The Shadow S2E9 - Blackball Murder!
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Who Knows... what evil, lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow Knows!
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Dan Jackson is a hot-tempered man around the Age of 26, he is an excellent racer with his yawl. His late wife, Helen wished that Dan could join the Bay Yacht Club. But sadly he was Blackballed by two other members. knowing this, he threatened to ruin those who blackballed him.
(Full of suppressed hatred) Dan Jackson!
Why was I blackballed? I live in the community! I own a yawl, and I know how to sail!
Then let them learn how to handle their boats... instead of spending their time at the club bar!
(Cuts in) And you put it there because I beat you out on that real-estate deal!(Coldly) Is she also a member of the club’s Ladies’ Committee, belatedly calling on my wife?
(Startled) The police! Why should they come here?
(Tensely) So Anders has been shooting off his mealy mouth!
(Bitterly) Back to the city. My life is finished here! My wife is dead . . . my business shot, because everyone knows I was blackballed by the club.(Groggy) I’m tired of listening. This is a trap!
(Enraged) So that’s why you killed him! . . . tried to frame me . . . (Gasps) you dirty . . . (Breaks off)
(Gasping) What did you put in . . . my drink? . . .
Miles Anders is the Secretary-treasurer of the Bay Yacht Club. He was threatened by Dan Jackson to reveal who blackballed him. Mr. ANderrs said that it was the new commodore and Maud Harper. But what Jackson didn't know is that Miles was going to frame him on mudering Wilson.
(Quickly, frightened) I didn’t blackball your application for membership.
Maybe you sail too well. Maybe some of the other members would like to win a race occasionally.
(Gasping) Let go of my throat! You’re choking me!
No! . . . (Gasps) I didn’t!It’s worse than that. (Fast) It was Dan Jackson, a real-estate man out here. His wife died last week . . . after he was blackballed. He claims the humiliation helped kill her
(Rushes on) Last night Jackson came aboard my boat. Threatened me! Demanded that I tell him the names of the members who blackballed him!
(Defensively) He got violent . . . grabbed me by the throat . . . threatened to hang me like we pretend to do in the initiation ceremony!(Fast) I had trouble with Wilson. I’ve used the building fund for the new clubhouse. As the new commodore, Wilson went over the books and found out!
I mixed you a Mickey, you fool . . . same as I did for Wilson after you left him this afternoon. I swam out and climbed aboard. Nobody saw me. Nobody will ever know.
(Mocking) No, Dan. I’m going to get you back to your (Effort of lifting) yawl . . . and in the morning they’ll find you hanging . . . a suicide of remorse. . . .
(Cries out with pain) My leg . . . broken! . . . I can’t get up! . . .
Maud Harper is a member of the Bay Yacht Club, she proposed that Dan jackson gets a memebrship to the club. Ms. Harper finds the Commodore hanging dead on the mainsail. She believes that he has committed suicide.
(Off mike, calls) Mr. Anders! (Comes on) Mr. Anders!
I – I went out to his sloop to borrow his spare outboard motor. . . .
(Breaks down) Yes! (Chokes) He – he was hanging from the mainsail rigging . . dead!Why did you call the police, Mr. Cranston? He must have committed suicide. He’s been having financial difficulties.
(Startled) But Commodore Wilson had no trouble with Dan Jackson. He liked Dan . . . even bought his new house through Dan. He wouldn’t . . .(Flares up) You’re a liar, Miles Anders! I proposed Dan Jackson for membership!
(Furious) You’re a vicious, gossiping old liar! Trying to get even with me because I won’t have anything to do with you!
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