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David Harding Counterspy
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00:00:00The End
00:00:41There are many historic old houses in Washington, D.C., the names of which figure constantly in the news.
00:00:49But for years, this one has been deliberately cloaked in obscurity.
00:00:53Day and night, an armed guard sees to it that no one enters or leaves without proper identification.
00:01:00The men and women who carry such identification are few and scattered through every corner of the world.
00:01:07They call this place headquarters.
00:01:10They take their orders from David Harding, counter-spy.
00:01:17A man dedicated in service to the defense of the nation against its enemies, at home and abroad.
00:01:32Kingston's on the air, Mr. Harding. He'll get to us in a few seconds.
00:01:35I've lit something, Peters, besides my pipe.
00:01:45And now your Washington correspondent comes to something so choice, ladies and gentlemen,
00:01:50that I can visualize a certain bemustached dictator licking his lips with the relish of anticipation.
00:01:57Yesterday, at the Institute of Special Studies, certain research was stolen dealing with nuclear fission.
00:02:05It contained the basic elements of every improvement our scientists have made on our original atomic discoveries.
00:02:13Think of it. At this very minute, scientists of a foreign nation may be reaping the benefits of our atomic
00:02:21research.
00:02:22Ladies and gentlemen, we have the right to demand that proper steps be taken to protect the work of our
00:02:29scientists
00:02:29from the espionage of foreign powers.
00:02:33Is this a Cold War?
00:02:34A hot war?
00:02:36Or merely a stupid war?
00:02:38The stupidity initialed with a capital S for our own Uncle Sam.
00:02:43And now...
00:02:45Did you make arrangements to pick him up?
00:02:47He's already picked.
00:03:12Mysterious house.
00:03:15Armed guards.
00:03:16The dead of night.
00:03:17The dead of night.
00:03:18I suppose I ought to take my last look at this world as I knew it.
00:03:20After you, Mr. Kingston.
00:03:25I'll be late, honey.
00:03:28We're just leaving sandwiches in the icebox.
00:03:30Oh, I don't care.
00:03:31Ham on rye.
00:03:32Or I'll even settle for salami.
00:03:35All right.
00:03:36If you'll take this one call, Mr. Harding, it's Latimer at Le Bourget.
00:03:39Okay.
00:03:40Then give me ten minutes with Mr. Kingston.
00:03:42Sit down, Kingston.
00:03:43You'll find whiskey in that cabin.
00:03:44A condemned man got treated in style, eh, Harding?
00:03:47Glad I caught you, Latimer.
00:03:49You can skip Madrid.
00:03:50I want you to go directly to Algiers.
00:03:52There, our man and the travel agency will have a complete report on yesterday's theft of certain information from the
00:03:57Institute of Special Studies.
00:03:59That information must be in the hands of Agent Y in Samarkand late this week.
00:04:03Everything depends upon it.
00:04:05It's the final and most important step in a plan we've been formulating for nearly a year.
00:04:09Yes.
00:04:10Life and death.
00:04:12Right.
00:04:13Good whiskey, Harding.
00:04:15Well, shall we get on with the hanging?
00:04:17Shouldn't there not be just about, uh, here?
00:04:21I brought you here to apologize, Kingston.
00:04:23Why should I apologize?
00:04:24For what?
00:04:26You misunderstand.
00:04:27I want to apologize to you.
00:04:29It's about that janitor at the Institute who told you that story you broadcast tonight.
00:04:33I promised that man protection. He's not to be brought into this.
00:04:36Okay, maybe this will simplify things.
00:04:44Let's see the janitor.
00:04:50Mr. Kingston, meet the janitor.
00:04:52I've been very sorry, Mr. Kingston.
00:04:54Next time the Smurgasbur will be on Ole Olsen.
00:05:01He was working on orders, Kingston.
00:05:03I should have introduced you fondly.
00:05:05He's Frank Reynolds, one of my assistants.
00:05:07I like this very much.
00:05:09I like every bit of it.
00:05:11We couldn't have taken you in on it.
00:05:12Your story wouldn't have rung true.
00:05:14If I've been sold a bill of goods...
00:05:16That's entirely unimportant.
00:05:17What is important is that phone call.
00:05:19Latimer to get to Samarkand, so an agent of mine will be in possession of certain facts.
00:05:23All right, give it all to me.
00:05:24I've got a right to know.
00:05:26Start the story from the beginning.
00:05:28Sorry, not until I have an ending.
00:05:31However, I'll give you a similar story, and you can yap your head off about it if you want to.
00:05:35Sit down.
00:05:39From the secret files of David Harding Counterspy.
00:05:43That's me, Kingston.
00:05:45I want you to hear this so you'll know how we work and why you must be patient.
00:05:49The year was 1943.
00:05:51The place was Molino.
00:05:54That's where the Navy made torpedoes for our submarines.
00:05:57Pretty peaceful, you'd say.
00:05:59But the same war was raging there that was being fought elsewhere on land and sea.
00:06:04Not so openly at Molino, but equally for keeps.
00:06:08We'd already contacted Commander Phil Iverson, naval observer at the Molino plant,
00:06:13to tell him that there was sabotage there.
00:06:16That was June 16th, the last day Phil Iverson was seen alive.
00:06:23Betty Iverson, Phil's wife, was an employee at the Molino plants.
00:06:27She'd been away, Los Angeles, on a shopping spree.
00:06:30She returned on the 17th.
00:06:32She'd phoned the plant and they'd told her that Phil hadn't turned up that day.
00:06:36So she figured he'd taken the day off for some well-deserved rest.
00:06:46She hurried on up to the apartment.
00:06:49The door was locked.
00:06:51Reaching for the key, she smelled something burning.
00:06:53In a panic, she managed to unlock the door.
00:06:56The room was airless, thick with suffocating smoke.
00:07:04Phil was lying on the bed, motionless.
00:07:07Betty tried to drag him outside.
00:07:09The smoke pouring out into the hall brought the neighbors.
00:07:12One of them helped get Phil out of the apartment.
00:07:14Others put in a call for an ambulance.
00:07:17But it was too late.
00:07:20Accidental death by asphyxiation.
00:07:22Small ring fire started by a cigarette.
00:07:25That was the verdict to the coroner's jury.
00:07:28Only it wasn't an accident.
00:07:31It was deliberate murder.
00:07:35How did you know it was murder?
00:07:37I'll get to that.
00:07:38We were fighting the clock.
00:07:40Our torpedoes had to be right for the Navy's big push to Tokyo.
00:07:43Every minute counted.
00:07:45We dug up everything we could on Iverson.
00:07:48His personal story was very interesting.
00:07:50Led us all the way to Honolulu and to his best friend.
00:07:52His classmate in Annapolis.
00:07:55Commander Jerry Baldwin.
00:07:57We held a conference with top Navy brass.
00:07:59And before young Commander Baldwin knew how or why,
00:08:02he was traveling back to the States with a top priority rating.
00:08:05Under secret orders to report to me without delay.
00:08:13I soon learned, however, that he was tough, stubborn and egotistic.
00:08:18Tell us by.
00:08:19Sounds like a job watching shoplifters in a department store.
00:08:22This is all very funny, Mr. Hardy.
00:08:24But if so happens, you've hit right into the heart of my personal life.
00:08:26I love Betty Iverson. For that matter, I still do.
00:08:29And you lost her to your best friend.
00:08:31What did you say if I told you Phil Iverson was murdered?
00:08:34Phil Iverson murdered?
00:08:36Does Betty know?
00:08:37The verdict of the coroner's jury was accepted by everyone.
00:08:40But me.
00:08:42I say you should take the job.
00:08:44If only to snap the girl out of the mental state she's been in since the death of her husband.
00:08:48Don't you think Phil Iverson would have done as much for you?
00:08:51But I'm a submarine, man. A torpedo expert.
00:08:53Torpedo expert.
00:08:54Too many of our fighting men are waiting for us to send the torpedoes that'll do the job they were
00:08:58designed to do.
00:08:59Phil Iverson learned something while working at Molino.
00:09:02Something he would have told us if he hadn't been murdered.
00:09:04You're gonna take his place and find out what that something was.
00:09:07Yeah. Perhaps wind up as he did.
00:09:09Perhaps.
00:09:10Now if you still don't want the job, say so and we'll send you back to Pearl.
00:09:13I'll get somebody else to do it.
00:09:15I'll go to Molino.
00:09:16Good.
00:09:18Via Los Angeles and Betty Iverson.
00:09:21During the next hour, Peters will brief you on what you do, say and think for the next 30 days.
00:09:27I don't think I'm gonna like you, Mr. Harley.
00:09:30My boy, you'll find very few human beings who do.
00:09:46So what if we gambled the life of one young man?
00:09:49We were gambling with human lives.
00:09:53At that very moment, other boys as personable as Jerry Baldwin were being ordered out on night machine gun attacks.
00:09:59There was no difference.
00:10:01For Jerry Baldwin too would be fighting in the dark.
00:10:13If I hadn't gotten your wire, I'd be in Mexico City.
00:10:16I know you can't really run away from things, Jerry, but I've been trying.
00:10:21Tell me about you.
00:10:22I thought you were in the South Pacific with a native girl on each knee.
00:10:26Well, it isn't like that in the South Pacific, Betty, I'm sorry to say.
00:10:29But don't get the idea...
00:10:30Don't say it, Jerry.
00:10:32I gave you a pretty rough deal, didn't I?
00:10:35I'm sorry.
00:10:37But you still haven't told me what you're doing stateside.
00:10:40I'm going to Molino.
00:10:41I'm taking over Phil's old job.
00:10:43Jerry.
00:10:44Well, what's so surprising about that?
00:10:46Ordnance qualifications identical, ever since the Annapolis days.
00:10:49Betty, I'm gonna need help on Molino.
00:10:52You were Phil's secretary.
00:10:54And who can I trust as I can trust you?
00:10:57No, Jerry, I couldn't do it.
00:10:59You didn't know Terry Brantley.
00:11:01He was a classmate of Phil's of mine.
00:11:03He went down with the Arizona.
00:11:05The same morning that his wife gave birth to a baby boy,
00:11:08who died exactly five minutes later.
00:11:11One week later, Mary Brantley applied for a job
00:11:14at a Douglas aircraft in Santa Monica and got it.
00:11:17She's still there making plane parts.
00:11:20I've always admired Mary Brantley.
00:11:23In other words, I'm a coward.
00:11:28Could it be that you still like me, Commander?
00:11:31Like is a mild word.
00:11:32I'm not exactly a mild guy.
00:11:35I loved you since the day Phil first set eyes on you.
00:11:39Jerry, I...
00:11:41All right, the subject is closed.
00:11:42You're going to Mexico and I'm going to Molino.
00:11:45But don't think I'll wind up the way Phil did.
00:11:49Jerry, what are you driving at?
00:11:52Oh, nothing except that one of the first things you learn
00:11:54when you go to sea is that you don't smoke in the sack.
00:11:58Are you trying to tell me that Phil's death was no accident?
00:12:02All I said now is that I was going to Molino.
00:12:10When do we leave?
00:12:13There it was.
00:12:14The Molino torpedo plant.
00:12:16Where we were losing a battle comparable to our first reverses in Africa.
00:12:20Every day lost was a feather in Hitler's war bonnet.
00:12:23And at the moment he was wearing the headdress of an Apache chief.
00:12:26It was a vast plant, the Molino installation.
00:12:29With complicated personnel problems consuming thousands of man hours.
00:12:34Robert Barrington was in charge of that department.
00:12:37A day and night worker on a day and night job.
00:12:41For every soul at Molino had to stand the test of loyalty.
00:12:44Their personal histories had to check.
00:12:46You know what one bad apple can do to a barrel.
00:12:50Every worker at Molino was required to take a physical.
00:12:53So health was a problem of Dr. George Vickers,
00:12:57who'd given up a lucrative private practice in Seattle
00:13:00to do his share for the war effort.
00:13:02The only pharmacy in town that can fill that prescription
00:13:04is the ABC on Carson Street.
00:13:09Well, who's next, nurse?
00:13:10Mrs. Iverson, doctor.
00:13:12Why, if it isn't Mrs. Iverson.
00:13:14I heard you were back, my dear.
00:13:15I'm with 10 million flu germs, doctor.
00:13:18Well, come in. I'm glad to see you, Betty.
00:13:21Name, please.
00:13:22R-E-L Schiller, draftsman.
00:13:25No, R. R-E-L.
00:13:28That stands for Robert E. Lee.
00:13:30I'm a transfer from the Duval plant in Fort Worth.
00:13:33My home is in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
00:13:37I'm a southerner, ma'am.
00:13:40You'd never guess it.
00:13:43No, commander.
00:13:44All sketches of new designs clear through me.
00:13:46The ones that have anything, I forward along this line to OSRD.
00:13:50Oh, Office of Scientific Research and Development.
00:13:52That's right.
00:13:53Well, hello, Mrs. Iverson.
00:13:55Hello, Mr. Hopkins.
00:14:00That'll be all, Hopkins.
00:14:01We'll get together tomorrow.
00:14:02Okay.
00:14:05Oh, Hopkins, give me a hand, will you?
00:14:07I'd like to move this desk.
00:14:09Sure thing. Where do you want?
00:14:10Over there.
00:14:16All right.
00:14:16Right.
00:14:17Just put it over here.
00:14:20Put the couch down there.
00:14:21Okay.
00:14:25It's all right.
00:14:30How's that, commander? More to your taste?
00:14:32That's fine, Hopkins. Thanks again.
00:14:34Okay, commander.
00:14:35Goodbye, Mrs. Iverson.
00:14:36Goodbye, Mr. Hopkins.
00:14:38Jerry.
00:14:39Jerry, what's the idea of the desk moving routine?
00:14:42I'll skip it.
00:14:43Here's your book.
00:14:45I've got a report to write on acoustic problems and compressible fluids.
00:14:48Ready, Mrs. Iverson?
00:14:50Jerry.
00:14:51Jerry, what is this about the desk?
00:14:53It has something to do with me and I know it.
00:14:57Okay.
00:14:59I could see it in your eyes.
00:15:02He looks just like Phil sitting there on that desk.
00:15:05That's what you were saying.
00:15:07It was written all over your face.
00:15:10I love Phil.
00:15:11I wish he was sitting there where that sap is.
00:15:14Now, are we going to get the work off?
00:15:17What does the doctor say?
00:15:19Well, a little temperature, a sore throat.
00:15:22Nothing serious.
00:15:23Then you better go home.
00:15:24I can call Steno and get another girl to help me today.
00:15:26Oh, no.
00:15:27The name is Mary Brantley.
00:15:29She can make plain parts.
00:15:30I can take shorthand.
00:15:32Okay, Mary Brantley.
00:15:34Commander Baldwin to OSRD.
00:15:37Report 44.
00:15:39Subject, order 3002.
00:15:41Molino installations begin study at once of rotating channels of water as in passing the blaze of a propeller or
00:15:46impeller.
00:15:47Object to learn exactly the way a fluid operates in the turbulence of being driven.
00:15:57Yeah.
00:15:57I'm sorry, Betty.
00:15:58You know I love you.
00:16:00But this is the last time I'll ever mention it.
00:16:03If the subject is ever brought up again, you'll have to do the bringing.
00:16:07I'll remember that, Jerry.
00:16:10Object to learn exactly how a fluid operates in the turbulence of being driven.
00:16:14Yeah.
00:16:16Well, get him back to the Molino installation.
00:16:37Will Iverson's widow out with every Tom, Dick and Jerry.
00:16:40That's what they're saying.
00:16:41And what are you saying, Commander?
00:16:42Life is a jest and all things show it.
00:16:45I thought so once, but now I know it.
00:16:48The Epitop of John Gay, written by himself.
00:16:511685, 1732, English poet.
00:16:53Jerry, you're an idiot.
00:17:07Something wrong, Jerry?
00:17:09Oh, nothing, honey.
00:17:10I have a thirst either even a camel might envy.
00:17:13You get such a strange look on your face every now and then.
00:17:17It's Baldwin the thinker.
00:17:18Come on, Betty, I'm thirsty.
00:17:24Oh, hello, Mrs. Iverson.
00:17:26I thought you were interested in getting a temperature down, not up.
00:17:29Well, what are you to do when the Navy orders, Doctor?
00:17:32Have you met Commander Baldwin, Dr. Vickers?
00:17:34No, and from the looks of him, I'm not liable so professionally.
00:17:38How do you do, Doctor? How about a drink?
00:17:39No, thank you.
00:17:40My motto is, sleep ye in the shade of the vine, but partake ye not of his juice.
00:17:46Thanks. Just the same, Commander.
00:17:47Good night.
00:17:48See you later, Doctor.
00:17:49Good night.
00:17:58Too old-fashioned, please.
00:18:00Oh, and, uh, throw away your eyedropper this time, will you?
00:18:02No one else is complaining about the amount of whiskey I put in my drinks.
00:18:05Oh, I'm not complaining about the amount of whiskey you put in your drinks.
00:18:08I'm complaining about the amount of whiskey you put in my drinks.
00:18:10The Navy.
00:18:22How's that one, Admiral? Strong enough for you?
00:18:27Thanks for the promotion.
00:18:29They still say, as a bartender, you serve fine colored water.
00:18:33Come on, Betty.
00:18:54Come on.
00:18:56Extra! Extra!
00:18:57Navy loses big ship off the Solomons!
00:19:00Cruiser Helena goes down! Extra!
00:19:03You want a paper, Jerry?
00:19:05She'll paper, Betty.
00:19:07Extra! Extra!
00:19:08Cruiser!
00:19:08Cruiser goes down!
00:19:10Extra!
00:19:12Baldi Jones was navigating officer the Helena.
00:19:16He was in our class, too.
00:19:32Would you like to come in for a minute, Jerry?
00:19:34No thanks, Sonny G.
00:19:36I'd love to, but I'm afraid to be alone with you on a night like this.
00:19:39Well, I just couldn't control myself.
00:19:42That's awful big of you, Jerry.
00:19:43You know, in some ways, I like you a lot.
00:19:47Good night, Betty.
00:19:48Good night, Jerry.
00:20:06What?
00:20:33Oh, officer.
00:20:34Yes, commander.
00:20:34There's a drunken beggar back there.
00:20:36I think he's passed out by now, but he should be locked up.
00:20:38Oh, uh, is there any law and order, Melino?
00:20:40I'll take care of him, commander.
00:21:02Well, good evening, gentlemen.
00:21:04I, uh, can't say this is entirely unexpected,
00:21:06what with the, uh, shortage of sleeping combinations due to the war.
00:21:09However, I...
00:21:10Shut up and get moving.
00:21:11Oh, sure, sure.
00:21:15After you, gentlemen?
00:21:16After you, champ.
00:21:17None of that rough stuff you pull on Edwards.
00:21:19Oh, uh, friends of the drunken beggar, huh?
00:21:22Well, it looks like I'm in for it, doesn't it?
00:21:31A laundry truck, huh?
00:21:33Well, I suppose it's better than being taken to the cleaners.
00:21:37Say, as, uh, one old laundromant to another,
00:21:39couldn't we, uh, mine this out peacefully?
00:21:41Shut up.
00:21:41No gopher sauce, huh?
00:21:43Rough dry as a Bower Alley, Baldwin.
00:21:44Come on.
00:21:45Well, at least you know my name if I ever lose the shirt.
00:22:07There's a door, go on in.
00:22:09Yeah, the next stop, the mango.
00:22:11Any rates for dying?
00:22:19In there.
00:22:24They said in there.
00:22:30Turn the lights on.
00:22:35Walron,
00:22:37will you please tell me what you're trying to do?
00:22:40Annihilate my entire field staff?
00:22:42Oh, so these caricatures work for you.
00:22:45Why don't they identify themselves?
00:22:46I'm easy to approach.
00:22:48Now, wait a minute, Baldwin.
00:22:49Edwards here is part of my outfit.
00:22:50We were giving you protection, that's all.
00:22:52Protection for me?
00:22:53Who's protecting Edwards?
00:22:55Ever since I came to Molino,
00:22:56I've been doing the job I'm supposed to do.
00:22:58When anyone starts throwing mystery at me,
00:22:59I start throwing punches.
00:23:00Take it easy.
00:23:01I'm surprised you got you away from the Navy
00:23:03as easily as I did.
00:23:04I must be prolonging the war by at least 10 years.
00:23:07Introductions can wait till we eat.
00:23:09Peters, keep taking the calls.
00:23:10Yes, sir.
00:23:11This is field headquarters, Walron.
00:23:13What we're projecting on that screen
00:23:14is the result of a month's photographing
00:23:16of day-to-day activity at the Molino plant.
00:23:18We're looking for leads, understand?
00:23:20Our situation hasn't improved
00:23:22in precious mounting.
00:23:23But sit down, we can get up later.
00:23:25Let's go, Burton.
00:23:32We have 55 cameras planted about the plant.
00:23:35So far, now the thing has turned up a value.
00:23:42How are you getting along?
00:23:44I told you, just doing my job.
00:23:46Get Jimmy with Iverson's former friends.
00:23:49Go to every bar, restaurant, drugstore,
00:23:51anywhere Iverson might have gone.
00:23:59Hold it.
00:24:03Rerun that last 10 feet.
00:24:07Lip reader ready?
00:24:09Ready, sir.
00:24:10Projection ready, sir.
00:24:11Here we go.
00:24:23Got it, Brown?
00:24:24Yes, sir.
00:24:25I don't think it's exactly what we're looking for, sir.
00:24:29The fellow on the left is naming some girl
00:24:31on the assembly line.
00:24:33Says she goes for guys just like him.
00:24:35Can you get her name?
00:24:36Yes, sir.
00:24:37But he says he can't personally recommend her, sir.
00:24:41Save your humor till the war is won, Brown.
00:24:43Go ahead, run on.
00:24:56Hold it.
00:24:59Rerun that film.
00:25:07Ready, sir?
00:25:08Ready.
00:25:09Go ahead.
00:25:10Go ahead.
00:25:15Lights.
00:25:24What do you make of that draftsman?
00:25:26Who is he?
00:25:27Hopkins.
00:25:27Chief draftsman.
00:25:28Contact with OSRD.
00:25:30He evaluates new design
00:25:31before sending on worthwhile information to OSRD.
00:25:34I want to know everything about him.
00:25:36Where he came from,
00:25:37who his parents were.
00:25:40Where he came from,
00:25:44how long he's used it.
00:25:44Yes, sir.
00:25:45The plant doctor gave him a prescription today
00:25:47to be filled at the ABC pharmacy on Carson Street.
00:25:50Good boy.
00:25:52Burden,
00:25:52get a hold of that prescription.
00:25:54Substitute knockout drops.
00:25:56Give you time to examine that hearing aid.
00:25:58Telephone, Mr. Howling.
00:26:00I thought I told you to handle all calls.
00:26:01It's Washington's Navy Department.
00:26:03Oh.
00:26:05Oh.
00:26:07Oh.
00:26:08Harding speaking.
00:26:11Yes, I read about it.
00:26:12The Helena.
00:26:13Fine ship.
00:26:14I know you're depending on us.
00:26:17We've got the whole plant actually jumping with agents.
00:26:20Give me another ten days.
00:26:22I promise you I'll crack this case.
00:26:25Right.
00:26:25All right.
00:26:30Well,
00:26:32I guess you can figure out what that was.
00:26:36I want to know why the only clue after all our digging
00:26:39is a measly hearing aid that may be a camera.
00:26:42Well, it looked to me like the man just had a crick on his neck.
00:26:44But can we afford to take a chance?
00:26:47Blueprints are being altered,
00:26:48sometimes no more than a millionth of an inch,
00:26:50but enough to make the finished product effective.
00:26:52There may be dozens of enemy agents working here in Molino.
00:26:56If we can smoke out one,
00:26:57the rest will follow.
00:26:59Burton,
00:27:00follow through on that hearing aid.
00:27:02Very well, sir.
00:27:04Ten days.
00:27:07I promise to do this in ten days.
00:27:10Still no comment?
00:27:12All right, let's eat.
00:27:18You want to pour this?
00:27:19Sure.
00:27:21Ham on rye.
00:27:24And salami.
00:27:25I might as well be home.
00:27:26How's the romance going?
00:27:29Romance?
00:27:30Say, why did you bring me all the way from Honolulu, Mr. Harding?
00:27:33One reason I always wear a coat is that when I'm in my shirt sleeves,
00:27:36my cubits wings show.
00:27:41Well, there was Molino in July of 43.
00:27:44It was like a kitchen in which the cook is about to bake a cake.
00:27:46All the ingredients were there.
00:27:49Milk, eggs, flour, everything.
00:27:51It is almost ready for the mixing bowl.
00:27:53But much too early to think about what kind of frosting.
00:27:56Or even the shape we'd bake it in.
00:27:58No.
00:27:59At the moment, we were just getting the oven hot.
00:28:04The Navy was in a spot and time was running out.
00:28:08Our organization was young in those days, still on trial.
00:28:12And everything bad that could happen, happened.
00:28:15Like about a couple of them.
00:28:27Let me go.
00:28:28Let me go.
00:28:30Come on, let me go.
00:28:32What is this?
00:28:32Some bookie joined us something?
00:28:35No wonder three days in a row I get this shirt by mistake.
00:28:38I've taken a trip, saying I...
00:28:39I'll say you're taking a trip.
00:28:40Are you a resident here in Molina?
00:28:43Not a worker at the plant?
00:28:44I'm very sorry, sir.
00:28:46But for security reasons, you're going bye-bye for ten days.
00:28:49All expenses paid.
00:28:50Take care of it, Peters.
00:28:51Right this way, my friend. You're disappearing.
00:28:52I don't want to go bye-bye. I got friends in the police department.
00:28:55You'll hear about this.
00:28:56I mean, I...
00:28:58I'm sorry, Mr. Hardy. I tried to...
00:29:00Carry on.
00:29:01Yes, sir.
00:29:06Well, our crick in the neck is no crook in the dark, Mr. Hardy.
00:29:08I had to practically marry the landlady to get a room next to his.
00:29:12I thought he'd never get a sleeping pill down his gullet.
00:29:15Well, our hearing aid is a hearing aid. It ain't no camera.
00:29:19Here's Hopkins and his family tree back to the Boston Tea Party.
00:29:22If you can find the blemish, I'm Benedict Arnold.
00:29:25All right. Maybe I'm wrong.
00:29:29Now, listen.
00:29:31In the morning, we're taking over our operation at the Molino National Bank.
00:29:35We've had the plant itself put on a cash payroll basis.
00:29:37At this very moment,
00:29:39they're listing the serial numbers of every dollar
00:29:40that goes into Morris Payon moves.
00:29:43If any employee goes more often than normal
00:29:45to any laundry, movie, drugstore, shoe shop, etc.,
00:29:48we'll know it when those places bank their receipts.
00:29:52There's a contact spot somewhere in this town
00:29:53for unloading information.
00:29:55And we're going to find it.
00:29:57Maldon,
00:29:58I thought you promised your girl
00:30:00you're taking to the movies.
00:30:02Well,
00:30:04here's the report you wanted.
00:30:05What time's the showing?
00:30:061 a.m., if the lab keeps his promise.
00:30:08That's way past my bedtime, Buttercup,
00:30:10but, uh, I'll be here.
00:30:13Molino 24.
00:30:15Molino 24 calling Naval Intelligence San Diego.
00:30:19Okay, Washington, you can talk to Mr. Harden now.
00:30:24Crick in the neck, eh?
00:30:27And a home at Balboa once the war is over.
00:30:30A sailboat that two can handle.
00:30:32A shiny convertible.
00:30:33Don't forget the season football tickets
00:30:35and the opera first night.
00:30:36Two, please.
00:30:42Well, I'll tell you what I'll do.
00:30:44If I can get it right now,
00:30:45I'll settle for a box of popcorn.
00:30:48Oh, not popcorn, my pe...
00:30:51Okay.
00:30:53Could we have one box of popcorn, please?
00:30:56I don't know how anyone can eat that, Stata.
00:30:59I bet she doesn't care about a waistline.
00:31:02Oh, uh, how about the last row in the balcony?
00:31:05There, I can really function.
00:31:07Um, that's why we're sitting on the main floor.
00:31:35What's the matter?
00:31:37Drop my purse.
00:31:39Oh, you're dain.
00:31:41Give me some popcorn.
00:31:43You don't like it?
00:31:45Besides, think of your waistline.
00:31:47I want some popcorn.
00:31:49Jerry, you don't like popcorn.
00:31:51Nobody's that galloped.
00:31:52I go to thinking when I start climbing over you.
00:31:54Now, give me some popcorn.
00:31:57Jerry, it's gone.
00:31:59I had it right here on the seat beside me,
00:32:01and I can't find it.
00:32:02Gone?
00:32:03I was going to steal popcorn.
00:32:06Sit down, will you?
00:32:07Sit down, Jerry.
00:32:09This is going to be a trapeze act.
00:32:10Let's all get in it.
00:32:13Sounds like a criminal.
00:32:14I bet he took it.
00:32:15I bet he didn't.
00:32:17It was the guy that was sitting right there
00:32:18that took your popcorn.
00:32:19Now, will you shut up and look at the movie?
00:32:21Okay, friend.
00:32:22Okay, okay, okay.
00:32:31How was the movie?
00:32:33Like all the others,
00:32:34boy gets girl.
00:32:36That always happens.
00:32:37Does it?
00:32:38Oh, now, devious David Harding.
00:32:41What are you driving at?
00:32:49Hold that, Burton.
00:32:51Hold that on the screen.
00:32:56A crick in the neck, eh?
00:32:58I thought if I could rig a camera
00:33:00on the other side of this guy,
00:33:01we'd have something.
00:33:02What's his left hand doing?
00:33:04It's clicking the shutter of a camera.
00:33:06Lights!
00:33:07Turn on the lights.
00:33:12Where's Benedict Arnold?
00:33:13Here, sir.
00:33:17Traced his family tree
00:33:18all the way back
00:33:19to the Boston tea party, eh?
00:33:21I ought to get you a cup of tea
00:33:22and let you read the leaves.
00:33:23That's the kind of deduction
00:33:24you've been giving me.
00:33:26And you, Burton,
00:33:27our crick in the neck
00:33:28is no crook in the dark, eh?
00:33:30So the hearing aid
00:33:31is a hearing aid,
00:33:32not a camera.
00:33:33Sorry, Mr. Harding.
00:33:34The hearing aid you examined
00:33:36was a hearing aid, all right.
00:33:37It's the one Hopkins wears
00:33:38to and from the plant.
00:33:40But the one he wears at the plant
00:33:41works on sight,
00:33:42not sound.
00:33:43Someone at the plant
00:33:44is the go-between.
00:33:46Someone at the plant
00:33:47takes the pictures
00:33:48Hopkins makes
00:33:49and has found
00:33:50some clever way
00:33:50to deliver them
00:33:51somewhere in town.
00:33:52We've got to find
00:33:53who that go-between is.
00:33:56McCullough?
00:33:57What would you do
00:33:58if you were in my spot?
00:34:00I'd dock us all
00:34:01six months' pay.
00:34:02Oh, no, you wouldn't.
00:34:04You'd do exactly
00:34:04what I'm going to do.
00:34:05Sit tight.
00:34:06We'll do nothing
00:34:07about Hopkins for the present
00:34:08because we want
00:34:08to get them all.
00:34:10Hopkins will lead us to them.
00:34:12Keep your eyes open,
00:34:13all of you.
00:34:15Now, this is the way
00:34:16to look at things.
00:34:19We're all in the same boat.
00:34:21Until two minutes ago,
00:34:22we had no oars.
00:34:24Hopkins has given us oars.
00:34:41I'll see you later.
00:34:45Oh, sorry
00:34:45to keep you waiting, Doctor.
00:34:46Oh, I don't mind, Commander.
00:34:49I hope I'm not out of order
00:34:50in approaching you,
00:34:52but you know
00:34:52how many people
00:34:53I see every day.
00:34:54And people will tell
00:34:55things to a doctor
00:34:56that they'll tell
00:34:57to no one else.
00:34:58Oh, I'm sorry, Commander.
00:35:00I didn't know you were busy.
00:35:01Excuse me, Doctor.
00:35:01That's all right, Betty.
00:35:04Oh, I'm sorry, Doctor.
00:35:06Go on.
00:35:06Well, it's just that
00:35:07I heard there were
00:35:08espionage agents
00:35:09at work here
00:35:09that the plant
00:35:10is being investigated.
00:35:12And I thought
00:35:12if there was any way
00:35:13I could help.
00:35:14Why, just the other day
00:35:16I got me a Southerner.
00:35:17Robert E. Lee Schiller,
00:35:19no less.
00:35:19He thinks I'm the greatest
00:35:21thing since ice cream.
00:35:22He's smart.
00:35:23If I could tell him
00:35:24what to look for,
00:35:26I'd have a one-man
00:35:27counter-espionage unit
00:35:28from which I could
00:35:29promise results.
00:35:31Oh, uh, that's fine, Doctor,
00:35:33but if there's any
00:35:34espionage or counter-espionage
00:35:36in Molino,
00:35:36I know nothing of it.
00:35:39Well, maybe it's just a rumor,
00:35:40but I'll be very glad
00:35:42to do anything I can.
00:35:52Betty.
00:35:56read this over
00:35:57and see if you can make
00:35:58any sense out of it.
00:36:22How's the romance going?
00:36:24Romance?
00:36:25Say, why did you bring me
00:36:26all the way from Honolulu
00:36:27to Mr. Harding?
00:36:30It was the guy
00:36:30that was sitting right there
00:36:31that took your popcorn.
00:36:32and see if you can make
00:36:32more than before.
00:36:39Jerry, this is a wonderful
00:36:41report.
00:36:41Much better than Phil
00:36:42could have done.
00:36:44I'm sorry.
00:36:46But I haven't mentioned
00:36:47his name in ages.
00:36:48It's a good report, Jerry.
00:36:50Will you take it down
00:36:51to OSRD, and when you come
00:36:52back, we'll go over
00:36:52the Hopkins memorandum.
00:36:53Sure.
00:37:15Jerry, Jerry, that big shop
00:37:16from OSRD was going by,
00:37:18and I gave it to him
00:37:18personally.
00:37:20Jerry, what are you looking
00:37:21for?
00:37:22Oh, uh, cigarettes.
00:37:23I just ran out of them.
00:37:24Oh, help yourself.
00:37:26Hopkins gave them to me.
00:37:27He borrowed a pack
00:37:28from me last week
00:37:28and, like an honest man,
00:37:29returned them today.
00:37:31Where's this Hopkins paper?
00:37:32Find them, madam,
00:37:33and you're in a shiny
00:37:34new refrigerator.
00:37:35Give me the clue again.
00:37:38Oh.
00:37:40Here we are, Mr. Quizmaster.
00:37:43Say, have you seen
00:37:44that new girl down in...
00:37:49Jerry?
00:37:52Yeah.
00:37:54What were you looking for?
00:37:56I told you, cigarettes.
00:37:59What are these?
00:38:02Well, I'll be...
00:38:04Say, I'd better go and see
00:38:05Vickers and get my eyes
00:38:06examined.
00:38:08All set, Commander.
00:38:10The Hopkins memorandum.
00:38:18Report 2476.
00:38:19Commander Baldwin's
00:38:20Naval Ordnance.
00:38:20Subject?
00:38:23He suspects me.
00:38:25I'm through here.
00:38:26I've got to get out.
00:38:27We still have a job to do.
00:38:28Phil Iverson
00:38:29suspected you, too.
00:38:30Remember?
00:38:31But I don't want
00:38:31the same thing to happen
00:38:32to Jerry Baldwin.
00:38:33Phil meant nothing to me.
00:38:35And Jerry?
00:38:36I just want all of us
00:38:38to stay alive
00:38:38a little longer,
00:38:39that's all.
00:38:40I'm glad you said us.
00:38:43It's Jerry now.
00:38:44He said he dropped by for me.
00:38:49How much is he in love with you?
00:38:50He's had it pretty bad,
00:38:52I think.
00:38:53And what are you worried about?
00:38:55You know what to do.
00:38:57I can't.
00:38:59Sure you can.
00:39:08Get going, girl.
00:39:12And good luck.
00:39:22Jerry.
00:39:23Yeah.
00:39:25Do you remember
00:39:25that night at the movie?
00:39:27Yeah.
00:39:28I mean,
00:39:29when you talked about
00:39:30the home at Balboa
00:39:31after the war
00:39:32and a sailboat?
00:39:34Yeah.
00:39:36Oh, that leads me
00:39:37to something else.
00:39:38I think it was shortly
00:39:40after we started working
00:39:41together here in Molino.
00:39:44The scene was your office.
00:39:48Your words went something
00:39:49like this.
00:39:51You know,
00:39:52I love you,
00:39:53but it's the last time
00:39:54I'll ever mention it.
00:39:55If the subject's
00:39:56ever brought up again,
00:39:58you'll have to do
00:39:59the bringing.
00:40:01I remember, Betty.
00:40:03I'm ready to do
00:40:04the bringing, Jerry.
00:40:08Betty.
00:40:10It's so strange.
00:40:11I feel like a child
00:40:12standing in front
00:40:13of a blackboard
00:40:14who just
00:40:15begins to see
00:40:16that column she's added
00:40:18hasn't added up correctly.
00:40:20So she
00:40:21has her eraser
00:40:22in her hand
00:40:22ready to wipe out
00:40:23everything
00:40:24and stir it over again.
00:40:26Jerry,
00:40:27if it can be erased,
00:40:28let her figure
00:40:29the best way to do it.
00:40:30Just for a little while.
00:40:32Anything you say, honey.
00:40:36I know it's early,
00:40:37but take me home,
00:40:38will you?
00:40:38Sure.
00:40:39Miss,
00:40:41check, please.
00:40:56I know it's early,
00:40:57but I'll tell you whether
00:40:57I've ever wanted to come up.
00:40:58I know it's early,
00:41:02I know it's early.
00:41:03I know it's early,
00:41:15But I know I have to be
00:41:24They just left the jade.
00:41:29For a man that's just been proposed to, you're awfully quiet.
00:41:32I'm the kind of a guy that sings at funerals and cries at weddings.
00:41:43I know.
00:41:44Even though you're a fast worker, you think that what I said tonight came a little too fast.
00:41:50No, Betty. It isn't that. I'm a stupid guy.
00:41:53I have no exaggerated opinion of myself.
00:41:56I'm just a guy like Phil was and a hundred others I could name.
00:42:00But I do have one saving grace.
00:42:02If we ever do get together, there's always one thing you can depend upon.
00:42:06I'll never double-cross you.
00:42:09There's one thing you can depend on too, Jerry.
00:42:11If we ever get together, I'll never double-cross you.
00:42:22Good night, darling. I love you.
00:42:27Good night, Jerry.
00:42:35Curtin.
00:42:38Curtin!
00:42:38If I didn't know you so well, I'd say you were the world's finest actress.
00:42:43You wanted me to make him think I loved him, didn't you?
00:42:46You are in love with him, honey.
00:42:48That performance was a little too good.
00:42:50That's why I stayed here, to make sure.
00:42:53He trusts me now.
00:42:55That's all that matters.
00:42:56But I don't trust you while he's around.
00:42:58I thought it over while you were gone.
00:43:00I got in touch with Grady.
00:43:02No.
00:43:05Nothing must happen to him. Do you hear me?
00:43:06Go ahead. Say the rest of it.
00:43:08You love him. You never loved Phil.
00:43:10Nothing must happen to Jerry Baldwin.
00:43:12Well, it's happened.
00:43:13Or it will happen when he gets home, just as it did to Phil.
00:43:16No!
00:43:17You're going to have a little time to think this over.
00:43:19Oh, my God!
00:43:57Look!
00:43:58Oh, let's fall in love.
00:44:01Mm, mm, mm, mm, na-da-da-a-dee-dee.
00:44:08Na-da-da-dee.
00:44:46Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:45:10THE END
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00:47:49her call came about 9 15 from a pay station not far from where betty iverson lives she was
00:47:54hysterical do you know any woman who might be that interested in saving your life only better
00:48:00yourself but i just taken her home a half hour before it happened besides she has her own phone
00:48:04she wouldn't be using a pay phone i know it's pretty hard to arrive at some decisions in life
00:48:10especially when they have to do with someone you love but are you sure you've told me everything
00:48:15you know that depends upon what you know mr harley i don't know anything for sure in this work nobody
00:48:21does everything is guesswork with some guesses better than others that's all and uh your guessing
00:48:28is along what line some of it goes this way maybe our opponents may have thought you were in this
00:48:33alone that you're on the track of something if you weren't alone they'd soon know that too
00:48:38so so they're soon gonna know we're seeing to it they may be able to gamble for time we can't
00:48:44afford
00:48:44to one by one tonight we're starting to smoke them out oh please not that phrase not with me
00:48:51you know uh things have happened mr harding but nothing that can't be labeled as a confused thinking
00:48:56and if i were positive about anything i'd tell you and the rest of my guessing well it's just guessing
00:49:03if i were positive i'd lay it all out for you
00:49:07but you will admit there was some reason for sending for you all the way to honolulu
00:49:19the smoking out process had to start with hopkins our only lead i had him tailed praying for a break
00:49:29frank edwards was on him sticking closer to him than his own skin
00:49:38so
00:49:47so
00:49:49so
00:49:49Let's go.
00:50:21Hopkins must have gotten callous. He's being followed.
00:50:24Yes, he's walking home. He'll cut across from Carson Street and head down Cordova.
00:50:28Tell Baker and Grady to meet me near Cordova and 3rd.
00:50:50Let's go.
00:50:50Let's go.
00:51:01Let's go.
00:51:09Let's go.
00:51:25I beg your pardon, sir. I wonder if you could tell me where number 34 would be.
00:51:41It is sheer stupidity. Following a man means following him, not stopping to phone anyone.
00:51:45I only thought...
00:51:47Maybe if you'd stop thinking, we'd get somewhere.
00:51:52I thought I'd just left you in bed.
00:51:54Well, I wanted to be in on that smoking out deal.
00:51:56Peters?
00:51:57They struck fast. We've got to make the next move equally fast.
00:52:01They've had Edwards for 10 minutes. They probably still haven't contacted Hopkins.
00:52:04Get him before they reach him.
00:52:07We'll send them a Hopkins of our own.
00:52:09Right. Come on, Burton.
00:52:15Did you come directly here?
00:52:17No, I stopped at Betty's.
00:52:19And?
00:52:19She was in bed.
00:52:20So?
00:52:21So I called the switchboard, found out you were here and came over.
00:52:24You called from her phone?
00:52:25Sure.
00:52:26What's wrong with that?
00:52:27Nothing.
00:52:28Was she all right?
00:52:30Sure.
00:52:30Why shouldn't she be?
00:52:32Oh, she struck her head on the bathroom door, but she was awful glad to see me,
00:52:35even though I awakened her in the middle of the night.
00:52:37Struck her head, eh?
00:52:41Listen, everybody.
00:52:42This is the first rule of the dice.
00:52:45We're gambling everything on one big move.
00:52:48Saturday afternoon, a plane is flying in torpedo plans to be locked in the vault until they go into work
00:52:52on Monday.
00:52:53I want to be sure that everyone in Molino knows those plans are coming on Saturday.
00:52:58Navy plans, sir?
00:53:00Our plans, Reynolds.
00:53:03After all, I need my rest.
00:53:05Isn't this something that could have waited until tomorrow?
00:53:07Read any good books lately, Hopkins?
00:53:10Answer my question.
00:53:11Maybe you'd better get ready to answer a few.
00:53:14Give me all the dope on our board of air patrols, schedules, etc.
00:53:17Yes, sir.
00:53:17Reynolds, you and Baldwin come with me.
00:53:19Right this way, Mr. Hopkins.
00:53:20I demand...
00:53:20You're through demanding, Hopkins.
00:53:23Mr. Hopkins, meet Mr. Hopkins.
00:53:28Well, I...
00:53:28Shut up, you.
00:53:29I just thought I'd save time.
00:53:31Reynolds, line up alongside this yokel.
00:53:34So far, so good.
00:53:36Take your clothes off, Hopkins.
00:53:37I will not.
00:53:38You heard him.
00:53:38He said take your clothes off.
00:53:40Switch with him, Reynolds, and you know the rest.
00:53:42I'll be right back.
00:53:43Come on, Baldwin.
00:53:48Now that we're alone, dearie,
00:53:50hurry up and get your clothes off.
00:53:55You say Betty struck her head colliding with the bathroom door?
00:53:57That's right.
00:53:59I don't suppose you noticed whether the awning below her window was torn or not?
00:54:02As though a body had fallen under before it landed on the street?
00:54:05So now I'm in awning, Inspector, too, huh?
00:54:08Look, Harding, all those little cracks you've been making about that girl are beginning to snowball.
00:54:11Now, if you know something, tell me.
00:54:13I told you earlier tonight I was just guessing.
00:54:15And that if I was positive, I'd lay it all out for you.
00:54:18We're ready, Mr. Harding.
00:54:19Coming, Reynolds.
00:54:21And I'll do just that, Baldwin.
00:54:23You have my word.
00:54:28Money, Inspector.
00:54:31Okay, Reynolds, go ahead.
00:54:33All right, Hopkins.
00:54:34Like I told you, word for word.
00:54:38Well, come on, come on.
00:54:40Hello, Hopkins speaking.
00:54:43Glad you called.
00:54:45They picked me up.
00:54:48No, just routine questioning.
00:54:49They don't know a thing.
00:54:50All right, now laugh.
00:54:51Oh, I want to hear that laugh.
00:54:53Oh, no, no.
00:54:54Come on, now laugh.
00:54:55Laugh like you usually laugh.
00:54:59All right, that's better.
00:55:00Now go ahead.
00:55:01So what do we do now?
00:55:03Say, who is this?
00:55:03Where are you calling from?
00:55:05Okay.
00:55:05All right, that's all right.
00:55:08Hello.
00:55:09Hopkins speaking.
00:55:11Glad you called.
00:55:13They picked me up.
00:55:14No, just routine questioning.
00:55:16They don't know a thing.
00:55:19So what do we do now?
00:55:21Say, who is this?
00:55:22Where are you calling from?
00:55:24Okay, you could fool me.
00:55:26That's a pretty tight fit.
00:55:28You think you could still get a bulletproof vest under it?
00:55:30Oh, yes, sir.
00:55:31I think so, sir.
00:55:32Then do so.
00:55:33You may need it.
00:55:33Meet me at the car.
00:55:34Come on, Baldwin.
00:55:36You'll excuse us, Mr. Hopkins?
00:55:38I see that you're not lonesome while we're away.
00:55:41Peters?
00:55:41Yes, sir.
00:55:42Play some photograph records for Mr. Hopkins.
00:55:44Perhaps some compositions by Bach or Franz Liszt.
00:55:47I think if sufficiently inspired,
00:55:49Mr. Hopkins may be persuaded to sing.
00:55:54You know, you look to me like a fellow that could carry a tune real good.
00:56:03This is always the hardest part, the waiting.
00:56:07If they're concentrating on Edwards, they may skip Hopkins tonight.
00:56:10On the other hand, they know we're tailing him, so they may try to knock him off.
00:56:13If they phone him?
00:56:14We may learn something.
00:56:16Or they may just be having him stand still as a target.
00:56:19What do you call that thing?
00:56:20That's an infrared electronic viewer.
00:56:23Look over there.
00:56:28In 30 seconds, those spots we snapped on.
00:56:30You'll see no light except through the viewer.
00:56:33It's about time.
00:56:36Look.
00:56:37Reynolds has snapped on Hopkins' lights.
00:56:42I still don't get it.
00:56:44Look.
00:56:44This is the same principle as the snooper-scope used on Jap snipers.
00:56:47Sometimes called a sniper-scope.
00:56:49Keeps a completely dark area spotlighted at night with nobody the wiser.
00:56:52Watch in here.
00:57:02It's about time.
00:57:02Everything looks okay over there.
00:57:04We'll light up the second area.
00:57:19We'll light up the second area.
00:57:22All set, sir.
00:57:27Now for light number three.
00:57:28And we'll have all possible areas covered.
00:57:35What's that?
00:57:36On the building over there.
00:57:37I thought I saw something move.
00:57:38Uh-huh.
00:57:39Let this be a lesson to you.
00:57:41Never buy a suit without a bulletproof vest.
00:57:43Your target for tonight, Burton.
00:57:45And be sure your sniper-scope is on.
00:57:50Got them all right?
00:57:52Right in the crosshairs.
00:57:54Our friend up there doesn't know it.
00:57:56But he's just as visible through Burton's sniper-scope as he is on his viewer.
00:57:59You don't miss any bets, do you, buttercup?
00:58:13Hello, Hopkins speaking.
00:58:18They've called Hopkins' number.
00:58:20Now we're a cozy threesome.
00:58:24He's going to fire. Break in, hurry!
00:58:26Reynolds, duck!
00:58:32Get over there, quick!
00:58:43Looks like the Jade Club is going to need a new bartender.
00:58:46Couldn't get a thing on them, sir.
00:58:48They're way ahead of us.
00:58:49Tomorrow will be neck and neck.
00:58:50Let's get back to the laundry.
00:58:51We've got things to do.
00:58:58We were set for the kill.
00:59:00Exactly the same setup you broadcast regarding the theft of the atomic secrets.
00:59:04Plans were being flown in from Washington, due to arrive Saturday.
00:59:08Every person in Montlino had to know that fact.
00:59:10We flooded that town with rumors.
00:59:13Within 24 hours, those rumors had spread like wildfire.
00:59:16So that by Saturday, every soul in town knew that something of military importance was arriving from Washington.
00:59:23But whether we were going to be able to flush them from cover was something else again.
00:59:27We were waiting.
00:59:28Waiting for our phony plans to arrive.
00:59:32It was only 30 minutes before closing time when we got the news we were waiting for.
00:59:39Commander Baldwin's office.
00:59:41Yes, thank you.
00:59:43It's a tower at the airport.
00:59:45Van Dyke's plane is due to land in three minutes.
00:59:47Good, I'll take a jeep and meet him.
00:59:48That material he's bringing in from Washington has to be kept in the vault till Monday.
00:59:52Finish the report, will you, Betty?
00:59:54Aye, aye, Commander.
01:00:02Personnel.
01:00:03Mr. Barrington, please.
01:00:06Yes, Doctor.
01:00:07Oh, yes.
01:00:08Right away.
01:00:23The falls.
01:00:25Right away, as we discussed.
01:00:29Betty, your job is done.
01:00:30But I can't stay here.
01:00:32Yes, I understand that.
01:00:33Go out to the community airport and wait for us there.
01:00:47We had fuel pump trouble.
01:00:49For an hour or so, I thought we were really behind the eight ball.
01:00:51Commander Baldwin, Lieutenant Van Dyke.
01:00:53Yes, sir, Commander.
01:01:00Stand against the wall.
01:01:07Ring when you're ready to come out, sir.
01:01:09Okay, Chief.
01:01:11Now, let's see, where was we when we was interrupted?
01:01:13He was just about to kiss the dame.
01:01:15Yeah.
01:01:16Well, what happened?
01:01:17We was interrupted.
01:01:20No, don't.
01:01:21Come on.
01:01:22They couldn't hear it outside.
01:01:23Why, take the chance.
01:01:33Hey, what do you want, Sugarfoot?
01:01:36Sugarfoot?
01:01:37Well, I'll settle for one commander and one lieutenant
01:01:39of the United States Navy.
01:01:41In the ball, playing gin rummy.
01:01:43Be out shortly.
01:01:44Fine.
01:01:45Fine.
01:02:07Fine.
01:02:07Open up that ball.
01:02:23McCullough, Vickers has just left the plant.
01:02:25I'm after him.
01:02:27Down San Juan Boulevard.
01:02:29Over.
01:02:29Good, McCullough.
01:02:30Peters will take over any time you say.
01:02:32Reynolds and the plant, sir.
01:02:34It's urgent.
01:02:35Yes, Reynolds.
01:02:36What?
01:02:37Yes, I know that.
01:02:38We've got a tail on them.
01:02:40What about Baldwin and Van Dyke?
01:02:42Good.
01:02:43Get Baldwin down here as fast as you can.
01:02:46Vickers and Barrington.
01:02:47Peter, sir, from San Juan Boulevard and Hernandez Street.
01:02:50Hello, Peters.
01:02:50Ready.
01:02:51Over.
01:02:52They've taken the road to the old community airport.
01:02:54The airstrip's unused and it's at the end of a one-way road,
01:02:58Mr. Harding.
01:02:59Over.
01:02:59Oh, so the pigeons want to fly the coupe, eh?
01:03:03Well, who are we to clip their wings?
01:03:04Keep after them, but don't let them get wise.
01:03:06San Diego Naval Air, sir.
01:03:08Hello, San Diego.
01:03:09Harding.
01:03:10I want that report on our Mexican border air patrol.
01:03:13And hurry it up, sailor.
01:03:14We're expecting visitors.
01:03:15Roger, Mr. Harding.
01:03:16The old community airport.
01:03:24What do you think they hit you with, Baldwin?
01:03:26Oh, I don't know, but it felt like the Empire State Building.
01:03:28And I'm not so sure it wasn't.
01:03:30Here's your micro-analysis, sir.
01:03:32The lint found previously at the vault at the plant is identical with the specimens taken from the clothing of
01:03:36Barrington and Vickers.
01:03:37And the other two?
01:03:38Well, one is Grady.
01:03:39He's an expert mechanic in plant maintenance, undoubtedly the same man who rigged the entrance to the vault.
01:03:44The other is Baker, Vickers strong-armed man.
01:03:47It all checks, sir, with the serial numbers via the bank deposits.
01:03:50Grady, Barrington, and Vickers spent money as often as three times each to see the same movie at the Molino
01:03:54Theatre.
01:03:55And played the devil with the popcorn trade, eh?
01:03:57Aren't they the cute ones?
01:04:00Peters McCullough are closing in on the old community airport.
01:04:02Let's go.
01:04:08We're riding alone for a reason, Jerry.
01:04:10I'm beginning to see what it is, Mr. Harding.
01:04:12That last popcorn crack you made is one that began to break the Baldwin back.
01:04:16I'm sorry.
01:04:17It wasn't until late this afternoon that I knew for sure.
01:04:21An agent of mine abroad has found the final link.
01:04:24Betty Iverson, formerly Betty LeBrucciere, is the daughter of an enemy agent.
01:04:30At present, using the alias of George Vickers.
01:04:33Vickers' daughter?
01:04:34You might say that Betty was sort of born to her job.
01:04:37She was planted in this country before Pearl Harbor.
01:04:41Her instructions were to marry a naval officer.
01:04:45Yeah.
01:04:46Phil Iverson discovered a secret and died for knowing it.
01:04:50That's about the size of it.
01:04:53What does that mean for her, Mr. Harding?
01:04:55In wartime, there's only one penalty for espionage.
01:05:07Are you nearly done?
01:05:08Just about.
01:05:09When this switch is thrown, we'll have five minutes to clear up.
01:05:12What's blowing up the place gonna gain us?
01:05:14If we were followed here, we'll leave the switch on for the next visitor.
01:05:21These pigeons were ready for anything.
01:05:23They've got the place mined.
01:05:24I found these wires when I was setting up the mic.
01:05:27Well, what do you know?
01:05:28I know if they want their little booby trap to go boom, it's going to disappoint them.
01:05:40Put that out, Baker.
01:05:41It makes me show any lights.
01:05:45What are we gonna do, George?
01:05:46What's the plan?
01:05:48We're lucky.
01:05:50We're very lucky.
01:05:51We're all in the clear, Barrington, except you.
01:05:54You will take the plans through while the rest of us go back to our jobs.
01:05:57You're the espionage agent they were looking for.
01:06:00But you will have made your escape.
01:06:02After you land across the border, you'll be met by Turner.
01:06:05He'll give you the setup for getting you out of Mexico.
01:06:07But why me?
01:06:09Why not one of the others?
01:06:10I'm sorry, Barrington, but you're also a murderer.
01:06:13It would be safer for you to leave.
01:06:16A murderer?
01:06:17I didn't kill anyone.
01:06:18I think you'll find that rather difficult to prove, Barrington.
01:06:22But this afternoon, Baker here left the body of Frank Edwards in your apartment.
01:06:27It wasn't in my schedule to do away with the man.
01:06:30But Baker filled him so full of happy talky shots, he looked like a tattooed man in the circus.
01:06:35We could get nothing out of him.
01:06:36The equipment we used, Baker left in your place, too.
01:06:40So you see, Barrington, discretion suggests departure.
01:06:48Frank Edwards.
01:06:51Look.
01:07:01San Diego, Naval Air, sir.
01:07:03Hello, San Diego. Come in, please.
01:07:05Hello, Mr. Harding.
01:07:06As you requested, we let that suspicious aircraft through.
01:07:09It was last sighted heading north by east, and it should be there any minute.
01:07:12Good. Get this carefully, San Diego.
01:07:14On its return trip, that plane must get away.
01:07:17Take some shots at it, but be sure you miss. Thanks.
01:07:20Reynolds, are the lights ready?
01:07:21The men are rigging him up right now, sir.
01:07:23Good.
01:07:35When we leave the airport, we'll separate.
01:07:37You haven't told me yet what I'm to do.
01:07:39Betty, there's a bus leaving the Molino Depot in two hours.
01:07:43You'll be on it with a ticket to Los Angeles.
01:07:45Register at the Midtown Hotel under the name of Clayton.
01:07:48An agent will get in touch with you and give you a new assignment.
01:07:51There it is.
01:08:10Pretty landing, Baldwin.
01:08:12Hand me that microphone.
01:08:14Get a move on, Barrington.
01:08:16Safe delivery of those planes are to get you a medal.
01:08:47There it is.
01:08:47Well, there's that.
01:08:48Turn the lights on.
01:08:49Yes, sir.
01:08:56This is David Harding speaking.
01:08:58We have you surrounded.
01:08:59Come out of that building with your hands up.
01:09:02I repeat, come out with your hands up.
01:09:05They haven't anything on us for sure.
01:09:07We can bluff our way out of this.
01:09:08Baker, you and Grady were the first to suspect Barrington.
01:09:11We followed him here and...
01:09:14They've heard everything we've said.
01:09:16That's right, Vickers.
01:09:17It's a little late to try a bluff now.
01:09:20I want to thank you for sending those plans to your superiors.
01:09:22I hope they'll prove worthwhile.
01:09:24Worthwhile for us, that is.
01:09:26Now, come out quickly with your hands up.
01:09:29Jerry.
01:09:30Jerry, if you're there, get back.
01:09:32Jerry, go back. It's mine.
01:09:34Did you hear me, Jerry?
01:09:39All right, Reynolds.
01:09:53We got them all, but the one we deliberately allowed to escape.
01:09:57And we know a lot of time was wasted on those phony plans.
01:10:01So you see, Kingston, we sometimes go to a great deal of trouble to get misinformation into the hands of
01:10:05unfriendly powers.
01:10:06As was the case yesterday at the Institute of Special Studies.
01:10:10I refer to the story you featured on your broadcast tonight.
01:10:12I feel like a fool, Hardy.
01:10:15Is there a pity about that Iverson girl?
01:10:17Baldwin really loved her, apparently.
01:10:19Yes.
01:10:20And love being no respecter of wars and nations, I think he still loves her.
01:10:23But that's neither here nor there.
01:10:25I just thought you should know that we don't initial the S in Uncle Sam the same as we do
01:10:30in stupidity.
01:10:30All right.ulsion
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