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Dragnet: The Big Actor (EP1658) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: for your kindle. Well, now it's time for today's episode
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  Speaker 1: of Dragnet. Original air date August the tenth of nineteen
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  Speaker 1: 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.
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  Speaker 3: Fatima Cigarettes, best of all long cigarettes, brings you dragnet.
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  Speaker 2: You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to narcotics detail. A
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  Speaker 2: large hospital in your city is held up ten thousand
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  Speaker 2: dollars in high grade narcotics is stolen. The bandits escape
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  Speaker 2: your job.
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  Speaker 4: Get them.
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  Speaker 2: It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima.
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  Speaker 6: It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima.
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  Speaker 3: Dragnet the documented drama of an actual crime. While the
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  Speaker 3: next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,
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  Speaker 3: you will travel step by step on the side of
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  Speaker 3: the law through an actual case. From official police fiolets
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  Speaker 3: from beginning to end, from crime to punishment. Dragnet is
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  Speaker 3: the story of your police force and action.
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  Speaker 7: It was Monday, October twenty third. It was foggy in
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  Speaker 7: Los Angeles. We were working a day watch out on
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  Speaker 7: narcotics detail. My partner's Ben Ramero. The boss is Captain Kerney.
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  Speaker 7: My name is Friday. Was seven sixteen am when we
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  Speaker 7: got to Saint Christopher's Hospital the pharmacy. How you do yes,
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  Speaker 7: police officers, sister you'd like to see Sister Mary Benedict.
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  Speaker 7: I'm she mother's superior.
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  Speaker 8: Senters down to so you say, do we're investigating in
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  Speaker 8: narcotic robbery?
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  Speaker 9: Yes, there have been quite a few policemen here in
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  Speaker 9: the past hour. I believe it was the fingerprint men
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  Speaker 9: who just left such a minute. I have their card. Yes,
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  Speaker 9: they were from Layton Fingerprint.
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  Speaker 8: Division, Stall and the boys from Layton Prince.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, that's right, Sergeant Harlan Stall.
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  Speaker 7: A sister were the investigating officers. A sign of the case.
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  Speaker 7: This is Sergeant Romero. My name is Friday. Are you
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  Speaker 7: a lieutenant, No, I'm a sergeant. I wonder if you
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  Speaker 7: could start right from the beginning for us, Just tell
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  Speaker 7: us what you know about the robbery.
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  Speaker 9: Well after mass I went to breakfast, and then I
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  Speaker 9: came downstairs here to the pharmacy to open.
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  Speaker 8: Up and keep the pharmacy locked overnight.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, yes, always, we always assigned an intern on night duty.
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  Speaker 9: He has the key in case any medicines are needed
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  Speaker 9: during the night. He's authorized to issue what may be
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  Speaker 9: needed to find the doctor's request.
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  Speaker 10: Who else has the key to the pharmacy? Sister?
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  Speaker 9: Are they just three keys? Mother Superior keeps one at
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  Speaker 9: her desk, and you have one for the intern on duty, and.
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  Speaker 8: I have one?
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  Speaker 10: All right? Do you want to go on?
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  Speaker 9: When I got down here this morning, I started to
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  Speaker 9: unlock the door and found it a jar. There no
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  Speaker 9: lights on. I snapped on the wall switch that one.
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  Speaker 9: That's when I saw young Jimmy Lyons.
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  Speaker 8: That's the enduring.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, he was unconscious on the floor. I see his
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  Speaker 9: head had been cut. He was bleeding profusely.
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  Speaker 10: What'd you do? Then?
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  Speaker 9: I call Mother Superior and she came right down. Doctor
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  Speaker 9: Spencer was summoned. He came in and started administering aid
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  Speaker 9: to intern lines there on the floor.
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  Speaker 8: Was that when you find out the narcotics were missing?
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  Speaker 9: No, not just at that moment. Both Mother Superior and
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  Speaker 9: myself were quite worried about young lions condition. It's really
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  Speaker 9: Mother Superior who first noticed the narcotics safe had been
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  Speaker 9: tampered with.
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  Speaker 8: Your stories don't exactly job their assistant. How do you
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  Speaker 8: mean Mother Superior gives you credit for first noticing a theft.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, my no, she's very charitable. But she's the first
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  Speaker 9: one who pointed to the safe. She's very observant.
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  Speaker 10: I understand, Go ahead, please.
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  Speaker 9: Upon checking the safe, we found that someone had taken
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  Speaker 9: our entire store of narcotics everything.
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  Speaker 10: Is that the safe over there?
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  Speaker 9: Yes, that's the narcotic safe. Don't touch that, mister Friday, No, no, never.
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  Speaker 9: Nothing is to be touched until the police have completed
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  Speaker 9: their investigation.
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  Speaker 10: Clues or were the police?
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  Speaker 9: Sister, then do you have all the clues you need?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I wouldn't know, but the men from Latent Fingerprints
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  Speaker 7: have dusted everything here, so it's all right to touch
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  Speaker 7: things now.
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  Speaker 9: That was mister Harland's Stall's men.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, that's right. Oh, I didn't know. We understand. You
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  Speaker 8: have the inventory list, Yes.
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  Speaker 9: I have it on my desk.
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  Speaker 8: Here, thank you.
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  Speaker 9: We keep a running inventory. So that's the exact amount
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  Speaker 9: that's missing, Yes.
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  Speaker 7: Ma'am, cocaine and morphine. No, bird's eye, you big hauler
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  Speaker 7: looks like about ten thousand.
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  Speaker 6: More.
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  Speaker 8: Like to have a copy of this inventory system.
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  Speaker 9: Would you take the carbon I like to keep the
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  Speaker 9: originals for my month to five.
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  Speaker 10: That'll be fine.
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  Speaker 8: Side of this intern lines nobody saw whoever it was?
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  Speaker 9: No, Mother Superior and I have interrogated everyone. They made
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  Speaker 9: a thorough investigation on our own. I took notes. Yes,
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  Speaker 9: that's the way Father Brown does it.
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  Speaker 10: Father Brown.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, yes, he's an expert Detective Brown. You wouldn't mean
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  Speaker 8: Fad Brown. No, Father Brown, Father Brown. You people have
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  Speaker 8: your own detectives now.
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  Speaker 9: Oh my No, he's not a regular detective. He's more
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  Speaker 9: like Mother Superior and myself.
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  Speaker 10: Is that right?
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  Speaker 9: Yes, he's in England. Saw some really difficult cases. He'll
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  Speaker 9: I'll show you see you right here The Triple Cross.
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  Speaker 9: Another exciting Father Brown mystery by G. K. Chesterton. Oh yes,
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  Speaker 9: I've all but one of the Father Brown books. Mother
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  Speaker 9: Superior has it. I get it after she finishes.
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  Speaker 10: What's the condition of the intern.
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  Speaker 9: He's resting comfortably. Doctor Spencer says, you'll be all right.
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  Speaker 9: He had to take nine stitches any scalp.
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  Speaker 10: We'd like to talk to him.
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  Speaker 9: I'm sure that'll be all right. I don't have to
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  Speaker 9: tell you. We all think this is a terrible thing.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, sister, it is.
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  Speaker 9: All those narcotics. Whoever took them all distribute them?
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  Speaker 10: Will they Well, that's our guess, sister. The stuff will
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  Speaker 10: be sold addicts.
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  Speaker 9: What makes a dope adict? How do they get started?
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  Speaker 9: Why do they do it?
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  Speaker 8: I don't know, sister. I give you a lot of reasons.
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  Speaker 9: None of them good, none of them good. And for
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  Speaker 9: a few moments of what tonight they have it, and
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  Speaker 9: tomorrow they have nothing.
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  Speaker 10: That's about the size of it, sister.
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  Speaker 9: Stars are setting and the caravan starts for the dawn
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  Speaker 9: of nothing.
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  Speaker 11: The Bible, no, oh, Mark I am.
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  Speaker 7: Before we left Saint Christopher's Hospital, we talked with intern
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  Speaker 7: James Lyons. Since he was slugged from behind, he failed
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  Speaker 7: to see his assailant, he could tell us nothing. The
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  Speaker 7: entire hospital staff was screened thoroughly. They could add nothing
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  Speaker 7: to what we already knew. Between six and seven o'clock
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  Speaker 7: that morning, ten thousand dollars worth of high grade prescription
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  Speaker 7: narcotics had been stolen somewhere in the city of Los
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  Speaker 7: Angeles was the answer. As in all narcotics cases, speed
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  Speaker 7: is the prime factor. Whoever held those narcotics wouldn't waste
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  Speaker 7: any time diluting or cutting it and making it ready
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  Speaker 7: for quick sale.
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  Speaker 10: Our job was to stop him.
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  Speaker 8: Five minutes past eight am, we checked in.
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  Speaker 7: With Sergeant Harlan's stall at Laking. Fingerprints detailed. Not much help,
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  Speaker 7: is it? That's all you got?
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  Speaker 8: Huh?
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  Speaker 12: The safest clean not a print on it, no prints
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  Speaker 12: anywhere in the room. Slugg the intern from behind, took
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  Speaker 12: his keys, tore a belt, boop off his trousers, opened
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  Speaker 12: the safe and Walt Stock couldn't have been cleaner.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, you didn't get anything on your end though.
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  Speaker 10: Nothing.
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  Speaker 4: Getle them, Okay, I picked one up. Oh isen junker
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  Speaker 4: by the name of Beb Kellogg is really staying seeing Steve,
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  Speaker 4: but he's coming out of him. Let's go talk to him.
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  Speaker 4: Check your letters, doll.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, what's the story on?
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  Speaker 4: Wallace and Hunt picked him up downtown LA was sitting
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  Speaker 4: in the park car at Fourth and Broadway. I thought
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  Speaker 4: at first he was a three ninety, but they couldn't
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  Speaker 4: raise him. He's down this way.
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  Speaker 10: What else?
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  Speaker 4: Well, Wallace figured he must be geed up, so they
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  Speaker 4: roll up his sleeve to look for the spike marks.
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  Speaker 8: They found him, find anything on him?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there were two vials of them on the seat
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  Speaker 4: behind him, the side him. Description stuff. Got that list
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  Speaker 4: of serial numbers from the hospital.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah right here, All right, let's go in Wallace.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Kevin Friday's get lost of the serial numbers on
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  Speaker 4: that hospital highs hopped on. Check him against the vials
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  Speaker 4: he found in his car. Here, thanks, Joe, I feel him, babe.
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  Speaker 10: All right?
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  Speaker 4: Hell Augus is Friday and Romero Central Vision. I assume
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  Speaker 4: you want to tell us about it. Nothing to tell
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  Speaker 4: living High, aren't you. I'm not unusual, It's not the way.
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  Speaker 10: I get it. You're scoring good prescription.
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  Speaker 13: Stuff, birthday press? It from a friend?
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  Speaker 10: Who is it?
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  Speaker 8: I want to keep his friendship?
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  Speaker 4: Who's your connection?
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  Speaker 10: Baby?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know you know that morphine we picked out
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  Speaker 4: of your cars? Hot?
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  Speaker 10: Is it?
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  Speaker 8: In all of it?
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  Speaker 7: The hospital pharmacy was knocked over this morning. The numbers
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  Speaker 7: on those vials of yours match up.
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  Speaker 13: You're in a real jam no numbers on them.
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  Speaker 10: You might as well tell us where you got it.
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  Speaker 8: I'm not going to be a pagan for you.
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  Speaker 7: Nobody's asking me to be a fagan killog. That's hyph
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  Speaker 7: hard stuff. We don't get anybody else. It can go
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  Speaker 7: hard for you.
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  Speaker 13: I'm not going to bite the hand if heeds me.
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  Speaker 4: You want to stand it alone on this one, not
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  Speaker 4: the idea.
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  Speaker 8: I didn't say that.
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  Speaker 4: Well, one of us isn't going to go along and
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  Speaker 4: hold your hand. How about it? Who's your connection?
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  Speaker 10: All right? It isn't going to be a long weight killogg.
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  Speaker 7: As soon as Waters gets back with those cereal numbers,
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  Speaker 7: you can play hero all afternoon.
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  Speaker 4: It will be on the twelfth floor of the kind
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  Speaker 4: of jail bab You won't have to wait long later either.
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  Speaker 4: And why don't you put one foot that cartro and
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  Speaker 4: the jordge you'll throw you throw everything he's got at you.
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  Speaker 8: Two bottles of drug store stuff, robrick Y'll ten thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 13: This is good, but two bottles ain't worth that much, and.
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  Speaker 8: You only show a part of it. Maybe you got
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  Speaker 8: the rest of it at your plant. You got my
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  Speaker 8: plant nineteen thirty one, Essex.
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  Speaker 13: Four wheel break. Your car's being checked out? Didn't find
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  Speaker 13: me more? Did you?
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  Speaker 10: No?
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  Speaker 13: I couldn't be that lucky.
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  Speaker 8: You feel pretty good now, but you'll get a yin on.
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  Speaker 8: You won't help me. You never do. When's the last
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  Speaker 8: time you've helped us? Remember it is worse than mine.
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  Speaker 8: I helped you.
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  Speaker 13: I helped you guys a lot. Don't you remember the
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  Speaker 13: Frank Smith plant No. Nineteen thirty three, Friday Night Last.
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  Speaker 13: I'll let you write tough Smeddy's plan. Smithy didn't have
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  Speaker 13: no giza like your fun on me. He was a
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  Speaker 13: big man. We turned up four kites on him for USh.
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  Speaker 13: You didn't sure I did right here in Kansas City,
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  Speaker 13: I've done your big favor that night Friday Night Last.
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  Speaker 10: A different time and a different right.
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  Speaker 13: Baby, you're kidding in the Saint Louis singing the steam. Yeah,
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  Speaker 13: don't kid me along. This is Kansas City.
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  Speaker 10: How is you?
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  Speaker 8: Saint Louis?
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  Speaker 4: You're in Los Angeles, babe, Los Angeles, California.
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  Speaker 13: Your kid and Clinid wouldn't do that to me. Who's
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  Speaker 13: Clenide eleventh from Baltimore, hangs out down at the Continental.
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  Speaker 10: Hotel that's in Kansas City.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, Mardy Clinid, tough cup. He said to make a
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  Speaker 13: hut for me. Do you want me in Casey gave
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  Speaker 13: me a floater out of town. That's why I came
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  Speaker 13: here to Saint Louis.
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  Speaker 4: You're in Los Angeles, babe, you got it Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 14: Oh yeah, you're told me I'm wanna step outside of that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 14: stay with him away. That's it checks out.
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  Speaker 10: Huh.
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  Speaker 15: Somebody cut through the serial number stamps on the vials,
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  Speaker 15: but you can still make them out.
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  Speaker 4: The two vials of morephemie found in Kellogg's car were
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  Speaker 4: from the hospital pharmasy. Thanks mommas, are all right baby?
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  Speaker 4: Now let's cut out the jokes. So those two vials
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  Speaker 4: you had came from the hospital and numbers check out.
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  Speaker 8: No numbers on those laws.
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  Speaker 4: You know you probably didn't even look at them.
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  Speaker 8: Oh yeah, I look. No numbers on him. We found
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  Speaker 8: them all right, Let's see how you could read them.
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  Speaker 13: I couldn't.
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  Speaker 8: Why not?
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  Speaker 13: Somebody scratched them all? Oh babe, you wouldn't know. Try
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  Speaker 13: how much he do I have to stand if I
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  Speaker 13: take it along?
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  Speaker 4: Plenty? There was an intern slug on that job. Hurt
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  Speaker 4: pretty bad. They're going to tag you for assault too.
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  Speaker 8: I never hurt anybody in my life.
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  Speaker 10: How do we know?
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  Speaker 8: I just told you we don't know you didn't pull
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  Speaker 8: this job. We haven't got any proof. Once more, what's
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  Speaker 8: the con.
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  Speaker 4: Goes like this? Babe? First degree robbery five years to life,
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  Speaker 4: Assault with the deadly weapon one to ten, Violation of
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  Speaker 4: the State Narcotics Act one to fifteen. You can add
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  Speaker 4: I lose you up there. You can get a real
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  Speaker 4: young on by that time. There's no buzzing up at QUE.
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  Speaker 8: I can't go that route. Where'd you get the stuff?
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  Speaker 13: I'd rather be a Fagan than spend fifty years of
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  Speaker 13: the joint.
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  Speaker 10: You convinced us? Where'd you get it?
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  Speaker 13: Anybody turned Fagan before they spend fifty years at QUE. No,
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  Speaker 13: I can't go that rob what'd you get it?
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  Speaker 4: Bag?
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  Speaker 13: From some joy popper who I gave him some hundred
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  Speaker 13: bucks clean me company? Passing himself off as a croaker.
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  Speaker 13: I can spot a guy's been hitting speedballs a mile away.
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  Speaker 13: I knew he wasn't any croaker.
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  Speaker 10: What was his name?
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  Speaker 13: He was Scorne good someone?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, let's cecil and Mary.
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  Speaker 13: No I know where he got it?
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  Speaker 4: Give us his name, bab.
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  Speaker 13: He's a bit player in fiftures. Leonard Castle? Wherezy you're
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  Speaker 13: my Arizona on location?
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  Speaker 4: How could to be on a location when you bought
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  Speaker 4: that stuff. Only this morning I.
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  Speaker 13: Have to plane this morning. He was on his way
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  Speaker 13: mud Castle picture act to that right, you got it?
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  Speaker 4: Run it down.
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  Speaker 8: Ten am. We checked the name Leonard Castle through R
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  Speaker 8: and I.
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  Speaker 10: We found nothing.
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  Speaker 7: We looked in the phone book and got the number
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  Speaker 7: Garfield three seven one one, Central Casting, Central Castings Angle's
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  Speaker 7: police department calling.
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  Speaker 8: Do you have a Leonard Castle registered with you?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, we do.
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  Speaker 8: Wonder if you could tell me if he's working.
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  Speaker 16: I have his card right here. Yes, he's working. He's
• 16:18
  Speaker 16: doing crime report for Schumann Caster Independent Production. They're shooting
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  Speaker 16: over it Sound Stages Incorporated.
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  Speaker 10: They're working today.
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  Speaker 17: Yes he is.
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  Speaker 8: You're sure that company's not on location.
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  Speaker 16: Oh, we have no location showing for that picture.
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  Speaker 8: Could you give me his call police?
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  Speaker 16: Surely he had a nine o'clock call today Stage three.
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  Speaker 16: Did you wish to see mister Castle?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, you shouldn't have any trouble locating him over there.
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  Speaker 10: We'll find him.
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  Speaker 3: You are listening to drag nets. Actual case history is
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  Speaker 3: taken from official police files.
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  Speaker 5: If you smoke a long cigarette, it will be in
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  Speaker 5: your interest to listen to these case histories taken from
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  Speaker 5: the file marked Fatima.
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  Speaker 3: On this card, Reporter Lee Silver statement.
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  Speaker 12: I need an extra mild cigarette. No other long cigarette
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  Speaker 6: Statement, when I go off duty, I appreciate a mild cigarette.
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  Speaker 3: On this card the statement by drama critic Richard Watts Junior.
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  Speaker 5: Best of all long cigarettes.
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  Speaker 7: Ten thirty am, Central Casting gave us Leonard Castle's home
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  Speaker 7: address and detectives.
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  Speaker 10: Long and Hunt went on immediate stakeout.
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  Speaker 7: Ben and I drove out to Sound Stages Incorporated and
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  Speaker 7: checked in at the reception desk.
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  Speaker 8: We showed them our identification.
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  Speaker 7: We were issued to pass to sound stage three.
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  Speaker 8: This is stage one. Stage three ought to be down there.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, very big, lay well, I was pretty small.
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  Speaker 10: Watched the truck.
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  Speaker 8: Ben think callog knew what he's talking about.
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  Speaker 10: I'll know in a couple of minutes.
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  Speaker 7: Not very usual. Joy Popper put a job like that.
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  Speaker 7: We all start somewhere. That's a good way to get
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  Speaker 7: around a movie, I say, but I'm walking.
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  Speaker 10: Sure a thick fog, isn't it.
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  Speaker 8: We don't have up. But when we get him, they're
• 19:01
  Speaker 8: a real peace super whatever. You better hold it in
• 19:04
  Speaker 8: red light. They're shooting in there. Oh yeah, I see
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  Speaker 8: what stage five? You know?
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  Speaker 7: I couldn't tell you, oh clear, what's going.
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  Speaker 8: Interesting?
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  Speaker 5: Hey fella?
• 19:28
  Speaker 8: Yeah, what if you can tell us where we can
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  Speaker 8: find Leonard Castle?
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  Speaker 17: Rosey call Land Castle. Will want to see him?
• 19:35
  Speaker 8: Okay, Lanard Castle, Lanard Castle.
• 19:39
  Speaker 10: I guess we can wait over here with the phone.
• 19:40
  Speaker 17: Huh, he'll be right here.
• 19:42
  Speaker 8: Thank thank you? Was he you call me here? Gentlemen?
• 19:46
  Speaker 17: I want to see you.
• 19:46
  Speaker 8: Thanks, Waddy? You want to see me?
• 19:49
  Speaker 7: Your name Leonard Castle? Yeah that's right, police officers. Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: there's someplace where we can talk.
• 19:55
  Speaker 8: Well, is this all right? I got to stick close.
• 19:56
  Speaker 8: I might be in the next shot.
• 19:58
  Speaker 10: All right. You know a fellow the name of Babe Kellogg.
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  Speaker 10: Oh he says he knows you.
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  Speaker 8: Oh I never heard him.
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  Speaker 10: Be sure, put us on a.
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  Speaker 17: Bellow, George. Hold the work, fly down, fly, have.
• 20:12
  Speaker 8: To hold it in at the lining up the show.
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  Speaker 3: Have to move that route about a foot and a
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  Speaker 3: half to.
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  Speaker 17: You're right, that's it. Hold it right there. Take a
• 20:24
  Speaker 17: little harder couple of times. Ooh ooh, that's good it
• 20:29
  Speaker 17: Actually give me your nink you think right here, camel left.
• 20:34
  Speaker 18: Right when Fred Conray crosses over the table, can you
• 20:37
  Speaker 18: help me on a little?
• 20:38
  Speaker 17: Can you bring this one down about two points.
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  Speaker 10: On the dimmer?
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: It's gone.
• 20:41
  Speaker 18: Time to get that already, the lift's Conrad, Yes, sir,
• 20:46
  Speaker 18: take it real easy. Remember you don't know your sergeant's
• 20:49
  Speaker 18: got a clue until he comes to you with it. Alright,
• 20:51
  Speaker 18: you're anticipating a little bit. Okay, that's trying by watch
• 20:56
  Speaker 18: that mic shadow. We' getting it on that wall.
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: Am I out? Now?
• 20:59
  Speaker 10: Not too much? We love it?
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  Speaker 17: That's fine and clear. Already all right, we're.
• 21:04
  Speaker 10: Trying turn them over.
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  Speaker 17: Rubbing see action?
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  Speaker 11: All right?
• 21:12
  Speaker 19: You so's I get all the clues up the right down.
• 21:19
  Speaker 10: He's that broken window, that's right.
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  Speaker 17: Last thing?
• 21:22
  Speaker 8: Books?
• 21:23
  Speaker 10: Yeah, they got them int.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Save good.
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  Speaker 17: That's all this class hoole.
• 21:30
  Speaker 10: Alright, you never heard of babe Killogg.
• 21:31
  Speaker 8: Huh, that's right. We're were you at six? Is luck
• 21:33
  Speaker 8: this morning? Can't you got men at your place checking?
• 21:37
  Speaker 8: What's it all about?
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: Between six and seven o'clock this morning, somebody robbed the
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: pharmacy at Saint Christopher's Hospital and slugged the intern, made
• 21:43
  Speaker 7: off with over ten thousand dollars with a narcotics.
• 21:45
  Speaker 8: Yeah, we find you were in bed between six and seven?
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: Are clear?
• 21:48
  Speaker 10: I was anybody to back up that alibi?
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: A lot of that.
• 21:51
  Speaker 10: I guess you'd know what time she generally get up.
• 21:53
  Speaker 8: Well, I don't know why she couldn't very well back
• 21:56
  Speaker 8: yet she was still asleep. She's usually up early.
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: So she said you didn't know what time she got in? Well,
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  Speaker 7: I mean I don't usually know, but you know this morning. No,
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  Speaker 7: you don't know, baby Kellogg.
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  Speaker 17: Simmer down, everybody, let's have it. Flat them off. What
• 22:10
  Speaker 17: are you reading at junior Harry nine?
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  Speaker 8: We'll make a little.
• 22:14
  Speaker 17: Hotter, A little hotter, that's it? Whoa ten plus?
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: Steve? That's it?
• 22:21
  Speaker 17: How about it?
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: Steve?
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  Speaker 10: Anykay?
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: Turn him over?
• 22:24
  Speaker 17: Rolling action?
• 22:29
  Speaker 10: All right, you says, they get all the clues up
• 22:32
  Speaker 10: your right in.
• 22:35
  Speaker 17: That's what I found.
• 22:37
  Speaker 10: Here's a broken window.
• 22:38
  Speaker 17: That's right, it's plastic with prince.
• 22:41
  Speaker 18: Yeah, we got on it, Jake, you said, plastered with prints,
• 22:47
  Speaker 18: the line rings, plastered with fingerprints.
• 22:49
  Speaker 17: You gotta say the whole word.
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: They'll never know what you mean.
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  Speaker 8: In Vancouver.
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  Speaker 17: Come yeah, yeah, hold the work, keep it quiet.
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  Speaker 15: That's really easy. Tough director, but he's a good one.
• 22:58
  Speaker 15: How long you've been doing this kind of word cancer?
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 23:00
  Speaker 8: Six seven years?
• 23:01
  Speaker 10: What pictures you've been in?
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 23:02
  Speaker 15: I don't think you'd have noticed. They're mostly small parties.
• 23:04
  Speaker 15: What kind of punts you got in this picture?
• 23:06
  Speaker 8: I play a cop?
• 23:07
  Speaker 10: What would you like to do in this picture? No?
• 23:10
  Speaker 10: What's your ambition? You're gonna stand in pictures?
• 23:11
  Speaker 8: Yeah?
• 23:12
  Speaker 15: I'd like to like to get a few bigger parts
• 23:14
  Speaker 15: if I could. It's pretty tough to try and set
• 23:16
  Speaker 15: yourself to produce her. If you can't see you on
• 23:17
  Speaker 15: the film.
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: Money is pretty good, No, isn't it?
• 23:20
  Speaker 10: All?
• 23:20
  Speaker 8: All the Pens's a different deal in each picture. You
• 23:22
  Speaker 8: do you have an agent?
• 23:24
  Speaker 10: No?
• 23:24
  Speaker 8: I did have wasn't doing anything for me, so I
• 23:26
  Speaker 8: let him go on. I represented that pretty hard to
• 23:29
  Speaker 8: build any kind of a name without an agent, isn't it?
• 23:30
  Speaker 8: What all the pens? If you can keep up a
• 23:32
  Speaker 8: good front, nice car, that's all the constant time?
• 23:35
  Speaker 10: Do you really believe that? Do you touch you?
• 23:37
  Speaker 19: Well?
• 23:37
  Speaker 10: I don't know much about it. I'm not an actor.
• 23:39
  Speaker 8: You said you didn't know baby killing at all, didn't you?
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: I don't know. You said you saw your LANDI at
• 23:43
  Speaker 8: six flock this morning. No, I didn't see that. There's
• 23:46
  Speaker 8: the Theodre or Milton director.
• 23:47
  Speaker 10: Would you like to meet it? What time you see
• 23:48
  Speaker 10: your landy?
• 23:49
  Speaker 8: This parish Meltourne, Yeah, Castle. When are you gonna get
• 23:51
  Speaker 8: to meet really? Yeah? No, I was still in the
• 23:54
  Speaker 8: same thing.
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  Speaker 4: We'll get a utel after lunch and you stay with
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: you pretty kay?
• 23:57
  Speaker 8: What time did they break for lunch?
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: Cattle?
• 23:59
  Speaker 7: All this a company years that breaks around twelfth? Are
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: it's only eleven fifteen? Maybe we can go outside until
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: directors that he didn't need to Why you never want
• 24:06
  Speaker 7: to believe the director? So I was a first assistant.
• 24:08
  Speaker 8: We could check with him, couldn't. Well, I don't like
• 24:09
  Speaker 8: to do that. I hate ask any favorites.
• 24:11
  Speaker 15: Said he wasn't going to use you laugh for Lene, Well,
• 24:13
  Speaker 15: it isn't a good policy to bother the first assistant.
• 24:16
  Speaker 7: It was probably better in here anyway. I didn't see
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: any place sit on outside unless you have a car
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: in the You have car?
• 24:23
  Speaker 8: No, I don't.
• 24:24
  Speaker 10: But you told us she had a car. No, I
• 24:27
  Speaker 10: didn't tell you that when you said something about keeping
• 24:30
  Speaker 10: up a good front, nice car?
• 24:31
  Speaker 8: Is that what you say? Oh? Oh sure, I have
• 24:35
  Speaker 8: a cry. I don't know what I was thinking about. Yeah,
• 24:36
  Speaker 8: I have a car.
• 24:37
  Speaker 15: I thought you said you had a car. Tell you
• 24:40
  Speaker 15: this picture. I will drive you crazy. I don't know
• 24:42
  Speaker 15: what I'm saying.
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: After's that maybe you made a mistake about Babe Kellog
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: do you know? No, I'm sure about that.
• 24:47
  Speaker 8: I don't know any Babe Carson Kellogg or Kellogg you know,
• 24:50
  Speaker 8: I don't know it.
• 24:51
  Speaker 10: Would you mind showing us your wallet?
• 24:52
  Speaker 8: What for? You want to see my identification? We see
• 24:54
  Speaker 8: the wallet?
• 24:55
  Speaker 13: Then all right?
• 24:58
  Speaker 8: Yeah?
• 24:58
  Speaker 10: No, you hold it joking it up?
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: Quiet place, all right?
• 25:03
  Speaker 8: Say okay?
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: Right, see all right, nice and easy now finger prints
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: Jake by action.
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  Speaker 8: Alt you so as they get all the clues up
• 25:19
  Speaker 8: your right in.
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  Speaker 14: What I call it?
• 25:23
  Speaker 10: He's a broken.
• 25:24
  Speaker 8: Window, that's right, it's a flat fanker prints.
• 25:27
  Speaker 10: Yeah, we got im in.
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: I thought you see how much money you got in
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: your wallet?
• 25:35
  Speaker 15: Canceled? No, you vote it just counted? Course, Oh there
• 25:41
  Speaker 15: it is? What about the rest of it in there?
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: All right?
• 25:45
  Speaker 10: I didn't see all right, count it just a few
• 25:48
  Speaker 10: hunder here counted?
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: All right? So well I can see four fifties right
• 25:54
  Speaker 8: there on top. That's two hundred, isn't it?
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 25:57
  Speaker 8: Three hundred.
• 26:00
  Speaker 10: Four fifty. Yeah, go on.
• 26:04
  Speaker 8: I hadn't know I had this much. That's two hundred
• 26:07
  Speaker 8: and fifty more, and that makes seven hundred. Didn't this morning?
• 26:10
  Speaker 8: I thought I had.
• 26:11
  Speaker 7: There's two more tens in the five there. That's seven
• 26:13
  Speaker 7: hundred and twenty five dollars. Castle, Yeah, doing pretty well
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: in this picture. It's not all picture money, all right.
• 26:18
  Speaker 7: You can put your wallet away.
• 26:20
  Speaker 8: Thanks. You didn't make this money on the picture. Where'd
• 26:23
  Speaker 8: you get it? Play little cards?
• 26:24
  Speaker 10: This night?
• 26:24
  Speaker 8: Were they pretty late? Yeah?
• 26:25
  Speaker 10: Pretty late?
• 26:26
  Speaker 8: Weren't you tired this morning?
• 26:27
  Speaker 9: No?
• 26:27
  Speaker 8: Not even when you got up at six?
• 26:29
  Speaker 10: I said, I got up at six I list in castle.
• 26:31
  Speaker 7: You don't know what you said, but one thing sure
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: you're lying to was you know, Babe Kellogg and your
• 26:34
  Speaker 7: own well enough to sell him two miles a high
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: grade morphine.
• 26:37
  Speaker 8: How you're wrong about it? All right?
• 26:38
  Speaker 10: Then you set us straight.
• 26:39
  Speaker 7: Kellogg says he paid your seven hundred dollars for the
• 26:40
  Speaker 7: stuff you got over seven hundred and your wallet that's morn
• 26:42
  Speaker 7: you need for lunch money.
• 26:43
  Speaker 8: Now this could be a coincidence. You set a straight
• 26:44
  Speaker 8: where you're wrong.
• 26:45
  Speaker 10: What'd you get the money?
• 26:47
  Speaker 8: Turn it.
• 26:49
  Speaker 17: Right? See action all right?
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: You says, I get all the clues.
• 26:56
  Speaker 10: I'll be right in. He's a broken window.
• 27:03
  Speaker 17: That's right, that's a plastic.
• 27:06
  Speaker 10: Yeah, we got a man all right, But you get
• 27:10
  Speaker 10: the money casting I told you I played card. Say
• 27:12
  Speaker 10: won't do got the keys to your car?
• 27:14
  Speaker 8: I can't leave.
• 27:14
  Speaker 10: We'll get you excuse we want to look at your car?
• 27:16
  Speaker 8: No, no, don't do that.
• 27:17
  Speaker 10: All right? Then? Do you know, Babe Kellogg?
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 27:25
  Speaker 19: See action alright? You says, I get all the clues
• 27:29
  Speaker 19: up your right end. He's a broken window. Huh, that's right,
• 27:37
  Speaker 19: that's alastic.
• 27:39
  Speaker 10: Yeah, we got a man cut.
• 27:43
  Speaker 17: Right all.
• 27:45
  Speaker 10: Do you know, babe Kellogg?
• 27:46
  Speaker 8: Yes, yes, I know, I might know it.
• 27:49
  Speaker 10: You robbed that hospital. It's money.
• 27:51
  Speaker 8: I needed it. I needed the money. I had to
• 27:54
  Speaker 8: have it. I owed money. They were gonna take my car.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: I was broke.
• 27:57
  Speaker 15: What else could I do? I was sick once I
• 28:01
  Speaker 15: stayed at Saint Christophers. I know where they kept the drugs.
• 28:03
  Speaker 15: I know if I could get him, I could make
• 28:04
  Speaker 15: some fast money. I didn't mean to hit the kittick.
• 28:07
  Speaker 15: I couldn't let him see me.
• 28:08
  Speaker 20: He didn't have to be there, did he. He didn't
• 28:11
  Speaker 20: have to beat her. I sold oldaid. The stuff and
• 28:16
  Speaker 20: the rest is in the car and the cedar. I
• 28:20
  Speaker 20: need the money of it.
• 28:23
  Speaker 10: I was broke, broke, better get him out of her.
• 28:26
  Speaker 18: Ben, Come on, Casle, that was a great meeting. My
• 28:30
  Speaker 18: name is Melton Man, directing this picture. You the boys agent, No, sir,
• 28:33
  Speaker 18: never heard him read better. Funny thing though, Yeah, in
• 28:37
  Speaker 18: front of the camera he goes to the dogs.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: The story you've just heard was true, only the names
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: were changed to protect the innocent.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: On January twenty eighth, trial was held in Superior Court
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: Department ninety one, City in County of Los Angeles State
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: of California in a moment the results of trial.
• 29:00
  Speaker 7: And now here is our star, Jack Webb, thank you
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: the working detective. In reaching the solution of a crime
• 29:07
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• 29:41
  Speaker 7: that's two weeks from tonight, drag Net will be heard
• 29:44
  Speaker 7: one hour earlier at nine pm Eastern daylight saving time.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: Leonard Francis Castle was tried and convicted of first degree
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: robbery and violating the State Narcotics Act. He received sentences
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: as prescribed by law. Alfred Babe Kellogg was convicted of
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: violating the State Narcotics Act. Both men are now serving
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: their terms in the state penitentiary. You have just heard Dragnet,
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: a series of authentic cases from official files. Technical advice
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: comes from the Office of Chief of Police W. H. Parker,
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: Los Angeles Police Department.
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  Speaker 5: in Sarah's Private Caper. Next on NBC, this.
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  Speaker 3: Is Andrew J. Graham, author There was Surface series, Oh
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: and a Man of His Wife.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: You're listening to the great Detectives of Old time Radio.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Welcome back.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: Well.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: In this episode we heard one of the most inaccurate
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: things you'll hear in a drag Net episode. Of course
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: it's a minor point, but since it revolved around the
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: world of mysteries and detectives, I've got to call it out.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: And that is the reference to Father Brown. Clearly they
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: thought it would be kind of cute to put in
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: a father Brown reference since this was happening at a
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Catholic hospital. But two things. One, Father Brown was never
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: known for carrying around a notebook. If he was known
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: for carrying around anything, it was an umbrella. He was
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: an amateur sleuth and his solutions were based on his
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: observations as well as his life experiences. With Store is
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: like the eye of a Paulo and the Blue Cross.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: There also was never a story of Father Brown's called
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: the Triple Cross, and it seems to imply that this
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: was a novel. Father Brown's stories were all short stories.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: It seems like the writers wanted to include the reference,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: but they hadn't read the books, and they'd heard of
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: the character, but they couldn't be bothered to look at
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: the actual titles of the book. On a much more
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: positive note, I think the scene with the Babe character
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: was very fascinating and it was one of those points
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: where Dragnet is able to really use a sort of
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: show don't tell approach to crime prevention, and in preaching
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: the dangers of crime, it doesn't just say kids don't
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: do drugs, drugs are bad for you. Rather, we mate
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: this man who doesn't even know what city he's in.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: That's how much damage all the drugs have really wrought
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: upon him, and that itself is a very powerful message
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: without actually saying any message. The final scene was very
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: intriguing and almost surreal because in the foreground we have
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: actors playing policemen who are closing a case, and behind
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: them are actors playing actors who are policemen. Closing a case.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: I did think that that scene probably did go on
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: a little bit too long, and it was one case
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