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  Speaker 1: It is New Year's Eve, and Lamont Cranston and Margo
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Lane find themselves living the same day again, while nearly
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: everyone around them remains unaware. Their search leads from a
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  Speaker 1: New York celebration to the home of Dr. Willard, a
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  Speaker 1: gravely ill scientist whose experiment may be connected to the
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  Speaker 1: danger facing his cousin, Hughes. From January 1st, 1939, this
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  Speaker 1: is episode 153 of The Shadow, The Man Who Murdered Time,
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  Speaker 1: starring Bill Johnstone as Lamont Cranston and Agnes Moorhead as
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: Margot Lane. The original mutual broadcast was sponsored by Blue Coal.
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  Speaker 1: We now take you back to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: The Shadow.
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  Speaker 3: Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
• 1:06
  Speaker 3: The shadow knows.
• 1:08
  Speaker 2: The shadow knows.
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  Speaker 4: While we're waiting for the first act of the Shadow's
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  Speaker 4: latest adventure to begin, I'd like to ask every motorist
• 1:42
  Speaker 4: to do this. Take a ride on the new Goodrich
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  Speaker 4: Safety Silvertown tire. See for yourself how it grips wet,
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  Speaker 4: slippery roads like you never felt a tire grip before.
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  Speaker 4: That's because the amazing Silvertown Lifesaver tread acts like a
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  Speaker 4: battery of windshield wipers. Sweeps wet roads so dry you
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  Speaker 4: can light a match on its tracks. For the quickest
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  Speaker 4: non-skid stops you've ever had, equip your car with Goodrich
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  Speaker 4: Silvertown tires. The shadow, mysterious character who aids those in
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  Speaker 4: distress and helps the forces of law and order, is
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  Speaker 4: in reality Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man about town. Cranston's
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  Speaker 4: friend and companion, the lovely Margo Lane, is the only
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  Speaker 4: person who knows to whom the unseen voice belongs. The
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  Speaker 4: only one who knows the true identity of that master
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  Speaker 4: of other people's minds, the Shadow.
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  Speaker 5: Today's story, The Man Who Murdered Time. Yes, Stuart? Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Cranston, on behalf of all the employees of the club,
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  Speaker 6: I wish to thank you for your generous New Year's
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  Speaker 6: gift to the personnel.
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  Speaker 5: It's quite all right, Stuart. Happy New Year.
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  Speaker 2: The same to you, sir.
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  Speaker 6: And may I thank you too, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Hughes, for your gift.
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  Speaker 2: You're very welcome, Stuart. Happy New Year.
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  Speaker 7: Happy New Year to you, sir.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I could have made it more, Cranston. But
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  Speaker 2: it hasn't been a terribly good.
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  Speaker 3: Year for me.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry to hear it, Hughes. Oh, by the way,
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  Speaker 5: how is Mrs. Hughes feeling these days?
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  Speaker 3: Poorly.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the doctors at the sanitarium say she may pull
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  Speaker 2: out of it next year. That's why I'm looking forward
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  Speaker 2: to the new year so eagerly.
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  Speaker 5: Well, use it, sir. There's anything I can do in
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  Speaker 5: the way of financial assistance.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, old man, but it won't be necessary. I expect
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  Speaker 2: to be out of debt very shortly.
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  Speaker 5: Business improving?
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  Speaker 2: No, a trust fund is coming due in two weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Inheritance from my Uncle Matthew, you know.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'm delighted to hear it, use it. Four o'clock.
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  Speaker 3: Well, only eight hours to a brand new year and
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  Speaker 3: new hope for all of us.
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  Speaker 2: Amen to that.
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  Speaker 5: You're coming to my New Year's Eve party tonight, aren't you?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I meant to tell you, Cranston, I... I'll be late.
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  Speaker 2: I got a call this morning from a second cousin
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  Speaker 2: of mine. Wants me to come to see him this evening.
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  Speaker 2: Brilliant scientist, but I suspect he's losing his mind.
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Know what he claims to have invented? A time machine.
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  Speaker 5: A time machine?
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Fantastic, isn't it?
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  Speaker 3: Come, Hughes. Is anything really fantastic in the modern world
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  Speaker 3: of science? Thirty years ago, the notion that a human
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  Speaker 3: voice could circle the earth without the aid of wires
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  Speaker 3: would have been called not only fantastic, but impossible. Radio,
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  Speaker 3: electric light, airplanes, all were called fantastic in their time,
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  Speaker 3: but today they're accepted facts.
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  Speaker 5: Why not the time machine?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm from Missouri. Anyway, I'm really going to see
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  Speaker 2: my cousin, not because of his alleged invention, but because
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  Speaker 2: he's dying.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, that's too bad.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the poor chap's got an incurable heart condition. He
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  Speaker 2: told me his doctors don't give him more than a
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  Speaker 2: few days to live. Well, I've got to be off.
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  Speaker 5: See you tonight, then, Hughes.
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  Speaker 2: Only a miracle will keep me away, Cranston. A miracle
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  Speaker 2: like the time machine.
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  Speaker 5: Here, Willard.
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  Speaker 2: Drink this water.
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  Speaker 5: There.
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  Speaker 2: Feel better now?
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, it's better used.
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps you'd better get into bed, Willard. Frankly, I didn't
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  Speaker 2: expect to find you up and about, dressed to kill.
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  Speaker 5: Dressed to kill. Very good. Such an apt phrase. Well,
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  Speaker 5: why not? This is probably the last day of my life.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure it's not as bad as all that, Willard.
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  Speaker 5: You take care of yourself. Come, come, Hughes. I'll never
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  Speaker 5: see the new year. That's what you're really thinking.
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  Speaker 2: Know what I've done today?
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  Speaker 3: What, Willard?
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  Speaker 7: The things I've wanted to do all my life. Packed
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  Speaker 7: them all into this one long, glorious day. I've smoked
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  Speaker 7: $ 2 cigars, eaten the finest foods, bought thousands of dollars
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  Speaker 7: worth of completely useless things just for the fun of
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  Speaker 7: indulging myself.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm broke.
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  Speaker 6: I am.
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  Speaker 2: Then how did you.
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  Speaker 5: Borrowed, dear cousin.
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  Speaker 7: Spent other people's money, incurred enormous debts. Payable next year.
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  Speaker 7: Next year, which will never come.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, Willard. Oh, what are you sorry about? I'm not.
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  Speaker 5: As a matter of fact, I've just begun to celebrate.
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  Speaker 5: And you must join me, Hughes.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely insist. I bought a marvelous sherry today. A rare vintage.
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  Speaker 2: You rang, sir? Really? Well, you needn't bother.
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  Speaker 5: The sherry, John.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 3: I have it here, sir. Fine, fine.
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  Speaker 2: Put it on the table. Shall I pour, sir?
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  Speaker 5: No, I'll do it myself. That's all, John.
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  Speaker 2: Very good.
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  Speaker 6: Here you are, Hughes.
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  Speaker 5: Drink hearty. Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: How do you like it?
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  Speaker 2: Nectar.
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  Speaker 7: Ambrosia, huh?
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  Speaker 2: It has a peculiar flavor, hasn't it? Oh, it'll go
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  Speaker 2: on you. Finish it, Hughes.
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  Speaker 5: Drink to my last day on earth.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, no, Willard. Not to that.
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  Speaker 5: To my last day on earth.
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  Speaker 2: And yours, my dear cousin. To my last day?
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  Speaker 7: Hughes, I told you that today I meant to satisfy
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  Speaker 7: every ambition I ever had. Well, I've left for the
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  Speaker 7: last my greatest ambition of all.
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  Speaker 2: To kill you To kill me? You're joking.
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  Speaker 5: Think so, Hughes?
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  Speaker 2: But why? What have I ever done to you?
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  Speaker 7: What haven't you done to me? You've been a bone
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  Speaker 7: in my throat ever since we were boys together.
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  Speaker 2: I believe you're really serious.
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  Speaker 7: If I hadn't been for you, I'd have been Uncle
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  Speaker 7: Matthew's fair-haired boy, his favorite, his pet. He would have
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  Speaker 7: raised me in luxury instead of you.
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  Speaker 2: You quarreled with him.
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  Speaker 5: You were a.
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  Speaker 7: He would have left me his money, not you, you Judas.
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  Speaker 7: You had everything while I starved, scraped, suffered.
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  Speaker 5: I've brooded over that, my fine cousin, a whole lifetime.
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  Speaker 7: And now, this wonderful day, this last day of the year,
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  Speaker 7: I'm going to kill you. I'm going to kill you,
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  Speaker 7: not once, but a thousand times. You see that machine
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  Speaker 7: in the corner?
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  Speaker 2: I see, Willis.
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  Speaker 5: Calm down.
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  Speaker 7: That's my time machine.
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  Speaker 2: Your time machine, yes. I remember your saying.
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  Speaker 7: Do you know what this machine can do? It can
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  Speaker 7: prevent the future from happening.
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  Speaker 2: The future from happening? Oh, now, now, look, Willard, look.
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  Speaker 2: Let me call your physician. I'll be a fool.
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  Speaker 5: Machine as you are.
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  Speaker 7: That's a scientific machine, not a madman's toy. Do you
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  Speaker 7: know how it works? Of course not. I'll explain it
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  Speaker 7: in simple terms. Use what is time.
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  Speaker 2: Why, time is.
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  Speaker 7: Time is like a railroad track. A straight railroad track used...
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  Speaker 7: And the world is a train running along that track.
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  Speaker 7: On the track behind us lies yesterday, December 30th. Today,
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  Speaker 7: we're traveling along that section of track we call December 31st.
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  Speaker 7: And at midnight tonight, the train, you, I, the whole universe...
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  Speaker 7: is scheduled to plunge straight ahead into January 1st of
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  Speaker 7: the new year. You follow me so far, Hughes?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. What is this to do with your so-called time machine?
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  Speaker 5: Just this.
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  Speaker 7: By using a revolutionary principle of physics, my own discovery...
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  Speaker 7: My machine bends the straight track of time, curves it,
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  Speaker 7: curves it, so that the time track forms a perfect circle.
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  Speaker 2: You fool, it's a scientific fact.
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  Speaker 5: I've done it.
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  Speaker 2: Mad, I say, mad.
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  Speaker 5: Listen to me, Hughes.
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  Speaker 7: At midnight tonight, when I turn on the switch, time
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  Speaker 7: will instantly be curved back on itself. So that instead
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  Speaker 7: of continuing into January 1st, we'll go back 24 hours.
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  Speaker 7: We'll live December 31st over again and again and again
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  Speaker 7: like a phonograph needle caught in a groove.
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  Speaker 2: You expect me to believe that this day will never end?
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  Speaker 2: That you're going to make December 31st repeat itself forever?
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  Speaker 5: Laugh, you fool. You won't laugh long.
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  Speaker 7: Today I've been especially careful to make it the fullest,
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  Speaker 7: happiest day of my life because I'm going to live
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  Speaker 7: this wonderful day forever. I'll catch time in that groove
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  Speaker 7: and hold it there The future will never come. I'll
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  Speaker 7: never have to pay my debts. Despite my bad heart,
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  Speaker 7: I'll never die. I'll have to be as insane as
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  Speaker 7: you to believe that.
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  Speaker 2: Would you like a demonstration? Playing the farce out to
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  Speaker 2: the end, are you?
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  Speaker 5: Well, go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Demonstrate.
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  Speaker 7: That's the proper scientific spirit, Hughes. I'll set the machine
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  Speaker 7: to a merely this house and ourselves. What incident of
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  Speaker 7: the last half hour do you want me to make
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  Speaker 7: repeat itself?
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  Speaker 3: Choose.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, the butler and the sherry. John and the sherry, eh?
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  Speaker 3: Very good.
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  Speaker 7: And I want you to bear in mind that just
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  Speaker 7: as time will be repeated here in this room for
• 10:18
  Speaker 7: the next few moments... So can I repeat time throughout
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  Speaker 7: the whole world, not once, but again and again. Now,
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  Speaker 7: let me adjust my machine.
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  Speaker 3: There.
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  Speaker 2: Now to close the circuit.
• 10:49
  Speaker 5: You rang, sir?
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  Speaker 2: Really well.
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  Speaker 5: What do you mean, father?
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  Speaker 3: The sherry, John.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 7: I have it here, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Fine, fine. Put it on the table. Shall I pour, sir? No,
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  Speaker 2: I'll do it myself.
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  Speaker 5: That's all, John. Very good, sir.
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  Speaker 3: There.
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  Speaker 7: The automatic circuit cut us off and we're back in
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  Speaker 7: ordinary time again. Convinced, Hughes?
• 11:19
  Speaker 2: It can't be. It's impossible.
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  Speaker 5: It's a trick, a dream, a nightmare.
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  Speaker 2: You'll be saying that for all eternity. I'm getting out
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  Speaker 2: of here.
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  Speaker 7: Are you, cousin? Try it if you can.
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  Speaker 3: I can't.
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  Speaker 5: I'm paralyzed.
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  Speaker 2: I can't get out of this chair.
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  Speaker 7: You feel pain now, don't you, Hughes?
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, horrible pain.
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  Speaker 7: You shouldn't have drunk the sherry, Hughes.
• 11:42
  Speaker 2: Your grass contained.
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  Speaker 5: A slow poison, you see.
• 11:45
  Speaker 6: No!
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  Speaker 1: No, help!
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  Speaker 8: Help!
• 11:47
  Speaker 7: There's an antidote on the table. You see that little
• 11:49
  Speaker 7: green bottle here is just beyond the reach of your fingers?
• 11:52
  Speaker 3: Isn't it ironic?
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  Speaker 7: If you could only move your arm five inches.
• 11:57
  Speaker 3: Try.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you can't. Dear me, how very, very sad.
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  Speaker 7: All you can do is look at the antidote while
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  Speaker 7: you die in agony.
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  Speaker 2: Please, please, will it help me? Help me! I don't
• 12:10
  Speaker 2: want to die!
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  Speaker 7: Just a little while now, cousin, a little while. It's
• 12:14
  Speaker 7: almost midnight. You'll die just before midnight. And then I'll
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  Speaker 7: turn on my machine, set it to affect the whole
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  Speaker 7: world forever, and time all over the world will snap
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  Speaker 7: back 24 hours. Everybody in the world will live December
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  Speaker 7: 31st over again and again, forever and ever.
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: You too, you.
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  Speaker 7: You'll visit me again. Drink the poison cherry again.
• 12:33
  Speaker 3: Die again. Live again.
• 12:35
  Speaker 4: Die again.
• 12:43
  Speaker 3: Oh, Lamont, this party of yours is the loveliest New
• 12:51
  Speaker 3: Year's Eve party I ever attended.
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  Speaker 5: Margo, you dance beautifully.
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  Speaker 7: Thanks, Lamont.
• 12:57
  Speaker 3: I wonder what's.
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  Speaker 2: Happened to yours. You said he'd be late, but I didn't.
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  Speaker 5: Hold it, everybody!
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  Speaker 1: Here comes the New Year!
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Lamont!
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  Speaker 2: Happy New Year, Lamar. Not yet, Margo.
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  Speaker 1: Eight.
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  Speaker 5: Nine.
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: Ten. Eleven. Ten.
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  Speaker 8: Why, Lamont, where are we? I'm still in your arms
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  Speaker 8: dancing with you, but it's not the party, the New
• 13:47
  Speaker 8: Year's Eve party in your apartment. How could that be?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, Margot.
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  Speaker 8: What was that awful crash?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know. But look around you, Margot.
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  Speaker 2: We're dancing in the Honolulu Club.
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  Speaker 8: But we were dancing in the Honolulu Club right here
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  Speaker 8: last night. Last night at midnight, I... I mean, 24
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  Speaker 8: hours ago. Oh, I don't know what I mean.
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  Speaker 5: Keep dancing with me, Margot. I've got to figure this out.
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  Speaker 5: It seems like a dream, and yet.
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  Speaker 2: That's it, Lamont.
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  Speaker 3: It's a dream.
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  Speaker 8: I dreamed through the whole day, December 31st, right up
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  Speaker 8: to midnight. Then that crash, and I woke up here
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  Speaker 8: in the Honolulu club.
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  Speaker 5: Margot, it wasn't a dream, I tell you.
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: Then what was it, Lamont?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 14:30
  Speaker 5: I don't know. But something's gone wrong, Margot. Something's gone
• 14:34
  Speaker 5: wrong with the whole world.
• 14:35
  Speaker 8: But everything seems all right, Lamont.
• 14:38
  Speaker 5: Margot, hold on to me. Don't let go. Let's walk
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  Speaker 5: back to our table.
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  Speaker 8: All right, but I don't understand.
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: Keep holding on to me.
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: Margot, do you remember last night, just about this time
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: as we were dancing, a waiter accidentally dropped a whole
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: tray full of dishes?
• 14:54
  Speaker 8: Why, yes, that's so, Lamont.
• 14:57
  Speaker 6: Lamont, it happened.
• 14:59
  Speaker 8: He dropped it just as he did last night.
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: I see it all now, Margot.
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: We actually lived through December 31st.
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  Speaker 2: We, everybody, the whole world.
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: But just as the last stroke of midnight came, something
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: happened to time.
• 15:15
  Speaker 5: Time?
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 15:16
  Speaker 5: Time snapped back 24 hours.
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: Instead of going on to January 1st, the world went
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: back to the first moment of December 31st.
• 15:24
  Speaker 8: But nobody else seems to realize what's happened.
• 15:27
  Speaker 5: Yes, that is strange.
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: Apparently, everybody's forgotten that they lived through the last day
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: of the year.
• 15:32
  Speaker 8: Why do we remember?
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: Margot... I believe that the same power that makes me
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: invisible to others has something to do with this. What
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: do you mean, Lamont? Years ago in India, I was
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: studying with a yogi priest. I developed my powers of concentration,
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: my power of will, to such an extent that apparently
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: this accident of time doesn't affect me. How long I'll
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: be able to fight against it, I don't know.
• 15:54
  Speaker 8: But I haven't your power, Lamont.
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: Why do I remember, too? Margot, because if the instant
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: time flashed back, You happened to be dancing with me.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: You were in my arms, within the aura of my will,
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: my influence.
• 16:06
  Speaker 6: No.
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: Just so long as you're touching me, you'll remember, too.
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: Oh, Lamont, I can't believe it.
• 16:12
  Speaker 6: I can't.
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: Well, then try it.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: Let go of me.
• 16:15
  Speaker 6: Go on.
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: Let go, Margo.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: Well, all right.
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: You're right, Lamont.
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: You remember the Higgins, don't you? Yes, that's the family.
• 16:22
  Speaker 8: Well, they're very anxious that you and I go south
• 16:24
  Speaker 8: of the Vichy.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: Margo.
• 16:27
  Speaker 8: What am I saying?
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: What happened?
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: Oh, Lamont, you're holding me again. Margot, the instant you
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: let go of me, you said exactly what you said
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: 24 hours before. When I grabbed you, you snapped back,
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: free of the new time spell. Then it's true.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, Lamont, I'm afraid.
• 16:44
  Speaker 8: Don't let go of me.
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: Steady, Margot.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, but it's horrible.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: People will go on.
• 16:48
  Speaker 8: Living through December 31st to eternity, never knowing, never realizing.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: Lamont, there'll never be a new year.
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: You're absolutely right. Unless this can be stopped.
• 16:58
  Speaker 8: But how can anyone stop it?
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: Nothing human could have caused a thing like.
• 17:01
  Speaker 7: This to happen.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: I'm not so sure, Margot. Hughes told me that a
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: cousin of his, a brilliant scientist... claimed to have invented
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: a time machine. That cousin of Hughes may be responsible
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: for what's happened to time. But who is this man?
• 17:15
  Speaker 7: Where did he live?
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: Hughes didn't say.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: I'll have to find him some way.
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: And when I do, Margot, it'll.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: Be as the shadow.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: Perhaps the shadow will be able to switch time back
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: to normal. Bring the new year.
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: to a world doomed.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: To live a day which never ends.
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: In just a minute, the curtain rises on Act II
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: of The Shadow's Adventure. Meanwhile, a word to you, motorist.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: Do you slow down passing the school? Do you pass
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: other cars on a hill? Do you come to a
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: full stop at street intersections?
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: The shadow wanders. The terrific toll of deaths and injuries
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: indicates that too many motorists fail to exercise caution, fail
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: to consider the other fellow. Play safe. It pays.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: And motorists, here's one thing more. If you only realize
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: the importance that safe tires, too, play in safe motoring...
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: You wouldn't hesitate a minute to put the new Goodrich
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: Safety Silvertowns with the Lifesaver tread on your car. Oh, remember,
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: this new Silvertown is much more than a new tire.
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: It's a new kind of tire safety. On the inside,
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: it has the famous blowout protection of the Goodrich Golden Fly.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: And on the outside, it has the amazing new Lifesaver tread.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: The tread that sweeps wet roads so dry, you can
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: actually light a match on its track. Yes, sir, that's
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: plenty dry. So it's hardly surprising that Silvertowns will give
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: you the quickest non-skid stops you've ever had.
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: Margot, keep holding on to me. I will, Lamont.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: We can walk.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: My apartment isn't far.
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: Oh, why don't you let me come with you?
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: No, Margot.
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: This is the shadow's job. It may be dangerous. I
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: want you to be safe.
• 19:21
  Speaker 8: Safe in a world gone mad?
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: Watch yourself.
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: The streets are slippery with ice.
• 19:26
  Speaker 7: Here.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: Hold on to me more tightly.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: We'll cross here.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: What happened? It's an accident.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: It hit my cab.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: Here comes a cop.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Somebody call an ambulance.
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: That woman turned.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: Oh, how awful.
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: Come on. Do you remember, Margo? Last night?
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: On this very spot? Same taxi.
• 19:49
  Speaker 8: It's corner, same poor woman struck down.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: It's happened all over again. Yes, Margo. And it'll happen
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: all over again every 24 hours, from now until doomsday. Oh,
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: it's frightening. Look at that woman, over and over. Unless
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: I can put time back on its track, Margo. I must.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: Let's hurry.
• 20:08
  Speaker 8: Oh, look at that poor man shivering in the doorway there.
• 20:11
  Speaker 7: He hasn't even an overcoat.
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: He looks hungry, poor devil.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: Margo, remember last night? In a moment, he'll step out
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: of that doorway and ask me for a dime.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Excuse me, mister.
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: Could you give me a dime for a cup of coffee?
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: I'm so cold, I'm freezing.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: Oh, thanks.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Thanks, mister.
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: There's one thing I'm glad of, Lamont.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: He doesn't know.
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: He doesn't know he's doomed to shiver and freeze and.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: Starve like that forever.
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: And millions like him.
• 20:40
  Speaker 8: Millions of unfortunate shivering and starving all over the world tonight.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: That machine. I must find that machine. Well, here we are, Margot.
• 20:52
  Speaker 8: Don't bother to take me up. There's so much for
• 20:54
  Speaker 8: you to do.
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: So much, Lamont.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: The doorman will let me in.
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: It's exactly the same time we got home last night.
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: Good evening, Miss Lane. Bad night, ain't it?
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Hurry, Lamont.
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: Find Hughes's cousin. Since time's repeating himself.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: Hughes will meet me in the afternoon at my club.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: Just as he met me yesterday. We'll talk as we
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: talk then. Perhaps he'll be able to tell me.
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: Lamont, what's the matter? You're so pale suddenly. It's funny.
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: I felt weak just then. Except my strength.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: The strength of my will were fading away... Could it
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: be that I do? You mustn't.
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: You've got to be strong. The world needs your strength.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Let go of me, Margot.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: You're draining my power. My strength away. Let go of it.
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: The wind is very biting, Miss Lane.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Yes, it is.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Fred, will you take me up to my apartment? Yes, sure,
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Miss Lane.
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: Gone. Safe upstairs.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: Goodbye, Margot. Until tomorrow. Tomorrow ever comes.
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: Cranston, on behalf of all the employees of the club,
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: I wish to thank you for your generous New Year's
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: gift to the personnel.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: Listen to me. Don't you hear?
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: Don't you understand what I'm saying to you? And may
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: I thank you too, Mr. Hughes, for your gift.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: You're very welcome, Stuart. Happy New Year.
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: Happy New Year to you.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: Stuart, stop.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: I wish I could have made it more, Cranston, but
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: it hasn't been a terribly good year for me.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: Hughes, let me take your hand. You're merely repeating what
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: you said 24 hours ago. Poorly. Now listen to me.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Who is your cousin?
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: Who is he?
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: Where does he live? He's not attuned to my will.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: I'll have to follow him.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: Make him lead me to this cousin of his. I
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: must concentrate. My willpower seems to be failing. I must
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: hold on until Hughes visits his cousin.
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: Convinced?
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: Hughes?
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: Can't be.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: It's impossible, Willard. It's a trick, a dream, a nightmare.
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: You'll be saying that for all eternity.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: I'm getting out of here. Are you, cousin?
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: Fido, if you can. I can't. I can't. I'm paralyzed.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: I can't get out of this chair.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: Hughes, you can. You're not paralyzed.
• 23:13
  Speaker 7: Now, don't you use.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: Horrible pain. Hughes, there is no pain.
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: Hughes shouldn't have drunk.
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: Hughes, hear me.
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: Your glass is stained with slow poison. No. No, help.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: Help. I have helped you, Hughes. You are not poisoned.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: I substituted this antidote for the poison in the glass
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: of sherry Willard handed you. You're not poisoned, I tell you.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: Exert your will. Attune it to mine. Try to get
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: out of that chair.
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: Hold me. Hold me. Now try. I've broken the grip
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: on the time spell a little. I made something happen
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: that didn't happen yesterday. You did something just now you
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: didn't do then. You drank the antidote instead of the poison.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: Try again. Try, Hughes. I heard a voice. A voice.
• 24:00
  Speaker 8: But there's no one here.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: No one but... Try. Try, it said. Chair. Out of chair.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: I'm standing.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: I'm free.
• 24:11
  Speaker 8: Free.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: Thank the Lord. Hughes, can you hear me now?
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: Who are you?
• 24:16
  Speaker 8: Who are you?
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: I see only Willis.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: I don't think he sees me.
• 24:19
  Speaker 8: I see someone holding me. Who are you?
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: Never mind who I am, Hughes. Get out of this
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: house at once. Go to the home of your friend,
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: Lamont Cranston. Yes, yes. You are to attend a New
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: Year's Eve party there. Remember? Yes, sir. I seem to remember.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Go now, Hughes. You don't need me to hold you now.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: I will you to go.
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: A little while now, Cranston.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: A little while.
• 24:43
  Speaker 7: It's almost midnight. You'll die just before midnight.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: Where am I? Who is that? You feel my power now,
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: will it? I'm holding you fast. Fast, do you hear?
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: My will. Submit to my will. It dominates you. It
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: snatches you from the field of that evil time spell
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: you cast over the world.
• 25:07
  Speaker 7: I'm powerless in the grip of some invisible force.
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: And it speaks.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: Who are you?
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: Who?
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: I am the shadow. The shadow? Dr. Willard. You are
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: guilty of the greatest crime ever perpetrated against mankind... You
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: thought to condemn the rest of the world to an
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: eternity of cold and darkness and suffering.
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: No, no, I didn't mean to do that.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: You wanted an eternal life of pleasure, of evil. You
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: tried to stave off forever the death that hung over
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: you like a sword.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: I don't want to die.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: To satisfy your selfishness, you tried to, you did, break
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: the laws of nature. And so you must be punished, Dr. Willard, punished.
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: Oh.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: In a moment, I shall smash your devilish time machine,
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: reduce it to sprinters and scraps, And the instant the
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: machine is smashed, time will snap back to normal. Instantaneously,
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: time will take up where it left off. When you
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: put the machine into operation. And so will come what
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: you thought to destroy forever. The new year. The blessed
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: new year that means new hope and happiness for the
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: good and the innocent people of the world. While for you,
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: it will bring what God decreed for you. Death. No.
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: No, don't smash the machine. Give me one more day
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: of life, just one, and I'll smash it myself.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: Not one hour, not one minute, not one second. Don't
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: let me die! Stop! Eleven. Twelve.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: It's the new year, Lamont.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Yes, Margot.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: The new year.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: At last.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: Why, Hughes.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sorry to be late, Franson. I don't know
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: what happened to me. I feel as if I just
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: woke up from a bad dream. I found myself running.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Running up here.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: Mr.
• 27:01
  Speaker 8: Hughes, you're ill.
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: No, he's all right, Margot.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: You are all right, aren't you, Hughes? I guess I am.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: What time is it? It's just past 12 o'clock, Mr.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Hughes.
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: Happy New Year.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: New Year? Well, yes. Happy New Year, everybody.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Happy New Year, Hughes. Happy New Year.
• 27:16
  Speaker 8: As a matter of fact, Lamont, it seems to me
• 27:18
  Speaker 8: I had a dream, too.
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: The strangest sort of dream. Perhaps you did, Margo.
• 27:23
  Speaker 7: Well, anyway, happy New Year, Lamont.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: Happy New Year. THE END Oh, my God.
• 29:11
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• 29:14
  Speaker 4: Shadow Magazine. All the characters and all the places named
• 29:17
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• 29:21
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• 29:25
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• 29:30
  Speaker 3: The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: The Shadow knows.
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