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The Shadow - "The Hospital Murders" (Old Time Radio) · The Shadow | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: On August 14th, 1938, the Shadows B.F. Goodrich Summer Series
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  Speaker 1: reached episode 133. The case before us is the hospital murders,
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  Speaker 1: with Orson Welles as Lamont Cranston and the Shadow, and
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  Speaker 1: Margo Stevenson as Margo Lane. In Cairo, patients are disappearing
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  Speaker 1: from Cairo General Hospital, and Cranston and Margo follow the
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  Speaker 1: mystery into the hospital's inner workings. The case also involves Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Kruger and Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Rawling.
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  Speaker 1: Arch Obler wrote the script. Ken Roberts announces, with Alan Devitt,
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  Speaker 1: Arthur Vinton, and Dwight Weist in the cast. And now,
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  Speaker 1: our story begins.
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  Speaker 3: Who knows what evil.
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  Speaker 4: lurks in the hearts of men.
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  Speaker 2: The shadow knows.
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  Speaker 5: Ladies and gentlemen, Before we join the shadow, let me
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  Speaker 5: ask you this. Do you realize that before Goodrich developed
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  Speaker 5: the amazing skid protection of its new Silvertown tire, they
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  Speaker 5: tested tread designs by the hundred for two long years.
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  Speaker 5: Endless testing, checking, and comparing. It was a battle of
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  Speaker 5: wits against wet roads, dry roads, and hairpin curves. Until finally,
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  Speaker 5: they developed a tread that will stop you quicker, safer
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  Speaker 5: on a wet pavement than you've ever stopped before. And
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  Speaker 5: that tread, motorist, is the lifesaver trick found only on
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  Speaker 5: the new Goodrich Silvertown. Its never-ending spiral bars act like
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  Speaker 5: a whole battery of windshield wipers. They sweep the water
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  Speaker 5: right and left, force it out through the deep drainage grooves,
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  Speaker 5: make a dry track for the rubber to grip. Yet remember,
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  Speaker 5: even though this new Goodrich Silvertown costs many thousands of
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  Speaker 5: dollars to design and build, even though it gives you
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  Speaker 5: the famous golden-ply blowout protection in the bargain... There is
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  Speaker 5: no extra cost.
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  Speaker 3: Play safe.
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  Speaker 5: Start riding on these life-saving, good, rich silver towns before
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  Speaker 5: it's too late. The Shadow Lamont Cranston, a man of wealth,
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  Speaker 5: a student of science, and a master of other people's minds,
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  Speaker 5: devotes his life to righting wrongs, protecting the innocent, and
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  Speaker 5: punishing the guilty. Cranston is known to the underworld as
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  Speaker 5: The Shadow. Never seen, only heard, his true identity is
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  Speaker 5: known only to his constant friend and aide, Margot Lane.
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  Speaker 5: Today's story, The Hospital Word of New York.
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  Speaker 6: But Lamont, what's it all about?
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  Speaker 3: Margot, my dear, yours not to reason why. Yours but
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  Speaker 3: to make those pretty feet of yours walk fast enough
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  Speaker 3: to keep up with me.
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  Speaker 6: But I thought this trip to Egypt was to be
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  Speaker 6: a vacation. No more wood. No more excitement.
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  Speaker 3: No more excitement for about two weeks, and you'll be
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  Speaker 3: having me cut out paper dollars. Here we are, Cairo
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  Speaker 3: General Hospital. Come on, watch these steps.
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  Speaker 6: Will you please tell me what it's all about?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I know. It's Dr. Rawlings from the hotel. He
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  Speaker 3: asked me to do it as fast as I could,
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  Speaker 3: so here we are.
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  Speaker 6: But who is Dr. Rawlings, and what's he got to
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  Speaker 6: do with you?
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  Speaker 7: Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Rawlings is in charge of this place, an old friend
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  Speaker 3: of the family. It's quiet even for a hospital, isn't it?
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  Speaker 6: I don't like it, Lamont.
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  Speaker 3: Wait out here for me, Margo. I'll call you if
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  Speaker 3: I want you.
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  Speaker 6: All right, Lamont.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Lamont. Lamont Cranston. Hello, Dr.
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  Speaker 8: Rowling.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, come in. Come in, do. Oh, I'm so glad
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  Speaker 3: to see you, my boy. What's it all about, doctor?
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  Speaker 9: Cranston, our families in America are friends. Perhaps you can
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  Speaker 9: help me. There's no one else here I can trust.
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  Speaker 9: I don't know where to turn.
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  Speaker 3: Wait a minute, doctor. Wait a minute. How can I
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  Speaker 3: help you when I don't know what it's all about?
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  Speaker 3: Why don't you calm down and tell me the story?
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  Speaker 3: That's where you left off when you phoned me this morning. Oh, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you everything. Cranston, three of my patients have disappeared. What? Yes,
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  Speaker 3: three of them in the last three days. Disappeared right
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  Speaker 3: out of the hospital. Why don't you go to your
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  Speaker 3: Cairo police? Oh, no, no.
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  Speaker 9: Not the police. The publicity would ruin the reputation of
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  Speaker 9: the hospital if this word got around. Cranston, can you
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  Speaker 9: help me?
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  Speaker 3: Now, doctor, tell me this. How do you know those
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  Speaker 3: patients didn't just walk out? Oh, they couldn't. They were bedridden.
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  Speaker 3: Every one of them.
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  Speaker 9: There's no doubt they were kidnapped out of their bed,
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  Speaker 9: and the devil only knows why.
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  Speaker 3: It is impossible. But it's true, I tell you. True, Cranston.
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  Speaker 3: And it's driving me crazy. I can't eat.
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  Speaker 9: I can't sleep. All I can see is those empty beds.
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  Speaker 9: You're clever, Cranston. Perhaps you can help us. We can
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  Speaker 9: trust you, Mr. Kruger and I.
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  Speaker 3: We've both agreed on that. Mr. Kruger? Who's Kruger?
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  Speaker 9: The head of our board of trustees. He and I. Well,
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  Speaker 9: we've kept this horrible thing that's been happening from getting
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  Speaker 9: into the newspaper.
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  Speaker 3: When did the first patient disappear? Three days ago. Then
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  Speaker 3: another disappeared, and another.
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  Speaker 9: Cranston, you've got to help us stop this terror before
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  Speaker 9: someone important disappears.
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  Speaker 3: In other words, the three patients who have disappeared up
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  Speaker 3: to date weren't very important, is that it? No, no,
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  Speaker 3: just natives. Who were they?
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  Speaker 9: Well, the first was an Egyptian beggar boy with a
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  Speaker 9: broken leg. He had a fractured leg.
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  Speaker 3: Never mind the diagnosis. Who disappeared next?
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  Speaker 9: An old woman from the bazaar, broken hip. I tell you,
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  Speaker 9: she couldn't have moved a step without help.
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  Speaker 3: The third? Last night, a Sengalese in one of the
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  Speaker 3: French boats... What was wrong with him? Fractured shoulder. In
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  Speaker 3: other words, none of the patients were constitutionally ill. Oh, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: They had no disease, if that's what you mean. And
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  Speaker 3: what have you done to prevent any more such disappearances?
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  Speaker 3: You posted guards? Oh, yes, yes, indeed.
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  Speaker 9: All over the hospital. But I tell you, Cranston, I'm afraid. Now,
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  Speaker 9: I'm not a superstitious man, but I swear to you
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  Speaker 9: there's something supernatural about all this. Something not of this world.
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  Speaker 3: Strange. We're for the doctor to talk, Rowling. But it
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  Speaker 3: must have been something supernatural. They disappeared. Just disappeared. Three
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  Speaker 3: living people. Take it easy, doctor. Gone, I tell you.
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  Speaker 3: Gone into thin air. And I'm responsible, Cranston. I tell you,
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  Speaker 3: if another one disappears... Now, what is... Come on, quickly. Well,
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  Speaker 3: what is it?
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  Speaker 7: It's happened again, doctor.
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  Speaker 2: Again.
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  Speaker 3: The girl in room 11. She disappeared.
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  Speaker 7: Hurry, doctor.
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  Speaker 8: Hurry.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, the girl is gone. The girl gone. Kidnapped.
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  Speaker 9: You see for yourself, Cranston, the bed's empty. And when
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  Speaker 9: this gets out, we're ruined. My 20 years' work here
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  Speaker 9: gone for nothing.
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  Speaker 3: Ruined, ruined. Dr. Royce, for heaven's sake, pull yourself together.
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  Speaker 3: Can't sell anything with hysteria. Who's the patient in this room?
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  Speaker 3: What is the name?
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  Speaker 9: Now, you didn't believe me when I told you it
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  Speaker 9: was something supernatural.
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  Speaker 3: But now you'll have to believe me. You will. It'll
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  Speaker 3: get them all, all our patients.
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  Speaker 6: They'll all die.
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  Speaker 3: Doctor, stop that. They'll close up the hospital and they'll
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  Speaker 3: blame me, me. Stop it, I tell you. No one's
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  Speaker 3: blaming you yet. Who is this patient? Another native? No, no.
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  Speaker 9: That's what makes it so horrible. This patient was the
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  Speaker 9: 16-year-old daughter of the French consul.
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  Speaker 3: A young girl?
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 9: A guard below the window, a guard in front of
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  Speaker 9: the door, and yet she's gone, gone.
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  Speaker 3: It's the end of everything, I tell you. It's the
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  Speaker 3: end of everything. What is this, Doctor? What's going on here? Mr. Kruger, look. Look,
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  Speaker 3: it's happened again. The council's daughter gone. How impossible. She's gone,
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  Speaker 3: I tell you.
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  Speaker 7: Gone, gone.
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  Speaker 3: Look for yourself. Heaven help us. A few men will
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  Speaker 3: take my advice. You're calling your local police. Eh? Who
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  Speaker 3: are you? Lamont Cranston's name. Oh, yes, yes, Mr. Kruger.
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  Speaker 3: It's Lamont Cranston, my friend from America. Make him help us, Mr. Kruger.
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  Speaker 3: Make him. Control yourself, doctor. There may be a very
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  Speaker 3: simple explanation for these disappearances. Yes, a very simple, rational
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  Speaker 3: explanation that we... Doctor. Yes? Kruger. Open this window quickly. Well,
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  Speaker 3: what is it, Constance? What did you see out of
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  Speaker 3: the window?
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  Speaker 7: Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Kruger just said there may be a simple and harmless
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  Speaker 3: explanation for all these disappearances. Yes, yes, absolutely. Then look
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  Speaker 3: out there on the fire escape. Kruger, look. It's the orderly.
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  Speaker 9: The orderly we put out there to guard the room.
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  Speaker 7: He's dead.
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  Speaker 3: He's dead.
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  Speaker 6: And we'll all die.
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  Speaker 7: We'll all die.
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  Speaker 3: It's raining. It's cold. Yes, it's hot. He's had trouble
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  Speaker 3: with it. All this excitement. But is he... Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 3: he'll be all right. Just needs quiet. Let me help
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  Speaker 3: you lift him onto this. Oh, thank you. Here, just
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  Speaker 3: right over here. Thank you very much. I'll ring for
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  Speaker 3: an intern. Anything else I can do, Mr. Kruger? Oh,
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  Speaker 3: I don't think so. Thank you. Dr. Rawlings must have
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  Speaker 3: expert attention immediately. Then perhaps it'll be better if I
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  Speaker 3: leave you. Yes, Mr. Cranston. I see Dr. Rawlings again.
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  Speaker 3: He's a coven. All right, Mr. Cranston. Don't worry about him.
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  Speaker 3: He'll be all right. Goodbye, Cranston. I hope so. Goodbye, Mr. Kruger. Goodbye.
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  Speaker 8: Margot.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, Lamont.
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  Speaker 3: Four people have disappeared. A guard has been murdered with
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  Speaker 3: a six-inch knife in his throat.
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  Speaker 11: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Margot, it seems another mystery challenges my attention as the shadow.
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  Speaker 10: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Slow up, Margot. There's the hospital up ahead.
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  Speaker 6: Lamont, are you sure your scheme will work?
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  Speaker 3: I know it's a dangerous undertaking. Especially for you.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, but we agreed that there was no other way
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  Speaker 6: in which to find out how all these people disappeared
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  Speaker 6: from the hospital.
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  Speaker 3: I know, Margot. The shadow has got to be doubly watchful.
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  Speaker 6: I have every faith in you, Lamont.
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  Speaker 3: I hope it isn't misplaced this time.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I'm not worried about that.
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  Speaker 3: Stop here, Margot.
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  Speaker 6: All right, Lamont.
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  Speaker 3: Now, remember what I told you. Head straight for that
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  Speaker 3: lamppost in front of the hospital.
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  Speaker 6: I know.
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  Speaker 3: Cut your wheel so you'll sideswipe the fender. It'll make
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  Speaker 3: noise enough to bring the emergency squad out of the place.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, but they'll see I'm not hurt right away.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, no, they won't. It's not over the steering wheel.
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  Speaker 3: I see you cracked your head on the windshield and
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  Speaker 3: called it a concussion.
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  Speaker 6: I hope you're right.
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  Speaker 3: If I'm wrong, then you won't get a free bed
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  Speaker 3: tonight and a chance to act as decoy for one
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  Speaker 3: of those body snatchers. Well, see you in the hospital.
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  Speaker 3: That's where I leave you. Good luck and be careful.
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  Speaker 3: You don't know what we're getting into.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks, Lamont. I'll be careful.
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  Speaker 12: It's the woman.
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  Speaker 2: She's dead. Doctor, here comes the doctor. Let me through,
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  Speaker 2: let me through, let me through.
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  Speaker 7: She's now cold.
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  Speaker 10: Sure is lucky, crashing in front of a hospital doctor.
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  Speaker 7: Is she dead?
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  Speaker 3: No, I don't think so.
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  Speaker 10: Jim, hurry, get a stretcher. Okay, Doctor.
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  Speaker 3: We've got to get this girl to the hospital right away.
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  Speaker 6: Well, here I am, an inmate of Cairo General Hospital.
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  Speaker 6: Your plan certainly worked, Lamont.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, almost too well. Are you sure you're all right, Margot?
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  Speaker 3: I saw you crash the car into the lamppost. I
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  Speaker 3: was afraid you'd overdone the accident and hurt yourself.
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  Speaker 6: It did shake me up a bit, but I'm all
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  Speaker 6: right now.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: The wind's very strong tonight, isn't it?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, it's welcome. This bed's inclined to be warm.
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  Speaker 3: The wind from the desert and those body snatchers are
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  Speaker 3: quite welcome to come in that window, aren't they?
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  Speaker 6: Do you really think someone will come in here after me?
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  Speaker 3: Two others were kidnapped out of this room.
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  Speaker 11: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Nervous?
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  Speaker 6: A little. I guess it's not knowing just what will
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  Speaker 6: come through that window.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to leave you now.
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  Speaker 6: Must you?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I... Look around outside. Whoever intends to make you
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  Speaker 3: the fifth victim will meet the shadow victim.
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  Speaker 6: Wonder what time it is. Wonder if Lamont will come back.
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  Speaker 6: So dark. Like being buried alive in a tomb. Buried alive.
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  Speaker 6: Wonder what it would be like to wake up in
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  Speaker 6: a coffin. No, I mustn't think of such things. Why
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  Speaker 6: doesn't Lamont come back? I wonder if anything will happen.
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  Speaker 6: That Dr. Rowland said it would be something supernatural. It
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  Speaker 6: could be.
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  Speaker 2: Egypt.
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  Speaker 6: They say anything can happen here. I heard something.
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 8: No, it's quiet.
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  Speaker 6: Quiet as the inside of a tomb. Why do I
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  Speaker 6: keep thinking about tombs? Tomb. Egypt.
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  Speaker 7: Mummy.
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  Speaker 6: They do run together. The wind's gone. It's so quiet.
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  Speaker 6: Too quiet. What if that doctor was right? What if
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  Speaker 6: there were something from another world that was... I.
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  Speaker 7: Hear it.
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  Speaker 6: Something is coming toward me in the dark. Something coming
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  Speaker 6: toward me. Closer. What will it be? Man? Ghost? I've
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  Speaker 6: never been afraid. Won't be afraid now.
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  Speaker 3: Closer.
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  Speaker 6: Closer. Oh, Lamont, where are you?
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  Speaker 8: I can't scream. I... Something sweet. My head. That depressing,
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  Speaker 8: close to the mouth. It's not a ghost. Ghosts don't
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  Speaker 8: give chlorophyll.
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  Speaker 5: Ladies and gentlemen, before we continue with the shadow's exciting adventure,
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  Speaker 5: listen to this.
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  Speaker 3: Recognize it?
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  Speaker 5: That's the sound of a car as a desperate motorist
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  Speaker 5: is jammed on the brakes in an emergency.
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  Speaker 7: The shadow knows. When you have to stop in an emergency,
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  Speaker 7: you have to stop fast.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, my head.
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  Speaker 8: I can't breathe.
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  Speaker 6: What?
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  Speaker 8: Where? Chloroform.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, the chloroform. Where am I?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my arms.
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  Speaker 6: My legs. Strapped down on this table. Why is the
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  Speaker 6: light so bright? brought me here. I'll twist my head,
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  Speaker 6: try to see where.
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  Speaker 11: Ah!
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  Speaker 6: That table! A woman. A native woman.
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  Speaker 7: Dead.
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  Speaker 6: Her legs hacked off. Oh, Lamont, where are you? Someone coming.
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  Speaker 6: Now I'll know who. Coming closer. Whoever it is. Closer.
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  Speaker 6: I have to wait.
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  Speaker 11: You do not fool me, my friend. I know you
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  Speaker 11: are awake. Open your eyes.
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  Speaker 6: Who are you?
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  Speaker 2: You are afraid.
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  Speaker 6: Who are you?
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  Speaker 11: You would not know me.
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  Speaker 6: Surgical gown and a white mask. Why do you wear them?
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  Speaker 11: I must wear them. My work is very dangerous. Who
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  Speaker 11: are you?
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  Speaker 2: That does not matter.
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  Speaker 11: Only my work matters.
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  Speaker 7: My work.
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  Speaker 2: You will see. You will see.
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  Speaker 6: You, whoever you are, come back here. Come back here. No, no.
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  Speaker 2: Do not be impatient.
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  Speaker 11: I will show you my work.
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  Speaker 2: I will show you.
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  Speaker 6: An operating table? A black man strapped on.
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 11: Now you will see. Yes, now you will see my glory.
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  Speaker 6: Engle is off the French boat. You stole him from
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  Speaker 6: the hospital, too. But why? What are you going to
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  Speaker 6: do with him?
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  Speaker 2: You will see. Yes, you will see. You hear?
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  Speaker 4: The black one regains his senses. How unfortunate for him.
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  Speaker 6: Those knives. You madman. What are you going to do
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  Speaker 6: to him?
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  Speaker 2: Black legs, strong black legs.
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  Speaker 6: No, you wouldn't.
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  Speaker 2: But I will. Look at this.
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  Speaker 4: You see this bottle? Liquid in it is green. Beautiful green.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: Listen to it sing. What?
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: What is it?
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Listen to it.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, my beautiful liquid. Soon I will feed you
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: flesh to grow on flesh. You will not fail me,
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: will you, my beautiful?
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: What is it? What's in that bottle?
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, I will tell you why not. What harm
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: can you do to me strapped there? You see in
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: this bottle green liquid. I see in it an alchemy
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: of the flesh that will change the world. This, this
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: is the catalyst that grows flesh on flesh. And with
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: this I can graft human flesh to human flesh instantaneously.
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: No, it can't be done.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: I tell you it can instantaneously. His flesh to mine,
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: your flesh to mine.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Come on.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: I tell you, I can take his black leg and
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: graft it on in place of yours.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: I can take your leg and put it on me.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: And they won't laugh at me behind my back then.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: And they won't call me peg-legged and limpy.
• 19:33
  Speaker 11: Yes, I laugh at them. All of them. The whole sneering, sniveling.
• 19:38
  Speaker 8: Pack of them.
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: Listen, the black sailor awakens quickly. I have time only
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: for another word. I put flesh to flesh, an amputated
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: leg to a raw bleed.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Stump.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: Then an injection of my beautiful green liquid through the
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: bloodstream it erases. Flesh cells eagerly join the new flesh cells.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: In a moment, two moments, three moments, the miracle is done.
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: Old flesh has joined the new flesh.
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: You said you'd be here.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: To whom do you speak to me? I have no
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: time for words. My work.
• 20:09
  Speaker 11: Lying there.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: You will see the miracle. Yes, you will see.
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: No, come back here. Loosen these straps. Lamont, Lamont, where
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: are you?
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: Almost completely awake, eh, my black friend? Oh, such a pity.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: I cannot give you an anesthetic this time. But my
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: beautiful liquid will not work when the patient has been rubbed.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: White man, what do you do?
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: White man. What did you do?
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: Lamont, Lamont, where are you?
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: Hey, knife.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: What did you do with me? Your leg.
• 20:44
  Speaker 11: Your right leg, good, strong leg.
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: No, no, no, Lamont, no. Not my leg, no.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: Give me my knife.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: Shadow.
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: Drop that knife, Kruger.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Who spoke my name?
• 21:00
  Speaker 11: My mask, you ripped it off my face.
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: Oh, Kruger.
• 21:03
  Speaker 7: You, Kruger. The respectable Mr. Kruger, chairman of the board
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: of trustees of the hospital.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: I hear the voice. I see nowhere.
• 21:13
  Speaker 7: Loosen the straps around you, Margo.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: The straps around you, woman, they loosen how or why?
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: The answer to that is in your own ears, Kruger.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: That voice again.
• 21:21
  Speaker 7: The voice of a shadow. A shadow which asks one question.
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: Why have you murdered?
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: My right leg never any good. Kruger is my name.
• 21:29
  Speaker 11: But they've all had other names for me behind my back.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Limpy, they called me limpy and.
• 21:34
  Speaker 11: Peg-legged, but I'll show them.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: I'll show them all.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: My discovery will put a strong leg on my body soon,
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: and voices in the air won't stop me.
• 21:43
  Speaker 7: There's more than a voice now. Look straight ahead, Kruger.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Eyes.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: Two eyes glaring at me from midair.
• 21:52
  Speaker 7: See how the light glitters in these eyes. Look deep
• 21:57
  Speaker 7: in them, Kruger.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Eyes.
• 21:59
  Speaker 7: I tell you, you want to look in my eyes.
• 22:03
  Speaker 7: In them you see wonders. Wonders you never dreamed about. Look, Kruger.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: I don't see what.
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: See, see how the light glitters in those eyes. Look
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: deep in them, Kruger.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Deep in them.
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: They burn deep in your eyes, Kruger. Deep, deep.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Yes, deep.
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: Deep in your mind. And they take away your will, Kruger.
• 22:33
  Speaker 7: Take away your will.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 22:37
  Speaker 7: My will is your will, Kruger. My will, your will.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: No.
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: No.
• 22:43
  Speaker 7: No, I won't. I.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: I.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Work to do.
• 22:46
  Speaker 7: The work will wait, Kruger. You wanted to wait. All
• 22:49
  Speaker 7: you want to do now is look in my eyes.
• 22:52
  Speaker 7: My will. Your will. My will. Your will. I.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 22:59
  Speaker 7: Sleepy. You get very sleepy.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: Sleepy.
• 23:04
  Speaker 7: Your hand is sleepy.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: Hand is sleepy.
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: Your hand. It opens. It opens and lets the knife
• 23:10
  Speaker 7: fall to the floor. You hear me, Kruger?
• 23:13
  Speaker 8: Open.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: Open. Margot, you all right?
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: Yes, I'm all right. But the Negro.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Unconscious.
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: Kruger, what have you done with the other people you
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: kidnapped out of the hospital?
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: I used them for my experiments. They are all dead.
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: How horrible.
• 23:28
  Speaker 7: All right, Kruger, you can wake up now. Wake up.
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: Ah!
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: Not a knife in your hand. You're quite harmless, aren't you, Kruger?
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Those eyes. They're gone. There's nobody here.
• 23:38
  Speaker 7: I am still here, though you cannot see me.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: You hypnotized me.
• 23:41
  Speaker 7: Yes, and I say again, I wish I could have
• 23:43
  Speaker 7: done it sooner.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: But how?
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: Who are you?
• 23:45
  Speaker 7: They call me the Shadow.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Shadow what?
• 23:47
  Speaker 7: The name of a man who tries to right a
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: few of the world's wrongs.
• 23:51
  Speaker 11: I am not afraid of you.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: I'll kill you. You won't hypnotize me again. I'll kill you.
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: Stay back.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: I'll kill you.
• 23:55
  Speaker 7: Oh, no, you won't, you poor fool. You're coming with me.
• 23:59
  Speaker 7: I'm not going to judge you.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: I'll let a jury of your peers do that.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: No, no, my work. I've got to go on with
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: my work.
• 24:07
  Speaker 7: Come with me, Kruger. No, no, let go of me.
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: Hands out of the air.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Let go.
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: Come quietly, Kruger. No. I know you're struggling, you see.
• 24:17
  Speaker 7: You haven't got a chance against me.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: No, no, let go of me, let go.
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: All right, I'll drag you along.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: No.
• 24:25
  Speaker 7: All the fiendish murderers.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, let go of me.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: Oh, my work.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: I've got to go on with my work.
• 24:33
  Speaker 11: Look out.
• 24:34
  Speaker 8: The lamp.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: I made you let go.
• 24:38
  Speaker 10: I made you let go.
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: Fargo. Fargo, look out. The oil from the lamp. The
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: flame is going to catch it.
• 24:46
  Speaker 12: Run.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: You'll never get me.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Not me.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: Is he dead, Chief? He's dead, all right, and all
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: the rest of them. I never saw a hotter fire.
• 25:15
  Speaker 10: There must have been plenty of inflammables in there. All
• 25:18
  Speaker 10: sorts of liquids.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: What I can't understand is why some of the bodies
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: were all cut up. It's more than I can figure out.
• 25:23
  Speaker 10: But two got out of it alive, Chief. At least
• 25:26
  Speaker 10: they think so.
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: What?
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: Two alive?
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: Out of there?
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: Sure, Chief.
• 25:32
  Speaker 10: Right after the explosion, there's some say that a man
• 25:35
  Speaker 10: and a woman run out.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: Who were they?
• 25:38
  Speaker 10: No one seems to know exactly. They couldn't see him clear.
• 25:43
  Speaker 10: But they say the man, he was more like, well,
• 25:49
  Speaker 10: like a shadow.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: Yes, a shadow. Yes, he's right, Margot. We did get away.
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: Strange. We come halfway across the world for a vacation
• 26:08
  Speaker 7: and then.
• 26:09
  Speaker 7: This.
• 26:11
  Speaker 13: A poor, deluded creature who thought he could bring himself happiness.
• 26:16
  Speaker 13: Through murder. He gave others a horrible death. But he
• 26:23
  Speaker 13: died a far more horrible one. No, Margot, there's never
• 26:29
  Speaker 13: any profit in murder.
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: It always brings its own reward.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: I wonder... I wonder if Kruger understands that now.
• 26:53
  Speaker 14: You have been listening to a dramatized version of one
• 26:56
  Speaker 14: of the many copyrighted stories which appear in the Shadow Magazine,
• 26:59
  Speaker 14: now on sale at your local newsstand.
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: The weed of crime bears.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: Bitter fruit. Crime does not pay.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: The shadow knows.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: The End.
• 27:53
  Speaker 14: All the characters and all the places named are fictitious.
• 27:57
  Speaker 14: Any similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
• 29:28
  Speaker 7: Thank you.
• 29:29
  Speaker 12: © transcript Emily.
• 29:48
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