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A master criminal called The Spider puts the famous detective's brother under a hypnotic spell and turns him against Dick.
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00:00The End
01:00Well, Sam, it looks like we have a dead counterfeiter on our hands.
01:16Simple case of murder.
01:17Stabbed.
01:21I'll take care of this and have it checked later.
01:30That's a handy little outfit.
01:32Yeah, it's a hand printing press, special inks, and special papers.
01:36Don't touch anything, Sam.
01:38You'll have to get that ink on you.
01:39And that's the kind of ink that won't rub off.
01:41Yeah, I notice it's all over the fingers of the corpse.
01:44Well, everything seems to be here except the plates for printing of the money.
01:48Oh, what's this?
01:50A fresh sample.
01:51Take a look, Sam.
01:52Say, that's the best job of counterfeiting I've ever seen.
01:59Well, that's the kind of case the Treasury Department will be interested in.
02:01I'll notify Washington immediately.
02:03You better wait here for the coroner, Sam.
02:04Hiya, Fluff.
02:15I want to see the mole.
02:16Why?
02:16Maybe the mole doesn't want to see you.
02:18Just go and tell him I want to see him, that's all.
02:20Look, the last time you were here, he threw you out of his office.
02:23Said you are no good chiseling rat, and he wasn't going to advance you any money.
02:26That was last time.
02:27Just go in and tell him I've got the durable plates.
02:29What are you doing?
02:30Selling dishes?
02:32Will you go in and tell him I've got the durable plates?
02:34He'll know what I'm talking about.
02:35Okay, find yourself a seat.
02:37If the mole will see you, I'll come and get you.
02:58Who's there?
02:59It's me, Fluff.
03:02Come in.
03:04Why do you keep the lights off all the time?
03:08Because I like the dark.
03:10I can relax.
03:12And I can think.
03:13Well, I can't relax and I can't think.
03:15And I don't like the dark.
03:17Can I turn on the lights?
03:18All right.
03:19Put them on if you want them.
03:24Why don't you keep the lights on like everybody else does?
03:26Because I'm not like everybody else.
03:30Well, what do you want?
03:32Reg Rolf is outside.
03:34Says he wants to talk to you.
03:35I threw him out the last time he was here.
03:38I don't want anything to do with that little chiseler.
03:40That's what I told him.
03:42Well, what do you stand there wasting my time for?
03:45He said he wanted to talk to you about some dishes.
03:47I think he called them the Durable plates.
03:50The Durable?
03:53The Durable plates?
03:55Well, why didn't you tell me?
03:56Send him in.
03:57Just what are the Durable plates?
03:59Oh, you're kind of curious, huh?
04:02Well, I'll tell you.
04:05The Durable plates are engravings.
04:08Durable is the finest engraver of counterfeiting plates we've ever had.
04:13Well, what are you waiting for?
04:15Bring him in.
04:20Durable plates, huh?
04:25Will he see me?
04:26Well, Rolf, you're going to be a man of importance for once in your life.
04:30The mole will see you.
04:31No, you won't be important to me anymore.
04:33As a matter of fact, pretty soon I'll be rolling in plenty of money.
04:36It's just what a little fluff like you likes.
04:39In your case, money won't help much.
04:49Hello, mole.
04:50All right, what's your story?
04:51Come to the point.
04:54Don't shake hands.
04:55Come on, make it snappy.
04:57I'll give you three.
04:58One, two.
04:59Can we be alone?
05:01Okay.
05:02Enough beating.
05:06Mind if I light a cigarette?
05:07Yes, I do mind.
05:09I don't like the light.
05:10The flash hurts my eyes.
05:12Come on, I'll give you one minute.
05:15I know where the spiked Durable counterfeit plates are.
05:19Yeah?
05:19I said I know where the spiked Durable plates are.
05:24That don't mean a thing unless you got your hands on them.
05:27Of course I can lay my hands on them.
05:29In fact, I can get these two hands on plenty of them.
05:32What's the matter?
05:39What's the matter with your hands?
05:40Won't come off.
05:42Special printers, Inc., huh?
05:45Sit down.
05:48Or you stay there.
05:50What's that, Moe?
05:55What's that?
05:56That's none of your particular business.
06:00Where are those plates?
06:03I can lay my hands on them.
06:05They're worth a million dollars.
06:07In fact, nobody's ever passed any money made from them yet.
06:09A million dollars?
06:12Where does a punk like you expect to get a million dollars?
06:16Fifty thousand dollars.
06:18I'll take ten grand for them right now.
06:19Yes, and you'll take whatever I give you.
06:24Cut it off.
06:25Did you call us, Moe?
06:27Yeah.
06:28I think I've got a job for you two guys to do.
06:32You know, Moe, you got so many tunnels crisscrossing each other down there, I almost got lost.
06:36Why don't you put some lights in them?
06:38I don't like lights.
06:40Well, I didn't lead him around like a little baby.
06:42He'd get lost down there.
06:44That's the way I want it.
06:45Well, next to you, Moe, I know the tunnels best.
06:49Moe, I'll give you my phone number.
06:52When you want me, you can call me.
06:53Yes, and...
06:55Sit down.
06:58When I tell you to sit down, sit down.
07:01When I tell you to get up, you get up.
07:05Cut off!
07:05Okay.
07:07Oh.
07:10You could put your hands on them when you want it, huh?
07:13Where's my tent grand?
07:25Shut up!
07:25It's all right, Moe.
07:27If you want them, if you really want them, you can have them.
07:29It's okay.
07:30It's okay.
07:32You just keep your nose clean, and I'll give you a chance to pass some of this.
07:36After it, I'll get it printed.
07:45Listen, Moe.
07:46I've been thinking it's over.
07:48You're not giving me a square deal.
07:50I want some dough now.
07:53You want some dough now?
07:54How much dough do you want, punk?
07:58$10,000.
07:59I'll take five grand right now.
08:04Listen to that, fella.
08:06The punk wants five grand.
08:09I think you two guys ought to stay here and have a long talk with him.
08:14Maybe it'll be more reasonable.
08:17Now, you've got to go and check on that, Daniel.
08:18After all, I am in the restaurant business.
08:23We just got the report from the Treasury Department.
08:50This man, Spike Derville, who was found dead.
08:52It seems they've been looking for him for a long time,
08:54because he's one of the finest engravers in the country.
08:57And now we're working hand in glove with the T-men on this case.
09:00Running down counterfeiters is their business.
09:02Now, ours is solving murder.
09:03And that's just what we're going to do.
09:12Stop dropping ashes on my rug.
09:15Oh, I'm sorry, Moe.
09:18What's that spot?
09:19Oh, that's only blood.
09:22Blood?
09:22Yeah.
09:24I told you I never wanted anything like that to happen in here.
09:27Was it absolutely necessary?
09:28Well, it's that shopper.
09:29He got excited, and the first thing you know, he croaked rough.
09:32I tried to stop him.
09:34I know you don't like those sort of things.
09:35Where's the body?
09:36We took it through the tunnel to that deserted house on the next lot.
09:41Take your chair and see if you can cover that spot.
09:43No, never mind.
09:45Why did he have to shoot Roth in here?
09:49Now, look, Martin, that's not a very big rug.
09:52Roll it up and get rid of it with the body.
09:53Why, Moe, that's a really good rug.
09:57There's a lot of things you've got to learn if you're going to be successful in this business, Martin.
10:02What's that?
10:03That the police are no fools.
10:06You could never prove that those weren't human bloodstains on the floor.
10:11Gee, Moe, you're pretty smart.
10:13Sure I am.
10:14Now get rid of that rug and Roth's body so nobody will ever find it.
10:19Okay, Moe.
10:44How about this Reg Roth that was found floating in the bay?
11:06Yeah, Tracy.
11:07All the reports are in, aren't they?
11:09Well, all but the stains on his fingerprints.
11:11Gillis is bringing those in.
11:12Hmm. What does Ballistic say about the bullets?
11:15Well, they say that he was killed by a bullet from a gun RG4938A.
11:20Is there any registration on that gun?
11:21Yeah, it was registered to a man named Willard S. Kahn.
11:25Kahn?
11:25Well, that's our old friend that's in jail.
11:27You remember Kahn.
11:28Oh, yeah.
11:29That's the fellow that was hurt in that battle with Blowtop.
11:32Yeah.
11:32Well, since he's in jail, it's obvious that he couldn't have fired the weapon.
11:35Yeah.
11:36And the fingerprint gives us the whole story on Reg Roth.
11:40Not a very savory character.
11:42Oh.
11:43Those stains on his fingers now.
11:45Oh, thanks, Gillis.
11:46Let's see.
11:48Well, the laboratory says it was made from special engraving ink.
11:52That is, all made from the same lot.
11:54Well, then the ink on Roth's fingers matches the ink on Durval's.
11:58Beyond a shadow of a doubt, there can be no question because the ink was made in such small quantities.
12:02Well, that means that Roth killed Durval.
12:05Right.
12:06I'll tell you what I want you to do, Sam.
12:07Number one, make up a comprehensive report of this and send it to the Treasury Department.
12:11And number two, go downstairs and talk to Kahn about that gun.
12:14That'll be a pleasure.
12:23Well, if it take me old friend Sam Ketchum, well, how are you this fine afternoon?
12:27Fine, Murphy.
12:28And you?
12:29Same as you as you're right in the pink.
12:30Oh, Dick Tracy sent me down here to see if I could get some information out of Kahn.
12:34Is he in any condition to talk?
12:35Why, sure he can talk.
12:36You might as well say he's almost as good as brand new again.
12:39Well, that's good news.
12:40You take me down to him?
12:41No, I shouldn't have said them down.
12:43Right this way.
12:43After you, Merton.
12:44Oh, this Kahn, he's a tough guy.
12:47Hey, Kahn.
12:48Kahn.
12:49There's a man here to see you.
12:51Now, what do you want, copper?
12:53Well, how's my friend Kahn today?
12:55What's it to you?
12:56Hey, now, look.
12:57That's no way to be talking to an officer at the law.
12:59I don't have to take any of your lip either.
13:01Imagine that, Doc.
13:04Now, here's a man who's a public charge,
13:06complaining about the way he's being treated by public servants.
13:09All right, now, Murphy, I have some business with Kahn.
13:13You'll excuse us, please?
13:14Certainly.
13:15I know when I'm not wanted.
13:17You don't have to be so polite, you know.
13:21What's your story?
13:22Well, according to police records,
13:24you own a gun with serial number RG49388.
13:28I did own a gun.
13:30No, you're kind of lucky to be in jail.
13:33What do you mean, lucky?
13:34Well, there was a man killed with a bullet from that gun.
13:36Well, I got a good alibi.
13:40A shovel off.
13:42You know, you're coming up for trial next week.
13:44What about it?
13:45Well, I'm not authorized to bargain for information,
13:48but I can tell you this much.
13:50You cooperate with the authorities,
13:52and I feel sure the district attorney will keep that in mind
13:54when he draws up the charges against you.
13:56Sounds interesting.
13:58What do you want to know?
13:59About that gun.
14:01What about it?
14:02Who'd you sell it to?
14:03Just between you and me?
14:05Naturally.
14:06I sold it to a guy named Chopper.
14:08Chopper.
14:10Never heard of him.
14:12What do you know about him?
14:14Not a thing.
14:15I met him in a restaurant.
14:16He wanted a gun, and I was broke,
14:18so I sold him mine.
14:20What's the name of the restaurant?
14:21The Hole in the Wall.
14:23Oh, yes, I know the place.
14:25Over on Victor and Ninth.
14:27Not a very nice place.
14:28I ain't choosy.
14:29The food's good.
14:31What else do you know about this man?
14:33Not a thing.
14:35It's not very much.
14:37I guess it'll have to do.
14:39Thanks.
14:42All right, fine.
14:43Yes, I'll let you know later.
14:44Goodbye.
14:49Well, Sam, what'd you find out from Conn?
14:51He says he sold the gun.
14:53To whom?
14:54Some man named Chopper.
14:56Chopper?
14:56Chopper?
14:57I never heard of him.
14:58Get me Gillis.
14:59Go on, continue.
15:01Well, I asked him where...
15:02Gillis, this is Tracy.
15:04I want you to find out if you have a record
15:05on a man named Chopper.
15:07That's right.
15:07No, I'll hold on.
15:09So?
15:09Well, as I was saying,
15:10he says he met this guy Chopper
15:12in a little restaurant called The Hole in the Wall.
15:14It's a place over on Victor and Ninth.
15:16He asked me if he knew anything more about him,
15:17and, well,
15:18it's all the information I could get out of him.
15:20Yes, Gillis.
15:21What?
15:22You have no record of a man named Chopper
15:23or any similar name.
15:25All right, thanks.
15:27Well, it seems we have a new operator in this territory.
15:30We've got to work fast.
15:31A man comes into town with a gun
15:33and already he's killed somebody,
15:34and we don't know what he looks like.
15:35Oh.
15:37Where are we going, Sam?
15:38Well, I figured you'd want to go over
15:39and take a look at that restaurant.
15:40You've been working with me so long
15:42you're already a step ahead of me.
15:54Looks like they're doing a thriving business.
15:56Yes.
15:59Hello.
16:00Can I help you, gentlemen?
16:01We're here on a matter of business.
16:03Well, if you're selling anything, I'll buy it.
16:04Nothing like that ever happens to me.
16:07Oh, Sam.
16:08We're looking for a man named Chopper.
16:10Chopper?
16:11Never heard of him.
16:12You mean to say you've never seen a man around here
16:14by the name of Chopper
16:15or heard the name before?
16:16With a name like that, who could forget?
16:18Well, you won't mind if we stay
16:20and have a bite to eat?
16:21Of course not.
16:21That's our business.
16:22Have a check.
16:23Thanks.
16:28Hi, Strickland.
16:29Hi, Fluff.
16:32Well, well, Mr. Dick Tracy,
16:35it's indeed a privilege and pleasure to see you here.
16:37Your clientele is improving every day.
16:40Yes, indeed.
16:40The hole in the wall is drawing a much higher class of people.
16:44Thanks, Brigham.
16:45You'll excuse me?
16:47Come now.
16:51What would you gentlemen like?
16:52Well, I'll have a nice, thick piece of homemade apple pie,
16:56chocolate ice cream, and a cup of coffee.
16:59Well, you'll have a nice, thin piece of store-bought apple pie
17:01with vanilla ice cream.
17:03And with it, I'll serve you a cup of mud.
17:06Well, I'll have the same thing, then,
17:08and with vanilla ice cream.
17:09I told you we didn't have any chocolate.
17:13Okay.
17:17Look, Tracy,
17:18if we can't locate this guy Chopper here,
17:21what do you think we ought to do?
17:23After all, we've got no information on him.
17:26No pictures, no fingerprints.
17:29Nothing.
17:30This presents a very difficult problem.
17:32We only had some clues, something to go by.
17:35Well...
17:35All we know is the man's name,
17:36and nobody ever heard of him.
17:38After I finish my coffee, my pie,
17:40my ice cream,
17:42I'll be in a better mood to work.
17:43Then I'll give you an answer.
17:45Okay.
17:46Excuse me for some...
17:48Who is it?
17:55Jay Blackstone, Springham.
17:58Either you guys need a lawyer?
18:00Not yet.
18:01Well, hello, shyster.
18:05What do you want?
18:07Sir, I resent being called a shyster.
18:10I happen to be the finest criminal lawyer
18:12that money can buy.
18:14Yeah, so what?
18:15Now what do you want?
18:17Well, inasmuch as you're a client of mine,
18:20I feel it my duty to warn you
18:22that Dick Tracy and Sam Katcham
18:24are in the dining room
18:24having pie a la mode and coffee.
18:27Pie a la mode, no less.
18:29With vanilla ice cream.
18:32What does he want?
18:34Well, quite by accident, of course.
18:37I overheard them talking.
18:39What did you hear?
18:41Well, they kept repeating the name Chopper.
18:44It seems they're looking for him.
18:47What did you two guys do wrong?
18:50Well, now,
18:51now if you gentlemen did do wrong,
18:53please remember the name,
18:54Jay Blackstone, Springham.
18:56As I said before,
18:56the finest lawyer that money can buy.
18:58We might use you sometimes.
18:59All right, shyster.
19:00What else?
19:01Oh, yes.
19:02Excuse me.
19:03Yes, well, they did say
19:04that they have no record
19:06of anyone called Chopper.
19:07No fingerprints.
19:08As a matter of fact,
19:10they have nothing,
19:11absolutely nothing to go on
19:12except the name.
19:14Thanks, Springham.
19:14I'll remember you for this.
19:17It was nothing.
19:18Nothing really,
19:19nothing at all.
19:19My pleasure.
19:21Gentlemen.
19:26Dick Tracy's down in the restaurant
19:28with Sam Katcham.
19:29I know.
19:30I know.
19:31He's asking about Chopper.
19:32What did you tell him?
19:33Told him I'd never heard
19:34the name before.
19:35Well, that's good going, Fluff.
19:38What else?
19:39Tracy says he wants to talk
19:40to the manager of the restaurant.
19:42What's he doing?
19:42Complaining about the food?
19:43Oh, no.
19:44Nothing like that.
19:46He wants to ask you
19:46something about Chopper.
19:49Hmm.
19:49Well, I'll tell you
19:51what you do, Fluff.
19:53You tell him that I can't
19:54see him right away.
19:55But you bring him in here
19:56in a couple of minutes.
19:59I've got a good idea.
20:04It's a good idea.
20:06You know what, Chopper?
20:08I'm going to introduce you
20:10to Dick Tracy.
20:12Oh, no, you don't.
20:14You're not going to turn me in
20:15for this just because
20:16you're my boss
20:17and pay me every week.
20:18Give me that gun.
20:19Leave me alone,
20:20you big gorilla.
20:21Now, listen.
20:22I've got an idea for the joke
20:24and you're going to go
20:25along with it.
20:26Not if it means
20:26seeing Dick Tracy.
20:27I ain't going to.
20:28Oh, yes, you are.
20:29Shut up.
20:31What's the idea?
20:33Listen.
20:34Dick Tracy don't know you.
20:37He hasn't got anything on you.
20:38And Dick Tracy wants to see
20:41the proprietor of this restaurant.
20:44So for the next ten minutes,
20:46you're going to be the mole.
20:48I don't want to do it.
20:50I don't think it's safe.
20:51You're going to do as I say.
20:53You do as the mole tells you.
20:56Now, look, Martin.
20:57You see that nothing goes wrong.
20:59And if Dick Tracy or Sam
21:01start to make a move,
21:02get behind them.
21:03You've got the gun
21:04and know what to do.
21:07You know, mole,
21:08you've got a pretty good
21:09sense of humor.
21:11Yeah, a pretty good sense of humor.
21:13I should have played along
21:14with that gag all the time.
21:17Now you're learning.
21:22Well, gentlemen,
21:23it's about time now.
21:24You can go in and see the mole.
21:25He's the manager, you know.
21:27I've never heard of him either.
21:28Neither did I.
21:30Right this way.
21:41Wish me luck.
21:48Are you the manager of this restaurant?
21:50Yeah.
21:51What's your name?
21:52They call me the mole,
21:54don't they, Martin?
21:54They sure do, mole.
21:56You're Dick Tracy, aren't you?
21:58And you're Sam Ketchum.
22:00That's right.
22:01I've heard of you two
22:02great detectives.
22:04Read about you
22:04in the newspapers
22:05all the time.
22:06probably the greatest team
22:08that ever was.
22:09Never miss a criminal,
22:11do you?
22:11Well, we try not to.
22:13You hot on the trail
22:14of some big case now?
22:16Well, let's say
22:17that we're looking
22:18for somebody.
22:19Yeah.
22:20What do you know
22:20about a guy named Chopper?
22:22I don't know anything about him.
22:23What does he look like?
22:25We don't know.
22:26We have no description of him.
22:27All we have is his name.
22:29We'd like to talk to him
22:29about a little matter.
22:31Well, I run a respectable business here.
22:34Maybe you could tell me
22:35what you want this Chopper for.
22:37He's wanted on suspicion of murder.
22:41Murder?
22:42Well, if I ever meet him,
22:44I'll let you know.
22:46Goodbye.
22:48What's wrong?
22:49Yeah.
22:51What's wrong?
22:53Nothing, nothing.
22:54Goodbye.
22:56Glad to meet you two men.
22:57We'll probably be seeing
22:58each other again.
22:59Never can tell.
23:01No, you never can.
23:03Well, goodbye.
23:04Come on, Sam.
23:11Did you see the way
23:13he grabbed my hand?
23:14Yeah.
23:15I thought I was going to have
23:16to let him both handle it.
23:17Right in the back, too.
23:18Good thing you were here.
23:19He gave me an awfully funny look
23:21when he shook my hand.
23:27I didn't like the looks
23:29of that big guy, Mountain.
23:30Oh, and he had a gun
23:31in his pocket
23:31and it ain't right at our backs.
23:32Yeah.
23:33What made the other guy
23:34so nervous
23:35when you looked at his hand?
23:37Do you remember
23:38the ink on Spike Derville's hands
23:39and the ink on Reg Roth's hands?
23:40Sure.
23:41Well, that came
23:42from the durable plates.
23:43That's right.
23:43And that same ink
23:44was on the mole's hand.
23:45Well, why didn't you nab him?
23:47I couldn't because Mountain
23:48had a gun on us.
23:49But I've got an idea.
23:50What's that?
23:51We'll drop in a nearby doorway
23:52and keep an eye
23:53on this restaurant manager,
23:54the mole,
23:54and see what he does.
23:55Yeah, but suppose
23:56he don't come out soon.
23:57If he doesn't come out soon,
23:58we'll send some squad cars
23:59and pick him up.
23:59Come on.
24:00Let's go.
24:09Keep an eye on that entrance.
24:11Keep an eye on it.
24:29Keep an eye on it.
24:31you know that guy we thought was the mole you know he almost got me in that gun battle
24:47why the bullet just missed my ear by that much yes he did come pretty close to us yeah but we
24:52put him in the morgue or he won't bother anybody else no funny thing when we went through the
24:56mole's papers his name wasn't the mole at all well it was chopper the fellow we were looking
25:00for in the first place now we've got to find them all yeah you know tracy there was a fine piece of
25:06deduction tracing the ink from spike derville to red roth proved that roth killed derville then
25:13ballistics pinned the murder of roth on the chopper and you found chopper because he had the same kind
25:20of ink on his hands which proved that he was implicated yes sir tracy you did a real good
25:26job well thanks Sam thanks a lot
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