WEBVTT 1 00:00:28.719 --> 00:00:32.840 Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from 2 00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:36.840 Boise Idahol. This is your host, Adam Graham. If you 3 00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:39.920 have a common email it to me Box thirteen at 4 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:45.520 Great Detectives dot net. Follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, 5 00:00:45.640 --> 00:00:49.759 and become one of our friends on Facebook, Facebook dot 6 00:00:49.799 --> 00:00:54.079 com slash Radio Detectives. Before we get started, I do 7 00:00:54.159 --> 00:00:55.880 want to remind you of the programs brought to you 8 00:00:55.920 --> 00:00:58.640 in part by the financial support of our listeners, and 9 00:00:58.759 --> 00:01:01.399 support the show on a one basis at support dot 10 00:01:01.479 --> 00:01:05.239 Great Attractives dot net. Become one of our ongoing Patreon 11 00:01:05.319 --> 00:01:09.519 supporters at Patreon dot Great Detectives dot net. Now it's 12 00:01:09.599 --> 00:01:13.959 time for today's episode of Richard Diamond. The original air 13 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:19.120 date is February sixteenth, nineteen fifty one, and this one 14 00:01:19.359 --> 00:01:27.120 is The Gray Man. 15 00:01:23.519 --> 00:01:32.079 And the Makers of Camel Cigarettes present Dick Powell as 16 00:01:32.280 --> 00:02:04.400 Richard Diamond Private Detective. Here transcribed is Richard Diamond Private Detective, 17 00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:06.239 starring Dick Powell. 18 00:02:18.479 --> 00:02:21.120 It was a cold afternoon in New York. There was 19 00:02:21.159 --> 00:02:23.280 six inches of snow in the streets and twice that 20 00:02:23.400 --> 00:02:26.719 much on the fire escape outside my window. I looked 21 00:02:26.759 --> 00:02:30.439 down at Broadway and watched the miserable pedestrians edging their 22 00:02:30.439 --> 00:02:33.759 way over the slippery ice covered sidewalks and thought about 23 00:02:33.759 --> 00:02:37.039 burning some of my furniture. It was just to day 24 00:02:37.199 --> 00:02:40.759 for anything unpleasant, and when the door to my office opened, 25 00:02:41.400 --> 00:02:43.400 I turned around to look at one of the most 26 00:02:43.520 --> 00:02:47.719 unpleasant sights I'd ever been faced with. Standing in the 27 00:02:47.719 --> 00:02:51.000 door was something that looked human, and I used the 28 00:02:51.080 --> 00:02:54.280 term human only because I stuck around long enough to 29 00:02:54.319 --> 00:02:58.000 find out for sure. He was about six feet and 30 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:02.599 well dressed in a dark gray overcoat, but his face 31 00:03:02.719 --> 00:03:06.639 raised goosebumps from my argiles to my haircut. It was 32 00:03:06.680 --> 00:03:10.960 as dark gray as his overcoat, his whole face, his eyes, 33 00:03:11.360 --> 00:03:15.240 his lips, and when he spoke, even his tongue. 34 00:03:16.599 --> 00:03:17.439 Mister diamond. 35 00:03:18.080 --> 00:03:21.919 Yeah. 36 00:03:22.039 --> 00:03:24.639 I want you to find the man, and I want 37 00:03:24.639 --> 00:03:26.680 you to find him in the next five hours. 38 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:32.199 He didn't sit on He just stood there facing me 39 00:03:32.319 --> 00:03:35.919 like a bad dream. I pushed the chair back and 40 00:03:36.039 --> 00:03:38.759 got up, as though I had to be standing to 41 00:03:38.840 --> 00:03:40.599 protect myself from what was coming. 42 00:03:42.199 --> 00:03:42.520 The man. 43 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:43.479 I want you to find. 44 00:03:43.520 --> 00:03:44.680 His name Carnes. 45 00:03:45.479 --> 00:03:47.360 He's a science teacher at State College. 46 00:03:47.759 --> 00:03:48.360 Is he missing? 47 00:03:48.960 --> 00:03:50.080 Would I want him located? 48 00:03:50.120 --> 00:03:52.360 If he wasn't would I have asked you if I'd 49 00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:53.159 known the answer to that? 50 00:03:54.120 --> 00:03:55.879 How much is your fee, mister diamond? 51 00:03:56.319 --> 00:03:58.280 When I know what I'm getting into one hundred a 52 00:03:58.360 --> 00:04:01.879 day in expenses. 53 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:04.319 Five hundred, find Lewis Kahans in five hours, and you 54 00:04:04.360 --> 00:04:05.439 get another five hundred. 55 00:04:06.680 --> 00:04:09.000 Does it matter if you know what you're getting into. 56 00:04:09.319 --> 00:04:12.680 I never go waiting if there's quicksand around, not even 57 00:04:12.719 --> 00:04:16.000 for a thousand dollars. I never like to count money 58 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:17.000 when I'm suffocating. 59 00:04:17.519 --> 00:04:21.680 You only have to find Lewis Khans. I guarantee you 60 00:04:21.759 --> 00:04:22.399 live through. 61 00:04:22.199 --> 00:04:24.959 It, and after I find him, you. 62 00:04:24.920 --> 00:04:26.839 Can spend your thousand and forget about it. 63 00:04:27.439 --> 00:04:28.480 Why do you want him found? 64 00:04:29.519 --> 00:04:32.639 I owe him a debt, I want to pay him. 65 00:04:33.199 --> 00:04:34.759 And why do I have to find him in the 66 00:04:34.759 --> 00:04:35.759 next five hours? 67 00:04:36.680 --> 00:04:40.319 Because that's how long I've got to live. 68 00:04:47.560 --> 00:04:53.360 Interesting situation, you bet, And that thousand made it about 69 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:57.120 as interesting as situations I'd ever gotten into. I couldn't 70 00:04:57.120 --> 00:05:00.839 take my eyes off of him standing there grays an 71 00:05:00.879 --> 00:05:05.040 early morning ghost. I wanted to ask him about his color. 72 00:05:06.079 --> 00:05:08.399 But in a business like mine, if a client comes 73 00:05:08.399 --> 00:05:11.639 in writing a purple lama, you greet him like everybody 74 00:05:11.720 --> 00:05:15.240 rides purple lamas and keep your mouth shut. He handed 75 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:17.120 me the five hundred dollars in a card with his 76 00:05:17.199 --> 00:05:21.680 business address on it, Roger Vegas, sixty four West one 77 00:05:22.040 --> 00:05:27.240 and tenth Studio of Modern Photography. He backed up two steps, 78 00:05:27.879 --> 00:05:31.399 smiled a slow, dead smile, turned and walked out of 79 00:05:31.399 --> 00:05:33.639 the office like he was going to look at his 80 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:39.879 own gray. I sat back down and thought about it 81 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:42.439 for a while, and the little voice in the back 82 00:05:42.480 --> 00:05:44.319 of my head kept whispering. 83 00:05:43.959 --> 00:05:48.079 Don't do it, Diamond, don't do it, Diamond, don't do it, Diamond. 84 00:05:48.120 --> 00:05:51.920 Oh, shut up, you'll be sorry. What about the thousand dollars? 85 00:05:52.120 --> 00:05:57.360 It'll buy a nice sure wall peasant. 86 00:06:11.759 --> 00:06:15.240 Whoa, if the ain't Richard Diamond, the over stuffed flat foot. 87 00:06:15.639 --> 00:06:18.600 Well, if it ain't Sergeant Odors, the over stuffed flathead. 88 00:06:18.759 --> 00:06:21.920 Oh someday you'll be sorry. 89 00:06:22.040 --> 00:06:24.680 Well everybody is sooner or later. Think about your poor 90 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:27.480 mother must have gone through that ain't funny. I bet 91 00:06:27.480 --> 00:06:28.680 your father didn't think so either. 92 00:06:28.839 --> 00:06:30.240 Oh. 93 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:33.279 Oh, Rick still picking on him? 94 00:06:33.560 --> 00:06:35.879 Uh, he'll be picked on until somebody plucks off that 95 00:06:35.920 --> 00:06:36.360 other head. 96 00:06:36.680 --> 00:06:37.240 What's up? 97 00:06:37.839 --> 00:06:40.920 Walda wants some information? If I can history on a 98 00:06:40.959 --> 00:06:45.040 fellow named Roger Vegas. Here's his kind, also, mister Lewis 99 00:06:45.120 --> 00:06:47.399 Kahn's science professor at State College. 100 00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:49.279 I'll try. What's it all about? 101 00:06:49.600 --> 00:06:52.560 Roger Vegas wants me to fine this Lewis Cohnes wants 102 00:06:52.560 --> 00:06:53.519 to pay back a debt. 103 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:54.879 What's unusual about that? 104 00:06:55.160 --> 00:06:58.040 I don't know. Oh, but you should see Roger Vegas. 105 00:06:58.439 --> 00:07:00.759 He'd scare you right into a dozen more ulcers. 106 00:07:00.959 --> 00:07:03.160 I doubt it, no room for anymore. 107 00:07:03.160 --> 00:07:05.639 The ones you've got would hide. You should see this 108 00:07:05.720 --> 00:07:08.800 guy wall his face, His hands are duc gray. 109 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:10.720 What about the rest of them? 110 00:07:11.160 --> 00:07:11.279 Now? 111 00:07:11.279 --> 00:07:12.839 Wouldn't you know enough? I got to ask him to 112 00:07:12.839 --> 00:07:13.639 take his clothes off. 113 00:07:14.279 --> 00:07:15.000 Very funny. 114 00:07:15.480 --> 00:07:16.040 What do you mean? 115 00:07:16.040 --> 00:07:16.560 He's gray? 116 00:07:16.879 --> 00:07:19.639 That's just what he is. Even his eyes, not just 117 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:22.120 the pupil, but the whole eye, the whole eye up. 118 00:07:22.639 --> 00:07:25.000 If he raised his collar, he could stick out his tongue, 119 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:26.399 put a tie pin on it, and wear it with 120 00:07:26.439 --> 00:07:29.519 a dark blue suit. His tongue too, give it, his fingernails, 121 00:07:29.519 --> 00:07:30.160 his gums. 122 00:07:30.279 --> 00:07:31.920 I suppose his hair is plaid. 123 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:35.360 Okay, okay, but if you ever run into this guy 124 00:07:35.399 --> 00:07:37.199 in a die alley gets set the faint. 125 00:07:37.319 --> 00:07:38.959 Well, see what I can find out about him. 126 00:07:38.959 --> 00:07:41.279 I've got to have the information pretty fast. I only 127 00:07:41.319 --> 00:07:43.079 got four and a half hours to find those comes. 128 00:07:43.160 --> 00:07:45.920 I'll come because Roger Vegas has only got that long 129 00:07:45.959 --> 00:07:50.040 to live. Rick, That's what he told me. 130 00:07:50.319 --> 00:07:52.759 A guy with a gray face comes into your office, 131 00:07:52.879 --> 00:07:54.839 wants you to find another guy and tells you you 132 00:07:54.879 --> 00:07:56.560 gotta find him in the next four and a half 133 00:07:56.600 --> 00:07:58.079 hours because. 134 00:07:57.720 --> 00:07:58.759 He's gonna die. 135 00:07:59.199 --> 00:07:59.959 Who's gonna die? 136 00:08:00.199 --> 00:08:01.480 The guy with the gray face. 137 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:04.000 You didn't say that. You said, got to find the 138 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:05.600 guy in the next four and a half hours because 139 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:06.439 he's going to die. 140 00:08:06.480 --> 00:08:07.680 Oh you know what I meant. 141 00:08:08.040 --> 00:08:09.800 No, No, they just gave me five hours. 142 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:10.920 You said four and a half. 143 00:08:11.040 --> 00:08:13.399 That was a half an hour ago. Oh well, I'm 144 00:08:13.399 --> 00:08:14.160 wasting my time. 145 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:16.040 I've got to find him, the man with the gray face. 146 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:19.600 No, the science professor. While you're getting pretty confused, I'll 147 00:08:19.600 --> 00:08:28.279 see you later, huh. I left the fifth Precinct, grabbed 148 00:08:28.319 --> 00:08:30.439 a cab, and twenty minutes later I was walking across 149 00:08:30.480 --> 00:08:34.120 the campus of State College. Being Saturday, the big school 150 00:08:34.200 --> 00:08:36.559 was quiet and impressive as it stretched out over a 151 00:08:36.600 --> 00:08:40.600 dozen acres of snow covered grounds. I located the administration 152 00:08:40.679 --> 00:08:44.039 building and found one lonely student working in the main office. 153 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:53.960 I am mm hmmm, yes, oh, good afternoon. 154 00:08:53.799 --> 00:08:54.639 That might be. 155 00:08:55.799 --> 00:08:59.399 Can I do something for you? Well, yes, I'm looking 156 00:08:59.399 --> 00:09:01.480 for professors. 157 00:09:01.559 --> 00:09:01.919 M hm. 158 00:09:02.200 --> 00:09:04.200 He's in the science department, isn't he. 159 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:07.960 Professor hasn't been on campus since last Thursday. Faculty's been 160 00:09:08.039 --> 00:09:08.679 rather worried. 161 00:09:08.879 --> 00:09:10.440 You don't know where I could find him? 162 00:09:10.759 --> 00:09:12.799 No, but I'm through here in half an hour. I 163 00:09:12.840 --> 00:09:13.399 could help you. 164 00:09:13.480 --> 00:09:16.200 Look, I bet you could. You know where the professor 165 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:18.879 lives sun file. Well, why don't you be a good 166 00:09:18.919 --> 00:09:22.559 little freshman a junior and get me his address from 167 00:09:22.600 --> 00:09:23.039 that file? 168 00:09:23.360 --> 00:09:25.879 Because it's more fun not being a good little junior, 169 00:09:26.200 --> 00:09:27.720 and the college has certain rules. 170 00:09:27.879 --> 00:09:30.279 We'll then be a bad little junior and break the rules. 171 00:09:30.440 --> 00:09:32.440 I'm off in half an hour, might. 172 00:09:32.320 --> 00:09:34.879 Be able to Then I've got to find a science 173 00:09:34.960 --> 00:09:37.840 professor there. Until I do, I'm afraid I'll have to 174 00:09:37.879 --> 00:09:41.200 pass the extension course in biology. And if you find 175 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:43.159 the professor, we'll talk about it. 176 00:09:43.799 --> 00:09:45.120 I'm in here every afternoon. 177 00:09:46.440 --> 00:09:49.039 College hasn't changed a bit since my days. Just jumped 178 00:09:49.039 --> 00:09:58.200 into second gear. The cute little junior walked her sweater 179 00:09:58.240 --> 00:10:00.919 and saddle shoes over to a long and came back 180 00:10:00.919 --> 00:10:04.960 with Professor Kahn's home addess. I thanked her, promised she 181 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:07.480 could wear my gold badge if she passed lunch hour, 182 00:10:07.519 --> 00:10:10.759 and took my cab back to town. At the professor's house, 183 00:10:10.759 --> 00:10:14.879 I met his sister, an elderly lady named Drusilla, who 184 00:10:14.919 --> 00:10:17.279 reminded me of my math teacher at p s fourteen. 185 00:10:17.799 --> 00:10:21.440 I haven't seen my brother since Friday morning, mister Diamond. 186 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:23.080 And you have no idea where I can find him. 187 00:10:23.240 --> 00:10:26.120 No, why do you want to find him? 188 00:10:26.399 --> 00:10:30.279 Well, I I'm a private detective, miss Cannes. I was 189 00:10:30.360 --> 00:10:35.000 hired by a man named Vegas. Oh you know him, I. 190 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:39.200 Most certainly do. Did he hire you to find my brother? 191 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:40.080 That's right. 192 00:10:41.080 --> 00:10:46.440 He's not a good man, mister Diamond. I believe he's 193 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:48.159 the reason my brother disappeared. 194 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:49.759 Maybe you better tell me about him. 195 00:10:50.960 --> 00:10:54.000 My brother married a girl many years younger than himself, 196 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:58.039 and unfortunately it was not a good marriage. Did this 197 00:10:58.159 --> 00:10:59.960 Vegas person mention my brother's wife. 198 00:11:00.519 --> 00:11:02.399 No, he just told me he wanted to find the 199 00:11:02.399 --> 00:11:05.480 professor in order to pay him a debt. A debt, 200 00:11:05.879 --> 00:11:06.679 that's what he said. 201 00:11:07.879 --> 00:11:11.679 Watch out for that man, mister Dammond. He broke up 202 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:12.879 my brother's marriage. 203 00:11:13.519 --> 00:11:16.159 Well, maybe i'd better talk to your brother's wife. 204 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:20.519 That would be impossible. My brother's wife killed herself. 205 00:11:22.120 --> 00:11:24.399 Oh well, that's too bad. 206 00:11:24.519 --> 00:11:27.120 My brother and I believe she killed herself because of 207 00:11:27.159 --> 00:11:30.519 that man bagers. My brother found out they were seeing 208 00:11:30.559 --> 00:11:33.000 each other. When he begged to stop, she said that 209 00:11:33.039 --> 00:11:36.679 it was impossible and refused to give a reason. A 210 00:11:36.679 --> 00:11:38.039 week later, she killed herself. 211 00:11:38.519 --> 00:11:40.039 Have you ever seen mister veggas? 212 00:11:40.200 --> 00:11:40.600 No wife? 213 00:11:40.720 --> 00:11:42.440 Not why? 214 00:11:42.840 --> 00:11:44.919 I was just wondering why any woman would go for 215 00:11:45.000 --> 00:11:54.759 a man like him, unless she like ghosts. I left 216 00:11:54.840 --> 00:11:57.639 Drusilla cons and looked at my watch. It was three 217 00:11:57.679 --> 00:11:59.799 o'clock and I had only two hours left to find 218 00:11:59.799 --> 00:12:03.039 the professor earned my thousand dollars. On the way to 219 00:12:03.080 --> 00:12:06.000 the nearest phone booth. I thought about the case and 220 00:12:06.120 --> 00:12:08.240 wondered if the thousand dollars would be worth in the 221 00:12:08.279 --> 00:12:11.759 long run. I watched part of my last five bucks 222 00:12:11.799 --> 00:12:13.519 dropping the phone and decided. 223 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:15.919 It was Levinson homicide. 224 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:18.120 Diamond wal I want to know about suicide. 225 00:12:18.279 --> 00:12:19.200 Otis won't do it? 226 00:12:19.720 --> 00:12:21.559 Uh, Professor Kahn's wife. 227 00:12:21.440 --> 00:12:22.000 I thought, so. 228 00:12:22.679 --> 00:12:25.240 I checked for you on Vegas and the professor. The 229 00:12:25.279 --> 00:12:27.960 Professor's wife jumped off a building five days ago. 230 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:30.559 What did you find out about Vegas and the professor? 231 00:12:30.720 --> 00:12:31.240 Not much? 232 00:12:31.879 --> 00:12:34.559 At the inquest, the professor accused Vegas of breaking up 233 00:12:34.600 --> 00:12:37.600 his home and driving his wife to suicide. He the 234 00:12:37.679 --> 00:12:41.399 man's got a record. Vegas is a professional photographer, and 235 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:43.679 the professor has been teaching at state College for the 236 00:12:43.720 --> 00:12:46.559 past eleven years. I talked with some of the men 237 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:49.799 at the inquest, and they remembered Vegas. They all say 238 00:12:49.840 --> 00:12:51.240 his skin looked pretty healthy. 239 00:12:51.000 --> 00:12:51.440 At the time. 240 00:12:51.639 --> 00:12:54.120 Do me a favor, Walt, check with the coroner and 241 00:12:54.120 --> 00:12:56.600 find out what would turn a man's skin that color? 242 00:12:56.879 --> 00:12:58.759 Sure can he leads on the professor. 243 00:12:58.840 --> 00:13:01.039 Yet, no nobody got a hunt. I just left his 244 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:03.919 sisters and she doesn't seem at all worried about her 245 00:13:03.960 --> 00:13:07.320 brother's disappearance. So so if she isn't worried, there's a 246 00:13:07.320 --> 00:13:08.840 good chance she knows he's all right. 247 00:13:08.960 --> 00:13:11.000 And if she knows he's all right, she might know 248 00:13:11.159 --> 00:13:11.679 where he is. 249 00:13:12.080 --> 00:13:15.039 Oh, no, wonder they made you a lieutenant Walls. You 250 00:13:15.159 --> 00:13:17.080 keep thinking like that and someday you might even take 251 00:13:17.080 --> 00:13:26.039 over for size and notice by I left the phone 252 00:13:26.039 --> 00:13:29.519 booth and walked back toward Rusilla Kahin's house. I staked 253 00:13:29.559 --> 00:13:31.879 myself out across the street in the corner gas station 254 00:13:32.000 --> 00:13:35.440 and warned my blue little ears inside while I waited 255 00:13:35.440 --> 00:13:38.519 for the good Drusilla to contact her brother. I was 256 00:13:38.559 --> 00:13:42.720 just guessing, but it worked. Ten minutes later, Drusilla, dressed 257 00:13:42.720 --> 00:13:44.600 in a heavy fur coat that looked like it should 258 00:13:44.600 --> 00:13:47.000 be out on the river building a dam, walked out 259 00:13:47.000 --> 00:13:50.000 of her house and hailed a cab. I hailed one too, 260 00:13:50.360 --> 00:13:53.440 and followed. Fifteen minutes later, I was back on the 261 00:13:53.440 --> 00:13:57.039 campus of State College. I watched her get out, walk 262 00:13:57.120 --> 00:13:59.960 around back of one of the buildings, knock on a door. 263 00:14:00.799 --> 00:14:04.000 She waited until someone opened it, and then she disappeared inside. 264 00:14:05.039 --> 00:14:07.960 I tried the door, but it was locked again, so 265 00:14:08.159 --> 00:14:11.320 I toured the building. The front door was locked too. 266 00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:15.960 I set to work trying to pick the lock. I 267 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:20.159 broke a boy scout knife, half a dozen fingernails, and 268 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:23.320 several bobby pins that, for some strange reason, had found 269 00:14:23.360 --> 00:14:26.279 their way into my coat pocket. So I did the 270 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:28.879 next best thing. I went back to the door that 271 00:14:28.960 --> 00:14:33.720 Drusilla had entered earlier and waited. Five frozen minutes later, 272 00:14:34.320 --> 00:14:37.559 the door opened and I stood there facing Drusilla, while 273 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:41.799 her look melted every icicle within ten feet. Standing directly 274 00:14:41.840 --> 00:14:45.519 behind her was a small man, his breath showing clearly 275 00:14:45.519 --> 00:14:47.879 against the cold air coming in short gaps. 276 00:14:48.279 --> 00:14:50.360 Drusilla, it's all right, Louis. 277 00:14:51.399 --> 00:14:52.200 What do you want? 278 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:53.039 Mister Hammond? 279 00:14:53.360 --> 00:14:56.639 Nothing now, Miss Cohnes, I've found it is that the 280 00:14:56.720 --> 00:14:57.919 man Drusilla. 281 00:14:58.120 --> 00:15:02.279 Yes, is a detective. Vegas hired him. 282 00:15:02.519 --> 00:15:05.679 It's all right, Drisilla. If Vegas wants to find me, 283 00:15:06.279 --> 00:15:09.799 I'm tired of hiding. Tell Vegas that I'll be waiting here. 284 00:15:09.879 --> 00:15:12.600 Young man Lewis you know what he'll do. 285 00:15:12.840 --> 00:15:15.720 It's all right. Vegas knows he's only got a few 286 00:15:15.759 --> 00:15:16.360 hours left. 287 00:15:16.879 --> 00:15:19.200 Has that strange color of his skin got something to 288 00:15:19.240 --> 00:15:24.879 do with him? Yes? Have you seen him since the inquest? Professor? No, 289 00:15:25.960 --> 00:15:29.080 that's funny. How did you know about his skin and 290 00:15:29.120 --> 00:15:31.159 that he only has a few hours left to live? 291 00:15:35.720 --> 00:15:40.919 And now back to Richard Diamond Private Detective starring Dick Powell. 292 00:15:47.879 --> 00:15:50.480 Well, I'd found the professor and the thousand dollars was 293 00:15:50.480 --> 00:15:53.360 close to being mine. All I had to do was 294 00:15:53.399 --> 00:15:57.200 notify Vegas and collect. Even the professor guaranteed to help 295 00:15:57.240 --> 00:16:00.840 by staying and waiting for Vegas, but something was wrong. 296 00:16:02.200 --> 00:16:05.000 Standing there in the snow, looking at the timid professor, 297 00:16:06.120 --> 00:16:09.759 something began to smell the high heaven. I turned and 298 00:16:09.799 --> 00:16:13.559 walked away. Even if the professor was going to run, 299 00:16:13.639 --> 00:16:16.840 what was I supposed to do? Carry him piggyback until 300 00:16:16.879 --> 00:16:21.879 I located my dying client. The thousand was important, but 301 00:16:21.960 --> 00:16:23.519 there was a lot more that had to be solved. 302 00:16:23.519 --> 00:16:26.440 In a hurry, I went back to town and over 303 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:33.720 to the photography shop run by Roger Vegas. Just something, 304 00:16:35.279 --> 00:16:35.840 what's the matter? 305 00:16:36.320 --> 00:16:37.879 Huh? Oh? 306 00:16:38.279 --> 00:16:38.600 Nothing? 307 00:16:39.480 --> 00:16:41.080 Nothing? Can I do something for him? 308 00:16:41.320 --> 00:16:42.879 I'm looking for Roger Vegas. 309 00:16:43.279 --> 00:16:47.320 Oh, he ain't in, and I see you simplas. 310 00:16:46.919 --> 00:16:50.200 You might have. I move around. Where can I find Vegas? 311 00:16:50.279 --> 00:16:53.000 He ain't here, I know he ain't. Where can I 312 00:16:53.000 --> 00:16:53.480 find him? 313 00:16:53.679 --> 00:16:53.919 Oh? 314 00:16:53.960 --> 00:16:56.879 I guess that would be somewhere in New York. 315 00:16:56.960 --> 00:17:01.080 Huh Hi, I supposed to give out the dress? Who 316 00:17:01.159 --> 00:17:01.639 wants him? 317 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:04.200 I do? And I ain't supposed to give out the name? 318 00:17:04.880 --> 00:17:07.400 You're pretty shop jop guy. 319 00:17:07.720 --> 00:17:12.039 Dound to call Richard Diamond. Rich Richard Diamond. My family 320 00:17:12.039 --> 00:17:14.880 thought it up. Okay, you know me now? 321 00:17:15.319 --> 00:17:17.400 No, No, I was mistaken. 322 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:21.039 Well, I'm surprised. I sent you to sing sing ten 323 00:17:21.119 --> 00:17:22.319 years ago. 324 00:17:32.720 --> 00:17:34.200 The professor's hiding in the school. 325 00:17:34.279 --> 00:17:36.599 That's right, Walt, in the basement of the science building. 326 00:17:36.640 --> 00:17:39.200 I just left Roger Vegas's photography shop. And guess who 327 00:17:39.279 --> 00:17:39.839 was working there? 328 00:17:39.920 --> 00:17:40.279 Who? 329 00:17:40.960 --> 00:17:41.640 George Young? 330 00:17:41.720 --> 00:17:44.160 Well Young, Well, the guy you sent up on that 331 00:17:44.240 --> 00:17:45.160 blackmail wrap. 332 00:17:45.079 --> 00:17:45.759 Ten years ago. 333 00:17:46.119 --> 00:17:47.799 Well, I knew he was out, but I haven't heard 334 00:17:47.799 --> 00:17:49.240 anything about him in a couple of years. 335 00:17:49.279 --> 00:17:50.720 Well, he's working for Vegas. 336 00:17:51.119 --> 00:17:52.559 Must be keeping his nose clean. 337 00:17:52.839 --> 00:17:55.160 Oh, I've seen cleaner noses on pigs. 338 00:17:55.680 --> 00:17:58.960 Somebody want me, no, what is it? Your melon head? 339 00:18:00.119 --> 00:18:02.880 She don't yell at me like that. I got something 340 00:18:02.920 --> 00:18:04.319 maron Roger Vegas. 341 00:18:04.599 --> 00:18:06.400 Well you want to hand it to me? Or would 342 00:18:06.400 --> 00:18:08.200 you just like to stand there and throw it? 343 00:18:08.640 --> 00:18:13.599 Oh? She always should stay away from Diamond. Every time 344 00:18:13.599 --> 00:18:15.279 you see him, you get manor and maner. 345 00:18:15.400 --> 00:18:17.359 Come on, come on, what do you got here? 346 00:18:18.160 --> 00:18:20.400 Ain't nothing much robbery detail? Come up with it. 347 00:18:22.319 --> 00:18:24.880 That photography shop was broken into this morning. 348 00:18:24.960 --> 00:18:28.240 Rick Burglary got some prince on the windows. 349 00:18:28.279 --> 00:18:30.440 Belong to some guy named Cahns. Carns. 350 00:18:30.559 --> 00:18:34.519 Yeah, says here, checked prince with State License Bureau. Prince 351 00:18:34.559 --> 00:18:38.279 belonged to one Lewis Khnes, Professor of science at State College. 352 00:18:38.720 --> 00:18:42.640 I'll see you later, Rick, Yeah, I nearly forgot. 353 00:18:43.480 --> 00:18:46.039 I checked with the corner. Told him about the color 354 00:18:46.039 --> 00:18:49.119 of Vegas's skin. He said that it could only be 355 00:18:49.119 --> 00:18:52.480 caused by a strong dose of silver salts silver sauce 356 00:18:52.680 --> 00:18:57.720 poisoning known as perinea p y r I n ni. 357 00:18:57.400 --> 00:19:01.640 A silver sauce. They used that in the photography shop. 358 00:19:01.880 --> 00:19:03.880 Carna said, a man that'd have to drink about thirty 359 00:19:03.920 --> 00:19:05.599 grains for a fatal dosage. 360 00:19:06.240 --> 00:19:07.400 That's quite a bit m M. 361 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:08.720 Can you tell you how long he'd live? 362 00:19:09.079 --> 00:19:12.319 Yeah, anywhere from six to eight hours, according to the dosage. 363 00:19:12.880 --> 00:19:15.839 First the victim turns gray, then green. 364 00:19:17.000 --> 00:19:19.599 About what time was that photography shop broken into a wall? 365 00:19:20.480 --> 00:19:24.799 Oh, sometime before nine this morning, before they opened up. Thanks, 366 00:19:25.480 --> 00:19:26.039 where are you going? 367 00:19:26.240 --> 00:19:28.599 I'm gonna talk to George Young well and then find 368 00:19:28.599 --> 00:19:30.920 out if my gray client has turned green yet. 369 00:19:44.799 --> 00:19:47.960 Hello George, I told him Diamond. I told him you 370 00:19:47.960 --> 00:19:49.359 wanted to see him. He said he was going over 371 00:19:49.400 --> 00:19:49.839 to your office. 372 00:19:49.839 --> 00:19:51.640 Oh, facts, Look, what. 373 00:19:51.599 --> 00:19:52.559 Are you looking at me like that? 374 00:19:52.640 --> 00:19:52.799 For? 375 00:19:52.920 --> 00:19:56.480 I'm going straight now. I got a good job, see legit. 376 00:19:56.599 --> 00:19:57.480 I don't want no trouble. 377 00:19:57.519 --> 00:19:58.160 I don't blame you. 378 00:19:58.400 --> 00:20:00.799 Okay, mister Vegas has gone over your place. Why don't 379 00:20:00.839 --> 00:20:01.480 you go meet him? 380 00:20:01.519 --> 00:20:02.480 Huh, plenty of time. 381 00:20:02.839 --> 00:20:03.839 Look, he's in a hurry. 382 00:20:03.839 --> 00:20:05.519 He's got a big trouble and he's got to take 383 00:20:05.519 --> 00:20:06.240 care of it in the hurry. 384 00:20:06.319 --> 00:20:07.720 Yeah, I know, he's got about an hour. 385 00:20:07.880 --> 00:20:09.920 Well, go on, go on. He paid it in me. 386 00:20:10.079 --> 00:20:11.759 What do you do around here, George? 387 00:20:11.920 --> 00:20:14.920 I listen, listen, you wh know my rights. I'm clean. 388 00:20:15.440 --> 00:20:16.960 I don't know what you're trying to approve, but I 389 00:20:17.000 --> 00:20:18.680 don't buy none of it. Now, get out of here. 390 00:20:18.759 --> 00:20:19.720 I'll call a straight cop. 391 00:20:19.759 --> 00:20:21.880 You know why Vegas is going to die in an hour? George? 392 00:20:21.960 --> 00:20:22.440 Yeah? 393 00:20:22.519 --> 00:20:24.799 No, no I don't. If I did, I don't have 394 00:20:24.880 --> 00:20:26.319 to tell you nothing nothing. 395 00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:26.680 See. 396 00:20:26.720 --> 00:20:28.799 Maybe you know why he wants to find the professor. No, 397 00:20:29.000 --> 00:20:31.279 maybe you knew the professor's wife. No, maybe you know 398 00:20:31.319 --> 00:20:32.119 why she got killed? 399 00:20:32.200 --> 00:20:35.119 No, no, no, get out of here, time and get out. 400 00:20:35.440 --> 00:20:36.839 I'm clean. I'm legit now. 401 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:38.119