WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.360 --> 00:00:05.360 Time now for Edmund O'Brien as. 2 00:00:06.280 --> 00:00:08.960 Johnny Dollar. Why in the world are you down here, Donard? 3 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:09.960 You can't leave for. 4 00:00:09.839 --> 00:00:12.519 Forty five minutes, and I'm taking a quick refresher course 5 00:00:12.560 --> 00:00:14.359 in ancient history. You're sending me out to find a 6 00:00:14.359 --> 00:00:17.000 missing archaeologist, aren't you. Well. I want to be able 7 00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:19.320 to talk his language in case I find him alive. 8 00:00:25.079 --> 00:00:28.039 Edmund O'Brien in a transcribed Adventure of the Man with 9 00:00:28.120 --> 00:00:33.560 the Action Packed Expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. 10 00:00:33.359 --> 00:00:48.359 Yours truly, Johnny Dalla expense account submitted by special Investigator 11 00:00:48.439 --> 00:00:52.960 Johnny Dollar to Great Corinthian Life and Liability Company, Hartford, Connecticut. 12 00:00:53.479 --> 00:00:55.960 The following is an accounting of my expenditures during my 13 00:00:56.039 --> 00:01:01.079 investigation of the disappearance of Bruce Lampet, the archaeologist who 14 00:01:01.159 --> 00:01:06.159 never should have left his tomb. Expense account Item one 15 00:01:06.439 --> 00:01:09.400 seven dollars and fifty cents railway and taxi fare from 16 00:01:09.400 --> 00:01:12.799 my Hertford apartment to Room three seventeen Bright Arms, New 17 00:01:12.879 --> 00:01:16.120 York City, a hotel who's front rooms had a depressing 18 00:01:16.200 --> 00:01:18.359 view of an eighty first Street mortuary. 19 00:01:26.040 --> 00:01:28.439 Miss Lambert, Yes, please come in mister Dollar. 20 00:01:28.799 --> 00:01:31.560 She was tall, without awkwardness, had the physique of an athlete, 21 00:01:31.560 --> 00:01:34.359 but still with softness, and a golden tan made her 22 00:01:34.359 --> 00:01:37.000 seem out of place, set against the snow heaped on 23 00:01:37.040 --> 00:01:38.439 the sill outside the windows. 24 00:01:38.840 --> 00:01:42.200 Thank you for coming, mister Dollar. I realized that mine 25 00:01:42.239 --> 00:01:45.560 was a rather unusual request to make of an insurance company. 26 00:01:45.359 --> 00:01:47.760 At all, Miss Lambert. The company doesn't want to lose 27 00:01:47.760 --> 00:01:50.439 a policy holder anymore than you want to lose a brother. 28 00:01:50.719 --> 00:01:52.879 But there are a lot of good private detectives in 29 00:01:52.920 --> 00:01:53.319 New York. 30 00:01:53.400 --> 00:01:56.719 I couldn't afford one. I had thought of notifying police, 31 00:01:56.760 --> 00:01:59.239 but I realized that Bruce's case would be just one 32 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:02.680 of many. To their they're so impersonal. If there's a 33 00:02:02.799 --> 00:02:04.599 chance of any notoriety. 34 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:08.039 Miss Lambert, if you mean that, for some reason, you'd 35 00:02:08.159 --> 00:02:10.439 rather the police didn't find him, you'd better tell me 36 00:02:10.479 --> 00:02:10.960 about it. 37 00:02:11.280 --> 00:02:14.280 Yes, of course I was going to. I don't see 38 00:02:14.280 --> 00:02:16.759 how it could make any difference. Please sit down. 39 00:02:19.159 --> 00:02:21.879 Maybe we'd better start way back at the beginning. Huh. 40 00:02:22.039 --> 00:02:23.719 That would be in Egypt, wouldn't it. 41 00:02:23.879 --> 00:02:27.400 Yes, in the desert, some hundred miles west of Thebes. 42 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:31.560 My brother's an archaeologist and he'd uncovered some ruins. It 43 00:02:31.599 --> 00:02:35.000 was quite an important discovery, something about the Twelfth dynasty. 44 00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:38.560 I I don't know much about it. You were with him, yes, 45 00:02:38.599 --> 00:02:41.240 I didn't spend much time at the excavation side. I 46 00:02:41.280 --> 00:02:43.840 stayed in the village. But the reason the police might 47 00:02:43.879 --> 00:02:47.439 make it difficult is that Rose discovered some relics that 48 00:02:47.520 --> 00:02:49.199 he didn't declare to the authorities. 49 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:50.560 There you mean he swiped them? 50 00:02:51.680 --> 00:02:54.199 And if you're in the habit of using extreme bluntness, 51 00:02:54.280 --> 00:02:56.400 I suppose you could put it that way. All right, 52 00:02:56.439 --> 00:02:59.360 I'm please, mister Dollard, this is quite unpleasant for m 53 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:03.400 If Bruce had stolen all the relics, you wouldn't expect 54 00:03:03.400 --> 00:03:05.159 it to make any difference in how I felt about 55 00:03:05.159 --> 00:03:06.199 his disappearance, would you. 56 00:03:07.039 --> 00:03:09.759 Oh, I'm afraid I can't do anything for you. I've 57 00:03:09.800 --> 00:03:11.719 got to know these things that I'm gonna help him. 58 00:03:11.840 --> 00:03:17.759 Wait, I'm I'm sorry. I'll tell you everything I know. 59 00:03:18.879 --> 00:03:22.840 Alright. What were those relics that your brother didn't declare? 60 00:03:23.759 --> 00:03:26.560 Well, I'm not sure how many there were. And there 61 00:03:26.599 --> 00:03:30.360 was some statuary in obsidian head of some old king. 62 00:03:30.479 --> 00:03:33.639 And then there was a scarab it was supposed to 63 00:03:33.639 --> 00:03:35.639 have been the official seal of this king. 64 00:03:36.159 --> 00:03:38.800 You know how valuable this stuff is. I'm afraid that it. 65 00:03:38.840 --> 00:03:42.159 Might be very valuable in some circles. That's what I 66 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:47.599 was afraid of, that someone harmed Bruce or even But 67 00:03:47.639 --> 00:03:50.000 there's so many things to be afraid of 'em. He 68 00:03:50.120 --> 00:03:55.159 isn't strong, maybe even his mind. He was injured quite 69 00:03:55.199 --> 00:03:58.000 severely in a traffic accident in Alexandria just before we 70 00:03:58.080 --> 00:04:03.599 left Egypt. I've got to find out what could have 71 00:04:03.599 --> 00:04:04.240 happened to it? 72 00:04:05.879 --> 00:04:10.240 Oh, come on, we we can't find out this way. 73 00:04:11.800 --> 00:04:14.199 What does your brother look like? A light or dark? 74 00:04:14.919 --> 00:04:15.840 Here's a snap shot. 75 00:04:16.199 --> 00:04:17.600 M He's blonde. 76 00:04:18.639 --> 00:04:20.920 His hair is straight and was quite long when I 77 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:21.920 last saw him. 78 00:04:22.120 --> 00:04:24.000 And that was four days ago. 79 00:04:24.399 --> 00:04:29.879 Yes, they are ship docked. I was arranging for my luggage. 80 00:04:30.839 --> 00:04:31.839 He just disappeared. 81 00:04:33.040 --> 00:04:36.319 What else? What's his bill? Slight? Medium, heavy, slight? I'd say, 82 00:04:36.759 --> 00:04:37.759 what about his clothes? 83 00:04:38.399 --> 00:04:40.399 Well, he was wearing a dark blue suit and a 84 00:04:40.439 --> 00:04:43.480 gray overcoat. The right sleeve of both would be empty 85 00:04:43.959 --> 00:04:46.040 because his right arm and shoulder and a cast. 86 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:47.639 Uh huh a traffic accident. 87 00:04:47.800 --> 00:04:52.199 Yes, both were fractured. I wish I were able to 88 00:04:52.199 --> 00:04:55.439 be more help but I've told you everything I know. 89 00:04:55.639 --> 00:04:58.560 He just vanished. 90 00:04:58.920 --> 00:05:02.079 Did he Did he have any enemies that you know of? 91 00:05:02.519 --> 00:05:07.360 No, there's not even that. I can't let myself lose hope. 92 00:05:08.079 --> 00:05:11.160 But what can we do? How do you start looking 93 00:05:11.160 --> 00:05:12.920 for somebody with so little to go on? 94 00:05:13.920 --> 00:05:17.079 Before I answered the question, we started at the beginning again. 95 00:05:17.759 --> 00:05:19.879 The second run through was pretty much like the first, 96 00:05:20.600 --> 00:05:23.079 But disappearance from a foreign ship in the port of 97 00:05:23.120 --> 00:05:25.720 New York is not as easy as the telling of it. 98 00:05:26.439 --> 00:05:29.399 I left the troubled marsha checked into an eighth floor 99 00:05:29.439 --> 00:05:32.240 room in the Brighton Arms, where a phone call told 100 00:05:32.240 --> 00:05:35.160 me the north Fleet had already sailed. No hope of 101 00:05:35.199 --> 00:05:40.199 information there, so I headed for the US Customs office. 102 00:05:42.759 --> 00:05:46.439 Good afternoon, it's a Nixon yesh. My name is Dollar. 103 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:49.839 I'm an insurance investigator. The girl outside said you could 104 00:05:49.839 --> 00:05:52.759 help me. I'd like to get some information on a 105 00:05:52.800 --> 00:05:55.720 passenger who arrived from Alexandria on the north Fleet. In 106 00:05:55.879 --> 00:05:57.959 north Fleet, Well, i'd have to know o the day 107 00:05:58.000 --> 00:06:00.560 of arrival and the name of the line. It was 108 00:06:00.600 --> 00:06:03.480 four days ago they'd made it. Uh, that would make 109 00:06:03.519 --> 00:06:07.560 it the twentieth It's a British ship in north Fleet. Uh. 110 00:06:12.319 --> 00:06:16.360 What was the passenger's name planted Bruce Lamber the uh 111 00:06:16.439 --> 00:06:24.639 clarony luggage through customer Bruce slamberd Yump witnessed the examination 112 00:06:24.800 --> 00:06:29.120 of one piece of luggage, suitcase, personal effects, one piece 113 00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:32.920 of statu where he purchased in Alexandria and no duty. 114 00:06:33.560 --> 00:06:37.279 Uh what address did he give you, Bruce Lambert? 115 00:06:37.399 --> 00:06:37.560 Uh? 116 00:06:38.920 --> 00:06:45.600 No street number? A hotel the Brighton arm right now, Well, 117 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:54.879 don't count on that expense account item two thirty dollars, 118 00:06:54.920 --> 00:06:58.160 which would my id cod helped him press the cab 119 00:06:58.279 --> 00:07:00.639 drivers who worked the entrance to the pier where the 120 00:07:00.720 --> 00:07:04.560 north Fleet at docked. Checking these caves took the whole afternoon, 121 00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:08.399 and midway through it, I realized I wasn't the only 122 00:07:08.399 --> 00:07:12.319 one interested in that particular hackstand. I wasn't sure at 123 00:07:12.319 --> 00:07:15.279 what moment I had actually noticed him. He was doing 124 00:07:15.279 --> 00:07:17.920 a very bad job of hiding behind a journal American 125 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:20.560 on the other side of the street. All I could 126 00:07:20.600 --> 00:07:23.079 see was the lower half of an overcoat, the same 127 00:07:23.199 --> 00:07:26.920 of some razor sharp trousers with some pointed shoes. But 128 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:29.199 I began to feel his eyes looking at me as 129 00:07:29.240 --> 00:07:32.319 I went on with my questioning that finally paid off 130 00:07:32.360 --> 00:07:35.519 through the mouth of driver number seven eighty two. 131 00:07:36.600 --> 00:07:39.839 You know, you meet all canes in this business. Some 132 00:07:40.120 --> 00:07:43.079 you forget and some others you remember. 133 00:07:43.160 --> 00:07:45.199 Now, well, do you remember a guy with his arm 134 00:07:45.240 --> 00:07:46.360 and shoulder in a cast? 135 00:07:46.680 --> 00:07:49.439 And something you learn in this business that's to read 136 00:07:49.480 --> 00:07:52.560 people's faces. You get to know a deadbeat before he 137 00:07:52.600 --> 00:07:55.560 gets a chance to dead beat you, and you catch 138 00:07:55.600 --> 00:07:57.399 on if the guy is scared of something. 139 00:07:57.560 --> 00:07:59.279 Well, if he was afraid of something, it's not me. 140 00:08:00.040 --> 00:08:03.199 He's been reported missing by his sister. I've been hired 141 00:08:03.199 --> 00:08:07.959 to find him. How much is ten bucks by? You know? 142 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:12.759 Maybe he don't want to be fouled, Is that what 143 00:08:12.800 --> 00:08:16.480 you think? Sure he paid me more to climb up 144 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:17.399 than you often. 145 00:08:17.600 --> 00:08:20.680 I've got more. What are you going to do with him? 146 00:08:21.040 --> 00:08:23.000 I want to talk to him. I want to find 147 00:08:23.000 --> 00:08:25.959 out if he's all right. If he wants to stay lost, 148 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:30.040 that's his business, not mine. I was twenty five. 149 00:08:31.040 --> 00:08:34.200 Get in, my boy, get very far from here. 150 00:08:41.799 --> 00:08:44.360 Our destination turned out to be an old red brick 151 00:08:44.399 --> 00:08:48.320 hotel near very ninth Street between tenth and eleventh Avenue, 152 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:51.720 and it occurred to me that as an archaeologist, Lambert 153 00:08:51.799 --> 00:08:55.200 was running through to form. He even used some ruins 154 00:08:55.240 --> 00:08:59.039 to hold up in. One five dollar bill brought the 155 00:08:59.039 --> 00:09:01.679 information from the room clerk that Lambert was out of 156 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:05.399 his room, and another bought a pass key that let 157 00:09:05.480 --> 00:09:15.480 me in. The first thing to catch my eye when 158 00:09:15.519 --> 00:09:18.159 I switched down the light was a black piece of 159 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:23.039 statuary shining dully on a chipped bureau, A crowned head 160 00:09:23.080 --> 00:09:29.159 with exaggerated features, sculptured and obsidian. I posed myself this riddle. 161 00:09:29.799 --> 00:09:32.840 If it was so valuable, why didn't Lambert take better 162 00:09:32.840 --> 00:09:35.720 care of it? But before I had a chance to 163 00:09:35.799 --> 00:09:39.240 try for the answer, a foot nudged The door opened 164 00:09:39.240 --> 00:09:42.679 behind me. As might be expected, it was wearing a 165 00:09:42.720 --> 00:09:45.840 pointed shoe, and was followed into the room by a 166 00:09:45.879 --> 00:09:51.039 slight yellow ivory skinned band who rather resembled the black statue. 167 00:09:51.600 --> 00:09:54.879 I must thank you for leaving us to the hiding pace. 168 00:09:56.039 --> 00:09:58.480 Where is he? All that depends on who he's hiding from. 169 00:09:59.080 --> 00:10:02.639 It looks like it's you. Perhaps it is that you 170 00:10:02.799 --> 00:10:08.039 do not know where he is. Yeah, perhaps I followed 171 00:10:08.039 --> 00:10:11.559 your taxi after you talked with those drivers. That was 172 00:10:11.799 --> 00:10:15.279 very smart. Where did you think I expected you to go? 173 00:10:16.720 --> 00:10:17.960 What's your interest in? Lambert? 174 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:22.440 You were employed by the girl to find him. How 175 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:23.320 much does. 176 00:10:23.159 --> 00:10:27.919 She pay you? I never talk money with a stranger. 177 00:10:27.600 --> 00:10:30.840 And perhaps we will not be strangers for long. The 178 00:10:30.879 --> 00:10:34.159 point of importance is that you have not yet found him. 179 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:38.720 Mister Drummond will pay you two thousand dollars. 180 00:10:38.360 --> 00:10:44.000 To do so. Mister Drummond is generous, But what makes 181 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:47.320 you so sure. I haven't found Lambert because he is 182 00:10:47.399 --> 00:10:49.879 not here, but that only means he's someplace else. 183 00:10:49.960 --> 00:10:54.039 Please, I have no wish for violence. 184 00:10:53.600 --> 00:10:56.559 And put that thing away. And the first place, gunfire, 185 00:10:56.639 --> 00:10:59.279 even in this neighborhood, is gonna bring the law. The 186 00:10:59.320 --> 00:11:02.320 second place, it's a lady's gun, one of those handbag 187 00:11:02.440 --> 00:11:04.480 jobs you know you ought to be ashamed of yourself 188 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:04.960 for carrying. 189 00:11:05.080 --> 00:11:07.559 Please, I have no wish to use it, and get. 190 00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:17.320 Rid of it. I hate little men who try to 191 00:11:17.360 --> 00:11:20.600 play bully. There was more than that behind my fist. 192 00:11:21.159 --> 00:11:22.879 I figured I could learn to know him better if 193 00:11:22.879 --> 00:11:26.399 he was quietly stretched out on the floor. I was 194 00:11:26.480 --> 00:11:30.039 half right. An Egyptian passport told me that his name 195 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:37.120 was Ammon Hixas, hometown Alexandria. There was nothing else I 196 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:40.080 could turn Hixsas over to the police. On an assault charge. 197 00:11:40.600 --> 00:11:42.519 Or I could wait until he woke up and try 198 00:11:42.639 --> 00:11:45.879 knocking some information out of him. But I didn't do either. 199 00:11:46.799 --> 00:11:48.840 I left him there in the lobby. I gave a 200 00:11:48.879 --> 00:11:50.960 message to the room clerk for Lambert, telling him to 201 00:11:50.960 --> 00:11:53.720 stay out of his room when he came back, and 202 00:11:53.759 --> 00:12:01.960 to phone me at the bright Uns. Who is it, Dollar? 203 00:12:02.240 --> 00:12:08.120 Oh just a second, he is there? Any news? Did 204 00:12:08.159 --> 00:12:09.679 you learn anything, mister Dollar? Yeah? 205 00:12:09.720 --> 00:12:14.200 I made some progress. I met Ammon Hixs. You told 206 00:12:14.200 --> 00:12:16.480 me a brother didn't have any enemies. That little Egyptian 207 00:12:16.519 --> 00:12:18.159 is out looking for him with a gun. Why'd you 208 00:12:18.279 --> 00:12:18.639 lie to me? 209 00:12:19.480 --> 00:12:21.759 I have no right to ask you to believe me now. 210 00:12:21.919 --> 00:12:24.080 That's so true, But I wish you would. 211 00:12:25.840 --> 00:12:27.039 Please come here and sit down. 212 00:12:27.480 --> 00:12:29.879 Oh no, thanks, You sit there, and I'll stand here. 213 00:12:29.960 --> 00:12:32.679 I I think I'll be less inclined to believe you 214 00:12:32.799 --> 00:12:33.200 from here. 215 00:12:33.399 --> 00:12:38.320 That's not fair. I know I wasn't fair with you either. 216 00:12:39.799 --> 00:12:40.399 I won't to be. 217 00:12:41.639 --> 00:12:43.559 But there are some things I just can't tell you. 218 00:12:44.879 --> 00:12:46.799 Why not I can't tell you that? 219 00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:49.480 I oh nuts. Women like you make everything tougher than 220 00:12:49.519 --> 00:12:52.039 it should be. You demand all, but you give nothing. 221 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:54.960 You ask to be trusted and you won't trust. You 222 00:12:55.039 --> 00:12:57.240 make yourselves look soft. When you're as hot as steel. 223 00:12:57.279 --> 00:12:59.559 You've got warmth, but you you only turn it on 224 00:12:59.639 --> 00:13:01.639 when you're get something out of it. You're wrong. 225 00:13:02.799 --> 00:13:06.399 I was trying to help him or us. I had 226 00:13:06.399 --> 00:13:06.799 to lie. 227 00:13:07.000 --> 00:13:10.759 Look, I started this thing wanting to help you. Uh, 228 00:13:10.960 --> 00:13:15.440 there was something personal about it. But you wanted me 229 00:13:15.480 --> 00:13:18.000 to do things your way and not mind. Well we 230 00:13:18.200 --> 00:13:20.759 just stopped doing that alone. 231 00:13:21.600 --> 00:13:24.759 Just go away, go back to heart, but forget you 232 00:13:24.759 --> 00:13:25.600 wherever here. 233 00:13:25.440 --> 00:13:29.399 I wish I could. And I'm working for an insurance 234 00:13:29.399 --> 00:13:35.399 company looking for a missing policyholder. Well, I'll be up 235 00:13:35.399 --> 00:13:38.000 in my room if you decide to help me find it. 236 00:13:41.639 --> 00:13:57.720 Mm. 237 00:13:57.840 --> 00:14:00.759 Yeah, is this mister Dollar? That's right? 238 00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:03.960 This is Bruce Lambert. I got your message to call 239 00:14:05.039 --> 00:14:07.759 or are you now? Not so fast? There were two 240 00:14:07.799 --> 00:14:10.000 attempts on my life while I was on my way 241 00:14:10.039 --> 00:14:13.080 here from Alexandria. I'm not anxious to tell anybody where 242 00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:15.159 I am. How did you get into this? 243 00:14:15.799 --> 00:14:18.360 Marsha called your insurance company when you took a run out. 244 00:14:18.399 --> 00:14:21.320 They hired me. Good for Marcia? Is she all right? 245 00:14:21.879 --> 00:14:24.840 Well that depends on your point of view. I suppose 246 00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:27.519 she's being the helpful sister to you, But for me, 247 00:14:27.559 --> 00:14:29.879 she's done nothing but act mysterious. I don't get it. 248 00:14:30.559 --> 00:14:32.720 You won't tell the truth about you. I hope you 249 00:14:32.840 --> 00:14:33.279 do better. 250 00:14:33.480 --> 00:14:36.360 She told you she was my sister. 251 00:14:36.519 --> 00:14:38.480 I'm sure she did. Why shouldn't she. 252 00:14:39.240 --> 00:14:41.240 Oh, I can't see why she do that. 253 00:14:42.879 --> 00:14:43.919 She isn't your sister. 254 00:14:44.600 --> 00:14:44.799 Oh. 255 00:14:44.879 --> 00:14:49.000 I don't understand it. She's my fiance. I don't understand 256 00:14:49.000 --> 00:14:51.840 it at all. Where is she? I better talk to her. 257 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:55.679 That's a good idea, Room three seventeen, brighton arms. I'll 258 00:14:55.679 --> 00:15:03.039 be there with her, waiting for you, which, in a 259 00:15:03.080 --> 00:15:06.120 way was how it worked out, except that I waited 260 00:15:06.120 --> 00:15:09.519 for him in the corridor outside her room. I left 261 00:15:09.559 --> 00:15:13.440 Marsha where I found it. She was on the bathroom floor, 262 00:15:14.279 --> 00:15:19.159 where she died from wounds inflicted by the proverbial blunt instrument, 263 00:15:20.360 --> 00:15:28.759 and where her eyes had died with her. 264 00:15:35.559 --> 00:15:37.960 In just a moment, we will return to the second 265 00:15:37.960 --> 00:15:39.919 act of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. 266 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:40.960 But first. 267 00:15:47.360 --> 00:15:50.240 And now, with our star Edmond O'Brien, we returned to 268 00:15:50.279 --> 00:15:53.200 the second act of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. 269 00:16:07.320 --> 00:16:11.840 Ruse lamba, Yeah, it's alright. I'm Dollar didn't take you 270 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:14.000 on and get here. Where's your phone from? Just around 271 00:16:14.039 --> 00:16:18.919 the corner bar? Why do you wask where's Marsha? Marsha's dead. 272 00:16:20.720 --> 00:16:23.519 I don't believe you. I wanna go in there. She 273 00:16:23.600 --> 00:16:26.440 isn't dead. Let me in there. Come on, use your 274 00:16:26.440 --> 00:16:32.120 head when ye there's nothing? Oh you're on. I'm sorry. Look, 275 00:16:32.360 --> 00:16:34.840 you don't wanna go in there. Believe me, you don't. 276 00:16:34.840 --> 00:16:37.279 There's nothing you can do for her. Sh she can't 277 00:16:37.320 --> 00:16:41.080 be dead. She can't be Come on, where? Wh wh why? 278 00:16:41.200 --> 00:16:42.679 I want you to come up to my room with me. 279 00:16:42.799 --> 00:16:46.240 You've gotta do two things. Hurst give me every reason 280 00:16:46.279 --> 00:16:49.240 you can think of why this should have happened. And 281 00:16:49.279 --> 00:16:51.080 then before the police get here, you had better start 282 00:16:51.120 --> 00:17:04.160 rehearsing the story of your own. Now I'm at the 283 00:17:04.200 --> 00:17:07.359 first hole in marsha stories that she wasn't in thieves 284 00:17:07.400 --> 00:17:10.319 while you were working on your ruins. That's right. I 285 00:17:10.359 --> 00:17:11.000 didn't even know her. 286 00:17:11.079 --> 00:17:13.319 Then I met her in the hospital in Alexandria after 287 00:17:13.359 --> 00:17:14.000 my accident. 288 00:17:14.079 --> 00:17:15.920 I was there for two months. You see. She was 289 00:17:15.960 --> 00:17:19.559 my nurse. But she did know about the relics, that 290 00:17:19.720 --> 00:17:23.000 statue and the scarab that I haven't seen. Oh yes, yes, 291 00:17:23.039 --> 00:17:24.960 here it is this is the scarab. 292 00:17:25.519 --> 00:17:28.680 Oh, yes, she knew we talked about my little deceit. 293 00:17:28.880 --> 00:17:31.440 Well, how little is it really? You talk about two 294 00:17:31.480 --> 00:17:33.759 attempts on your life. Now we have actual murder. You'd 295 00:17:33.759 --> 00:17:36.240 better let me have that scab. Oh yes, yes, of course. 296 00:17:36.279 --> 00:17:38.000 But surely you don't think the relics are at the 297 00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:41.119 bottom of this. They're rare, but not valuable enough for 298 00:17:41.279 --> 00:17:44.039 this unless someone knows more about them than I do. 299 00:17:44.440 --> 00:17:46.519 I doubt that I have made a pharaoh study of 300 00:17:46.519 --> 00:17:49.559 a twelfth dynasty and king Amendem at the third it's 301 00:17:49.599 --> 00:17:51.920 a carving his head. What do you know about a 302 00:17:51.920 --> 00:17:55.599 man named Ammon Hixas and another whose last name is Drummond. 303 00:17:55.359 --> 00:17:58.200 Hixos Ammon Hixas. 304 00:17:57.680 --> 00:17:59.559 You know him? Does it ring any canna of a bell? 305 00:18:00.160 --> 00:18:01.880 No, I I I'm afraid not. 306 00:18:02.559 --> 00:18:07.680 Drummond means nothing. M alright, let's try the two attempts 307 00:18:07.720 --> 00:18:08.759 on your life? What about then? 308 00:18:09.200 --> 00:18:12.119 Well, h they happened on the nights of the seventeenth 309 00:18:12.160 --> 00:18:13.200 and the eighteenth. 310 00:18:13.240 --> 00:18:14.440 Both of them could have been. 311 00:18:14.359 --> 00:18:18.680 Accidental, except that, well, the same small man stood near 312 00:18:18.759 --> 00:18:19.720 me both times. 313 00:18:20.119 --> 00:18:22.079 It would be too much for me to hope you 314 00:18:22.079 --> 00:18:25.599 you could describe him, I said, well if he was dark. Well, 315 00:18:25.680 --> 00:18:28.119 both times I was on the promenade deck and something 316 00:18:28.200 --> 00:18:31.359 heavy was thrown or pushed from the deck above. I 317 00:18:31.400 --> 00:18:34.200 reported the second one, and the ship's officer apologized for 318 00:18:34.279 --> 00:18:38.799 the carelessness. Which you thought enough of it to disappear? Oh, well, 319 00:18:38.880 --> 00:18:42.400 I certainly did instead of going to the police. Yes, oh, 320 00:18:42.480 --> 00:18:45.200 I suppose it was wrong, but you must understand I 321 00:18:45.319 --> 00:18:50.359 was desperate. Well, we'd better go down to the third floor. 322 00:18:50.440 --> 00:18:52.720 I I hope the police think more of your story 323 00:18:52.759 --> 00:19:04.319 than I do. In twenty minutes, Room three seventeen really 324 00:19:04.359 --> 00:19:07.039 looked like a murder scene. The place was swarming with 325 00:19:07.160 --> 00:19:11.000 New York's finest white with fingerprint powder, and blinding with 326 00:19:11.079 --> 00:19:14.559 flash flows. The lieutenant to whom I made my statement 327 00:19:14.880 --> 00:19:16.839 looked as if he thought I was as crazy as 328 00:19:16.880 --> 00:19:19.400 I thought everybody else in the mess was. But then 329 00:19:19.440 --> 00:19:24.400 he changed his mind. Holla, hey, where is that insurance stake? Uh? Here, 330 00:19:24.440 --> 00:19:26.720 I am in the bathroom. Oh there you are all? 331 00:19:27.319 --> 00:19:30.039 Yeah, find as soon as I noticed something, what'd you 332 00:19:30.079 --> 00:19:34.359 say that name was? I'm in uh uh Hixes? Yeah, Well, 333 00:19:34.400 --> 00:19:36.839 I guess there aren't too many ways to spill that one, 334 00:19:37.039 --> 00:19:40.039 so this must be it. Pill box. Let me see 335 00:19:40.039 --> 00:19:42.240 that prescription from Alexandria. 336 00:19:42.839 --> 00:19:44.160 Doctor, I'm in Hixes. 337 00:19:44.440 --> 00:19:46.559 We'll put a trace around that phone number you took 338 00:19:46.599 --> 00:19:47.880 off the first thing in the morning. 339 00:19:48.720 --> 00:19:53.880 Yeah, hey, are you gonna take Lambert in for questioning? 340 00:19:54.200 --> 00:19:55.960 I guess we'd better Routie. 341 00:19:56.359 --> 00:19:59.480 He's clear as far as I can see. We'll do 342 00:19:59.559 --> 00:20:02.799 something that me. Will it? Have your doctors run a 343 00:20:02.880 --> 00:20:05.720 test of that plastic cast of his and call me 344 00:20:05.720 --> 00:20:08.119 in my room. Huh A test for what I'll just 345 00:20:08.160 --> 00:20:11.319 look it over. It would make a handy blunt instrument, 346 00:20:11.359 --> 00:20:21.960 if nothing else. Expensive gun item three seven fifty A 347 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:25.599 few late cocktails, a rare steak, and coffee in the 348 00:20:25.599 --> 00:20:28.440 Brighton Arms dining room, after which I picked up an 349 00:20:28.519 --> 00:20:31.640 armful of extra editions so I could catch up on 350 00:20:31.839 --> 00:20:34.920 what I'd been doing. I self operated my way to 351 00:20:34.960 --> 00:20:38.160 the eighth floor and started toward my room. I was 352 00:20:38.200 --> 00:20:41.279 looking forward to a hot shower, but I didn't get it. 353 00:20:41.880 --> 00:20:45.759 I was still looking forward put into a familiar gun muzzle. 354 00:20:46.119 --> 00:20:50.440 This is the gun, ayes, mister Della, May I introduce myself, 355 00:20:50.480 --> 00:20:53.599 Sir Garrett Drummond, at your service. Our meeting has been 356 00:20:53.680 --> 00:20:56.599 postponed too long. Well there's a difference of opinion on 357 00:20:56.680 --> 00:21:00.000 that you will please open your door? How can I refuse? 358 00:21:00.000 --> 00:21:06.400 Who's that pine sized invitation you're still carrying after you, sir? 359 00:21:06.559 --> 00:21:08.559 And I need to remind you that my friend here 360 00:21:08.680 --> 00:21:11.960 is prepared for any rash move up on your part. Look, 361 00:21:12.079 --> 00:21:14.920 I'm tired. I don't have a rash move left in me. 362 00:21:15.200 --> 00:21:18.640 Close the door, emont. I suggest that you sit there, 363 00:21:18.640 --> 00:21:22.000 mister Dollery in that unsightly straight backed chair. Thanks a lot. 364 00:21:23.400 --> 00:21:25.640 And now, sir, I shall plunge right to the point. 365 00:21:26.079 --> 00:21:30.200 There is that scoundrel Bruce Lambert. Well, I think I 366 00:21:30.359 --> 00:21:33.079 just decided that I don't know. We we have no 367 00:21:33.160 --> 00:21:36.200 wish for violent you always say that with a gun 368 00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:41.240 in your hand. Well, let's get started. You make your pitch, 369 00:21:41.279 --> 00:21:44.039 I'll make my refusal, and we'll see where we go 370 00:21:44.119 --> 00:21:46.799 from there. I have already met what I consider to 371 00:21:46.839 --> 00:21:49.400 be a generous offer for so unimportant a bit of 372 00:21:49.400 --> 00:21:53.319 information as merely the whereabouts of Lambert two thousand dollars. 373 00:21:53.640 --> 00:21:56.440 But if it will expedite matters, I am prepared to 374 00:21:56.480 --> 00:22:00.240 expand my offer by another thousand. I'm the sponsor, you 375 00:22:00.279 --> 00:22:04.039 bid the greedier, I guess what makes Lambert so important 376 00:22:04.079 --> 00:22:07.000 to the problem which is entirely out of your province? 377 00:22:07.000 --> 00:22:10.119 My boy, how much do you know of Egyptian legend? Sir? 378 00:22:10.440 --> 00:22:10.599 Oh? 379 00:22:10.720 --> 00:22:15.720 No, more than a dollar's worth. Pity the fascinating subject, well, Sir, Bruce. 380 00:22:15.799 --> 00:22:19.119 Lambert has in his possession a certain object of great importance, 381 00:22:19.200 --> 00:22:23.559 both culturally and economically. Certain landowners in Egypt hold it 382 00:22:23.599 --> 00:22:26.359 in such high esteem, Sir, that as a reward for 383 00:22:26.440 --> 00:22:29.319 its return to them, they would throw open to exploitation 384 00:22:29.920 --> 00:22:32.920 untapped oil fields, the richness of which would shake the 385 00:22:33.000 --> 00:22:36.000 very foundations of world economy? Are they shaky enough as 386 00:22:36.039 --> 00:22:39.240 it is? My boy? Think what it would mean to 387 00:22:39.240 --> 00:22:42.960 a civilization fast approaching the depletion of its petroleum sources. 388 00:22:43.400 --> 00:22:47.240 New horizon, Sir, A brave new world. Lambert owes to 389 00:22:47.359 --> 00:22:50.319 us all relinquishment of this object so that it may 390 00:22:50.440 --> 00:22:54.880 serve humanity. You're right, and it may be easier than 391 00:22:54.920 --> 00:22:58.160 you think. A splendid sir. Where is he? Which relic? 392 00:22:58.279 --> 00:23:01.200 Is it? The black statue your playmate could have picked 393 00:23:01.279 --> 00:23:03.119 up for free? It is king I might have met 394 00:23:03.119 --> 00:23:05.559 scareb that I would discuss with Lambert. I demand to 395 00:23:05.559 --> 00:23:09.640 know where he is. Why waste time on him. I've 396 00:23:09.680 --> 00:23:13.079 got the scarab. I find that most difficult to believe, 397 00:23:13.079 --> 00:23:15.759 mister Dollar. Well, no, no, no, keep your hands away 398 00:23:15.759 --> 00:23:20.119 from your buckets, Ammon will say to the trouble, Ammon. 399 00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:21.839 These remains too, mister Dollar. 400 00:23:22.359 --> 00:23:29.039 My wish is called peaceful, sure right coat pocket, he 401 00:23:29.160 --> 00:23:35.680