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The Line Up: The Mad Bomber (EP0938) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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now it's time for today's episode of the Lineup, which is actually a reperformance
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of an earlier script of the Lineup. This was a good one the first
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time around, and I hope you'll enjoy it the second time. Here now
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from June twenty sixth, nineteen fifty one is the mad bomber. Ladies and
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gentlemen, we take in all behind the scenes of a police said quarter is
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in a great American city or under the cold glaring lights will passed before us
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the innocent, the vigor and the thief the murderer. This is the hyn
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not. Now we can sit Ryan Hammiston and how many men will we look
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at thirty one on again? Oh man, probably won't be any of these,
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buts of you people out there on the other side of the wow in
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the audience room, May I ask in your attention, I can I in
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the grab about did not grebout spend the ladder? He should? I suspect
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you will see will been up. I'll call up a number the them and
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jobs. If you have any questions or identifications, please remember the number of
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signs in the prisoner as I call it the name. Please big front with
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your questotions or identifications. The questions I ask these suspects familar to get an
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action, don't aloys, so do not pay too much attention to their answers,
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as they often lie. Bring on the line all right, come on,
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open up to me in the stage as the air that's right now,
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turning face front and the assigned and a straight air when I ask your questions.
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Talk up to the people in the back an area A number one John
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that pay rubbery face front and talker. Where do you live? John?
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Takety shake your river street? What's that? They were told? Now?
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Put me look right, I fund other people can see you, all of
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them done? Each cook? Anybody a rest? Any weapons? Yes,
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yes, there wasn't. Yes, thirty who I think thirty eight? I
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know? Yes, to have a car? Yeah, A couple of what
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to them? What cover? Black? Okay? Number two David Morris,
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stop hearing man, I don't look. I don't want to send you boys
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again. It's a long way to the back of the room. Said you
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gotta talk. Come on now, what any works there? Fisherman's sons?
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What do you do? What you work with? Town? You let me?
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He said, you hear, yes? But what a hot plan?
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Something you gook on? Yes, sir, I was cooking, she said,
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I was smiling up the building. Why did you hear that? Oh
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it's a long story. Starting can have to know my landlady okay, number
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three, I haven't simberling make park to explore depot. Don't tell me telling
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the people out there? What do you do? I on Frossion engineer,
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you were pretty drunk. Yes, the investing officer said that he's had some
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plaints before. Yes, you have complain for a week. Oh shade my
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wife. You live a six party board or pestin. Yes, the report
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says you wrote the window at that address the door boys locked. I brought
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one other night two when she locked me off, I would keep right on
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drinking them until she leaves doing unlocked. Maybe you better stop drinking. Yes,
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and they questions are identifications from the yard about umistanding. Number two was
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picked up in your neighborhood. And we look at the next puny nothing man.
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All right, all right, m bring on the next line. Have
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a call umistanding. Thank you here we from keep him much longer. Yeah,
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Sage and Graham should be here any minute from this, mister hunter man
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from Sage and Graham, Well, how do you do? Mister Hutter?
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Didn't grab a chair man? Nice? Hey, I voted for you in
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the last election, mister Hutter. Good, Yeah, didn't you spot anybody
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in the line at all. No coffee man, no nothings, mister Hunter.
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I can't think of anybody you would want to kill him. You can't
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remember seeing anybody's suspicious hang around your house? No, no, no,
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I can't. Sorry, well, none of your neighbors saw anybody you did.
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And here's a report from the lamb bomb is a time bomb on pieces
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of an old alarm clock. On the size of the explosion must have been
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about eight or ten sticks of dynamite. Sure lucky you and the family were
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in the back of the house. Very lucky. And we don't do our
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best to catch whom every once since probably just a crank man like myself,
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politic public figure. It makes a lot of enemies for one reason or another.
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Maybe this one didn't vote form filast election doctor, come to think of
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it, maybe well, we may want to talk to you again, sir
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Gusline. Yeah, oh yeah, how long ago? Anyone hurt? Right?
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Un another bombing one friend of yours council with Adams. What was he
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hurt? Yeah, I'm both he and his wife in the hospital. I've
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got a child child ruined the house where Adams and his wife hurt badly.
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Well, I don't know our ambulance took him away. I'll have to check
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with the hospital. This is awful. Everybody should certainly be warned. They
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will be, including the mayn. We'll put a man with here when your
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family and mister Hunter and the Meanwhile, we will go and look at this
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Adams house. Yes, clan, I got a man over here thanks to
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Layby. You saw the guy who play at the bottom. Let's go talk
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to him. I go over and talk to Chief Anderson, Matt. See
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what he's got to say about the damage. Yeah, this man's the labor
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that's the crow. This is a little tell of guttriy I, miss Crow,
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g anitie tennant. Let's move over here where we can start, all
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right, now tell a little talent. Just what you told me was to
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crow as well. Aw About a four thirty I was working in my backyard
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mowing the lawn, and I saw Missus Adams get into her corn drive out
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of the garage as well. About it. An hour later I went around
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front to get the holes, and that I saw an old truck full up
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across the seat. I saw a man get out, kind of an old
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man, you know, old clothes, and he went around the back of
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the truck and took out someday looked like a box and was about to about
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took the big guy again, then he hit it for the atom of his
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house. A couple of hours later, I was sitting in my living room
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and I saw him mister and missus out on his full up in front of
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that house and go in. A little while later, my wife and I
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were having dinner and the explosion happened. What's the most of the windows in
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our hut. I didn't think about the old guy with the box until I
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found out what had happened to night. I remembered reading about this other bombing
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yesterday. I figured that box the old guy was carrying might have been the
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bomb. Yeah. Can you remember what this whole guy looked like? Well
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it maybe if if I saw him again. And what kind of a truck
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was he driving? Oh, real old and really beat up at an old
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Ford or Chevy, you know, one of those pickups. What did you
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say? I said, you didn't get the license? Ill, no,
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why would I get it. I didn't even think anything about him. So
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after the explosion, Well, if you saw him again, be you think
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you might recognize him? Yeah? Yeah, I think so, But all
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right, thank you very much, mister Crump. We'll keep intention with him.
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Get Mr Crump's phone number and anything we might mean. All right,
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I'll be up with Math okay man, Yeah, ok Kutley, I I'm
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Matt hi bomb doing that bomb and the fire us Lord's dynamite and the last
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time little this room sky high, Oh watch out with the glare sellers exploded.
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Was right about here? Huh. Probably walked up to the side of
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the house doctor moments all opening in the foundation. Surprise nobody saw him.
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If somebody thinks he didn't, Yeah, you're better catch this boy. He
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hasn't killed anybody yet, but he's trying to be hard getting cold. Yeah,
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paper says, smell as you make out with Chrump. Nothing. He
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looked through the whole mud file. Not a thing and talk to the hospital
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this morning. Adams isn't going to be all right. No luck on that
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old Ford pickup. Why don't you turn up the heat? Okay, yeah,
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I bet we'd get a wizard. We'll do, you know, definitely.
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Yeah. What was he wearing? Well, that sounds like him.
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We'll be right down. Well, maybe we got the bomber twenty minutes ago
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picked up a man wearing old cover rolls and a dirty leather jacket coming out
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of a steak building and spotted him. Followed him three blocks before the grambling
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climbing into an old Ford pickup thirty sticks of dynamite in the bank of the
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trunk. Ah set man, Yeah, Ben, I got Crump sin he
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got from How many men are you're gonna show three besides the suspect? Okay,
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I'll go sit with Clump. Well, mister Crump, Oh, Lieutenant
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Gustry, I couldn't see. Yeah, Well, we want you to look
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at some suspect. Oh that's that's what Tige and Grab said. And we
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think one of them might be the man who planned to the bombs. Well,
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I hope I can help, all right, Ben, run him one
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here you quiet, all right, Come one, move out to the end
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of the space. Come on, get on coveralls and leather jacket. I'd
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take a good one, all right. The man in the end, Lieutenant,
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what about it? And that's the man, no doubt about it.
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I remember been in that song. I would he's the one that got out
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of the truck, all right, was the one with the box, all
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right? Matt run him off, and we'll need a statement from you,
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mister Krump, oh shure? And what were the others arrested for? They
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weren't, mister Krump. Were the others were police officers? Edmund O'Brien,
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who plays the title role in Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, will be on his
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latest case tomorrow night over most of these same CBS stations. In one of
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his most thrilling investigations, Johnny Dollar goes to London to join forces with the
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men from Scotland Yard in the Hatchet House Deft matter. How that London trip
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hads Johnny Dollar's famous old expense account. Don't miss Johnny Dollar on Wednesdays.
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He's gonna be a tough nut. Arresting officers couldn't get a thing out of
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him. We've got men over there talking with people in the State building.
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So far nobody would remembers seeing him. Comminute names. Lewis Black, Yeah,
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driver's license gave his address of nineteen Tennis Flower ashes over there in our
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checking. I wonder what he was doing in the State Building. I don't
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worried too him. I wonder if oh no, no, he couldn't have
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a big building I hope you're right. Hello, Lois, I'm gonna tell
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of Cuthriye, this is Sergeant grim Glenn. Yeah, let's see upstairs,
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right, Iss, Anonymous, I want to talk to you about these bombings.
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We know you made those bombs. The man saw you walk up to
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the Adams house with one of them. He's your cold. Yeah, I
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started to snow. That's right, that's right. Why don't you tell us
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about it? Why I made him? Why I made him? I don't
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have to tell you why you put one of them on the George Hunter's house.
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You know him? No, he but you don't know him pessionally.
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No? Did you know Adams? No? Well then why trying to kill
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him? Isn't there a heat? And here is something. I've been out
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of work. I've been out of work long. Yeah, Hunter or Adams
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have something to do with him. She don't want to know why I made
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those bombs, didn't she. We'd like to know. There's no fun being
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out of work. I've been out of work for a long time. You
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ever been out on Yeah, well then you know it's no fun. You're
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trying to get a down Oh sure I couldn't. I kept trying. I
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just couldn't get Do you have to sit in here? It's really getting kind
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of colan. Get out of here as soon as you tell us about it.
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Don't try to push I don't like being pushed around. I can stand
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it down as long as you can. We're not trying to push you.
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No, No, we don't like this any better than you do. It's
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just a job. Mcquarn said, to be somebody else. Okay, if
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you had a job, you're trying to do it the best you could,
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wouldn't you? Sure? I said jobs all the time, always did the
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best of kid? What kind of jobs? Did you go? All?
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All kinds of its? Minor once? I work in Pennsylvanias that way,
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you're from Pennsylvania. Yeah, I got all kinds of jobs once, and
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I couldn't get it to nobody is Yeah, that's the trouble. It's not
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enough. Job. Got to do something about getting jobs from people. A
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bunch of dirty politicians they don't worry about guys like me. Gonna make speeches,
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sure, yeah, they get elected and Undering like Adams and hunter Don
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like Adams, kind of a whole bunch. And the guy he's the worst
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woe of the bunch. He's the business. He could do something if he
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wanted to, but he don't. I ain't had a job in three years.
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You don't. I could take care of him like it at Adams and
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Hunter, wouldn't it. I'm not going to tell you anything. He think
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I'm gonna tell you something, but I'm not. What were you doing in
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this state building? Why don't you try and find out? Look, Lowis,
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we don't want you to get into any more trouble, and you're already.
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I don't want to talk anymore. I want to go back to my
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cell. I'm coold. You can go back to your sell us. So
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as you pe tell, can I see you about it? Yeah? Tells
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bad. We've got a chant of upstairs from the State building. Do you
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remember seeing it was black in at of the building by the side. Inference,
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he says black was carrying a big box. Holy Look, see that
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the State building is cleared as fast as possible. Rope off the street.
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Step on it all right, Lewis, I just found out that you kind
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of a bomb in a state building. I don't care what you find out.
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I'm in. I'm tired of playing with you. Where is that bomb?
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What did you put Oh, did you do anything? You want to
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get rough base? Now? I won't tell you where I put that on.
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Well, at least tell us when I set to go off. What
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time is that? It's six months to five. You won't find it.
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How much time for Montes again, everybody's out of the building. You probably
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want to put its No, he wants it to go off. We got
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him over in the car with walder Win Asham. They'll keep working on him
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alright, Sorry, car Captain Phillips, demolition expert Phillips and Gofrey Hope we
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can use you. Now what kind of Obama is quin? I'll tell you
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all we know. We've got to get into that building and trying to find
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it. Thirty minute there now, covering every four I was in China.
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Harrison he's in the basement. Come on, then, time can get about
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twenty five minutes more less anyway, not tenant, Harrison's still in the basement.
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Yeah, here anything any now? How much time we got us than
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twenty five minutes? What orders did you give? Now? If the bomb's
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found, it's to be taken directly to the street. We've still got any
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time my car, I'll drive it to a safe place that army man get
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here. Yeah, well, this is the way I want it to go.
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It's uh five thirteen by my watch. I set your watch right now,
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exactly five twenty five. All your men out of him? Tell him
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I got ten minutes to get clear. We'll go tell the rest on the
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other floors, right then, can you want to know of it? A
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man? Sure? I take the second floor. I'll take the ordinance,
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third, fifth, and so on. You sure they set their watches with
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yours, sergeant, Yes, gotta watch, yes, set up with mine.
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Five seconds. It'll be five fourteen thirty five. Now okay, have
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all your an office fall by five twenty five twenty five? Man, yea,
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everybody's out, you know, Well what are we doing? That's a
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good question. Black wasn't lying. We've got something like ten minutes. Man,
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Yeah, go out to the car and get black. Huh, go
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out and get black maybe the last thing I do. But I'm gonna point
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out where that farm is. Go on, get out. Oh okay,
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give me a little trouble, all right, get out of here? Then?
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Why get out of here? Wait a minute, who would you find
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out what the bomb is? Who's gonna watch Black while you get it.
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I worry about that. When I get time, I'm staying. Okay,
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I can't art. How about it, Black, you want to tell us
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where it is? Never find it? Time is? I can't scare me.
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I think you could keep me here. I tell you where the bomb
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is in five minutes, So I guess you know very smart. I said
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fourteen minutes or maybe four it, but maybe I can't be sure. My
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go off when he said that, I guess who are you kidd And you
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won't stay and here you're ski listen, Black, get done like we're scanned.
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So help me. You're gonna tell us where that bomb is or it's
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gonna blow all of the sky high. Now shut up unless you want to
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tell me. I'm not afraid to die. You're gonna have a chance.
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Eight stories in this building. Yeah, if it's too far away, we
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may not have time anymore. You're gonna stay right here until you tell us
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where it is. To you, I want I have twenty nine. Black,
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you're not doing anything but wrecking a building and killing yourself. You can't
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get the governor. He's been taken out and made me tell you. Okay,
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okay, how much dynamites in that bomb. Lewis fifty sticks. Okay,
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guess right about the time. Yeah, yeah, I told you which
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now mm hmmm, gonna be a big one, Lewis. Why don't you
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tell us? I can stand it if you cheat? I have thirty?
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All right? All right? The first choice step on? How much tip?
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Is it? Not much? Can you stop it? Where where the
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big plat to see? In the bus? How you get up? I
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get the charts the spot right about here? Give him a bus town on
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time in my hand? Won we couldn't find it? You see it?
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Well, grab it right? Hand it down? Okay it out? He
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let go off? Can I tear off these boards without setting it off?
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Let's wing it? Tell me while I rest, No, I don't.
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Please, let's get out of here. Here. You want to get out
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of here, you'll better remember whole the lad can bring the lamb goes off
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and causes the circuit bag. Okay, I'll take it apart. Let me
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come on last, tell me tell me from the mate of the day my
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poll of movies. Okay, now you surely doesn't. Yeah, all right,
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let's get it out to this st Can you make it all right?
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Then? Yeah, alright, let's go on. Alright, Lewis Wow,
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it would have it. I may be it may be late to the station
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in the morning. I'm gonna take my alarm clock. I'm sure it as
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far as I can. The line up, where before you passed the innocent,
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System. Welcome back. It's funny, you know, having Howard mcneir playing
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the crazy, out there bomber guy. And he's best known for the role
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