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Nick Carter, Master Detective - "The Slingshot Murders" (1944) · Old Time Mystery Radio | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: A young newsstand boy's report of suspicious activity near a
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: bank branch sends Nick Carter onto the trail of an
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: armed payroll robbery. From October 15th, 1944, it is episode
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: 153 of Nick Carter, Master Detective, The Slingshot Murders. Wounded
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: in the pursuit, Carter follows a clue supplied by the
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  Speaker 1: boy's slingshot, with Patsy Bowen and Lieutenant Riley drawn into
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  Speaker 1: the investigation. Lon Clark stars as Nick Carter, with Helen
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: Choate as Patsy Bowen, in a Mutual Broadcasting System presentation
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  Speaker 1: written by Jock McGregor. And now, we return to the
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  Speaker 1: original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: What's the matter?
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  Speaker 3: What is it? It's another case for Nick Carter, master detective.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, it's another case for that most famous of all manhunters.
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  Speaker 4: The detective whose ability at solving crime is unequaled in
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  Speaker 4: The Slingshot Murders, or Nick Carter and the Mystery of
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  Speaker 4: the Broken Window. In just a moment, we'll find out
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  Speaker 4: how Nick Carter solved the mystery of the Slingshot Murders.
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  Speaker 4: now for today's mysterious adventure with Nick Carter. Our story
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  Speaker 4: opens in Nick's office, where he and Patsy are having
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  Speaker 4: a good-natured argument. Good-natured, that is, until about now.
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  Speaker 5: But, Nick, I don't think that's true. Take me, for example.
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  Speaker 5: Since I've been working with you, I've learned to observe
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  Speaker 5: things I never saw before.
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  Speaker 4: Perhaps, Patsy, you've undoubtedly improved while you've been my assistant,
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  Speaker 4: but I still say that you really see very little
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  Speaker 4: that goes on around you, in spite of all my training.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Nick, anybody would think that I.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Patsy, let's see. How many steps are there
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  Speaker 4: from the sidewalk up to the front.
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  Speaker 6: Door of your house?
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  Speaker 5: Why, there are... Let me see there.
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  Speaker 4: How high up the floor are the windows in your bedroom?
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  Speaker 5: Well, there are about two. No, no, one and a half.
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  Speaker 4: What color is the two-cent stamp? Red.
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  Speaker 3: Good for you.
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  Speaker 4: Thought you were going to say chartreuse.
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  Speaker 5: Nicholas Carter's office.
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  Speaker 2: Is Mr. Carter there?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, is that you, Penny?
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  Speaker 3: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: How are you, Miss Bowen?
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  Speaker 5: I'm fine, thanks. How are things with you?
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  Speaker 2: Pretty good. Can I talk to Nick?
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  Speaker 5: Of course, Penny. Here he is.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, Penny. How's my special assistant this afternoon?
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  Speaker 2: That's what I called you up about, Nick. I think
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  Speaker 2: there's going on down here.
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  Speaker 5: Could you come over?
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  Speaker 3: What is it, Penny? Trouble?
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  Speaker 5: Gee, Nick, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: But it looks bad to me.
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  Speaker 4: Can't you tell me what it is?
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  Speaker 2: Not on the phone, Nick. You know you always told
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  Speaker 2: me to be careful what I said on the phone.
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  Speaker 2: Some of the gang might be listening in.
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  Speaker 4: And quite right, Penny. All right, I'll take a run
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  Speaker 4: over there.
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  Speaker 3: You want your newsstand? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Park your car down the block away so they can't
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  Speaker 2: see it. I'll be waiting.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, Penny. Be down right away.
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  Speaker 3: So long.
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  Speaker 7: What was that all about, Nick?
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  Speaker 5: Sounded very important.
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  Speaker 4: Penny thought it was important, too. But he wouldn't say
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  Speaker 4: what it was. He's seen something and thinks I ought
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  Speaker 4: to know about it.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, that's what you get for being his hero, Nick.
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  Speaker 7: He thinks you're just about the greatest guy in the world.
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  Speaker 7: His ambition in life is to be a great detective
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  Speaker 7: like you.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I know it. And ever since his old man
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  Speaker 4: died in my arms, I've felt I ought to sort
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  Speaker 4: of keep an eye on him.
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  Speaker 3: And he's smart, too.
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  Speaker 4: Never forgets things I've told him about how to see
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  Speaker 4: what goes on around him. Some people I know, not
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  Speaker 4: so very far from here, could profit by his example.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Carter, okay.
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  Speaker 5: Get in your car and be on your way. Leave
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  Speaker 5: me to a little peace and quiet here. You and
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  Speaker 5: your wisecrack.
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  Speaker 4: Very well, Patsy. Since I'm not wanted here, I'll go
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  Speaker 4: call on Penny. I hope he's got something more exciting
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  Speaker 4: up his sleeve than I think he has.
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  Speaker 2: Gee, Nick, I thought you were never coming.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry, Penny, but you know how traffic is.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, I know. Come around the back of the stand, Nick,
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  Speaker 2: so nobody will see us talking together.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Penny.
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  Speaker 4: Now, what's up?
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  Speaker 2: You see across the street there? You see the bank?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And you see the empty stores on each side of
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  Speaker 2: the bank?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Well, a little while ago, a big black sedan pulled
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  Speaker 2: up and two guys got out and went into the
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  Speaker 2: vacant store on this side of the bank. Then two
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  Speaker 2: more guys got out and went into the empty store
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  Speaker 2: on the other side. Then the sedan drove away and
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  Speaker 2: left the four guys there.
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  Speaker 3: That's odd.
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  Speaker 4: Any idea what might be going on?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Nick, there's several factories around here, and today's the
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  Speaker 2: day the bank downtown sends the money to this bank
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  Speaker 2: for the payrolls. Tomorrow's sad, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I see what you mean, Penny.
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  Speaker 4: You think those men may be planning to hold up
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  Speaker 4: the bank when the money gets here, huh?
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  Speaker 2: Well, gosh, Nick, don't it look like that to you?
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  Speaker 4: Could be, Penny. Yes, it does look suspicious. But, Penny,
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  Speaker 4: robbery's not in my line. This is a job for
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  Speaker 4: Lieutenant Riley and the city police. I'll give them a
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  Speaker 4: ring and tell them what you saw.
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  Speaker 2: You'll have to hurry, Nick. It's almost four o'clock and
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  Speaker 2: that's when the car comes with the money.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'll phone Riley now. Maybe he can get one
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  Speaker 4: of the squad cars together.
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  Speaker 5: Great, here it comes.
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  Speaker 6: Look!
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  Speaker 4: Yes, it's an armored car, all right. And it's stopping
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  Speaker 4: in front of the bank.
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  Speaker 2: They're starting to unload the money and they don't know
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  Speaker 2: they're making trouble.
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  Speaker 6: Wait here.
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  Speaker 4: I'll warn them they're in danger. Get back, Penny.
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  Speaker 8: Keep out of the way.
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  Speaker 9: I'll see if I can help the guards by picking
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  Speaker 9: up some of the thugs with my gun.
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  Speaker 6: Look out, Nick.
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  Speaker 4: Don't get yourself killed. I won't. I'll stay behind this pole.
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  Speaker 5: You got one, Nick.
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  Speaker 4: I think so, but... Look out, Nick.
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  Speaker 6: Nick, Nick.
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  Speaker 8: Nick, are you dead?
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  Speaker 4: Are you, Nick?
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  Speaker 6: You're bleeding.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Nick.
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  Speaker 2: Something hurt my leg, Nick. Nick, they're getting away.
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  Speaker 4: Nick, we didn't stop them.
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  Speaker 5: Nick.
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  Speaker 4: But, Doc, I tell you, there's nothing wrong with me. Eh?
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  Speaker 6: Nothing except that you've lost about a quart of blood.
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  Speaker 6: There's a nasty hole in the side of your neck.
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  Speaker 6: But I can't stay here doing nothing.
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  Speaker 4: I've got to get after those thugs. I've got to
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  Speaker 4: get out of here.
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  Speaker 5: They just told me you were here. Are you hurt badly?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, it's only a scratch, Patsy. But this Sawbones wants
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  Speaker 4: to keep me here cooped up like a pet rabbit.
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  Speaker 5: How is he, Doctor? Really?
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  Speaker 6: He's got a bad hole in the side of his neck.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 6: Nothing fatal.
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  Speaker 5: He'll get over it.
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  Speaker 6: But he's lost a lot of blood, too. He's got
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  Speaker 6: to be quiet and give nature a chance.
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  Speaker 5: Now, look, Doc.
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  Speaker 3: Look.
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  Speaker 4: Nature's going to have a tough time doing anything for
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  Speaker 4: me if you keep me here worrying because I can't
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  Speaker 4: get out.
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  Speaker 5: Nick, you're going to stay here and like it.
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  Speaker 6: Good girl.
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  Speaker 5: If you don't behave, I'll call some attendants and have
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  Speaker 5: them undress you. Then you'll have to stay here whether
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  Speaker 5: you like it or not.
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  Speaker 4: But, Patsy, I tell you, there's nothing.
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  Speaker 6: Where's Nick?
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  Speaker 4: I want Nick!
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  Speaker 3: Nick!
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  Speaker 4: Oh, there's Penny.
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  Speaker 3: Nick!
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  Speaker 4: What's he doing here?
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  Speaker 2: I want to see Nick!
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  Speaker 4: Here I am, Penny. I'm coming, son.
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  Speaker 5: You get right back in that bed, Nick Carter.
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  Speaker 4: If you don't... Sorry, Patsy, but Penny wants me. Why, Penny,
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  Speaker 4: what happened to you?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, nothing much, Nick. A bullet got me in the leg,
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  Speaker 2: that's all.
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  Speaker 4: That's all?
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's enough. Are you hurt bad, son? No.
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  Speaker 2: Doc says I'll be all right in a few days.
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  Speaker 2: But I got something to tell you, Nick.
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  Speaker 3: What is it, son?
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  Speaker 2: You know when I yelled at you just before you
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  Speaker 2: got shot?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I remember.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I saw a guy standing in the window of
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  Speaker 2: the house across the street from the bank. Must have
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  Speaker 2: been a lookout or something. And just as I looked up,
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  Speaker 2: I saw a name at you. So I yelled, then
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  Speaker 2: he fired.
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  Speaker 4: Did you get a good look at him, Penny?
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  Speaker 2: No, but I know which window it was.
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  Speaker 3: Good boy. Which one was it?
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  Speaker 2: You'll see. I busted it with my slingshot so you'd
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  Speaker 2: know it. I put a marver right through it. And
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  Speaker 2: on the first shot, too. I thought maybe you'd find
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  Speaker 2: a clue there if you looked.
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  Speaker 3: Penny, you're a wonder. I'm proud to have you for
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  Speaker 3: an assistant.
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  Speaker 2: It was a window on the fourth floor of a
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  Speaker 2: brown house. You can't miss it.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir, Penny.
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  Speaker 3: I'm proud to have you for an assistant.
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  Speaker 5: Nick, are you going to get back to bed, or
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  Speaker 5: do I have to... I can't go back to bed, Patsy.
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  Speaker 4: I've got to go places.
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  Speaker 3: Things to do.
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  Speaker 4: Can't let Penny down, not after the way he fixed
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  Speaker 4: things up for me.
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  Speaker 6: Nick.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Penny?
• 9:18
  Speaker 2: Take this with you, Nick. It's as good as a
• 9:19
  Speaker 2: gun sometimes. I use it a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Why, well, thanks, Penny. That slingshot of yours may come
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  Speaker 4: in handy. I'll keep it right where I can get
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  Speaker 4: at it.
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  Speaker 3: Fast if I need it.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, there you are, Nick.
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  Speaker 5: Are you all right?
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  Speaker 4: I certainly am all right. You got any of the gang?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, no, Nick, we didn't.
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  Speaker 9: We found the car they were in, wrecked six blocks away,
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  Speaker 9: but there was nobody in it.
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  Speaker 3: The car was stolen, too, so that's no help.
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  Speaker 4: Did they get much?
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  Speaker 9: Well, three guys are killed, one in the hospital, and $ 100, 000
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  Speaker 9: in small bills is missing.
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  Speaker 5: That's all I know.
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  Speaker 3: You ain't got a lead in the world right now.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I have, thanks to Penny here.
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  Speaker 3: Penny? Who is Penny? My assistant. Penny?
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  Speaker 4: And one of the best assistants a man could ever have.
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  Speaker 4: He just gave me some dope that may... crack the whole.
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  Speaker 3: Case wide open.
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  Speaker 5: Well, what is it, man?
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  Speaker 4: Tell me, quick. Not yet, Riley. This is confidential between
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  Speaker 4: Penny and me. If it works out, I'll let you know.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Penny, so long. I'll be seeing you.
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  Speaker 2: So long, Nick.
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  Speaker 5: Good luck. Nick Carter, where are you going now?
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  Speaker 4: I'm out on the trail, Patsy, and nothing can stop me.
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  Speaker 5: Well, if I can't stop you, at least I'm going
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  Speaker 5: with you. Certainly can't drive a car in your condition.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, then, come on.
• 10:20
  Speaker 4: Time's a-wasting.
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  Speaker 5: Look, don't you need some help, Nick?
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  Speaker 4: I'll send some of the boys with you. No, Riley,
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  Speaker 4: this is a one-man job. And I'm the man who's
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  Speaker 4: going to try to do it.
• 10:39
  Speaker 3: Patsy, I wish you hadn't come.
• 10:40
  Speaker 4: There may be trouble.
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  Speaker 7: You may just as well save your breath, Mr. Carter,
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  Speaker 7: because I'm going wherever you're going, and that's that. You
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  Speaker 7: can't drive in your condition.
• 10:48
  Speaker 4: I could if you'd let me.
• 10:49
  Speaker 5: Well, I'm not going to let you, so that's that.
• 10:52
  Speaker 4: I don't know what gets into you women. When you
• 10:54
  Speaker 4: make up your minds, a team of horses couldn't change it.
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  Speaker 7: You ready to tell me where you're going? I can't
• 11:00
  Speaker 7: keep on driving blindly all around the city, Nick.
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  Speaker 4: All right, all right. I give up. I'm going back
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  Speaker 4: to the scene of the robbery.
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  Speaker 5: What are you going to do there?
• 11:07
  Speaker 4: That, my nosy young friend, is strictly my business.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, okay. But I'd feel a lot safer if I
• 11:13
  Speaker 5: knew what you were planning to do.
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  Speaker 3: It's dark now.
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  Speaker 4: You can pull up just around the corner from the bank.
• 11:21
  Speaker 4: I'll get out there. Then you go back to the office.
• 11:24
  Speaker 5: How will you get back?
• 11:26
  Speaker 4: Don't worry about me. I can take care of myself.
• 11:28
  Speaker 5: I hope so. Is this where you want to go?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 11:31
  Speaker 4: Drop me here.
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  Speaker 3: Now remember, you.
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  Speaker 4: Back to the office.
• 11:37
  Speaker 3: Okay, bully.
• 11:39
  Speaker 5: But I don't like you going anywhere alone as weak
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  Speaker 5: as you are.
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  Speaker 4: It's skill that counts in this business, Patsy, not muscle.
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  Speaker 4: Now get going.
• 11:45
  Speaker 3: I've got work to do.
• 11:55
  Speaker 4: So Nick is going alone to investigate the house where
• 11:58
  Speaker 4: the killers were who shot him. Does he have any
• 12:00
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• 12:03
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  Speaker 4: We left Nick, weak from loss of blood, climbing the
• 13:14
  Speaker 4: stairs to the fourth floor of the old tenement house,
• 13:17
  Speaker 4: trying to find some clue to the killers who shot
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  Speaker 4: him and robbed the bank. As we rejoin him, he's
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  Speaker 4: nearly reached the top.
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  Speaker 3: I wish it wasn't the fourth floor.
• 13:29
  Speaker 4: I don't feel as ambitious as I did. Well, that's
• 13:35
  Speaker 4: a break. Only one apartment on the street side. And
• 13:39
  Speaker 4: there's someone home judging by the light under the door.
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: Here goes. Well, what do you want?
• 13:51
  Speaker 4: I'm investigating the bank holdup across the street this afternoon.
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  Speaker 3: Bank holdup? Yes. You knew the bank was held up,
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  Speaker 3: didn't you?
• 13:58
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I heard. I was out working at the time.
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  Speaker 10: What do you want to get in here for?
• 14:03
  Speaker 4: I want to look out of your windows. She's like this.
• 14:06
  Speaker 4: We have a witness who says he saw the whole
• 14:08
  Speaker 4: thing from the window next door on this level. He's
• 14:11
  Speaker 4: a cranky old guy with a reputation for stretching the truth,
• 14:14
  Speaker 4: so I want to check up on him. I'd like
• 14:16
  Speaker 4: to look from your windows and see if he really
• 14:18
  Speaker 4: could have seen what he said he did.
• 14:20
  Speaker 10: Sounds nutty to me. Why don't you look out of
• 14:22
  Speaker 10: his windows?
• 14:23
  Speaker 4: I did, but I still can't be sure. So I
• 14:26
  Speaker 4: want to check all the windows on this floor.
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: There ain't no use in... Well... Okay, come on in. Thanks.
• 14:34
  Speaker 4: I won't be long.
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: Mind if I put this window shade up? Suit yourself.
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: I can't see much from here.
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: I'll try the other window. Hmm. Can't see anything from
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: here either. I guess the old guy was dreaming. Couldn't
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: see the bank at all with an armored car standing
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: in front of it.
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: You're satisfied now? So far, yes.
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: Okay to look at the other room, too.
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess so. My wife's in there. I'll see
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: if she's dressed.
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: Certainly no broken windows in this room. And none of
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: them been repaired either.
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: Somebody coming in, Mary. You dressed? Yes, Peter. Coming in. Okay, copper,
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: you can go in.
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: Thanks.
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: Sorry to bother you, lady.
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: I won't be but a minute.
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: Okay, take your time.
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: No broken windows here either. Then he must have made
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: a mistake in the window.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: How about it, copper?
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: I guess the old guy must have.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: Hey, do you have any.
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: Children in the house?
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: Sure. No kids? What?
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: Who just saw a marble here on the floor and wondered?
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: Then he said he shot a marble through the window.
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: Well, come on. If you've seen all you want, you better.
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: Just a minute.
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: Just a minute.
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: I want to take another look at this window.
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: Get your hands up, flatfoot. Make it snappy. I don't
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: see what... Oh, you don't, huh?
• 16:04
  Speaker 10: You come up here looking for a broken window, didn't you?
• 16:07
  Speaker 10: And when you didn't find none, you go around poking
• 16:08
  Speaker 10: your fingers in the putty.
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: Well, really, now.
• 16:10
  Speaker 10: Don't try to kid me. I've been watching you. So
• 16:13
  Speaker 10: you found a window with a soft putty where we
• 16:14
  Speaker 10: put the new pane of glass in.
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: Well, it won't do you no good now. All right, slug,
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: I'll take over now.
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: By Jake Larner.
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: So you're Slug's wife. Yeah.
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: Well... I'd never have known you in that woman's outfit.
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: Pretty clever.
• 16:29
  Speaker 6: A lot cleverer than you, copper. You come right up
• 16:32
  Speaker 6: here just begging for it, didn't you? I thought we'd
• 16:35
  Speaker 6: give it to you for keeps out in front of
• 16:37
  Speaker 6: the bank this afternoon, but I'm glad now we didn't.
• 16:40
  Speaker 6: This is going to be more fun. We can make
• 16:44
  Speaker 6: it last longer.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: Burn him down.
• 16:46
  Speaker 6: No, slug.
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: Shooting's too quick.
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: I got a better plan for this dumb punk than that.
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: Go right ahead, gentlemen. Don't mind me. But do you
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: mind if I put my arms down?
• 16:57
  Speaker 6: Get his gun, Slug. Sure, Jake. Quite a surprise to
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: find us here, copper, ain't it? Never figured we'd hide
• 17:04
  Speaker 6: out right here alongside the bank, did you? Them dumb
• 17:07
  Speaker 6: cops probably are searching all over the city, looking for
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: where we went to.
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: And all the time, we're right here. Hey, Jake.
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: What?
• 17:14
  Speaker 10: This guy's a regular arsenal. Three guns he's got. I
• 17:18
  Speaker 10: don't care how many he's got. Take them all away
• 17:20
  Speaker 10: from him. Hey, Jake, look at this. He's got three
• 17:25
  Speaker 10: guns and a slingshot.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: Are you kidding?
• 17:27
  Speaker 10: A cop carrying a slingshot around to keep the big
• 17:30
  Speaker 10: bad robbers away.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: What a dumb mug he is.
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: Oh, look now, Slug, don't take all of Flatfoot's weapons away.
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: Where's your manners? Leave him keep the slingshot.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: Why, sure. Here, Mr.
• 17:46
  Speaker 10: Dick, I'll put it right back in your pocket where
• 17:49
  Speaker 10: it came from. Maybe you'll save your life with.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: It.
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: Look what Santa Claus brought us to play with, Pete.
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle. Where'd he blow in from?
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: Walked right up the stairs all by himself. Look, copper,
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: did you ever have a lighted cigar butt jammed in
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: your eye?
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: That's just for a starter.
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: Then we're going.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: Oh, no, you're not.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: Jake, look out! Get him, slug! Give me that gun, Jake.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: Give me that or I'll twist your arm off.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Get out of the way, Jake!
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: You're going to give.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: It to me? Nice work, slug.
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: You knocked him cold.
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: Oh, I'll fix him for this.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: He nearly broke my wrist. Shall I croak him now, Jake?
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: No.
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: Wait till we get ready to leave. Then we'll play
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: games with him.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: Tie him up, but good.
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: We'll get the stuff ready to move out when the
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: boys bring the car tonight. Then we'll come back here
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: and take care of him.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: Over on your face, flatfoot. So I can get the
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: ropes on you.
• 18:51
  Speaker 10: Wouldn't he like to know that we got all that
• 18:53
  Speaker 10: dough hidden in the empty warehouse right next door here?
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: There's still a.
• 18:58
  Speaker 10: Little hole through the wall of the apartment here and we.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: Got a foolproof hideout.
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 19:03
  Speaker 11: You know, if he was only smart like Jake, I'd
• 19:06
  Speaker 11: be afraid of him. But there ain't nobody as smart
• 19:08
  Speaker 11: as Jake.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: There, copper.
• 19:10
  Speaker 10: That takes care of you. Try and get out of
• 19:14
  Speaker 10: them ropes.
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: Hey, what you let the flatfoot in here for anyway, Slug?
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Don't be dumb, Pete.
• 19:19
  Speaker 10: If I had any to smell something funny and come
• 19:22
  Speaker 10: back again with a wagon.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 19:24
  Speaker 10: Anyways, how'd I know he was wise to the busted glass?
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: You know, Jake... Maybe you ain't so smart at that.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah? What's eating you?
• 19:33
  Speaker 11: Well, you thought it was so smart to double back
• 19:36
  Speaker 11: here with the cash and hide out right across the
• 19:38
  Speaker 11: street from the bank. And first thing, a cop smells
• 19:42
  Speaker 11: his way right up here.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: So what?
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: Only one cop come, didn't he? And he ain't walking
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: out of here, is he?
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: Well, no, but.
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: Who's running this business?
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: Anyway?
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: You are, Jake.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Okay, okay. All right.
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: Now, Pete, you and me are going back into the
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: warehouse and fix up the stuff ready to leave. Slug,
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: you stay here with the copper. Clean up the joint good.
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: Fingerprints and any kind of junk that might leave a tip.
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: Don't leave nothing.
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: We'll be back when we've took care of the dough.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: Okay, Jake. I'll watch him. Oh, oh.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: Fell into it right this time. I should have had
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: somebody standing by just in case. Well, whoever tied these
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: ropes knew what he was doing. I'll never get out
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: of these. Hands tied together. Elbows tied tight to my body. Oh,
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: my head. I wish I felt as happy as slug sounds.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: Hey, there's blood on my hands.
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: The bullet hole in my neck must have opened up.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: The blood's made my hands slippery. Yes, I think I
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: can get my hands loose.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Ah, there.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: But what good is that? My elbow's tied up tight. Oh,
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: if only I had some way to get word outside
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: that I'm up here. I can't shout. Slug would hear
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: me and bump me off quick. Oh, if only I had.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: A gun I could.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: Ah, but Slug took them. If only I had.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: Ah, I do have one weapon left. Penny's slingshot. Slingshot.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: Slingshot.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: Slingshot.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: Slingshot. Yes.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: Shoot something into the street through the window. Somebody might
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: find it. Shoot something. Shoot something.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: What?
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: Shoot what? Shoot what? My badge.
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: My badge.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: My honorary police badge. If only I can get it
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: out of my pocket.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: If only I could reach it.
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: I never have had much use for that badge, but
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: I certainly need it now. Oh, I can't get it
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: in the pocket.
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: Well, I could tear it open.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: Now for the slingshot in the outside pocket.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: There we are.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: Now, if I can stretch my arms far enough apart
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: to shoot this badge through the.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: Window, I can... What's that? What the.
• 22:27
  Speaker 10: Hey, copper, what are you trying to... The guy's still
• 22:31
  Speaker 10: out cold. He couldn't have done nothing. But somebody broke
• 22:35
  Speaker 10: that window. Maybe the dick's only faking. Maybe he ain't
• 22:40
  Speaker 10: really out. Let me take a look.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: Gosh. Here you go, Luck.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: Hey, Jake! Oh, what a break.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: He's out cold.
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: I thought he wasn't coming close enough so I could
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: grab his legs, but he did.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: Lady Luck must be on my side today. Just Luck
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: is head hit in the radiator that way. Now, if
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: I can wriggle over there and get his gun.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Just a little more. Jake will be back any minute.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: I've got to get that gun before.
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: Ah, there.
• 23:13
  Speaker 12: Now, now if I can roll back under the bed
• 23:15
  Speaker 12: before Jake gets here. So far, so good. Lady Luck,
• 23:25
  Speaker 12: stay with me.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: Slug, what happened?
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Slug, Slug!
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: Hey, look, Jake, the copper's gone.
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: And Slug's out cold. I thought I told you guys
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: to tie that.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: Fat foot up so he couldn't move.
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: We did, Jake.
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it looks like you did. Come on, maybe we
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: can catch him outside before he gets away.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Hey, Jake. Jake, look.
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: The door's still locked here.
• 23:43
  Speaker 11: The dick couldn't have got out this way.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: Well, he didn't get out the way we come in.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: He must still be here. Look under the.
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: Up with your hands, both of you.
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: Quick.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: He's got a gun. Get him up, I said. I'm
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: not fooling you. That's just a warning. I said I'm
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: not fooling. Now drop your guns on the floor. Both
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: of you.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: We better do it, Jake. He means business.
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: You bet I do. Drop those guns fast.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: Okay, you win. For now.
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: Drop the other one, Jake. I know you have two
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: of them.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: Here. Thank you.
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: Good. Now, Pete, slowly and easily, kick the guns over
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: toward me.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: Now, stay where you are. I'll kick those guns over.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: That's better. Now what? Want us to untie you?
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: No, I want you to stay right there. And I'll
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: stay right here.
• 24:33
  Speaker 11: Yeah, but it's all right, Jake. He can't last long now.
• 24:37
  Speaker 11: All we gotta do is wait here till he falls over.
• 24:39
  Speaker 11: And he's lost so much blood now he can't hardly
• 24:42
  Speaker 11: sit up.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Sure. How long you think you're gonna hold out, copper?
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: Long enough to see you three thugs in jail.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: I bet that don't nobody know you're up here. So
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: how do you expect to be rescued?
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: I sent a messenger out the window to tell my
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: friends I'm here waiting for them.
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: Hey, look, Jake, the window is busted.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: So what?
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: This flat foot will be out cold long before anybody
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: comes up here. Unless it's the boys with the car
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: come to take us.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: Out of here.
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: You think you can last that long, copper?
• 25:15
  Speaker 11: You'll never be able to hold that gun on us
• 25:18
  Speaker 11: for another two hours.
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: You might as well give up.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: Now, copper.
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: Think so? I want to take you three mugs in
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: so bad I'll wait all night.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: I have to. Get back. I can see you.
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: Don't you try any funny business with me.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: He's almost gone, Jake.
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: Another couple of minutes and he'll be out like a light.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: As soon as he drops that gun, we'll rush him.
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: I don't know how they lasted this long.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: Stay right there.
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: Stay there, both of you.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: I can wait. Just as long as.
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: As.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: Long as... Now.
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: He's gone.
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: Come on.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Oh, everything. You get that wrench up, you.
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: Oh, Nick.
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: Oh, hello, Patsy.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: Riley.
• 26:18
  Speaker 9: What's going on here, Nick?
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: These are the thugs that stuck up the bank. Oh.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: Money's in the warehouse. Next door.
• 26:26
  Speaker 9: You're a wonder, Nick. Take care of these fellas, Sergeant.
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: Send a couple of men to get the money out
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: of the warehouse, like Nick says. Oh, Nick, I've been
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: so afraid for you. Did they hurt you?
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: I'm all right, Patsy. Just a little tired.
• 26:39
  Speaker 9: She's a great girl, that Patsy. When she left you,
• 26:42
  Speaker 9: she phoned me and told me what you were trying
• 26:44
  Speaker 9: to do, Nick. So I got some of the men
• 26:45
  Speaker 9: together and came as quick as I could.
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: We got a flat.
• 26:48
  Speaker 9: Tire and we'd have been here sooner.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: And look, here's your badge, Nick.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: A little bent, but as good as new.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: Huh.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: Thanks, Riley.
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: Lucky you found it.
• 26:57
  Speaker 9: It wasn't me that found it.
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: It was Patsy herself here.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: You found it, Patsy.
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: Yes, Nick.
• 27:03
  Speaker 7: Then Riley spotted the broken window and we came up.
• 27:06
  Speaker 7: But don't ever let me hear you say again that
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: I'm not observant. Maybe I don't know how many steps
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: there are in front of my house.
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: But when it comes to things that count, I can
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: see them.
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: How about next week's adventure, Nick? Got something exciting coming up?
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: I certainly have, Ken. If you'll take a transcontinental train
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: stalled high in the mountains in a raging blizzard and
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: mix it with the murder of an opera singer and
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: her maid.
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: And add.
• 27:38
  Speaker 7: The theft of $ 150, 000 worth of jewels from the said
• 27:41
  Speaker 7: opera singer and a snow slide down the mountain right
• 27:45
  Speaker 7: where the train is stalled.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: And you have the puzzle and crime that I was
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: up against. Sounds pretty complicated to me, Nick. How'd you
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: find the solution? Well, the solution depended on two things.
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: a broken bottle of perfume, and a chow dog that
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: was lost in the snow. You certainly make it sound attractive.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: Did it work out okay?
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: You should ask that, knowing Nick.
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: Sorry, what do you call the story? I call it
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: Murder on Mad Mountain.
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: Or the Mystery of the Opera Singer's Dog.
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: So long for now.
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: So long, everybody.
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: And so long to you, Nick and Patsy. We'll be
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: looking forward to seeing you again next week. Next week,
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: at the same time, listen to another curious experience of
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: Nick Carter, Master Detective, entitled.
• 28:26
  Speaker 8: Murder on Mad Mountain. For Nick Carter and the mystery
• 28:33
  Speaker 8: of the opera singer's dog.
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: Nick Carter, Master Detective is a copyright feature of Street
• 28:43
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• 28:48
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• 28:50
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• 28:55
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• 29:00
  Speaker 4: Acme quality paints. In the Nick Carter Adventures, Lon Clark
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: is starred as Nick. Helen Choate is featured as Patsy.
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: Original music is played by Lou White. The programs are
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: written and directed by Jock McGregor. This is Ken Powell
• 29:12
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• 29:15
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• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Our presentation of Nick Carter, Master Detective, The Slingshot Murders,
• 29:35
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• 29:39
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