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Suspense - "Break-Up" (Old Time Radio, 1948) · Suspense | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: After losing his badge in disgrace, former policeman Marty Connors
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: goes to work for a narcotics syndicate and is ordered
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: to kill the police officer who was once his partner.
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, that brings us to Suspense and Breakup,
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: episode zero, dated December 3rd, 1948. William Bendix stars as
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: Connors with Francis Chaney, Nestor Paiva, Wally Marr, and Ed
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: Begley in the supporting cast. The drama was adapted for
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: radio by Joseph Ruskall and Walter Brown Newman from Thomas
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: Walsh's Black Mask short story with Anton M.
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  Speaker 2: Leder directing.
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  Speaker 1: And now, we return to the original broadcast.
• 0:51
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• 0:55
  Speaker 3: present Suspense.
• 1:04
  Speaker 4: Tonight, Autolite brings you William Bendix in Breakup, a suspense
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  Speaker 4: play produced and directed by Anton M.
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  Speaker 5: Leder.
• 1:17
  Speaker 3: Suspense, radio's outstanding theater of thrills, is presented for your
• 1:22
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• 1:26
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  Speaker 3: And now, here is William Bendix in a tale well
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  Speaker 3: calculated to keep you in.
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  Speaker 5: Suspense.
• 2:25
  Speaker 6: Let him alone, chick.
• 2:27
  Speaker 5: Let him alone. Max, tell Chick to let him alone.
• 2:31
  Speaker 5: All right, Chick.
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  Speaker 7: Just use him for a footrest. It ain't often a
• 2:35
  Speaker 7: fella gets a chance to wipe his feet on a cop.
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  Speaker 7: Where are we taking him, Max? Oh, to the end
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  Speaker 7: of the line, Marty. Then we give him a transfer.
• 2:43
  Speaker 7: A steel jacket transfer.
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  Speaker 8: Get the picture, Chick? Chick gets the picture. When, Max?
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  Speaker 7: When we get over the bridge. Yeah, we'll make Kevlin
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  Speaker 7: a good cop. And then we'll dump him. Chick, I
• 3:00
  Speaker 7: said enough's enough.
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  Speaker 5: Make it stick this time, will you, Max?
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  Speaker 8: You're awful sensitive for an ex-cop. You with us, Marty?
• 3:08
  Speaker 5: What do you think?
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  Speaker 7: I think maybe you're remembering that before they bounced you
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  Speaker 7: off the force, you and Kevlahan once teamed together on
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  Speaker 7: the Homicide Squad.
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  Speaker 5: Once had long red curls, too.
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  Speaker 9: No, Max, what I'm remembering is the raw deal that
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  Speaker 9: Captain Brandt gave me. And the little murder rat Kivlan's
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  Speaker 9: been just sweating to pin on me.
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  Speaker 8: Marty, tell you what.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: You're all the time asking for a chance to climb
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  Speaker 8: up in the organization. I'm going to give it to
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  Speaker 8: you now. I'll let you combine business with pleasure as
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  Speaker 8: a personal favor.
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  Speaker 5: I'm listening.
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  Speaker 8: I'm going to let you put the quiet on Kivlan
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  Speaker 8: all by yourself. How's that? I didn't hear you, Marty.
• 3:48
  Speaker 8: I said, how's that?
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  Speaker 5: How's that, he says. How's that? I leave it to you,
• 4:01
  Speaker 5: Captain Brandt. You dealt the cards for this hand. How
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  Speaker 5: is it? Me, Marty Connors, turning cop killer. Are you satisfied, Brandt?
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  Speaker 5: We're on the Queensborough Bridge now. Me and Kivvy. Remember
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  Speaker 5: your tough team of Connors and Kivvy?
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  Speaker 9: Only this time he ain't my partner, Brandt. He's my gunmeat.
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  Speaker 9: I guess I should have expected anything. Anything at all
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  Speaker 9: once I started to roll on my own. No holes
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  Speaker 9: barred since the breakup. Just a lot of dirty infighting
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  Speaker 9: from the day Brandt put the skids under me in
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  Speaker 9: front of those newspaper vultures.
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  Speaker 5: Morning, Chief. Hi, Kip. Hi. What are those reporters doing outside?
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  Speaker 10: Hand me your shield, Connors.
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 8: I said hand me your shield.
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  Speaker 11: You're suspended on decision of the board.
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  Speaker 5: What? You heard me.
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  Speaker 10: You're going up on charges.
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  Speaker 5: But, Brent, give me a break. I'll give him a break, Captain.
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  Speaker 2: Break?
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  Speaker 5: Tell me, Connors.
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  Speaker 2: Where were you last night?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I... I was... I had a date. At a bar, huh?
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  Speaker 8: With a dame you never saw before?
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  Speaker 5: Well, we had a few drinks and.
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  Speaker 11: And what happened after that?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I... You see.
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  Speaker 8: I'll tell you.
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  Speaker 11: You're the only one who doesn't seem to know because
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  Speaker 11: everybody else read it in this morning's paper. A strange
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  Speaker 11: dame got you dead drunk at a bar, rolled you
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  Speaker 11: for your gun when you passed out, tried to stick up,
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  Speaker 11: shot the joint to splinters, and was collared still carrying
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  Speaker 11: your gun. Now, you know, do you still expect a break?
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  Speaker 5: Sure, I expect a break.
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  Speaker 9: In the first place, I was off duty at the time,
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  Speaker 9: and in the second place, I've been on the force
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  Speaker 9: 11 years.
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  Speaker 11: And third place, if it was 111, Connors, I'd still
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  Speaker 11: bounce you and bounce you hard. You want to hand
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  Speaker 11: me that posse.
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  Speaker 8: Of yours, or do I tear it off your chest? Here.
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  Speaker 5: Add it to your collection, Captain Brandt.
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  Speaker 10: I'm sorry about the verdict, Marty, but don't blame Brandt.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, sure. Don't blame Brandt. Blame me. I'm the first
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  Speaker 5: cop ever gets drunk, huh? Brandt don't drink. You don't, huh? Well, I...
• 5:57
  Speaker 5: Not a one of you knows what liquor smells like,
• 5:58
  Speaker 5: I suppose. It's a laugh. Oh, stop it, Marty.
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  Speaker 10: What are you going to do?
• 6:04
  Speaker 5: Going out to tie one on. What did you think
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  Speaker 5: I was going to do?
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  Speaker 10: What are you trying to prove? Oh, Marty, look, you
• 6:08
  Speaker 10: didn't get jammed up because of a drink now and then.
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  Speaker 8: It was a dame.
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  Speaker 10: With you, it's always a dame. You lose your head, Marty.
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  Speaker 10: You let him make a sucker out of you.
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  Speaker 5: Lay off, kid. It's the truth, Marty. I said lay off.
• 6:17
  Speaker 5: Lay off. Okay, then.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, Marty. Marty, let's not.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you and me, we.
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  Speaker 5: How are you.
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  Speaker 10: Fixed for money?
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  Speaker 5: I got enough. And pretty soon, maybe I'll have a
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  Speaker 5: lot more. Big bundles of it. I've already got a
• 6:34
  Speaker 5: call from Doc Williamson and Max Shale. What? Nibble on
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  Speaker 5: that one, Kiv.
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  Speaker 10: Marty, are you crazy?
• 6:40
  Speaker 5: Steer clear of them. Why? Show me why.
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  Speaker 12: You know as well as I do. If you don't, well,
• 6:44
  Speaker 12: just ask any of the boys on the narcotics squad.
• 6:47
  Speaker 10: Oh, Marty, stop, Shorter. I can see where you're headed
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  Speaker 10: just as plain as.
• 6:51
  Speaker 5: Listen to me, Marty.
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  Speaker 13: No, uh.
• 6:52
  Speaker 12: No, no, listen to me. You tangle with Williamson and
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  Speaker 12: Shale and no telling what can happen. One of us
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  Speaker 12: might one day have.
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  Speaker 5: To go after you.
• 7:00
  Speaker 6: It might be me.
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  Speaker 5: You ain't on narcotics.
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  Speaker 10: Narcotics and homicide don't.
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  Speaker 5: Mix, huh? Mercy me. It gives his Sunday school. After
• 7:10
  Speaker 5: the deal I got.
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  Speaker 12: Look, if you'll only mark time for a while and
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  Speaker 12: not lose your head, the newspaper blast will die down,
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  Speaker 12: and I'm sure the commissioner will.
• 7:17
  Speaker 5: Give you another... Nuts to the commissioner and nuts to Brandt.
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  Speaker 5: This to him, look, all five fingers. And to you, Kivalan.
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  Speaker 5: And you stay away from me here. Stay away, I
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  Speaker 5: mean it. I'm going to go line up that job
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  Speaker 5: right now.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, so you're Marty Connors, huh?
• 7:38
  Speaker 5: I can use you. I can be used? It pays
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  Speaker 5: a hundred and a half a week.
• 7:41
  Speaker 14: I need a guard. You know the set-up Max and
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  Speaker 14: me are in. We got a nice club, nice customers.
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  Speaker 5: A lot of them rich. It attracts cheap guns.
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  Speaker 14: They figure maybe they can knock the place over and
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  Speaker 14: take all the dough around the gambling tables. Now, uh,
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  Speaker 14: you have a reputation for being hard. That might stop
• 8:00
  Speaker 14: the trouble even before it begins. That would be part
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  Speaker 14: of your job.
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  Speaker 5: And the other part?
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  Speaker 14: I carry a lot of money and one or two
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  Speaker 14: other things. I want personal protection.
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  Speaker 5: Well?
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  Speaker 9: It's a contract. But is that all I do? Don't
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  Speaker 9: I get in on the big stuff? Not the gambling,
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  Speaker 9: the big stuff.
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  Speaker 14: I don't know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 10: The dust, Doc, the dust.
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  Speaker 5: That's what pays off.
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  Speaker 14: I still don't know what you're talking about. But when
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  Speaker 14: I think you're worth more, I'll... See that you get
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  Speaker 14: a chance to earn it. Until then, don't let your
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  Speaker 14: nose get dirty.
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  Speaker 5: You know what I mean? I'm a two-hanky man.
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  Speaker 9: Hey, who's the long-legged redhead at the piano? Do I
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  Speaker 9: get a chance to protect her, too?
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  Speaker 14: I handle that myself.
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  Speaker 5: Leave it strictly alone. Understand?
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  Speaker 8: Sure, sure.
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  Speaker 5: I don't blame you.
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  Speaker 2: Not the least little bit.
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  Speaker 9: So I went to work as a stalker for Doc
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  Speaker 9: Williamson and Max Shale. I'd call for Doc every night
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  Speaker 9: at one, take him to the club, and then walk
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  Speaker 9: around the tables.
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  Speaker 5: And that was all. Bottom of the heap. For weeks.
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  Speaker 5: I wasn't making any headway in that direction. But I
• 9:23
  Speaker 5: was in another. Rita.
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  Speaker 9: I learned her name was Rita. Sometimes she'd be there
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  Speaker 9: when I called for Doc. But I might have been
• 9:31
  Speaker 9: collecting the laundry for all the attention she paid. Until
• 9:35
  Speaker 9: one time I rang Doc's doorbell. And she answered it.
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  Speaker 6: Hello, big fella.
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  Speaker 5: Tell Doc I'm here.
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  Speaker 6: He's not in.
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  Speaker 5: When will he be back?
• 9:47
  Speaker 6: Not soon. Maybe. Won't I do?
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  Speaker 5: Didn't he leave word?
• 9:55
  Speaker 6: He didn't leave anything. Except me.
• 9:57
  Speaker 5: I'll... wait for him in the lobby.
• 10:00
  Speaker 6: What's the matter, Marty? Don't you like me?
• 10:05
  Speaker 5: I like Doc's watch and chain, too, but I don't
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  Speaker 5: heist it.
• 10:07
  Speaker 2: Why not?
• 10:07
  Speaker 6: You're big enough. Maybe you take better care of it
• 10:10
  Speaker 6: than he does.
• 10:11
  Speaker 15: Maybe he treats it bad, leaves it around lonesome in
• 10:14
  Speaker 15: a sat-in-line case.
• 10:15
  Speaker 6: Don't you need a watch, Marty?
• 10:18
  Speaker 5: You can't tell.
• 10:19
  Speaker 9: Might come a day when I'll need the right time bad.
• 10:28
  Speaker 9: I thought about that watch a lot the next few days.
• 10:30
  Speaker 9: The next time I rang Doc's doorbell and she answered
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  Speaker 9: it and said.
• 10:35
  Speaker 6: Hello, big fella.
• 10:37
  Speaker 5: Tell Doc I'm here.
• 10:37
  Speaker 6: He's not in.
• 10:41
  Speaker 5: You lovely, lousy, long-legged wretched... Marty, Marty.
• 10:45
  Speaker 6: Marty, Doc will be back in a minute. Where can
• 10:47
  Speaker 6: we meet? I gotta see you.
• 10:48
  Speaker 5: My place tomorrow?
• 10:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah, your place. Tomorrow. And the next day. And the next. Marty,
• 11:04
  Speaker 6: I'm afraid of him. I'm afraid of him.
• 11:06
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 11:07
  Speaker 10: Doc, he's just a yellow slob.
• 11:09
  Speaker 6: I think he knows about you and me. We've been
• 11:11
  Speaker 6: seeing each other the last few weeks. I'm scared. Monty,
• 11:15
  Speaker 6: he beats me. Once he threatened to kill me.
• 11:18
  Speaker 9: Well, the next time he tries it, flash this. You'll
• 11:20
  Speaker 9: see how quick he'll fall here.
• 11:23
  Speaker 2: Take it.
• 11:24
  Speaker 5: It's only a little. 25 automatic. Put it in your purse.
• 11:26
  Speaker 15: No.
• 11:27
  Speaker 5: Go on, take it. Do as I say.
• 11:29
  Speaker 2: Hold it in reserve.
• 11:31
  Speaker 5: He raises a finger till you draw fast and watch
• 11:33
  Speaker 5: him retreat.
• 11:34
  Speaker 6: You know I feel better already.
• 11:37
  Speaker 5: Sure.
• 11:37
  Speaker 9: That's why they call you the old equalizer. Was it
• 11:40
  Speaker 9: about me he threatened to kill you?
• 11:42
  Speaker 8: No.
• 11:42
  Speaker 5: Who, another big fella?
• 11:44
  Speaker 6: No, no, nothing like that. He once found me going
• 11:47
  Speaker 6: through his bureau.
• 11:50
  Speaker 5: What's the secret? He wears a girdle? All right, then,
• 11:54
  Speaker 5: don't tell me. Here, have another drink.
• 11:56
  Speaker 8: Thank you.
• 11:58
  Speaker 6: Marty, you know what Doc and Max do for their
• 12:00
  Speaker 6: really big money?
• 12:01
  Speaker 5: Sure, they peddle dreams. That's no secret, not really.
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 12:04
  Speaker 6: You know the set-up?
• 12:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm just an arm, a yard and a half
• 12:08
  Speaker 5: a week an arm.
• 12:09
  Speaker 6: Well, I know the set-up. I'm the only one who does,
• 12:11
  Speaker 6: aside from Doc and maybe Max.
• 12:14
  Speaker 5: Oh, go on.
• 12:16
  Speaker 15: Max does most of the work. He's distributing the stuff.
• 12:18
  Speaker 15: But he gets a smaller cut than Doc does.
• 12:20
  Speaker 6: You know why?
• 12:20
  Speaker 5: Because before you can distribute the stuff.
• 12:23
  Speaker 10: You've got to have it to distribute it.
• 12:25
  Speaker 15: Doc's the buyer. He has the contacts all over the world.
• 12:29
  Speaker 15: And guess where he keeps what he knows? The address
• 12:32
  Speaker 15: is cold shipping dates.
• 12:34
  Speaker 2: How would I know?
• 12:35
  Speaker 6: In a little green notebook in a shammy bag hung
• 12:39
  Speaker 6: around his neck. That's why he hired you, Marty.
• 12:44
  Speaker 15: Oh, Marty.
• 12:45
  Speaker 6: Marty, do you know what it could mean to us
• 12:47
  Speaker 6: if we had that notebook?
• 12:49
  Speaker 5: Yeah. He wears it on him, huh?
• 12:52
  Speaker 6: Uh-huh, around his neck.
• 12:53
  Speaker 10: Rita.
• 12:55
  Speaker 9: Rita, listen hard. This evening, before I come to pick
• 12:58
  Speaker 9: him up, snuggle up to him. See if he can
• 13:00
  Speaker 9: feel that shammy bag. If he's wearing it, give me
• 13:02
  Speaker 9: the nod when I call from at one.
• 13:04
  Speaker 5: Do you follow me?
• 13:05
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, Marty, I follow you. Maybe I'm even ahead
• 13:08
  Speaker 6: of you.
• 13:16
  Speaker 5: I went up there at one. I rang and rang,
• 13:19
  Speaker 5: but no one answered. When I tried the knob, the
• 13:20
  Speaker 5: door swung open.
• 13:23
  Speaker 10: Rita wasn't there.
• 13:24
  Speaker 5: But Doc was. He would never be deader.
• 13:29
  Speaker 9: He was lying face down, what was left of the face,
• 13:32
  Speaker 9: on the bedroom rug. The room still smelled of cordite. A.
• 13:37
  Speaker 9: 25 shell lay near his feet. His body was still warm.
• 13:42
  Speaker 9: I know because I felt it when I reached for
• 13:44
  Speaker 9: the chamois bag, which wasn't there.
• 13:58
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• 14:02
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• 15:15
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• 15:18
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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• 15:21
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• 15:29
  Speaker 4: Bendix as Marty Connors in.
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: Break up. A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.
• 15:41
  Speaker 9: I got out of Doc's apartment fast. Left it just
• 15:43
  Speaker 9: as I found it. Him dead on the floor with
• 15:45
  Speaker 9: a shell beside him. I had to find Rita.
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: Poor kid. She'd really be in a mess now.
• 15:50
  Speaker 9: Everybody knew she was Doc's girl. I had to locate
• 15:53
  Speaker 9: her in the chamois bag. I took a cab to
• 15:55
  Speaker 9: her flat and let myself in.
• 15:56
  Speaker 5: No Rita. That meant I would have to go hunting,
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: but not without a gun, not now. I went home
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: to pick up my police positive.
• 16:04
  Speaker 9: It was in my bureau drawer, and snuggling next to
• 16:08
  Speaker 9: it among the socks was Rita's little. 25, with one
• 16:13
  Speaker 9: chamber empty and a smell sharp as incense.
• 16:16
  Speaker 10: So I was being suckered again. Kivvy.
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: Kivvy, you old son of a gun. Come in. Come
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: on in. Can I fix you a drink, Kiv?
• 16:32
  Speaker 10: I ain't here to social, Marty.
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: No? No.
• 16:36
  Speaker 10: Remember I told you I might be sent after you
• 16:38
  Speaker 10: one day? Well, I'm sent.
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: What are you talking about, Kiv?
• 16:43
  Speaker 10: The elevator boy found Doc dead a few minutes ago.
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: So?
• 16:47
  Speaker 12: So you're the only one he took down from that
• 16:49
  Speaker 12: floor since 10 o'clock.
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: Well, Kiv, you know what to expect from a sleepy
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: elevator kid.
• 16:53
  Speaker 10: Why ain't you with Doc tonight?
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: Well, it's my night off. Kiv, you don't really think
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: I've turned killer.
• 17:00
  Speaker 13: Why not?
• 17:02
  Speaker 10: Oh, by the way, I know about you and that redhead.
• 17:07
  Speaker 10: Come on, let's go, Marty. Brandt wants to talk to you.
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: Brandt, huh? I should jump at that. I don't hop
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: belts for Brandt now, Kiv. You know that. As far
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: as I'm concerned, you and Brandt both... Shut up, Marty.
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: You don't make me. If Brandt wants to talk to me,
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: he comes here with a warrant yet.
• 17:24
  Speaker 10: Then I'll have to take you.
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: If you want it, copper.
• 17:28
  Speaker 10: You drawn on me?
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: Stay where you are, Kiv. You ain't bringing me in.
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: You big ape.
• 17:33
  Speaker 10: You trying to nerve yourself up to it?
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: Oh, Marty, Marty. Back, Kiv. A guy would think you
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: meant it. I do mean it. I swear I'll let
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: you have it. Not you, Marty.
• 17:41
  Speaker 10: Not our next guy.
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: That ought to keep your nose out of it for
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: a while, Kiv.
• 18:00
  Speaker 8: Six.
• 18:02
  Speaker 10: Sixth floor, sir.
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: Oh, okay.
• 18:06
  Speaker 8: Mr.
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: Shale's apartment is just around there. Thanks.
• 18:18
  Speaker 15: Max, I.
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: Marty. Oh, Marty, I've been so worried about you. I've
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: been sitting here dying by injuries, Marty.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: I didn't know I.
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: A sweet frame you nailed together. A sweet one.
• 18:30
  Speaker 8: Is that what you.
• 18:33
  Speaker 8: Marty, honey, it wasn't. I swear it.
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: I swear it for all that's holy to me.
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: Such as what? A dollar bill, maybe?
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: Marty, listen to me.
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: When I got to the docks, he was waiting for me.
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: He knew all about us. He began to hit me.
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: I did what you said, Marty. I took out your gun.
• 18:48
  Speaker 10: My finger must have slipped.
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah. I wasn't afraid, Marty.
• 18:52
  Speaker 8: I love you.
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: Not that no one would like me to say that
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: to them, but I love you.
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: All right, stop it, stop it, stop it. I didn't
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: mean to hurt you.
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: After I lost my head, I went to your place,
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: but you weren't there.
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: I put the gun in the drawer.
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: I thought it would be safe, and I waited for you,
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: but you didn't come.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: So I came here.
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: I thought maybe Max would help me.
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: It's all right, baby. It's going to be all right. Now, shh, quiet.
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: Let me have the chamois bag. Rita, the chamois bag.
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: Let me have it.
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: I haven't got it, Marty.
• 19:23
  Speaker 8: I didn't even look for it.
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: I couldn't have touched him.
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: You're not lying to me now.
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: No.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: It wasn't on him when I found him. He was clean.
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: Rita. Shh.
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: Who would that be? Max, maybe?
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: Max would have come right in.
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: Who is it?
• 19:38
  Speaker 10: Elevator boy, sir.
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: What do you want?
• 19:40
  Speaker 10: The lady, Miss Carter, lost her gloves in the elevator.
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: You were wearing gloves? I don't remember. All right, boy,
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: give him to me.
• 19:49
  Speaker 13: Hold it, Ma.
• 19:50
  Speaker 10: Nothing fancy now.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: You're covered.
• 19:53
  Speaker 10: Okay, son. Thanks. Get back to your elevator. Yes, sir.
• 19:55
  Speaker 10: Back in, Marty. Go on, both of you.
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: Get back in.
• 19:59
  Speaker 12: Well, you've lost a lot of savvy since you left
• 20:01
  Speaker 12: the squad, Marty. Taking a cab here from the hack
• 20:04
  Speaker 12: stand in front of your place.
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: Huh.
• 20:07
  Speaker 10: Marty Connors and Doc's baby together. Well, the D.A. won't
• 20:10
  Speaker 10: have much of a job.
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: With this one.
• 20:11
  Speaker 8: No, I don't know anything about it.
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: Easy, baby, easy. He's got nothing on you.
• 20:14
  Speaker 10: A copper gun, Ratsy.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Who'd have figured it?
• 20:16
  Speaker 10: Get away from that phone, Marty.
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: No sucker, Kiv. We're getting a lawyer. You've got things
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: to ask. Wait for him.
• 20:23
  Speaker 10: You move again without I say move and I'll plug you.
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: You wouldn't, Kiv.
• 20:27
  Speaker 10: Try me.
• 20:28
  Speaker 12: You're just a cheap hood and I'm treating you like one.
• 20:30
  Speaker 12: The palsy stuff is through. You'll see Brandt first, you
• 20:34
  Speaker 12: and the girl, and then you can call a lawyer.
• 20:36
  Speaker 12: Let me at that phone.
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: Drop it, copper. Huh? You're covered.
• 20:42
  Speaker 15: Max.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: Oh, Max.
• 20:44
  Speaker 8: Find him, chick. Make sure he's clean.
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: Okay, Marty.
• 20:47
  Speaker 8: Relax.
• 20:49
  Speaker 10: This will get you nothing but tears and moan, shale.
• 20:51
  Speaker 8: Is he clean, chick?
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: Okay, cold cock him.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: All right, now.
• 20:59
  Speaker 8: What's it all about?
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: When I called for Doc tonight.
• 21:01
  Speaker 8: I'll get to you in a minute, Marty.
• 21:03
  Speaker 7: Talk, Rita.
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: Doc's dead. Good.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Who did it?
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: I did.
• 21:08
  Speaker 15: He showed fight when I told him to hand over
• 21:09
  Speaker 15: the notebook.
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: Rita, you... Shut up.
• 21:12
  Speaker 8: Go ahead.
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: That's all.
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: Except, uh, here's the notebook.
• 21:17
  Speaker 8: Ah, nice going, baby.
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: Got it at last. Rita, you've been stringing along with him?
• 21:25
  Speaker 8: Sure she has, if it's any of your.
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: Business, which it ain't. You lousy redhead.
• 21:30
  Speaker 8: What's he so heated about?
• 21:31
  Speaker 15: Well, I used his gun and planted it on him.
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: You gave her your gun for the job?
• 21:38
  Speaker 8: That guy's getting to be a habit with you.
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: Frame spotting the frame and then talked out of the
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: spot by a lousy redhead.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Forget it, Marty.
• 21:46
  Speaker 8: The frame is out.
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: I need an arm like you now that Doc is dormant.
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: All sorts of guys will get ideas about moving into
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: the business.
• 21:54
  Speaker 8: Look, here's the pitch. You gave Doc your gun last
• 21:57
  Speaker 8: night because he asked for it. He was afraid of something.
• 22:01
  Speaker 8: Didn't say what.
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: That's your story. Stick to it.
• 22:04
  Speaker 8: I'll set up an alibi for you for the rest
• 22:05
  Speaker 8: of it.
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: Leave it to me.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Okay? Okay.
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: You lousy redhead.
• 22:12
  Speaker 8: What does this copper know?
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: Too much.
• 22:14
  Speaker 8: We dump him right now.
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: You can't. I mean, he came in with the elevator boy.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Chick, take care of it.
• 22:25
  Speaker 8: Amy, you're leaving town in a hurry before they grab you.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Start packing.
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: All right, Maxie.
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: Now, give me a hand with the cop, Marty. We'll
• 22:32
  Speaker 7: take him out the back way.
• 22:34
  Speaker 8: I said give me a hand, Marty.
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: Going to play it smart or not? Yeah. Yeah, sure, Max.
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: I'm going to play it smart.
• 23:01
  Speaker 7: Well, I'm still waiting for your answer, Marty. I've been
• 23:05
  Speaker 7: waiting all the way across the bridge. Cut hard to
• 23:07
  Speaker 7: the left here.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 23:11
  Speaker 8: When you cut hard, you cut hard, don't you? How's Kivlin, Chick?
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: Nice and dark, ain't it, Marty? This will do.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Pull up here. Cut the lights. I guess we're ready.
• 23:29
  Speaker 8: Well, Marty, Chick will do it if you won't.
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 23:35
  Speaker 8: Stay a small time, Hood. Chick, roll out the cuff.
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: Wait a minute, Max. Kivlehan is.
• 23:39
  Speaker 8: Kivlehan goes. You don't pull that stuff, Marty. It's too late.
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: Not Kivlehan, Max.
• 23:43
  Speaker 8: Chick, roll him out.
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: Max!
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: Take your hand out of your pocket, chump.
• 23:45
  Speaker 8: We're two guns to your one. You're with me now
• 23:47
  Speaker 8: or else you go with Kivlehan.
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: Not Kivlehan, Max!
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: Chick, get him!
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: Kiv. Kiv, are you all right? Okay, Marty.
• 24:09
  Speaker 10: Didn't touch me.
• 24:10
  Speaker 15: You?
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: I'm okay.
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: Help me get Max's overcoat off.
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: I'm cold.
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: He don't need it no more anyway. Let's dump them
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: both in the back seat.
• 24:18
  Speaker 13: Okay.
• 24:19
  Speaker 10: That does it.
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: You want to take the wheel, Kiv? Yeah, sure, sure.
• 24:25
  Speaker 10: Oh, this is almost like old times, Marty.
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: You and me together.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:37
  Speaker 10: But I'm still going to have to take you in
• 24:38
  Speaker 10: to see Brandt.
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: It's a good trick if you can swing it. Huh?
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: I told you, if Brandt wants to see me, let
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: him come to me. Marty!
• 24:51
  Speaker 10: Marty!
• 24:52
  Speaker 8: Brandt.
• 25:06
  Speaker 10: How's he going to be, Doc?
• 25:07
  Speaker 13: Matter of minutes.
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: If Captain Brandt wants to talk to him at all.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: I phoned him.
• 25:10
  Speaker 10: He should be here now. Give.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Right here, Marty.
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: Right here. You're going to be okay, Charles.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Give.
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: I heard the Doc. Where's the top coat I was wearing?
• 25:21
  Speaker 13: The one I took off, Max?
• 25:25
  Speaker 10: It's right here, Marty.
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: Here it is. There's a little notebook in one of
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: the pockets.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Narcotics ought to see it right away. Yeah, that one.
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: Holy cow.
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: Marty, you know what this is? What's in it?
• 25:42
  Speaker 8: Hello, Marty.
• 25:43
  Speaker 13: You see, kid, I told you Brant would have to
• 25:50
  Speaker 13: come to me if he wanted to see you.
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: Marty.
• 25:57
  Speaker 8: Marty!
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: He can't hear you. He gave me this, Captain. You
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: know what it is? It would have put him right
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: back on the force.
• 26:07
  Speaker 11: He was never offered.
• 26:09
  Speaker 15: What?
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 26:10
  Speaker 10: It was a plan.
• 26:11
  Speaker 11: Right from the time he let the dame shoot up
• 26:12
  Speaker 11: the saloon with his gun.
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: You planted him with that gang? Don't look at me
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: like that, Kiv.
• 26:17
  Speaker 11: It was a good idea and it worked. And I
• 26:18
  Speaker 11: ain't ashamed of having thought of it. It was the
• 26:20
  Speaker 11: only way to get the goods on these dope runners.
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but I.
• 26:22
  Speaker 11: As for Marty, well, he was a good cop. And
• 26:25
  Speaker 11: after all, this is what he was paid for.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Thank you, William Bendix, for a splendid performance.
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Bendix will return in just a moment.
• 26:50
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• 26:50
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• 26:52
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• 26:53
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• 26:56
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• 27:00
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• 27:03
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• 27:06
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• 27:09
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• 27:13
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• 27:15
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• 27:20
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• 27:25
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• 27:30
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• 27:34
  Speaker 16: Ignition-engineered resistor spark plugs.
• 27:36
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• 27:38
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• 27:40
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• 27:42
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• 27:51
  Speaker 2: And now, here again is William Bendix.
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 27:54
  Speaker 9: It's always a pleasure to appear on Suspense. This is
• 27:57
  Speaker 9: probably every actor's favorite program, and I know that.
• 28:00
  Speaker 8: Help!
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Help!
• 28:01
  Speaker 13: Let me out!
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: Hey, there's someone in that closet. Well, Jack Benny, what
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: are you doing in there?
• 28:08
  Speaker 8: Oh, hello, Bells. I, uh, you know, I'm glad somebody
• 28:11
  Speaker 8: let me out.
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: Well, I don't get it. What's the idea, Jack?
• 28:14
  Speaker 11: Well, you see, Bill, I'm moving my program to CBS
• 28:16
  Speaker 11: Sunday nights, and I thought I'd drop in and look
• 28:18
  Speaker 11: over the studio, take one out.
• 28:19
  Speaker 8: And then all of a sudden, all that shooting started,
• 28:21
  Speaker 8: and I hid in the closet.
• 28:23
  Speaker 9: Oh, well, I'm sure glad you didn't stop any of
• 28:25
  Speaker 9: those bullets, Jack. We all want to hear you next
• 28:27
  Speaker 9: Sunday night on CBS. Your program has always been on
• 28:30
  Speaker 9: my must list, along with Suspense.
• 28:32
  Speaker 8: Well, thanks, Bill. By the way, what about next week's Suspense?
• 28:35
  Speaker 9: Next week, radio's outstanding theater of thrills presents Gene Kelly
• 28:39
  Speaker 9: and Ethel Barrymore in To Find Help. Another gripping study in.
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: No, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Let me say it. Huh?
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: You know, that one word. Let me say it.
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: Oh, sure, Jack.
• 28:49
  Speaker 9: Next week, hear Gene Kelly and Ethel Barrymore in To
• 28:53
  Speaker 9: Find Help.
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: Another gripping study in... Suspense.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: Who said I can't do grammar?
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: William Bendix appears through the courtesy of his own radio show,
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: The Life of Riley, sponsored by Prell, and will soon
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: be seen in the Paramount picture, The Streets of Laredo.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: Wally Mayer was heard as Kivlahan. Tonight's suspense play was
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: adapted for radio by Joseph Ruscall and Walter Newman from
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: the original story by Thomas Walsh. Music was composed by
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: Lucian Morawieck and conducted by Lud Gluskin. The entire production
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: was under the direction of Anton M.
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: Leder.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: In the coming weeks, Suspense will present such stars as
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: Danny Kaye, Robert Montgomery, Dana Andrews, and many others. Make
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: it a point to listen each Thursday to Suspense, radio's
• 29:38
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• 29:41
  Speaker 3: Gene Kelly and Ethel Barrymore in To Find Help.
• 29:45
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• 29:50
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• 29:55
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• 30:00
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• 30:22
  Speaker 1: The curtain falls on suspense breakup. This is Victor Sterling.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Until next time, good night. Follow suspense for more classic broadcasts.