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Richard Diamond, Private Detective - "Fred Sears Murder Case" (1949) · Old Time Mystery Radio | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Fred Sears hires private detective Richard Diamond to find evidence
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: for a divorce, certain that his wife is seeing another man.
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: Their meeting leaves Diamond personally tied to the matter, and
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: the next morning Sears has been shot in Diamond's office.
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: From June 19th, 1949, this is episode nine of NBC's
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  Speaker 1: Richard Diamond, private detective, Fred Sears' murder case, starring Dick
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  Speaker 1: Powell as Diamond, with Ed Begley as Lieutenant Walt Levinson,
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: and Virginia Gregg as Helen Asher. Blake Edwards and John
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: Michael Hayes wrote the script. Here is the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Here's Dick Powell as Richard Diamond, private detective.
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  Speaker 3: Hello there.
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  Speaker 4: My name's Diamond, and I'm known along the big street
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  Speaker 4: as a guy who manages to keep his nose pretty
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  Speaker 4: clean and still make a few bucks while I'm doing it. Oh, sure,
• 1:30
  Speaker 4: it gets a little grimy, but you've got to expect that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a shamus. Private eye. Gumshoe.
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  Speaker 4: To the guy who hasn't ever been worried because he
• 1:40
  Speaker 4: tripped over a corpse in his breakfast nook, I'm known
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  Speaker 4: as a private detective. And to some guys, I'm known
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  Speaker 4: by a lot of other names. Not the kind you'd
• 1:49
  Speaker 4: find in a book on manners and social usages.
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  Speaker 3: But there are times when you.
• 1:56
  Speaker 4: Might turn up on your desk calendar under the heading
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  Speaker 4: of what I must do today.
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  Speaker 6: Who hires me? How do I make a living? Well,
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  Speaker 6: maybe this will give you an idea.
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  Speaker 7: Fred, why don't you eat your toast? It's getting cold.
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  Speaker 4: Why don't you stop worrying about the temperature of my breakfast?
• 2:14
  Speaker 4: I'm trying to read the paper.
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  Speaker 8: Did anyone ever tell you how charming it is to
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  Speaker 8: have breakfast with you every morning?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah. My ulcers.
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  Speaker 7: I'd like to go shopping today. Will you leave me
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  Speaker 7: some money? Fred, did you hear me?
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  Speaker 9: Mary, I'm reading.
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  Speaker 7: Well, stop reading and listen to me for a minute.
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  Speaker 8: I need some new summer clothes and I want to
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  Speaker 8: go shopping today.
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  Speaker 9: Here. Here's ten bucks. Buy yourself a bathing suit.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, that's very funny.
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  Speaker 10: Hmm?
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  Speaker 7: I need more than ten dollars. I want five hundred.
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  Speaker 9: What kind of a bathing suit are you going to buy, Mink?
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  Speaker 7: I'm not going to buy a bathing suit. I need
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  Speaker 7: some new clothes. Will you put down that paper and
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  Speaker 7: listen to me?
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  Speaker 5: Well.
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  Speaker 4: I see you made Jimmy Cello's column again, my darling.
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  Speaker 11: What?
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  Speaker 4: What prominent socialite is fighting with her wealthy husband and
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  Speaker 4: crying on the shoulder of a big-time playboy after the arguments?
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  Speaker 7: Is that supposed to be me?
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  Speaker 4: Can you remember five minutes in the past five years
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  Speaker 4: when we haven't been fighting?
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  Speaker 7: Are you accusing me of running around with some playboy?
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  Speaker 9: Running around is right.
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  Speaker 4: I expect one of you to be the first to
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  Speaker 4: do a four-minute mile.
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  Speaker 7: How dare you?
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  Speaker 9: How dare me? Why, you lashed-up little tramp.
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  Speaker 3: Tramp?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, tramp.
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  Speaker 9: Everybody in town knows you're seeing Lorne Oliver.
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  Speaker 7: All right, so I've been seeing him. We're... We're just friends.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that kind of friendship is grounds for divorce in
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  Speaker 4: this state.
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  Speaker 5: Why, you dirty.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, come on.
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  Speaker 9: I'm sick of this whole rotten mess. And I'm gonna
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  Speaker 9: do something about it.
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  Speaker 7: You're gonna do something about it? Why, you conceited, pompous...
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  Speaker 7: You're gonna do something, are you? Well, you better hurry
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  Speaker 7: up because I've got some ideas of my own.
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  Speaker 11: Oh.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: Lorne.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, are you married?
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  Speaker 7: I've got to talk to you.
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  Speaker 5: What time is it?
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  Speaker 7: Ten o'clock.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's still the middle of the night.
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  Speaker 3: Call me back later.
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  Speaker 7: This can't wait. Fred found an item about us in
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  Speaker 7: Jimmy Cello's column this morning. He stormed out of here
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  Speaker 7: like he was going to kill somebody.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you're just the gal who can recognize the symptoms.
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  Speaker 7: Well, that's a nasty line.
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  Speaker 5: What do you want at ten in the morning, Longfellow? Look, honey,
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  Speaker 5: I'll take care of Cello, and if that husband of
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  Speaker 5: yours gets out of line, I'll take care of him, too.
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  Speaker 3: You see what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: If things like that didn't happen, I'd be out of business.
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  Speaker 4: I'll lay you eight to five that before three o'clock
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  Speaker 4: this afternoon, one of those charming people will be walking
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  Speaker 4: into my office begging for help.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah? Rick?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, hello, Helen, baby.
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  Speaker 11: Hi. You gonna take me out tonight?
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  Speaker 6: Sure, sure. I'll be over later. We'll have a quiet evening.
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  Speaker 7: No, no.
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  Speaker 11: I want to go dancing tonight. If you don't take me,
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  Speaker 11: I'll throw a tantrum.
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  Speaker 6: But, baby, I don't have the cash. I'm tapped this week.
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  Speaker 11: Well, if you won't let me take, you'll borrow it
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  Speaker 11: from Francis. You told me yourself he was good in
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  Speaker 11: a pinch.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but he's already black and blue from those three
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  Speaker 4: lunches at Lindy's. Besides, he's not only your butler, but
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  Speaker 4: he's a darn good businessman. He wants security.
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  Speaker 5: Well, give it to him.
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  Speaker 4: He's already got my badge, my book on the ten
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  Speaker 4: best ways to sneak through transoms, complete with illustrations.
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  Speaker 3: And my gun.
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  Speaker 5: Haven't you got something else?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, but I'm saving the right eye in case of
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  Speaker 6: an emergency. Keyholes, you know. Look, honey, let's go take
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  Speaker 6: in a quiet movie and.
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  Speaker 11: I want to get dressed up and go to a nightclub.
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  Speaker 11: It's summer. The flowers are blooming and the fox has
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  Speaker 11: left his lair.
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  Speaker 6: His what?
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  Speaker 11: I've been hibernating all winter and I want to get
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  Speaker 11: out into some nice smoke-filled dance floor.
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  Speaker 6: Why, Helen.
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  Speaker 11: Why, Helen, nothing.
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  Speaker 3: Please, Greg.
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  Speaker 5: Hold it.
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  Speaker 4: Someone's knocking at my chamber door.
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  Speaker 5: Come in.
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  Speaker 3: Mr.
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  Speaker 11: Diamond?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, pull up a chair. I'll be right with you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm afraid to look. I haven't paid the light bill.
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  Speaker 9: This is a detective agency, isn't it?
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  Speaker 4: You, sir, have just won yourself a new economy home-size
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  Speaker 4: murder sampler complete with a matching set of bodies.
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  Speaker 5: Me?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 9: I haven't got time to listen to your bright remarks, Diamond.
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  Speaker 9: I want to hire you.
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  Speaker 11: What did he say?
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  Speaker 4: He doesn't like my bright remarks. You won't even admit
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  Speaker 4: they're bright.
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  Speaker 11: What else?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, something about wanting to, uh.
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  Speaker 6: Something about what? Uh, what was that last statement, sir?
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  Speaker 6: It sounded rather cozy.
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  Speaker 9: I said I wanted to hire you.
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  Speaker 11: What?
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  Speaker 6: I'll call you later, baby.
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  Speaker 10: Bye.
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  Speaker 12: Wait, what?
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  Speaker 6: Now, uh, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: uh.
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  Speaker 9: Sears.
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  Speaker 3: Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Sears, what can I do for you?
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  Speaker 9: I want you to follow my wife.
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  Speaker 6: Will I like the view?
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  Speaker 4: She's running around with another man. Well, if they're just
• 6:26
  Speaker 4: running around, don't worry about it. It's when they get
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  Speaker 4: tired and slow down that things start to pop. There
• 6:30
  Speaker 4: was a veiled article in Jimmy Cello's column this morning
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  Speaker 4: about my wife and this man. Yeah, I know Cello.
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  Speaker 9: So do I, but I'm not interested in Cello at
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  Speaker 9: the moment.
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  Speaker 3: Well, what do you want?
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  Speaker 4: Enough on your wife so you can get a divorce?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Ah, well, that comes kind of high. I don't like
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  Speaker 4: cases like this, and I usually turn them down. If
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  Speaker 4: you want me to swallow my pride, it'll take a
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  Speaker 4: $ 200 retainer and a hundred a day inexpensive.
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  Speaker 3: I'll write you a check.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, just like that, huh?
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  Speaker 9: I am quite wealthy. That's why I want the divorce, Mr.
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  Speaker 12: Diamond.
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  Speaker 3: There you are. Yes, sir, there I am.
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  Speaker 10: Now....
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  Speaker 4: What's the man's name that your wife is seeing?
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  Speaker 9: His name is Lorne Oliver.
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  Speaker 6: Well, this is turning into a family gathering.
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  Speaker 9: You know him?
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  Speaker 3: Sure. Runs the Monarch Club. That's right.
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  Speaker 4: What's your wife's name? And we're going to get a
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  Speaker 4: look at her. Mary Sears. You can see her tonight
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  Speaker 4: at the store. We'll be there for dinner, 9 o'clock.
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  Speaker 6: I'll be there.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, incidentally, that comes under the heading of expenses, in
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  Speaker 4: case you have a short memory.
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  Speaker 9: I have a good memory, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Diamond.
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  Speaker 9: You can send me the bill.
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  Speaker 11: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: Address and phone number?
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  Speaker 9: 45 East 65th Street.
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  Speaker 3: 45 East 65th.
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  Speaker 9: Evergreen 41793.
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  Speaker 3: 41793.
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  Speaker 4: Now I've got to be going.
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  Speaker 9: Goodbye, Mr. Diamond.
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  Speaker 6: Goodbye, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Sears. Yeah?
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  Speaker 11: What'd you hang up on me for?
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  Speaker 4: Honey, this is because you always give me an argument.
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  Speaker 4: You never want to go anywhere. I'm getting tired of
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  Speaker 4: shows and hot dogs.
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  Speaker 3: I want to go dancing.
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  Speaker 11: What?
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  Speaker 4: And I don't mean Roseland. I want to go to
• 8:00
  Speaker 4: the Stork. I'm a growing boy, and I like to
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  Speaker 4: see the bright lights and throw my money around.
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  Speaker 11: But, Rick, you.
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  Speaker 4: I'll pick you up at 8.30, and this time, don't
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  Speaker 4: wear slacks.
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  Speaker 5: You're an idiot.
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  Speaker 3: Bye, idiot.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, that's the way it goes, just as I told you.
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  Speaker 4: The word private in front of detective means you're married
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  Speaker 4: to all the troubles in the world, and that includes everything.
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  Speaker 4: So if a guy turns up who's unhappy with his wife,
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  Speaker 4: you listen to him howl, and if he's got enough money,
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  Speaker 4: you take the job.
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  Speaker 3: It's for better or for worse.
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  Speaker 4: And until Mr. Sears came in, it was decidedly one-sided.
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  Speaker 4: I'd teach cooking to a bunch of headhunters for a
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  Speaker 4: fee like the one he'd given me.
• 8:40
  Speaker 6: When I looked at.
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  Speaker 4: His $ 200 check, I started getting that big man complex again.
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  Speaker 4: So I closed the office and went back to my flat.
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  Speaker 6: We'd probably be up late.
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  Speaker 4: And Helen always had some extracurricular activities after we'd get
• 8:55
  Speaker 4: back to her place. You know, roasting marshmallows, fast game
• 8:59
  Speaker 4: of canasta, or an exciting round of Emmys on the
• 9:02
  Speaker 4: living room rug. Anyway, I always got home pretty late
• 9:06
  Speaker 4: in the a.m., so I spent the rest of the
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  Speaker 4: afternoon taking a nap. At 6 o'clock, I got up
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  Speaker 4: and dressed, and at 8.30, I picked up Helen.
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  Speaker 10: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: And at 9 o'clock, we were sitting at the Stark
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  Speaker 4: Club bar, right on schedule.
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  Speaker 7: Rick, when are you going to ask for a table?
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  Speaker 6: Honey, the drinks come past here.
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  Speaker 7: But I want to dance.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, now, now, now.
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  Speaker 5: I mustn't overdo it, lover.
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  Speaker 3: How do you know?
• 9:28
  Speaker 4: Maybe some mountain climber will ask you on a 20-mile
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  Speaker 4: hike tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 9:32
  Speaker 5: Your feet.
• 9:33
  Speaker 7: I am.
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  Speaker 10: I want to move them around that dance floor. Oh, Rick,
• 9:37
  Speaker 10: I know you. If you do something, you do it
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  Speaker 10: all the way.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Let's neck.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, now, you stop there.
• 9:44
  Speaker 10: You're on a job, and you don't want to go
• 9:46
  Speaker 10: in there because you've got to watch somebody.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Helen Asher, how are you, darling?
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  Speaker 10: Hello, Lorne.
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  Speaker 7: How have you been?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it couldn't be better. Why don't you ever stop
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  Speaker 3: over to my club? I'd like to show you around.
• 9:55
  Speaker 4: She just brought a seeing-eye dog. Oh, hello, Diamond.
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  Speaker 7: You two know each other, don't you?
• 10:00
  Speaker 10: You?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: How did we make such a grisly mistake, Oliver?
• 10:03
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I tried taking penicillin for it, but
• 10:05
  Speaker 3: it didn't do much good.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it probably helped out in the other things. Why
• 10:08
  Speaker 6: don't you try hanging yourself?
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  Speaker 7: Where?
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  Speaker 3: You always did think you were a pretty funny man,
• 10:12
  Speaker 3: didn't you, Diamond?
• 10:14
  Speaker 4: It's easy being a comic. You just find an idiot
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  Speaker 4: for an audience. How do you like the performance?
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  Speaker 3: Thanks. Pardon me, Helen, but I see some people I know.
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  Speaker 3: You'll excuse me, won't you, Diamond? Oh, sure, yes.
• 10:23
  Speaker 4: But the next time you drop around, bring some air, Wick, huh?
• 10:26
  Speaker 13: Wick.
• 10:27
  Speaker 7: Even if you don't like him, you shouldn't say those things.
• 10:30
  Speaker 7: He's liable to start a fight.
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  Speaker 4: He wouldn't take a swing at a midget if he
• 10:33
  Speaker 4: was riding an elephant.
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  Speaker 7: I wonder who his friends are.
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  Speaker 10: They don't seem to.
• 10:38
  Speaker 7: Be too glad to see him.
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  Speaker 3: Their name's Sears.
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  Speaker 7: Is that who you're watching?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the wife.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know whether I approve or not.
• 10:46
  Speaker 6: She's very attractive.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't she, though?
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  Speaker 6: It's business, baby.
• 10:50
  Speaker 5: Business.
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  Speaker 4: I'm only drooling because I haven't had anything to eat
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  Speaker 4: since this morning.
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  Speaker 7: Well, then let's get a table. You've seen her. You've
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  Speaker 7: observed what she's doing.
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  Speaker 11: Now, let's get.
• 10:58
  Speaker 7: Something to eat.
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  Speaker 3: Now, wait a minute.
• 11:00
  Speaker 6: Here comes somebody else I know.
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  Speaker 3: Where? Standing at the check room.
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  Speaker 7: The little man?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, here he comes.
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  Speaker 13: Who is he?
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  Speaker 3: Name's Cello, Jimmy Cello.
• 11:07
  Speaker 6: That's a gossip column.
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  Speaker 7: I read it all the time.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, Jimmy.
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  Speaker 13: Well, well, well, well. A Broadway chalice. Who's the lovely redhead, Diamond?
• 11:15
  Speaker 4: Helen, meet James Cello, but be careful what you say. Jimmy,
• 11:18
  Speaker 4: Helen Asher.
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  Speaker 6: Hello, Mr.
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  Speaker 11: Cello.
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  Speaker 13: How do you do? Is this an item, Rick?
• 11:22
  Speaker 4: If I don't get us a table soon, she's going
• 11:24
  Speaker 4: to make me give back her sorority pick.
• 11:26
  Speaker 13: Oh, speaking of tables, I see some people I know.
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  Speaker 13: Nice meeting you, Miss Asher.
• 11:30
  Speaker 7: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Goodbye, Diamond.
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  Speaker 3: Bye, Jimmy.
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  Speaker 7: Rick, he's going over to see his table.
• 11:34
  Speaker 5: Hello, Walter.
• 11:35
  Speaker 9: Hi, doll.
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  Speaker 11: Hello. Hi.
• 11:37
  Speaker 13: Well, well, good evening.
• 11:38
  Speaker 6: What do you want, Chello?
• 11:39
  Speaker 13: Oh, I just dropped by to see how the happy
• 11:41
  Speaker 13: little family was getting along.
• 11:42
  Speaker 3: Well, just drop away.
• 11:43
  Speaker 6: Nobody asked you to stop by.
• 11:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, why don't you do that and take Oliver here
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  Speaker 4: with you.
• 11:47
  Speaker 9: Nobody asked him to stop by either.
• 11:48
  Speaker 7: Fred, keep your voice down.
• 11:49
  Speaker 4: This is my table and I don't like a lot
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  Speaker 4: of crumbs lying all over it.
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  Speaker 6: What's a crumb?
• 11:53
  Speaker 7: Come on, Lorne.
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  Speaker 13: I guess Mr. Sears has forgotten a few things.
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  Speaker 4: I haven't forgotten a thing, Chello. When you print one
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  Speaker 4: thing in that lying sheet of yours, I'll have you
• 12:00
  Speaker 4: sued for life.
• 12:01
  Speaker 12: Listen, Sears, if I did print anything, they'd put you
• 12:03
  Speaker 12: away so far they'd have to pipe air into you.
• 12:06
  Speaker 7: Oh, do go on, Mr. Cello. This is getting interesting.
• 12:09
  Speaker 3: You'd better get out of here, Cello.
• 12:10
  Speaker 9: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: Go on, Cello. What have you got on old money bag?
• 12:13
  Speaker 9: He's a lying, dirty gossip monger.
• 12:15
  Speaker 6: He doesn't have a thing.
• 12:16
  Speaker 13: Wait a minute. I don't like that.
• 12:18
  Speaker 12: Why don't you ask your husband about North Africa sometime, Mrs.
• 12:21
  Speaker 7: Sears? Why, just a minute.
• 12:24
  Speaker 9: All right, now pick yourself up and get out of here, Cello.
• 12:27
  Speaker 7: Maybe you're right.
• 12:28
  Speaker 4: I've got a column to get out.
• 12:30
  Speaker 13: It'll be all about you, Sears, in big time.
• 12:33
  Speaker 3: Go on, get out. How about me? You gonna throw
• 12:35
  Speaker 3: me out, too?
• 12:36
  Speaker 9: You can bet your life I am.
• 12:37
  Speaker 7: I'm getting out of here.
• 12:38
  Speaker 9: You stay right where you are.
• 12:39
  Speaker 3: Don't talk that way to Mary.
• 12:40
  Speaker 9: I'll talk any way I like to my wife.
• 12:41
  Speaker 7: Go on, maybe you'd better leave. Here come the waiters.
• 12:43
  Speaker 3: Nuts, I'm gonna push this fat slob's face in.
• 12:45
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 12:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 12:46
  Speaker 9: All right, all right, come on.
• 12:49
  Speaker 4: Come on, break it up.
• 12:50
  Speaker 3: Break it up.
• 12:51
  Speaker 4: Come on.
• 12:51
  Speaker 9: Hey, waiter, give me a hand.
• 12:53
  Speaker 4: Take your hands off me, Diamond. Now, calm down, Mr.
• 12:56
  Speaker 9: Sears.
• 12:56
  Speaker 6: I'll kill that slob.
• 12:57
  Speaker 4: Oliver, you shut up or I'll pull your pants up
• 13:00
  Speaker 4: over your head and shove you in a glass like
• 13:01
  Speaker 4: a breadstick.
• 13:02
  Speaker 9: I don't like people meddling in my affairs, Diamond.
• 13:04
  Speaker 3: You're a fire.
• 13:05
  Speaker 6: I'm what?
• 13:06
  Speaker 5: You heard me.
• 13:06
  Speaker 4: Now, take your filthy hands off me. Ah, well, you
• 13:11
  Speaker 4: were lily white before I palmed that check of yours
• 13:14
  Speaker 4: this morning.
• 13:15
  Speaker 6: You can have it back. Here, eat.
• 13:20
  Speaker 3: It.
• 13:22
  Speaker 9: I'll have you in jail for this, Diamond.
• 13:23
  Speaker 4: Why, it isn't every day you get to eat a
• 13:26
  Speaker 4: $ 200 check.
• 13:26
  Speaker 7: Oh, Rick, let's get out of here.
• 13:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sorry, baby, but that's what happens when you
• 13:31
  Speaker 4: go to work for a hyena like Sears. You think
• 13:34
  Speaker 4: he's a nice guy because he laughs so much. But
• 13:36
  Speaker 4: you find out later it's only because he.
• 13:38
  Speaker 6: Chewed your leg off.
• 13:46
  Speaker 4: We left Sears still spitting out pieces of the check
• 13:48
  Speaker 4: I'd shoved down his throat and headed for Helen's apartment.
• 13:51
  Speaker 6: I was sore.
• 13:52
  Speaker 4: When I get hot under the collar, I don't make
• 13:54
  Speaker 4: for good company. So I dropped her off with a
• 13:57
  Speaker 4: kiss and went back to my flat and climbed.
• 13:58
  Speaker 3: In the sack.
• 13:59
  Speaker 4: I smoked a dozen cigarettes before I got to sleep.
• 14:01
  Speaker 4: And when I finally did, it must have been with
• 14:04
  Speaker 4: a big smile on my face. All night I kept
• 14:08
  Speaker 4: dreaming that Lauren Oliver and Fred Sears were beating themselves
• 14:12
  Speaker 4: to death with hot paper sacks.
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Diamond?
• 14:32
  Speaker 4: No, this is Sunshine Market. Locks popovers, especially.
• 14:36
  Speaker 5: Now you stop clowning and get over here right away. Walt?
• 14:39
  Speaker 5: Lieutenant Levinson.
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: Oh, Walt. Where are you?
• 14:42
  Speaker 5: I'm in your office.
• 14:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 14:45
  Speaker 6: Well, if any clients come in, give them a good
• 14:47
  Speaker 6: sales talk.
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: Tell them how many people you've killed or something.
• 14:50
  Speaker 5: There's a guy in your office now.
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: Prospect?
• 14:52
  Speaker 5: Depends on what you're talking about. I think his name
• 14:54
  Speaker 5: is Fred Sears.
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: Tell him to go home. He canned me last night.
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: All right, all right.
• 15:00
  Speaker 6: So he's sore.
• 15:01
  Speaker 5: He's got a right to be. He's dead.
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: Stop acting like an idiot, Walt.
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: You know I didn't have anything to do with it.
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: I know you didn't, but we find the stiff in
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: your office and we get a report that he fired
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: you last night, but you had a fight with him.
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: I gotta tell the commissioner something, Rick. Tell him Sergeant
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: Otis is teething. Now, you stop that. Now, what do
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: you know about the killing? The coroner just left. He
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: said that Sears had been dead about eight hours. The
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: cleaning woman found him at nine this morning and called us.
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: That puts the time of the murder around 1 a.m.
• 15:30
  Speaker 6: We found this clenched in the dead man's hands.
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: What is it? An article torn out of the morning papers.
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: Here, read it.
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: Ah, Jimmy Cholo's column.
• 15:37
  Speaker 6: Read it. All right, I will. Don't yell at me.
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: Fred Sears, wealthy import-export man, is having troubles. He's finding
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: it hard to explain about his past doings in North Africa.
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: And at the same time, he's finding it just as
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: hard to explain his wife's interest in the local playboy,
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: nightclub owner, Lorne Oliver.
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: He got so mad at the start club.
• 15:57
  Speaker 6: Oh, I was there. I was there.
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: He got so mad at the start club last night
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: that he took a poke at your columnist and then
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: tried to beat up Lorne Oliver. Will this lead to
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: a rematch between Oliver and Sears? We're having a whole
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: bunch of them picked up. Walt, Walt, before you do that,
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: give me a couple of hours, will you? Try to
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: dig up your killer.
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: I can't.
• 16:14
  Speaker 6: You know what we've got to do.
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: It's routine.
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: Well, the commissioner's already having fits every time he hears
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: my name.
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: Now, look, Rick.
• 16:19
  Speaker 6: Walt, I got a business to protect.
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: And if he finds out the stiff was killed in
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: my office, he'll probably haul.
• 16:24
  Speaker 6: In my license.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: Ah.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: One hour, Rick.
• 16:26
  Speaker 6: That's all I can give you. I got a job, too. Ah, thanks, Walt.
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: I suppose you've got an alibi for one o'clock.
• 16:32
  Speaker 6: Call Helen. We were toasting marshmallows.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: Well, I had three good suspects.
• 16:41
  Speaker 6: Lauren Oliver, Cello, the columnist, and Mrs.
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: Sears.
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: One of the three was built just right for the
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: electric chair. An hour isn't much time to dig up
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: a killer, so I grabbed a cab and headed for
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: Lauren Oliver's.
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: Office in the back of his club.
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, come in.
• 16:57
  Speaker 6: How are you, Oliver?
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: Oh, what do you want, Diamond?
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: Not particular about who comes into my club. Oh, I'm
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: surprised you can operate with that kind of policy. People
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: probably see you in here every night.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: I think I'll have you thrown out.
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: Where were you at one o'clock this morning?
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: None of your business. Herman?
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah, boss?
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: Come in here and show a guy out of my office. Oh,
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: we get rough, huh?
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:18
  Speaker 6: Okay, okay. I'll let you tell the cops who knocked
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: off Fred Sears.
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: Hey, this the guy, boss?
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: Wait a minute, wait a minute.
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: Did you say someone knocked off Fred Sears? That's right,
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: but don't start crying about it. It makes me feel
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: so helpless. I'll tell my story to the cops. They'll
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: get a lot tougher than I will.
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: You won't get tough at all, Mac.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: Oh, stop flexing, Herman.
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: You'll snap your girdle.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: Well, I guess it doesn't make much difference as long
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: as Sears is dead. I was with his wife from
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: about 12 o'clock to... Well, it was a long time
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: after 1. Where were you all that time?
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: At my place.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: Now, take a walk, Seamus. You've got my alibi.
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: One more question. Did you go out at all?
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I went out and got the late papers.
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: So what?
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: I like to read. Okay, okay.
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: You don't mind if I stop by and see Mrs.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: Sears, do you? No, go ahead. I'll see you later.
• 18:02
  Speaker 11: Oh, Herman.
• 18:05
  Speaker 12: Yeah?
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: You can let the air out now.
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: Your muscles are lovely. Well, Oliver had a good story
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: if it checked. So that left me with two more stops.
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: Cello's newspaper office was the closest, so I grabbed another cab,
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: and ten minutes later, I was sitting at his desk.
• 18:26
  Speaker 13: Oh, you don't think I had anything to do with it,
• 18:28
  Speaker 13: do you, Diamond?
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: Wherever you had won this morning.
• 18:30
  Speaker 13: I was covering a.
• 18:30
  Speaker 12: Party at Richard Gray's. I was with friends from about
• 18:33
  Speaker 12: 11 o'clock till after three.
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: You can check.
• 18:36
  Speaker 13: Go on, check.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: Look, poison pen. Sayers had your column from the late
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: edition clenched in his hand.
• 18:42
  Speaker 13: He did, huh?
• 18:43
  Speaker 12: Well, you don't think if I was going to kill
• 18:45
  Speaker 12: a man, I'd leave anything like that around?
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 18:48
  Speaker 13: Well, obviously, someone is trying to make it look like
• 18:49
  Speaker 13: I did it. Have you talked with Oliver and Sears' wife?
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: Oliver's got an alibi, and I'm headed for Mrs. Sears'
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: place right now. You know the address?
• 18:56
  Speaker 13: Yes, yes. 45 East 65th. But Mrs. Sears couldn't kill
• 19:00
  Speaker 13: her husband. I know her too well.
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: No?
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: Well, thanks, Cello. I'll check your alibi. If it stands up,
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: then I'll have to really go to work on Mrs.
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: Sears.
• 19:09
  Speaker 11: Yes?
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: Mrs. Sears? Yes?
• 19:19
  Speaker 11: Yes.
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: Oh, you look even better up close.
• 19:22
  Speaker 7: What's on your mind?
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: You mean right this minute?
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: Well, aren't you nice? Don't crowd me, though. I can
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: keep up a pretty good average in this league.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: I'd say about a thousand. May I come in?
• 19:31
  Speaker 7: I think so, if you keep talking. I like to
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: hear nice things.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: You deserve them.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: But I can think of some nice things to say
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: about a panther.
• 19:39
  Speaker 7: We'll talk about my family some other time. Can I
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: buy you a drink?
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: It's a little early, unless you got some milk.
• 19:44
  Speaker 7: Milk?
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: Where's your husband?
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: Oh, you know about him. Oh, I'm sorry. It looked
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: as though it might work into quite a friendship.
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: Where is he?
• 19:53
  Speaker 7: I haven't seen him since last night.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: Why?
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: Is he a friend of yours?
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: He's been using my office.
• 19:57
  Speaker 10: Oh?
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: He died there last night.
• 20:01
  Speaker 11: What?
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: Everybody is so surprised.
• 20:05
  Speaker 7: But how? Who did it?
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: That's what I'm trying to find out, lover. Where were
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: you at 1.
• 20:10
  Speaker 7: A.m.? That's none of your business.
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: Okay, let the law drag it out of you. Goodbye, dear.
• 20:16
  Speaker 11: Wait a minute.
• 20:17
  Speaker 7: All right, I'll tell you. I was with a man
• 20:19
  Speaker 7: named Oliver, Lorne Oliver.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: Oh, for how long?
• 20:22
  Speaker 7: From about 12 o'clock to.
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: Well, much later. That's what Oliver says.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: Did you go out at all?
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: Just to get the papers.
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: That checks with Oliver's story, too. Did you go out alone? I, uh.
• 20:34
  Speaker 7: No, I went with Lorne.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: He says he went out alone.
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: Oh, well, yes, yes, he did.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: I thought you said you went.
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: Out with him.
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: Well, that was later.
• 20:41
  Speaker 8: Lorne was the one that went out to get the papers.
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: Okay, what time was it?
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: About two.
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: When you both went out or when Lorne went out
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: to get the papers by himself?
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: When Lorne went out.
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: Oh, yes, now I see. Well, I'll see you later.
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: Come back again.
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: Oh, I'll do that after you get over crying for
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: your late husband.
• 21:00
  Speaker 7: I'll keep my emotions down to a minimum.
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: I'll bet you will.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: I left her standing in the middle of the room,
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: looking after me like a vegetarian with an eye on
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: a green salad. I closed the door and started down
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: the hall for the elevators. For some reason, I never
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: seem to get where I'm going.
• 21:18
  Speaker 13: Hello.
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: Now, while you're still tuned in, Diamond, I'll give you
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: some advice. Stay away from Mrs.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Sears.
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: Now, I want you to be sure and get the point....
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: Rick.
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: Rick, come on.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Snap out of it. I'll go away.
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: Come on.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: You don't look so good. It matches the way I feel. Oh,
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: here's a new line. Where am I, Walt?
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: In Mrs. Sears' apartment.
• 21:50
  Speaker 7: Hello, handsome.
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: She heard the scuffle in the hall, came out, found you,
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: and called me.
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: Swell. Who did it?
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: I didn't see him, but his voice sounded like a
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: thug that Lauren Oliver keeps around, a patty cake with.
• 22:01
  Speaker 7: Oh, that was probably Herman. Lauren is so jealous.
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: Well, your hour is up, and now I'm going to
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: haul them all in, including this Herman.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: Oh, do you know Herman, Walt?
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: Sure, Herman Sharp. Got a record a mile long. Walt,
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: if a guy wanted to hire a killer, where would
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: he go? You know all the stoolies as well.
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: As I do.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Mrs.
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: Sears, what was the fight about last night at the Stork?
• 22:22
  Speaker 8: Oh, a columnist named Cello threatened my husband that he
• 22:25
  Speaker 8: was going to print something in his paper.
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: He said something about North Africa, and Fred hit him.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: North Africa?
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: This is really getting mixed up. Was your husband ever
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: in North Africa?
• 22:34
  Speaker 7: Yes, during the war. He was a captain in the army.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: Walt, can you get me this Herman Sharpe's address?
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: He's the boy I want. Sure, but I'm coming along.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: Have your boys pick up Cello, Oliver, and take them
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: both down to the station along with Mrs.
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: Sears here.
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: Well, you don't think I had anything to do with it,
• 22:49
  Speaker 7: do you?
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: I've known Jimmy Cello a long time.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: About five years ago, he used to run around with
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: a little dancer named Mary Carroll.
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: Sure he did. I'm Mary Carroll, but I broke up
• 22:57
  Speaker 7: with him when I met Fred.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: Well, you'll see him at the station. You can pick
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: up where you left off. Come on, Walt.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: We went down fast and climbed into the prowl car.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: Walt put in a call and got Herman's address over
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: the two-way radio. Twenty minutes later, we were standing in
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: front of Herman's door. It was an old apartment house
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: on the Lower East Side.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: I started for the door, but Walt had other ideas.
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: Rick, we can't go in there.
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: Why not?
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: Because I haven't got a search warrant. Well, you've got
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: to go in if you want to crack this case.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: Not without a search warrant. Search warrant for what?
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: To go in. What do you want to go in for?
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: I don't want to go in.
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: You do.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: Do what? Go in.
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: Well, go ahead. I haven't got a warrant. What are
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: you looking for? Herman Sharp. He's probably in there.
• 23:39
  Speaker 9: He is?
• 23:39
  Speaker 13: Sure.
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: Well, what are we waiting for?
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: Oh, what did I do that for?
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: For that.
• 23:45
  Speaker 7: What?
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: Herman Sharp. Oh.
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: Is he dead? Yeah, been shot. What are you looking at?
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: Newspaper on the floor. This morning's. Huh. Show those columns missing.
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: Been torn out. Then Herman's your killer. Well, who killed Herman?
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: Don't you know?
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: I'm not going to start that again. Walt, go on
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: back to the station. I'm going to check something and
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: make a phone call. I'll be down in half an
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: hour and point out your killer.
• 24:13
  Speaker 14: Come on, don't just stand there.
• 24:20
  Speaker 11: Do something.
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: Now, calm down.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: Calm down, everybody.
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: This is ridiculous.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: I want my lawyer. You'll get one later.
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: Relax, Oliver.
• 24:27
  Speaker 13: They can't hold it much longer.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: How do you feel, Mary?
• 24:29
  Speaker 7: I don't like this any more than you do.
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: Well, good afternoon and happy Father's Day.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Rick, where the devil have you been?
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: Made a phone call to Washington, Walt.
• 24:37
  Speaker 11: Mrs.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: Sears, did you know that your husband had a dishonorable
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: discharge from the Army?
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: Why, no.
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: You knew it, didn't you, Cello?
• 24:44
  Speaker 13: That's right, but I kept it quiet. He got it
• 24:46
  Speaker 13: for running a black market.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: What's this got to do with the death of Sears?
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: Oliver, you told me you went out to get the
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: papers last night. That's right. What time was it?
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: A little after two. You know what time the late
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: edition comes in.
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: How about you, Mrs. Sears?
• 24:56
  Speaker 7: What Lorne says is correct.
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: How about it, Lorne? Were you the one to go
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: out and get the papers?
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: Yes. Then, Mrs.
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: Sears, why did you tell me this afternoon that you
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: also went out to get the papers?
• 25:07
  Speaker 11: Well, I.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: Mary, don't say anything. You don't have to. The stories
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: don't check, so you couldn't have been together last night.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: Look, Diamond, what is this.
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: Oh, now you look, Oliver.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: You're both liars. But that doesn't make either one of
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: you the killer. Oh, but Rick, Cello's alibi checks right
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: down the line. Sure it does, because he was at
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: that party. But the killer wasn't.
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: Oh, we know that.
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: He couldn't have been.
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but the man who hired the killer to knock
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: off Sears was.
• 25:27
  Speaker 13: What are you talking about, Diamond?
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: Oliver, where was your hired Garnet last night?
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: You mean Herman?
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: Well, I don't know.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: He was with me until six o'clock, then he left.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: Walt, when you find Herman's gun, ballistics will probably say
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: that it was the one that did the job on Sears.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: Herman?
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: Cello, you hired Herman to kill Sears, and then you
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: killed Herman.
• 25:46
  Speaker 13: You're out of your mind. I didn't even know this Herman.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: We found the newspaper next to Herman's body. It had
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: your column torn out of it.
• 25:51
  Speaker 13: That doesn't pin anything on me. It just shows you
• 25:54
  Speaker 13: that Herman probably stuck that article in Sears' hand after
• 25:56
  Speaker 13: tearing it out of a newspaper.
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: That's what you wanted to make it look like.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: You knew Herman.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: You knew about the clipping. So you killed him and
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: tore the column out of this morning's newspaper.
• 26:05
  Speaker 12: Of course I knew about the clipping. You told me
• 26:07
  Speaker 12: about it this morning in my office.
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: That's right. But you were the only one I told
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: about it.
• 26:12
  Speaker 13: You couldn't convict Jack the Ripper on that kind of evidence.
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: I'm afraid he's right, Rick.
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: Jell-O, what time does the late edition come out?
• 26:19
  Speaker 13: About two o'clock.
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: Walt, what time was Sears killed?
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: Around one. Say.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah. The killer couldn't have gotten hold of that
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: column at 1 o'clock. The papers weren't even out on
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: the street. Well, then how did he do it? Only
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: one man could have gotten that column before 1 a.m.,
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: the man who wrote it.
• 26:33
  Speaker 11: Jimmy.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: He tore it out of the galley sheets. The proofs
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: that are made up before the paper goes to press.
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: Chello hired Herman, gave him the clippings, and then went
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: to the party.
• 26:41
  Speaker 13: Oh, you're doing great, Diamond.
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: Keep it up. You're still in love with Mary Sears.
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: You were jealous of Oliver, so you hired Oliver's boy, Herman,
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: figuring the cops would pin Sears' murder on Oliver.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: How am I doing?
• 26:51
  Speaker 13: You're a good liar and a rotten detective.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: You knew I'd go to see Mary Sears, so you
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: sent Herman to beat me up and make it look
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: like Oliver was behind it. You tried to frame Oliver
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: all along the line.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: Boy, you cheap little scandal snooper. I'll fix it so
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: you don't blame anybody.
• 27:03
  Speaker 11: Wait a minute.
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: All right, break it up. Come on.
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: Break it up.
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: Hey, Walt.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: What is it, Rick?
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: Bye.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: Good evening, Mr.
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: Diamond.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: Evening, Francis.
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: Miss Asheron? Yes, sir.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: She's in the library.
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: She's a little tired from last night. I think she's
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: taking a nap.
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: Well, I'll walk her my tippy-toes. How about a glass
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: of warm milk, Francis? I'm a little tired, too.
• 27:41
  Speaker 7: Yes, sir.
• 27:42
  Speaker 9: Right away, sir.
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: Well, look at the little baby.
• 27:46
  Speaker 13: Mm-hmm.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: Oh, her's in dreamland.
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: Poor little tired baby.
• 27:54
  Speaker 13: The evening breeze caressed the trees tenderly.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: The trembling trees embraced the breeze tenderly.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: Hello, baby.
• 28:11
  Speaker 7: Don't start.
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: All right. Close your pretty eyes.
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: Then you and I came wandering by.
• 28:22
  Speaker 7: Oh, wonderful.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: And lost in our sigh were we.
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: Ricky The shore was kissed by sea and mist tenderly Ricky.
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: I can't forget how two hearts met breathlessly.
• 28:48
  Speaker 7: Ricky, come here.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Your arms opened wide.
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: And closed me inside.
• 28:59
  Speaker 11: Ricky, come here.
• 29:03
  Speaker 6: What is it, dear?
• 29:04
  Speaker 8: Just this.
• 29:06
  Speaker 9: Here's your milk, Mr.
• 29:12
  Speaker 13: Oh, my goodness.
• 29:14
  Speaker 9: Now, this time I refuse to blush.
• 29:19
  Speaker 14: You have just heard Richard Diamond, Private Detective, starring Dick Powell.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Helen was played by Virginia Gregg, Lieutenant Levinson by Ed Begley.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: Also in our cast were Wilms... Herbert, High.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Averbach, Joan Banks, Parley Bear, and Sidney Miller. Music was
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: under the direction of David Baskerville. Richard Diamond is written
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: by Blake Edwards and directed by William P.
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: Rousseau.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Now, this is Eddie King inviting you to be with
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: us again at the same time next week when we
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: will again bring you Dick Powell as Richard Diamond, private detective.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: This program has come to you from Hollywood. This is NBC,
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: the national broadcasting company.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Richard Diamond, private detective, has concluded with Fred Sears' murder case.
• 30:21
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• 30:25
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