1 00:00:28,359 --> 00:00:34,759 Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boys the Idahol. This 2 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:38,880 is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, email it 3 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:45,119 to me Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot ne, follow us on Twitter at 4 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:51,399 Radio Detectives, and check us out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com slash 5 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:56,320 Great Detectives. If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite 6 00:00:56,359 --> 00:01:03,280 podcast software. A reminder coming up next week will be bringing you our Christmas 7 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:08,159 programming starting on Tuesday here on Yours Truly Johnny Dollar with the Knick Scharn Matter, 8 00:01:08,799 --> 00:01:15,599 along with episodes of Dangerous Assignment, Mister Chameleon and Dragnet. We will 9 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:21,359 also be host to three other podcasters on Thursday, and I will be a 10 00:01:21,439 --> 00:01:26,000 guest on their programs as well. Next week, and for even more Christmas 11 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:30,079 programming, check out The Amazing World of Radio, the episodes dropping on Tuesday, 12 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:36,000 Thursday and Christmas Eve, and The Old Time Radio snack Wagon with episodes 13 00:01:36,079 --> 00:01:41,439 dropping Monday, Wednesday and Friday over at Snackwagon dot net. Well, now 14 00:01:41,519 --> 00:01:46,000 let's get into the conclusion of this week's Yours Truly Johnny Dollar story and we'll 15 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:51,680 be bringing you episodes three four and five of the Sea Legs Matter from August 16 00:01:51,719 --> 00:01:53,719 first, second, and third, nineteen fifty six. Let's go ahead and 17 00:01:53,799 --> 00:02:05,000 take a lesson from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dollar. Do you 18 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:08,639 hear me, Johnny Dollar calling? This is Pat McCracken, a Universal Adjustments 19 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:14,080 Bureau. I'm Patsy Johnny Dollar. Johnny, what kind of a noisy hookup 20 00:02:14,159 --> 00:02:16,120 is this? Anyway? Pran, this call is being relayed to you from 21 00:02:16,159 --> 00:02:21,560 an amateur radio station. Well, next time, try the telephone from Portogardo, 22 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:24,560 niggar Ragua. Oh, now you're coming in quite clearly. Port What 23 00:02:24,879 --> 00:02:28,840 it's a little spot on the Caribbean coast, the lands port of call for 24 00:02:28,879 --> 00:02:31,520 the Sea Legs before she was wrecked, Missus Douglas land Er still with you? 25 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:35,400 No, And I don't know where she's gone, which is why I 26 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:38,479 called. So she acted just as surprised as I was that we both took 27 00:02:38,479 --> 00:02:43,520 the same plane down here. And Pat, I still don't know why she 28 00:02:43,599 --> 00:02:46,479 decided to come here at all. Maybe she doesn't like the idea of your 29 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:49,400 going down there to investigate the case. She wouldn't admit it, of course, 30 00:02:49,439 --> 00:02:51,879 but that's what I think. Do you think she may try to obstruct 31 00:02:51,879 --> 00:02:54,759 your investigation. Right now, I don't know, because she suddenly charted a 32 00:02:54,759 --> 00:03:00,240 small plane and disappeared to work her way back here to the States. Yes, 33 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:01,919 it is as good as mine. Look, why don't you hire a 34 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:06,280 watch on her place on Long Island? And if she shows there, call 35 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:10,199 me at the hotel Providence. It's in the city of Bluefield, right any 36 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:14,039 of that, you think her claims for insurance on the Sea Legs and on 37 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:16,439 Douglas Land pure of prouder pants. At this point, I don't know what 38 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:29,879 to think tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey, in the Transcribed Adventures 39 00:03:29,879 --> 00:03:35,360 of the Man with the Action Pact expensccount America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator gaus Truly 40 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:52,960 Johnny Dollar from Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, location San Juan del Perol, Nicaragua 41 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:57,639 to the Universal Adjustment Bureau, Hertford, Connecticut. Following is an account of 42 00:03:57,639 --> 00:04:00,479 expenditures and report of activities during my invest instigation of the Sea Legs matter. 43 00:04:04,039 --> 00:04:08,319 Pan, I lie to you during that radio contact a few minutes ago. 44 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:13,120 I do think Connie Landfair's claims for four hundred thousand dollars insurance are fraudulent. 45 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:17,040 Fraudulent is the very devil. But just why I think so is beyond me 46 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:21,639 at any rate. The assistant who's foisted himself on me down here as a 47 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:26,800 real weirdy, whose name, believe it or not, is Oscar Patrick Vladimir 48 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:30,720 Pascuaro. He rented a plane and has flown me here to Porto Gardo, 49 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:33,839 a half big little town on Nicaragua's east coast. Here is where a radio 50 00:04:33,839 --> 00:04:38,439 amateur made the last contact with the sea legs before it smashed up and sank 51 00:04:38,439 --> 00:04:42,319 off the Baldero Islands. And who is the operator of this ham station? 52 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:48,879 Oscar Patrick Vladimir Pascaro. Such a long talker, mister Dollar. I'm cranking 53 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:53,600 this generator into my arm is nearly dropping off, and I'm sorry. I 54 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:57,079 ask her for that contact with the States was important. Even my back is 55 00:04:57,160 --> 00:05:00,519 tired. Ha. I know. I'll make an expense account to you, 56 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:04,079 is say ten dollars. You try that, and I'll fly back to Bluefields 57 00:05:04,079 --> 00:05:09,439 without you, please, mister Dollar, no joking. Please? What didout 58 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:12,519 me? You would be a lost soul in this vile CONTI Hey, tell 59 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:15,040 me something. Why did you ever set up a transmitter in this isolated fishing 60 00:05:15,079 --> 00:05:18,639 village. I should set it up in blue Fields. Ha. They even 61 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:23,759 wanted me to have some kind of license up there. Disgusting and a waste 62 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:26,839 of money too. That reminds me, do you have a pilot's license? 63 00:05:26,879 --> 00:05:30,519 Who need a pilot's license when those little planes practically fly themselves. Besides, 64 00:05:30,519 --> 00:05:33,720 the pilot's license costs money too. Well, I have one, So from 65 00:05:33,759 --> 00:05:38,800 here on and I stay at the controls. No confidency, no confidence. 66 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:44,000 Okay, okay, Now let's get out to that flat where you parked the 67 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:46,600 plane. I want to fly over the spot where the sea legs went down. 68 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:49,319 Ah. You see how unvaluable I am. You doubt me. You 69 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:53,240 wouldn't even know where to look for the Buldaro Island, you know, John, 70 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:55,279 Well, all I have to do is look at the charge of the 71 00:05:55,319 --> 00:06:05,519 conpit of the plane, mister dollar. That wouldn't be fair. The Bollderos 72 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:10,600 turned out to be only six or eight miles off shore, two narrow, 73 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:13,959 little rocky islands that poked up out of the sea to keep each other company 74 00:06:13,959 --> 00:06:17,120 in the vast quiet blue expense. One of them was perhaps a mile long, 75 00:06:17,199 --> 00:06:20,199 and the other just a couple of one hundred yards away and stretching parallel 76 00:06:20,199 --> 00:06:25,040 to it was even smaller. Sure to a man at the wheel who was 77 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:29,639 unfamiliar with these waters, and without charts, the balderos could conceivably be a 78 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:34,959 menace in navigation in the dark of the night. That is asking, okay, 79 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:38,879 sir, do you remember what time of day it was when the sea 80 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:43,000 legs went down? Of course I remember anything, names, dates, places, 81 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:46,120 How about the sea legs? Of course I was talking to her by 82 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:49,240 radio. Well, such a lovely day too, just like today. Why 83 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:53,519 do you know mister Lanter even promised to take me fishing after we finished the 84 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:58,879 radio contact testing What time he even promised me you would or did? Was 85 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:02,279 exactly ten one am and the radio is sticking from the up suddenly cut off. 86 00:07:02,399 --> 00:07:06,120 You're sure that, yes, sir, we were talking away back and 87 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:15,600 forth and they tip nothing. Ten twenty one one question A couple of real 88 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:19,759 good answers. A daylight today, mate, was clear and calm, and 89 00:07:19,879 --> 00:07:25,920 ten twenty one am and full daylight. The bolderos must have stuck out like 90 00:07:25,959 --> 00:07:30,560 a sore thumb. Hang on, ask you, I'm gonna make a tight 91 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:33,480 circle over those islands for a closer. Look, you sure you wouldn't like 92 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:36,439 for me to steer, mister dollar, I'm sure. But if you do 93 00:07:36,519 --> 00:07:40,199 all the work, how am I ever going to earn the handsome restrainder. 94 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:43,279 You're going to pay me, right, I'm gonna Hey, sir, that 95 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:46,240 channel between the islands is as smooth as a mill pond. Sure it always 96 00:07:46,399 --> 00:07:49,480 is, except during a storm, and so clear you can see way down 97 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:53,720 into it. Ask her. I thought there were a lot of pinnacles of 98 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:57,720 rocks sticking up in that channel. Oh maybe at low tide one or two 99 00:07:57,759 --> 00:08:01,079 on the east side there is shallow the other I'd like to see it now. 100 00:08:01,319 --> 00:08:03,959 And what's supposed to make the channel so dangerous the current that runs through 101 00:08:03,959 --> 00:08:07,800 it when the tide is changing, mister dollary. It's how you say, 102 00:08:07,439 --> 00:08:11,480 ideally, like now, when the tide is coming in and after wreck a 103 00:08:11,519 --> 00:08:16,319 boat like the sea legs. If this skipper wasn't watching the road, you 104 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:18,879 should see how the current vobbles and squirms. Hey, look, there's a 105 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:22,639 packing case down there floating around you. You see first one direction then the 106 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:26,240 other, shifting around like a crazy yeah, ask her, And I think 107 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:30,319 that packing case is gonna be a big help to us. See maybe there's 108 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:33,240 something in it that might be worth money or something. I'll stop thinking of 109 00:08:33,279 --> 00:08:37,559 money. Then, how we're gonna see just where the current delivers that packing 110 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:39,519 case. You want to know where that packing case will be ending up? 111 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:43,039 That's what I said. Then steer back to Portagardo, to the beach in 112 00:08:43,039 --> 00:08:48,960 front of my superlative radio station. Uh sure, How do you think I 113 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:56,399 got all the lumber and furniture and stuff from my radio shock? He was 114 00:08:56,480 --> 00:09:01,120 right from the air. We could see that every bit of flats and passing 115 00:09:01,159 --> 00:09:05,279 through the Baldero Island channel on a rising tide, wound up in a tiny 116 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:09,600 cove on the challow sandbar, directly in front of Oscar's radio shack. Even 117 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:11,440 now, I was piled high with crates, bits of ships, rigging odd 118 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:20,159 pieces of furniture that chunk stay down there forever, asking no, no, 119 00:09:20,279 --> 00:09:24,759 mister dollar, want Amantha real big high tight clumbs along and pressed them. 120 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:28,320 I have a clean front yard again, But I always make a trip up 121 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:31,519 here before then, what do you mean sure? That's why NI was in 122 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:33,639 number one beach brush. Oh stop in Corny, what do you mean beach 123 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:37,639 comber? So I have to brush the sand off everything I pick her up 124 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:41,159 down there, So you didn't laugh? What do I care? Anyhow? 125 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:43,879 You should see some of the valuable things I pick up to sell to the 126 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:46,279 natives. Well, tell me two years ago when the Landfair's other boat went 127 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:50,320 down. Ah, you should have seen it. Everything that could float in 128 00:09:50,399 --> 00:09:54,799 the drytop in my front yard. It was beautiful. How I want the 129 00:09:54,799 --> 00:09:56,879 sea legs was wrecked. You know that's very funny, mister Dollar. There 130 00:09:58,039 --> 00:10:01,600 was nothing, nothing at all. I don't understand it. Well, I 131 00:10:01,639 --> 00:10:05,240 think I do. I think I'm beginning to understand a lot of things about 132 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:13,240 this case. Hang on, Oscar. We're flying back to Bluefield expense con 133 00:10:13,279 --> 00:10:16,399 adem twelve thirty cents American taxi from the private airport where we'd rented the plane 134 00:10:16,399 --> 00:10:22,080 to the headquarters of the Federal Maritime I never will get that straight. Call 135 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:30,159 it the Coast Guard and Captain ramrez Se Senor on July the here it is 136 00:10:31,039 --> 00:10:33,960 did date and at ten twenty one, Captain she that died at ten twenty 137 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:39,879 one was just after what you call neep. So that's neat. That's pretty 138 00:10:39,879 --> 00:10:41,159 What does that mean? Oh shut up, Oscar, Yeah, I see, 139 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:46,360 Captain neep tied at nine forty. So it's coming in rising, seeus 140 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:50,799 in you a dollar rising up? Go ahead, thanks captain here, buy 141 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:54,559 yourself a cigar, buy yourself a whole box. Grasios. Come on asking 142 00:10:58,279 --> 00:11:01,399 nothing for me. Later, come on, we're going back to the airfield 143 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:05,120 and from there we're gonna fly down the coast to get But, mister Darton, 144 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:07,600 I feel so good, I may even let you fly that plane this 145 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:11,679 time for a small pitantivn for a small pittance. Even now, drag out 146 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:20,120 your best dialect and call that taxi over here. I had them thirteen six 147 00:11:20,159 --> 00:11:22,879 bucks for the capitad. I had him fourteen fifty cents taxi back to the 148 00:11:22,919 --> 00:11:26,519 airfield. For some reason, the fair and the old model t went up 149 00:11:26,559 --> 00:11:31,320 every time I used it. Or did Oscar wink some kind of a deal 150 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:35,279 with a driver that he could cut in on later It him fifteen and another 151 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:37,679 forty five bucks from rental of the plane, and I'm sure it all went 152 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:41,200 into Oscar's pocket. That is, knowledge of the language enabled him to persuade 153 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:46,000 the owner we shouldn't pay two rentals in one day. We headed south and 154 00:11:46,039 --> 00:11:52,360 made good time, But there are they going another few minutes and you'll be 155 00:11:52,399 --> 00:11:56,279 down to Puerto Rica. What's that little seaport straight ahead San Juan? Dead 156 00:11:56,360 --> 00:11:58,960 cattle, And according to this map, it has a more than adequate landing 157 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:03,399 for you. Look you see what I see down there on it? Yeah, 158 00:12:03,679 --> 00:12:07,000 exactly what I hope to see. The twin of this plane, the 159 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:11,039 plane in which Missus Landfair disappeared this morning. I'll land right beside it. 160 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:16,399 No sooner said the My name is Oscar Patrick Black. All these little fields 161 00:12:16,399 --> 00:12:18,879 have any personnel. If they get two planes a month, they think it's 162 00:12:18,879 --> 00:12:22,879 the crowd. Hey, but there must be somebody. There's the car back 163 00:12:22,879 --> 00:12:26,559 of the Hunger. Good, then we'll have transportation into town. You still 164 00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:30,080 haven't told me why you decided to come here. Was it because missus Lambteror 165 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:33,159 did? That was something I didn't know until I saw that plane down there. 166 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:37,559 All right, easy now on land too close to it. I am 167 00:12:37,559 --> 00:12:41,600 in perfect control. Here we go, No, Oscar, it was a 168 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:43,919 hunch based on the fact I remember that the Sea Lakes was built in this 169 00:12:45,039 --> 00:12:50,559 town. Hey, nice landing, Thank you, mister dollar. Maybe a 170 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:54,679 little bonet for such a you don't stop talking about money. You're gonna have 171 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:58,440 to find yourself. Say, am I crazy? Or isn't there someone in 172 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:01,279 the cabin on that other plane? Hey the car it's come to go to 173 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:03,559 meet us. They watch it. I ask your That darn fool is heading 174 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:07,799 right across the landing Come the engine? Is he crazy? Counts he see 175 00:13:07,879 --> 00:13:09,919 us a swing high? But don't flip us. Come on more throat you 176 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:13,159 told me there, that's straighten out. Take on. I can't I do 177 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:16,200 what I do? We have those controls and hang on. Here he comes, 178 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:28,879 you know, here, hang on. For a long moment, there 179 00:13:28,919 --> 00:13:31,159 was nothing but a vague blackness all about me in the sound of our crackup 180 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:35,159 seem to roll, and I go almost streamly back and forth in the deep 181 00:13:35,279 --> 00:13:43,320 recesses of my mind, and slowly, hazily I hear I seemed to hear 182 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:48,440 some of the sound. Yeah, like an engine far off, an engine 183 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:52,840 of a plane starting up and lazily moving away. Sure, Yeah, of 184 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:56,759 course I did hear it. It was the other plane, the one that 185 00:13:56,799 --> 00:14:00,960 had been parked on the landing strip. And as my mind began to clear, 186 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:05,200 I realized that seen something someone else had caught a glimpse before the car 187 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:09,080 struck our landing gear of the man behind the wheel of it, A man 188 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:15,080 whose picture had seen briefly at the home of Constant Landfair. But it couldn't 189 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:26,879 be. Oh, mister Dollar, am I still alive? Yeah? Ask 190 00:14:26,919 --> 00:14:33,799 her? I'm afraid you are. Thank you? But did you? Oh 191 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:41,720 did you see who was driving that car? You recognize him? Look, 192 00:14:41,559 --> 00:14:46,399 maybe they're both dead like he is, and that's why we saw him. 193 00:14:46,639 --> 00:15:09,559 Douglas Landfair, Yes, sir, mister Douglas Lambfair, Johnny Dollar again the 194 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:16,000 status Johnny Yes, Pat mccrak and universal adjustment in hortphone. Oh, hi, 195 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:18,519 Pat, listen as you requested. I had a man sent out of 196 00:15:18,559 --> 00:15:22,240 missus Landfair's Long Island homes see if she'd returned. I suspicion, wrong, 197 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:26,919 Pad, She's still here very much so when you listen. Shoot, the 198 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:30,799 man was a little over ambitious let himself into the house or a basement windows. 199 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:33,840 So while he was there the telephone, right, he wasn't crazy enough 200 00:15:33,879 --> 00:15:37,799 to answer crazy like a fox. It was long distance from right where you 201 00:15:37,879 --> 00:15:41,440 are now, sand Juan del Peril and Johnny, I suspect it was from 202 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:45,120 the man on whose policy she's made a claim for a quarter million dollars her 203 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:48,480 dear departed husband, Douglas Landfair right, and if saw her claim on him, 204 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:52,159 at least his fraudulent. So see if you can dig up some proof, 205 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:54,879 brother, I have it. The man is anything but dead. It 206 00:15:54,919 --> 00:15:58,000 was Douglas Landfair who wrecked our plane when we tried to land here a few 207 00:15:58,039 --> 00:16:18,639 hours ago. And jem sure if he doesn't get me first. From Special 208 00:16:18,679 --> 00:16:22,200 Investigator Johnny Dollar, location, San Juan del Peril, Nicaragua to the Universal 209 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:26,840 Adjustment Bureau, Hertford, Connecticut. Following is an accounting of expenses incurred during 210 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:36,080 my investigation of the Sea Legs matter. Two hundred and fifty thousand insurance claimed 211 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:40,759 by missus Constant Landfair for the death of Douglas Landfair, an addition one hundred 212 00:16:40,759 --> 00:16:44,320 and fifty thousand for the loss of the yacht. The Sea Legs claim number 213 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:47,759 one now proved to be fraudulent, as for number two, the claim on 214 00:16:47,759 --> 00:16:56,080 the yacht expense account adam fourteen two dollars American to the banana plantation worker who 215 00:16:56,080 --> 00:16:59,919 pulled us out of the small plane that Douglas Landfair wrecked as we tried to 216 00:17:00,879 --> 00:17:03,960 and another dollar that said plantation worker for a ride in the town in his 217 00:17:03,079 --> 00:17:07,200 ancient truck. I must admit that this is one time that my ubiquitous assistant, 218 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:11,000 Oscar Patrick Vladimir Pasquero, came in handy through his knowledge of the Spanish 219 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:18,160 Indian dialects spoken in these parts. Apparently, San Juan del Pero had once 220 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:22,640 been a fairly busy little seaport, but over a period of years the sea 221 00:17:22,759 --> 00:17:26,599 had slowly inexorably washed in shallow sandbars, and only a handful of small cargo 222 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:30,720 and fishing boats now negotiated the narrow channels that led out to the Blue Caribbean. 223 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:36,799 The town itself was scattered around a small marketplace near the docks. There 224 00:17:36,799 --> 00:17:40,359 were a few stone and brick buildings, including the San Andrea Hotel, but 225 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:45,799 most of them were weather beaten frame structures. An occasional aged American car kicked 226 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:48,519 up the dust, but most of the street traffic was ox carts. I 227 00:17:48,559 --> 00:17:52,000 had him fifteen two dollars American to a doctor with an unpronounceable name, who 228 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:56,160 came to our room at the San Andre and patched us up, and about 229 00:17:56,160 --> 00:17:57,960 seven pm he left, after instructing us to spend the rest of the night 230 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:02,920 in bed. Id am sixteen another two dollars for a sumptuous dinner brought to 231 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:07,279 our rown American dollars. I learned go far in this place, unless, 232 00:18:07,319 --> 00:18:11,119 of course, Oscar gets his hands on them. You could let me handle 233 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:12,880 all the bill for you while you're here in Nicaragua, mister dollar. Yeah. 234 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:15,359 Sure, and lets you take a fifty percent commission on all of them, 235 00:18:17,359 --> 00:18:19,640 mister dollar. When the poor fellow who rented us that plane to get 236 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:22,440 down here starts patching it up, my expense account is going to take a 237 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:26,799 big enough beating. Have no fear. I will supervise the repair from the 238 00:18:26,799 --> 00:18:33,279 plane myself. Yeah, for a small pittance, of course. Ah, 239 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:37,519 what a wonderful din there. Now to sleep it off, you sleep all 240 00:18:37,559 --> 00:18:41,200 you want. I got work to do. Work. Yeah. Besides, 241 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:44,640 you still haven't told me why we flew down here in the first place. 242 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:47,640 I still don't listen, ask her. A couple of years ago, land 243 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:51,000 Fair lost a power cruiser off the Baldero Island. I know, I told 244 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:52,440 you. I helped him and his wife and his captain get the shore. 245 00:18:52,519 --> 00:18:56,920 He collected eighty five thousand dollars for that boat from his insurance company. I 246 00:18:56,920 --> 00:18:59,880 saw the boat it was worth the eighty five thousand, so he should have 247 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:03,079 and shewed it for more. Maybe one hundred thousand made himself a profit, 248 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:07,119 A very poor business matter. Will you listen? The ease of collecting on 249 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:10,440 that loss must have given him ideas. What's more, he could do with 250 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:12,960 some money. The fdal of state was running law anyhow. A few weeks 251 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:17,359 ago he brings a yacht, a motor sailor down here, right. This 252 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:19,960 one's insured for one hundred and fifty thousand, and his own life is insured 253 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:23,519 for a quarter million. Maybe he's not such a boat businessman after all. 254 00:19:23,559 --> 00:19:26,279 He takes the sea legs out to the very same place where he lost the 255 00:19:26,279 --> 00:19:30,599 first boat. This time he leaves his wife ashore. He and the skiffergoat 256 00:19:30,599 --> 00:19:34,240 alone, presumably to check on some new radio equipment he's installed. Sure, 257 00:19:34,279 --> 00:19:38,160 we made the radio contact from my own personal centd around shore i Portaguardo, 258 00:19:38,279 --> 00:19:41,559 but the contact was suddenly cut off. I had And the next thing we 259 00:19:41,599 --> 00:19:45,440 know, missus ellis back at her home on Long Island, claiming a total 260 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:48,400 of four hundred thousand. Well why not if she thought he went down with 261 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:51,400 the board, Because I don't think she did What's more, I'm going to 262 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:55,720 approve of of course I knew it all the time, because if he drowned 263 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:59,200 off the Bulnarda Islands, what was he doing here today driving the car that 264 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:02,599 wrecked our plane unless he was dead? And do you know something, mister 265 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:06,559 Dolla, I don't believe it, Oscar. There was somebody in the cabin 266 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:08,960 of that other plane waiting to take off with him after he smashed our landing 267 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:11,839 gear. You didn't see who, No, but I'll give you odds it 268 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:17,000 was Constant Landfair. Another thing, she said that when the sea legs went 269 00:20:17,039 --> 00:20:19,400 down, she heard it go over the radio. You said that the signal 270 00:20:19,519 --> 00:20:23,400 just suddenly cut off, mister Doll. You don't think they up us wrecked 271 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:26,960 at all, not anymore than I think Landfair went down with it. Then 272 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:30,640 there is it? Well, I have a hunch it's right here in San 273 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:33,039 Juan del Peril. Yes, But wouldn't everybody know the boat, oh, 274 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:36,960 Oscar. One of the oldest insurance rackets in the world is to fake a 275 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:40,200 shipwreck, take the hull to some obscure foreign port, dress it up a 276 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:42,200 new paint and rigging, then put it to sea again. Why didn't I 277 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:45,839 think of such an if I remember rightly, I spotted a couple of old 278 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:48,079 shipyards down here when we circle the land. Yeah. Sure, but there's 279 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:52,160 only one that does any work. You know what it is, of course, 280 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:55,319 I do. You see how invaluable I am to you, And that's 281 00:20:55,319 --> 00:20:57,319 where we're going right now. But mister Dollar, but if you do find 282 00:20:57,319 --> 00:21:02,400 the boat, what do you mean Landfair has already flew the goose. He 283 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:06,079 took off in the other plane after we cracked up. Look, well, 284 00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:08,119 take things as they come along. Right now, while we're here, I 285 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:11,000 want to look for that yacht. I saw an excellent picture of it, 286 00:21:11,039 --> 00:21:14,759 and I'm sure if I find it, I can identify it. And if 287 00:21:14,799 --> 00:21:18,680 we do find it, we will have twice the case against the landfairs. 288 00:21:18,039 --> 00:21:23,200 Mister, mister Dollar, I am fortunate to be working for such a spelling 289 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:30,640 silver fourteen cartad genius for the most outstanding intelligent eas Get your hands out of 290 00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:33,559 my pockets. There's one other thing I'd like to find. One person, 291 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:41,079 unless Landfair murdered him, who is one man crew Ohm Gonzalez. The same 292 00:21:41,079 --> 00:21:42,279 man is on the first three. Well, if he was allowed to live 293 00:21:42,319 --> 00:21:45,240 through the first wreck, he was probably in cahoots with Landfair and therefore is 294 00:21:45,279 --> 00:21:49,920 still around. Would you recognize him if you saw him? Maybe so, 295 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:55,480 maybe not. The first three he was big and fat. The second tree 296 00:21:55,519 --> 00:21:59,319 he was skinnier. He wore a beard on his face. If he's changed 297 00:21:59,319 --> 00:22:02,799 again, yeah, you're a lot of help. I thought you never forgot 298 00:22:02,799 --> 00:22:06,079 a name or a face, But mister dollar him, I never made any 299 00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:08,640 money off of Well, come on, get into your clothes and let's prowl 300 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:17,960 around the shipyard. It was only a few minutes after eight, but the 301 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:22,640 town was practically asleep, except for an old saloon down near the docks. 302 00:22:22,279 --> 00:22:26,680 Quietly so not to disturb the snoozing night clerk, we let ourselves out of 303 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:30,839 the hotel and headed for the waterfront. The night was clear and moonment, 304 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:36,680 so we had no trouble finding the way. I glanced hopefully into the open 305 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:38,920 door of the dock side saloon as we passed it, and I chuckled at 306 00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:44,240 the incongruity of the music blurring away, But of course saw no one that 307 00:22:45,519 --> 00:22:49,400 Wait a minute, asking sir at that table in there drinking beer, Hey, 308 00:22:49,519 --> 00:22:52,319 can one of them be the Raymon Gonzales you mentioned? So who can 309 00:22:52,319 --> 00:22:56,359 tell from here and send one. There must be a hundred who are skinny 310 00:22:56,400 --> 00:23:00,200 and very dirty? Little beard on the face? Did you tell from close 311 00:23:00,279 --> 00:23:04,400 up? Sure? What do you recognize? You? So that might not 312 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:08,960 be very healthy for you, Ah, mister Dollar, working on an important 313 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:14,680 campaign for you, my dearest friend. I would gladly lay down my life 314 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:18,119 for you for a small pittons of course, of course. Anyhow how would 315 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:22,079 you know I am working for you? Okay, okay, then sonor and 316 00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:33,920 then take a look. Okay, I'll wait right here. Good evening, 317 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:48,799 gentlemen. Nice say that that we're having hand es Wendya No mmmm well, 318 00:23:48,839 --> 00:23:53,680 well well if it isn't my old power among gonzales, how are you a 319 00:23:53,839 --> 00:24:00,960 mot? Yes? Me a stranger? Yeah, I'm one of your oldest 320 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:10,720 and dearest friends. Tell me and eago Remember gald I am Oscar Patrick, 321 00:24:10,759 --> 00:24:15,319 bloody maple Scuerrow. You know, just a fine old Spanish name who helped 322 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:17,920 you ashore that time when you no no, no, no no no, 323 00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:32,720 we'll put on that bottle the motto mister doll. Mister, I don't think 324 00:24:32,759 --> 00:24:36,119 they like you to interrupt the little beer party. He threatened me that I 325 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:40,039 Mike, He said he would kill me, is he reminded Zales. Oh, 326 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:42,200 yes, yes, I'm sure you see, mister Dollar, he did 327 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:45,319 not go down with the ship. You're telling me, well, aren't you 328 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:48,599 going to do something about him later? If I locate the Sea Legs. 329 00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:56,160 Cautiously, quietly looking back over my shoulder, now we prowl through the old 330 00:24:56,160 --> 00:25:00,480 shipyard, and finally, led by the smell of fred Wish paint, I 331 00:25:00,519 --> 00:25:04,920 found it. The once clean white hull was painted a gaudy red and blue, 332 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:08,960 and given the appearance of age. The mahogany rail and taffrel had been 333 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:15,440 replaced with iron pipe, the beautiful teakwood deck painted a dirty gray. The 334 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:18,839 whealelhouse have been moved, the cabin aldared, even the mass bouseprit and general 335 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:22,680 rigging changed, stanchions, cleats, all the hardware that once been polshed bronze 336 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:26,799 was now corroded or painted over all in all, a quick, very thorough 337 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:32,000 job of the sky. It's a change from a graceful, expensive yacht to 338 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,319 a rather weary looking fishing schooner. But it was the Sea Legs, all 339 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:41,799 right. I would never believed, mister Doll, I never would have recognized 340 00:25:41,839 --> 00:25:47,720 it. Are you sure wind your hand over the transfermetor you can feel where 341 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:52,720 the lettering has been painted over? Bet or not? Somebody? That's two 342 00:25:52,799 --> 00:25:56,559 right now? Do you see where the outline of the lettering is underneath this 343 00:25:56,720 --> 00:26:03,200 last coat of painted see lakes? But it was such a beautiful boat. 344 00:26:04,559 --> 00:26:11,839 No, it looks like like there't the old tramp? Yeah? Well, 345 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:15,400 what do we do now? Go back to that saloon and latch you under 346 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:22,720 Roman Gonzales. Make him talk, sure, only I'll wait for you. 347 00:26:23,799 --> 00:26:27,240 He's so big and strong, mister Doll. And that knife in his belt. 348 00:26:27,319 --> 00:26:32,000 Why I thought you said you'd lay down your life. Sure, sure, 349 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:36,680 but what could he tell you that you don't already know now where the 350 00:26:36,759 --> 00:26:38,680 land first headed when they took off on that plane. Come on, but 351 00:26:38,759 --> 00:26:52,400 I okay you, mister, I was afraid of that. Look the knife 352 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:56,000 in his hand. Ask her if he makes one move to throw it, 353 00:26:56,079 --> 00:26:59,599 pull the trigger. Trigger trigger? No no, no, no, I 354 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:08,799 swear, but I have a couple of fish. Well, let's bring him 355 00:27:08,839 --> 00:27:11,160 in, bring him to so I can question. No, no, no, 356 00:27:11,039 --> 00:27:15,720 no, let let's get out of here. Please, mister Dolly. 357 00:27:15,319 --> 00:27:21,720 He may have a friend, that aunt, right oscarr he has and this 358 00:27:21,799 --> 00:27:33,400 one carries a gun aimed straighted. Mister Dallas back well well missus Lambfeir surprised 359 00:27:33,319 --> 00:27:57,000 Johnny Johnny, Hello, captain, thanks for returning my call. You are 360 00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:03,599 wonder Yeah yeah, listen, Captain, I need your help. Can you 361 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:06,319 get a plane down here for me? The one we brought has been wrecked, 362 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:11,240 and if I were you had come along with it. A nice chance 363 00:28:11,279 --> 00:28:15,519 to add to your laurels, Captain by making a couple of arrests. Yeah, 364 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:30,759 one of the killer from Special Investigator Johnny Dollar location, San Juan del 365 00:28:30,759 --> 00:28:36,599 Pero, Nicaragua, the Universal Adjustment Bureau, Hertford, Connecticut. Following is 366 00:28:36,599 --> 00:28:40,480 a final accounting of expenses and report on my investigation of the Sea Legs matter. 367 00:28:44,039 --> 00:28:48,200 Expense account out of eighteen one dollar American phone call to Captain Jose rameris 368 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:52,079 of the Federal Maritime. I still can't spell it, call it the Coastguard. 369 00:28:52,599 --> 00:28:55,319 But a lot of things happened before I could make that call, like 370 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:57,519 the fast plane trip that we made the San Juan del Pero in the hope 371 00:28:57,559 --> 00:29:02,000 of finding the yacht the Sea Legs, despite a big insurance claim based on 372 00:29:02,039 --> 00:29:04,880 its alleged loss at sea. Like the fact that our plane was wrecked for 373 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:08,880 us by one Douglas Landfair, despite a big claim based on his alleged death 374 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:14,319 at sea. Like our discovery of the yacht carefully altered and repainted in an 375 00:29:14,359 --> 00:29:18,799 old shipyard, our discovery of Raymond Gonzales, a member of the crew who 376 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:22,359 was supposed to have gone down with it. Let's get out of here. 377 00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:26,160 Oh no, asking not until I revived this Gonzales character and make him talk 378 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:36,039 arid and with a gun and stray. Well. Well, Connie Landfair, 379 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:45,519 guys, Johnny not particularly, No, No, I guess you wouldn't. 380 00:29:47,039 --> 00:29:52,359 So you found the sea legs did help you? Then you're familiar with Oscar 381 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:59,039 Patrick Vladimir Pasquero. Ask him the chiseling money grab? Please please, how 382 00:29:59,079 --> 00:30:02,599 can you say such a think the disc shut up? Oscar? Thank you, 383 00:30:03,119 --> 00:30:06,400 nice job you did it disguising the sea legs, missus Lambfeir. If 384 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:08,000 Oscar hadn't shown you where to find, if my husband and I would have 385 00:30:08,039 --> 00:30:11,039 it out to sea again and you closed under a new phone. Yeah, 386 00:30:11,079 --> 00:30:15,039 sure. One of the oldest games in the business. And in the meantime 387 00:30:15,079 --> 00:30:18,279 you would have collected one hundred and fifty thousand dollars on a supposed loss, 388 00:30:18,599 --> 00:30:22,839 in addition to a quarter million on your husband, Douglas. Why did you 389 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:26,119 have to come along, Johnny? I'm afraid you asked for it when you 390 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:30,599 filed your claims four hundred thousand dollars. We had to. We were in 391 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:33,559 trouble. Oh sure, because you spent every nickel you could get your hands 392 00:30:33,559 --> 00:30:37,799 off. No, we inherited the estate, I told Uglas, sure, 393 00:30:37,839 --> 00:30:40,440 all his forts true. Well, that ain't the way I heard it, 394 00:30:40,839 --> 00:30:42,440 and I don't intend to believe it anymore than I believe a couple of things 395 00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:45,279 you told me on the plane down here. You don't understand. Nobody has 396 00:30:45,359 --> 00:30:51,000 to lie. Remember how you're sobbd as you're told about the last radio contact 397 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,200 with your husband. As you put it, you could hear the rocks grinding 398 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:56,880 away at the hall and the water pouring in overside as he desperately fought for 399 00:30:56,920 --> 00:31:00,799 his PLEA. Well, I heard it a little different for Oscar. Here. 400 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:04,279 The radio signal was suddenly cut off. That's all, no fancy sound 401 00:31:04,319 --> 00:31:11,279 effects, nothing, Oscar and what rocks by the way that smashed the sea 402 00:31:11,359 --> 00:31:14,599 legs. I flew out to the Baldero Islands and tried to find them. 403 00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:17,799 They were as non existent as the wreckage that should have washed the shore on 404 00:31:17,839 --> 00:31:21,200 the Baldero current. I'm beginning to see some things. Johnny, the maid 405 00:31:21,279 --> 00:31:22,759 or skipper or whatever you want to call him, who was supposed to have 406 00:31:22,839 --> 00:31:26,799 been with your husband, had been lost with a bold raym on Gonzales. 407 00:31:26,119 --> 00:31:29,480 Well, as you can see, he wasn't quick enough when he attacked us 408 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:32,000 here a minute ago. And I had a little rough with him, as 409 00:31:32,119 --> 00:31:33,920 you are, having a gun pointing at my back. Stopped kidding, Connie, 410 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:45,240 you know more? You were too good for him. Well, a 411 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:51,559 lot to help you were. That his knife is here, I think i'd 412 00:31:51,559 --> 00:31:56,200 better have it, Oscar, because well, I see Connie land for me 413 00:31:56,279 --> 00:32:00,039 a hasty exit from the seat. Well what do you know about you didn't 414 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:04,880 see her leave? Well, it's so dark in this old shipyard, and 415 00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:08,400 I was so worried about you, dear mister do you should be plenty of 416 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:13,319 worry. Look, why won't we get out? I needed only two things 417 00:32:13,359 --> 00:32:15,519 when I came down here. Oscar proofs both of them. Why don't we 418 00:32:15,559 --> 00:32:20,079 get out of this dreary place, mister Dollar and talk someplace else where? 419 00:32:20,119 --> 00:32:24,200 There's shut up and listen. I found them both now proof that Douglas Landfair 420 00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:27,559 never died in the wreck of the Sea Legs, and proof that the Sea 421 00:32:27,599 --> 00:32:30,200 Legs was never wrecked at all. Except for a couple of details, the 422 00:32:30,279 --> 00:32:36,440 case is closed. One of those details is you me? Oh, you 423 00:32:36,519 --> 00:32:42,240 mean paying me for all the unvaluable help? Nice, I'll ask her. 424 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:45,599 I'm going to lay the cards right on the table, and the money I'll 425 00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:50,160 find it. Listen to me. Connie Landfair slipped away during our little rockets 426 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:52,319 year, but you could have stopped her as easily as you could have stopped 427 00:32:52,319 --> 00:32:57,519 this Gonzales character from jumping. She she said she had a gun, bluff 428 00:32:57,559 --> 00:33:00,920 She didn't, But you did me. Oh, mister doll, I sparted 429 00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:04,880 that ball gunder your left arm the minute you appeared in my hotel room that 430 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,200 first morning. Well, don't reach for it, because I'm carrying one too, 431 00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:13,400 mister dollar Dear, I don't understand what I do now. I've wandered 432 00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:15,519 from the beginning. Just why you insisted on sticking so close to me from 433 00:33:15,519 --> 00:33:22,480 the minute I arrived here in Icaragua. Oh right, I will tell you 434 00:33:22,519 --> 00:33:27,039 the truth, the whole truth, even if it costs me a small slight 435 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:31,319 percentage of the munipicent fees you're going to pay me for the unesteemable assistance I've 436 00:33:31,319 --> 00:33:36,559 been giving it. Ask him, you just won't give up with you the 437 00:33:36,599 --> 00:33:39,279 money if that's what it is, the money like I get from all the 438 00:33:39,319 --> 00:33:43,640 Americans who come here to Nicaragua, only from you. It does not for 439 00:33:43,799 --> 00:33:47,440 sightseeing guiding, but for all the hell like for instance, the money you've 440 00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:52,599 been getting from the landfairs. I cannot tell a lie, mister dollar. 441 00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:54,960 I did get some money from mister and this is landfair, you know, 442 00:33:55,079 --> 00:34:00,119 for various and Sunday services when first they came. But by not incline if 443 00:34:00,119 --> 00:34:04,720 you saying it. You see, if I hadn't known they would pay me 444 00:34:04,759 --> 00:34:07,599 well for the using of my radio license, my unlicensed trade you because a 445 00:34:07,679 --> 00:34:12,079 license cost too much, I would never have been able to know about the 446 00:34:12,079 --> 00:34:15,559 wreck that didn't happen. And so skillfully leads you to the Buldana Islands and 447 00:34:15,599 --> 00:34:22,559 all the clues that that I you know what I mean, What you really 448 00:34:22,599 --> 00:34:24,480 mean, Oscar, is that you expected a lot more from them if they're 449 00:34:24,519 --> 00:34:29,559 crazy planned to collect on the insurance policies worked out. You should because no, 450 00:34:29,559 --> 00:34:31,760 no, mister Dollar. No, I was only trying to help you. 451 00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:36,400 Think, mister Dollar, about all the things I've told you about it, 452 00:34:36,519 --> 00:34:38,480 you were careful not to tell me a single thing that I wouldn't have 453 00:34:38,519 --> 00:34:43,840 learned anyway. Why did you insist right off the bat that we fly to 454 00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:47,079 Portagardo, for instance? Why apparently they helped me for a small pittance, 455 00:34:47,119 --> 00:34:51,119 of course, but actually it was to keep me out of the way while 456 00:34:51,199 --> 00:34:53,960 Constant Landfair made contact with her husband here in San Juan del Paradle. Please 457 00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:58,039 no doubt you worked that all out with her before you busted in on me 458 00:34:58,079 --> 00:35:01,000 that first morning. Then when we did get to Porto Gardo, tried to 459 00:35:01,039 --> 00:35:05,119 prevent me from spotting the current would have taken any wreckage from the islands and 460 00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:07,840 washed it ashore on the sand barred Porto Gardo if the sea legs had gone 461 00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:13,119 down. That isn't no no, no, I told you about that strong 462 00:35:14,559 --> 00:35:17,159 Sure you did, but only because you realized at that point that I couldn't 463 00:35:17,159 --> 00:35:22,400 help finding out about it anyway. Mister bar you're making a crook out there, 464 00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:24,079 making a crook, have you? Well? I had this little item 465 00:35:24,119 --> 00:35:29,119 oscar when we started to land our plane and Douglas Landfair came at us with 466 00:35:29,119 --> 00:35:30,360 this car. You know as well as I do that you could have avoided 467 00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:34,800 it kept us from stamping off our landing gear and crashing. Oh it was 468 00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:37,039 nicely done too, so that you wouldn't get badly hurt, would still be 469 00:35:37,119 --> 00:35:43,000 up and around to collect from landfare for it. Oh, mister, how 470 00:35:43,119 --> 00:35:47,039 can you even implicate such a horrible thing? You, my bear is my 471 00:35:47,199 --> 00:35:52,440 own dyke because of your little suggestion along the way that I unfastened my seat 472 00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:54,800 belt and relax, while you, I notice, kept yours tight one thing 473 00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:59,079 after another, and finally, of course, armed as you are. You 474 00:35:59,159 --> 00:36:01,719 not only that Gonzas attack me, but you let Conny land for escape as 475 00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:07,800 well, and all for money. Money, that's all you've talked about. 476 00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:15,519 How did you figure the collect for all this? All right, it's gee, 477 00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:21,320 it's true. All my life, in every country in the world, 478 00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:24,480 I've been, whatever I have done has been because I love money. But 479 00:36:24,559 --> 00:36:30,199 I swear with mister Dollar, I would have never let them kill you, 480 00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:36,840 because I do like mister Doll. I almost even with all the money I 481 00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:42,440 could get from them, I almost gave it up, or whatever you could 482 00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:50,960 get from me yes, and because you're such a nice man. I guess 483 00:36:51,000 --> 00:37:00,000 I'm not used to being around nice Well, missus, l don't be too 484 00:37:00,079 --> 00:37:04,559 hard on her. It was all his doings. He had such a strong 485 00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:08,760 hold over her, the way he treated her. Sometimes I almost thought she 486 00:37:09,159 --> 00:37:12,960 wished he had gone down in the wreck of the boat. What are you 487 00:37:13,079 --> 00:37:15,719 talking about? She's stolen it because by now she's so far in she has 488 00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:19,639 to stick with him, don't you see? Oh, yeah, I suppose 489 00:37:19,639 --> 00:37:22,679 that does make sense, all right? What else? Yeah, that's all 490 00:37:24,159 --> 00:37:32,039 I have opened up my whole entire heart. Well, mister Dollar, For 491 00:37:32,199 --> 00:37:38,320 once in my life, I'm telling the truth. I thought maybe I could 492 00:37:38,519 --> 00:37:45,760 persuade you to pay me more than they could. Then I could be on 493 00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:52,079 your side, on the good side, just for once. But now I 494 00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:57,440 guess I can only beg for your mercy. One thing you haven't told me 495 00:37:57,639 --> 00:38:01,960 where Douglas Landfair is? You must know, well, do you? Yes? 496 00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:07,119 Well, for maybe enough of a small pittance to get out of this 497 00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:09,159 country. Can't get over it, can you? Well, you have much 498 00:38:09,159 --> 00:38:13,320 of a choice. This time you will help me, maybe just a little 499 00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:16,119 bit. If I kill I'm leaving, I hope, mister Dollar, so 500 00:38:16,199 --> 00:38:21,960 I will tell you, mister Lane, mister land Fair is right here and 501 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:23,599 well armed Oscar ready to blow your brains out for what you just told this 502 00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:29,719 nosey insurance investigator. We careful, please, mister he has again? Yeah, 503 00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:35,559 I see so if you ask her, yes, yes, I have 504 00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:37,000 careful Oscar. And if it is the last thing I do with a man 505 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:54,159 who got me into this is going. So it was after that I call 506 00:38:54,280 --> 00:39:00,719 Captain Ramirez, the Federal MERI teammates. Someday I'll learned that work and let 507 00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:06,159 him take charge. Extradition proceedings for Connie are underway. The US courts will 508 00:39:06,199 --> 00:39:08,880 have to take over with her, and Doug Landfair's body is being shipped to 509 00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:14,559 the States. Oscar his body, well, I left some money with Captain 510 00:39:14,639 --> 00:39:20,199 Ramirez for a decent burial expense account total eight hundred and forty dollars ninety five 511 00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:24,559 cents. Remarks. I wonder what kind of a deal Oscar Patrick Vladimir Pluscarol 512 00:39:24,679 --> 00:39:29,679 was able to make at the Pearly Gates or wherever he was headed. And 513 00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:34,199 you know something, I kind of hope it was a pretty well, at 514 00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:38,000 least I hope it wasn't too bad a deal. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. 515 00:39:50,599 --> 00:39:54,360 Next week, the promise of romance in the arms of a lovely girl and 516 00:39:54,400 --> 00:40:00,280 the threat of a knife in the back Join us, won't you? As 517 00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:25,679 truly Johnny Dollar. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed 518 00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:30,920 in Hollywood. It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone, who also wrote 519 00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:36,840 this week's story. Heard in our cast were Harry Bartel, Lawrence Dubkin, 520 00:40:37,079 --> 00:40:43,199 Virginia Gray, Harley, bear, Don Diamond, and Russell Thorson musical supervision 521 00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:53,119 by Amarigo Marino. Johnny Dollar has come to you through the worldwide facilities of 522 00:40:53,199 --> 00:42:22,920 the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service to welcome back such an interesting 523 00:42:23,079 --> 00:42:28,440 story. The timing of the phone call for the final episode was a bit 524 00:42:28,519 --> 00:42:31,400 wonky, but other than that, I thought this was a good serial and 525 00:42:31,559 --> 00:42:37,280 Oscar is yet another memorable Jack Johnstone character. And I have to say that 526 00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:44,480 anyone who had listened to the first four episodes out of curiosity when the fifth 527 00:42:44,559 --> 00:42:49,559 had not been in circulation would be very surprised by the ending. Throughout the 528 00:42:49,639 --> 00:42:52,559 story, Johnny played things close to the best, and so did Oscar. 529 00:42:53,159 --> 00:42:59,400 What Oscar did was really obvious only in retrospect, so it was a great 530 00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:06,199 twist. And as we're Oscar, this is an interesting story because throughout the 531 00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:10,400 series he's mostly a comic character until that last scene where the mask drops and 532 00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:15,239 you really get that moment where you get to see a little bit of the 533 00:43:15,679 --> 00:43:22,360 truth about Oscar and his death at the end is tragic, shocking and really 534 00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:27,280 unexpected. It hit me harder than I expected to me. I think it 535 00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:31,519 speaks to Johnstone as a writer in his view of humanity. Yes, some 536 00:43:31,639 --> 00:43:37,199 people may have things about them that are amusing, or they may be a 537 00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:43,920 bit of a rascal or a rogue, or however you might view them as 538 00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:46,079 people, but at the end of the day, they are people with real 539 00:43:46,159 --> 00:43:52,199 hopes, aspirations and dreams. And he creates these really large characters who have 540 00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:58,239 hidden depths and shows us that there's more to them than their outlandis exterior. 541 00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:02,280 And I think that we're left with a lot of questions too about Oscar Patrick 542 00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:07,199 Vladimir Pascuero at the end of the story and why he was the way he 543 00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:13,960 was. So I think it was definitely very well constructed and written from that 544 00:44:14,079 --> 00:44:17,559 character's perspective, though I do have to say, Oscars, I would have 545 00:44:17,679 --> 00:44:22,760 never let them kill you. Stance doesn't quite jibe with letting Johnny go into 546 00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:29,599 the crash with his seat belt unbuckled. He should probably also give Pat McCracken 547 00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:36,840 an award for corporate euphemism when he described a detective breaking and entering into an 548 00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:43,960 insured person's home as ambitious. I'll say, well, listener comments and feedback, 549 00:44:44,119 --> 00:44:47,039 and we've got comments on multiple serials, so I hope no one gets 550 00:44:47,159 --> 00:44:52,760 lost in all of this. But we'll start out with a question from Saint 551 00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:59,559 Winston on YouTube regarding the long shot matter. Who was the famous Darryl referenced 552 00:44:59,679 --> 00:45:02,119 at the the beginning. Well, I can only guess. I wasn't one 553 00:45:02,199 --> 00:45:07,599 hundred percent certain, so I didn't tackle it on the ceial, but if 554 00:45:07,639 --> 00:45:13,000 I had to guess, I would say they might be referencing Darryl Zennik. 555 00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:20,119 Xanik had been the studio head at twentieth Century Fox for twelve years. He 556 00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:24,840 resigned pretty suddenly in nineteen fifty six, though, the year this serial was 557 00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:32,039 released, and went to Europe to independently produce films, and it definitely raised 558 00:45:32,039 --> 00:45:39,880 some serious problems in terms of twentieth century Fox struggling to be successful after Xanik's 559 00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:46,280 departure, now checking out newspapers dot com. Zanick's resignation appears to have been 560 00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:52,199 in February, and the serial was released in the summer, and even in 561 00:45:52,519 --> 00:45:58,320 a pre twenty four hour news cycle that would seem to be old news. 562 00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:01,719 To have it referenced, it's the main thing I can think of. It 563 00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:07,480 would be appropriate given that the story was set on the West Coast in and 564 00:46:07,519 --> 00:46:13,760 around Los Angeles, and the inclusion of the reference at the start may also 565 00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:19,559 be a testament as to when Tony Barrett started writing the script. But again 566 00:46:19,679 --> 00:46:22,599 that's a guess. If anyone has an idea and you think, no, 567 00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:29,519 I wasn't Daryl Zannik, or there was reason why Darryl Zannik would be top 568 00:46:29,599 --> 00:46:35,599 of listener's mind as late as the summer nineteen fifty six, do let me 569 00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:42,199 know. And then another listener on YouTube comments regarding something in the Shady Lane 570 00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:45,599 matter real radios glow in the dark question mark. I remember when I was 571 00:46:45,639 --> 00:46:52,840 a kid, my grandfather had an old AM RCLA radio in the garage and 572 00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:57,280 when you turn it on, you could hear the electricit popping and smell the 573 00:46:57,320 --> 00:47:02,920 ozone coming off of it. I have very limited experience with that type of 574 00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:07,320 radio, but I think I do know what you're talking about. And then 575 00:47:07,639 --> 00:47:15,719 Eileen commented regarding the modest touch matter, and she writes, my husband was 576 00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:22,480 disappointed. If the killer really did qualify for that shooters association, they aka 577 00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:28,159 Johnny and Buster would not have survived that horrendous ride when they were being shot 578 00:47:28,199 --> 00:47:31,239 at. He knows the qualifications for that group. Well, thanks for the 579 00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:35,840 comment, Aileen, and that's a fair point. There was a book I 580 00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:40,599 read a few years back called four Hundred Things Cops Know, A was written 581 00:47:40,639 --> 00:47:45,920 by Adam Plantinga. I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly, And one of the 582 00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:53,199 things he said in there is that generally criminals are not good shots, particularly 583 00:47:53,280 --> 00:48:00,639 when compared to the police, because the police are required to put in a 584 00:48:00,639 --> 00:48:06,719 certain number of hours with their weapon on the firing range, and criminals, 585 00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:09,519 for various reasons, do not do this as a rule. Obviously, there 586 00:48:09,559 --> 00:48:16,480 are exceptions, so you can realistically have criminals missing all over the place. 587 00:48:16,639 --> 00:48:24,760 But if you make a point of giving a criminal character these serious shooting certifications, 588 00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:29,840 then having them miss our hero all over the place, Like, what 589 00:48:30,039 --> 00:48:31,719 is the point? I mean, so the ear can say, well, 590 00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:37,559 she would have got me, but a trustee plot armor saved me. Of 591 00:48:37,599 --> 00:48:40,400 course, Johnny Dollar's not alone in doing that. I mean, if you 592 00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:46,079 follow these programs, whether radio or television or whatever, you would think that 593 00:48:46,519 --> 00:48:52,840 having these shooting certifications means absolutely nothing. Now, of course, if you're 594 00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:58,719 writing that sort of story and you've got that sort of villain who's was put 595 00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:04,280 in the time and effort to common expert shooter, you just can't have the 596 00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:09,719 hero win because the villain keeps missing inexplicably. I mean, that's just silly. 597 00:49:10,639 --> 00:49:15,079 And then finally on Instagram, have a comment from forty six to thirty 598 00:49:15,159 --> 00:49:20,679 Open Station. I really enjoy Johnny Dollars so much. Thanks for putting these 599 00:49:20,679 --> 00:49:23,920 together. Makes my week. I drive a truck delivering feed. Well, 600 00:49:23,960 --> 00:49:28,840 thank you so much, and keep on trucking. Well. Now it's time 601 00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:32,559 to thank our Patreon supporter of the day. Thank you to James, Patreon 602 00:49:32,599 --> 00:49:38,719 supporter since October twenty twenty two, currently supporting the podcast at the Detective Sergeant 603 00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:43,920 level of seven dollars and fourteen cents or more per month. Thank you so 604 00:49:44,039 --> 00:49:46,639 much for your support, James, and that will do it for today. 605 00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:52,039 If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software, 606 00:49:52,239 --> 00:49:57,280 And if you're enjoying the podcast on YouTube, be sure to like the video, 607 00:49:57,480 --> 00:50:00,679 subscribe to the channel, and mark the note of a casing bell. 608 00:50:00,039 --> 00:50:07,239 We'll be back on Tuesday with the start of our yours truly Johnny Dollar Christmas 609 00:50:07,239 --> 00:50:19,559 Cereal. But join us back here tomorrow for drag Netwere the elevator, yeah, 610 00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:37,440 Segre no, thanks? Yeah, yeah, okay, it's down this 611 00:50:37,519 --> 00:50:46,159 way. Let me show you to the left, the window up ahead, 612 00:50:49,199 --> 00:50:52,760 Yeah this one. I don't see anything on the wedows. Say it's on 613 00:50:52,840 --> 00:51:00,400 the outside and open the window and let me check. Yeah, let me 614 00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:02,880 see you. He's trying to jump in here. Back here. I hope 615 00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:07,519 you'll be with us then. In the meantime, do send your comments to 616 00:51:07,719 --> 00:51:13,360 Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, 617 00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:16,519 and check us out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com, slash Great 618 00:51:16,559 --> 00:51:22,880 Detectives From Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.