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00:00Well, Mr. Heath, is she running this newspaper or are you, sir?
00:03Cranston, as long as she happens to be the owner's niece,
00:07I'm afraid she can pick any seat she wants for a ride.
00:10Oh, it's one of those, is it?
00:14Well, there's no law against our making the joyride a little, shall we say, bumpy for her, is there?
00:19Not that I know of.
00:21Thank you, sir.
00:30Ladies and gentlemen, this is Phoebe Lane, the real brains of the shadow who thinks he knows all about crime.
00:35But the real crime of the age is the way he makes you think he's so smart,
00:37when it's really me that does the work all the time.
00:43Hello. I didn't see you.
00:45That's quite evident.
00:47I didn't mean what I said, Mr. Cranston. I hope you can forgive me.
00:50I wish I could forget you.
00:54Oh, if you think you're going to have Mr. Palms in a robbery without me, you're crazy!
00:58That is my story!
01:00Wait for Phoebe!
01:02Hello, Mr. Cranston!
01:04Now, listen, Mo, you're a fine driver and all that, but you're not working for me.
01:07You mean I'm fine?
01:09No, but you will be if you insist upon calling me by name.
01:11Now, remember, you're no good to me unless you don't know me.
01:14Okay, stranger. Where to?
01:16A metropolitan theater.
01:18This is going to be thrilling, isn't it, Mr. Cranston?
01:21Yes, and dangerous, too, particularly for you.
01:23For me? Why?
01:24Well, when the crooks start shooting, it seems they pick off the girl first.
01:27I never knew that.
01:29Oh, a strange quirk in the criminal mind. Nobody seems to understand it.
01:32Oh, but I understand it.
01:34It's because they realize that the girl is really the smart one.
01:37They have to get her first.
01:39Miss Lane, why didn't you stick to the baby and biscuit end of the newspaper business
01:43instead of hurling yourself into the jaws of death?
01:46Because I'm tired of babies and biscuits.
01:48I want thrills, adventure, romance.
01:50Ah, but the household hint page is the place to find it.
01:53The home is the very symbol of romance.
01:55Oh, no, it isn't.
01:56The nearest I ever came to it was when a cross-eyed washing machine salesman tried to kiss me in a model kitchen.
02:01Young lady, you're impossible.
02:03Not if the right man comes along.
02:05Hang around a while, Moe.
02:18Okay, stranger.
02:20Where are the police?
02:23Oh, don't worry about that. They'll be around.
02:25Oh, we've got to warn the theater right away.
02:26Oh, no, wait a minute. Let's do some window shopping first.
02:29Well...
02:32The boss of them all.
02:33Police Commissioner Weston in the flesh.
02:36And if this turns out to be a false alarm, he'll love me even less than he does now.
02:41Oh, but I'm sure it isn't because he had such an honest...
02:43Such an honest face.
02:46Bram!
02:52Hello, Commissioner.
02:53Say, what kind of a song and dance is this?
02:55I hope you realize my whole department has been shifted just to take care of this tip-off.
02:59Maybe you'd rather have the theater robbed than let them chalk up another black mark against your record.
03:03Now, see here.
03:04We got crime down to the lowest level it's been in years.
03:06But the way you advertise it, people will think a crime wave is on.
03:09You might have twice as much to deal with if I didn't advertise the crime doesn't pay.
03:13I'm helping you.
03:14Well, I'd like to try running the department without your help.
03:16Just as an experiment.
03:20It's nine o'clock.
03:21Well, well, well.
03:22Our time flies.
03:25What have you got there?
03:26It's...
03:27It's my violin.
03:28What are you taking in there for?
03:29Well, to play it, of course.
03:30I am a violinist.
03:31Yeah?
03:32Let me see it.
03:33Please, be careful.
03:34It is very valuable.
03:35Shut up.
03:36See?
03:37I'm no lie.
03:38I'm sorry.
03:39I owe you an apology.
03:40I owe you an apology.
03:41What have you got there?
03:43What have you got there?
03:44What have you got there?
03:45It's...
03:46It's my violin.
03:47What are you taking in there for?
03:48What are you taking in there for?
03:49What to play it?
03:50Of course.
03:51I am a violinist.
03:52Yeah?
03:53Let me see it.
03:54Please, be careful.
03:55It is very valuable.
03:56Shut up.
03:59See?
04:00I'm no lie.
04:02I'm sorry.
04:03I owe you an apology.
04:05Take those off.
04:11I ought to send you to jail for life for bringing me out on such a wild goose chase.
04:15I didn't invite you.
04:16You crashed the party.
04:17Mr. Cranston, I consider you public nuisance number one.
04:21Good.
04:22I like to be first in everything, Mr. Weston.
04:24I gotta phone the paper.
04:29Hello, Heath.
04:30Cranston speaking.
04:31That robbery tip was just a gag to get the radio cars off their regular runs.
04:34Yes, I gotta hunt something big is gonna break elsewhere.
04:37Better hold page one in my column for remake.
04:39Oh, and have Burke stand by.
04:41Yeah, so long.
04:42Give me the captain.
04:43McCabe reporting, sir.
04:44Explosion in 93 Madeira Drive.
04:45Yes, sir.
04:46Yes, sir.
04:47Explosions within 93 Madeira Drive.
04:48Ok, oh.
04:49No, no, no.
04:50It's not a pass.
04:51No, no, no.
04:52Get out of here.
04:53No, no, no.
04:54It's not a pass.
04:57I got it.
04:58It's not a pass.
04:59It's a pass.
05:00It's a pass.
05:01It's a pass.
05:02It's a pass.
05:03It's a pass.
05:04We'll move the captain.
05:05Okay, Sir.
05:06Yes, sir.
05:17First you tell me to get all my cars down here to stop a robbery.
05:20Then you get me to rush them all back before there is a robbery.
05:23What kind of a merry-go-robbery is this anyway?
05:25I know, but then there's...
05:26Calling all cars from District 9.
05:28Calling all cars from District 9.
05:31Explosion reported at 9-3-Madeira Drive.
05:33Explosion reported at 9-3-Madeira Drive.
05:37Oh, Mr. Cranston!
05:40Wait to see me!
05:43Oh, taxi!
05:51Mr. Cranston, kindly keep your fingerprints to yourself.
05:55Rowley, take the door.
06:00Have you searched the house?
06:02Yes, there's no one else here.
06:03What, no servants?
06:05Servants have a day off every week.
06:07Or haven't you heard?
06:09One in a house of this size is always someone on duty.
06:11Well, I want any information from you, I'll ask for.
06:13That's fine.
06:14I've got to phone the paper anyway.
06:16Frank, is there a phone still working?
06:17In there.
06:18Thanks.
06:18Thanks for the ride, mister.
06:31Don't forget to look for your name in the paper.
06:32You know what?
06:33You better stand back, lady.
06:33Oh, but I'm a reporter.
06:35I'll pay my press cards.
06:36I've got no reporters.
06:37Oh, but officer, I've got to make good on this story.
06:39I've got a sick mother.
06:39Oh, yeah?
06:40Well, your mother's going to have a sick daughter if you don't scram out of here.
06:42How many of them were there?
07:02I really can't say, sir.
07:05Oh, come on.
07:07You must have some idea.
07:09Think back.
07:11I think there was only one, sir.
07:14I was grabbed from behind.
07:18Oh, I'm so shaky.
07:20I think I'd better go to bed.
07:21All right.
07:29Stay with him, Tom.
07:31We're wasting time here.
07:33Get your men out and bring in the man who did this job.
07:35An old-time safe blower who just got into town.
07:38His name is, uh...
07:39Honest John.
07:41Honest John.
07:42Bring him in and we'll charge him with robbery and homicide.
07:45The motive of the crime wasn't robbery.
07:47How can you look at that safe and say the motive wasn't robbery?
07:50Don't you know that man's watching while it had gone?
07:53If it wasn't robbery, what was it?
07:55Murder.
07:58If it was robbery, they'd have taken the bonds, wouldn't they?
08:02Marvelous powers of observation.
08:04Why do you use the word they, Mr. Cranston?
08:06Because one man couldn't have done all this between the departure of the radio car and the time of the explosion.
08:11As I recall, you gave the impression Honest John was a very fast workman.
08:15Right.
08:16And much too efficient to be guilty of a botched-up job like that.
08:20That blast wasn't set to blow a safe.
08:22It was calculated to kill whoever opened it.
08:24I say you're wrong.
08:25That's great.
08:26I'll see that your opinion has given its proper unimportance in my column tomorrow.
08:30There won't be any shadow column tomorrow.
08:33Oh, no?
08:34No.
08:35And for a long time to come.
08:37Inspector, kindly file this gentleman in one of our steel cabinets.
08:42Somewhere out in the state.
08:43On what charge, Commissioner?
08:45Material witness.
08:47Thanks for being the first man on the scene of the crime.
08:49You certainly use your brain, Mr. Cranston.
08:52I wish I could say the same for you, sir.
08:55Oh, never mind those things.
08:56I don't go in for flashy jewelry.
09:18Hello?
09:20Give me the desk, sweetheart.
09:22Burke speaking.
09:24New lead off for shadow column.
09:27He says Weston all wet with robbery theory on Morton case.
09:33Says it's murder using robbery as a cover-up.
09:37Honest John?
09:39Nah.
09:40He's just as innocent as a new-laid cornerstone.
09:43Oh, yeah, I say.
09:45Cranston's been pinched.
09:47Yeah.
09:48Held as material witness.
09:49On the way now to some hick town.
09:52Who's got?
09:54Oh, sure.
09:56Right on my toes.
09:58Well, so long, pumpkin puss.
09:59Take it easy, boys.
10:22I only want one of you for traffic court.
10:23You.
10:24Say, officer, I'm sure the judge wants to see me first.
10:31Ah, go on back and sit down.
10:32I know who to let out and who not to.
10:34But I've got to get a message to my folks.
10:36Now, if you help me out, I'll take care of you.
10:37Take care of me?
10:39I'm taking care of you.
10:40Come on, get out of here.
10:41Hello, Heath.
11:04Well, I suppose you want to know what happened to your man Cranston.
11:08After what you let him print yesterday, this is a fine time to call me up and ask for anything.
11:12But, Commissioner, you've got to let him out for the broadcast tonight.
11:16Why, thousands of people are waiting.
11:17To hear what else he has to say about the stupidness of the police department, huh?
11:21Well, let him wait.
11:22And furthermore, unless he changes his tune and lines up on our side, I'm going to cut off all police news from your paper.
11:28But the news is public property.
11:30You can't...
11:31Keep your men away from the records?
11:32Of course not.
11:33They can have the same access as other citizens.
11:36And I'd like to see you get out a newspaper on that.
11:38All right, Commissioner.
11:40Anything you say.
11:41But you've got to let the shadow open time for his broadcast tonight.
11:45We can't disappoint the public.
11:47Can't disappoint the public, eh?
11:49Well, we can't mislead them either.
11:51Goodbye.
11:54But...
11:55We must have got cut off.
11:58You see, what are you in for?
12:03Nothing.
12:04Nothing.
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