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The Shadow - "Death Stalks the Shadow" (Old Time Radio) · The Shadow | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: On the eve of a condemned man's execution, the shadow
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  Speaker 1: learns that the prisoner may hold information about the criminal
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  Speaker 1: force behind the crime. That lead takes Lamont Cranston and
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  Speaker 1: Margo Lane toward attorney Peter Murdock, where photoelectric security devices
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  Speaker 1: present a particular problem for a man accustomed to moving unseen.
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  Speaker 1: From the Mutual Broadcasting System, this is episode 55 of
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  Speaker 1: The Shadow, Death Stalks the Shadow, first heard October 9th, 1938.
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  Speaker 1: Bill Johnstone appears as Lamont Cranston and the Shadow in
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  Speaker 1: his third broadcast in the role, with Agnes Moorhead as
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  Speaker 1: Margot Lane and Ken Roberts announcing. Now, back to the
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  Speaker 1: golden age of radio.
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  Speaker 2: Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
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  Speaker 2: The shadow knows.
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  Speaker 3: Again, blue coal dealers present radio's strangest adventurer, The Shadow.
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  Speaker 3: The curtain rises on The Shadow's thrilling adventure in just
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  Speaker 3: a moment. But first, may I advise all homeowners who
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  Speaker 3: want steadier, more dependable home heating to be sure and
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  Speaker 3: order blue coal. It's America's finest anthracite, the coal that
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  Speaker 3: will ensure you and your family greater heating comfort at
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  Speaker 3: less cost. Blue coal is mined from Pennsylvania's richest anthracite department.
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  Speaker 3: It's carefully sized, prepared, laboratory tested, and trademarked a harmless
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  Speaker 3: blue as your guarantee of its superior quality. Remember, insist
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  Speaker 3: on blue coal. Order your supply from your nearest blue
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  Speaker 3: coal dealer tomorrow. The Shadow, Lamont Cranston, a man of wealth,
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  Speaker 3: a student of science, and a master of other people's minds,
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  Speaker 3: devotes his life to righting wrongs, protecting the innocent, and
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  Speaker 3: punishing the guilty. Cranston is known to the underworld as
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  Speaker 3: The Shadow. Never seen, only heard, his true identity is
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  Speaker 3: known only to his constant friend and aide, Margot Lane.
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  Speaker 3: Today's story, Death Stalks The Shadow. Malley's in the end cell, Mr. Murdoch.
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  Speaker 3: Just talk to him through the bars. You're the last visitor.
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  Speaker 4: End cell?
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, Malley.
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  Speaker 5: Huh?
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  Speaker 3: It's me, kid. Peter Murdoch. Murdoch.
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  Speaker 6: Gee, I thought you'd never get here. Pull yourself together, Malley.
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  Speaker 6: It's easy enough for you to talk. You ain't been
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  Speaker 6: sitting here waiting. Every day the chair getting closer.
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  Speaker 3: Now, Malley... They're testing the current.
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  Speaker 4: Listen.
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  Speaker 6: Hear that big dynamo turnover?
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  Speaker 4: Common.
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  Speaker 3: They're testing it for me.
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  Speaker 4: For me.
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  Speaker 2: Shut up. Murdoch.
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  Speaker 3: You see the governor?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I saw him.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Well? Well, say something. There won't be any reprieve, kid.
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  Speaker 3: We're licked. We're licked. That's funny, Murdoch.
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  Speaker 4: You ain't in here.
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  Speaker 3: You ain't gonna sit in that chair.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't kill anybody, Mally.
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  Speaker 3: Why, you dirty double-crossing rat. Who planned that killing?
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  Speaker 6: Who promised I'd never even do time for it?
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  Speaker 4: You did. Well, I didn't figure on the shadow, Mally.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I know. The shadow.
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  Speaker 4: He caught me.
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  Speaker 6: He didn't know I was only doing your dirty work
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  Speaker 6: for you.
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  Speaker 4: I should have told him. Yeah, but you didn't.
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  Speaker 3: I trusted you. Peter Murdoch, great lawyer. You said you'd
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  Speaker 3: get me off.
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  Speaker 4: I can't win all my cases. You didn't even try.
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  Speaker 4: Only to the wolves. So the shadow wouldn't learn the
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  Speaker 4: truth about you. Well, it worked, didn't it?
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  Speaker 6: If I could get through these bars, I'd fix you, Murdoch.
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  Speaker 3: Anyhow, I can tell the truth about you.
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  Speaker 4: I'll sing so loud. Sing your head off. My reputation
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  Speaker 4: is too good. Nobody will believe you.
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  Speaker 3: The shadow might believe me, Murdoch.
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  Speaker 6: Suppose I told a shadow who turned Dan Malley from
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  Speaker 6: a decent kid into a killer.
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  Speaker 4: Stop dreaming, Malley. This is a death house. Tonight you're
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  Speaker 4: walking right through that door down there and you're not
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  Speaker 4: coming back. Why, you... Oh, you'd better forget all about
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  Speaker 4: the shadow. So long, Malley. Come back here!
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  Speaker 7: Come back here!
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  Speaker 4: So long, sucker.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Malley.
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  Speaker 4: Holly, any news for you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Bad news. Gee, tough luck, kid. Yeah, but I ain't
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  Speaker 3: through yet. Before they burn me, there's something I gotta do. Guard!
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  Speaker 4: Hey, guard!
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  Speaker 3: Where's that tin cup?
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  Speaker 4: Guard!
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  Speaker 8: Guard!
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  Speaker 2: Guard!
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  Speaker 8: What's the matter, Mally? I want to talk to Commissioner Weston.
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  Speaker 4: I've got to see him right away.
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  Speaker 3: What for? He's got to locate somebody for me. Somebody
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  Speaker 3: I want to talk to.
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  Speaker 2: Well, don't stand there.
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  Speaker 8: Get me Commissioner Weston!
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my God. How did you happen to choose this cafe, Lamont? Well, Margot, Mrs.
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  Speaker 3: of Place Commissioner Weston showed me, and I had hopes
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  Speaker 3: the gaiety might stop my thinking.
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  Speaker 4: What's bothering you?
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  Speaker 3: Today is the 12th, Margot. Young Dan Malley goes to
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  Speaker 3: the chair tonight, thanks to the shadow.
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  Speaker 6: But, Lamont, surely you don't regret the shadows having captured
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  Speaker 6: that murderer for the police?
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  Speaker 3: No, not exactly. Malley fired the shot all right, but
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  Speaker 3: I've never felt the case was completely solved. I... Oh, well.
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  Speaker 3: Let's forget that.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Lamont, look.
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  Speaker 6: When that waiter started for the kitchen, the door opened
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  Speaker 6: without his touching it.
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Works by photoelectric ray.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, what's that?
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  Speaker 3: Look each side of the door, Margot. See those chromium
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  Speaker 3: fixtures sticking out of the floor? Lights hidden at the
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  Speaker 3: top of them? Yes. There's a beam of light between
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  Speaker 3: those two bulbs. When anyone approaches the door, his body
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  Speaker 3: breaks that ray. Whenever the ray is broken, the door
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  Speaker 3: opens without touching it.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, how clever.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and convenient. But, Margot.
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  Speaker 3: I've sometimes thought it might even prove dangerous to a
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  Speaker 3: certain friend of yours.
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  Speaker 4: Who do you mean?
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  Speaker 2: The shadow. But I don't understand.
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  Speaker 3: The shadow can hide himself from the human eye, Margo.
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  Speaker 3: But he has a physical being. And the photoelectric beam
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  Speaker 3: could detect his presence.
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  Speaker 2: Here comes Commissioner Weston now. Oh, I see.
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  Speaker 3: Well, good evening, Commissioner.
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  Speaker 4: How are you?
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  Speaker 3: And you, Miss Lane.
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  Speaker 4: Very well, Commissioner Weston.
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  Speaker 3: Won't you join us? Thanks, but I think not. I'm
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  Speaker 3: rather upset tonight. What's the matter, Commissioner? Well, Miss Lane,
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  Speaker 3: have you ever heard of the Shadow?
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  Speaker 4: The Shadow?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Margo. You've heard the absurd stories about his great deeds, huh? Oh, poppycock,
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  Speaker 3: of course. I'd give anything to contact the Shadow right
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  Speaker 3: this minute.
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  Speaker 4: But why?
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  Speaker 8: A boy named Dan Mallee goes to the electric chair
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  Speaker 8: tonight with vital information. The only person he'll talk to
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  Speaker 8: is the shadow. It's because I don't know how to
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  Speaker 8: find the shadow, I'm beaten.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I won't find him here. So if you'll forgive me,
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  Speaker 3: I'll run along. Good night.
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  Speaker 2: Good night, Commissioner Wilson.
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  Speaker 3: Good night.
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  Speaker 2: Margo, my hunch about Danny's case must be right.
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  Speaker 3: Waiter. Yes, sir. Waiter, here's money for my bill. Never
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  Speaker 3: mind the change. Thank you, sir. Come, Margo, quick. I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to the death house now.
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  Speaker 2: As the shadow.
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  Speaker 3: Why doesn't he come? Why doesn't he come? Were you
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  Speaker 3: waiting for me, Dan Malley? Who's that? Who spoke? The Shadow.
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  Speaker 3: The Shadow?
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  Speaker 2: There isn't much time, Malley. They're coming after you to
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  Speaker 2: take you to the chair.
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  Speaker 3: Speak quickly.
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  Speaker 2: What have you to say?
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  Speaker 4: Plenty.
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  Speaker 2: I can't save you, you know. You killed a.
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  Speaker 4: Man, Malley.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know. But it wasn't my idea, Shadow.
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  Speaker 4: Honest, it wasn't.
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  Speaker 2: There was no evidence against anyone else.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, don't I know it. He's too clever for that.
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  Speaker 3: Who is too clever? The bird that got me into this.
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  Speaker 6: The smart fellow that sold a dumb kid on crime
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  Speaker 6: being a good business.
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  Speaker 3: His name? Peter Murdoch.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know what you're saying, Dan? Murdoch's a famous
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  Speaker 2: criminal lawyer.
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  Speaker 3: His reputation.
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  Speaker 2: His reps are blind.
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  Speaker 6: Listen, Pete Murdoch's the biggest crook in this section. He's
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  Speaker 6: got a piece of everything. But right now he's planning
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  Speaker 6: a slum fire that'll kill thousands and net him a
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  Speaker 6: million from insurance companies.
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  Speaker 2: You're telling the truth?
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  Speaker 3: A man doesn't lie when he's only got a few
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  Speaker 3: minutes to live, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Shadow.
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  Speaker 3: The job's gonna be pulled late this week. I'll investigate it, Dan.
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  Speaker 2: If it's true, Peter Murdoch will pay for his crimes.
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  Speaker 2: But how can I get proof?
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  Speaker 3: That's easy.
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  Speaker 4: Now, listen.
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  Speaker 6: There's a friend of mine named Dopey Jake, down by
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  Speaker 6: the wards, number 5 South Street. Jake knows enough about
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  Speaker 6: Murdoch's latest plan to prove what I said.
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  Speaker 3: I'll see him. Yeah, listen.
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  Speaker 6: If you can get to the filing cabinet in Murdoch's house,
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  Speaker 6: there's records and things enough to finish him.
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  Speaker 2: Lish. promises justice, Dan Mallee. That's all I want. They're coming, Dan.
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  Speaker 8: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I can take it.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, Shadow.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for coming. Well, then, it's time.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I know, Warden. Unlock the door, Gus.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Mullen.
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  Speaker 3: Well, here goes. Take his arms, Gus. Steady, kid. I
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  Speaker 3: ain't scared. I ain't. Not as scared as Murdoch will be.
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  Speaker 6: Wait till the shadow gets him.
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  Speaker 3: All right, men. Forward. Shadow.
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  Speaker 4: Don't be jank.
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  Speaker 3: They'll fix him. Bye, Malley. Come on, kid. Keep your
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  Speaker 3: chin up. Come on, Mally. Dan, the other prisoners are
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  Speaker 3: saying goodbye. So long, boys. We'll be seeing you, Mally.
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  Speaker 4: Murdoch. Jake.
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  Speaker 1: The shadow.
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  Speaker 3: Hey.
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  Speaker 2: What was that about the shadow?
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  Speaker 8: The shadow caught Dan Mally.
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  Speaker 3: He put him here in the big house.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: Do you suppose it hurts much when they pull the switch? Well,
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  Speaker 4: we'll find out.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's funny.
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  Speaker 3: How a nice kid like that gets to be a gunman. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: ain't it?
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  Speaker 2: The man responsible will answer for that, my friend.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, who said that? The Shadow.
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  Speaker 4: What the.
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  Speaker 3: There it goes. The juice.
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  Speaker 7: Well, it might act like you planned.
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  Speaker 4: I got the job of getting Dan Malley out of
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  Speaker 4: the hot spot. And he went raving. Yeah, Gus, they
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  Speaker 4: usually do.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 4: All right, all right. Cut it, Chick. Gus, what did
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  Speaker 4: Malley say when he was raving?
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  Speaker 2: Something about you, Murdoch.
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  Speaker 4: He mentioned names?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Bess. He was yelling something about Dopey Jake and
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  Speaker 3: the Shadow.
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  Speaker 4: The Shadow? Seems like he'd been talking to the Shadow
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  Speaker 4: in the death house.
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  Speaker 6: Murdoch, this means the Shadow got to Dan Mallory.
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  Speaker 3: All right, all right.
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  Speaker 4: Beat it, Gus. I'm busy.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. Hey, Joe. Yeah, boss.
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  Speaker 4: Show Gus up.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. All right.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, Gus. This way out.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 3: The Shadow.
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  Speaker 2: The Shadow.
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  Speaker 3: Malley Blatt.
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  Speaker 4: Shut up, all of you. Dust didn't see a soul
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  Speaker 4: get near them, Allie. You fool, a shadow hides from
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  Speaker 4: human eyes. Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 3: He knows about Dopey Jake now.
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  Speaker 4: If he should get Dopey to talk... Listen, you halfwits.
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  Speaker 4: We've got to beat the shadow. Or lose the juiciest
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  Speaker 4: setup a gang ever had in this country. A fire
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  Speaker 4: that'll net us a million bucks. But, Murdoch, you can't
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  Speaker 4: lay hands on a shadow. But that's just what I'm
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  Speaker 4: going to do. But the shadow ain't real. He's kind
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  Speaker 4: of a spook. No, he's real enough. He's a man,
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  Speaker 4: all right. He can die like any other man. Wait
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  Speaker 4: till you see the trap I'm building.
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  Speaker 3: But how can you find the shadow?
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  Speaker 4: You know, and I know where it can always be found.
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  Speaker 4: Where a crime has been committed.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but there ain't any crime, Murdoch. There's going to
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  Speaker 3: be one.
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  Speaker 4: A crime that'll set the shadow on my trail.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I won't meddle with him.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, leave me out of this, Murdoch. And me. Now,
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  Speaker 4: you listen to me, Bess. Chick, and you too, Joe.
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  Speaker 4: You're in this, all of you. If anyone tries to rat,
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  Speaker 4: I'll put you on the same spot with Dan Malley.
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  Speaker 4: I mean it. Now, what do you say? You're going
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  Speaker 4: to be good.
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  Speaker 3: All right, you win. What's this wonderful crime going to be,
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  Speaker 3: my duck?
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  Speaker 4: A little job down on the waterfront at number 5
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  Speaker 4: South Street. I want you and Joe to go down
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  Speaker 4: there tonight and kill our good friend, Dopey Jake.
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  Speaker 3: The Shadow's adventure continues in just moments. But first, here's
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  Speaker 3: advice every homeowner will profit by following. If you'd like
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  Speaker 3: time and energy, and you'll welcome its steady, dependable, helpful
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  Speaker 3: heat that stops quick chilling off of rooms and so
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  Speaker 3: prevents colds and illness in your family. No on- and
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• 15:26
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  Speaker 2: Let me have that flashlight in the auto.
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  Speaker 3: Here we are.
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  Speaker 2: 5 South Street. Here's where Dopey Jake lives.
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  Speaker 4: Lamont, do you hear that water?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: These old empty tenements are built on piles over the river,
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  Speaker 2: to the tide rushing out to sea.
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  Speaker 3: This place gives me the creeps.
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  Speaker 2: Here.
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  Speaker 3: Take my arm, Margot.
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  Speaker 2: We've got to go down a dark passageway to the door. Margot,
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  Speaker 2: after we enter the passageway, we mustn't speak. Just go
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  Speaker 2: up to the door, and I'll knock.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, Lamont. I'm ready.
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  Speaker 2: Come.
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  Speaker 4: There's no one here.
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  Speaker 8: Why?
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  Speaker 2: Margot, the door's not locked. I'm going in. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: with you.
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  Speaker 4: I won't be left behind.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Let me get my flashlight out.
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  Speaker 4: There.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, then.
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  Speaker 3: What is it?
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  Speaker 4: Turn your light that way on the floor.
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  Speaker 2: There's a man lying there. Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Let me get a look at him.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, there's a knife through his heart.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 2: It's pinning a note to his breast.
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  Speaker 4: A note, Lamont? What does it say? Let me see.
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  Speaker 2: It says, this is our pal, Dopey Jake. Get him
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  Speaker 2: to talk to you now, Shadow. Margot, this is Murdoch's
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  Speaker 2: challenge to the Shadow, and it must be accepted. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going directly to Murdoch.
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  Speaker 4: As the shadow. Nearly finished with your wiring job, Steve?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, almost, Mr. Murdoch.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I hope it works.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, don't you worry, Mr. Best. When I get the
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  Speaker 3: electric wires connected with this sliding steel door, this room
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  Speaker 3: of Mr. Murdoch's is going to be fixed so nobody
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  Speaker 3: can get in or out.
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  Speaker 4: Good.
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  Speaker 8: Say.
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  Speaker 3: I've been wondering why you want this arrangement, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Murdock.
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  Speaker 3: What's it for?
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  Speaker 4: Well, we call it the lion's cage, Steve.
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  Speaker 3: The lion's cage? You aren't going to put a lion
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  Speaker 3: in it, are you? You're kidding.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: Sure, of course I am. Though we do plan to
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: use the room soon. By the way, you haven't mentioned
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: this job to anyone, have you?
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: Oh, no, sir. We said not to, so... Well, I didn't.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: Hey, how does this steel door work, anyway?
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: I'll show you, miss.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: Ready?
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Now, Mr. Murdock, if you'll have your man outside
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: throw the switch.
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: Ben, step out in the hall and tell Chick to
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: switch on the curtain. He's in the room next to this. Okay.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Chick, turn on the door.
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: Oh, Steve.
• 18:56
  Speaker 8: Yeah?
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: Won't that photoelectric ray be visible to anyone coming down
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: the hall towards the door?
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: No, not a chance. The ray is infrared. Invisible. Look
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: for yourself.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're right. You can't see the light.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you understand.
• 19:10
  Speaker 8: The ray goes from one door jamb across to the other.
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: And anyone crossing the threshold breaks the ray?
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. And when the ray's broken, the steel
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: door slams shut.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: What?
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: Uh, Mr.
• 19:22
  Speaker 8: Bass, would you mind stepping back into the room for
• 19:24
  Speaker 8: a minute?
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: Sure. What happened, Bessie? Good night.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: What happened?
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: When you came in, you broke the ray and the
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: steel door slammed shut.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it locks automatically.
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: Say, I don't like being locked in. I'm going out.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Hey, look out.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: Hey, don't touch that door.
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: What's the matter?
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: That door is charged with electricity, man. If you touched it,
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: you'd been electrocuted.
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: You see, Bess, I figure even our clever friend the
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: shutter will do the first natural thing after we trap
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: him in here. He'll try the door to see if
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: it locks. I get it. And when he does... When
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: he does, it's goodbye, Shadow.
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: You sure he'll come?
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: When he finds Dobie, Jake, he'll be here.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: Say, Mr. Murdoch, you don't want to fool around with
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: this door, you know. It's dangerous. I don't know who
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: this guy Shadow is, but.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: Young man you talk too much. Yes, doesn't he? Beth,
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: go over to that panel in the wall.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: It's open.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: Yell at Chick in the next room to shut off
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: the current.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: Okay, man.
• 20:19
  Speaker 8: I don't get the idea of the panel in the
• 20:20
  Speaker 8: wall with the steel screen open, Mr.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Murdoch.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: Don't worry about it.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Chick, shut her off and come in here.
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: Chick's coming. Good.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: That door's heavy. If you hadn't turned off the current,
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: you couldn't have moved it.
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: Chick... Pay off this man like we agreed.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: Okay. Oh, thanks. Buddy, your bill's going to be settled.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: In full.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: Hey. Hey, put that gun down. What are you doing?
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: This is a payoff, mister. No, no, you can't.
• 20:49
  Speaker 8: Mr.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Murdoch!
• 20:49
  Speaker 8: Mr.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: Murdoch! Good hunting, Chick. You know where to hide the body.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Kick.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Martin.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: Stand by the front door, ready to open it for
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: the shadow. I'm supposed to let him in? Yes, you are,
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: you fool. And if he speaks to you, you know
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: what to do. Pretend to be scared and answer his question. Yeah,
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: I don't have to pretend. I'm scared, all right. Nobody's
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: ever beat the shadow yet. Well, there's a first time
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: for everything.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: You're sure he'll come?
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: It's getting late.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: He'll come, all right.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: Doesn't matter how late it is.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: We'll be here waiting for him.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: Why don't you talk to him? I'm not crazy to
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: talk to him.
• 21:32
  Speaker 8: Oh, no.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: I've got to get behind the glass panel in the
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: room next to the lion's cage so I can.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: See what's happening in there. What's that?
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: The doorbell, you idiot.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: Peek between the curtains.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: There's no one out there. Somebody's touching the bell, but
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: it's ringing. Pull yourself together.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: It's the shadow.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: Now, you give me a second to get away before
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: you let him in. And remember, watch yourself.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: I don't like this.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: I don't like it a bit, but.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: Here goes.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: What do you want? Who's there?
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Who is it?
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: Who shut the door? Who is it? The shadow. What
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: do you want? I never.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Speak softly. Where does Peter Murdock keep his filing cabinet?
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: Quick.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Do you know what's good for you?
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: Down the hall in that room. In that room. That's
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: Murdoch's private room. Go straight ahead of you.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Yes, and I won't stop until I get Murdoch.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: It worked.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: That electric ray saw him, all right. Murdoch, we got him.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: We caught the shadow. Shut up, chicken. Come here. Can
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: you see him for us?
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: No, but he's in the lion cage, all right. Right
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: in the next room. Only this panel and a steel
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: screen between us. Open the panel, Murdoch. Maybe we can
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: hear him move.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: All right, Beth. Gee.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: Better sound. Maybe... Maybe he ain't in there. Oh, yes,
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: he is. Hello, Shadow. Allow me to introduce myself. Peter Murdoch.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: The one man in the world who's too much for
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: the Shadow. Come on, speak up so I'll know you're
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: there even if I can't see you.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: Yes, Murdoch. The Shadow is here.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: Getting all ready to beg for mercy?
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: No, Murdoch.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: You're doomed to disappointment.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: I warn you.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: Warn me? You're my prisoner. You can't get away. If
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: you don't believe me, try the door, Shadow.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: No, Murdoch. I'm sure that it's locked.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: Well, try it. Why don't you?
• 23:42
  Speaker 8: Go on.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: You can't be sure. Try it.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: You're much too anxious to have me touch that door.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: I don't wish to be electrocuted as young Dan Malley was.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: You're smart, Shadow. But I'm smarter. Smart enough to trap
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: and kill you.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: I am not dead yet, Murdoch.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: But you will be very soon.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Then before I die, I might at least read the
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: record of your crimes. Dan Malley said they were in
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: this filing cabinet.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: All right, go on then. Open the cabinet.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: No wires lead to it, I see.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: Yes, Murdoch. I think I shall open it.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Good Lord.
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: You like what you found, Shadow? Don't be afraid. It's
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: only a body, just a dead body.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: Who was this man? Murdoch, answer me.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Let me see. A young man in overalls. A pair
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: of priors in his pocket. So, he's the poor devil
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: who wired this room for you. You killed him so
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: as to keep the secret of this death chamber.
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: It is a death chamber. That death chamber of the shadow.
• 24:48
  Speaker 8: No!
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Margo Lane. Margo Lane. The Shadow calling Margo Lane. Phone
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Commissioner Weston. Tell him to surround the house of Peter Murdock.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: I am held captive there.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: Hurry!
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Hurry!
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: Gee, Murdock. This walking into an empty room gives me
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: the jitters. You sure he's still there?
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: Sure, Bess.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: Now, wait, wait. I'll raise the panel and speak to him. Shadow.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: Does the time drag? Don't you admire my room?
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: Don't put too much hope in this room of yours, Murdoch.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: The Shadow has escaped from worse places than this.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: Ah, you talk a lot, Shadow. Yeah, I wish we
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: could see him, Murdoch. We'll see him soon enough. We'll
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: see him dead. We'll be able to see you when
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: you're a stiff, Shadow. What are you planning?
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: You can't shoot what you can't see.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: No, but we can smoke him out. You ready with
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: that gas line, Chick?
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: Joe?
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: I'll step up any time you say. This is your finish, Shadow.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: We're slipping a tube through this panel and feeding you
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: a nice little smoke screen of poison gas. There, Shadow.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: Take a deep breath of this gas. In ten minutes,
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: you'll be dead. Turn the valve, Chick. Give our regards
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: to Dan O'Malley, Shadow.
• 26:23
  Speaker 8: Oh, Dan.
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: When you see him.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: How do you like it, Shadow? Makes you cough, doesn't it?
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: But not for long. All right, watch now. Watch, he'll
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: be dead in ten minutes. Then we'll be able to
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: see just who the Shadow was.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: He's... He's passing around the cork.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: How do you know, Bess? You can't see him? No,
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: but the body of the electrician moved.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Chick!
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: That workman didn't have a gun.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: No, Murdoch, I went through his pockets. Nothing left in
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: them but a pair of pliers.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Pliers?
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you can't do much with pliers.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: I wonder.
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: Calm down, Bess. It won't be very long. Murdoch, look.
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: The light in the room went out. He unscrewed the bulb.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: I don't like this.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: Oh, you're all scared silly. It's only... What the.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: The lights. They're out.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: Come on, turn off that gas. It's all dark. The
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: current's off. The shadow blew the fuse. He must have
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: used those pliers.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: That means the steel door's unlocked.
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: That's the steel door opening. He's out. The shadow's out.
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: To the front of the house, quick. Don't let him
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: get away.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: I can't see him. I doubt it.
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: Come on, come on, everybody in the hall, hurry. Come on,
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: I'll line up there. Cross the front door. But, Murdock.
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: You fools. Can't let him slip through our fingers now
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: after we've nearly had him.
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: But we can't see.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: We can hear. Be quiet now.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: Everybody listen. I hear something. Murdock, it's outside the house.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: We're police officers.
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: The cops.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: We're raiders.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: Shut up.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Shut up.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: Don't let them hear you.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: They can hear me, Murdoch. Smash in the door, Commissioner Weston.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: They're all here. The shadow. Yes, Murdoch. The shadow.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Hurry, Commissioner.
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: All right, Murdoch.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: Go to work on that door. I'm getting out of here.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: Come on, run for it. I'll shoot the first one
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: that moves. Murdoch, we've got to run. There's a cop.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: Stay here and I'll bluff it out.
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: You stay here.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: Stop. I'm getting out.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: No, no, you're not. Murdoch shot Bet. Shadow, where are you?
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: Come on, I dare you to show yourself.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: I'll take that gun, Murdoch. You'll take.
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: My arm, Shadow. Let go of me.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: Now stand still.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: You've got my gun.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Shoot.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: Go ahead, shoot!
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Commissioner Weston, these men are criminals. Peter Murdock, the leader,
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: just murdered a woman lying on the floor. And there's
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: another body down the hall, an electrician.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: Peter Murdock, eh? This is a surprise. Well, why didn't
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: you shoot, Shadow? I tried to kill you. Were you
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: afraid to fight back like a man?
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: No, Murdock.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: I saved you. for the same death that you sent
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Dan Malley to, death in the electric chair. You've evaded
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: the law for the longest time, Murdoch. You had a
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: great mind. You were a brilliant lawyer. But for wealth,
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: you threw all that away, filed crime upon crime. But
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: you went too far. Now you will meet as must
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: all men, justice.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: Before today's episode comes to an end, here's John Barclay,
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: Blue Coal's heating expert. Thank you, Ken Roberts. And good evening, everyone.
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: Every fall and winter, thousands upon thousands of people burn
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: up money needlessly in heating their homes. They pile on
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: excess coal in their efforts to get satisfactory heating results
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: and never realize that their furnace is to blame for
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: their failure. All too often, the fault lies in the
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: fact that the damper, draft, or grate may not be
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: in proper working order.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: So this year.
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: Why not have a check-up now at the start of
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: the season? Make sure from the beginning that you're going
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: to save money, not waste money. Call your blue coal
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: dealer first thing in the morning. Ask him to send
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: a trained John Barclay serviceman to your home... to give
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: your furnace a thorough inspection. And while he's there, ask
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: him about blue coal's automatic heat regulator. It's a thermostat
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: which opens and closes dampers automatically... maintains a constant temperature
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: in your home, and does away with constant furnace attention.
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: With a blue coal heat regulator installed in your home,
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: you'll enjoy far more uniform economical heat than even the
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: most expensive oil burner could give you. Yet it costs
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: but $ 18. 95, plus a small installation charge. Find out for
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: yourself how the blue coal heat regulator can more than
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: pay for itself in time and fuel savings for you.
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: Call your blue coal dealer tomorrow.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: I thank you. This has been a dramatized version of
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: one of the many copyrighted stories which appear in the
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: Shadow Magazine, now on sale at your local newsstand. All
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: the characters and all the places named are fictitious. Any
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: The shadow knows. Next week, same time, same station, Blue Coal,
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: America's finest anthracite, will again present another thrilling adventure of
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: The Shadow. Be sure to listen, and be sure to
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: burn blue coal, the solid fuel for solid comfort.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Our time with the Shadow and Deathstalk's The Shadow comes
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: to a close. Good night.