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  Speaker 1: A theft at a Burmese temple reaches across the Pacific
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  Speaker 1: when a valuable paper connected with the temple's idol disappears
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  Speaker 1: and a man linked to the theft is murdered. The
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  Speaker 1: trail leads to the United States, where Lamont Cranston and
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  Speaker 1: Margo Lane investigate an apparent curse and the threat of
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  Speaker 1: further killings. Though the story begins with temple lore, the
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  Speaker 1: investigation turns on the meaning and value of that missing document.
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  Speaker 1: From November 2nd, 1947, this is The Shadow in Death
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  Speaker 1: Has Eight Arms, episode 420. Brett Morrison is Lamont Cranston
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  Speaker 1: and The Shadow, with Grace Matthews as Margot Lane. William
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  Speaker 1: Morwood wrote the Mutual Broadcasting System broadcast, sponsored by Blue Coal.
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  Speaker 1: And now, we return to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Who knows.
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  Speaker 3: What evil lurks in the hearts of men? The shadow knows.
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  Speaker 3: Once again, your neighborhood blue coal dealer brings you the
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  Speaker 3: thrilling adventures of the shadow, the hard and relentless fight
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  Speaker 3: of one man against the forces of evil. These dramatizations
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  Speaker 3: are designed to demonstrate forcefully to old and young alike
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  Speaker 3: that crime does not.
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  Speaker 4: Fade.
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  Speaker 3: As you probably know, reliable sources forecast that all home
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  Speaker 3: heating fuels will be scarce this winter. If you heat
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  Speaker 3: with coal, you're lucky. You can store coal. But get
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  Speaker 3: your order in early. Ask your blue coal dealer to
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  Speaker 3: schedule your delivery as soon as he can. And make
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  Speaker 3: sure that you order the right size of coal for
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  Speaker 3: your furnace. If you're not sure what it should be,
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  Speaker 3: ask him. Your blue coal dealer will be glad to
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  Speaker 3: inspect your heating plant and may be able to make
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  Speaker 3: other recommendations, too, that will help you to get more
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  Speaker 3: heat and to burn less fuel.
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  Speaker 4: First thing tomorrow, call.
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  Speaker 3: The nearest blue coal dealer and ask him to schedule
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  Speaker 3: an early delivery of your blue coal. The shadow who
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  Speaker 3: aids the forces of law and order is in reality
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  Speaker 3: Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man about town. Years ago in
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  Speaker 3: the Orient, Cranston learned a strange and mysterious secret, the
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  Speaker 3: hypnotic power to cloud men's minds so they cannot see him.
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  Speaker 3: Cranston's friend and companion, the lovely Margot Lane, is the
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  Speaker 3: only person who knows to whom the voice of the
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  Speaker 3: invisible shadow belongs.
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  Speaker 4: Today's drama, Death. has eight arms.
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  Speaker 3: In a temple deep in the jungles of Burma, ancient
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  Speaker 3: rites are carried out for the goddess Gia, while Gurdjieff,
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  Speaker 3: the high priest, walks slowly down the long, winding stairs into.
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  Speaker 4: The crypt of the temple.
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  Speaker 3: Quickly, a man steps out in the shadows to join him,
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  Speaker 3: Charles Marron, an American archaeologist. Gurdjieff swings open a heavy
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  Speaker 3: bronze door, and the two men enter.
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  Speaker 4: A huge idol glares down at them.
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  Speaker 5: Gia.
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  Speaker 3: Goddess of wrath. Made of gold and jade with diamonds
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  Speaker 3: gleaming for her eyes. And her eight arms stretched about
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  Speaker 3: her like the claws of a giant crab. Charles Marin
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  Speaker 3: gasps at the sight.
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  Speaker 4: You're not afraid, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Marin, a bold American must not be frightened by.
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  Speaker 4: A lifeless idol.
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  Speaker 6: Where's the paper hidden, Judge?
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  Speaker 3: Behind the collar of beads that hang from Gale's neck.
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  Speaker 4: A few steps, and it is yours. A fortune worth millions. Well, Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Marron, I'm... Now, you're going to get that paper for me. Yes,
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  Speaker 7: I've paid you $ 10, 000 to bring me down here. Now,
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  Speaker 7: you're going to risk your life getting that paper. But
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  Speaker 7: I am a high priest.
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  Speaker 6: Gale would never forgive me. You can take your chance
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  Speaker 6: on that. I'll wind up dead on this floor.
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  Speaker 4: The choice is yours. All right.
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  Speaker 3: Hear me, Gaius.
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  Speaker 4: It is I, Gurgis, your high priest.
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  Speaker 6: Do not harm me. Hurry up, hurry up, the paper.
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  Speaker 3: I have it.
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  Speaker 6: Now, let's see. Yes, all right.
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  Speaker 4: A piece of paper worth... Good, Chief. Look out!
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  Speaker 2: The arms!
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  Speaker 4: Put the paper back! Now!
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  Speaker 5: It's mine now!
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  Speaker 4: You fool! You will be next!
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  Speaker 6: You will follow wherever you go!
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  Speaker 5: The arms! The arms!
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  Speaker 4: For heaven's sake, Cinder, stop playing that thing. Sorry, Saeed.
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  Speaker 6: You're not in Burma now. You're in a penthouse apartment
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  Speaker 6: in America. Remember that. The Saeed is unhappy. There are
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  Speaker 6: dark shadows in his mind. What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 6: Cinder is a good servant.
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  Speaker 8: He knows the terror that has followed us from the deep.
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  Speaker 3: The arms of terror reach far.
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  Speaker 5: What? Everywhere the side man.
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  Speaker 6: Looks, he sees them.
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  Speaker 5: Is that not so?
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  Speaker 6: How did you know that?
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  Speaker 3: The care must have her revenge.
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  Speaker 6: She won't spare you unless... Unless what? You must buy
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  Speaker 6: an idol and bow down before her.
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  Speaker 4: Are you crazy?
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  Speaker 5: You must give in to her.
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  Speaker 4: Ask her forgiveness.
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  Speaker 5: For her eight arms will reach out, crushing you, squeezing
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  Speaker 5: the life from you. Stop it!
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  Speaker 2: Stop it!
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  Speaker 7: Stop it!
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  Speaker 6: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Matt.
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  Speaker 6: Sindar and I were... I heard you.
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  Speaker 5: What are you trying to do, Charles? Let your own
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  Speaker 5: servant drive you insane?
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  Speaker 2: No, I.
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  Speaker 5: It's shaking all over. Sindar, go back to your quarters
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  Speaker 5: and say that you're called.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, I'm sorry. Remember what I told you, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 4: It is the only way.
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  Speaker 5: What did he mean by that, Charles?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, nothing, nothing. He just.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Madge, I'm so tired.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, darling, tell me.
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  Speaker 2: Please.
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  Speaker 5: What dreadful thing happened in that temple back in Birmingham?
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  Speaker 6: I can't tell you, Madge.
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  Speaker 5: You said once you stole something, a piece of paper.
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  Speaker 5: What did you do?
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  Speaker 6: Don't ask me questions, please.
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  Speaker 5: Darling, I only want to help you. You must get
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  Speaker 5: rid of these obsessions about an eight-armed goddess.
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  Speaker 4: I can't.
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  Speaker 6: At night, I can feel her arms about my throat.
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  Speaker 4: It's horrible.
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  Speaker 6: I've got to do something about this nightmare. I've got
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  Speaker 6: to before it drives me crazy. You've lived in Dorian, Mr. Cranston.
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  Speaker 7: You know the strange things that can happen out there.
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  Speaker 7: That's why I've come to you for help. You've got
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  Speaker 7: to help me before I go out.
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  Speaker 6: Of my mind.
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  Speaker 3: I'll do what I can, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Bell.
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  Speaker 6: You can just end this horrible nightmare.
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  Speaker 5: Now, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Bell.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sorry, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Bell.
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  Speaker 3: You say that you incurred the wrath of this goddess
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  Speaker 3: out in Burma?
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  Speaker 6: Yes. You see, I'm an archaeologist.
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  Speaker 7: Naturally, I was curious to see the idol, so I
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  Speaker 7: bribed my way down to the crypt. Against all the
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  Speaker 7: sacred laws.
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  Speaker 3: I see. Seems a rather slim motive of vengeance, though,
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  Speaker 3: even for an idol.
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  Speaker 6: But it's true. That's why she's been trying to kill me.
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  Speaker 5: You mean that literally, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Nash? Yes, Miss Lane. There have been two attempts on
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  Speaker 6: my life.
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  Speaker 7: Once I was pushed down a long flight of stairs,
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  Speaker 7: pushed by unseen hands.
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  Speaker 4: How awful.
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  Speaker 7: Then I was in a smash-up. The wheel of my
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  Speaker 7: car seemed to be wrenched from my grip. I only
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  Speaker 7: escaped death by just some miracle. When did these accidents
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  Speaker 7: begin to occur? Several months ago, soon after I'd moved
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  Speaker 7: to this city. Soon after I'd seen Gail again.
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  Speaker 5: Perhaps you only thought you saw her again, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Martin.
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  Speaker 6: No, no, Miss Lane, she was real. Not the goddess herself,
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  Speaker 6: of course. It was a little statuette, a replica of
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  Speaker 6: the idol. It was on sale in a shop window.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I see.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think you could find that shop again, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Marin?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, I think so. It belongs to the Oriental importer.
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  Speaker 6: Caleb Brunner.
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  Speaker 4: Brunner?
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  Speaker 5: You know him, Lamont?
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  Speaker 3: Not personally, Margo, but he's known to be mixed up
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  Speaker 3: in some shady deals in the Far East. Police have
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  Speaker 3: been interested in his activities for some time.
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  Speaker 4: The police?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Mr. Marin. Oh, yes, yes, of course, the police.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: I have a hunch that more may have happened in
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  Speaker 3: Gare's temple than you're.
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  Speaker 4: Willing to admit, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Merrin. Margot, perhaps Caleb Gruner can add to our information.
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  Speaker 3: Why don't we pay a visit to his shop and
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  Speaker 3: see for ourselves?
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  Speaker 4: There you see him, Mr. Cranston. Gare the inscrutable. Adon,
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  Speaker 4: deity of life and death.
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  Speaker 5: Ugly creature.
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  Speaker 3: I noticed you brought the statue. out of the back
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  Speaker 3: of your shop to show us. Correct, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Gale loves the darkness.
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  Speaker 3: Yet one day, not so long ago, you had it
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  Speaker 3: out in your window on public display.
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  Speaker 4: Did I?
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  Speaker 3: By peculiar coincidence, Charles Merrin happened to choose that day
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  Speaker 3: to stroll by.
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  Speaker 4: Charles, uh.
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  Speaker 3: The archaeologist. Useless to pretend you never heard of him, Brunner.
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  Speaker 4: I had no such intention, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Perhaps you could tell us about the trouble he got
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  Speaker 3: into at Gere's Temple in Burma.
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  Speaker 4: You mean the death of Gurdjieff? The high priest?
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  Speaker 5: You're interrupting, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Brunner.
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  Speaker 4: Not at all, sir. That terminates my knowledge of the affair.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not familiar with the details. That seems strange. Why?
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  Speaker 3: Because according to the police who kept a close watch
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  Speaker 3: on your movements while you were out of the country, Brunner...
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  Speaker 3: You were in Burma at the time.
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  Speaker 4: For a business trip.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, you were in the vicinity of Gia's temple.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you see.
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  Speaker 3: What was that for, Donut?
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  Speaker 4: An accident, sir. My hand slipped.
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  Speaker 3: You're crying for me, sir.
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  Speaker 4: What's the matter, Miss Lane?
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  Speaker 5: That man in the turban, he sprang up out of nowhere.
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  Speaker 4: Babu, my Burmese assistant. He learned the trick of silent
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  Speaker 4: movement in the East. But don't be afraid. He's harmless.
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  Speaker 3: He doesn't look it with that stiletto in his hands.
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  Speaker 4: An antique. He was polishing it up, uh... For a customer.
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Brote or spine. I do not care for such jokes, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Frost.
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  Speaker 3: So, you know my name, Babu.
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  Speaker 4: You must have been listening. And I will not stand
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  Speaker 4: your insults.
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  Speaker 6: I will meet you in.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Babu, you're going to make me eat my words.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, sir.
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  Speaker 4: The man's a weak-minded idiot, Mr. Cranston. I hope you
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  Speaker 4: will forgive his lapse. Now, off with you, Babu. Take
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  Speaker 4: the statue of Geyer into the back room.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 6: Don't touch it.
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  Speaker 4: Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Rahr.
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  Speaker 6: Give me that statue.
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  Speaker 4: Why do you want it?
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  Speaker 6: Because it's the only way out for me now, Mr. Cranston.
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  Speaker 6: Sindar was right.
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  Speaker 3: Sindar?
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  Speaker 6: My native servant. He warned me I must humble myself
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  Speaker 6: before the idol. And now the time has come to
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  Speaker 6: take it from me. Don't anyone move. I know how
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  Speaker 6: to use this gun.
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  Speaker 3: Maren, listen to me.
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  Speaker 4: Too late, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Cranston. I'll only listen to Gale from now on.
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  Speaker 2: Maren!
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  Speaker 3: Come on, Margot.
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  Speaker 4: Too late.
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  Speaker 5: He left the motor running.
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  Speaker 4: Don't stop now.
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  Speaker 5: We're not going to chase him on foot.
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  Speaker 3: No, just around the corner.
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  Speaker 5: You see his eyes, Lamont?
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  Speaker 4: They were awful.
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  Speaker 3: He's too busy watching Gruner's.
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 3: I have a hunch that Gruner expected Maren to come tonight.
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  Speaker 2: How?
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  Speaker 5: Who could have told him?
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  Speaker 3: That's what I hope to find out... when I go
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  Speaker 3: back to visit him as the Shadow.
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  Speaker 4: Everything is playing into my hands. Cranston here when Meron
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  Speaker 4: came for the idol. Perfect, Amabai. Soon... Very soon, the
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  Speaker 4: paper will be mine.
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  Speaker 3: What paper, Gruner?
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  Speaker 4: Who's that?
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  Speaker 3: Someone who moves even more silently than Babu, your assistant, Gruner.
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  Speaker 3: The Shadow.
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  Speaker 4: What do you want?
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  Speaker 3: What is this paper you're trying to get from Charles Merrin?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I... That is to say... Out with it!
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  Speaker 9: It was stolen from the temple of the goddess Gaea.
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  Speaker 3: So, that's the crime Merrin has on his conscience. That's
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  Speaker 3: why you've been trying to drive him mad to squeeze
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  Speaker 3: his secret out of him.
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  Speaker 4: No, Shadow.
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  Speaker 3: Don't lie to me! You lured him to your shop
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  Speaker 3: months ago to reawaken terrors of gear in his mind?
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  Speaker 4: No, no, it was Sindar, Merrin's servant, who brought him here.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 10: And Sindar drove him to my shop tonight to steal
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  Speaker 10: the idol. It's Sindar who's driving him mad.
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  Speaker 3: We'll soon find out about that. Cranston and Miss Lane
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  Speaker 3: are on their way to Merrin's apartment now.
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  Speaker 4: Take my word for it, Shatner.
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  Speaker 3: I'll take your word for nothing, Gruner. Take my word.
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  Speaker 3: You're mixed up in this plot. The shadow will be back.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Mr. Cranston.
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  Speaker 5: Miss Lane, thank heavens you've come.
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  Speaker 4: What's happened, Mrs.
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  Speaker 3: Marron?
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  Speaker 5: Ever since you've called, I've been going out of my mind.
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  Speaker 6: Mrs.
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  Speaker 4: Marron, I.
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  Speaker 5: What is it, Matt?
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  Speaker 6: What is it?
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  Speaker 5: Charles and Simba. The last half hour, they've been locked
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  Speaker 5: in that room with that thing on. Oh, please, Mr. Cranston,
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  Speaker 5: break down the door before Simba drives my husband insane.
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  Speaker 4: Try him, Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Merritt.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, sorry, please.
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  Speaker 4: Watch it, do it.
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  Speaker 1: Charles, stop that room.
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  Speaker 6: Charles.
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  Speaker 3: The lady doesn't hear you, Mrs.
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  Speaker 4: Merritt.
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  Speaker 5: She's singing, Lamar.
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  Speaker 3: She's in a hysterical trance, Marlon.
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  Speaker 4: She doesn't know what he's doing.
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  Speaker 2: His eyes.
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  Speaker 6: They're horrible.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't see.
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  Speaker 4: He has, darling.
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  Speaker 6: Look.
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  Speaker 3: Over there.
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  Speaker 5: That's your tail. There's something lying there in front of him.
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  Speaker 6: Thank God.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, you see.
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  Speaker 3: He's been crushed to death. We'll return to the shadows
• 15:17
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  Speaker 3: And now... Back to the Shadow. Charles Marin, an archaeologist,
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  Speaker 3: is obsessed by the idea that a Burmese goddess is
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  Speaker 3: trying to kill him. But when death finally strikes, it
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  Speaker 3: is Sindar, Marin's native servant, who dies. A few minutes
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  Speaker 3: later now, in Marin's apartment... Cranston is alone, puzzling over
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  Speaker 3: the savage murder when Margot enters the room. How's Mr. Marron, Margot?
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  Speaker 5: Not much better, Lamar. His wife's taking care of him
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  Speaker 5: in the next room, but he's still unconscious. What have
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  Speaker 5: you found out in you and me?
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  Speaker 3: Very little. The window was forced. Someone climbed in. It's
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: probably the last thing Sindor knew.
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  Speaker 4: But Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Marron must have seen it all.
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  Speaker 4: With the state he was in, Margot.
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  Speaker 2: A hysterical trance.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, that's right.
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: But what motive could there have been for killing Sindor?
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: My guess is he was beginning to learn too much
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: about the plot against his master.
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: Brunner. It's possible.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: Brunner admitted to the shadow he was interested in a
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: piece of paper Marin had stolen from his temple. Wait
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: a minute, darling.
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: Is that Nadia?
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: It's quite on the terrace again.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: I see something.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: Look there.
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: Hey, what's so interesting about that iron ladder?
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: It leads up to the roof.
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: Yes, but you thought the killer went down by the
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: fire escape.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: You're changing my mind. You've been seen from the street below. Anyway,
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: it's worth investigating.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Up we go, darling.
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: Oh, it's filthy. My hands are covered with soot.
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: Good.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: It'd be thick on the roof.
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: Perfect for footprints.
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: Whatever it is must have gotten away by this time.
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: I'll be hiding.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: There. There now. Careful, now.
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: Oh, it's so strange up here. A prairie of roofs.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: See what my flashlight shows up.
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: Mark, tracks. Yes.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: Toes turned in.
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: Is it an animal?
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: I don't know, Margo, but we're going to proceed with caution.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: Anyone could be hiding behind these skylights and chairs.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: Yes, Margo.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: Or anything.
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: Ooh.
• 19:41
  Speaker 9: So our friend Cranston and his girl have gone traipsing
• 19:43
  Speaker 9: over the rooftops of the.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: City, Matt.
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: Yes, Caleb. I made sure they were out of the
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: way before phoning you.
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: And I took a taxi right over. So that gives
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: us time to talk. Uh, you did say you wanted
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: to talk, ma'am?
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: Yes, I sent you to tell you, Caleb. I found
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: where the paper's hidden.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: Good, excellent. How did you manage it?
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: I overheard Charles tell Sindor when they were locked in
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: their room together... I was listening at the door.
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: Clever girl. I always said you had talent. Well, a
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: good bottle of champagne is called for in celebration.
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: Not right now, Caleb.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: Better yet, after you've told me.
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: I'm not sure I'm going to tell you.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: What?
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: I'm not at all satisfied, Caleb, with the money you're
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: offering me.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: You never complained before?
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: Before, I was carrying the main burden as Charles's wife.
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: And now I'd be carrying the main risk as Charles's widow.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: I assure you, Madge, you needn't be afraid.
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: Oh, I won't be. Well, the next 25% out of
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: your share, Katie.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: I see. You're changing stakes rather late in the game.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: Aren't you, my dear?
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: That's apt to be dangerous.
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: You wouldn't dare touch me. I know where the paper's.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: Hidden and you don't. But aren't you forgetting something? What?
• 20:51
  Speaker 9: Charles is still alive. In fact, he's regaining consciousness now.
• 20:56
  Speaker 9: Since he seems in a mood for divulging his secret...
• 20:58
  Speaker 9: I'm sure he'll make a confession to me.
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: No, no, he won't say a word telepathically to that.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: Except you won't be here, Madge.
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: What?
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: When Charles wakes up, I'll be all alone.
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: What are you going to do?
• 21:12
  Speaker 9: You'd worked it out so perfectly, Madge. You saw yourself
• 21:16
  Speaker 9: a widow dressed in black.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: Now someone else will wear black for you.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: You evil, conniving.
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: The killer couldn't have gone much farther. This is the
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: last roof in the block.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: She had dropped down to the street. Must be close unless... Quiet, darling.
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: Behind that skylight.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: Yes, I saw it.
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: All right, there.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: The game's up.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: I've got a gun, so don't move or try any tricks.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: Come out.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: The skylight. Horse open.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: Come on, darling.
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: Come on.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Look out, Margo.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Something at your feet.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: It's me. No, easy, darling. It's nothing but a rope.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: Rope?
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: Wait a minute. I'll get my flashlight.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Look, down the air shaft. You can just see it
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: disappearing below.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: What happened?
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: A man ripped open the cover, slipped down the air shaft,
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: picked the rope down after him.
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: I'm sure it was a man.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: Positive now, darling. And I know his name.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Babu.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: Bruno's assistant. Yes, that's the man we're.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: After, Margo.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: Not much doubt where he's gone now.
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: Where?
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: Back to Bruno's shop to change his clothes. There was
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: blood on that rope where he'd slid on it.
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: Blood?
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: Yes, Margo.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: He was the one who crushed Sindar to death.
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: I can't believe it, Mr. Kooner.
• 22:51
  Speaker 7: I was unconscious, yes, but I wasn't out of my mind.
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: I couldn't have killed my wife. There's her body, Mr.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: Madden. I found it when I came in.
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: And, Cinder, why should I want to kill my own servant?
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: You're not to blame, sir. While you were unconscious, some
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: evil power took over your body.
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: That's a lie.
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: If you're behind this, Brunner, you murdered them both, and
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: you're trying to blame it on me?
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: Sir, I'd be inclined to say Gaea was the one
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: who was responsible.
• 23:17
  Speaker 9: Gaea?
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: She was a long time driving you mad. But now
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: she's succeeded.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: Now?
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: You'll never be rid of her.
• 23:23
  Speaker 9: She'll come back, over and over again, taking possession of
• 23:26
  Speaker 9: your body. Forcing you to kill is her insane mind, Eric.
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: No, no, I couldn't stand it.
• 23:31
  Speaker 9: Then there's only one way to make your peace with her.
• 23:34
  Speaker 9: You must give back the stolen paper.
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: Anything.
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: Excellent. Just so happens that I'm leaving for the east
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: myself shortly. So if you give me the map, I'll
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: be able to.
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: You said map. How did you know it was a map?
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: I know a great deal, Mr.
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: Merritt.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: I see. You'll accept my help? You'll yield the map?
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: All right, Gruner.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: I will.
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: It's locked in my office at the museum. Come on.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: I'll take it.
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: Afraid we're too late, Margo. The shop's empty.
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: Well, at least there's no doubt now what Park Bruner
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: had in this, after those letters we found from Nicholas Marron.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: Yes. The two of them were working together to pry
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: out the secret of that paper from Marron.
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: What about Babu?
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: My hunch is he found out the hiding place before
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: either of them. Probably for Marron himself, when he went
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: to kill Sindar.
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: Now he's changed his clothes and gone treasure hunting.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: About the size of it. There's an envelope on the floor.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: Marin's personal station.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: A lot on it, too.
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: Barbu must have brought it back to Marin's apartment. Yes.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: Charles R. Marin, Archaeological Museum. There it is. What's that?
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: I don't understand.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: A hiding place of a paper. Barbu brought this envelope
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: with him because he was afraid those words might be
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: too hard to remember.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir, he dropped it.
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: And he's gone there now?
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: Yes. Marin and Brunner after him, I imagine. Margo, I
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: want you to go immediately for Commissioner Westman and the police.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: And you?
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: Merrin brought me into this case to save his reason.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: Now it's up to the shadow to save his life.
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: How much further through this museum, Mr.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Merrin?
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: Almost there now, Brunner.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: I hope so.
• 25:49
  Speaker 9: This dim light, these fossils and bones are most disturbing.
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: Now this is my office.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: The door's open.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: Broken open. What's happened?
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: Everything's torn up.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: That steel filing cabinet. You said that's where you had
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: the paper? But it's been wrenched open.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: Well.
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: The map's gone.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: This is in good hands, Mr. Marlowe. Yes, Mr.
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: Brune, I got here first.
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: The dear secret is mine now. A map to the
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: richest oil field in Burma. Give that back to me.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: That will keep you quiet, Mr.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: Marlowe.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: Another trance.
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: You can sleep out on the floor.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: No, Mr.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: Gruner, for you. Get away, Babu. I've never harmed you.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: You have insulted me, cursed me, treated me like a slave.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: I stood at all only because I knew you would
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: leave me for the man.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Babu.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: Now it would be a pleasure to kill you as
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: I killed Zinda.
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: I have a gun.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: I have the strength of a bull.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: You see?
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: I'm coming, Gruner. Help me, Babu.
• 27:00
  Speaker 10: Spare me.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: I promise you, Babu.
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: Something is holding me.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Shadow, Babu.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: Save me, Shadow.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Hold him.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: Only if you answer my questions, Gruner. You killed a
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: high priest, Gudgie, back in Gere's temple, didn't you?
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: That's the truth, Gruner.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: I'll let loose Babu to tail him from limb.
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: Yes, Shadow. But it was a mistake.
• 27:26
  Speaker 10: I had planned with Gurdjieff to kill Charles Merrin. I
• 27:29
  Speaker 10: was behind the idol manipulating the arms. But when Merrin
• 27:31
  Speaker 10: forced Gurdjieff to get the paper, the wrong man died.
• 27:35
  Speaker 10: And the map got away from me.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: And since then you've been after it. And now you've
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: reached the end of the trail.
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: The map, Shadow. I'll make a deal with you.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: The map goes back to the government of Burma from
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: which Gurdjieff stole it originally. He paid for his guilt
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: by an accident. But for you and Babu, the long
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: arm of the law will prove more terrible than the
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: long arms of gear. And now let me present Blue
• 28:12
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• 28:17
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• 28:21
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• 28:24
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• 28:27
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• 28:30
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• 28:33
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• 28:35
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• 28:36
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• 28:39
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• 28:42
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• 28:45
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• 28:49
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• 28:52
  Speaker 3: Into this hollow, put your fresh coal.
• 28:55
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• 28:59
  Speaker 8: to consume gas. The way to conserve coal is not
• 29:02
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• 29:03
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• 29:11
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• 29:31
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• 29:42
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• 30:00
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