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00:00:00THE END
00:00:47For a most brutal murder instigated by robbery,
00:00:50a murder whereof you, Stephen McBurney,
00:00:53stand convicted after a fair trial by jury,
00:00:56it is the judgment of this court
00:00:58that you are hereby sentenced to the punishment of death
00:01:02to be executed upon you at Sing Sing Prison
00:01:06during the week of December 9th.
00:01:08December 9th.
00:01:09Thanks, George.
00:01:10I won't have to do any Christmas shopping.
00:01:16And thank you, Mr. Chan, for what his honor just handed me.
00:01:19Your evidence sticks me in the death house,
00:01:21and I won't forget it while I'm alive.
00:01:24Come on, Mac.
00:01:26Threats won't help your appeal.
00:01:36Well, Charlie, you put him where he belongs.
00:01:39I hope you don't let his threats keep you awake.
00:01:42On contrary.
00:01:43Conviction of most dangerous public enemy
00:01:46bring more peaceful sleep.
00:01:57What's that shooting?
00:01:57McBurney, grab the deputy's gun.
00:01:59Shooting his way out.
00:02:00Oh, God!
00:02:04overhead,
00:02:05hurt, hurt, hurt.
00:02:11Oh, God.
00:02:31Are you going to stay here all night?
00:02:33Take it easy.
00:02:36Bus leading right away.
00:02:38Next stop, Chinatown.
00:02:40Come on, everybody. Step smart.
00:02:42Bus leading right away.
00:02:43Next stop, Chinatown.
00:02:45The mysterious Orion in the heart of New York.
00:02:47Shake a leg, folks.
00:02:50Step right this way, folks.
00:02:51Step fast, and you'll see Chinatown before she goes to bed.
00:02:55Let's go, Bill.
00:03:10You've got an awful nerve asking me to marry you in that chamber of horrors.
00:03:14What do you think marriage is, anyway?
00:03:26Where's our queen?
00:03:27Can't you read? We're closed for the night.
00:03:28You can't come in.
00:03:29Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. Well, where is it?
00:03:30He's busy. Says he don't want to be bothered.
00:03:35That's only a dummy, a dummy.
00:03:39Come on.
00:03:47You can't go in there.
00:03:49Watch this carefully.
00:03:51This is a difficult but brilliant move.
00:03:55You can't beat it.
00:04:07You can't beat it.
00:04:08What a splendid.
00:04:09Superb.
00:04:10I was not prepared for that.
00:04:13But watch this one.
00:04:14Hey.
00:04:15Is he playing chess with that dummy or am I crazy?
00:04:33Wait.
00:04:34That's a checkmate.
00:04:36You've got me.
00:04:39Mac.
00:04:41Hello, Doc.
00:04:42What's the idea?
00:04:44Oh, a little lesson in strategy.
00:04:46I was coaching my protege.
00:04:54So you're the works.
00:04:56A mechanical woman.
00:04:58Gentlemen, my assistant, Miss Latimer.
00:05:03I'm glad to know you, babe.
00:05:05Well, Lily, my dear.
00:05:06Don't you recognize Steve McBurney?
00:05:10He's been with us for years.
00:05:14The little boy from New York's Hell's Kitchen
00:05:16who went out west and made good in Chicago.
00:05:18Gee, Mac.
00:05:19It's you.
00:05:20Yeah.
00:05:21And Butcher Dagon.
00:05:23He wasn't that beautiful when they fished him out of Lake Michigan
00:05:26with the 13 bullets you pumped into him.
00:05:34I hope you never double-crossed me, Doc.
00:05:36Well, Mac, I'm no fool.
00:05:37That's what I hear.
00:05:42Well, you've got a great racket.
00:05:45A wax museum on top of the sweetest hideout the mob's ever had.
00:05:49In a wonder the cops never bother you.
00:05:55You know, Gronick, that Doc is smart.
00:05:58He makes faces behind their backs.
00:06:01Do you ever see the faces he makes?
00:06:03Oh, this wax stuff is okay.
00:06:05No, no.
00:06:06Before he operated on the law,
00:06:08he was the best facial surgeon in the country.
00:06:10A face doctor?
00:06:12Sure.
00:06:15Well, Doc,
00:06:17it's my turn now.
00:06:20Change this map.
00:06:22Fix it so no cop will ever know me.
00:06:23Well, that would be easy, Mac.
00:06:26But why not come back in a month
00:06:27when this getaway is blown over?
00:06:29Oh, no.
00:06:31You start the job now.
00:06:33Tonight.
00:06:36Lily, you'd better go downstairs
00:06:38and prepare things for an operation.
00:06:42Hey.
00:06:44What's her angle?
00:06:45She's my assistant in surgery, too.
00:06:50Follow me.
00:06:54Of course, you realize that, uh,
00:06:56you'll have to hang out here
00:06:57for two or three weeks after the surgery.
00:06:58Oh, swell.
00:06:59I can use the rest.
00:07:07You know them, Joe?
00:07:09That was Steve McBurney just come in.
00:07:13He...
00:07:16He...
00:07:17Joe.
00:07:19I'm forgetting, like,
00:07:20Steve's your pal.
00:07:22Sure.
00:07:22Didn't he knock off Butcher Dagon
00:07:24for framing you?
00:07:25I remember.
00:07:27That's what I call a real pal, Joe.
00:07:38So this is the Chamber of Horrors.
00:07:40Spooky joint.
00:07:41I sure hate to be found dead.
00:07:49Is this where you operate, Doc?
00:07:50Oh, no.
00:07:51Just an exhibit in there.
00:07:58That's a genuine electric chair.
00:08:02Still in use two years ago.
00:08:04109 murders.
00:08:05Met death on it.
00:08:06Yeah, I had a date with his brother,
00:08:08thanks to Charlie Chan.
00:08:10Hey, Mac.
00:08:11Get a load.
00:08:11The real thing.
00:08:12Careful.
00:08:13That's a switchboard for the museum.
00:08:15Serves as atmosphere here.
00:08:16But it's practical.
00:08:18Say, Doc.
00:08:19You're the one practical thing around here for me.
00:08:22I want the best face you ever made.
00:08:24Just so as I can walk up to Chan and say,
00:08:28Hiya, Charlie.
00:08:29Before I let him have it.
00:08:30Yeah.
00:08:31And won't that copper be surprised?
00:08:41Tony, do you mean to tell me you've never been surprised in your life?
00:08:45Only one occasion, Inspector.
00:08:48When honorable wife announce arrival of 13th offspring.
00:08:53Always prefer to utilize element of surprise.
00:08:56Never to be victim.
00:08:58Well, I wish I could say that.
00:09:01Haven't gotten over McBurney's little courtroom surprise yet.
00:09:04Three weeks ago yesterday.
00:09:06He must have gotten out of town or we'd have him.
00:09:09Only very foolish mouse make nest in Cat's ear.
00:09:13Hello, Pop.
00:09:15Inspector.
00:09:16Hope I'm not interrupting.
00:09:17Hello, Mary.
00:09:18Who let you in?
00:09:19That's Jimmy.
00:09:19He's our scout leader.
00:09:21Mary Bolton.
00:09:22Reporter.
00:09:23Past daily record.
00:09:24How do you do, Mr. Chan?
00:09:26Hi, Doctor.
00:09:27Inspector.
00:09:28Charlie, this is Dr. Cream of the Cream Crime Museum.
00:09:32I'm very happy to meet you, Mr. Chan.
00:09:36Oh, Inspector.
00:09:37This is Dr. Bunn.
00:09:39Von Bram.
00:09:40Herr Dr. Otto von Bram, formerly with the Berlin Police Department.
00:09:45Today I specialize in the psychocriminology.
00:09:48Well, there's one cop to another, Doctor.
00:09:51What's that?
00:09:52Detective who uses microscope instead of common sense.
00:09:55Please, allow parent to make Confucius' saying.
00:09:59So, Mr. Chan, you do not believe in the scientific methods for apprehending criminals, eh?
00:10:04Any powder that kills flea is good powder.
00:10:10Now, can law students explain crime of playing hooky?
00:10:13Well, I didn't mean to cut classes, Pop.
00:10:16But they, Miss Bolton and Dr. Cream, came up to college with a great idea.
00:10:20Pop, you're going into radio.
00:10:21On the Crime League broadcast from the Museum of Crime.
00:10:24This is all Dr. Cream's idea.
00:10:26And a swell yarn for me.
00:10:27But you confer first with chip off old chopstick.
00:10:30Well, only because I remembered where to find Jimmy when we couldn't locate you today.
00:10:34Well, you see, each week we have a famous detective who tries to unravel some old, unsolved crime.
00:10:40On tonight's broadcast, we had hoped that you and Dr. Von Braun might throw some new light on the rock
00:10:45case.
00:10:46Yeah, isn't that a swell idea?
00:10:49Let honor of advertising museum go to scientific detective.
00:10:55Tomorrow parent depart for Honolulu.
00:10:58Tonight same prefer good dinner to ancient crime.
00:11:01Excuse, please.
00:11:04But, Mr. Chan, this is your favorite unsolved crime.
00:11:09Do you recognize this man?
00:11:12Likeness of Joseph Rock.
00:11:14Innocent man hanged for crime he did not commit.
00:11:18Real murderer never caught.
00:11:20This is an insult to my ability.
00:11:23Once before you made such a statement, Joe Rock was convicted on my scientific evidence.
00:11:29How dare you insinuate?
00:11:31Now, boys, don't get violent.
00:11:33People have been arguing for years over whether Joe Rock fired that poison dart.
00:11:36Well, you could settle it tonight on my broadcast.
00:11:38Sorry.
00:11:39Must decline.
00:11:40Oh, surely you're not afraid to cross the wits with my logic and science.
00:11:45Perhaps you leave the town because of Steve McBurney's threats, yeah?
00:11:49My pop don't run away from anybody.
00:11:52But it might look that way if you don't accept this challenge.
00:11:55What'll I tell the fellas in my class?
00:11:57Challenge?
00:11:59Dr. Cream makes same in presence of offspring's classmates?
00:12:03Yeah.
00:12:04And I accept it for you.
00:12:06I'm sorry you're turning us down, Mr. Chen.
00:12:08It would be an unusual experience for you.
00:12:12You most anxious for humble presence at broadcast tonight?
00:12:16It's a question of showmanship.
00:12:17I know what the public wants.
00:12:20We'll imitate woman and change mind.
00:12:24Most happy to accept unusual radio invitation.
00:12:28Splendid, Mr. Chen.
00:12:29This is news.
00:12:30Thank you, Mr. Chen.
00:12:31You'll be there at 8 o'clock.
00:12:33We go on at 8.15.
00:12:34I'll be there.
00:12:34So long.
00:12:36I'll be there too, Pop, in case you need any help.
00:12:39Contradiction, please.
00:12:41At 8 o'clock, young legal sprout have date for lecture on old Roman law.
00:12:46No hooky.
00:12:48Okay. No hooky.
00:12:50Say, Charlie, you certainly changed your mind in a hurry.
00:12:54I'd have given odds you wouldn't go for that phony challenge.
00:12:56Correction, please.
00:12:58Challenge may solve more than rock case tonight.
00:13:02Dr. Cream, once famous surgeon.
00:13:05Now friend of many criminals.
00:13:08Like Steve McBurney.
00:13:10What's on your mind, Pop?
00:13:12Yeah, come clean.
00:13:13Possible McBurney visit doctor for perfect disguise.
00:13:19Underworld once whispered his former partner, Butcher Dagon, receive same from Dr. Cream.
00:13:26A new face.
00:13:27Well, he wasn't wearing it when they found his body.
00:13:30Say, what are you driving at?
00:13:32Perhaps wrong man found and buried.
00:13:35Faceless body in water three months.
00:13:38Have long suspected Butcher Dagon, ruthless killer, not dead, but still alive.
00:13:44And hiding behind face created by Dr. Cream.
00:13:48Perhaps worthy doctor have secret purpose behind challenge tonight.
00:13:54You think Cream's coming here has something to do with McBurney?
00:13:57A trap?
00:13:58Knowledge only gain through curiosity.
00:14:01I think I'll catch your act tonight, Charlie.
00:14:04In fact, I'll go with you.
00:14:05No, please.
00:14:07Mice only play when cats supposed to be in bed.
00:14:31The mother, the son, and the music teacher.
00:14:37Correctly seated at the fatal breakfast table that sent Joe Rourke to the gallows.
00:14:42We'll be seated that way tonight.
00:14:44My pal.
00:14:47And he sits right there.
00:14:51Hey, you.
00:14:53Don't touch that, you'll get burnt to a crisp.
00:14:57Dr. Cream, I didn't do this.
00:14:59I wouldn't. It's dangerous.
00:15:00Shut up and get out of here.
00:15:02Come on, get out of here.
00:15:03Mac!
00:15:04Don't go through with this insane plan.
00:15:06It'll ruin me.
00:15:07No, it can't.
00:15:09It's all part of a gag that goes wrong.
00:15:12Crazy Willie there rigs up an electric chair.
00:15:14He puts too much heat on and someone gets hurt.
00:15:17No cop will ever believe that one.
00:15:19Well, what are you gonna do about it?
00:15:21You queer this and you're both through.
00:15:23Don't get excited.
00:15:24We're all in it with you.
00:15:26No choice.
00:15:27It's about time Granica down off that pole.
00:15:40You know, listening to the broadcast week after week, give me the idea.
00:15:48Von Braun, the old rock case.
00:15:51The one case Chan would go for.
00:15:54And that phony challenge got him.
00:15:58Now all we have to do is to wait for Chan to be seated comfortably.
00:16:04Then...
00:16:06Okay.
00:16:07Yeah, she's hooked up to the switchboard now.
00:16:10Just tapped 2300 volts from that high tension.
00:16:12Now it can't fail.
00:16:13Not a chance.
00:16:14If you will please excuse me.
00:16:18You can't go through with this.
00:16:20It'll ruin everything.
00:16:21This place.
00:16:21Your racket.
00:16:22What can I do?
00:16:23It may turn out the way he says.
00:16:24You know it can't.
00:16:25My throat.
00:16:26It's very dry.
00:16:50It's very dry.
00:16:52Am I too late?
00:16:53We're closed up, ma'am.
00:16:54But you said you'd let me in.
00:16:56You told me Dr. Von Braun was coming.
00:16:59Or...
00:16:59I forget.
00:17:00I thought you were Joe Rock's friend.
00:17:03I am.
00:17:03I am.
00:17:04He's my pal.
00:17:06Then...
00:17:07Give him this.
00:17:08Oh, no, no.
00:17:09I never touch those things.
00:17:10You know he needs protection tonight.
00:17:12He's in great danger.
00:17:14Yeah, that's right.
00:17:15You can't let Joe down.
00:17:18You take it to him.
00:17:23Look that way.
00:17:24This way.
00:17:25This way.
00:17:29Use the upstairs way.
00:17:31And then go right home.
00:17:32I understand.
00:17:36I'll make my rounds and where's my clock?
00:17:38come here.
00:17:42Go right here.
00:17:50Go right here.
00:17:50Bad night, eh, Frank?
00:17:56You know what, little boy?
00:17:58Those things...
00:17:59Of course, sir.
00:18:01Sit back.
00:18:06Sit back, sir.
00:21:19Lily, want to give me a test?
00:21:21Sure.
00:21:23One, two, three, testing.
00:21:24One, two, three, testing.
00:21:25Okay.
00:21:26The crime museum is honored by your visit, Mr. Chan.
00:21:31Of course, you recollect the tragedy of the Broadway butterfly.
00:21:36Here are some more of my wax creations.
00:21:42This is Jack the Ripper, London's mystery murderer, the year 1888.
00:21:46He was never caught.
00:21:49And here we have...
00:21:50Henry Desiree Landrieu, the Bluebeard of Paris.
00:21:57They say that he destroyed 40 women in that very same stove.
00:22:02Excellent likeness.
00:22:04Oh, here's Mr. Agnew now.
00:22:07Well, we're already downtown for Charlie Chan.
00:22:10I'm nearly ready here.
00:22:12Mr. Tom Agnew, the director and announcer of our program.
00:22:15Glad to know you, sir.
00:22:16Miss Latimer, my assistant.
00:22:18Miss Latimer.
00:22:19How do you do, Mr. Chan?
00:22:21And Mr. Edwards, our engineer.
00:22:29Is Mary here yet?
00:22:30She's with Dr. Von Brom, looking at the exhibits.
00:22:34Von Brom?
00:22:35You didn't tell me he was in this show.
00:22:37Sort of a last-minute idea.
00:22:40I didn't come fair to handle two masterminds.
00:22:43I'm sorry, Tom.
00:22:44I phoned to tell you, but you weren't in.
00:22:47Achelibus Frehlen, do I know this man?
00:22:49This is the Butcher Dagen.
00:22:51I see him in Chicago many years ago.
00:22:53I have a photographic memory.
00:22:56My eyes, they never forget anything they see once.
00:23:01You know, the face, the shape of the head.
00:23:06It is my scientific training.
00:23:09Wasn't he killed many years ago?
00:23:11Yeah, murdered.
00:23:13My friends, good evening.
00:23:16Mr. Chan, I'm here.
00:23:18Do you like it, Dr. Von Brom?
00:23:20We are ready, yeah?
00:23:22Looks like we'll have a swell show tonight.
00:23:23Sure.
00:23:24That is, if the two bloodhounds bite each other.
00:23:26How about supper later, huh?
00:23:27I'd love it.
00:23:28Good.
00:23:29Well, gentlemen, we go in 12 minutes.
00:23:32Is everyone ready?
00:23:33I'm ready.
00:23:34I'm famous for this case.
00:23:36The doctor.
00:23:37The doctor's voice.
00:23:39Well, Doctor and Mr. Chan, we hope you settle the Rock case tonight.
00:23:42The Rock case?
00:23:44I thought we were doing the Gradley case.
00:23:46I'm sorry, it's all my fault.
00:23:47I have no notes on Rock.
00:23:49I have?
00:23:50I'll get them for you.
00:23:51Mr. Agnew, I will help.
00:23:53I solved this case years ago.
00:23:56Old solution, doctor.
00:23:58Sometimes like ancient egg.
00:24:00Since I do the interview, I'd like to get your slant, Mr. Chan.
00:24:03What questions to ask?
00:24:05Joe Rock unjustly punished for crime committed by Butcher Dagan.
00:24:09Hm. He sounds like an eyewitness.
00:24:11Excuse, please.
00:24:12I never saw Dagan.
00:24:14My theory is simply based on evidence already supplied by Dr. Von Brom.
00:24:19Oh.
00:24:21How do you mean?
00:24:22Dagan and McBurney partners many years ago.
00:24:26Also partners with Joe Rock in honest enterprise.
00:24:30Rock, honorable man, unaware colleagues were criminals.
00:24:33Like freak of nature, McBurney, although brutal killer, have almost brotherly affection for Rock.
00:24:41But Dagan, true child of Cain, hate him.
00:24:46To acquire business, he caused Rock to be suspected of murder he did not commit.
00:24:50An innocent man was hung?
00:24:52Brother McBurney had his revenge.
00:24:54I read that he killed Dagan.
00:24:56He got what was coming to him.
00:24:58Same believed by many persons.
00:25:01But electric chair now await McBurney for more recent crimes.
00:25:06McBurney ought to get a vote of thanks.
00:25:08He's got mine.
00:25:10You knew Dagan?
00:25:12Oh, no.
00:25:13I mean according to your story.
00:25:15If it's true, he got what he deserved.
00:25:18Excuse, please.
00:25:20May see sore finger?
00:25:22Oh, it's just a scratch.
00:25:24Aye, I'll live.
00:25:25Wound very odd and recent.
00:25:28I caught it on Dr. Cream's desk in the office.
00:25:32Beware of infection.
00:25:34What a yarn.
00:25:36Mr. Chan, if you can prove Dagan's guilt...
00:25:38Dagan won't mind.
00:25:39He's dead.
00:25:41Justice can be brought to dead men.
00:25:43Dagan.
00:25:45Yeah.
00:25:47It is possible.
00:25:50Joe Rock, maybe he's not guilty.
00:25:53But I proved that once.
00:25:58And I'll prove something else, too.
00:26:02Now.
00:26:04Tonight.
00:26:05Quiet, please. The studio's checking the trunk line.
00:26:10Testing.
00:26:11One, two, three, four.
00:26:13Testing.
00:26:14One, two, three, four.
00:26:18We're ready downtown.
00:26:19We're going two minutes.
00:26:27I can't help that I've got business here.
00:26:29You can't break a heel like this.
00:26:30Get out.
00:26:31I tell you, I've got to see Dr. Cream.
00:26:32I'm Dr. Cream.
00:26:33What is it?
00:26:34My name is Lane.
00:26:35Carter Lane.
00:26:36Representing Mrs. Rock.
00:26:37Joe Rock's wife?
00:26:38Yes.
00:26:39Is she here?
00:26:40Why would she come here?
00:26:42We heard about the broadcast and it must not be made.
00:26:44She doesn't want this Rock case discussed.
00:26:46Why not?
00:26:47What is she afraid of?
00:26:48Humiliation and rather painful memories.
00:26:50He can't stop us.
00:26:52We are within our rights, Mr. Lane.
00:26:54A suit for damages will determine that.
00:26:56Don't let him scare you.
00:26:57He's afraid of what Dr. Van Braum and Mr. Chan have turned up.
00:27:01What do you mean?
00:27:02It is imperative the broadcast is made.
00:27:05One clue I did not understand tonight, she's clear.
00:27:09I will tell everything about your Rock.
00:27:13Sensations.
00:27:13To the radio.
00:27:14I will tell the police where to find the real murderer.
00:27:17That's why Mr. Lane is here.
00:27:19To prevent you from telling.
00:27:20You know you're very beautiful, but you're just a little crazy.
00:27:24Stand by, everybody.
00:27:26Take your places, please.
00:27:27Now we are seated as the family was gathered at the fatal breakfast table.
00:27:32Uh, Mary, you sit down there.
00:27:34Lily, you sit there.
00:27:36Mr. Chan?
00:27:37Uh, I sit here.
00:27:40Mr. Chan sits here.
00:27:45Dr. Creamy, is this correct?
00:27:48Little Otto wants a seat of honor, too?
00:27:51Truths speak from any chair.
00:28:00We're on now. Quiet, ladies.
00:28:03Crime is always punished.
00:28:06Good evening, folks.
00:28:07This is Tom Agnew bringing you the Crime League.
00:28:10Through the courtesy of the Murphy Arms Company.
00:28:13We are gathered for our 13th weekly broadcast
00:28:15in Dr. Cream's extraordinary Museum of Crime.
00:28:18An educational institution.
00:28:22Hey, there he is now.
00:28:24All right.
00:28:25Tell him exactly what I told you.
00:28:29Hey, what are you doing in here?
00:28:31Hello, Willie. Don't you know me?
00:28:32I'm the new warden.
00:28:35Oh, I'm sorry, warden. For a second, I didn't place you.
00:28:38Uh-huh.
00:28:39Oh, by the way, do you believe in capital punishment?
00:28:41You mean killing murderers?
00:28:43Sure.
00:28:44Fine, fine.
00:28:46Would you be willing to serve the state in executing a criminal?
00:28:48Would I? You bet.
00:28:49Good.
00:28:50Then I hereby appoint you chief executioner of this prison.
00:28:54You mean I can hang the Reno kid in guillotine of Nubile of Paris?
00:28:57Sure, sure, but first you gotta begin with an electrocution.
00:29:00I'll do my duty.
00:29:01You know how to work this thing?
00:29:02Yeah.
00:29:03When you get a signal, you push up.
00:29:04Well, never mind the signal.
00:29:06You see that clock?
00:29:08At 8.20, at exactly 8.20, I want you to throw that switch and electrocute that man.
00:29:18Yes, sir.
00:29:19Okay.
00:29:31Sorry to see you go, pal.
00:29:35And now Dr. Otto von Brohm, the famous criminologist and Charlie Chan, will attempt to prove the innocence or guilt
00:29:41of Joe Rock.
00:29:44We were seated at the breakfast table June the 9th, 1929, as demonstrated in court.
00:29:49It was a happy family gathering.
00:29:51Gentlemen, this sitting is incorrect.
00:29:54I should sit there in that chair.
00:29:56No, no, doctor.
00:29:56But I insist.
00:29:58As you please, doctor.
00:30:00Every bird seek its own tree.
00:30:02Never tree the bird.
00:30:05Excuse.
00:30:06Stop him, quick.
00:30:12Who turned the lights off?
00:30:14Something burning behind Dr. von Brahm's chair.
00:30:18Stand by, folks.
00:30:19The storm seems to have taken the light off our mystery.
00:30:22I tell you, there's a fire.
00:30:23Yes, I see it.
00:30:30Doctor!
00:30:31Dr. von Brahm!
00:30:33What is it, doctor?
00:30:39He's fainted.
00:30:40Gentlemen, carry him over here, please.
00:30:50Right here.
00:31:05Well, he's dead.
00:31:06There's a wire connected to that chair.
00:31:08That's what caused the flash.
00:31:10The doctor was electrocuted.
00:31:12Contradiction, please.
00:31:15Wire to chair previously severed by wire cutters.
00:31:19Dr. von Brahm, not electrocuted.
00:31:22Heart failure, perhaps.
00:31:24I'm not doctor.
00:31:25You make diagnosis?
00:31:27Well, no.
00:31:28I've been too shocked to examine the body.
00:31:30Excuse me.
00:31:32Because of an unfortunate accident,
00:31:33the Crime League broadcast will be discontinued at once.
00:31:35Oh, Tom, no.
00:31:36I now return you to our main studios
00:31:38where you will hear a musical program.
00:31:39You're an awful reporter.
00:31:41Tell them what happened.
00:31:42It's a great story, Tom.
00:31:44No, Mary, no.
00:31:49Criminologist was murdered.
00:31:51Murdered?
00:31:52You're crazy.
00:31:53But how?
00:31:55Observe small puncture on back of neck.
00:31:58I see.
00:31:59Note peculiar discoloration.
00:32:01Can be caused by Tonga.
00:32:04Poison used by Dayak headhunters of Borneo.
00:32:09Found on doctor's coat collar, close to wound.
00:32:14Small bamboo dart, projected by blowgun,
00:32:18served as poison carrier.
00:32:20What do you mean, Mr. Chair?
00:32:22Lethal dart was propelled by sharp breath towards dead man
00:32:26during seconds of darkness.
00:32:28By one of us.
00:32:29It's the only logical explanation.
00:32:30But the wound's on the back of his neck.
00:32:32Dart aimed at face,
00:32:35but doctor, attracted by electrical display behind chair,
00:32:39turned head, was struck here.
00:32:42Well, whoever has a blowgun can certainly save us all a lot of trouble
00:32:47by giving himself up now.
00:32:49The Dayak blowgun.
00:32:50The museum has one.
00:32:51Examine, please.
00:32:53Why, certainly. This way.
00:33:01Here we are.
00:33:04It hasn't been touched.
00:33:08Killer used similar tube-like implement.
00:33:11You going to search everybody for something as big as that?
00:33:14No.
00:33:17So big.
00:33:40You knew chair designed to electrocute occupant.
00:33:44You're still crazy.
00:33:46Observed wire cutters.
00:33:47That figured in the wildin' auto murder.
00:33:49It was used by the killer.
00:33:50This young woman used same to sever lethal cable.
00:33:54You're all wrong.
00:33:55Injured finger produced by act of untwisting wire,
00:33:59which held implement to shelf.
00:34:03Received identical wound just now, doing same.
00:34:07It's a mighty impressive deduction, Mr. Chan.
00:34:09But you couldn't sell it to a jury.
00:34:11I'm not ready for jury.
00:34:15Please.
00:34:16Can explain presence here instead of on chair when light returned?
00:34:21Why, of course.
00:34:22I got up to see what caused the flash.
00:34:24Nobody else bothered to.
00:34:25Mind you, I'm not making any accusations.
00:34:27But in the darkness, Mr. Lane seemed to lean past me toward Dr. Von Brom.
00:34:32That's right.
00:34:33The killer had to lean forward to take aim.
00:34:35Oh, now, you couldn't mean me by any chance, could you?
00:34:41That looks like a toothpick.
00:34:43Please.
00:34:44Do not touch possible evidence.
00:34:47Mr. Chan!
00:34:48Mr. Chan!
00:34:51There's someone inside!
00:35:01Step out, please.
00:35:03Don't shoot, Mark!
00:35:06Will police explain presence of one dummy inside another dummy?
00:35:11Well, I couldn't stay away.
00:35:13And I didn't want to bother you, so I got into this fellow to watch.
00:35:17While in chess, man, did offspring make use of own eyes?
00:35:21You bet I did.
00:35:21What you see?
00:35:22Well, nothing suspicious.
00:35:24That toothpick, it's gone.
00:35:29A valuable clue lost because offspring imitate dummy.
00:35:33One of us took it when all eyes were on the chess player.
00:35:35Hollow toothpick made from goose quill, possible blowgun.
00:35:39Let's search everybody.
00:35:40No use. Small object, easily destroyed.
00:35:43Well, all you have to do now is find out who uses that kind of toothpick.
00:35:47Let's preserve any possible fingerprints where the toothpick was discovered.
00:35:50I'll cover it.
00:35:54There's your quill toothpick.
00:35:56Gee, Pop.
00:35:57Number Tucson must have been shoplifting at Automatt.
00:36:01We've got nothing broadcast to do. We'd better be going.
00:36:04Contradiction, please.
00:36:06No one may leave without permission of police.
00:36:08But I've got to phone my city desk.
00:36:10Must wait.
00:36:11Suggest all gather in office of Dr. Cream.
00:36:15This way, please.
00:36:28Do you not recall the presence of a woman in black at murder of Broadway Butterfly?
00:36:35Why, I've never seen her before.
00:36:37Why, she's alive.
00:36:41Can I explain the presence here?
00:36:45I must have fallen asleep.
00:36:48Are visiting hours over?
00:36:50Have been here long?
00:36:53I don't remember.
00:36:55You witnessed events leading up to murder?
00:36:58Murder?
00:36:59I heard nothing.
00:37:01A man has been killed.
00:37:03Oh, yes.
00:37:04But that was long ago.
00:37:07Ten years ago.
00:37:09How could I forget?
00:37:10I still wear black for him.
00:37:13He was killed.
00:37:15Murdered.
00:37:17Please.
00:37:18Would mind joining others in office?
00:37:32Mrs. Rock.
00:37:33Mrs. Joe Rock?
00:37:35Are you sure?
00:37:36Well, I ought to be.
00:37:36She's a client of mine.
00:37:38How long has she been here?
00:37:39We don't know.
00:37:39Gee, Dr. Von Brom sent her husband to...
00:37:41Let me have that...
00:37:42Wait a minute.
00:37:43Police calls come first.
00:37:44Okay, Pop?
00:37:45Well, did you find a blowgun on her?
00:37:49Man murdered tonight was Dr. Von Brom.
00:37:52Careful, Mr. Chan.
00:37:53She's easily upset.
00:37:54Police headquarters?
00:37:56I want to report a murder.
00:37:57I'll connect you with the Homicide Bureau.
00:38:00Is Jimmy Chan calling the cops?
00:38:04Homicide Bureau.
00:38:05Lieutenant Leslie speaking.
00:38:07Yeah, yeah.
00:38:09Mm-hmm.
00:38:10Von Brom.
00:38:12Somebody got him with a poison dart.
00:38:13Shot from a quill toothpick.
00:38:16What'll I tell the kid?
00:38:19Tell him the cops are coming.
00:38:21We'll be right over, Mr. Chan.
00:38:23Don't let anybody leave the building and don't touch anything.
00:38:27You don't have to tell me, Lieutenant.
00:38:29I've handled the case before.
00:38:31Okay.
00:38:32They're on their way.
00:38:33Good.
00:38:34Everyone remain here and possible clues at scene of crime will not be disturbed.
00:38:39You mean it's easier to keep an eye on us this way?
00:38:41Please, doctor.
00:38:42Desire to see electric switchboard.
00:38:44Oh, certainly.
00:38:45I was just going to suggest that.
00:38:47You wait here with other witnesses.
00:38:49Okay, Pop.
00:38:50I get it.
00:38:51These suspects won't get away from me.
00:38:53Suspicion is only toy of fools.
00:38:56Come.
00:39:01Oh, I didn't mean I hope I haven't offended anybody.
00:39:06Well, that's all right.
00:39:07We all know that one of us is a murderer.
00:39:10Sure.
00:39:11No.
00:39:13Say, I'm not so sure about that.
00:39:16Pop.
00:39:18Oh, Pop.
00:39:20Oh, Pop.
00:39:22I forgot to tell you.
00:39:24There's somebody else in this museum.
00:39:25He disappeared into a cell.
00:39:27I saw him when I came in.
00:39:29Say, Pop.
00:39:31Don't you feel well?
00:39:34Don't you know a wax dummy when you see one?
00:39:40Say, you're not supposed to be out here.
00:39:42Get back in the office.
00:39:42Who's telling me?
00:39:45All right.
00:39:58What did you do with that gun?
00:40:00You mind your own business?
00:40:01Let me handle this.
00:40:02Look, will you please go home?
00:40:04No.
00:40:05Dagan's here.
00:40:06I'm going to settle with him, too.
00:40:07Dagan?
00:40:08How do you know?
00:40:09Never mind.
00:40:10But I know.
00:40:15You people have no right to sneak away.
00:40:18Well, I thought the body ought to be covered.
00:40:20It looked like you were going through his pockets when I came in.
00:40:22No, no.
00:40:23I was just arranging the sheet.
00:40:25Get back in the office.
00:40:27Please.
00:40:28Okay, Mr. Chan.
00:40:55Don't do that.
00:40:57Oh, Jimmy, I'm so sorry.
00:40:59What are you doing here?
00:41:00Believe it or not, I'm looking for a telephone.
00:41:07Most odd that owner of museum cannot explain wedding of electricity with chair reserved for humble self.
00:41:15I assure you, I don't know how it happened.
00:41:19Say, Pop.
00:41:21Please, why you not remain with others?
00:41:23Well, there's something I forgot to tell you.
00:41:26I saw.
00:41:32Willie.
00:41:34Gentlemen, I pronounced this man dead.
00:41:37Please remove the body for autopsy.
00:41:39My night watchman, perfectly harmless.
00:41:43It's the swellest execution I ever made.
00:41:45Even the lights went out.
00:41:49You through a switch?
00:41:50Sure.
00:41:51The warden himself.
00:41:52He came right in here and he made me an executioner.
00:41:55Please, description of warden.
00:41:57There isn't any one.
00:41:58He imagines all this.
00:42:01That's what he thinks.
00:42:04Can recall warden?
00:42:06Sure.
00:42:07About so high and dark and smooth face and, hmm, look like an evil choir boy.
00:42:14Just imagination.
00:42:15Pop, I've got a theory.
00:42:17Choir, please.
00:42:18Tell me exactly what you do.
00:42:21At 8.20, just like the warden told me, I pushed the switch and electrocuted red Maddox.
00:42:29Where is warden now?
00:42:32I don't know.
00:42:34He went out that way.
00:42:36There is no warden.
00:42:41May examine Rome, please?
00:42:44Certainly.
00:42:48Pop, listen.
00:42:50Like busy mosquito, offspring keep chasing parents.
00:42:54Why?
00:42:54Well, there's something I've got to tell you.
00:42:56None of those people in there are guilty.
00:42:58There's another man in this building.
00:42:59You see him?
00:43:00Yeah.
00:43:01He disappeared into that cell.
00:43:03And then when I looked, he wasn't there.
00:43:08I swear he came in here.
00:43:11This gentleman, you observed?
00:43:13No, it was a man.
00:43:14And there was a dummy in here with its head all bandaged up.
00:43:17Right here where I'm standing.
00:43:19And now it's gone, too.
00:43:21Bandaged dummy part of exhibit?
00:43:24Oh, yes.
00:43:24It must have been changed temporarily.
00:43:26Shall we move on?
00:43:28One moment, please.
00:43:30Marks on floor indicate prison bed moved.
00:43:34That.
00:43:36A trap door.
00:43:37Oh, just a storeroom.
00:43:39If storeroom innocent will apologize.
00:43:43Lead way, please.
00:43:47Yes.
00:43:58This gentleman is my workshop, my studio.
00:44:01Here I create in wax the photographic likeness of famous criminals.
00:44:05My work, purely educational.
00:44:07Endorsed by schools and colleges.
00:44:10My theme is crime does not pay.
00:44:12The end of the evil trail is prison or death.
00:44:15Please.
00:44:16Please.
00:44:19Sculpture was my hobby.
00:44:20It is now my profession.
00:44:22There is an artist in everyone if you look for him.
00:44:25Don't you agree with me, Mr. Chan?
00:44:31I do that when I'm nervous.
00:44:33Tearing pieces of paper, you know.
00:44:36Exact duplicate of Steve McBurney's signature.
00:44:39First observed in courtroom.
00:44:42Nonsense.
00:44:43I don't even know McBurney.
00:44:46Say, Popper, I'll be...
00:44:48Hey!
00:44:50A hidden room.
00:44:54Oh, boy!
00:44:56I don't know.
00:44:56Doctor.
00:45:02Most interesting.
00:45:04This where you operate on your dummies, Dr. Cream?
00:45:06No.
00:45:06This is surgical birthplace of new faces.
00:45:09But, Mr. Chan...
00:45:10Evidence betrays museum to be hideout for hunted criminals...
00:45:13...who change faces to cheat law.
00:45:15So they could carry on the rackets.
00:45:17Pop, you've discovered a big thing.
00:45:18Now I understand why Miss Latimer cut wires to chair.
00:45:22She did not want murder to expose museum's most profitable business.
00:45:27One moment.
00:45:28You answer telephone.
00:45:33Hello?
00:45:34What is it?
00:45:35Hello.
00:45:35Give me Walker.
00:45:36Then give me the city desk.
00:45:39What?
00:45:40Who?
00:45:42Jimmy Chan.
00:45:43Uh-huh.
00:45:44You're talking to the seller.
00:45:46Oh, Pop!
00:45:49Miss Bolton.
00:45:50She dialed her office and got me.
00:45:57Telephone obviously operated upon so outside world cannot be reached.
00:46:01Then I didn't talk to the police.
00:46:03They're not coming.
00:46:04McBurney.
00:46:05He didn't tell me about that phone.
00:46:08And now they know that Van Brom died instead of you.
00:46:11Here's where I settle with Chan.
00:46:14I thought they'd gone.
00:46:16That was the plan.
00:46:17But if they know that you're alive, well, then they're still here.
00:46:20And they'll kill you and they'll kill me.
00:46:22Like they killed Dr. Von Brom.
00:46:23Correction, please.
00:46:25Criminologist not killed by McBurney.
00:46:28Murderer was Butcher Dagon.
00:46:30Dagon?
00:46:31How do you mean?
00:46:32Three clues spell Dagon.
00:46:35Quill toothpick, bamboo dart, and poison called Tonga.
00:46:40Get that Chinaman before he gets us.
00:46:42No.
00:46:42First we let him spot Dagon.
00:46:44Then we get them both.
00:46:45Dagon send another man to meet McBurney's bullets.
00:46:49Officially dead, Dagon vanish into new identity until recognized tonight by Dr. Von Brom.
00:46:57And threat of exposure cost criminologist his life.
00:47:00Dagon kill to prevent exposure of new face.
00:47:05Dr. Cream?
00:47:08Which one Dagon?
00:47:09I tell you, I don't know.
00:47:12With the new face, he could be a woman.
00:47:14I mean, posing as a woman.
00:47:15You give to Butcher Dagon living disguise.
00:47:18Dr. Cream.
00:47:20Doctor, you've got to tell us who Dagon is.
00:47:22I'm afraid I can't help you.
00:47:23I never met Dagon.
00:47:24You're covering up.
00:47:26Mr. Chan knows what he's talking about.
00:47:27We're all in danger here with the killer loose.
00:47:29Mr. Agnew quite right.
00:47:30We'll send offspring outside a building immediately to telephone police.
00:47:35Okay, Pop.
00:47:51Mr. Agnew, you will please lock front door after Son's departure.
00:47:55Very well.
00:47:56If you'll excuse me, I have something to attend to.
00:47:58Oh, no, you don't.
00:47:59Why, let me go.
00:48:00Try to make a getaway, huh?
00:48:03Now, how you make getaway to summon police?
00:48:06Oh, gee, Pop, I forgot.
00:48:09Where's the key?
00:48:10I don't know, you idiot.
00:48:13Perhaps radio control box connected by telephone to broadcast studio will summon police.
00:48:19Right.
00:48:20I never thought of that.
00:48:22Edwards, put me through to the studio.
00:48:23No connection.
00:48:25They signed us off.
00:48:26Say, Pop, when I was in the lobby, that...
00:48:27There's always too many theories.
00:48:30Let no one leave this room.
00:48:32We'll try to fix office telephone.
00:48:45Don't try another double cross.
00:48:47What'd you say?
00:48:48Oh, I said it looks as though you're the boss.
00:48:51Oh.
00:48:54Didn't sound that way to me.
00:48:56Mr. Lane, why were you spying on Mr. Agnew and Mr. Chen?
00:49:00Spying?
00:49:01What's this?
00:49:02I want to know what's going on.
00:49:04You see, I came here to prevent a murder.
00:49:07Dr. Von Braun's murder.
00:49:08What?
00:49:09Who wanted to kill him?
00:49:10My client, Mrs. Rock.
00:49:12The death of her husband left her embittered.
00:49:14She believed that Von Braun persecuted Joe Rock to make his evidence stick.
00:49:18Tonight at her apartment, she threatened to shoot Von Braun if he wouldn't exonerate her husband.
00:49:22I begged her to let me handle the matter, but she lost her temper and ran out with a gun.
00:49:28That's why I came here.
00:49:31And now I'm convinced that she couldn't have killed Von Braun.
00:49:35Mrs. Rock, is this true?
00:49:37Do you know this man?
00:49:42Then he isn't your lawyer.
00:49:47She's under a very great emotional strain.
00:49:52I think Mr. Chen should know about this.
00:49:55That's your business.
00:49:58Who did that?
00:49:59Put those lights on!
00:49:59Don't move.
00:50:00There's a killer among us.
00:50:01I hope this isn't somebody's idea of a joke.
00:50:03Where's the light switch?
00:50:13Please, Inspector O'Matthews?
00:50:16Yes.
00:50:17Telephone field much better.
00:50:19Desire Inspector at once.
00:50:23Regret to report murder at Museum of Crime.
00:50:26Killer Butcher Dagan still in building.
00:50:29Witnesses to crime in great danger.
00:50:34Why doesn't someone speak?
00:50:36Tom!
00:50:37Mr. Lane!
00:50:39Maybe Dagan's sneaking up on us.
00:50:43Somebody just touched me.
00:50:45I did.
00:50:46How many times do I have to ask?
00:50:48Where's the light switch?
00:50:49The corridor on the right.
00:50:53Oh, sorry.
00:51:00What's going on here?
00:51:02Which one of you put those lights out?
00:51:05Hey!
00:51:07Where's Dr. Cream?
00:51:08I knew I had the right man.
00:51:10He got away in the dark.
00:51:12You!
00:51:12You work with him.
00:51:14You put the lights out for his getaway.
00:51:15Prove it!
00:51:16Pop!
00:51:17Pop!
00:51:19Pop!
00:51:23Pop!
00:51:29Pop!
00:51:32Pop!
00:51:35Pop!
00:51:37Why no killer use other door?
00:51:39Well, Mary was outside this door and no one could come in this way.
00:51:44Gee, Pop, it's really you.
00:51:50For a minute I thought that...
00:51:52Filial grief, honorable music to ancient heart.
00:51:56I get it. You set a trap to catch the killer.
00:51:59I'm most grateful to Wax Twin for deceiving same,
00:52:02but knife thrower escape in darkness.
00:52:04Oh, the knife?
00:52:05No, do not touch. Fingerprints may have message.
00:52:11Oh, Dr. Cream, he's gone.
00:52:13Do likewise. Go for police.
00:52:16Each moment of delay dangerous to all here.
00:52:22I'll have a general alarm sent out for Dr. Cream.
00:52:24He's Dagan. I got it all figured out.
00:52:27There wasn't any Dr. Cream.
00:52:28Dagan killed him and had somebody give him Cream's face.
00:52:31He wouldn't run away if he wasn't guilty.
00:52:33Unless Dr. desired to escape offspring's theories.
00:52:38And there was something else.
00:52:39Just before the lights went out, I saw.
00:52:42Sometimes better to see and not tell.
00:52:45Dr. Von Broom proved that.
00:52:47Once more, hurry for police.
00:52:49Okay, Pop. I won't let you down this time.
00:52:51Please.
00:52:53Everyone assume position held before darkness came.
00:52:57All right.
00:52:58Let's go.
00:52:59Let's go.
00:53:01Let's go.
00:53:14Let's go.
00:53:26Let's go.
00:53:33Let's go.
00:53:34Oh, Pop!
00:53:35Oh, Pop!
00:53:36Where is he?
00:53:41Pop!
00:53:44The bandaged dummy I saw!
00:53:46He's dead!
00:53:48Who is it?
00:53:49Removal of bandages necessary for identification.
00:53:56What happened?
00:53:58He's all right.
00:53:59Oh, that bandaged dummy.
00:54:01It was a man.
00:54:03He's dead.
00:54:06Face touched nothing.
00:54:08Fingerprints will prove dead man was Steve McBurney.
00:54:11Are you sure that was McBurney?
00:54:14Dagon strike again.
00:54:16Wound in dead man's back indicate mortal blow with knife.
00:54:24Say, what were those five criss-cross scars on the back of his neck?
00:54:27Fresh scars.
00:54:28Signature of Dr. Cream.
00:54:31Incisions made in facial surgery.
00:54:33To tighten and alter contour of face skin.
00:55:00The
00:55:00Written on the back of his neck is the real end of the twine.
00:55:08We last seen her found each other, Mr. Cream.
00:55:09A very small friend of the wry.
00:55:11I wanted to fulfill the turned red.
00:55:16We will have to subscribe to our channel.
00:55:16We can see theavis.
00:55:24Trailer King?
00:55:26Inspector, I thought you were the killer.
00:55:29Where's your dad?
00:55:37Please, Inspector, must apologize for reception committee.
00:55:42Well, that's okay, Charlie.
00:55:43When your broadcast was cut off, I figured I'd better come over and see what was going on.
00:55:48Oh, can you let my men in?
00:55:49The front door's locked.
00:55:51Jimmy.
00:55:52Say, we picked up Doc Cream outside.
00:55:55Is it true what he tells me about Von Braun?
00:55:58Quite true.
00:55:59Steve McBernie also murdered by Butcher Dagan.
00:56:03Dagan?
00:56:04Contrary to opinion, Butcher Dagan still alive.
00:56:08Dagan here?
00:56:10Which one is he? Have you spotted him yet?
00:56:13Killer will be identified when fingerprint expert arrive.
00:56:18That's right.
00:56:20Sure, Dagan's prints are on file.
00:56:22Oh, but he must have thought of that.
00:56:24But he could have changed them.
00:56:25By an operation.
00:56:27Oh, you sound like Jimmy Chan.
00:56:30Oh, no.
00:56:31I wasn't trying to escape.
00:56:32I was just going out after some help.
00:56:34You certainly tried to avoid my squad car.
00:56:37Pete, call headquarters.
00:56:38Get homicide over here.
00:56:39Burns, get on the front door.
00:56:41Nobody leaves.
00:56:43Now, Cream, which one is Dagan?
00:56:46You know, we can't protect a man who won't name his enemy.
00:56:49Well, perhaps the doctor doesn't consider Dagan his enemy.
00:56:52I swear I don't know him, and I never did know him.
00:56:55Please suggest others remain here.
00:56:57You come with me.
00:56:58Mike, go in that back room and see that no one gets out of that window.
00:57:02Casey, you come with us.
00:57:09Now, what do you see just before lights go off?
00:57:12Mr. Lane, he made a funny move towards that wall.
00:57:15Then lights go off?
00:57:16Yeah.
00:57:18Yeah.
00:57:19Yeah.
00:57:36Observe, please.
00:57:37Secret light switch concealed in door to cure your case.
00:57:41I get it.
00:57:42Lane plunged us into darkness and grabbed a knife from here.
00:57:45See, it's missing.
00:57:46Say, Charlie, if Lane is Dagan, why didn't he try a getaway?
00:57:49Killer evidently made an attempt to escape in moments of darkness,
00:57:53but met obstacle up front door, which I had previously locked.
00:57:58Then he saw McBurney and knifed him.
00:58:00Correct.
00:58:01Cream knows who Dagan is.
00:58:03Why won't he talk?
00:58:04Fear is cruel padlock.
00:58:06Well, we'll get him with fingerprints.
00:58:08He can't get out of here.
00:58:10Hurt!
00:58:16Hey, come out of there.
00:58:19Please.
00:58:21We've got Dagan.
00:58:23Contradiction, please.
00:58:25Prisoner is Grenach, bodyguard to Steve McBurney.
00:58:28Don't let Dagan get me.
00:58:29He killed Mac, and now he wants me.
00:58:31If you're McBurney's man, you know Dagan.
00:58:32Where is he?
00:58:33I don't know.
00:58:34We were waiting for Chandler to spot him.
00:58:36There.
00:58:37She's Dagan.
00:58:39Why, I thought he was Dagan.
00:58:42Dr. Cream's surgery, not create Mrs. Rock.
00:58:45Take him out.
00:58:47You came here to kill Dr. Von Braun.
00:58:49No, only to confront him.
00:58:51To beg him to reconsider the evidence that convicted my husband.
00:58:54He would never see me.
00:58:56Say, Pop, she doesn't sound insane.
00:58:59I had to pretend that after I guessed the way you did,
00:59:02that Dagan was here.
00:59:04I wanted to stay, to revenge Joe.
00:59:07No weapon in handbag earlier.
00:59:10When the lights went out during the broadcast,
00:59:11I was suddenly afraid, so I hid the gun.
00:59:14I didn't want it found on me.
00:59:15But now you use sin.
00:59:17Yes, and no jury would convict me for killing Dagan.
00:59:21He framed my husband, sent him to the gallows.
00:59:24Mock insanity, not always safe alibi.
00:59:27Mrs. Rock, how did you get into this museum?
00:59:30The watchman feels sorry for me.
00:59:32He thinks I come here to talk to my husband.
00:59:35I'm sure he didn't throw the knife at Mr. Chan.
00:59:39I'm also positive.
00:59:41Say, Pop, Dagan must have McBernie's gun.
00:59:44I don't see why he doesn't shoot his way out.
00:59:46May be contemplating same, if unable to remain invisible.
00:59:51Or may strike from darkness with blowgun.
00:59:56Please, hold valuable evidence.
00:59:59Antidote for tunga, poison used on bamboo dart.
01:00:03Where did you get it?
01:00:04From Dr. Cream's office.
01:00:07Observe.
01:00:08Duplicate of blowgun used by Butcher Dagan.
01:00:12That's a toothpick from the automat.
01:00:14Yes.
01:00:14Are you trying to tell me that Von Braun was killed with a toothpick?
01:00:17No.
01:00:18Small bamboo dart containing original poison.
01:00:23Dagan blew it into the doctor's neck.
01:00:25A mere scratch is fatal.
01:00:27Ah, that's silly.
01:00:28I don't believe it.
01:00:29Go on, Pop.
01:00:29Show him.
01:00:31Son, read Perrin's thought.
01:00:39Tom Agnew!
01:00:40You fool!
01:00:41Give me that, Agnew!
01:00:42Don't waste time.
01:00:43This is quick!
01:00:43You killed Dr. Von Braun.
01:00:45Yes.
01:00:45Also Steve McBernie.
01:00:46Yes, I had to.
01:00:47You framed Joe Rock, innocent man.
01:00:49Yes, yes, but hurry!
01:00:50Give me that stuff!
01:00:50Dart only broken matchstick.
01:00:53Original needle of death still in pocket.
01:00:56Your prisoner.
01:00:58Casey.
01:01:00Take him out.
01:01:02My boss.
01:01:04Club me with a feather.
01:01:08Mr. Chan, you've cleared my husband's name.
01:01:12I'm deeply grateful.
01:01:13How can I ever thank you?
01:01:15Justice, like virtue, brings its own reward.
01:01:21Well, Mr. Chan, you win the radio debate.
01:01:23You solved the rock case, all right.
01:01:25Charlie, how long have you known this?
01:01:26Knowledge short.
01:01:28Suspicion long.
01:01:29I might have known.
01:01:31Any other radio man would have stayed on the air to broadcast Von Braun's murder.
01:01:35Small nose for news in radio man.
01:01:38First aroma of suspicion.
01:01:40You knew he was there all the time?
01:01:42Hiding place discovered when Mike's figure suddenly developed tell-tale scars on back of neck,
01:01:48like Steve McBernie.
01:01:49Gee, McBernie gave you the clue to spot Dagan.
01:01:52And we might have cleared out of here and left him to a clean getaway.
01:01:55What about Dr. Cream?
01:01:56No, he'll get five years for lifting Muggs' maps.
01:02:02Supper?
01:02:03I've got a whale of a story to phone.
01:02:05Well, after you phone, then.
01:02:07Mr. Lane, I'm awfully sorry I suspected you.
01:02:10Oh, that's all right.
01:02:11Forget it.
01:02:12It kept me on Mary's mind.
01:02:16Hey!
01:02:19I've been watching you.
01:02:21You can't get away with museum property.
01:02:23Mary, let that be a lesson to you.
01:02:27Yes, sir.
01:02:32Say, Pop, what was Dr. Cream doing with an antidote for blowgun poison?
01:02:37That was a bluff, Jimmy.
01:02:38Just a bottle of toothache painkiller.
01:02:40Boy, you sure pulled the fast one.
01:02:44I'm getting sick and tired of all these dummies around here.
01:02:48Ah!
01:02:49Ha!
01:02:50Ha!
01:02:50Ha!
01:02:51Ha!
01:02:52Ha!
01:02:53Ha!
01:02:59Ha!
01:03:00Ha!
01:03:08THE END
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