In this gripping episode of the Mystery Theater, we delve into the complexities of human relationships and the unforeseen consequences of our actions. Our story, "Private Stock," written by Sam Dan, explores the philosophical notion that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. As the plot unfolds, we find ourselves entangled in a web of deceit, betrayal, and murder. The narrative centers around Bobby Lee Armature, a rock singer who meets a tragic end, and the investigation led by Captain Tom Turner, who is faced with the harrowing possibility that his own daughter, Ginny, may be involved in the crime.
As the investigation deepens, Captain Turner is haunted by the scent of a unique perfume, a clue that leads him to question his daughter's innocence. The episode masterfully portrays the internal struggle of a father torn between his duty as a detective and his love for his daughter. With a cast of intriguing characters and a plot filled with unexpected twists, "Private Stock" challenges listeners to ponder the nature of justice and the lengths one will go to protect their loved ones. Join us as we unravel this mystery and explore the darker sides of human nature.
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and conditions apply. Come in. Welcome. I'm EG Marshall. The scientists tell us that to every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction. Or on a practical basis each time you take a step forward there are those who try to push you a step back or even on a more practical note each time the police come up with a new and better way to catch a thief, the criminals create a new and better way to escape. Are we, as a late and great philosopher once suggested, on a treadmill to oblivion? Our mystery drama, Private Stock, was written especially for the mystery theater by Sam Dan and stars Ian Martin.
It is sponsored in part by Anheuser Busch Incorporated, brewers of Budweiser and Buick Motor Division. I'll be back shortly with act one. How do we learn? Is it the gradual integrated step by step process of absorption? Do we acquire understanding in layers and by degrees? Or is it all revealed in one fantastic flash of insight in a single searing stab of recognition Well, all this is by the way of laying down the groundwork of our tale And now that we have that out of the way How about a little action? I guess I'd better answer the thing, baby Forget it Okay I'm easy to get along with But then again if I don't answer it'll ring all night Maybe they'll get tired and hang up Not this one This is a stubborn cat
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Which cat? You know who it is? No
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Then how do you know he's stubborn? Tell by the way the phone rings Yeah? How can you tell? Well, first, let me get rid of him Call back later Now,
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what was I talking about? How you can tell what kind of person is calling you by the way the phone rings Oh yeah
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See I had this guru very heavy, deep
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What ever happened to him? He disappeared
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He said, we transfuse our personality into the physicality of the ordinary everyday objects we touch He's got us back there's the stubborn cat again You see how the ring sound? Nervous? Like the guy has no cool at all? Big? Big. Well, let's give him a break. Why? It's gotta be a palomade. You can tell by the ring. Who else would have my unlisted number? Go ahead, it's your time Hey, leave, baby Hey, Chunky, is that you? Oh, guilty, your honor, all the way Hey, man, I thought you were dead Why? Because everybody's been saying such great things about you Well, I just got in from the coast.
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You, you'll play the date? Hey. You know what I forgot to do? Line up something for tonight? Oh, old age is creeping up on you some. Oh, I thought I'd call my buddy here, see if you could find me some Axion
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digg. You dialed the right number. Hey. You think I can get well? I got just the medicine to turn that little trick absolutely.
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Hey. Where do I go? Go. Oh, man.
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Service is our middle motto. You stay, we deliver.
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Gotta be guaranteed merchandise. Comes from our own private stock. Hey. Would it be the redhead?
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Chunky. How would you know about this? I got my spies.
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Soon, baby? Sure
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And that was Chunky The Chunky Chapman himself Boo
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What's a boo? I don't dig Chunky You don't dig chunky? In the first place, he's old enough to be my father Can a guy pick his time to be born? In the second place, he looks like my father Well, shouldn't that give him a gold star? I don't really like my father
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Oh, Jenny, that's Unamerica
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Yeah, I think it's quite possible I even hate my father Well, I don't know your father but you That's it I don't know a mother Well, if you don't know him how can you hate him? Oh, I know him Maybe I should have said he doesn't know me I think he got a weird relationship working there He doesn't know anybody except himself He doesn't want to know anybody He killed my mother You're putting me on? No, not with a gun or anything like that He just broke her heart Oh, from the song of the same name? You know how my father thinks I am tonight?
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At a concert Then I better sing to you
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What am I talking about him for? I got a better idea
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Let's talk about you And, a favor you can do for me Would you, do it? Yeah,
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I'd do anything for you Look,
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it's getting late Now, you know this concert your old man thinks you're going to Well, it wouldn't be over till eleven Anyhow, would it? Eleven, eleven thirty So, you got more than enough time to do this little thing for me Okay, what is it? Stop off at Chunky's Hotel room Oh, oh sure
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I heard what you said on the phone You said you'd send him some medicine Right? Well, I certainly don't dig the man If he's a friend of yours and he's sick I'd certainly bring him something to help him get well
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That's my redhead
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Where do I get the medicine? It's right here in this room What is it?
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It's you Me? Uh-huh Just keep him company for a little while Me? Baby, he's lonesome He's got the blues so bad he could just die You're asking me to, to go to I'm asking you to save my life Nobody in this world plays guitar like Chunky Getting him to make this record date with me was like I didn't hear you say what I thought I did, did I? I said I'd help him out So if you don't go, he'll kill a date on me No No? What do you mean no? Would it kill you to spend ten minutes with Chunky Chapman? Yes What am I asking you to do, kill somebody? Hey, Ginny, you're on a downer tonight Everything will look different in the morning Chunky's a great guy to know Why? Well Are
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you are you passing me off to Chunky? Is that it? Oh, Queen
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We've got a beautiful relationship A meaningful relationship This will only strengthen it
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I love you, Lee
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I love you Yeah, sure, sure And all I'm asking you to do is,
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prove it Don't ask me, Lee Please, don't ask me Listen, he's a millionaire Please, Lee Come on, baby You you really want me to go, don't you?
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I told you you'll be saving my life I don't think it's worth saving Really can't mean anything to you What did you say? What's the truth? You've been around I'm gonna kill you
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You going crazy? I'm gonna kill you You ain't gotta kill anybody, Red All I need is something to do it with
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Hey, Redhead,
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put down that knife Five minutes ago I used it to cut bread Ginny, if this is a gag, it's not No, I'm gonna use it to kill you
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You ain't gonna kill anybody
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I loved you Oh, oh, I loved you Ginny Ginny,
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I said I was going to kill you Ginny, why'd you do that? I'm bleeding I'm gonna kill you. No, no, please. Please don't. I'm gonna kill you.
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Kill you? Somebody help me.
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What did I do? What
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did I
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do?
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That you, Jimmy? Yes, daddy? Well, concert over? Yes, daddy. How was it? Alright.
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I don't know. Why don't you have any luck with the fellas? I have luck, but it's all bad. You know you get more beautiful every day than that red hair You look more and more like your mother Thank you You also smell kind of nice
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Yeah, just like your mother It comes out of a bottle I think I'd better get to bed
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Oh,
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I thought maybe you wanna sit and talk Another time I have early classes tomorrow I have to teach the kids fractions Oh, yeah sure Okay
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I can tell by the way it rings somebody did something Captain Tony. Hello? Yeah. How long ago? Where? Is it doctor now? Yeah okay. Yeah, I'm on my way I gotta go At this hour of the night? We got the murder Oh? Who?
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Nor great last Everly some rock singer Daddy, even a rock singer is a human being Who,
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who was he? Oh, I don't think you'd know him, honey He wasn't your kind of highbrow musician Name was Lee Bobby Lee Armature You ever hear of him?
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Oh, I don't think so
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Well, somebody cut him up Multiple stab wounds Oh, how awful You better not wait up for me Ginny, let's get go late. Good night, honey. Good night, Daddy. Ginny Ginny, I know I was pretty tough on you while you were growing up and all. And the thing between me and your mother didn't help But look at you now I raised you right You went to college You got a job teaching school I'm grateful, daddy No, no, I mean you didn't turn out like the rest of them long hair, hippie, foul mouthed kids Well,
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he's dead now
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Oh, yeah Yeah I better get rolling I just wanted you to know him I'm so proud of you, Jenny What's your name? Junkie Chapman. What do you do? What do I do? What do you do? I am a captain of homicide detectives and I understand you're the one who found the body. Is that right? Oh, absolutely That's your story so let's not have any lip Just answer Just call me Chunky I play folk guitar My last record sold Top Gear What are you doing here? Lee, he promised to send some chick over to see me For what reason? Well, you know the score captain, you need to audition. And? She didn't show so I called him on the phone. There's no answer date. Then I figure I better make the scene. Look, you look like an American born boy to me. Would you talk English? Well I get here and and I ring the bell. Nothing. I can't figure. He ain't supposed to go nowhere but the door's open. I walk in and there he is.
Extremely dead. And that's all you know. Figure I better buzz the fuzz. That's how the room looked when you walked in? Mhmm. Check. You touch nothing? Hey, man. I took in too many of those detector flicks. You know, you walk in where cats just been cool and you don't disturb nothing. Yeah. Yeah. And it was 10:30. Yeah. And I checked the watch cause I knew you'd ask. Okay. You can take off. You mean you don't want nothing else out of me? Just let us know where we can get our hands on you. That sounds like fun. Met us. See this citizen gets a ride home. Good night, captain.
Okay, what happened, Doc? Yes, you can see, multiple stab wounds And go with a crime of passion Crime of passion? You doing my work in addition to your own, Doc? Nothing was touched or taken Diamond ring was still on his fingers Money's in his wallet. Tom, what you see here is anger. Anger, at least 10 wounds. Why so many? Somebody must have hated mister Bobby Lee Armature. Where's the weapon? The knife? What the killer do with it? I guess he took it with him. No, I'd say she took it with her. A woman? Why is this one of those famous Tom Turner flashes of insight? There was a woman in this room How do you know? How do I know? I can smell it Smell what? The perfume Perfume Can't you smell it?
It's very faint but Well, no that you mention it Maybe I do I never have noticed It's kind of familiar too Familiar? How? I don't know a doc but I just have a feeling I, I don't recognize it Tom Tom, hey, what are you staring at? Tom, are you okay? What is he staring at? Or is he staring at anything? Maybe he's just thinking, trying to remember. Remember where he has encountered a certain perfume before. Well, if you've been paying attention, you can probably guess. And comes act two, you'll check your answer. They lead tragic lives, many of the modern troubadours.
So many die young for a variety of reasons. Bobby Lee Armature was killed for one of the oldest reasons in the world, a woman's anger. And the young lady who killed him is no ordinary girl. Her father is a captain of detectives who's investigating the case. Tom, you never cease to amaze me. Hard boiled, two fisted Tom Turner who always gets this man is now a a connoisseur perfume of all things. There was a woman in this room with him. A woman who wears this kind of perfume. Well, it's a clue. And I should recognize that perfume, I should. Why? I can't tell you but Doc, I'll bet my life on it I I know that perfume
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Good morning, daddy Hey, I see you got the coffee going. You must have come home really late last night. Yeah. Well, there are some eggs if you want them. No, I'm not hungry, honey. I know you don't eat, you don't sleep, you don't talk to people when you're on a cape. So I better run along before I'm late. Ginny? Yes? Ginny? What is it, Danny? Why are you looking at me like that?
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Ginny, that that perfume of yours What about my perfume? What about
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it? Nothing I just happened to notice You just happened to notice it No? I've been wearing it for the past three years
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But this perfume of yours I guess a lot of women wear it Oh,
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no I don't think so I never ran into anyone else or did What are you talking about? Mary, I have to run the school Where did you get this buffoon? In Cusco Cusco, where's Cusco? It's a city in Peru Capital of the ancient Inca Empire Do you remember I went there to study Indian art Yeah, but but I'm asking about the perfume, I do That little hole in the wall company makes it And I fell in love with it and bought a few bottles This is the first time you ever mentioned it Do you like it? Daddy? Daddy, what's the matter?
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Ginny, are you saying that as far as you know you might be the only person in all The US who would be wearing it? Well, I would say that
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the chances of encountering anyone else who'd be wearing it around here are extremely remote I can't get out of this Why did you notice it now?
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Why didn't I notice it now? Because it's it's the perfume that was in that room when that punk singer was murdered That's why And it's not the kind of perfume that millions of women wear It's your perfume. Yours, Jimmy? Maybe I'm crazy. I gotta be crazy. What can I be thinking? Sorry to bust in on you this late, Doc. Yeah, sit down, Tom. Have a drink? No, I better not. I, look, Doc, I I I gotta talk to someone. Talk away. We've known each other how long? Thirty years, I, I have to ask you a very personal question Doc, I don't know what to do About what?
I can bring in the killer in the Bobby Lee armature murder Hey, Tom, that's something even for you The boy isn't dead three hours yet and there wasn't a clue in the room There was a clue Okay Who's your killer? Well I say at this point a prime suspect Okay, who? Well, Tom, who? I can't tell you yet Okay, well what can you tell me? Doc, I got a little bottle of perfume here I want you to smell it Well, why? Because I'm asking you to Okay It's, kind of strange Strange? By that I mean it isn't usual It's, well it's nice though It's nice You ever smell it before?
Did I ever smell it before? I, Well, I think so Where? What's, familiar? I just can't seem to place it Last night at Bobby Lee Armature's room there was a smell of perfume Right, that's it That that's the perfume Are you sure? Oh, yes, positive Is it possible that I could have made the suggestion and that you are simply accepting it? No, no, no, there's no doubt about it This is the perfume This is what we detected in Bobby Lee Armature's room Doc. Tom. Tom, what's the matter? You're you're pale as a ghost. It's an that's impossible.
My daughter, my own daughter, Ginny. Oh, no. It's ridiculous. It's crazy. No. I'm I'm I'll go no further. It it it's What? Tommy. Louise? Is that you Louise? Yes. It's Louise. No. No. How can you be talking to me? You're you're dead. Are you going to bring in your own daughter,
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Tommy?
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My own daughter. Our
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daughter? No.
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Besides, she she can't be the one. You know
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she's the one, Tommy? No, Louise. No Internet.
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Speech you made to me
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when you went out and arrested
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my own Oh, Louise. I
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A police officer has no feelings.
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family. No favorites in the It was my job. Then do your job again. Go find the evidence. And find your own daughter.
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Please.
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You better eat some breakfast, daddy.
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Ginny, where were you the holiday night? I told you, dad. I went to this concert. I mean, did you go with did you go with anybody? No. Why do you ask?
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I was just sort of hoping you'd had a date Daddy,
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when I find an interesting book No, I'm not pushing, honey. I just asked. I I noticed your sweater hanging in the bathroom. Unwashed it. There's still a stain on the sleeve. Oh?
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I must have been careless.
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That's a blood stain, Jenny. You better send it to the cleaners.
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They know what to do You'll, you'll only ruin Alright, I'll do that
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How did you happen to get blood on your sweater? Oh,
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I stopped off at the supermarket on my way home the other night and they were having a sale on steaks And I picked up this package It was so badly wrapped that that that the blood must have Oh, well, that's how it happened I was so angry I just stalked out of there without buying anything It's such a pretty sweater, too
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Drop it off at the cleaners I will
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how are you doing on the murder?
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Oh, all that. That that's, coming along, I guess. Good.
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Well, I better be off or I'll be late for my first class.
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The perfume
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No. No. It it it it could all be coincidence.
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Would it be coincidence if she was someone else's daughter? Louise, I Now if she were a stranger to you, what you do would be to show her picture to possible witnesses
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I can't do it, Louise. The resign
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from the depots.
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Oh, I can't quit.
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And do the job that city pays you for.
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Well, I keep telling you over and over again, you were supposed to send me a check. Oh. Well, you never said. Alright. Give me some names. I don't have any names. Look, captain. Chicks come in two groups. You dig? Now, like you walk out the stage door and narrow the groupies at two and three deep. Now you just take the one you want. You didn't even ask for her name. There have to be some names. And then there's the private stock. Yeah? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Now this is first class. See, nobody knows about the private stock. Not the writers, not the columnists, nobody. Because this is stuff that's too good to be made public A guy keeps it for himself and his best friends And that's what I was gonna get And you don't know who this girl was Now I will never know I I want you to look in this picture Yeah, sure Hey, this has got to be the private stock What do you say? Heck yeah, it's the one he was gonna send over, before he died How do you know? He said, the redhead How do you know it's this right ahead? Because I've seen him with her once.
You've seen him with this girl? Yeah, we're driving by in the car, you know, and I just caught a glimpse of that red hair. You're positive. Oh, I never forget a face, especially if it's a chick. What can I do for you, Captain? No. I wanna talk to you about Bobby Lee Armature. Well, what can I tell you? He did all his broadcast from your station here, didn't he? Yeah. When he was in town. Yeah. I, want you to look at this picture. Yeah? She look familiar? Well, now I'll tell you something. He was surrounded, constantly surrounded by all kinds of women. But this one I remember. Now you wanna know why? Yes? The hair.
That red hair. The red hair. What do you want me to do, Louise? Bring
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her in.
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On what charge?
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Suspicion of murder. No. No. I I I don't have enough. You brought my brother in, unless And stood up in court. So will it be.
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What? Smell of perfume? It's gone from the room by now. Witches? What witnesses? They think they saw a girl with red hair. You know what a defense attorney could do with that? The knife.
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What knife? The knife that killed him. Where is it?
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Oh, you we look for it. Did you The killer must have taken it with her and then thrown it away. We searched every sewer, every garbage bin, every Then she didn't
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throw it away.
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Louise. She's your own daughter. Why are you trying to destroy her?
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I can't destroy her, Tommy. You, yourself destroyed her long ago, and you can't face it. You just can't face it.
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Well, you can see where he is. He has two women in his life. One is living. The other is dead. And both are beginning to give him more trouble than he can handle. The solution to this problem, however, does exist, and it will be handled in act three. Physician, heal thyself. And we can also say, detective, discover thyself. This would seem to be the moral so far of our story. Proof, perhaps, that the solutions to most problems do not require long and distant journeys, but exist in so many cases close to home and quite possibly in the home.
Doing anything, Tom? Oh, come on, Doc. I'm just typing up a progress report on the Bobby Lee armature, Maria. Well, don't let me disturb you. It's a very short report. Oh, what are you doing here? I had to see the chief, Tom. I'm, I'm worried about you Doc, I'm okay This this thing that's bothering you What thing that's bothering me? You wanna talk about it? Well, there's nothing to talk about, okay
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Oh, no Louise, what do you want? Why do you keep coming back? They're beginning to notice What do you want?
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There's one thing that will give you the proof you need. What? The knife.
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Not only we we looked for the knife. You know where the knife is.
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It can only be in the house, in her room. I can't search your room much. You don't want to find the knife. Well, I see. Because you don't want to believe what she's become. Well, she's she's she's You want her to be the little girl who says daddy dear, the proper little school teacher. Alright. That's enough. That's enough. But you know what she's become, don't you? Private
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star. Oh, I won't listen.
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Daddy, I didn't expect you home for dinner tonight
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Well, I've gotta take a night off sometime You look so tired
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I wish I'd known before You see, I promised to go to an art exhibit Oh, that's okay, Ginny He's a friend of the head of the art department at the school Everybody will be there Okay, go ahead I won't be late It's okay Good night, daddy dear
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I followed her. She left the house. She got into a car, drove a few blocks. She stopped. Went into a phone booth. Then she came out and she headed downtown. She stopped finally at what we call Disco Row. A strip of joints from under the waterfront, clip joints mostly. But the real in place is it that it's that kind of thing that appeals to her. She went inside and I followed her. She couldn't see me. The joint was so packed and so noisy, but I could see her. And then I saw him. He was sitting at a table surrounded by all the parasites that hang around these people.
The emotion for all of them to take off the night they saw her. She sat down. I made my way over to the booth just behind them. And I was Hey, hey. When you said it was the redhead, I flipped Oh, what, Chunky? You see,
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he phoned me He said, I want you to go over and meet Chunky I almost flipped too Why didn't you show? I don't have a head He gave me the address, and you know, I forgot it. The Imperial Hotel? How could you forget? I could even forget my own name.
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What is your name, hon? You know something?
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I just forgot. Well, I'll call you redhead. And you're Chunky Chaplain. Hey.
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That's something. Hey, Brad.
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Hey. What do you do, redhead? I run around with chunky chipmunks. I mean, chunky Chaplain.
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Hey. You're some redhead. Yeah.
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It's a noisy joint, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. I know a place where it's quiet. What are we waiting for?
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I followed them out. They got into her car. She drove to the Imperial Hotel. They went upstairs. My daughter. My little girl. What was I gonna do? Could I go in there and beat his brains out? What good would that do?
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My little girl. Is what she's become,
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Tom? No. Louisa. Will that What day? What day? What day are you talking about? The day shall let the whole world know
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who Detective Captain Tom Turner's daughter really is.
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How can I stop?
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Oh, come in, dad Daddy isn't home
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yes, I know I came to see you, Jenny You have to help your father How? Make him slow down He doesn't listen to me He doesn't listen to anyone He has to He's not young anymore He's burning himself out Something's troubling him What?
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What's troubling him? Doc? Is something wrong with you?
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No no I'm I'm alright Well then
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then why are you looking at me like that? Ginny, Doc? What's wrong? Are you sure you're okay?
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Yes, yes I just, I just happened to think of something I have to be going. Hi, Tom. Oh, hi, Doug. Thought I'd drop by and take you to lunch. No I'm not hungry Did you see the ball game last night? No Well how are things? Fuck you're trying to tell me something aren't you? Yeah Well so? Man, I don't know how Alright then skip it I can't I can't Tom, it's Ginny isn't it? Ginny was the girl in the room Ginny killed him Yeah How do you know? Yeah the same way you did you caught it first if it wasn't for you I'd never have noticed it a perfume Yeah.
I don't know what to do. Let's go home. Face her with it. What can't? Then I will.
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Will, daddy and come talk Do you want me to fix a little snack?
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No, no thanks Ginny Your father has something to say to you What is it, daddy? Ginny, I, Yes? Doc, it's your place to say it, Tom To say what? The best thing the right thing would be for you to walk down to the nearest police station, the one in Crown And Clark. We'll drive you there, Doc and I, and you can give yourself up
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Give myself up? But but before what?
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The murder of Bobby Lee Armature
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You're crazy Oh, you killed him You're crazy if you think I'll confess to it Ginny, please listen Get lost Ginny I said get lost Ginny, it can only get worse You've got no proof, none I have Ginny, I have There isn't any proof Oh yes, there is
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This
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Where
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Where did you get that knife? It's the knife It's got your fingerprints in
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blood. You found it in my room.
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You had no right to search my room. You had no right. Jenny. I hate you. You wanted me to find it. You're crazy. You could have thrown the knife away hidden it where it could never be found. Daddy. You could have wiped the fingerprints off. Why didn't you wipe the fingerprints off? Fingerprints are all we have. Daddy? Not the fingerprints. We've nothing. Nothing. Well I'm I'm gonna leave this knife on the table. Doc and I are gonna walk out of the room. And you can decide if you wanna take a rag and wipe off Daddy,
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please What do you want me to do?
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I want you to make peace with yourself
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and with me. Daddy, I'm so tired and so unhappy. Help me. Please help me.
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Oh, yes, Ginny. Yes, dearest. I'll help you. And he did in the only way he could. She was booked and held. It was decided she needed psychiatric treatment, and she's still getting it. Some people may wonder, did the punishment fit the crime? I can't say because we all see these things differently, don't we? But we can all agree on my returning in just a few moments. Our cast included Ian Martin, Katherine Byers, Earl Hammond and Russell Horton The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division and Anheuser Busch Incorporated, brewers of Budweiser.
This is EG Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater for another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant.
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and conditions apply. Come in. Welcome. I'm EG Marshall. The scientists tell us that to every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction. Or on a practical basis each time you take a step forward there are those who try to push you a step back or even on a more practical note each time the police come up with a new and better way to catch a thief, the criminals create a new and better way to escape. Are we, as a late and great philosopher once suggested, on a treadmill to oblivion? Our mystery drama, Private Stock, was written especially for the mystery theater by Sam Dan and stars Ian Martin.
It is sponsored in part by Anheuser Busch Incorporated, brewers of Budweiser and Buick Motor Division. I'll be back shortly with act one. How do we learn? Is it the gradual integrated step by step process of absorption? Do we acquire understanding in layers and by degrees? Or is it all revealed in one fantastic flash of insight in a single searing stab of recognition Well, all this is by the way of laying down the groundwork of our tale And now that we have that out of the way How about a little action? I guess I'd better answer the thing, baby Forget it Okay I'm easy to get along with But then again if I don't answer it'll ring all night Maybe they'll get tired and hang up Not this one This is a stubborn cat
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Which cat? You know who it is? No
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Then how do you know he's stubborn? Tell by the way the phone rings Yeah? How can you tell? Well, first, let me get rid of him Call back later Now,
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what was I talking about? How you can tell what kind of person is calling you by the way the phone rings Oh yeah
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See I had this guru very heavy, deep
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What ever happened to him? He disappeared
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He said, we transfuse our personality into the physicality of the ordinary everyday objects we touch He's got us back there's the stubborn cat again You see how the ring sound? Nervous? Like the guy has no cool at all? Big? Big. Well, let's give him a break. Why? It's gotta be a palomade. You can tell by the ring. Who else would have my unlisted number? Go ahead, it's your time Hey, leave, baby Hey, Chunky, is that you? Oh, guilty, your honor, all the way Hey, man, I thought you were dead Why? Because everybody's been saying such great things about you Well, I just got in from the coast.
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You, you'll play the date? Hey. You know what I forgot to do? Line up something for tonight? Oh, old age is creeping up on you some. Oh, I thought I'd call my buddy here, see if you could find me some Axion
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digg. You dialed the right number. Hey. You think I can get well? I got just the medicine to turn that little trick absolutely.
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Hey. Where do I go? Go. Oh, man.
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Service is our middle motto. You stay, we deliver.
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Gotta be guaranteed merchandise. Comes from our own private stock. Hey. Would it be the redhead?
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Chunky. How would you know about this? I got my spies.
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Soon, baby? Sure
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And that was Chunky The Chunky Chapman himself Boo
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What's a boo? I don't dig Chunky You don't dig chunky? In the first place, he's old enough to be my father Can a guy pick his time to be born? In the second place, he looks like my father Well, shouldn't that give him a gold star? I don't really like my father
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Oh, Jenny, that's Unamerica
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Yeah, I think it's quite possible I even hate my father Well, I don't know your father but you That's it I don't know a mother Well, if you don't know him how can you hate him? Oh, I know him Maybe I should have said he doesn't know me I think he got a weird relationship working there He doesn't know anybody except himself He doesn't want to know anybody He killed my mother You're putting me on? No, not with a gun or anything like that He just broke her heart Oh, from the song of the same name? You know how my father thinks I am tonight?
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At a concert Then I better sing to you
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What am I talking about him for? I got a better idea
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Let's talk about you And, a favor you can do for me Would you, do it? Yeah,
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I'd do anything for you Look,
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it's getting late Now, you know this concert your old man thinks you're going to Well, it wouldn't be over till eleven Anyhow, would it? Eleven, eleven thirty So, you got more than enough time to do this little thing for me Okay, what is it? Stop off at Chunky's Hotel room Oh, oh sure
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I heard what you said on the phone You said you'd send him some medicine Right? Well, I certainly don't dig the man If he's a friend of yours and he's sick I'd certainly bring him something to help him get well
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That's my redhead
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Where do I get the medicine? It's right here in this room What is it?
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It's you Me? Uh-huh Just keep him company for a little while Me? Baby, he's lonesome He's got the blues so bad he could just die You're asking me to, to go to I'm asking you to save my life Nobody in this world plays guitar like Chunky Getting him to make this record date with me was like I didn't hear you say what I thought I did, did I? I said I'd help him out So if you don't go, he'll kill a date on me No No? What do you mean no? Would it kill you to spend ten minutes with Chunky Chapman? Yes What am I asking you to do, kill somebody? Hey, Ginny, you're on a downer tonight Everything will look different in the morning Chunky's a great guy to know Why? Well Are
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you are you passing me off to Chunky? Is that it? Oh, Queen
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We've got a beautiful relationship A meaningful relationship This will only strengthen it
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I love you, Lee
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I love you Yeah, sure, sure And all I'm asking you to do is,
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prove it Don't ask me, Lee Please, don't ask me Listen, he's a millionaire Please, Lee Come on, baby You you really want me to go, don't you?
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I told you you'll be saving my life I don't think it's worth saving Really can't mean anything to you What did you say? What's the truth? You've been around I'm gonna kill you
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You going crazy? I'm gonna kill you You ain't gotta kill anybody, Red All I need is something to do it with
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Hey, Redhead,
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put down that knife Five minutes ago I used it to cut bread Ginny, if this is a gag, it's not No, I'm gonna use it to kill you
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You ain't gonna kill anybody
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I loved you Oh, oh, I loved you Ginny Ginny,
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I said I was going to kill you Ginny, why'd you do that? I'm bleeding I'm gonna kill you. No, no, please. Please don't. I'm gonna kill you.
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Kill you? Somebody help me.
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What did I do? What
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did I
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do?
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That you, Jimmy? Yes, daddy? Well, concert over? Yes, daddy. How was it? Alright.
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I don't know. Why don't you have any luck with the fellas? I have luck, but it's all bad. You know you get more beautiful every day than that red hair You look more and more like your mother Thank you You also smell kind of nice
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Yeah, just like your mother It comes out of a bottle I think I'd better get to bed
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Oh,
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I thought maybe you wanna sit and talk Another time I have early classes tomorrow I have to teach the kids fractions Oh, yeah sure Okay
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I can tell by the way it rings somebody did something Captain Tony. Hello? Yeah. How long ago? Where? Is it doctor now? Yeah okay. Yeah, I'm on my way I gotta go At this hour of the night? We got the murder Oh? Who?
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Nor great last Everly some rock singer Daddy, even a rock singer is a human being Who,
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who was he? Oh, I don't think you'd know him, honey He wasn't your kind of highbrow musician Name was Lee Bobby Lee Armature You ever hear of him?
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Oh, I don't think so
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Well, somebody cut him up Multiple stab wounds Oh, how awful You better not wait up for me Ginny, let's get go late. Good night, honey. Good night, Daddy. Ginny Ginny, I know I was pretty tough on you while you were growing up and all. And the thing between me and your mother didn't help But look at you now I raised you right You went to college You got a job teaching school I'm grateful, daddy No, no, I mean you didn't turn out like the rest of them long hair, hippie, foul mouthed kids Well,
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he's dead now
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Oh, yeah Yeah I better get rolling I just wanted you to know him I'm so proud of you, Jenny What's your name? Junkie Chapman. What do you do? What do I do? What do you do? I am a captain of homicide detectives and I understand you're the one who found the body. Is that right? Oh, absolutely That's your story so let's not have any lip Just answer Just call me Chunky I play folk guitar My last record sold Top Gear What are you doing here? Lee, he promised to send some chick over to see me For what reason? Well, you know the score captain, you need to audition. And? She didn't show so I called him on the phone. There's no answer date. Then I figure I better make the scene. Look, you look like an American born boy to me. Would you talk English? Well I get here and and I ring the bell. Nothing. I can't figure. He ain't supposed to go nowhere but the door's open. I walk in and there he is.
Extremely dead. And that's all you know. Figure I better buzz the fuzz. That's how the room looked when you walked in? Mhmm. Check. You touch nothing? Hey, man. I took in too many of those detector flicks. You know, you walk in where cats just been cool and you don't disturb nothing. Yeah. Yeah. And it was 10:30. Yeah. And I checked the watch cause I knew you'd ask. Okay. You can take off. You mean you don't want nothing else out of me? Just let us know where we can get our hands on you. That sounds like fun. Met us. See this citizen gets a ride home. Good night, captain.
Okay, what happened, Doc? Yes, you can see, multiple stab wounds And go with a crime of passion Crime of passion? You doing my work in addition to your own, Doc? Nothing was touched or taken Diamond ring was still on his fingers Money's in his wallet. Tom, what you see here is anger. Anger, at least 10 wounds. Why so many? Somebody must have hated mister Bobby Lee Armature. Where's the weapon? The knife? What the killer do with it? I guess he took it with him. No, I'd say she took it with her. A woman? Why is this one of those famous Tom Turner flashes of insight? There was a woman in this room How do you know? How do I know? I can smell it Smell what? The perfume Perfume Can't you smell it?
It's very faint but Well, no that you mention it Maybe I do I never have noticed It's kind of familiar too Familiar? How? I don't know a doc but I just have a feeling I, I don't recognize it Tom Tom, hey, what are you staring at? Tom, are you okay? What is he staring at? Or is he staring at anything? Maybe he's just thinking, trying to remember. Remember where he has encountered a certain perfume before. Well, if you've been paying attention, you can probably guess. And comes act two, you'll check your answer. They lead tragic lives, many of the modern troubadours.
So many die young for a variety of reasons. Bobby Lee Armature was killed for one of the oldest reasons in the world, a woman's anger. And the young lady who killed him is no ordinary girl. Her father is a captain of detectives who's investigating the case. Tom, you never cease to amaze me. Hard boiled, two fisted Tom Turner who always gets this man is now a a connoisseur perfume of all things. There was a woman in this room with him. A woman who wears this kind of perfume. Well, it's a clue. And I should recognize that perfume, I should. Why? I can't tell you but Doc, I'll bet my life on it I I know that perfume
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Good morning, daddy Hey, I see you got the coffee going. You must have come home really late last night. Yeah. Well, there are some eggs if you want them. No, I'm not hungry, honey. I know you don't eat, you don't sleep, you don't talk to people when you're on a cape. So I better run along before I'm late. Ginny? Yes? Ginny? What is it, Danny? Why are you looking at me like that?
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Ginny, that that perfume of yours What about my perfume? What about
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it? Nothing I just happened to notice You just happened to notice it No? I've been wearing it for the past three years
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But this perfume of yours I guess a lot of women wear it Oh,
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no I don't think so I never ran into anyone else or did What are you talking about? Mary, I have to run the school Where did you get this buffoon? In Cusco Cusco, where's Cusco? It's a city in Peru Capital of the ancient Inca Empire Do you remember I went there to study Indian art Yeah, but but I'm asking about the perfume, I do That little hole in the wall company makes it And I fell in love with it and bought a few bottles This is the first time you ever mentioned it Do you like it? Daddy? Daddy, what's the matter?
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Ginny, are you saying that as far as you know you might be the only person in all The US who would be wearing it? Well, I would say that
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the chances of encountering anyone else who'd be wearing it around here are extremely remote I can't get out of this Why did you notice it now?
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Why didn't I notice it now? Because it's it's the perfume that was in that room when that punk singer was murdered That's why And it's not the kind of perfume that millions of women wear It's your perfume. Yours, Jimmy? Maybe I'm crazy. I gotta be crazy. What can I be thinking? Sorry to bust in on you this late, Doc. Yeah, sit down, Tom. Have a drink? No, I better not. I, look, Doc, I I I gotta talk to someone. Talk away. We've known each other how long? Thirty years, I, I have to ask you a very personal question Doc, I don't know what to do About what?
I can bring in the killer in the Bobby Lee armature murder Hey, Tom, that's something even for you The boy isn't dead three hours yet and there wasn't a clue in the room There was a clue Okay Who's your killer? Well I say at this point a prime suspect Okay, who? Well, Tom, who? I can't tell you yet Okay, well what can you tell me? Doc, I got a little bottle of perfume here I want you to smell it Well, why? Because I'm asking you to Okay It's, kind of strange Strange? By that I mean it isn't usual It's, well it's nice though It's nice You ever smell it before?
Did I ever smell it before? I, Well, I think so Where? What's, familiar? I just can't seem to place it Last night at Bobby Lee Armature's room there was a smell of perfume Right, that's it That that's the perfume Are you sure? Oh, yes, positive Is it possible that I could have made the suggestion and that you are simply accepting it? No, no, no, there's no doubt about it This is the perfume This is what we detected in Bobby Lee Armature's room Doc. Tom. Tom, what's the matter? You're you're pale as a ghost. It's an that's impossible.
My daughter, my own daughter, Ginny. Oh, no. It's ridiculous. It's crazy. No. I'm I'm I'll go no further. It it it's What? Tommy. Louise? Is that you Louise? Yes. It's Louise. No. No. How can you be talking to me? You're you're dead. Are you going to bring in your own daughter,
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Tommy?
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My own daughter. Our
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daughter? No.
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Besides, she she can't be the one. You know
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she's the one, Tommy? No, Louise. No Internet.
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Speech you made to me
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when you went out and arrested
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my own Oh, Louise. I
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A police officer has no feelings.
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No
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family. No favorites in the It was my job. Then do your job again. Go find the evidence. And find your own daughter.
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Please.
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You better eat some breakfast, daddy.
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Ginny, where were you the holiday night? I told you, dad. I went to this concert. I mean, did you go with did you go with anybody? No. Why do you ask?
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I was just sort of hoping you'd had a date Daddy,
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when I find an interesting book No, I'm not pushing, honey. I just asked. I I noticed your sweater hanging in the bathroom. Unwashed it. There's still a stain on the sleeve. Oh?
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I must have been careless.
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That's a blood stain, Jenny. You better send it to the cleaners.
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They know what to do You'll, you'll only ruin Alright, I'll do that
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How did you happen to get blood on your sweater? Oh,
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I stopped off at the supermarket on my way home the other night and they were having a sale on steaks And I picked up this package It was so badly wrapped that that that the blood must have Oh, well, that's how it happened I was so angry I just stalked out of there without buying anything It's such a pretty sweater, too
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Drop it off at the cleaners I will
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how are you doing on the murder?
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Oh, all that. That that's, coming along, I guess. Good.
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Well, I better be off or I'll be late for my first class.
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The perfume
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No. No. It it it it could all be coincidence.
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Would it be coincidence if she was someone else's daughter? Louise, I Now if she were a stranger to you, what you do would be to show her picture to possible witnesses
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I can't do it, Louise. The resign
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from the depots.
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Oh, I can't quit.
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And do the job that city pays you for.
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Well, I keep telling you over and over again, you were supposed to send me a check. Oh. Well, you never said. Alright. Give me some names. I don't have any names. Look, captain. Chicks come in two groups. You dig? Now, like you walk out the stage door and narrow the groupies at two and three deep. Now you just take the one you want. You didn't even ask for her name. There have to be some names. And then there's the private stock. Yeah? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Now this is first class. See, nobody knows about the private stock. Not the writers, not the columnists, nobody. Because this is stuff that's too good to be made public A guy keeps it for himself and his best friends And that's what I was gonna get And you don't know who this girl was Now I will never know I I want you to look in this picture Yeah, sure Hey, this has got to be the private stock What do you say? Heck yeah, it's the one he was gonna send over, before he died How do you know? He said, the redhead How do you know it's this right ahead? Because I've seen him with her once.
You've seen him with this girl? Yeah, we're driving by in the car, you know, and I just caught a glimpse of that red hair. You're positive. Oh, I never forget a face, especially if it's a chick. What can I do for you, Captain? No. I wanna talk to you about Bobby Lee Armature. Well, what can I tell you? He did all his broadcast from your station here, didn't he? Yeah. When he was in town. Yeah. I, want you to look at this picture. Yeah? She look familiar? Well, now I'll tell you something. He was surrounded, constantly surrounded by all kinds of women. But this one I remember. Now you wanna know why? Yes? The hair.
That red hair. The red hair. What do you want me to do, Louise? Bring
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her in.
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On what charge?
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Suspicion of murder. No. No. I I I don't have enough. You brought my brother in, unless And stood up in court. So will it be.
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What? Smell of perfume? It's gone from the room by now. Witches? What witnesses? They think they saw a girl with red hair. You know what a defense attorney could do with that? The knife.
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What knife? The knife that killed him. Where is it?
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Oh, you we look for it. Did you The killer must have taken it with her and then thrown it away. We searched every sewer, every garbage bin, every Then she didn't
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throw it away.
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Louise. She's your own daughter. Why are you trying to destroy her?
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I can't destroy her, Tommy. You, yourself destroyed her long ago, and you can't face it. You just can't face it.
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Well, you can see where he is. He has two women in his life. One is living. The other is dead. And both are beginning to give him more trouble than he can handle. The solution to this problem, however, does exist, and it will be handled in act three. Physician, heal thyself. And we can also say, detective, discover thyself. This would seem to be the moral so far of our story. Proof, perhaps, that the solutions to most problems do not require long and distant journeys, but exist in so many cases close to home and quite possibly in the home.
Doing anything, Tom? Oh, come on, Doc. I'm just typing up a progress report on the Bobby Lee armature, Maria. Well, don't let me disturb you. It's a very short report. Oh, what are you doing here? I had to see the chief, Tom. I'm, I'm worried about you Doc, I'm okay This this thing that's bothering you What thing that's bothering me? You wanna talk about it? Well, there's nothing to talk about, okay
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Okay.
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Oh, no Louise, what do you want? Why do you keep coming back? They're beginning to notice What do you want?
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There's one thing that will give you the proof you need. What? The knife.
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Not only we we looked for the knife. You know where the knife is.
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It can only be in the house, in her room. I can't search your room much. You don't want to find the knife. Well, I see. Because you don't want to believe what she's become. Well, she's she's she's You want her to be the little girl who says daddy dear, the proper little school teacher. Alright. That's enough. That's enough. But you know what she's become, don't you? Private
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star. Oh, I won't listen.
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Daddy, I didn't expect you home for dinner tonight
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Well, I've gotta take a night off sometime You look so tired
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I wish I'd known before You see, I promised to go to an art exhibit Oh, that's okay, Ginny He's a friend of the head of the art department at the school Everybody will be there Okay, go ahead I won't be late It's okay Good night, daddy dear
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I followed her. She left the house. She got into a car, drove a few blocks. She stopped. Went into a phone booth. Then she came out and she headed downtown. She stopped finally at what we call Disco Row. A strip of joints from under the waterfront, clip joints mostly. But the real in place is it that it's that kind of thing that appeals to her. She went inside and I followed her. She couldn't see me. The joint was so packed and so noisy, but I could see her. And then I saw him. He was sitting at a table surrounded by all the parasites that hang around these people.
The emotion for all of them to take off the night they saw her. She sat down. I made my way over to the booth just behind them. And I was Hey, hey. When you said it was the redhead, I flipped Oh, what, Chunky? You see,
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he phoned me He said, I want you to go over and meet Chunky I almost flipped too Why didn't you show? I don't have a head He gave me the address, and you know, I forgot it. The Imperial Hotel? How could you forget? I could even forget my own name.
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What is your name, hon? You know something?
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I just forgot. Well, I'll call you redhead. And you're Chunky Chaplain. Hey.
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That's something. Hey, Brad.
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Hey. What do you do, redhead? I run around with chunky chipmunks. I mean, chunky Chaplain.
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Hey. You're some redhead. Yeah.
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It's a noisy joint, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. I know a place where it's quiet. What are we waiting for?
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I followed them out. They got into her car. She drove to the Imperial Hotel. They went upstairs. My daughter. My little girl. What was I gonna do? Could I go in there and beat his brains out? What good would that do?
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My little girl. Is what she's become,
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Tom? No. Louisa. Will that What day? What day? What day are you talking about? The day shall let the whole world know
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who Detective Captain Tom Turner's daughter really is.
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How can I stop?
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Oh, come in, dad Daddy isn't home
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yes, I know I came to see you, Jenny You have to help your father How? Make him slow down He doesn't listen to me He doesn't listen to anyone He has to He's not young anymore He's burning himself out Something's troubling him What?
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What's troubling him? Doc? Is something wrong with you?
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No no I'm I'm alright Well then
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then why are you looking at me like that? Ginny, Doc? What's wrong? Are you sure you're okay?
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Yes, yes I just, I just happened to think of something I have to be going. Hi, Tom. Oh, hi, Doug. Thought I'd drop by and take you to lunch. No I'm not hungry Did you see the ball game last night? No Well how are things? Fuck you're trying to tell me something aren't you? Yeah Well so? Man, I don't know how Alright then skip it I can't I can't Tom, it's Ginny isn't it? Ginny was the girl in the room Ginny killed him Yeah How do you know? Yeah the same way you did you caught it first if it wasn't for you I'd never have noticed it a perfume Yeah.
I don't know what to do. Let's go home. Face her with it. What can't? Then I will.
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Will, daddy and come talk Do you want me to fix a little snack?
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No, no thanks Ginny Your father has something to say to you What is it, daddy? Ginny, I, Yes? Doc, it's your place to say it, Tom To say what? The best thing the right thing would be for you to walk down to the nearest police station, the one in Crown And Clark. We'll drive you there, Doc and I, and you can give yourself up
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Give myself up? But but before what?
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The murder of Bobby Lee Armature
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You're crazy Oh, you killed him You're crazy if you think I'll confess to it Ginny, please listen Get lost Ginny I said get lost Ginny, it can only get worse You've got no proof, none I have Ginny, I have There isn't any proof Oh yes, there is
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This
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Where
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Where did you get that knife? It's the knife It's got your fingerprints in
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blood. You found it in my room.
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You had no right to search my room. You had no right. Jenny. I hate you. You wanted me to find it. You're crazy. You could have thrown the knife away hidden it where it could never be found. Daddy. You could have wiped the fingerprints off. Why didn't you wipe the fingerprints off? Fingerprints are all we have. Daddy? Not the fingerprints. We've nothing. Nothing. Well I'm I'm gonna leave this knife on the table. Doc and I are gonna walk out of the room. And you can decide if you wanna take a rag and wipe off Daddy,
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please What do you want me to do?
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I want you to make peace with yourself
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and with me. Daddy, I'm so tired and so unhappy. Help me. Please help me.
[00:37:40] Unknown:
Oh, yes, Ginny. Yes, dearest. I'll help you. And he did in the only way he could. She was booked and held. It was decided she needed psychiatric treatment, and she's still getting it. Some people may wonder, did the punishment fit the crime? I can't say because we all see these things differently, don't we? But we can all agree on my returning in just a few moments. Our cast included Ian Martin, Katherine Byers, Earl Hammond and Russell Horton The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division and Anheuser Busch Incorporated, brewers of Budweiser.
This is EG Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater for another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant.
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Introduction to the Mystery
The Philosophy of Learning
A Mysterious Phone Call
A Favor for a Friend
A Deadly Encounter
The Investigation Begins
The Perfume Clue
A Father's Dilemma
Following the Redhead
Confrontation and Confession
