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Death House Rescue

The Shadow · September 26, 1937 · 28 min · 3,624 words

The transcript of “Death House Rescue”, an episode of The Shadow first broadcast September 26, 1937. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Orson Welles on the Air plays The Shadow free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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The shadow knows. Blue coal presents the shadow. A man of mystery who strikes terror in the very souls of sharpsters, lawbreakers and criminals. All signs point to a severe winter. Be prepared. If you want to be sure of even the penible, helpful heat in any kind of weather, insist on blue coal.

finest anthracite mine from the fields of northern Pennsylvania. The cold that is color the harmless blow at the mines for your protection. I can't see anybody. Who's that? I am the shadow. Such time we must hurry Gordon. You're in the death house charged with murder.

Yes I'm innocent. I'm innocent. But nobody knows it. Take courage Gordon. The a shadow nose. All right, Margot, won't you sit down? I told Erbil to serve our coffee here in the library, and she'd rather go on the terrace.

No, I prefer it here. Then I'd be seeing a smile. That frown is most unbecoming. Lamont, give it up. Give what up, my dear. Drinking coffee? I'm serious, Lamont Cranston. When I foolishly let you know that, do you remember what you said? It will be exactly five years next week.

But there's still so much to do, Margot. Well, then, let somebody else do it. Don't you realize that you can't keep on like this forever? Someone's certain to identify you, and when that's someone does, someone else is certain to kill you.

Perhaps, but until they do. Oh, darling, stop frowning. I don't mean necessarily to give up your work, Le Mans, but this other. Let the shadow just disappear and end come out openly. You're in the organized forces of law and police.

Won't you realize, Margot, that my entire usefulness to the organized forces of law and police lies in my remaining outside those forces, in remaining always the shadow. Would they approve my methods? Would they believe in my science?

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