WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.080 --> 00:00:06.160 Fed up with the everyday grind, tired out by the 2 00:00:06.280 --> 00:00:10.400 dull routine, you want to get away from it at all. 3 00:00:10.640 --> 00:00:11.439 We offer you. 4 00:00:13.080 --> 00:00:19.719 Escape Escape Transcribe to free you from the four walls 5 00:00:19.719 --> 00:00:22.519 of today for a half hour of high adventure. 6 00:00:25.239 --> 00:00:28.519 You are alone in the jungle with three men. You 7 00:00:28.600 --> 00:00:31.600 know that one of them is a desperate criminal whom 8 00:00:31.600 --> 00:00:34.880 you've come to arrest, but you don't know which one. 9 00:00:35.799 --> 00:00:38.560 You have to find him before he can save himself 10 00:00:38.679 --> 00:00:40.560 by killing you. 11 00:00:48.280 --> 00:00:51.039 Today we escape from reality into the depths of a 12 00:00:51.079 --> 00:00:55.079 tropical jungle in a tantalizing search for a murder. As L. G. 13 00:00:55.240 --> 00:00:59.479 Blackman told it in his famous story Red Wine. 14 00:01:08.280 --> 00:01:12.040 The rusty little tramp freighter bumped against the rickety wharf, 15 00:01:12.159 --> 00:01:16.040 and I dropped from the rail under the planking for 16 00:01:16.079 --> 00:01:19.280 the first time, felt the humid heat. Roll out of 17 00:01:19.319 --> 00:01:29.000 the jungle. This was Tanjongg Samar, sweltering half forgotten last 18 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:33.040 out post on the rubber coast of Borneo. I crossed 19 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:35.439 the beach and walked up the path of crushed shells 20 00:01:35.519 --> 00:01:37.840 leading to a low bungalow at the edge of the jungle. 21 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:41.040 The freighter would lie at the wharf for four hours 22 00:01:41.560 --> 00:01:43.519 plenty of time for me to get the thing over 23 00:01:43.560 --> 00:01:47.120 with and be back aboard. When she sailed, I was 24 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:51.439 expecting trouble, of course, but no real danger. I'd done 25 00:01:51.519 --> 00:01:54.200 jobs like this before, or at least I thought this 26 00:01:54.239 --> 00:01:56.799 would be the same. I thought so on until I 27 00:01:56.840 --> 00:01:59.879 stepped up on the porch and met her. Kurt Controller, 28 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:01.719 the tan Junk Sama District. 29 00:02:01.959 --> 00:02:04.920 Yeah, I'm here, Kert the Controller. What does that I 30 00:02:04.920 --> 00:02:05.439 can do for you? 31 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:08.120 My name's Paul Vernier, mister Kurt. I have a letter 32 00:02:08.120 --> 00:02:09.800 of introduction here from the Governor General. 33 00:02:12.759 --> 00:02:14.879 Mister from the United States. 34 00:02:15.039 --> 00:02:18.080 Yeah, the governor promised me your cooperation. 35 00:02:17.759 --> 00:02:20.360 So I see cooperation is good. But he does not 36 00:02:20.479 --> 00:02:21.719 say cooperation in what. 37 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:24.639 I've come here after? A killer, mister Kurt. 38 00:02:24.840 --> 00:02:27.360 Oh diyas maybe headhunters. 39 00:02:27.639 --> 00:02:31.000 No, this one's a civilized killer. An American wanted in 40 00:02:31.039 --> 00:02:34.680 San Francisco for murdering his wife. His name is Jerome Steaks. 41 00:02:35.120 --> 00:02:38.199 I see, I won't just sit down, mister, won't you call? 42 00:02:38.680 --> 00:02:40.919 He died in Jeff King Head. 43 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:42.639 I brang right away. 44 00:02:42.759 --> 00:02:43.560 Coffee in a moment. 45 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:46.199 Nice of you, but maybe I better pick this guy 46 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:47.759 up first. I'd hate to miss the boat and have 47 00:02:47.759 --> 00:02:48.879 to lay over five days. 48 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:53.719 You're acquainted with this Steaks, mister, No, I've never seen him, 49 00:02:53.719 --> 00:02:57.199 and you have photographs right, not no fingerprints. 50 00:02:57.719 --> 00:03:00.560 Now, this happened two years ago. Until next month we 51 00:03:00.599 --> 00:03:04.479 had it listed as a double suicide. What are you 52 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:06.000 driving at, mister Kurk. 53 00:03:05.960 --> 00:03:09.080 Simply this. There's no one in my district by the 54 00:03:09.159 --> 00:03:10.280 name of Steaks. 55 00:03:10.840 --> 00:03:12.960 Now, he wouldn't be using his own name. Of course. 56 00:03:13.639 --> 00:03:16.360 There is an American here though, three. 57 00:03:16.159 --> 00:03:19.159 Of them, mister Vania, employed as foreman on the Kota 58 00:03:19.560 --> 00:03:21.680 Rubber plantation here Tanjong Sama. 59 00:03:22.199 --> 00:03:25.479 According to my information, Steaks came here from Batavia about 60 00:03:25.560 --> 00:03:26.360 six months ago. 61 00:03:27.719 --> 00:03:30.560 They all arrived six months ago on the same board. 62 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:33.439 The quota company is just going back into operation. 63 00:03:33.199 --> 00:03:36.879 You understand, I see well. According to people who have 64 00:03:37.039 --> 00:03:39.680 seen him, Jerome Steaks as a man about thirty five 65 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:43.400 years old, of medium heights, light build, pale complexion, with 66 00:03:43.439 --> 00:03:44.680 black hair and mustache. 67 00:03:45.319 --> 00:03:48.599 Amazing. Any one of these men might fit that description, 68 00:03:49.199 --> 00:03:52.599 except that all are clean shaven and heavily tanned from 69 00:03:52.639 --> 00:03:56.080 the tropical sun. Furthermore, mister, all three of the men 70 00:03:56.120 --> 00:03:57.199 have lied blonde hair. 71 00:03:58.000 --> 00:04:00.520 Julie Shi, Jeff Fete good. 72 00:04:00.680 --> 00:04:05.199 War too, Cups one. I won't bring your baggage up 73 00:04:05.199 --> 00:04:07.439 from the war. For mister Finigiel, it appears to your 74 00:04:07.439 --> 00:04:09.960 business may take a little longer than four hours. 75 00:04:10.199 --> 00:04:12.599 I'm certain of the information I got in, but Tavia, 76 00:04:12.719 --> 00:04:13.759 I know the man's here. 77 00:04:14.680 --> 00:04:18.879 Then the problem resolved itself into a matter of identification. 78 00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:20.519 And I always talk with the three of them. Are 79 00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:20.920 to do that? 80 00:04:22.199 --> 00:04:25.639 I doubt that, mister finigil The swarms here at Tanjung 81 00:04:25.759 --> 00:04:31.319 summer are infested with fever cream. It is always hot 82 00:04:31.639 --> 00:04:34.360 like now, and the jungles back they are swarm with 83 00:04:34.560 --> 00:04:38.160 crites crist a deadly little snake no longer than your 84 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:41.600 four arms. There you are, and in the rivers they 85 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:47.199 are crocodiles. So men rarely come here unless they are 86 00:04:47.279 --> 00:04:51.079 running away from something, trying to lose their past. I 87 00:04:51.079 --> 00:04:55.120 think you'll find all three men have manufactured stories, so 88 00:04:55.399 --> 00:04:56.399 I always want to choose. 89 00:04:56.680 --> 00:04:59.920 Well, sometimes a man can be identified by his personality. 90 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:04.800 And the personality of this man, Sneaks is it's something 91 00:05:04.839 --> 00:05:06.399 out of the ordinary, or. 92 00:05:06.439 --> 00:05:10.680 A forman and a rubber plantation. Yes, I doubt if 93 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:13.279 all three of these men can be aristocrats. And in 94 00:05:13.279 --> 00:05:17.439 a sense, well that's what Steaks is a cosmopolity. He's 95 00:05:17.480 --> 00:05:20.360 lived all around the world, always associating with top society. 96 00:05:20.800 --> 00:05:23.800 He's a lover of fine foods and wine. Speaks French 97 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:28.360 and German fluently. He's a come bon vivant, a man 98 00:05:28.439 --> 00:05:30.519 of perfect taste in clothes and manners. 99 00:05:30.839 --> 00:05:32.199 And a murderer. 100 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:34.199 Yeah, and the murderer. 101 00:05:34.279 --> 00:05:37.199 Yeah. Well, when the three men returns this evening, I 102 00:05:37.240 --> 00:05:39.360 should be most happy to introduce you to them, though 103 00:05:39.399 --> 00:05:42.480 it's quite probable they are aware of your identity already. 104 00:05:42.639 --> 00:05:45.560 My houseboy there told me you were a detective before 105 00:05:45.560 --> 00:05:46.680 you stepped off the wharf. 106 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:51.160 I see so. In other words, the murderer probably knows 107 00:05:51.199 --> 00:05:53.079 who I am and what I'm here for, but I 108 00:05:53.120 --> 00:05:56.079 haven't the slightest idea who he is exactly. 109 00:05:56.360 --> 00:06:00.160 It's quite an interesting thought, isn't it a more? 110 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:15.680 Mister, mister Faniel, I should like you to. 111 00:06:15.639 --> 00:06:16.920 Meet mister Doran. 112 00:06:17.279 --> 00:06:17.879 I am mister. 113 00:06:18.720 --> 00:06:19.800 This is mister William Mettin. 114 00:06:20.759 --> 00:06:23.000 My name is Prayer, glad to meet you same here. 115 00:06:23.040 --> 00:06:24.240 Mister Praile might as well. 116 00:06:24.120 --> 00:06:25.959 Drop the mister. We don't use it much around here. 117 00:06:26.040 --> 00:06:29.000 I'm Prayer. That's Duran, It's Wilmedini. And if it's all 118 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:30.680 the same to you, sure. 119 00:06:30.839 --> 00:06:31.720 Praille, Why not? 120 00:06:31.879 --> 00:06:34.000 Hi, you gentlemen, will excuse me. I have a number 121 00:06:34.040 --> 00:06:36.399 of things to do. Will you bring mister Vannier to 122 00:06:36.439 --> 00:06:39.360 my bungalow for dinner? We'll celebrate having a guest in 123 00:06:39.439 --> 00:06:40.240 tan junkson. 124 00:06:45.319 --> 00:06:49.040 Uh her Kurt tells me all three of you are Americans. 125 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:51.360 I know whether I'm still one or that men of 126 00:06:51.399 --> 00:06:53.199 the States in seven years. 127 00:06:53.360 --> 00:06:56.639 Seven years, I think you're an old timer here, No, 128 00:06:56.839 --> 00:06:58.560 not here Australia. 129 00:06:58.759 --> 00:07:01.439 Don't get them started, Ban He'll spend two hours telling 130 00:07:01.439 --> 00:07:04.160 you how he lost his shirt trying to raise sheep. Now, man, 131 00:07:04.319 --> 00:07:06.399 if I had either money or sense, I wouldn't have 132 00:07:06.399 --> 00:07:07.519 come to the stinking hole. 133 00:07:08.079 --> 00:07:11.879 I wouldn't say you fellas had it too rough. Noticing 134 00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:14.279 those empty bottles there on the shelf, what do you 135 00:07:14.399 --> 00:07:19.879 mean for there, Hm, Paul my Son nineteen thirty six. 136 00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:25.079 That's a good champagne. You boys are living like Conda sirrs. 137 00:07:24.800 --> 00:07:27.800 Oh no, no, you're overrating us. Many those empty bottles 138 00:07:27.800 --> 00:07:30.399 already here when we came. Oh just never got around 139 00:07:30.399 --> 00:07:31.800 of throwing him out, Prairie. 140 00:07:31.839 --> 00:07:34.160 Here's the only kind of syr in the bench he 141 00:07:34.199 --> 00:07:36.879 can tell you anything you want to know about wines, yeah, 142 00:07:37.199 --> 00:07:38.000 or about anything. 143 00:07:38.120 --> 00:07:40.160 Uh, dry up just because a guy happens to know 144 00:07:40.199 --> 00:07:41.800 a little more and somebody else. There's no reason to 145 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:42.959 keep riding them all the time. 146 00:07:43.759 --> 00:07:45.480 We should n't you some way to make ice? 147 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:48.839 Getting plenty fed up with warm beer day in and 148 00:07:48.959 --> 00:07:49.680 day out. 149 00:07:49.879 --> 00:07:53.920 Here, that would get pretty tiresome. I think I'd switch 150 00:07:54.040 --> 00:07:58.040 to Champartane or Sable or something. Come again, Well, I 151 00:07:58.079 --> 00:08:02.040 didn't necessarily mean those in particular, but quite a number 152 00:08:02.079 --> 00:08:04.720 of wines is even better warm than the hot children. 153 00:08:04.920 --> 00:08:07.240 Now you're in the wrong place, Jim. We wouldn't know 154 00:08:07.279 --> 00:08:08.800 what to do with him. If we had him. 155 00:08:09.160 --> 00:08:11.360 This is strictly a beer and gin crowd. 156 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:13.120 Well, it'd be no kick on that if we had 157 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:15.480 some ice to go with it. Oh what I wouldn't 158 00:08:15.480 --> 00:08:18.240 give for a cold, frosty bottle. 159 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:20.800 A relax when you won with dang, you're making me thirsty. 160 00:08:21.399 --> 00:08:22.839 How about some music music? 161 00:08:23.439 --> 00:08:25.600 There's one of you play some instruments. 162 00:08:25.639 --> 00:08:29.000 Sure, prayer, he's terrific. I'm that phonograph over there in 163 00:08:29.040 --> 00:08:32.559 the corner. Only trouble is he thinks three o'clock in 164 00:08:32.559 --> 00:08:34.720 the morning is the greatest song ever written. 165 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:37.320 Well, I can see that that would lead to quite 166 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:41.919 an argument, Iran, particularly if you're a lover of the classics. 167 00:08:42.320 --> 00:08:45.960 No, I don't go for that long hair stuff. But 168 00:08:46.039 --> 00:08:47.879 I would like to hear a fast number once in 169 00:08:47.919 --> 00:08:49.799 a while. It's less than ten years old. 170 00:08:50.039 --> 00:08:52.480 Yeah, you ought to see this collection prail drive up 171 00:08:52.480 --> 00:08:55.279 here from Batavia, strictly from the gay nineties. 172 00:08:55.559 --> 00:08:58.039 Prayer You don't buy any chance? Have a number called 173 00:08:58.399 --> 00:09:00.799 young Meruti set my own? 174 00:09:01.120 --> 00:09:02.799 Ah, some Italian opera. 175 00:09:02.879 --> 00:09:03.960 Oh no, no, it's French. 176 00:09:04.159 --> 00:09:06.039 Well, come on, bray, I'll translate it for us. 177 00:09:06.240 --> 00:09:08.559 You claim to be an expert on the French language. 178 00:09:08.720 --> 00:09:11.480 Oh it's worded kind of funny, like poetry. 179 00:09:11.559 --> 00:09:12.519 Ah sure, sure. 180 00:09:12.960 --> 00:09:16.799 And a last word though, uh maison that means house. 181 00:09:16.840 --> 00:09:20.639 I know that it's too bad. I thought maybe Jerome 182 00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:24.120 Steaks might translate it. It refers to him. Of course, what 183 00:09:24.159 --> 00:09:26.480 are you talking about? The sentence reads, there is a 184 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:27.720 murderer in this house. 185 00:09:28.200 --> 00:09:32.639 Huh, Well, so you're finally coming out of me open. 186 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:35.600 Yeah, we heard you were a detective, Bronnie. 187 00:09:36.200 --> 00:09:38.480 You're after some killer. You've never seen him. Steaks, you 188 00:09:38.480 --> 00:09:39.519 figure one of us, is it? 189 00:09:39.679 --> 00:09:40.120 That's right? 190 00:09:40.200 --> 00:09:42.279 Prail and the guy you're after's woman Ding. 191 00:09:42.360 --> 00:09:43.000 Are you crazy? 192 00:09:43.039 --> 00:09:45.000 Whoever heard of anybody with a name like Wilma Ding 193 00:09:45.080 --> 00:09:46.000 unless they made it up? 194 00:09:46.320 --> 00:09:46.720 Up? Nothing? 195 00:09:46.759 --> 00:09:48.200 I got a passport to prove it. 196 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:48.879 What are you trying to do? 197 00:09:48.960 --> 00:09:49.240 Prail? 198 00:09:49.559 --> 00:09:52.080 Turn attention away from yourself. I got nothing to hire 199 00:09:52.200 --> 00:09:53.120 you to you a durant. 200 00:09:53.240 --> 00:09:56.200 You can leave me out of this right now. There's 201 00:09:56.240 --> 00:09:58.360 plenty of people in Australia who can tell you who 202 00:09:58.360 --> 00:09:58.720 I am. 203 00:09:59.120 --> 00:10:02.279 Unfortunately, oh, there's nobody in tan Jiang Samar who can 204 00:10:02.320 --> 00:10:05.559 tell me for certain who any of you are. One 205 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:07.320 of you is a murderer, and by the time the 206 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:10.480 boat gets back here, I'll know which one. Either I'm 207 00:10:10.480 --> 00:10:12.919 going to take your own steaks back to San Francisco, 208 00:10:13.039 --> 00:10:14.759 or I'm going to kill him trying to you can 209 00:10:14.799 --> 00:10:19.039 count it? Well, what do you say We go on 210 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:21.600 over to Kurt's bungalow and have dinner. 211 00:10:35.720 --> 00:10:39.440 That's Wilmating's room there. Doraan sleeps here and pray long 212 00:10:39.519 --> 00:10:42.399 down at the end. And this is the guest room, 213 00:10:42.559 --> 00:10:45.720 or at least the only guest room that's usable at present. 214 00:10:47.039 --> 00:10:48.600 Looks all right, Well. 215 00:10:49.039 --> 00:10:50.759 It's yours for the time you're here. Step in there? 216 00:10:51.120 --> 00:10:53.480 Or do all of these rooms open out under the porch? 217 00:10:53.799 --> 00:10:55.840 Yes, the veranda as we call it here. 218 00:10:55.919 --> 00:10:58.159 And there's no way to lock this store unfortunately. 219 00:10:58.320 --> 00:10:58.360 No. 220 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:02.679 Anyway, the windows are covered only by mosquito netting. It 221 00:11:02.840 --> 00:11:04.879 makes another interesting situation, does it not. 222 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:07.279 Yeah, I suppose interesting is. 223 00:11:07.279 --> 00:11:09.600 The word for it. Most likely all these gentlemen are 224 00:11:09.639 --> 00:11:12.080 acting to a great error, that's an extent, which of 225 00:11:12.080 --> 00:11:14.200 course makes your problem exceedingly difficult. 226 00:11:14.639 --> 00:11:19.320 That's right, mister Kurt. You did say a man rarely 227 00:11:19.360 --> 00:11:21.519 came here unless he wanted to lose his past. 228 00:11:22.519 --> 00:11:28.559 Yet yoh, yeah, that is true. But then I'm only 229 00:11:28.600 --> 00:11:30.559 a servant of the government and happy little choice what 230 00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:35.240 I'm saying. No, Well, good night, mister Peniel Kirk. I 231 00:11:35.240 --> 00:11:37.000 trust you'll have a very comfortable night. 232 00:11:37.279 --> 00:11:45.399 I thank you. I sat there for a long time 233 00:11:45.480 --> 00:11:50.360 after Kurt left, trying to figure things out getting nowhere. 234 00:11:51.759 --> 00:11:55.440 This was born here though the common lantern on the 235 00:11:55.480 --> 00:11:58.080 table at my elbow threw a blaze of white light 236 00:11:58.159 --> 00:12:02.000 into every corner of the room. Outside that light lay 237 00:12:02.039 --> 00:12:09.080 the dark verandah, and beyond that the jungle. Gradually, the 238 00:12:09.279 --> 00:12:12.440 night breeze brought the smell of the jungle into the room, 239 00:12:12.759 --> 00:12:15.679 as rich and as exotic as the scent of taboo, 240 00:12:16.720 --> 00:12:21.399 fragrant as midnight orchid, as disturbing as the scent of danger. 241 00:12:22.159 --> 00:12:25.679 Or maybe maybe it was danger itself. I was smelling 242 00:12:27.639 --> 00:12:30.200 A heavy knife, missed my throat by two inches, thudd 243 00:12:30.200 --> 00:12:33.399 it into the bamboo partition and stuck their quivering. I 244 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:35.320 doused the later and one sweet, dropped down on the 245 00:12:35.320 --> 00:12:36.840 floor and slid my thirty eight out of its holster. 246 00:12:41.360 --> 00:12:44.200 I could hear nothing but the rustle of palm thatch 247 00:12:44.279 --> 00:12:48.440 along the eaves, low creeks from the pilings underneath the bungalow, 248 00:12:49.120 --> 00:12:56.120 the soft night sounds from the jungle. Finally, I slipped 249 00:12:56.120 --> 00:12:58.360 my shoes off, pulled the knife out of the wall 250 00:12:58.399 --> 00:13:01.000 and dropped it in my pocket, moved to the door, 251 00:13:01.039 --> 00:13:04.799 and stepped quietly out onto the verandah. It was empty. 252 00:13:05.799 --> 00:13:08.840 Across the railing, the fringe of undergrowth was dappled in 253 00:13:08.919 --> 00:13:09.720 silver moonlight. 254 00:13:10.639 --> 00:13:11.440 Nothing moved. 255 00:13:12.200 --> 00:13:14.440 I paused quickly at the three doors, and from each 256 00:13:14.519 --> 00:13:17.480 heard the sound of snoring. One of the men was faking, 257 00:13:17.519 --> 00:13:20.240 but which one. I'd reached the end of the porch 258 00:13:20.279 --> 00:13:22.200 when my eye caught a slight movement in the banana 259 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:24.279 clump a few yards from the steps. Some one was 260 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:27.440 hiding there and moved swiftly, holding the gun ready. Came 261 00:13:27.480 --> 00:13:29.440 within a few feet before I could make out his shape, 262 00:13:29.440 --> 00:13:31.879 in a red and white saran, complete with dark tumbled 263 00:13:31.919 --> 00:13:33.519 curls and a flower behind one ear. 264 00:13:35.279 --> 00:13:38.919 It was a girl, at least one the gun. You 265 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:40.480 are going to shoot menuh? 266 00:13:40.840 --> 00:13:44.559 I relax, Honny. I was looking for somebody else. 267 00:13:45.559 --> 00:13:49.799 And now you have found Milana. So you are disappointed? 268 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:53.240 Well, I look, did you see anybody moving around up 269 00:13:53.279 --> 00:13:55.320 there on the veranda while agoch only you? 270 00:13:55.519 --> 00:13:59.559 Twe? I became frightened and ran to hide right away. 271 00:14:00.279 --> 00:14:06.399 I should not be here at night. I mean, let 272 00:14:06.480 --> 00:14:11.960 us talk of something else. Uh all right, Nollana twe? 273 00:14:12.960 --> 00:14:14.759 Do you like Milana barette? 274 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:15.879 Definitely? 275 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:19.799 Why do we not go somewhere else along the beach? 276 00:14:19.879 --> 00:14:21.799 Perhaps you would like that? 277 00:14:22.200 --> 00:14:25.039 Mister is too serious minded for such things. 278 00:14:25.080 --> 00:14:28.960 Never mister Kirk to join us, watcher. 279 00:14:29.120 --> 00:14:31.879 Thank you. Lana go to the bungalore at once? 280 00:14:32.039 --> 00:14:34.559 Yes, min yes, I go, I go immediately. 281 00:14:34.639 --> 00:14:38.080 She just no business being not alone at night. But Stephanie, 282 00:14:38.200 --> 00:14:40.080 is something wrong with your room? It's not comfortable? 283 00:14:40.399 --> 00:14:45.080 It was until this flew in through the window. A knife, Yeah, 284 00:14:45.320 --> 00:14:47.480 a throwing knife. Never said before? 285 00:14:47.559 --> 00:14:49.679 Oh yeah, yeah, it's one of the collections. Turns a 286 00:14:49.720 --> 00:14:52.919 bungalow to see Americans saw them at tid that's every 287 00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:57.320 evening and wager on the results. I believe mister Doran 288 00:14:57.720 --> 00:14:58.600 taught the other two. 289 00:14:59.120 --> 00:15:01.759 What about you, mister Kurt, do you have a bet 290 00:15:01.799 --> 00:15:02.960 with it? 291 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:09.799 Would be too easy? Watch I learned to throw a 292 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:12.440 knife in Java many years ago. 293 00:15:12.919 --> 00:15:15.480 And Nlana, I suppose she's an expert at it too. 294 00:15:15.799 --> 00:15:19.480 Milana knows nothing of knife her greatest accomplishment. Instead of 295 00:15:19.559 --> 00:15:21.519 making friends too easily. 296 00:15:21.919 --> 00:15:25.679 I see, just who is she anyway? Does she live here? 297 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:31.200 Yeah, she lives here. She is my wife, your wife, 298 00:15:31.480 --> 00:15:35.480 exactly my wife. Good night, mister Vania. 299 00:15:41.679 --> 00:15:45.080 In just a moment, we will return to escape, but 300 00:15:45.200 --> 00:15:49.240 first coming to you in succession, Spike Jones, Jack Benny, 301 00:15:49.360 --> 00:15:52.080 and Amos and Andy bring you ninety non stop minutes 302 00:15:52.120 --> 00:15:55.200 of superlative joy every Sunday night. When you hear them 303 00:15:55.200 --> 00:15:59.120 among CBS's ten great Sunday Night shows, The Spike Jones 304 00:15:59.159 --> 00:16:01.679 Show and Amos and I heard over most of these 305 00:16:01.679 --> 00:16:05.000 same CBS stations, and Jack Benny comes to you over 306 00:16:05.039 --> 00:16:09.360 them all, and now with our star Jeff Chandler, we 307 00:16:09.399 --> 00:16:13.919 returned to the second act of escape and red wine. 308 00:16:20.559 --> 00:16:23.080 When I finally turned in that night, I didn't make 309 00:16:23.080 --> 00:16:26.360 the mistake of lighting the lantern again. Being a target 310 00:16:26.360 --> 00:16:29.720 once in an evening was enough, and dressed in the dark, 311 00:16:29.799 --> 00:16:31.799 pushed the bed up to block the door, propped a 312 00:16:31.919 --> 00:16:35.120 chair against the window sill, and lay down on the floor. 313 00:16:36.200 --> 00:16:39.240 I kept trying to fit some theory together to account 314 00:16:39.240 --> 00:16:42.279 for the things that had happened. When I drifted off 315 00:16:42.279 --> 00:16:44.960 to sleep, I was no nearer any answer than before 316 00:16:51.000 --> 00:16:53.600 I woke up with the first light of dawn. For 317 00:16:53.679 --> 00:16:56.000 a full minute was ready to predict a peaceful day. 318 00:16:56.879 --> 00:16:59.679 Then I turned my head slightly and saw it on 319 00:16:59.720 --> 00:17:03.279 the flow against the wall, eighteen inches from my left handed, 320 00:17:03.279 --> 00:17:06.839 its eyes open and unmoving, lay a kright first cousin 321 00:17:06.880 --> 00:17:10.720 to the cobra, the deadliest snake in borneo. Cold sweat 322 00:17:10.759 --> 00:17:12.720 broke out on my forehead ran into the corners of 323 00:17:12.759 --> 00:17:15.799 my eyes. Not daring to make any sudden move, I 324 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:18.559 slid my right hand slowly up behind me and found 325 00:17:18.559 --> 00:17:24.960 my gun under the pillow. The snake moved slightly I 326 00:17:25.079 --> 00:17:29.440 froze for one long minute. Carefully, I brought the gun 327 00:17:29.480 --> 00:17:33.359 over until I had the ugly head centered above the foresight. 328 00:17:34.279 --> 00:17:41.119 Then I did curt in here. 329 00:17:45.039 --> 00:17:45.440 All right? 330 00:17:46.200 --> 00:17:48.680 Sure, Kik, come on in. I I had an early 331 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:50.519 morning visited there on the floor. 332 00:17:51.400 --> 00:17:53.240 Kright, did he bite you? 333 00:17:56.279 --> 00:17:59.359 Ah snake? That's funny? 334 00:17:59.559 --> 00:18:03.839 What's I cried? Wilma Ding just killed one here in 335 00:18:03.880 --> 00:18:04.359 my room? 336 00:18:04.680 --> 00:18:06.759 Well, there's plenty of my around, but I never heard 337 00:18:06.799 --> 00:18:08.400 of one crawling into a room before. 338 00:18:08.599 --> 00:18:12.000 I'm not sure it did crawl in. I've got an 339 00:18:12.039 --> 00:18:14.319 idea it may have been dropped in through the mosquito 340 00:18:14.359 --> 00:18:17.160 netting there at the window, eh By home by a 341 00:18:17.200 --> 00:18:21.039 guy named Jerome Steaks. Have you hear, um Duran, Why 342 00:18:21.079 --> 00:18:22.319 don't you pick up Wilma Ding? 343 00:18:22.400 --> 00:18:23.039 He's your man? 344 00:18:23.119 --> 00:18:23.880 Oh sure sure. 345 00:18:23.880 --> 00:18:25.799 I always carry a couple of snakes around my pocket, 346 00:18:25.880 --> 00:18:26.400 just for luck. 347 00:18:26.480 --> 00:18:28.359 What I want to know is who carries this around 348 00:18:28.359 --> 00:18:29.240 in their pocket for luck? 349 00:18:30.400 --> 00:18:32.200 It's one of our nice in the living room. We 350 00:18:32.279 --> 00:18:33.119 throw them at a target. 351 00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:33.599 Yeah I know. 352 00:18:34.200 --> 00:18:36.720 Last night I was the target and prails your boy. 353 00:18:37.119 --> 00:18:39.240 He's an expert, wins every time we play. 354 00:18:39.160 --> 00:18:42.440 Try up durands. 355 00:18:42.519 --> 00:18:45.119 All of you so nobody knows anything about these accidents. 356 00:18:45.160 --> 00:18:48.039 They just happened. Here's a warning to whichever one of 357 00:18:48.039 --> 00:18:50.720 you is steaks the next time, you better cover yourself. 358 00:18:50.720 --> 00:18:53.519 I'm through being a clay pigeon from now on. It's 359 00:18:53.519 --> 00:18:55.519 going to be a lot tougher, a whole lot tougher. 360 00:19:02.160 --> 00:19:07.119 That day passed. The next I got exactly nowhere. Things 361 00:19:07.160 --> 00:19:11.400 didn't fit, didn't add up. I saw Nilana several times, 362 00:19:11.400 --> 00:19:14.000 but had no chance to speak to her. When her 363 00:19:14.079 --> 00:19:16.319 Kurt was with me, she'd pass without a glance. But 364 00:19:16.559 --> 00:19:19.880 if I was alone, she'd manage a quick, provocative smile 365 00:19:20.000 --> 00:19:23.839 that sent shivers down my spine. By the fourth day, 366 00:19:23.880 --> 00:19:26.839 the tension among us had grown almost unbearable. The steamer 367 00:19:26.920 --> 00:19:29.240 was due the next evening on its return trip to Batavia. 368 00:19:29.279 --> 00:19:33.240 I needed a break of some kind, had to have one. Well, 369 00:19:33.279 --> 00:19:35.839 it came at dusk when I dropped into my room 370 00:19:35.920 --> 00:19:41.880 to change for dinner. One it is I, Milana, Nelana, 371 00:19:41.920 --> 00:19:43.240 What the devil are you doing here. 372 00:19:43.200 --> 00:19:46.559 To see you? One? Does that make you unhappy? 373 00:19:46.880 --> 00:19:49.160 No? But I doubt if her curtain think, what's the idea? 374 00:19:49.519 --> 00:19:49.599 No? 375 00:19:49.720 --> 00:19:52.440 He must not find out. That is why I hide 376 00:19:52.440 --> 00:19:53.400 here and wait for you. 377 00:19:53.680 --> 00:19:54.960 We may walk in here any moment. 378 00:19:55.119 --> 00:19:57.240 It is true to one. It is why I cannot 379 00:19:57.279 --> 00:20:02.839 stay now. But I wi something to ask you. It 380 00:20:02.960 --> 00:20:04.839 is true that you look for a man who has 381 00:20:04.960 --> 00:20:07.519 killed a woman in your United States. Yeah, that's right, 382 00:20:07.599 --> 00:20:10.359 A man who now names himself by another name. Yes, 383 00:20:11.200 --> 00:20:13.640 perhaps the same one who one night threw the knife 384 00:20:13.680 --> 00:20:13.920 at you. 385 00:20:14.240 --> 00:20:15.359 I think, so, do you know who it is? 386 00:20:15.599 --> 00:20:18.720 I saw the knife thrown to one I was outside. 387 00:20:18.759 --> 00:20:19.720 Maybe quiet. 388 00:20:21.519 --> 00:20:22.240 It is someone. 389 00:20:23.240 --> 00:20:27.559 Yeah, it's going into the living. 390 00:20:27.920 --> 00:20:30.119 But he will come here when he does not find you. 391 00:20:31.160 --> 00:20:32.200 I'm very frightened. One. 392 00:20:32.200 --> 00:20:33.359 I must go. 393 00:20:34.000 --> 00:20:38.359 There's no time now. Tonight, when everyone sleeps, wait by 394 00:20:38.359 --> 00:20:40.480 the tall palm at the edge of the clearing. I 395 00:20:40.519 --> 00:20:45.400 will come. Neilana has done foolish things to one, but 396 00:20:45.519 --> 00:20:48.119 tonight she will fix it all good. You come. 397 00:20:56.640 --> 00:20:58.960 I waited for a long time in the shadow by 398 00:20:58.960 --> 00:21:02.359 the palm tree, watched the moonlight sift down through the 399 00:21:02.400 --> 00:21:08.640 shaggy fronds. But two hours passed. She didn't come. Waiting 400 00:21:08.720 --> 00:21:12.160 there though, in the jungle night, plan began to form 401 00:21:12.200 --> 00:21:15.640