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Broadway Is My Beat - "The Mary Trevor Murder Case" (1952) · Old Time Mystery Radio | Old Time Radio

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Speaker 1: Larry Thor stars as Detective Danny Clover, joined by Charles
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Speaker 1: Calvert as Sergeant Tartaglia and Jack Krushen as Sergeant Mugovan.
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Speaker 1: On Broadway is My Beat, Clover investigates when Mary Trevor
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Speaker 1: is found fatally stabbed in the subway, and the inquiry
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Speaker 1: uncovers an unexplained connection to a wealthy person. Elliot Lewis
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Speaker 1: produced and directed this CBS crime drama with music by
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Speaker 1: Alexander Courage. From October 25th, 1952, here is episode 136,
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Speaker 1: The Mary Trevor Murder Case. We now take you back
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Speaker 1: to the original broadcast. Broadway's my beat, from Times Square
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Speaker 1: to Columbus Circle. The gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest
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Speaker 1: mile in the world.
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Speaker 2: Broadway's My Beat with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.
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Speaker 2: The wind of October begins its departure from Broadway, scatters
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Speaker 2: the brown leaves of regret before it, piles them high
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Speaker 2: at this corner and that, And the mob turns up
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Speaker 2: its coat collar, drifts the autumn street and looks for
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Speaker 2: a friend. Looks. Sees only the two-hour dream promised by
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Speaker 2: the theater marquee. Sees warmth on the other side of
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Speaker 2: the plate glass windows. And sees this. The girl with
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Speaker 2: the soft fur held close to her throat, covering her
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Speaker 2: face right up to her eyes. And where she was
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Speaker 2: is chillness. That was October. Image and farewell. Get moving, kid.
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Speaker 2: And an evening above it, in the place of no seasons,
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Speaker 2: Hospital Corridor, where I was, I detected Muggerman. What about it, Danny?
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Speaker 2: Is she going to live? Dr. Sinski doesn't know. At
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Speaker 2: least he says he doesn't know. He knows.
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Speaker 3: A girl stabbed like that, she hasn't got a chance.
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Speaker 3: Mind if we sit down here on this bench and smoke?
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 2: Just run it down for me, Muggerman.
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Speaker 3: The subway guard, Times Square, said it was ten.
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Speaker 2: O'clock, give or take a couple of seconds, that he
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Speaker 2: heard a scream.
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Speaker 3: Local train had stopped, people getting on and off, rush,
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Speaker 3: you know.
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Speaker 2: So a girl screamed.
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Speaker 3: Do you think the people stopped rushing to see what
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Speaker 3: was the matter?
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Speaker 2: No, they kept right on. Come on, Markerman, just tell me.
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Speaker 2: The guard battled his way through to where the girl screamed.
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Speaker 2: She had a knife in her. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Couldn't tell if she'd been on the train and was
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Speaker 3: getting off or what. They called emergency ambulance, got her
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Speaker 3: here about a half an hour ago.
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Speaker 2: No witnesses? No, the usual crop. Each with a story
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Speaker 2: of the way they figured it happened. Nothing. Identification? Lots
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Speaker 2: of that. Wallet, usual stuff. Oh, here, wait a minute.
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Speaker 3: Here, I wrote it down for you.
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Speaker 2: Mary Trevor, 1212 West 37th. What else?
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Speaker 3: She was carrying an overnight bag, Dan. He'd been away
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Speaker 3: or was going away for a.
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Speaker 2: Day or two. Nightgown, underthings, slippers, you know the stuff.
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Speaker 2: A novel to read, a couple of women's magazines. She
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Speaker 2: had a nice vacation, huh? Who is it?
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Speaker 5: Police. What do you want?
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Speaker 2: Information. Talk. About Mary Trevor. Morning. Plop yourself anywhere, mister.
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Speaker 2: You'll excuse how I am.
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Speaker 6: I was in the tub with a warm bath reading
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Speaker 6: the paper and listening to the radio.
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Speaker 2: Tough day today.
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Speaker 6: The warm tub relaxes me.
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Speaker 2: Music likewise. I see. Yeah, sure you see. So, okay,
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Speaker 2: so now you killed it for me.
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Speaker 5: What's with Mary?
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Speaker 2: She's in police emergency hospital. She's dying.
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Speaker 5: Mary got hurt?
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Speaker 2: Hit by a car, what? Someone tried to kill her.
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Speaker 7: Mary?
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Speaker 2: She's on a subway platform at Times Square. Someone stabbed her, ran.
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Speaker 2: We found this address on her.
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Speaker 6: You found this address on her because this is where
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Speaker 6: she lives sometimes.
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Speaker 2: This is her home sometimes.
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Speaker 6: Sometimes she remembers I'm her father. Those are the times
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Speaker 6: when she yawns, asks me how things are going, where
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Speaker 6: I work, goes to sleep in her room. I can
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Speaker 6: count the times on the fingers of my hands.
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Speaker 2: Tell me about her, Mr. Travers.
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Speaker 6: What do I know about her? This is her private hotel,
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Speaker 6: these three rooms. I'm not her father, I'm her desk clerk,
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Speaker 6: her bellboy. I take messages for her. Send out a
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Speaker 6: clean and impress and wrestle up night snacks for her.
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Speaker 5: And you know what?
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Speaker 2: No. No. She leaves tips.
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Speaker 6: For me on my dresser when she goes out. Yeah,
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Speaker 6: five or ten spots.
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Speaker 2: You know something else? I take it.
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Speaker 6: I use it for get-loaded money, forget money. But I
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Speaker 6: get more Father's Days than any father in the world.
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Speaker 2: Someone try to kill her, Mr. Trevor. Maybe you could...
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Speaker 2: Don't ask me too much about Mary.
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Speaker 6: I don't know about her life, so I wouldn't know
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Speaker 6: about her diet.
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Speaker 2: Well, her friends, people she ran around with, men, girlfriends.
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Speaker 2: Doesn't get through to you, huh? Unbelievable, huh? Well, I'll
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Speaker 2: lay it out for you.
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Speaker 6: This girl stopped being my child maybe five years ago.
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Speaker 2: After that, we couldn't find anything in common. We'd get
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Speaker 2: lost in different worlds. She had a bag with her
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Speaker 2: when we found her, a traveling bag.
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Speaker 6: She ran in here a couple of nights ago, said
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Speaker 6: she was in a big hurry, threw her things in
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Speaker 6: a bag, told me she was going out of town
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Speaker 6: not to wait up. Don't question me where, mister, because
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Speaker 6: I knew better than to ask her.
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Speaker 2: You said she left money for you. Fives and tens.
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Speaker 2: She must have a good job.
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Speaker 5: You could call it a job if you want.
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Speaker 2: Tell me about it.
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Speaker 5: Murray's got a rich friend.
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Speaker 2: Rich girlfriend.
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Speaker 6: My Murray does things for her like sponge, I think.
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Speaker 2: The word is. That's the word, sponge. You know who
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Speaker 2: she is, where she lives?
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Speaker 6: Joan Hunt, Park Avenue. I checked once, found it in
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Speaker 6: the phone book. Murray wasn't lying.
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Speaker 2: There was such a girlfriend.
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Speaker 6: Now, you do something for me, mister, the address where
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Speaker 6: my kid's dying, I.
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Speaker 2: Want to go to it. Maybe now I can get
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Speaker 2: through to it. So I leave there, out into the street.
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Speaker 2: And the street is filled with the near midnight silences
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Speaker 2: and pockets of yellow, the street lamps. Night street, a
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Speaker 2: zone of almost black and a few swift, ebbing figures.
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Speaker 2: And a sudden dart of car and faraway lights where
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Speaker 2: other people's laughter is. So go to the apartment now,
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Speaker 2: to the few intimate things among the furnishings that come
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Speaker 2: of the rent. And this is home. And sleep. And
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Speaker 2: morning comes suddenly. It screams at you. Open your eyes
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Speaker 2: and it blinds you. Morning happens every day. And some
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Speaker 2: morning years from now you'll be used to it. Up now,
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Speaker 2: the shave, the shower, the coffee, the street, work to do.
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Speaker 2: Call headquarters and give Detective Muggerman my route for the day.
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Speaker 2: First stop, Park Avenue. This morning's Park Avenue maid wears
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Speaker 2: gray silk and white color. And her curtsy is not
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Speaker 2: much at all, but her smile is. Takes your name
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Speaker 2: to her mistress, Joan Hunt. Comes back, takes you, leaves.
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Speaker 2: And Joan Hunt is in tailored slacks and tailored blouse,
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Speaker 2: and her makeup is color geometry applied to the precise
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Speaker 2: planes and arcs and ovals of her face. She sits
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Speaker 2: erect and attentive, and the chrome of her wheelchair gleams circularly.
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Speaker 7: Good morning.
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Speaker 2: Good morning.
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Speaker 7: Have you had coffee?
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Speaker 2: Yes, thank you. It's about Mary Trevor. Yes? She's dying.
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Speaker 7: That's a shame.
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Speaker 2: It happened on a subway. She was stabbed.
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Speaker 7: And?
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Speaker 2: Miss Hunt.
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Speaker 7: Yes?
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Speaker 2: The police are interested in finding out who did it.
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Speaker 7: You must know I realize that.
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Speaker 2: I saw Miss Trevor's father last night. He told me
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Speaker 2: there was a sort of relationship between you two.
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Speaker 7: Precisely what?
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Speaker 2: He said his daughter sponged off you.
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Speaker 7: She did.
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Miss Hunt.
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Speaker 7: Like this, Mr. Clover. I was injured some years ago.
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Speaker 7: It was a ski jump. Since then, there have been friends, boys, girls.
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Speaker 7: They come to read to me, one after another. And
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Speaker 7: we discuss. That's my life now, you know. I sit
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Speaker 7: here and I discuss with whoever is current. Let me
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Speaker 7: put it this way. I support whoever is current. It's
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Speaker 7: all very smilingly brave and gay, but I pay for it.
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Speaker 2: And the latest on Mary Trevor?
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Speaker 7: This afternoon when the news gets out, my doorbell will ring.
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Speaker 7: There'll be someone else. No college chum.
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Speaker 2: Friend I haven't seen in years.
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Speaker 7: Someone who's been here to a party last week.
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Speaker 2: Someone. I see.
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Speaker 7: Perhaps I can help you, Mr. Clover. I've something of
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Speaker 7: a story which may or may not attend what has happened.
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Speaker 2: I'd like to hear it.
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Speaker 7: Monday, Mary left with my fiancé. Oh, not the obvious, Mr. Clover.
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Speaker 7: I'm much too rich for anything like my fiancé' s running
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Speaker 7: off with someone else. You'll want his name, won't you?
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Speaker 7: Robert Gray.
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Speaker 2: Go on.
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Speaker 7: They left for Lake Champlain Monday. They and another couple,
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Speaker 7: a Mr. and Mrs. Nelson, to fix up my lodge,
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Speaker 7: our honeymoon cottage. Shall I tell you about that?
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Speaker 2: Yes. It has 20 rooms.
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Speaker 7: Four of which have been closed off to give the
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Speaker 7: atmosphere of roughing it. Near a small town with a
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Speaker 7: stupid name, Rouse is quite near the border.
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Speaker 2: I will permit.
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Speaker 7: a honeymoon there, and I shall come back to this
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Speaker 7: house and never leave it.
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Speaker 2: Have you seen your fiancé?
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Speaker 7: Neither him nor the Nelsons since Monday. Millie phone-called late
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Speaker 7: yesterday that they were in town. Now, what else do
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Speaker 7: you want?
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Speaker 2: The Nelsons' address and Robert Gray's address.
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Speaker 7: I'll get them for you. Then if you don't mind,
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Speaker 7: will you please leave?
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Speaker 8: Whatever it is you want of me, make it brief, hmm?
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Speaker 8: Let's not make a crease of it. Crease, that's crisis
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Speaker 8: in case you don't know.
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Speaker 2: Sense. I didn't know. You stated it simply enough. Mary
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Speaker 2: Trevor is dying, you said, of knife wounds. What do
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Speaker 2: you want of me? Just this, Mr. Gray. Did you
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Speaker 2: try to kill her? No. No, I wouldn't, you see.
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Speaker 2: Tell me about it. I wouldn't, you see, because once
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Speaker 2: I loved Mary Trevor. And now you don't, and suddenly
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Speaker 2: she's knifed on a subway platform. Tell me when you
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Speaker 2: stopped loving her, Mr. Gray. I could tell you the
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Speaker 2: precise moment. Do that.
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Speaker 8: Less than a month ago, I sat in a bistro
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Speaker 8: in Paris, On the table before me was an aperitif,
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Speaker 8: amber in color, and my visitor's visa to America. I
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Speaker 8: sat and sipped, and I culled through half-forgotten memories. High
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Speaker 8: among them was Mary Trevor. You said a visitor's visa.
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Speaker 2: Exactly. Thirty days have I in the country of my birth. Here,
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Speaker 2: I'll show you.
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Speaker 8: My papers, the visa, my birth certificate, my passport.
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Speaker 2: French passport, as you see, because I'm a French citizen. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: look at them. It happened to me what they say
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Speaker 2: in the travel folders. I saw Paris, I tasted of Paris,
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Speaker 2: I went on my knees to her, begged for citizenship.
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Speaker 2: Got it. What brought you back, Mr. Graham? A longing.
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Speaker 8: In Paris, I lived on small articles to the Tribune
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Speaker 8: about American tourist behavior and customs abroad. Now, here I
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Speaker 8: shall live on small articles of the Paris Tribune.
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Speaker 7: Behavior and customs of the American at home.
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Speaker 2: Until you marry Joan Hunt, that is.
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Speaker 8: You asked for the moment when I fell out of
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Speaker 8: love with Mary Trevor. I called her when I arrived.
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Speaker 8: We had cocktails and old remembrances. And then she took
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Speaker 8: me to Joan to display me.
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Speaker 2: I saw Joan.
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Speaker 8: At that precise moment, I loved Joan and no longer married.
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Speaker 2: Miss Hunt is very rich. Miss Hunt is helpless and
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Speaker 2: lonely and crippled, and I love her, and I'm going
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Speaker 2: to marry her. Touché, Mr.
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Speaker 5: Clover.
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Speaker 2: You went to Miss Hunt's lodge with Mary. To prepare
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Speaker 2: Jones and my place of honeymoon. Clean it up with
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Speaker 2: Mary and with Dickie and Lucy Nelson. Very proper. Very
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Speaker 2: carnal foe. Dickie and Lucy are giddy idiots, but they're
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Speaker 2: respectable folk. As was Mary. As was I. When did
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Speaker 2: you see her last?
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Speaker 8: My cab dropped in Olsen's off at their apartment. Then
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Speaker 8: Mary offered a subway station uptown. I kissed Mary's forehead
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Speaker 8: and our forever parting was graceful.
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Speaker 2: Now, if you... Never mind, Mr.
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Speaker 7: Gray.
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Speaker 2: I'll get it. Hello? Is that you, Danny? Yeah. Markerman,
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Speaker 2: what do you want? I'm here at the hospital with
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Speaker 2: Mary Trevor, Danny. She's trying to say something. She wants
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Speaker 2: to talk to Robert Gray. All right. Write down what
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Speaker 2: she says. I'll get Gray. It's for you, Mr. Gray. Who?
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Speaker 2: Mary Trevor. She wants to talk to you. You going
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Speaker 2: to take the call, Mr. Gray? Yes.
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Speaker 5: Yes, I am.
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Speaker 2: Mary? It's me. It's Robert. I'm deeply sorry, but... Mary?
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Speaker 5: Mary?
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Speaker 2: Playful joke, Mr. Clover. There's no one there. Give me
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Speaker 2: the phone.
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Speaker 7: Hello? Hello?
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Speaker 2: Hello, Muggerman. Yeah, Danny. Give Mr. Gray the message.
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Speaker 3: Tell him Mary Trevor couldn't say a word to him.
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Speaker 5: She just died.
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Speaker 2: You are listening to Broadway's My Beat, written by Morton
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Speaker 2: Fine and David Friedkin, and starring Larry Thor as Detective
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Speaker 2: Danny Clover. When you set about explaining how democracy works,
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Speaker 2: the first thing you're apt to mention is that it's
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Speaker 2: the system where everybody has his say on how things
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Speaker 2: are run. It's pretty embarrassing, then, to be reminded that
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Speaker 2: in the 1948 election, only half the eligible voters in
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Speaker 2: this democracy went to the polls to say their say.
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Speaker 2: For our own sakes... and to show the world in
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Speaker 2: general that the democratic ideal can be fulfilled, let's do
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Speaker 2: better this time. Vote as you please this November, but vote.
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Speaker 2: See you at the polls. October's dying is of gold
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Speaker 2: and of an autumn leaf that floats a river stilling
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Speaker 2: in the winter seas. And for Broadway, too, It is
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Speaker 2: the gentle time, the slow curve of light that bends
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Speaker 2: from brilliant summer glints, bows, dissolves into chill grays. Indian
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Speaker 2: summer mists into autumn smoke. The time of the early
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Speaker 2: afternoon stroll and the swift appraisal of winter's mannequins. The
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Speaker 2: drawing of lots in the football pools. And the newest emotion,
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Speaker 2: movies in three dimensions. The good time, the gentle time.
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Speaker 2: So walk the late October street, kids. before it's pulled
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Speaker 2: out from under you. And the place where I was,
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Speaker 2: high above the Autumn City, 30 stories away from Flo
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Speaker 2: and Sound of East River, the place of Dickie and
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Speaker 2: Lucy Nelson, where there was fireplace, Grecian figurines, and where
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Speaker 2: the talk was of a dead girl, Mary Trevor.
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Speaker 7: Tell him, Dickie. Tell him, sweet, how desolate we are
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Speaker 7: over the girl.
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Speaker 2: Mary was a companion, Mr. Clover. A boon companion. Often
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Speaker 2: made us laugh till tears, Lucy and me. Can you
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Speaker 2: understand our sense of loss? She made jokes and you'll
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Speaker 2: miss them, is that it?
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Speaker 7: Now that you've asked, yes, we'll miss them. Dickie?
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Speaker 2: Yes, dear? Is it too possibly early for a martini?
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Speaker 7: I feel the need of something. I don't quite know what.
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Speaker 7: You think, Martini?
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Speaker 2: The chap has a mission, dear. Later after he's gone.
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Speaker 2: Whatever you say, sweet.
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Speaker 4: It's just that I'm so drained. That gay, gay frolic
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Speaker 4: at Joan's place. Now the reaction's setting in.
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Speaker 2: Drained. Tell me about it, Mrs. Nelson.
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Speaker 7: About what?
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Speaker 2: The gay time you had at Joan Hunt's place.
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Speaker 7: Baked champagne was never lovelier. Sweet.
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Speaker 4: Will you ever forget that odd little native fellow who
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Speaker 4: helped us get Joan's place ready for her honeymoon?
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Speaker 7: Sweet.
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Speaker 4: Will you ever forget that thing he said about the
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Speaker 4: canopied bed?
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Speaker 2: Never. Never as long as I draw breath. I'm going
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Speaker 2: to try to explain something to you two. Please do.
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Speaker 7: Please.
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Speaker 2: A girl is dead. Murdered. The last few days of
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Speaker 2: her life, you were with her. You can tell me
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Speaker 2: about it here or we can go downtown. There aren't
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Speaker 2: many yachts there. I think you should know that. The
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Speaker 2: chap is quite right, dear. This is deadly serious. Get
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Speaker 2: your things. We're going downtown. No, no, it's quite simple, really.
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Speaker 2: Don't get your hackles up. Mary and that Robert Gray,
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Speaker 2: the fortunate fiancé, and Lucy and I, early Tuesday we
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Speaker 2: arrived at Joan's place. We got an order for a honeymoon.
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Speaker 2: Then Wednesday we celebrated. There was a jug and Lucy
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Speaker 2: and I got squiffed and we communed with nature and
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Speaker 2: had laughter together. And when we woke up Thursday, there
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Speaker 2: was Robert and Mary with coffee for us. And our
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Speaker 2: things all packed for the trip home. And Thursday evening,
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Speaker 2: Robert rushed us off right over here. And that's the
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Speaker 2: last we've seen of either of them.
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Speaker 5: Our oath.
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Speaker 2: Our solemn word. Dickie? Yes, Jim?
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Speaker 4: I had a thought.
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Speaker 7: I had a funny thought. Let's open honeymoon palaces all
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Speaker 7: over the world. We'll make it a career. Life's work.
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Speaker 2: Oh, dear, Jesus, that kills me. Honeymoon palaces. Lucy, darling,
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Speaker 2: you've outdone yourself.
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Speaker 4: Honeymoon.
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Speaker 2: And they laughed, and they hit each other with their elbows,
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Speaker 2: and they were happy. The jollity was too much for me.
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Speaker 2: I felt left out and unwanted, and it struck me
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Speaker 2: that perhaps the time to go was now. So I did.
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Speaker 2: Back to headquarters. He sits at the desk, a few
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Speaker 2: minutes of thinking. And Sergeant Geno Tataglia happens.
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Speaker 5: Danny?
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Speaker 2: Come on in, Geno. By the big grin.
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Speaker 5: Listen. You listening, Danny?
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Tip a canoe and tile it, too.
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Speaker 2: What?
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Speaker 5: Tip a canoe and tile.
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Speaker 2: It, too, Danny. What about it?
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Speaker 5: It does have a ring to it, doesn't it?
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Speaker 9: My fourth-born, Donald, brought the phrase home from school with
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Speaker 9: him last night.
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Speaker 5: Tippy Canoe and Tyler, too.
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Speaker 2: Gino. Gino.
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Speaker 5: Huh?
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Speaker 2: You have anything for me?
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Speaker 9: Oh, hardly a thing. Nothing of note in Miss Trevor's background.
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Speaker 9: Nothing of note in Miss Trevor's overnight bag. Personal effects.
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Speaker 5: A novel entitled, let's see, titled... The Cane.
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Speaker 9: Mutiny, in which was her birth certificate as a bookmark
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Speaker 9: between chapter four.
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Speaker 2: Birth certificate? As I have said.
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Speaker 5: Now, if you would don't mind me, Lieutenant.
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Speaker 2: Thank you. Danny Clover speaking. Mugovan, Danny, with the Trevor apartment. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: what's up?
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Speaker 3: Mary Trevor's father, Danny, just tried to kill himself.
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Speaker 2: What?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I just tried suicide.
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Speaker 2: Stick with him, Muggerman.
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Speaker 5: What's been out of my mind?
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I went crazy. Suddenly it was the
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Speaker 2: only thing I could do, kill myself. Why? Why did
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Speaker 2: you try to commit suicide, Mr. Travers?
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Speaker 3: Well, don't just sit there and shake your head. You
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Speaker 3: plugged up the apartment and turned on the gas, so
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Speaker 3: there must have been a reason.
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Speaker 2: Remorse? You sorry about something? Nodding your head won't do it, Mr.
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Speaker 7: Trevor.
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Speaker 2: Talk to us. Tell us what you're sorry about. Leave
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Speaker 2: me alone. Look, Mr.
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Speaker 3: Trevor, your daughter was murdered. You don't like the kind
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Speaker 3: of life she leads, so you kill her. Then you
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Speaker 3: become very unhappy. You've done a very terrible thing, you
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Speaker 3: tell yourself, so you make up for it.
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Speaker 2: Flip on the gas. It doesn't hurt. You're dead real easy,
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Speaker 2: and the whole thing's over with. That's the best you'll
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Speaker 2: give us, huh? The bit with shaking the head? Who
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Speaker 2: called the police, Muggum?
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Speaker 3: Some woman saw Trevor break that window over there, give
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Speaker 3: a yell and fall down, called it in.
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Speaker 2: What are we going to do with him? Book him,
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Speaker 2: I guess. Let's go, Trevor. Did you hear what the
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Speaker 2: lieutenant said? That was crazy. Scared, too, huh?
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Speaker 3: When you started getting a little woozy from the gas,
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Speaker 3: real panicky, all of a sudden you don't want to
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Speaker 3: kill yourself.
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Speaker 2: Like you killed your daughter. What? Like you killed your daughter. No,
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Speaker 2: I didn't do that. She's dead.
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Speaker 5: I didn't want to live anymore because she's dead, but
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Speaker 5: I didn't kill her.
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Speaker 2: You see... What? Something happened to me.
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Speaker 6: My baby dying and she was going to get married
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Speaker 6: and me being her father and loving her. That's all
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Speaker 6: there was to anything I did loving her.
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Speaker 2: What could I do anymore about living? Who was your
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Speaker 2: daughter going to marry?
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Speaker 7: There. Huh?
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Speaker 2: In the table drawer where the phone is.
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Speaker 7: Hmm.
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Speaker 2: This letter? Yeah. Let's see.
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Speaker 7: It.
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Speaker 2: Here. We're here in Canada, Daddy, Bob and I. He's
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Speaker 2: going to marry me. I'll make him do it. I've
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Speaker 2: found a way. Signed, Mary. Take a look, Markiman. The envelope, too. Uh-huh. Bob.
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Speaker 2: Robert Gray? Has to be. The envelope's postmarked Wednesday. Look,
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Speaker 2: call Canada. Yeah. Have Dr. Sinsky look at Mr. Trevor, Muggler.
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Speaker 2: I got a couple of stops to make. So ride
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Speaker 2: the late afternoon streets, uptown on 5th to 42nd, public library.
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Speaker 2: Ask for an atlas and get it. And locate a
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Speaker 2: town in Canada called Lacal. Then know what you need
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Speaker 2: to know. Leave there, cross town to a place you've
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Speaker 2: been to before, to the apartment of Robert Gray. And
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Speaker 2: no one answers your knock. Robert Gray's door is locked.
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Speaker 2: So downstairs be told by a man at the switchboard
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Speaker 2: that Mr. Gray had left word he might be reached
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Speaker 2: at this number. Check the number against the name and
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Speaker 2: an address you have, and it matches. So uptown again
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Speaker 2: to Park Avenue at dog walk time. And the doxies
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Speaker 2: and the spaniels leave their butlers on leashes. And today's
23:27
Speaker 2: maid wears today's gray silk, white collar, and a smile
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Speaker 2: left over from yesterday. Go through the ritual and finally
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Speaker 2: be ushered across the parquet floor to another room.
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Speaker 7: Come in, Mr.
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Speaker 2: Clover. Thanks.
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Speaker 7: Robert and I were having tea.
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Speaker 2: Will you join us? No, thanks.
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Speaker 7: Did you want to see me?
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Speaker 2: Both of you. Joan, dear.
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Speaker 7: Yes?
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Speaker 2: Whatever Mr. Clover wants to say to us, I'm sure
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Speaker 2: I can answer it.
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Speaker 7: Don't act the gallant, Robert. Sit there. Speak when you're
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Speaker 7: spoken to.
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Speaker 2: Now, what is it, Mr. Clover? Maybe Mr. Gray is right.
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Speaker 2: Maybe just he and I.
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Speaker 7: If it concerns Robert, it concerns me. Isn't that right, Robert? Robert. Yes.
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Speaker 7: Robert says that's right, Mr. Clover.
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Speaker 2: All right, Clover, let's hear it. Let me pose the
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Speaker 2: name of a town, Mr. Gray. The Gulf. Lacal is
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Speaker 2: a town in Canada. It's about ten miles over the border.
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Speaker 7: Well, I know where it is, but I used to
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Speaker 7: spend the summers at my lodge at Rouse's Point. We'd
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Speaker 7: go right across the border into Lacal for Canadian whiskey.
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Speaker 7: But there's nothing there.
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Speaker 2: There's a post office there.
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Speaker 8: And as the sun slowly sinks below the post office
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Speaker 8: at Lacal, you will bid us a fond farewell. Take off, Clover.
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Speaker 7: Listen to my man. Man.
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Speaker 2: What?
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Speaker 7: I'm proud. Are we a handsome couple, Mr. Clover? Robert
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Speaker 7: and his great red leather chair.
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Speaker 5: Me and mine.
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Speaker 7: Of course we are.
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Speaker 2: A little while ago, I saw a letter from the call.
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Speaker 2: It was mailed Wednesday by Mary Trevor.
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Speaker 7: Was Mary in Canada? Was she, Robert? I'm talking to you, Robert.
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Speaker 2: She was there. And so were you, Mr. Gray.
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Speaker 7: Why didn't you tell me, Robert?
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Speaker 2: We went up for Canadian whiskey.
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Speaker 7: You should have told me. Nelson didn't mention anything about
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Speaker 7: going to Canada.
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Speaker 2: I don't think they went.
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Speaker 7: Did they get loaded, Robert?
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Speaker 2: Listen, John.
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Speaker 7: Did they get loaded, Robert? And did you lose them, Robert?
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Speaker 7: And you and Mary went to Canada.
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Speaker 2: Why? Will you just listen? All right. It's just across
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Speaker 2: the border. That's right, Robert.
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Speaker 7: Go on, Robert.
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Speaker 2: When the Melsons were drunk, they got dull. Mary and I.
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Speaker 7: He loved you very much, didn't you?
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Speaker 2: Well, what of it?
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Speaker 7: Isn't that nice? Women fall in love with Robert.
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Speaker 2: And blackmail him, too. Jerome, listen to me.
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Speaker 7: I've been listening.
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Speaker 2: You've said nothing at all.
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Speaker 7: Except that you got rid of your chaperone and went
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Speaker 7: to a foreign land with a girl who was in
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Speaker 7: love with you. Now, I've just gotten word that she
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Speaker 7: was blackmailing you. What a time you must have had, Robert.
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Speaker 2: I'm telling you, nothing happened, Joe. It doesn't matter. You're
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Speaker 2: an alien on a visitor's permit. You went out of
26:28
Speaker 2: the country. The law says you'd be deported for that.
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Speaker 2: You couldn't let that happen.
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Speaker 7: The blackmail, right, Mr. Glover?
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 7: What did she want from you, Robert?
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Speaker 2: Money? No, it couldn't be that.
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Speaker 5: Then what else?
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Speaker 7: You... That's what she wanted, Robert. She wanted to marry you,
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Speaker 7: didn't she?
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Speaker 2: You know what she did? She made me go. She
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Speaker 2: had it all planned. She had her birth certificate along
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Speaker 2: so she could get out of the country and in again.
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Speaker 7: Made you go, Robert.
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Speaker 2: Oh. She said, let's get away from the Nelsons. All
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Speaker 2: I'd have to do is show my birth certificate and
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Speaker 2: no one would know that I was an alien. Let's
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Speaker 2: get back to the blackmail, shall we? Mary could have
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Speaker 2: had you deported.
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Speaker 7: And deported? Robert couldn't have me. And let's face it,
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Speaker 7: my darling, my money. So you had to kill her
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Speaker 7: to keep her quiet. Is that right, Robert? How did
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Speaker 7: you do it, dear?
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Speaker 2: Dear? I... I dropped her off at home. I told
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Speaker 2: her I'd meet her later. We met. We met and.
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Speaker 7: No suspense, darling. Just the story.
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Speaker 2: We met. And there was all that subway crowd.
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Speaker 7: You planned to kill her, didn't you? You were carrying
27:58
Speaker 7: a knife, so you must have planned.
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Speaker 2: Help me. Help me, John.
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Speaker 7: All right. Mr. Clover.
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Speaker 2: Mm-hmm?
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Speaker 7: I'm trying to phrase it so it won't seem obvious.
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Speaker 7: My thoughts are how to buy Robert back from you.
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Speaker 2: Forget it.
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Speaker 7: If not money, then this.
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Speaker 2: I told you. This wheelchair I'm in, I get lonely.
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Robert. What? Goodbye, Robert. Broadway's screaming now. It
28:57
Speaker 2: sneers and makes a big fist at the night. And
28:59
Speaker 2: the midway's boiling. It's yokel and clown and jack-in-the-box that
29:03
Speaker 2: leaps from dark doorways. And it's geek with no arms,
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Speaker 2: no legs, and no heart. It's Broadway. The gaudiest. The
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Speaker 2: most violent. The lonesomest mile in the world. Broadway.
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Speaker 7: Broadway.
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Speaker 2: My Beat. My Beat. Broadway's My Beat stars Larry Thor
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Speaker 2: as Detective Danny Clover, with Charles Calvert as Sataglia and
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Speaker 2: Jack Crucian as Mugovan. The program is produced and directed
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Speaker 2: by Elliot Lewis, with musical score composed and conducted by
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Speaker 2: Alexander Courage. In tonight's story, Betty Lou Gerson was heard
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Speaker 2: as Joan and Ben Wright as Robert. Featured in the
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Speaker 2: cast were Gene Bates, Tom Tully, and Byron Kane. Bill
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Speaker 2: Anders speaking. Remember, on most of these same stations, every
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Speaker 5: Thank you.
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