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  Speaker 1: At a society musicale in Harriet Hamilton's mansion, actress Jennifer
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: Gay is found murdered. From February 3rd, 1946, this is
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  Speaker 1: The Shadow, episode 357, Murder with Music, heard over the
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  Speaker 1: Mutual Broadcasting System. Brett Morrison is Lamont Cranston and The Shadow,
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  Speaker 1: with Leslie Woods as Margot Lane. Joe Bates-Smith wrote the script,
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  Speaker 1: and John Cole directed. As suspicion settles over the gathered guests,
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  Speaker 1: Cranston takes up the investigation. And now, our story begins.
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  Speaker 2: The End.
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  Speaker 3: The hearts of men. The shadow knows. In reality, Lamont Cranston,
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  Speaker 3: wealthy young man about town. Years ago in the Orient,
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  Speaker 3: Cranston learned a strange and mysterious secret. The hypnotic power
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  Speaker 3: to cloud men's minds so they cannot see him. Cranston's
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  Speaker 3: friend and companion, the lovely Margo Lane, is the only
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  Speaker 3: person who knows to whom the voice of the invisible
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  Speaker 3: shadow belongs. Today's drama, Murder with Music. Why are you
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  Speaker 3: just standing there staring at me? Why don't you say something? No!
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  Speaker 3: Don't come near me. You wouldn't hear me. You wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: hear me. Oh, my feet. Why? Why are you.
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  Speaker 4: Stop.
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  Speaker 2: Stop or the members of Heaven don't hear me.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, no. Please.
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  Speaker 3: No. Get away from me. Get away from me.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 3: Stop. Yes. Help me.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 3: Help me.
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  Speaker 2: Help me. He does play well, doesn't he, Lamont?
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  Speaker 3: I suppose so, Marlowe. It's getting late. Isn't he ever
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  Speaker 3: going to stop? Oh, darling. Mrs.
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  Speaker 6: Hamilton has planned this recital for weeks. Edward Meland is
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  Speaker 6: a prodigy.
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  Speaker 4: Now, he must be polite.
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  Speaker 3: Why? Just because he's in the social register and has
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  Speaker 3: a mansion uptown? Mrs.
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  Speaker 4: Hamilton is a patron of the arts. This Edward Meland
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  Speaker 4: is the latest discovery.
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  Speaker 3: She's put him up here at her home.
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  Speaker 4: She's given him the finest teachers.
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  Speaker 3: She's completely responsible for his success. Now, if you ask me,
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  Speaker 3: the old girl's probably just got a crush on that
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  Speaker 3: young piano.
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  Speaker 2: Now, you better hear this.
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  Speaker 3: It's his music, John.
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  Speaker 4: He wants it out of town.
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  Speaker 3: Good night. Well, that's over.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, it's past 11.
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  Speaker 3: Let's say thanks and good night and get out of
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  Speaker 3: here before the darlings and you played so divinely, sir.
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  Speaker 5: Darlings!
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  Speaker 3: Too late. Miss Lane, how charming to see you again. Hello.
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  Speaker 5: Hello.
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  Speaker 3: How are you?
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  Speaker 6: Lamont, you know Oliver Viceroy, the society columnist, don't you?
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  Speaker 3: Of course. Of course, everybody knows me, Miss Lane. Harriet's
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  Speaker 3: got a real find in Edward Milan, don't you think?
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  Speaker 3: Going to make him a big star. He's quite young,
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  Speaker 3: isn't he? The aesthetic, I do know. But Harriet doesn't
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  Speaker 3: push him too hard. But you know Harriet Hamilton, once
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  Speaker 3: she sets her mind to a thing.
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  Speaker 6: Well, she's certainly got some of the most influential people up.
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  Speaker 3: Here to hear his first recital. Oh, Harriet can do anything.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, um, oh, by the way, have you seen Jennifer
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  Speaker 6: Gay around?
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  Speaker 3: No, I haven't seen her. Well, she's a.
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  Speaker 4: Friend of yours and, uh, Mrs.
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  Speaker 3: Hamilton, isn't she? Uh, the truth is, Mr. Viceroy, I
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  Speaker 3: made Miss Lane promise to introduce me to Miss Jennifer Gay...
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  Speaker 3: I was anxious to meet the famous actress. No, I
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  Speaker 3: don't think you're likely to see her here tonight. Well, Tata,
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  Speaker 3: I must make a round. Oh, that old sloth. The
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  Speaker 3: day I see him without that silly blue cornflower boutonniere,
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  Speaker 3: I give him a big red apple, right? Lamont, Lamont,
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  Speaker 3: stop it. That's a trademark. You know, best-dressed man in town.
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  Speaker 3: Let's get out of here, Marguerite.
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  Speaker 6: Sorry you played so divinely.
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  Speaker 3: Foiled again. Didn't he play.
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  Speaker 4: Divinely, Miss Lane, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Cranston? Yes, he certainly did. This is my protege, Edward Nair.
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  Speaker 3: How do you do? How do you do, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Nairland?
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  Speaker 3: We did enjoy your playing very much. Thank you. Really, Harriet,
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  Speaker 3: I'd like to be excused if I may. Oh, just
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  Speaker 3: a few more introductions, Edward.
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  Speaker 4: Recital's upset Edward deathly.
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  Speaker 3: It's the first time he's played before so many well-known people. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: by the way, Mrs. Hamilton, is Jennifer Gay around? I'd
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  Speaker 3: like to meet her. I've enjoyed her plays so much.
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  Speaker 3: Jennifer Gay? No, she's not around, Mr. Cranston.
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  Speaker 4: As a matter of fact, she wasn't invited.
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  Speaker 3: She won't be here tonight. What's that? Sounds like someone
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  Speaker 3: rapping on the French door.
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  Speaker 4: There is someone standing outside me.
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  Speaker 3: It's a girl. And there's something wrong with her. Look. Harriet, look.
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  Speaker 3: She's falling against the glass. What is it? Stand aside, everybody.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 3: Jennifer, Jennifer. Keep away from her, Mr. Nicolai. No, let
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  Speaker 3: me help her. Jennifer, my darling. Harriet, it is Jennifer.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, don't look, Edward.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, we've got to do something to help her.
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  Speaker 3: Too late, Margot. She's dead. Oh, what?
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  Speaker 5: Been brutally beaten. Oh.
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  Speaker 3: I'm afraid this is murder. Now, quiet, please, everybody. Just
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  Speaker 3: stay right here in the living room. The police will
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  Speaker 3: be here in a minute.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, but this can't be murder, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Cranston.
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  Speaker 3: Here in my home. I'm afraid it is, Mrs. Hamilton.
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  Speaker 3: People don't commit suicide that way. Jennifer, Jennifer murdered this woman. Now,
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  Speaker 3: please try to control yourself, Mr. Wrightson. Who could have
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  Speaker 3: killed her and murdered her?
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  Speaker 5: It's so brutal, isn't it?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it couldn't have been any of my guests, Mr. Cranston.
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  Speaker 3: We were all in this room when Jennifer was killed.
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  Speaker 4: You and Miss Lane had shared right by the door.
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  Speaker 3: You'd have seen if anyone had slipped out. Yes, that's true. Hello, everybody.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry I'm late. Come on, that's God's bread.
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  Speaker 6: I found you.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my God. Oh, I see. Body beautiful himself. What's wrong, Harriet?
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  Speaker 3: I thought this was a party. You all looked as
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  Speaker 3: though you'd seen a ghost. Not a ghost, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Bartholomew.
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  Speaker 3: A body. What? Jennifer Gay's dead body is under that robe. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: not Jennifer. Know her, Mr. Bartholomew? Well, certainly I know her.
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  Speaker 3: She's one of my best friends. I wouldn't exactly say friends, Mr. Bartholomew. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: you here too, Papa Viceroy? Where were you all evening, Mr. Bartholomew,
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  Speaker 3: if you were invited here? I was having a few
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  Speaker 3: drinks at the Penguin Club after dinner. I didn't realize
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  Speaker 3: it was so late. Oh, I see.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Mr. Cranston, can't my guests leave now?
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  Speaker 3: We were all in this room at the time. Yes, please, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Cranston.
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  Speaker 3: I'm afraid that will have to be for the police
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  Speaker 3: to say. They should be here any minute now. Uh, Mr. Bartholomew,
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  Speaker 3: would you step over here a minute? Well, yes, of course.
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  Speaker 3: It's been a terrible thing, hasn't it? Yes, it certainly has.
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  Speaker 3: Particularly since you were such a good friend of Jennifer Gay. Well, actually,
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  Speaker 3: I just met Jen since I came east. We were
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  Speaker 3: really only acquaintances, I see. You know, I've admired those strong,
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  Speaker 3: silent roles you play in the movies, Mr. Bartholomew. They
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  Speaker 3: really give you some rugged parts to play. Well, thanks, Cranston. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: I really have to keep in trim for pictures. Of course.
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  Speaker 3: You say you were at the Tenzin Club all evening? Yes,
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  Speaker 3: I was. Say, are you trying to pump me, Cranston?
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  Speaker 3: I've heard you're mixed up in some kind of amateur criminology.
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  Speaker 3: Not at all. Well, don't then. When the police get here,
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  Speaker 3: they can check my alibi. I was at the Penguin
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  Speaker 3: Club all evening. Mr. Jenkins, the owner, will verify that.
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  Speaker 3: He's a close friend of mine. I imagine he is. Well, thanks, Mr. Bartholomew.
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  Speaker 3: It was nice having the opportunity to get to know
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  Speaker 3: you better.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Lamar, I'm amazed the police let everybody go.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they really have nothing to hold them on yet, Margo.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, they're all well-known names.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's true.
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  Speaker 3: How did you make out with the Greek guard, Brad Bartholomew?
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  Speaker 3: You two seem to be having quite a chat. So far,
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  Speaker 3: Bartholomew seems to be the only suspect with the strength
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  Speaker 3: to commit that brutal murder and also the motive. Motive? Jealousy, darling.
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  Speaker 3: According to the society columns, he and Jennifer were having
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  Speaker 3: a pretty hectic romance.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, but how could Brad have done it?
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  Speaker 3: He was supposed to be at the penguin club all evening. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: I know. When Brad left this evening, I happened to
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  Speaker 3: notice him pick up a pair of men's gloves from
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  Speaker 3: the hall table. Well, darling, they were probably his own.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure they were. I also noticed that those same
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  Speaker 3: gloves were on the hall table when we first came in. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: you think he was there before the recital?
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  Speaker 6: Attacked Jennifer in the garden, say, and then made a
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  Speaker 6: grand entrance to establish his alibi.
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  Speaker 3: Alibi that might have been framed. I know, darling, the
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  Speaker 3: police checked with the Penguin Club before we left. By
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  Speaker 3: Bartholomew's own admission, he is a close friend of Mr. Jenkins,
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  Speaker 3: the owner of the club. I think the shadow had
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  Speaker 3: better pay a little call on Mr. Jenkins and double-check
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  Speaker 3: that airtight alibi. Okay, boys, close up and you can
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  Speaker 3: all go.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going over.
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  Speaker 2: The books for a while.
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  Speaker 3: There's something else we must go over first, Mr. Jenkins.
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  Speaker 3: Who's that? There's nobody in this office. The Shadow is
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  Speaker 3: here to pay you a call, Mr. Jenkins. The Shadow?
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  Speaker 3: Who are you? What do you want? The truth. A
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  Speaker 3: man's life is at stake. A man's life? Brad Bartholomew.
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  Speaker 3: Why did you say he was here in your club
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  Speaker 3: with you all evening? Why did you instruct your help
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  Speaker 3: to tell the same lie if anyone questioned? Oh, Brad's
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  Speaker 3: a friend of mine. He asked me to say that.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't want to see him get in any trouble
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  Speaker 3: with that Jennifer Gay. Jennifer Gay? What trouble, Mr. Jenkins? Well,
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  Speaker 3: he's been trying to ditch her. He's got another girl.
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  Speaker 3: He was with that girl when he left here right
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  Speaker 3: after dinner tonight. If Bartholomew wasn't here at your club,
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  Speaker 3: where was he? Where did he go? I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: I swear. I wouldn't have lied about him being here
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  Speaker 3: if I'd thought I was going to get in any trouble.
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  Speaker 3: You're in plenty of trouble, Jenkins. If Brad Bartholomew is
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  Speaker 3: the murderer, you've made yourself an accomplice. And you'll pay
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  Speaker 3: for that stupid lie.
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  Speaker 4: Really, Lamont, you're going to get into trouble sometimes.
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  Speaker 3: Barging into Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Bartholomew's hotel three to three in the morning.
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  Speaker 3: His ballot token wasn't in. Well, I wanted to make sure.
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  Speaker 3: Can't believe anybody when you're on the trail of a killer, Margo.
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  Speaker 3: I believe Jenkins. I've never found out what I know now.
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  Speaker 4: Do you really think Bartholomew's the killer?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it looks now as if Brad Bartholomew deliberately faked
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  Speaker 3: an alibi so he could kill Jennifer.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, dear God, isn't it? Bartholomew's ballot said he hadn't
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  Speaker 4: seen him since he went down to the hotel's storage
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  Speaker 4: room to open up one of his books.
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  Speaker 3: Funny time of night for that sort of thing. Unless
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  Speaker 3: he was getting some clothes out for a quick getaway. Margo,
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  Speaker 3: we're going to slip down into the basement into that
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  Speaker 3: storage room.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, darling, if he is down there and he is
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  Speaker 6: the killer, our lives won't be worth two cents.
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  Speaker 5: We'll have to take that chance, darling.
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  Speaker 2: Come on.
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  Speaker 3: Take my hand, Margo. These stairs have been steep.
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  Speaker 4: It may be a trap, Margo. He knows you're on
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  Speaker 4: his trail.
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  Speaker 3: And they just want us.
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  Speaker 5: To come down here.
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  Speaker 3: Watch it.
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  Speaker 4: There, that's the last bit. Well, there's nobody down here
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  Speaker 4: at this hour.
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  Speaker 3: Holly. And the place is pissed off, too. Oh, God,
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  Speaker 3: I can't find a life. Here, here.
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  Speaker 4: Take my life.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, thanks. What else from?
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  Speaker 6: Look at all those dusty old trunks.
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  Speaker 4: I want him to be.
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  Speaker 5: Hiding behind those.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, and he may have skipped out.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, come on, let's go.
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  Speaker 3: You know how strong the killer must be.
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  Speaker 4: He could be just like the big Jennifer.
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  Speaker 3: He could snap our necks the way he pulled her and.
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  Speaker 2: Keep behind me and quiet.
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  Speaker 5: What was that?
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  Speaker 3: It sounded like something moved over there. Look.
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  Speaker 4: Look at that trunk. It's got Bartholomew's name on it.
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  Speaker 3: The trunk's right up against this closet door. Here, I'll
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  Speaker 3: pull it away to see if it's locked. Wait, wait, I.
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  Speaker 3: Margo, look out.
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  Speaker 5: That closet door is opening.
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  Speaker 3: There's something in there. What? Back, Margo. Quick. It's coming out.
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  Speaker 3: It's alive. Come on. It's got me. Help.
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  Speaker 2: Help.
• 13:27
  Speaker 3: Well, here it is, winter again.
• 13:29
  Speaker 7: And for lots of you, that means the common cold
• 13:32
  Speaker 7: with all its usual miseries. Now, for 51 years, millions
• 13:36
  Speaker 7: of cold sufferers have known just what to do. Pray
• 13:39
  Speaker 7: turn to Grove Cold Tablets for comforting relief, fast.
• 13:44
  Speaker 3: Maybe you didn't know that Grove Cold Tablets get right
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: down inside and work internally to give relief from all
• 13:50
  Speaker 3: these usual miseries of a cold at once. Relief number one,
• 13:55
  Speaker 3: help reduce fever. Relief number two, ease your headache. Relief
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  Speaker 3: number three, alleviate body aches. Relief number four, reduce nasal stuffiness.
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: Relief number five, lessen muscular pain. Grove cold tablets can
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  Speaker 3: do all this because they're a multiple medicine, compounded like
• 14:14
  Speaker 3: a doctor's prescription. Yes, a combination of eight active medical
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  Speaker 3: ingredients specifically for.
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  Speaker 5: Your cold relief.
• 14:22
  Speaker 3: Now remember to rest and avoid exposure. Get Grove cold
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  Speaker 3: tablets and take exactly as directed. Look for the name Grove.
• 14:31
  Speaker 7: G-R-O-V-E.
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  Speaker 5: Grove cold tablets for relief.
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  Speaker 3: Of cold miseries. Now, back to the shadows. Avant Cranston
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  Speaker 3: and Margo Lane, on the trail of a brutal killer,
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  Speaker 3: stumbled on something hidden in the closet of a hotel
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  Speaker 3: basement storage room. What was it, Lamar? What was it
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  Speaker 3: that grabbed me? Corpse, Margo. Oh. Tell again soon. You
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  Speaker 3: pushed that trunk away from the closet door.
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  Speaker 4: It was in the bed, Margo.
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  Speaker 3: Brad Bartholomew's body, Margo. What? The neck broken, the head
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  Speaker 3: nearly yanked. Oh, Lamar, I... Brad Bartholomew killed the same
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  Speaker 3: way Jennifer Gay was killed this afternoon by someone with
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  Speaker 3: the strength of a giant.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, it's horrible, Lamar.
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  Speaker 3: I want to get out of here. Wait. What? Something
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  Speaker 3: on his coat, Margo. Oh. Two tiny petals of blue cornflower.
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  Speaker 3: Oliver Biceroy. He must have seen Bartholomew tonight.
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  Speaker 6: But how could Biceroy have killed Bartholomew this way? Biceroy
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  Speaker 6: is not a young man and certainly not the strong
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  Speaker 6: bill type.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe Biceroy didn't kill him. He could have hired some thug,
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  Speaker 3: brought him along to do his killing for him. Revenge
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  Speaker 3: for Jennifer's death. Bartholomew's always been in love with her.
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  Speaker 6: You mean you think Bartholomew killed Jennifer this evening and
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  Speaker 6: then Bartholomew had him kill for revenge?
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  Speaker 3: What more perfect revenge could he have than to see
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  Speaker 3: Bartholomew die in the same brutal way he'd used to
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  Speaker 3: kill Jennifer? Let's go, Marlowe.
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  Speaker 6: You're going to Oliver Bartholomew?
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  Speaker 3: Alone. Right now.
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  Speaker 5: As the shadow.
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  Speaker 3: Now, let's see. The revolver lies beside me on my
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  Speaker 3: desk here in my room as I write this, my
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  Speaker 3: last column. The famous society matron will shed no tears
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  Speaker 3: over my suicide. Even now, she sheds no tears over
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  Speaker 3: the murder of a beautiful actress. I name no one
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  Speaker 3: who's guilty. But I know that a woman's jealousy and
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  Speaker 3: hate That is my betrayal.
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  Speaker 5: Now the gun.
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  Speaker 3: Who's that? The Shadow has your gun now, Oliver Viceroy.
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  Speaker 3: The Shadow? Who?
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: Where are you?
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  Speaker 3: What's happened here? Why did you kill Brad Bartholomew? Bartholomew?
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  Speaker 3: He's been murdered, too? Yes, Oliver Weisroyd beaten, his neck
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  Speaker 3: broken like Jennifer Gay. You hired someone to kill him.
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  Speaker 5: No, I didn't.
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  Speaker 3: I swear I didn't. Then why were petals from your
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  Speaker 3: boutonniere found on the lapel of his coat? Petals? From
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: my blue flower? It's a trick. Someone deliberately planted them there.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: You wanted Brad killed for revenge. You believed he killed Jennifer. No.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: I know that he didn't. Brad didn't kill Jennifer, but
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: I know who did. Yes? Who? Harriet Hamilton. She hated
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: Jennifer because Jennifer was trying to steal Edward Milan, her protege,
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  Speaker 3: from her. You have proof?
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: I have.
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  Speaker 3: This letter. Listen. Dear Oliver, you are the only person
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: I know who has influence over Jennifer Gay. She's trying
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: to take Edward from me. Keep her away. I'll kill
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: her if she dares interfere. Find Harriet Hamilton. Why have
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: you hidden this evidence? Why didn't you go to the
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  Speaker 3: police with it? And it helped me, too, to get started.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: But I feel no gratitude now for that woman. She
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: planted my flower so the police would suspect.
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: Me of Brad's murder.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: You're naming her to save your own life. Why would
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: I lie when I was about to kill myself? You
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: saw Shadow. You saved me from suicide. But I have
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: a reason to live now. To see her hang. I'll
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: take that letter, Viceroy. Shadow has all the information he
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: needs now. You can rest assured that the real murderer
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: will be brought to justice. Don't hit those corners like that.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: You'll get arrested. There's no one in the streets at
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: this time of morning.
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  Speaker 4: The sense Harriet Hamilton might try.
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  Speaker 3: To get away? She must know that Bartholomew's disappearance can't
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: go undiscovered very long.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: But if she did kill Jennifer, why would she also
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: kill Bartholomew?
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Because she had to.
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  Speaker 5: If Brad was at her house before the recital, he
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: probably witnessed the murder.
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: I can't see how a woman like Harriet Hamilton could
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: be a vicious, cruel killer.
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  Speaker 5: Well, we'll know that when we get there, Margo, if we're.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: Not too late. Edward. Edward Browning. Yes, Harriet? Sitting alone
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  Speaker 3: in this dark room. playing by the light of a candle.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: If someone heard you at this hour, they might think
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: it's very odd. I'm too nervous to sleep, Harriet. I've
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: got to be. You've got nothing to be nervous about, Edward. Nothing? Nothing.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: So what happened here in this house this evening? Stop playing, Edward.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: Playing is the only thing that helps me now. You
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: heard me, Edward. Stop playing. Stop it, I said! That's better, Edward. Harriet,
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry. Let's go to sleep. You're not frightened of me,
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: are you, Edward? Why, I'm the one who gives you strength.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: I'll make you drink. I know, Harriet. I've always taken
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: care of you.
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: I'm very fond of you, Edward. I couldn't get along
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: without you, Edward. You've given me everything.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: But this tonight, this horrible thing, Jennifer and Brad.
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: What if the police find out?
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: Edward. They're dead, aren't they? Edward. They're dead, they're... You've
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: got me! You're acting like a hysterical child.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: Sounded like someone coming up the drive.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: There's a car just drove up. One of the neighbors?
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: At 4.30 in the morning.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: No, Harriet. It's the police. Oh, no, no. They couldn't
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: have found out.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: Tell them the truth, Harriet.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: Tell them everything. Listen to me, Edward.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: I've made plans for this.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: They're running away. No, they've got you. Five of the
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: names for you already packed, and one for me, too.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: I've hidden them in the second-floor room in the garage
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: above the car. Harriet, I'm afraid.
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: Together we'll manage.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: Come with me now.
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: I can't, Harriet.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: I'm afraid. You can. You must, Edward. Let me go.
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: No.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: Out of the garage.
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  Speaker 3: Quick.
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: You're coming with me.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: You'll face the night here on the second floor of
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: the garage. They'll stay here for a moment while they
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: search the house. I can't go on. I can't hurry it.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: Tell the police the truth. I'll tell them the truth.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: You fool, tell them. You'll hang. I won't. I'll hang.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: Of course you will. But it was worth it, wasn't it?
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: I've always wanted Jennifer out of the way. I'm glad
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: she's dead. Brad, too, had to be killed. I didn't
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: even know he was in the house until I saw
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: him looking out, watching you kill Jennifer. You wanted them killed.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: I'll hang. Jennifer was asking you for her sense. She
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: would have taken you from me. You didn't kill them, Boyle.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: You told me lies. Jennifer was laughing at us. You
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: made me hate her until I killed her in a
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: blind rage. Yes, but no one would suspect you, Edward.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: You're so weak and so dependent. No one would dream
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: of the great prince.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: That lies in those two hands of yours.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: Yes, my two strong hands I exercised and developed to
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: make beautiful music. You urged me on so they'd bring
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: pain and death. You made me kill for your own
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: selfish purpose. Listen. They're down below now.
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: You ought to get out of here somehow.
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: The window.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: We're not going anywhere, Harriet. Edward, why are you locked
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: in that door? We're trapped, Harriet. You know it. You
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: don't care because you're not the murderer. They won't take you, Edward.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: You could beat them.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: Let them next if you chose. No, Harriet. It's your
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: neck I'm after this time. Oh, no. Yes, look at
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: these powerful hands, Harriet. The hands that beat Jennifer and
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: Brad to a pulp. I'm going to show you how
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: I killed Jennifer. First one blow on her face like this.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: She got up herself just like that. I smashed down
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: with another hit. And another. Now, Harriet. This is how
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: Jennifer felt when I... Grab her throat. Choke her throat.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: Come in here. Door's locked. Lamont, you've got no gun
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: and the killer's in there. Please. I'm going to try
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: to save that woman. I'm going to break through this door.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: Come on, I'll get it. Get over it. Lamont, keep
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: away from him.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: He's the killer.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: Please, please, Lamont. Stay away from him. All right, my man.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: You're coming with me.
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: No, you don't.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: Lamont! I've got him. Phone the police, Margot. He's not
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: going to give us any more trouble now. Well, they've
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: got Edwin Moran locked up.
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: He can test everything, Margot.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: So he did kill Jonathan and Dad. Yes. But Harriet
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: Hamilton was the mind and force behind those murders, Margot. Yes.
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: She told him she could never be happy or help.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: Him with his career as long as Jennifer lived.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: And she persuaded him to kill Bartholomew to cover that murder?
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: Jennifer came out early before the recital. Edward killed her
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: in a fit of rage and left her for dead.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: But she managed to revive long enough to crash through
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: those strange doors. Then Bartholomew must have followed Jennifer out
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: and witnessed the murder. That's why his gloves were in
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: that room.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: But, darlings, why didn't he go right to the police?
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: Afraid of being involved in a murder that might ruin
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: his screen career.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: Besides, it did get rid of Jennifer for him at
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: a most convenient time. Oh. What about Viceroy's blue cornflower petals?
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: Mrs.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: Hamilton planted those on Brad's body just as Viceroy claimed
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: she had. Well, darling, I still get weak every time
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: I think of you facing that brutal killer. How on
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: earth did you accept to win?
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: I nearly didn't, Margo.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: I felt the terrific strength in those two hands.
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: Then suddenly when he looked down at Mrs.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: Hamilton's dead body, a strange thing happened. Strength seemed to
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: leave him.
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: It was as if all the power Edward Milan possessed
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: left him.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: The moment he realized he'd murdered Harriet Hamilton, the one
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: person who had made him strong.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: The weight of crime bears weight.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: Shadow knows.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: Shadow knows.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: This concludes The Shadow, Murder with Music, first heard on
• 27:10
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