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Suspense - "A Plane Case of Murder" (Old Time Radio, 1946) · Suspense | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: On October first, nineteen forty six, Suspense presented Episode zero,
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  Speaker 1: A Plane Case of Murder. John Lunn stars as Randy Judson,
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  Speaker 1: recently returned from wartime imprisonment in the Philippines, who finds
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  Speaker 1: that Marion, the woman he expected to marry, is now
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  Speaker 1: weed to wealthy cattleman ed Randy's work selling aircraft brings
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  Speaker 1: the former couple together again, while a private airplane and
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  Speaker 1: a post war airfield become part of a dangerous arrangement.
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  Speaker 1: Kathy Lewis plays Marion, with Hans Conried, Jerry Hausner, Bill Johnstone,
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  Speaker 1: and Joe Kerns in the cast. The script is credited
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  Speaker 1: to Robert L. Richards And now we returned to the
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  Speaker 1: original broadcast and.
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  Speaker 4: Roma Wines wring you mister John Lund as star of
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  Speaker 4: A Plain Case of Murder, a suspense play produce edited
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  Speaker 4: and directed for Roma Wines by William Spear.
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  Speaker 2: Suspence Radio's outstanding theater of thrills is presented for your
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  Speaker 2: The young actor who has just made such an auspicious
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  Speaker 2: screen debut in the paramount picture to each his Own,
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  Speaker 2: John Lund appears as Randy with Kathy Lewis as Marion
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  Speaker 2: into Night's Tale of Suspence.
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  Speaker 3: How are you feeling now, Judge? Who was he?
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  Speaker 5: You're the doctor hanshide over those other two guys, they're
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  Speaker 5: from the District Attorney's office.
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  Speaker 3: I suppose I might have known.
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  Speaker 5: The first thing I opened my eyes, I'd see those
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  Speaker 5: vultures hovering around.
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  Speaker 6: I suppose, right, all right, I'm gonna tell us about it.
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  Speaker 6: Why should I as to keep the record straight and
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  Speaker 6: save us a lot of trouble?
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  Speaker 3: And you've got nothing to lose. How do you figure that?
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  Speaker 6: Because they're going to carry you out of here with
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  Speaker 6: a sheet over your face before morning?
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  Speaker 3: Is that right? Doc? Afraid?
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  Speaker 7: That's right?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, take this downs, Kunny, gotcha.
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  Speaker 5: You can call it a plane case of murder spelled.
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  Speaker 3: P L A. N e. I make joke, get it? Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: very very funny.
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  Speaker 5: I'd been home three weeks when I finally broke down
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  Speaker 5: and called her, and she said to come on out.
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  Speaker 3: Her husband wouldn't be home. It's funny.
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  Speaker 5: I'd already met Dorothy, but I called Marion anyway. Maybe
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  Speaker 5: I was crazy with hate even then. Maybe it was
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  Speaker 5: what I'd been through, stuck in one of those civilian
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  Speaker 5: concentration camps out from the Philippines for three long years,
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  Speaker 5: and all the time dreaming about Marian, making up endless
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  Speaker 5: little scenes about how happy I was going to be
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  Speaker 5: when it was all over with Marian. So it seemed
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  Speaker 5: that all I was living and fighting for was Marian.
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  Speaker 5: The whole war was just for Marian. And then to
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  Speaker 5: come back and find she's married to this other guy,
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  Speaker 5: something like that, he'll do things to you no matter
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  Speaker 5: how good you are.
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  Speaker 3: And so once she told me to come.
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  Speaker 5: Out, I went why a sort of horrible fascination. I
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  Speaker 5: suppose to see it with my own eyes. I already
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  Speaker 5: knew from everything i'd heard that she'd married the guy
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  Speaker 5: for his money, and that the Marian I'd been dreaming
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  Speaker 5: about all those years was just another cheap, little gold digger.
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  Speaker 5: I went up to the big front door and rang
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  Speaker 5: the bell. She must have seen me coming up the drive,
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  Speaker 5: because there she was right.
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  Speaker 3: Away and let me in herself. My dream girl, Marian.
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  Speaker 7: Randy, Hello, Marian, Hello, Randy.
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  Speaker 3: Do you mind if I come in?
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  Speaker 7: Of course, not.
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  Speaker 8: Come on.
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  Speaker 7: Here's a little more private.
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  Speaker 3: What do we need to be private about?
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  Speaker 7: Oh? I thought we'd like to have a little talk.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, let's have a little talk.
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  Speaker 8: Oh Randy, Please don't be bitter. Don't you see? I
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  Speaker 8: couldn't help it. It's such a wonderful person. I know
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  Speaker 8: you'll like him.
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  Speaker 3: I can see why you like him.
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  Speaker 7: Oh no, Randy, it's nothing like that. I thought you
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  Speaker 7: were dead, and then ED came along, and well we
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  Speaker 7: fell in love. That's all. A person can't help falling
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  Speaker 7: in love, can they.
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  Speaker 3: You never tried to find out how dead I was, though.
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  Speaker 7: Did you, Randy? I did? I tried every way there.
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  Speaker 3: Walter checked on that there's no record that you ever tried.
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  Speaker 7: But I did. I swear I did.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Skip.
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  Speaker 5: It's really a lovely place you've got here, yes, isn't it.
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  Speaker 8: You can see the property better from over here. It
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  Speaker 8: owns all this part of the valley clear over those trees.
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  Speaker 7: You can see him up against the mountain. You see,
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  Speaker 7: you see him?
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  Speaker 3: Uh huh? What's he doing with it all? Oh?
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  Speaker 8: Nothing much? See he adds real businesses cattle. Of course,
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  Speaker 8: this is in cattle country. He's visiting one of his
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  Speaker 8: cattle ranches.
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  Speaker 5: Now, oh, he away quite a lot.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, Randy, tell me about you. I saw in the
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  Speaker 7: papers a big welcome they gave in all you've done
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  Speaker 7: out there, it must have been awful.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't fun.
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  Speaker 7: Well, what are you doing now?
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  Speaker 3: Well, in a way, you know, a thing like that
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  Speaker 3: almost pays.
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  Speaker 7: Off, pays off.
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  Speaker 3: Uh huh. All that hero business, you know.
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  Speaker 5: I was out there for a commercial aircraft company, selling
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  Speaker 5: private planes to sugar growers and gold miners and so on. Yes, well,
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  Speaker 5: the first thing that happens is that the company makes
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  Speaker 5: me vice president in charge of sales seventy five thousand a.
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  Speaker 7: Year, seventy five thousand, bah huh.
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  Speaker 3: And then the movies want to do my.
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  Speaker 5: Life story, and they discover that I've got such great
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  Speaker 5: executive ability. They make me a part time producer another
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  Speaker 5: fifty thousand. Then, of course, a percentage of the picture
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  Speaker 5: and the story price itself will come to oh about
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  Speaker 5: another two hundred and fifty thousand, Randy. And then through
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  Speaker 5: contacts and the aircraft business, I run into some guys
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  Speaker 5: in the oil game, and that based off I don't know,
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  Speaker 5: I figure I'll be able to retire in three or
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  Speaker 5: four years with a cool million. I'll make more. Of course,
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  Speaker 5: if I wanted to stick to it.
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  Speaker 3: Why be a hug?
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  Speaker 7: Why Randy, that's wonderful. I never dreamed.
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  Speaker 3: Right then and there I knew I had her.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know what it made me tell her all
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  Speaker 5: those lives to be again with just for the satisfaction
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  Speaker 5: of watching her show her hand and jump at it,
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  Speaker 5: I guess.
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  Speaker 3: But now I knew I had her.
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  Speaker 5: And as she talked, as I saw that greedy gleam
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  Speaker 5: coming into her eyes, I began to know what I
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  Speaker 5: was going to do about it.
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  Speaker 8: Well, Well, Randy Judson, a big, rich, famous man. I'm
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  Speaker 8: so happy for you, Randy, not.
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  Speaker 3: Even talking about running me for governor. Yeah, funny things.
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  Speaker 3: Fate does well, Marian.
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  Speaker 7: I've got to run along, oh, Randy, must you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a new field. We think it's coming in today.
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  Speaker 3: Not a million a year if it does well.
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  Speaker 7: All right, I'll walk into the door.
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  Speaker 3: Hell right, thanks, Well, goodbye.
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  Speaker 7: Marion, Randy. What don't you want to kiss me goodbye?
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  Speaker 3: You know I do, Marian.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, Randy, Randy's seeing you again. I'm afraid I made
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  Speaker 7: a terrible mistake.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I'm afraid you have. I was pretty sure after
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  Speaker 3: that that all I had to do was wait.
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  Speaker 5: There was some truth, and when I told her about
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  Speaker 5: two percent, I had been a salesman for a commercial
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  Speaker 5: aircraft company and I still was, and I had a
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  Speaker 5: little money enough to look the part of the thing
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  Speaker 5: executive when I was around Marion anyway, And of course
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  Speaker 5: it had to be secret, not only because of Dorothy
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  Speaker 5: and of Marian's husband, but.
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  Speaker 3: Because of what I had figured out for later.
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  Speaker 5: But as the weeks went by, I saw her all right,
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  Speaker 5: I saw a lot of her and waited and I
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  Speaker 5: didn't have to wait too long.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, Randy, Randy, I love you so much.
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  Speaker 3: I know you do. Baby, Randy.
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  Speaker 7: What are we going to do?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, Marian.
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  Speaker 7: There must be something we can do.
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  Speaker 3: Divorce.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, you'd never give me a divorce, you know that.
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  Speaker 3: Never.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's just one of those things, I guess, Randy.
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  Speaker 7: I can't go on like this. Something's got to happen.
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  Speaker 5: Nothing's going to happen, Marian, it could what could something?
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  Speaker 7: Anything, just so I could be free and be with you.
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  Speaker 3: There's only one thing that would do us any good.
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  Speaker 7: Things like that do happen if somebody makes them happen.
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  Speaker 3: You want to kill him, Randy.
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  Speaker 7: I know it's terrible. I just know it's wicked to
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  Speaker 7: you even think it's such a thing.
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  Speaker 3: But you do. Yes? Oh what's stopping you?
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  Speaker 7: Oh I'm afraid alone.
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  Speaker 5: You mean you want to kill him, but you want
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  Speaker 5: me to help you to kill him?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 5: Marryan, my dream girl. Oh I agreed to help her,
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  Speaker 5: all right, Sure I did. I planned it for.
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  Speaker 3: First.
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  Speaker 5: There was the plane that was going to do several
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  Speaker 5: things for us, and of course, my being an aircraft salesman,
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  Speaker 5: made it easy. Marian suddenly became interested in aviation. She
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  Speaker 5: began reading about it hanging around the airports. Then she
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  Speaker 5: started taking lessons. She learned fast too. I'll say that
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  Speaker 5: for soloed in six hours and had her license in ten.
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  Speaker 5: All this time I stayed out of the picture and
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  Speaker 5: just waited and went out with Dorothy once in a while.
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  Speaker 5: This was the buildout. It lasted about six weeks until
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  Speaker 5: I got her call and went out there. My name
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  Speaker 5: is Judson.
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  Speaker 3: Is it done? Oh?
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  Speaker 7: How do you do it?
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  Speaker 3: Certainly been hearing a lot about your product lately. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: by the way, there's my wife, missus Dunham.
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  Speaker 7: How do you do mister Judson? Oh my, she really
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  Speaker 7: is a beauty.
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  Speaker 3: It's a two place job.
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  Speaker 5: You see, funnier room in the fuse lodge for baggage
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  Speaker 5: one hundred and fifty horsepower engine variable prop Sher cruise
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  Speaker 5: is nearly one hundred and fifty, and yet her landing
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  Speaker 5: speed is much more than forty five.
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  Speaker 3: And of course she has flats for low speed landing.
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  Speaker 5: Uh huh, I am really sincere when I say that
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  Speaker 5: you can't match her anywhere near in the price field.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know much about it, but it's that's
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  Speaker 3: what Mario wants.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, Ed, you're a darling.
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  Speaker 3: Well that's the way we like to make a sale.
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  Speaker 3: How about little Smith.
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  Speaker 5: Or I don't know till one begin Sometimes just around
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  Speaker 5: the field. Oh, by the way, you've got practically a
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  Speaker 5: perfect natural landing field here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I have to pull a behind her us that
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  Speaker 3: won't run you much climb in.
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  Speaker 5: Whoa, hey, yeah, you keep on the word over.
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  Speaker 3: I will, oh, by the way, before I take up.
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  Speaker 3: Here's a release you have to sign, just a formality.
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  Speaker 5: Has three copies, one for me is the pilot, one
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  Speaker 5: for the company, and one for the Bureau of Civilian.
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  Speaker 3: Air ORTIC Uh A word I signed, oh anywhere at
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  Speaker 3: the bottom.
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  Speaker 5: Now, okay, that's fine, thank you, miss it Adam. It's funny,
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  Speaker 5: in spite of everything they tell you about reading anything
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  Speaker 5: you sign, the average man will glance through the first
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  Speaker 5: copy and sign the others without looking particularly at.
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  Speaker 3: He's nervous in a hurry. That's what he did. The
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  Speaker 3: first two copies were just something I'd dreamed up, because
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  Speaker 3: there's no such niece anyway.
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  Speaker 5: But the last was a blank piece of paper. When
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  Speaker 5: he signed that, he signed his own death.
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  Speaker 4: John Lund as Randy Judson with Kathy Lewis as Marion
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  Speaker 4: Dunham in A Plain Case of Murder, a tale well
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  Speaker 4: calculated to keep you in suspense.
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  Speaker 5: Let's see what you got here. To whom it may concern.
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  Speaker 5: I can give no reason for what I am about
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  Speaker 5: to do, and I pray to Heaven the reason will
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  Speaker 5: never come to lights. But it is the only way
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  Speaker 5: to my loving wife. Particularly. I know this will come
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  Speaker 5: as a great shock, but at least I can leave
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  Speaker 5: her amply provided for.
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  Speaker 3: Goodbye and they were done him? Uh huh? You sure
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  Speaker 3: he is leaving you amply provided for? It would look bad.
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  Speaker 7: I took care of that some time ago.
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  Speaker 5: What about the typewriter, There's no question but what it
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  Speaker 5: will be identifying.
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  Speaker 7: Myself on it all the time. He's had it for years.
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  Speaker 3: You want me to keep this or are you all right?
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  Speaker 5: It doesn't matter. You're positive the gun is registered in
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  Speaker 5: his name. Yes, and he'll be alone tonight.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, we've been through all this.
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  Speaker 3: I know I don't want any mistakes. This is no Pennyati.
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  Speaker 3: Now you got your reservations.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I checked again this morning.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, Now you better leaven. Plenty of time you want
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  Speaker 5: to be sure and make Phoenix before the little airport
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  Speaker 5: closes down. I'll come down back of the house tonight
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  Speaker 5: a little beforehand, say twelve forty five. Be sure you
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  Speaker 5: don't use any throttle coming in a long glide, cut your.
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  Speaker 3: Motor as far out as you can.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I will.
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  Speaker 5: I'll be on time. You've got to get back to
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  Speaker 5: Phoenix before daylight. And when you put through that call
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  Speaker 5: to me, lay it on thick. I will, And don't worry.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not worried.
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  Speaker 5: No, I don't think you are. The wheels were moving, complicated,
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  Speaker 5: but good. We've been over it enough've rehearsed it line
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  Speaker 5: by line, so I knew exactly what she'd be doing
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  Speaker 5: and saying almost every minute. First she'd be circling that
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  Speaker 5: little airport about a mile from the hotel and sounding
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  Speaker 5: as though she was in trouble, a little trick of
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  Speaker 5: sending out.
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  Speaker 3: The mixture that I showed her. And then she'd be
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  Speaker 3: coming in for a landing, taxing over the hang. That
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  Speaker 3: would be a little before five.
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  Speaker 9: Yes's not what she's.
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  Speaker 3: Acting up on here, huh, Yeah she is.
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  Speaker 7: I didn't think I was gonna.
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  Speaker 8: Make it, Oh corporation, maybe exhaust valve stick and I.
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  Speaker 3: Think, yeah, I could do it all right? Yeah? Thanks? Hey,
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  Speaker 3: you staying in Phoenix for a few days can I
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  Speaker 3: leave it here? Oh? Sure, tomorrow. First thing, I'll get
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  Speaker 3: a man.
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  Speaker 8: Oh no, I'm going to get the man down here
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  Speaker 8: who sold it to me. I've only flown at about
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  Speaker 8: eight hours.
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  Speaker 3: Oh gee, it shouldn't be doing.
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  Speaker 7: That, I'll say it shouldn't. Is there anybody here at night?
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  Speaker 3: No, I'm sorry, ma'am. I come on again at eight
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  Speaker 3: in the morning.
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  Speaker 8: Well, he may be down here before that, because I'm
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  Speaker 8: going to get him out of bed if it's the
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  Speaker 8: last thing I do. It's a brand new sixty five
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  Speaker 8: hundred dollars airplane.
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  Speaker 3: Oh I don't blame yet.
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  Speaker 10: Well, in case you're out here before I am, I'll
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  Speaker 10: give you the key to the shop sold there's anything
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  Speaker 10: you need.
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  Speaker 7: Thanks, don't bother now, just send it around the hotel.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, where are you staying.
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  Speaker 8: Desert in Missus Mary and Dunham.
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  Speaker 3: Hello?
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  Speaker 9: If this is the hotel operator, Missus Dunham, I have
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  Speaker 9: your called at Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 7: Oh yes, thank you, go ahead Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 8: Hello, mister Judson, this is maryon Dunham.
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  Speaker 9: Oh how do you do Missus Dunham.
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  Speaker 8: I don't do so well, mister Judson. In fact, if
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  Speaker 8: you ask me, I'm lucky to be alive. I'm mad,
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  Speaker 8: mister Judson. I think I've got a right to be.
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  Speaker 8: I started out for Phoenix today in that airplane you
• 18:26
  Speaker 8: sold me. I just barely made it. I don't see
• 18:28
  Speaker 8: why a brand new sixty five hundred dollars airplane could
• 18:31
  Speaker 8: possibly I.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: Can't understand it, Missus Dunham. What seemed to be the trouble?
• 18:35
  Speaker 7: Well, an exhaust valve or two just burned up.
• 18:37
  Speaker 8: Apparently, planes absolutely useless to me, and the conditions in now,
• 18:40
  Speaker 8: I doubt I would even get off the ground.
• 18:42
  Speaker 9: I quite understand this.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: I'll send a man justin.
• 18:46
  Speaker 8: Man, I think you ought to come down here and
• 18:47
  Speaker 8: look at it yourself, mister Judson, I should come.
• 18:50
  Speaker 9: Why there's nothing in particular that I could well?
• 18:52
  Speaker 8: Are you responsible for these planes you sell to people,
• 18:55
  Speaker 8: mister Judson, or aren't you well?
• 18:56
  Speaker 9: I oh, all right, Missus Dunham, I'll be down first
• 19:00
  Speaker 9: thing in the morning.
• 19:01
  Speaker 7: Where are you staying the desert?
• 19:02
  Speaker 9: In the desert, all right, Missus Donovan, tomorrow morning, then, thank.
• 19:07
  Speaker 7: You, mister Justin.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: Good night, good night, Missus Dunam.
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: Did did you get your call to Los Angeles with Donald?
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: Thank you?
• 19:17
  Speaker 8: But is the doctor on his way up here. Oh
• 19:20
  Speaker 8: never mind, never mind, that must be him. Thank you,
• 19:22
  Speaker 8: Come in, Yes, come in, doctor. I'm afully sorry to
• 19:28
  Speaker 8: bother you, doctor, but I've got a frightful headache. I
• 19:31
  Speaker 8: flew in from Los Angeles today and something went wrong
• 19:34
  Speaker 8: with my plane. I suppose it's just nerves, and I
• 19:37
  Speaker 8: was wondering if you could give me something to help
• 19:39
  Speaker 8: me sleep.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: Should thank you? Just the thing for you right here.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: Take one of these or two you think you.
• 19:46
  Speaker 7: Need it, well I better take two.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: Well pretty strong.
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: How long they make me sleep?
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: You'll be dead to the world for a good eight
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: or nine hours. Particularly take two.
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: Well, thank you, doctor. I'll go in and take him
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: right now. Would you mind hanging that do not disturb
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: some on the door when you go out.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: I'm not a.
• 20:05
  Speaker 7: Good night doctor.
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: I was at the field back of her house a
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: little ahead of time, and I had a little bottle
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: of chloroform in my pocket.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: Oh the plan was all right, Like I say, it
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: was perfect.
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: But it was just a little bit too perfect for Marion,
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: because when they found her lying there beside the corpse,
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: every one of those little steps she'd taken to give
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: herself an alibi would prove that she'd planned it, premeditated
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: murder in the first degree. They'd say it went wrong
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: only because her husband managed to knock her cold before
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: he died. The suicide notes. There wouldn't be any I'd
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: see to that, and I'd even be a witness against her,
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: because instead of flying down the Phoenix with a couple
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: of burned valves in my pocket to support her alibi,
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: I'd fly down there and find there wasn't any plane
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: or any merry. And when she started that last walk
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: to the gas chamber, maybe she'd begin to realize what
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: I'd been through, my dream girl. I knew she'd sneaked
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: out of the hotel a good two hours ago, and
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: sure enough I heard the motor and I heard her
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: cut it, and she was gliding in, and then we
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: were walking together over towards.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: The darkened house.
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: Yes, everything went right.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: What's the matter with you? You haven't spoken a civil
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: word to me. I got your keyte's dark, I got
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: a pleasure.
• 21:50
  Speaker 7: Something was there walking or I'll have to go to
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: one store somehow, get in there, get into the quick. Okay,
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: it's me And.
• 22:03
  Speaker 9: What the world are you doing?
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: It seemed like an hour that I was in there,
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: straining to hear and not being able to.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: She'd done it. I heard her running down the hall.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: She'd done it. I had my hand on the doorknob
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: and was just about to step out when there was
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: a click and the knob wouldn't turn. Marion, Marion, Marion.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: That was the front door. I was locked in, and
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: she was gone. For a moment.
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: I almost faded because I could see just how she'd
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: plan it, just what I'd planned to do to her.
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: She'd fly back to Phoenix and then put in a
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: call to her husband on some pretext, and she wouldn't
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: get any answer and pretend to be worried and call
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: the cops and they'd find me. They'd say I killed them.
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: And then got in a panic and locked myself in
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: the closet by mistake. It was a spring lock, and
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: it could happen.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: The door was solid oak, at least two inches thick.
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: I went frantically through my pockets for something to work
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: in the lock with. It was no good, but I
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: did find my pocket knife. There was just one chance.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: I had about three hours to whindle a hole through
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: that door big enough for me to get my hand to.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: I went to work ten minutes. My clothes are ring wet.
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: In twenty minutes, I thought I was gonna die of exhausted,
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: and i'd hardly begun. Somehow, I kept going. Then the
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: knife blade broke. I was almost crying. I opened a
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: small blade and kept on. My hand was raw with
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: broken flicks. The second blade broke. I kept on with
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: the stump of the big one. Hours past could seem,
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: and then at last I was but the hole wasn't
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: big enough yet. More hours and then I tore half
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: the skin off my hand and got it through.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: I opened the door. I was free. As I started
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: out the front door, the phone rang in the hall.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: I picked it up and listened.
• 24:19
  Speaker 9: Phoenix, Arizona calling mister Edward Dunham. Hello, hello operator.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: I put the phone quietly back.
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: That would be Marian, and that meant that she called
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: the cops next and they'd be out to investigate him.
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: I only had a few minutes left, but there was
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: still my plane. I started running across the field to
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: where it stood. If I could get off on that plane,
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: I had a chance a good And then I stopped.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: Marry him.
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: She'd fly back, she'd land right on this very field.
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: Sure enough, in about twenty minutes the cops came. Then
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: more cops from homicide. I suppose they prowled all over
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: the place so they didn't find me. I was hidden
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: another little clump of trees, and pretty soon they went away,
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: and I waited three hours more and I heard it
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: Mary has played, And then I saw her coming into
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: land and I was out there and up on the
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: wing before she did even rolled to us.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: Stop, Wendy, a double cross.
• 25:34
  Speaker 7: You're a fine one to talk, you and you're Dorothy.
• 25:37
  Speaker 8: I suppose you thought I didn't know about her, that
• 25:38
  Speaker 8: you got engaged to her the very day that you
• 25:41
  Speaker 8: were gonna.
• 25:41
  Speaker 7: Frame me, weren't you. Well met you to it and
• 25:43
  Speaker 7: you'll die, do you hear me?
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: You dit? She was dead when I let go, my
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: dream girl I had out there.
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: The counts have seen her land. They must have seen
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: me too, because they were running out of the fields
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: and began shooting as they could up.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: But something was wrong. May be merry and it even
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: figured on this, I don't know. I remember fighting a
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: pullet up and then those trees coming.
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: At me in the track on the fire.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: You got all that's funny I got it. How was
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: he dying? It's not so good here, just sign him? Sure,
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: I'll sign.
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: Hurry up, Simon, Hey, Die's gone dead dead.
• 26:56
  Speaker 10: Fine thing. I got a confession and no one to
• 26:59
  Speaker 10: sign it. What's the difference you got? Witnesses their plain
• 27:04
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• 27:33
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• 27:39
  Speaker 2: all congratulate you on a.
• 27:41
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• 27:43
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• 27:44
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• 27:48
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• 27:51
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• 27:57
  Speaker 5: But all I can think of is a jug of
• 27:59
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• 28:03
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• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Oh John, if Omer were living today, I'm sure he
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: would specify Roma because for both host and guest, there's
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• 28:35
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• 28:37
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• 28:39
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• 29:14
  Speaker 5: Ken Speaking of things that most Americans enjoy, who's for
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: suspense next Thursday?
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Well, it's going to be a particularly unusual and original
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: show next Thursday. The play is called The Man Who
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Wanted to Be Edward G. Robinson, and our star, of.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: Course, will be none other than Edward G.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: None other. Indeed, he'll play two roles. He'll be sort
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: of a switch family Robinson.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: I'll be listening.
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: Oh, by the way, I hope nobody was too surprised
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: if Mark Stevens and I switched dates tonight.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: However, to each you z own, to each z out, Well,
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: good night, John.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: We'll be looking forward to seeing you in Paramount Technical
• 29:46
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• 29:49
  Speaker 4: Next Thursday, same time you will hear mister Edward G.
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: Robinson as star off suspense.
• 29:57
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• 30:39
  Speaker 1: We have reached the close of suspense episode zero, a
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: plain case of murder. Good night, and thank you for
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: joining us.