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The Adventures of Philip Marlowe - "The Final Payment (AFRTS)" (1950) · Old Time Mystery Radio | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: A condemned prisoner asks Philip Marlowe to recover stolen jewels
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  Speaker 1: before the execution date arrives. That request carries Marlowe from
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  Speaker 1: a state penitentiary to the Los Angeles waterfront, where former associates,
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  Speaker 1: a warehouse lead, and San Pedro docks become part of
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  Speaker 1: the search. Gerald Moore stars as Raymond Chandler's private detective
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  Speaker 1: in CBS's The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, episode 101, The
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  Speaker 1: Final Payment, first broadcast September 15th, 1950. The script is
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  Speaker 1: credited to Gene Levitt and Robert Mitchell, with Norman MacDonald directing.
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  Speaker 1: And now, the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road.
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  Speaker 2: Those who travel it wind up in the gutter of
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  Speaker 2: the prison of the grave. There's no other end. But
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  Speaker 2: they never learn.
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  Speaker 3: From the pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of crime fiction,
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  Speaker 3: comes his most famous character in The Adventures of Philip Marlowe. Now,
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  Speaker 3: with Gerald Moore, starred as Philip Marlowe, we bring you
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  Speaker 3: tonight's exciting story, The Final Payment.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, yes, sir. I'm Philip Marlowe. Warden Riker said he'd
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  Speaker 2: see me at noon. Oh, yes, Mr. Marlowe.
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  Speaker 4: The warden will be with you in just a minute.
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  Speaker 2: Excuse me, sir.
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  Speaker 5: Warden's office, Sergeant Kennedy speaking.
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  Speaker 6: Who?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, the L.A.
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  Speaker 1: Tribune.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Venera's execution? Okay, hold on. I got the dope here
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  Speaker 5: on my desk someplace. Excuse me, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Marlowe.
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  Speaker 5: It'll be just a minute.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Press gets hungry for the gory details about now. This
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  Speaker 5: is third call this morning. Have a seat there.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, here it is.
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  Speaker 7: Office of the Warden, State Penitentiary, 10 a.m., September 8, 1950.
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  Speaker 5: Subject, press release, paragraph one.
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  Speaker 7: William Arthur Sinero, 24, tried and convicted of the robbery-murder
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  Speaker 7: of Emile Negrotto, Bakers Beach, California, last August 5, is
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  Speaker 7: scheduled to be executed in a manner prescribed by law
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  Speaker 7: at 11 o'clock post-meridian this date.
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  Speaker 5: At this time, no stay of execution is anticipated. Signed,
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  Speaker 5: Stanley M. Riker Warden.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. Huh?
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  Speaker 5: No, you can't talk to the warden. That's why we
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  Speaker 5: go through all this press release junk. Yeah, well, we
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  Speaker 5: got our problems, too, you know.
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  Speaker 6: Goodbye.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, Mr. Marlowe.
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  Speaker 5: Now, uh, your appointment with the warden, what was it
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  Speaker 5: about again?
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  Speaker 2: William Arthur Sinero, 24. I'm a friend of his. Oh.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yes, yes, of course.
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  Speaker 4: I forgot to, uh, Well, I hope I haven't offended Mr. Marlowe.
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  Speaker 2: That is.
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  Speaker 6: I'll tell the warden you're here, sir.
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  Speaker 2: I knew I didn't have too much right to be
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  Speaker 2: mad at one Sergeant Kennedy. But today it didn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: Because I was mad at the whole world, and in
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  Speaker 2: particular what it had done to her. It used to
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  Speaker 2: be a nice kid named Billy Sinero. And when I
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  Speaker 2: stood in Warden Riker's far-from-drab prison office and waited while
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  Speaker 2: a dapper man in gleaming hickok cufflinks and soft gray
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  Speaker 2: gabardine got through talking to his wife... In syrups, sticky tones.
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  Speaker 2: Began to get mad at him, too. That drained out
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  Speaker 2: of me fast because when he hung up, he scraped
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  Speaker 2: the goo off his voice quickly. Shook hands like he
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  Speaker 2: meant it and told Kennedy we weren't to be disturbed.
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  Speaker 2: When he spoke of scenario, a lot of sympathy crawled
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  Speaker 2: in between the words. Even when he came to the point.
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  Speaker 4: It's the breach of regulations for a condemned man to
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  Speaker 4: have any visitor other than the prison chaplain on the
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  Speaker 4: day of his execution, Mr. Marlowe.
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  Speaker 2: So first of all, just how well do you know Snero? Well,
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  Speaker 2: he sold papers on the corner near my office as
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  Speaker 2: a kid. We swapped gags twice a day.
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  Speaker 4: And when his father died and he quit selling papers?
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  Speaker 2: I never saw him again until a year ago when
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  Speaker 2: he got over-involved with some tin horn gamblers. I managed
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  Speaker 2: to set him free.
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  Speaker 4: As a private detective?
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  Speaker 2: As a big brother. Went to work at a San
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  Speaker 2: Pedro boatyard after that. I haven't seen him since.
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  Speaker 4: And then you have no idea why he's asked to
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  Speaker 4: talk to you today?
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't. Do you, Warden? Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Marlowe, do you recall the details in this case?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, more or less. Let's see, an old man named
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  Speaker 2: Emil Negrado and his wife were robbed of 100,000 bucks
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  Speaker 2: worth of uninsured jewels at their summer place at... Bakersby. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's it, yeah. And Emil Negrado was killed when he
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  Speaker 2: tried to interfere. Sonero was tied back to it by
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  Speaker 2: a single fingerprint and later identified by Mrs. Negrado. I
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  Speaker 2: believe she thought there were two more, huh?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, but Sonero denied this. Also, Mr. Marlowe, you may
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  Speaker 4: recall that the jewels were never recovered.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 4: Cenaro said they were lost at sea when the boat
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  Speaker 4: he fled in hit rough water on the way back
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  Speaker 4: to San Pedro. Now, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Marlowe, do I.
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  Speaker 4: Begin to answer the question I just ignored? The jewels,
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  Speaker 4: I mean? Cenaro may want to tell you that they
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  Speaker 4: weren't lost after all. He may want to tell you
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  Speaker 4: where they are. He may want you to do something
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  Speaker 4: about them.
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  Speaker 2: Sort of last will and testament, is that it? From
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  Speaker 2: his point of view, yes. And from mine?
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  Speaker 4: A very lucrative offer. Perhaps 50%, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Marlowe. Why not 100%, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Warden?
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  Speaker 2: Don't be a piker. I could always cross him up,
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  Speaker 2: you know. Anything else? Or were you just letting me
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  Speaker 2: know why the state is allowing this visit? I was
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  Speaker 2: just letting you know what the state knows, Mr. Marlowe. Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 2: I know a little more.
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  Speaker 4: I know that Billy Sinero is through as a criminal.
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  Speaker 2: In his heart.
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  Speaker 4: Not just because he's behind bars with worse to come.
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  Speaker 4: He's ready to die, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Marlowe.
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  Speaker 4: Almost anxious.
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  Speaker 2: Well, then why the session? Why all the statistics? Why
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  Speaker 2: the invitation for me to play informer?
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  Speaker 4: For two reasons.
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  Speaker 2: First, I may be wrong about the boy completely. Thus,
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  Speaker 2: his repentance is a fake. Which you don't believe. No.
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  Speaker 2: What's the other reason? Look, Marlowe, if anything goes wrong,
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  Speaker 2: you came in here as an informer. That's official. And unofficially,
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  Speaker 2: I want to.
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  Speaker 4: Give the boy a break. Zanaro asked to get you
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  Speaker 4: because he wanted to talk to the only person in
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  Speaker 4: the world he thought he could trust. And right now,
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  Speaker 4: I think he has every right to just such a talk,
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  Speaker 4: whatever it's about. I only wanted to be sure he
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  Speaker 4: talked to the correct party, that's all. Sergeant Kennedy will
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  Speaker 4: show you the way, Mr. Marlowe, to Zanaro's cell.
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  Speaker 2: I was a bit confused. Riker seemed anxious to help
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  Speaker 2: Sonero over some rough hours, and yet at the same
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  Speaker 2: time he was shrewd. In no time he'd work me
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  Speaker 2: around to where I'd be the fastest, most courteous informer
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  Speaker 2: on record if Sonero was a fake. I thought. But
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  Speaker 2: I thought otherwise when I was alone with Sonero. I
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  Speaker 2: knew that the Negrotto jewels did still exist.
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  Speaker 6: Mr. Marlowe, why are you looking at me that way?
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  Speaker 6: To understand what I'm asking, don't you see?
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  Speaker 2: Now, wait a minute. Take it easy, Billy. A step
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  Speaker 2: at a time. Now, you say that the jewels never
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  Speaker 2: went overboard.
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  Speaker 6: No, I never even saw them. That was a cotton
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  Speaker 6: bowl store.
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  Speaker 2: And yet you want me to get them to get
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  Speaker 2: the jewels and return them to Mrs. Emil Negrado. Is
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  Speaker 2: that right?
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 9: And this is Negrado, the woman who identified me.
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  Speaker 6: The widow of the man I killed. Look, Mr. Marlowe,
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  Speaker 6: sit down here on the cot and listen.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Where's the beginning, Billy?
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  Speaker 6: Last August 5th.
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  Speaker 9: It was me and the other two, a big red-headed
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  Speaker 9: louse named Jessie Tapp and a girl named Gloria.
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  Speaker 6: Gloria Konkowski, a blonde with a little scar on the
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  Speaker 6: bridge of her nose.
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  Speaker 9: Jessie's girl, strictly flashy. We took my boat. It's a
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  Speaker 9: fishing smack, the Lovelady. We sailed from San Pedro over
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  Speaker 9: to Baker's Beach. I was the one who shot him, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Mono. And the jewels?
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  Speaker 6: They were in the leather bag. Jessie had them.
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  Speaker 9: But after the shot, we split up fast and ran.
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  Speaker 9: I hid until the next morning, then shoved off in
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  Speaker 9: the Lovelady... I don't know about the others.
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  Speaker 6: I was picked up that afternoon. The rest you know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not so sure. At your trial, you swore that.
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  Speaker 6: That I was alone and the jewels went overboard. Well,
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  Speaker 6: at first I thought that I might get off, so
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  Speaker 6: I had to clam up. But then I... Then everything changed.
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  Speaker 2: The verdict, huh?
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  Speaker 6: No. An old woman whose husband I killed.
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  Speaker 2: See what you mean. But you still didn't tell the
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  Speaker 2: authorities who the others were.
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  Speaker 6: No, and I won't today.
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  Speaker 9: Both Jesse Tapp and that blonde can smell a cop
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  Speaker 9: a mile away. They'd only run and take the jewels
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  Speaker 9: with them. The law would louse it up.
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  Speaker 6: I want the jewels back to.
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  Speaker 3: The little old lady.
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  Speaker 2: I always liked you, Billy.
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  Speaker 6: I know how you work, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Marlowe.
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  Speaker 6: I've got enough for you to start on. It only
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  Speaker 6: came yesterday.
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  Speaker 9: That's why this last-minute rush, you might say.
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  Speaker 2: Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Marlowe, I know where Jesse Tapp is. That also means
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  Speaker 6: Glory isn't far away.
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  Speaker 2: From where?
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  Speaker 6: San Pedro, down near the dock.
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  Speaker 4: Now, look.
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  Speaker 9: There's a tough old guy who runs a dry dock
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  Speaker 9: and repair lash up for small boats, name of Jomo.
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  Speaker 9: I worked for him a year ago. I also left
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  Speaker 9: him the love lady. He spotted Tap, had his eyes
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  Speaker 9: open for months for me, no questions asked. He was
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  Speaker 9: here to see me yesterday. He's out to find where
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  Speaker 9: Tap hangs out now.
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  Speaker 6: He's the one you see.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but wait a minute. What makes you think Jesse
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  Speaker 2: Tap still has the jewel?
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  Speaker 9: Because I saw him take him and run, and he's
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  Speaker 9: still hanging around San Pedro. Maybe he hit him where
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  Speaker 9: he can't get to, or maybe he doesn't want to
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  Speaker 9: get to him until he's contacted the right fence.
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  Speaker 6: Anyway, Mr. Mallow, the chance I'd like you to take
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  Speaker 6: for me.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, I....
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  Speaker 6: I can't talk about your fee.
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  Speaker 2: Look, kid, don't you think we ought to talk... Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Marlowe, I've done nothing but think.
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  Speaker 9: This is the only way it can possibly work.
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  Speaker 6: The only way it can help me and... Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Negretto both. Well?
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  Speaker 6: Will you try it? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I guess so, Billy.
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  Speaker 6: One last thing, Mr. Marlowe. If you make it by.
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  Speaker 9: Before 11 tonight, Get the word to me, will you?
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  Speaker 9: And if you don't make it, or it looks like
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  Speaker 9: you're not going to, don't lie.
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  Speaker 6: Okay?
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Time's up, Mr. Marlowe. Sorry, scenario. It's all right, Kennedy.
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  Speaker 6: Don't mention it. So long, Mr. Marlowe.
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  Speaker 2: Goodbye, Billy. It took five minutes for me to walk
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  Speaker 2: back to the warden's office and five more to lie
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  Speaker 2: to him about what scenario it wanted of me. And
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  Speaker 2: another ten to get outside and head toward my parked car.
• 11:02
  Speaker 2: I was thinking about what the condemned man had told
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  Speaker 2: me when I suddenly realized I was in the middle
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  Speaker 2: of a busy street and right smack in the path
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  Speaker 2: of a speeding car. What's the matter with you?
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  Speaker 10: What is that?
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  Speaker 5: Hey, mister.
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  Speaker 6: Mister, you all right?
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  Speaker 5: Holy... You okay?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm okay. I'm okay. Much obliged. I'll try
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  Speaker 2: to remember to look where I'm going next time.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, these jerks figure every street's an Indianapolis speedway.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, another thing.
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  Speaker 5: That geezer didn't stop either.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 8: But if you're interested, I got a squint at him before.
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  Speaker 8: I was in that corner drugstore after a Coke, and
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  Speaker 8: while I was waiting, I happened to see this guy
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  Speaker 8: stand outside his car.
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  Speaker 5: Then all of a sudden, he got in and took off.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, wait a minute. You mean he got
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  Speaker 2: all that speed up just from the end of the street?
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  Speaker 2: Tell me, friend, what did he look like?
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  Speaker 6: He was tiny.
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  Speaker 8: Tiny like your pinky finger. And elevating shoes on. Plus
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  Speaker 8: the fact he needed a shave.
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  Speaker 6: Say, you don't think it was purposeful, do you? Not
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  Speaker 6: an accident, I mean.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. But either way, I'm much obliged to you, friend. Bye-bye.
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  Speaker 2: I made a mental note about the small man with
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  Speaker 2: big heels and a beard and let it go at
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  Speaker 2: that time. And I took one last look at the prison.
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  Speaker 2: Made me want to drive the 300 miles to San
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  Speaker 2: Pedro fast. It was some hazy place between late twilight
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  Speaker 2: and early evening fog when I located Jomo and his
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  Speaker 2: water's edge dry dock in a repair shop and told
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  Speaker 2: him who I was.
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  Speaker 6: I was fond of that scenario all my life. I'm
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  Speaker 6: glad I can help him some way.
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  Speaker 4: That boat here was his, you know.
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  Speaker 2: The love lady.
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  Speaker 6: Putting her back in the water tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Eh, love lady. That might be what he needed to
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  Speaker 2: keep him out of trouble, isn't it? Hard to say, Jomo.
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  Speaker 2: But look, I don't have much time. Do you know
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  Speaker 2: where I can get next to this Jesse Tapper?
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  Speaker 11: I followed him just this morning from a bar on
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  Speaker 11: Third Street. He's hiding out in a warehouse on Lookout
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  Speaker 11: Hill Road. It's shut down now. It won't open up
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  Speaker 11: again until.
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  Speaker 2: Hold it, Jomo. That noise that came from out here....
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  Speaker 5: Is someone there, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Marlowe?
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  Speaker 2: No. No, not anymore, there isn't.
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  Speaker 5: And there probably wasn't.
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  Speaker 6: I got me a clumsy little cat, Marlowe.
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  Speaker 2: Always falling over. Jomo, you said Lookout Hill Road, right? Aye.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, this is only a block long, the highest point
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  Speaker 11: in town. You just head straight up King Street to
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  Speaker 11: the top. You can't miss the warehouse.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks. Uh, Jomo. You have no idea what this is
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  Speaker 2: all about, huh?
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  Speaker 11: Well, I wouldn't say that, Marlowe. But you see, I
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  Speaker 11: don't let myself think of some things too much. I
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  Speaker 11: keep my mind on boats more than people. Easier to understand.
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  Speaker 11: Easier to repair, too.
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  Speaker 4: Good luck, Marlowe.
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  Speaker 12: Here now is the second act of The Adventures of
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  Speaker 12: Philip Marlowe.
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  Speaker 2: I was less than ten minutes finding the deserted warehouse
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  Speaker 2: which ran through the farm. Rust and every other window broken.
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  Speaker 2: When I was out of my car and moving around
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  Speaker 2: toward a side entrance, I saw something else. It was
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  Speaker 2: a girl, tall and blonde, standing in the deep shadow
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  Speaker 2: of a fit shampoo billboard. When I started for her,
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  Speaker 2: she threw one scared look my way, then scrambled into
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  Speaker 2: her pocket for a key. I made it just as
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: she got it out and it was a door lock.
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  Speaker 2: Let's not be hasty, honey.
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  Speaker 10: Get your dirty mitts off.
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  Speaker 2: When you stop kicking, I will. Not before, sweetheart. Not before, Gloria.
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  Speaker 10: How do you know the name, Dada?
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  Speaker 2: That cute little scar on the bridge of your nose.
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  Speaker 2: You should have ducked, kid. Not that it doesn't add character.
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  Speaker 10: I'll go soak your head. I don't know you.
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  Speaker 2: You should. Jesse does.
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  Speaker 10: Who are you anyway?
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  Speaker 2: Name's Marlowe. Here to see your boyfriend tap her schedule.
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  Speaker 2: It's a business appointment, Gloria.
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  Speaker 5: Business?
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  Speaker 11: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 10: Fence, huh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, fence, huh? Now do we go up or throw
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: pebbles at the window until Jesse comes out? Which?
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  Speaker 10: We go up, now that I know who you are.
• 15:12
  Speaker 10: You know, Jesse didn't mention you coming.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I like about working with Jesse. Which way?
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  Speaker 10: Up these stairs. Kind of nice setup we got here, huh?
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Sweet of the owners to let you have
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  Speaker 2: a key.
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  Speaker 10: Well, it wasn't exactly that way. Jesse had to.
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  Speaker 2: Change the lock, yeah. Is that the door? One Mark President? Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 10: Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Tapp's very own.
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  Speaker 10: Imagine Jesse as an executive.
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  Speaker 2: Funny. Hey, Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Head of the Firm, you got callers. Jesse! They're just
• 15:42
  Speaker 10: probably asleep. That's the way I figure, to sleep in
• 15:48
  Speaker 10: a swivel chair.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: Hey, Mr.
• 15:50
  Speaker 13: President, you got company. Hey, Jesse, come on, wake up.
• 15:55
  Speaker 13: There's a guy here who wants.
• 16:04
  Speaker 6: What's wrong?
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: So much to fix, honey. Head of the firm, Jesse,
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: has been shot to death. No business as usual today. Dead.
• 16:14
  Speaker 10: How do you like that?
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: Not much. Maybe it's you I do business with, huh?
• 16:20
  Speaker 10: What are you talking about?
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: Now, look, I never liked to get into money matters
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: with dames, but now I'm stuck. So let's get to work,
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: you and me. Where are they, Gloria?
• 16:27
  Speaker 10: Where are what?
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: Come on, you coy little jerk. The Stones. Nagrato Stones.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: I want to see them.
• 16:31
  Speaker 10: I don't know where they are. He would never tell me.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: Don't lie. You were his girl.
• 16:34
  Speaker 13: Ever since I met that guy, I've been living on
• 16:37
  Speaker 13: double-talking slaps in the mouth. I spent my nights dodging
• 16:40
  Speaker 13: my own shadow.
• 16:41
  Speaker 10: I'm glad it's over.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: Why'd you stick?
• 16:43
  Speaker 10: Because of them Stones. I knew I had them hid someplace.
• 16:45
  Speaker 10: Figured maybe they'd get us.
• 16:46
  Speaker 13: Away from here after all. He kept saying he had
• 16:49
  Speaker 13: to wait until the time was right.
• 16:50
  Speaker 10: That's all he'd ever say. Even to me, his girl.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: You know, with that talent, you ought to be in pictures, kid.
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 16:57
  Speaker 10: Believe me, mister. I learned the hard way not to
• 16:59
  Speaker 10: try to pin Jesse's hat down. You do whatever you want.
• 17:02
  Speaker 10: I'm getting out of here. Before the action.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: Just a minute.
• 17:05
  Speaker 14: What?
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: Somebody did this, baby.
• 17:07
  Speaker 10: I can name 20 who've been tickled, kid.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I took a lot of chances setting up
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: this deal to move those Negrado jewels. I wouldn't want
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: to be edged out now by cheap competition like a
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: squirt and built up heels.
• 17:16
  Speaker 10: What's that?
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: Nothing. A swing in the dark. Excuse me.
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 17:21
  Speaker 10: Now you excuse me. He's strictly your problem, sucker.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: I stood and watched her as she walked away. I
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: didn't know just what my next move should be, but
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: then it hit me. Whoever had killed Jessie Tapp would
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: go for her next. So when she hailed a cab
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: at the foot of the hill, I ran to my
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: car and I started after her. But by the time
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: I got turned around, a switch engine playing shuffleboard with
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: a string of boxcars cut in between us. When that
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: was over, Gloria was gone. I spent the next hour
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: and a half raking the neon-lighted muck along the docks
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: looking for her with no success. Until finally in a
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: rancid backwash called the reef, I got a break, but
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: from another direction. The same unshaven little man with high
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: heels who tried earlier to run me down was at
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: the bar, blinking back the sting of a straight shot.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: I watched while I picked up a handful of small
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: change from the bartender, and when he pranced toward a
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: phone in the hallway at the rear, I followed him.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: It was too good to be a coincidence. Yeah, that's right, Alfredo.
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: San Diego.
• 18:27
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Christine Fuller, right.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: How much? Okay. Hello?
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: Hello, Christine?
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: Hiya, baby.
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: This is Frank.
• 18:46
  Speaker 10: Hey, listen, honey, I got it all set up.
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm going right now, right away, yeah.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: It's dark now and everything's ready.
• 18:52
  Speaker 14: I said everything, didn't I? I'll have them in an
• 18:55
  Speaker 14: hour and be out of here. Well, just be a
• 18:59
  Speaker 14: good girl till I get there, understand?
• 19:02
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I'll see you before morning.
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: Oh, your little clits wouldn't let you down, you know that.
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: Goodbye, baby.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Hello, little Fritz. You come back here!
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: Hey, what is this?
• 19:14
  Speaker 10: Who are you?
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: The guy you tried to run over this afternoon. Hey, now, listen, Slim.
• 19:18
  Speaker 14: There must be some mistake here.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: There is, and you just made it when you knocked
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: off Jesse Tapp. And now that I got you, little Fritz,
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: I'm going to shake you up and down until a
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: lot of answers or a lot of teeth start dropping
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: out of you. Now, make up your mind.
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: What's it going to be?
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Come on!
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: No, leave me alone.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Stop. What's going on? Run along, Buster. It's private.
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah?
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: Try to fake luck like you're picking on a little
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: guy like him, you'll be shying.
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: Hey, don't you believe in the brotherhood of man?
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but this weasel don't qualify in upload.
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: He told me, fellas, he was going to rob me. Oh,
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: he was, was he? Put him down here.
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: Come on, come on. Turn loose, you big bully.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Okay, you jerk. Come on. Joe!
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: Come on, get up!
• 19:51
  Speaker 10: Oh, nuts, he's all cold.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Let's throw him out in the alley. Come on. Hey,
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: where'd the little guy go? Hey, he baited.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: Oh, you'd think he'd stick around long enough to buy
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: us a drink.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Judging from the way my face felt, the two long
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: showmen must have Oh, I had barnacles on their fists.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: In the five minutes it took me to climb back
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: on my feet, I thought some very unpleasant things about
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: the brotherhood of man, both fore and aft. But I
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: dropped them when I remembered the time was running out
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: fast for my client. I still hadn't got beyond the
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: loose ends I'd started with. Tap's girlfriend, Gloria, and little Fritz.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: It was a hunch that took me up the hill
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: of the old retired warehouse again. I parked a block
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: away and started toward it on foot when the glow
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: from a lonely cigarette said that it wasn't quite as
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: deserted as it should have been. The cigarette belonged to
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: a woman who was someplace under a lot of makeup.
• 21:26
  Speaker 10: Well, interesting evening.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: You asking me or telling me?
• 21:31
  Speaker 10: Well, either it is, it has been, or it could be.
• 21:33
  Speaker 10: Take your pick. You look like a black boy.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Hey.
• 21:38
  Speaker 15: You look like you fell into a meat grinder.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: No, no. Just a philosophical discussion. Oh.
• 21:46
  Speaker 10: Nice view from here.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Not too bad.
• 21:48
  Speaker 15: A girl like me needs a view once in a while.
• 21:50
  Speaker 15: Keeps the past from crying the future. You can see
• 21:53
  Speaker 15: the whole waterfront from here without smelling it.
• 21:56
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: That's great, huh? Now look, you haven't seen anybody hanging
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: around here in the last few minutes, have you?
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: No kidding?
• 22:04
  Speaker 15: Nobody hangs around this old dump. First time I've been
• 22:07
  Speaker 15: up here in a month. Nobody's hung around here since...
• 22:10
  Speaker 15: Since old Tom died.
• 22:13
  Speaker 10: Used to be the night watchman. And it was a
• 22:16
  Speaker 10: lot of laughs for you, old Tom. He had that
• 22:19
  Speaker 10: upstairs room. That one up there. And he's the time
• 22:22
  Speaker 10: I've been.
• 22:24
  Speaker 10: Hey, that's queer. That's real queer.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Look. What? Oh, a telescope. Mounted on the windowsill.
• 22:33
  Speaker 15: Yeah, well, Tom never had a thing like that.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Who do you suppose put it there? I know who, honey.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: My question is why. Telescope.
• 22:40
  Speaker 15: Well, it seems to be pointed down there toward the
• 22:42
  Speaker 15: small boat anchorage.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Where a certain boat was in for paint and repairs.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Tap could watch every step from here when the job
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: was done. Holy smoke, it could be. Thanks, baby. You've
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: been a big help. Sure.
• 22:57
  Speaker 10: All things to all men.
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: Have fun, sonny.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: My client's boat was a long shot, but it was
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: the only bet I had. And it stayed a long
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: shot all the way down to Jomo's dock. There the
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: odds began to drop fast, weaving money, when I heard
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: the motor running and found the door to Jomo's boathouse
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: half open. It became odds on when I eased inside
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: and stumbled over Jomo himself, stretched out unconscious on greasy
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: planks like a beach bull whale. I stepped over him,
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: got my. 38 in hand, and edged out along the
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: catwalk to the open dock where the boat scraped restlessly
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: against the fenders. There were no lights except for a
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: tiny spot, no bigger than the hole in the candy
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: lifesaver that probed frantically along the seams inside the cabin.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: It was little Fritz with a shielded flashlight, intent on
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: finding something fast. I stepped into the boat, deliberately kicked
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: over an oil can and crouched. The light went out. Who?
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: Who's there?
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: Somebody out there?
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Well, speak up. Throw your gun over the side and
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: stand real still. Do it now, little man.
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: Or I'll blow you in two.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: Hold on, wait. Now, who are you? Me, Fritz E.
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: Marlow.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: So Tap hid the stones right here on Bill Sinero's boat, huh?
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right. They're still here.
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: Fortune.
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: Hey, look, fella, if we play.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: It smart, it's time for both. I want a few
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: things straight first. Correct me if I'm wrong. Tap hid
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: the jewels aboard here after the robbery without Sinero's knowledge.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: After Sinero was caught, he gave the boat to Jomo,
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: who kept it locked up inside there. Which meant that
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Tap had to wait until Jomo had finished his repairs
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: before he could get back the stones again, huh? That's right.
• 24:39
  Speaker 14: They were too hot to handle anyway. They had to
• 24:42
  Speaker 14: be hid someplace. They were safe here, so I stole
• 24:45
  Speaker 14: up another flush. What else do you want to know?
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Are you going to explain to your little sugar in
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: San Diego that Christine fully accrued to the night when
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: you don't show up for a few years?
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: Mama, we can do business.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: And another thing. How'd you get into this act in
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: the first place?
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: I got ways, Mike. A couple of friends on the inside.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: Oh, I figured. One of them must be on the
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: inside of a state pen. That's how come you're hooked
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: on to me so fast with that car.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: Who is it?
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: A guard named Kennedy. He's a pig, a cut-rate chum.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: The other friend?
• 25:16
  Speaker 10: He's behind you with a gun.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: Oh, fine.
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: All right, smart baby.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: I'll take your gun now, Mr.
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: Marlowe.
• 25:23
  Speaker 10: Stop it.
• 25:25
  Speaker 15: Put it away, Fitz.
• 25:27
  Speaker 10: You find the stone?
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: Not yet, but it won't be long now, sugar.
• 25:30
  Speaker 10: Marlowe, get in that cabin and run this boat. We're
• 25:32
  Speaker 10: going out. Go on, move.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Oh, no, wait a minute, baby.
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: We don't know anything about books.
• 25:36
  Speaker 10: We're not taking any more chances here. Untie that rope
• 25:39
  Speaker 10: at the back, Chris.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: That's called cast off the stern line.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: Shut up!
• 25:43
  Speaker 10: Get inside, Marlowe.
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: Go on.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Sure, sure. Well, Skipper, where to?
• 25:51
  Speaker 10: Just head for that open part out there. Hey, it's
• 25:53
  Speaker 10: gonna be rough. Well, that's warm out of.
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: House, baby.
• 25:56
  Speaker 10: We've been through plenty together, huh?
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like putting Jesse Tapp out of the way for
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: a starter.
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: Sure, when he asked for it. He was a pushover
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: for Gloria here.
• 26:03
  Speaker 9: Why, you.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: So it was little Gloria who killed him, eh?
• 26:07
  Speaker 10: All right, so it was me.
• 26:08
  Speaker 13: Chris called me up and warned me you were coming
• 26:10
  Speaker 13: here to see Joe, and I overheard you when you.
• 26:12
  Speaker 10: Talked to Jomo.
• 26:13
  Speaker 13: I knew you'd get to Jesse and make him spill,
• 26:15
  Speaker 13: so I killed him. It's going to have to be
• 26:17
  Speaker 13: done sooner or later anyway.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: The old double cross.
• 26:19
  Speaker 10: Yeah, the old double cross. So what?
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: That's a game the smart ones always play with the suckers.
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: Always win.
• 26:25
  Speaker 10: Not always, Fritz.
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: Oh, often enough to make a.
• 26:29
  Speaker 10: What?
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: Glory.
• 26:31
  Speaker 10: Glory, what?
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, no. Glory!
• 26:33
  Speaker 10: No, no, no, no, no, no. Keep your hands on
• 26:36
  Speaker 10: that wheel, Marlowe. I heard Marlowe's crack about that Christine Fuller, Fritz.
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: You louse.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Glory. Glory.
• 26:46
  Speaker 10: Straight ahead, Marlowe.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: Now what, baby? Still got me to worry about?
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: Not too bad.
• 26:51
  Speaker 10: You're a nice guy. Where are we?
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Well, the channel's way over there where that buoy is.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: That means that a big rock pile called the breakwater
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: is right off our starboard bow. If I don't turn,
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: we'll hit it and I'm not.
• 27:04
  Speaker 12: Those rocks, Marlowe!
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: Feeling better now, Mr.
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: Marlowe?
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Thanks, Lieutenant. That water was awful cold.
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: You said it.
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: Have another cup of Coast Guard mud.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Do you good. Oh, thanks. Look, I was wondering if.
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: If we located the girl you told us about?
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: She wasn't as lucky as you were. However, your boat
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: hung up on the rocks. The boys found all that
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: jewelry in the cabin. In this leather bag here. Well,
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: we'll be in in a couple of minutes.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Good. Good. I'll just have time to call a young
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: guy and tell him he can close out his books.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: They balance now. He's paid up in full. When I
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: got through to Warden Riker, told him all that had happened,
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: and gave him the message for Billy Sinero, he thanked
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: me and said, the kid was facing 11 o'clock like
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: someone who, who had the weight of the world lifted
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: off his back. A back that should have been part
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: of a football team. A back that should be tanned
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: from the sun at the beach. A back whose arms
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: should be around a lovely girl. A back melting prayer
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: for a better world. A back....
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: A back with the electric chair.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, bringing you Raymond Chandler's most
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: famous character, star Gerald Moore, are produced and directed by
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: Norman MacDonald and written for radio by Robert Mitchell and
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: Gene Levitt. Featured in the cast were Wally Mayer, Bill Johnstone,
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: David Ellis, Tom Holland, Larry Dobkin, Doris Singleton, Lou Krugman,
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: and Michael Ann Barrett. The special music is composed and
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: conducted by Richard Arant.
• 29:32
  Speaker 16: The Adventures of Philip Marlowe. Dynamic, action-packed tales portraying Raymond
• 29:37
  Speaker 16: Chandler's most famous character as America's foremost private investigator. Produced
• 29:42
  Speaker 16: in Hollywood, The Adventures of Philip Marlowe is brought to
• 29:45
  Speaker 16: you each week at this same time through the facilities
• 29:47
  Speaker 16: of the United States Armed Forces Radio Service, the voice
• 29:51
  Speaker 16: of information and education.
• 30:04
  Speaker 13: THE END.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: The Adventures of Philip Marlowe has concluded with The Final Payment.
• 30:44
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• 30:48
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