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The vast majority of Saint episodes that are in circulation come from Vincent Prices nineteen
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fifty to fifty one running the role over NBC. However, this was actually
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his That was his third season as the Saint. His first was actually in
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Los Angeles over can X radio station, the local CBS affiliate that we have
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heard mentioned in some recent episodes. I'm not going to talk about lost episodes,
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titles or titles after this that were lost because we'd be here all a
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month reading them There were fifty one episodes in this run, which began on
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July ninth of nineteen forty seven and concluded on June the thirtieth of nineteen forty
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eight. This particular program is from October fifteenth of nineteen forty seven, and
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it's important to note that Price's brand as a horror actor hadn't been fully established,
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and at this point he was just a very much an up and coming
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Hollywood star who played a variety of different roles. I won't mention the title
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of today's episode just because it actually gives away the plot. So here now
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from October fifteenth, nineteen forty seven, is the Saint ticking easy never read,
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picture The robin Hood of BT and fime y'all comes to radio. Pay was
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greater than telling it got there, distant pipe says the thanks come in.
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Oh it's you again, asked me, ain't that's gonna be back? Answer?
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And I told you what the answer would be. The guy I like
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this town. I'm going to stick around a few more days and finished up
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my business here, like I said, saying it ain't your business. And
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the forces up the place to five grand for you to skip five grand,
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ain't test to leave Donald forget you ever been here? That's not my price.
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And the guy, I don't know what do you won't make an offer.
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I want the man who killed John Daniels Daniels treasure department guy. Yeah,
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what are you guys to do with him? He is a friend of
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mine. I want the boy to cut him down. The guy and he's
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one boy you ain't gonna get saved. Oh oh, the big shot that
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he didn't tell big shot did it? Is shot? And then I'll settle
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for him settled in your grave. First, you're gonna have to make an
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awful lot of first down step across that goal line. Mischief templing, Oh,
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I've got some take place. I expect to use reception against power sometimes
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works. The guy, they always says, Julius smart, I guess I
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heard wrong. Even guns toping, Uh, well just wait. You see
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what you gotta go through before you even get within hot calling distance is a
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big shot? What do you see? And to top it up, they
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ain't put two guys in this county, but know who he is? Who
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is the two my guy? Say, Martinians show the best undertakers. And
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who are the two guys who know who the big shot is? And the
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guy I'll come localos to say this gun's pitch poison flood poison man. That
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done looks good on you, the guy. They sort of rounds out the
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picture of what the well dressed bumb is wearing. This Jesus, say what
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you are saying. I'll show you what the well dressed snooper wears in its
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time, a preparated best keep back, thank you. I'll ask the lethal
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hardware that my collection the guard and if you don't got the sort of conversation
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piece. I want to hear you go into my collection too. I don't
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know, I know, but I'm not interested in your lack of formal education.
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It's the name of two people I'm concerned with. I don't know my
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arm look on my name. It was his name. She knows only thame
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me ever went for same name. Quite Rose ghosts to me. I'll figure
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if you don't the other name el Boston Alp. Yeah, I let go
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very well, My god, Rose hearing an elbow, I want to see
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it. So I ain't scoring. I guess this team, but I heard
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you the guard now that my old grandmother used to stay out for. Am
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out scared. I'm coming, Do I know you? Not yet? Rose?
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Come now? Rose? Is if the light to shut the door on
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a man. So I'll give you my word. I'm not a brush tails
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and why I haven't got a brush to one? Then I'll give you one
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strand mister I don't like super much, all right, So you're in.
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So what do we do now, Dan? Yeah, sure thing. You
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couldn't buy a song from, mate, not even a little song. A
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man's name the man behind the man behind the gun throws mister important. That's
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no small music, mister, that's the whole opera. Are you afraid of
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being? Two rounds and town? The best way to stay healthy is to
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say I'm scared of everyone. I'm even scared of you. Maybe I should
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have taken off the parking head when Halloween was over, like the rest of
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the children. You've got a bug. It's going to get you killed.
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And as you stop at the mess and the wrong kind of questions, what's
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your target anyway? By car the electric chair and I intend to dump my
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ammunition squarely in it. A man named John Daniels was killed by a man
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I'm going to meet very soon. You're dead. You're all dead. Always
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needed to make it legal for the buzzers and for you to lie down.
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Oh you're dead. As as long as I don't know, it won't hurt
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you can get better. Go. If anyone knew I was within ten yards
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of a guy has read how I do? Miss? They burned me down
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to please go? Where can I find the big shot? I never heard
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telephony? Big shot? You're bucking up the wrong tu don't. You're a
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morbid little girl? Like I said, in this town, death is always
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looking in on me. Anyone you meet can be the butcher. Even you
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don't go. I'm scared what if someone called it and they were what you
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weren't You just got into the fire STAPs. Don't get down what Rose?
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Well? Yeah, yes, I was tailed too bad. You were the
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one who had to be tagged. Well, mister Templar, I'm glad you
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decided to visit the office of the District Attorney voluntarily. It does say you're
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the embarrassment of mind picking you up, yes, mister Richard, but it
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also saves you the embarrassment of trying to pick me up. Why this sudden
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desire to entertain me, mister Richid, I'm not entertaining. I'm holding you
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for murder. I repeat why you were in the same room when Rose Taylor
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was killed out Well, the least I can do to uphold my oath of
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office, mister Templar, is to judge you as shall we say, material,
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Nice material, mister Richards. But it makes it badly sitting suit.
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Why was she killed because she was one of the two people who knew the
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name of your local head Crumbbell. She told you. I wasn't given enough
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time to convince you that she should before someone decided it was the fourth of
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July. But there are other ways to search him out and make sure he
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keeps his date, his dates, mister yeah, with the chair that men
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sit in only once I thinking John Daniels was a friend of mine from childhood.
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I was a pallbearer at his funeral, mister Richards, and so the
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bullet in his back made his coffin off the heavy. It got heavier in
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retrospect when I heard that district attorney had called the case close. Had I
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gone up every alley and they were all dead in there too many live cases
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that even my step I know. So I'm playing it my way. I've
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gone up the same blind alleys in the past few days. Now I'm in
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an alley with a freeway at the end of it. You mean you know
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who killed then? Yes, the number one, the big shot himself.
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Now all I have to do is learn his name. It is little and
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of course taking. I have to lock you up for your own safety,
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and you should, but you won't. In fact, you can now because
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I took the liberty to do a little past agency. What I told the
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newspapers that I'd be here both today to have a talk and tomorrow morning at
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ten o'clock to deliver a murderer. The people in this town might not approve
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of your not giving me the chance. All right, until ten tomorrow,
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I'll expect you, mister Templar, With or without jud I'll be here.
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I know you'll be here. The only question is will you be here dead?
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All the lot? Tampa time. Oh, you stitled me for a
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mommed I thought you were someone else, someone who couldn't possibly walk up to
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me on the street. Who her sister the late Rose Taylor's system is the
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temper? Does one call? You think? It doesn't matter? Why did
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you kill us? There's only one possible answer to that. I didn't.
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I don't believe you. No, don't reach that pocket point. Not that
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you're completely bored with life, bored. On the contrary, so far,
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my life with you has been one continual round of excitement. Next, I
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suppose you'll suggest we fly away to the couthing like that. Only I had
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the bar up the street did in mind as the laces to fly away to.
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I don't drink the people, I don't struck, So let's fly my
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way. Come and in case you're thinking of lingering. Remember I've got a
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hand on not possible, and the thing that it isn't convinced you didn't kill
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Rose. I bet it's the twenty five with the mother of Colonel Hammer.
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When it's a small gun, but when a bullets hit they feel big.
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Come where are we going? You? And you were delgate to all me
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and a mare girl with a mare twenty five. I wasn't delegated right back
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to the chelsey. I'd beg for the job because I was hoping you try
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not to come those was my own Come on, come on, one more
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question before I decide whether or not to be shot or Hi, jack whom
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are we calling us? Elbow? I'm a second he wants to see you
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rest your trigger finger. Lady, That's exactly what I feel like doing too.
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Hello, well, well, well, my old buddy is strain.
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I had Jackie bring you over because I want the warn you off that time.
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You want me to lay off and you want observing time, And I
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just smartened up. I don't fight off more than I can swallow no longer.
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I wants making the earlier rich. Who's the big bol How much you
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mean you're hell for money? Can you think of a better thing to get
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paid off in. I told you smartened up. I don't squeeze triggers for
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a living no more. Or what type of wrong doing to you specialize in?
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Now? And in terms of the big bosses books, you mean there's
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pats and cat black money and that, but that depends on how the books
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are kept. Say, I'll get a system. And the only guy knows
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who the big boy is, and I'm the only guy knows what it's says.
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It trusts me like a stimy twin that you repay hiss by Robbie.
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It's all in the record. Like I've been telling you, I smartened up.
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Nobody knows the things, but you'll tell Daniels. Look here in town
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on my private invitation. You mean you sent for the Treasury department. Sure,
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it's like this. The big boy pull was in seven figures a year
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on his businesses, and naturally he don't pay no taxes. And it's the
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whisker does a fortune to our uncle and back text stuff. Only our uncle
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don't know he's got it coming, so I thought he should. Out of
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patriotism, of course, yeah, out of patriotism. They always treated me
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so nice and leven was out of patriotism and then to understand, Yeah,
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that's what Uncle Sammy's got me in FORO for helping to catch a tax target.
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That was the boy got wise to what Daniels was up to and gave
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him one to the lungs. How fortunate he didn't get why you have?
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Yeah, but I've smartened up to I've smartened up. I think this came
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out feels black. Oh yeah, I don't expected that, Jack, How
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better get into these books? By the way, I'm going off now there
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is that a book to juggle all? Yeah, from one of the joints.
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I better opened the stuff and to this one. Hell stop it give
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out help. I told you things. Yeah, you're smartened up here,
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thing not above and old fashions. Do you think it will make you drown
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out the explosion in your ears? So you followed me, I'll stage your
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mind. Little girls who don't want to be followed? Where now number five
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and back of the evening gown, particularly the ladder. And they shouldn't carry
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bombs around either, as long as you're wearing that particular evening gown. I'm
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fine to believe you. If you did serve up the bomb, didn't you?
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Books? You know the bomb smy ow yes? If the Boston is
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deaded in the city he named himself after the other answer that one. And
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even if you wouldn't tell me, all right, you are, I'm too
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younger guy like Rose, I'm not gonna I don't know. It's amazing how
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few people in this town are knit to knowing anything. Let's the graph in
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the public school system, no fear, the nervous system. The only thing
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people in this town aren't afraid of is getting arrest. They've been cities like
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this for jackies, and in nine cases out of ten, when the local
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must believe me was eliminated. The lessons that caship, the big hunky,
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that knocking the self problems I want to just swallow through. But I was
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beginning to enjoy our conda. Also the sell number five. I noticed you
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were enjoying pleasant memory. Where are you going when a kind of safety don't
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I'm leaving Tom don't be surprised if you get a postcard of the picture of
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the Arts of Triumph. Bye jackies, and good luck the other one that
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needs the luck. Okay, getting close is a good kid. I'll get
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him with a good kid. And thanks for the night. Yes, I
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don't know what you're talking where, missus Temper? How convenient of the newspaper
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to keep its reference files open at night? Are you a professional busy body
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or have you an extra grime Tooana the busybody, mister Temper, Nor do
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I have an extra grind? Nearly a gun to shoot? Mister Temper.
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You know some days somewhere a man will come up from me and a dark
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set nearly ask me for a life, and I doubt it. I'm afraid
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you're saintly stay in this world of pears and chaos is going to exclose,
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mister dol This time you've hooked up the wrong fire. You'll see nervous.
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Who are you? Does it matter? We'll be appointed such a time or
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I just like to know who it is that I am to come back and
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walk very well. I am known to the expatingly f who know me as
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the professor. I've had guns put on me by top Frank Kirk and corners.
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But I believe you're the very first. I don't think the disillusion you,
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mister Templar, but I was merely an assistant professor. If you don't
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mind the cars over there after you, please, no jokes, I assure
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you this is the most serious matter. Come here we are you will get
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him pleased. Oh add to you? Oh no, I forgot. You're
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not in much of a mood for joking, are you? No, not
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unless the joke is mine? Like, Oh, I'm just a little hard
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to pois. You could he save yourself some pullets and I tell you to
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drive the car, Stephen, not to offer suggestion. Okay, boys,
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where to the country First? We'll go to the place, Stephen. There
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are some questions. I want mister Templer to answer, questions that may require
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us sound to crue. Oh wake up, mister Temper. Oh so there
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really is someone like you. I didn't think I deserved that bad agree re
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ready, but unbound, mister Temper. For a moment, I was afraid
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I might have been a trip for two energetic on your skull, I hate
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to both, professor, but my skull has increased before by experts. In
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fact, it has more threads than it's been good riskports than his tired in
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front of your little jokes, I see unfortunate. They must be wasted on
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me. See I'm a humorless man. So I've noticed I brought you here
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to ask you some questions. Mister Templer. I should have warned me,
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Professor. I'm afraid I didn't come prepared for a quick I have various means
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of preparing you, mister Templer. So to begin to whom did you describe
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your suspicions concerning a certain man's identity? Certain man you wouldn't be meaning the
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big man, which is a head rack. I have reason to believe you
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know who he is. Whom have you been added in? Not prepared?
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Yeah? We either question once again? Yes, but something tells me you'll
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never pay me the sixty four dollars. I can't tell you how impatient I
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am for your answers as tempt that. See, after you've finished talking,
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I have other things planned for you. How nice if you take me a
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mere stranger? In total, I this I must remember the return all your
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courtesies when you want tie me talk? Right? Is the district? Yes,
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I read about your books whom you late the Northwest Mounts by bringing in
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your men of the district Attorney's pity you won't keep the table. What is
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it, Stephen? I thought you might be wanting to know, Stephen when
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I want to Stephens the door how many times? But I tell you to
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keep it toase you're fool? Do you know how I feel about an open
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door? But once came in course, if practically ain't any this time,
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but year anyway, you'll tell me of a professor of etomology. Three Stephen?
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Three? But what before I do something? We'll both be sorry for?
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Okay, okay, Oh you know it took me a little time to
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catch onto your particular type of insanity, Professor, but I did all.
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Now you'll miss a professor of entomology a the study of insects, and you
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study them so hard, Profess, you're cracked. You're not in the classroom
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now, your students in your specimen bottles. Professor, you're in the big
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league, now, in the world series. Professor. You got to know
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everything there was to know about insects, didn't you? You knew them so
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well you became afraid of it is something to get afraid of when you turn
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your imagination loose on the touching, Professor, when you consider how many millions
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of insects there are very human beings, Why on your sleep stop it?
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And I think I just almost stop it over there? Stops business, n
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time me. If you want me to help you, you have to,
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Professor. There's the first thing to do is to get all these fall in
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fighting things out of your mind. That all you have to do is looks
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like I'll be able to keep my date with the district attorney. After all,
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my old grandmother used to say, that's to you. So you kept
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your word. Mister Templar, You're here and the lot yes done here des
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quite the obstacle course of death, Brados, I've run through and daland it
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will talk me through. I'm sorry to say I don't see your prisoner,
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mister Templer. As I recall you were to dish up the head crumb.
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I suppose you couldn't bring him in. Now I couldn't bring him in,
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you see he already was. Then I beg your pardon, don't beg my
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pardon. The Governor's you want? And you know I don't think you get
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Are you crazy? No, just blow with it. It seems being a
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district attorney is a wonderful cover up a crumb, isn't it. You're insane,
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am I? You sound insane, mister Templer, rushing in here,
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threatening to kill me, calling me a crook, and demanding money. Oh
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oh, of course, I'd be perfectly willing to forget all of these things
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and the various other offenses. I find it so cozy you'll dream up if
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you'll just quietly leave town to pretend you whenever here you mean, just forced
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from my memory some of the happiest moment in my life. Mister. Oh
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no, you're asking too much, and it looks as though we've reached a
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stalemate, unless, of course, one of us choosers to get violent.
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Once I catch a murderer, mister Richards, I leave all further violence to
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the state execution once you catch him. Templar. Right now, you seem
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to be in the disturbing position of the hunter who caught a tiger of the
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tail. Put up your hands us. Oh you mean over my head.
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You're a butt crazy professor made me keep them at my side, Templar,
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who gave me away. It was a remark I heard, mister Richards.
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I was told that the only thing in this town people aren't afraid of.
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So I checked this disc attorney's record in the newspaper files. You have an
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abolable batting average rich people. Your people were literally getting away with murder.
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How clever of you did not just control the gang because you could set them
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free, and you also control the rack. I know, but you still
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have to prove your story. Mister templar, Oh, it's already done.
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I took the trouble that witch on your calm. I'm afraid our conversation wasn't
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very now, mister Richards, our personal before the police get your high?
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Certainly is this high enough? Or shall I raise them higher so I can
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reach this chandelier? Have a nice mad mister Richard's time. Sorry I towed
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up your chandelier, but my old grandmother always brought me to put out the
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light before going to sleep. I'll sell vincent price. We'll be back in
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of our greediness to richards when he wrote these words, Oh curses lots of
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Well. The first half of the episode was very, very serious,
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and surprisingly so for The Saint, which under Vincent Price usually took a lighter
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touch, and I think we saw some of that in the second half of
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the episode, and I thought that that part was nasty don. The title
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of the episode was The Gangster District Attorney, which, as I said,
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gives away the title, so I hope you don't mind me not giving it
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to you at the beginning. Also, Jeff Chandler has another cameo. We've
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heard him in quite a few of those. We'll hear him a few months
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after we finish The Saint, when we get into Michael Shane and the New
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Adventures of Michael Shane, but at any rate that will actually do it for
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today, Join us back here tomorrow for the very last of our yours truly
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Johnny Dollar Lost episodes, and then a week from tomorrow, be sure and
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