WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.440 --> 00:00:04.759 Tired of the every day grind, ever dream of a 2 00:00:04.919 --> 00:00:09.839 life of romantic adventure, want to get away from it all. 3 00:00:11.320 --> 00:00:12.320 We offer you. 4 00:00:13.839 --> 00:00:21.440 Escape, Escape design to free you from the four walls 5 00:00:21.440 --> 00:00:24.839 of to day for a half hour of high adventure. 6 00:00:37.640 --> 00:00:40.840 You are drifting along the muddy reaches of a South 7 00:00:40.920 --> 00:00:46.359 American river, your diving gear in readiness. The air comes going. 8 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:50.960 Yet you know that in the murky depths below you 9 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:56.079 waiting in the slime. Therefore you is a mortal enemy 10 00:00:56.159 --> 00:00:59.759 from whom there may be no escape. 11 00:01:00.119 --> 00:01:19.400 Listen now, as a scape brings you Tony Barrett's story Bloodwaters. 12 00:01:20.959 --> 00:01:25.359 They take you up slowly, always slowly, even in a 13 00:01:25.439 --> 00:01:29.400 nothing job like this one a harbor bottom dive at 14 00:01:29.439 --> 00:01:32.640 a beginner would laugh at. I kicked away from the 15 00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:36.840 heavy pilings harder than I had to, and I knew 16 00:01:36.959 --> 00:01:39.879 I was trying to dull my mind again, not to 17 00:01:39.959 --> 00:01:43.799 think about it, trying to sell myself the same old 18 00:01:43.879 --> 00:01:48.040 story that a diver shouldn't care where he works because 19 00:01:48.079 --> 00:01:52.400 the job's always the same. There's something down there. They 20 00:01:52.560 --> 00:01:57.319 wanted you get it, period, but it didn't work too well. 21 00:01:58.040 --> 00:02:04.120 The story was wearing thin. There you are, you know 22 00:02:04.959 --> 00:02:06.799 you want to suit off, or you want to rest 23 00:02:06.840 --> 00:02:10.639 for us? Rest from what a fifty foot dive? Get 24 00:02:10.639 --> 00:02:13.000 me out of the suit seat, you see? 25 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:16.960 Perhaps the man knows. 26 00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:19.000 Best trance, Murdac. 27 00:02:20.159 --> 00:02:25.159 Fifty foot dive can be dangerous, but then danger never 28 00:02:25.360 --> 00:02:26.360 bothered you did it? 29 00:02:26.680 --> 00:02:28.599 What are you doing here, Murdac? What do you want? 30 00:02:29.159 --> 00:02:32.439 Does an old friend have to want something? I'm not 31 00:02:32.840 --> 00:02:37.719 interested in any of your deals. Really. With this job finished, 32 00:02:37.719 --> 00:02:41.039 then nothing else inside. I'm busy, Murdac. Beat it. 33 00:02:41.479 --> 00:02:45.560 No curiosity trend, not so much as a what are 34 00:02:45.599 --> 00:02:48.960 you doing in a four second hole in Argentina? 35 00:02:50.520 --> 00:02:53.280 You never were much at small talk? Were you? You'd 36 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:56.719 buy Murdoc. Wait a minute, take your hand off me 37 00:02:57.479 --> 00:02:59.240 by the rush? 38 00:02:59.319 --> 00:03:00.159 Where are you going? 39 00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:05.919 You know it all? You tell me? All right? I will. 40 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:10.280 What you do between now and tonight does not matter. 41 00:03:11.240 --> 00:03:14.560 But at nine o'clock I shall expect you at the 42 00:03:14.639 --> 00:03:16.560 Carfeo Rondo promptly. 43 00:03:16.840 --> 00:03:19.080 And if I don't come, then you. 44 00:03:19.120 --> 00:03:23.120 Are afford not to come, Trent, it still takes money 45 00:03:23.159 --> 00:03:24.439 to live even down here. 46 00:03:26.159 --> 00:03:44.759 I will see you at nine o'clock. You've been talking 47 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:47.319 for an hour now, Murderach, and you haven't said anything. 48 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:58.199 Get to it, you have no social graces? Pity, uh, Trent? 49 00:03:59.560 --> 00:04:02.520 How you like never to have to get into diving 50 00:04:02.599 --> 00:04:08.639 gear again? To be rich, really rich, to have everything 51 00:04:08.719 --> 00:04:09.400 you ever wanted. 52 00:04:09.479 --> 00:04:12.599 I had everything I wanted once? You remember that, don't 53 00:04:12.639 --> 00:04:13.199 your Murdoch? 54 00:04:14.479 --> 00:04:16.959 How long have you been away from the States trend? 55 00:04:17.000 --> 00:04:19.959 What's that got to do with it? Hello? Three years? 56 00:04:20.040 --> 00:04:23.959 Three stinking years? And don't you want to go back now? 57 00:04:24.079 --> 00:04:26.959 I like working jungle holes like this. I like fifty 58 00:04:26.959 --> 00:04:29.759 foot dock site dives with Native boys that fall asleep 59 00:04:29.759 --> 00:04:32.720 on the pumps while you're down there? What are you 60 00:04:32.720 --> 00:04:36.240 building fortune for both of us? What do you want 61 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:39.720 this time? My right eye? Can't you forget what happened? 62 00:04:39.720 --> 00:04:44.959 Can you? You're being stupid. You're out of your territory 63 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:48.120 down here, Murdoch, So talk nice to me, Look, Trent. 64 00:04:49.160 --> 00:04:51.439 In two months we can both walk out of here 65 00:04:51.480 --> 00:04:53.680 with more money than you ever dreamed of. 66 00:04:53.879 --> 00:04:58.560 I don't dream anymore, gold, Trent. If I told you 67 00:04:58.639 --> 00:05:02.839 how much you would think me mad? You want to 68 00:05:02.879 --> 00:05:06.519 give me hair? You will learn it? My diving? Yes, 69 00:05:11.120 --> 00:05:14.160 did I say something humorous? So you fell for the 70 00:05:14.240 --> 00:05:15.560 national industry? 71 00:05:16.199 --> 00:05:18.240 Don't you know there's a peddler on every corner down 72 00:05:18.279 --> 00:05:20.160 here selling maps of sunken treasure. 73 00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:24.720 I love that the smooth Vincent Murdoch is a tourist. 74 00:05:28.399 --> 00:05:30.680 And now do you want to hear what I have 75 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:32.519 to say? Say your peace? 76 00:05:33.879 --> 00:05:36.360 Did you ever hear of the ground Chuko's rebellion? 77 00:05:38.279 --> 00:05:39.839 Ah, Maria, my dear. 78 00:05:43.079 --> 00:05:43.279 May? 79 00:05:43.319 --> 00:05:50.040 I present Trent Poll. This is Maria sand Yeah. 80 00:05:50.079 --> 00:05:55.360 Sit down, Maria, something to drink. 81 00:05:56.399 --> 00:05:59.519 You said something about a rebellion fourteen years ago. 82 00:05:59.519 --> 00:06:02.720 To be exactly, Olivia and Paraguay were at. 83 00:06:02.959 --> 00:06:05.879 Each other's throats. It's in the history books. I didn't 84 00:06:05.879 --> 00:06:07.240 know you were a reader murder. 85 00:06:07.680 --> 00:06:10.759 The Paraguarians were getting the worst of it, so they 86 00:06:10.920 --> 00:06:14.079 loaded a small boat in Santa Rosa with millions in 87 00:06:14.199 --> 00:06:15.279 gold for shipping up. 88 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:15.920 The Paraguay River. 89 00:06:16.639 --> 00:06:19.439 It was to go to Brazil for safe keeping. Well 90 00:06:20.360 --> 00:06:24.279 after the boat left where Topinasco. It was never seen 91 00:06:24.279 --> 00:06:26.519 a game, nor was the goal. 92 00:06:28.360 --> 00:06:28.720 Storm. 93 00:06:29.319 --> 00:06:34.079 They never even found survivors. Besides, where would they look? 94 00:06:35.519 --> 00:06:37.600 Have you had the idea of the length of the 95 00:06:37.639 --> 00:06:41.360 Paraguay River? Two governments can't find the gold? But you can't? 96 00:06:42.040 --> 00:06:47.879 That is correct, I can. What do you got charts 97 00:06:48.680 --> 00:06:52.759 better than that? What? Then? I said? Before that they 98 00:06:53.079 --> 00:07:01.879 never found survivors. I did. The only one interested Trench. 99 00:07:03.240 --> 00:07:05.720 I don't want any part of you, Murdoch, now or anytime, 100 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:08.079 so get off my back. Don't you realize what I'm 101 00:07:08.120 --> 00:07:10.639 offering you. I understand this. It's over. I'm through with 102 00:07:10.759 --> 00:07:13.519 you and your schemes and I'm not running anymore. Get 103 00:07:13.560 --> 00:07:15.600 that through your head. Your fat's like you listen to 104 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:16.959 me three years ago. 105 00:07:17.079 --> 00:07:20.399 I listened to you three years down in this sinkhole. 106 00:07:20.480 --> 00:07:22.839 Is what I got for it? Three years you foul, 107 00:07:23.040 --> 00:07:44.360 filthy fit. I'm good to cut you a new throb doll. 108 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:01.199 I don't know how long it lasted, how many times 109 00:08:01.199 --> 00:08:03.000 I hit him, trying to pay him back for the 110 00:08:03.040 --> 00:08:08.879 lonely years. But finally it was over, finished, and I 111 00:08:09.000 --> 00:08:12.800 was back at the waterfront again, tasting the soft breeze 112 00:08:12.839 --> 00:08:22.920 coming in from the sea. You know your what do 113 00:08:22.959 --> 00:08:27.639 you want? Oh, Maria, isn't it? 114 00:08:28.399 --> 00:08:30.199 See Maria? 115 00:08:30.639 --> 00:08:32.919 I'm sorry if I messed up your friend Murdoch. 116 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:37.279 He's all right now. Besides, I have seen men five before. 117 00:08:37.399 --> 00:08:41.600 Yeah, I'm sure you have. You always follow the winner. 118 00:08:43.159 --> 00:08:45.799 Anger forces words. The tongue does not want to say. 119 00:08:45.919 --> 00:08:48.600 My name is Trent, not Murdoch, plain enough. 120 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:50.039 I know your name, Sinno. 121 00:08:51.320 --> 00:08:53.840 Oh there is a scrutch on your cheeks and not 122 00:08:54.120 --> 00:09:03.200 a little blood. Let me, a woman knows how, Senor? 123 00:09:05.039 --> 00:09:05.440 Senor? 124 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:08.279 Is that the way you kiss Murdoch? 125 00:09:10.360 --> 00:09:14.240 Rise, Bolito, the younger is still there and. 126 00:09:14.240 --> 00:09:16.799 It shouldn't be, not after that. Huh, Baldi, who were 127 00:09:16.840 --> 00:09:19.159 you really kissing Maria? Me or him? What do you 128 00:09:19.200 --> 00:09:22.399 want the gold, Murdoch? Everybody wants something more. It's yours. 129 00:09:23.600 --> 00:09:28.279 I want you to come with me, Senor, no more Polito. Huh, 130 00:09:28.799 --> 00:09:33.240 please come with me. Please, I'll show you what I want. 131 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:38.200 She turned and moved away, without every once looking back. 132 00:09:38.840 --> 00:09:42.039 So she was sure i'd follow her, and she was right. 133 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:45.840 The shack she led me to was less than a 134 00:09:45.879 --> 00:09:48.679 half mile away, no different than any of the others 135 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:51.840 around it. She turned to look at me once as 136 00:09:51.879 --> 00:09:55.120 she opened the door, and her eyes were a thousand 137 00:09:55.240 --> 00:10:01.159 years old. She little lamp, and I looked where she 138 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:05.120 was pointing. He lay on a bed in the corner, 139 00:10:05.200 --> 00:10:08.919 a little Portuguese, maybe fifty, cackling softly to himself as 140 00:10:08.960 --> 00:10:12.519 though he knew a joke that nobody else would ever know. 141 00:10:12.759 --> 00:10:15.879 His hair was pure white, the kind that comes from 142 00:10:15.879 --> 00:10:20.399 too much terror, too much shock. And then I saw 143 00:10:20.440 --> 00:10:25.120 his hands, from finger tips to elbows. They were a 144 00:10:25.159 --> 00:10:29.320 mass of little scars, ugly needle like scars that spoke 145 00:10:29.399 --> 00:10:34.080 of some past moment of horror. We moved closer, but 146 00:10:34.120 --> 00:10:38.519 he never looked, just sat crooning softly to a bottle 147 00:10:38.559 --> 00:10:46.840 of whiskey cradled in his arm. Riao, who is he? 148 00:10:47.559 --> 00:10:49.360 Have you never seen a man who has lost his 149 00:10:49.519 --> 00:10:55.080 mind to fear? Look where? For he is such a 150 00:10:55.159 --> 00:10:58.639 one for his sea. 151 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:01.120 So ya? He thought? 152 00:11:08.480 --> 00:11:09.679 Have you seen enough? Siner? 153 00:11:11.159 --> 00:11:12.120 Is he a uh? 154 00:11:12.679 --> 00:11:18.000 My father? What is left of him? 155 00:11:18.039 --> 00:11:19.200 How did it happen? Maria? 156 00:11:20.120 --> 00:11:24.320 You have already been told. Murdok spoke truth tonight when 157 00:11:24.360 --> 00:11:26.120 he told it his survivor of Missan Barossa. 158 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:44.320 Later, as we sat staring out at the water, she 159 00:11:44.440 --> 00:11:47.399 told me all of it. And it wasn't hard to follow. 160 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:53.120 An old man driven insane by terror, who clung to 161 00:11:53.240 --> 00:11:56.960 Murdoch because Murdoch kept him in whiskey, the one thing 162 00:11:57.080 --> 00:12:00.879 that pushed the terror away for a wire, very neat 163 00:12:00.960 --> 00:12:03.159 and tidy, the Murdoch touch. 164 00:12:03.919 --> 00:12:04.720 You understand now? 165 00:12:06.039 --> 00:12:11.799 Yeah? What do you want me to do, Maria? Make 166 00:12:11.879 --> 00:12:14.279 the trip with Murdoch as his diver. Is that what 167 00:12:14.440 --> 00:12:14.799 you want? 168 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:22.000 My father is a child. Now Modac will lose him, then, Oh. 169 00:12:23.879 --> 00:12:25.840 That's all you want it from the beginning. Isn't it 170 00:12:26.519 --> 00:12:30.759 for me to be a watchdog? He is my father? Yeah? 171 00:12:33.759 --> 00:12:40.440 I never asked you're going along? See I go, all right, Maria, 172 00:12:41.320 --> 00:12:53.639 I'll dive for Murdoch grass, all right, gratitude for your father. 173 00:12:54.440 --> 00:12:59.000 No, not this time, getting this time for me. 174 00:13:08.879 --> 00:13:11.600 Murdoch was all sweetness and light next morning when I 175 00:13:11.679 --> 00:13:13.919 told him he had a diver, you just sworn we 176 00:13:14.000 --> 00:13:17.320 were old buddies. He balked at only one thing, by 177 00:13:17.399 --> 00:13:19.799 wanting to take along Jose, the kid who'd handle pumps 178 00:13:19.840 --> 00:13:20.960 for me on the harbor job. 179 00:13:21.960 --> 00:13:24.279 But I wasn't about to do any diving without somebody 180 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:25.720 I trusted handling lines. 181 00:13:26.679 --> 00:13:29.200 But I didn't like it. But he couldn't afford argue. 182 00:13:30.519 --> 00:13:33.279 Jose turned out to be a real good investment before 183 00:13:33.320 --> 00:13:35.399 we ever got started that night. 184 00:13:35.559 --> 00:13:39.960 As a matter of fact, Oh you finish out Jose 185 00:13:42.279 --> 00:13:46.360 or finished you watch him creak the gear. I did 186 00:13:46.399 --> 00:13:52.879 it myself. I shouldn't known. Thanks know how well you 187 00:13:53.039 --> 00:13:57.480 know this genteral murder too? Well? Why? Well, come on, ose, 188 00:13:57.600 --> 00:14:00.840 what is it? While I was taking care of the gear, 189 00:14:00.960 --> 00:14:04.679 he was getting there. The missis how the permits government 190 00:14:04.759 --> 00:14:09.120 permits for the interior. See see, you're supposed to name 191 00:14:09.840 --> 00:14:12.000 all the people that go. I know that. What about it? 192 00:14:13.080 --> 00:14:16.759 I saw the papers on your well it's every name 193 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:25.480 there except yours? I see? But why why does he 194 00:14:25.600 --> 00:14:28.519 do a thing like that? You know what? Reason to save? 195 00:14:28.679 --> 00:14:33.919 Explain later? Okay, Murdoch's got it all figured out. I say, 196 00:14:35.960 --> 00:14:38.519 I still do not understand. Why are you not on 197 00:14:38.600 --> 00:14:42.799 that list? It's real simple. A man who doesn't make 198 00:14:42.879 --> 00:14:46.320 a trip can't be expected to come back from it. 199 00:14:57.519 --> 00:15:01.519 You are listening to Blood Waters tonight's pleasant of Escape. 200 00:15:02.679 --> 00:15:06.360 Millions in Asia living on inadequate diets and additional millions 201 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:10.039 in pre Europe fighting for post war recovery are the beneficiaries. 202 00:15:10.039 --> 00:15:14.080 When you give to care ce are send a ten 203 00:15:14.120 --> 00:15:17.320 dollars care package or the six ninety five budget package 204 00:15:17.960 --> 00:15:22.159 for further details, Right Care New York. That's Care New 205 00:15:22.279 --> 00:15:27.519 York and now Escape and the second act of Blood Waters. 206 00:15:43.279 --> 00:15:45.519 It's a thing you got to see to believe, a 207 00:15:45.600 --> 00:15:48.279 thing that exists every foot of the length of Argentina. 208 00:15:48.799 --> 00:15:50.919 Yet a couple of hours inland from the coast, and 209 00:15:51.000 --> 00:15:54.960 you've gone back a thousand years nothing but jungle, jungle, 210 00:15:55.080 --> 00:15:57.840 so thick and green, you can travel a full day 211 00:15:57.919 --> 00:15:59.960 without every once getting a glimpse of sunlight. 212 00:16:01.279 --> 00:16:03.639 Bad enough anyway you try it, but doing it Murdoch's 213 00:16:03.639 --> 00:16:07.799 way was the worst. Murdoch a gold hungry, penny pinching 214 00:16:07.840 --> 00:16:11.039 man who hadn't hired enough bearers, who skimped on food, 215 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:15.720 and who hated every minute wasted on rest. Maria took 216 00:16:15.799 --> 00:16:19.159 it well, quiet for the most part, her eyes never 217 00:16:19.320 --> 00:16:24.399 far from Sandoval. The old man was pathetic, shambling along, 218 00:16:24.720 --> 00:16:29.360 falling off and uncaring and never hearing. There was only 219 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:32.399 one sound that mattered in his world, the cork coming 220 00:16:32.480 --> 00:16:35.799 out of the bottle. And Murdoch was master at the bottle. 221 00:16:36.519 --> 00:16:40.320 Four days of it, four stinking, crawling days, and on 222 00:16:40.440 --> 00:16:42.159 the morning of the fifth we came out of it. 223 00:16:42.879 --> 00:16:46.240 Stood there looking out at the Paraguay River. The gold 224 00:16:46.440 --> 00:16:50.840 was showing in Murdoch's eyes again. Look and trend beautiful, 225 00:16:50.960 --> 00:16:53.720 isn't it. It's a river, It's all it is. It's 226 00:16:53.759 --> 00:16:57.159 been a long walk. We're to now three days up river. 227 00:16:58.240 --> 00:16:59.480 Do you have any objections? 228 00:17:00.039 --> 00:17:03.279 From the bill, and you should remember that to check 229 00:17:03.320 --> 00:17:05.319 out the supplies while I make our agements for the boat. 230 00:17:05.480 --> 00:17:07.079 Don't you want me to take a look at the 231 00:17:07.160 --> 00:17:09.480 boat before you make a deal. Make sure you got 232 00:17:09.519 --> 00:17:10.359 a good winch. 233 00:17:10.440 --> 00:17:14.799 You'll have a short memory trend. I'd say I'm fairly 234 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:22.480 capable of making deals, wouldn't you. You just make sure 235 00:17:22.599 --> 00:17:24.519 the bearers don't steal anything when they leave. 236 00:17:26.680 --> 00:17:28.720 I take care of that for you, Cino, and thanks 237 00:17:28.759 --> 00:17:42.160 as a and keep an eye on the old manor Maria. 238 00:17:43.000 --> 00:17:44.039 You are right, I see. 239 00:17:46.119 --> 00:17:53.519 I'm so grateful to you for what for everything, everything PLO. 240 00:17:54.519 --> 00:17:57.319 You take care with Murdoch. He's a dangerous man. 241 00:17:57.480 --> 00:18:00.960 Yeah, now listen to me. From here on, it's going 242 00:18:01.000 --> 00:18:03.400 to be different. We'll all be in a small boat 243 00:18:03.440 --> 00:18:06.160 for days, maybe weeks. I won't always be around because 244 00:18:06.200 --> 00:18:09.519 of the diving. Here. Take the gun, just take it 245 00:18:10.119 --> 00:18:19.240 and hope you don't have to use it. A couple 246 00:18:19.279 --> 00:18:21.839 of hours later, Murdach came back and waved us down 247 00:18:21.880 --> 00:18:24.839 to the river. Instead of being alone, now he had 248 00:18:24.880 --> 00:18:27.359 a native with him, a big man, he called, but 249 00:18:27.519 --> 00:18:30.839 two a lot of men. Even through the paint on 250 00:18:30.880 --> 00:18:33.519 his face, you could see the combination of Mayan and Inca, 251 00:18:34.119 --> 00:18:37.319 the thousand year old dignity. As he stood looking at us. 252 00:18:37.200 --> 00:18:41.519 Straight, this is but two. I've just arranged for the boat, 253 00:18:41.559 --> 00:18:44.079 and he's going up rival with us to help with 254 00:18:44.160 --> 00:18:44.519 the loading. 255 00:18:44.559 --> 00:18:49.799 But tu, but to help? What are we taking him for? Murdac. 256 00:18:50.279 --> 00:18:52.039 He wants to go up river to his people, and 257 00:18:52.640 --> 00:18:55.200 he will work for his passage. We can use him. 258 00:18:55.240 --> 00:18:57.880 You keep adding, people, somebody's gonna have to swim alongside. 259 00:18:58.240 --> 00:19:01.160 Not ain't much of a boat, No, Trent, this is 260 00:19:01.279 --> 00:19:04.119 no time to be at each other's throats. I know 261 00:19:04.319 --> 00:19:07.319 we are on the right track. Sam Deval started getting 262 00:19:07.440 --> 00:19:09.720 excited the moment he saw this spot of the river. 263 00:19:10.079 --> 00:19:12.160 For a guy in his condition, you're doing a lot 264 00:19:12.240 --> 00:19:14.599 of depending on him. You'll let me worry about that. 265 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:17.759 All you have to do is handle your end of things, 266 00:19:17.799 --> 00:19:19.960 and that won't begin until we start diving. 267 00:19:20.079 --> 00:19:24.359 You're wrong, Murdoch. I started worrying three years ago. Remember 268 00:19:35.960 --> 00:19:39.799 two days on the river, Two long days with Murdoch 269 00:19:39.880 --> 00:19:44.400 never once taking his eyes off Sandoval, watching each slightest reaction, 270 00:19:44.680 --> 00:19:48.759 the bottle always ready, and the old man needed that bottle. Now, 271 00:19:49.319 --> 00:19:52.400 his terror growing by the minute, and Murdoch loving it 272 00:19:52.519 --> 00:19:56.920 because it told him we were getting closer. That night, 273 00:19:57.400 --> 00:19:59.480 I was laying out my gear back in the stern 274 00:19:59.559 --> 00:20:02.960 when Too, the big native came toward me. He wasn't 275 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:05.839 the calm giant anymore, just a man, a terrified man 276 00:20:05.920 --> 00:20:07.480 with words tumbling out of his mouth. 277 00:20:08.440 --> 00:20:12.440 You tell bat too, you tell tell you what about 278 00:20:12.680 --> 00:20:13.400 crazy man? 279 00:20:13.720 --> 00:20:18.680 Crazy sand of arrow? Or what about him hands? The scars? 280 00:20:18.759 --> 00:20:21.400 You mean, how did he get him? Yeah? I don't 281 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:23.279 know what happened to his hands, But what about him? 282 00:20:23.759 --> 00:20:27.359 Why you come here to dive to bring from the water? 283 00:20:27.559 --> 00:20:28.000 Why no? 284 00:20:28.759 --> 00:20:32.279 Not going water? No? Why not? What's wrong? Not go 285 00:20:32.839 --> 00:20:40.000 devil water? Devil water? You not going devil water? And 286 00:20:40.160 --> 00:20:41.880 that's all I could get out of him, just that. 287 00:20:42.799 --> 00:20:45.039 It was a long time before I got to sleep. 288 00:20:49.000 --> 00:20:51.519 Late on the third day, we dropped anchor just outside 289 00:20:51.519 --> 00:20:55.240 a small coal Murdoch was out of his mind with excitement, 290 00:20:55.640 --> 00:20:57.480 but it was too dark for diving. We'd start in 291 00:20:57.519 --> 00:21:00.240 the morning, but Two wanted to go a short see 292 00:21:00.279 --> 00:21:03.359 his people spore. He'd be back before Son of Murdoch 293 00:21:03.440 --> 00:21:05.440 didn't like it, but he had no choice. We needed 294 00:21:05.480 --> 00:21:09.319 the big man on pumps. In the morning. We were 295 00:21:09.400 --> 00:21:12.200 up at dawn, and but two was back aboard. He 296 00:21:12.240 --> 00:21:15.000 didn't say much. He was never moren a couple of 297 00:21:15.039 --> 00:21:17.880 feet away from me, and his eyes never left me. 298 00:21:19.400 --> 00:21:20.880 But I didn't have time to think about it. I 299 00:21:20.960 --> 00:21:24.000 had my own troubles. Let's take you so long, tread 300 00:21:24.079 --> 00:21:26.559 for you and your penny pension. You've been had, Murdoc. 301 00:21:26.680 --> 00:21:28.920 We were wrong for not a thing except this winch 302 00:21:29.039 --> 00:21:32.039 is on its last leg. Well, let's not argue. Repair 303 00:21:32.079 --> 00:21:34.920 it the best you can talk cheap. But I'm the 304 00:21:35.000 --> 00:21:38.240 guy who goes down there. Listen to me, Trent. We're close, 305 00:21:38.319 --> 00:21:41.400 really close. Son of elswass right beneath us. He has 306 00:21:41.480 --> 00:21:43.480 to be right. He's pointed out landmarks all the way. 307 00:21:43.519 --> 00:21:48.960 Wait a minute, what's that his native drums? Probably a 308 00:21:49.039 --> 00:21:52.920 welcome get the chet close trend. We're losing time. You'll 309 00:21:52.960 --> 00:21:55.559 remember what I say about the clear lines down their cinema. 310 00:21:55.960 --> 00:22:01.279 I'll remember, and don't you forget. Look said look on 311 00:22:01.319 --> 00:22:04.680 the shore natives, six or seven of them. It's part 312 00:22:04.680 --> 00:22:07.519 of buttoo's trick. What's that they carry? It looks like 313 00:22:07.599 --> 00:22:10.079 a pig or a goat, and the throat is cut. 314 00:22:10.400 --> 00:22:10.759 What is it? 315 00:22:10.839 --> 00:22:13.400 But what are they doing? Make sacrifice? 316 00:22:13.799 --> 00:22:14.240 To river. 317 00:22:14.400 --> 00:22:18.359 God, But why now? Save you from what? What's down there? 318 00:22:18.400 --> 00:22:21.559 A native superstition? Grant? Where's your intelligence? Are you ready? 319 00:22:21.640 --> 00:22:30.960 But too you not staying water along got on the beach. 320 00:22:31.079 --> 00:22:33.319 They heard his command, and the pig was thrown into 321 00:22:33.359 --> 00:22:36.640 the river. A moment later, Jose had bolted my helmet 322 00:22:36.680 --> 00:22:38.559 in place, and I was being lowered over the side 323 00:22:38.559 --> 00:22:44.839 of the boat. Everything was forgotten. Now the work is 324 00:22:44.880 --> 00:22:49.920 staying alive. That's how it is with diving. You can 325 00:22:50.000 --> 00:22:54.480 do it a thousand times, but it's always new. Jose 326 00:22:54.680 --> 00:22:58.359 knew it through the phone. I could hear him worrying 327 00:22:58.480 --> 00:23:06.000 with me. You're right, yeah, read me see you live 328 00:23:06.039 --> 00:23:10.599 in bottoms. Stay with me. I'm gonna have a little 329 00:23:10.640 --> 00:23:16.400 rock around. I checked my lines and started toward a 330 00:23:16.519 --> 00:23:21.799 large mass of shadow distances underwater. Fool you, and I 331 00:23:22.039 --> 00:23:27.079 was on it almost before I started. It was a ship, 332 00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:31.519 or what was left of one. Her back had been 333 00:23:31.559 --> 00:23:35.640 broken in two, and her stern was right in front 334 00:23:35.640 --> 00:23:42.160 of me. I read it aloud, Santa Rosa, what's that? 335 00:23:43.680 --> 00:23:47.880 I found it? Start a line down, she's folding. You're here, 336 00:23:48.119 --> 00:23:54.119 He's fine. I went in carefully, slowly, making sure of 337 00:23:54.240 --> 00:23:58.519 my lines. It didn't take me twenty minutes to find it. 338 00:23:59.079 --> 00:24:04.559 A tremendous iron bound chest. I scratched the slime off 339 00:24:04.640 --> 00:24:08.359 with my knife and there it was the official seal 340 00:24:08.400 --> 00:24:12.640 of Paraguay. There wasn't any doubt now what was inside. 341 00:24:13.319 --> 00:24:15.920 I got a line around it, told them which way 342 00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:18.720 to swing the winch and manage to get it out 343 00:24:18.759 --> 00:24:20.000 in the clear for the trip up. 344 00:24:21.160 --> 00:24:23.119 I just about finished when I felt a signal on 345 00:24:23.240 --> 00:24:28.640 my lines. What is it? Bato says, to get up 346 00:24:28.680 --> 00:24:32.000 here quick. You went down to long Why French? This 347 00:24:32.160 --> 00:24:35.000 is Murdoch. Let's get to go on the first at 348 00:24:35.039 --> 00:24:35.319 the moment. 349 00:24:35.319 --> 00:24:35.839 Won't hurt you. 350 00:24:36.079 --> 00:24:38.440 It's gonna take chances on the phone line. Let's not 351 00:24:38.799 --> 00:24:42.599 take chances on me. Tell us to take me up. 352 00:24:45.480 --> 00:24:49.440 The door comes up first, stand clear trench, Murdac. Listen, 353 00:24:50.839 --> 00:24:54.880 my knife is across the line. You turn that winch 354 00:24:54.960 --> 00:24:58.319 and I'll cut the line. You hear me. You're insane. 355 00:24:58.920 --> 00:25:01.119 I could cut your hair. Hoole, go on, cut it. 356 00:25:01.759 --> 00:25:04.279 I'm tired of livin with you on my back. Anyway. 357 00:25:04.599 --> 00:25:07.240 Oh all right, trend all right now, don't get excited. 358 00:25:07.279 --> 00:25:11.880 We're taking you up slowly. They began taking me up 359 00:25:12.960 --> 00:25:17.119 and then I realized why Murdoc knew once I started up, 360 00:25:17.160 --> 00:25:19.559 I couldn't possibly cut the line that held the chest. 361 00:25:20.480 --> 00:25:22.000 He took me up just far enough to get my 362 00:25:22.079 --> 00:25:24.920 hands on the bottom rung of the Jacob's ladder and 363 00:25:25.119 --> 00:25:32.480 hang there helplessly. Then through the phones, I could hear 364 00:25:32.519 --> 00:25:34.720 the creak of the winch as he started hauling up 365 00:25:34.799 --> 00:25:38.359 the chest. Looking up through the water, I could see 366 00:25:38.440 --> 00:25:41.079 Murdoch leaning over the rail as he waited for the 367 00:25:41.200 --> 00:25:46.519 chest to break water. And then it happened, a sudden 368 00:25:46.599 --> 00:25:49.079 sharp sting on my hand. From when I looked, I 369 00:25:49.160 --> 00:25:51.960 saw blood, blood, and a six inch fish racing in 370 00:25:52.079 --> 00:25:54.880 for another bight. In a second, there were more of them, 371 00:25:55.160 --> 00:25:59.079 little needle tooth devils, plunging at the canvas suit, even 372 00:25:59.119 --> 00:26:01.160 trying to bite through the steel at a helmet to 373 00:26:01.200 --> 00:26:05.240 get at the flesh inside. And at last I understood everything. 374 00:26:05.799 --> 00:26:08.799 Why but two called it devil water, why Sandoval had 375 00:26:08.839 --> 00:26:11.319 gone insane, and what happened to the crew at the 376 00:26:11.359 --> 00:26:15.799 Santa Rosa. That six inch fish was the South American pirana, 377 00:26:16.119 --> 00:26:18.799 a cannibal so deadly it strips a man to the 378 00:26:18.880 --> 00:26:26.119 bone in thirty seconds. Then I heard something else, the winch. 379 00:26:27.000 --> 00:26:29.119 Murdoch had been driving it too fast even for a 380 00:26:29.200 --> 00:26:32.119 good winch. It started to crumple just as the chest 381 00:26:32.200 --> 00:26:35.480 broke water. Murdoch saw the chest, inches from his hand 382 00:26:35.599 --> 00:26:38.440 start slipping back, and the thought of losing the gold 383 00:26:38.559 --> 00:26:50.440 drove in crazy. He grabbed wallet. Even as the chest 384 00:26:50.519 --> 00:26:53.240 pulled him down past me. He was still holding onto it, 385 00:26:53.960 --> 00:26:56.839 Even as the piranha left me to strip easier pickings 386 00:26:56.920 --> 00:26:59.799 than steel and canvas. He held onto it, and I 387 00:27:00.119 --> 00:27:06.400 you he'd never let go. How could he hadn't The 388 00:27:06.519 --> 00:27:12.160 gold pulled him halfway around the world, and then climbed 389 00:27:12.200 --> 00:27:29.720 out of the water to get him under the direction 390 00:27:29.799 --> 00:27:30.680 of Norman McDonald. 391 00:27:30.880 --> 00:27:34.319 Escape has Brought You Bloodwaters by Tony Barrett, starring Vic Perrin. 392 00:27:34.720 --> 00:27:37.839 Featured in the cast were Jack Krusian, Lillian Baya, Tony Barrett, 393 00:27:37.880 --> 00:27:38.680 and Barney Phillips. 394 00:27:38.960 --> 00:27:40.279 You're announcer George Walsh. 395 00:27:40.759 --> 00:27:43.440 The special music for Escape is composed and conducted by 396 00:27:43.519 --> 00:27:44.319 Leith Stephens. 397 00:27:45.720 --> 00:27:50.839 Next week, you. 398 00:27:50.920 --> 00:27:54.519 Are one of four people trapped in an isolated trading 399 00:27:54.680 --> 00:27:59.480 post somewhere in the Yukon Territory, the blizzard outside making 400 00:27:59.680 --> 00:28:04.079 escape impossible, and you know that before the spring thaws 401 00:28:04.200 --> 00:28:08.160