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They all spell the same thing, though, trouble. 16 00:02:17,599 --> 00:02:22,080 But when I walk into the commissioners alf that I don't realize this assignment's going 17 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:24,479 to approved. But sometimes the best way to stop a guy cold is to 18 00:02:24,479 --> 00:02:36,280 step on the gas. Appointing commissioner you sent for me, Steve, how'd 19 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:38,879 you like to take a risk? Fine? I know just the place A 20 00:02:38,879 --> 00:02:40,840 fireman her mind. Sorry, I've already picked a spot for you, the 21 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:45,879 Varia Private Sanatorium. A great, I understand the nurses are quite attractive. 22 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:47,840 Oh great, Well, my bag's a packed, commissioner, what's it all 23 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:52,159 about? Two weeks ago a Czech diplomat was arrested in Prague and a charge 24 00:02:52,159 --> 00:02:54,520 of preason. He made a quick confession. Sure they usually arrange it that 25 00:02:54,599 --> 00:02:59,000 way. In that confession, however, he implicated an American newspaper man, 26 00:02:59,039 --> 00:03:01,520 a foreign correspond but named Emerson. Emerson, he said, was an American 27 00:03:01,599 --> 00:03:06,000 spy. Uh, here we go again. The correspondent got winded, the 28 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:08,439 frame up and ducked out fast. He managed to slip across the Zech border, 29 00:03:08,479 --> 00:03:12,599 got as far as Regensburg in southern Germany, then ran into war trouble. 30 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:15,680 What happened? He was kidnapped, picked up right off the street and 31 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:19,120 brought daylight by three men, but not before he'd put up a terrific struggle. 32 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:22,639 That was ten days ago, and no word of incense until last night. 33 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:24,960 A young doctor named Minda got word to us that he thinks Emerson is 34 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:29,479 being held in a private sanatorium in Bavaria. I get it. That's where 35 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:32,280 I'm supposed to check in with my battered nerve. Right, Doctor Minda will 36 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:36,800 contact you when you arrive in Munich. Get to that sanatorium, Steve. 37 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:39,240 If you find Emerson there, get him out and bring him back. That's 38 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:59,400 it. You've got your assignment. Good luck. The National Broadcasting Company is 39 00:03:59,439 --> 00:04:02,719 presenting Dangerous Assignment, starring Brian don Levy in the role of Steve Mitchell, 40 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:08,639 colorful two fisted government agent. At all those places of the world where danger 41 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:12,560 and intrigue walk hand in hand, there you will find Steve Mitchell on another 42 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:18,240 dangerous assignment. Thursday evening on the NBC Radio Network is filled with great entertainment. 43 00:04:18,879 --> 00:04:23,639 Yes for Western adventure and songs. There's the Roy Rodgers Show from Paradise 44 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:29,480 Valley, and along with Roy you'll hear Dale Evans and the Whipperwells and immediately 45 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:32,399 following the Roy Rogers show, listen to Father Knows Best with Robert Young in 46 00:04:32,399 --> 00:04:38,240 the title role. On Father Knows Best, you'll hear the amusing adventures of 47 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:43,000 the Anderson family. And of course, Thursday also brings another hilarious sation of 48 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:47,600 truth or Consequences with Ralph Edwards, your favorite funmaster. On many NBC stations, 49 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:51,439 Thursday ushers in another station of Bettie Canter's show Business show. So for 50 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:56,319 the most enjoyable Thursday evening entertainment, be sure to set your dial to the 51 00:04:56,439 --> 00:05:08,560 NBC Radio Network. Sure I got my assignment, Get over to Germany. 52 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:11,560 Check on a tip giveness by a doctor minder. Hope it leads me to 53 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:15,120 a missing American correspondent named Emerson. Get to him before he's hauled back to 54 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:19,600 Czechoslovaki to face a bum rap as a spy. It's late Tuesday evening when 55 00:05:19,639 --> 00:05:24,120 my plane lands in Bunich. The voice on the PA is calling my name. 56 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:28,600 As I hurry across the airport waiting room, a gentleman lifts his envelope. 57 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:32,800 Here Mitchell, Oh, thanks, hmmm the idea for the service? 58 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:36,920 Yeah? How do I get to sixty four? Oulster Plotz Ouster Platz, 59 00:05:38,319 --> 00:05:41,839 a street on the other side of town. I will suggest a taxi. 60 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:45,720 Thanks. One more thing about the man who left this note. What did 61 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:48,120 he look like? He was here but a short time ago. A small 62 00:05:48,199 --> 00:05:54,319 man in middle aged rather stout. The message is not signed. Yeah, 63 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:58,160 it's signed by doctor Minder. I just wanted to check the description against the 64 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:11,680 signature. Oh it doesn't fit. I grab a cabin on the way across 65 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:15,000 town. I ask myself a few questions. I don't like the answers I 66 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:17,199 get. Ten minutes later, the cabby drops me off and find of sixty 67 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:24,560 four aster toots. Even that sixty four ulster clutch is a mortuary, I 68 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:30,399 swish open the door to go inside. I follow the long red carpet down 69 00:06:30,399 --> 00:06:33,199 the dimly lit corridor. At the end of it there's a desk and another 70 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:36,920 small vase of flowers, the card and next file, and the buzzer. 71 00:06:38,399 --> 00:06:44,079 I lean on it. A few seconds later, the curtain behind the desk 72 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:46,680 part and a long, slender gentlemen frock coat steps out of the poles, 73 00:06:46,759 --> 00:06:51,560 his crall like hands together and glides towards me. Good evening, my nail, 74 00:06:53,199 --> 00:06:56,959 all right, I mean, good evening, I'd like to see doctor 75 00:06:57,079 --> 00:07:10,360 Minder. You'll name me Mitchell, Steve Mitchell. The next through, I 76 00:07:10,399 --> 00:07:13,600 don't turn around when the door clicks softly shut behind me. I just stare 77 00:07:13,639 --> 00:07:19,920 at the casket at the far end of the room. The casket is empty. 78 00:07:20,279 --> 00:07:25,360 Surprise number one. Surprise number two follows a second later. A gun 79 00:07:25,439 --> 00:07:29,680 nestles in the small of my back. Do not move the identification place of 80 00:07:29,759 --> 00:07:39,160 funds there you are. Thank you. Don't mention it that you've got a 81 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:43,480 lot to learn about this business. Wait a minute, you fit the description 82 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:46,759 I have of doctor Mimber. Yeah, yeah, yeah, your identification. 83 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:51,399 Well what's this all about? Just a precautionary measure. I was afraid I 84 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:55,680 might have been followed today. Oh boy, picked this place to meet the 85 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:58,759 man you met a moment ago. He's a very close friend of mine, 86 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,959 a doctor with a more partition for a buddy. I wouldn't spread that around 87 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:07,040 Mender. It doesn't inspire confidence. I see what you mean. Why do 88 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:09,000 you think you might have been followed? Doctor? Because of what happened two 89 00:08:09,079 --> 00:08:13,839 nights ago when I saw Emerson at a sanatorium. He is listed as a 90 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:16,279 hair Langford. They had me in a small private cottage that's really of the 91 00:08:16,319 --> 00:08:20,240 main building. Go on. I was looking for doctor Ansteed. He is 92 00:08:20,279 --> 00:08:22,079 ahead of a sanatorium. I thought I might find him at the cottage. 93 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:24,720 When I arrived, I saw the man they called Langford, lying in his 94 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:30,000 bed. The bandages were moved his face badly mid boost. His face is 95 00:08:30,079 --> 00:08:33,440 usually covered with bandages. Yeah, yeah, I moved in clothes, and 96 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:35,799 then suddenly his nurse appeared from the next home. She screamed at me to 97 00:08:35,799 --> 00:08:39,919 get out. Called one of the gods. Any repercussions over your visit? 98 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:43,960 No, no, no, The metal seems to have been dropped. He 99 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:46,679 probably figured you didn't recognize Emerson, so they let it ride. Who's his 100 00:08:46,799 --> 00:08:50,960 doctor, Doctor Ansteed? You known him wrong since I joined the staff two 101 00:08:52,039 --> 00:08:54,720 years ago. He is truly a great doctor. IM That is why I 102 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:58,120 failed to understand how it could be mixed up in an affairs such as this. 103 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:03,519 To the sanitarium. It's several hours, Tive, I have my car 104 00:09:03,639 --> 00:09:05,840 brought state. Okay, let's get going. We'll figure out something on the 105 00:09:05,879 --> 00:09:20,039 way. I hope. We rumble out of Munich heads south. Two hours 106 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:22,200 later, we're rolling along a narrow, winding road high in the mountains. 107 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:28,080 Doctor Linder finally comes up with a suggestion. Mitchell, I've been considering your 108 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:31,360 possibility. I might be able to get you into the gowns by way of 109 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:33,559 the back wall. I could possibly hide you in the clinic. Yeah, 110 00:09:33,759 --> 00:09:37,159 if I could pass myself off as a villager with a livery complaint, no, 111 00:09:37,039 --> 00:09:39,519 no, no, no, it's a truist. Perhaps, yeah, 112 00:09:39,639 --> 00:09:43,799 but it would be too dangerous. Too many questions would be asked. Wait 113 00:09:43,879 --> 00:09:46,120 a minute, they couldn't very well expect me to answer questions if I'd been 114 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:52,200 knocked out cold an accident? An accident, why not we stayed an accident 115 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:54,320 for the benefit of anyone who might be watching from the sanatorium. Yes, 116 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:58,039 yes, the gods of the gate they have an unobstructed view of the hole 117 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:01,360 leading to the main game. What would happen then, Well, called the 118 00:10:01,399 --> 00:10:05,639 clinic a gate guard and I would ride to the scene with the ambulus. 119 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:09,159 Right now, all we need is an accident. But what kind uh ultimobile? 120 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:13,639 Yeah, my expense account won't stand for a car's crash. How about 121 00:10:13,639 --> 00:10:16,039 a bicycle? Yes, of course. Can you get one of the villagers 122 00:10:16,039 --> 00:10:20,639 to co operate with a gentle side swipe? Yeah, I'll bet help. 123 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:22,919 He's a farmer. His place is not far from san a toll um. 124 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:26,159 He has a truck. He would be eager to help us. Yeah, 125 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:28,000 you make sure he isn't too eager. I want this to look real, 126 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:39,639 but not fatal. It's early in the morning when I registered the village in 127 00:10:39,759 --> 00:10:41,679 After breakfast, I sawed her up to my room, check our schedule again 128 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:45,840 and look over the map of the road mender it sketched for me. At 129 00:10:45,879 --> 00:10:48,279 exactly ten minutes after one, I hop aboard my bike and ride out of 130 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:52,600 the village, making like a happy tourist. I tattled along the winding roadway 131 00:10:52,639 --> 00:10:56,200 for another ten minutes, and then I spot a landmark. I'm looking for 132 00:10:56,440 --> 00:11:01,399 a tree on my left, burned and blackened by as of lightning. I 133 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:03,240 round the bend and up ahead, maybe a quarter of a mile, I 134 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:07,440 spot the main gate of the sanatorium. At the same time I spot her 135 00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:11,440 pose truck as a chief side of the side road comes bearing down on me 136 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:16,759 past. Yeah too fast. Suddenly I know something is wrong. Instead of 137 00:11:16,759 --> 00:11:18,919 swerving and CHI coming straight for me, I dive walk the black ship of 138 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:37,360 the hunt higher hits to day. Steve Mitchell will continue. Has dangerous assignmtter 139 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:41,320 in just a moment. This is the time of year when every motorist must 140 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:46,600 revise is driving habits to conform to winter's rain, snow, and slippery highways. 141 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:52,240 The National Safety Council warns that winter driving conditions present more hazards than at 142 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:54,919 any other time of the year. So as winter comes to your section of 143 00:11:54,960 --> 00:12:00,440 the country, change your driving habits to meet changing road conditions. Too many 144 00:12:00,519 --> 00:12:03,039 times, when roads are wet and slippery, the posted speed limits are not 145 00:12:03,159 --> 00:12:07,600 the safe speed limits. Remember, the safe speed for your driving is the 146 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:13,720 speed that matches road conditions. America's professional truck drivers, the men who drive 147 00:12:13,759 --> 00:12:16,240 for a living, are taught that now more than ever, they must drive 148 00:12:16,279 --> 00:12:20,960 ahead of themselves. By watching the changing road and traffic conditions on the highway 149 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:26,159 ahead, you can avoid accidents before they happen. When you see an accident 150 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:31,120 threaten on the road ahead, you will have time to keep it from happening. 151 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:35,960 So remember, drive as slowly as the road conditions demand. Drive as 152 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:39,879 if your life and the lives of your passengers depend upon it. They do. 153 00:12:50,000 --> 00:13:01,159 Now back to dangerous assignment and Brian Dai Levey, Steve Mitch Mitchell. 154 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:07,639 Hell Mitchell, eh, are you I am helpful? Hey? The farmer 155 00:13:07,679 --> 00:13:11,440 who ran me down with the truck? What's the big idea trying? I 156 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:15,080 was not the one who was driving the truck. That was my hired man, 157 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:20,879 Trekka. Trekka also does some gardening over the sanatorium. He must have 158 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:26,759 overheard doctor Minda and myself setting up the plans for this accident. He stole 159 00:13:26,879 --> 00:13:30,679 my truck and tried to kill you, possibly hoping to get some kind of 160 00:13:30,759 --> 00:13:35,080 reward from them. Brother, he almost turned it two when I realized the 161 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:37,799 truck was gone. I came here as fast as possible to warn you. 162 00:13:39,399 --> 00:13:43,840 I was climbing up the vine when you came down the hard way. Oh, 163 00:13:43,919 --> 00:13:46,200 this is just Dandy's workers, probably up at the sanatorium right now, 164 00:13:46,279 --> 00:13:50,559 spelling the whole gag to them. Oh here, Mitchley, I saw him 165 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:54,799 climbing down here after the accident, perhaps to make sure you were dead. 166 00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:58,720 I waited for him in the bushes. He's tied up at the bottom of 167 00:13:58,759 --> 00:14:05,399 the and I will turn him over to the police. Nice work. Hey, 168 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:11,399 what's that the bell and the ambulance? See up there? He's winding 169 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:13,919 down the road from the sanatorium. After I took care of trek Can, 170 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:18,960 I telephoned the report of the accident as we had planned. Okay, you've 171 00:14:20,039 --> 00:14:28,240 been very likewise. You can get lost now I'll take it from here. 172 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:35,039 I watched the ambulance winding down the narrow road. It's bell climbing, hot 173 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:39,200 and heavy either so I don't get there's no traffic around. Why make with 174 00:14:39,399 --> 00:14:41,279 the bow? But it's soon. The ambulances poke to the staff on the 175 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:45,279 road. Above me, I see doctor Minder scrambling down the side of the 176 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:48,559 ravine and waddling along behind him is a fat guy who bulges out of an 177 00:14:48,559 --> 00:14:54,000 alpine suit with short leather pants. I close my eyes and pretend to be 178 00:14:54,080 --> 00:15:00,679 out. Yeah, here is doctor. She's still alive, Yeah, but 179 00:15:00,919 --> 00:15:05,960 unconscious. You go ring down the statia. The driver comes down with a 180 00:15:05,039 --> 00:15:07,960 stretcher. They loaded me aboard and led me up to the road. They 181 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:11,039 slide me into the hand. The accident gets in beside me. On the 182 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:22,440 way we go. Oh, they cannot hear us in the front seat. 183 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:24,919 We could hear anything of that bell playing. You have to do that, 184 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,279 it's not in my head a part. I I'm sorry, but there's lots 185 00:15:28,279 --> 00:15:33,480 of fun works. Tomaran. That's the name of the bell. No, 186 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:35,840 no, no, no, the name of the man who's raining. Oh 187 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:37,759 that's that work. Yeah, you see, lots of tamarin. Is a 188 00:15:37,799 --> 00:15:41,919 patient is a sanatorium. It's quite well. The only sense is I'm riding 189 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:46,039 with the Dibo whenever the ambulance goes out, so he can range on them. 190 00:15:46,639 --> 00:15:50,240 He's no problem. The bell is a problem as far as I'm concerned. 191 00:15:50,039 --> 00:15:52,840 I'm afraid that they had no choice. Mitching. You see, he 192 00:15:52,879 --> 00:15:58,440 donated the ambulance to the sanatorium. A play almost at the gates, the 193 00:15:58,559 --> 00:16:10,600 better become unconscious again. We drive into the grounds with Porky. The bellboy 194 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:12,840 is still hard at work. I'm taken to a small room at the rear 195 00:16:12,879 --> 00:16:17,799 of the main building, which overlooks the cottages scattered around the grounds. I 196 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:22,120 keep my eyes closed as doctor Minder goes through the motions of making a further 197 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:26,519 examination. Nurse hours close by, Alan Sean Bok. You seem to be 198 00:16:26,559 --> 00:16:32,720 studying the patient most carefully. I was just trying to remember, remember what 199 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:38,360 well I have seen this man before. You feel that you have It looks 200 00:16:38,399 --> 00:16:45,120 familiar anyway, an American wouldn't you say, I don't know. Possibly yours 201 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:48,440 is doctor einstet On the couns. No, he went to Munich yesterday, 202 00:16:48,559 --> 00:16:52,720 Munich. He left shortly after you did. He said he had business in 203 00:16:52,799 --> 00:16:56,080 Munich. Oh, yes, I see, Well that will be all for 204 00:16:56,200 --> 00:17:04,880 now. Will you please order the x Y at one start Mitchell. Yeah, 205 00:17:06,079 --> 00:17:08,839 I almost swallowed my Adam's apple when that nurse started wondering where she'd seen 206 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:12,440 me before there? Could you have seen you search me? Maybe around the 207 00:17:12,519 --> 00:17:17,359 village this morning, or maybe she's mistaken. I don't like it. You 208 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:21,039 don't like it. Another thing, this doctor instead, you think, is 209 00:17:21,079 --> 00:17:22,759 mixed up in the deal. Yeah. Yeah, she said he had gone 210 00:17:22,759 --> 00:17:26,799 to Munich shortly. I would he followed you? If so, he knows 211 00:17:26,799 --> 00:17:30,960 who you are and why you are here. Well, we're in too deep 212 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:33,480 the back out now, but we better work fast. No, here's the 213 00:17:33,559 --> 00:17:40,599 plan. Sit up in bed now. You see the cottage under those three 214 00:17:40,759 --> 00:17:42,720 needs the back wall? Yeah, that's where they got Emerson. Yeah. 215 00:17:42,759 --> 00:17:48,200 Yeah, we must wait until dinner time. Two hours. I will signal 216 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:51,759 you from outside is a papa time? And what the guarded the cottage leaves 217 00:17:51,839 --> 00:17:55,720 for dinner? The special nurse Hermas I've tried to keep her occupied while you 218 00:17:55,799 --> 00:17:59,359 sleeping into the college. If the patient is Emerson, the ambulance will be 219 00:17:59,359 --> 00:18:03,359 waiting by the car. You have to make a run for the right right. 220 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:08,920 Well, oh, oh, splendid I see our patient has recovered consciousness, 221 00:18:10,839 --> 00:18:15,279 but he is still weak and needs I asked you play pinocle. It's 222 00:18:15,319 --> 00:18:18,440 like one decent pinocle player and the player as you see, and I must 223 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:26,359 give a patient an injection. So and now I must ask you to leave. 224 00:18:26,519 --> 00:18:30,079 But of course, well until later. Sound our first pineapple game. 225 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:37,680 That's most unfortunate. I wish to make it appear that you were still unconsciousness. 226 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:45,839 What was that? Because Parmean's version of a yodel? He thinks it 227 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:49,200 quite amusing to make that sound whenever one of the more attractive nurses passes by. 228 00:18:49,839 --> 00:18:55,160 He is even now very probably in pursuit of an alpine wolf. Was 229 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:57,880 so good? Look, how am I supposed to slip over to that carriage? 230 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:02,880 When you slip with the making with a needle injection? Was not a 231 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:15,839 satitude vitamin B good for the nerves. Minder leaves and I settle back to 232 00:19:15,839 --> 00:19:18,279 wait for his signal, and minutes dragged by. Finally it starts getting dark. 233 00:19:18,319 --> 00:19:22,279 I stare out the window, but there's no sign of Mender. I 234 00:19:22,319 --> 00:19:26,359 begin to get an uneasy feeling something has gone wrong. Finally I decide I 235 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:29,880 can't wait any longer. I ease out the window and work my way through 236 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:33,359 the shrubery to the cottage where they've done Emerson. I take a quick look 237 00:19:33,359 --> 00:19:36,319 in the window. The patient's on the bed with his face bandage, but 238 00:19:36,319 --> 00:19:38,680 there's no sign of a guard. This is my big chance. I go 239 00:19:38,759 --> 00:19:47,960 inside and over to his bed, Emerson, Emerson. He doesn't answer. 240 00:19:48,119 --> 00:19:49,880 I start to shake his arm, but it falls off the bed limply. 241 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:56,640 I jerk the bandages off his face. It's not Emerson. It's doctor Minder 242 00:19:56,039 --> 00:20:03,799 and he's dead. Well, doctor men there dead, Look nurse him. 243 00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:07,480 Shut up. I didn't kill him. Look you're a friend of his. 244 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:08,960 Eh good, so am. I promise me not to yell, and I'll 245 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:12,839 take my hand off. Okay, I'll make it fast. I'm Steve Mitchell, 246 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:17,680 US government agent. Doctor Mendho was helping me get to an American newspaper 247 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:21,599 correspondent named Emerson, who was being held here and there sedatives until there's cuts 248 00:20:21,599 --> 00:20:23,839 and bruises healed. Then they were going to take him back across the check 249 00:20:23,839 --> 00:20:27,640 border to face the phony spy charge. I saw them, Oh, his 250 00:20:27,759 --> 00:20:30,640 special nurse and the god they kept here. They drove off in the Namerdan's 251 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:33,440 just a few minutes ago, with Emerson probably in the back, and the 252 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:37,079 one. They're heading north for the check border right now. If I can 253 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:40,720 only get a car, doctor Minder's car. He had offered to let me 254 00:20:40,759 --> 00:20:42,119 borrow it. I noticed him approaching the cottage a while back, so I 255 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:45,079 came here to tell him I was leaving. You're all right, let's go. 256 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:57,119 It's if the cottage to member's car and wore away. We head north 257 00:20:57,160 --> 00:21:00,640 towards the border. The minutes dragged by. Do you think we're gaining any 258 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:07,000 on? Hey? Up ahead the ambulance and then that phone, both beside 259 00:21:07,039 --> 00:21:10,000 the end the nurse. She's probably calling a head to let them know they're 260 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:15,960 coming. Pull up. We stopped beside a clump of trees. I tell 261 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:18,000 the nurse to wait for me down the road a mile or so. She 262 00:21:18,039 --> 00:21:21,720 pulls away, and I walked to the ambulance. The guard that's sitting in 263 00:21:21,759 --> 00:21:23,640 the front seat alone. The nurse is still in the phone both time, 264 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:26,640 almost to the door before he spots me. He reaches for a gun, 265 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:30,440 but I nail a street. He slumps over the wheel. I drag him 266 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:36,759 out, jump inside and take off fast. A small frosted glass panel back 267 00:21:36,759 --> 00:21:38,279 of the driver's seat. I can make out a figure on the stretcher on 268 00:21:38,279 --> 00:21:41,400 one side. I pulled her a stop around the first bend in the road. 269 00:21:45,839 --> 00:21:48,000 I get out and go out of the back. I open the rear 270 00:21:48,079 --> 00:21:53,200 door. Hello Mitchell, Well, coummern to be sure, don't try anything? 271 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:56,240 Well, well, the fat boy himself. So you've been running the 272 00:21:56,279 --> 00:22:00,720 deal? Huh? I take it that's Emerson on the stretcher quite right. 273 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:03,160 How'd you get doctor and Stead to help you? He knew he had relatives 274 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:07,920 across the border. The threat of prices was very effective. I see, 275 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:11,839 well, what happens now? You will drive us to the border, and 276 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:15,119 if you try anything, Emmerson will be shot immediately. All right, get 277 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:21,839 back into the amulance. I walk to the front and get in. I'm 278 00:22:21,839 --> 00:22:25,359 pretty sure Cameron won't shoot Emerson. He wants him alive. But I gotta 279 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:30,119 figure out a plan fast. I can make our palmer and to frosted glass 280 00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:33,680 panel behind me. Then I get an idea. Suddenly I throw open the 281 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:37,440 door and duck. It works. He thinks I'm going outside. I can 282 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:40,519 hear him scramble toward the rear door. As soon as he opens it, 283 00:22:40,559 --> 00:22:45,799 I step on the gas. I look out the back window. Palmer and 284 00:22:45,839 --> 00:22:56,440 his sprawl face down on the road, out cold. Emerson, Emerson, 285 00:22:56,480 --> 00:23:04,279 you're okay. Let me get some of this talking about why Steve Mitchell, 286 00:23:04,279 --> 00:23:10,359 government agent. You're going home. He's out cold. I sort of drove 287 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:14,000 the ambulance out from under him. We're leaving here in your place, and 288 00:23:14,039 --> 00:23:17,319 you know it's just as well. I've got a hunch when they find out 289 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:33,839 he goofed up the deal, he's gonna need an ambulance. Our star Brian 290 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:38,640 don Levy will return in just a moment. One of the most important functions 291 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:42,759 of a radio network is the quick dissemination of news. Here on the NBC 292 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:48,000 Radio Network, you can depend upon expert news reporters to bring you all the 293 00:23:48,039 --> 00:23:52,880 important news whenever and wherever it happens. A schoolteacher in Michigan, in a 294 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:56,039 recent letter, says it better than we can quote. I want to thank 295 00:23:56,160 --> 00:24:02,359 NBC for its complete coverage of both the national political conventions and for your accurate 296 00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:07,400 and timely reporting of the national election. I'm particularly grateful to read that NBC 297 00:24:07,519 --> 00:24:11,759 will be on hand to broadcast the inauguration of our new president in January. 298 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:15,559 For when I add this broadcast to the others I already have recorded on my 299 00:24:15,599 --> 00:24:21,000 Webster electric echo tape recorder, I'll have a complete history of the nineteen fifty 300 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:23,920 two political campaign. Again, I want to thank you and praise you for 301 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:30,000 your wonderful news coverage, and we thank you, Miss Miller. Here at 302 00:24:30,079 --> 00:24:33,039 NBC, we scribe to bring you the finest reporting of the latest news. 303 00:24:33,079 --> 00:24:48,079 So remember the NBC Radio Network is your headquarters for top news coverage. Next 304 00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:52,960 week, Sweden a nursery rhyme that almost turns out to be my epitaph, 305 00:24:52,119 --> 00:25:07,559 and that will be Steve Mitchell's Dangerous Assignment next week. Included in tonight's cast 306 00:25:07,599 --> 00:25:12,119 where Byron Kine, Paul Freeze, Tony Barrett, Jack Crushan, and Jemmie 307 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:37,039 Tatum. This is John Storm Speaking. Dangerous Assignment, starring Brian dan Levy 308 00:25:37,079 --> 00:25:41,839 in the role of Steve Mitchell, with her Butterfield as the commissioner. Is 309 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:45,799 written by Bob Bright and Adrian John Doe and is directed by Phil Carr. 310 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:49,240 Be with us again next week at this same time, when Brian dan Levy 311 00:25:49,279 --> 00:25:56,160 is starring in the role of Steve Mitchell will embark on another transcribed dangerous assignment. 312 00:26:07,319 --> 00:26:23,839 This is NBC, the National Broadcasting Company, Welcome back. We see 313 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:30,519 a continued pattern with Robert Riiche's writing. I noted in a previous episode how 314 00:26:30,559 --> 00:26:37,359 he had a villainous traveling button salesman in Dangerous Assignment, and then in the 315 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:42,759 Jony Dollar five parter he wrote the villain was a zipper salesman, and in 316 00:26:42,839 --> 00:26:48,640 today's episode, the villain is someone who acts like a fool and loves playing 317 00:26:48,799 --> 00:26:55,720 pinnacle. In the same Johony Dollar serial, the villain acted like a fool 318 00:26:56,079 --> 00:27:02,319 who claimed to like playing cribbage. Apparently, Robert rye composite most evil villain 319 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:07,960 was a card playing salesman. I will say this for our villain. I 320 00:27:07,039 --> 00:27:12,799 don't ever anticipate having the money to find a private sanitarium, but I think 321 00:27:12,799 --> 00:27:18,200 if I did, I too would want to ride around in the ambulance and 322 00:27:18,279 --> 00:27:22,640 ring the bell. The mid show PSA was interesting and kind of ties into 323 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:29,359 our conversation about home recording on Monday, I think we listened to a similar 324 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:33,759 listener from the same person, or maybe it was someone else with a thank 325 00:27:33,799 --> 00:27:40,799 you for just the national conventions. I can only hope that the recording survives 326 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:45,839 and was passed on to someone who would appreciate it. It's certainly an interesting 327 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:51,880 historical artifact for our purposes. I think it occurred to people far less to 328 00:27:52,079 --> 00:27:57,640 record radio dramas than it did news events or even music, which I think 329 00:27:57,759 --> 00:28:03,599 make up the majority of the home recordings that I've heard of off of radio, 330 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:08,519 and of course more likely than that they were for just family home recordings 331 00:28:08,519 --> 00:28:12,839 and that sort of thing. What that all says about society in the post 332 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:18,880 war era or society today, I guess is something for debate. Well, 333 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:22,720 now we turn to listener comments and feedback, and Richard writes in on YouTube 334 00:28:22,759 --> 00:28:27,680 regarding the Guy Fawk Special, very interesting comparison. Well, thank you so 335 00:28:27,799 --> 00:28:33,799 much, Richard. Now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day, 336 00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:37,279 and I want to go ahead and thank Chuck. Chuck has been one 337 00:28:37,319 --> 00:28:42,559 of our Patreon supporters since September twenty twenty two, currently supporting the program at 338 00:28:42,599 --> 00:28:48,279 the Detective Sergeant level of seven dollars and fourteen cents or more per month. 339 00:28:48,839 --> 00:28:52,599 Thank you so much for your support, Chuck, and that will do it 340 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:56,799 for today. If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite 341 00:28:56,799 --> 00:29:02,000 podcast software. If you're listening on on YouTube, be sure to lock the 342 00:29:02,079 --> 00:29:07,079 video, subscribe to the channel, and marked the notification bell. All those 343 00:29:07,119 --> 00:29:11,920 great things that helped the channel to grow. We will be back next Wednesday 344 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:17,359 with another episode of Dangerous Assignment, But join us back here tomorrow for Mister 345 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:22,759 Chameleon, where it's Missus McLachlan the housekeeper. Here. She says that Martha 346 00:29:22,799 --> 00:29:27,279 Phillips was working on her memoirs that the Williams Publishing Company had already contracted to 347 00:29:27,279 --> 00:29:30,920 publish them. Miss Phillips was writing the story of her life. Uh huh. 348 00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:36,039 And the last time Missus McLachlan saw her, about eight o'clock in the 349 00:29:36,079 --> 00:29:40,880 evening, Miss Phillips was sitting at her desk here writing, mister Dalton, 350 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:45,720 did you know about these memoirs? Well, no, mister comedian, that 351 00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:48,200 is, Miss Phillips said she was going to write them, but I didn't 352 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:52,240 know she'd started them. You didn't know that she'd started. You who were 353 00:29:52,279 --> 00:29:56,759 so close to her, yet the housekeeper knew. How is that, mister 354 00:29:56,839 --> 00:29:59,720 Dalton? Were you calling him a liar again? No, no, miss 355 00:29:59,839 --> 00:30:03,319 d I'm simply asking him a question, and I intend to keep right on 356 00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:06,839 asking a great many more questions. I hope you'll be with us then. 357 00:30:07,079 --> 00:30:11,400 In the meantime, do send your comments to Box thirteen at Greatdetectives dot net, 358 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:15,960 follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and check us out on Instagram, 359 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:22,039 Instagram, dot com slash Great Detectives From Boise, Idaho. This is 360 00:30:22,079 --> 00:30:25,759 your host, Adam Graham signing off.