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I should mention 25 00:02:04.480 --> 00:02:07.319 that not Beat is entering kind of a dead zone 26 00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:11.719 where lost episodes really mean. We don't have very many 27 00:02:11.879 --> 00:02:16.400 episodes from this era. Between the fiftieth and ninety second 28 00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:19.879 episodes of not Beat, we have a grand total of 29 00:02:20.039 --> 00:02:24.159 four episodes that are available, so more than ninety percent missing. 30 00:02:24.360 --> 00:02:27.960 This one aired only five weeks after the previous one. 31 00:02:28.360 --> 00:02:31.719 The original air date on it is August the seventeenth 32 00:02:31.719 --> 00:02:35.639 of nineteen fifty one, and the title is they. 33 00:02:37.520 --> 00:02:40.360 NBC presents Frank Lovejoy in. 34 00:02:44.479 --> 00:03:04.719 Night Hi, this is Randy Stone. I cover the Nightbeat 35 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:08.599 for the Chicago Star only tonight. It was too hot 36 00:03:08.639 --> 00:03:12.120 to cover anything, and I mean anything. It was too 37 00:03:12.120 --> 00:03:17.120 hot for wife killings, ganglin murders and such nonsense. Nobody 38 00:03:17.120 --> 00:03:19.680 had energy for much more than the wave of soggy 39 00:03:19.719 --> 00:03:23.080 newspaper back and forth in front of his face. And 40 00:03:23.159 --> 00:03:27.000 the standard reply to the standard question what's cooking? Was 41 00:03:27.080 --> 00:03:32.039 a dull me around ten o'clock with no story inside. 42 00:03:32.080 --> 00:03:34.680 I checked in with the office and the switchbird girl 43 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:37.960 sounded like the last rows of last summer, but she 44 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:40.759 managed to inform me that mister Baker, the night editor, 45 00:03:40.800 --> 00:03:44.439 wanted words with me. As she wearily connected me, I 46 00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:47.120 dug out my handkerchief and blotted the back of my neck. 47 00:03:48.280 --> 00:03:50.560 It's dom yeah, climbing year. 48 00:03:50.479 --> 00:03:52.719 Old Gillappia, and take her right out to the insane. 49 00:03:52.319 --> 00:03:54.159 Asylum and they got air conditioning. 50 00:03:54.280 --> 00:03:55.120 Oh, I'm serious. 51 00:03:55.240 --> 00:03:57.080 Is a report that a half a dozen police cars 52 00:03:57.080 --> 00:03:58.159 are parking at the entrance. 53 00:03:58.360 --> 00:04:00.680 I called a check, but the switchboard doesn't answer. Beat 54 00:04:00.719 --> 00:04:05.560 it up there, Randy. 55 00:04:06.680 --> 00:04:09.120 I headed for the outskirts of town, and soon I 56 00:04:09.240 --> 00:04:13.159 was approaching my destination. I guess the way the world's 57 00:04:13.199 --> 00:04:15.439 been spinning around, a lot of people are getting lost 58 00:04:15.479 --> 00:04:19.319 in the fog. Because this place was really big. Half 59 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:23.000 a dozen huge buildings spread out across acres of greenland, 60 00:04:23.040 --> 00:04:25.600 and a mighty high fence running all the way around. 61 00:04:26.839 --> 00:04:29.160 But even while I was still blocks away, I knew 62 00:04:29.160 --> 00:04:33.240 something was wrong because though it was only around ten o'clock, 63 00:04:33.639 --> 00:04:37.600 in all those buildings there wasn't one light burning. I 64 00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:40.240 drove up to the gate, and yet they were police cars, 65 00:04:40.279 --> 00:04:43.160 and the police sergeant with the red flashlight signaled me 66 00:04:43.199 --> 00:04:43.720 to was stuck. 67 00:04:44.240 --> 00:04:45.680 What's your business, cousin. 68 00:04:45.920 --> 00:04:48.000 I'm a newspaper man, Randy Stone of a star. 69 00:04:48.279 --> 00:04:52.040 They're not buying any newspapers tonight. Got all the newspapers 70 00:04:52.079 --> 00:04:53.360 they need. All fine. 71 00:04:53.439 --> 00:04:55.560 Now you and your flashlights step aside. 72 00:04:55.680 --> 00:04:56.319 Now go on in. 73 00:04:56.560 --> 00:05:00.639 No one goes in, no one goes out orders, and 74 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:04.160 you get on that gate phone, cousin, until the superintendent 75 00:05:04.199 --> 00:05:06.319 the press is pounding at the walls. And if I 76 00:05:06.399 --> 00:05:08.560 don't get in, I'm going back to town and invent 77 00:05:08.639 --> 00:05:12.600 a story. When I start inventing, sometimes I just never stop. Well, 78 00:05:12.879 --> 00:05:19.920 go ahead, cousin. When the sarge hung up the phone, 79 00:05:19.959 --> 00:05:21.879 he swung open the gates and waved me in with 80 00:05:21.959 --> 00:05:24.279 his pretty red flashlight, saying that I was to go 81 00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:28.160 right onto the administration building. As I drove up the 82 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:31.199 curved roadway, I saw little shafts of light moving through 83 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:34.279 the darkness all over the place, but still no lights 84 00:05:34.399 --> 00:05:38.319 anyplace else. I parked in front of the administration building 85 00:05:38.439 --> 00:05:41.519 and was met by a man also carrying a flashlight. 86 00:05:42.800 --> 00:05:45.800 That man, this is my name, a public relations officer. 87 00:05:45.959 --> 00:05:49.000 Oh what's going on here? It is rather embarrassing. You know, 88 00:05:49.279 --> 00:05:51.360 I'm quite sure they'll find him in a minute. Now 89 00:05:51.920 --> 00:05:54.839 find who The superintendent thinks it would be best if 90 00:05:54.839 --> 00:06:03.920 you talk to Fugati. Oh this week rising here the 91 00:06:03.959 --> 00:06:08.800 first age room. Easy, easy, easy with this chapter. Having 92 00:06:08.839 --> 00:06:12.759 his head bandaged. This is mister Stone, a newspaper reports, 93 00:06:13.240 --> 00:06:16.399 But I thought, well, the superintendent feels it's pointless to 94 00:06:16.399 --> 00:06:18.079 try and hide the facts in the longer. 95 00:06:19.360 --> 00:06:21.120 They caught Captain Bob, yet they. 96 00:06:21.000 --> 00:06:23.079 Expect you in a moment. I take it one of 97 00:06:23.079 --> 00:06:25.839 the inmates is escape. No, no, not really, he's still 98 00:06:25.879 --> 00:06:29.360 on the grounds. That's what we don't want. No alarming 99 00:06:29.439 --> 00:06:31.120 story about an escaped maniac. 100 00:06:31.399 --> 00:06:36.439 Maniac. Yeah a doc doc easy with a bandage, harder 101 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:41.879 work with just a flashlight. Yeah, Captain Bob. That kills me, 102 00:06:41.959 --> 00:06:45.079 absolutely kills me. He's the artificial mayor of this place, 103 00:06:45.120 --> 00:06:48.959 a real veteran. Once he even applied by hash marks 104 00:06:48.959 --> 00:06:52.519 and service stars. And then the blow is top like this, 105 00:06:53.240 --> 00:06:58.519 easy doc man. Almost a huge man with a mind 106 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:01.360 of a child, A gentle giant. 107 00:07:01.439 --> 00:07:05.680 You might say, gentle what caused he blow up? 108 00:07:05.879 --> 00:07:09.519 What caused it? Yeah, that's a reasonable question. We took 109 00:07:09.560 --> 00:07:13.639 away his brown sugar, his witch. He kept it in 110 00:07:13.639 --> 00:07:16.920 his foot locker for his oatmeal. Well, they were afraid 111 00:07:16.959 --> 00:07:19.439 of roaches, you know, so they kept asking him to 112 00:07:19.519 --> 00:07:22.759 turn it in Today. They got tired of him ignoring him, 113 00:07:23.000 --> 00:07:33.920 so they sent me around. He was all by himself 114 00:07:33.959 --> 00:07:37.639 in a warden, this giant of a man, sitting on 115 00:07:37.680 --> 00:07:40.399 his bed and his gym shoes and his red bathroom. 116 00:07:44.040 --> 00:07:48.839 Captain Bob, Captain Bob. 117 00:07:51.439 --> 00:07:51.759 Brow. 118 00:07:55.319 --> 00:07:58.759 That was splendid. That was splendid. Wasn't that splendid? Fog Yeah? 119 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:01.680 Sure you know what? All in the diaphragm. It's right 120 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:05.360 down here, the diaphragm, you see. Hell, how many times 121 00:08:05.360 --> 00:08:09.519 did I tell him, Enrico, if you only breathe properly 122 00:08:09.639 --> 00:08:12.360 and forgot the chicken, open your foot lock a, captain, 123 00:08:14.079 --> 00:08:22.519 And why the brown sugar? It's gotta go? Oh jurns okay, swoot, 124 00:08:23.399 --> 00:08:31.639 okay it myself, hold it? Dono's the lid? Oh goodbye, 125 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:36.960 mister fogerty. Look I got my orders. Just stop that racket, 126 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:39.440 will you. They gave me artist to take that sugar. 127 00:08:43.440 --> 00:08:47.559 Repeat that slowly, mister foy, I said, they gave me away, 128 00:08:47.919 --> 00:08:52.919 gave you orders there again. They know that brown sugar 129 00:08:52.960 --> 00:08:55.320 is the very essence of my power, so they must 130 00:08:55.320 --> 00:08:58.000 take it away from me. Now, come on, captain, how 131 00:08:58.039 --> 00:09:00.279 long ago was that did they decided I could no 132 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:03.559 longer have my fine gold leaf tobacca plug. And wasn't 133 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:06.080 it only last year that they made me shave my beard? 134 00:09:07.919 --> 00:09:12.000 Walt used to say to me, Walt Quitman, that is sure. 135 00:09:12.320 --> 00:09:15.559 Mine's a decent sort of beard. But yours, Captain Bobe, 136 00:09:15.799 --> 00:09:20.399 yours is pure silk, and they made me shave it. Cap, 137 00:09:20.399 --> 00:09:22.759 you're getting all excited. It's too hot to get excited. 138 00:09:22.759 --> 00:09:25.440 I've set back. I've bided my time. I've waited, and 139 00:09:25.559 --> 00:09:29.320 now I wait no longer. Cap, hands laugh of me. Forward, 140 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:33.559 Cap sit down, No, no, don't make me use the 141 00:09:33.679 --> 00:09:36.039 night stick. I haven't used it yet. I haven't want to. Yeah, 142 00:09:36.080 --> 00:09:38.159 but I want to give it to me. Look out, 143 00:09:38.440 --> 00:09:41.559 get away from me a night stick. No, you must, 144 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:55.480 you must. There are struck, There are struck struck, there 145 00:09:55.519 --> 00:09:58.000 are has struck. That's the last thing in the world 146 00:09:58.039 --> 00:10:02.240 I heard. Then I will loop up down here. I 147 00:10:02.320 --> 00:10:05.200 understand he's really raised. Kine broke into the power station, 148 00:10:05.360 --> 00:10:11.200 banged up the generator, Captain Bob. You just don't figure. 149 00:10:11.480 --> 00:10:13.919 Well, I don't suppose that one guy with a night 150 00:10:14.000 --> 00:10:16.840 stick is gonna do too much damage. Well, it's not 151 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:20.000 quite that simple. Now he took the night stick and 152 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:23.799 overpowered an armed guard, and now he has a gun. 153 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:26.720 All fine, and that's why we've gone to such great 154 00:10:26.759 --> 00:10:28.200 links to protect the place. 155 00:10:28.879 --> 00:10:29.279 Huh. 156 00:10:29.360 --> 00:10:34.480 I'll answer this day that he speaks of he must 157 00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:35.679 mean the authorities here. 158 00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:38.200 Is that it? Oh? I don't think so. At least 159 00:10:38.200 --> 00:10:41.279 he hasn't tried to harm any of them, and with 160 00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:43.159 that gun he could do a pretty good job. 161 00:10:43.559 --> 00:10:45.879 Well, then who is the they? 162 00:10:47.039 --> 00:10:50.480 Your guess is as good as mine. I see that 163 00:10:50.639 --> 00:10:51.480 is one of the guards. 164 00:10:51.600 --> 00:10:54.159 The superintendent saw your car and raised the roof. Well, 165 00:10:54.200 --> 00:10:55.840 he told me I could come in, yes, but not 166 00:10:55.960 --> 00:10:58.320 the car. He wants nothing on the grounds that could 167 00:10:58.360 --> 00:11:01.480 possibly be used by Captain Bob and escape. He want 168 00:11:01.519 --> 00:11:04.399 you to remove the car immediately. You can park it 169 00:11:04.440 --> 00:11:11.639 in the parking area outside the wall. I went on 170 00:11:11.720 --> 00:11:14.039 out and started driving back down the road to the gate. 171 00:11:14.120 --> 00:11:16.840 The little groups with flashlights were still scattered all about, 172 00:11:16.919 --> 00:11:22.240 hunting for Captain Bob. But who was Captain Bob hunting for? Him. 173 00:11:22.360 --> 00:11:24.360 My friend, the police sergeant was still at the gate 174 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:27.240 with his little red flashlight again, signaling me to stop 175 00:11:27.600 --> 00:11:29.960 you again, cousin, I'm just gonna park the car, be 176 00:11:30.039 --> 00:11:32.600 right back. What's that supposed to be good news? 177 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:33.360 Go on? 178 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:36.320 I passed the squad car scattered all over the place. 179 00:11:36.399 --> 00:11:38.879 The parking area was just ahead, and I started turning 180 00:11:38.879 --> 00:11:42.720 into it. I suddenly fell a metallic pressure on my neck, 181 00:11:43.039 --> 00:11:44.159 the barrel of a gun. 182 00:11:44.600 --> 00:11:48.600 Just keep going down the highway, my boy, and everything 183 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:49.799 will beat Jim Dandy. 184 00:11:49.919 --> 00:11:52.159 I could see him in the rear view mirror, bright 185 00:11:52.200 --> 00:11:54.960 eyes on the shaggy gray brows, a bald head, and 186 00:11:55.000 --> 00:11:58.039 a full pink face, and even bigger than they had 187 00:11:58.039 --> 00:12:01.720 described him. Yes, I had myself a first class passenger 188 00:12:02.279 --> 00:12:04.039 and one and only Captain Bob. 189 00:12:05.559 --> 00:12:08.519 No, isn't an immortal sin the way old cap'n Bob 190 00:12:08.600 --> 00:12:13.360 twisted him all around his little finger. Huh Yeah, mental power? 191 00:12:14.080 --> 00:12:17.559 You know, ten ounces of brain tissue can move mountains, 192 00:12:17.799 --> 00:12:20.840 dry oceans, fill the sky with fire. 193 00:12:21.000 --> 00:12:24.639 Yeah, ten ounces. Sure, But me, I'm stuck with about 194 00:12:24.639 --> 00:12:27.840 half a gram. Falling for a gag like that, How 195 00:12:27.840 --> 00:12:28.919 where'd you call from? 196 00:12:29.120 --> 00:12:32.480 One of the other officers keeping my voice very low, 197 00:12:32.639 --> 00:12:36.840 very official. The superintendent insists that the car be moved 198 00:12:36.840 --> 00:12:41.559 at once. See Ellen used to I used to say 199 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:45.919 to Ellen, you're the famous actress Ellen Drew. You know, Ellen, 200 00:12:46.120 --> 00:12:50.360 you must always remember live the part. If you're supposed 201 00:12:50.360 --> 00:12:53.120 to be an oyster stew, then become an oyster stew. 202 00:12:53.200 --> 00:12:58.120 Make it so real that people get heartburn. Captain Bob, 203 00:12:58.679 --> 00:13:02.639 she would reply, And that's sweet, gentle voice. What would 204 00:13:02.720 --> 00:13:05.679 I do without you? Well, that's very interesting. 205 00:13:06.879 --> 00:13:10.799 Now that you've outsmarted all the guards. What's the next 206 00:13:10.799 --> 00:13:12.879 step to. 207 00:13:12.360 --> 00:13:17.720 Ruthlessly hunt down and exterminate humanity's greatest enemy? Which is 208 00:13:17.799 --> 00:13:19.399 who were they? 209 00:13:20.240 --> 00:13:20.440 They? 210 00:13:20.960 --> 00:13:27.120 Well? Who else? Those scavengers, those ravagers. I really don't 211 00:13:27.120 --> 00:13:30.879 care about myself. I've lived my years. I'm an old man, 212 00:13:32.600 --> 00:13:37.399 heavy with honor and with time. Aristophanes, Uh huh, of 213 00:13:37.480 --> 00:13:41.519 course you know I'm quite insane. Oh, yes, yes, so 214 00:13:41.639 --> 00:13:47.039 it doesn't matter about me. See others, Oh what they 215 00:13:47.240 --> 00:13:51.399 have done the poor suffering humanity. I've heard the talk. Oh, yes, 216 00:13:51.440 --> 00:13:53.840 surely I have. You know, of course I can hear 217 00:13:53.960 --> 00:13:59.200 quite distinctly for a distance of some twenty three hundred miles. Oh, certainly, 218 00:13:59.240 --> 00:14:03.960 with the proper atmospheric conditions. Ah, And very often late 219 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:06.360 at night, I lie there in my bed listening to 220 00:14:06.399 --> 00:14:13.799 the people talking in oh San Francisco and Houston, and 221 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:18.279 Memphis and Upper New York State and such places. And 222 00:14:18.320 --> 00:14:22.480 what do I hear? They are causing prices to rise 223 00:14:22.559 --> 00:14:27.120 sky high. They buy more than they need, They hoard 224 00:14:27.200 --> 00:14:31.159 in their basements. They patronize a black market. They are 225 00:14:31.240 --> 00:14:34.679 so selfish, so thoughtless, they may bring on inflation and 226 00:14:34.720 --> 00:14:38.159 wipe out the savings and pensions of millions of innocent people. 227 00:14:38.480 --> 00:14:43.519 That's what I hear. And this I hear. They certainly 228 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:47.759 elect some shabby politicians, but what can you expect. Most 229 00:14:47.759 --> 00:14:50.960 of the time they don't even bother to vote. If 230 00:14:51.000 --> 00:14:55.840 they don't use some judgment, they'll wreck the country. They again, 231 00:14:56.000 --> 00:14:58.879 You see that, Yes, I see it. Yes, And I 232 00:14:58.919 --> 00:15:04.320 hear talk about w too. They fell asleep again. If 233 00:15:04.360 --> 00:15:07.840 they don't wake up and prepare, civilization itself will go under. 234 00:15:08.279 --> 00:15:14.000 And they'll beat the blame. They they they they do this, 235 00:15:14.080 --> 00:15:16.919 and they do that. All the evil and suffering in 236 00:15:16.960 --> 00:15:26.360 the world they are responsible for. They well, and isn't 237 00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:31.000 it all rather simple? Oh, Captain Bob's gonna do the 238 00:15:31.039 --> 00:15:37.200 world one final service. He's gonna find these they and 239 00:15:37.320 --> 00:15:38.600 shoot them done like dogs. 240 00:15:39.080 --> 00:15:40.720 That sounds like a reasonable idea. 241 00:15:40.879 --> 00:15:47.360 Yes, of course, of course. I so you sign on 242 00:15:47.480 --> 00:15:52.039 your license plate, your newspaper man. Well then you must 243 00:15:52.080 --> 00:15:55.240 know where they live. You'll be able to bring me 244 00:15:55.360 --> 00:15:55.759 to them. 245 00:15:56.279 --> 00:15:59.279 Well, I suppose so, but it might take a long time. 246 00:15:59.360 --> 00:16:02.600 Can not takeing any longer than from Nodus seven o'clock 247 00:16:02.639 --> 00:16:05.799 tomorrow morning. Well, I have to be back at the 248 00:16:05.879 --> 00:16:11.480 asylum by then for breakfast. Missus Turner, the cook. She 249 00:16:11.639 --> 00:16:16.799 takes great pains preparing the oatmeal to my complete satisfaction. 250 00:16:17.279 --> 00:16:21.759 Oh well, in that case, why are you turning the 251 00:16:21.840 --> 00:16:24.679 car around? Well, that's all the time we got. Let's 252 00:16:24.720 --> 00:16:27.120 call it off for tonight and get an early start 253 00:16:27.159 --> 00:16:29.279 tomorrow evening, say around six. 254 00:16:29.840 --> 00:16:34.320 I see, now you've decided to trick Captain Bob. 255 00:16:34.480 --> 00:16:37.039 No, no, not at all. But if you're expected for. 256 00:16:37.000 --> 00:16:38.720 Breakfast, go over to the curse. 257 00:16:38.840 --> 00:16:39.799 I'm not trying to trick. 258 00:16:39.919 --> 00:16:42.360 At the present angle of my gun, the bullet should 259 00:16:42.440 --> 00:16:45.200 under your skull at the basil juncture, you will lose 260 00:16:45.240 --> 00:16:50.759 consciousness within one second, be dead within three. Okay, now 261 00:16:50.840 --> 00:16:57.879 you talking me into it, all right? No turn off 262 00:16:57.919 --> 00:17:04.039 the engine. Yep, it was a mistake to tell you 263 00:17:04.200 --> 00:17:07.720 I was insane. Now you think I'm on a harmless 264 00:17:07.720 --> 00:17:10.160 old fool, not at all. Oh, of course you do. 265 00:17:10.319 --> 00:17:14.720 But I'm not harmless, Sarah. I need your help. So 266 00:17:14.960 --> 00:17:17.119 I suppose I must convince you that I will not 267 00:17:17.240 --> 00:17:19.599 hesitate to use this gun if you force me. 268 00:17:19.799 --> 00:17:20.440 I believe you. 269 00:17:20.559 --> 00:17:26.519 Oh no, of course you don't. This strange weapon? Is 270 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:31.000 it not a chunk of ore twisted into a vulgar shape? 271 00:17:31.039 --> 00:17:33.680 Yet it's made man supreme? 272 00:17:34.240 --> 00:17:37.319 Oh not, come on? Put down the gun. Captain shooting 273 00:17:37.359 --> 00:17:38.160 me won't help you? 274 00:17:38.279 --> 00:17:42.079 Who said anything about you? My boy? Observe? 275 00:17:42.559 --> 00:17:47.799 But pointing it at your hand, don't you've torn away 276 00:17:47.839 --> 00:17:48.519 half your finger? 277 00:17:49.279 --> 00:17:50.920 That's all right, I have others. 278 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:54.920 Let me use his handkerchief as a torny. No, no trickery. 279 00:17:55.000 --> 00:17:59.720 Now come on here, Okay, I've got to pull it tight, 280 00:18:01.119 --> 00:18:01.480 all right? 281 00:18:01.680 --> 00:18:03.920 All right, now that's better. 282 00:18:05.000 --> 00:18:06.039 What a thing to do. 283 00:18:06.599 --> 00:18:11.440 Now you understand how serious I am about this. Obviously, 284 00:18:11.519 --> 00:18:13.759 if I can use the gun on myself, I wouldn't 285 00:18:13.799 --> 00:18:17.039 hesitate to use the gun on you if I felt 286 00:18:17.079 --> 00:18:21.279 you were trying to fool me. So take me into 287 00:18:21.319 --> 00:18:29.640 the city and let's hunt the rescals down. Yeah. One 288 00:18:29.759 --> 00:18:34.119 thing more, sir, Yeah, there can be trickery by omission. 289 00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:37.960 If you think you can drive me around in meaningless circles, 290 00:18:38.000 --> 00:18:40.079 will let me hasten to assure you that if we 291 00:18:40.200 --> 00:18:44.039 haven't found them by breakfast, well then I know you 292 00:18:44.279 --> 00:18:47.759 fool me and I will kill you. 293 00:19:01.759 --> 00:19:06.440 NBC is bringing you Nightbeat, starring Frank Lovejoy as Randy Stone. 294 00:19:07.519 --> 00:19:12.079 It's the Silver Jubilee on NBC Tonight. Your dial is 295 00:19:12.119 --> 00:19:15.599 set for Adventure with Inspector Thorn and mister Keen Tracer 296 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:18.759 of Lost Persons. This evening, actor Carl Weber comes to 297 00:19:18.799 --> 00:19:22.519 the NBC microphone as the fast moving police investigator known 298 00:19:22.599 --> 00:19:27.000 as Inspector Thorn and later mister Keen Tracer of Lost Persons, 299 00:19:27.240 --> 00:19:29.880 brings you the heart hitting story of the poisoned Sandwich 300 00:19:29.960 --> 00:19:41.720 murder case. Now back to Nightbeat and Randy Stone. 301 00:19:41.839 --> 00:19:44.160 It was after one o'clock and I was driving through 302 00:19:44.160 --> 00:19:48.559 the Chicago streets, block after deserted flock. The Neon that 303 00:19:48.640 --> 00:19:51.960 Never went to sleep, still shouting its multi colored messages 304 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:57.359 to empty sidewalks, past long rows of warehouses, wearily leaning 305 00:19:57.400 --> 00:20:02.039 one against the other, and through narrow cobblestones streets, driving 306 00:20:02.160 --> 00:20:05.799 purposefully like I had nothing but jumbo sized plans, while 307 00:20:05.839 --> 00:20:09.559 actually I didn't even have a small pocket sized idea. 308 00:20:10.839 --> 00:20:13.079 And Captain Bob in the back seat with his gun, 309 00:20:13.160 --> 00:20:16.720 growing more impatient all the time. And now it was 310 00:20:16.759 --> 00:20:20.279 almost two am, and in my mind's eye I saw 311 00:20:20.319 --> 00:20:23.880 the good cook what's her name, sleeping soundly and just 312 00:20:23.960 --> 00:20:26.680 a few hours away from starting the Captain's oat meal. 313 00:20:28.480 --> 00:20:30.319 And now we were getting close to the loop. I 314 00:20:30.400 --> 00:20:33.279 turned off Ashland Avenue to cross the bridge spanning the 315 00:20:33.359 --> 00:20:36.039 Chicago River, and at the other side of the bridge, 316 00:20:36.119 --> 00:20:40.160 I saw a most wonderful sight two police cars blocking 317 00:20:40.200 --> 00:20:43.000 the way, their red warning lights blinking angrily. 318 00:20:45.640 --> 00:20:47.839 Turned around quickly, my boy, and. 319 00:20:47.880 --> 00:20:50.519 Suddenly, in the rear view myrr eye saw still another 320 00:20:50.559 --> 00:20:53.599 police car swing in behind us. We were caught on 321 00:20:53.640 --> 00:20:56.559 the bridge, trapped like a butterfly on a half dozen 322 00:20:56.680 --> 00:20:58.960 spears of light. 323 00:21:00.160 --> 00:21:04.279 What, Captain Bob, I'm turning the matter over in my mind. 324 00:21:05.319 --> 00:21:12.279 That you're strong, right, all right? It slowly, man, mister Stone. 325 00:21:13.440 --> 00:21:17.160 Tell him how comfortable the skun feels against your head? 326 00:21:17.319 --> 00:21:22.720 Hat Hell, lieutenant, take it easy. Captain Bob has sort 327 00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:26.640 of got me covered. Captain Bob hear me? 328 00:21:28.680 --> 00:21:32.759 Can I hear him? I've heard Brisbane, Australia on a 329 00:21:33.119 --> 00:21:37.519 very calm night. Can I hear him? You don't hear me? 330 00:21:37.680 --> 00:21:38.359 Captain Bob? 331 00:21:38.799 --> 00:21:43.039 He hears you, but he's not impressed. Cap. What do 332 00:21:43.039 --> 00:21:43.799 you want them to do? 333 00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:46.160 Clear off the bridge so we can get on with 334 00:21:46.240 --> 00:21:48.359 our chore. It's getting late. 335 00:21:49.160 --> 00:21:52.119 Look, Cap, I'm going to be frank with you, and 336 00:21:52.160 --> 00:21:54.799 if you want to pull the trigger, well, my insurance 337 00:21:54.839 --> 00:21:55.319 is paid up. 338 00:21:55.359 --> 00:21:56.599 Well what is it, my boy? 339 00:21:57.039 --> 00:22:01.839 I don't have any idea where they may be. Oh, 340 00:22:01.839 --> 00:22:05.400 it's true, but you take the lieutenant now, it's his 341 00:22:05.559 --> 00:22:08.279 job to know those things. I bet he could tell 342 00:22:08.359 --> 00:22:09.559 us where they are. 343 00:22:09.640 --> 00:22:13.640 Just like that, all right, call him over and ask him. 344 00:22:13.720 --> 00:22:16.680 Oh no, no, we can't do it that way. If 345 00:22:16.680 --> 00:22:18.599 he knows that you want to find out about they 346 00:22:18.839 --> 00:22:20.559 just to kill him. Why he'll never tell us? 347 00:22:20.559 --> 00:22:22.359 Well why not? For goodness sake? 348 00:22:22.440 --> 00:22:25.680 Well he just won't. He's a funny guy. So well, 349 00:22:25.799 --> 00:22:28.119 so let me go over and talk to him, you know, 350 00:22:28.440 --> 00:22:30.079 call him around, wheel it out of him. 351 00:22:30.680 --> 00:22:32.960 You think you can, my boy, Yes, I think so. 352 00:22:33.440 --> 00:22:36.000 I've known him for many years. He's not very bright. 353 00:22:36.119 --> 00:22:39.039 Oh, I could tell that from his voice. He does 354 00:22:39.079 --> 00:22:41.720 all this talking from his jowls. So I'll go over 355 00:22:41.759 --> 00:22:46.079 and ask him. Huh, you, you wouldn't be fooling an 356 00:22:46.079 --> 00:22:49.559 old man with a sore finger. Scout's on her, captain, 357 00:22:50.079 --> 00:22:52.960 all right, call that young policeman over there, the one 358 00:22:53.000 --> 00:22:55.839 that's leading on the finger of the squad car. 359 00:22:56.000 --> 00:22:59.960 Oh him, oh, oh him. He's an old cousin. 360 00:22:59.759 --> 00:23:02.319 Of Yeah, call him over if you want to talk 361 00:23:02.359 --> 00:23:03.119 to the lieutenant. 362 00:23:03.519 --> 00:23:06.200 Hey, sarge me, come on over. 363 00:23:07.359 --> 00:23:08.440 You not to something? 364 00:23:08.799 --> 00:23:16.480 Send him over, Lieutenant Roger, go on, cousin. The minute 365 00:23:16.519 --> 00:23:18.720 I saw you tonight, I knew I'd have been better 366 00:23:18.759 --> 00:23:19.160 off with. 367 00:23:19.240 --> 00:23:22.480 Typhoid, both of us. Now, I tell you what I'd 368 00:23:22.559 --> 00:23:25.279 like for you to do, young man. You just lean 369 00:23:25.359 --> 00:23:27.960 your head in through the window. What is do? 370 00:23:28.079 --> 00:23:30.519 What he says, I've got to go talk to the lieutenant. 371 00:23:30.599 --> 00:23:33.440 Now we take the gun from mister Stone's head and 372 00:23:34.000 --> 00:23:38.519 place it against yours. Hey, all right, mister Stone, go 373 00:23:38.599 --> 00:23:43.559 to your conference. They dashboard clock says seven minutes after two. 374 00:23:44.240 --> 00:23:47.160 If you have not returned by ten minutes after two, 375 00:23:47.279 --> 00:23:53.480 this unfortunate young man will meet with sudden disaster. Stone, 376 00:23:53.519 --> 00:23:54.720 I don't like this. 377 00:23:55.359 --> 00:24:07.039 No one could blame you, don't. I started walking across 378 00:24:07.119 --> 00:24:10.759 the bridge to the lieutenant's patrol car. A long string 379 00:24:10.799 --> 00:24:13.920 of coal barges were slithering slowly by on the greasy 380 00:24:14.000 --> 00:24:18.799 waters far below. Now, whatever unknown radar awakens people out 381 00:24:18.799 --> 00:24:21.480 of a sound sleep and sends them running to disaster 382 00:24:21.799 --> 00:24:24.759 was already at work. Both ends of the bridge were 383 00:24:24.839 --> 00:24:27.359 lined with the curious, and most of the police officers 384 00:24:27.359 --> 00:24:31.000 were busy keeping them at a distance. Lieutenant Boyle stood 385 00:24:31.039 --> 00:24:34.279 beside his squad car. Lieutenant, tell me, how did you 386 00:24:34.480 --> 00:24:35.519 find out that he was with me? 387 00:24:35.759 --> 00:24:36.359 The sergeant? 388 00:24:36.720 --> 00:24:39.119 After you lift to park your car and didn't come back, 389 00:24:39.160 --> 00:24:42.079 he started wondering, checked and found it been a phony 390 00:24:42.119 --> 00:24:45.279 call that added up. We've been trying to corner you 391 00:24:45.319 --> 00:24:48.319 all night. What are you gonna do with that character? 392 00:24:48.440 --> 00:24:51.039 Well, we've got one problem, and it's how to make 393 00:24:51.119 --> 00:24:54.200 him use up those bullets in his gun. Yeah, but 394 00:24:54.279 --> 00:24:56.200 now look, I got a crazy thought it might work. 395 00:24:56.240 --> 00:24:59.880 If it doesn't, well it's my funeral. And as the 396 00:25:00.160 --> 00:25:01.720 little joke goes, that's not a. 397 00:25:01.680 --> 00:25:03.799 Figure of speech. All right, what is it? 398 00:25:04.319 --> 00:25:06.200 You know where the river view is? 399 00:25:06.519 --> 00:25:09.039 Yeah? That amusement park on the west side. Yeah, what 400 00:25:09.079 --> 00:25:11.079 are we going to do? Right America around. 401 00:25:10.880 --> 00:25:12.759