Speaker 1: Oh, no.
Speaker 2: What evil lurks in the hearts of men?
Speaker 1: The Shadow, now. Oh, no.
Speaker 3: Today's story, The Shadow Returns.
Speaker 4: Gentlemen, a situation has arisen that's causing shipping great concern.
Speaker 4: It's in the hope you shipmasters may be able to
Speaker 4: offer some solution or explanation that you've been called here.
Speaker 5: Mr.
Speaker 4: Kensner has come from the Washington office to acquaint you.
Speaker 3: With the fact.
Speaker 1: Gentlemen, Mr. Kensner.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Commodore.
Speaker 4: Gentlemen, during the past few months, we've been getting reports
Speaker 4: of an alarming series of strange accidents aboard incoming ships.
Speaker 4: Out of 60 ships that have tied up at this
Speaker 4: port recently, some half a hundred crew members have been
Speaker 4: put in hospitals for infections in arms, legs, and shoulders. Really, gentlemen.
Speaker 4: And 15 seamen have either lost a leg or an
Speaker 4: arm in the.
Speaker 3: Past few months. Really, it's true, gentlemen.
Speaker 4: And in addition, four have died as a result of
Speaker 4: their injuries.
Speaker 3: Have you any idea of the cause?
Speaker 1: Any clue at all?
Speaker 4: The only thing we're sure of, Commodore, is that... Unless
Speaker 4: something can be done at once, there are men on
Speaker 4: the sea right now who lose an arm, a leg,
Speaker 4: or maybe their lives.
Speaker 3: You men can leave my office and report to your stations. Okay, Doctor.
Speaker 2: The examination's okay for sailing.
Speaker 1: Now, Payne. Yes, Doctor Badlow?
Speaker 3: Stay here.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir.
Speaker 2: I'll have to do something about that arm of yours.
Speaker 1: Victor.
Speaker 3: Yes, Doctor?
Speaker 1: If this doctor want to fool with your arm.
Speaker 3: You not let him. Don't worry, Moe.
Speaker 1: What do you mean?
Speaker 4: I said with him before, many time, you let him
Speaker 4: do something, you'll be sorry.
Speaker 3: You remember what I tell you?
Speaker 1: What are you waiting for, Johnson?
Speaker 3: Hey, go now, Doctor. Don't forget what they tell you. Josh,
Speaker 3: I know what to do.
Speaker 1: All right, then. Now we'll take care of you. Where'd
Speaker 1: you get the sanctionation? Well, I got it in Harvard.
Speaker 5: I went to that doctor you.
Speaker 1: Told me about.
Speaker 6: Oh, yes, yes.
Speaker 1: I'd forgotten. Well, you've got a bit of an infection.
Speaker 1: Place your arm on the table.
Speaker 3: Oh, listen, Doc.
Speaker 1: I don't want to go home to my mother with
Speaker 1: my arm all tied up.
Speaker 3: She'd be scared to death.
Speaker 1: Now, look here, Payne. I can't force you to submit
Speaker 1: to treatment.
Speaker 2: But if you disregard my advice, I'll have your name
Speaker 2: stricken from the crew roster.
Speaker 1: Oh, no. No, you see, this is my first voyage.
Speaker 4: Well, I want to make good.
Speaker 1: Well, it's up to you. What do you want to do?
Speaker 1: I can't waste all day with you. Well, all.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: Go ahead.
Speaker 1: This won't hurt. Steady down.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 3: Shoot. Stop.
Speaker 1: Stop. Stop.
Speaker 4: Stop.
Speaker 2: Fainted, eh? A very effective anesthetic. Now, Victor Payne, we'll
Speaker 2: perform a real operation.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Lamont, you look tired.
Speaker 3: What's the matter?
Speaker 5: Oh, I want to get a rest from the rest
Speaker 5: I've had.
Speaker 3: On this ship. Oh, Lamont, it's been fun. Fun is right.
Speaker 7: I've never had so much fun thrust upon me in
Speaker 7: such large doses in all my life.
Speaker 2: Oh, you mean the cruise director.
Speaker 1: I mean the cruise director.
Speaker 5: That voice of his will haunt me for the rest
Speaker 5: of my days.
Speaker 3: Having fun this morning, Mr.
Speaker 1: Cranston? Enjoying the deck games, Mr. Cranston?
Speaker 3: They're fun. Raybridge, Mr. Cranston, it's loads of fun.
Speaker 1: Be sure to come to the dance tonight, Mr. Cranston.
Speaker 3: It's going to be fun, yes, I know.
Speaker 6: Say, look, Lamont.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's the matter?
Speaker 6: In the stern of the ship, that group of seamen,
Speaker 6: they've been gathering little knots like that for the last
Speaker 6: few days.
Speaker 4: What do you suppose it means? Maybe they're planning to
Speaker 4: get the cruise director.
Speaker 8: Oh, no, seriously, Lamont.
Speaker 5: I don't like it.
Speaker 3: Now, look. That's Captain Blair running down from the bridge.
Speaker 1: Come along, Marco. Let's walk back and see what it's
Speaker 1: all about.
Speaker 4: Well, not too close, Lamont.
Speaker 3: Don't worry, Marco.
Speaker 8: Well, I don't like the look of it.
Speaker 3: Now, what's the meaning of this?
Speaker 5: Dr.
Speaker 3: Bader.
Speaker 1: Yes, Captain.
Speaker 3: What happened?
Speaker 6: Why did this man strike you?
Speaker 3: I'm sure I don't know.
Speaker 1: I came out of my cabin and he... he jumped
Speaker 1: on me.
Speaker 3: You go below, Skipper.
Speaker 1: You look at young Payne. Then you know I hit him.
Speaker 3: Victor Payne, the cabin boy?
Speaker 1: What's wrong with him?
Speaker 4: If he don't get the proper medical attention right soon, Skipper,
Speaker 4: the lad will lose his arm.
Speaker 8: He's been lying in his bunk screaming with pain for
Speaker 8: two days.
Speaker 3: And his sore bones won't do anything for him. What
Speaker 3: does this mean, Doctor?
Speaker 6: What happened to the cabin boy?
Speaker 2: He was vaccinated and have infection set in. His arm
Speaker 2: has swollen a bit.
Speaker 3: A bit? His arms were big like two arms. Well,
Speaker 3: what have you done for the boy, Doctor? All I could.
Speaker 2: Needs an operation, but we.
Speaker 3: Have the facilities aboard.
Speaker 1: Get to port tomorrow.
Speaker 2: I'll take him to a sanatorium where I can do
Speaker 2: the job right.
Speaker 1: And will he all right to wait?
Speaker 6: I mean, there's no great danger?
Speaker 1: No, sir. Very well.
Speaker 3: Johnson. Yes, sir?
Speaker 6: This is a serious offense striking a ship's officer.
Speaker 1: I can't let it pass. You'll have a hearing later.
Speaker 1: In the meantime... Matthew.
Speaker 8: Aye, sir.
Speaker 1: Put this man in irons.
Speaker 4: Aye.
Speaker 1: Put him in irons. Put him in irons. All right, Johnson.
Speaker 1: Come on.
Speaker 3: You can put me in irons now.
Speaker 6: But I'll get that fellow later.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 6: Now, the rest of you, get back to your posts.
Speaker 3: Go on, now. Come on.
Speaker 6: Come on.
Speaker 5: Put Johnson in irons.
Speaker 3: Margo, let's go below and see this cabin boy. The
Speaker 3: one they say has such.
Speaker 1: A bad arm.
Speaker 5: You think there's some truth to what the men say?
Speaker 3: I don't know, Margo.
Speaker 5: They may exaggerate, but I've always inclined to the belief
Speaker 5: that too many men can't be too far wrong.
Speaker 8: Well, you ain't got much farther to go, sir. They
Speaker 8: got young pain bumps at the bottom of these stairs.
Speaker 1: I see.
Speaker 3: Well, there's certainly no place for a sick boy. It's
Speaker 3: definitely hot.
Speaker 5: Why isn't he in a deck cab?
Speaker 8: You ask me that, Miss Lane.
Speaker 6: You might as well ask me why they have a
Speaker 6: doctor aboard like Radlow.
Speaker 3: Now, here we are. Step right in.
Speaker 1: I'll go. You better wait here.
Speaker 6: All right, Lamont.
Speaker 3: Well, help me. Victor, what on Sunday are you doing
Speaker 3: out of bed?
Speaker 4: I'm not going to stay down here below any longer.
Speaker 6: You get back in bed.
Speaker 7: I ship to do my trick like everybody else.
Speaker 1: I'm going to work. Now, just a minute, son.
Speaker 3: You're in no condition to.
Speaker 6: Do any work.
Speaker 1: I tell you, I.
Speaker 3: Now, make it easy. Steady, boy. I'm back in bed
Speaker 3: with you. Easy now.
Speaker 5: There we are.
Speaker 1: They'll never ship me again.
Speaker 3: I fell down in my first flight. Don't worry about that.
Speaker 3: You've got a man-sized job getting well on your hands. Victor,
Speaker 3: this here is Mr. Cranston. Come in, Miss Lane.
Speaker 4: Oh, thank you.
Speaker 1: Mr.
Speaker 3: Cranston and Miss Lane, Victor.
Speaker 8: They're passengers.
Speaker 4: Come down to see how you're doing.
Speaker 3: Do you mind if I look at you around, Victor?
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 5: No bandage?
Speaker 3: Let's see. That's a nasty wound.
Speaker 4: Why, the arm must be swollen more than twice.
Speaker 1: Its normal size.
Speaker 3: Tell me, Victor, how did it happen?
Speaker 5: Well, it started from a vaccination I got in Harvard.
Speaker 6: A bit of infection set in.
Speaker 1: Well, I didn't think it was.
Speaker 3: Much, but Dr. Bedlaw, he said it was serious. Oh,
Speaker 3: I see.
Speaker 4: Mr.
Speaker 7: Cranston.
Speaker 3: Yes, Victor? I won't lose my arm with it. Oh,
Speaker 3: I can't do that, sir.
Speaker 1: I've got to work. You see, there's.
Speaker 4: Somebody depending on me.
Speaker 3: That's why I came to see, because.
Speaker 1: There wasn't any work at home.
Speaker 3: Oh, Victor, don't lose your courage.
Speaker 1: It's my own fault.
Speaker 4: I'm in this mess.
Speaker 3: I was warned against that law. Warned?
Speaker 1: By whom? Newt Johnson.
Speaker 4: He told me not to let that law touch me.
Speaker 3: Johnson? The man who struck the doctor? Oh, I see.
Speaker 1: Oh, Mr.
Speaker 8: Cranston.
Speaker 3: How do you do, Miss Lane?
Speaker 1: How do you do, Captain? You've met Dr.
Speaker 3: Badlaw, I believe.
Speaker 1: Yes, Dr.
Speaker 3: Badlaw, and I've met before.
Speaker 1: How do you do?
Speaker 7: Captain, I don't think this boy should be kept down here.
Speaker 3: I'll be glad to pay for a deck cabin. Oh,
Speaker 3: that won't be necessary.
Speaker 6: I had no idea he was so badly off.
Speaker 3: I'll have him moved at once.
Speaker 1: Just a minute, Captain.
Speaker 2: I think I should be consulted with any plans that
Speaker 2: affect my patient.
Speaker 4: Well, surely, Doctor, you don't object to his being moved
Speaker 4: out of this hot.
Speaker 5: Humid place.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't object, Miss Lane, if I thought it was
Speaker 2: best for the patient.
Speaker 3: But you refuse to allow the boy to be moved.
Speaker 1: Until my judgment dictates otherwise, yes.
Speaker 5: Doctor, that.
Speaker 4: I think that you.
Speaker 3: Margo, Margo, please.
Speaker 7: I think we'd better leave the doctor with this patient.
Speaker 3: Come on.
Speaker 1: Oh, Lamont, I'm so angry I could... Well, it's a
Speaker 1: good thing I'm not a man.
Speaker 3: I can't see why I... Margo, please.
Speaker 5: This is a time to keep the head cool and
Speaker 5: the heart warm. I don't understand why Vardalore sewed that
Speaker 5: wound up in.
Speaker 3: The first place. It's an infection.
Speaker 5: It should be allowed to drain.
Speaker 4: Something's got to be done.
Speaker 1: The boy's in great danger, Lamont.
Speaker 7: Margot, I have a feeling Newt Johnson knows something. Perhaps
Speaker 7: the shadow can find the answer.
Speaker 6: What are you going to do?
Speaker 5: Have a little take-up date with Seaman Johnson. In the meantime, Margot,
Speaker 5: I want you to go to the wireless room and
Speaker 5: send a message for me.
Speaker 1: Johnson.
Speaker 3: Johnson. Eh?
Speaker 1: Who is that?
Speaker 3: I am the shadow. Shadow?
Speaker 1: What you mean?
Speaker 3: I don't see you. I'm standing right here in front
Speaker 3: of your cell. I see nobody.
Speaker 6: Eh? Somebody play trick on me.
Speaker 3: You can't see.
Speaker 1: Me, Johnson.
Speaker 3: You can only hear me.
Speaker 6: Huh?
Speaker 1: You're a ghost, yeah? I am not a ghost, Johnson.
Speaker 7: If you're not a ghost, why I can't see you?
Speaker 7: Because I have the power to make myself invisible.
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: What you want from me?
Speaker 1: I'm here to help you.
Speaker 2: To help young Payne, if I can.
Speaker 5: I want to know why you attacked the doctor.
Speaker 7: Why you won Rick Payne against him.
Speaker 3: Because he is butcher.
Speaker 4: This is not first time he make people suffer.
Speaker 1: He trade firemen on cerebric. Fireman lose leg.
Speaker 3: He treat cook and Francis Wiggum. Cook lose arm. That
Speaker 3: certainly is not a flattering record. You think that bad?
Speaker 4: He kill my friend, Thug Olsen.
Speaker 1: Killed him? How?
Speaker 7: Thug have infection in shoulder.
Speaker 3: This doctor fool with him.
Speaker 1: And he die.
Speaker 7: You believe me, this young pain, he die too.
Speaker 4: Johnson.
Speaker 1: Johnson.
Speaker 7: I want you to leave this matter entirely in my hands.
Speaker 6: Well, you may be smart fellow, Mr.
Speaker 3: Shaddle, but you believe me.
Speaker 4: You won't be able.
Speaker 3: To do anything.
Speaker 7: This Victor Payne is going to lose arm.
Speaker 3: May lose life.
Speaker 1: Say no.
Speaker 8: You see.
Speaker 3: Hello, boy.
Speaker 6: Hello.
Speaker 3: Thunder, Mr. Cranston. This is unbelievable. I don't think you
Speaker 3: can have it from better authority, Captain.
Speaker 6: You had me sling wire, the Enquirer, an hour ago,
Speaker 6: you say? Yes.
Speaker 3: And there you have the answer.
Speaker 6: George, that law that you was licensed to practice because
Speaker 6: of failure to qualify in ability and character. Well, there's
Speaker 6: certainly no disputing this. You see, Captain, Radulov's papers are forgeries.
Speaker 1: He has no right to practice.
Speaker 6: Well, he must know we're on to him. We can't
Speaker 6: find him anywhere aboard. We've searched the ship from top
Speaker 6: to bottom.
Speaker 1: There's only one answer. He's gone over the side.
Speaker 3: Well, my greatest concern right now is young Payne, Captain.
Speaker 5: If something's not done at once, he'll lose his arm.
Speaker 3: Well, I've ordered the.
Speaker 1: Boy moved to a deck, Captain. What else can we do?
Speaker 3: There's no doctor aboard.
Speaker 5: Well, perhaps you could transfer the boy to another ship.
Speaker 3: I'm afraid not.
Speaker 1: We could never put him over the side in a
Speaker 1: sea like this.
Speaker 3: It's too rough. I see.
Speaker 1: Captain.
Speaker 3: Yes? At least we can get some advice.
Speaker 5: There must be a liner in our vicinity with a
Speaker 5: competent physician aboard.
Speaker 1: Perhaps.
Speaker 3: Miles.
Speaker 4: Hi, sir.
Speaker 1: Where was the last ship you logged? I raised the
Speaker 1: Empress Marguerite about an hour ago, sir. Where did she lie?
Speaker 1: Down on our course, sir. Good. That's our ship, Cranston.
Speaker 1: I know the doctor aboard.
Speaker 3: Good man.
Speaker 1: Contact him.
Speaker 6: In the meantime, I'll see what I can do for
Speaker 6: young Payne.
Speaker 1: All right, Miles. Get Dr.
Speaker 5: Sparrow.
Speaker 1: I'm the Empress Marguerite. Emergency.
Speaker 3: Oh, Lamar, come in. How's the boy, Margo?
Speaker 4: Well, he's much more comfortable in this deck cabin.
Speaker 6: He goes off into a coma every once in a while.
Speaker 6: The pain must be horrible.
Speaker 3: Look at the way his face is contorted. What are
Speaker 3: we going to do, Lamont?
Speaker 5: The captain's trying to contact the ship to get some
Speaker 5: advice from the physician.
Speaker 4: I'm afraid we'll need more than advice.
Speaker 3: Oh, Captain Brand.
Speaker 1: Any luck?
Speaker 3: I've got an answer from the Empress Marguerite. Good, let's
Speaker 3: hear it.
Speaker 6: The description of Boy's arm indicates immediate operation imperative. In
Speaker 6: absence of license position, suggest job be done by ship's
Speaker 6: officer or responsible layman.
Speaker 2: How can that.
Speaker 6: Now, wait a moment. We'll direct operation with complete instruction
Speaker 6: via shortwave radio.
Speaker 1: Answer at once.
Speaker 3: What does he mean, he'll direct the operation?
Speaker 5: We'll have to set up a two-way radio so we
Speaker 5: can talk with the operator.
Speaker 3: While the boy's on the table. Captain.
Speaker 5: Captain. That boy's life.
Speaker 3: Is in your hands. In my hands?
Speaker 1: You're the ranking officer.
Speaker 3: You'll have to operate.
Speaker 1: Oh, no, Cranston.
Speaker 3: That's out of the question.
Speaker 6: I don't know the first thing about surgery.
Speaker 5: Lamont.
Speaker 4: Why don't you do it?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 5: You've had some medical training.
Speaker 3: But I've never done anything like that. You've had medical training? Cranston,
Speaker 3: you must.
Speaker 1: For the boy's sake.
Speaker 2: That youngster's life is at stake, Lamont.
Speaker 3: You can't let him down.
Speaker 1: Captain.
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 5: How long will it take to hook up the shortwave set?
Speaker 1: About 15 minutes. All right.
Speaker 4: Tell the Empress Marguerite we'll operate in 15 minutes.
Speaker 6: 15 minutes.
Speaker 1: Set here, sir.
Speaker 3: You ready, Cranston?
Speaker 1: Yes, Captain. Margo, how about you?
Speaker 4: I'm ready.
Speaker 1: Good. I'll give you the go-ahead, sir.
Speaker 3: In just a second.
Speaker 1: As soon as I raise the marguerite.
Speaker 3: As soon as you can.
Speaker 1: Here, Cranston.
Speaker 6: I'll put this microphone in front of you so you
Speaker 6: can talk to Dr.
Speaker 1: Sparrow.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Mr.
Speaker 6: Cranston.
Speaker 3: Yes, Victor.
Speaker 1: Could I have a cigarette?
Speaker 3: It'll steady your nerves, certainly.
Speaker 8: It'll help, sir.
Speaker 3: Here you are.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Here you are. Victor. Victor.
Speaker 5: This is going to be a bit of an ordeal.
Speaker 5: You'll have to listen to all the details of the
Speaker 5: operation coming.
Speaker 3: From the loudspeaker. I can take it, sir. You're sure, Victor?
Speaker 3: You want me to do this? You'll trust me? Trust you?
Speaker 5: I'll bet on you.
Speaker 1: Stand by. Sure, Captain.
Speaker 3: Take it.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 3: Hello.
Speaker 1: Amber Marguerite? Yes. Hello. Renata.
Speaker 3: Sproul speaking. This is Captain Blair, Doctor. We're ready on
Speaker 3: this end.
Speaker 5: Good.
Speaker 3: Who's going to operate?
Speaker 1: One of my passengers.
Speaker 4: I'll introduce him.
Speaker 3: Lamont Cranston.
Speaker 1: Dr. Sproul.
Speaker 3: How do you do, Doctor?
Speaker 1: Hello, Mr.
Speaker 8: Cranston.
Speaker 4: You've got quite a job on your hands.
Speaker 3: So let's get on with it. Good luck, Lamont. Thanks, Parker.
Speaker 4: First, let me take a quick check on your setup.
Speaker 1: You've got a good, sharp scalpel, I suppose.
Speaker 5: Yes, Doctor.
Speaker 1: Plenty of towels.
Speaker 3: A few dozen.
Speaker 1: Any way of sterilizing them?
Speaker 3: Baking them with hot irons.
Speaker 5: Good.
Speaker 3: Doors?
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 4: Roll it into small spits about the size of cigarettes.
Speaker 1: Margo, will you take care of that, please?
Speaker 5: Yes, sir.
Speaker 4: You'll need those to drain the wounds.
Speaker 3: Now, the disinfectant.
Speaker 1: Iodine.
Speaker 3: Anesthetic.
Speaker 1: I'm using a local, doctor.
Speaker 3: I know how to administer that.
Speaker 1: I've done it before. Just one thing more.
Speaker 3: Yes, doctor.
Speaker 4: Will you confirm all my instructions as I give them
Speaker 4: so there'll be no chance of misunderstanding?
Speaker 3: Yes, doctor.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 4: Now, then you say you know how to administer the anesthetic?
Speaker 3: Yes, doctor. Hypo's all ready.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 3: First, the alcohol.
Speaker 1: Alcohol, Marlowe.
Speaker 6: Here, Marlowe.
Speaker 1: Ready, doctor? Swab the arm. Right.
Speaker 3: Feels good.
Speaker 6: Hypo.
Speaker 1: Hypo.
Speaker 4: Victor, it's going to hurt for just a second.
Speaker 1: So, brace yourself. Let it go, sir.
Speaker 3: All right. Good boy. There you are, Doctor.
Speaker 5: Iodine.
Speaker 1: Iodine.
Speaker 3: Paint the entire area.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 1: Entire area of infection. Make an incision about two inches.
Speaker 5: Long, passing through the most infected area.
Speaker 6: That's all there is to it.
Speaker 1: All right, Doctor.
Speaker 3: Don't move anybody.
Speaker 1: Don't move. I have a patient here, and I'm not
Speaker 1: going to let any.
Speaker 3: Meddler accept my authority.
Speaker 8: You have no authority here.
Speaker 3: I hold my authority right in my hand, Captain.
Speaker 2: And unless you do as I say, this gun's liable
Speaker 2: to start making a noise.
Speaker 1: Mr. Cranston. Mr.
Speaker 3: Cranston. Just a moment, Doctor.
Speaker 1: We've had an interruption.
Speaker 3: We've got to get out of here.
Speaker 8: Oh, you do it, Doctor.
Speaker 2: Now we'll get on with the operation.
Speaker 1: Without your help.
Speaker 3: What do you mean? I'm still the ship's doctor.
Speaker 6: I'm justified in taking any measures to.
Speaker 3: Protect my patients. You're a charlatan, by the law.
Speaker 1: A faker.
Speaker 3: Your papers are all forgeries.
Speaker 1: Shut up, Cranston, or I'll kill you. Come on, now,
Speaker 1: all of you. Get out. Well, Margo, Captain Blair.
Speaker 3: It looks as though we'll have to leave. Oh, but, Clansman,
Speaker 3: this man.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Captain.
Speaker 7: There's nothing we can do.
Speaker 6: Well, if you think I'm going to let that boy
Speaker 6: on to go on.
Speaker 1: Upper leaves, Captain.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 1: I'll follow you right out. What are you waiting for, Clansman?
Speaker 1: Get going. Take your hand off that light switch. Put
Speaker 1: on the light.
Speaker 6: Why, you.
Speaker 3: Oh, God.
Speaker 6: There.
Speaker 1: We won't be disturbed now.
Speaker 3: Well, Victor, they've all gone.
Speaker 1: We're alone.
Speaker 5: Just you and me.
Speaker 8: Keep away from me.
Speaker 3: Keep away. Don't come near me.
Speaker 1: Why, Victor, I'm your doctor. I don't want anything to
Speaker 1: do with you. But I want to help you, Victor.
Speaker 3: You haven't before. I'm going to now.
Speaker 1: What do you mean?
Speaker 3: You have a very bad arm. Yes, thanks to you.
Speaker 1: It'll have to come off at once. No. No, Mr.
Speaker 3: Cranston. Captain, help me, please. I can't help you now, Victor.
Speaker 3: You're going to. Take it easy.
Speaker 2: Just breathe in.
Speaker 3: You'll be asleep in.
Speaker 7: Now, Victor, when you wake up, your arm will be gone. Gone.
Speaker 7: What was that?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 7: That's the radio.
Speaker 3: I thought I broke it. No use, Battler.
Speaker 1: This is a voice you can't shut out.
Speaker 3: Who are you? I am the Shadow.
Speaker 1: The Shadow.
Speaker 3: Oh, yes, I've heard of you. Get away from that table.
Speaker 1: I'm going to finish the operation on the boy's arm.
Speaker 1: You a shadow operator? Oh, no, you don't. Not while
Speaker 1: I can do anything about it.
Speaker 3: Put down that scalpel, I say. After the arm's cut off.
Speaker 3: In that case... Son of a devil. I have no
Speaker 3: time to bother with you. I can't see you, but
Speaker 3: I can see you lift those instruments.
Speaker 1: Put them down.
Speaker 3: Small incision. Don't cut stuff, I say. Passing through.
Speaker 1: A parachute.
Speaker 3: Most infected area. You think I can't see you? Well,
Speaker 3: I'll show you. Still operating, eh?
Speaker 7: I plugged you shut, Otto. Still begging for.
Speaker 6: It, eh?
Speaker 1: I'll let you finish you.
Speaker 3: The crew, they're coming for you. They'll never get me.
Speaker 3: You use your four of your bullets. Only one left,
Speaker 3: but this time I will make the last one.
Speaker 1: Well, stand up.
Speaker 3: Here's for the last bullet. Break the door down, man.
Speaker 4: Easy now, men.
Speaker 3: Easy. Come on. Come on.
Speaker 5: You're bleeding.
Speaker 3: Never mind about me. I've got to finish with Victor.
Speaker 6: What happened to Badlaw?
Speaker 3: Shot himself.
Speaker 1: I'm going to hold the boy's arm while I finish.
Speaker 1: All right, men.
Speaker 3: Thank you, folks.
Speaker 8: Badlaw is dead.
Speaker 3: Margo. Captain.
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 5: Look.
Speaker 1: Under this muscle.
Speaker 6: Lamont!
Speaker 3: What is it, Brampton? It's a pure blood ruby. Embedded
Speaker 3: in the boy's arm.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 8: There's the reason for Victor Payne's infected arm.
Speaker 3: The explanation for Vadlo's strange conduct.
Speaker 1: Let me have that scalpel, Margot.
Speaker 3: Here you are, Lamont.
Speaker 5: We'll have to get it out.
Speaker 3: Lamont, how did it get in Victor's arm? It was
Speaker 3: placed there by Vadlo. Why would he do a thing
Speaker 3: like that?
Speaker 5: It was simply a diabolically clever way of smuggling precious stones.
Speaker 7: Badlaw was only one in a ring of stimla fiends.
Speaker 1: By thunder! I never heard of the like.
Speaker 4: That's why Badlaw didn't want to operate until he reached port.
Speaker 3: Exactly.
Speaker 6: He wanted to get the jewel past the customs officials.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 2: It's out.
Speaker 5: And this is the end of the ring's mutilating and
Speaker 5: murdering enterprise.
Speaker 3: We'll sweep the thief clean of the whole filthy tribe. Oh, Cranston,
Speaker 3: that shoulder of yours.
Speaker 1: We've got to take care of it.
Speaker 3: We've got to take care of this boy first.
Speaker 1: Gauze, Marco.
Speaker 7: Gauze, Lamont.
Speaker 1: Ready with the cotton.
Speaker 3: Here, Captain.
Speaker 1: Hold the arm while I spread the wound.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: Now, Marco. Cotton. Pack the wound with gauze. All right.
Speaker 1: Wipe the perspiration from my face, Marco. Lamont.
Speaker 3: Cranston. Cranston.
Speaker 4: Look, Lamont, here's an article in the newspaper that should
Speaker 4: give you some satisfaction.
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 2: What is it, Margo?
Speaker 5: Listen.
Speaker 3: Surgery smuggling ring broken.
Speaker 1: Ten fake doctors taken into custody.
Speaker 4: They're private hospital raided.
Speaker 3: Well, I guess that winds up the case very effectively.
Speaker 6: Listen, Lamont.
Speaker 4: It says that the ring had their own hospital where
Speaker 4: they extracted the gems from the unsuspecting carriers.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's what Victor Payne was. An unsuspecting carrier. Well,
Speaker 3: Victor's none the worse for his experience.
Speaker 7: The ring is broken.
Speaker 3: Vidalor is dead. Yes, and your wounded shoulder is healing
Speaker 3: very nicely.
Speaker 2: The doctor told me this morning that you'd be up
Speaker 2: and around again in a.
Speaker 5: Day or so.
Speaker 3: That's good news.
Speaker 7: I imagine that if I take care of myself, eat
Speaker 7: the right food, exercise, build myself up, that eventually I'll
Speaker 7: be in proper condition to take another rescuer at sea.
Speaker 3: The End