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Suspense - "The Customers Like Murder" (Old Time Radio, 1943) · Suspense | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: March 2nd, 1943 brings us to Suspense, Episode 3, The
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  Speaker 1: Customers Like Murder. In this tale, English mystery novelist Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Hopstone and his secretary are drawn into a dangerous encounter
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  Speaker 1: when Hopstone is mistaken for a doctor. The mistake places
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  Speaker 1: them in the hands of criminals, and Hopstone must draw
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  Speaker 1: on the practical side of the detective story imagination that
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  Speaker 1: occupies his working life. John Dixon Carr wrote the original
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  Speaker 1: radio play, with Roland Young as Hopstone and Peggy Conklin
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  Speaker 1: as his secretary. John Dietz directed. We now take you
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  Speaker 1: back to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Suspense.
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  Speaker 3: This is the man in black. Here again to introduce
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  Speaker 3: Columbia's program, Suspense. Our distinguished star this evening is that
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  Speaker 3: delightful gentleman, Mr. Roland Young, playing as author of detective
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  Speaker 3: novels who invented his best plot when his life was
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  Speaker 3: at stake. With Mr. Young to play his long-suffering secretary
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  Speaker 3: is Miss Peggy Conklin, a story by John Dixon Carr
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  Speaker 3: in a somewhat lighter mood than is our habit and
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  Speaker 3: called The Customers Like Murder, is tonight's tale of suspense.
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  Speaker 3: If you've been with us on these Tuesday nights, you
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  Speaker 3: will know that suspense is compounded of mystery and suspicion
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  Speaker 3: and dangerous adventure. In this series are tales calculated to
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  Speaker 3: intrigue you, to stir your nerves, to offer you a
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  Speaker 3: precarious situation, and then withhold the solution until the last
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  Speaker 3: possible moment. And so with The Customer's Life Murder and
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  Speaker 3: the performance of Roland Young, we again hope to keep
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  Speaker 3: you in.
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  Speaker 4: taste.
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  Speaker 3: On a hot summer night in a village on the
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  Speaker 3: east coast of England, a famous writer of detective stories
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  Speaker 3: is dictating to his secretary... You have all heard of Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Gerald Hoxton, celebrated author of Murder on the Woolpert, Akronite
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  Speaker 3: at the Admiralty, Who Shot the Prime Minister, and other
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  Speaker 3: thrillers which have held us past the midnight hour. You
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  Speaker 3: have followed the exploits of Pendleton King, diplomat detective.
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  Speaker 4: Gerald Hoxton lives quietly at Beale, with his friend Dr.
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  Speaker 4: Roberts nearby, in case he should need medical knowledge. and
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  Speaker 4: his pretty, if somewhat, first Canadian secretary, Miss Patricia Phillips.
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  Speaker 4: Gerald Hawkstone would be a happy man, even in wartime,
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  Speaker 4: if he were not.
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  Speaker 3: Have you got all that.
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  Speaker 5: Miss Phillips?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Mr. Hawkstone.
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  Speaker 4: Good. New paragraph?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Hawkstone.
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  Speaker 7: At the head of the great banqueting table, comma, the
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  Speaker 7: Lord Chief Justice staggered to his feet, full thought. His
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  Speaker 7: face was a ghastly whitish color and his eyes.
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  Speaker 3: Had become glassy.
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  Speaker 6: Is he drunk, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Hawksdale?
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  Speaker 3: No, Miss Phillips.
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  Speaker 7: The Lord Chief Justice is not drunk.
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  Speaker 8: Sounds pretty cockeyed to me.
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  Speaker 7: For your information, Miss Phillips, the Lord Chief Justice has
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  Speaker 7: just been poisoned with curare because he discovered the identity
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  Speaker 7: of the master criminal.
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  Speaker 3: Is that clear?
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  Speaker 4: Yes. Yes, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Hawkstone.
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  Speaker 8: But I wish you wouldn't do it.
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  Speaker 3: Do what?
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  Speaker 8: Well, in the last four books, Mr. Hawkstone, you have
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  Speaker 8: shot the Prime Minister, killed the Lord Chancellor with an axe,
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  Speaker 8: poisoned the Home Secretary, and blown up.
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  Speaker 6: The First Lord of the Admiralty.
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  Speaker 8: Why don't you stop picking on the poor government and
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  Speaker 8: murder somebody else for a change?
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  Speaker 7: The Lord Chancellor, Miss Phillips, was not murdered with an axe.
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  Speaker 8: No, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Hawkstone? Definitely no. He was beamed with the Great Seal
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  Speaker 3: and found dead on the Wolf Axe. There's another thing,
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  Speaker 3: Miss Phillips.
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  Speaker 7: Whether you talk like this because of a dense vacuum
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  Speaker 7: in what we will charitably call your mind.
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  Speaker 3: Really, Mr. Hoxton?
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  Speaker 7: Or whether you are really making out what you might
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  Speaker 7: define as potcracks, I don't know. But I don't want
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  Speaker 7: any more of it, do you hear?
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  Speaker 8: Just as you please, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Hoxton. I, I... Oh, Lord, where was I?
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  Speaker 8: His face was a ghastly whitish color, and his eyes
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  Speaker 8: had become glassy.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds like me. All right.
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  Speaker 7: A single choking cry escaped his lips.
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  Speaker 3: Comma. And his body crumpled to the floor. Full stop.
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  Speaker 3: New paragraph.
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  Speaker 7: With one swift stride, Pendleton King had reached the fallen man.
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  Speaker 8: He can't have done that, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Hawkstone. Who can't have done what? Pendleton King. What about him?
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  Speaker 8: Well, on the last page, you had him sitting at
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  Speaker 8: the foot of the table. So he can't get there
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  Speaker 8: in one stride. Unless you want him to sail across
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  Speaker 8: the room like a kangaroo.
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  Speaker 7: There are times, Miss Phillips, when I should like to
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  Speaker 7: poison you with curare and dance on your grave.
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  Speaker 8: I was only trying to help.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Change it. Change it. Strike it out. With
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  Speaker 3: hardly a second's delay. How's that? Comma.
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  Speaker 7: Pendleton King had reached the fallen man.
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  Speaker 3: Full stop. New paragraph. Quote. I feared it. Comma. Close quote.
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  Speaker 3: He muttered. Full stop. Quote. Note the rigidity of the muscles.
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  Speaker 3: Exclamation point.
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  Speaker 7: Note the characteristic odor of your curare, which.
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  Speaker 3: That won't do, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Hoxton.
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  Speaker 3: Why not?
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  Speaker 8: Curare hasn't got any odor.
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  Speaker 3: Now there, Miss Phillips, you've really gone too far.
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  Speaker 8: But I can't help that.
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  Speaker 3: It's true. If you will.
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  Speaker 7: Permit the small vanity, I am noted for the correctness
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  Speaker 7: of my medical knowledge. Who is murdering the Lord Chief Justice,
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  Speaker 7: you or I?
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  Speaker 4: You are.
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  Speaker 3: But you might murder him properly.
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  Speaker 8: Curare hasn't got any odor.
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  Speaker 3: I say it has.
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  Speaker 8: And I say it hasn't.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, Miss Phillips.
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  Speaker 7: I propose to settle this Robert Childish dispute by going
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  Speaker 7: next door and asking Dr.
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  Speaker 4: Roberts.
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  Speaker 3: Will that convince you?
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  Speaker 8: Ferrari hasn't got any odor. In any way, the Lord
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  Speaker 8: Chief Justice wouldn't be mixed up in any such silliness
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  Speaker 8: as this.
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  Speaker 3: Silliness, eh?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, I said silliness. Read your evening paper. The Lord
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  Speaker 8: Chief Justice is sentencing some American gangster who got involved
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  Speaker 8: in a robbery over here. That's the sort of thing
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  Speaker 8: he really does.
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  Speaker 7: You're very fond of these gangster reports, aren't you?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, I am, because they're real.
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  Speaker 3: Real? Far?
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  Speaker 6: Don't you say far to me.
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  Speaker 7: Merely remarking, Miss Phillips, with your usual ingenuity, you sidetrack
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  Speaker 7: the argument.
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  Speaker 3: I am going to see Dr. Roberts. That's not necessary,
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  Speaker 3: of course.
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  Speaker 7: My own knowledge of poison is as great as that
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  Speaker 7: of any doctor.
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  Speaker 3: Doctor, far.
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  Speaker 7: And finally, kindly don't say far to me either.
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  Speaker 3: When I return, Miss Phillips, I hope to find you
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  Speaker 3: in a better frame of mind. Please observe that I,
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  Speaker 3: at least, have been able to keep my temper. Excuse me.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Go on.
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  Speaker 8: See if I care.
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  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, excuse me, but... Good evening, Mr. Hawkstone. Good evening, Mrs.
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  Speaker 4: Roberts.
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  Speaker 3: May I come in? Of course.
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  Speaker 6: Mind the blackout curtain.
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  Speaker 3: My, isn't it hot.
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  Speaker 6: And stuffy tonight?
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  Speaker 3: Rather close, yes. Is the doctor in?
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  Speaker 6: I'm afraid he isn't, Mr. Hawkstone, but I expect him
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  Speaker 6: back any minute.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, out on a call?
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  Speaker 6: No, I'm almost certain he isn't, because that's his medicine
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  Speaker 6: case and stethoscope there on the table. I think he's
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  Speaker 6: just gone up the road to get some tobacco.
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  Speaker 3: Do you mind if I wait? Not at all.
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  Speaker 6: But you will excuse me if I run along. I
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  Speaker 6: promised Mrs. Anderson I'd drop in there. It's her neuralgia again,
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  Speaker 6: and I'm terribly late already.
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  Speaker 3: Don't let me detain you, Mrs.
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  Speaker 7: Roberts.
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  Speaker 3: Go right ahead.
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  Speaker 6: I'm afraid you'll have to wait in George's consulting room.
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  Speaker 6: I've got most of the house dark so I could
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  Speaker 6: keep the windows open.
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  Speaker 3: You know which room it is? Yes. Yes, yes, I
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  Speaker 3: could find it blindfolded.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, and I wonder if you'd take the medicine case
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  Speaker 6: and stethoscope and drop them in the consulting room. George
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  Speaker 6: is so careless, he lets them lie about anywhere.
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  Speaker 3: Medicine case? Stethoscope, yes. As a matter of fact, I've
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  Speaker 3: always wanted to hang one of these things around my
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  Speaker 3: neck like this. Ha, ha, ha. Look almost like a doctor,
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  Speaker 3: don't I? Good night, Mrs.
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  Speaker 5: Roberts.
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  Speaker 4: Good night, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Hopstone. See you later. Oh. What I write is silliness, eh?
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  Speaker 3: And I don't know anything about poisons. And I call
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  Speaker 3: her Miss Phillips instead of Patricia. Ah, here we are. Now,
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  Speaker 3: where's that light switch?
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  Speaker 1: Good Lord.
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  Speaker 3: Come on in, Doc. Close the door. Who's the deuce
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  Speaker 3: are you?
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  Speaker 5: You want to keep healthy, Doc? Just do what you're told.
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  Speaker 5: Come in and close the door.
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  Speaker 3: Is that by any chance a revolver you're pointing at me?
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  Speaker 5: Ain't no cigarette case.
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  Speaker 4: I'm warning you.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm hanged. I've done it a thousand times in stories,
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  Speaker 3: but I never thought... Don't drop that junk you're carrying, either.
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  Speaker 5: You're going to need it, Doc, when you come along
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  Speaker 5: with me.
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  Speaker 3: Come along with you? Where? Just to see a guy,
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  Speaker 3: that's all. To see a... Oh, wait a minute. You
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  Speaker 3: don't think I'm the doctor? Now, look, Doc.
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  Speaker 5: I ain't got any time for gags, see? The boss
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  Speaker 5: says to bring you, so I bring you. There'll be
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  Speaker 5: a very sick man out there if you don't go.
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  Speaker 5: There'll be a very dead man out there if I
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  Speaker 5: do go.
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  Speaker 3: I tell you what, man, you're making a terrible mistake. Now, look, Doc.
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  Speaker 3: My name is Hawkstone. I live next door. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: a medical man, and I never... Somebody's coming. Philip. Now, then.
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  Speaker 2: Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Hawkstone.
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  Speaker 8: Just look here in the encyclopedia.
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  Speaker 3: So you're like a doctor, huh? That's done it.
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  Speaker 5: Just a real old-fashioned kiddo, ain't you?
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  Speaker 3: Now, you keep quiet, lady. You know what's good for you.
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  Speaker 3: I know you.
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  Speaker 8: I've seen your pictures.
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  Speaker 6: You're Big Louie Miller.
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  Speaker 5: It's my thing you got here, Doc.
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  Speaker 4: Got here, Doc.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Hook.
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  Speaker 3: Take it easy, Mrs.
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  Speaker 4: Hook.
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  Speaker 8: Big Louie Miller and Flats Kelly. Flats Kelly is the
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  Speaker 8: gang leader. We're supposed to be friends of this gangster
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  Speaker 8: who's on trial in London now.
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  Speaker 6: But I hadn't heard they were in England.
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  Speaker 3: No, lady, neither has anybody else. No, Will Forrest. Who
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  Speaker 3: is this same talk you're nice to? No, she's my secretary.
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  Speaker 3: She doesn't know anything about this.
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  Speaker 5: She seems to know too much about it if you
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  Speaker 5: ask me.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, lady, you're going with us. Going?
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  Speaker 4: Where?
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  Speaker 3: Just for a little ride, lady. Just for a little ride.
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  Speaker 3: Far out from the village, in fat and miry swampland,
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  Speaker 3: where pools of stagnant water gleam under the moon, stands
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  Speaker 3: the old Rutherford House. It is a desolate place, on
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  Speaker 3: the track of Field Marshal Goering's bombers when they crossed
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  Speaker 3: the coastline. But there are no searchlights here, and no guns.
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  Speaker 3: Only the heat on.
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  Speaker 4: The glimmering marshes and the decaying, weather-boarded house.
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  Speaker 3: There's a motorcar approaching.
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  Speaker 4: Drive straight ahead, Doc.
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  Speaker 5: Right around to the back of the house. Remember, I
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  Speaker 5: still got this rod against the back of your neck.
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  Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, Louie, I'm rather enjoying this.
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  Speaker 3: All except the murder. What murder? We ain't gonna bump
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  Speaker 3: anybody off. Maybe not you, old boy, but I am.
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  Speaker 3: Just wait till I get at your patient.
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  Speaker 8: I don't see how you can joke about this.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not joking, Miss Phillips. If Louie won't tell us
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  Speaker 3: what's wrong with the patient.
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  Speaker 5: Whenever you mind the patient, Doctor, just drive around here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, whoa. So, right here.
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  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: So this is the enchanted castle, eh? Climb out of here.
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  Speaker 5: Walk ahead of me over to that house.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, Miss Phillips. That's right, lady. You too. Come on. Hey,
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  Speaker 3: hold on, Doc.
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  Speaker 5: Grab a can of this cleaning fluid here.
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  Speaker 4: You can help me carry it around.
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  Speaker 3: Cleaning fluid? Yeah, there's two kinds of it.
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  Speaker 5: If I can carry one, then I need my other
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  Speaker 5: hand for this ride.
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  Speaker 3: Come on.
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  Speaker 5: Come on.
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  Speaker 3: We ain't got all night.
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  Speaker 4: Get it out of the back seat.
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  Speaker 3: The fashion is a little out of my line of duty.
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  Speaker 3: What do you want with the cleaning fluid?
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  Speaker 5: The boss's suits get all messed up, so I clean
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  Speaker 5: them for him. I play nice mate and everything around him.
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  Speaker 3: Come on now. Straight ahead.
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  Speaker 5: Stop asking questions.
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  Speaker 3: You got this place blacked out, Louie. If the police
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  Speaker 3: don't get you, the air raid warden will. Forget it, Doc.
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  Speaker 3: We got this place so sealed up, they can hardly
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  Speaker 3: breathe inside.
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  Speaker 2: In here?
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  Speaker 3: That's right, lady. Go ahead. I'll close the door. I
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  Speaker 3: can't see, old boy. Which way?
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  Speaker 5: Here. Set that can down and follow me. You too, lady.
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  Speaker 5: Right here, where the curtain's hanging over the door.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I want you to make the barge. So I
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  Speaker 3: open the curtain like this.
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  Speaker 4: Howdy-da.
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  Speaker 3: Come right in. Glad to see you.
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  Speaker 4: I've been expecting you.
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  Speaker 3: Glad to see you, old man. I imagine you're the
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  Speaker 3: celebrated Mr. Kelly. That's me, Doc.
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  Speaker 4: Flats, Kelly, to you. Glad to see you're taking this
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  Speaker 4: nice and friendly. Louis, what's the idea of bringing in
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  Speaker 4: the dame?
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't help it, boy. How? She's just nice, see?
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  Speaker 3: She was with him. And she knew who I was.
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  Speaker 4: She did, eh?
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  Speaker 8: I don't know anything. All I want to do is
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  Speaker 8: to go home.
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  Speaker 3: That's all right, sister.
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  Speaker 4: You'll go home all nice and friendly. Soon as I've
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  Speaker 4: had a little talk with the doctor.
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  Speaker 3: A talk about what?
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  Speaker 4: We're not what you might call comfortable here, Doc. We've
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  Speaker 4: got flashlights, canned food, plenty of liquor, portable radio that
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  Speaker 4: works on a battery.
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  Speaker 3: We managed to get along.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 7: I said to talk about what?
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's it. That's what I'm going to tell you.
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  Speaker 3: We pulled a snatch, see? You pulled a snatch.
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  Speaker 6: You mean they kidnapped somebody?
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  Speaker 3: That's right, sister.
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  Speaker 4: You speak English.
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  Speaker 3: May I ask who was... Snatched?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'll tell you, Doc, because it'll have you a
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  Speaker 4: big laugh. The guy we snatched was the big shot
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  Speaker 4: you call the Lord Chief Justice.
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  Speaker 3: You snatched the Lord Chief Justice?
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  Speaker 4: We shot that, Doc, and his clerk, too.
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  Speaker 3: They're in the room right over there. Such a trap, Louie.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't mean nothing, but I was only trying.
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  Speaker 4: Did you hear me say such a trap?
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  Speaker 3: Okay. But, look here, what was the idea behind this snatch?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'll tell you, Doc. We got a pal, see?
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  Speaker 3: Well?
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  Speaker 4: Dominic Farrelly, his name is. He's Up on a grand
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  Speaker 4: larceny rap, and Farrelly don't like blimey jails. He don't
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  Speaker 4: like them at all. Besides, a dirty little rat owes
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  Speaker 4: me 14 Gs.
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  Speaker 3: So what do we do? Snatch the Lord Chief.
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  Speaker 4: Justice, apparently, but why? Because the mouthpiece back home tells
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  Speaker 4: me long ago that a man can't be sentenced except
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  Speaker 4: for the judge that tried him.
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  Speaker 7: And the Lord Chief Justice is the judge who tried
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  Speaker 7: Dominic Farrelly, is that it?
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  Speaker 3: That's right, Doc.
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  Speaker 4: But it ain't the main thing.
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  Speaker 3: The Chief Justice is a pretty important guy, see?
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  Speaker 4: So what do we do? We write to the cops
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  Speaker 4: and say, now, look, we got the old bird in
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  Speaker 4: a place where you'll never find him, and if you
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  Speaker 4: want to keep things nice and friendly, just spring Dominic Farrelly.
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  Speaker 3: Spring him?
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  Speaker 4: Turn him loose. Sure. Spring Farrelly, and you'll get the
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  Speaker 4: old judge back in one piece. If you don't do it,
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  Speaker 4: you'll get him back with his head as full of
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  Speaker 4: holes as a Swiss cheese.
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  Speaker 3: And we're not kidding.
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  Speaker 4: This is horrible.
• 15:08
  Speaker 8: I can't stand it.
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: Take it easy, sister. Take it easy. You know, Slav,
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: I admire you tremendously. You do, Doc. Why? Because you've
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: invented a crazier idea than I ever did.
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: Just what do you mean with that track, Doc?
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: You don't honestly think the government will make a bargain
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: with you? I sort of think they will, Doc. I
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: sort of think they will. But what if they don't?
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: It'll be just too bad for a lot of people.
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: Why wouldn't I like to give that judge a going over?
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: Louie's got a sort of a grudge against the old guy, Doc.
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: Why, wouldn't you have?
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: Louie's temperamental, see? He gets bored easily. So he says
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: to the old guy at his clerk, he says, Can
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: you play poker? Just as sure as they play poker
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: from six in the evening to five in the morning.
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: And what do you know?
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: If the old judge don't win, all Louie's dough.
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: They rung in a call back on me. That's how
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: they done it.
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: They're a couple of crooks.
• 15:59
  Speaker 7: Are you accusing the Lord Chief Justice of playing poker
• 16:01
  Speaker 7: with Mark Codd?
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: He won my dough, didn't he?
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: Shut up, Louie.
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: Okay, boy.
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: How did I blame Louie much? The things I've had
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: to take from that judge. Well, that's where you come in, Doc.
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: I was just wondering about that. Which of one of
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: them is the.
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: Nobody hurt. Not yet.
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: Then what the devil do you want with me?
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: I want them kept quiet so they don't keep trying
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: to escape.
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: We can't get.
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: Tough with them, not until I get Forelli and my
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: 14 Gs. I want you to give them a hypodermic
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: or something that'll keep them out cold for two days.
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: Can you do that?
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: Why, yes. I don't know. I suppose I could.
• 16:37
  Speaker 9: Mr.
• 16:37
  Speaker 6: Faulkner, for heaven's sake, be careful.
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: What do you use to dope them?
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: Well, under the circumstances and... Considering all the factors involved,
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: I think I should use... I should use morphine.
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: Have you got any morphine in that black satchel?
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Plenty of morphine.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: I always go about equipped for these little emergencies.
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: Well, then open the satchel.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: Go on, open it. Well, there you are.
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: It doesn't sell little bottles anyway. Now then, Doc, which
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: one of them bottles is the one that has the
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: morphine in it?
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: Aye, the.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: The fact is that.
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: Come on, come on, which one is it?
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: Listen, boss.
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: Louie, how many times do I have to tell you
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: to shut up?
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's the midnight news. The news on the radio.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: You said you wanted to hear it. It's after midnight now.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: Why didn't you tell me? It's all right, boss. I
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: switched the radio on. Well, then keep quiet, all of you.
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: A couple of seconds now, you're going to hear some
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: mighty sweet news.
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: I wonder.
• 17:29
  Speaker 8: So do I.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: Quiet. Hey, that's us, isn't it?
• 17:35
  Speaker 9: The kidnappers, stated Superintendent Hadley of the CID, seem to
• 17:38
  Speaker 9: entertain a belief that no sentence can be passed on
• 17:40
  Speaker 9: a criminal except by the judge who tried him. Whatever
• 17:43
  Speaker 9: may be the law in certain American states, this is
• 17:45
  Speaker 9: not the case here. Dominic Forelli, alias Dominic Stevens, was
• 17:49
  Speaker 9: today sentenced by Mr. Justice Stoneman to 14 years hard
• 17:52
  Speaker 9: labor and this evening entered Dartmoor Prison.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: Why, that's... One moment, please. Take it easy, boys. Take
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: it easy.
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: He's as white as a ghost and his mouth is
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: twisting back as though.
• 18:02
  Speaker 9: Here is a bulletin just received. Scotland Yard Flying Squad cars,
• 18:05
  Speaker 9: assisted by the constabulary of a county which for obvious
• 18:08
  Speaker 9: reasons cannot be named... are closing in on the two
• 18:10
  Speaker 9: kidnappers believed to be men already wanted in the United
• 18:13
  Speaker 9: States for murder. But anyone who has any further information
• 18:17
  Speaker 9: about these men, whose descriptions follow, communicate with New Scotland Yard,
• 18:21
  Speaker 9: telephone number Whitehall 121.
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: Wait till I get my hands on it!
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: It's all right, Port. Everything's all right now. I turned
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: it off. I turned it off.
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: I can't do more than turn it off, Louie.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: I'll fix that thing. Hey, what are you going to do, Port?
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: Hey, don't bust the radio! Oh, you're heading on a
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: bunch of the radio boys.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: Now we can't get any news.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: We've had our news, ain't we? Come on, put that
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: light out. I want to look out the window.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: Trisha, you see, I can call you that.
• 18:46
  Speaker 8: Why couldn't you have called me that weeks ago?
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: Oh, well, putting that aside, I thought it was just
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: half a joke. But I'm not joking now. I intend
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: to get that rat face sacked if it's the last
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: thing I ever do. It probably will be. Well, it's
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: great to know. 14,000 butts gone.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: And the cops on our tail while we stand here yapping.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: You heard what that radio said, Louie. Yeah, I heard
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: it all right. Look, boss, we'd better lamb out of
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: here while it's time.
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: Before we go, we settle things with the old guy
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: in the other room.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: You can't get away with it, Louie. This is England.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: They'll hang you. So what?
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: We got a murder rapper facing the States, ain't we?
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: Am I just as soon to hang as Fry? What
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: about you, Louie?
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: You said it, boss.
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: Let me take this ride of mine, stick it against.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: The back of the old guy's neck.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: No, no. No rides. That's too easy.
• 19:27
  Speaker 9: Easy?
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: Sure. One slug and it's all over.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: This guy rates special treatment.
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: And that's where the doctor comes in. You know anything about.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: Poisons, doc? I know a good deal about poisons. The
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: customers like murder. What's that? Oh, nothing. That's a slogan
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: in my profession. Look, Louis, do you remember the time
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: Johnny Presco was running the old Third Avenue Social Club?
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah. And Mike Delaney talks out of turn?
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: And they feed him.
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: Some white stuff called, uh, strychnine?
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: And sit around and light cigarettes and watch him die.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: It took four hours, Doc, and you could hear the
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: rats screaming as far as 81st Street.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: Now, wait a minute. That's you. I can't, huh?
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: We'll see. You got any of that white stuff, Doc?
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: Well, I... Come on.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: You've got something in that bag that'll make the old
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: guy squeal now, haven't you?
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Why, yes, I suppose I have, but... Listen, get this sure.
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: You can do it the hard way, Doc, or you
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: can do it the easy way. Louie gets to work
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: on you. Maybe you'd be smarter to hand this stuff
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: over right now. What do you think? I.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: Listen, what? Listen. What's the matter with that? Trouble by
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: the heat? It is hot in here with all the
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: windows sealed up. That sounds like planes. It is planes.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: British planes going over to put the heat on Germany?
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: Oh, such luck, old boy. German planes coming to bomb us. About, uh.
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: About a dozen Heinkels flying 20,000 feet up.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: Uh-huh. Very keen here, Miss Phillips. Say, I'd say not
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: over 15. That's the first wave set. There'll be another
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: wave in a minute or two. But you needn't be alarmed.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: They're going somewhere else. They only... Shut, Louie, shut!
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: I heard you, boss.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: I'm under the table already.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: Only a little visiting cards, that, and fully a quarter
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: of a mile away. Put out that light, Louie, and.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: Pull that curtain back off the window.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, let's watch that.
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: See what you can see.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: Okay. Do as I tell you. All right, all right.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: Hey, can't see a thing.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: The sky's as black as pitch. Oh, look over there. Well,
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: what is it? It's a light, boss. Funny kind of
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: a white light. Up there over the trees. It's not
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: very steady.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: It starts and then dims and then it starts and dims.
• 21:34
  Speaker 8: Only a basket of incendiary bombs, Louie.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: Incendiary, eh?
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: What is it, Jerry?
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: You got an idea?
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: Louie, this is just what we've been waiting for. Those
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: Scotland Yard cars are going to get held up until
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: we can.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: Settle things with those guys in the other room.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: Come along with me.
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: Why don't you two lugs get smart?
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: Jerry.
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: What's that?
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: You don't want to have your neck cracked on a rope,
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: do you? Or burn in the electric chair back home.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: What are you getting at? Why not take advice from
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: somebody who's been killing people in a professional way for
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: 15 years? I'm not in the mood for gags, Doc,
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: but keep on talking. This Lord Chief Justice and his clerk,
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: what do they look like?
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: Well, the judge is a little guy with a bald
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: head like me. And the other one is a big
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: guy with a punch-drunk pan like Louie. Why?
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: I thought so. I've seen their photographs. When the next
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: wave of planes comes over, and it will... Why shouldn't
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: an incendiary bomb hit this house? You mean you think
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: it ain't too safe here? Be quiet, Louie. Go ahead, Doc.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: In other words, you leave the Lord Chief Judge and
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: his clock tied up in the other room. Then all
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: you have to do is to set fire to the place.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: Justice cheated, Meddington gangsters die and blaze. Jerry Hawkstone, have
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: you gone crazy? They may catch you eventually, yes. But
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: it'll give you a few days' start.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: Hey, maybe you.
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: Got something there, Doc. It's got to look good. This
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: house must go up like a piece of paper in
• 22:49
  Speaker 7: a furnace. Past any possibility of being put out.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's the catch.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: Why so?
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: This house is in the middle of a swamp, see?
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: It's as damp.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: As your own climate. You couldn't make it burn with
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: a blowtorch.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Oh, yes, you could. Aren't you forgetting the cleaning fluid?
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: Cleaning fluid?
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: In that other room, you've got two gallons of cleaning fluid.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: That's benzene, the derivative of petrol. Soak every inch of
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: the floor of that room with it, every inch of it, mind,
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: and the place will go up like tinder.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: Well, it's worth a try, Louie.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Turn on your flashlight. Okay, boss.
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: And, uh, what about you two, Doc?
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Afterwards? We're accessories, aren't we? Are we likely to talk?
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: Better put a couple of slugs in them, Port.
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: Drop them on the road.
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: What's one or two more bumps in a spot like this?
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: Maybe you're right at that. Well, anyway, Dax, thanks for
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: a swell idea. Are you ready with the doctor, Louie?
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: Get going to that cleaning step.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: Both of you had better do it. I'm warning you.
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: Oh, why?
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: Hear that? Because there isn't much time.
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: Here they come.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: You can't have a fire start after the last wave
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: of planes has gone over.
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: Well, maybe you got something there, too. Well, I'll just
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: take a little precaution for her.
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: What are you going to do?
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: These are handcuffs, sister.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: Two of the neatest pair of cuffs we ever swiped
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: off a dumb cop. Now, I'll just lock your arms
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: around the back of the chair, like this. And the
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: doc's arms around the back of his chair.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: Like this. And we'll get going.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: Come on, Louie, through the curtain.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm coming for it. Bye-bye, Mr. Hawkstone. On your
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: lady front.
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: Be saying you're in the funny papers.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: Or in the morgue. Ha, ha, ha. It won't be
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: long now.
• 24:35
  Speaker 8: They must have everything in there soaked with that benzene
• 24:37
  Speaker 8: by now. Jerry, I know you can't be completely crazy.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: Many thanks, my dear, for the qualification. You're right. They
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: have soaked the place with benzene. And if they strike
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: a match before.
• 24:48
  Speaker 8: I know, I know you've got some kind of a scheme,
• 24:50
  Speaker 8: but do you think it'll work?
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: I don't know, my dear. I thought of it once
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: for a story. Oh, you and your story. Me and
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: my stories, as Louis will put it, may save our
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: hides yet.
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: But suppose it doesn't work.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: Then we're done for. Listen, Patricia.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: It's not working.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: But it's got to work. What's got to work? Four, no,
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: five minutes. At least they've been pulling out that benzene
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: an inch at a time all over the... Listen, listen.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: It's working, Patricia. I think our friends are lit. No.
• 25:28
  Speaker 8: No, they're not. Slats is coming back.
• 25:30
  Speaker 9: What?
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: What the heck are you... Trying to pull, Doc.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: What's the matter with Louis? What's the matter with me?
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: You've lost the game, Slats. You're finished. I'm finished, am I?
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: It's the benzene fumes, old man. To pour out a
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: lot of cleaning fluid in an airtight room like that
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: one is practically a certain death. You know, Slats, you
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: ought to learn more about crime. You're a rat, you rat! No,
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: you won't, Fats. You can't reach your gun. The fumes
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: have got you. You can't move your arms or legs.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: Your eyesight's going. In one second more, you'll be.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: Got him.
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: Dead to the world.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: You mean... It works, Patricia. It's practical.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: It works.
• 26:10
  Speaker 8: Are you trying to tell me that you've killed those
• 26:13
  Speaker 8: two men?
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: Not necessarily.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: That.
• 26:18
  Speaker 7: That sounds like cars.
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: Probably police cars.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: We're just about to be sensationally rescued, just like fiction.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: Jerry... Jerry.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: Come on out of there. Come on in and get us,
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: you lugs.
• 26:30
  Speaker 8: Don't talk like Louie or we'll get a blot through
• 26:32
  Speaker 8: the head, yes.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: Yes, that is a thought.
• 26:34
  Speaker 8: We're prisoners.
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: We're victims.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: This way, please.
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 26:38
  Speaker 8: Sergeant, and I was never so glad to see a
• 26:40
  Speaker 8: uniform in my life.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: Hey, now, hey, now. What's going on in this place?
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: Louie Miller knocked out in that room?
• 26:48
  Speaker 7: Blimey, if it's not Slats Kelly knocked out in this room.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: Just a couple of mugs I polished off, Sergeant. All
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: in the day's work. You mean they're dead? They'll be
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: all right if you drag them out in the open air. Oh, you.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: I recognize you.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: You're the writer who was kidnapped tonight.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: Yes, and you will find the other snatches in that room.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: But first of all, have you got a key that'll
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: unlock regulation police handcuffs? I certainly have, Sergeant.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: I'll get you loose in a jiffy.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Never mind me, Sergeant. Never mind my handcuffs. Get this
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: lady free. She's the one I'm concerned about.
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: You know, that's awfully kind of you.
• 27:17
  Speaker 8: It's something practically chivalrous.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: Chivalry, my eye.
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: There you are, young lady.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: Have you got your notebook and pencil in that handbag?
• 27:24
  Speaker 8: You don't want me to take dictation now.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: A true artist, madam, takes no account of time or place.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: Are you ready?
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: Yes, Mr.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: Hawkstone.
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: Well, you admit now that my plot is practical. Yes, Mr.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: Hawkstone.
• 27:36
  Speaker 7: Now then, the income tax murder by Gerald Hawkstone, chapter one.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: But, Mr. Hawkstone... Just.
• 27:41
  Speaker 7: As Big Ben was striking midnight.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: A hooded face looked into the window of the luxurious
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: study occupied by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Pulls up.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: The hooded figure chuckled as it softly lowered inside the
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: window a large tin of cleaning fluid. New paragraph. The
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: Chancellor himself was hard at work devising a new scale
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: of ink....
• 28:04
  Speaker 8: Completely different story. I thought you were going to murder
• 28:07
  Speaker 8: the Lord Chief Justice.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: Haven't you any professional taste? How can I murder the
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: Lord Chief Justice? I just saved his life. And so
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: ends The Customers Like Murder, starring Roland Young with Peggy Conklin.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: Tonight's tale of... Suspense. This is your narrator, the man
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: in black, who conveys to you Columbia's invitation to spend
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: this half hour in suspense with us again next Tuesday,
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: same time, when our story will be... The Dead Sleep Lightly.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: William Speer, the producer. John Deet, the director. Bernard Herman,
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: the composer-conductor. And John Dixon Carr, the author. Elaborated on
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: tonight's suspense.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: This concludes our presentation of Suspense, The Customers Like Murder
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  Speaker 1: from 1943. Follow Suspense for more classic broadcasts.