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The Shadow - "The Fine Art of Murder" (Old Time Radio) · The Shadow | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: At sea, an artist witnesses a woman drowning and, rather
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  Speaker 1: than come to her aid, becomes transfixed by the image
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  Speaker 1: before him. That vision follows him to the canvas and
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  Speaker 1: into a case that places Margot Lane in danger, calling
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  Speaker 1: Lamont Cranston and his unseen alter ego the shadow to action.
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  Speaker 1: Tonight's curtain rises on The Shadow, The Fine Art of Murder,
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  Speaker 1: episode 389, heard on the Mutual Broadcasting System on December 22nd, 1946.
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  Speaker 1: Brett Morrison and Grace Matthews head the cast in a
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  Speaker 1: script credited to Joe Castro Smith. Blue Cole was the sponsor.
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  Speaker 1: And now, the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: The Shadow Who knows what.
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  Speaker 3: Evil lurks in the hearts of men?
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  Speaker 2: The shadow knows.
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  Speaker 4: Now, the Carrie Salt Company, producer of salt for every
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  Speaker 4: farm and home use, brings you the thrilling adventures of
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  Speaker 4: The Shadow, the hard and relentless fight of one man
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  Speaker 4: against the forces of evil. These dramatizations are designed to
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  Speaker 4: demonstrate forcibly to old and young alike that crime does
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  Speaker 4: not pay. In just a minute, today's exciting adventure will begin.
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  Speaker 4: But first, if you're a farmer, here's an important message
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  Speaker 5: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 4: time to cover mailing costs to Keri's, C-A-R-E-Y-S, Keri Salt
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  Speaker 4: 1947 Keri Farm record book right away.
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  Speaker 5: The shadow who aids the forces of law and order
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  Speaker 5: is in reality Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man about town.
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  Speaker 5: Years ago, the Orient Cranston learned a strange and mysterious secret.
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  Speaker 5: The hypnotic power to cloud men's minds so they cannot
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  Speaker 5: see him. Cranston's friend and companion, the lovely Margot Lane,
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  Speaker 5: is the only person who knows to whom the voice
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  Speaker 5: of the invisible shadow belongs. Today's drama, The Fine Art
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  Speaker 5: of Murder. I never meant to harm or frighten anyone.
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  Speaker 5: I never meant to use these two hands of mine
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  Speaker 5: to kill. They were meant to paint pictures, beautiful pictures.
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  Speaker 5: My studio and home is a house along the southern
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  Speaker 5: shore in the lovely Sea Island country. I live alone
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  Speaker 5: there the year round and paint. But one day I
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  Speaker 5: walked down to the forest. I planned to do a seascape.
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  Speaker 5: I found myself alone except for a young girl I
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  Speaker 5: saw kneeling on the end of the dock. She seemed
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  Speaker 5: to be trying to fish something out of the water.
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  Speaker 5: And then I saw her fumble and fall into the sea.
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  Speaker 5: I ran quickly to the edge of the dock. She
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  Speaker 5: was struggling in the water below me. Pete! I... Pete,
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  Speaker 5: help me! I could have saved her, but something stopped me.
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  Speaker 5: It was the sight of her face sinking for the
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  Speaker 5: last time beneath the blue-green water. It was a thing
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  Speaker 5: of beauty now. Her dead face sinking slowly. Slowly to
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  Speaker 5: the bottom of the sea. I killed her, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: I could have saved her so easily.
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  Speaker 5: In my studio that night, I tried to recapture the
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  Speaker 5: beauty of that face under the sea. I couldn't remember it.
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  Speaker 5: The accident had happened too quickly. And then, then I
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  Speaker 5: realized I could never rest until I found the perfect model.
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  Speaker 5: And I would paint.
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  Speaker 2: Her lovely dead face looking up at me from under
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  Speaker 2: the sea.
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  Speaker 5: The End.
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  Speaker 6: This is almost the nicest idea you ever had, darling.
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  Speaker 6: Coming down south here for a few days' rest before
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  Speaker 6: the holidays.
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  Speaker 5: It was pretty much of an inspiration, wasn't it? Think
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  Speaker 5: what Commissioner Weston would say, Margo, if he saw us
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  Speaker 5: lolling around here on the beach. Oh, shrievy. Especially shrievy. Gee,
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  Speaker 5: what a couple of lucky dogs they are, languishing in
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  Speaker 5: the sunny southern beach while I'm driving my hack through
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  Speaker 5: the sleet and the slush I'm driving.
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  Speaker 6: Well, speaking of the sunny southern beach, this one's getting
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  Speaker 6: a little chilly, darling. I think we'd better head back
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  Speaker 6: to the hotel.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, it is a little bleak now the sun's started
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  Speaker 5: to go down.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I'll put the rest of the food back in
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  Speaker 6: the basket if you'll put.
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  Speaker 7: Out the fire.
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  Speaker 5: Right. Hope I don't have as much trouble putting this
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  Speaker 5: fire out as I did getting it lit. Never was
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  Speaker 5: much of a boy scout. Lamont.
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  Speaker 8: Hmm?
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  Speaker 2: Lamont, listen.
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  Speaker 5: What is it, darling? Listen, that sound, like someone crying.
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  Speaker 5: Coming closer.
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  Speaker 6: There she is. The young girl, Lamar. She's very tall.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not mistaken.
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  Speaker 2: She's badly hurt.
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  Speaker 6: Catch her, Lamar.
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  Speaker 5: She's fine. She's faint.
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  Speaker 6: There's a doctor who has a car to set down
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  Speaker 6: the beach, darling. Remember the hotel?
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  Speaker 5: That's right. You pick up our things, Margaret. I'll carry
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  Speaker 5: her to the car. This girl needs medical attention fast.
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  Speaker 2: Come on.
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  Speaker 5: A few days after I watched the first girl drown,
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  Speaker 5: I was on the beach painting a sundown when I
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  Speaker 5: saw her walking along the sand toward me. She stopped
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  Speaker 5: to look at my painting. And as I looked at her,
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  Speaker 5: I realized this was the face I might use to
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  Speaker 5: paint my picture of death under the sea.
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  Speaker 2: The other girl had died so quickly. Perhaps this one.
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  Speaker 5: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Look at the painting. I don't mind.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you. It's very strange.
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  Speaker 2: Just water.
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  Speaker 6: Aren't you going to put anything else in the picture?
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  Speaker 5: Yes. Yes, I am.
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  Speaker 6: Why are you looking at me like that?
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  Speaker 5: Did I say anything wrong?
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  Speaker 2: No, no. I just had an idea. I think your
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  Speaker 2: face would look well in this.
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  Speaker 6: What are you doing?
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  Speaker 5: Look at these long strands of seaweed. Let me put
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  Speaker 5: them around your throat like this.
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  Speaker 2: Stop it. Don't struggle. Don't stop me. I.
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  Speaker 5: He waited, choking me.
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  Speaker 6: Let me go.
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  Speaker 5: Don't, don't struggle like that. Your face must show peace
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  Speaker 5: and calm.
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  Speaker 6: Let me go.
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  Speaker 5: Into the water. It's shallow here, but deep enough for
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  Speaker 5: you to drown. No, get... Let me up. Down, under
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  Speaker 5: the water. Get down.
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  Speaker 6: Under.
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  Speaker 5: For.
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  Speaker 2: Some strange reason, I let her go.
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  Speaker 5: I stood there in the shallow water and saw her
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  Speaker 5: running half crazy down the beach. How is she now, Dr.
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  Speaker 9: James? I can't tell yet, Mr. Cranston, but you're quite right.
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  Speaker 9: Somebody or something has tried to drown her. The attack
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  Speaker 9: had frightened her almost out of her mind.
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  Speaker 6: Doctor, did you notice that she was clutching a blade
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  Speaker 6: or something.
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  Speaker 5: In her hand? Yes, since I have it here. A
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  Speaker 5: pellet knife, the type artists use. I noticed something else.
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  Speaker 9: The dress was smeared with sort of a blue-green paint.
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  Speaker 5: Have you any idea who she is, Dr. James?
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  Speaker 9: I haven't been able to get her to talk, but
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  Speaker 9: I know that she's Kara Mason. She and her aunt
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  Speaker 9: have taken a cottage down the beach. Well, her aunt
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  Speaker 9: should be notified.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Doctor, will it be all right if Miss Lane
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  Speaker 5: and I break the news to Carrison? Why, I'd be
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  Speaker 5: most grateful, Mr. Cranston.
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  Speaker 9: Cottage is number 20, just a short walk down the
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  Speaker 9: shore road.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, thank goodness we're here, darling. I almost ruined my
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  Speaker 5: shoes walking across.
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  Speaker 2: That wet sand.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, good evening. I'm Lamont Cranston. This is Miss Lane.
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  Speaker 5: Have you a niece named Kara Mason? Yes.
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  Speaker 7: I'm Miss Margaret Mason, her aunt and guardian. What do
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  Speaker 7: you want?
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  Speaker 5: I'm afraid, Miss Mason, we have some rather shocking news.
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  Speaker 5: Something's happened to Kara?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I can't watch her every minute. I've been in
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  Speaker 7: my bed with a slipping headache since noon.
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  Speaker 5: She's a Dr. James place in a coma. Someone apparently
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  Speaker 5: tried to strangle or drown your niece tonight. Oh. It is?
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  Speaker 5: Tell me, did you ever see this before, Miss Mason?
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  Speaker 5: It's a palette knife, the kind artists use. Yes.
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  Speaker 6: I've seen it before.
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  Speaker 5: It's his. He did it.
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  Speaker 6: He tried to kill her. Who, Miss Mason?
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  Speaker 7: Boyd Farnsworth, a no-good young artist. He's been madly infatuated
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  Speaker 7: with Kara ever since we moved here. I wander against him.
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  Speaker 7: I forbade her to ever see him again. But I
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  Speaker 7: never dreamed he'd do a thing like this.
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  Speaker 6: If you'll excuse me, Miss Lane, Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Cranston, I'd better say goodnight.
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  Speaker 5: Good night.
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  Speaker 6: Well, that was a quick brush off. Yes, wasn't it?
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  Speaker 5: She certainly didn't.
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  Speaker 6: Seem very concerned about her niece.
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  Speaker 5: No, she didn't.
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  Speaker 6: Come on, darling. What are you conjuring up in that
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  Speaker 6: mastermind of yours?
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  Speaker 5: I was just wondering, Margo, how Miss Mason could positively
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  Speaker 5: identify an artist's palette knife when they all look alike. Oh.
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  Speaker 5: Why she told us she hadn't been out of the house.
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  Speaker 5: And her footprints in the wet sand were still on
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  Speaker 5: the front porch.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe she had some part in this lover's quarrel between
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  Speaker 6: Tara and.
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  Speaker 5: What was his name?
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  Speaker 6: Farnsworth, the young artist.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe there never was a lover's quarrel. Let's make it simple, darling.
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  Speaker 2: How do you mean?
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  Speaker 5: Let's go see Farnsworth and ask him. I got back
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  Speaker 5: to my studio as soon as I could after I'd
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  Speaker 5: let the girl go. I wanted to get started painting
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  Speaker 5: before the inspiration left me. For hours, I desperately tried
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  Speaker 5: to recapture the look of that face under the water.
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  Speaker 2: And then I realized why I'd let her go.
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  Speaker 5: She wasn't the perfect model. I still hadn't found a
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  Speaker 5: face beautiful enough to be worthy of my portrait of
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  Speaker 5: death under the sea. Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Farnsworth doesn't seem to be at home, darling.
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  Speaker 5: The door's partly open. There's a light on inside. Come
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  Speaker 5: on in, Marco. I'd like to have a look at
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  Speaker 5: this studio.
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  Speaker 8: He's certainly been busy. The walls are covered with his paintings.
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  Speaker 5: They're darn good, aren't they? Strong, vivid colors. Certainly doesn't
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  Speaker 5: look like.
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  Speaker 6: Listen, Lamont, what's that?
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  Speaker 5: Sounds like water overflowing a tub.
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  Speaker 6: Look, darling... There's water running out under the door.
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  Speaker 5: It's not just water, Margo. There's blood in it. Stand
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  Speaker 5: back away from the door.
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  Speaker 6: What's in there, Donald?
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  Speaker 5: A man's body in the tub with both wrists slashed.
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  Speaker 5: Call Dr. James at once, Margo. Oh! You did a
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  Speaker 5: fine job, Mr.
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  Speaker 9: Cranston. You and Miss Lane probably saved this young man's life,
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  Speaker 9: buying those tourniquets until I got here.
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  Speaker 6: Tara's aunt told us he'd been running after her niece.
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  Speaker 5: I wonder.
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  Speaker 9: Do you think he was the one who tried to
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  Speaker 9: kill Carla?
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps.
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  Speaker 6: And then, in a fit of remorse, tried to take
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  Speaker 6: his own life.
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  Speaker 5: These pictures on the wall, wouldn't you say they were
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  Speaker 5: created by a young, healthy mind? All except this one. Yes.
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  Speaker 8: A strange water of greens and blues.
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  Speaker 5: Wasn't it a greenish-blue paint you found on Kara's dress, Dr. James?
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  Speaker 9: Yes, but this isn't a Farnsworth painting.
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  Speaker 5: No. The name on it is Craig Elliott. Do you
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  Speaker 5: know him, Dr. James? No, I don't, Mr. Cranston.
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  Speaker 9: He's one of the few artists who keep pretty much
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  Speaker 9: to himself.
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  Speaker 5: Where does he live? It's the last cottage down the
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  Speaker 5: shore road. Come on, darling. Why are you staring so
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  Speaker 5: strangely at that painting, Mike?
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  Speaker 8: I don't know, Lamont. There's something sort of fascinating about it.
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  Speaker 5: So that's what brought them to my place. That painting
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  Speaker 5: that I left at Farnsworth. That's what set these Lamont
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  Speaker 5: Cranston on my trail. I heard them talking about it
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  Speaker 5: as they came up the steps of my front porch.
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  Speaker 5: I dropped off to sleep on my couch, exhausted from
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  Speaker 5: trying to paint that girl's face in my underwater scene.
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  Speaker 5: As they stopped at the front door, I had dropped
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  Speaker 5: down behind the sofa.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't let them see me.
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  Speaker 5: The scratches on my face with the girl that struck
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  Speaker 5: me would be sure to get away. I heard them
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  Speaker 5: ring the doorbell. I crawled out of that line of
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  Speaker 5: vision on the studio floor and dashed up the stairway
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  Speaker 5: of the second floor balcony. As I heard the screen
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  Speaker 5: door open and looking down, I saw them come in.
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  Speaker 8: What a huge studio, Lamont.
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  Speaker 6: Look over that big skylight in the center of the room.
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  Speaker 5: I stepped back quickly so they couldn't see me on
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  Speaker 5: the balcony.
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  Speaker 2: In the dark.
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  Speaker 3: But I did see this weird place.
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  Speaker 5: And she looked up at me.
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  Speaker 2: It was more beautiful than I'd ever seen it. The
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  Speaker 2: perfect model I've been hoping for.
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  Speaker 5: Look at these pictures, Margo.
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  Speaker 2: All of them.
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  Speaker 8: Almost like dead things hanging there on the wall.
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  Speaker 5: Almost all of them have that same blue-green paint Dr.
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  Speaker 5: James found on Kara's dress.
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  Speaker 2: She had seen the girl tonight. My heart was pounding
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  Speaker 2: in terror.
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  Speaker 5: Margo, look at the painting on the easel here.
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  Speaker 4: It's just hidden.
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  Speaker 8: What an odd thing to see. Perhaps he's not finished.
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  Speaker 5: The girl looked up again. And as I stepped back,
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  Speaker 5: I bumped against the heavy statue on the top of
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  Speaker 5: the balustrade.
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  Speaker 2: And then the thought came to me. It might have
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  Speaker 2: fallen on me.
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  Speaker 5: Darling, that half-drowned girl, I know it sounds crazy. But
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  Speaker 5: do you suppose somehow her portrait was meant for this
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  Speaker 5: painting here?
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  Speaker 2: She's gutting my thinking. She's coming too close to the truth.
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  Speaker 5: I picked up the heavy statue and waited for it.
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  Speaker 3: I wonder where Elliot is.
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  Speaker 5: Where do I? I think I'll have a look around.
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  Speaker 5: All right. I moved to the edge of the balcony slowly.
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  Speaker 5: I spat your red eyes out of my head. Besides,
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  Speaker 5: he turned to speak to the girl.
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  Speaker 3: Margo.
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  Speaker 5: I can't.
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  Speaker 2: I can't get rid of this man. I have a
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  Speaker 2: girl in my life. He moved away from me. Something
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  Speaker 2: just hit me. And then? He moved back again.
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  Speaker 5: Now. Now he is directly under me and with all
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  Speaker 5: my strength I hurl the statue.
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  Speaker 10: Down the path.
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  Speaker 5: We'll return to the shadow in just a minute.
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  Speaker 4: But now, listen, it's winner's time again. Here are the
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  Speaker 4: two winners of the carry salt contest for the week
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  Speaker 4: ending December 7th. Each of these listeners wins a gorgeous
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  Speaker 4: for the easy rules later in this program. Meanwhile, remember,
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  Speaker 4: And now, back to the shadow.
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  Speaker 5: LeVon Cranston and Margo Lane, searching for an insane killer
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  Speaker 5: who has tried to drown a young girl, Kara Mason,
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  Speaker 5: have come upon the seaside studio of the artist, Craig Elliott.
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  Speaker 5: The artist, watching unseen from a balcony above, has dropped
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  Speaker 5: a heavy statue upon the unsuspecting Cranston.
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  Speaker 2: The artist, watching unseen from a balcony above, Darling, you're hurt.
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  Speaker 5: I'll be all right, Margo. The screen may be turned
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  Speaker 5: aside just in time.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, no, Lamont, you're bleeding.
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  Speaker 5: My head is bleeding.
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  Speaker 6: Put your arm around my shoulder. I've got to get
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  Speaker 6: you out of here and back to Dr.
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  Speaker 5: James. When I saw them go out of my cottage,
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  Speaker 5: I ran downstairs. In a safe distance, I followed them.
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  Speaker 2: I mustn't let Margo Lane out of my sight now,
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  Speaker 2: on the other.
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: Somehow I could get her back. Her perfect state must
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: go in my picture. I followed them to the cottage
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: occupied by Dr. James and saw them go inside. I
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: hid and waited. Waited for my chance to get her.
• 18:46
  Speaker 9: Does your head feel better now, Mr.
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: Cranston? I'm all right, Dr. James. It was only a scratch.
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: A scratch?
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: Now, why do you think I brought you here? You
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: nearly passed out.
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: How did it happen? Was it an accident? I can't
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: be sure. I think we may be pretty close to
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: finding the man who attacked Kara Mason. Perhaps the answer
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: to why Farnsworth tried to commit suicide. Dr. James, may
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: I see Kara for a moment right now? She's still
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: not hurt herself, Mr. Cranston. In her present state of shock,
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: I don't think you'll get much sense out of her.
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: Sudden reaction might bring her out of this coma, mightn't it, Doctor?
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: What sort of a reaction? Bringing back to her the
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: name of the man I think almost killed her. It
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: might work. Come on. She's in here. Kara, can you
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: hear me?
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Kara, listen.
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: Listen to this name. Craig Elliot. Craig? Craig Elliot.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: Craig Elliot?
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Do you know that name? No.
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: You can hear me, Kara.
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: You do know someone is talking to you. You're afraid
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: of something or somebody, Kara. Who is it?
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: What is it?
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: Afraid.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: Afraid of her. Afraid of her?
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: Puka.
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: Your aunt?
• 20:11
  Speaker 8: Yes, aunt.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: Mr.
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: Cranston, please, no more tonight. Very well. Thank you, doctor.
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: I think I've found out enough. From where I was hiding,
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: I saw them come out of the doctor's cottage, get
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: into their car and drive away. I saw Dr. James'
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: car in the driveway. I jumped into it. He started
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: following them again.
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: But I don't understand no more. Didn't Tara recognize the
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: name Craig Elliott?
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: Apparently, she'd never heard it before in her life.
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: That's strange. But why are we going over to the
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: aunt's house again?
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: Tara's terrified of that woman. She says her aunt beat her.
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: Beat that poor, frail little thing?
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: But why? I don't know yet, Margo, but we'll soon
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: find out, I hope.
• 21:04
  Speaker 8: Isn't that the cottage down the shoreline?
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: Yes, you wait here. I wanted to hear the car stopping.
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: I want to surprise Miss Margaret Mason when the shadow
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: pays a call. I stopped Dr. James Carr some distance
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: behind Cranston. As I saw him get out, yes, I
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: saw him disappear down a lonely beach. I waited a
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: moment and then walked up to the transom's car.
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: Why, Lamont, is that you back so soon?
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: No, this isn't Lamont, Miss Lane. Who are you?
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: How do you know my name?
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: I know your name because I was listening and watching
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: when you came to my studio tonight. You were in
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: that studio? Yes.
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: You dropped that statue.
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: Yes, I dropped that statue and I'm sorry I missed it.
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: But it doesn't make any difference now because I'll still
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: be able to do what I have to do even
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: though Cranston is alive.
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: Get your hands off me.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: No, I.
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: I wouldn't struggle, Jane. I'm a very strong man and
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: it would be useless to scream. Even your friend Cranston
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: won't be able to hear you from here.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Where are you taking me?
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: We are going to the rocky cliff at the end
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: of the road, Miss Lane. There's a cave I found
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: with a little pool. There's the moonlight. Stay in there
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: and I shall paint you. All right. All right.
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: I'll come with you.
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: Huh?
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: I'd like you to paint my.
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: Portrait, Mr.
• 22:34
  Speaker 8: Elliott.
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: I knew you'd be sensible, Lee. The other girl was afraid.
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: You saw what happened to her. Come on. Very well. Enough.
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: Not along the shore. You're a clever one, aren't you?
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: You know Cranston would follow our footprints in the wet sand.
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: Get back up the road.
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: You've forgotten something, haven't you, Mr.
• 22:57
  Speaker 8: Elliott?
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: What?
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: What are you doing?
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: Picking up strands of seaweed I've seen in your other pictures.
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: You need seaweed for the portrait, don't you?
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: Hello. Hello.
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: Hello. This is Miss Margaret Mason, operator. Will you try
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: again to get me a taxi? I've got to get
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: out of here tonight. Hang up that receiver, Miss Margaret Mason.
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: You're not going anywhere. What's that, operator? What did you say?
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: Hang up that telephone receiver, Miss Mason. I did hear
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: a voice.
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: My nerves are playing tricks.
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: This is no trick, Miss Mason. This is the shadow.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: The shadow, I... I can't see anyone. Shadow is invisible,
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: Miss Mason. He sees deep into your mind and heart.
• 23:57
  Speaker 7: I've done nothing wrong.
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: You tried to kill your niece, Carla. No. You struck
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: her and beat her. I had to at times. She
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: wouldn't do what I told her to do. What was
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: it you were so anxious to have her do, Miss Mason? Well,
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: what was it?
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: I wanted her to break off with that young artist, Farnsworth.
• 24:14
  Speaker 7: They were talking of getting married, and I'm sure he
• 24:16
  Speaker 7: just wanted to marry her.
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: For her money, and then I... Her money? Yes. So
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: that's it, Miss Mason. You didn't want her to get
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: married so that you as her guardian would have control
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: of her money.
• 24:27
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: Yes, I did. You wanted to get rid of Farnsworth
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: so you tried to make people believe that it was
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: he who attacked your niece. No, that's not true. You
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: tried to incriminate him when Cranston and the lame girl
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: questioned you today, didn't you? How did you know that?
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: And something else, Miss Mason. You did go out on
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: the beach. Your wet footprints were still on the steps. Yes,
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: I did. Then you Yes, but I... You saw, yet
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: you didn't try to stop him. Who was it, Miss Mason?
• 24:57
  Speaker 10: Who was it?
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: I don't know. But it wasn't Farnsworth.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: It was an older man.
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: A large man, powerful. I never saw him before in
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: my life. Shadow will find out who this madman is,
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: Miss Mason. And if you've lied again, you too will.
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: Here is the cave, Miss Lane.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: How do you like it? It's beautiful.
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: You see the pool of water caught and held by
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: the rocks? I'll set up my easel and paints I
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: keep hidden away.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Don't start yet.
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: Let me rest.
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: That long walk.
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: No, we're going to start now.
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: Oh, no, please, let me rest.
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: I said we're going to start now.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Let me go.
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: You promised not to touch me if I came along.
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: Don't fight me. Stop struggling. That's what the others did.
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: Let me go.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: Let go of me.
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: Yes, yes. Into the pool. where we start with your
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: beautiful face under the water.
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: Let me go. I can't breathe.
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: You must lie quietly and peacefully under the water with
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: the seaweed entangled in your lovely hair. Where is the
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: seaweed you picked up on the shore? Here is a
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: strand of seaweed. What's that voice?
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: They killed you here.
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: Will this do, Cricket? A strand of seaweed dropped from
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: thin air into my pool. Symbol of your madness.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Madness?
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: I'm not mad. I hear a voice talking to me.
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: It's that I'm not mad. You are mad. Your insane
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: passion for painting death has come to an end. No,
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: don't say that. I've got to paint. I've got to
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: paint a portrait of a beautiful girl's face under the sea.
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: You'll never paint again, Elliot. Yes. Yes, I will. I'll
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: go where I can't paint. Stay where you are. I
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: know every jagged rock here. No one can follow me.
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: Come down off those rocks. I'll paint again. Look out,
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: you fool. You're slipping. Ah! You all right now, aren't you, Margo?
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: Yes, I'm all right.
• 27:23
  Speaker 8: But it has been a horrible experience.
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: You're a brave girl, darling, to play along with Elliot
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: the way you did. Very clever to think of dropping
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: those pieces of seaweed along the road to the cave.
• 27:31
  Speaker 6: I suppose Elliot deserved it, but what a horrible way
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: to die. Smashed to death.
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: In those rocks. He didn't die on the rocks, Margo.
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: He evidently jumped clear of them.
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: The fault of the sand killed him?
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: No, it merely knocked him unconscious. Then apparently he lay
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: there right at the water's edge. As the tide came in...
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: He died as justice would have it.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: He drowned?
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: Yes, Margo. By the time I reached him, he had drowned.
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: In only an inch or two of water.
• 28:12
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• 28:14
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• 28:18
  Speaker 4: Company is giving away. Yes, Keri is giving away two
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: $ 100 Harman watches, one man's watch and one lady's watch
• 28:24
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• 28:28
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• 28:31
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• 28:34
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• 28:39
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• 28:41
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• 28:47
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• 28:51
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• 28:54
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• 28:58
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• 29:01
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• 29:09
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• 29:13
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• 29:15
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• 29:33
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• 29:38
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• 29:43
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• 29:47
  Speaker 5: the shadow will demonstrate that the weed of crime bears
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: bitter fruit. Crime does not pay. The shadow knows. The End.
• 30:09
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• 30:13
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• 30:17
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• 30:21
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• 30:25
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• 30:29
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• 30:33
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• 30:37
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• 31:06
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