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Dragnet: The Big Actor (EP4508) · The Great Detectives Present Dragnet (Old Time Radio)

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  Speaker 1: episode of Drag that the original air date August tenth,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen fifty and the title is The Big Actor.
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  Speaker 2: The story you are about to hear is true, only
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  Speaker 2: the names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're
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  Speaker 2: a detective sergeant. You're assigned to Narcotics Detail. A large
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  Speaker 2: hospital in your city is held up. Ten thousand dollars
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  Speaker 2: in high grade narcotics is stolen. The bandits escape.
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  Speaker 3: Your job get them.
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  Speaker 4: Dragnet the document a drama of an actual crime. For
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  Speaker 4: the next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles
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  Speaker 4: Police Department, you will travel step by step on the
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  Speaker 4: side of the law through an actual case from official
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  Speaker 4: police files, from beginning to end, from crime to punishment.
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  Speaker 4: Dragnet is the story of your police force.
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  Speaker 5: It was Monday, October twenty third. It was foggy in
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  Speaker 5: Los Angeles. We were working a day watch out in
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  Speaker 5: Narcotics Detail. My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Captain Kerney.
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  Speaker 5: My name is Friday. Was seven sixteen am when we
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  Speaker 5: got to Saint Christopher's Hospital the pharmacy.
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  Speaker 6: How do you do yes, police officer's sister. You'd like
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  Speaker 6: to see Sister Mary Benedict.
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  Speaker 7: I'm she mother's Superior sent us down to see your sister.
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  Speaker 7: We're investigating narcoti frobery.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, there been quite a few policemen here in the
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  Speaker 8: past hour. I believe it was the fingerprint men who
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  Speaker 8: had just left that minute. I have their card. Yes,
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  Speaker 8: they were from Layton Fingerprint.
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  Speaker 7: Division, Stall and the boys from Layton Prince.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, that's right, Sergeant Harland Stall.
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  Speaker 5: A sister were the investigating officers A sign of the case.
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  Speaker 5: This is Sergeant Romero. My name is Friday.
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  Speaker 8: Are you a lieutenant.
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  Speaker 6: I'm a sergeant.
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  Speaker 5: I wonder if you could start right from the beginning
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  Speaker 5: for us, Just tell us what you know.
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  Speaker 6: About the robbery.
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  Speaker 8: Well, after mass I went to breakfast, and then I
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  Speaker 8: came downstairs here to the pharmacy to open.
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  Speaker 7: Up and keep the pharmacy locked overnight.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, yes, always, we always assigned an intern on night duty.
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  Speaker 8: He has the key in case any medicines are needed
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  Speaker 8: during the night. He's authorized to issue what may be
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  Speaker 8: needed to find the doctor's request.
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  Speaker 6: Who else has a key to the pharmacy? Sister?
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  Speaker 8: Were they just three keys? Mother Superior keeps one at
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  Speaker 8: her desk, and we have one for the intern on duty, and.
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  Speaker 6: I have one all right, you want to go on.
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  Speaker 8: When I got down here this morning, I started to
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  Speaker 8: unlock the door and found it a jar or no
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  Speaker 8: lights on. I snapped on the wall switch that one.
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  Speaker 8: That's when I saw young Jimmy Lyons.
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  Speaker 7: That's the intern.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, he was unconscious on the floor. I see his
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  Speaker 8: head had been cut. He was bleeding profusely.
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  Speaker 6: What'd you do? Then?
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  Speaker 8: I call Mother Superior and she came right down. Doctor
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  Speaker 8: Spencer was summoned. He came in and started admit and
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  Speaker 8: the string aid to intern lines there on the floor.
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  Speaker 6: Was that when you find out the narcotics were missing?
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  Speaker 8: No, not just at that moment. Both Mother Superior and
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  Speaker 8: myself were quite worried about young lions condition. It's really
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  Speaker 8: Mother Superior who first noticed the narcotics safe had been Temperedly.
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  Speaker 7: Your stories don't exactly job their sister.
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  Speaker 5: How do you mean Mother Superior gives you credit for
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  Speaker 5: first noticing the theft.
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  Speaker 8: Oh my, no, she's very charitable, but she's the first
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  Speaker 8: one who pointed to the safe. She's very observant.
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  Speaker 6: I understand, go ahead, please.
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  Speaker 8: Upon checking the safe, we found that someone had taken
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  Speaker 8: our entire store of narcotics.
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  Speaker 6: Everything was that the safe over there, Yes, that's.
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  Speaker 8: The narcotic safe. Don't touch that, mister Friday. No, no, never,
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  Speaker 8: nothing is to be touched until the police have completed
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  Speaker 8: their investigation.
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  Speaker 6: Clues or were the police? Sister?
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  Speaker 8: Then do you have all the clues you need?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I wouldn't know, but the men from Latent Fingerprints
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  Speaker 5: have dusted everything here, so it's all right to touch
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  Speaker 5: things now.
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  Speaker 8: That was mister Hall on stalls men.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, that's right.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, I didn't know.
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  Speaker 7: We understand. You have the inventory list.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, I have it on my desk.
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  Speaker 7: Here, thank you.
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  Speaker 8: We keep a running inventory, so that's the exact amount.
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  Speaker 7: That's missing, Yes, ma'am, cocaine and morphine. No bird's eye,
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  Speaker 7: Jill big Hall looks like about ten thousand North like
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  Speaker 7: to have a copy of this inventory system.
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  Speaker 8: Would you take the carbon I like to keep the
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  Speaker 8: originals for my monthly five.
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  Speaker 7: That'll be fine outside of this internal lines. Nobody saw whoever?
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  Speaker 8: It was, no, Mother Superior, and I've interrogated everyone. We
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  Speaker 8: made a thorough investigation on our own. I took notes,
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  Speaker 8: that's all. Yes, that's the way father Brown does it.
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  Speaker 8: Father Brown, Oh, yes, he's an expert. Detective Brown you
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  Speaker 8: wouldn't mean Thad Brown. No, Father Brown, Father Brown. You
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  Speaker 8: people have your own detectives now, Oh my no, he's
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  Speaker 8: not a regular detective. He's more like Mother Superior and myself.
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  Speaker 6: Is that right?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, he's in England, saw some really difficult cases.
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  Speaker 6: He'll I'll show you.
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  Speaker 8: See you right here? The Triple Cross another exciting Father
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  Speaker 8: Brown mystery by G. K. Chesterton. Oh yes, I've all
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  Speaker 8: but one of the Father Brown books. But the Superior
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  Speaker 8: has it. I I get it after she finishes.
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  Speaker 6: What's the condition of the intern.
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  Speaker 8: He's resting comfortably. Doctor Spencer says he'll be all right.
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  Speaker 8: He had to take nine stitches in his scalp.
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  Speaker 6: We'd like to talk to him.
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  Speaker 8: I'm sure that'll be all right. I don't have to
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  Speaker 8: tell you. We all think this is a terrible thing.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, sister, it is.
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  Speaker 8: All those narcotics. Whoever took them all distribute.
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  Speaker 7: Them, won't they?
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  Speaker 6: Well that's our guess, sister. The stuff will be sold addicts.
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  Speaker 8: What makes a dope addict? How did they get started?
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  Speaker 8: Why do they do it?
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  Speaker 7: I don't know, sister. I give you a lot of reasons,
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  Speaker 7: none of them good.
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  Speaker 6: None of them good.
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  Speaker 8: And for a few moments of what tonight they have it,
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  Speaker 8: and tomorrow they have nothing.
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  Speaker 6: That's about the size of its sisty stars.
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  Speaker 8: Are setting and the caravan starts for the dawn of nothing.
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  Speaker 6: The Bible.
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  Speaker 8: No, Ohmark I am.
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  Speaker 5: Before we left Saint Christopher's Hospital, we talked with inturn
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  Speaker 5: James Lyons. Since he was slugged from behind, he failed
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  Speaker 5: to see his assailant, he could tell us nothing. The
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  Speaker 5: entire hospital staff was screened thoroughly. They could add nothing
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  Speaker 5: to what we already knew. Between six and seven o'clock
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  Speaker 5: that morning, ten thousand dollars worth of high grade prescription
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  Speaker 5: narcotics had been stolen somewhere in the city of Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 5: was the answer.
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  Speaker 6: As in all narcotics cases, speed is the prime factor.
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  Speaker 5: Whoever held those narcotics wouldn't waste any time diluting or
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  Speaker 5: cutting it and making.
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  Speaker 6: It ready for quick sale. Our job was to stop him.
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  Speaker 6: Five minutes past eight am, we.
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  Speaker 5: Checked in with the Sergeant Harlan's stall at Lacal Fingerprints detail.
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  Speaker 7: Not much help, is it? That's all you got? Huh?
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  Speaker 9: The safe was clean, not a print on it, no
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  Speaker 9: prints anywhere in the room. Slugg the intern from behind,
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  Speaker 9: took his keys, tore a belt, boop off his trousers,
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  Speaker 9: opened the safe of Walt Stock. Couldn't have been cleaner. Yeah,
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  Speaker 9: you didn't get anything on your end.
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  Speaker 10: Now nothing, gentlemen, cat I picked one up. Who is
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  Speaker 10: Junker by the name of bab Kellogg. He's really staying
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  Speaker 10: at seeing Steve, but he's coming out of him. Let's
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  Speaker 10: go talk to him. Check your letter stone.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, what's the story on?
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  Speaker 10: Wallace and Hunt picked him up downtown LA and was
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  Speaker 10: sitting in the park car at fourth and Broadway. I
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  Speaker 10: thought at first he was a three nineer, but they
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  Speaker 10: couldn't raise him. He's down this way.
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  Speaker 6: What else?
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  Speaker 10: Well, Wallace figure he must be geed up, so they
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  Speaker 10: roll up his sleeve to look for the spike marks.
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  Speaker 6: They found him.
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  Speaker 7: Find anything on him?
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, there were two vials of them on the seat
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  Speaker 10: behind him beside him. Prescription stuff. You got that list
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  Speaker 10: of serial numbers from the hospital, Yeah, right here, all right,
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  Speaker 10: let's go in all us sure, Kevin Friday's get a
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  Speaker 10: list of the serial numbers on that hospital highst hopped on.
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  Speaker 10: Check him against the vials you found in his car? Oh,
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  Speaker 10: here you are water, Thanks Joe, I feel babe, all right?
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  Speaker 10: Call Augus is Friday and Romero Central Division.
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  Speaker 6: I see him.
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  Speaker 7: Do you want to tell us about it? Not in
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  Speaker 7: the tail? Living high?
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  Speaker 6: Aren't you?
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  Speaker 7: Am? I unusual?
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  Speaker 6: It's not the way I get it. You're scoring good
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  Speaker 6: prescription stuff, birthday press?
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  Speaker 7: It from a friend?
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  Speaker 6: Who is it?
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  Speaker 7: I want to keep his friendship? Who's your connection?
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  Speaker 6: Babe?
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  Speaker 7: I don't know you know that morphine we picked out
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  Speaker 7: of your cars?
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  Speaker 6: Hot? Is it?
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  Speaker 7: All of it?
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  Speaker 5: Hospital pharmacy was knocked over this morning. The numbers on
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  Speaker 5: those vals of yours matchup. You're in a real gam.
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  Speaker 7: No numbers on them.
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  Speaker 6: You might as well tell us where you got it.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not gonna be a pagan for you. Nobody's asking
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  Speaker 7: me to be a fagan Kellogg. That's half hard stuff
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  Speaker 7: we don't get anybody else. It can go hard for you.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not gonna bite the hand it feeds me.
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  Speaker 10: You want to stand it alone on this one? Not
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  Speaker 10: the idea.
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  Speaker 7: I didn't say that.
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  Speaker 10: Well, one of us isn't going to go along and
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  Speaker 10: hold your hand? How about it? Who's your connection?
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  Speaker 6: All right?
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  Speaker 5: It isn't going to be a long weight Killogg as
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  Speaker 5: soon as waters gets back with those cereal numbers.
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  Speaker 6: You can play hero all afternoon.
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  Speaker 10: It will be on the twelfth floor of the kind
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  Speaker 10: of jail bed. You won't have to wait long later either,
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  Speaker 10: And mayn't you put one foot that cartro and the
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  Speaker 10: judge you'll throw you throw everything he's got at you.
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  Speaker 6: Two bottles of drug star stuff Robbery Kellogg ten thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 7: This is good, but two bottles ain't worth that much.
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  Speaker 6: And you will be show a part of it. Maybe
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  Speaker 6: you've got the rest of it at your plant.
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  Speaker 7: You got my plant nineteen thirty one, Essex.
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  Speaker 6: Four wheel breaks. Your car's being checked out.
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  Speaker 7: And finding more?
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  Speaker 6: Did you No?
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  Speaker 7: I couldn't be that lucky. You feel pretty good now,
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  Speaker 7: but you'll get a y in on.
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  Speaker 3: You won't help me.
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  Speaker 6: You never do.
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  Speaker 7: When's the last time you've helped us?
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  Speaker 6: You remember?
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  Speaker 7: It's worse than mine. I helped you.
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  Speaker 11: I helped you guys a lot. Don't you remember the
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  Speaker 11: Frank smith plant No. Nineteen thirty three, Friday Night Last.
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  Speaker 11: I'll let you right through Study's plant. Smithy didn't have
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  Speaker 11: no giza like your fun on me.
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  Speaker 7: He was a big man. We turned up four kites
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  Speaker 7: on him, not for us.
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  Speaker 6: You didn't.
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  Speaker 11: Sure I did right here in Kansas City. I'd done
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  Speaker 11: your big favorite that night, Friday night last.
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  Speaker 6: A different time, a different night. Baby.
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  Speaker 11: You're kidding in the Saint Louis singing, Steve. Yeah, don't
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  Speaker 11: kid me along. This is Kansas City. Uh, how is
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  Speaker 11: the Saint Louis.
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  Speaker 10: You're a Los Angeles babe, Los Angeles, California, your.
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  Speaker 7: Kid and Tlniard wouldn't do that to me?
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  Speaker 6: Who's Clenard?
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  Speaker 7: Eleventh and Balimar hangs out down at the Continental.
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  Speaker 6: Hotel that's in Kansas City.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, howdy, Kleinar, tough cup. He said to make a
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  Speaker 11: hut for me. You want me a Casey gave me
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  Speaker 11: a floater out of town. That's why I came here
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  Speaker 11: to Saint Louis.
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  Speaker 7: You're in Los Angeles, babe, you got it Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 7: Oh yeah, you told me I want to step outside
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  Speaker 7: of that. Yeah, stay with him? Am out all right?
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  Speaker 6: That's it checks out.
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  Speaker 12: Huh.
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  Speaker 13: Somebody cut through the serial number stamps on the vials,
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  Speaker 13: but you can still make them out. The two vials
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  Speaker 13: of morphee we found in Kellog's car, but from the
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  Speaker 13: hospital pharmasy.
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  Speaker 10: Thanks Mons Striding Freight all right, babe, Now let's cut
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  Speaker 10: out the jokes. Those two vials you had came from
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  Speaker 10: the hospital and numbers.
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  Speaker 7: Check out, No numbers on those lays.
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  Speaker 10: You know your probably didn't even look at him.
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  Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I look. No numbers on him. We found him,
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  Speaker 7: all right, Let's see how you could read them. I
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  Speaker 7: couldn't win. Somebody scratched them all Oh babe, you wouldn't know.
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  Speaker 6: Try us.
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  Speaker 7: How much he do I have to stand? If I
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  Speaker 7: take it along?
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  Speaker 10: Plenty? There was an intern slugged on that job. Hurt
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  Speaker 10: pretty bad. They're going to tag you for assault too.
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  Speaker 7: I never hurt anybody in my life.
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  Speaker 6: How do we know?
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  Speaker 7: I just told you. We don't know you didn't pull
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  Speaker 7: this job. We haven't got any proof. Oh once more,
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  Speaker 7: what's the count.
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  Speaker 10: Goes like this, babe? First degree robbery five years to life.
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  Speaker 10: I saw with a deadly weapon.
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  Speaker 7: One to ten.
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  Speaker 10: Violation of the State Narcotics Act one to fifteen. You
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  Speaker 10: can add I lose you up there. You can get
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  Speaker 10: a really on on by that time, there's no buzzing
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  Speaker 10: up at Q.
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  Speaker 7: I can't go that route. Where'd you get the stuff.
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  Speaker 7: I'd rather be a fagan than spend fifty years at
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  Speaker 7: the joint.
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  Speaker 6: You convinced this? Where'd you get it?
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  Speaker 11: Anybody turned fagan before they spend fifty years at que? No,
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  Speaker 11: I can't go that route. Where'd you get a babe
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  Speaker 11: from some joy popper who I gave him some hundred
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  Speaker 11: bucks clean me proof company? Passing himself off as a croaker?
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  Speaker 11: Spetta guy's been hitting speedballs a mile away. I knew
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  Speaker 11: he wasn't any croaker.
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  Speaker 6: What was his name?
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  Speaker 7: He was Scarne good somewhere. Oh, let's cee ciln Mary. No,
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  Speaker 7: I know what he got it? Give us his name, babe,
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  Speaker 7: he's a bit clearer and pictures. Leonard Castle wherrezy here
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  Speaker 7: my Arizona on location?
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  Speaker 10: How could to be on a location when you bought
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  Speaker 10: that stuff from this morning?
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  Speaker 7: Half the plane this morning he was on his way
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  Speaker 7: Leonard Castle? Picture?
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  Speaker 6: Act that right? You got it?
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  Speaker 7: Run it down?
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  Speaker 6: Ten am. We checked the name Leonard Castle through R
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  Speaker 6: and I. We found nothing.
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  Speaker 5: We looked in the phone book and got the number
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  Speaker 5: Garfield three seven one one, Central Casting, Central Casting, Los
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  Speaker 5: Angeles Police Department calling.
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  Speaker 6: Do you have a Leonard Castle registered with you?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, we do.
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  Speaker 6: Wonder if you could tell me if he's working.
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  Speaker 14: I have his card right here. Yes, he's working. He's
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  Speaker 14: doing crime report for Schumann Caster Independant for they're shooting
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  Speaker 14: over a sound Stages Incorporated.
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  Speaker 6: They're working today, Yes he is. You're sure that company
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  Speaker 6: is not on location?
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  Speaker 14: Oh, we have no location showing for that picture.
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  Speaker 6: Well, could you give me his call police?
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  Speaker 14: Surely he had a nine o'clock call today stage three.
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  Speaker 14: Did you wish to see mister Castle? Yeah, you shouldn't
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  Speaker 14: have any trouble locating him over there.
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  Speaker 12: We'll find him.
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  Speaker 4: You are listening to drag nets. Actual case history is
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  Speaker 4: taken from official police files.
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  Speaker 5: Ten thirty am, Central Casting gave us Leonard Castle's home
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  Speaker 5: address and detectives Long and Hunt went on immediate stakeout.
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  Speaker 5: Ben and I drove out to Sound Stages Incorporated and
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  Speaker 5: checked in at the reception desk.
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  Speaker 6: We showed them our identification.
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  Speaker 5: We were issued to pass to sound stage three.
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  Speaker 7: This is stage one. The stage three ought to be
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  Speaker 7: down there.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, a very big lad, well I was pretty small.
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  Speaker 6: Watched the truck then.
• 17:15
  Speaker 7: Think Kellogg knew what he's talking about.
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: We'll know in a couple of minutes.
• 17:19
  Speaker 7: Not very usual, joy popper pulling a job like that.
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: We all start sumwhere.
• 17:24
  Speaker 7: Huh, that's a good way to get around the movie
• 17:27
  Speaker 7: lot by say.
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: Better I walking. Sure A thick fog, isn't it.
• 17:32
  Speaker 7: Yeah, we don't have him often, but when we get him,
• 17:34
  Speaker 7: they're a real p super whatever.
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: You better hold it been red light they're shooting in it.
• 17:39
  Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I.
• 17:39
  Speaker 15: Don't see what stage five?
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: You know, couldn't tell you any fine?
• 17:47
  Speaker 7: Oh clear? What's going.
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: Interesting? A uh fella? Yeah? What if you can tellus
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: where we can find Leonard Castle?
• 18:04
  Speaker 16: Sure?
• 18:05
  Speaker 15: Rose call Lane Castle? Would you fellas want to see him?
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: Okay?
• 18:10
  Speaker 15: Lanard Castle, Lanard Castle.
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: I guess we can wait over here with the phone.
• 18:14
  Speaker 7: Huh, you'll be right here, Thank thank you. What was
• 18:17
  Speaker 7: it you call me here?
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: Gentlemen?
• 18:19
  Speaker 8: I want to see you?
• 18:20
  Speaker 7: Thanks MIDI you wanna see me?
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: Your name Leonard Castle? Yeah that's right police officers. Yeah,
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: there's someplace where we can talk. Well is this all right?
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: I gotta stick closer. I might be in the next shot.
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: Sorry. You know a fellow the name of Babe Kellogg.
• 18:35
  Speaker 7: Oh he says he knows you. Oh I never heard
• 18:38
  Speaker 7: of him.
• 18:38
  Speaker 10: Be sure, put us on a fellow George hold the
• 18:41
  Speaker 10: work fly down, flad.
• 18:45
  Speaker 7: Have to hold it a minute, their lending up the show.
• 18:48
  Speaker 10: Have to move that route about a foot and a
• 18:51
  Speaker 10: half to your right.
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: That's it.
• 18:55
  Speaker 15: Hold it right there, take a little hotter a couple
• 18:59
  Speaker 15: of times. Whoa, whoa, that's you got it acting?
• 19:04
  Speaker 7: Give me your ink? Do you think right here?
• 19:05
  Speaker 15: Camel left?
• 19:08
  Speaker 7: Al right?
• 19:09
  Speaker 15: Well, when friend Conrad crosses over the table, can you
• 19:11
  Speaker 15: have me I low? Can you bring this one down
• 19:13
  Speaker 15: about two points on the dimmer?
• 19:14
  Speaker 13: It's gone, time to get that already it's Conrad, Yes, sir,
• 19:20
  Speaker 13: take it real easy.
• 19:21
  Speaker 17: Remember you don't know your sergeant's got a clue until
• 19:24
  Speaker 17: he comes to you with alright, you're anticipating a little bit. Okay,
• 19:28
  Speaker 17: let's trying.
• 19:29
  Speaker 15: By watch that mic shadow're getting it on that wall?
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: Am I out?
• 19:32
  Speaker 15: And now not too much and give me a little
• 19:35
  Speaker 15: that's fine you Claire already alrighty try one turn him over.
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: Throw me.
• 19:43
  Speaker 15: Speed action alright you so as I get all the
• 19:48
  Speaker 15: clues up, you right, then take a batcund to time.
• 19:53
  Speaker 15: Used that broken window? That's right, that's a plastic with
• 19:56
  Speaker 15: finger pos Yeah they got on in cot.
• 20:02
  Speaker 16: Say what good?
• 20:03
  Speaker 15: What's all this flass folds?
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: You never heard of, baby Kellogg.
• 20:06
  Speaker 7: Huh, that's right. We're were you at six as luck
• 20:08
  Speaker 7: this morning? Can't you bed? You got men at your
• 20:11
  Speaker 7: place checking? What's it all about?
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: Between six and seven o'clock this morning, somebody robbed the
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: pharmacy at Saint Christopher's Hospital. The slug the intern made
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: off with over ten thousand dollars.
• 20:19
  Speaker 7: With a narcotics Yeah, if we find you were in
• 20:20
  Speaker 7: bed between six and seven, are clear?
• 20:22
  Speaker 15: Well?
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: I was anybody to back up that alibi? I guess
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: you'd know what times she generally get up.
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: Well, I don't know why she couldn't very well.
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: Back yet she was still asleep.
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: She's usually up early. Don't You said you didn't know
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: what times you got it?
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: Well?
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: I mean I don't usually know, but you knew this morning?
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: No, and you don't know, baby Kellogg.
• 20:39
  Speaker 15: Simmer down, everybody, let's have a class.
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: Fine them off.
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: What do you reading at junior?
• 20:46
  Speaker 15: Harry nine?
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: We'll make a.
• 20:49
  Speaker 15: Little hotter, a little hot at Yeah, that's it. Whoo
• 20:54
  Speaker 15: ten bus, Steve, that's it? How about it, Steve?
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: Anything?
• 20:57
  Speaker 15: Turn them over.
• 21:01
  Speaker 7: A bay action? Alright?
• 21:05
  Speaker 15: You says they get all the clues up? You right in.
• 21:10
  Speaker 8: That what I found.
• 21:11
  Speaker 15: Huh, he's of broken window.
• 21:13
  Speaker 7: That's right, that's plastic with Prince.
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we got on that.
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: Jake.
• 21:20
  Speaker 17: You said, plastered with prints, the line rates plastered with fingerprints.
• 21:24
  Speaker 17: You gotta say the whole word. They'll never know what
• 21:26
  Speaker 17: you mean. In Vancouver came yeah, yeah, hold the work,
• 21:30
  Speaker 17: keep it quiet.
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: That's really easy. Tough director, but he's a good one.
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: How long you been doing this kind of work canceling? Oh?
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: Six seven years?
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: What pictures you've been in?
• 21:37
  Speaker 7: Oh, I don't think you'd have noticed? They're mostly small parts.
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: What kind of parts you got in this picture? I
• 21:42
  Speaker 7: play a cop?
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: What would you like to do in this picture? No?
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: I mean, what's your ambition? You're gonna stand in pictures?
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: Yeah, i'd like you. I'd like to get a few
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: bigger parts if I could. It's pretty tough to try
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: and set yourself to produce her. If you can't see
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: you on the film. Money's pretty good knowing all all
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: it pends. It's a different deal in each picture you do.
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: You have an agent? No, I did have, wasn't doing
• 22:01
  Speaker 7: anything for me, so I let him go on. I'd
• 22:03
  Speaker 7: represent him.
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: That pretty hard to build any kind of a name
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: without an agent, and it.
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: All apends if you can keep up a good front,
• 22:08
  Speaker 7: nice car. That's all a constants time.
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: Do you really believe that?
• 22:12
  Speaker 7: Do you touch you?
• 22:13
  Speaker 15: Well?
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: I don't know much about it. I'm not an actor.
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: You said you didn't know bab Killong at all, didn't you?
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: You said you saw your landi at six o clock?
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: This mornt No, I didn't say that. There's the Theodo
• 22:22
  Speaker 7: or Milton director. Would you like commute?
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: What time you see your landing at this polished meltourone? Yeah?
• 22:26
  Speaker 7: Castle? When are you gonna get to meet?
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: Really?
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 22:28
  Speaker 7: Need me sho?
• 22:29
  Speaker 8: No?
• 22:29
  Speaker 7: I was still on the same thing.
• 22:30
  Speaker 15: We'll get a untle after lunch and you need to
• 22:32
  Speaker 15: stay with your free hockey.
• 22:33
  Speaker 7: What time did they break for lunch? Castle? All those
• 22:36
  Speaker 7: company of years their breaks around twelve thirty mm, it's
• 22:38
  Speaker 7: only eleven fifteen. Maybe we can go outside until the
• 22:40
  Speaker 7: director said he didn't need to why Yeah? I never
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: want to believe the director. It's so I was a
• 22:43
  Speaker 7: first assistant. We could check with him, couldn't. Well, I
• 22:45
  Speaker 7: don't like to do that. I hate ask any favorite
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: said he wasn't gonna use You didn't laugh for nne.
• 22:49
  Speaker 7: Well it isn't a good policy, didn't bother the first assistant, Well,
• 22:52
  Speaker 7: it's probably better in here anyway.
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: I didn't see any place sit on outside unless you
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: have a car in the line. You have car? No,
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: but you told us she had a car.
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: No, I didn't tell you that day.
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: I mean you said something about keeping up a good front,
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: nice car? Is that what you say?
• 23:08
  Speaker 8: Oh?
• 23:10
  Speaker 7: Oh sure, I ever cry. I don't know what I
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: was thinking about it. Yeah, I have a car.
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: I thought you said you had a car.
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: Tell you this picture. He will drive you crazy. I
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: don't know what I'm saying. If that's that, maybe you
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: made a mistake about the baby Keller, you know, No,
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: I'm sure about that. I don't know any babe cars
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: Kellot Keller. You know I I I don't know it.
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: Would you mind showing us your wallet or what for?
• 23:29
  Speaker 7: You want to see my identification? We see the wallet?
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: All right?
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah, no, you hold it? Would you open it up?
• 23:38
  Speaker 8: Can?
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: Quiet? Lady?
• 23:39
  Speaker 15: I say, okay, fair enough, right, stay all right? Nice
• 23:47
  Speaker 15: and easy? Now finger prints Jake by action at you,
• 23:54
  Speaker 15: says I get all the clues up. You're riding? How
• 23:59
  Speaker 15: about I thought it he's a broken window on. That's right,
• 24:02
  Speaker 15: it's a last for fingerprints. Yeah, we got I'm in
• 24:06
  Speaker 15: cut seven. I thought you money.
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: Let's see how much money you got in your wallet? Castle, No,
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: you voted, just counted for us.
• 24:18
  Speaker 7: Oh there it is. What about the rest of it
• 24:20
  Speaker 7: in the h oh?
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 24:22
  Speaker 7: I didn't see it?
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: All right? Counted just a few hundred here, counted all right?
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: See well I can see four fifties right there on top.
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: That's two hundred, isn't it.
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's three hundred, four hundred, four fifty. Yeah, go on,
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: I didn't know I had this much. That's two hundred
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: and fifty more, and that makes seven hundred? Didn't it
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: this morning?
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: I thought I had.
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: There's two more tens in a five there. That's seven
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: hundred and twenty five dollars castled. Yeah, doing pretty well
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: in this picture.
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: It's not all picture money, all right.
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: You can put your wallet away. Thanks.
• 24:58
  Speaker 7: If you didn't make this money on the actually where'd
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: you get it? Play a little cards this night? They
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: put your let? Yeah when you card this morning? No,
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: not even when you got up at six?
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: Did I say I got up at six? I listen
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: to Castle. You don't know what you said. But one
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: thing sure you're lying to is you know, babe Kellogg
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: and your I'm well enough to sell him two miles
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: a high grade morphine.
• 25:14
  Speaker 7: Are you're wrong about it?
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: All right? Then you set us straight. Kellogg says he
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: paid your seven hundred dollars for the stuff. You got
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: over seven hundred and your wallet. That's more you need
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: for lunch money. Now this could be a coincidence. You
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: set us straight where you're wrong, but you get the money.
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: Turn them right?
• 25:29
  Speaker 15: Stay action all right? You says, I get all the
• 25:34
  Speaker 15: clues up beat right in No, but I thought he's
• 25:40
  Speaker 15: a broken window. That's right, that's a plastic with fingers. Yeah,
• 25:45
  Speaker 15: I got on man cat all right?
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: What you get the money?
• 25:49
  Speaker 7: Casting? I told you I played card. Say, won't do
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: got the keys to your car? I can't leave it.
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: We'll get you excused. We want to look at your car.
• 25:54
  Speaker 7: No, no, don't do that.
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: All right? Then? Do you know, Babe Kellogg?
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: I don't know? Turn them mm hm.
• 26:03
  Speaker 18: Y action alright, you says, I get all the clues
• 26:08
  Speaker 18: up your right end. He's a broken window.
• 26:14
  Speaker 15: Huh, that's rights instance. Yeah, we got our man cut.
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 26:22
  Speaker 15: All the drug?
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: Do you know, Babe Kellogg, Yes, yes, I know, I
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: might know it.
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: You robbed that hospital.
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: This money I needed it. I needed the money. I
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: had to have it. I owed money. They were going
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: to take my car. I was broke.
• 26:36
  Speaker 19: What else could I do? I was sick once I
• 26:39
  Speaker 19: stayed at Saint Christopher's. I know where they kept the drugs.
• 26:41
  Speaker 19: I know if I could get him, I could make
• 26:42
  Speaker 19: some fast money. I didn't mean to hit the kid.
• 26:45
  Speaker 19: I I couldn't let him see me. He didn't have
• 26:47
  Speaker 19: to be there, did he. He didn't have to beat her.
• 26:53
  Speaker 19: I sold old Babe the stuff and the rest is
• 26:55
  Speaker 19: in the car unto the seat. I need the money
• 26:59
  Speaker 19: of it.
• 27:02
  Speaker 7: I was broke. It's broke.
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: Better get him out of here, Ben.
• 27:06
  Speaker 7: Come on, Cays.
• 27:07
  Speaker 13: That was a great reading. My name's Milton Man directing
• 27:10
  Speaker 13: this picture. You the boy's agent, No, sir, never heard
• 27:13
  Speaker 13: him read better. Funny thing though, Yeah, in front of
• 27:16
  Speaker 13: the camera he goes to the dogs.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: The story you've just heard was true, only the names
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: were changed to protect the innocent.
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: On January twenty eighth, trial was held in Superior Court
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: Department ninety one, City and County of Los Angeles, State
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: of California in a moment the results of that trial.
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: And now here is our star, Jack Webb, Thank you
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: the working detective. In reaching the solution of a crime
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: depends on the combined efforts of many minds in many hands,
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: the crime lab, state and federal peace officers, and you,
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: the citizens.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: Ladies, and gentlemen. Starting Thursday, August twenty fourth, that's two
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: weeks from to night, Dragnet will be heard one hour
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: earlier at nine p m. Eastern daylight saving time.
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: Leonard Francis Castle was tried and convicted at first degree
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: robbery and violating the State Narcotics Act. He received sentences
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: as prescribed by law. Alfred Babe Kellogg was convicted of
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: violating the State Narcotics Act. Both men are now serving
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: their terms in the state penitentiary. You have just heard
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: Dragnet a series of authentic cases from official files. Technical
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police W. H. Parker,
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: Los Angeles Police Department. Sarah Berner is delightful in Sarah's
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: Private Caper. Next on NBC.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Welcome Back. The movie scene is one of the more
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: extended beds of portraying the police operating in a real location.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: It's even more extensive in the TV version of The
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Big Actor, which we will be playing for you next
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: year on Video Theater. Michael Hayde in his book My
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Name Is Friday wrote about how on the set of
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: He Walked By Night, Jack, Web was everywhere really curious,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: trying to understand everybody's job and how movies worked and
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: were made inside out, and that obviously contributed to that scene,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: as some sources that Web made uncredited contributions to this
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: particular episode, and I definitely feel that it was around
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: the movie scene. Now, of course, I do want to
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: express the hope that our listeners in Vancouver aren't insulted
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: by the director, assuming that they were the type of
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: people who would not understand that when the police officer said, Prince,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: he met fingerprints. I think that the bit with interrogating
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: the long term attic was one of those really subtle
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: but powerful illustrations of how drug use looks over many,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: many years of abuse, and I think it was well
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: played and also avoided being overplayed. Now we come to
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: the most annoying dragnet moment that doesn't involve Friday and
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: his partner sitting around a table in a Mountain cabin
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: talking about community relations. And that is the Father Brown bit,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: which you know only a few seconds, but it bothers
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: me every time I hear it. And I'm going to
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: talk about it here because I don't want to talk
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: about it on the video theater version, because this is
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: more of a core story research issue, because Dragnet is
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: so well researched. When they do something that just is
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: the complete opposite of being well researched, it's bothersome. It
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: feels like Jim Moser or maybe Jack Webb was aware
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: that Father Brown existed and wanted to name drop him
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: because they were dealing with a Catholic hospital, but hadn't
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: read the books or couldn't be bothered to understand anything
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: about them. So what can we say? Well, first of all,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Father Brown wasn't known for using a notebook. He had
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: a much more philosophical approach to detection coupled with an
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: understanding of human nature, not a procedural approach that you
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: could copy in the case of somebody snatching some drugs
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: from a pharmacy. Second, the Triple Cross is not a
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Father Brown book. It also implied by the title that
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Father Brown had novel length adventures when he was actually
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: featured only in short stories. And the thing is that
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Moser could have made up a crime fighting priest with
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: a non to have read and it would have worked fine.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: But highlighting Father Brown as written by G. K. Chesterton
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: without even bothering to find out the title of a
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Father Brown book is just sloppy and uncharacteristically so for
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: this series. With that out of the way, we turn
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: out a listener comments and feedback. France Adam is heman
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: rights over on Spotify. Apparently Joe Friday gets his sense
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: of human from his mother's side. And then we have
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: an email from rich and rich writes, Joe Friday needs
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: dating lessons. Hi, Adam, I just listened to today's Dragonet
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: episode with Joe Friday and his policewoman date. Why would
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: he need to use his last name when calling Dorothy
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: the morning after they go to the movies together and
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: she leaves.
• 33:24
  Speaker 6: Her person his car.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: That guy needs to loosen up a little bit. Thanks
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: for the great podcast and look forward to every episode
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: that you put out all the best. Richard, Well, thanks
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: so much. I appreciate the email and there are reasons
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: you could think of. I mean, he is at work,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: and it makes sense if you're in that work professional mode,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: maybe you throw in your lass name, or it might
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: reflect the kind of status of the relationship. I mean,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: he's been on maybe two or three dates with her.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: It's not like she's the love of his life or
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: anything like that. And you can also think back culturally.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: Even Arden's character on Armiss Brooks ninety eight percent of
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: the time refers to the man she's in love with
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: as mister Boynton, even when she is by herself and
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: away from work and talking to herself. So maybe there
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: are some cultural differences. But the idea that Joe Friday
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: needs to lighten up is a very strong cultural meme.
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  Speaker 1: That was literally the one joke that was at the
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  Speaker 1: core of the nineteen eighty seven Dragnet parody movie, and
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  Speaker 1: it has been said in many, many different places. And
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  Speaker 1: I tend to think that in terms of watching the
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  Speaker 1: show and listening to the radio programs, he is not
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  Speaker 1: a stiff as some makes out. And there is a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more nuance than some people who take the
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  Speaker 1: criticisms and jokes as sort of gospel truth as to
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  Speaker 1: what Dragnet and Joe Friday is about. But there is
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  Speaker 1: definitely a little bit of truth to it, and I
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  Speaker 1: think that as the show goes on, it becomes a
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  Speaker 1: situation more and more where Joe's character is fundamentally married
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  Speaker 1: to his job, and I think that becomes fully realized
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  Speaker 1: in the nineteen sixties. In the Dragnet sixty six TV movie,
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  Speaker 1: a criminal refers to Friday as the immortal sergeant as
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  Speaker 1: he became this sort of symbol of all policemen and
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  Speaker 1: embodiment of the job. But in the early nineteen fifties
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  Speaker 1: they were still working to make Friday a bit more
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  Speaker 1: rounded as a character, and the results are probably some
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  Speaker 1: of the more awkward parts of what is a very
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  Speaker 1: good series. I think there are two problems. First, that
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  Speaker 1: didn't really fit into their storytelling method. You could have
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  Speaker 1: these nice one off conversation and that works fine, but
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  Speaker 1: I don't think you really can have like a romantic
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: arc in Draygen didn't have it work well. The other
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  Speaker 1: part is, I honestly think that the biggest part of
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: acting that Jack Webb didn't excel at and which really
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  Speaker 1: held him back from major successes. I don't think he
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  Speaker 1: was convincing at all in romantic part. That was one
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: of the problems I think with Pete Kelly's Blues as
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: a film, and I've listened to him, watched a lot
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: of Jack Web's stuff, and romantic acting is just not
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: generally as Forte. I think the best part that had
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: kind of a bit of romance was an episode of
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Proudly We Hail where he played a German officer in
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: World War Two who was helping his girlfriend escape the
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  Speaker 1: Nazis in Vienna. We played that as an extra for
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  Speaker 1: Patreon listeners earlier this month, but that's been about it.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else that's kind of romantic, I just I just
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  Speaker 1: don't buy him in, and so I think eventually you
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: end up going the path of the Eternal Sergeant because
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: it's what makes sense to keep the show going. But again,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: thanks so much for the comment. Well, now it is
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  Speaker 1: I want to thank Christine, Patreon supporter since July twenty twenty,
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  Speaker 1: and join us back here tomorrow for a special encore presentation,
• 38:22
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  Speaker 1: return with another episode of the Adventures of the Falcon Where.
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  Speaker 7: Hello, I like to talk to Waller Blake.
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  Speaker 6: Please.
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  Speaker 10: This is water Blake speaking. Hi Waller Mike.
• 38:36
  Speaker 7: Wearing Oh oh yes, Mike him Hie. You approached by.
• 38:40
  Speaker 16: A character named Joe Haughty who claims he can put
• 38:43
  Speaker 16: you in touch with your daughter.
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  Speaker 7: So my advice to you is.
• 38:46
  Speaker 10: Have nothing to do with him.
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  Speaker 16: This wouldn't be professional jealousy, Who would it?
• 38:50
  Speaker 6: Mike?
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  Speaker 2: What are you talking about?
• 38:51
  Speaker 16: Just because Joe Hatty is a competitor? If you love Blake,
• 38:54
  Speaker 16: I called you the friend boy. Hatty is a private
• 38:57
  Speaker 16: detective show, but he's also a faker. Out like a
• 39:00
  Speaker 16: hoop of vacuum. You're a fine one to talk just
• 39:04
  Speaker 16: because you could never locate Irene. You don't want anyone
• 39:07
  Speaker 16: else to succeed. You thought she was boy, she was dead.
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  Speaker 7: I'll listen to me, Wallan.
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  Speaker 16: Oh, I haven't the time. Mike, Larry Nicholas and I
• 39:14
  Speaker 16: are supposed to meet HEARTI at three. I'm not going
• 39:16
  Speaker 16: to take a chance on you to Oh.
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