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** The last scene includes Powell's FirstKiss with Barbara.

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** The last scene includes Powell's FirstKiss with Barbara.Barbara.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: The state-of-the-art prosecution computer is a room-sized mainframe that takes its input on punched paper tape.
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* AccidentallyAccurate: The book mentions in passing that [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Station_(New_York_City) Penn Station]] was 'destroyed for reasons lost in the confusion of the late [=XXth=] Century'. Ten years after the book was published, the station was indeed destroyed despite widespread protests.

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* AccidentallyAccurate: AccidentallyCorrectWriting: The book mentions in passing that [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Station_(New_York_City) Penn Station]] was 'destroyed for reasons lost in the confusion of the late [=XXth=] Century'. Ten years after the book was published, the station was indeed destroyed despite widespread protests.
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** T8 [Tate] attempting to back out of accompanying Reich to Maria Beaumont's party, only for Reich to blackmail him into obedience.

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** T8 [Tate] attempting attempts to back out of accompanying Reich to Maria Beaumont's party, only for Reich to blackmail him into obedience.

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** While attempting to find D'Courtney under cover of the Sardine game, Reich encounters Duffy Wyg& and Galen Chervil.
** Forensic ('Moltec') teams are shown tracing the movements of Maria's guests.

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** While attempting to find D'Courtney under cover of the Sardine game, Reich encounters Duffy Wyg& and Galen Chervil.
Chervil. This leads to a minor plotline where Galen falls in unrequited love with Duffy, to show why Espers can only love another Esper.
** Forensic ('Moltec') teams are shown tracing the movements of Maria's guests.guests.
** When Crabbe interrupts Powell's presentation of his case to the District Attorney, he has with him the 'real murderer' -- a deluded member of the public who has convinced himself he was the killer.
** The last scene includes Powell's FirstKiss with Barbara.
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** While attempting to find D'Courtney under cover of the Sardine game, Reich encounters Duffy Wyg& and Galen Chervil.

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** While attempting to find D'Courtney under cover of the Sardine game, Reich encounters Duffy Wyg& and Galen Chervil.Chervil.
** Forensic ('Moltec') teams are shown tracing the movements of Maria's guests.

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* DeletedScene: Bester wrote a prologue giving a sense of the history leading up to the events of the book. It's present in the [[https://archive.org/stream/galaxymagazine-1952-01/Galaxy_1952_01#page/n5/mode/2up magazine publication]], but it was dropped from the book as published.

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* DeletedScene: Bester wrote a prologue giving a sense of the history leading up to the events of the book. It's present in the The [[https://archive.org/stream/galaxymagazine-1952-01/Galaxy_1952_01#page/n5/mode/2up magazine publication]], but it was dropped from publication]] includes various sequences not present in the book as published.book:
** A prologue describing the discovery of antigravity, the origins of the Esper Guild, the rise to power of the Reich and D'Courtney dynasties, and where the murder weapon came from.
** Reich has meetings with several of his subordinates, all of whom give him the unwelcome news that the D'Courtney Cartel is outcompeting them.
** T8 [Tate] attempting to back out of accompanying Reich to Maria Beaumont's party, only for Reich to blackmail him into obedience.
** Several of the guests at Maria Beaumont's party are named and given backstories.
** While attempting to find D'Courtney under cover of the Sardine game, Reich encounters Duffy Wyg& and Galen Chervil.
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* DeletedScene: Bester wrote a prologue giving a sense of the history leading up to the events of the book, but it was dropped from the book as published.

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* DeletedScene: Bester wrote a prologue giving a sense of the history leading up to the events of the book, book. It's present in the [[https://archive.org/stream/galaxymagazine-1952-01/Galaxy_1952_01#page/n5/mode/2up magazine publication]], but it was dropped from the book as published.
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* AccidentallyAccurate: The book mentions in passing that [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Station_(New_York_City) Penn Station]] was 'destroyed for reasons lost in the confusion of the late [=XXth=] Century'. Ten years after the book was published, the station was indeed destroyed despite widespread protests.

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* AccidentallyAccurate: The book mentions in passing that [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Station_(New_York_City) Penn Station]] was 'destroyed for reasons lost in the confusion of the late [=XXth=] Century'. Ten years after the book was published, the station was indeed destroyed despite widespread protests.protests.
* DeletedScene: Bester wrote a prologue giving a sense of the history leading up to the events of the book, but it was dropped from the book as published.
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* AccidentallyAccurate: The book mentions in passing that [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Station_(New_York_City) Penn Station]] was 'destroyed for reasons lost in the confusion of the late XXth Century'. Ten years after the book was published, the station was indeed destroyed despite widespread protests.

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* AccidentallyAccurate: The book mentions in passing that [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Station_(New_York_City) Penn Station]] was 'destroyed for reasons lost in the confusion of the late XXth [=XXth=] Century'. Ten years after the book was published, the station was indeed destroyed despite widespread protests.
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* AccidentallyAccurate: The book mentions in passing that [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Station_(New_York_City) Penn Station]] was 'destroyed for reasons lost in the confusion of the late XXth Century'. Ten years after the book was published, the station was indeed destroyed despite widespread protests.

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