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Let George Do It: The Violent Van Pattons (EP0845) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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into today's episode. All George do it. We had a couple lost episodes
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in today's episode is actually from June ninth of nineteen fifty two, and the
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toddle is the violent van patents personal notice dangers my stock and trade. If
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the job's too tough for you to handle, you've got a job for me.
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George Valentine right full detail. Standard Oil Company of California invite you to
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The Violent than Pattens the transcribed adventure of George Valentine. Dinister Valentine,
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I suppose many families had their own special kind of curse, but van Patents
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had the curse of violence, a sort of violence that's been born of the
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roaring crash of the sea and the loneliness of fog Horn Island, and laughter
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that has no mirth in it at all. I know others doesn't make much
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sense, but you must at least try and understand it if you're going to
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help me, and I need help. Mister Valentine, Please meet a man
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named Max at the foot of the eighth Street bridge. He'll have a boat
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and he'll take you and Miss Brooks to see the Violet van Pattens. Sincerely,
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Leader van Patten. But man's there must be something you can tell us
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about Van Pattens. I own their work for the capital. Listen. I
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don't talk about him or his folks. But that's a very noble attitude that
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we're not really trying to pry in the family secret Leader van Patten. Is
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she the captain's wife? Niece? I see? Are there any other ladies
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on this fog Horn islands? Adjust as a matter of girlish curiosity, let's
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Rachel, Captain's adopted sister, one of the guests as a lady quite a
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ways out from the shore, isn't it, George Ya? That's right,
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proxy violence born of the royal crash of the sea in the lone lands of
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fog Grn Island used to be a lighthouse. Understand before they've built a new
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one down the coast. They still love some Fogorns around here, hit'em.
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No, just Avent Pappens live on Forgron Island, a landin Pattens.
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And are you You aren't one of the family that I take a nice said
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me. I'm just a man of all trades. Take care of the Big
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House, me who used to be a second mate, Captain Lewis by himself
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the White House. How cousin, mister, I wouldn't be a vent patou
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for all the money in the world. Why it's quite a squirrel coming up,
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Mistea, quite a squirrel, a laughter that has no merchant at all.
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What did you say, my dear, nothing? Nothing was Santian Rachel?
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Call me Rachel, then patten name was only giving me grudgingly as an
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act of charity. Here. Yes, no, I'm sorry. I lost
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my temper. That's a terrible thing to do, isn't it, Mister Valentine,
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isn't good. The captain lost his temper once and nearly killed. And
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then I loved and the young men went away. And here I am a
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spinster who can only play solitaire all day and laugh at jokes I alone can
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hear. I'm sorry, miss Rachel about Lena. Are you sure she knows
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we're here? Oh? Yes, Next told her she'll be here with the
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young man who's vint be led Lloyd and Doris Franken will be here too,
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ranks Lloyd's leaders. Second cousin. Doris is his wife, a charming girl,
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but she dreams too much that you knew Leader has some secret. That's
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why you're here. I leaders always love secrets the once You're right, I
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do have a secret Leader. You startled me. Hello, mister Valentine,
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this Brooks Long, This is Loyd and Dorris Franken do you And this is
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Jim Simmons my husband. Yes, that's our secret. You you married Leader,
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so somebody the captain didn't choose him. Oh that was brilliant of you.
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You're jealous, Lloyds, shut up, bed husband, shut up Lloyd
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Darth. Oh, temper everybody, tempera please broll. Congratulations Frank Patton,
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or rather missus Simmons. But if I can speak to you alone, I'd
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like to know why you're here. I would be a help. Mister Valentine.
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I I want you to break the happy news to my uncle Frankly.
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It's a job which has its dangers and one for which someone deserves to be
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paid. Well, this is a twist, Valentine will sort of carry you
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across the threshold. Jim might be quiet, Jim, Jim Darling, I
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know I lied to you. I told you. Mister Valentine and miss Brooks
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were dear friends of mine, and I just had to have them near me
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when I announced our marriage. But believe me, Jim, I know what
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I'm doing. I know my uncle. Stop that at Rachel, Oh,
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go on a good laugh, husband, I needs a paid strong man to
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speak for him as something to laugh about. Jimmy, Oh, I'll speak
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to the old girl myself, and then I've taken you off this out.
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Please please go after mister Valentine. I need your help more than ever now.
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Okay, Simmons, Okay, I understand your pride is here it Frankly,
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I don't blame you for feeling the way you do. I didn't know
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Lita has all this money coming from her uncle. If he doesn't like the
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guy she married, let him cut off a lot of set. Relax,
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friends, Relax. He probably will let me finish packing. Sure. Yeah,
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that's quite a fancy knife Japanese. Huh. Here, I'll put it
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in that drawer and I'll listen to me. What did you, jim put
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all those things back when they belong? Sure? Sure, Lita has known
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her uncle a lot longer than either you and I, and she feels I
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should be the one to break their happy tidings to him. Well, let's
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play it her. Yeah, but maybe coming from a stranger, the news
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will be easier to take anyway. My shoulders are pretty broad. Let's give
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it a try. And so my dear ly Scott merry nay, mister Valentine.
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Yeah, that's that's right. Yeah, I just got merry here she
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is. The deed is done taking a leader, dear uncle. Huh.
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Hey, you've had nothing to say about it, dear uncle, And if
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you don't like it, you can keep your precious fortune. That's about the
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signe. Good for her. Yeah, good for you, young man,
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for bringing me such good news. Yeah. Sure here shake shake, come
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on, come on, shake hands with a big bad tyrant before corn Island.
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Sure leader has done the first brave thing any of the man patterns have
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done in twenty years. Yeah, and I'm just a big enough bully to
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appreciate it. Shoot, well that's really I have always taken anything I wanted
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from life, and our leader did too. Hello, hang around on this
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evening, young fello. We'll all have a pepper the celebration. Eh.
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Yeah, thank you, thank you very much. Can't you persuade him to
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stay in? Mister Valentine makes the decisions for this out set, mister Simmons.
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Just there's no point in hanging around leading the job pulled, no job
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at all. I'm very happy for you. Oh and I'm happy too and
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so grateful. So all's well? That ends Well, Oh there's Max.
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Yeah, I tell him to get the send things around. What's ax?
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Somebody's been mucking around with what do you mean? Luke engine's all busted up?
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Yeah you can say that again. But why who'd want to do that?
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Those are interesting questions that the answers would be even more interesting. Okay,
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we'll use another boat, Max, So this was the only one the
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roofs we'll see no telephone in one boat. That's how Uncle's always kept fog
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Horn Island his own private empire. And how old this boat ever bequicks We're
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gonna have to put a message in a bottle and hope somebody in Australia will
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pick it up. Well, it's not quite bad, right. It looks
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as though you'll have to stay at least until this evening, mister Valentine.
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And then well then Uncle will turn on the big light on top of his
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beloved tower. In the dark it can be still on the mainland and then
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people will know that something's wrong here. It's sort of a tradition, not
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charming. Well, Broosee, it looks as though we'll have to stay on
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fog Horn Island, whether we want to or not. George, I wish
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you would get dark. Getting me nervous, Yeah, I know it.
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John violent vent peppers, and the only one who's not violent at all is
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the big bed ogre himself. No reason I can think of for the broken
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boat is to keep us here. But why no, Maybe somebody's desperate for
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a fourth and bridget seem the captain trips from that friend, I would not
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the lighthouse to thank him for being so swell about leading me. He was
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moaning. Then he died in front of him. He died, I mean
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died. Come on, snamp out of it. It wasn't knife in his
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back mine. All right, everybody, all right, please listen to me
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and listen, can't please. There's nothing we can do until it gets dark,
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and when he comes out here for the mainland, somebody we can send
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back for the police. Fellow's life. He must have had an argument with
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the captain and killed. He didn't. Jim would hurt anybody, of course,
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he wouldn't. He's not a van Patton. Only a Van Patton would
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hurt. Sorry, my dear, you must admit there's something too Max's logic.
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You stay out of it. Lloyd, thinking is something you don't do
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very well. Thank you, my dear wife. Of course, it was
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my knife. But don't you see it. Somebody's trying to frame me,
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or it could be you, James, pulling a fast one, hoping that
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we would think you were being framed. You're wrong, so wrong. I'm
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not the police. It doesn't matter whether I'm right or wrong. I was
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simply saying that everybody should stick pretty close to his own wrong, let's say,
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just for safety's sakes. Safety. See. Yeah, there's one thing
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about Murdie. It sends to become a habit. Going back into the house
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pros poor nod Eat. It gave me a coat. I want to go
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to the lighthouse with you. Okay. Getting set up like this, almost
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anybody could have killed the captain. I just got through talking to them.
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Nobody has an alibi except Rachel and Lloyd Rankin. They were playing double solitary.
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I suppose the police will think that either leader who has them the best
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motive for the murder. Yeah, Ledo is the only beneficiary in the captain's
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will, and of course Jim Simmons shares whatever leader gets. This would'll get
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off the silence the leader's right. It just seems to breathe violence and hire
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angel. Let me get over here and over the door. This key,
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Oh, I just listed you by inches Atlanta. I saw it before in
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well a sort of Cupid. To be more exact, Your job is to
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tell a man with a legendary temper that his only niece had gotten married without
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his knowledge or consent. You do that, and the violent Captain Van Patton
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turns out to be surprisingly genial. Then only a short while later he found
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murdered. Even if your name weren't George Valentine, you'd know that in this
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case, one murder was only the beginning, because now a heavy lantern just
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crashes at your feet, missing you by inches. On come on, come
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on, oh now the key would stake, doesn't Now? Where are the
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stairs? I could save myself a climb wherever it was up there? When
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out that bag, John, I could have been anybody. Hey, hey,
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you up there, sir? Wait? I told you to song?
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What are you doing telling? Come on, lanks, get up and I'm
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fast talking about what I'll give you three guesses. Come on, nah,
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how are you doing in that lighthouse? Just now you'll hurt me? Come
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on, I would just going in there, make sure that light was okay,
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for when it got dark you heard someone shoufoot know who it was?
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So I got scared? And right? You think fast, don't your Max?
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I don't know what you're talking about. Huh? You you didn't see
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anybody else around the lighthouse as you are about to go in, did you?
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No? Not a soul? See anything else? You want to me,
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mister? No? No? Then and a grim and chucking that light?
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Yeah I do that. I'll be seeing your max. Yeah, oh
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miss ranking? Yeah, it was ranked for you, I, miss teen,
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you sure we can go through here into Lead's room. She's not yet.
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Okay, Now what's on your mind? No? I means chup the
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door first. Oh, not very fun in a chair and sit down.
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Yeah, you better do that. I've been drinking more than I should.
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But she mis believe me, only perason making me say this. Say what
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I yeah, Lloyd could have killed Captain Van Patton say it's naturely killed.
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Do you realize what you're saying, missus Ranken? Yes, I've been saying,
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and my husband is no good. It's cruel, heartless. But miss
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Rachel told me she was playing corns with mister Rankin at the time the captain
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was killed. No, I can understand that, but I want to be
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sure you understand something. Yeah, what's that? Well, I'd always wanted
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to marry Leader. That's the only reason he married me, because he thought
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I had more money and he wouldn't have to wait for a captain than Pattent
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to die. Why the surprise he got was a beautiful surprise. A wife
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with no money, wife who had no love, and so I needed to
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drink. I think we'd better go back and join the others. Yeah,
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no, reason why I should burden you with my trouble. I just wanted
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to tell you about Lloyd. But really there's no real hurts. Oh,
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no, dirty more gone. Of course he's gone. Nothing out here but
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rain and falk. But why why would anyone want to kill Doris, have
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to harm anyone? No, don't please, won't do anybody any good,
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that's right, right? So will you stop that? I'm sorry. I
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don't know why I laughed. I don't see anything funny. There isn't anything
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funny. I just can't kill myself. Let's stop raining, so somebody on
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the main land to see it. Somebody comes out here soon. And until
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they do, Miss Brooks, what are we doing until they come out?
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But there's a murderer here. One of us is a murderer. How many
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more is he going to kill? That leader? Why? If every right
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to want to know? Maybe the murder didn't want to kill Doris at all.
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Maybe it was a mistake. What are you talking about, Well,
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come on answer me. Doris was sitting in my chair, her back to
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the window. Maybe the murderer thought he was shooting a knee, that's right,
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and later maybe it was meant for me too. Mistake. That would
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be funny. Okay, okay, cut that out, all of you.
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Hey, Max, Max, come in here, Yah, close the door.
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Okay, now we're all here and we're gonna stay here and wait.
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That's a good idea, George, But you must have some idea who the
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murderer is, mister Valentine, you must, as a matter of thank lead
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your husband would be a very prominent candidate for that honor me. No,
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it was his knife that killed the captain. His motives are the best,
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and if Doris was killed by mistake, the motives are even better. Yeah.
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With you out of the way, Leader, he'd have the entire van
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patent fortune. He must have done it. He must have taken that knife
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out of the draw and kill the captain. Just where were you when Doris
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was shot? Jim? Where were you? What's the matter with all of
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you? Are? I told you I was. I was looking at the
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book see if I could fix it? Yeah? Sure, okay, Lloyd,
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that's enough. I think it's time for me to have a private talk
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with Jimmy boy, come on, flind on your feet, come on with
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me. Oh I don't understand any of this though, don't try, Just
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do what I tell you believe in it? Sure sounds so wrong. So
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please just start screaming as though you were being beaten to a public. Okay,
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come on, no, please don't. I'm sorry, Nda. I
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tried to protect you, protect me. I just couldn't. One made me
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tell the truth? Was the truth? George, let him tell it.
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I saw you take the knife, Leader, I saw you go into the
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lighthouse and that ladder and fill down. Saw you push it down? You
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what I saw you outside of your room? And doors are shot? You
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tell such such lives about me to get the money. Oh, Jim,
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I'm sorry, Leader, very sorry. I had to tell him it's all
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everybody. You can go wherever you want. It's all over, miss Brooks
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and I will stay with missus Sins until the police arrive. George, give
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me at least one here, no time, Angel, I've set the trap.
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Now I must get up to Jim's room. Come on, murderer,
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come on, you're not afraid of the duck. Come on in answer,
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and you come now now. Put some Lloyd on you, don't I believe
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that gonna be Put it Lloyd in the desk. I said, leave it,
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good boy, After all, that's where you wanted the police to find
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a cher. You're crazy open the door, writ am I you know better
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call it? Oh no, no, I like it nice and cozy like
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this. If your wrist doesn't hurt anywhere as I watch, A Doors was
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hurt when you shot her. It hurts, she told me just before she
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died. Are you talking? You made a bad slip, Lloyd. You
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were too anxious to build a case against him, and so you said he
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took the knife out of the door and killed the captain. So what I
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didn't know what the knife was. I took it out of Jim's volise and
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put it into the drawer myself. You knew only because that's where you got
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it from. That's no proof. That's why I had to set this tramp.
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Having Lida hell for the two murders. Was the last thing you wanted,
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wasn't It wasn't, Lloyd. You're making up this fairy tale. Go
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on, keep too all right. You never gave up the idea of trying
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to get a leader in her money, but she got married and you tried
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a desperate scheme. Step one, kill the captain so a leader gets the
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money. Nobody will believe you Step two, kill Doris so you'll be free.
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Step three, make sure Jim gets caught for the two murders by planning
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a gun in his room, so a leader will be free. Guess guess
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wow, Rachel, come in, Come on in. What are you two
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doing here? I got an alibi? You remember, valentinic at an alibi?
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Yeah, alibi? Go on, Rachel, tell them again. You
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and I were playing double solitail when the captain was killed, were we?
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You'll remember you told it to them before. I don't remember, did I?
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Honey? Sometimes I remembered things, other times I don't remember it.
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All you have gotta remember I told pay price not bustling. He used a
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half crazy woman who hated her brother alive for you. Now she can't even
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remember the lie, which is gonna remember. I don't know why I laughed.
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He really isn't anything funny, mister Valentine. No, no, Rachel.
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Valentine, Kim, and I'll never be able to thank you. I
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don't know what you were trying to do. And when I had to say
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all those terrible things about leader, choose are those murders never really believed Amentum?
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Did your leader? Well? I didn't and I didn't. It was
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horrible. I still can't get over Boyd's cock eyed plan, even after I
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heard him admit everything you've been wrecking the boat so you to stay here,
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Valentine and helped the police put the blame on me when I was a desperate
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plan all right, there was so much money at Steak he must have fellow
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is worth taking a Claire fierce leader. We're going to spend a honeymoon here
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on fog Horn Island. Oh Good, When you need a paste for your
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honeymoon, you will let me know, won't you. I certainly will if
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you'll just take those fog horns away from me, Unless you like fog horns,
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George Ali Max, don't be some patient, after all, A honeymoonist
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for two. We're coming man. The Knight's Transcribed Adventure of George Valentine has
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David Victor and Jackson Gillis and directed by Kenneth Webb. Bill Bouchet was heard
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as the Captain, Jean Bates as Rachel, Virginia Eiler as Leader, Roland
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Morris as Jim, and Tony Barrett as Life. The music was composed and
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presented by George Wright. Your announcer John Houston. Listen again next week,
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the mutual broadcasting system. Welcome back. Well, after all of the intrigue
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of the past few weeks, Scotti, I used to get back to an
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old fashioned murder mystery with a interesting resolution and a few good twists. And
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of course I note the return to Jackson Gillis doing the writing. I think
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makes a world of difference in terms of the type of stories. The title
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of the two episodes that were missing, I should mention were The Churches,
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La Frame Up and Red Smoke. So that's that for that episode. I
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earlier shows they kind of illustrated this by use of a Geiger Counter compare their
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motor oil and the amount of engine war it caused versus that of a leading
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brand in interesting. Like I said, interesting supposition did not make for good
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radio. You know, you're sitting there and you're gonna you know, it's
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kind of like just getting static. So they haven't done that in a while.
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But that's kind of the basis of that's kind of the basis of that.
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So all right, well, that'll do it for today. We'll see
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you back here tomorrow for Sherlock Holmes. In the meanwhile, send your commons
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