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Suspense - "Fragile-Contents Death" (Old Time Radio, 1951) · Suspense | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: An anonymous telephone warning tells Postmaster Douglas Jordan that a
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: time bomb has entered the mail system. With only hours
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: to act, Jordan and his postal staff must search undelivered parcels,
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: delivery trucks, and mail routes, while taking care not to
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: trigger the device they are seeking. From CBS on February first,
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: nineteen fifty one, this is Suspense, Episode one, Fragile Content's Death,
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  Speaker 1: with Paul Douglas as Jordan, joined by Joseph Kerns, Howard mcneer,
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  Speaker 1: Lee Miller, Mary Lansing, and Naomi Stevens. The script is
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: by John F. Suiter, placing a race against the clock
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  Speaker 1: within a busy post office operation. Ladies and gentlemen suspense,
• 0:48
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  Speaker 2: The night.
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  Speaker 1: Fragile Contents Death starring mister Paul Douglas. Before our play begins,
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  Speaker 5: All it took was a phone call. Until it came
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  Speaker 5: that morning. Everything at the post office was the same
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  Speaker 5: as it had always been. I was just another postmaster,
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  Speaker 5: forty years old, the problems of some.
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  Speaker 2: Eighty thousand people who look after.
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  Speaker 5: All it took was that phone call to make things
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  Speaker 5: a nightmare.
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  Speaker 2: As I said, the day was well just to day.
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  Speaker 5: I remember, I was making up my mind to get
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  Speaker 5: busy on the stuff piled.
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  Speaker 2: On my desk.
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  Speaker 5: It was nine fifteen, Molly mich Jordan, morning, Harvey. I
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  Speaker 5: was just going to send for you. Don't tell me
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  Speaker 5: that all this this heap is for me.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. Well, isn't anybody weed it out?
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  Speaker 1: It's been weeded, mister Jordan. Oh no, Well, if I must,
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  Speaker 1: I must even a parcel. I see it's mark personal
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  Speaker 1: from Paxton Brown, something rather Broadway, New York City.
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  Speaker 2: Something I was ordered.
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  Speaker 5: Oh oh, I remember, sure, this must be that new
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  Speaker 5: type of loan sprinkler I ordered. I should have had
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  Speaker 5: it sent to the house. Put it over there, would you.
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  Speaker 5: I'll take it along with me when I go home here. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: that's fine.
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  Speaker 2: Post Office, this is Jordan, Jordan, a postmaster Jordan. That's right.
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  Speaker 2: What can I do for you?
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  Speaker 3: Plenny? You got a bomb someplace in the mail down there?
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  Speaker 2: What is this a joke?
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  Speaker 3: This is no joke. Listen carefully. A guy I know
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  Speaker 3: sends another guy a bomb, a time bomb. It'll be
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  Speaker 3: delivered here in town.
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  Speaker 4: It was supposed to be set to go off at
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  Speaker 4: seven tonight, but I think you forgot the change of
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  Speaker 4: the timer before he shipped. It's set for two thirty
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  Speaker 4: this afternoon, five hours from now. I don't like that.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe some poor guy like a mail man will get
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  Speaker 4: it instead of the guy who's supposed to do.
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  Speaker 3: That's why i'm telling you about it.
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  Speaker 4: You got to fight it and stop it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And another thing, it's fixed so it'll go off when
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  Speaker 4: you open the package.
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  Speaker 5: You got all that, sure, I got it, But well,
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  Speaker 5: how do I recognize this bomb?
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  Speaker 2: Who's it addressed to?
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  Speaker 3: I ain't telling who sent it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care about who sent it. Who gets it?
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  Speaker 3: Who gets it?
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  Speaker 2: I am hello, Hello.
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  Speaker 5: Don't hang up on me? Who gets the bomb? Don't
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  Speaker 5: hang up? Look you're still there. I can hear you breathing.
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  Speaker 2: Hello. Hello. He hung up hartly.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, sir, you probably heard enough of that to know
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  Speaker 5: what's going on here. Has something about a bomb and
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  Speaker 5: the mail. Yes, I listen carefully. I'm only going to
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  Speaker 5: tell you once get out of here on the double.
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  Speaker 5: I want the assistant Superintendent of Males and the dispatcher
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  Speaker 5: Stuart and Fox get him in here as quick as
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  Speaker 5: you can. Got that, yes, sir, Oh, hell bank and
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  Speaker 5: get it. This is Jordan. How many inspectors are in
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  Speaker 5: to date?
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  Speaker 6: You know, just a moment mister Jordan's mister Williams is in.
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  Speaker 6: Mister Jack flipwords that he'll be out on Lincoln County
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  Speaker 6: until tomorrow. Mister Thompson enter the hospital this morning to.
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  Speaker 5: Have the appendix out one of three. I suppose they
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  Speaker 5: should be thankful for that much, ring ed Williams for me.
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  Speaker 5: Please tell them to get over to my office right away.
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  Speaker 5: It's urgent. Yes, all the you sent for me? Yes, Foxy,
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  Speaker 5: sit down. Something wrong, bloody bomb in the nail.
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  Speaker 2: Not much about it.
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  Speaker 5: I'll tell you later. Williams and Stewart or in the
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  Speaker 5: list two man? Are we in for a busy day?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Harvey said, there was a hurry up call, and
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  Speaker 2: is I kick excuse the loose call, forget it? Will
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  Speaker 2: you practically close that door in my face? Yo? Warning
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  Speaker 2: everybody sit down and listen.
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  Speaker 1: No raises this year. I've been waiting for him to
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  Speaker 1: spring it on it A button up, Joe. Here's what
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  Speaker 1: we do have staring us in the face.
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  Speaker 5: I just told Fox a minute ago there's a bomb
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  Speaker 5: in the mail someplace.
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  Speaker 2: A bomb.
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  Speaker 5: That's right, that's right. A few minutes ago, I got
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  Speaker 5: a phone call. I don't know who it was. All
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  Speaker 5: I got with these facts. It's now nine to thirty.
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  Speaker 5: Well between now and two thirty, we've got to find
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  Speaker 5: a time bomb which was mailed to somebody here in town.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody don't have any name at all. He didn't get
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  Speaker 1: around to that. Either he wouldn't tell me or he
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  Speaker 1: was cut off.
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  Speaker 5: I'm hoping, just a slender hope, I know, but I'm
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  Speaker 5: hoping he'll call back.
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  Speaker 2: Can't count on it. How do we know this isn't
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  Speaker 2: a leg bull?
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  Speaker 5: We don't, but we can't afford to take chances of
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  Speaker 5: somebody's life, would you no, Well, what kind of a package.
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  Speaker 2: We don't know? Any kind? That's great. They spreads your
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  Speaker 2: field out something terrific. Huh. Not only have your truck packages,
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  Speaker 2: you have carryer packages.
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  Speaker 1: Too, carry wouldn't have that bigger package?
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  Speaker 2: Use your hand.
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  Speaker 1: The powerful explosives we have nowadays in the small wiring
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  Speaker 1: circuits possible?
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  Speaker 2: Why not?
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you another. How about a newspaper rule. That's
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  Speaker 1: big enough, isn't it? Carriers handled them, don't they?
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  Speaker 2: That's right. Here's what I think.
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  Speaker 5: If that thing was mailed early this morning, it's either
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  Speaker 5: out there in the parcel post bin or at one
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  Speaker 5: of the substations. If it was mailed last night, it's
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  Speaker 5: probably on one of the trucks right now, or else
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  Speaker 5: it's been delivered, or else it's been delivered. Yes, a
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  Speaker 5: lot of stuff's off the trucks by now. Well, that
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  Speaker 5: complicates it. But let's do what we can as fast
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  Speaker 5: as we can. Fox you round up all of the
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  Speaker 5: special delivery cards, send them out after those trucks, and
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  Speaker 5: get all packages back here.
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  Speaker 2: We'll go over them after they get here.
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  Speaker 5: Try to get the drivers to remember what's been delivered
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  Speaker 5: and where. Just get the insured deliveries this won't be insured,
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  Speaker 5: and get as much back as you can.
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  Speaker 2: But if they can't remember everything, leave.
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  Speaker 5: That to me. But do this too. Call the substations,
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  Speaker 5: get all their stuff in here.
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  Speaker 2: They'll do anything else. Not Now I'm on my way.
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  Speaker 3: Do it.
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  Speaker 2: Go through our own stuff in the back.
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  Speaker 5: Let me see delivery from the New York Central's number
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  Speaker 5: three hasn't come over from the station yet, hasn't, No,
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  Speaker 5: And that makes it a little better. I get everything
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  Speaker 5: we've got together in one place and keep it there.
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  Speaker 5: I keep the out of town packages out of it.
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  Speaker 5: Just add the stuff from the substations and the trucks
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  Speaker 5: as it comes in.
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  Speaker 2: And the pickup trucks.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, some of the drop boxes up in the suburbs,
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  Speaker 1: or for letters and parcels booth. We'd get some packages
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  Speaker 1: coming in and they pick ups from those boxes. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I'd forgotten, man. Yeah, the trucks will be in here
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  Speaker 1: by eleven. Well, might as well go ahead with everything
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  Speaker 1: else until we get here.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, just so we get them as soon as they
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  Speaker 5: come in. I'll leave that to you, yea. If we're
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  Speaker 5: gonna do all this, I better get on it. You
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  Speaker 5: know you're standing here any longer than this? No?
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  Speaker 1: No, no, go on, go ahead. You want me to
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  Speaker 1: check the packages?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 5: I don't have to tell you your business. D I
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  Speaker 5: know your record isn't inspected.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, fiell in a little more for me. What you done? Okay?
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  Speaker 2: Is that time bomb?
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  Speaker 5: That's what he said? We have less than five hours now?
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  Speaker 2: I got that? What else about it? Would it be
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  Speaker 2: safe to open? No? No, it'll it'll go off if
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  Speaker 2: you open it, he said.
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  Speaker 5: So it's rougher and rougher. Well, I'm going to get helped,
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  Speaker 5: doug all you want I use your phone? Help yourself?
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  Speaker 2: Thanks?
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  Speaker 1: Outside line please, State Police company A ro oh, rockey,
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  Speaker 1: This is ed Williams Post Office? Is jesse in today?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, don't call him no time. Tell him to
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  Speaker 2: come on over here right away. Would you sure?
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  Speaker 3: What do you want to do with explosives? Experts? You
• 9:58
  Speaker 3: got a bomb? Oh?
• 9:59
  Speaker 2: Maybe keep it under your hat or another thing? Rocket?
• 10:03
  Speaker 2: You got the fluoroscope? Just now touchy one?
• 10:07
  Speaker 3: No, we loaned become the e.
• 10:08
  Speaker 2: Up A four. I could use it, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 4: It's only about one hundred miles.
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  Speaker 3: I'll call them up and get them to fly it in.
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  Speaker 3: We'll probably get it to you in an hour.
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  Speaker 2: A little over good and you'll tell Jesse will now
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  Speaker 2: the work. Doug, same here, boy.
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  Speaker 1: How about those carriers about one hundred of Manta ninety four?
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  Speaker 2: Can you do it? Can you hit them all?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. All I can do is try. I'll
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  Speaker 1: bet you're thinking of the same thing. I am remembering
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  Speaker 1: the same.
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  Speaker 2: Case Bowling Green, Kentucky.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that poor devil of a carry alive but.
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  Speaker 2: Barely one reason.
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  Speaker 5: I want to find this bomb before our luck runs out.
• 10:45
  Speaker 2: We're gonna see that it doesn't run out. I hope
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  Speaker 2: you're right, ed, I sure hope you're right.
• 11:05
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  Speaker 1: Death a tail well calculated to keep you in suspend.
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  Speaker 2: They were all on.
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  Speaker 5: It now, Williams, Fox, Stewart and all the others we
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  Speaker 5: could trust to keep a cool head. The lid was
• 12:59
  Speaker 5: on every place possible. The average man buying his three
• 13:03
  Speaker 5: cent stamp. It was business as usual. We didn't even
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  Speaker 5: let the majority of the help know it, but often
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  Speaker 5: one of our fairly isolated corners, a pile of packages
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  Speaker 5: was growing. I looked at the clock ten twenty, just
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  Speaker 5: about an hour gone, four hours left. Still, how are
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  Speaker 5: things going?
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  Speaker 2: Eh? Who knows? Well, let's could be expected anything like this?
• 13:30
  Speaker 2: That's course.
• 13:31
  Speaker 5: Better wipe off that sweat before somebody tumbles. You know,
• 13:34
  Speaker 5: the day isn't that hot. I think you are many
• 13:37
  Speaker 5: of them? Whyse yet? I don't think so yet. That'll
• 13:40
  Speaker 5: probably get out.
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: You know. Things have a way that they do. How
• 13:44
  Speaker 2: are you standing at yourself? I worried? I'm not very
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  Speaker 2: happy happy? Well, none of us are.
• 13:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I keep thinking what if I get hold of
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  Speaker 5: the thing. Have you ever been in an explosion? No,
• 13:56
  Speaker 5: you weren't in the service? No, ever see an explosion
• 13:59
  Speaker 5: and been close to one?
• 14:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: Well I came by once just after a gasoline tructangled
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: with a pole and took off.
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: It's pretty bad, you see, Joe. Would you like to
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: take the day over? Oh no, no, I wouldn't think
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  Speaker 2: with them and that nobody'd blame you. Really, I wouldn't much.
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: I can't do that what if I did and the
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: thing got by and I could have prevented it. I'm nervous.
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: Maybe I don't like to set up. Maybe, but I'm
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: not chicken. I'm staying with it. I didn't suppose you
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: wouldn't stay with it, Joe. And they say every soldier
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: figures at the next bullet isn't going to get him.
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: That's the way I'm figuring myself. I'm miss good idea.
• 14:37
  Speaker 5: The only thing we have to worry about. Where is
• 14:41
  Speaker 5: this one named eleven? Thirty two hours gone? I went
• 14:54
  Speaker 5: back to the mailroom. Ill, doctor, how's it gone? We
• 14:58
  Speaker 5: have all this so far, a lot of works, and he.
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: Leaves it not yet, not even anything suspicious. Well, how
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: can you tell? I can't tell, really, I Oh.
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: Sometimes there's something about the handwriting or the printing.
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: I get, you just feel it. Sometimes I don't know.
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: I don't get anything like that in this stuff. Well,
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: not even a fake return address.
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: I don't want them a lot, none of the locals
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  Speaker 1: anyway tomorrow florioscoping yet, Oh planes in they formed me
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  Speaker 1: a few minutes ago. It's on the way over be
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  Speaker 1: here any minute.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: That's a help.
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  Speaker 5: It's Jordan Telha okay, what line. Hey, thanks, I'll get it.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: This is Jordan, mister Jordan, it's Maloy on truck fifteen.
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  Speaker 2: It's Maloy.
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  Speaker 3: I got to worry about getting.
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  Speaker 2: Back these packages.
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  Speaker 4: Everything's practically okay, only it is my second delivery. I
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: left one off at this place seventeen twenty four, Lime Street.
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: I got back here a while agoing nobody's home.
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  Speaker 2: They were there when you left the package.
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, fat ballheaded guy took it, as I remember.
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: We check the neighbors I already have, mister Jordan.
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: Nobody knows for sure where they went.
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: There's some talk about them leaving for Washington this morning,
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: but I can't pin it down. They drove anyway, cars gone,
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: garages empty.
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  Speaker 5: Well that's using your head, molloy. At least we have
• 16:05
  Speaker 5: something to shoot at. Remember the name?
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: No, I don't, but that fat guy sure look like
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: A tabbed him for one the minute or later.
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: What's this?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: Miller came driving out, caught me and said, you're hunting
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: a package of stole them goods in the mail.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe he shot his mouth too much. Uh, wasn't I
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  Speaker 3: supposed to know?
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: Oh no, no, mylloy, it's it's all right.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: I forgot that he knew what we were after you
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: say you got everything else?
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right in if you say it.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: So you do that, Jack Foxy.
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, look up seventeen twenty four Lime Street and get
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: the name. Anything else, get that name, and then get
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: on it to the state police to intercept them if possible.
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: Those people who received the package this morning, and they
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: may have left town for Washington. They're probably driving by luck.
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: They may not have opened that parcel yet.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: And it's a long time going on a trip carrying
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: an unopened package.
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: I doubt it. It's against common sense, but we have
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: to try. You try Foxy. Twelve o'clock lunchtime. I ordinarily
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: eat at Bailey's.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: Not today.
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: We had sandwiches and coffee brought in. The coffee was welcome,
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: but we didn't seem very hungry. Alone in my office
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: sipping coffee, all I could think about was the time
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: was half gone.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: It made me forgetful. This is Jordan.
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: Haven't you forgotten something?
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Hello, dear, forgotten something?
• 17:34
  Speaker 7: I've done a Bailey's waiting for you. I've been here
• 17:36
  Speaker 7: twenty five minutes. We're lunching together today, remember, well.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: That's right. Today is Thursday.
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: Well, look, Alice, I'm afraid I'm going to have to
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: stand you up.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Something's gone.
• 17:47
  Speaker 7: They're the best looking man sitting in here all by himself, tall.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: Rugged, iron gray type. You know how I go for those.
• 17:53
  Speaker 7: He'd probably be glad to buy me immediately.
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah, try him and see. I have confidence in you, sweetheart.
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: Anything to save us a.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: Buck definitely aren't coming.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: I'm afraid not. I'll tell you all about it tonight.
• 18:04
  Speaker 7: Sometimes remind me never to marry a busy executive again.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Bye bye. What have you got there? Foxy? Things on
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: my mind?
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: Doug.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: First, let me get this.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: One of the cops picked up the Morgans. The Morgan's,
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: a couple who were driving to Washington found them in
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: a service.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Station on the edge of town. You get the package
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: had already opened.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: It, nothing much in it except some fancy sportress for
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: Morgan himself.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: They're on their way again with the apologies.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Understand they were scared silly Morgan off of the shoulder cops.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: The shirts even wanted to give them one, afraid they
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: were stolen goods.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: So I'm glad that's cleaned up.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Just had a call from the wood Mount brand go
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: on Remember Spicer? Who Spicer, Yes, yes, suspicion of robbing
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: the mails?
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: What about him? Looks as though he hung without himself
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: this time? How's that? Well? As I say?
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: This clerk caught at the wood Mount put a bunch
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: of packages in the bins just before he quit last night.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: He remembered one for doctor Turner. This Turner seems collects
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: magazine first editions. Sometimes he's notn't worth insuring. Sometimes they are.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: They're always worth something more than their original price.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: This package looked like one at all. What about the carrier?
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Spicer seems he blew in just as the place was
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: about to close, that he'd got a bag of his
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: with some new shoes he'd bought. He drifted through and
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: out again. Nobody paid any attention at their time.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: And this morning Turner's package is gone? Is that it?
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Where's Spicer is? Day off? Substitutes working? They're sure the
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: package is gone.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Turner called to ask her that come and they couldn't
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: trace it.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: That's how they were sure it was missing.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: I don't have to tell you the next move do.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: I already tried call his rooming house. He's not in,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: didn't come in last night either do I call the police.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: I'd better do that, Foxy. Thanks.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Even if he has the thing, he surely opened it
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: by now, I think so myself.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: But we can't be sure. We can't take chances.
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: I'd better call get me the police station.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Ed. Any luck with this pile of stuff? One that's uncertain.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Trying to make up my mind. Let's sew. Let's see here,
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: not very big.
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: Wouldn't have to be addressed to Jack Gordon one twenty
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: eight Andrew Street that anybody important.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Never heard the name?
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: You ask me? It's a kid, and so why the
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: return address? Columbia Foods in corporate, I don't reel coupons.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Floorscope indicates a watch inside. Furthermore, let's put a stethoscope
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: on it. Yeah, forty years Okay, you get it. Yeah,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: it ticks all right. Question is it a dollar watch
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: or or is.
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: It it to watch?
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Probably? Probably, Let's play it safe, That's what I thought
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: in here.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Ordinarily no, but we couldn't detect anything that would trigger
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: the thing.
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: So we'll put her in the water. Barke here, did
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: you put the wedding agent in the water.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll soak through the wrapping. Quicker and through anything
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: else inside that much faster.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: That doesn't. Inside takes a little longer.
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: Reminds me of the time I put in as an inspector.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: I hear you're pretty good, Doug, just lucky getting the
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: walkers lucky.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Well, better have a look at your toy here. Yeah,
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: it's easy, no, she comes.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, looks like we're right the first time, Doug. Here,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: have a pocket watch, genuine hoppy. Keep it for assuming
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: there it's one kid. We all watch well the budget
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: stand it. It'll strain it, but it won't break.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Its step out back. I need a cigarette, good idea.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: You heard about this carrier Spicinghi, Foxy told me got
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: him here. The police haven't. Maybe the police haven't got him,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: but has it.
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: The clock's hands were still going around one thirty, just
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: about one hour ago, and still we hadn't found that bomb.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: We hadn't found it, We hadn't found the missing carrier.
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: All we found was a new headache every few minutes.
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: This is Jordan's, mister Jordan.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: This's Malloy again for the driver.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Oh yes, malloy, do you have something new?
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: Short? See mister Jordan is like this.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: While I was eating lunch, I get thinking, and all
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: of a sudden, I remember this other package I delivered
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: this morning out on beach Am, so I drive over
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: here to see about it.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: I'm at the house.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Now you got the package? Have they opened it?
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: It ain't open? But well you better talk to this lady.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: Mister Jordan's you won't listen to me here, Missus Bates,
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: this is the.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: Postmaster on the line himself, and first hello.
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: This driver says you're the postmaster.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Isn't that right?
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: That's right? This is Douglas Jordan.
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: I don't understand all this about the package which came
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: from my husband versus man delivered it, and now he
• 23:25
  Speaker 7: wants it back.
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: He's perfectly right, Missus Bates. We'd very much like to
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: have that parcel.
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: I don't see why it has my husband's name on it.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: It's the correct address.
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: I'm afraid that I can't give it back until my
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: husband has a chance to examine it.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: What did our driver tell you, Missus Bates?
• 23:41
  Speaker 7: You had some story about stolen good But that does
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: make sense. Do you see anyone would know that my husband.
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: Would Someone may have confused him with another baits Have
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: you thought of that?
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: No?
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: I hadn't, but I am still sure that my husband
• 23:55
  Speaker 7: should pass judgment on this. It takes the responsibility and
• 23:59
  Speaker 7: I were wrong.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Let me take the responsibility. Missus Bates might not see
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: it that way.
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: He might say, I let myself be talked in.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: The summer of Missus Bates.
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: Believe me, I'm sure your husband would be the first
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: to thank of if he knew, on my word of honor,
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: we must have that package.
• 24:16
  Speaker 7: Well, it's your responsibility, if you understand here, young man.
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: But I don't think my husband will thank you. He
• 24:24
  Speaker 7: doesn't like anyone connected with the government for that.
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, Missus Bates, but thank you for giving us
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: that parcel. One hour, please let this one be it.
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: But it wasn't what we were after. A box of
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: advertising pencils.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: That was all. Then It was a half an hour.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: I forced myself.
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: To stay in my office waiting for a call that
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: they'd caught Spicer, or that someone somewhere had turned up
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: something ed any luck, not a bit.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: We've combed everything, not a thing. I haven't caught up
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: with Spicy yet.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: I think that's a false lead. Anyway, if he has
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: the thing, he's opened it by now.
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: That leaves us nowhere said, somebody's forgotten something.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: That must be it maybe be all a hoax. You
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: know it's a matter. Don't you wanted to be a hoax?
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: All this effort, nothing to show for it?
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Got it? Want to repeat the Walker business? Got your
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: murderer through the mail? No, no, ed No, I just
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: want to be.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Sure he's out. You know, Steve Walker, the brother, he's
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: out of jail. Didn't you know why you're.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Looking so funny?
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: Steve won't Steve, he said he'd get me. Ah, well,
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: so what where did I put it? Where's that lawn spring?
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: With lawn spring? Now? I know? Hey, where'd that package
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: come from? I had it right here all day? Didn't
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: even think about it this morning.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Let's not think. Let's move give me that is the time,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: I think, so better be. Hey, Jesse, got another one forrestcope? Yeah,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: get her under the forest. Look that's her brother, that's
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: her all right? Do you have time to take it
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: out to a safe place. All we can do is
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: put her in the water bucket, take her into the
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: alley and pray, okay, here goes old water. Get through
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: that wrapper, Jesse, get her out of here, Doug. We'll
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: give her an hour just in case.
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: Five minutes, fifteen minutes, thirty minutes, forty five minutes, one hour.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Well, Doug, there she is all in little pieces. We
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: glad those pieces, aren't you?
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: I am head? Believe me, I am pretty good collection
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: of evidence. You can go after Steve Walker with us dog.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Jordan's coming on four. Got it? This is Jordan.
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: I couldn't bear the thought of you plotting away down there.
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: Maybe you'd like to hear about my lunch, dear it was?
• 27:11
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• 27:14
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