Escape - Three Good Witnesses (national broadcast, different production)
Oct 10, 2026 · 34 min · 18 segments
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Oct 10, 2026 · 34 min · 18 segments
I took the Taurus Express that night because I was going home, back to the United States, back to California and my routine job at the oil company.
Two days before, I had given my final report to our State Department man in Istanbul, a negative report.
Then, Mr.
Ward, your considered opinion is that there is no oil in this area?
Not enough to be worth drilling for, not at this late date.
The war would be over before we could get out 10,000 barrels.
Yeah, you're being optimistic, Mr.
Ward.
War isn't over yet.
Who can say when it will be?
That's true, but, uh-
Uh, what does Arvax say?
He agrees with me completely.
We're all agreed.
Hmm, three good witnesses, huh? Well, then that settles it.
What do you mean, three good witnesses?
Oh, that's an old saying out here in the Middle East.
In their old law, the testimony of three independent and trustworthy witnesses was enough to establish the guilt or innocence of an accused person.
But, uh, why three?
Well, I suppose two witnesses to a crime might tell the same lie.
But if three fellas tell the same story, well, then it must be true.
Well, maybe.
I suppose the odds against three making up the same story would be high, but I don't know whether I'd like to trust my neck with that kind of justice.
I took the Taurus Express that night because I was going home, back to the United States, back to California and my routine job at the oil company.
Two days before, I had given my final report to our State Department man in Istanbul, a negative report.
Then, Mr.
Ward, your considered opinion is that there is no oil in this area?
Not enough to be worth drilling for, not at this late date.
The war would be over before we could get out 10,000 barrels.
Yeah, you're being optimistic, Mr.
Ward.
War isn't over yet.
Who can say when it will be?
That's true, but, uh-
Uh, what does Arvax say?
He agrees with me completely.
We're all agreed.
Hmm, three good witnesses, huh? Well, then that settles it.
What do you mean, three good witnesses?
Oh, that's an old saying out here in the Middle East.
In their old law, the testimony of three independent and trustworthy witnesses was enough to establish the guilt or innocence of an accused person.
But, uh, why three?
Well, I suppose two witnesses to a crime might tell the same lie.
But if three fellas tell the same story, well, then it must be true.
Well, maybe.
I suppose the odds against three making up the same story would be high, but I don't know whether I'd like to trust my neck with that kind of justice.
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