Latest / Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas / Dragnet: The Big Bomb (EP1634)

Transcript

Dragnet: The Big Bomb (EP1634) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

• 0:28
  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: This is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment,
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: email it to me Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net,
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and become one
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: of our friends on Facebook, Facebook, dot com slash Radio Detectives.
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: Before we do get started, I do want to let
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: you know this program is brought to you in part
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: by the financial support of our listeners, and I want
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: to thank James for sending along a very nice one
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: time donation to support Dot Great Detectives dot net, and
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: also wanted to recognize Rain and Lisa for supporting the program.
• 1:11
  Speaker 1: Lisa becomes a supporter at the seamous level, which comes
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: to listeners who pledge four dollars or more month, and
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: Rain becomes a supporter at the Detective Sergeant level, which
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: is with a monthly donation of seven dollars and fourteen
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: cents or more month, and that actually puts us at
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: over one hundred dollars a month in Patreon pledges, which
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: is fourteen percent of our first goal of a server upgrade.
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: And you can support the Patreon campaign Patreon, dot Great
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: Detectives dot Net. Also over a Great Detectives dot Net
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: this weekend is my review of the big Finish presentation
• 1:54
  Speaker 1: of Roger Llewellen's one man play, The Death and the
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: Life of Sherlock Holmes audio drama. And you can get
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: all of my reviews and articles from Great Detectives dot
• 2:05
  Speaker 1: net automatically delivered to your kindle and you can try
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: that service out free for two weeks. All right, Well,
• 2:13
  Speaker 1: now it's time for today's episode of Dragnet. The original
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: air date July thirteenth of nineteen fifty and the title
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: The Big Bomb.
• 2:25
  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, This true story concerns the heart of
• 2:29
  Speaker 2: a great city. It took fifty eight minutes to resolve
• 2:33
  Speaker 2: the question of its safety or its total destruction. This
• 2:36
  Speaker 2: is the story of those fifty eight minutes. Only the
• 2:39
  Speaker 2: names have been changed to protect the innocent.
• 2:56
  Speaker 3: Dragnet the documented drama of an actual crime. Well the
• 3:00
  Speaker 3: next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,
• 3:04
  Speaker 3: you will travel, step by step on the side of
• 3:06
  Speaker 3: the law through an actual case transcribed from official police violence,
• 3:10
  Speaker 3: from beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is
• 3:14
  Speaker 3: the story of your police force and action.
• 3:20
  Speaker 4: It was Tuesday, November fifteenth, was reigning in Los Angeles.
• 3:24
  Speaker 4: We were off duty, reporting in on an emergency call.
• 3:26
  Speaker 4: My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Lynn White, Deputy
• 3:29
  Speaker 4: Chief of Police. My name is Friday. Was eight twenty
• 3:32
  Speaker 4: five am when I walked into the main street entrance
• 3:34
  Speaker 4: to the city hall.
• 3:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right right, thank you.
• 3:58
  Speaker 6: How I'm going to run you up to six seeing
• 4:00
  Speaker 6: chief's waiting for.
• 4:01
  Speaker 3: You up there.
• 4:03
  Speaker 4: Well, what's the pitch? Only one elevator here in service
• 4:05
  Speaker 4: out of ten. The place looks deserted. What's going on?
• 4:09
  Speaker 7: Nobody in the building, shardan. All the office people have
• 4:12
  Speaker 7: been sent home.
• 4:13
  Speaker 8: Lots of trouble.
• 4:14
  Speaker 7: Somebody declare a holiday no joke, Sergeant's big trouble. You
• 4:18
  Speaker 7: convinced me?
• 4:19
  Speaker 6: What is it here?
• 4:20
  Speaker 7: We are sixteenth floor. You can't all over here?
• 4:25
  Speaker 8: Friday?
• 4:25
  Speaker 7: Right?
• 4:28
  Speaker 8: All right? Now? Well, Ben, we had good time.
• 4:31
  Speaker 7: I came as soon as I got the call in.
• 4:32
  Speaker 8: Sorry, I have to bring it back in.
• 4:33
  Speaker 7: You worked last night, Yeah, mid ninete eight this morning?
• 4:36
  Speaker 9: Sorry, come on, wonder is he's give him while on
• 4:39
  Speaker 9: the hush huts where we get inside and yeah, okay,
• 4:48
  Speaker 9: Number one.
• 4:48
  Speaker 10: Let's keep my voices down. Ah, how make it as
• 4:51
  Speaker 10: brief as I can. Every night counts on time?
• 4:53
  Speaker 7: You got Friday, eight thirty three?
• 4:56
  Speaker 8: All right?
• 4:56
  Speaker 10: Here it is fifty five minutes ago. A man walked
• 4:59
  Speaker 10: into this building with the homemade bomb under his arm.
• 5:01
  Speaker 10: We don't release his brother from the county jail by
• 5:03
  Speaker 10: nine o'clock this morning. He says, he'll pull a trigger
• 5:05
  Speaker 10: on the bomb and blow up the whole building. He's kidding, Skipper.
• 5:08
  Speaker 10: Who is the guy names Brenning Carney. Here's his package.
• 5:11
  Speaker 10: He and his brother have been in and out of
• 5:12
  Speaker 10: jail since nineteen thirty seven. Small town thieves.
• 5:16
  Speaker 7: BI kicked back here. We had him once before, both
• 5:19
  Speaker 7: of 'em.
• 5:20
  Speaker 9: Brother's name is Alwin, serving a year for car stripping,
• 5:23
  Speaker 9: and there's two big thief. He's sitting here in the
• 5:25
  Speaker 9: city hall with a bomb on his lap.
• 5:27
  Speaker 8: That's right, I'm extroom.
• 5:29
  Speaker 7: What kind of a bomb is it? Then you think
• 5:30
  Speaker 7: he's bluffing, could be buffing the crime lab, says no.
• 5:33
  Speaker 6: Lee Jones from the lab, get to look at it.
• 5:35
  Speaker 10: He's been in here twice. Ru under the box's glass
• 5:37
  Speaker 10: says he can't see much without a cluster. Luck but
• 5:39
  Speaker 10: you can't get near the guy.
• 5:40
  Speaker 7: All right?
• 5:41
  Speaker 8: What he wants to do, volunteer job. He can take
• 5:43
  Speaker 8: it or leave it. I won't order you to do it.
• 5:45
  Speaker 6: How do you want to handle it?
• 5:47
  Speaker 8: Are you sure you want a piece of this one?
• 5:49
  Speaker 5: Now?
• 5:49
  Speaker 7: No, No, he doesn't. He's got a family. Can you
• 5:51
  Speaker 7: get me another single man. We'll give it a try.
• 5:53
  Speaker 9: Wait a minute, Joe, what makes his job so different?
• 5:55
  Speaker 9: Every time we kick in the door, we never know
• 5:56
  Speaker 9: what's on the other side.
• 5:57
  Speaker 7: That's what makes it different. This time we do.
• 5:59
  Speaker 6: Oh and cut me out? Not the only time. I
• 6:01
  Speaker 6: know what I'm getting into.
• 6:02
  Speaker 10: All right, Chand was tried, Anna and Davis Watson, I've
• 6:05
  Speaker 10: all tried this guy. Connie knows what he's doing. There's
• 6:08
  Speaker 10: no pushover. But somebody's got to get that bomb away
• 6:10
  Speaker 10: from it. Jow baby.
• 6:12
  Speaker 4: Now, I looked at my watch. It was eight thirty six.
• 6:15
  Speaker 4: We left Chief White and started down the hall. If
• 6:18
  Speaker 4: Cornie was going to make good his threat to blow
• 6:20
  Speaker 4: up the building by nine o'clock, we had exactly twenty
• 6:22
  Speaker 4: four minutes to talk him out of it. Bet and
• 6:24
  Speaker 4: I figured we'd better look him over first and then
• 6:26
  Speaker 4: work out some kind of a plan.
• 6:27
  Speaker 7: Maybe just talking to him would do it.
• 6:31
  Speaker 4: Vernon Connie was sitting in a straight back chair against
• 6:33
  Speaker 4: the fire wall, facing the door. It was seated between
• 6:36
  Speaker 4: two windows that looked out over the city. In the
• 6:39
  Speaker 4: center of the right wall was a connecting door leading
• 6:41
  Speaker 4: to the office where Chief.
• 6:42
  Speaker 7: White had briefed us. The door was locked on both sides.
• 6:46
  Speaker 4: Just off the center and favoring the left of the
• 6:48
  Speaker 4: room was a small filing table.
• 6:50
  Speaker 7: There was a dictaphone on it.
• 6:52
  Speaker 4: In the near left corner, shielded by a white screen,
• 6:54
  Speaker 4: was a small wash basin. Bren and Connie sat erect
• 6:58
  Speaker 4: holding a black box on his lap. He held his
• 7:00
  Speaker 4: right hand inside one end of the box. Ben and
• 7:03
  Speaker 4: I walked into the room. What do you say to
• 7:07
  Speaker 4: a man with a bomber.
• 7:11
  Speaker 8: That's suppose enough.
• 7:14
  Speaker 7: Cigarette?
• 7:15
  Speaker 8: Cooney, I'm not smoking right now?
• 7:18
  Speaker 6: What are you trying to prove?
• 7:19
  Speaker 8: You know what I want?
• 7:21
  Speaker 6: We're not gonna let your brother out of jail.
• 7:23
  Speaker 11: You've gotten till nine o'clock to change your mind. In
• 7:27
  Speaker 11: that clock up there in the lot, you got twenty
• 7:29
  Speaker 11: four minutes if we go.
• 7:30
  Speaker 7: You're going with this, Colonel.
• 7:32
  Speaker 8: I don't think much of my brain to figure that
• 7:33
  Speaker 8: one out.
• 7:34
  Speaker 6: Copper, what made you think you could get away with it?
• 7:37
  Speaker 8: I have it yet, it ain't nine o'clock. Let's say o'clock. Slow.
• 7:42
  Speaker 11: I haven't checked it against my pocket watch lately. That's
• 7:44
  Speaker 11: the one that's running this show.
• 7:46
  Speaker 4: Have you given any thought to all the innocent people
• 7:48
  Speaker 4: that are gonna go up with that thing of yours.
• 7:50
  Speaker 8: My brother's innocent. I want him out of jail.
• 7:52
  Speaker 7: The court says he's guilty. He'll get out when he
• 7:54
  Speaker 7: serves his time.
• 7:55
  Speaker 8: That's where you're wrong, Copper. He gets out at nine
• 7:58
  Speaker 8: o'clock this morning.
• 8:01
  Speaker 7: Right, come on, Tony, get your hand out of that box.
• 8:03
  Speaker 7: Put the box on the table, and.
• 8:04
  Speaker 8: They got a bluff and donch.
• 8:07
  Speaker 11: I'm gonna let you get within five fitt in me
• 8:09
  Speaker 11: before I make a liar out here. All right, Kenny,
• 8:13
  Speaker 11: I guess you mean business. You can take three more
• 8:16
  Speaker 11: steps and find out for sure.
• 8:18
  Speaker 9: Suppose we did let your brother out, we'd just come
• 8:21
  Speaker 9: out and pick him up again, you along.
• 8:22
  Speaker 8: With him, if you could find us.
• 8:26
  Speaker 9: Let's get this straight. If we let your brother Elwood out,
• 8:30
  Speaker 9: how do we know you'll keep your problem?
• 8:31
  Speaker 11: What promise I've made? Any promises? You just get all
• 8:35
  Speaker 11: wa down there first, then we'll talk about it.
• 8:38
  Speaker 4: Look, there's just one thing I can't figure Kearnie. Yeah,
• 8:41
  Speaker 4: it's if we don't let your brother out. You say
• 8:44
  Speaker 4: you'll pull the trigger on that bomb. What are you
• 8:45
  Speaker 4: gonnapprove by them?
• 8:48
  Speaker 8: Say thirty seven? Now, you've got twenty three minutes now.
• 8:51
  Speaker 4: I wish you'd answer that one for me. Why do
• 8:53
  Speaker 4: you want to kill a lot of innocent people?
• 8:55
  Speaker 11: Don't try to con me, Copper. I know they cleared
• 8:56
  Speaker 11: everybody out of this building forty five minutes ago. I
• 8:59
  Speaker 11: know they clean out the whole block. They got it
• 9:00
  Speaker 11: roped off.
• 9:01
  Speaker 6: What'd you get your information?
• 9:02
  Speaker 11: I got a couple of windows here to look at her.
• 9:07
  Speaker 8: You think it's about time you send somebody over to.
• 9:09
  Speaker 9: Get out with wants to stop us from leaving the
• 9:12
  Speaker 9: building along with the other few officers, and that you
• 9:14
  Speaker 9: sit here and cut your off fat bone.
• 9:16
  Speaker 11: Go ahead. Won't be a long wait without you. Who
• 9:22
  Speaker 11: you're trying to kid? You let me blow up ten
• 9:25
  Speaker 11: million dollars with a taxpayers money? No, you're gonna let
• 9:29
  Speaker 11: out with that. You'll win the last minute to do it,
• 9:33
  Speaker 11: but you'll let him out.
• 9:35
  Speaker 7: Let's go and listen. Yeah, I'm still not convinced that
• 9:49
  Speaker 7: County can back up what he says.
• 9:50
  Speaker 9: Well, why don't you take the box away from him? Yeah,
• 9:53
  Speaker 9: we're in a spot, let's face it. How about us
• 9:55
  Speaker 9: getting him first?
• 9:56
  Speaker 8: How are you going to handle us?
• 9:57
  Speaker 9: I'm not topman on the pistol range, but I could
• 9:59
  Speaker 9: wing him and then he hands the.
• 10:00
  Speaker 12: Box to you, or maybe he falls and his reflex
• 10:02
  Speaker 12: action pulls the trigger.
• 10:03
  Speaker 9: Okay, I don't wing. You must stop him for key.
• 10:05
  Speaker 9: Just can't walk in there and shoot him down. Why
• 10:07
  Speaker 9: not you do the same thing with any arm graml Yeah,
• 10:09
  Speaker 9: but you warn him first. I'll warn him, and after
• 10:11
  Speaker 9: you shoot him you find out it's a harmless gadget.
• 10:12
  Speaker 9: Couldn't have gone off in a million years.
• 10:14
  Speaker 8: Our gun's not the answer. We can't shoot him till
• 10:15
  Speaker 8: we're positive.
• 10:16
  Speaker 9: We'll be positive by nine o'clock, but then there might
• 10:18
  Speaker 9: not be anybody around his You.
• 10:19
  Speaker 10: We've located Connie's apartment. There's a detail out there checking
• 10:22
  Speaker 10: it now. But Chilly and Morris, have.
• 10:25
  Speaker 7: You got any ideas at all? Anything we could try.
• 10:27
  Speaker 12: That's why I called you, and none of us have
• 10:29
  Speaker 12: gotten any further than you did.
• 10:30
  Speaker 8: Just now.
• 10:31
  Speaker 7: There's just one thing I want to know for sure.
• 10:33
  Speaker 8: Yeah, Friday, is it or isn't it? We all want
• 10:35
  Speaker 8: to know.
• 10:36
  Speaker 6: Either way, we got to get that bucks away from him.
• 10:38
  Speaker 12: I get it, White speaking, Yeah, did, I'll stay out there.
• 10:47
  Speaker 12: I'll call you, Kelly. They just found twenty eighth sticks
• 10:51
  Speaker 12: of dynamite and Carne's apartment.
• 11:03
  Speaker 3: You are listening to dragnet.
• 11:11
  Speaker 7: We knew now Carnie wasn't kidding.
• 11:13
  Speaker 4: We could see into the bomb through the glass window
• 11:15
  Speaker 4: and one end there was dynamite inside, and there was
• 11:18
  Speaker 4: dynamite in Carne's room. We didn't know if he had
• 11:20
  Speaker 4: the nerve to pull the trigger. We didn't know if
• 11:22
  Speaker 4: it would go off when he did. But with only
• 11:24
  Speaker 4: minutes remaining, nobody wanted to take the chance. From here
• 11:27
  Speaker 4: on in, all of us agreed that Brennan Connie sat
• 11:29
  Speaker 4: in the next room holding in his two hands a
• 11:31
  Speaker 4: force powerful enough to destroy us all.
• 11:34
  Speaker 7: I looked at my watch. It was twenty minutes till nine.
• 11:37
  Speaker 8: How do we get it away from him?
• 11:39
  Speaker 7: I got an idea it might work well.
• 11:42
  Speaker 4: Connie sitting against the firewall between two windows and they're
• 11:45
  Speaker 4: both open. I'm try if we could get a man
• 11:47
  Speaker 4: through one of those windows, we might get Carnie from behind.
• 11:49
  Speaker 8: How are you going to get him?
• 11:51
  Speaker 7: Well, whoever gets through the window could slug him.
• 11:53
  Speaker 6: What do you do?
• 11:53
  Speaker 5: Then?
• 11:54
  Speaker 7: Somebody grabs the box, the crime lab can tell us
• 11:56
  Speaker 7: what to do with it.
• 11:56
  Speaker 10: Then how do we get a man through one of
• 11:58
  Speaker 10: those windows? We're on the sixteenth floor.
• 12:00
  Speaker 4: There's some kind of a ledge that runs around the
• 12:02
  Speaker 4: building on each story. Isn't it wide enough for a
• 12:04
  Speaker 4: man to walk on?
• 12:04
  Speaker 8: Let's take a look.
• 12:11
  Speaker 6: See that was pretty narrow, Joe.
• 12:17
  Speaker 7: Good, eighteen inches could be done so risky.
• 12:20
  Speaker 8: It's been raining out that leg's slippery.
• 12:22
  Speaker 9: Strong wind out there, Jeorge tarren Man right off the building.
• 12:25
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I guess you're right.
• 12:26
  Speaker 12: There's still away. How about a ladder sixteen floor skipping?
• 12:29
  Speaker 12: There might be away. The fire department is know that.
• 12:31
  Speaker 12: I'll get Battalion Chief Ferrikson.
• 12:33
  Speaker 7: There's Lee Jones in the building now, he's.
• 12:34
  Speaker 10: Over the crime lavel. I'll get him up here too.
• 12:37
  Speaker 10: I don't know, Friday, maybe it'll work.
• 12:38
  Speaker 7: It's got too all right.
• 12:39
  Speaker 10: Now, Look, it's gonna take a couple of minutes to
• 12:42
  Speaker 10: set this up. We've got to know what Connie's doing
• 12:44
  Speaker 10: every second of that time.
• 12:45
  Speaker 6: How about the dictaphone on the table in there.
• 12:46
  Speaker 10: Good, get it on without him seeing you. We'll try
• 12:49
  Speaker 10: a dictaphone in there is connected to this one in here.
• 12:51
  Speaker 10: This room is sixteen fourteen.
• 12:53
  Speaker 8: You got that?
• 12:53
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 12:54
  Speaker 8: All right?
• 12:54
  Speaker 12: Push down key sixteen fourteen on that machine in there
• 12:56
  Speaker 12: and leave it down.
• 12:58
  Speaker 9: Get the receiver off the hook and leave it off.
• 12:59
  Speaker 9: Leave it that's right, you know. If it doesn't know.
• 13:01
  Speaker 9: If the hook, we won't be able to hear a
• 13:03
  Speaker 9: thing in the right.
• 13:03
  Speaker 8: Come on, Ben, when why is picking get your person?
• 13:15
  Speaker 8: Like my brother still in his self? Coppers are long
• 13:20
  Speaker 8: run taught, short on time.
• 13:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we know.
• 13:22
  Speaker 8: I'm telling you. If you're on good, you better get
• 13:24
  Speaker 8: on over here.
• 13:25
  Speaker 7: Connie.
• 13:25
  Speaker 4: I'll bet if we get your brother on the phone here,
• 13:27
  Speaker 4: he'll tell you that he doesn't want any part of this.
• 13:29
  Speaker 8: You mean Elwood doesn't want to get out since when Jeory.
• 13:32
  Speaker 6: Wants out, but not your way.
• 13:33
  Speaker 7: It's only got a year to serve. Why don't you
• 13:34
  Speaker 7: leave him alone?
• 13:36
  Speaker 11: I told all I told him i'd get him out.
• 13:38
  Speaker 11: He didn't think I could do it, but I'm doing it.
• 13:40
  Speaker 4: I'll make you a bet, Connie, you let us get
• 13:42
  Speaker 4: your brother on the phone. He won't walk out of
• 13:44
  Speaker 4: here with you get him on the phone. Where are
• 13:48
  Speaker 4: you going? One's over here. I have to use the dictaphone.
• 13:51
  Speaker 4: I got to get an okay from the chief? Ell
• 13:52
  Speaker 4: would still a prisoner.
• 13:54
  Speaker 8: What's the matter with the phone?
• 13:55
  Speaker 6: No operators? You know the building's been cleared.
• 13:58
  Speaker 8: That's right, I almost forgot. Okay, you can use a dictaphone.
• 14:05
  Speaker 4: It's Friday. Chief Connie wants to talk to his brother.
• 14:09
  Speaker 4: I know you'll have to send somebody over. Have n't
• 14:11
  Speaker 4: put the call on the extension?
• 14:12
  Speaker 7: Wait a minute? What's that extension? Ever?
• 14:14
  Speaker 6: They two three five one two.
• 14:16
  Speaker 7: Three five one? When right? Well, take a minute.
• 14:23
  Speaker 8: I kind of like Doc Dale in a couple of
• 14:26
  Speaker 8: months since I've seen him. Always been together Me and
• 14:29
  Speaker 8: how much of.
• 14:30
  Speaker 6: The time, Joe, that's going to see if we can't
• 14:32
  Speaker 6: hurry that call.
• 14:33
  Speaker 8: It's a good idea, boy. It's sixteen minutes to nine.
• 14:35
  Speaker 7: Yeah, hey, top, Yeah.
• 14:39
  Speaker 8: I got to hang up the dictaphone, didn't you.
• 14:44
  Speaker 4: I put the receiver back on the dictaphone. Ben and
• 14:47
  Speaker 4: I had failed to make good on the first step
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: of the plan. When we got outside the door, we
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: briefed Davis and Watson. I went in to sit with Carnie.
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: It would be their job to keep us posted on
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: Carnie's movements. The dictaphone was out. We went back into
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: the office next door, Chief Sam Erickson of the Fire Department,
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: Lieutenant Lee Jones from the crime Lab.
• 15:03
  Speaker 7: We're already there.
• 15:04
  Speaker 8: Would have been to help. We haven't got time to
• 15:06
  Speaker 8: cry over it.
• 15:07
  Speaker 9: Corney is wide awake, skipper, he doesn't miss a thing.
• 15:09
  Speaker 9: White Tot is a plan, Friday. We can't run a.
• 15:11
  Speaker 11: Ladder up from the street too high on, Chief. The
• 15:13
  Speaker 11: best we've got is one hundred foot aerial. You figure
• 15:15
  Speaker 11: twelve foot to the story, I'll take you at ninety
• 15:17
  Speaker 11: six feet eight floors.
• 15:19
  Speaker 7: We got the latest equipment.
• 15:20
  Speaker 8: What's that idea you had? Jones?
• 15:21
  Speaker 6: Sam, can you get a hold of a pump here
• 15:23
  Speaker 6: in a harvey?
• 15:24
  Speaker 8: Sure? We got a lot of scaling ladders, but you
• 15:26
  Speaker 8: got nothing out there to hook him on.
• 15:27
  Speaker 7: You figure I'm dropping down from the floor above.
• 15:29
  Speaker 8: That's right, and I figure pump pere would do it.
• 15:31
  Speaker 8: Sure would.
• 15:32
  Speaker 11: You could make it fast. The windows sell out there,
• 15:34
  Speaker 11: But you got a foot and a half ledge in
• 15:35
  Speaker 11: a way. Now you wants a lifeline?
• 15:38
  Speaker 8: You mean Nora?
• 15:38
  Speaker 6: A man on a rope tea.
• 15:39
  Speaker 8: Yeah, that's the quickest and the quietest. Could you rig
• 15:42
  Speaker 8: it so one of my boys could do it? Surely?
• 15:44
  Speaker 8: What's the risk none?
• 15:45
  Speaker 11: If you work it right, we'll strap on a life belt,
• 15:48
  Speaker 11: give the man heavy leather gloves, two of my men
• 15:51
  Speaker 11: to lower him down.
• 15:52
  Speaker 8: Pick your lightest man. What do you think that's it?
• 15:55
  Speaker 7: What do we do with a bomb when we get it?
• 15:57
  Speaker 13: I figure that box Connie's holding is about a foot square.
• 16:00
  Speaker 13: Here's what I'll do. I'll get you a bucket with
• 16:02
  Speaker 13: a foot and a half mouth and we'll be full
• 16:03
  Speaker 13: of water.
• 16:04
  Speaker 8: You know.
• 16:04
  Speaker 13: I'll have it right outside the door of that office.
• 16:06
  Speaker 13: When you get that box, place it in the water.
• 16:08
  Speaker 13: We'll get the bucket out of the building as fast
• 16:10
  Speaker 13: as we can.
• 16:10
  Speaker 6: Once we get the bomb underwater, win and clear.
• 16:12
  Speaker 13: And you can't promise you that, but it's the safest
• 16:14
  Speaker 13: way to handle it under the circumstances.
• 16:16
  Speaker 12: All right, that's it, Sam, You take care of your
• 16:17
  Speaker 12: end right away.
• 16:18
  Speaker 8: I'll get the detail.
• 16:19
  Speaker 13: They give me a hand down on the street and
• 16:20
  Speaker 13: we'll take the bomb to a safe area and decommission it.
• 16:22
  Speaker 13: Let's move on it right then, Which part do you
• 16:30
  Speaker 13: want the rope of the bomb.
• 16:31
  Speaker 8: You call it, Chief Erickson said, the lightest man on
• 16:34
  Speaker 8: a rope.
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: That's made you.
• 16:35
  Speaker 7: All right, I'll get the bomb out of the building.
• 16:36
  Speaker 10: Okay, that's the routine, and carry this with you, my man,
• 16:39
  Speaker 10: it comes down. That rope has one chance to make good.
• 16:40
  Speaker 10: Slug in and make it count. There's no second try. Yeah,
• 16:43
  Speaker 10: and Joe, when you grab that box, you've got to
• 16:45
  Speaker 10: get it away from Carnie before you can squeeze the trigger.
• 16:47
  Speaker 10: Then you've got to get it down the street.
• 16:48
  Speaker 7: To the elevator.
• 16:48
  Speaker 14: You know how to operate it, Well, that's pretty simple,
• 16:50
  Speaker 14: but I'll double check with the operator and you better
• 16:52
  Speaker 14: do it right now.
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: Okay, say we better get Connie's brother on the phone
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: for him. You seemed anxious.
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: It might be a pretty good idea.
• 16:57
  Speaker 12: All right, Remembra that's the outside phone. Get the city
• 16:59
  Speaker 12: jail right go on Friday time.
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: Hey, you elevator man, want to see if I know
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: how to work this thing in yours?
• 17:13
  Speaker 7: Are you taking over the elevator in a couple of minutes?
• 17:15
  Speaker 7: You want to check me out?
• 17:16
  Speaker 14: Nothing to it, Sharden. Here's the control. You push this
• 17:19
  Speaker 14: lever right to go up left of the down. You
• 17:21
  Speaker 14: see this little trigger on the underside of the handle. Yeah,
• 17:23
  Speaker 14: that's a safety lock. Be sure you squeeze it. You
• 17:25
  Speaker 14: can't move the lever, all right if I try it? Okay,
• 17:28
  Speaker 14: where I turn off the master squiet?
• 17:30
  Speaker 8: All right? Answer right? To go up left of the
• 17:34
  Speaker 8: down all right?
• 17:35
  Speaker 14: Know how to operate the doors automatic? They work off
• 17:37
  Speaker 14: the control lever. When the control levers locked, the up
• 17:39
  Speaker 14: or down position of the doors will close.
• 17:41
  Speaker 7: I got it.
• 17:42
  Speaker 14: Now in case they jam this red emergency button apre Yeah,
• 17:46
  Speaker 14: push it.
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: If that doesn't close it, we call a repair man.
• 17:48
  Speaker 7: Ok Yeah, I think I got it. You want to
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: turn that switchback on it?
• 17:50
  Speaker 8: All right?
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: You sure?
• 17:52
  Speaker 14: Now I have artists to get out of the building.
• 17:54
  Speaker 14: I'll just leave the elevator right here and take the
• 17:55
  Speaker 14: stairs down. All right, thanks a lot, All right, Sharten,
• 17:59
  Speaker 14: just cure. You're going to take the bomb down this car.
• 18:02
  Speaker 14: We're gonna try.
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: You won't have any trouble. We haven't had an elevator
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: failure in eighteen months.
• 18:09
  Speaker 7: The elevator man turned and went down the stairs. I
• 18:11
  Speaker 7: started down the corner and met Ben outside the office.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: He told me that Lee Jones and Chief Erickson were
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: on their way up in the freight elevator at the
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: rear of the building with the necessary equipment.
• 18:19
  Speaker 7: The two Friday Department volunteers were with him.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: The phone call had been put through the city jail
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: and in a minute Ellwood Conney would be ready at
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: the other end of the line.
• 18:27
  Speaker 7: We went in to tell Connie.
• 18:30
  Speaker 9: I told him over to jail to put the clothes
• 18:31
  Speaker 9: through an extension two three five one.
• 18:33
  Speaker 7: When's it coming through?
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: Right now?
• 18:36
  Speaker 8: Got Elwood? Would you know?
• 18:38
  Speaker 7: We told you we get him on the phone for
• 18:39
  Speaker 7: you call him be thrown.
• 18:41
  Speaker 8: Him at a Minute's a long time cop. You only
• 18:44
  Speaker 8: got twelve of them left.
• 18:45
  Speaker 7: Elwood's going to talk you out of this.
• 18:46
  Speaker 8: Oh sure, sure, everybody's going to talk me out of this.
• 18:49
  Speaker 11: First it was his other two cops, the little porky
• 18:51
  Speaker 11: guy and out of the monkey and you and this
• 18:54
  Speaker 11: Dixie doehead here now it's now come off it will
• 18:57
  Speaker 11: do you get my brother over here?
• 18:59
  Speaker 9: That's him now the coneyout games they put you just
• 19:02
  Speaker 9: gonna get the phone.
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: You want to talk to your brother, don't you.
• 19:04
  Speaker 8: I'll take care of the phone. We're just disconnected.
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: Fronto.
• 19:10
  Speaker 12: I got this straight, copper.
• 19:12
  Speaker 13: I'm through you.
• 19:12
  Speaker 8: The stinking rotten lion.
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: I want another one here, and I want to now.
• 19:17
  Speaker 8: I pretty remember I why I blowed you all up, preachers,
• 19:22
  Speaker 8: threw that phone out the hole. I did you want
• 19:25
  Speaker 8: me to go out there and take it up.
• 19:28
  Speaker 12: That's not gonna get you anyore.
• 19:29
  Speaker 8: You're a big boss around here to be, are you watch?
• 19:32
  Speaker 12: I answered you all.
• 19:33
  Speaker 11: Right, big boy, I got a piece of advice for you.
• 19:35
  Speaker 11: You take your rookie cops here and get it through
• 19:37
  Speaker 11: that thick headge. I mean what I say. I want
• 19:40
  Speaker 11: my brother over here in this room, and you got
• 19:43
  Speaker 11: just eleven minutes to.
• 19:44
  Speaker 7: Get it done.
• 19:46
  Speaker 8: Now you tell them that, will you?
• 19:48
  Speaker 7: All right?
• 19:49
  Speaker 8: Conny? Sure? Sure, all right?
• 20:03
  Speaker 12: We gotta work fast now, Jones, everything except for you.
• 20:05
  Speaker 8: Get the bucket with the water right here.
• 20:07
  Speaker 12: Cars waiting down the street, right, ricks and your boys
• 20:09
  Speaker 12: ready upstairs waiting.
• 20:11
  Speaker 8: We all know what to do.
• 20:11
  Speaker 7: I don't need somebody to give me a hand with
• 20:13
  Speaker 7: Connie when he falls.
• 20:13
  Speaker 8: I'll be in there with you. Friday, ready to go upstairs.
• 20:15
  Speaker 8: She anytime. One thing you ought to know?
• 20:18
  Speaker 11: What's that wind's getting stronger about twenty mile an hour
• 20:20
  Speaker 11: out there right now.
• 20:21
  Speaker 8: I'm gonna loss us out.
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: Nobody's going to increase this way.
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: You got to allow for it.
• 20:24
  Speaker 11: What do you mean wind's coming from the south. We'll
• 20:27
  Speaker 11: lower you just to the right of the window. If
• 20:28
  Speaker 11: I figure right, the wind will do the rest. Bigger risk.
• 20:31
  Speaker 11: But we don't control the weather.
• 20:32
  Speaker 7: How are you going to do it?
• 20:33
  Speaker 11: Ben?
• 20:33
  Speaker 9: As soon as I get him position, I'll reach him
• 20:35
  Speaker 9: through the window on his right and I'll use the
• 20:36
  Speaker 9: billy try to ketch him on the right side of
• 20:38
  Speaker 9: the head. One good hitch you but him away, make
• 20:40
  Speaker 9: it too, and be sure. Huh right, you're ready? Gee,
• 20:42
  Speaker 9: let's go.
• 20:46
  Speaker 8: What's the time?
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: Friday eight fifty.
• 20:48
  Speaker 13: Shouldn't take Hi more than a couple of minutes for
• 20:50
  Speaker 13: Ron there to get down to that window, unless the
• 20:52
  Speaker 13: wind gives him trouble.
• 20:53
  Speaker 8: John says, no use, you're sticking around.
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: I'll get Friday, and that's my job.
• 20:56
  Speaker 9: We got to keep you allowed to decommission a bomb.
• 20:59
  Speaker 9: Boom Joe see it downstairs? You ready, Lenna, Yeah, scared fuddy?
• 21:11
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 21:12
  Speaker 8: Thanks you seven?
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: Come on, Lynn White and I went into the next
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: room with Vernon Kearney. Ben was going to make a
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: try from the window on Carnie's right. Somehow he had
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: to keep his attention on us and away from that window.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: If anything went wrong and Cannie got out of position,
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: the planet failed. Chief Erickson didn't estimate the force of
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: the wind correctly. The planet failed. I looked at my watch.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: It was eight minutes tonight, Cannie.
• 21:36
  Speaker 12: Anything we can say that'll make you change your mind.
• 21:38
  Speaker 8: I've asked you one hundred times. Now I'm ordering. They're
• 21:42
  Speaker 8: going to get to a phone and have somebody send
• 21:44
  Speaker 8: all it over here right now. I'm through waiting.
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: Now moved, you ripped the phone out card and find
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: another one.
• 21:50
  Speaker 8: I told you, I'm sticking at two bit storm. We've
• 21:52
  Speaker 8: got until nine o'clock to make up our mind about this.
• 21:54
  Speaker 8: You had until you wouldn't do what I told you.
• 21:57
  Speaker 8: Now I'm cutting you short.
• 21:58
  Speaker 11: You guys got exactly one minute to get upon in
• 22:01
  Speaker 11: this room, right and hear you call it jail and
• 22:03
  Speaker 11: have him send Elwood over here.
• 22:04
  Speaker 7: He said, nine tourney.
• 22:06
  Speaker 12: All right, Joe. We'll give him money once.
• 22:11
  Speaker 8: David unlock. If I can go to this office.
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: I'll get the polom A card.
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: Reach a minute.
• 22:20
  Speaker 12: Yeah, your brother's a prisoners in our custoding. He's under
• 22:24
  Speaker 12: our protection. We can't place his life in Jeopardy.
• 22:26
  Speaker 8: Way that up to l.
• 22:35
  Speaker 12: Kenwelly because Lynn White, he went Elwood Corney over here
• 22:39
  Speaker 12: at city Hall. His brother wants to see him, explain
• 22:42
  Speaker 12: the situation. If he wants to come get him over here.
• 22:45
  Speaker 12: Leave it up to him Room sixteen fourteen. You'll have
• 22:47
  Speaker 12: to use the freight of.
• 22:48
  Speaker 8: Him and tell him about hurry. Yeah, tell him to hurry.
• 22:53
  Speaker 8: Oh that's the only smart thing you've done today. I
• 22:57
  Speaker 8: why don't you go next door and figure in another angle.
• 22:59
  Speaker 7: We'll wait for Elwood.
• 23:00
  Speaker 11: You don't think I'll let you get out now to you,
• 23:02
  Speaker 11: We're all gonna wait right here for my brother.
• 23:03
  Speaker 8: In case you don't show up, you're gonna see me.
• 23:06
  Speaker 8: Pull the plug.
• 23:07
  Speaker 11: Now, sit down, that's so close right where y'are. Sit down,
• 23:17
  Speaker 11: Love o'clock windows getting cold in.
• 23:25
  Speaker 8: Maybe I had to close the windows.
• 23:26
  Speaker 7: Turn on the heat.
• 23:27
  Speaker 8: Stay, what cop, what's up? What's going on?
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: It's the wind cut.
• 23:33
  Speaker 8: Somebody out there and c hisp just stupid cuts.
• 23:37
  Speaker 7: Pull him up.
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: You get back to.
• 23:38
  Speaker 8: Your bully might tell him pull him up.
• 23:43
  Speaker 15: Hold on, all right, you bet I win, your dumb coppers.
• 23:54
  Speaker 11: You didn't think I missed a trick like that. Now
• 23:56
  Speaker 11: we're just close the windows. Boys, it's one and locked.
• 24:01
  Speaker 12: As your brother Connie.
• 24:04
  Speaker 8: Yeah, oh yeah, you know I'm right. I did it.
• 24:10
  Speaker 8: I told you. I told you I do it, didn't
• 24:12
  Speaker 8: I That's fine enough for the rest of you. Yeah,
• 24:16
  Speaker 8: you come on over here.
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: Crazy and you're crazy.
• 24:24
  Speaker 8: That's what they've been trying to tell me. I'm going home. Now,
• 24:28
  Speaker 8: how you gonna do it?
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: There's a million times outside people, I'll ever tell heard
• 24:31
  Speaker 7: about this.
• 24:31
  Speaker 8: That holding the con ain't gonna stop us.
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: Now, you'll never make it, either one of you.
• 24:35
  Speaker 8: I got him this far, didn't I will make it.
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: Learn you think we could do it?
• 24:39
  Speaker 8: Yo?
• 24:39
  Speaker 11: Yeah, they're going to get a car ready for us,
• 24:42
  Speaker 11: so fast, have it in front of the building.
• 24:44
  Speaker 8: Oh all right, Friday, do what he tells you call it.
• 24:48
  Speaker 11: Yeah, if you went back by nine o'clock, the deal
• 24:50
  Speaker 11: still holds. I told him I pulled a pin of nine.
• 24:54
  Speaker 11: Now I say I didn't let you, uh.
• 24:56
  Speaker 16: Like as it really blow four miles high, bunch of bullets.
• 25:00
  Speaker 16: We'll get now, all right, Copper, get the car. You
• 25:04
  Speaker 16: got four minutes? Hey Ben, Ben, what happened is butudon?
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no time to explain. Now listen, we gotta work fast. Yeah,
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: we had to bring Carnie's brother over from the jail.
• 25:19
  Speaker 7: How much time we've got less than four minutes.
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: How about the ledge?
• 25:21
  Speaker 7: I think you can do it, strong winds, you let
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: the hang on like a fly.
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: I can give it a try. Okay, same plan. Every
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: second counts. Now I can't briefly in. He's in the
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: room with the guy. It's up to you and me.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: I'll get on the ledge from one of these officers.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: Howl will make you if you don't know, you're trying
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: to hurry Ben, Wait a minute, Yeah, I forgot the
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: window is the one on his right, he locked it.
• 25:37
  Speaker 7: You have to crawl around the one on my left.
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: You got it right, ok.
• 25:44
  Speaker 7: Car, I'll be ready in two minutes out front.
• 25:46
  Speaker 11: Why hell, and I'll just share here. Wait, it's gonna
• 25:50
  Speaker 11: be good being back together.
• 25:51
  Speaker 8: Well we always were real good together. Oh that's the
• 25:55
  Speaker 8: way brothers how to be together all the time. You
• 25:58
  Speaker 8: learned and feel better with it. Then we all need
• 26:00
  Speaker 8: no gun. We got the bomb.
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: Neither couldn't really get out to get onto the road.
• 26:06
  Speaker 8: Okay, take your pick. They all got yo give him your.
• 26:10
  Speaker 7: I'm not carrying a gun. I left it in the
• 26:11
  Speaker 7: other room. The cap without a gun.
• 26:14
  Speaker 8: Who's kidding who?
• 26:15
  Speaker 7: I left it in the other rooms.
• 26:17
  Speaker 8: The big boy though, he's got one man.
• 26:21
  Speaker 11: It's about time for that car, and it's two minutes
• 26:23
  Speaker 11: to nine.
• 26:25
  Speaker 8: Yeah, this is I get right in his hip, py
• 26:27
  Speaker 8: me to joy.
• 26:28
  Speaker 16: I got it.
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: Get the boss.
• 26:29
  Speaker 12: We've got along.
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: I got it, Ben, I gotta get his hand.
• 26:32
  Speaker 16: Out of it.
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: Run. Don't w a rock.
• 26:47
  Speaker 7: In a fast elevator.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: Sixteen floors isn't very much, but I never shared an
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: elevator with a live bomb. Seemed like hours between floors.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: I kept watching the bucket. The bomb was completely underwater.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: A small stream of bubbles was hissing to the surface.
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: I waited mean floor. I picked up the bucket and
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: ran into the street. I missed the first step.
• 27:10
  Speaker 8: I fell forward.
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: The bucket spun out of my hand. I sprawled flat
• 27:13
  Speaker 7: on the sidewalk. I waited for the explosion.
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: It didn't go off, fighting, Yeah, I gave it a
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: good chance.
• 27:26
  Speaker 13: Lee, it was all there. O. Look at least a
• 27:30
  Speaker 13: dozen sticks of dynamite. Snyder, bring out over here.
• 27:38
  Speaker 8: Here.
• 27:39
  Speaker 12: You're out of ten.
• 27:41
  Speaker 13: It's why it didn't go off. Yeah, I had it
• 27:44
  Speaker 13: rigged for a hard trigger pull. Would have taken a
• 27:46
  Speaker 13: good yank to set this one off.
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: Hi, Jill, I'm ben. Let me see.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: The story you have just heard was true, only the
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: names were changed to protect the innocent.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: On February fifteenth, trial was held in Superior Court, Department
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: eighty seven, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California.
• 28:14
  Speaker 8: In a moment the results of that trial.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: Vernon Connie was examined by five different psychiatrists appointed by
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: the Superior Court and found to be mentally incompetent. He
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: is now confined in the State Mental Institution for the
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: criminally Insane Elwood. Connie is now serving the balance of
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: his sentence with no time off for good behavior.
• 28:40
  Speaker 11: Next Sarah's Private Caper with comittian Sarah Berner on NBC.
• 28:55
  Speaker 11: This is Andrew J.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: Graham, author of the web surface series An Made You're
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: listening to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Welcome Back. Well a rare case of script reuse of
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: outside of the annual Christmas episodes, of course, and certainly
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: this is a worthy one. This is one of the
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: best Dragnet stories ever and very high on my list,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: and certainly this presentation isn't isn't hurt much. It does
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: lack Raymond Burr, which the original production as well as
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: the first television version of this contained. Well that's a slot, mind,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: but overall it's still incredibly suspenseful. It definitely was worth
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: redoing this script to bring it to listeners who, particularly
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: if they hadn't tuned in in the sustaining days, if
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: they hadn't heard Dragnet when it was first getting started.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Since you didn't have reruns, performing the script again was
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: your best option. That said, I did notice a couple
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: of things here that I didn't quite notice before. One
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: of these was when Joe Friday comes in and offers
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Carneye a cigarette. He's holding a bomb and you offer
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: him a cigarette. Now I know the tobacco company is
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: sponsoring the show. That's a bit much. Also, I did
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: think that the opening narration did kind of overstate the
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: story a little bit, But I guess as Dragnet generally
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: didn't go in for sensationalism, I can definitely forgive it,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: particularly when it's a story as great as this one,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: because they work so much in there, particularly at the
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: clock in the room and all those little sounds that
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: just became incredibly suspenseful when set in this situation dealing
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: with the bomb. All right, well, now we turn to
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: some listener comments and feedback. Comment by email from Joel
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: regarding the Big Grab. This episode really hit me emotionally.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: The sater scene was so touching and beautifully done. Unusable
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: for this program. That is just the facts. Great stuff.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Well thanks, Joel. I think the one thing to remember
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: with Dragnet and its emphasis on emotion is that the
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: series didn't try and avoid emotion and totality, and it's
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: probably helpful when thinking about the way Dragnet deals with
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: it to compare it to other programs where you would
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: have these sort of archetypal reactions the very grief stricken
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: spouse particularly while who would just you know, go to
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: pieces or the femme fatale or the one well, I
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: don't mind telling you we were only married for money.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: You know that, these sort of things when it came
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: to being factual, the way that dragon that traded these
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: things is and I think there was a great deal
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: of realism in the idea that people wouldn't always react predictably,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: they wouldn't always react the same way, and they would
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: react based on their temperament and character. There's one episode
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: I forget the exact title. I could look it up,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: but it's not particularly relevant to the point, but there
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: was a character who was his ex wife had been
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: murdered and they were estranged, and she had been a
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: really bad marriage. She'd been drunk and unfaithful, and yet
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: there was this reaction, and this emotional response was very
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: nuanced because he knew all that, but there was still
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: this grief stricken response that was mixed in with the
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: anger and the difficulties. It was very nuanced, and I
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: think it was very realistic. Dragnet didn't try and stop
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: all emotion when it came to people's reaction. It tried
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: to do it realistically, and it also tried to use
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: those moments, those emotional moments carefully, just like it did
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: when it came to violence. Dragnet, particularly in the early going,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: didn't have a lot of gunfights or chases or big
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: emotional reactions compared to many other shows on the radio.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: But the reason it did that it was sparing is
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: when that it did do that, you really felt the
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: impact if you were a regular listener to the program,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: particularly when a case became so horrific that it was
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: really affecting to the police because that certainly didn't happen
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: since they were experienced in so much. But when a
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: case affects them, like I think the Sullivan kidnapping, it
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: really just brings it home. Email from Haya and God
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Dog Pammy last week's episode is one of my favorites.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: The portrayal of the Satar is wonderfully authentic. There's just
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: one major plot hole. This plot hole is emphasized by
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Passover being the important family holiday that it is. How
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: is it possible that the boy wouldn't know something was
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: wrong when his mother never showed up to the Satar
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: and his father seemed to get upset at a random
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: ritualized question. The whole idea of hiding information from victims
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: to prevent them from worrying is rather strange construct that
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: is common to drag it. It actually seems to cause
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: more anxiety, as perhaps seen in the Gun for Christmas
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: episode when Friday I Think asked the mother of the
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: dead boy for his blood type for seemingly no reason.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Even though the issue is never addressed. I do think
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: that the acting is of such quality that I can
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: sometimes hear the failure of the strategy and their tone
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: of voice. Is this done in police work today? I
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: think that police always do want to be careful in speculating,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: in releasing information prematurely. I think in the case of
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: the satyr, I believe that they had mentioned that she
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: had gone to be with relatives, which even accepting that
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: would be kind of an odd thing on the night
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: of Passover. As to how much the strategy works, well,
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: they might be underestimating the savvy of the kids in
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: the case of the big grab, but in the case
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: of the gun for Christmas episode, I mean, if the
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: parent's gonna worry about something like that, but if the
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: parent's child is missing, they're going to worry anyway. And
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: that's and the reason of course they were asking was
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: because blood stains were found. And telling the other oh,
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: we just need your son's blood typs so we can
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: check against some blood stains is not going to alleviate
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: their fears. And as Friday said, it may turn it
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: may have turned out to be, oh, I'm sorry we
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: sent you into convulsions of tears, but yeah, that this
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: blood present had nothing to do with the case. And
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: I think with the police, particularly when it comes to
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: some of this really tragic news. One thing I always
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: get a feeling of in Dragnet is there's a hope,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: despite experience, that things will turn out all right. There's
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: a hope that they're not going to have the duty
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: of telling a parent that their child's not coming home.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: We're telling a husband his wife's not coming home. I
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: think that there's always a sense it's part of the job.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: It has to be done, but it's something that they
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: would rather avoid because it can be just as emotionally
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: challenging for the officer as it can be for the
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: family member. Good questions and thanks so much for your contact.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: We will be back on Monday with the Saint and
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: join us again next Saturday for another episode of Dragnet.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: In the meantime, sendra comments to Box thirteen at Great
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Detectives dot net, follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: and become one of our friends on Facebook, Facebook dot com.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Slash Radio Detectives from Boise, Idaho. This is your host,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: Adam Grahamson and off