The Blue Beetle · 1940 · 12 min · 1,776 words
The transcript of “The Asylum of Dr. Drear pt. 2”, an episode of The Blue Beetle from 1940. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Blue Beetle plays The Blue Beetle free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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Beethoven. Weeding down upon the underworld, it's mashed ganglin. Hund, the mysterious, all-powerful character, who is a problem to the police, but a crusade of all-all.
In reality, Dan Garrett, a rookie patrol, loved by everyone, but suspected by none the being the Blue Beetle. As the Blue Beetle, he hides behind a strange mask, and a suit of impenetrable blue-chain armor, flexible as silk, but stronger than steel.
Today's episode of the transcribed Fox feature, The Blue Beetle, is the second part of a story entitled The Asylum of Dr. Dreer. In the previous episode, Diana Tilsen asked for Trolman Dan Garrett to locate her missing foster father, Banker Tilsen.
He has disappeared leaving a note addressed to her saying he was going away for a rest. She is suspicious, however, of the actions of Tilsen's nephew, Linus Weatherby, and a Dr. Greer, a psychiatrist, whom whether he brought in to examine the banker.
Armed with the description of the banker, Dan Garrett and Mike Manigan visit the private sanitarium of Dr. Greer. They are permitted to interview a man who fits the description of banker Tilsen. He claims he is on the verge of a nervous breakdown and wishes to remain for a long rest.
But as the vicious circumstance makes Dan Garrett decide to return later as the Blue Beetle. He finds the real chilson and is about to release him from a cell when he is discovered by the guards and doctor drear and overcome by tear gas.
As the episode ended he was strapped in a straitjacket and locked up among the more violent inmates. As the story opens, Diana Tilton's telephone is ringing. Hello, is that Mr. Tilton? Yes. Have you seen Dennis? Who is this?
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