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The Shadow - "The Dreams of Death" (Old Time Radio) · The Shadow | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: In a clifftop house above the ocean, Lyra is haunted
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  Speaker 1: by dreams that her husband Kurt, lost in a sailing accident,
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  Speaker 1: has come back from the sea. Lamont Cranston and Margo
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  Speaker 1: Lane are drawn into the case when troubling physical signs
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  Speaker 1: begin to surround the frightened widow. From Mutual Broadcasting System,
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  Speaker 1: with Brett Morrison as Lamont Cranston and Leslie Woods as
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  Speaker 1: Margo Lane, this is The Shadow, The Dreams of Death,
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  Speaker 1: episode 282, first heard April 28th, 1946. The script was
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  Speaker 1: written by Stedman Coles. And now, our story begins.
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  Speaker 2: A program transcribed earlier from Mutual.
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  Speaker 3: Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
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  Speaker 4: The shadow knows.
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  Speaker 2: Once again, the Mutual Broadcasting System brings you the thrilling
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  Speaker 2: adventures of The Shadow, the hard and relentless fight of
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  Speaker 2: one man against the forces of evil. These dramatizations are
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  Speaker 2: designed to demonstrate forcibly to old and young alike that
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  Speaker 2: crime does not pay. Are you interested in engineering, electronics,
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  Speaker 2: ship design, travel, and a steady job? If you are
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  Speaker 2: a young man between the ages of 17 and 22,
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  Speaker 2: you may qualify for a four-year college education and a
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  Speaker 2: career of public service in the United States Coast Guard.
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  Speaker 2: This oldest branch of the Seagoing Services maintains an academy
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  Speaker 2: at New London, Connecticut, for the professional training of its
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  Speaker 2: future officers. Applicants selected for the Coast Guard Academy by
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  Speaker 2: nationwide examinations begin their training each year late in July.
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  Speaker 2: Applications for this year's convening class must be postmarked not
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  Speaker 2: later than April 1st, and entrance examinations are held on
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  Speaker 2: May 8th. For complete information, write to the superintendent, U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Coast Guard Academy, New London, Connecticut, or visit your nearest
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  Speaker 2: Coast Guard recruiting station today. And now, The Shadow.
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  Speaker 5: The shadow who aids the forces of law and order
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  Speaker 5: is in reality Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man about town.
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  Speaker 4: Years ago in the Orient.
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  Speaker 5: Cranston learned a strange and mysterious secret, the hypnotic power
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  Speaker 5: to cloud men's minds so they cannot see him. Cranston's
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  Speaker 5: friend and companion, the lovely Margo Lane, is the only
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  Speaker 5: person who knows to whom the voice of the invisible
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  Speaker 5: shadow belongs. Today's drama, The Dreams of Death.
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  Speaker 6: A vast treeless plain.
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  Speaker 5: A towering castle-like structure standing in the middle of it.
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  Speaker 5: This is the country home of the fabulous Countess Richelieu,
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  Speaker 5: and Lamont and Margot are among the weekend.
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  Speaker 7: Houseguests of the Countess.
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  Speaker 5: It's 6 a.m., and the storm that has been gathering
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  Speaker 5: force since midnight suddenly breaks loose with a.
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  Speaker 8: Fury that is frightening.
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  Speaker 9: Come on.
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  Speaker 10: Come on.
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  Speaker 8: Come on, please wake up.
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  Speaker 7: Please, please open the door.
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  Speaker 3: Huh?
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  Speaker 4: Who is it?
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  Speaker 11: It's Margot.
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  Speaker 9: I must talk to you.
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  Speaker 8: Please, please.
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  Speaker 4: Just a minute. I'll get my robe out.
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  Speaker 8: Hurry, hurry.
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  Speaker 9: What's the matter?
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  Speaker 8: Come on, I killed her.
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  Speaker 4: What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 7: I stabbed her in the chest with a needle.
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  Speaker 12: She's in the library now, dead.
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  Speaker 3: Who is dead?
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  Speaker 4: What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 13: The Countess.
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  Speaker 2: I killed her.
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  Speaker 4: You killed her? When?
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  Speaker 8: I don't know, darling.
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  Speaker 9: Sometime during the night, I guess. I.
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  Speaker 14: I.
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  Speaker 15: I thought I was dreaming, but I... Margo, listen, I'm
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  Speaker 15: afraid the storm, the fight you had with the Countess
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  Speaker 15: last night has upset you just a little.
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  Speaker 4: Bit too much.
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  Speaker 12: It upset me, Tiny, but that is.
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  Speaker 9: I know, I know.
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  Speaker 15: Accusing you of trying to steal her boyfriend, Larry.
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  Speaker 4: Honey, that was seven hours ago.
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  Speaker 15: Couldn't you wait till after breakfast to tell me about
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  Speaker 15: your dream?
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  Speaker 9: But I can't be sure it was a dream. It
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  Speaker 9: was so vivid, so real, Lamont.
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  Speaker 12: I can still see her standing there insulting me.
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  Speaker 9: I tried to keep my temper, but before I knew it,
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  Speaker 9: I grabbed one of the Inca arrows off the wall,
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  Speaker 9: dipped the point into a bottle of curare.
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  Speaker 8: And.
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  Speaker 7: Plunged the whole business into her chest.
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  Speaker 4: And where did you get the curare?
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  Speaker 8: I don't know, darling.
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  Speaker 9: I just know I had it there.
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  Speaker 4: You mean you didn't hop down to South America? You
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  Speaker 4: can do that in a dream, you know.
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  Speaker 8: I'm not fooling you.
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  Speaker 12: I'm really worried.
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  Speaker 7: Well, if you were anybody else, I'd give you good
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  Speaker 7: spanking and send you back to nursery school.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, we'll go down to the library.
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  Speaker 7: And then if you don't mind, I'll get Dr.
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  Speaker 4: Burgess to give you a sleeping pill so I can.
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  Speaker 7: Get some sleep.
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  Speaker 16: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Why can't people have more of the right kind? They'd
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  Speaker 4: sleep later.
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  Speaker 6: Ouch!
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  Speaker 2: What's the matter?
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  Speaker 6: Nothing.
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  Speaker 4: You just dug your nails into my arm. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 4: So's my arm.
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  Speaker 7: Why'd you be so nervous?
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  Speaker 10: I can't help it.
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  Speaker 9: How would you feel if you thought you killed somebody?
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  Speaker 16: Well, it's a good question.
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  Speaker 4: Stop biting a hole in your lip.
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  Speaker 8: Okay.
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  Speaker 9: Here's the library.
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  Speaker 12: You want me to go in with you?
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  Speaker 4: Why not? It was your dream.
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  Speaker 8: The lights are on.
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  Speaker 7: It's very careless of somebody, but then the countess pays
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  Speaker 7: the bill.
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  Speaker 6: What now, darling?
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  Speaker 15: Look, Lamont.
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  Speaker 16: There's an arrow missing from the wall. Maybe you'd better
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  Speaker 16: go back upstairs.
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  Speaker 8: Why?
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  Speaker 9: Because I want to, too.
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  Speaker 4: Isn't that a good reason?
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  Speaker 12: What's behind the sofa? What are you looking for?
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  Speaker 6: Go upstairs.
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  Speaker 4: Don't come over here.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, I told you not to.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, Lamont.
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  Speaker 12: Please, go into your room, darling, and stay there.
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  Speaker 4: I'll go back downstairs. Maybe I'll find something that'll give.
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  Speaker 8: Me a lead.
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  Speaker 9: How could I have done it? How could I have
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  Speaker 9: done it?
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  Speaker 4: We don't know that you did.
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  Speaker 9: It was just like the dream, the arrow in the
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  Speaker 9: countess' chest.
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  Speaker 4: The trick of the mind. Marco, it's happened before. People
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  Speaker 4: have dreamed of events miles away that happened to people they.
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  Speaker 10: Never knew, never heard of.
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  Speaker 14: Oh, Lamont, don't.
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  Speaker 9: Just don't. I.
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  Speaker 10: I killed him, you know.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, don't broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: You do agree with me, don't you?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 7: Now, please go into your room and let me get
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  Speaker 7: started on this case.
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  Speaker 8: No. I know I'm guilty, so.
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  Speaker 4: Where are you going?
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  Speaker 10: To the police.
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  Speaker 8: Put myself up?
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  Speaker 4: Not if I can help it. Will you go into
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  Speaker 4: your room?
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  Speaker 7: Please, darling, let me do what I think is right.
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  Speaker 4: I have to get rough with you?
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  Speaker 12: Well, what good will that do?
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  Speaker 7: Sooner or later I'll get away.
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  Speaker 8: You know that.
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  Speaker 16: And that too is false, my dear.
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  Speaker 4: Damon, what are you doing up at this hour?
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  Speaker 8: It is not the destiny of Herodotus to get away
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  Speaker 8: or to give herself up.
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  Speaker 4: To the miserable justice of men. What kind of double
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  Speaker 4: talk is this?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, Herodotus, princess of Cyprus, who died by her own
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  Speaker 8: hand 2,000 years ago. I worship you.
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  Speaker 4: Now as I worship you then. Now, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 15: In case you haven't got the sand out of your
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  Speaker 15: eyes yet, this is Margo.
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  Speaker 4: Lane you're bowing to.
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  Speaker 16: You're wrong, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Cranston. This is the reincarnated spirit of Herodotus. And I
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  Speaker 8: am still the unrequited lover, still waiting for the fulfillment
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  Speaker 8: of destiny.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you'd better wait somewhere else. We've got problems of
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  Speaker 4: our own.
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  Speaker 8: Will this cycle never end? For 2,000 years it has
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  Speaker 8: been going on and on. First the enemy, then the friends.
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  Speaker 8: And finally, the loved one. The enemy is dead. What's that?
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  Speaker 8: The destiny of a rotator. To kill three.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 8: It was so in the beginning. And it has been
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  Speaker 8: so with each incarnation.
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  Speaker 7: And it will be so again. So you'll know about
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  Speaker 7: the garment.
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  Speaker 4: Of course.
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  Speaker 8: It's only the first. There will be two more murders, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Cranston.
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  Speaker 8: Two more. including yours.
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  Speaker 10: Well, Dr.
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  Speaker 14: Burgess?
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  Speaker 8: I'd say she's been dead about two hours, Mr. Cranston.
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  Speaker 4: Means she was killed about quarter to five.
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: That was six o'clock when Margo woke me up and
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  Speaker 5: told me about that dream. Cranston, I've been a psychoanalyst
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  Speaker 5: for many years and I've analyzed many dreams. Countess, rest
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  Speaker 5: her soul, it's a fantastic one.
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  Speaker 8: It was neurotic.
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  Speaker 5: This dream of Miss Lane's, this detailed reproduction by the
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  Speaker 5: subconscious of a murder that was taking place in this room.
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  Speaker 8: That, Mr. Cranston, I must say, is very strange.
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  Speaker 4: You think it wasn't a dream?
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  Speaker 8: Must have been.
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  Speaker 5: Miss Lane is too well-balanced to commit murder. No matter
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  Speaker 5: what the provocation might be. Certainly being accused by the
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  Speaker 5: Countess of making overtures to Larry was no provocation.
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  Speaker 8: Frantically jealous woman, the Countess.
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  Speaker 15: But, Doctor, in Margot's dream, there was curare on the arrow.
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  Speaker 8: Is there?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: But it was a poison of some kind that killed
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  Speaker 5: the Countess. It definitely was not the arrow.
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  Speaker 4: Are you sure?
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  Speaker 8: Of course. Look at the arrowhead.
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  Speaker 4: It didn't penetrate deeply enough to touch a vital organ.
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  Speaker 7: So it is poison.
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  Speaker 4: But whether it's Corelli or not, we'll have to wait.
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  Speaker 2: What was that?
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  Speaker 4: That room over there.
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  Speaker 16: Help me, please.
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  Speaker 2: Don't leave me.
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  Speaker 4: Pull me up, will you?
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  Speaker 9: How do you like this, you fool?
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  Speaker 12: Let go of him, Larry.
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  Speaker 9: I said let go of him.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you. Thank you.
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  Speaker 9: I'll get you later, Damon, when the Marines are out
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  Speaker 9: to lunch. Let go of me, Cranston.
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  Speaker 10: All right.
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  Speaker 7: Now, what brought on the mayhem, Larry?
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  Speaker 9: Blackmail.
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  Speaker 8: It was only a suggestion that you can.
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  Speaker 9: Shut up before I pull you apart.
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  Speaker 6: Easy, easy, boy.
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  Speaker 16: One murder is plenty.
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  Speaker 4: What about the blackmail?
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  Speaker 9: Last night, after you all turned in, the Countess and
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  Speaker 9: I had a battle of our own.
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  Speaker 16: Really?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, but don't get the idea I killed her.
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  Speaker 4: Because I didn't. What was the battle about, Barry? Margot.
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  Speaker 3: I told the.
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  Speaker 16: Countess I was through with her.
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  Speaker 8: She called him a thief.
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  Speaker 9: Shut up, Damon.
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  Speaker 4: Is that right, Barry?
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  Speaker 16: It's right, Lamar. That crazy Dame accused me of forging
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  Speaker 16: her name to checks.
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  Speaker 9: $ 90, 000 worth. Did you?
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  Speaker 16: Yes. Do you think I did?
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  Speaker 4: If the Countess weren't dead, I'd say no.
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  Speaker 9: You can still say no. But that beady-eyed faker was
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  Speaker 9: listening at the keyhole. He overheard the Countess calling me
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  Speaker 9: a crook. The first thing this morning, he was making
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  Speaker 9: me an offer. That jerk was telling me what it
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  Speaker 9: would cost to keep his mouth shut.
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  Speaker 7: Hanson, this is a long-starting development. I think it's about
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  Speaker 7: time the police were called, don't you?
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  Speaker 4: Definitely, Dr.
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  Speaker 8: Burgess.
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  Speaker 4: Will you take care of it?
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  Speaker 9: You want to know what I think, Lamont? That Swami
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  Speaker 9: killed her.
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  Speaker 8: The destiny of Herodotus III must die. Now answer it.
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  Speaker 8: The line seems to be out of order.
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  Speaker 3: Storm.
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  Speaker 7: Can I borrow your car, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Cranston?
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  Speaker 4: I was going to town in Texas.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, it's a good idea.
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  Speaker 16: Here are the keys.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 15: It shouldn't be longer than an hour.
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  Speaker 9: I'll drive quickly.
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  Speaker 4: Well, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 7: Where are you going, Damon?
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  Speaker 16: Upstairs to my room, is it permissible? Let him go, Lamont.
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  Speaker 16: I want to show you something.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Damon, but don't try to leave the house.
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  Speaker 10: Leave this palace, my friend.
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  Speaker 4: Leave the road, is it?
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  Speaker 8: I have been a wanderer for 2,000 years. I'm tired.
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  Speaker 16: One phony I could kill and love.
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  Speaker 4: You wanted to show me something, Larry.
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  Speaker 8: Oh.
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  Speaker 16: Yes, the checks the Countess claims I forged. Where did
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  Speaker 16: you get them?
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  Speaker 9: She got mad and threw them at me. Look, they're
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  Speaker 9: all made out to cash.
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  Speaker 6: Naturally.
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  Speaker 16: Yeah, but that's not all. There's something else I want
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  Speaker 16: you to see.
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  Speaker 14: What?
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  Speaker 16: Right behind you.
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  Speaker 8: On the desk.
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  Speaker 4: I don't see anything.
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  Speaker 8: No, you don't.
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  Speaker 9: Pleasant dreams, pal.
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  Speaker 14: Oh, the gods speak with the fury.
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  Speaker 8: Of thunder, Rosita.
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  Speaker 12: What?
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  Speaker 8: What?
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  Speaker 10: Damon.
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  Speaker 8: Man doesn't understand. The way you've lived before, who've died
• 12:03
  Speaker 8: only to be born again.
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  Speaker 12: What are you doing in my room?
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  Speaker 8: I came to guard you while you slept. Well, please go.
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  Speaker 8: It is the will of the gods that I stay.
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  Speaker 8: Your destiny, Herodotus, must be fulfilled again.
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  Speaker 9: Will you please stop talking about my destiny?
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  Speaker 12: What do you want?
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  Speaker 14: You.
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  Speaker 8: Four times since the age of Pericles, you denied me.
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  Speaker 8: Each time you killed three and then yourself. You will
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  Speaker 8: kill three again.
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  Speaker 16: But not yourself.
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  Speaker 4: I will save you. This time, Herodotus. I don't want
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  Speaker 4: to be saved.
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  Speaker 17: You must be.
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  Speaker 8: I cannot travel the endless road. Another reincarnation and I
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  Speaker 8: may not find you again. Herodotus, do you know what
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  Speaker 8: that means?
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  Speaker 12: I'm tired, Damon.
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  Speaker 4: Can't we talk about it some other time? There is
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  Speaker 4: no other time.
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  Speaker 6: Oh.
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  Speaker 8: The gods are angry. I have spoken too much.
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  Speaker 4: Goodbye, Herodotus.
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  Speaker 8: The enemy is gone. Next will be the friend.
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  Speaker 7: The friend, oh child of destiny.
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  Speaker 8: The friend. Come in, friends.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, Margo.
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  Speaker 8: Larry. I was just thinking of you.
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  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 16: That's why I changed.
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  Speaker 2: Come closer. You are my friend.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 8: I've got to kill you. Do you mind?
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  Speaker 4: Not at all.
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  Speaker 16: I want to be killed by a friend.
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  Speaker 4: Hand me that arrow from the table.
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  Speaker 16: It's a beautiful arrow.
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  Speaker 4: Relinker.
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  Speaker 8: Take care of you.
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  Speaker 4: Don't break it.
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  Speaker 8: I'll take care of it. Where's the killer?
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  Speaker 9: I have it.
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  Speaker 8: Good.
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  Speaker 7: Hold it tightly while I dip the arrowhead.
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  Speaker 10: Into the bottle.
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  Speaker 16: Like this?
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 10: But wait, Barry.
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  Speaker 8: Don't change your mind.
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  Speaker 3: I won't.
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  Speaker 8: But we're friends.
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  Speaker 7: And friends ought to dance before death.
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  Speaker 14: Shall we?
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  Speaker 10: Of course.
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  Speaker 8: You be the music. All right. Once around you.
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  Speaker 10: Now, go into the closet, Larry.
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  Speaker 3: It's good to be killed by.
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  Speaker 17: A Plunge the arrow right here into my heart.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Do it again.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Again, Margo.
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  Speaker 8: It tickles.
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  Speaker 13: I'm so glad you're right.
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  Speaker 12: Don't stop.
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  Speaker 9: Don't stop, Margo.
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  Speaker 2: This is fun.
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  Speaker 7: This is fun.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 9: Otto, wake up.
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  Speaker 2: Wake up.
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  Speaker 10: Mom.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: Oh, Lamont.
• 16:10
  Speaker 9: It was so funny. I was stabbing him with the arrow,
• 16:14
  Speaker 9: and he said.
• 16:15
  Speaker 17: It tickled me.
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: He said, what are you talking about?
• 16:17
  Speaker 8: Larry.
• 16:18
  Speaker 9: I killed him, and he said.
• 16:21
  Speaker 13: Lamont.
• 16:24
  Speaker 8: I did it.
• 16:25
  Speaker 9: I did it again.
• 16:28
  Speaker 14: You what?
• 16:29
  Speaker 7: I killed Larry, I tell you.
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: He's in that closet.
• 16:32
  Speaker 8: Oh, he is.
• 16:32
  Speaker 15: Well, just for your information, Larry socked me on the
• 16:34
  Speaker 15: head from the library. If he's anywhere, he's miles away
• 16:36
  Speaker 15: from here right now.
• 16:37
  Speaker 13: He's in that closet, Lamont.
• 16:38
  Speaker 7: Open the door.
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: Darling, you're becoming a kid. I'm going to ask Dr.
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: Burgess to back away.
• 16:41
  Speaker 13: Now, wait, wait.
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: If Larry isn't in that closet, I'll do anything you say.
• 16:44
  Speaker 10: But if he is.
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: He isn't. I'm going to prove it to you.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: We return to the shadow in just a moment. Millions
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: of people are still buying bonds through the payroll savings plan.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: The payroll savings plan is being continued by your government
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: at the request of both labor and management. Here is
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: the easy way to save, to provide that substantial nest
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: egg for the future, and to make money at the
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: same time.
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: For U.S.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: Savings bonds, pay $ 4 at maturity 10 years from now
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: for every $ 3 invested today. Enroll on the payroll savings
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: plan and start saving so that you can own your
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: own home or provide a college education for your children
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: or have the means to go into business someday. And
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: if you don't work in a plant where the payroll
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: savings plan is in effect, make it a weekly habit
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: to visit your bank.
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: Or post office.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: You can always buy U.S. savings bonds at either place.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Buy them and hold them for your own future. Now,
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: back to the shadow.
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: A few minutes later.
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: And on the floor of Margo's room is Larry's body
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: with an arrow in his chest.
• 17:59
  Speaker 7: Darling, tell me everything that happened.
• 18:01
  Speaker 10: I did, Lamont. Larry came in here.
• 18:03
  Speaker 8: We talked about killing him.
• 18:04
  Speaker 12: We danced and then I killed him.
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: In a dream? Lamont, what's happening to me?
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: This is the second time. First the countess and now Larry.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: Did I kill him or didn't I? You couldn't have.
• 18:13
  Speaker 12: But how could Larry have gotten in here in my car?
• 18:16
  Speaker 15: How did I know the countess was in the library?
• 18:18
  Speaker 8: How did I know they'd both been murdered by arrows
• 18:19
  Speaker 8: dipped into your eyes?
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: Please, darling, there's no proof to our.
• 18:22
  Speaker 7: There will be, Lamont.
• 18:23
  Speaker 10: You'll see.
• 18:24
  Speaker 9: Everything else has come out just as I told you
• 18:26
  Speaker 9: it would.
• 18:28
  Speaker 7: Only I've got to know.
• 18:29
  Speaker 9: If I killed him or not.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: I say you didn't.
• 18:31
  Speaker 15: I want to believe you, but I can't.
• 18:32
  Speaker 8: I can't.
• 18:33
  Speaker 9: I can't.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: And that's as it should be. Damon, what do you want?
• 18:37
  Speaker 9: Believe only in the gods who wrote it us.
• 18:39
  Speaker 8: They know the truth. And what they know, no mortal
• 18:41
  Speaker 8: man will believe.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: What do they know about murder, Damon?
• 18:43
  Speaker 8: The wisdom of Athene, the power of Zeus, the glory
• 18:46
  Speaker 8: of Apollo. All things are ruled by them.
• 18:49
  Speaker 15: The destiny that compels one to kill and another to die.
• 18:52
  Speaker 8: Think that about it, dear. Once more the enemy and
• 18:56
  Speaker 8: the friend are dead. And once more the loved one
• 19:00
  Speaker 8: will die.
• 19:01
  Speaker 7: The destiny of a rotator.
• 19:03
  Speaker 8: Lamarck.
• 19:05
  Speaker 7: He was here before the drink.
• 19:06
  Speaker 8: Here?
• 19:08
  Speaker 9: All right, Damon.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: From now on you're going light on the mysticism and
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: heavy on the facts. I want them in chronological order.
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: Facts are in the dead ones, Mr.
• 19:14
  Speaker 8: Cranston.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: No more hokum, Damon.
• 19:16
  Speaker 8: Facts. Once.
• 19:20
  Speaker 7: I was tortured by a tortuous mother.
• 19:23
  Speaker 8: He did not believe. And the truth was all around.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: I have to push your face in.
• 19:28
  Speaker 8: That is for you to decide. I.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: Mr.
• 19:30
  Speaker 10: Constance.
• 19:31
  Speaker 14: Mr.
• 19:31
  Speaker 10: Constance. Up here, Dr.
• 19:32
  Speaker 14: Burgess.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: Well, Damon, the police are here.
• 19:35
  Speaker 15: Now keep your story clean and down to earth. They'll
• 19:36
  Speaker 15: have a lot more consideration for you.
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: I had to turn back.
• 19:40
  Speaker 8: The bridge was washed out.
• 19:40
  Speaker 10: Huh?
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: The storm must have been worse than we.
• 19:44
  Speaker 10: Good heavens.
• 19:45
  Speaker 7: What happened?
• 19:46
  Speaker 17: Lowry.
• 19:48
  Speaker 14: You say, Mr.
• 19:48
  Speaker 8: Countess?
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: No.
• 19:51
  Speaker 8: The arrow penetrated the heart.
• 19:52
  Speaker 7: Then it wasn't to Lowry.
• 19:54
  Speaker 8: I don't think so.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: That's something. Wait a minute.
• 19:57
  Speaker 7: He's got something clenched in his hand.
• 19:59
  Speaker 12: It's a bottle.
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: It's to Lowry. Don't jump to conclusions, darling.
• 20:03
  Speaker 9: I can't open his hand.
• 20:05
  Speaker 7: I'm afraid you won't be able to do so without
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: breaking the bones, Mr.
• 20:08
  Speaker 14: Cranston.
• 20:08
  Speaker 16: No.
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: You mean rigor mortis is setting?
• 20:11
  Speaker 8: Precisely.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: But look closely, Mr.
• 20:15
  Speaker 8: Kent. Soon rigor mortis will set into you. The loved
• 20:22
  Speaker 8: one is next in the order of things. And the
• 20:26
  Speaker 8: loved one is you.
• 20:29
  Speaker 7: Well, what do you know?
• 20:41
  Speaker 16: Ingenious.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: Margo, darling, I've got good news. I was just checking
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: these books and I found some interesting things.
• 20:47
  Speaker 16: There's the enemy.
• 20:47
  Speaker 10: Then the friend.
• 20:51
  Speaker 8: Down.
• 20:52
  Speaker 9: And now the love.
• 20:53
  Speaker 8: What?
• 20:54
  Speaker 7: Put that arrow down.
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: The will of the gods.
• 20:58
  Speaker 8: The loved one must die.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: Look out, that tip is loaded with Karali. One scratch,
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: give me that arrow.
• 21:02
  Speaker 13: The cycle must be completed. Destiny must not be denied.
• 21:05
  Speaker 12: Margo, snap out of it.
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: You can't get away.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: You've got to die.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: Darling, this arrow scratches either of us.
• 21:10
  Speaker 15: Darling, you'll have to get rough. This is one time
• 21:12
  Speaker 15: destiny gets a kick in the past.
• 21:13
  Speaker 13: Now, drop it.
• 21:13
  Speaker 10: Drop it.
• 21:14
  Speaker 13: Come on.
• 21:21
  Speaker 7: You're breaking my arm.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: Darling, you almost broke my arm.
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: What?
• 21:27
  Speaker 10: Oh, darling, darling, you're alive.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: You're alive.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: I was dreaming that I killed you. Margo, who did
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: you see before you came down here?
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: Well, Damon, I... No, Dr.
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: Bird, he's up.
• 21:38
  Speaker 8: Oh, I don't remember.
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: But you saw one of them, didn't you?
• 21:41
  Speaker 11: I don't know.
• 21:41
  Speaker 14: I can't remember.
• 21:42
  Speaker 16: Just a dream.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: It doesn't matter. I think I've got all I need
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: now to crack this case.
• 21:45
  Speaker 8: Really?
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: This medical book gave it to me.
• 21:47
  Speaker 15: Margot, how would you like to meet the murderer who's
• 21:48
  Speaker 15: been giving you bad dreams?
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: Oh, need I say?
• 21:50
  Speaker 8: I'd love to.
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: All right, but you've got to help. Darling, this is
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: what I want you to do.
• 21:54
  Speaker 10: I wrote it.
• 22:05
  Speaker 9: I killed him, Damon.
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: The loved one.
• 22:09
  Speaker 10: Yes.
• 22:10
  Speaker 8: He's lying there in the garden. I must see. The
• 22:14
  Speaker 8: window of your room, Damon.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: Good.
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: Come with me. Your hand, please. I won't leave you.
• 22:23
  Speaker 8: Look out of the window.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 22:28
  Speaker 14: Yes.
• 22:29
  Speaker 8: The cycle is finished. Now you will marry me, Herodotus.
• 22:33
  Speaker 14: I can't.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: You must. Only marriage can.
• 22:35
  Speaker 14: Save you from destruction.
• 22:36
  Speaker 16: I must die, Damon.
• 22:39
  Speaker 8: That's my destiny.
• 22:41
  Speaker 12: Four times I have killed three.
• 22:44
  Speaker 8: And then myself.
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: Now.
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: Will you take poison again?
• 22:51
  Speaker 8: Can I do nothing to stop you? Must I always
• 22:53
  Speaker 8: look on while you kill and die?
• 22:55
  Speaker 7: I wrote it to listen to me. Are you all right?
• 22:58
  Speaker 8: Dr.
• 22:58
  Speaker 14: Burgess.
• 22:59
  Speaker 10: I was in the town.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: I heard you screaming.
• 23:02
  Speaker 8: Where's Mr. Cranston? Lying in the garden. With an arrow
• 23:06
  Speaker 8: in his back.
• 23:07
  Speaker 14: What?
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: Look for yourself.
• 23:09
  Speaker 8: The window.
• 23:09
  Speaker 14: Who?
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: Who did this terrible thing?
• 23:12
  Speaker 8: Destiny? Damon, did you kill the Countess and I, too?
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: No.
• 23:19
  Speaker 8: It was she, Herodotus, obeying the will of the gods.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: That's not true, Damon.
• 23:24
  Speaker 8: What?
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: Who spoke?
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Hermes, the messenger of the gods, he's here.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: Why are you trembling, Damon?
• 23:31
  Speaker 9: Are you afraid? Not for myself, no. Not for Herodotus.
• 23:34
  Speaker 8: Why? Never before has a god sent you, Hermes, to punish.
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: Her for her crimes.
• 23:39
  Speaker 15: You'd like me to think she committed them, wouldn't you, Damon?
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: The truth is written in the ages.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: It has been her destiny. And yours?
• 23:45
  Speaker 8: To follow and to be useless.
• 23:48
  Speaker 15: Well, you've come to the end of the trail. I?
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: No, Hermes.
• 23:52
  Speaker 8: Miss Lane is innocent.
• 23:53
  Speaker 15: Therefore, someone else must be guilty.
• 23:55
  Speaker 8: Not I. I've killed no one.
• 23:57
  Speaker 9: I'm innocent, too. You hear that, Dr.
• 23:59
  Speaker 15: Burgess? That leaves only you. Well, are you going to
• 24:03
  Speaker 15: take the word of a lunatic? I have no other word, doctor.
• 24:05
  Speaker 15: If I may call you that for the last time.
• 24:08
  Speaker 9: What?
• 24:08
  Speaker 15: Does that startle you, Mr.
• 24:10
  Speaker 14: Burgess?
• 24:10
  Speaker 15: I don't know what you're talking about. Let me refresh
• 24:12
  Speaker 15: your memory. Fred Burgess, master hypnotist. Can you see those
• 24:16
  Speaker 15: placards pasted outside the vaudeville theaters of 14 years ago?
• 24:18
  Speaker 15: That was you, Burgess, before you decided to become a
• 24:21
  Speaker 15: phony doctor and psychoanalyst.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: You're mad, whoever you are.
• 24:23
  Speaker 15: Don't lie to the shadow, Burgess.
• 24:25
  Speaker 9: He knows all about you.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: The shadow?
• 24:26
  Speaker 15: Shall we have more of the truth now? You hypnotized
• 24:29
  Speaker 15: the Countess while you were a psychoanalyst. Ordered her to
• 24:31
  Speaker 15: sign her name to checks amounting to $ 90, 000.
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: That's not the truth.
• 24:34
  Speaker 15: But last night, when you heard the Countess accuse Larry
• 24:36
  Speaker 15: of forgery, you became frightened. You were afraid she'd find
• 24:39
  Speaker 15: out how those checks came to be written, so you
• 24:40
  Speaker 15: killed her.
• 24:41
  Speaker 14: No.
• 24:41
  Speaker 15: Then you arranged for Miss Lane to take the blame.
• 24:43
  Speaker 15: You hypnotized her, too, and told her what to think.
• 24:45
  Speaker 15: It was easy, Mr. Burgess, wasn't it? Miss Lane regarded
• 24:48
  Speaker 15: you as a sympathetic friend. I'm not going to stay
• 24:50
  Speaker 15: here to be slandered by you.
• 24:51
  Speaker 9: Grab him, Damon.
• 24:52
  Speaker 8: As the guards direct, so I do.
• 24:54
  Speaker 11: Let me go.
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: Let me go.
• 24:56
  Speaker 15: Not so rough, Damon. Let's give him a fair trial.
• 24:59
  Speaker 15: Before he becomes a corpse.
• 25:02
  Speaker 13: Not that jury.
• 25:14
  Speaker 7: It's been out too long.
• 25:15
  Speaker 8: I'm worried.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: So am I, darling. There might be a disagreement.
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: Or an acquittal.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: One of the disadvantages of being in.
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: The shadows, you can't tell a courtroom what you know.
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: Well, there are still a couple of things that I
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: don't know.
• 25:25
  Speaker 10: What, darling?
• 25:26
  Speaker 9: Damning, for example.
• 25:28
  Speaker 8: Crackpot.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: In this case, it was a very useful crack, Dr.
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: Burgess.
• 25:31
  Speaker 15: All that talk about you being the reincarnation of Herodotus
• 25:34
  Speaker 15: gave Burgess.
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: What he considered a great idea.
• 25:35
  Speaker 8: To frame me, huh?
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 25:37
  Speaker 15: Already had you framed for the murder of the Countess.
• 25:40
  Speaker 15: You were confessing all over the place.
• 25:42
  Speaker 10: Wasn't I, Judge?
• 25:44
  Speaker 7: I never forget myself for trying to save you, though.
• 25:46
  Speaker 8: Actually, you wouldn't have gone through with it.
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: A hypnotist can't force anyone to commit murder. But, Lamont,
• 25:52
  Speaker 7: how did you know he wasn't a doctor?
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: Remember how we couldn't get that bottle of Ferrari out.
• 25:55
  Speaker 8: Of Larry's hand?
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: Mm-hmm, but you said rigor mortis had set in. Well,
• 25:59
  Speaker 7: just between you and me, it couldn't have been.
• 26:01
  Speaker 8: Why not?
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: Because Larry wasn't dead long enough.
• 26:05
  Speaker 15: He was very much alive half an hour before when
• 26:07
  Speaker 15: he socked me on the head.
• 26:08
  Speaker 7: Rigor mortis takes at least six hours to set in.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 26:11
  Speaker 7: A real doctor would have known it. You see, Larry
• 26:14
  Speaker 7: was hypnotized before he was killed.
• 26:15
  Speaker 9: Oh, now, darling, how could you possibly know that?
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: Well, what happens to a hypnotized person?
• 26:20
  Speaker 8: Oh, yes.
• 26:21
  Speaker 16: He goes to sleep.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: No, no, I mean, what happens to his body?
• 26:24
  Speaker 8: Uh, it becomes rigid.
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: Of course.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: It stays that way after death.
• 26:31
  Speaker 7: It doesn't relax as other bodies do before rigor mortis
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: sets in.
• 26:34
  Speaker 8: The jury's coming in.
• 26:35
  Speaker 16: Come on, if they find that man in the quarry,
• 26:37
  Speaker 16: I'll lose all my faith in justice.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Gentlemen of the jury, have you agreed upon a verdict?
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: We have, Your Honor.
• 26:43
  Speaker 11: The prisoner will stand and rise and face the jury.
• 26:47
  Speaker 8: Come on.
• 26:49
  Speaker 16: Gentlemen of the jury, I'll find you.
• 26:52
  Speaker 9: We find the defendant, Frederick Burgess, guilty as charged.
• 26:57
  Speaker 11: Fair enough.
• 26:57
  Speaker 16: Bring the prisoner to the bar.
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: Frederick Burgess, you have been found guilty of the crime
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: of murder.
• 27:03
  Speaker 8: In the first degree.
• 27:04
  Speaker 11: It is the sentence of this court that you be
• 27:08
  Speaker 11: put into the custody of the sheriff of this county
• 27:11
  Speaker 11: and by him delivered to the custody of the warden
• 27:13
  Speaker 11: of state prison, where during the week of June 6,
• 27:17
  Speaker 11: You shall be put to death in the manner prescribed
• 27:19
  Speaker 11: by the laws of this state.
• 27:22
  Speaker 16: And may God have mercy on your soul.
• 27:23
  Speaker 8: No!
• 27:24
  Speaker 12: No, not this!
• 27:25
  Speaker 9: Not this!
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: No!
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: Take him away!
• 27:28
  Speaker 10: No!
• 27:45
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• 27:47
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• 27:50
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• 27:52
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• 27:55
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• 27:59
  Speaker 2: you bought during the war. The only difference is in
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: their name. Instead of war bonds, the Treasury Department calls
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: them U.S. savings bonds. They pay the same rate of interest.
• 28:08
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• 28:12
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• 28:15
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• 28:19
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• 28:22
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• 28:25
  Speaker 2: prize so because of their high rate of return, their
• 28:28
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• 28:33
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• 28:36
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• 28:43
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• 28:54
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• 28:58
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• 29:03
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