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

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  Speaker 1: William Johnstone as Lamont Cranston and Agnes Moorhead as Margot
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  Speaker 1: Lane lead this September 25th, 1938 broadcast of The Shadow.
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  Speaker 1: In episode 53, Traffic in Death, Dr. Randolph Lee turns
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  Speaker 1: to Cranston after six patients at Memorial Sanitarium die from
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  Speaker 1: unexplained hemorrhages within six days. Fearing murder yet unwilling to
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  Speaker 1: stir public scandal without proof, the physician brings Lamont and
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  Speaker 1: Margo into the institution's routine where a dangerous threat is concealed.
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  Speaker 1: Alonzo Dean Cole wrote this mutual broadcasting system drama, the
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  Speaker 1: first under Blue Cole's sponsorship. And now, we return to
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  Speaker 1: the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: The End What evil lurks in the hearts of men?
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  Speaker 2: The Shadow knows. The Shadow knows.
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  Speaker 3: Act one of the Shadow's Adventure will start in just
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  Speaker 3: a moment. But first, here's a safety hint for every motorist.
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  Speaker 3: Shake those skid jitters. Have your car equipped with the
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  Speaker 3: new Goodrich Safety Silvertown tire. This remarkable tire brings you
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  Speaker 3: something entirely new in tire safety. The Lifesaver Tread that
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  Speaker 3: automatically sweeps wet roads dry. So dry that you can
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  Speaker 3: light a match on the track it leads. Isn't that
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  Speaker 3: convincing proof that these new good, rich silver towns will
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  Speaker 3: give you the quickest non-skid stop you've ever had? For
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  Speaker 3: safety tomorrow, get silver towns today. The Shadow Lamont Cranston,
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  Speaker 3: a man of wealth, a student of science, and a
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  Speaker 3: master of other people's minds, devotes his life to righting wrongs,
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  Speaker 3: protecting the innocent, and punishing the guilty. Using advanced methods
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  Speaker 3: that may ultimately become available to all law enforcement agencies,
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  Speaker 3: Cranston is known to the underworld as the Shadow.
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  Speaker 4: Never seen, only heard.
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  Speaker 3: As haunting to superstitious minds as a ghost. As inevitable
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  Speaker 3: as a guilty conscience. Today's story, Traffic in Death.
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  Speaker 4: Where is my son? He was completely recovered. You are
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  Speaker 4: going to let him out of the sanitarium today. What's happened?
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  Speaker 5: According to the reports, he suffered a relapse in the
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  Speaker 5: night and died. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 6: Dead?
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  Speaker 7: Dead?
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  Speaker 8: But how? Why?
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  Speaker 9: Why?
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  Speaker 8: Why?
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  Speaker 10: Jim.
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  Speaker 6: Jim, answer me.
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  Speaker 11: Why is he so pale, so quiet?
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  Speaker 5: Your husband suffered a relapse after a severe hemorrhage, Mrs.
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  Speaker 4: Case. I'm sorry. He is dead.
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  Speaker 8: Dead?
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  Speaker 11: No, he can't be dead.
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  Speaker 7: He was to go home today.
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  Speaker 2: How did it happen?
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  Speaker 12: Why did you let it happen?
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 6: Last night, I leave my wife, Maria, here.
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  Speaker 10: In the sanitarium.
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  Speaker 11: They say she's getting better.
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  Speaker 7: Now you try to tell me she's dead.
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  Speaker 11: Dead.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Tony, but here's the report. Relapse after hemorrhage.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 2: You sent for me, Dr.
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  Speaker 7: Lee?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 13: As chief laboratory scientist, what do you know about these
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  Speaker 13: hemorrhage cases?
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  Speaker 7: Six dead in six days.
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  Speaker 4: No more than you, Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Lee. They're unfortunate, but.
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  Speaker 13: I believe there's far more to it than that. I
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  Speaker 13: believe it's murder.
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  Speaker 4: Murder?
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  Speaker 2: Have you any proof? No.
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  Speaker 7: Not positive proof.
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  Speaker 13: And I don't want to notify the police and involve
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  Speaker 13: the sanitarium in a scandal until I'm sure.
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  Speaker 5: What are you going to do about it, Dr.
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  Speaker 11: Lee?
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  Speaker 4: Do.
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  Speaker 13: I've already telegraphed an old friend of mine, Lamont Cranston.
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  Speaker 13: He's flying down from Maine, and he'll get to the
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  Speaker 13: bottom of this.
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  Speaker 7: I'll stake my life on it.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, Dr.
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  Speaker 14: Lee.
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  Speaker 9: I believe you would stake even your life for the
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  Speaker 9: honor of this sanitarium you have made so great.
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  Speaker 5: Even your life.
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  Speaker 7: The traffic's heavy tonight, Margo. Say, why so quiet? Regretting
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  Speaker 7: the end of your summer vacation in Maine?
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  Speaker 15: No, I'm remembering all the things I forgot to pack
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  Speaker 15: in our wild rush to catch the plane from Portland.
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  Speaker 7: I'm sorry, Margo. You could have stayed, but I had
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  Speaker 7: to come.
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  Speaker 15: Lamont Cranston, who needs the protection of the shadow this time?
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  Speaker 15: Who sent you that telegram?
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  Speaker 7: That telegram was from a man who once saved, although
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  Speaker 7: he doesn't know it. The life of the shadow.
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  Speaker 15: Anyone I know?
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  Speaker 2: You've met him.
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  Speaker 6: Dr.
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  Speaker 7: Randolph Lee, chief of staff of the Memorial Sanitarium.
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  Speaker 2: Dr.
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  Speaker 4: Lee?
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  Speaker 15: He's one of the greatest surgeons in the country.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: He's the one who removed that bullet nestling close to
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  Speaker 7: my spine.
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  Speaker 15: Oh, I'll never forget that.
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  Speaker 7: I thought you were going to die.
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  Speaker 15: But what's wrong with Dr.
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  Speaker 5: Lee?
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  Speaker 7: Now it's his turn, Margo. He thinks he's going to die.
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  Speaker 15: But Lamont, a famous man like Dr.
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  Speaker 7: Lee, who would want to kill him?
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 7: That's what I hope to find out. Well, here's the sanitarium.
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  Speaker 7: Come along. I'll explain on the way up to his office.
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  Speaker 7: He's waiting. Here, let me help you out of the car.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks, Lamont. He isn't afraid of being murdered.
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  Speaker 15: Not in a big sanitarium like this with his staff
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  Speaker 15: all around him.
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  Speaker 7: Caesar was murdered while surrounded by his staff, Margot. Oh,
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  Speaker 7: then Dr.
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  Speaker 15: Lee's afraid of one of his associates. So that's why
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  Speaker 15: he hasn't called in the police.
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  Speaker 7: Exactly. He hasn't enough proof to arrest the man. And
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  Speaker 7: he doesn't want the sanitarium involved in a public scandal.
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  Speaker 7: But there's more to it than that. This way, Margot.
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  Speaker 15: What else is there?
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  Speaker 2: Murder.
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  Speaker 7: Wholesale murder. Wait a minute, Margo.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, nurse.
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  Speaker 11: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 7: I'd like to see Dr.
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  Speaker 6: Lee.
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  Speaker 7: He's expecting me.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, you're Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Cranston.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 16: Dr.
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  Speaker 15: Lee left orders that you were to go right up
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  Speaker 15: to his office in his private elevator. Will you step
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  Speaker 15: in here, please?
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  Speaker 7: Thank you, nurse.
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  Speaker 2: After you, Margo.
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  Speaker 15: My, a private elevator. Just press the button marked Dr.
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  Speaker 16: Lee, Mr.
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  Speaker 9: Cranston.
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  Speaker 15: It will take you directly to his office.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you, nurse. We'll manage.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 15: Lamont, you say Dr. Lee suspects someone of wholesale murder,
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  Speaker 15: but there hasn't been a word in the paper.
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  Speaker 7: Death's not an unusual occurrence in a big sanitarium, Margo.
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  Speaker 7: And there are many more ways of killing than with
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  Speaker 7: a gun or a club.
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  Speaker 15: Well, were these people killed in some unusual way?
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  Speaker 7: They died of anemia, acute anemia, because every ounce of
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  Speaker 7: their blood was drained from their bodies.
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  Speaker 15: Oh, I never heard of such a thing.
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  Speaker 4: Does Dr.
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  Speaker 15: Lee suspect someone in the sanitarium?
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  Speaker 7: He didn't want to say over the phone. That's why
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  Speaker 7: he begged me to hurry here when I called him
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  Speaker 7: from the airport. I'm afraid Lee's in danger if the
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  Speaker 7: killer suspects he's onto him.
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  Speaker 4: Here we are, Lamont.
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  Speaker 7: All right, Mark. Well, hello, Dr.
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  Speaker 16: Lee.
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  Speaker 7: I came as quickly as I could.
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  Speaker 4: Lamont. Dr.
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  Speaker 10: Lee.
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  Speaker 7: What is it, man?
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  Speaker 4: Are you ill?
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  Speaker 2: Lamont, look. Look at his face.
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  Speaker 7: Margot, get a glass of water. That's a canter there. No,
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  Speaker 7: wait a minute. Never mind. It's no use.
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  Speaker 11: He's... Dead?
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  Speaker 2: Are you sure?
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  Speaker 4: Positive.
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  Speaker 15: But there's no sign of violence.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, there is, Margo.
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  Speaker 2: Look here.
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  Speaker 7: He's been stabbed in the back with a surgical knife.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Lamont, how ghastly.
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  Speaker 15: A great man like Dr.
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  Speaker 4: Lee murdered.
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  Speaker 7: I was afraid of something like this. Margo, we've got
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  Speaker 7: to be careful. This killer is desperate. He'll stop at
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  Speaker 7: nothing to cover up his crimes. He's murdered one of
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  Speaker 7: the greatest men of medicine, and I've got... The automatic
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  Speaker 7: elevator is going down. Let it go. Someone else has
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  Speaker 7: called it down and they may be coming up here.
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  Speaker 7: Let's wait and see. The man who murdered him knows
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  Speaker 7: we're here. And he may do something that will make
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  Speaker 7: our jobs easier.
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  Speaker 15: The elevator stopped.
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  Speaker 4: Lamont, the police will have to be notified.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, but I have a hunch that Commissioner Weston and
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  Speaker 7: his homicide squad... are going to need help to crack
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  Speaker 7: this case.
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  Speaker 15: The elevator's coming back up.
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  Speaker 7: Get away from there, Ma. Stand behind the curtains there.
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  Speaker 2: Keep out of sight.
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  Speaker 15: What are you going to do, Lamont?
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  Speaker 7: That depends on who steps out of that elevator... Margo,
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  Speaker 7: get behind those curtains, please.
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  Speaker 15: The elevator's almost here.
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  Speaker 4: Be careful, Lamar.
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  Speaker 7: Keep out of sight, Margo. It's just possible Lee's killer
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  Speaker 7: may be returning to cover up his crime. Dr.
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  Speaker 16: Lee.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I beg your pardon, Doctor.
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  Speaker 4: I thought you were alone.
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  Speaker 11: Did Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Lee send for you?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir. I'm hardly in charge of the laboratory.
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  Speaker 9: Why?
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  Speaker 4: What's wrong?
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  Speaker 2: Dr.
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  Speaker 9: Lee.
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  Speaker 4: Dr.
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  Speaker 9: Lee.
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  Speaker 4: He... He's dead. Who are you?
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  Speaker 2: What are you doing here?
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  Speaker 4: How did this happen?
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  Speaker 7: How did what happen?
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  Speaker 4: I beg your pardon, sir. I only meant... Well, he
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  Speaker 4: was in perfect health less than an hour ago. I
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  Speaker 4: couldn't help thinking.
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  Speaker 7: A surgical knife can save a life or end it
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  Speaker 7: in an instant. Look in his back.
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  Speaker 2: Knifed?
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  Speaker 4: Who are you?
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  Speaker 13: What are you doing here?
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  Speaker 7: I am Lamont Cranston, a friend of Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Lee's.
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  Speaker 7: I talked to him on the phone an hour ago.
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  Speaker 7: I arrived a few minutes ago and found him dead.
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  Speaker 11: Why?
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  Speaker 4: Haven't you notified the police?
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  Speaker 7: How do you know I haven't, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Hardwick?
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  Speaker 4: Just how long have you been here?
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  Speaker 7: Not long enough to have killed Dr. Lee, as your
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  Speaker 7: cross-examination seems to infer.
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 4: Let's see what the police think.
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  Speaker 11: Hello?
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  Speaker 4: Hello, operator? Get me police headquarters, quick.
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  Speaker 9: Cranston, Dr.
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  Speaker 4: Lee has been dead less than five minutes. And I
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  Speaker 4: find you here alone with him.
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  Speaker 15: Not quite alone, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Hardwick.
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  Speaker 4: Who is this woman? Why was she hiding?
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  Speaker 7: This young lady is Miss Lane, Mr. Hardwick.
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  Speaker 4: Hello. Hello.
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  Speaker 7: Hurry up that call, operator.
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  Speaker 4: Police headquarters? This is Mr. Hardwick of the Memorial Sanitarium.
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  Speaker 3: Dr.
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  Speaker 9: Randolph Lee, chief of staff, has been murdered in his
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  Speaker 9: private office. I... I found a man named Cranston and
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  Speaker 9: a girl alone in the room with the body.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: I'll see they don't leave before your men arrive.
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  Speaker 7: Very well done, Hardwick.
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  Speaker 4: The police will get the truth out of you when
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  Speaker 4: they get here.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, Hardwick. The truth will out. And when it does,
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  Speaker 7: someone will hang for this.
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  Speaker 8: Get outside, Sergeant.
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  Speaker 14: Well, Cranston, the story of the nurse who sent you
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  Speaker 14: up here to Dr. Lee's private office, along with the
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  Speaker 14: coroner's report on the time of the death, completely clears
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  Speaker 14: you and Miss Lane of any suspicion.
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  Speaker 15: Thank you, Commissioner Weston.
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  Speaker 7: Thanks, Commissioner.
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  Speaker 9: Your car's arrived from headquarters, Commissioner Weston. You can go
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  Speaker 9: down the hall and pick the main elevator if you like.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, Hardwick.
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  Speaker 2: I will.
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  Speaker 14: I'm not much on these elevators you run by yourself. Hey, Cranston,
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  Speaker 14: drop into headquarters tomorrow, will you? I'd like to get
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  Speaker 14: a transcript of what Dr. Lee told you when you
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  Speaker 14: called him from the airport. It might give us a lead.
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  Speaker 7: I'll be glad to, Commissioner.
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  Speaker 14: Good.
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  Speaker 2: Goodbye, Miss Lane.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry we had to take him. I didn't mind.
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  Speaker 15: Goodbye, Commissioner.
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  Speaker 7: Well, Hardwick, are you convinced of our innocence?
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  Speaker 5: I'm terribly sorry to have been so hasty in my accusations, Cranston.
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  Speaker 4: And you, Miss Lane?
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  Speaker 15: Think nothing of it.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, Cranston, just what did Dr. Lee tell
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  Speaker 4: you over the phone?
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  Speaker 5: If there are any clues, I might be able to help.
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  Speaker 7: That's just what I've been thinking, Hardwick. You're in charge
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  Speaker 7: of the sanitarium lab, I understand. Why, yes.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I am.
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  Speaker 7: Do you conduct any experiments in line of duty or
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  Speaker 7: on your own?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, no, no. My duties are routine.
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  Speaker 7: Then I don't suppose you know that at least six
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  Speaker 7: patients have died in the sanitarium within the past month.
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  Speaker 4: Yes. What is this to do with Dr. Lee's death?
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  Speaker 7: That's what I'm hoping you'll tell me, Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Hardwick.
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  Speaker 4: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 7: Hardwick... You know and I know that six patients have
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  Speaker 7: died in the sanitarium because every ounce of blood had
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  Speaker 7: been drained from their bodies. Yet in all cases, their
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  Speaker 7: deaths were ascribed to natural causes. Oh.
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  Speaker 4: So you know. You've known all along.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: Dr. Lee told me over the phone.
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  Speaker 4: Why didn't you tell Commissioner Weston?
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  Speaker 7: Because there are two pieces of the puzzle still missing.
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  Speaker 7: The criminal and the motive.
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  Speaker 4: I see.
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  Speaker 5: Well, if you will wait here, I may have something
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  Speaker 5: in my laboratory.
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  Speaker 4: That will complete the picture for you. I'll take Lee's
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  Speaker 4: private elevator back home.
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  Speaker 7: We'll wait here.
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  Speaker 15: Lamont, you act as if you suspect Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Hardwick.
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  Speaker 7: I do, Margot. Then why did you let him leave?
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  Speaker 7: If he's guilty, he'll run away. No, Margot. If he's guilty,
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  Speaker 7: he'll come back and try to kill us for the
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  Speaker 7: same reason Dr. Lee was murdered. We know too much.
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  Speaker 4: What are you going to do?
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  Speaker 15: Call Commissioner Weston?
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  Speaker 7: No, Margot. Weston is only concerned with Dr. Lee's death.
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  Speaker 7: I want to know how those six helpless patients died
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  Speaker 7: and why. I think the time has come for the
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  Speaker 7: shadow to take a hand.
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  Speaker 4: Can I help, Lamont?
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: If you're game to stay here and wait until Hardwick
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  Speaker 7: comes back. Of course I will. Tell Hardwick I had
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  Speaker 7: to leave. Tell him I'll be back in ten minutes.
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  Speaker 7: What will I say to Hardwick? Lead him on, Margot.
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  Speaker 7: Make him think we have proof of his guilt. If
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  Speaker 7: he is guilty, he'll hang himself with a rope of words.
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  Speaker 4: Where are you going, Lamont?
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  Speaker 7: Nowhere, Margot.
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  Speaker 9: Nowhere.
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  Speaker 7: Nowhere. Just into the shadows. In the shadows.
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  Speaker 3: That rings down the curtain on Act One of The
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  Speaker 3: Shadow's latest adventure.
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  Speaker 4: As usual, this.
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  Speaker 3: Program carries a warning to all who oppose the forces
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  Speaker 6: play safe.
• 14:53
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• 14:58
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  Speaker 3: you need against dangerous high-speed blowouts. When you buy Silvertowns,
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: you're really getting two tires in one at no extra cost.
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: So replace your present worn tires with Goodrich, spelled Goodrich. G-O-O-D-R-I-C-H.
• 15:52
  Speaker 11: Goodrich. Safety, Silvertown.
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: Well, I have but.
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: There's Cranston, Miss Lane.
• 16:16
  Speaker 15: He had to leave the sanitarium, but he'll be back
• 16:18
  Speaker 15: in ten minutes, Mr.
• 16:18
  Speaker 9: Hodges.
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: Why did he leave? What is he doing?
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: You're lying. He's gone to notify the police.
• 16:22
  Speaker 15: Why should he notify the police?
• 16:24
  Speaker 9: Because....
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: I see.
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: Trying to trick me into talking, eh? Well, you don't
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: have to do.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: That, Miss Lane. I'll tell you.
• 16:33
  Speaker 9: I'll tell you anything you want to know.
• 16:35
  Speaker 15: Then why was Dr. Lee murdered?
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: Because he found out about those falsified death reports.
• 16:39
  Speaker 15: Why was every ounce of blood drained out of the
• 16:41
  Speaker 15: bodies of.
• 16:41
  Speaker 11: Those poor people?
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: Because blood is valuable.
• 16:44
  Speaker 9: This sanitarium buys thousands of dollars worth of blood for transfusion.
• 16:48
  Speaker 9: We stock it up, all types. We keep it in
• 16:51
  Speaker 9: a special refrigerator we call a blood bank. You want
• 16:54
  Speaker 9: to know anything else, Miss Lane?
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: In other words, Dr.
• 16:57
  Speaker 15: Lee caught someone killing helpless men and women for their
• 16:59
  Speaker 15: blood to sell to the sanitarium.
• 17:00
  Speaker 9: Is that it?
• 17:01
  Speaker 16: Yes.
• 17:02
  Speaker 9: That is the motive your friend Cranston was hunting.
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: Money.
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: Blood money.
• 17:07
  Speaker 15: You seem to know everything, Mr.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: Hardwick.
• 17:09
  Speaker 15: Perhaps you know who robbed those people of their blood.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: Who murdered Dr.
• 17:12
  Speaker 16: Lee?
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: Of course, Miss Lane. I am in charge of the
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: blood bank.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: I needed money.
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: I falsified the death certificates. I murdered Lee.
• 17:22
  Speaker 15: Why are you telling me all this?
• 17:23
  Speaker 9: Because, as any psychologist will tell you, a criminal cannot
• 17:28
  Speaker 9: resist boasting.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: And it is quite safe to boast to.
• 17:33
  Speaker 9: Someone who is not going to live long enough to
• 17:35
  Speaker 9: tell you.
• 17:36
  Speaker 15: What good will it do you to kill me? Lamont
• 17:38
  Speaker 15: Cranston will be back in a few minutes.
• 17:40
  Speaker 9: And when he does come back, I will boast to him.
• 17:42
  Speaker 9: Satisfy his meddling curiosity as I've satisfied yours.
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: And then kill him in the same way I killed
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: the others. And you.
• 17:49
  Speaker 15: You can't get away with it.
• 17:50
  Speaker 9: In our basement morgue, the unidentified dead come.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: From the emergency ward.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: Two more bodies.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: Yours and Mr. Cranston's will go to the morgue unnoticed.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: There's no use backing away, Miss Lane.
• 18:03
  Speaker 15: And you call yourself a scientist. You're no scientist.
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: You're a butcher.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: It is useless to scream.
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: This office is soundproof, isolated.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: How convenient for you, Mr.
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: Hartman.
• 18:10
  Speaker 9: You keep looking around as if expecting help, but don't bother.
• 18:14
  Speaker 9: I'm going to take you out of here before your
• 18:16
  Speaker 9: friend Cranston returns. Then I will come back and deal
• 18:18
  Speaker 9: with him.
• 18:19
  Speaker 15: You're not taking me anywhere.
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: I wonder what type of blood you have. Don't worry.
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: There'll be no pain.
• 18:25
  Speaker 9: The anesthetic will take care of that. Now, you might
• 18:27
  Speaker 9: as well resign yourself to fate, Miss Lane. No one
• 18:30
  Speaker 9: is going to come out of space and save you.
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: Such things have been known to happen, Mr.
• 18:38
  Speaker 7: Hardwick.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: What was that?
• 18:39
  Speaker 10: Resign yourself to fate, Hardwick. You are convicted by yourself,
• 18:45
  Speaker 10: by your boasting.
• 18:46
  Speaker 7: Your ego has.
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: Condemned you to death. Death for the murder of seven
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: men and women.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: That voice.
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: Where is it coming from? Wait, Hardwick.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Listen to me. I am more than a voice. I
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: am in this very room.
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: Close to you.
• 19:01
  Speaker 10: Watching you draw that revolver you left the room to get.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Haven't you had enough killing?
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: Behind those curtains, eh?
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: Well, come out.
• 19:08
  Speaker 12: Come out quick or I'll shoot.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: A revolver is a crude weapon.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: We'll see.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Now, perhaps you will believe, Hardwick. Who are you?
• 19:22
  Speaker 7: Where are you?
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Wait, Hardwick.
• 19:24
  Speaker 10: Surely your scientific studies have made you aware of the
• 19:26
  Speaker 10: powers of hypnosis. whereby a man might render himself unseen.
• 19:32
  Speaker 10: A science practiced by a man known to the criminal
• 19:34
  Speaker 10: world as.
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: The Shadow.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: The Shadow. Yes, Hardwick. I am the Shadow.
• 19:42
  Speaker 10: You have defiled man's noblest profession. You have brought death
• 19:46
  Speaker 10: with the skill meant to save life.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: You have.
• 19:49
  Speaker 10: struck like a human vampire in this great sanitarium, this
• 19:52
  Speaker 10: sanctuary of the sick.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: And you are going to pay for it with death.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: If I could only see you.
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: No man living has ever seen the Shadow.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: So you think you'll save this girl?
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: Threaten me. Turn me over to the police, eh?
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Well, not this time.
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: Let go of her.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: Don't come near me, Shadow, or I'll kill Miss Lane
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: here and now.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Help me, Shadow.
• 20:10
  Speaker 7: Help me.
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: I can't.
• 20:11
  Speaker 16: He'll shoot you.
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: That's right, Mr.
• 20:12
  Speaker 16: Shadow.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: I'll shoot her.
• 20:13
  Speaker 12: Get in that elevator, Miss Lane.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Shadow.
• 20:17
  Speaker 12: Shadow, do you hear me?
• 20:19
  Speaker 11: Get me out of this elevator.
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: What have you done to her?
• 20:23
  Speaker 12: Listen to me, Shadow. You can't follow me. There are
• 20:26
  Speaker 12: a thousand rooms in this sanitarium. You have one chance
• 20:29
  Speaker 12: in a thousand of fighting this girl before I'm finished
• 20:31
  Speaker 12: with her. If you notify the police before I have
• 20:34
  Speaker 12: a chance to get.
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: Away, no one will ever find her again.
• 20:37
  Speaker 12: Do you hear me? Do you understand?
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Yes, you fiend, I hear you.
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: I understand.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: But if you harm Miss Lane, I'll track you to
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: the ends of the earth. Now, Miss Lane, I am ready.
• 21:03
  Speaker 9: Do not let the bubbling sound unnerve you. Just my
• 21:08
  Speaker 9: special blood transfusion machine.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: Lamont.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Lamont.
• 21:13
  Speaker 9: It will do you no good to struggle against the
• 21:15
  Speaker 9: anesthetic that only.
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: Brings unconsciousness quicker.
• 21:18
  Speaker 16: Lamont.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Breathe deep, Miss Lane. Deep.
• 21:23
  Speaker 9: You can dream that your friend Lamont Cranston has come
• 21:26
  Speaker 9: to help you. And the shadow, you can dream of
• 21:30
  Speaker 9: him too. But neither of them will ever find this
• 21:33
  Speaker 9: laboratory here in the cellar so close to the morgue.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: And I'll get them both before I'm through.
• 21:39
  Speaker 7: And then no one will know and I can go
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: on and on.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: Come on.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: You are a benefactor to humanity, Miss Lane. A blood donor.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: Come to a pool.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Now I'll confirm.
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: One chance in a thousand. Hardwick means to kill Margo,
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: whether I search for her or not.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: A thousand rooms. She went down. But the whole sanitarium
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: is down. Wards, labs, operating rooms, corridors.
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: Down.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: I must find her. I must.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: How are you today, Mary?
• 22:15
  Speaker 11: Oh, just fine, Jack.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: The nurses are going to let me leave the sanitarium tomorrow.
• 22:19
  Speaker 15: Jack, look.
• 22:20
  Speaker 11: What is it, Mary?
• 22:21
  Speaker 15: Oh, that door.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: It just opened and closed, but there was no one there.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: Oh, now, Mary, control yourself.
• 22:27
  Speaker 11: You've had a bad time.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: You just imagined it, dear.
• 22:29
  Speaker 11: Oh, no, no.
• 22:29
  Speaker 15: I saw it open and close.
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: I saw the door handle pan, but there was no
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: one there.
• 22:35
  Speaker 8: It's no use.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: One chance in a thousand. I've got to try something else.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Something else.
• 22:42
  Speaker 8: Jack?
• 22:45
  Speaker 14: How about another game before we go on duty, Bill?
• 22:47
  Speaker 9: No, I gotta be gone.
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: Operation and surgery. Everybody's on edge since Lee was murdered.
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: Say, I wonder why Hardwick spends so much time in
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: the old storerooms next to the morgue.
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: He's fixed it up as an experimental lab. I wonder
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: what made me think of Hardwick.
• 23:05
  Speaker 9: It was almost as if someone were asking me where
• 23:08
  Speaker 9: to find him.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: The lab.
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: Near the morgue.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: Lamont.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: Lamont. The anesthetic is taking effect, Miss Lane.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: In a moment, everything will be ready. Lamont.
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: You would do me a favor bringing Cranston here.
• 23:42
  Speaker 9: It would save me the trouble of going up after him.
• 23:45
  Speaker 9: I don't relish that, but it's his life or mine.
• 23:47
  Speaker 9: Lee told him too much.
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: And the shadow.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: What I would give to have him here on the
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: operating table.
• 23:55
  Speaker 9: I wonder if he could keep in the shadows if
• 23:57
  Speaker 9: I drained his lifeblood away.
• 23:58
  Speaker 10: You'll never know, Hardwick.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: You?
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: So you found me.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: I warned you.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: I warned you not to follow me. I'll kill Miss Lane.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: That's what you're trying to do.
• 24:11
  Speaker 9: Come on.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Come on. You are real flesh and blood. Unfortunately for you, yes.
• 24:18
  Speaker 10: Come on.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Come on. Yes, Margo.
• 24:25
  Speaker 7: Thank heavens I found you in time.
• 24:26
  Speaker 11: Audrey.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Where is he?
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: I knocked him out.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Lie still.
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: I'll get help. But the shadow.
• 24:32
  Speaker 15: We'll put two and two together. Whitson will guess you're
• 24:35
  Speaker 15: the shadow. Hartwig will tell him about the shadow.
• 24:37
  Speaker 7: We must risk it. You've got to have medical attention.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: No, I'll be all right. Just the understanding. Come on.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Come on, look out.
• 24:44
  Speaker 15: Hardwick's getting up.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: So you're the shadow, are you, Cranston?
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: Well, here's where I kill two birds with one shot. Gone.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: I missed you.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: Gone back into the shadows.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Again, have you? Yes. And this time you won't escape. Yes,
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: I will, Shadow.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: They'll never take me. No one can do what I
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: tell you.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: You're insane, Hardwick.
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: Oh, no, Shadow.
• 25:03
  Speaker 12: I know what's in store for me.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: You won't get me.
• 25:06
  Speaker 9: They'll never hang me.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Never! A coward to the very end.
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: You have paid for your crimes against a profession which
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: conferred upon you.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: the mantle of honor.
• 25:26
  Speaker 10: Against a great sanitarium and a great man of medicine...
• 25:29
  Speaker 10: who trusted and befriended you. Against helpless humanity... You were
• 25:35
  Speaker 10: trained to save, not kill. You have paid for this
• 25:40
  Speaker 10: final cowardice. And you will go on paying.
• 25:46
  Speaker 15: Shadow, he's dead.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Yes, dead. And may heaven have mercy on his soul.
• 26:05
  Speaker 14: Well, Cranston, I hope this will teach you and Miss
• 26:07
  Speaker 14: Lane not to keep things from the police. If you'd
• 26:10
  Speaker 14: told me about your phone conversation with Dr. Lee, this
• 26:12
  Speaker 14: wouldn't have happened.
• 26:13
  Speaker 15: But, Commissioner Weston, Hardwick might have escaped before you could
• 26:16
  Speaker 15: find proof enough to arrest him.
• 26:18
  Speaker 11: Nonsense, Miss Lane.
• 26:19
  Speaker 14: I suspected him all the time.
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: Well, Commissioner, this is one case where you didn't need
• 26:24
  Speaker 7: the help of the Shadow.
• 26:25
  Speaker 14: The Shadow? He wouldn't have cracked this case in a
• 26:29
  Speaker 14: month of Sundays. He's just another amateur criminologist like you, Cranston.
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: I shouldn't be at all surprised.
• 26:37
  Speaker 8: THE END.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: Today's program is based on a story copyrighted by the
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: Shadow Magazine. All the characters and all the places named
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: are fictitious. Any similarity to persons living or dead is
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: purely coincidental. The Shadow Magazine is now on sale at
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: your local newsstand.
• 28:59
  Speaker 6: Let no man tempt you into crime, for crime is
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: like a strangling serpent. It crushes him who feeds it most. Beware,
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: lest the serpent of crime ensnare you in his fold. Remember,
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: crime does not pay. The Shadow knows.
• 29:30
  Speaker 16: Oh, Lord.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: This concludes The Shadow's Traffic in Death. Follow The Shadow
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