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It's time now for Shanny Deller. 14 00:01:46,439 --> 00:01:49,719 Lieutenant Barry here, Oh hi, Lieutenant, you're stepping on toes Johnny 15 00:01:49,719 --> 00:01:53,760 Boy, who's now doctor Victor Palm quizt here you had a chat with him, 16 00:01:53,799 --> 00:01:56,280 just how he had chat with a clan whatever it was. He was 17 00:01:56,359 --> 00:01:59,519 very unhappy about it. He called you, Yeah, very snide too, 18 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:01,239 said if we had any more questions, to leave him alone and call his 19 00:02:01,319 --> 00:02:05,760 lawyers, and to keep unauthorized people away from him, meaning me meaning you. 20 00:02:05,879 --> 00:02:07,520 Well, what's he worried about. You've already got his wife's killer in 21 00:02:07,599 --> 00:02:10,840 jail, haven't you. Everybody buys it but you, Johnny, you said 22 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:14,560 it before. I'm a hard sale. Meet me for lunch. I'll try 23 00:02:14,599 --> 00:02:25,039 to sell you tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey, in the Transcribed 24 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:30,840 Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expenser, cout America's fabulous freelance insurance 25 00:02:30,879 --> 00:02:47,199 investigator, US Truly Johnny Dollar. From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar location in Los 26 00:02:47,199 --> 00:02:53,280 Angeles, California to National Underwriters' Association one one eight zero River Road, Hertford, 27 00:02:53,319 --> 00:03:02,319 Connecticut assignment. The long shot matter Expencer count continued Item three one dollar 28 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:07,639 even taxi to the Barkley for lunch with Lieutenant Berry. But let me backtrack 29 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:09,919 for a minute. Coming down on the hotel elevator, I kept thinking over 30 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:14,919 what the Lieutenant had said, and I disagreed completely. I wasn't a hard 31 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:19,240 sale. It's just that I wasn't an early sale. There were too many 32 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:23,000 angles to the death of Missus Palmquist, too many things I didn't know yet. 33 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:27,080 I got proof of that the minute I stepped outside the hotel. The 34 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:30,879 white kids sit in parked directly across the street contained a really interesting combination of 35 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:34,879 people. Eric Palmquis, the doctor's son, and Stephie Lunn, the doctor's 36 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:38,000 nurse. The moment they saw me, they did whatever amatur sleuth does. 37 00:03:38,039 --> 00:03:42,840 They drove away as fast as possible, thereby becoming just as conspicuous as a 38 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:46,840 second nose. By the time I reached the Barkley, Lieutenant Berry had ordered 39 00:03:46,879 --> 00:03:50,000 for both of us. You don't like it, order something else, but 40 00:03:50,039 --> 00:03:53,080 it's the best they got. Matter in fact, it looks pretty good now. 41 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:55,080 As I was saying, yeah, yeah, so Palmquist nurse and his 42 00:03:55,159 --> 00:03:59,000 kid or an item. You waiting for me to look in priced you get 43 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:01,000 up out of the wrong side this morning, Lieutenant. Look, I don't 44 00:04:01,039 --> 00:04:03,479 like the smell of this deal anymore than you do. But what does it 45 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:06,560 all add up to? You're sent out here to look into a possible killing, 46 00:04:06,599 --> 00:04:11,680 which happens victim Missus Palmquist, So an ex convict, sits in a 47 00:04:11,759 --> 00:04:15,919 cell accused of the murder the accuser and witness the dead woman's husband. The 48 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:18,519 con insists he's been framed that the husband is a killer, but the husband 49 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:21,800 is well alibi, bringing it down to the setup known as X con versus 50 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:26,959 respected citizen. You know there's more to it than that. Don't give me 51 00:04:27,199 --> 00:04:30,680 lessons, Johnny. You think you've come up with one thing we don't already 52 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:32,560 know about. I got checkouts going on. The doctor, his nurse, 53 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:36,240 his son, everybody within shooting distance of this thing. Don't get any ideas. 54 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:39,759 We're asleep down at the hall, all right, all right, give 55 00:04:39,759 --> 00:04:44,160 me a little fill huh Who Palmquist, nurse Steffy lunnon nice kid, never 56 00:04:44,199 --> 00:04:46,839 been in trouble, at least we couldn't find any. What about the boy, 57 00:04:46,959 --> 00:04:50,879 Eric Pomquist, typical rich doctor's son, kind of wild sensitive gambles, 58 00:04:50,879 --> 00:04:54,680 but Papa can afford it. Also hits the booze too much for a kid 59 00:04:54,720 --> 00:05:00,120 that young. What about the doctor's alibi? Laura Constantine, Yeah, to 60 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:02,720 skip that one. Your eyes look like they're whistling and then awful in my 61 00:05:02,879 --> 00:05:06,720 age too. All right, Johnny, she's clean. By the way, 62 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:11,519 where does she live. There's a big house in Long Beach. Why no 63 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:15,199 doctor's there? Still a free country. I know people whose doctors live in 64 00:05:15,199 --> 00:05:18,319 Patterson, New Jersey points. Oh, almost forgot. I got the lab 65 00:05:18,399 --> 00:05:24,199 report on that anonymous note that started this thing. Anything untraceable, no prints, 66 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:27,399 cheap paper that can be bought anywhere, and the letters were cut from 67 00:05:27,399 --> 00:05:30,199 a dozen different magazines. Didn't tell us a thing. What do you mean 68 00:05:30,199 --> 00:05:32,759 at didn'ts why? It told us someone was going to try to collect on 69 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:42,800 a policy. We knocked it around a little while longer, getting no place 70 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:46,360 in particular. Then suddenly I was being paid for a telephone call. Barious, 71 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:50,319 raised eyebrows were eloquence. They made me feel like one of those would 72 00:05:50,319 --> 00:05:54,959 be movie stars who have themselves paged in the brown derby so that other would 73 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:58,759 be stars w'll know they're there. I had a funny notion about who might 74 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:00,959 be calling, so I told the waiter I take it in the booth out 75 00:06:00,959 --> 00:06:06,839 front, and left Lieutenant Barry by himself. Johnny Dollar, mister Dollar, 76 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:11,519 I'm so glad I found you. Oh this is this is Steffie Land, 77 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:14,600 doctor Palmquis, nurse. Well, the day's picking up. I'm sorry. 78 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:15,920 I hope I didn't interrupt your lunch. You say I called you a hotel 79 00:06:15,959 --> 00:06:18,519 and they told me where you'd gone. I'm sorry. Well, don't apologize. 80 00:06:18,519 --> 00:06:21,959 Steffie, a working girl who drives around in a beautiful white cadillact doesn't 81 00:06:21,959 --> 00:06:26,399 have to, you know, I'll explain about that. Why should you owe 82 00:06:26,399 --> 00:06:30,800 me any explanations? Mister I've got to see you right away. It's terribly 83 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:34,160 important. Mister dollar. Where are you. I'm at doctor Palmqui's office. 84 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:38,759 Can you come here now, right away? Okay, I'll be right over, 85 00:06:38,879 --> 00:06:42,319 and please don't bring anyone along with you, will you? However you 86 00:06:42,319 --> 00:06:45,279 want it? You're calling the shots. Thank you, and hurry. Please 87 00:06:56,519 --> 00:07:01,560 expense account Item four citation for speeding twenty five dollars. The common copy reads 88 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:05,600 sixty three miles per hour and a thirty five zone. You ever trying to 89 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:10,480 talk an LA type cop out of a ticket? It's ridiculous. He's always 90 00:07:10,519 --> 00:07:14,160 a big, good looking guy who listens seriously while you alibi, but never 91 00:07:14,199 --> 00:07:16,480 stops writing. Then he smiles calls you, sir, and hands you the 92 00:07:16,519 --> 00:07:20,639 ticket. I couldn't beef about it though two reasons, One I desert it 93 00:07:21,279 --> 00:07:25,480 and two if I hadn't been stopped, I'd never have realized I was being 94 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:29,800 tailed because the tale knew what he was doing. A heavy set, thuggy 95 00:07:29,839 --> 00:07:32,839 looking fellow on a black fifty one seed nan he circled the block twice while 96 00:07:32,839 --> 00:07:35,560 I was getting the ticket, was right back on me as I started out 97 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:39,920 again. He was still there as I pulled up in front of doctor Pomki's 98 00:07:39,959 --> 00:07:43,759 office, but he was smart enough to ride on by without even looking at 99 00:07:43,759 --> 00:07:46,519 me. I waited to see if he'd come around the block again. He 100 00:07:46,560 --> 00:08:13,240 didn't. Yes, sir, what is it? What do you want? 101 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:15,959 Well, now that's the switch. When you call me a few minutes ago 102 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:20,120 you said you're mistaken. I didn't wait just a minute, didn't call you. 103 00:08:20,319 --> 00:08:24,560 Her words were deliberate, emphatic, but her eyes were suddenly doing the 104 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:28,040 real talking, signaling desperately into the room behind it, trying to tell me 105 00:08:28,079 --> 00:08:31,399 that she wasn't alone. But I wasn't the only one who caught the signal. 106 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:35,720 Get away from the doors. Heavy, I mean you, did you 107 00:08:35,759 --> 00:08:41,120 hear me? I said, come in, please hello, or what seems 108 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:43,320 to be the trouble around here? That's far enough. Oh, now, 109 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:48,679 come on, why don't you put that thing down? Your family's had enough 110 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:52,200 misery with thirty eighths. Do what he says? Why did you call him, 111 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:56,679 Steffie? Want? Because somebody's got to help you because of what you're 112 00:08:56,679 --> 00:08:58,960 going through and what it's doing to you. Eric, I can't stand any 113 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:01,519 more of it. Your half out of your mind with fear. Now listen 114 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:05,679 to him, Eric, Maybe he can think he can help you. Think 115 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:09,240 anybody can one thing? Sure? That gun's not going to help you any 116 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:15,559 Come on now, can't put it down? No, no, because nobody 117 00:09:15,639 --> 00:09:18,720 tells me what to do, not when I've got a gun. They're afraid 118 00:09:18,759 --> 00:09:24,879 to. It's right, they're afraid to. You're both afraid, aren't you. 119 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:31,600 It's nice. It's nice for somebody else to be afraid. I like 120 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:37,159 that. I really liked it. He wasn't even looking at us anymore, 121 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:41,679 just somewhere off into space. Somehow Steffy sens that I was waiting for a 122 00:09:41,759 --> 00:09:46,840 chance to grab his gun and motion for me not to. And suddenly I 123 00:09:46,879 --> 00:09:50,440 remembered where I'd seen that lost empty look before missus palm Quist, Eric's mother. 124 00:09:52,159 --> 00:09:58,159 She'd had her share of that look the day she died. Mister di, 125 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:03,960 help me with him, please. I picked him up, put him 126 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:07,639 on the couch. He had that terrible whiteness that a deep faint brings. 127 00:10:07,679 --> 00:10:09,679 And Steffy didn't waste any time. She loosened his collar, shoved his head 128 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:13,799 forward. In a few minutes, he shut it once, came too, 129 00:10:13,879 --> 00:10:16,440 took a deep breath. We made him comfortable on the couch, but you 130 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:20,240 could see that it had been a rough trip for him. He was conscious, 131 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:24,639 but he didn't have the strength to open his eyes. Steffi just stared 132 00:10:24,639 --> 00:10:31,120 at him. He'll be all right now? What's wrong with him? Steffie? 133 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:37,120 Why that that thing that just happened? You want the technical name circulatory 134 00:10:37,159 --> 00:10:45,919 liability sound impressive? A form of extreme hypertension, nerves after make him faint 135 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:48,879 like that, from anger, from fear. It's a lovely thing for a 136 00:10:48,919 --> 00:10:54,360 man to go through. Isn't it well that that calls for a different kind 137 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:58,879 of medicine, doesn't it? Analysis with the psychiatrist. He's in it now, 138 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:03,679 me with Eric. It's going to take a long time, maybe a 139 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:09,519 very long time. But a kid like that, how why fear overpowering, 140 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:16,919 petrifying, fear of what his father of doctor Palmquist, Yes, the nice 141 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:24,879 doctor Pomquist, the gentle quiet healer, my employer, my father in law. 142 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:31,679 You and Eric at married two one or six weeks ago. Eric is 143 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:33,879 twenty five years old, mister Dalla, and he's so afraid of his father 144 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:37,600 was still keeping them marriage a secret. Why, Stephie, why is he 145 00:11:37,639 --> 00:11:41,080 so afraid of Palmquists. His analyst hasn't been able to get through to that. 146 00:11:41,159 --> 00:11:43,919 You expect me to or somebody better. Why did you say that? 147 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:48,240 Because he waved that gun around very convincingly for a scared kid, he never 148 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:52,440 would have fired. Don't you understand he's so frightened he couldn't have made himself 149 00:11:52,480 --> 00:12:01,559 do it. I hope you're right. I didn't think it was quite the 150 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:07,759 time to mention one small fact that if Eric Palmquis was incapable of pulling a 151 00:12:07,759 --> 00:12:09,399 trigger, it might turn out to be a very good thing for him. 152 00:12:09,759 --> 00:12:13,840 As the sole beneficiary of his mother's will, he would soon have one hundred 153 00:12:13,879 --> 00:12:16,679 thousand dollars in a nice, tidy lump. And if he really was afraid 154 00:12:16,679 --> 00:12:18,960 of his father. A piece of money like that could take him a long 155 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:22,799 long way from the parental fold. In fact, no matter which way you 156 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:26,960 turned, you couldn't get away from the logic that Eric Palmquis might be regarded 157 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:28,919 by some parties as a first class suspect in the death of his mother, 158 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:39,159 STEFFI was still pretty much upset when I finally left her, and I must 159 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:43,200 admit that my own mind wasn't exactly at ease. Hoping that the fresh air 160 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:46,159 would help to clear my thoughts, I took my time driving back, and 161 00:12:46,279 --> 00:12:50,200 it must have been nearly an hour later when I pulled into the Subterraine garage 162 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:54,000 at my hotel. I guess I was thinking too hard about what had just 163 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:56,960 happened. In any case, I wasn't quick enough. Just as I passed 164 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:00,960 one of the garage's big concrete pillars, a fig stepped out from behind. 165 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:05,039 It brought the business out of a cold banging down on my head. The 166 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:07,639 ground climbed up and got me, but not before I had a look at 167 00:13:07,679 --> 00:13:11,720 him, my heavy set, tuggy looking friend who tailed me earlier in the 168 00:13:11,799 --> 00:13:16,000 day. He could talk too, Yeah, no wrong, TNK. I 169 00:13:16,039 --> 00:13:37,879 took a hand. I passed out, Johnny Dollar, this is talked of 170 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:41,639 and closer returning your call, mister Dollar. Oh yes, doctor, May 171 00:13:41,639 --> 00:13:46,000 I ask who recommended me? I inquired about a good psychiatrist that came of 172 00:13:46,159 --> 00:13:50,559 you. Yes. Well, the first step is usually an office appointment for 173 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:54,600 a preliminary change. That's what I had in mind today, But my schedule 174 00:13:54,679 --> 00:14:01,080 is quite full. Would tomorrow be suitable? Today would be better, I 175 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:03,799 see. However, there should be ample time. There should be ample time, 176 00:14:03,799 --> 00:14:05,799 but there is. In fact, I'm running out of it fast. 177 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:26,559 Sorry, well, fust off your couch. Roun Special investigator, Johnny Dollar. 178 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:31,240 Location in Los Angeles, California. Two National Underwriters Association one one eight 179 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:41,360 er River Road, Hartford, Connecticut. Assignment the long shot matter Johnny Dollar, 180 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:46,039 hypochondriac, complete with assorted medical advisors. I needed one of them before 181 00:14:46,039 --> 00:14:48,960 I even got down to the lobby of my hotel. It was a house 182 00:14:50,039 --> 00:14:52,519 medic that's had him five five dollars would patch me up yesterday after a thug 183 00:14:52,519 --> 00:14:56,159 had worked me over in the hotel garage. Now came check up time, 184 00:14:56,279 --> 00:15:00,679 and the doctor was a fusser, and he disapproved of me. Hold still 185 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:03,559 now, hold still, yeah, yeah, but that's my head you're digging 186 00:15:03,559 --> 00:15:07,120 in. I wouldn't have to if somebody else hadn't split it open. There. 187 00:15:07,399 --> 00:15:11,879 Hey, well looks a little better. It don't sound so enthusiastic walking 188 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:13,519 into a wall. So the best thing I can think of at the moment 189 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:18,039 likely story, Hold still now, I want to redress that wound on the 190 00:15:18,039 --> 00:15:24,840 other side. Hold still, temper, temper funny. He was working on 191 00:15:24,879 --> 00:15:28,879 the outside of my head, but it was the inside that ateed most. 192 00:15:28,039 --> 00:15:31,200 There were reasons, lots of them, like the murder of a sick old 193 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:35,600 woman the same day i'd arrived, and the anonymous note that had warned of 194 00:15:35,639 --> 00:15:39,000 it, like the victim's husband and an ex convict accusing each other of committing 195 00:15:39,039 --> 00:15:43,399 the crime. It was a rough one, real rough, because the picture 196 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:46,480 kept changing from minute to minute, and my company was on the hook for 197 00:15:46,519 --> 00:15:54,360 one hundred thousand dollars. At eleven o'clock, I sat across the desk from 198 00:15:54,399 --> 00:15:58,840 doctor Hans van Klauser, psychiatrist in his Beverly Hills office. He was small, 199 00:15:58,919 --> 00:16:03,120 spectacle and charm. Maybe more important, he was the analyst who was 200 00:16:03,159 --> 00:16:08,039 treating Eric Palmquist, the murdered woman's son, no, mister Dollar, afraid 201 00:16:08,039 --> 00:16:11,480 I owe you an apology. Doctor, I deceived you a little bit. 202 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:15,120 I'm not exactly here as a patient. Everyone finds it difficult to begin, 203 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:19,679 mister Dollar. You suppose we hear some of the medical history first. I 204 00:16:19,799 --> 00:16:22,480 tell you we're off on the wrong foot, doctor, and it's my fault. 205 00:16:22,879 --> 00:16:29,679 Here. Take a look at these my credentials. I see that you 206 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:33,679 hardly hears the patient about a patient. Let's say, my dear mister Dollar, 207 00:16:33,799 --> 00:16:37,600 I think you know very well that I can reveal nothing which is told 208 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:41,679 to me in this room. I know that. Then the purpose of this 209 00:16:41,799 --> 00:16:45,399 visit, I just want answers from a competent authority about a certain illness. 210 00:16:45,519 --> 00:16:51,120 I won't bring personalities into it. It's important, doctor, And the particular 211 00:16:51,159 --> 00:16:57,440 illness something called circulatorial ability. You know that it's a form of extremely provoked 212 00:16:57,519 --> 00:17:03,600 hypotension. Yeah, that much I do. Hypertension is a result of anxieties. 213 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:07,839 The anxieties may be real or of fencied, but the hypertension is very 214 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:11,880 genuine, indeed, and very dangerous, dangerous to the extent that a man 215 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:18,000 could turn to violence, maybe killed if sufficiently aroused. Yes, it has 216 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:26,200 happened I see, thank you, thank you very much, had them seven 217 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:30,799 tenth cents, recklessly squatted on a phone call to my hotel to check for 218 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:34,559 messages. There was one Lieutenant Berry of the LA Police Department, would like 219 00:17:34,599 --> 00:17:38,000 to see me at my convenience? Would I? I? Would you get 220 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:44,000 practically nowhere? Ignoring police lieutenants. He stared at the bandage on my head 221 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:47,440 and my assorted cuts and bruises, and his opening line was quite inspired. 222 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:52,599 What happened to you? Somebody was pretty fast with a gun barrel last night? 223 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:56,279 Where did it happen? Garage under my hotel? It seems he didn't 224 00:17:56,359 --> 00:17:57,720 like my being in town. You get a look at him enough. I 225 00:17:57,759 --> 00:18:00,519 want to go through the mug book. No, I'll catch up with him 226 00:18:00,559 --> 00:18:04,440 someday. Besides, whoever was paying him is the interesting one. Have it 227 00:18:04,559 --> 00:18:08,519 your own way now. You didn't call me all the way down here for 228 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:14,319 laughs, Lieutenant anything special on your mind? Lonnie Miller the guy we got 229 00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:17,680 sitting in cell number eight A, the prowler who shot missus Palmquist. So 230 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:21,039 doctor Palmquist, and he isn't the only one, Johnny, not anymore? 231 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:23,640 Why? Yeah, we finally traced the murder weapon. It was bought at 232 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:29,279 a pawn shop in Burbank. The pawnbroker positively identified among shot at the buyer, 233 00:18:29,559 --> 00:18:38,119 Lonnie Miller. Police identification evidence is a pretty tough thing to ignore. 234 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:44,160 But I was still what the lieutenant called a hard sale. It wasn't stubbornness, 235 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:48,319 simply the fact that I'm very large for motivation. It can be as 236 00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:51,039 wild as well as they come, but it's got to be there somewhere, 237 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:55,200 and somehow, with so many good ones around. The worn faded man in 238 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:57,680 saled A didn't write in that company. I asked the lieutenant for a couple 239 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:00,759 of minutes with Lonnie Miller. He shook his head as though he felt sorry 240 00:19:00,759 --> 00:19:14,200 for me, But okay, the visit anyway. Well, you're angry about 241 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:17,640 something, mister Doller. I can tell it's in your face. Yeah, 242 00:19:17,839 --> 00:19:22,039 about a story you told me the other day about doctor Palmquist giving you a 243 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:25,160 lift, keeping you around town, and using you as a patsy so he 244 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:29,599 could kill his wife. You want to change any of it? You ask 245 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:33,200 me if I lied? Mister? Is that that's it? He's figured to 246 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:37,079 be like this sooner or later. Goodbye, mister, Come on, Miller, 247 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:41,119 talk to me. I think I'd lie to the only man who even 248 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:47,920 looked like he believed me. You still have an answer, mister mister. 249 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:51,000 Don't you think I know. I haven't got a chance, that I'm dead. 250 00:19:51,519 --> 00:19:56,319 I don't even care anymore. But I didn't lie, not one way. 251 00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:59,640 A Birdbank pawnbroker says you did. Says you bought the murder gun from 252 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:03,759 him. I've never even been in burd Bank. I swear to you, 253 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:06,759 how could I have bought the gun? He identified a picture of you, 254 00:20:06,799 --> 00:20:11,480 says you showed your driver's license as identification. Where is your license? Billy? 255 00:20:11,279 --> 00:20:15,640 In my wallet? Downstairs? They took everything when they booked me, 256 00:20:18,039 --> 00:20:21,720 mister Dollar. Tell it to me all over again, Miller, from the 257 00:20:21,759 --> 00:20:25,880 minute duct that Palmquist gave you the lift, step by step, every single 258 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:33,279 detail. Tell it to me. He began, slowly, holdingly. The 259 00:20:33,279 --> 00:20:37,519 words just kind of fell out of his mouth in a tired, hopeless fashion. 260 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:41,880 It was the same story he told so many times now. I had 261 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:45,599 reason for making him go through it. Some small, hazy idea that was 262 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:48,720 tugging in the back of my brain, jagged, undeveloped, but an idea. 263 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:52,039 When I left the sale. I had Miller's permission to look at his 264 00:20:52,039 --> 00:20:56,799 wallet. The police custodian showed it to me five minutes after that. The 265 00:20:56,920 --> 00:21:03,519 license wasn't there. Expenser cont Eida made ten cents an LA newspaper three days 266 00:21:03,519 --> 00:21:07,799 old, one which played up the Palmquist killing. Big contained pictures of both 267 00:21:07,839 --> 00:21:14,000 doctor Palmquist grieving husband and Lonnie Miller suspected killer, purpose to be used in 268 00:21:14,079 --> 00:21:22,160 backtracking. The drive down to Long Beach could have been pleasant, sun ocean 269 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:25,559 or relaxing type day, but not for me, not with what was going 270 00:21:25,559 --> 00:21:29,720 on inside my head. Even the soft breeze coming in off the Pacific couldn't 271 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:33,720 sweep the pieces together for me. Sure, for a few seconds everything would 272 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:37,359 make sense, Then a moment later, some small fact would make the whole 273 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:41,319 theory collapse. I knew one thing, though, If this whole deal was 274 00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:42,799 a frame, it was a great one, a work of art, something 275 00:21:42,839 --> 00:21:48,160 to be admired, provided your name was neither Lonnie Miller or National Underwriters. 276 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:52,720 About six miles this side of Long Beach, I found what I was looking 277 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:56,079 for, the little Tacos joint where Miller claimed he and doctor Palmquist that'd stopped 278 00:21:56,079 --> 00:22:10,559 for coffee. Yeah, all, amigo, you like some tacos? Sure 279 00:22:10,759 --> 00:22:15,920 I sit down at won't be a minute on a run. You're looking at 280 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:21,759 him, Amigo, Irving Gonzalis owner Irving, Sure I had a change. 281 00:22:22,319 --> 00:22:26,720 Nobody could pronounce plutarco gon salis. See your point. It doesn't pat to 282 00:22:26,759 --> 00:22:30,720 make problems for your customers and business. Yeah, when are you going to 283 00:22:30,799 --> 00:22:36,960 work up to asking the questions? Ago? Man? I can make tacos 284 00:22:37,039 --> 00:22:41,519 blindfolded, and I can tell a cop the same way. Well, you're 285 00:22:41,559 --> 00:22:44,319 not too far around. I want to take a look at this newspaper. 286 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:52,359 Either of these men ever been in here? And doctor Victor pan quiz lonely 287 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:57,480 mirror? Oh I read about that killing? Very interesting? Yeah what about 288 00:22:57,480 --> 00:23:00,400 it, Irving? What about what? Man? Have they ever been in 289 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:06,640 here alone together? Anytime? I look kind of familiar. But maybe it's 290 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:10,039 only because I see him in the papers. You know the best you can 291 00:23:10,079 --> 00:23:14,000 do. Look at me, though, you stand behind a counter all day 292 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:18,440 and everybody looks like everybody else. You wouldn't want me to make a guess, 293 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:22,720 and that's all I'd be doing guessing. No, I wouldn't want that 294 00:23:25,519 --> 00:23:32,440 nice and hot eat your thanks anyway, I'll skip him this turn. You 295 00:23:32,599 --> 00:23:38,680 know something I don't blame you. Look at this peels fels feels. I 296 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:48,400 eat him by the dozen. Do you know why your amgo? There's this 297 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:51,559 about the racket. You try, you strike out. You can't waste time 298 00:23:51,599 --> 00:23:52,960 thinking about it. You get on to the next step, the step. 299 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:56,440 Laura Consontine, doctor palmkoyts lovely Alibi. The night of his wife's death. 300 00:23:57,359 --> 00:24:00,680 Her house was only a few miles out of long It seemed logical to head 301 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:03,880 for it. I reached it about twenty minutes later, a large, old 302 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:07,279 fashion and seemingly deserted house in a promontory that jutted out into the Pacific. 303 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:12,200 I got number two, the hostile iron fence that circle it made its point 304 00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:18,400 keep out, so I did. Trespassing applies to everyone. From where I 305 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:21,440 stood, I couldn't identify the car that suddenly roared away from the back of 306 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:22,960 the house, but one thing was obvious. The driver was in a hurry, 307 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:26,039 and I was getting nowhere. I decided to head back to town. 308 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:33,920 It happened five minutes later, as I rounded a curve on my way back 309 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:41,359 to the Pacific Coast Highway Choice Pacific on one side granted cliffs. On the 310 00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:52,480 other, I picked the cliffs. Funny what your mind does at moments like 311 00:24:52,519 --> 00:24:57,960 that. I remember looking at the mashed inside of the car and wondering which 312 00:24:59,039 --> 00:25:03,119 company carried the insurance policy. Then I thought of how good a marksman a 313 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:07,720 man must be to pick off a tire from any of those clips. And 314 00:25:07,759 --> 00:25:11,599 then I remembered still another thing. Hadn't I been told about someone who was 315 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:14,599 a great shot, who made it a rule to hunt two months out of 316 00:25:14,599 --> 00:25:18,720 the year, no matter how busy he was. Sure a highly respected citizen 317 00:25:18,799 --> 00:25:41,160 named doctor Victor Palmquist, Johnny Dollar, This is no Dollar. You don't 318 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:45,079 know me, Oh but I do, missus Considine, You're the best friend 319 00:25:45,079 --> 00:25:48,559 a doctor ever had, doctor Palmquist. That is, he paid you a 320 00:25:48,599 --> 00:25:52,759 professional call, and that his wife was murdered. That was lucky. Alibis 321 00:25:52,799 --> 00:25:56,119 don't grow on trees, just as Look, lady, I've been slug shot. 322 00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:56,960 At a matter of fact, someone tried to pick me off with a 323 00:25:57,039 --> 00:26:02,079 rifle a couple of hours ago, right near your house. Maybe doctor Palmquist 324 00:26:02,079 --> 00:26:04,720 will alibi you this time returned the Curtis. Will you please listen, I've 325 00:26:04,759 --> 00:26:08,559 got to see you I've got to talk to you all right when an hour 326 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:26,920 the bar at your hotel, the Martinez will be waiting. From Special investigator 327 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:30,839 Johnny Dollar to National Underwriters Association, one one Adoer River Road, Hartford, 328 00:26:30,839 --> 00:26:41,279 Connecticut Assignment. The long Shot Matter expense account concluded there was still a lot 329 00:26:41,319 --> 00:26:45,720 of questions, like where I was getting trying to find out who really had 330 00:26:45,799 --> 00:26:49,160 killed Missus Palmquist, Like was it all a smoothly planned frame on the part 331 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:52,640 of our doctor husband, or had it been a prowler killing by another man 332 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:57,119 now in jail, or had the dead woman's son Eric a complex we didn't 333 00:26:57,119 --> 00:27:02,440 know about. Missus Sadeen was five minutes late, but I hope she could 334 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:07,759 answer some of them. Mister Donner, Oh, come now, Missus Considine 335 00:27:07,799 --> 00:27:11,119 that reading it implied we haven't met before, and you know that we have. 336 00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:15,400 The day you visited doctor Palmquist in the hospital and pretended you had the 337 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:21,119 wrong, wrong snat there was a reason for that. Sure, there's one 338 00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:25,279 for everything, is there? You think Victor Palmquist had something to do with 339 00:27:25,319 --> 00:27:29,839 his wife's death or you're wrong, completely wrong direction, You don't know what 340 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:32,839 I'm thinking and being wrong as anybody's pross. You don't know about Victor, 341 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:34,519 mister Dollar, what his life's been like, what he had to put up 342 00:27:34,559 --> 00:27:37,720 with. Why don't you tell me, Missus Considine, that wife of his, 343 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:41,440 a millstone around his neck, a woman in love with a bottle go 344 00:27:41,559 --> 00:27:47,160 on. And that son of his, that Eric insane, completely insane. 345 00:27:47,519 --> 00:27:51,000 He hates his father, he always has. He gains a fortune by that 346 00:27:51,039 --> 00:27:55,279 woman's death. But you suspect him, No, of course not, you 347 00:27:55,519 --> 00:27:57,680 badg You're a man like Victor Palmquist. How does that make sense? You're 348 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:02,240 building a big thing on the fact that a lot of people hate Victor Pomquist. 349 00:28:02,279 --> 00:28:04,119 But you're overlooking something, mister docs. Where there's that much hate, 350 00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:11,319 there's always a good reason. I went to the hotel garage, rented a 351 00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:15,039 car and pointed a toward Burbank. There was a man in a pawn shop 352 00:28:15,079 --> 00:28:18,640 there. I wanted to see the man who had identified Lonnie Miller as the 353 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:22,119 buyer of the gun that had killed missus Victor Palmquist. He turned out to 354 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:25,359 be a mild, friendly little guy with thick glasses and a desire to please. 355 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:29,200 He barely glanced at my identification pushed it back over the counter to me 356 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:33,160 and smiled, what do you want to know? Everything you can remember about 357 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:36,319 the man who bought the gun. Mister Lenner wants to remember A kind of 358 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:38,559 skin and gray haired fellow come in, said he wanted to buy a gun, 359 00:28:38,559 --> 00:28:42,279 and I showed him when he bought. He showed you a driver's license 360 00:28:42,279 --> 00:28:47,000 for identification, didn't he? I copied the information right here in the book. 361 00:28:49,559 --> 00:28:55,880 Ronnie Miller one hundred and seventy three full of San Diego, hid six 362 00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:57,880 feet wait, one hundred and fifty two colored right. Hey, hey, 363 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:03,480 look you saw yeah, look at this paper, mister Leerner one of these 364 00:29:03,519 --> 00:29:11,880 the fellah I see. Lennar adjusted his glasses and leaned forward appear at the 365 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:15,519 newspaper I'd put on the counter. It was the way I was leaning on 366 00:29:15,519 --> 00:29:18,960 the paper that really started the whole thing. The two pictures were side by 367 00:29:19,039 --> 00:29:22,480 side, doctor Palmquist in a business suit and Lonnie Miller and a cap leather 368 00:29:22,559 --> 00:29:27,200 jacket at work bands. My arm was covering everything but the faces. Lerner 369 00:29:27,359 --> 00:29:32,319 moved my arm before pointing out Miller as the buyer of the gun. Then 370 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:36,920 he nodded emphatically, Sure, that's the fellaw who bought the gun that Miller. 371 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,559 You had to move my arm before you'd say so. Mister learner, 372 00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:42,359 you were covering up half the picture. Where am I a mind reader? 373 00:29:42,599 --> 00:29:45,279 No? But I think you might have made the most normal mistake in the 374 00:29:45,319 --> 00:29:48,680 world. Wait, wait, you're trying to tell me this Miller didn't come 375 00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:52,440 in here and buy a gun from me. That's about it. So how 376 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:56,319 come a fellow who wasn't here gave me a driver's license and said he was. 377 00:29:56,400 --> 00:30:03,599 That's a good question, mister. There were two people I wanted to 378 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:07,799 see now, real bad Lieutenant Bury at homicide and Lonnie Miller's salied a city 379 00:30:07,839 --> 00:30:11,319 jail. I speak down to headquarters and guess what the lieutenant was out on 380 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:15,640 police business. Should be back in a while. I knew Lonnie Miller was 381 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:18,839 not, so I settled for him. There were only two or three questions 382 00:30:18,839 --> 00:30:22,960 I wanted to ask him, but they were important. I spent about fifteen 383 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:25,599 minutes in the cell with Miller, got my answers and they made sense. 384 00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:29,519 Now. Then I spent an hour waiting for the lieutenant. He finally showed 385 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:33,119 this time he was the hard sale. Even after I discussed what I'd figured 386 00:30:33,119 --> 00:30:37,279 out at the pawnshop, Johnny, Johnny, I'm tired. Oh, show 387 00:30:37,359 --> 00:30:41,839 me too, and I'll look Lieutenant. You know what I'm pushing is possible. 388 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:45,880 Doctor Palmquist and Lonnie Miller are approximately the same size, age, coloring, 389 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,000 even the bone structure is fairly similar. But they don't look alike. 390 00:30:49,039 --> 00:30:52,400 They don't have to, because it's the impression that counted him. Johnny, 391 00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:56,559 That's exactly what Pomquist was counting on. Now, look, lieutenant, you've 392 00:30:56,559 --> 00:30:59,880 been around. You know what people go by when they're asked to identify some 393 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:04,599 one and all over imprecious. Oh and you know a big factor is clothes, 394 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:07,920 particularly the type of clock. All right, all right, what are 395 00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:12,160 you going for this? If doctor pomp Wist walked into that pawn shop wearing 396 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:15,799 a cap, leather jacket and work pants, and then six days later you 397 00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:19,759 show the pawnbroker a picture of Lonnie Miller dressed in the same kind of clothes, 398 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:25,079 you know, whom he'll identify every time, especially when he'd already seen 399 00:31:25,079 --> 00:31:29,000 a driver's license made out to Lonnie Miller A thousand ways to make a living? 400 00:31:29,039 --> 00:31:32,599 What did I pike load tenants? Look? Suppose I buy that? 401 00:31:32,759 --> 00:31:36,400 Where are you doctor pomp Wis for some reason or other, once his wife 402 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:38,960 dead. He needs a patsy, so he picks up Lonnie Miller, a 403 00:31:40,039 --> 00:31:42,720 hitchhiker on the Pacific Coast Highway if you say so. At a coffee stop, 404 00:31:42,799 --> 00:31:47,200 the doctor remembers something he left in the car. He goes out for 405 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:49,559 a minute, sticks a match or a toothpick, and a tire valve guaranteeing 406 00:31:49,559 --> 00:31:52,440 a flat a few miles further on. So when they stomp, it's the 407 00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:56,599 doctor who looks at the flat gets rid of the toothpick. Grateful for the 408 00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:59,519 lyft, Miller changes the tire. You ever change a tire on a hot 409 00:31:59,519 --> 00:32:01,319 summer night. Sure you took off your jacket, didn't you. How Else, 410 00:32:01,599 --> 00:32:05,799 that's what Doc was counting on. He had a couple of minutes alone 411 00:32:05,799 --> 00:32:08,599 with Miller's jacket and lifted his driver's license. Then he keeps Miller in town 412 00:32:08,599 --> 00:32:12,759 on the promise of a job. He buys the gun at the Burbank pawn 413 00:32:12,759 --> 00:32:16,079 shop, wearing work clothes and giving Miller's license his identification. Monday night, 414 00:32:16,119 --> 00:32:19,720 he killed his wife, call Miller to the house with a phony story about 415 00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:22,680 a job. Struck him from behind a stage the scene the police found smooth. 416 00:32:22,759 --> 00:32:25,759 Huh, Johnny, can you see me going to the DA with all 417 00:32:25,799 --> 00:32:30,720 that theory and no proof? Palmquist had laughed me out of top Parry Love, 418 00:32:30,799 --> 00:32:34,200 knock it off. You're no kid, You know I'm right. Well, 419 00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:40,079 don't go away mad. Sure, I know he was right. That's 420 00:32:40,119 --> 00:32:45,200 what was driving me crazy. Proof one little piece of it? But where 421 00:32:45,359 --> 00:32:50,039 old Palmquist had used his head? All right? But the smartest ones alive 422 00:32:50,039 --> 00:32:53,640 always leave one little hole somewhere along the line. But three hours later in 423 00:32:53,680 --> 00:33:01,400 my hotel room, I hadn't found it, Steffie, What are you doing 424 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:07,920 here? Eric's been drinking all day, brooding, working himself into a rage, 425 00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:12,880 saying terrible things about Missus Considine and his father, and about his father 426 00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:17,119 being a murderer. I don't know what he'll do. Help me, Johnny, 427 00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:21,920 Please give you any idea of where he was headed. He mentioned going 428 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:25,200 home to get a gun and then going to Missus Considine's house. Johnny, 429 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:31,880 I'm afraid all right. Come on. The drive to the Pomquest house on 430 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:37,000 the Palisades was a long one, but educational because Steffi had nothing to hide 431 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,119 now, she was just a kid, worried to death about her husband and 432 00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:43,559 her bitterness to a doctor, Palmquist came rolling on. It's an easy man 433 00:33:43,599 --> 00:33:49,559 to hate my father in law. All charm on the outside, patty little 434 00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:55,279 dictator inside. A man who's trying to prove something can't abide weakness, tries 435 00:33:55,319 --> 00:33:59,680 to make everyone over into his own image. A horrible man. Tell me 436 00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:05,119 about Eric's brother Paul. He was the favorite, the doctor's pride and joy. 437 00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:08,599 They hunted together all the time on me. One day Paul had a 438 00:34:08,599 --> 00:34:14,800 cold tried to get out of a hunting trip. This offended the doctor's weakness 439 00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:21,159 fetish made the boy feel like a coward. So Paul went hunting and died 440 00:34:21,199 --> 00:34:24,559 of pneumonia. Missus Palmquist never got over it, as you saw before she 441 00:34:24,639 --> 00:34:34,960 was killed. Nice Johnny, you like the family. I married him too. 442 00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:37,360 The house was dark when we got there. We hurried to Eric's bedroom 443 00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:42,519 and Stephan leaned against the door, weak with relief. Eric lay sprawled on 444 00:34:42,559 --> 00:34:46,079 the bed, snoring fine alcoholic noises. The rifle he still clutch made very 445 00:34:46,119 --> 00:34:50,760 clear what he'd been thinking about before the liquor had taken over him. We 446 00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:53,119 were just getting him comfortable when we heard it a car pulling into the garage, 447 00:34:53,199 --> 00:34:57,360 Palmquist. I got Steffie down the back stairs and out of the house 448 00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:00,119 as soon as I was sure he was inside, and then I turned back 449 00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:05,159 because suddenly I was tired of a killer walking around free while everyone else stepped 450 00:35:05,199 --> 00:35:08,719 softly. And the anger was good because it suddenly drove into my mind the 451 00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:14,440 one thing palm Quist might have overlooked. I let myself into the garage, 452 00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:19,840 but a small window moved to the doctor's big car. You ever try to 453 00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:23,119 force open a car trunk with a claw hammer, don't he It's rough and 454 00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:28,559 b it takes your eyes off the door leading to the kitchen. Why don't 455 00:35:28,559 --> 00:35:34,239 you ask me for the key? A gone doctor, no instrument of healing. 456 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:38,039 Oh that's nice, And it tells me something about the trunk, that 457 00:35:38,119 --> 00:35:43,280 there's a spare tire in there that's flat but doesn't have a puncture. A 458 00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:50,599 service station might remember a thing like that. Huh, Doctor goodbye. He 459 00:35:50,679 --> 00:35:52,800 couldn't pick me off because of the car, but the car was working against 460 00:35:52,880 --> 00:36:06,679 me too. You did better with a rifle yesterday, Doctor sh ah man 461 00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:14,320 my age through windows? No less he had it. Ah h, he'll 462 00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:17,800 look good in court. Small question, lieutenant, not that I'm ungrateful? 463 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:22,000 Ask aren't you a long way from home? I didn't like to look in 464 00:36:22,039 --> 00:36:27,880 your eye when you stomped out. You know something, Johnny, You're easier 465 00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:36,639 to tail than a trolley car. Expense account had him twelve seventy one dollars 466 00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:39,519 LA Hotel bill Adam thirteen one hundred and seventy four dollars and ninety cents return 467 00:36:39,559 --> 00:36:44,920 air Fair to Hartford expenser count total four hundred and ninety dollars and eighty cents. 468 00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:50,079 Details. Eric Palmquist admitted sending us the original warning note out of fear 469 00:36:50,079 --> 00:36:52,239 of his father. He never knew till the death of his mother that he 470 00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:58,920 himself was the beneficiary. Remarks about Hollywood, let's call it the Eastern is 471 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,679 revenge. Quote It's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to 472 00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:19,599 live there. Unquote yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Now here's our star to 473 00:37:19,639 --> 00:37:23,199 tell you about next week's intriguing story. Next week, three million dollars worth 474 00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:29,320 of a worthless gold mine, and there's blood on the desert sand. Join 475 00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:49,199 us, won't you? Yours truly? Johnny Dallar, yours truly, Johnny 476 00:37:49,199 --> 00:37:52,239 Dollar Is starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed in Hollywood. Written by Tony Barrett, 477 00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:57,480 It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Heard in this week's cast 478 00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:00,679 were Virginia greg Victor Perrin, Lillian Baya, Russell Thorson, James Mcallian, 479 00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:06,079 Edgar Barrier, Don Diamond, and Herb Butterfield. Musical supervision by A. 480 00:38:06,159 --> 00:38:09,760 Marigo Marino and Carl Fortina. Be sure to join us on Monday night, 481 00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:15,719 same time and station for another exciting story of yours truly Johnny Dollar, Roy 482 00:38:15,840 --> 00:39:53,840 Rowan speaking welcome back. Despite a couple of my nitpicks in the previous two 483 00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:59,079 parts. This is a sould story and perhaps one of the best of the 484 00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:07,880 nineteen fifties six serials. It does a really good job exploring challenges and potential 485 00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:14,480 biases in witness identification of criminals. Sometimes it can be imagined that people are 486 00:40:14,559 --> 00:40:21,440 paying rapt attention to what's going on around them, so eyewitnesses are extremely reliable 487 00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:27,679 and can make no errors. This story plays with that and suggests a few 488 00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:34,119 ways eyewitness testimony can go wrong and be manipulated. This story was written by 489 00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:37,719 Tony Barrett. The name is familiar to old time radio fans. Of course, 490 00:40:38,199 --> 00:40:45,360 the only regular recurring role I'm aware of him having is as the reliable 491 00:40:45,639 --> 00:40:51,280 Cabby Mark Donovan on the syndicated series The Adventures of Frank Race. However, 492 00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:55,079 we've heard him all over the Golden Age of radio in so many mystery and 493 00:40:55,159 --> 00:41:02,719 dramatic programs, frequently playing tops or doing Hispanic or Spanish dialect roles on a 494 00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:08,119 series like Tales of the Texas Rangers and Dangerous Assignment. Like many in the 495 00:41:08,159 --> 00:41:15,440 Golden Age of radio, Barrett had ambitions beyond acting. The first writing credit 496 00:41:15,519 --> 00:41:21,400 for Barrett was a nineteen fifty one Christmas episode of Tales of the Texas Rangers, 497 00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:24,440 and I don't think I talked a whole lot about that on that episode. 498 00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:29,960 He also wrote a couple episodes of Escape. In nineteen fifty five, 499 00:41:30,039 --> 00:41:35,800 he made his TV writing career debut with an episode of Public Defender and was 500 00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:40,119 definitely on the rise. In nineteen fifty six. He would write for more 501 00:41:40,199 --> 00:41:45,199 than fifty TV shows and films. He wrote lots of drama, mostly in 502 00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:52,440 the crime in western genres, all though he did write the screenplay for a 503 00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:58,920 Sonny and Sheer smooth comedy film Good Times. His most important work would be 504 00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:04,599 on a couple series. First of all, the classic Private Eye series Peter 505 00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:09,320 Gunn, where he has a writing credit for the majority of episodes and wrote 506 00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:15,039 most of season two. In season three, he was also the principal writer 507 00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:21,800 and developed the series The Mod Squad in the late sixties and early seventies. 508 00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:29,039 I think this serial reflects a slightly different style that works really well with Bailey's 509 00:42:29,119 --> 00:42:35,679 interpretation of Johnny Dollar, but also with maybe a few modifications, could easily 510 00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:39,000 work in a nineteen sixties Private Eye show. Also, it asked to me, 511 00:42:39,159 --> 00:42:45,599 said, the ever versatile Herb Butterfield is always an asset to have in 512 00:42:45,639 --> 00:42:50,719 the cast. He not only played doctor Palmquist, but was also the pawnbroker. 513 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:55,840 He's such an invaluable guy to have around, particularly late in the golden 514 00:42:55,920 --> 00:43:00,519 age of radio when you needed to keep budgets time. And of course he 515 00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:06,360 always did a great job no matter how many characters he had to play and 516 00:43:06,519 --> 00:43:10,679 personally. One thing that I've enjoyed about playing Dangerous Assignment and to an extent, 517 00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:16,400 Dragnet, is seeing if I can catch where Herb Butterfield is playing a 518 00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:22,760 second character. I don't mention it because it happens so frequently and it seems 519 00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:25,159 silly to harp on it, but nevertheless, we do find some ways to 520 00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:30,840 amuse ourselves in listening to old time radio well listener comments and feedback. Now 521 00:43:31,159 --> 00:43:37,719 over on YouTube, a listener highlighted a piece of dialogue in the first two 522 00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:44,360 parts of The Indestructible Mock Matter, all the incidentals I could think of, 523 00:43:44,599 --> 00:43:49,199 ha ha ha ha. That is a funny line. And of course it 524 00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:53,119 reminds me because there's another listener who's been going through, like some of the 525 00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:59,280 Baily half hours, and he's supposed to like two or three different comments suggesting 526 00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:02,840 that the Home office needs to crack down on that expense account. And then 527 00:44:04,199 --> 00:44:09,280 we have an email from Dave who writes, Harry and Peter Branson in The 528 00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:17,719 Indestructible mic Matter are the comedic predecessors of Twin Antiques upraisers Lee and Leslie Keno 529 00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:22,199 on Antique's roadshow. Good to know. Thanks for the comment. And then 530 00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:28,599 we go to comments on our survey from survey Do Great Detectives dot Net. 531 00:44:29,119 --> 00:44:32,239 Robert writes, love the show, Love Johnny Dollar, Well, thank you 532 00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:37,800 so much, and now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day, 533 00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:40,239 and I want to go ahead and thank James. James has been one 534 00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:46,360 of our Patreon supporters since July twenty twenty two, currently supporting the podcast at 535 00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:52,320 the Detective Sergeant level of seven dollars and fourteen cents or more per month. 536 00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:55,400 Thank you so much for your support, James, and that will do it 537 00:44:55,480 --> 00:45:00,159 for today. If you are enjoying the podcast, please follow us you he's 538 00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:05,199 your favorite podcast software. Be sure to rate and review the podcast wherever you 539 00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:09,480 download it from. We will be back on Tuesday with the start of another 540 00:45:09,639 --> 00:45:15,880 yours truly Johnny Dollar Cereal. But join us back here tomorrow for Dragnet where 541 00:45:16,679 --> 00:45:20,039 he got me into this and now he's trying to lie his way out, 542 00:45:20,119 --> 00:45:24,559 blaming me. How you've been doing this burglarizing cars me only about two weeks. 543 00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:28,480 It was supposed to be fun, something to do at night. The 544 00:45:28,559 --> 00:45:30,199 rest of them been added a couple of months. Who's the head of the 545 00:45:30,199 --> 00:45:35,039 game. I told you it's him, Stanley and Fred Milford and Jansen all 546 00:45:35,039 --> 00:45:37,480 three. I only started going out with him two weeks ago, maybe less, 547 00:45:37,639 --> 00:45:43,760 all right, Julianne tell it to this snographer the same way penographer being 548 00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:53,280 in a minute. Joe, Okay, Marge, thanks, stay with it. 549 00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:57,280 Just about a close case. Ben girl gave us a full confession. 550 00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:00,639 She didn't. Oh, you're not tricking me again. She didn't. She 551 00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:04,280 told us you're one of the leaders of the gang. Stanley said, you 552 00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:07,840 got her into all this. The other two are George Jansen and Fred Milford. 553 00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:09,039 About a dozen kids in the gang. All I'm about your age, 554 00:46:09,039 --> 00:46:14,960 isn't they right? She's lying? Can't you tell she's lying? She got 555 00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:16,960 me into the gang. I hope you'll be with us then. In the 556 00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:22,199 meantime, do send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, 557 00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:28,000 follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and check us out on Instagram, 558 00:46:28,159 --> 00:46:34,719 Instagram, dot com slash Great Detectives from Boise, Idaho. This is your 559 00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:37,199 host, Adam Graham signing off.