Counterspy: The High-Class Hijacker (A0130)

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going to bring you this week's episode of Counterspy. But first,
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from October 13th, 1949, here is.
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The High Class Hijacker.
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Pepsi-Cola, P-E-P-S-I, that's your smartest cola buy. Pepsi-Cola presents Counterspy.
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Washington calling David Harding, Counterspy.
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Washington calling David Harding, Counterspy.
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Harding, counter-spy, calling Washington.
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United States counter-spy, especially appointed to.
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Investigate and combat the enemies of.
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Our country, both at home and abroad.
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Tonight, the case of the high-class hijacker. Another counter-spy report
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to the American people. Brought to you each Tuesday and
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Thursday by Pepsi-Cola.
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why take less when Pepsi is best? Whenever you reach
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for a refreshment, remember... Why take less when Pepsi's best?
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And now, to Counterspy. Counterspy It is approaching midnight. On
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a dirt road at right angles to a paved, steeply
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graded highway in Tennessee, a dark blue sedan is parked.
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Two men sit in the front seat, waiting. Suddenly, the
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silence of the night is broken by the roar of
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a trailer truck climbing the steep highway. The thin man
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in the sedan flicks away his cigarette.
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Okay, fatso, let's go.
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Hey, what's the idea, you guys?
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Hijackers. That's right. Keep your hands on the wheel and
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sit tight.
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Corny, you know I ain't that fast.
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Two of you, huh?
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Yeah, my pal's kind of slow on his feet.
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Always running, always running.
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Skip the complaints, pal. Okay, driver, outside and climb down.
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What are you going to do with me?
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Turn around, Junior. Yeah, but.
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Turn around. Okay, Fatso.
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Did that neat, didn't I, Corny?
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Drag him to the side of the road.
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Always I get the heavy work.
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Good for you, Fatso. Helps you reduce. Well, we can
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take these masks off now we's in dreamland.
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Glad to get it off. Suffocate a guy.
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Fatso, you take the car. I'll follow in the truck.
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Oh, Corny, let me take the truck. It's a long
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walk to the car, all uphill.
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All of 50 feet. Scram, Fatso. Start walking.
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Oh, always I got to walk.
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Come on.
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Attention, counter-spy headquarters Washington from.
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Counter-spy field office Central City.
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Truck operating in interstate.
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Commerce hijacked last night on Route 201, 20 miles north
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of Central City. Local authorities request counter-spy investigation on the
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basis of interstate federal.
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Nature of crime.
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Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Joyce, the door. More
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guests arriving.
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I'll get it, Mr.
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Midland.
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Oh, never mind, Joyce. This is out of office hours.
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I'll play receptionist.
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All right.
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You see that our other guests have enough to drink.
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Of course.
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Hello, Mr.
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Midland.
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Hello, Cornelius.
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You're early.
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Ah, it went like clockwork. Good. Go into the library.
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I'll get Joyce and we'll finish the paperwork.
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Right.
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Joyce? Oh, Joyce?
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Yes, Mr.
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Midland?
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I'm sorry, but a little business has come up. Right away, Mr. Midland.
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You see, folks, that's what happens to a secretary when
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she attends a boss's party.
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It won't take long, Joyce, in the library.
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Yes, Mr.
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Midland.
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We'll be right back.
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Hello, Joyce.
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Hello, Carney.
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I'll get my notebook, Mr.
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Midland.
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Yes. Good haul, Corny? Yeah, sure. Soaps, detergents, toothpaste, candy,
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regular items. I had fatso make up a list.
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Let me have it, Corny. I'll copy it.
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Joyce, check off any items that we don't buy from
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regular sources. We'll make our purchase orders tomorrow at the office.
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Right.
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Now, Corny, I'm opening up two new drugstores in our
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chain next week.
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Two?
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We'll make a total of 14 stores. We're getting big.
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That means we've got to knock off more trucks to
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keep up with the demand in our stores.
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Okay by me, Mr. Midland. The more trucks I knock off,
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the more dough I get. That's right.
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Now.
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Oh, Fort. What's the matter, Joyce?
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Oh, Fatso's handwriting. I can't read it.
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Well, just try.
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It's no use. I'll have to go out to the
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hideout myself and check this load.
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All right.
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I'll drive you out.
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Tomorrow will do. But from here on in, Mr. Midland,
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I think we should check these trucks ourselves.
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Always the efficient secretary, eh, Joyce?
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I believe in doing a thing right.
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Then we'll do it right. Corny, on the next load,
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we'll be out there to check. What is the next load?
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A tobacco shipment via the Valley Trucking Company two nights
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from now. You and Fatso knock it off, and then
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Joyce and I will check it off.
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Attention, Counterspy Headquarters, Washington, from Counterspy Field Office, Central City.
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Valley Trucking Company, Interstate Concern, reports hijacking of $ 40, 000 tobacco load.
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This is the second interstate hijacking out of 14 all
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told in this area during the last month. Local police
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urge Counterspy intervention in this case.
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Got us by photo laboratory. Haley speaking.
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Haley, this is Harding. What's the situation on those new
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mini cameras?
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They're coming in fast with the Harding and their beauties.
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Small, compact, and they turn out crystal clear prints and enlargements.
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Wonderful. Well, get up here with one of those cameras
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right away. We've got a headache. We may be able
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to use them. Statistical Department, Harding speaking. Send the modus
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operandi files on all hijackings for the last two years
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to my office as soon as you can. Chemical Division,
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this is Harding. Our data on black light and fluorescent pigments.
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Get it all together and bring it into my office.
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I'm going to have a problem for you technicians to solve.
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Peter's office.
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Miss Trumbull speaking.
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Miss Trumbull, where's Peters? I've been buzzing his private office.
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No answer.
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Well, he went down to Barbershop, Mr.
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Harding.
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I can get him for you.
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Do it.
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Tell him I want to see him right away.
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Hello, Chief.
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What's up? Why the rush?
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Sit down, Peters. We're going to work on those hijackings
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in the Midwest.
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Oh?
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They knocked off a second truck interstate, so we're assuming
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jurisdiction now instead of just advising the local authorities.
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Good.
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Those records you got on your desk from the modus
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operandi file?
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Yes.
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Now, all told, there are 14 hijackings that fit the
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same pattern. Hijackers masked, trucks stopped on hills where they
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can't pick up speed, drivers slugged. All in the same
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general area? Well, more or less, they've been concentrated in
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these three Midwest states. Trailer trucks. Ten of them with
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built-in alarm systems. Going to be tough to crack?
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Well, maybe.
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Maybe not. Now, I've got two jobs for you right away.
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Shoot. Well, first.
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You. What's the matter, Dave? Well, what's the matter with you?
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Me?
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Well, there's something... You look lopsided. What's the matter with
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your hair?
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Oh, that.
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Well, you wanted me to come up here right away.
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I was in the middle of a haircut. Well, it
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didn't have to be that right away. Okay, Dave.
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Now, first.
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Get down to the photo lab.
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Haley's got that slick new mini camera down there. He'll
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explain the operation to you.
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Check.
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And go see the companies that make these truck alarm systems.
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We want to attach cameras to their alarms.
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Will do.
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Now, next. See Carl Palmer in the materials division. He's
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compiling a list of patent medicines and drugs that were hijacked.
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Right.
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Now, you make contact with the manufacturers of those products.
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You see they're required to keep a chemical analysis of
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each batch of their product as manufactured. You want me
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to get the analysis of the hijacked batch if I can?
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That's right.
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Report to me when you've obtained results. Here, or will
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you be on your way to the Midwest? Well, here,
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most likely, Dr. Boswell in the chemical lab is trying
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to turn out a permanent type of breadcrumb for us.
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Hmm?
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The Hansel and Gretel ferry story, remember? A trail of breadcrumbs?
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We're going to see if we can get the hijackers
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to leave us the same kind of trail. I don't
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get it. Well, you don't have to at the moment.
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Just get started on that stuff I gave you. Right away, Ted. Well,
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not too right away. Take ten minutes to finish that haircut.
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Then get going. Hello, Cornelius.
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Ah, Mr.
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Midland.
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You've come to check the load yourself, like you said, huh? Yes.
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Everything go all right? Yeah, Mr.
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Midland.
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In fact, I'll tell you. Just double-checking. Pull the truck
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over to the empty van. We'll unload this one right away.
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Okay.
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Joyce!
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Right, Lincoln?
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We'll check this stuff. It all goes to our Central
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City warehouse. Make out the bill of lading accordingly.
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Yes, Mr.
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Midland.
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Hiya, Joyce.
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Hello, Carney.
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Now, where's that big.
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That's how he probably fell asleep in the car. No,
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I didn't.
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Not me.
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A long walk from the driveway. Always a long walk.
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Hello, Mr.
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Midland.
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Hello, Fatso.
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We brought three men to help with the unloading. They're
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playing cards in the old farmhouse.
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I'll open the truck and put them to work, Mr. Midland.
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Do some yourself, Fatso. Good for that front porch of yours.
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Now, don't you worry about my front porch, Corny. I'll
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take care of it. Always I do the work.
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Always he complains.
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Always.
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Corny.
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Hey.
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In the next few days, I want you to put
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on four more men. We're expanding our operations. They'll work
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in the northern part of the state around Norport.
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Four more, Mr.
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Middleton? Yes.
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I want to buy as little as possible from legitimate wholesalers.
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Getting our product this way is much more profitable.
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Okay. I'll dig up some real good boys. Now, Joyce,
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you'd better... What's that? Holy mackerel.
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That fool, he's.
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Broken the auto alarm system.
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Come on.
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What happened?
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What did I do?
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You fat moron. Joyce, the keys. Have you got them?
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Here, Mr.
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Midland.
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The alarm box.
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They're on the side of the truck.
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Yes, I see it.
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That's so you subhuman idiot.
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All your brains are on your stomach.
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No. I didn't do nothing. Just broke open the lock.
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Didn't you see the shield on the tailgate? Get closer
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so you.
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Can read it.
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Mr.
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Midland, easy on him.
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I ought to kill him. Easy, Mr.
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Midland.
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Hey, muttonhead, read what it says on the shield.
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This truck protected by CKY auto alarm. The alarm system
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is not under the control of the driver.
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What's it mean?
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It means that we're lucky I had the foresight to
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anticipate this. If I hadn't picked a hideout here on
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the hills, half the cops in creation would have been
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down on us by now.
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Always, it's my fault, always. Ah, I'm sorry. Nobody told me.
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What have you got a brain for? You can read,
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you prove that.
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Okay, so I did wrong.
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Well, how come you can shut it off, Mr. Midland,
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when it says not even the driver can?
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Because I have keys to the alarm system. Here, Corny,
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you take them, three keys. One for each alarm system
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used on trucks in this area.
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Okay, Mr. Midland.
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Have duplicates made for the new men that you hire.
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I want things set up so that we're knocking off
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but truck a day.
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Back to Counterspy in just a moment.
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But first.
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Pepsi-Cola hits the spot. Two full glasses, that's a lot.
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Lots more value, lots more zest. Why take less when
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Pepsi's best?
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More and more, among fellows and girls, among mothers and dads,
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you hear that sane and sensible question, why take less
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when Pepsi's best? No budget, no allowance, ever had a
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better friend than tangy, sparkling Pepsi-Cola. Because one big 12-ounce
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Pepsi bottle gives you two delicious drinks. That's twice as
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much tangy taste, twice as much delicious Pepsi to go
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just twice as far. That's why more and more families say,
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why take less when Pepsi is best? Yes, families like
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yours and mine. Families all over America, they're all saying,
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why take less when Pepsi is best?
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Pepsi-Cola hits the spot. Tastes terrific when you're hot.
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More and better than the rest.
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Why take less when Pepsi's best?
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Today, tomorrow, always. Get America's biggest cola value. Take home
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a carton of six big, big Pepsi bottles. Insist on
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Pepsi at the store. And say Pepsi at the fountain.
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Say Pepsi at the stands. Say Pepsi whenever you reach
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for a refreshment.
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Remember.
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Why take less when Pepsi's best?
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Now back to Counterspy. Following David Harding's instructions, Harry Peters
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is calling on a leading manufacturer of automatic alarm systems.
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Ready?
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Well, Mr.
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Denton, your auto alarms are certainly loud enough. Oh, yes, Mr.
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Peters.
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That's why I think the hijackers drive these trucks to
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some backwoods section and break them open. Our sirens can
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be heard a couple of miles away once they're tampered with.
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Well, the hijackers might have a key to your alarm system. Well,
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that's a possibility.
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A good one, too.
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That's why we want these mini cameras installed on the
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trucks separate from your system.
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Yes, sir.
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Three of them in each truck. Now, our photo lab
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has worked out a way to do it. When the
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truck doors are open, each camera will take a picture.
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That way, we'll get three actual photos of the crooks
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breaking in.
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Well, we'll be glad to install them before you, Mr. Peters.
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Well, pretty soon, these cameras will be standard equipment for
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all counter-spies. But right now, we'll just want them installed
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in whatever trucks in that Midwest area use your alarms.
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I see.
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Well, that's about 40 or 50. But there are other
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companies in this general area with similar systems.
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Yes, I know.
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I'm going to contact them, too.
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Good, good.
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Now, Mr.
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Danton, when your mechanics install these cameras... Please tell them
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only this. They're just an additional feature of your regular
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alarm system.
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Oh, naturally.
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Mighty nice-looking job, these cameras. My boy would love to
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have one for himself. Well, later on, Mr.
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Harding told me he wants them to be available to everyone.
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I'll let you know. Meantime, be cautious about them. We'll
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be discreet, Mr.
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Peters.
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Good.
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And let's hope the counter-spies will be successful. Goodbye, Mr.
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Denton.
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And, Mr.
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Frost, you do have a chemical analysis of the lot
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of your cough remedy that was hijacked.
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Better than that, Mr. Peters. We keep a spectroscope card
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of every lot. Color breakdown? That's right, Mr. Peters.
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We take a sample of every batch we make, then
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we throw a light on it, project it through a
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prism that breaks it down into its component colors, and
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photograph those colors for our records.
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We want to make copies of that color card, Mr. Frost.
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You're welcome to.
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If you can match it exactly with a sample, that
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sample will be from the lot that was stolen.
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That's what we hope to do, Mr. Frost.
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Thank you.
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Dr. Boswell?
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Boswell, yes?
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Oh, Mr. Hardy, wait till I turn this off. How's
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it coming, Dr. Boswell?
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Well, as you see, I've been working with this standard
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truck engine mounted on blocks.
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Mr. Harding, the problem's licked.
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Good.
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Show me. Well, here's the oil. I've impregnated it with
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a green fluorescent pigment. It looks like ordinary oil. Well,
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look at it under our blacklight lamp.
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Well.
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A nice, bright green dot.
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Yes, you equip our patrol cars with a blacklight headlamp
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and it'll pick up this spot on a road at
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40 feet.
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Well, now, have you worked out a way of dropping
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the oil for a trail? Yes, sir. You see, just
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back of the oil crankcase, this can? Yes, I see it.
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Well, it has a hole in it and a shutter
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arrangement like a camera. The shutter is driven by a
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small electric motor and continually revolves inside the can.
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Mm-hmm.
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Now, this switch here, which can be fastened to the
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truck dashboard, controls the outlet in the can.
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The moment the driver switches it on, oil starts dripping.
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Good.
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Good enough. Boswell, have a hundred of these made up
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right away, will you?
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All right, sir. Mr.
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Harding, Mr.
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Peters is on the phone. Mr. Harding, Mr. Peters is
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on the phone.
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Excuse me, doctor. This is Harding. Put Mr. Peters on
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this line, please.
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Peters? Yes, Dave.
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How's it going?
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Okay.
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I've arranged for the installation of the cameras, and I've
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got a color card on Dobbs' cough remedy, one of
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the hijacked items.
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Oh, that's better than I expected. We'll have copies of
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it made and forwarded to all our field offices in
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those Midwestern states.
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I've already done that, Chief.
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Good. Also, send a TWX to our field offices. Have
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them buy samples of the remedy from every retail outlet
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in their area. Then they're to make color cards of
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the samples to check with the card on the stolen lot.
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Will do.
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You meet me in Central City. We'll work out of
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our field office there, since it's the biggest city in
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the area.
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Harding Central City Field Office, forwarded from Washington.
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Spectroscope analysis, Dobbs cough remedy, reveals Midland Drug Store is
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only outlets handling the stolen batch here in Danville. Well,
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continue reports.
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There it is again, Dave. Midland Drug Company. Nine times
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in two weeks.
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And not another company in this whole area has had
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a single bottle of that batch of cough remedy.
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Peters, call Joe Lincoln in our tax department. We'll set
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up some excuse to examine the Midland Drug Company's books. Okay, yeah.
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Wait a minute, hold on. Countess by field office, Harding speaking. Huh?
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Three quarters of an hour overdue. You have a map
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of the route he was taking?
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Good.
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I'll be over at your office. I'll pick it up
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in ten minutes.
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Goodbye.
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Hijacking, Dave?
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That was the traffic manager of the Valley Trucking Company.
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One of their trucks is three-quarters of an hour overdue
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in Danville. I'll get out a police alarm on it
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right away. Well, now, if the truck's located, tell them
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to call us in patrol car number 23.
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Right.
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That's equipped with a blacklight headlamp. Now, we'll follow the
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truck's route. And I hope the driver had time enough
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and sense enough to turn on that oil switch. See
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anything yet, Peters? No, not yet, Dave. How far have
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we come? About 35 miles from the city. Well, hey,
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that hill up ahead.
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Yeah, look, Peters.
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A pool of green on the road up ahead. I
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see it. Peters, this is it.
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The hijackers must have left the motor idle after the
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driver turned on the oil switch.
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Search the side of the road. See if we can
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find the driver.
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Right.
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Dave. Dave, here he is, out cold.
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Is he all right?
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I felt his pulse.
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Just unconscious.
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Radio the state police to pick him up right away.
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Then we'll pick up the trail of these oil drops
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and hope they lead to a real pickup. Not too fast, Peters.
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We followed the trail about 15 miles. They must be
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turning off the road pretty soon.
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All right, Chief.
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Wait, hold it.
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Stop. What is it? No more oil spots on the highway.
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We passed a dirt road on our right just a
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few yards back.
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Back up.
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They must have turned in there. The road's getting worse, Dave.
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We may be getting close. Better stop the car, Peters.
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I'll take the blacklight hand lamp and go ahead on foot.
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And I'll wave you ahead as long as I can
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follow the trail of oil drops.
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See, Peters?
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Fluorescent oil spots end right at that bar. Then they
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doubled back where they drove the truck out again. A
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wonderful hideout. An abandoned farm really in the backwoods. There's
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a light in only one room in the old farmhouse.
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The gun's ready, Peters. We may need it.
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Wash your dishes. Always they leave the dirty work to Fatso.
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Always.
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Someday I'm going to tell that corny someday. Eat like pigs.
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The dish is so dirty, they call me Fatso.
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What?
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All right, big boy.
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Take it easy and keep holding that dish. He said
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keep holding it.
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Who are you guys?
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United States counter-spies. You're under arrest for hijacking.
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Counter-spies? Now, how'd you find this place?
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We might tell you if you tell us some of
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the things we want to know.
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I don't do no talking.
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Maybe not here. Well, a ride may loosen your tongue.
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Get going.
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Now, look, let me get rid of this apron, huh?
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I'd look awful silly being arrested in an apron. Okay,
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put down that dish. Get your jacket on. At least
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that's one dish I won't have to clean.
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There's a lot of dishes to clean in prison. And
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you could use the exercise.
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Always cracks about my front porch. Even the cops, even.
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Skip the lamentations. Start moving. You've got a lot of
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questions to answer.
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All right, now, Fatso.
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Car radio, Chief. Yeah, I'll take it, Peters.
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Keep driving. Carlin, count us by car 23, Mr.
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Harding.
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Carlin, count us by car 23, Mr.
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Harding. Harding speaking, Haley.
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Go ahead. I'm at the valley transportation truck that was hijacked.
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The local police found it abandoned here in Milton, a
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suburb of Central City.
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Nice going, Haley. The cameras, have you checked them?
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Yes, sir. I brought a.
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Portable developer outfit along when we got the flash about
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the truck.
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What results?
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Plenty. There are seven people in the photos.
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Three men unloading the truck. A girl checking the load. Uh,
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a human blimp eating a candy bar and two other men.
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Any identification?
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You haven't heard at all, Mr. Hiding.
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The local police have checked the miniature photos and they
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swear that one of the men is Mr.
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Midland. Midland? Head of the Midland Drug Company.
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Okay, Haley. Get a squad of men together and head
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for the Midland Drug Warehouse in Central City.
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Okay, Mr. Hiding.
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We'll meet you there. Just keep it under observation. Don't
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move until we arrive.
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Right, sir.
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Step on it, Peter. I'll have a little chat with
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Fatso back here. After what he's heard, I'm sure he
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00:26:38.230 --> 00:26:41.390
feels a lot more like talking. Don't you, Fatso?
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Well, that's it, Mr. Higgins.
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The last of the load's been put away in the warehouse.
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Any items that we don't order through our regular channels?
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Nope, all standard products.
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How much was the load worth, Joyce?
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Approximately $ 10, 000, Corn. 5% of that is 500 bucks.
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Not bad for a night's work, eh, Cornelius? I'm happy, Mr.
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Midland.
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Good.
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As we get bigger, there'll be more money in it
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for you. I hope so. Put out the warehouse lights, Joyce.
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We may as well leave.
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Right, Mr.
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Midland.
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We all leave together, Mr. Midland? Why not?
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Just an industrious boss and his equally industrious employees working overtime.
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All right, Mr.
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Midland.
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All lights out.
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Let's go.
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Hello, Mr.
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Midland.
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What?
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I'm sorry, I don't... Know me? You will, Mr. Midland,
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you will. I'd like you and your companions to come
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with me. Who do you think you are, guy? His
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name is David Harding.
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Harding? Harder, Spice.
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Oh, my.
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I don't understand. It's no use, Midland. We've got the
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whole picture of your hijacking set up. In nice, clear pictures.
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Oh, no.
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Corny.
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Get him, Peters.
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00:28:07.240 --> 00:28:08.130
All right, Dave, I've got him.
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But I don't understand.
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I had it all figured.
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My setup, my big organization. There's one thing you didn't figure, Midland.
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00:28:14.509 --> 00:28:17.990
The counter spies have a bigger organization. Okay, Peters, let's
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00:28:18.009 --> 00:28:18.359
take them along.
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When your friends drop in, be generous, but be thrifty, too.
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00:28:37.619 --> 00:28:42.650
Serve plenty of delicious Pepsi-Cola. Pepsi's big 12-ounce bottle gives
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you not just one sparkling glass full, but two. Get
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00:28:45.869 --> 00:28:50.009
a carton of six and serve 12 delicious drinks. Yes,
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Pepsi is America's biggest cola value. You get twice the
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00:28:53.490 --> 00:28:57.759
tangy taste, twice the refreshment, twice the Pepsi. So why
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00:28:57.819 --> 00:29:03.400
take less when Pepsi is best? Whenever you reach for refreshments, remember...
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00:29:03.299 --> 00:29:07.200
Pepsi-Cola hits the spot. Two full glasses, that's a lot.
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00:29:07.519 --> 00:29:09.299
Lots more value, lots more zest.
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I take less when Pepsi's best.
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Tune in every Tuesday and Thursday, same time, same station,
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to Counterspy. Listen next Tuesday for the exciting Counterspy case
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of the photographed furrier.
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When international complications were threatened because of stolen furs, your
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Counterspies had to use a camera and a special cameraman.
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How this setup ran into an unusual obstacle that spelled
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murder will be exposed next Tuesday. Be sure to be
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tuned in for Case... of the Photographed Furrier on Counterspy.
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Tonight's Counterspy program originated in New York, was directed by
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Marks B. Loeb, dramatized by Palmer Thompson, and featured Don
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McLaughlin and Mandel Kramer with music by Jesse Crawford.
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Bob Shepard speaking. Counterspy is a Phillips H. Lord production
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for Pepsi-Cola. Enjoy some Pepsi. Ice cold tonight.
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Welcome back. Some recognizable voices in this week's episode. Of course,
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we had Ken Lynch as Corny. and of course Ken
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Lynch has been in quite a few episodes of Counterspy
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that we've heard in recent weeks, but also recognized Jackson
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Beck as Fatty. I also recognized him on a couple
624
00:30:51.960 --> 00:30:56.140
of the phone or radio voices in the episode, and
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that's even closer to the typical Jackson Beck voice. This
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00:31:01.490 --> 00:31:06.529
episode is interesting for a few reasons, mainly having to
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00:31:06.569 --> 00:31:11.289
do with the investigation. First of all, I am glad
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that that line that we heard a couple weeks ago
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wasn't a throwaway line about the cameras or a prediction.
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It was set up for what would come down the line.
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And the way cameras are used in this episode is
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clever and... within the capabilities that you had with models
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of cameras like the Minox. And certainly, a little modification
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could get them what they wanted. I also like the
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whole fluorescent oil aspect. Because it's an update of a
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bit of a trope in detective stories. And there are
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00:31:57.759 --> 00:32:02.220
so many places you can see it where luminescent paint
638
00:32:03.049 --> 00:32:07.789
is left behind a truck. As it goes, leaving a
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00:32:07.990 --> 00:32:13.029
trail for our detective heroes to follow. Some examples of
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00:32:13.109 --> 00:32:18.599
it are in the 1943 film Sherlock Holmes and the
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00:32:18.660 --> 00:32:22.740
Secret Weapon. It can also be found in the pilot
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episode for the Bulldog Drum and Radio program. There are
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00:32:27.339 --> 00:32:32.569
many practical problems with this. The big one is that
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the crooks are going to know what's up if they
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00:32:36.470 --> 00:32:43.029
look behind them and see the luminescent paint. But this,
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you know, really takes some of the science of the
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time and creates something that's a bit more plausible and
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also which the police can track because it requires the
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00:32:55.950 --> 00:33:01.119
black light. Now, the tracing the cough medicine part is
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00:33:02.720 --> 00:33:05.660
the weakest part of it, but you still did have
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00:33:05.759 --> 00:33:14.269
spectrograph technology. That's real enough, but... The cough medicine all
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00:33:14.369 --> 00:33:20.339
should be very similar, and the idea that you could
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00:33:20.400 --> 00:33:26.480
give each batch of cough medicine effectively its own fingerprint,
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probably not happening in 1949.
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00:33:30.519 --> 00:33:31.480
But still, the.
656
00:33:31.460 --> 00:33:35.059
Science in this is a lot more sound than the
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whole plan, because, you see, normal criminals, what they would do,
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00:33:41.289 --> 00:33:45.210
they would hijack the truck, and they would sell the
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merchandise to a fence, who would then sell it to
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someone else, maybe a black market source. Ideally, quite a
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00:33:54.869 --> 00:34:00.769
bit away from where the robbery took place. Mr. Midland
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00:34:00.829 --> 00:34:04.990
decides to use the stolen property to stock his shelves,
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which creates a whole lot of problems for.
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Him, because.
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If you've got a legitimate business that you're running, you're
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00:34:13.800 --> 00:34:18.239
going to have inventory and taxes and records, and you're
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00:34:18.280 --> 00:34:23.179
going to have to make up a lot of only
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00:34:23.420 --> 00:34:30.090
invoices and receipts, you know, to cover yourself. And all
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00:34:30.110 --> 00:34:33.429
of this is going to have to pass scrutiny. They
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00:34:33.969 --> 00:34:38.489
have to set up fake corporations, right? It's an incredibly
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00:34:38.570 --> 00:34:43.750
complex thing that there's no indication that Mr. Midland has
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00:34:43.849 --> 00:34:47.670
prepared for at all. And trying to scale this so
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00:34:47.730 --> 00:34:52.449
that you have a robbery every single day, that's not
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what we call a sustainable business practice. So the investigative
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methods are interesting and generally believable, and far more so
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00:35:05.860 --> 00:35:10.699
than the crime. Now, by the way, it's really fascinating
677
00:35:10.800 --> 00:35:16.860
that they named Joe Lincoln in the Treasury Division because
678
00:35:17.539 --> 00:35:22.420
that's actually the name of the lead in another Phillips
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00:35:22.480 --> 00:35:26.219
Lord series. Probably the least successful one, at least in
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00:35:26.260 --> 00:35:32.840
the 1940s. Treasury Agent. which lasted in its initial run
681
00:35:32.900 --> 00:35:36.829
just about a season, and would eventually come back at
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00:35:36.869 --> 00:35:40.670
the end of the 1950s over Mutual. But I guess
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00:35:40.710 --> 00:35:45.369
this confirms that Treasury Agent does exist in the same
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world as Counterspy. Now, whether it also exists in the
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00:35:51.360 --> 00:35:55.880
same world of Mr. District Attorney, we'll have to see.
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I also think that there is an overall thrust of
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the episode beyond the accuracy of the science involved. Midland
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00:36:09.639 --> 00:36:14.590
did this whole thing, you know, based on some knowledge
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he had, particularly about the truck's alarms, that allowed them
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00:36:21.010 --> 00:36:25.269
to pull off the robbery by taking it to somewhere
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00:36:25.630 --> 00:36:29.909
remote to be opened, but he didn't know all of
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00:36:29.969 --> 00:36:36.510
the capabilities of Counterspy, and that Counterspy was constantly innovating,
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00:36:36.699 --> 00:36:41.639
constantly finding new ways to take down criminals, and that
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essentially crime will not pay in the long term if
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because you cannot tell what new tools or methods law
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enforcement might deploy against you. All right, well now it's
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time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day. Thank
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you to Gretchen, Patreon supporter since September 2017, currently supporting
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the podcast at the secret agent level of $ 4 or
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more per month. Thanks so much for your support, Gretchen,
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another episode of Counterspy. But join us back here tomorrow
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bring you another Sunday Encore featuring more of the Landini
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murder mystery. And then on Monday, we have our regular
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lineup with the Saint. And then join us back here
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