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

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  Speaker 1: On May 9th, 1948, Mutual Broadcasting System listeners heard episode
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  Speaker 1: 447 of The Shadow, sponsored by Blue Coal. Brett Morrison
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  Speaker 1: is Lamont Cranston, with Grace Matthews as Margot Lane in
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  Speaker 1: Reflection of Death, written by Louis Vitus. A newly married
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  Speaker 1: couple brings home an antique mirror, and Nancy Craig becomes
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  Speaker 1: convinced it reveals the faces of people marked for death.
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  Speaker 1: She carries her fears to Cranston and Margo, whose investigation
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  Speaker 1: takes them from the antique shop to the Craig's old house.
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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, the shadow in reflection of death. And now,
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  Speaker 1: our story begins.
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  Speaker 2: What evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows.
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  Speaker 2: The Shadow knows.
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  Speaker 3: The shadow, who aids the forces of law and order,
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  Speaker 3: is in reality Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man about town.
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  Speaker 3: Years ago in the Orient, Cranston learned a strange and
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  Speaker 3: mysterious secret, the hypnotic power to cloud men's minds so
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  Speaker 3: they cannot see him. Cranston's friend and companion, the lovely
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  Speaker 3: Margot Lane, is the only person who knows to whom
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  Speaker 3: the voice of the invisible shadow belongs.
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  Speaker 2: Today's drama, Reflection of Death.
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  Speaker 4: John.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, Nancy.
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  Speaker 4: That shop there, let's go in.
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  Speaker 2: Antiques? My dear Mrs.
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  Speaker 6: Craig, it's quite true that we've been married for more
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  Speaker 6: than a month now, but we're not up to antiques yet.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, silly. Oh, please, John.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 4: John, what a funny place.
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  Speaker 2: Dark as a tomb in here, isn't it?
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  Speaker 4: You can hardly see the furniture. Pieces look like big,
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  Speaker 4: crouching animals.
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  Speaker 6: I bet if you opened that wardrobe in a corner,
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  Speaker 6: bats would fly out.
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  Speaker 2: You say that? Oh!
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  Speaker 7: I'm afraid I startled your good lady.
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  Speaker 2: You startled me, too.
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  Speaker 8: If anything were to come out of that wardrobe, it
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  Speaker 8: would be something quite different.
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  Speaker 5: Like what?
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  Speaker 8: I hardly venture to say. You see, a lady hanged
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  Speaker 8: herself in that wardrobe.
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  Speaker 5: Hanged?
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, that mirror hanging against the wall. It's beautiful.
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  Speaker 7: There's a story about that mirror.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, John, it's lovely. I can put it over my
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  Speaker 4: dressing table.
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  Speaker 8: And not very expensive.
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  Speaker 4: Only $ 15.
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  Speaker 7: That isn't much. No. Perhaps because of the story.
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  Speaker 4: What story?
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  Speaker 8: That mirror was made in the days when witches were
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  Speaker 8: being burned and people believed in visions.
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  Speaker 7: Usually dreadful visions.
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  Speaker 2: Old wives' tales.
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  Speaker 7: Probably, sir.
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  Speaker 8: Although many men believed in them. We know better now, perhaps.
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  Speaker 8: But it was said in those days... that a mirror
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  Speaker 8: made as this one was... in a rather strange and
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  Speaker 8: horrible fashion... showed much more than ordinary mirrors.
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  Speaker 4: What did it show?
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  Speaker 7: The faces of those about to die.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry the mirror slipped.
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  Speaker 7: No harm done.
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  Speaker 8: Of course, not everyone could see those faces in the mirror.
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  Speaker 2: Only.
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  Speaker 7: Only? Those who had the gift.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 8: How could they tell that they had the gift? Oh,
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  Speaker 8: there were many signs. Perhaps the most certain sign.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy, it's getting late.
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  Speaker 7: Was what they called the ears of Pan. Ears with
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  Speaker 7: pointed lobes.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy, do you want the mirror?
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  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, dear, I do.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 6: Will you have the mirror cleaned and sent to 29
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  Speaker 6: Ridge Road, please? The name is Craig.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 7: This afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: Good. Nancy, shall we?
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  Speaker 4: Of course, dear. Oh, my hand.
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  Speaker 2: What? Oh, it's caught.
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  Speaker 5: In the stand.
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  Speaker 2: Serves you right for wearing a hat with ribbons.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, there.
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  Speaker 2: Funny.
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  Speaker 4: What is, dear?
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  Speaker 6: Well, we've been married for more than a month. It's
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  Speaker 6: a terribly long time. I never noticed your ears before.
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  Speaker 4: What about them?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the lobes. They're pointed.
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  Speaker 4: John, this mirror looks wonderful.
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  Speaker 5: Good.
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  Speaker 2: You've been sitting staring into it for hours.
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  Speaker 7: Not really.
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  Speaker 4: I've just been dreaming.
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  Speaker 2: Of what?
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  Speaker 7: How happy I am.
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  Speaker 2: Darling. It's 11 o'clock. Now go downstairs and lock up.
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  Speaker 4: Hurry back, darling. I don't like that thunder. The lights.
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  Speaker 2: John!
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  Speaker 4: John!
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  Speaker 10: John!
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  Speaker 2: What is it?
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  Speaker 4: The lights in this room went out.
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  Speaker 10: It's a fuse, maybe.
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  Speaker 2: I'll take a look down here.
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  Speaker 7: All right, dear.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, it's funny, staring into a mirror when it's dark
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  Speaker 11: and you can't see anything.
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  Speaker 4: I wonder, am I really there in the mirror even.
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  Speaker 7: Though I can't see myself?
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  Speaker 9: Why, I.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 10: No.
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  Speaker 2: Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Cranston, you'll think I'm insane.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think I will at all, Mrs. Craig. Thank you.
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  Speaker 9: Why don't you tell the mantra story, Mrs. Craig, just
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  Speaker 9: as you told to me when you phoned this morning?
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  Speaker 2: All right, Marco.
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  Speaker 4: I know you've helped people, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Cranston. Whenever I could.
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  Speaker 4: John laughed at the whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: John?
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  Speaker 4: My husband. But I can't laugh. It was so clear.
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  Speaker 2: It isn't to me.
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  Speaker 12: Well, I'm sorry. Yesterday morning, we bought a mirror at
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  Speaker 12: an antique shop. The woman who sold it to us
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  Speaker 12: said there was a legend connected with it. That if
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  Speaker 12: you were gifted, you could see the faces of people
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  Speaker 12: about to die in it.
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  Speaker 2: It's an old legend. Probably been told about thousands of mirrors.
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  Speaker 4: I know. I didn't pay much attention to it.
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  Speaker 12: Well, anyway, the mirror was delivered in the afternoon and
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  Speaker 12: placed over my dressing table.
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  Speaker 4: Last night... Yes? I saw my father's face in it.
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  Speaker 4: I could see his face in the mirror, not mine
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  Speaker 4: at all. I could see his face, and it was horrible.
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  Speaker 2: In what way?
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  Speaker 4: His face was distorted and crumpled. He looked as though
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  Speaker 4: he were dead.
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  Speaker 13: Mrs.
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  Speaker 4: Craig, you mustn't let it upset you too much. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 4: I can't help it.
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  Speaker 2: It must have been an illusion. Possibly you were tired
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  Speaker 2: or overwrought. Unconsciously, you were thinking of the story you'd
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  Speaker 2: been told about the mirror. No.
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  Speaker 4: No, I wasn't tired. I wasn't overwrought. I was very happy... Mr. Cranston, please,
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  Speaker 4: will you come with me and look at the mirror?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I.
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  Speaker 4: Of course you will, Mrs.
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  Speaker 7: Craig.
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  Speaker 4: I have your address. When shall we come?
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  Speaker 12: This afternoon, before John gets home.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want him to think I'm hysterical.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be there, Mrs.
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  Speaker 5: Craig.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you. Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 10: Thank you.
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  Speaker 9: What a lovely house the Craigs have, Lamont.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, lovely and old. Chimes of Normandy.
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  Speaker 4: Very musical doorbell.
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  Speaker 2: Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Mrs. Craig's expecting us. Please come in.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 9: Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Craig is in the drawing room.
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  Speaker 4: Here.
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Clemens, ma'am. Lady and a gentleman to see you.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, please show them in, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Go in, please.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, Mrs. Craig. Hello, Marco and Mr. Cranston.
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  Speaker 2: Feeling better?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I guess I am. Perhaps I was being silly.
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  Speaker 11: I've been sitting thinking about it. Maybe I didn't see
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  Speaker 11: anything in that mirror after all.
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  Speaker 2: Could be. Well.
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  Speaker 7: What is it?
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  Speaker 2: Telegram, Mrs.
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  Speaker 13: Craig.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, all right, Clemens.
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  Speaker 2: Come in. Western Union Messenger just brought it, ma'am.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, thank you Plevins.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 4: Excuse me. I wasn't expecting a telegram.
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  Speaker 2: Go right ahead and read it. We've plenty of time.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you. I didn't think I.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 10: No.
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  Speaker 4: Maude, she's going to faint.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I've got her.
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  Speaker 4: Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Craig.
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  Speaker 4: She did faint. The couch, Lamont.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And some brandy. She dropped the telegram. She.
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  Speaker 4: Mark, what is it?
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  Speaker 2: Telegram. It's very short. Sent from upstate. Says, regret to
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  Speaker 2: inform you, your father died this morning at Interlochen Hospital. Signed,
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  Speaker 2: Head Nurse. Her father, Mark.
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  Speaker 13: Come on.
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  Speaker 9: The doctor's still with her. He's giving her a sedative
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  Speaker 9: to take later on.
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  Speaker 2: I'm worried about her.
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  Speaker 4: So is her husband.
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  Speaker 9: He's sitting at her bedside like a lost boy.
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  Speaker 2: He's nice.
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  Speaker 4: Come on.
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  Speaker 2: Hmm?
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  Speaker 4: Was it a coincidence?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Mr. Cranston?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes, Plevins.
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  Speaker 2: You rang for me. Yes, the mirror, the one over Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Craig's dressing table. The new mirror, sir? That's right. It's
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  Speaker 2: to go up in the attic at once. But Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Craig was so fond of it. Nevertheless, I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: have you take it up to the attic right away.
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  Speaker 2: Very well, sir.
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  Speaker 4: I don't like you.
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  Speaker 2: Just a sullen old man.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we'd better go. It's late.
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  Speaker 2: I hate leaving her. It's nonsense. Her husband's here. She'll
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  Speaker 2: be given a sedative. All right, Margo. Nothing can happen tonight.
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  Speaker 5: Let's go.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Nancy Craig.
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  Speaker 10: Nancy Craig.
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  Speaker 7: What is.
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  Speaker 10: Nancy Craig.
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  Speaker 14: Listen.
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  Speaker 10: Listen.
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  Speaker 14: Listen.
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  Speaker 4: I can't see anything. I can't see.
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  Speaker 10: Nancy Craig, get up.
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  Speaker 1: Get up, Nancy Craig.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 10: There's a mirror in the house, Nancy Craig.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 10: There's a mirror in the house.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 10: Go find it, Nancy Craig. Go find it.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know where it is. Upstairs, Nancy Craig.
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  Speaker 2: Upstairs.
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  Speaker 4: Upstairs.
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  Speaker 14: Upstairs.
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  Speaker 10: Upstairs. Yes, upstairs. That's where it is.
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  Speaker 4: The door is closed.
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  Speaker 10: Open it, Nancy Craig.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: The attic.
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  Speaker 10: The attic.
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  Speaker 4: I don't see it.
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  Speaker 14: There.
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  Speaker 2: There. There it is.
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  Speaker 10: Now you can look into the mirror.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to.
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  Speaker 10: Look into the mirror, Nancy Craig. Look into the mirror.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to. I love you.
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  Speaker 10: What do you see in the mirror, Nancy Craig?
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  Speaker 4: I see a face.
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  Speaker 10: Whose face do you see, Nancy Craig?
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  Speaker 4: Face of plebiscite.
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  Speaker 13: Scream.
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  Speaker 4: So green.
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  Speaker 10: You see the face of Plevins. What else do you see,
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  Speaker 10: Nancy Craig?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 4: No, I don't want to see. I don't want to.
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  Speaker 10: What else do you see, Nancy Craig?
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  Speaker 4: I see his neck. There's a rope around his neck.
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  Speaker 10: It's drawn.
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  Speaker 9: Tight.
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  Speaker 2: Tight.
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  Speaker 9: And he.
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  Speaker 14: He's dead.
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  Speaker 2: At the request of Nancy Craig.
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  Speaker 3: Margot and Lamont have been investigating the mysterious happenings in
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  Speaker 3: connection with a strange mirror. It is after midnight now,
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  Speaker 3: as the phone rings in Cranston's apartment.
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  Speaker 2: Hello? Cranston? Yes? It's John Craig. I didn't want to
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  Speaker 2: wake you up in the middle of the night, but Cranston,
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  Speaker 2: Nancy's disappeared. What?
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  Speaker 4: Lamont, what can have happened to her?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, darling.
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  Speaker 4: If she ran away, why did she run and where?
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  Speaker 2: We'll know more as soon as we get into the house.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe.
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  Speaker 4: I'm cold and frightened.
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  Speaker 2: Shh.
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  Speaker 1: What do you want?
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  Speaker 2: Clemens, we're coming in. Oh, you are. Where's Craig? Oh, no.
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  Speaker 1: Don't... don't care.
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  Speaker 2: Clemens.
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  Speaker 4: Lamont, he acted so strangely, as though he were drunk.
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  Speaker 11: Hanson.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, hello, Craig. Margo's with me.
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  Speaker 5: No sign of Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: No sign. When did you miss her? When I called
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  Speaker 2: you half an hour ago. I'd been sitting up. I
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  Speaker 2: couldn't sleep.
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  Speaker 6: The doctor had gone after having given Nancy a sedative. Finally,
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  Speaker 6: I went upstairs and stopped in her room to see
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  Speaker 6: if she was all right.
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  Speaker 2: And she wasn't there. The other rooms? I've looked all
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  Speaker 2: through the house. The attic? The attic. No, we never
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  Speaker 2: go up there. We'd better go there now. But why
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  Speaker 2: the attic? Because that's where the mirror is.
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  Speaker 5: There's the attic here.
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  Speaker 2: I hear her. Let's go in.
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  Speaker 7: Nancy!
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  Speaker 13: Nancy!
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  Speaker 2: Come on, she's lying on the floor in front of
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  Speaker 2: that mirror.
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  Speaker 4: Poor old Fleming.
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  Speaker 13: She's funny, old man.
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  Speaker 4: She's delirious, Craig.
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  Speaker 2: Better pick her up. Yes. Got her. I'll carry her downstairs.
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  Speaker 2: We need a doctor, I suspect. Not a psychiatrist.
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  Speaker 4: Green, Fleming. Green, green, green. The room was red. Furniture
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  Speaker 4: was too brown, brown, brown. She must have had a night.
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  Speaker 4: Poor old Fleming.
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  Speaker 11: He looks so funny in the mirror.
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  Speaker 2: Open that door for me, Cranston, will you?
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  Speaker 9: Of course.
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  Speaker 5: I'll put her to bed.
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  Speaker 13: There.
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  Speaker 2: Phone the doctor, Craig.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I'll get him.
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  Speaker 2: He lives just a few doors away.
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  Speaker 9: Good.
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  Speaker 2: Margo and I will stand by here. You'd better hurry. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I'll hurry.
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  Speaker 4: Lamont, she saw Plevins in the mirror. It must have
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  Speaker 4: been a dream.
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  Speaker 2: It's not only that, but Plevins was green.
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  Speaker 4: Does that mean anything?
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  Speaker 2: It might if what I'm thinking is true. It's a possibility.
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  Speaker 4: Lamont, she didn't really see anything in the mirror, did she?
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  Speaker 2: I think Plevins needs a visit from the shadow.
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  Speaker 4: Did she see anything in the mirror, Lamont?
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  Speaker 2: I'm afraid, Margot, that she did see something in the mirror. Hello, sir. Plevins. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: What's that?
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  Speaker 2: Plevins. What's that? Don't look around for me, Plevins. You
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  Speaker 2: can't see me. I can't. I'm sick, you know. I
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  Speaker 2: can't see. Plevins, although you can't see me, I'm here.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not your imagination.
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  Speaker 14: I'm sick, you know.
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  Speaker 4: You come wherever, whatever you are.
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  Speaker 2: I'm too sick.
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  Speaker 5: Plevins.
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  Speaker 9: Plevins.
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  Speaker 2: Do you hate Mrs.
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  Speaker 9: Craig? I hate Mrs.
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  Speaker 7: Craig.
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  Speaker 2: Do you hate her? I... I... Have you been playing
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  Speaker 2: tricks on her?
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  Speaker 14: Tricks?
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  Speaker 4: Playing tricks on her? No.
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  Speaker 2: Someone's been playing... been playing... tricks... on me.
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  Speaker 15: Plevins.
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  Speaker 2: Plevins! Now... Heavens can't hear me anymore. Clemens is beyond
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  Speaker 2: all tricks.
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  Speaker 16: The doctor said Nancy's very ill, Cranston.
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  Speaker 2: He's staying with her until the nurse comes, and then
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  Speaker 2: she'll require constant attentions. Plevins is dead. He was poisoned, Craig.
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  Speaker 5: Was he?
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  Speaker 2: Got an overdose of Mrs. Craig's sedative. That's what the
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  Speaker 2: police said? Yes, they're staying in the background because of Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Craig's illness. They'll want to question her. Cranston, they don't
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  Speaker 2: think she... It makes a certain amount of sense. She
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  Speaker 2: saw Plevins in the mirror. That meant Plevins had to die.
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps she took care of him. You don't believe that.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have any other explanation?
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  Speaker 5: No, but.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy isn't well. She hasn't been well. She can't be
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: held responsible for anything she's done. She's asleep.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: The doctor gave an injection to keep her under till morning.
• 20:42
  Speaker 14: Lamont?
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Come along, Margo. Good night, Craig. Good night.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: Home, Lamont?
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: No. Upstate. Upstate? The town where Nancy's father lived and died.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: I want to find out how far that mirror can see.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: I don't mind telling you all I know, Mr. Cranston.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: I've been chief of police in this town for over
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: 30 years.
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: And I've done all right.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: I'm sure you have, but... All right? Then listen. Pete
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Owens was a wealthy man and a good man. He
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: came up here in a hunting trip and died from
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: falling off Eagle's Nest Cliff a couple of miles out
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: of town. What he was doing there, nobody knows. He
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: might have fallen off. He might have been pushed. That's
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: all I know. You've helped us, Chief. I don't know
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: what Nancy Craig's father was doing upon that cliff either, but...
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: I think I know now whether he fell or was pushed.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Come on, Margo. We have to get back to the Craigs.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: I have an appointment to keep. Just rest quietly, Nancy.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: I'll be back in a minute. Nancy's all settled. Craig.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: John Craig.
• 22:16
  Speaker 10: What?
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Who's that? Come with me, Craig.
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: Who?
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: Who is it? What are you? The shadow of guilt
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: murderers fear. Follow me. Up to the attic.
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: Attic?
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: No.
• 22:33
  Speaker 10: No.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Come along, Craig. You know the way. You made others
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: follow you. What do you want with me? I have
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: something to show you. I don't want to see it. Now, Craig.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Over there, against the rafter. What is it? Get closer
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: and you can see.
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: Closer.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: There. Look at it in the moonlight. You can see now,
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: can't you, Craig? The mirror. What do you see in
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: the mirror?
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: No.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: What do you see in the mirror?
• 23:09
  Speaker 9: Nothing.
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: My face.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: My own face in the mirror.
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: The face of a murderer, Craig. The murderer who killed
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Nancy's father. The one who pushed him off the cliff.
• 23:20
  Speaker 14: No.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: The one who poisoned Clever.
• 23:21
  Speaker 13: No, no.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: You killed them both so you'd inherit your father-in-law's fortune,
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: didn't you, Craig? Didn't you? I....
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Maybe I did kill those two old fools, but you'll
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: never prove it. I won't hang... I'll destroy the evidence.
• 23:39
  Speaker 8: I'll smash this wretched mirror into a thousand pieces.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: What are you laughing at? It's too late, Craig. Too late? Yes.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: The mirror has already shown you your own reflection of death.
• 24:11
  Speaker 9: Lamont, I know that Craig killed Nancy's father and tried
• 24:14
  Speaker 9: to drive her insane and that he killed Clemens to.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: Throw suspicion on Nancy.
• 24:18
  Speaker 9: I understand that, but I don't understand how you found out.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Darling, remember she spoke of seeing Clemens' green face in
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: a red room in brown furniture? Yes. Well, usually people
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: dream without color, but when they've been given one of
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: the hypnotic drugs like pentothal, they have visions. Dreams in color.
• 24:38
  Speaker 9: You mean that Craig gave her the drug and then.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: He suggested things to her while she was drugged. She'd
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: never realize it, but she did remember colors.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: And the other thing?
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Something Nancy herself said in her delirium. She said that
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: she saw the faces in the mirror even though it
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: was dark. She meant that Craig had used a very
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: simple trick to fool her.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: You mean into seeing those faces?
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Well, the faces were really there. They were pictures of
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: the people she saw. With the help of a tiny flashlight,
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: they'd look very convincing in the shadows. Craig himself wore black,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: so Nancy could never see his reflection.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: Yet he finally did see his own reflection, didn't he?
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Yes. At that moment, the murders came to an end.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: The end that comes to all murderers before they die.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: And now let me present Blue Coal's Distinguished Heating Authority,
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: John Bartley.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Andre Baruch, and good evening, friends.
• 25:45
  Speaker 15: One of these fine spring days, you'll be able to
• 25:47
  Speaker 15: let your furnace fire go out. And that's the time
• 25:50
  Speaker 15: to have your furnace cleaned, overhauled, and put into first-class
• 25:53
  Speaker 15: condition for next fall.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: You'll prevent summer rust damage, which.
• 25:57
  Speaker 15: Can be costly, and you'll assure yourself of good heating
• 26:00
  Speaker 15: and low-cost operation next season. So I suggest you call
• 26:04
  Speaker 15: the nearest blue coal dealer now and ask for a
• 26:07
  Speaker 15: blue coal summer conditioning job. It's quick, it's thorough, it's dust-free,
• 26:12
  Speaker 15: and it's not expensive. Blue coal dealers have the special
• 26:16
  Speaker 15: equipment of the specially trained men to do this job
• 26:19
  Speaker 15: for you. But be sure to phone the nearest blue
• 26:22
  Speaker 15: coal dealer right away so that he can schedule your
• 26:25
  Speaker 15: cleaning job early. You'll find him listed in the classified
• 26:29
  Speaker 15: section of your phone directory.
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: I thank.
• 26:34
  Speaker 14: You.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: This story is copyrighted by Street and Smith.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: Publications, Incorporated. The characters, names, places, and plot are fictitious.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: Any similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: Again next week, the shadow will demonstrate that.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: The shadow knows.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: The Shadow has concluded. Reflection of Death. Good night and
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: thank you for joining us for this mutual broadcast.