The Pointless Pierson Polemic Palarity Case (aka-Michael Hunter Murder) (1951

Ladies and gentlemen, we take you now behind the scenes of a police headquarters in a great American city Or under the cold glaring lights will pass before us the innocent the vagrant the thief the murderer This is the line up We can sit right here mr. Becker oh Here sure that's all right

Oh, thank you. Is it all right if I spoke? Sure, sure, go ahead. Do you think you have the man? We have no idea. You smoke? No, thanks, not right now. Oh, thank you. Well, if you do, if you caught the man, I don't know him.

I hope so. Like I told you, his face pressed this close. Maybe a foot away from where I was looking through the curtains. And you never saw him before? Oh no, no, I never saw him before.

Like the guy across the hall, the guy that was killed, I never saw him before. He lived right across the hall for me. You may think that may sound funny, but then it may not.

No, it may not. Very possible. Oh, I lived there for at least. I don't know about seven minutes. Oh, there's Sergeant Brad. Yeah, he interrogated the line. Oh, he's a nice guy. I'm sure he is.

May I have your attention please? You people are telling you the sound of the wire in the audience room. May I have your attention please? Thank you. My name is Greg, Sergeant Matt Grabalax, for In the Line Up to You. Each of the suspects you will see will be numbered. I'll call off a number, then 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 out the number. If you're sure enough to, sure of the suspect Adam has, the officers who took your name will assist you, they're seated among you.