Speaker 1: Tired of the every day grind, ever dream of a
Speaker 1: life of romantic adventure, want to get away from it all.
Speaker 2: We offer you.
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Speaker 3: of to day for a half hour of high adventure.
Speaker 1: You are drifting along the muddy reaches of a South
Speaker 1: American river, your diving gear in readiness. The air comes going.
Speaker 1: Yet you know that in the murky depths below you
Speaker 1: waiting in the slime. Therefore you is a mortal enemy
Speaker 1: from whom there may be no escape.
Speaker 3: Listen now, as a scape brings you Tony Barrett's story Bloodwaters.
Speaker 2: They take you up slowly, always slowly, even in a
Speaker 2: nothing job like this one a harbor bottom dive at
Speaker 2: a beginner would laugh at. I kicked away from the
Speaker 2: heavy pilings harder than I had to, and I knew
Speaker 2: I was trying to dull my mind again, not to
Speaker 2: think about it, trying to sell myself the same old
Speaker 2: story that a diver shouldn't care where he works because
Speaker 2: the job's always the same. There's something down there. They
Speaker 2: wanted you get it, period, but it didn't work too well.
Speaker 2: The story was wearing thin. There you are, you know
Speaker 2: you want to suit off, or you want to rest
Speaker 2: for us? Rest from what a fifty foot dive? Get
Speaker 2: me out of the suit seat, you see?
Speaker 4: Perhaps the man knows.
Speaker 2: Best trance, Murdac.
Speaker 4: Fifty foot dive can be dangerous, but then danger never
Speaker 4: bothered you did it?
Speaker 2: What are you doing here, Murdac? What do you want?
Speaker 2: Does an old friend have to want something? I'm not
Speaker 2: interested in any of your deals. Really. With this job finished,
Speaker 2: then nothing else inside. I'm busy, Murdac. Beat it.
Speaker 4: No curiosity trend, not so much as a what are
Speaker 4: you doing in a four second hole in Argentina?
Speaker 2: You never were much at small talk? Were you? You'd
Speaker 2: buy Murdoc. Wait a minute, take your hand off me
Speaker 2: by the rush?
Speaker 4: Where are you going?
Speaker 2: You know it all? You tell me? All right? I will.
Speaker 2: What you do between now and tonight does not matter.
Speaker 4: But at nine o'clock I shall expect you at the
Speaker 4: Carfeo Rondo promptly.
Speaker 2: And if I don't come, then you.
Speaker 4: Are afford not to come, Trent, it still takes money
Speaker 4: to live even down here.
Speaker 2: I will see you at nine o'clock. You've been talking
Speaker 2: for an hour now, Murderach, and you haven't said anything.
Speaker 4: Get to it, you have no social graces? Pity, uh, Trent?
Speaker 4: How you like never to have to get into diving
Speaker 4: gear again? To be rich, really rich, to have everything
Speaker 4: you ever wanted.
Speaker 3: I had everything I wanted once? You remember that, don't
Speaker 3: your Murdoch?
Speaker 2: How long have you been away from the States trend?
Speaker 2: What's that got to do with it? Hello? Three years?
Speaker 2: Three stinking years? And don't you want to go back now?
Speaker 2: I like working jungle holes like this. I like fifty
Speaker 2: foot dock site dives with Native boys that fall asleep
Speaker 2: on the pumps while you're down there? What are you
Speaker 2: building fortune for both of us? What do you want
Speaker 2: this time? My right eye? Can't you forget what happened?
Speaker 2: Can you? You're being stupid. You're out of your territory
Speaker 2: down here, Murdoch, So talk nice to me, Look, Trent.
Speaker 4: In two months we can both walk out of here
Speaker 4: with more money than you ever dreamed of.
Speaker 2: I don't dream anymore, gold, Trent. If I told you
Speaker 2: how much you would think me mad? You want to
Speaker 2: give me hair? You will learn it? My diving? Yes,
Speaker 2: did I say something humorous? So you fell for the
Speaker 2: national industry?
Speaker 3: Don't you know there's a peddler on every corner down
Speaker 3: here selling maps of sunken treasure.
Speaker 2: I love that the smooth Vincent Murdoch is a tourist.
Speaker 2: And now do you want to hear what I have
Speaker 2: to say? Say your peace?
Speaker 4: Did you ever hear of the ground Chuko's rebellion?
Speaker 2: Ah, Maria, my dear.
Speaker 4: May?
Speaker 2: I present Trent Poll. This is Maria sand Yeah.
Speaker 4: Sit down, Maria, something to drink.
Speaker 2: You said something about a rebellion fourteen years ago.
Speaker 4: To be exactly, Olivia and Paraguay were at.
Speaker 2: Each other's throats. It's in the history books. I didn't
Speaker 2: know you were a reader murder.
Speaker 4: The Paraguarians were getting the worst of it, so they
Speaker 4: loaded a small boat in Santa Rosa with millions in
Speaker 4: gold for shipping up.
Speaker 2: The Paraguay River.
Speaker 4: It was to go to Brazil for safe keeping. Well
Speaker 4: after the boat left where Topinasco. It was never seen
Speaker 4: a game, nor was the goal.
Speaker 2: Storm.
Speaker 4: They never even found survivors. Besides, where would they look?
Speaker 2: Have you had the idea of the length of the
Speaker 2: Paraguay River? Two governments can't find the gold? But you can't?
Speaker 2: That is correct, I can. What do you got charts
Speaker 2: better than that? What? Then? I said? Before that they
Speaker 2: never found survivors. I did. The only one interested Trench.
Speaker 2: I don't want any part of you, Murdoch, now or anytime,
Speaker 2: so get off my back. Don't you realize what I'm
Speaker 2: offering you. I understand this. It's over. I'm through with
Speaker 2: you and your schemes and I'm not running anymore. Get
Speaker 2: that through your head. Your fat's like you listen to
Speaker 2: me three years ago.
Speaker 3: I listened to you three years down in this sinkhole.
Speaker 2: Is what I got for it? Three years you foul,
Speaker 2: filthy fit. I'm good to cut you a new throb doll.
Speaker 2: I don't know how long it lasted, how many times
Speaker 2: I hit him, trying to pay him back for the
Speaker 2: lonely years. But finally it was over, finished, and I
Speaker 2: was back at the waterfront again, tasting the soft breeze
Speaker 2: coming in from the sea. You know your what do
Speaker 2: you want? Oh, Maria, isn't it?
Speaker 5: See Maria?
Speaker 2: I'm sorry if I messed up your friend Murdoch.
Speaker 5: He's all right now. Besides, I have seen men five before.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure you have. You always follow the winner.
Speaker 5: Anger forces words. The tongue does not want to say.
Speaker 2: My name is Trent, not Murdoch, plain enough.
Speaker 5: I know your name, Sinno.
Speaker 6: Oh there is a scrutch on your cheeks and not
Speaker 6: a little blood. Let me, a woman knows how, Senor?
Speaker 5: Senor?
Speaker 2: Is that the way you kiss Murdoch?
Speaker 5: Rise, Bolito, the younger is still there and.
Speaker 2: It shouldn't be, not after that. Huh, Baldi, who were
Speaker 2: you really kissing Maria? Me or him? What do you
Speaker 2: want the gold, Murdoch? Everybody wants something more. It's yours.
Speaker 6: I want you to come with me, Senor, no more Polito. Huh,
Speaker 6: please come with me. Please, I'll show you what I want.
Speaker 2: She turned and moved away, without every once looking back.
Speaker 2: So she was sure i'd follow her, and she was right.
Speaker 2: The shack she led me to was less than a
Speaker 2: half mile away, no different than any of the others
Speaker 2: around it. She turned to look at me once as
Speaker 2: she opened the door, and her eyes were a thousand
Speaker 2: years old. She little lamp, and I looked where she
Speaker 2: was pointing. He lay on a bed in the corner,
Speaker 2: a little Portuguese, maybe fifty, cackling softly to himself as
Speaker 2: though he knew a joke that nobody else would ever know.
Speaker 2: His hair was pure white, the kind that comes from
Speaker 2: too much terror, too much shock. And then I saw
Speaker 2: his hands, from finger tips to elbows. They were a
Speaker 2: mass of little scars, ugly needle like scars that spoke
Speaker 2: of some past moment of horror. We moved closer, but
Speaker 2: he never looked, just sat crooning softly to a bottle
Speaker 2: of whiskey cradled in his arm. Riao, who is he?
Speaker 5: Have you never seen a man who has lost his
Speaker 5: mind to fear? Look where? For he is such a
Speaker 5: one for his sea.
Speaker 2: So ya? He thought?
Speaker 5: Have you seen enough? Siner?
Speaker 2: Is he a uh?
Speaker 5: My father? What is left of him?
Speaker 2: How did it happen? Maria?
Speaker 6: You have already been told. Murdok spoke truth tonight when
Speaker 6: he told it his survivor of Missan Barossa.
Speaker 3: Later, as we sat staring out at the water, she
Speaker 3: told me all of it. And it wasn't hard to follow.
Speaker 2: An old man driven insane by terror, who clung to
Speaker 2: Murdoch because Murdoch kept him in whiskey, the one thing
Speaker 2: that pushed the terror away for a wire, very neat
Speaker 2: and tidy, the Murdoch touch.
Speaker 5: You understand now?
Speaker 2: Yeah? What do you want me to do, Maria? Make
Speaker 2: the trip with Murdoch as his diver. Is that what
Speaker 2: you want?
Speaker 5: My father is a child. Now Modac will lose him, then, Oh.
Speaker 2: That's all you want it from the beginning. Isn't it
Speaker 2: for me to be a watchdog? He is my father? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I never asked you're going along? See I go, all right, Maria,
Speaker 2: I'll dive for Murdoch grass, all right, gratitude for your father.
Speaker 5: No, not this time, getting this time for me.
Speaker 2: Murdoch was all sweetness and light next morning when I
Speaker 2: told him he had a diver, you just sworn we
Speaker 2: were old buddies. He balked at only one thing, by
Speaker 2: wanting to take along Jose, the kid who'd handle pumps
Speaker 2: for me on the harbor job.
Speaker 3: But I wasn't about to do any diving without somebody
Speaker 3: I trusted handling lines.
Speaker 2: But I didn't like it. But he couldn't afford argue.
Speaker 3: Jose turned out to be a real good investment before
Speaker 3: we ever got started that night.
Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, Oh you finish out Jose
Speaker 2: or finished you watch him creak the gear. I did
Speaker 2: it myself. I shouldn't known. Thanks know how well you
Speaker 2: know this genteral murder too? Well? Why? Well, come on, ose,
Speaker 2: what is it? While I was taking care of the gear,
Speaker 2: he was getting there. The missis how the permits government
Speaker 2: permits for the interior. See see, you're supposed to name
Speaker 2: all the people that go. I know that. What about it?
Speaker 2: I saw the papers on your well it's every name
Speaker 2: there except yours? I see? But why why does he
Speaker 2: do a thing like that? You know what? Reason to save?
Speaker 2: Explain later? Okay, Murdoch's got it all figured out. I say,
Speaker 2: I still do not understand. Why are you not on
Speaker 2: that list? It's real simple. A man who doesn't make
Speaker 2: a trip can't be expected to come back from it.
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Speaker 3: It's a thing you got to see to believe, a
Speaker 3: thing that exists every foot of the length of Argentina.
Speaker 3: Yet a couple of hours inland from the coast, and
Speaker 3: you've gone back a thousand years nothing but jungle, jungle,
Speaker 3: so thick and green, you can travel a full day
Speaker 3: without every once getting a glimpse of sunlight.
Speaker 2: Bad enough anyway you try it, but doing it Murdoch's
Speaker 2: way was the worst. Murdoch a gold hungry, penny pinching
Speaker 2: man who hadn't hired enough bearers, who skimped on food,
Speaker 2: and who hated every minute wasted on rest. Maria took
Speaker 2: it well, quiet for the most part, her eyes never
Speaker 2: far from Sandoval. The old man was pathetic, shambling along,
Speaker 2: falling off and uncaring and never hearing. There was only
Speaker 2: one sound that mattered in his world, the cork coming
Speaker 2: out of the bottle. And Murdoch was master at the bottle.
Speaker 2: Four days of it, four stinking, crawling days, and on
Speaker 2: the morning of the fifth we came out of it.
Speaker 2: Stood there looking out at the Paraguay River. The gold
Speaker 2: was showing in Murdoch's eyes again. Look and trend beautiful,
Speaker 2: isn't it. It's a river, It's all it is. It's
Speaker 2: been a long walk. We're to now three days up river.
Speaker 2: Do you have any objections?
Speaker 4: From the bill, and you should remember that to check
Speaker 4: out the supplies while I make our agements for the boat.
Speaker 2: Don't you want me to take a look at the
Speaker 2: boat before you make a deal. Make sure you got
Speaker 2: a good winch.
Speaker 4: You'll have a short memory trend. I'd say I'm fairly
Speaker 4: capable of making deals, wouldn't you. You just make sure
Speaker 4: the bearers don't steal anything when they leave.
Speaker 2: I take care of that for you, Cino, and thanks
Speaker 2: as a and keep an eye on the old manor Maria.
Speaker 2: You are right, I see.
Speaker 5: I'm so grateful to you for what for everything, everything PLO.
Speaker 5: You take care with Murdoch. He's a dangerous man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, now listen to me. From here on, it's going
Speaker 2: to be different. We'll all be in a small boat
Speaker 2: for days, maybe weeks. I won't always be around because
Speaker 2: of the diving. Here. Take the gun, just take it
Speaker 2: and hope you don't have to use it. A couple
Speaker 2: of hours later, Murdach came back and waved us down
Speaker 2: to the river. Instead of being alone, now he had
Speaker 2: a native with him, a big man, he called, but
Speaker 2: two a lot of men. Even through the paint on
Speaker 2: his face, you could see the combination of Mayan and Inca,
Speaker 2: the thousand year old dignity. As he stood looking at us.
Speaker 4: Straight, this is but two. I've just arranged for the boat,
Speaker 4: and he's going up rival with us to help with
Speaker 4: the loading.
Speaker 2: But tu, but to help? What are we taking him for? Murdac.
Speaker 2: He wants to go up river to his people, and
Speaker 2: he will work for his passage. We can use him.
Speaker 2: You keep adding, people, somebody's gonna have to swim alongside.
Speaker 2: Not ain't much of a boat, No, Trent, this is
Speaker 2: no time to be at each other's throats. I know
Speaker 2: we are on the right track. Sam Deval started getting
Speaker 2: excited the moment he saw this spot of the river.
Speaker 2: For a guy in his condition, you're doing a lot
Speaker 2: of depending on him. You'll let me worry about that.
Speaker 4: All you have to do is handle your end of things,
Speaker 4: and that won't begin until we start diving.
Speaker 2: You're wrong, Murdoch. I started worrying three years ago. Remember
Speaker 2: two days on the river, Two long days with Murdoch
Speaker 2: never once taking his eyes off Sandoval, watching each slightest reaction,
Speaker 2: the bottle always ready, and the old man needed that bottle. Now,
Speaker 2: his terror growing by the minute, and Murdoch loving it
Speaker 2: because it told him we were getting closer. That night,
Speaker 2: I was laying out my gear back in the stern
Speaker 2: when Too, the big native came toward me. He wasn't
Speaker 2: the calm giant anymore, just a man, a terrified man
Speaker 2: with words tumbling out of his mouth.
Speaker 3: You tell bat too, you tell tell you what about
Speaker 3: crazy man?
Speaker 2: Crazy sand of arrow? Or what about him hands? The scars?
Speaker 2: You mean, how did he get him? Yeah? I don't
Speaker 2: know what happened to his hands, But what about him?
Speaker 2: Why you come here to dive to bring from the water?
Speaker 6: Why no?
Speaker 2: Not going water? No? Why not? What's wrong? Not go
Speaker 2: devil water? Devil water? You not going devil water? And
Speaker 2: that's all I could get out of him, just that.
Speaker 2: It was a long time before I got to sleep.
Speaker 2: Late on the third day, we dropped anchor just outside
Speaker 2: a small coal Murdoch was out of his mind with excitement,
Speaker 2: but it was too dark for diving. We'd start in
Speaker 2: the morning, but Two wanted to go a short see
Speaker 2: his people spore. He'd be back before Son of Murdoch
Speaker 2: didn't like it, but he had no choice. We needed
Speaker 2: the big man on pumps. In the morning. We were
Speaker 2: up at dawn, and but two was back aboard. He
Speaker 2: didn't say much. He was never moren a couple of
Speaker 2: feet away from me, and his eyes never left me.
Speaker 2: But I didn't have time to think about it. I
Speaker 2: had my own troubles. Let's take you so long, tread
Speaker 2: for you and your penny pension. You've been had, Murdoc.
Speaker 2: We were wrong for not a thing except this winch
Speaker 2: is on its last leg. Well, let's not argue. Repair
Speaker 2: it the best you can talk cheap. But I'm the
Speaker 2: guy who goes down there. Listen to me, Trent. We're close,
Speaker 2: really close. Son of elswass right beneath us. He has
Speaker 2: to be right. He's pointed out landmarks all the way.
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, what's that his native drums? Probably a
Speaker 2: welcome get the chet close trend. We're losing time. You'll
Speaker 2: remember what I say about the clear lines down their cinema.
Speaker 2: I'll remember, and don't you forget. Look said look on
Speaker 2: the shore natives, six or seven of them. It's part
Speaker 2: of buttoo's trick. What's that they carry? It looks like
Speaker 2: a pig or a goat, and the throat is cut.
Speaker 5: What is it?
Speaker 2: But what are they doing? Make sacrifice?
Speaker 4: To river.
Speaker 2: God, But why now? Save you from what? What's down there?
Speaker 2: A native superstition? Grant? Where's your intelligence? Are you ready?
Speaker 2: But too you not staying water along got on the beach.
Speaker 2: They heard his command, and the pig was thrown into
Speaker 2: the river. A moment later, Jose had bolted my helmet
Speaker 2: in place, and I was being lowered over the side
Speaker 2: of the boat. Everything was forgotten. Now the work is
Speaker 2: staying alive. That's how it is with diving. You can
Speaker 2: do it a thousand times, but it's always new. Jose
Speaker 2: knew it through the phone. I could hear him worrying
Speaker 2: with me. You're right, yeah, read me see you live
Speaker 2: in bottoms. Stay with me. I'm gonna have a little
Speaker 2: rock around. I checked my lines and started toward a
Speaker 2: large mass of shadow distances underwater. Fool you, and I
Speaker 2: was on it almost before I started. It was a ship,
Speaker 2: or what was left of one. Her back had been
Speaker 2: broken in two, and her stern was right in front
Speaker 2: of me. I read it aloud, Santa Rosa, what's that?
Speaker 2: I found it? Start a line down, she's folding. You're here,
Speaker 2: He's fine. I went in carefully, slowly, making sure of
Speaker 2: my lines. It didn't take me twenty minutes to find it.
Speaker 2: A tremendous iron bound chest. I scratched the slime off
Speaker 2: with my knife and there it was the official seal
Speaker 2: of Paraguay. There wasn't any doubt now what was inside.
Speaker 3: I got a line around it, told them which way
Speaker 3: to swing the winch and manage to get it out
Speaker 3: in the clear for the trip up.
Speaker 2: I just about finished when I felt a signal on
Speaker 2: my lines. What is it? Bato says, to get up
Speaker 2: here quick. You went down to long Why French? This
Speaker 2: is Murdoch. Let's get to go on the first at
Speaker 2: the moment.
Speaker 4: Won't hurt you.
Speaker 2: It's gonna take chances on the phone line. Let's not
Speaker 2: take chances on me. Tell us to take me up.
Speaker 2: The door comes up first, stand clear trench, Murdac. Listen,
Speaker 2: my knife is across the line. You turn that winch
Speaker 2: and I'll cut the line. You hear me. You're insane.
Speaker 2: I could cut your hair. Hoole, go on, cut it.
Speaker 2: I'm tired of livin with you on my back. Anyway.
Speaker 2: Oh all right, trend all right now, don't get excited.
Speaker 2: We're taking you up slowly. They began taking me up
Speaker 2: and then I realized why Murdoc knew once I started up,
Speaker 2: I couldn't possibly cut the line that held the chest.
Speaker 2: He took me up just far enough to get my
Speaker 2: hands on the bottom rung of the Jacob's ladder and
Speaker 2: hang there helplessly. Then through the phones, I could hear
Speaker 2: the creak of the winch as he started hauling up
Speaker 2: the chest. Looking up through the water, I could see
Speaker 2: Murdoch leaning over the rail as he waited for the
Speaker 2: chest to break water. And then it happened, a sudden
Speaker 2: sharp sting on my hand. From when I looked, I
Speaker 2: saw blood, blood, and a six inch fish racing in
Speaker 2: for another bight. In a second, there were more of them,
Speaker 2: little needle tooth devils, plunging at the canvas suit, even
Speaker 2: trying to bite through the steel at a helmet to
Speaker 2: get at the flesh inside. And at last I understood everything.
Speaker 2: Why but two called it devil water, why Sandoval had
Speaker 2: gone insane, and what happened to the crew at the
Speaker 2: Santa Rosa. That six inch fish was the South American pirana,
Speaker 2: a cannibal so deadly it strips a man to the
Speaker 2: bone in thirty seconds. Then I heard something else, the winch.
Speaker 2: Murdoch had been driving it too fast even for a
Speaker 2: good winch. It started to crumple just as the chest
Speaker 2: broke water. Murdoch saw the chest, inches from his hand
Speaker 2: start slipping back, and the thought of losing the gold
Speaker 2: drove in crazy. He grabbed wallet. Even as the chest
Speaker 2: pulled him down past me. He was still holding onto it,
Speaker 2: Even as the piranha left me to strip easier pickings
Speaker 2: than steel and canvas. He held onto it, and I
Speaker 2: you he'd never let go. How could he hadn't The
Speaker 2: gold pulled him halfway around the world, and then climbed
Speaker 2: out of the water to get him under the direction
Speaker 2: of Norman McDonald.
Speaker 3: Escape has Brought You Bloodwaters by Tony Barrett, starring Vic Perrin.
Speaker 3: Featured in the cast were Jack Krusian, Lillian Baya, Tony Barrett,
Speaker 3: and Barney Phillips.
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Speaker 3: The special music for Escape is composed and conducted by
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