THE DR. ROBBIE MCLURE CASE and THE TOMMY MANNON CASE BROADWAY IS MY BEAT

Summary

Podcast Summary: 1001 Radio Crime Solvers
Episode: THE DR. ROBBIE MCLURE CASE and THE TOMMY MANNON CASE – BROADWAY IS MY BEAT
Release Date: December 25, 2024
Host: Jon Hagadorn

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Introduction to the Case

The episode begins with Detective Danny Clover, portrayed by Larry Thor, stationed at the bustling heart of Broadway, New York City. Early in the morning at police headquarters, the atmosphere is calm until Dr. Robbie McClure, a respected surgeon, arrives visibly distressed.

[02:11] Danny Clover: "Lieutenant Clover. Good evening, sir."

Dr. McClure reveals his concern about unsolved murders from the previous month, hinting at a deeper conspiracy.

[02:24] Danny Clover: "Well, I could give you all the clinical reasons for the way I look."

Discovery of Dr. McClure's Death

As Dr. McClure continues speaking, his symptoms worsen, and it's soon revealed that he has been fatally shot.

[03:07] Narrator: "He's dead."

Detective Clover immediately takes charge, directing Sergeant Zataglia to gather all available information on Dr. McClure and unsolved murders from the past month.

[03:17] Narrator: "Call downstairs and tell him about Dr. McClure. Then get a detail to find out everything you can about the doctor."

Investigating Dr. McClure's Life

Detective Clover delves into Dr. McClure's background, discovering his professional achievements and personal connections. His investigation leads him to Irv Newman, a figure associated with Dr. McClure's professional life.

[05:46] Danny Clover: "What do you want? Hey, it's Danny. Hi, Irv."

In a tense conversation, Irv denies any wrongdoing, but Detective Clover remains suspicious.

Encounter with Irv Newman and Georgia Webb

Detective Clover interviews Irv Newman’s associate, Georgia Webb, who was Dr. McClure’s nurse. During the interrogation, Webb provides critical information about a mysterious patient named Dorothy Rivers, linked to Dr. McClure’s unsolved cases.

[12:01] Georgia Webb: "He was a fine man, generous and kind. I need that tonight."

However, Webb's reluctance raises further suspicions, prompting Clover to investigate the records more thoroughly.

Link to the Murder of Martin James

Clover connects Dr. McClure to the murder of Martin James, a wealthy investor killed at a party on June 29th. The investigation reveals that Dorothy Rivers, listed in Dr. McClure's patient records, was never present at the party, indicating a possible setup.

[16:11] Narrator: "Martin James was murdered in his Sutton Place penthouse apartment at a party, night of June 29th."

Detective Clover identifies the Tony Seville Model Agency as Dorothy Rivers' address, leading him to Tommy Mannon, a former associate with a shady background.

Confrontation with Tommy Mannon

Detective Clover tracks down Tommy Mannon, who is now out of prison and living under the radar. Their encounter at his residence is fraught with tension, as Mannon reveals pivotal information about the blackmail scheme involving Dr. McClure and Georgia Webb.

[25:08] Danny Clover: "I thought it was curious that I should have to keep paying blackmail to a dead man."

Twist and Betrayal

The narrative takes a dark turn when Georgia Webb confronts Detective Clover, revealing that the blackmail operations forced Dr. McClure to his death and led to the murder of Dorothy Rivers when she threatened to expose the scheme.

[26:22] Narrator: "This Dr. McClure took the initial 10,000, all right, but the nurse Here. Kept right on blackmailing you and Ms. Rivers in the doctor's name."

In a climactic showdown, Lavender Webb attempts to eliminate Detective Clover to protect her secrets, but Clover outmaneuvers her, leading to her arrest.

Final Revelation and Resolution

As the case unfolds, Detective Clover exposes the intricate web of deceit involving influential figures like James Arnold. The episode culminates in the revelation that Arnold orchestrated the murders to protect his interests, resulting in his own downfall.

[56:03] Narrator: "I had one advantage. I knew the apartment. Arnold didn't."

Detective Clover ensures that justice is served as the tangled relationships and motivations behind the murders are brought to light, restoring peace to Broadway's chaotic streets.

Notable Quotes

• Detective Danny Clover:

  "[03:07] 'He's dead.'"
  "[05:46] 'What do you want? Hey, it's Danny.'"
  "[16:34] 'Wait a minute, Danny.'"

• Georgia Webb:

  "[12:01] 'He was a fine man, generous and kind. I need that tonight.'"
  "[22:35] 'I'd say you were telling the truth.'"

• Narrator (Detective Clover's Internal Monologue):

  "[28:27] 'But such a tactic would constitute a felony, Danny.'"
  "[35:56] 'I'll tell you to get me the file on Tommy man and everything, Even the dust it's wrapped in.'"

Conclusion

"The Dr. Robbie McClure Case and The Tommy Mannon Case – Broadway Is My Beat" offers a gripping tale of murder, blackmail, and betrayal set against the vibrant backdrop of Broadway. Detective Danny Clover's relentless pursuit of the truth uncovers the dark underbelly of influential New York figures, delivering a satisfying resolution to a complex case. This episode exemplifies the golden age of radio detective stories, blending sharp dialogue, intricate plotting, and memorable characters to engage and captivate listeners.

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Produced by: Gordon T. Hughes
Script by: Morton Fine and David Friedkin
Musical Direction: Lud Gluskin
Cast Includes: Jane Morgan, Peggy Weber, Doris Singleton, Charles Calvert, Joe Kearns, Herb Butterfield, and Sydney Miller.

Transcript

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[Danny Clover]

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[Danny Clover]

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[Narrator]

Broadway's My Feet. From Times Square to Columbus Circle. The giest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world.

[Danny Clover]

Broadway's My Peace With Larry Thor as Detective Danny Crof.

[Narrator]

Broadway. It's a promise you make to yourself in some dismal part of your life. Or it's a name you say like a curse. It's a place of golden women and mirrors of chrome. Or it's a beggar who will tear off a piece of his soul for a cup of coffee. It's anything you want, anytime you want it. And it's my beat. By 9 o'clock, police headquarters had settled down to its nighttime routine. So far, business was slow. I was sitting in my office straightening out the detail sheets that always accumulated on my desk.

[Danny Clover]

Lieutenant Clover. Good evening, sir.

[Narrator]

Well, Dr. McClure. Dr. Robbie McClure. It's a pleasure to see you. Sit down. Sit down.

[Danny Clover]

Thank you. Yes, thank you. Lieutenant.

[Narrator]

What's the matter? What's the matter, Doctor? You look pale.

[Danny Clover]

Well, I could give you all the clinical reasons for the way I look. Now, now, Lieutenant, let me get you something.

[Narrator]

Doctor, I'll be right.

[Danny Clover]

No, no, wait, Lieutenant. Last month there was a shooting. It's not that I want to confess to. It's the thing about. You should know about last month. The murders that the police never solved. Daddy, I don't want that to happen to Me? I don't want.

[Narrator]

Dr. McClure, Dr. Mc. Sergeant Zataglia.

[Danny Clover]

Yeah. Danny, come here. Yeah. What's your trouble?

[Narrator]

Danny, close the door.

[Danny Clover]

Now watch all. Danny, what's the matter with Doc McClure?

[Narrator]

He's dead.

[Danny Clover]

What?

[Narrator]

Flip this coat aside. You'll see why.

[Danny Clover]

Oh, Danny.

[Narrator]

The size of the wound. I'd save us from a.22 fired from up close.

[Danny Clover]

Yeah.

[Narrator]

Call downstairs and tell him about Dr. McClure. Then get a detail to find out everything you can about the doctor. Friends, relatives, bank account, everything.

[Danny Clover]

Right.

[Narrator]

And in the morning, I want the files on every murder that happened about 30 days ago. Unsolved murders on my desk in the morning.

[Danny Clover]

Right.

[Narrator]

Good. I'll see you now.

[Danny Clover]

Where are you going?

[Narrator]

Then I'm going to wind back McClure's life. I'm going to find out why he had to die. The great buildings of the city lean against the night in crazy tilted angles, like lighted toys deserted by a sleepy giant. There's a feeling that unless you walk carefully, you'll upset their insane balance. The Dr. Robbie McClure's office building was different. It sat square and solid on its haunches. And when you pressed the night buzzer, it growled at you.

[Danny Clover]

Well, show my mayor very Danny Clover the tor canter in me by cantering.

[Narrator]

The same old pepper.

[Danny Clover]

No, not the same, Danny. There are balls spots in these padlocks. And I ain't so quick to break from the starting gate like I used to. From a dashing mounted policeman to a flabby night watchman. Ah, that's a bit of Pastor Danny, me boy. A bit of pasture.

[Narrator]

Maybe you're wrong, Pippen. Maybe it's sweet pasture and you don't know it. Pippet. You know Dr. Robbie McClure, don't you?

[Danny Clover]

Sure, sure, I do. A great surgeon, but, ah, what a waste. What a waste.

[Narrator]

How do you mean, sure?

[Danny Clover]

He sure he was a genius. Sure should have been a veterinarian. What else could I mean? Danny, what the hell?

[Narrator]

Sir Short. You know what time he left his office tonight?

[Danny Clover]

I have. I do. I have it right here in me book. Now let me take a look. Oh, yes, there it is. 8:40 in the pier.

[Narrator]

Was he alone?

[Danny Clover]

No, no. He was in the company of the prettiest racist looking filliest than my pleasure since I cavorted and devoted police.

[Narrator]

Did you have her signature?

[Danny Clover]

Oh, no. She was a doctor's patient. A guest or best dress for tomorrow night. Watchmen are discreet, Danny. Some ladies, they don't ask to sign out.

[Narrator]

Ask them from now on, Pippett, huh? I mean it. You got any idea where they went?

[Danny Clover]

No, Danny, but they took a cabinet hack stand out there in front.

[Narrator]

Did you see whose cab they took?

[Danny Clover]

Yes, I did. I did. I opened the door for them. They took Irv Newman's cabin. If you want nerve, you'll probably find a bit at home. I know those hackish goods, you know.

[Narrator]

Well, thanks, Pivot. If you get a lump of sugar in the mail, it's from me.

[Danny Clover]

What do you want? Hey, it's Danny. Hi, Irv. Hey, Rose, it's Danny. Danny. Danny Clover of New York's finest.

[Georgia Webb]

Going to help me wash the dishes already?

[Danny Clover]

Pay no attention to Rose, Danny. She's moody tonight. Come on in. Come on in.

[Narrator]

Thanks, Irv.

[Danny Clover]

Sit down, Danny. Sit down. Irvine, may I offer you something? A glass of tea, A cold beer? I got it. How about one of Rose's blinkers, huh? Hey, Rose.

[Narrator]

Never mind, Irv. Don't bother Rose.

[Danny Clover]

What's the bother? Even if she's moody, she can't rassy up a blink.

[Narrator]

I'm here on business. Er, some other time.

[Danny Clover]

Oh, business. Hey, Rose, come here, huh? Shut off Caruso, huh? Make quiet, Caruso.

[Georgia Webb]

Quite. You.

[Danny Clover]

Caruso. Caruso. Now we'll talk. Danny, what kind of business brings you down here to Orchard Street? The land of the knish and the bagel?

[Narrator]

Pippett told you drove Dr. McClure somewhere tonight, Herb. Where'd you drive him?

[Danny Clover]

Park Avenue. Yeah, here's the address. Danny. I was just making out my records.

[Narrator]

Thanks. Was he alone at first?

[Danny Clover]

No. Later? Yes.

[Narrator]

Translation.

[Danny Clover]

First he is with a doll. Lean over, Danny. Rose shouldn't hear. Exhaustic type doll, you know what I mean. Then he is without the dollar. Around 50th, she opens the door of the hack and slips out into the traffic. McClure tells me to keep going. I think they had an argument.

[Narrator]

What about, Danny?

[Danny Clover]

I'm the type to eavesdrop, especially when they shut that glass panel.

[Narrator]

The address Irv Newman gave me was a study in millionaire respectability. Scrub Park Avenue brownstone. The butler took my hat and sighed and told me it was all right to go down the corridor into the living room if I tiptoed. I did. Then, all of a sudden, it hit me. The light from a couple hundred bulbs set in a crystal chandelier. When I finally squinted through it, I couldn't quite believe it wasn't the size of the room that was only about a hundred yards long. It was the walls from ceiling to floor and all the way the walls were decked with murals. Mother Goose murals. Paintings of every fairy tale and nursery rhymes character in the book. And on the floor, smack dab between Marjorie dawn or Seesaw and Jack and his Feedstock, sat a man. He was wearing three things. A goatee, a full dress and a beanie Three Propeller type.

[Danny Clover]

Well, hello there.

[Narrator]

And hello to you.

[Danny Clover]

My butler said your name was Danny Clover, but my butler lies. What is your name, sir?

[Narrator]

Danny Clover.

[Danny Clover]

You see what I mean? Grab a toy out of the toy box, sir, and sit down.

[Narrator]

Mr. Fletcher.

[Danny Clover]

Yeah. Here, Here. Take my latest product. Child psychologists claim it's remarkable for improving the coordination and tactile responses of a four year old.

[Narrator]

Really? Has it helped you?

[Danny Clover]

Immeasurably. We place the ball in the cup. So. Then we squeeze this lever. So.

[Narrator]

Yep.

[Danny Clover]

Then we catch the ball. Oops, we missed.

[Narrator]

Yes, we overestimated that. Thousand. Now, Mr. Fletcher. Oh, well.

[Danny Clover]

Colby, Fletch, don't stand on ceremony just because I'm the president.

[Narrator]

Oh, does Margaret know?

[Danny Clover]

Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. I mean the president of the Fletcher Toy Company. I make toys for children, sir. I bring gay bits of sunshine into their otherwise drab little lives. And as you see, I test my products before I market them. Incidentally, sir, what is your business?

[Narrator]

Police.

[Danny Clover]

Police. Police.

[Narrator]

Up here screaming. You'll wake up Snow White over there, sir.

[Danny Clover]

What right have you to be in my house?

[Narrator]

Technically, none, Mr. Bletcher, but there's a.

[Danny Clover]

Little matter of A matter of invasion of privacy. What do you want?

[Narrator]

There's Dr. McClure here this evening. Dr. Robin McClure?

[Danny Clover]

In a word, yes.

[Narrator]

Why was he here?

[Danny Clover]

I'm his patient. Is that a good medicinal reason?

[Narrator]

Simply sterile. Are you a sick man, Mr. Fletcher? You don't look sick.

[Danny Clover]

Dr. McClure says I'm a hypochondriac. But he gives me pills.

[Narrator]

I take them.

[Danny Clover]

They make me feel better. Ergo, I must have been sick before I took the pills.

[Narrator]

One more thing, Mr. Fletcher. Who was with Dr. McClure?

[Danny Clover]

I beg your pardon?

[Narrator]

Or maybe she stayed in the cab that brought him here. Who was she, Mr. Fletcher?

[Danny Clover]

Oh, that one.

[Narrator]

Yes.

[Danny Clover]

I peeked out the window and saw her waiting in the cab. Oh, beautiful, isn't she? Striking. One of the most striking women I ever saw.

[Narrator]

I blew at the top propeller in Fletcher's beanie, and then the butler came in and ushered me out in the down draft.

[Georgia Webb]

Lying.

[Narrator]

Must have been one of the little games they played in that Million Dollar House. Fletch said the butler lied. Then Fletcher lied About a girl he hadn't seen. A girl who was a question mark or unanswered in the murder of Dr. Robbie McClure. If I was going to wind back McClure's life, I needed some sleep. All that got wound up were the sheets in my bed. And in the morning, I started it all over again in the good doctor's office.

[Georgia Webb]

We're early. The doctor hasn't come in yet. You'll have to wait.

[Narrator]

Everything about her was anonymous. The white shoes, the white stockings, the starched white uniform, the starched white face. The mouth, scarlet and thin that she wore like a ribbon of merit for a new patient.

[Georgia Webb]

Fill out this card, please.

[Narrator]

Not a patient. The police lieutenant Danny Clover brought away special details.

[Georgia Webb]

Oh. Did Dr. McClure ask you to come here?

[Narrator]

You could say it that way. I'm here to investigate his death.

[Georgia Webb]

What? Something happened to.

[Narrator]

He died in my office. He was murdered.

[Danny Clover]

I don't believe.

[Narrator]

I don't believe. I'm sorry you had to be told like that, but we don't always have time to be gentle. You were his nurse, Miss?

[Georgia Webb]

Hell, yes, I know him. I had an aggregation test to make on some Rh negative blood. Lieutenant. May I do that while you investigate?

[Narrator]

Go right ahead. Where do I find the doctor's patient record?

[Georgia Webb]

In that metal file.

[Narrator]

Buff, you've been with the doctor long or something?

[Georgia Webb]

Three years. Pardon me, Lieutenant. I need that slide.

[Narrator]

It's the usual question. Did he have any enemies?

[Georgia Webb]

He knew him. What do you think, Lieutenant?

[Narrator]

Doesn't matter what I think.

[Georgia Webb]

He was a fine man, generous and kind. I need that tonight.

[Narrator]

Oh, sorry. This is strange Mutation file.

[Georgia Webb]

What? Strange?

[Narrator]

This card has a name and a date. All the other cards are filled with case histories. All this has is a name and a date. Dorothy Rivers, June 29th. Isn't that strange, Ms. Elliot?

[Georgia Webb]

The files were the doctor's responsibility. He had his own way of keeping.

[Narrator]

Then you don't know anything about a patient named Dorothy Rivers or this date?

[Georgia Webb]

Nothing, Lieutenant.

[Narrator]

Now take this with me.

[Georgia Webb]

You're the police. You do anything you like. I'll have to turn the lights out now, Lieutenant, for the test.

[Narrator]

Go ahead, Ms. Elliot. Go ahead. This will do for now. Thank you, Ms. Ellis.

[Georgia Webb]

Goodbye, Lieutenant. Ms. Rivers. Ms. Dorothy Rivers. Dr. McClure's office. We advise a rest, a long rest in a quiet place.

[Danny Clover]

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[Narrator]

There's this thing about Broadway. It can tickle you under the chin and make clucking noises, or it can slap your heart across the mouth and laugh. Either way, you get hurt. Right now, the receiving end of the slap was the police department for various and sundry unsolved murders. And the laugh, the big laugh, the cold laugh, was that a man named Dr. Robbie McClure had come to my office to die. And I didn't know who'd killed him. I sat at my desk at headquarters, tearing the tabloids into a noose of paper dolphins. Sergeant Tataglia opened the door and with a fine Italian flourish lay a thick, paper bound file in front of me.

[Danny Clover]

For you, my lieutenant.

[Narrator]

Your memoir, Sergeant. What is it?

[Danny Clover]

Not only what you ask for. A file on one of our more recent unsolved murders.

[Narrator]

Get it out of here. Get it out of my sight.

[Danny Clover]

Danny, you sick or something?

[Narrator]

Oh, all right, all right. Leave it.

[Danny Clover]

I also have here in my pocket the dope you wanted on Dr. Robbie McClure. Here, read it.

[Narrator]

Pocket to me. I'm sick of reading.

[Danny Clover]

There are some interesting items, Danny, about the good doctor. Item. Friends numerous and friendly, all with alibis. Item. Relatives none. The doctor was a lonesome man.

[Narrator]

Are your wife and kids, sir? Taglia, the.

[Danny Clover]

Oh, great, Danny. Joe's great. Hey, you should see the latest. Little Christina.

[Narrator]

I bet she's a doll. Go on with the item, huh?

[Danny Clover]

Oh, yeah, item. And this is the one I think will interest you, Danny. On June 30th, Dr. Robbie McClure made a deposit in the Corn Exchange bank in Bronxville. 10,000 crisp, cool, clean dollars.

[Narrator]

June 30th, huh? Now you can talk to me about the recent unsolved murder as follows.

[Danny Clover]

A man named Martin James was murdered in his Sutton Place penthouse apartment at a party, night of June 29th.

[Narrator]

Yeah.

[Danny Clover]

He was asked to step outside and he was murdered. Martin had a gun. He fired one shot. The bullet from Martin James gun was never found. We figured it took off across by saddle.

[Narrator]

But, Taglia, there's a doctor's patient card over on the table over there. Tell me what it says on it.

[Danny Clover]

Sure, Danny, sure. Says Dorothy Rivers. June 29.

[Narrator]

See a name like that on the James guest list?

[Danny Clover]

Wait a minute, Danny. Yeah, here it is. Dorothy Rivers in the alphabetical list with a lot of other girls.

[Narrator]

Is your address there?

[Danny Clover]

All the girls have the same address.

[Narrator]

What? Say that again.

[Danny Clover]

They all have the same address. The Tony Seville Model Agency.

[Narrator]

Fantaglia. Here's a fin Buy your doll Christina a doll or something.

[Danny Clover]

Oh, thanks, Danny, thanks. But there's something I think you should know. Font Christina about $de Rivers. The records say she never showed up at that party. She was never there at all.

[Narrator]

Tony Saville paid rent for his model agency in the Empire State Building. For this he received the privilege of maintaining a 10 room suite on the 40th floor and decorating it with orchids and genuine neutrals. The other decorations were too numerous dimensions delicate shadings of blonde and brunette. When they crossed their legs, the spilt whispering. I started to whisper back, but a scented haze with magenta fingertips beckoned me into an inner office. She closed the door behind her and all I was left with was a pork barrel in a double breasted pinstripe named Tony Seville.

[Danny Clover]

My secretary whispered, you are a policeman. How have I trespassed? I parked my car incorrectly. Perhaps I forgot to curb my dog.

[Narrator]

Let's stop rubbing noses, huh?

[Danny Clover]

I beg your pardon?

[Narrator]

Let's put it this way, simple and blunt. There's some questions I want you to answer for me.

[Danny Clover]

You must have a dull profession asking questions. Very well, ask a question.

[Narrator]

Mr. Seville, your agency supplied a half dozen models to a party at the home of Martin James. Said party a little over a month ago. June 29. Said home of penthouse in Sutton Place. Right?

[Danny Clover]

Possibly right. However, don't underline your details with a sneer. My agency furnishes models as decorative baubles to any social function.

[Narrator]

One of your decorations on the evening I'm interested in was named Darcy Rivers. How do I get in touch with it?

[Danny Clover]

You're a detective. Detective.

[Narrator]

What's her address? Seville.

[Danny Clover]

May I suggest a dragnet detective? Or any of the numerous machinations you police are. Oh, so a death at her address.

[Narrator]

Seville. Where do I find her?

[Danny Clover]

You should be cold. We only give the models of this to an approved client. I don't approve of you.

[Narrator]

Look, kid, sometimes I can forget I'm a cop. I can forget right now.

[Danny Clover]

I can it. Yeah.

[Narrator]

Try being cozy for one more second.

[Danny Clover]

I don't know where do is. I haven't seen her Enough.

[Narrator]

You can do better than that.

[Danny Clover]

The day after the party, she phoned. She said she was going on a vac. She?

[Narrator]

You're doing fine, Seville.

[Danny Clover]

Keep it up. There's nothing more. I tried to get in touch with her several times since she checked out of the hotel. She left no forward in the dress.

[Narrator]

You're telling the truth, aren't you, Seville?

[Danny Clover]

The truth is this. As far as I know and care, Dorothy Rivers could be dead.

[Narrator]

Beginning at the 40th floor, I picked petals off a tired daisy. At the 38th, Dorothy Rivers was dead. 37th. She wasn't dead. 36, dead. 35, not dead. I don't remember how it came out, because when I got off at the ground floor and walked into the yellow heat of 34th Street, a character stopped me by tapping me lightly on the leg with the front bumper of his cab. The character was the character named Irv Newman.

[Danny Clover]

Don't look so scared, Danny breaks tight down. I could stop this cab in a thin latchkey much as much.

[Narrator]

So long as I got my health.

[Danny Clover]

Ah, you're charming, Benny. Absolutely charming. Hey, phone me at headquarters. I'd find you around here. I got something for you.

[Narrator]

I want a rose's maybe better than that yet.

[Danny Clover]

You know that girl he was asking me about? The one I picked up with Dr. McClure, the professional man?

[Narrator]

What about it?

[Danny Clover]

I spotted him for you, Danny.

[Narrator]

Where? Tell me where.

[Danny Clover]

So let me tell you happens I got a friend, Danny, at truck drivers. A teacher of a fellow. His name is Clem. Every morning gives me a push with the truck so I can start his lousy hat.

[Narrator]

Why did you spot the girl there?

[Danny Clover]

So I'm telling you, while Clem is pushing me with his truck and I'm gliding along in my hack like in a gondola, I see this girl coming out of building. What building? 6, West 23rd Street. So I turn around, I wave to Clem. He should stop already. Danny. Danny didn't let me finish.

[Georgia Webb]

Yes? Who is it?

[Narrator]

Ms. Rivers.

[Georgia Webb]

Who are you?

[Narrator]

I want to talk to you, Ms. Rivers.

[Georgia Webb]

I was right. I don't know you. Get away from here.

[Danny Clover]

Get away. Go inside, Ms. Rivers.

[Georgia Webb]

Who are you? What do you want?

[Narrator]

I'm Danny Clover. I'm a police detective. Ms. Rivets. Been through a lot to get to you. You get along a lot better for you to settle down.

[Georgia Webb]

Why do you want to see?

[Narrator]

I've read somewhere the grief can make a woman even more lovely. You look like you've been grieving.

[Georgia Webb]

Don't be clever with me. I'm sick of clever men.

[Narrator]

Maybe I can help you.

[Georgia Webb]

You a policeman?

[Narrator]

Me a policeman?

[Georgia Webb]

That's all over now, isn't it, Mr. Clover?

[Narrator]

Just about.

[Georgia Webb]

You want to know what happened at Martin James party, isn't that it?

[Narrator]

The guest list said you were invited, but you weren't checked off. That mean you once there?

[Georgia Webb]

I was there through the back entrance, Mr. Clover, because. Because he said that was the way it should be done.

[Narrator]

Who? What should have been done? That voice.

[Georgia Webb]

Look, look, Mr. Clover. I'll tell you what happened. I owed to myself to tell you what happened. I just tired of pain.

[Narrator]

Pain, that's it, huh, black man?

[Georgia Webb]

Let me tell you from the beginning what happened. Gradually he believed me.

[Narrator]

You'd be surprised, Miss Universe. Policemen can believe the truth.

[Georgia Webb]

Martin James was a man who made investments in all sorts of deals. A kind of silent partner. One of the partners was a man named Fletcher.

[Narrator]

Man with a goatee.

[Georgia Webb]

He manufactured toys, Mr. Clover. I went to the party with him.

[Narrator]

What's the matter? He's gone. Who was it who dared to see? Maybe you should have told me his name, Mr. Rivers. Now you don't owe anybody anything. Even as a con.

[Danny Clover]

I say it's a shame, Danny. That's your beautiful girl. Shame?

[Narrator]

Yeah. Yeah, it's a shame. What I've been waiting for is your report. Yeah. Dorothy rivers, age about 24.

[Danny Clover]

Bullet ended left sternum pierced pericardium.

[Narrator]

That's the heart, Danny. Dead on arrival, girl.

[Danny Clover]

This girl was shot once before. She's got a healing wound that looks mighty like a bullet wound.

[Narrator]

He's right here, Danny. Yeah, yeah, that thing should all add up. I think it add up just fine. Corner neat. Real, real neat. Oh, Fletcher, there's a friend. Fletcher. The payoff goes on just the same tonight, kid. 9:00. So long, Fletcher. It took me 10 minutes to get to the Park Avenue palace that Fletcher had built out. A psychological toys for kids. Across the street. I took a plant behind a fat uniformed doorman who kept looking at me out of the corner of his fat eyes as if he were terribly sorry a thing like me had ever happened under his guilt Prince Canopy. At 8:30 the lights in Fletcher's crystal chandelier began to go out in section. In five minutes he was on the street hailing a cab. I tossed a nickel to my fat doorman, hailed a cab of my own and tailed Fletcher to an office building I'd been in once before. I watched him slip tip at a bill and then walk down the corridor to a self service elevator. I Thought it'd be nice if he had company on his lonesome ride. He didn't.

[Danny Clover]

Police. Why am I constantly surrounded by police?

[Narrator]

Maybe because you bring sunshine into my drab life. Fletcher, you know how to work this thing? Of course.

[Danny Clover]

It's nothing but a toy.

[Narrator]

Allow me. Anyway, it's the fourth floor you want, isn't it?

[Danny Clover]

No, no, no, not at all.

[Narrator]

Humor me, Fletcher. Let's make it four. Right down this hall, 438. Dr. McClure's office. That's where you want to go, isn't it, Mr. Fletcher?

[Danny Clover]

There are obviously some titillating gyrations going on in that mechanical policeman's brain of yours. You will reveal them to me, please.

[Narrator]

I was waiting for you to ask me that and just. Bad way. Here we are. After you, Fletcher. Thank you. Now I reveal the payoff money. Fletcher, give it to me.

[Danny Clover]

Ah, of course. I see. I see. I thought it was curious that I should have to keep paying blackmail to a dead man. Dr. McClure is dead, isn't he?

[Narrator]

The money, Mr. Fletcher. It's hard for me to say. Please.

[Danny Clover]

Here you are. Thousand dollars. You'll want a weekly, I presume, room just as I paid it before.

[Narrator]

That's cheap, isn't it, Fletcher, to buy off the electric chair. That's quite a toy too, I hear.

[Danny Clover]

Yes, it's quite, quite. Then you know, of course, that Dorothy Rivers and I murdered Martin James. Oh, he deserved it, you know. He swindled me out of a good deal of money.

[Narrator]

What was Dorothy Rivers to you?

[Danny Clover]

You're talking like a policeman again. Dorothy Rivers was a toy, expensable and fragile.

[Narrator]

It made her all the more desirable.

[Danny Clover]

That and the fact that I could make her do anything I like.

[Narrator]

Did you bring her back to life?

[Danny Clover]

What?

[Georgia Webb]

No. Don't get upset. As long as I was eavesdropping, it makes me less of a lady.

[Narrator]

That gun's not becoming either nursery.

[Danny Clover]

Put it away. Put it away. My dear, toys like that make me nervous.

[Georgia Webb]

I prefer this hole. Now, what were you saying, Lieutenant?

[Narrator]

Now, if you're here, I've got even more to say as a nurse.

[Georgia Webb]

I'm a humanitarian. Lieutenant, we've got a minute more saying time.

[Narrator]

Man should never lie under the circumstances, huh? And if I told you this, if I told you that you were the Blackmailer Instead of Dr. McClure, what would you say?

[Georgia Webb]

I'd say you were telling the truth. What then?

[Danny Clover]

I've been paying all that money to.

[Narrator]

This Dr. McClure took the initial 10,000, all right, but the nurse Here. Kept right on blackmailing you and Ms. Rivers in the doctor's name. McClure found out, so he had to die.

[Georgia Webb]

All through, Lieutenant?

[Narrator]

Not quite, nurse. After the blackmail, you had to kill Ms. Rivers because she was about to talk to me.

[Georgia Webb]

Now, one more thing.

[Narrator]

If you kill me, the payoff stops. Consider it, Miss Elliot. I got a thousand dollars in my pocket. Half yours, half mine. It could go on and on. We could still make Fletcher pay. Think about it, Miss Elliot.

[Georgia Webb]

Put the money on the table, Lieutenant. Half yours, half mine.

[Narrator]

All right, on the table.

[Georgia Webb]

Thanks. I'll take mine now.

[Narrator]

I'll tell you.

[Danny Clover]

Drop it. Drop the gun.

[Narrator]

Yeah, Thanks.

[Danny Clover]

I lift it up for you, Lieutenant. I'll get the guy.

[Narrator]

Miss this Fletcher. Got any smelling salts for Fletcher, nurse? It took three police officers to carry Nurse Elliott away. She tore up their faces and screamed in a language she hadn't picked up in medical books. Fletcher, he was different. He settled himself in the Black Mariah, pulled out a solid gold yo yo and played with it all the way down to headquarters. Broadway's happy now it's got on the carnival clothes it wears every night and the midway boils with rough about and yokels and hurdy gurdy sounds It's a jack in the box and it's a clown It's a shining girl on horseback or it's a geek with no arms, no legs and no heart It's Broadway the gaudiest, the most violent the lonesomest mile in the world Broadway, my feet.

[Danny Clover]

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[Narrator]

Broadway's My Beat From Times Square to Columbus Circle. The gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world. Broadway's my beat.

[Danny Clover]

With Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.

[Narrator]

Broadway. It's a journey to the end. Of all the streets in the world. You turn a corner and you're there. You walk more slowly and lean your heart against it like you were in church until it explodes in your face. Then you move swiftly and you're one of the crowd window shopping for cakes and bargains and heartbreak. And you'll find it because it's Broadway, my beat. The side streets are furious where they funnel off of Broadway. Then they trail down into limbo. Midway between the fury and limbo is a gray stone building. That's police headquarters. That's where I was standing in front of it, watching the patches of night sky bleed into each other. That was my detail. I was waiting for someone.

[Danny Clover]

Hi, Danny.

[Narrator]

Sergeant Ellis. How are things upstate?

[Danny Clover]

Oh, great. You know Officer Quinn, don't you?

[Narrator]

He drove Tommy and me down. Sure. How are you, Quinn?

[Danny Clover]

Fine.

[Narrator]

Lieutenant let you pull up in the parking area over there. We'll meet you in the squadron for coffee a little later.

[Danny Clover]

Good thing. Why don't somebody ask me how I am? I surpass myself. That makes me a semi approved citizen, don't it?

[Narrator]

You look okay to me, Tommy. Haven't changed since you were 16, Danny.

[Danny Clover]

I've known you a long time.

[Narrator]

You lie, Sing Sing doesn't agree with you.

[Danny Clover]

Sing Sing. You inhale and exhale. It's the only way you know you're living. So I make a deal.

[Narrator]

What kind of a deal, Tommy?

[Danny Clover]

I know I'm saving it for the DA after we talk, the DA and me, I got a feeling the state's gonna forget all about my manslaughter rap. Now let me out of Sink Sink for good and for you. Huh? Cool. Look, kid, when I finish spilling, some of the choicest names in the choicest cycles are going to be doing things they never thought they could do before. Like getting sentenced. Like. Like breaking rocks. Like making license plates for automobiles. Here, Lieutenant. I'll take off these cuffs between Tommy and me.

[Georgia Webb]

There you are, Danny.

[Danny Clover]

Tommy's your prisoner.

[Narrator]

Tommy, don't be a fool.

[Danny Clover]

Come back here. Let's get him. Alice.

[Narrator]

Ellis.

[Danny Clover]

Ellis.

[Narrator]

Oh, no. What happened? Quinn, go upstairs and put Tommy Mana's description on the wire. I want the whole city dragged for him and I want him found and I want him brought to me. Do that, Quinn. Sure, but how about. What?

[Danny Clover]

Sergeant Ellis. Dead, isn't he, Danny? Death.

[Narrator]

And violence are easy commodities in the city. Easy to buy and easy to sell. A decent man named Gordon Ellis got his free for nothing. The sudden mob that gathered around his shrunken body got theirs at bargain prices, too. Headlines on the house. Criminal escapes. Cop murdered. And the sick taste was in my mouth. I just stood while the headquarter boys did what needed to be done. When I went back to my office and locked the door and waited until the sickness was gone. Yeah? Yeah. What do you want?

[Danny Clover]

Just to talk to you. Can't I talk to you, Danny?

[Narrator]

Yeah, come on in, sir.

[Danny Clover]

It was messy. What happened out there, Danny?

[Narrator]

You selling something, Dotteg?

[Danny Clover]

Don't. Don't talk to me that way, Danny. For you, it hurts so.

[Narrator]

It hurts and I bleed.

[Danny Clover]

For you, Danny. That's not your mouth. It's. Says things like that.

[Narrator]

Yeah, yeah. I'm sorry.

[Danny Clover]

Apologies are also not necessary. What happened could have happened to anyone, not just you.

[Narrator]

I was clumsy. I was clumsy and a man's life dropped under my hands. I'll tell you to get me the file on Tommy man and everything, Even the dust it's wrapped in.

[Danny Clover]

Okay, Danny? Okay, in a minute. You know, the way I think of it, this deal that Tommy Mann wanted to make with the D.A. well, maybe it was kosher and maybe it was crummy. Maybe this whole thing.

[Narrator]

Still here, Todd Taglio.

[Georgia Webb]

Danny. Danny, darling, I brought you your pony. You can't face the world without a posy. Bend down so I can pin it on you.

[Danny Clover]

Janie, how many times I have to tell you? It ain't dignified. You should sell flowers in police headquarters. And without a license, you're only a sergeant.

[Georgia Webb]

Art Tagger, you will address me as madam.

[Danny Clover]

Stop squirming, Danny.

[Narrator]

All right, Janie. Tell me, doll, are you still running competition with the post office?

[Georgia Webb]

Keep your nose to the smell in the flowers, Danny. It's healthier.

[Narrator]

The boys and the lamb, do they still send messages to their loved ones? Through old Janie, the subway Lily. Like Tommy man and me.

[Georgia Webb]

Danny darling, I'd rather be called Lily than be planted with one. So I'm not saying one way or the other.

[Narrator]

Yeah, pay the lady for the posy t attack.

[Georgia Webb]

There.

[Narrator]

Outside of headquarters and across the rooftops and down in the roaring avenues, the city had already grown restless for the nighttime. It was a time of big noise and prowling and secret laughter. And somewhere inside of it, and part of it, Tommy Manon, hoodlum. Tommy Manon hoodlum. I was living this piece of my life just for him. So I was prowling, too. And there was a place to go. A white marble house that overlooked the East River. It was on the other side of a world. A precise pattern of house lights strung like tinsel against the dark. The precise butler who opened the door and tilted his finger at the precise angle toward the waiting room. The decor of opulence that makes its own particular breed. And the precise amount of time that went by before the greeting from mine host.

[Danny Clover]

Danny Clover. How nice. Won't you join us?

[Narrator]

We're in the library.

[Danny Clover]

Danny. This is a surprise. And a pleasant one. Oh, you know Mr. Arnold, don't you? James Arnold, the attorney. Hello, Danny. What brings you all the way out here, Danny?

[Narrator]

What you'd be expecting me.

[Danny Clover]

I didn't know you were having company. Faulkner. I'll leave.

[Narrator]

Stay a while, Arnold.

[Danny Clover]

Thank you, Danny. I was about to suggest the same thing. Now, why have I the honor?

[Narrator]

Had any other visitor lately? Like Tommy Manning?

[Danny Clover]

Why should he come here?

[Narrator]

He's a wandering boy. You might be keeping a light in the window for him.

[Danny Clover]

Bobby left my employ when he confessed to manslaughter. Really, Faulkner. Maybe I'd better leave. You're comfortable, Arnold. The drinks are all right. The hors d'oeuvre, fine, but then stay a while. Sit.

[Narrator]

Fault Derwin. Tommy was brought back to New York. It was because he was going to turn state's evidence against some of the choicest names, he said. So you're a choice name. You and Arnold here respectively. An untouchable high class hoodlum. The attorney for an untouchable high class hoodlum. Real choice names.

[Danny Clover]

Thank the police Lieutenant Arnold. We're choice, he said. So go ahead, thank him. Not that way. Attorney. Mine thank him. Thanks.

[Georgia Webb]

That's better.

[Danny Clover]

Go ahead, Danny.

[Narrator]

I think your guns will shot down a policeman and help Tommy escape.

[Danny Clover]

But such a tactic would constitute a felony, Danny.

[Narrator]

I think that Tommy's being brought to town was a dodge. Tommy had powerful friends on the outside. Who knew when he would be brought down.

[Danny Clover]

So you suggest we arrange this afternoon's fiasco?

[Narrator]

I'm suggesting it. Oh, throw it away.

[Danny Clover]

It ruins a good evening. It lends a bilious overtone to the fine conversation Arnold and I were having, doesn't it, Arnold? Yes, it makes conversation filious. Exactly. I was explaining to Arnold the seven move mate that won Constantino the chess championship in 32. Things like that devastate me. Don't say you, Danny.

[Narrator]

You leave men like F in his toy. And you have a feeling you've been playing mumble peg with scalpels. Then you take a long walk into a dismal and frayed edge of the city. And it's a walk back into memory. The street where you were born is the same. The kids games are the same. The cruel words on their mouths are not changed. The fly spec electric balls that hang in peeling hallways are still there. And the night sounds of a tenement still follow you as you climb the decaying stairs. Then you knock on the door that opens into a room where Tommy Manon was born.

[Georgia Webb]

Late. What do you want, Miss Man? I might see you're pedaling something. It's late and you come to the wrong place.

[Narrator]

Wait. I just want to talk to you. Don't you remember me, Mrs. Man?

[Georgia Webb]

I stopped remembering a long time ago.

[Narrator]

I'm Danny Culver.

[Georgia Webb]

So, yeah. Face is cleaner than when I saw you last. How old were you, Danny? 10.

[Narrator]

It won't take long. Could we step inside?

[Georgia Webb]

We can talk here.

[Narrator]

Inside will be better, Mrs. Now.

[Georgia Webb]

All right, go on in.

[Danny Clover]

Who is it? Mrs. Manning. Who's your gentleman caller, Mrs. Manning?

[Narrator]

Oh, Mr. Manon.

[Georgia Webb]

Oh, I know you.

[Danny Clover]

You're Danny.

[Georgia Webb]

Danny Clover.

[Danny Clover]

You're the cop who let my boy get away. Have a drink, Danny.

[Georgia Webb]

You've been wonderful to my boy.

[Danny Clover]

Come on, Danny, have a drink.

[Georgia Webb]

Oh, don't mind him, Danny. He means no harm. He's a drunken sop, but he don't mean no harm. Go back to your bottle, Mr. Manning.

[Danny Clover]

I'll do that thing, dearie.

[Georgia Webb]

I'll just do that. You want to know if Tommy's been here, don't you?

[Narrator]

Has he?

[Georgia Webb]

When you were a kid, did you ever HEAR it said Mrs. Mannon was a liar?

[Narrator]

No.

[Georgia Webb]

And you'll believe me when I tell you this. If Tommy so much as put foot in this house, I'd throw him back into the gutter he wallows in.

[Danny Clover]

That's no way to talk about Tommy. Tommy's good, honey. Smart, smart.

[Georgia Webb]

I drink to my boy.

[Narrator]

Tommy, then maybe you'll get a word to your smart boy, Mr. Manning. Tell him we want him. Tell him we want him bad enough to hurt him. Good night, Mrs. Man. I went back to Broadway for only one reason. I was hungry. And eating alone is the loneliest time a man can have. On Broadway, there's always people. You can watch them and make up your own stories. Stories that didn't have murder in it. I doddled over spud nuts and coffee, made up my stories, then hit the street again. Part of it hit back at me and it had the smell of lavender and a bit of old Irish lace in it.

[Georgia Webb]

Danny. Jamie Clover.

[Narrator]

Why, Janie, have you been following me?

[Georgia Webb]

The post office business is blooming.

[Danny Clover]

Danny.

[Georgia Webb]

Here's a posy for you.

[Narrator]

You've already pinned one on me today, remember?

[Georgia Webb]

Ah, but this is a very special posy.

[Danny Clover]

Here, take it.

[Narrator]

Thanks, Janie. I've always wanted a cornflower.

[Georgia Webb]

I got it from a florist who says he's a dear friend of yours.

[Narrator]

Thank him for me.

[Danny Clover]

You thank him, Danny.

[Georgia Webb]

He doesn't live too far from here. You could get a cab. 2620 West 10th Street, First Florida.

[Narrator]

Oh, for whom do I ask?

[Georgia Webb]

Ask for Tommy. Go quickly, Danny dear, and ask for Tommy Mannon.

[Narrator]

10Th street was a quarter of an hour away and number 2620 was a hole in a block long of piled red bricks. First floor. Walk back and you know when you come to the end of the hall, when you can't quite walk through the final shadow. Tommy. Tommy Manning. Open up, Tommy. It's Danny Clover. There was Tommy Manning, all right, but his status had changed. He wasn't running anymore. He was seated in a wooden chair in front of a wooden table, beeping almost slyly over a bowl of waxed fruit. I walked over to him with my hand on his shoulder. Yeah, it was Tommy, man, and all right. And his status had really changed. He wasn't living anymore.

[Danny Clover]

You are listening to Broadway's My Beat, starring Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.

[Narrator]

At 9:00 in the morning, Broadway is a five minute stopover for a million people. For these people, it's the five minutes that are important. It gives them time to adjust themselves to the world. It's assuring. Translux assures them that there's been a change in the weather and the headlines assure them that the daily murder has taken place. Tabloid yelled cop killing. There was a piece in the Item about me. Continued on page 23. On page 23 it said that I was standing right there when Officer Ellis Was killed. I didn't know who did it. In my office at headquarters, a police sergeant named Tartaglia had a word for it. Would you mind repeating that?

[Danny Clover]

Huh?

[Narrator]

Never mind. You get the date I asked for?

[Danny Clover]

Oh, sure, Danny.

[Narrator]

Okay, brief it to me.

[Danny Clover]

Yeah, Danny. Yeah. On June 17, 1944, Tommy Manning confessed to beating up and killing one John Westwold. This was what is known as the aftermath of a drunken brawl. Manning was convicted of manslaughter. End of brief. Real brief, huh?

[Narrator]

Yeah, it ran about like that. And the other thing about the newspapers you fixed then?

[Danny Clover]

Oh, yeah, I fixed it, Danny, like you said. Not a word to the newspapers about finding Tommy man. And dead or alive. Especially dead.

[Narrator]

Okay. The coroner's report.

[Danny Clover]

Yeah, yeah, I briefed that too. Like this. Tommy Manning was dead on arrival. Not a mark on his body. He wasn't poisoned? No heart failure. Mysterious, huh?

[Narrator]

Tartaglio.

[Danny Clover]

Okay, okay. Hammy Manning was drowned.

[Narrator]

Drowned?

[Danny Clover]

So it says on the report. Manon was, and I quote, forcibly held with his head underwater until he was drowned. And I unquote. Yeah, they figured was in that fruit bowl on the table. Water was still clinging to the wax. Fruit twist, huh?

[Narrator]

Yeah. Funny. Killer. You got that list of character witnesses at Manon's Child?

[Danny Clover]

Yeah, yeah, there was one. And the one was one. Georgia Webb. Address the Brighton Hotel for Women.

[Narrator]

Brighton Hotel for Women, huh? That's quite a show place, Danny. This one I'll brief for myself. The Brighton Hotel for Women stands at the edge of the park. From its blood granite threshold you can watch the old men playing at bowls on the green. Through its plate glass doors you look in on a pink plush world, A world of plaster cupids and crystal chandeliers with electric candles, mirrors, the reflection of mirrors. The room clerk is a crone in taffeta and tobacco stained fingers who point you to a satin tufted elevator. And the fifth floor is a hallway lighted with rails of fluorescent lamps. Some doors stood open. Georgia Webb's is closed.

[Georgia Webb]

Come in, come in, whatever you are.

[Narrator]

Georgia Webb.

[Georgia Webb]

Whatever you are. It's nice from here today.

[Danny Clover]

They're good to me.

[Narrator]

Who?

[Georgia Webb]

God. Whispers. Whatever it is that brought you to me. Come here and sit down. Pour yourself a drink. Maybe you don't drink.

[Narrator]

I'm Danny Clover.

[Georgia Webb]

You didn't have to tell me that. What's in the name that they say?

[Narrator]

I'm Danny Clover, Broadway special detail.

[Georgia Webb]

Oh, off duty.

[Narrator]

No, Georgia.

[Georgia Webb]

I take it all back. Everything I've said, I take it all back.

[Narrator]

I've been catching up on my reading. Only Today I read where you were once. Tommy Mannon's girl.

[Georgia Webb]

Tommy Mannon?

[Narrator]

Yeah. Punk who ran away. I thought maybe you ran here so he'd refresh your memory. So you'd remember his name. Tommy Mannon.

[Georgia Webb]

If I knew him. It didn't make an impression, you know. There are men like that.

[Narrator]

You've testified at his trial. You gave your name, your address and your testimony in a loud, clear voice. Clear enough and loud enough for me to hear five years later.

[Georgia Webb]

It's true. Your ears are cute.

[Narrator]

Maybe you left something out five years ago, Georgia. Something you'd like to tell me now about Manon.

[Georgia Webb]

Was it Tommy Mannon?

[Narrator]

Tommy Manning?

[Georgia Webb]

Why didn't you ask him when you find him?

[Narrator]

I found him. That's why I'm asking you. Because Tommy was dead.

[Georgia Webb]

Oh. How'd he die? Natural causes? Or did you shoot him because you're a policeman? You can kill people.

[Narrator]

Someone pushed his head in the bowl of water and Tommy Mannon was drowned. That's how he died. Oh, we don't like the way he died. Because it could happen to other people. Like you, maybe.

[Georgia Webb]

Good. Goodness.

[Narrator]

So maybe now you'll remember some things that Tommy didn't get to tell us. There are better ways of dying, you know.

[Georgia Webb]

It's convincing how you talk. Tommy was a jerk. A jerk who made deals. Everything was a deal. Even the Manslaughter Act.

[Narrator]

Explain it to me.

[Georgia Webb]

Tommy didn't kill that man. He was in Baltimore when it happened. But he confessed to it. For $20,000. He confessed to it.

[Narrator]

He gave five years of his life for $20,000.

[Georgia Webb]

Tommy, the dealmaker. The poor crumb.

[Narrator]

Why doesn't somebody answer that phone?

[Georgia Webb]

They will.

[Narrator]

Let's go over it again, Georgia. You're saying a man was killed, that it was all a frame? Who made the deal with Tommy?

[Georgia Webb]

To you, dearie. All right. I'll be a minute, Danny.

[Narrator]

Okay.

[Georgia Webb]

This, Georgia? Yeah. Wait a. All right. All right.

[Danny Clover]

Yes, thanks.

[Georgia Webb]

You can go now, policeman. Your time's up.

[Narrator]

What?

[Georgia Webb]

Get out. Everything I told you was a lie.

[Danny Clover]

All the talk I made. It was no good.

[Narrator]

That phone call have anything to do with it?

[Georgia Webb]

Yes. You ask me and I tell you. Yes.

[Narrator]

I told you not to talk anymore. Who told you that?

[Georgia Webb]

A man who likes it when people are dead. Now you understand why I've got nothing to say to you. You understand? Nothing you can do or think of can make me talk to you. Yeah, that's how it is, Danny boy.

[Narrator]

And that's how it was. She really meant it. It was noon when I left the Brighton Hotel for women. I told myself I could think better if I walked. When the walk was over, I might as well have taken a cab. Nothing came. No answers to anything. No progress. Except that I was back at headquarters. In the first floor hallway, there's a bulletin board listing sheriff sales, police details and used radios at a bargain. There was a man looking at it. He saw me and moved his lips over his teeth. This was supposed to mean he was smiling. Which was supposed to mean he was glad to see me.

[Danny Clover]

Hello, Lieutenant. Remember me?

[Narrator]

James Arnold, isn't it? Faulkner's attorney.

[Danny Clover]

Yes. Faulkner's my client.

[Narrator]

You mean you work for him? You're his flunky.

[Danny Clover]

Mr. Clover, I work for many people. My association with Faulkner is neither more nor less intimate than my association. Association with my other clients. Understand? I work for many people. You've been wondering what I'm doing at police headquarters.

[Narrator]

I'll be frank with you. I haven't given you a thought.

[Danny Clover]

I know. That's how I affect people. Can we talk?

[Narrator]

Aren't we?

[Danny Clover]

Of course. I mean in private.

[Narrator]

This is private.

[Danny Clover]

Of course.

[Narrator]

So talk.

[Danny Clover]

Of course. Good things could happen to you, lieutenant.

[Narrator]

Every night, Mr. Arnold. Every night I say, let good things happen to me. Now you know a secret.

[Danny Clover]

Fine things, Lieutenant.

[Narrator]

Like silks and satins. Like me.

[Danny Clover]

People are interested in you and want the best for you.

[Narrator]

People want that. What people?

[Georgia Webb]

People.

[Danny Clover]

Nice people who want to see you get along.

[Narrator]

Find if I interrupt?

[Georgia Webb]

Of course.

[Danny Clover]

Interrupt.

[Narrator]

It's about Tommy Manon, isn't it?

[Georgia Webb]

Scott.

[Narrator]

Now, go on. It isn't much.

[Danny Clover]

The nice people don't know what happened to Tommy. They don't want to know. They want this case closed as if Tommy were dead. Dead. They want this case closed. You can arrange it. Then nice things will happen to you.

[Narrator]

I'll try, Mr. Arnold. I really will.

[Danny Clover]

Splendid, Lieutenant. The nice people will be happy. You too. Goodbye, Mr. Clover. Yeah. Yeah, Danny.

[Narrator]

Send out a pickup for Georgia Webb. Brighton Hotel for women. Pick her up and bring her down.

[Danny Clover]

Item 2.

[Narrator]

Call the press room and give them the whole story. And Tommy, man. And tell them we found him dead. Drowned, everything. The works.

[Danny Clover]

Yeah. Danny, tell him this.

[Narrator]

Tell them we've got a witness who confessed everything named Georgia Webb. She talked her head off. Got that?

[Danny Clover]

Yeah.

[Narrator]

Then do it.

[Danny Clover]

Okay. Danny, where are you going?

[Narrator]

Home, Santaglio. Home? I'm going to sleep. When I got home, the landlady had left two things for me. A bowl of matzo ball soup and a manila envelope. They both looked inviting, so I tried the envelope first $5,000. The nice thing that Arnold had promised would happen when he came so fast with such a nice round sum, what more could a man want out of life? $5,000 in a dish of matzo balls. I ate the soup, kissed the landlady, put the $5,000 in an envelope, address to the DA, pulled a chair over to the window and sat there watching the city burst into fragments of electric flame. I must have sat there a long time, because when I awoke, the night had a new shadow. The shadow of a man named Baltner.

[Danny Clover]

I brought you the morning paper, Danny. They got your name all over it, splashed in red ink.

[Narrator]

I knew I'd make it someday. Thanks, Faulkner. Here's a nickel for your trouble.

[Danny Clover]

Red ink could be blood in the later editions. Danny.

[Narrator]

Rotten place to sleep. A chair. Like some coffee? You can think better if you have coffee and light.

[Danny Clover]

They tell me you're a man of vetcher clover. Gratitude's a virtue. So whoever told me lied.

[Narrator]

It hurts you whenever people lie to you?

[Danny Clover]

It hurts me when a man of virtue is ungrateful. You shouldn't have booked Georgia Webb. You shouldn't have made a talk. You shouldn't have taken my $5,000.

[Narrator]

I've been naughty, haven't I?

[Danny Clover]

I have one question for you, Detective. Mine. One little question.

[Narrator]

The gun gives me three chances. I'll guess in one. You want to know what Georgia told me?

[Georgia Webb]

Possibly.

[Narrator]

Possibly?

[Danny Clover]

It doesn't matter, but tell me anyway.

[Narrator]

You're bluffing, Faulkner. Your act is precious. Is that the word? But you're bluffing. You're scared to death.

[Danny Clover]

So tell me why explicitly?

[Narrator]

Because your life depends on Georgia. Only I've got her tucked away where you can't touch her. Explicit, huh? Put away the artillery, partner. It'd be deemed ungracious for guests. Come in.

[Danny Clover]

Hello, Dennis. Oh, you already have a visitor.

[Narrator]

It's your counselor, Faulkner. Happy day. Come in, Arnold.

[Danny Clover]

But now I don't have to come in. You already know what I came to tell you.

[Narrator]

Tell me anyway.

[Danny Clover]

I Only that Faulkner is your man. The man who killed the policeman. The man who killed Tommy Manning. Are you insane, Arnold? Watch him, Danny. He's dangerous. Are you double cross? I told you he was dangerous. Then he would have killed us all.

[Narrator]

Yeah, you shot him good the first time, Arnold. Why did you waste another bullet? Come on, let's take a walk to headquarters.

[Danny Clover]

Is it necessary?

[Narrator]

Yeah, it's necessary. I want to straighten up the records.

[Danny Clover]

Please, no jokes.

[Narrator]

Okay, no jokes. I'll be real sincere. Tommy Manon took your rap Arnold, you were the one who committed the manslaughter. Faulkner supplied a pigeon for you. Pigeon? One of his rudlands, Tommy Mann.

[Danny Clover]

May I smoke?

[Narrator]

Sure. Faulkner had to supply a pigeon because you knew all about Faulkner's operations. He was supposed to pay Tommy 20,000 for taking the ramp.

[Danny Clover]

Faulkner's lying on the floor over there. He's dead. You'll need proof of all of it.

[Narrator]

That's proof enough. You shot Faulkner in cold blood so that he'd never talk. But go on. When Tommy was transferred to New York, Faulkner went gunning for him. So Tommy wouldn't talk. Only he missed and shot the wrong man. He killed a cop instead of Tommy.

[Danny Clover]

How does all this theorizing concerned me?

[Narrator]

When you boys finally caught up to Tommy had drowned him in a fruit bowl. Let's go, Arnold. I'm book you for the murder of Tommy Manning.

[Danny Clover]

You forgot something, Danny. I've still got my guns.

[Narrator]

I hadn't forgotten. It's the chance I took. Arnold had already used two shots of Faulkner. I had to get him to throw away the other four. All the while I've been talking to him, I've been edging toward the light switch. Now I flipped it.

[Danny Clover]

1.

[Narrator]

I had one advantage. I knew the apartment. Arnold didn't. The blackness. He could only fire at sounds. I swapped an ashtray off the table.

[Danny Clover]

2. I picked up a book, heaped it at the window.

[Narrator]

Three. One more. I grabbed a chair and flew. Hello? Okay, Arnold. Like I said, let's get you booked for murder. Broadway. It stretches out in front of you. Livid scars flashed into the night. It's a cruel and fantastic carousel. A palace of fun, a hall of mirrors. You pay your way and you take your choice. Me, I get in on the pass. I'm the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world. Broadway My beat.

[Danny Clover]

Broadway's my Beat. Stars Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover and is written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. The musical score was conducted by Wilbur Hatch and the program was produced and directed by Elliot Lewis. The cast tonight included Jane Morgan, Peggy Weber, Doris Singleton, Charles Calvert, Joe Kearns, Herb Butterfield and Sydney Miller.

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