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Dangerous Assignment: The Football Play
Dangerous Assignment · November 25, 1950 · 28 min · 4,547 words
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The transcript of “The Football Play”, an episode of Dangerous Assignment first broadcast November 25, 1950. 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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Dangerous assignment, starring Brian Donnlevi as Steve Mitchell. Danger is my assignment. I get sent to a lot of places I can't even pronounce. They all spell the same thing, though. Trouble. But when I walk into the Commissioner's office, I don't realize that the assignment's going to end up with my saving three lives by calling the right football play.
Morning, Commissioner. Ruth said you wanted to see me. I do, Steve. You play Lisa in the China one hour. Indochina, look. Can't you send me to some nice peaceful place sometime? You'd probably die of boredom.
Well, okay, what's the deal? Think back three months ago today, Steve. Three months ago? Yeah, yeah, she was the redhead. What about her? What a memory for certain things. But that's not what I mean.
I'm talking about Paul Savage. Remember him? Savage? Sure. One of our government clerks who was discharged three months ago on suspicion of being connected with a spy ring in this country. What about him? At the time, Savage claimed he was innocent.
Don't they all? Last night we found out Savage was right. What? Last night one of those witnesses in the cases witnesses in the cases suddenly felt like talking to it. He arranged a secret meeting with one of our agents, but on the way to that meeting he was shot.
He lived just long enough to tell us that he and the other witnesses had been paid to say what they did. The whole case against Savage was a frame. Brother, this is a great time to be finding that out.
Who frames Arvich and why? You remember, at the time, Savage claimed he had complete information on the spy organization in this country. He was framed to discredit him and shut his mouth. I still don't see where I...
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