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Idaho 83715. But now, from July 25th, 1945, here is the Explosive Dog.

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Two weeks ago, Charles Pierce, a man in his early 30s,

a maculatively dressed, slight, with piercing eyes, stood in the hallway of a large gray stone

apartment building in Baltimore, with him was a young woman, Dora Lester.

I do not feel this is good, Charles. The biggest opportunity we ever had, Dora.

We have never met this man. No, all about him though. He is in command.

Your very strange nice stomach, a woman's intuition. That's enough.

We're paid well to take chances.

You do not think this is a trick? You have your guns? Always.

But I won't need it, Dora. It's a great honor to meet him.

There's us being arch-workers known all over the world. For two years, he was in command of August

Doppler, Athens, and Spain.

Yes, Mr. Burley.

Yes, we received your message to come here. When, day before yesterday, we were in Boston.

Come in.

Come over to the table.

Just a down, please.

Now, if you will establish your identity, now this is my lady friend, Dora Lester.

She worked with me under hot. About the moment.

Remove your hat, Dora.

Right. Yes, yes.

These pictures are very good likeness of you.

You've got a picture of me. When was it taken?

The important part is that it was taken for identification.

So you, you as the name Charles, appear. You wish them a identification, Mr. Burley?

I'm necessary. I was standing unobserved right at the desk of the hotel when you signed in last night.

I wanted to see your handwriting.

Well, no wonder, Mr. Burley, you're famous for your precautions.

And now on your tour, take orders from me.

Come along.

They are, clearly, outgoing.

To the eighth floor balcony, there are certain buildings.

It will be very surprised what you see.

A person could very easily fall to his death from this balcony.

Couldn't they, Mr. Burley?

Very easily, Dora.

Not Charles. He had a long little building over there.

The one sent it in with a boyboy.

That building is the United States government laboratory.

Cover these two acres and the guards who are patrolling there at the moment.

They're like doors of fire door.

About 12 guards there.

Mike and Bay.

There's a beam of an electric eye which goes all around the building.

Automatic protective devices of every description.

So they protect and go into something even more valuable.

Bugs.

Bugs?

Yes, foolish.

No.

They have bugs in their worth as much as $5,000 each.

I hate bugs.

I couldn't hate any bug worth $5,000.

What is the mystery of Mr. Burley?

One of the greatest allies of the Japanese.

Disease caused by and younger by.

Disease Americans have never experienced.

Well, the United States government has had hundreds of specialists capturing these

odd bugs in the Pacific.

These bugs are brought to this country and placed in that building.

Each species, especially heated rooms, tropical conditions,

their own special food.

They're bred there, millions of them.

You mean they keep all of the bugs there?

So the United States can experiment on them

to develop poison sprays to kill each different kind.

Exactly.

New poisonous sprays cannot be developed to kill these bugs

if they were not thousands of those different species to experiment on.

The breeding of some of these bugs is a very complicated process.

For instance, Mr. Burley.

The United States Marines land on an island.

Yes, and possibly in 24 hours a certain percentage of the marine

invaders will be suffering from sickness caused by some kind of a bite from these little non-bugs.

Each island, each jungle has hundreds of different kinds.

Mr. Burley's Marines do know about the bugs before they land.

What can they do about it?

If a certain poisonous spray has been developed,

the effect of against the spread of bugs may not even encounter.

American planes fly over the island.

Thousands of gallons of a spray.

Spray the jungles.

Many of the bungles were destroyed.

Now, wonder those bugs in that other car are valuable?

But the way that laboratory is guided, it would be impossible to get near it or destroy the bugs.

And possible for anyone but little.

Is that building just at the end of the laboratory?

Yeah, that is a scientific library.

And it is open to medical students who wish to do research there on insecticide.

Is it guided, certainly?

The God at the door, such as everyone in the enteral leaves.

The God's name is Connor.

Evening when he's off duty, Connor's often drinks beer down the street over the threshold of the storm.

Yeah, you're the meat him.

Find out what his hobbies are.

What are you?

What are you like?

Then report to me about telephone.

Hello?

Mr. Burley.

Yeah?

That gentleman, you asked me to meet.

Yeah?

I've become quite friendly with him.

His hobby is dogs.

Dogs?

Yes, he talks about them by the hour.

Oh, very interesting.

What shall I do?

Come to my apartment 11-9.

When you visit the scientists at the library again tomorrow,

I will have had something planned.

Hello, Connor's.

Hi, Charlie.

Well, a little bit of all the times you've come to library here.

You didn't tell me you wanted a dog.

How do you like him?

Come here, boy.

Tell me.

Hey, that's a piece of a dog.

Don't just shape it here.

Boy, let's see him off.

You like dogs so much, Connor.

You're so amazing idea.

Well, I bought this one.

About two years old, huh?

Now you've got something.

Yeah, and he's highly trained.

I don't want to lose out of my reading at the library here,

so can I take him in with me and tie him to the leg of a chair?

Well, I don't know if I should let you,

but hey, that dog's almost human, ain't he?

How about it?

Okay, take him in with you.

Hey, Charlie.

Wait a minute.

Yes?

I got to set you, you know.

It still has two.

There's no one me so well.

There's library sections right next to the scientific laboratory, you know.

I wouldn't let my own mother in without searching her.

Okay.

I'm sorry.

Can I run?

Okay.

Yes, you're a third of guard, Connor.

I got two kids in the Pacific.

You bet I'm thorough.

Okay, Charlie.

If you keep him quiet, you can take him in.

You know, Dora, this dog doesn't like Mr. Burley's apartment here.

I can see from the way he looks, Charlie.

Not Charles.

Yes, sir.

For three weeks now, you've been taking this dog into the library next to the laboratory.

You sure the god likes the dog?

Connor?

Crazy about him.

That I'm a potassium I gave to the dog.

Really, you made him look good in six.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Nose was hot and dry.

Is the size glassy?

And you did not bring the dog a pound sickness with the attention of Connor.

Oh, no, no, no.

I was just going into the scientific library with a dog when he looked at him and he said there,

your dog, sick, Charlie.

Give him so far fires off.

And if I was you, I'd put a blanket on him for a couple of days, keep him bundled up.

Perfect.

So the god himself suggested the blanks.

Here it did.

Wonderful.

Yeah, easy boy, easy, come here.

It's our big moment, Charlie.

A climax.

Now, that's pantaline?

pantaline.

What's that?

It's an explosive, more powerful than TNT.

Explosive?

That's right.

Now that little time watch.

That'll set it off.

You, you will sow the explosives and the time watch right into the underside of the dog's blanket.

Where are you?

You were walking to the library with a sick dog that the god Connor's has got a weakness for.

You'll search you.

But with his type of mind, you'll never think to see you under the dog's heavy blanket.

Because he himself suggested the blanks.

Yeah, yeah.

But what about me?

Your type of dog to a leg of a chair in the library.

The time watch will set the charge off at exactly 11.

At five minutes of 11.

Make an excuse.

Walk out, just appear.

That's a dream to such a thing.

Well, below the library and the library with all its expensive bung off the face of the earth.

We'll take a year to collect and bring you one.

It seems like the dog knows what's going on.

The more morning, Charles, take the dog and attach the cat.

Drive right to the laboratory.

Don't have enough explosives left to run and to blow a city out of kingdom.

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Driver, pull up right in front of the scientific library.

Right next to the laboratories, eh?

Okay, buddy.

What's the matter with your dog?

Got the tip?

That's feeling good.

I was wondering why you had a blanket on him and this had weather.

55, Mr.

Let me get my dog out first.

Come on, boy, get out.

Get out.

He seems to like sane and macabre, but get out.

Come on, come on, come on.

Hey, I guess he sees the big dog the woman's got over there.

Got the change for Dala?

Sure.

Get the big police dog over there.

Don't like your dog.

Stop it, stop it.

Hey, there's that woman's having trouble holding her dog.

Hey, hold on to your dog.

Got something you're over here?

I'm not holding this.

It's from the bananas.

Gonna be some action.

Hey, hold on to that dog.

Quiet, come here, come here.

You're too late, Mr.

Are you gonna hold that dog?

It's just all the way.

I'm trying to...

Come on, boy, come here.

He's locked it.

Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.

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Emergency, calling all cars proceed immediately to

street in front of Baltimore experimental laboratories.

There has been a big explosion on sidewalk,

blowing taxi cab and two or more persons to pieces.

Emergency.

Harding speaking, all roving Washington counters by

investigators lead for Baltimore immediately.

Emergency.

Explosion in front of government laboratories.

Everton, I want you to leave for Baltimore with me at one.

This is the craziest case I ever heard of, Mr. Harding.

Why would anybody want to blow up the street in front of the

government experimental laboratory?

You think it was an attempt to blow up the laboratory and it went wrong?

Definitely.

The God and the research laboratory saw it happen.

And the explosion resulted from a dog fight,

a dog fight, the most fantastic thing.

We're up against a very unusual mind, Everton.

Anything left from the explosion to examine?

Nothing.

The man who had one of the dogs, the woman who had the other dog,

the taxi cab, the taxi cab driver.

All were blown to bits with a terrific explosion.

Soon as we reach Baltimore, we'll set up a thorough investigation.

Baltimore Field Office Harding's fee.

We located the canals, Mr. Harding, where the dog was bought.

The man came in, bought the dog without leaving his name or address.

What are our agents reports from the scene of the explosion?

Another thing.

It must have been a terrific explosion.

What about the man who drove the taxi?

He's a discharged veteran, good American.

Huh?

Everton is one of the most uniquely conceived plots.

Just isn't he starting point?

Let me think about it.

We've got to find the starting point.

These agents will make another attempt to destroy that laboratory.

What are your orders, sir?

Enemy agents had a dog.

They now don't have a dog.

Good start a house to house canvas.

I'll have to take his months.

Come back to the field over there.

I've got an idea.

We'll work out of here.

I'm feeling very nervous, Mr. Lily.

Can't relieve this apartment and go someplace.

What time is it, Nora?

Almost midnight.

All right.

The body.

In...

Funny not having Charlie around.

Don't mention that poor...

Bungled my old plan.

Have the newspaper said anything about the explosion?

Just one little item.

The government must have clamped down a censor.

You're trying to try some other way to destroy the laboratory?

Of course.

But this time I'll do it myself.

Oh.

You're...

You're on that prittin' door.

I like you, too.

Who's that?

You don't suppose Charlie really wasn't you?

Oh, strange.

This time of nine.

I'm frightened.

Stop it.

I didn't leave one possible clue.

Yes?

Are you Mr. Bradley, who lives here?

Yes.

I'm David Harding of the United States Counter Spy.

There's one of my agents, Mr. Everett.

Here we come in, Mr. Barry.

Oh, yes, yes, come in.

There's Mr. O'Lefter, friend of mine.

How do you do, Mr. O'Lefter?

There's Mr. Everett.

How do you do?

Mr. Lester.

May I ask why you're off-cord with the Harding?

Well, three days ago, Mr. Burley, there was a dog

which caused an explosion in front of the Baltimore Scientific Laboratory.

Why, that's clean.

Yes.

Very strange, Mr. Burley.

In fact, peculiar.

These are government orders.

Neither one of you is to move.

Just a minute.

Just a minute, a whole minute at all.

I'm pressing you.

No gun.

Everett, check, Mr. Lester.

No gun, either.

Mr. Harding, your attitude is uncalled for.

Mr. Burley, my men have been covering Baltimore.

Restaurants, meat market, pet shops, formulas, everything.

Well, we found a restaurant right across the street

where a man had been buying food for a dog every day.

He hasn't bought any such food for the last three days.

I suppose you're referring to me.

Yes.

Well, what am I supposed to say?

You're supposed to do some pretty tall explaining.

How is your dog, Mr. Burley?

He uh, died.

All?

He didn't die by being blown to bits, did he, Mr. Burley?

No.

My dog died a natural death.

I'll see.

Well, when a dog does die a natural death, of course, there's always the body.

Isn't it?

Why, uh, yeah?

Where is your dog's body, Mr. Burley?

Well, I was very attached to him.

I took him in, buried him in the comfort.

Suppose you show us where.

At this time of the night, yeah.

All right.

Must I drive up to?

I am afraid, Miss Lester.

You must.

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Would you like me to help your angels in the digging, Mr. Harding?

They're doing all right, thank you, Mr. Burley.

I'll just switch to the beam of the search light, Everett.

I feel like I'm worth a drink.

Keep still, don't.

You evidently don't believe me about bearing my dog here, Mr. Harding.

I am afraid I don't, Mr. Burley.

Look, Mr. Harding.

There is something down there.

What?

Ever dig a little more right there?

Right.

You have to beat that.

What do you think, Chief?

Let me focus on the flashlight.

Mr. Burley, I apologize.

Wow.

Let's forget him.

I thought your whole story of burying your dog here was preposterous.

Well, I've had a dog for quite a while.

Three days ago, he got taken with cramps.

Died in the morning.

I'm going to have a drink.

I'm going to have a drink.

Mr. Burley, I apologize.

Before I could get a doctor.

I have had so badly, I brought him here and started him in the field.

Mr. Lester, we owe you an apology also.

I'm so nervous and upset, frighten me so the way you came into the apartment.

We do make mistakes sometimes.

This is one.

Well, we'll just have to start from the beginning again.

That's for another clue.

I'll arrange immediately, Mr. Burley,

for one of my agents to drive you and Miss Lester back to your apartment.

It seems so good to be back in the apartment again.

Poor driver running out of gas.

All over being upset from your experience tonight, Doris.

Yes, Mr. Burley, I guess so.

Everyone makes mistakes, you know.

No matter what.

We'd be like calming men.

We'd be like calming men.

We'd be like calming men.

We'd be like calming men.

We'd be like calming men.

We'd be like calming men.

I don't see how you ever found in that darkness where you buried that dog.

Oh, that was simple.

That was a dirty trick you pulled on me, Burley.

I'm not in the habit of telling everyone everything.

You could have told me that you killed another dog and buried him out there.

What do you think I felt all that time when you were claiming you didn't?

I think as soon as we got out there there wouldn't be any dogs graven with the cut.

You might as well run to trust my judgment.

I'll go into your room and get cleaned up.

I'll go out to a restaurant and get telling me to eat.

I'll just tell me everything he was doing.

And Charles, put my whole plan and got himself blown to pieces.

Just the same we had fun together.

Get your hands up, Father.

What's the meaning of this?

Put your hands up. These cups are going on you.

Wait a minute, wait a minute. I can explain.

You've already done your explaining, Burley.

I hope you wouldn't suspect anything when my agents pretended to run out of gas

while bringing you two back to the apartment.

It gave me time to go to the police station and see if anyone during the past three days had lost a black shepherd dog.

With a tooth missing from the lower right jaw.

What is that, Poole?

It proves that when your other dog was blown to pieces you didn't dare go to the kennels and buy another.

So you looked until you could steal one.

You killed him and buried him out there just in case there was some slip when you were approached.

Will I be put in prison if I tell everything I know?

Shut up you fool.

What I'd like to do to you, Burley, is throw you to a whole panel of dogs.

They give you what you deserve.

But instead you're going to go to the electric chair.

And a lot of men will be coming home from a Pacific who wouldn't be if your fiendish planet worked.

Burley consider yourself under arrest by the United States government.

For espionage and murder.

And now here is Mr. Harding to tell you about next week's case.

I have before me a report of a German mine sweeper which had just sailed into an Atlantic port and given itself up.

I have here a report of a suspect living at an expensive exclusive summer hotel overlooking that same port.

This girl has recently fallen in love.

And here's a report of a body just found in the same harbor.

All these things don't happen like that unless they're carefully planned.

This case is an emergency.

We're leaving to investigate it immediately.

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Welcome back, I definitely sympathize with David Harding's instinct for what he would do

with our perpetrator for up to him, but obviously justice and the rule of law must prevail.

Now in terms of the overall scheme, there is an element of reality to the real world

in that bugs and these sort of insects were a real challenge to US forces going overseas.

And again, this also has the same thought process that we would be looking at a full-scale invasion of Japan.

Of course, in real life, the plan would be far less impactful as there wouldn't be just one big laboratory in Baltimore

that an enemy agent could hit and wipe out the US research efforts.

Even then, this sort of research was conducted across multiple facilities,

but of course the riders knew nothing about this and as such they could set the stakes however they wanted.

Of course, our villain had a brilliant plan, but it was a kind of dumb brilliant plan.

Now of course, he blamed the failure of the plan on the henchmen.

Since no one survived, nobody could tell him what went wrong with the plan.

So, super villain response, it must be the henchmen.

It was a perfect plan, it was a wonderful plan.

Of course, it was a plan that actually depended on everything going perfectly.

And of course, the big one that fails here is the dog.

Or more the fact that the dog was not trained for this.

Now, this sort of thing of attaching explosives to a dog and having them deliver it was done in wartime,

but it requires extensive conditioning.

And from what we gathered, this dog was trained on basic obedience,

so he could kind of sit there and be calm and relaxed while you're reading information in a library.

Not trying to carry explosives, and the dog was probably upset.

Now the henchmen said that he thought the dog knew what they were going to do,

but probably the dog was picking up on the henchmen's anxiety because this was very much out of the blue.

Now I explained the henchmen's not emotionally prepared for it.

And I think that one thing with this guy is that he makes himself,

so he knows things that nobody else knows.

And he thinks that makes him smarter when he is refusal to share information

and to be mysterious is just a way of masking the weakness of his plans,

which leads to their ultimate down.

Now I will say there was one thing that was brilliant,

and that was the aspect of social engineering in this episode.

And this is used to this day.

I was a listener to a podcast that actually sponsored our podcast.

Back in I think 2017, the malicious law podcast,

which stopped production about a year ago.

But it was about a cyber security podcast,

and it was all about how attackers would manipulate people into unwittingly overcoming the security measures they had in place,

rather than planning a direct attack.

And of course, you could have made all sorts of plans for a direct attack

about how you were going to go in with a lot of people and bombs or some sort of aerial bomb delivery,

but they didn't need to do that.

The plan's strength was through manipulating the guard and getting him to be their unwitting accomplice.

And there's so many examples of this in modern security,

and this is just a very good illustration of how that works.

And malicious life had a lot of episodes that dealt with these sort of social engineering efforts.

Now this episode was very criminal slash villain focus,

which quite a few of the Phillips Lord productions tended to do,

which is why we've not really played any of his series other than Treasury agent on great detectors.

But this illustrated that just because the villain takes up the majority of the airtime,

it doesn't mean the hero can't shine through.

And I think that David Harding made really good use of his time in the episode,

and did it host what had really happened with the dog and the grave.

Well, listen or comments and feedback now on Spotify, Doctor Who Donut,

comments regarding the episode, the case of the illegal radio station.

Lady Ashton, I need someone fairly young, sophisticated and beautiful.

Who did you have in mind?

Not poor, holding unattractive lady Ashton, aha.

I don't think she was expecting it.

And I think she was at the very least in touch with the fact that she was not young

and also going to be too prominent to do any work on behalf of Counter Spy.

But good thought.

And then over on Facebook, a comment regarding the episode industrial spy ring from West

is for those who watched the early years of As the World turns,

Dom McLaughlin played Chris Hughes, the father, later grandfather,

patriarch of the Hughes family with his wife Nancy and Dr. Son Bob.

Here he stars as David Harding.

Now I did talk about McLaughlin's career in a previous episode,

but I appreciate the call out because I'm not particularly attuned to the old selves.

So I appreciate an Anzada Geth.

Speaking of Anzada, we go over to YouTube where saysoft has a comment regarding the episode,

the case of the gasoline barge.

I had a mind-joyed your after-show commentary which brought up some interesting points,

but the show itself has a major flaw that destroys the whole premise of the show.

It's that submarines don't run on gasoline.

I mean, a very few gasoline-powered subs were built in the late 19th and early 20th century.

But then someone figured out that gasoline was way too dangerous to use for submarines.

It's partly because gasoline is too explosive.

And partly because burning gasoline produces carbon monoxide that could affix the crew.

So in the interest of safety, everyone soon began building submarines that ran on diesel fuel.

Now I know that gasoline was rationed during World War II, but I don't know if diesel fuel was rationed.

My guess is that either the riders of the show decided to pit gasoline-powered subs

in order to make the counterfeit coupon scenario work,

or that the riders were just clueless about how submarines works.

By the way, I'm an ex-submariner, so I do have some experience with all this.

Well, I appreciate your insight and experience.

And you are absolutely right when I looked into it that, yes, submarines were all pretty much running on diesel.

Is it possible the riders didn't know this? Sure.

But it's also possible, and maybe even probable that the riders knew that diesel was used,

but opted to go with gasoline, not to make the plot work from a technical standpoint.

Because the hope, because diesel was rationed,

it would just have been having to counterfeit something else.

But the use of gasoline is probably to make it more relatable to the listeners.

Because even if you weren't a driver, you were familiar about how gasoline rationing was in place,

and how it was changing everyday life.

The regime for the rationing of diesel on the other hand was a lot more opaque and obscure to the average American.

So using gasoline just makes it simpler and easier to communicate the story to the average listener.

Otherwise, you're having to explain the regime a bit.

And you've got a limited amount of time and you're spending some of it explaining something to the audience.

They don't really need to know, and we'll never think again about it again after the episode.

But I don't appreciate the insight. Thanks so much for the comment, as always, say soft.

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And I want to thank Chris, Patreon supporter since February 2019, currently supporting the podcast.

At the secret agent level, $4 or more per month.

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