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Calling All Cars: The Man Who Talked
Calling All Cars · July 14, 1938 · 29 min · 4,628 words
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The transcript of “The Man Who Talked”, an episode of Calling All Cars first broadcast July 14, 1938. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Search inside this transcript.
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All cars, a copyrighted program transcribed and dedicated to the prevention of crime. All cars, tension all cars, broadcast to a hundred forty-two regarding an injured woman. All an ambulance if needed. That is all, God.
But at all costs they must leave little or no evidence of their crime. They realize that they are safe, it depends on that. They will go to any length in their anxiety to accomplish that end, even to the extent of committing another crime to cover up or destroy the visible evidence evidence of the first crime. But in their twisted mind they fail to realize that the
second crime is left wide open with no covering whatsoever and capture becomes inevitable. The police are trained to piece together evidence, isolated bits of proof, and once this is done the crime is uncovered and its commission traced to the criminal. The true story you will now hear taken from police records, the case of the man who talked.
In the police station, a group of officers are passing the tedious hours of their shift, playing dominoes. Okay, Louis. Here's your chance to even up the score. If I had luck like yours, I wouldn't be a copper.
That's all right. You don't need luck. You just need to know how to play dominoes. Imitant. I'll take fifteen. Hmm. That's how fire that is. It's gonna have a little fun. Yeah. I wish they'd move that fire station out of our police headquarters.
I'm getting tired of hearing those sirens every time there's a brush fire station. somewhere in this town. Yeah, they are a little noisy. I give me fire. All right, for me. And Pedro Division, Kevin Gentry speaking.
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