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But when I walk into 18 00:02:23,479 --> 00:02:27,560 the Commissioner's office, I don't realize that this assignment's going to show me that 19 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:30,400 sometimes the only way you can come out of one of these deals alive is 20 00:02:30,439 --> 00:02:43,080 to ask a guy to shoot you, pointing, Commissioner. You sent for 21 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:45,800 me, Steve, you have a hero of Yin Yi hop sounds like a 22 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:47,960 new jump tune? Is it that name first came to our attention during the 23 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:52,120 clock marshal of an American Army officer in the Philippines shortly after the war, 24 00:02:52,199 --> 00:02:54,240 Major Vance Morgan. Oh, yeah, he had something to do with the 25 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:59,000 disappearance of medical supplies, arms, and ammunition from one of our bases. 26 00:02:59,039 --> 00:03:01,240 There, didn't He's brought out at the trials all against Morgan, yet he 27 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:05,719 insisted he was innocent. He claimed he'd been investigating the matter before his arrest. 28 00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:08,560 The theft was the work of an organization headed by this Yin yi Hop 29 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:13,599 I see. Morgan claimed further that he'd actually seen dismissed the hop that he 30 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:16,199 wasn't an Oriental but an American. You see, the matter wasn't dropped after 31 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:20,680 Major Morgan was discharged from the service. You mean this Yin yi Hop has 32 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:23,400 been found? We think so. We think he's a man named Sutherland who 33 00:03:23,439 --> 00:03:25,840 is now living in Rangoon. We're pretty sure he's still active in the business 34 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:29,080 of running gun. Why don't we grab him? We will as soon as 35 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:31,240 we find someone who can identify him as Yin yi Hop and that's someone is 36 00:03:31,319 --> 00:03:36,000 ex Major Morgan or is he We got our first lead in him yesterday from 37 00:03:36,039 --> 00:03:38,080 no friend of his in New Guinea, the next Army flyer named Foster. 38 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:40,680 Check with him, Steve, and move fast. We've got a tip that 39 00:03:40,719 --> 00:03:44,800 someone else is looking for Morgan. Oh Sutherland. Maybe, yes, Steve, 40 00:03:44,879 --> 00:03:46,639 you've got to get to Morgan before they do. Well, that's it. 41 00:03:46,719 --> 00:04:05,639 You've got your assignment. Good luck. The National Broadcasting Company is presenting 42 00:04:05,719 --> 00:04:11,199 Dangerous Assignment, starring Brian don Levy in the role of Steve Mitchell, colorful 43 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:15,280 two fisted government agent. At all those places of the world where danger and 44 00:04:15,319 --> 00:04:18,800 intrigue walk hand in hand, there you will find Steve Mitchell on another dangerous 45 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:24,439 assignment. In a moment, we'll bring you tonight's dangerous assignment adventure. But 46 00:04:24,519 --> 00:04:28,399 first let me remind you about some of tomorrow's great shows on the NBC Radio 47 00:04:28,439 --> 00:04:32,160 Network. Thursday brings Western Songs an adventure with Roy Rogers, Dale Evans and 48 00:04:32,199 --> 00:04:35,920 all the folks at the friendly Double R Bar Ranch in Paradise Valley, and 49 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:41,120 for the whole family's comedy entertainment there his Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young. 50 00:04:41,759 --> 00:04:46,480 Another fine Thursday evening treat is Truth or Consequences, America's favorite party game, 51 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:50,319 presided over by Ralph Edwards. We know you'll enjoy these three fine programs 52 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:54,959 tomorrow and every Thursday evening, so be sure to be in our audience for 53 00:04:55,000 --> 00:05:00,759 the Roy Rogers show, Father Knows Best and Truth or Consequences tomorrow. Check 54 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:13,120 your local paper for the time of broadcast. Sure I've got my assignment. 55 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:15,240 Get on the trail of an next Army major named Vance Morgan, find him 56 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:19,879 before some hatchet man out of Rangoon dies and eliminates the prize witness in our 57 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:25,160 case against an American gun runner formerly known as Yin Ye Hot. It's late 58 00:05:25,199 --> 00:05:29,240 Wednesday afternoon when my plane lands at Monoca on the northwest tip of Netherlands, 59 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:32,000 New Guinea. I head across the airstrip to a small hangar bearing a sign 60 00:05:32,319 --> 00:05:36,480 East India Freight Company, Nicholas Foster, President inside, sitting in the two 61 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:42,160 before office. I find Nicholas Foster himself. I flash my credentials. Tell 62 00:05:42,199 --> 00:05:45,519 me Steve, what's all this to do about Morgan? Nothing? We'd just 63 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:48,600 like his help. His help that chance meaning that he might not be so 64 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:53,920 eager to cooperate, meaning that the court martial was a big jolt. Well, 65 00:05:53,959 --> 00:05:56,560 we can clear him up. You'll play ball. I'll do anything I 66 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:59,639 can to help worthy. I can't say I thought you saw him a couple 67 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:01,000 of days ago. Yeah, I was down at the docks checking on a 68 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:04,759 cargo coming in from Manila when I spotted Morgan aboard a small ship. One 69 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:09,839 of those Copra traders was just pulling out a nose around the waterfront. But 70 00:06:09,879 --> 00:06:12,680 no one seemed to know much about it except he had a plantation on one 71 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:15,600 of the islands off the coast. That ship he was on, called a 72 00:06:15,879 --> 00:06:18,199 Codonna. Should be back in Fort now. Sounds like my best lead. 73 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:21,759 So you find out what islands Morgan's on when your troubles are just beginning, 74 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:25,560 what do you mean. You know, just that there's a small scale war 75 00:06:25,639 --> 00:06:29,720 going on. Guerrillas separationalists, they call them. Their beef is with the 76 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:33,720 Indonesian government. Those islands out there are crawling with the natives armed with poisoned 77 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:38,600 arrows, and they don't like strangers. Poison arrows yet are real comforting. 78 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:42,000 Thought. Well, thanks for the info, Foster, I'll see you later. 79 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:53,920 Ten minutes later, I wind up at the docks and sure enough to 80 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:57,319 the small copra trader tied up. The only one on board is a native 81 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:00,360 youngster, and he doesn't tune in on my frequency at all. Even when 82 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:03,000 I resort to sign language, he keeps grinning and pointing over the rail. 83 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:08,560 So I have a look. I spot someone swimming underwater, gliding back and 84 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:12,160 forth along the side of the ship. Then the swimmer comes up for air. 85 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:14,839 I come up for a little air too, when I see who it 86 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:18,680 is, and she's up on deck, coming toward me right out of esquire. 87 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:26,040 Hello, oh, hey, you're quite a swimmer. You are looking 88 00:07:26,079 --> 00:07:28,920 for someone, yeah, the skipper of this ship. I am the skipper. 89 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:32,279 You What is it you wish? I'm looking for a man named Morgan. 90 00:07:32,319 --> 00:07:34,680 Maybe you could take me to him. Now, that would be impossible. 91 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:38,480 At this time. My ship is in need of repairs. The hull 92 00:07:38,519 --> 00:07:43,040 has been damaged running the blockade, blockade, I do not know what you 93 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:46,879 mean. Block You can stop being cagy. I'm just interested in finding Morgan 94 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:51,240 here. You better have a look at my credentials American agent. I see, 95 00:07:51,519 --> 00:07:55,600 isn't Troubert. No, just want to talk to him worthy. But 96 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:59,680 there's an island called Epo. He lives there alone, at a small plantation. 97 00:08:00,319 --> 00:08:03,680 Perhaps I could get a message to Morgan. Well, that would save 98 00:08:03,759 --> 00:08:05,959 me a lot of time and trouble. Tell him who I am and that 99 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:09,040 I've got to talk to him. We need his help. Where are you 100 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:11,680 stating? Well? I noticed the hotel a few blocks back there as good 101 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:15,560 as any I know the one you speak of. You can expect me by 102 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:28,639 sundown. I spend the rest of the afternoon scouting the dock area, just 103 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:31,720 in case the girl's message doesn't reach Morgan. Fine. Luck is all bad. 104 00:08:31,799 --> 00:08:35,679 I can't find a single skipper who's willing to run the blockade, let 105 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:39,200 alone face a hail of poisoned arrows. Setting sun hangs over the horizon like 106 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:43,240 a big orange As I wandered back to the hotel. The girl is already 107 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:46,600 there waiting for me in the lobby. I'm sorry, I'm late, or 108 00:08:46,799 --> 00:08:50,360 are you early? Your message was delivered, mister Mitchell. Good. What's 109 00:08:50,399 --> 00:08:56,440 Morgan's answer? Well, I don't quite understand. But what did he say? 110 00:08:56,240 --> 00:09:05,720 Two words? Mister Mitchell? Dad? She gives me a nice dead 111 00:09:05,759 --> 00:09:11,120 pan reading without cracking a smile. She turns and walks out. Well that's 112 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:13,000 it. If Morgan won't come to me, I've got to go to him. 113 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:16,679 Blockade or no blockade. I hurry over to Foster's office at the airport. 114 00:09:16,759 --> 00:09:20,600 He's not around. I finally find them in a broken down gin mill 115 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:28,600 near the water. I don't know, no soap Steve. So I fly 116 00:09:28,759 --> 00:09:31,559 over the island of my plane. So the Indonesians don't like this, and 117 00:09:31,639 --> 00:09:35,480 they beef to the Dutch. The Dutch beef to me. I'm in I 118 00:09:35,519 --> 00:09:39,679 can square it. Yeah, yeah, I guess you could. So well, 119 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:43,480 there's something else wrong with the idea. So your parachute out of my 120 00:09:43,519 --> 00:09:46,600 plane. The natives let's fly with their arrows. You look like a pin 121 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:48,039 cushion before you hit the ground. Oh, you can drop me off the 122 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:52,919 island and I swim ashore. Yeah I could do that, I suppose. 123 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:58,639 Sure. Okay, then, well except for one teensy little thing. Now 124 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:01,399 what the East India air right Line of which I am president, happens to 125 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:05,720 have only one plane and one pilot, and at this moment both of them 126 00:10:05,759 --> 00:10:18,240 are in Singapore. A don't say it, so I don't say it. 127 00:10:18,279 --> 00:10:22,200 I just think it. I wander back outside, and then down along the 128 00:10:22,279 --> 00:10:26,080 docks. Suddenly I spot a shift tied up that I didn't see there this 129 00:10:26,159 --> 00:10:30,000 afternoon. It's a small Dutch patrol boat. I head for the office of 130 00:10:30,039 --> 00:10:33,600 the port Director. I filling in on a situation while he shifts a cigar 131 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:35,960 from one side of his mouth to the other. Finally he grinds it out 132 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:39,600 in an ash tray. We will, of course be more stigous to cooperate 133 00:10:39,679 --> 00:10:45,559 virtue in this matter. Should however, we must first consult with the Indonesian 134 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:48,840 authorities. Sure it's their island and their blockade. I see no reason why 135 00:10:48,879 --> 00:10:54,759 they should deny us permission to enter the waters. There will undoubtedly be lookouts 136 00:10:54,759 --> 00:10:58,000 on people, so the problem will be how can we get your show without 137 00:10:58,039 --> 00:11:01,879 being seed? Might take a bit of doing. Tell me. Do you 138 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:05,519 swim? Yeah, but you may have to before the nights is over. 139 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:16,279 We pour over the map, took over the strategy, and then he puts 140 00:11:16,279 --> 00:11:20,279 in a long distance called the Batavia. The Indonesian government gives us the green 141 00:11:20,399 --> 00:11:24,440 light, and my friend, the fort director says he'll take it from there. 142 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:26,639 So there's nothing else for me to do but go back to the hotel 143 00:11:26,639 --> 00:11:30,720 and wait for word that the patrol boat is ready to shove off. It's 144 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:37,039 almost eleven that night when there's a rap on my door. The gent standing 145 00:11:37,039 --> 00:11:39,919 there holds an automatic in his hand. That doesn't take a genius to figure 146 00:11:39,919 --> 00:11:43,200 out real fast that he's not from the Dutch Patrol. I'll met you. 147 00:11:45,320 --> 00:11:46,919 I don't think we've ever met, Have it you've heard of me? I'm 148 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:50,840 sure? Allow me to try, I guess, Sutherland. God good for 149 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:58,879 you, Mitcham all right inside move hmm. I'll packed ready to go, 150 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:01,960 planning a little trip maybe, of course, board the Dutch patrol ship. 151 00:12:03,679 --> 00:12:07,120 I'll trouble you for your identification, your credentials, Mitchell, hand them over, 152 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:09,639 why, Suthern, I'll need them. A Lieutenant burn doll arrives to 153 00:12:09,639 --> 00:12:13,799 pick you up. You intend to take my place. Huh, it won't 154 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:16,639 work, Buster? Why not? Because I happen to know Lieutenant burn Doll 155 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:22,039 Burndall? Did I say Burn do all? How I wonder who he is? 156 00:12:22,799 --> 00:12:28,559 I really met Lieutenant Vandergraft. Sorry Mitchell, okay, Sutherland, pick 157 00:12:28,639 --> 00:12:33,080 up the marbles and your papers. Mitchell, quick, what's the hurry? 158 00:12:33,399 --> 00:12:39,399 Turn around? Turn around? Okay, okay, but what the gun? 159 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:43,320 Butt behind my ear knocks me to the floor real fast. I try to 160 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:46,080 get up with my arms have suddenly turned to jelly. It's no go. 161 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:50,080 I can feel Sutherland's hands giving me a fast frisk. I can also hear 162 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:52,919 someone coming up the stairs down the corridor, and I know it's someone from 163 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:54,919 the patrol boat. I make one more try to get my feet, but 164 00:12:56,200 --> 00:13:13,279 Sutherland slams a heelol and like they say, everything goes black. Steve Mitchell 165 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:18,240 will continue his dangerous assignment in just a moment. You would be a poor 166 00:13:18,279 --> 00:13:22,320 business man to invest money without determining what your dividend would be. So I'd 167 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:24,799 like to tell you what return you'll receive on your investment in your community chest. 168 00:13:26,519 --> 00:13:30,919 Normally, about forty percent of one hundred families received directly services of some 169 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:35,639 kind from one or more Red Feather agencies during the year. Such services include 170 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:37,919 aid to the handicapped too often children, to the aged, and to the 171 00:13:37,919 --> 00:13:43,600 sick and needy. All families benefit indirectly because these services work to make your 172 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:46,720 community a healthier, happier, better place in which to live. This year, 173 00:13:46,759 --> 00:13:50,799 it's a bigger red feather because the United Red Feather Campaigns must raise seventeen 174 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:56,080 million dollars extra to provide for the United Defense Fund services, which include two 175 00:13:56,159 --> 00:14:00,639 hundred fifty seven USO clubs, USO camps, American Relief for Care, and 176 00:14:00,679 --> 00:14:05,360 many others. So when you make your contribution, give enough to cover normal 177 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:09,600 needs plus an extrama for the added services made necessary by this defense emergency. 178 00:14:11,159 --> 00:14:15,879 Remember, it's a bigger red feather this year. Give the United Way. 179 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:39,960 Now back to dangerous assignment and Brian don Levi, Steve Mitchell, mister Mitchell's 180 00:14:39,039 --> 00:14:45,840 wait wait a momente, Iron TIV the gag, Well a little mermaid, 181 00:14:45,919 --> 00:14:48,840 thanks? What are you doing here anyway? I came to talk about Morgan 182 00:14:48,879 --> 00:14:54,080 mister Mitchell. I am Anna, I'm his girlfriend. This comes There's no 183 00:14:54,159 --> 00:14:56,919 great surprise, Anna, I'm worried about him. Is he in some kind 184 00:14:56,960 --> 00:15:01,039 of trouble. You sure will be if Sutherland get Oh, I do not 185 00:15:01,159 --> 00:15:03,559 understand. I'm on untimy and I'll fill you in. On the way to 186 00:15:03,639 --> 00:15:16,440 the waterfront. Hey, there's the boat. He's getting ready to shove off. 187 00:15:18,159 --> 00:15:20,320 Two men on day. One of them must be the lieutenant. The 188 00:15:20,399 --> 00:15:24,879 other is Sutherland. Sutherland's pull a gun, Lieutenant, watch out, he's 189 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:33,320 it, Steve Sutherland gove in. Can you see him anywhere? No? 190 00:15:33,559 --> 00:15:37,840 No, tell him where he is? You? Okay, Lieutenant? Yeah? 191 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:41,440 Yeah, who are you? Steve Mitchell? But I thought this other 192 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:43,519 guy was impersonating me. Where'd they get you in the shoulder? Yeah? 193 00:15:43,799 --> 00:15:46,919 He's not bad, bad enough to keep you from doing any swimming, that's 194 00:15:46,919 --> 00:15:50,480 a sense. I will go with you, Steve. You of course I 195 00:15:50,519 --> 00:15:52,519 know every point of that on. It is a long swim. Steve has 196 00:15:52,559 --> 00:15:56,759 seen me sweep. Okay, Anna, looks like there's no time to do 197 00:15:56,799 --> 00:16:11,639 anything else. Let's shove off, Lieutenant. This is as close to the 198 00:16:11,679 --> 00:16:18,279 island as we had. Better cover the boat. Oh far off shore? 199 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:22,519 Arehway a little less than a mile? You both have your swim fins and 200 00:16:22,679 --> 00:16:27,000 oxygen bottles in place, Face mass right, all right? You can swim 201 00:16:27,039 --> 00:16:30,279 on the surface until you get within a quarter mile of the beach. Then 202 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:33,519 you should go underwater the rest of the way. You will have plenty of 203 00:16:33,519 --> 00:16:37,159 oxygen to take you in. Okay, we can swim underwater and we llagoon 204 00:16:37,279 --> 00:16:41,720 very near Morgan's plantations. As to your escape plan, you will have only 205 00:16:41,759 --> 00:16:45,240 two hours ashore. A small corporate trader will pick you up at this point 206 00:16:45,799 --> 00:16:53,320 a schooner, which actually is an Indonesian patrol boat. Well, here goes. 207 00:17:06,279 --> 00:17:08,079 We swim as quietly as we can for a few minutes. Then about 208 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:11,839 a quarter of a mile off shore, we rig up the tubes from our 209 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:15,920 oxygen bottles and go under water. And it leads it away. And if 210 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:19,279 I had any doubts about her swimming ability, they're gone now. My only 211 00:17:19,319 --> 00:17:22,440 problem is keeping up with her. We slipped past the reef and threw a 212 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:26,319 small channel into an inlet. Another minute and she heads for the surface. 213 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:33,200 I followed. Here we are in the center of a tiny lagoon. We 214 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:36,559 swim with the shore, climb out, take off our oxygen bottles and swim 215 00:17:36,599 --> 00:17:42,480 fins and hide them in the underbrush. There come the plantations. Half am 216 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:53,920 miles today. Okay, what was It could be a bird or it could 217 00:17:55,000 --> 00:18:02,279 be a signal. Maake it down? What need you over there? In 218 00:18:02,319 --> 00:18:10,920 the moonlight? Grins? Doesn't something? Pools and arrows? Here they come, 219 00:18:18,839 --> 00:18:30,440 they're go, let's get out of here. Good, the light is 220 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:36,400 on. He must be here, Hannah. Hello, Morgan, what are 221 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:41,640 you doing here? Who's this? This is Steve Mitchell. I brought him 222 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:44,960 to see you. Mitchell, you take a lot of convincing. Fellaw, 223 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:47,400 didn't you get my answer to your note? Yeah? I got it, 224 00:18:47,519 --> 00:18:49,599 Morgan. You're right, I do take a lot of convincing. Yes, 225 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:52,319 you do too. You're wasting your time, Mitchell. Look, you're the 226 00:18:52,359 --> 00:18:56,960 only one who can identify Sutherland. Does the boy behind all this gun running 227 00:18:56,000 --> 00:19:00,039 out here? So what Morgan? Steve has come along? Look, so 228 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:03,720 you're bitter. I can't say I blame you better. I'm bitter and that's 229 00:19:03,799 --> 00:19:07,000 not all. I'm happy here, Mitchell. Now, why should I bother 230 00:19:07,079 --> 00:19:10,960 with anything else? You're a little paradise, Eh, that's right, some 231 00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:14,279 paradise with a small scale war going on around, you know, Subtler. 232 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:17,240 Sure, for a while, but it'll blow up again. Yeah, as 233 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:19,599 long as there are guys like Sutherland, on the loose, selling guns, 234 00:19:19,599 --> 00:19:23,640 stirring up the natives to fight instead of letting them settle their problems peacefully. 235 00:19:25,039 --> 00:19:26,759 There's never going to be any piece in any of these places. While rats 236 00:19:26,839 --> 00:19:33,480 like Sutherland are floating around, you threw with a speech, Yeah, okay, 237 00:19:33,519 --> 00:19:37,279 I'll take you back to the beach down bother you probably wouldn't make it 238 00:19:37,279 --> 00:19:41,880 alone if the natives know you're here. I'm the only guy they let alone. 239 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:45,319 I guess that's because I leave them alone. It's pretty good rule to 240 00:19:45,319 --> 00:19:56,480 follow, Mitchell, you're ready, So the three of us head back to 241 00:19:56,519 --> 00:19:59,240 the spot where On and I had ditched our swim equipment. We pick it 242 00:19:59,319 --> 00:20:02,440 up and start for the I don't wanna admit I'm licked yet, but it 243 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:04,920 doesn't look like there's much more I can do or say. I don't know 244 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:07,799 whether anything I've already said has gotten through to Morgan or not. If so, 245 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:11,039 he gives no sign of it. Then suddenly a bunch of grillas looms 246 00:20:11,079 --> 00:20:15,640 up ahead of us on the trail. Hana and I freeze. Morgan stops 247 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:18,799 us and steps up ahead. When the gorilla see him, they move aside 248 00:20:18,839 --> 00:20:22,559 and we pass by. They stare at us sullen, suspicious. Two minutes 249 00:20:22,599 --> 00:20:30,279 later we pass another group, same story. Look at them, look at 250 00:20:30,279 --> 00:20:33,839 their faces. Don't worry. You're all right as long as they see me 251 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:40,440 with you. Hey, don't think that's what's worrying on a Morgan. No, 252 00:20:40,839 --> 00:20:44,200 Well, I recognize some of these people. I know how they used 253 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:48,680 to be smiling and happy. You remember the festivals, Morgan, So no 254 00:20:48,759 --> 00:20:52,319 more festivals, no more music. Well, could be a lot worse. 255 00:20:52,359 --> 00:20:57,079 I guess what do you mean? They've only got bows and arrows now. 256 00:20:57,599 --> 00:21:03,640 Ought to be a lot more exciting when they get guns. Surfbok squat tonight. 257 00:21:04,279 --> 00:21:07,720 You shouldn't have any trouble getting thrown. There's the coupe try out there 258 00:21:07,759 --> 00:21:12,480 waiting for us. Is that your Sconaela? No, it's an Indonesian patrol 259 00:21:12,559 --> 00:21:18,240 boat. They told us it would be alone to pick us up, Morgan, 260 00:21:18,319 --> 00:21:23,839 if he would only it's about a mile after that boat. Looks like 261 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:30,400 so, so you think I can make it without swim fins, Morgan? 262 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:34,799 You win? Mitchell, No, I kind of think you just did. 263 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:48,880 The three of us way out through the surf and start swimming. They spot 264 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:52,680 us from the boat and move in closer. Pretty soon we're alongside a husky 265 00:21:52,799 --> 00:21:56,519 Native calls us aboard one by one, and it takes one look at him 266 00:21:56,519 --> 00:22:00,880 and sidelos up to me. Steve, here's the I was trying to find 267 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:03,640 more than the other day, Sutherland, stooge. That's right, Mitchell. 268 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:07,160 Well Sutherland, yeah, stand real steal all of you. As you can 269 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:10,920 see, I got a tommy gun, my boy, Peru, there's real 270 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:12,640 handy with his knife, and those three in the bow and those sissies either. 271 00:22:12,759 --> 00:22:15,640 Okay, you've proved your point, Sutherland. Now what Now we get 272 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:19,440 out of here nice and quiet before the real patrol boat shows up. Then 273 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:22,359 I get all three of you out of my hair once and for all. 274 00:22:32,759 --> 00:22:33,599 I know. Whatever I do, it's got to be fast. Then I 275 00:22:33,599 --> 00:22:37,440 get an idea at all hinges on the fact that Sutherland doesn't want to make 276 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:41,640 any noise and probably won't risk a shot. I hope suddenly I die toward 277 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:44,000 him. Sure, and I'll be swinging the barrel of the tommy gun down 278 00:22:44,039 --> 00:22:47,440 at my head. I'm expecting mitile roll with it because it catches me behind 279 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:48,720 the ear. I fallows a deck and roll onto my back, pretending to 280 00:22:48,759 --> 00:22:52,519 be out. Okay, Paru finish him off with your knife. The native 281 00:22:52,519 --> 00:22:53,799 comes at me with his knife, just what I want. My legs are 282 00:22:53,839 --> 00:22:56,920 doubled up. When he gets close, I lash out and one of my 283 00:22:56,960 --> 00:23:03,559 swim fins slaps him across the face and knocks the doctor and the first catches 284 00:23:03,599 --> 00:23:06,240 Baru full in the back. I died for Sutherland's legs. Before he can 285 00:23:06,279 --> 00:23:08,920 shoot again, he hits the deck hard. Morgan grabbed the tommy gun out 286 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:11,799 of his hand, swings it towards the three natives in the bow. I 287 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:15,599 just stay where you are, Fellosten. Don't get any ideas. See why 288 00:23:15,559 --> 00:23:18,240 are you all right? Yeah? Yeah, It's more than we can say 289 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:21,079 for Beru, I guess. Hey, take a look over there. The 290 00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:23,880 troll balls good. He can put Subtle and his boys on ice for us. 291 00:23:25,559 --> 00:23:27,000 You know, you're a pretty handy lad with those swim fins, Mitchell. 292 00:23:27,079 --> 00:23:30,519 Yeah, but there's one thing I don't understand. Oh what's that? 293 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:33,000 Usually when you slip a guy of Finn, the least he can do or 294 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:37,640 say thanks, But not Burw You know, I don't think he liked it 295 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:56,680 a bit. Our star Brian don Levy will return in just a moment Tuesday 296 00:23:56,680 --> 00:24:00,279 Evenings are filled with top comedy entertainment on the NBC Radio Network, and I'd 297 00:24:00,319 --> 00:24:03,319 like to take a moment to remind you about our Tuesday Night programs. 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Two for the Money proves that there's a 306 00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:41,240 lot of laughs to be had when you make it a weekly date with the 307 00:24:41,279 --> 00:24:45,640 Tuesday Night comedy lineup on the NBC Radio Network. Check your local newspaper for 308 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:51,319 the time of broadcast of all these great shows and tune them in on your 309 00:24:51,319 --> 00:25:07,519 favorite NBC station next Tuesday evening. Next week, I parachute into the jungle, 310 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:11,759 right into the barrel of a gun. That will be Steve Mitchell's dangerous 311 00:25:11,759 --> 00:25:26,480 assignment next week. Included in tonight's cast were Dan Riss, Betty lou Gerson, 312 00:25:26,599 --> 00:25:30,079 Paul dubav Jack Moyles, and Stacy Harris. This is John Storm Speaking 313 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:40,720 Dangerous Assignment, starring Brian don Levy and the role of Steve Mitchell with Herb 314 00:25:40,759 --> 00:25:45,000 Butterfield as the Commissioner, is written by Bob Ryf and Adrian John Doe and 315 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:49,079 is directed by Bill carn Be with us again next week at this time when 316 00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:56,480 Brian don Levy in the role of Steve Mitchell will embark on another transcribed dangerous 317 00:25:56,559 --> 00:26:14,480 assignment. This is MB Do you see the National Broadcasting Company Welcome back? 318 00:26:15,319 --> 00:26:19,200 Well, we finally had an episode where an eloquent speech could come in handy 319 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:25,519 and Steve made his best shot, but he was no Ken Thurston. However, 320 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:30,279 Anna came through in the end in a beautifully understated moment that really brought 321 00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:37,400 home the cost of one man just being bitter and refusing to cooperate to people 322 00:26:37,559 --> 00:26:42,119 living in the area. It was a really solid moment by Betty lou Gerson. 323 00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:49,240 What piece of slang that Steve used that's worth explaining for younger listeners was 324 00:26:49,599 --> 00:26:56,079 Steve's statement that the guy wasn't thankful Steve slipped him with fin This is a 325 00:26:56,240 --> 00:27:02,039 pond plane on a fin being slang or five dollars bill, which was a 326 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:06,480 nice bit of money in nineteen fifty two, and slipping someone of Fenn meant 327 00:27:06,559 --> 00:27:11,519 giving them five dollars during a commercial. Referencing the Red Feather Fund and a 328 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:19,480 United Way is interesting from a historical perspective. The Red Feather was usually associated 329 00:27:19,559 --> 00:27:23,880 with the Community Chess, which was a precursor to the United Way. In 330 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:30,319 nineteen forty nine, many of the Community Chess began converting to being called the 331 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:37,839 United Fund. United Way wouldn't be coined as a term for the Umbrella organization 332 00:27:38,079 --> 00:27:45,039 until nineteen seventy. Listener comments and feedback Now and we start over on YouTube, 333 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:51,519 and Ronzer writes in regarding the missing episodes, do you suppose that any 334 00:27:51,559 --> 00:27:56,440 of the missing episodes are Steve looking for the Chief Nazi? Well, I 335 00:27:56,640 --> 00:28:00,799 kind of joked about that in an episode. I think it's possible. Certainly 336 00:28:02,079 --> 00:28:07,480 it's implied that Steve had been on a Hitler Hunter too, but whether that 337 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:11,640 happened on air, I don't know. I'd be curious about the lost episodes. 338 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:18,640 This isn't a series that's had like some real scholarly research of folks going 339 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:22,559 through the scripts and things like that. One thing that could be checked, 340 00:28:22,599 --> 00:28:26,720 and I haven't just because I don't really have the time to do it, 341 00:28:26,759 --> 00:28:32,640 is to get a hold of the Australian version of Dangerous Assignment. Those were 342 00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:37,519 based on US scripts, So if you listen to episodes that aren't based on 343 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:44,039 extant US episodes, then you could find out what some of the missing stories 344 00:28:44,279 --> 00:28:48,839 plots were. Now that wouldn't definitely tell you if, for example, you 345 00:28:48,319 --> 00:28:53,759 look and you don't find any Hitler Hunting episodes in there that Steve didn't do 346 00:28:53,839 --> 00:28:59,400 it, it could be that the episode wasn't one of those that Grace Gibson 347 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:04,759 picked up. And I'm not certain how the Australian government would view that sort 348 00:29:04,799 --> 00:29:11,960 of plot because they had their own radio sensors which they let some things go 349 00:29:11,079 --> 00:29:17,000 that the US wouldn't allow. But that would be something that could be researched. 350 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:23,319 But until something definitive comes out. It's still an open possibility. And 351 00:29:23,359 --> 00:29:27,640 then we have a comment from Instagram, Geraldine Wrights. Your show is mind 352 00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:33,519 blowing. Takes me back to my mom and Dad's Sunday night radio gathering. 353 00:29:33,759 --> 00:29:37,400 Well, thank you so much. Appreciate your comment, Geraldine. And now 354 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:41,599 it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day. Thank you to Michael, 355 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:48,000 Patreon supporter since February of this year, currently supporting the show at the 356 00:29:48,119 --> 00:29:51,920 shamous level of four dollars or more per month. Thanks so much for your 357 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:55,400 support, Michael, and that will do it for today. If you're enjoying 358 00:29:55,400 --> 00:30:00,759 the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software. You're enjoying the 359 00:30:00,839 --> 00:30:03,960 podcast on YouTube, be sure to lock the video, subscribe to the channel, 360 00:30:04,039 --> 00:30:10,400 and marked the notification bell. We'll be back next Wednesday with another episode 361 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:15,319 of Dangerous Assignment. But join us back here tomorrow for Mister Chameleon. Where 362 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:22,839 Holly gym Now? Holly? I just god? Who's this? Jim? 363 00:30:23,799 --> 00:30:27,319 Who's this man? My name is comedian mister Ties. I'm a detective from 364 00:30:27,359 --> 00:30:33,640 Central Headquarters. Detective you're the famous Comeleon. What are you doing here? 365 00:30:33,359 --> 00:30:37,359 What are you doing with my gun? Jim, Jim, Billy Kellum has 366 00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:41,839 been murdered. Murdered, yes, mister Tares. And the bullet that killed 367 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:45,960 him came from a cold forty five like this gun of yours. I see 368 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:51,359 that as one contridge missing. Jim. He thinks you killed Billy Kellum. 369 00:30:52,319 --> 00:30:53,759 I didn't kill him, mister commedian, I didn't even see Billy. Dont 370 00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:59,319 holy I'm innocent. You must believe me. I'm innocent. I repeat. 371 00:30:59,359 --> 00:31:02,920 The bullet that killed Kellen was from a forty five Colt, a popular weapon 372 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:06,160 in Oklahoma, I'm told. And you, mister Taras, come from Oklahoma. 373 00:31:06,319 --> 00:31:08,359 Oh you'll be with us then. In the meantime, do send your 374 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:15,119 comments to Box thirteen at Greatdetectives dot net, follow us on Twitter at Radio 375 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:19,319 Detectives, and check us out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com slash Great 376 00:31:19,359 --> 00:31:26,200 Detectives from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.