The Line Up · February 22, 1951 · 29 min · 3,511 words
The transcript of “The Silver Swan Case”, an episode of The Line Up first broadcast February 22, 1951. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Line Up plays The Line Up free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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Ladies and gentlemen, we take you now behind the scenes of a police headquarters in a great American city Where under the cold glaring lights will pass before us the innocent the vagrant the thief the murderer This is the lineup You think you catch him lieutenant?
Maybe you got him now. Maybe but we'll need your help, mr. Reducing. You got my help all of my help I've been a night to watch him in 20 years. Now I can help with the police. Making me proud.
Sure, sure. I just sit here. Thank you. You know, I thought it was a bundle. It was a carrying. A big bundle. That's a joke on all of them. A joke, man. It's not funny. This bundle, the man carried down the firescape. She was a dead girl. Maybe I should run after him.
You call the police, that was the right thing. Down the fire escape. Then he put around the pavement and I walk away. Just like that. The girl, she was a strangler. That's right. Strangler. If I run after me, maybe I catch you.
You might have missed her this time. May I have your attention, please? Me, they do, see. A man who almost called him, Merton. While the audience rule, may I have your attention, please? Thank you. My name is Greg. Sergeant Matt Grab, I'll explain the line up to you.
Each of the suspects you will see will be numbered. I'll call up a number, the name and charge. If you have any questions or identifications, please remember the number assigned to the prisoner, as I call his name.
At the end of each line when I ask for questions or identifications, call up the number. If you're sure not to, sure of the suspect, have him held. The officers who took your name will assist you and they'll sit among you.
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