Top Secret · September 25, 1950 · 29 min · 3,737 words
The transcript of “The Poison Hand of Friendship”, an episode of Top Secret first broadcast September 25, 1950. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Gumshoe plays Top Secret free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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Story is top secret. Top secret. Transcribe drama to present a intrigue and espionage, starring gorgeous Ilona Massey as the Balinese Karen Giza, a beautiful woman fighting a never ending battle against the unseen enemies of freedom in America and the world.
Tonight, the poison hand of friendship, a story that is top secret. assignment 14 began in New York with a telephone call, a strange mysterious telephone call which told us nothing, and yet which held the clue to something incredibly evil and frightening.
Is a fighting something unknown, something that makes slowly and relentlessly to destruction. He's holding the mean, hard man who was my chief of intelligence, called me into discuss it. We talked to his pilot office. His face was drawn and buried.
Turn on word. Something has happened to him. When did Pietro go to San Francisco? Let me see. Pietro, man, details and friends, this goes to 10 before, that's almost a month. He left New York on labor day.
And you haven't heard from him for a week? No matter what. No reports, no letters, nothing. Has the San Francisco office checked him? Yes, they found nothing. I mean, calling his hotel every two hours since Wednesday.
His rent's paid until the 15th, but he hasn't slept there for five nights. What was his assignment, Jim? It was assignment with the fine bazooka Jan. Conjahn? You know him? What engine doesn't? By sight. No, by reputation.
He's one of the most dangerous men in the world. He's pulled up some of the biggest and the most brilliant salivatory jobs in the country, and every time he slips through our fingers. What does he look like?
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