1 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:11,720 Hello, Yes, this is the Falcon speaking. Oh Sherry, I'm glad 2 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:15,480 you called. I let to cancel me out tonight, Angel, I'm all 3 00:00:15,560 --> 00:00:20,039 jammed up. Some client of mine wants me to locate a missing girl. 4 00:00:21,039 --> 00:00:25,320 He doesn't care what it costs, so naturally I'm going to shoot the works. 5 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:33,079 Once again, the National Broadcasting Company brings you the transcribed Adventures of the 6 00:00:33,119 --> 00:00:39,320 Falcon, dedicated to private investigators everywhere, Those hard hitting detectives who like Mike 7 00:00:39,359 --> 00:00:44,359 Wearing, risk their lives to aid law enforcement agencies. So join him now. 8 00:00:44,399 --> 00:00:54,600 When the Falcon solves the case of the Killer's Key, it is early 9 00:00:54,679 --> 00:00:58,439 afternoon in New York, and in a shabby rooming house in midtown Manhattan, 10 00:00:58,799 --> 00:01:03,280 a nervous young man, Larry Gordon, gives himself a dose of artificial courage. 11 00:01:03,959 --> 00:01:11,079 Then, deciding further treating as indicator, he starts pouring again. Who 12 00:01:11,159 --> 00:01:14,840 is it? They lay? Open up? Wait a minute, Claire, 13 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:23,079 to get them everything you aside to Chicago and lare I made a reservation for 14 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:26,239 you on California Limited. What names do you use? Larry holkm good? 15 00:01:26,439 --> 00:01:30,480 When's the plane leave? Eight twenty five tonight? Couldn't you get me out? 16 00:01:30,519 --> 00:01:34,000 Sooner. No, listen, Mary, I still think you're making a 17 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:38,400 mistake. Running away is no solution. Are you crazy? Maybe this isn't 18 00:01:38,519 --> 00:01:42,719 Badgesty, it's worse. If whatever lays his hands on me, that's it. 19 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:45,680 I think you're wrong. Look. I worked for the man for eight 20 00:01:45,719 --> 00:01:49,560 shes. I know how his mind operates. I never should have opened my 21 00:01:49,599 --> 00:01:53,120 apter those Treasury boys in the first place. You had to darling. Why 22 00:01:53,439 --> 00:01:56,560 with someone twisting my arm? They got enough on him to send him up 23 00:01:56,560 --> 00:01:59,640 for ten years. But without you they've got no cap I don't think that 24 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:00,920 mister doesn't know it. How do you want to help them? Pat, 25 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:07,319 Larry? I think you could have been followed. No, no, I 26 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:15,240 was very careful. Who was it? Campo Internal Revenue? Oh just met 27 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:17,759 a miss Camper? Look, sweetie, hay awful sort. They know I 28 00:02:17,759 --> 00:02:21,159 told you where I was. What do you want me to do? Get 29 00:02:21,159 --> 00:02:25,800 in the kitchen and for Pete's sake, be quiet, all right, I'm 30 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:31,240 coming with the camper. Hello, Larry, it's the hunt. Yes, 31 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:37,159 but I thought I would help. You'll forgive the deception. I did it 32 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:43,840 very well, don't you think Kemper Internal Revenue Department? You know the stage 33 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:46,520 may have lost a great talent. Listens to Hunt. I'm afraid I haven't 34 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:50,159 time, Larry. I'm pretty busy these days, coming internal revenue men out 35 00:02:50,199 --> 00:02:52,879 of my hair. I wasn't gonna testify against you. No, No, 36 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:55,919 I was beating it. See I I got the tickets right here. So 37 00:02:57,039 --> 00:03:00,159 you were bound for California. Huh. I have an opinion you couldn't have 38 00:03:00,199 --> 00:03:07,080 chosen better. Where were you planning to stay? Why? Well, someone 39 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:13,159 should cancel the reservation since you're going elsewhere. No, now, don't have 40 00:03:13,199 --> 00:03:37,960 a pleasant jurny. I'm going. Yeah, I'd like to see mister Hunt. 41 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:42,199 Please. Oh you a sergeant Corbett. You don't look like a soldier 42 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:46,159 to me. You're right, I'm with the police. Where's Hunt? Well, 43 00:03:46,199 --> 00:03:51,159 it's like this, Sergeant Bruce to douce it. Oh, I'm sorry. 44 00:03:51,199 --> 00:03:54,759 I didn't realize we're entertaining. You ain't so entertaining you, Charles Hunt. 45 00:03:57,199 --> 00:04:00,599 That's right, I'm Sergeant Corbett. Homicide. Ya, how morbid? 46 00:04:01,199 --> 00:04:04,879 Well, somebody's got to do the job. You ever hear of a fellow 47 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:10,240 named Larry Gordon? This? Of course he works for me? Or should 48 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:15,039 I say he wants did? Why well? I'm being investigated on an income 49 00:04:15,039 --> 00:04:18,000 tax matter, as you may have heard. I've heard, and since Larry's 50 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:23,160 going to testify against me, naturally I don't consider him in my employee. 51 00:04:23,399 --> 00:04:27,319 Well, he won't need the job anyhow, pardon. He was knocked off 52 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:30,480 at three this afternoon. I can't believe it, or take my word for 53 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:33,839 it. I saw the body. I have an idea you, sir, 54 00:04:34,279 --> 00:04:40,240 even before I did. You're not serious, I certainly am. We got 55 00:04:40,319 --> 00:04:44,959 enough evident evidence. Yes, you see, by an odd coincidence, Larry's 56 00:04:44,959 --> 00:04:48,160 girlfriend, Claire Marlowe was in the kitchen when you gunned him. Is that 57 00:04:48,199 --> 00:04:51,759 what miss Marlo friends? Well? Well, what, well, it's the 58 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:56,040 way we figure it. We found her fingerprints. You're evading the question. 59 00:04:57,439 --> 00:05:00,399 Has miss mallow accused me? Well, I I haven't spoken to her yet. 60 00:05:00,759 --> 00:05:05,120 Why now she disappeared? She must have been scared that that. The 61 00:05:05,199 --> 00:05:09,959 fact remains until you discover miss marlow you have absolutely okay, I don't worry. 62 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:12,720 We'll find her, and when we do, when you do, give 63 00:05:12,759 --> 00:05:16,000 me a call. Okay, Hannah, I'll be seeing you shortly, and 64 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:24,639 then we'll see how you're creating a draft. Sergeant Well, Bruce, you 65 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:28,560 hurt. How can I help? But I'm not deaf. What do you 66 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:32,680 think I think when they find Claire Marlowe, I wouldn't want to be in 67 00:05:32,759 --> 00:05:38,000 your shoes. On the other hand, suppose I find her first. Who's 68 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:42,040 that private detective Logan mentioned the other day? You mean Mike Wearring, see 69 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:45,879 the one they call the Falcon Yeah? Well, uh s a good boy 70 00:05:45,920 --> 00:06:02,480 and look up his address. I think I've got a case for him. 71 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:06,920 That's the situations to Wearing So you see my problem? Oh, I'm afraid 72 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:11,199 I don't, mister Hunt. Isn't it obvious? I want you to locate 73 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:15,240 this Claire Mama. You said the police are looking for it. Unfortunately, 74 00:06:15,319 --> 00:06:17,959 I haven't much confidence in them. Well, the jails are loaded with people 75 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:20,720 who thought that. Uh. Nevertheless, I'd like to see you take the 76 00:06:20,759 --> 00:06:26,040 assignment. I don't like it. Why not? It smiles to me of 77 00:06:26,079 --> 00:06:30,639 tampering with the witness corpor claims as Claire Marlowe can prove your guilty of Larry 78 00:06:30,639 --> 00:06:34,079 Gordon's murder. But there's another sign to the coin. If missus Marlo says 79 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:40,079 someone else, she can establish my innocence. Yeah, I suppose that's true 80 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:44,000 enough. Well, if the police find it first, so much the better. 81 00:06:44,639 --> 00:06:47,240 I just want the additional insurance. In my position, I need it, 82 00:06:48,399 --> 00:06:51,040 all right, Hunt, I'll do what I can, that's all I 83 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:56,319 ask. You do what you can, and from that point I hunt, 84 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:14,240 it's up to me. Yeah, you're the superintendent at Shrack. My name 85 00:07:14,319 --> 00:07:16,600 is Mike Wearing. Wonder if you could give me some information about one of 86 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:25,160 your tenants. Oh, Claire Marlowe, you a cop? Why say tell 87 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:29,079 the other fella everything? I knew? What other fellah? Twelve thin fella 88 00:07:29,399 --> 00:07:31,879 vot chosi. Oh you must mean Sergeant Corbett. Yeah, that's his name. 89 00:07:33,759 --> 00:07:36,040 I don't know what you've told Corbett? Why not tell me? I 90 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:40,759 don't know nothing. Came home yesterday like she was scared of something, went 91 00:07:40,879 --> 00:07:45,199 right to her room. How long did she stay? Oh maybe ten fifteen 92 00:07:45,199 --> 00:07:46,839 minutes. Did she have a grip with her when she left? Nope, 93 00:07:47,279 --> 00:07:50,120 just a pocket book. And she didn't say where she was going Nope. 94 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:55,839 And I didn't ask. I believe a fellow should mind is out. If 95 00:07:55,879 --> 00:07:59,040 it needs one thing, it's another. Excuse me a second? Sure? 96 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:11,519 Yeah, what you know? Special to livery from Claire marrow Let me see 97 00:08:11,519 --> 00:08:16,160 that. Hey, what you're doing in just a minute. Dear Hermann, 98 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:20,319 please don't tell anyone you've heard from me, anyone at all. I wonder 99 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:24,319 if you'd be good enough to do me a favor. I've made arrangements with 100 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:28,600 North American band Lines to move my stuff on Wednesday. They know where to 101 00:08:28,639 --> 00:08:31,560 deliver it. My bank book is in the upper right hand drawer of my 102 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:33,840 dresser. If you take it with the enclosed with doors slip, I'm sure 103 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:37,799 you'll have no trouble getting the money. Will you please bring it over to 104 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:43,440 me at the Kenton Hotel. I'm using the name Claire O'Brien here. Why 105 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:46,159 if she want to use her name like that for kentam Hotel? And hey, 106 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:48,879 where you're going have to report to my client. You've been a great 107 00:08:48,879 --> 00:09:07,159 help Herman. Thanks a million, Bruce. Yeah, I believe that's the 108 00:09:07,279 --> 00:09:11,440 poon. I believe you're right. I don't you think you should answer? 109 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:16,759 What's the point, mister Hunt? It's probably for you you know something, 110 00:09:16,799 --> 00:09:24,600 Bruce. I'm beginning to dislike your attitude. No answer the phone, we 111 00:09:24,759 --> 00:09:30,679 still say it's a waste of time. Yeah, I'd like to talk to 112 00:09:30,759 --> 00:09:35,159 Gerald Hunt. Please want it, But I tell you it's for you. 113 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:41,080 Who is it the falcon? All right? Oh? I don't think I've 114 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:46,399 been eating you anymore today? You mean you want me to leave? That's 115 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:50,120 what I want? A far be it for me to hang around on not 116 00:09:50,279 --> 00:09:58,240 one. Hello, I've got good news for you, Hunts. Really really 117 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:03,720 look at Claire Marlow. That is wonderful. He's staying at the Kenton Hotel. 118 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:07,480 She's registered under the name of Claire O'Brien. I needn't tell you how 119 00:10:07,519 --> 00:10:11,399 happy I am with your services, mister Wearing. I was lucky. Let's 120 00:10:11,399 --> 00:10:16,720 say we both were. You may have been fortunate to find Claire, but 121 00:10:16,799 --> 00:10:20,039 I was lucky to find you. I would have had a difficult time of 122 00:10:20,039 --> 00:10:22,120 it without you. I don't think nothing of it. When are you planning 123 00:10:22,159 --> 00:10:26,759 to see Claire immediately? You're familiar with the old proverb he who hesitates his 124 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:31,120 last, Well, in my position, I can't afford to waste a second. 125 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:46,600 Goodbye, mister Wearing, Thanks ever so much. You and your children 126 00:10:46,639 --> 00:10:50,559 can expect to live long, thanks largely to better medicine and surgery. But 127 00:10:50,679 --> 00:10:54,000 you could expect to live even longer were it not for the danger of automobile 128 00:10:54,039 --> 00:10:58,639 accidents in the fifteen to twenty five age group alone, traffic accidents wiped out 129 00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:03,759 three one hundred thousand years of life last year. Had the six thousand, 130 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:07,879 five hundred automobile victims in this youthful group lived out their lives, think how 131 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:11,200 much richer and happier America would have been if driver education could be taught in 132 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:15,159 all of our high schools instead of only a third of them. It might 133 00:11:15,279 --> 00:11:18,799 someday help to save the life of your own son or daughter. If your 134 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:22,039 schools don't have them, demand driver education for your children and then your own 135 00:11:22,039 --> 00:11:26,000 automobile. Remember to drive as though your life depends on it. It does. 136 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:39,159 And now back to the Adventures of the falcon. An hour has passed 137 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:43,759 since Mike Wearing reported to his client Gerald Hunt where Claire Marlowe could be found. 138 00:11:45,519 --> 00:11:48,840 And now in that young lady's hotel room. All right, all right, 139 00:11:48,879 --> 00:11:50,600 you guys, come on, let's hurry it up. Get out of 140 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:54,440 here. Oh David, if you can find any prints around, I doubt 141 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:56,320 it, and I move the body in asans. Now you better wait for 142 00:11:56,399 --> 00:12:00,559 Louis. He may want some more pictures. Right, Hey, Ravie, 143 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:03,399 how you going on that? Oh? You boys? Carry on i't get 144 00:12:03,399 --> 00:12:09,960 it. I'd like to Sergeant Corbett, hey, what are you doing here? 145 00:12:09,799 --> 00:12:16,240 I came to see Claire Marlow? Okay, look? Oh no, 146 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:24,240 oh, yes, there's this close enough? Or would you like to hold 147 00:12:24,279 --> 00:12:28,200 her hand? I don't think she'd get a kick out of it, neither 148 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:31,120 do I. What do you want with it? That's a long story. 149 00:12:31,159 --> 00:12:33,399 Well, I never knew you to tell any other kind, So let's get 150 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:37,080 started. Well, a client of mine wanted me to find her, and 151 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:41,879 you dead. I was lucky. I wonder who's your client? I'd rather 152 00:12:41,919 --> 00:12:46,759 not say, Oh, you'd rather not say, uh, looked blunkhead and 153 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:50,399 innocent girl has been murdered. Nobody knew where she was hiding out and if 154 00:12:50,399 --> 00:12:52,480 you found all right, all right, you don't have to draw me a 155 00:12:52,519 --> 00:12:56,039 diagram. I was responsible. Yes, indeed, you set her up for 156 00:12:56,080 --> 00:13:01,399 a clay pigeon. I've known stupid jerk in my time, but a ball. 157 00:13:01,759 --> 00:13:03,639 Never mind the name sergeant. I can think of a million to call 158 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:09,039 myself. Well, who's your client? Or maybe I can guess don't bother. 159 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:11,639 Look, Mike, don't try to hold out on me. I'm not 160 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:15,960 going to I admit I was a patsy. In this case, you were 161 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:20,159 a patsy? What about her? Well? I know, I know someone's 162 00:13:20,159 --> 00:13:20,799 going to pay for it. Hey, wait a minute, where are you 163 00:13:20,919 --> 00:13:24,919 going when I have a word with my client? After that you can have 164 00:13:24,039 --> 00:13:28,279 him. Frankly, I thought it will be much left. I'll be seeing 165 00:13:28,279 --> 00:13:43,279 your sergeant. Yeah, it's hunting. Who are you? Never mind, 166 00:13:43,279 --> 00:13:48,919 I'll announce myself now wait a sad Bruce, try and keep me off through 167 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:52,960 skill. The gent's going to drink? Sure where you have, busty a 168 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:56,840 little privacy because you leave me alone with your boss. What orders I take? 169 00:13:56,919 --> 00:14:01,360 I take from him? You better get miss walk Papers hunts really, 170 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:03,720 mister Werving, and't you being a bit high handed? Tell him to blow? 171 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:09,559 All right, Bruce, here me go as long as you put it 172 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:15,639 that way? All right? Now? What was the idea? Hans? 173 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,639 What was what I did? Don't give me any double talk. I'm in 174 00:14:18,679 --> 00:14:22,799 no mood for it. Oh it's easy, I'll show you no that you 175 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:26,960 made a sucker out of me. You got me to find Claire Marlow so 176 00:14:26,039 --> 00:14:30,120 you could kill her. You mean Claire's dead, as if you didn't know, 177 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:31,759 But I didn't. I suppose you don't remember me phoning you at one 178 00:14:31,799 --> 00:14:35,720 thirty this afternoon. I told you where you could find her. I could 179 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:39,519 blow my brains out not calling on her first. But you didn't make that 180 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:43,000 mistake. Did you let me go? I'm sure I'll let you go. 181 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:46,240 My confessions are in order. You killed her, didn't you? No, 182 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:48,320 come on hand, I'm going to get the truth. If I have to 183 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:50,399 break every bone in your body. You murdered that, just as you murdered 184 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:54,440 Larry God. I swear I didn't. Where's your coach? I'm not going 185 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:56,399 with you? Yes you are. I promise to deliver you the sergeant call 186 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:58,600 it down the head course. And that's one promise I ain't tend to keep. 187 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:05,919 Now. We had to go quiet now, okay, so come on, 188 00:15:05,399 --> 00:15:09,159 get up. We got a long, rough trip ahead of you. 189 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:26,399 And hey, Maddie, here's sergeant Carlon reported in Yet just about two minutes 190 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:30,600 ago, Well where's Hunts? Hey couldn't find him? You mean he skipped? 191 00:15:30,759 --> 00:15:33,039 Yeah, Colin said the place was a shambles. Well, get a 192 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:37,399 forty seven OD. I want every bus and train depot watch and cover the 193 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:41,720 airfields. If Hunt gets away with he won't Hey, never mind Maddie. 194 00:15:43,879 --> 00:15:48,200 All right, from inside, let me go. What's the idea, Mike, 195 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:50,919 what's the matter with you? Sergeant? Don't you recognize him? Who 196 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:54,600 would? He looks? Wait a minute, it's Hunt, that's right. 197 00:15:54,799 --> 00:15:58,039 Well what happened now? He had a little accident. Go on, Hunt, 198 00:15:58,039 --> 00:16:00,480 sit down. You slug him, sergeant? You know me? Well 199 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:03,480 that's why I asked, listen, Mike, why don't we both listen? 200 00:16:04,399 --> 00:16:07,679 All right? Hunt, make like a birdie. I don't know what you're 201 00:16:07,679 --> 00:16:10,919 talking about. Look if I've got to bounce you around again. What's going 202 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:14,200 on here? He admitted to me that he murdered Claremarl. I lived what 203 00:16:14,399 --> 00:16:15,960 I couldn't help myself, Sergeant, he would have killed me. And it's 204 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:18,759 not too late, now, do you deny? I deny everything. I 205 00:16:18,799 --> 00:16:22,799 was supposed to make that admission to protect myself. Under the circumstances, I 206 00:16:22,799 --> 00:16:25,960 felt I was justified. Look, sergeant, could you leave us alone for 207 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:27,240 a couple of minutes. Don't be as sad, and it's all right for 208 00:16:27,279 --> 00:16:30,600 you to talk. But I feel responsible for that girl's death. If I 209 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:33,799 hadn't found her, she would still have been alive. I phoned him at 210 00:16:33,799 --> 00:16:38,080 one thirty and i'd to wait a minute. When did you phone him at 211 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:41,320 one thirty? Oh? No, why, what's the matter. Do you 212 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:45,799 realize what you've done? You've just given him an alibi? Are you not? 213 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:49,720 Claire Morlowe was killed at a quarter to one, what forty five minutes 214 00:16:49,759 --> 00:16:55,480 before you called him? That means that means he couldn't have killed her. 215 00:16:57,320 --> 00:17:00,840 Look Hunter five onion and justice? Did you have I want to do any 216 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:03,440 good? IDVI? I said, I was sorry, I'm at all. 217 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:07,759 Good day, gentlemen. I trust I'll never see either of you again. 218 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:23,440 Well, welcome home, misterie hot. I see you've taken over. Bruce. 219 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:30,240 I didn't think you'd mind you like some champagne. No thanks, you 220 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:37,039 don't know what you're missing. This is a bitter end. Hey, tell 221 00:17:37,079 --> 00:17:40,480 me, it's the only thing when you're celebrating? Is that what you're doing? 222 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:45,400 Sure? Aren't you back? I'm flattered. I didn't dream you cared. 223 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:48,440 Yeah, I was real worried. I had a feeling I was never 224 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:52,839 going to see again. Hey, you ought to do something about that eye 225 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:56,960 that Mike wearing. Can really dish it out, Bruce, joke is over. 226 00:17:59,039 --> 00:18:02,039 What's the meaning of this? I told you. I was celebrating. 227 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:07,200 Surely it don't be grudge your ex employee a bottle of champagne. My ex 228 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:10,839 employing, well away, I see it. I've been working for you for 229 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:14,240 seven years, sir, so I decided it was time I bettered myself. 230 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:18,440 Abster all, this is the land of opportunity, and you feel opportunity is 231 00:18:18,519 --> 00:18:22,720 knocking at your door. Definitely, be sure you won't join me in a 232 00:18:22,799 --> 00:18:27,279 drink. Enough of this nonsense kept me my robe. You don't seem to 233 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:32,720 understand I'm through taking orders with what I got I want? Have you got 234 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:36,799 on for one thing? You knocked off Larry Gordon and Claire Marlowe. This 235 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:41,839 becomes a shock to you. But the police, I I'm satisfied I had 236 00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:45,720 no hand in either. You say I have an unimpeachable anibi. Is that 237 00:18:45,799 --> 00:18:51,000 a fact? Yes? It now develops that Ms Marler was matter at forty 238 00:18:51,039 --> 00:18:55,480 five minutes perfomance to wearing reported the whereabouts to me, Well, what do 239 00:18:55,559 --> 00:18:57,680 you know? I know you've been taking too much for granted, I don't 240 00:18:57,680 --> 00:19:00,440 think so I have to know how it work. You do? Yeah, 241 00:19:00,559 --> 00:19:04,079 I was going through your clothes hunt Well, I thought maybe you wanted me 242 00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:07,960 to send them out to the cleaners. Anyway, in your pocket I found 243 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:17,160 this card Lawrence Reagan Private Investigations. So I wondered what you would want for 244 00:19:17,319 --> 00:19:22,359 two private detectives, And just like that, it came to me you were 245 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:26,359 going to use wearing as an alibi. I'm mistaken. Well, it's an 246 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:30,319 easy way to check. Who are you calling? The boy Sherlock Lawrence Reagan? 247 00:19:30,759 --> 00:19:38,559 Nothing ridiculous? Am I hello? Let me talk to mister Reagan. 248 00:19:38,599 --> 00:19:44,240 Please. This is Bruce Webster. I worked for mister Hunt. Well, 249 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:48,359 the boss would like to know whether you have any luck finding Claire Marlowe. 250 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:52,279 What's the matter with the guy's he's Blona Hughes, I reported back to him 251 00:19:52,279 --> 00:19:55,880 at eleven o'clock this morning. Is at the Kenton Hotel, registered under the 252 00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:59,400 name of Claire O'Brien. I guess it kind of slipped his mind. What's 253 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:04,279 going on? Nothing you should worry about. Thanks a lot anyway, Well 254 00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:10,960 you win, I always do. I'm the patient type. I learned that 255 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:14,880 from you. What do you want twenty five thousand dollars? That's a lot 256 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:17,559 of money. Well, and Amy, though I was gonna throw it away, 257 00:20:17,559 --> 00:20:19,519 I'm gonna sock it into the government box at three percent pay pay. 258 00:20:19,559 --> 00:20:23,480 He'll come in mighty in now making a mistake. I don't think so. 259 00:20:25,839 --> 00:20:30,720 I always say the least a fella can do is be patriotic. You better 260 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:33,880 get it up fastest to hunt. You don't want to keep Uncle Sam waiting. 261 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:47,759 Well I don't get it, Sergeant, I don't get it at all. 262 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:51,279 Well you would if I had my way. You ruined everything. But 263 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:55,359 are you sure? Claire Marlow died at a quarter of the one positive The 264 00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:59,039 deskerk at the hotel heard the shots. Did you have any other enemies? 265 00:20:59,079 --> 00:21:02,680 No, this thing's tied up with the Larry Gordon killing. For sure. 266 00:21:02,839 --> 00:21:07,240 It doesn't make sense. There was no way in the world. But hello, 267 00:21:07,599 --> 00:21:11,240 that you're wearing? Yes, who's this Bruce Webster? Oh? I 268 00:21:11,279 --> 00:21:15,680 worked for Hunt? Remember? Oh yeah? I just thought you might be 269 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:18,519 interested. I'm terminating my employment. That's supposed to mean something to me. 270 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:22,720 It might mean a lot. If you could dig up some cash, I 271 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:25,960 can let you know my reason. What are you talking about? Wouldn't you 272 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:26,960 like to know why? I'll hunt me to chump out of you. I 273 00:21:27,079 --> 00:21:30,920 certainly would. How much joke can you raise? I'm not in Hunt's class, 274 00:21:32,319 --> 00:21:34,279 but every little bit helps. Could you lay your hands on ten grand? 275 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:37,319 Don't be ridiculous. Five, I've got seven hundred and twenty dollars in 276 00:21:37,319 --> 00:21:40,319 the bank. Fine, I'll take it. Now, Wait a minute, 277 00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:44,079 come on, wearing, make up your mind. Where are you? I 278 00:21:44,079 --> 00:21:47,559 got a little place at the Fortuna Apartments in West ninety third. Drop around 279 00:21:47,559 --> 00:21:51,039 with you in the neighborhood. Okay, don't go away. I'll be in 280 00:21:51,039 --> 00:22:10,799 the neighborhood in twenty minutes at your wading Yeah, just a second, Come 281 00:22:10,839 --> 00:22:15,559 on it, mister Hunt Spry. Yeah, I thought I saw the last 282 00:22:15,559 --> 00:22:21,480 of you. You thought wrong. What's the idea? Fairly simple. I'm 283 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:26,039 a man who hates loose ends. Naturally, with you dangling about, you 284 00:22:26,079 --> 00:22:30,519 would oh you recognize the gun. Yes, it's the same one I used 285 00:22:30,559 --> 00:22:33,559 on Larry Gordon and Claire Mamma. You'll never get away. Whether the council 286 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:38,079 know for sure, are concerned for me, you needn't. Why you see, 287 00:22:38,079 --> 00:22:41,079 I'm taking the liberty of preparing a note in which you confess to both 288 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:45,880 matters you're nuts. When the police break in, they'll find the note, 289 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:49,279 and then again, naturally, it'll be in the traditional position for suicide. 290 00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:52,160 I'll never buy it. I had no motive to knock off Larry Gordon. 291 00:22:52,799 --> 00:22:56,359 You have the way I've explained it in this note. Seems you were madly 292 00:22:56,400 --> 00:23:00,440 in love with Claire. When she spurned you. For Larry, decided to 293 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:03,799 rid yourself of the competition. As for Claire, she was a witness to 294 00:23:03,839 --> 00:23:07,440 the act, so regretfully you had to dispose of her too. Isn't that 295 00:23:07,519 --> 00:23:15,160 poetic? Listen, I wish I could my boy the time, mister essence. 296 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:33,640 No doubt many of you will remember the Big Smog. It was a 297 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:38,000 deadly cloud of man made factory smoke carried in fogg that settled over Donald of 298 00:23:38,039 --> 00:23:42,640 Pennsylvania in nineteen forty eight. It killed twenty persons and made six thousand others 299 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:47,480 ill before it lifted. That tragedy alerted the entire nation to the peril of 300 00:23:47,519 --> 00:23:51,720 death dealing smog. But did you know that another and far deadlier man made 301 00:23:51,799 --> 00:23:55,759 fog will settle over this nation streets and highways tonight. It's the fog that 302 00:23:55,839 --> 00:23:59,720 beclouds the brain of the drinking driver and the pedestrian who has had one too 303 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:03,519 many. Let's start to clear this death fog from our roads and begin now. 304 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:06,720 Remember, if you drink, don't drive. If you drive, don't 305 00:24:06,839 --> 00:24:15,119 drink. Drive as though your life depends on it. It does. Now 306 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:22,240 back to the Adventures of the Falcon. Fifteen minutes have passed since Mike promised 307 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:26,519 to call on Bruce Webster. Now we find Sergeant Corbett helping him keep that 308 00:24:26,599 --> 00:24:32,319 promise. This must be it. Yeah, I suppose he won't talk. 309 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:36,640 Just leave everything to me. I left hunt to you. And what happened? 310 00:24:37,839 --> 00:24:41,000 Sure, he said he'd meet you here. That's positive. I told 311 00:24:41,039 --> 00:24:42,480 him i'd be open twenty We get out of the way. Now what are 312 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:45,200 you doing? What does it look like? Don't you know? It isn't 313 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:48,279 polite to peek through key holes now, but it could be awfully interesting. 314 00:24:49,319 --> 00:24:52,759 What do you see? Give me a half this stior? Oh what was 315 00:24:52,799 --> 00:24:56,160 it? Come on, come on, put your shoulder to it. One? 316 00:24:56,359 --> 00:25:03,920 Two? Holy smoke? Yeah, what did he want to do that 317 00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:07,839 for? Don't ask me. I'm a stranger to hear myself. Hey, 318 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:12,480 wait a minute, what do you make of this? To whom it may 319 00:25:12,599 --> 00:25:18,480 concern, this was the only way I killed Larry Gordon. It was all 320 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:22,839 Claire Marlowe's fault. She led me on. I thought was larry out of 321 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:26,039 the way. We'd have a deal. But I was a chump. Oh 322 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:30,039 for they're looking for any relatives. I haven't. Hey, cut that out, 323 00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:32,279 Mike. I was only going through park. What you know better. 324 00:25:32,559 --> 00:25:36,160 I just wanted to see what he had on him. Well, someone was 325 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:38,759 here before me. All he's got on him are these two keys. What 326 00:25:38,759 --> 00:25:42,000 do you make of it? One's obviously for his grip, the other for 327 00:25:42,079 --> 00:25:45,039 his car. Now this doesn't add up. What do you mean he didn't 328 00:25:45,079 --> 00:25:48,319 commit suicide? Look at the gun. You look at it. I tell 329 00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:52,400 you this was engineered by whom? By Haunt? Of course? Can you 330 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:56,440 approve that to you? Where's my percentage? Let's find someone will give me 331 00:25:56,519 --> 00:26:11,480 better rods. Oh, I can't believe this. When I was up at 332 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:14,440 Bruce's a few hours ago, and you admit you were there, why should 333 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:17,799 I do that? He complained of not feeling well this evening. Naturally, 334 00:26:17,839 --> 00:26:19,599 the least I could do was show him home, and when you left he 335 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:25,559 seemed perfectly all right. I never dreamt he contemplated suicide. I still don't 336 00:26:25,599 --> 00:26:30,039 understand why. Oh, maybe there's no clear things up. Let's make concern. 337 00:26:37,279 --> 00:26:40,599 So that explains it, I said, would seem to I have realized 338 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:42,440 he was involved with Claire. Well, things are seldom what they seem. 339 00:26:42,759 --> 00:26:45,119 For instance, when we broke into Bruce's room, it looked as though he 340 00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:49,359 committed suicide. But you don't believe. No, you told me I found 341 00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:52,839 a gun in the sand. Yes, and it was the same weapon that 342 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:56,440 was used on Mary Gordon and Claire Marlow. And I should imagine that would 343 00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:59,400 take care of everything. Oh not quite. There was one thing missing. 344 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:03,160 When Corbett and I got the Bruis's room. The door was locked. Well, 345 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:07,759 if he committed suicide, it had to be locked on the inside obviously, 346 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:10,640 Then what happened to the key? That's right, It wasn't in the 347 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:12,720 lock because you were able to peek through the keyhole, and it wasn't on 348 00:27:12,839 --> 00:27:15,200 him or in the room. That means the door must have been locked on 349 00:27:15,279 --> 00:27:18,799 the outside and the killer absent mindedly walked off with the key. Look, 350 00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:26,839 mister wearing a right sergeant go through his pocket? Can well what do we 351 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:30,240 got here? So all a mistake, now, you said, a friend. 352 00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:33,119 And the beautiful part of it is it only takes one to land you 353 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:48,599 in the chair, all right, sergeant, he's all yours. Well, 354 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:52,359 like my father used to say, another day, not a dollar, And 355 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:53,799 believe me, you didn't earn this one. I did all the work. 356 00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:57,680 Well, you schlump, you should talk. He gave Hunt that alibi. 357 00:27:57,759 --> 00:28:00,160 You're out of your mind. It hadn't been made. It would have been 358 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,480 some other private day. Come again. It also was down to one thing. 359 00:28:03,559 --> 00:28:07,279 Hunt had two of us trying to locate Claire. He probably waited until 360 00:28:07,319 --> 00:28:08,720 the other boy came through for him before he even hired me. Oh, 361 00:28:08,799 --> 00:28:11,880 what was the point if it was other alibi? After all, when I 362 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:15,720 told you our reported to him after the girl was murdered, it didn't seem 363 00:28:15,799 --> 00:28:18,240 possible. He could have been responded, well, I still women hold everything. 364 00:28:18,759 --> 00:28:22,519 Well, what's the matter? I just thought of something I never got 365 00:28:22,559 --> 00:28:27,359 paid huh by Hunt for finding Claire. Sue him? See him? He's 366 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:32,119 going to the chair so worse. Why were you, kiddo? I'd really 367 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:49,240 make trouble for him. Good night, Mike. The Case of the Grand 368 00:28:49,319 --> 00:28:53,519 Gamble. The Case of the Grand Gamble, that's the title of next week's 369 00:28:53,519 --> 00:28:56,559 Adventure of the Falcon. When Mike Wearing learns that when men play for high 370 00:28:56,559 --> 00:29:02,119 odds, there's sometimes are grave consequences. The Adventures of the Falcon are based 371 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,680 on the famous character created by Brexel Drake, Produced and transcribed by Bernard al 372 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:08,720 Schubert, Written today by Eugene Wangon, directed by Richard Lewis Left Damon starred 373 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:10,359 as the Falcon