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The Shadow - "Murder in E Flat" (Old Time Radio) · The Shadow | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: A series of explosions follows particular loud sounds across the city,
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: sending Lamont, Cranston, and Margo Lane in search of the
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: person behind them. From the Mutual Broadcasting System and sponsored
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: by Blue Coal, this is The Shadow, episode 149, Murder
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  Speaker 1: in E-Flat, first heard December 4th, 1938. Bill Johnstone stars
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: as Lamont Cranston and the Shadow, with Agnes Moorhead as
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  Speaker 1: Margo Lane. As further devices are reported at busy public locations,
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: Cranston and Lane must trace the attacks before another detonation.
• 0:40
  Speaker 2: Here is the original broadcast.
• 0:43
  Speaker 3: ¶ ¶.
• 1:00
  Speaker 4: What evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow Nose.
• 1:07
  Speaker 4: The Shadow Nose.
• 1:37
  Speaker 5: Before the Shadow's latest adventure begins, here's something every motorist
• 1:41
  Speaker 5: should realize. When a child darts in front of your car,
• 1:45
  Speaker 5: in 101 situations you're liable to meet on rainy days,
• 1:48
  Speaker 5: it's the ability of your tires to stop quicker and
• 1:51
  Speaker 5: safer that may mean the difference between life and death.
• 1:55
  Speaker 5: It pays to play safe. Equip your car with the
• 1:58
  Speaker 5: new Goodrich Safety Silvertown. This new kind of tire is
• 2:03
  Speaker 5: the only tire that has the lifesaver tread. This amazing
• 2:07
  Speaker 5: tread acts like a whole battery of windshield wipers, actually
• 2:11
  Speaker 5: sweeps wet roads so dry you can light a match
• 2:14
  Speaker 5: on its track. And that, in a nutshell, is the
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  Speaker 5: secret of why this new Silvertown gives the quickest non-skid
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  Speaker 5: stop you've ever seen.
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  Speaker 6: For safety's sake, get Goodrich Safety Silvertown.
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  Speaker 5: The Shadow, the mysterious character who devotes his life to
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  Speaker 5: righting wrongs, protecting the innocent, and punishing the guilty, is
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  Speaker 5: in reality Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man about town, student
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  Speaker 5: of science, and master of other people's minds.
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  Speaker 6: Using advanced methods.
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  Speaker 5: That may ultimately become available to all law enforcement agencies,
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  Speaker 5: Cranston is known to criminals and evildoers as The Shadow.
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  Speaker 5: Never seen, only heard, as haunting to superstitious minds as
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  Speaker 5: a ghost, as inevitable, as a guilty conscience. Cranston's friend
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  Speaker 5: and companion, the lovely Margot Lane, is the only person
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  Speaker 5: who knows to whom the unseen voice belongs.
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  Speaker 6: Today's story, Murder in E-Flat.
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  Speaker 3: Eddie, look.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Isn't that Marge and Charlie sitting over there?
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  Speaker 6: Well, doggone if it isn't.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Charlie. Hi, Eddie.
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  Speaker 8: Come on over here, you and Marge.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Never expected to see them here.
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  Speaker 2: You got room for us?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, sure, sure.
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  Speaker 9: Hey, waiters, two more chairs.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think of this band?
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  Speaker 4: It works.
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  Speaker 3: Boy, this skinny butler's the hottest couple in town. I'll
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  Speaker 3: still take Louis Freeman. Boy, there's my idea of a band. Oh, quiet.
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  Speaker 10: Now, let's listen.
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  Speaker 7: All right. Come on.
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  Speaker 10: Skinny, we're rolling over. Higher, skinny boy, higher! Higher, skinny boy, higher!
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  Speaker 4: Hello?
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  Speaker 3: Hello?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, here, Chief.
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  Speaker 7: I thought I was cut off.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's the place. That new swing joint on 50th Street. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: the jitterbug.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, nobody seems to know what happened. The band was
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  Speaker 11: playing and the joint just flew up. Now, we don't
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  Speaker 11: know yet how many were hurt. Our thing was, we
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  Speaker 11: found a note nailed over the bar. It doesn't make
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  Speaker 11: much sense, though.
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  Speaker 6: Read it?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure, here it is. It says, the
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  Speaker 11: only real music is the music of silence. Yeah, funny business.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I'll report back to headquarters as soon as we
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  Speaker 2: have it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, go on, Henry. Pass that car in front.
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  Speaker 2: But, my dear, I can't without crossing that white line
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  Speaker 2: and besides... Oh, now, then make him pull over. Oh, Henry,
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  Speaker 2: blow your horn. But you're not supposed to blow your
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  Speaker 2: horn in the city, my dear. You know that. The
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  Speaker 2: anti-noise committee says that.
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  Speaker 3: I don't hear what the anti-noise committee says. Blow your
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  Speaker 3: horn and make that fellow get over.
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  Speaker 2: Just as you say, my dear. Yes, officer. I was
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  Speaker 2: driving about 50 yards behind their car.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: They started to swing out of line and blew their horn,
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  Speaker 2: and then it happened. This awful explosion.
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  Speaker 6: I tell you, I've never... Yeah, but this note.
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  Speaker 2: Where'd you get this note? After the explosion, I noticed
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  Speaker 2: it lying in the front seat beside me.
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  Speaker 6: Somebody must have thrown it in through the window. What
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  Speaker 6: do you suppose it means, officer? Let's look at it again.
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  Speaker 11: Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Let this be a warning to you. Auto horns are
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  Speaker 2: playthings to the devil.
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  Speaker 3: Silence.
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  Speaker 6: What does it mean, officer? I don't know, mister.
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  Speaker 2: But if I were you, I'd forget I had a horse.
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  Speaker 9: You know, Margo, there's something very peculiar about these bombings.
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  Speaker 6: Serious explosions, I believe the paper here calls them. There
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  Speaker 6: was another one last night.
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  Speaker 3: You mean that freighter that blew up in the river? Yes, Lamont,
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  Speaker 3: I was reading about it.
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  Speaker 9: The paper says they found a note nailed to a
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  Speaker 9: nearby dock. Something about silence is the golden token of
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  Speaker 9: true peace.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, this sounds like some crime.
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  Speaker 4: Yes. Hard and sinister.
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  Speaker 3: Silence.
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  Speaker 6: That word has appeared in every note.
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  Speaker 3: Silence.
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  Speaker 9: The only other clue that has been found at all
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  Speaker 9: three bombings.
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  Speaker 6: Is a piece of U-shaped metal.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I wonder if.
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  Speaker 3: Margot. Yes, Lamont?
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  Speaker 6: You know what a tuning fork.
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  Speaker 3: Looks like, don't you? Well, certainly. It's shaped like a yule.
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  Speaker 6: Exactly.
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  Speaker 9: A piece of metal shaped like a yule. Look at
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  Speaker 9: this picture here on the paper. Divers found that in
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  Speaker 9: the hold of the bomb freighter.
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  Speaker 3: It certainly looks like a tuning fork, all right, but
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  Speaker 3: I don't see what.
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  Speaker 4: Neither do I, Margot.
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  Speaker 9: Yet I feel there's a link between the word silence,
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  Speaker 9: these tuning forks, and the bombings.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: And if there is a link, Margot.
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  Speaker 9: I've got a hunch that this city may be in
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  Speaker 9: for one of the most terrifying ordeals it has ever experienced.
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  Speaker 3: Can you believe there'll be more of these awful bombings?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what to believe, Margo. I don't know what....
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  Speaker 2: Nonstop plane to Chicago, now ready at gate four.
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  Speaker 7: Nonstop plane to Chicago, now ready.
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  Speaker 2: At gate four.
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  Speaker 5: Goodbye, John.
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  Speaker 3: Don't forget to wire me.
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  Speaker 9: Bye, dear.
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  Speaker 2: See you Thursday.
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  Speaker 9: Bye, Mother.
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  Speaker 3: Goodbye, son. I hope you have a smooth flight. Shall
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  Speaker 3: we go, Mary? Let's wait, Mother.
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  Speaker 12: I'd love to watch them take off.
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  Speaker 3: John promised to wave from the plane. He's got to
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  Speaker 3: sit on this side. Just as you say, dear.
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  Speaker 2: But I must admit that the roar of those motors
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  Speaker 2: always makes me a bit nervous.
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  Speaker 6: Extra. Extra.
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  Speaker 2: Read all about the latest mystery bombing.
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  Speaker 6: Note, warning, silence, found at Central Airport. Extra.
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  Speaker 3: Extra.
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  Speaker 6: Latest mystery bombing.
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  Speaker 3: Bapples, police.
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  Speaker 6: Sergeant, you say traffic officer O'Grady found this bomb? Yes,
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  Speaker 6: Commissioner Weston. It was stuck in a wretch's basket.
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  Speaker 2: And this note here was pasted on the police phone
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  Speaker 2: box next to the basket.
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  Speaker 6: I see it. The roar of traffic is the roar
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  Speaker 6: of doom. Silence. Silence. Silence. That infernal word's been in
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  Speaker 6: every note we've found.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 6: What's the laboratory report, Sergeant? What explodes the bomb?
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  Speaker 9: The bomb's attached to a photoelectric cell.
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  Speaker 2: One of these here U-shaped pieces of.
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  Speaker 6: Metal like we've been finding at all the bombings. I see. Well,
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  Speaker 6: how's it work? Well, it's sort of like this, Commissioner.
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  Speaker 5: The laboratory says that this U-shaped piece of metal is
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  Speaker 5: a tuning fork, an E-flat tuning fork.
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  Speaker 6: Where is it?
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's a tuning fork in place so that when.
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  Speaker 6: The sound of these flats vibrates, it breaks the light
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  Speaker 6: beam of.
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  Speaker 9: The photoelectric cell that's attached to the bomb.
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  Speaker 2: And when the light beam is.
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  Speaker 6: Broken, the circuit's closed, the bomb goes off. Uh-huh, I
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  Speaker 6: think I see what you mean.
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  Speaker 11: Just like your body breaks a light beam and opens
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  Speaker 11: the doors of some of these new hotels.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, sir, yes, that's the idea. Uh-huh, there were sounds
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  Speaker 6: reported just before each... of those bombings. The sound of
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  Speaker 6: that trumpet, that auto horn, and that fog horn on
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  Speaker 6: that freighter, and the noise of those airplane motors. Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 6: they could have done it all right.
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  Speaker 2: Whoever thought that one up is dumb by my time, sir.
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  Speaker 2: But I still don't get these notes, these.
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  Speaker 6: Warnings about silence. There must be some reason why.
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  Speaker 6: Hello, Commissioner Weston speaking. Hello, Commissioner. A shadow.
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  Speaker 4: Right you are, Commissioner.
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  Speaker 6: Well, what do you want? I'm busy, very busy, and
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  Speaker 6: I'm afraid I haven't any time for.
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  Speaker 12: I know, Commissioner.
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  Speaker 4: These bombings are getting a bit.
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  Speaker 8: Out of hand, aren't they?
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  Speaker 6: I suppose you know all about them.
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  Speaker 4: No, not all.
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  Speaker 8: If you'll answer a couple of questions, I think I.
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  Speaker 4: Might be able to help you.
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  Speaker 6: Well, what is it?
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  Speaker 4: These pieces of U-shaped metal you've been finding. Tuning forks,
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  Speaker 4: aren't they?
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  Speaker 6: How did you know that?
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  Speaker 2: Never mind.
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  Speaker 4: Aren't they?
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  Speaker 6: Yes. If that's what our laboratory calls them.
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  Speaker 11: E-flat tuning forks, hooked up to a photoelectric cell attached
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  Speaker 11: to the bomb.
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  Speaker 6: When the sound vibrates the fork, it passes in front
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  Speaker 6: of the cell's light beam and that.
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  Speaker 8: And that closes the circuit and explodes the bomb.
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  Speaker 4: Very neat, eh, Commissioner?
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  Speaker 3: Very.
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  Speaker 6: Anything else I can do for you?
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  Speaker 8: Just one thing more, Commissioner.
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  Speaker 4: Yes? Do you realize what all this means?
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  Speaker 6: Why, of course I.
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  Speaker 4: Each of the notes has contained the word silence. You
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  Speaker 4: must broadcast a general warning to the city at once.
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  Speaker 4: Use the radio, use the newspapers. Use any means at
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  Speaker 4: your command.
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  Speaker 8: But warn the people immediately that there must be absolute
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  Speaker 8: silence until the murderer is caught. They must not play
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  Speaker 8: any musical instruments, blow their auto horns. In fact, they
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  Speaker 8: must not do anything to make a loud noise of
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  Speaker 8: any kind that might set off another of these tuning
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  Speaker 8: fork bombs. For the penalty may be death.
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  Speaker 7: The End.
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  Speaker 4: That's the end of Act One.
• 11:50
  Speaker 5: While we're waiting for the second act, here's a question
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  Speaker 5: I'd like to ask you. What problem facing America today
• 11:56
  Speaker 5: has been called worse than war?
• 11:59
  Speaker 4: The shadow knows. Since 1922, the number of people killed
• 12:04
  Speaker 4: in automobile accidents far exceeds the number of American soldiers
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  Speaker 4: who were killed in action or who died of wounds
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  Speaker 4: in all of America's six major wars. Play safe. It pays.
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• 12:24
  Speaker 5: risk your neck in a skidding accident or blowout accident
• 12:27
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• 12:30
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• 12:34
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• 12:37
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• 12:41
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  Speaker 5: road dry. So dry that you can light a match
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  Speaker 5: on its track. So dry that it gives you the
• 12:50
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• 12:54
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• 12:57
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• 13:00
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• 13:06
  Speaker 5: to protect yourself against a possible skid or blowout tomorrow.
• 13:09
  Speaker 6: You must act today.
• 13:11
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  Speaker 5: at no extra cost.
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  Speaker 7: It was right.
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  Speaker 6: Here they found one of the bombs. Hidden in one
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  Speaker 6: of these trash baskets. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Imagine it right here at one of the busiest corners
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  Speaker 2: in the city.
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  Speaker 6: I'd tell you it's enough to give it a creep.
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  Speaker 2: It certainly is. Look up the avenue there.
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  Speaker 6: Here it is the middle of the day and not
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  Speaker 6: a car in sight.
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  Speaker 2: Boy, I haven't had my car out of the garage
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  Speaker 2: since the police commissioner broadcast that warning.
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  Speaker 6: Think of it.
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  Speaker 5: He said even a squeaking brake might send you to
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  Speaker 5: Kingdom Come.
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  Speaker 12: Well, I can tell you Kingdom Come would be better
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  Speaker 12: than this. They don't find the guy that's planting these
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  Speaker 12: bombs soon... The whole town's gone off.
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  Speaker 3: It's nothing.
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  Speaker 6: You're telling me.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't slept in four nights. It's awful silence.
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  Speaker 6: Like a wet blanket over your face.
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  Speaker 2: Day after day, another silence.
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  Speaker 3: Stop pacing that floor, Robert. You're making me so nervous
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  Speaker 3: I could scream.
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  Speaker 6: You're nervous. That's good. How about me? I tell you,
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  Speaker 6: I can't stand the silence much longer.
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  Speaker 2: I tell you, I can't stand.
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  Speaker 9: Quiet, Robert.
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  Speaker 3: Remember Commissioner Weston's warning. No one knows where the bombs
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  Speaker 3: are planted. Even a shout might... I know, I know.
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  Speaker 6: Even a shout might be an E-flat. A note of death.
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  Speaker 6: That's what they're calling it now.
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  Speaker 3: It's silly, isn't it?
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  Speaker 6: But what do they call this? This awful tomb we're
• 14:56
  Speaker 6: living in?
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  Speaker 9: Quiet, Robert, please.
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  Speaker 4: Come on.
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  Speaker 6: We're going to get out of this town. Start packing.
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  Speaker 6: We're leaving on the first train. I don't know where
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  Speaker 6: we're going, but we're going anywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Any Dutch model?
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  Speaker 3: No, Lamont. You?
• 15:06
  Speaker 4: None.
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  Speaker 9: Commissioner Weston has already checked all the music stores, but I.
• 15:11
  Speaker 6: I still feel he might.
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  Speaker 4: Have overlooked one.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, it's like a plague. The plague of silence. But
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  Speaker 9: we must be on our way, Margot. It's not a
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  Speaker 9: moment to lose. I'll meet you at the Andrews Music Store.
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  Speaker 9: The first store we visited this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I know the one. I'll see you there.
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  Speaker 6: Now, sir, we haven't sold an E-flat tuning fork in months.
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  Speaker 6: Is there anything else, sir?
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  Speaker 4: No, miss.
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  Speaker 6: We're wholesale, you see. We only sell to music schools
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  Speaker 6: and such. Even they don't buy tuning.
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  Speaker 3: Forks very often. What's that, mister?
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: Tuning forks?
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: No, we just handle sheet music, radios, and records.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: Maybe you'd like some sheet music.
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: And what can I do for you, miss? Nothing, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just waiting for someone, if you don't mind.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, no, not at all.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: By the way, weren't you in here this morning?
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: Yes, I was. Yes, I remember you now.
• 16:33
  Speaker 12: You were with the gentleman who wanted to know if
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  Speaker 12: we'd sold any tuning forks lately.
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: Yes, that's right. He said you hadn't.
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: Yes, and.
• 16:40
  Speaker 12: After you left, I did remember one sale, but that
• 16:43
  Speaker 12: was to one of our regular customers, and it was
• 16:46
  Speaker 12: a long time ago.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: That wouldn't be what you... No.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: No, I suppose not. No.
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: Dr.
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  Speaker 12: Bedot is a very fine man. Fine musician, too. He's
• 16:57
  Speaker 12: bought a number of musical instruments from us.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, it did strike.
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  Speaker 6: Me a bit odd.
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: Odd?
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: What was odd? Well, Dr.
• 17:06
  Speaker 12: Bedeau wanting all of those tuning forks for the same pitch.
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  Speaker 2: E-flat, I believe it was.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: E-flat?
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  Speaker 12: Yes, but you know how musicians are. Surely you don't... Oh, no,
• 17:18
  Speaker 12: of course not.
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  Speaker 3: But I... I suppose I should see this Dr. Bedeau
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: just for the.
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  Speaker 6: Record, you know.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: Would you like his address, then?
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: Yes, if you'd be so kind.
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  Speaker 12: Yes, sure, I'll write it down for you.
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Andre Bedeau.
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  Speaker 4: 2218.
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  Speaker 3: West 9th Street. Well, thank you. And if the gentleman
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: I'm waiting for should.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: Arrive while I'm gone, tell him to wait for me. Yes, yes,
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: I will.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: His name is Lamont Cranston. If I'm delayed, tell him
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: to meet me at Dr. Bedard's. 2218 West 9th Street. Yes? Dr. Bordeaux?
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Yes, that is right.
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  Speaker 6: Dr.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Bordeaux. Doctor of music. Bachelor of arts. And you, my dear?
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: My name is Margot Lane, doctor. I'm a voice student.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Oh, musician.
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  Speaker 3: And so beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: Do come in.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: This is my studio.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it's charming. You teach here?
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: Oh, no, no. I seldom teach, my dear. I'm composer.
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  Speaker 2: Great composer. No, I'm afraid that is still my own
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: little secret.
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  Speaker 3: Well, then you wouldn't have time for a simple student
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: like myself. No, no, no.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: On the contrary, my dear. It has always, always been
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: my special pleasure to encourage real talent. Especially beautiful talent.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: Yes. Yes, well, that's very nice, but I'm not awfully talented,
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: Monsieur Godot. I don't really believe you'd be interested.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: No, no, but I have already decided I would be interested.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Most interested. But first, You are just in time for
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: a treat. A rare treat.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm afraid I must go now.
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  Speaker 2: I just remembered an appointment. You should have remembered that
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: before you interrupted my work. Now that you are here,
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: you shall remain until it is my pleasure to dismiss you.
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  Speaker 3: But you can't do that. Quiet.
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  Speaker 2: Sit down.
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  Speaker 4: There.
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  Speaker 2: I did not ask you to disturb me. But now
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: that you are here, you shall share a secret with me.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: You like secrets, no? Most young women like seekers but
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: can't keep them. I rather think you shall keep this one,
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: my dear.
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  Speaker 4: Shut up. Shut up.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: What is that? What did you say? You are wasting
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: your breath, my dear.
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: Really you are.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: The studio is soundproof. Completely soundproof.
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  Speaker 4: And now.
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  Speaker 2: for my secret. You see this beautiful electric organ?
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  Speaker 3: Yes. Yes, of course.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: This electric organ shall reveal my secret. My greatest composition.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: I shall play it for you now on this beautiful organ. Oh,
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: pardon me just a moment, my dear. The door seems
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: to have blown open. The thorn of the lock will
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: guard us against such interruptions.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: Don't lock that door, you hear me?
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: Let me out of here.
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  Speaker 9: Quiet, quiet.
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  Speaker 2: Really, you don't seem to realize what a great honor
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: I am to sportly stow on you. For you shall
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: be my thirst. And the last to hear my greatest composition,
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: my symphony of silence in E-flat. Do I frighten you,
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: my child? I'm so sorry. But you are my uninvited guest,
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: aren't you? My only guest. The lighting is quite poor
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: for shadows, my dear. There are no shadows in my studio. Oh,
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: one thing more. Before I play my symphony for you,
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: you see the black box on that pedestal there? Answer me,
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: do you?
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: Yes. Yes, I see it.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: That box is my invention. It is a bomb. The
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: famous others I have placed about the city. And it
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: shall permit you and me to die. You see, my dear,
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: into the final climax of my symphony, I have written
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: the final climax.
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  Speaker 3: Of life itself.
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  Speaker 2: But enough of this program, note. Here, let us begin
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  Speaker 2: the performance. Listen, my dear. Listen to the pale beauty
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: of the whole town.
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  Speaker 3: Truly a feast, isn't it?
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: A feast for just the two of us.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: Three, Dr. Badeau. Three of us.
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  Speaker 3: Shadow, he told you where I was.
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  Speaker 6: Three. Three.
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  Speaker 4: No, who speaks? I am the Shadow.
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  Speaker 6: Who is the Shadow? Oh, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, my inner voice. My shadow. The shadow of
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: my poor, weak conscience. Yeah, yeah, of course, Shadow.
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  Speaker 3: The three of us. Yes, yes, that's right.
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  Speaker 4: We've had an exciting time lately, haven't we, Boudreaux? You,
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: the master. I, your shadow.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Quite exciting, my Shadow. And it has led us to victory. Yes,
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: we have at last won our war on noise. Thailand's
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: city pays tribute to our cause.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: But why, Bordeaux? Why have we waged this war on
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: the city? Why these bombings? Why this terror?
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: You forget so soon. What a poor conscience you are, Shadow.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: But once more I will tell you. We have been
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: waging the war, the war of wars. The war for peace.
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  Speaker 3: Only the true peace is.
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  Speaker 2: A simple peace of Thailand.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: Yes, Bordeaux, but.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Quiet, quiet, my conscience. Silence is the only way to
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: fight the unhappiness in the world today. This world of
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: ours with its war, its chaos, its noise. Yes, yes,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: above all, its noise.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: How many of our bombs are still unexploded, Bordeaux? How many?
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Three throughout the city, my forgetful shadow. And one here
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: on the pedestal, waiting to play its part in my
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: symphony of silence.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: Waiting for me to play E-flat.
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: But the three in the city, Bordeaux... Where did we
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: leave them?
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Oh, what a poor conscience you are, Shadow. One's conscience
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: should not forget so often. But I will forgive you.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Don't you remember the one we left in the elevator
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: shaft of the state building?
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: Yes, I remember now. Very clever of us, wasn't it, Bordeaux?
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: And another we planted behind the time of Bell in
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: the sports armory.
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: Oh, but of course. How stupid of me to forget.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: And the third in the grand terminal.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: Three noisy places, without a doubt.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but noisy no longer. The city is as silent
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: as a tomb. And so long as it remains silent,
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: so too.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: Will the bombs.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but now... Now my symphony reaches its climax.
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  Speaker 6: My work is finished.
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  Speaker 2: Listen to the compelling beauty of the finale.
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  Speaker 3: Hear, hear those old tones. Marching up, up, up!
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  Speaker 7: Yes!
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  Speaker 2: This is the work of a master. I, the door,
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: the greatest of them all.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: And now, now the final suspension. And, and the final resolution.
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  Speaker 2: The finality of my symphony in silence.
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  Speaker 4: Indeed!
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: Yes! There, there, Margot.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: Just rest a minute. Everything is all right.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: But the explosion, Lamont.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: There was no explosion.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: But Dr. Bordeaux, look. Lying there across the keyboard. Is he... Yes. Dead.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: Quite dead.
• 24:54
  Speaker 9: It was Bordeaux's body pressing against the keyboard that caused
• 24:56
  Speaker 9: the rumbling you thought was an explosion.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: But I still don't understand.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: What happened?
• 25:02
  Speaker 9: All the time I was talking to Bordeaux, I was
• 25:05
  Speaker 9: standing beside the pedestal on which he placed the bomb.
• 25:08
  Speaker 9: When he started to play the organ, I disconnected the
• 25:10
  Speaker 9: photoelectric cell from the bomb, making it harmless.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: But the dough is dead.
• 25:14
  Speaker 9: Heart failure, my dear Margo.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: A victim of his own hypnosis.
• 25:18
  Speaker 9: He was so sure that the explosion would occur that
• 25:21
  Speaker 9: it did, in his distorted mind.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: Thank heaven it's all over.
• 25:26
  Speaker 9: Yes, the symphony of silence is over. The terror is ended.
• 25:31
  Speaker 9: Once more the city can return to its normal life.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: Once more, as.
• 25:35
  Speaker 9: People are safe to work and play, free from the
• 25:39
  Speaker 9: terror that has nearly driven the man. Yes, and once more,
• 25:44
  Speaker 9: man has learned that there is only one musician who
• 25:47
  Speaker 9: can play the cosmic music of silence and sound. The
• 25:51
  Speaker 9: master musician.
• 25:52
  Speaker 8: Of them all, the composer of life itself.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: Today's program is based on a story copyrighted by the
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: Shadow Magazine. All the characters and all the places named
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: are fictitious. Any similarity to persons living or dead is
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: purely coincidental. The Shadow Magazine is now on sale at
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: your local newsstand.
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: Let no man tempt you into crime. For crime is
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: like a strangling serpent. It crushes him who feeds it most.
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: Beware lest the serpent of crime ensnare you in his foes. Remember...
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: Crime does not pay. The shadow knows. The Shadow Knows.
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  Speaker 1: We conclude with the shadow in Murder in E-Flat. Good night,
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  Speaker 1: and thank you for sharing this broadcast.