Chapter 1: Who is The Shadow and what powers does he possess?
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The shadow.
The shadow who aids the forces of law and order is in reality Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man about town. Years ago in the Orient, Cranston learned a strange and mysterious secret. The hypnotic power to cloud men's minds so they cannot see him. Cranston's friend and companion, the lovely Margot Lane, is the only person who knows to whom the voice of the invisible shadow belongs.
Today's drama, The Man Who Was Death. In a heavy concrete sub-cellar of a forgotten warehouse, two men in white lab jackets stand tensely watching a giant mass of laboratory machinery. There is the whine of electric power. The click of a stopwatch.
Chapter 2: What experiment leads to the explosion in the lab?
Nothing more. An experiment is beginning. Twenty-one. Twenty-two. Twenty-three. Twenty-four. Hasn't taken yet, Hendricks. No, sir. Double the power for ten seconds. Mr. Lash.
Chapter 3: What happens after the explosion and who is involved?
Well? We can't take the chance, sir. Why not? If we overload, there's a chance we blow up. I'll take it. But, Mr. Lash. This is my research, Hendricks. I know what I'm doing. You don't gamble without taking risks. Step it up.
Chapter 4: How does the Commissioner describe the situation with Roger Lash?
Yes, sir. One, two, three, four, five, six. Seven, eight... What have you got the power, you idiot? I told you ten seconds.
What are you trying to do? The action's started. Don't you hear it? Listen.
Heavens, yes.
Yes, you're right, Henry.
Chapter 5: What is the significance of the radioactive man in the story?
It's going too fast, sir. It won't stop. We've got to get out of here, Mr. Lash. There's going to be a blow-up. We've got to get out of here.
Six o'clock tonight, there was an explosion, Cranston. A dozen people phoned in. The Coleman checked and found a body in this place. No one ever knew there was a lab down here.
Secret laboratory?
Chapter 6: How does Lamont Cranston plan to locate the escaped man?
A man killed in an explosion? Why call me in, Commissioner West?
Well, in the first place, there were two men.
This one, unidentified, killed in the blast.
Second, also unidentified, crawled out. Left bloodstains on the stairs. Well... Why in blazes did he run away? What were they up to down here?
Well, don't you know?
You're the science expert.
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Chapter 7: What does the character Roger Lash reveal about his condition?
You tell me. They say an expert can reconstruct an experiment from a look at the apparatus. Go ahead.
All right. Let's see. High power condensers. Mm-hmm. Yes, those terminals go to... Now, that debris might be the remains of... Uh-oh. Turn off the lights, Commissioner. What for?
Chapter 8: What is the outcome of the confrontation between The Shadow and Roger Lash?
I want to see if we can see better in the dark. Are you crazy? No, I'm worried. Turn them off. Right. Well? Keep your eyes open and look. At what? Anything. Holy smoke, I'm seeing things. Sure? This whole place is flickering like a luminous diamond. Right, let's get out of here quick. Hey! Come on, Weston, do what I say. Now I'll tell you what they were doing in there.
Running a wildcat radium experiment. A radium experiment? Yes, a sort of super X-ray mechanism that can generate enormous quantities of radium energy. The experiment blew up. Saturated the lab with radioactivity. If we'd stayed in there any longer, we might have been fatally burned. No wonder it was secret. Commissioner, we've got to locate that man that got away. He's got to be found at once.
Why, they're right. Don't you understand? He was caught in the explosion. He's saturated with radioactivity. He'll poison everything and everybody he touches. He's walking dead. Are you kidding? I wish I were, Commissioner, but I'm not. We're in bad trouble, and we've got to find the medicine quick. Roger, what's happened? Give me a hand, George. Please. Please. Steady. Steady.
Come into the dispensary. Easy, easy. I'm hurt, George, pretty bad.
Took me an hour to drag myself to your office.
Now, don't say anything more. Sit right here. That's all right. Now, drink this. Thanks.
Oh, it's better. What happened to you? George, I'm a dead man. Unless you can help me. What? You know anything to cure radiation poisoning? I'm depending on you, George. I'm saturated with mesonic material. Mesonic material? 27 grams were blasted into me. I always had a secret, George. And I went too fast.
But now I'm a burning man. Dead. Roger.
What are you backing away for?
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