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Box 13 with the star of Paramount Pictures, Alan Ladd as Dan Holliday.
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Box 13, Box 13, Box 13, Box 13.
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Well, this is great.
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I come to the park to get a hot idea, but the day turns out hot and my idea turns out cold.
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Idea.
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I thought I'd find something different in a public park, and I did.
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A small boy mashing his ice cream cone against my brand new trousers.
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And all to meet a deadline.
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Deadline. Story idea.
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Why didn't I do what I should have done in the first place?
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Copy, copy boy.
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Hi, Mr. Holliday.
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Hey, Smith, where's the lead on that fire?
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Hiya, Mr. Holliday.
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What do you say, Bill?
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Hiya, Dan.
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How are you, Joe?
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Where's the make-up on page four?
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Hiya, Holliday.
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What's a good word, boy?
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Hiya, Mr. Holliday.
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Hiya, Susie.
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Anything in box 13?
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Box 13, starring Alan Ladd as Dan Holliday.
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Now for box 13, starring Alan Ladd as Dan Holliday.
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Go to the park and get a story idea about romance.
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Sure, why not?
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What do I come back with?
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Gravel in my socks, sand in my shoes, and a June bug in my hat band.
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Holliday, why didn't you pick a different profession like driving a coal truck?
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Mr. Holliday.
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What's that, Susie?
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I said there's a message in box 13 for you.
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Oh, thank you, Susie. Thanks so much.
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Don't mention it.
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Say, you got a faraway look in your eyes today.
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Yes, but only as far as the dry cleaners.
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Dry cleaners?
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Have you ever had a small boy wipe his ice cream cone off on your trousers?
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Oh, girls don't call them trousers.
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In our step, it's slacks.
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So it is, Susie, so it is.
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Well, see you later.
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Okay, if you say so.
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But I still don't like that look in your eyes.
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You look like you might get into trouble.
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You know what I think after spending the day in the park?
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What?
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Trouble will be a welcome relief.
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Why did I ever have to decide to be a fiction writer?
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I could have stayed a newspaper reporter.
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I could have kept on writing those snappy obituary notices
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and one of the hats that turned up in front in shoes that did the same thing.
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Well, better see what's in this envelope.
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Hmm.
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If you want real adventure, be at the corner of 7th and Main at 10 p.m. tonight.
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A black limousine will pick you up at that time.
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Do not try to engage the chauffer in conversation.
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What's this?
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No signature.
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Oh, no signature.
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Black limousines.
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Shelfers who won't talk.
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Meetings on street corners at 10 o'clock at night.
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Well, this should be interesting.
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Uh-oh, there it is, a black limousine.
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Look at that chauffer.
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This way, Mr. Holliday.
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Oh, thanks.
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What a character this driver is.
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He looks like he spent his nights on a nice cold slab down at the morgue.
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Wonder if I can get him to talk.
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Uh, driver.
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I said driver.
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Oh, chauffer.
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Oh, you.
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Oh, pardon me.
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Through there, Mr. Holliday.
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So you do talk.
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I was beginning to wonder about that.
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This way, Mr. Holliday.
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Who's that?
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It's only me, Mr. Holliday.
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That black suit, it makes you almost invisible, you know.
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Yes, I know.
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Follow me.
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You're curious about the way you were brought here.
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Did it frighten you?
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Maybe. Maybe not.
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This room, please.
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My office.
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Well, this is very cozy.
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I'm glad you find it so.
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To eliminate a lot of questions, I'd like to say this.
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I know all about you.
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All?
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You're a successful writer.
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Apparently you fear nothing, and I would presume
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that some of your adventures spring from that ad
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you run every week in the Star Times.
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Did you find it interesting?
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Adventure wanted.
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We'll go any place, do anything.
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Do you catch many people with that ad?
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I caught you.
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Or is that vice versa?
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I had you investigated, Holliday.
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I know where you live, what you do.
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The newspapers have told me of your experiences.
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Hmm.
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What are you leading up to?
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You'll notice I had you brought here by a devious route.
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I wanted to be sure no one knew you were here.
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Go on.
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How much do you know about insurance, Holliday?
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A great many people buy it.
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Great many don't.
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And of those who do buy, a great many intend to defraud,
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to steal from their insurance company.
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Look, this is a racket I'm not interested.
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My name is Abner Blake.
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I'm the chief investigator for Northern Insurance.
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Oh.
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Do you remember the disappearance of Dr. Max Alexander?
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I read something about it. Why?
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He's carried a very large policy with us.
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He's been gone almost seven years.
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When his seven years are up, the law will permit his widow to collect.
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And Holliday...
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Yes?
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I don't think Alexander is dead.
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What?
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What?
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This man has the coldest, frostiest eyes of any professional man trailer I've ever seen.
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And he's loaded with energy.
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Energy which I'll bet has helped him track down the people who tried to cheat his insurance company.
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Boy, I'm glad I'm on his side.
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If you'll think back, Dr. Alexander performed a very delicate brain surgery on a prominent man.
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The operation was not successful.
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I remember that he was criticized in some circles for taking a chance.
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Immediately after the patient died, Alexander walked out of the operating room, the hospital,
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and so far as we've been able to prove, right out of this world.
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But I still feel that he's alive, somewhere.
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And you believe it's an insurance fraud?
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I'm sure it is.
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And I have a reputation, Holliday.
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No one has ever attempted to defraud Northern Insurance and has been successful.
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You suspect Mrs. Alexander?
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Hardly.
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She's barely left her house in all these years.
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She receives no mail except from her daughter.
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Her daughter?
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She lives in New Mexico.
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What about your regular men?
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They've looked everywhere.
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They've come up with absolutely nothing.
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Police?
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Same thing.
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And you're afraid you'll have to pay off?
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No.
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Not if I have a smart man, a resourceful one.
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A man who can be as relentless as I am.
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And I think that man is you.
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If Shakespeare were alive, he would cast Abner Blake in the role of Macbeth
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and throw him an extra part as one of the witches.
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But that's no affair of yours, Mr. Holliday.
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You've got to find a man who's been gone for almost seven years.
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And if you were the hero of this story, you'd go to the files of a newspaper
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and look into the past.
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Well, if it isn't Dan Holliday, what are you doing down in the morgue at the Star Times?
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What would anybody be doing down in the morgue, Mac?
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Well, some of them just lay there.
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You know me, Dad.
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I just gotta have my little joke once in a while.
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Now, what was it you're looking for?
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Oh, the clips on a citizen named Dr. Max Alexander.
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What have you got on him?
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The work, Stan. The whole works.
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Prominent man dies following delicate operation.
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Doctor criticizes for taking chance.
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Dr. Alexander walks out of operating room and disappears.
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Grief-stricken wife employs private investigators when police fail to find Dr. Alexander.
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Dr. Alexander given up for dead.
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Not a bad looking citizen, the doctor.
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He's been shot from more angles than Miss Philadelphia at Atlantic City.
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Kindly eyes, intelligent face, strong chin.
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Yes, doctor, when I see you, I'll know you.
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And I hope to see you soon.
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Yes?
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Oh, I'm Dan Holliday, Miss Alexander.
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I'd like to talk to you about your husband.
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My husband is dead.
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Well, some people think he isn't.
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They've found something?
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They think he's alive?
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Come in.
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Now then, Mr. Holliday, who are you?
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And why are you looking for the doctor?
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A commission from the insurance company.
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I hoped you might give me some information.
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It was on all the front pages.
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That's exactly as it happened?
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Yes. He was never seen again.
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Oh, Mr. Holliday, if only you could find some trace of him.
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I'm going to try.
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You don't know how terrible it is.
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Almost seven years.
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But still, I've had the feeling that he'll come back someday.
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You'll look for me, too.
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Well, of course.
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I miss him so.
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What about your daughter?
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After her father's disappearance, she couldn't stand it here in town.
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She went to our ranch in New Mexico.
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Oh?
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Her father's disappearance broke her heart.
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I...I pray you find him.
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Mrs. Alexander, so do I.
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Mrs. Alexander is a grief-stricken old lady,
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one who sincerely wants her husband back.
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So, where to look first?
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This is the build-up to the main story, Holliday,
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and if you're smart, you'll...you'll bring in all the characters.
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Where to, mister?
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I want a drawing room to Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Well, Holliday, you've got a railroad ticket and an hour to make the train.
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You better get back to your apartment, a quick shower,
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pack your bag, and get on your way.
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We've been waiting for you, Mr. Holliday.
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Well, gentlemen, is this a pleasant intrusion?
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And I hope you are gentlemen.
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We were positive you wouldn't mind.
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Oh, of course not. People break in here regularly.
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Good. Sit down.
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If you don't mind, I like the air up here.
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As you wish.
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I understand you like to travel, Mr. Holliday.
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Travel? A wonderful pastime travel.
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Ever think of South America?
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Often. You see, I'm a Carmen Miranda fan.
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How would you like to go to South America?
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For me, all expenses paid.
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For as long as you want to stay.
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What would I have to do?
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Just forget a few things.
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Like New Mexico?
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Particularly New Mexico.
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Give me about two weeks and I'm your man.
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You don't seem to understand.
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You're leaving tonight.
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Well, that's what I mean.
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But I'm going west. No, south.
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You and I would make a nice compass together.
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Now suppose you point north and walk right out of this apartment.
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Oh, and don't forget your gorilla.
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You mean Spencer?
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If that's his name, I mean Spencer.
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You'll hurt his feelings talking that way.
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Well, that makes us even.
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Just looking at him hurts mine.
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Is it South America?
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In a way.
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At least I'm showing you the open door policy.
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Now get out. You and your gorilla.
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Spencer.
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I wouldn't recommend that.
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So?
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I said get out.
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Have you ever stopped to consider something, Mr. Holliday?
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What?
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You may never get to New Mexico.
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Music.
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And now back to Box 13, starring Alan Ladd as Dan Holliday.
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Well, well.
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Now you've got all the ingredients for a story.
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Insurance investigator doesn't believe doctor is dead.
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Wife doesn't believe doctor is dead.
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Two men try to stop Ryder from making further investigation.
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All right, Holliday.
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Write the rest of the plot.
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Well, maybe you'd better hit the sack.
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This is very pleasant.
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I've got a comfortable drawing room, and I'll bet it's got a thousand springs to ease my worries.
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Uh-oh.
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The man with the urge to send me to South America.
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Well, I've got something for him.
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Now, fellow, what's the big idea of breaking in here?
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I'm sorry.
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I must have come into the wrong drawing room.
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You came into the wrong apartment a couple of hours ago.
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Now what do you want?
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I just want to go to sleep.
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In my traveling bag?
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I was looking for my razor.
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I wanted to shave.
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You just had a close one.
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Come on.
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Where?
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To find out if you got space in this train.
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If you haven't, we'll make some for you.
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Under guard in the baggage car.
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This is fine.
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I couldn't prove a thing.
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My friend had space, and to the conductor, it seemed like a perfectly logical thing to
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mistake car 19 for car 18.
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I wonder who this man is and who's in back of him.
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Next stop, Albuquerque.
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Albuquerque.
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Well, that's the end of the line for me.
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I hope I don't mean that too literally.
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Long distance?
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I want to speak to Catherine Alexander at the Barcross Bar Ranch just outside of Valmont.
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Yes.
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Hello?
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Miss Alexander?
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Yes.
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This is Dan Holliday.
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Wonder if I might come out to the ranch and see you.
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Oh, you're the man who's looking for father.
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Mother wired me about you.
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Was it complimentary?
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Mother said she believed if anyone could find dad, you could.
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Come right out.
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I want to talk to you.
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And I want to talk to you.
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Cab, mister?
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Yeah, ever hear of Valmont?
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Sure did.
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Know where it is?
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Sure do.
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Very far?
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Sure is.
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Can you take me there?
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Sure can.
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You got enough money to pay for the trip?
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Sure have.
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Let's go then.
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Sure thing.
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This is New Mexico holiday.
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Breathe deeply and treat your lungs to a shot of straight ozone.
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Twenty miles to Valmont and all you've seen on the whole trip is four buzzards, three in the air and the one driving.
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And if he's a cab driver, I'm a flying disc.
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Car behind.
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Yeah, so I hear.
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Wants me to pull over.
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Don't do it.
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No, them fellas?
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One of them is Spencer.
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Friend of yours?
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That depends on what you mean by friend.
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I gotta pull up.
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Those guys are gonna run me into the ditch.
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Can you fight?
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Nope.
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Then can you recommend a good dentist?
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What for?
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Something tells me that when this is over, I'm gonna need a new set of teeth.
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You feel better young man?
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Yeah, thanks.
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What happened after those two fellas jumped me?
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Who are you?
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My name is Moran.
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I'm the caretaker up at the bar crossbar ranch.
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I was coming down this way when you were forced off the road.
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What happened to the driver?
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Last I saw of him, he was just a cloud of dust.
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I remember now I got out of the car, he drove away.
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Those two fellas started to beat you up good.
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When they saw me coming, they ran off too.
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You had a mighty close call young man.
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I had three of them.
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After this, my luck runs out.
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Somebody after you?
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And vice versa.
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Say, how far is the ranch?
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Half a mile up the road.
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Better take it easy.
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Come on, I've got to get to the ranch.
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Feel you can make it?
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My friend, I've got to make it.
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This is not good.
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Spencer and his grill have followed me all the way out here trying to stop me at every turn.
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Maybe I'm getting warm.
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If that's true, why hasn't someone else found Dr. Alexander?
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Here's the ranch house Mr. Holliday.
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They say Miss Catherine was expecting you.
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Yes, but hardly in this condition.
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You're Dan Holliday?
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What happened?
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You're all beaten up.
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So this is Catherine Alexander.
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What a beautiful girl.
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And what beautiful eyes.
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You'd better lie down Mr. Holliday.
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You're badly hurt.
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Oh no thanks Miss Alexander.
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I don't feel that bad.
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I just look that way.
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Anything more I could do Miss Catherine?
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Oh no, no thank you so much.
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If you hadn't come along Mr. Holliday might have been badly injured.
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Perhaps fatally.
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Thank you Miss Catherine.
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Now then, how about a hot shower?
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You can get a rub down and change of clothes.
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Miss Alexander, you read a man's mind.
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Sometimes that's a pleasure.
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Depending on the man.
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You're depending on me?
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What do you think?
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Well, this is more like it.
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Hot shower, brisk rub down, little iodine on a few...
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Ouch, ouch, it stings.
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Catherine was kind enough to loan me some riding clothes.
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That should indicate a soldier in the saddle out on the desert.
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With the stars blinking their approval of my companion.
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Blinking approval?
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Holliday, you're an incurable romantic.
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Isn't this beautiful?
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That gorgeous sky and the stars.
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You love it don't you?
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I always have.
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Always will.
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Have you been here long?
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The Bar Cross bar belonged to my dad.
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We used to come out during the summer.
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Now I live here all the time.
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Alone?
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There's always Moran.
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Moran? He's a strange old fella.
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People around here say he's a little...touched.
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But he's been wonderful to me.
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Oh, say, those men who jump me down the road.
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Moran, ever see them before?
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How could he? They were strangers.
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Oh.
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Your mother told me you've been searching for your father a long time.
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Yes. Mother and I have spent a fortune on private detectives,
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investigators, following up leads.
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But nothing ever happened.
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Yes, I know.
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Oh, tell me Miss Alexander.
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Cathy, please.
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Cathy, have you any idea where I might begin to look?
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I thought you might give me a starting point.
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Not unless he would be back in the city.
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He just walked out one day.
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No one ever saw him again.
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Well, I'd better go back there and start from scratch.
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You don't have to leave right away.
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I'd enjoy staying a while.
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Maybe I have been lonesome.
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Perhaps I've forgotten what companionship can be.
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Perhaps.
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You'll stay a while?
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A while.
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Good.
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Say, the time.
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We'll be much too late for dinner.
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Come on, I'll race you.
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You're on.
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Hurry or I'll beat you.
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I'm at the corral gate already.
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Cathy, look out!
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Cathy!
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Cathy.
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Mr. Holliday, what happened?
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You were racing.
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The horse stumbled over that lower bar and threw her.
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Look at that gash in her head.
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She's unconscious.
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I hope she isn't seriously hurt.
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Go stand there, man.
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Get in the house.
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Call a doctor.
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Yes, a doctor.
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A doctor.
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Hurry, will you?
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Of course.
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Get into the medicine cabinet in the house.
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I need some bandages.
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She may be suffering from multiple contusions.
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Multiple contusions?
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Or even a compound skull fracture.
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Hurry, will you?
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Compound skull fracture?
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I don't know if you can find it.
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Hurry, I said.
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There isn't much time.
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Okay.
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Dr. Alexander.
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You are listening to Box 13, starring Alan Ladd as Dan Holliday.
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Well, now I'm back in the city again, walking up the street towards that same grim gray
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house where I first met Abner Blake.
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Up the steps, Holliday, and write the final chapter.
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That was a nice job, Holliday.
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I was nice about it.
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What do you mean?
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You didn't see the look in Dr. Alexander's eyes when he recovered his mind.
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And that lovely, lovely girl being mixed up in a deal like this.
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If you feel sorry for her, you're making a big mistake.
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Yes, I know.
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She was following him the day he walked out into the country.
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She'd almost caught up with him when a hit-and-run driver knocked him down.
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That's when she got the idea for the disappearance act.
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Why not?
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The doctor's face had been so damaged that no one would ever recognize him.
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And he'd lost his memory to top it off.
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We've got the daughter and the mother in custody.
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Just think, if she hadn't have fallen off that horse, I might never have been able to prove that Dr. Alexander was alive.
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I know.
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Hiding him on his own ranch was the daughter's idea too.
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Why not?
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No one would pay attention to an old man puttering around the place?
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I've got a story and I don't like it.
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Mother and daughter hide amnesia victim to collect insurance.
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Oh, excuse me.
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Blake speaking.
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Yes, he's here for you, Holliday.
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Oh, thanks.
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Hello.
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Mr. Holliday, this is Suzy.
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Oh, yes, Suzy.
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There's a message for you in box 13.
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Shall I read it to you?
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Now, Suzy, you know you're not supposed to open my mail.
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But this is already open.
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It's a postcard.
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Oh, is it interesting?
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I think it is.
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All right, come on, come on. Tell me what it says.
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It says, rental for box 13, $15.
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Oh, fine.
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Goodbye, Suzy.
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Next week, same time, Ellen Ladd stars as Dan Holliday in box 13.
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Alan Ladd appears through the courtesy of Paramount Pictures and may currently be seen in Wild Harvest.
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Box 13 is written and directed by Ted Hediger.
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Original music was composed and conducted by Rudy Schrager.
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This is a Mayfair production.