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The Falcon - "The Case of the Grand Gamble" (1952) · Old Time Mystery Radio | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: A woman engages Mike Wearing the Falcon to protect a
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: gambling racketeer, drawing the detective into a case where large
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: wagers and criminal interests meet. From NBC's sustaining run, Ley
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  Speaker 1: Damon stars as the Falcon In The Falcon The Case
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  Speaker 1: of the Grand Gamble episode three hundred and sixty nine,
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  Speaker 1: originally broadcast March sixteenth, nineteen fifty two. Chuck Webster is
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: heard as Sergeant Corbett, with Ralph Bell also in the cast.
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: Eugene Wang wrote the script and Richard Lewis directed. Now
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: Mike Waring takes the assignment. Here is the original broadcast.
• 0:44
  Speaker 2: Hello, Yes, this is the Falcon speaking. Oh Carol, I'm
• 0:50
  Speaker 2: glad you call now, you'd have to call me out tonight. Angel,
• 0:55
  Speaker 2: some boy and not just bought himself a gun, and
• 0:57
  Speaker 2: unless he's stopped, he aims to get a big beat
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  Speaker 2: out of life.
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  Speaker 3: Once again, the National Broadcasting Company brings you the transcribed
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  Speaker 3: Adventures of the Falcon starring Less Damon. The Adventures of
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  Speaker 3: the Falcon dedicated to private investigators everywhere, those hard hitting
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  Speaker 3: detectives who like Mike Wearing, risk their lives to aid
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  Speaker 3: law enforcement agencies. So join him now, when the Falcon
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  Speaker 3: solves the case of the Grand Gamble. It is early
• 1:36
  Speaker 3: morning in New York, the time of day generally reserved
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  Speaker 3: for slumber, but there's plenty of action at Dena's Gambling,
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  Speaker 3: a spot on Manhattan and East Side, all of which
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  Speaker 3: impresses the two gentlemen standing by the roulette wheel.
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  Speaker 2: Now what are you saying, mister Calvin? You've seen enough, more.
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  Speaker 4: Than enough here line? How long has it been going on?
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  Speaker 2: Jackie tells me six weeks? What do you figure the
• 1:59
  Speaker 2: takers around six or seven?
• 2:01
  Speaker 4: Jesus a night, not bed? Where does Dana keep himself
• 2:06
  Speaker 4: in the office over there? What do they say? We
• 2:08
  Speaker 4: drop in and congratulate him?
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  Speaker 2: No? No, maybe we better way said? Now you're the boss?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm the boss. He lies, and let's not forget it.
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  Speaker 2: What do you want me to do?
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  Speaker 4: Just stay out here and see that we're not disturb Yeah, hello,
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  Speaker 4: Dana Callvin?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I must say this is a surprise.
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  Speaker 4: I meant it to be. Oh, I keep your hands
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  Speaker 4: off that buzzer. I just assume we weren't interrupted.
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  Speaker 5: Now, look cal down. You can't come in here and can't.
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  Speaker 4: Look you crumb.
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  Speaker 6: This is my territory from eighty sixth Street to ninety
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  Speaker 6: four since all the time you're gonna close up shop.
• 2:49
  Speaker 6: And if I don't, I'll do it for you. I'll
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  Speaker 6: give you twenty four hours.
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  Speaker 5: Give who twenty four hours?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 4: Aren't you the sly one?
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  Speaker 2: All right? Now?
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  Speaker 5: Do you leave quietly? Or that they carry you out?
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  Speaker 4: You better put that gun away, Dan. And it's not
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  Speaker 4: a character, is it. Yeah, you're not mad enough.
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  Speaker 2: To pull a trigger.
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  Speaker 4: Go on, I tell you, what are you waiting for?
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  Speaker 4: You gotta write the gun me shoot? You can tell
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  Speaker 4: him what was a heist?
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  Speaker 5: I'm warning you, Cali.
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  Speaker 4: Are warning me. Give me that gun. Let me come
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  Speaker 4: on and drop it. You shouldn't have tried to bluff me, fellow,
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  Speaker 4: because I really got a great hand. Come on, day
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  Speaker 4: to get up. You can't quit now. I got time
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  Speaker 4: for another couple of rounds.
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  Speaker 7: That you daddy? Yes, your home root, daddy, daddy? What happened?
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  Speaker 5: Nothing? Look at I tell you nothing, John, Let me
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  Speaker 5: sit down.
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  Speaker 7: I'm going to call a doctor.
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  Speaker 5: You do nothing. Get a kind tomorrow, but your face.
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  Speaker 5: I had a little accident, that's all. I fell down
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  Speaker 5: at the club.
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  Speaker 7: Can I get you anything?
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  Speaker 5: Just the phone book.
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  Speaker 7: Who do you want? I'll look it up for you.
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  Speaker 5: See if there's an al Romero listed.
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  Speaker 7: Al Romero.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, couldn't be the same one. Couldn't be what same one?
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  Speaker 7: The al Romero I read about, the one who was
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  Speaker 7: tied up with murder Incorporated.
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  Speaker 5: No, No, this is a different boy.
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  Speaker 7: You're not telling the truth.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, So it's the same one, and I got a
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  Speaker 5: job for him. You're happy now, you don't mean that.
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  Speaker 5: Don't give odds, Jenny, Daddy, what's come over you? I've
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  Speaker 5: seen the light. I just learned. When you're in my racket,
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  Speaker 5: you can't use kid gloves. Vince Calvin was around to
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  Speaker 5: see me tonight. Yeah, that's why I look this way
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  Speaker 5: from now, and I play his rules.
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  Speaker 7: You don't know what you're saying.
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  Speaker 5: Try to understand, Joan. I'm doing this for you. I
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  Speaker 5: want you to have the best of everything, but I
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  Speaker 5: don't want it that you don't get it any other way.
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  Speaker 5: Mister Calvin taught me that. I'll give you that phone.
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  Speaker 7: No, I won't let you do it.
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  Speaker 2: You won't.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry, baby, you might as well learn the facts of
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  Speaker 5: life now. Information. I'd like the phone number of al Romero.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Angel, you don't know what. Oh go away? Oh
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  Speaker 2: for pe't say? Wait a minute, where's my robe? I said,
• 6:03
  Speaker 2: wait a minute, what are you wearing? It all depends
• 6:09
  Speaker 2: depends on the time of day before seven. I'm not myself.
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  Speaker 7: I know it's late, but I've got to see you.
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  Speaker 5: I'll come back in the morning.
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  Speaker 7: It's no good time, is of the essence. Don know
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  Speaker 7: what I'll do.
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  Speaker 2: I'll take it easy, but you don't understand.
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  Speaker 5: Well I never will at this rate.
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  Speaker 2: I'll sit down, thank you.
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  Speaker 7: I suppose I should introduce myself.
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  Speaker 2: I suppose you should.
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  Speaker 7: My name is Joan Andrews.
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  Speaker 2: Joan Andrews. If you say so, don't you believe me?
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  Speaker 2: I never questioned ladies word at four o'clock in the morning,
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  Speaker 2: but I wouldn't advise you to come back at five
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  Speaker 2: with that story. And why look at Joan Andrews. How
• 6:42
  Speaker 2: come your initials on your purse are j D.
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  Speaker 7: Oh this belongs to a friend?
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  Speaker 2: All right, Angel, have it your way?
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  Speaker 7: Tell you it's the truth.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's hear the rest.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I'm engaged to a man named Vince Calvin.
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  Speaker 2: Vince Calvin, you do you know him? H? So I
• 7:01
  Speaker 2: won't offer my congratulations.
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  Speaker 7: Well, Vince has been threatened.
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  Speaker 2: How do you know?
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  Speaker 7: He told me?
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  Speaker 2: Go on?
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  Speaker 7: That's all there is to it. I want you to
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  Speaker 7: see nothing happens to.
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  Speaker 5: It now, Angel, Enough is enough. You can't expect me
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  Speaker 5: to buy that.
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  Speaker 7: I swear it's true.
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  Speaker 2: Does calvinoia here?
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  Speaker 8: No?
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  Speaker 7: And he mustn't find out. He thinks he can take
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  Speaker 7: care of himself.
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  Speaker 2: From what I know of that gent he can.
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  Speaker 7: I can't afford to gamble. You've got to protect him.
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  Speaker 2: Why don't you go to the cops because I.
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  Speaker 7: Don't want any publicity. Vince would kill me if there was.
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  Speaker 2: And this is the man you're engaged too.
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  Speaker 7: I didn't mean it that way.
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  Speaker 2: How did you mean it?
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  Speaker 7: Look, mister Waring, it all comes down to this. Either
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  Speaker 7: you want the case or you don't.
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  Speaker 2: I get one hundred dollars a day plus expenses.
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  Speaker 7: That's all right, I'll pay you an advent.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, you're really on the level about this, aren't you. Well?
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  Speaker 7: What did you think?
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  Speaker 2: Frankly, Joe, and I don't know where can I reach you?
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  Speaker 7: Don't bother calling me. I'll call you, okay.
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  Speaker 2: But keep in touch with the office. I hope for
• 7:59
  Speaker 2: your sake there won't be any stoppling developments. That's funny.
• 8:17
  Speaker 4: You must have money in the bank. He lie, you're
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  Speaker 4: talking to yourself.
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  Speaker 2: There's a blue nash behind us. It's a very attractive color.
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  Speaker 2: So what I'd swear there was the same car I saw.
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  Speaker 4: On Broadway imagining thing.
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  Speaker 2: I tell you it's the same one cal Then he's
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  Speaker 2: trailings turn up eighty fourth. It's one way going east.
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  Speaker 4: I'm all right, I'll take care of the ticket. Let's
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  Speaker 4: see if he makes the same mistake. Well, what did
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  Speaker 4: I tell you? He's coming right after us? Okay, stop
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  Speaker 4: right here, give me a gun.
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  Speaker 2: What are you gonna do?
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  Speaker 4: Wait for our friend? But don't you think we think
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  Speaker 4: you're worried so much? Stay here? What's the matter of
• 9:02
  Speaker 4: comrade having trouble?
• 9:05
  Speaker 2: How's that?
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  Speaker 4: I asked, if you were having trouble?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess I lost my way.
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  Speaker 4: I guess you did. Get out?
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  Speaker 2: What four?
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  Speaker 4: I want to look at you? Listen, So you're going
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  Speaker 4: to get out of that car?
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  Speaker 2: Is that thing loaded? What do you think?
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  Speaker 5: I think I better get out.
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  Speaker 4: Now? I walk over to that lamp coast.
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  Speaker 2: Sure anything you say.
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  Speaker 4: Hall ed, that's fine. Just keep your hands with the eye.
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  Speaker 2: How's this? Well?
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  Speaker 4: What's the idea wearing? It isn't Vince Calvin? So it
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  Speaker 4: needs a small world? Too small? Why telling me?
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  Speaker 2: Me?
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  Speaker 4: Telling you here? I saw you on Broadway.
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  Speaker 5: I must have been two other guys. I would just
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  Speaker 5: headed home.
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  Speaker 4: So you go the wrong way up a one way street.
• 9:58
  Speaker 4: We all make mistakes, and you're going to pay for yours.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't try that again.
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  Speaker 4: Who put you on tearing me?
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  Speaker 2: None of your business.
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  Speaker 4: I got a good and I wouldn't try it or
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  Speaker 4: keep out of my way. You understand I don't like
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  Speaker 4: being crowded over ten million people in town. You got
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  Speaker 4: to expect I made it wearing. If I catch you
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  Speaker 4: with gunshots, I help me. I'll let you have it.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 4: Anyway?
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  Speaker 2: What for? I like it here?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, maybe I can arrange for you to hang around
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  Speaker 4: for quite a while. I'm looking for Vince Calvin. Oh yo.
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  Speaker 2: If I wanted you to know, I would have had
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  Speaker 2: to announce me.
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  Speaker 4: If you're calling your stooards, you're wasting your time.
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  Speaker 2: Where is he?
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  Speaker 4: What difference does it make? I look, comrade, I don't
• 10:54
  Speaker 4: know what your game is, solidaire. I play it with this.
• 11:00
  Speaker 4: What's the idea of the gun this is how I
• 11:02
  Speaker 4: deal him. Would you like to see one off the top?
• 11:06
  Speaker 4: What made Dana think I'd fall for this? Huh, Well,
• 11:10
  Speaker 4: didn't Dana send you around? You can't expect me to
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  Speaker 4: divulge the name of my client. That wouldn't be ethical.
• 11:16
  Speaker 4: I love Busty. You're not kidding me. I don't frighten easy.
• 11:20
  Speaker 4: I mean to tell me, you're not scared, not a
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  Speaker 4: bit glad to hear that. There's one thing I admire.
• 11:27
  Speaker 4: It's a guy with twenty of moxie. It's a pity
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  Speaker 4: to have to spill yours.
• 11:33
  Speaker 2: A real pity.
• 11:46
  Speaker 3: We Americans have been justly accused of living at too
• 11:50
  Speaker 3: fast a piece. Not only are we living too fast,
• 11:54
  Speaker 3: we are also driving too fast on the highways. Speed
• 11:59
  Speaker 3: is the number one killer. It takes more than half
• 12:02
  Speaker 3: of the lives lost in traffic accidents in many states.
• 12:06
  Speaker 3: Last year, speeding drivers caused fifteen thousand deaths in the
• 12:10
  Speaker 3: United States. That year, more than five hundred thousand persons
• 12:14
  Speaker 3: were injured in automobile accidents blamed on excessive speed. That is,
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  Speaker 3: the bloody price tag on too much speed, the cost
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  Speaker 3: that you may pay sooner or later for a few
• 12:26
  Speaker 3: minutes saved by speeding. Slow down for safety's sake, and
• 12:31
  Speaker 3: you'll be doing your part in the current campaign against
• 12:34
  Speaker 3: the number one killer on the highways. Initiate and support
• 12:38
  Speaker 3: your local enforcement drives against speeders, and remember drive as
• 12:44
  Speaker 3: though your life depends on it.
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: It does.
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  Speaker 3: Now back to the Adventurers of the Falcon. Three hours
• 13:02
  Speaker 3: have passed since Mike Wearing had his run in with
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  Speaker 3: Vince Calvin, the man he was hired to protect. Now
• 13:08
  Speaker 3: at Mike's apartment, we find him recuperating from the encompence.
• 13:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah him, Mike, Now, what do you want, sergeant?
• 13:18
  Speaker 5: That's no way to create an old, entrusted friend. What
• 13:23
  Speaker 5: happened to you?
• 13:24
  Speaker 2: Never mind? Let me see, will you get your hands
• 13:27
  Speaker 2: off me? Well? If I was you, I'd trade this
• 13:29
  Speaker 2: head in for another and better still, you could grow one.
• 13:32
  Speaker 5: Look Sageant. I'm in no mood for kibbetzing.
• 13:34
  Speaker 2: Oh looks like someone really did a job on you.
• 13:37
  Speaker 2: Really ought to see the other guy I did? He
• 13:40
  Speaker 2: looks even worse? What are you mumbling about? White Calvin?
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: Slug you? How did you know it was Calval? You're
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: not the only detective in the crowd. Now, when I
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: get my hands on him. I can arrange that he's
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: at the Morgue. The Morgue he was gunned at nine
• 13:55
  Speaker 2: o'clock tonight. Is that on the level? You know? I
• 13:59
  Speaker 2: never joke things like murder? Who did it? Did?
• 14:02
  Speaker 5: You don't be an idiot?
• 14:03
  Speaker 2: Well? You got to admit, we can make out a
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: pretty convincing case. After all, he bounced you around. I
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: went around killing everyone who bounced Finain. You could fill
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: your own personal cemetery. Still and all, it doesn't look
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: so good for you. Who says so, Lieutenant Korum, that
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: that jerk can pull you in and throw away the key?
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: What gay with you?
• 14:25
  Speaker 5: In Calvin?
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: I was tailing him for a client fly. She thought
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: he was in danger. She must have had inside information.
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: Who is she, Joan Andrews? You say that like you
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: don't believe it? Well I don't. So even though you
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: knew she was a phony, you took the case. Oh
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: she may have been a phony, but her money wasn't
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: what you have against Calvin? Nothing. Look, Mike, if you're
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: holding out.
• 14:47
  Speaker 5: Why should I?
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: You told me they were engaged, and you brought that story.
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: Calvin's a married man. Well I didn't know that. A
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: smart guy. There's a lot you didn't know. You better
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: find this client.
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  Speaker 5: Of you as sure?
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: Tell me how. Now that's your headache, but you better
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: dig her up and do it fast. Lieutenant Klorum, Wait.
• 15:06
  Speaker 5: A minute, Wait a minute, how did.
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: You learn about my running with Calvin? Eli told me?
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: I mean Eli Proctor, Calvin stooge. Yeah, he knows all
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: about Calvin's operations, doesn't he, including the one Calvin did
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: on you?
• 15:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: No, maybe he knows something about my mysterious client too.
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: You wanted to join me, No, no thanks, I've already
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: talked to him. But don't let that stop you. Now.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: You go right ahead have your fun. You're sure you
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: won't join me in a drink wearing positive, Well, I
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: don't know what you're missing, and I'll take my chance.
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: As he learned, Why did you tell the cops Calvin
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: slugged me? It was my duty, wasn't it. You know
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: the kind of a guy who never forgets it, not me. Well,
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: let's see how good that memory is. Did Calvin have
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: any enemies? Marry a soul? Just a big, lovable guy.
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: And that was Vince. We're really going to miss him
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: around here. Yeah, bit, who's going to handle a business
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: now that he's gone. I don't know, but if his
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: wife wants me, I'll be available. Let's think of you.
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: And well, that's the sort of a guy I am.
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: She'd be a lot easier to swindle than Vince was.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: You want to watch that mouthfellow, I'm sorry you see
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: I watched it this morning, chancing to do a thing
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: with it. Now, a girl about five feet two, blue eyes,
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: blonde hair, pretty, No, but I'd love to meet her
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: me too. How did she know that Calvin was in trouble?
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: Maybe she was planning to knock him off, so she
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: hired me to prevent it. He didn't do too good
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: a job, did you. That was Calvin's fault. You never
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: should have slugged me. If I were around, this might
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: not have happened. Well, that's life for.
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: You or dead.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: What does missus Calvin look like? You're barking up the
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: tree wearing she's a redhead? Did he have any girls
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: on the string?
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: Nope?
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: Come onie, I open up.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: Tell you he didn't have any trouble with a dame,
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: but he did have trouble with a man who arthurd Dana,
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: the guy who runs the club on eighty six yeah,
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: I Vince closed him up. Then Dana might have had
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: it in for Calvin. It wouldn't be at all surprised.
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: Well, thanks a lot, Eli, you've been a big help.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: You're not leaving already?
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but I'll be back.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: See what you can dream up in the meantime. Yes, well,
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: if it isn't Joan Andrews, what unless the name of
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: you is thirty six hours ago?
• 17:45
  Speaker 7: Are you out of your mind?
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: If I am angelous, little girls like you who are
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: responsible and get out?
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: No, no, Jny, I didn't throw you out when you
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: came calling on me.
• 17:54
  Speaker 7: You're crazy.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: You don't remember coming to my apartment at four o'clock
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: yesterday morning.
• 17:59
  Speaker 7: I came to your apartment.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Yes you did, and you use the name Joanah Andrews.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Just to keep the record straight. What are you calling
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: yourself today? Look?
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: Are you going to get out of here?
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Wait a minute. Of course you must be Dana's daughter.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: It was a sap not to have seen it before.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: Why did you hire me to protect Vince Calvin?
• 18:19
  Speaker 7: Vince Calvin? I never even heard of the men?
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: Well your father did. Are you afraid he was going
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: to kill Calvin?
• 18:25
  Speaker 7: I don't know what you're talking about.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Look, Angel, I rarely slug a woman, but in your case,
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: I'll be glad to make an exception. Don't you dare
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: aware's your father? He's not here, Dana, Dana, I.
• 18:33
  Speaker 9: Tell you he's not here. He flew to the coast
• 18:35
  Speaker 9: on business yesterday morning. What time caught the four thirty plane?
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: But Calvin was killed at nine?
• 18:40
  Speaker 7: Well, that proves my father couldn't have done it.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: You're lying.
• 18:44
  Speaker 7: You don't believe me. Check with creaton airlines.
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: Thanks for the advice, Angel, That's one tip I intend
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: to take.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Hello, that's you, Johnny Daddy.
• 19:04
  Speaker 7: Where are you calling.
• 19:04
  Speaker 10: From Los Angeles? What'd you think?
• 19:06
  Speaker 7: When are you coming home?
• 19:08
  Speaker 10: Maybe a week or ten days?
• 19:09
  Speaker 7: Try to get back as soon as possible.
• 19:11
  Speaker 10: Why. What's the matter?
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: I can't talk on the phone. Where are you staying?
• 19:15
  Speaker 10: Why?
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: I want to write to you, Vince Calvin was murdered yesterday.
• 19:19
  Speaker 10: I know I heard about it out here.
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: Well, Mike Wearing is investigating the matter.
• 19:23
  Speaker 10: Walk How did he get involved?
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: That's a long story. I'll go into it in my matter.
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: What's the name of your hotel?
• 19:29
  Speaker 10: I won't do any good, Honey, I'm checking out. I
• 19:31
  Speaker 10: don't like it here.
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: But how'll I reach you?
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: You can't.
• 19:33
  Speaker 10: You'll have to wait for me to get in touch
• 19:34
  Speaker 10: with it.
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: But Mike wearing things.
• 19:36
  Speaker 10: I don't care what he thinks. You told him I
• 19:38
  Speaker 10: was on the coast. Yes, well there's my alibi. When
• 19:41
  Speaker 10: he hears I called you.
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: From Daddy, that was your time being released into the
• 19:46
  Speaker 7: pay phone.
• 19:47
  Speaker 10: Listen, John, you're in New York.
• 19:48
  Speaker 7: You've been here all the time. But if you were
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: in New York.
• 19:51
  Speaker 10: I told you to forget it. They carry yourself, Jonny,
• 19:54
  Speaker 10: don't worry about mister Waring. I'll take care of.
• 19:57
  Speaker 8: Him, all right.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, got your bets down. The gentleman is
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: coming out.
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: And it's the point I got two bits because he's right.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Eli, go away, boy, you bother me. You're busy what
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: a good look like? And the gentleman got himself a
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: big ten. I would a word with you, would you? Yeah,
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: unless you want me to make a nuisance of myself
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: out here, Jackie, take over the table. I knew you'd
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: see the lights follow me. I did that once and
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: it didn't work out so well. Huh. The other night
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: wound up with a pitch of a headache. Remember it
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: was your own fault. Hey, this is quite a layout.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: I'm glad you like it.
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: Hey, you really moved in, haven't you? My warring get
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: to the point?
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Well, I was wondering if you had any more leads
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: leads for Calvin's murder?
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: What about his missus? What about her? You think she
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: might have knocked him off?
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Are you not swear as her motive she might have
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: wanted to get her hands and all this. I don't
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: talk like a schmoe. She don't even know what this
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: thing is worth. That's going to make it awfully convenient
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: for you? Now listen, Well, isn't it if you came
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: here to needle me?
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: Sadly?
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: I succeeded? All right?
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: Can you think of anyone else who might have had
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: it them for Calvin?
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: What's wrong with Dana? Nope, he's got an alibi? Who
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: says so I do? He was on his way to
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Los Angeles at the time. Didn't you have hired someone
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: else to do the job, a torpedo?
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: I never thought of that.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Well, it's time you did. Yes, she may have something there,
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: of course, there's only one thing wrong with that theory.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Why Dana hired a proto do the job. He wouldn't quit. Now,
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: what do you mean? His daughter must have told him,
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: I wash having my nose into this business. If Dana
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: felt I was a source of danger to him, he
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: give orders that gum and go to work again. Well, well,
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: the fact that I'm alive prove your own Still it
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: was an original thought.
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: Eli.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Me know, if you get any more bright ideas.
• 22:17
  Speaker 10: Money and worrying, what do you just keep your hands with?
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Ah? The devil you me. I'm a nobody. Not with
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: that gun in your mid that makes you a big man. Yeah,
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: I guesse it does. Kick the door shut, he said,
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: kick it shut? Sure, anything you say now, bark yourself
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: on that sofa. Hey, don't I know you from someplace?
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: I don't think so. Yeah, you must be the citizen
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: who at Calvin. How did you figure that at? Oh?
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: I'm real smart. And then maybe you can answer this.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: If I'm the guy who killed Calvin and you know it,
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: what do you suppose is going to happen to you? No,
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: that's a very good question, ain't it. I'll give you
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: two minutes to dream up the answer.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: Any day, any hour now, perhaps this very minute. A
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: tragic moment in our nation's history will occur somewhere. A
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: careless driver will reckon automobile, or a jaywalking pedestrian will
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: be struck down. Another life will be snuffed out in
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: an automobile accident, suddenly, needlessly. Why will this particular accident
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: stand out in history? Because for the first time, this
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: death will tip the balance scales of the two mass
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: killers of Americans, War and the automobile downward.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: On the automobile side.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: Each of these three wholesale killers destroyers of life has
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: killed about one million, five thousand Americans. War took its
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: vast toll in nearly one hundred and seventy seven years,
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: the automobile in a mere fifty two years. Once the
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: automobile fatality side of the scale tilts downward, it will
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: probably stay down unless you and I, as drivers and pedestrians,
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: become safer and act to reduce the senseless slaughter on
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: the highways. Automobiles will keep on killing Americans at a
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: far faster rate than wars. What can we do about it?
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: We can demand that our civic organizations and communities act
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: immediately to make drivers more careful and the highways safer.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Drive as though.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: Your life depends on it.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: It does.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: Now back to the Adventures of the Falcon. Just ninety
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: seconds has passed since Mike Waring entered his apartment to
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: find it occupied.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Worse yet, the.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: New tenant moved in with all the necessary hardware.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: Well, what do you say, worrying? You look like you've
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: been thinking. You come up with the answer.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: What answer? What's going to happen to you? Oh? Well,
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: if I were judging solely by appearances, I'd say someone
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: doesn't want me around, smart boy. Would you mind telling
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: me who you're working for? What difference does it mean? Well,
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: I'd hate to get sent to my grave without knowing
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: who's responsible.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: That's the way it wakes up sometime. Was it daina
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: where you want it? Do I have a choice?
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Sure?
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: I ain't a bad guy. If you leave it to me,
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: I'll put it right in the back of your head.
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: That way you won't feel a tine. Thanks loads, I
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: mean it. I never had a complaint yet, I bet
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: okay on your feet.
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: What's the point I'm only going to get knocked off
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: him again?
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Okay, wise guy, try to do your favor. I'm ready
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: to return it.
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: I were you.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: I dropped that gun would you. Yeah, don't look now,
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: but there's an ugly police sergeant right behind you.
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: Think I'm gonna fall for that tired routine? Why not
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: watch your sergeant, Robert.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: I'm all right, what about it? And I can't say
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: as much for him? Is he here this time?
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: Corbett?
• 26:06
  Speaker 11: You really called your shots?
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Hello, Elin, worry?
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: I want you to meet a friend of mine. Now,
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: don't bother introducing us, Mike. We've met six years ago,
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: wasn't it, Eli, when you and Calvin first started. He
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: had a joint on West eighth Street. It was just
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: let's not start reminiscing. I'm sorry, I get carried away,
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: so no, thanks. We won't be staying long.
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: We just dropped by to thank you.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: What for? What?
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: If it hadn't been for you, we never would have cleaned.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Up this mess? What are you mumbling about? We saw
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: Calvin's murder and swear, but I don't say. You were
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: the one who advanced the theory that they might be
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: a professional killer involved, and you were right. Did you
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: find him yep, waiting for me at my place. His
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: name was Tony A. Brooksio. At least that's how he's
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: been identified. At the Morgue.
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: The Morgue. Well, it was either him or Wearing, and
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: like a fool, I made the wrong Chili, I doubt it.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: I think you were aiming for me, But you're such
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: a rotten shockock. If you guys got nothing better to oh,
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: we have Eli. You see, before Tony died, he named
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: you as the party who hired him. You're lying even
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: found your check on his body. You couldn't I paid him? Okay,
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: all right, sergeant, what are you waiting for him? May
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: God like a cop and do your duty.
• 27:48
  Speaker 9: I suppose I should apologize, mister Wearing, but you see
• 27:51
  Speaker 9: the position I was in.
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: I was afraid my father intended to kill Calvin, and.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: That's why you hired me. Yeah, we didn't you know
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: your father was in New York during the time of the.
• 28:00
  Speaker 9: I only discovered that later. It seems he canceled out
• 28:03
  Speaker 9: on his trip. Then, when he heard that Calvin was murdered, get.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Nervous and decided to play it as though he were
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: in Los Angeles all along. I was silly. He played
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: right into Eli's hands. He was just lucky that Eli
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: gave himself away.
• 28:16
  Speaker 7: Now that I don't understand.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: You see Angel, it all came down to motive. Eli
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: was the only one who actually profited by Calvin's murder.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: With Calvin gone was a sinch for him to move
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: in and take over the club.
• 28:28
  Speaker 7: But what about missus Calvin.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: No, she didn't figure to give him any trouble. He
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: even admitted to me that she didn't know the scar.
• 28:34
  Speaker 7: Weren't you guessing all this?
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Well? Sure, but I had nothing else to go on. Then,
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: when Eli suggested a professional gunman.
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: Might have done the actual job for your dad, I.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Decided to do a little deep sea fishing.
• 28:44
  Speaker 7: I don't follow you well.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: I told him that if your father was behind the kill,
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: he'd certainly take care of me.
• 28:51
  Speaker 7: So that's why you.
• 28:51
  Speaker 9: Sent that Tony Yubrutzio around him.
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: He really rose to the date. So I got together
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: with Corbett and laid the track.
• 28:59
  Speaker 7: Then it was no way sitent of the sergeant turned out.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Oh no, he was behind me right along, And I still,
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: oh no, just thought, I see how you're getting along.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: Mind if I joined you, I certainly do. Didn't you
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: ever hear two's company? Three's a crowd? Now? Did you
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: just make it up on a Listen?
• 29:16
  Speaker 9: Wait, there's an easy way to handle this, but you're
• 29:19
  Speaker 9: not leaving well.
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: You two get along so well. It would be a
• 29:23
  Speaker 7: pity to let a woman break up your happy home.
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: Good Night, Mike.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: The Case of the Murdering Missus.
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: The Case of the Murdering Missus.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: That's the title of next week's Adventure of the Falcon,
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: when Mike Waring learns that when money is your target
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: in life, you give people something to shoot at. The
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: Adventurers of the Falcon are based on the famous character
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: created by Drexel Drake, produced and transcribed by Bernard L. Schubert,
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: written today by Eugene Wang, and directed by Richard Lewis.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: Less Damon was starred as the Falcon with Chuck Webs
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: through a Sergeant Corporate. This program came from New York,
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: Fred Collin speaking.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: That was the Falcon in the case of the Grand Gamble.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: We're glad you could join us for this nineteen fifty
• 30:36
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• 30:41
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