WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.320 --> 00:00:14.679 I was a Communist for the FBI, starring Dana Andrews 2 00:00:14.720 --> 00:00:18.679 and an exciting tale of danger and espionage. I was 3 00:00:18.719 --> 00:00:33.000 a Communist for the FBI. From the actual records and 4 00:00:33.039 --> 00:00:36.759 authentic experiences of Matt Savetic how many of the incidents 5 00:00:36.759 --> 00:00:41.079 in this unusual story. Here is our star, Dana Andrews 6 00:00:41.119 --> 00:00:46.119 as Matt savedic Oover, nine fantastic years lived as a 7 00:00:46.159 --> 00:00:51.079 Communist for the FBI. The heart is deceitful above all things, 8 00:00:51.240 --> 00:00:55.320 and desperately wicked. You'll find that quotation in the Bible. 9 00:00:55.920 --> 00:00:58.320 I found the proof of it in the Communist Party. 10 00:00:58.920 --> 00:01:01.439 It wasn't hard to find at all, but believe me, 11 00:01:01.560 --> 00:01:05.239 it was brutally hard to accept. This story will illustrate 12 00:01:05.319 --> 00:01:05.879 what I mean. 13 00:01:09.439 --> 00:01:12.599 In a moment, listen to Dana Andrews as Matt Samatic 14 00:01:13.319 --> 00:01:14.239 under coverman. 15 00:01:36.840 --> 00:01:37.599 Now Here is. 16 00:01:37.599 --> 00:01:43.359 Dana Andrews as Matt Savadic undercoverman. This story from the 17 00:01:43.439 --> 00:01:46.920 Confidential File is marked The Crossed Heart. 18 00:01:54.920 --> 00:01:58.920 The strange town miles from home. You know what it's like, 19 00:02:00.040 --> 00:02:04.079 the streets, looking for secrets or surprises, study the crowds, 20 00:02:04.280 --> 00:02:08.199 the blur of bland impersonal faces, taking someone you might know, 21 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:12.479 something familiar, to give you that sense of belonging. That's 22 00:02:12.520 --> 00:02:15.759 how it usually is with strangers. But I was an 23 00:02:15.879 --> 00:02:19.879 unusual stranger. My visit to this town was sponsored by 24 00:02:19.919 --> 00:02:23.199 the Communist Party. I wasn't permitted to take my natural 25 00:02:23.319 --> 00:02:27.520 instincts with me. Every instinct of reaction and reaction was 26 00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:32.479 planned and prescribed by my far seeing red comrades. I 27 00:02:32.639 --> 00:02:36.879 was to report to this address, a private residence. I 28 00:02:37.039 --> 00:02:40.159 was to ask for a missus Breen. Then I was 29 00:02:40.199 --> 00:02:43.800 to let nature, as authorized by the Commis, take its course. 30 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:49.280 How do you do er good evening? I'm looking for 31 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:50.039 missus Breen. 32 00:02:50.360 --> 00:02:54.360 I'm missus Breen. Won't you come in? You come in, 33 00:02:54.560 --> 00:02:55.000 young man? 34 00:02:55.120 --> 00:02:55.400 Come in? 35 00:02:55.919 --> 00:02:57.560 Are you catch your death out there? 36 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:05.879 Yea, this little old lady, the shawl of white hair, 37 00:03:05.960 --> 00:03:09.599 the remless glasses. No, she was the type you write 38 00:03:09.639 --> 00:03:13.719 songs about, not the sort you're associated with. Red. I 39 00:03:13.879 --> 00:03:16.879 followed her through the gloomy age heavy house into a 40 00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:19.039 room that had been set aside as a little office. 41 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:24.199 Watching her gestures too gentle, so prim and proper, I 42 00:03:24.319 --> 00:03:27.560 felt sure that somehow the Kamis or I had made 43 00:03:27.560 --> 00:03:28.120 a mistake. 44 00:03:28.599 --> 00:03:29.199 Here we are. 45 00:03:29.800 --> 00:03:31.680 It's so much more comfortable in here. 46 00:03:31.599 --> 00:03:33.879 Isn't it, Yes, yes it is. 47 00:03:34.360 --> 00:03:40.240 Now let me see. Oh, I'm forever misplacing those applications. 48 00:03:41.280 --> 00:03:43.759 Here we are your name please. 49 00:03:44.840 --> 00:03:48.639 Oh savedic Matt savedices. 50 00:03:47.919 --> 00:03:50.840 Or see see c V E T. 51 00:03:51.159 --> 00:03:55.719 I see missus Breen. I think your rage. I think 52 00:03:55.759 --> 00:03:56.840 there's been somewhere Well. 53 00:03:56.840 --> 00:04:01.719 Never mind, let's just say over thirty under forty, all right, 54 00:04:02.439 --> 00:04:07.719 all right now now i'd say you're oh about six 55 00:04:07.840 --> 00:04:08.280 feet tall? 56 00:04:08.719 --> 00:04:11.719 About that now, any. 57 00:04:11.599 --> 00:04:15.680 Preference of the types types of what oh silly girls. 58 00:04:15.400 --> 00:04:19.120 Of course girls? Look I now now now. 59 00:04:19.120 --> 00:04:23.360 Nothing to worry about. All information is strictly confidential. Our 60 00:04:23.480 --> 00:04:26.720 service is licensed by the state. What kind of service, 61 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:30.800 same as anywhere else. Once you subscribe, I give you 62 00:04:30.959 --> 00:04:34.959 three names and telephone numbers, chosen according to your personal 63 00:04:35.079 --> 00:04:38.959 tastes and specifications. If you aren't satisfied, just call in 64 00:04:39.120 --> 00:04:42.240 and I'll give you three more fifteen dollars for a 65 00:04:42.319 --> 00:04:45.000 month's service, twenty five for three months. 66 00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:47.120 That's the usual rate. 67 00:04:47.360 --> 00:04:51.439 No, now, don't start fretting. I've been expecting you, comrade, 68 00:04:51.959 --> 00:04:55.040 forgive me for confusing you. So we just have to 69 00:04:55.120 --> 00:04:59.120 be so very careful, you know, I know. Now I've 70 00:04:59.240 --> 00:05:02.800 arranged a day for you for to night a date. Well, 71 00:05:02.879 --> 00:05:04.160 that's why you're here, isn't it? 72 00:05:04.879 --> 00:05:05.079 Is it? 73 00:05:05.480 --> 00:05:07.800 I'm not the least bit sure why i'm here, Comrade 74 00:05:07.839 --> 00:05:08.720 brain Er, uh. 75 00:05:08.759 --> 00:05:11.160 Uh, missus brain, mister sthetic. 76 00:05:11.680 --> 00:05:16.879 We must be careful, must must must, Okay, Well, tell 77 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:17.800 me about my date. 78 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:21.759 Her name is Claram Malone. A good client, a very 79 00:05:21.839 --> 00:05:26.199 important client, to be a club. I see she's a 80 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:29.040 widow with quite a bit of money, rather pretty too. 81 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:33.079 You call for her, take her to dinner, and most important, 82 00:05:33.120 --> 00:05:34.759 you'll collect an envelope from her. 83 00:05:35.199 --> 00:05:35.639 What's in it? 84 00:05:36.279 --> 00:05:40.240 Money? She owes the club some money? See that you 85 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:44.199 bring it to me immediately. Now here's her name, her 86 00:05:44.240 --> 00:05:45.800 phone number, her address. 87 00:05:54.759 --> 00:06:15.319 Here you are, biaker biker, This is Red. I just 88 00:06:15.519 --> 00:06:19.600 joined the Lonely Hearts Club. What a lonely Hearts club? 89 00:06:19.959 --> 00:06:23.680 Some kind of calmi front. Well, I don't know yet. 90 00:06:23.959 --> 00:06:29.160 I'll know more after Tonight's tonight my first date. Clara Malone, 91 00:06:29.199 --> 00:06:32.120 a wealthy widow. I understand. I called her a while 92 00:06:32.160 --> 00:06:34.639 ago and got no answer. I'll keep at it, man, 93 00:06:35.199 --> 00:06:37.879 If we can do anything from this office, well not yet. 94 00:06:38.399 --> 00:06:39.759 Just be there when I need you. 95 00:06:55.240 --> 00:06:55.279 Do. 96 00:06:55.519 --> 00:06:59.920 No answer on Clara Malone's line. It was getting late now, 97 00:07:02.199 --> 00:07:05.040 Missus Breen's place was closed, and I could risk violating 98 00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:09.519 party orders. So I decided to go directly to the 99 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:12.040 address missus brain had given me. Maybe by the time 100 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:29.000 I got there, Clara Malone would have arrived too. She 101 00:07:29.199 --> 00:07:33.040 wasn't home yet. I guess I could see a light 102 00:07:33.240 --> 00:07:35.759 in her apartment to the crack in the door. But 103 00:07:35.879 --> 00:07:39.680 either she was out or she Hello. This might be 104 00:07:39.800 --> 00:07:42.839 Clara Malone. She didn't look like she needed a lonely 105 00:07:42.920 --> 00:07:45.319 hearts club to supply her with dates. But then you 106 00:07:45.480 --> 00:07:50.040 never know. She came straight for this apartment looking for someone. 107 00:07:50.959 --> 00:07:53.720 Oh oh, yes, I was looking for miss Malone. 108 00:07:54.279 --> 00:07:58.399 I'm Miss Malone, Clara Malone. Oh no, I'm Judy, Clara's sister. 109 00:07:59.160 --> 00:07:59.959 Isn't she home yet? 110 00:08:00.560 --> 00:08:01.879 Well, she hasn't answered the door. 111 00:08:02.720 --> 00:08:05.079 That's funny. Is there anything I can do? 112 00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:08.399 Not exactly say, Clara and I have a day for 113 00:08:08.480 --> 00:08:08.800 the night. 114 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:13.000 Oh well, come on in. Then she should be home 115 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:13.560 any minute. 116 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:14.560 All right. 117 00:08:16.560 --> 00:08:18.160 She might have run down to the store. 118 00:08:21.199 --> 00:08:21.800 What's the matter? 119 00:08:27.240 --> 00:08:33.399 No, No, what is it? 120 00:08:34.159 --> 00:08:42.559 What's the name? Holy smoke? Param Malone had a good 121 00:08:42.600 --> 00:08:46.200 reason for not answering the door she was dead. My 122 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:48.480 first instincts told me to get out of that fast. 123 00:08:49.240 --> 00:08:51.559 But from the looks of things, her death was a suicide, 124 00:08:52.039 --> 00:08:55.360 and Judith wasted no time in calling the police. The 125 00:08:55.440 --> 00:08:58.720 police inspector, a tired, shabby little guy named by Jack, 126 00:08:59.039 --> 00:09:02.799 thought it was a suicide too. He wasn't sure, and 127 00:09:02.919 --> 00:09:05.000 then his job he had to be sure. 128 00:09:05.639 --> 00:09:07.080 Sorry, we had to bring you too, all the way 129 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:09.440 down here, but you know how it is said down. 130 00:09:09.279 --> 00:09:10.919 Miss Malone, Thank you, inspector. 131 00:09:11.120 --> 00:09:14.879 Are you too? What's your name again? 132 00:09:15.279 --> 00:09:15.720 Sethetic? 133 00:09:15.919 --> 00:09:18.720 That's right, you were a friend of the deceased. Sthetic. 134 00:09:19.159 --> 00:09:21.519 Oh, I never saw her before the night. This is 135 00:09:21.600 --> 00:09:23.000 my first day in tom. 136 00:09:23.080 --> 00:09:25.360 But you told me you had a date with Clara. 137 00:09:25.840 --> 00:09:31.159 Well, yes, it was a blind date, mutual friend. 138 00:09:31.320 --> 00:09:33.399 How about it, Miss Malone? This guy a friend of 139 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:34.000 your sisters. 140 00:09:34.919 --> 00:09:35.919 I don't know, inspector. 141 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:37.639 Don't you share that apartment with your sister? 142 00:09:38.399 --> 00:09:40.799 Yes? But Para dated a lot of men I knew 143 00:09:40.799 --> 00:09:42.639 nothing about. Too many. 144 00:09:42.720 --> 00:09:44.039 I suppose too many. 145 00:09:44.919 --> 00:09:49.840 She's been terribly unhappy since her husband died. Lonely and unhappy. 146 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:53.840 Any special reason for killing yourself finances? 147 00:09:54.399 --> 00:09:57.360 No, she inherited a lot of money from her husband. 148 00:09:57.759 --> 00:10:01.679 He didn't care about money much. Bector, do you think 149 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:04.919 it wasn't suicide? I mean, do you think that Clara alone? 150 00:10:04.919 --> 00:10:08.279 Oh, it looks like suicide, all right, Miss Malone, probably is. 151 00:10:08.879 --> 00:10:11.679 The Corners report isn't then yet. There are a few 152 00:10:11.840 --> 00:10:13.200 funny angles to this mess. 153 00:10:14.519 --> 00:10:18.519 But who who would want it to hurt Clara? 154 00:10:19.320 --> 00:10:21.879 She was a lonely widow, she had money. 155 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:24.759 She did it a lot of strange guys, too many, 156 00:10:24.840 --> 00:10:28.840 you said, like sweedik can somehow he knew her phone 157 00:10:28.919 --> 00:10:30.919 number and address, but he didn't know her. That's a minute. 158 00:10:31.440 --> 00:10:34.519 I'm a cops swetic. My job don't give me much 159 00:10:34.600 --> 00:10:39.039 time to trust people. Listen, I'm a mind skipper, didn't though, 160 00:10:39.320 --> 00:10:41.519 both of you. Sorry for all the troublem. 161 00:10:41.240 --> 00:10:41.840 Miss Malone. 162 00:10:42.080 --> 00:10:43.120 It's all right, Inspector. 163 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:49.000 I own Hecker unless it's necessary, thank you, say asthetic. 164 00:10:50.360 --> 00:10:52.799 You'd better stay around town a while. If the coroner 165 00:10:52.879 --> 00:10:55.840 comes in with any surprise decisions, we'll want you for questioning. 166 00:10:59.399 --> 00:11:02.360 I couldn't leave town anyway. I was under orders from 167 00:11:02.399 --> 00:11:05.120 the Reds, but I couldn't let the police know that 168 00:11:06.080 --> 00:11:08.360 I had some vital questions to put the sweet old 169 00:11:08.440 --> 00:11:12.279 missus Breen like, how did the Reds figure in Clara's death? 170 00:11:13.159 --> 00:11:15.559 If it was murder? Was I to be the patsy 171 00:11:15.679 --> 00:11:19.200 for the party? But she wasn't to be found. Her 172 00:11:19.240 --> 00:11:22.960 house was dark, locked up. I waited around a while, 173 00:11:23.720 --> 00:11:27.320 no use. I headed for my hotel to get some sleep. 174 00:11:33.840 --> 00:11:38.519 Oh, good evening, comrades, chittik, you're back, girly, How did 175 00:11:38.600 --> 00:11:41.559 you get in here? Oh please don't be angry with me. 176 00:11:42.240 --> 00:11:44.399 I told the room clerk I was your mother and 177 00:11:44.519 --> 00:11:45.480 I wanted to surprise you. 178 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:47.879 Well you did, You're full of surprises. 179 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:50.360 I just didn't want you to be burdened too long 180 00:11:50.440 --> 00:11:52.120 with that envelope temptation. 181 00:11:52.360 --> 00:11:53.600 You know what envelope? 182 00:11:53.919 --> 00:11:55.919 What the envelope you collected from Clara? 183 00:11:56.399 --> 00:11:59.759 She's dead, Missus Breen, cold Stone dead. 184 00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:01.759 What are you talking about? 185 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:04.879 You know full well what I'm talking about. Clara Malone 186 00:12:04.960 --> 00:12:07.679 was dead when I got to her apartment. It looks 187 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:09.799 like suicide, but it may be murder. 188 00:12:10.120 --> 00:12:10.399 Murder. 189 00:12:10.879 --> 00:12:14.039 Skip the performance, Missus Breen, and get this straight. If 190 00:12:14.080 --> 00:12:18.000 that phone rings, it'll be the police. They'll want been 191 00:12:18.120 --> 00:12:19.279 ringing all evening. 192 00:12:20.039 --> 00:12:22.000 Oh it will probably ring again. 193 00:12:23.039 --> 00:12:25.159 Well, if it does, it's because the cops have a 194 00:12:25.240 --> 00:12:28.600 good reason to suspect me of killing Clara Malone. I'll 195 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:31.399 have to tell them about you and your Lonely Hearts club. 196 00:12:31.759 --> 00:12:36.519 No, comrade Steatic, you mustn't do that. No, Watch, the 197 00:12:36.639 --> 00:12:39.399 Party can't afford to be involved in that sort of thing. 198 00:12:39.960 --> 00:12:49.639 If you did that, we'd see that. You the phone, 199 00:12:49.759 --> 00:12:57.440 comrade Static, Well aren't you going to answer it? Look, 200 00:12:58.200 --> 00:13:00.840 if it's the police, I'm going to member, young men, 201 00:13:01.399 --> 00:13:05.320 the police operate according to bourgeois concepts of justice. The 202 00:13:05.440 --> 00:13:07.360 Party has its own concepts. 203 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:13.879 Yeah, yeah, I know, you'd got to answer the phone. 204 00:13:15.519 --> 00:13:17.279 Answer it, Come ahead, right now? 205 00:13:21.320 --> 00:13:21.559 Hello. 206 00:13:47.519 --> 00:13:51.200 Now back to Dana Andrews, starring as Matt Sevek, and 207 00:13:51.519 --> 00:13:55.080 I was a communist for the FBI and the second 208 00:13:55.120 --> 00:14:07.200 act of our story. The telephone can be an instrument 209 00:14:07.240 --> 00:14:10.639 of torture, and right now I was its victim. The 210 00:14:10.759 --> 00:14:13.600 receiver was at my ear. I'd spoken at greeting into 211 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:18.399 the mouthpiece. Then there was a moment's silence, bitter, excruciating silence. 212 00:14:18.759 --> 00:14:22.000 I glanced at Missus Breen standing at my elbow. Told 213 00:14:22.039 --> 00:14:24.399 me that a murder charge would be delightful compared to 214 00:14:24.480 --> 00:14:26.159 what the comments would do to me. If I told 215 00:14:26.200 --> 00:14:30.799 the truth to the police. Hello Svedk, Yes, inspect if 216 00:14:31.080 --> 00:14:32.279 check at police headquarters. 217 00:14:33.480 --> 00:14:35.200 I've been trying to get you all evening. 218 00:14:35.559 --> 00:14:36.120 What do you want? 219 00:14:36.639 --> 00:14:39.679 You better get down here for some more questioning. 220 00:14:40.320 --> 00:14:44.320 Now, well it's it's pretty late. I now you got 221 00:14:44.399 --> 00:14:48.159 the coroner's report. Yeah, you're coming down here? 222 00:14:48.279 --> 00:14:49.879 Or should I send a car up for you? 223 00:14:50.840 --> 00:14:57.120 Well, I'll be down, I was saying, Conrad, the party 224 00:14:57.240 --> 00:15:00.679 has its own way of treating those who violated it confidence. 225 00:15:00.919 --> 00:15:02.960 You mean they let me be charged with the murder 226 00:15:03.039 --> 00:15:03.720 I didn't commit. 227 00:15:04.159 --> 00:15:04.840 What can they do? 228 00:15:05.039 --> 00:15:05.399 Comment? 229 00:15:06.039 --> 00:15:09.200 After all, what's more important the life of one young 230 00:15:09.279 --> 00:15:11.320 man or the life of the proletariat? 231 00:15:11.399 --> 00:15:11.759 Revolt? 232 00:15:12.080 --> 00:15:24.000 Okay, come in, spetic. 233 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:37.080 Sit down? No, no, over here, you look nervous. 234 00:15:38.080 --> 00:15:41.759 It's late, and inspect and I'm tired me too. We 235 00:15:41.879 --> 00:15:45.360 got the coroner's report on Clara Malone. He's satisfied that 236 00:15:45.480 --> 00:15:47.799 it's suicide. Well then then what do you want. 237 00:15:47.919 --> 00:15:52.879 I'm not satisfying. Sec why'd you come to this city? 238 00:15:53.879 --> 00:15:54.240 Business? 239 00:15:54.519 --> 00:15:55.200 What business? 240 00:15:56.399 --> 00:15:57.159 Just business? 241 00:15:57.759 --> 00:15:59.519 Business with Clara Malone? No? 242 00:15:59.759 --> 00:16:02.600 No, that was just a day yeah, arranged by a 243 00:16:02.679 --> 00:16:12.000 mutual friend, a business associate. All right, yeah, look the 244 00:16:12.120 --> 00:16:16.159 report from Parah Malone's bank. She inherited three hundred thousand 245 00:16:16.200 --> 00:16:21.120 dollars when her husband died. Look what's left. She's practically broke. 246 00:16:21.879 --> 00:16:22.480 Where did it go? 247 00:16:22.919 --> 00:16:23.679 Wherever it went? 248 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:27.279 It went during the last year or so, somebody was 249 00:16:27.320 --> 00:16:30.039 bleeding this dame dry sphetic. She has a couple of 250 00:16:30.120 --> 00:16:32.960 kids away at an exclusive private school, but she has 251 00:16:34.320 --> 00:16:39.600 You didn't know that, no, swhenk I warn you, either 252 00:16:39.679 --> 00:16:42.960 you tell us what you know or don't inspect. Well, 253 00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:44.840 then talk to you, idiot. I'm trying to give you 254 00:16:44.879 --> 00:16:49.039 a break. Pharah Malone was the victim of a shakedown speedic. 255 00:16:49.720 --> 00:16:53.159 Whoever's responsible is just as responsible for her suicide, directly 256 00:16:53.279 --> 00:16:53.840 or indirectly. 257 00:16:54.799 --> 00:16:56.720 In spite of you. I intend to find out who 258 00:16:56.759 --> 00:16:57.480 and why and how. 259 00:16:58.000 --> 00:16:59.360 I wish I could help inspect her. 260 00:16:59.519 --> 00:17:03.919 Yeah, I'll bet okay, so it get out, get out of. 261 00:17:03.919 --> 00:17:11.400 Here secretly, and I hoped Inspector Bicheck would fulfill his threat. 262 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:14.640 I left police headquarters praying silently that he'd be able 263 00:17:14.680 --> 00:17:17.880 to pinish suspicions on missus Breen and the Kamis. But 264 00:17:17.960 --> 00:17:20.319 I couldn't help him. I'm sure I might have been 265 00:17:20.839 --> 00:17:23.680 noble and named names, but nobility comes hard when you 266 00:17:23.799 --> 00:17:28.759 know the Kami technique for vengeance. The streets of the 267 00:17:28.839 --> 00:17:33.000 Strange City were even stranger now. They were empty, silent, 268 00:17:33.559 --> 00:17:41.880 wet with that pre dawned mist in here. Hurry, sorry, pal, 269 00:17:41.920 --> 00:17:46.880 I'm going the other way. Hey, what's a big idea? 270 00:17:46.960 --> 00:18:03.920 Let's go on, Kurty, I said, ah, good, thank you, George. 271 00:18:04.200 --> 00:18:08.119 Any trouble, No trouble, Comrade Breen, you keep mighty odd 272 00:18:08.200 --> 00:18:10.359 hours for a woman of your age, Missus Breen. 273 00:18:10.559 --> 00:18:14.279 I'm dedicated to my work. It makes a difference. That's 274 00:18:14.359 --> 00:18:21.039 all for now, George. Okay, are you all right, Comrade City? 275 00:18:21.359 --> 00:18:23.599 No, I don't like being shoved around by that that 276 00:18:23.799 --> 00:18:24.880 goon boy of yours. 277 00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:29.519 He's comrade. I'd like to know what you told the police. Nothing, 278 00:18:29.960 --> 00:18:31.279 Oh now, comedy. 279 00:18:31.400 --> 00:18:33.440 If I did tell them anything about you or this club, 280 00:18:33.519 --> 00:18:34.759 don't you think you'd know by now? 281 00:18:36.559 --> 00:18:36.720 Right? 282 00:18:36.839 --> 00:18:37.279 Of course? 283 00:18:38.079 --> 00:18:40.039 Do the police know anything about us? 284 00:18:40.319 --> 00:18:43.799 Just hunches. The coroner called Clara Malone's death a suicide, 285 00:18:44.160 --> 00:18:46.680 but the inspector thinks there's blackmail involved. 286 00:18:46.960 --> 00:18:48.000 Where did he learn that? 287 00:18:48.480 --> 00:18:50.799 Well, he's not a fool, you know. He checked Clara's 288 00:18:50.839 --> 00:18:52.720 bank account and learned that she went through a lot 289 00:18:52.759 --> 00:18:53.839 of money in a big hurry. 290 00:18:55.279 --> 00:18:58.079 I wonder how much that sister of hers knows. 291 00:18:58.519 --> 00:18:59.960 Not too much from what I could see. 292 00:19:00.599 --> 00:19:04.279 We've got to be sure, comrade, We've got to be sure. Well, 293 00:19:04.440 --> 00:19:07.759 So would you mind finding out for me? Please? What 294 00:19:08.480 --> 00:19:11.519 oh you've met Judith? If you've talked with her, find 295 00:19:11.559 --> 00:19:14.519 out what she knows about the club, the blackmail anything. 296 00:19:14.920 --> 00:19:18.119 If she knows more than she should, then then what 297 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:22.160 we'll see, we'll see. Your job now is to find 298 00:19:22.160 --> 00:19:24.799 out what she knows before she tells the police. 299 00:19:30.119 --> 00:19:33.039 The COMMI web was being spun again. This time the 300 00:19:33.160 --> 00:19:36.039 victim was to be Judith Malone. I had to keep 301 00:19:36.039 --> 00:19:38.319 her free of that web somehow, But I had to 302 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:41.400 keep myself clear that web too. Maybe there was a way, 303 00:19:41.799 --> 00:19:44.759 some way to turn the web against the spinner, to 304 00:19:44.880 --> 00:19:48.079 strangle the Commis with their own vicious weapon. It was 305 00:19:48.119 --> 00:19:55.160 worth a try. One good try, biker, biker, This is 306 00:19:55.240 --> 00:20:00.519 Red Hi, what's up? I need some bugs and lines fast? Okay, 307 00:20:01.480 --> 00:20:03.680 they don't know yet the local field office, do they no? 308 00:20:04.160 --> 00:20:06.440 All right, I'll call them from here. Is there a 309 00:20:06.519 --> 00:20:07.039 grocery store? 310 00:20:07.119 --> 00:20:09.640 Are you any grocery store? Yeah? 311 00:20:10.519 --> 00:20:11.960 Roger's Market down the street. 312 00:20:12.200 --> 00:20:13.799 There'll be a package for you there in an hour. 313 00:20:14.240 --> 00:20:16.759 What name do you want to use? Oh Matthews? 314 00:20:17.079 --> 00:20:21.000 Okay, pick up your groceries in an hour, mister Matthews. 315 00:20:24.279 --> 00:20:26.519 And my groceries were waiting for me in an hour. 316 00:20:27.000 --> 00:20:29.720 The package was camouflaged pretty well, but I knew the 317 00:20:29.799 --> 00:20:34.559 equipment I needed. Was there coils of wire, small microphones, earphones, 318 00:20:34.599 --> 00:20:38.079 the works. My next step was to call missus brain 319 00:20:38.359 --> 00:20:39.640 and tell some whoppers. 320 00:20:39.920 --> 00:20:41.559 You mean she knows the whole story. 321 00:20:41.799 --> 00:20:44.839 Yeah, Clara told her everything, But Judith has a pretty 322 00:20:44.880 --> 00:20:46.079 sensible latitude about it. 323 00:20:46.720 --> 00:20:47.960 Has she told the police yet? 324 00:20:48.359 --> 00:20:51.559 Oh, she's more sensible than that. There's one simple way 325 00:20:51.640 --> 00:20:52.799 to keep Judith quiet. 326 00:20:52.960 --> 00:20:56.319 Oh, don't be foolish. We captures violence now, It would just. 327 00:20:56.400 --> 00:21:01.480 Create more suspicion violence now terms, Yes, did she tell 328 00:21:01.480 --> 00:21:04.319 you that she hated add it pretty strongly? You had 329 00:21:04.359 --> 00:21:07.319 better phone her, make an appointment, make her an offer. 330 00:21:07.599 --> 00:21:08.759 Shall I visit her place? 331 00:21:08.960 --> 00:21:10.680 No cops all over the neighborhood? 332 00:21:10.799 --> 00:21:12.359 Well, how could I get her to come here? 333 00:21:12.880 --> 00:21:16.640 Tell her you realize that silence is golden. Tell her 334 00:21:16.680 --> 00:21:19.480 you have some important information about her sister. I should 335 00:21:19.519 --> 00:21:25.599 do it. I hope I checked in at missus Breen's 336 00:21:25.599 --> 00:21:27.759 place later and learned that she'd made an appointment with 337 00:21:27.880 --> 00:21:31.480 Judith Malone for eight thirty that night, about six o'clock, 338 00:21:31.599 --> 00:21:33.680 missus Breen decided to go out for a bite to eat. 339 00:21:33.960 --> 00:21:36.119 Want to join me, comrad snittik Oh. 340 00:21:36.039 --> 00:21:39.319 No thanks, I'll stay here. Judith may change her mind. 341 00:21:39.640 --> 00:21:40.720 Can't take any chances. 342 00:21:41.319 --> 00:21:44.960 Well, you're probably right. Incidentally, you'll be here tonight when 343 00:21:44.960 --> 00:21:45.759 I see her, won't you. 344 00:21:46.039 --> 00:21:48.640 You don't want me here too many of us might 345 00:21:48.720 --> 00:21:52.119 overemphasize the importance, make her boost the price even more, 346 00:21:52.680 --> 00:21:56.880 all right, and remember she's quite a little actress. She'll 347 00:21:56.920 --> 00:21:59.079 play the innocent role right up to the hilt. But 348 00:21:59.200 --> 00:22:00.119 don't let her fool you. 349 00:22:00.359 --> 00:22:02.720 Don't what a young man. I will be back soon. 350 00:22:03.200 --> 00:22:09.480 Take your time. I have nothing to do anyway. There 351 00:22:09.599 --> 00:22:11.960 was plenty to do, of course. As soon as missus 352 00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:15.160 Breen was gone, I unwrapped my groceries, which I'd hidden 353 00:22:15.200 --> 00:22:18.240 in the shrubs outside the house. As quickly as possible. 354 00:22:18.319 --> 00:22:21.640 I wired her office for sounds, one tiny microphone under 355 00:22:21.640 --> 00:22:24.319 the rug near her desk, another near the big arm chair. 356 00:22:25.000 --> 00:22:26.960 I ran the wires up behind the drapers out the 357 00:22:27.000 --> 00:22:29.799 windows and into the shrubs where the miniature recording set 358 00:22:29.880 --> 00:22:32.839 up would be located. Back in the little office, I 359 00:22:33.000 --> 00:22:35.200 was about to test the microphones. 360 00:22:34.680 --> 00:22:38.599 And SCHUEK, what there's missus brain? What? 361 00:22:38.799 --> 00:22:40.680 She she went out for something to eat? 362 00:22:40.920 --> 00:22:43.079 Why that Malone David is here? 363 00:22:43.519 --> 00:22:43.680 Now? 364 00:22:44.519 --> 00:22:45.480 I thought eight thirty or? 365 00:22:45.599 --> 00:22:48.839 She says she was nervous, couldn't wait? No, better, get 366 00:22:48.920 --> 00:22:49.599 Comrade Breen. 367 00:22:49.759 --> 00:22:52.480 Oh no, no, I'll go. I know where she's eating. 368 00:22:54.920 --> 00:22:58.319 Uh have you been here in the house all this time? 369 00:22:58.839 --> 00:23:01.079 Sure? Where'd you think i'd be? 370 00:23:02.039 --> 00:23:02.240 Why? 371 00:23:03.160 --> 00:23:10.200 Nothing? Just just curious, that's all. I went out the 372 00:23:10.240 --> 00:23:13.039 back door to avoid Judith. There was no chance to 373 00:23:13.119 --> 00:23:16.079 test the equipment. Now, no chance for anything but cold 374 00:23:16.319 --> 00:23:19.839 naked luck. When Missus Breen went inside to meet Judith, 375 00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:23.079 I ducked behind the shrubbery, switched on the recorder, dusted 376 00:23:23.160 --> 00:23:28.160 the earphone, and prayed, Oh, come on, come on, pick 377 00:23:28.200 --> 00:23:33.400 it up, pick it up, Come on, please, pick it up. 378 00:23:33.759 --> 00:23:34.680 Please please? 379 00:23:35.440 --> 00:23:37.839 About time we got straight to the point, miss Malone. 380 00:23:37.880 --> 00:23:40.480 I'm willing to pay any reasonable price for your silence. 381 00:23:41.039 --> 00:23:43.559 Silence? What have I to be silent about? 382 00:23:43.720 --> 00:23:47.000 Oh, let's stop playing parsome, young lady. We'll go to 383 00:23:47.160 --> 00:23:49.319 any length to stop you from telling the police what 384 00:23:49.480 --> 00:23:52.079 you know. We prefer to do business on a purely 385 00:23:52.160 --> 00:23:55.599 financial basis. So here are my terms, and I expect 386 00:23:55.680 --> 00:23:56.680 you to accept them. 387 00:24:05.119 --> 00:24:06.400 Did you get a decent recording of it? 388 00:24:06.440 --> 00:24:06.640 Matt? 389 00:24:06.960 --> 00:24:09.160 We have all we need to hang a blackmail charge 390 00:24:09.200 --> 00:24:11.200 on Missus Breen and the local comedy speaker. 391 00:24:11.400 --> 00:24:11.599 Good. 392 00:24:12.319 --> 00:24:14.319 I'll let the police know it was an FBI operation 393 00:24:14.599 --> 00:24:16.920 at our file on Missus Brain indicated that kind of checker. 394 00:24:17.079 --> 00:24:20.200 Okay, that'll clear me with the party. Be sure the 395 00:24:20.240 --> 00:24:21.839 local papers get the same story. 396 00:24:22.119 --> 00:24:24.319 And our phone Inspector Bicheck to tell him to expect 397 00:24:24.359 --> 00:24:24.680 the record. 398 00:24:24.839 --> 00:24:27.720 He has it already so soon. I had it delivered 399 00:24:27.759 --> 00:24:30.400 to him direct. But you'd better call and explain what 400 00:24:30.480 --> 00:24:31.079 it's all about. 401 00:24:31.240 --> 00:24:32.039