 tired of the everyday grind ever dream of a life of romantic adventure want to get away from it all we offer you escape escape transcribe do free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure you are traveling east on across country bus while among your fellow passengers seemingly innocent and friendly are a man and a woman who plan to destroy you and 150 million of your countrymen listen now as escape brings you Anthony Ellis's exciting story classified secret nice day yes kid sure not spring look at him I've been watching them yeah kind of glad though I haven't got any oh well you know world conditions things the way they are who wants to bring a kid into it I suppose so do you have a match sure here you are thanks have you got it what's the matter you don't look the type I almost hoped you weren't have you got it with me no but I'll take you to where it is all right the monies in tens 20s and 50s in the sack with the groceries mm-hmm I thought it'd be safer that way I guess so how much ten thousand ten that's what you agreed to I said 20 I was told ten they made a mistake then didn't they sorry what are you trying to do nothing not a thing I was told you were with us I am but I get paid for it too don't you I can't sit here any longer we might be watched will you please give sorry it was a misunderstanding but unless you want to take me to the head man maybe he can straighten it out I haven't any instructions for that where can I reach you as of about two hours and now you can't I'm leaving time will you give us 24 hours it'll take that I'm sorry if you can't pay what I want there's somebody else who will I'm going so long I was sitting on a bench in a little park in north Hollywood California the early spring Sun was warm and there was a smell of fresh cut grass I watched the woman I'd never seen before walk off down the path she was headed for the avenue and some cars parked beyond the trees I thought how nice it would have been if she were just a woman in the park and nothing else I waited until she was out of sight and I got up and walked away in the opposite direction I got the bus at the Hollywood station I had a train ticket in my pocket but with the new development it looked safer to ride the bus just before we pulled out a girl climbed aboard and came down the aisle looking for a seat excuse me is this number 18 oh thank you here let me put your case up thank you I was afraid I was gonna miss it yeah I know how it is I settled back watched the city drift away into desert country as the buses go it was pretty quiet there was a four or five year old kid with his mother a couple of seats forward but he dozed off almost as soon as he got running I took a look at the girl sitting next to me not not in the way you might think but because in my business you get to learn to look at people you never know who it might be she must have felt me watching she lowered the magazine she was reading would you care to look at one of these well that's nice of you I I always forget to buy them this one's a mystery I don't usually read them but on a long trip they kind of passed the time away yeah they do how far are you going New York that's a long trip all right now I'll say I haven't been back for 10 years but it's changed yeah I guess so I read the mystery well into Arizona when I finished it was beginning to get dark the kid up ahead was awake and hungry there was a feeling of expectation on the bus as we drove into the first night of travel did you enjoy it hmm oh yes it was fine thanks a lot what was it about spies real exciting I like spy movies sometimes I think they do so many of them you read about it in the papers all the time I don't know I think people would get sick of it yeah I guess you're right they're exciting like you say I bet it isn't really like that I doubt it same my name's Charlie Charlie Raider oh how you do I'm Julie Spaulding hot that kid sounds as hungry as I am yeah we ought to be stopping soon I hope so about 15 minutes later we pulled up at a restaurant terminal and went in for food I watched for any new passengers who might be getting on I didn't see anybody and as soon as I finished my sandwich and coffee I sent a telegram to New York and then got back on the bus the girl Julie and I seem to be hitting it off and it was pleasant enough to pass the time after we got rolling the kid up ahead decided to sing himself to sleep it was like a crooning over and over again the same song the same few notes I guess it put everybody else to sleep except him makes you sleepy doesn't it yeah reminds me of when I was a kid I used to do that kids are funny how well I don't know I'm going back New York for my sister's wedding she's getting married next week she says she wants lots of kids yeah I know what you mean mind if I ask you something no I don't mind what are you married no I don't mean it the way it sounds I'm always interested in trying to guess about people now I would have figured you were married man with maybe two or three kids no I'm not married no I hope you don't think I'm nosy no well that kid singing fixed me I'm gonna take a nap good night Charlie good night I must have dropped off too when I woke up she had her head on my shoulder a lock of her hair was falling over her closed eyes and then I knew something was different on the bus somebody on the other side of the aisle watching excuse me mister you got a match I'm clean out sure just a minute here you are thanks don't keep them oh thanks a lot say you've got any idea where we are I'm not sure I got on at Flagstaff an hour or so back boy I envy her wish I could sleep like that your wife no oh say that's rude hmm taking your matches and not offering you a cigarette oh that's okay no I don't want nothing say I want to tell you something hmm there's a lady in the seat behind you I think you've met her before in the park right mm-hmm we brought her with us to identify you but she gave us a pretty good description back in LA good for her yeah this is going to be a nice trip nothing like traveling with people you know is there nothing like it I don't suppose you've got any reading material you could let me look at how about a mystery it's a spy story pretty good no I was thinking of something else I think you know something more scientific I'm very interested in airplanes jet motors sorry he looked across at me smiling pleasant and anybody watching it was nothing more than the casual conversation of two strangers brought together by the night and sympathy of loneliness then he leaned back and reaching inside his jacket brought out a small automatic which he kept very carefully hidden from any eyes but mine always carry this with me on a trip you never know I knew all right if they couldn't buy what they wanted there were other ways that's what he was telling me and I saw in the man's smiling face that I'd never reach New York unless I killed them before they killed me we will return to escape in just a moment but first the program that follows tonight's story of escape is a special repeat broadcast of CBS radio's hard-hitting drama bomb target USA with Arthur Godfrey is narrator and a core of crack CBS radio newsman reporting from spotter locations and from so-called enemy bombing squadrons approaching our shores bomb target USA reports factually and without fanfare exactly what America can expect today if enemy atomic bombers raided our major cities immediately following escape tonight on most of the same CBS radio stations keep tuned for bomb target USA and now back to escape Julie and I had breakfast somewhere in New Mexico the woman from the park and the man who carried the small automatic set in a booth while we ate at the counter I'd thought about things most of the night and I decided to tell the girl not too much but enough so that she might be able to help and I knew I'd need some help coffee's pretty good here yeah cigarette no thanks Julie yes I want to tell you something oh I don't want you to turn around and look pretend we're talking about the weather coffee or anything but listen well sure Charlie there's a couple sitting in the booth behind us their spies I can't tell you much but as you love your life you'll believe me you're kidding don't turn around smile just listen but I trying to get hold of the plans for a new jet motor it's faster than anything anybody else has got you are kidding no I'm not how do you know how do you know about it I'm working for the government FBI in a way now I need you to help me me they think I've got the blueprints the plans and they're gonna try and get them from me but can't we get the police no why because we're trying to get the head man and of those two arrested we'll have to start all over again they think I'm working with them but I got tough about the money they offered so now they're going to try and get rid of me and get the secret for nothing did they follow you from Los Angeles yes they got on during the night in Flagstaff I don't see well just stick with me I'll explain it the next stop we can't talk about it on the bus because she's sitting right behind and he's across the aisle listen are you pulling my no no you're not are you I'm not on through New Mexico and the pink rock and the desert we talked a lot of nonsense after a while I could see she was getting back to the idea that I'd been kidding especially after the man with the gun introduced himself as mr. Hutchinson and started to talk about fishing it was about a half hour before our lunch stop and you take some of that northern California country talk about trout steelhead I tell you my sister and me takes up to a place in Maine that always wanted a couple of boys I guess but when he saw what he got he figured it wouldn't spoil his plans anyway we took his fishing every summer should have seen the fishing up there I'd like to someday I'd like that how about you mr. Radar you like fishing no not much did you ever try it a little when I was a kid you ought to take it up again if you have time yes I might do that yeah if a man had a little money put away he could do a lot of fishing that's the way to live have about ten thousand dollars go all over the country fishing no work no worries how does that sound miss oh what a life it'd take more than ten thousand I don't know tens better than nothing ten thousand dollars why they went on talking I did some thinking you were smarter than I thought looked like a nice average guy and behaved like one that's one thing I'd learn the more ordinary you can be the less you're going to be suspected and these people had it down to a science it wasn't going to be easy because I was gonna have to convince Julie all over again I could see that my chance didn't come until that evening after our dinner stop by that time the woman in the park who went with the name of Lisa Nyland Hutchinson the girl and myself all four of us were buddies we'd pulled up over the Colorado border there was some kind of trouble up ahead a slide or a wreck and the driver told us we'd have a half hour or so before we went on you want to take a walk for a while there's a cafe a couple hundred yards back I'll give you a call when we're ready to move on kind of nice to have an extra leg stretch how about some coffee Charlie oh I don't know I'd like to have a look at the valley down there we might walk up the dirt road away get a pretty good view sunset and all romantic sure why not Charlie okay with you Lisa you feel romantic want to see a valley in the sunset okay let's go we walked away from the bus and up a narrow ranch road about a hundred yards up there was a curve and around to the stand of trees when we got there you couldn't hear the sound from the highway any longer it is peaceful and and it was very pretty I knew that Hutchinson was delighted about the suggestion it was going to give him his chance but he made the mistake of playing it a little too clever and he kept his game of small talk going a minute too long we'd got to the top of a cliff overlooking the valley when I stumbled on a rock and fell a few steps behind before they had a chance to stop and when they did I already had my gun out what are you going to do target practice no Julie get over here you to stay where you are and keep your hands behind your head Charlie Charlie are you sure they they seem I know what they seem now look I don't want to do this but it's you or me you should have made the right deal in the first place I can't let you go you know that we might still make a deal you had your chance we've got the 10,000 how about how about waiting till we get to the next town we'll have the rest of it telegram I make mistakes but not that kind if you're told us what you wanted we might have been able to get the 20,000 for in Los Angeles turn around both of you I know wait a minute we're all in this together we all want the same thing you figure you can get more money from the head man in the east okay okay give us a chance to get it for you we're in contact turn around he gives us our orders what difference does it make look you shoot us what do you think they'll do they won't let you get away with it they'll kill you Charlie you can't just shoot them turn them over to the police you can't just shoot the he can't tell the police Julie he's with us only he wants money out of it and he thinks I'll get more from the head man in the turn around I'm not going to say it again Charlie don't I know you've got a duty but you can arrest them please you can tell you to be quiet arrest listen Raider you're not gonna get you're not gonna kill us over 10,000 why it's murder even if you miss Nylon dropped without a sound Hutchinson held his middle for a second and tried to keep his balance I shot him in the back of the head I knew he was dead before his body slipped to the ground the girl just stood next to me her hands tightly covering her mouth and she was shivering I took a look across the wide valley the sky was turning purple I've never seen anybody killed before I'm sorry couldn't you couldn't you arrest them or something couldn't you did you have to I had to they wouldn't have stopped at killing both of us if they'd had the chance what are you going to do what are you going to do now I've got to get the money for evidence what are you gonna tell the driver you'll ask where they are Charlie driver's gonna wonder where they are Charlie what are you doing I've got to put them over the cliff I've got to oh you can't Charlie no we got back to the bus neither of us said anything about the two we'd walked off with I guess nobody had seen this together and after waiting around for another half hour the driver gave up well I'll drop their baggage in London better notify the police to screw you all right okay folks sorry for the delay you better go back to your seat sure I was starved when he pulled into the depot La Hanta I'd already made up my mind to lay over and take a detour on another bus the girl wasn't going to be able to keep quiet much longer and I had to get rid of her we got out of the bus and the two men were standing alongside waiting just a minute please hmm we're special agents for the FBI search and Larry just a gun and money where are the other two the other two that dad he killed them oh we'll take those plans now mr. Rader and don't do anything silly there are four men covering you okay it's in my shoe you want me to take it off now please here thank you mr. Rader this isn't worth anything really you know we planted in the factory in LA for someone to steal what we wanted was to be led to the top man on New York and when you sent that wire to him back in Arizona we got him oh we were worried about you Julie when you didn't call us from Albuquerque I didn't get a chance he was with me all the time is she is she are you playing spy too Julie I'm working for the government mr. Rader she's been following you since you stole the plans you fooled me I bet you fooled Hutchinson in Nile and to it won't matter to them now will it that's the way it goes take him away will you I had to watch him murder those two I don't want to hear him laugh about it come on Rader we've got a car winning sure so long Julie nice to have met you escape has brought you classified secret written and directed by Anthony Ellis starring parley bear featured in the cast with Charlotte Lawrence Peter Leeds Miriam Crucian Tim Graham Leroy Leonard and Georgia Ellis the special music for escape is composed and conducted by Leith Stevens next week we're in a cantina in Mexico listening to a man speak his hate for you and word and music while somewhere in jeopardy without your knowledge and beyond your reach is the one you love who may lose her life for the man who sits across the table hating you is the only one who can save her so listen next week when escape brings you E. 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