1 00:00:28,399 --> 00:00:34,159 Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This 2 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:37,679 is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, email it 3 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:43,840 to me Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net. Follow us on Twitter at 4 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:49,679 Radio Detectives, and check us out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com slash 5 00:00:49,719 --> 00:00:53,920 Great Detectives. If you are enjoying this podcast, please follow us using your 6 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:58,920 favorite podcast software. Our listener support campaign continues. You can become one of 7 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:03,159 our ongoing page your own supporters for as little as two dollars per month, 8 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:07,079 and I want to thank Robert for becoming our latest Patreon supporter at the Master 9 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:11,879 Detective level of fifteen dollars or more per month. Thank you so much for 10 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:15,760 your support, Robert. In addition, you can support the show on a 11 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:21,359 one time basis at support dot Great Detectives dot net for our paypowling. Now 12 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:26,280 it's time for this week's episode of Dangerous Assignment. The original air date is 13 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:42,480 July tenth, nineteen fifty one, and the title as China See Smuggling Dangerous 14 00:01:42,480 --> 00:02:07,640 Assignment starring Bryan don Levy as Steve Mitchell. Yeah, danger is my assignment. 15 00:02:07,879 --> 00:02:09,199 I get sent to a lot of places I can't even pronounce. They 16 00:02:09,199 --> 00:02:13,120 all spell the same thing, though, trouble. But when I walk into 17 00:02:13,159 --> 00:02:16,319 the Commissioner's office, I don't realize that this assignment's gonna drop me into a 18 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:28,319 spot where a kiss is either gonna cure me or kill me. Good morning, 19 00:02:28,319 --> 00:02:30,919 commission sit yet an assignment for me, I do, Steve, And 20 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:32,719 I suppose you were all tied up with a big deal as you well, 21 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:38,439 let's just call it a pet project. Well as Steve ever hear the name 22 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:42,240 Captain j Captain Jaker. Sure, he's supposed to be a notorious character in 23 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:46,639 the China seas, sort of an American soldier of fortune, or I should 24 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:50,879 say sailor of fortune. Operates a string of small boats and does just about 25 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:53,479 anything for a buck. That's a story, all right. Supposedly he runs 26 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:57,719 guns and other contraband to ports on the China coast, but we can never 27 00:02:57,759 --> 00:02:59,919 get the goods on him. Well, you are up to date, and 28 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:01,879 Captain Jagger, all right, and Steve, we're going to use Captain Jacob 29 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:06,960 the nail, whoever is financing the entire contraband operation. Then this Captain Jagger 30 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:09,560 just runs this stringer smuggling boats h You might put it like that. Captain 31 00:03:09,639 --> 00:03:14,599 Jager's personal boat is supposed to be a rusty old tramp steamer named the Shanghai 32 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:17,560 Lady. Look, Commissioner, this is all pretty vague. Captain Jager's ship 33 00:03:17,639 --> 00:03:21,719 is named the Shanghai Lady, and we're going to use Jager to nail the 34 00:03:21,759 --> 00:03:24,159 brains of the operation. But how where do I start? Who do I 35 00:03:24,199 --> 00:03:30,400 work with? You report to Naval Intelligence at Luzon and the Philippines, do 36 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:34,639 you hey? You know that's a very peculiar gleam in your eye. Commissioner, 37 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:38,000 who me, Yeah, you, there's a lot you haven't told me 38 00:03:38,039 --> 00:03:39,560 about this deal. I've told you all I can at this stage of the 39 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:43,840 operation. Steve, Naval Intelligence and the Philippines will take it from there. 40 00:03:43,879 --> 00:03:46,240 And you're playing leaves in just one hour. Well, that's it. You've 41 00:03:46,280 --> 00:04:04,520 got your assignment. Good luck. The National Broadcasting Company is presenting Dangerous Assignments, 42 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:10,039 starring Bryan Donleavy in the role of Steve Mitchell, colorful two fisted government 43 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:14,120 agement at all those places of the world where danger and intrigue walk hand in 44 00:04:14,159 --> 00:04:26,600 hand. There you'll find Steve Mitchell on another dangerous assignment. Sure I've got 45 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:30,560 my assignment, or have I. All I know is there's a wholesale smuggling 46 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:33,040 operation going on in the China Sea, and as somehow I'm supposed to tangle 47 00:04:33,319 --> 00:04:38,160 with a rugged gent named Captain Jager and use him to find out whose master 48 00:04:38,319 --> 00:04:41,920 mining the operation. Yeah. I'm really in the dark on this deal. 49 00:04:41,959 --> 00:04:45,120 It's like playing a game of poker when I can't see my own hand and 50 00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:47,319 I've got an uneasy feeling I'm going to run into somebody who'll be trying his 51 00:04:47,439 --> 00:04:53,319 best to make me cash in my chips permanently. It's Wednesday when the plane 52 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:57,480 lands in the Philippines and I head for Navy Intelligence headquarters at Luzon. There, 53 00:04:57,519 --> 00:05:00,759 I'm introduced to a Commander Elwood. He ushers me into a waiting car, 54 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:04,560 and the driver heads for the waterfront. They billion on the background of 55 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:08,720 this operation, Mitchell, not much, Commanders, the commissioner said, you 56 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:13,439 boys, enable intelligence would supply a few missing pieces. Well, I'm not 57 00:05:13,519 --> 00:05:16,600 exactly with Naval intelligence, oh than who. But I again give you a 58 00:05:16,639 --> 00:05:20,480 little of the general info. You probably know all about the contraband that's being 59 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:25,160 run into the China seas these day. Yeah, the mission is brief to 60 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:28,079 find out who's financing the whole deal. Sure, sure, all this I 61 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:30,120 know, commander, But what I don't get? Yeah, well, look 62 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:33,519 I dash out here to the Philippines on a plane. I'm no sooner here 63 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:36,800 than you ushered me into this car and we head down here to the waterfront. 64 00:05:36,959 --> 00:05:42,879 I still don't know where I'm heading. We're here, let's go. 65 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:47,519 Okay, don't wait, driver, we may be quite a little while. 66 00:05:49,199 --> 00:05:54,079 All right this way, Mitchell, they're turning onto the dock. Right. 67 00:05:55,160 --> 00:06:00,319 Hey, that's a submarine tied up there. Right again. I'll try to 68 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:03,959 take good care of you, Mitchell. You the skipper, Yes, I'm 69 00:06:03,959 --> 00:06:15,079 the skipper. Come on, let's get aboard. We're getting underway immediately we 70 00:06:15,079 --> 00:06:17,600 shovel often as I watched the shore line fade, I get that uneasy feeling 71 00:06:17,639 --> 00:06:21,040 again. We sat our course southwest. The first day we cruise on the 72 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:25,560 surface, but the second day we submerge. Late in the afternoon. The 73 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:29,920 skipper sends for me. I find him in the cunning tower. Well, 74 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:30,959 we ought to be just about at the end of the line. Mitchell, 75 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:35,480 where are we? Well, that's just what we're gonna find out right now. 76 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:46,000 Up periscope. Now we'll see what we can see. M Hey, 77 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:47,639 you know, I guess I'll have to give that navigator a minor raise. 78 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:53,480 He's pretty good. Yeah. Take a look, Mitchell. Okay, looks 79 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:56,639 like we're out in the middle of nowhere. Swing right a little now, 80 00:06:56,920 --> 00:07:01,360 okay, hey, try steamer. Yeah, and you make out the name 81 00:07:01,399 --> 00:07:09,199 on the stern, Shanghai Lady. Hey, down firstcope, Look, what's 82 00:07:09,199 --> 00:07:13,600 the deal, he's Steve. This envelope is for you. What's in it? 83 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:15,759 Sealed orders? You'd open them when you get aboard. Get aboard? 84 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:19,720 What the Shanghai Lady? Hey, Now, wait a minute, I'm going 85 00:07:19,759 --> 00:07:25,480 to board Captain Jagger's ship. Yeah, and right now stand by the surface. 86 00:07:30,399 --> 00:07:32,879 Well, this is really a surprise, and right now I'm not at 87 00:07:32,879 --> 00:07:36,720 all sure it's a pleasant one. The sub surfaces, they open the hatches, 88 00:07:36,759 --> 00:07:40,519 a skip of shakes hands with me and sticks me into a rubber boat, 89 00:07:40,519 --> 00:07:43,480 and a couple of the crew roll me towards the Shanghai Lady, which 90 00:07:43,519 --> 00:07:46,959 is lying too gently, rolling on the swell. And it's a rusty old 91 00:07:46,959 --> 00:07:48,439 tub. And when we get close, I see the crew standing at the 92 00:07:48,519 --> 00:07:53,319 rail staring down at me, and a more rugged looking bunch of pirates I've 93 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:57,279 never seen. I climb uneasily up the ladder and under the deck. At 94 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:01,199 close range, the crew is more sinister looking than ever, and a stocky 95 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:07,120 guy with a stocking cap comes up to me. Hi, yeah, he 96 00:08:07,279 --> 00:08:20,319 is Captain Jager. Around this way up this letter? Okay, here inside, 97 00:08:20,439 --> 00:08:26,879 all right, this is Captain Jager's Kevin. Oh well, where is 98 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:33,360 he right here? Oh? You no? You what that's right? Look? 99 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:35,320 Is this some kind of a joke, no joke that I'll read your 100 00:08:35,399 --> 00:08:41,519 orders? Mitchell? Mitchell, Hey, yeah, I guess i'd better anything 101 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:45,919 that you don't understand, I'll fill in if I can. Hey, surprise, 102 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:48,559 huh. Yeah, it says there is no Captain Jager. That's right, 103 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:52,519 But I don't understand all the stories I've heard about her, Mitchell. 104 00:08:52,759 --> 00:08:56,320 Remember during the last war, the RAF, whenever anything went wrong, who 105 00:08:56,320 --> 00:09:00,639 did the pilot's blab it on why gremlins? Hey? Are you trying to 106 00:09:00,639 --> 00:09:03,720 say that Captain Jager is a gremlin? More or less? The navy started 107 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:07,000 it. I guess there's been a lot of trouble in these waters last couple 108 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:11,759 of years. So everything that went wrong every time there were guns smuggled or 109 00:09:11,799 --> 00:09:13,960 things like that. They started saying, Captain Jager did it. Well, 110 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:18,360 I'll be so, that's why the commissioner had that gleam in his eye when 111 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:22,039 he was talking about Captain Jacob. But that doesn't explain this ship and its 112 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:26,399 crew also my being sent here unless oh, yeah, sure you'll get it. 113 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:30,559 If everyone believes in Captain Jager, why not come up with one. 114 00:09:30,679 --> 00:09:33,080 Yeah, Captain Jager has a reputation for being a clever smuggler. Maybe the 115 00:09:33,159 --> 00:09:37,679 gent who's financing all his gun running, I'll try to hire Captain Jacob. 116 00:09:37,799 --> 00:09:43,360 That's the general idea. Let's go back out on deck. Okay, any 117 00:09:43,399 --> 00:09:48,440 more questions? Yeah? The crew were they volunteers from the Marine Corps? 118 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:50,799 What are you though, brody, rugged looking bunch, aren't they? The 119 00:09:50,879 --> 00:09:54,320 guy over there on the wing of the bridge, that's Johnson Bakewell's the one 120 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:58,080 down there on the well deck. The others are below deck right now, 121 00:09:58,279 --> 00:10:01,000 All except the sleepy looking cuts over there at the rail. They call him 122 00:10:01,039 --> 00:10:07,720 Tennessee. Hi Skip. I wonder why Hi Tennessee A long way from home, 123 00:10:07,759 --> 00:10:15,320 aren't you? You're not a really long way from women? Yeah? 124 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:18,879 How much does the crew know about this deal. They didn't know anything until 125 00:10:18,919 --> 00:10:22,799 they got aboard. Now they have a general idea of the operation. Well, 126 00:10:22,879 --> 00:10:26,960 I guess that queeries up everything. But you, Mike Merrick, first 127 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:31,519 mate of the Shanghai Lady, otherwise known as Lieutenant Merrick, United States Navy, 128 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:33,720 Well, I guess you can drop the accent for the time being. 129 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:39,960 What accent? Oh built in? Eh? Yeah, Well you're the Skipper, 130 00:10:39,039 --> 00:10:43,960 Steve, or rather Captain Jagger. What happens from now on is up 131 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:46,200 to you. What's our position, Mike, out in the middle of the 132 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:50,679 South China Sea, I'd see my orders say they visit some of the ports 133 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:54,759 from this neck of the would see if you'll be contacted by anybody. Well, 134 00:10:54,759 --> 00:10:58,480 I suppose we had for the Melaan Peninsula down to Singapore, Don over 135 00:10:58,519 --> 00:11:01,679 to Sumatra, Java. Sounds fine. Something sure ought to happen in one 136 00:11:01,679 --> 00:11:05,000 of those places. Yeah, something will, all right. The question is 137 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:16,840 what now? Come on, let's get underway. What time is it, 138 00:11:16,879 --> 00:11:22,720 Mike, almost twenty four hundred midnight, pretty bright moonlight. Yeah, I 139 00:11:22,759 --> 00:11:26,159 didn't realize there were so many little islands here along the Malayan coast. Yeah, 140 00:11:26,279 --> 00:11:28,360 flock of them. Not too much room between these two. Here we 141 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:31,000 all on this course, we should clear. Okay? Is that easy? 142 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:37,600 Ago Tennessee showing how skip that may notice? Hey, that's funny. I 143 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:41,399 went over on our right. I thought I saw a light for a second. 144 00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:46,759 Who where near the point? I don't see any Wait, there's a 145 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:48,600 junk coming around that point. Right ahead of us. There comes some mob 146 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:52,440 having fine other islands here. Hey, look that machine gunk it down. 147 00:11:56,679 --> 00:12:01,000 Man, that's too close, real, too close. It's their standard gag. 148 00:12:01,039 --> 00:12:03,200 They rake the bridge, hope to kill off everyone there right off the 149 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:05,759 bat. What do you mean? What's who's in those junks? Millay in? 150 00:12:05,799 --> 00:12:09,600 Pirates, hijackers? These waters a lossy with him? Put its well 151 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:13,039 armed pirates. Sure that's where some of those smuggled guns end up. Okay, 152 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:16,200 so we dropped this Captain Jagger route in and have ourselves a little naval 153 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:18,559 engagement. First, we've got to have room to maneuver this baby Tennessee. 154 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:22,879 Right, full rudder, right full rudder, Steve Comatus, take a look 155 00:12:22,879 --> 00:12:26,039 astern of us. Hey, two more junks back there just popped off from 156 00:12:26,039 --> 00:12:28,120 behind that island on the left. This is just great. Three junks ahead 157 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:31,080 of us, two behind us, from an island on each side were bottled 158 00:12:31,159 --> 00:12:48,480 up. Mike a good. It's the Silver Jubilee on NBC. People used 159 00:12:48,519 --> 00:12:50,080 to say it was the biggest cornet in the world, and the man who 160 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:54,559 played it was Pete Kelly. You'll hear him too in radio's newest dramatic half 161 00:12:54,559 --> 00:13:00,679 hour, Pete Kelly's Blues tomorrow and every Wednesday evening on most NBA stations. 162 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:05,000 Pete Kelly's Blues. It's about the big music, the big trouble, and 163 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:09,120 the big roar of the twenties. Here Pete Kelly's Blues Tomorrow on most NBC 164 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:24,200 stations. And now back to Dangerous Assignments and Brian Dunlevy as Steve Mitchell. 165 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:33,759 Those monkeys are probably gonna try and bord Us. Can't we have anything more 166 00:13:33,799 --> 00:13:37,360 Polton and sporns and sweet shots to fight backwards? Shore up there on the 167 00:13:37,399 --> 00:13:39,879 decks. Here the bottle that Craig, what about it? It's a concealed 168 00:13:39,919 --> 00:13:43,200 gun mount The sites fold down forty millimeters. Prick is try to get to 169 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:46,480 it. Hey, one of the boys are trying for it. Now. 170 00:13:46,519 --> 00:13:50,879 Yeah, yeah, look brother, they got him cold. They look. 171 00:13:50,919 --> 00:13:54,159 I think I'd get that machine gun on a spotted skipping up up on a 172 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:56,320 mass of Elijah. And there's a rifle hill on the bridge. And I 173 00:13:56,399 --> 00:14:01,080 used to be quit a better knocking fill praise. Okay, grab your squirrel 174 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:03,159 gun, Daniel boone, what are you gonna do, Steve? You take 175 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:05,480 over here on the bridge, Mike. As soon as that machine gunners sticks 176 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:07,759 his head out again, you let him have a turn asine. Maybe I 177 00:14:07,759 --> 00:14:11,399 can make it to the gun oneth before anybody else does. Fly. I 178 00:14:11,519 --> 00:14:20,360 hope Tennessee eases over to the wing of the bridge and takes a site, 179 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:24,600 and we wait, not just a little more. I sent a boy, 180 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:33,840 come on, baby, peak that's it, now hold it ha ha gallans 181 00:14:33,919 --> 00:14:35,279 gif. I dropped to the deck and run forward to the crate, pull 182 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:39,120 down the slats and dive behind the shields of the time. I swing a 183 00:14:39,159 --> 00:14:41,879 forty millimeter around and go to work on the nearest junk. It's a point 184 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:46,440 blank rain. The shell rips full the primsy boat and sets it on fire. 185 00:14:46,519 --> 00:14:50,320 I shipped to the next one to do likewise two verse four, and 186 00:14:50,399 --> 00:14:52,440 the third one has gun for the other to turn tail. One of those 187 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:56,279 I sat on fire. The other ships around the island. I quit shooting 188 00:14:56,279 --> 00:15:00,440 and turned around. Mike is standing there grinning at me, trying to do 189 00:15:00,559 --> 00:15:03,600 burn the gun up. Why do you figure they jumped us in the first 190 00:15:03,639 --> 00:15:05,759 place, Mike, I probably thought we were running guns or other stuff to 191 00:15:05,799 --> 00:15:09,159 them. Tell them, I don't get you routine with these guys. They 192 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:13,440 order a load of guns cod then they sneak out and hijack it on the 193 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:15,679 way. Think of the money, they say, Oh brother, this is 194 00:15:15,679 --> 00:15:18,600 a real nice league. We're playing balling. Well, I guess we've better 195 00:15:18,639 --> 00:15:22,399 stood it. Huh. Take a look at that silhouette out there in the 196 00:15:22,399 --> 00:15:28,480 moonlight wardship. They're blinking a message to us. Silhouette look familiar Dutch by 197 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:33,919 the look of it. Stand by for boarding party. Acknowledge out of the 198 00:15:33,039 --> 00:15:37,120 frying pan, into the fire. You better acknowledge. Not yet they turned 199 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:41,960 their searchlight on us. I think they can read our name sure straight ahead. 200 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:46,360 Tennessee, Hey, Steve, those boys mean business. I shot across 201 00:15:46,399 --> 00:15:50,440 our bowl. Okay, Tennessee, stop the engines. Acknowledge the message? 202 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:54,600 What was the idea of that? Just acting the way they'd expect Captain Jager 203 00:15:54,679 --> 00:15:58,039 to act. Captain Jacob, you mean you're not going to identify yourself to 204 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:00,600 them, Mike, suppose those boys think I'm Captain Jaker. What'll they do? 205 00:16:02,159 --> 00:16:04,519 Probably escort us to the nearest port and search the ship for Countraband. 206 00:16:04,679 --> 00:16:08,639 That way we get a lot of publicity. Huh oh, I get it. 207 00:16:10,159 --> 00:16:12,799 Wait a minute, are we buy any chance carrying anything in this tub 208 00:16:12,799 --> 00:16:18,799 that might be classified as contraband? If so, we're cooking. Don't worry 209 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:22,399 about that, Steve, Why what are we carrying a load of says and 210 00:16:22,919 --> 00:16:26,639 yeah, well they start trying to figure that out. They'll flip their lids. 211 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:34,759 That's just about what happens. They escort us into the same Dutch port 212 00:16:34,799 --> 00:16:37,720 we were heading for. Anyway, throw me in jail and post the guard 213 00:16:37,759 --> 00:16:41,120 on board the ship. Then they start trying to figure out what the sand 214 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:45,559 is all about. In the meantime, I'm waiting to see if anyone tries 215 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:48,159 to contact me. Stay next afternoon, I'm lying on the cot in my 216 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:52,000 cell when I hear a woman's voice out in the office. I wish to 217 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:56,639 please I'm his wife. Now this sounds real interesting. Two minutes later, 218 00:16:56,679 --> 00:17:03,720 they usher my wife into the cell. Hello, dandy, that is no 219 00:17:03,799 --> 00:17:14,200 way to greet me. There is not that way much better? Sure is 220 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:18,119 like I keep telling myself, I'm so lucky to have a wife like you. 221 00:17:18,279 --> 00:17:21,960 Benefit of the card? I bet I got a lot more benefit out 222 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:25,279 of it than he did. I collect. I told them I was Captain 223 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:27,279 Jake as wife. Yeah, I heard you. Why why? I do 224 00:17:27,319 --> 00:17:30,039 not think they would let me in? And I had to see you? 225 00:17:30,359 --> 00:17:36,279 Oh? What about? I wish to interview the famous Captain Jake interveal me? 226 00:17:36,519 --> 00:17:38,039 Hey, who are you? As I told you? My name is 227 00:17:38,079 --> 00:17:42,039 colleb I work for a newspaper syndicate. There are some questions I would like 228 00:17:42,119 --> 00:17:45,400 to ask you. Such I ask, how long do you expect to be 229 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:49,599 luck up here? That's up to the port authorities. What else? When 230 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:55,319 you are released, where will you go? Why? I haven't decided when? 231 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:59,599 More question, do you know where the blue Parrot bar is? I 232 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:06,400 could find it the first night you are released? Perhaps? And oh good, 233 00:18:07,279 --> 00:18:11,440 I must go now. Somebody coming down a corridor and my first mate, 234 00:18:11,559 --> 00:18:17,599 I must go now. I will see you later, darling, okay? 235 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:22,240 Collect Hi Mike, Well, hi darling, you work fast. Oh 236 00:18:22,319 --> 00:18:26,559 I'm a real slicker. Hushi my wife huh so, she says. She 237 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:30,200 also says she's a newspaper reporter. She wants to interview me in the Blue 238 00:18:30,279 --> 00:18:33,119 Parrot Bar the first night I get out of here. I see you think 239 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:36,839 she could be the contact. I don't know. Well you should be able 240 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:40,079 to find out tonight. So that's what I came to tell you. You're 241 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:44,559 a free man. Oh so they finally gave up on that sand m Yeah 242 00:18:44,599 --> 00:18:47,640 and disgust. They're given us twenty four hours to get their Shanghai lady out 243 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:51,000 of port. That means whoever it's going to contact me better hurry up. 244 00:18:51,039 --> 00:19:03,400 Come on, let's get back aboard ship. Here's Steve. I'll give you 245 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:07,480 a hand up on deck. Thank you. Hey, why are all the 246 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:10,640 guys clustered around the rail over there? Let's go see what's up. Look, 247 00:19:11,039 --> 00:19:15,359 Tennessee's in the middle. He's got a perminoculars train man, o man, 248 00:19:15,559 --> 00:19:18,640 Okay, break it up, broys, bake it up. What's going 249 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:22,559 on? Oh yep, but you pack Look at that. Let's have those 250 00:19:22,559 --> 00:19:26,279 binoculars. Oh you mean that? Yat? I mean, what's on it? 251 00:19:26,519 --> 00:19:30,920 What's not it? Whoa? Wow? Wow? What is it? 252 00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:33,759 Oh? Little number of dark classes in a bikini bathing suit? Hey, 253 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:40,000 she's waving at me. Look what's with you anyway? Catnip? Maybe you 254 00:19:40,079 --> 00:19:42,519 know this Captain Jaker, I should have been invented a long time ago. 255 00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:48,559 Skipper show getting loans of my knockers. Okay, tennessee, Oh fast, 256 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:53,079 well, shocks all far there, it's Steve. Look she's gotten into a 257 00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:56,759 motor boat. Yeah, and she's heading this way. Looks like we're gonna 258 00:19:56,799 --> 00:20:00,279 have a visitor. Come on, let's get down to the gangway. Okay, 259 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:07,400 that's a pretty expensive looking yacht. Yeah, you'd think this girl could 260 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:15,279 be the contact. Oh here we are ravin Jago. Mine if I come 261 00:20:15,319 --> 00:20:19,000 aboard? Not at all? All right here, let me have your hand. 262 00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:30,720 You come, Thank you well, same as Captain Jaga himself, remember 263 00:20:30,759 --> 00:20:36,640 me, well, not exactly. I am PTIs your brand, But there's 264 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:40,359 no reason why you should. Really, we've never met before. I'm glad 265 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:42,880 to hear you say that. Oh why, well, otherwise i'd have known 266 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:48,359 I was slipping not remembering meeting you. It's just that I wanted to see 267 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:52,480 the famous man close up. Sometimes close ups aren't so hot, I'd say 268 00:20:52,519 --> 00:20:57,880 in this case it was even better. That's quite a nice looking yacht. 269 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:04,720 You've got were we speaking of yacht? Not exactly. You're a very interesting 270 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:11,359 combination, Captain Jager, am I yes, I collect interesting things, you 271 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:17,799 know. Look Captain, yeah, I excuse me, Patricia, what is 272 00:21:17,839 --> 00:21:21,960 it? Mike? Another visitor? See Beigel was just helping him on deck? 273 00:21:22,799 --> 00:21:25,799 Little guy? I ever seen him before? No, he came from 274 00:21:25,799 --> 00:21:29,240 the yacht too. Oh he looks pretty unhappy about something. Oh that's not 275 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:33,960 unusual. He's always unhappy. Arthur, my husband. Well, well, 276 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:37,880 up to your old fix as usual, Patricia. Oh please, let's not 277 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:41,559 be a complete ruler. As for you, sir, luring my wife to 278 00:21:41,599 --> 00:21:45,480 your ship. This is luring or now, this is Captain Jager. I 279 00:21:45,519 --> 00:21:48,519 don't care if your captain kid, I'll teach you. Look, you cut 280 00:21:48,519 --> 00:21:52,240 out the rough stuff. You're not built for it. You put me down, 281 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:56,160 I said, putting it down. Okay, but just simmer down, 282 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:03,920 Patricia, come back of the oddit ones? Really you admit one? All 283 00:22:03,039 --> 00:22:08,039 right? All right, goodbye for now, Captain. Good luck with your 284 00:22:08,039 --> 00:22:12,000 collection, Patricia. Perhaps I can add to it. Oh, brother, 285 00:22:12,599 --> 00:22:17,880 I bet she gives that little guy a bad time. Yeah, well I 286 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:19,440 was getting dark. I bet her head into town for the blue Parrot. 287 00:22:19,519 --> 00:22:22,000 Bar and see if my little friend Collector is going to keep her day. 288 00:22:30,319 --> 00:22:34,759 Captain Jager, you have kept your person circollect right on time, Skipper, 289 00:22:34,839 --> 00:22:37,400 I'll shove off. I see a friend at the bar. Okay, Mike, 290 00:22:38,599 --> 00:22:44,319 I am glad your friend left. He's much better this way. Hey, 291 00:22:44,319 --> 00:22:48,920 at fat Gent, he seems to be waddling our way. Oh good 292 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:56,319 d This is Captain Jagger. Captain her vans are an important. Her van's 293 00:22:56,319 --> 00:23:00,039 a reversion. If he is Captain Jigger, you were, You're an important 294 00:23:00,039 --> 00:23:03,960 in the middle of speaking, Come on, Captain. Most who leave as 295 00:23:04,039 --> 00:23:07,799 knows the ma please Okay, perhaps I will see you later Captain Jinger, 296 00:23:08,039 --> 00:23:15,680 Yeah, who knows? Hey, how come the big desire to leave all 297 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:18,799 of a sudden? Collect It is just that I want to be alone with 298 00:23:18,839 --> 00:23:26,920 you. Captain. Oh yeah, this is Alice. This is fine enough. 299 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:32,440 Now why did you want to be alone with me? Oh? No, 300 00:23:33,519 --> 00:23:36,920 sorry to lay it out taken out? Oh would you mind telling me 301 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:40,279 what this is all about? You kill you? So? I want to 302 00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:44,039 kill you. I killed who Anny my man? He's found dead in an 303 00:23:44,039 --> 00:23:48,279 alley a month ago. I learned the Captain jack a killing. I swell, 304 00:23:48,319 --> 00:23:51,119 I killed Captain Jack collect, you've got the wrong guy. I didn't 305 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:55,359 kill your boyfriend. I wasn't anywhere near around here a month ago. But 306 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:59,319 they say the Captain Jack. Sure, they're always blaming everything on me. 307 00:24:00,039 --> 00:24:03,839 You better run along and don't get any more ideas like this, all right, 308 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:11,640 I'm sorry, Oh brother close? Well, Oh Mike, yeah, 309 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:15,599 I was stealing you. You know, I've just had a very unpleasant thought. 310 00:24:15,839 --> 00:24:19,319 Yeah, so did I. I wonder how many other people are gunning 311 00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:29,880 for him? Him? You mean you on that noted chair. We go 312 00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:33,240 back to the ship. Tennessee is on deck, still glued to his binoculars 313 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:36,920 and staring through the darkness at the lighted yacht. M Patricia, Mike and 314 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:42,000 I head for my cabin. Still no contact, Oh van Zan. I 315 00:24:42,079 --> 00:24:45,480 took the liver with you, awaiting when you're Kevin, because I must talk 316 00:24:45,519 --> 00:24:48,079 to you, Captain Jigger. Why sure, that's quite all right. You 317 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:52,240 maybe have a business proposition for me. No, I have some credentials for 318 00:24:52,279 --> 00:24:57,839 you. Yeah, credentials idean right, you're a Dutch intelligence agents asually, 319 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:02,839 Gray Through picked you early this evening, but it seemed a little Collette head 320 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:06,400 other planes, what's on your mind? There has been a leak. The 321 00:25:06,519 --> 00:25:08,640 whole plane is no Why how could there have been a leak? Your navy 322 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:12,759 discovered a shallow grave and los on the body of a man named Big Wild. 323 00:25:12,839 --> 00:25:15,519 But Bakewell is one of my crew. What the real Big Field? 324 00:25:15,519 --> 00:25:19,839 And impostor who killed Bakewell and assumed his identity and thus was able to learn 325 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:23,480 of the plane that explains the leak? All right, we have arrested this 326 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:27,079 false Bigwell. He is now in jail ashore. But the damage it's been 327 00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:30,880 done. It sure has. Oh brother, the whole operation up in smoke 328 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:34,000 and not closer to finding out who the brains of the smuggling operation is. 329 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:44,799 And we were before fans amp might go below the search the phony Bakewell's belongings. 330 00:25:44,799 --> 00:25:48,359 And I sat there thinking about the whole deal. Suddenly I realized there's 331 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:52,400 something that doesn't add up. When did the leak take place? None of 332 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:55,599 the crew members, including the phony Bakewell, could have known what the operation 333 00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:59,079 was until I came aboard the Shanghi Lah. Once aboard, there was no 334 00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:03,000 chance for them to come on a gate with anybody, no chance except yeah, 335 00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:06,079 it begins to slide into place. I go up on deck and get 336 00:26:06,079 --> 00:26:08,480 into a rowboat. I rolle quietly over to Patricia's yacht and ease aboard. 337 00:26:10,079 --> 00:26:12,960 I hear voices aft I moved quietly along the deck. There a lights on 338 00:26:14,079 --> 00:26:18,000 under the awning in the stern. Oh I haven't taken at pleased out laughing 339 00:26:18,039 --> 00:26:19,640 about it. How was I to know who he was? If I hadn't 340 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:22,039 caught up with you, you probably would have roomed everything. What I hear 341 00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:25,559 sounds real interesting, and I want to hear more, but I don't get 342 00:26:25,559 --> 00:26:27,279 a chance because right then there's a gun in the back of mine neck, 343 00:26:27,559 --> 00:26:32,039 one of the up true. He shoves me forward under the awning. Well, 344 00:26:32,039 --> 00:26:34,960 well, well look what we have here, Hello, Arthur and Patricia. 345 00:26:36,279 --> 00:26:40,519 Well, it's Captain Jagger himself, otherwise known as the United States Satan. 346 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:44,680 We were just talking about you, so I gathered. I finally figured 347 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:48,880 out how your plant, the phony bakewell got the word out. He was 348 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:52,200 the one who helped you up on deck when you came busting over after Patricia. 349 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:55,200 A matter of fact, he probably signaled you to get over there fast, 350 00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:57,480 arthing he did. Indeed, has he helped me aboard. He told 351 00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:02,039 me what he'd learned of your operation, you put on the jealous husband act 352 00:27:02,039 --> 00:27:04,759 and got Patricia away from me before she could tip anything. Exactly. So 353 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,920 you're the boy who's been financing most of the gun running, narcotic smuggling, 354 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:12,599 and various other charming enterprises in this neck of the woods. I have that 355 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:17,880 on. Eh. Well, what happens now, Arthur? Need you ask? 356 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:21,079 You'll be escorted to one of the staterooms. We get underway, and 357 00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:25,519 shall we say, let you off somewhere in the China Sea, Perkin take 358 00:27:25,559 --> 00:27:29,039 him forward? Move okay, but just one thing? What is that that 359 00:27:29,279 --> 00:27:33,400 collection we were talking about, Patricia? I'd like to add the mine right 360 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:45,759 about now, Patricia? Really, when I want my back scratch tell it? 361 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:55,319 You know? Sorry? All right, keep moving. I start forward. 362 00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:56,920 The guard behind me, and I don't know whether the gag has worked 363 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:00,359 or not, but I do know that it hasn't cook. The guy takes 364 00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:03,000 me to one of the staterooms near the bow, opens the door and motions 365 00:28:03,039 --> 00:28:07,160 me in. I decide I can't wait me longer. Suddenly I lurched back 366 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:08,880 against the door, trapping gun hand. Before he can fire, I give 367 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:11,920 him left start for the bow is a gent in front of me with a 368 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:15,839 gun. I see his fingers start tightening up on the trigger, but I'm 369 00:28:15,839 --> 00:28:19,160 not the one who collects the slug he does. He crumples over My eyes 370 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:22,279 flicked to the rail layer head and shoulders over the deck and grinning at me 371 00:28:22,319 --> 00:28:26,319 down the barrel of a smoking squirrel gun is Tennessee, and behind him the 372 00:28:26,319 --> 00:28:30,079 rest of my crew. They all swarm over the place, the yacht, 373 00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:33,759 and five minutes later the free for all is over. Arthur's neatly trussed up 374 00:28:33,759 --> 00:28:38,440 in his cabin, Patricia and hers and Tennessee ru Wi my mi mind A 375 00:28:38,519 --> 00:28:41,880 little frankers didn't last nay long enough, dog gone. I was having the 376 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,000 most fun, Tennessee. I'm sure glad you're a peeping tom at heart. 377 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:49,359 Well S, there was just squinting through my b knocks that lovely little gown. 378 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:53,519 Suddenly I see you step up plant a big smacarana. Then you start 379 00:28:53,559 --> 00:28:56,640 tracing a big s os. Would you finger right across the back? Oh, 380 00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:59,200 I can say, as you're sure, gut are in a hurry. 381 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:02,680 I wasn't sure you'd know I was in trouble. You can skip what do 382 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:04,839 you mean? Well, if you want to be rescued from that. I 383 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,680 beg you, how bad can troubled be? Yeah, I guess you've got 384 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:33,119 a point there. Dangerous Assignment, starring Brian don Levy as Steve Mitchell with 385 00:29:33,279 --> 00:29:37,960 her Butterfield as the Commissioner, is written by Bob Rife m Adrian Chandau, 386 00:29:38,359 --> 00:29:44,160 with music by Robert Armbroster, and is produced and directed by Bill Carne. 387 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:48,960 Others in the cast were Tony Barrett, Paul Freeze, Irene Winston, Paul 388 00:29:48,039 --> 00:29:52,960 dubob and Jean Tatum. Be with us again next week at this time when 389 00:29:52,039 --> 00:29:56,599 Brian don Levy, starring in the role of Steve Mitchell, will embark on 390 00:29:56,640 --> 00:30:23,599 another Dangerous Assignment. It's the Silver Jubilee on NBC Welcome Back Now. It's 391 00:30:23,599 --> 00:30:30,960 worth noting that this episode was actually adapted into a TV episode that we played 392 00:30:32,319 --> 00:30:37,599 several months back, called The Submarine Story because so much of the story was 393 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:42,720 set on a submarine apparently, and in that particular production, not only does 394 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:49,799 Brian Donlavey reprise the role of Steve Mitchell for television, but also Paul Freeze 395 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:55,640 and Paul Dubov both appear as well, after having been in the radio version 396 00:30:56,759 --> 00:31:00,160 as with the television version, I love the concept and thought it was a 397 00:31:00,319 --> 00:31:08,519 really interesting idea the Navy inventing the character of Captain Yager and having Steve go 398 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:15,119 undercover as him has a lot of story potential, so much that I don't 399 00:31:15,119 --> 00:31:18,880 think a single half hour episode could contain it. I really wish this was 400 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:22,640 a multi partner and I don't like the fact that a mole on the ship 401 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:29,839 brings the story to a premature conclusion, and finding the masterminds of the smuggling 402 00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:36,000 in the first part they tried is really insanely lucky. The radio version did 403 00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:41,039 have a chance to be better than the TV version. The end of the 404 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:48,000 radio version, with the crew of Steve ship boarding and overtaking the smuggler's crew 405 00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:52,480 is a great idea, but it's hard for me to give it a whole 406 00:31:52,799 --> 00:32:00,400 lot of credit when this sort of swashbuckling battle is exposited over buying a ration 407 00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:07,039 not even a sound effect. Really okay, Still, even though it came 408 00:32:07,079 --> 00:32:09,960 to an end sooner than I would like, it was fun while it lasted, 409 00:32:10,079 --> 00:32:15,079 and I enjoyed during the radio version of what was one of my favorite 410 00:32:15,119 --> 00:32:21,680 TV episodes. Listener comments and feedback now and we go to YouTube where one 411 00:32:21,759 --> 00:32:28,119 listener riots regarding the episode Epidemic Needle in a Haystack, and he says, 412 00:32:28,119 --> 00:32:34,880 what turned me off about this episode were the Saturday Morning cartoonist German accents. 413 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:38,599 Usually I can look the other way, but these were over the top. 414 00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:46,200 Only the woman scientist was passable slash possible. In context, we are six 415 00:32:46,279 --> 00:32:51,680 years from World War two and two years I think from the creation of the 416 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:55,119 Federation of Germany, so I guess they are still the batties at this point, 417 00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:59,920 and the powers that be don't want the average radio listener to forget it. 418 00:33:00,079 --> 00:33:02,680 Well, thanks for the comment. In terms of the reason for the 419 00:33:02,759 --> 00:33:08,519 accents, I don't think there was any sort of geopolitical reason for it. 420 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:15,880 Certainly as a country, America didn't view Germans, particularly those in West Germany 421 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:22,680 where the story was set, as we were also just two years post Berlin 422 00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:29,759 Airlift. I think that the way that dialects were done had a lot more 423 00:33:29,839 --> 00:33:37,079 to do with a lack of exposure to be a lastic native accent. For 424 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:43,759 so many countries the twenty first century, it's a very different situation, and 425 00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:49,519 much of that is down to YouTube. I've heard actors who got a part 426 00:33:49,759 --> 00:33:55,680 for a character of a nationality that they'd never performed before, and they went 427 00:33:55,759 --> 00:34:04,319 ahead and went on YouTube and listened to native speakers actually speaking the language in 428 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:08,039 their own country. I think that for so many people, the idea of 429 00:34:08,119 --> 00:34:19,000 what a realistic accent for a particular dialect is formed by popular culture to a 430 00:34:19,079 --> 00:34:24,280 great degree, and popular culture could be very out of touch with how people 431 00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:32,039 actually spoke. And then another lessoner writes in regarding Operation Hotfoot, and he 432 00:34:32,159 --> 00:34:37,800 writes, this story sounded really familiar. Then I remembered it's basically the plot 433 00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:44,800 points from Ian Fleming's Doctor No. But this episode is from nineteen fifty one 434 00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:50,199 and Doctor No was written in nineteen fifty seven. I'm not saying Ian Fleming 435 00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:54,519 borrowed elements from this story for his novel, but the two stories are too 436 00:34:54,559 --> 00:35:00,800 similar for there not to be a link somewhere. Well, thanks for the 437 00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:07,280 comment, and I did go ahead and check through, and it doesn't appear 438 00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:10,880 that James Bond sang a Calypso song. I'm not a huge Bond fan of 439 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:15,360 not read or seen Doctor No. But from what I've been able to read 440 00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:20,760 in terms of synopsises, there were more to the story, although there is 441 00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:27,480 some similarity to the Dangerous Assignment episode, but what's similar about the story is 442 00:35:27,599 --> 00:35:31,719 not something Fleming couldn't have come up with on his own. I certainly don't 443 00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:37,559 think he wrote it down as a potential plot. Now. While back, 444 00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:45,159 I mentioned that there was a problem at the BBC with writers who listened to 445 00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:52,000 American radio programs and rewrote the jokes for British audiences. So it was possible 446 00:35:52,440 --> 00:36:00,840 for Ian Fleming to have listened to Dangerous Assignment via short wave and at some 447 00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:06,559 of the plot ideas may have served as some sort of subconscious inspiration, but 448 00:36:06,679 --> 00:36:10,480 we don't actually have any evidence one way or another. Thank you so much 449 00:36:10,519 --> 00:36:15,320 for the comment. Now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day. 450 00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:22,280 Thank you to Guy, Patreon supporter since September twenty twenty two, currently 451 00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:25,679 supporting the podcast at the rookie level of two dollars or more per month. 452 00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:30,039 Thank you so much for your support and that will do it for today. 453 00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:36,239 If you are enjoying this podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software. 454 00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:39,199 If you're listening on YouTube, be sure to like the video, subscribe 455 00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:44,599 to the channel, and mark the notification bell all those great things that help 456 00:36:44,679 --> 00:36:49,679 the channel to grow. We'll be back next Wednesday with another dangerous assignment. 457 00:36:50,199 --> 00:36:55,840 But join us back here tomorrow for mister Chameleon. Where mister Chamillion. It 458 00:36:55,880 --> 00:37:00,440 was like a nightmare. Here we were this man I'd never seen before, 459 00:37:00,519 --> 00:37:05,679 and his friends sitting here chatting quite casually. And the next thing I knew 460 00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:09,440 he was dead. It was horrible. I can imagine. Missus Hard, 461 00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:13,880 by the way, where was your husband? He hadn't come home yet. 462 00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:17,199 He still isn't home. We call his club the office, Beatrice. Oh, 463 00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:21,599 here he is now, Edward. Oh, Edward, I thought you'd 464 00:37:21,679 --> 00:37:23,519 never come O, my poor darling. I couldn't believe it when I heard 465 00:37:23,559 --> 00:37:27,440 that you should have been here alone. I'll never forgive myself to be silly. 466 00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:30,840 It's all right now that you're here. Oh. They told me outside, 467 00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:32,599 mister Camillion, that you were on the job. Yes, mister Hart, 468 00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:37,039 I spent so many pleasant hours here in your home that I hate to 469 00:37:37,039 --> 00:37:39,559 come here on police business. I'm sony you and missus Hart and Vaughan. 470 00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:43,960 Oh, but not directly. I'd only seen that man van Voga two or 471 00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:46,320 three times. I met him in Paris when I was there last year on 472 00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:52,519 business. He was an American who preferred living in Paris. To be honest, 473 00:37:52,559 --> 00:37:54,840 I thought him a highly obnoxious character. Edward, why did you ask 474 00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:57,840 him to come here to our whole? I couldn't get out of its? 475 00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:00,519 Sweetheart. I ran into him this noon, and he immediately telling me that 476 00:38:00,559 --> 00:38:02,719 he'd heard I had a painting by Rembrandt and he simply had to see it. 477 00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:07,679 Could he come for tea? So he came, and he died without 478 00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:10,960 even seeing the painting, without even having tea. But mister Camillion, the 479 00:38:12,039 --> 00:38:15,960 poison poison was administered sometime before he got here? Was that kind of poison? 480 00:38:15,079 --> 00:38:21,960 Slow and agonizing? Incidentally, mister Hunt, why were you so late 481 00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,199 getting home? I hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime, 482 00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:30,480 do send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot nat, follow us 483 00:38:30,559 --> 00:38:36,719 on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and check us out on Instagram, Instagram, 484 00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:42,239 dot com, slash Great Detectives From Boise, Idaho. This is your host, 485 00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:44,039 Adam Graham's son and Off