Sam Spade
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The Magnificent Montague next, then it's Duffy's Tavern on NBC.
This is mad scientific detective number 137596.
Well, thanks, Effie, and that ain't all, Effie.
I was actually mistaken for a convolutional melancholiac.
Wrong diagnosis, Angel.
It turned out to be melancholia catatonicus.
Well, it's a thing where you lie motionless and silent with fixed eyes and indifference to surroundings.
No, Effie, I am now at large.
Pull down the blinds, check the corridors for men in little white coats, and set a bottle in the window if the coast is clear.
Why is it so dark in here?
The heat's off, Effie.
Let there be light.
Don't look at me like that and stop whispering.
It's no joke, sweetheart.
You really sick?
Yeah, just sick of some of the types I made in this business.
Uh, date, uh, July 25, 1948, to Detective Lieutenant Dundee, homicide detail, San Francisco Police, from Samuel Spade, license number 137596, subject, the mad scientist caper.