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00:03:26THAT'S THE TROUBLE
00:03:27WITH PED
00:03:28HE GETS FAT-HEADED
00:03:29WHEN NOBODY'S RIDING
00:03:30HIM
00:03:31WISH MICHAEL SHANE
00:03:32HADN'T MOVED TO SAN FANCISCO
00:03:35YES?
00:03:36MR. BRONSON
00:03:37HE JUST CAME IN
00:03:39YES SIR
00:03:41GO ON IN
00:03:42TIMOTHY ROCK
00:03:43AND GET YOUR SPANKING
00:03:44WE'LL SEE
00:03:45WHO SPANKS WHO
00:03:51LORI
00:03:51LET'S HAVE IT FAST
00:03:53THIS IS STORY
00:03:54I just had a call from Detective Chief Rafferty.
00:03:56That's my story.
00:03:57You're a competent reporter, Tim, when you stick to reporting,
00:04:00but I don't like this sensational stuff you've been writing.
00:04:02Are you afraid of the truth?
00:04:03Not at all, but we have a regular staff to write the editorials.
00:04:06I've had complaints from the Chamber of Commerce,
00:04:08the Better Business Bureau, and other civic organizations.
00:04:11The wire services are picking up your stuff
00:04:13and featuring it throughout the country.
00:04:15They're giving the city a bad name, frightening people away.
00:04:17We mustn't hurt business.
00:04:19No, it's better let the gambling cynic take over
00:04:21and move in their hoodlums.
00:04:22We've always had more or less gambling.
00:04:24Now it's more.
00:04:25Look, there's big money back to Brenner,
00:04:27and they swing a lot of political weight.
00:04:29The public has got to be jarred awake and made
00:04:31to realize what it's up against.
00:04:32Rourke, bear in mind that I am the managing editor,
00:04:36and I will decide upon the policy of this paper.
00:04:39All right, have it your own way.
00:04:42Now let me give you a tip.
00:04:43About what?
00:04:44Malicious in the third race at Jamaica.
00:04:52And if you're gonna fire me, I'll have two weeks' notice.
00:04:57How was it?
00:04:58Not so hot.
00:04:59I've got a hunch I won't be around here very long.
00:05:01I'm gonna have a beer, sweetheart.
00:05:02Will you get this wire off to Michael Shane for me?
00:05:05Of course.
00:05:07And look, save the water heads for me.
00:05:22Miss Higgins, come in here a minute.
00:05:46That's not the story I okayed. How'd it get in the paper?
00:05:56Well, I don't know, sir.
00:05:58Rourke faked a story from I okay,
00:06:00and then sneaked this in somehow.
00:06:02The addition got on the street before I caught it.
00:06:05Make out a closing check for Rourke,
00:06:07and I'll take it to him.
00:06:08I don't even want him coming in here after it.
00:06:10Yes, sir.
00:06:11Will that be all?
00:06:13Clean out his desk and bring everything in here to me.
00:06:16Yes, sir.
00:06:43No, sir.
00:06:44No, sir.
00:06:45No, sir.
00:06:46No, sir.
00:07:08Perfume.
00:07:11Taboo.
00:07:12I'm afraid of the light.
00:07:18Lipstick.
00:07:20Bet she was a blonde.
00:07:30Come in.
00:07:31Why should you be the exception?
00:07:32Tim, you've been hurt.
00:07:33Did Walter do that to you?
00:07:35What makes you think Bronson did this?
00:07:36He was furious about that story you slipped past him this afternoon.
00:07:40The first edition was on the street before he caught it.
00:07:42So to help matters along, you come up here.
00:07:43If all of Bronson found his wife in my apartment, he'd blow his top.
00:07:49He doesn't know where you live.
00:07:50You can find out easy enough at the office.
00:07:51How did this happen?
00:07:52A guy named Brenna didn't like my story.
00:07:53The head of the gambling syndicate?
00:07:54So he sent a couple of his hoodlums along to deliver his criticism.
00:08:03Did they tear up the apartment?
00:08:04No.
00:08:05I think this was done by a cute blonde looking for some affidavits.
00:08:06You better run along.
00:08:07Tim, why don't you be nice to me?
00:08:10You seem to overlook one little minor detail.
00:08:11You have a husband.
00:08:12I don't like Walter Bronson.
00:08:13I think he's a stuffed shirt.
00:08:14But I'm not fooling around with his wife.
00:08:15Maybe you'll change your mind.
00:08:16After what you say, babe, he'll do it.
00:08:17I will only do it.
00:08:18I will do it.
00:08:19I'll do it.
00:08:20I'll do it.
00:08:21I can't wait.
00:08:22I'll do it.
00:08:23I can't wait.
00:08:24I'll be, I can't wait.
00:08:25I'll do it.
00:08:26I'll do it.
00:08:27I'll do it.
00:08:28I can't wait.
00:08:29You have a husband.
00:08:30I can't wait.
00:08:31I'll do it.
00:08:32You've never done it.
00:08:33I'll do it.
00:08:34I can't wait.
00:08:35I'll do it.
00:08:36But I can't wait.
00:08:40you've been through you need a nurse they say the patient often falls in love with the nurse
00:08:44hey what do you got in here a manville
00:08:48are you gunning for anybody in particular don't be absurd that's walter's pistol
00:08:54what's it doing in your purse well if you must know i was afraid he might try to kill you
00:09:00he frightened me with his raving i've never seen him so angry before
00:09:04i knew where he kept his gun so i slipped it in my purse
00:09:08make yourself comfortable i'll get some water
00:09:1232 automatic there have been three murders committed with a 32 automatic
00:09:23that isn't the only 32 automatic in the world no and you're not the only blonde in the world
00:09:30either i wish i were to you relax i'll bathe your face never mind i'm all right
00:09:37look why don't you give up this one man crusade it can't get you anything but trouble
00:09:41you know walter can make things tough for you
00:09:44don't worry about me i'll get along
00:09:46does walter know you've been dropping all that money in those gambling joints
00:09:50what's that got to do with what i'm talking about
00:09:54plenty
00:09:56well telegram for mr shane oh i beg your pardon i thought you were mr shane
00:10:24very funny your sense of humor shouldn't happen to a comedian you two have habits in common
00:10:30whenever i see a peanut i think of mike shane
00:10:32crime wave rampant
00:10:40why didn't tim love to use too bad words three murders and more expected
00:10:45jump on your white horse and come to the rescue urgent tim
00:10:48take a wire phil
00:10:49very happy where i am
00:10:52tired of picking bullets out of my teeth want no part of any crime wave
00:10:56yes sir and should i put fresh ballots on your desk every morning
00:10:59you'd better get to work miss hamilton stop insulting your boss
00:11:01yes sir
00:11:02hey phil
00:11:08crusading reporter near death
00:11:13timothy rourke desperately wounded
00:11:16oh mike how terrible
00:11:19shot by an unknown assassin
00:11:21there's not yet regain consciousness get some plane reservations
00:11:28oh
00:11:30oh
00:11:32oh
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00:11:50Mr. Men숙ita loud
00:11:51who says so
00:11:53chief detective Pete Ratterley
00:11:54who are you
00:11:55mike shane
00:11:56and tim rarck's my best friend i'm going in to see him
00:11:58come on angel
00:11:59are you close relatives
00:12:03oh i'm his best friend
00:12:05how's he doing
00:12:06we're not supposed to discuss our cases
00:12:08but he has a fighting chance
00:12:10mike
00:12:16who do you suppose would want to put tim out of the way
00:12:18I've got a pretty good idea. We're going to find out for sure.
00:12:24Let me know when he regains consciousness, will you?
00:12:26You can reach me through Will Gentry, chief of police.
00:12:28Your name?
00:12:29Michael Shane. When he wakes up, just tell him I've come. He'll understand.
00:12:38Here comes what is known as a local anesthetic.
00:12:41The police are handling this case, and we haven't asked for any outside help.
00:12:44I don't feel like fighting with you, Rafferty.
00:12:46All I want is the person responsible for that.
00:12:48So it is everyone.
00:12:49What do you suppose the detective bureau is for?
00:12:52I've often wondered.
00:12:54Please, you must be quiet.
00:12:56Yeah, okay, okay.
00:12:58Now listen, Shane. Keep out from under my feet.
00:13:00And when I have a man in protective custody, nobody crashes in.
00:13:04You should be grateful that Mike is here to solve another case for you.
00:13:13Now look, you drive by the courier office and see what gossip you can pick up.
00:13:16Minerva Higgins knows everything that goes on, and she's always had a salt splat in her heart for Tim.
00:13:20Where are you going?
00:13:21I'm going to drop by Tim's apartment. You meet me there.
00:13:28Mr. Bronson isn't in.
00:13:29That's good. Mike Shane asked me to see you.
00:13:31Oh, is Mike back in town?
00:13:33He came as soon as he heard about Tim.
00:13:35Poor Timothy.
00:13:36I feel terrible about that.
00:13:38He was playing with dynamite, and I warned him he'd get himself into trouble.
00:13:42Mr. Bronson gave him definite orders that day to stop his sensational crusade.
00:13:46Did he?
00:13:46No.
00:13:47He sneaked in a final blast at the gambling syndicate.
00:13:50He knew it would be his last story, and he went all out, naming names and everything.
00:13:54Um, this is the story of the start of the explosion.
00:13:59Could I keep this and show it to Mike?
00:14:01Certainly.
00:14:04Um, there's something I wouldn't tell anyone else.
00:14:07Yes?
00:14:08Mrs. Bronson is carrying a torch for Timothy.
00:14:11Are you sure?
00:14:12Of course I'm sure.
00:14:14I don't like to gossip, but a woman is a fool who looks at a man the way she looks at Timothy
00:14:18and expects another woman not to notice it.
00:14:20She drapes herself all over his desk, and we try not to pay any attention, except to be courteous.
00:14:26But she is a beautiful blonde, you know.
00:14:50Mrs. Reis's could do.
00:15:00But she knew she was really happy, and she knew it was like a man.
00:15:03She riddled like a man who saw the art world, and she lost her dad.
00:15:08She's là quelque part, droitujet, park nessa conản de Dick's her face.
00:15:10She comes to court, and she becomes an individual senhor.
00:15:12She口, je הר difficulties.
00:15:13And are you sure and I can alsoDaRachen.
00:15:15Me下 собой, he won't tell a man.
00:15:16I'm sure we'll read them on-demon deadline yet.
00:15:18That's the prue inch before she seismic.
00:15:18Someone?
00:15:33Yeah, maybe it's you.
00:15:35Maybe you're a friend of this guy, Rourke.
00:15:37Maybe.
00:15:38Maybe you came to find some affidavits he had hid out.
00:15:41Could be.
00:15:42Some people are looking for those affidavits.
00:15:45Hand them over.
00:15:46Who am I dealing with?
00:15:46Never mind about that.
00:15:48They ain't on him.
00:16:07We should have given them more time.
00:16:09Maybe he'll feel talkative when he wakes up.
00:16:11What's going on here?
00:16:14Help!
00:16:15Help!
00:16:16Police!
00:16:17Help!
00:16:18Hey, Monk, we'd better scram.
00:16:20Oh, now you look natural.
00:16:24Mike, Shane, can't I leave you for an hour without you getting yourself beaten up?
00:16:50Seems like old times.
00:16:52I guess I was getting soft.
00:16:53Are you hurt?
00:16:54No, no, just my vanity.
00:16:57A couple of pals were looking for some affidavits they thought Tim had.
00:17:03Hey, listen, Mike, Shane.
00:17:04If you get yourself a cauliflower ear, I'm going to leave you flat.
00:17:06I stopped in to see Gentry on the way over.
00:17:10He said Tim took a terrific beating.
00:17:12They found the fingerprints of two women here in the apartment.
00:17:15One of them had ransacked the place, and the other one had a drink with Tim.
00:17:18Minerva says Mrs. Bronson was carrying a torch for Tim.
00:17:21Something to think about.
00:17:23Tim had a row with Bronson, and this is the story that caused the blow-up.
00:17:26Oh, Tim should have known they'd start gunning for him when he named names and said he had affidavits.
00:17:44That guy Brenner wouldn't be too happy about that.
00:17:46What's going on here?
00:17:54Who are you?
00:17:56I'm Mr. Henty, superintendent of the department building.
00:17:59Fine, you're just the man I want to see.
00:18:01But who are you?
00:18:02Detective.
00:18:03You see any strange women around here the night Rourke was shot?
00:18:06I saw one, and what a blonde.
00:18:09She came in the side entrance.
00:18:10Would you recognize her again?
00:18:12I only saw her back, but I think I'd recognize her.
00:18:17Why do women bother to make up their faces?
00:18:23Oh, no.
00:18:25Not you again.
00:18:26Hello, Pete.
00:18:27Why'd I call for the riot squad?
00:18:28I had a little misunderstanding with a couple of gentlemen.
00:18:31Didn't amount to anything.
00:18:32Come on, Shane, spill it.
00:18:33Who were the guys, and what was the argument?
00:18:35And if you're withholding any evidence on me, I'm going to make you sweat.
00:18:39You said you didn't want any outside help.
00:18:41Get your own evidence.
00:18:42Besides, Rourke sent for me to make a confidential investigation.
00:18:45Someday you're going to go too far, Shane.
00:18:47And you're going to stick out your neck, and I'm going to jump on it with both feet.
00:18:54He doesn't seem to like you.
00:18:56I'll bet you think we're bitter enemies, don't you?
00:18:58Aren't you?
00:18:59Yeah.
00:19:01No, we get around like that all the time.
00:19:03Doesn't mean a thing.
00:19:04Now, look, you're going to be very valuable to me, and I'm going to want to talk to you later on.
00:19:07I'll see you later.
00:19:17Someone really took this place apart.
00:19:20I think I'll drop in and have a cup of tea with that guy Brenner.
00:19:23Mike, can't you be satisfied with one beating a day?
00:19:25You stay here till I get back, and don't open the door to anyone.
00:19:29Angel, can you do something for me?
00:19:30Yes, Mike, what?
00:19:32Clean the place up a little, will you?
00:19:33Yes.
00:19:38Hey, bud, what's going around here?
00:19:41I want to see a Brenner.
00:19:42Brenner?
00:19:43You got an appointment?
00:19:45Do you need an appointment?
00:19:46Certainly, certainly.
00:19:47Go on, beat it, scram, get going.
00:19:50Go ahead, get out of here.
00:19:51Go on, beat it, scram, get out of here.
00:19:53Go on, beat it, scram, get out of here.
00:19:53Go on, beat it, scram, get out of here.
00:20:24Brenner?
00:20:25I didn't hear you knock.
00:20:27I didn't knock.
00:20:29Let's go down to cases.
00:20:31You're Brenner and I'm Shane.
00:20:33I want the blonde who blasted Tim Rourke.
00:20:35And if not?
00:20:36I'll bust a lot of things wide open.
00:20:39I don't know who it was.
00:20:41I wish I did.
00:20:43Whoever it was put the heat on me plenty.
00:20:45I can't even open for business until things quiet down.
00:20:49I had no reason to have Rourke rubbed out.
00:20:53I just made a deal with him that afternoon in this office.
00:20:56You're lying.
00:20:58Tim never sold out in his life.
00:21:00I read the story.
00:21:02The guy's a heavy winner at your club and a blonde knocks him off.
00:21:05I want that blonde.
00:21:06I don't know who she is.
00:21:08I can't know about every blonde who makes a midnight pickup.
00:21:11If Tim could dig up that stuff, you ought to know what goes on in your club.
00:21:14I'm laying it on the line, Brenner. I want that blonde.
00:21:16Anyone who stands in my way is going to get hurt.
00:21:21No.
00:21:22They're affidavit collectors.
00:21:24Of course, they're not working for you.
00:21:26Or would you fool me and tell me the truth?
00:21:28Frisk him.
00:21:29Back your monkeys off me.
00:21:31All right, boys. Back up.
00:21:34How come Bug-Eye let him in?
00:21:36Bug-Eye is now shut-eye.
00:21:38He's a sucker for a left.
00:21:40I suppose your understanding with Rourke was to have these two gorillas beat him up.
00:21:43All right, they'll pay for that.
00:21:45And if you had him blasted, you'll burn.
00:21:52Don't stick your nose outside this door unless you want to get it shot off.
00:21:59Hey, he can be plenty tough.
00:22:01Yeah.
00:22:02We've taken care of tough guys before.
00:22:10Thanks, bud.
00:22:11You're welcome.
00:22:28Who's there?
00:22:29Open the door.
00:22:30I know it's Mike.
00:22:33Hi, beautiful.
00:22:34Hey, wait a minute.
00:22:35What, no black eye?
00:22:37That was a day off with the stronghold boys.
00:22:39They only work five days a week now, you know.
00:22:41Union regulations.
00:22:44Anything happen while I was gone?
00:22:45Well, yes and no.
00:22:47What do you mean yes and no?
00:22:48No one tried to beat me up.
00:22:50But I was down in the lobby and I noticed a letter in Tim's box.
00:22:54Mr. Hendy wasn't around, so I swiped it.
00:22:58Postmarked the afternoon of the day Tim was shot.
00:23:00Smell it.
00:23:02Perfume.
00:23:03I wonder if she was blonde.
00:23:07Look here, young man.
00:23:08I'm responsible for things around here and I don't like the way you're making free with Mr. Rourke's apartment.
00:23:23Well, investigation takes time.
00:23:25But you can't take the place over.
00:23:27And besides, I'm quite sure that there was a letter from Mr. Rourke down in the lobby.
00:23:32And it's missing.
00:23:33Missing?
00:23:34Yes.
00:23:35That's fine.
00:23:36What kind of a place is this?
00:23:38Don't you realize that letter may have been of vital importance?
00:23:40It might have been the very clue that would have solved the entire crime.
00:23:43And you let some crook sneak in and steal it.
00:23:45Well, I don't know what's liable to happen to you.
00:23:46You might even be charged with criminal negligence.
00:23:48Well, I can't be every place.
00:23:50It's too much for one man.
00:23:52And I can't be down in the lobby all the time.
00:23:55All right.
00:23:56I'm going to overlook it for the time being.
00:23:58We'll see what develops.
00:24:00Thank you very much.
00:24:02It's all right.
00:24:03I'd like to give everyone a break.
00:24:16You know, there may be some information in this letter that would give us a leave.
00:24:19If Tim could talk, I know he'd give me permission to open it.
00:24:22Of course he would.
00:24:23If there's nothing in it that has anything to do with the case, you can forget you saw it.
00:24:26Yeah.
00:24:34That's no signature.
00:24:35If you're interested in buying some information for your paper, call Capital 8024.
00:24:40Information is what we're interested in.
00:24:53Office.
00:24:56Capital 8024.
00:24:57This may be the break we've been waiting for.
00:25:12Capital 8024 doesn't answer.
00:25:14I got me information.
00:25:23Hello, information?
00:25:24Police business.
00:25:25Give me the name and address of Capital 8024.
00:25:32Yeah.
00:25:35Thanks.
00:25:37Madge Rankin, 614 Hillside Drive.
00:25:41I think I'll pay her a little visit.
00:25:42I don't mind going along.
00:25:44Well, frankly, Angel, I think I get along better by myself.
00:25:47That's what I'm afraid of.
00:25:48Oh, Angel, this is strictly business.
00:25:50Believe me.
00:25:51Oh, I believe you.
00:25:52Oh, pray a little whisperer.
00:25:53I'm sorry.
00:25:54But they?
00:25:55Well, let me move over here.
00:25:56Third, for the point.
00:25:57Excuse me, please.
00:25:58We need to move back.
00:26:00I don't have to.
00:26:01Thanks.
00:26:02Hello, hey.
00:26:03Well.
00:26:04Using use, Griffin.
00:26:05...
00:26:06When he took me.
00:26:06Say hi.
00:26:07I love to hear.
00:26:09Oh, okay.
00:26:10So, let's see what you got here.
00:26:11SC disciplined DMV.
00:26:12My Uhrimizator, slimV or Lust.
00:26:13One song, I don't see.
00:26:14They'll go to her.
00:26:15Okay?
00:26:16So, tell her went loose and got,
00:26:17two and a couple months of,
00:26:19but I'll go wrong with them.
00:26:20Show him, and I wanted...
00:26:21No use wearing yourself out on that doorbell.
00:26:27Madge isn't home.
00:26:36She had a noisy party Tuesday night.
00:26:39I haven't seen her since.
00:26:40That's funny.
00:26:41I had a date with her.
00:26:42Maybe she forgot.
00:26:44I don't think so.
00:26:45She told me she'd be here.
00:26:47You can wait in my place if you'll like.
00:26:49Oh, thanks.
00:26:50That's very nice of you.
00:26:50Look, I'll wait outside.
00:26:53Okay.
00:27:20Oh, thanks.
00:27:21Oh, thanks.
00:27:22Oh, thanks.
00:27:23Oh, thanks.
00:27:24Oh, thanks.
00:27:25Oh, thanks.
00:27:27THE END
00:27:57THE END
00:28:27THE END
00:28:29Well, you changed your mind, but fast.
00:28:31Your friend Madge has been murdered.
00:28:33Madge? Murdered?
00:28:35Look, I'm Mike Shane, a private investigator.
00:28:37The cops are going to be boiling in here any minute.
00:28:39You could be a big help to me.
00:28:41Why should I?
00:28:43Why not? Doesn't cost you anything and you might help me solve a murder.
00:28:47Why not?
00:28:51Why not?
00:28:53Why not?
00:28:55Why not?
00:28:57Why not?
00:29:07Why not?
00:29:09Why not?
00:29:21I wonder why Shane asked information for this address.
00:29:23If Henley gave me a bad tip, I'll take his teeth out.
00:29:27Holy smoke!
00:29:41Hey, we've run into a murder.
00:29:45Now don't touch anything until I get the boys over here.
00:29:49I'll phone from next door.
00:29:51Tom, you watch the front and you go around the back, huh?
00:29:53Yeah.
00:30:11Police business, I'd like to use your phone.
00:30:13Sorry, we don't have one.
00:30:14Oh, thank you.
00:30:15Oh, Mike Shane, I might have known it.
00:30:23Mike, tell him to go away.
00:30:25We don't want any.
00:30:26Well, talk like that, honey.
00:30:27He's a big shot detective.
00:30:28Now don't give me that.
00:30:30What do you know about this murder next door?
00:30:32Murder?
00:30:33What murder?
00:30:34Do you know who lives next door?
00:30:35Well, of course, Madge Rankin.
00:30:37We're good friends.
00:30:40Tom.
00:30:43Take her in to look at the body.
00:30:44For identification.
00:30:49Well, tell me what's happened.
00:30:50As if you don't know.
00:30:51Go on along with him.
00:30:53Must I, Mike?
00:30:54Sure, that's Pete Rafferty.
00:30:55You have to mind him.
00:30:56All right, lady.
00:31:04All right, Shane.
00:31:05Start talking.
00:31:07What are we talking about?
00:31:08Business or shall we make it personal?
00:31:10That's not funny.
00:31:11We'll talk about that murder next door.
00:31:13Well, I just got in town this afternoon.
00:31:15Do you think I murdered her by radar?
00:31:17Now you know something.
00:31:18You ask information for that address.
00:31:21Oh, sure.
00:31:22Helen doesn't have a phone, so she gave me the number next door.
00:31:24Nobody answered when I called and I'd forgotten the address.
00:31:26Oh, it was just a coincidence.
00:31:28You just happened to pop up next door to a corpse.
00:31:30You know, Pete, it's the funniest thing.
00:31:32Whenever anybody has a corpse they don't know what to do with, they always dump it in my lab.
00:31:36Oh.
00:31:37Call over the car radio for homicide detail.
00:31:40Right.
00:31:41Well, was it Madge Rankin?
00:31:42Yes, it was Madge.
00:31:43I never saw a dead person before.
00:31:44Gave me the creeps.
00:31:45Take it easy.
00:31:46Poor Madge.
00:31:47Poor Madge.
00:31:48Poor Madge.
00:31:49Lying there dead all that time.
00:31:50I thought she was out having a good time.
00:31:51Well, I'll talk to you again.
00:31:53Just stay put so I can find you.
00:31:54Call over the car radio for homicide detail.
00:31:57Right.
00:31:58Well, was it Madge Rankin?
00:32:00Yes, it was Madge.
00:32:02I never saw a dead person before.
00:32:04Gave me the creeps.
00:32:06Take it easy.
00:32:07Poor Madge, lying there dead all that time.
00:32:10I thought she was out having a good time.
00:32:12Well, I'll talk to you again.
00:32:13Just stay put so I can find you.
00:32:16Well, Shane, where's that letter you took out of Rourke's mailbox?
00:32:20Well, Peter, how can you say such things?
00:32:21And he said you stole a letter just before you made that call.
00:32:24Did anybody see me steal a letter?
00:32:26Well, any evidence is missing and you're around.
00:32:28I know who's got it.
00:32:30That is merely supposition on the part of the witness.
00:32:32It has no weight as evidence.
00:32:51I'm sorry.
00:33:02I didn't get you apart.
00:33:05What do you want?
00:33:24Oh, I was looking for a friend.
00:33:26Man or a woman?
00:33:27A man.
00:33:28Maybe he's in there.
00:33:29Come on.
00:33:35Chief, here's a dame who was snooping around next door.
00:33:42How did she know where you were?
00:33:44You always tell her before you go to visit another girlfriend?
00:33:46You know how women are.
00:33:47They follow you around, spy on you.
00:33:49Mike Shane.
00:33:50Sometimes they talk too much.
00:33:51Oh, shut up.
00:33:52What were you going to say?
00:33:54Who, me?
00:33:54Oh, I had nothing to say.
00:33:56When Mike and I promised to look you up,
00:33:58we had no idea we would interrupt a police convention.
00:34:01There was a murder next door.
00:34:03How awful.
00:34:04Oh, don't give me any more of that runaround.
00:34:06I want what evidence you have
00:34:08or I'll hold you on suspicion of obstructing justice
00:34:10and maybe a federal rap for intercepting mail.
00:34:13Look, you had three murders
00:34:15and Tim was almost killed before I came.
00:34:17What did you do about it?
00:34:18You wouldn't know a piece of evidence
00:34:19if it walked up and introduced itself.
00:34:21All right.
00:34:21All right.
00:34:22Come on down to headquarters.
00:34:23Perhaps I can persuade you to sing a different tune.
00:34:27Mike.
00:34:27It's all right, honey.
00:34:28Take it easy.
00:34:29You can't hold me long on suspicion
00:34:30and you'll enjoy hearing him apologize.
00:34:32Me apologize?
00:34:32Why, you...
00:34:33Pete, Pete, careful, careful.
00:34:34Ladies, no naughty words.
00:34:36Come on.
00:34:47Have the boys stick around while I get back.
00:34:49I'm taking this bird down to headquarters
00:34:51for an audition.
00:34:52Okay, Chief.
00:34:54All right, boys, come on.
00:34:55Did Mac Shane get all the information he wanted?
00:35:00If there's anything else he wants,
00:35:01he knows the address.
00:35:03Say, listen, sister.
00:35:04If you have any ideas about Mr. Shane,
00:35:06you can forget them right now.
00:35:08Who are you?
00:35:09His mother?
00:35:09Mother!
00:35:10Don't you mother me
00:35:11or I'll rock you to sleep.
00:35:13You can't talk to me like that.
00:35:14I'll have you know I'm a lady.
00:35:16Really?
00:35:20More cops, I suppose.
00:35:22I'll be combing cops out of my hair for a week.
00:35:25Oh, hello, Dilly.
00:35:26I was driving by
00:35:27and saw the police cars outside.
00:35:28What happened?
00:35:30Madge was murdered.
00:35:31What happens when?
00:35:32Well, it...
00:35:36Police.
00:35:37Did you know her?
00:35:38Well, yes, I knew her
00:35:40in a casual sort of a way.
00:35:41Do you know anyone
00:35:42who might have had a reason
00:35:42to knock her off?
00:35:43Well, of course not.
00:35:44I told you I didn't know her very well.
00:35:46What's your name?
00:35:47Dillingham Smith,
00:35:48but I tell you I...
00:35:48Elmontavo Apartments.
00:35:51Are you married?
00:35:52Yes, but my wife's out of town.
00:35:54Where is she?
00:35:55I don't know.
00:35:56We had a little misunderstanding.
00:35:58You can't pry into my private affairs.
00:36:00Well, if you'd rather
00:36:01talk down to police headquarters,
00:36:02it's okay with me.
00:36:04All right.
00:36:05I know nothing about the murder,
00:36:07but go ahead.
00:36:07Have fun.
00:36:08All right.
00:36:09Come on.
00:36:15Boys might as well go on to bed.
00:36:16I don't feel talkative tonight.
00:36:18Did you finish the routine
00:36:24investigation of the murder?
00:36:26Why don't you get wise, Shane?
00:36:27The police department
00:36:28is much bigger than you are.
00:36:29Was the victim shot through the heart
00:36:31with a .32 automatic from close up?
00:36:32I thought you didn't know
00:36:33anything about the murder.
00:36:35Had to be that way.
00:36:35Why?
00:36:37You call yourself a detective.
00:36:39You don't even see that the pattern
00:36:40for all these murders
00:36:41was the same.
00:36:42Tim was the only one
00:36:42who expected it,
00:36:43and that saved his life.
00:36:44Ballistics proved that no two murders
00:36:45were committed with the same gun.
00:36:47I suppose you think
00:36:48there couldn't be an answer to that.
00:36:49Never mind what I think.
00:36:51Just turn over what evidence
00:36:52you have to the property authorities
00:36:53or I'll sweat it out of you.
00:36:55No dice, Pete.
00:36:56I'm going to conduct
00:36:57this investigation
00:36:58in my own way.
00:36:59All right.
00:36:59If you want to make it
00:37:00tough on yourself,
00:37:01go ahead.
00:37:01It's nothing like a good old
00:37:12habeas corpus
00:37:13to spring a guy out of jail.
00:37:15I don't know why
00:37:16I even bother to get you out.
00:37:18Oh, Angel, look,
00:37:19I told you I was just
00:37:20putting on an act
00:37:21of full rafferty.
00:37:22You said that before.
00:37:24Did I?
00:37:25All right, Delia Smith must really be in the chips.
00:37:45It costs dough to live in a place like this.
00:37:47I can't put my finger
00:37:49on anything definite,
00:37:50but there's something about that man
00:37:51that didn't seem to ring quite true.
00:37:52Yeah, I know what you mean.
00:37:53Let's go talk to the doorman.
00:37:58Morning.
00:37:59Oh, good morning, sir.
00:38:00Special investigator.
00:38:01Oh, you got the wrong man, sir.
00:38:02I swear he has.
00:38:03I never slipped those crooked eyes
00:38:04in the game.
00:38:04No, the FBI is handling
00:38:06that investigation, I think.
00:38:07I'm in the market
00:38:08to buy some information.
00:38:09Oh, you come to the right market, sir.
00:38:11You put it a black market.
00:38:13Selling information
00:38:14is what I is most fond of.
00:38:16What can you tell me
00:38:17about Dillingham Smith?
00:38:19He and his wife
00:38:20moved in a short time back,
00:38:21but I hear they're just
00:38:22oozing in money.
00:38:24Mrs. Smith or brunette?
00:38:25No, sir.
00:38:26You never see a blonde
00:38:27like that lady.
00:38:27Why, she shine in the dark.
00:38:29Anything else?
00:38:31She sent a truck
00:38:32to the railroad
00:38:32two, three days ago,
00:38:33and I ain't seen around no more.
00:38:37Mike, there he is.
00:38:41Call your cap, sir?
00:38:43No, thanks.
00:38:43I'll walk.
00:38:44I'm going to tail him.
00:38:48Call Will Gentry
00:38:48and ask him to bring
00:38:49a fingerprint man over.
00:38:50See if he can find a print
00:38:50to match anything
00:38:51found in Tim's apartment.
00:39:14Hello, Will.
00:39:17This is Phyllis.
00:39:18Mike wants you to do him
00:39:19a big favor.
00:39:21No, he's not in jail again.
00:39:23Not yet.
00:39:25He needs a check
00:39:26on some fingerprints
00:39:26without going through
00:39:27regular police channels.
00:39:29I'll meet you here
00:39:30at the Elmantarville apartment.
00:39:42Oh, I'm terribly sorry.
00:39:46Can't you walk
00:39:47without tripping
00:39:47over your feet?
00:39:51Oh, I'm really awfully sorry.
00:39:52He's very clumsy
00:39:53on me.
00:40:04This ain't a stick
00:40:05of peppermint candy
00:40:06you feel in your back.
00:40:07Don't tell me.
00:40:08Let me guess.
00:40:08Funny man, huh?
00:40:09I've got a gag
00:40:11that'll kill you.
00:40:12I see what you mean.
00:40:15You get in the front seat, pal.
00:40:17This is your party.
00:40:37Well, now that we're all
00:40:38nice and cozy,
00:40:39how's about letting me in
00:40:40on what this is all about?
00:40:41Don't be inquisitive.
00:40:42Stay happy
00:40:42as long as you can.
00:40:45Things are kind.
00:40:46He's always
00:40:46handing me a laugh.
00:40:49Very funny.
00:40:50That's what I like.
00:40:50Murder with a smile.
00:40:57Okay, chum.
00:40:58Let's get down
00:40:59to business.
00:41:00Tim Rourke popped off
00:41:01about some affidavits.
00:41:02Maybe they don't mean
00:41:03nothing to Hank Brenner,
00:41:04but he wants to see them.
00:41:06Sorry.
00:41:07Fresh out of affidavits.
00:41:08That ain't the only thing
00:41:09you'll be out of.
00:41:10Hank said to treat you nice
00:41:11if you play ball.
00:41:13If not,
00:41:14we was to use
00:41:14our own judgment.
00:41:15I don't suppose it'll do
00:41:16any good to tell you
00:41:17I don't know anything
00:41:17about the affidavits
00:41:18you're talking about.
00:41:19That's right.
00:41:20It's the affidavits
00:41:21or else.
00:41:22Look,
00:41:22I can't deliver
00:41:23something I haven't got.
00:41:24It's not going to do you
00:41:25any good to bump me off.
00:41:26Who said anything
00:41:27about bumping you off?
00:41:28We'll only take you
00:41:29down to see Brenner.
00:41:30He wants to talk to you.
00:41:31See if you can start the engine.
00:41:59It looks like
00:42:15we'll have to thumb
00:42:16our way back to town.
00:42:17That's right.
00:42:17Sorry, boys.
00:42:39All filled up.
00:42:41Not here, you fool.
00:42:43Hello, Will.
00:42:54Hello, Mike.
00:42:55Looks like you're
00:42:55getting close to something.
00:42:56Where have you been?
00:42:57A couple of Brenner's friends
00:42:58picked me up.
00:42:59We couldn't get along
00:42:59so I walked home.
00:43:00What do you mean
00:43:01I'm getting close to something?
00:43:02Well, the fingerprints
00:43:02of the woman who claims
00:43:03to be Mrs. Dillingham Smith
00:43:04are the same as the fingerprints
00:43:06of the woman who ransacked
00:43:07Jim's apartment.
00:43:08Huh.
00:43:09Now, tell me,
00:43:10why should Dilly Smith
00:43:11be writing letters
00:43:12to Walter Bronson,
00:43:13managing editor of The Courier?
00:43:14I don't know.
00:43:14It's got me stuck.
00:43:15It's got me going around
00:43:16in circles.
00:43:17There's too many blondes
00:43:18in this case.
00:43:19I'm having blonde nightmares.
00:43:21Hope I never see
00:43:21another blonde
00:43:22as long as I live.
00:43:23May I have that in writing?
00:43:25With options.
00:43:31Say, Gentry,
00:43:32you will be sure
00:43:32Tim's well guarded,
00:43:33won't you?
00:43:34Brenner and the gambling
00:43:34syndicate are sort of
00:43:35concerned about those
00:43:36affidavits he popped off
00:43:37about them.
00:43:37I might try to get to him.
00:43:38Don't worry.
00:43:38I'll see that they don't.
00:43:39Those boys are plenty tough,
00:43:41I know.
00:43:41Now, let me see.
00:43:43We've got a line
00:43:44on the woman
00:43:44who searched Tim's apartment.
00:43:45Did that happen
00:43:46before or after he was shot?
00:43:47Oh, I don't know.
00:43:48There's no way of coming.
00:43:49She ties in with Dilly Smith.
00:43:51Dilly Smith writes
00:43:52a letter to Bronson.
00:43:53That ought to add up
00:43:53to something.
00:43:54And don't forget,
00:43:55Mrs. Bronson is a blonde.
00:43:56So is Madge Rankin,
00:43:57the woman who was murdered
00:43:57to keep her from talking.
00:43:58Dilly ties in there, too.
00:44:00Dilly gets around.
00:44:01Plenty.
00:44:03Oh, I'm putting a tail
00:44:03on him, Will.
00:44:04I can't be everywhere
00:44:04at once,
00:44:05and I can't work
00:44:06with Pete Rafferty.
00:44:07I wish you two boys
00:44:08would try to get along
00:44:09and stop needling each other.
00:44:10What would I do
00:44:11for entertainment?
00:44:16Hello, Minerva.
00:44:17How's my favorite
00:44:20heartthrope?
00:44:21Don't give me that line,
00:44:22Mark Shane.
00:44:23I'm no whistle stop.
00:44:26Have you seen Timothy?
00:44:28Yeah.
00:44:28He's still unconscious.
00:44:29That's how he has a chance.
00:44:31Is Bronson in?
00:44:32No, he hasn't come in
00:44:33yet this morning.
00:44:35Look, Minerva,
00:44:36I'm going to ask you
00:44:37to do a big favor for me.
00:44:38I want you to listen
00:44:39in on his telephone
00:44:39conversations for a day
00:44:40or so.
00:44:41That's out of the question.
00:44:42I never did anything
00:44:43like that in my life.
00:44:45You want to find out
00:44:45who it was shot Tim,
00:44:46don't you?
00:44:47Of course.
00:44:48But surely you don't think...
00:44:49I'm not accusing anyone,
00:44:50but I'm just not
00:44:51overlooking any angles.
00:44:53Good morning,
00:44:54Mr. Bronson.
00:44:55Morning.
00:44:56Mr. Bronson.
00:44:57Don't bother me.
00:44:58I'm busy.
00:45:03I said I'm busy.
00:45:04So am I.
00:45:05Why did you object
00:45:06to Rourke's following
00:45:07through on his expose
00:45:07of the gambling situation?
00:45:09I fail to see
00:45:10how the editorial policy
00:45:11of this paper
00:45:11is any of your business.
00:45:13The person who shot Rourke
00:45:14didn't like that stuff either.
00:45:15Are you intimating...
00:45:16I'm intimating nothing.
00:45:17I'm stating facts.
00:45:21Did you get to Rourke's apartment
00:45:23before or after he was shot?
00:45:25I did not go to Rourke's apartment
00:45:26at all.
00:45:31He started for that.
00:45:32I changed my mind.
00:45:34I decided to see him
00:45:34the following morning.
00:45:36Did you find any affidavits
00:45:37among the papers
00:45:38from his desk?
00:45:39I've explained all this
00:45:40to your police department
00:45:41and Rafferty
00:45:41and Rafferty
00:45:41has all the papers
00:45:42from Rourke's desk.
00:45:43Now get out
00:45:44before I have you thrown out.
00:45:55This letter was among
00:45:56the household bills
00:45:57and I opened it.
00:45:59We'll talk about that later.
00:46:00It looks like you had a little accident.
00:46:04I told you to get out of here.
00:46:06Must I have you thrown out?
00:46:09That you know
00:46:09excitement's bad
00:46:10for your blood pressure?
00:46:16Who was that?
00:46:17I don't know.
00:46:18Who's the blonde?
00:46:19Mrs. Bronson.
00:46:20Did you enjoy your visit?
00:46:21It was worthwhile.
00:46:23Don't forget about
00:46:23the phone calls, Minerva.
00:46:24I have a hunch
00:46:25something's going to pop
00:46:25before long.
00:46:32Being a lady,
00:46:33I can't tell you
00:46:33just exactly what
00:46:34is going to pop
00:46:35at this moment.
00:46:36Keep your chin up.
00:46:37Remember, this is for Tim.
00:46:38Play along with me.
00:46:40Okay, Mike.
00:46:51You wanted to see me?
00:46:52What do you mean?
00:46:53Letting people walk in
00:46:53and out of my private office?
00:46:55Because this is not
00:46:55Grand Central Station?
00:46:56He followed you in
00:46:57and there was nothing
00:46:58I could do about it.
00:46:59Would it be expecting
00:47:00too much to ask you
00:47:01who he is?
00:47:02Michael Shane,
00:47:03private detective.
00:47:04A private detective?
00:47:06I understand
00:47:06Timothy Rock sent for him
00:47:08just before he was shot.
00:47:11Will that be all?
00:47:13Yes, you may go.
00:47:20So that's why
00:47:21he was snooping around here,
00:47:22trying to worry me.
00:47:23these private detectives
00:47:25are all a bunch
00:47:26of phonies.
00:47:30Yes, Mr. Brownson?
00:47:32Give me Crestview
00:47:3364728.
00:47:35Yes, sir.
00:47:35Hello, Brenner talking.
00:47:45Just a moment, please.
00:47:59Mr. Brownson calling.
00:48:00Michael Shane, a private detective
00:48:08is trying to blackmail me
00:48:09for $25,000.
00:48:10Yes?
00:48:15Play along with them.
00:48:17I know how to handle those babies.
00:48:19All right.
00:48:24All right, I'll do as you say.
00:48:26You've gotten me into a fine mess.
00:48:28I can't afford a scandal.
00:48:37Miss Higgins,
00:48:39run an ad in the personal column
00:48:40of today's paper.
00:48:41Just the two words.
00:48:42Yes, Colt.
00:48:44Yes, Colt.
00:48:45Yes, sir.
00:49:07Yes, sir.
00:49:12Hello Walter Bronson speaking if you're interested in buying a 32 cold automatic
00:49:32serial number four two one eight nine three before the police run a ballistic
00:49:37test listen carefully I won't repeat and don't bother to have the call traced
00:49:41I'm calling from a public phone booth
00:49:43what do you want back around to I came to apologize for last night
00:49:46what do you want back around to I came to apologize for last night
00:49:56skip it come on in and sit down I can only stay a minute
00:50:03yeah what do you want back around to I came to apologize for last night
00:50:12skip it come on in and sit down I can only stay a minute
00:50:16you have a cup of coffee no thanks you know Mike Shane he must be quite a guy
00:50:30oh he is and in my opinion he's the best detective in the world
00:50:34he's not a nice playmate if you have a guilty conscience you better not try any
00:50:38two-timing don't worry I won't by the way I'm not familiar with this town
00:50:43could you recommend a good beauty shop well I always go to Madame Renee I'll give
00:50:48you her card
00:50:59I've always been satisfied with her work thanks a million have any line on might have killed
00:51:06Madge not that I know of they can't seem to find a motive for the murder maybe she
00:51:11stepped out with some other woman's husband those things happen that man Dilly Smith
00:51:16said he had trouble with his wife do you suppose I don't think so Billy wasn't interested in Madge
00:51:23I saw Bronson leave did you get anything
00:51:30I don't like doing this sort of thing it's like peeking through a keyhole
00:51:36so Bronson thanks I'm the one who's trying to blackmail it well for a while Michael Shane I had my doubts about you too
00:51:42well everyone has he doubts about me now and then even Phyllis
00:51:44Dilly Smith has a 32 Colt automatic to sell
00:51:49get me Chief of Police will gentry on the phone will you
00:51:51Chief of Police gentry please Michael Shane calling
00:52:03hello just a moment
00:52:10hello well we can start to roll pick up Dilly Smith and turn him over to Pete Rafferty's department
00:52:18have him check the serial number and run a ballistics test on the gun they'll find on him
00:52:21check it against the slug they took out of Tim
00:52:22okay Mike but how about breaking down tell me what this is all about
00:52:28now it's just as well you don't know too much at the moment
00:52:30give me Pete Rafferty will you
00:52:31okay
00:52:33switch this call over to Rafferty
00:52:37Shane burns me up more than anyone I know
00:52:40I'd give a thousand dollars if I could get him in a spot he couldn't wiggle out of
00:52:44hello Rafferty speaking
00:52:48hello Rafferty
00:52:49I got a hot tip for you
00:52:51that private eye Mike Shane is on his way to the 300 block on Mariposa
00:52:55he's up to no good
00:52:56if you're smart you'll put a prowl car on his tail
00:52:59who's speaking hello
00:53:01hello
00:53:02come on
00:53:05I would certainly never make a good detective I'm too sane
00:53:10oh you don't have to be crazy but it helps a lot
00:53:12thanks a lot Minerva you did your good deed for the day
00:53:16these directions are very clear
00:53:17hope he didn't beat us here
00:53:35there he is
00:53:45wait a minute
00:53:51wait a minute he's slowing up
00:53:52now
00:53:54well
00:53:58they're here
00:54:01are
00:54:01slow
00:54:03so
00:54:06All right.
00:54:30Take him.
00:54:36Take him.
00:55:06Hold it, you!
00:55:20All right, put him in the car.
00:55:28Nice work, Pete.
00:55:29Thank you for me.
00:55:30You happened to long.
00:55:30Hey, what's going on?
00:55:31I don't get all this.
00:55:32You saw him shoot at me, didn't you?
00:55:34Sure, I saw him, but I still don't get it.
00:55:35I was driving peacefully along, and he deliberately ran me into the curb.
00:55:39If you were so peaceful, what were you doing with those two dogs in the back of your car?
00:55:42Yeah, how about that?
00:55:44Shane was trying to blackmail me.
00:55:46I had them along for protection.
00:55:48Oh, well, that's different.
00:55:49Well, now we're getting somewhere.
00:55:53Shane, it looks like you finally stuck your neck out.
00:55:56Don't you think we better talk this over down at headquarters?
00:55:58And maybe you think we won't.
00:56:01You fellas drive straight to headquarters, and I'll tell you.
00:56:05Shane, can we talk this over privately?
00:56:07I'll get you the money.
00:56:08We'll talk for the record.
00:56:10You and your pals are in this thing up to your neck.
00:56:11You heard what Rafferty's had.
00:56:13Let's get going.
00:56:32Sit down.
00:56:33All right, Shane.
00:56:37Let's have it.
00:56:38Start talking.
00:56:40Let's talk for the record.
00:56:41All right, any way you like.
00:56:43We always try to be obliging.
00:56:45Hey, get a stenographer.
00:56:50I understand some of your men picked up a fellow named Dilly Smith.
00:56:53They did?
00:56:54I mean, what if they did?
00:56:56Well, he had a gun on him.
00:56:57Might be interesting to know the results of the test they ran off.
00:57:02Well, there's six.
00:57:04Say, they found a gun on a guy named Dilly Smith.
00:57:07Give me a report on that test.
00:57:09I don't know how you know so much about what goes on in my department.
00:57:14Yeah, go ahead.
00:57:16Yeah.
00:57:18Yeah.
00:57:22I don't know how you guessed it, Shane.
00:57:24But Rourke was shot with that gun.
00:57:27I'm always a jumper too ahead of you, Pete.
00:57:29You ought to know that by this time.
00:57:31Have a peanut.
00:57:33What do you got to say about this, Bronson?
00:57:35About what?
00:57:35About Rourke being shot with a gun registered in your name.
00:57:39Why?
00:57:39I'll bet you tried to double-cross your accomplice, Dilly Smith.
00:57:43And he phoned in a tip about you.
00:57:46Somebody phoned in a tip?
00:57:47Why do you suppose I was on your tail?
00:57:49Well, I thought it was because you liked me.
00:57:51It was him to get hurt.
00:57:51Hey, Pete, would you send somebody out for some more peanuts?
00:57:56Yeah.
00:57:58If you'd like it soaked in poison.
00:58:07You're at a tough spot.
00:58:12You better tell the truth and not try to cover up for anybody.
00:58:16You knew that gunner was red hot.
00:58:18Now tell us how it came to be in your possession.
00:58:20Okay, I'll tell you the truth.
00:58:22I found that gun outside the apartment where the reporter was shot Tuesday night.
00:58:27I saw you drop it, Mr. Bronson, when you came out the side entrance with that blonde dame and got in your car.
00:58:31That's an outrageous lie.
00:58:32Shut up, Bronson.
00:58:34Go ahead.
00:58:35Well, I picked up the gun and took the license number of the car.
00:58:38I didn't know what it was all about until I read in the papers the next day that the reporter had been shot.
00:58:43So you decided to keep the gun and blackmail Mr. Bronson, huh?
00:58:46That's right.
00:58:47Oh, I know I can do a stretch for that, but it's better than being mixed up in a murder rap.
00:58:50And, uh, how does Mr. Shane figure in all this?
00:59:00Him?
00:59:01I've never seen him before.
00:59:02The man's obviously trying to protect Shane for some reason.
00:59:11I was not near Rourke's apartment.
00:59:14He started for there, and in no very friendly frame of mind.
00:59:18I checked the time you left the office.
00:59:20You didn't get home until quite late.
00:59:21Must I account for every minute of my time?
00:59:23Might not be a bad idea, especially in view of the fact that Mrs. Bronson showed such a friendly interest in Tim.
00:59:29I will not submit to having my wife insulted in this manner, and I'll hold you responsible if you allow it to proceed.
00:59:36Mrs. Bronson is a blonde, and a very attractive blonde was seen going in the side entrance to Tim's apartment.
00:59:42Does that prove anything?
00:59:43Not necessarily.
00:59:46Why don't you ask Mrs. Bronson to prove that her fingerprints don't match those of the woman who had a drink with Tim the night he was shot.
00:59:56She's my wife.
00:59:57I wanted to protect her.
00:59:59You mean you found your wife in Rourke's apartment?
01:00:02Yes.
01:00:04I was very angry with Rourke over the story he sneaked into the paper without my okay.
01:00:10There was no one in the lobby when I arrived.
01:00:12I knew the number of the apartment, so I went right up.
01:00:27I knew the number of the apartment, and I knew her.
01:00:29I knew her.
01:00:30I knew her, and I knew her.
01:00:31I knew her.
01:00:33Good heavens, what are you doing here?
01:00:36What's happened?
01:00:36I didn't do it, Walter.
01:00:38I swear I didn't do it.
01:00:39Why are you here?
01:00:41I liked him.
01:00:42I wanted to persuade him to give up that foolish crusade and keep his job with him.
01:00:47Who shot him?
01:00:48I don't know. I started into the kitchen and was struck a blow on the head that knocked me unconscious.
01:00:54And then I found him like this.
01:00:58We've got to get out of here.
01:01:04It was a horrible situation and I couldn't think clearly.
01:01:08I didn't know whether Rourke was alive or dead.
01:01:12My only thought was to get her out of there without being seen.
01:01:15I didn't dare risk taking her through the lobby, so we slipped out the side entrance.
01:01:21I didn't know that she'd taken my pistol with her until we returned home.
01:01:25Then she discovered that it had disappeared from her purse.
01:01:28Did you believe her story?
01:01:29Why, certainly.
01:01:30You mean you wanted to believe it?
01:01:32You were afraid she was the blonde that committed those other murders.
01:01:35That isn't true.
01:01:36I'm interested in the gambling syndicate, but I wouldn't count in its murder.
01:01:40What about your plan to have me bumped off?
01:01:42That was Brenner's idea.
01:01:44Well, you see, Pete, we opened up the laundry bag and found a lot of dirty linen.
01:01:50Now, what about that blonde wife of yours?
01:01:52What about her?
01:01:53She's the woman who searched Tim's apartment.
01:01:54Well, that's news to me.
01:01:56Maybe she was two-timing me and he had some letters she wanted back.
01:01:58Maybe that's why you were hanging around the apartment the night you saw Bronson drop the gun.
01:02:02Look, I don't know what she's been doing.
01:02:03She walked out on me four days ago.
01:02:05If you don't believe me, check with my apartment.
01:02:07I have.
01:02:11Well, hello, Angel.
01:02:12Any luck?
01:02:14Well, I guess we've got this case in the bag.
01:02:21I'll have them pick up Mrs. Bronson.
01:02:23She was the last one to see Rourke alive.
01:02:25And she had the pistol with her.
01:02:27Arrest these two men.
01:02:30Bronson was an accomplice.
01:02:32Or an accessory after the fact.
01:02:33Smith was a material witness and a confessed blackmailer.
01:02:36Well, the newspaper boys have been clamoring for a story.
01:02:41I'll give them a story so hot it'll make their hair curl.
01:02:44You know, Pete, if I were you, I don't believe I'd break that story just yet.
01:02:50Huh?
01:02:51Why not?
01:02:52Hey, are you trying to fix it so you get a payoff out of this?
01:02:55Oh, Pete, you hurt me.
01:02:56You're so suspicious.
01:02:57Well, I've got a right to be suspicious.
01:03:00I would have dug up all this stuff myself.
01:03:02Of course you would have.
01:03:03It's just that I think there's one more angle we might check into.
01:03:07Well, all right.
01:03:08I'll go along with you.
01:03:09But don't try to make a monkey out of me.
01:03:11What?
01:03:11Share my peanuts?
01:03:12Oh.
01:03:21Hello, Mike.
01:03:22Oh, I see you brought a chaperone.
01:03:25Yeah, a couple of them.
01:03:29Well, what do we do now?
01:03:31Play games?
01:03:32No, Helen.
01:03:33We're all through playing games.
01:03:35What did you mean by that crack?
01:03:37Murder isn't a game.
01:03:38We want the blonde who murdered three men, Madge Rankin, and shot Tim Rourke.
01:03:43Do I look like a blonde?
01:03:45Not now.
01:03:46But you gave Phyllis the name of the hairdresser who dyed your hair from blonde to brunette when things got too hot for you.
01:03:52Is it a crime for a woman to have her hair dyed?
01:03:55I thought you were a regular guy, Mike.
01:03:58I didn't think you'd try to pull a dirty frame like this.
01:04:01You left a fingerprint on the cards you gave Phyllis.
01:04:04It matched that of the woman who searched Tim's apartment.
01:04:06And, by the way, also that of Mrs. Dilly Smith.
01:04:10Dilly's down at headquarters now, and he's being very cooperative.
01:04:13I know that proves that I committed any murders.
01:04:21I've been wanting to do that for a long time, ever since the other night.
01:04:24You know, if you ever get a cauliflower ear, don't look to me for sympathy.
01:04:29Don't worry.
01:04:30I won't.
01:04:30I dish him out.
01:04:31I don't take him.
01:04:37Ah, this is for you, Petey.
01:04:39Well, I guess we got the murder weapon, all right.
01:04:51All right, wise guy.
01:04:52Run a ballistic on that gun.
01:04:53It hasn't been fired in years.
01:04:55You thought you were pretty smart when you threw away the old barrel after each murder and slipped in a new one.
01:05:00But you didn't know that a gun leaves a distinctive mark on the ejected shell, as well as on the bullet.
01:05:05You should have picked up your empty shells.
01:05:09Take it easy.
01:05:10Take it easy.
01:05:11She's not going to get away.
01:05:12You got a man out in the back.
01:05:14You know, I can understand the rest of it.
01:05:16But why'd she murder Madge Rankin?
01:05:18I don't know.
01:05:19Maybe she got wise to the setup and threatened to blow the lid off if I didn't cut her in.
01:05:22You're right, Shane.
01:05:23She knew too much.
01:05:25You might have gotten away with it, too, if you hadn't slipped a new barrel in Bronson's gun
01:05:29and tried for blackmail.
01:05:30It was Dilly's idea.
01:05:31I should have got rid of him, too.
01:05:33Well, I hope this winds it up.
01:05:35I'm getting dizzy.
01:05:37Come on.
01:05:41You're good to see you with your eyes open again, Tim.
01:05:43Well, there's a little life left in the old hulk.
01:05:46I must ask you to leave.
01:05:48You're only supposed to stay a minute.
01:05:49Okay, beautiful.
01:05:51We'll stick around town for a while, Tim.
01:05:52Drop in now and then.
01:05:53See you.
01:05:55Hey, Tim.
01:05:56Notice anything strange about Mike?
01:06:00No, what?
01:06:01This is the first time he ever got through a case without being laid out like a rug.
01:06:04Listen, let me tell you one thing.
01:06:06Nobody lays Mike Shane out like a rug.
01:06:20Give me the admission, Bess.
01:06:23Send another bet up to room 216.
01:06:25On in the list of tratar guys with him.
01:06:34Bye.
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