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Dangerous Assignment: Nice - Italian Actress

Dangerous Assignment · December 3, 1952 · 28 min · 5,306 words

The transcript of “Nice - Italian Actress”, an episode of Dangerous Assignment first broadcast December 3, 1952. 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 assignments starring Brian Donlady as Steve Mitchell. Ah, danger is my assignment. I get sent to a lot of places I can't even pronounce the all spell the same thing though, trouble, but when I walk into the commission's office I don't realize that this assignment's gonna wind up with somebody trying its best to hand me a present, a loaded dynamite with

a lit fuse. Bruce left the note on my desk if you wanted to see me. Incidentally, where is she? Not the Red Cross blood bank donating some blood. I gave it a day off. I've got a date for the same thing.

American should donate blood to the Red Cross. But right now, take a look at this. A piece of string? Describe it to me as accurately as you can. What? Is this some kind of a game? You know better in a moment now describe that piece of string to me. Okay, okay, it's about a foot long. 11 inches to be exact. Okay, 11 inches. It's

got four knots. Right. And they're unevenly spaced. Well, it's about all I can see. So you're a string-saver commissioner. Is that what you call me in here to tell me? Not exactly. In the first place I have a hunch that's about the most important piece of string in the world right now.

Why? And in the second place, it's not mine. Long to Jim Slater. Oh, Jim back? That's good. Jim's dead, Steve. What? Hey, let me have that again. He was murdered in Panama the night before last.

Jim Slater? Yeah, I know. He was one of your best friends, Steve. That's where I figured you'd want to take over his assignment. Yeah, I do. But I never knew what Jim was working on, Commissioner.

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