- 2 days ago
John Drake is sent to see who in the government is getting rich from the deal while the population continues to live in poverty.
Category
📺
TVTranscript
00:00Yes?
00:21Eleven o'clock.
00:23Eleven o'clock.
00:25Salchito, what time did...
00:28Are you sure that the message...
00:30I'm so sure of nothing.
00:31The message I got was simple.
00:33Have the money ready, be at the home of Deputy Kyrianes.
00:36If a meeting can be arranged, you will be called.
00:39All right.
00:40The money, $5,000, it is ready.
00:43We are at your home.
00:45All we can do now is wait.
00:47The message.
00:49What do the words say exactly?
00:51You've got me here.
00:53One hundred times since this morning you've asked me that.
00:57We both know the words as well as we know our catechism.
01:00They have not changed since this morning.
01:02Can deliver documents on Z for $5,000.
01:06If meeting possible tonight, we'll call home Deputy Kyrianes.
01:12Well, it's good quality paper.
01:14Yes.
01:15The informer has a taste for the finer things in life.
01:18Like $5,000.
01:20Yes.
01:21Yes.
01:22Yes, this is Deputy Kyrianes' son.
01:24Yes, we have the...
01:26Agreed.
01:27We will be there.
01:29One o'clock.
01:30The Twikanska Highway, the three-kilometer marker.
01:31Very well.
01:32You take Madonna home.
01:33I will go with Salchito.
01:34No, Father.
01:35I will go with Salchito.
01:36I will go with Salchito.
01:37The boy's right.
01:38It might be a little...
01:39And the party can't spare you.
01:40Perhaps you're right.
01:41Darling, please, do be careful.
01:42Don't worry.
01:43My little watchdog is always careful.
01:44Go.
01:45Take the beloved one home, then come back for me.
01:47But remember, we have only two hours.
01:49And it will take at least 15 minutes to drive from here...
01:51to the three-kilometer marker on the Twikanska Highway.
01:52Good night, Madonna.
02:19Montana, Steven.
02:20I've got over all those um...
02:35And the killer will be away!
02:37You're around!
02:49Every government has its secret service branch.
03:00America at CIA, France, Desi M Bureau, England, MI5.
03:05A messy job, well, that's when they usually call on me or someone like me.
03:10Oh, yes, my name is Drake, John Drake.
03:19The country was in southern Europe.
03:23When the Internal Monetary Fund came into the picture, the peasants were destitute,
03:28working with wood-age agricultural equipment to wrest a bare living from a soil as exhausted as the peasants themselves.
03:35The IMF, Internal Monetary Fund, poured millions into the country in an effort to revitalize the soil,
03:42provide modern equipment for the peasants.
03:44But after three years, both the soil and the peasants were still exhausted, the implements still primitive.
03:51The IMF knew the money was being misappropriated, but each country is sovereign,
03:56jealous of its national rights, its national pride, its integrity cannot be questioned.
04:02But the murder of the son of Deputy Koyanis, representative of the Peasant Land Party,
04:07and charges he was raising against the administration gave the IMF the opportunity it had been seeking.
04:12Put a man on the scene. Now, that was my assignment.
04:15Find out who was growing fat while the peasants were growing lean.
04:21Hello, my name is Drake. I believe Mr. Koyanis is expecting me.
04:25Oh, yes. Come this way, please.
04:26Thank you very much.
04:28And the money from the IMF has been systematically misappropriated by Ministers Amida and his friends in power.
04:34The peasants have not received 10% of the millions poured into our country.
04:39Not even 5%.
04:40Yes, but Mr. Koyanis, you have no proof.
04:43Proof?
04:44The murder of my son and my dearest friend, Salchito, that is nothing.
04:47Oh, if I may say so, all that that proves is that they were murdered and robbed.
04:51It may have no connection whatsoever with IMF.
04:54And they were murdered by order of Zamida to prevent them from buying the documentary evidence.
04:58Records of share transfers, bank statements, which would prove his guilt.
05:02Yes, but why Marco and Salchito?
05:03If you say what is true, that Zamida knew he was being betrayed by someone who was close enough to him to have this information,
05:09why didn't he kill that person?
05:10He presented the real threat to him, not your son or Salchito.
05:14Who was in this room at the time the arrangements were made for the meeting?
05:17My son Marco, Salchito, of course, Miss Madonna, my son's fiancée, and myself.
05:21And it was your son that answered the phone.
05:23Now, the voice, the voice on the phone, did he say anything about it?
05:26Nothing, he just repeated the instructions.
05:28Who else, apart from yourselves, knew about the $5,000 in the briefcase?
05:33Well?
05:34Mr. Drake, you must understand this.
05:36I am the representative of the Peasants' Land Party.
05:39We are a minority voice in the government.
05:41We are poor.
05:43When we got word that it might be possible to do a deal to buy the information we had been seeking for years,
05:49my friend Salchito, Storch here, had to go about from peasant to peasant, from farm to farm,
05:56collecting a little here, a little there, to make up the $5,000.
06:00So how can I say whether anybody...
06:03You're saying it, Mr. Koyanis.
06:05Every peasant in the valley knew about the money.
06:07How dare you?
06:08How dare you even try to suggest that one of our people could have...
06:10It's all right, Madonna.
06:12Mr. Drake must explore every avenue.
06:14Every avenue, Mr. Koyanis.
06:16But it is usually in the back alleys where the truth is found.
06:19You don't believe that my son was murdered by order of the Honorable Minister of the Interior, Zamita?
06:25I will ask the Honorable Minister of the Interior, Zamita.
06:30And so I told Mr. Koyanis that I would put the question to you.
06:33Very well, Mr. Drake. I'm listening.
06:35Is Mr. Koyanis correct in believing that you ordered the murder of his son?
06:40Poor man.
06:41Mr. Drake, I've known Koyanis now for many years.
06:45Political opponents, yes, of course.
06:47But that doesn't stop me from feeling for him as a person.
06:51And over the years, I've watched this obsession he has grow.
06:55The government is corrupt.
06:57The peasants are exploited and robbed.
07:00He's almost paranoid about it.
07:02And it's not only, not only my administration,
07:06every administration over the last 15 years has been attacked in the same violent way by Koyanis.
07:12Mr. Drake, this is my wife.
07:13How do you do?
07:14How do you do?
07:15I'm sorry, dear. I didn't know that you...
07:16No, please. I'd like you to stay.
07:18Do sit down, Mr. Drake.
07:19Sure.
07:20Would you like a drink?
07:21We're very proud of our local wine.
07:23That's very kind of you. Thank you very much indeed.
07:25You see, our local wine.
07:27Now, would you believe that she was a Randolph of Back Bay, Boston?
07:30Well, you are an American, Madam Zemeida.
07:33But now she's become more nationalistic than our most rabid natives.
07:37I like the country.
07:39And I like the people.
07:40One in particular.
07:42Have you been here long?
07:43Mm-hmm.
07:44I met my husband seven years ago.
07:45He came to America representing his country.
07:48The minute I learned she was heiress to a vast fortune, I said,
07:51Lorraine, my darling, I will marry your money and you may come and live with us.
07:56It was his frankness that won me over.
07:58Oh, Mr. Drake is from the International Monetary Fund.
08:02He's come to look into those charges raised by Koyanis.
08:04In fact, just before you came in,
08:06he asked me if I had ordered the killing of Marco Koyanis and Salcito.
08:10Oh, now, please, Madam Zemeida,
08:12allow me to make my position clear in this matter.
08:14I think your husband takes unfair advantage of me
08:17when he tells you coldly of the question that I put to him.
08:21What is said is not important.
08:23The important thing is how it is said.
08:25And I think his excellency knows the way and the spirit
08:29in which the question was put to him.
08:32Forgive me, Mr. Drake.
08:33I knew you weren't being serious.
08:35Well, but there is one thing that I'm serious about.
08:36I'm serious about the reputation of the International Monetary Fund.
08:41As you know,
08:41it is a fund which is supported by various countries.
08:45And there are certain persons
08:46in each one of these countries
08:48who will try to sabotage the entire aid program,
08:51let us say,
08:52for their own ends.
08:54If a scandal should start here in this country,
08:56it would have a serious effect upon the aid
08:58which is granted to you
08:59and to the other impoverished nations.
09:01That is why I was sent here
09:02to contain any scandal,
09:05if, in fact, there is a scandal,
09:07before it should break.
09:09I understand you, Mr. Drake,
09:12and your purpose.
09:13I will take no offense
09:14if you wish to be more explicit.
09:16Good.
09:17You understand the situation, then?
09:19Mr. Koyanis accuses,
09:21well, not accuses,
09:22rather implies
09:23that you, your aides,
09:26your associates,
09:28your associates of your associates,
09:29in fact,
09:30everyone connected with the government
09:31right down to the traffic cop on the corner.
09:33Well, I think I can vouch
09:34for the integrity of the traffic cop.
09:36Well, all of you have, in fact,
09:38been systematically stealing
09:40from the peasants' IMF money.
09:42Now, up to now,
09:43apart from one or two local papers,
09:45nobody has taken
09:45these implications seriously.
09:47But with the double murder
09:48and one of the victims
09:50being his own son,
09:51world press
09:52is starting to give it a big play.
09:55And already, IMF
09:56has begun to feel
09:57the effects of this.
09:59I've already told you,
10:00Koyanis is quite paranoid
10:02about his peasants.
10:03I don't even bother
10:04to take any notice
10:05of his rent.
10:05The world is beginning
10:07to take notice,
10:08your excellence.
10:09Your information, Mr. Drake,
10:11every penny of IMF money
10:13has gone to the destination
10:14for which it was intended,
10:16rehabilitation of the land
10:17and aid to the small farmer.
10:19Three years?
10:20In three years,
10:21there does not appear
10:22to have been
10:22much improvement
10:24in their lot.
10:26I agree.
10:29And do you know why?
10:31Because the peasants themselves
10:32resist modernization.
10:34We've given them
10:35tractor plows.
10:36I can show you
10:37where they stand
10:38rusting in their own furrows.
10:40Newly acquired methods
10:41of fertilization,
10:42tens of thousands
10:43of dollars worth,
10:44poured into the rivers,
10:45tons of poison fish
10:46washed up,
10:47crop rotation.
10:48Agricultural experts
10:49have been sent
10:50into the fields.
10:51They've been faced
10:51with a blank wall.
10:54The fathers and the fathers
10:55before them
10:56always planted corn
10:57in these furrows,
10:58so corn it shall be.
10:59Always will be.
11:00I've tried to introduce
11:01legislation so that
11:02the farmers will be forced
11:03to follow the government's
11:04directives.
11:05Do you know
11:06who was successful
11:08in overthrowing the bilk?
11:10The peasant land party.
11:12Koyanis.
11:13No, Mr. Drake,
11:14you don't understand.
11:15Our peasants,
11:15they're stubborn
11:16and reactionary.
11:17It'll be a long,
11:18slow process of education.
11:21Not this generation,
11:22maybe the next generation,
11:24but it's worth it.
11:25It's worth the effort.
11:26It's worth the money.
11:27Anthony, please.
11:29Now, don't get excited.
11:30Remember what the doctor said.
11:31I'm so sorry.
11:32I didn't mean to make a speech.
11:35Mr. Drake,
11:36every peasant in the valley
11:37knew about that collection
11:38and those two men
11:39were lured to their deaths
11:40for the simple purpose
11:41of robbery,
11:42murder and robbery
11:43by one of their own kind.
11:45And that, Your Excellency,
11:46is really all
11:46that I am interested in.
11:48Find the killer
11:48of Marco Koyanis
11:49and then we can decide
11:50whether it is the matter
11:51for the IMF
11:52or for your own local police.
11:55All my departments
11:56are open to you.
11:57I'll take you up on that.
11:58I'd like to have a chat
11:59with your Minister of Finance,
12:01if I may.
12:02It will be arranged.
12:04Wait, Arcani.
12:06And other rumors
12:07are best met with truth,
12:09don't you think, Mr. Drake?
12:10As you say.
12:11Truth
12:11and indisputable facts
12:13and figures.
12:15Now, these are the records
12:16of the agricultural
12:17appropriation of equipment.
12:19May I have photostatic copies
12:21of them?
12:22Anything you wish.
12:23You will find
12:24that every item balances
12:26down to the last cent.
12:28Have them photographed, Arcadi.
12:31So, you will be able
12:33to take them away
12:33and study them
12:34at your leisure.
12:35Oh, no, I don't think
12:36this is necessary.
12:37Obviously, there is nothing
12:38to hide here.
12:38But later, I should like
12:40to check the other statement.
12:41Mm-hmm.
12:42It will be necessary
12:43to collate certain figures.
12:45This will take
12:46a little time.
12:47Not too long, I hope.
12:49Thank you, sir.
12:49It's a pleasure.
12:50I'm obliged.
13:10Where did you get this?
13:11From a man called Arcadi.
13:12He works in the
13:13Ministry of Finance.
13:14May I?
13:15If you wish to know
13:16the truth,
13:17meet me at 6
13:18off Highway 10
13:19by the Zarbot Turning.
13:21What do you know
13:22of this, Arcadi?
13:22I only know that he was afraid
13:24because of the information
13:25he has.
13:25He may be a trap.
13:26Remember?
13:27Remember what happened
13:28to Marco?
13:30I'm sorry.
13:31It's all I have to go on.
13:32I must follow it up.
13:33Now, how do I get
13:34to Highway 10
13:35by the Zarbot Turning?
13:36I know the road.
13:37I'll take you there.
13:40The highway is just ahead.
13:52All right, thanks.
13:53Well, better if I go alone.
13:55Arcadi is a nervous man.
13:56Suppose...
13:57Yeah?
13:58Suppose anything goes wrong.
14:00Um, wait 10 minutes.
14:03No longer.
14:03Come on.
14:04Let's go.
14:34Let's go.
15:04Let's go.
15:19Back to Koyanas.
15:20Hurry, please.
15:20This is preposterous.
15:24What would I gain from betraying you?
15:26Akavi had promised to tell me the truth.
15:29Perhaps the truth would have proved that your allegations against Amida were without foundation.
15:33Did you come here to help us or not?
15:36Yes, indeed I did.
15:38But you were the only person that I told about the meeting.
15:40The only one.
15:41How do you explain what happened?
15:43I...
15:44I can't.
15:47Exactly.
15:48Good night.
15:49If you have anything to tell me before my meeting with Amida in the morning, I'll be at my hotel.
15:54I'll be at my hotel.
16:24Mr. Drake, I need a drink.
16:26Well, of course.
16:27We're very proud of our local wines.
16:29I would like whiskey.
16:31Whiskey?
16:32Which you have.
16:32All right, Madame Amida, you've taken your pause.
16:44How can I help?
16:45I want my husband to be forced to go into exile, to flee the country.
16:49A reasonable request, which any reasonable husband should grant.
16:52And I need your help to persuade him to do it.
16:55You mentioned the words flee and exile.
16:57Now put them together and they spell fugitive.
16:59Yes.
17:00Futitive from what?
17:01Perhaps 20 years.
17:02Maybe the rest of his life.
17:04In prison.
17:05Now, but in this country, for murder, they shoot you.
17:08I'm not talking about that.
17:10And he had nothing to do with that.
17:12Madame Amida, what does all this mean to me?
17:13To you?
17:15It means a chance to complete your job here.
17:17Oh, I see.
17:18He's had his hand in the till, has he?
17:20He's been forced into it.
17:22Don't think he runs things in this country.
17:24He's merely the personality boy in the front of the store.
17:27But there are other men, more powerful, whose names never appear.
17:32Now, I can deliver those men, at least the evidence to convict them.
17:36In exchange for a chance for my husband to get out of the country first with me.
17:41Well, the evidence that convicts them, unfortunately, also convicts him.
17:46Yes.
17:47Oh, well, that's simple.
17:48If he wants to opt out, he can gain immunity by making a deal with Koyanis.
17:51No, no, no.
17:52Koyanis hates him.
17:54Koyanis is convinced that...
17:55Had his son killed.
17:56Incidentally, where were you and your husband on the night of the killing?
17:58Together.
18:00At home.
18:02Asleep.
18:03So you want to use me as a middleman,
18:04to get a pledge from Koyanis that he will permit Zameda to flee the country
18:07if he turns in his playmates.
18:09My husband won't turn in anyone.
18:11But I will give you the documentary evidence
18:13that'll make it senseless and impossible for him to stay.
18:16So, it runs something like this, then.
18:18I get a pledge from Koyanis that he will give your husband 24 hours to run.
18:23You give me the documents, I pass them to Koyanis,
18:25and Koyanis gains control of the government,
18:27and everyone lives happily ever after.
18:29But, Madam Zameda, if I succeed in getting this pledge from Koyanis,
18:33will you take his word?
18:34Yes.
18:34You see, he's a peasant who really wants to be a gentleman,
18:38and this gives him a curious sense of honor.
18:40All right, Madam Zameda,
18:41I will make this deal,
18:43but I want just one more thing from you.
18:44First, I'd like to see the documents before I speak to Koyanis.
18:54No.
18:56Because then you would have it all.
18:59But I promise you this.
19:01The minute you get Koyanis' word,
19:02I will hand over the documents.
19:04But you must hold them until we've left the country.
19:07How soon can you get them?
19:08I have them.
19:09Now, call me tomorrow morning after 10.
19:11It'll be safe, then, at this number.
19:14Uh-huh.
19:15And this number is 137596.
19:20Our private number at home.
19:22I will say only one thing.
19:24The ducks are ready for you, Madam.
19:26And give me an address where it'll be safe for us to meet.
19:29It's too dangerous for me to come back here.
19:30I don't trust her.
19:35I don't trust Zameda.
19:36I don't trust even the small delay,
19:38so I want the move made now.
19:39But that could be dangerous.
19:40If Zameda's home, he might recognize my voice and then...
19:43A woman.
19:44We can have a woman make the call.
19:45She can give her your message.
19:47Storch, bring Madonna in.
19:50I think this is wrong.
19:52You don't know these people as I do.
19:54This could be a trap baited to go off tomorrow.
19:56But if you press her now, and she gives excuses.
20:02Ah, Madonna.
20:04Mr. Drake wishes you to make a telephone call for him.
20:06He will tell you what to say.
20:08Yes, I want you to call.
20:08Oh, by the way, I'll need a place where I can meet her.
20:10A safe place.
20:12Madonna's apartment in the suburb.
20:13Oh?
20:14Where is that?
20:16Well, it's Romani 4.
20:18It's near the main highway.
20:19I'll take you, if you wish.
20:20No, better if I go along.
20:21Well, it's very easy to find.
20:23It's a small house on the corner, yellow and blue.
20:25It's Romani 4, yellow and blue.
20:27I'll find it.
20:28Now, here's what I want you to do.
20:29I want you to call Madame Zameda.
20:32Madame Zameda?
20:33That's right.
20:33I want you to give her the following message.
20:35The ducks are ready, Madame.
20:37Then your address, and then you hang up.
20:39Is that understood?
20:40Yes, but why do you want to call Madame Zameda?
20:44Because she has documents to prove the thefts of Zameda and...
20:47We'll leave that for now.
20:49Oh, and if anyone else answers apart from Madame Zameda, you hang up.
20:52Understood?
20:54Go to a street map of the area.
21:05Here, this is where you are now.
21:07You go along this street to the Trikanska Highway.
21:10You proceed along the highway exactly to this point here.
21:13Turn right into Lizza Romani.
21:15And here, exactly at this point, you will find the house of Madonna.
21:18Thank you very much.
21:21Oh, I gave her the message.
21:23She said, very good, thank you, and then she just hung up.
21:25Are you sure it was Madame Zameda?
21:26Oh, yes.
21:26You recognize her voice?
21:28Well, I don't know her voice.
21:29How did you know it was her?
21:31She seemed to understand.
21:32You ever met her?
21:33No.
21:34Or Zameda?
21:35Oh, once or twice casually.
21:36We don't really travel in the same circles, you know.
21:40Oh, here's the key to the house.
21:41I hope you realize the importance of this, Madonna.
21:43Are you sure that you got the right number?
21:45Oh, yes.
21:46One, three, seven, five, nine.
21:51Six.
21:54Who was here the night the call came for the meeting, the night your son was killed?
21:58I have told you.
21:59My son, Salcito, Madonna, and myself.
22:03And Marco and Salcito left you here alone with Madonna?
22:07No.
22:09No, she...
22:11Marco took her home, then came back for Salcito.
22:14And as soon as Marco had left you, you called Zameda?
22:18No.
22:19I didn't.
22:20I didn't.
22:21I guessed right.
22:22You called your lover, Zameda, to tell him of the meeting on the highway.
22:26And he sent his killers.
22:27No.
22:27It's not true.
22:28It's not true.
22:29You never met Madame Zameda.
22:31You hardly knew Zameda himself.
22:32And yet that private telephone number, you knew that.
22:34You went right to the phone and started to dial it.
22:36Oh, Madame Zameda, did a woman just call you and say...
22:53All right.
22:55Don't move.
22:56Stay right where you are.
22:57Lock the door.
22:58If your husband arrives before I do, try to keep him up.
23:01I'll be there in just two minutes.
23:02She didn't call the number.
23:03She calls Zameda again to warn him.
23:05Now you hold her here.
23:06She's the one responsible for your son's death.
23:08Right.
23:23Oh, it's great.
23:29It was you, wasn't it?
23:30You were going to meet Marco Krianes on the highway and give him the documents.
23:34To break your husband.
23:35To force him to flee with you because you knew you were losing him.
23:38That's why you wanted to make the deal.
23:40And you were here.
23:41Right in this room.
23:42By the phone when the call came.
23:44The call came to warn him.
23:45And you know from whom, don't you?
23:46From his.
23:48From his mistress.
23:49And then you heard him call his killers who were Captain Ashard.
23:53Heard him order the death of Marco Salcito, the mysterious informer.
23:56And then you had to stay, didn't you?
23:57Yes.
23:58Yes, it's true.
24:00Because I wanted to keep him.
24:01Come on, Dricks.
24:13Heard him order the death of Lucy.
24:23Heard him?
24:25Heard him.
24:25That may be his name's singer.
24:31Just a minute.
24:32Never bei.
24:33Heard him.
24:34Come on.
24:35Come on.
24:35Come on.
24:36Let's go.
24:37Come on.
24:37Come on.
24:38Come on.
24:39Come on.
24:39Come on.
24:39Come on.
24:40Come on.
24:40Come on.
24:41Come on!
24:42There was nothing I could say to help.
24:49He was safe now.
24:50Maybe it was better this way.
24:52Who knows?
25:12Who knows?
25:42Who knows?
Be the first to comment