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The Hypnotized Audience

The Shadow · June 5, 1938 · 26 min · 447 words

The transcript of “The Hypnotized Audience”, an episode of The Shadow first broadcast June 5, 1938. 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 hell is quite evil, Lex in the hearts of men. Science, and a master of other people's minds, devotes his life to riding roams, protecting the innocent, and punishing the guilty.

Using advanced methods that may ultimately become available to all law enforcement agencies, Cranston is known to the underworld as the shadow. Never seen, only heard, as haunting to superstitious minds as a ghost, as inevitable, as a guilty conscience.

Now those true identities known only to his constant friend and aide, Margot Lane, his audience. Well, you needn't get tough about it, Falcon Mjorna. You must excuse my servant, army gentleman.

Your reception is of a well-informed... Well, that's all right, Derge Kahn. He feels I may be too tired to dance today. Are you really going back to the boat, Loehrrer? Yes, that is the plan.

Now, I must beg to be excused. I must get this off. Okay, okay, okay. Come on, I'll get back to the boat. I told the pepper to them. They're going to come as nearly. I came as sorry until time.

So I'm in mistake. It would be amusing to see what they would print if they knew our real purpose in giving this recital. Yes, master. Standing alone by and standing enough. Oh, Dorga Khan, what a sad day.

Six for my father's house. My nerves are made of steel. My husband is. But in nine hours, they would kill him. They're going to come and very lecture. There's no execution. In 24 hours, may brothers shall be free.

We've not got 24 hours. The execution is at it. What, three tomorrow morning? Yes, my lord. He's gone to state my husband really dying. I came with nothin' yet, Durgakan.

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