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206- Violent Night

Escape · March 18, 1954 · 29 min · 3,576 words

The transcript of “206- Violent Night”, an episode of Escape first broadcast March 18, 1954. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Escape plays Escape free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Tired of the everyday grind, a dream of a life of romantic adventure. What a get away from it all. We offer you Escape. Escape! Designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure.

who are kneeling in the church of a Caribbean village, seeking the sanctuary it might offer. While slowly walking down the aisle, carefully studying each bowed head is the brute of a man who has come to kill you.

Listen now, as escape brings you less Crutchfield story, violent night. Huh? I came awake suddenly. Wide awake. It's a trick you learn around the back countries of the Caribbean.

If you want to stay alive, I didn't move. I didn't make a sound. Just stare into the darkness and listen. Then it came again. Somebody was on the veranda. I slid off the cut, reached for my pistol on the table, and stood up, barefooted, I moved quietly across the room, and stopped by the shutters.

Senor, crazy. Who is it? The Peter. It is the Peter. The Peter? I am come to warn you as terrible danger. Are you alone? See? All right, wait a second. Quickly. What's wrong? What's the matter?

Look, toward the village, good Monte Miguel. What? What? Fire. What's burning? The Estas young of the police, the Federalista army barrack, other places. It is the revolution, senor. Revolution? Who is it? Who's behind it?

Alacram. What? He has come out of the jungle again. One thousand men are following him, and now more from the village. He has guns, trucks, cars, radios. He is called himself governor of the district.

Governor? He won't last 48 hours. Everyone say it is revolution all over the country. You must leave your plantation and go quickly. Pupita. You, uh... You think he still remembers? I'll agree on... We'll never forget.

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