The Shadow - The Ten Thousand Dollar Fish (Radio Recreation)
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Simon Hood, alson known as "Main-Line Hood" was charged for counterfeiting, assault with intent and narcotics. Now he has been trying to live a steady and ligit lift, until he discovered a picture of a Salmon worth Ten Thousand Dollar.
I'm in the back of the car. Don't turn around.
I told you. Don't turn around. I think maybe we're being followed. Don't let 'em see you're talking to me. Just look straight aheadI'm in a percentage jam, Mr. Cranston. That's why I been waitin' for you. You always tell a guy straight.
I been playin' it square the last year. Strickly ligit. Not doin' so good...Please, lady! Don't turn around....I just get a chance to pick up a big price of look, Mr. Cranston.If I cash it, they ask me ehy and I'm hung up. If I try to give it back, the guy that owns the picture cools me off. If I don't get rid of it, I get cooled anyway. See?
Are you comic? The tail is on. I just spotted the car behind us. I don't want to get Mr. Cranston into this jam. I need him! Slow down!
Drake, who appears as a Police Officer, is one of the men who is after the Ten Thousand Dollar Picture.
(Fading in) All right! All right! Hold it! Hold it! Stand back, mister.
Oh. Yeah. Sure, Mr. Cranston. I'm--Drake. Officer Drake.Must have been the car that passed me down the street.
What the devil are you two talking about? What is this?I'm right behind you, lady.
(Struggling) You little wild-cat...
Charles Farfey was living with Simon Hood at the time. He is then interrogated by the Shadow on the Murder of Simon Hood
Hood? I thought you--what the....?
(Yells) Get your hands off me..Whoever you are! Don't touch me!
The Shadow! I... I don't know you. I---This mornin' I went to sleep. he was goin' to work.
I got a night job. I was just leavin' for it.
So I was out. What about it? I bought cigarettes.You ain't making sense. We got no pictures in this dump. Coupla pin-ups we cut outa the papers. look at 'em
Bug-House Burns is known to be the Greatest salesman in the U.S.A. (As he believes) and is the man who wants that Ten Thousand dollar picture. *Do Not Sound like a Villian Until Last 3 Lines*
(Fading on. Hearty. High-Pressure) Good evening. Good evening, folks. Nice seein' you. Come about jobs, eh?
Not Kelly. Burns. Bug-House Burns, they call me. Kelly's just the name of this plant. I run it. All my men speak well of me. Been with me for years. Brought some of them the coast. You heard all about Bug-House Burns, of course. Greatest salesman in the U.S.A. Cars, radios, TV--
Bug-House Burns goes Bankrupt slashing prices for you. Famous slogan. Come into my office....That was a nice limousine you drove up in, young lady. Still in the used car business, you know. I'll buy it. Bug-House Burns pay cash. Name your price and hand over the keys...
Ten thous----Oh no. No. That little engraving? Couldn't have been worth a dollar. Must be some mistake. Who killed Hood?
You can search the whole plant if you like... Only trouble is, Hood didn't have a locker. He was office crew. He--(Chuckles) You're surrounded, Miss Lane. You're quite helpless. You can even scream if you like. These walls are three feet think. Sound proof.
Don't run, Miss Lane. There's no place to run to.
(Nervous) L-Listen, mister... I can't see you, but you can see me. You know me. Bug-House-Burns. Greatest salesman in the U.S.A... I'm offering a deal. take the ten thousand. No queston asked. You find it. You keep it. You forget you ever saw mw. Yes?
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