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  Speaker 1: American correspondent William Baldwin stands trial for murder, and the
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  Speaker 1: account he gives leads back to a photograph taken in
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  Speaker 1: wartime Lisbon. Tonight we present Suspense, episode 112, Dateline, Lisbon,
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  Speaker 1: first heard on CBS October 5th, 1944. John Hodiak stars
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  Speaker 1: as Baldwin. His story involves a young woman named Terry Moore,
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  Speaker 1: a camera, and the interest of Nazi General von Klaus
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  Speaker 1: in an undeveloped image. Harold Medford wrote the script, with
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  Speaker 1: William Speer producing and directing as the action moves between
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  Speaker 1: a courtroom and Lisbon's wartime hotels and bars. Ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: take your places for suspense. Now, back to the golden
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  Speaker 1: age of radio.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Roma Wines present.
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  Speaker 4: Suspense!
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  Speaker 5: Tonight, Dateline, Lisbon, starring John Hodiak.
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  Speaker 3: Suspense!
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  Speaker 2: Suspense is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. That's R-O-M-A,
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  Speaker 2: Roma Wines. Those excellent California wines that can add so
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  Speaker 2: much pleasantness to the way you live, to your happiness
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  Speaker 2: and entertaining guests, to your enjoyment of everyday meals. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: right now a glass full would be very pleasant as
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  Speaker 2: Roma Wines bring you Suspense.
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  Speaker 5: This is the Man in Black, here for the Roma
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  Speaker 5: Wine Company of Fresno, California, who tonight from Hollywood bring
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  Speaker 5: you a star, a rising new film personality whose performance
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  Speaker 5: you admired in Lifeboat and whom you will soon be
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  Speaker 5: seeing co-starring with Lana Turner in MGM's Marriage is a
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  Speaker 5: Private Affair, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: John Hodiak.
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  Speaker 5: For our suspense play this evening, we ask you to
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  Speaker 5: project time into the not-too-distant future. And so, with Dateline
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  Speaker 5: Lisbon and with the performance of John Hodiak as William Baldwin,
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  Speaker 5: we again hope to keep you in suspense. Your name?
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  Speaker 3: William Baldwin. Occupation?
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  Speaker 7: I was a foreign correspondent. At the time, that is,
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  Speaker 7: of the murder with which you were charged? Around that time, yes.
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  Speaker 3: I see. Now, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Baldwin, would you be good enough to tell the court
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  Speaker 8: where you were on October the 5th, 1944?
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  Speaker 3: I was in Lisbon, Portugal. Can't you be more specific?
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  Speaker 7: Look, when you say I was in Lisbon during the invasion,
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  Speaker 7: you've told most of your story right there.
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  Speaker 3: You know the place. Yes, we know it.
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  Speaker 8: I should say that at one time or another during
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  Speaker 8: the course of the war... Most of us here had
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  Speaker 8: occasion to pass through that port.
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  Speaker 7: That was the big way station, all right. The neutral
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  Speaker 7: terminal for the boys who worked for the Allies. Those
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  Speaker 7: lined up with the Axis. You'd see a crowd from
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  Speaker 7: the Soviet, anxious to get back to the Eastern Front
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  Speaker 7: and the sound of the Internationale. You'd see right behind them, maybe,
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  Speaker 7: a delegation of Nazis. Glad to be away from any
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  Speaker 7: front and sick of the horsed vessels.
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  Speaker 3: The lads from London.
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  Speaker 7: With their briefcases and striped trousers and rule Britannia very
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  Speaker 7: clear in their ears.
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  Speaker 3: They were there, too. So were the guys from Warsaw.
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  Speaker 7: The clothes getting a little threadbare, but the polonaise sounding
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  Speaker 7: as fresh and strong as.
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  Speaker 3: It did four years before. And the French.
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  Speaker 7: Not the Vichyites, but the ones who might be at
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  Speaker 7: the very next table, the free ones, who never stopped
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  Speaker 7: hearing La Marseillaise.
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  Speaker 3: Brass hats, underground agents, refugees, and heels.
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  Speaker 7: That was Lizard. It was about five or six in
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  Speaker 7: the evening when I walked into the lobby of the
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  Speaker 7: Hotel de Gama.
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  Speaker 3: You know the place, right in the center of town.
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  Speaker 7: Anyway, I happened to glance up and I saw this
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  Speaker 7: girl standing about midway on that big marble staircase that
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  Speaker 7: leads down from the mezzanine. She had a Leica camera
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  Speaker 7: up to her face and was drawing a beat on
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  Speaker 7: the whole lobby. Suddenly, a little fellow yelled up to
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  Speaker 7: her to stop. And as he did, a fat guy
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  Speaker 7: standing at the desk whipped around.
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  Speaker 3: He spotted the girl, too.
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  Speaker 7: In the next second, he was the scaredest-looking character I'd
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  Speaker 7: ever seen. He whirled back, away from the camera, but
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  Speaker 7: she'd already clicked the shutter. In another second, I got
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  Speaker 7: a shock myself. The girl lowered the camera from her
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  Speaker 7: face and... Yeah, it had to be her. She came
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  Speaker 7: down the staircase, winding up the film in the Leica,
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  Speaker 7: then started to cross the lobby, and I was sure
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  Speaker 7: it was Terry.
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  Speaker 3: I hadn't seen her since I'd left New York. But
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  Speaker 3: you couldn't mistake.
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  Speaker 7: That stride, not even after all those years.
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  Speaker 3: I walked across the lobby to her, but the little guy,
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  Speaker 3: the one who'd yelled, had a head start.
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  Speaker 4: I was rude, but time is hard for the nervous ones.
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  Speaker 6: If you say so, senor. But I haven't the faintest
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  Speaker 6: idea what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, American.
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  Speaker 5: Three thousand pardons, uh, misses. I simply wish to apologize
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  Speaker 5: for my outburst.
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  Speaker 6: Clearly it was.
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  Speaker 3: Outburst? I, uh.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sorry, senor, but I don't get it, even in English.
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  Speaker 3: It was when you were on the staircase. He yelled
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  Speaker 3: at you.
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  Speaker 6: At me?
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  Speaker 3: But what on earth for?
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  Speaker 7: I don't think he wanted you to take that picture.
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  Speaker 6: Are you serious?
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  Speaker 7: Why should.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, Terry.
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  Speaker 6: Bill Baldwin. It must be.
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  Speaker 3: Twelve years.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't mean that. I meant since I've even heard
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  Speaker 6: about you.
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  Speaker 3: I've heard about you, though. You've been doing all right.
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  Speaker 6: I've been busy.
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  Speaker 7: Terry Moore covers the Burma front. Terry Moore turns candid
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  Speaker 7: camera on allied leaders. Terry Moore shoots parade magazine picture
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  Speaker 7: of the week. You've been getting more publicity than Hitler.
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  Speaker 6: I work for a better concern. Bill, what on earth
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  Speaker 6: are you doing here? There's so much.
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  Speaker 3: We're being rude to your little friend.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, excuse me, senor. You objected to my taking the picture?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, no, missus, not at all. That is the point
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  Speaker 8: I wish to clear up.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, permit me.
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  Speaker 5: I am Don Luis Fernando Sanchez Jesus de la Castellano Cristobal.
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  Speaker 4: The third.
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  Speaker 6: How do you do?
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  Speaker 4: But my friends call me Mosca.
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  Speaker 6: I can understand why.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. Uh, Mrs.
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  Speaker 4: I should very much like to buy that picture. Buy it? Precisely.
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  Speaker 6: Well, that won't be necessary.
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  Speaker 9: I happen to have a developing outfit upstairs in my room.
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  Speaker 9: I'll run you off a copy myself. That's in case
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  Speaker 9: you can't wait till you see it.
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  Speaker 6: In the magazine.
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  Speaker 3: The magazine?
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  Speaker 4: This picture you took will be published?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 6: Simply a shot to display the... Well, the color of
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  Speaker 6: the city, the hotel.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I see.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Mrs.
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  Speaker 5: this may at first appear to be a somewhat extraordinary request.
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  Speaker 5: The fact is I am a great admirer of your work,
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  Speaker 5: and I wondered if perhaps.
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  Speaker 7: You could have the original, the negative.
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  Speaker 5: Well, yes, senor, I did have that in mind.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, do not be concerned.
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  Speaker 4: I'm quite prepared to go as.
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  Speaker 5: High as, let us say.
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  Speaker 4: $ 5, 000 in cash.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, come now.
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  Speaker 4: Well, then let us say $ 10, 000.
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  Speaker 6: What is this, a rib?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, no, Mrs.
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  Speaker 4: It is an offer. $ 10, 000?
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  Speaker 6: You know something, senor? You're insane. But I'm not, and
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  Speaker 6: I'll take it.
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  Speaker 3: Wait a second, Terry. I don't think I'd do that.
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  Speaker 5: Forgive me, but my proposition was the Mrs. only.
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  Speaker 6: You could have put it more plainly.
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  Speaker 7: Now, listen, you don't think he wants to pay a
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  Speaker 7: silly price like that for just a good view.
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  Speaker 3: Of the lobby?
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  Speaker 7: He could get that on one of those penny postcards
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  Speaker 7: around here.
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  Speaker 6: I don't care what he wants it for. All I know.
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  Speaker 7: You don't care what he wants it for because you
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  Speaker 7: don't even know what's in it. For all you know,
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  Speaker 7: you've got the hottest picture of your whole career right
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  Speaker 7: on that camera of yours.
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  Speaker 3: Mrs.
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  Speaker 5: it is necessary that we completely trade without any further discussion.
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  Speaker 6: $ 10, 000 in exchange for the negative.
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  Speaker 3: That is correct.
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  Speaker 9: If you don't mind, senor, perhaps I had better think
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  Speaker 9: it over for a while.
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  Speaker 4: I'm afraid that will not be possible.
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  Speaker 3: The offer is good only now.
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  Speaker 6: Then adios, senor.
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  Speaker 4: Let us trust you are making no mistake. Hasta la vista, Mrs.
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  Speaker 4: Buenas noches, senor.
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  Speaker 9: Well, was that stupid enough to suit you?
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  Speaker 6: $ 10, 000 right down the drain.
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  Speaker 3: How'd you like to make $ 50, 000? What? I said, how'd
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  Speaker 3: you like to make $ 50, 000?
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  Speaker 7: There's another guy around here who'd go for that negative.
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  Speaker 3: A fat fellow.
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  Speaker 7: He was standing over there by the desk, right in
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  Speaker 7: the center of your camera when you clicked the shutter.
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  Speaker 3: I never saw any... I did.
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  Speaker 7: And I saw him try to dodge. From where I
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  Speaker 7: was standing, it looked like a $ 50, 000 dodge, too.
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  Speaker 4: Why, you rock.
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  Speaker 6: You were holding out for a bigger price, a bigger
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  Speaker 6: cut for you, I suppose.
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  Speaker 3: Do you believe that?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: After all, I haven't much to go on, have I?
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  Speaker 4: Twelve years is.
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  Speaker 6: A long time. How do I know what you're like now?
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  Speaker 6: What you've become?
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  Speaker 7: I mention the fat man, Terry, because I think that
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  Speaker 7: picture's more important than you'll be willing to believe.
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  Speaker 9: Bill, listen to me. I want to know what happened
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  Speaker 9: to you. Your articles, your pieces about Europe, they just stopped.
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  Speaker 6: Noted your letters.
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  Speaker 3: There's something you've got to understand, Terry. Your pardon, please.
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  Speaker 3: Signorita Moore?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, I'm Terry Moore.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, you are wanted at the front desk, please.
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  Speaker 6: Front desk?
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  Speaker 7: What for?
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  Speaker 3: I do not know, Signorita, if you will follow me.
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  Speaker 3: Want me to hold your camera?
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  Speaker 6: Thanks, but I think I'll feel better taking care of
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  Speaker 6: it myself.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Terry. Hurry back. I'll be right here waiting for you.
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  Speaker 7: I'd been standing there about a minute, gentlemen, when I
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  Speaker 7: looked up and saw the fat guy.
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  Speaker 3: He stepped out of one of the lobby phone booths
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  Speaker 3: and headed for the cocktail lounge.
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  Speaker 7: I didn't want to lose track of him, so I
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  Speaker 7: followed him.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty soon, out came Terry. She had a funny look
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  Speaker 3: on her face.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, so you're right, and I hope you're satisfied.
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  Speaker 3: What happened? Get a better offer?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, my life changed.
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  Speaker 3: Your life?
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  Speaker 9: In return for leaving my camera on the third floor
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  Speaker 9: fire escape within the next 20 minutes, I shall be permitted.
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  Speaker 6: To go on living. Otherwise... No, don't sit down.
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  Speaker 3: Who told you all that?
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  Speaker 10: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: That's a silly remark you don't know.
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  Speaker 6: The call was waiting for me at the desk. It
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  Speaker 6: was somebody on the other end of the telephone.
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  Speaker 3: Oh. Excuse me. My friend. You at the table.
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  Speaker 6: Well, how did you learn to speak?
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  Speaker 3: Mind if we join you? Sound like the voice on
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  Speaker 3: the telephone?
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  Speaker 6: How can I tell if he doesn't speak English?
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  Speaker 4: What did he say?
• 10:38
  Speaker 3: He said he doesn't speak English. Wait a second.
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  Speaker 7: Excuse me, pal, but I'd like you to meet the
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  Speaker 7: young lady you talked to.
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  Speaker 3: On the phone. She... You better speak English.
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  Speaker 7: Every time she hears German, she goes to pieces. Creates
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  Speaker 7: a terrific scene.
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  Speaker 4: You will be good enough to leave me alone. I
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  Speaker 4: do not wish your company.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. What about that, Terry?
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  Speaker 6: I'm pretty sure that's it.
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  Speaker 3: Good. Have a seat. Oh, that's all right. Don't get
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  Speaker 3: up here. I don't believe I caught your name.
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  Speaker 4: Look, if you do not leave at once, I shall
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  Speaker 4: call the manager.
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  Speaker 7: I'll be glad to do it for you. You know,
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  Speaker 7: my friend, now that I've got a good look at you,
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  Speaker 7: I can't help feeling I've seen you before somewhere.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, I was thinking the same thing.
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  Speaker 4: Medias Forlan, you are very much mistaken.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, not with photographs, I'm not. I've studied too many
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  Speaker 9: of them. And that's where I've seen you, in a photograph.
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  Speaker 4: Now, let me tell you something. You have never seen
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  Speaker 4: me before. That's my advice to you.
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  Speaker 6: Except that there's something different. The clothes, I think. The
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  Speaker 6: white collar.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: You're right, Terry. The civilian clothes. I've got them spotted, too.
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  Speaker 7: And not in a photograph. I'm going by a man
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  Speaker 7: I've seen.
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  Speaker 3: A hundred times.
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  Speaker 7: At the head of a parade on a dais in
• 11:52
  Speaker 7: a public square. In the back seat of an open
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  Speaker 7: touring car with guards on either side.
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  Speaker 3: You are a fool.
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  Speaker 4: I tell you for a fact, you are a fool.
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  Speaker 7: You see, I used to cover Poland for a number
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  Speaker 7: of American papers.
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  Speaker 3: And you granted me an interview once.
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  Speaker 6: Bill, he is.
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  Speaker 7: The General, yes. General von Klaus. One of the most
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  Speaker 7: prolific executioners the Fuhrer ever had.
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  Speaker 4: What stupid people you must be. Why did you not
• 12:17
  Speaker 4: stop when I advised you? Don't you see? There's nothing
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  Speaker 4: I can do now except take the Freuland's camera and
• 12:25
  Speaker 4: kill the two of you.
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  Speaker 7: Now, look, I happen to have a gun, too, so
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  Speaker 7: you can put that thing away.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, you're not crazy enough to kill us here. No, senor.
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  Speaker 4: He is not that crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Mosca, you will please put the gun away. But I must.
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  Speaker 4: You will put the gun out of sight. So, you
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  Speaker 4: will now follow me from this room?
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 4: No, I will not leave these people and permit them to.
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  Speaker 10: Quiet.
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  Speaker 5: Do you want to bring everyone to this table? Do
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  Speaker 5: you wish a special spotlight for yourself? Oh, listen to me.
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  Speaker 4: I am the one in danger. I am the one
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  Speaker 4: in charge. You will do as I tell you to do.
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  Speaker 3: Or you won't get him out of Europe?
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  Speaker 4: You see, you see, he knows. All right, shut the mouth.
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  Speaker 7: What are you charging him, Mosca? Every cent he ever stole?
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  Speaker 7: It's worth it, you know. If the Poles knew this
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  Speaker 7: character was here, they'd tear him limb from limb.
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  Speaker 5: You talk a great deal, senor. Von Klaus, you will
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  Speaker 5: please get up from the chair. You must understand that
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  Speaker 5: nothing can be accomplished so long as we are here.
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  Speaker 5: We shall continue our negotiations with these charming people at
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  Speaker 5: some other time and place.
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  Speaker 3: At the German embassy, let's say? No, no. How would
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  Speaker 3: you like that, head general?
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  Speaker 4: My friends, you first must get to the embassy. Again, Mrs.
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  Speaker 4: Hasta la vista and adios, senor.
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  Speaker 6: The German embassy, Bill. But he's a Nazi, a big one.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, and he's also taking it on a lamb.
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  Speaker 7: The final squeeze is about to begin and the general's
• 13:51
  Speaker 7: deserting his post. The Germans are killing him as soon
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  Speaker 7: as the Poles.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, that's why he can't afford to have us talk.
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  Speaker 3: And Mosca can't afford to lose his feet.
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  Speaker 6: Bill, what'll we do?
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  Speaker 9: You heard what he said. He'll be watching every exit
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  Speaker 9: for the rest of the night.
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  Speaker 3: Good. Meanwhile, we'll go dancing.
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  Speaker 6: Dancing?
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  Speaker 5: Yep.
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  Speaker 7: Cross the floor to that door on the other side
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  Speaker 7: of the band. And we're going to slip through that
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  Speaker 7: door up the service stairs and into your room.
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  Speaker 6: My room?
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 7: And you're going to develop the general's picture.
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• 15:38
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• 15:42
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• 15:46
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• 15:58
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• 16:07
  Speaker 2: with pleasure that we bring back to our soundstage Mr.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: John Hodiak as William Baldwin, a man on trial before
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: a jury of his peers in Dateline, Lisbon. A tale
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: well calculated to keep you in suspense.
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: You were testifying, Mr. Baldwin, that you and the young
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: lady started up for her room. That's right. The rear way,
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: up the service stairs. I see. Mr.
• 16:36
  Speaker 8: Baldwin, since you've already admitted the murder, are you sure
• 16:39
  Speaker 8: there's a need for such detail?
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: I wanted you to have your record straight. There isn't
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: much more of it, though. Very well. And so you
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: got the girl up to her room, eh? Yes. I
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: remember very clearly. We stepped into her room.
• 16:54
  Speaker 11: I shoved the bolt across the door. She switched on
• 16:59
  Speaker 11: the light. And she went straight for her developing stuff.
• 17:03
  Speaker 11: The tray, an MQ tube.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: The hypo, the usual paraphernalia, and went to work. I
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: knew what was in her mind.
• 17:10
  Speaker 7: She was going to develop that picture and get out
• 17:12
  Speaker 7: of there as fast as she possibly could. She was scared,
• 17:16
  Speaker 7: I guess. Then while I stood there watching her, she stopped.
• 17:21
  Speaker 7: For about half a minute, stared into space.
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: Bill.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: What is it, Terry?
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: You haven't said anything about.
• 17:31
  Speaker 6: Going home, going back to America.
• 17:33
  Speaker 9: You've been over here so long, I.
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: Say, you'll want those lights off when you start to
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: develop that thing, won't you?
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: Well, give me the signal when you're ready, huh?
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: I think I'm ready now.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: Bill, there's something I've got... What's that?
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: What's what?
• 17:49
  Speaker 6: That noise then.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: Oh, I was just trying the door to be sure
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: it was locked. Little jumpy, aren't you? I wouldn't be.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: There's not a soul who can get to you, Terry.
• 17:59
  Speaker 8: Terry?
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: So just relax. You were asking me something. Yes, Bill.
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: What are you doing here?
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: In Lisbon?
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: I'm waiting. I've been waiting for months.
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: You mean to get home.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: I can't go back to America, Terry. I'm on the list.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: I was surprised you didn't know that.
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: Oh, no.
• 18:21
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I've been waiting for a chance to escape. Your
• 18:23
  Speaker 7: hunch is right. I stayed over here too long. I
• 18:27
  Speaker 7: lost the feel of my country and the sense of
• 18:28
  Speaker 7: what she was. And when they got around to repatriating
• 18:31
  Speaker 7: the correspondence, I elected to stay behind.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: I'd been inoculated, Terry. I had the germ. So help me,
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: I went for that spiel about the new order of things.
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: But you could... You don't mean you worked for them?
• 18:42
  Speaker 7: I worked for them. There were a thousand things a
• 18:44
  Speaker 7: guy in my position could help them with.
• 18:45
  Speaker 9: And now that the heat's on, now that the walls
• 18:48
  Speaker 9: are beginning to melt, you're making your getaway.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 18:50
  Speaker 9: Before the courts come to session and the sentences are
• 18:53
  Speaker 9: handed out.
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: A traitor. A traitor.
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: A coward. You and von Klaus, you're cowards, both of you.
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: You're two of a kind.
• 18:59
  Speaker 7: Yeah, we ought to make fine traveling companions. South America,
• 19:02
  Speaker 7: I imagine. Oh, he and Mosca don't know it yet,
• 19:05
  Speaker 7: but that's how it's going to work. You see, the
• 19:07
  Speaker 7: way I look at it, if Mosca can arrange an
• 19:09
  Speaker 7: escape from von Klaus, he can certainly arrange one for me.
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: You got the money to pay for it, huh?
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: No, but I've got the picture. Your picture.
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: If that thing's published and if the story gets out,
• 19:19
  Speaker 7: the senor's underground railroad is dead.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: He'll make a deal for that picture, all right. Let's
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: not worry about that.
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: No, Bill.
• 19:25
  Speaker 9: Surely you understand I'm going to tell this story, every
• 19:27
  Speaker 9: part of it.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: Oh, I was afraid you'd feel that way. I'll have
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: to make sure you don't. Oh, I see.
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: All right. But you're not going to get this.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: Terry, get right in that picture.
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: The door.
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: Somebody's opened the door.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: About when? The picture. Do you have it? Von Klaus.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: It's safe, General. And put away. You'll find the light
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: switch there by the door, left side.
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: And Mosca. But that door was locked. How did you
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: open it?
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: We didn't, Mrs.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: We opened this door.
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: The closet.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: The closet.
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: Then you were there all the time. You were listening.
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: We were there when you entered the room.
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: And you've already heard my proposition. What do you say, Mosca?
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Is it a deal?
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: But of course, senor. Of course.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: And now, if you will turn over the photograph.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Yes, senor.
• 20:20
  Speaker 7: You get the photograph when I'm on my way with
• 20:22
  Speaker 7: von Klaus with the right kind of passport and tickets.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: Incidentally, how soon can you get me those? I'm in
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: something of a rush. I understand, senor.
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: Would tomorrow.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: Let's say tonight, in about 30 minutes, in the lobby. Look,
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: why the hesitation? It's very simple. I've got the photograph
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: and I've got a gun. What'll it be?
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: You must know the answer, senor.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: It is a deal. Okay. You can leave now. I've
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: got some work to do. Very well.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: It shall be as you.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: Say, senor.
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: Thank you.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: 30 minutes from now in the lobby.
• 20:58
  Speaker 7: Von Klaus?
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: There is just one thing unsettled.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: Yes? The Freulein.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: Now, for the sake of security of all, I must
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: insist she be silenced at once.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: You don't have to insist. I'm taking care of it myself.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: Now, you understand, Herr Baldwin, in my present situation, I
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: must be very sure of things.
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, sure. Meanwhile, I told you to clear out of here.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: Not till the Freulein is silenced.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: Don't be stupid.
• 21:21
  Speaker 7: This isn't the time for that or the place either.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: We can't... No?
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Then why did you select this time, senor?
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: And also select this place?
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: We heard you only a minute ago preparing to shoot
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: this girl. Then why do you delay, Baldwin? Why do
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: you not proceed?
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: That gun again? Come on, General, put it away.
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: For what reason? What does it matter whose weapon we use?
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: And why don't you make me put it away? He
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: has no weapon.
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: No. He has no weapon.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: I think you better make sure. Go on, he is covered.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: Your arm, senor. Hold him away, so. There's nothing there.
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: And now I'd like to know, Herr Baldwin, how you
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: expected to kill the Fraulein if you did not have
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: a gun. Very simple. He did not expect to kill her.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: Nothing in that pocket.
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: Then why did he say... Why?
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: Huh.
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: Because he heard the noise from the closet and he
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: knew that we were here.
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: You remember the moment, missus, he said he was trying
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: the door?
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: He knew we had guessed you would come to this room.
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: He knew we were here to finish you both.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: He was playing for time.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: He was bluffing.
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: And about the Nazis, about escaping.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: Lies, a stupid fable to hold us off.
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: Is that not so, senor? Is not everything I say
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: the truth, huh?
• 22:45
  Speaker 7: You're an awfully little guy to talk so big.
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: Oh, I can afford to talk big, senor. I am
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: sure now that you have no gun.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: You are, huh?
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: What's that?
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: What are you doing? I'll fire.
• 23:03
  Speaker 7: That's it. Just face von Klaus.
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: There.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: You see, right in his hand. There's my gun, senor. Okay, General,
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: go on and fire. No, no, no, wait. Go on.
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: And the way I'm lined up now, your bullet will
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: go straight through Mosca first. Stop moving, Mosca.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: He will seize the gun.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: He will.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: Now listen to me. Listen, I'll say it to you now, Baldwin.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: If you do not release him in exactly five minutes,
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: I shall shoot the friar in death.
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: Go on.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: Meanwhile, I'll work on Mosca.
• 23:33
  Speaker 7: It'll take not quite more than five minutes to strangle him.
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: And you'll have plenty of time to fire. But the
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: chances are great you'll hit him. And he's your only
• 23:42
  Speaker 7: means of escape.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: Change your hands from his clothes.
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: You're one single lifeline, von Klaus. The only guy who
• 23:48
  Speaker 7: knows the ropes in his time is running out.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: Now wait, wait, listen. We can make some arrangements.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: All right. All right, Von Klaus, put your gun on
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: the table. We'll go on from there.
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: No, it's a gun. No.
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: Your life's going fast, Von Klaus. The one man who
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: can save your neck's getting pretty limp. Put your gun
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: on the table.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: Whatever else you listen.
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: Money.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: What is it?
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: Your prize.
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: How much? Oh, my God.
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: Stop.
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: There. It's on the table now.
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: Let him go, Baldwin.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: Please let him go.
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: Terry, the gun.
• 24:15
  Speaker 8: Here, Bill.
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: Here it is.
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: Thanks.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: He'll be okay in a minute.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: But the gun, what are you.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: Never mind that.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: Just tell me your full name. I, uh, I do
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: not understand what.
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: Answer the question, what's your full name?
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: Maximilian Reinhard von Klaus.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: Occupation? Uh, what do you know? Occupation, I said! What's
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: your occupation? I, uh, I am, uh.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: I was a divisional commander of police for the district
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: of Warsaw in Poland.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: At the time, that is, of the slaughter. The, uh, slaughter?
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: The mass executions of May 9th in the year 1940...
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: When your men, at your order, went into the homes
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: of those who weren't cooperative enough and machine-gunned the women
• 24:56
  Speaker 7: and children.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: What is this?
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: You're standing trial for murder.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: Standing trial for... You are mad. There can be no trial.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: There's no judge.
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: I'm the judge, von Klaus, and those two, the jury.
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: Terry Moore and Mosca.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: But our arrangements, you said, if I put the gun
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: on the table.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: I turned loose of your little pal. Well, I did.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: That was our only arrangement.
• 25:17
  Speaker 7: And now I want to know how you plead, guilty
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: or not guilty, for the execution of those families.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: Those families? How would I know those families?
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: You wouldn't know, but I would. That's been my business
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: all these years. Gathering the names of victims. Keeping records
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: on murderers like you. Baldwin, wait, wait.
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: Give me a chance.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: A chance?
• 25:34
  Speaker 7: Those Poles didn't even have a trial. You had them
• 25:37
  Speaker 7: shot in cold blood without even passing sentence. But you're
• 25:41
  Speaker 7: getting all of that, von Klaus.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: Yes. You're really getting the works.
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: But you must understand those measures are... Look, I will
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: show you. It's a matter of administration.
• 25:50
  Speaker 7: Did you or did you not have those people killed?
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: I'm trying to explain to you. It was military expediency.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: The entire procedure, it's part of the war. It had
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: to be done, I'll tell you that.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: In other words, you did.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: Yes, but I.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: That's all I wanted to hear. Your verdict, Terry, what
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: is it?
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: I say the man is guilty.
• 26:11
  Speaker 7: Musk is not able to vote right now, so I'll
• 26:13
  Speaker 7: have to do it for him. And I say you're guilty,
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: von Klaus. So for the crime of multiple murder, I sentence.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: You to death. No! And may God have mercy on
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: your soul.
• 26:24
  Speaker 7: No!
• 26:44
  Speaker 8: Gentlemen of the jury, the commission of murder has been
• 26:47
  Speaker 8: very plainly established. So in the case of the World
• 26:50
  Speaker 8: Democracies versus the defendant, William Baldwin, what will.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: Your verdict be?
• 26:55
  Speaker 10: Your Honor, we find the defendant guilty. And direct that
• 27:02
  Speaker 10: he be freed at once to receive the court's commendation.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Thank you, gentlemen.
• 27:12
  Speaker 8: In view of the somewhat irregular circumstances, we see no
• 27:14
  Speaker 8: reason to dissent.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: There is, however, a question.
• 27:19
  Speaker 7: We know, of course, that this Moscow has been imprisoned
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: since the collapse of the Axis powers.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: But that picture, Mr. Baldwin, Terry Moore's photograph of von Klaus,
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: what ever became of that?
• 27:30
  Speaker 7: Oh, well, ever since we've been married, it's the one
• 27:34
  Speaker 7: thing I don't dare mention.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: She's pretty touchy about it. Yes? But you did develop
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: it finally. Oh, sure, and it was... Well, sir, the
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: thing was just a blur.
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: And so closes Dateline Lisbon, starring John Hodiak. Tonight's study
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: in suspense.
• 28:04
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• 28:10
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• 28:23
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