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S1E7: Accounts Receivable · If You Please, Himan Brown’s Radio Mystery Theater

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>>Welcome to "If You Please...
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Himan Brown's Radio Mystery Theater."
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On this series, we're offering rebroadcasts of a select group
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of programs created by this legendary producer for CBS
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between 1974 and 1982.
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Brown re-imagined radio drama for contemporary times.
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Our new series offers some of these exciting works again.
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Before the play, commentator John Slaveney
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shares details about the cast, the writer, and the plot.
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Your job? Listen.
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"If You Please..." is produced in loving memory
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of Robert Isaacson.
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[ Dramatic music playing ]
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>>Hi, everyone, I'm John Slaveney.
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Welcome to the seventh episode of our podcast,
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the effective and gritty thriller "Accounts Receivable."
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The play is set somewhere in the American heartland of the 1970s.
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In a small, nondescript town,
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our hero, Phil Kohlmann, runs a modest gas station,
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living in ordinary life, it would seem,
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but Kohlmann is facing
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a mounting tide of quiet desperation.
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He's an honest man, but his honesty is about to be tested.
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His partner in the gas station wants to cash out,
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and Phil needs $15,000 to buy his share or lose the business.
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To make matters worse, Phil's father, Rick,
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has just been released from prison
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after serving ten years for a payroll heist
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and now plans to move in with Phil and his family.
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But here's the rub -- the loot from that heist
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was never recovered, and that fact gnaws at Phil.
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$15,000 in cash would solve everything,
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if only Phil can square it with his conscience.
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Veteran actor William Prince plays Phil.
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Prince was a founding member of the Actors Studio
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and had recently completed a short run
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of Harold Pinter's "The Caretaker"
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at New York's Roundabout Theatre.
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Phil's father, Rick, is portrayed
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by veteran radio actor, writer, and playwright Joe Julian.
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Ex-con can be kind of a stock role,
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but Julian imbues it with urgency and menace.
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Julian's fascinating memoir, "This Was Radio,"
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was published in 1975 and is recommended to both fans
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of radio drama and students of the theater.
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Also in the cast is a young Ralph Carter as Phil's son.
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Carter, who would soon appear in Norman Lear's sitcom landmark
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"Good Times," had just opened on Broadway
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in the musical "Raisin," where his performance
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earned him a Tony nomination.
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Himan Brown believed in colorblind casting,
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and he had no qualms about casting Carter, a Black actor,
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as the son of a character played by a white actor.
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Joan Lovejoy, Robert Dryden, and Ian Martin
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fill out the cast in fairly minor roles,
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though Dryden makes the most of his turn
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as Phil's boorish business partner, Skitch.
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As with all the "CBS Radio Mystery Theater" shows
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we're reprising, our host for this drama
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is the incomparable E.G. Marshall.
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Marshall was another of Brown's performers
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who was a member of the Actors Studio.
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He had an impressive Broadway career,
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but an early film role as a juror in Sidney Lumet's
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celebrated "12 Angry Men" destined him for the courtroom.
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He went on to star in the CBS TV legal drama "The Defenders"
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and brings an air of confident deliberation
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to his "Mystery Theater" role.
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And certainly here he does an effective job
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of setting the scene for act one, scene one,
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as we join Phil Kohlmann on a cold and rainy day
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in the compound of a maximum-security prison.
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Sidney Sloan wrote the script,
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and Brown committed the play to tape
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on Monday, November 19, 1973.
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It first aired on Wednesday, January 16, 1974.
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Enjoy.
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[ Dramatic music playing ]
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[ Door opens, creaks ]
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[ Dramatic music playing ]
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♪♪
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>>Come in.
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Welcome.
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I'm E.G. Marshall.
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Welcome to the sound of suspense,
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to the fear you can hear.
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I have an unusual story about a father and son.
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You know, it is said that love and hate
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are two sides of the same coin.
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If this is so, Phil, the son, never believed it.
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His hatred blinded him to the extent
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that he lost all humanity and compassion for his father.
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This is Phil Kohlmann.
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>>It's not in the past. It's now.
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Every day of my life since I can remember.
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It was my mother's life, the life of my sister.
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There wasn't only his miserable life that was destroyed.
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It was all of us.
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My mother dead at 43.
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My sister -- I don't even know where she is
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or what became of her.
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>>Now, look, Mr. Kohlmann, I can appreciate
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what you've been through, but if you won't take him,
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he'll die here in prison.
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>>Let him. Let him die.
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[ Dramatic music playing ]
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>>Our mystery drama, "Accounts Receivable,"
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was especially written for the Radio Mystery Theater
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by Sidney Sloan and stars William Prince.
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Act one.
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♪♪
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♪♪
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Phil Kohlmann parked his battered pickup truck
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in the prison compound marked for visitors.
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He walked 50 yards to the dirty gray guardhouse
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and presented his credentials to the stony-faced officer,
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who permitted Kohlmann to step out again into the rain
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and proceed toward the great dirty granite complex,
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a maximum-security prison for the state.
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Once inside, Kohlmann was ushered into the office
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of the chief prison doctor. [ Door closes ]
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>>Mr. Kohlmann, will you have a chair?
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I just want to get out the file on your father.
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I'm sorry you had to come out on such a nasty day.
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Uh, let me see.
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Kohlmann. Richard.
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Oh, here we are.
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I don't really need to look at the file on Rick Kohlmann.
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I almost know it by heart. Uh...
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Caught in a police trap after being at large
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for 12 days after the payroll robbery
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at the Sphinx Tool and Die Company plant.
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Both his accomplices, Buddy Mayer and Mickey Montrose,
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killed running from the police
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and their share of the robbery recovered.
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Only your father held out,
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denying that he had any part of the money.
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>>Please, doctor. I know the story.
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>>Yeah, I suppose you do.
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Do you think he hid his share somewhere
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before the police got him?
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>>I don't know any more than you do.
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>>$106,000.
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Your father was quite a celebrity all over
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the papers, TV, radio.
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Nobody talked of anything else at the time.
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He was something of a folk hero.
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>>Gunman? Bank robber? A folk hero?
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>>Now, look, Mr. Kohlmann,
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uh, the reason I asked you to come
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is that I couldn't write what I wanted to say.
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I discussed the matter with the warden,
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and he approved of my plan.
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He will cooperate, and with his help,
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it won't be too difficult to obtain a parole.
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>>Parole? He's -- He's coming out?
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>>He's had a serious heart attack.
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It's his third.
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Now, the parole can be arranged for humane reasons, et cetera.
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There's only one catch.
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The warden will go along with this if --
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if you will assume responsibility.
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>>No.
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>>He's a sick old man. >>No.
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>>But if you won't take him, he'll die here.
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>>Let him.
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Let him die.
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>>How long is it since you've seen him?
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>>I went to his trial. I took my mother.
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>>Over nine years ago.
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You haven't seen him or written to him since?
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>>Well, he wrote to me when he was informed
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that my mother died.
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I didn't answer.
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He sent birthday cards to Harry, my son.
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>>I want you to do something for me.
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I want you to see him.
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>>No. I-I couldn't.
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>>I want you to do it for me.
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I won't ask anything else of you.
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Won't take long, Mr. Kohlmann.
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[ Dramatic music playing ]
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♪♪
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Rick?
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Rick? >>Huh?
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>>Think you can wake up a bit and talk?
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>>Huh?
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Oh. It's you, Doc.
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What do you want?
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>>I brought someone to see you, Rick.
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>>Hello...Rick.
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>>Who is it?
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>>It's your son, Rick.
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He's come to see you.
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>>Phil?
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You... >>Yeah.
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Yeah, Rick. How are you feeling?
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>>I...feel fine.
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I've been a little under the weather.
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I, uh...
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How's the kid?
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>>Oh, Harry's fine. He's going to school.
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Fine. >>And Nina -- how's she?
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I only saw her that one time at the trial.
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>>Oh, she's -- she's okay. She's getting on.
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>>Phil, I wonder if, when you get back,
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would you send me a picture of Harry?
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>>Well, yeah, I guess so.
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>>I'd appreciate that.
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>>Well, sure.
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Sure, I'll send you a picture.
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>>Swell, swell.
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Only, Phil, if you don't mind,
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I'd like to have my...
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grandson send it.
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[ Dramatic music playing ]
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[ Door opens ]
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>>Phil, is that you? >>Yeah, Nina.
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>>Come on out in the kitchen. I'm fixing dinner.
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[ Footsteps approaching ]
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>>Mmm. Smells good.
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>>One of your favorites.
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I thought I'd make you feel better with a good meal in you
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after a day of driving in the rain.
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Is it still raining? >>Oh, it stopped
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about an hour ago, just about when I got to Glens Falls.
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>>That's good. We've had enough rain.
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>>Yeah. Harry home?
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>>In his room, doing his homework.
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>>What, with that radio going?
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>>He says he concentrates better.
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>>Ames call? >>Yeah, twice.
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About 30 minutes ago.
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He, uh, seemed angry.
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>>Ah, that's too damn bad.
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>>I wish you and him got along. It'd make it so much easier.
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>>But he never does his share of the work at the station.
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If he has to go out and pump a tank of gas,
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you'd think the world was coming to an end.
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He hardly gets his hands dirty.
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>>Well, now, you knew he didn't know anything
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about the gas station business, Phil.
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>>Okay, okay, I needed his money,
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but I can't carry him on my back.
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I gotta buy him out.
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Well? Ain't you gonna ask me?
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>>I know you'll get around to it in your own time.
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>>I saw him. Talk to him.
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>>How is he?
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>>Hardly recognized him.
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Gotten so old.
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I don't think he knew me at first.
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He's been sick. Heart.
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Doc said it was his third, a bad one.
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>>That why they wanted you to come see him?
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>>Oh, partly.
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They had something else up their sleeve.
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They're going to let him out.
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>>Out? Well, I thought he was --
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he was in for life. >>That's right.
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Four-time loser, they call it.
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According to the state laws, that's life.
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But because of his health,
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the doc called it humane reasons or something.
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They'll parole him.
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>>And they have to get your approval, huh?
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That why they made you come? >>[ Chuckles ]
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Something like that.
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They want me to be responsible for him.
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>>What? >>Want me to take him in,
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take care of him.
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>>Well, maybe he wouldn't want that, Phil.
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>>He's got nothing to say about it.
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It's either that or die in prison.
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>>Oh, Phil. >>I told him. I told him.
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No, I wouldn't have him.
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>>Now, Phil, you know you're going to take him in.
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>>No, no. I'll never have him in my house.
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Let that jailbird die where he belongs.
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Let him die in prison.
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[ Dramatic music playing ]
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[ Door opens ]
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>>I had this hot tip in the seventh, so I thought I'd --
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>>Skitch.
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>>Uh, just a minute, Lou.
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Can't you see I'm busy, Kohlmann?
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Anyway, so what happens, I plunge, I put 20 on his nose --
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>>Skitch, cut it short, will you?
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I want to talk to you. >>Lou, I'm sorry.
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I'll have to continue this later.
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[ Phone hangs up ]
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Boy, have you got a nerve.
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>>Your damn telephone call is so important,
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you can't wait on a customer? >>That punk?
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I knew he was there. "Give me two bucks worth."
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I'm trying to discourage customers like that.
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>>Looks like you're trying to discourage all of them.
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We're losing people every day to Ray Damon
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at the People's Corner. >>Good!
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Why don't you buy me out and go join up with your buddy Ray?
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You'd make me very happy. >>I can't talk to you anymore
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without getting into a fight. >>I want out, Kohlmann,
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and I want it quick. Buy my half of the business
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and run things your own crooked way.
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>>Crooked?
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What are you saying?
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>>I'm wise to you, Kohlmann.
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I've known about you for the last three years.
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>>What?
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>>I should have known it four years ago.
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I could have avoided all this.
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>>Avoided what, Ames?
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>>Okay, buddy, if you want it cold and clear,
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like a weather report,
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your father's a jailbird.
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>>Go on.
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>>Why should I go on? You get what I mean.
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>>No, I don't.
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I'd like to have you spell it out all nice and slow.
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>>You know the old saying, "Like father like --"
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[ Hand slaps ] Ugh!
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>>You're the lowest scum I've ever known.
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To lay on me about what my father's done.
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I've never cheated you out of one lousy cent.
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I put up with you, split even with you.
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For four years, you haven't done five cents worth of work.
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>>This does it.
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I want you to get up 15 grand by the end of the month
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and buy me out. >>I'm seeing Clark Whitley
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at the bank tomorrow morning.
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As for you, you don't have to come around here
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to use the phone in the men's room.
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You just stay home.
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I'll send you your cut.
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Now get out of my service station.
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[ Dramatic music playing ]
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Hello, Mr. Whitley.
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I want you to excuse me for calling you at home
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after business hours.
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Well, you see, I can't make it down to the bank during the day.
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I've been trying for over a week.
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I, uh -- I'm kind of shorthanded.
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Lou Ames?
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Uh, well, that's why I'm calling you.
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I want to buy him out.
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Well, what I'm trying to say
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is I'm going to need a big loan from the bank.
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$15,000.
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Yeah, that's what he wants for his share.
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Well, he won't take less than that.
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[ Chuckles ] Yeah, I know it's tough
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trying to do this over the phone.
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Maybe, uh, tomorrow morning.
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Well, thanks. Thanks. I appreciate that.
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[ Phone hangs up ]
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>>Well, how'd he sound?
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>>Oh, I don't know.
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You know, it's a lot I'm asking for.
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>>Phil, suppose you can't get the money.
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What can Ames do?
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>>He called me on the phone at the station today.
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He says he's talking to his lawyer,
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and if I can't make it, he says he can force a sale
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of the property and a division of the proceeds.
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You know what that would amount to after we paid off
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the five grand loan to the bank and legal fees?
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Maybe $5,000, $6,000 each?
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$5,000. Out of work.
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How long would it last?
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[ Inhales sharply ] Nina, I'm desperate.
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I-I never felt so boxed in in my life.
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I -- I got only 10 more days till the end of the month.
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>>Oh, darling, don't worry. We'll manage.
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[ Telephone rings ] I'll get that.
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Yes?
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Yes, this is the Kohlmann residence.
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Who's ca--
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Well, yes, he's home, but I don't know --
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>>Who is it, Nina? >>Uh, pardon me a minute.
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Phil, it's that doctor.
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The doctor from the prison.
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>>What do I need this for at this time?
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I know what he wants, and he knows how I feel.
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Tell him to --
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No. Give me that phone.
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Look, Doctor, why can't you leave me alone?
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I don't want him now or ever.
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That's final. Goodbye.
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[ Phone hangs up ]
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I can remember wanting a father so much that it hurt.
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I'd cry at night in my bed,
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quiet so my mother wouldn't hear.
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I swore that if I ever had a kid,
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I'd love him, take care of him.
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>>Clean and honest, like his father.
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>>I've never taken a cent that didn't belong to me, Nina.
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>>I know that, dear, and I love you for it.
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You're a good man.
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>>That wasn't the first time the doctor has called, was it?
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>>[ Sighs ] No, he --
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he's called at least five times in the last few days.
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>>Call him.
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Tell him the old man can come.
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>>Oh, Phil.
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>>I don't know how we're going to manage.
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[ Dramatic music playing ]
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>>And so Phil Kohlmann yields to the pressure around him
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to accept his father into his home.
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The barrier of hate he has built up, however, will not dissolve.
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We'll return shortly with act two.
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[ Dramatic music playing ]
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♪♪
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>>The first of the month has come,
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and Phil Kohlmann has not been able to raise the money
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to buy out his partner.
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Another event is taking place which brings him no joy.
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His father is coming today to become a permanent member
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of the household. [ Vehicle approaching ]
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>>It's them, Mom! They're here!
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It's Dad's pickup truck with Grandpa.
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>>Harry, Harry, take it easy.
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You know how excited you get about things.
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Now, remember, he's an old man, and he's been very sick.
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>>I know, I know.
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Mom, I'm really glad to see him.
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>>Well, go open the door. Dad's carrying the suitcase.
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[ Footsteps approaching ] [ Door opens ]
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>>Welcome, Grandpa!
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Here, let me take this suitcase.
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Dad, I'll show him to his room.
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>>Well [sighs] c-come in.
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Don't just stand in the door. >>Sure. Thanks.
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>>Let me take the suitcase. >>Huh?
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Oh, yeah, yeah, here. [ Door closes ]
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>>Follow me, Grandpa. I'll show you where you bunk.
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>>Uh, Harry, take it easy.
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Give him a chance to catch his breath.
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You, uh -- You want to sit down, Rick?
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>>Okay to sit, Phil? >>Sure.
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>>Uh, if you want anything,
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coffee or tea or anything, just --
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>>I ain't allowed to drink coffee.
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>>Oh.
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Well, if you're tired... >>I ain't.
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>>...you can go to bed. Don't sit up to be polite.
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>>I ain't tired.
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>>Oh, Nina, I'm going down to the station.
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I got a little work to do.
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>>Well, Eddie called up at 7:00 when he closed up, Phil.
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What's the point of going there at this hour?
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>>Well, today's the first of the month.
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I thought I'd pay my bills.
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Some people do, you know?
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>>But, Phil, your father just got here.
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>>I got bills to pay, Nina.
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[ Footsteps departing ] [ Door opens ]
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[ Door closes ]
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>>How about a game of checkers, Grandpa?
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>>Uh, homework, Harry.
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>>I did it this afternoon so I'd have a chance
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to spend some time with Grandpa.
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How about it, Grandpa?
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>>I'm going to show you how to play that game.
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I was a champ at it.
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[ Dramatic music playing ]
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[ Telephone rings ]
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[ Footsteps approaching ]
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>>Kohlmann's Service Station.
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Oh, Mr. Whitley.
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Uh, yeah, yeah, I called the bank earlier,
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but they said you was busy.
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Yeah.
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Well, it's getting kind of urgent.
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You see, I told Ames I'd be able to settle matters with him
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around the first of the month.
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It's the 11th already.
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He calls me every day.
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Mr. Whitley, I'm desperate.
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I gotta get that loan.
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What?
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Well, when can you let me know?
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Well, uh, couldn't you make it sooner?
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Okay. Mr. Whitley, I know you're doing your best for me.
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[ Horn honks ] Pardon me, Mr. Whitley.
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Someone wants gas.
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Please call me as soon as you know.
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Thanks. Goodbye. [ Phone hangs up ]
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Coming!
21:52
I'm sorry to keep you --
21:53
>>This the way you do business, Kohlmann?
21:55
You're going to run this joint into the ground in three months.
21:58
>>Well, I'm sorry, but Eddie's out to lunch
22:00
or something, Skitch.
22:02
>>"Mr. Ames" to you. Kohlmann.
22:04
Fill her up. >>Sure, sure.
22:07
>>Reason I dropped by, Kohlmann --
22:09
my lawyer is drawing up papers
22:11
to dissolve our partnership and --
22:12
>>I was just talking to the bank when you drove in.
22:15
>>Good. When are you getting the cash?
22:17
>>Uh, soon. >>What does that mean?
22:20
Either you're going to get it or you ain't.
22:23
Don't try stalling me with "soon."
22:25
You said you'd have it before the end of last month.
22:26
You know what the date is today? >>I'm doing my best, Ames.
22:29
>>It ain't good enough.
22:31
>>Give me a little time.
22:33
You'll get your 15 grand.
22:35
>>I'll give you another week.
22:37
>>Thanks, Ames.
22:39
>>You know why I think you're going to be
22:41
able to come up with the money?
22:44
Your old man is living with you now.
22:47
>>What the hell are you driving at?
22:49
>>Everybody knows he's got over $100,000 stashed away
22:53
from that job he did about ten years ago.
22:55
>>You fat pig! >>[ Gasping ]
22:57
I'll pull you out of that car. >>Let go of my tie!
22:59
You're choking me!
23:02
>>Okay.
23:04
Now get out of here.
23:05
[ Dramatic music playing ]
23:09
[ Silverware clinking ]
23:12
>>Coach says I'm a natural for basketball, Dad.
23:15
All I need is practice.
23:16
>>Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good.
23:18
Nina, you know, I got to get back
23:20
and relieve Eddie for dinner. If the meal ain't ready --
23:22
>>It's all ready, Phil. It's all ready.
23:25
>>Rick, food's on the table.
23:28
[ Door opens ]
23:29
>>I thought I'd join you for grub.
23:31
I don't want to cause no trouble.
23:32
>>Sit down, Grandpa. >>I...
23:36
>>Uh, there was a man here to see you today, Rick.
23:39
>>See me? >>Mm-hmm.
23:41
>>Can't imagine who'd be coming around to see me.
23:43
>>Maybe some old cellmate. >>Phil.
23:47
>>Yes, maybe Phil's right.
23:49
One of my old buddies.
23:51
[ Dramatic music playing ]
23:55
[ Doorbell rings ] [ Door opens ]
23:58
>>Yes, sir. What can I do for you?
24:01
>>Mr. Kohlmann? >>Yeah.
24:03
>>Sorry to bother you during business hours,
24:05
but it seemed like the best time to talk to you alone.
24:08
Oh, my God.
24:10
>>Herbert Macaulay,
24:11
Krendler Nepping International Insurance.
24:15
>>I'm an insurance detective. Let me explain.
24:18
When a big job is pulled, maybe 100, 200 grand, even bigger,
24:23
the insurance companies have to fork over the money
24:26
to the people who have insurance to cover such things.
24:29
The money that isn't recovered, that is.
24:31
You get me? >>Yeah.
24:32
>>But what you don't know is
24:34
the insurance companies never give up.
24:37
They'll follow a man right into his grave
24:40
to get back the stolen cash. Take your father's case,
24:43
for example. >>I don't want to go into it.
24:44
I know all about it.
24:46
>>It might be worth your while to talk to me.
24:50
10% of 106,000 bucks is a lot of green.
24:54
$106,000 was your father's cut of the heist,
24:59
and that's the amount still missing
25:01
from the Sphinx Tool and Die Company hold-up ten years ago.
25:04
>>But on trial, he said he never got his share,
25:06
that his buddies cheated him >>Eh, bunk.
25:08
>>The jury didn't believe him then,
25:10
and I don't believe him now.
25:12
He's got it. [ Chuckles ]
25:14
But he'll never be able to spend a buck of it.
25:16
We've been after him for ten years already,
25:18
and that ain't nothing.
25:20
We kept after a guy for 20 years and finally got the money back.
25:24
Happened before I got in the company.
25:26
They caught the guy digging up a big glass bottle stuffed
25:29
with moldy old bills.
25:31
And here's the laugh.
25:33
The bills were the big old size,
25:36
printed before they changed over to the small ones.
25:38
He couldn't have spent the money.
25:40
[ Laughing ] It was out of date!
25:42
>>Yeah, I -- Uh, I'm a busy man, mister, uh...
25:44
>>Macaulay.
25:46
I, uh -- I was over to your house yesterday
25:49
to talk to Rick, but I --
25:51
I figured it'd be better talking to you.
25:53
>>Oh, so that was you?
25:55
Look, I'm shorthanded here.
25:57
You're keeping me from -- >>I guess you didn't hear
26:00
what I said a moment ago.
26:03
You could get 10% of 106 grand
26:09
just for helping me get the money back from your father.
26:13
[ Dramatic music playing ]
26:16
♪♪
26:23
>>Okay, now, what's the big mystery?
26:26
Where's Harry?
26:27
Didn't go to church last Sunday, either.
26:29
>>No big mystery, Phil.
26:30
He's out with the boys practicing basketball.
26:33
>>Does he have to practice today?
26:34
>>It's the only time the basketball field or court
26:37
or whatever they call it is available.
26:39
>>So, the little stinker thought he was gonna
26:41
get away with it, did he? >>Oh, well, now, don't be
26:42
too hard on him. He's a good boy,
26:44
and he works very hard at his schoolwork.
26:45
>>Oh, I know. I used to go AWOL Sundays
26:48
whenever I could as a kid.
26:50
Played basketball.
26:52
Used to make my mother sore. [ Chuckles ]
26:54
Once she came right out to the lot
26:56
where I was playing and grabbed my ear
26:58
and walked me three blocks like that to school.
27:00
[ Both laugh ] I ain't mad at him,
27:02
but I got to make a little fuss to show I'm the parent.
27:06
Okay, Nina. [ Car door closes ]
27:08
>>Now, don't make a big thing out of it, huh?
27:10
>>Think he's home yet?
27:12
>>Oh, he wouldn't be this early.
27:13
>>Got your key? >>The door isn't locked.
27:15
Your father's home. [ Door opens ]
27:18
Well, Harry. You're home. [ Door closes ]
27:21
>>Hello, Mom. Hi, Dad.
27:24
This is Mr. Kalnoky, my gym teacher.
27:27
>>Hello, Mr. and Mrs. Kohlmann. >>How do you do?
27:29
>>I'm, uh, sorry to bother you, especially on a Sunday, but --
27:32
>>Anything wrong?
27:33
>>Well, Mr. Kohlmann,
27:35
let me tell you that I know Harry's a good boy
27:37
and an excellent student and nothing
27:40
is going to be done to, uh -- to spoil his record.
27:42
>>What are you driving at, Mr. --
27:44
>>Now, don't lose your temper, Mr. Kohlmann.
27:45
>>Phil. >>It's just that Harry
27:47
and two other boys have been playing basketball
27:50
in the school gymnasium on Sundays.
27:53
>>Well, what's so bad about that?
27:54
>>Well, they had to break into the school to use the gym.
27:58
And now, although they're all 14 and wouldn't be prosecuted
28:00
for criminal action at that age,
28:01
breaking and entering is a serious matter.
28:04
>>Breaking and entering? >>And when we found the locks
28:07
jimmied last week, we set a trap this Sunday.
28:10
>>And what do you intend to do?
28:12
>>Oh, well, frankly, we are not going to do anything.
28:15
But we expect that the boy's parents will exert
28:19
some sort of influence to keep this from recurring.
28:22
>>You've -- You've talked to the other parents?
28:24
>>Oh, yes. On the phone.
28:26
>>Three boys caught busting into the school.
28:29
You call and tell the parents of the other two kids
28:31
about it on the phone,
28:33
but Harry's folks get a personal interview.
28:35
Why?
28:37
>>Well, uh...
28:39
You see, this is sort of difficult to explain,
28:41
Mr. Kohlmann, but -- >>Maybe I can help you.
28:43
>>Wait, Phil.
28:44
Harry, you go to your room.
28:47
>>No, no, he better stay right here.
28:48
Sit down, Harry.
28:50
Now, Mr. Kalnoky, I'll tell you why you came here to talk to me,
28:55
personal-like.
28:57
You know the name Kohlmann for a long time, don't you?
29:00
Read about it in the papers? >>Well, really,
29:02
it was your son who revealed
29:04
that Rick Kohlmann was his grandfather.
29:06
He turned in a theme last week to his English teacher,
29:09
Mrs. Margolis, which [chuckles] rather shocked her.
29:12
>>He, uh -- He used bad words?
29:15
>>Oh, no, no, no, no, that wasn't it.
29:16
He -- He seemed proud of the accomplishments
29:20
of his grandfather, extolled his talent, so to speak.
29:25
>>Now, aren't you making a lot more out of this
29:27
than is really there?
29:29
>>Well, I -- I told Mr. Gilchrist
29:31
I didn't want to come here, but he insisted.
29:34
It seems that he, um...
29:36
Well, he wanted to know about your father, Mr. Kohlmann.
29:38
We understand that he's living with you.
29:41
>>You think he's been a bad influence?
29:43
>>Oh, I'm trying not to make any judgments, Mr. Kohlmann,
29:46
but I expect you will.
29:49
And now I think I've said enough.
29:51
Please excuse me for spoiling your day.
29:53
Goodbye. [ Door opens ]
29:55
Keep your nose clean there, Harry.
29:56
>>Bye, Mr. Kalnoky. [ Door closes ]
29:59
>>Go to your room, Harry. >>Yes, Dad.
30:02
I got a lot of homework anyway.
30:04
[ Footsteps departing ]
30:06
>>[ Sighs ] Well, what are you going to do, Phil?
30:09
>>I don't know.
30:11
But I'm going to start out with him.
30:14
With Rick. [ Dramatic music playing ]
30:20
>>In Phil's mind, his father's influence was spreading
30:24
like some evil disease.
30:26
Now even young Harry was infected.
30:29
But what he neglected to notice
30:31
was the change in his own character.
30:34
We'll be back shortly with act three.
30:39
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31:23
>>Despite Phil's resolve to speak to his father immediately,
31:27
so many other matters converged on him
31:29
that it was several days before he had time
31:32
to get Rick alone for the soul-searching talk
31:34
that he envisioned.
31:36
Strangely enough, the conversation,
31:39
when he finally got around to it,
31:40
took an entirely different course.
31:42
[ Knock on door ] >>Come.
31:45
[ Door opens ]
31:46
>>Rick, you busy?
31:49
>>[ Scoffs ] Doing what?
31:52
I've been expecting you for the last couple of days.
31:55
Harry said you wanted to talk to me.
31:57
>>Yeah, yeah, but I've been busy.
31:58
I-I've got lots of troubles.
32:01
>>I'm only one, huh?
32:04
Well, you want I should pack up and --
32:06
>>What are you talking about?
32:08
>>Only place I got to go is back to stir.
32:10
Now that the kid gets wrapped with a charge
32:12
of breaking and entering, I figure this is it.
32:15
Time for me to pack up. >>Well, why did you give him
32:17
all the stuff on you?
32:19
The story he wrote for his teacher about your life?
32:21
>>He told me he was going to write it.
32:23
He asked me for help. I told him, don't do it.
32:26
It'll get you in trouble.
32:28
So he goes down to the library,
32:30
and they let him see the old newspapers on microfilms.
32:33
>>Oh, so that's how he got it.
32:35
>>Ask him. >>No, no, I believe you.
32:37
>>First time in your life, huh, Phil?
32:39
>>What? >>That you believe me?
32:41
>>Oh. Yeah, maybe.
32:45
Rick, you know Macaulay, insurance detective.
32:50
>>Him? That old troublemaker?
32:53
First couple of years I was in stir,
32:55
he was practically my only visitor.
32:56
>>Yeah, well, he came to see me
32:58
with, uh, something on his mind.
33:00
>>Don't tell me. I know.
33:01
That old story, huh?
33:03
That dough was supposed to be my cut.
33:05
They want it. >>They're willing to pay me
33:08
to help them get it. >>He offered you 10%, right?
33:10
>>That's right. >>What'd you tell him?
33:12
>>Listen.
33:14
I got to explain something to you.
33:16
>>You told him you'd go along, you'd get the money, didn't you?
33:18
>>Look, look, Rick...
33:20
you'll never be able to spend it.
33:23
I'm desperate for cash.
33:25
I need $15,000 to pay off my partner,
33:29
to get him out of the business.
33:31
>>I know. Harry gave me all the details.
33:33
>>If he forces a sale to dissolve the partnership,
33:36
I'm done for.
33:38
We both won't get what the place is worth.
33:40
And I'll be out of work. >>What can I do?
33:42
>>Look, the bank is holding back on lending me $15,000.
33:46
But I could get $5,000.
33:49
Give me the money, Rick.
33:51
>>[ Laughing ] Oh, boy, that's a laugh.
33:54
>>You've never done anything for me in my whole life.
33:58
Now's your chance to pay me back
34:00
for the kind of childhood and life I've had because of you.
34:03
>>Hold on, hold on.
34:05
I'd like to help you if I could.
34:08
But I can't. >>Why not?
34:10
Because you want to hog the whole $106,000 for yourself?
34:12
>>You think that? >>Yeah. Macaulay does, too.
34:16
>>I haven't got the money.
34:19
>>You know where it is. >>No.
34:20
I said at the trial I didn't get my cut.
34:22
They cheated me. >>Yeah, they said
34:24
you were lying then. >>I told the truth.
34:26
>>You're lying now!
34:29
>>Okay. Suppose I'm lying.
34:33
I'm not giving up that money...
34:35
because there ain't no money.
34:37
[ Dramatic music playing ]
34:44
[ Knock on door ] >>Yeah?
34:46
>>Busy? >>Dad?
34:49
Come on in. [ Door opens ]
34:51
>>I didn't want to bother you, Harry,
34:53
if you're doing your homework. [ Door closes ]
34:54
>>Nearly finished. You want to talk to me?
34:57
>>Yeah.
34:59
Your mom's in the kitchen doing the dishes.
35:01
I thought this would be the best time to talk to you alone.
35:05
>>If it's about that trouble --
35:07
you know, the Sunday basketball business --
35:09
don't worry.
35:11
I had a long talk with Mr. Gilchrist,
35:14
and he's going to forget the whole matter.
35:17
Also, in spite of the fact
35:19
that Mrs. Margolis didn't like the subject matter of the theme,
35:24
she gave me an A minus for effort and research.
35:27
>>Yeah? Yeah, that's good.
35:29
>>I won't make stupid mistakes like that again, Dad.
35:32
You can bet on it. >>Yeah, yeah.
35:35
Look, what about Rick? >>What do you mean?
35:38
>>Well, where does he go when he goes out?
35:42
>>He hardly ever goes out.
35:44
He sits around in his room most of the time.
35:47
I asked him about it. You know something?
35:50
He's been locked up for so long in a jail cell
35:54
that he isn't used to having any freedom.
35:57
He told me he doesn't feel safe outside.
36:01
How do you like that? >>But when he does go out,
36:04
where does he go?
36:05
>>Once a month, he has to report to his parole officer.
36:10
The office is over on Dean Street.
36:13
I walked over there with him once.
36:15
He wanted my company. >>Any other time?
36:17
I mean, uh, does he go out maybe when you're in school
36:21
or nobody's home, you know, slip out kind of secret-like?
36:25
>>Why would he do that, Dad? >>Well, I'm just asking.
36:28
You know, I'm responsible for him.
36:30
>>I know, but you don't have to worry about Grandpa.
36:33
He told me he doesn't want any more trouble in his life.
36:37
He's a sick old man. >>Yeah, yeah. You're right.
36:41
>>One thing -- it's bothered him
36:44
when he sort of let it slip out one time when we were talking.
36:48
it bothered me, too.
36:50
>>What was that? About the money?
36:52
>>What money? Oh!
36:55
You mean the money they think -- it's hidden?
36:57
He doesn't have the money. He never had it.
37:00
>>Yeah, yeah, that's what he told me.
37:03
>>You don't believe him?
37:05
>>Well, let's forget I ever brought it up, huh?
37:07
[ Chuckles ] If Rick convinced you,
37:10
that's all that counts.
37:12
>>That's what I was trying to tell you.
37:15
That bothers him.
37:16
You and Mom -- you both call him Rick.
37:20
>>Yeah?
37:22
>>He's your father. Couldn't you --
37:24
>>What do you want me to call him?
37:26
Daddy? >>No, not that way.
37:30
But just once be nice to him.
37:33
Make him feel like he belongs.
37:36
>>Rick never done anything in his life for me.
37:38
[ Dramatic music playing ]
37:44
>>15 grand, Phil.
37:48
15 grand.
37:51
You should be able to get that up in no time.
37:55
>>I -- I can't.
37:57
I can't!
37:59
The bank says I got -- I got to get --
38:01
I got to get more collateral!
38:04
>>Everyone knows he's got over $100,000 stashed away.
38:09
>>I wouldn't touch that. I wouldn't touch --
38:12
>>Plus 10% of $106,000.
38:17
I'll keep my mouth shut.
38:21
10%.
38:23
That's fair.
38:25
>>I wouldn't touch that dirty money.
38:27
>>Take the money.
38:29
All of it, Phil.
38:31
It belongs to you.
38:33
I stole it for you.
38:36
>>$106,000.
38:39
Rick earned the money. >>Phil, wake up.
38:41
>>Ten years. Nearly ten years in prison.
38:43
>>Phil, darling, you're having a bad dream.
38:44
>>It's mine, my money. It belongs to me.
38:46
>>Phil, darling, please wake up.
38:47
>>No, no, no. It's my money, all of it.
38:50
>>Phil, open your eyes.
38:52
You were having a bad dream.
38:54
>>Oh. >>I could hardly wake you.
38:57
>>[ Groans ] >>Are you all right?
38:59
>>Oh, yeah, yeah, I -- I'm all right.
39:02
>>Do you want a glass of water or something?
39:04
>>No, no, no.
39:06
No, I'm okay now.
39:09
>>You were dreaming about that money, weren't you?
39:12
You kept saying something about $106,000.
39:16
And then you said, "It's mine. It belongs to me."
39:20
>>Oh, that's just a dream, you know?
39:22
Forget it. [ Stammers ] I'm getting up.
39:24
>>Phil, it's 1:00 in the morning.
39:26
You've only been asleep two hours.
39:27
>>I'm getting up.
39:29
Mind if I switch on the light?
39:30
>>[ Sighs ] No. [ Switch clicks ]
39:33
>>I'm going out, Nina.
39:36
>>Out? At this hour?
39:38
Well, when will you be back?
39:39
>>Uh, later. I-I don't know.
39:42
I don't want you to say anything to Harry
39:44
about this -- or to anyone.
39:46
Understand?
39:48
>>No.
39:50
But I won't say anything if you don't want me to.
39:53
>>Well, I'd like to explain, but there's no time.
39:55
[ Dramatic music playing ]
40:02
[ Door opens ] [ Footsteps approaching ]
40:05
[ Door closes ]
40:06
Rick?
40:08
Rick, wake up. >>Yeah?
40:10
Who is -- Who is it? >>It's me, me. Rick, get up.
40:14
>>What's the matter? >>I'll turn the light on.
40:16
[ Switch clicks ] >>What's going on?
40:18
>>Get your clothes on, Rick. >>What time is it?
40:21
It's the middle of the night. >>Get your clothes on.
40:24
>>Yeah, sure, Phil. Sure, if you say so.
40:27
>>Come on. Hurry up. Get dressed.
40:28
>>Sure, sure, but I don't get it.
40:31
>>But I do. >>What?
40:33
>>What you owe me. >>Oh.
40:36
Oh, you mean for room and board? Oh, sure --
40:40
>>Look, Rick, I don't want to play games with you.
40:43
I want the money that you hid away for ten years.
40:46
You owe it to me, and I need it.
40:48
>>[ Laughs ]
40:51
You really think I got it?
40:53
You really think I got it? [ Hand slaps ]
40:55
Ow!
40:56
>>Get up. Get up!
40:58
>>You hit me. You hit me.
41:01
>>Don't you laugh at me. Don't you ever laugh at me.
41:03
>>[ Chuckling ] I wasn't.
41:05
It just struck me that you believe
41:08
I got that loot stashed away someplace,
41:10
just like everybody else.
41:12
>>That's right, and I want it.
41:14
Now, you and me are going to go where that money is tonight.
41:17
>>Phil, I swear I ain't got it. I never had it.
41:20
[ Hand slaps ] Ah!
41:21
>>Get up! Come on. Come on. Get up!
41:24
>>I told you the truth, Phil. >>You never told the truth
41:26
in your whole rotten life, but you're gonna
41:28
come clean with me now, Rick.
41:29
We're going out tonight,
41:31
and we're going to get that money, all of it.
41:32
>>Phil, you're acting crazy.
41:35
>>It's mine, that money. You owe it to me.
41:38
It's kind of like what they call accounts receivable.
41:41
>>It can't work, Phil. It can't work.
41:42
>>Why not? >>Because there ain't no money!
41:45
There never was! I never got any cut!
41:47
[ Hand slaps ] Ow!
41:49
[ Footsteps thudding ]
41:50
>>Rick? Rick, you all right?
41:53
>>[ Breathing heavily ]
41:56
Yeah.
41:57
Yeah, yeah, just fine.
42:00
>>Well?
42:03
>>Okay. Okay.
42:05
Let's go.
42:07
You win.
42:09
[ Dramatic music playing ]
42:11
♪♪
42:17
[ Engine rumbling ]
42:21
>>How much farther? We've been out nearly an hour.
42:24
>>Keep going.
42:26
It's near Plainfield.
42:27
I'll tell you when.
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♪♪
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>>We're five miles past Plainfield.
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>>It's near here. I'll recognize it when I see it.
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Stop. Stop here.
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[ Engine shuts off ]
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[ Crickets chirping ] >>Okay. Now where?
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>>Here. See this here path?
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Up to the top of the hill.
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>>Wait till I get the shovels out.
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[ Metal clanking ]
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You feel all right? >>Sure, sure.
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Let's go.
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>>It's not easy climbing up ahead.
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>>Keep going.
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[ Dramatic music playing ]
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[ Footsteps thudding ] [ Both grunting ]
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Keep going.
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♪♪
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Here, this is it.
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Here, start digging.
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[ Dirt crunching ] >>[ Grunting ]
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[ Coughs ]
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[ Breathing heavily ]
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You're sure this is the right place?
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Rick, you hear me?
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>>What? >>You all right?
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I was asking you if you could have been mistaken
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about the spot. >>What?
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>>The spot where you hid the money!
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>>Oh, not a mistake.
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No.
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>>Down over three feet now.
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>>Deeper.
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>>Okay.
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[ Dirt crunching ] [ Grunts ]
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I'm getting bushed. >>Give me a shovel.
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I'll help. >>No, no, no, no. I'm okay.
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>>Give me a shovel.
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Gimme. >>Sure.
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I don't know why you want to.
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You're too weak to do much. Here.
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>>Want to know why I want to dig?
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>>Huh? Why?
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>>Phil...
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I'm sorry for what I'd done to you.
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>>Why do you want to dig, Rick?
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>>Didn't give you nothing in your whole life.
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I'm really sorry for it.
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I was rotten to you.
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Know why I want to dig? >>No, no. Why?
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>>Because I'm digging my own grave.
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[ Groans ] >>Hey, Rick!
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Rick, what is it?!
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>>[ Weakly ] Put me down. Put me down.
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[ Both grunting ] >>There.
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[ Both breathing heavily ]
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>>There ain't no money, Phil,
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not a damn cent.
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>>No dough?
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>>I was telling the truth for once in my life,
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and nobody believed me.
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>>Okay.
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I believe you.
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No, take it easy.
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Y-You're gonna be okay.
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>>No. Never. >>[ Stammers ]
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Why'd you want to go through with this whole
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digging business if you knew it wasn't there?
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>>I wanted to show you what wanting money can do
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even to an honest Joe like you.
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Now maybe you can understand the kind of mug your father was.
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>>[ Voice breaking ] Oh, Rick.
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Rick, listen.
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Everything's going to be all right between us from now on.
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>>Sure. Sure.
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Only one thing.
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>>Yeah?
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>>Call me something besides "Rick"?
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>>Yeah.
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Yeah!
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>>Yeah, I've been wanting to.
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I've been wanting to.
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That easy for me to say it.
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[ Chuckles ] Pa?
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Pa?
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Get well.
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Don't die, Pa.
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>>Thanks, Phil.
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Thanks...son.
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[ Gasps ] [ Body thuds ]
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>>Pa!
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[ Dramatic music playing ]
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>>Phil Kohlmann searched for a father all his life
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and lost him at the moment of finding him.
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♪♪
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♪♪
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The other side of the coin was revealed to Phil too late,
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but in his heart was a new understanding of his father,
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of his son, and the meaning of love.
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Our cast included William Prince, Joseph Julian,
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Ralph Carter, Joan Lovejoy, Robert Dryden, and Ian Martin.
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The entire production was under the direction of Himan Brown.
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This is E.G. Marshall inviting you to return
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to our "Mystery Theater"
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for another adventure in the macabre.
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Until next time, pleasant dreams.
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[ Door creaking ]
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[ Door closes ]
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[ Dramatic music playing ]
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♪♪
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♪♪
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