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Dragnet: The Big Red, Part Two (EP4944) · The Great Detectives Present Dragnet (Old Time Radio)

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
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  Speaker 1: This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to bring you this week's episode of Dragnant. But
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  Speaker 1: the podcast since April of twenty sixteen. Again, thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much for your support. Now, from January tenth, nineteen
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  Speaker 1: fifty two, here is the Big Red, Part two.
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  Speaker 2: The story you were about to hear is true. The
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  Speaker 2: names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're a
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  Speaker 2: detective sergeant. You're assigned in narcotics detail. You're in the
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  Speaker 2: middle of a drive to break up one hundred thousand
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  Speaker 2: dollars narcotics ring. You apprehend two of the lesser gang members.
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  Speaker 2: You still haven't reached the big operation. You still haven't
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  Speaker 2: found their store of heroin your job get them Dragnet.
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  Speaker 3: The documented drama of an actual crime. For the next
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  Speaker 3: thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,
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  Speaker 3: you will travel step by step on the side of
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  Speaker 3: the law through an actual case transcribed from official police violence,
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  Speaker 3: from beginning to end, from crime to punishment. Dragnet is
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  Speaker 3: the story of your police force in action.
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  Speaker 4: It was Sunday, August fourteenth. It was cool in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 4: We're working a special detail on a narcotics division. My
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  Speaker 4: partner's Ed Jacobs. The boss is Captain Kearney. My name's Friday.
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  Speaker 4: There was one twenty three am when I got the
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  Speaker 4: fifth and series Southwest.
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  Speaker 5: Corner hije Ed, Captain. We've been waiting long.
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  Speaker 6: Just got here, all right, chickens, you can't.
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  Speaker 5: What'd you finally book?
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  Speaker 6: In?
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  Speaker 5: The two of them?
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  Speaker 6: Seventy seventh division substation Watch.
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  Speaker 7: Perry here is willing to cooperate, told us everything he
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  Speaker 7: knows about the game.
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  Speaker 8: I'm glad you feel that way, you stand, You won't
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  Speaker 8: regret it. Yeah, what's the matter? I hope it helps
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  Speaker 8: Read and the other guys find out about it. It's
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  Speaker 8: gonna be rough, and're not gonna find out from us.
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  Speaker 8: We're heading out for East Hollywood.
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  Speaker 7: Joe apartment house out there, Perry says, that's where Red
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  Speaker 7: makes his pickups.
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  Speaker 8: We're about to sad stand I know the address, I
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  Speaker 8: know the neighborhood, though, I'll recognize the place when I
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  Speaker 8: see it.
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  Speaker 6: How you feel now, Stan? Any better? Oh? Lousy sugard.
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  Speaker 6: Here's a fix about now. Sorry, Perry just can't help
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  Speaker 6: you there.
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  Speaker 4: How are you gonna handle this thing, Captain? I mean
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  Speaker 4: picking up Stan and Max Higby? You figure we can
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  Speaker 4: keep it quiet?
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  Speaker 7: Newspapers are going to cooperate. They're not gonna print a
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  Speaker 7: word about it.
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  Speaker 6: I'm gonna handle a court work.
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  Speaker 9: Stan and Max are gonna wave there preliminary Oh, to
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  Speaker 9: give us five to six weeks quiet if we needed.
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  Speaker 6: You can't reach the rest of the gang. But then
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  Speaker 6: we'll never reach them. Sure, feel lousy sick? I never
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  Speaker 6: tried to kick the habit before. How long does it take?
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  Speaker 5: It all depends how bad are you hook?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 10: Not bad.
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  Speaker 6: I'm just chippy with it? Not more in a cap
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  Speaker 6: a day? Where are we going out of Stan? Keep
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  Speaker 6: going straight?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Straight ahead? Turn off snuft for a while.
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  Speaker 5: Yet, Well, how do you figure it from here on in? Captain?
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  Speaker 5: What do I do about Red?
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  Speaker 7: You're gonna have to con your way through. I had
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  Speaker 7: the crime lad to fix up a dummy package for you.
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  Speaker 7: I'm a seat thick as the same rappings as the one.
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  Speaker 7: The real stuff came in package Stan gave you in
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  Speaker 7: the restaurant. Take it back to Red and scream your
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  Speaker 7: head off. Yeah, you're telling me you got the package
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  Speaker 7: from Stan and Max and you paid them the six
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  Speaker 7: geese for it. You opened it up and found it
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  Speaker 7: pull of powdered sugar bread them off. Put it on big.
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  Speaker 7: You got a gun?
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  Speaker 5: No, I haven't. I checked it in my locker when
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  Speaker 5: I started on this sort.
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  Speaker 7: Take mine bay, make it heavy. Pretend you're going to
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  Speaker 7: gun him. What if it doesn't work, skipping that's taken
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  Speaker 7: care of too. There'll be a couple of men on
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  Speaker 7: the street, Joe. If you get your back to a wall,
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  Speaker 7: break the window, they'll come running.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, I'll give it a try. You think Red still
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  Speaker 5: his hotel? Stand sure?
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  Speaker 6: It's probably waiting for me and Max.
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  Speaker 5: Anybody with him. You think no?
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  Speaker 4: I don't think so, all right, Bet, I wonder if
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  Speaker 4: you'd call my mother the first chance you gets.
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  Speaker 5: You might be a little worried.
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  Speaker 9: You don't have to. She called the office before we lap. Oh,
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  Speaker 9: I think I convinced her everything was rying.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, thanks a lot, Yeah, that's it. We'll let you
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  Speaker 7: out at the next corner. Head back for the hotel. Right,
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  Speaker 7: good luck, Joe, Thanks, how about it, Perish anything else
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  Speaker 7: you can give us, it might help him.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know. I'm gonna take a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 6: Only one way you can get that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you better get yourself a good fix.
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  Speaker 4: I left Captain kearney ed Jacobs in the Narcotic Suspect
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  Speaker 4: Stan Perish on the corner of Western and Wiltshire and
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  Speaker 4: made my way to Red's hotel on West fifty fourth Street.
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  Speaker 4: I went up to the second floor on found his
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  Speaker 4: door open.
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  Speaker 5: I walked in.
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  Speaker 4: Red was sitting in an overstuffed chair next to the radio,
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  Speaker 4: listening to the police calls coming in.
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  Speaker 6: It's why the gun.
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  Speaker 5: Don't try any your cunning this time. You're two bit
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  Speaker 5: with it, no matter with you.
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  Speaker 6: Put the gun down, No, not.
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  Speaker 5: Before I get what's coming to me? You and your
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  Speaker 5: lousy punks.
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  Speaker 6: What are you talking about? Where's standing Max dead?
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  Speaker 4: I hope that leaves only you to deal with. I
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  Speaker 4: should have known better the first time when you had
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  Speaker 4: me tamp I should have gotten out right.
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  Speaker 5: Then what's your craw?
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  Speaker 6: Guy? Come on, let's settle.
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  Speaker 5: You know what I look for yourself? Six g's worth,
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  Speaker 5: powdered sugar. You didn't think he could beat me for this,
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  Speaker 5: did you?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 4: There's more in this than me. If you don't square
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  Speaker 4: up this thing with us, there's ways of taking care
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  Speaker 4: of you. I'm on the lamb anyway. Now, one more
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  Speaker 4: Beefer is gonna make that.
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  Speaker 6: Much a gun down? Will you? Now, let's talk it out.
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  Speaker 6: It doesn't make sense if you've been beaten so of I.
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  Speaker 5: I will try to sell me that line. Get both
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  Speaker 5: of them out. I know they're here, now, come on,
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  Speaker 5: get them out here.
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  Speaker 6: We watch that gun?
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  Speaker 5: Were you?
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  Speaker 11: I don't know what you're getting at, lindsay they're not here.
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  Speaker 11: Didn't you see him? Max and staining h I saw him.
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  Speaker 4: That's why I'm here. I gave him the money, six
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  Speaker 4: yards of it, and that's what I got, powdered sugar.
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  Speaker 4: And you start explaining, smart guy, it's the truth.
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  Speaker 11: I don't know where they are. I gave Stan and
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  Speaker 11: Max twenty ounces to take to you. I told Stan
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  Speaker 11: and make the meat with you inside. The rest of
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  Speaker 11: max is supposed to be the look at it.
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  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, sure, so help me.
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  Speaker 11: I don't get it. You have never tried anything like
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  Speaker 11: this before. Once you tipped off at all. Maybe the
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  Speaker 11: way they acted something I said.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, nothing, that moot. Stan was a little unhappy. He
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  Speaker 4: said he wanted to fix and you wouldn't give it
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  Speaker 4: on him.
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  Speaker 5: That's right, I wouldn't, well, and you should have known better.
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  Speaker 5: It's no time to get stingy with him when he's
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  Speaker 5: gonna make a deal for you.
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  Speaker 11: You know what happened the last time he took a
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  Speaker 11: fix before a job. I sent him out to that
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  Speaker 11: park to watch you. He ends up by tamping. I'm
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  Speaker 11: leveling with you, Lindsay. I think we've both been taken.
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  Speaker 11: I still don't get it, though, I can't understand why
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  Speaker 11: they'd run out on me.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 4: Look, I haven't got the time to draw you pictures, mister.
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  Speaker 4: All I know is Mike Do's gone and you haven't
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  Speaker 4: delivered the stuff. Now you get with it.
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  Speaker 6: I'll wait, I'm minute. How do I know for sure?
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 6: How do I know?
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  Speaker 11: You didn't get the real merchandise and you took care
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  Speaker 11: of maxims. Stand, how do I know you didn't build
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  Speaker 11: a frame?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Sure, that's why I'm back here. I got twenty ounces
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  Speaker 4: free and I want another twenty. I met those mooches
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  Speaker 4: of yours and took care of them all by myself.
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  Speaker 4: Now that makes a lot of sense, doesn't it. Now,
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  Speaker 4: get off at Red. You're not going to pour them
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  Speaker 4: mouth of me out of this. I paid my six
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  Speaker 4: g's and I want the merchandise full, twenty ounces, and
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  Speaker 4: I want.
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  Speaker 5: It right now.
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  Speaker 11: Crazy, I can't do that. You have to give me time.
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  Speaker 11: We don't keep this stuff here. It isn't mine in
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  Speaker 11: the first place.
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  Speaker 5: What are you handed me?
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  Speaker 11: It isn't I'm just a middleman, that's all. You'll have
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  Speaker 11: to give me time. Maybe we can work out something
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  Speaker 11: for you.
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  Speaker 4: You bet you're going to work out something for me.
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  Speaker 4: You've got my six g's. Why'd you try and big
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  Speaker 4: shot me in the first place?
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  Speaker 6: Calm down?
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  Speaker 4: Trying to make me believe you were the big man.
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  Speaker 4: You gotta get wise to yourself. Read why should I
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  Speaker 4: deal with a middleman? I can probably buy the junk
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  Speaker 4: cheaper from your boss. Now, where's heat?
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  Speaker 11: You couldn't buy it a two g's an ounce he
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  Speaker 11: wouldn't sell it to you. I handle all this stuff.
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  Speaker 11: I'm the only one he works through.
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  Speaker 4: What makes you so special? You can't even handle a
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  Speaker 4: twenty houns deal and keep it straight?
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  Speaker 6: Stay cool? Will you give me twenty four hours?
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  Speaker 5: What am I supposed to be doing in the meantime.
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  Speaker 6: Same thing I'll be doing, worrying about getting that stuff back?
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  Speaker 5: Why try and cover up your mooch? Is Red out
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  Speaker 5: on you?
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  Speaker 11: Maybe I want to make sure I'll get the word out. Yeah,
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  Speaker 11: I'll find out what happened before I left Red.
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  Speaker 4: We set up a meet for the following night in
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  Speaker 4: his hotel room at seven pm. Then I left, went
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  Speaker 4: downtown to an all night drug store and put in
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  Speaker 4: calls to Captain Kearney and my partner at Jacobs.
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  Speaker 5: I briefed him on what had.
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  Speaker 4: Happened with Red, and the Captain set it up for
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  Speaker 4: the three of us to meet early that morning and
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  Speaker 4: plan the next move.
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  Speaker 5: The meeting point was down off Gallardo Street, alongside the
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  Speaker 5: Santa Fe train yards.
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  Speaker 6: Y'all over here, Hi ed Cap. Hi.
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  Speaker 5: A little late.
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  Speaker 6: Anything happened, but I did some doubling back.
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  Speaker 5: I wanted to make sure.
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  Speaker 6: I wasn't followed things worked out with Red high not trouble?
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  Speaker 5: Why not so far?
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  Speaker 6: No?
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  Speaker 5: I think he went for my story.
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  Speaker 4: He said he's going to do some checking around though,
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  Speaker 4: try to find out what happened to standon Max.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, halfway figured then that story you told him. I
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  Speaker 9: thought if Red bought that, you'd be in.
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  Speaker 5: We didn't buy it that far. I guess it made
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  Speaker 5: an impression. Waving again. Nobody still has some doubts.
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  Speaker 6: What else can you do to get yourself in solid?
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  Speaker 6: You tried about it everything, Joe. I've been kicking around
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  Speaker 6: an idea. It might work for you. I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: Put on a phony shakedown for him might give you
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  Speaker 7: a chance to show him how tough you're supposed to be.
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  Speaker 6: What do you think?
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  Speaker 5: Well, maybe I ought to help out. If we stage
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  Speaker 5: it right.
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  Speaker 6: When's your next meet with Red?
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  Speaker 5: Seven o'clock tonight his hotel, room.
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  Speaker 6: Two thirty one, then be honest or right?
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  Speaker 5: How do you want to work it?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, I'll get a couple of men from metro Vision,
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  Speaker 7: have him in uniform. We better have him work in
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  Speaker 7: a radio car. We're gonna have to have a good
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  Speaker 7: reason for him breaking in on you. How about a
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  Speaker 7: four or fifteen. Skipper Joe could go up to the room,
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  Speaker 7: pick an argument with the Red and make noise a lot,
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  Speaker 7: a lot talking.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that sounds okay.
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  Speaker 7: All right, both of the men in the radio car'll
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  Speaker 7: be thoroughly briefed. You'll know what to do Friday. You
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  Speaker 7: out to sell yourself. Act as tough as you think
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  Speaker 7: you have to. All right, don't give it a try,
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  Speaker 7: play it after the hilt. You give Red the least
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  Speaker 7: idea of the shakedowns a phony, and we're washed up.
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  Speaker 7: No phone, meet the off as soon as you can
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  Speaker 7: the inside line. We'll be waiting for the call.
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  Speaker 4: Right, It's just one more thing. Yeah, how about that
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  Speaker 4: apartment house. Dan was gonna show you last night, the
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  Speaker 4: place where Red's supposed to pick up the junk.
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  Speaker 6: He pointed the place out. All right, it's gonna take
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  Speaker 6: some checking.
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  Speaker 5: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 9: Stan said? He drove read to this apartment house about
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  Speaker 9: a dozen times. I always had to stay in the car.
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  Speaker 9: They were Red one in alone. Didn't know which apartment
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  Speaker 9: Red went to.
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  Speaker 5: Can't we check him out him?
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  Speaker 6: We got some men on it.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 7: I'm gonna take a little time. Big layout, all right,
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  Speaker 7: forty seven apartments, I.
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  Speaker 4: Left dead and Captain Kearney and caught a street car
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  Speaker 4: back to my hotel. I had some scrambled eggs, toasting
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  Speaker 4: coffee and the grill next door, and then I went
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  Speaker 4: up to my room and got.
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  Speaker 5: A couple hours sleep.
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  Speaker 4: Late that afternoon, I took in the show at a
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  Speaker 4: newsreel theater, had a bite eat, and then headed out
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  Speaker 4: for Red's hotel on West fifty fourth Street. I got
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  Speaker 4: there a few minutes before seven. Red was waiting, apparently
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  Speaker 4: failed to dig up any information on what had happened
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  Speaker 4: to his two operators standing max. I accused him again
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  Speaker 4: of trying to swindle me out of six thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 4: I demanded the twenty ounces of heroin. Red had nothing to.
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  Speaker 5: Offer, but apologies.
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  Speaker 6: All right, all right, relax, Will you take it easy.
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  Speaker 6: I'll work out something.
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  Speaker 5: Take it easy. Nothing you do enough of that for
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  Speaker 5: the both of us. You sit there and listen to
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  Speaker 5: that radio.
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  Speaker 4: Why don't you ge out and hustle up those two
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  Speaker 4: mooches of yours and get my dough ball?
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  Speaker 5: All right?
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  Speaker 6: All right, you don't have the scream. I said, I'd
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  Speaker 6: work something out.
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  Speaker 5: All right, then start working. Get it the dough or
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  Speaker 5: the white stuff. I gotta have it at the end
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  Speaker 5: of the week.
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  Speaker 6: What do you want to do? Have it all over
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  Speaker 6: the hotel? Keep it down?
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  Speaker 5: Why you take me for six g's and I'm supposed
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  Speaker 5: to play it nice. Now, come off it, mister.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't take it for six cheese.
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  Speaker 5: Those two mules did, and you own them. Either you
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  Speaker 5: square this.
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  Speaker 4: Up or everybody in the business is going to know
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  Speaker 4: about this.
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  Speaker 6: It's got into you anyway. You've been boozing it up today.
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  Speaker 5: Don't you worry about me. I'll take care of my end.
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  Speaker 4: Real big operator, huh right, you had all the h
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  Speaker 4: you handled everything.
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  Speaker 5: A real big shot out.
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  Speaker 6: I forget it.
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  Speaker 5: Read the big wheel. He handles all kinds of deals
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  Speaker 5: fifty cents to five dollars. After that, they get.
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  Speaker 6: Too big for it. I said, forget it, Lindsay.
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  Speaker 4: When this one gets around, they're gonna laugh you right
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  Speaker 4: out of the business. You can go back to selling
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  Speaker 4: razor blades and knock that radio off. I'm sick of
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  Speaker 4: hearing that.
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  Speaker 6: You got quiet down.
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  Speaker 5: Do you think you're ready to handle it?
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  Speaker 6: Do you?
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  Speaker 11: I told you I'd try and work out something for you,
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  Speaker 11: and I'm playing tough. It's gonna get your nothing.
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  Speaker 6: You want to know that? What's it?
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  Speaker 5: What's it sound like? Yeah? Who is it? Police officer
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  Speaker 5: is helping up? What is this?
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  Speaker 6: What do you got me?
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  Speaker 2: What do you take it?
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  Speaker 12: Easy?
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  Speaker 6: You can't take guess right?
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  Speaker 13: All right?
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  Speaker 12: Up and up?
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  Speaker 5: But I'm getting out of here. I'm not going to
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  Speaker 5: any shake down your mind?
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  Speaker 6: Hold it. I didn't mean you keep you waiting?
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  Speaker 5: Come on in.
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  Speaker 6: That's all the noise about up here. Nothing just saying
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  Speaker 6: a friendly argument. That's it, that's your identification. Sure you'll
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  Speaker 6: stay put? Yeah, Harry, better shake him down? Yeah right?
• 13:12
  Speaker 6: All right? Back against the wall. Come on, hands behind
• 13:15
  Speaker 6: your head, keep him here.
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: Today?
• 13:19
  Speaker 5: Grab the other one? All right? Good, both of them?
• 13:25
  Speaker 6: You crazy fool? Now what do we do?
• 13:27
  Speaker 4: I don't have to worry about the other one. He's
• 13:28
  Speaker 4: out cold. Take the gun off this one here, I'll
• 13:30
  Speaker 4: get his handcuffs.
• 13:32
  Speaker 5: Good.
• 13:33
  Speaker 6: Why'd you have to do it? Why did you have
• 13:34
  Speaker 6: to start something?
• 13:35
  Speaker 5: I can't afford a shakedown? You want to know that?
• 13:37
  Speaker 6: Better give it up both here. You're not going and
• 13:39
  Speaker 6: get away with it?
• 13:40
  Speaker 5: And shut up.
• 13:40
  Speaker 6: You won't go far.
• 13:44
  Speaker 4: Come on right, help me drag him over here. What
• 13:46
  Speaker 4: are you gonna do a bedpost here, like, get his
• 13:48
  Speaker 4: wrists around here.
• 13:49
  Speaker 6: That's it.
• 13:53
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 13:54
  Speaker 6: Hold him ends here out of your mind? What do
• 13:56
  Speaker 6: we do with him now?
• 13:57
  Speaker 5: I'll worry about that. How's his partner doing? He's still
• 14:00
  Speaker 5: out all right? Now? Cop, let's have it. What's the
• 14:03
  Speaker 5: idea of the shakedown?
• 14:05
  Speaker 6: Well we pick you up again, you'll get the idea.
• 14:08
  Speaker 5: Come on, let's have it.
• 14:09
  Speaker 6: Why don't you lay off? It's not going to get
• 14:10
  Speaker 6: us out of this for.
• 14:11
  Speaker 5: A big dealer. You got a lot of chicken in
• 14:13
  Speaker 5: you now, look cop, give why they shake down?
• 14:16
  Speaker 6: You're wasting your time.
• 14:18
  Speaker 5: Maybe I can change your.
• 14:19
  Speaker 6: Mind, lindsay you're crazy. Put that gun away?
• 14:21
  Speaker 5: Now, come on, cop, talk who gave you the tip?
• 14:23
  Speaker 5: Gun away?
• 14:24
  Speaker 6: It's only going to get us in deeper.
• 14:25
  Speaker 4: I want some answers. These buzz didn't come along by accident.
• 14:27
  Speaker 4: There had to be a tip off.
• 14:28
  Speaker 6: How do you know?
• 14:29
  Speaker 11: You were talking up a storm in here, making a
• 14:30
  Speaker 11: lot of noise. Somebody in the hotel could have complained.
• 14:33
  Speaker 11: Come on, come on, get.
• 14:33
  Speaker 5: Out of here and leave the two of them behind
• 14:35
  Speaker 5: to identify us. That ain't gonna work.
• 14:36
  Speaker 6: It's got to what else can we do? We can
• 14:38
  Speaker 6: kill him out of your mind.
• 14:40
  Speaker 5: I can kill him right now. The probably wouldn't find
• 14:42
  Speaker 5: him in the morning.
• 14:42
  Speaker 6: Or you'll do it alone. Lindsay, I'm getting out.
• 14:44
  Speaker 5: We still got business to do.
• 14:45
  Speaker 11: I'm not looking for a murder right now. Come on,
• 14:47
  Speaker 11: get it up, Let's get out of here.
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: As soon as we leave, we're gonna have to start running.
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: I won't be good for more in a day.
• 14:51
  Speaker 5: In this time. What I would do about my deal?
• 14:53
  Speaker 6: Come on, we can talk about it later.
• 14:54
  Speaker 4: Come on, we can talk right now. You handed me
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: the stall long enough, I got twenty four hours left.
• 14:58
  Speaker 4: I want it settled.
• 14:58
  Speaker 6: Okay, okay, I'll talk to the big man.
• 15:00
  Speaker 5: I promise you. I want to have a meet with him.
• 15:03
  Speaker 5: I don't know you listen at six.
• 15:04
  Speaker 4: Grand By was a dropping the bucket. I want to
• 15:06
  Speaker 4: buy more. If the big guy's ready, saw.
• 15:08
  Speaker 6: Am you got the money?
• 15:09
  Speaker 5: I got it cash? How about the meat? How about it? Red?
• 15:14
  Speaker 6: K okay, okay, I'll set it up.
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: Red got his things together and we took the rear
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: fire escape that led down to a service alley behind
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: the hotel. Before the two of us separated, we agreed
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: that Red would call me at my hotel at ten
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: o'clock the following morning. I wasn't altogether sure, but it
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: seemed as though the act I'd put on at the
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: phony shakedown it impressed Red quite a bit. Before I
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: went back to my hotel, I called Ed Jacobs and
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: Captain Kearney and briefed them on the developments. At ten
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: o'clock the next morning, I was waiting for the phone
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: in my hotel room.
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: At ten point fifteen, Red call, I.
• 15:50
  Speaker 6: Talk to the big Man this morning.
• 15:52
  Speaker 10: I told him what you wanted.
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah, what's the answer.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: You got to be a fastye Oka car.
• 15:56
  Speaker 5: Well, I'm ready, is he?
• 15:57
  Speaker 6: I think?
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: So? Talk all right? What about the meat? I'll take
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: it to it when.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: You are listening to Dragnet authentic stories of your police
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: force in action.
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: Tuesday August sixteenth, ten thirty three am. As soon as
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: I got word from Red about the meat he'd set
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: up for me with a big man, I called Captain
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: Kearney on the inside line and briefed him on the
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: way things stood. He said he'd have three teams of
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: men ready to tail me and cover the meat. They'd
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: work alternately in three way radio cars in order to
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: reduce the risk of discovery. To the minimum. He also
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: told me the check of tenants was continuing at the
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: East Hollywood apartment house where Red apparently was picking up
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: his supply of heroin for distribution. So far, the detail
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: of man assigned to the job had failed to uncover
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: any definite leads.
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: At eight minutes.
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: Past eight o'clock that night, Red picked me up at
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: my hotel and together we drove out along Alhambra Avenue.
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: We parked alongside the edge of a private golf course
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: just north of the Ocean Highway.
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: Smoke, Okay, thanks, gotta mention it.
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah nice, Well what about it? We've been here fifteen
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: minutes already, a lot.
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: Of sign feels like a sybost doesn't like to hurry things.
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, maybe he ought to get with it relaxed.
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: So we waited nine thirty, ten o'clock, ten thirty eleven,
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: still no sign of the big man. Eleven thirty eleven,
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: forty five, no sign? What time he got, lindsay, ten
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: minutes to midnight? And you got any ideas?
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I guess I can tell you now.
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: Well, you make this one real good with you. It's
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: been a long wait.
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: Boss wants to make sure about you. That's all. He's
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: checking his context. Where you said you operate up around Fresno?
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: Isn't that right?
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: All right? So he's checking on me. What's he want
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: of a blood sample?
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: He's careful. He wants to make sure it didn't show.
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: This is what he told me to tell you.
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah, if you're cleared all.
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: Around with his contacts and meets set for tomorrow afternoon
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: where I'll get to it. That deal to this. You
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: said you wanted a big buy. The boss has got it.
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: How much?
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: Two kilos, same good stuff you sampled, high grade Mexican.
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: You can get it at ten grand akilo.
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: Well, it's not bad if it's good quality. What's the breakdown?
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: It's forty percent. You're getting a fat discount, you know that.
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: Well, that depends two kilos ten GI's apiece, twenty thousand bucks.
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: You've got education carry.
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: It's a lot of scratch to get together in a hurry.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: You got a whole day, No, don't no jump, All right,
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: I'll get it. Where's the meat up by South Pasadena.
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: They're holding a big flower show in the neighborhood. You'll
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: meet him there. Contact me for the time.
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: When will it be? When do I meet him?
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: When you got the twenty thousand.
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: Eleven fifteen PM, Red drove me back downtown and dropped
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: me off at Fourth and Maine. Before we separated, he
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: told me he'd call me early the following afternoon regarding
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: the time of the meet with a Big Man, providing
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: I had the twenty thousand dollars for the narcotics buy.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: One am, after stopping off at a cafeteria and then
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: a coffee counter to make sure I wasn't being tailed,
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: I got to a public telephone.
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: Put in a call to Captain Kearney South.
• 19:37
  Speaker 7: Pasadena Flowers Show sometime tomorrow afternoon there.
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, that's it, Ken, all right, we'll cover it
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: all the way. Well, how about the money? What do
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: you think he got a little with you, haven't you? Well? Little? Yeah?
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: Okay, fake it the best way, you know how.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: We'll be a right.
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: So as you make sure the guy has the junk with.
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: Him past the signal, we'll move in right.
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: Something else, You get any lead at all on the
• 19:57
  Speaker 7: big man tonight?
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: No? Nothing? How about you a piece of luck?
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: I think we got him spotted.
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: Before he hung up, Captain Kearney told me that the
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: careful screening of tenants in the East Hollywood apartment house
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: pointed out to them by Stan had netted a couple
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: of prime suspects. They were an elderly couple, a mister
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: and missus Thomas Leslie. Besides the fact that he had
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: a narcotics record in the East, mister Leslie operated a
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: second hand bookstore on Beverly Boulevard, which apparently was being
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: visited often by known narcotics peddlers. Early the following afternoon,
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: Red called me at my hotel room and I told
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: him I had the twenty thousand dollars for the buye.
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: He picked me up at one forty five pm.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: I flashed a stack of money, containing mostly one dollar bills,
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: and he seemed satisfied. He drove me out to the
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: site of the flower show in South Pasadena, a large
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: glass domed conservatory just off the Royosco Freeway.
• 20:53
  Speaker 10: I said, say, yeah, sure, nice flies.
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: Huh, it's beautiful.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: How many times we're gonna have to cover this route?
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: I've seen everything twice already.
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: Won be long a couple of minutes, Oh this way,
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: come on? Yeah, the ship grat.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: Look, I don't get any of this. If we got business,
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: why can't it be in private. This is your big
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: man's idea of a joke.
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: It's protection. Lindsay, he's got to be careful. I guess
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: you figure this is the last place they look for.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: We'll make another round of this place. We'll stand out
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: like a sore thumb.
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: I'll relax. You'll make you buy. Coming up right now, right,
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: come on following me, Tom, What do you say?
• 21:53
  Speaker 12: Oh, oh you're in.
• 21:55
  Speaker 14: What do you think of my glady old antrees? Those
• 21:57
  Speaker 14: up there? When you say the beauties?
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, that real great time.
• 22:02
  Speaker 14: Took me three and a half years to get blooms
• 22:04
  Speaker 14: like that South African species, you know, the Chilsea type.
• 22:07
  Speaker 14: Raised them bright in the little greenhouse back of that place,
• 22:10
  Speaker 14: right you see the scarlets and the whites. That was
• 22:13
  Speaker 14: the mine.
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: Yeah, ah, Tom, like you have you meet that friend
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: of mine? Lindsay, it's just Tom.
• 22:20
  Speaker 12: How do you do? What do you think of my entries?
• 22:22
  Speaker 12: Raised every one of them from seeds? Lindsay.
• 22:25
  Speaker 14: They take a lot of care. Yeah, they're all right,
• 22:29
  Speaker 14: plenty of care, especially those the South African type. They
• 22:33
  Speaker 14: take a good stiff sandy loam, quality fertilizer, just the
• 22:36
  Speaker 14: right kind of heat and water, takes a lot of work.
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: Problem. Yeah, the guy haven't got too much time to spend.
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: Maybe we better talk outside.
• 22:45
  Speaker 14: Yes, it takes quite a lot of work. Beautiful blooms.
• 22:49
  Speaker 14: You have all the money within all of it.
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: We got two kilos.
• 22:52
  Speaker 12: That's correct. You can go out the sideway.
• 22:55
  Speaker 14: They read you followed behind and keep an eye open
• 22:58
  Speaker 14: right this way. Sorry for the delay, it's necessary sometimes. Yeah,
• 23:09
  Speaker 14: you came out and read your double checked you weren't followed.
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: I double checked. I've been doing business longer and red.
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: Mm.
• 23:16
  Speaker 12: Maybe we can make it a permanent tie.
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: Not here.
• 23:25
  Speaker 12: My cars this way?
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: You always make deals in the open public places.
• 23:31
  Speaker 14: Always it hazards advantages you sure this.
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: Is the hi sampled now? I don't want another phony buy.
• 23:37
  Speaker 14: It's no Maybe can be sure. Then here's a car.
• 23:43
  Speaker 14: Well the money?
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: Will you show me the stuff? Red nose? I got
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: the money you read?
• 23:51
  Speaker 14: Yeah, Tim, the money you saw it before you brought
• 23:54
  Speaker 14: him here. Yeah, showed it to me right here in
• 23:57
  Speaker 14: my pocket. Have a look if you want. Now, come on,
• 24:01
  Speaker 14: I can't afford to camp on this thing. All right,
• 24:04
  Speaker 14: people look out Red all right in the car wend
• 24:16
  Speaker 14: there under the deskboard. Here I always find. That's the
• 24:20
  Speaker 14: best place.
• 24:23
  Speaker 12: You have a car.
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: Of course, I go back with Red.
• 24:26
  Speaker 12: All right, they are two kilos, not the money.
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: What about breaking the package? Oh, I know it's not
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: more powdered sugar.
• 24:34
  Speaker 12: Of course it's not. Wait a minute, what is this
• 24:37
  Speaker 12: those men coming up.
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: To the car.
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: Takety is he missing?
• 24:40
  Speaker 12: I'm getting out of here?
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: In here, all right, Joe, I got him, pull him in.
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: I'll shake him down.
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: We got the other one, Red, no trouble.
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: Good, Okay, he's called Red.
• 24:54
  Speaker 12: It's stupid Red. I should have known. I should have know.
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: Joe, good work stuff all day.
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah, two kilos.
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: Want us to take him back in our car, skipper?
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: All right, I'll take in the other one. Meet you
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: at the parking lot gate. We'll folly in.
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: All right, all right, mister, that's why.
• 25:08
  Speaker 14: Look, if you ask you a favor, I won't take
• 25:10
  Speaker 14: a minute. Yeah, let me call my wife. I want
• 25:14
  Speaker 14: to let her know what's happened. I wanted to come
• 25:16
  Speaker 14: out here and get my flowers. I got some valuable
• 25:19
  Speaker 14: plants in that show.
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: I'll be taken care of. Your wife couldn't make it anyway.
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: She was picked up an hour ago.
• 25:24
  Speaker 14: Oh, couldn't be. What's gonna happen? Every dollar I own,
• 25:29
  Speaker 14: all my merchandise, took care of the best quality, all
• 25:33
  Speaker 14: of it.
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: We'll take care of that. Come on, let's go.
• 25:35
  Speaker 12: Well, I got those beautiful plants. You can do that
• 25:39
  Speaker 12: much for me.
• 25:40
  Speaker 14: Let me go back and get my flowers their prize, Glady, ALUs,
• 25:44
  Speaker 14: It won't hurt anything.
• 25:47
  Speaker 12: Just let me take some with me. Just a feudil
• 25:49
  Speaker 12: I get back?
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: Why I bother? They won't last that lot.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: The story you have just heard was true. The names
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: were changed to protect the innocent.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: On December fourth, trial was held in Superior Court, Department
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: eighty four, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: In a moment the results of that trial, Thomas Leslie
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: and William red Forrester were filed on in the District
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: Attorney's office for violation of the State Health and Safety
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: Code Section eleven thousand, five hundred. Both men were tried
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: in Superior Court and found guilty of the charge. The
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: violation carries a penalty of imprisonment in the state penitentiary
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: for not less than five nor more than ten years.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: Because of their co operation in the investigation and apprehension
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: of the narcotics gang ring leaders Stan Parrish and Max
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: Higby were given one year sentences in the County jail
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: with five years probation. You have just heard Dragnett, a
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: series of authentic cases from official files. Technical advice comes
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: from the Office of Chief of Police wh Parker, Los
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: Angeles Police Department. Heard Tonight where Barney Phillips and Stacy Harris.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: Script by Jim Mosey, music by Walter Schumann, Hal Givney speaking.
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: Next, It's David Harding and Counterspy on NBC.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Welcome Back, Okay, a great conclusion to this episode. I
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: really found this fascinating. And even though Friday's a policeman,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: his play is as daring as the most out rageous
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: con scheme. And he did thoroughly Conrad. That's why Red
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: didn't dig deep into the money. He was sold on
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Friday being this big time drug operator. And of course
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: the takedown at the apartment was just icing on the cake.
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: I will say, I do feel bad for those guys
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: for Metro Division because it sounds like they got worked
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: over because Red checked one of them and confirmed that
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: they weren't conscious. So I hope for Friday's case, give
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: them a concussion was within the realm of showing yourself
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: as tough as you needed to. I would be horrible
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: at an assignment like that, and I would get really
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: nervous when he suggested killing us. I'd be like, does
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: he need to show himself that tough? But again, I
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: think Friday had a sense of who Red was and
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: how we approached things, and his general caution, and that
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: the last thing in the world Red was going to
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: want would be for him to kill two police officers
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: in his hotel room, because if reded called his bluff,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: that would have been problematic. And I love the Flower
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Show as the setting for the drug boss. Ye not
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: something you'd expect, but really does work well. And it
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: also adds some depth to the mister Big of the
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: story and a sign that at least in the early
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: nineteen fifties, drug dealers were not always who you'd expect now.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: The earlier dialogue with the suspect that they captured and
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: who was cooperating is somewhat noteworthy, and I looked it
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: up when they were suggesting that he quit and he
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: asked how long he was asked, how bad are you hooked?
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: And he said, oh, not bad. I'm just chippy with it,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: not more than a cappa day, which is a good
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: piece of writing because drug users often distinguish themselves from
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: occasional users who were called chippy or chippers and junkies.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: But as the dialogue says, it's also kind of the
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: nature of addiction to minimize the problem. He wasn't hooked
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: that bad, and he used no more than a cap
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: of day. That's actually a pretty substantial amount for daily consumption.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: And keep in mind that we've established through this episode
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: that this is Heroin with purity of more than forty percent,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: which was a fairly high grade of junk for that era. Well,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: now we turn to listener comments and we start on Spotify.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Some comments regarding the Big Sorrow, Peter Rights Adam. When
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: you mentioned last week that it was the last episode
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: featuring Barton Yarborough, I assumed that he left to pursue
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: another role on another program. When I learned today that
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: he had died of a heart attack, I was genuinely shocked,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: so much so that I had to listen to the
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: episode twice to make sure that I heard it right.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: I will miss hearing his voice. Can you recommend other
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: programs that he appeared in that I can listen to well,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: I can talk about what he worked in, but listening
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: can be a bit of a challenge. Barton Yarborough's most
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: famous radio role among his contemporaries was as Clifford Barber
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: on the soap opera One Man's Family. He began playing
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: the role in nineteen thirty two and carried on to
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: his death. Like many soap operas, there are a lot
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: of missing episodes, more than it's actually around ninety percent
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: of One Man's Family is missing, and of course the
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: nature of soap operas and the fact that you have
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: this big family and only fifteen minutes a day and
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: is a situation where you will have characters on and
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: off the program. Now, there is a fairly substantial storyline
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: where he takes a major role starting in January of
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: nineteen fifty one, with most of that month's episodes in circulation,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: though no promise that you get to the end of
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: the storyline. Yarborough also I Love a Mystery, in which
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: he played the role of Doc Long as one of
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: three intrepid mystery solving adventurers. This actually led to three
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: different spinoff movies in which Yarborough appeared on screen. Sadly,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: the only complete I Love a Mystery serials are from
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: a nineteen forty nine revival of the series. However, you
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: can hear Bart and Yarborough playing doc in the sequel
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: series to the original I Loved Mystery, I Love Adventure.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: He's also in Adventures by Morse again, another Carlton Moose series.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: He also starred in the short lived and sadly well
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: circulated Western Hawk Larrabee, and he played a supporting role
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: in the Elliott Lewis series Hawk Durango, another Western. In
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: addition to that, Barbara did a pilot for a series
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: with Jack Webb and Elliott Lewis called Three for Adventure.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: As I think about that series, and I don't think
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: I said it at the time, I played that as
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: part of our Jack Webb centennial celebration back in twenty twenty,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: that pilot was really an attempt to kind of rip
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: off the Morse Adventure format. I think I might have
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: an Easter break coming up and I might go ahead
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: and play that episode on The Great Adventurers for our encore.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Then beyond that, though Yarborough was a very active character actor.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: He was in a lot of different productions. He was
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: on Escape often, he did quite a few episodes of
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Screen Director's Playhouse, and he would be in everything from
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: sitcoms to anthology shows, to Other Place and detective programs.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Even though this is the last of Ben Romero, we'll
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: run into him in quite a few other guyses. As
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: our full time radio listening continues, Doctor Who Done It? Riots,
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: I can't help but feel Jack's Webb's speech at the
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: closing was cut short by the music. It would be
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: a tough one to get through.
• 35:15
  Speaker 13: Well.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: In that case, that all up to That is our
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: editing there. Want to include some of the remarks about
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: the season without also throwing in the fatima ad, which
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: is particularly important now that the podcast is actually broadcast
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: over the air every now and again over on Patreon.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: Emma's Riots. This was an extraordinary episode, unlike any other
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: in either radio or television that I remember. Clearly, Jack
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Webb was devastated by Yarborough's death. They were professional and
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: personal friends, and I'm sure Web couldn't imagine anyone taking
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: the roll on because yard Borough was there. From the beginning,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: The episode winds up to be fairly Bland as if
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: to emphasize the sarity of the first ten minutes. Well,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: I definitely agree that Webb was devastated and there really
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: was no contingency plan. And web was not someone who
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: was close with a lot of people, but those that
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: he was close with it was genuine, and I think
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: it definitely was a blow because this is how the
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: series had been built, and what to do next was
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: a big question. I think that the smartest thing they
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: did is really something that a lot of productions would
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: be nervous with. I gave himself time. This period of
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: temporary partners would continue for a very long time, relatively
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: and essentially for the entire rest of the first season
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: on television after the two episodes which had been filmed,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: which gave viewers a bit more visual continuity. But Webb
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: took his time and got a dynamic that will not
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: the same as what he had before, was right for
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: the show in a direction that would be very successful
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: in terms of the quality. I don't think making it
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: less interesting was a decision as much as it really
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: was a necessity because you only have so much time
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: in an episode, and if you do take ten minutes
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: of the episode to deal with this major event. You
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: just don't have time for the same quality of story
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: and involved investigation, and you've got to tell something that's
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: a bit simpler. But at the end of the day,
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: what really mattered there were the emotional stakes. For one,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, just like Joe Friday, most of us were
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: not emotionally invested in the case as much as we
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: were with Ben's death, Brain's Benton rights on Instagram. What
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: a good way to honor Ben Romero in the show
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: and in real life. Jack Webb picked good replacement partners,
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: but Romero is my favorite. Too bad we didn't get
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: to see him in the TV show. Well, we actually did,
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: but very very briefly. Two episodes had been filmed when
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: he passed away. Suddenly those episodes are The Human Bomb
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: and The Big Actor. Now, his part in the Big
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Actor is not all that large, but in the Human
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Bomb that is. And I said that when we released
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: the episode on video theater last year, that was a
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: role that really only Ben Romero could fulfill. And it
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: is such a good episode. Of course, two episodes, it's
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: not even one percent of the nineteen fifties TV series,
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: But thankfully both of those are in circulation. We did
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: them on a public domain video theater, and of course
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: you can find those online. And then Brian writes, yes,
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: this one was different. Jack Web did things his way,
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: as you say in closing, and in this case it
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: gave us a somber, respectful reflection. Then we go over
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: to YouTube, where we have some comments regarding the Big Overtime.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: Jeffrey raised some good questions about the practicality of some
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: of the measures poor trade, which in terms of quickly
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: identifying the bills, and I kind of talked about that
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: last week, but appreciate the comment, though I don't have
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: anything additional to add, but really to appreciate it because,
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: particularly on YouTube, because it helps us grow so much.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Sasoff says regarding my proposed Martian Manhunter series, I'm thinking
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: that the Martian Manhunter should star Wolson and Bill Bixby,
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: And of course that is a reference to the TV
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: program My Favorite Marshan, which aired from nineteen sixty three
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: to nineteen sixty six. Well, I was imagining this production
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: being done during the golden age of radio. Bixby didn't
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: work in radio. He was a little too young by
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: the time he got into acting. Radio drama was fading,
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: with the line shares of rules in Hollywood going to
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: already established actors. Ray Woolston was of the age where
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: he could have had quite a radio career, but he didn't.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: He was really a stage actor until late fifties. The
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: only radio role he had we actually played a few
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: years back when we played an episode of The warth
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: Hour that was a tribute to Tony Barrett. It also
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: featured him reprising the role from his Broadway play, So
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: long story short or long story somewhat shorter. I would
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: say that Ray Wilson was a fine actor, but just
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: not what we had in mind for the part, but
• 41:33
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• 41:37
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• 41:40
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• 42:08
  Speaker 1: yours truly. Johnny, it all or where.
• 42:11
  Speaker 13: The police found any actual clues to work on?
• 42:13
  Speaker 14: Well, no, that's where you're wrong, said, it's Sergeant Drumming.
• 42:16
  Speaker 15: That's right, Danny boy.
• 42:18
  Speaker 13: Hi second, so they drag you in on this, Yeah,
• 42:21
  Speaker 13: Fred's all You know how it is drumming. When the
• 42:23
  Speaker 13: police can't get anywhere, you call in the experts.
• 42:26
  Speaker 6: Oh and I thought you were a friend of mine.
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: Ms.
• 42:28
  Speaker 13: Pullman who said that Bill was wrong Sageant when he
• 42:31
  Speaker 13: told me your boy is havn't found any clues to
• 42:33
  Speaker 13: who did this job and knocked off Jimson.
• 42:35
  Speaker 6: Cooley knocked him off? Huh know what's that mean?
• 42:39
  Speaker 15: One of the boys picked up a drunk last night
• 42:41
  Speaker 15: right in this neighborhood. Yeah, late this morning, when he
• 42:44
  Speaker 15: sobered up enough, we sent him home for a little while.
• 42:46
  Speaker 15: Ago he comes budging back the headquarters. Seems he suddenly
• 42:49
  Speaker 15: remembered something he saw around here last night.
• 42:51
  Speaker 6: Come on, Sageant. We must have been around two or
• 42:54
  Speaker 6: three am. That's when we figured the robbery.
• 42:56
  Speaker 12: Could and the murder of Jimson Cooley.
• 42:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah, please get to the point drumming.
• 43:01
  Speaker 15: Well, he was holding up that building across the street,
• 43:03
  Speaker 15: mining his own business and his bottle, when all of
• 43:05
  Speaker 15: a sudden he saw a car come round from in
• 43:07
  Speaker 15: the back of this building and heading north on the.
• 43:09
  Speaker 6: Trail, maybe two of them.
• 43:11
  Speaker 15: He wasn't sure any I don't want he noticed was
• 43:13
  Speaker 15: a little pickup truck.
• 43:14
  Speaker 13: But in his condition, I suppose he didn't get a.
• 43:16
  Speaker 15: License mwhere he didn't need to, Johnny, because he recognized
• 43:19
  Speaker 15: that truck. Oh yes, sir, And he said it was
• 43:22
  Speaker 15: all loaded down with something with an old piece of
• 43:24
  Speaker 15: canvas stretched.
• 43:25
  Speaker 12: Over the step that was stolen from me.
• 43:27
  Speaker 13: Maybe you say he recognized that pickup Whose was it?
• 43:30
  Speaker 15: Yeah, Johnny, was that old nineteen thirty model? He used
• 43:33
  Speaker 15: a whole shrimping. Why Who's that's right?
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: That's right? Was that old truck in?
• 43:38
  Speaker 6: Jimson Dooley.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime.
• 43:41
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