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X Minus One - "Perigi's Wonderful Dolls" (Old Time Radio, 1955) · X Minus One | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: On June 5, 1955, NBC aired the seventh episode of X-1,
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  Speaker 1: Parigi's Wonderful Dolls. In Washington, D.C., the young daughter of
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  Speaker 1: a government official discovers a dollmaker whose creations can speak,
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: and the family brings one of those dolls home. At
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: the same time, her father is called into sensitive Pentagon
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: business involving an object reported in American airspace. The story
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  Speaker 1: was written by George Lefferts, an original radio tale first
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: heard on NBC's Dimension X in 1950. And this X-1
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  Speaker 1: production was directed by Daniel Sutter, with Joe DeSantis in
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  Speaker 1: the cast. Ladies and gentlemen, the curtain rises on Perigee's
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: Wonderful Dolls. Now, back to the golden age of radio.
• 0:53
  Speaker 2: Countdown for blastoff. X minus 5, minus 4, minus 3,
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  Speaker 2: minus 2, X minus 1, fire! From the far horizons
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: of the unknown come transcribed tales of new dimensions in
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  Speaker 2: time and space. These are stories of the future, adventures
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  Speaker 2: in which you'll live in a million could-be years on
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  Speaker 2: a thousand maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company presents X-Minus-One. Tonight,
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  Speaker 2: X-Minus-One presents Perigi's Wonderful Dolls by George Lefferts. the doll
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  Speaker 2: shop stood on a quiet Washington side street, not too
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  Speaker 2: far from the sprawling Pentagon building. A woman and child
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  Speaker 2: waited outside, the little girl peering eagerly through the window
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  Speaker 2: at the dolls inside, and the woman glancing impatiently at
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  Speaker 2: her wristwatch, as if expecting someone who was late for
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  Speaker 2: an appointment. There was nothing about the doll shop to
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  Speaker 2: warn them, But they were waiting to keep an appointment
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  Speaker 2: with Doom.
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  Speaker 3: Mommy, look. What, dear?
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  Speaker 4: In the window of the shop, the tiny dolls. Oh, Mommy,
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  Speaker 4: do you think Daddy will buy me one?
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  Speaker 5: We'll ask him when he comes, dear. Should be here soon.
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  Speaker 5: He said 3 o'clock on this corner. I see him, Mommy.
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  Speaker 6: See?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Henry, over here.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, dear. I'm sorry I'm late.
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  Speaker 5: Well, we're all ready to go shopping. Cindy's been.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, but I'm afraid we'll have to call off the
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  Speaker 7: shopping element.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Henry, we promised Cindy.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I'm sorry, but it's just one of those things.
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  Speaker 7: You've been the wife of an army colonel long enough
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  Speaker 7: to know his.
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  Speaker 3: Life isn't his own.
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  Speaker 5: What is it this time?
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  Speaker 3: Some more of that.
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  Speaker 7: Flying sphere nonsense. The pilot who says he sighted it
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  Speaker 7: last month crashed and was killed today, and the general
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  Speaker 7: wants the full report.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, dear, what next?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I got a staff meeting at the Pentagon at 3.15.
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  Speaker 4: Daddy, look in this window.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't time, dear. Alma, I.
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  Speaker 4: Just for a minute, Daddy, please.
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  Speaker 7: Cindy, I haven't time to stop and watch a bunch
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  Speaker 7: of six-inch dolls parading around in the shop window.
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  Speaker 3: Gee, they are lifelike, aren't they? Look at that, Alma.
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  Speaker 3: Dolls are marching around like a regular review. They've even
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  Speaker 3: got their own little band.
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  Speaker 4: See the one in the red jacket, Daddy?
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  Speaker 5: He's the leader. He's bowing to us.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they don't look human.
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  Speaker 5: Henry, your staff meeting.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I've got to run.
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  Speaker 4: Can we buy one, Daddy?
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  Speaker 3: Well, not now, dear, and I'll run along. Now, don't
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  Speaker 3: go spending a lot of money on that nonsense.
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  Speaker 5: No, dear.
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  Speaker 9: Bye.
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  Speaker 3: Bye, Cindy. Bye, Daddy.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, look, Mommy.
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  Speaker 4: The band is going to play.
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  Speaker 5: Aren't they wonderful, honey? Honey, I must have stood on
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  Speaker 5: this corner a thousand times. I've never noticed this shop before.
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  Speaker 5: Look at the man inside, Mommy. Who's he? That's the proprietor, dear.
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  Speaker 10: Doesn't he look funny with those red cheeks and white mustache?
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  Speaker 5: It's easy to see who he models his dolls after. Mommy, look.
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  Speaker 5: He's coming to the door. He's coming.
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  Speaker 9: Good evening, children.
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  Speaker 5: Good evening. How funny he talks.
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  Speaker 3: Hush, Cindy.
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  Speaker 9: Would you like to step inside the shop of Santo Pierigi?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, we would, but.
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  Speaker 9: This way.
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  Speaker 5: Mommy, it's like, like fairyland.
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  Speaker 9: Here in the shop of Santo Pierigi, creator of Pierigi's
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  Speaker 9: universal wonderful dolls, the world of adult reality is blended
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  Speaker 9: with the world of child's fantasy.
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  Speaker 5: This is a new shop, isn't it, Mr.
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  Speaker 11: Pierigi?
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  Speaker 9: What is new and what is old? Come, this way.
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  Speaker 9: Would you like to meet one of my little ones?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 9: This one in the red jacket is Toto. He's the leader.
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  Speaker 9: Handle him ever so gently. See, I will set him
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  Speaker 9: on the table. Speak, little one.
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  Speaker 11: How do you do?
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  Speaker 5: How do you do? How do you do?
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  Speaker 11: Oh, my, he talks.
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  Speaker 5: The doll talks.
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  Speaker 12: Amazing.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely amazing.
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  Speaker 9: That is nothing for Pierigi's wonderful dolls.
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  Speaker 3: Listen. Sing.
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  Speaker 9: Sing, Toto. Sing for the little girl.
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  Speaker 11: My name is Toto.
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  Speaker 5: Sing, Toto.
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  Speaker 11: Men are big and tall. Dolls are very small. When
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  Speaker 11: men begin to fall, the dolls will rule them all.
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  Speaker 4: More, more, more!
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  Speaker 5: How do they work, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Perigi?
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  Speaker 3: How do they work?
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  Speaker 9: Ah, that is the secret of the great Perigi, greatest
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  Speaker 9: of all doll makers. To make an ordinary doll is nothing.
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  Speaker 9: To make a perfect replica, that is something... But to
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  Speaker 9: make a doll with intelligence, that is the work of
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  Speaker 9: an artist, eh?
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  Speaker 5: I suppose that they are very expensive to buy.
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  Speaker 3: The Pierigi does not sell his dolls, madam.
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  Speaker 5: You don't sell them?
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  Speaker 9: When I construct a doll like Toto, I cannot bear
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  Speaker 9: to be permanently separated from him. So instead of selling,
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  Speaker 9: I rent my little people.
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  Speaker 11: You do?
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  Speaker 5: You rent dolls?
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  Speaker 3: Precisely.
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  Speaker 9: Ten dollars.
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  Speaker 5: For how long?
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  Speaker 9: For as long as they are cherished. My only request
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  Speaker 9: is that when you grow tired of my dolls, you
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  Speaker 9: return them to me in good condition.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Mommy, could we take him home?
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  Speaker 11: Take him home.
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  Speaker 5: Take him home. Take him home.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, look, he's bowing and dancing. He wants to come.
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  Speaker 5: Well, honey, your father said that we shouldn't spend a
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  Speaker 5: lot of money.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, please.
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  Speaker 4: I'll take such good care of it.
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  Speaker 6: Please.
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  Speaker 5: Well, honey, we'll have to deal with your father later, but... Well.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Mommy.
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  Speaker 11: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Wrap him up, Mr.
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  Speaker 11: Parigi.
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  Speaker 5: But I have a feeling that when your father comes home,
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  Speaker 5: we'll be sorry. Be sorry. Be sorry. Be sorry. Be sorry.
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  Speaker 10: Now, Toto, this is my room, and you're going to
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  Speaker 10: sleep right here next to my pillow. I wish you
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  Speaker 10: wouldn't laugh like that. I'm going to have to teach
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  Speaker 10: you some manners. And you be quiet because my daddy
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  Speaker 10: will be home soon. And he's a colonel on the
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  Speaker 10: Air Force staff. And he'll bust you to private if
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  Speaker 10: you don't behave.
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  Speaker 5: Come along now.
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  Speaker 10: I'm going to introduce you to my puppy dog, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Blister.
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  Speaker 5: So be good.
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  Speaker 4: Here, Mr. Blister.
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  Speaker 6: Here, Blister.
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  Speaker 11: Come on.
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  Speaker 4: Mr. Blister, this is Toto.
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  Speaker 5: Dear, I don't think Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Blister likes you, Toto. Come over here and shake hands
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  Speaker 4: with Toto, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Blister.
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  Speaker 11: Come on now.
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  Speaker 2: Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Blister! Let him go! Let him go!
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  Speaker 13: Let him go!
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  Speaker 5: Kill him!
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  Speaker 3: Sidney! Mr. Blister!
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  Speaker 5: Come over here! Come over here! Sidney, what happened?
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  Speaker 3: Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Blister tried to bite my doll. And how frightened he is.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, honey, dolls don't get frightened.
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  Speaker 4: But he was frightened, Mommy.
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  Speaker 5: He screamed. You imagined it, dear. It's only a doll.
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  Speaker 5: He did.
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  Speaker 4: He did. Well, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Blister didn't mean it. Now you know he's the gentlest
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  Speaker 5: little pup alive.
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  Speaker 4: He is, and he's nasty, and I hate him.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, now see? You've hurt his feelings.
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  Speaker 4: I don't care.
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  Speaker 10: He tried to bite my new doll, and I don't
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  Speaker 10: ever want to see him again, ever.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, dear.
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  Speaker 5: All right, Mr. Blister, you come downstairs with me. Cindy's
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  Speaker 5: angry with you tonight.
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  Speaker 4: I'll kill him.
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  Speaker 5: Cindy! Where did you learn a thing like that? Toto
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  Speaker 5: said it. Honey, you've had a very exciting day. Now,
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  Speaker 5: brush your teeth now and go to bed. Daddy's coming
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  Speaker 5: home late, so he'll see you in the morning. Good night, dear.
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  Speaker 5: Sleep well.
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  Speaker 4: I hate him.
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  Speaker 11: Hate him, hate him, hate him, hate him.
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  Speaker 9: Morning, Alma.
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  Speaker 3: Breakfast ready?
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  Speaker 5: In a minute, dear. How was the staff meeting last night?
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  Speaker 3: Horrible bar, as usual. I don't know what's got into
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  Speaker 3: the old man.
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  Speaker 7: Just because a few farmers corroborated the pilot's report, he
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  Speaker 7: thinks some strange aircraft has penetrated our radar zone.
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  Speaker 3: Where's the little one?
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  Speaker 5: Up in her room.
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  Speaker 3: Now that's funny. She's usually down here before me.
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  Speaker 5: Well, she's probably... up to something. Sit down, dear.
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  Speaker 7: Say, remind me to take some papers back to the
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  Speaker 7: War Department, will you? I left them in my strong box.
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  Speaker 5: You haven't been bringing your reports home, have you?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's safe enough.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you told me it was against regulations to bring
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  Speaker 5: secret papers home.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I had to finish some work for the old man,
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  Speaker 3: and nobody will ever know the difference.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I don't know. Oh, would you feed the puppy
• 10:19
  Speaker 5: before we sit down, Henry? His bowl's under the sink.
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  Speaker 3: Where is he? Say, that's funny. Here's his supper from
• 10:26
  Speaker 3: last night, only half eaten.
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  Speaker 5: He's getting fussy. Doesn't like canned dog food anymore.
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  Speaker 8: Here, Blister.
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  Speaker 3: Here, Blister, Blister, Blister. I don't know where the dickens
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  Speaker 3: is that mutt.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe he's on the back porch.
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  Speaker 3: Here, Blister.
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  Speaker 5: Elma. What is it, dear?
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  Speaker 9: Elma, look.
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  Speaker 4: Henry, is he.
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  Speaker 3: He's dead.
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  Speaker 5: But how?
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  Speaker 3: From the looks of it, he might have been poisoned.
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  Speaker 5: But who would do a thing like that to an
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  Speaker 5: innocent little puppy?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. Let me see his dish. Look at that.
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  Speaker 3: I don't understand this at all.
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  Speaker 8: Not at all.
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  Speaker 5: What, dear? What is it?
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  Speaker 3: There are pieces of broken glass in this food. Blue glass,
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  Speaker 3: you see?
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  Speaker 11: How.
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  Speaker 5: Henry.
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 5: I just remembered something.
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 5: It may be coincidence, but in the bathroom this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Well, what about the bathroom?
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  Speaker 5: Cindy's blue glass, the one with the Mickey Mouse on it,
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  Speaker 5: was broken. I found pieces in the wastebasket. I meant
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  Speaker 5: to ask her about it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, now, Alma, for heaven's sake, you aren't suggesting that
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  Speaker 3: our little girl... Well, she loved Blister more than anyone.
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  Speaker 5: Not last night, she didn't.
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  Speaker 3: Why not?
• 11:34
  Speaker 5: He went after Toto.
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  Speaker 3: Now, who is Toto.
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  Speaker 5: That's her new doll.
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  Speaker 3: Her what?
• 11:40
  Speaker 5: Honey, I was meaning to tell you.
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  Speaker 3: But you bought her one of those dolls.
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  Speaker 5: I just rented it.
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  Speaker 3: Rented it. Now, look here, Alma. You know we haven't
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  Speaker 3: got the kind of money to throw away.
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  Speaker 5: Well, she had her heart set on it, dear. I
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  Speaker 5: used my dividend.
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  Speaker 3: All right. But what happened with Lister?
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  Speaker 5: Well, he went for the doll, and Cindy said she
• 11:56
  Speaker 5: hated him.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, well, a child is.
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  Speaker 5: She said she'd kill him.
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  Speaker 3: Where'd she get a thought like that?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Has she been watching those chillers on television?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's too ridiculous. Good heavens, a nine-year-old child putting
• 12:09
  Speaker 3: ground glass in dog food. She'd have to be a monster.
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  Speaker 6: Mommy!
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  Speaker 3: She's coming. Well, don't say anything. I'll talk to her.
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  Speaker 5: Morning, dear.
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  Speaker 8: Morning, Mommy.
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  Speaker 5: Morning, Daddy. What's the matter?
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  Speaker 3: Sit down, dear.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Now, your mother tells me you broke your blue drinking glass.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, no, I didn't break it.
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  Speaker 5: Cindy.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't.
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  Speaker 3: Well, now, somebody broke it. It wasn't your mother and
• 12:34
  Speaker 3: it wasn't me.
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  Speaker 4: It must have been Toto.
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  Speaker 5: Cynthia.
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  Speaker 3: Cindy, you know Toto is only a doll. Now, a
• 12:39
  Speaker 3: doll couldn't have broken your glass, could he? Well?
• 12:44
  Speaker 5: I guess not.
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  Speaker 3: So we can't very well blame it on a doll, then,
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  Speaker 3: can we?
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  Speaker 4: But he must have done it, Daddy.
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  Speaker 3: Cindy, you know how Daddy feels about little girls who
• 12:52
  Speaker 3: tell fibs. Now, did you break your glass and maybe
• 12:57
  Speaker 3: accidentally get some pieces into Mr. Blister's dish to sort
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  Speaker 3: of punish him for biting your doll?
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  Speaker 5: No, Daddy.
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  Speaker 3: I'd hate to think you'd done something you knew was
• 13:05
  Speaker 3: wrong and you were blaming it on a doll.
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  Speaker 5: Is something wrong with Mr.
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  Speaker 11: Blister?
• 13:10
  Speaker 4: Is he sick?
• 13:11
  Speaker 3: Worse than that.
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  Speaker 4: Henry.
• 13:12
  Speaker 3: The child has to face reality, Alma.
• 13:14
  Speaker 5: What's the matter with Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Blister? He's dead, Cindy.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, no. We can't be dead.
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  Speaker 5: He isn't dead, Daddy. No, he isn't. He isn't.
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  Speaker 4: Mommy.
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  Speaker 5: He is dead, Cindy.
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  Speaker 4: He'll come back. He has to come back.
• 13:36
  Speaker 5: No, darling, he won't come back.
• 13:38
  Speaker 3: Ever?
• 13:40
  Speaker 5: Not ever.
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: Yes. Now that we've told you, Cindy, you want to
• 13:46
  Speaker 3: change your mind about the glass?
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  Speaker 5: Henry, leave her alone, please.
• 13:50
  Speaker 4: You think I killed him?
• 13:51
  Speaker 5: Now look what you've done. The child feels guilty enough, Henry.
• 13:54
  Speaker 3: My dear, this is no time for feelings to interfere.
• 13:57
  Speaker 5: You go up to your room, honey. Daddy and I
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  Speaker 5: will be up in a minute.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to.
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  Speaker 5: Please, Cindy. Now, we'll be right up, please.
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  Speaker 3: There.
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  Speaker 5: That's a good girl. Close the kitchen door behind you.
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  Speaker 9: Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Blister's dead. He isn't coming back.
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  Speaker 5: Ever. Ever.
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  Speaker 4: Daddy thinks it was me, but.
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  Speaker 5: It was you.
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  Speaker 13: It was you!
• 14:34
  Speaker 5: Eat your supper, dear.
• 14:36
  Speaker 13: I'm not hungry.
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  Speaker 5: You scarcely touched your lunch.
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  Speaker 4: I don't feel like eating.
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  Speaker 5: Is it Mr.
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  Speaker 13: Blister?
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  Speaker 11: Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Blister?
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  Speaker 3: Now, answer your mother.
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  Speaker 5: She'll work it out her own way, Harry.
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  Speaker 9: Well, I don't know, Elmo.
• 15:01
  Speaker 7: When I was a boy, there was such a thing
• 15:03
  Speaker 7: as discipline. Now, the way this child is being brought up.
• 15:05
  Speaker 5: Henry!
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: Well, it's true. There's no respect lying and.
• 15:09
  Speaker 5: Oh, there, there, honey. Now, your father's upset. He doesn't
• 15:12
  Speaker 5: mean it.
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: Well, what's happened to us? We were a nice, peaceful,
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: happy family until you bought that cursed doll.
• 15:17
  Speaker 5: Now who's blaming things on the doll? Well, it's true.
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: Now, I've spilled my coffee.
• 15:22
  Speaker 5: I'll get you another cup.
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: Never mind. I'm late now. I better be going.
• 15:25
  Speaker 13: Oh, you.
• 15:26
  Speaker 5: Wanted to get some papers from the strongbox.
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 15:30
  Speaker 5: Cindy, please, try to eat something.
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: Yes, ma'am.
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: Alma! Alma!
• 15:37
  Speaker 5: What is it?
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: Alma, it's gone.
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: What's gone?
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: The box, the strongbox is gone.
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: It can't be. The door to your study's always locked.
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: You and I have the only keys.
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: I know all that, and I tell you it isn't there.
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: Well, who would go?
• 15:50
  Speaker 12: I don't know.
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: Tell them of those confidential reports if they ever got
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: into the wrong house.
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: I warned you about keeping them there.
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: What if it ever came out in the open? Can't
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: you see the papers?
• 15:59
  Speaker 5: Call the police, Henry.
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: And throw my army career in a wastebasket after 17 years? No.
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: We've got to find it ourselves.
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: It was there when I went in to clean this morning.
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: What about your key?
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: It's right here. I always keep it with me.
• 16:11
  Speaker 13: It's funny.
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: Oh, no.
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: My other keys are on the ring.
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: Oh, you've lost it.
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: I don't see how.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: Alma, Alma, how could you do this?
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: Oh, Henry, please.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: We'll search the house. I can't think of anything else
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: to do.
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: Well, you'll miss the staff meeting.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: Meeting?
• 16:27
  Speaker 7: My whole career goes up in smoke if we don't
• 16:28
  Speaker 7: find those reports. Somebody got hold of your key and
• 16:32
  Speaker 7: opened that room and.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: I know. Cindy.
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: You leave the child alone. She's been through enough. You
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: know she wouldn't do a thing like that.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: I don't know anything anymore. I don't even know my
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: own child. I don't even know you.
• 16:45
  Speaker 7: All I know is that strongbox is gone and it
• 16:46
  Speaker 7: contains papers that are dynamite if the wrong person gets them.
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: The question being who?
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: What's that?
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: It's coming from upstairs. It must be Cindy's doll.
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: Oh, that blasted doll again.
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: Something must have set it off. I don't know how
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: the mechanism works.
• 17:00
  Speaker 8: For heaven's sakes, let's go up and shut it off.
• 17:09
  Speaker 9: Toto!
• 17:10
  Speaker 11: Toto!
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: Toto!
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: Kill him!
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: Kill him!
• 17:12
  Speaker 9: Kill him!
• 17:14
  Speaker 11: How do you do? How do you do?
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: Stop it!
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: Henry. Henry.
• 17:21
  Speaker 9: What?
• 17:21
  Speaker 11: Look.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: Where? What?
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: Around the doll's neck. The key. The key to your study.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: You see, Alma, it was Cindy after all.
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: I don't believe it.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: Well, good heavens, do you have to have it spelled
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: out for you? Here's her doll with a key around
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: its neck.
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: She wouldn't, Henry. You know she wouldn't.
• 17:37
  Speaker 7: Oh, ever since you got this fool doll, she's been
• 17:39
  Speaker 7: acting half insane. First the dog, and now this.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: I think she hates herself.
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: Henry, Cindy is my child. I know her. I know
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: she's a good, sensitive person with no malice in her.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: You're simply refusing to face the facts, my dear.
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: What are you going to do?
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: I'm going downstairs to have a talk with that young lady.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: You're not telling the truth, Cindy.
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: I am. I am.
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: Cindy, now you know that strongbox is very important to me. Now,
• 18:10
  Speaker 7: I can understand that you might have been angry at
• 18:13
  Speaker 7: me because I scolded you.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: And so you took it and hid it just to
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: spite me. Now, all I ask is for you to
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: tell me the truth.
• 18:22
  Speaker 9: Now, where is it?
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: I didn't take it, Daddy. Honest, I didn't take it.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: I suppose you're going to tell me now that a
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: little six-inch doll took it and hid it. Well? I'm
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: speaking to you, young lady.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: But I didn't take it, Daddy. You don't understand. Toto
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: did it. He's terrible, awful. He says things. He's going
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: to kill everybody.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: Cindy, you're inventing things.
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: It's true.
• 18:51
  Speaker 10: At night when I'm sleeping, he stands next to my
• 18:54
  Speaker 10: pillow and whispers things to me.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: Awful things. He told me he'd kill me, too.
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: If I told you.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: I think this child is sick. I think she needs
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: a doctor.
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: She's frightened, Henry. She's trembling like a leaf. Come on, dear.
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: We'll go up to your room.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: I don't want to go up there.
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: Honey, Mommy will stay with you.
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: I'm afraid he's up there.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: Who?
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: Toto.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: Well, he won't be up there for long. Mr.
• 19:18
  Speaker 7: Toto is going right back to Pierigi's wonderful doll shop
• 19:22
  Speaker 7: before I lose my.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: Sanity, which means right now. Ah, Colonel Grayson.
• 19:40
  Speaker 9: Welcome to the home of Pierici's wonderful doll.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: Are you Pierici?
• 19:44
  Speaker 9: Santor Pierici, creator of the universal doll, the doll with
• 19:48
  Speaker 9: a mime.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: The doll which... I'm returning one of your masterpieces.
• 19:52
  Speaker 13: Oh?
• 19:53
  Speaker 9: If you will step into the rear of my shop.
• 20:00
  Speaker 9: Now the complaint.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: No complaint. Here's your doll. Good riddance.
• 20:05
  Speaker 9: My little Toto. Rejected. You found the world of men
• 20:10
  Speaker 9: too filled with hate. Hate, hate, hate, hate! We will
• 20:14
  Speaker 9: change all that later on. Return to your comrades in
• 20:19
  Speaker 9: the window, little one.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: And now, Colonel Grayson. I think we have no further business. Ah,
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: but we do, Colonel.
• 20:31
  Speaker 9: Let me see. Ah, yes, here it is.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Do you recognize this strong box, Colonel?
• 20:37
  Speaker 9: No.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: My strongbox? Well, where is it? My little Toto is
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: very clever, sir. Are you trying to tell me your
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: doll stole that from me? Let us not say stole.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: I am merely keeping it in custody. What's the game,
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: Pier E.G.? The game, as you call it, is blackmail.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: You give me what I want, and I do not
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: ruin your career. What do you want? Information.
• 20:59
  Speaker 9: We already know something from the reports of the War
• 21:01
  Speaker 9: Department concerning a certain strange-looking sphere reported by one of
• 21:06
  Speaker 9: your pilots.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: What government do you represent?
• 21:10
  Speaker 9: I represent Pierigi's Wonderful Dolls, none other.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: I am not so naive, sir.
• 21:17
  Speaker 9: Perhaps I should explain. Each man hides something from the world.
• 21:23
  Speaker 9: Each man loves something more than life. With the help
• 21:27
  Speaker 9: of my Wonderful Dolls, I obtain personal information which enables
• 21:31
  Speaker 9: me to control the men who control the world.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: You're a madman. A genius.
• 21:39
  Speaker 9: You would be surprised at the list of men who
• 21:41
  Speaker 9: have become the confidants for my dolls.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Do you think you can blackmail me into betraying my country?
• 21:46
  Speaker 9: If the price is right. And in this case, sir,
• 21:49
  Speaker 9: the price is your career and the lives of your
• 21:52
  Speaker 9: wife and child.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: Why are you so interested in the flying, sir? Let
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: us say for reasons of my own. Well, Colonel? Hand
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: over the strongbox. I warn you, I have a gun.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Give it to me.
• 22:05
  Speaker 9: You are being foolish. Put down that walking stick.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: Now. No closer.
• 22:10
  Speaker 13: Now.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: Hello. Give me the police. Hello. This is Colonel Henry Grayson.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: I've just killed a man. Yes, Parigi's Doll Shop, corner
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: of 4th and Lexington. The body is in the back room. Yes,
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: I'll wait for you. Shut up. Shut up, you little fiend.
• 22:45
  Speaker 11: Colonel Grayson.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: Did I hear it speak?
• 22:50
  Speaker 11: Colonel Henry Grayson.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: Must be going out of my mind, a six-inch doll.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: Shut up, your master's dead.
• 22:58
  Speaker 11: You are mistaken, Colonel. I, Toto... I'm the master.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: What do you mean?
• 23:05
  Speaker 11: If you will examine the body of Santor Parigi, you
• 23:08
  Speaker 11: will see that he does not bleed. And he does
• 23:13
  Speaker 11: not bleed, Colonel, because Santor Parigi never lived.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Never lived?
• 23:21
  Speaker 11: Santor Parigi is a doll.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: A doll? But that's impossible. He's a man. He talks.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: He walks.
• 23:30
  Speaker 11: The people of Meritrix are skillful doll builders.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: People of Meritrix? Doll builders? Look, who are you?
• 23:38
  Speaker 11: I am Xanthus Empiritor, commander of the legions of the
• 23:43
  Speaker 11: third planetoid, Meritrix.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: That's legions? Planetoid?
• 23:47
  Speaker 11: My people and I, whom you regard as dolls, come
• 23:51
  Speaker 11: from a tiny planet beyond the moon. so small that
• 23:55
  Speaker 11: it cannot support our population. We landed one of our
• 24:00
  Speaker 11: space spheres on Earth three months ago with the intention
• 24:04
  Speaker 11: of colonizing. Unfortunately, one of your pilots intercepted us.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: So that's why you wanted our information.
• 24:12
  Speaker 11: Precisely.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: Are you, uh, are you, uh, human?
• 24:16
  Speaker 11: Oh, quite human. Of course, in order to deal with
• 24:20
  Speaker 11: Earth people without suspicion, we were forced to construct Perigi,
• 24:25
  Speaker 11: a man-sized doll.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: Well, I can't believe this. I'm having hallucinations. I'm going
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: to get out of here.
• 24:30
  Speaker 11: Oh, that would be impossible. We have weapons of destruction
• 24:35
  Speaker 11: quite unknown to Earth people.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: Well, I phoned the police and they'll be here soon.
• 24:39
  Speaker 11: By the time they arrive, my people will have prepared
• 24:42
  Speaker 11: something quite incredible.
• 24:45
  Speaker 12: Shocking.
• 25:02
  Speaker 8: Cover him, Ryan.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: Okay, sir.
• 25:05
  Speaker 8: You're the guy who turned in the call?
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 25:07
  Speaker 8: Where's the body?
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: Well, it isn't exactly a body.
• 25:11
  Speaker 8: What do you mean?
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: It's a doll.
• 25:13
  Speaker 9: A what?
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: You've got to let me explain.
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: Now, this sounds fantastic, but I've stumbled onto an unbelievable plot.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: To control the world.
• 25:20
  Speaker 8: Keep talking.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: Now, these little dolls, they aren't really dolls.
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: They're tiny people. There's a big doll named Santo Parigi,
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: and he runs this shop.
• 25:28
  Speaker 8: Holy smokes.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: He's off his trolley, Sarge.
• 25:30
  Speaker 8: Listen, mister, we got a call that there was a
• 25:32
  Speaker 8: murder here. Now, if there was one, where's the body?
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: Behind those curtains in the back. Only it isn't really
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: a body, you see. What? I hear something back there, Sarge.
• 25:41
  Speaker 8: All right, cover those curtains. Yo, is anyone back there?
• 25:46
  Speaker 8: Come on out. Come out or we'll come in and
• 25:48
  Speaker 8: get you.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: Something's coming. The curtain's opening. Welcome, gentlemen.
• 25:55
  Speaker 13: Parigi.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: Well, this is impossible. I smashed his skull.
• 25:59
  Speaker 8: You know this guy?
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: Yes, that's the one. That's the doll.
• 26:02
  Speaker 8: What's your name, mister?
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: Parigi.
• 26:05
  Speaker 9: Santo Parigi, creator of the universal doll.
• 26:07
  Speaker 8: You ever see this man?
• 26:09
  Speaker 9: Never until just now.
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: Well, he's lying.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: I tell you, he's nothing but a life-sized doll. The
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: real masters are these little dolls.
• 26:16
  Speaker 8: Ryan, are you getting this?
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: He's wacko, Sarge. Nutty as a fruitcake. Look, look, I'm
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: not crazy, I tell you. I can prove it. They
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: must have fixed up his head when I smashed it in.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Touch him, you'll see.
• 26:27
  Speaker 13: Mr.
• 26:27
  Speaker 8: Parigi, you know what the guy is talking about?
• 26:29
  Speaker 9: The man is demented, obviously.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: I tell you, there's a plot to control the Earth.
• 26:34
  Speaker 8: Listen, you've got to let me call the War Department.
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: They'll want to know about the flying sphere.
• 26:38
  Speaker 8: Holy mackerel, this gets worse every minute.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Ryan.
• 26:41
  Speaker 8: Take him to headquarters? Save some time. Take him down
• 26:43
  Speaker 8: to the psycho ward. Okay, Buck Rogers.
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: I'm along nice and quiet.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: Look, you've got to listen to me. Don't you see
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: the future of mankind is at stake? Sure, sure. I
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: know how it is. Look, he's nothing but a man-sized doll.
• 26:54
  Speaker 8: Touch him.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: And the little ones are going to take over the earth.
• 26:57
  Speaker 8: I know.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: I had the DTs once.
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: Okay, Sarge.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: We'll see you later.
• 27:01
  Speaker 8: Please, please.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: I'm along.
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: Please, listen to me.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: You've got to listen to me.
• 27:06
  Speaker 8: Sorry to cause all this trouble, Mr.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: Breen. Not at all, sir. Not at all.
• 27:14
  Speaker 8: Well, I'll be. Well, that ain't the cutest little doll. Say,
• 27:20
  Speaker 8: my little girl would be nuts for that.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: Perhaps you will accept it as a gift.
• 27:23
  Speaker 8: Well, now, I.
• 27:24
  Speaker 9: For saving my life. That madman might have killed me.
• 27:27
  Speaker 9: No home is really complete without one of Pierici's wonderful dolls, Sergeant.
• 27:34
  Speaker 9: Is that right, Toto?
• 27:36
  Speaker 13: Yes.
• 27:38
  Speaker 8: Yes, but I.
• 27:39
  Speaker 9: I would like in some way to show my gratitude.
• 27:42
  Speaker 9: You will be doing me a favor if you will
• 27:44
  Speaker 9: take the doll home to your little daughter.
• 27:45
  Speaker 8: Say, this ought to make her the happiest girl in
• 27:48
  Speaker 8: the world.
• 27:49
  Speaker 9: Yes, Toto will come as a great surprise. A very
• 27:52
  Speaker 9: great surprise. Won't it, Toto?
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Tonight, by transcription, X-1 has brought you Perigi's Wonderful Dolls,
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: written by George Lefferts. Heard in the cast were Janet
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: Alexander as Cindy, Anne Petoniak as Alma, Nelson Olmsted as Henry,
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Joe DeSantis as Perigi, Michael O'Day as Toto, Ken Lynch
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: as the sergeant, and Frank Milano as Ryan.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: This is Fred Collins speaking.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: X-1 was directed by Fred Way and is an NBC
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Radio Network production.
• 28:43
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• 28:45
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• 28:55
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• 29:04
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