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Escape - "The Coward" (Old Time Radio, 1954) · The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time Radio

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Speaker 1: On August 14th, 1954, the CBS radio network aired Escape,
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Speaker 1: episode 222, The Coward. In a Mexican coastal town, former
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Speaker 1: pilot Frank Dorian seeks a small power launch for a
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Speaker 1: secret voyage into the Caribbean. He alone knows where his
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Speaker 1: wrecked aircraft came down and where a missing company payroll
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Speaker 1: may be found. Maria DeSalva and the sailor Rico go
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Speaker 1: with him as reefs and old accusations of cowardice accompany
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Speaker 1: the journey toward a remote island. E. Jack Newman wrote
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Speaker 1: the story, with Barney Phillips, Virginia Gregg, Lou Krugman, Herb Butterfield,
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Speaker 1: and Lou Merrill in the cast. David Friedkin and Morton
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Speaker 1: Fine directed and produced. We now take you back to
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Speaker 1: the original broadcast.
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Speaker 2: Tired of the everyday grind? Ever dream of a life
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Speaker 2: of romantic adventure?
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Speaker 3: Want to get away from it all? We offer you Escape.
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Speaker 4: Escape, designed to free you from the four walls of
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Speaker 4: today for a half hour of high adventure.
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Speaker 2: There's a fortune in the cabin of an airplane crashed
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Speaker 2: on an island somewhere in the Caribbean.
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Speaker 3: And only you know where it is.
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Speaker 2: By your side, sailing the treacherous channels, a smiling killer
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Speaker 2: with a knife from whom there is no escape.
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Speaker 4: Listen now as Escape brings you E. Jack Newman's story,
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Speaker 4: The Coward.
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Speaker 5: The Coward.
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Speaker 6: You.
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Speaker 7: Buenas dias, senor.
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Speaker 3: Ryan Aran.
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Speaker 7: Your name, please.
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Speaker 3: Frank Dorian.
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Speaker 7: You've come for employment? The employment of a senor.
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Speaker 3: I'm an old friend of yours.
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Speaker 7: What is it you wish?
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Speaker 3: I wish for you to keep trying with the English, baby.
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Speaker 3: You're doing fine.
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Speaker 7: Un momento.
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Speaker 3: Never mind the phone. I'll tell him I'm here myself.
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Speaker 3: You keep enjoying the heat and checking those field reports, honey.
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Speaker 8: Kenneth.
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Speaker 3: Frank Dorian. Dorian. Thought you were dead. I'm not. It's
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Speaker 3: a nice little secretary you got there, Ed. Can she spell?
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Speaker 3: Maria does fine. Come on in. How's the oil business?
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Speaker 7: Okay.
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Speaker 6: Lots of work as usual.
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Speaker 3: How are your legs? Took 18 months in a hospital
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Speaker 3: in Mexico City, but they're okay now. What do you want, Frank?
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Speaker 3: You giving it to me, too? Give you what? The look,
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Speaker 3: the cold meat stuff.
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Speaker 6: We don't need any pilots. Nothing open here, Frank.
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Speaker 3: I'm not looking for work. I'm looking for a boat.
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Speaker 3: Give up flying, did you? For the moment, yeah.
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Speaker 6: What's on your mind?
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Speaker 3: One of those power launches out there. I'd like to
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Speaker 3: rent one for about four or five days.
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Speaker 8: Why?
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Speaker 3: Oh, I've flown over these waters a million times. Guess
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Speaker 3: maybe I want to get a little closer to them.
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Speaker 3: Do some fishing. Relax before I go back to the States.
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Speaker 8: How about it?
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Speaker 6: Those are company boats. You know I can't do anything
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Speaker 6: like that.
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Speaker 3: Sorry. Got 500 bucks for you? No, thanks. 750? Nope,
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Speaker 3: not for a million. It's not a very friendly way
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Speaker 3: to talk after 18 months.
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Speaker 6: I didn't know whether I'd ever see you again, Frank,
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Speaker 6: but I told myself if I did see you, I'd
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Speaker 6: put it right on the line.
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Speaker 1: You're yellow.
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Speaker 6: You let four people die. You bailed out of that
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Speaker 6: plane and you didn't even tell them how to get
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Speaker 6: into their parachute harness.
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Speaker 3: There wasn't time.
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Speaker 6: But the Board of Inquiry report said there was time
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Speaker 6: enough for you to get out. Maybe that's okay for
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Speaker 6: the Board of Inquiry, but I say it was your
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Speaker 6: job to look out for your passengers first. So I'll
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Speaker 6: tell you again, you're a coward.
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Speaker 3: Anything else?
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Speaker 6: Too bad they didn't have to chop your legs off, Dorian.
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Speaker 6: They'd put you closer to the side you really are.
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Speaker 3: Now get out of here.
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Speaker 5: Well.
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Speaker 7: I thought I'd find you here.
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Speaker 3: Where else you go on a hot night in a
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Speaker 3: Mexican town? Even outside like this. Oh, sit down.
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Speaker 1: Gracias.
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Speaker 3: I like you better out of the office. What's your name?
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Speaker 7: Maria De Silva.
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Speaker 3: Where's your home, Maria?
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Speaker 7: Here.
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Speaker 3: And lots of Americans around gives you a taste of
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Speaker 3: what it's like in the good old USA, huh?
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Speaker 8: Si.
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Speaker 7: I want to go there very much, to the United States.
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Speaker 3: Maybe one of those American college boy engineers working for
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Speaker 3: Ryan will turn the trick for you.
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Speaker 9: With their short haircuts and the things they say with
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Speaker 9: the wink of the eye, I hate them.
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Speaker 7: I hate all of them.
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Speaker 3: Still your best bet. Well, I had enough of this.
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Speaker 3: See you in the States sometime, huh?
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Speaker 7: You gonna?
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Speaker 3: Nothing around here.
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Speaker 7: I am around here.
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Speaker 3: Huh? Hey, you are trying, aren't you?
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Speaker 7: Maybe. Okay, yes, what is? You laugh at me?
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Speaker 3: Nah, with you.
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Speaker 7: It's warm here. You walk by the water?
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Speaker 3: Sure, I'll walk.
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Speaker 7: It's funny.
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Speaker 3: What's funny?
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Speaker 9: The way you came in to Senor Ryan today and
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Speaker 9: asked about the boat. He tell me about it later.
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Speaker 3: Ryan and his lousy boats.
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Speaker 9: I think about this all day. That is why I
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Speaker 9: find you. I think you want to rent a boat bad.
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Speaker 7: Very bad.
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Speaker 3: You talk like you got one.
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Speaker 7: Any little way I do have one.
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Speaker 3: What do you got? A fishing jig? Your papa, your
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Speaker 3: brother got a little squirt of a bark that I
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Speaker 3: can stand up and take through the surf?
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Speaker 8: No.
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Speaker 7: It is a power launch. Like those over there.
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Speaker 3: Bar lunch?
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Speaker 9: Belongs to someone I know. He buy it from one
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Speaker 9: of the old company two year ago and make it over.
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Speaker 9: Use it for big fishing. It's a good boat, very good.
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Speaker 9: Maybe he rent it to you if I ask him.
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Speaker 3: Where is it? There.
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Speaker 7: Want to look?
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Speaker 3: Sure. Where's your friend?
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Speaker 7: He's away now.
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Speaker 3: Calls us a boat, huh?
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Speaker 7: It's good enough for fishing. That is why you wish
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Speaker 7: a boat.
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Speaker 3: Yes?
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Speaker 7: You see good engines?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd have to hear them. You can't tell by looking.
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Speaker 7: He caught many times in this boat. Four, five, six
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Speaker 7: days at sea.
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Speaker 3: Well, Maria, I'll tell you what you do. You tell
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Speaker 3: your friend I'm interested in renting it for five days.
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Speaker 3: Tell him I'll give him 300 bucks.
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Speaker 7: He would laugh at you.
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Speaker 3: He can take it or leave it.
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Speaker 7: He would leave it.
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Speaker 3: And I guess it's no deal. Thanks for showing me.
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Speaker 9: This is the only boat around here that is not
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Speaker 9: owned by the Salazar Oil Company.
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Speaker 7: You do not take this one, you take nothing.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 8: Nothing.
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Speaker 7: And how will you go fishing?
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Speaker 8: Huh?
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Speaker 9: Maybe I should say, how will you get to the
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Speaker 9: island without a boat? Two months they searched for the
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Speaker 9: plane and then it was decided to crash into the sea.
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Speaker 9: But it did not go into the sea. There's still
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Speaker 9: others somewhere on one of those islands. You need a
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Speaker 9: boat to get there.
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Speaker 3: You're crazy.
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Speaker 7: I know there was a payroll on that plane. Eighty
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Speaker 7: thousand dollars.
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Speaker 3: You got it all figured, haven't you? Suppose what you
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Speaker 3: say is true and I took this boat, what then?
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Speaker 3: Suppose I just let it lay. Suppose I didn't hear
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Speaker 3: what you just said. Suppose it means nothing.
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Speaker 7: Then I go to the police and tell them what
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Speaker 7: I think.
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Speaker 3: You think they'd listen?
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Speaker 7: If I told them how anxious you are about a boat?
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Speaker 3: The police here and the insurance company and the bonding
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Speaker 3: company and the oil company have asked all the questions
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Speaker 3: they want. They were on me for three months while
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Speaker 3: I was in the hospital with my legs in the hoist.
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Speaker 3: Maybe you haven't got such a good thing at that.
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Speaker 8: No.
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Speaker 3: So we know where we stand, eh? And what about
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Speaker 3: your friend?
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Speaker 7: I would pay him for my half.
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Speaker 3: All right. Sunday morning, six o'clock. Enough fuel and food
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Speaker 3: to last for five days. If this thing's in shape,
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Speaker 3: if your friend's okay, and if I feel like it,
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Speaker 3: I might take a trip.
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Speaker 5: The End.
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Speaker 1: Hello? Hey! Hello!
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Speaker 3: Come aboard!
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Speaker 8: Come aboard!
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Speaker 7: I am Rico. You are the Americano?
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Speaker 8: Uh-huh.
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Speaker 3: How's your English, Rico?
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Speaker 7: Oh, si, very good.
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Speaker 3: Where's Brown Eyes?
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Speaker 2: Brown Eyes?
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Speaker 3: Maria.
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Speaker 7: Oh, Maria. She's in the galley.
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Speaker 3: She fix food. You hungry? I could eat. Maria, good cook.
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Speaker 1: Fine, fine.
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Speaker 3: Hey, we have no sugar hands here, buddy. I shake, buddy.
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Speaker 3: We a business. Okay, buddy. See if you can shake
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Speaker 3: this bag below. Oh, she's here.
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Speaker 1: Glad to, buddy.
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Speaker 3: Hi, Maria.
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Speaker 7: Hello.
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Speaker 3: You come down to see us off?
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Speaker 7: I'm going with you. Okay?
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Speaker 3: Okay by me. As a matter of fact, it'll make
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Speaker 3: it nicer. You do something to a boat, baby.
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Speaker 7: You meet Rico, yes?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I met him. He's some clown. What's he always
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Speaker 3: smiling about?
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Speaker 7: Rico's a very good sailor.
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Speaker 3: He acts like he's getting ready to go to a circus.
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Speaker 7: You don't have to worry about Rico.
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Speaker 3: Okay. I won't.
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Speaker 7: As long as you keep your hands off of me.
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Speaker 3: Stop it.
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Speaker 8: Hi, buddy.
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Speaker 7: Rico.
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Speaker 3: Well, we're all ready to go.
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Speaker 7: The engine is fine.
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Speaker 3: Then what are we waiting for?
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Speaker 8: You.
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Speaker 3: Head her for Kanizaba Point. Kanizaba?
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Speaker 6: And then what?
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Speaker 3: And then I'll tell you. Bueno.
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Speaker 4: All right.
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Speaker 3: What are you standing there for? Let's get going. Okay, buddy.
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Speaker 7: Frank.
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Speaker 3: Huh?
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Speaker 7: I am afraid.
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Speaker 3: What now?
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Speaker 7: Rico, he's dangerous. He'll not like the way you act
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Speaker 7: to me. And the way you make him embarrassed.
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Speaker 3: He'll live.
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Speaker 7: But will you?
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Speaker 3: He wants to get to that island, doesn't he?
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Speaker 5: Si.
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Speaker 3: And I'm the only one who knows where it is.
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Speaker 7: That is true, but.
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Speaker 3: But what?
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Speaker 7: But I am thinking of the time after we have
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Speaker 7: been there.
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Speaker 3: I think he's feeling that, huh? Come here.
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Speaker 6: What?
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Speaker 3: Let's settle it now. Rico? Si? Give me a match.
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Speaker 6: Hmm?
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Speaker 3: Hmm? Phosphorus, subrio, match. I know how to match. I do. Here.
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Speaker 3: Light me. Light yourself. Get up. Now light me. Okay, buddy.
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Speaker 3: Any questions, Rico?
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Speaker 8: Maria?
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Speaker 3: I guess everybody understands everybody.
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Speaker 4: You are listening to The Coward, tonight's presentation of Escape. French, German, Italian, Swedish.
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Speaker 4: Nobody has trouble understanding the language when the language is music. Tomorrow,
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Speaker 4: CBS Radio presents the classic works of the composers around
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Speaker 4: the world on our World Music Festivals. Hear it tomorrow
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Speaker 4: on most of these stations. And now back to Escape
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Speaker 4: and the second act of The Coward.
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Speaker 5: The Coward.
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Speaker 8: Rico? Si?
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Speaker 1: Where are we?
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Speaker 3: Canizaba. That is the point there. Never seen it from
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Speaker 3: the water. It looks different.
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Speaker 7: There is it.
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Speaker 3: Okay, let's look at that compass of yours.
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Speaker 5: Uh-huh.
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Speaker 3: You know what you do?
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Speaker 8: I know.
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Speaker 3: Okay, we sit here. You steer this line.
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Speaker 7: Si.
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Speaker 3: And keep on it. For how long is no island
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Speaker 3: that way?
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Speaker 7: Only the open sea, no island.
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Speaker 3: You ever been that way?
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 3: I have. Okay, party. Maria, you asleep?
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Speaker 7: I'm not asleep. What you and Rico?
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Speaker 3: Huh?
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Speaker 7: He laugh at you, Frank. He laugh at you all
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Speaker 7: the time, even though he like the match. He laugh
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Speaker 7: like he know more than you know. Can do more
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Speaker 7: than you can do.
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Speaker 3: Go to bed. You're shivering.
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Speaker 7: I wish nothing to happen to you.
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Speaker 3: I don't get it.
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Speaker 7: Get it?
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Speaker 3: You and smiling boy, when all this is over, what happens?
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Speaker 7: Rico and guy go to United States.
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Speaker 3: I thought it was something like that. So why worry
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Speaker 3: about me? I'll tell you. Even with $ 40, 000, you might
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Speaker 3: not be able to make it. Immigration's tough, and the
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Speaker 3: money wouldn't help much if they were looking for you. U.S.
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Speaker 3: immigration can be awful tough on illegal entries. You got
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Speaker 3: something like that in mind?
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Speaker 7: I'll speak to you later.
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Speaker 3: No, right now.
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Speaker 7: My arm.
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Speaker 3: This trip isn't going to last much longer.
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Speaker 7: We're that close to the island?
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Speaker 3: It'll be in sight tomorrow morning. Once we get that
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Speaker 3: cash in our hands, Rico isn't going to play along
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Speaker 3: if I got him pegged right.
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Speaker 10: Pegged?
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Speaker 3: You know what I'm talking about, baby. He's probably told
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Speaker 3: you how he's going to stick that knife in me
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Speaker 3: so you and him can take the whole works, right? Yeah,
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Speaker 3: you two talked it over. Let me tell you this.
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Speaker 3: Rico isn't going to be able to get you into
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Speaker 3: the United States, but I can.
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Speaker 8: You?
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Speaker 3: If you are my wife.
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Speaker 5: Oh.
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Speaker 7: Frank, what would happen to Rico?
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Speaker 3: What do you think?
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Speaker 5: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: By golly, buddy, you're right.
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Speaker 7: What island they call this?
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Speaker 3: They call them nothing. But they're the spring end of
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Speaker 3: the Santa Gabriel, as near as I can figure it.
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Speaker 2: Which one?
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Speaker 3: Which one we go to, buddy? I'll head her in
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Speaker 3: for that point of rock there.
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Speaker 8: Bueno. I better check the depth. Frank.
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Speaker 5: Huh?
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Speaker 9: All night I think of what you say.
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 7: I am with you.
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Speaker 5: Okay.
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Speaker 8: Okay.
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Speaker 7: What do you do with that gun?
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Speaker 3: I need it. Why? Get rid of him right now.
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Speaker 3: We don't need him anymore.
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Speaker 7: But the boat?
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Speaker 3: I can handle it.
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Speaker 4: Hey, buddy, come here quick.
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Speaker 3: What's the matter? The wheel.
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Speaker 5: Take the wheel quick.
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Speaker 3: Oh, it's the reef. The water's not deep enough. We
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Speaker 3: hit the reef, we lose the boat. We have to
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Speaker 3: go in this way.
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Speaker 7: But lose the boat.
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Speaker 2: Dangerous.
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Speaker 3: I just changed my mind about something. You troll from
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Speaker 3: right here, Rico. You take soundings as fast as you can.
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Speaker 3: I'll take the wheel. You'll take both of us, but
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Speaker 3: we'll find our way through the rocks. No, it's no good.
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Speaker 3: I need a light, Rico.
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Speaker 8: Huh?
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Speaker 3: Give me a light, kiddo. Okay, buddy. Now get your
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Speaker 3: line out and let's get those engines revved up.
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Speaker 5: Okay.
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Speaker 6: Seven.
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Speaker 3: Now six. Now five and a half.
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Speaker 4: Five.
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Speaker 3: Senior four, we cannot clear. We draw three feet, that
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Speaker 3: gives us a foot extra. Hold on to your hat, buddy.
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Speaker 8: My boat!
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Speaker 1: Shut up!
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Speaker 2: Oh, by golly, after this, I hope you picked the
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Speaker 2: right island, buddy.
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Speaker 3: It's the right one, R.
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Speaker 11: I hate to think I'm doing this for nothing.
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Speaker 3: Look, hey, there, the island in plain. Yeah. Just the
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Speaker 3: way I thought. By golly, buddy, a long time. I
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Speaker 3: think maybe this is just a trick. You're not sure
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Speaker 3: the plane did not burn, but you want to look.
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Speaker 7: I want to look, too.
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Speaker 3: Now I see. You okay, buddy? We all be rich, eh, Maria? Si.
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Speaker 3: That is what you want, Carillo? Si. Well, by golly,
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Speaker 3: we have it now. It's getting late. Let's hustle it
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Speaker 3: up and get out of here. I don't want to
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Speaker 3: spend the night on that island. Why not? Nothing to eat,
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Speaker 3: nothing to drink. It's hot day and night. Rico, take
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Speaker 3: her in as close as you can, and we'll wait. Okay, buddy. Frank.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Is all right?
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Speaker 1: Fine.
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Speaker 3: Nothing to worry about now. Nothing at all.
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Speaker 7: What do you mean?
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Speaker 3: You and I can bring it back through the rocks alone.
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Speaker 3: We are here. Okay, let's go. I'll give you a
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Speaker 3: hand over the side, Maria.
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Speaker 1: Gracias.
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 3: Why is it the planes not find her? They didn't
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Speaker 3: look in the right place. She's half buried in a
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Speaker 3: loose rock. How you doing?
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Speaker 1: Bueno.
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Speaker 11: The plane, a mess. Where in it is the money, buddy?
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Speaker 3: In the baggage compartment. I go pull the door open.
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Speaker 3: Why call it sister?
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Speaker 8: Hard.
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Speaker 3: I'll give you a hand.
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Speaker 7: You can get it now.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Got it. It's locked. Give me your knife. Oh, here. Here.
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Speaker 5: $ 80, 000.
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Speaker 3: Si, it is a treasure. Yeah. Just about enough for
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Speaker 3: a man to enjoy some things.
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Speaker 8: Huh?
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Speaker 3: Thanks for the knife, Rico. Where's the money?
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Speaker 8: Where's the money?
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Speaker 5: You wanted my knife.
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Speaker 8: Now you got it.
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Speaker 3: Adios, buddy. You kill him. All of it will happen
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Speaker 3: to him.
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Speaker 7: An hour, two.
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Speaker 2: You bleed.
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Speaker 3: Scratch only, querida. But he, my buddy, he will die.
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Speaker 3: I think it nice you should stay here and watch you.
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Speaker 3: You can die with him.
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Speaker 6: Rodrigo, no!
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Speaker 3: It is what you wanted, to be with him. You
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Speaker 3: have him now.
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Speaker 5: No, no.
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Speaker 6: Rodrigo.
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Speaker 3: Adios, querida mía.
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Speaker 5: Maria.
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Speaker 7: You hurt bad, Frank?
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Speaker 3: You're telling me.
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Speaker 7: Don't I try to move?
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Speaker 3: The boat.
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Speaker 5: Gone.
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Speaker 7: You made me stay. He say we can die together.
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Speaker 3: That isn't going to help. Shut up.
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Speaker 8: Shut up.
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Speaker 7: You died, Frank.
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Speaker 8: No. Not if I can help it.
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Speaker 3: Look in the plane. Must be a first aid kit
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Speaker 3: in there somewhere.
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Speaker 7: Kit.
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Speaker 3: Just tape. Hurry up. Take a look. No. No, Frank.
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Speaker 3: Try the cabin. The cabin.
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Speaker 7: I cannot go into the cabin.
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Speaker 8: The bodies are in there.
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Speaker 7: The bodies from the wreckage.
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Speaker 3: Go on.
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Speaker 8: Go on.
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Speaker 3: You want to stay here and die. You want to
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Speaker 3: try to get help.
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Speaker 8: I'll look.
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Speaker 7: Frank, this is it?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. Come on, get it open. You all right?
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Speaker 7: I'm all right.
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Speaker 8: Okay.
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Speaker 3: Let's see what kind of surgeon you are.
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Speaker 7: Better now?
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Knife must have bounced off a river. I'd be
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Speaker 3: dead by now.
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Speaker 7: What will happen to us?
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Speaker 3: We got to get some help. Make flares, signal something.
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Speaker 7: Do you think anybody see?
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Speaker 3: Somebody has seen.
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Speaker 7: We need food. There is no food. Only sand and rock.
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Speaker 3: Hey, the radio. The radio on the plane.
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Speaker 8: Why look?
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Speaker 7: It is smashed to pieces. We die, Frank. We die
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Speaker 7: here together.
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Speaker 3: I suppose you could build a fire.
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Speaker 8: You awake, Marie?
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Speaker 3: Yeah. I keep dozing off. Guess I lost a lot
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Speaker 3: of blood.
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Speaker 7: Sleep is best now, you know, think.
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Speaker 3: Maybe it's better to think. Look, I still have the gun. What?
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Speaker 3: When the food problem gets tough, I mean, when it
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Speaker 3: gets too bad, maybe... There's no way to go. Starving,
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Speaker 3: I mean.
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Speaker 10: All my life I tell myself, someday I go to
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Speaker 10: United States to live there. We're pretty close, like in
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Speaker 10: the magazines. Drive a nice car. Live in a clean place.
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Speaker 10: And I die on a dirty little island.
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Speaker 3: We'll both die if that's any comfort. My fault.
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Speaker 7: Your fault.
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Speaker 3: I got you into this. I didn't mean for it
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Speaker 3: to end this way. Maria, I'd like to tell you something. Si.
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Speaker 3: When that plane ran out of gas, I tried to
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Speaker 3: tell those four workers how to get into their chutes.
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Speaker 3: I really tried. They didn't speak English and I didn't
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Speaker 3: speak their language and I just wasn't time. I could
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Speaker 3: have stayed with the plane and died then and Maybe
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Speaker 3: it would have been better, but I bailed out and
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Speaker 3: I saw it crash here. In the hospital, I got
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Speaker 3: the idea about the money.
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Speaker 7: Why do you say this to me?
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Speaker 3: I hate to drag you with me. You don't deserve it.
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Speaker 3: Just a kid who wanted to go to the States.
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Speaker 3: I'd have been proud to take you there. To love me?
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: I believe.
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Speaker 8: You.
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Speaker 7: It is a good feeling.
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Speaker 10: We truly die, but it is a good feeling.
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Speaker 8: The boat! What?
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Speaker 6: The boat, it is back.
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Speaker 7: Rico is back. Can you walk?
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Speaker 3: I can try.
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Speaker 10: He did not leave us here to die.
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Speaker 7: He came back.
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Speaker 3: I can't believe it.
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Speaker 8: Wait.
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Speaker 3: What? She's stuck in the sand. She's unmanned.
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Speaker 7: He did not come back for us?
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Speaker 3: No, that boat just drifted in. Come on.
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Speaker 5: What?
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Speaker 3: On the railing. He couldn't get out. He couldn't get
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Speaker 3: through the reef alone in the knife fight. He bled.
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Speaker 3: He's dead, Marianne.
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Speaker 7: And now we will live.
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Speaker 5: The End.
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Speaker 1: Five.
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Speaker 3: Five. Four. Four.
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Speaker 7: We make it?
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Speaker 3: We made it this far, baby. We're clear now. Open
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Speaker 3: sea ahead.
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Speaker 7: Open sea?
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Speaker 3: We're safe.
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Speaker 7: What happens when we get back?
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Speaker 3: You mean the money? See? It goes to Ryan for
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Speaker 3: the whole story.
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Speaker 7: Everything?
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Speaker 3: It'd have to be everything.
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Speaker 7: But they might put you in prison.
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Speaker 3: If they did.
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Speaker 7: I wait. I will wait for you.
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Speaker 3: We haven't got anything to worry about, Maria. Take the wheel.
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Speaker 4: Escape, produced and directed by David Friedkin and Morton Fine,
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Speaker 4: has brought you The Coward, a story by E.
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Speaker 3: Jack Newman.
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Speaker 4: Featured in the cast were Barney Phillips, Virginia Gregg, Lou Merrill,
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Speaker 4: and Herb Butterfield.
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Speaker 3: Your announcer, Bill Anders.
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Speaker 4: The special music for Escape is composed and conducted by
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Speaker 4: Leith Stevens.
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Speaker 8: Next week.
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Speaker 2: You are running over the fog-locked cliffs of Dover. By
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Speaker 2: your side, a girl who believes you are a madman.
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Speaker 2: And pursuing you, bent on destroying you, a man whose
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Speaker 2: terrible secret you've stumbled upon.
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Speaker 3: And from whom there is no.
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Speaker 6: Escape.
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Speaker 4: So listen next week when Escape brings you Walter Brown
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Speaker 4: Newman's story, Two and Two Make Four. Some people like
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Speaker 4: to spend their Sunday afternoons fishing. Some like to relax
28:44
Speaker 4: at home. But whatever the pastime, CBS Radio adds to
28:49
Speaker 4: a restful day with Eddie Gallagher on a Sunday afternoon.
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Speaker 4: Music by Antonini and by Russ Case. Vocal melody by
28:57
Speaker 4: Stu Foster and Louise Carlyle. And pleasant chatter by Eddie Gallagher.
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Speaker 4: All right here for you tomorrow on most of these stations.
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Speaker 4: Stay tuned now for Night Watch, which follows immediately over
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Speaker 4: most of these same stations. America listens most to the
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