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Philip Marlowe: The Fox’s Tail (EP1697) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: Graham peelbox one five nine one three, Boise, Idaho eight
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  Speaker 1: three seven one five. Well, now it's time for today's
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  Speaker 1: episode of The Great Detractors Old Time Radio and the
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  Speaker 1: Adventures of Philip Marlow. The original air date the May
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  Speaker 1: twenty third of nineteen fifty and the title is the
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  Speaker 1: Fox's tail.
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  Speaker 2: Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road.
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  Speaker 2: Those who travel it wind up in the gut of
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  Speaker 2: the prisoner in early grave, there's no other end. They
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  Speaker 2: never learn.
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  Speaker 3: From the pen of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of crime
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  Speaker 3: fiction comes his most famous character in the Adventures of
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  Speaker 3: Philip Marlowe. Now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe.
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  Speaker 3: We bring you tonight's transcribe story the Fox's Tales.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, there is sometimes when the phone just never
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  Speaker 2: should have been invented. Hello marlow speaking.
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  Speaker 4: This is Arn Metcalf. You remember me?
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  Speaker 2: Oh sure, bear'still What are going to do for.
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  Speaker 4: You to meet me here at the blue Chip Bar?
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  Speaker 4: At once?
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  Speaker 2: Man, Look, I can hardly hear you speak up?
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  Speaker 4: What you are at the blue Chip Bar? Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 4: a miserable cafe on Melrose.
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  Speaker 2: Nel bl Breer.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I'm in a booth, the last one on your
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  Speaker 5: right as you went to. But be careful for we
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  Speaker 5: can't afford the seine. And please hurry, I'll pay you,
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  Speaker 5: handsome to do what or do you impersonate I did?
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  Speaker 2: The blue Chip was an indelicate assortment of stale smells.
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  Speaker 2: Surrounding pictures of Lady good diver, some without horses and
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  Speaker 2: featuring low lights, lower client tele and the lowest grade
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  Speaker 2: of bar whiskey. Against that backdrop, my new client stood
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  Speaker 2: out like a Dresen doll in a police lineup, or
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  Speaker 2: a metcalf in spite of the electricity in his voice.
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  Speaker 2: There's only five and a half feet tall, couldn't have
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  Speaker 2: weighed more than one hundred and thirty pounds, including the
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  Speaker 2: glitter of honorary fraternity pin dangled from his watchchair. It
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  Speaker 2: was maybe fifty ball, wore glasses halfway down a long nose,
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  Speaker 2: and at the moment it was as nonchalant as a
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  Speaker 2: five inch firecracker with a sputtering fume.
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  Speaker 4: Sit down, Sit down, Listen to Cathleen.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be hot in here, but go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: I am representing a man named Kuban in a lawsuit.
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  Speaker 4: Rudolph Kuban. He's a manufacturing chemist, Hungarian bourn at present
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  Speaker 4: phil in a sanitarium. The nervous system.
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  Speaker 2: Will take just so much name I know, and look
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  Speaker 2: this Rudolph Kuban is suing or being sued, which is suing.
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  Speaker 4: And nobody less than his former employer the eminent Justin Shepard.
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  Speaker 2: Justin Shepard. He turns out cosmetics. Doesn't he make up lipstick?
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  Speaker 2: That kind of stuff?
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  Speaker 4: Hey? Yes, stuff Mollow, which includes a new and revolutionary
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  Speaker 4: neo polish that's worth a fortune.
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  Speaker 2: Which was invented by your client and stolen phone by
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  Speaker 2: Justin Sheppard.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly. We're suing for two upre and fifty thousand dollars
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  Speaker 4: in damages Mallow, but we'll settle out of court for
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  Speaker 4: one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in cash.
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  Speaker 2: Hell not as simplest. Now the trial field has Oh wait, what's.
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  Speaker 4: Some brandy? Please? Comeya the kid?
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, all right, Junior, two beers skip the shadow.
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  Speaker 2: We gotta catch a train. Okay be So yeah what
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  Speaker 2: not awful? You were talking about the trial arm?
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  Speaker 4: Oh yes? Now the whole point field is that every
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  Speaker 4: witness we had at the outset have so far either
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  Speaker 4: been bought off or frightened away by Shepherd and his
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  Speaker 4: crew with one exception.
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  Speaker 2: You're raising the hole. Huh.
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  Speaker 4: Yes. A man named Max Redmond. He worked with Rudolph
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  Speaker 4: Kuvian years ago in Chicago when Kuvian first perfected the
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  Speaker 4: lacquer base which makes the neopolis farming most valuable. Redmond's
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  Speaker 4: testimony could have swung everything all away, and justin Shepard
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  Speaker 4: found this out.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, a minute, what do you mean could
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  Speaker 2: have arm Hey, yeah, we're even.
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  Speaker 4: Now. Mallow the dead man I spoke and Max Redmon
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  Speaker 4: are one and the same. Shepherd murderer. It worse, he
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  Speaker 4: drove Max Redmond to suicide. Mallow the man shot himself.
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  Speaker 2: An hour ago. I don't follow that well.
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  Speaker 4: Redman was staying here in La with his wife. I'll
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  Speaker 4: tell you the address in a moment. It's nearby. And
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  Speaker 4: although neither Shepherd nor his cronies ever got to see Redmond,
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  Speaker 4: they knew where he was and where he came from.
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  Speaker 4: With that, they went to work black Mauron. Oh, yes,
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  Speaker 4: years ago, Redmond got in a jam. I had no
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  Speaker 4: idea what it was, something he was conscious stricken about,
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  Speaker 4: and Shepherd uncovered it then got through to Redmond on
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  Speaker 4: the phone. He struck home.
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  Speaker 2: His blackmail price was Redmond's silence and.
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  Speaker 4: Right you up. Shepherd told him to get out of town.
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  Speaker 4: But when I talked to Redmond an hour ago, he
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  Speaker 4: was positive that Shepherd would demand more in the future.
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  Speaker 4: Redmond was already Hystericnes said he wished he'd never heard
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  Speaker 4: of me or Rudolph Kuvia, and then he hung up. Well,
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  Speaker 4: when I got to his apartment, I found him dead,
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  Speaker 4: shot by his own hand. His pistol is aside. It
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  Speaker 4: was offer. Yeah, tell me Arin, what about Redmond's wife Bill?
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  Speaker 4: Her name is Louise, as she's out of town right now.
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  Speaker 4: He was afraid for her and made her go away.
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  Speaker 4: Yet any read Phil, You see what I'm getting out,
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  Speaker 4: Jo Jordan. The reason I want you to work for me?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. Shepperd and his buddies don't know
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  Speaker 2: Redmond's killed himself. And if I give the impression by
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  Speaker 2: posing his Redmond that he's still alive and not leaving town,
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  Speaker 2: Shepperd will figure that his black Man angle didn't work. U.
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  Speaker 2: He'll get together with you and settled before tomorrow morning,
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  Speaker 2: when Redmand would have taken the witness stand.
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  Speaker 4: Precisely filled one hundred and a half settlement as against
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  Speaker 4: the court. Award of a quarter of a million means
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  Speaker 4: a saving of one hundred thousand dollars to Shepherd, he'll
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  Speaker 4: pay it as long as he thinks Redmond's still alive
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  Speaker 4: and willing to testify him.
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  Speaker 2: Where now will you do it, Marlowe poses Redmond. Eh,
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  Speaker 2: there's one thousand dollars in it by him. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know a thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 4: Villa and Rudolph Coubion helped us in the sanitary and
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  Speaker 4: Max Redmond.
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  Speaker 2: It's an awful lot to turn down, isn't it? I
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  Speaker 2: thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Now, then here's the deal.
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  Speaker 2: What a man? How about it?
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  Speaker 6: The new questions?
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  Speaker 4: Every minute counts. Now. I have got Redmond's top code
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  Speaker 4: right here. Now you put it on when you leave.
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  Speaker 4: And here are the keys to his apartment. It's the
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  Speaker 4: Garden Court Apartments on South Ogden, South Arkman. Yes, right now,
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  Speaker 4: you sneak inside. Then a minute later, very obviously, go
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  Speaker 4: out again. Get into his car. It's a new green ash.
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  Speaker 4: Drive up into the Hollywood Hills along Lookout Road. Why
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  Speaker 4: there were Redmond drove up there a lot. Now later,
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  Speaker 4: return to the apartment. You'll probably be followed, as Redmond
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  Speaker 4: always was, and the man would be big and muscular
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  Speaker 4: and in the black coupet. Now once they know that Redmond. Ah,
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  Speaker 4: but that's you, of course, yes, sure doesn't intend to
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  Speaker 4: leave town. There may be an attempt in your life,
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  Speaker 4: so watch your step getting killed as Redmond destroys the
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  Speaker 4: illusion we're out to create.
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  Speaker 2: That's not all it destroys. Eh may destroy me, it
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  Speaker 2: played his outline. A minute after, I drove Redman's car
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  Speaker 2: out of his garage and conspicuously signaled a left turn
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  Speaker 2: with a plaid sleeve. I picked up my escort. His
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  Speaker 2: headlights stayed in my rear view mirror all the way
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  Speaker 2: along Sunset Boulevard and then up into the hills a
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  Speaker 2: long lookout road. I drove slowly until I cleared a
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  Speaker 2: half in turn and spotted a flat open lot about
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  Speaker 2: one hundred yards ahead into my right. It overlooked the
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  Speaker 2: city below and was dotted with cement bags, piles of lumber,
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  Speaker 2: and bulldozer that had gone to bed hours ago. I
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  Speaker 2: swerved off the road, sharply, cut my lights and part
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  Speaker 2: close to the edge of the cliff. Then I piled
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  Speaker 2: out of the car and quickly set up the oldest
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  Speaker 2: trick in the book. I took off the plaid coat,
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  Speaker 2: tossed it over a shoulder high board jetting out of
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  Speaker 2: a lumber pile, topped it with my hat, and ran
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  Speaker 2: for cover behind the bulldozer. I got there just as
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  Speaker 2: the black coup pulled in, cut its lights and round
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  Speaker 2: it was stopped. Then I saw something big and beefy
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  Speaker 2: get out and saw at the coat and ugly snub
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  Speaker 2: nosed gun in hand. I reached my thirty eight and
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  Speaker 2: slowly moved through the ankle beaque weeds until I was
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  Speaker 2: only a few feet behind him. When he fired at
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  Speaker 2: the coat, I was only inches away. What does that
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  Speaker 2: make it my turn? Don't try it. You're not Redmond
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  Speaker 2: and not a lot of people. Drop your gun. Go on,
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  Speaker 2: what are you gonna do? I'll ask the questions. What's
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  Speaker 2: your name? Gaffy? Working for Justin Sheppard? No, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: I was just you're just a liar. That's nothing compared
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  Speaker 2: to what's in stuff for you. No, I worked for Shepherd,
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  Speaker 2: all right, And you were tagging me thinking I was
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  Speaker 2: Redmond to see if I was going out of town.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I had orders to knock your I mean,
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  Speaker 4: knock Redmond off if he didn't go straight for the airport.
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  Speaker 4: That's all, honest. I don't know anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Get up, walk over to that tube in there, open
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  Speaker 2: it and get in. Go on, go on, keep moving
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  Speaker 2: and keep your hands open. All right. I want to
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  Speaker 2: have a little chat with Justin Shephard's home address. What
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  Speaker 2: is it? He ain't got one.
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  Speaker 7: He stays at the hotels.
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  Speaker 2: Right now.
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  Speaker 4: It's the BigMan Plasant, Beverly Hills. Now quick, but yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that's all I know.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, sure you see here. I believe you. You've got
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  Speaker 2: such anonymous face for a killer sweet dreams bust in.
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  Speaker 8: Two dozen gladiolas and one dozen golden eye wrists. Yes,
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  Speaker 8: and deliver them here to the desk of the Featman
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  Speaker 8: Plaza Hotel. No, it's not in Santa Monica. It's in
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  Speaker 8: Beverly Hills.
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  Speaker 2: It has been for years.
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  Speaker 4: Goodbye, stupid good people.
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  Speaker 2: They're just everywhere, aren't there.
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  Speaker 4: Indeed, may I help you, sir?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I was looking for mister Justin Shepherd. Is he in?
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  Speaker 8: Oh yes, sir, you could almost reach out and touch him. No,
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  Speaker 8: that's he over there reading the paper in the Louis
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  Speaker 8: fourteenth chair.
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  Speaker 4: You see the short.
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  Speaker 8: Round man to one side of that woman wearing that
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  Speaker 8: stunning taffata. Stunning taffaa.
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  Speaker 4: You see it's applicated with those bright red roses.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I couldn't miss him. Turn right at the
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  Speaker 2: stunning taffa.
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  Speaker 8: Goodbye, You're quite welcome welcome and dee goodbye, mister Shepherd.
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  Speaker 7: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: My name is Philip Marlow. I'm a private detective. I've
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  Speaker 2: heard of you.
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  Speaker 7: Huh, what's on your mind? Mister Marlow?
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  Speaker 2: A chemist? What about him? What does he have to
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  Speaker 2: do with me? Earl Geffney who?
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  Speaker 4: Who?
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  Speaker 7: Who is Earl Geffney.
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  Speaker 2: Alaos who missed? Like the rest of them will? Max
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  Speaker 2: Redmond is still alive and I intend to keep him
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  Speaker 2: that way. Good night, mister Shepherd, see you in court.
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  Speaker 2: The effect was great. The fat Man's mouth fell open
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  Speaker 2: and his chins jellied all over his chest. I let
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  Speaker 2: it go at that. The illusion was established. As far
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  Speaker 2: as Justin Sheppard and company were concerned. Max Redmond was
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  Speaker 2: very much alive and kicking up the kind of trouble
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  Speaker 2: that they didn't want. But twenty minutes later, when I
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  Speaker 2: let myself into the dead Man's apartment and walked into
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  Speaker 2: his bedroom, I knew the illusion was only an illusion.
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  Speaker 2: Max Redmond's body was sprawled at a crazy angle across
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  Speaker 2: the bed. I wondered what he could have possibly done
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  Speaker 2: to take this easy way out. I stopped wondering when
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  Speaker 2: the front door closed was a woman the deepest brown
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  Speaker 2: eyes I've ever seen?
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  Speaker 6: What are you doing here?
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  Speaker 4: Who are you?
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  Speaker 2: My name is Max Redman.
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  Speaker 6: You're lying? Where is Max?
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  Speaker 2: Tell me where is he? He's in the bedroom. You're
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  Speaker 2: a friend of his.
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  Speaker 6: I'm his wife, and I'm going to speak to him.
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  Speaker 6: Don't try to stop me.
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  Speaker 2: I won't missus, Redmond, go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: In just a moment, the second act of Philip Marlowe,
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  Speaker 3: but first Bing Crosby climaxes his season on seebe has
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  Speaker 3: this Wednesday night with a terrific lineup of top talent
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  Speaker 3: Arthur Godfrey, Bob Hope, Perry Como, and the four Crosby
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  Speaker 3: sons who've attracted nationwide attention as his guests earlier this year.
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  Speaker 3: Bing Arthur Godfrey, Bob Hope, Perry Como and the youngsters
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  Speaker 3: will be heard in a great musical round up with
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  Speaker 3: the season's top tunes. So be listening this Wednesday when
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  Speaker 3: on most of these same CBS stations, The Bing Crosby
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  Speaker 3: Show comes along with these top guests.
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  Speaker 2: Now with our star Gerald Moore.
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  Speaker 3: The second act of Philip Marlowe and Tonight's story The
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  Speaker 3: Fox's Tale.
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  Speaker 2: Louise Redman's Dog Troubled Eyes stared at the bedroom door
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  Speaker 2: for an instant, and she dotted past me and inside.
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  Speaker 2: When she saw him, she froze her eyes on the
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  Speaker 2: gun at the bed man's side. One hand trembles to
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  Speaker 2: the mud. Hang out of yourself, baby, Max, Max?
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  Speaker 6: Why did you do it?
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 2: Has Bean had proof that a fed buzzard named justin
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  Speaker 2: Shepherd's swindle of forces from Rudolph Couvian, an old friend
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  Speaker 2: of his, was going to offer that proof tomorrow morning
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  Speaker 2: in court.
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  Speaker 6: He wouldn't kill himself because of that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there must have been something in his past that
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  Speaker 2: he couldn't live with any longer. Do you know what
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  Speaker 2: it was? Louise?
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  Speaker 6: I don't believe any of this. You were in here
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  Speaker 6: posing as Max. You're responsible for his death.
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  Speaker 2: You want to get away? Give me that gun. That's better.
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  Speaker 2: It's smart enough to give in fast. Anyway. I sit
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  Speaker 2: down over there and listened. Are you?
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  Speaker 6: Who are you?
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  Speaker 2: And Philip Marlow hired by Iron Metcalf. You know him? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: he found Max like that. They couldn't let Shepherd know
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  Speaker 2: that the case against him was dead, so he hired
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  Speaker 2: me to keep up the illusion that Max was still
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  Speaker 2: alive and wrong. Medcalf is sure that sheper will crack
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  Speaker 2: before morning. We'll need your cooperation, Louise. How about it?
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  Speaker 9: When you took that gun away from me, you smashed
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  Speaker 9: my only picked Max. You couldn't even leave me that intact.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I know it's going to be tough on
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  Speaker 2: your baby, but hey, wait a minute, Wait a minute, Louise.
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  Speaker 2: Did did Max write that on the picture there?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, to my Louise, who love Louise?
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  Speaker 2: Listen to me now this backhand script was Max left handed? Yes?
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  Speaker 4: But what is it?
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  Speaker 2: He was shot in the right temple.
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  Speaker 6: You mean that someone killed him?
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  Speaker 2: That's the general idea.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, justin Shepard, the man Max intended to testify against.
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  Speaker 2: Unless he's a lot slicker than I think. But he
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  Speaker 2: has an assistance. A tough one named Kaffney was watching
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  Speaker 2: this place when I took over. If he did it
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  Speaker 2: then followed me, wouldn't have had a chance to report
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  Speaker 2: to his boss.
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  Speaker 6: I don't understand. Followed you where.
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  Speaker 2: Under that a lot on Lookout Road where Max liked
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  Speaker 2: to go. I caught Gaffney there and filed him away
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  Speaker 2: in a tool ben. I better go and have another
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  Speaker 2: check with that boy right now. You wait here? Now, look, baby,
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  Speaker 2: we can't quit. You've got to finish the job Max
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  Speaker 2: started for his old friend Kobe. And better than that,
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  Speaker 2: maybe we can get Max's killer too. Are you a game?
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  Speaker 9: I'll do what you say.
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  Speaker 2: Because I went out to Redmond's car, several things bothered me,
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  Speaker 2: and not the least of them were Louise Redmond's dog
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  Speaker 2: deep eyes. When I got in the car, I felt
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  Speaker 2: the pistol that he killed Max. It was in my
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  Speaker 2: pocket where I dropped it after I'd taken it away
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  Speaker 2: from the girl. I pulled it out and looked at it.
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  Speaker 2: It was a Belgian Browning seven sixty five automatic. I
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  Speaker 2: broke it apart, and then on a hunch, I slipped
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  Speaker 2: it back together, got out of the car again and
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  Speaker 2: took the gun up to Louise.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know much about guns.
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  Speaker 2: Mother, Well, you may have to do his point at Louise.
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  Speaker 2: The threat will probably be enough in case it isn't.
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  Speaker 2: That's the safety catch there on the side. I'll be
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  Speaker 2: back as soon as I can. When I pulled out
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  Speaker 2: onto the vacant hilltop lot, I sented the tool bin
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: in the headlights. I was out of the car and
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: wading through the foot high foxtail grass before I noticed
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: the feet. The stick I'd shoved through the hasp was
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: now on the ground. I ran the rest of the
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: way and jerked a little open. Gaffney was gone. I
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: started to close the lid, but stopped at something in
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: the bottom of the bin. It like the coiled rattlesnake bitter.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: It was a glistening, sticky puddle, and it was blood
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: screaming down from a hollow beside the lot. I ran
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: to him. Saw two kids in the park car, scared
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: stiff and staring into a tangle of brush in front
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: of them.
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: There's a man down there.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: He's hurt, badware.
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: Show me in that brush.
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: We both saw he stood up just a second ago,
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: and he started tortoise. It was flood all over and
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: then he fell down again.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Okay, get your girl out of here, get back to
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: your car.
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: Okay, mister, hey, holy cats, you're Philip Marlows, the detective.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, your picture.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: All right, Be a good fan and stay out of
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: the way. The guy's dangerous.
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: Go on, yo, Okay, come on, m.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Jeffy, who did it? Jeffey, It's just.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: What I just spill him?
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: Who? Who know who? Yeah?
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: Hey, mister Moller.
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: Hey, mister Moller, did you Did you find him?
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: Mister Moller?
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I found him, so he's dead.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: Holy care, I.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Love doing me a favor. Will you get to a
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: phone report this to the police. They'll not get in
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: touch with him as soon as I can.
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: Okay, who show, mister Moller, you're right away.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Next step had to be justin Shepherd's hotel, and now
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: I had more to go on and a couple of
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: hints from left field. As I pulled up in front,
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: I saw a Shepherd behind sixteen cylinders of imported limousine,
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: swinging away from the curve. It seemed in no particular hurry,
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: so I tailed him far enough to realize that he
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: could be heading Max Redmond's apart, and I set off
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: through the side streets wide open, get back to the
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: apartment in time to brace Louise for Shepherd's visit.
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: But Marlow, what can I do? Maybe I.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Maybe I better let him in?
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: Go ahead, Yes, stand aside, young woman, I'm coming in.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Please do Shepherd.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: You again?
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Nice of you to drop in. What have you got
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: in the bag lunch?
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: Don't be facetious and don't worry.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: It's all here. I know when I'm beaten.
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: I suppose it would be quite pointless to ask where
• 21:50
  Speaker 7: Redmond himself.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: Is completely pointless of this, late Dad, very well, and.
• 21:55
  Speaker 7: I assume I am to leave this with you. That's right,
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: It had better be right, my book, believe me, good night.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: In just a minute. How come you're running your own errands?
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: You took care of that yourself earlier tonight. You're a
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: competent man.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: You should be working for me. Working for you has
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: its drawback, Shepherd, But you must at Gaffney didn't die
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: right away.
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: Gasney's dead.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Be careful, hey, live long enough to tell me it
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: was framed, Shepherd by you. When you can prove that,
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: I'll be at my hotel.
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: But I advise you not to push your luck.
• 22:37
  Speaker 9: Man.
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: You let him walk out.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the guy was right, baby. So far we've got
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: no proof of any of it except this bag. And
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: whatever is.
• 22:48
  Speaker 9: Money, Why it's filled with bundles of bills.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Big ones, at least at least one hundred grand. Holy
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: excuse me, will.
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: Who are you called?
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Somebody will be very interested in this. You just wait
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: and see.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: Medcalf speaking iron.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: This is Marlow. I'm at the Redmond place. And get
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: this justin Shephard walked in here, dumped one hundred thousand
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: bucks on the table and left again not a half
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: minute ago.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, White, so bribe. We've got him pilled, We've got him.
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: Don't catch it. I'll be right there.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, Wait a minute, there's more on. Louise.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Redmond came back.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: Louise in the middle of this mess.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: She's here now.
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: It must have been rough on her to find Max.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Worse than you think, because that's still not all. What
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: do you mean that you can bet your briefcase on
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: the fact that Max didn't kill himself in the first place.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: He was murdered.
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: Shit tight, I'll be right there.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Come money in Aaron, the money, Marlo, Where is it
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: in the bag there on the table?
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, excellence, iron bound evidence less will We'll have this
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: and pounded right away. Oh oh, missus redmin. I can't
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: tell you how Surrey I am, my dear, thank you.
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: Mister Medcalf.
• 24:09
  Speaker 9: But I'm grateful to you and to mister Marlowe here
• 24:11
  Speaker 9: that Max's death wasn't entirely without purpose.
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: At least what about that, Phil? Can we prove he
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: was murdery?
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Hell? The bullet entered his right temple, but he was
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: left handed. That's about all we got.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: As simple as that, And yet it went by me completely.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: I doubt we can stick anybody for it.
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: Why not not?
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Because his killer may be already already what m oh
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: already dead?
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: Another killing? But what are you talking about?
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Man one? Earl Geffney, Shepherd's gentle assistant. I locked him
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: in a tool ben, but somebody found him there.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: And shot him. Keep him quiet, justin Shepherd himself. Surely. Now, look,
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: if we can't get him for Max, we'll nail him
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: for Geffney.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Don't count on it.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: Hey, listen, we've got that fat lizard right, will we
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: want him now?
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: First, First of all, it won't fit on if Shepherd
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: sent Gaffney to get Max then killed Gaffney. Why did
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: he bring all this dough here to bribe a dead man? Well,
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: she'll making sense for I know you'd say it. Okay,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: try this faside. Max Redman never intended to testify in court.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: He wasn't after a legal settlement because then the money
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: would go past him to Rudolph Kuvian. This bribe here
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: is all Max was after.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: But somebody was in it with him, you're crazy. How
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: dare you say she's right?
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Mallow? Now you're talking like a fool, am I Max,
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: no doubt, got into a beef with this partner over
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: the split of the bribe and was shot. That's a guess, Sarn.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: But this isn't Gaffney got it because Max's killer couldn't
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: figure how much Gaffney had heard and seen in here.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: He couldn't take a chance. You see, but weather killed.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Gaffney had to wade through the same weeds I did
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: in that vacant lot to get to him. And most
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: of the weeds out there are foxtail grass, you know,
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: the kind that comes off on your clothes. It sticks
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: in your socks like little darts. That's right, Arn, Take
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: a look your our giles are loaded with the stuff.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: I don't have to look. You're a bright boy, Phil. Thanks,
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: it went just as you outlanded up to this point.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry you got so much of it right. Because
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: you can't think of everything.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: You might be surprised. Don't reach for your gun, er
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: and I'll drop you. It was a filthy scheme. Come on,
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: hand it over your gun.
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: Well shoot here now you drop it, Malow.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Go on, Well, the heart broken little wife with the
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: very same.
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: Gun you so generously gave me.
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: That's what I meant, Malow. You can't think of everybody.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: Louise and I are going away tonight together and we're
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: taking that money with the sand steel Mallow.
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: I know more about guns than I pretended.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Sure you do. Sure I had a hunch about you
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: early tonight. Baby, Your homecoming was too pat you know what.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: It didn't bring back so much as an overnight bag.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: And what's more, when I took that gun away from you,
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: you practically handed it to me. You're acting all the
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: way I'm not now.
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: Louise, shoot him, shoot, shoot his hands, shoot the gun on.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: And it shoot pulling. I took one of the parts
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: out before I gave it back to you, sweetheart. You
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: couldn't make that go off with a blow. Help me,
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: that's right. Iron helped the lady.
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: Larren.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Believe me, sister, you'd get the same thing right now,
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: But for one good reason, I'm going to meet your
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: intact net car tomorrow morning. By the time the police
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: showed up or on Medcalf Dynamic Barrister and Louise Redmond
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Beautiful Dreamer were already coming apart at the scenes. Two
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: hours later, when I finally got away from it, it
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: was still screaming hysterical insults at each other. Before I
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: went home, I stopped by the sanitarium just long enough
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: to shake hands with Rudolf Kouban. Will turn out to
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: be a nice, quiet, thoughtful old guy, and I assured
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: him of a fair shape that was long overdue. I
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: guess it made him happy. It was hard to tell,
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: because the look on his face said that maybe the
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: real price in things other than money had been much
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: too high. Yeah, that's the way it is with some characters.
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