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In this intriguing episode of Radio Mystery Theater, we delve into the enigmatic world of dreams and their mysterious connection to reality. Hosted by EG Marshall, the story unfolds with a psychiatrist, Dr. Lucy Abelson, who finds herself entangled in a web of dreams that predict a chilling fate. Her patient, John Joseph Hill Jr., is haunted by recurring dreams of being killed by a stranger, Morley K. Sutlidge, whom he has never met. As Dr. Abelson tries to unravel the meaning behind these dreams, she becomes ensnared in her own nightmare, foreseeing her death at the hands of the same mysterious figure.
As the narrative progresses, the lines between dreams and reality blur, leading to a dramatic confrontation in the woods. Dr. Abelson's desperate attempt to alter the course of fate results in unforeseen consequences, raising profound questions about the nature of dreams and their power to shape our destinies. This episode challenges listeners to ponder the age-old debate: are dreams mere illusions, or do they hold the key to understanding our deepest fears and desires? Tune in to explore the captivating interplay between the conscious and subconscious mind.
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Yes. Radio mystery theater presents
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Welcome. I'm EG Marshall. Tell me your dream, said the ancient soothsayer, and I shall reveal the fate the immortal gods have cast for you. Tell me your dream, says the modern psychiatrist, and I shall reveal the innermost secrets of your psyche. You can cut it, slice, shape it, any way you like. But after all these years, it seems we're still in the dream business.
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Why do you wanna kill mister John Jervis Hill? Madam, who are you? Answer the question. Why do you wanna kill mister Hill? I don't know anyone named Hill. I'm not a killer by instinct or choice. Don't evade the question. Madam,
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It happens. You ask, what was that sound? And everyone looks at you quizzically. Obviously, you were the only one who heard it. A sound or perhaps a brief bar of music, a voice, a glimpse of a face, a flash of a color, a fleeting sensation so strange, so unreal, it defies description. No one else has seen or felt or heard any of these things, but they were real. For you, they were real. We're in a room, a neat little room, in which a neat lovely lady is now living. It looks like a nice well kept hotel room, except for one thing. There are bars on the windows.
May I come in? Doctor Geller. May I sit down, doctor Abison? Let's get it over with. Lucy. Lucy.
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And I was your star pupil too. Really? Even the great doctor Geller can make mistakes. Lucy, what happened? You know what happened. I made a statement. Why did you kill him? I had to. But why? To save my patient's life
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and my own. Now come now. It's all there. I wrote a statement. This? Yes, doctor Keller. I go back a long way, my dear. I know you do, doctor. Lucy, I have known personally the great pioneers of our science, starting with Freud who was the very first psychiatrist. All the good ones had that certain quality. You have it too. I'm afraid not. No more. Dreams. Our first discoveries came from dreams. What have you discovered in dreams? I've discovered that I can be charged with murder. Lucy, what happened? I told you. I made a confession.
Lucy, I am not just the court appointed alienist. I'm your teacher, your colleague, your friend. You know you can trust me. Oh, but can I trust myself?
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Alright. He came into the office, a man close to 50, but in the prime of his life, tall, attractive, handsome. Dorough. His name's John Joseph Hill Junior. He was quite ill at ease. After a few minutes, I said to him, what is bothering you?
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Doctor, you don't know what it's costing me to sit in this chair. Mister Hill, we've already discussed the fee. I'm not talking about money. Well, then what are you talking about?
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Doctor Abelson, for a guy like me to go to a to a shrink excuse me. I didn't mean that as an insult. I understand. I'm not sure you do. So a guy like me shrinks, psychiatrist, that whole crowd, it's all a joke. Like, they're all crazy. Who goes to weirdos? You know? And? But I reached the point where Yes? I spoke to a priest. He's a regular guy, father McClain. We batted it back and forth. He said, Jack, I can only give you one half of the help you need. Half? Yeah. I can I can help you find peace, he said? But first, we must discover the nature of the the demons that drive you. The demons that drive me.
And they told me to see you. Me? Well, somebody like you. You know? It's right. I just couldn't do it. Maybe he never. So I figured if it's all psychological, who's a better psychologist than Patty O'Neil? A doctor only? He calls himself a doctor of mixology. I'm afraid I know. He's a bartender. One of the smartest guys I know. In fact, I know some of the biggest, believe me. I may talk like a guy without much education which I never did get but I put up buildings all over the world. I understand. I've been to the White House and all that but I never forget where I come from.
A couple of times a year, I always go back to Patty O'Neil's down on the West Side and I wouldn't think you'd ever been at the joint. No. We don't encourage Dan, you see. Well, anyhow, Patty's been standing behind the bar forty five, fifty years. He's had it all. But something like this, never. So he says to me, Jack, one of them hedgehrinkers for you. So faced with that, Mhmm.
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I had no choice.
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And why did you choose me? I couldn't ask anybody's advice about a thing like this. So I opened up the classified and I looked on the doctors and where it says psychiatrist, there was doctor l Labelson, first one listed. So I figured they all got degrees. One's as good as another. I'd call for an appointment. It wasn't until I walked into the waiting room that I found out the l stands for Lucy. And did you consider walking her? Yes. Why? It's bad enough. I gotta go see a shrink, but at the end of the bargain, she's a dame. You know what I'm talking about?
Yes. So? Well, I'd already made the appointment. I wouldn't be fair to you.
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Mister Hill, you are obviously a man who demands the very best for his money. Now why would you settle for an inferior psychiatrist? I never said that you were But I'm a woman. How can I be the equal of a man?
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I just realized, maybe I need a woman doctor. Why? What I'm gonna say, I couldn't say to a man.
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Why not?
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They'd look at me as if I was crazy.
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How do you know I won't do the same thing? I'm a be well. Except? Except what? Except. Nothing. Except it doesn't really matter what I think of you. But for a man to think you're crazy means a personal loss of stature, you can't tolerate that even from a doctor.
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You have to take me seriously. You can't look at me like I was some nut that walked in here off the street. I mean, I've been to dinner at the White House. I've already made a note of that. And I'm telling the truth all the way down the line. Suppose
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you begin to tell it. Well, it started
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it started a year ago. I had this dream. I saw this face. I didn't think anything of it at first. Well, you're always running into strange faces in a dream, aren't you? It happens. But then then every night, I keep dreaming about this guy. Tall, thin, middle aged. He It was always there. Where? Everywhere. And did you speak to him? No. Why not? You know how it is in a dream. You you wanna do something, but somehow you can't manage to do it. Well, who do you think he is? I know who he is. A guy named Morley k Sutlage.
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Well, how did you find out?
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I was dreaming. I'm at the airport. Okay? And this voice in the PA says, will mister Morley k Sutlage please report to the information desk?
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And this guy walks over. And until this time, you've never known a Morley k Sutlage? No, doc. I never did. Had you ever heard that name before? Never. Very well.
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So we have this fictitious individual. No. He ain't fictitious. He's real. Yes. In your dream, perhaps. In real life. How do you know?
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I looked him up in the phone book. And there is such a person? Yeah. I wrote down the address, went over to where he lives, parked my car, waited. And after a while, he got out of the cab, and he went inside. The same person? To what's he? Who is it? I had no trouble checking all that out. He teaches in the college. What does he teach? One of them histories. I got the names written. He's supposed to be the world's greatest expert on the ancient Sumerians and Hittites. And never to the best of your knowledge have you ever had anything at all to do with this man. I told you. Never.
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Is there any conceivable way in which your paths may have crossed? No. Can you be certain? Sure. I can.
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I have the guy investigated. Mhmm. I checked out practically his whole life. You know something? There is no way the two of us could ever been in the same place at the same time. Except in your dream. Yeah. The guy teaches at the college, so I dropped over there. I went to the cafeteria. He was sitting at a table all by himself reading a book. I bring a cup of coffee over. You, mind finding your sedan? No. Thanks. You're welcome. Last name? You think so? Oh, it is. And it's a good thing. Is it? Well, sure. Why? Oh, because things go better in good weather, don't they? Not all things.
Well, wars, for example. Wars? Oh, yeah. I hadn't thought of that. Bad weather has saved countless lives during wartime. Now, sir, I have enjoyed our conversation, but I must be excused. Oh, sure. Sure.
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Hey. You know,
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you look familiar. Do I? Yeah. Do we, know each other? No. Well, could we, maybe have met someplace? No. You sure? I'm virtually certain. Well, in other words, I don't look familiar to you. Not in the slightest.
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As far as I'm concerned, this is the first encounter between us.
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Then yes, if we never met, why do I why do you what? Doctor, I got up from the chair, and I must have run out of there. Why? Well, there was a question I had to ask him, but how could I? What question? Oh, come on, doc. What would it sound like if I asked why do I dream about you? You know what the guy would think? Well, you just walked out of there. Well, maybe you could say Iran.
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Well, doc. Why not? What is it?
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Why do I dream about this character? I never met him. You can't be sure. I'm telling you, I had an army of private investigators. Could have met him somewhere without either one of you being aware of it. Something about his appearance may have buried itself in your subconscious, and now it's been released into your dreams. Doc,
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he scares me. Why should a man like this scare you? Because
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because he's gonna kill me. Now how can we say that? I know exactly where he's gonna do it, when he's gonna do it, and how he's gonna do it. How can you be so sure? Because I already seen him do it. Every night for a week, I've been having the exact same dream. Just me and him. He points a gun at me. He kills me. But why? I don't know and I don't care. All I know is he kills me. Now you tell me. Am I or am I not crazy?
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That all depends on your point of view. For example, the ancient magicians believe that dreams predicted your future. Modern psychiatrists believe that dreams reveal your past. So you see, as far as revelation is concerned, the old and the new agree in principle only. Nothing's changed very much, has it? I'll be back with that too shortly. The new midsize Buick Regal. It meets the demands of today A little size? Without losing the special things about Buick that people have always loved. Now that's some trick. A little magic? On the outside, it's trimmer than last year's Regal Coupe. Are you ready to buy it? The outside, it's trimmer than last year's Regal Coupe. Are you the five? And yet there's more headroom, more legroom, more trunk room. Do you imagine? With a wizardry of a turbocharged sport coupe A little five. And such traditional dual qualities as luxury, elegance, and prestige.
The new Regal, a down to earth dream car at your Buick dealer. He has awakened from the dream of life, said the poet. But life is a dream, then what surrounds it? Into what do we awaken? Is there a higher, a stronger, a deeper reality than the one we think we know? If so, what a terrifying place that must be. Will your patient says he sees a man for the first time in a dream? Then he encounters this man in reality. Yes. Doctor Keller. And this man, whom he does not know, proceeds to kill him in a dream. In a dream.
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This man that morally k Sutlidge fired the gun and killed him.
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Why? I asked him. And what did mister Hill answer? He said, I don't know.
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You've never given him any cards, mister Hill? I never had anything to do with them in my life. There must be a basis for this fantasy of yours. Agassi?
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In fact, you didn't know where I told you. The guy is gonna kill me. The Thomas professor of history. Who says he's Thomas? Who says he's a professor of history? You told me that he teaches at the university. Yeah. Yeah. But who says that's all he does? Well, what else does he do?
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I don't know. Well, you said you had him thoroughly investigated if he were involved in any other sort of activity. Surely, your detective would does things that the the the detective can't uncover. Such as? Such as
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okay. Such as getting himself into my dreams. Oh. What does that mean? What does that mean? That that o. You just said oh. Does it mean that you now got me down to something? There ain't no more time to go down to earth. God, can I? Will.
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We have begun this journey together. We must go where it takes us. This dream where he shoots you, tell me exactly how it happens. Okay.
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I'm in the woods. And what are you doing there? I'm on a hunting trip. Do you know where? Yeah. I'm up at Joe Langley's hunting lodge. Joe Langley? D Joe Langley? Yeah. He's maybe the fourth or fifth richest guy in the world. Alright. I'm in the woods. It is one beautiful day. You can hear the birds and sometimes there's a chatter of a squirrel or a chipmunk. And I'm thinking, what a shame to kill anything on a day like this. Bob Joe Langley only talks business at the lodge with guys who like to hunt. So then I hear someone coming. It's hey, Professor Sutlage.
Is that you?
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Yes, biz. Who are you?
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We met. Indeed. We had a cup of coffee together at the college cafeteria. Bill's the name. John Joseph Hill junior, but everyone calls me Jack. And what do you do, mister Hill? I build buildings. They would? Oh, yeah. I think some of the biggest in the world. That's fascinating. What are you doing up here? I'm supposed to be hunting. Oh? I'm a guest of mister Langridge. I assume you are also since I understand this is his preserve. Oh, yeah. This whole place, it's over 10,000 acres. There's something regal in that concept. The divine right of ancient kings to say that only I may roam this land and kill at my pleasure.
Regal or obscene, depending. Do you like the hunt? I despise it. What are you doing, ain't it? I've been seduced. I'm seeking support for an archaeological expedition to a site in ancient Mesopotamia. Mister Longway is interested, but he will trust no man who hates to hunt. And so I must lie in order to pursue an honest endeavor. I joined the club. I got a development project, so I have to come up here to score points too. What, what what kind of gun you got there? Oh, is this something I bought for the occasion? That's, Carrington thirty.
I wouldn't know one from another. I just asked the store clerk for sort of middle quality rifle. Does the, safety catch on? What? The, safety? Oh, you shouldn't walk around in the woods or any place else with the safety off. Which is the safety? No. No. No. Not that. Oh, but then take your finger off that kick here.
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Mister Hippo. I'm sorry. I I just don't stand to get a doctor. The whole idea of a gun, it makes me nervous. Get a doctor. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'd watch the watch.
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He drops his gun. He runs off. And I'm just lying in. I look down at my chest, the blood is soaking through my shirt. I can feel the cold lead of the bullet in my heart and that cold blood is making me feel cold all over. Everything starts to get there and the sun kind of fades out like a like a light in a theater and the song of the birds gets quieter till I I can't hear them no more. Soon I'm alone, all alone in the dark,
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and I'm dead. I know I'm dead. And that's what happens in your dream?
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Every night.
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And what is there that I can do for you? Tell me what it means. We would have to work together for weeks, months, perhaps years to discover the wellsprings of this fantasy.
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Is it, death weeks? Weeks, months, years. You're supposed to be a doctor. I'm not supposed to be a doctor. I am a doctor. Alright. Then act like a doctor. Why do I dream of this guy? Am I alright? You know what I mean? I think so. Then why?
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We could say you have been given a warning. Yeah. By who? I couldn't hope to explain it. I'm not sure I can understand it myself. A warning by whatever incomprehensible forces that swirl about us inside and out. A warning. A man named Sutlage will kill you. But why? Maybe you need him. To kill me? Perhaps you don't want to be doing business with Joe Langley. Why wouldn't I? I don't know. How hard a bargain does he drive? Well The only time you go to him is when you can't raise financing anywhere else. How did you know? It's true, isn't it?
Yeah. It's true. So your dream is only telling you to keep away?
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Yeah. Yeah. That's what I figured myself. Well, thanks, Doug. For what?
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You had the answer all along? Yeah. But a bum like me,
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where do I come off getting bright ideas? I had to see if somebody smart agreed with me.
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I would say that was a reasonably accurate analysis of the situation, doctor Emerson. Thank you, doctor Geller. And he walks out of your office? Yes. May I ask why wasn't that the end of it?
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Doctor Geller, it would have been the end of it.
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Except yes. Except. Except
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I had a dream too.
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A dream? Yes. A recurring dream.
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What sort of dream? It was a dream that developed over a period of months.
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Yes? The first few times I dreamed that I'm
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driving along with Turnpike. My radio is playing. I'm listening to Mozart. And I look in my rearview mirror. I know that the car is very close behind me, actually tailgating. And just as it seemed it must hit me, I wake up.
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And that is all at first.
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And each week, the dream becomes more and more filled with details. Finally, it has a beginning, a middle, and an end, especially an end. What sort of end? Can't you imagine? I've already told me. Alright. I will. The complete dream as it has existed every night for more than three weeks now. I am driving along the turnpike. I'm listening to Mozart. I look in my rearview mirror. The car behind me is very close, too close. He will hit me. I know he will hit me. I try to move away from him, but it's still falling. Finally, I feel the shock, the impact of the crash.
The car is hurled off the road and into a concrete apartment. A great light flares up in my brain, and then all goes black and still.
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And I'm dead.
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I know I'm dead. A light flares up and then goes out. Yes. And in that light, I see something. Yes. I see the face of the glider. Do you know who it is? Tell me. Morley k Sutlage. The same? Are you sure? I see the license plate. KOO89O. I checked that registration.
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Do you know whose it is? Morley k Sutlidge. Morley k Sutlidge. Amazing coincidence.
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I remember something else. Yes? The radio announcer's voice just before he started the Mozart recording. Do you know what he said? Tell me. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and what a bright morning this is. The October. Let's get off to a start with some sprightly medsguard. The October. That would be about a month from now. Yes, doctor.
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So I knew that on the October 28, mister Morley k Sutlidge would kill me. Because your dream said so. Yes. And that's why I had to kill him. Couldn't you have done something less spectacular? Couldn't you have saved yourself by not driving on the turnpike on a four twenty eight? No. Well well, why not? Because the dream has taken over, and it cannot be changed. Yeah. But my dear, the dream is only an illusion.
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Doctor, how do you know? How can you be sure that this what's happening right now, our conversation, How can you be sure that this is not an illusion?
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Well, alright. But how do you prove anything when it comes down to that? They tell the story of a famous philosophy professor. He was lecturing his class on illusion and reality. And the bright young student asked, professor, how do I know I exist? And the professor replied, who is asking the question? Well, all of your questions shall be answered shortly when I return with act three. It was the Spanish playwright who said life is a dream, and even dreams are dreams. It is. It's all in the mind, and the mind is a divine engine that is capable of wonders far beyond our comprehension.
It leads us into places that the intelligence cannot yet understand. Indeed, when you add it all up, how little we know. Very well, you see. You dream of being killed by this professor Morley k Sutlage. Yes. In an automobile. But I must ask you again. Why didn't you keep off the turn bike? I couldn't. I don't understand.
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If you are convinced, you are going to be killed. Believe me, I couldn't. I tried. Every morning as I would leave my apartment to drive to my office, I would deliberately attempt to use Main Avenue, but I always turn off at the ramp. You're in now surely As if I'm responding to someone else's will. Who? I don't know It's something that overrides my own powers I'm forced to take the turnpike man, you don't know what to make of me, doctor Gellert No. I don't. Well, I don't know what to make of myself either.
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Now, Lucy, you know why you dream of Sutlej, don't you? It's all all the suggestion. His name was brought up by your patient as a menace, and so it has crept into your own subconscious. That's an easy assumption. Well, does that make it invalid? My father was a doctor, a general practitioner. When he heard I was to become a psychiatrist, he said, good. You know why? I can't imagine. He believes that doctors were constantly exposed to the infectious germs of their patients. Well, we psychiatrists are no better off. We can also be infected by the virulent psychosis that constantly is around. I don't believe it.
I know for a fact you are not a very confident driver. Is that true? No. I You are afraid of the turnpike. That is not so. You see? You force yourself to use it because you realize your fear is irrational. So we have the turnpike, a frightening thing. Your patient mentions a man named Sutlidge, a frightening person. Your subconscious puts both of them together, and your dream declares that Sutlage will kill you. You know, doctor, one day,
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a psychiatrist will listen to a patient and say you are right. I am wrong.
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I wish I could say that to you. Just now to return to your sworn statement, You claim to your obvious about a regal call. Mister Hale was waiting to see you. Yes. He was agitated, nervous, was smoking one cigarette after another.
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He said to me. Doc, all that stuff we went through last time when I was in your office,
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what did it all mean?
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What do you think it meant? Oh, come on doc. I pull that same stuff in business. Ask me a question with a question. On one level, it meant you really don't want to do business with Joe Langley. Yeah. And what else? You feel so threatened by Joe Langley that you see your death symbolically.
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Okay. I'm gonna tell you something. I'm going up to the Langley Lodge this weekend. And Sutlage will be there too?
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How did you know? I,
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I was afraid to think about how I know. Is it true? Yeah. I had to be sure, so I made an excuse to call Langley's secretary. By the way, I asked, anybody else gonna be there? And she said, yeah. A Morley k Sutlage. Something,
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There's only one thing I can tell you. Don't go. Yeah.
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That's what I keep telling myself. So what's the problem? I know I can't stop myself from going. I know I have to be there. But I'll I'll be in the woods just like in the dream and I know I'll go through with it because I can't change any of it. But why?
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Why can't I just not go? I don't wanna go. But you are going. Yeah. We know, of course, that you will do nothing to stop Sutlidge from shooting you.
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I know. There's nothing anybody can do about it.
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Maybe there is. Maybe everything will be alright.
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And that is how you would make it be alright? You would kill Sutcliffe? He couldn't change the course of his fate, but I could.
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It wasn't my dream, my vision, my revelation of Barrett Langley's. It was his. He might be helpless, but not me. If I could stop Sutlage from killing him, he could later on stop Sutlage from killing me on the Turnpike.
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But if you would kill Sutlage up at the lodge, how could he later on kill you on the toad by? Keep using that word kill doctor. I wasn't going to kill him. Just stop him. Very well.
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Somehow, I would get the gun away from him. Then I would explain to Hill that he must save me on October 28 by somehow preventing Sutlidge from using his car. I see. Why do you seem so skeptical, doctor?
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Why do you fight it? Please continue. You're only going to stop Sutcliffe, but in the end, you killed him. Why? Everything went wrong. Sutcliffe was under a compulsion. What compulsion? He too had to carry through the dream.
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Whose dream? Well, if we only knew. Lucy. And so on that day, I drove up to the hunting preserve. Hill was right. It was a place of awe inspiring beauty. I knew I had to find Sutlidge before he encountered Hill. Once that scene began, it could not be stopped until I hurried through the woods till suddenly I saw him. This tall, thin man with gold rimmed glasses carrying a rifle. I asked him, are you professor Sutlidge? Yes. Professor, I must ask you for a favor. Why should I do you a favor? My name is Lucy Abelson, doctor Lucy Abelson. Yes? I'm a psychiatrist.
Well, why should that be of interest to me? I have a patient who happens to be up here in the woods. The sight of the rifle well, any weapon, in fact, frightens him. Really? And I was wondering perhaps if you could let me have your rifle till he's gone safely away. Let you have this rifle, my good woman. Please? It's vitally important. Are you saying You must believe me. I don't know what your game is, but I have no desire to play. You have to. Believe me. It's the truth. In just a few moments, a man named John Jay Hill will walk by here. Who is he? A man. And the two of you will chat briefly. Now that rifle of yours, there will be an accident.
It will go off. Are you serious? And you will kill him. Now believe me. But how can I believe that's nonsense? I know it's difficult, but I'm a responsible person. No. Have you heard of doctor Benjamin Geller, the noted psychiatrist? Come back to the lodge with me. You phone him. You ask him about me. He'll tell you I'm one of his colleagues. You should be one of his patients. Please. I beg you. And into the bargain, you're probably trespassing. Just let me have the gun. I hear someone coming. Oh, I hope it's one of mister Langley's servants. But a minute, it'll be too late. For what? You will kill mister Hill. But I don't have the slightest desire to kill anyone. That is unimportant. Now will you please stand aside? It'll be an accident. I'm asking. No. No. You see? Yeah. There he comes. It's mister Hill. Wait. Is he an accomplice of your own? Mister Hill? Go back. Go back. You see, look. He's coming closer.
John, go back. I can't. Stop. I can't. He'll kill you. I know. Joan. I I can't help myself. I can't.
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I'll help you. I'll save you. Protect to give me the gun. What are you trying to do? Give it to me. Remove your hands from No. Let go.
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I said let it go. Wait.
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Go,
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Peter. Go, Peter.
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You're you're foolish one. What did you hope to accomplish? And he was dead. Yeah, doctor Galen. And some of mister Langley's servants saw what happened. I read their statements. They said you and professor Sutcliffe were having a fight. You attacked professor Sutcliffe without warning. But that isn't true.
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When I go to trial, I'll explain the whole
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thing. If you go to trial, I have been assigned by the court to determine if you are competent. You can't believe I'm not qualified to stand trial. Oh, no.
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I'm saying. Mhmm. Will testify about dreams, and that will give me credibility.
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I'm afraid not. You see, I have spoken to mister Hilly, and he says he has no memory of those dreams. He can't deny he came to see me. No. Yes. Yes. But he cannot recall why. It is quite possibly that the trauma of seeing professor Sutcliffe die erased the memory of the dream completely. Oh, no. And it is also possible that mister Hill, being very much the practical man of the world, does not vanish the idea of telling everyone he went to a psychiatrist
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because he was afraid of a dream. But he did.
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Poor Lucy. You fell in love with him, didn't you? No. Why not? We hear so many patients who fall in love with the analyst. Why shouldn't the analyst fall in love with the occasional patient?
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He he won't testify.
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No. But, my dear, everything will be alright. You'll get the best of care and treatment. And in a year or two, you will be as good as ever. You don't believe me, doctor Geller. I'm telling you it's true. We have seen the future in the dream. My dear Lucy, if you persist, I can see your future while we are wide awake. It will be here in the sanitarium. Because I'm telling you the truth. Please, Lucy. Try to understand. No. It's the truth. The truth. I'm telling the truth. I see the truth. I know the truth. Thus speaks the prophet, the discoverer, the innovator.
And they speak, these people do, to those who have neither the vision, the faith, nor the courage to understand. And so it is their fate to languish neglected, unheeded until one day. Well, is Lucy Abelson telling the truth? Does the future reveal itself to us in dreams? Stranger things have been known to happen. I shall return shortly. I'm Hyman Brown, producer director of Radio Mystery Theater. Recently, when we celebrated our fifteen hundredth broadcast, I asked if you would write to us. Tell us how you like our thrillers, and also tell us a little bit about yourself and your family. I'm deeply pleased and gratified by the abundance of mail that came in. We are trying to answer your wonderful letters, but you can easily understand that the time pressures involved in producing and directing mystery theater are such that we may not get to every letter.
So right now, I wanna thank all of you for writing and for the warmth and the perceptiveness of your comments on our seven nights a week chromatic series. From EG Marshall, from me, from the actors, actresses, and technicians of Radio Mystery Theater, thank you very much. Why are so many of our dreams blurred and confused? We shrug. We answer. It is because, perhaps, our minds are too active. But suppose the dreams do not originate in our own minds. Suppose our minds are like, well, TV sets that are receiving visions and messages. Suppose at this point, the TV sets of our minds are too primitive to receive the picture clearly.
Well, you can get a crystal clear picture on the radio right here. Production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.
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And now
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a preview of our next tale. Your fee will be the usual. No way. The price for killing ahead of a steak will be a lot steeper than my normal fee, and you know it. The risks involved here are far greater than I told you we'd arranged it so that the risk will be absolutely minimal. Yeah. On paper. I'm the guy who's gonna stick his neck out in Aragona. Haven't our arrangements been letter perfect in the past? The price is 1 quarter of a million dollars, half in advance as usual. Ridiculous. And get yourself another boy.
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Your contact in FOBE will be a senior Messina. There will be $125,000 placed in your Zurich accounts.
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Here are your plane tickets and passport.
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You'll note that the likeness is very good and your name is Duncan Appleton. Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by True Value Hardware stores and Buick Motor Division. 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 the repair bill.
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Yes. Radio mystery theater presents
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Come in.
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Welcome. I'm EG Marshall. Tell me your dream, said the ancient soothsayer, and I shall reveal the fate the immortal gods have cast for you. Tell me your dream, says the modern psychiatrist, and I shall reveal the innermost secrets of your psyche. You can cut it, slice, shape it, any way you like. But after all these years, it seems we're still in the dream business.
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Why do you wanna kill mister John Jervis Hill? Madam, who are you? Answer the question. Why do you wanna kill mister Hill? I don't know anyone named Hill. I'm not a killer by instinct or choice. Don't evade the question. Madam,
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you are obviously a disturbed person. I have to make sure you don't kill him. Put that gun away. Our mister drama, You Tell Me Your Dream, was written especially for the mystery theater by Sam Dann and stars Terry Keen. It is sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division and True Value Hardware Stores.
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It happens. You ask, what was that sound? And everyone looks at you quizzically. Obviously, you were the only one who heard it. A sound or perhaps a brief bar of music, a voice, a glimpse of a face, a flash of a color, a fleeting sensation so strange, so unreal, it defies description. No one else has seen or felt or heard any of these things, but they were real. For you, they were real. We're in a room, a neat little room, in which a neat lovely lady is now living. It looks like a nice well kept hotel room, except for one thing. There are bars on the windows.
May I come in? Doctor Geller. May I sit down, doctor Abison? Let's get it over with. Lucy. Lucy.
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And I was your star pupil too. Really? Even the great doctor Geller can make mistakes. Lucy, what happened? You know what happened. I made a statement. Why did you kill him? I had to. But why? To save my patient's life
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and my own. Now come now. It's all there. I wrote a statement. This? Yes, doctor Keller. I go back a long way, my dear. I know you do, doctor. Lucy, I have known personally the great pioneers of our science, starting with Freud who was the very first psychiatrist. All the good ones had that certain quality. You have it too. I'm afraid not. No more. Dreams. Our first discoveries came from dreams. What have you discovered in dreams? I've discovered that I can be charged with murder. Lucy, what happened? I told you. I made a confession.
Lucy, I am not just the court appointed alienist. I'm your teacher, your colleague, your friend. You know you can trust me. Oh, but can I trust myself?
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Alright. He came into the office, a man close to 50, but in the prime of his life, tall, attractive, handsome. Dorough. His name's John Joseph Hill Junior. He was quite ill at ease. After a few minutes, I said to him, what is bothering you?
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Doctor, you don't know what it's costing me to sit in this chair. Mister Hill, we've already discussed the fee. I'm not talking about money. Well, then what are you talking about?
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Doctor Abelson, for a guy like me to go to a to a shrink excuse me. I didn't mean that as an insult. I understand. I'm not sure you do. So a guy like me shrinks, psychiatrist, that whole crowd, it's all a joke. Like, they're all crazy. Who goes to weirdos? You know? And? But I reached the point where Yes? I spoke to a priest. He's a regular guy, father McClain. We batted it back and forth. He said, Jack, I can only give you one half of the help you need. Half? Yeah. I can I can help you find peace, he said? But first, we must discover the nature of the the demons that drive you. The demons that drive me.
And they told me to see you. Me? Well, somebody like you. You know? It's right. I just couldn't do it. Maybe he never. So I figured if it's all psychological, who's a better psychologist than Patty O'Neil? A doctor only? He calls himself a doctor of mixology. I'm afraid I know. He's a bartender. One of the smartest guys I know. In fact, I know some of the biggest, believe me. I may talk like a guy without much education which I never did get but I put up buildings all over the world. I understand. I've been to the White House and all that but I never forget where I come from.
A couple of times a year, I always go back to Patty O'Neil's down on the West Side and I wouldn't think you'd ever been at the joint. No. We don't encourage Dan, you see. Well, anyhow, Patty's been standing behind the bar forty five, fifty years. He's had it all. But something like this, never. So he says to me, Jack, one of them hedgehrinkers for you. So faced with that, Mhmm.
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I had no choice.
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And why did you choose me? I couldn't ask anybody's advice about a thing like this. So I opened up the classified and I looked on the doctors and where it says psychiatrist, there was doctor l Labelson, first one listed. So I figured they all got degrees. One's as good as another. I'd call for an appointment. It wasn't until I walked into the waiting room that I found out the l stands for Lucy. And did you consider walking her? Yes. Why? It's bad enough. I gotta go see a shrink, but at the end of the bargain, she's a dame. You know what I'm talking about?
Yes. So? Well, I'd already made the appointment. I wouldn't be fair to you.
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Mister Hill, you are obviously a man who demands the very best for his money. Now why would you settle for an inferior psychiatrist? I never said that you were But I'm a woman. How can I be the equal of a man?
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I just realized, maybe I need a woman doctor. Why? What I'm gonna say, I couldn't say to a man.
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Why not?
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They'd look at me as if I was crazy.
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How do you know I won't do the same thing? I'm a be well. Except? Except what? Except. Nothing. Except it doesn't really matter what I think of you. But for a man to think you're crazy means a personal loss of stature, you can't tolerate that even from a doctor.
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You have to take me seriously. You can't look at me like I was some nut that walked in here off the street. I mean, I've been to dinner at the White House. I've already made a note of that. And I'm telling the truth all the way down the line. Suppose
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you begin to tell it. Well, it started
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it started a year ago. I had this dream. I saw this face. I didn't think anything of it at first. Well, you're always running into strange faces in a dream, aren't you? It happens. But then then every night, I keep dreaming about this guy. Tall, thin, middle aged. He It was always there. Where? Everywhere. And did you speak to him? No. Why not? You know how it is in a dream. You you wanna do something, but somehow you can't manage to do it. Well, who do you think he is? I know who he is. A guy named Morley k Sutlage.
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Well, how did you find out?
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I was dreaming. I'm at the airport. Okay? And this voice in the PA says, will mister Morley k Sutlage please report to the information desk?
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And this guy walks over. And until this time, you've never known a Morley k Sutlage? No, doc. I never did. Had you ever heard that name before? Never. Very well.
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So we have this fictitious individual. No. He ain't fictitious. He's real. Yes. In your dream, perhaps. In real life. How do you know?
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I looked him up in the phone book. And there is such a person? Yeah. I wrote down the address, went over to where he lives, parked my car, waited. And after a while, he got out of the cab, and he went inside. The same person? To what's he? Who is it? I had no trouble checking all that out. He teaches in the college. What does he teach? One of them histories. I got the names written. He's supposed to be the world's greatest expert on the ancient Sumerians and Hittites. And never to the best of your knowledge have you ever had anything at all to do with this man. I told you. Never.
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Is there any conceivable way in which your paths may have crossed? No. Can you be certain? Sure. I can.
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I have the guy investigated. Mhmm. I checked out practically his whole life. You know something? There is no way the two of us could ever been in the same place at the same time. Except in your dream. Yeah. The guy teaches at the college, so I dropped over there. I went to the cafeteria. He was sitting at a table all by himself reading a book. I bring a cup of coffee over. You, mind finding your sedan? No. Thanks. You're welcome. Last name? You think so? Oh, it is. And it's a good thing. Is it? Well, sure. Why? Oh, because things go better in good weather, don't they? Not all things.
Well, wars, for example. Wars? Oh, yeah. I hadn't thought of that. Bad weather has saved countless lives during wartime. Now, sir, I have enjoyed our conversation, but I must be excused. Oh, sure. Sure.
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Hey. You know,
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you look familiar. Do I? Yeah. Do we, know each other? No. Well, could we, maybe have met someplace? No. You sure? I'm virtually certain. Well, in other words, I don't look familiar to you. Not in the slightest.
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As far as I'm concerned, this is the first encounter between us.
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Then yes, if we never met, why do I why do you what? Doctor, I got up from the chair, and I must have run out of there. Why? Well, there was a question I had to ask him, but how could I? What question? Oh, come on, doc. What would it sound like if I asked why do I dream about you? You know what the guy would think? Well, you just walked out of there. Well, maybe you could say Iran.
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Well, doc. Why not? What is it?
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Why do I dream about this character? I never met him. You can't be sure. I'm telling you, I had an army of private investigators. Could have met him somewhere without either one of you being aware of it. Something about his appearance may have buried itself in your subconscious, and now it's been released into your dreams. Doc,
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he scares me. Why should a man like this scare you? Because
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because he's gonna kill me. Now how can we say that? I know exactly where he's gonna do it, when he's gonna do it, and how he's gonna do it. How can you be so sure? Because I already seen him do it. Every night for a week, I've been having the exact same dream. Just me and him. He points a gun at me. He kills me. But why? I don't know and I don't care. All I know is he kills me. Now you tell me. Am I or am I not crazy?
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That all depends on your point of view. For example, the ancient magicians believe that dreams predicted your future. Modern psychiatrists believe that dreams reveal your past. So you see, as far as revelation is concerned, the old and the new agree in principle only. Nothing's changed very much, has it? I'll be back with that too shortly. The new midsize Buick Regal. It meets the demands of today A little size? Without losing the special things about Buick that people have always loved. Now that's some trick. A little magic? On the outside, it's trimmer than last year's Regal Coupe. Are you ready to buy it? The outside, it's trimmer than last year's Regal Coupe. Are you the five? And yet there's more headroom, more legroom, more trunk room. Do you imagine? With a wizardry of a turbocharged sport coupe A little five. And such traditional dual qualities as luxury, elegance, and prestige.
The new Regal, a down to earth dream car at your Buick dealer. He has awakened from the dream of life, said the poet. But life is a dream, then what surrounds it? Into what do we awaken? Is there a higher, a stronger, a deeper reality than the one we think we know? If so, what a terrifying place that must be. Will your patient says he sees a man for the first time in a dream? Then he encounters this man in reality. Yes. Doctor Keller. And this man, whom he does not know, proceeds to kill him in a dream. In a dream.
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This man that morally k Sutlidge fired the gun and killed him.
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Why? I asked him. And what did mister Hill answer? He said, I don't know.
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You've never given him any cards, mister Hill? I never had anything to do with them in my life. There must be a basis for this fantasy of yours. Agassi?
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In fact, you didn't know where I told you. The guy is gonna kill me. The Thomas professor of history. Who says he's Thomas? Who says he's a professor of history? You told me that he teaches at the university. Yeah. Yeah. But who says that's all he does? Well, what else does he do?
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I don't know. Well, you said you had him thoroughly investigated if he were involved in any other sort of activity. Surely, your detective would does things that the the the detective can't uncover. Such as? Such as
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okay. Such as getting himself into my dreams. Oh. What does that mean? What does that mean? That that o. You just said oh. Does it mean that you now got me down to something? There ain't no more time to go down to earth. God, can I? Will.
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We have begun this journey together. We must go where it takes us. This dream where he shoots you, tell me exactly how it happens. Okay.
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I'm in the woods. And what are you doing there? I'm on a hunting trip. Do you know where? Yeah. I'm up at Joe Langley's hunting lodge. Joe Langley? D Joe Langley? Yeah. He's maybe the fourth or fifth richest guy in the world. Alright. I'm in the woods. It is one beautiful day. You can hear the birds and sometimes there's a chatter of a squirrel or a chipmunk. And I'm thinking, what a shame to kill anything on a day like this. Bob Joe Langley only talks business at the lodge with guys who like to hunt. So then I hear someone coming. It's hey, Professor Sutlage.
Is that you?
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Yes, biz. Who are you?
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We met. Indeed. We had a cup of coffee together at the college cafeteria. Bill's the name. John Joseph Hill junior, but everyone calls me Jack. And what do you do, mister Hill? I build buildings. They would? Oh, yeah. I think some of the biggest in the world. That's fascinating. What are you doing up here? I'm supposed to be hunting. Oh? I'm a guest of mister Langridge. I assume you are also since I understand this is his preserve. Oh, yeah. This whole place, it's over 10,000 acres. There's something regal in that concept. The divine right of ancient kings to say that only I may roam this land and kill at my pleasure.
Regal or obscene, depending. Do you like the hunt? I despise it. What are you doing, ain't it? I've been seduced. I'm seeking support for an archaeological expedition to a site in ancient Mesopotamia. Mister Longway is interested, but he will trust no man who hates to hunt. And so I must lie in order to pursue an honest endeavor. I joined the club. I got a development project, so I have to come up here to score points too. What, what what kind of gun you got there? Oh, is this something I bought for the occasion? That's, Carrington thirty.
I wouldn't know one from another. I just asked the store clerk for sort of middle quality rifle. Does the, safety catch on? What? The, safety? Oh, you shouldn't walk around in the woods or any place else with the safety off. Which is the safety? No. No. No. Not that. Oh, but then take your finger off that kick here.
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Mister Hippo. I'm sorry. I I just don't stand to get a doctor. The whole idea of a gun, it makes me nervous. Get a doctor. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'd watch the watch.
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He drops his gun. He runs off. And I'm just lying in. I look down at my chest, the blood is soaking through my shirt. I can feel the cold lead of the bullet in my heart and that cold blood is making me feel cold all over. Everything starts to get there and the sun kind of fades out like a like a light in a theater and the song of the birds gets quieter till I I can't hear them no more. Soon I'm alone, all alone in the dark,
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and I'm dead. I know I'm dead. And that's what happens in your dream?
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Every night.
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And what is there that I can do for you? Tell me what it means. We would have to work together for weeks, months, perhaps years to discover the wellsprings of this fantasy.
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Is it, death weeks? Weeks, months, years. You're supposed to be a doctor. I'm not supposed to be a doctor. I am a doctor. Alright. Then act like a doctor. Why do I dream of this guy? Am I alright? You know what I mean? I think so. Then why?
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We could say you have been given a warning. Yeah. By who? I couldn't hope to explain it. I'm not sure I can understand it myself. A warning by whatever incomprehensible forces that swirl about us inside and out. A warning. A man named Sutlage will kill you. But why? Maybe you need him. To kill me? Perhaps you don't want to be doing business with Joe Langley. Why wouldn't I? I don't know. How hard a bargain does he drive? Well The only time you go to him is when you can't raise financing anywhere else. How did you know? It's true, isn't it?
Yeah. It's true. So your dream is only telling you to keep away?
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Yeah. Yeah. That's what I figured myself. Well, thanks, Doug. For what?
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You had the answer all along? Yeah. But a bum like me,
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where do I come off getting bright ideas? I had to see if somebody smart agreed with me.
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I would say that was a reasonably accurate analysis of the situation, doctor Emerson. Thank you, doctor Geller. And he walks out of your office? Yes. May I ask why wasn't that the end of it?
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Doctor Geller, it would have been the end of it.
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Except yes. Except. Except
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I had a dream too.
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A dream? Yes. A recurring dream.
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What sort of dream? It was a dream that developed over a period of months.
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Yes? The first few times I dreamed that I'm
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driving along with Turnpike. My radio is playing. I'm listening to Mozart. And I look in my rearview mirror. I know that the car is very close behind me, actually tailgating. And just as it seemed it must hit me, I wake up.
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And that is all at first.
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And each week, the dream becomes more and more filled with details. Finally, it has a beginning, a middle, and an end, especially an end. What sort of end? Can't you imagine? I've already told me. Alright. I will. The complete dream as it has existed every night for more than three weeks now. I am driving along the turnpike. I'm listening to Mozart. I look in my rearview mirror. The car behind me is very close, too close. He will hit me. I know he will hit me. I try to move away from him, but it's still falling. Finally, I feel the shock, the impact of the crash.
The car is hurled off the road and into a concrete apartment. A great light flares up in my brain, and then all goes black and still.
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And I'm dead.
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I know I'm dead. A light flares up and then goes out. Yes. And in that light, I see something. Yes. I see the face of the glider. Do you know who it is? Tell me. Morley k Sutlage. The same? Are you sure? I see the license plate. KOO89O. I checked that registration.
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Do you know whose it is? Morley k Sutlidge. Morley k Sutlidge. Amazing coincidence.
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I remember something else. Yes? The radio announcer's voice just before he started the Mozart recording. Do you know what he said? Tell me. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and what a bright morning this is. The October. Let's get off to a start with some sprightly medsguard. The October. That would be about a month from now. Yes, doctor.
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So I knew that on the October 28, mister Morley k Sutlidge would kill me. Because your dream said so. Yes. And that's why I had to kill him. Couldn't you have done something less spectacular? Couldn't you have saved yourself by not driving on the turnpike on a four twenty eight? No. Well well, why not? Because the dream has taken over, and it cannot be changed. Yeah. But my dear, the dream is only an illusion.
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Doctor, how do you know? How can you be sure that this what's happening right now, our conversation, How can you be sure that this is not an illusion?
[00:29:46] Unknown:
Well, alright. But how do you prove anything when it comes down to that? They tell the story of a famous philosophy professor. He was lecturing his class on illusion and reality. And the bright young student asked, professor, how do I know I exist? And the professor replied, who is asking the question? Well, all of your questions shall be answered shortly when I return with act three. It was the Spanish playwright who said life is a dream, and even dreams are dreams. It is. It's all in the mind, and the mind is a divine engine that is capable of wonders far beyond our comprehension.
It leads us into places that the intelligence cannot yet understand. Indeed, when you add it all up, how little we know. Very well, you see. You dream of being killed by this professor Morley k Sutlage. Yes. In an automobile. But I must ask you again. Why didn't you keep off the turn bike? I couldn't. I don't understand.
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If you are convinced, you are going to be killed. Believe me, I couldn't. I tried. Every morning as I would leave my apartment to drive to my office, I would deliberately attempt to use Main Avenue, but I always turn off at the ramp. You're in now surely As if I'm responding to someone else's will. Who? I don't know It's something that overrides my own powers I'm forced to take the turnpike man, you don't know what to make of me, doctor Gellert No. I don't. Well, I don't know what to make of myself either.
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Now, Lucy, you know why you dream of Sutlej, don't you? It's all all the suggestion. His name was brought up by your patient as a menace, and so it has crept into your own subconscious. That's an easy assumption. Well, does that make it invalid? My father was a doctor, a general practitioner. When he heard I was to become a psychiatrist, he said, good. You know why? I can't imagine. He believes that doctors were constantly exposed to the infectious germs of their patients. Well, we psychiatrists are no better off. We can also be infected by the virulent psychosis that constantly is around. I don't believe it.
I know for a fact you are not a very confident driver. Is that true? No. I You are afraid of the turnpike. That is not so. You see? You force yourself to use it because you realize your fear is irrational. So we have the turnpike, a frightening thing. Your patient mentions a man named Sutlidge, a frightening person. Your subconscious puts both of them together, and your dream declares that Sutlage will kill you. You know, doctor, one day,
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a psychiatrist will listen to a patient and say you are right. I am wrong.
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I wish I could say that to you. Just now to return to your sworn statement, You claim to your obvious about a regal call. Mister Hale was waiting to see you. Yes. He was agitated, nervous, was smoking one cigarette after another.
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He said to me. Doc, all that stuff we went through last time when I was in your office,
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what did it all mean?
[00:33:54] Unknown:
What do you think it meant? Oh, come on doc. I pull that same stuff in business. Ask me a question with a question. On one level, it meant you really don't want to do business with Joe Langley. Yeah. And what else? You feel so threatened by Joe Langley that you see your death symbolically.
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Okay. I'm gonna tell you something. I'm going up to the Langley Lodge this weekend. And Sutlage will be there too?
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How did you know? I,
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I was afraid to think about how I know. Is it true? Yeah. I had to be sure, so I made an excuse to call Langley's secretary. By the way, I asked, anybody else gonna be there? And she said, yeah. A Morley k Sutlage. Something,
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There's only one thing I can tell you. Don't go. Yeah.
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That's what I keep telling myself. So what's the problem? I know I can't stop myself from going. I know I have to be there. But I'll I'll be in the woods just like in the dream and I know I'll go through with it because I can't change any of it. But why?
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Why can't I just not go? I don't wanna go. But you are going. Yeah. We know, of course, that you will do nothing to stop Sutlidge from shooting you.
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I know. There's nothing anybody can do about it.
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Maybe there is. Maybe everything will be alright.
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And that is how you would make it be alright? You would kill Sutcliffe? He couldn't change the course of his fate, but I could.
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It wasn't my dream, my vision, my revelation of Barrett Langley's. It was his. He might be helpless, but not me. If I could stop Sutlage from killing him, he could later on stop Sutlage from killing me on the Turnpike.
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But if you would kill Sutlage up at the lodge, how could he later on kill you on the toad by? Keep using that word kill doctor. I wasn't going to kill him. Just stop him. Very well.
[00:36:12] Unknown:
Somehow, I would get the gun away from him. Then I would explain to Hill that he must save me on October 28 by somehow preventing Sutlidge from using his car. I see. Why do you seem so skeptical, doctor?
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Why do you fight it? Please continue. You're only going to stop Sutcliffe, but in the end, you killed him. Why? Everything went wrong. Sutcliffe was under a compulsion. What compulsion? He too had to carry through the dream.
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Whose dream? Well, if we only knew. Lucy. And so on that day, I drove up to the hunting preserve. Hill was right. It was a place of awe inspiring beauty. I knew I had to find Sutlidge before he encountered Hill. Once that scene began, it could not be stopped until I hurried through the woods till suddenly I saw him. This tall, thin man with gold rimmed glasses carrying a rifle. I asked him, are you professor Sutlidge? Yes. Professor, I must ask you for a favor. Why should I do you a favor? My name is Lucy Abelson, doctor Lucy Abelson. Yes? I'm a psychiatrist.
Well, why should that be of interest to me? I have a patient who happens to be up here in the woods. The sight of the rifle well, any weapon, in fact, frightens him. Really? And I was wondering perhaps if you could let me have your rifle till he's gone safely away. Let you have this rifle, my good woman. Please? It's vitally important. Are you saying You must believe me. I don't know what your game is, but I have no desire to play. You have to. Believe me. It's the truth. In just a few moments, a man named John Jay Hill will walk by here. Who is he? A man. And the two of you will chat briefly. Now that rifle of yours, there will be an accident.
It will go off. Are you serious? And you will kill him. Now believe me. But how can I believe that's nonsense? I know it's difficult, but I'm a responsible person. No. Have you heard of doctor Benjamin Geller, the noted psychiatrist? Come back to the lodge with me. You phone him. You ask him about me. He'll tell you I'm one of his colleagues. You should be one of his patients. Please. I beg you. And into the bargain, you're probably trespassing. Just let me have the gun. I hear someone coming. Oh, I hope it's one of mister Langley's servants. But a minute, it'll be too late. For what? You will kill mister Hill. But I don't have the slightest desire to kill anyone. That is unimportant. Now will you please stand aside? It'll be an accident. I'm asking. No. No. You see? Yeah. There he comes. It's mister Hill. Wait. Is he an accomplice of your own? Mister Hill? Go back. Go back. You see, look. He's coming closer.
John, go back. I can't. Stop. I can't. He'll kill you. I know. Joan. I I can't help myself. I can't.
[00:39:24] Unknown:
I'll help you. I'll save you. Protect to give me the gun. What are you trying to do? Give it to me. Remove your hands from No. Let go.
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I said let it go. Wait.
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Go,
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Peter. Go, Peter.
[00:39:50] Unknown:
You're you're foolish one. What did you hope to accomplish? And he was dead. Yeah, doctor Galen. And some of mister Langley's servants saw what happened. I read their statements. They said you and professor Sutcliffe were having a fight. You attacked professor Sutcliffe without warning. But that isn't true.
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When I go to trial, I'll explain the whole
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thing. If you go to trial, I have been assigned by the court to determine if you are competent. You can't believe I'm not qualified to stand trial. Oh, no.
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I'm saying. Mhmm. Will testify about dreams, and that will give me credibility.
[00:40:52] Unknown:
I'm afraid not. You see, I have spoken to mister Hilly, and he says he has no memory of those dreams. He can't deny he came to see me. No. Yes. Yes. But he cannot recall why. It is quite possibly that the trauma of seeing professor Sutcliffe die erased the memory of the dream completely. Oh, no. And it is also possible that mister Hill, being very much the practical man of the world, does not vanish the idea of telling everyone he went to a psychiatrist
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because he was afraid of a dream. But he did.
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Poor Lucy. You fell in love with him, didn't you? No. Why not? We hear so many patients who fall in love with the analyst. Why shouldn't the analyst fall in love with the occasional patient?
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He he won't testify.
[00:42:01] Unknown:
No. But, my dear, everything will be alright. You'll get the best of care and treatment. And in a year or two, you will be as good as ever. You don't believe me, doctor Geller. I'm telling you it's true. We have seen the future in the dream. My dear Lucy, if you persist, I can see your future while we are wide awake. It will be here in the sanitarium. Because I'm telling you the truth. Please, Lucy. Try to understand. No. It's the truth. The truth. I'm telling the truth. I see the truth. I know the truth. Thus speaks the prophet, the discoverer, the innovator.
And they speak, these people do, to those who have neither the vision, the faith, nor the courage to understand. And so it is their fate to languish neglected, unheeded until one day. Well, is Lucy Abelson telling the truth? Does the future reveal itself to us in dreams? Stranger things have been known to happen. I shall return shortly. I'm Hyman Brown, producer director of Radio Mystery Theater. Recently, when we celebrated our fifteen hundredth broadcast, I asked if you would write to us. Tell us how you like our thrillers, and also tell us a little bit about yourself and your family. I'm deeply pleased and gratified by the abundance of mail that came in. We are trying to answer your wonderful letters, but you can easily understand that the time pressures involved in producing and directing mystery theater are such that we may not get to every letter.
So right now, I wanna thank all of you for writing and for the warmth and the perceptiveness of your comments on our seven nights a week chromatic series. From EG Marshall, from me, from the actors, actresses, and technicians of Radio Mystery Theater, thank you very much. Why are so many of our dreams blurred and confused? We shrug. We answer. It is because, perhaps, our minds are too active. But suppose the dreams do not originate in our own minds. Suppose our minds are like, well, TV sets that are receiving visions and messages. Suppose at this point, the TV sets of our minds are too primitive to receive the picture clearly.
Well, you can get a crystal clear picture on the radio right here. Production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.
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And now
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a preview of our next tale. Your fee will be the usual. No way. The price for killing ahead of a steak will be a lot steeper than my normal fee, and you know it. The risks involved here are far greater than I told you we'd arranged it so that the risk will be absolutely minimal. Yeah. On paper. I'm the guy who's gonna stick his neck out in Aragona. Haven't our arrangements been letter perfect in the past? The price is 1 quarter of a million dollars, half in advance as usual. Ridiculous. And get yourself another boy.
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Your contact in FOBE will be a senior Messina. There will be $125,000 placed in your Zurich accounts.
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Here are your plane tickets and passport.
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You'll note that the likeness is very good and your name is Duncan Appleton. Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by True Value Hardware stores and Buick Motor Division. 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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