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The Whistler - "Phone Call from Death" (Old Time Radio, 1945) · The Whistler | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Ellen Livesey, lonely and dissatisfied with her life, becomes involved
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: in the romantic entanglements surrounding.
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  Speaker 2: Her wealthy friend, Sheila.
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  Speaker 1: When Glenn, one of Sheila's jealous suitors, arrives at Ellen's apartment,
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  Speaker 1: a telephone call reports immediate danger at Sheila's home. From
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  Speaker 1: September 10, 1945, this is The Whistler, Episode 172, Phone
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  Speaker 1: Call from Death. Marvin Miller is heard as The Whistler,
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  Speaker 1: with Lorene Tuttle, Elliot Lewis, Ken Christie, and Alan Hewitt.
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  Speaker 1: A Signal Oil presentation on the CBS Pacific Network. Now,
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  Speaker 1: here is the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 3: you another curious story by the Whistler.
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  Speaker 4: Tonight, phone call from death.
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  Speaker 2: I am the Whistler, and I know many things, for
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  Speaker 2: I walk by night.
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  Speaker 3: I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of
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  Speaker 3: men and women who have stepped into the shadows. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak.
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  Speaker 2: Always a bridesmaid, never a bride. You know the old saying.
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  Speaker 3: But have you ever thought how that thought must rankle
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  Speaker 3: in the minds of women to whom it is applied?
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  Speaker 4: Ellen Livesey, for instance.
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  Speaker 3: Ellen always seemed to lose out with the men she
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  Speaker 3: set her cap for. And who can say what emotion
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  Speaker 3: plagued her now that she could no longer be called
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  Speaker 3: a young woman? She didn't show it, of course. Even
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  Speaker 3: when men came to her about their troubles with other women.
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  Speaker 3: Like Glenn Reed.
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  Speaker 2: It's maddening, Ellen. What am I going to do about her?
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  Speaker 5: There's nothing much anyone can do when a girl falls
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  Speaker 5: in love.
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  Speaker 2: Don't say that. She's not in love with Paul Carroll.
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  Speaker 2: She can't be.
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  Speaker 5: Glenn, pull yourself together.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 5: I know what Sheila means to you, but you can't
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  Speaker 5: deny reality, Glenn. The fact is, Sheila's met someone else,
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  Speaker 5: and there isn't anything you can do about it.
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  Speaker 2: Two months ago, she was going to marry me.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't know that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, not a definite promise, but until Carroll came along...
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  Speaker 2: What has she told you about him?
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  Speaker 5: Glenn, you can hardly expect me to tell you what.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to tell me, Ellen. I've got to know.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think I have to violate a confidence for anyone.
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  Speaker 2: But you said she's in love with him. How do
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  Speaker 2: you know? Did she tell you?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, she told me.
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  Speaker 4: I don't believe it.
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  Speaker 5: Really, Glenn, if you're going to behave this way... I
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  Speaker 5: know I'm a fool.
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  Speaker 2: But, Ellen, if you knew what all this is doing
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  Speaker 2: to me.
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  Speaker 5: I think I know. Ever since Sheila met Paul Carroll,
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  Speaker 5: she's been infatuated with him. And I can understand why.
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  Speaker 2: But why can't she see her money's made a hit
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  Speaker 2: with him, too?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Glenn, lack of money doesn't mean anything to Sheila.
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  Speaker 5: I've certainly never been wealthy. Why, the jobs I've had.
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  Speaker 5: Dime store clerk, telephone operator, stenographer, and now secretary. Yet
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  Speaker 5: Sheila and I have always been close friends.
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  Speaker 6: Very close.
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  Speaker 2: Ellen, I'd do anything. Humiliate myself.
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  Speaker 5: Anything.
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  Speaker 2: If she'd only let me talk to her.
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  Speaker 5: Do you want me to call her for you, Glenn?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 2: No, I... I wouldn't want you to do that. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: you would.
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  Speaker 5: When you called me this afternoon, I knew that's what
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  Speaker 5: you wanted me to do. I'll call her right now.
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  Speaker 2: Well... Well, all right, if it isn't too much trouble.
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  Speaker 5: You know it isn't. Oh, that's a silly thing to do.
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  Speaker 5: I started to dial the wrong number. Well, good heavens. Hello? Why, Sheila,
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  Speaker 5: what a coincidence. I was just trying to get you.
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  Speaker 7: Sheila, what is it?
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  Speaker 2: What's the matter, Ella?
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  Speaker 6: Sheila, I can't understand you.
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  Speaker 4: Sheila.
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  Speaker 3: Sheila!
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  Speaker 2: Helen, what's wrong? What's happened?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know exactly.
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  Speaker 5: She seemed terrified. Something about someone trying to break into
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  Speaker 5: her apartment. And then her voice seemed smothered, and.
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  Speaker 2: We were cut off. Oh, good Lord, we'd better get
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  Speaker 2: over there.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I'll call the police. Maybe they can get there quicker. Oh,
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  Speaker 8: I hope I'm mistaken, Glenn. Sheila simply has.
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  Speaker 6: To be all right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we'll soon find out.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Glenn, wait.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 6: Down the hall in that patrolman.
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  Speaker 2: Standing guard outside Sheila's door.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Glenn, do you think.
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  Speaker 5: Come on.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we'll let you up. We're friends with Miss Blaine, officer.
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  Speaker 2: We're going inside.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, are you?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know how you got by downstairs.
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  Speaker 5: Nobody tried to stop us, officer. We simply came right up.
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  Speaker 2: Why can't we see Miss Blaine? What's happened?
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  Speaker 4: Just a minute now.
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  Speaker 2: Just a minute.
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  Speaker 4: What's going on in there?
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  Speaker 2: What's wrong? I said hold your horses, young fella. Wilson,
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  Speaker 2: get downstairs and take.
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  Speaker 4: Who are these people?
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's what I was just.
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  Speaker 5: My name's Ellen Livesey. I call police headquarters about Miss Blaine.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, Miss Livesey.
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  Speaker 9: I'm Captain Hazlitt of the Homicide Division.
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  Speaker 6: Homicide?
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  Speaker 5: Captain, what's happened?
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  Speaker 2: Sheila Blaine has two bullets in the back of her head.
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  Speaker 2: She's dead. Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 3: of wartime chemistry. For Signal is the new gasoline you
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  Speaker 3: you immediately notice, one, quicker starting the moment you touch
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  Speaker 3: the button. Two, faster pickup. You actually feel it. Three,
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  Speaker 3: higher anti-knock. Just listen to that old motor purr, even
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  Speaker 3: on the steepest hills. And four, you'll find you go
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  Speaker 4: And now, back to the whistler.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Ellen Livesey, this time it looks as if you
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  Speaker 3: won't have even to be a bridesmaid. Your best friend,
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  Speaker 3: Sheila Blaine, is dead. What kind of emotion does that
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  Speaker 3: call up in you? Are you properly heartbroken? Or is
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  Speaker 3: there a faint smile of triumph in your face? The
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  Speaker 3: following morning, when Captain Hazlitt called you, Glenn Reed, and
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  Speaker 3: Paul Carroll to his office at police headquarters.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 9: I'll tell you frankly, we haven't developed a single lead
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  Speaker 9: on Miss Blaine's murder since last night. You three seem
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  Speaker 9: to have been her closest friends, though, so if there's
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  Speaker 9: anything you can tell me.
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  Speaker 5: What do you want to know, Captain?
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  Speaker 9: Well, you've already told me how Miss Blaine called you. Uh,
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  Speaker 9: by the way, I'd like to thank you for calling
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  Speaker 9: headquarters so promptly.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I thought it was the thing to do, Captain.
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  Speaker 2: As I understand it, you knew Miss Blaine intimately.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, we've been friends since we were in school.
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  Speaker 2: Had her life ever been threatened before? There was no
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  Speaker 2: reason for anybody to threaten a captain.
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: You were with Miss Livesey when Miss Blaine called. That's right,
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  Speaker 2: at 7.30. And you, Mr. Carroll, you were at a
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  Speaker 2: movie at that time. Well, from what I've heard, I
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  Speaker 2: must have been inside the Regal Theater when she... when
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  Speaker 2: it happened.
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  Speaker 9: Miss Blaine made her phone call at 7.30. Apparently, she
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  Speaker 9: was killed immediately after that. What time did you get home?
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  Speaker 9: Just after 11, one of your men was waiting for me.
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  Speaker 9: What time did you enter the theater? Just after 7.
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  Speaker 9: Wasn't that a little early for you to attend a movie?
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  Speaker 2: I don't see why. I hadn't anything to do last evening.
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  Speaker 2: Decided to drop in as I was passing by. Can
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  Speaker 2: you prove you were there? Look here, if you're implying
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  Speaker 2: I had anything to do with this, I would... Someone's
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  Speaker 2: been murdered, Mr. Carroll.
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  Speaker 9: It's my job to try to find out who did it.
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  Speaker 9: I have to start with those who might have done it.
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  Speaker 2: And you mean to say I'm one of them? Why not?
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  Speaker 2: What motive would I have? Motives are usually and can
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  Speaker 2: easily be found. Does that mean Miss Livesey and Reed
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  Speaker 2: are under suspicion too? Everyone's under suspicion, Mr. Carroll. We
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  Speaker 2: suspect everyone at this stage of the game. I went
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  Speaker 2: to the Regal Theater last night, Hazlitt. I was there
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  Speaker 2: from 7 until 10.30. We can check it anyway. How
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  Speaker 2: long had you known Miss Blaine? Six weeks. You were, uh,
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  Speaker 2: quite friendly? We're going to be married.
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  Speaker 4: You're a liar.
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  Speaker 2: Just a minute, Mr. Reed. He's lying. They weren't going
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  Speaker 2: to get married.
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  Speaker 6: Glenn, please, please control yourself.
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  Speaker 2: We just have his word for it. Sheila never told anyone.
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  Speaker 2: Get a hold of yourself, Reed.
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  Speaker 9: I take it you were on friendly terms with Miss Blaine, too.
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  Speaker 2: I was in love with her. And Carol says he
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  Speaker 2: was going to marry her. I told you he was lying.
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  Speaker 2: You're talking pretty carelessly, Reed. I'd watch myself if I
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  Speaker 2: were you. What are you doing, warning me? I'm telling
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  Speaker 2: you to use a.
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  Speaker 5: Little common sense.
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  Speaker 2: Sense. Because if you don't, I'll get what Sheila got.
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  Speaker 2: How are you dirty little... Sit down. Take it easy.
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  Speaker 2: You're both under a strain, but so is Miss Leveson.
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  Speaker 5: I'm ready to tell you whatever I can, Captain.
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  Speaker 2: No, thanks. I suggest you all go home now.
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  Speaker 6: But I thought you had questions to ask us.
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  Speaker 2: I'll do that later. One at a time. Then we're
• 10:19
  Speaker 2: free to go now? Yes, yes. What about Sheila's murder?
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  Speaker 2: Is this all you intend to do about it? We'll
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  Speaker 2: go on checking into it, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Reed.
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  Speaker 2: But she's dead. Don't you understand that? Somebody's killed her.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody's got to pay for that. We'll go on checking, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Reed.
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  Speaker 5: Haven't you any ideas or theories at all?
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  Speaker 9: Right now, I'd say the coroner's jury will have to
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  Speaker 9: hand in a verdict of homicide by person or persons unknown.
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  Speaker 2: We get those cases every so often. Sneak thieves, intruders,
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  Speaker 2: surprised by their victims. He'll get away.
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  Speaker 7: Sheila wasn't killed by any sneak thief.
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  Speaker 2: How do you know? Well, I don't know for sure,
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  Speaker 2: but it couldn't have been that. Go home and get
• 10:54
  Speaker 2: some sleep, Mr. Reed. I'll call you if I want you.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for your cooperation, everyone.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you, Captain.
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  Speaker 2: Paul? Yes, Ellen?
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  Speaker 6: Will you be good enough to take me home.
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  Speaker 8: Now?
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  Speaker 3: It's all quite a mystery, isn't it, Ellen? The police
• 11:20
  Speaker 3: get nowhere, and soon it's almost forgotten. Yes, even you
• 11:25
  Speaker 3: almost forget it. Because of a new anxiety, a new emotion.
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  Speaker 3: Your anger because you haven't seen Paul Carroll since that
• 11:33
  Speaker 3: day he drove you home from the police station. With
• 11:36
  Speaker 3: Sheila out of the way, you thought he'd be around
• 11:37
  Speaker 3: much sooner, didn't you? You thought you could wait. But
• 11:42
  Speaker 3: every day you're away from him.
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  Speaker 4: Well.
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  Speaker 3: He's very much in your mind the afternoon you face
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  Speaker 3: Wilson Andrews in his office. Wilson Andrews, Sheila's attorney. Before
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  Speaker 3: Miss Blaine's will is admitted to probate, Miss Livesey, I'd
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  Speaker 3: like you to read it, or if you prefer, I'll
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  Speaker 3: read it to you to give you the gist of
• 12:01
  Speaker 3: its contents.
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  Speaker 6: Mr. Andrews, are you telling me I'm one of Sheila's heirs?
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  Speaker 2: Her only heir, my dear.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, no, that isn't possible.
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  Speaker 2: Surely you don't object to.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, but I couldn't. I couldn't take her money.
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  Speaker 10: My dear Miss Livesey, She wanted you to inherit her estate.
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  Speaker 10: Surely you can use $ 30, 000. Why, I don't know what
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  Speaker 10: to say. She was quite fond of you, Miss Liversy.
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  Speaker 10: I'll always remember her great glee in describing how surprised
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  Speaker 10: you'd be.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, yes, I can imagine.
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  Speaker 2: If there are any questions you wish to.
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  Speaker 4: Ask, why.
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  Speaker 6: I think not, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Anderson.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yes, yes, there's one question. When will I come
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  Speaker 6: into the estate?
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  Speaker 2: Almost immediately, I'd say. I hope this bequest will bring
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  Speaker 2: you much happiness, Miss Livesey.
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  Speaker 3: Happiness?
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  Speaker 6: Why, yes, perhaps it will. Perhaps it will.
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  Speaker 3: Well, this is a surprise, isn't it, Ellen? Sheila's death
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  Speaker 3: has brought you a double benefit. Now you're thinking more
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  Speaker 3: than ever of Paul... And now that you've become moderately wealthy,
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  Speaker 3: why shouldn't you put your money to good use? The
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  Speaker 3: clothes you've never had, a new, bigger apartment, a chance
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  Speaker 3: to make Paul Carroll notice you. But instead of Paul,
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  Speaker 3: across the luncheon table from you, you find Glenn Reed.
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  Speaker 2: You're looking awfully attractive, Ellen. New hat?
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  Speaker 5: New everything. I felt guilty about it all, all the
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  Speaker 5: time I was splurging. Yet I knew it was exactly
• 13:40
  Speaker 5: what Sheila would have wanted me to do. Why did
• 13:44
  Speaker 5: you invite me to lunch, Glenn?
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  Speaker 7: I had to talk to someone. The police still haven't
• 13:47
  Speaker 7: made any arrests. They won't arrest anyone the way they're
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  Speaker 7: going about it. It wasn't any sneak thief who killed Sheila.
• 13:53
  Speaker 6: What makes you so sure of that?
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  Speaker 2: It couldn't have been. It had to be somebody else.
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  Speaker 5: That isn't enough to go on, Glenn. You'll need evidence
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  Speaker 5: of some kind to make the police change their mind.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have any evidence, but I have a pretty
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  Speaker 2: good hunch.
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  Speaker 6: You mean you suspect somebody?
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  Speaker 2: Paul Carroll.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, now, Glenn, that's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: Is it?
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  Speaker 5: You know Paul can't be guilty. He was at a
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  Speaker 5: movie when it happened. The police even found an usher
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  Speaker 5: who remembered him.
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  Speaker 7: But that doesn't mean anything. He could have sneaked out
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  Speaker 7: a side exit soon after he went inside. Nobody remembered
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  Speaker 7: seeing him come out.
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  Speaker 5: But what motive could he have? Why would he want
• 14:22
  Speaker 5: to do it?
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  Speaker 2: Because he found out he wasn't named in Sheila's will.
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  Speaker 2: He was counting on her money. Then he found out
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  Speaker 2: how she really felt, so he killed her.
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  Speaker 5: But Glenn, by the same token, I'd have a motive
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  Speaker 5: for killing her because I knew I'd inherit her money.
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  Speaker 2: But you didn't know you were named as her heir.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yes, that's true.
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  Speaker 7: Besides, we know neither of us killed her. Carol's the
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  Speaker 7: only one who had both the motive and the opportunity.
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  Speaker 5: Glenn, he was at that theater.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, he says.
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  Speaker 5: Well, what are you going to do about it? You're
• 14:45
  Speaker 5: going to go to the police?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know yet.
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  Speaker 7: All I know is I won't let Sheila go unavenged.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to find out who killed her. And when
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: I do.
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  Speaker 5: Please don't do anything rash. Now promise me you won't
• 15:01
  Speaker 5: do anything you might regret later.
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  Speaker 6: Promise me, Glenn.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not promising anything.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: Don't tell anybody what I've just said. I'll take care
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  Speaker 2: of this in my own way.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Ellen, this might be dangerous to your plans.
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: Suppose Glenn does do something to Paul Carroll, the man
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: you love. But wait, Ellen. Suppose Paul did kill Sheila.
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  Speaker 2: You wouldn't want the murder of your best friend to
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: go unavenged, would you? Or would you? Love is a
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: very strong emotion, even when it's one-sided. You haven't seen
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: Paul for weeks. He hasn't called you up at all.
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  Speaker 2: Never mind. Now you have an excuse, Ellen. An excellent
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: excuse for seeing him.
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: You like my hat, Paul?
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes. Very nice.
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  Speaker 6: It's the very first time I've worn it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, is it?
• 16:03
  Speaker 6: You've never noticed anything I've worn, have you, Paul?
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 2: What makes you say that?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, no reason.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: Why did you want to see me, Ellen?
• 16:12
  Speaker 6: Oh, because we.
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: We both loved Sheila. And because I haven't seen you
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: since this happened.
• 16:19
  Speaker 11: Well, I meant to call you and congratulate you on
• 16:22
  Speaker 11: inheriting her estate, but somehow I didn't get around to it.
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: Shall I consider myself congratulated now?
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: If you like.
• 16:30
  Speaker 6: You've changed, Paul. You're not the same at all.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: Maybe I have good reason for it.
• 16:36
  Speaker 6: Were you so much in love with her?
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 16:41
  Speaker 6: What does that mean?
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: Well, you knew Sheila as well as anyone. You know
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: what she was like.
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: She was beautiful and capricious. Unpredictable. Provoking.
• 16:52
  Speaker 11: You found that out in 15 years. I knew her
• 16:55
  Speaker 11: for six weeks. During that time, there were hours when
• 16:58
  Speaker 11: I adored her... and moments when I could have killed her.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: Not a very good choice of words, is it?
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: I know what you mean, Paul.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: Now she's gone.
• 17:10
  Speaker 11: My world's pretty much upside down. And yet if she'd lived,
• 17:14
  Speaker 11: I don't know how long we'd have lasted together.
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: Were you really going to get married?
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: Well, I'd have persuaded her to.
• 17:22
  Speaker 11: Then we'd probably have split up in no time and
• 17:24
  Speaker 11: I'd have been just as broke as I am now.
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: You don't sound as if you were really in love, Paul.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: I'm not trying to kid anybody, Ellen. I'm just telling
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: you how I felt.
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: Glenn Reed doesn't think you were in love with Sheila.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: Yes, I gathered as much that day at police headquarters.
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: He thinks you killed her, Paul.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: Well, that's insane. What's the matter with that idiot? Is
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: he going around spreading that kind of gossip?
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: Oh, no, I don't think so. He told me about
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: it yesterday, though. That's the real reason I wanted to
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: see you.
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: I thought I ought to warn you.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: Has he gone to the police?
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: Oh, he said the police wouldn't believe him.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: You bet they wouldn't.
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: But please be careful, Paul.
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: Please don't take any chances.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Don't worry. I'll talk to him. Get him straightened out.
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: Oh, no, please don't go near him.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: No.
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: That might only stir up trouble. And if anything happened
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: to you, Paul... Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, I didn't mean
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: to betray myself.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: I mean.
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: Oh, it's shameless of me to talk like this. But
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: I'm free to tell you now.
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: I'm in love with you. And if anything happened.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: Ellen, don't.
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: If anything at all happened to you.
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: I could never tell you before. Sheila was my dearest friend.
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: But just like Sheila... The first time I saw you,
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: I fell in love with you, too.
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: Now you know. Oh, I'm a fool for telling you
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: this way.
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: But I don't care. I have money now, Paul. We
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: can share it together. I'm not ashamed of myself. I'm proud.
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: I just, I want to stand up here and tell everyone.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Ellen, I think we'd better go.
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: Paul, please. Please let me finish.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: It wouldn't do any good, Ellen. Oh. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: I don't know what else to say.
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: There's nothing else to say, Paul.
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: Shall we go?
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: Unrequited love, Ellen.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: Yes, you can go on hoping, but deep down inside,
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: you know he meant it. He'll never love you. The
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: anguish and torment of that thought gives you many a
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: sleepless night. You go on hoping, but as the days.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: Go by, you need more than hope.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: You must see him, hear his voice.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: Well then forget your pride Ellen you did once before.
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: Hello oh hello Paul I want to apologize for my
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: stupid behavior last Wednesday I wanted to call you before
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: but I couldn't muster enough courage until now oh no
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: no there wasn't anything else you could say.
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: Well, that's awfully sweet of you. Can't we make amends? Oh,
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: perhaps if we had dinner together some evening? Oh, I see. Yes, yes, yes,
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: of course.
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: Well, if you'll call me when you get back.
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: Yes, Paul, yes. Goodbye. When you get back. When you
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: get back.
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: Hello, hello, operator. Operator, we were cut off.
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: No, no, no, it's all right now.
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: Oh, hello, Paul. Someone must have cut in. I just
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: thought I'd call and see if I.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: Oh, I see. Well, I thought now that you're back, you.
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: All right, Paul. Yes, I understand. Goodbye. Too busy.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Oh, Paul.
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: Oh. I hate you, Paul Carroll. I hate you.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: You never thought you'd say those words, did you, Ellen?
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: You didn't remember that love is an emotion very close
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: to hate.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: But now you know.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Paul Carroll doesn't love you, never will love you. He's
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: avoiding you. He's too busy. You hate him now, don't you, Ellen?
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: You're going to take that hate out in action. Something drastic,
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: aren't you?
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: Hello, Glenn Reed?
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, hello, Glenn.
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: This is Ellen.
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, I know.
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: I haven't seen you for ages. But I see you tonight, Glenn.
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: Really important. About Paul Carroll. No, no, I can't tell
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: you now. Can you come to my apartment tonight? Oh, say,
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: 8 o'clock? All right.
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: I'll be expecting you.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: Yes, you're going to do something drastic, aren't you, Ellen?
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: So you work fast.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: And you're ready when Glenn arrives at eight.
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: Why, hello, Glenn. You come in.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Thanks.
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: You haven't seen my new apartment before, have you?
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: No, I haven't. It's pretty swank. Said you had something
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: to tell me about Paul Carroll, Ellen. What is it?
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: Well, please sit down first. You make me uncomfortable standing
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: that way.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: What's happened?
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: Well, it's a little hard to tell. Especially after I
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: wouldn't believe you.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: My suspicions about Carol, you mean?
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: I saw Paul several weeks ago, just before he went
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: out of town. He acted rather strangely at that time.
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: Then I talked to him on the phone today and... Well,
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: now I'm glad to think you're right. Something he said
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: aroused my suspicions.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: What was that?
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: Well, we were chatting casually, something about radio shows, when
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: Paul mentioned a certain program. And he suddenly changed the subject. Later,
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: I realized why. He talked about a program that was
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: on the air while he was supposed to be at
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: the theater the night Sheila was murdered.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Are you sure of that, Edward?
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: I wouldn't have called you if I weren't.
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: First, I thought of calling the police, but then I
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: could see the evidence would seem so flimsy to Captain Hazlitt.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Yes, you're right.
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: If we could see Paul alone... The two of us
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: with him and trick him into confessing.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: Well, I could invite him to the apartment tonight. I'll
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: tell him you're.
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: Here and then when he arrives.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: That wouldn't do any good, Ellen.
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: I think it would.
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: I'll give him a ring.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't do that, Ellen.
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: Nonsense.
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: We both want to avenge Sheila's death, don't we?
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: But if you'll only listen to me.
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: Oh, always making that mistake. I keep dialing Sheila's old number.
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: Good heavens, that startled me.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: Hello?
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: Oh, well, hello, Paul. I was just about to call you. Yes,
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: I wanted to invite you over.
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: Oh, don't say you can't come. Well, I suppose I could.
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: All right, Paul. Yes, I'll be there. Goodbye. Well, that
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: wasn't hard.
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: He won't come here, but he'll be glad to see
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: me at his place. He won't expect to see you
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: with me, so we may be able to surprise him.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: I don't think so, Ellen.
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: Why not?
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: We're not going to visit, Carol.
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: I thought we agreed.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Let me have the phone, Ellen. Glenn, what in the world?
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Let me have it.
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: Really, Glenn?
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: Very well.
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: What in the world are you... Glenn, I demand an explanation.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Why don't you answer it?
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: Ah, there's no use stalling, Ellen. I watched you dial.
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: You see, you didn't dial Sheila's old number. You faked
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: that call to Carol.
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: That's absurd.
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: I don't know what you're talking about.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Don't you listen!
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: There's nobody on the line, you see. Because the four
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: numbers I just dialed make your own phone ring. You
• 25:07
  Speaker 7: didn't talk to Paul Carroll just now.
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: Really, Glenn, I'm not going to sit here and let
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: you kill.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: You couldn't have talked to Carroll. I know that, Ellen.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: You see, I've already killed him.
• 25:25
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• 25:27
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• 25:31
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• 25:35
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• 25:39
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• 25:44
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• 25:49
  Speaker 3: of countless different hydrocarbon molecules. In pre-war gasolines, the molecules
• 25:54
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• 25:57
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• 26:00
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• 26:05
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• 26:35
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• 26:53
  Speaker 3: unexpected can be a physical blow, can't it, Alan? Almost
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: like the promise of death itself. Glenn's words completely upset
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: your elaborate little scheme. You stand in horror as it
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: crumbles about you.
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: Glenn, you can't be serious.
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: I can't believe it.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes.
• 27:12
  Speaker 7: I've been following him for weeks because I thought he'd
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: killed Sheila. I saw the two of you in that
• 27:16
  Speaker 7: restaurant several weeks ago and I saw you go into
• 27:18
  Speaker 7: his apartment.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: Earlier this evening.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: Oh, no.
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: No, you couldn't.
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: I went in after you left. He was sitting in
• 27:23
  Speaker 7: his chair as back to me. Crept up behind him,
• 27:26
  Speaker 7: a heavy metal lamp from an end table in my hand,
• 27:28
  Speaker 7: and then I.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: No one saw me go in or out of his flight.
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: Oh, Glenn, you fool!
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: You fool! I called here to tell you about it
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: before giving myself up, but then you faked that call
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: from him. Puzzled me at first. But not now, Ellen. Ellen,
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: you faked that call from Sheila, too. You killed Sheila.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: Glenn, listen.
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: Listen to me. Let me explain.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: Answer me. I know you killed her, but why? How
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: could you do it?
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: Because she'd always had everything I didn't have. Money, beauty, popularity.
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: And then Paul came along and she got him too.
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: I couldn't let her take him, so I... Yes, I
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: killed her. I killed her. And then I made my
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: own phone ring while you were with me. I learned
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: how when I was an operator.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: You killed Sheila, your friend. Knowing all the time I
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: talked to you about her that night that she was
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: already dead. If it hadn't been for you, I wouldn't
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: have killed Carol.
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: Glenn, let me tell you. You didn't kill him. He
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: was already dead.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: You killed him, too.
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: Don't come near me. I shot him. And I made
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: it look like suicide. As if he'd killed Sheila. We'd
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: both have been avenged if you hadn't meddled. You meddled.
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: We'd have gotten away with it.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: You won't get away with anything again, Ellen.
• 28:41
  Speaker 6: What do you mean?
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: What do you mean? What are you doing?
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: I told you if I ever found Sheila's murderer, I'd
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: avenge her.
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: Glenn!
• 28:49
  Speaker 9: No!
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: No!
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: No!
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Glenn!
• 28:51
  Speaker 11: Glenn!
• 29:15
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• 29:17
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• 29:31
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• 30:11
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