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  Speaker 1: At Cathedral's Rock on the northern Maine coast, David Morgan
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  Speaker 1: has recovered his wife's body after her fatal fall onto
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  Speaker 1: the spires below. Weeks later, evidence within the Morgan household
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: suggests that she may have returned, and a box holding $ 100, 000
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  Speaker 1: has disappeared. From November 6th, 1950, this is Inner Sanctum Mysteries,
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  Speaker 1: Twice Dead, the ninth episode of the series ABC Seasons
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  Speaker 1: sponsored by Mars Candy Bars. Larry Haynes, Amzie Strickland, and
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  Speaker 1: Santos Ortega are heard in a production directed and produced
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  Speaker 1: by Hyman Brown. Paul McGrath is your host. And now,
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  Speaker 1: we return to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Another hair-raising drama on Inner Sanctum in just 40 seconds.
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  Speaker 2: Stay tuned. There's a special kind of enjoyment in facing
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  Speaker 2: our problems when they're presented interestingly and dramatically. This accounts
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  Speaker 2: for the success of ABC's daytime series, Modern Romances, which
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  Speaker 2: approaches everyday problems with an open mind. Modern, that's the
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  Speaker 2: keynote of these dramatizations. These are the problems that beset
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  Speaker 2: human beings every day, every year. And they are the
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  Speaker 2: fascinating themes of modern romances presented every weekday from the
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  Speaker 2: pages of Modern Romances magazine. Join us, won't you, tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: morning for another Modern Romances on ABC. Inner Sanctum Mysteries
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  Speaker 2: Brought to you by the American Broadcasting Company. Tonight, Twice Dead,
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  Speaker 2: starring Larry Haynes. Good evening, friends of the creaking door.
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  Speaker 2: This is your host to welcome you again into the
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  Speaker 2: inner sanctum.
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  Speaker 3: Come in.
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  Speaker 2: Come on in, please, and will you excuse me while
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  Speaker 2: I scrape the mud off my hands? Got them dirty
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  Speaker 2: in the cemetery, digging up a plot for you. But
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  Speaker 2: that's something that we'll all go into, sooner or later.
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  Speaker 4: A plot?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, by the way, before we start, I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: reassure you, if you suddenly find yourself spinning like a wheel,
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  Speaker 2: don't be alarmed. It's because you've got spooks all around you. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: and please be considerate, folks. If you find yourself going
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  Speaker 2: to pieces, pull yourself together. Remember, I have to sweep
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  Speaker 2: up afterwards. On the northern coast of Maine, there's a
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  Speaker 2: high point of land... a high point from which there's
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  Speaker 2: a sheer drop of several hundred feet to the rock
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  Speaker 2: churned surf below. Centuries of seas have shaped three tall
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  Speaker 2: spire-like rocks into needle-sharp points which look from the sea
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  Speaker 2: like the spires of an ancient Gothic cathedral. The cliff
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  Speaker 2: is called Cathedral Rock. And here, some weeks ago, David Morgan, grief-tortured,
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  Speaker 2: tugged his wife's impaled body off the bloody point of
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  Speaker 2: the tallest spire. There are those in the village who
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  Speaker 2: say that David Morgan's.
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  Speaker 4: Mind is broken.
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  Speaker 2: Because he insists Carol will come back to live with him.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be finished in a moment, Seth. I told Morrison
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  Speaker 2: in the village you was carving Carol's tombstone yourself.
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  Speaker 4: You left? Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Easy to read, too. Here lies Carol Morgan, wife of
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  Speaker 2: David Morgan. Born July 14, 1912. Died horribly on Cathedral Rock,
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  Speaker 2: August 12, 1950. Still don't see why you put that in.
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  Speaker 2: Why not? She did die horribly, didn't she?
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  Speaker 5: That spike of rock coming out of her back.
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  Speaker 2: Like a speared salmon... Time you forgot those things, David.
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  Speaker 2: Time you forgot other things, too.
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  Speaker 3: What other things?
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  Speaker 2: There's no secret about you thinking Carol's coming back from
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  Speaker 2: the dead.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I don't mean it to be a secret.
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  Speaker 5: There are forces all around us, dead and living, that
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  Speaker 5: we don't understand, Seth. I feel Carol in his room, Seth.
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  Speaker 5: I smell her perfume.
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  Speaker 2: I hear a voice in the wind when I'm at
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  Speaker 2: a grave on the cliff. That's only natural, son.
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  Speaker 3: You're grieving.
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  Speaker 2: In a little while... In a little while, Carol will
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  Speaker 2: be back.
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  Speaker 5: If you're going to help me get this stone to
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  Speaker 5: a grave, get a lantern and come on.
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  Speaker 4: Hold the lantern closer.
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  Speaker 3: There.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's a decent enough stone. Folks in the village
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  Speaker 2: have been saying things about you. Oh, like what? That
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  Speaker 2: a man acting like you do is a guilty conscience.
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  Speaker 2: And what do you think, Seth? Me, I don't believe
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  Speaker 2: such things. Any more than I believe the dead can return.
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  Speaker 2: Come on back to the house, son.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: I want to stay here a while. David, you've got to...
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  Speaker 2: I want to stay here a while.
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  Speaker 4: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: Torture yourself like you do. Every night come dark.
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  Speaker 4: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: You'll meet Carol again when I bury you next to her.
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  Speaker 4: Up here.
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  Speaker 2: Now, leave me alone.
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  Speaker 3: Let me be. Oh, Carol.
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  Speaker 2: Carol. Come back.
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  Speaker 3: Tell me you'll forgive me.
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  Speaker 5: Hello.
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 6: You're sad. I can tell I'm sad, too. Can you
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  Speaker 6: help me?
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  Speaker 3: You've come back.
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  Speaker 4: Carol, you've come.
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  Speaker 2: Why do.
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  Speaker 6: You call me.
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  Speaker 4: Carol?
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  Speaker 2: Who are you? I... I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: What are you doing here?
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  Speaker 6: I'm looking for my cat. A black cat with white
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  Speaker 6: feet and a white spot under the neck.
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  Speaker 3: Why did you come here?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know. I just got on the bus at
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  Speaker 6: Portsmouth and then... I thought of my cat, and I
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  Speaker 6: had the bus stop, and I came toward the sea.
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  Speaker 3: You'd better come back to the house with me.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, but I can't.
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  Speaker 2: Now, come along.
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  Speaker 3: I'll find your cat.
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  Speaker 6: Have you seen him?
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  Speaker 2: No, no. There's been no cat around here. Not for
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  Speaker 2: several weeks.
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  Speaker 6: Why did you call me Carol?
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  Speaker 5: I was waiting for someone. Someone named Carol. Want some
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  Speaker 5: more coffee?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, no, thank you. I feel better now. You've been
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  Speaker 6: very nice. People haven't been nice. They look at me strangely.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it might be your clothes. They're torn.
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  Speaker 6: No, it's more than that. I've looked in mirrors. My
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  Speaker 6: eyes don't look like other women's eyes look. Will you
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  Speaker 6: help me, please? I... I must be somebody.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, sure, I'll help you.
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  Speaker 5: I'll get Doc Southers up here and he'll be able to.
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  Speaker 6: It's Minnie, I told you. Come here, Minnie, come here, baby.
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  Speaker 3: What did you call that cat?
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  Speaker 6: Minnie, of course.
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 6: Why are you looking at me like that?
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  Speaker 5: That cat belonged to my wife. It hasn't been in
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  Speaker 5: this house... Since the day she died. And the cat's
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  Speaker 5: name is Minnie.
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  Speaker 3: Then.
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  Speaker 6: Then it must be that I belong here. This must
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  Speaker 6: be my home.
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  Speaker 2: The devil's got hold of you, David. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: you anymore. I don't trust you.
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  Speaker 4: Why not?
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  Speaker 2: What harm do you think I can do you, or
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  Speaker 2: want to? I've known you since you were a boy.
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  Speaker 2: Long years. I come back here to stay with you
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  Speaker 2: when Carol died, to help. But you're beyond help. You're mad.
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  Speaker 2: Because you're thinking Carol has come back to you, living
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  Speaker 2: in this woman's body. And who's to say that couldn't happen? You?
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  Speaker 2: I'm a God-fearing man, David. And such a thing would
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  Speaker 2: be the devil's work. I'll have none of it.
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  Speaker 3: If Carol can come back to me in any way,
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  Speaker 3: that's what I want. Even if she made a pact
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  Speaker 3: with the devil himself... No!
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  Speaker 4: No!
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  Speaker 2: No! Bring the flashlight.
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  Speaker 4: Come on. Open up. It's David Morgan.
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  Speaker 6: It's the chair. The rocking chair by the window.
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  Speaker 2: Carol's chair.
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  Speaker 4: What about it? It rocked.
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  Speaker 6: It rocked by itself.
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  Speaker 2: It must have been the wind. No, the window's closed.
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  Speaker 2: Was that all you saw?
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  Speaker 6: It was all I saw. But there were things I felt.
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  Speaker 2: Like what?
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  Speaker 6: The chair stopped working. As though someone had gotten up
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  Speaker 6: from it. And then the floor between the chair and
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  Speaker 6: the bed creaked. And a moment later, the bed spring
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  Speaker 6: sat beside me as though someone sat there.
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  Speaker 2: But you saw nothing.
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  Speaker 6: I only heard a sigh.
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  Speaker 4: A tired, tired voice.
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  Speaker 3: Take it to my room, Seth. Oh, you had a dream.
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  Speaker 2: That's all. Your mind's upset. Tomorrow I'll try to find
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  Speaker 2: out who you are.
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  Speaker 7: If....
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  Speaker 3: If it's not too late.
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  Speaker 2: Has the morning brought you to your right senses?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Depends on what you call right senses. I mean about
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  Speaker 2: the girl. Where is she? I don't know. I haven't
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  Speaker 2: seen her this morning. Where did Carol used to be
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  Speaker 2: this time of morning? A little after eight? She'd have
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  Speaker 2: been in the hothouse looking to her flowers.
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 6: Good morning. Oh, look at these wonderful flowers.
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  Speaker 3: Jehoshaphat.
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  Speaker 6: Do you mind that I pick some for the table?
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  Speaker 2: You can pick as many flowers as you want.
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  Speaker 6: What are you staring at me for?
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  Speaker 3: That dress. Where'd you get it?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I found it in the closet. Mine was so torn,
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  Speaker 6: I had to do something. Do you mind?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, no, no. And your hair is different, too.
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  Speaker 6: I feel better with it up. Does it look right?
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  Speaker 3: Exactly right.
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  Speaker 6: You finished eating?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 3: I've got to go.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going out for haddock today.
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  Speaker 6: I won't be seeing you again, then.
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  Speaker 2: Why not?
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  Speaker 6: Because I have to go. I must find out who
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  Speaker 6: I am.
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  Speaker 2: I mean to do just that tonight.
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  Speaker 6: But what will I do till then?
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  Speaker 3: Nothing. Just wait.
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  Speaker 2: I'm driving Seth to the village.
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  Speaker 3: You'll be quiet and alone. Just rest.
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  Speaker 4: But I.
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  Speaker 6: I'm afraid of being alone.
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  Speaker 3: You won't be alone.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, shut up. I fed you this noon, didn't I?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, who's there?
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  Speaker 2: It's me. Is that you, Carol?
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  Speaker 6: You scared me. Who are you?
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  Speaker 2: I guess you're not Carol.
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  Speaker 4: Are you?
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  Speaker 6: I guess not.
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  Speaker 2: Have you seen her?
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  Speaker 6: No, I... I understand Carol is dead.
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  Speaker 7: That's what everybody says, but I don't believe it. I
• 12:48
  Speaker 7: come here whenever David leaves and I look for her.
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  Speaker 6: What was Carol to you, I mean?
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  Speaker 3: My sister.
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  Speaker 6: What makes you think she's still alive? Have you seen her?
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  Speaker 7: No, but David hasn't changed a thing in this house
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  Speaker 7: since he hid her.
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  Speaker 3: You see?
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  Speaker 2: There. And over there. Everything. Just like she left it.
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  Speaker 2: Her apron's hanging on the door. You see?
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  Speaker 6: But maybe he left it.
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  Speaker 2: And I found something in the cellar.
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  Speaker 6: Something very important.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 3: A skeleton.
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  Speaker 7: And I found a box with lots of money in it.
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  Speaker 7: It's fun looking for Geralt. Come with me and I'll
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  Speaker 7: show you what I find.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 4: You come with me. Don't make me mad.
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  Speaker 2: You can help me look for Carol. I'll look upstairs.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 7: I want you to come with me in the cellar.
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  Speaker 2: You must make me mad. Oh. What?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 2: Don't be scared.
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  Speaker 3: It's me.
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  Speaker 2: Van.
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  Speaker 6: Where? Where is this?
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  Speaker 7: I took you to the cellar. We've got to find Carol.
• 14:33
  Speaker 7: I'm sorry I hit you. You made me mad.
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  Speaker 2: What are you going to do?
• 14:38
  Speaker 6: Why did you take me here? Carol is dead.
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  Speaker 2: No, she ain't. She's here somewhere. Besides.
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  Speaker 7: I promised I'd show you the room below the cellar.
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  Speaker 7: With the skeleton and the box of money in it.
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  Speaker 7: Don't you remember?
• 14:54
  Speaker 6: Help me up.
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  Speaker 2: You see? I've lifted the door. It's heavy. It's stone.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm strong.
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  Speaker 6: Is that where it is?
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I'll hold the lantern over the opening. See?
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  Speaker 6: See?
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  Speaker 4: There's a ladder.
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  Speaker 6: Get the box for me. I want to see it.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 8: Wait here and hold the ladder so I can see.
• 15:25
  Speaker 8: Hold the ladder higher. I can't see. Hold the ladder higher.
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  Speaker 4: Let me out!
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: Let me out!
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  Speaker 4: Sam? Sam? Yes?
• 15:50
  Speaker 7: It's longer than I thought.
• 15:54
  Speaker 6: What's the matter?
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  Speaker 4: What are.
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  Speaker 2: You crying about?
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  Speaker 6: A man was here.
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  Speaker 2: Who?
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  Speaker 6: Carol's brother.
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  Speaker 2: Sam?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: He was horrible. Why didn't you tell me about him?
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  Speaker 2: He isn't important.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, he isn't. He could have killed me. You told
• 16:10
  Speaker 6: me everything else about Carol. You should have told me that.
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  Speaker 2: Never mind, Van. You just do what I told you.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: As soon as David gets in that crazy mind of his,
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: that car of spirits coming back in you, he'll have
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: no secrets from you. And we'll know where he keeps
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  Speaker 2: that box of money. I.
• 16:25
  Speaker 6: I don't want to do it. I'm through.
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  Speaker 3: No, you ain't.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: They took good care of that. Took the trouble of
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: finding out some things about you in Hollywood.
• 16:32
  Speaker 6: I don't care what you found out. I don't care
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: if you are my uncle. The money you've been sending
• 16:37
  Speaker 6: me since Mother died was something you promised her you'd do.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: Now you're going to help me get it back.
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: All of it.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: Lots more for both of us. You want to make
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: a success out there as an actress, don't you?
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: Takes money, don't it?
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: Lots of it.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: Well, David and Carol had over a hundred thousand put
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: aside in that box of air.
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  Speaker 3: Just you find it.
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  Speaker 6: My first professional role. An amnesia case. For half what's
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: in a tin box.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be easy. You'll see. We might as well not
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: tell you tonight.
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  Speaker 4: No.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: No.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: I'm through. What's ailing you anyhow?
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: I don't know. I get to thinking what they do.
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  Speaker 6: That Carol's still alive or... Or that her ghosts surround anyhow.
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: Oh, bosh.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: Saw I buried myself and don't believe in ghosts. You've
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: been studying it too much, that's what.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: Maybe.
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: Uncle Seth.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: What is it?
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: How long can a man live in a small sealed
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: room without air?
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: Hello, sir. Where's the woman? Upstairs, I reckon, David. How
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: was the fishing?
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: Bad.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: Maybe half a ton. Mostly scrod. What's the girl been doing?
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Just walking around, I guess. She seem happy here? Or
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: is she restless? Did she leave to see anybody or such?
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Seems happy. Too happy. What's that? What's wrong?
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: Shh. Can't you hear something pounding like.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Yes, eh? Time to do. In the cellar scenes. I'm
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: going down to have a look. Might be a beam slipping. David! Oh, hello.
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: Oh, David, I'm glad you're back. I want to talk
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: to you very seriously, I do.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: All right. I think the time's come to talk, if
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: you feel like it.
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: But not here, please. I... I want to walk along
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: the bluff.
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: The last time I walked this way toward the rock
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: was with Carol.
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  Speaker 3: She died horribly. Nobody saw us. We were alone. Was
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: that frightening?
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: No.
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: I know the story and I feel very sad about it.
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  Speaker 6: That Why, I wanted to talk to you before it's
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: too late. Before we do anything about finding out who
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: I am. I don't want to go back to any
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: other life.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: Why not?
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: I never was so happy to be with anyone as
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: I am here with you, David.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: Don't move. Look down there. Over the edge. See those rocks?
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: The pointed one.
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: Yes, Cathedral rock, isn't it?
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Carol was standing right where you were when she fell. I.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: It's Carol who told you to get off the bus here.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: To come looking for a cat. Even made you know
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: the cat's name. Made you pick flowers in the morning
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: like she always did.
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  Speaker 4: No. Wait, David. Wait.
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  Speaker 2: She's coming back to Through you.
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: Wait, David, I want to tell you.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: I wanted Carol back.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: Because I loved her. But I've been afraid. Because... I
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: murdered Carol.
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: You murdered her?
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: We quarreled.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: About Seth.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: She was standing just as you are. Right there. What's
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: the matter?
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: David, my back.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: Help me. My back.
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: Something is stabbing me. It's stabbing me.
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: I'm going down to the village for the doctor, Seth.
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: Don't want the doctor. Please, feeling better.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: No, you stay quiet.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: I'm going.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: Seth will look after you.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: I can get the doc faster by going. All right.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: You can stop the acting now.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: What happened?
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: He was telling me that he murdered Carol. I had
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: a pain. A terrible pain in my chest and back.
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: It wasn't acting.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: Murdered Carol? That's crazy. He had an argument with her.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: She got mad and started to run back to the house.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Tripton went over the cliff. Everybody knows that. He feels guilty,
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: that's all.
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: He didn't say that.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Probably didn't get a chance. Did you find out anything
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: about the box of money?
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: Yes, I know where it is.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Where?
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: The box is in the sub-cellar.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: I never thought of that. I'll go down now and... Wait.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: That thumping in the cellar. That have something to do
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: with the box?
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: I had to, Uncle Seth. Then he scared me and
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: I closed the door and I bolted it on him.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: You fool.
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: Well, I had to.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Changes things.
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: What do you mean?
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Didn't mean to do this, but I've got to now.
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: I'm going with you.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: No, Alice.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Aim to have all the money. You'll stay here, darling.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: See to that.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: Van?
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Van. They're all right. There sits the box. A hundred
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: thousand or better. To pay for 40 years with the Morgans. Ha, ha, ha.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Better than a hundred thousand.
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: Hello, sis. You might as well bring the box up
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: with you. I wanted to get it myself.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Harris, I hit you. You were unconscious.
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: You killed them. You killed my brother as well. Come
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: on up and be careful. I know how to use
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: David's gun.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Harris, I didn't mean to leave you there. Come up
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: with the box.
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: Or would you rather I kick the door closed on you?
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Harris, don't be a fool. Let's get away first. Then
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: I'll explain.
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: Pardon you, call me Alice. That's your niece in California.
• 23:20
  Speaker 8: I'm Carol.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Carol's dead. Alice, you're out of your mind. Carol is dead.
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: Is Carol really dead? Do I look dead? Does this
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: gun look like a ghost withholding?
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: I can prove it. But we've got to hurry.
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: Prove I'm dead how?
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Come to the top of the cliffs with me. I'll
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: show you Carol's grave. There. Look. You can see, can't you?
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: There's the grave, weeks old. It's a trick.
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: You did this to trick me.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: I am Carol. Look at the tombstone and read it.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: Here lies Carol Morgan, wife of David Morgan.
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: I don't believe it. Where's David?
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: He's gone to the village to get a doctor for you.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: You're my niece, Alice, and we've got his money box.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: Now come with me before it's too late.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: No, I don't believe you.
• 24:14
  Speaker 8: It's a trick.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: David!
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Alice, get away from those rocks.
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: You won't get this box. And you won't trick me
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: with lies. David will take care of that when he comes.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Give me that box.
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: Don't come another step, sis, or I'll kill you for sure.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: You wouldn't dare. You know good and well you killed
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Carol's brother. You won't dare shoot. Give me that box.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: Shh! The End.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: There she is, Doc, on the cliff. You see her? Now,
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: take it easy, son.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: I'm not a young man.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: You run on to her. I'll catch her. All right,
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: but hurry. Carol!
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: Carol, get away from there!
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Carol, get back on the path!
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: David!
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: I thought you'd never come. Seth, he tried... Never mind that.
• 24:59
  Speaker 9: Get away from the cliff.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: You're too close to the edge.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: Help!
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: My back!
• 25:04
  Speaker 8: Oh, David, that pain again!
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: Carol!
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: Doctor, hurry.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: She's gonna faint again.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: David!
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Carol, look out!
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: You'll fall! Carol, you'll fall off the cliff!
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: Seth! Dead.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Carol's dead again. And pierced by the same rock. It
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: was an accident, son. From what you tell me, she
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: had a seizure. Fluorosy pain. Very painful and contorting.
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: I said it was the pain of remembering how the
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: rock felt when she fell.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: Carol's dead again.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: I wish I knew what happened here with Seth. She
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: must have shot him just before we come.
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: Oh, I can answer that easy enough. Carol always mistrusted Seth.
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: She knew he was biding his time to steal our money.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: Probably followed him here with a gun after he took
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: it from her. Where is the money?
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: In that box? No.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: No, in the bank. That's what I don't understand. She
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: must have forgotten about the stage money.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: How do you mean?
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: You know her brother, Grant. Kind of simple in the head.
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: She was always playing games with him.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: He was a kid.
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Well, she gave him the box and.
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: Filled it with paper money so he could hide it
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: around the house and make believe finding buried treasure.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Well, doesn't that prove the poor girl below couldn't be Carol?
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: She'd have known there was no money in it.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: Oh, it doesn't prove that bit.
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: I searched the whole house for that box after she
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: fell first time.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: Never found it.
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: Last I talked with Van, he couldn't find it. Would
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: anybody besides Carol know where it was hit?
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: Well, all right. Have it your way.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: I'll leave you be for a spell. I'll send the
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: sheriff and help from the village. I've been a doctor
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: too long to say what's dead can't live again.
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: One way or another.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Poor David. Imagine a sailing man losing both his first
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: and second mate.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: Hmm.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Oh, well. So he winds up with a minus two
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: as the net result. You know, one thing about it,
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: when David buries Alice, he'll have less work. Just knock
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: some new chips off the old block.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: Hmm.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: I've got a moral for you folks who like to
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: go sailing. Next time you're on a boat, remember this.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Trim the sails and not the sailors.
• 28:26
  Speaker 9: Or you could wind up being the salt of the earth.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: Tonight's Inner Sanctum mystery was written by Fred Matho and
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: starred Larry Haynes in the role of David. Amzie Strickland
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: played Alice, and music was by Lou White. This month's
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Inner Sanctum mystery novel is Poor Prisoner's Defense by Richard Sheldon.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: The entire production of Inner Sanctum is under the direction
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: of Hyman Brown. Well, friends... It's time again to close
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: that creaking door. Until next week at this same time
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: when we'll be back with another weird tale. Oh, next
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: week's scare, Skeleton in the Sun, is the short, frightful
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: tale of a beach bum who tries to convert a
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: hot corpse into cold cash. Where romance takes a turn
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: for the worse when he loses his mind over a
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: girl who's.
• 29:45
  Speaker 9: Already lost her. You'll help mourn his passing, won't you?
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: Next Monday.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: Until then.
• 29:55
  Speaker 9: Good night.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: Pleasant....
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: Now, a listening reminder. Stay tuned for Henry J. Taylor
• 30:17
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• 30:20
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• 30:23
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