In this intriguing episode, we delve into the mysterious world of scientific experimentation and the unforeseen consequences that can arise. Dr. John Gilbert and his colleague, Stephen Kaplan, are on the brink of a groundbreaking discovery at State University. They have developed a serum that renders the body invisible, a feat that could revolutionize military tactics. However, as Dr. Gilbert tests the serum on himself, unexpected and sinister events unfold. His shadow, seemingly detached from his body, begins to act with a will of its own, leading to a series of mysterious deaths.
As the narrative unfolds, we are drawn into a suspenseful tale of science gone awry. Dr. Gilbert's shadow becomes a malevolent force, targeting individuals connected to him, including his estranged wife, Margo, and her new partner, Bill Watkins. The episode explores themes of scientific ethics, the limits of human understanding, and the potential dangers of tampering with the natural order. With a gripping storyline and a chilling conclusion, this episode leaves listeners pondering the boundaries of scientific exploration and the shadows that lurk within.
(00:56) Introduction to the Mystery
(03:10) The Experiment Begins
(10:07) A Dangerous Secret
(17:21) The Shadow's First Appearance
(25:02) A Mysterious Murder
(31:10) The Shadow's Rampage
(39:05) The Final Confrontation
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Radio Mystery Theater presents Come in. Welcome. I'm EG Marshall. I'd invite you to sit down, but at the moment, we're in a laboratory. The laboratory of doctor John Gilbert and Stephen Kaplan, two research scientists at State University. Nothing but sinks and test tubes and bunsen burners, and only one chair at a desk where doctor Gilbert is now sitting alone, talking into a small tape recorder. I think without disturbing him, we might just listen.
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Tape 26. Four PM, Friday, February 17. Tomorrow, we will make the supreme test. The serum I twenty three has already been effective on mice and rabbits. Tomorrow, if it works on the human body, there's no end to the potential. I have no qualms at all. The serum won't kill me. At least, I don't think so. But we cannot know its true worth until we try it on a human.
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On me.
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Our mystery drama, I thought I saw a shadow, was written especially for the mystery theater by Bob Juran and stars Nat Polan. It is sponsored in part by True Value Hardware stores and Contact, the twelve hour cold capsule. I'll be back shortly with act one. When man tampers with the forces of nature, sometimes great things are revealed to him. Radio, for instance. Had it not been for man's curiosity, his probing, and questioning, the miracle of broadcasting might still be undiscovered. And then where would we be? That's just one of the thousands of ways that humans have put the laws of nature to productive use.
But there are other laws and forces that are better left untouched, unexplored. For these laws are immutable, fixed, unchanging. And some of them, when disturbed, produce frightening and devastating results. Let's go to the
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Lab 2. Kaplan here. Yes, sir. Right here. John, Colonel Morgan. Oh, thanks.
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Hello, Colonel. I was expecting your call. Yes? On Saturday. But I I know we've discussed it, colonel, and I have to be firm. No witnesses. I realize the government is funding the project, but until doctor Kaplan and I are sure it's ready, we have to conduct our experiments in absolute secrecy. Thank you, colonel.
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Yes. Yes. Certainly. As soon as we have the result. Goodbye.
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If this thing's supposed to be top secret, how does Colonel Morgan come off thinking he can bring in a party of birdwatchers? Well, he has to act important.
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Wants to be sure he gets whatever credit is coming. And I should be used to that. You mean doctor Ferguson? She could have shared that award with me for the work we did on blood plasma. It was mostly my work. She could have given me some recognition even though I was only her student. Well, forget her.
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I'm still worried about going ahead. I don't think we've run enough tests on the animals. I think it's too soon to be squirting the stuff in your arm. I know, Steve.
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But how much further can we go with the animals? We can't get a subjective reaction. We know the primary function of the serum works, but we don't know how they feel,
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how they move under the influence. I know you're right. And I know we're going through with it on Saturday. And I know I'm supposed to be a level headed scientist. And I know I'm damn scared.
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I'll get it. Lab two, Gilbert.
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Hello, John. I'm not interrupting. Margo. Oh, I'm sorry to bother you at the lab, but I never get an answer to the apartment. I know. I know. I'm not there much anymore. You were never there much anytime. But that's past, John. I, I wonder if I could see you. Of course, Margo. This project's taking all your time. You name it. Well, I could, meet you tonight.
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Do you wanna come to the apartment? No. I'd rather you came here. You wanna make a dinner? That'd be nice. How about seven? Alright. I'll be there. Goodbye, John. See you later, Margo.
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No comment. She's still my wife, Steve. In name only. I hate to see your concentration broken by another meeting,
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particularly now, two days. I'm not a teenager, Steve. I can control my emotions.
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John, does Margo know about our work?
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No. No. I've kept it top secret even from her, which wasn't difficult since we see each other so seldom now. Are you going to tell her?
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Why should I? I don't know, really. But
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if something goes wrong What would telling her in advance accomplish?
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I think as your wife, she ought to know there's a chance she may never see you again.
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More coffee, John. No. No. Thanks, Margo. I'd rather get down to some serious talk. Okay.
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We've been to the wine, the candlelight mistake. Now we've got to face the facts.
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The facts being?
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I want a divorce. I was afraid of that. John, don't make it any more difficult for me. We've been separated for almost a year. I want to be free. Do you? Really? No. Yes. A few months ago, I might have had doubts. But now I know I want to marry Bill Watkins. I want to be free to marry him.
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Well, I can't blame you.
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I'm not going to drag up the old neglected wife routine. You will always be a deep part of me. But I want more out of life than the shadow of a man. Well, I I can't argue the point,
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but you will always be a deep part of me. You know, working in the lab, those those many nights, those lonely nights for you, for me, you were always there. I love you. Even though you were home and I was working, we were there together.
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I may have been there for you, but for me, it was lonely, is lonely.
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Well, I'll I'll do whatever you want, Margo. Thank you. No. Damn it. I don't mean that. I don't want Bill Watkins to have you. John. Give me one more chance. Let let me finish this project I'm on now. It'll only be a few weeks, and I'll I'll take a sabbatical. We'll travel. We'll be together every minute. And then I'll settle for a teaching position in California, a nice,
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quiet, steady life. In other words, your career is the price you'll pay for me. Yes. If I have to. And you'll hate me for it. No, John. I want it my way.
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Well, it doesn't have to be settled tonight. Things can change.
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Maybe you will be free. What do you mean by that?
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Well, Steve thought I ought to tell you. It's supposed to be top secret, but as my wife What is it, John? The project. The government project. Well, I know that. It I know it's taken every minute for two years. But you've never known what it was.
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No. No. I could have put up a fight against another woman easier than that secret project.
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Well, Steve thought I ought to confide in you as my wife because as he put it, you may never see me again. What? You've got to swear to secrecy, Margo. No one on earth except Steve and a handful of government officials know about this. Alright.
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I I swear.
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Steve and I have developed a serum, a serum that's injected into the body and renders the body totally invisible.
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Invisible?
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It changes the molecular structure of the body. It works on the nucleus of the body's atoms. We've proved it with the lab animals. Invisible?
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But
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why? Margot, its use in the military is beyond imagination. For spies, troops, invisibility could turn the outcome of battles, And it works. On lab animals, it works. Well, that that's fantastic. And on Saturday, we're trying it on me. On you?
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John, you mean you're you're going to become invisible?
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That's the hope and the plan. The effect only lasts for an hour or so, but we can't be sure of it until we try it on a human. On the rats in the lab, it lasted one hour. Then gradually, they reappeared. No worse for the experience. Then it's not dangerous? Not to the animals. But we've got to try it on a human to really find out, to get the subjective reactions. Space? How will I move? My body will still be there. I won't be able to walk through things like a ghost, or will I? These are the questions we have to answer with a human subject.
You. Me.
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You'll
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you'll come out of it alright. We hope and expect so. The effect has to wear off.
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And if it doesn't?
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You'll never see me again.
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You seem to be making light of it. I have confidence in the serum.
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I admit I'm prideful nervous about the sensations, the unknown. But to a scientist, the thrill of the unknown is the whole reason for being. Oh, well, I know. That's not dangerous. If it were, those rats and rabbits would have been dead or worse.
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But you'll have to take a a much larger dose than you gave the animals, won't you? Well, naturally.
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You see, being a scientist's wife, something did rub off. And
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what
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that larger dose may may do Is something we have to find out on Saturday.
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Are you ready, John? Yes. Now you're sure you I'm sure, Steve.
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We've worked for two years for this minute.
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Alright.
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Oh, damn it. Let it ring. I I can't. Lab two.
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Steve, can I talk to John? It's Margo.
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All right.
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Margo? Oh, John. I had to call. Are are you all right? We haven't started. You called it a very awkward time. Oh, I'm sorry. But I simply can't stop thinking. I understand.
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But you'll have to let me call you later. If you're able to. I will. I will. Please, Margo. I can't talk now. Oh, alright.
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Call me later.
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Go ahead.
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Okay. It's a large dose. At least thirty seconds to empty the syringe. Feel anything? Not yet. I'm going to slow down on the pressure a second. Why?
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Let your body absorb what it's got already. I don't feel a thing. Maybe I'm not supposed to. You You don't look any different either. It's too early to tell. Maybe the dose we planned isn't big enough. Stop the tape recorder. I have now absorbed two hundred cc of the serum I twenty three. The twenty third formula which doctor Kaplan and I feel to be the effective limit for invisibility. I have no sensation. Twenty seconds have passed since the beginning of the injection. In our experiments with mice, in size and body tissue, I should begin to disappear within two minutes and complete invisibility should be affected in five.
Forty seconds have passed. The syringe is empty. Feel any different? Our proportions couldn't have been that much off.
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It's not likely. But everything's still an x factor.
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The dosage must have been too small. We don't know that yet. Alright. Alright. We'll wait fifteen minutes. Ah, failure number one. I don't understand it. I'm too tired and discouraged to rethink it now.
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It just doesn't work on human tissue. Larger dosage won't work either. If it's going to be practical for military use, the dose has to be small. A capsule a guy can pop in his mouth. A spy can't wait around for two or three injections to work. I know. I know. We'll go back to the formula Monday.
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I'm gonna forget it for forty eight hours. What time is it? 04:10. Alright. I'm going out and have the biggest martini I can find. How about you? I'll take two.
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You know, the nitrogen element may be too low. I don't think so. The balance was eighty twenty nitrogen over phosphate. More likely, it John? Mhmm. Stop a second.
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What's the matter?
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Look. On the pavement ahead of us. What? The sun's behind us. Look at my shadow. So? In front of you, there is no shadow. You're right. Your body isn't casting any shadow at all.
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No shadow. A curious condition for doctor John Gilbert, for anyone for that matter. After all, one's shadow is a very personal thing. It's yours alone. And to be without one, well, it's unnerving to say the least. Thank goodness I still have mine. I can see it right here on the studio floor. So don't go away, please. Me and my shadow, if not doctor Gilberts, will be back shortly
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with
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act two.
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A man without a shadow. Something strange happened to the body of doctor John Gilbert when he tried to make himself invisible by injecting a serum into his veins. But something stranger still is in store for doctor Gilbert, for Margo. In fact, for the entire city where doctor Gilbert lives and works. Let's return to State University.
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No shadow. Something's happened, Steve.
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The serum had some effect. It's working. Maybe this is one of the first signs. Come on. Back to the lab. I wanna make some tests and go over our notes. Now move the light closer. Closer. That's it. Now circle me. Move back. Raise the light a little.
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Still nothing.
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Not a sign of a shadow. It's been fifty five minutes since the injection. This is as far as the serum will go, apparently. What do you mean by that? The only way I can figure it. My body has lost some of its density. It won't obstruct light. That's why there's no shadow. Yes.
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Yes. The molecular structure must have dispersed
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just so far. Uh-huh. It's obvious then that a massive dose is the only thing that will bring on complete invisibility.
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Oh, no more, John. Not now. No. No. No. I didn't mean that. I'm not ready for more.
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But I'm going over the formula till I find it. The one equation that will push us over the line. We're so close. Oh, boy.
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Why don't you take off? I have nothing on for the night. I'll work with you. I'd rather do it alone, Steve. John, do you think it's wise to be alone? We don't know what reaction might be next. The phone's right here.
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If anything happens, you'll be the first to know.
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You're not hiding it very well, Margot. I know, Bill.
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I'm sorry to spoil our supper.
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Margot, I love you. We're going to be married. Your problem is my problem. Not exactly. It's John.
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I'm worried about him. Is he giving you a hard time about the divorce? No.
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He he was going to call me today. I was expecting to hear from him before you picked me up. What's he calling you about? I, I I can't tell you.
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You still seem awfully interested in John. I am interested in his work. It's important. I thought his work was the whole problem between you two. It was. But
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well
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Then why all this sudden interest?
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The concern? Oh, Bill. You have a way of twisting things, I say. Margo, level with me. I can't tell you any more than I have. Only that I may never see John again. That would be fine with me. Oh, stop it, Bill, please. If you knew my reasons, you'd understand. But I I I can't tell you.
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I feel no physical sensation at all. No dizziness. No apparent lessening of muscle tone or tissue structure. No loss of weight. Just loss of shadow. Oh, this will be the last entry for this date, Saturday, February 18. I will resume tomorrow when Steve? Steve, is that you? Steve?
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Who's there? I could swear someone came into the map.
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New item. It's 10:05PM. I have a distinct feeling someone has entered the lab. There was no sound, just this feeling. I will continue taping in case this may prove helpful if anything happens. I know I am not alone. Who's there? Answer me. I
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I I can I can see a shadow? I know someone's there.
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Shadow is moving from the outer hall.
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In a second, I'll know what is. There's nothing but a shadow. A man's shadow moving into the lab. It glides across the floor now. Not toward me, toward the wall. Within all reason, this can't be. But it is happening.
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Now it moves along the wall and stops. It hangs there
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on the wall, waiting. The shadow of a man. Now I know. I know with all certainty that that shadow on the wall is mine. How still it hangs there waiting for the last of the serum to wear off. But now it moves again. Moves with a will of its own. Slowly across the wall, toward the window, there, it pauses by the window. And now disappears into the night.
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Archives. This is doctor Ferguson, Judith Ferguson. Yes, doctor. I'd like to have the nineteen sixty nine AMA report on cholesterol sent to my office right away. I'm sorry, doctor Ferguson. The archives are closed. They are never closed to me, young man. I'll accept that report within the half hour. But, doctor, the files are locked for the night. I have no authority. You have? Only missus Abrams, the director. Then get her at home and get me that just a minute. Who's out there? Doctor Ferguson. I've got to go. Someone just came into my outer office. Get that report and get it now. Who's there?
Funny? Oh, I saw a shadow. It is a shadow. But who's there? Answer me. Just a shadow if it can't be. Oh. Oh, get away, Flynn. Get away, Doc. No. Oh,
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yes.
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Yes. Yes. Steve, something's happened. It sure has. Doctor Judith Ferguson was found dead in her office last night. Doctor Ferguson? It's on all the newscasts. Some clerk from the archives took a report to her office, said Ferguson insisted on having it last night, and he found her. Murder? They don't say. How awful. We'll hear all the lurid details soon enough. I'm more concerned about you.
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Any side effects through the night? No. No. It's funny. You know, I can't seem to remember anything after you left me. I think I started to dictate in the
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I just don't remember. My mind's a blank.
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Why can't I remember?
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Another effect of the serum, perhaps. Maybe. Maybe. Or maybe the tape will tell us. I'll rewind, and then we'll find out what happened to me. That's strange. There should have been more than that. Well, play it. There are no physical sensations at all. No dizziness. No apparent lessening of muscle tone or tissue structure. Just loss of shadow. This will be the last entry for this date, February 18. I will resume tomorrow when Well? There's more. There's got to be more.
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Well, that's all there is. You fell asleep. No. No. There's something an impression. Something more happened. But why isn't it on the tape? You fell asleep. What can't I remember?
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Why? Oh,
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lab two. Kaplan here. May I speak to doctor Gilbert, please? Who's calling? Lieutenant Healy, fourth Precinct. The police, John. Police? Why?
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Hello? Doctor Gilbert. I'm Lieutenant Healy, fourth Precinct. I wonder if I could talk with you this morning. What's wrong? Margo? Oh, it's about a doctor, Judith Ferguson. Doctor Ferguson. Oh, yes. My associate just told me. We're asking everyone who know her to help if they can. I understand you're acquainted with her. Yes. Yes. Some time ago, I was a student in one of her classes. In about an hour. Alright? At your lab. Yes. I'll be here. Thank you, doctor Gilbert.
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What's up? He wants to talk to me about Judith. They're asking everyone who knew her. Well, you haven't seen her in how long? Well, I see her in the hospital now and then, but our work together was over two years ago. Relax, John. You haven't got anything to worry about.
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You know doctor Ferguson how long?
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Well, lieutenant, we were actually for only a year. I was a graduate student in one of her classes.
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That was two years ago. We wouldn't sing an art like this, doctor Gilbert, but we're told you and doctor Ferguson were involved in a successful medical project, one that doctor Ferguson received an award for.
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Yes. On blood plasma.
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Well, after working that closely with doctor Ferguson, can you remember any incident, any friend of ours, anything that might give us a clue to who'd want to kill her.
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Well, then you do suspect murder?
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This was no accident.
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How was she killed, lieutenant? Nothing's been said. We were keeping that quiet.
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She was suffocated. Apparently, a clerk from the hospital archives department took a report to her office. She didn't answer his knock, so he got the custodian to open the door.
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They found her. The office was locked from the inside?
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Windows too. And if it was murder, how did the killer get out? It's just one of the problems we've got with this case. Oh? There were no marks in the body, but the room was a shambles. She fought with someone. But we figure whoever tore that room apart has some marks on him. That's why we're talking to anyone we can find, Unor. Something will give the killer away. Well, thanks for your time, doctor. I'll be in touch if we need any more. I mean Thank you. Thank you. Goodbye, Lieutenant.
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There was a time, I suppose, when I could easily have killed Judith Ferguson myself. My work, her acclaim. But I certainly wouldn't dream of it now. Come on. I'll buy you a drink. It's getting late.
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I'm so mixed up. These two days have been wait. What's the matter? Someone's come into the lab. I didn't hear anyone. No sound. No.
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But someone's here. Now I remember. Last night, I remember.
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I was alone. I thought it was you. What are you talking about, John? It's back. It's here in the lab just like last night. John, stop this. There. There. There it is. Good lord.
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What? Shh.
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It's my shadow. My shadow alive and
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with a will of its own. You saw this last night? Yes. Now watch. It moves along the wall.
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So slowly. Silently.
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I can't believe I'm seeing this. I could not believe it either, Steve.
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There it goes. Look. Along the wall, the drapes. Now out the window, just like last night. It's gone just like last night. It vanished at the window.
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And then doc doctor Ferguson. Ferguson. You don't think it was responsible for It seems to have a will of its own.
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Steve, where is it going now?
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You've heard it said that some people are afraid of their own shadow. Well, it seems that doctor Gilbert's shadow is something to be afraid of. It has already disposed of one of doctor Gilbert's dark subconscious resentments. And there's not the shadow of a doubt there'll be more sinister happenings when I return shortly with act three. A shadow is on the loose. A shadow with a will of its own, now drifting, gliding. And where indeed is is it going next? What or whom is it after? Both John Gilbert and Steve Kaplan saw it pass through their lab. There's no doubt that doctor Gilbert's shadow has an existence of its own, and Gilbert seems to think he knows what it's been up to. John, are you suggesting that this this thing
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killed Judith Ferguson? I'm quite certain it did. That's impossible. The policeman said Judith died of suffocation. No marks on her body. A locked room. Does that sound like an ordinary murder? No. But why, doctor Fergus? I don't know. Perhaps because I wished her dead at one time.
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I think we should notify this lieutenant Heelig. And tell him what? That we think a shadow is out killing people? Your shadow? He'll lock us up. I know. It does sound like nonsense. If this thing is a part of you that disengaged itself when you took the serum,
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It should return to normal when the serum wears off. Steve, it has worn off. I took that injection more than twenty four hours ago, but that that thing still exists.
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I'm still not sure I buy it, John. We don't know how long the serum might stay in your body. We found no trace of it in the mice after four hours. True. But their shadows didn't go wandering around either. Perhaps mice don't have resentful souls. Duh. You've really sold yourself on the idea that some
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astral part of you killed Judith Ferguson. When the serum changed my molecular structure, who knows what it released? I am changed permanently. The serum wore off long ago, and that thing out there continues to exist.
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Lab two, doctor Kaplan. Oh, Steve. Margo.
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Is John there? No. He went home around 04:00. Oh, I can reach John at the apartment then. Yes. How is he, Steve? I mean, really after the experiment. Tired.
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Very tired. We both are. But there were no serious effects. Oh, I'm glad of that.
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How did the news of doctor Ferguson affect him? He was shocked.
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The police were here this morning. The police? Why?
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Well, they're questioning everyone who knew her. But why John? They certainly don't suspect him. Of course not. It's routine. Well, I'd better call him. Thanks, Steve. Goodbye, Margo. That must be Bill. Coming. Come in, Bill.
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Feeling better today, darling. You were pretty upset last night. Yes. I I'm sorry. I spoiled our dinner. Margo, we've got some things to talk about there. Can't we? I know. John. No. Not John. You're the one who's making my life complicated, not John. Do you want me or don't you?
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Of course, Bill. But why do you insist I cut off every mention of John? I won't share you. Oh, Bill. That's kid's stuff. It's not kid's stuff, and it's not only this weekend. I felt it for weeks. I am trying desperately to control myself. I've had a nerve wracking weekend, and you won't let up on me. Then tell me what's so special about doctor Gilbert this weekend. Bill, let go of my arm. Tell me. He's doing an experiment. So? Well, he's he's trying to To what?
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Bill.
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Bill, there's someone in the bedroom. What? I just saw a shadow pass the bedroom door.
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But how could anyone get in through the
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What is it? A shadow moving along the wall. The shadow of a man. I see it.
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But but but how? This doesn't make any sense. Oh. There's no one here.
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Just a shadow. Oh, Bill. I I'm frightened.
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It stopped. Now it's sliding down the wall. Coming along the floor.
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Coming to our dust.
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We haven't been able to get a word out of her, doctor Gilbert. She's in deep shock. Then you don't know what happened in Margo's apartment. I'm hoping you'll be telling me. This smacks of more than coincidence, doctor Gilbert. Two people whose lives touched yours, dead within twenty four hours of each other
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and killed the same way. Are you ready to believe me? Ready. My shadow killed them both.
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I don't know who will be next. Now look, Doctor. Gilbert. If you're going to make light of this, I'll be damn sure you're sorry. Oh, I'm not making light of anything.
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My shadow is loose
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with a will of its own. Now, you may be an imminent scientist. Look at the spot. Look at the floor, Lieutenant.
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Look. There's your shadow. Where's mine?
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Well, okay. I've I've read enough science fiction to believe it, but don't ask me to be put in out an all points bulletin on your shadow. Shadows don't kill people, doctor. People do.
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Is is is that you, Bill? Margo, it's John. John.
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Bill's dead. Relax, Margo. Don't try to talk. Oh,
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it was so horrible. The shadow on the wall came at us.
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It moved along the floor, and then Bill chose us. Missus Gilbert, you saw this shadow, only a shadow. There
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wasn't anybody there. Nothing but a shadow. A shadow.
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Well, I'll be outside. I've got to make a phone call.
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John, how is Margo? She's out of shock. They have her sedated. This Bill Watkins was victim number two. There's no doubt. She saw the shadow. It enveloped him and slowly suffocated him. What does Lieutenant Healy say? I told him the whole story. He had a hard time accepting it until Margo confirmed the shadow. Doctor Gilbert.
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Doctor Kaplan. We've got real trouble. What's the matter, Lieutenant? Two more deaths Exactly like Ferguson and Watkins. Who? A reporter from, from the Herald, Jim O'Hara. I I never heard of him. Well, how about a Helen Morris, a bridal consultant at Long's Fashion Center? No. I don't know her either. Oh, you're you're positive there's no connection. None at all. That means the thing is hitting at random. Oh, lord. What have I done? Oh, lord. Is there any clue, doctor Gilbert? Anything that might help? There hasn't been time to study it. It only started yesterday. And
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wait a minute. There is something. The shadow always returned to the laboratory.
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I saw it first before doctor Ferguson did. And then we both saw it there this morning before it went after Bill Watkins. Then your lab is the most likely place to look for it. I don't know.
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I don't know what it will do. Still, I'm responsible.
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How can we stop it if it does show up? I will worry about that later. If this leaks to the press, we'll have a panic. That's right, captain. Doctor Gilbert thinks it will come back here to his lab. I don't know. Wait a minute. The captain thinks he ought to send a a cordon, surround the lab. You wanted to keep this quiet. No cordon's going to catch a shadow. Hello, captain. The doctors think it'll attract too much attention. I agree. Oh, okay. Okay. We'll wait. And keep your line open. Well, almost an hour.
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Nine o'clock. I wonder if we're driving it off waiting like this, lieutenant. I think it would be better if I were alone. In all way, I'm gonna be stern. Doctor Gilbert has a point, lieutenant. There's nothing any of us can do if if it does appear. You can't shoot it, catch it. Why don't you leave me alone and see what happens?
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Well, maybe you know more about this than than I do. I'll go alone. I'll be right downstairs, though.
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I'll wait with the lieutenant, John. Maybe this is between you and whatever it is, your shadow. Yes.
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Yes. I think it is.
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I don't like leaving him alone. Neither do I, lieutenant.
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But I don't know what else to do. If the shadow comes back,
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maybe he can deal with it. And it may not come back. It may keep on killing.
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Who knows what it's going to do?
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Whoever heard of anything like this before, I can't believe I'm sticking out a shadow. We can wait in here, faculty lounge. Well, I only wish I knew what we were waiting for.
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Tape 12. Sunday, February 19, nine 30 PM. There have been no further effects on my body. Nothing more to indicate the cause of this strange transformation that's taken place with the loss of my shadow and the subsequent power of that being. Will it return to me? I know now what I have to do, what I must do. There it is. Slipping in at the window. I knew you would be back. There is only one way you can be stopped. When I die, you will have to to return to me. Locked to me as you were all through my life. My shadow. No longer with a will of your own.
It is my own life that gives life to you.
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Almost 09:30.
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I think we have to go back up. At least, we can see if he's okay. Maybe you're right. Come on. Yeah. No. I got my doubts about anything happening like this. That's John. I'm getting me got ready. John. He must be alive. John. Let me get to the phone. Police emergency. Get me.
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He's dead.
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Never mind. The gun's still in his hand.
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He never fired a shot. And there's not a mark on him.
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A thing just like the others. We'll never know.
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Oh, John. What are you telling, doctor? Oh, what I should have done long ago, destroying the formula and everything about this fiendish project, the chemicals, the notebooks, to even the tapes. I don't want to know anymore.
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I hated this thing from the start. I got a cold headquarters. That that thing may still be on the loose. No.
[00:43:54] Unknown:
No, it isn't, Lieutenant. Look on the floor.
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Oh. Yes, I see.
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Yeah. The shadow of a man slumped over in his chair. Do you have any doubt it's Gilbert's shadow as still as he is?
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What did kill doctor Gilbert? His shadow? His subconscious? Doctor Gilbert went too far over the border of man's understanding. He delved too deeply in secrets that should remain untouched. For in all of heaven, earth, and even hell, there are some things that are better left untampered with, and this was one of them. I'll be back shortly. Stand up and take a good look at your shadow. Is it following your every move? Is it really the shadow you're casting? Or look closely now. Do you detect a little deviation, a little rebellion, a hint that perhaps your shadow might like to do its own thing?
Maybe you'd better turn off the lights. That's the surest way I know of getting rid of shadows, wanted or otherwise. Our cast included Nat Pullen, Joan Shea, Gordon Gould, and Lloyd Bautista. The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown. And now until next time, pleasant dreams.
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Radio Mystery Theater presents Come in. Welcome. I'm EG Marshall. I'd invite you to sit down, but at the moment, we're in a laboratory. The laboratory of doctor John Gilbert and Stephen Kaplan, two research scientists at State University. Nothing but sinks and test tubes and bunsen burners, and only one chair at a desk where doctor Gilbert is now sitting alone, talking into a small tape recorder. I think without disturbing him, we might just listen.
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Tape 26. Four PM, Friday, February 17. Tomorrow, we will make the supreme test. The serum I twenty three has already been effective on mice and rabbits. Tomorrow, if it works on the human body, there's no end to the potential. I have no qualms at all. The serum won't kill me. At least, I don't think so. But we cannot know its true worth until we try it on a human.
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On me.
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Our mystery drama, I thought I saw a shadow, was written especially for the mystery theater by Bob Juran and stars Nat Polan. It is sponsored in part by True Value Hardware stores and Contact, the twelve hour cold capsule. I'll be back shortly with act one. When man tampers with the forces of nature, sometimes great things are revealed to him. Radio, for instance. Had it not been for man's curiosity, his probing, and questioning, the miracle of broadcasting might still be undiscovered. And then where would we be? That's just one of the thousands of ways that humans have put the laws of nature to productive use.
But there are other laws and forces that are better left untouched, unexplored. For these laws are immutable, fixed, unchanging. And some of them, when disturbed, produce frightening and devastating results. Let's go to the
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Lab 2. Kaplan here. Yes, sir. Right here. John, Colonel Morgan. Oh, thanks.
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Hello, Colonel. I was expecting your call. Yes? On Saturday. But I I know we've discussed it, colonel, and I have to be firm. No witnesses. I realize the government is funding the project, but until doctor Kaplan and I are sure it's ready, we have to conduct our experiments in absolute secrecy. Thank you, colonel.
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Yes. Yes. Certainly. As soon as we have the result. Goodbye.
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If this thing's supposed to be top secret, how does Colonel Morgan come off thinking he can bring in a party of birdwatchers? Well, he has to act important.
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Wants to be sure he gets whatever credit is coming. And I should be used to that. You mean doctor Ferguson? She could have shared that award with me for the work we did on blood plasma. It was mostly my work. She could have given me some recognition even though I was only her student. Well, forget her.
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I'm still worried about going ahead. I don't think we've run enough tests on the animals. I think it's too soon to be squirting the stuff in your arm. I know, Steve.
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But how much further can we go with the animals? We can't get a subjective reaction. We know the primary function of the serum works, but we don't know how they feel,
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how they move under the influence. I know you're right. And I know we're going through with it on Saturday. And I know I'm supposed to be a level headed scientist. And I know I'm damn scared.
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I'll get it. Lab two, Gilbert.
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Hello, John. I'm not interrupting. Margo. Oh, I'm sorry to bother you at the lab, but I never get an answer to the apartment. I know. I know. I'm not there much anymore. You were never there much anytime. But that's past, John. I, I wonder if I could see you. Of course, Margo. This project's taking all your time. You name it. Well, I could, meet you tonight.
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Do you wanna come to the apartment? No. I'd rather you came here. You wanna make a dinner? That'd be nice. How about seven? Alright. I'll be there. Goodbye, John. See you later, Margo.
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No comment. She's still my wife, Steve. In name only. I hate to see your concentration broken by another meeting,
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particularly now, two days. I'm not a teenager, Steve. I can control my emotions.
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John, does Margo know about our work?
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No. No. I've kept it top secret even from her, which wasn't difficult since we see each other so seldom now. Are you going to tell her?
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Why should I? I don't know, really. But
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if something goes wrong What would telling her in advance accomplish?
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I think as your wife, she ought to know there's a chance she may never see you again.
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More coffee, John. No. No. Thanks, Margo. I'd rather get down to some serious talk. Okay.
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We've been to the wine, the candlelight mistake. Now we've got to face the facts.
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The facts being?
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I want a divorce. I was afraid of that. John, don't make it any more difficult for me. We've been separated for almost a year. I want to be free. Do you? Really? No. Yes. A few months ago, I might have had doubts. But now I know I want to marry Bill Watkins. I want to be free to marry him.
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Well, I can't blame you.
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I'm not going to drag up the old neglected wife routine. You will always be a deep part of me. But I want more out of life than the shadow of a man. Well, I I can't argue the point,
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but you will always be a deep part of me. You know, working in the lab, those those many nights, those lonely nights for you, for me, you were always there. I love you. Even though you were home and I was working, we were there together.
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I may have been there for you, but for me, it was lonely, is lonely.
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Well, I'll I'll do whatever you want, Margo. Thank you. No. Damn it. I don't mean that. I don't want Bill Watkins to have you. John. Give me one more chance. Let let me finish this project I'm on now. It'll only be a few weeks, and I'll I'll take a sabbatical. We'll travel. We'll be together every minute. And then I'll settle for a teaching position in California, a nice,
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quiet, steady life. In other words, your career is the price you'll pay for me. Yes. If I have to. And you'll hate me for it. No, John. I want it my way.
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Well, it doesn't have to be settled tonight. Things can change.
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Maybe you will be free. What do you mean by that?
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Well, Steve thought I ought to tell you. It's supposed to be top secret, but as my wife What is it, John? The project. The government project. Well, I know that. It I know it's taken every minute for two years. But you've never known what it was.
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No. No. I could have put up a fight against another woman easier than that secret project.
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Well, Steve thought I ought to confide in you as my wife because as he put it, you may never see me again. What? You've got to swear to secrecy, Margo. No one on earth except Steve and a handful of government officials know about this. Alright.
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I I swear.
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Steve and I have developed a serum, a serum that's injected into the body and renders the body totally invisible.
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Invisible?
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It changes the molecular structure of the body. It works on the nucleus of the body's atoms. We've proved it with the lab animals. Invisible?
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But
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why? Margot, its use in the military is beyond imagination. For spies, troops, invisibility could turn the outcome of battles, And it works. On lab animals, it works. Well, that that's fantastic. And on Saturday, we're trying it on me. On you?
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John, you mean you're you're going to become invisible?
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That's the hope and the plan. The effect only lasts for an hour or so, but we can't be sure of it until we try it on a human. On the rats in the lab, it lasted one hour. Then gradually, they reappeared. No worse for the experience. Then it's not dangerous? Not to the animals. But we've got to try it on a human to really find out, to get the subjective reactions. Space? How will I move? My body will still be there. I won't be able to walk through things like a ghost, or will I? These are the questions we have to answer with a human subject.
You. Me.
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You'll
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you'll come out of it alright. We hope and expect so. The effect has to wear off.
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And if it doesn't?
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You'll never see me again.
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You seem to be making light of it. I have confidence in the serum.
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I admit I'm prideful nervous about the sensations, the unknown. But to a scientist, the thrill of the unknown is the whole reason for being. Oh, well, I know. That's not dangerous. If it were, those rats and rabbits would have been dead or worse.
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But you'll have to take a a much larger dose than you gave the animals, won't you? Well, naturally.
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You see, being a scientist's wife, something did rub off. And
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what
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that larger dose may may do Is something we have to find out on Saturday.
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Are you ready, John? Yes. Now you're sure you I'm sure, Steve.
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We've worked for two years for this minute.
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Alright.
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Oh, damn it. Let it ring. I I can't. Lab two.
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Steve, can I talk to John? It's Margo.
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All right.
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Margo? Oh, John. I had to call. Are are you all right? We haven't started. You called it a very awkward time. Oh, I'm sorry. But I simply can't stop thinking. I understand.
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But you'll have to let me call you later. If you're able to. I will. I will. Please, Margo. I can't talk now. Oh, alright.
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Call me later.
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Go ahead.
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Okay. It's a large dose. At least thirty seconds to empty the syringe. Feel anything? Not yet. I'm going to slow down on the pressure a second. Why?
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Let your body absorb what it's got already. I don't feel a thing. Maybe I'm not supposed to. You You don't look any different either. It's too early to tell. Maybe the dose we planned isn't big enough. Stop the tape recorder. I have now absorbed two hundred cc of the serum I twenty three. The twenty third formula which doctor Kaplan and I feel to be the effective limit for invisibility. I have no sensation. Twenty seconds have passed since the beginning of the injection. In our experiments with mice, in size and body tissue, I should begin to disappear within two minutes and complete invisibility should be affected in five.
Forty seconds have passed. The syringe is empty. Feel any different? Our proportions couldn't have been that much off.
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It's not likely. But everything's still an x factor.
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The dosage must have been too small. We don't know that yet. Alright. Alright. We'll wait fifteen minutes. Ah, failure number one. I don't understand it. I'm too tired and discouraged to rethink it now.
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It just doesn't work on human tissue. Larger dosage won't work either. If it's going to be practical for military use, the dose has to be small. A capsule a guy can pop in his mouth. A spy can't wait around for two or three injections to work. I know. I know. We'll go back to the formula Monday.
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I'm gonna forget it for forty eight hours. What time is it? 04:10. Alright. I'm going out and have the biggest martini I can find. How about you? I'll take two.
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You know, the nitrogen element may be too low. I don't think so. The balance was eighty twenty nitrogen over phosphate. More likely, it John? Mhmm. Stop a second.
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What's the matter?
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Look. On the pavement ahead of us. What? The sun's behind us. Look at my shadow. So? In front of you, there is no shadow. You're right. Your body isn't casting any shadow at all.
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No shadow. A curious condition for doctor John Gilbert, for anyone for that matter. After all, one's shadow is a very personal thing. It's yours alone. And to be without one, well, it's unnerving to say the least. Thank goodness I still have mine. I can see it right here on the studio floor. So don't go away, please. Me and my shadow, if not doctor Gilberts, will be back shortly
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with
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act two.
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A man without a shadow. Something strange happened to the body of doctor John Gilbert when he tried to make himself invisible by injecting a serum into his veins. But something stranger still is in store for doctor Gilbert, for Margo. In fact, for the entire city where doctor Gilbert lives and works. Let's return to State University.
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No shadow. Something's happened, Steve.
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The serum had some effect. It's working. Maybe this is one of the first signs. Come on. Back to the lab. I wanna make some tests and go over our notes. Now move the light closer. Closer. That's it. Now circle me. Move back. Raise the light a little.
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Still nothing.
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Not a sign of a shadow. It's been fifty five minutes since the injection. This is as far as the serum will go, apparently. What do you mean by that? The only way I can figure it. My body has lost some of its density. It won't obstruct light. That's why there's no shadow. Yes.
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Yes. The molecular structure must have dispersed
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just so far. Uh-huh. It's obvious then that a massive dose is the only thing that will bring on complete invisibility.
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Oh, no more, John. Not now. No. No. No. I didn't mean that. I'm not ready for more.
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But I'm going over the formula till I find it. The one equation that will push us over the line. We're so close. Oh, boy.
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Why don't you take off? I have nothing on for the night. I'll work with you. I'd rather do it alone, Steve. John, do you think it's wise to be alone? We don't know what reaction might be next. The phone's right here.
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If anything happens, you'll be the first to know.
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You're not hiding it very well, Margot. I know, Bill.
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I'm sorry to spoil our supper.
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Margot, I love you. We're going to be married. Your problem is my problem. Not exactly. It's John.
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I'm worried about him. Is he giving you a hard time about the divorce? No.
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He he was going to call me today. I was expecting to hear from him before you picked me up. What's he calling you about? I, I I can't tell you.
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You still seem awfully interested in John. I am interested in his work. It's important. I thought his work was the whole problem between you two. It was. But
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well
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Then why all this sudden interest?
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The concern? Oh, Bill. You have a way of twisting things, I say. Margo, level with me. I can't tell you any more than I have. Only that I may never see John again. That would be fine with me. Oh, stop it, Bill, please. If you knew my reasons, you'd understand. But I I I can't tell you.
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I feel no physical sensation at all. No dizziness. No apparent lessening of muscle tone or tissue structure. No loss of weight. Just loss of shadow. Oh, this will be the last entry for this date, Saturday, February 18. I will resume tomorrow when Steve? Steve, is that you? Steve?
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Who's there? I could swear someone came into the map.
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New item. It's 10:05PM. I have a distinct feeling someone has entered the lab. There was no sound, just this feeling. I will continue taping in case this may prove helpful if anything happens. I know I am not alone. Who's there? Answer me. I
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I I can I can see a shadow? I know someone's there.
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Shadow is moving from the outer hall.
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In a second, I'll know what is. There's nothing but a shadow. A man's shadow moving into the lab. It glides across the floor now. Not toward me, toward the wall. Within all reason, this can't be. But it is happening.
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Now it moves along the wall and stops. It hangs there
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on the wall, waiting. The shadow of a man. Now I know. I know with all certainty that that shadow on the wall is mine. How still it hangs there waiting for the last of the serum to wear off. But now it moves again. Moves with a will of its own. Slowly across the wall, toward the window, there, it pauses by the window. And now disappears into the night.
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Archives. This is doctor Ferguson, Judith Ferguson. Yes, doctor. I'd like to have the nineteen sixty nine AMA report on cholesterol sent to my office right away. I'm sorry, doctor Ferguson. The archives are closed. They are never closed to me, young man. I'll accept that report within the half hour. But, doctor, the files are locked for the night. I have no authority. You have? Only missus Abrams, the director. Then get her at home and get me that just a minute. Who's out there? Doctor Ferguson. I've got to go. Someone just came into my outer office. Get that report and get it now. Who's there?
Funny? Oh, I saw a shadow. It is a shadow. But who's there? Answer me. Just a shadow if it can't be. Oh. Oh, get away, Flynn. Get away, Doc. No. Oh,
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yes.
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Yes. Yes. Steve, something's happened. It sure has. Doctor Judith Ferguson was found dead in her office last night. Doctor Ferguson? It's on all the newscasts. Some clerk from the archives took a report to her office, said Ferguson insisted on having it last night, and he found her. Murder? They don't say. How awful. We'll hear all the lurid details soon enough. I'm more concerned about you.
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Any side effects through the night? No. No. It's funny. You know, I can't seem to remember anything after you left me. I think I started to dictate in the
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I just don't remember. My mind's a blank.
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Why can't I remember?
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Another effect of the serum, perhaps. Maybe. Maybe. Or maybe the tape will tell us. I'll rewind, and then we'll find out what happened to me. That's strange. There should have been more than that. Well, play it. There are no physical sensations at all. No dizziness. No apparent lessening of muscle tone or tissue structure. Just loss of shadow. This will be the last entry for this date, February 18. I will resume tomorrow when Well? There's more. There's got to be more.
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Well, that's all there is. You fell asleep. No. No. There's something an impression. Something more happened. But why isn't it on the tape? You fell asleep. What can't I remember?
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Why? Oh,
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lab two. Kaplan here. May I speak to doctor Gilbert, please? Who's calling? Lieutenant Healy, fourth Precinct. The police, John. Police? Why?
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Hello? Doctor Gilbert. I'm Lieutenant Healy, fourth Precinct. I wonder if I could talk with you this morning. What's wrong? Margo? Oh, it's about a doctor, Judith Ferguson. Doctor Ferguson. Oh, yes. My associate just told me. We're asking everyone who know her to help if they can. I understand you're acquainted with her. Yes. Yes. Some time ago, I was a student in one of her classes. In about an hour. Alright? At your lab. Yes. I'll be here. Thank you, doctor Gilbert.
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What's up? He wants to talk to me about Judith. They're asking everyone who knew her. Well, you haven't seen her in how long? Well, I see her in the hospital now and then, but our work together was over two years ago. Relax, John. You haven't got anything to worry about.
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You know doctor Ferguson how long?
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Well, lieutenant, we were actually for only a year. I was a graduate student in one of her classes.
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That was two years ago. We wouldn't sing an art like this, doctor Gilbert, but we're told you and doctor Ferguson were involved in a successful medical project, one that doctor Ferguson received an award for.
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Yes. On blood plasma.
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Well, after working that closely with doctor Ferguson, can you remember any incident, any friend of ours, anything that might give us a clue to who'd want to kill her.
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Well, then you do suspect murder?
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This was no accident.
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How was she killed, lieutenant? Nothing's been said. We were keeping that quiet.
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She was suffocated. Apparently, a clerk from the hospital archives department took a report to her office. She didn't answer his knock, so he got the custodian to open the door.
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They found her. The office was locked from the inside?
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Windows too. And if it was murder, how did the killer get out? It's just one of the problems we've got with this case. Oh? There were no marks in the body, but the room was a shambles. She fought with someone. But we figure whoever tore that room apart has some marks on him. That's why we're talking to anyone we can find, Unor. Something will give the killer away. Well, thanks for your time, doctor. I'll be in touch if we need any more. I mean Thank you. Thank you. Goodbye, Lieutenant.
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There was a time, I suppose, when I could easily have killed Judith Ferguson myself. My work, her acclaim. But I certainly wouldn't dream of it now. Come on. I'll buy you a drink. It's getting late.
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I'm so mixed up. These two days have been wait. What's the matter? Someone's come into the lab. I didn't hear anyone. No sound. No.
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But someone's here. Now I remember. Last night, I remember.
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I was alone. I thought it was you. What are you talking about, John? It's back. It's here in the lab just like last night. John, stop this. There. There. There it is. Good lord.
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What? Shh.
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It's my shadow. My shadow alive and
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with a will of its own. You saw this last night? Yes. Now watch. It moves along the wall.
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So slowly. Silently.
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I can't believe I'm seeing this. I could not believe it either, Steve.
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There it goes. Look. Along the wall, the drapes. Now out the window, just like last night. It's gone just like last night. It vanished at the window.
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And then doc doctor Ferguson. Ferguson. You don't think it was responsible for It seems to have a will of its own.
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Steve, where is it going now?
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You've heard it said that some people are afraid of their own shadow. Well, it seems that doctor Gilbert's shadow is something to be afraid of. It has already disposed of one of doctor Gilbert's dark subconscious resentments. And there's not the shadow of a doubt there'll be more sinister happenings when I return shortly with act three. A shadow is on the loose. A shadow with a will of its own, now drifting, gliding. And where indeed is is it going next? What or whom is it after? Both John Gilbert and Steve Kaplan saw it pass through their lab. There's no doubt that doctor Gilbert's shadow has an existence of its own, and Gilbert seems to think he knows what it's been up to. John, are you suggesting that this this thing
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killed Judith Ferguson? I'm quite certain it did. That's impossible. The policeman said Judith died of suffocation. No marks on her body. A locked room. Does that sound like an ordinary murder? No. But why, doctor Fergus? I don't know. Perhaps because I wished her dead at one time.
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I think we should notify this lieutenant Heelig. And tell him what? That we think a shadow is out killing people? Your shadow? He'll lock us up. I know. It does sound like nonsense. If this thing is a part of you that disengaged itself when you took the serum,
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It should return to normal when the serum wears off. Steve, it has worn off. I took that injection more than twenty four hours ago, but that that thing still exists.
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I'm still not sure I buy it, John. We don't know how long the serum might stay in your body. We found no trace of it in the mice after four hours. True. But their shadows didn't go wandering around either. Perhaps mice don't have resentful souls. Duh. You've really sold yourself on the idea that some
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astral part of you killed Judith Ferguson. When the serum changed my molecular structure, who knows what it released? I am changed permanently. The serum wore off long ago, and that thing out there continues to exist.
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Lab two, doctor Kaplan. Oh, Steve. Margo.
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Is John there? No. He went home around 04:00. Oh, I can reach John at the apartment then. Yes. How is he, Steve? I mean, really after the experiment. Tired.
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Very tired. We both are. But there were no serious effects. Oh, I'm glad of that.
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How did the news of doctor Ferguson affect him? He was shocked.
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The police were here this morning. The police? Why?
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Well, they're questioning everyone who knew her. But why John? They certainly don't suspect him. Of course not. It's routine. Well, I'd better call him. Thanks, Steve. Goodbye, Margo. That must be Bill. Coming. Come in, Bill.
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Feeling better today, darling. You were pretty upset last night. Yes. I I'm sorry. I spoiled our dinner. Margo, we've got some things to talk about there. Can't we? I know. John. No. Not John. You're the one who's making my life complicated, not John. Do you want me or don't you?
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Of course, Bill. But why do you insist I cut off every mention of John? I won't share you. Oh, Bill. That's kid's stuff. It's not kid's stuff, and it's not only this weekend. I felt it for weeks. I am trying desperately to control myself. I've had a nerve wracking weekend, and you won't let up on me. Then tell me what's so special about doctor Gilbert this weekend. Bill, let go of my arm. Tell me. He's doing an experiment. So? Well, he's he's trying to To what?
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Bill.
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Bill, there's someone in the bedroom. What? I just saw a shadow pass the bedroom door.
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But how could anyone get in through the
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What is it? A shadow moving along the wall. The shadow of a man. I see it.
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But but but how? This doesn't make any sense. Oh. There's no one here.
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Just a shadow. Oh, Bill. I I'm frightened.
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It stopped. Now it's sliding down the wall. Coming along the floor.
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Coming to our dust.
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We haven't been able to get a word out of her, doctor Gilbert. She's in deep shock. Then you don't know what happened in Margo's apartment. I'm hoping you'll be telling me. This smacks of more than coincidence, doctor Gilbert. Two people whose lives touched yours, dead within twenty four hours of each other
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and killed the same way. Are you ready to believe me? Ready. My shadow killed them both.
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I don't know who will be next. Now look, Doctor. Gilbert. If you're going to make light of this, I'll be damn sure you're sorry. Oh, I'm not making light of anything.
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My shadow is loose
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with a will of its own. Now, you may be an imminent scientist. Look at the spot. Look at the floor, Lieutenant.
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Look. There's your shadow. Where's mine?
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Well, okay. I've I've read enough science fiction to believe it, but don't ask me to be put in out an all points bulletin on your shadow. Shadows don't kill people, doctor. People do.
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Is is is that you, Bill? Margo, it's John. John.
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Bill's dead. Relax, Margo. Don't try to talk. Oh,
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it was so horrible. The shadow on the wall came at us.
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It moved along the floor, and then Bill chose us. Missus Gilbert, you saw this shadow, only a shadow. There
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wasn't anybody there. Nothing but a shadow. A shadow.
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Well, I'll be outside. I've got to make a phone call.
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John, how is Margo? She's out of shock. They have her sedated. This Bill Watkins was victim number two. There's no doubt. She saw the shadow. It enveloped him and slowly suffocated him. What does Lieutenant Healy say? I told him the whole story. He had a hard time accepting it until Margo confirmed the shadow. Doctor Gilbert.
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Doctor Kaplan. We've got real trouble. What's the matter, Lieutenant? Two more deaths Exactly like Ferguson and Watkins. Who? A reporter from, from the Herald, Jim O'Hara. I I never heard of him. Well, how about a Helen Morris, a bridal consultant at Long's Fashion Center? No. I don't know her either. Oh, you're you're positive there's no connection. None at all. That means the thing is hitting at random. Oh, lord. What have I done? Oh, lord. Is there any clue, doctor Gilbert? Anything that might help? There hasn't been time to study it. It only started yesterday. And
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wait a minute. There is something. The shadow always returned to the laboratory.
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I saw it first before doctor Ferguson did. And then we both saw it there this morning before it went after Bill Watkins. Then your lab is the most likely place to look for it. I don't know.
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I don't know what it will do. Still, I'm responsible.
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How can we stop it if it does show up? I will worry about that later. If this leaks to the press, we'll have a panic. That's right, captain. Doctor Gilbert thinks it will come back here to his lab. I don't know. Wait a minute. The captain thinks he ought to send a a cordon, surround the lab. You wanted to keep this quiet. No cordon's going to catch a shadow. Hello, captain. The doctors think it'll attract too much attention. I agree. Oh, okay. Okay. We'll wait. And keep your line open. Well, almost an hour.
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Nine o'clock. I wonder if we're driving it off waiting like this, lieutenant. I think it would be better if I were alone. In all way, I'm gonna be stern. Doctor Gilbert has a point, lieutenant. There's nothing any of us can do if if it does appear. You can't shoot it, catch it. Why don't you leave me alone and see what happens?
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Well, maybe you know more about this than than I do. I'll go alone. I'll be right downstairs, though.
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I'll wait with the lieutenant, John. Maybe this is between you and whatever it is, your shadow. Yes.
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Yes. I think it is.
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I don't like leaving him alone. Neither do I, lieutenant.
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But I don't know what else to do. If the shadow comes back,
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maybe he can deal with it. And it may not come back. It may keep on killing.
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Who knows what it's going to do?
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Whoever heard of anything like this before, I can't believe I'm sticking out a shadow. We can wait in here, faculty lounge. Well, I only wish I knew what we were waiting for.
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Tape 12. Sunday, February 19, nine 30 PM. There have been no further effects on my body. Nothing more to indicate the cause of this strange transformation that's taken place with the loss of my shadow and the subsequent power of that being. Will it return to me? I know now what I have to do, what I must do. There it is. Slipping in at the window. I knew you would be back. There is only one way you can be stopped. When I die, you will have to to return to me. Locked to me as you were all through my life. My shadow. No longer with a will of your own.
It is my own life that gives life to you.
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Almost 09:30.
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I think we have to go back up. At least, we can see if he's okay. Maybe you're right. Come on. Yeah. No. I got my doubts about anything happening like this. That's John. I'm getting me got ready. John. He must be alive. John. Let me get to the phone. Police emergency. Get me.
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He's dead.
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Never mind. The gun's still in his hand.
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He never fired a shot. And there's not a mark on him.
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A thing just like the others. We'll never know.
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Oh, John. What are you telling, doctor? Oh, what I should have done long ago, destroying the formula and everything about this fiendish project, the chemicals, the notebooks, to even the tapes. I don't want to know anymore.
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I hated this thing from the start. I got a cold headquarters. That that thing may still be on the loose. No.
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No, it isn't, Lieutenant. Look on the floor.
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Oh. Yes, I see.
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Yeah. The shadow of a man slumped over in his chair. Do you have any doubt it's Gilbert's shadow as still as he is?
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What did kill doctor Gilbert? His shadow? His subconscious? Doctor Gilbert went too far over the border of man's understanding. He delved too deeply in secrets that should remain untouched. For in all of heaven, earth, and even hell, there are some things that are better left untampered with, and this was one of them. I'll be back shortly. Stand up and take a good look at your shadow. Is it following your every move? Is it really the shadow you're casting? Or look closely now. Do you detect a little deviation, a little rebellion, a hint that perhaps your shadow might like to do its own thing?
Maybe you'd better turn off the lights. That's the surest way I know of getting rid of shadows, wanted or otherwise. Our cast included Nat Pullen, Joan Shea, Gordon Gould, and Lloyd Bautista. The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown. And now until next time, pleasant dreams.
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