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In this intriguing episode of the WR Mystery Theater, hosted by EG Marshall, we delve into the chilling narrative of "Identity Crisis." The story, penned by Field and Farrington, explores the ethical and existential dilemmas surrounding a groundbreaking brain transplant operation. Two women, Mrs. Hollis and Mrs. Kemper, face the harrowing decision of consenting to an experimental procedure that could save one of their critically ill husbands by transplanting a healthy brain into a healthy body. As the operation unfolds, the question of identity becomes paramount: which man will emerge from the surgery, and to whom will he belong? This episode challenges listeners to ponder the boundaries of medical science and the essence of human identity.

Amidst the suspenseful narrative, a subplot of corruption and conspiracy unfolds, involving two men, Paul and Carl, who are entangled in a web of bribery and fear of exposure. Their desperation leads them to contemplate murder to protect their secrets, adding another layer of tension to the story. As the mystery deepens, the episode raises profound questions about the nature of the soul, memory, and the ethical implications of scientific advancement. Tune in to discover how these intertwined stories resolve and what becomes of the man with a transplanted brain.

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(00:00:33) Introduction to Mystery Theater

(00:01:25) Identity Crisis: The Plot Unfolds

(00:03:19) The Ethical Dilemma of Brain Transplants

(00:10:02) The Conspiracy Unfolds

(00:20:34) The Spiritual and Scientific Debate

(00:36:47) The Climax: A Deadly Decision

(00:49:05) Conclusion and Reflections

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Please join the WR Mystery Theater.  

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Come in.   Welcome.   I'm EG Marshall,   the man who delivers your daily supply of chills and goosebumps.   On Mystery Theater, where almost nothing is impossible   and the improbable is commonplace,   we often deal with things to come. And while we don't set ourselves up as an authentic oracle, we do sometimes give you something to think about   and to shudder over.   Listen   and see if you don't agree.   Our mystery drama, Identity Crisis, was written especially for the mystery theater by Field and Farrington   and stars Gordon Gould.   It is sponsored in part by True Value Hardware Stores   and Buick Motor Division.  



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I'll be back shortly with Act One. The standard engine is a V eight. Standard tires, steel belted radials. There are front and rear stabilizer bars, special springs and shock valving, fast ratio power steering, and a rally steering wheel.   What makes all this interesting is that it belongs to a full size six passenger   Buick,   the 1977   LeSabre Ford Coupe. You'll have to drive it to  

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Believe it. And now a Christmas story from the folks at Flemington Fur. Once upon a time, there was a lovely princess who looked forward each year to Christmas when one of the handsome princes who sought her hand would give her a gift. One Christmas, a very practical prince gave her a microwave muffin warmer with a stereo tape deck, somewhat useful, very expensive, but not what a princess dreams of. The next Christmas, a very observant prince saw that all the fine ladies were wearing jewelry made of unicorn horns. So he gave the princes a royal ransom of unicorn jewelry. Lovely, frightfully expensive, but the princes didn't really want to look like all the other ladies. Then a devoted prince who knew his princes was a real special lady, deserving of a very special gift, selected a magnificent mink coat from the Flemington fur company. The fur was superb, the style extraordinary, and the price was right. At Christmas, the princes at last received the gift she had longed for, her own exquisite Flemington fur, and they lived happily every after. The Flemington Fur Company in Flemington, New Jersey open Sunday and every day until 6PM.  

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What do you suppose your great grandfather would have said if you had told him that one day men would fly to the moon,   land there, and plant an American flag too?   That a man's heart   could be taken from his body   and put in another man's body to replace his alien one.   That by clicking a button here on Earth,   you could take a picture of a rock pile on Mars.   He'd tell you to go and have your head examined.   Well, what would you say if we suggested that someday in the future,   not only heart transplants,   but brain transplants   would be possible?  

Ridiculous?   Maybe.   Or are you perhaps just being a grandfather   when you say so? Come in, missus Hollis.  

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Thank you, doctor. And this is missus Kempeller?  

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That's right.  

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I suppose you're wondering why I've asked you to stop in at my office,   both of you at the same time. I yeah. I've talked about it. Well,   you two have one thing in common. I suppose you know that. Our  

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our husbands.  

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Yes.   Both your husbands are in critical condition.   In terminal condition, unfortunately.   You've both been told that separately.   Yes. Yes. What I want to suggest now   is that it may be,   maybe I say, possible to save one of them.   It's just possible that the one   whole man may continue to live. But if they're both   which man? Hear me out, please.   Mrs. Hollis, your husband is suffering from massive internal injuries sustained in an automobile crash yesterday.   Yes. He's being kept alive from minute to minute,   but I'm afraid he can't possibly last much longer. I was told that yesterday. Yes.   And your husband, Mrs. Kemper, has had a malignant brain tumor removed.  

The operation could be called successful in that the tumor was removed,   and your husband is still alive.   But brain damage has already been done.   And of   course, that cannot be repaired.   I understand that. Yes. He will not improve. And he cannot be expected to live in this condition for more than,   say, a few weeks.   Yes.  

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So you've already told me. And, Mrs.  

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Hollis, your husband's brain was undamaged in the accident.  

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What are you suggesting?  

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A brain transplant.  

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A brain transplant? I've never heard of such a thing. The fact is it's never been done before.  

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Not with the human brain. But then But I've been experimenting with animals for many years.   My last three experiments have been completely successful.   Completely successful.  

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And you think it can be done   with with our husbands?  

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You must understand that I cannot promise success.   It still must be called experimental.   Techniques will be needed which have not yet   however, I believe that it can be done. Oh, it's it's  

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quite   overwhelming.  

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The thing is, to put it bluntly, we have absolutely nothing to lose.   Your husbands are both going to die.   There's no question whatever about that.   Maybe this way, if the surgery is successful,   we can save one man.  

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Well,   what do you think, Mrs. Harvitz?   I I don't know.  

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I'd ask you both to sign releases, of course. As he says,  

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there's nothing to lose. I suppose not. I   I wish I could ask Andy. Unfortunately, that's impossible. At least we'd be   doing something.   I suppose you're right.   Yes.   Of course you are.   Alright. I'll I'll find the release, doctor Peters.  

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Alright. Alright. Alright. Keep your shirt on. I'm coming.  

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Paul,   can I come in, please? Sure. Sure. Come on in.  

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We've got you so upset. Well,  

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there's this doctor,   doctor Peters. Yeah. He's a brain surgeon. And, according to the guy on the radio, just about the best there is.   And   he's going to do a brain transplant job. Brain transplant? Uh-huh. That's right. That can't be done. So this doctor Peters, he thinks he can do it, and he's gonna try, maybe doing it right now. Well, that's interesting, but You wanna know whose brain is getting transplanted. Okay.   Andy Hollis's brain, that's who. State Senator Andrew H. Hollis.  

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You're kidding. No. I'm  

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not. He was in this auto accident yesterday afternoon. Did you hear about that? No. No. Was he badly hurt? I I guess he must have been. He's busted up pretty good. And they got this other fellow there in the hospital.   I I can't remember his name.   He's dying from brain cancer, and they're going to transplant Hollis's brain   into the other fella's  

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head. Well, maybe Hollis will die before they get a chance to operate. I told you, the radio guy said they were gonna try any minute.   I gotta I gotta think about this.  

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You,   think that Hollis,   well, you know, when they get the switch made and everything,  

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you think he'll shoot his mouth off? I don't know. Now just shut up. Let me think.  

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Come in.  

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Hello, John. Hello. I got this message the important doctor Randolph Peters wants to see me. Yes. Come on in.   You are actually going ahead with a brain transplant.  

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Yes.  

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Don't you approve? Well, surely why wouldn't I? I don't know enough about it to disapprove anyway.  

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Doctor. Muller, the eminent psychiatrist, has just admitted there's something he doesn't know much about.   That's practically newsworthy.   Well, give me a half hour to bone up.   I'm going to need your help, John. I think we're going to overlap a little here.  

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Yeah.   We've been thinking about that.   If that transplanted   brain works at all, it will have gone through something pretty damn traumatic.  

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It frightens me a little.   More than a little.   Can I depend on you to stand by?   You know you can.   Well then,   I guess I'll go do it.   Right now?   Right now.  

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I think we've got a serious problem, Carl.   Yeah? On on on the kind of Hollis? Well, you don't have to be a doctor to know that Hollis is gonna be in pretty rough shape. Well, you know, his brain is after his operation.   My guess is he's gonna be delirious for a while. He's gonna be babbling, and if he babbles about the wrong things,   well,   we could be in a lot of trouble.  

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I guess so.  

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The turnpike repaving job. Good Lord, have they ever started checking on everything we've contracted for since Hollis has been chairman of the State Senate Public Works Committee. Oh boy. We will have had it, Carl. Yeah, like the Cedar River Bridge.   Morrison and Dunlap could be finished.   All washed up. Yeah.   But, why would he wanna talk? He's not cleaner than we are, is he? But they haven't been playing games with our brains. There's no way of knowing what his brain may spill.   So, what can we do about  

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it? Maybe the operation won't be a success. Yeah. And maybe it will.  

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So?   I don't know.  

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Well, I think a hospital waiting room is the most dismal place in the whole world.   I've spent most of my time here for almost a month now.   Has your husband been sick that long? Well, his operation was a month ago. He's been sick a lot longer. Oh, it must have been dreadful for you, missus Kemper.   It wasn't nice.   You know, it seems we're   we're gonna be seeing a good deal of each other.   Don't you think we'd be more comfortable on a first name basis?   Yes. I do,   Esther.   I think I'm still in shock. They called me yesterday afternoon and said Andy had been in a bad accident and   I   haven't really been able to grasp. Yes. It must have been a terrible shock. I I've had almost a year to adjust to Ralph's situation.  

You you called your husband Andy.   Is he   Andrew Hollis, the state senator?   Yes.   They asked him   they've been talking to him about running for governor.   It doesn't seem fair does it? A man in his prime. Nothing but good things to look forward to and No.   What   is it? That man just coming in. I'm sure he's here to ask about Andy. I don't want to Missus Hollis. They told me I'd find you here.   How's how's Andy? We don't really know. Didn't they tell you what's happening? I heard it on the radio.  

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Brain transplant, they said.  

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Yes. He's,   they are in the Operating Room now. Oh, well, I'm sure everything's gonna be okay. Everything can't   be okay, not for both of us. Oh, this is Mrs. Kemper, mister Morrison. How do you do? How did you you're, you're the other the other fella's wife?   Yes.  

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Do they,   do they say how long the operation's supposed to last?  

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No.   A long time, I should think.  

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Well, I   I guess I'll just, wander around and, you know, be nosy. If there's anything I can do, Mrs. House, anything at all. Well, thank you. I think not. Well then,   I expect I'll be seeing you later on.  

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I can't stand that man. Is is he a friend of your husband's? Oh, a business acquaintance,   a contractor, or something like that.   In politics, you have to be nice to all kinds of people.   I've always wished Andy didn't have anything to do with Paul Mortensen.   I think he's a thief.   Beautiful, Doctor. Peters. The most beautiful piece of work I've ever seen. Thank you, nurse. But let's not congratulate ourselves just yet.   He has a long way to go. Oh, yes. I know you've been on a good site for a second.  

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I understand, though. I'll be in my office. Let me know at once if there's any change of any kind. I want readings taken every ten minutes. You understand?   And keep in touch with me.  

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Hey. You were over there at the hospital a long time, Paul. Did you get to see him? No way. I was just,  

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you know, looking things over. There was no way they're gonna let me see him.   Does it look like he's gonna be okay? I couldn't tell. Couldn't tell. I guess so. They got a special room all rigged up just for him. I just need to look at it. Room 3944.   I don't wanna forget that.   You never saw so many gadgets in all your life.   You know, the more I think about it, Carl,   the less I like it.  

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Yeah?  

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He's not gonna be the same man. How could he be?  

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Well, same brain, though. I mean, it's Howis' brain, no matter who else, has got it in his head now, isn't it? I wish I knew.  

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I'm afraid   he's gonna have to be,   dealt with.  

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You don't   mean Oh, hey, I I don't wanna be part of anything like that. Well, neither do I, Carl. I suppose nobody ever really wants to kill anybody. Now look, rigging bids and kicking back the Hollis, that's one thing, but th this other,   no, no, I don't want any part of it. That was all right when when the money was rolling in, like, for nothing, wasn't it, But this thing, Paul, this thing you're talking about,   it's too much. I I I can't get mixed up in it.  

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I mean, I can't. You'll be okay, Carl. You just have to get used to the idea. That's all. It's a business deal.   Just a business deal.   Don't think of it as murder.  

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Oh,   isn't that doctor Peters? Yes, Jane. I I I think he's seen us. I guess  

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I guess the operation's finished. Oh, I've been looking for you two. Have you both been right here the whole time? How   is he alright? Doctor, the operation appears to have been successful.   He's in a special recovery room we set up for him, but he isn't conscious, of course. Won't be for a good long while. Can I  

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can we see him?  

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Not just yet, I'm afraid. Later on. Maybe toward evening. We don't want to complicate things. Doctor  

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Peters. Yes?   I haven't mentioned this to Jane, but I imagine she's been wondering too   when he's better and, you know, when he can talk about everything.   Which one is he going to be?  

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This is the first operation of its kind, you understand?   We're all waiting to see what will happen.  

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Yes. But  

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but who will he be?  

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I can't really say.  

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A good question.   Who will he be? You have the brain of Andrew h Hollis in the body of Ralph Kemperer.   And by which name do you call him?   More important,   to Jane Hollis and Esther Kemperer, at least, whose husband   is he going to be?   Which aspect is dominant,   the physical or the mental?   By which of the two forces   is identity   established?   Perhaps we'll see this tangle unraveled when I return shortly with act two.  

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The table looks wonderful sweetie. Oh, thank you, darling? Reverend Berkey will disconnect it. Oh, thank you, darling. The dishes, the silv- Wait a minute, What's this? New Minute Maid one hundred percent pure lemon juice. Why? Because they use only fresh lemons. Why are Because we're having lobster, lobster needs lemon. You know, why are Oh, because the leading lemon juice is reconstituted.   It has chemical preservatives. Oh. Minute Maid lemon juice is pure lemon juice, and it's frozen for freshness. Oh. Here, just taste Minute Maid. No. I don't have to. Oh, come on. You can taste the difference. Oh, boy.   Sure. It tastes like lemon. Minute Maid has the juice of six fresh lemons in this plastic squeeze bottle. What?  



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Oh, at the door. Oh, I'll let him in.  

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Oh, Reverend Berkey. Good evening. Good evening. Hell, here's Reverend Berkey. Why  

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is your husband talking like that?  

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Oh, he was tasting new Minute Sherry. You're not at the cooking, Sherry. You're not at the restaurant. And it would get quiet. Minute Maid one hundred percent pure lemon juice in your grocer's freezer case. It's got a fresh taste. People really notice.  

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And I I like the people that work here. I like the prices. I like the quality.   The price?  

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Well, I save more money. And the Victoria Street, that's why I shop here.  

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ShopRite has great eating at the meat department this week. ShopRite splitter quartered frying chickens, 43¢ a pound. Italian style sausage, pork, and veal, 89¢   a pound.  

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My husband and I work together, and we both belong to the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. We know what it means to have our union, especially when you've got a family. We want to make our own way, and the ILG helps us. We've got a contract.  

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We know where we stand. We've got something we can build a future on. That's our union. And that's what our label stands for. Look for the union label.  

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When you are buying   Marco's chairs or   gloves,   remember   somewhere   our union's only.   Our way can go in to the favor  

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It is generally agreed that there is a spiritual quality in the makeup of every man and woman quite apart from the mental and physical.   Call it soul, essence, basic element, whatever.   Now should surgery, as has happened here, place the brain of one man with its millions of memories, its education,   and its convictions   into the body of another man, will the essence   of which we've been speaking, the soul,   weigh heavily enough   to determine identity?  

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What are we going to do, Esther? I don't know.   I I've been thinking about it, Jane.   If doctor Peters doesn't know what He'll   whichever one he is,   he'll be a   stranger to both of us.   It's worse.   It might all almost have been better if   we'll just have to wait and see, Jane.   What else can we do?  

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But Paul, this is murder you're talking about. He wouldn't be alive today if Doctor. Peters hadn't done this nutty operational and he was later to die anyway. Can't you see that? Well, not because of me he wasn't. Look, Carl.   Carl, I've got three kids.   You've got two, right?  

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Right.   And I don't want them to grow up knowing that their old man was a murderer. So you want them to grow up with their old man in jail for the other stuff? Bribery, conspiracy, you name it, Carl. They'll pin it on us if Hollis shoots off his mouth. But we don't know that he's going to. He may not say one damn word. Maybe he can't talk, but Pete say  

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Look, there's  

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there's got to be some way so we don't have to kill him. Alright. Alright. You tell me what it is.   I,  

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I haven't had a chance to think about it yet. Well, you can think until your head drops off, Carl, and you won't come up with anything but what I've come up with.   It's it's my way or nothing. We gotta kill  

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him. I don't know if I could.  

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You can.  

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Well,   well, we got plenty of time. He won't be out of the hospital for a good long time. At least there's no rush on it. We don't have any time at all.  

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What do you mean? We can't afford to wait. We'll have to go into the hospital after him.  

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Hello, Randy.   Hello, John. Come on in. Congratulations.  

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They tell me it was absolutely beautiful.   I was sure you could do it. Thanks.  

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Sit down.  

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Well, you look so glum.   Come on, Randy.   You just completed maybe the most brilliant piece of surgery in medical history. I want your advice, John.  

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All you have to do is ask. I'm worried about this brilliant piece of surgery.  

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Worried?   Isn't he doing alright?  

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He's alive.   The body has accepted the brain,   so far at least.   That's not my problem.  

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So what is?  

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There are two women sitting out there, Mrs. Hollis and Mrs. Kemper.   Which one is waiting to see her husband?   I'm beginning to think I've got a tiger by the tail.   He is still unconscious, of course. Will be for I don't really know how long.  

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The only thing we can do is wait and talk to him   when he can talk.  

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How about an educated guess right now?  

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How educated would it be?   Well, my guess would be   that identity   would go along with the brain.   I mean, at least lean very heavily in that direction. So you think it'll be harmless? It's only a guess.   You can't discount the body, certainly.   The whole nervous system in there of which the brain is only a part.   The most important part, granted, but still only a part. But if the body doesn't reject the brain? Physically, you mean?   Mhmm. Well,   and I'm guessing, of course,   all that does is place the brain and the rest of the body in contention.   Anything could happen.  

The body   is long accustomed to taking commands from the brain.   How is it going to respond now?   And the brain,   when it doesn't get the responses   it expects, did it give it doesn't?   But who   knows?   Who is to say it won't break down completely?  

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That was a chance I knew I'd have to take.   It's the identity problem that got me worried right now. Yeah. I have only one suggestion.  

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Wait   until he can talk to you,  

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and then  

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ask him who he is.  

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Yes, Lucille?   Carl Dunlap?   I don't know any Carl Dunlap. What do you want?   Oh, something about the Hollis Kemper thing.   Well, I guess I better see him.   I'll take any help I can get from anybody.   Doctor. Peters? Yes. Come in. Oh,  

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thank you.   I'm Carl Dunlap. Yes.  

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I don't believe we have met before, have we? No. No.  

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I mean, I was a, business associate of Andy Hollis.  

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Is he gonna be okay? He's doing as well as can be expected.  

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Well, that doesn't mean anything much, does it? He's in intensive care right now.  

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The operation was successful as far as we know at this point.   What's your interest?  

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Well, you see, we we had this business proposition and it was hanging fire when he had his accident.   And I can't go ahead with it without word from Hollis. You won't get any kind of word from mister Hollis for a good long while yet. Well, this is a really big deal. There's over a million dollars tied up here.  

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It's it's kind of a mess unless I can get to talk to Hollis. I advise you to find another way to straighten out your affairs, mister Dunlap.   It may be several days before mister,   Hollis   will be allowed visitors.  

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You were right, Paul.  

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I couldn't get in to see him. Well, you agree with me now That there's only one way we can go?  

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Well, we don't know that he's gonna talk, Paul. We don't know that he won't.  

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Look, I don't wanna gamble, Carl.  

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No, I guess,   I guess I don't either. Good. Then it's settled.  

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Now   alright. Now here's where we do it. The easiest thing in the world is to impersonate a doctor. You put on a lab coat, hang a stethoscope around your neck, and you're a medic. Right? I guess so. As long as nobody asks you for a pill. It's good enough for walking down the hospital corridor.   Well, we don't have lab coats. Well, it's easy enough to get. We go someplace and buy them. I'll take care of that.   You've got a gun, haven't you?  

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Yes.  

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So have you. Do you have a silencer for you?   No. Now listen, Carl. That's alright. That's alright. I can pick up one. So once we get inside the house Oh, wait a minute, Paul.  

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You've got a gun too, haven't you?   Why my gun?  

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Because   you're gonna do it, Carl.  

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Oh, no. No. I'll I'll go along with the idea even if I don't like it, but   you don't get me to shoot him myself.   No, Paul. Sorry.  

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That's the way it has to be.  

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Well, why?  

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You're the one who wants them out of the way so bad. Why should I do this to you? Because if I do it the way you're running around so scared, you might just get an attack of conscience or something   and start talking.   Oh, that's silly. Why would I But if you do it yourself, you're gonna think twice before you make any stupid confessions.   I won't do it, Paul. Sure you will. You can't make me. Well, that's just the point. I can.   You'll do it simply because I tell you to. You always do everything I tell you to.   Haven't you noticed?  



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They send a couple of containers of coffee back from the nurses' station.   Mhmm. They've been so nice. Oh, I hope you like milk and sugar in yours. I I didn't know. Oh, that'll be fine, Jane.   Just so there's some coffee in there.   Oh, it's going to be a miss, isn't it, Esther?   For us?   I'm afraid so, yes.   What we need here is a   a Solomon.   I suppose   when he wakes up, when he regains consciousness,   he'll know who he is.   It's strange.   At first, I was feeling so grateful to your husband, to you,   for donating his brain to Ralph.   Now I'm beginning to wonder if   it if it isn't the other way around.  

Your husband donating his body to Andy?   I guess that's what it will amount to.   Oh, Lord. I'm so confused. And another thing I've been wondering,   where are we going to stand   legally?   Why,   I hadn't even thought about that. To tell you the truth,   I I'm not even sure   how I want it to come out.  

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Hey, Carl. Hey. Yeah. Would you help me with this stuff, What? You've been shopping or something? What does it look like? I'll get cake this. Yeah. Okay. Alright. Now I got the land codes and stethoscopes. Oh. I didn't have a bit of trouble. I figured at least they'd ask for identification or something, but they didn't. Just handed the stuff over and took my money. K. Here. Take a look here. Here. Here. Try this one, aren't I? Alright. How'd it fit? They only come in three sizes, small, medium, and large.   I got mediums.  

It's kinda tight around the middle. Well, you wear them open anyway. Now here put the stethoscope around your neck. There.  

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Hey.   You you would have made a pretty good doctor at that.  

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I don't like it. So just stop thinking about it, When the time comes, just do it.   Let me have your gun. What for? I got a silencer. I just wanna see if it works alright. Alright. Alright. Keep it in here.  

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I never once used it. I just thought I thought I'd have one around. Millie's home alone so much.   I don't know what good it would do it, though. She won't touch it. Let let me have that.  

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Hey.   It's alright.  

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Is this thing loaded? Yes.   Well, I I I don't know.   Listen, Paul. Couldn't you   I mean, I I'm not the one that ordered all settled, Carol. But what if I just freeze and then I can't do it, I never pointed a gun at anybody all my life, Paul. I think   I mean, I think really that you ought to do it. Now you'll do fine.  

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Just fine.   I'm not the least bit worried.  

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Doctor Peters?   Doctor Peters? Yes. What is it? I asked you not to leave your patient. Look, doctor, I I think he's coming too. I saw you pass by the door and I decided it would be quicker to come after you than to have you paid. Alright. Let's go.   You say he's conscious? Well, no. Not what you could call conscious yet.  

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He seems to have gone back to sleep.  

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Just a minute ago, he he was  

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Oh.  

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You can articulate.   That's alright then? I mean,  

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I   can't   somebody   help me.  

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What can we do for you? Help   You were born in Indianapolis.   Uh-huh.   Is that what you're trying to say?  

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Yes.   Yes. One,   Boston, two.   So   but it showed   me who am I?  

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Who am I?   A question originating in the depths of an awesome darkness.   Loss of sure identity is the final step off the solid substance of security.   If you must ask who you are,   there is no safe place for you. You are a wanderer   among uncertainties,   lost in a maze, bounded by the unknown,   inhabited only by you   and fear.   The mind with no secure haven in which to rest and restore itself   will manufacture   a haven of its own.   And this is what is commonly known   as madness.  

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I'll return shortly with act three. This Christmas, give a gift that'll help turn any kitchen into a fast food restaurant.   Hi. Pat Summerall here to suggest you give the Hamilton Beach Little Mac or Double Mac grill from your participating True Value Hardware store.   The Little Mac fast cooker has a reversible grid with a square side for grilled sandwiches and a round side for hamburgers, pizza, or fried eggs. The cover locks on for spatter free cooking, and the no stick finish is easy to clean. The Hamilton Beach double mac grill from your True Value Hardware store makes two hamburgers or two grilled cheese sandwiches in just minutes. It can even be used to fry bacon and eggs together quickly and easily and without spatter.   This Christmas,   give the gift that'll help turn any kitchen into a fast food restaurant, the Hamilton Beach Little Mac or Double Mac fast cooker from your participating True Value hardware store.  

Remember True Value, that's more than just a name. It's their way of doing business. And remember too, tell them Pat Summerall sent you.  

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The The story is appalling. A flagrant scandal in the Bronx.   Welfare parents receiving at least $10,000   this year while their young children groveled helplessly   infested with lice. Read Saturday's New York Daily News for the incredibly shocking details.   Investigative reporter Dick Brass tells how social workers visited the home and did nothing to alleviate the devastating conditions.   Learn about the mother arrested for endangering her children's lives and the stepfather arrested for raping one of the girls age 12. A family that's crumbling into pieces, Saturday in the daily news.   Also in the daily news, Saturday, an inside tip for Christmas shoppers with extra money to play with. Pinball machines are in and flashing their bing bing all over the metropolitan area. Reporter Donald Flynn has the scoop on the biggest craze around today.  

In the entertainment pages,   news movie critic Ann Guarino   interviews Richie Pryor, movie star and millionaire who says, I still can't get a cab to take me to Harlem. Good reading, Saturday in the New York Daily News.  

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I wish somebody would tell me which wine goes with what.  

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There is a wine,   gancia.   Gancia   hasti spumante that makes any meal sparkle.   Everyday meals, fancy dinners,   seafood platters,  

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platters, buffets. Even exotic continental  

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dishes? Yes. Any meal sparkles   when you serve this beautiful pale gold sparkling wine from the sunny vineyards of Italy.  

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Ganja is a delightfully mellow wine with a delicate bouquet and distinctive flavor that people  

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like. Find out why more people drink ganja   than any other Italian speromante in the world. I think I'll get some for tonight. Why not put a little sparkle in your dinner tonight with a bottle of ganja?   Asti spumante.   Imported by Paterno Imports Limited, Chicago.   Ganja, Asti Spumante.  

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Who can say with authority   what the brain is to the body   or the body to the brain.   Which is master   and which is servant?   To be sure, we tend to characterize the brain as the thinking and therefore the guiding mechanism,   but it is not the entire being.   It represents   by any physical measurement we know how to apply   only a small percentage   of the total entity.   Is it reasonable to assume then   that it contains the entire identity,   the essence  

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of the individual?   Well, John, you're the psychiatrist.   You've talked to the patient.   What do you think?  

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I think,   as you said before,   you have got a tiger by the tail.   This is completely   outside my experience.   Outside anybody's.   But I will tell you one thing.   You have opened up a whole new,   unexplored   territory.   If brain transplants are to develop,   we are going to have to scurry about and build a new psychiatric   framework to contain them.  

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You're stumped?  

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We're stumped. Yeah.   Mhmm. I have a thousand questions.  

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No answers. At the start, at least.   The questions have to come before the answers.   What are some of them?  

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Well,   this Holly's brain of yours has some Kemper memories.   He has demonstrated   that. Kempera was born in Indianapolis   and Hollis in Boston.   Hollis Kempera, for wonder of anything better to call him, now states that he was born in Indianapolis   and Boston.   Incidentally,   I think his mentioning it indicates that he is trying to cope, trying to   come to terms with the discrepancy.   Anyway,   what this means to me   is that there is a memory,   the Indianapolis   memory,   outside   the brain.   And the way I learned it,   memory   is strictly the brain's province.   Spinal memory?  

Who knows?   There's not supposed to be any such thing.   You know,   the temptation   is to turn   metaphysical.   Metaphysical?   Mhmm. The soul.   The unsensed,   unmeasurable,   something that   makes us more than mere   matter.   It is a temptation to say that   since Kemperer's body still lives,   it still contains something of the Kempera soul.   That that's not very scientific, I'm afraid.  

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Still, it's an answer that satisfies in some ways, isn't it? Not one that satisfies the  

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scientific purpose though.   Where do you go from here, Randy?  

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I was hoping you could advise me. I'm sorry.   How do you let go of a tiger   without getting scratched?  

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Carl, would you stop looking so scared?   Doctors never look scared even when they are. And we're doctors.   I can't help how I look. I am scared. Well, don't be. We're just two doctors walking down a hospital corridor talking shop talk.   Well, his room number is 394. 3 doors down on the side of the hall. Is he it part way closed? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I see it.   What if they moved them to another room? They wouldn't. They've got them plugged into so many gadgets in there. It'd be just too much trouble to move them now.   You know what we do, right?  

I guess so. We take a look in the door. If the doctor's in there, we just walk down the hall and wait for them to leave. If there's nobody there but the nurse, we go in and order her to leave.   Order her? We are doctors. You keep forgetting. Nurses do what doctors tell them to do.   Okay. And then when we're alone with them, you   you just do it. That's  

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all.  

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I tried to get in to see him, Jane.   I didn't have any luck, but I I tried. Doctor. Peters wouldn't let you in. The nurse wouldn't. She stopped me at the door. She was nice enough, but she was firm.   He's still all right.   Well, the nurse said he was sort of   half conscious for a little while. Esther?   Yes?   Look.   Those two doctors just passing down the hall.   Did you get a good look at them? Not very. But what about them? One of them was   I'd swear one of them was Paul Morrison.   But Annie was here asking about Andy earlier. The the one you didn't like? Yes. That one.   But he's   is he a doctor?  

No.   That's just the point.   He isn't.   So what is he doing in a white coat? You think he's up to something? I don't know what he could be up to, but   but I don't like it.  

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Damn. I forgot about her. Forgot about her? His wife,   Jane Hollis, he was in the waiting room just now as we walked past it. Did she see you? Does she know you? No, she knows me all right. I'm not sure whether she saw me or not. Let's get out of here, Paul. If she saw you, we better just get out of here. Oh, take it, will you? Stop it, will you? You   panic at the least little thing I hear. We'll just stop and lean against the wall and talk. We're getting consultation, okay?   And if she doesn't do anything about it, well, she didn't see me.  

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This is crazy.   Here's this big hospital, busy at Grand Central Station, and we're gonna walk into a man's room and shoot him dead. People all over the place, but does that stop us? No. We just walk in there and shoot a man dead. And walk right out again. The best way to get lost is in a crowd of people. Insane. Oh, there there she goes. The hallways one? Yes, with the other one.  

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And just strolling along, going the other way, I guess you didn't see me.   So you wanna go ahead with her? Of course, we're gonna go ahead with it. Come on.  

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Just sort of stroll along. So if you see this, you'll think we're just stretching our legs. Well, did you get another look at him? No. I was afraid to look down that way.   I know it was him. I'm sure. Oh, so what are we gonna do? I just wanna see if I can find Doctor. Peters and tell him about it.  

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Okay. Here it is, Room 394.   Will you wipe that scared look off your face? I'm doing the best I can, Paul. Alright, just let me check.   I don't see anybody but a nurse in there. The doctor doesn't seem to be around. Paul, I wish you Just shut up and let me do the talking.   Nurse? Oh,   you startled me. Is this Doctor. Peters' patient? Yes, doctor. Doctor. Peters has called us in for a consultation. We expect him any minute. Will you, can you please leave us alone with the patient? Oh, well, doctor Peters instructed me to stay with the patient. We'll be with him. You needn't worry. I don't like to go against doctor Peters' instruction. Oh, we will take the responsibility.   We expect doctor Peters momentarily. Meantime, we can save time by examining the patient while we're waiting for him. I I could stay and assist you. I mean, if there's anything you wanna know, I   Nurse, I'd ask you to leave us.  



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Yes, doctor.  

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Paul. What is it?  

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We got in the wrong room or something. What are you talking about?   That's not Hollis.   Look at him.  

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I never saw that guy before in my life. Of course it isn't Hollis, you idiot. They transplanted Hollis's brain into somebody else.   Oh, yeah, yeah, I forgot.  

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Well, well then how can we be sure?   I mean, if we never saw the guy before,  

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how do we know we're in the right place at all? We are.   Alright.  

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Do it, Gerald. Paul, please. If you just listen to me, I don't think I'll You   ain't  

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Wasn't that the noose we just passed? Isn't she supposed to be in there with him all the time? Oh, it certainly looked like her. You think we ought to go back and make sure he's alright? Somebody probably came in to relieve her. I just want to see doctor Peters. Okay.   Hope he's in.  

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Doctor Peters? Yes? Oh, missus Hollis and missus Kemper. What can I do for you? We just saw an odd thing. Odd thing?  

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There's a man I know slightly, a a business associate of my husband.   I don't like him, frankly. I I don't trust him.   I just saw him out in the hall dressed like a doctor. And he isn't a doctor?   He certainly isn't.   Would it be possible for him and,   when he had somebody with him   would it be possible for them just to walk into the patient's room  

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without anyone stopping him? If you're afraid that's what he's going to do, there's no cause for alarm. There's a nurse in there. No. But she isn't, doctor. We just saw her out in the hole. You're sure it's the same nurse? Positive.   Then maybe we have to go and check it out.  

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There she is. See? Standing there at the nurse's station. Nurse? Yes, doctor. I thought I asked you not to leave the patient alone. Not for any reason. Well, he isn't alone, sir. The two doctors you asked him for consultation are with him. Consultation? I didn't set up any consultation.   They said you did. They they practically ordered me out of the room. Alright. Let's go.  

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Hey, Andy.   Can you hear me?   It's Carl Dunlap.  

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Can't see how you're doing. Oh, yeah. Stop it. Can't you see? He's in no shape to talk. Well then, if he can't talk Shoot him, Carl.  

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You you take the gun, Paul.  

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I I can't. I just can't do it. You'll do it. Now, right there in the temple. No, no, not quite touching. There, there, right there. That's it. Now, now the trigger the trigger, Carl. No. No, Paul. I can't. Just squeeze the trigger. Just a little pressure, though. It doesn't take much.   Stand sideways now once more to make sure. Paul. Paul, please. I can't. Sure. You can't. Just squeeze. Squeeze like a poor cow. Just squeeze.  

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What are you two?  

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Oh my God. Shoot the girl. Ralph,   he's bleeding.  

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Why is he bleeding? Get out of my way. Let me have a look at him. Did you hear what I said, Carl? Shoot them.   No more.   No more, Paul.   I can't.  

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He's dead.  

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Shot twice through the head. Well let me have the gun, Carl. Give me the gun! No.   You heard what I said? Give it to me! I won't.  

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You'll let me kill somebody. I won't let you, Paul. Let me have the gun, Carl.   Oh, Pa.   I didn't mean to shoot you, Pa. It's it's my armor.   Doctor,   will you take the gun?  

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I'll take it.   Nurse,   get some security people in here, will you?  

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Have they taken those two away?   The two who shot your patients?  

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They're probably all booked and put away by now.   I just had a weird experience.  

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It's the only kind you have had all day, seems to me. I just had to console two women,  

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Mrs. Hollis and Mrs. Kemper,   because their husbands were dead.   Only that wasn't what I did.   I found myself telling them I was sorry about their husband.   Singular.   One husband,   two wives.   And nobody could say who the man had actually belonged to.  

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Yeah.   Sad things all, all around me. Yes.   In a way though,  

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they were grief stricken, of course, the two women.   Each thinking of her own husband as he used to be.   But as for the man I was trying to give them with my surgery,   I'm not sure they weren't just a little bit relieved that he was gone,   and the decisions   wouldn't have to be made.   You know something, Randy?  

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I am not sure   the world is ready for the brain   transplant.   I'm not sure it ever will be.  

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Perhaps we should be just as glad that the brain transplant isn't ready for the world.   As things stand now, one more spiritual dilemma might be just that one too many.   I'll be back in a few minutes.  

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The 1977   Buick Regal.   It comes with Buick's terrific V six engine. It carries six people and lots of Buick comfort. It's lean. It's maneuverable in city traffic. It's the most luxurious midsize car Buick builds.   Yeah. This new Regal is pretty much everything a car should be, except for one thing.   It isn't yours yet, but it can be. Just see a Buick dealer for a test drive soon.  

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Here's Dennis Poppan of the New York Islanders.  

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Folks, I'm a hockey player at first and a football watcher second.   And I'll tell you where you can watch some great college football   on TWA.   Right now, they're showing films of the players most likely to make all American this year.   You'll also see the 1976   candidate for the Heisman Trophy,   scoring points for this great prize. It's a terrific show, and it's only on TWA,  

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where every seat is on the 50 yard line. Fly TWA to the West Coast. And in addition to the football action, you'll see first rate movies on every TWA nonstop to Los Angeles and San Francisco.   And TWA is the only airline that gives you a choice of movies.   So if you like being entertained,   take a seat on TWA.   We give you a lot more.   To TWA,   being the best is in everything.   It's the only thing.  

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Here is important news for you. Dependable Dean has launched a revolutionary   new price policy lowering all carpet prices to rock bottom.   This means that every carpet in Dean's stores carries an astonishingly   low price tag with no, repeat, no exceptions.   The carpet you want is right here at Dean's at the lowest possible price. You can always depend on Dean for the finest floor covering,   help from salesmen who care, and prompt service.   Right now, you can get a 12 by 12 inch chem tile touchdown vinyl asbestos floor tiles for only 33¢   each. Yes. 33¢.  

Install a beautiful 10 by 10 foot floor yourself in two hours or less and for under $35.   Come to dependable Dean and save on tile,   broad bloom, and remnant rugs.   Dean's stores are located throughout New Jersey, and they're open Monday through Saturday,   09:30AM   to 09:30PM.   Remember, you can't spell dependable without d e a n.  

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With the human mind striving as it always must toward the accomplishment   tomorrow   of today's impossibility,   it's not surprising perhaps that among the blessed miracles performed,   some heinous enormities   are also perpetrated.   It may be that the transplanting of a fine mind from a sick body to a healthy one would be a good thing.   But wouldn't it present the kind of problem   our story has dealt with?   How could it not?   Our cast included Gordon Gould, Anne Williams, Bryna Rayburn, Robert Dryden, and Joe Silver.   The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown. Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Contact,   the twelve hour cold capsule.  

This is E. G. Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater   for another adventure in the macabre.   Until next time.   Pleasant   dream.  

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Tonight's WOR Mystery Theater was also brought to you in part by ShopRite Supermarkets. The preceding program is furnished by CBS Radio.   This is w o r New York, the talk of New York. Stay tuned now for the news with John Wingate.  

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Verdict has Sam Bruntland mad.   That may be Skyhawk.   Was it shut down?   Jimmy Carter   on the economy.   It's 43   degrees, six Celsius in clear Mid Manhattan.   Weather watch outlook. Windy and becoming cloudy tonight, below in the mid thirties.   Hi.   John Wingate with the 08:00 report from WOR News.   Samuel Brantman the second calls the verdict in the state supreme court trial of two Brooklyn men accused of kidnapping him, quote, a miscarriage of justice.   The White Plains State Supreme Court jury found the defendants, Mel Patrick Lynch and Dominic Byrne,   innocent of kidnapping   but guilty of extorting Bonfen's father of $2,300,000   At a news conference at the Seagrams Building in Manhattan today,   whisky heir Bronfman says the verdict makes him mad, quote, really mad.  

He said, again, quote, it's a sad system when two guys who kidnap someone get caught red handed and they get off, unquote.   Sam Bronfman says he thinks that in this case the system didn't work. He says he hopes the verdict will not deter other victims of violent crimes for helping to prosecute those who abduct or assault them.   Present at that news conference were Sam's mother, Ann Lowe Bronfman,   Sam Bronson's wife, Melanie,   his brother Edgar and Edgar's wife, Georgiana.   New York State Senator Roy Goodman, family friend of the Brontmans.   Comments on the verdict.  

I have known Samuel Bronthman all of his life. He is a close personal friend of mine and of my family's.   I saw him frequently in the months prior to his kidnapping, during which he was employed as an intern in my New York City senate office.   The allegations of the Lynchburg Defense Attorneys concerning Sam Bronson   are in my judgment   absolutely preposterous.   I'm deeply shocked that a jury would accept the word of the accused over the word of this   extraordinarily fine young man of good character.   A very grave miscarriage of justice has occurred in New York State today.   Story coming up. Was that navy plane shot down?  

WOR 07:10 news time.   Two and a half minutes past 08:00.   The US Navy announces it's investigating the possibility that one of its a four Skyhawk jet fighters was shot down in the Atlantic off North Carolina   by a Marine Corps f four j Phantom jet. So as to say, there are indications it was struck by a heat seeking missile.   The Navy jet's pilot, Lieutenant Jerome Petkowski,   a native of Chicago,   ejected and was rescued by a Marine helicopter.   Petkowski,   currently living with his family in Virginia Beach, Virginia,   is being checked over at the marine's Cherry Point, North Carolina Navy Hospital.  

A deadly green cloud of poisonous chlorine gas leaking from a chemical plant drifted westward across the Mississippi River.   Government Officials ordered about 10,000 persons to flee the area and they called out the National Guard.   No injuries are reported,   but several highways are closed and ships are being kept out of a 10 mile section of the Mississippi.   State Commissioner of Administration   in Louisiana, Charles Romer,   directing operations from Baton Rouge, Four miles from the plant, said the National Guard would be used to protect the property of evacuees   who were moved 10 miles downriver to Louisiana State University.  

About 6,000 of those fleeing the gas are students at Southern University.   The rest are residents of a predominantly black area surrounding the university.   Romer said it would take six to eight hours for that leaking chlorine to stop.   Jimmy Carter says if the economy needs help next year, job programmes are his first priority,   supplemented by tax cuts if necessary.   LeCorda made it clear in a news conference that he has not made any final decisions.   He told newsmen he would like to move as fast as possible with public service jobs, job training programmes,   and public works projects.  

The incoming chief executive said that he cannot do with job opportunities,   that what he can't do with them he'll do with the tax cut.   News conference followed a tour by Carter and Vice President-elect Walter Mondale   of the Pentagon's secret war room.   The two men were greeted by two small groups of demonstrators chanting, quote,   Disarm now, unquote, unquote,   the future for our kids, Jimmy,   quote,   unquote.   Coming up, our nightly column on the market.   W. O. R. 07:10 news time,   just about six minutes past   08:00.   New chapter for Gary Mark Gilmore.  

Utah killer Gary Gilmore's attorneys met in Salt Lake City with judge George Balfe today.   The judge said he'll decide by Wednesday whether to have Gilmour appear in court for setting up a trial date on a second murder charge.   Secretary of State Kissinger appealed at his final meeting with NATO ministers for an East West code of restraint   to prevent, as he put it, an unimaginable   catastrophe.   The Soviet Union announces it will conduct a series of rocket tests from December 13 to the thirtieth in The Pacific.   The test site will roughly be halfway between Japan and Hawaii.  

Sixty three year old actor McDonald Carey   has been arrested in Los Angeles for investigation of drunken driving.   An envelope addressed to the US Immigration and Naturalization Service   exploded on a conveyor belt at the main New York City post office. No one was injured.   The Agriculture Department estimates the 1976   US wheat crop was a record, nearly 2,150,000,000   bushels.   The new estimate, based on December 1 surveys,   boosts the 76 wheat production to about 12,000,000 bushels above last year's record output.   Estimates will be issued next month for corn and other 1976   crops that will figure prominently   in the nation's 1977   food   and export supply.  

In sports, the New York Knicks say that their newly acquired superstar, Bob McAdoo,   will have to postpone his debut with the team for at least one week.   McAdoo, who's suffering a pulled groin muscle, will not appear at tomorrow's game against the Phoenix Suns,   or Sunday's Hall of Fame exhibition against the Washington Bullets,   or Tuesday's game against the San Antonio Spurs.   Spokesman said, quoting now, we hope you'll be ready to play next Friday night in Boston.   It takes a while to heal, but by then it should be a day to day thing.   So   for at least a week,   we'll not be seeing   superstar   Bob McAdoo in that Knicks uniform.  

So weather watch update for New York City and vicinity.   Windy and becoming cloudy tonight with a low in the middle thirties.   Partly sunny and seasonably cold tomorrow with a high from 40 to 45.   Increasing cloudiness tomorrow night with a low from 30 to 35.   Then cloudy again on Sunday, but moderating temperature, a high again between forty and forty five.   The chance of rain is 20% tonight, 10% tomorrow and 20%   tomorrow night.   Wind south to southwest at 10 to 20 miles an hour with stronger gusts tonight,   shifting to westerly about the same speeds early tomorrow and becoming variable at 10 miles an hour or less tomorrow night. It's clear on this Friday night in Mid Manhattan,   40 3 degrees, six Celsius.  

Humidity, 49%.   Wind southwest at twelve,   gusts to 23 miles an hour. Barometer is steady   at three o point two seven.   The top stories of the hour.   Sam Brantman says he's mad, really mad at verdict.   His alleged abductors were found innocent of kidnapping,   but guilty of extorting money from Sam's dad.   Navy investigates possibility that one of its Skyhawk jet fighters   was shot down off North Carolina by Marine Corps jet.   Jobs, first priority for Carter,   then   tax cut.   And that's the 08:00 news. John Wingate reporting.   Next news, as always, on this station,   the minute it happens, we'll be there.  

Next scheduled news,   I'll be back at 09:00   on the hour this evening.  

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