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{06} -3-
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{08} (JILL RESUMES DIGGING IN THE BACKYARD)
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{10} CUT TO:
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{12} (THE PROFESSOR'S LABORATORY WHERE THE
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{14} DETECTIVE IS INTERROGATING THE PROFESSOR)
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{16} DETECTIVE:
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{18} I'd believe one. Maybe two.
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{20} I don't believe four healthy
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{22} young men with steady jobs just
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{24} disappear from a small town
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{26} all in the same month.
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{28} PROFESSOR:
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{30} No?
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{32} (PUSHING HIS GLASSES UP ON HIS NOSE)
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{34} And what is more likely than
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{36} a healthy young man would be
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{38} bored with small-town life
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{40} and take off for the city?
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{42} It is just a coincidence that
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{44} wanderlust struck them all at
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{46} once.
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{48} SOUND: THE TELEPHONE BEGINS RINGING
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{50} (THE PROFESSOR REACHES FOR THE PHONE. THE
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{52} DETECTIVE STAYS THE PROFESSOR'S HAND)
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{54} DETECTIVE:
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{56} I don't believe in coincidences.
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{58} (THE DETECTIVE RELEASES THE PROFESSOR'S HAND)
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