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The Whistler - "You Cant Trust a Stranger" (Old Time Radio, 1952) · The Whistler | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Frank Mallory, an indicted gambling syndicate operator out on bail,
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  Speaker 1: is preparing to flee rather than stand trial. The case
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  Speaker 1: against him is tied to evidence supplied by his wife, Martha. Then,
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  Speaker 1: on the road, he encounters a hitchhiker, whose resemblance to
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  Speaker 1: him presents an unexpected possibility. From July 27th, 1952, this
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  Speaker 1: is The Whistler. You can't trust a stranger. Episode 530.
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  Speaker 1: On the CBS Pacific Network under Signal Oil sponsorship with
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  Speaker 1: Gerald Moore, Betty Lou Gerson, Shepard Menken, Charlotte Lawrence, and
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  Speaker 1: Bill Foreman.
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  Speaker 2: And now, the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 3: And now stay tuned for the program that has rated
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  Speaker 3: tops in popularity for a longer period of time than
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  Speaker 3: any other West Coast program in radio history. The Signal
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  Speaker 3: Oil Program, The Whistler.
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  Speaker 4: S-I-G-N-A-L Signal, Signal Gasoline.
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  Speaker 3: Signal, the famous go farther gasoline, invites you to sit
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  Speaker 3: back and enjoy another strange story by the Whistler.
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  Speaker 5: Go farther gasoline.
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  Speaker 2: I am the Whistler, and I know many things, for
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  Speaker 2: I walk by night. I know many strange tales hidden
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  Speaker 2: in the hearts of men and women who have stepped
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  Speaker 2: into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors of
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  Speaker 2: which they dare not speak.
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  Speaker 3: And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Whistler's Strange Story.
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  Speaker 3: You Can't Trust a Stranger.
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  Speaker 2: As you walk down the crowded corridor from the district
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  Speaker 2: attorney's office, you can feel the stares and hear the whispers.
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  Speaker 2: There's Frank Malloy. He's getting out, but not for long.
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  Speaker 2: It's costing you $ 10, 000 to walk out that front door,
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  Speaker 2: but it's worth it, isn't it, Frank? Because you have
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  Speaker 2: a plan, at least part of one.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: You reach the front entrance, push open the heavy door, and...
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  Speaker 2: Go out into the street. There at the curb, you
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  Speaker 2: recognize the long yellow convertible and the attractive blonde sitting inside.
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  Speaker 2: She slides over as you slip in behind the wheel.
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  Speaker 2: In again, out again.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. How was jail this time?
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  Speaker 5: Lay off, Vivian.
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  Speaker 2: From what I read in the papers.
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  Speaker 7: They're going to put you away for a long, long
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  Speaker 7: time after the small formality.
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  Speaker 2: Of a trial.
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  Speaker 5: Well, don't believe everything you read. I'm not going on trial.
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  Speaker 5: You are.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not going to be around long enough to give
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  Speaker 5: them a chance.
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  Speaker 6: You're going to jump bail.
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  Speaker 5: That's exactly what I'm going to do.
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  Speaker 6: You'll lose your $ 10, 000 bond.
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  Speaker 5: Doesn't matter. I've got plenty and it's put away where
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  Speaker 5: I can get at it in a hurry.
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  Speaker 6: Where will you go?
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  Speaker 5: We. We're going together, baby.
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  Speaker 2: I'm ready, Frank.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know how or where we're going, but we're
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  Speaker 5: getting out of the States. We can beat it to
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  Speaker 5: Havana and then maybe South America. I'll get a divorce
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  Speaker 5: and we're all set. We've got enough money to last
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  Speaker 5: us the rest of our lives.
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  Speaker 7: That sounds wonderful, but how do you expect to get away?
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  Speaker 6: The moment they miss you, they'll be watching for you everywhere.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I know. DA wants to see me in a
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  Speaker 5: couple of days. So whatever we're going to do, we're
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  Speaker 5: going to have to move fast.
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  Speaker 7: We can't just take a plane or a train. Before
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  Speaker 7: we start running, Frank, we have to think of something,
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  Speaker 7: some kind of plan.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 7: What about a private plane and pilot? Let's find out
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  Speaker 7: about it right away.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 5: There's something else I've got to find out first.
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  Speaker 7: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 5: I'm going out to the ranch. I'm going to see
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  Speaker 5: my wife.
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  Speaker 6: You're going out to see Martha?
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  Speaker 5: That's right.
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  Speaker 7: Why?
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  Speaker 5: Vivian, didn't you ever wonder how the district attorney got
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  Speaker 5: hold of all my records and books that I kept?
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  Speaker 5: You think I sent them to him? You think I
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  Speaker 5: wanted the smoothest gambling syndicate in the state to come
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  Speaker 5: crashing down around my neck? No, but somebody else did.
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  Speaker 5: It had to be somebody I trusted, somebody close to me.
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  Speaker 5: I want to be sure it wasn't Martha.
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  Speaker 7: But, Frank, don't you.
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  Speaker 5: And they have enough on me to put me away
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  Speaker 5: for 20 years. I want to know where they got it.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Frank, what difference does it make now?
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  Speaker 2: All that matters now is getting away.
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  Speaker 5: We'll get away, baby, don't worry. But first I want
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  Speaker 5: to see Martha. I just want to know.
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  Speaker 1: I just want to know.
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  Speaker 2: As you drive through the city and across the Bay Bridge,
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  Speaker 2: your thoughts dwell upon your wife, Martha, don't they, Frank?
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  Speaker 2: You begin to think back, wondering just how much Martha
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  Speaker 2: knew about you and your organization. Wondering if she knew
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  Speaker 2: about Vivian or any of the others. Wondering if it
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  Speaker 2: could have been Martha who brought everything crashing down, sending
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  Speaker 2: you to jail. And there are other things to be
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  Speaker 2: thought of. How will you manage to get out of
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  Speaker 2: the country before the district attorney knows you're gone? Chartered
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  Speaker 2: plane and a private pilot might work.
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  Speaker 6: And you do have friends in Florida who would help
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  Speaker 6: you and Vivian get out of the country.
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  Speaker 2: After an hour of driving and thinking, you're suddenly startled
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  Speaker 2: as Vivian pulls violently at your arm.
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  Speaker 4: Frank, look out!
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  Speaker 5: Did I hit him? I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: He's lying by the side of the highway.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't see him in time. What was he doing
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  Speaker 5: out in the middle of the highway?
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  Speaker 6: Look, he's getting up.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, we better have a look at him. Come on.
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  Speaker 6: He is getting up.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Doesn't look like he's hurt too badly. Hey, hey, you
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  Speaker 5: all right?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know. I think so.
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  Speaker 5: What were you doing out in the middle of the highway?
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  Speaker 6: I was trying to catch a ride.
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  Speaker 7: Does anything feel broken?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 6: No, I don't think so. I saw you coming right
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  Speaker 6: at me, and I dove for the side of the road.
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  Speaker 6: You didn't hit me. Oh, that's a relief. Looks like
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  Speaker 6: my trousers are finished. You're sure you're all right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Forget it. It's my own fault for standing in the
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  Speaker 6: middle of the highway.
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  Speaker 5: What's your name?
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  Speaker 6: My name?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Chuck, why?
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  Speaker 5: Well, Chuck, I feel kind of bad about this. I
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  Speaker 5: think the least I can do is offer you a ride.
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  Speaker 5: Do something about those trousers, too.
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  Speaker 6: Forget it. Forget it. It's my fault.
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  Speaker 5: Well, we can't leave you standing here. We're going another
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  Speaker 5: ten miles. Okay.
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  Speaker 6: Let me get my hat out of the ditch.
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  Speaker 2: Frank, do you have to give him a lift? He
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  Speaker 2: admits it was his fault.
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  Speaker 8: Let's get out of here.
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  Speaker 5: Didn't you notice something, Vivian? Something real interesting about that fellow?
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  Speaker 5: What are you talking about? Look, he's just turned around.
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  Speaker 5: Look at him. Now look at me. Notice anything?
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  Speaker 2: Frank.
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  Speaker 5: See it? Looks a lot like me, huh? Same size, build,
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  Speaker 5: even his features.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if I worked it out right, I could get
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  Speaker 2: away with it.
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  Speaker 6: Get away with what?
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  Speaker 2: Just think, Vivian.
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  Speaker 5: How much easier it would be for us to get away.
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  Speaker 5: If everybody thought that I was dead.
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• 8:01
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  Speaker 2: Almost every piece of the plan seems to fit together,
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  Speaker 2: doesn't it, Frank? If the police thought you were dead,
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  Speaker 2: you and Vivian could take your time about getting out
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  Speaker 2: of the country. You could go knowing they weren't watching
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  Speaker 2: for you. You study the man whom you almost hit
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  Speaker 2: on the highway, and already you're planning the last few
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  Speaker 2: hours of his life.
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  Speaker 5: That'd be real nice to him, Vivian, and get him
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  Speaker 5: to talk about himself. We have to find out as
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  Speaker 5: much about him as we can.
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  Speaker 2: You just leave it to me, Frank.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: All set, Chuck?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Let's go then, huh?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Some buggy.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Always promised myself I'd have one of these someday. Look
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  Speaker 6: at me. I don't even have bus fare. My clothes
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  Speaker 6: are dirty and wrinkled and I need a shave. I
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  Speaker 6: look like a tramp. I don't blame people for passing
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  Speaker 6: me by. Where were you headed, Chuck? Los Angeles, I guess.
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  Speaker 6: They tell me the Knights are bombing down there. It
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  Speaker 6: makes a difference when you sleep in parked cars.
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  Speaker 7: Well, don't you have any friends in Los Angeles?
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  Speaker 6: I don't have any friends anywhere. Well, that's a pretty
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  Speaker 6: broad statement, Chuck. Must have friends somewhere. Maybe back home, huh?
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  Speaker 6: I wouldn't know. I haven't been home in a long time.
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  Speaker 6: Been everywhere else. Australia, Africa, Brazil. Been working on freighters.
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  Speaker 6: Just got back to the States last week.
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  Speaker 5: Just last week, huh?
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  Speaker 6: Right. Been gone nearly five years. Oh? Where is your home?
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  Speaker 6: I come from a place called Hyannis. Ever hear it?
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  Speaker 6: It's in Massachusetts, Cape Cod. No, never heard of it.
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  Speaker 6: It's a fishing village. Oh. Still, it doesn't seem possible
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  Speaker 6: that a man doesn't have any friends.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you must have a girlfriend. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Had a girl once in Hyannis. Her name was Mamie.
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  Speaker 2: Mamie?
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  Speaker 6: Mm. A long time ago when I was young and foolish.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever happened to Mamie?
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  Speaker 6: I wouldn't know. I wrote her for a while, but
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  Speaker 6: when I didn't get any answer to my letters, I
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  Speaker 6: just forgot about Mamie.
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  Speaker 5: Say, Chuck, tell me, what kind of work do you do?
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  Speaker 6: I'm one of those guys who can do anything, until
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  Speaker 6: you pin me down, and then it turns out I
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  Speaker 6: can't do much of anything. Well, I'm sure you'll fit
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  Speaker 6: in somewhere, someday. Just haven't run into it yet. Maybe.
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  Speaker 6: In the meantime, I like drifting around the world. I
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  Speaker 6: talk too much. I don't get the chance to talk
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  Speaker 6: to people very often, especially about myself. Everybody likes to
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  Speaker 6: talk about themselves. What are you going to do when
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  Speaker 6: you get back to L.A.? Look for work, I guess.
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  Speaker 6: I'm broke.
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  Speaker 5: Well, if you really want a job, Chuck, maybe I
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  Speaker 5: can do something for you.
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  Speaker 6: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 5: Well, do you have a tin bar?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I own a string of bars throughout the valley. Okay.
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  Speaker 5: If you're willing to learn, maybe I.
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  Speaker 6: Can put you to work as a bartender. Me, a bartender?
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  Speaker 6: A guy's on his feet a lot in that kind
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  Speaker 6: of work. You can make good money. Yeah, yeah. I
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  Speaker 6: can believe that. But tell me something. Why all the
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  Speaker 6: interest in me? Well, we might have run over you,
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  Speaker 6: maybe killed you.
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  Speaker 2: I think the least Frank can do is try and
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  Speaker 2: help you out a little. Do you.
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  Speaker 6: You think I could learn to tend bar?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sure you could, Jack.
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  Speaker 6: It's an interesting proposition, Mr... Malloy.
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  Speaker 5: Just call me Frank.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Vivian, Jack.
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  Speaker 7: Hi.
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  Speaker 6: How do you like that? Yesterday, I was bumming around. Today,
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to be a bartender. Who knows what'll happen tomorrow?
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  Speaker 2: You know, don't you, Frank? You know exactly what's in
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  Speaker 2: store for Chuck tomorrow. As a matter of fact, you
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  Speaker 2: wonder if he'll even be alive tomorrow. Because now you're
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  Speaker 2: certain that he will do fine as a part of
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  Speaker 2: your plan. No one knows about him.
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  Speaker 6: No one even knows where he is.
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  Speaker 2: No one would miss him if he disappeared. He assured
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  Speaker 2: you of that. As you turn off the main highway
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  Speaker 2: towards your small ranch, you already have the first stages
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  Speaker 2: of the plan ready.
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  Speaker 5: You stop the car at the gate. I have to
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  Speaker 5: take care of some business here, Chuck. You go with Vivian.
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  Speaker 5: She'll put you up for the afternoon.
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  Speaker 6: Whatever you say, boss.
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  Speaker 5: Take me to my apartment, huh? Here's this key. I'll
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  Speaker 5: call you.
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  Speaker 6: When?
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  Speaker 5: As soon as I've made the arrangements we were talking about.
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  Speaker 6: Will they take long? No.
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  Speaker 5: Everything will be taken care of by tonight.
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  Speaker 7: Tonight?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. And take good care of Chuck, huh? Make him
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  Speaker 5: feel at home.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, we'll be at your place. You call me.
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  Speaker 5: I'll call you. Well, I'll see you later tonight, Chuck.
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  Speaker 6: Sure thing, Mr. Malloy.
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  Speaker 5: Bye, baby.
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  Speaker 2: Bye. You watch them disappear down the road, Frank, and
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  Speaker 2: then you turn toward the house. Everything seems peaceful and undisturbed.
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  Speaker 2: And you realize how long it has been since you've
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  Speaker 2: come out to the ranch. As you reach the steps
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  Speaker 2: and put your hand to the door knocker, you wonder
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  Speaker 2: if Martha will be surprised to see you.
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  Speaker 6: Hello, Frank.
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  Speaker 5: Hello, Martha. I, uh, have come to see you.
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  Speaker 6: Come in.
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  Speaker 5: You don't seem surprised to see me.
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  Speaker 8: I'm not.
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  Speaker 5: You were expecting me? Yes. Then you knew I was
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  Speaker 5: out of jail.
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  Speaker 6: Sit down, Frank. Would you like a cup of coffee?
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  Speaker 5: No, nothing, except... Martha, I think you know who turned
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  Speaker 5: me in to the district attorney. Who was it?
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  Speaker 6: Why, I did. I did what I thought was right.
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  Speaker 8: You must have known, Frank.
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  Speaker 5: I always trusted you. You were the one person I
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  Speaker 5: thought I didn't have to worry about.
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  Speaker 2: That's it exactly, Frank.
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  Speaker 8: You never worried about me. I don't think you even
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  Speaker 8: thought about me. There was a time when I was
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  Speaker 8: the most important thing in.
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  Speaker 6: The world to you.
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  Speaker 5: So you fix it, they'll send me to prison.
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  Speaker 8: You belong in prison. You've become nothing more than a gangster,
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  Speaker 8: a hoodlum. You're not the man I married 15 years ago.
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  Speaker 8: Little by little, I watched you change. You began to
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  Speaker 8: make money, lots of money. And along with your money,
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  Speaker 8: you gained power. The more you got, the more you wanted.
• 15:54
  Speaker 8: And anything you couldn't have, you destroyed. What did you
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  Speaker 8: expect to do? Own everything and everyone someday?
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  Speaker 5: But to turn me in like that, I.
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  Speaker 8: I had to stop you for your own sake, and
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  Speaker 8: I did it the only way I knew how. I
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  Speaker 8: cried for months because I knew the only way to
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  Speaker 8: stop you was to.
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  Speaker 6: was to call the district attorney.
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: I did what I thought was right.
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: I did what I thought was right.
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  Speaker 2: Now you know, Frank. You know who betrayed you and
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  Speaker 2: why it was done. You begin to pace around the room,
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  Speaker 2: walking faster and faster, bumping into things and knocking them over.
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  Speaker 2: Suddenly you stop in front of the mantel. You see
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  Speaker 2: the clock and the feeling of rage subsides. You realize
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  Speaker 2: that by nine o'clock tonight, things will be all right.
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  Speaker 2: And Martha, conscientious Martha, will have a strange punishment, won't she, Frank?
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  Speaker 2: She'll always believe she sent you to your death. After
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  Speaker 2: a long silence, Martha throws a shawl over her shoulders
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  Speaker 2: and walks outside.
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  Speaker 5: The End.
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  Speaker 2: Hello?
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  Speaker 5: Frank, Vivian. Everything all right?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, I've been listening to the story of Chuck's life.
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  Speaker 7: Seems his girlfriend, Mamie, was quite a gal. Now our
• 17:39
  Speaker 7: bartender's in the other room practicing with your liquor.
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  Speaker 5: Good. Now listen, Vivian. Get one of my suits out
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  Speaker 5: of the closet and give it to Chuck. Have him
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: shower and shave and put the suit on. We're going
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  Speaker 5: to a party.
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  Speaker 7: I understand.
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  Speaker 5: Tell him you're meeting me at one of my places
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: up at the lake. Leave my apartment by 8.30 and
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: drive up on Skyline Drive to Mountain View Club.
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  Speaker 6: Now don't stop anywhere. When you get there, wait in
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  Speaker 6: the parking lot and back. Be there by nine o'clock. Clear?
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  Speaker 7: Clear and simple. What exactly are you planning, Frank?
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  Speaker 5: Like I said, a party.
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: I see.
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: Good. Are you sure you've got it all?
• 18:14
  Speaker 7: We'll see you at the party at nine.
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: At nine. What are you doing out here, Martha?
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: Listening to the crickets.
• 18:33
  Speaker 8: It's a nice night.
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah. I used to go riding on nights like this.
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: You remember that?
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: Of course.
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: I'm surprised, Frank. Are you?
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: Well, here's another surprise for you, Martha. I'm not going
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: to do anything about the fact that you turned against me. Oh?
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: Matter of fact, when I leave here, I'm going for
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: a little ride. One we often used to take together
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: along Skyline Drive.
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: Frank, what have you got on your mind?
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: Just you, Martha. I'll be thinking of you. I'll get
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: my coat, Frank. Oh, no, no, Martha. Wouldn't be right
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: for you to go anywhere with a hoodlum, a criminal.
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: Frank.
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: Goodbye, Martha. Remember, I'll be thinking of you.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: The expression on her face in her eyes delights you,
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: doesn't it, Frank? Martha is still in love with you
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: after all this time. And later, when your plan goes through,
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: she'll have something to think about, won't she? Something that
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: will be her punishment. Yes, Martha, conscientious as she is,
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: will feel deeply when Chuck's body is finally found in
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: your car, wearing your clothes at the bottom of the lake.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Martha will always believe you killed yourself because She turns
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: you in to the district attorney. And above all, she'll
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: testify that you were heading for the Skyline Drive. That
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: part will help eliminate the identification problem. High up on
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Skyline Drive, you pull into the parking lot of the
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: darkened club where you agreed to meet Vivian. A few
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: minutes later, the headlights of her car come into view.
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: Right on time.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: What?
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: Oh, hi, Mr.
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: Malloy.
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: Didn't know you were here yet. Say, thanks for the suit.
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: How do I look?
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: Just fine, Chuck.
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: Are we on time for the party, Frank? Oh, right
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: on time. Oh, say, Chuck, would you give me a
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: hand with some stuff in my car? It's right over here.
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: Vivian said we were going to a party. Is it
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: in that place up there?
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: No, not there.
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: I didn't think so. Giant looks closed down. It's sure
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: dark out here.
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: What are we going to.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Miss Chuck, miss!
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: Miss! Yeah.
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: But he's almost over for you, Chuck.
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: What happened?
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: I hit him. It'll be easier to handle this way.
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: Pull that door open so I can put him in
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: the car.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: What are we going to do now?
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: Stay here about five minutes and then drive up the
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: highway about one mile. The road makes that sharp bend
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: around the lake.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know where it is.
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: I'll be waiting. I'll be waiting there off the highway.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: Blink your lights as you approach and I'll come out
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: and wave you down.
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: There.
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: I thought you were going to bring Martha with you.
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: No. I've taken care of Martha. Another way. You drive
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: out of the.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: Parking lot, and in a few minutes you reach the
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: sharp curve in the highway. Pull over and stop where
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: the edge drops off into the deep end of the lake.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: And it only takes seconds to drag Chuck's body to
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: the front seat behind the wheel. Carefully, you go through
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: his pockets and remove everything. Then plant your belongings in
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: his pockets. You put your ring and watch on him.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Then everything is ready. Push the clutch in, put the
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: car in gear. As you jump back away from the car,
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: it jerks forward.
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: And over the ledge.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: To disappear in the deep black water of the lake.
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: Is it all over?
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: See for yourself. By the time they pull the car
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: out of the water, it'll look like Frank Malloy was
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: drowned when his car skidded off the road and crashed
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: into the lake.
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: Let's hope so.
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: It'll be weeks before they find the body. And the
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: water will make positive identification pretty difficult.
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: But they'll find enough there to think it's me. And
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: Martha will help, too.
• 23:10
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: All we have to do is hide out until he's found.
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: We'll be free, Viv.
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: Where do we go now?
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: Well, first we have to stop at a couple of
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: places down the valley and pick up the money I
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: put away.
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: Well, that's a must. We'll drive on to Los Angeles
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: where we can hide out.
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: Then we'll see.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Whatever you say, Frank.
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: Now let's get out of here. You know, it's funny
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: how Martha tried to send me to jail. When she
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: recognizes my clothes, her story, more than anything, will help
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: to set me free.
• 24:00
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• 24:04
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• 24:10
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• 24:13
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• 24:17
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• 24:20
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• 24:24
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• 24:29
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• 24:33
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• 24:40
  Speaker 3: stay there with a minimum of shifting on hills or
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: in traffic. So you see, considering the number of times
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: a day you start your car, accelerate, and shift gears,
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: even a little gasoline saved each time soon adds up
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: to a big saving. So there in a nutshell, friends,
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: is why motorists call Signal the go-farther gasoline. Why not
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: treat your car to a tankful tomorrow? And go farther
• 25:05
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• 25:07
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• 25:13
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• 25:14
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• 25:31
  Speaker 2: One morning, two months later, you open your eyes in
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: a hotel just outside the city of Los Angeles, don't you, Frank? Yes,
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: you've been here two months, waiting for someone to find
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: the body of Chuck and identify him as you, the
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: missing Frank Malloy. And last night's paper carried the story
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: you've been waiting for, the story of your death. Now
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: it'll be safe to change your name and leave the
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: country with Vivian. Everything has gone perfectly, hasn't it, Frank?
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: You stretch out on the bed and your hand drops
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: down to touch the small handbag you've kept beside you.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: The bag containing over $ 100, 000. Suddenly you sit up, realizing
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: the bag is gone. You get up and search the
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: room frantically, but the money isn't there.
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: Operator. Operator! Yes, sir?
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: Would you connect me with room 303, Miss Vivian Smith,
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: and hurry.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir. I'm sorry, sir, but Miss Smith checked out
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: of the hotel about an hour ago. What?
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: Did she leave a message?
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Nothing, sir.
• 26:42
  Speaker 8: Anything else, sir?
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: No. Nothing. Who's there?
• 26:51
  Speaker 8: Vivian.
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: Vivian. Vivian, the bag with the....
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: That's what you're looking for?
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: Who are you?
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: He's from the police department, darling.
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: The police?
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Yes, he picked me up at the airport.
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: After reading the story in the paper last night, I
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: thought it was safe enough now to.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: Leave, only it wasn't.
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: She was taking your money and running out on you, Malloy.
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: And why not?
• 27:13
  Speaker 7: It would only be a matter of time before I
• 27:15
  Speaker 7: meant no more to him than Martha.
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: Shut up, Vivian.
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: It doesn't matter now, Frank.
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: Sure doesn't. You see, the newspaper story was just to
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: get you out in the open. Some fishermen did find
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: a body in the lake. But after all this time,
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: it was a little hard to identify. He was wearing
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: your clothes, Malloy, and was in your car. Your wife
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: thought it was you.
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: But I don't see how that could.
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: I'll tell you something, though. At the morgue, we found
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: out different. You see, Malloy, it wasn't hard to figure
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: out what you'd done when we found a tattoo on
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: the drowned man's chest. A tattoo of a heart with
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: the words, Chuck... And Mamie.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: Let that whistle be your signal for the signal oil program,
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: The Whistler, each Sunday night at this same time. Meantime,
• 28:26
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• 28:29
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• 28:34
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• 28:37
  Speaker 3: happy driving if you drive at sensible speeds, obey traffic regulations,
• 28:42
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• 28:46
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• 28:49
  Speaker 3: being your last. Featured in tonight's story were Bill Foreman
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: as the Whistler, Gerald Moore, Betty Lou Gerson, Shepard Menken,
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: and Charlotte Lawrence.
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: The Whistler was produced and directed by George W.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: Allen, with story by Gus Bays, music by Wilbur Hatch,
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: and was transmitted overseas by the Armed Forces Radio Service.
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: The Whistler was entirely fictional, and all characters portrayed on
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: The Whistler are also fictional. Any similarity of names or
• 29:22
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• 29:26
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• 29:29
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• 29:33
  Speaker 3: by the Whistler. Marvin Miller speaking for the Signal Oil Company.
• 29:50
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• 30:00
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• 30:25
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• 30:28
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