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Richard Diamond, Private Detective - "The Bloody Hat Case" (1949) · Old Time Mystery Radio | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: With Dick Powell as Richard Diamond and Ed Begley as
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  Speaker 1: Lieutenant Walter Levinson, NBC's early detective series follows a New
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  Speaker 1: York case that begins with a cab driver. He delivers
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  Speaker 1: Diamond a blood-stained hat bearing the initials BK, along with
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  Speaker 1: a recently fired. 38 revolver, evidence with no victim in sight.
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  Speaker 1: The trail leads Diamond to Bertram Kalmas and his employer,
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  Speaker 1: George Watkins, while conflicting accounts and Lieutenant Levinson's investigation complicate
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  Speaker 1: the search.
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  Speaker 2: For the facts.
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  Speaker 1: From July 2nd, 1949, this is episode 11 of Richard Diamond,
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  Speaker 1: Private Detective, The Bloody Hat Case. We now take you
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  Speaker 1: back to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: THE END.
• 1:10
  Speaker 3: Here's Dick Powell as Richard Diamond, private detective.
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  Speaker 2: Hello there. My name's Diamond. If you spotted me on
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  Speaker 2: the street, you'd probably figure me for an average working man.
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  Speaker 2: But you'd be wrong. I fit the description all right
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  Speaker 2: because I break my back six days a week to
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  Speaker 2: keep my piggy bank nice and stuffed. But my occupation
• 1:42
  Speaker 2: puts me in a class by myself. I'm a private, honey,
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  Speaker 2: nothing in this world but detective. You probably say, so what?
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  Speaker 2: The average working man comes under the heading of a
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  Speaker 2: lot of different jobs. And you'd be right on that count.
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  Speaker 2: But there's one little thing that puts me in a
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  Speaker 2: class all by myself.
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  Speaker 4: Trouble.
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  Speaker 2: Trouble. Mr. and Mrs. Average John Doe work six days
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  Speaker 2: a week to keep clear of it. I put in
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  Speaker 2: the same time playing footsies with it. It's a kind
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  Speaker 2: of silent partner with references dating all the way back
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  Speaker 2: to the year one. People get in trouble every second,
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  Speaker 2: and I count on a small percentage to come to
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  Speaker 2: me to get them out of it. The rest? Odds
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  Speaker 2: and good advertising. As an example, take the other night
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  Speaker 2: in a little bistro over on 48th Street. A couple
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  Speaker 2: of guys sitting at a back table were getting set
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  Speaker 2: for a special brand of trouble. The big kind that
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  Speaker 2: you find under the heading of murder.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Bert, old boy, this is turning out.
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  Speaker 2: To be a wonderful evening.
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  Speaker 4: I'm glad you're enjoying it, George.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Say, who's the blonde over there in the booth? Well,
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  Speaker 5: I've never seen her before, but... She's cute.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she sure is. Good evening, baby.
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  Speaker 4: George, George, take it easy.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe she's waiting for someone. Oh, don't be silly. Look,
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  Speaker 2: she's smiling. Let's ask her over to the table.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I still think she's waiting for someone. If you
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  Speaker 4: want to take the chance, go ahead, you ask her.
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  Speaker 4: All right, I will.
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  Speaker 2: I said good evening.
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  Speaker 6: Good evening.
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  Speaker 5: My friend and I noticed you were sitting alone and
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  Speaker 5: we wondered if you'd join us.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, I don't believe I can. You see.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, please. Just for a few drinks?
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  Speaker 6: No, really.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you just the same.
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  Speaker 5: Well, if you say so, but I'll be unhappy for
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  Speaker 5: the rest of the evening.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, baby.
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  Speaker 8: Tony.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry I took so long, but... Hey, who's this guy?
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  Speaker 6: Now, tell me.
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  Speaker 4: I said, who's the guy?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, if you'll excuse me.
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  Speaker 4: Now, you, wait a minute. Uh, George, come on. I
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  Speaker 4: think we'd better leave. Is this guy a friend of yours? Yes,
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  Speaker 4: he is. Was this guy making a pitch, ma'am?
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  Speaker 7: No, he only asked me over for a drink.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, he did, huh? Now, wait a minute, pal. Please,
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  Speaker 2: I made a mistake.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 4: So you made a mistake. Well, I don't like jokers
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  Speaker 4: that try and pick.
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  Speaker 2: Up my girl.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 4: You didn't have to slug him. Maybe you'd like to
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  Speaker 4: do something about it. Maybe I would. Oh, no.
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  Speaker 7: Well, that's the first time Tony ended up on the
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  Speaker 7: short end of a fight in a long time.
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  Speaker 4: You all right, George?
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  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: I think I cut my head.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, you're bleeding all over the place. You better get
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  Speaker 7: out of here, mister. I saw the manager duck in
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  Speaker 7: the back room. He's probably calling the cops.
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  Speaker 4: Here, let me give you a hand, George. Here, now,
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  Speaker 4: take my hat and wear it over the cut until
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  Speaker 4: you get home.
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  Speaker 7: I'm getting out of here, too. You want me to
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  Speaker 7: drop you off?
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  Speaker 2: What about your boyfriend?
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  Speaker 4: He's still unconscious.
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  Speaker 7: He was that way when I met him. You want
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  Speaker 7: the lift or not?
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  Speaker 5: What about you, Bert?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I'll be all right. Now go on, let her
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  Speaker 4: take you somewhere so you can get cleaned up. I'll
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  Speaker 4: grab a cab and head for my place.
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  Speaker 2: I'll call you in the morning. But I don't want to.
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  Speaker 4: Now stop arguing. You can't afford a scandal.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 6: Come on, honey, let's go.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is a very nice apartment.
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  Speaker 7: You better go get cleaned up. Back to that room.
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  Speaker 7: I'll get a couple of drinks.
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  Speaker 5: I can sure use a drink.
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  Speaker 2: I won't be long.
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  Speaker 7: Take your time.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: Tony, get out of here.
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  Speaker 2: Where is that guy?
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  Speaker 7: Come on, get out of here.
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  Speaker 4: Why, you cheap little.
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  Speaker 2: I'll beat it out of you.
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  Speaker 4: Let go of me. What's going on?
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  Speaker 6: Take your hands off me. You take your hands off her.
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  Speaker 4: I'll kill the both of you.
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  Speaker 2: Help.
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  Speaker 7: There's a gun in the sand.
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  Speaker 4: A gun?
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 4: I'll wring your little neck.
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  Speaker 2: You shot him. I did?
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  Speaker 6: You better get out of here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but what about you?
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  Speaker 7: Go on, get out while you can.
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  Speaker 6: I'll think of something.
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  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Leave the gun. I'll float the river or something.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 6: Now go on, beat it. You just killed a man.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, come in.
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  Speaker 4: Hiya, Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Diamond.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Hennessy, what did you do, wreck your cab? Nah,
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  Speaker 2: it's down in the front. Hey, that's a war magazine
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  Speaker 2: you're reading there. Yeah. Listen to what it says here
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  Speaker 2: about women's bathing suits.
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  Speaker 4: Huh?
• 6:25
  Speaker 2: 1949 suits allow maximum exposure to sun. Note plunging neckline.
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  Speaker 4: Note.
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  Speaker 2: Who's going to miss it? If it plunges into the Lord,
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  Speaker 2: wind up at the bend.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, Mr. Diamond, would you mind shoving it in the drawer?
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  Speaker 2: The picture distracts me. Not at all, no. I don't
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  Speaker 2: blame you, Hennessy.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks.
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  Speaker 2: Now, what's on your mind? This.
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  Speaker 4: A hat?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't think I can do you much good.
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  Speaker 2: What did you bring it to me for?
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  Speaker 10: I found it in the gutter over in Flatbush.
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  Speaker 2: So what? Some guy loses a hat. Don't tell me
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  Speaker 2: you want me to find him.
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  Speaker 10: No, I just got to worrying a little, you see.
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  Speaker 10: I found this beside you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, a.
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  Speaker 5: 38.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's have a look.
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  Speaker 4: Take a look at the hat, too. It's got blood
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  Speaker 4: all over the inside.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And initials on the inside. BK. Gun's been fired.
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  Speaker 2: You can still smell the powder in the barrel. Why
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  Speaker 2: didn't you take this to the police?
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  Speaker 10: Oh, I didn't want to get mixed up in it.
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  Speaker 10: You see, I got to pick up as many fares
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  Speaker 10: as I can. I ain't got nobody to drive my
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  Speaker 10: cab for me. And I didn't want to spend the
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  Speaker 10: day answering questions down at headquarters.
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  Speaker 2: You understand? Well, you'll probably have to anyway. I'll have
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  Speaker 2: to notify them.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: Well, I thought maybe you could find out who owned
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  Speaker 10: the hat and maybe solve the case before you notify him,
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  Speaker 10: you see? That way I wouldn't have to spend too
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  Speaker 10: much time. I could just tell him I found it
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  Speaker 10: and beat it. Well, I can't withhold evidence. It'd take
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  Speaker 10: away my license. And if you did, they'd lock you up. Okay,
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  Speaker 10: I just thought maybe... Well, I can check the hat
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  Speaker 10: store before I get to the fifth precinct.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, won't that be a tough job?
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of hat stores, you know. Well, the
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  Speaker 2: hat's got a label. Besides, when someone finds a bloody
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  Speaker 2: hat with a 38 lying next to it, I get interested.
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  Speaker 2: Particularly when there isn't a corpse to go with it.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I gotta go, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Diamond.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks a lot. You got a free ride anytime you want.
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  Speaker 2: I may take care of that. So long, Hennessy. Well,
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  Speaker 2: there you are. What did that tell you? When you're
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  Speaker 2: working with trouble, something always shows up. Sometimes it's just
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  Speaker 2: a routine case. A guy knocks off his wife and
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  Speaker 2: he comes to you because he suddenly found out that
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  Speaker 2: he had that lonely feeling. Or maybe you get a
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  Speaker 2: real screwy one. A taxidermist that got tired of stuffing
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  Speaker 2: animals and went to work on a neighbor. Or then
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  Speaker 2: you get one that gives you the same feeling you
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  Speaker 2: get when you pick up a poker hand and the
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  Speaker 2: first four cards you look at are all spades. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I was holding two cards. A hat with blood on it,
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  Speaker 2: a gun that had been fired, and all I needed
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  Speaker 2: to fill out the hand was a body. By all rights,
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  Speaker 2: I should have taken the evidence right down to my
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  Speaker 2: friend Lieutenant Levinson at Homicide. But I didn't have anything
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  Speaker 2: to do, so I decided to see what kind of
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  Speaker 2: pieces I could fit into the puzzle. The label in
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  Speaker 2: the hat was from a store on Fifth Avenue. It
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  Speaker 2: wasn't far from my office, so I walked it.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir. Something I can do for you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Stop munching your sense in and tell me if
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  Speaker 2: this hat is from your store.
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  Speaker 4: Well, let me see it. These glasses are not telescopes,
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  Speaker 4: you know.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: Here.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 4: If you're planning to return this merchandise, sir, I can
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  Speaker 4: assure you the store will not accept it. You've been
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  Speaker 4: bleeding on the sweatband. Look, Rosebud, I just want to
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  Speaker 4: know if the hat is from this store. It most
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  Speaker 4: certainly is. It's one of our custom models. Who did
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  Speaker 4: you sell it to? If you found this hat, we
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  Speaker 4: will be glad to return it to its owner. We
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  Speaker 4: are not supposed to give out the names of our clients.
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  Speaker 2: I have a small badge here that should cut this
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  Speaker 2: conversation down to a few words. See?
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  Speaker 8: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Now, would you mind telling me to whom did you
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  Speaker 2: sell this hat?
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  Speaker 4: Well, just because you're a detective, I am not impressed. However,
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  Speaker 4: under the circumstances, I'll give you the buyer's name.
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  Speaker 2: You're a real sport.
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  Speaker 4: I suppose you wear a shoulder holster, too. Or is
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  Speaker 4: that bulge your tailor's fault?
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  Speaker 2: Psst. Come here. I really keep a midget in there.
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  Speaker 2: You don't say? Yeah. He spits through the lapel of
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  Speaker 2: stupid hat clerks. Oh. Now, come on, bright eyes. Who
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  Speaker 2: bought the hat?
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  Speaker 4: Well, if you'll just hold your horses.
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  Speaker 2: That's the new line, if I ever heard one. Come on, Bubbles.
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  Speaker 2: Here it is.
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  Speaker 4: This hat was sold to a Mr. Bertram Kalmas. We
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  Speaker 4: make all his hats for him. Well, bully for you.
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  Speaker 4: What's his address? 430 Sutton Place. Now, will that be all, sir?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that will be all, and thank you. You've been
• 10:39
  Speaker 2: a freak through the whole ugliness. I left him watering
• 10:44
  Speaker 2: his gardenia and headed for the residence of one Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Bertram Calmas. The apartment house was about ten blocks away,
• 10:51
  Speaker 2: and with the money I had in my pocket, all
• 10:53
  Speaker 2: taxi cabs started looking like iron claws with four wheels.
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  Speaker 2: I walked. Yes? How do you mean that?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, I don't want any.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, and I've got a pretty good sales talk.
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  Speaker 6: I never buy anything unless I have a demonstration.
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  Speaker 2: My middle name is Semper Paratus. Like the Coast Guard,
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  Speaker 2: I'm always prepared.
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  Speaker 6: I suppose I could top that, but I'm getting tired
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  Speaker 6: of trying to close the door on your foot. What
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  Speaker 6: is it you want?
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  Speaker 2: I hate to admit it, but I'm looking for Bertram Calmus.
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  Speaker 6: My husband.
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  Speaker 2: Good for him. Is he in?
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  Speaker 6: No, but he will be any minute. And for the boss?
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  Speaker 2: This hat, I believe it's his.
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  Speaker 6: What blonde's apartment did it turn up in?
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  Speaker 2: It was found in the gutter in Flatbush.
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  Speaker 12: Well, Flatbush is a little out of his territory, but
• 11:38
  Speaker 12: the gutter sounds familiar. What's that stain all over it?
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  Speaker 2: Blood. Does your husband bleed a lot?
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  Speaker 6: Not recently. We've been getting along. Are you from the police?
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  Speaker 2: I'm a detective. Oh. Come in. I'd hate to be
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  Speaker 2: selling brushes.
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  Speaker 6: I'd have slammed the door on your face.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, well, then I made an impression. You have.
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  Speaker 12: Let's just say you're waiting for a sacrifice to move
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  Speaker 12: you to second base.
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  Speaker 6: Won't you sit down?
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  Speaker 5: Thanks.
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  Speaker 2: What happens when I round third?
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  Speaker 6: That depends on your batting average.
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  Speaker 2: Diamond, Mrs. Calvert.
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  Speaker 6: That fits.
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  Speaker 2: Now, getting back to a very dull subject, does this
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  Speaker 2: hat belong to your husband?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know. It looks like one of his. Has
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  Speaker 6: it got any initials on the band?
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  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: BK.
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  Speaker 6: When did you find it?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't. The cab driver picked it up this morning.
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  Speaker 6: And it isn't my husband's blood. He left about a
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  Speaker 6: half an hour ago to do some shopping, and he
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  Speaker 6: was very bloodless.
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  Speaker 2: No cuts on his head?
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  Speaker 6: No cuts. He came in around two this morning. He'd
• 12:42
  Speaker 6: been drinking, but he wasn't caught up.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, there he is now. I hope we can discuss
• 12:48
  Speaker 12: baseball in a bit.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I got all the things you wanted in it.
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  Speaker 6: Um, Bert, this is Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Diamond.
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  Speaker 6: He's a detective.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 11: Well, how are you?
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  Speaker 2: Fine, Mr. Calvins. Tell me, is this your hat? My hat?
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  Speaker 2: Let me see it.
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  Speaker 4: Why, no.
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  Speaker 2: No, it isn't. The hat store on Fifth Avenue says
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  Speaker 2: it's older to you.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I can't help what they say.
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  Speaker 2: That's not my hat.
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  Speaker 6: Are you sure, darling? It was found in a gutter.
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  Speaker 4: I don't care if they found it on a Yale
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  Speaker 4: man in the Harvard Club. It's not mine.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I guess I'll have to take your word for it.
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  Speaker 4: Wait, wait.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't that blood on the hat? Yeah. Well, goodbye, Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Calumus and Mr. Calumus. Nice meeting you both.
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  Speaker 4: I'll see you to the door.
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  Speaker 6: I can do it.
• 13:26
  Speaker 4: I know you can, dear.
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  Speaker 2: Coming, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Diamond?
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  Speaker 2: Sure. Goodbye.
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: Back again, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Garmis.
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: Well, goodbye, Mr. Garmis. Where can I call you? What?
• 13:39
  Speaker 2: I can't explain now.
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  Speaker 4: Where can I call you in about a half an hour?
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  Speaker 2: My office. It's in the book.
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  Speaker 4: You'll hear from me, but please, please don't do anything
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  Speaker 4: until then.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Half an hour. Then I go to the police
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  Speaker 2: with this hat. Who's? Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Diamond, this is Bert Kalmas.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, I couldn't say anything to you in front of
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  Speaker 8: my wife.
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  Speaker 4: That is my hat.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I thought so. Why did you deny it?
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  Speaker 11: Well, I was out with a pal last night. There
• 14:15
  Speaker 11: was a fight over a girl. I didn't want to
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  Speaker 11: mention it.
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  Speaker 8: In front of my wife.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, how did the blood get on the hat?
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  Speaker 8: My friend got hit on the head, and I loaned
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  Speaker 8: him my hat to cover up the wound.
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  Speaker 2: What was it doing in a gutter in Flatbush?
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  Speaker 4: I really don't know.
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  Speaker 8: My friend left with the girl, and I went right home.
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  Speaker 2: Well, who is this friend of yours? I think something
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: may have happened to him.
• 14:32
  Speaker 8: Well, I called him this morning, and he seemed very
• 14:33
  Speaker 8: nervous about something, and he asked me to come over.
• 14:36
  Speaker 8: I'm in the lobby of his hotel right now.
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: Ah, he's probably just worried about the girl he picked up.
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: As long as the blood on the hat was from
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: a cut on his head, I don't think there's too
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: much to worry about.
• 14:45
  Speaker 8: No, no, Mr. Diamond, I think it's more than that.
• 14:47
  Speaker 8: He's my employer, and I know him pretty well. I
• 14:50
  Speaker 8: do wish you'd come over.
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: Well, all right, Mr. Calumet. What's the address?
• 14:53
  Speaker 8: The Whitsitt Hotel on East 54th Street. I'll meet you
• 14:56
  Speaker 8: in the lobby.
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: Don't ask me why I started getting that lousy feeling
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: when all I had was a bloody hat, a gun,
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: and a pretty good explanation for one of the items.
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: But there it was, that jammed-up feeling in the pit
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: of my stomach like I'd just swallowed a whole pineapple.
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: Something was wrong, and I wanted to find out what.
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: So I hurried over to the Whitsitt Hotel and met
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: Calamus in the lobby.
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: I'm glad you came, Mr.
• 15:23
  Speaker 9: Diamond.
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: I just put in a call to George's room, and
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: someone else answered.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: So what?
• 15:27
  Speaker 11: Well, the man asked a lot of questions, like who
• 15:29
  Speaker 11: I was and why I... What did I want with
• 15:31
  Speaker 11: George and.
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: Oh, I take it George is your friend of last night.
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: Yes, George Watkins. He's the president of the firm I
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: work for.
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: Well, let's go up. When someone starts asking questions like
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: that on the phone, it begins to sound like the
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: police have moved in. Come on. Come on. Yeah. Oh, hello, Walt. Rick,
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: what are you doing here? Fair question. I'll answer yours
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: if you'll do the same for me. I came up
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: to see you, Mr. George Watkins. So did I.
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: What's the matter? Is George in some kind of trouble?
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: Who's this guy? Oh, he's a friend of Watkins. Works
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: for him. Oh, yeah? Well, come on in.
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: George.
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: George, what's going on here?
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: You better let the lieutenant tell you, Bert. I can't
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: think anymore. What's the charge, Walt?
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: Murder.
• 16:22
  Speaker 6: Murder?
• 16:23
  Speaker 13: You got a call from a girl last night who
• 16:25
  Speaker 13: said a man named George Watkins killed someone in her apartment.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: When we got over there, we found the girl dead, too.
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: Oh, well, you must have the wrong man, Inspector George, Lieutenant.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: And I'm sure you think George wouldn't, but he just confessed. George? Yes, Bert,
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: I killed the man.
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: But I didn't kill her. The man came in and
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: tried to strangle her. She told me to get the
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: gun in the drawer, and when the man wouldn't let
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: her go, I shot him.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: That isn't what the girl told us.
• 16:50
  Speaker 13: She said she took this guy home after he'd been
• 16:52
  Speaker 13: in a fight, and when they got to her apartment,
• 16:54
  Speaker 13: he made a pass just as her boyfriend came in.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: Then Watkins shot him and ran out.
• 16:58
  Speaker 13: We figured he got excited, and when he had time
• 17:00
  Speaker 13: to think about it, he went back and killed the
• 17:02
  Speaker 13: only other witness.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: I didn't kill the girl.
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: I never went back there at all.
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: I came straight here.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: Now, Walt, Mr. Calmus here was with him up until
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: the time he left with the girl. Is that right, Mr.
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: Calmus? Why, yes, sir.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: Now, there was a previous fight, and Watkins got that
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: cut on his head. Mr. Calmus loaned him his hat
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: to cover the wound.
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: That's right, sir.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: And, uh, oh, by the way, Walt, what caliber was
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: the murder weapon? 38, but we haven't found the gun yet. Here,
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: check this one with ballistics. How'd you find this? Cab
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: driver named Hennessy brought it in to me this morning.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Found it lying with a hat. You ever see this
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: gun before, Watkins?
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: No. I told you I don't own a gun.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: Well, what time do you figure he killed the man
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: and the girl? The coroner fixed the time of death
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: about one o'clock this morning. Hmm. How long were you
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: at this girl's apartment, Mr. Watkins?
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: Why, about five minutes before her boyfriend came in. I
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: shot him and left immediately. And you don't remember taking
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: your hat or the gun?
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: What are you getting at, Rick? This is an open
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: and shut case.
• 17:55
  Speaker 13: He admits killing one of them, but he won't admit
• 17:57
  Speaker 13: the other killing because he knows it was premeditated.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: Oh, just a hunch, Walt. Just a hunch.
• 18:01
  Speaker 11: Mr.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: Watkins, would you mind telling me just what happened after
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: the girl's boyfriend started choking him?
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: Well, I grabbed the gun out of the dresser near
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: the kitchen and I shot him. And the girl told
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: me to get out, that she'd take care of things,
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: so I dropped the gun and ran.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Did you hear anything else? Anything unusual?
• 18:17
  Speaker 8: No.
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: But, yes, now that you mention it. I did hear something,
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: but it slipped my mind until now.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: What did you hear?
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: Well, I don't know whether I can describe it or not.
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: It sounded like someone had opened a bottle of flat champagne.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: What are you getting at, Rick? Ah, wait a minute, Walt.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: When did you hear this noise?
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: Right after I shot the man. I remember wondering if
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: someone hadn't opened.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: A bottle in the kitchen. Is that where the noise
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: came from? Yes, I think so. All right, if I
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: go over and case the scene, Walt. We've done that. Yeah,
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: but you weren't looking for something. Why don't you come
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: with me, Mr. Calamus? I'd like to talk with you.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: What's the address, Walt? 16 West 113th Street. Now, look,
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: don't worry too much, George.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: I can handle the business, and in the meantime, I'll
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: do everything to get you off.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Thanks, Bert. Now, you wait a minute, Rick. If you
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: think you know something.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: Walt! Yeah?
• 19:07
  Speaker 9: Bye.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Calmus and I went downstairs and took a cab over
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: to 16 West 113th Street. It was a middle-class apartment
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: house in Flatbush. A four-story brownstone. I let Calmus pay
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: the fare and we went in. I wonder what floor
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: it's on.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: Well, she'll tell on the mailboxes. Yeah, here it is.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: Nan Phillips, 206.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Well, let's go up. What do you do for Mr. Watkins?
• 19:37
  Speaker 11: I'm his vice-president. That's why I took him out last night.
• 19:40
  Speaker 11: I wanted to interest him in a new account. I
• 19:43
  Speaker 11: just can't imagine him killing anyone, but I guess people
• 19:46
  Speaker 11: do funny things when they lose their heads.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, no. no. 206. Oh, here it is.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Hello. Oh, no. Good afternoon, Sergeant Otis. What do you want, Diamond?
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: I want to stand out here in the hall and
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: count the hairs in your five o'clock shadow. Now, let
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: us in. The lieutenant said it was all right. Okay, comic. Mr. Calamus,
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: meet Sergeant Otis. How are you? Hello, Sergeant. Otis, make
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: like a policeman and point out the circumstances in this killing,
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: will you?
• 20:18
  Speaker 11: Well, I don't know why I should, Seamus, but if
• 20:19
  Speaker 11: the lieutenant sent you over, I guess I'll have to.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Two bodies was over there by the window. Lined pretty
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: close together. Uh-huh. The killer, that Watkins fellow, was standing
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: about here in the center of the room. With his
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: back to the kitchen door.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: He shot them both from about here. Hey, what are
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: you looking for? Oh, I like to get out on
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: my hands and knees. It's cooler here.
• 20:40
  Speaker 13: And it won't do you no good to start looking
• 20:41
  Speaker 13: for fancy clues.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: The guy already confessed. Well, well, well, well. Hey, what
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: do you got there? Just a wad. So, you got
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: some wadding from the murder gun. You better give it here. Sure,
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: but hang on to it, Otis, and be sure to
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: give it to the lieutenant. Maybe you haven't noticed, but
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: murder guns don't throw this much wadding unless you can
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: kill someone with a blank cartridge. What? Don't let it
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: throw you. Mr. Collins, I've got some things to do.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Can I drop you somewhere?
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: Well, no thanks.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Now that Mr.
• 21:08
  Speaker 11: Watkins can't take care of the office, I'd better go
• 21:10
  Speaker 11: down and check over some things. But I'll keep in
• 21:12
  Speaker 11: touch with you, Mr.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Diamond. You do that. Now, wait a minute, Diamond. Oh,
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: stop trying to figure it out, Otis. You'll snap your wig.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: I was getting close to something. I wanted to tie
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: the ends together before it caught up with me. I
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: had a big fat hunch that Watkins had been framed good.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: And the more I found out, the more it looked
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: like a killer was still loose. The whole setup had
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: been screwy from the first. Why would a guy lose
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: his hat and drop his gun in the same place? Or,
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: if he threw them both away, why wouldn't he burn
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: the hat and throw the gun in the river? Nobody's
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: frightened enough to lay them side by side in the gutter.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: I learned a lot since this morning, and I was
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: certain of one thing. The killer tried to make it
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: look good, but he was an awful amateur. I knew
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: something else, too. Amateurs can be awfully mean sometimes when
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: you corner them. I put in a call to Walt
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: and told him what I had, and then I asked
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: him to give me half an hour and meet me
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: at Mrs. Kalmas' flat. I grabbed another cab, and 20
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: minutes later, I was sitting on a long couch next
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: to Mrs. Kalmas. It's easy to get that crowded feeling,
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: even on a long couch. You just both sit on
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: the same cushion.
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: Comfy.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Yeah. Uh, what kind of perfume is that?
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: My sin. Past or future tense?
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: A rounding second. Who brought you back, Mr.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Diamond? Oh, I, uh, I want to ask a couple
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: of questions.
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: Past or future tense?
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: What time did your husband get in last night?
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: I told you, about two o'clock.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: Why?
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Do you know if he knows a girl named Nan Phillips?
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: I really don't know.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: All right, just a few more questions, and then we'll
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: get back to that perfume.
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: I'll think of it.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: You said you'd been getting along with your husband. Would
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: you mind explaining that?
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: Certainly, I like nice things, and he's been buying them
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: for me.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: What's your husband's salary?
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: About $ 15, 000 a year.
• 23:14
  Speaker 9: Oh.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Could he afford to buy you these things?
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: He told me he was getting a raise, and then
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: he'd gotten a bigger fan. What's this all about?
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: Maybe I'd better tell you.
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: Bud, I didn't hear you.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: I did.
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: What are you doing with that gun?
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: I'm going to use it. I found Mr.
• 23:29
  Speaker 11: Diamond making passes at my wife, and I shot him.
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: Are you crazy?
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Don't ask him that. He's allowed to start thinking about it.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: You can't shoot me and get away with it, Calmus.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: What are you going to do with your wife? She
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: won't back you up. No.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: No, I guess she wouldn't. All right, both of you,
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: get up and walk downstairs to my car.
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: Bert, what are you doing?
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Your husband killed two people last night, Mrs. Calmus. Now
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: he's going to try and cover because he guessed I
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: knew how it was done.
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: You're not going to kill me, too.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: It's moving.
• 23:54
  Speaker 9: Bert, please.
• 23:55
  Speaker 8: Go on.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Better do as he says.
• 23:59
  Speaker 7: Why did you kill anyone, Bert?
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: He wanted to frame his boss.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: I'll bet when the company checks, they'll find out he's
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: had his hand in the pill.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: They won't find out, Mr. Diamond.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: With Mr.
• 24:08
  Speaker 11: Watkins' book for murder, I'm next in line for president.
• 24:11
  Speaker 11: I'll be able to fix the book so it will
• 24:12
  Speaker 11: look like he took the money, too.
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: Is that where you got the money for all those
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: things you've been buying from me?
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: You shot the man and the girl from the kitchen
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: with a silencer, didn't you, Bertram?
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: That's right.
• 24:22
  Speaker 11: I knew you were onto something when you discovered that
• 24:24
  Speaker 11: wad from the blank cartridge.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: I was onto something a long time before that.
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: All right. Come on. Over to that gray sedan. And remember,
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: I've still got this gun in my pocket.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Now, you're an amateur, Bertram.
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: Is that right?
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Sure. I knew you had something to do with it
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: when we got over to the girl's apartment. I didn't
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: know what floor it was on, and you looked in
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: the mailboxes.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: That's the best way to find an apartment, isn't it?
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but not once at any time did anyone mention
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: the dead girl's name. But you knew it and found
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: it on the mailbox.
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: All right, stop right here. Open the door, Jean, and
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: get in first. The front seat.
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: Please.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: Get in.
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: Now you, Mr. Diamond, you're going to drive.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: You know, I left my license in my other suit.
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: Stop stalling.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: I had to do something to stall for just a
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: second because over Bertram's shoulder I spotted a prowl car
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: sliding up to the curb. And good old Walt was
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: climbing out. Bertram, would you mind answering just one question?
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: What is it?
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: The gun that Watkins thought he killed the man with
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: was loaded with blanks, wasn't it?
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: Sure. I killed the guy from the kitchen with a silencer.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: The whole thing was rigged, huh? The man and the
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: girl were supposed to stage that fight... and Watkins was
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: supposed to shoot the guy with the dummy slug.
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: You said one question. Now get in the car. All right, Cowliss,
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: don't move.
• 25:42
  Speaker 11: What?
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: Why, you.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: That was a close one. You're so right, Walt. Take
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: his gun. I think you'll find it's the one that
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Watkins fired the branks from.
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: How is he?
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: On his way. Hey, Bertram.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: I'll go call the wagon.
• 25:57
  Speaker 9: Bertram. Yes?
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: You want to tie the ends together?
• 26:00
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: I paid the girl and the man to stage the fight.
• 26:08
  Speaker 11: I told them I wanted to frame George and blackmail him.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: So you framed him with a double murder instead. Why?
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: I'd been stealing money from the company. How'd you know
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: it was me?
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Knowing the girl's name, for one thing, and your wife
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: told me you'd gotten in about two. You told me
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: over the phone you went straight home after the fight
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: in the cafe. The killing took place about one. Watkins
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: said he'd been at the girl's for five minutes. About
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: 15 to get to her place, so that meant you
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: all left the cafe around 12.30. It doesn't take an
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: hour and a half to get... Hey, Bertram.
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: John.
• 26:46
  Speaker 8: Huh?
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: I don't think Bert can hear you.
• 26:49
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: Well, it was a pretty dull story anyway. Well, the
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: wagon got there, and I briefed Walt on everything that
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: had happened. They took Mrs. Calamus home and released Watkins.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: It was a stinking hot afternoon, and I needed something
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: cool to bring me down to normal, so I headed
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: for 975 Park Avenue. A tall lemonade with the mind
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: of its own, and a courageous redhead with the same gimmick.
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: Yes?
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: Oh, good afternoon, Mr.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Diamond. Afternoon, Francis. Miss Asheron?
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: She's in the study, reading. Thanks, Francis. Oh, how about
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: something cool?
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: Right away, sir.
• 27:46
  Speaker 9: Hi.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: Hi. Wow, you look cool enough. That's a nice getup.
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: You like it?
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: It's the newest thing. Yeah, I saw it in the magazine.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: What do you do if it shrinks? Oh, silly. No, no,
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: I'm concerned. You might get raided. Don't you like it? Yes, ma'am.
• 28:01
  Speaker 6: What do you think of me?
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Ah, you're adorable. You're beautiful and you're cute.
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: Hey, that sounds like a song.
• 28:07
  Speaker 14: Mm-hmm.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Come here.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: No, not now.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: Sing it.
• 28:10
  Speaker 6: It's cute.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: That's too hot.
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: I'm rather cool.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: Well, I was only lukewarm until I spotted that play suit.
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: Go on.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: Hey, you're adorable. Okay, but then I want to play.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Get it? Play? Play suit?
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  Speaker 6: That was them.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 14: Go on. A, you're adorable. B, you're so beautiful. C,
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  Speaker 14: you're a cutie full of charm. D, you're a darling.
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  Speaker 14: And E, you're exciting. And F, you've got feathers on
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  Speaker 14: your arm.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, Rick. C, you're a good dreamy. H, you're so heavenly. I,
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  Speaker 9: you're the one I idolize. J, we're like Jack and Jill. K,
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  Speaker 9: you're so kissable. L.
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  Speaker 2: There's a love light in your eyes.
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  Speaker 4: Rick.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-mm. Do you want me to finish?
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  Speaker 4: I love you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you're sweet. Come here.
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  Speaker 4: Just one moment, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Francis?
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  Speaker 6: I'm not going to be embarrassed again.
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  Speaker 2: Here's your lemonade. Thank you, Francis. Oh, it's nothing, sir. A,
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  Speaker 2: you're adorable. B, you're so beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: You have just heard Richard Diamond, Private Detective, starring Dick Powell.
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  Speaker 3: Helen was played by Virginia Gregg, Lieutenant Levinson by Ed Begley.
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  Speaker 3: Also in our cast were Wilms Herbert, Byron Kane, Lorene Tuttle,
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  Speaker 3: Paul Freese, and Wally Mayer. Music was under the direction
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  Speaker 3: of Frank Wirth. Richard Diamond is written by Blake Edwards
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  Speaker 3: and directed by William P.
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  Speaker 2: Rousseau.
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  Speaker 3: Now, this is Eddie King inviting you to be with
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  Speaker 3: us again at the same time next week when we
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  Speaker 3: will again bring you Dick Powell as Richard Diamond, Private Detective.
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  Speaker 3: This is NBC, the national broadcasting company.
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  Speaker 1: Richard Diamond, private detective, has concluded with The Bloody Hat Case.
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  Speaker 1: Good evening and thank you for sharing another mystery from
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