# Dragnet: The Big Badge (Peggy Webber Special) (EP5050s)

An episode of [The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/335549005), 30 Aug 2026, 38 min.

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Todays Mystery: Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero hunt for the “Badge Bandit,” a violent criminal who poses as a police officer to rob and assault his victims. After weeks of investigation, the search becomes dangerously personal when Friday and Romero encounter the suspect during a massive overnight manhunt. Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 4, 1950 Originating from HollywoodCast: • Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday • Barton Yarborough as Ben Romero • Peggy Webber as Joe Friday’s mother Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Patreon Supporter of the Day: Joey, Patreon supporter since June 2019 Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net. Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715 Take the listener survey…http://survey.greatdetectives.net Give us a call 208-991-4783 Become one of our friends on Facebook Follow us on Instagram at http://instagram.com/greatdetectives Follow us on Twitter@radiodetectives Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.

## Transcript

[0:28] Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from
[0:32] Speaker 1: boy Idaho. This is your host, Adam Braham. In a moment,
[0:37] Speaker 1: we are going to bring you a special honoring the
[0:41] Speaker 1: late great Peggy Webber and one of my favorite episodes
[0:45] Speaker 1: of dragont ever. But first I do want to encourage you.
[0:49] Speaker 1: If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your
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[0:55] Speaker 2: Well.
[0:55] Speaker 1: As I mentioned on Thursday, Peggy Weber passed away on
[1:00] Speaker 1: August fifteenth at the age of one hundred and. While
[1:03] Speaker 1: she did a lot of radio, probably her contributions to
[1:08] Speaker 1: Dragnet are the most famous. She was associated with Jack
[1:13] Speaker 1: Webb for a long time. In fact, she appeared in
[1:17] Speaker 1: every season of the nineteen sixties Dragnet TV show, and
[1:23] Speaker 1: the full extent of her contribution to the radio program
[1:27] Speaker 1: may never be fully known due to her vocal elasticity
[1:33] Speaker 1: and the way that her characters didn't all sound the
[1:36] Speaker 1: same or all sound like her natural speaking voice, and
[1:41] Speaker 1: that is certainly the case with her most famous character
[1:45] Speaker 1: from Dragnet and her only recurring role that of Joe
[1:50] Speaker 1: Friday's mother. So in honor of Peggy Weber, we're going
[1:53] Speaker 1: to play the first episode in which Joe Friday's mother featured.
[1:58] Speaker 1: And this episode is also one of the finest Dragnet
[2:03] Speaker 1: stories ever done, and I hope you enjoy it. From
[2:06] Speaker 1: May fourth, nineteen fifty here is the Big Band.
[2:20] Speaker 3: The story you're about to hear is true, only the
[2:24] Speaker 3: names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're a
[2:38] Speaker 3: detective sergeant. You're assigned to homicide detail. For two months.
[2:43] Speaker 3: A depraved criminal has been at work in your city.
[2:46] Speaker 4: Men and women have been robbed, brutally attacked.
[2:50] Speaker 5: Your job get.
[2:52] Speaker 6: Them drag meant the documented drama of an actual crime.
[3:06] Speaker 6: All the next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los
[3:08] Speaker 6: Angeles Police Department, you will travel step by step on
[3:12] Speaker 6: the side of the law through an actual case from
[3:14] Speaker 6: official police files, from beginning to end, from crime to punishment.
[3:19] Speaker 6: Dragnet is the story of your police force in action.
[3:26] Speaker 7: It was Wednesday, March seventh, was cloudy in Los Angeles.
[3:30] Speaker 7: We're working a night watch out of homicide. My partner's
[3:33] Speaker 7: Ben Romero. The boss is that Brown Chief of Detectives.
[3:36] Speaker 7: My name is Friday. I was on the way home
[3:38] Speaker 7: from the office and it was two twenty five am
[3:41] Speaker 7: when I got to Collis.
[3:42] Speaker 4: Avenue number forty six fifty six. Joseph, thank you, yeah, Ma,
[3:53] Speaker 4: I wake you? What time is this? The left two?
[4:00] Speaker 8: Gotta have your bread.
[4:01] Speaker 4: Don't worry. I'm okay. I've gotten cold meat in the
[4:04] Speaker 4: ice box.
[4:05] Speaker 8: There's some pressed ham, few slices of blowney.
[4:09] Speaker 7: Didn't you have any dinner?
[4:10] Speaker 4: Have my hamburgers? A piece pie? I gotta hungry again.
[4:14] Speaker 8: I had some nice beef stew for dinner. There's some
[4:17] Speaker 8: less than the ice box. I'll come down and roll
[4:19] Speaker 8: and pull.
[4:20] Speaker 4: No, no, all, I wants a sandwich. Mak you gone
[4:22] Speaker 4: back to sleep.
[4:27] Speaker 9: You can't live on pie and sandwiches and keep up
[4:31] Speaker 9: your strings and working all hours.
[4:33] Speaker 10: First thing, you know, you're been getting sick. You need
[4:36] Speaker 10: your food and you need your rest.
[4:38] Speaker 11: Nobody cares when you're sick.
[4:40] Speaker 4: You didn't have to get up, mar All. I want
[4:42] Speaker 4: the sandwich. Tag fix it.
[4:43] Speaker 2: You better have bowl for a stew here.
[4:46] Speaker 11: Take a minute to warm it up. Nice new potatoes
[4:50] Speaker 11: in it. Some of those onions you like tooike bermudas.
[4:55] Speaker 4: Okay, not too much enough. I'll get the melk.
[5:00] Speaker 11: As half past two in the morning. It kept you
[5:03] Speaker 11: so late again.
[5:04] Speaker 4: Another steak. It's the same time.
[5:07] Speaker 11: A murder in Holland Park.
[5:08] Speaker 4: No, the badge banded one poses as a policeman, that one.
[5:12] Speaker 11: I certainly ought to do something about him.
[5:15] Speaker 4: Yeah, well I'm trying to. I can help find him.
[5:19] Speaker 11: There's a piece in the paper about it tonight.
[5:21] Speaker 9: But they say it's just terrible, the way he beats
[5:23] Speaker 9: up people and robs them, badge banded, the way he
[5:28] Speaker 9: treats women to be a shamed They ought to put
[5:31] Speaker 9: him away.
[5:34] Speaker 10: You're going to have tomorrow off, Joseph.
[5:40] Speaker 4: Thanks, bro Countain says. We worked straight through till we
[5:43] Speaker 4: get the guy.
[5:45] Speaker 10: I thought you're gonna have tomorrow off. You ought to
[5:49] Speaker 10: tell the captain you need your rest. You can't go
[5:51] Speaker 10: on life. It's working all hours.
[5:54] Speaker 11: He'd be coming down stick one of these days.
[5:58] Speaker 4: Fifteen robberies, fifteen the salts, all in two months.
[6:03] Speaker 7: Somebody's gotta stop 'em.
[6:05] Speaker 4: Is you ready?
[6:06] Speaker 12: Oh yeah, I think so.
[6:08] Speaker 10: Why can't they warn the people he wouldn't be getting
[6:11] Speaker 10: robbed and beaten up?
[6:12] Speaker 11: They were parked in those lonely.
[6:14] Speaker 10: Places, spooning so silly.
[6:18] Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm afraid we can't do anything about that. My
[6:21] Speaker 4: it's a public place. They got to right the park
[6:23] Speaker 4: they want.
[6:24] Speaker 11: Yeah, I suppose it's let me have.
[6:26] Speaker 4: Your plate, now hold it. Hold that.
[6:29] Speaker 2: That's wynother spoon before.
[6:30] Speaker 11: You can't work if you don't eat.
[6:34] Speaker 4: M that's good stewing.
[6:36] Speaker 11: Yeah, sure it is. But your dumb shop rides nice.
[6:41] Speaker 11: His stewing beef's just wonderful.
[6:44] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[6:45] Speaker 11: Been we'k late with you.
[6:46] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[6:47] Speaker 4: His wife's saw too. He hasn't been home much since
[6:48] Speaker 4: we started on this.
[6:49] Speaker 10: It's a tough one o my time. Certainly I've changed
[6:53] Speaker 10: since I was a girl, all this robbing, beating.
[6:57] Speaker 12: Up Curson people.
[7:00] Speaker 2: An email today, No, there's a couple of bills.
[7:05] Speaker 3: When you set the alarm.
[7:06] Speaker 4: I gotta check back in at eight in the morning.
[7:08] Speaker 2: Eight o'clock, where's the worldly badge?
[7:11] Speaker 7: Man? Had got two more victims tonight. They were college kids, doctresses.
[7:15] Speaker 7: He didn't think we should talk to him tonight, so
[7:17] Speaker 7: I've seen him tomorrow morning at the hospital.
[7:18] Speaker 11: Who were they badly injured?
[7:20] Speaker 4: Ye? Pretty bad boy took a table beating. The girl
[7:23] Speaker 4: was attacked, same as my Well, it's very good, ma.
[7:27] Speaker 4: I better get to bed.
[7:29] Speaker 11: Yeah, that's what your face looks so thin. You need
[7:31] Speaker 11: all the rest you can get.
[7:33] Speaker 4: I get it.
[7:34] Speaker 11: Who can that be? It's almost three.
[7:35] Speaker 2: In them all.
[7:39] Speaker 13: He well, there's Lorman Don Homicide. Joe, sorry about you?
[7:42] Speaker 4: Yeah, rman, what is it?
[7:43] Speaker 13: Kevin wants you were married a meeting in Hollywood and
[7:45] Speaker 13: Laura right away?
[7:46] Speaker 4: What's the matter now?
[7:47] Speaker 13: Tack and hold up Laurel Canyon twenty minutes ago. Yeah,
[7:50] Speaker 13: got the area of blocked dog figure they got the.
[7:51] Speaker 4: Man trapped to victims. Get out and look at the guy.
[7:53] Speaker 13: Same description of badge matted.
[8:00] Speaker 4: I left the house, went over and picked up Ben.
[8:02] Speaker 4: We drove out to the.
[8:02] Speaker 7: Edge of the Santa Monica Mountains, where Hollywood Boulevard ends
[8:05] Speaker 7: and Laurel Canyon begins. We headed back into the canyon
[8:08] Speaker 7: to the blockaded area. Captain Steed from Homicide was there
[8:11] Speaker 7: waiting for us.
[8:18] Speaker 3: Hi skim, just a mess.
[8:20] Speaker 5: They had learned all communications again. I have him tell
[8:22] Speaker 5: them and I'll venture to start moving in again. Sorry
[8:24] Speaker 5: to call you back. Couldn't be helped.
[8:26] Speaker 4: Okay, how's it shaping up?
[8:28] Speaker 11: Street?
[8:28] Speaker 2: The search detail and vicinity of Laurel Canyon.
[8:31] Speaker 14: Unit sixty two K reports that they are at Mullholland
[8:34] Speaker 14: Drive and Oakstone Avenue.
[8:36] Speaker 2: Nothing further to report, and Joe.
[8:39] Speaker 4: How's it shaping up?
[8:40] Speaker 3: And there's a sketch of the area till it was
[8:42] Speaker 3: just about all the Laurel Canyon district. You know, badge
[8:44] Speaker 3: band had got these victims near the top of this
[8:46] Speaker 3: hill here. Old man in the neighborhood heard a woman's scream,
[8:49] Speaker 3: phoned in.
[8:50] Speaker 4: How sure are we? The guy didn't get away.
[8:52] Speaker 3: All The man who called in said the bandit had
[8:54] Speaker 3: trouble start in his car, finally left it and took
[8:56] Speaker 3: off into the brush. He was at west down this
[8:58] Speaker 3: road here.
[9:00] Speaker 15: Call from the communications the crew from Laton Prince run away?
[9:03] Speaker 5: All right, did any report from the detail up on
[9:04] Speaker 5: Canyon Road?
[9:05] Speaker 15: Nothing yet, I'll stand by the radio.
[9:07] Speaker 12: Okay.
[9:08] Speaker 3: How much area we got to cover from the mouth
[9:11] Speaker 3: of the canyon here all the way back to Ventura
[9:13] Speaker 3: Boulevard on the west, here from Lookout Mountain Avenue over
[9:16] Speaker 3: the rescue drive on the east. How much have we
[9:18] Speaker 3: got to go? Crowley talked to the victims for a
[9:21] Speaker 3: minute before they took him to Georgia Street. Yeah, the
[9:23] Speaker 3: guy's descriptions the same, heavy set, blonde hair, chubby face
[9:27] Speaker 3: on riom glasses.
[9:29] Speaker 7: If he's on foot, there's plenty of underbrush around here
[9:32] Speaker 7: to hide him.
[9:33] Speaker 3: It's a minute. I want to get this call in first.
[9:35] Speaker 3: Taylor have communications contacts eighty two. K them to hold
[9:39] Speaker 3: their line station are Yeah, the others close in from
[9:41] Speaker 3: the west of the ore. Right, you two better get
[9:44] Speaker 3: up on Grove and Drive. Line's pretty thin up there.
[9:47] Speaker 3: Use the help is at the area where you've been
[9:49] Speaker 3: in the car. Yeah, I want you to cover all
[9:51] Speaker 3: the houses in that area. Check that everybody can find
[9:53] Speaker 3: the neighborhood. They may be able to help. They don't answer,
[9:56] Speaker 3: find out why. Okay, I'll be making the rounds. Another
[9:59] Speaker 3: ten minutes.
[9:59] Speaker 4: Check we do.
[10:00] Speaker 3: Then all right, let's go on one more thing. Yes, sir,
[10:02] Speaker 3: I'll tell you what I told the rest of them
[10:04] Speaker 3: in This guy's in the corner and he's got a gun.
[10:07] Speaker 3: There's only one way out for her. Yeah, make sure
[10:09] Speaker 3: it's not you.
[10:12] Speaker 7: Three forty five am, Ben and I drove up to
[10:15] Speaker 7: Groveland Drive and joined the search. We started our house
[10:18] Speaker 7: to house canvas of the neighborhood where the suspected abandoned
[10:21] Speaker 7: his car.
[10:22] Speaker 4: None of the residents had any further information to give us.
[10:25] Speaker 4: Four am. We kept on.
[10:26] Speaker 3: Checking twenty three hours. It's a long shift, Yeah, I
[10:34] Speaker 3: could use some sleep. A wife of mine is boiling. Man,
[10:37] Speaker 3: she's even mad.
[10:38] Speaker 12: As the kid.
[10:39] Speaker 4: Yeah, what's trouble?
[10:40] Speaker 3: Oh and and her sent down some flower bugs from
[10:43] Speaker 3: more than yes, the bloody old bug.
[10:45] Speaker 12: Yeah.
[10:46] Speaker 3: Kid was playing with a little girl next door yesterday
[10:48] Speaker 3: and they found a box of flower bugs. They put
[10:51] Speaker 3: the mess up'em in a pot of water and boiled
[10:53] Speaker 3: the mom's dove.
[10:55] Speaker 4: Would they do that for?
[10:56] Speaker 1: Oh?
[10:56] Speaker 4: No, there's another house suffering. Yeah, we better check it. Yeah,
[11:05] Speaker 4: we ought to get some street lights up here.
[11:07] Speaker 3: Yeah, it's nice work, working people up in the middle
[11:11] Speaker 3: of the night. I don't like it anymore than they do,
[11:13] Speaker 3: which we could make them believe. M nice neighborhood up here.
[11:24] Speaker 3: What the price is on these lots? It shouldn't be
[11:26] Speaker 3: too high? And say real estate's coming down?
[11:31] Speaker 12: Yeah?
[11:31] Speaker 4: What are the police officers? So I had to disturb it?
[11:34] Speaker 4: We like talking, all right?
[11:35] Speaker 5: Let me get the door over.
[11:41] Speaker 15: What's been going on in the neighborhood to nights.
[11:42] Speaker 12: Some kind of trouble?
[11:43] Speaker 15: Cars racing up and down the hill.
[11:45] Speaker 3: What's the trouble. Have you noticed any strangers in the
[11:47] Speaker 3: neighborhood last hour?
[11:48] Speaker 16: No?
[11:48] Speaker 15: I just got the bed twenty minutes ago. I work
[11:50] Speaker 15: out of Paramount. We're shooting nice. What's all the commotion anyway?
[11:53] Speaker 4: Looking for a suspect. He's supposed to be around this area.
[11:56] Speaker 15: Well, I haven't seen anybody. I thought I heard somebody
[11:58] Speaker 15: out of the garage a few minutes ago. Went out
[11:59] Speaker 15: and look drown But I didn't see anything.
[12:01] Speaker 4: Did you check to see if your car is still
[12:03] Speaker 4: in the garage?
[12:03] Speaker 15: No, I left it in the driveway.
[12:05] Speaker 4: Oh sure there's no car in your driveway?
[12:07] Speaker 6: Sure there is.
[12:08] Speaker 15: Let me show you. Hey it's gone and we'll use
[12:11] Speaker 15: your phone. Yeah. Yeah, but I saw it just a
[12:14] Speaker 15: few minutes ago. The car was right there in the driveway.
[12:17] Speaker 15: You think that guy took my car?
[12:19] Speaker 4: Yes, it's a pretty good bet.
[12:20] Speaker 15: You got your license number handing now, I don't remember it.
[12:23] Speaker 15: I got it on a car in my wallet.
[12:25] Speaker 4: Communication and you give us a description of your car.
[12:27] Speaker 15: It's a Plymouth Saedan black.
[12:28] Speaker 3: Two doors to the dam with search detail, Laurel Canyon,
[12:31] Speaker 3: I got some new information for all units.
[12:32] Speaker 13: In the detail.
[12:35] Speaker 4: Here's the license number.
[12:36] Speaker 3: Thanks when you broadcast this information to all units in
[12:40] Speaker 3: the search detail.
[12:41] Speaker 4: What was the making model of your car?
[12:43] Speaker 15: Forty six black Plymouth the two door sedan.
[12:45] Speaker 3: UH nineteen forty six black Plymouth two door sedan license number.
[12:49] Speaker 3: Let me see seven X ray two five six nine.
[12:54] Speaker 3: This car just been stolen from one oh to one
[12:57] Speaker 3: one Grove and Drive.
[12:58] Speaker 4: Any identifying marks on car, well, I left my keys
[13:01] Speaker 4: in it.
[13:02] Speaker 7: No, no, sir, I mean any special markings on the car.
[13:04] Speaker 7: Maybe a dent in one of the fenders.
[13:06] Speaker 3: Well, George, hold on, we getting the right headlight went
[13:09] Speaker 3: out on me last night.
[13:10] Speaker 15: I haven't had it fixed yet.
[13:11] Speaker 3: The right headlight on the cars out. Notify all units
[13:13] Speaker 3: in the search detail that we believe suspect is now
[13:15] Speaker 3: in possession in this car. Right, thank you, let's go.
[13:19] Speaker 15: Must have happened in the last fifteen minutes. I heard
[13:21] Speaker 15: that noise. Now went out to check the car was
[13:23] Speaker 15: there then.
[13:23] Speaker 4: But here's our card. We'll be checking with you later.
[13:26] Speaker 12: Yeah.
[13:26] Speaker 15: I sure hope you find it. I don't know how
[13:27] Speaker 15: I can get to work tomorrow without my car.
[13:29] Speaker 3: We'll notify.
[13:30] Speaker 15: Yeah, gee, I sure hope you'll find it.
[13:31] Speaker 4: Thanks for your health.
[13:33] Speaker 14: Ben An x range Pod six time or seven X
[13:43] Speaker 14: Range Pod six nine car had just been stolen from
[13:47] Speaker 14: one oh to eleven Groveland Drive, the right headlight is out.
[13:51] Speaker 2: Leave, suspect is known.
[13:56] Speaker 4: I don't think you could have gotten a car through
[13:57] Speaker 4: the block.
[13:57] Speaker 2: You didn't.
[13:58] Speaker 4: You better start searching the side roads.
[14:01] Speaker 3: Yeah, there's one reading off to the left, up the
[14:06] Speaker 3: head Okay, let's try it.
[14:11] Speaker 4: Wait a minute, there is a car coming down the hill.
[14:12] Speaker 3: Tartis Jrys making timing. Joe, only one headlight on it.
[14:17] Speaker 4: Because I'm right out, I turned around quick.
[14:19] Speaker 3: Let's go rung.
[14:19] Speaker 15: Get over to the inside, then home over the.
[14:31] Speaker 16: Attention all units, special attention, all units in search detail
[14:35] Speaker 16: the Kennedy of Laurel Kenyon eighty K records.
[14:49] Speaker 7: An ambulance was called and Ben and I were taking
[14:51] Speaker 7: to Georgia Street Receiving Hospital. There, I received emergency treatment
[14:55] Speaker 7: for multiple cuts and bruises and a spring left shoulder.
[14:58] Speaker 4: Ben didn't do so well.
[15:00] Speaker 7: I had a possible concussion, two broken ribs, and half
[15:02] Speaker 7: a dozen severe cuts about the face and arms.
[15:05] Speaker 4: We were then taking to the P and F ward.
[15:07] Speaker 7: The next afternoon we had a visit from Captain Steed
[15:09] Speaker 7: and Chief A Detectives Thad Brown.
[15:13] Speaker 12: Friday.
[15:14] Speaker 4: I feel it, oh pretty good. Chief.
[15:17] Speaker 5: We saw romarow across the hall. You came out better.
[15:19] Speaker 17: Needed, Yeah, I said, I hear. Are you resting any
[15:22] Speaker 17: h much better? No danger involved, need to rest. That's
[15:24] Speaker 17: about all. How long I think you hear? Two weeks
[15:27] Speaker 17: according to the doctor. What about you a couple of
[15:30] Speaker 17: days too, bad Jo Badge Ben? Yeah, looks like you
[15:33] Speaker 17: two got banged up for nothing. Oh after we rammed
[15:36] Speaker 17: your car, he ditched the black plymouth and then we
[15:38] Speaker 17: figure he hit for the underbrush. Yeah, saho.
[15:41] Speaker 3: When we were home, you and bent out of that wreck.
[15:43] Speaker 3: You slipped through the line.
[15:44] Speaker 4: Any fingerprints on the car when we hear you it's
[15:48] Speaker 4: rotting block. I guess it was his night. Huh.
[15:49] Speaker 3: We're getting more men from Metro Division to help out,
[15:52] Speaker 3: and we're doubling the number of decoys around the city policewomen.
[15:55] Speaker 4: Huh.
[15:56] Speaker 5: And we'll have each of them planted in the park car,
[15:57] Speaker 5: along with an officer in every area of the Badge Ben.
[16:00] Speaker 5: It's been working. All he has to do is grab at.
[16:02] Speaker 12: The bait once. Yeah.
[16:03] Speaker 3: But if he goes for it, and I had plenty
[16:05] Speaker 3: of time to choose and work the same setup every
[16:07] Speaker 3: night till we reach him.
[16:08] Speaker 7: It's a big operation night if you run it for weeks.
[16:11] Speaker 7: Unless he quits.
[16:12] Speaker 3: There's only one way a guy like that ever quits. Yeah,
[16:14] Speaker 3: when we stop him.
[16:19] Speaker 7: Saturday, March tenth, two pm, I was released from the
[16:22] Speaker 7: p and F ward and went home. Ben stayed on
[16:25] Speaker 7: at the hospital. He had at least another ten days
[16:28] Speaker 7: to go before release. Sunday I spent it home. Monday afternoon,
[16:32] Speaker 7: I checked back in at the office and Captain Steve
[16:34] Speaker 7: putting me on decoy duty for that week along with
[16:36] Speaker 7: Policewoman Dorothy River. We were assigned to cover an isolated parking
[16:40] Speaker 7: area near Mulhullum Drive.
[16:41] Speaker 4: And Beverly Glen.
[16:43] Speaker 7: Was a nice view, but the duty was slow. No
[16:46] Speaker 7: sign of the badge bend. Policewoman River and I waited
[16:49] Speaker 7: it out late evening to early morning from Monday through Thursday.
[16:54] Speaker 7: Friday night came same.
[16:56] Speaker 4: Thing we waited.
[17:00] Speaker 2: Then you see him today.
[17:01] Speaker 4: Yeah, he's doing fine, be out next week, grouchy.
[17:04] Speaker 2: I guess sure? You want a cigarette?
[17:07] Speaker 4: Thank you?
[17:10] Speaker 3: Sure?
[17:10] Speaker 2: Till it's Friday night? Mm night. How did you gets
[17:16] Speaker 2: you're out in force?
[17:18] Speaker 4: What time you got.
[17:20] Speaker 2: A quarter to two? Long nights?
[17:24] Speaker 4: Yeah? Slow?
[17:26] Speaker 5: Cold?
[17:27] Speaker 2: No, are you just a little it's chilly up here
[17:30] Speaker 2: in the early room.
[17:32] Speaker 4: It's up car full of kids just pulling out.
[17:36] Speaker 2: Are the cars going to.
[17:38] Speaker 4: Yeah, we're the only ones left.
[17:43] Speaker 2: Steakhouts giving your nerves.
[17:46] Speaker 4: So look, if you're cold, you can have my code.
[17:47] Speaker 4: It doesn't bother me.
[17:48] Speaker 2: No, No, it's right, Joe. Thanks. It's a beautiful view
[17:54] Speaker 2: from a parent, all the lights. Yeah, you like to
[17:59] Speaker 2: dance to what I said? You like to dance?
[18:03] Speaker 4: Well, once in a while. I guess I'm not too good.
[18:05] Speaker 2: Why well, our club's having its big annual dance two
[18:08] Speaker 2: weeks me Saturday. Yeah, might get a kick out of
[18:11] Speaker 2: it as.
[18:11] Speaker 4: Former leaves me out. I don't want a text.
[18:14] Speaker 2: You could rent one, it'd be fun.
[18:16] Speaker 4: Ah afraid I don't look good in a text.
[18:17] Speaker 2: I never met a man who thought he did. Why
[18:20] Speaker 2: don't you try it? I might be working, well, I mean,
[18:22] Speaker 2: if you're not working, why don't.
[18:23] Speaker 4: You come you going?
[18:25] Speaker 12: Well?
[18:26] Speaker 2: I was planning on.
[18:27] Speaker 4: Got a date.
[18:29] Speaker 2: Yeah, I have hopes.
[18:32] Speaker 4: There's a car pulling in see yeah, parked over in
[18:38] Speaker 4: the back of us.
[18:39] Speaker 2: I can only make out one person in the car.
[18:42] Speaker 4: Yeah, looks like a man. I can't be sure. Alright,
[18:46] Speaker 4: come on over closer. We might as well look the partner. Alright,
[18:52] Speaker 4: it's getting out of the car.
[18:54] Speaker 2: Is it coming this way?
[18:55] Speaker 4: Walking over to the side of their own It's got
[18:57] Speaker 4: a flashlight looking around.
[19:01] Speaker 2: He was built like the Badge Bennitt, short, heavy set.
[19:05] Speaker 4: Yeah, it's turning around. He's got his flashlight on us.
[19:08] Speaker 2: He's coming up on your side of the car.
[19:10] Speaker 4: I take it easy, you know what to do.
[19:16] Speaker 13: Come on out of that car, please, office it all right?
[19:19] Speaker 4: Hold on, got a gun, Joe, Yeah.
[19:22] Speaker 13: Come on, I said, out of the car Volta.
[19:24] Speaker 18: Alright, alright, torop the gun, drop it.
[19:35] Speaker 2: That's jim.
[19:36] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[19:37] Speaker 2: Now, I'll get the cuffs.
[19:38] Speaker 12: Honey.
[19:39] Speaker 4: Thanks. I didn't think I hit him that hard.
[19:43] Speaker 2: You didn't, I didn't.
[19:49] Speaker 7: Policewoman Dorothy River and I took the suspect to Hollywood Division,
[19:52] Speaker 7: where he was booked in suspicion of robbery and gave
[19:55] Speaker 7: his name as Charles Leon Kirby, aged forty six. Monday
[19:59] Speaker 7: March nineteenth, ben was released from the hospital and checked
[20:01] Speaker 7: back in for work. A special show off was held
[20:04] Speaker 7: at which ten of the seventeen victims definitely identified Kirby
[20:06] Speaker 7: as the Badge bandit. The suspect had finally been apprehended.
[20:11] Speaker 7: Now we started the slow process of formerly charging the
[20:13] Speaker 7: man and presenting our evidence against him to bring him
[20:16] Speaker 7: to trial.
[20:18] Speaker 4: Ten Am Ben and I went across.
[20:19] Speaker 7: The street to the sixth floor of the Hall of
[20:21] Speaker 7: Justice to present our case against Kirby and to obtain
[20:24] Speaker 7: a formal complaint against him.
[20:25] Speaker 4: We met with Deputy District Attorney Broker.
[20:27] Speaker 12: Why'n't you get out of the hospital then?
[20:29] Speaker 3: Yes, morning, sure got sick of play?
[20:31] Speaker 5: Heard about your accent?
[20:32] Speaker 3: That guy sure gave enough trouble, isn't he?
[20:34] Speaker 7: Heah, he's still giving his trouble. How's that he got
[20:37] Speaker 7: in a tangle with another prisoner from Hollywood Division.
[20:39] Speaker 13: Muh.
[20:40] Speaker 7: The other prisoner gave Kirby a pretty bad going over,
[20:43] Speaker 7: cut him up and broke his left forearm. They're moving
[20:46] Speaker 7: him in an ambulance from Hollywood to the prison ward
[20:48] Speaker 7: at the General Hospital. When this happened this this morning.
[20:51] Speaker 7: I think they're moving him downtown now.
[20:52] Speaker 5: It's off one now.
[20:54] Speaker 13: How about your reports on Kirby?
[20:55] Speaker 5: They all in order.
[20:56] Speaker 3: Here's a summary report led his ten positive identifications containing
[21:00] Speaker 3: ten cons for uber and ten counts of forcible rape.
[21:04] Speaker 7: Here are seven other crime reports, only partial identification on these.
[21:08] Speaker 5: Okay, what you got for crab writing evidence against him.
[21:13] Speaker 7: All we went through Kirby's apartment on at least a
[21:15] Speaker 7: dozen pieces of property that he took from his victims,
[21:18] Speaker 7: mostly watches and jewelry.
[21:20] Speaker 4: The victims identified every piece we found.
[21:22] Speaker 5: Okay, let me get the details on it.
[21:25] Speaker 4: Excuse me, broke speaking, Yes you Friday, thank you.
[21:32] Speaker 12: Friday?
[21:34] Speaker 4: When yeah, right away? Well that does it? Once, my Kirby,
[21:38] Speaker 4: we just broke out of an ambulance.
[21:49] Speaker 6: You are listening to Dragnet, the case history of a
[21:52] Speaker 6: police investigation presented in the public interest.
[21:56] Speaker 7: As soon as word of Kirby's escape came through, the
[22:04] Speaker 7: information was broadcast to all points all available cruiser cars
[22:08] Speaker 7: and men were rushed to the escape area, and a
[22:10] Speaker 7: door to door canvas got underway. All of the men
[22:12] Speaker 7: were giving mugshots to Kirby together with his description.
[22:15] Speaker 4: Eleven am. Then and I got back to the office.
[22:18] Speaker 7: We found a message from Captain Steed to meet him
[22:20] Speaker 7: in the chief that he checked his office.
[22:23] Speaker 13: Go further notice the busty polls and the union station.
[22:26] Speaker 15: Right, what's the story, Chief, That's what I'm trying to
[22:29] Speaker 15: find out.
[22:29] Speaker 3: Why do you make the break there? Fourth and Maine
[22:31] Speaker 3: couldn't have picked a better spot. The ambulance had just
[22:33] Speaker 3: crossed Third and Maine when Kirby slugged. The guard driver
[22:36] Speaker 3: was too busy dodging traffic to notice what was going
[22:38] Speaker 3: on in back.
[22:39] Speaker 4: It's a lousy break.
[22:40] Speaker 3: Kirby jumped out of the back end of the ambulance
[22:42] Speaker 3: and disappeared in the crowd. No sign of him since
[22:44] Speaker 3: it's fine.
[22:45] Speaker 7: It takes us almost three months to reach the guy
[22:47] Speaker 7: and he breaks away on a cheek flupe like that.
[22:49] Speaker 3: He doesn't have many friends in town. It's only got
[22:51] Speaker 3: one we know of. Yeah, a brother. Kirby stays with
[22:54] Speaker 3: him pretty often from when we gather, and the brother
[22:56] Speaker 3: lives in a.
[22:56] Speaker 5: Rooming house down on Alameda.
[22:57] Speaker 4: Anybody checked that, yet, we've got it staked out.
[23:00] Speaker 3: The brother works at the box factory in the south
[23:01] Speaker 3: end of town. Let's cover too, And it was not
[23:03] Speaker 3: going far with a broken arm.
[23:05] Speaker 4: What did he got?
[23:06] Speaker 12: Pawn shop hold up Sixth Street had a few minutes ago.
[23:09] Speaker 15: Here's the description of the hold up man stocky.
[23:11] Speaker 3: Built, blonde hair, horn, ram glasses, Chevy fag.
[23:14] Speaker 4: You were wrong about that broken arm. Come on.
[23:19] Speaker 7: Eleven twenty am, Ben and I pulled up at the
[23:22] Speaker 7: East Asia pawn shop on Sixth Street. Inside we found
[23:25] Speaker 7: the proprietor, Morris Brubaker, lying propped up against one of
[23:28] Speaker 7: the showcases. It was an elderly man. His face and
[23:30] Speaker 7: the head showed the marks of a savage beating. His
[23:33] Speaker 7: wounds were hemorrhaging badly, and ambulance attendants were giving him first aid.
[23:37] Speaker 4: I showed him Charles Kirby's mugshot.
[23:40] Speaker 12: That's the man I would make a mistake. That's sham.
[23:43] Speaker 3: Was he a lone miss Brewbaker?
[23:45] Speaker 12: Yes, by himself. He has to look at a watch.
[23:48] Speaker 12: When I tried to get it, he kicked me.
[23:50] Speaker 19: I fell against the showcase and cut myself.
[23:54] Speaker 12: He pulled me in the back room. I didn't even
[23:56] Speaker 12: know me. He Kelly kept beating me.
[23:58] Speaker 3: Mister Brewbaker didn't get this comfy.
[24:01] Speaker 4: How much did he get away with? You know?
[24:03] Speaker 12: I'm not sure. Blue shot, blue overcoat, wrap around and
[24:07] Speaker 12: navy blue booth.
[24:09] Speaker 4: He kept hitting me, so just take it easy. They'll
[24:11] Speaker 4: have you out of here in a minute.
[24:12] Speaker 12: Kept hitting me like a crazy man. This is an
[24:14] Speaker 12: a septic mind stealing.
[24:17] Speaker 3: Okay, what else do you take me to?
[24:19] Speaker 4: Crew back?
[24:19] Speaker 3: Can you remember yes?
[24:22] Speaker 12: From the cash REDI see he took money.
[24:24] Speaker 4: How much?
[24:25] Speaker 12: Thirteen forty dollars? I can't be sure when he.
[24:27] Speaker 4: Left your store?
[24:28] Speaker 3: Did you see which way he was going?
[24:30] Speaker 12: I don't know. He dragged me in the back room,
[24:32] Speaker 12: he locked me.
[24:32] Speaker 19: And moving now, so I said, okay, I know I
[24:36] Speaker 19: saw him going through the shelves are and the back
[24:39] Speaker 19: of the carner. I don't know what'd you keep my
[24:42] Speaker 19: account books and my gun box.
[24:45] Speaker 12: Of shells too.
[24:45] Speaker 4: You won't take a look then, well.
[24:47] Speaker 12: My head, yes, sir, Just take it easy.
[24:49] Speaker 4: It's only going to be a minute now.
[24:51] Speaker 3: The count books are still there.
[24:52] Speaker 4: Yeah, he got the gun.
[24:58] Speaker 7: Four pm, Kirby alias the Badge bandit was still at large.
[25:01] Speaker 7: As far as we were concerned, the case was almost
[25:04] Speaker 7: back to where it started from eleven weeks before. The
[25:06] Speaker 7: suspect was still loose, was well armed, was still free
[25:10] Speaker 7: to rob, assault, her murder. We had two big advantages,
[25:13] Speaker 7: Kirby's possible broken arm, which would need medical attention, and secondly, the.
[25:17] Speaker 4: Lead to Kirby's brother.
[25:19] Speaker 3: At five point.
[25:20] Speaker 7: Thirty pm, we had a report that the suspect was
[25:22] Speaker 7: seen purchasing a ticket at a theater.
[25:23] Speaker 4: Box office out in Hollywood, boulevard. We ran it down,
[25:27] Speaker 4: it didn't pay off.
[25:28] Speaker 7: At six point fifteen, a taxi driver thought he spotted
[25:31] Speaker 7: Kirby boarding an outbound street car.
[25:33] Speaker 4: Figaro and Pico was checked out, no results.
[25:37] Speaker 7: At seven o'clock, Ben and I got something to eat
[25:39] Speaker 7: to drive in and we relieved the men on steak
[25:41] Speaker 7: out at the rooming house on Alameda Street where Kirby's
[25:44] Speaker 7: brother was staying.
[25:46] Speaker 4: Ten pm. Midnight, no sign of Kirby. We waited.
[25:52] Speaker 7: At three am, Hanson and Cummings of Homicide relieved us
[25:55] Speaker 7: and Ben drove me home. Was three forty five when
[25:58] Speaker 7: he dropped me off at Collis Adam No. Number forty
[26:00] Speaker 7: six fifty six.
[26:12] Speaker 4: Joseph, that you, yeah, my I didn't mean to wake you.
[26:17] Speaker 8: What tell you?
[26:18] Speaker 4: Is it almost for.
[26:21] Speaker 8: These late hours? You've got to get your rest.
[26:24] Speaker 4: Joseph, we'll be all right. MA got something to eat
[26:27] Speaker 4: in the ice box.
[26:28] Speaker 8: There's a little cold meat and some cheese in the cupboards.
[26:31] Speaker 4: I just want a sandwich. You're going back to sleep.
[26:34] Speaker 8: I had some nice meatballs and spaghetti for dinner. I
[26:37] Speaker 8: can BOMs done for you. My house sandwich is.
[26:44] Speaker 11: Working a whole hours.
[26:46] Speaker 8: You just get sick.
[26:47] Speaker 11: Joseph, and you will seen. Nobody cares about you when
[26:49] Speaker 11: you're skipping.
[26:50] Speaker 4: I wish you wouldn't get up mine. I can fix something.
[26:52] Speaker 11: Warm up the meat balls and spaghetti. You need something,
[26:55] Speaker 11: some stamps?
[26:56] Speaker 15: Sure, I get it, coy am.
[26:59] Speaker 8: I got that.
[27:03] Speaker 13: Well Larman down homicide. Yeah, Larmon, thought you'd like to know.
[27:06] Speaker 4: They just got Kirby where and his brother's place.
[27:09] Speaker 13: About fifteen minutes ago. Hanson and coming's.
[27:11] Speaker 4: Gradude any trouble.
[27:13] Speaker 13: No, grabbed him before he got to his gun. He
[27:16] Speaker 13: just locked him up. Thought you'd like to know.
[27:18] Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks, Marmon.
[27:20] Speaker 11: Night right, Well that wasn't Joseph.
[27:28] Speaker 4: The offers, Ma, they got Kirby the bad spend.
[27:31] Speaker 10: Oh d say, well that's nice. Maybe you have some
[27:35] Speaker 10: time off now?
[27:36] Speaker 12: Yeah?
[27:37] Speaker 7: Never fails, does it? You work on a case for
[27:39] Speaker 7: three months, leave it for thirty minutes.
[27:41] Speaker 4: It's all over.
[27:42] Speaker 11: Well, food's warm. Is there anything else you won't?
[27:48] Speaker 12: No?
[27:48] Speaker 4: No, that's fine, Ma.
[27:49] Speaker 10: You go on to bed, all right, Joseph, and don't
[27:53] Speaker 10: stay up too long?
[27:54] Speaker 4: All right? Right?
[27:58] Speaker 18: Hey Ma?
[28:00] Speaker 8: Yes, Jess, have.
[28:01] Speaker 4: I still got that old tuxedo around.
[28:12] Speaker 3: The story you have just heard was true, only the
[28:15] Speaker 3: names were changed. To protect the innocent.
[28:18] Speaker 6: On June twenty seventh, trial was held in Superior Court,
[28:21] Speaker 6: Apartment eighty seventh, City and County of Los Angeles, State
[28:24] Speaker 6: of California. In a moment the results of that trial,
[28:34] Speaker 6: Charles Leon Kirby, alias the Badge Bandit, was tried and
[28:37] Speaker 6: convicted in Superior Court on several counts of armed robbery, rape,
[28:41] Speaker 6: and assault with intent to commit murder. He was sentenced
[28:44] Speaker 6: to life imprisonment. After serving one year in the state penitentiary,
[28:47] Speaker 6: he was judged insane and committed to the State Mental
[28:50] Speaker 6: Hospital at Mendocino. After two months there, he escaped. Charles Kirby,
[28:54] Speaker 6: alias the Badge Bandit is still at large. You have
[28:58] Speaker 6: just heard dragnet of authentic cases from official fails. Technical
[29:02] Speaker 6: advice for Dragnett comes from the Office of Chief of
[29:05] Speaker 6: Police W. A.
[29:06] Speaker 4: Wharton.
[29:07] Speaker 3: This is NBC, the National Broadcasting Company.
[29:21] Speaker 1: Welcome back. Well, given the our focus, we should call
[29:26] Speaker 1: in on the character that Peggy Weber created here. It
[29:31] Speaker 1: served a very important purpose for what they were trying
[29:35] Speaker 1: to do with the Joe Friday character at the time.
[29:39] Speaker 1: It humanized him, and I think it also did so
[29:45] Speaker 1: while not giving him romantic attachments. It's a very different
[29:50] Speaker 1: experience of Joe Friday to have someone who is concerned
[29:56] Speaker 1: and fretting over him and thinking about him as something
[30:01] Speaker 1: odther than a one man police army. Now, this wouldn't
[30:05] Speaker 1: fit with where they would take the character later on,
[30:08] Speaker 1: as he became a lot more iconic, particularly when you
[30:13] Speaker 1: get into the sixties series, but later on in the
[30:16] Speaker 1: fifties as well. But her performance is solid in bringing
[30:21] Speaker 1: this different type of character to Dragnet. Now, of course,
[30:26] Speaker 1: you could critique the fact that she sounds a bit
[30:30] Speaker 1: too old. Joe Friday at this point is in his thirties,
[30:36] Speaker 1: and if his mother had him at a typical age
[30:41] Speaker 1: for a woman in that time, she would probably be
[30:46] Speaker 1: in her early to mid fifties, and she sounds well
[30:51] Speaker 1: into her sixties or like she has had some serious
[30:54] Speaker 1: health challenges that would make her voice older. But that
[30:58] Speaker 1: is typical for the time. And what you have to
[31:01] Speaker 1: appreciate about Peggy Weber as an actress is that she
[31:07] Speaker 1: was just twenty four years old when she created this character,
[31:12] Speaker 1: and you would never guess that you were hearing the
[31:14] Speaker 1: voice of a twenty four year old woman. And what's
[31:17] Speaker 1: remarkable about Peggy Weber is that she was such a
[31:21] Speaker 1: pro even at a young age and continued well into
[31:28] Speaker 1: this century with her excellence in so many different areas
[31:33] Speaker 1: of the entertainment field. Now, before we get away from
[31:36] Speaker 1: talking about Peggy Weber, I also wanted just to share
[31:40] Speaker 1: my two favorite Peggy Weber Dragnet episodes. In the nineteen
[31:45] Speaker 1: fifties series, It's Got to Be the Big Mother, in
[31:49] Speaker 1: which she plays a grief stricken whose child was born
[31:56] Speaker 1: dead and ended up kidnapping a maybe from the hospital
[32:02] Speaker 1: to avoid telling her her husband the heartbreaking truth and
[32:08] Speaker 1: because of her own grief, and she explains herself in
[32:13] Speaker 1: this heartbreaking monologue. It's just beautifully performed. And then on
[32:19] Speaker 1: the other end, my favorite episode with her from the
[32:22] Speaker 1: nineteen sixties series was The Harassing Wife is a bit
[32:28] Speaker 1: of a comedy episode. She plays the vindictive ex wife
[32:32] Speaker 1: of an ex convict who keeps accusing him of a
[32:38] Speaker 1: series of thefts that are being committed around town. And
[32:44] Speaker 1: really it's the same actress, but it's an incredible performance.
[32:50] Speaker 1: She's able to play both type of roles quite well. Now,
[32:56] Speaker 1: The Callis Avenue Address is interesting. First of all, it
[33:02] Speaker 1: does round Friday in a specific location. It places Friday
[33:08] Speaker 1: in a residential neighborhood six to seven miles from work,
[33:15] Speaker 1: so he's got a reasonable commute for the time anyway.
[33:19] Speaker 1: And not only that, the actual address exists, and it
[33:24] Speaker 1: existed back in nineteen fifty. I couldn't find any details
[33:30] Speaker 1: as to who might have been the occupant as to
[33:33] Speaker 1: why they were choosing that specific address, although they would
[33:37] Speaker 1: repeat it several times throughout the series, so there's a reason.
[33:41] Speaker 1: I'm just not sure what it's for. I think as
[33:45] Speaker 1: an episode this is great. There's so much going on.
[33:51] Speaker 1: The car wreck is a great scene and does show
[33:55] Speaker 1: a actual hazard that you face on the Force, and
[34:00] Speaker 1: that then you had Friday capturing the badge bandit and
[34:04] Speaker 1: the case not being over because he got away, and
[34:07] Speaker 1: then of course that sort of rug pull at the
[34:10] Speaker 1: end that you'll get with drag Net where it ends
[34:13] Speaker 1: up that the criminal ends up getting captured off screen
[34:17] Speaker 1: and that happens to real life policeman bought a bed
[34:22] Speaker 1: as well, And it's a nice contrast between his mom
[34:26] Speaker 1: just being glad that the case is over and Joe
[34:28] Speaker 1: being upset that he missed out on the caller after
[34:32] Speaker 1: being on the case so much. But it's a nice
[34:35] Speaker 1: contrast between the civilian and the police mindset. All right, well,
[34:41] Speaker 1: now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day.
[34:44] Speaker 1: Thank you to Joey, Patreon supporter since June twenty nineteen,
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[35:19] Speaker 2: He's been flown in secretly tomorrow night.
[35:22] Speaker 18: It's not been a terribly well kept secret.
[35:24] Speaker 2: But he is coming and I'm free.
[35:28] Speaker 18: Harry Morgan doesn't like you.
[35:30] Speaker 11: Well, he and I we used to be.
[35:35] Speaker 2: That is, we were sort of friends.
[35:37] Speaker 4: That sounds comfortable.
[35:38] Speaker 2: When he had leave the country suddenly, he asked me to.
[35:41] Speaker 4: Keep some things for him, things like what.
[35:44] Speaker 2: Things like jewelry and you did.
[35:45] Speaker 11: His idea was I would sell the jewels and send
[35:48] Speaker 11: the money on to him.
[35:49] Speaker 4: And you didn't sell the job.
[35:50] Speaker 18: Oh, I saw them all right, But but you didn't
[35:52] Speaker 18: send him the money.
[35:53] Speaker 3: Well, I felt that he he owed.
[35:56] Speaker 18: Me something and you collected. Now he's coming back, you're
[35:59] Speaker 18: afraid he'll try to collector.
[36:00] Speaker 2: Yes, you'll want to hurt me, Simon, Do you think
[36:05] Speaker 2: I should be hurt?
[36:06] Speaker 18: Whenever Blonde's with ideas get closer than a foot for me,
[36:10] Speaker 18: I stopped thinking it's a family failing.
[36:14] Speaker 4: Hmm.
[36:15] Speaker 18: Oh, well the family disowned me, Wendy. How did you
[36:19] Speaker 18: find out about Morgan's returning to this country?
[36:21] Speaker 4: Oh, Sammy told me.
[36:23] Speaker 10: Sammy being he's a punch drunk little prize fighter who
[36:25] Speaker 10: spends all his time hanging around bars.
[36:27] Speaker 2: His favorites the Green Star on Third Avenue, which.
[36:30] Speaker 18: Might explain how he picked the news up. Where is
[36:33] Speaker 18: Morgan's plane landing?
[36:35] Speaker 2: Oh, Sammy didn't tell me that.
[36:36] Speaker 18: That's important for a number of reasons. I think maybe
[36:39] Speaker 18: I'll have to find Sammy and have a talk with him.
[36:42] Speaker 2: You're going to help me, Simon.
[36:44] Speaker 18: I don't believe in Blonde being killed. I think it's
[36:47] Speaker 18: unconstitutional or something. Besides, Harry Morgan is a bad man.
[36:51] Speaker 10: So, oh, Simon, I can't tell you how much I
[36:56] Speaker 10: appreciate this, how much I.
[36:58] Speaker 18: Can't tell me better not demonstrate. Not tonight. I've got
[37:00] Speaker 18: to find Sammy. Now, you go home, lock your door
[37:03] Speaker 18: and stay behind it. Oh, it's less than twenty four
[37:07] Speaker 18: hours in which to find Sammy, discover where Morgan's landing,
[37:10] Speaker 18: and pacify. If that's the word I mean. Good night, Wendy,
[37:14] Speaker 18: and wish me luck you'll need it.
[37:17] Speaker 1: Hope you'll be with us then in the meantime, send
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