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The Shadow - "The Plot Murder" (Old Time Radio) · The Shadow | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Lieutenant John Wilson faces a court-martial on a charge of
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: sabotaging an experimental radio-guided flying torpedo, but his dazed manner
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  Speaker 1: gives Margot Lane reason to look further. On February 27, 1938,
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  Speaker 1: the Mutual Broadcasting System presented The Shadow in Episode 23,
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  Speaker 1: The Plot Murder, with Orson Welles as Lamont Cranston and
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: Agnes Moorhead as Margot Lane, Their investigation leads from the
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  Speaker 1: military hearing to Professor Arkels, the weapons inventor, and preparations
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: for its demonstration. Blue Coal brings you an early visit
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: with Lamont Cranston, whose other identity is known to those
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  Speaker 1: who require his help. Here is the original broadcast.
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: The Shadow knows.
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: The Shadow knows.
• 1:14
  Speaker 3: Again, blue coal dealers present radio's strangest adventurer, The Shadow.
• 1:19
  Speaker 3: Mystery man who strikes terror into the very hearts of shoppers, lawbreakers,
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  Speaker 3: and criminals.
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  Speaker 2: Today, Blue Coal brings you the Shadow's latest.
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  Speaker 3: Adventure, The Plot Murder. In just a moment, the Shadow's
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  Speaker 3: exciting adventure will begin. Meanwhile, I have something important to
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  Speaker 3: tell all you homeowners. During this treacherous winter season, you
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  Speaker 3: So next time you're buying fuel, ask for blue coal
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  Speaker 3: by name.
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  Speaker 2: It's Pennsylvania's finest anthracite. Order a trial ton from your
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  Speaker 2: nearest blue coal dealer tomorrow. An important announcement.
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  Speaker 3: Just before going on the air with today's adventure of
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  Speaker 3: The Shadow, we received a telegram from the American Police
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  Speaker 3: Review presenting The Shadow with a special award. Be sure
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  Speaker 3: to hear this official presentation at the close of this program.
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  Speaker 3: And now, Blue Cole presents The Shadow in the Plot Murder.
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  Speaker 4: Captain Hines, read the findings of this court martial.
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  Speaker 5: We find the accused, Lieutenant John Wilson, guilty of treasonable
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  Speaker 5: sabotage against the government.
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  Speaker 6: No!
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  Speaker 5: In that he willfully destroyed a secret device known as
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  Speaker 5: the Flying Torpedo, invented by one George Arkelius and acquired
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  Speaker 5: exclusively for use by the government.
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  Speaker 4: Has the prisoner anything to say before sentence is pronounced?
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I.
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  Speaker 3: But what can he say?
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  Speaker 2: He admits he broke the mechanism on the demonstration torpedo.
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  Speaker 4: Quiet, please, Professor Arkelius. As the inventor, we understand your
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  Speaker 4: concern in this matter. But please don't interrupt. Well, Lieutenant Wilson, I.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, sir.
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  Speaker 8: I can hear all that's going on, but I.
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  Speaker 2: I went into the... It's obvious, General Leavitt, that Lieutenant
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  Speaker 2: Wilson is not mentally accountable.
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  Speaker 4: He was sufficiently accountable to enter the testing shed by
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  Speaker 4: virtue of his authority as an army lieutenant and to
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  Speaker 4: tamper with the flying torpedo and render it useless the
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  Speaker 4: very day it was to be demonstrated to the government.
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  Speaker 8: Read the sentence of the court.
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  Speaker 2: Lieutenant Wilson.
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  Speaker 5: This court decides, subject to the approval of the president,
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  Speaker 5: that you'll be dishonorably discharged from the service of your
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  Speaker 5: country and sentenced to imprisonment for the term.
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  Speaker 6: No! No!
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  Speaker 8: He's got a revolver!
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  Speaker 2: Don't shoot!
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  Speaker 8: That's the man, Professor Arcanus! He's wounded, Professor Arcanus!
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  Speaker 4: All right, take Lieutenant.
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  Speaker 8: Wilson back to his cell.
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  Speaker 9: Lamont Cranston, I tell you, John Wilson can't be guilty.
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  Speaker 9: He just can't.
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  Speaker 10: Why not, Margaret? After all, traitorous army officers are not
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  Speaker 10: unknown to history.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, but the peculiar way John Wilson talked on the
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  Speaker 9: stand makes me think there's something strange about the whole thing.
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  Speaker 9: He acted, well, almost like a man in a trance. Lamont,
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  Speaker 9: just what is this flying torpedo he's supposed to have
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  Speaker 9: tampered with?
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  Speaker 10: Just what its name implies, a sort of aerial torpedo
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  Speaker 10: filled with high explosive flying under its own power. Once
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  Speaker 10: it's launched into the air, instead of flying a predetermined course,
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  Speaker 10: its direction can be guided by radio beams from an
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  Speaker 10: observation plane flying high above it.
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  Speaker 6: I see.
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  Speaker 10: Imagine its tremendous effectiveness in warfare, deadly accuracy, and hitting
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  Speaker 10: even a fast-moving target like a troop train or a
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  Speaker 10: supply ship.
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  Speaker 9: Sounds tremendously important.
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  Speaker 8: Who invented it?
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  Speaker 10: This man, Archelis, who was demonstrated last week at the
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  Speaker 10: proving grounds before.
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  Speaker 2: A large delegation from the Capitol.
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  Speaker 10: Besides the members of the War Department, a great many
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  Speaker 10: high officials and other branches of the government were to
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  Speaker 10: attend the test.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 10: Since your friend Wilson gained access to the laboratory and
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  Speaker 10: put the flying torpedo out of commission, the test has
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  Speaker 10: been postponed until tomorrow.
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  Speaker 9: And who is Arcalus? Where did he come from?
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  Speaker 2: A famous foreign inventor. He's quite a reputation broad.
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  Speaker 9: Lamont, you don't suppose it's possible Arcalus has the boy
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  Speaker 9: under some strong mental influence?
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  Speaker 8: It's possible.
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  Speaker 9: They've got Wilson temporarily in the city jail. Won't you
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  Speaker 9: call on him as the shadow?
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  Speaker 10: Margot, do you honestly think this case warrants my attention
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  Speaker 10: as the Shadow?
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  Speaker 9: Lamont, I don't ask many favors, but I have the
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  Speaker 9: feeling John Wilson is innocent.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Margot. You're really serious.
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  Speaker 10: The Shadow will pay a call on John Wilson in
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  Speaker 10: the city jail.
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  Speaker 2: Lieutenant Wilson is in that last cell, Professor Arcalus. Thank you, God.
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  Speaker 2: This passport General Leavitt gave me. Do you take it or.
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  Speaker 8: Do I keep it?
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  Speaker 2: You better keep it, sir, in case you want to
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  Speaker 2: use it again. Yes, that's right. You'll have to talk
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  Speaker 2: to Wilson through the bars.
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  Speaker 4: No one's allowed in this cell.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. I have no desire to go in. They
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  Speaker 2: already have one arm in his sling due to the
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  Speaker 2: young man's temper. There's only one or two questions I
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  Speaker 2: want to ask him, then I'll leave.
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  Speaker 8: I will.
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 8: Who is it? You!
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  Speaker 2: I'll kill it! Don't get excited, Lieutenant Wilson. I only
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  Speaker 2: came to tell you that you're a much better mechanic
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  Speaker 2: than a marksman. You're a bullet on the edge of
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  Speaker 2: my arm.
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  Speaker 8: I'm only sorry I didn't... didn't.
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  Speaker 2: Kill me? The only way you can break the spell
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  Speaker 2: I have over you, isn't it? To kill me.
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  Speaker 3: Will somebody come?
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  Speaker 2: Look in my eyes.
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  Speaker 9: No.
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  Speaker 6: Look.
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  Speaker 8: No, I won't.
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  Speaker 2: John Wilson, look in my eyes.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 2: Look in my eyes, Wilson.
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  Speaker 6: That's right.
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  Speaker 8: Now repeat after me.
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  Speaker 2: I destroyed the torpedoes. I destroyed the torpedo. Say it. I.
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  Speaker 8: I destroyed the torpedo.
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  Speaker 2: Sabotage against my country.
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  Speaker 5: Sabotage against my country.
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  Speaker 2: I am guilty.
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  Speaker 7: I am guilty.
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  Speaker 2: Then that is all you remember.
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  Speaker 6: Are you sure that's all he remembers, Professor Arcalus?
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  Speaker 2: Who said that? Guard! You are there?
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  Speaker 6: No, not the guard, Professor. He's waiting at the end
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  Speaker 6: of the passage.
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  Speaker 2: Are you hiding somewhere? In the next cell, perhaps?
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  Speaker 4: No, I'm here.
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  Speaker 6: In the shadows, Professor Arcalus. Perhaps you've heard of me.
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  Speaker 6: Who are you?
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  Speaker 8: Help me.
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  Speaker 4: Help me.
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  Speaker 6: I am your friend, John Wilson. Think now.
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  Speaker 2: Concentrate.
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  Speaker 6: What is it you're trying to remember?
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  Speaker 8: It's that torpedo.
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  Speaker 6: Dangerous.
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  Speaker 2: Wilson, be quiet.
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  Speaker 4: Steady now.
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  Speaker 11: Think.
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  Speaker 2: Think.
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  Speaker 6: You can break through this, Bill.
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  Speaker 8: I tried to make them understand.
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  Speaker 9: Stop.
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  Speaker 2: I destroyed the torpedo because... I command you to stop. John.
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  Speaker 6: John. Your friends believe in you.
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  Speaker 4: They're trying to help you.
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  Speaker 8: Wilson, what have you committed? Sabotage against my country. I
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  Speaker 8: am guilty. I am guilty.
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  Speaker 2: So, Mr. Shadow, whoever you are, You'll see.
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  Speaker 6: You have a powerful spell over the boy, Professor. But
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  Speaker 6: there is a way to break it.
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  Speaker 2: What way, Shadow?
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  Speaker 6: If you don't know, I have no intention of telling you... yet.
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  Speaker 6: Margo Lane. Margo Lane, stand by.
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  Speaker 11: Arcalus has put Wilson under some strong mental influence, a
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  Speaker 11: sort of hypnotic telepathy.
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  Speaker 6: The voice of... conscious is dominated by the thoughts Arcalis
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  Speaker 6: plants there. We must weaken Arcalis.
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  Speaker 11: Hold on Wilson's mind, so we can find out if
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  Speaker 11: he's guilty or not. Stand ready for another call.
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  Speaker 2: Tonight I'm going to pay a surprise.
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  Speaker 6: Visit to Professor Arcalis at his hotel.
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  Speaker 11: I have a feeling that if we're not successful in
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  Speaker 11: getting Wilson to talk, this country of ours may suffer
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  Speaker 11: a terrible disaster.
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  Speaker 2: Father, lock the door. All right. Did anyone follow you
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  Speaker 2: here to the hotel?
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  Speaker 8: No, no one, Professor Achilles.
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  Speaker 6: Good.
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  Speaker 2: The test will take place tomorrow?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, at three o'clock.
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  Speaker 7: The War Department is so convinced your invention will render
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  Speaker 7: any nation possessing an invincible at the high command of
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  Speaker 7: both the Army and Navy are to be there to
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  Speaker 7: witness the test.
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  Speaker 2: The President, too?
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  Speaker 12: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: The President and the Vice President expect to attend, together
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  Speaker 7: with the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy.
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  Speaker 2: Sir, they've fallen into my trap. They'll be blown off
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  Speaker 2: the face of the earth just as I planned. Arloff,
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  Speaker 2: be sure you make a final inspection before the torpedo
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  Speaker 2: is taken out to the grounds. and see that the
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  Speaker 2: steering mechanism is set.
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  Speaker 8: I understand. But since I am your chief assistant, they
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  Speaker 8: might ask me.
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  Speaker 2: To go along with them. No, they won't.
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  Speaker 8: I'll fix that.
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  Speaker 2: Their bungling army mechanics think they understand the flying torpedo perfectly.
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  Speaker 8: So to satisfy.
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  Speaker 2: Their pride, I've let them take complete charge of the demonstration.
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  Speaker 10: Good.
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  Speaker 2: Don't worry about us.
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  Speaker 8: And afterwards.
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  Speaker 2: Afterwards, with the guiding brains of the nation wiped out
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  Speaker 2: at a single stroke, the country will be thrown into confusion, disorganized.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll have nothing to fear.
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  Speaker 6: I see.
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  Speaker 2: There are only two things that bother me slightly, though.
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  Speaker 2: Lieutenant Wilson, for once.
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  Speaker 4: Wilson?
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  Speaker 8: Did he really discover the secret trick.
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  Speaker 2: Of the steering mechanism? Yes, he knows what we intend
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  Speaker 2: to do and how we intend to do it.
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  Speaker 8: You should have disposed of.
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  Speaker 2: Him at once.
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  Speaker 7: I thought of that.
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  Speaker 8: I was afraid it would arouse suspicion.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm keeping Wilson under mental hypnotic control until it's
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  Speaker 2: too late for him to stop us.
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  Speaker 8: Would it be better if he were dead?
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  Speaker 9: Perhaps.
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  Speaker 6: Perhaps.
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  Speaker 2: I can still visit him at the prison.
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  Speaker 8: And what is the other thing that bothers you, Professor?
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  Speaker 2: Only a shadow, Barov. But I'm not quite sure of
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  Speaker 2: the extent of its power.
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  Speaker 8: A shadow?
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  Speaker 2: Don't worry. I think I can take care.
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  Speaker 6: Of it, too.
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  Speaker 9: Listen.
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  Speaker 2: I thought I heard footsteps outside in the hall.
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  Speaker 6: Go and look. There's no one here.
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  Speaker 8: All is empty. Must be my nerves.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be glad when this is all over.
• 12:39
  Speaker 8: Our escape is taken care of.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the freighter will be waiting for us at South Pier.
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  Speaker 2: But go now, Carl. And success to you.
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  Speaker 6: Good night, Barlow.
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  Speaker 2: Good night, Barlow.
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  Speaker 8: The shadow.
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  Speaker 2: If I can't put my willpower against the Shadow, then
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  Speaker 2: I deserve to lose.
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  Speaker 8: And I've never yet.
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  Speaker 6: Good evening, Professor Arcalus.
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  Speaker 8: You?
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  Speaker 2: Shadow, you've come?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, Professor. Why do you hold Lieutenant Wilson in a
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  Speaker 6: hypnotic spell, Professor?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what you're talking about, Shadow.
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  Speaker 6: We shall see. And now I have something else to
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  Speaker 6: tell you.
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  Speaker 9: What?
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  Speaker 6: Wilson knows something about you, Professor. And I'm going to
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  Speaker 6: find out what it is.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Shadow. You know a little, but you'll never
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  Speaker 2: learn more from Wilson. No one can break the spell.
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  Speaker 2: Not you, not all your childish magic.
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  Speaker 6: You'll forget. Greater magic, Archelous.
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  Speaker 7: What?
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  Speaker 6: Death.
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  Speaker 4: Death?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, it's on the way, Professor. And I can promise
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  Speaker 6: you this. If any blood is shed, it will be yours.
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  Speaker 6: Not the shadows.
• 14:07
  Speaker 3: The second part of the shadows adventure will continue in
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  Speaker 3: just a moment. Meanwhile, here's some interesting information. Every day,
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• 14:17
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• 14:20
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• 14:22
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• 14:27
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• 14:30
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• 14:33
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• 14:38
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• 15:26
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• 15:35
  Speaker 2: Blue Coal But I tell you, General Levitt.
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  Speaker 4: Excuse me, Cranston.
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  Speaker 8: Go right ahead, General.
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: Hello. General Levitt speaking.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, Captain Hines. That's fine. You have the flying
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  Speaker 4: torpedo loaded and ready for the demonstration?
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  Speaker 6: Good.
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  Speaker 2: I'll expect a report.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry I can't be with you. Good night. Now, Cranston,
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  Speaker 4: to get back to this Lieutenant Wilson... I don't see
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  Speaker 4: what I can do.
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  Speaker 2: But there may be some desperate plot at the bottom
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  Speaker 2: of this.
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  Speaker 10: Wilson acts as if he'd been put under some powerful,
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  Speaker 10: if not expelled, he might know something about this flying
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  Speaker 10: torpedo that you ought to know.
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  Speaker 4: For heaven's sake, Cranston, I haven't time to listen to
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  Speaker 4: any such drivel. I know you're a very agreeable young
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: man and you mean well, but you're letting your imagination
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  Speaker 4: run away with you. Now, if you don't mind, I
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: must get ready to leave for the capital.
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  Speaker 2: Very well. Just do me one favor, General Leavitt. I
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  Speaker 2: might prove something to you.
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  Speaker 4: Well, what is it?
• 16:33
  Speaker 10: Suggest to Professor Arcalus that he be present with the
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  Speaker 10: other official visitors at the proving ground.
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  Speaker 2: The demonstration starts.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, Professor Arcalus will be there. Why shouldn't he be?
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  Speaker 10: That's what I'd like to know. Unless I'm very much mistaken, General,
• 16:46
  Speaker 10: Professor Arcalus has made arrangements to be far, far away
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  Speaker 10: from the scene of his triumph.
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  Speaker 4: George Cranston, I believe you know something.
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  Speaker 2: Excuse me, sir.
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  Speaker 6: Well?
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: There are two gentlemen here to see you, sir. Professor
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: Arcalus and another man.
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: All right, show them in. General Levitt will see you, General.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. I'm sorry to interrupt you, General Levitt.
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  Speaker 8: That's all right.
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  Speaker 4: This is Mr. Cranston, Professor Archelis and Mr.
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  Speaker 11: Barloff.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: How do you do?
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: How do you do?
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  Speaker 2: If you don't mind, Mr. Cranston, I'd like to speak
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  Speaker 2: to General Leavitt alone.
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  Speaker 8: Not at all.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: I'm sure you have weighty matters to discuss. Good day, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks, Cranston. Goodbye.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, orderly.
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: Yes, General Leavitt.
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: Is my luggage ready?
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Fine. Then take the next train. There's one leaving in
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: 20 minutes. Can you make it?
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: Yes, sir. If I go now, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Go ahead, then. I'll close the office. I'll meet you
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  Speaker 4: in the capital tomorrow.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: Well, what brings you here, Professor? Oh, sit down, Mr.
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: Barlow. Thank you, sir.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Barlow here has just returned from the proving ground, General.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: He supervised the loading of the torpedo early this morning.
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: Everything was all right, I hope?
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: Perfect. Your army mechanics seem very proud they're going to
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: handle the torpedo by themselves. Of course, we'll be anxious
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: to know how it comes out.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: Oh, aren't you going to be at the demonstration, Professor O'Kevin?
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: I'm afraid not, sir. Another engagement, unfortunately, prevents my attending. Oh, yes,
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: I see.
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: But I can't understand how anything would be more important
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: to you than seeing your own invention demonstrated before the
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: highest officials of our government.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: I admit I'm terribly disappointed, General. However, I've left instructions
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: for a telephone message to be sent to me at
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: my hotel the minute the demonstration is over.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: Professor, I'm not sure that this test should be made
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: without your being there.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: What do you mean?
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: Suppose I order you to go.
• 18:26
  Speaker 8: But no, that's impossible.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: Why impossible, Mr.
• 18:28
  Speaker 9: Barlow?
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: You must excuse Barlow, General Leavitt. He is a little excited.
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: Excited? What about? Look here, Professor Arcalus. Why don't you
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: want to go to the proving ground?
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Must I repeat my previous statement?
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: This stalling and hedging is very suspicious. Why, George, you'll
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: go whether you want to or not.
• 18:44
  Speaker 8: Don't touch that phone.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Barlow, be careful.
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: You can't give me orders in my own office.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: You hit him too hard, Barlow.
• 18:53
  Speaker 8: His head was bleeding. He struck the desk when he fell.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, drag him in his clasp and.
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: Knock on the door.
• 18:59
  Speaker 8: He knows something, Professor. Yeah, the fool suspects something, but how?
• 19:03
  Speaker 8: We've got to act quickly.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: I wonder if Lieutenant Wilson has talked.
• 19:05
  Speaker 7: But you said he's still under your hypnotic spell.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: Perhaps it would be better if Lieutenant Wilson died.
• 19:10
  Speaker 11: Yes.
• 19:11
  Speaker 8: We're going to murder him. No, I merely suggest that
• 19:14
  Speaker 8: he kill himself.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Oh, by love of your tie-up, the General.
• 19:18
  Speaker 8: Professor, look at him.
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: What?
• 19:21
  Speaker 8: General Levitt.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Well, here's General Leavitt's office, Margot.
• 19:35
  Speaker 9: No one seems to be here, Lamont.
• 19:36
  Speaker 8: Well, that's odd.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: General was here less than an hour ago. General! General Leavitt!
• 19:42
  Speaker 9: Look! Here on the corner of the desk.
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: Blood. Word to Commissioner Weston at once.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Tell him something has happened to General Levitt.
• 19:49
  Speaker 9: Yes, anything else?
• 19:49
  Speaker 10: Yes, tell him to send a squad of men to
• 19:51
  Speaker 10: South Pier. I overheard Professor Arcalus and Barlow talking about
• 19:54
  Speaker 10: meeting on a freighter there.
• 19:55
  Speaker 8: Where are you going?
• 19:56
  Speaker 10: I'm going to the jail. I'm going to make one
• 19:57
  Speaker 10: more desperate attempt to get John Wilson to talk. You've
• 20:01
  Speaker 10: got to find out what this is all about before.
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: It's too late.
• 20:11
  Speaker 8: Do you want me to wait here at the jail,
• 20:12
  Speaker 8: Professor Achilles?
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: No, go down to South Pier, Barloff. I want to
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: be alone with Lieutenant Wilson.
• 20:17
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: I'll follow after I've taken care of him.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: But first, I'll collect the baggage. But you remember only this,
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Lieutenant Wilson. See always my eyes in front of you. Yes,
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: you will forever do what I tell you to.
• 20:39
  Speaker 9: Stop!
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: Stop!
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Leave me alone. No, never.
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: Look, Wilson. See what I have.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: A knife.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: Here.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: Take it.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Now listen to me. You are disgraced. Your family disgraced.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: You have nothing more.
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: To live for.
• 21:00
  Speaker 8: Say it.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: I have nothing more to live for. I.
• 21:08
  Speaker 8: I.
• 21:10
  Speaker 11: Have.
• 21:11
  Speaker 8: Nothing more to live for.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Well, then draw the knife across your wrists.
• 21:18
  Speaker 8: It's easy.
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: Try it. Stop, John. Don't do it.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: Shut up.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: He's trying to make me.
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: Keep away from me, Wilson.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: I've got you by the arm. Get away from me, Wilson.
• 21:29
  Speaker 13: Calus, did you feel.
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: The knife yourself? Yes, you've cut me, you fool. Your
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: blood is being shed, Professor. Remember what I told you.
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: Let me out of here.
• 21:37
  Speaker 8: Let me out.
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: He's gone, John.
• 21:39
  Speaker 8: Help me.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Something's happened to me.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: I feel like I can talk now.
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: Then talk. Tell me what you know. Arcalus' spell has weakened.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: I can't see you.
• 21:48
  Speaker 13: I don't know who you are, but you've got to
• 21:51
  Speaker 13: help me. I first suspected Arcalus and his crowd when
• 21:55
  Speaker 13: I saw that the steering mechanism of the flying torpedo
• 21:57
  Speaker 13: had an extra attachment.
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: An extra attachment?
• 21:59
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 21:59
  Speaker 13: You see, the flying torpedo is supposed to be steered
• 22:02
  Speaker 13: by radio beams from an accompanying plane. But this extra
• 22:05
  Speaker 13: attachment I'm talking about would... would render the radio beams ineffective.
• 22:09
  Speaker 13: In other words, the rudder is set so the torpedo
• 22:11
  Speaker 13: will fly in a complete circle and come back and
• 22:12
  Speaker 13: strike the point from which it was sent, like a boomerang.
• 22:15
  Speaker 11: If it does that in the demonstration today, it will
• 22:17
  Speaker 11: wipe out all the important government officials.
• 22:19
  Speaker 13: Yes, that's their plan. Just as I made the discovery,
• 22:21
  Speaker 13: our caliph came in, into the workshop. I accused him,
• 22:24
  Speaker 13: and he put me under this spell.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: I tried to talk, but I couldn't.
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: Never mind that. Now get in touch with Commissioner Weston.
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: Have him go to the proving grounds.
• 22:33
  Speaker 10: He can stop the test flight of this flying torpedo
• 22:36
  Speaker 10: if he gets there soon.
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: Enough.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: What's the idea of having us wait around here at
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: the South Pier?
• 22:55
  Speaker 8: There don't seem to be anything stirring.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: Who are the guys we're supposed to pick up?
• 22:58
  Speaker 8: Two birds for the name of Professor Arcalus and Barloff.
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: Foreigners, huh?
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah. What are they going to do, make a getaway?
• 23:05
  Speaker 8: I don't know. Commissioner Weston just said to make sure
• 23:07
  Speaker 8: we got him, that's all.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: If it had been that important, don't you think the
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: commissioner would have come down here himself?
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: Well, he was coming, but he got a last-minute call
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: to go over the place where they're trying out that
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: new flying torpedo.
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, I read about that.
• 23:17
  Speaker 8: All these inventions. Now, wait a minute.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Somebody coming down the dock.
• 23:21
  Speaker 8: Hey, you.
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: Hey, stop where you are or I'll shoot.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: What's this all about? Nothing. Where are you going?
• 23:29
  Speaker 8: That is my business. What's your name?
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Come on, what's your name?
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: Are you Balof?
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: What is it to you? Answer me, are you Balof?
• 23:38
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Well, that's all we wanted to know.
• 23:40
  Speaker 11: Yeah, come on.
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: Where do you take him? I haven't done nothing.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: He's got a gun, Sergeant.
• 23:48
  Speaker 8: I'm sorry, Sergeant.
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: I had to do it. That's okay.
• 23:50
  Speaker 8: This Arcalist will probably be along in a minute. Put
• 23:52
  Speaker 8: this boy behind those bitches. We don't want Arcalist.
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: Hey, look out.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Here comes another guy down the dock. All right, quick.
• 23:57
  Speaker 8: Behind this piling here. This one must be Arcalist.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess so.
• 24:03
  Speaker 8: Professor Arcalis.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Who are you? The police. They want to ask you what... Well,
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: you can't get me to talk. You'll never make me
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: do that.
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: Look out, look out, Sergeant. He's got a gun there.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Drop that gun, Arcalis. You can't take me. The police
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: can't touch me.
• 24:13
  Speaker 8: You asked for it.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Oh, you nailed him, Sergeant.
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: Did he get you?
• 24:17
  Speaker 8: Oh, I'm okay.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Here comes the parole. Let's have heard the shots.
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: Oh, they didn't have time.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: Oh, Commissioner Weston?
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: Yes, Sergeant.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: She got her man.
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: Yep.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Is he dead? I don't think so, sir.
• 24:32
  Speaker 8: Well, Arcalus, maybe you'll talk.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: I'll never talk.
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: Commissioner Weston.
• 24:41
  Speaker 8: Shadow, what are you doing here?
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: We can't waste time, Commissioner. Did you stop the test
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: of the flying torpedo?
• 24:47
  Speaker 11: Yes, but... Good.
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: Commissioner, you've saved the lives of thousands of spectators. To
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: say nothing of some of our highest government officials.
• 24:57
  Speaker 8: Then it was you.
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: Yes, I had a friend of mine call you. And now,
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: Professor Archelous, I have a story. You haven't much time.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: I know. I'm dying, Shadow.
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: It was a plot against our national defense, wasn't it?
• 25:18
  Speaker 8: It was.
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: Who employed you to do it?
• 25:20
  Speaker 8: That I won't tell you.
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: But Lieutenant Wilson is innocent.
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: Wilson is innocent. Commissioner, you're a witness. Lieutenant Wilson is cleared. Yes, shuttle.
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: And what about General Levitt?
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Barloff killed him.
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: Where is Barloff?
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: They got him behind these boxes.
• 25:39
  Speaker 8: How.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: How did you know about General Levitt, shuttle?
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: We found blood on his desk. But this time the
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: blood is yours, Archelis.
• 25:50
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Mine.
• 25:56
  Speaker 8: Well, Sheryl, Arcalus is dead.
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: Yes, Commissioner.
• 26:01
  Speaker 10: And you've been instrumental in averting a national calamity.
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: Arcalus is dead. The innocence of Lieutenant Wilson has been proved.
• 26:10
  Speaker 11: And the integrity of the men who protect our liberty
• 26:14
  Speaker 11: is again vindicated.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: And now here is John Barclay, Blue Coal's heating expert,
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: with helpful heating hints for you.
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: Thank you, Ken Roberts.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Good evening, friends.
• 26:34
  Speaker 12: I've received numerous letters from homeowners asking what they can
• 26:37
  Speaker 12: do to prevent chimney loss, wasted heat that goes up
• 26:41
  Speaker 12: the chimney instead of through the pipes of your heating system.
• 26:45
  Speaker 12: It is really a simple matter to prevent this, and
• 26:48
  Speaker 12: you will save money on your fuel bills, too. The
• 26:51
  Speaker 12: next time you refuel the fire, move the handle of
• 26:54
  Speaker 12: the turn damper, that plate-like damper inside the smoke pipe,
• 26:59
  Speaker 12: one-sixteenth of an inch toward the.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: Closed upright position.
• 27:04
  Speaker 12: Then if the fire still burns too freely, close the
• 27:07
  Speaker 12: turn damper another sixteenth of an inch. Repeat this operation
• 27:12
  Speaker 12: until you've found the correct adjustment. Once you've found this
• 27:17
  Speaker 12: ideal adjustment of the turn damper, Mark the position on
• 27:20
  Speaker 12: the smoke pipe with a piece of chalk or something
• 27:23
  Speaker 12: that can be plainly seen. Then leave the damper set
• 27:26
  Speaker 12: at that mark. Remember, the nearer the turn damper is
• 27:31
  Speaker 12: set to a closed position, the smaller the chimney loss
• 27:34
  Speaker 12: and the greater the volume of useful heat. If you
• 27:38
  Speaker 12: follow the suggestions that I give you every Sunday on
• 27:41
  Speaker 12: this program, they should enable you to heat your home
• 27:44
  Speaker 12: with the utmost efficiency and economy.
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: However.
• 27:48
  Speaker 8: If you're experiencing.
• 27:49
  Speaker 12: Trouble with your heating plant, call your nearest blue coal
• 27:53
  Speaker 12: dealer and ask him to send a John Barclay trained
• 27:55
  Speaker 12: serviceman to your home to inspect your furnace. This service
• 27:59
  Speaker 12: is free to all blue coal customers.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: I thank you. Thank you, Mr. Barclay.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: And here's the official telegram advising of the award the
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: American Police Review has made to the shadow program.
• 28:12
  Speaker 12: Quote.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: The American Police Review salutes the producers and sponsors of
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: The Shadow for their contribution to the cause of better
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: law enforcement. 13,000 police executives throughout the United States read
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: The Review. So our purpose is to help them find
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: the best tools and methods to combat crime. The editors
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: of The Review have turned a critical ear toward The
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: Shadow program for some time. and are gratified to note
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: that your presentation of police roles truly reflects the intelligence
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: and character of the high type of police officer.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Now found throughout the land.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: We therefore take pleasure in presenting to you the American
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: Police Review Certificate of Award for Distinguished Service to the
• 28:54
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• 28:56
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• 28:57
  Speaker 3: Norville Birch, editor of the American Police Review, Chicago, Illinois.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: And so, on behalf of Blue Coal Dealers and of
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: all those who assist in the weekly programs of The Shadow,
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: we tender our thanks and appreciation to editor J. Norval
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: Birch and the American Police Review for their splendid testimonial.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: You have just heard a dramatized version.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: Of one of the many copyrighted stories which appear in
• 29:30
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• 29:33
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• 29:36
  Speaker 3: is purely coincidental.
• 29:38
  Speaker 10: As you sow evil, so shall you reap.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: The Shadow knows.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: Next week, same time, same station, Blue Coal, America's finest anthracite,
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: will again present another thrilling.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: Adventure of The Shadow.
• 30:18
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• 30:22
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• 30:24
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• 30:27
  Speaker 1: That brings us to the end of The Shadow's The
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Plot Murder. Good night, and thank you for keeping Classic
• 30:33
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