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1001 Radio Crime Solvers — Jeff Regan, Private Investigator:

"Little Man’s Lament" & "Two Little Sisters"

Original Broadcast: December 7, 2025
Host: Jon Hagadorn

Episode Overview

This episode of 1001 Radio Crime Solvers brings listeners two suspenseful, wisecracking adventures of "Jeff Regan, Private Investigator": "Little Man’s Lament" and "Two Little Sisters." In true golden-age radio style, Regan is drawn into two cases filled with eccentric characters, sharp banter, and twisted motives. “Little Man’s Lament” is a Gothic family tale with a dangerous undercurrent, while “Two Little Sisters” delves into carnival intrigue and a murder among performers. Both tales highlight noir’s love of misfits, misdirection, and a detective who can’t resist the scent of trouble.

Story 1: "Little Man’s Lament"

Main Theme

A wealthy, decaying family fears a murderer among their own — but the truth is stranger, and deadlier, than paranoia suggests. Regan is hired to prevent a killing, but soon finds himself sifting through lies, eccentricities, and a dastardly plot.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Margate Family’s Eccentricity and Threats (03:01 - 10:51)

Regan’s boss, “the Lion,” pushes him to take a case for the odd Margate family.
Margaret Margate, her nephew (Hillary), and niece (Gwendolyn) all live in the crumbling Margate Mansion. Family ties are more rotten than the garden weeds.
Mrs. Margate fears for her life, suspecting Hillary is brewing poison for her tea:

“Yesterday, I noticed the odor of almonds in my tea...Hillary brewed that tea, Mr. Regan. My nephew.” — Mrs. Margate [10:45]

2. Meeting the Suspects (05:58 - 13:21)

Regan encounters the awkward and fragile Gwendolyn, who worries for her own safety.
Hillary, found at a shooting gallery, jokes about hiring Regan to stop a murder — namely, his own intended murder of his aunt.

“I think there’s going to be a murder...Yes, my aunt...Who’s gonna kill her? I am.” — Hillary Margate [12:12]

3. A Trail of Fear and Lies (14:13 - 18:25)

Regan is tailed and attacked by a mysterious bruiser with squeaky shoes.
Gwendolyn reveals she fears she is the real target:

“It's me they’re going to kill. Don’t you see? They’re going to kill me.” — Gwendolyn [17:45]

4. The Case Turns Deadly (18:25 - 23:33)

The Lion informs Regan that Hillary has been found shot dead.
Gwendolyn mentions Hillary had been reading a book about plants, now vanished, hinting at a deeper connection to their gardener, George Hendricks.

5. Unmasking the Gardener (24:36 - 25:56)

Hendricks reveals his real name is Freehold Quincy Margate, another family member with a criminal record.

“The name, it isn’t Hendricks, it’s Margate. Freehold Quincy Margate.” — George Hendricks [25:30]
He’s been forced to stay silent due to blackmail.

6. The Fiery Climax and Revelation (28:00 - 29:07)

Regan interrupts a confrontation as Mrs. Margate and her henchman try to burn evidence in the garden.
The true family business is uncovered:

“...where the fire had been was a nice pile of Exhibit A. It looked just like an ordinary plant, but the police call it Marijuana.” — Jeff Regan [28:45]

Notable Moments & Quotes

Biting Black Humor:

“You can talk about a thing like that when I’m here to present you with a golden opportunity — a chance to lift one who's in trouble.” — The Lion [04:06]
“Try Vigoro.” — Regan’s deadpan suggestion for the family’s problems [04:44]
Cynical Summing Up:

“She was scheduled to turn up poison, and I was supposed to testify Hillary had done it. Only Hillary caught on too fast and they gave him a bullet for his trouble.” — Jeff Regan [29:07]

Story 2: "Two Little Sisters"

Main Theme

A carnival’s star knife-thrower, Dolly Zamanski, is threatened by a shadowy figure from her past. When a blackmailer is murdered, Regan finds himself in a maze of sibling rivalry, love triangles, and professional jealousy beneath the big top.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Carnival Characters and a New Case (34:54 - 39:01)

Lion introduces Regan to Everybody’s Happy Pastime Carnival, whose proprietor is troubled.
Dolly Zamanski — “Queen of the Blades” — is being harassed by the mysterious Rand, dangerously affecting her act.
The Swami, a drunken fortune teller, hints he knows more than he lets on.

2. The Zamanski Sisters (40:15 - 41:47)

Regan meets Mary Zamanski, Dolly’s younger, less worldly sister.
The sisters’ history and Dolly’s romantic entanglements (with wealthy Harold Pine and supposedly with Rand) are teased.

“They looked alike, but they were about as much alike as a sheepdog and a cobra.” — Jeff Regan [34:54]

3. Murder in the Trailer (42:19 - 44:41)

Rand is found dead with a knife in his back; Mary confesses but seems confused and frightened.

4. Following the Clues — Photo Evidence and the “Swami” (45:16 - 49:13)

Regan discovers Dolly was once married to Rand, and possibly still is.
A crucial Variety clipping from Rand’s suitcase links Dolly and a man named Duncan as once being a knife-throwing act.

5. Revelations and Confrontations (51:02 - 60:32)

Dolly married Harold Pine, but perhaps never truly divorced Rand, potentially committing bigamy. Her “divorce” timelines don’t add up and threaten scandal.
Regan discovers the Swami is really Harry Duncan, Dolly's former act partner and jilted lover.
The killer is revealed:

“The knife went past, took some air that belonged to me and stuck in the tent pole.” [59:08]
“So the swami killed Rand. That’s what I figured wrong. If Mary didn’t stick around, it had to be a toss job. Somebody had to toss that knife through the trailer window. Somebody professional.” — Jeff Regan [60:08]

6. Restoring Order and Aftermath (61:11 - 62:33)

The jilted, drunken Duncan killed Rand to avenge his lost love.
Dolly’s marriage to Pine is invalid—but Mary and Pine find solace in each other.
The Lion, ever the dramatic, mourns his lost fees and the “poetic” ending.

Notable Moments & Quotes

Carnival Sibling Rivalry:

“Their names were Zamanski — Mary and Dolly Zamanski. They worked for the Everybody’s Happy Pastime Carnival shows... They looked alike, but they were about as much alike as a sheepdog and a cobra.” — Jeff Regan [34:54]
Twisted Resolution:

“You let your sister take the fall and kept your trap shut because you were scared of what he knew... Your divorce is no good. When you married Harold Pine, you weren’t divorced from Rand.” — Jeff Regan [59:38–59:55]
Bleak Banter with the Lion:

“There's nothing in it for you.” — Regan
“No, Jeffrey, I suppose not. But I can dream, can’t I?” — The Lion [62:33]

Key Timestamps for Important Segments

| Timestamp | Segment & Key Events | |-----------|---------------------| | 03:01 – 10:51 | Margate family backstory, growing tensions, Regan warned of ‘poison’ | | 11:43 – 13:21 | Hillary’s ominous request for Regan to prevent a murder (confesses intent) | | 17:43 | Gwendolyn reveals her own fears of being killed | | 18:25 – 23:33 | Discovery of Hillary’s murder, the mystery of the missing book | | 25:30 | George Hendricks reveals his true identity as a Margate | | 28:45 | Marijuana operation revealed as motive for murder and mayhem | | 34:54 – 39:01 | New case at the carnival, sisters and Swami introduced | | 42:56 – 44:41 | Rand’s murder, the confession, and police investigation | | 49:10 | Lion fires Regan (temporarily) for sticking to the case out of principle | | 59:08 – 60:32 | Final confrontation, killer unmasked as Harry Duncan (the "Swami") | | 62:17 | Lion’s mock-sentimental reflection on the happy couple’s “millions” |

Overall Tone & Style

The tone is hard-boiled, fast-paced, and laced with dark humor. Regan’s narration keeps the audience one foot ahead of the action, matching classic noir wordplay — sardonic, cynical, but not without compassion for those caught up in the mystery.

Quote examples:

“You’re fired.” — The Lion, before quickly relenting [50:13]
“You can have the end of the turkey I've been getting.” — Regan, griping about payment [30:30]

Summary

"Little Man’s Lament" and "Two Little Sisters" are quintessential examples of Golden Age radio’s blend of moody atmosphere, convoluted plotting, and pulpy, comic dialogue. Jeff Regan, Private Investigator tackles two cases suffused with eccentric characters, twisted motives, and deep family or romantic betrayals. In the end, murder conceals criminal enterprises (from poison to marijuana), misguided love leads to disastrous choices, and Regan, ever the lonely-eye, solves the puzzle, even if the only reward is a laundry token.

For newcomers, this double-feature captures the essence of radio noir: snappy dialogue, quirky suspects, and a detective who’s both streetwise and sentimental.

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[00:01]
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[02:25]
Jeff Regan
My name's regan. I work for anthony j. Lyon international detective bureau. They call me the lion's eye.
[02:38]
Narrator/Announcer
Wednesday at 9 and CBS brings you Jeff Regan, Investigator starring Frank Graham as Regan with Frank Nelson as Anthony J. Lyon. So stand by for mystery and suspense and adventure in tonight's story of the little man's lament.
[03:02]
Jeff Regan
They called it Margate Mansion, but the name didn't fit. It was a pile of old cement and cracked stucco held up by a half a dozen tired palm trees. The people inside didn't fit either. A crusty old lady who talked backwards. A redhead with an urge to travel fast. But it was Junior who won first prize. He was half Einstein and half Hollywood playboy. Only when this boy played, it was with poison.
[03:30]
It started on a Tuesday. I was headed down Taft Avenue on my way to the laundromat. I had a date with a washing machine and a blonde cashier named Gloria. That's when a cab pulled up beside me and the lion hopped out. He was blowing sparks out of a fat cigar. I could tell by the 50 cent smell that we had a new client.
[03:47]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
Oh, Jeffrey. Jeffrey, my boy, I'm glad I caught you.
[03:50]
Jeff Regan
Get back in the cab, fatso. I'm busy.
[03:51]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
But I have to talk to you. I was just going up to your apartment.
[03:54]
Jeff Regan
Have a good time. I'll be out all day.
[03:56]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
Now, Jeffrey, is that any way to talk? After all I've done for you? After the many opportunities I've given you to help your fellow beings in distress.
[04:04]
Jeff Regan
I've worked three weeks without a rest. I gotta wash my socks.
[04:06]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
Wash your socks? You can talk about a thing like that when. I'm here to present you with a golden opportunity. An opportunity to demonstrate our humanitarian sentiments. A chance to lift one who's in trouble.
[04:18]
Jeff Regan
How much did you lift from him?
[04:19]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
100 bucks. And it's not a him, it's a her. Oh, it's really a simple job, Jeffrey. Very simple. I've just been over there. Lovely old house, fine old family. The Margate's flower of the old South.
[04:31]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Gone to see?
[04:33]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
Well, yes, but you know how it is with descendants of old families. Fresh, young growth choked back by the weeds of the old family. Stock the fresh new plant smothered by decay and ruin.
[04:44]
Jeff Regan
Try Vigoro.
[04:46]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
Regan, you don't seem to understand. We've been retained by Mrs. Margate. It's about her nephew, Hilary Margate. Strange youth. Very strange youth indeed. Mrs. Margate needs protection from him. I tell you, it's a very serious matter.
[04:59]
Jeff Regan
Well, so is my laundry.
[05:00]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
Regan, will you listen to me?
[05:01]
Jeff Regan
There's another choice.
[05:02]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Yes.
[05:03]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
See Mrs. Margate. Root out the facts.
[05:05]
Jeff Regan
Get her a gardener.
[05:06]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
She doesn't need a gardener. She needs you. And don't give me any more trouble.
[05:09]
Jeff Regan
Okay? Okay, sweetheart. Here, wait a minute. What's it my laundry? Put the shirts and socks in a washing machine. Put two bits in the slot. And stay away from the blonde. She doesn't like cigar smoke.
[05:20]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
Regan, this means you will see Mrs. Margay.
[05:23]
Jeff Regan
Don't try to be coy. You knew I'd see her the minute you stepped out of that cab.
[05:33]
I walked up vine and turned right past Franklin. All the places up there are old. But Margate Mansion was old when William S. Hart was Gene Autry. A bunch of turrets made out of wood that termites wouldn't look at. But I was looking at what was standing in the front bay window looking at me. Red hair and wide eyes and a complexion like skim milk. She was what answered the door when I twisted the old fashioned bell.
[05:58]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Hello. I saw you from the window.
[06:01]
Jeff Regan
Yeah, I saw you seeing me.
[06:04]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Come in. Come in, please.
[06:07]
Jeff Regan
Thanks.
[06:09]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
I. I hope you don't mind the disorder. I'm afraid I don't. Your name?
[06:16]
Jeff Regan
Regan.
[06:17]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Oh.
[06:20]
Sit here, Mr. Regan. Please. Don't mind the dust on the sofa. No one nice ever comes, so it doesn't matter.
[06:29]
I like you. I want you to stay. It shows you're not married or anything like that, Mr. Regan.
[06:37]
Jeff Regan
Nothing like that.
[06:38]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Oh, that's nice. I'm not married either, Mr. Regan.
[06:42]
Jeff Regan
I heard it was Mrs. Margate.
[06:44]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Oh, that's my aunt. I'm not married at all, Mr. Regan. You didn't just come to see my aunt?
[06:50]
Jeff Regan
I got a lot of time.
[06:52]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Oh, I've been foolish again, haven't I?
[06:56]
Sometimes I. I get so mixed up, I. I'm.
[06:59]
Jeff Regan
Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Wait, wait, wait.
[07:02]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Yes, Mr. Egan?
[07:03]
Jeff Regan
What's your name?
[07:05]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Gwendolyn.
[07:06]
Jeff Regan
Mrs. Margate's niece?
[07:08]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Yes.
[07:08]
Jeff Regan
Hillary's your brother?
[07:09]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Yes, Mr. Egan. All those questions.
[07:13]
Jeff Regan
Business, business. International Detective Bureau. Your aunt's on the line for a hundred dollars worth.
[07:18]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
A detective.
[07:19]
Jeff Regan
Well, let's polite for it.
[07:21]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Oh, you shouldn't have told me that. You shouldn't have told me that at all.
[07:24]
Jeff Regan
Suppose you tell me some things.
[07:27]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
I'm mixed up, Mr. Regan. I can't tell.
[07:31]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
Gwethilin.
[07:32]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
That's my aunt.
[07:33]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
Did I hear the front doorbell?
[07:35]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Don't say anything. Don't tell her.
[07:37]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
I did hear the front door. Well, Gwerfilan, who is this man?
[07:42]
Jeff Regan
Regan.
[07:42]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
Regan. Oh, you're the man they call the Lion's Eye. I've been expecting you. I'm gardening.
[07:48]
Jeff Regan
I should have figured.
[07:49]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
What? I have a green thumb, as they say. Follow me. Go to your room, Gwethelin.
[07:54]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Yes, Andy. Yes, Andy, I'm going.
[08:02]
Jeff Regan
She went, all right. Like a rabbit at a greyhound race. Only I wasn't sure this rabbit could stay ahead of the dogs. But right then I had another problem keeping up with Mrs. Margate. It wasn't the way she walked, it was her talk that winded me.
[08:14]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
We'll go to the garden.
[08:17]
My niece and my nephew probably weigh heavily on my heart, Mr. Regan. Oh, this way. Family collapsing and falling to ruin. Just three Margates left. Myself and the two children, Werther, Lynn and Hillary. Only 52 years old with such responsibilities.
[08:31]
Jeff Regan
Hillary?
[08:32]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
No, no, myself, of course, 52. But Hilary's the real problem. You follow me.
[08:37]
Jeff Regan
Right behind you.
[08:38]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
What?
[08:38]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
Oh, yes. Out this door.
[08:42]
The garden.
[08:48]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
There.
[08:49]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
Do you see that pool by the date palm?
[08:51]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Uh huh.
[08:51]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
Fish. Carp, Mr. Regan. He concocts things. Hillary brews things. Poisons. One day he fed something he had brewed to Hillary F. Margate Senior, the cop. And he turned bright green.
[09:04]
Jeff Regan
Hillary the carp.
[09:05]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
We found him next morning, floating belly up, stark bright green. Hillary F. Margate Sr. The copy we name our fish after the dear departed members of our family.
[09:15]
Jeff Regan
Nice custom.
[09:16]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
Yes. Hillary poisoned the calf when he was only 146 years old.
[09:20]
Jeff Regan
The car.
[09:21]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
Yes, yes. Come along. Hilary was only a boy at the time. Such a problem, Mr. Regan. Oh, here, my vegetable garden.
[09:32]
Have an onion, Mr. Regan. Delicious.
[09:35]
Jeff Regan
Look, Mrs. Margie.
[09:36]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
Eat the onion, Mr. Regan. George. George. George is my gardener.
[09:42]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Come over here, Mrs. Margaret.
[09:44]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
Oh, you can go out back and cut the weeds, George. Mr. Regan and I have some private matters to discuss.
[09:49]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Yes, ma'.
[09:49]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Am.
[09:50]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
Excellent man, George. Excellent. And be sure you get them all, George. We must be rid of the weeds.
[09:54]
Jeff Regan
Yeah.
[09:55]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Okay, ma'.
[09:56]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Am.
[09:57]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
Now we're alone. Mr. Regan, the onion. Go on, eat it. As I was saying, Hilary, that boy, such a problem.
[10:05]
Jeff Regan
As you were saying?
[10:06]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Yes. Yes.
[10:07]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
Good, aren't they?
[10:09]
Jeff Regan
Mrs. Margate, what is it you want me to do?
[10:11]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
Do? I want you to look after Hillary?
[10:13]
Jeff Regan
I was told you wanted protection.
[10:15]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
Well, it's the same thing, isn't it?
[10:17]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
No.
[10:17]
Jeff Regan
Hillary needs a nursemaid. That's not our line.
[10:19]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
Now see here, Mr. Reagan, international detective Bureau has already agreed to handle my case. Mr. Lyon himself accepted my check.
[10:26]
Jeff Regan
He'll accept anyone's check.
[10:27]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
But he promised to help.
[10:28]
Jeff Regan
Well, then talk to him.
[10:29]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
I'm talking to you. I'm explaining.
[10:31]
Jeff Regan
You're explaining nothing. You've given me a lot of double talk, and I have a feeling that's all you want to give me now.
[10:35]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Makes sense.
[10:35]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
All right, all right, all right. You're going to force me to say what I hoped never to say to anyone.
[10:41]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Not anyone.
[10:43]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
My life is in danger.
[10:44]
Jeff Regan
I can believe that.
[10:46]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
My tea. Yesterday, I noticed the odor of almonds.
[10:49]
Jeff Regan
I'm listening.
[10:50]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
I didn't drink it, naturally.
[10:51]
Jeff Regan
Naturally.
[10:52]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
Naturally. Hilary brewed that tea. Mr. Regan. My nephew.
[10:56]
Jeff Regan
Now you've said something. Where is he?
[10:59]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
Ocean Park. The shooting gallery.
[11:00]
Jeff Regan
Shooting gallery?
[11:01]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
Yes. He's strange. Very strange. He brews things, collects guns, practices shooting.
[11:06]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
You won't lie.
[11:07]
Jeff Regan
Suppose I go talk to him?
[11:08]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
Oh, you'd better. As I've said, Mr. Regan, I don't wish to be murdered.
[11:18]
Jeff Regan
I headed the car down La Brea to Olympic and then out to the Ocean park pier. It was afternoon business, popcorn and sailor style. The shooting gallery had one customer. A kid in a corduroy sport coat with a face like a cantaloupe out of season. He was taking shots at the little swinging targets. You didn't need the family album to figure him for Hillary Margaret. I walked over, but he didn't take the gun from his shoulder.
[11:43]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Leeks.
[11:44]
Jeff Regan
Come again?
[11:45]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Leeks. Scallions.
[11:47]
Jeff Regan
My name's Regan.
[11:48]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Allium ascalonica, Mr. Regan. Onions. You've been eating them. So this suggests you're the private detective hired by my aunt.
[11:59]
Bullseye.
[12:01]
Jeff Regan
You read palms too?
[12:02]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
I fancy myself an amateur detective, Mr. Regan. I seldom miss.
[12:08]
Jeff Regan
I notice.
[12:09]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
As a matter of fact, Mr. Regan, I'm interested in hiring you myself.
[12:13]
Jeff Regan
Well, that's a switch.
[12:14]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
I think there's going to be a murder.
[12:18]
Jeff Regan
Anybody I know?
[12:19]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Yes, my aunt.
[12:21]
Jeff Regan
Who plays the heavy?
[12:22]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
The heavy?
[12:23]
Jeff Regan
Who's gonna kill her?
[12:25]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
I am.
[12:28]
Jeff Regan
Practicing.
[12:29]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
I don't need practice, Mr. Regan.
[12:30]
Jeff Regan
Even experts get the chair.
[12:33]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Possibly.
[12:35]
Jeff Regan
All right, junior, let's start making sense.
[12:38]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Very well, Mr. Regan. My aunt is a domineering autocrat. Actually, I should hate to kill her. But I feel I must to protect myself, you understand.
[12:47]
Jeff Regan
From what?
[12:51]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
You know I dabble in poisons, Mr. Regan. I am.
[12:56]
As the French say, poisoner. When I was 15, I heard that one.
[13:00]
Jeff Regan
Yeah. Hilary F. Margate Sr. The carp.
[13:03]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Oh, he died a horrible death.
[13:05]
Jeff Regan
My regrets. Get to the point.
[13:08]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Ours is an evil household, Mr. Regan. The last of the Margates, a decaying race. My aunt, for example.
[13:14]
Jeff Regan
In Gwyffelin, I met her.
[13:16]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Then you understand that something must be done. This is an urgent matter, Mr. Regan. It would be wise to take my case.
[13:22]
Jeff Regan
One Margate for a client's too many.
[13:24]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Very well, Mr. Regan. But you want information. Perhaps I'll give it to you tomorrow. I'll phone you, as they say on the radio, you may save a life, possibly your own.
[13:43]
Jeff Regan
It made a real funny joke the way he said it. Only I wasn't laughing and neither was he.
[13:51]
I got in my car and started for town to tell the lion he'd been underpaid. All the way in, I kept getting a picture of a mechanical rabbit going around a track. I tried putting Gretelin's face on it, and Mrs. Margate's, then Hillary's. The others didn't fit Grethelin's.
[14:13]
I was still thinking about it when I parked on Hill street and got out to walk. And that's when I put another face on the rabbit. My own. The guy who fell in behind me and started following was no greyhound. But he had squeaky shoes that slowed down when I slowed down. We stayed together for a block, and when I turned left toward the office, he turned left. I wondered if he was an amateur. I found out when I sidestepped into an alley and pulled him in after me. All right, buster, this is where you get off.
[14:38]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
They say.
[14:39]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
What the devil?
[14:40]
Jeff Regan
Come on, come on. Who hired you?
[14:41]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Let me go.
[14:42]
Jeff Regan
Give me some answers.
[14:43]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
All right, talk.
[14:44]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
You want muscles, huh? Muscles?
[14:46]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
All right, I got him.
[14:50]
Jeff Regan
He had them, all right. And he knew where to use them. He had a bald head and he used that, too. Right in the middle of my stomach. I shouldn't have bent double, but I did. It was a setup.
[14:58]
Narrator/Announcer
The next blow sent me around the fender of a truck parked in the alley.
[15:01]
Jeff Regan
I went to my knees. When I came up, it was too late. The bald head was gone. But someone else was there.
[15:08]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Mr. Regan.
[15:09]
Jeff Regan
It was Grethel and Margate.
[15:11]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Mr. Regan, you should be careful. You all right?
[15:14]
Jeff Regan
He was following me.
[15:16]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
No, Mr. Regan. No, he wasn't. I was going to your office. He was following me.
[15:22]
Jeff Regan
She was ready to talk, but the fog in my head wouldn't let me listen. I got her around the corner into a bar. She waited until the waiter brought the drinks.
[15:30]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Two bourbons straight, Mr. Regan. And if I may say so, this lovely tomato you're escorting into my humble palace.
[15:37]
Jeff Regan
You said so.
[15:37]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Ah, and may I say, Mr. Egan, I'm also partial to redheads on account of my first love as a redhead. She played second flute in our orchestra.
[15:45]
Jeff Regan
Sure. Keep the change.
[15:46]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
That was when I was with Stokovsky. Ah, the Hollywood Bowl. How well I remember. Me and my fiddle. We made together beautiful music. Me and the fiddle, you understand? Not the redhead. She gave me nothing but a cold shoulder and account. She was hot for A guy that played bass.
[16:03]
Jeff Regan
Come on, you told me this story yesterday.
[16:06]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
You don't wish to hear the story of my life, Mr. Regan? Well, it was the same way with Mr. Stakovsky. The artist is lost in the world of today.
[16:16]
Jeff Regan
All right. Now we can talk.
[16:20]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
I don't know, Mr. Regan.
[16:21]
Jeff Regan
Who was following you?
[16:23]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
It doesn't matter. I'm used to it, Mr. Egan.
[16:26]
Jeff Regan
Who was the mug?
[16:27]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
It doesn't matter, Mr. Regan. It's too late anymore. I thought.
[16:33]
Jeff Regan
You thought what?
[16:35]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
I thought you'd help me, Mr. Regan. I was on my way to your office.
[16:38]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Why?
[16:40]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
It's going to be trouble, Mr. Regan. Serious trouble.
[16:43]
Jeff Regan
What says so?
[16:44]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Everything. Hillary, my aunt. They're all acting so strangely. And those people who come to the house.
[16:51]
Jeff Regan
People who?
[16:52]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
I don't know. But the man who was following me is one of them. Something strange is going on, Mr. Regan. Something terrible.
[16:59]
Jeff Regan
You still haven't told me anything.
[17:01]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Don't you see? It isn't anything I can tell you. It's a feeling. A terrible feeling. Everything's wrong.
[17:09]
Jeff Regan
I've got to have facts, lady.
[17:12]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Wait. There's one thing.
[17:14]
Jeff Regan
Yeah?
[17:15]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
The gardener, Mr. Hendricks.
[17:17]
Jeff Regan
George?
[17:17]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Yes. My aunt knows him, Mr. Regan. Better than just a gardener. Something else.
[17:24]
Jeff Regan
What?
[17:24]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
George has been in prison. I know he's been in prison. I heard him say something once on the telephone.
[17:30]
Jeff Regan
To who?
[17:31]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
I don't know. There's so much I don't know.
[17:36]
Jeff Regan
That makes two of us.
[17:38]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
You don't believe me. You've got to believe me. Something terrible's going to happen.
[17:43]
Jeff Regan
Sure. Hillary's going to kill your aunt.
[17:46]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Hillary? Oh, no. No, that's not it at all. It's me they're going to kill. Don't you see? They're going to kill me.
[18:01]
Jeff Regan
After that, I couldn't get anything out of her that made sense. I loaded her in a cab and then walked over to Pershing Square to feed the pigeons. Maybe something would come to me. Nothing did, except the pigeons. After a while, I went over to the examiner morgue to look up George Hendricks. There was nothing. Not a word. But the lion has ways of finding those things out. So I went back to the office. The lion had information, all right, but not the kind I expected.
[18:26]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
Regan.
[18:26]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
Regan, where have you been? I've been calling every saloon in the city.
[18:29]
Jeff Regan
You got the wrong one.
[18:30]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
I often wonder why I hired you.
[18:32]
Jeff Regan
Okay, fatso, why the steam?
[18:34]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
I'll tell you why. Because you were supposed to be on the Margate case, that's why.
[18:37]
Jeff Regan
What do you think I've been doing?
[18:38]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
I know what you're gonna be doing. You're gonna get out to Margate Mansion right now and. They just found Hillary Margate in his room. He's been shot through the head.
[18:52]
Narrator/Announcer
This is cbs, and you are listening to the story of the little man's lament. Tonight's adventure with Jeff Regan, investigator.
[19:02]
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[19:41]
Jeff Regan
Nothing made sense. There were three Margates. The old lady, her nephew Hillary, and his sister Gwendolyn. And all three of them wanted to hire me to stop a murder. Then the lion tells me Hillary Margate has just been shot. One thing was sure, with three people to work for, one of them was bound to turn up dead.
[20:02]
I put the lion to work, looking up the gardener, George Hendricks. Then I hopped in the car and headed out to the Margate place off Franklin Avenue. By the time I got there, it was turning dark. Out front, a black and white Nash said police in big letters. But when the old lady opened the door, she acted as though she'd never heard of police.
[20:19]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
Oh, Mr. Regan, please come in. I'm sorry you didn't get to meet him, Hillary. Strange boy.
[20:25]
Jeff Regan
I met him.
[20:26]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
You did? This way, Mr. Regan. But it's no matter. It was inevitable. Hillary's uncle, my husband, before he died, warned me something like this would happen. He was a young fool, Hillary.
[20:37]
Jeff Regan
How did it happen?
[20:38]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Happen?
[20:39]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
With a gun, of course. How else could one shoot oneself except with a gun? In here, Mr. Regan, we won't be bothered by them. Sometimes police can be so nosy. Do sit down.
[20:49]
Jeff Regan
We shall have tea with or without. Ominous.
[20:51]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
I know what you're thinking, Mr. Regan, but I'm sure it had nothing to do with it.
[20:55]
Jeff Regan
What did?
[20:56]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
Just a moment, Mr. Regan. There's someone at our door.
[21:00]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Well, Grethelin, I was just coming to see you. Andy, I thought you'd want me to tell Mr. Regan about Hillary.
[21:10]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
Yes, a good idea, Mr. Regan. I'll let Gwendolyn tell you. She was here at the time. Oh, she was a lovely woman, Gwendolyn's. Mother. My late sister. Go ahead, child. Go ahead.
[21:19]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Go ahead. I got home about five.
[21:22]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
Better sit down, child. No, no, not there. Here.
[21:24]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Yes, Auntie. Well, Mr. Regan? Hillary was in the gun room reading. I went in to talk to him, but he ordered me out of the room. He said he didn't want to be disturbed. He was concentrating.
[21:40]
Jeff Regan
Go on.
[21:42]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
I left the room. A couple of minutes later, I heard a shot. When I went back, he was there. Hillary on the floor, dead.
[21:52]
Jeff Regan
Then you called the police?
[21:54]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
I told Angie. She called him.
[21:56]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
They've been so nice, the police. They promised not to disturb me any more than necessary. Wasn't that nice?
[22:01]
Jeff Regan
They're in his room now with Hillary.
[22:03]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
Dear Hillary.
[22:05]
Jeff Regan
He won't need me anymore. I think I'd better be going.
[22:07]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
Oh, yes, of course. Gwendolyn, see Mr. Regan to the door like a good girl.
[22:11]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Yes, honey.
[22:12]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
And come again sometime soon, Mr. Regan. We shall have tea together.
[22:15]
Jeff Regan
Thanks.
[22:16]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
This way, Mr. Regan.
[22:19]
Mr. Egan, I've got to talk to you. This way, quickly.
[22:26]
Jeff Regan
What's on your mind?
[22:27]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
It's about Hillary. Something he did tonight.
[22:30]
Jeff Regan
Like what?
[22:31]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
When he came home. Before he was. Before that, he had a book, a big book. He was reading it when it happened. Why would he read a book and then shoot himself?
[22:44]
Jeff Regan
He got me. What was the title?
[22:47]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
I don't know. But when the police came, the book was gone.
[22:52]
Jeff Regan
Where did he buy it?
[22:53]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
I don't know that either. I'm sure it's important, Mr. Regan. I'm sure of it. You don't think it's important?
[23:00]
Jeff Regan
I don't know. I reach for answers sometimes. They come up air.
[23:03]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
I know something else, Mr. Regan. It's about George. George Hendricks, our gardener?
[23:08]
Jeff Regan
Yeah.
[23:09]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
He disappeared this afternoon after it.
[23:12]
Jeff Regan
Go on.
[23:14]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Andy sent for him when the police arrived, but he wasn't in his room. The police were angry. They think he might have done it.
[23:21]
Jeff Regan
And you think so too?
[23:23]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
I'm not sure, Mr. Regan. I'm not sure of anything now.
[23:34]
Jeff Regan
She turned and ran into the house and left me with a lot of night air and crew. Cool breeze. If Hendricks had taken a powder, the police would check that angle. That left me with a book. A very big book. I walked down Franklin toward my car. Up ahead, I saw a small man in a black suit locking up a shop door. Over his head. Signs of Franklin Avenue Bookshop. That did it. I caught him before he closed up.
[23:55]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
I beg your pardon.
[23:57]
Jeff Regan
You know Hillary Margate, lives up the street?
[23:59]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Yes, I know him.
[24:00]
Jeff Regan
Why was he in today?
[24:02]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
He's a regular Custom.
[24:03]
Jeff Regan
Was he in? Yes or no?
[24:05]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Yes.
[24:06]
Jeff Regan
Did he buy a book?
[24:07]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
No.
[24:07]
Jeff Regan
You sure?
[24:08]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Positive. He asked for a volume we didn't have.
[24:11]
Jeff Regan
What Volume.
[24:12]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
I don't remember the title because we didn't have it in stock. It was a textbook.
[24:17]
Jeff Regan
Textbook?
[24:18]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Yes, on horticulture, plants.
[24:22]
Jeff Regan
Plants?
[24:23]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Does that mean something to you?
[24:25]
Jeff Regan
Yeah. It could explain why the Margate family has gone to seed. It was crazy, but it was beginning to untangle. I headed for my car up the street. Before I touched the starter, I found out I had company.
[24:37]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
All right, we can drive.
[24:38]
Jeff Regan
The gun in my back told me he meant it. One look in the mirror told me he was George Hendricks.
[24:45]
Well, you're calling him. Where? To your apartment.
[24:48]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
I want to talk.
[24:55]
Have a chair, Regan. It's your house.
[24:57]
Jeff Regan
Thanks.
[24:58]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
I talk, you sit and listen.
[25:00]
Jeff Regan
I can stand.
[25:00]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
I say sit down.
[25:03]
Jeff Regan
It's your party, Hendricks.
[25:04]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
There's been an accident at the Margate house.
[25:06]
Jeff Regan
I heard.
[25:07]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Hillary shot him, sir.
[25:08]
Jeff Regan
That right?
[25:09]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
You think?
[25:09]
Jeff Regan
Different. Changed my mind.
[25:10]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
I didn't kill him, Regan.
[25:11]
Jeff Regan
Who said you did?
[25:12]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
I never could get used to confinement.
[25:15]
Jeff Regan
Oh, San Quentin.
[25:16]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Sandstone. Sandstone, Minnesota.
[25:18]
Jeff Regan
Tell me more.
[25:19]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Listen, Regan, the police don't like guys with a record.
[25:21]
Jeff Regan
What was your rap, Hendricks? Checks?
[25:23]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Something like that. Forgery.
[25:24]
Jeff Regan
So why tell me?
[25:25]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
You're moving in my direction, Regan. I don't.
[25:27]
Jeff Regan
Is that why you ran?
[25:28]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
There's something else.
[25:30]
Jeff Regan
Yeah?
[25:31]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
The name, it isn't Hendrix, it's Margate.
[25:34]
Jeff Regan
What's that?
[25:35]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Freehold, Quincy Margate.
[25:38]
Jeff Regan
No wonder you changed it.
[25:39]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
There were several reasons.
[25:40]
Jeff Regan
Yeah, Old south family.
[25:42]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Listen, Regan, you gotta believe me. I didn't kill Hillary. I didn't have anything to do with it.
[25:46]
Jeff Regan
You know a big guy, bald head with a stupid face.
[25:48]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Molly. He works at the Margate place. Part time.
[25:51]
Jeff Regan
What's his job?
[25:52]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Flunky. He works in the garden with me.
[25:53]
Jeff Regan
When he isn't tailing the girl.
[25:55]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Leave me out of that part of it.
[25:58]
Jeff Regan
Well, do I answer that?
[26:01]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Yes, but watch what you say.
[26:08]
Jeff Regan
Regan.
[26:08]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
Regan. I expected to hear from you sooner. What's happened to you? Regan, are you there?
[26:13]
Jeff Regan
Yeah, just got here.
[26:15]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
What's the matter, Shaman?
[26:17]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
With you?
[26:18]
Jeff Regan
You're a genius.
[26:19]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
Well, I just found out about Hendricks.
[26:21]
Jeff Regan
You guessed it.
[26:22]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
You mean he's there?
[26:23]
Jeff Regan
Go on.
[26:23]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Listen.
[26:24]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
That's not his real name. Rean. He's a Margate, Freehold, quincy Margate. Age, 46. Height, 511. Weight, 180.
[26:30]
Jeff Regan
Get to the point.
[26:31]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
Well, about that prison record. Quite correct. It was eight years ago.
[26:33]
Jeff Regan
Charge, narcotics violation. Oh, yes.
[26:36]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
But be careful. He'll hear You.
[26:37]
Jeff Regan
No, he won't. He just went out the door fast.
[26:44]
I had what I needed. I averaged 50 down Franklin and pulled up in front of the Margate place 10 minutes later. It was dark and it looked empty, like a beer can after a picnic. I found an open window and crawled in. It was the gun room. That meant I didn't have to go much farther. But somebody changed my mind for me when the door suddenly opened and a hunk of orange lightning stabbed in my direction. I ducked in the chair next to me, toppled over. I couldn't wait for the next one.
[27:08]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Let me go.
[27:09]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Drop it.
[27:10]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
You're hurting my ass.
[27:12]
Jeff Regan
That's better. Now some lights.
[27:16]
Mr. Reagan.
[27:18]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
I thought you were one of them.
[27:19]
Narrator/Announcer
I'm not.
[27:20]
Jeff Regan
That book Hillary was reading. I'm in a hurry, baby.
[27:25]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
You already know, don't you, Mr. Regan? All right, I didn't see it closely. It had pictures of plants.
[27:33]
Jeff Regan
Like the ones in your backyard?
[27:34]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Yes. I didn't know what it meant until.
[27:37]
Jeff Regan
Until Hillary got it. And then you were too scared to talk.
[27:39]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Why, Mr. Reagan? Hillary didn't poison my aunt's tea. They only said he did so they could kill me and then blame him for it. That way they'd be rid of both of us.
[27:50]
Jeff Regan
But Hillary caught on too quick.
[27:51]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
That's why they killed him, Mr. Egan. Oh, don't let them know I know.
[27:56]
Jeff Regan
It won't matter now, baby.
[28:01]
I circled around the house in a hurry, empty. Then I tried the garden, and that's when I saw it. 50 yards behind the house. A strange light at first, then something red that began to grow. Then smoke and more smoke. I ran for the back of the garden. In the flames. She saw me coming.
[28:15]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
Stand back, Mr. Regan.
[28:17]
Jeff Regan
Maybe tomorrow, Mrs. Margate.
[28:18]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
I warn you, Regan.
[28:19]
Jeff Regan
Stand back. You heard me, remember?
[28:20]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
Take one more step, Mr. Regan, and Marley will kill you.
[28:23]
Jeff Regan
You figured he'd be around. Put that gun down, Molly. The smoke's getting in your eyes.
[28:27]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
Oh, no. Shoot him, Molly.
[28:28]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Shoot him.
[28:30]
Narrator/Announcer
You're too late for the.
[28:32]
Jeff Regan
I drove across the column of smoke and caught his arm as he tried to find me with that gun. I got to him first. I owed him something for what he'd given me in that alley. And I paid him back with interest. The old lady just stood there and glared at me, the fire reflecting in her eyes.
[28:45]
It took me 10 minutes in my best sport coat to stop the blaze. But the price was cheap because where the fire had been was a nice pile of Exhibit A. It looks just like an ordinary plant, but the police call it Marijuana.
[29:08]
Somebody spotted the smoke and called the fire department. The police were right behind them and loaded the last of the Margates into the wagon. And it was like Gret said, she was scheduled to turn up poison. And I was supposed to testify that Hillary had done it. Only Hillary caught on too fast and they gave him a bullet for his trouble. And after I finished up at headquarters, I went to the office and filled the lion in. He was disappointed.
[29:32]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
And this fella the police picked up at the depot, this Hendrix, he. He wasn't the culprit we were looking for.
[29:36]
Jeff Regan
He was under the old lady's thumb like the rest of the family. She blackmailed him into growing this stuff with his record. He couldn't afford to squawk.
[29:43]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
He couldn't afford to squawk. How do you think I feel?
[29:45]
Jeff Regan
You got a check for 100 bucks, didn't you?
[29:47]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
Well, yes, I did.
[29:50]
Jeff Regan
She did pay you, didn't she?
[29:51]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
Well, you see, Jeffrey, that is, she. She gave me a check when I first went out there for $100.
[29:56]
Jeff Regan
You said that?
[29:57]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
Well, I didn't think anything of it at the time, but. Well, you see, her.
[30:01]
Jeff Regan
Brother in law, you mean.
[30:02]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
Well, that is, Hendricks did have a prison record for narcotics violation, But. Well, it seems upon examining the records more closely, there was an earlier sentence for bad checks. Yes, it seems to run in the family.
[30:17]
Jeff Regan
I don't get paid this week.
[30:19]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
Go on, quit me. Take a man when he's down.
[30:22]
Jeff Regan
Oh, stop it.
[30:23]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
You know I never withhold payment when I have it. Right now I don't have it. Maybe next week.
[30:28]
Jeff Regan
If you wait two weeks, it'll be Thanksgiving.
[30:29]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
What's that mean?
[30:30]
Jeff Regan
You can have the end of the turkey I've been getting.
[30:32]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
Jeffrey, you're not being kind. Remember my heart.
[30:37]
Jeff Regan
I'll try.
[30:37]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
Oh, thank you, Jeffrey. Thank you. Now, here's 25 cents.
[30:42]
Jeff Regan
For what?
[30:42]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
Go over and pick up your laundry. I forgot to wait for it.
[31:01]
Narrator/Announcer
Jeff Regan, Investigator is written written by William Frug and William Fifield, directed by Sterling Tracy and stars Frank Graham as Regan with Frank Nelson as Anthony J. Lyon. Original music is by Dick Orion.
[31:28]
Jeff Regan, Investigator is heard each week at the same time over cbs. Bob Stevenson speaking and inviting you to be with us again next Wednesday at 9 for more suspense and mystery and adventure with Jeff Regan, Investigator. This is cbs, the Columbia Broadcasting System.
[31:55]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
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[32:01]
Jeff Regan
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[32:26]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
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[32:29]
Jeff Regan
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[32:34]
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[32:47]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
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[32:48]
Jeff Regan
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[33:34]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
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[34:16]
Jeff Regan
My name's regan. I work for anthony j. Lyon international detective bureau. They call me the lion's eye.
[34:29]
Narrator/Announcer
Wednesday at 9 and CBS brings you Jeff Regan, Investigator starring Frank Graham as Regan with Frank Nelson as Anthony J. Lyon. So stand by for mystery, suspense and adventure in tonight's story of the two little sisters.
[34:55]
Jeff Regan
When a 6 foot 200 pound guy turns up with a knife in his back. Maybe a short hundred pounds of cool green eyed blonde did it and maybe she didn't. Well this time there were two blondes sisters. They looked alike, but they were about as much alike as a sheepdog and a cobra. Goes to show you can't tell by the package. Their names were Zamanski, Mary and Dolly Zamanski. They worked for the Everybody's Happy Pastime carnival shows. It was old he Happy Pastime himself who was sitting in the Lion's office when I got there about noon.
[35:30]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
Glad you've come in. I'd like you to meet our new clients proprietor of The Everybody's Happy Pastime Carnival shows. No doubt you've heard of them, Jeffrey.
[35:38]
Jeff Regan
Sure, sure. How are you?
[35:41]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
Laryngitis. Yeah. Our friend here is troubled with laryngitis, Jeffrey. Purely psychological. Purely psychological result of worry. Profound worry. Isn't that right?
[35:54]
Yes.
[35:56]
Yes. Well, Jeffrey, what do we do now? Jeffrey, I'm glad you asked that question. To tell the truth, I envy you. Fine opportunity for you to get out of the city. While I sit here sweltering in this heat. You, Jeffrey, get to the point. Yes. Well, Jeffrey, the fact is, our friend here leaves on the 2 o' clock plane for Phoenix, Arizona. Advance arrangements for the carnival. Sure, yeah, sure, sure. Well, meantime, the star performer of Everybody's Happy Pastime Carnival shows, a girl named. Oh, now where's that piece of paper? I jotted it down.
[36:29]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Oh.
[36:30]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
Oh, here we are. Dully Zymanski, the queen of the blades.
[36:34]
Jeff Regan
Ice skater.
[36:36]
Knife thrower. Oh, I get it.
[36:39]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
She's a knife thrower with the show, Jeffrey. Best in her line, they say.
[36:42]
Jeff Regan
What's the trouble?
[36:43]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
That's just it. That's just it. Someone's been threatening her. A man named Rand. Rand? It's upsetting her, Jeffrey. Beginning to show in her work. That's what worries our client here.
[36:53]
Jeff Regan
What's Rand got on her?
[36:54]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
Well, I don't know, Jeffrey. Our client doesn't know. Isn't that right, sir?
[36:59]
Yes, but we'll retain to find out. And get rid of him. Exactly. Get rid of him. Get rid of him, Jeffrey.
[37:13]
Jeff Regan
Like the lion said, it was a chance to get out of the city. I drove Father Time back out to his carnival. He had to pick up his stuff and then make the 2 o' clock plane at International Airport.
[37:25]
The carnival was set up on a couple of vacant lots out on Sepulveda. Big sign. Everybody's Happy Pastime. Carnival shows, tents, trailers, Ferris wheels, sawdust. The usual stuff. The old guy pointed out Dolly Zamanski's trailer and I was on my own. I didn't get far. Guy in a 1922 tux. Three days whiskers and a turban, like a secondhand bird's nest, stopped me.
[37:48]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Ah, there. How do you do, sir?
[37:50]
Jeff Regan
The only legitimate thing about the Swami was his breath. That was 90 proof.
[37:54]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
You are Regan?
[37:55]
Jeff Regan
What's that to you?
[37:56]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
I am Swami Al Kaji.
[37:58]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Step this way, please, into my tent. I will consult the crystal.
[38:01]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
The crystal ball tells me many things.
[38:04]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Yeah?
[38:05]
Jeff Regan
Like what?
[38:07]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Sit right here, Mr. Regan.
[38:08]
Jeff Regan
Thanks.
[38:10]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
The crystal ball tells me, Mr. Regan, that you've been hired to help Dolly Zymanski tells me you have been hired by. Ah, yes, by the owner of our little carnival.
[38:21]
Jeff Regan
How much of that did he tell you?
[38:23]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Yes, Mr. Regan, it was he who told me. I saw you arrive together.
[38:28]
Jeff Regan
What do you know about Rand?
[38:30]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Fred Rand. Let me see. Yes, let me see. The crystal ball is cloudy. The sand of time runs through the glass. Mr. Regan.
[38:38]
Jeff Regan
Cut it out.
[38:39]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
What do you mean?
[38:39]
Jeff Regan
You're a swami like Truman's a Republican.
[38:42]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Yes, yes, true. Well, have a drink, Mr. Regan. I see much more in this than in the Crystal ball. Yes. Say when. When you are.
[38:53]
Jeff Regan
Thanks.
[38:55]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
I'm a four finger man myself, Mr. Regan. Been my ruin.
[39:00]
Jeff Regan
You said you had information? Yes.
[39:02]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
There are two sisters.
[39:02]
Jeff Regan
Zamanski.
[39:03]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Yes, Dolly and Mary.
[39:05]
Jeff Regan
Who's Mary?
[39:05]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
The younger sister.
[39:06]
Jeff Regan
She new to the show?
[39:08]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
A few months with us.
[39:09]
Jeff Regan
Her sister get her the job?
[39:10]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Yes. Dolly Zamanski's our star performer. Naturally, she has influence.
[39:14]
Jeff Regan
Okay, what about Rand?
[39:16]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
I will consult the Crystal Ball.
[39:19]
Jeff Regan
Look, I don't get paid by the hour. What's Rand got on Dolly Zamanski?
[39:22]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
I don't know. No, I see letters forming in the crystal.
[39:26]
Jeff Regan
Okay, play it your way.
[39:28]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
F, F, Z.
[39:32]
I can't see anymore now. Perhaps if you'd care.
[39:34]
Jeff Regan
See you later.
[39:37]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
Mr. Reg.
[39:44]
Jeff Regan
Maybe the swami had something to sell. But if I couldn't get it for free, I could go back and buy it later. It was only a little ways to Dolly Zamanski's trailer. Big, expensive job. Everything was wide open because of the heat. So I walked in. Nobody home. Ladies clothes lying around, theatrical makeup, grease paint stick. Picture of some round faced guy with a crew cut signed Yours adoringly, no name. Knives and daggers around. And a frosty blonde with green eyes in the doorway, watching me.
[40:15]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
What are you doing in here?
[40:17]
Jeff Regan
Homework.
[40:17]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
That's clever.
[40:18]
Jeff Regan
Who are you?
[40:19]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
That's what I ought to ask you.
[40:20]
Jeff Regan
Oh, yes. You're Dolly Zamanski.
[40:22]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
No, I'm her sister.
[40:23]
Jeff Regan
Mary Zamanski?
[40:24]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Yes.
[40:26]
Jeff Regan
I'm Jeff Regan, International Detective Bureau.
[40:29]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
You're a detective?
[40:30]
Jeff Regan
That's it. You joined the carnival about four months ago?
[40:34]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Five months.
[40:34]
Jeff Regan
Five months. Been in show business before?
[40:37]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
No, I was a boy back home.
[40:40]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Back.
[40:41]
Jeff Regan
That him?
[40:41]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
What?
[40:42]
Jeff Regan
Photo on the dressing table.
[40:44]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Mr. Pine.
[40:45]
Jeff Regan
Pine.
[40:46]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
He's in love with my sister.
[40:48]
Jeff Regan
Pine?
[40:50]
Pine. Don't I?
[40:51]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Harold Pine.
[40:53]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
J.J. pine's son?
[40:54]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Yeah.
[40:55]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
You know Pine warehouses. They're all over Los Angeles.
[40:57]
Jeff Regan
So your sister's gonna marry them?
[40:59]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
I think so.
[41:02]
Jeff Regan
But Maybe she isn't.
[41:03]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Mr. Regan.
[41:04]
Jeff Regan
I suppose you give me what you know about four Days ago, a guy turned up. Rand?
[41:08]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Yes.
[41:08]
Jeff Regan
Your sister scare easy.
[41:09]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
No, no, Mr. Regan, that's just it. She's strong minded. She left home when she was 15.
[41:15]
Jeff Regan
Go on.
[41:16]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Well, life can't have been easy for her. You know, show business.
[41:19]
Jeff Regan
Just tell her.
[41:21]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Well, she's independent, Mr. Regan. I've tried to tell her.
[41:25]
Jeff Regan
What about Ran, Mr. Egan?
[41:28]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
I can't tell you, lady.
[41:30]
Jeff Regan
I've got a job to do. What about Rand?
[41:31]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
I. I don't know.
[41:33]
Jeff Regan
Your sister scared of him? She is or she isn't?
[41:36]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
It's something else. She told me she didn't know him. She said he was trying to get fresh, but twice. I.
[41:44]
Shouldn'T tell you this.
[41:45]
Jeff Regan
My fee says I help your sister.
[41:47]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
All right. There's a little street two blocks up, Sepulveda. Twice I walked by there this morning and two days ago. There was a green sedan parked there both times and Fred Rand and my sister were in it. They were. Well, they seemed to be arguing, Mr. Egan. That's all I know.
[42:06]
Jeff Regan
Okay. How do I find your sister?
[42:08]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
She performs in the main tent, but she must be just about through. She might be over there.
[42:12]
Jeff Regan
Okay, See you.
[42:19]
I started for the main tent. Got about halfway up the midway when he passed me. Going down the midway and into the big shiny trailer. Broad shouldered, six foot guy with red hair. And when he went into the Zamanski sister's trailer, I knew he was Rand. I started for the trailer. I thought I heard voices quarreling. And then I knew something was wrong. That was Mary Zamanski screaming. I hadn't had my eye off the door of that trailer 60 seconds since I left. Nobody went in but Rand. Nobody came out. But I busted fast. I made the last hundred yards like Mel Patton on Dexedream. But what I saw when I got inside that trailer stopped me cold.
[42:56]
It was Mary Zamanski. And ran. But it wasn't like I figured. Mary was hanging onto the wall and staring down at the floor and sobbing. And on the floor was Ran with a knife in his back. All right, give it to me. Give it to me fast.
[43:13]
What happened?
[43:14]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
Come on, I can tell you again.
[43:17]
Jeff Regan
Look, you've got 10 seconds before the whole carnival be in here. What happened? Tell me what happened.
[43:22]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
I won't talk.
[43:24]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
All right, both of you, stand back.
[43:27]
Jeff Regan
At the end of the trailer.
[43:28]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
Who are you?
[43:30]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Sergeant Post, please. Hands above your heads.
[43:33]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
All right, all right, clear away now.
[43:35]
Jeff Regan
Clear back, folks.
[43:40]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
You Dolly Zamanski?
[43:42]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
No, Henry's sister, Mary Zamanski.
[43:46]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Your turn, mister.
[43:47]
Jeff Regan
Maybe we can take our hands Down.
[43:49]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
You armed?
[43:50]
Jeff Regan
Yeah.
[43:51]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Where'd like get it?
[43:52]
Jeff Regan
Hip shoulder. Okay, let him down. Thanks.
[43:59]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Got a permit to carry this? Sure.
[44:01]
Jeff Regan
Show it, Regan. Private Detective. International Detective Bureau. Here's the file copy.
[44:08]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Look good, Regan.
[44:11]
You kill this guy?
[44:14]
Okay, Regan. Well, maybe you'll tell me who the guy was.
[44:18]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
His name was Fred Rand.
[44:21]
Jeff Regan
Check, Regan, what I heard.
[44:23]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Maybe you knew Rand. Reagan?
[44:24]
Jeff Regan
Nope.
[44:24]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
How'd you get in here so quick?
[44:26]
Jeff Regan
Heard screams.
[44:27]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Sure.
[44:27]
Jeff Regan
What's the use of all this? You both know what happened.
[44:29]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
No. What did?
[44:31]
Jeff Regan
Mr. Rand came in here and I.
[44:32]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Well, he'd been bothering Dolly.
[44:34]
Jeff Regan
Maybe he thought I was Dolly. We look a little bit alike. And he came in and.
[44:38]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
And? Go on.
[44:40]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
Struggled.
[44:42]
Jeff Regan
And I killed him.
[44:48]
It hung together like the Jap Navy. She was sore at Rand because he'd been bothering her sister. So when the big six foot guy came into the trailer, she grabbed him and stabbed him in the back. Sure, it could have happened like that, but from the look that came on Sergeant Post's face, I could see he'd try to make it stick. He looked like a hungry kid at a bakery window. He was seeing Lieutenant Stripes.
[45:17]
Well, half an hour later, Mary went off for the ride downtown in the paddy wagon. I figured it was a funny thing Dolly Zamanski hadn't showed up. I decided to look for her. She wasn't around. She'd finished her act a little bit before the ruckus started and looked like nobody had seen her since. Then I saw a tent with some stars and crescent moons painted on the front, and that reminded me of something. A phony swami with information for sale. He was inside. All right, swami, get busy on that crystal ball and dish up some answers. Like fz.
[45:49]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Ah, yes, yes, the letters fz. The crystal is clear.
[45:54]
Jeff Regan
Well, clear it. It's a murder app. Now. F.Z. what? Ah, Rand.
[45:58]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Yes, Mr. B. Fred Randy. Mrs. Fred Zymanski ran.
[46:02]
Jeff Regan
Dolly Zamanski was his wife. Now you've said something.
[46:12]
That gave me something to work on. But halfway to my car, I remembered something else. Something Mary Zamanski had said. A green sedan parked twice in the same place. Maybe it was parked there a third time. It figured the owner wouldn't be driving it away. He was taking a free ride as a gust of the county to the morgue.
[46:32]
It was there. Green sedan on the little street two blocks up Sepulveda. The door was unlocked. The registration on the steering post read Fred Rand. I figured the address was on a street called Delancey in San Francisco, but maybe I wouldn't have to Go that far.
[46:51]
There was a card down on the floorboards. One of those commercial hotel cards. Globe Hotel, Main Street. I stuck it in my pocket. That was when a guy said, I'm.
[47:02]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Gonna kill you, Fred Ray.
[47:04]
Jeff Regan
I hit the car door with my shoulder. That knocked him back. But he came in again and tried for me.
[47:08]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
I blocked it.
[47:08]
Jeff Regan
Why you?
[47:12]
That was when I got a good look at him. He was the guy in the picture in the Zamansky sisters trailer. Yours adoringly, Harold Pine.
[47:31]
Narrator/Announcer
This is cbs and you are listening to the story of the two little sisters. Tonight's adventure with Jeff Regan, investigator.
[47:50]
Jeff Regan
I'd like to have stuck around and had a little talk with Harold Pine. Maybe knew some answers. But one answer he didn't know was who killed Fred Rand? When he made that college try on me and called me Rand, it didn't take the FBI to figure he didn't even know Rand was dead. But it looked like Pine was going to be asleep a while. So I went downtown. The Globe Hotel. Last stop on the line for the canned heat crowd. Brass platoons. Row of cracked leather chairs along the front. Two or three old guys dying in them. Nobody at the desk. So I picked up number 306 from the Register and went up. Door wasn't locked.
[48:28]
Inside. You could see why. Nothing in the joint but a brass bed. Cardboard suitcase on a chair with a couple of neckties in it. Fred Rand had been traveling wide. But there was something else in the suitcase. Stuck in the lining. Item torn out of the weekly Variety. The show business sheet. It said a couple of knife throwers named Duncan and Dolly had checked out of Las Vegas for work at a spot called the Blue Dolphin Casino, Los Angeles. The date line was half torn off, but you could make out the 46 at the end.
[48:58]
There was a phone on the wall. And I tried the Blue Dolphin Casino. There was nobody home. Too early for a night spot. So I decided to let the lion work on that one.
[49:10]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
The International Detective Bureau, Anthony J. Lyon, President speaking.
[49:14]
Jeff Regan
Lion, I've got something for you to.
[49:15]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
Jeffrey, I'm glad you called. I've just talked to the proprietor of the Everybody's Happy Pastime Carnival shows from Phoenix.
[49:21]
Jeff Regan
So we're off the job.
[49:22]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
Well, now, Jeffrey, what can we expect? We were retained to get rid of that fellow Rand to. To relieve Ms. Dolly Szymanski of any undue nervous stress that might endanger the box office value of her performance.
[49:34]
Jeff Regan
Go on.
[49:35]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
Now, now, now, Jeffrey. It just seems that, well, this sister did the job for us.
[49:40]
Jeff Regan
Sure. Sure she did.
[49:42]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
Jeffrey, I don't think I understand you.
[49:44]
Jeff Regan
You can understand this. This job we stick on.
[49:47]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
Jeffrey, be reasonable. The matter's in the hands of the police.
[49:49]
Jeff Regan
They've got the wrong goose. What's that? I don't think she stabbed a six foot guy in the back. I think somebody pitched the strike out him through the window. Dolly Zaminsky, maybe. I think that's what her sister thinks. I think that's why she confessed.
[50:01]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
Oh, I see what you're driving at. Now we're defending the innocent again. We're not in business for money, are we, Regan? Why should we be, with the world full of poor unfortunates waiting to be held?
[50:13]
Jeff Regan
Cut it out, Regan.
[50:14]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
From now on, if you want to work for charity, you work alone. You're fired.
[50:17]
Jeff Regan
That's the only good news I've had all day.
[50:24]
I checked out Aran's hotel the same way I went in. When I was crossing the street, I saw somebody coming up the other sidewalk. My high school geometry told me that if I walked fast enough, I could get opposite where my car was parked the same time she did.
[50:39]
Okay, come on.
[50:40]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Get going.
[50:40]
Jeff Regan
Come on, sister, get in the car.
[50:42]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
You can't do this to me.
[50:43]
Jeff Regan
You're Dolly Zamanskiy and I'm doing it. Get in there and stay still. I don't like you, Dolly.
[50:51]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
How do you know my name?
[50:53]
Jeff Regan
You look like your sister, Mary. Mary?
[50:54]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Who are you?
[50:55]
Jeff Regan
Never mind.
[50:57]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
Well, where you taking me?
[50:58]
Jeff Regan
A ride up Hill Street. There's a place to park above Temple. It's a nice view of the city. Jail.
[51:03]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
Jail?
[51:03]
Jeff Regan
That's right. Jail.
[51:18]
All right, then. Like I said, there's a good view.
[51:22]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
What's the pitch, Regan?
[51:25]
Jeff Regan
How'd you get that? The Regan.
[51:26]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
It's on the steering pole.
[51:28]
Jeff Regan
You got good eyes.
[51:29]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Thanks, honey.
[51:31]
Jeff Regan
I didn't say that way.
[51:33]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
So you don't love me? What's the pitch?
[51:35]
Jeff Regan
See that building down there? The bars on the windows?
[51:38]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
You said I had good eyes.
[51:40]
Jeff Regan
You know who's in it?
[51:41]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
No.
[51:41]
Jeff Regan
It's the city jail. Do you know who's in it?
[51:44]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
No.
[51:45]
Jeff Regan
It's your sister, Mary. Mary?
[51:47]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Why?
[51:49]
Jeff Regan
She says she killed a guy named Fred Rand.
[51:53]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Fred Rand?
[51:55]
Jeff Regan
Never heard of Fred Rand, huh? Then why were you going to the Globe Hotel? You never heard of that either? Talk, Williams.
[52:05]
Okay, I will. You get the Pine Warehouses on the hook. It looks good, but there's just one thing wrong. Fred Rand. You're married to him. The guy turns up. Maybe he heard about Harold Pine. He blackmails you.
[52:17]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
Okay, he blackmails me. So What?
[52:19]
Jeff Regan
So you want to get rid of him? You come back from your act this afternoon with the knives in your hands. You get near the trailer, the window's open, you see Rand inside arguing with his sister. That must have been an easy pitch for the star of the show. Your sister's locked up down there on a murder app to cover you and you got nothing to say.
[52:34]
Okay.
[52:37]
I got nothing on you. Not now, but you'll talk later. Get out. I got business.
[52:57]
That gave me nothing. So I went down to the jail to try to see Mary Zamanski again. It took me an hour to find out I wasn't going to get to her. But I did find out one thing. That cop had done his job well. Mary had signed a written confession to the murder of Rand. I got in my car and bucked traffic out to Ventura Boulevard. I hit a gas station and checked the address of the Blue Dolphin. It was in Encino. That meant it was near the carnival and I could pick it up later.
[53:29]
Everybody's happy pastime was doing peak business by the time I got there. The midway was lit up like a sailor on shore leave. But where I went, it was dark out and back of the Zamanski sisters trailer. Maybe I could pick up some proof that Dolly Zamanski pitched that knife that killed Rand. I tripped over a tent rope and bumped into something. Wait a minute. Who are you?
[53:49]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
I'm Bork.
[53:50]
Jeff Regan
Come on out in the light. Yes, sir.
[53:54]
You're Pine? Yes, sir.
[53:56]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
I'm Pine Harropine, but they call me Porky Porcupine.
[54:03]
I reckon you could say it's a sort of a joke. Porcupine.
[54:08]
It started when I was in college.
[54:10]
Jeff Regan
Yeah? My name's Regan, Private detective.
[54:13]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Oh, I owe you an apology, Mr. Regan. I mean it. Hit the car.
[54:18]
Jeff Regan
Skip it.
[54:19]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
I thought you were Fred.
[54:21]
Jeff Regan
Randy. Why were you gunning for him?
[54:23]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Fred Rand. Of course. It. Dolly.
[54:25]
Jeff Regan
Dolly Zymanski. You're gonna marry her, aren't you?
[54:28]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Oh, well, I.
[54:29]
Jeff Regan
What's on your mind?
[54:31]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Well, now that there's been a murder.
[54:35]
Jeff Regan
Go on.
[54:35]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
I think I better tell the truth.
[54:37]
Jeff Regan
That's a good idea.
[54:39]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
You asked me if I was going to marry dolly. Well, no, Mr. Regan.
[54:44]
Jeff Regan
Give me that again.
[54:45]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
I am married to her. San Bernardino, last Thursday.
[54:50]
Jeff Regan
You married Dolly Zamanski in San Bernardino last Thursday? Yes.
[54:55]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
My father, J.J. pine, reckons Mr. Regan because of the family money.
[54:59]
Jeff Regan
Sure, sure. You'd want to keep it quiet because of the old man. Figured he wouldn't want his boy married to a carny performer. He'd break it to him later. So you sneaked to San Berdu and got tired.
[55:09]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Yes, sir.
[55:10]
Jeff Regan
You couldn't have married Dolly Zamanski. She was married to Fred rand.
[55:12]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Not for three years, huh? They was divorced, Mr. Reagan.
[55:17]
Jeff Regan
You know that.
[55:17]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Well, Dolly had the decree. How else could we have got a marriage license?
[55:21]
Jeff Regan
Did you see the divorce decree?
[55:22]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Oh, yes, sir.
[55:23]
Jeff Regan
When was it granted?
[55:24]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
1946 month.
[55:26]
Jeff Regan
You remember?
[55:27]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Yes. October day. Well, Mr. Regan, I don't see what day. October 14th, 1946.
[55:35]
Jeff Regan
October 14th, 1946. Okay.
[55:39]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Well, Mr. Reagan, I don't understand.
[55:41]
Jeff Regan
Rand showed up again, huh?
[55:43]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Yes, sir.
[55:44]
Jeff Regan
So you decided to kill him?
[55:46]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
He was molesting Dolly.
[55:47]
Jeff Regan
Sure.
[55:48]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Well, maybe I just beat him up.
[55:50]
Jeff Regan
You're a kid, Pine.
[55:52]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Maybe I am.
[55:52]
Jeff Regan
You're keeping bad company.
[55:53]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
I don't think so.
[55:54]
Jeff Regan
Who do you think knifed Fred Rand?
[55:57]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
I don't rightly know.
[55:59]
Jeff Regan
What were you looking for in back of that trailer?
[56:01]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Nothing. I didn't think of anything.
[56:04]
Jeff Regan
You know Dolly's sister, Mary?
[56:06]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
I do.
[56:07]
Jeff Regan
You think she killed Fred Rand?
[56:09]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
No.
[56:10]
Jeff Regan
Then who did? I don't know, okay, Pine, you didn't anyway.
[56:16]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Well, maybe I was just pretending I didn't know he was dead when I fought with you at his car.
[56:21]
Jeff Regan
No, Porky, you're not that smart, Mr. Reagan.
[56:26]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
I reckon that's so.
[56:34]
Jeff Regan
Next stop was the Blue Dolphin Casino. The manager wasn't there, so I waited around. Must have been almost midnight before he showed.
[56:46]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Me. You're looking for me?
[56:47]
Jeff Regan
If you're the manager. I am.
[56:48]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
You'll bought it in him.
[56:56]
You book act, your stamp.
[56:58]
Jeff Regan
You ever hear of Duncan and Dolly? Knife throwers?
[57:01]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Did they ever play us?
[57:02]
Jeff Regan
1946, maybe October.
[57:05]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
I could look it up.
[57:07]
Jeff Regan
Okay, over here.
[57:08]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Files over here.
[57:12]
Jeff Regan
And plenty of cheesecake on the wall.
[57:14]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Oh, those pictures. Acts that have played us.
[57:17]
Jeff Regan
Yeah, yeah.
[57:18]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Autograph photos. The Mandy boy. Mandy is me. Were just scared. So. Love Dimples. Dave.
[57:25]
Dimples. You see what I mean?
[57:27]
Jeff Regan
Yeah, I see what you mean.
[57:31]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
October, 1946.
[57:33]
Jeff Regan
Could be.
[57:34]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
No, no. Hey, hey, wait a second. Last week of September 26th through the 29th. Last week of September 1946. Duncan and Dolly.
[57:46]
Jeff Regan
Let me see that, would you?
[57:46]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Yeah, okay. Okay.
[57:48]
Jeff Regan
Dolly Zamanski and Harry Duncan. King and Queen of the Blades. Split week booking. September 26th to 29th, 1946.
[57:55]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
I'm thinking King and Queen of the Blades. See? Wait a second. Behind this locker. Yeah. Photos all over the place. I'm just remembering we keep the leg out where you can see it. But this stuff you see. Yeah, like them. Remember The Mandy. Sincerely, King and Queen of the Blades. Duncan and Dolly.
[58:15]
Jeff Regan
Let me see that picture.
[58:17]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
You recognize me?
[58:18]
Jeff Regan
Yeah. Both of them. Dolly and Duncan?
[58:21]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Yeah. What it gets you?
[58:22]
Jeff Regan
It gets me my answer.
[58:30]
I made it fast back to the carnival. The midway was closed, but I could see a light on in one of the tents. I could hear voices.
[58:42]
But when I walked in, the light went off.
[58:46]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Duncan.
[58:48]
The light's back on.
[58:50]
Jeff Regan
That told me where they were. I started slow.
[59:01]
I waited.
[59:03]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Duncan, don't. Put that knife down, Dunk.
[59:07]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
One's enough.
[59:07]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
Ran with a knife.
[59:08]
Jeff Regan
All right, Duncan. I'm coming. The knife went past, took some air that belonged to me and stuck in the tent pole. He shoved the table at me and I shoved it back. He made a try for the tent door, and that was when I got in.
[59:23]
Turn the lights on, Dolly.
[59:27]
Harry. Duncan. The phony swami.
[59:30]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
He's a rat.
[59:31]
Jeff Regan
You should talk.
[59:32]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
He.
[59:33]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
He. Okay.
[59:34]
Jeff Regan
He'll come out of it.
[59:36]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
He killed Rand.
[59:37]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Thought I'd take the fall.
[59:38]
Jeff Regan
You let your sister take the fall and kept your trap shut because you were scared of what? He knew.
[59:41]
Gwendolyn / Mary Zamanski
Knew what?
[59:42]
Jeff Regan
Blue Dolphin casino, end of September, 1946.
[59:44]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
How do you know that?
[59:44]
Jeff Regan
When you were supposed to be divorcing Rand? You gotta stay there six weeks, baby. You can't even leave for one day. Figure it out. You're perjured in the Nevada courts. Your divorce is no good. When you married Harold Pine, you weren't divorced from Rand.
[59:56]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
You're a wise guy, Rica.
[59:58]
Jeff Regan
You don't get Pine. I'll take care of that. Your marriage to him is good. Like a three dollar bill.
[60:05]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Thanks. Maybe I can do something for you sometime.
[60:08]
Jeff Regan
So the swami killed Ran. That's what I figured wrong. If Mary didn't stick around, it had to be a toss job. Somebody had to toss that knife through the trailer window. Somebody professional. I figured you till I saw that photo of Duncan and Dolly.
[60:23]
Why'd he do it?
[60:23]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Because he hated Rand.
[60:25]
Jeff Regan
He loved you.
[60:26]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
How'd you figure that?
[60:27]
Jeff Regan
Guys fall in love with dames like you.
[60:31]
I don't know. Why?
[60:33]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
We were a duo, Duncan and Daleyza. We were gonna get married, but I. I ditched him for Rand.
[60:40]
Jeff Regan
That figures.
[60:40]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Rand looked good a while. Dunk went on the bottle. When I married Rand, pretty soon he.
[60:44]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
Got too shaky for a knife act.
[60:45]
Jeff Regan
Ended up like this. The phony swami.
[60:47]
Mrs. Margate / Other Female Characters
He said Rand had beat his time with me. Said he'd kill Rand if he got the chance.
[60:51]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Didn't think he had the news.
[60:53]
Jeff Regan
He's coming out of it. Get out of here.
[60:57]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Yeah.
[60:59]
Yeah, I wouldn't want to talk to Dunk. So long, Regan. Get out of here.
[61:11]
Jeff Regan
That wrapped it up for me. The police took it from there, and after a few hours at headquarters, I headed back to my apartment. But if I figured it was that easy to get rid of the lion, I was in for a new set of figures. The lion was there, waiting, hat in hand.
[61:24]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Jeffrey.
[61:25]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
Jeffrey, my boy. You've come back at last. I heard all about it. I've been waiting for you, Jeffrey.
[61:30]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
Sure.
[61:30]
Jeff Regan
Candle in the window.
[61:32]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
Jeffrey, will you ever forgive me? Will you forget the unkind words I've uttered? The meaningless, petty things I've said? Oh, I rue the day I mistrusted you. Jeffrey, my boy, it was madness.
[61:44]
Jeff Regan
Come off at Fats Own.
[61:45]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
But, Jeffrey, I mean it. You were right all along. Mary didn't kill that man. Mary was an innocent girl caught in the tangled web of suspicion. But you, Jeffrey, you defended her in her most trying moments.
[61:59]
Jeff Regan
A noble thing, Jeffrey, but I'm fired.
[62:02]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
Fired? Oh, nonsense, my boy, nonsense. Haven't I apologized? It's just that I feel so sad about that poor child Mary and that Pine fellow without the bride he had taken to his heart. What will they ever do, Jeffrey?
[62:16]
Jeff Regan
Save your sympathy, lion. They'll get along.
[62:18]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
What?
[62:19]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
What do you mean by that?
[62:20]
Jeff Regan
Well, when I last saw them, they were sobbing it out on each other's shoulders.
[62:23]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
You mean it, Jeffrey? They've discovered each other. How charming. How positively charming. And with all those millions he has, too. Millions of dollars.
[62:33]
Jeff Regan
Stop drooling, fatso. There's nothing in it for you.
[62:36]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
No, Jeffrey, I suppose not. But I can dream, can't.
[62:56]
Narrator/Announcer
Jeff Regan, Investigator is written by William Frug and William Fifield, directed by Sterling Tracy and stars Frank Graham as Regan with Frank Nelson as Anthony J. Lyon. Original music is by Dick Arant.
[63:14]
Jeff Regan
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[63:18]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
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[63:19]
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[63:28]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
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Jeff Regan
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Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
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[63:35]
Jeff Regan
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[63:39]
Various Supporting Characters (including George Hendricks, Swami Al Kaji, Harold Pine)
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[63:40]
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[63:45]
Anthony J. Lyon (The Lion)
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