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Dragnet: The Big Bomb (EP4484) · The Great Detectives Present Dragnet (Old Time Radio)

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  Speaker 1: it is time for this week's episode of Dragnet. The
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  Speaker 1: original air date is July the thirteenth, nineteen fifty and
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  Speaker 1: this one is the Big Bomb.
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  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen. This true story concerns the heart of
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  Speaker 2: a great city. It took fifty eight minutes to resolve
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  Speaker 2: the question of its safety or its total destruction. This
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  Speaker 2: is the story of those fifty eight minutes. Only the
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  Speaker 2: names have been changed to protect the innocent.
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  Speaker 3: Dragnet. The document a drama of an actual crime. Well,
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  Speaker 3: the next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles
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  Speaker 3: Police Department, you will travel step by step on the
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  Speaker 3: side of the law through an actual case transcribed from
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  Speaker 3: official police violence, from beginning to end, from crime to punishment.
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  Speaker 3: Dragnet is the story of your police force and action.
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  Speaker 4: It was Tuesday, November fifteenth, was reigning in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 4: We were off duty, reporting in on an emergency call.
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  Speaker 4: My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Lynn White, Deputy
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  Speaker 4: Chief of Police.
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  Speaker 5: My name is Friday. Was eight twenty five am when
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  Speaker 5: I walked into the main street entrance to the city Hall.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's right, right, thank you.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm gonna run you up to sixteen chiefs waiting
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  Speaker 7: for you up there.
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  Speaker 4: Well, what's the pitch? Only one elevator here in service
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  Speaker 4: out of ten. The place looks deserted. What's going on?
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  Speaker 7: Nobody in the building? Shardan All the office people have
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  Speaker 7: been sent home.
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  Speaker 8: Lots of trouble.
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  Speaker 5: Somebody declare a holiday no joke, sergeants, big trouble. You
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  Speaker 5: convinced me?
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  Speaker 9: What is it here?
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  Speaker 7: We are six kings floor.
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  Speaker 9: You can't all over here, Friday, right, all right?
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  Speaker 8: Yah, little ben had good time.
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  Speaker 5: I came as soon as I got the call in.
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  Speaker 8: Sorry, I have to bring it back in.
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  Speaker 5: You worked last night, yeah, mid ninete eight this morning?
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  Speaker 9: Sorry, come on, wonder is it skipper? Well, hush hus,
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  Speaker 9: where can.
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  Speaker 8: We get inside?
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  Speaker 9: And yeah, okay.
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  Speaker 8: Number one, let's keep up voices down. How'll make it
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  Speaker 8: as brief as I can. Every night counts one time
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  Speaker 8: he got Friday eight thirty three. All right here, it
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  Speaker 8: is fifty five minutes ago. A man walked into this
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  Speaker 8: building with a homemade bomb under his arm. We don't
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  Speaker 8: release his brother from the county jail by nine o'clock
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  Speaker 8: this morning, He says, he'll pull the trigger on the
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  Speaker 8: bomb and blow up the whole building.
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  Speaker 9: He's kidding, Skipper.
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  Speaker 5: Who is the guy?
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  Speaker 8: Name's Ronni Carney. Here's his package. He and his brother
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  Speaker 8: have been in and out of jail since nineteen thirty seven.
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  Speaker 8: Small town thieves. BI kicked back here. We had him
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  Speaker 8: once before, both of 'em. Brother's name is elw serving
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  Speaker 8: a year for car stripping.
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  Speaker 9: And there's two bit thief. He's sitting here in the
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  Speaker 9: city hall with a bomb on his leap.
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  Speaker 4: That's right, I'm next room, And what kind of a bomb,
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  Speaker 4: is it, Lenn, You think he's bluffing.
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  Speaker 8: Could be buffing the crime web, says none.
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  Speaker 9: Jones from the lab, get to look at him.
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  Speaker 8: He's been in here twice. Run under the box's glass
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  Speaker 8: says he can't see much without a closer luck, but
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  Speaker 8: you can't get near the guy, all right?
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  Speaker 5: What he wants to do, it's.
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  Speaker 8: A volunteer job. I can take her to leave it.
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  Speaker 8: I won't order you to do it. How do you
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  Speaker 8: want to handle it? You sure you want a piece of.
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  Speaker 4: The No, No, he doesn't. He's got a family. Can
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  Speaker 4: you get me another single man.
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  Speaker 5: We'll give it a try.
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  Speaker 9: Wait a minute, Joe, what makes his jump so different?
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  Speaker 9: Every time we kick in a door, we never know
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  Speaker 9: what's on in the side.
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  Speaker 5: That's what makes it different. This time we do.
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  Speaker 9: No, you're not going to cut me out. Not the
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  Speaker 9: only time. I know what I'm getting into, all right.
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  Speaker 8: Chandler's tried, Hannah and Davis Watson, I've all tried. It's
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  Speaker 8: got Cornie knows what he's doing. There's no pushover. But
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  Speaker 8: somebody's got to get that bomb away from it. Job baby, Now.
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  Speaker 5: I looked at my watch. It was eight thirty six,
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  Speaker 5: we left Chief White and started down the hall.
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  Speaker 4: If Carnie was going to make good his threat to
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  Speaker 4: blow up the building by nine o'clock, we had exactly
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  Speaker 4: twenty four minutes to talk him out of it. Bet
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  Speaker 4: and I figured we'd better look him over first and
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  Speaker 4: then work out some kind of a plan, maybe just
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  Speaker 4: talking to him or do it. Vernon Conney was sitting
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  Speaker 4: in a straight back chair against the fire wall, facing
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  Speaker 4: the door. It was seated between two windows that looked
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  Speaker 4: out over the city. In the center of the right
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  Speaker 4: wall was a connecting door leading to the office where
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  Speaker 4: Chief White had briefness.
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  Speaker 5: The door was locked on both sides.
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  Speaker 4: Just off the center and favoring the left of the
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  Speaker 4: room was a small filing table. It was a dictaphone
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  Speaker 4: on it. In the near left corner, shielded by a
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  Speaker 4: white screen, was a small wash basin burning. Kenney sat
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  Speaker 4: erect holding a black box on his lap. He held
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  Speaker 4: his right hand inside one end of the box. Ben
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  Speaker 4: and I walked into the room. What do you say
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  Speaker 4: to a man with a bomb.
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  Speaker 10: That's close enough? Cigarette, Kearney, I'm not smoking right now.
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  Speaker 9: What are you trying to prove?
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  Speaker 10: You know what I want?
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  Speaker 9: We're not gonna let your brother out of jail.
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  Speaker 11: You've gotten till nine o'clock to change your mind. That
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  Speaker 11: clock up there in the wall, you got twenty.
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  Speaker 12: Four minutes if we go.
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  Speaker 10: You're going with this, Kearney, Oh ding much of a
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  Speaker 10: brain to figure that one out?
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  Speaker 8: Copper?
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  Speaker 9: What made you think you could get away with it?
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  Speaker 11: I have it yet at ain't nine o'clock. Let's say,
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  Speaker 11: clock slow. I haven't checked it against my pocket watch lately,
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  Speaker 11: and that's the one that's.
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  Speaker 10: Running this show.
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  Speaker 4: Have you given any thought to all lee in this
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  Speaker 4: some people that are gonna go up with that thing
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  Speaker 4: of yours.
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  Speaker 10: My brother's innocent. I want him out of jail.
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  Speaker 5: The court says he's guilty. He'll get out when he
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  Speaker 5: serves his time.
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  Speaker 10: That's where you're wrong, Copper. He gets out at nine
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  Speaker 10: o'clock this morning.
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  Speaker 5: Right, Come on, turney, get your hand out of that box.
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  Speaker 5: Put the box on the table.
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  Speaker 11: You think I'm bluffing Dosh. I'm gonna let you get
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  Speaker 11: within five fitted me before I make a liar out
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  Speaker 11: of here.
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  Speaker 5: All right, Kearney, I guess you mean business.
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  Speaker 10: You can take three more steps and find out for sure.
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  Speaker 9: Suppose we did let your brother out. We just come
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  Speaker 9: out and pick him up again, you along with him,
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  Speaker 9: if you could find us. Let's get this straight. If
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  Speaker 9: we let your brother Elwood out, how do we know
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  Speaker 9: you'll keep your promise?
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  Speaker 11: I promise, I haven't made any promises. You just get
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  Speaker 11: all wa down here first, then we'll talk about it.
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  Speaker 4: Look, there's just one thing I can't figure Kearnie Oeh's
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  Speaker 4: if we don't let your brother out, you say you'll
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  Speaker 4: pull the trigger on that bomb. What are you gonna
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  Speaker 4: approve by them?
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  Speaker 10: Say thirty seven? Now you got twenty three minutes left.
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  Speaker 4: No, I wish you'd answer that one for me. Why
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  Speaker 4: do you wanna kill a lot of innocent people?
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  Speaker 11: Don't try to con me, Copper. I know they cleared
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  Speaker 11: everybody out of this building forty five minutes ago. I
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  Speaker 11: know they cleaned out the whole block. They got it
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  Speaker 11: roped off.
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  Speaker 9: What'd you get your information?
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  Speaker 11: I got a couple of windows here to look at her,
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  Speaker 11: which you think it's about time you send somebody over
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  Speaker 11: to get out with.
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  Speaker 9: What's to stop us from leaving the building along with
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  Speaker 9: the other few officers that you sit here and tout
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  Speaker 9: your fat bone.
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  Speaker 10: Go ahead, won't be a long wait without you.
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  Speaker 11: How you're trying to kid you'd let me blow up
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  Speaker 11: ten million dollars with a taxpayers money? No, you're gonna
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  Speaker 11: let out with that. You'll wait the last minute to
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  Speaker 11: do it, but you will let him out.
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  Speaker 12: I'm real.
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  Speaker 5: Let's go on, Lynn, listen. Yeah, I'm still not convinced
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  Speaker 5: that Kernel can back up what he says.
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  Speaker 8: Why don't you take the box away from him? Yeah,
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  Speaker 8: we're in a spot. Let's face it.
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  Speaker 9: How about us getting him first?
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  Speaker 8: How are you going to handle it?
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  Speaker 9: I'm not top man on the pistol range, but I
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  Speaker 9: could wing him, then he hands.
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  Speaker 8: The box to you, or maybe he falls in his
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  Speaker 8: reflex action pulls the trigger.
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  Speaker 9: Okay, I don't wing. You must stop him for key.
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  Speaker 9: Just can't walk in there and shoot him down. Why
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  Speaker 9: not you do the same thing with any arm grim Yeah,
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  Speaker 9: but you warn him first along, and after you shoot
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  Speaker 9: him you find out it's a harmless gadget.
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  Speaker 5: Couldn't have gone off in a million years.
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  Speaker 8: Our gun's not the answer. We can't shoot him till
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  Speaker 8: we're positive.
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  Speaker 9: We'll be positive by nine o'clock, but then there might
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  Speaker 9: not be anybody around his.
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  Speaker 8: You we've located Connie's apartment. There's a detail out there
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  Speaker 8: checking it now. But Chilly and Morris, have.
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  Speaker 5: You got any ideas at all anything we could try.
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  Speaker 8: That's why I called you, and none of us have
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  Speaker 8: gotten any further than you did just now.
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  Speaker 5: It's just one thing I want to know for sure.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, Friday, is it or isn't it? We all want
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  Speaker 8: to know.
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  Speaker 5: Either way.
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  Speaker 9: We got to get that box away from him.
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  Speaker 8: I get it, White speaking, Yeah, did, I'll stay out there.
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  Speaker 8: I'll call you. I BECHELLI they just found twenty edge
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  Speaker 8: sticks of dynamite and Carney's apartment.
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  Speaker 3: You are listening to Dragnet, the case history of a
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  Speaker 3: police investigation presented in the public interest.
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  Speaker 5: We knew now Carnie wasn't kidding.
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  Speaker 4: We could see into the bomb through the glass window
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  Speaker 4: and one end there was dynamite inside, and there was
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  Speaker 4: dynamite in Carne's room.
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  Speaker 5: We didn't know if he had the nerve to pull
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  Speaker 5: the trigger.
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  Speaker 4: We didn't know if it would go off when he did,
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  Speaker 4: But with only minutes remaining, nobody wanted to take the chance.
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  Speaker 4: From here on in, all of us agreed that Brendan
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  Speaker 4: Corney sat in the next room, holding in his two hands,
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  Speaker 4: a force powerful enough to destroy us all. I looked
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  Speaker 4: at my watch it was twenty minutes till nine.
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  Speaker 8: How do we get it away from him?
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  Speaker 5: I got an idea it might work.
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  Speaker 4: He's sitting against the firewall between two windows and they're
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  Speaker 4: both open. I'm try if we could get a man
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  Speaker 4: through one of those windows, we might get Carnie from behind.
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  Speaker 8: How are you gonna get him?
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  Speaker 5: Well, whoever gets through the window could slug him.
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  Speaker 9: What do you do?
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  Speaker 5: Then somebody grabs the box. The crime lab can tell
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  Speaker 5: us what to do with it.
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  Speaker 8: Then how do we get a man through one of
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  Speaker 8: those windows? We're on the sixteenth floor.
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  Speaker 5: Well, there's some kind of a ledge that runs around
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  Speaker 5: the building on each story.
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  Speaker 9: Isn't it wide enough for a man to walk on?
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  Speaker 8: Let's take a look.
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  Speaker 5: I see that was pretty narrow, Joe, good, eighteen inches
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  Speaker 5: could be done so risky.
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  Speaker 8: It's been raining out that light is slippery, strong wind
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  Speaker 8: out there.
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  Speaker 9: Jeorge Raman right off the building.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess you're right.
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  Speaker 8: There's still away.
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  Speaker 9: How about a letder sixteen floors giving there.
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  Speaker 8: Might be away? The fire department is know that. I'll
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  Speaker 8: get Battalion Chief Eerks there's Lee Jones in the building
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  Speaker 8: now he's over the crime labl. I'll get him up
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  Speaker 8: here too. I don't know, Friday, maybe it'll work.
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  Speaker 5: It's got too all right.
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  Speaker 8: Now, Look, it's gonna take a couple of minutes to
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  Speaker 8: set there up. We've got to know what Cannie is
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  Speaker 8: doing every second of that time.
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  Speaker 9: How about the dictaphone on the table in there, good,
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  Speaker 9: get it on without him seeing you.
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  Speaker 8: We'll try a dictaphone in there is connected to this
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  Speaker 8: one in here. This room is sixteen fourteen. You got that?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: All right? Push down key sixteen fourteen on that machine
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  Speaker 8: in there and leave it down. Get the receiver off
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  Speaker 8: the hook and leave it off.
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  Speaker 9: Leave the receiver on.
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  Speaker 8: That's right.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 8: If it doesn't off the hook, we won't be able
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  Speaker 8: to hear a thing in the right. Come on, minute,
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  Speaker 8: when White speaking, get.
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  Speaker 12: You person, lave my brother still in his self.
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  Speaker 11: Your coppers are long run talk short on time. Yeah,
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  Speaker 11: we know, I'm telling you.
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  Speaker 10: If you're own good, you better get on it over.
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  Speaker 5: Here, Kennie.
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  Speaker 4: I'll bet if we get your brother on the phone here,
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  Speaker 4: he'll tell you that he doesn't want any part of this.
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  Speaker 10: I mean Elwood doesn't want to get on since when jury.
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  Speaker 9: Wants out, but not your way.
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  Speaker 5: It's only got a year to serve. Why don't you
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  Speaker 5: leave him alone?
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  Speaker 11: I told that, I told him i'd get him out.
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  Speaker 11: He didn't think I could do it, But I'm doing it.
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  Speaker 5: I'll make you bet. Carnie, you let us get your
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  Speaker 5: brother on the phone. He won't walk out of here
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  Speaker 5: with you.
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  Speaker 10: Get him on the phone. All right, where are you going?
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  Speaker 10: One's over here.
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  Speaker 5: I have to use the dictaphone. I got to get
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  Speaker 5: an okay from the chief? Ell wi still a person?
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  Speaker 10: What's the matter with the phone?
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  Speaker 9: No operators? You know the building's been cleared.
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  Speaker 10: That's right, I almost forgot. Okay, you can use the dictaphone.
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  Speaker 5: It's Friday.
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  Speaker 4: Chief Charlie wants to talk to his brother, and I
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  Speaker 4: know you'll have to send somebody over have him put
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  Speaker 4: the call on the extension.
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  Speaker 5: Wait a minute, what's that extension over there?
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  Speaker 9: Two three five one two three five one?
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  Speaker 5: When right, we'll take a minute.
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  Speaker 10: Uh huh. I kind of like Doc Dale in a
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  Speaker 10: couple of months since I've seen him. We always been together, man,
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  Speaker 10: now most of the time.
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  Speaker 9: Joe, Let's go and see if we can't hurry that call.
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  Speaker 10: That's a good idea, boy, it's sixteen minutes to nine. Yeah, hey, cop, Yeah,
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  Speaker 10: I got to hang up the dictaphone.
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  Speaker 4: I put the receiver back on the dictaphone. Ben and
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  Speaker 4: I had failed to make good on the first step
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  Speaker 4: of the plan. When we got outside the door, we
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  Speaker 4: briefed Davis and Watson. They went in to sit with Carne.
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  Speaker 4: It would be their job to keep us posted on
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  Speaker 4: Carne's movements. The dictaphone was out. We went back into
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  Speaker 4: the office next door, Chief Sam Erickson to the fire Department,
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  Speaker 4: Lieutenant Lee Jones from the crime lab.
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  Speaker 8: We're already there. Would have been to help. We haven't
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  Speaker 8: got time to cry over it.
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  Speaker 13: Corney is wide awake, skipper, he doesn't miss a thing.
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  Speaker 13: White Tot is a plan, Friday. We can't run a
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  Speaker 13: ladder up from the street too high on Chief Best.
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  Speaker 13: We've got as one hundred foot aerial. You figure twelve
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  Speaker 13: foot to the story. I'll take you at ninety six feet
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  Speaker 13: eight floors. We got the latest equipment.
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  Speaker 8: What's that idea you had, Jones?
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  Speaker 9: Sam, can you get a hold of a pump here
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  Speaker 9: in a Harley?
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  Speaker 8: Sure?
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  Speaker 14: We got a lot of scaling ladders, but you got
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  Speaker 14: nothing out there to hook him on.
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  Speaker 5: You figure on dropping down from the floor above.
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  Speaker 8: That's right, and I figure pump p here would do it,
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  Speaker 8: sure would.
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  Speaker 13: You could make it fast. The windows sell out there,
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  Speaker 13: but you got a foot and a half legend a way.
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  Speaker 13: Now what you wants a lifeline?
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  Speaker 10: You mean Nora man on a rope team?
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  Speaker 14: Yeah, the quickest and the quietest.
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  Speaker 8: Could you rig it so one of my boys could
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  Speaker 8: do it? Surely? What's the risk?
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  Speaker 14: None?
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  Speaker 13: If you work it right, We'll strap on a life belt,
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  Speaker 13: give the man heavy leather gloves, two of my men
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  Speaker 13: to lower him down.
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  Speaker 14: Pick your lightest man. What do you think that's it?
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  Speaker 5: What do we do with the bomb when we get it?
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  Speaker 15: I figure that box Counties Holding is about a foot square.
• 15:19
  Speaker 15: Here's what I'll do. I'll get you a bucket with
• 15:21
  Speaker 15: a foot and a half mouth and we'll be full
• 15:23
  Speaker 15: of water.
• 15:23
  Speaker 12: You know.
• 15:24
  Speaker 9: I'll have it right outside.
• 15:25
  Speaker 8: The door of that office.
• 15:26
  Speaker 15: When you get that box, place it in the water.
• 15:28
  Speaker 15: We'll get the bucket out of the building as fast
• 15:30
  Speaker 15: as we can.
• 15:30
  Speaker 9: Once we get the bomb underwater, wein and clear.
• 15:32
  Speaker 15: And you can't promise you that, but it's the safest
• 15:34
  Speaker 15: way to handle it under the circumstances.
• 15:36
  Speaker 8: All right, that's it, sim You take care of your
• 15:37
  Speaker 8: end right away.
• 15:38
  Speaker 15: I'll get a detail to give me a hand down
• 15:40
  Speaker 15: on the street and we'll take the bomb to a
• 15:41
  Speaker 15: safe area and decommission it.
• 15:42
  Speaker 9: Let's move on it right then, which part do you
• 15:50
  Speaker 9: want the rope to the bomb?
• 15:51
  Speaker 8: You call it car Chief, Erickson said, the lightest man
• 15:53
  Speaker 8: on the rope.
• 15:54
  Speaker 9: That's me and Jim.
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: All right, I'll get the bomb out of the building.
• 15:56
  Speaker 8: Okay, that's the routine and carry this with you. My
• 15:58
  Speaker 8: man that comes down that rope has one chance to
• 16:00
  Speaker 8: make good. Slug him and make it count. There's no
• 16:02
  Speaker 8: second try. Yeah, and Joe, when you grab that box,
• 16:04
  Speaker 8: you've got to get it away from Carne before you
• 16:06
  Speaker 8: can squeeze the trigger. Then you've got to get it
• 16:07
  Speaker 8: down the street to the elevator.
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: You know how to operate it, Well, that's pretty simple,
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: but I'll double check with the operator.
• 16:11
  Speaker 8: And you got to do it right now.
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: Okay, say we better get Connie's brother on the phone
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: for him. You seem anxious.
• 16:16
  Speaker 9: It might be a pretty good idea.
• 16:17
  Speaker 8: All right, remembro that's the outside phone. You got the
• 16:19
  Speaker 8: city jail go on Friday times.
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: Hey, you elevator man. We want to see if I
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: know how to work this thing in yours? Are you
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: taking over the elevator in a couple of minutes? You
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: want to check me out?
• 16:36
  Speaker 16: Nothing to it shorten and here's the control You push
• 16:39
  Speaker 16: this lever right to go up, left of it down.
• 16:41
  Speaker 9: You see this little trigger on the underside of the hand.
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a safety lock.
• 16:45
  Speaker 9: Be sure you squeeze it.
• 16:45
  Speaker 8: You can't move the lever.
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry if I try it.
• 16:47
  Speaker 9: Okay, where do I turn off the master street?
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: All right?
• 16:51
  Speaker 9: Answer right to go up left of the down?
• 16:55
  Speaker 12: All right?
• 16:56
  Speaker 16: Now, how do you operate the doors automatic? They work
• 16:58
  Speaker 16: off the control lever. When the control lever's locked, the
• 17:00
  Speaker 16: up or down position of the doors will close.
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: I got it.
• 17:02
  Speaker 9: No, In case a jammed this read emergency button appear.
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, push it.
• 17:07
  Speaker 9: If that doesn't close, what we call a repairman.
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: Okay, I think I got it. You want to turn
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: that switchback on?
• 17:11
  Speaker 13: All right?
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: You sure?
• 17:13
  Speaker 16: Now I have artist do get out of the building.
• 17:14
  Speaker 16: I'll just leave the elevator right here and take the
• 17:16
  Speaker 16: stairs down. All right, Thanks a lot, Shardon I'm just curious.
• 17:20
  Speaker 16: You're going to take the bomb down this car.
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: We're going to try. You won't have any trouble.
• 17:24
  Speaker 9: We haven't had elevator failure in eighteen months.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: The elevator man turned and went down the stairs. I
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: started down the corrider and met Ben outside the office.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: He told me that Lee Jones and Chief Erickson were
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: on their way up in the freight elevator at the
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: rear of the building with the necessary equipment. The two
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: fire department volunteers were with him. The phone call had
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: been put through the city jail and in a minute
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: Ellwood Connie would be ready at the other end of
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: the line.
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: We went in to tell Connie.
• 17:50
  Speaker 9: I told him over to jail to put the cloth
• 17:52
  Speaker 9: through on extension two three five one.
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: When's it coming through? Right now?
• 17:57
  Speaker 17: Not old, would you?
• 17:58
  Speaker 8: No?
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: We told you we get on the phone for you.
• 18:01
  Speaker 10: Call jo An A Minute's a long time cop. You
• 18:04
  Speaker 10: only got twelve of them left.
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: What's gonna talk you out of this? Oh?
• 18:08
  Speaker 10: Sure, sure, everybody's gonna talk me out of this. First
• 18:10
  Speaker 10: it was the other two cops, the.
• 18:11
  Speaker 11: Little porky guy and out of the monkey and you
• 18:14
  Speaker 11: and this Dixie Doe heead here and now it's now
• 18:18
  Speaker 11: come off it.
• 18:18
  Speaker 10: Will you get my brother over here?
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: That's him?
• 18:20
  Speaker 9: Now your brother Coney out of games and they put
• 18:22
  Speaker 9: you just gonna get the phone. You want to talk
• 18:24
  Speaker 9: to your brother, don't you.
• 18:25
  Speaker 10: I'll take care of the phone. Now we're just disconnected front.
• 18:28
  Speaker 10: Look I get that straight, copper. I'm proty, just thinking,
• 18:34
  Speaker 10: rotten lion.
• 18:35
  Speaker 8: I want to one here, and I want to now.
• 18:38
  Speaker 10: I pretty remember why I blowed you all up, preachers.
• 18:43
  Speaker 8: Who threw that phone out?
• 18:45
  Speaker 10: I did? Do you want me to go out there
• 18:47
  Speaker 10: and take it up?
• 18:49
  Speaker 8: That's not gonna get you anyore?
• 18:50
  Speaker 17: You with a big boss around here?
• 18:52
  Speaker 10: Are you rotch?
• 18:53
  Speaker 11: I answered you, all right, big boy, I got a
• 18:55
  Speaker 11: piece of advice for you.
• 18:56
  Speaker 17: You take your rookie cops here and get it through
• 18:58
  Speaker 17: that thick head. So I mean what I say.
• 19:00
  Speaker 18: I want my brother over here in this room, and
• 19:04
  Speaker 18: you've got just eleven minutes to get it done.
• 19:07
  Speaker 17: Now you tell him that, will you?
• 19:10
  Speaker 8: All right? Connie's sure show.
• 19:24
  Speaker 12: All right?
• 19:24
  Speaker 8: We gotta work fast now, Jones, everything except for you
• 19:27
  Speaker 8: get the bucket with the water right here.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: Cars waiting down.
• 19:29
  Speaker 8: The street right ricks, and your boys ready upstairs? Waiting.
• 19:32
  Speaker 8: We all know what to do.
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: I don't need somebody to give me a hand with Connie.
• 19:34
  Speaker 8: When you falls, I'll be in there with you.
• 19:36
  Speaker 9: Friday ready to go upstairs?
• 19:37
  Speaker 14: She anytime. One thing you ought to know?
• 19:39
  Speaker 8: What's that wind's.
• 19:40
  Speaker 14: Getting stronger about twenty mile an hour out there right now.
• 19:43
  Speaker 8: Not gonna lost us out.
• 19:44
  Speaker 15: No, it's going to increase this way.
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: You gotta allow for it.
• 19:46
  Speaker 13: You mean wind's coming from the south. We'll lower you
• 19:49
  Speaker 13: just to the right of the window. If I figure right,
• 19:50
  Speaker 13: the wind will do the rest.
• 19:52
  Speaker 14: Bigger risk. But we don't control the weather.
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: How are you gonna do it?
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: Ben?
• 19:55
  Speaker 9: As soon as I get in position, I'll reach him
• 19:56
  Speaker 9: through the window on his right and i'll use the
• 19:58
  Speaker 9: billy try to catch him on the right side of
• 19:59
  Speaker 9: the head. One good hitching put.
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: Him away, make it too, and be sure all right's ready?
• 20:03
  Speaker 9: Gee, let's go.
• 20:08
  Speaker 8: What's the time, Friday?
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: Eight fifty?
• 20:10
  Speaker 15: It shouldn't take Hi more than a couple of minutes
• 20:11
  Speaker 15: for Ramera to get down to that window unless the
• 20:13
  Speaker 15: wind give him.
• 20:14
  Speaker 8: Fellow John says, no, yes, you're sticking around. I'll get Friday,
• 20:17
  Speaker 8: and that's my job. I got to keep you allowed
• 20:19
  Speaker 8: to decommission the bomb.
• 20:21
  Speaker 9: Bum joke.
• 20:21
  Speaker 8: See you downstairs ready, Lynn, Yeah, scared Friday, Yeah, nights
• 20:35
  Speaker 8: you seven, Come on.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: Lynn White and I went into the next room with
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: Vernon Kearney. Ben was going to make a try from
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: the window on Carne's right. Somehow he had to keep
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: his attention on us and away from that window. If
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: anything went wrong and Carney got out of position, the
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: planet failed. Chief Erickson didn't estimate the force of the
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: wind correctly.
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: The planet failed. I looked at my watch. It was
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: eight minutes to night.
• 20:58
  Speaker 8: Carnie. Anything we can say that'll make you change your mind.
• 21:00
  Speaker 10: I've asked you one hundred times. Now I'm ordering you.
• 21:04
  Speaker 11: They're going to get to a phone and have somebody
• 21:06
  Speaker 11: send Elward over here right now.
• 21:08
  Speaker 10: I'm through waiting. Now move you ripped the phone out
• 21:10
  Speaker 10: coming and find another one. I told you, I'm sitting
• 21:13
  Speaker 10: at two bit Stole.
• 21:14
  Speaker 8: We've got until nine o'clock to make up my mind
• 21:16
  Speaker 8: about this.
• 21:17
  Speaker 10: You had until now you wouldn't do what I told you.
• 21:20
  Speaker 10: Now I'm cutting you short.
• 21:21
  Speaker 19: You guys got exactly one minute to get a phone
• 21:23
  Speaker 19: in this room, right and hear you call it jail
• 21:25
  Speaker 19: and have him send Elwood over there.
• 21:27
  Speaker 8: You said nine, all right, Joe, we'll give him what
• 21:30
  Speaker 8: he wants.
• 21:33
  Speaker 17: David unlock and can I can go to this office.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: I get the phone room the cord rereach a minute.
• 21:42
  Speaker 8: Yeah, your brother's a president. It's not custoding. He's under
• 21:46
  Speaker 8: our protection. We can't place his life in jeopardy.
• 21:49
  Speaker 17: Way that up to l.
• 21:58
  Speaker 20: Ben Molly is living. My want Elwood Corney over here
• 22:01
  Speaker 20: at city Hall. His brother wants to see him, explain
• 22:05
  Speaker 20: the situation. If he wants to come get him over here.
• 22:08
  Speaker 20: Leave it up to him Room sixteen fourteen. You'll have
• 22:10
  Speaker 20: to use the freight of him.
• 22:11
  Speaker 10: And tell him to hurry. Yeah, tell him to hurry.
• 22:16
  Speaker 10: Oh that's the only smart thing you've done today. I
• 22:19
  Speaker 10: why don't you go next door and figure out another angle.
• 22:21
  Speaker 12: We'll wait for Elwood too.
• 22:23
  Speaker 19: You don't think I'll let you get out now, do you.
• 22:24
  Speaker 19: We're all gonna wait right here for my brother. In
• 22:26
  Speaker 19: case you don't show up, you're gonna see me pull
• 22:29
  Speaker 19: the plug. Now, shut down, not so close right where
• 22:32
  Speaker 19: you are, sit down A loud clock at.
• 22:44
  Speaker 10: Window's getting cold in that Maybe I had a closer window.
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: Turn on the heat sniper cop.
• 22:53
  Speaker 8: What's that?
• 22:54
  Speaker 10: What's going on? It's the wind cut somebody othering csp
• 22:58
  Speaker 10: this stupid tot.
• 23:00
  Speaker 9: PULLI up, Get back to your pullymar telling the pully.
• 23:06
  Speaker 17: Hold all right, you'll bet I win.
• 23:16
  Speaker 10: Your dumb coppers. You didn't think I missed a trick
• 23:18
  Speaker 10: like that.
• 23:19
  Speaker 18: Now we'll just close the windows boys one and.
• 23:24
  Speaker 8: Locked as your brother Connie, Yeah.
• 23:29
  Speaker 10: Hi, yeah, I.
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: Did it.
• 23:33
  Speaker 10: I told you. I told you I do it, didn't I.
• 23:36
  Speaker 10: That's fine enough for the rest of you. Yeah, you
• 23:40
  Speaker 10: come on over here, crazy, bring you're crazy. That's what
• 23:47
  Speaker 10: they've been trying to tell me. I'm going home now.
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: How you gonna do it?
• 23:52
  Speaker 10: There's a million tops outside. People will ever tell heard
• 23:54
  Speaker 10: about this level in the con ain't gonna stop us.
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: Now. We'll never make it, either one of you.
• 23:58
  Speaker 10: I got in this far, didn't I. We'll make ma
• 24:00
  Speaker 10: and you think we could do it?
• 24:02
  Speaker 8: Yo?
• 24:03
  Speaker 10: Yeah, they're gonna get a car ready for so fast
• 24:05
  Speaker 10: him have it in front of the building.
• 24:08
  Speaker 17: Boo.
• 24:08
  Speaker 8: All right, Friday, do what he tells you, right, hold it.
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: Yeah, if you.
• 24:12
  Speaker 10: Went back by nine o'clock, the deal still holds.
• 24:16
  Speaker 11: I told him I put him a pen at nine
• 24:17
  Speaker 11: now if they didn't let you, who like as it really.
• 24:21
  Speaker 10: Blow four miles high and would let your bullets, we'll.
• 24:24
  Speaker 18: Get out all right, Copper, get the car. You got
• 24:27
  Speaker 18: four minutes? Hey, Ben Ben, what happened is button?
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: No time to explain. Now listen, we gotta work fast. Yeah,
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: we had to bring Carne's brother over from the jail.
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: How much time we got? Less than four minutes? How
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: about the ledge? You think you can do it? Strong winds?
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: You let the hang on like a fly?
• 24:47
  Speaker 9: No, no, no, I can give it a try.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: Okay, same plan. Every second counts. Now I can't briefly
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: in he's in the room with the guy. It's up
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: to you and me. I'll get on the ledge from
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: one of these officers. How will make you if you
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: don't know? You're trying to hurry?
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: He bet?
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: Wait a minute, Yeah, I forgot the windows, the one
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: on his right he locked it to.
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: I have to crawl around with one of my left.
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: You got it, right, car I'll be ready in two
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: minutes out front.
• 25:10
  Speaker 11: Why hell, and I'll just say there way, it's gonna
• 25:14
  Speaker 11: be good being back together.
• 25:15
  Speaker 10: Well, we always are real good together. Oh that's the way, brothers.
• 25:19
  Speaker 10: How to be together all the time you learn.
• 25:22
  Speaker 9: I'd feel better with the gun.
• 25:24
  Speaker 10: We all need no gun. We got the bar.
• 25:26
  Speaker 9: Neither gunna get out to get on the road.
• 25:30
  Speaker 10: Okay, take your pick. They all got him.
• 25:32
  Speaker 17: Yo, give him you work.
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: I'm not carrying a gun. I left it in the
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: other room. The cap without a gun. Who's kidding who?
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: I left it in the other room.
• 25:41
  Speaker 10: Risk the big boy though he's got one.
• 25:43
  Speaker 9: Man.
• 25:45
  Speaker 18: It's about time for that car, isn't it. It's two
• 25:47
  Speaker 18: minutes to nine.
• 25:49
  Speaker 10: Yeah, this is I get right in his hip.
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: You'd probably the joy.
• 25:52
  Speaker 9: I got it.
• 25:52
  Speaker 17: Get the boss leave.
• 25:53
  Speaker 9: I got alone.
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: I got hi man. I gotta get his hand out
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: of it.
• 25:56
  Speaker 10: Run, don't turn the water.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: Rock in a fast elevator, sixteen floors isn't very much,
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: but I never shared an elevator with a live bomb.
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: It seemed like hours between floors. I kept watching the bucket.
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: The bomb was completely underwater. A small stream of bubbles
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: was hissing to the surface.
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: I waited main floor.
• 26:31
  Speaker 12: I picked up the.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: Bucket and land for the street. I missed the first step.
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: I fell forward. The bucket spun out of my hand.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: I sprawled flat on the sidewalk. I waited for the explosion.
• 26:46
  Speaker 9: It didn't go off, biding, Yeah, I gave it a
• 26:51
  Speaker 9: good chance.
• 26:51
  Speaker 15: Ye, it was all there. Look at least a dozen
• 26:55
  Speaker 15: sticks of dynamite. Snider, bring out over here. It's wyatt
• 27:06
  Speaker 15: didn't go off? Yah, had it rigged for a hard
• 27:09
  Speaker 15: trigger pull. Would have taken a good yank to set
• 27:12
  Speaker 15: this one off.
• 27:15
  Speaker 9: Ahi, Jill, I am ben clumsy.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: The story you have just heard was true, only the
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: names were changed to protect the innocent.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: On February fifteenth, trial was held in Superior Court Department
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: eighty seven, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: In a moment the results of that trial, Rnon Connie
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: was examined by five different psychiatrists appointed by the Superior
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: Court and found to be mentally incompetent. He is now
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: confined in the State Mental Institution for the criminally Insane. Elwood.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: Connie is now serving the balance of his sentence with
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: no time off or good behavior.
• 28:04
  Speaker 13: Next Sarah's Private Caper with comedian Sarah Berner on NBC.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Welcome Back This Outside of twenty two, Rifle for Christmas
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: was the only radio script to be reused on the
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: radio program. Obviously, many radio scripts were remade for television,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: as was this one. This was a script was originally
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: used in nineteen forty nine, and I think what we
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: get here is still a really exciting story about a
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: tent situation. If this were the only version of the
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: story we had, it would rank very high among all
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: the Dragnet episodes that were ever made. But there are
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: a couple of difference is which in my mind make
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: this not a bad episode but in inferior adaptation of
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: a good scrap. The first one is in the nineteen
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: forty nine version, Raymond Burr plays the boss, the chief
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: of detectives, and he brought some great energy and command
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: that our generic replacement just doesn't manage in this episode. Second,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: during the climactic scene, music helped carry the tension as
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Friday took the bomb down the elevator and down the stairs.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Here it's just the sound effects, and I don't think
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: it's as effective over radio. Music is a powerful tool
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: to drive emotion, and you never want to overdo it.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: And I wonder if Webb was experimenting here with how
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: minimalistic he was going to have Dragnet B because obviously
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Dragnet used tons of sound effects. We've talked about the
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: sound effects work on this series quite a bit, but
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: in many other ways, Dragnet was a bit more measured
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: in its dramatic methods for what it's worth. When the
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: series came to television, and this was done as the
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: pilot episode, the scene of Friday taking the bomb out
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: was actually musically scored for television, and Raymond Burr returned
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: and made his only Dragnet TV appearance, So perhaps Jack
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Webb decided that at the end of the day he
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: preferred the way they first presented the story. I don't
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: think it was unreasonable for them to do a script
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: preuse because keeping in mind that they didn't really do reruns,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: this episode was originally done during Dragnet's nineteen forty nine
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: summer series run and would have had a more limited
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: audience before it was picked up by NBCs, so entirely
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: makes sense to have done this and to experimented with
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: it and tried to improve upon it, even if the
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: original production was still better. Well listener comments and feedback now,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: and I've a comment on the website at Great Detectives
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: dot net from Eli Wrights. As a practicing traditional Jew,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: and a retired professor of religious studies. I was impressed
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: at the accuracy of the portrayal of the Passover Satar.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Such accuracy is not the norm in Hollywood productions. I
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: assume that the writers consulted with knowledgeable experts. There were
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: some nice touches, like Professor Kessel's remark that Hebrew law
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: requires them to feed strangers. This was a reference to
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: a passage in the Sator liturgy that let all who
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: are hungry come and eat. There seems to be a
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: hidden subtext to the plot. It was never explained why
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  Speaker 1: the culprit chose this unlikely family to victimize. There was
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: no indication that they were acquainted in any way. I
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: strongly suspect that he was operating on the antisemitic myth
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: that all Jews, even humble college professors, are rich and
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: controlled global finance. Regrettably, it is a myth that still
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: is very much alive in the pro terrorist, anti Israel
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: propaganda campaigns. Eli, thank you so much for writing in. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not an expert in Judaism, so I appreciate the
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: accuracy being confirmed, and I think your supposition as to
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: why this family was chosen for this particular crime is
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  Speaker 1: a fair one. The man may not even have had
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: any particular active grudge or heat against Jewish people, but
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: he bought into that idea and therefore assumed that a
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: well educated, professional Jewish man would have ready access to
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: a large amount of cash. Now, obviously there might be
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: some information that's not included in the episode that might
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: have shed additional light on the motive, but based on
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: what we have on the episode, I think that is
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: probably the best explanation. Eli had one more note, He writes,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: note that there is a lot of online confusion about
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: this title, since there's a different episode involving the kidnapping
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: of a child that gets mixed up with this one
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: on several sites. Well, thank you for that. And this
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: is one of the challenges with Dragnet is that you
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: have close to three hundred episodes that adopt this the
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Big this and the Big that naming scheme. But there
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: wasn't really a careful watch on reusing a name. They
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: just kind of needed a name to slap on the
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: script and there are only so many words. So there
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: are some episodes that are duplicates. For example, one is
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: there are two different Big Tries and there are two
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: different Big Trunks. Now, what I will do for clarity
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: is I will when I identify that an episode has
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: another episode of the same name, to distinguish them, I
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: will put the year in the title. So I went
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: back and I edited the title for both The Big
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Grab and The Big Watch to include the year nineteen
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: fifty because the other Big Grab was from nineteen fifty five,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: and so I will try to make that a little
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: bit clear. I think that's the only way that can
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: have that clarified, unless you know it's universally agreed upon
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: to rename the episodes, and we're just going to throw
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: in and add confusion by creating episodes that don't even exist.
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  Speaker 12: I do know.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: That there has actually been some fan agreement to rename
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: one episode that was a duplicate that we played, but
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: now is no longer a duplicate because they renamed that episode,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: So I assume good research was found for that. But
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: working with the framework we have, I will go ahead
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: and add the year anytime I become aware that there's
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: a duplicate name to distinguish it from the other. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's the best we can do for now. But thank
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: you for pointing that out and giving me an opportunity
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: to think about it. Well, now it's time to thank
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  Speaker 21: Damn, yeah, this is John Simpson.
• 36:49
  Speaker 8: I took a chance you.
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: Might be in you or I was just coming back
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: out there.
• 36:53
  Speaker 21: This is John Simpson. I took a chance you might
• 36:56
  Speaker 21: be in your office.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah yeah, yeah, you said that.
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  Speaker 21: I'd like you to pick up something for sure. It's
• 37:01
  Speaker 21: a package. It's at a bar on fifty seventh Street,
• 37:05
  Speaker 21: the Blue Pheasant.
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  Speaker 11: Hell mister, yeah, bellow, I'd like you to think jumping
• 37:13
  Speaker 11: up for me.
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  Speaker 8: I'm just trying to do the same for myself.
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  Speaker 10: I'd like you to go.
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  Speaker 13: To nine nifty five each one hundred and eighth Street.
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  Speaker 10: And pick up.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a dollar.
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  Speaker 21: Big package for me.
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  Speaker 8: Bring it right out.
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