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Nick Carter: The Case of the Tatooed Cobra (EP1656) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Speaker 1: basis at Patreon dot Great Detectives dot net. Well, we're
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Speaker 1: back to nineteen forty eight and the episode of Nick
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Speaker 1: Carter for this week comes from May twenty third of
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Speaker 1: nineteen forty eight, and the title The Case of the
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Speaker 1: Tattooed Cobra.
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Speaker 3: New Postwar Old Dutch Cleanser, famous for Chasing Dirk presents
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Speaker 3: Lick Carter, famous for chasing crime. Every week at this time,
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Speaker 3: two great names are joined as New Postwar Old Dutch
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Speaker 3: Cleanser brings you one of the most resourceful and daring
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Speaker 3: characters in all detective fiction, Nick Carter, Master Detective.
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Speaker 4: All Right, Nick suppose he is the murderer. You can't
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Speaker 4: prove it. There isn't a shred of evidence.
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Speaker 5: That's what we've got to find. And if the proof
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Speaker 5: is anywhere at all, let's hear in this apartment.
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Speaker 6: Well, there's a.
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Speaker 7: Closet or something over here.
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Speaker 2: Okay, you look in there while I go over these papers.
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Speaker 8: Uh huh, don't China chuggle, miss porn.
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Speaker 6: This is a knife I am holding at your back now.
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Speaker 3: The Case of the Tattooed Cobra today's adventure starring Lawn
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Speaker 3: Clark as Nick Carter, brought to you by new post
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Speaker 3: war old Dutch cleanser. Sergeant Matheson of the homicide Squad
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Speaker 3: is one of Nick's best friends. But it isn't a
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Speaker 3: social call that brings Mattie to the office this morning.
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Speaker 5: Hey, Nick, you remember telling me last year that somebody
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Speaker 5: wanted you to look for the air to the Bristol estate.
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Speaker 5: Oh yes, Mary, the administrator of the estate, mister Alvin Hammond,
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Speaker 5: called me in.
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Speaker 2: But I didn't take the case.
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Speaker 4: And you know why, Sergeant No. It made a trip
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Speaker 4: to Europe and Nick didn't want to go.
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Speaker 8: Imagine passy, you know I couldn't go at that time.
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Speaker 8: And Nick Bristol's wife was a Polish girl, wasn't she.
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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah.
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Speaker 5: When she divorced him twenty years ago, she took her
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Speaker 5: son back to Europe with her.
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Speaker 3: Uh huh.
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Speaker 7: And that's the last anybody ever heard of them.
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Speaker 5: Oh no, no, no, not quite pantcy. Mister Hammond had
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Speaker 5: some French detectives working on the case. They reported that
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Speaker 5: the mother was dead and that the boy, Alex supposedly
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Speaker 5: died in a concentration camp during the war.
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Speaker 2: So who gets the money now?
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Speaker 5: Well, if Alex Bristol isn't found by the end of
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Speaker 5: this year, the three million dollars goes to a distant
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Speaker 5: relative in this country named George Davison.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 5: You don't happen to have a picture of Alick Dulnick. No,
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Speaker 5: I haven't, But the French detector's got a good description
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Speaker 5: of him from a fellow prisoner in the concentration camp.
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Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, I remember you telling me that he's tall
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Speaker 5: and slender, with blonde hair and blue eyes, and he'd
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Speaker 5: be twenty eight years old.
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Speaker 7: Now, why, sergeant, what a memory.
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Speaker 5: He's lost little finger on his left hand, and he's
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Speaker 5: got a tattoo mark on his right hand, a blue
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Speaker 5: and red cobra twined around the thumb, Ryan, Many, You're terrific.
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Speaker 5: How can you remember all that from a casual conversation
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Speaker 5: almost a year ago?
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Speaker 2: I didn't. We fished him out of the East River
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Speaker 2: this morning. Dead.
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Speaker 5: Well, there's the body, Nick. It's Bristol, isn't it. It
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Speaker 5: certainly fits the.
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Speaker 4: Description just a is a sergeant described it, Nick, A
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Speaker 4: red and blue cobra trying around the right thumb.
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Speaker 5: I know, but there's one detail that has been kept
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Speaker 5: a secret, only told me because they expected me to
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Speaker 5: take the case.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, what sudden, Nick.
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Speaker 5: If this is really Alec Bristol, the cobra should be
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Speaker 5: holding a shield in his mouth. It says mother's family crest.
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Speaker 5: That was to be the final identification.
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Speaker 6: Nick.
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Speaker 7: That's it, isn't it.
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Speaker 2: Yes, it's there all right.
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Speaker 7: So he didn't die in a concentration camp after.
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Speaker 2: All, No has to come to this country to get
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Speaker 2: his inheritance.
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Speaker 5: No, maybe so, but he didn't get it.
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Speaker 2: Firewett makes you think that Many?
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Speaker 5: Why his clothes, Nick, they were cheap and shabby. He
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Speaker 5: wouldn't be dressed that way if he had three million bucks.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess you're right.
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Speaker 5: Well, in that case, I think I'd like to have
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Speaker 5: a talk with mister George Davison, Oh, the guy who
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Speaker 5: gets the money now that Bristol's dead. Huh Yeah, of
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Speaker 5: course Davidson may be perfectly innocent, but it will be
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Speaker 5: interesting to talk to a man with three million motives
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Speaker 5: for murder.
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Speaker 9: Jeffson will be here in a moment. Card he's upstairs
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Speaker 9: in his.
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Speaker 2: Room, so he's already moved uder the Bristol Hall, has
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Speaker 2: he mister haven't Why?
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Speaker 5: Yes, yes, he's administrative for the estate.
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Speaker 8: I saw no reason to let the house stand empty,
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Speaker 8: especially since I expected to turn the property over to
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Speaker 8: him at the end of this month.
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Speaker 5: That is idead until I got a letter from Alick.
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Speaker 7: Oh you really hurt? From Alick Bristol.
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Speaker 8: Yes, last week, miss Born, We've been running advertisments in
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Speaker 8: European newspapers fifteen different countries, hoping that.
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Speaker 9: Dalek was still alive.
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Speaker 2: And he saw one of the ants.
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Speaker 9: Yes, he was living in my sales.
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Speaker 6: He wrote that he was taking the next boat for
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Speaker 6: the state.
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Speaker 7: What a bray.
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Speaker 4: The minute he gets here, someone stabs him in the
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Speaker 4: back and throws his body and east river.
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Speaker 8: I can't understand why he didn't get in touch with
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Speaker 8: me as soon as the boat does.
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Speaker 7: How that George Davison is glad that he didn't.
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Speaker 8: Yes, Oh, I like George well enough, but well, Martin
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Speaker 8: Bristol and I were lifelong friends, and.
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Speaker 5: I did hope I could turn the estate over to
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Speaker 5: his boy.
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Speaker 8: Oh, I say, Hammond, you didn't tell me we had
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Speaker 8: guests come in? George, come in, Miss Bowen, mister Carter,
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Speaker 8: this is George Davison.
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Speaker 6: Are you heard you?
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Speaker 3: Do?
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Speaker 10: Well?
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Speaker 6: What's everyone looking so serious about?
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Speaker 2: Don't tell me?
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Speaker 5: The long lost son and heir has finally arrived. Yes,
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Speaker 5: George Alex has arrived, but he's dead dead.
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Speaker 6: Oh, I say not really.
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Speaker 7: Alec Bristol was murdered last night, mister Davison.
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Speaker 6: Murder Well, and the estate comes to me after all?
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Speaker 9: Eh? Yes, I suppose it does.
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Speaker 6: George Well who popped him off?
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Speaker 9: You know?
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Speaker 5: That's what I'm trying to find out, mister Davison. A
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Speaker 5: medical examiner says the murder took place some time between
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Speaker 5: ten pm and two this morning.
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Speaker 2: Where were you at that time?
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Speaker 9: Where was I?
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Speaker 2: Yes?
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Speaker 9: Why?
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Speaker 8: I went up to my room about nine o'clock to
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Speaker 8: read you Remember Hammond, did you go out again.
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Speaker 2: Well, no, of course not.
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Speaker 6: But but George.
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Speaker 2: Yes, mister Hammond. Nothing you started to say something, Only that.
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Speaker 8: I remember now that George did go upstairs early.
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Speaker 2: I see, mister Hammond. If Alec Bristol had sent.
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Speaker 5: You a letter or a cablegram to tell you the
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Speaker 5: exact time of his arrival, could anyone else.
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Speaker 2: Have got hold of it before you did?
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Speaker 5: Yes?
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Speaker 9: I suppose so.
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Speaker 6: Dobson leaves the mail on a table in the entrance hall.
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Speaker 6: Now is he here, Carter?
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Speaker 8: Are you insinuating that I murdered Alec Bristol.
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Speaker 5: Not at all, mister Davidson. I'm merely collecting facts.
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Speaker 9: My big pardon, mister heaven. Where's Dobson? There's a gentleman
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Speaker 9: to see you so well? Who is it?
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Speaker 6: A tall, young lamb, sir, with blonde hair.
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Speaker 9: I didn't ask what he looked like, Dobson. Didn't he
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Speaker 9: give you his name?
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Speaker 8: Yes, sir, he said, his name is Elec Bristol. I
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Speaker 8: do not understand. Why have you sent for the officer, because.
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Speaker 5: We're investigating the murder of Alec Bristol.
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Speaker 8: But that cannot be mister Carter. I am Alec Bristol
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Speaker 8: without accent.
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Speaker 2: Don't make me laugh.
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Speaker 9: I have been in Europe.
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Speaker 10: Since I am seven years old almost I have forgotten
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Speaker 10: how to speak say.
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Speaker 5: English maybe, but if you're Alec Bristol.
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Speaker 2: Who's that guy down at the mall.
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Speaker 10: I do not know, but surely mister Hammond will vouch
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Speaker 10: for me. Two weeks ago I write to tell him
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Speaker 10: I am coming.
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Speaker 9: That's right, sergeant.
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Speaker 5: At least somebody wrote to me it might have been
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Speaker 5: that fellow we found on the river.
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Speaker 10: No, no, no, it was I. The description in the
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Speaker 10: newspaper mast say that.
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Speaker 6: Too, was I.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, but that description fits the other man too.
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Speaker 8: But the little finger, which I lose in the accident
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Speaker 8: of many years ago, the tattoo on my thumb, those.
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Speaker 5: Features applied him too, including the family crest in the
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Speaker 5: cobra's mouth.
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Speaker 8: Hi, I cannot believe it.
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Speaker 6: It is fantastic.
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Speaker 2: I can figure it out easy enough.
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Speaker 5: You read that description in the paper, realized that it
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Speaker 5: fitted you perfectly, so you had that.
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Speaker 2: Finger and thumb fixed.
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Speaker 5: Up to complete the identification. Then you hoped the boat
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Speaker 5: for America, expecting to collect three million bucks.
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Speaker 2: You're forgetting one thing.
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Speaker 5: Why the family crest and the tattooed cobra's mouth. He
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Speaker 5: couldn't have got that out of the newspaper notices.
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Speaker 2: It wasn't there.
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Speaker 5: Okay, okay, So maybe he knew Alec Bristol a long
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Speaker 5: time ago in Europe he was familiar with the tattoo.
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Speaker 8: Ma, why must you assume that I am the impostor
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Speaker 8: why could it not be the ottoman?
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Speaker 5: Because you'd have a mighty good reason for bumping off
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Speaker 5: the real air.
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Speaker 2: But who would want to kill.
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Speaker 9: A fake one?
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Speaker 2: I do not know.
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Speaker 10: All I know is when my ship docked this morning
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Speaker 10: at ten o'clock, I get off the boat.
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Speaker 5: I a minute, Wait a minute, you're going to tell
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Speaker 5: me they didn't send you to Ellis Island.
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Speaker 2: Before they let you go?
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Speaker 10: Why should they do that, Sergeant? I am an American citizen.
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Speaker 10: My pi if us are all in order the console
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Speaker 10: at Marseille check them before he let me get on
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Speaker 10: the boat.
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Speaker 5: Mary, Let's take him down to the pier. See if
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Speaker 5: the captain of the ship can identify him.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, and we'll stop off with the morgue too. Maybe
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Speaker 8: you'll recognize the other Alec Bristol.
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Speaker 6: Then may I return here?
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Speaker 5: You may if the captain of the boat knows you
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Speaker 5: otherwise you're going to the city jail. Well how about
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Speaker 5: a captain you know him?
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Speaker 2: Hi?
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Speaker 6: Yes, sergeant, this man came over on my boat and
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Speaker 6: we didn't.
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Speaker 5: Dock until ten o'clock this morning, so he couldn't.
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Speaker 2: Possibly have been in New York last night.
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Speaker 5: Well there's the body, mister Bristol. Did you ever see
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Speaker 5: that guy before?
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Speaker 10: No, Sergeant, I am positive I'd never see that man
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Speaker 10: before in my life. Good enough to do, mister Bristolo,
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Speaker 10: Good afternoon, you are Dobson.
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Speaker 2: Yes, mister Bristol.
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Speaker 8: Come in please, thank you. Mister Hammond phoned that everything
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Speaker 8: was settled, that I should take my orders from you, sir.
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Speaker 6: That was kind of him.
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Speaker 2: If there's a letter for you, sir, it came.
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Speaker 8: Just a few moments ago, a letter from me, Yes, sir,
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Speaker 8: registered letter.
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Speaker 2: I signed for it.
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Speaker 9: Here too, sir.
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Speaker 2: But how strange.
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Speaker 6: I do not know anyone in this country.
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Speaker 9: A minute, Bristol, if that is your name.
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Speaker 6: I'm mister Davison.
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Speaker 8: Until your identity is proved, I don't think you'd better
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Speaker 8: open any mail addressed to Alec Bristol.
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Speaker 10: That mister Hammond disadministrator of my father's estate, and as
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Speaker 10: long as he is convinced that. Well, Dobson, you get
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Speaker 10: mister Hammond on the phone please and ask to come
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Speaker 10: out here at once.
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Speaker 6: Yes, is anything wrong?
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Speaker 10: If this letter is true, A great deal is wrong.
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Speaker 10: Maybe I know now why that man was killed?
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Speaker 9: Good after mister Hammond. Is mister Bristol in, Dobson, Oh, yes.
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Speaker 6: Sir, he's waiting for you in the library.
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Speaker 2: Sir, grained if we go in where the old mister Hammond?
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Speaker 6: Oh not at all, Carter. In fact, I'm glad you're here.
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Speaker 7: Is something happened mister Hammond?
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Speaker 8: Or apparently, Yes, Dobson says Alec found out something definite
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Speaker 8: about the murder.
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Speaker 2: Yes, sir, he was very.
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Speaker 6: Upset about the Commonian, Carter. Is that why you're here?
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Speaker 2: No?
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Speaker 5: I came to ask the names of the people Bristol
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Speaker 5: was living with Marseille. After all, the identity angle hasn't
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Speaker 5: been established for sure yet.
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Speaker 8: I don't think there's any question that he's the real
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Speaker 8: Alec Bristole. Here's the library, Eleck, Alec Dobs, didn't you
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Speaker 8: say mister Bristol was in here?
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Speaker 2: He was?
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Speaker 7: Those French doors are opened onto the terrace. Perhaps he's
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Speaker 7: out there.
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Speaker 2: I don't think so. Bessy. Look over there hid a divan?
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Speaker 9: Why you eat.
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Speaker 6: Some men's feet, Sir cut her?
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Speaker 9: Is it Alec?
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Speaker 2: It's Salik all right? And he's dead, dead, stabbed in
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Speaker 2: the back, just as the other one was. Better call
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Speaker 2: the police, Dobson.
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Speaker 8: Yes, sir, I beg your pardon. No one answered the
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Speaker 8: front door, so since it was open, I thought, oh.
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Speaker 9: Where did you come from it?
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Speaker 5: What's the idea of walking into other people's houses?
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Speaker 8: When you say other people's houses, I did. Unless I'm mistaken,
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Speaker 8: this is my.
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Speaker 2: House, your house?
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Speaker 6: Yes, I am.
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Speaker 8: Alec Bristol.
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Speaker 3: Won apparad air to the Bristol millions. Is the city morgue.
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Speaker 3: Another lies dead on the library floor, and now a third, tall, slender,
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Speaker 3: blonde young man has appeared to claim the fortune. We'll
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Speaker 3: see what happens in just a moment. Now back to
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Speaker 3: the case of the tattooed cobra. Today's adventure with Nick Carter,
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Speaker 3: brought to you by new post war old Dutch pleanser
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Speaker 3: Alec Bristol, heir to three million dollars, can be positively
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Speaker 3: identified only by a cobra tattooed on his right thumber.
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Speaker 3: But one man with the secret tattoo has been found
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Speaker 3: dead in the East River. Another has been stabbed to
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Speaker 3: death in the library of the Bristol mansion, and now
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Speaker 3: a third stands in the doorway, introducing himself.
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Speaker 6: I beg your pardon. I'm Alec Bristol, Europe.
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Speaker 8: But perhaps I should have advised you of my arrival.
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Speaker 8: But the plane arrived from Portugal on a short while ago.
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Speaker 7: If you look at him, he's tall and black.
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Speaker 5: All slender, blonde named Alec Bristol. Seemed to be a
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Speaker 5: diamond dozen today.
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Speaker 2: What's that? May I see your left hand night?
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Speaker 6: Oh the missing little finger, of course.
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Speaker 2: Uh huh.
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Speaker 8: On the right hand, you mean the right thumb, don't
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Speaker 8: you with the tattooed cobra there?
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Speaker 7: It's there, Nick naturally and the shield is in the
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Speaker 7: cobra's move.
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Speaker 6: My mother's family Crest Carter.
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Speaker 8: I don't understand nobody knew about that crest except you
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Speaker 8: and me and.
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Speaker 2: And who else?
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Speaker 6: Mister Hammond, well, George Davison.
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Speaker 9: But three men have shown up with that tattoo. How
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Speaker 9: did they find out? Who told them? The police will
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Speaker 9: be here in a.
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Speaker 2: Few moments, sir, thank you. Dabson. Is mister Davison here Why.
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Speaker 8: No, sir, he lift half an hour ago, said he
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Speaker 8: was going into the site for dinner in the theater.
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Speaker 5: Did you say, mister Bristol, I mean the dead mister Bristol.
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Speaker 2: After Davison left.
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Speaker 8: No, sir, after I've phoned mister Hammond, I went back
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Speaker 8: to the pantry and stayed there until you arrive. What
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Speaker 8: do you mean, the dead mister Bristol. Look, don't you
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Speaker 8: think someone should tell me what's going on?
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Speaker 5: Sure, I'll tell you while were here. I want you
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Speaker 5: to look at something behind the divan.
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Speaker 2: There Alec Alec.
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Speaker 7: You mean that's the real Alec Bristol there on the floor.
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Speaker 6: Yes, but I thought he was dead.
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Speaker 2: He is.
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Speaker 8: I mean five years ago in the concentration camp. They
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Speaker 8: took him away, and.
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Speaker 5: So that's how you found out about the tattoo. You
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Speaker 5: knew Alec Bristol and the concentration camp.
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Speaker 6: Yes, he was my best friend friend, and you tried
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Speaker 6: to steal his inheritance.
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Speaker 10: I tell you, they said he was dead. What difference
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Speaker 10: could it make to Alec? When I saw the notice
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Speaker 10: in the Lisbon papers with the description, he.
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Speaker 2: Realized that it fits you as well as it did him.
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Speaker 8: Huh, Yes, except for the missing finger in the tattoo.
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Speaker 8: So I found a doctor who agreed to perform the
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Speaker 8: operation and keep his mouth shut. I got forged.
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Speaker 9: Past you swindlers.
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Speaker 6: How do I know you didn't murder Alec?
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Speaker 5: If he had killed Alec Bristol, seeing the body wouldn't
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Speaker 5: have shocked him into admitting that he was an impostor.
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Speaker 9: But you're not going to let him go free.
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Speaker 2: But police will take care of him.
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Speaker 5: Man, I want to talk to is George Davison.
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Speaker 9: Speaking of Davison, Carter.
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Speaker 8: There's something I didn't tell you this morning about him,
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Speaker 8: and I'm sure it doesn't mean anything, But I.
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Speaker 5: Know you're started to say something and then lied out
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Speaker 5: of it. Well, perhaps you'd better tell the truth now.
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Speaker 8: Well, it's only that Well, I knocked on George's door
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Speaker 8: during the evening and he didn't answer.
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Speaker 9: Of course, he may have been asleep, or he.
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Speaker 2: May have been out of the house committing a murderer.
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Speaker 2: Is that it?
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Speaker 6: Well I don't believe it, but it's possible the.
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Speaker 4: Real Alec Bristol was going to tell mister Hammond something
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Speaker 4: about that first murder.
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Speaker 7: That must be why he was killed.
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Speaker 8: Do you know, mister Carter, it might help if we
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Speaker 8: could only find that letter.
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Speaker 2: What letter Downson, A.
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Speaker 8: Registered letter that came from mister Bristol, Sir, that's where
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Speaker 8: he got the information he wanted to tell mister Hammond.
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Speaker 2: You know whether he brought that.
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Speaker 5: Letter into the library, Yes, sir, it was in his
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Speaker 5: hand when he came in here.
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Speaker 2: But it isn't here now, No, sir, I've searched the
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Speaker 2: room thoroughly. Who else knew that he received that letter?
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Speaker 7: Why?
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Speaker 8: No one except mister Davis soon to me, of course,
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Speaker 8: Davison again.
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Speaker 2: Yes, come on, Bessy, let's get back to Tom.
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Speaker 7: What's on your mind?
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Speaker 2: Nick? Just one thing, catching a murderer, and I don't
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Speaker 2: think it'll take very long.
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Speaker 5: Now, Marie, I want to do three things. Why find Davison,
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Speaker 5: learn the identity of the man you fished out of
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Speaker 5: the river, and find out who sent that registered letter. Well, Nick,
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Speaker 5: we spotted Davison's car in a parking lot and I
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Speaker 5: got two men there waiting for him to come back.
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Speaker 9: If he ever does, he'll come.
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Speaker 5: Back, Sergeant Mathison, homicide.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Melally, this guy send a tracey letter,
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Speaker 2: Nick Good a postal clerk went down and dug out
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Speaker 2: the receipt. Huh, yeah, they get a pencil leak.
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Speaker 7: I have one.
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Speaker 5: Okay, go ahead, Melally, sent by Jenkins, four forty Winston Avenue,
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Speaker 5: Apartment five D.
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Speaker 2: Got that person, got it?
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Speaker 5: Okay, Malally, good work, thanks William Jenkins.
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Speaker 2: That name mean anything.
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Speaker 5: To you, Nick No, and I think Patsy and I
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Speaker 5: will go around before forty Winton Avenue and see mister Jenkins.
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Speaker 7: I'm glad this is the last flight.
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Speaker 6: Cheer her up, Patsy, exercise to do you good.
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Speaker 7: I only hope Jenkins is home.
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Speaker 2: We'll know in a minute.
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Speaker 7: Oh, yes, here it is five D.
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Speaker 2: Evidently he's home too. The door's partly open.
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Speaker 7: If he's home, why doesn't he answer?
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Speaker 2: I'll knock again.
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Speaker 9: Nay.
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Speaker 4: If Alex Bristol was killed so somebody could give that
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Speaker 4: letter and Jenkins wrote it, the fact this door is
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Speaker 4: open might.
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Speaker 2: Mean yeah, yes, Patsy, I might me and the killer
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Speaker 2: got here first. Let's go in, right, m nobody here?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, but look at this room. It's been turned upside.
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Speaker 2: Down and thoroughly searched.
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Speaker 7: All right for what all those papers on the floor.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, mm huh.
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Speaker 5: Here's a social Security card made out to William Jenkins.
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Speaker 7: Here's a letter post mark Chicago, which.
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Speaker 5: Here's an Illinois Schauffer's license and look at the picture
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Speaker 5: on it.
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Speaker 4: But that's the first Alex Pristol, the man they found
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Speaker 4: in the river, right. So William Jenkins was going to
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Speaker 4: pass himself off as Alec.
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Speaker 8: Bristol, obviously, And that brings up a very interesting point.
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Speaker 8: What don't you see, Patsy, This whole thing was planned
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Speaker 8: months in advance, so the amputation and the tattoo would
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Speaker 8: have time to heal.
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Speaker 7: Of course, and.
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Speaker 5: Last week the real Alec Bristol wrote to Hammond and
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Speaker 5: the deal was off.
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Speaker 7: That must have been a blue hello to Jenkins.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, but how did Jenkins know about the letter? And
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Speaker 5: another thing, the tattoo on Jenkins's thumb included the final detail,
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Speaker 5: the shield in the cobra's mouth. How could Jenkins have
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Speaker 5: known about that?
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Speaker 7: We the other impostor knew about it because he was
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Speaker 7: a friend of.
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Speaker 5: Bristol, but Jenkins wasn't. Bristol looked at jenkins body and
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Speaker 5: swore you never seen him before. And no one else
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Speaker 5: knew of that shield except Davison, Hammond and me.
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Speaker 7: Do you think Davison and Jenkins were working together?
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Speaker 2: Not Davison, Betsy Hammond, and Jenkins.
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Speaker 7: Hammond and Jenkins. But goney, what would Hammond get out
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Speaker 7: of it?
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Speaker 5: If Alec Bristol weren't found by the end of this month,
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Speaker 5: Hammond would have to turn the estate over to Davison naturally,
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Speaker 5: But if a fake Alec Bristol turned up, Hammond could
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Speaker 5: turn the estate over to him. Then he and Hammond
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Speaker 5: could divide three million dollars between them. Of course, all
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Speaker 5: Hammon had to do was to find someone who answered
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Speaker 5: the general description, then arranged for the missing finger and
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Speaker 5: the tattoo.
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Speaker 7: But if you haven't any proof, none at all.
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Speaker 5: That's what We've got to find, something to show that
21:53
Speaker 5: there was a connection between Hammond and Jenkins.
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Speaker 4: There might be something here in Jenkins's apartment if Hammond
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Speaker 4: has already found it and destroyed it.
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Speaker 5: From the looks of this room, I should say the
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Speaker 5: chances are good that he has.
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Speaker 7: A closet or something over here. Maybe he overlooked that.
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Speaker 2: Okay, you take a look in there while I go
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Speaker 2: through these papers. Won't care, uh huh.
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Speaker 8: Don't reach for your gun, cutter unless you want a
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Speaker 8: young lady to die. Sils Bon, I'm holding a knife
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Speaker 8: at your back.
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Speaker 6: Don't struggle, Patsy Hammond, did.
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Speaker 8: You hurt her?
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Speaker 6: I won't as long as you both do as I say.
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Speaker 8: Okay, first, toss your revolver over here.
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Speaker 6: You are good, You're a sensible man.
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Speaker 2: Oh you're hiding in that closet all the time, Huh.
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Speaker 9: I had to. I came here to destroy the receipt
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Speaker 9: for that.
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Speaker 8: Registered letter Jenkins sent to Alec, and.
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Speaker 9: Before I could leave, you two arrived.
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Speaker 2: What was in that letter, Hammn, the whole story, just
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Speaker 2: as you.
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Speaker 9: Figured it out.
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Speaker 8: And when I told Jenkins that the real Alec Bristol
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Speaker 8: had turned up and our deal was off, He's threatened
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Speaker 8: to get even with me by telling Alec about it,
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Speaker 8: so I had to get rid of him.
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Speaker 5: You didn't know that Jenkins had already written Aleck until
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Speaker 5: I like pray with.
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Speaker 2: A letter, and then you had to kill him too.
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Speaker 9: That it quite right, mister Carter.
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Speaker 8: Nobody saw me into the house or leave it afterwards,
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Speaker 8: and when I came back you were just arriving.
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Speaker 6: It gave me the perfect alibi.
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Speaker 2: Well, what's next?
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Speaker 6: Don't think you can kill us too, not both of us,
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Speaker 6: of course not.
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Speaker 8: I have enough cash hidden away to get me out
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Speaker 8: of the country, and you're not going to say a
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Speaker 8: word to the authorities until I'm safely gone.
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Speaker 2: You're save awfully sure of it.
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Speaker 8: I am because I'm taking the young lady here with me.
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Speaker 9: You can't take her.
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Speaker 8: If I leave her, Carter, I'll leave her dead. I
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Speaker 8: promise you that I'll get into the bedroom.
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Speaker 9: Carter, I'm going to lock you in there before I leave.
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Speaker 2: You can't.
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Speaker 8: You can't help himself, miss Bullet and Carter. If I
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Speaker 8: hear you trying to break out or call for help
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Speaker 8: before we're out of the building, I'll shove this knife
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Speaker 8: right through Miss Bowen's back.
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Speaker 3: Locked in the bedroom of William Jenkins's flat, Lick his
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Speaker 3: Hammond leave with and he knows that Hammond won't hesitate
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Speaker 3: to kill her if any attempt is made at a rescue.
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Speaker 3: We'll find out what happens in just a moment. Now
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Speaker 3: for the conclusion of the case of the Tattooed Cobra,
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Speaker 3: Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by new post.
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Speaker 9: War old Dutch cleanser.
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Speaker 3: Patsy walked slowly down the stairs and out the front
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Speaker 3: door of the gloomy old tenement, conscious of the knife
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Speaker 3: pressed against her back, and of the man who's ready
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Speaker 3: to use it if she attempts to break away, And.
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Speaker 9: On this tips and across the sidewalk.
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Speaker 7: You're you're not going to kill me, are you?
24:36
Speaker 9: I'm afraid I have to?
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Speaker 7: Oh please, Amon, drop it?
24:42
Speaker 9: You break it my arm?
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Speaker 6: Crop it.
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Speaker 2: Right, pat you pick it up?
24:49
Speaker 5: Got my gun office poker?
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Speaker 7: You're Nick? But where did you?
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Speaker 2: I mean how when he.
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Speaker 5: Locked me in the bedroom he overlook the fact that
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Speaker 5: the bedroom window opening a fire escape running down the
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Speaker 5: front of the building. So I climbed down the fire
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Speaker 5: escape and waited on the first floor place form until
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Speaker 5: you walked across beneath me.
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Speaker 2: Then I jumped him.
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Speaker 7: He was going to kill me.
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Speaker 5: Well, the killing days are over. Find the nearest police,
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Speaker 5: call Bocks Pessy. We'll hold him here until the police arrive.
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Speaker 7: So George Davison will get the estate after all.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's the only relative left now, Nick.
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Speaker 4: There's one thing I still want to know. What if
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Speaker 4: Hammond planned to bring in a phony here? Why do
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Speaker 4: you try to hire you to find the real one?
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Speaker 2: Self protection, Patsy.
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Speaker 5: You see, if Alex Bristol really were alive, Hammond wanted
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Speaker 5: to know it before he went ahead with the scheme.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I can see that it would have been disastrous
25:38
Speaker 4: for the real lad to show up after Hammond had produced.
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Speaker 6: A false one.
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Speaker 5: Yes, Harmon might have got away with the first murder
25:42
Speaker 5: because Davison seemed to be the only person with a
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Speaker 5: motor port.
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Speaker 2: But one killing led to another.
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Speaker 7: Uh huh, and that led to me.
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Speaker 4: I suppose he figured the state could only make him
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Speaker 4: pay for one murder, no matter how many he committed.
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Speaker 5: Yes, and when Hammond goes to the chair, he'll find
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Speaker 5: that once is plenty.
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