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Broadway Is My Beat - "The Celia Jordan Murder Case" (1950) · Old Time Mystery Radio | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: In a sweltering Broadway summer, Detective Danny Clover is called
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: to Celia Jordan's ransacked apartment where bloodstains accompany her disappearance.
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: On July 24, 1950, CBS presented episode 44 of Broadway
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: is My Beat, the Celia Jordan murder case. Larry Thor
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  Speaker 1: stars as Clover, with Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia.
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: Morton Fine and David Friedkin wrote the script, and Elliot
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: Lewis produced and directed. Clover's inquiries bring him to former
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: date Cliff Moore and businessman Paul Chelsea as the case
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: moves from Jordan's apartment toward the Amsterdam hotel. Ladies and gentlemen,
• 0:45
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• 1:08
  Speaker 3: Broadway's My Beat, from Times Square to Columbus Circle, the gaudiest,
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  Speaker 3: the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world. Broadway's
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  Speaker 3: My Beat, the thrilling drama of murder and mystery and
• 1:28
  Speaker 3: the people who walk the Great White Way, with Larry
• 1:31
  Speaker 3: Thor as Detective Danny Clover. To make every day more enjoyable,
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• 2:00
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• 2:20
  Speaker 3: In the summer's heat, Broadway is a wasteland, sullen, a
• 2:24
  Speaker 3: place of regret. It's a time when the breeze puffs
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  Speaker 3: in from the river, dies suddenly before it touches your
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  Speaker 3: dampened cheek. The time when you wake up already exhausted,
• 2:32
  Speaker 3: then pause before your office door and consider arson. Broadway
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  Speaker 3: fans itself with a newspaper and finds fascination watching a
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  Speaker 3: fat fly crawl against a sweating window. Broadway is a
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  Speaker 3: place of regret. The thing to do is give up,
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  Speaker 3: except you've got a job, except you've got to pay
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  Speaker 3: the rent, pick up the check, buy the beer, leave
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  Speaker 3: the tip, meet the installment. July or not, you've got
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  Speaker 3: to make a living, kid. For my part, I would
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  Speaker 3: rather have been at Jones Beach, but I wasn't. The
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  Speaker 3: apartment was expensive. But something had gone wrong. The upended furniture,
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  Speaker 3: the torn drapes, the slick paintings abstracted into crazy angles
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  Speaker 3: against the wall, the empty liquor bottles. The place was
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  Speaker 3: a mess, which included the man who nagged at me.
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  Speaker 4: You've been doing nothing but walk around. Say something to me,
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  Speaker 4: so I'll know you're working.
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  Speaker 3: I'm working, Mr. Chelsea. I walk around and observe and
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  Speaker 3: jot little things down in this little book, and that's
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  Speaker 3: what I get paid for.
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  Speaker 4: You don't care, do you? What do you care if
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  Speaker 4: someone's been killed, slashed to death?
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  Speaker 3: Show me a body, and I'll help you weep.
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  Speaker 4: If you'd only listen to me. Stop walking around and
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  Speaker 4: hear what I've got to say.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Go ahead, Mr. Chelsea.
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  Speaker 4: Something's happened to Celia.
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  Speaker 3: Celia Jordan. That's the name, isn't it? So I'll know.
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  Speaker 4: Why don't you pay attention? Look at those spots over there. Blood.
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  Speaker 4: I'd say they were blood.
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  Speaker 3: Drunks have a habit of getting themselves nicked. I can
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  Speaker 3: show you statistics.
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  Speaker 4: Something's happened to Celia.
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  Speaker 3: Mr. Chelsea, why are you here? What are you doing
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  Speaker 3: in this apartment? I asked you that ten minutes ago,
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  Speaker 3: and you told me something's happened to Celia. What are
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  Speaker 3: you doing here?
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  Speaker 4: I had a date with her tonight. I have one
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  Speaker 4: with her almost every night.
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  Speaker 3: I see. Is this Miss Jordan's photograph? She's young, about 22,
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  Speaker 3: I'd say. But then I'm not very good on guessing ages.
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  Speaker 3: For instance, I'd say you were about 53.
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  Speaker 4: 51.
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  Speaker 3: You see what I mean? I'm not very good about ages.
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  Speaker 4: Something's happening.
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  Speaker 3: Don't do that again, Mr. Chelsea.
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  Speaker 4: Well, something has. And I know why, too.
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  Speaker 3: Now I'll listen to you.
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  Speaker 4: I've known Celia for three years. Met her at a
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  Speaker 4: banquet for my corporation stockholders. She was there because, well,
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  Speaker 4: if you must know, well, she was in a cake.
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  Speaker 3: You met her in a cake, Mr. Chelsea?
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  Speaker 4: Well, well, I pulled the ribbon that was attached to
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  Speaker 4: this big cake on the table and Celia popped out.
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  Speaker 3: That sometimes happens.
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  Speaker 4: And it was just about this time that Cliff went away.
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  Speaker 3: Cliff?
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  Speaker 4: Cliff Moore. A boy that Celia used to know. He
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  Speaker 4: was in the army. Went overseas with the occupation forces.
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  Speaker 4: Three years ago.
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  Speaker 3: I see. And you took over.
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  Speaker 4: Cliff is back now. Celia told me. She said she
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  Speaker 4: saw Cliff on the street and he recognized her. But
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  Speaker 4: she didn't recognize him. Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Why?
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  Speaker 4: She found out Cliff was discharged for mental reasons. Something
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  Speaker 4: about he was hurt on maneuvers.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: You're trying to say that this cliff.
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  Speaker 4: That this cliff has done harm to Celia. That's what
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  Speaker 4: I'm trying to say.
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  Speaker 2: What about those bloodstains?
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  Speaker 4: What do you think I'm saying?
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  Speaker 3: It could have been nothing, or it could have been
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  Speaker 3: what the man said, a violence, unknown, unshaped, born and
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  Speaker 3: nurtured in the December love of the man for a woman.
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  Speaker 3: And finally the violence assuming its pattern and its texture.
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  Speaker 3: The room torn in anger. The room empty of the woman.
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  Speaker 3: The room stained with blood. And the policeman has to
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  Speaker 3: make sure. He calls the men from technical and they
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  Speaker 3: come with their scales and their rules and the sharp
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  Speaker 3: little knives. And they scrape and measure and weigh. The
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  Speaker 3: blood is human blood. Does it equal death? And that's
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  Speaker 3: an equation a policeman has to solve. At the hotel
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  Speaker 3: where Cliff Moore lived, they told me he'd checked out. No,
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  Speaker 3: he hadn't left a forwarding address. And that meant an
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  Speaker 3: all-points bulletin on Cliff Moore and Celia Jordan. And in
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  Speaker 3: a few hours, a call from Detective Mugovan. A bartender
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  Speaker 3: on 3rd Avenue had recognized a picture of Celia Jordan.
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  Speaker 3: Would I care to come down and check? I cared.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, Danny.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Muggerman, which one recognized the picture?
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  Speaker 6: Charlie over there. Hey, Charlie. Another set's coming up, Detective Muggerman.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 5: No, Charlie.
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  Speaker 7: Just you.
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  Speaker 4: No more beer.
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  Speaker 8: What'll it be, Detective Muggerman?
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  Speaker 6: This is Danny Clover, Charlie, the detective handling the case
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  Speaker 6: I was telling you about.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Charlie.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I'm glad to know you, Danny.
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  Speaker 3: Muggerman tells me you recognize Celia Jordan's picture. Was she
• 7:05
  Speaker 3: in here?
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  Speaker 4: Well, no, she was that.
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  Speaker 9: And not alone.
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  Speaker 8: With a man. And while she might be, she's that pretty.
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  Speaker 3: When was that?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, yesterday, toward the cool of the evening. In the
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  Speaker 8: twilight cocktail hour, they sat at that marble-topped table with
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  Speaker 8: the romantic crack in its surface.
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  Speaker 3: What time did they leave?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, around eight.
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  Speaker 6: I'd say.
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  Speaker 8: They were hungry, went off to eat.
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  Speaker 3: How do you know?
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  Speaker 8: The girl was so pretty, I kept hovering around the table.
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  Speaker 8: That way, willy-nilly, I was forced to eavesdrop.
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  Speaker 3: Were you forced to hear where they went?
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  Speaker 5: I was indeed.
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  Speaker 8: To Matthew's, the steakhouse on Second Avenue it was.
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  Speaker 3: You waited on this girl? Hmm.
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  Speaker 10: I'm certain of it.
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  Speaker 6: Of course, yes.
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  Speaker 3: Was she with anyone?
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  Speaker 10: She was. A young man.
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  Speaker 6: A nervous, temperamental type, I'd classify him. The way he
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  Speaker 6: handled his eating tools.
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  Speaker 10: The way he addressed himself to his food.
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  Speaker 6: All symptoms of.
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  Speaker 3: How long were they here?
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  Speaker 6: A modest time. They ate neither too quickly to a
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  Speaker 6: new story. Rather rare in these times.
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  Speaker 3: How long?
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  Speaker 10: An hour and a half, an hour and forty minutes.
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  Speaker 10: What does it matter, one way or another?
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  Speaker 3: They left here around ten o'clock.
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  Speaker 6: Hmm, around ten o'clock.
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  Speaker 3: Did you.
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  Speaker 10: Permit me to anticipate your question, friend.
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  Speaker 3: They left by cab. Yellow cab.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: I picked them up at a steak joint on 2nd.
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  Speaker 8: What's the matter?
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  Speaker 9: They committed something?
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  Speaker 3: Where'd you take them?
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  Speaker 5: To the girl's apartment on 63rd.
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  Speaker 6: Man tells me to wait.
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  Speaker 9: I wait.
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  Speaker 3: An hour, an hour and a half, two hours.
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  Speaker 6: My meter is a boom with money.
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  Speaker 5: Donnie comes and spoils it all.
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  Speaker 3: Alone?
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  Speaker 9: All alone.
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  Speaker 2: I gather that they, uh.
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  Speaker 4: What does it.
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  Speaker 6: Matter what I get?
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  Speaker 8: Anyway, I take the guy to the address he gives me.
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  Speaker 3: Where?
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  Speaker 6: The Suffolk Hotel on 71st.
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  Speaker 10: He committed something?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, come on in. Well, don't stand there.
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  Speaker 10: Come on in.
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  Speaker 3: You're Cliff Moore? I'll close the door and sit down,
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  Speaker 3: will you? We've been looking for you, Cliff. Now, that's
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  Speaker 3: mighty nice. The police.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, I know what. The census taker missed me.
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  Speaker 3: You know why we've been looking for you?
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  Speaker 9: Gosh.
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  Speaker 6: Huh?
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  Speaker 10: I don't know you well enough, so I said gosh.
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  Speaker 10: That's because my cigarette just rolled off the table.
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  Speaker 3: Step on it now. Thanks.
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  Speaker 10: You were looking for me.
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  Speaker 9: Why?
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  Speaker 3: Because of Senior Jordan.
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  Speaker 10: She's coming back to me on bended knee, and she's
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  Speaker 10: rousted the whole police department to find me. Good, sweet
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  Speaker 10: four squares, Celia.
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  Speaker 3: She's missing, Cliff. We found bloodstains in her apartment.
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  Speaker 10: That guy, that Paul Chelsea beat her up? Oh, I'll
• 9:54
  Speaker 10: bet she had fun.
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  Speaker 3: Cliff, we know you were with Celia last night. We
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  Speaker 3: know you took her home, spent some time in her apartment. Swell, swell.
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  Speaker 3: What happened between you and her yesterday?
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  Speaker 10: Walked and talked and sipped a few and had a steak.
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  Speaker 10: You know, boy and girl, hand in hand. The things
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  Speaker 10: magazine ads are made of.
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  Speaker 3: What happened in her apartment?
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  Speaker 10: Oh, sad time. She had a smile all rehearsed to
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  Speaker 10: drag out for the occasion. You're a nice boy, Cliff,
• 10:17
  Speaker 10: and we did have fun, but you're broke. The best
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  Speaker 10: you can expect is 50 a week if you're your
• 10:21
  Speaker 10: type of successful. Anyway, Cliff, there's the thing. She didn't
• 10:26
  Speaker 10: know how to say it, so she called it the thing.
• 10:28
  Speaker 10: She said it in capital letters.
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  Speaker 3: About what? I got a medical discharge.
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  Speaker 10: From the army because... Well, because I'm a nervous boy.
• 10:35
  Speaker 10: Post-war Germany made me nervous. Also, a live landmine during maneuvers.
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  Speaker 3: What else?
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  Speaker 10: I don't know. So you can't find Celia, huh?
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  Speaker 3: No, we can't.
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  Speaker 10: When you find her, let me know if she needs
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  Speaker 10: any help.
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  Speaker 3: Sure. Don't run away, Cliff.
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  Speaker 10: You kidding? I sit here and run away all the time.
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  Speaker 10: Because I'm a nervous boy.
• 11:06
  Speaker 5: Look what I got on the tray, Danny. Nice surprise, huh?
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  Speaker 4: Huh?
• 11:12
  Speaker 5: Come on. Sit down, Danny, and I will cater to you.
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  Speaker 3: In the name of.
• 11:15
  Speaker 5: Iced tea, Danny.
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  Speaker 9: Look.
• 11:17
  Speaker 11: Boiled hot water, courtesy the lab boys with their Bunsen burners.
• 11:20
  Speaker 11: Cubes of ice, courtesy the deft hand of Gino Tartaglia,
• 11:24
  Speaker 11: poor learning from a water cooler. Tea bags, courtesy Mrs. Tartaglia,
• 11:28
  Speaker 11: who is friendly with the friendly jeweled tea man. Glasses, courtesy.
• 11:31
  Speaker 3: Gino, Gino, what have I ever done?
• 11:34
  Speaker 11: Well, you have been considerate and kind to me, Danny.
• 11:37
  Speaker 11: So this is just a small token of the.
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  Speaker 5: Well, how do you want it? With or without lemon? With.
• 11:44
  Speaker 5: The best way to fight the heat. Hey, coming up, Danny.
• 11:48
  Speaker 7: Gino.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I know, I know.
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  Speaker 11: You want to know, is there any progress in the
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  Speaker 11: search for one Celia Jordan vanished? Possibly mayhem committed upon.
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  Speaker 11: Possibly deceased.
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  Speaker 5: Stop me if I'm wrong.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, go ahead.
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  Speaker 5: There is no progress. Anything else, Danny?
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  Speaker 3: No. No, I guess there's nothing else, Gino. Excuse me.
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  Speaker 5: Certainly.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. Danny Clover speaking.
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  Speaker 9: I understand you've been looking for me, Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Clover.
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  Speaker 3: Who is this?
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  Speaker 9: Celia Jordan.
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  Speaker 3: Are you all right?
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  Speaker 2: Not a mark on you, Mr.
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  Speaker 9: Clover, anywhere. Come see for yourself.
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  Speaker 2: You really should.
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  Speaker 9: It leaves your mind.
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  Speaker 3: But we thought... Where are you, Miss Jordan?
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  Speaker 9: At the Amsterdam Hotel, on 34th Street. Room 2412. I'll
• 12:30
  Speaker 9: be ready for you. You see... You see, Mr.
• 12:44
  Speaker 6: Colerun.
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  Speaker 9: Perfectly all right. My arms, my legs, my throat. I
• 12:52
  Speaker 9: wore this sun suit especially for you. So you could
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  Speaker 9: see I was all right.
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  Speaker 5: All over I'm all right.
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  Speaker 3: Miss Jordan.
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  Speaker 9: Except inside.
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  Speaker 3: Since I called you, it's funny.
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  Speaker 9: Inside it doesn't feel so good. Inside it hurts.
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  Speaker 3: Here, let me help you. Lie down.
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  Speaker 9: Here.
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  Speaker 3: On this couch.
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  Speaker 8: Thanks.
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  Speaker 9: You know something is.
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  Speaker 3: Don't talk. I'll go get a doctor.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 8: Don't go.
• 13:24
  Speaker 9: It really hurts. It hurts bad. Don't go.
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  Speaker 6: Help me.
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  Speaker 3: Even after death touched her, whispered to her eyes, pleaded
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: with me. The attitude of her body was a beggar's,
• 13:39
  Speaker 3: contorted in pain, twisted in longing, grotesque with despair. And
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: suddenly she could no longer reject it. And her body
• 13:50
  Speaker 3: eased with the acceptance. It was stilled because the poison
• 13:54
  Speaker 3: inside her was stilled. Its shadow on her lips and
• 13:57
  Speaker 3: her eyes. The violence that had been marked for Celia
• 14:01
  Speaker 3: Jordan was finally hers. Celia Jordan was dead.
• 14:21
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• 14:55
  Speaker 2: now continue with Broadway's My Beat, written by Morton Fine
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: and David Friedkin and starring Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: Summer begins its long dying and Broadway reacts to the
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: process about the same as anywhere else, with regret of
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: the smile and closed eyes. Except on Broadway, there'll be
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: more things to remember, huh, kid?
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: The evenings, just as twilight washed over you, and the
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: lights on the translux flicker like fireflies, and dance out
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: the dance of how it is to be at war
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: in the summertime. And the cool evening breeze from the
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: air-cooled movie, refreshing, till the newsreel sends out a cold wind,
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: and you shiver and move to another place. Because in summer,
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: a man needs something he can hold onto, something to
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: latch onto, like the murder of that girl there in
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: that hotel. in a sunsuit, poisoned, murdered, saying the last
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: word she ever said into the ears of a policeman.
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: And the next morning at headquarters, the policeman sits in
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  Speaker 3: his office, remembering her words, but finding in them no
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: trace of a murderer's name. Then a door opens, and
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: a voice that's welcome calls you.
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  Speaker 7: Danny?
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: And it's Dr. Sinsky.
• 16:10
  Speaker 6: Danny, this heat, this inferno can take the heart out.
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  Speaker 2: Of a man.
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: Well, sit over there by the window, Doctor. A pretty
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: girl might walk by and set a cool breeze in motion.
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  Speaker 6: Dreamer.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: That's no good, huh, Doctor? You can't put it off, huh?
• 16:26
  Speaker 6: No, Danny, that's why I'm here.
• 16:27
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 16:28
  Speaker 6: I wish it could be just a chat, but man
• 16:31
  Speaker 6: wishes and death... Ah, the report on Celia Jordan.
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  Speaker 3: Poisoned?
• 16:36
  Speaker 6: You were right, Danny, the girl was poisoned. What kind
• 16:39
  Speaker 6: doesn't matter much. What matters is that there was enough
• 16:41
  Speaker 6: to kill her. What pain must have been hers?
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: How long?
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: Poison that takes maybe three hours to act with five
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: minutes of terrible pain at the end.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: Anything else, doctor?
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  Speaker 6: He asked me to examine her for a cut or
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: a wound.
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: Well?
• 16:56
  Speaker 6: There was nothing, Danny. Her skin was not even scratched.
• 16:59
  Speaker 6: Not even the shadow of a bruise. This is important?
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because it might give me her murderer. Excuse me, doctor.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: Mugovan here. Danny, I want you to take a plant, Mugovan. Okay, Danny.
• 17:16
  Speaker 8: Where?
• 17:16
  Speaker 7: Who?
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: Sunfuck Hotel on 71st. Cliff Moore.
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: This Cliff Moore, he murdered the girl?
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: Maybe, but I don't think so.
• 17:31
  Speaker 9: Oh?
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: This is a day for riddles, huh, Danny?
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: No, doctor. This is a day where I get a choice.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: I get two suspects for the price of one.
• 17:38
  Speaker 9: Yes?
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: My name's Danny Clover. I'm from the police. Are you... Mrs.
• 17:55
  Speaker 9: Chelsea. You have the correct house?
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 17:58
  Speaker 9: Well, then please come in.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: Thank you. Mrs. Chelsea, I... Sit down, please. All right.
• 18:05
  Speaker 9: Yes?
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: I wanted to talk to your husband.
• 18:08
  Speaker 9: Oh, I'm afraid not. He's not home, you know.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: I stopped at his office. He wasn't there either.
• 18:14
  Speaker 9: No, of course not.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: Then where is he?
• 18:16
  Speaker 9: Oh, I'm afraid I couldn't tell you that. I really
• 18:19
  Speaker 9: don't know where he is. The bother of it is.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: Don't you care where he is? Paul?
• 18:24
  Speaker 9: My husband?
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: Oh, no.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: Mrs. Chelsea.
• 18:28
  Speaker 9: Is Paul in trouble?
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: Yes, he is.
• 18:31
  Speaker 9: I'll fix you a drink if you'd like.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: No, don't bother. It's in connection with a murder.
• 18:34
  Speaker 9: Yeah, the one in this morning's paper. Celia Jordan's.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: You know about her?
• 18:39
  Speaker 9: Paul doesn't think I do, but I know all about her. Unfortunate.
• 18:45
  Speaker 9: Some women never know why suddenly they come to hate
• 18:47
  Speaker 9: the men they used to love. They blame it on routine,
• 18:51
  Speaker 9: getting old, habit. So silly.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: And you hate your husband.
• 18:56
  Speaker 9: Because of Celia Jordan. Has he murdered her?
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: Maybe. Maybe someone else. We'll find out.
• 19:02
  Speaker 9: No, I wouldn't suspect anyone else if I were you.
• 19:04
  Speaker 9: That'd be stupid. Paul killed that girl.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: He told you he didn't?
• 19:09
  Speaker 9: As much as did that. I confess it. I listen
• 19:14
  Speaker 9: in on his telephone conversations. He thinks I eat chocolates
• 19:17
  Speaker 9: when I lie in bed. Oh, I knew, but I
• 19:20
  Speaker 9: listened to his conversations on the extensions. Not much fun,
• 19:24
  Speaker 9: but then it's not much effort either.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: What are you trying to tell me, Mrs. Chelsea?
• 19:27
  Speaker 9: That girl was blackmailing Paul.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 19:31
  Speaker 9: $ 50, 000.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: Was your husband going to pay it?
• 19:34
  Speaker 9: He said he'd meet her at the Amsterdam hotel, but
• 19:37
  Speaker 9: I know it wasn't to pay the money. Oh, my,
• 19:40
  Speaker 9: of course not. $ 50, 000, Paul?
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: And I guess he did commit murder, if what you
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: say is true.
• 19:47
  Speaker 9: Please understand me. I'm flying. I'm a henhead, I eat chocolate,
• 19:51
  Speaker 9: and I sleep most of the day. I'm a woman
• 19:54
  Speaker 9: in her late 40s, so I would lie. But not
• 19:58
  Speaker 9: to help Paul. Not Paul.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: Then you're glad your husband might be held for murder.
• 20:04
  Speaker 9: Well, I'll miss him. He's not coming home when he
• 20:07
  Speaker 9: usually does. Might throw my days off. It'll be an
• 20:11
  Speaker 9: effort to get used to it, but on the whole, Mr. Clover... Yes?
• 20:17
  Speaker 9: On the whole, I'm glad about it. Delighted. As a
• 20:20
  Speaker 9: matter of fact, nothing nicer's happened to me in a
• 20:22
  Speaker 9: long time. I'd like that drink, Mr. Clover, wouldn't you?
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: I said no thanks, which gave Mrs. Chelsea reason to
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: pop a fruit-filled nugget in her mouth. She didn't offer
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: me one of those, so I knew my time was up.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: I left. I checked Mugovan. Cliff Moore hadn't stirred, Mugovan
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: told me. Then to find Mr. Chelsea. Back to his office.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: Not in. Try his club. I tried his club. Not in.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: Try the bar around the corner. Not there. So I
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: went to a place without being told. The apartment where
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: I'd first met Mr. Chelsea. Why, I reasoned, shouldn't Mr.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: Chelsea be there again? For the sake of sweet old nostalgia.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: The door was open. I walked in. The place looked better. Neat.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: Everything in its place. The pictures. The furniture. Mr. Chelsea.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: I knew it was him because once I had noticed
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: he was getting bald. The pattern of it was the same.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: But Mr. Chelsea had been battered, beaten with a fury
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: that demanded a lot of pain get there before death did.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: The pain had made it. So had death. Now it
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: gave me a new place to go.
• 21:49
  Speaker 11: Here, Danny.
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: Here I am. The shade of this doorway.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: Cliffmore?
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: He's in his room and the hotel hasn't stood from him.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: What's the matter, Danny? You don't look good. Looks like
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: more than the heat. I just cut myself a murder.
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: Oh?
• 22:02
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: Paul Chelsea.
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: Well, that should make you look good.
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: Or anyway, better.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: Those bloodstains he showed me in Celia Jordan's room, they
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: were hairs from a cut under his arm. I saw it.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: I took the bandage off.
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: So why so gloomy?
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: You got him.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: He staged the whole thing, the room in a shambles,
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: the bloodstains on the floor. He figured killing was easier
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: than paying blackmail. But he made a mistake.
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: What's the matter with you, Danny? Of course he did.
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: So why.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Not that kind of mistake. He got himself beaten up.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: Beaten to death, but for sure, with an andiron. Cliff Moore?
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: I think so. Go back to headquarters, Muggerman. I won't
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: need you anymore.
• 22:35
  Speaker 9: The End.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Come in.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: Oh, it's you. You came back to me.
• 22:52
  Speaker 10: Isn't that interesting?
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: You are, Cliff.
• 22:54
  Speaker 10: Doctors find me so. Sometimes kids.
• 22:57
  Speaker 9: And women.
• 22:58
  Speaker 10: This I understand. But you. Now that throws me.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: You interest me because you're a murderer. Point of information.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: Who did I murder? Paul Chelsea. Oh, him.
• 23:11
  Speaker 10: So why did I murder him?
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: Simple motive. An old one. You loved Celia. You beat
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: Chelsea to death with andiron because he killed your Celia.
• 23:19
  Speaker 10: Every minute I learn new things. This Chelsea, Celia's good companion,
• 23:25
  Speaker 10: he killed her, huh?
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: I think so.
• 23:27
  Speaker 9: A puzzle.
• 23:28
  Speaker 10: Why did this old Mr. Chelsea murder something young and
• 23:31
  Speaker 10: precious and vibrant like they say, like Celia?
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: You can answer that all by yourself, can't you, Cliff? Yes,
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: I can.
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: He killed her because she was going to blackmail him.
• 23:43
  Speaker 7: Did you know this whole blackmail thing was all my idea?
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: Because I'm cynical and sick. The proud possessor of a
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: medical discharge.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Let's go, Cliff. Stop it, Cliff. I said let's go.
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: Go on and hit me. There's nothing I can do
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: to you, so hit me.
• 24:03
  Speaker 9: What?
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: Look at my hand, my arms.
• 24:06
  Speaker 10: I can't lift them no.
• 24:06
  Speaker 7: More than that.
• 24:08
  Speaker 10: That live mine I told you about, I fixed them
• 24:10
  Speaker 10: like that.
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: I can lift them maybe four inches.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: That's what makes me so interesting.
• 24:15
  Speaker 10: That's how I can take an and iron and beat
• 24:17
  Speaker 10: a man to death when I can't even open a
• 24:19
  Speaker 10: door or lift a cigarette off the floor without crawling
• 24:21
  Speaker 10: like an animal.
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: You call me a murderer?
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: Oh, thanks, Mr.
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: Clover.
• 24:50
  Speaker 9: Oh, my. And I was just dozing off, too. What now?
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: May I come in, Mrs. Chelsea?
• 24:55
  Speaker 9: Oh, and I was just dozing off, too.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: I have to talk to you.
• 24:58
  Speaker 9: Oh, please come in. Oh, I hope this won't take
• 25:03
  Speaker 9: too long. Sit down.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: No, I don't think so.
• 25:05
  Speaker 9: What now, Mr. Clover?
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: About Paul.
• 25:08
  Speaker 11: Oh, Paul.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: He's dead.
• 25:11
  Speaker 9: Oh, you're silly.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: He's dead, Mrs. Chelsea.
• 25:14
  Speaker 9: He is?
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: Paul?
• 25:16
  Speaker 9: What? Why, you're not kidding me. He really is, isn't he?
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: Uh-huh.
• 25:22
  Speaker 9: You better leave me alone, Mr. Clover. The things I
• 25:24
  Speaker 9: said about him, you won't believe me if I cry.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: No, I won't.
• 25:28
  Speaker 9: I don't blame you. Please, please go away. Who killed him?
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: You don't know?
• 25:36
  Speaker 9: Who killed Paul?
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: It was this way. Your husband murdered Celia Jordan.
• 25:40
  Speaker 9: I told you that.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: Because she demanded blackmail. Because she threatened to tell you
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: about what Paul had been doing.
• 25:45
  Speaker 9: And I knew about it all the time. Errors. A
• 25:49
  Speaker 9: comedy of errors. Tragedy.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: The blackmail was a scheme whipped up between Celia and
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: her boyfriend, Cliff Moore.
• 25:55
  Speaker 9: And this boy, this Cliff, he killed my husband.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: Why should Cliff do that?
• 25:59
  Speaker 9: Why? Oh, my. You ask me that? A police?
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I asked you.
• 26:05
  Speaker 9: Well, I think it's obvious, don't you? Paul kills his girl,
• 26:09
  Speaker 9: Cliff shoots my husband.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: I didn't say your husband was shot.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: Your husband was beaten to death.
• 26:14
  Speaker 9: Oh. Cliff beat him to death.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: You know, I've... come to know your husband, working on
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: this case, peeking into small corners of his life. He
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: was a man I can understand. I feel sorry for him.
• 26:27
  Speaker 9: Tell me how so I can feel sorry for him, too.
• 26:30
  Speaker 9: I suppose I owe that to Paul.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: The man is 50. He knows it, realizes that the
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: rest of his life has to be lived. Something he
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: wanted all his life and missed. Something like that passes
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: close to him. He clutches onto it.
• 26:43
  Speaker 9: I don't understand you at all.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: Something like a beautiful girl, a sympathetic girl.
• 26:48
  Speaker 9: Celia?
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: You can't really blame him now, can you, Mrs. Chelsea?
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: After all.
• 26:52
  Speaker 9: He had his own home. He had me. What's wrong
• 26:55
  Speaker 9: with me? Go ahead, tell me. I can take it.
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: What's wrong?
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: You couldn't hold your husband.
• 26:59
  Speaker 10: Why?
• 27:00
  Speaker 9: Why couldn't I hold him? Tell me why.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: Celia Jordan. Young, beautiful, warm. Her mind was lithe. Young.
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: You filth.
• 27:06
  Speaker 9: You like Paul.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: Was kind to Paul.
• 27:08
  Speaker 9: Filth!
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: Something he wanted all his life.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Filth!
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Something he didn't have with you.
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: Ah!
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: Why you killed him.
• 27:15
  Speaker 8: Beat him and beat him and beat him until he
• 27:18
  Speaker 8: was dead. He died too quickly. He wouldn't even give
• 27:22
  Speaker 8: me that satisfaction.
• 27:23
  Speaker 11: Valve!
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: Let's go, Mrs. Chelsea. when dawn touches broadway the shadows
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: linger for one final caress then leave and take away
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: the night the cloud drifts and far away a bird
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: dips and touches it with a wing the time has
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: come for the day the people wake the fury gathers
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: the crowd funnels into the streets walk easy kid the
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: shock is on it's broadway the gaudiest, the most violent,
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: the lonesomest mile in the world. Broadway, my beat.
• 28:40
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• 29:37
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• 29:41
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• 29:45
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• 29:50
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• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Broadway Is My Beat has concluded with the Celia Jordan
• 30:21
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