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The Shadow - "Murders on the Main Stem" (Old Time Radio) · The Shadow | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: The Mutual Broadcasting System aired The Shadow, episode 388, on
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  Speaker 1: December 15th, 1946. In Murders on the Main Stem, William
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  Speaker 1: Morwood places Lamont Cranston in an investigation after the murders
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  Speaker 1: of actress Julie Fraser and singer Jean Leroux. Their insurance policies,
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  Speaker 1: handled by Mr. Fleming and their connection to actor Philip Dobrez,
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  Speaker 1: give Cranston and Margot Lane leads to follow through the
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  Speaker 1: theatrical world. Brett Morrison is Lamont Cranston and the Shadow,
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  Speaker 1: with Grace Matthews as Margo Lane. Before long, Margo's own
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  Speaker 1: inquiries bring her a cup of drugged coffee. From the
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  Speaker 1: 1946-47 season, here is the Shadow. Now, back to the
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  Speaker 1: golden age of radio.
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  Speaker 2: Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
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  Speaker 2: The Shadow knows.
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  Speaker 3: farm and home use, brings you the thrilling adventures of
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  Speaker 3: The Shadow, the hard and relentless.
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  Speaker 4: Fight of one man against the forces of evil.
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  Speaker 3: These dramatizations are designed to demonstrate forcibly to old and
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  Speaker 3: young alike that crime does not pay. In just a minute,
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  Speaker 3: today's exciting adventure will begin. But first, have you farm
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  Speaker 3: Helps you plan ahead for more profitable crops. Makes it
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  Speaker 3: Salt and Care of this station. Be sure to get
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  Speaker 3: your 1947 Cary Farm record book right away.
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  Speaker 4: But now, The Shadow.
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  Speaker 2: The Shadow, who aids the forces of law and order,
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  Speaker 2: is in reality Lamont Cranston, a wealthy young man about town.
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  Speaker 2: Years ago in the Orient, Cranston learned a strange and
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  Speaker 2: mysterious secret. The hypnotic power to cloud men's minds so
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  Speaker 2: they cannot see him. Cranston's friend and companion, the lovely
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  Speaker 2: Margot Lane, is the only person who knows to whom
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  Speaker 2: the voice of the invisible shadow belongs. Today's drama, Murders
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  Speaker 2: on the Main Stem. The Shadow I got the part, Margo.
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  Speaker 2: I'll say I'm excited.
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  Speaker 5: You know what did it?
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  Speaker 2: My hair. Yes, darling, my beautiful, golden, fine, fun hair. Oh, father,
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  Speaker 2: there's someone at the door. Hang on a minute, Margo.
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  Speaker 4: Be right back. Oh, hello. Come in. Do you mind
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  Speaker 4: waiting till I finish.
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  Speaker 2: With the telephone? Margot?
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  Speaker 5: Where was I?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, telling you how I got the part. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I knew they were looking for a blonde actress, but
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  Speaker 2: I didn't think they'd go that crazy over my hair.
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  Speaker 3: I was.
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  Speaker 2: What do you want? Let go!
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  Speaker 6: My girl!
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  Speaker 2: Let go!
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  Speaker 6: X-G, X-G, read all about it.
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  Speaker 4: Julie Fraser, blonde actress, murdered.
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  Speaker 3: Police hunt killer who scalped beautiful victims.
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  Speaker 4: Read all about it.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, he weighs into options.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, come in, come in.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, it's you.
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  Speaker 2: Well, come in, come in, but you'll have to wait
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  Speaker 2: till I finish practicing. Here, you can read the review
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  Speaker 2: of my last engagement. I had them, how you say it?
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  Speaker 2: In the aisles. Now, quiet, please. What are you doing
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  Speaker 2: with that knife? Let go of me, you... X-ray. Famous
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  Speaker 2: French ballad singer stabbed in throat.
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  Speaker 6: Mystery killer strikes again. X-ray.
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  Speaker 2: X-ray. Well, what do you want of me, Mr. Cranston?
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  Speaker 2: Any information that might help us solve these two murders, Mr. Fleming.
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  Speaker 2: Both Julie Fraser and Jean Larue were your clients, weren't they?
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  Speaker 2: I handled their business affairs. You don't seem very friendly, Mr. Fleming. Well, frankly,
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  Speaker 2: I'm tired of answering questions. Before you get too tired,
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  Speaker 2: here's something you might consider. The police judged the killer
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  Speaker 2: to be about your height and build, Mr. Fleming.
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 2: Rather strange. Just a few weeks ago, you insured LaRue's
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  Speaker 2: voice and Julie's hair for large sums of money. That
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  Speaker 2: was a business proposition. Nothing to do with it. And
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  Speaker 2: stranger still that LaRue was stabbed in the throat... and
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  Speaker 2: that Julie's hair was brutally cut from her head. Don't care, Mr. Cranston.
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  Speaker 2: You're not suggesting that I... I'm just refreshing your memory, Mr. Fleming. Now,
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  Speaker 2: if you're ready to talk... What do you want to know?
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  Speaker 2: You say that Julie and LaRue had no enemies... Did
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  Speaker 2: they have any friends in common? I only know one,
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  Speaker 2: if you can call him a friend.
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  Speaker 7: Who was he?
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  Speaker 2: Philip Dobre.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, the actor.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the most hated and feared man in the American theater.
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  Speaker 2: But why? Well, he was a jinx, Miss Lane. Whenever
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  Speaker 2: he appeared in a play, why, some disaster was bound
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  Speaker 2: to occur. And then besides, theater people say that something
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  Speaker 2: very strange happened to him during a tour that he
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  Speaker 2: once made in Australia.
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  Speaker 4: Hmm. Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Could you drive out with us to see DuBray tonight, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Fleming?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm afraid not tonight, Mr. Cranston. I have an
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  Speaker 2: important engagement. I'll send Ann Johnson with you. She knows
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  Speaker 2: the address. Ann Johnson? Yeah, my secretary. The young girl
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  Speaker 2: in the outer office. Oh, yes. She probably didn't notice, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Looks aren't her strong point, but her heart's in the
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  Speaker 2: right place. Well, come on, Marco. We'll take Srivi's cab
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  Speaker 2: in the corner. Oh, by the way, Mr. Fleming, have
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  Speaker 2: you got a photograph of Debray? Perhaps one of those
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  Speaker 2: on your wall? Well, I did have one, Mr. Cranston,
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  Speaker 2: but I took it down. I couldn't stand it staring
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  Speaker 2: at me. Why not? Well, in the theater we say
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  Speaker 2: that an actor grows to look like the part that
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  Speaker 2: he plays. And Philip Debray always played murderers. Say, this
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  Speaker 2: is a pretty unsavory neighborhood, Mr. Cranston. It's pretty unsavory.
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  Speaker 2: You sure this is where you want? What about it,
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  Speaker 2: Miss Johnson?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I'm sure it's the right street this time.
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  Speaker 5: I've only been out here once before.
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  Speaker 7: You came out with Julie Fraser?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Miss Lane. Did you know Julie well, Miss Johnson?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, no, Mr. Cranston. Though, of course, I saw her
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  Speaker 5: around the office all the time.
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  Speaker 7: And poor Mr.
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  Speaker 3: LaRue, too.
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  Speaker 7: They were both such lovely people. Who do you think
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  Speaker 7: killed him, Mr. Cranston?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Do you have any ideas?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Mr. Cranston, I'd say a nut, I'd say. You'd
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  Speaker 2: better slow down here. Okay. Which is the residence we're
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  Speaker 2: looking for? Which is the residence?
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  Speaker 5: You can't see it from here. The entrance is through
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  Speaker 5: that iron gate.
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  Speaker 3: All right, then I'll park here.
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  Speaker 2: I've never seen a house with so many trays around it.
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  Speaker 2: I've never seen... It's kind of spooky, ain't it? Wait
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  Speaker 2: for us, will you? Okay, Mr. Cranston.
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  Speaker 4: I'll be waiting, but don't be too long, don't be, please.
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  Speaker 7: We just go through this gate here, as I remember.
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  Speaker 3: It's so dark.
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  Speaker 7: And then down the driveway here to the side entrance.
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  Speaker 2: Mr. Dobre certainly makes it difficult for his visitors. Look
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  Speaker 2: at the yard. Gravestones. Waiting to be carved, apparently.
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  Speaker 7: Let's go back. This place gives me the creeps.
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  Speaker 2: Right, hold it. Something's moving over there. Mm-hmm. Come out, you.
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  Speaker 2: I've got you covered.
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  Speaker 3: Now, don't shoot.
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  Speaker 4: Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Fleming.
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  Speaker 3: Anne.
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  Speaker 2: And Mr. Cranston. What are you doing here, Fleming? I
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  Speaker 2: thought you had an engagement. Well, it was called off
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  Speaker 2: right after you left the office, Mr. Cranston, and I
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  Speaker 2: came out here to join you. What was the idea
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  Speaker 2: of hiding from us? Well, I got rattled, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: Something weird is happening over in Dobre's house. What do
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  Speaker 2: you mean? Well, I could swear I heard Julie's voice. What? Quiet.
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  Speaker 2: Dobre's coming out.
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  Speaker 4: Who's there? Who's hurrying on me? Show yourselves, you villains,
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  Speaker 4: or I'll slit your throats.
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  Speaker 6: Strange.
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  Speaker 2: I was sure I heard voices.
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  Speaker 7: He's going back in.
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  Speaker 3: So that's the great Philip Dobre.
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  Speaker 2: He's handsome, I must say.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, isn't he?
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  Speaker 5: I'll bet women fell for him in his day.
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  Speaker 2: No. Please don't kill me, please. Listen.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to die.
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  Speaker 2: Give me another chance, please.
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  Speaker 3: Please.
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  Speaker 2: Julie's voice. What? But it can't be. Julie's dead. Stay here,
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  Speaker 2: all of you. I'm going in to find out. A
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  Speaker 2: strange delusion you have, Mr. Cranston. I'm certain I heard
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  Speaker 2: Julie's voice, Mr. Debray.
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  Speaker 8: Yet you've searched my house and found nothing. But then
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  Speaker 8: the imagination can play tricks on the mind of man.
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  Speaker 2: There's an accident. I should know that. Did you ever
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  Speaker 2: see me in one of my celebrated roles? No. Ah,
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  Speaker 2: a pity. I was magnificent. The greatest actor of my time.
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  Speaker 8: And I'd still be acting if it weren't for those fools.
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  Speaker 2: What fools? Actors I appeared with in the theater.
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  Speaker 8: They created the stupid legend that I was a chink.
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  Speaker 8: And in consequence, forced my retirement. I hate them.
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  Speaker 2: Every last one of them. Someday, I'll get my revenge.
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  Speaker 2: Looks like you've already started. What do you mean? Julie
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  Speaker 2: and LaRue were actors. Are you suggesting?
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  Speaker 4: How dare you?
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  Speaker 6: Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Dupre, what is it? Oh, it's nothing. It'll pass. There.
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  Speaker 2: That's better. Now, you'd better go, Mr. Cranston. There's nothing
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  Speaker 2: in my house to interest you. Perhaps there is. Your
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  Speaker 2: home is luxuriously furnished, yet you've been retired for years.
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  Speaker 2: Where did you get the money? Did Julia LaRue give
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  Speaker 2: it to you? What are you getting at? You had
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  Speaker 2: some kind of hold over them, blackmail most likely. You
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  Speaker 2: milked them for all they were worth. Then when the
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  Speaker 2: game got too dangerous, you got rid of them. Mr. Cranston,
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  Speaker 2: I've asked you once to leave my house. Now get out, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Get out, I say! Lamont, is that you? Margot. What
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  Speaker 2: are you doing here in the back of the house?
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  Speaker 2: I told you to stay with Fleming and Aunt John.
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  Speaker 4: I was just looking around.
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  Speaker 2: What did you find out from Dolpe? Was that Julie's voice?
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  Speaker 2: Still can't be sure of anything yet, Margot. The old
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  Speaker 2: boy was furious. He practically threw me out of the house.
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  Speaker 2: As soon as I found the answers to some questions,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going right back.
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  Speaker 7: Darling, this may be one of the answers right here.
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  Speaker 4: Hmm?
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  Speaker 7: Look in this shed.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Strange odor.
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  Speaker 8: Must come from pots.
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  Speaker 1: On the wall.
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  Speaker 2: I'll get my lighter. Acid. For cleaning tombstones. And here
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  Speaker 2: they are. Two of them. Read what's written. Loving memory
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  Speaker 2: of Julie Fraser. The other one is for Jean Leroux.
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  Speaker 2: The same inscription on the base of each. Erected by
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  Speaker 2: an old comrade of the theater, Philip Dobre.
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  Speaker 3: Why was Dobre in such a hurry to have a maid?
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  Speaker 7: Julie and Leroux were killed only two days ago.
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  Speaker 2: These headstones weren't graved long before that, Margo. If you
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  Speaker 2: look closely, you'll see the letters have already weathered.
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  Speaker 7: Then that must mean that Dobre knew they were going
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  Speaker 7: to die. It certainly looks like it.
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  Speaker 2: This might be the clue we've been looking for, Margo.
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  Speaker 2: I'll soon find out. Where are you going, darling? Back
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  Speaker 2: to visit Dobre, Margo. This time as the shadow.
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  Speaker 6: That interfering fool cranched it.
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  Speaker 2: Try to pry into my secrets, will you? You won't
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  Speaker 2: dare to come back here again.
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  Speaker 6: Ah.
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  Speaker 2: Thought I'd close that door. Drafts must have blown it open. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It won't budge. What's holding it? Nothing but a shadow, Dobre.
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  Speaker 2: Who are you? I don't see anyone. No one sees
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  Speaker 2: the shadow. What do you want with me? The truth
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  Speaker 2: about Julie Fraser and Jean Larue. What is the mystery
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  Speaker 2: of the voice calling for help in here, Dobre? The voice?
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  Speaker 2: That was Julie's. On a phonograph record. Don't lie, Dobre.
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  Speaker 2: I have recordings of some of our scenes together. I
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  Speaker 2: play them often. And do you often engrave epitaphs for
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  Speaker 2: your friends before they're dead? What? Why did you order
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  Speaker 2: gravestones for both Julie and LaRue before they were dead?
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  Speaker 5: Why?
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  Speaker 2: They were both superstitious and afraid to die.
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  Speaker 8: They thought by erecting tombstones to themselves, they.
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  Speaker 2: Could deceive death. An old belief still practiced among the
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  Speaker 2: tribes of Australia. What do you mean? And you brought
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  Speaker 2: it back from down under to teach to the superstitious
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  Speaker 2: people of the theater. Didn't you, Dubrai? How did you know, Shadow?
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  Speaker 2: So that was your racket. That was the hold you
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  Speaker 2: had over Julian LaRue. You set yourself up as a
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  Speaker 2: high priest of black magic and sold them your secrets.
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  Speaker 2: I needed the money. I didn't mean any harm by it.
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  Speaker 2: That's for the police to decide. No, no, no, Shadow.
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  Speaker 2: You mustn't give me away. I'll tell you anything you want.
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  Speaker 2: You know who killed Julie Fraser and Jean Larue? Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Someone they never suspected. Someone they thought was their friend.
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  Speaker 2: What was his name? Look out, O'Brie, the window!
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  Speaker 7: Oh!
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  Speaker 3: My face!
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  Speaker 2: My face! We'll return to the shadow in just a moment.
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  Speaker 4: But now, here they are, folks.
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  Speaker 3: Here are two more winners of the carry salt contest
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  Speaker 3: and what swell letters they wrote.
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  Speaker 4: Letters which win each.
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  Speaker 3: Of them a gorgeous $ 100 17-jewel Harman Gold wristwatch. The
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  Speaker 3: lady's watch goes to Mileta Naran, 1316 Rock Street in
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  Speaker 3: Little Rock. She gives a timely warning to you cooks
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  Speaker 3: who sometimes find that the grease in the pan on
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  Speaker 3: the stove has caught fire. Don't run to the sink
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  Speaker 3: and pour water on it. Just grab your box of
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  Speaker 3: carry salt and pour salt on the fire. Presto, the
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  Speaker 3: fire is snuffed up. Say, that's a good hint for
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  Speaker 3: all you.
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  Speaker 4: Listeners to remember. And here's the winner of the man's watch.
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  Speaker 4: He is Mr. Samuel M. Parker of Grand Junction, Colorado.
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  Speaker 4: He tells us of an.
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  Speaker 3: Easy way opticians have to fit lenses into plastic eyeglass frames. First,
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  Speaker 3: he fills a small pan with carry salt and heats
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  Speaker 3: it over a hot plate. Then he places the plastic
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  Speaker 3: frame in the salt. The frame expands, then it's easy
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  Speaker 3: to insert the lenses. When the frame cools, the lenses
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  Speaker 3: remain firmly in place. Congratulations to both of the winners.
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  Speaker 3: And folks, if you'd like to win one of these
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  Speaker 3: beautiful watches, listen for the easy rules later in this program. Meanwhile, remember,
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  Speaker 3: there's a fine Kerry salt for every farm and home use.
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  Speaker 3: There's deep penetrating Kerry's table salt, Kerry's meat curing salt,
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  Speaker 3: Kerry's mineral supplement salt, and many others. Always look for
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  Speaker 3: the white bag, box, or carton with a bright red band.
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  Speaker 3: But now, back to the shadows.
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  Speaker 2: Philip Dobre, a weird old actor, was about to tell
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  Speaker 2: the shadow the name of the mystery killer when a
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  Speaker 2: pot of acid was thrown into his face. A few
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  Speaker 2: minutes later, in Dobre's house, Margot, Max Fleming, and Ann
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  Speaker 2: Johnson are gathered around Dobre as Cranston bends over him.
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  Speaker 2: He's so quiet, Lamont. I'm afraid permanently, Margot. But how
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  Speaker 2: could acid... His heart was already weak, Mr. Fleming. He
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  Speaker 2: had an attack when I was talking to him. The
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  Speaker 2: pain and the shock was just too much.
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  Speaker 5: Then he's been murdered, just like the others. And his
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  Speaker 5: face disfigured.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Miss Johnson. But who could have done it? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we were all around the house. Surely we'd have seen
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  Speaker 2: whoever threw in the acid. Unless it was one of us. Mr. Cranston,
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  Speaker 2: none of the... None of us has alibis. I was
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  Speaker 2: in one place, Margo in another. You and Mr. Fleming
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  Speaker 2: admit you lost touch with each other. Oh, but we...
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  Speaker 2: The next step is up to the police. I'll phone
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  Speaker 2: Commissioner Weston. Wait a minute, what's that?
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 2: Something shining on the floor. It's a piece of velvet
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  Speaker 2: sewn with sequins. Could Dobre have dropped it? No, Margo,
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  Speaker 2: I'd have seen that. It must have been thrown in
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  Speaker 2: the window. Here, let me see that. Where have I
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: seen this cloth before? Think hard, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Fleming.
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  Speaker 2: I have it. Julie wore a costume made of it
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  Speaker 2: in our latest play. Are you sure? Almost positive. It
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  Speaker 2: was a play about the French Revolution, as I remember.
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  Speaker 2: Where would the costume be now? Stored away in Rath's
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  Speaker 2: theatrical warehouse. You can soon check up if you're right.
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  Speaker 2: Shreve is still outside with his cab.
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  Speaker 5: But, Lamont, if the cloth was dropped on purpose, maybe
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  Speaker 5: it was to lure us to the warehouse.
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  Speaker 2: A trap. I hope so, Margot. And I hope we
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  Speaker 2: find the killer there waiting to spring it. Oh. Watch
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  Speaker 2: your step, Margaret. This warehouse is littered with rubbish.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: You don't have to tell me, darling.
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: These ropes hanging down, bumping in the nose every two minutes.
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: It's horrible in here.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Do we have to go on? Just a little further, Anne.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: We're almost at the costume.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: The very idea of.
• 18:09
  Speaker 7: A murderer lurking somewhere, even if it's one of us.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: Well, now, don't be frightened. Here, I'll take your arm. Margaret,
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: are you all right? Yes, darling, and look what I've discovered.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: A lovely old spinnaker.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: It's been years since I've played one.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: You certainly have a beautiful touch, Miss Lane. And beautiful hands.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: This is hardly the time for a concert, darling.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: Sorry.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: We're close now, Mr. Cranston. Ah, yes. You see, there's
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: the guillotine. Guillotine? It was used in Julie's last play.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: The one about the French Revolution. That doesn't look much
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: like a stage prop. Oh, this is a real guillotine, Mr. Cranston.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: With a razor-sharp knife. Well, isn't that unusual for the theater? Well,
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Dobre insisted on it. You see, he played the executioner.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Darn it, another rope hitting me in the face. This time.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: Margaret, look!
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: What happened? That rope you pulled released the blade. Lucky
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: you jumped back in time, darling.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Oh, look! What is it, Anne? Behind you.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: Face is staring at us.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's all right, Anne. They're just wax. Oh, yes,
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: of course they are. Wax figures wearing costumes. And look...
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: There's Julie's sequined dress on that figure.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: You see.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Wait. It's not at all, eh?
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: Something else of Julie's on that figure.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Her hair. Now that we've wound our way through that, uh,
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: major traffic, now that we've wound our way, Mr.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: Cranston, where to?
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Oh, anywhere, Shrevie. Just drive around. I... want to think.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Drive to my apartment, Shrevie.
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: He thinks better over.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: A cup of coffee. Okay, Miss Lane. You're the doctor.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Can't make sense of it, Margo. Why would anyone take
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: us on a wild goose chase through that warehouse so
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: we'd find that horrible wax figure? Oh, like I told you, Mr. Cranston,
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: somebody's nuts, somebody is. Yes, now all we have to
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: do is find out who, Shreve. Well, I'll be glad
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: to get home and clean up anyway.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: I'm sure I'll look a friend.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Oh, dear. What's the matter, darling?
• 20:17
  Speaker 7: Oh, I meant to give Ann back her compact.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: She dropped it in the warehouse.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: You see that? Why, it's Ben.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: Probably when she dropped it.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: The whole case is buckled.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: So it is. I think we're getting someplace at last, Margo.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Step on it, Trivi. You've got to drop this lane
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: off at her apartment. Nonsense, darling.
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: If things are popping, I'm going with you.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Now listen, Margo, this is serious. It's as clear as
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: daylight now that you're next on the killer's list.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: What?
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: You're going to lock yourself in your apartment and not
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: stir out till I get back.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: Where are you going, darling?
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Find out some very important things from Mr. Fleming.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: Oh, dear, I can't let that coffee hurt forever.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: I was so sure Lamont would be.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Back by this time. There he is now.
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: Andrew, I'm sorry to be troubling you at this time
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: of night, Miss Lane, but I'm so frightened.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Has anything happened?
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: I've been all alone in my room after all that's happened.
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: And then I thought of you and wondered if you'd
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: mind if I came over.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Of course not. Please come inside.
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: Thank you. You're so kind to me, Miss Lane.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: That's all.
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: Do I smell coffee? Indeed you do.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: Just freshly made.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: I'll get it.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: I'll get the cups ready.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: It's just what we both need to cheer us up.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Looks good.
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: It is good.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Well, hot anyway.
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: Um, does Mr.
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: Cranston know who committed these awful murders?
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: I'm afraid it'll come as a shock to you, Ann,
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: but you'll have to know it sooner or later.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: He believes Max Fleming to be the killer.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: Oh, and to think I've been working right with him
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: in the office all this time.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: Well, it should be a relief to know you don't
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: have to go back.
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: Except I don't know what I'm going to do about
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: a job now.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: What were you doing before?
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: I had a small part in the Bardsville Act.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's interesting.
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: I didn't know you were on the stage.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, God.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Excuse me, and I don't know why I'm yawning like this.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: I suddenly feel so sleepy.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 22:49
  Speaker 7: Like your brain is floating away.
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: Exactly.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: How did you know that?
• 22:57
  Speaker 7: Because I put the drug in your coffee, Miss Lane.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Your what?
• 23:01
  Speaker 7: I put you all the way to sleep. Just make
• 23:05
  Speaker 7: him numb so you won't give me any trouble.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Trouble? What am I talking about?
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: You'll see what.
• 23:10
  Speaker 7: I'm talking about, Miss Lane, when we get back to
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: the warehouse.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: What are you doing with that guillotine, Ann?
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: Winding the blade back up.
• 23:37
  Speaker 7: There, it's set. So you've come to, Miss Lane.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: Yes, and I feel so strange as if it were
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: all a dream.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: And nothing matters.
• 23:48
  Speaker 7: Nothing will matter in a few minutes, Miss Lane.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: You'll never get away with this, Ann.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: I got away with it the other time.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Why did you kill the man?
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: Julie never did you any harm.
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: I couldn't get her pretty face and yellow hair out
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: of my mind. Why couldn't I be like that instead
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: of plain and dumpy?
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: So I had to put her out of the way.
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: Everybody was always talking about him, praising his voice.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: I couldn't stand that.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: No one praised Philip Dobre. Yes, Miss Lane, you did.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: You called him handsome.
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: Only he wasn't handsome after he got that acid in
• 24:22
  Speaker 7: his face.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: And you're not well.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: You need help.
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: Stop talking like that.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: But it's true.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: You don't know what you're doing.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Untie my hands, please.
• 24:34
  Speaker 7: Yes, I'll untie them.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Mr.
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: Fleming thought they were so pretty when you were playing
• 24:40
  Speaker 7: the spinnaker. Maybe he'll think different when the guillotine's thrown
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: at them.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: No.
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: Come on, stretch your hands out.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: Oh, please.
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: Then I'll drag you over.
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: You're as light as a feather to me.
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: Something's holding me.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: What is it? The shadow, Ann.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Let go of me.
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: I'll make you let go.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: You're strong, Ann. Strong enough to twist a metal compact
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: in your bare hands. Not as strong as the shadow.
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: I'll show you.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Convinced, Ann?
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: You win, shadow.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: I give up. That's better. Now untie that girl.
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: Let go of my hand.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: All right, but... Anne, come back here.
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: You'll never get me alive, Shadow.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: You fool.
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: They'll say I'm mad.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: I'll die first.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: Let go of that rope.
• 25:31
  Speaker 7: Why did you pull me back, Shadow?
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: I wanted to die. You can't take justice into your
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: own hands, Anne. The law, not you, will decide your fate. Well, Mr.
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: Cranston, didn't I say right along it was a nut?
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: You're so right, Srivi. The only trouble is you didn't
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: say which nut.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: I'm still a little baffled how you found out yourself, darling. Well,
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: through the compact, of course, Margo.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: It was the clue I was looking for. When I
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: realized that Ann had the strength to bend that metal,
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: it put an entirely different complexion on the probable murderer. Well,
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: I misunderstood you. I thought you said you were going
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: after Fleming. Well, I went to him to check up
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: on Ann's background. When I found she'd formerly been in
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: some sort of acrobatic boat, the lack that had been
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: dismissed because of her insane jealousies, the case was all
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: wrapped up. That is till I got back to your apartment, darling,
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: and found you gone. How did you ever guess that
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Ann had taken you over to the warehouse, darling? A
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: pure hunch. I remember how Ann had looked when Fleming
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: praised your hands. And then I remember the guillotine. Hey,
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: watch out, sweetie.
• 26:51
  Speaker 7: I'm sorry.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
• 26:55
  Speaker 7: One more thing.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Why did Anne lure us to the warehouse to find
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Julie's scalp? Her crazed vanity at work, Margo. It wasn't
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: enough that she'd gotten away with murder. She had to
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: flaunt her cleverness in our faces and be there to gloat.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Her excitement, she twisted the compact in her hands. Scravey,
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: what's the matter?
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: I don't know, Mr.
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: Krasnick.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: I've been feeling dopey ever since. I drank that coffee
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: in Miss Lane's apartment ever since I drank it.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: You drank the rest of that coffee?
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah, sure, I did.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: Oh, good heavens, Shrevie, stop the cab.
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: You've just finished off the rest of Ann's knockout drop.
• 27:43
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• 27:50
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• 27:51
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• 27:54
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• 27:58
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• 28:01
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• 28:04
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• 28:07
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• 28:11
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• 28:14
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• 28:19
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• 28:23
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• 28:25
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• 28:28
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• 28:40
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• 28:53
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• 28:57
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• 29:01
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• 29:05
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• 29:10
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