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Suspense - "Death on My Hands" (Old Time Radio, 1951) · Suspense | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Dixie, a touring dance band leader, arrives in an unnamed
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: small town for a one-night high school engagement and unexpectedly
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: reunites with Julia, his former vocalist and fiancée. When a
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: young fan dies in an accident connected with Dixie's hotel room,
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: an angry crowd gathers outside and Dixie and Julia face
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: a community demanding its own justice. That is Suspense, Death
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: on My Hands, Episode Zero, from May 1st, 1951. Phil
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: Harris and Alice Fay appear in dramatic roles, with Joseph Kearns,
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: Herb Butterfield, and Barbara Whiting. John Michael Hayes and E.
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: Jack Newman wrote the script, and Elliot Lewis produced and directed.
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  Speaker 1: And now, the original broadcast.
• 0:54
  Speaker 2: Autolite and its 96,000 dealers present Suspense. Tonight, Autolite brings
• 1:05
  Speaker 2: you the story of an accidental death and an attempted escape.
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  Speaker 3: Death on my hands. Starring Phil Harris and Alice Faye.
• 1:21
  Speaker 4: Hi, Harlow.
• 1:22
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• 1:27
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• 1:29
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• 1:51
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• 1:54
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• 2:17
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• 2:22
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• 2:24
  Speaker 2: And now, with death on my hands and the performances
• 2:28
  Speaker 2: of Alice Faye and Phil Harris, Autolite hopes once again
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  Speaker 2: to keep you in suspense.
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  Speaker 4: I won't mention the name of the town. It won't
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  Speaker 4: help any. I don't think I'll even tell you what
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  Speaker 4: part of the country it's in. It's just a place
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  Speaker 4: in a long valley with hundred-year-old elms and hills you
• 2:58
  Speaker 4: can't stop looking at. And the people? Well, maybe they're
• 3:02
  Speaker 4: not much different than anybody else. 2,500 of them. The
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  Speaker 4: kids went to schools with big lawns and long walks.
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  Speaker 4: And the men walked up Oak Street from the mills
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  Speaker 4: right after the five o'clock whistles. Some stopped for a
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  Speaker 4: beer at Mike's or the Green Rooster or Eddie's Tavern
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  Speaker 4: and some went right on home. Sounds wonderfully ordinary, doesn't it?
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  Speaker 4: That's what I thought. Until they tried to hang me.
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  Speaker 6: Dixie! Dixie! Oh, Dixie.
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  Speaker 4: I can't believe it.
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  Speaker 6: It's me, all right. I saw you from across the street.
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  Speaker 4: What in the world are you doing in this little town, Julia?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, just getting a little rest.
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  Speaker 4: Don't give me that. Your idea of rest was always
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  Speaker 4: to sit in an air-conditioned cocktail lounge.
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  Speaker 6: Gee, you look good.
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  Speaker 4: Well, what about you? I wish you'd have stayed with
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  Speaker 4: the band, Julia.
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  Speaker 6: I just felt like drifting, Dixie.
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  Speaker 4: Where did you drift?
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  Speaker 8: All over.
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  Speaker 6: Ended up with a carnival.
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  Speaker 4: A carnival?
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  Speaker 9: I saw the posters about you and the band playing
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  Speaker 9: for the high school dance tonight.
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  Speaker 6: I couldn't believe it.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you don't get young doing one-nighters, but you see
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  Speaker 4: a lot of country and some swell people. You, for example.
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  Speaker 6: How are all the boys?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'm the only one of the original bunch left.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Sugar Thompson went with Kenton. Bill Candoli joined the
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  Speaker 4: circus in Cleveland, married a snake charmer.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, no.
• 4:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah. And then Squeak Hanley lost himself up with the
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  Speaker 4: law in Virginia. You know how it goes. I got
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  Speaker 4: all new side men now, just kids.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. Things change, don't they?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they do. Hey, look, Julia, why don't you drop
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  Speaker 4: in at the dance?
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  Speaker 6: They'd think I was an old science teacher.
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  Speaker 4: Nah, you'll knock them dead. No.
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  Speaker 6: No, look, Dixie.
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  Speaker 9: I want to talk to you. I'm at the embassy,
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  Speaker 9: across from the railroad station. The only hotel in town.
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  Speaker 9: I'll see you after the dance, outside. And we'll have
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  Speaker 9: a sandwich and a drink and a.
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  Speaker 6: Talk, huh?
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  Speaker 8: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: If that's the way you want it. Look, it's the
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  Speaker 4: high school auditorium, you know.
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  Speaker 6: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'll see you. Dixie. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Who's singing in my place now?
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  Speaker 4: You.
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  Speaker 7: Me.
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  Speaker 10: We walked opposite directions and caught each other looking back
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  Speaker 10: a couple of times.
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  Speaker 4: She looked good. But then she always had. There had
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  Speaker 4: never been anything wrong with how Julia looked. That night
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  Speaker 4: at the high school dance I played like I hadn't
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  Speaker 4: played for weeks. Man, that band caught fire. You should
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  Speaker 4: have seen the faces of those kids dancing by the bandstand.
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  Speaker 4: They looked at me as if I invented music. And me,
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  Speaker 4: a third-rate clarinet player. Trouble was as far from my
• 5:55
  Speaker 4: mind as Carnegie Hall is from Bop City. It was
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  Speaker 4: backstage after the dance that the bubble blew up in
• 6:02
  Speaker 4: my face.
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  Speaker 6: Here's the loot, boss. Look at it.
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  Speaker 4: Big, coarse notes. Yeah, what does it come to, Teddy?
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  Speaker 11: Well, a cashier says 1,200 round simoleons. But I'd count
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  Speaker 11: it myself.
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  Speaker 4: That's not bad for this town.
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  Speaker 6: Listen, it's a.
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  Speaker 11: Lot better than standing on Vine Street waiting for a
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  Speaker 11: recording date. I'll take this kind of loot any day
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  Speaker 11: in a week.
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  Speaker 4: I better put this in my bag. Hey, that bag
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  Speaker 4: must be loaded by now. I got two weeks' take
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  Speaker 4: in there. But I'll drop it in the bank when
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  Speaker 4: we get to Kansas City.
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  Speaker 11: Are you still carrying that gun for protection?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Ted. Right here. I wouldn't know how to use it, though. Loaded?
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  Speaker 4: Every chamber. See? Oh, those things give me the creeps.
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  Speaker 11: Hey, what else you got in that bag?
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  Speaker 4: Just some publicity pictures of me. I'm going to get
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  Speaker 4: some new ones, though.
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  Speaker 3: Get them while you're young.
• 6:50
  Speaker 11: When they start camouflaging those age lines in your face,
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  Speaker 11: the cost goes up by leaps and bounds.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, I know. Uh, Teddy, tell the boys
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  Speaker 4: I'll be at the next stop tomorrow.
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  Speaker 9: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Who'd you tie up with?
• 7:03
  Speaker 4: Juliet.
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  Speaker 6: She here?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'll be darned.
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  Speaker 6: Small world, huh?
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  Speaker 11: What's she doing now?
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  Speaker 4: I'll tell you tomorrow. We got about six years talking
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  Speaker 4: to do in eight hours. Now get on out of here, huh? Yeah, right, boss.
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  Speaker 4: Come in.
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  Speaker 5: Come in.
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  Speaker 4: I'll be with you in a minute, Julia. I just want.
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  Speaker 6: My name isn't Julia. It's Emily.
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  Speaker 4: Oh. Oh, Emily. Well, what can I do for you?
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  Speaker 8: Well, they all.
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  Speaker 4: Dared me to come in and tell you how much
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  Speaker 4: we liked your music. Well, bless you. So you liked it, huh?
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  Speaker 4: Never had such a good band at our dance before.
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  Speaker 4: It was like having Benny Goodman. Well, now, aren't you sweet?
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  Speaker 4: I'll tell Benny when I see him.
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  Speaker 6: Do you have a picture I could have?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I don't have any real good ones, but... Hey,
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  Speaker 4: I'll tell you what. You give me your name and address,
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  Speaker 4: and I'll send you one autographed. With love to Emily,
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  Speaker 4: my prettiest fan.
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  Speaker 6: I can see some in that suitcase.
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  Speaker 4: No, those aren't any good. They're kind of old. I mean.
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  Speaker 6: I just got to get one. They dared me.
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  Speaker 4: All right, but don't pull that suitcase, kid. Look out!
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  Speaker 11: Kid.
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  Speaker 6: Kid.
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  Speaker 4: What did you do? She fell to the floor and
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  Speaker 4: her head suddenly spurted red. For a moment I was
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  Speaker 4: so shocked I didn't know what to do. Then I
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  Speaker 4: bent over and I picked her up and... I ran
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  Speaker 4: to find the nearest doctor. I ran almost four blocks
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  Speaker 4: with people staring at me like I was crazy. I
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  Speaker 4: couldn't even feel myself. I was just a thought.
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  Speaker 8: Get to a doctor. Get to a doctor.
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  Speaker 4: And I finally did.
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  Speaker 6: She died instantly.
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  Speaker 4: No doctor in the world could help her. From then on,
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  Speaker 4: it was a nightmare. There was only four policemen in
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  Speaker 4: town and they were all handling highway traffic 30 miles
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  Speaker 4: away because of a big mill fire. I told the
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  Speaker 4: doctor and the people who crowded around me that I'd
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  Speaker 4: stay in town and face a police inquest the next morning.
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  Speaker 4: There were some grumbles and some nasty words, but nobody
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  Speaker 4: stopped me from checking in at the embassy hotel. But
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  Speaker 4: I was there only an hour when I realized I
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  Speaker 4: wasn't going to get off that easily. A group of
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  Speaker 4: men formed outside the hotel and stood looking up at
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  Speaker 4: my window. Then all of a sudden I realized they
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  Speaker 4: wanted to lynch me.
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  Speaker 12: Listen.
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  Speaker 7: Now listen down there.
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  Speaker 8: I know you're there.
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  Speaker 4: You don't need no rocks through no windows.
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  Speaker 8: You don't need any lousy notes. I know why you're there.
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  Speaker 6: How long are you waiting, Dixie?
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  Speaker 7: How tight are the ropes going to be?
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  Speaker 8: You're never going to use a rope on me.
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  Speaker 4: Never. Do you understand?
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  Speaker 6: Never.
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  Speaker 4: Who is it? Who is it?
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  Speaker 6: It's Julius.
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  Speaker 4: What do you want?
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  Speaker 6: Who are you doing all the shouting at?
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  Speaker 4: Them. Those people down there. If you can call them people.
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  Speaker 4: They threw a note through the window on a rock.
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  Speaker 4: They want me for killing that girl.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe I can help you.
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  Speaker 4: What can you do?
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  Speaker 9: Don't kick a friendship in the face, Dixie. You never
• 10:25
  Speaker 9: know when it'll come in handy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, tell me all about it. Look at him down there.
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  Speaker 4: Watching the window like hound dogs with a treed possum.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, Dixie, why don't you think of something to do
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  Speaker 9: instead of just burning off steam?
• 10:37
  Speaker 8: Think?
• 10:38
  Speaker 4: In the past hour, I've thought more than that Greek
• 10:40
  Speaker 4: philosopher did in a lifetime. But it all boils down
• 10:44
  Speaker 4: to me ending up with a tag on my toe.
• 10:47
  Speaker 6: I wish I could help you.
• 10:48
  Speaker 4: Look, what are you hanging around me for? They might
• 10:51
  Speaker 4: try to do something to you if they find out
• 10:53
  Speaker 4: you've been nice to me.
• 10:54
  Speaker 6: I'll take my chances. I got nothing else to do.
• 10:58
  Speaker 4: Oh, thanks. Don't waste your time. I don't think it's
• 11:02
  Speaker 4: going to pay off. You know what? They make me
• 11:04
  Speaker 4: feel like a criminal. They found my car.
• 11:07
  Speaker 6: They did?
• 11:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Somebody told the manager. What's his name? Abdo. The
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  Speaker 4: car's three miles north of here in an empty riverbed.
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  Speaker 4: Burned to a crisp. The only thing in the world
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  Speaker 4: I own.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Dixie, don't let it get you.
• 11:20
  Speaker 4: But how much do they want? Julie, an accident is
• 11:24
  Speaker 4: an accident. That means it wasn't done on purpose. She
• 11:27
  Speaker 4: grabbed the bag and the gun went off. And she would...
• 11:33
  Speaker 4: She would... Just a little kid.
• 11:35
  Speaker 9: Oh, Dixie, Dixie, stop it. You're not doing yourself any
• 11:39
  Speaker 9: good this way. It could happen to anyone.
• 11:42
  Speaker 6: To me... Or the people next door, or even to
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  Speaker 6: one of them down there. Come on, sweetheart, and sit
• 11:49
  Speaker 6: down here with me.
• 11:50
  Speaker 4: Wait a minute.
• 11:52
  Speaker 6: What is it, Dixon?
• 11:54
  Speaker 4: More of them. And they got guns now. Not just
• 11:57
  Speaker 4: clubs and ropes. Guns.
• 11:59
  Speaker 6: Get away from that window.
• 11:59
  Speaker 4: Maybe I don't want to. Maybe I could get them
• 12:02
  Speaker 4: to shoot me from here, and then it... Well, it'd
• 12:04
  Speaker 4: be over with like that.
• 12:06
  Speaker 6: Get back from that window. Come on.
• 12:08
  Speaker 4: Let go of me. They wouldn't shoot. They want their
• 12:12
  Speaker 4: fun later.
• 12:13
  Speaker 9: Do what I say. You gotta think, Dixie. You gotta
• 12:17
  Speaker 9: think of some way to get out of here.
• 12:19
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry that girl got killed. Sorry as an honest
• 12:24
  Speaker 4: man can be, but... Well, there's no point in dying
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  Speaker 4: to prove it.
• 12:28
  Speaker 6: Thank God understands, Dixie.
• 12:31
  Speaker 4: It's just another rock.
• 12:33
  Speaker 5: No, it isn't.
• 12:33
  Speaker 6: Look what the... Oh, never mind, Dixie. It's what she said.
• 12:37
  Speaker 4: A rock. Wait a minute now. It's something else. What
• 12:39
  Speaker 4: is it? Don't hide it from me.
• 12:40
  Speaker 6: Oh, Dixie.
• 12:40
  Speaker 8: Give it to me.
• 12:43
  Speaker 4: Oh, a shoe. One of her shoes. What are they
• 12:48
  Speaker 4: going to throw up next, her body?
• 12:50
  Speaker 3: Dixie, let me take it.
• 12:52
  Speaker 9: Let them keep it.
• 12:54
  Speaker 8: You dirty, dirty....
• 12:59
  Speaker 4: Oh, Dixie, Dixie.
• 13:03
  Speaker 9: There was only something we could do.
• 13:04
  Speaker 4: There isn't. When people get like that, they're just as.
• 13:10
  Speaker 6: I'm not going to let this happen.
• 13:11
  Speaker 9: I'm not going to.
• 13:12
  Speaker 8: Julia, listen.
• 13:14
  Speaker 4: They're breaking the door down. They're coming in.
• 13:17
  Speaker 6: We've got to get out of here somehow.
• 13:19
  Speaker 4: Get out? There's no way to get out now. Now
• 13:21
  Speaker 4: go back to your room, Julia.
• 13:22
  Speaker 6: I won't.
• 13:23
  Speaker 4: I said go on.
• 13:24
  Speaker 6: It's too late, Dixie. They're coming down the hall.
• 13:40
  Speaker 2: Autolite is bringing you Phil Harris and Alice Faye in
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  Speaker 2: Death on My Hands. Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater
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  Speaker 2: of thrills, Suspense.
• 14:00
  Speaker 6: Yippee!
• 14:02
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• 14:05
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• 14:09
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• 14:12
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• 14:16
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• 14:19
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• 14:30
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• 14:30
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• 14:35
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• 14:51
  Speaker 4: And I'm off for a spring fling.
• 14:53
  Speaker 7: So long.
• 14:56
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• 15:12
  Speaker 2: And now, Autolite brings back to our Hollywood soundstage Alice
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: Faye and Phil Harris in Elliot Lewis's production of Death
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: on My Hands. A tale well calculated to keep you
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: in suspense.
• 15:28
  Speaker 13: Quiet, you dear. Don't make any noise.
• 15:43
  Speaker 6: It only sounds like one person.
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: One person can carry a gun.
• 15:49
  Speaker 6: Couldn't be them, Dixie. They wouldn't knock.
• 15:52
  Speaker 8: Who is it?
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: Abdo, the hotel owner left me.
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: All right. What's on your mind?
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: They broke in the door downstairs. I stopped them in
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: the lobby. They had ropes and guns.
• 16:12
  Speaker 6: Thank you, Abdo.
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: Oh, don't thank me.
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: I told them that they couldn't come in after you,
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: but that you would go out.
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: You don't mean that.
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: I told them within 15 minutes.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: Abdo.
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: Let me stay a little longer in the name of
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: humanity till I can dope this out. I got enough money.
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: I don't worry about money. Well, what have you got
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: to lose?
• 16:32
  Speaker 6: Listen, I give you a break.
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: They could have come in here and got you and
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: torn you.
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: Up in little pieces.
• 16:39
  Speaker 6: But I said no.
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: One little word.
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: Now, long after you are gone, I have to live
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: in this town. You've got your troubles.
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: I've got mine.
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: That's the way things work.
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: What's the matter with this town? Why does it act
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: the way it does?
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: After what you did, you expect them to treat you
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: with brotherly love?
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: You got to be born here before they think you're human?
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: There's a lot of world outside this flea-bitten town, and
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: most of it's better. They should be happy that someone
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: brings a little of it in with them once in
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: a while.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: What you brought in was tragedy.
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: But it was an accident, a statistic. The kind of
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: thing insurance companies make a fortune predicting. Don't blame me.
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: Blame that big wheel of chance.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: Dixie.
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: I just didn't get the right number on this spin,
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: that's all.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: Well, you've got now 30 minutes to think of another one.
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: What can I do for you, Dixie? Tell me something.
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: Just let me alone.
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: Well, I'm going to do something anyway. Did you turn
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: on the radio? I turned on the radio.
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: Turn it off.
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: I'm not going to.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: Turn it off!
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: I'm not going to!
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: What do you want music for?
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: Because I want to dance.
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: Are you crazy?
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: Oh, come on, Dixie, dance with me. Come on, it
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: used to take your mind off things.
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: Oh, I know, but I.
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: Oh, come on, come on, that's it. Oh, pull me closer, Dixie.
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: Oh, I wish this hadn't happened. So I could enjoy you, Julia. Oh.
• 18:13
  Speaker 9: Let's just pretend this is the future. And we're dancing
• 18:16
  Speaker 9: somewhere in love and.
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: What can I think like that when all I can
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: see are those guys down there loading buckshot and guns
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: just to.
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: Dixie, Dixie, shh, shh, shh. Just dance.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: But I can still think.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: Oh, honey, this is wonderful.
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: You know, I've played for a lot of dances. I
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: never realized until now what it does to you inside.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: What does it do to you, Dixie? Makes me wish
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: I'd have gone to high school. I never got there.
• 18:49
  Speaker 14: That was Early Autumn, done by the Woody Herman Aggregate,
• 18:53
  Speaker 14: the band that plays the blues.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: Not that you're blue right now.
• 18:59
  Speaker 14: And this is Charlie Schaefer, your early evening platter party
• 19:01
  Speaker 14: host on KNOK. And I want to remind you that
• 19:05
  Speaker 14: if you have any request whatsoever, just dial KNOK. The
• 19:09
  Speaker 14: switchboards are waiting. Now, how about a little bit of
• 19:13
  Speaker 14: Glenn Miller, In the Mood?
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: I like that. I can request any tune in the world,
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: but I can't save my life. What a great place
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: to live.
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: Let's dance some more.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah. What should I request? Don't break the news
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: to Mother, or maybe I'm in the mood for life.
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: Oh, Dixie, don't talk like that. Dixie?
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: Give me the railroad station.
• 19:39
  Speaker 8: Um.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: Uh, freight division.
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: Dixie, what are you doing?
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: Stop talking. Hello?
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: Hello?
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: Um, what time does the next freight train leave? Yeah. I.
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: I have some.
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: Valuable freight I want to put on board. Oh. An hour, huh?
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: Are you sure the time? Exactly one hour? Well, I...
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: I guess there wouldn't be time tonight. Thanks anyway.
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: Dixie, you just couldn't get to that train.
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: It's my only chance, but I need an hour. An
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: hour of safety to get to it.
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: I'll be right back.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: Where are you going?
• 20:16
  Speaker 9: To find a policeman or to talk to those men
• 20:18
  Speaker 9: or to do something.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: The police are all over in another town. They couldn't
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: get here in time.
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: You just wait here. I'll be right back.
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: Emily, if... If anybody caught me on my knees like
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: this talking to you, I suppose they'd think I was crazy.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: But I'm not. Emily, you know it was an accident.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: Pure and simple. It wasn't my fault. Only nobody really
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: believes it. They're waiting for me outside. Your people... And
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: they want me in exchange for you. Only it isn't
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: an exchange. It's just blood revenge. An eye for an eye.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: And it doesn't make sense. I know that saying all
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: this will never do you any good. But, Emily, I
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: just wanted you to hear how sorry I am. How
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: deeply and tragically sorry I am. Emily, have a good
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: long rest. Maybe someday I'll meet you in person again
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: and we'll talk about it. And that someday might be today.
• 21:40
  Speaker 12: Hey.
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: What are you doing down in the.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: Lobby, young lady?
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: Where are you going?
• 21:53
  Speaker 9: Mr. Abdo, we've just got to do something. Get some
• 21:56
  Speaker 9: police or get rid of those men out there.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: I have long ago sent somebody for the police, but
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: I don't expect them to get here.
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: Why don't you let him stay here longer?
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: Because I can only hold these men a while.
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: After that, they come in. I don't want to see it.
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: Why do these men want him?
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: I don't want to talk anymore.
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: Well, I'm going to find out. Where are you going, lady?
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: I want to ask you why you want Dixie. That
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: ought to be plain. He didn't kill that girl. It
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: wasn't his fault. You must have a better reason. Whose
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: little girl was it?
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: Yours?
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: Or yours?
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: Whose?
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: Is that why you want him? Because it was one
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: of your children?
• 22:45
  Speaker 12: Lady, you'd better go on about your business and leave
• 22:48
  Speaker 12: ours to us. We got our own reasons for getting
• 22:51
  Speaker 12: that skunk. What'd you find out, Julia? What happened?
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: Abdo's been trying to get the police.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: They won't come. Don't worry. How many of their neighbors
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: do you think they'll shoot down to save me?
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: I don't know, Dixie. I don't know.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: Look, I got five minutes, that's all. Five minutes to
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: walk out of here. And I need an hour.
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: I'm sure the ringleader of that gang... I talked with him.
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: I'm sure he's the father.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: Oh, let's see. I give up.
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: But you can't, Dixie. You can't.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: What do you expect me to do? Perform a miracle?
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: It's after. Let me in.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: Are you.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Are you ready to go, son?
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: No, I'm not ready to go. I still got five minutes.
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: You must have made a mistake with the time. Your
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: time is up.
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: It is like.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: Look at this watch. Look at it. Still better than
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: four minutes.
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: I'm sorry.
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: But now is the time.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: Before they come in the hotel after you.
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: I don't get it. I don't get this whole setup.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: Why did you bother to stop them once if you
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: send me out to them now?
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: I did what I felt I must do. For me,
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: that was enough.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: Well, I'm not going. Do you understand? I'm not going.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: They'll have to work to get me. Haven't you done
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: enough to me already? To you? The little girl you.
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: who was killed.
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: Was my little girl.
• 24:31
  Speaker 8: Oh.
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: Mr. Abdo, I'm... I'm really sorry. I'll go. You won't
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: have any more trouble from me.
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: I'm going with you, Dixie.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: I had to turn off the lights in the lobby.
• 24:51
  Speaker 8: Had to bite them.
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: Shall we take the elevator?
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: No, I need the stairs. I want to make it
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: last as long as I can. Dixie.
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: Not see I want to cry.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: Who do I? But it wouldn't help. I'm having trouble
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: enough seeing now.
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: I'll go out with you and fight. Let me, Dixon.
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: You're going to stay right here in this lobby. You
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: said you'd do anything for me, and that's what I
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: want you to do.
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: How are you going to do it?
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: I'm going out. Turn right alongside the building, and then
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: I'm going to run. Run, you hear me? Then maybe somewhere, somehow,
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: I can find help. So long, Julia.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: Dixie, I love you.
• 25:37
  Speaker 7: Good.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: Take it easy.
• 25:40
  Speaker 8: Hold it and stay right where you are. Why should I?
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: Shut up.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: Now, if you know what's good for you, walk over
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: to that car and make a track.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: Take that gun out of my face.
• 25:57
  Speaker 8: Do what I tell you and stop talking. There he is.
• 26:02
  Speaker 8: All right, everyone, stay where you are. Hey, what do
• 26:04
  Speaker 8: you think you're trying to do?
• 26:05
  Speaker 15: I said stay where you are or I'll put a
• 26:07
  Speaker 15: bullet to the face of the first man who moves.
• 26:08
  Speaker 7: Are you going to let a guy get away with
• 26:10
  Speaker 7: a crime like that?
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: Baby killing? Whatever or not.
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: Come on, guys.
• 26:16
  Speaker 15: The next one will go through somebody's head. I want
• 26:18
  Speaker 15: you to notice this badge on my coat. You people
• 26:21
  Speaker 15: pay me to protect you and everybody against lawlessness in
• 26:24
  Speaker 15: this town. And I'm going to earn my money whether
• 26:26
  Speaker 15: you want me to or not. Some more police will
• 26:29
  Speaker 15: be here in two minutes and anybody standing around will
• 26:31
  Speaker 15: be arrested.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: Now go on home. Break this up.
• 26:34
  Speaker 8: All the fun is over.
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: Can you drive? Thank you, officer.
• 26:41
  Speaker 8: I said can you drive?
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: Well, I could yesterday, but I don't know now. My knees... Well, try.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: I've got to be ready for anything.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: Where do I go? To jail.
• 26:50
  Speaker 8: That's all right, mister.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: You'll be safe there. Hello. Hello, Julia. Would you care
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: to go and get that sandwich we talked about a
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: thousand years ago?
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: Oh, I'd love to, Dixie. What did they say?
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: The coroner acquitted me ten minutes ago. Accidental homicide.
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: Oh, that's wonderful. Well, what are you going to do now, Dixie?
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: Oh, just catch up with the band and drift, I guess.
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: Dixie, I don't suppose I could.
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: Go back with the band?
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: Well, just singing, that's all.
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: You could do a bigger job than that if you
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: want to.
• 27:42
  Speaker 12: You mean it?
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: Sure.
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: Look, here's your wedding ring. You know, I never threw
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: it away.
• 28:07
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