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Mr. Moto: A Force Called X07 (EP0970) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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Slash Radio Detectives. All right, well, before we do get started,
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I wanted to let you know that I have a new book out. The
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title is Powerhouse Hard Bress. It's a continuation of the series of superhero comedy
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novels have been writing and this one is available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble
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dot com and also for the Kindle and as a right now, Scott Wilcox,
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or audio book narrator, is hard at work recording this and hopefully we'll
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have audiobook version out sometime in August, so I'm looking forward to that.
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And this week we have a couple of events going on. We have on
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Friday for those of you in the Boise, Idaho area, I'll be doing
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a book signing at the Hastings Store at seventy five hundred West Fairview. There's
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a calfc Slash Long John Silver's out front as well. As a Wells Farko
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Bank and I'll be there from four to nine mountain time. Also, if
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you can't quite make the drive to Boise, we have a virtual book launch
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we'll be going on on Wednesday, so tomorrow, and we'll be there from
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six thirty to nine mountain time. All right, Well, we're beginning a
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new radio series today. This one is called Mister Moto. Now. I
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played a Mister Moto movie for this month's Video Theater and one I think one
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of the better ones, mister Moto's Last Warning. Really the Mister the Mister
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Mono radio series is an entirely different incarnation. While the original Mister Moto was
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Japanese mister Iamoto, the featured character in this series was Japanese American born in
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the United States. Series aired over the NBC Radio network from May nineteen fifty
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one to October nineteen fifty one, so kind of followed a similar length of
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airing as The Big Guy from a year before. NBC Radio series with Detective
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Show starting in the nineteen fifties really did not have a lot of luck.
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The big exception of that was very Craig Confidential Investigator, which we played.
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So let's go ahead and take a listen to today's episode A force called x
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O seven. And this sounds like an audition recording, kind of minimal on
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music and effects. But let's go ahead and take a listen. The night's
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going fourth called EXO seven drying Mister Moto, Mister I A Moto. I
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stood there in a room in their View Hospital in New York, beside the
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young doctor. We watched the patient on the bed with a sort of son
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incredible horr. The woman's condition was so fantastic as to defy all all reason.
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She had grown visibly smaller in the back quarter hour. Her body was
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not that of a woman, but of a child. The young doctor sixth
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were princed around the foot of the iron hospital bed. Mister Moto, this
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is unbelievable. Yes, I can't stand it. It's sickly. Yes,
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that's happened to him. What's called this the thousand apology doctor. But this
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is a secret which must be kept at all costs. The assignment on Exto
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seven started with a personal phone call last Saturday. I had just completed a
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case in Carol for US intelligence and had returned to New York for a rest
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and a holiday. I wanted nothing so much as I wanted quiet. I
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was annoyed when my phone rang at ten in the evening. I was already
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in debt. Hello Moto, Yes, moto is hard? Counton here?
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Why, profesforth Canton, I've been in Europe and I've been meaning to call
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you ever since I returned. But can I show you tonight? There's an
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entrance Central Park. There's an infant into Central Park at Fifth Even You're ninetieth
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Street. Can you be there in half an hour? You mean outside in
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this weather? Please? Modo. I know what I'm doing, this is
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desperately. Then of course I'll meet you anywhere. You say, since even
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you're ninetieth Street entry to the park in half an hour? Can't you give
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me any idea of what? Hello? Hello? Who is there? Can
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make muddy water clear? But if let alone, it will become clear of
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itself. Professor Howard Carlton was head of the civic department of one of the
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greatest universities in the world. I met him first in Hong Kong many years
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ago, and I think I can say we each treasured each other's friendship.
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I took a cab to Fifth Avenue and nightly street, driveling rain made murky
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globs of the street light at my right, fetch the park manst it and
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so very dark. The occasional taxi hurried by as if anxious to get away
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from the black wetness of the night. Suddenly, out of the mist I
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recognize Howard Autums last his body. He was wearing a raincoat and his hat
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was pulled down over his face. His walk suggested one thing. See,
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I say, Moto, this is awfully decent of you, Howard? What
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is this all about? Why must we eat outside in the setch of weather?
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Surely they must wait? But what is it that may have been followed?
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Let's go out into the park a bit. We can sit on one
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of the ventures. There. You are a saying, aren't you yeah?
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Of what? Specifically? Being murdered? Murdered? Why? Who? Men
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who write meiling me back? Meaning you quite successfully with what something I did?
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Once? Can we sit down here? I suppose you start at the
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beginning? Mother? What is it I thought I saw someone? I'm afraid
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I'm in a complete funk. Have you ever heard of the Michaels and men?
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The experiment? Never? Well? As as you know, I'm not
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only ahead of the physics department at the university, I'm also in charge of
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the Manhattan Atomical Research Foundation. Look. Some time ago, as you may
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read in the papers, there was a twenty two hundred ton cosmotron competed at
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the Brookhaden National Laboratory, a two billion volte attom snasher. It spews out
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a beam of hydrogen atoms traveling at the speed of light. This beam is
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directed by a searchlight who were speaking to the interior of heavier atoms. The
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cosmotronic Bookhaden is service say the climax of men struggle to harness the power of
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matter. We are here perhaps to discussif it I'm I'm trying to say that
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we've invented a weapon. Will my assistant and I at the Foundation, Yes,
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an atomic weapon. The bed ladies my assistant started working with a degenerate
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form of radium. Who was radium some ten years ago. It was to
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be a chop with cancer. The Atomic Energy Commission realized it had other possibilities.
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Only doctor Bedley I worked on the final face off it. Now we've
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finished. Go on, Well, the weapon it's very simple, it's portable,
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light and so Goodney It's like having a thousandth part of an Eton bomb
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and a light bulb. Only George Bedley and I are in possession of the
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complete plans. And no, I'm being black needled for what. Twenty seven
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years ago, at Oxford University, I joined the Communist Party. I see,
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in those days communism was rubber fashionable. I took the usual nouns one
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under bradgwated and and then there's one must if one has an immaturity of ahh.
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I grew out of it. I forgot it. I got into science.
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I also product something else what I forgot to resign from the party officially,
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a man named Sir Give the Mincop threatens move with exposure. I am
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either to turn over the secret of Exel seven to him, meaning to rush
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up, or or the explored as a member of the English Communist Party.
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And is there any choice, my dear chap. Of course there's no choice.
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I told the link after Dows. He liked that I was going to
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the FBI, and he's tried to kill me three times from the last forty
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eight hours. I see, now there's there's where you come in. I
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want to go to Washington. Exel seven must be delpe with on the highest
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level your jobs to see that I get to Washington alive. Nobody knows we
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met tonight. Get two tickets on a plane to Washington tomorrow afternoon. I
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shall call you in the morning from a pree station somewhere. And now for
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hive and six, giving a cigarette is catholic? Yeah, thanks. Isn't
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there somewhere we can do this without ruining your career? EXO seven is more
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important than a career, man or anybody else's have your match. I had
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a lighter somewhere. Yes, the surges, thanks Howard. How I got
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end put out that night. It's just the first finger was exposed to EXO
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seven and an experiment I shall had that amputated. The weapon is capable of
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that. I'm be a fellow, That's what I'm telling you. EXO seven
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ex Eton bomb as obsolete as a sailing ship. That's why oh I got
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from somewhere in the darkness of the park. A bullet brought instant death to
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one of the most brilliant minds of our generation. How it caught himself forward
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to the pavement. I took his right hand in mind and felt the tiny,
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hard widdered four finger finger, not of a man, but of a
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baby. My first impulse was to call the police. Then I thought better.
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Nothing could bring back the life, and there was too much at stake
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to risk publicity. I left my friend unattended in death and hurried home to
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my apartment. This is mister motto calling Intelligence two and I want private line
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eight two, five or four piece. Thank you Hello Captain eight. I
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had some model. Why are Washington and get me everything on a man named
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Sergey Venenko? Like also do a factult team check on a Jack George Bradley
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who worked at the Manhattan Atomic Research Fundition correct. I will be in your
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office tomorrow morning at nine thirty. I would like this information to be there
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too. Thank you setting me truly the security of the state. Let's in
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the heart have it sissing the Dartie and Valinkov was airmail from Washington last night,
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mister mor Thank you. Captain George Bradley's file is negative. He was
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registered in finger pretty when he started working with Professor Carpton. He's thirty eight
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PC and physics, author of several papers on a treatment of cancer by radium
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and X rays. He's a death eight one nineties seventy five three. I
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imagine he would be at home on Sunday morning. Don't you want us to
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bring him in? No? No, Captain Yates. The window of a
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man s is clariss in his own house. I will go to him.
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Okay, have it's your own way. Anything else for me to do?
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Yeah, maybe after I have a Sunday morning chat with doctor Bradley in his
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own house. Yes, are you are, doctor Bradley? I am mister
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Moto. Mister I a moto Central Intelligence. They have a moment of your
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time and certainly come in. Thank you so much, said nah, I'm
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more John, you are most kind ah crossword buckle in the times, A
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soul so stimulating, bad time for at your brain. Sometimes mine isn't naturally
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enough. I've given up on this one. I am glad to see that
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you are neither rare like Jay nor common like Son. I shall touch you.
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I believe you work with Professor Howard Carlton. I do you know that
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he is a communist? What is well? You're a joke. I don't
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know. I don't believe it. This believe the truth will not make it
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any less true. Doctor Blatty I believe you have invented a weapon called EXO
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seven. Do you mean he told you? Why? Is he out of
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his mind? Idea? That's a bladley I am working for US intelligence.
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Seven is absolutely bit hard thickly. I know that. Then? Why asked
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me? This is a weapon simply the most deadly weapon man has ever found?
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And I hate it? Indeed? Why because I hate war? I?
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Yes, quite so? Tell me have you ever heard a man named
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Sergeylenko? No? Why he was flatmailing Professor Calton? Why he is blackmailing
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Professor Calton? If you either meet or get a letter from a man of
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this name, you will get in touch with me at what certainly the Lenko
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remember it? Yes, I will thank you so much for seeing well.
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I'm afraid it hasn't been a much use, but you're welcome. Sometimes one
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allows oneself to do things purely because they are good morning doc about it?
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The let god, the leg god didn't come down now he's gone, Yes,
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and downstairs. Most of the conversation I could hear, and it reassures
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me. I never met a communist yet who didn't have a blind spot.
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That little man is as dangerous as a kake a night or glistening. But
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George think, yeah, I'm sure you know it's Carlton is dead? He
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said, was blackmailing Professor Carton? He said, was not? Is he
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used the past ten? You're sure Carton wasn't alone when you shot him?
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I paused. Then Motor was with him to see was an impossibility. It
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was only since comstomly to figure if I could shoot at all, we shouldn't
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have killed him. But Georgie, he with his own work, told me,
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would report all little blackmails will be a FBI could have done something,
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locked him up. Let's yes, the plants for Resto seven are already on
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microfilm. Yeah, and have the operation. Now this surgeon. Can you
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trust him? He's high in the privacy that no recommendation, So are you,
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Georgie. I will not allow you to so, George, are told
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you know why I'm doing this. Join us to try to stop a war.
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Whether I'm right or wrong. You'll do things my way or not at
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all. Of course, your gee, there is no need for the temper
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of the angle. Get your surgeon to come to the house tonight if you
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can. Unless you get out of America. In forty eight, hours,
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you won't get out at all. What's this operation involved? It is of
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the most simplicity. The micro fun plans are pleased in the several plastic capsule
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inside my body. The capsule is secreted. There is no danger, but
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there is also none of the ridiculous disaccustoms. One cannot, after all,
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declare an appendicitis. When will you be able to travel in four days?
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Two days? No? Look, the link of the American eagle may not
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be as bad tempered as the Russian there, but if you ruffle it steads
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once too off and he'll claw your guts out and throw them in your face.
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The eagles mad now, so don't take any chances. It's got to
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be two days. Today is Sunday. Now on Tuesday night you'll take off
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the real once and real you can make your own plans for getting to Paris
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and then to eat. For it will be I will feeling the pain from
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the walking, will just be a big brave communist, and you will manage.
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I'm going to give New York a little demonstration of Expo seven a couple
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of hours after you take off. You'll kill a few thousand people, but
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the rest will stop and think now, get that purgeon over here to open
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up your flat belly. Sometimes I wonder, Georgie, if we are playing.
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Don't wonder anymore? When not? Please, no hard word coming e
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the chat ship I made it myself with. Why come in Tomoto? I
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didn't expect you back this morning. I have just been to talk to Bradley's
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housecatting it did and the link of a lot. Yeah, I just says
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to your less thank you. Alexisterday Linco born eighteen ninety nine, Magnicocurt Crusher,
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f Russians married Gypsian. What actor I should have known, Captain Jake.
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I want three men to God Badley's house on Street twenty four hour the
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day beginning this moment, mind telling me why. Let's say it is a
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suspicion of the audient of mine that you were born brought up in San Francisco.
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You're as American as I am. But don't try being Eastern mysterious.
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Not with me. The bloodness of the oak is more to be admired than
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the sharpness of the sickle. Meaning I'm down. No, no, my
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friend, not at all. I want God and Bradley's house for two reasons.
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One I think he knows Carlton is dead. I made a remark to
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the effect that Carlton was being blackmailed. Bradley picked me up on the tent
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is being blackmailed, he said, since the Carlton murder has been kept absolutely
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secret, how would doctor Bradley know. Let's sex? What's the other eable
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schutty? Again? Please? Cabbage soup? Cabbage soup. When cabbage soup
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is made with for turn, it becomes shut. It is practically a national
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dish where that Lenkoff was born. Magneto Gosk is famous for it, like
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a circu for hop dog. I smell chutchy in doctor Bradley's house. I
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suspect that Sergea Lenkoff will be arriving soon for luncheon. And if he does,
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I rest him on what are the suspicion of murder? Anything else?
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Detain anyone entering or leaving the Bradley house. Bring them down here for question,
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including Bradley. No, no, let him go, and come as
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he pleases. Right that all, you will be so kind Captain Gates as
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to report to me at my apartment tomorrow at noon. Come in, yet
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the door is unlocked. Well here, I am right on the dot and
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noon sunctuality, Captain is the virtue of the stung. Now what about this
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surgeon, Well, he went to Bradley's hearts last night. He was in
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the almost two hours. We picked him up when he left. He seems
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to be on the level. Bradley has migraine headache. Indeed, the funny
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thing is the surgeon guy wants to go to jail. Why I don't know.
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At first he refused to come down for questioning. My man got a
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little insistent. The surgeon took a swing at him, so we booked an
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off for assault and resisting a police officer in the line of duty. He
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doesn't want bail, he says. He arranged for bail Wednesday morning. Wednesday
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morning, Yeah, I wonder why search me, Captain date a man who
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will not fight injustice. He's hiding gookes could be badly. Went out this
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morning at eight o'clock, came back in the quarter of eleven carrying a large
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fact. You did not lift him, he said, not to. You
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were right. Now, I must do some stinking. I would almost trade
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the honor of my ancestors to know what he's going on in Bladley's house at
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this moment, John, when he was stub working on that see shot a
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blank on. Sometimes I think you have the insanity, think what you're like.
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But why don't they know about the count murder at the foundation? You
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go down this morning, you bring home this, this, this machine of
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hell, and no one says, say is nothing. I invented it?
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Remember there, read plug it in and switch it up. When you stop.
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I have the agony, say will never heal enough of travel Tomorrow night
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they want the seven steachers. I tell you why, you will be all
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right? Nor crazy? Crazy? No, no, I'm not. We'll
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kill several thousand people with this machine tomorrow night, but I'm not crazy.
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I'll be shot. I like that you did, maybe even link. But
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I'll teach the world a lesson. It will it will never forget anyway.
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You don't need to worry. You'll be on a plane halfway to reel.
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Who is it? Hey, let me in quick. This case is crazy
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crazy. The linkoff came out of Bradley's hoss an hour ago. He must
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have been there all the time. I followed him to Laguardi, nabbed him
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on the Air France reservation, dead he pulled a gun on me, and
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I thought him, he's thinking me sick thinking of him. My sister done
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near Wood. He had some sort of operation. We got an ambulance,
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came back to town of the East River Drive. When we passed seventy fifth
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three where Bradley's hosses the linkoff went nuts, started babbling about a machine.
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EXO something go on, go on? Ali died right why in the ambulance.
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He died of fighting. I'm a food I am an idiot, son
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of a something. You will rid me at once to buy this house.
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Listen, mister more no, no, I do will listen. EXO seven
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a day weapon, the deadliest weapon man has a unknown it's the name of
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ten thousand heavens. Don't stand there gaping at me. We haven't a moment
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to lose. This must go. I will go in alone to Bradley's house.
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You, in the meantime, will follow certain directions to the letter.
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Am I to understand with the motor that you have deliberately walked into the mouth
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of the dragon. Yes? Why, because I know what you are going
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to do. Don't move. Exo seven is rather flexible. It can be
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made as directional as a searchlight. The messon beam is pointed straight at your
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body. All I have to do is flick this switch, and to get
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out of the way you would have to move with the speed of light.
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I have no intention of moving, Doctor Pradick, you mystify me. Mister
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Morton, you ring my door bell? An announced with that inscrutable oriental calm
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that you want to watch the test. How did you know there was to
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be a test. If you don't keep your hands on your knees where I
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can see them, I'll kill you. You don't seem to understand what this
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is. This is EXO seven, small portable simple. This is the filament.
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Radium heavy hydrogen in the cathode is in this tube here and then BEEP
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is very weak, but it can split the hydrogen atom. Why do you
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keep looking at your watch? Are the police waiting outside? Do you think
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they can rush in with guns and stop me? I realize now that they
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cannot, and relax. But keep your hands on your knees. The multiple
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tube is now pointing straight down through missus Henley's apartment. It takes a moment
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to warm up exactly in my head, exactly in the name of heaven,
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mister Moto on a human beings prayed with my invisible methon beam. The water
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and the body is broken up a proton and the hydrogen atom is shot three
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of its nucleus. The water on the body becomes arcrogen and hydrogen atom.
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You evaporate, you shrivel, you dry up. You become a shriveled,
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hard, dry, little calcium doll about three feet long. Hey, this
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way the dream of inventors for centuries. I will give it to America.
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The linkop has taken it to Russia tonight as a lesson, I shall exterminate
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a few thousand people, everyone within the radius of a mile, to be
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precise, and break them steals and no protection. Twenty feet of lead is
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the only thing that will stop it. Poor missus Hanley, Honey, she
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sleeps directly under where I am standing. She was a rather nice woman.
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Fatty, I am one needs to be brought home to us. Here for
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a few thousand die I have, millions will be saved. I think Russia
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will be afraid to start anything too sure was hot. Now I'm going to
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start moving it slowly from side to side. You'd better stand over that corner.
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The light the PA. Somebody turn up the PA. I must let
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you keep quite quite still, doctor Bradley. Well, mis Simoto had wrapped
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it up. Bradley will be tried for the murder of missus Hanley Andyll five.
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Just the same, Captain Lake. He had quite an idea, an
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idea you frustrated by obeying my instructions to have the Power Company cut off elect
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service to all of east side Manhattan. Bradley was nut no Captain Lake.
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He had an ideal, what perhaps but of some merit, And he really
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didn't give the secret of EXO seven to Russia thanks to us getting the link.
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No, Bradley couldn't really be a traitor who only wanted us to believe
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Russia had it, hoping our fear would make us more careful. I examined
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the micro film which the colon removed from the link of Fundy, which was
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l post. It was completely useful. You have just heard the world's greatest
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international detective philosopher fer mister I A Moto in a force called x O seven.
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James Monks started as mister Moto. The script was written and directed by
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Harry W. Junkan others in the cast where Peter Tapell, John Larkin,
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Gavin Gordon and Scott Tennyson. The music was transcribe. This is Fred Collins
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speaking, and here was the preview of next week's story. Is mister Moto,
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you see has written he who denounces fame has no sorrow. Next week
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a story that proves the words of the Sage, A story of fame and
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tragedy concerning a flight from Istanbul. And now may I wish you a good
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night, blessed with super conserate welcome back. A kind of odd episode.
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I have to admit that when I first listened to this, I was very
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uncertain about playing mister Moto on the show because it's borderline, you know,
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in terms of mystery detective value, and then you have such an odd first
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case with it, you know, almost a science fiction flair. But it
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definitely gives you some insight into some of the real concerns that people faced.
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You know, they were worried about all of these new weapons, all of
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these amazing ways we had invented to kill each other over the years, and
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what the future might hold. In some ways, this characterization and really reminded
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me a little bit more of Charlie Chan than it did of Peter Laurey's Mister
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Moto. But despite the philosophical element, some of the later episodes don't quite
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have the don't quite have the same sort of treatment. It becomes a little
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more subdued as the episodes go on. So I hope you enjoyed today's episode
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of Mister Moto. We'll be back with another one next week. And now
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we have some listener comments and feedback. Randa comments that this is her first
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time with our radio station listening and hope you enjoyed it. And I guess
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that that I'll do it for today. We will be back tomorrow we continue
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the Kronin Matter, and then we'll be back next Tuesday with another episode of
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