, we were forced to construct Beirigi, a
• 24:22
  Speaker 9: man size doll.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Well, I can't believe this. I'm having hallucinations. I'm going
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: to get out of here.
• 24:27
  Speaker 9: Oh that would be impossible. We have weapons of destruction
• 24:32
  Speaker 9: quite unknown to Earth people.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: I found the police and they'll be here soon.
• 24:35
  Speaker 9: By the time they arrived, my people will have prepared
• 24:39
  Speaker 9: something quite shocking.
• 24:58
  Speaker 12: Abraham Ryan O, you're the guy who turned in the call.
• 25:03
  Speaker 12: Where's the body?
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Well, it isn't exactly a body. How do you mean
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: it's a doll? Aw what You've got to let me explain? Well,
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: it sounds fantastic, but I've stumbled onto an unbelievable plot
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: to control the world. Can't talking these little dolls. They
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: aren't really dolls. They're tiny people. There's a big doll
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: named Santo Parici. He runs this shop only smocks off.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: He's Charlie.
• 25:26
  Speaker 12: Sorry that semester we got a call that there was
• 25:28
  Speaker 12: a murder here. Now, if there was one, where's the body.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Behind those curtains in the back. Only it isn't really
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: a body, you see why.
• 25:36
  Speaker 12: I here's something back there, sir, All right, come with
• 25:38
  Speaker 12: those curtains, yo, there's anyone back there, Come on out,
• 25:43
  Speaker 12: Come on and we'll come in and got you.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: Something's coming. The curtain's opening. Welcome, gentlemen. This is impossible.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: I smashed his skull. You know there's guys. That's the
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: one that's the doll.
• 25:58
  Speaker 7: What's your name, mister Santo Perici, creator of the universal down?
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: You ever say this man?
• 26:05
  Speaker 7: Never until just now?
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Well, he's lying. I tell you, he's nothing but a
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: life sized doll. The real masters are these little dolls?
• 26:13
  Speaker 12: Right you getting this?
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: He's Waco sargs not? He is a fruit clok. Look,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: I'm not crazy. I tell you I can prove it.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: They must have fixed up his head when I when
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: I smashed it in.
• 26:22
  Speaker 12: Touch him you'll see mister Page, you know what that
• 26:25
  Speaker 12: I is talking about.
• 26:26
  Speaker 7: The man is demented.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: I tell you there's a there's a plot to control
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: the earth. Listen, you've got to let me call the
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: war department. There. I want to know about the flying sphere.
• 26:34
  Speaker 7: Only a macrol Let's gets worse every minute.
• 26:37
  Speaker 12: Ryan, Take him to headquarters, have some time, take him
• 26:39
  Speaker 12: down to Psycho Ward.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Okay, Buck Rogers, I'm along, nice and quiet. You've gotta
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: listen to me. Don't you see the future of mankind
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: as that?
• 26:47
  Speaker 9: Stay?
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Sure, sure, I know how it is.
• 26:49
  Speaker 13: Look, he's nothing but a man sized doll. Touch him
• 26:51
  Speaker 13: and the little ones are going to take over the earth.
• 26:53
  Speaker 13: I know I had the dtase once. Okay, Sarge, wait
• 26:57
  Speaker 13: to see you, Please, please come along. Please you got.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Sorry to cause all this trouble.
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: Also not at all a.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 27:14
  Speaker 12: Ain't thank you this little down say my little girl
• 27:17
  Speaker 12: will be nuts.
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: But I perhaps you will accept it as a gift. Wow,
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: saving my life. That madman might have killed me. No
• 27:25
  Speaker 7: home is really complete without one of you. Richi's wonderful dollars, Sergeant,
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: Is that right, Toto? Yes, but I would like in
• 27:37
  Speaker 7: some way to show my gratitude you will be doing
• 27:39
  Speaker 7: me a favor if you will take the doll home
• 27:41
  Speaker 7: to your little daughter.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Say this sort to make the happiest girl Noir.
• 27:45
  Speaker 7: Yes, Toto will become as a great surprise, a very
• 27:49
  Speaker 7: great surprise. Wounded Tonight by transcription X minus one has
• 28:05
  Speaker 7: brought you Peerigi's Wonderful Dolls, written by George Leffards. Heard
• 28:11
  Speaker 7: in the cast where Janet Alexander is Cindy, and potoniakis,
• 28:15
  Speaker 7: Alma Nelson Olmsted as Henry, Joe DeSantis as Perigi, Michael
• 28:20
  Speaker 7: O'Day as Toto, Ken Lynch as the Sergeant, and Frank
• 28:23
  Speaker 7: Malano as Ryan.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: This is Fred Collins speaking.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: X minus one was directed by Fred Way and is
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: an NBC Radio Network production.
• 28:39
  Speaker 8: Tonight's story concludes the present series of stories of the
• 28:42
  Speaker 8: World of the Future. If you'd like to hear X
• 28:45
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• 28:47
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• 28:50
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  Speaker 8: New York.
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  Speaker 1: That was X minus one with Perighi's Wonderful Dolls. We
• 29:04
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