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The Scapegoat [episode 106], Broadcast 8/8/1957 · X Minus One | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: M.
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  Speaker 2: Calm down for blast off x minus five four three
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  Speaker 2: two x minus one fire from the far horizons of
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  Speaker 2: the unknown comtaiales of new dimensions in time and space.
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  Speaker 3: These are stories of the future.
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  Speaker 4: Adventures in which you'll live in a million, could be years,
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  Speaker 4: on a thousand, maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company, in
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  Speaker 4: cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, presents one one Good
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  Speaker 4: Night the Scapegoat by Richard Maples. But first hear this
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  Speaker 4: when the eye is smooth and the sky is blue
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  Speaker 4: and the.
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  Speaker 5: Skate there's walls is played for two.
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  Speaker 6: Will you make it Paps because Paps makes it perfect.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, Papst makes it perfect, just as we always have
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  Speaker 7: ever since eighteen forty four. So next time you make
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  Speaker 7: it Papst because Papst makes it perfect. America's Brew Ribbon
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  Speaker 7: beer from the Papst Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Papst makes it perfect.
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  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: Ex Minus one and escapegoat.
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  Speaker 3: The old guy didn't have a chance.
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  Speaker 8: All they coulda do is shield his head with his
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  Speaker 8: limp arms and moan while this other fellow, a husky
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  Speaker 8: young six footer, gave him a vicious cold black Hey, hey,
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  Speaker 8: turn it out, cut it out beating up an.
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  Speaker 3: Old man like that, I said, cut it out? Wow,
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  Speaker 3: how I go him? Well, what have you got to
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  Speaker 3: say for yourself? Before? I felt you as hard as
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  Speaker 3: you hit the old man here? Well? Hey you wait,
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  Speaker 3: wait too, no god Hoodland. Hey you all right? Papa?
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  Speaker 3: Are you okay? What happened was? Is he trying to
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  Speaker 3: rap your something? Look?
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  Speaker 8: Look, you'll be all right now, you'll be okay. Lucky
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  Speaker 8: I came along there, no cops anywhere. Okay, come on,
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  Speaker 8: old timer, up on your feet. You're going home with me.
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  Speaker 8: I suppose it seems callous to think of it, but
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  Speaker 8: this old man was just what I'd been looking for.
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  Speaker 8: A brutal assault and a helpless old man, and I
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  Speaker 8: was the hero, just what I needed.
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  Speaker 3: You see, I'd just come from.
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  Speaker 8: A meeting with the city fathers and the commissioner of
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  Speaker 8: the police department, and old man Jones, my publisher had
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  Speaker 8: promptly yanked the rug outs from under me and chickened.
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  Speaker 8: I'd written the articles panning the city's handling of the
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  Speaker 8: juvenile de inquency problem because Joanes had to be in
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  Speaker 8: his bonnot to be the mayor. Now when the heat
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  Speaker 8: was on, he weaseled out. We had a few words,
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  Speaker 8: Jones and I and I quit. But now I had
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  Speaker 8: him an eyewitness story. No cops anywhere had a young
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  Speaker 8: bruiser beating up a defenseless old man. I figured I'd
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  Speaker 8: take him home like my wife, fix him up, keep
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  Speaker 8: him around the house until the story broke.
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  Speaker 9: Head, what's the idea?
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  Speaker 8: Take it easy, honey, it's all right. This whole guy
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  Speaker 8: just needs some patching up, that's all.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, old timer. He looks awful. Who is he?
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  Speaker 8: What's blood?
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  Speaker 3: Come on, come on, hell, help me get him inside.
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  Speaker 3: He's cold, his wrist, it's cold shock, I think. Come
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  Speaker 3: on in with him, all right, let him down on
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  Speaker 3: the chair. Hey, were you in an accident? No, some
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  Speaker 3: hoodlum was beating him that pie. I chased him off.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that's awful. Did you call the police? There weren't
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  Speaker 3: any police there. I'm going to crack this whole situation
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  Speaker 3: wide open with his story.
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  Speaker 9: Hey, wow, never mind, go into the bathroom and bring
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  Speaker 9: out some towels, and we'll need some bandages.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, we better get a blanket around him, a blank
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  Speaker 8: it's ninety degree.
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  Speaker 9: It's go ahead, Tommy, okame on, and I think he's
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  Speaker 9: we do now he's opening his eyes.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, you're you're all right, old timer, you're all right. Well, well,
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  Speaker 3: isn't this cozy? What's your name? Ash Ash? And the
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  Speaker 3: first name? That's it? Oh? Oh? Then what's your last name?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know? Oh right, all right, to take it easy.
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  Speaker 3: What happened? Who was that hoodlum? You ever seen him before?
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  Speaker 3: I don't remember? Well? Why was he hitting you? I
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  Speaker 3: don't know. I don't remember m missing any money. I'm
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  Speaker 3: not sure. And I suppose I scared him off before
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  Speaker 3: he could rob you.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, oh oh, yes, you rescued me, didn't you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm really very grateful.
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  Speaker 8: I don't try to talk too much. Now.
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  Speaker 3: You'll feel better after you've had something to eat. And
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  Speaker 3: we have nothing in the house. We were just going
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  Speaker 3: to have a salad. Well, salad's all right.
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  Speaker 9: Well I think maybe we'd better get mister Ash to
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  Speaker 9: a hospital or to his house or something.
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  Speaker 3: I told you why I want to be here? Please
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  Speaker 3: come inside? Well, what's the matter with you? Come inside? Okay?
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  Speaker 3: You you just said right here, mister ashall be right back.
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  Speaker 3: I just I'll be all right now, man, what's the
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  Speaker 3: matter with you?
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  Speaker 9: Get rid of him, Get him out of here.
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  Speaker 3: Why he gives me the willies. Oh no, it's just
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  Speaker 3: the heat. You must know. He leered at me.
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  Speaker 8: Oh man, he's an old man. He's just been beat
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  Speaker 8: up and in shocked. Please, no, I've got to keep
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  Speaker 8: him here.
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  Speaker 3: He's my proof.
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  Speaker 8: I'll write a story that will rip the administration wide open,
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  Speaker 8: and Jones can't pull it out because I've got the
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  Speaker 8: proof right here, and I was the eyewitness. But ed, no,
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  Speaker 8: he stays here, and that's all there is to it.
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  Speaker 4: You're listening to the scapegoat to Night's Attraction on X
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  Speaker 4: minus one. Once a tall and beautiful tree stood in
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  Speaker 4: the forest. He had been there for two or three
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  Speaker 4: hundred years. In the course of that time, wind shook it,
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  Speaker 4: and lightning struck near it. A hurricane bed at once
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  Speaker 4: until its top was nearly at the ground. But none
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  Speaker 4: of the ferocious assaults could fell that tall, proud tree.
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  Speaker 4: But then one day, the most spindly legged, pot bellied, adenoidal,
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  Speaker 4: open mouthed creature that the forest had ever seen sat
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  Speaker 4: down in the cool shade of that tree. This was
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  Speaker 4: what was called a man, and he wanted to smoke
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  Speaker 4: what has called a cigar. He did, and he threw
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  Speaker 4: his match among the pine needles, and when he had
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  Speaker 4: smoked the cigar, he threw that away too and went off,
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  Speaker 4: because somewhere down by the lake there was waiting for
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  Speaker 4: him what is called a woman, and he had the
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  Speaker 4: hope that maybe she didn't feel like nagging anymore. Before nightfall,
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  Speaker 4: that tree that had withstood all those assaults was ashes.
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  Speaker 4: Thousands of other trees in that forest were two. The
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  Speaker 4: man is still living. If you know any of his species,
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  Speaker 4: you might tell him that trees don't have Adam's apples
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  Speaker 4: and shrill voices. Trees are beautiful, and men ought to
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  Speaker 4: be careful with matches. Now back to X minus one
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  Speaker 4: and the scapegoat.
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  Speaker 8: The old man seemed to recover pretty quickly, I suppose,
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  Speaker 8: mostly because I'd gotten there in time. As a matter
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  Speaker 8: of fact, he began to talk, and he kept it
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  Speaker 8: up through the whole meal, and it was the craziest
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  Speaker 8: story you ever heard. He insisted he'd come from another
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  Speaker 8: world outside our solar system, where people existed in a
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  Speaker 8: kind of liquid state, bouncing about for the most part
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  Speaker 8: like large.
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  Speaker 3: Water filled bladders.
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  Speaker 8: They were, however, capable of taking almost any shape their
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  Speaker 8: superior minds willed they could flatten and drift about.
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  Speaker 3: On the water, or they could inflate and rise in
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  Speaker 3: the air.
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  Speaker 5: As a matter of fact, they can even become fact
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  Speaker 5: similars of other living things, taking on the shape and
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  Speaker 5: texture and coloration, a capability which adds greatly in their
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  Speaker 5: main function of traveling as missionaries of goodness among the
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  Speaker 5: peoples of the galaxy goodness. Oh yes, they're perfect, as
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  Speaker 5: perfect as angels.
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  Speaker 3: All right, all right, I've had enough. I asked for it.
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  Speaker 3: Then where you're going? Don't rush off?
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  Speaker 8: I guess I know when I'm being kidded.
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  Speaker 9: Very funny, mister Ash, But.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not kidding. Don't tell me that you're a missionary
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  Speaker 3: to word.
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  Speaker 5: Oh no, I'm here because I was banished, Oh sort
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  Speaker 5: of a fallen angels exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Look, Ash, it's too hot for games.
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  Speaker 8: If you don't want to explain what happened this afternoon,
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  Speaker 8: that's your privilege. But as you know, this story means
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  Speaker 8: a lot to me, and I did stick my neck out.
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  Speaker 3: For you one moment, my boy, let me finish. You see,
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  Speaker 3: I'm a throwback. What a throwback? Can ativism?
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  Speaker 5: They tried to reform me, you know, but there was
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  Speaker 5: something rather fundamental about me, something rather evil than of course.
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  Speaker 5: As the last resort, they put me into one of
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  Speaker 5: the machines and they.
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  Speaker 3: Threw the switch.
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  Speaker 8: Ah sure, sure they killed you. Look, I'm not in
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  Speaker 8: the mood for shaggy dog.
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  Speaker 3: Story. Didn't kill me exactly.
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  Speaker 5: It was sort of like water being scraped over the
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  Speaker 5: edge of a sharp rock. When I came to I
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  Speaker 5: was drifting through space, and then, of course, much later
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  Speaker 5: I landed on earth.
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  Speaker 10: Oh.
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  Speaker 5: I've had many shapes through the years, mainly people who've died.
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  Speaker 3: I find that's much more convenient. Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Well, look, look, if you'll excuse me, I have to
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  Speaker 8: make a telephone call.
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  Speaker 3: I'll just go into the other room.
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  Speaker 5: I dare say, you want to call the hospital. I'm
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  Speaker 5: not psychotic, really, Ah, yes, you're just in time, missus. Butter,
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  Speaker 5: I think perhaps I better prove my story if you'll
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  Speaker 5: wait just a moment. You see, it's done by the
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  Speaker 5: generation of a high electrostatic field, something like this. If
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  Speaker 5: you'll notice, my face begins to lose definition, It moves
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  Speaker 5: as in hand a life, and no one.
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  Speaker 3: I stopped hash.
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  Speaker 8: Eh.
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  Speaker 5: Well that looks considerably younger, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 3: Thirty years younger?
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  Speaker 8: Thirty years just dropped away, like listen, this story will
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  Speaker 8: set the whole country on its ear with my byline
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  Speaker 8: on it.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, don't let him take you in.
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  Speaker 3: It's a trick.
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  Speaker 9: It's mass hypnotism.
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  Speaker 8: As I saw it, I saw it right here, so
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  Speaker 8: did you. I'll have an exclusive life. Will have to
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  Speaker 8: come to me for the story. I've got to admit
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  Speaker 8: that I could chair something of Anne's point of view.
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  Speaker 8: He wasn't really very pleasant. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 8: he had what you call class after supper. He came
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  Speaker 8: right down to cases.
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  Speaker 3: Naturally.
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  Speaker 5: If I'm to stay here and keep my identity secret
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  Speaker 5: until you can arrange for an exclusive story, I will
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  Speaker 5: need a little pocket money.
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  Speaker 8: How much How much you got? Well I don't know.
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  Speaker 8: I got about twenty two dollars and pay day isn't
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  Speaker 8: til thursday.
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  Speaker 3: Well how about your bank account?
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  Speaker 8: And now now wait a minute, Well we'll see what
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  Speaker 8: we can arrange later.
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  Speaker 5: I am a little tired, though, I think it's about
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  Speaker 5: time to go to bed. I noticed a rather comfortable
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  Speaker 5: bed in here. Well, i'll see you all in the morning.
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  Speaker 5: Good night, and thank you again for rescuing me.
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  Speaker 3: And that's our bedroom, I know. Will you go right?
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  Speaker 4: In there and tell them that he can't see me.
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  Speaker 3: He locked the door.
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  Speaker 8: Do something, all right, You get some sheets from the
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  Speaker 8: linen closet and I'll make up the couch. Next day,
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  Speaker 8: I made careful inquiries, started to feel around for contacts
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  Speaker 8: on life at the ap someplace to really break the
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  Speaker 8: story big. About five in the afternoon, Jones, the publisher,
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  Speaker 8: called me into his office.
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  Speaker 3: Sit down, Ed, I've got some good new.
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  Speaker 8: Luck, mister Jones, ever since you left me out on
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  Speaker 8: a limit the Mayor's Oh now, I don't not worry
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  Speaker 8: about that, Ed.
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  Speaker 11: We've got something very interesting going for us now that
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  Speaker 11: changes everything. They've arrested a gang of kids for shoplifting. Well,
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  Speaker 11: well one of them is Tommy, your son.
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  Speaker 3: What arrest to Tom Wade?
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  Speaker 11: There, don't go off half cock. It's a break, don't
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  Speaker 11: you see. You can cover the link and see with
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  Speaker 11: the lid off.
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  Speaker 3: Now you'll be.
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  Speaker 11: Writing as a parent in the same boat with other parents.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, wait a minute, where are you going.
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  Speaker 8: At the police station? I had the distinct feeling they'd
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  Speaker 8: been waiting for me.
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  Speaker 6: Well, miss Potter, we meet under unfortunate circumstance.
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  Speaker 3: Caniforny sympathy Thompson. Just let me see my boy.
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  Speaker 6: We'd better have a little talk first about all those
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  Speaker 6: articles you're writing about the police force.
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  Speaker 8: I've got no talking to do. This is a lousy
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  Speaker 8: frame up against me and the paper. You get my
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  Speaker 8: son out here and do it fast.
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  Speaker 6: You don't understand, mister Potter. Your son is in trouble.
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  Speaker 6: He's been identified as leading a gang of kids who
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  Speaker 6: spent most of the morning shoplifting in the stores all
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  Speaker 6: over time.
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  Speaker 8: That's nonsense. Fu, could my boy do anything like that.
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  Speaker 8: He's only twelve. Who identified him anyway?
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  Speaker 6: The shopkeepers and the other members of the gang. You
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  Speaker 6: can see him, mister Potter. But I still think we'll
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  Speaker 6: want to have our little talk.
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  Speaker 3: Son. What's this all about? It was ash?
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  Speaker 9: Ash, Yes, I told him about the gang.
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  Speaker 3: What the heck are you talking about? So the fella's
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  Speaker 3: got together and do that for clubhouse? What does the
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  Speaker 3: gang do?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Different things. One of the fellas is a twenty two
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  Speaker 3: hunt rats And well, go ahead, what is it we smoke? Oh?
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  Speaker 3: And what else?
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  Speaker 10: That's all honest?
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  Speaker 3: What about shoplifting? No, that was Ash.
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  Speaker 4: He wanted me to talk the gang in the shoplifting.
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  Speaker 3: But I wouldn't. Then he changed himself to look like
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  Speaker 3: me and talk the fellas into him when I wasn't around.
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  Speaker 9: I only knew about it because I ran into them
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  Speaker 9: after they robbed a store.
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  Speaker 3: What is this Ash?
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  Speaker 8: He keeps talking about why he's well, he's a man.
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  Speaker 3: Never mind.
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  Speaker 8: I listen the boys beside himself because I've always been through.
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  Speaker 3: Will you let me take him home with me? Of course,
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  Speaker 3: mister Parner. But the charge is still whole.
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  Speaker 6: Don't forget to stop in and have our little talk
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  Speaker 6: before you report back to juvenile court.
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  Speaker 3: I called the house and Ash answered the phone.
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  Speaker 5: I'm glad you called it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not a Casher. I need a small mode. I
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  Speaker 3: listen to you. The police have picked up Tommy. He's
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  Speaker 3: been charged with the shoplifting you did today.
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  Speaker 5: Oh now, I'm sorry about that. You see, there's a
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  Speaker 5: certain cultural difference between you and me. I didn't understand.
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  Speaker 8: You're going to help me get him out. You hear
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  Speaker 8: you're going to tell everybody the truth?
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  Speaker 3: Of course I will. I listen.
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  Speaker 8: I'm coming home, man, I'll be back from my mother's
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  Speaker 8: any minute. Don't you tell her about this, you hear?
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  Speaker 3: Well? Of course I won't I'll be waiting right here.
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  Speaker 3: I suppose I was a fool, but I still wanted
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  Speaker 3: that story. I wanted it so bad I.
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  Speaker 8: Could taste it, the exclusive account of an extraterrestrial bee
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  Speaker 8: driving home. I had it all figured out. I'd bring
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  Speaker 8: Ash down to the police station. He'd tell the story,
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  Speaker 8: go through his changing act to convince him, and spring Tommy.
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  Speaker 8: I'd have my story already filed and beat everybody. In
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  Speaker 8: the meantime, I just hoped Nan will and spoil everything along.
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  Speaker 3: With him.
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  Speaker 1: With him.
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  Speaker 8: And then suddenly I let my foot come down on
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  Speaker 8: the accelerator like it was made out of lead. I
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  Speaker 8: pulled the car it was top and splitt it up
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  Speaker 8: the driveway.
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  Speaker 3: Man, man, where are you the wow?
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  Speaker 8: Nan stood in the far corner with her back against
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  Speaker 8: the wall. Her shoulders were scratched and her lip cut.
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  Speaker 8: She held a heavy bookhand poised to strike at Ash.
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  Speaker 8: She was in front of her, moving stealthily forward. He
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  Speaker 8: turned as I came in, and.
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  Speaker 3: I froze in amazement. I couldn't recognize him.
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  Speaker 8: Then all at once I realized I was looking at
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  Speaker 8: the spitting image of myself.
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  Speaker 3: I knew it. I knew it was well.
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  Speaker 5: Have you both excuse me here, I'll get you.
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  Speaker 3: I'll get you.
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  Speaker 8: I bolted through the window and circled the house. I
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  Speaker 8: spotted him rushing down the street, and I caught him
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  Speaker 8: around the corner in the same spot where I'd first
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  Speaker 8: seen him. But you've got this coming to you, You've
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  Speaker 8: got this coming to you.
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  Speaker 3: I slighted him, yet I knew it was uselessly against it.
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  Speaker 3: The blow landed. He felt just like sponge rubble. Yet
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  Speaker 3: I kept hitting him.
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  Speaker 8: I didn't bother listening to his cries, even after he
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  Speaker 8: changed himself back to an old man. And then suddenly
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  Speaker 8: I felt a hand grabbed my shoulder and whirl me around,
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  Speaker 8: and a fist exploded in my eyes.
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  Speaker 3: What's the matter with you? What do you think you're thought?
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  Speaker 3: Beating up an old man like that? You don't good?
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  Speaker 3: Hold help?
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  Speaker 8: I searched desperately for an explanation, and then abruptly, without
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  Speaker 8: having said a word, I reeled and stumbled down the
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  Speaker 8: street home.
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  Speaker 3: The man.
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  Speaker 4: Fred Collins again, And I'll have another word for you
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  Speaker 4: about X minus one.
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  Speaker 3: In a moment, I this is Walter O'Keefe.
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  Speaker 10: You know they say there's nothing new under the sun,
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  Speaker 10: and maybe that's true. But there is something new under
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  Speaker 10: the moon, and that's Nightline. In Nightline, we think we
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  Speaker 10: found the way to use the intimacy as well as
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  Speaker 10: the lightning fast maneuverability of radio in an hour and
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  Speaker 10: a half package of high voltage different entertainment. We found
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  Speaker 10: the way to make the airwaves your magic carpet to
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  Speaker 10: wherever big things are happening anywhere in the country, for
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  Speaker 10: that matter, anywhere in the world. Now, let's say that
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  Speaker 10: your favorite comedian is performing at the Las Vegas nightclub.
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  Speaker 10: He's packing them in and you've really got to have
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  Speaker 10: connections to get a table. Well, Nightline is that connection,
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  Speaker 10: and your radio is your ringside table. More things than
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  Speaker 10: you'd believe are happening in the so called still of
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  Speaker 10: the night, and Nightline is your line to exciting entertainment
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  Speaker 10: after dark. My feeling is Nightline marks a new era
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  Speaker 10: in nighttime entertainment. Tune us in every Tuesday and Thursday
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  Speaker 10: and you'll hear what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: You have just heard X minus one presented by the
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  Speaker 4: National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine,
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  Speaker 4: which this month features Shadow World by Clifford D. Simak
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  Speaker 4: of All the upsetting phenomena. The most alarming was this,
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  Speaker 4: I had a little shadow that went in and out
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  Speaker 4: with me. It's in Galaxy Magazine on your new stand today.
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  Speaker 4: Tonight X minus one has brought you The Scapegoat, written
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  Speaker 4: by Richard Maples and adapted for radio by Ernest Cannoy.
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  Speaker 4: Featured in our cast were Carl Weber as Ed, Wendell
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  Speaker 4: Holmes as the Changeable Mister Ash, Jane Amar as Nan,
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  Speaker 4: Bobby Alfred as Tommy, Guy Repp as mister Jones, and
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  Speaker 4: Roger Dick Coven as Thompson. This is Fred Collins X
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  Speaker 4: minus one was directed by Kenneth McGregor and as an
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  Speaker 4: NBC Radio Network production, There's excitement in the air at night,
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  Speaker 4: and night Line brings it to you here.
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  Speaker 10: Nightline with Walter O'Keeffe next on most of these NBC
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