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The Whistler - "Doctor Operates in Crime" (Old Time Radio, 1944) · The Whistler | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: December 4th, 1944 brought episode 132 of The Whistler to
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: the CBS Pacific Network under the sponsorship of Signal Oil.
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  Speaker 1: In Doctor Operates in Crime, gangster Tony Angelo arrives at
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  Speaker 1: the modest office of plastic surgeon Dr. Julius J. Weber
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  Speaker 1: with a desperate request, a new face. Their consultation begins
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  Speaker 1: a dangerous bargain with Angelo seeking to leave his past
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  Speaker 1: behind and Dr. Weber facing the demands of professional secrecy.
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  Speaker 1: Bill Foreman is heard as the whistler in a script
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  Speaker 1: by Sally Glester, with Elliot Lewis, Patrick McGeehan, Kathy Lewis,
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  Speaker 1: and Joe Forte in the cast. And now, the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Let every go signal remind you that you do go
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  Speaker 2: farther with Signal Gasoline.
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  Speaker 3: The Signal Oil Program.
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  Speaker 2: The Signal Oil Company and your neighborhood signal dealer bring
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  Speaker 2: you another curious story by the Whistler. Tonight, the doctor
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  Speaker 2: operates in crime.
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  Speaker 3: I am the Whistler.
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  Speaker 4: And I know many things, for I walk by night.
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  Speaker 4: I know many strange tales, many secrets hidden in the
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  Speaker 4: hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows.
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  Speaker 4: Presently I'll tell you of nameless terrors of which they
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  Speaker 4: dare not speak.
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  Speaker 2: The Whistler will bring you his story in a moment.
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  Speaker 2: But first, for the benefit of those who missed the
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  Speaker 2: War Production Board's recent warning.
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  Speaker 5: About the tire shortage... I'll briefly repeat the facts.
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  Speaker 6: Because of a predicted shortage of.
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  Speaker 2: Over a million bus and truck tires during the first
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  Speaker 2: quarter of 1945, WPB warns there may not be enough
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  Speaker 2: new passenger car tires for even B and C book drivers.
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  Speaker 2: So regardless of what kind of ration book you have,
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  Speaker 2: your best bet is to use your neighborhood signal gasoline
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  Speaker 2: dealer service for keeping your present tires in condition for recapping.
• 2:27
  Speaker 2: By inspecting your tires regularly, he can catch and repair
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  Speaker 2: small damages before they become serious and ruin the carcass. Then,
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  Speaker 2: when he finds the tread is worn to just the
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  Speaker 2: proper stage, he can give you a recap job of
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  Speaker 2: top-quality materials packed with thousands of miles of additional wear
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  Speaker 2: for your necessary driving. However, if you have a new
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  Speaker 2: tire certificate, signal dealers still have fresh, new, synthetic tires
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  Speaker 2: to help keep you rolling for the duration. And now...
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  Speaker 2: The Whistler.
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  Speaker 4: From the street it looks innocent. Just a plain, ordinary
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  Speaker 4: two-story dwelling. There's a sign over the entranceway.
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  Speaker 3: It says Dr. Julius J. Weber.
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  Speaker 4: Just that, nothing more. A dark, lean man, his coat
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  Speaker 4: buttoned tightly, his hat brim pulled low, turns into the entrance,
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  Speaker 4: pauses a moment... then pushes a button and opens the door.
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  Speaker 6: Uh, this is the doctor's office. Sign just said ring
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  Speaker 6: and come in.
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  Speaker 7: Can I help you?
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  Speaker 6: Hey, you're a cutie. What's your name?
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  Speaker 7: What did you want to see the doctor about?
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  Speaker 6: Uh, me. I want to see him about me.
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  Speaker 7: Your name, please.
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  Speaker 6: Make it anything you like.
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  Speaker 7: I'm afraid I must have your real name.
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 3: Why?
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  Speaker 7: Perhaps you'd better see another doctor.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 2: Dr.
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  Speaker 6: Jay Weber's the guy I want.
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  Speaker 7: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 8: No, don't get on your high horse. Angelo's the name.
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  Speaker 8: Anthony Angelo.
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  Speaker 7: Anthony Angelo.
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  Speaker 6: Tony to you.
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  Speaker 7: I don't quite know when the doctor... Oh, no.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, excuse me. I did not.
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  Speaker 7: This is Mr. Anthony Angelo, doctor.
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  Speaker 6: Hiya, doc.
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  Speaker 5: How do you do? Have I any more appointments this afternoon?
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  Speaker 7: No, this man just.
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  Speaker 5: This is important, doc. Angelo. Angelo. Seems to me I've
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  Speaker 5: heard the name before.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: I've been getting lots of publicity, especially lately. That's why
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  Speaker 8: I want to see you.
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  Speaker 5: Come inside. Nurse, bring along your book.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, this is confidential.
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  Speaker 5: You are at liberty to take your business elsewhere.
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  Speaker 6: Everybody's touchy around here.
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  Speaker 9: Okay, okay.
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  Speaker 6: Let her come along.
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  Speaker 5: Come in. You may sit here, please.
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  Speaker 6: That's it.
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  Speaker 5: Now, who recommended me to you?
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  Speaker 6: Guy by the name of James. So?
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  Speaker 5: Friend of yours?
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  Speaker 6: I wouldn't say that. Maybe he did me a good turn.
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  Speaker 5: Perhaps.
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  Speaker 6: You did some work for him, didn't you?
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  Speaker 5: Have you seen him lately? Not for five, six months.
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  Speaker 5: Then how did he manage to recommend me?
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  Speaker 8: Well, it wasn't personal. Grapevine gets around. What would you
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  Speaker 8: like me to do for you?
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  Speaker 6: I want the works.
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  Speaker 5: How badly?
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  Speaker 6: Pretty bad. I'm hot as a firecracker, and I don't
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  Speaker 6: think things will cool off this time.
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  Speaker 5: You want a complete job of plastic surgery, then?
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  Speaker 6: You're the doctor. Anything you say goes.
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  Speaker 5: I'm glad we understand each other. What kind of face
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  Speaker 5: would you like?
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  Speaker 6: Huh? You mean I can pick my own?
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  Speaker 5: With certain limitations. I can change the color of your
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  Speaker 5: eyes and hair. I can change the contour of your face,
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  Speaker 5: reshape your nose, change the way you walk.
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  Speaker 6: The way I walk?
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  Speaker 5: I can take every birthmark or scar off your body
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  Speaker 5: and replace them with others as, well, well, other portions
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  Speaker 5: of your body.
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  Speaker 6: Permanent?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, permanently. I will extract every tooth in your mouth
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  Speaker 5: and replace them with plates.
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  Speaker 6: Well, what for? My choppers don't show.
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  Speaker 5: They're a positive means of identification.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's right. Anything else?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, your fingerprints. I will remove them. I will get
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  Speaker 5: you shoes which will increase your height and change your gait.
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  Speaker 6: Kind of thorough, ain't you, Doc?
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  Speaker 5: I have to be. Will you get the camera, nurse, please?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, Doctor.
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  Speaker 6: Camera, what for?
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  Speaker 5: I need various photographs of you for study before I operate.
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  Speaker 6: I don't want it.
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  Speaker 5: I must insist.
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  Speaker 6: I never had a picture of me taken yet.
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  Speaker 5: You're going to have one now. You're quite a one, Dr.
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  Speaker 6: Webber. How much is all this going to cost me?
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  Speaker 5: We can come to terms on that, I believe.
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  Speaker 6: And where is this operation going to be performed?
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  Speaker 5: In my surgery. You will spend about five weeks here
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  Speaker 5: in this house. Nurse, I have you the camera.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, doctor.
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  Speaker 5: Would you mind, Mr. Angelo, a few shots of your face, please?
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  Speaker 5: Then your hands, torso, feet. Okay, okay.
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  Speaker 6: Don't mind me. I'm only the patient.
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  Speaker 3: This is a big job you've taken on yourself, Dr. Webber.
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  Speaker 4: Tony Angelo is a big man in the underworld. And
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  Speaker 4: what you were planning, not only in aiding the forces
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  Speaker 4: of evil, but of your payment, therefore, just might have repercussions.
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  Speaker 3: And what is your fee, Dr. Weber?
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  Speaker 4: Five weeks have elapsed, and Tony is ready to go
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  Speaker 4: forth into the world newborn, so to speak. And you
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  Speaker 4: haven't mentioned your fee yet.
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  Speaker 3: Better go easy. Tony Angelo is hard. He's tough.
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  Speaker 4: You think about that while you're unwrapping his bandages.
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  Speaker 5: Rather a fateful moment.
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  Speaker 6: Isn't it, Tony?
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  Speaker 5: I'll take that nurse.
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  Speaker 7: All right, doctor.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 9: There.
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  Speaker 5: You'll find that the slight scars will vanish in a
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  Speaker 5: short time.
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  Speaker 6: Now, let's have a mirror. Let's have a look.
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  Speaker 9: Here.
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  Speaker 4: Here you are.
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  Speaker 6: My nose.
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  Speaker 9: My face.
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  Speaker 6: My lips.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, this ain't me.
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  Speaker 5: You may go, nurse.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, doctor.
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  Speaker 6: And look at my eyes. They're gray. And my hair
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  Speaker 6: and eyebrows. Doc, you're a marvel. It's worth whatever you ask.
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  Speaker 6: How much do I owe you?
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  Speaker 5: Sit down, Tony. Over there in that chair, facing me.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, sure, okay.
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  Speaker 5: My fee is $ 1, 000 a month for the rest of
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  Speaker 5: your life.
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  Speaker 3: How much? $ 1, 000 a month. Hmm.
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  Speaker 6: You're kidding.
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  Speaker 5: Levity is the furthest thought from my mind at the moment.
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  Speaker 6: I can't pay that much.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, you can. And you had better.
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  Speaker 6: I was afraid of something like this.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm listening.
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  Speaker 5: There's nothing to tell. My fee is $ 1, 000 a month
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  Speaker 5: for the rest of your life. The completeness of my
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  Speaker 5: job works for me as well as for you. I'm
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  Speaker 5: satisfied you're going to live for a long time.
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  Speaker 8: How do you know I got that much money to
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  Speaker 8: pay on the line?
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  Speaker 5: You have. You've been investigated. I know what each of
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  Speaker 5: my patients can pay.
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  Speaker 6: There's a sweet racket you have, Dr. Weber.
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  Speaker 5: I am bringing it to a very successful conclusion. You
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  Speaker 5: are my last patient. I am now assured of an
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  Speaker 5: income for the rest of my life which will permit
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  Speaker 5: me to live in luxury.
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  Speaker 6: You mean with my thousand, you have enough.
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  Speaker 5: That's right. And if you have any ideas of not paying,
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  Speaker 5: forget it.
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  Speaker 4: Them.
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  Speaker 5: Smarter men than you are paying right now. Maybe they
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  Speaker 5: forget easier. That's what I advise you to do. To
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  Speaker 5: forget your entire past.
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  Speaker 6: I suppose you know that you can get knocked off
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  Speaker 6: any time.
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  Speaker 5: By whom?
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  Speaker 6: Any one of your patients. Maybe Huey James.
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  Speaker 5: How do you know James was a patient?
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  Speaker 3: I heard rumors.
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  Speaker 5: I wouldn't put much stock in rumors. Furthermore, any idea
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  Speaker 5: you may have of inflicting injury on me, you can discard.
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  Speaker 5: If I am absent 12 consecutive hours without notification at
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  Speaker 5: certain places, a complete file of documentary evidence is presented
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  Speaker 5: at the office of the district attorney.
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  Speaker 6: Very smooth. Go ahead, Doc.
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  Speaker 5: And if by the 10th day of each month your
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  Speaker 5: payment is not in this office, complete evidence on you
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  Speaker 5: is sent to the DA.
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  Speaker 6: It sounds like blackmail.
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  Speaker 5: Call it whatever you wish. I'm only insuring your payment.
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  Speaker 5: In case you're in doubt as to the extent of
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  Speaker 5: my evidence, I'll enumerate the things which makes my insurance
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  Speaker 5: the best.
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  Speaker 6: In the world. I'm listening.
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  Speaker 5: I have a complete set of your former fingerprints. and
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  Speaker 5: of the impressions made by your fingers now. I have
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  Speaker 5: photographs of you before the operation, and while you have
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  Speaker 5: been sitting in that chair, 36 shots have been made
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  Speaker 5: through that aperture in the wall directly behind me.
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, right there. So, Tony, get rid of any idea
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  Speaker 5: that my plan is not foolproof.
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  Speaker 2: It is.
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  Speaker 5: There is nothing you can do. Nothing.
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  Speaker 6: Smooth. Pretty smooth.
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  Speaker 5: It's better than that. It's perfect. And the reason it's
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  Speaker 5: perfect is because I am winding it up now. You
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  Speaker 5: are my last case.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I ain't got the foggiest idea what to
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  Speaker 6: do about it yet. But I'll think it over.
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  Speaker 5: You do that. In the meantime, keep sending those checks regularly.
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  Speaker 6: I'm through here now.
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  Speaker 5: That's right. You can leave. If anything bothers you, come back.
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  Speaker 5: But please make it soon, because I'll probably be taking
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  Speaker 5: a trip.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, Doc. I'll be seeing you.
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  Speaker 5: Good luck, Tony.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Angelo.
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  Speaker 6: I got a new name, sister.
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  Speaker 3: Sucker.
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  Speaker 6: By the way, are you in with that guy's racket?
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  Speaker 7: Here is your wallet, Mr. Angelo. Will you let us
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  Speaker 7: know what name to use in place of Angelo?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, sure.
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  Speaker 6: You're a cutie, you know. You cutting into the doc's melon?
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  Speaker 7: I am the doctor's wife, Mr. Angelo.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 7: Goodbye, Mr. Angelo.
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  Speaker 5: Goodbye, nurse.
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  Speaker 6: For now.
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  Speaker 2: You are listening to The Whistler, brought to you by
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  Speaker 2: your friend, the Signal Oil Company, marketers of famous Signal gasoline,
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  Speaker 2: your best buy today. Remember to let every go signal
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  Speaker 2: remind you, you do go farther with signal gasoline.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's a neat little racket Dr. Weber has, isn't it, Tony?
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  Speaker 4: He has you so tied up you can't possibly wiggle
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  Speaker 4: out of it, can you? Or maybe you can. If
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  Speaker 4: you can just think up the right angle. Maybe if
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  Speaker 4: you can track down some of the others and compare notes.
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  Speaker 4: Then you may be able to pick up a clue.
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  Speaker 4: Find out something that the good doctor forgot. They'll cooperate
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  Speaker 4: with you. They're in the same boat as you. And
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  Speaker 4: two heads will be better than one. So, who'll it
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  Speaker 4: be first?
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  Speaker 3: Hmm. Well, there's only.
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  Speaker 4: One you even know about, Huey James.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, look up Huey James.
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  Speaker 4: Or the man who used to be Huey James.
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  Speaker 9: Huey James?
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  Speaker 6: Haven't seen him.
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  Speaker 3: James?
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  Speaker 10: He hasn't been around here for months. Just disappeared, I guess.
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  Speaker 10: I heard he got his face lifted. And as far
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  Speaker 10: as I know, ain't nobody seen him since. Don't even
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  Speaker 10: know what he looks like now.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, yeah. Huey James. He's the guy who used to
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  Speaker 9: wear those English tweed suits and smoke those English cigarettes. Players,
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  Speaker 9: wasn't it?
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  Speaker 6: That's right. Do you know where he bought those cigarettes?
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  Speaker 6: I might be able to track him that way.
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  Speaker 3: Why, sure.
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  Speaker 9: The cigar store down the corner. Maybe he can tell you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, now you're getting somewhere, Angelo.
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  Speaker 3: Try the cigar store.
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  Speaker 4: You're using your head now.
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  Speaker 6: Do you have any players' cigarettes?
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  Speaker 9: No, I, uh... Oh, now, wait a minute. Players, huh? Yeah, here.
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  Speaker 9: I do have one pack left here in the drawer.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks. Not many people buy these, huh?
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  Speaker 9: No, I... I've been keeping especially for one customer. Guess
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  Speaker 9: I'm about the only store in town that has them.
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  Speaker 6: One customer, huh?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: That one customer wouldn't be Huey James, would he?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, no, no.
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  Speaker 9: I haven't seen him for months. I used to keep
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  Speaker 9: players especially for Huey. Then he disappeared. But it was
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  Speaker 9: very funny. A few weeks later, this other guy shows
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  Speaker 9: up and asks for them. He's been coming back regular
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  Speaker 9: ever since.
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  Speaker 5: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 6: What's he look like?
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  Speaker 9: Oh, well, now that you mention it, something like Huey.
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  Speaker 9: He wore those gray tweed English-made suits, just like Huey.
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  Speaker 9: And it's something of the same build. But the face
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  Speaker 9: wasn't like Huey. Oh, no, no, not at all. And
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  Speaker 9: he had red hair.
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  Speaker 6: I see.
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  Speaker 8: Maybe I'll stick around and meet him, a fellow player's.
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  Speaker 3: Smoker, you know.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, no. No, he won't be coming in again.
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  Speaker 6: Huh? Why not?
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  Speaker 9: The cigarette shortage, you know. I can't get players at
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  Speaker 9: all anymore. He bought out all I had the last
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  Speaker 9: time and said he wouldn't be back until after the
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  Speaker 9: war and I got more.
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  Speaker 6: But mightn't he come in just for any kind of cigarette?
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  Speaker 3: I doubt it.
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  Speaker 9: He said he came from clear across the town to
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  Speaker 9: get them.
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  Speaker 6: I see. Okay, thanks.
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  Speaker 4: Too bad, Angelo. Just when it seemed you were getting
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  Speaker 4: on the track, the trail ends. You found out that
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  Speaker 4: Huey now has red hair, if the player smoker is Huey.
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  Speaker 4: But where are you going to find one red-haired man
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  Speaker 4: out of all those in this big city?
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  Speaker 3: You try everything.
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  Speaker 4: You can think of, but the trail leads nowhere.
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  Speaker 3: And the date of your first payment to Dr. Webber
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  Speaker 3: is approaching fast.
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  Speaker 4: You've got to do something. Figure something out. Forget Huey.
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  Speaker 4: Figure something else out.
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  Speaker 6: Figure something. Got to figure it out. If I plug
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  Speaker 6: the dock, the evidence gets turned over to the cop.
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  Speaker 6: Wait a minute. Who turns it over to them?
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  Speaker 4: That's right, Angelo. Now you're thinking again. Who does turn
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  Speaker 4: the evidence of your transformation over to the police? If
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: you can get to that guy, get him and destroy
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: the evidence, you'll worry they're over. Slowly, a plan takes
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  Speaker 4: form in your mind. Could it work?
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: Could it? Maybe.
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  Speaker 4: And it's worth a chance. You can't just sit and
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  Speaker 4: pay a thousand a month all your life. Now, can you?
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  Speaker 9: Oh, Mr. Angela.
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  Speaker 6: Hello, sister.
• 18:17
  Speaker 7: What are you doing back here? Something wrong? Don't you
• 18:20
  Speaker 7: feel well?
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: I feel okay, sister. I want to see the doc.
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  Speaker 7: But what about? He's very busy.
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: I know, I know. But he'll see me. I got
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: something for him.
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  Speaker 10: Oh?
• 18:32
  Speaker 7: Oh, yes. You're early with it, aren't you? That's good.
• 18:35
  Speaker 7: A lot better than being late, isn't it?
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah. That's just what I figured. See you in there?
• 18:42
  Speaker 7: Yes, you may go in.
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 18:44
  Speaker 8: Maybe you better come along. You might want to take
• 18:47
  Speaker 8: some more of them notes.
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: Oh, very well.
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: Well, Mr.
• 18:56
  Speaker 9: Angelo.
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 18:57
  Speaker 7: Angelo says he has something for you, doctor.
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: You're very prompt, aren't you, Mr.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: Angela?
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: I got something for you, Dr. Weber, but it's not
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: what you think. I got a surprise.
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: A surprise?
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: Your game is up, Doc. You won't get a set
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: out of me.
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 19:13
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 19:14
  Speaker 8: Because I found out who your trigger man is and
• 19:16
  Speaker 8: where he kept the evidence.
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: Where he kept the evidence?
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: You get it, Doc.
• 19:22
  Speaker 8: The evidence ain't there anymore, so you got nothing on me. Now,
• 19:26
  Speaker 8: if I decide I ain't gonna pay, there's nothing you
• 19:28
  Speaker 8: can do about it.
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: I see you. I don't believe you, Angelo.
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: You will, Doc. You will. Now, I'll be running along.
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: It's been very pleasant to make your acquaintance. See you later, sweetheart.
• 19:41
  Speaker 10: That's my trick.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: Angelo.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: By the look on their faces, you figure you pulled
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: it off, too. Now all you have to do is
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: wait around across the street to see what happens. If
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: they take the bait, one of them is sure to
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: go see about that evidence and they'll lead you right
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: to it. And you don't have long to wait. It's
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: only a few minutes before the doc comes out and
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: hails a taxi. You're in one right behind him and
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: you tail him clear across town. You follow him into
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: a swank-looking apartment. It's easy. He's an amateur at this
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: game and you're an expert. You take the stairs. He
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: takes the elevator.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: And you're ahead of him all the way.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: When he gets off at the fifth floor, you're standing
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: in the stairwell watching. He knocks on a door. And
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: while you're both waiting, you think how neatly your trick worked.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: He's led you right to the evidence. Then the door
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: opens and you get a shock. Yes, you get a
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: shock because the man who opened the door to Weber
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: wore a gray English tweed suit and.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: Had red hair.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: And you know without anyone telling you, it was Huey James.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: No! Your trick didn't work after all.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: He didn't lead you to the evidence. But he did
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: lead you to your fellow victim, Huey James.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: Now's your chance, Angelo.
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: You've got them together. You've got Weber trapped there. And
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: with Huey's help, you should be able to worm the
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: truth out of him. Go ahead, Angelo. Go on in
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: and start talking.
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: What do you want?
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: I see by your doorplate you're called Mr. Peterson.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, whatever.
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: I'm called Becker. I want to talk with you.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: I'm busy now.
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: It's all right. You needn't worry, Huey. I'm okay.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: My name's not Huey.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Yes, it is.
• 21:46
  Speaker 8: It's not Peterson any more than mine's Becker. I got
• 21:50
  Speaker 8: something to say you'll want to hear.
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: Maybe Dr. Weber won't.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: Maybe you better come in.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: I thought you'd see it my way. Thanks.
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: Seems you two have met. Yes, we have. So your
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: information was a trick to try to get me to
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: give away my information, wasn't it, Angelo?
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: Never mind about that. You did me a favor. I've
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: been looking for this guy for weeks. Now that I've
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: found him, you're on your last legs, Doc.
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: Angelo, I warn you, you're playing with fire.
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: You can't scare me now, Doc. Once Huey and I
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: get working together, we'll break up your racket, okay?
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Hey, what is this?
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: Do you mind letting me in on what you're talking about?
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: I'll tell you, Huey. You and I are on the
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: same boat.
• 22:31
  Speaker 8: This guy's blackmailing us for our shirt, his payment for
• 22:33
  Speaker 8: the operations he gave us. If we can get that evidence,
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: he's got cash to waste somewhere and destroy it.
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: We're free. He's got nothing on us. And we can't
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: stop paying him his hush money.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: I see what you mean. You and me together, huh?
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: That's it.
• 22:50
  Speaker 8: We got him here right now. Let's make him talk.
• 22:52
  Speaker 8: Make him tell us where that stuff is. We got
• 22:56
  Speaker 8: ways to make him talk. You know that.
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: Angelo, I'm warning you.
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: There we are, Doc. Don't move.
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: That gun won't help, Angelo. You're just going to write
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: your own death warrant.
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: That's what you think.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and so do I.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: Drop it, Angelo.
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: Hey, Huey. You aren't sticking up for him. Listen, don't
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: let him buffalo you.
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: Everything was going okay, punk, and I wanted to stay
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: that way, see? No dumb punk is going to come
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: shooting his mouth off and ruin everything for all of us, see?
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: Now drop it, I said.
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: Why, you yellow liver!
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: Huey, stop it!
• 23:26
  Speaker 9: Don't be a fool!
• 23:27
  Speaker 10: Look out!
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: Stop!
• 23:30
  Speaker 9: You fool! You fool!
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: Take it easy, Angelo. Take it easy.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: You got a couple of slugs where they do the
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: most harm.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: And there's Huey James lying over there. And you can
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: tell from here he's dead. Your bullets did that. You're
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: a fool, Angelo.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: You came here to get Huey on your side. Instead,
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: you end up by shooting it out with him, bumping
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: him off. And maybe getting bumped off yourself. Better get
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: out of here while you can still walk. Before the
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: cops come. Weber, the doc got away.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: Here's the door. Get out.
• 24:12
  Speaker 9: Hurry.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: Hurry.
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: Well, this one here in the hall is still alive.
• 24:26
  Speaker 9: Not for long.
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: The other one's dead. Okay.
• 24:30
  Speaker 9: Here's the guy we caught running out of the building.
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: Take your hands off me.
• 24:33
  Speaker 9: What's your name?
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: I'm Julius Weber. I'm a doctor. I was just visiting
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: here in the apartment and I don't see why... He.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: He did it.
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: Hey, wait a minute. What did you say, man?
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: He did it.
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: I was coming down the hall.
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: He ran out the door.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: Shoot him.
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: I got in the way. That's not true. He's lying.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: He did it.
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: I was just the innocent bystander.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: That's not true.
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: I tell you, he did it. He's Tony Angelo. He's
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: the gangster.
• 25:01
  Speaker 9: Tony Angelo? That's not Tony Angelo. I know Tony.
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: I tell you it is.
• 25:05
  Speaker 9: And how do you know? Come on, speak up, brother.
• 25:08
  Speaker 9: You're staring a murder rap in the face. I.
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: I know it's Tony Angelo because I performed the plastic
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: surgery on him.
• 25:16
  Speaker 9: You hear that, mister?
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: What have you got to say to that?
• 25:20
  Speaker 9: He did it.
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: I'm just innocent.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: Innocent.
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: He's lying, I tell you. Make him tell you the truth.
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: Too late now. He's dead.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: But.
• 25:36
  Speaker 9: No.
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: You don't believe him.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: Surely.
• 25:39
  Speaker 9: Put the cuffs on him, Joe. Take him down and
• 25:43
  Speaker 9: book him for murder.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: The Whistler will return in just a moment with a
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: strange ending of tonight's story. Meantime, let's consider for a
• 26:00
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• 26:04
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• 26:08
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• 26:10
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• 26:15
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• 26:18
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• 26:31
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• 26:36
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• 26:39
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• 27:25
  Speaker 4: Well, Angelo and Huey James both dead. And the doctor
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: booked for murder. Funny thing, the police never did believe
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: that he was telling the truth. Or maybe they didn't
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: care too much. Especially after they found all the evidence.
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: Enough evidence to send the doctor up for a good
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: many years for... performing illegal operations. So Angelo did do
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: a pretty good job of fixing the doctor. The funny
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: part of it was, something he never knew, that his
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: trick had worked perfectly. Yes, the doctor had taken the bait,
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: because the police found the doctor's evidence in Huey James' apartment.
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: It seems Huey was really the brains behind the racket.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: After he'd had his face remodeled by Dr. Weber, he'd, uh,
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: persuaded the doctor that they could run a nice racket,
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: with Huey taking the lion's share of it. You see,
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: blackmail works both ways. Huey has as much on the
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: doctor as the doctor had on him. It was very neat,
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: until Angelo came along. The moral of the story is,
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: of course, that a doctor who operates in crime may
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: expect to run his practice into the ground.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: Six feet into the ground.
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: Boom!
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