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Dimension X - "Embassy" (1950) · Old Time Sci-Fi Radio | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: June third, nineteen fifty brought NBC listeners the ninth broadcast
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  Speaker 1: of Dimension X.
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  Speaker 2: In Embassy, New.
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  Speaker 1: York, Private detective Broderick receives a visit from the scholarly
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  Speaker 1: mister Grafius, who brings an ancient document and an extraordinary
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  Speaker 1: claim a Martian embassy may be hidden somewhere in the city.
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  Speaker 1: George Lefferts adapted Donald A. Wolheim story for radio, with
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  Speaker 1: Joseph Julian, Barry Kroger, Daniel Acco, and Norman Rose among
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  Speaker 1: the cast. Dimension X now presents Embassy, and now our
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  Speaker 1: story begins.
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  Speaker 3: Adventures in time and space told in future tents desa
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  Speaker 3: out of the infinitude of stars and planets in the
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  Speaker 3: Solar System and other systems in the universe. It is
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  Speaker 3: almost mathematically certain that there exist other forms of life
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  Speaker 3: on other worlds. Someday in the future, in a thousand
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  Speaker 3: years or in the next ten minutes, daring travelers through
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  Speaker 3: space will make contact with the inhabitants of another world.
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  Speaker 3: But the question is will we contact them first or
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  Speaker 3: will they contact us?
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  Speaker 2: Come man, this is Roderick's private detective agency. Check. My
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  Speaker 2: name is Gravis Graveyers of Springfield I would like to see,
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  Speaker 2: mister Prederick check. When is it all?
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  Speaker 4: There's a guy outside, a kind of a guy, A great,
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  Speaker 4: big guy with a big shining head and thick glasses
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  Speaker 4: like the bottoms of Coca Cola bottles.
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  Speaker 2: And he looks like a professors. I mean, is does
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  Speaker 2: he look like a client or a bill collector? He
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  Speaker 2: didn't say, Okay, iron Man, send him in. Check mister
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  Speaker 2: g Mister Broderick will see you. Thank you, mister Brederick
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  Speaker 2: in the flesh. Okay, iron Man, step outside. Check if
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  Speaker 2: you need me, I'll be outside. I'll have to excuse
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  Speaker 2: mister Dolan. He's a very useful man. If he happened
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  Speaker 2: to want a house moved or somebody's head unscrewed from
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  Speaker 2: their shoulders, his reflexes aren't too good. He's what you
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  Speaker 2: might call under organized. I respected as much, all right,
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  Speaker 2: mister Graius, let's get down to business precisely. I would
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  Speaker 2: like your assistance in helping me locate something here in
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  Speaker 2: New York City. That's what are you trying to locate,
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  Speaker 2: mister Grafius, the Martian Embassy. Would you say that again?
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  Speaker 2: Very slowly? I came to New York to locate the
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  Speaker 2: Martian embassy Martian like in Buck Rogers, agents of the
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  Speaker 2: government of the planet of Mars. Dolan, what's the trouble,
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  Speaker 2: Boss Carmard is a cracked part, of course. If you
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  Speaker 2: wish me to leave, I will leave. But before I go,
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  Speaker 2: you might examine this. You will find it quite authentic.
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  Speaker 2: Holy mackerel a five century. No, let me say that, saiddan,
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  Speaker 2: Mister Grafia saddan like you'reself comfortable, Dolan, get mister Grafs
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  Speaker 2: a light check. Okay, mister grais her remarks about our
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  Speaker 2: specled friends, the Martians. I shall ignore this. Being the
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  Speaker 2: year nineteen hundred and fifty five, I assume you're joking.
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  Speaker 2: I am completely serious. As it happens, I am interested
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  Speaker 2: only in Martians at the moment. I see. Okay, yeah, Shoot.
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  Speaker 2: It occurred to me in the course of my studies
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  Speaker 2: that we Earth people cannot possibly be the only intelligent
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  Speaker 2: form of life in the universe out of the infinitude
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  Speaker 2: of stars and planets. They must definitely mathematically be others.
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  Speaker 2: Since Mars is older geologically, and since it is also
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  Speaker 2: an atmospheric planet, its evolutionary history could easily be similar
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  Speaker 2: to ours. You follow me, so far. I can't say now,
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  Speaker 2: but if this is true, then they must have been
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  Speaker 2: watching us, observing us for hundreds, possibly thousands of years,
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  Speaker 2: work for black male Taptol. And they know then that
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  Speaker 2: we are not far from achieving space travel atomic rocket
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  Speaker 2: ships that can travel to other planets. They also know
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  Speaker 2: we are a militaristic wor you all like race, We
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  Speaker 2: might conceivably set out to conquer and occupy bars one day,
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  Speaker 2: in which case that try to get the jump on it. Precisely,
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  Speaker 2: mister Roger. And how would they do that for a
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  Speaker 2: civilization as old as there's space traveler would be a
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  Speaker 2: simple enough matter flying sources I've read about. Relax, iron Man.
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  Speaker 2: Go on, mister Grafias. If you were planning to attack
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  Speaker 2: an unknown nation, what would be your first move, mister Proderick? Intelligence,
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  Speaker 2: find out what the odds are. You have a very
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  Speaker 2: logical mindset. You would send agents to scout the nerve
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  Speaker 2: centers of earthly civilization and advancement. Not in Kansas City
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  Speaker 2: or Equatorial Africa, my dear sir, but here in New
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  Speaker 2: York City, the most technically advanced spot on Earth. Uh huh?
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  Speaker 2: And you want me to help you prove this theory
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  Speaker 2: of yours precisely expense. This does not interest me. This
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  Speaker 2: might take a very long long time, mister Grafius. After all,
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  Speaker 2: nobody's ever seen a Martian. I assure you it will
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  Speaker 2: be very ordinary appearing people. Likely they live together in
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  Speaker 2: downtown New York, close to the newspapers and publishers, the newscables,
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  Speaker 2: communications centers, and the financial center of Wall Street. Most
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  Speaker 2: certainly they live in a private house with no servants
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  Speaker 2: to pry into their affairs. Some ordinary people will live
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  Speaker 2: in a private house in downtown New York. I might
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  Speaker 2: just as well look up martians in the classified section
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  Speaker 2: of the phone book. There is one other lead which
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  Speaker 2: might help you. What's that They would be almost certain
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  Speaker 2: to subscribe to every conceivable type of newspaper, scientific, general,
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  Speaker 2: foreign language publication. Well, that might be something. Okay, mister Graius,
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  Speaker 2: it's a deal, excellent. I shall contact you tomorrow, Oh
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  Speaker 2: well before you leave. Yes, just as a matter of interest,
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  Speaker 2: Why are you so interested in meeting up with these Martians,
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  Speaker 2: mister Broderick, I wish to avert the catastrophe of a
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  Speaker 2: successful Martian invasion of the Earth. Naturally, I cannot go
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  Speaker 2: to the police of the military, I'd be laughed out
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  Speaker 2: of existence. So I'm doing this privately. You seem to
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  Speaker 2: know all the answers, mister Graffias, Not all of them,
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  Speaker 2: mister Broderick, not quite all the answers. Not quite yet.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, he's a private address.
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  Speaker 4: Takes everything from Pick magazine to the Manchester Guardian. Listen
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  Speaker 4: to this Pick Look, Scientific America, the Daily News, the
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  Speaker 4: Daily Worker, the Police Gazette, the General of Engineering, Scientific Quarterly,
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  Speaker 4: American Psychatric.
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  Speaker 2: Jersesey that oh Dolan, Dolan. Sometimes I wonder, what's the
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  Speaker 2: address on this nine West one hundred and twenty fourth Street,
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  Speaker 2: which happens to be the Harlem branch of the public Library.
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  Speaker 2: Oh Alliston, noodle brain, check all the renting agents, find
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  Speaker 2: out every private house in downtown New York, and then
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  Speaker 2: cross check with the magazine subscription departments of the scientific magazines.
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  Speaker 4: You got that check. I wonder, Boss, what's the sense
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  Speaker 4: of all this? We know there ain't no Martian embassy
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  Speaker 4: in New York.
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  Speaker 2: This crackpot is paying us one hundred dollars a day,
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  Speaker 2: and we got to keep them happy, understand. Yeah. Also,
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  Speaker 2: I've got a hunch that mister Graffius isn't looking for
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  Speaker 2: any Martian embassies. He's looking for something quite different. I'll
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  Speaker 2: start making with a telephone, which I says a duller, right,
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  Speaker 2: tell me number one A way to find out anything,
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  Speaker 2: not a thing.
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  Speaker 4: I've been watching the place for a week now. Nobody
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  Speaker 4: comes out, nobody goes in my it's the wrong, nobody
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  Speaker 4: knows nothing.
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  Speaker 2: You ain't been blabbing around the neighborhood that we're looking
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  Speaker 2: for the Martian embassy, have you? Boss? I'm stupid, but
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  Speaker 2: I ain't that stupid. Who'd you talk to?
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  Speaker 4: I struck up what you might call a casual acquaintanceship
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  Speaker 4: with those two girls standing with the baby carriages up
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  Speaker 4: the street. The cute one is real cute.
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  Speaker 2: I look to him. Don't try to do anything intelligent,
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  Speaker 2: Just keep walking up and down. Say check. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: back to the office to make Grapius.
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  Speaker 4: See you later, boss. Hi, a beautiful a flat foot?
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  Speaker 4: How did you know I was a detective?
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  Speaker 5: Your socks are bagging at the arches.
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  Speaker 2: I'll stick around, beautiful.
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  Speaker 4: I'll be back in a few minutes and a week
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  Speaker 4: and make some beautiful music together.
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  Speaker 5: Listen to Romeo Helen, A man's Dolen.
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  Speaker 2: Honey, iron Man Dolen, your line.
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  Speaker 5: Is getting rusty.
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  Speaker 6: Iron Man, you pull along with him, for he reminds
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  Speaker 6: me of my husband, a big, good natured slag.
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  Speaker 5: Helen, Helen, look.
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  Speaker 7: Helen, sorry to ket your waiting.
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  Speaker 2: Mister Dolan found a house down in Greenwich Village, privately
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  Speaker 2: rented number one oh eight Conchland Street. Nobody's to know
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  Speaker 2: anything about who lives there except that they subscribe to
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  Speaker 2: every paper and scientific journal put out, and also they
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  Speaker 2: have a peculiar antenna on the roof. You don't suppose
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  Speaker 2: you are, mister Doolan will try to get inside the house. Nah,
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  Speaker 2: you know it's better, mister Broderick, I I show you
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  Speaker 2: if that place is the Martian Membersolan can take care
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  Speaker 2: of himself. Hill, I wish you would informed me before.
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  Speaker 2: That's proud of him reporting back now excuse me? Hello, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: speaking Dolan. Yeah he works?
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  Speaker 7: What?
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, No, I can't think of any Yeah sure, okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'll be right down, okay, lieutenant, yeah, yeah, right away?
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  Speaker 2: Something the matter? Uhlan is dead, mister Graffius. They found
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  Speaker 2: him splattered all over the sidewalk in front of number
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  Speaker 2: one away Conchland Street. How did it happen there witnesses.
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  Speaker 2: He said a building corners dropped on him, the corners,
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  Speaker 2: but how fell off the building next to one o eight,
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  Speaker 2: right on top of him. Come on, we can get
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  Speaker 2: a cab. I have to identify the body. I'm Broderick,
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  Speaker 2: Oh Lasier boy, Prodrick, not very pretty, Oh, mother in heaven.
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  Speaker 2: That's a thousand pound hunk of concrete. Where did it
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  Speaker 2: come from? Dropped off the roof of one oh six?
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  Speaker 2: Anybody say it?
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  Speaker 8: There's a couple of maids pushing baby carriages. One was
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  Speaker 8: so shaken we had a center to the hospital. The
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  Speaker 8: other one is hysterical, but she can talk. Don't seem
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  Speaker 8: to get any sense out of.
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  Speaker 2: Her, though, You mind if I talk to her at all.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be back in a minute. Graphias, I'll read here.
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  Speaker 8: She's standing right over there with the patrolman on the beach.
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  Speaker 8: Oh Hanson, Yes, this guy wants a few questions.
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  Speaker 2: With the girls.
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  Speaker 6: Please, I told you what I saw? How many times
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  Speaker 6: I gotta tell you?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the dead man was a personal friend of mine.
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  Speaker 2: Would you tell me what happened? Please?
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  Speaker 6: Helen and I were standing in front of Redmond's candy
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  Speaker 6: store up on the corner. We both had the babies up.
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  Speaker 6: I worked for missus Gillian on Washington Square North. This
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  Speaker 6: he said alone, joked a little, and he walked down
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  Speaker 6: the street, just like he's been doing all week. Hadn't
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  Speaker 6: taken more than a few steps.
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  Speaker 2: What please, it's very important.
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  Speaker 5: They tell him. But they don't believe me.
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  Speaker 2: What do you tell him? Tell me? Do all please?
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  Speaker 5: Whoop?
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  Speaker 2: Whoop?
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  Speaker 5: Thirsty? Well, and then the stump fell on it.
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean he squashed?
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  Speaker 5: They don't believe me.
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  Speaker 2: But Helen saw it too, saw what.
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  Speaker 1: Then it fell on it?
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  Speaker 5: He was mashed flat before it even.
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  Speaker 2: Hit Look, that's the story, Broderick.
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  Speaker 5: Please please let me alone, Let me go home.
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  Speaker 7: I told you what i'd done alone.
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  Speaker 2: Did you let anything, mister Rodrick? Eh, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what to make of it. It's crazy,
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  Speaker 2: mister Rodrick. If I made a suggestion at this point,
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  Speaker 2: perhaps it would be better if we dropped the entire matter.
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  Speaker 2: What's eating you? First? You come at me with a
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  Speaker 2: chain of nonsense, at you're stake and real cash on.
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  Speaker 2: Now when we hit solid trail, you want to call
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  Speaker 2: off the dogs. Well, maybe you operate that way, but
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  Speaker 2: Broderick doesn't. May, I ask, then, what do you intend doing?
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  Speaker 2: As soon as the cops clear out in this place
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  Speaker 2: quiets down, I'm going to pay a personal call on
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  Speaker 2: the Marsian Embassy whatever number one oh eight is. Whatever
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  Speaker 2: you are, open that door two heads or ten fingers up,
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  Speaker 2: really like a platoon of rookies.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, oh well, young.
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  Speaker 2: Man, excuse me, ma'am is the lady of the house
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  Speaker 2: at home?
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  Speaker 5: I'm the lady of the house.
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  Speaker 2: Well, my name is Broderick. I represent the Manhattan Child
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  Speaker 2: Adoption Center. We're so listening funds and clothing for stranded
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  Speaker 2: and unadopted children.
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  Speaker 5: I wonder, Oh, won't you come inside?
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  Speaker 2: Oh we don't usually nonsense.
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  Speaker 9: I'm old enough to be your grandmother. Besides, my son,
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  Speaker 9: Lauren is working at home.
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  Speaker 2: Your son.
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  Speaker 5: He's a bibliographer.
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  Speaker 9: He writes summaries of articles and books from scientific journals
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  Speaker 9: and publications for libraries and universe. I see you sit down,
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  Speaker 9: mister Broderick. We get so few calls, and I do
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  Speaker 9: like to visit.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Now, what was it you wanted to talk to us about?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Well, I uh, I wondered if you were your son.
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  Speaker 2: There's nobody else living here.
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  Speaker 9: No, just Lauren and I. I'll have to ask him
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  Speaker 9: about the contribution, but i'm sure he'd like to.
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  Speaker 2: Good. Thank you very much. I'll send the representative to collect.
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  Speaker 9: Well, please stay a moment. I was just about to
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  Speaker 9: have tea. Let me pull you account. Well, No, thanks,
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  Speaker 9: really now, young man, I insist, well, thank you. I
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  Speaker 9: was getting awfully tired of having tea by myself every afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm not very much of a tea drinker,
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  Speaker 2: but this seems to have a strange taste.
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  Speaker 5: It's my own recipe. The secret is in the brewing.
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  Speaker 2: It's sweet, it almost talic.
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  Speaker 5: It takes a few SIPs to get used to like
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  Speaker 5: al it.
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  Speaker 2: I think I had better be running along.
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  Speaker 5: But you haven't finished your tea, mister b I better
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  Speaker 5: be going.
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  Speaker 2: I'm late.
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  Speaker 5: Oh you're not being there, polite, you finish your teeth.
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  Speaker 2: You're funny.
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  Speaker 5: Call Lauren.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm leaving that.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sure Lauren can help you.
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  Speaker 2: I'll call it, but I must.
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  Speaker 5: Besides, you aren't well, Lauren. Lauren, Lauren, hurry out of
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  Speaker 5: my way. No, you must stay drugged my teeth, get
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  Speaker 5: out of here. The other one, Rodrick, he was here
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  Speaker 5: I drugged his teeth.
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  Speaker 2: He got away.
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  Speaker 5: Cool it is, go after him, use the pressure ray.
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  Speaker 2: Risk another murder on our doorstep. Are you insane?
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  Speaker 5: He suspects.
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  Speaker 2: We'll have to take our chances. We'll have to think
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  Speaker 2: of some other way.
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  Speaker 5: How did they find us?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how, but I'm certain someone else sent them.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 10: I'm afraid to let myself think it might be them.
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  Speaker 2: What's where you're going? Drunk Please? I get away from it? Out, miss,
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  Speaker 2: please help please? You know what's the trouble, hairs Drunkard.
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  Speaker 5: Is insulting people.
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  Speaker 6: I saw him come out of the house there, that's
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  Speaker 6: the one he bumped into a gentleman.
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  Speaker 5: Then you pulled it my arm.
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  Speaker 11: All right, miss, I'll take care of it. Come along, mister.
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  Speaker 11: I'm going to give you a break and take it
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  Speaker 11: back to the wife and kids.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, you can't sick. What's the matter? They drug me?
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  Speaker 2: Old Roger number one ol A. Martians, Oh, Martians number
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  Speaker 2: one o A. It's Martian Embassy.
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  Speaker 11: Well, I've seen him with pink elephants, rabbits and mice.
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  Speaker 11: But you're the first one who's got my head.
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  Speaker 2: I tell you, come a law. Let's listen, don't take
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  Speaker 2: me back there, don't come tell me.
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  Speaker 7: I gotta make you.
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  Speaker 2: Under Yeah, I'll help you off the stand. My name
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  Speaker 2: is Roderick. I'm a private thick.
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  Speaker 11: We will find out about this there, don't find stop it.
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  Speaker 2: Please letten.
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  Speaker 7: I'll give you anything.
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  Speaker 12: I'll give you a thousand dollars. Please listen, God listen, Yes, Roderick,
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  Speaker 12: you know this.
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  Speaker 5: Why that's my son, roder.
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  Speaker 2: He's in pretty bad.
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  Speaker 5: He was doing so well at the Alcoholic Society. He
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  Speaker 5: must have gotten off again.
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  Speaker 2: Looks like he's ready to pass out. What is it?
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  Speaker 5: Mother, Your brother Broderick has been drinking again.
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  Speaker 2: Look out, he's passed out. I'll take care of him. Officer,
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  Speaker 2: we've handled this sort of thing before. Can you manage? Okay,
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  Speaker 2: we'll be fine. Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: You've been very kind.
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  Speaker 11: We're nothing at all, Brownie. I know how it is
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  Speaker 11: with these alkis well. I'll be seeing you, Martian Embley, Martian.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my head. Mister Broderick is regaining consciousness. Mother, what happened? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Get get up.
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  Speaker 13: You're not struggling, mister Broderick. It'll be impossible for you
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  Speaker 13: to rise from that chair. The pressure from this ray
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  Speaker 13: will keep you.
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  Speaker 2: Hooray, who are you?
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  Speaker 13: You've already guessed, mister Broderick. You mean this really is
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  Speaker 13: the Martian Embassy. Yes, you have the honor to be
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  Speaker 13: the first prisoner of the Imperial Government of Mars.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 13: After the invasion, of course you will all be our prisoners.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, what sever business? Says? This?
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  Speaker 13: No business, mister Broderick, as your people will soon find out,
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  Speaker 13: our preparations for invasion are nearly completed. On as soon
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  Speaker 13: as we give the signal, our armed forces will launch
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  Speaker 13: a surprise attack, and then the earth will be ours.
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  Speaker 13: Look crazy, not half as mad as you, mister Broderick,
• 21:39
  Speaker 13: to come muddling so foolishly into our affairs.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: That was a fatal mistake. So Stolen's death. There's no accident, then,
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: assuredly not.
• 21:50
  Speaker 13: We found it necessary to use a pressure ray on
• 21:52
  Speaker 13: your friend. The block of concrete was an afterthought. We
• 21:56
  Speaker 13: thought it might help to avert suspicion.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: All right, what happens now?
• 22:01
  Speaker 13: If you cooperate, you can look forward to a quick,
• 22:04
  Speaker 13: painless depth like your friend, mister Doolan. If not, this
• 22:07
  Speaker 13: pressure ray as many delicate adjustments.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: It can move a pin, but it can crush a boulder.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Let me demonstrate.
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  Speaker 13: You see, mister Brodrick, as if an invisible vice for
• 22:25
  Speaker 13: crushing you.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: What do you want the name of your client?
• 22:30
  Speaker 13: We are interested in knowing who is so anxious to
• 22:32
  Speaker 13: locate the Martian embassy, and.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Names of my clients are confidential. Oh well, I got
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: it off, mother. Mister Bardwick has seen the wisdom of speech.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: His name is.
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: An unusual name for an earth man.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: Describe him. I don't know if I really it can, Mother?
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Describe him. He's tall, got a big forehead, about sixty.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: He wears the glasses he's.
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: It sounds like one of them.
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  Speaker 13: Yes, it does contact the planet. Tell them we suspect
• 23:21
  Speaker 13: that our plans are known. Ask for an acceleration of
• 23:23
  Speaker 13: invasion day for what about me? I am sorry, mister Broderick,
• 23:26
  Speaker 13: but I am afraid you know too much. Now, exactly
• 23:29
  Speaker 13: five seconds you will feel the full impact of the
• 23:31
  Speaker 13: ray which faces you. I would suggest that you relax
• 23:34
  Speaker 13: and meet your fate calmly. Now, I am you will
• 23:37
  Speaker 13: feel no pain, just a wall of force and golfing five.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: No, you can't do that.
• 23:41
  Speaker 13: This is a human I know, but we are not
• 23:43
  Speaker 13: human free.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: Now, Laren, it didn't work.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Something's happened. The magnetic field is dead.
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: Get it working. We've got to get rid of this one.
• 23:58
  Speaker 13: I can't understand what's going wrong with the Why would
• 24:01
  Speaker 13: it suddenly stop like that?
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Perhaps I can explain what it's you. Yes, sorry, stand
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: back from the pressure rape please, it will not function anyway.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: I have decontrolled your heels, Lauren.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: It's one of them. They've found us.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Did you think we wouldn't? I trust you have not
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: harmed my friend, mister Roderick. He's being very useful to me.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Rather am I very glad to see you talk about
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: the Marines landing in the neck of time. You're free
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: to move now, mister Roderick. I don't know how you
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: got in here, Graphius, but sticker on. These babies are
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: really marchigans, just like you said. They're planning to invade
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: the Earth and take over. There will be no Martian invasion.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: You'll keep these characters covered. I'll get the police, there
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: will be no need for the police, and tend to
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: enter them myself. But the police will not call the police.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: Why not, you.
• 24:48
  Speaker 13: Fool of an Earthling? Don't you realize with whom you
• 24:51
  Speaker 13: are dealing? The invasion of Earth by Mars will be
• 24:54
  Speaker 13: like Charles Plague.
• 24:54
  Speaker 14: Compare Holy They just flattened out, like your friend, mister Doolan.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: And it tastes the use of violence where the intellect
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: can rule. But unfortunately the Martians are a threat to us.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: It must be destroyed. I believe you now, Rather five
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: seconds had to finished me. I'm glad you didn't waste
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: any time. There is little time to waste. The Martian
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: invasion was to have taken place next week. Yeah, hey,
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: they never said that. How do you know you would
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: not comprehend? Wait a minute, there's some things here. I
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: do understand. A second ago that pressure right didn't work.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Now you're using it like I was a toy. How
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: did you get in here? Anyway? Who are you another
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: one of those Martians? No, mister Brodrick, I happened to
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: be a Venusian? What sentative of the planet Venus? Venus?
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: That's impossible, not at all. The Martians are really an
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: inferior race. We've adduce to much farther advanced as much
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: as we are over you, mister Broderick. The Martians would
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: simply have conquered and enslaved your people. We have Innusians
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: felt compelled to exterminate you completely. That's impossible. No, now
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: that we have disposed of the Martian threat, what is
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: there to stop us? Our invasion begins tomorrow at noon.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: By nightfall, the earth will be out rather than heaven either.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: I'm completely cuckoo. Oh well, this is really an ledant
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: edge toward the door. Mister Broderick. You're thinking of running
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: for help, aren't you. Now I can read your thoughts
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: quite clearly. Suppose you're going to knock me off like
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: our Martian friends of the countrary ahead, leave? Why not?
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Why don't you try it, mister Brederick, because the minute
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: I turn my back, you're gonna let me have it.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Suppose you try it and see I have that interesting stuff?
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Go ahead, all right, Buster, you asked for it. Will
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: do you no good? No God, you will see hair.
• 27:28
  Speaker 11: Why do you think you're running track the officer?
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: Listen to me. Oh, it's you, the one with the
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: marsh Yeah, that's right. Listen, that story is true. They're
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: inside that house inside number one O eight. He killed them,
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: who killed Raphius. He's the leader of the Venusian invasion.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: Venusian invasion, that's right. Tomorrow at noon. They're going to
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: take over the earth. Alisten, go in that house, Marshals
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: now Venusians. Eh, okay, that's enough for me. Come along,
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: good man, got much time? Wait where you're taking me?
• 28:02
  Speaker 11: Bellview psychiatric word, my friend, con you know I'll come.
• 28:06
  Speaker 12: Aloe, listen to me.
• 28:08
  Speaker 7: Why isn't your fool oh me a thread for corn.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: I think it's going to be an invasion.
• 28:16
  Speaker 7: The Velutians are going to invade.
• 28:17
  Speaker 15: It's not us man.
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: You gotta believe me.
• 28:21
  Speaker 16: You gotta believe me. Alla, Why don't say listen? Why
• 28:30
  Speaker 16: don't lead?
• 28:47
  Speaker 15: You have just heard Another adventure into the unknown world
• 28:51
  Speaker 15: of the future, the world of.
• 28:54
  Speaker 17: Dimension Next week the story of Reesling, the strange blind
• 29:16
  Speaker 17: singer of the Spaceways. He traveled with space lines from
• 29:20
  Speaker 17: Mars to Venus to the moons of Jupiter. No captain
• 29:24
  Speaker 17: could refuse to carry Reasling and his battered guitar. He
• 29:28
  Speaker 17: sang of all the wonders of the galaxy, but his
• 29:31
  Speaker 17: greatest song was of the sight he would never see,
• 29:35
  Speaker 17: the green hills of Earth. Tonight, The Mansion Acts has
• 29:47
  Speaker 17: presented The Embassy, the story by Donald A. Wollheim has
• 29:51
  Speaker 17: adapted Barettio by George Laffards. Joseph Julian was heard as Roderick,
• 29:57
  Speaker 17: Barry Kroger as Graphius.
• 30:00
  Speaker 15: Our narrator was Norman Rose. Music by Albert Berman engineer
• 30:04
  Speaker 15: Don Abbott. Dimension X is produced by Van Woodward and
• 30:09
  Speaker 15: directed by Edward King. Tomorrow Here High Adventure, Now It's
• 30:23
  Speaker 15: Truth or Consequences on NBC.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: That was Dimension X with Embassy.
• 30:39
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