Episode 11

The Mutual Broadcasting System brings you another episode of Life in Hyperion.

Today's episode: "The Beginnings of a Legacy", Part 11

Last week, the new pinball machine meant for the WHYP green room disappeared and Cy, trying to build his own legacy, decides to go looking for it, with Conrad as his sidekick. On the way, he manages to solve another mystery. When we last left off, Cy and Conrad had returned to WHYP after following a lead, with no success...

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Just then, Barry walks into the room with Mr. Gold.
"There's your thief, right there." says Barry, pointing to Conrad.
"What crime are you accusing Conrad of, Barry?" asks Cy.
"He's the one who stole your pinball machine." says Barry.
"That's impossible." says Conrad.
"He did, and they've been using this stupid detective routine to throw us off his
trail." says Barry.
"Barry, I'd watch the fingers, if I were you." says Cy.
"Admit, Conrad, you stole it." says Barry.
"I did not steal that pinball machine." says Conrad.
"I hear you were a pinball champion. I guess you thought you would like to have
that machine all to yourself." says Barry.
"Barry, Conrad had no reason to steal that machine. Besides, how could he?" says
Cy.
"He could have broken in." says Barry.
"Let me get this straight. Conrad came and broke the front door down, came in, stole the machine, and left with fixing back up the door so no one would notice." says Cy.
"That's right." says Barry.
"Barry, your accusation is unfounded and dumb, just like you." says Cy.
Barry then retreats from the room.
"That Barry. Thinking I would steal the machine." says Conrad.
"Maybe he's not wrong." says Mr. Gold.
"I found no evidence connecting Conrad to the crime." says Cy.
"If you say so." says Mr. Gold.
"I think something happened to the machine as it was moved from the Shulmans'
home to the station." says Cy.
"What next?" asks Mr. Gold.
"I think we'll visit the police." says Cy.
As Cy and Conrad turn to the door, the jangle of the keys ring out from Cy's
pocket.
"What is that?" asks Phil.
"Oh, these? These are a set of keys I found at the Shulmans'." says Cy as he pulls
out the keys.
"That looks like the set of keys I loaned to Mr. Shulman, so his guys could place
the machine in the green room." says Mr. Gold.
"So, these keys open the door to the station?" says Cy.
"Of course they do." says Mr. Gold.
Cy then repockets the keys as Conrad writes down the information and both leave
the green room. Cy and Conrad walk their way back to the front of the station. Cy then
looks at the door. With careful hands, he unpockets the keys and places one in the front
door lock.
"It fits." notes Cy.
"So Mr. Gold was right." says Conrad.
"Now we figure out what happened to the pinball machine." says Cy.
"That can't be too hard." says Conrad.
"Let's think for a minute here, Conrad." says Cy.
"I guess it's our only course of action at this point." says Conrad.
"If Mr. Shulman gave one of the two moving men the set of keys and he lost them,
when would he notice it?" says Cy.
"I think maybe sometime during the trip over here." says Conrad.
"Think harder, when would he notice?" asks Cy.
"When he got here with the machine." says Conrad.
"Right, and he would have searched for the keys to open the door." says Cy.
"And he wouldn't have found them, having lost them." says Conrad.
"So, then what would he do?" asks Cy.
"Admit he lost to them." says Conrad.
"To whom?" asks Cy.
"To the other moving guy." says Conrad.
"And anyone else?" asks Cy.
"I don't know there." says Conrad.
"During this whole thing, we haven't heard a single word about the keys or the
moving men." says Cy.
"Those people would have been the first people contacted by Mr. Gold when he
saw the machine missing." says Conrad.
"And what do think they said to him?" asks Cy.
"That they delivered the machine to the station." says Conrad.
"Causing Mr. Gold to believe it was stolen." says Cy.
"But was it truly stolen?" asks Conrad.
"I don't think so." says Cy.
"So, when the moving men got here and couldn't find the keys." says Conrad.
"And with a large amount of money from Mr. Shulman they would receive upon
delivery of the machine." says Cy.
"They would have said that they done so and kept the machine with them." says
Conrad.
"So the pinball machine's still in the moving van down at the main offices of the
moving company, untouched." says Cy.
"Then that means that... " says Conrad.
"We have our answer." says Cy.
"Let us tell Mr. Gold." says Conrad.

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Tomorrow, Cy and Conrad relay their answer to Mr. Gold, Cy and Joanne begin their first date, and we finish the first serial of the program.

Join us, won't you?
Yours truly, John Maxwell.

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