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The Shadow - "Poison Death" (Old Time Radio) · The Shadow | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: A series of scattered poisoning sends an unnamed city into
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  Speaker 1: panic after officials receive threats signed by the Shadow from
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  Speaker 1: mutual Broadcasting system with Blue Coal as sponsor. This is
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  Speaker 1: The Shadow Poisoned Death Episode one hundred five, originally heard
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  Speaker 1: January thirtieth, nineteen thirty eight. Orson Wells stars as Lamont
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  Speaker 1: Cranston and the Shadow, with Agnes Moorehead as Margot Lane.
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  Speaker 1: When Cranston's own name is drawn into the case, they
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  Speaker 1: follow its pattern toward the city's municipal water system and
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  Speaker 1: the Department of Sanitation Commissioner Weston faces mounting pressure as
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  Speaker 1: Cranston and Lane work to prevent another attack and clear
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  Speaker 1: the Shadow's name. And now we return to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Shadow No.
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  Speaker 3: terror under the very hearts the jobs as lawbreakers and
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  Speaker 3: criminals to day the Poisoned Death. Today's exciting adventure with
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  Speaker 3: the Shadow will start in just a moment. But first
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  Speaker 4: Mercy Hospital Quick.
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  Speaker 5: Smieabulous to seventeenth of your road. My children have poisoned dying.
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  Speaker 6: Oh hi, Hi, please.
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  Speaker 7: Doctor doctor? What's wrong with my husband?
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  Speaker 4: He's been poisoned poisoned?
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  Speaker 7: Isn't there something you can do, some way of changing
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  Speaker 7: you know?
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, my dear, it's too late.
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  Speaker 2: Your what's this bill? Not a poison case?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, the cause are coming in fasten than you can
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  Speaker 3: answer them.
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  Speaker 4: Now, let's one will have to go to general.
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  Speaker 2: The emergency water is full.
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  Speaker 4: Not a cock left.
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  Speaker 7: The same thing in every hospital in town.
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  Speaker 8: They swamped all poison cases and nobody knows how they're
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  Speaker 8: getting in or what it is. Command Commissioner Western I
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  Speaker 8: came over as soon as I got your message.
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  Speaker 4: Commissioner No, I said for you.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, I hate to admit it, but we haven't won
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  Speaker 9: the single clue to go on. I've had the entire
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  Speaker 9: police force working on this poison epidemic for three days,
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  Speaker 9: and we're right where we started from.
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  Speaker 10: The Verst ransom note was Center newspapers, demanding a million
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  Speaker 10: dollars ransom or this city of over a million souls
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  Speaker 10: will we wiped.
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  Speaker 9: Out, poisoned. I thought it was a hoax, Mayor. It's
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  Speaker 9: a wild scheme of a crazed mind. It can't be
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  Speaker 9: anything else. I don't agree with you.
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  Speaker 10: The ransom note was signed the Shadow, the same shadow
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  Speaker 10: you claimed has helped youself of many crimes, but it
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  Speaker 10: was never asked for reward, a credit.
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  Speaker 9: I don't believe the Shadow sent that note, Mayor.
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  Speaker 10: No, then look at this photostatic copy of the original
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  Speaker 10: typewritten threat.
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  Speaker 4: Listen to the way it's worded. For years, the Shadow
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  Speaker 4: has smashed.
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  Speaker 10: Brackets, wiped out criminal syndicates, trapped murderers without reward, and
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  Speaker 10: now the time has.
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  Speaker 4: Come for a settlement.
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  Speaker 10: The Shadow is saved the city medians how the city
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  Speaker 10: will pay the Shadow one million dollars. Of the hospitals
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  Speaker 10: will filled to the dying, and them alls who is
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  Speaker 10: filled to the dead.
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  Speaker 4: I'm still convinced that it isn't the real shadow. Who's guilty?
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  Speaker 4: Who say that? Because the Shadow has helped you so
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  Speaker 4: much in.
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  Speaker 9: The past, I all right present it.
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  Speaker 10: It's up to you to get busy and find out
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  Speaker 10: who's responsible.
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  Speaker 4: That remains that no clues have been found.
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  Speaker 9: Well, I've got to have action in doing everything I can.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe you'll have, but you are to together with At
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  Speaker 4: this report, the hospitals are filled to the dying.
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  Speaker 10: The bog is filled of the dead, hundreds of innocent
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  Speaker 10: people freaking by a poison.
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  Speaker 4: The health Department can't.
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  Speaker 10: Identify a poison which there seems to be no ansidote?
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  Speaker 4: What is it?
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  Speaker 10: How is it being fed to the people? Find out
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  Speaker 10: or we'll get another police commissioner. Hello, this is Clyde
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  Speaker 10: Burke of the classic Girna.
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  Speaker 4: What is it? Burke? We just received another note signed
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  Speaker 4: by the Shadow. What this term? Listen to this.
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  Speaker 3: I can strike at random, but I can also single
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  Speaker 3: out any one of you for debts.
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  Speaker 4: To prove it, I am going to.
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  Speaker 7: Poison ten Frankly, Commissioner of Sanitation.
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  Speaker 4: When you get this through the mail, Brankley will be dead.
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  Speaker 5: Then, Cranston, heavens you're back. Have you discovered who's poisoning
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  Speaker 5: all these people? Who's using your name, the name of
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  Speaker 5: the Shadow?
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  Speaker 4: Oh no, Margot, if I've worked on is let know?
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  Speaker 7: Whoever is this man masquerading as the Shadow?
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  Speaker 4: Must be absolutely insane, no doubt about that, Margot.
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  Speaker 11: But if the insanity of a genius, not of a
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  Speaker 11: money mad fool, what strange distorted mind could devise.
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  Speaker 4: Such a terrible scheme? Margot?
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  Speaker 11: We see that natal city again, you know the one
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  Speaker 11: where we marked all the areas affected by this whole
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  Speaker 11: so poisoning.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, I were you Are you seen.
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  Speaker 4: The cases of why they scattered all over the city?
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  Speaker 5: Have you any idea how these people were poisoned? Must
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  Speaker 5: have been put in food or milk or something. Have
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  Speaker 5: been so many poisonings it doesn't seem humanly possible. It
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  Speaker 5: could have been administered individually.
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  Speaker 11: No, they were poisoned in groups. In every house affected
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  Speaker 11: by the poison.
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  Speaker 4: No one escaped. It wasn't poisoned milk.
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  Speaker 11: The newspapers checked on that, and it couldn't have been
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  Speaker 11: the food.
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  Speaker 7: The food those people late came from a hundred different stores.
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  Speaker 4: Wait a minute, Margo, just give me an idea.
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  Speaker 11: What's the one thing that all these people must have
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  Speaker 11: had at some time or another on the day they
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  Speaker 11: were poisoned. What do you mean, Margo, I think I've
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  Speaker 11: got it.
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  Speaker 4: Water. Yes, water, that's it.
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  Speaker 7: How could that be?
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  Speaker 11: You don't know, Margot, But that's the answer. I'm sure
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  Speaker 11: that that explains the grouping of the poison cases. Could
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  Speaker 11: have been done at the water meeting, introduced into the
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  Speaker 11: main pipe, in the basement.
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  Speaker 7: Somewhere, so many different places.
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  Speaker 4: About somebody else, Margot.
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  Speaker 11: Who could tample with the water pipes in the basements
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  Speaker 11: of any building in the city and not arouse suspicion?
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  Speaker 5: Why only someone from the water company, the man who.
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  Speaker 11: Reads the meeting exactly, or someone posing as a representative
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  Speaker 11: of the water governy, Margo, come on, that's open the winter.
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  Speaker 4: Something else has happened a nightmare.
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  Speaker 7: Said, okay, you'll say.
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  Speaker 12: Permissioner Salidation five poison.
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  Speaker 2: The morning.
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  Speaker 4: Upon it.
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  Speaker 11: Close the window, Margot, Why do you suppose Commissioner Brinkley
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  Speaker 11: with single Margo, distorted mind, especially that of a brilliant man,
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  Speaker 11: very often move along a straight line from cause to effect.
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  Speaker 11: This case follows a line so simple and so straight
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  Speaker 11: that the police do not even suspect who he is. Margo,
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  Speaker 11: but in killing Brinkley, he deviated from his original purpose
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  Speaker 11: long enough to settle a grudge.
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  Speaker 4: This is that one mistake the greatest of criminals.
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  Speaker 7: Make you mean it's somebody who by wrong.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, but Brinkley may never have wronged anybody.
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  Speaker 11: A man would a warped mind like this and imagined
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  Speaker 11: wrong and inspire revenge just the same.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe it's someone who worked under Brinkley, someone in the
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  Speaker 5: department's saviotation.
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  Speaker 11: Margo pieces this crazy puzzler beginning to fit together. Where's
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  Speaker 11: yesterday's paper, the one with a photostaphic copy of the.
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  Speaker 4: Ransom note sent by the man masquerading under the name
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  Speaker 4: of the Shadow.
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  Speaker 7: I've touched it along with all the other climic.
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  Speaker 4: For years.
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  Speaker 11: The Shadow has smashed brackets, wiped out criminal syndicates, trapped
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  Speaker 11: murderers without a wark, Margot, with this the letter E.
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  Speaker 11: It appears five, six, seven, eight times, and every time
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  Speaker 11: it appears out of line. And look, look here, the
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  Speaker 11: letter A is blood, Margaret. It's like ABC, the obvious clue.
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  Speaker 11: We could only find that typewriter.
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  Speaker 5: Out of all the typewriters in the city. It would
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  Speaker 5: be like looking for Aniela in a Haystack. Don't you
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  Speaker 5: suppose the police have considered that angle tried to find
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  Speaker 5: that machine.
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  Speaker 11: Perhaps they have it without first logically working out the
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  Speaker 11: problem as to the one place where that machine might be.
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  Speaker 11: They are wasting their time the one places the Department
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  Speaker 11: of Sanitation.
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  Speaker 4: It's so logical as to be incredible. Come on, Margo,
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  Speaker 4: get your hat and coat. We got work to do,
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  Speaker 4: and there's no time to lose the month.
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  Speaker 7: You're not going to the Department of Sanitation at this
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  Speaker 7: art and whym not I suppose you were caught.
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  Speaker 4: Don't worry, Margaret, the real shadow won't be caught. I
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  Speaker 4: need your help if we're going to try out all
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  Speaker 4: the typewriters in those offices. It's a job full of
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  Speaker 4: Mont Cranston and his assistant Margo Lane.
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  Speaker 7: If we're caught, how long a sentence can they give
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  Speaker 7: us for breaking into a public building.
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  Speaker 11: It's worth risking, and far better than sitting here building
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  Speaker 11: out theories and knocking them down again while this, this
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  Speaker 11: mad masquerader carries out his monstrous schemes of wholesale murder.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, Margot, let's go. No, Margo, No, this isn't
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  Speaker 4: a machine. It's the last one in here. Let's try
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  Speaker 4: the next office. Be careful.
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  Speaker 7: That must be a watchman here in the building somewhere.
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  Speaker 4: He's down on the basement sweeping. Make sure of that
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  Speaker 4: before I signal you to come in. It looks like.
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  Speaker 5: Another exploded theory, Lamont. We tried dozens and machines, and
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  Speaker 5: none of them have the characteristic to the letters in
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  Speaker 5: those ransom. We're not going to stop ul We've tried
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  Speaker 5: the more.
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  Speaker 4: Margo.
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  Speaker 7: There's the door there leading in the back part of this.
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  Speaker 4: Floor of the morning. Yes, it says private office of
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  Speaker 4: Chief Chemist A. D. Gerber. Let's look in there.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, there's a machine.
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  Speaker 4: That's the only one in here. Tried Margo.
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  Speaker 7: In some paper, I'd be glad to get out of
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  Speaker 7: this place.
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  Speaker 11: Not the same words, my sen our years.
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  Speaker 4: The shadow has smashed rackets.
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  Speaker 11: Wiped out criminal syndicates.
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  Speaker 13: Margo, be a blood, go and finish it. Trapped murderers
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  Speaker 13: without reward. Now the time has come for settlements.
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  Speaker 5: This is the machine, a type of warning notes of
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  Speaker 5: the papers the office of the city's chief Chemist.
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  Speaker 7: It might not have been other people could get to
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  Speaker 7: this machine.
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  Speaker 4: And use it. Margo. Everything's beginning to fit together. Who
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  Speaker 4: would know more about poisons than a chemist, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I felt all along?
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  Speaker 12: What was that.
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  Speaker 4: Someone in the next room.
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  Speaker 7: Turn your light over on their door, Lamot, there's lettering.
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  Speaker 4: On it, laboratory. Keep out.
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  Speaker 7: Who would be the laboratory this time?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. I'm going to find out. Maybe the
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  Speaker 4: man we're looking for them, Ugo. I think it'll be
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  Speaker 4: best if you get out of here, go back to
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  Speaker 4: the car. Wait one, Please let me still hear you.
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  Speaker 7: Come out and I might be able to help you.
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  Speaker 7: If it's that crazy meaning, go.
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  Speaker 4: Out to the car wait for me.
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  Speaker 11: Lamont, Cranston and Margot Lane about all they can. The
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  Speaker 11: time has come for me to be the shadow. The
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  Speaker 11: real shadow.
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  Speaker 4: Must open that door.
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  Speaker 7: Nerves Nerves?
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  Speaker 12: Why should I be nervous? No one knows I'm here
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  Speaker 12: all alone. Who would suspect me? Gerber, the city chemist,
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  Speaker 12: I'll never tell them. They'll never know that Brinkley is dead.
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  Speaker 12: Make me commissioner of Sanitation. I should have had the
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  Speaker 12: job when they gave it to him. I guess he
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  Speaker 12: knows it now, Gerber, bring me that report, Gurb.
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  Speaker 7: But why didn't you do this? Curb?
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  Speaker 2: But why didn't you do that?
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  Speaker 7: Shreating me like dirt?
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  Speaker 14: Oh that's over now, though over and done with? How
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  Speaker 14: that door that opened forgotten to close it? Let's be
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  Speaker 14: getting absent minded. Got to be more careful. Someone might
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  Speaker 14: come in. I'd ask me what I'm doing, what I'm making?
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  Speaker 4: What are you making? What was that?
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  Speaker 7: Who said that?
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  Speaker 4: Who lost? The shadow? Spoke? The shadow? Laughed, Shadow, I
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  Speaker 4: am the shadow. You know my name.
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  Speaker 15: You've been using it as a cloak to cover your
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  Speaker 15: excursions into the realm of murder.
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  Speaker 7: Oh you can make yourself invisible, shadow? Or or are
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  Speaker 7: you hiding?
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  Speaker 15: I happen to be master of the ancient art of hypnotism,
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  Speaker 15: by which I can blind your eyes to my presence.
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  Speaker 7: But you are really here in this room physically.
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  Speaker 4: I mean yes, I opened that door. I walked into
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  Speaker 4: this room I am here.
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  Speaker 15: Quite near you, Gerber. How did you find me by
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  Speaker 15: a process of elimination? Because you made one mistake in
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  Speaker 15: your admirable train of logic?
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  Speaker 7: A mistake.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, when you murdered Brinkley.
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  Speaker 15: The Commissioner of Sanitation, I knew it must be someone
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  Speaker 15: who had a grievance against him, real or imaginary.
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  Speaker 7: Real or imaginary. Oh, I see you think I am insane? Shadow.
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  Speaker 15: The sanity of a brilliant mind is not measured by
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  Speaker 15: ordinary standards.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, that's it.
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  Speaker 12: My coworkers know I'm brilliant. They don't think i'm e
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  Speaker 12: just because when anybody's around, I'm on my guard.
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  Speaker 4: What were you doing when I came in, Gerbert?
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  Speaker 7: Felling this bottle?
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  Speaker 4: What is in that bottle? Gerbert? What is that crimson
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  Speaker 4: colored fluid? That is the poison? Shadow?
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  Speaker 6: I'm supposed to be analyzing the blood taken from my
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  Speaker 6: first batch of poison victims, but instead I've been making
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  Speaker 6: more poison.
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  Speaker 7: You see it's already now. Would you like some shadow,
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  Speaker 7: I'll be glad to give it to you.
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  Speaker 4: What are you going to do with that bottle of poison, Gerbert?
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  Speaker 4: Or are you afraid to tell me? No?
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  Speaker 12: I'm not afraid. You can't stop me. The devil himself
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  Speaker 12: couldn't stop me.
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to drive to one of our fashionable suburbs
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  Speaker 6: where all the important people of the city live.
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  Speaker 7: There's a high steel water tower there.
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to climb that tower and pour this little
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  Speaker 6: bottle of poison through the trap door at the top.
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  Speaker 7: It will be diluted in the water.
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  Speaker 12: Carry it into the homes of all those prominent people,
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  Speaker 12: and by tomorrow night it will.
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  Speaker 2: All be dead.
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  Speaker 4: It is fortunate I found you in time.
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  Speaker 7: Time for what shadow, and time to stop you. You
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  Speaker 7: can't stop me, Shadow.
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  Speaker 4: You're not going to leave this laboratory with that bottle
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  Speaker 4: of poison?
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  Speaker 7: Yes I am, and I'm going this minute, Shadow, You
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  Speaker 7: see this test?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's still with acid.
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  Speaker 7: Acid that will burn you beyond recognition.
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  Speaker 4: You forget you can't see me.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, But the only way you can stop me is
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  Speaker 6: by physical means, with your body that seems to be
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  Speaker 6: not even a shadow.
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  Speaker 4: And to do that you must drop your cloak with invisibility.
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  Speaker 4: How do I know that isn't a blind To make
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  Speaker 4: myself become visible to you.
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  Speaker 7: It isn't a blind. Shadow.
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  Speaker 4: See, I pour a little on the floor. You see.
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  Speaker 7: Think what that would do to a human flesh? And
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  Speaker 7: you say you are human?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, I am human.
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  Speaker 7: Then I dare you to stop me. At the first
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  Speaker 7: touch of your hands, I'll throw at you.
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: It's better that one man be injured and you should
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: kill another entire community. I'm willing to take that chance.
• 18:25
  Speaker 12: All right, we'll see if you're as brave as your sound.
• 18:28
  Speaker 12: Shadow where you are, I'm leaving unless you stop me physically.
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: I am no alternative but to fight you man, So
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: you are human? All right?
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: Take this.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: Hold?
• 18:48
  Speaker 12: I warn you shadow, they burned beyond recognition that as
• 18:53
  Speaker 12: it would eat into you to the very bone. But
• 18:56
  Speaker 12: by shadow, at last you've met someone who is your met. No,
• 19:01
  Speaker 12: there's no one to stop me putting the point and.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: Magog.
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  Speaker 11: Yes, did you see a top power of the build
• 19:20
  Speaker 11: band come out of the sanitary building?
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: Just now? He got in the car very going down
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: the street. You can still see the tame.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: Follow Margot in Heaven's name, don't lose him.
• 19:28
  Speaker 7: That's the man Gerber. He won't get away.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: Is the first aid kit in the car?
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: Yes, it's in the side pockets. Clothes they're smoking. Then
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: your hands bleeding my deal.
• 19:38
  Speaker 11: What happened, said Margo acid He was getting away with
• 19:40
  Speaker 11: the bottle of poison.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: I tried to stop him.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: He through the apple facet me look at your face.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: I didn't get any of.
• 19:45
  Speaker 11: My face and throw up my arm in time, it's
• 19:47
  Speaker 11: all right out blandish my hands that I can keep
• 19:50
  Speaker 11: your eyes on my car, Margo, far more important.
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: Don't lose him.
• 19:54
  Speaker 11: He's heading for the suburbs this time, Gerber really means business.
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  Speaker 11: We set to poison the whole community. It's going to
• 20:02
  Speaker 11: dump a bottle of the dead is stuff in the
• 20:03
  Speaker 11: water tow the mud.
• 20:05
  Speaker 7: Oh, you're in terrible pain. I can see it. Let
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: me take care of you. Let me stop at the phone.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: Who can call them?
• 20:10
  Speaker 7: Mission to Weston. Let me send out a general alarm
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: and pick this man.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: No, Margaret, we have a job to do. We lose Curve.
• 20:15
  Speaker 7: If we stopped, then the police wouldn't be any good.
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: We'll find out where he's going and then we can
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: call the police.
• 20:21
  Speaker 7: All right, the mat no best, I'll try not to
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: lose him. The mod is the pain. Any idea. You've
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: got to get to a doctor as quickly as possible.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: Infection, Mike said, Well, soon as I'll go. Look, yeah,
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: I think, uh, there's nearing his destinations.
• 20:46
  Speaker 11: He's taking that road up the hill, if I remember correctly,
• 20:50
  Speaker 11: the water towers at the top the moth.
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: How would you stop him now, you with your bleeding hands.
• 20:54
  Speaker 7: He's a powerful man, crazy, with the strength of the Nadia.
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: I have got to do what I can to delay him.
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: Keep putting that poison in the time and you can
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: get the police. The mark.
• 21:03
  Speaker 7: How is he going to get the poison in?
• 21:04
  Speaker 11: The Tang said there was a trap door on top
• 21:06
  Speaker 11: of the tower, the door they use when they clean
• 21:08
  Speaker 11: the tower.
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: That means you may have to climb that tower. Now
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: you can't out with your hand in that condition.
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: It's snowing, there'll be ice on the wrungs of the ladder,
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: and in this window you're liable to.
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: Slip and foll got the chances.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: Stop, Maga, Stop, there's the water tower, there's the car,
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: the mask.
• 21:24
  Speaker 7: Look at Gerber. Keep starting to climb the tower already.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: Margo, go on, I'll get the police.
• 21:29
  Speaker 11: Hurry, tell them to get someone to shut off the
• 21:32
  Speaker 11: water in this tower in case I fail.
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: Hurry, Margo, hurry, I'm going up there after it, all.
• 21:37
  Speaker 16: Right, who's that the man you thought you left in
• 21:45
  Speaker 16: your laborate Hurry, I'm blind with actor.
• 21:50
  Speaker 10: Yes, I told I had You're all right.
• 21:54
  Speaker 7: Keep on pulling me. We're a long way behind me
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: by the toll of your voice. Yes, and but you
• 22:01
  Speaker 7: have them stump when you get to the top, and
• 22:04
  Speaker 7: I can't.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: Coup with you.
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: Yes, why by that time I shall have poison the water.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Don't forget.
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: The tramp door of the tank may be locked.
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: It will be rusty and easy to break.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: It will take time, and I shall be gaining on you.
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: You need to hurry, turver and two men whom in.
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: My mate with an ant pump.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: It went on you.
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: I heard it sizzling at your place on my hands.
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: Then you must be suffering holding onto the ice covered.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: Ladder your summer once I reach you.
• 22:34
  Speaker 7: All right, honey, Shadow, I'm on the top already.
• 22:37
  Speaker 12: Well you will write shadows. The trap door is locked,
• 22:42
  Speaker 12: but that won't stop me. I'm going to blown open
• 22:44
  Speaker 12: with my revolver. The lock is broken. Shadow, you'd better
• 22:48
  Speaker 12: hurry up. And now I'm opening the trap door.
• 22:53
  Speaker 7: Shadow.
• 22:54
  Speaker 16: Yeah, yeah, and I hear it, Gerber, But you never
• 22:56
  Speaker 16: put them boil in the water.
• 22:57
  Speaker 7: I had a bottle in my hand.
• 23:00
  Speaker 17: I'm pulling out the stoppers and I'm here. I can
• 23:02
  Speaker 17: knot get out of your hand. Yeah, yeah, you broke it.
• 23:09
  Speaker 17: You still the poison. You spoil my revenge.
• 23:13
  Speaker 7: You spoil it, but you'll pay for it.
• 23:17
  Speaker 12: You're leaving blood marks on the snow with your hands.
• 23:20
  Speaker 12: You can't get off the top of this tower. You
• 23:22
  Speaker 12: can't get past me to the ladder. I don't need
• 23:25
  Speaker 12: to see you to find you. The blood marks will
• 23:27
  Speaker 12: show me where you are.
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: I'm waiting for you here on top of the tank.
• 23:32
  Speaker 12: I know you are, and you can't go any further,
• 23:35
  Speaker 12: but you'll slip and fall of the ground hundreds of
• 23:37
  Speaker 12: feet below.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: There.
• 23:42
  Speaker 7: I touched you shadow. Still, you squirm, very heavily, but
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: I got you. I got a hold of you.
• 23:49
  Speaker 16: You won't get away from the Shadow, and.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: You won't get away from the police, and I'm coming.
• 23:58
  Speaker 12: You want the police, Yeah, before they get here, I'm
• 24:02
  Speaker 12: going to throw you off the power.
• 24:04
  Speaker 18: Show off yourself. If you try to do that, I
• 24:07
  Speaker 18: do like to pull you off with me. Commissioner what
• 24:23
  Speaker 18: he's come to take you himself.
• 24:25
  Speaker 12: You'll never get me, You'll never take me alive.
• 24:36
  Speaker 15: Your you're tramped.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: You're tramped that.
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: Listen to me, commissioned Western You never got me, never,
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: I didn't. I killed all those people.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: I made you think it was a shadow.
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: Be killed. I'm not afraid. I'm not afraid because you're
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: coming with me.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: Shadow.
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: Come on, Shadow, Oh, come with me, Come ahead.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: He did.
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: He jumps for your right over there in the foot
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: of the tar.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: See who it is.
• 25:10
  Speaker 9: That's hard man, the poisoner as the body. He must
• 25:13
  Speaker 9: be ten as a tar here this No man could
• 25:16
  Speaker 9: fall that distance and live. Turn him over, see his face.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: He's dead all right?
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: Next broken?
• 25:21
  Speaker 9: Where wife Herbert, Herbert, the chief chemist of the sanitation departments,
• 25:28
  Speaker 9: would ever have fought a man in his position?
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: He was struggling with someone up there on the top
• 25:31
  Speaker 7: of the tower.
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: Where's the other man?
• 25:33
  Speaker 9: Around the base of the car. He's gonna find another body.
• 25:36
  Speaker 9: Look at the bushes. I suppose we turnter missed him,
• 25:38
  Speaker 9: And I don't sit I see a thing in these
• 25:40
  Speaker 9: snow flourries, seeing the.
• 25:41
  Speaker 19: Sarch side of rock.
• 25:43
  Speaker 9: Anything over there talking, no no sign.
• 25:46
  Speaker 7: I don't see anybody here, nobody over here. I don't
• 25:49
  Speaker 7: know on this side.
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: Listen, shadow, yeaes Missioner Western.
• 26:02
  Speaker 15: The shadow. I am walking down, and Commissioner, don't bother
• 26:10
  Speaker 15: to search anymore.
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: I am the man Gerber was struggling with up on
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: the tower.
• 26:17
  Speaker 15: So you trapped Gerber, Yes, Commissioner, I trapped him. Gerber's
• 26:24
  Speaker 15: your man, the man who tried to poison the people
• 26:28
  Speaker 15: of the city into paying him a half a million dollars.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: Well, you won't poison anymore, but the looks of him,
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: And now.
• 26:38
  Speaker 15: Would you do something for me, Commissioner, By all means,
• 26:42
  Speaker 15: if you don't mind, Commissioner, I'd like to publicly take
• 26:47
  Speaker 15: the credit for solving this mystery. Gerber committed his crimes
• 26:55
  Speaker 15: in the name of a shadow, and I've I rather
• 27:00
  Speaker 15: think the real.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: Shadow deserves to be vindicated.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: Don't shoot, ladies and gentlemen before the shadow leaves you.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: Here's John Buckley, Blue Coals Heating Expert, Ladies and gentlemen,
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: Mister Buckley.
• 27:21
  Speaker 19: Thank you, Ken Roberts, good evening friends. At the beginning
• 27:25
  Speaker 19: of this program, mister Roberts mentioned my book How to
• 27:28
  Speaker 19: Reduce the Cost of Eating your Home. This book is
• 27:31
  Speaker 19: free and I hope all of my listeners will request
• 27:34
  Speaker 19: to copy. For example, you've been told Blue coal is
• 27:37
  Speaker 19: prepared in four sizes. Each size is intended for use
• 27:42
  Speaker 19: under definite conditions. If the firepot of your furnace is
• 27:46
  Speaker 19: less than sixteen inches in diameter, you should use chestnut
• 27:49
  Speaker 19: size coal. Egg or stove size coal should only be
• 27:53
  Speaker 19: used in larger firepots. The selection of the proper sized
• 27:57
  Speaker 19: blue coal for different sized furnaces is fully explained on
• 28:01
  Speaker 19: page four of my book Greater Economy. Pewer trips to
• 28:04
  Speaker 19: the furnace and more uniform heat are obtained when you
• 28:07
  Speaker 19: use the proper sized blue coal. Blue Coal and Blue
• 28:11
  Speaker 19: Coal Dealers are interested in saving you money. That is
• 28:14
  Speaker 19: why I am offering you this book, and that is
• 28:16
  Speaker 19: why Blue Coal Dealer send John Barclay Train servicemen upon
• 28:20
  Speaker 19: request to inspect your heating plants free of charge. This
• 28:24
  Speaker 19: is all a part of the service that comes with
• 28:26
  Speaker 19: Blue Coal. For this reason, I am anxious to send
• 28:29
  Speaker 19: you my book How to Reduce the Cost of Heating
• 28:31
  Speaker 19: your Home. Drop a post card in the mail to
• 28:34
  Speaker 19: night for your copy. Address it to either Blue Coal
• 28:37
  Speaker 19: one twenty Broadway, New York City, or to Blue Coal
• 28:41
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• 28:42
  Speaker 4: Which you are listening. Thank you, Thank you, mister Barclay
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: and homeowners.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: Remember blue Coal plus John Barkley's service means better and
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: more economical heat for you than ever before. In the meantime,
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: whether you use Blue Coal or not, be sure to
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: write to Blue Coal one twenty Broadway, New York City,
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: or to Blue Coal and Care of the station to
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: which you are listening, ask for mister Barkler's three twenty
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: four page book How to Reduce the Cost of Heating
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: your Home. You've just heard a dramatized version of one
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: of the many copyrighted stories which appear in the Shadow magazine.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: All the characters and all the places named are tacticians,
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: and the similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
• 29:46
  Speaker 7: The weed of crime, there's dick, crime does not pay.
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: The Shadow knows.
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: Next week, same time, same station, Blue Coal, America's finest Anthracite,
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: will again present another thrilling adventure.
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: Of the Shadow.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: Be sure to listen, and be sure to burn blue coal,
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: the solid fuel for solid comfort.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: That was the Shadow in Poisoned Death. This is Victor Sterling.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Until next time, goodnight,