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00:00:06THE END
00:01:21This is Los Angeles, Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels, as the Spaniards named her, the fastest growing city
00:01:27in the nation.
00:01:28It's been called a bunch of suburbs in search of a city, and it's been called the glamour capital of
00:01:33the world.
00:01:34A mecca for tourists, a stopover for transients, a target for gangsters, a haven for those fleeing from winter, a
00:01:42home for the hardworking.
00:01:44It is a city holding the hopes and dreams of over two million people.
00:01:47It sprawls out horizontally over 452 square miles of valleys and uplands, of foothills and beaches.
00:01:56Because of that vast area, and because of a population made up of people from every state in the Union,
00:02:03Los Angeles is the largest police beat in the country, and one of the toughest.
00:02:08We're going to take you into the city hall where police headquarters are located.
00:02:13Here in communications are the ears and voice of the police.
00:02:17The lights on the complaint board flash 24 hours a day.
00:02:20Citizens reporting a prowler, a lost child, a man molesting a woman, an auto accident, a wild party.
00:02:26Spend an hour or two here, and you will think the whole city has gone berserk.
00:02:31Minute by minute, the orders go out to the radio cars in the far-flung divisions.
00:02:35Watts and Wilshire in West Los Angeles.
00:02:37Hollywood and Hollenbeck Heights in North Hollywood.
00:02:40The work of the police like that of woman is never done.
00:02:45This is the case history of a killer, taken from the files of the detective division.
00:02:50The facts are told here as they happen.
00:02:53The story properly starts here in Hollywood Division headquarters at 1 o'clock of a June morning last year.
00:02:59Officer Robert Rollins had finished his tour of duty and signed out.
00:03:03It had been a tough day. He'd be glad to get home.
00:03:06His wife would be waiting up for him, as she always did.
00:03:31He's here, Supt.ς
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00:04:06Let's go.
00:04:16Let's go.
00:04:59Hey, fella.
00:05:00Come here.
00:05:05What were you doing back at that radio shop?
00:05:07This Logan.
00:05:08I was on my way home.
00:05:10Live around here?
00:05:12Yeah, a couple blocks now.
00:05:14Let me see some identification.
00:05:16Sure.
00:05:19Yeah, I guess I forgot my wallet.
00:05:22Look, lad.
00:05:23I've got to see some identification.
00:05:25How about my army discharge?
00:05:27I've got it right here.
00:05:42Let's go.
00:06:06Police Department, Operator 27.
00:06:09I want to report the shooting of a policeman.
00:06:11Call down, please.
00:06:13Give me that again, please.
00:06:15I'm calling to report the shooting of a policeman.
00:06:17What's the address?
00:06:185057 State Street, just west of Santa Monica.
00:06:21Just a minute.
00:06:23Proceeding hospital, Operator 2.
00:06:26Operator 27, 5057 State Street.
00:06:305057 State Street.
00:06:31An officer has been shot.
00:06:32Send an ambulance.
00:06:33All units.
00:06:34All units in the vicinity of State Street, Santa Monica Boulevard.
00:06:37Proceed at once to 5057 State Street.
00:06:415057 State Street.
00:06:43An officer shot.
00:06:44Code 3.
00:07:0780K to Control 1.
00:07:09Control 1 to 80K.
00:07:10Go ahead.
00:07:11This is Breen.
00:07:13Instruct homicide to throw out a drag dead and pick up all suspicious characters in the area of the shooting.
00:07:18Also notify Sergeants Marty Brennan and Chuck Jones to report to me at the scene of the crime.
00:07:22Control 1 to 80K.
00:07:24Roger.
00:07:36Roger.
00:07:37I see.
00:07:38Well, what have you got so far?
00:07:39Well, not much, Captain Breen.
00:07:41A couple of cartridge cases.
00:07:44Hello, Marty.
00:07:45Chuck.
00:07:45Hi, Captain.
00:07:47Eyewitnesses?
00:07:48Who was first on the scene?
00:07:49Reported it.
00:07:49I was.
00:07:50I live here.
00:07:51I'm a light sleeper.
00:07:53But my hearing is good.
00:07:54My cat is...
00:07:55Did the officer say anything before he collapsed?
00:07:57Yeah, he gave a description to the fellow.
00:07:59He was...
00:08:00The officer.
00:08:01Suspect is a white male American.
00:08:03Age 26 or 7.
00:08:055 feet 10 or 11.
00:08:08155 to 165 pounds.
00:08:11Brown hair.
00:08:12Regular features.
00:08:14Pencil mustache.
00:08:17Repeat broadcast.
00:08:19All units...
00:08:19Is that about it?
00:08:20Yes, sir, exactly.
00:08:22And the officer kept saying, he looked like such a nice kid.
00:08:25He looked like such a nice kid.
00:08:27As if he couldn't believe what had happened to him.
00:08:32I see, is that all?
00:08:33Yeah.
00:08:34Thank you very much.
00:08:35Yeah, well, anything else I can do, I'd be glad to help you.
00:08:38We may call you.
00:08:39Get his name and address with you, Bob.
00:08:44This door been checked, Lee?
00:08:46Yeah, it's okay, Captain.
00:08:51Did you find anything?
00:08:52Nothing but some smudges so far.
00:08:55Found this in the glove compartment.
00:08:57I think it's nitroglycerin.
00:09:00It doesn't look quite right.
00:09:02Well, check it down at the lab.
00:09:04Right.
00:09:11Open this up, Joe.
00:09:13No key, Captain.
00:09:15I'll try it open.
00:09:16Give me that bar, Frank.
00:09:17Come on.
00:09:25Come on.
00:09:28Come on.
00:09:31Come on.
00:09:32Come on.
00:09:34Regular arsenal.
00:09:35Yeah, get a load of that.
00:09:37What is it?
00:09:38I don't know.
00:09:39It looks like some kind of an electrical device.
00:09:42The United States Navy.
00:09:45It's either stolen a war surplus.
00:09:48Send all this stuff down to the lab and check the serial number on that Navy equipment.
00:09:52Yes, sir.
00:09:52Captain Breen.
00:09:54We found these in the weeds over by the radio store.
00:09:57Hmm.
00:09:58What do you got?
00:09:59A pair of cloth gloves, Captain.
00:10:01Well, he thought of everything, didn't he?
00:10:03All right.
00:10:04Give them to one of the technicians.
00:10:05Yes, sir.
00:10:06Marty, you and Chuck come along with me.
00:10:08Let's go downtown and see what they've picked up in the dragnet.
00:10:11Right.
00:10:25You know him, Marty?
00:10:27Yeah.
00:10:29I know his wife, too.
00:10:32Ever since high school.
00:10:36Captain, I wish you'd let Chuck and me handle this case.
00:10:43All right.
00:10:44I don't want any dead heroes.
00:10:47I just want the man who shot Rollins.
00:10:52The suspects began to arrive at headquarters in droves.
00:10:55The police tossed every motel and hotel and many private homes in a four square mile area around the scene
00:11:01of the shooting.
00:11:02Every available radio car and patrolman and detective was out on the dragnet.
00:11:06The strings were being drawn tighter and tighter.
00:11:10Many a man returning from a date or a late party or a poker game surprisingly found himself in a
00:11:15squad car,
00:11:16its sirens screaming as it brought him to the detective bureau.
00:11:19The dragnet gathered in some strange fish and many ordinary ones.
00:11:25All the rest of that night the detectives probed, needled, questioned, quizzed.
00:11:32Everything was checked. Fingerprints, names, addresses, stories.
00:11:37Every fish in the net was examined.
00:11:39Most of them thrown back into the sea, not worth keeping.
00:11:43Except a few parole violators and slightly shady characters whose stories needed a lot of verifying.
00:11:48I wasn't prowling no cards. Just taking a walk. You know, getting in condition.
00:11:53You were running when the radio car picked you up.
00:11:55Yeah? Maybe that's why the guy's called me Punchy.
00:11:59He's got a point there. Two felony convictions, no want, no warrant. He's on parole.
00:12:04Book him. Violation of parole.
00:12:06Let's have the next one, Joe.
00:12:08What were you doing in that vacant lot?
00:12:11The vacant lot. Lot?
00:12:14What were you doing with it at that time of night?
00:12:30You say your name is Ralph Henderson.
00:12:32So what?
00:12:33Well, you know, it's a funny thing, Ralph.
00:12:35There's a guy around this town that's been wearing your fingerprints.
00:12:38Only his name is Pete Hannon.
00:12:41Okay. So I'm dead.
00:12:44So what's one more confession in my life?
00:12:47Now you're talking, Hannon.
00:12:49Okay, Andy.
00:12:52Hello, Harry. What have we got here?
00:12:54Oh, some robbery suspects. Candidates for San Quentin.
00:12:58Handsome here is the big shot. He runs the outfit.
00:13:03Have a gander at his record.
00:13:05Car theft. Escape from reform school.
00:13:08Robbery. Assault with a deadly weapon. Not bad.
00:13:12Look at the heater we found on him. German Luger. Fully loaded.
00:13:16Redhead here tried to carve up one of the arresting officers with this pretty toy.
00:13:21Nice boys.
00:13:23By dawn, many minor wrongdoings had been uncovered.
00:13:26And a few incipient felonies.
00:13:28The checking of the suspects had been thorough, painstaking and tedious.
00:13:31But all the work was for nothing.
00:13:34The man who had shot Officer Rollins was not among them.
00:13:37He remained no more than a description.
00:13:39A shadow of a man. Mysterious, elusive, deadly.
00:13:44Hidden away somewhere in the vast city.
00:13:50As for Rollins himself, he couldn't help.
00:13:53He was in a coma at receiving hospital.
00:13:57Mrs. Rollins waited out the long tense hours while her husband fought to live.
00:14:02Many another officer's wife had so waited. Many another will.
00:14:05The word came, shortly after Sonna.
00:14:30A white male American. 26 or 7. 5 feet 10 or 11. 155 to 165 pounds.
00:14:39Brown hair. Regular features. Pencil mustache.
00:14:45This was no frightened fugitive.
00:14:48What went on in his mind?
00:14:50Why had he set his hand against his fellow men?
00:14:53Taken the life of another. Of a stranger.
00:14:56Of a man who is merely doing his duty.
00:14:59He must have some plan.
00:15:01Some goal that called for sudden death to anyone who got in his way.
00:15:09Si, she's not.
00:15:10No!
00:15:10No, no.
00:15:14No, no.
00:15:17No.
00:15:19No, no, no.
00:15:22No, no.
00:15:24No, no.
00:15:28No, no.
00:15:37O dois.
00:15:39I'm a soldier, you never die.
00:15:42Just like you and me.
00:15:52Good morning, boys.
00:15:53Good morning, Lee.
00:15:55Hiya, Professor.
00:15:57Well, I thought this was safe cracker soup.
00:16:00You gonna drink it, I hope?
00:16:02I'm really a nice guy.
00:16:03Stick around.
00:16:04I'll prove it.
00:16:06Come over here.
00:16:28Come over here.
00:16:29Hold this for me, will you, Chuck?
00:16:36Now, if you'll hand me that hammer, Marty.
00:16:50Yeah?
00:16:52Dr. Glycerin.
00:16:53I didn't ask for a collection of fingers, just fingerprints.
00:16:57All those nice fingerprints on the car belong to the man who was stolen from, Cap.
00:17:00Nothing on the guns or pick locks.
00:17:03Not even an interesting smudge.
00:17:05The gloves.
00:17:06Common type, worn by undertakers.
00:17:10I'll check on them.
00:17:10They won't show anything.
00:17:12What did your scientific test show?
00:17:14Couple little things.
00:17:15Tool identification on these pick locks.
00:17:18I got one under the scope.
00:17:20You wanna take a look?
00:17:20Yeah.
00:17:31Take a look.
00:17:35Oh, I see.
00:17:38Well, that seems to tie the tool up with the lock.
00:17:42Well, if that microscope could only tell us who did it.
00:17:45I'm working on that.
00:17:48No, only an amateur would carry that liquid dynamite in a car.
00:17:51This boy's no amateur.
00:17:53Took the precaution of desensitizing it so it'll take normal shock.
00:17:56Took a lot of other precautions, too.
00:17:58No fingerprints, no identification, nothing definite.
00:18:02Except he's scientific.
00:18:05Knows electricity.
00:18:08He's invented.
00:18:09Yeah.
00:18:10I'm happy on the trigger.
00:18:16This is Captain Breen.
00:18:17Get me Captain Stevens a burglary, will you?
00:18:20I hate to disappoint you, Lee, but I think you've come up with something.
00:18:24Uh, hello, Steve?
00:18:26How are you?
00:18:28Did your daughter's marriage come off all right?
00:18:31Good.
00:18:32Look, Steve, on those burglaries of electrical equipment lately,
00:18:37were there any where pick locks were used to gain entry?
00:18:43Good.
00:18:44Well, let me know if there's another report of one, will you?
00:18:47I've got an idea the Rawlins Killer may be tied in with those.
00:18:51Fine.
00:18:52Uh, and, uh, give my regards to the newlyweds, too.
00:18:56So long, Steve.
00:18:59Well, what are you waiting for?
00:19:00You've got a job, haven't you?
00:19:02Good going.
00:19:03Yeah, let's go, Junior.
00:19:05Hold this for me, will you, Lee?
00:19:07Thanks.
00:19:11And so, with no fingerprints and only a vague description to go by,
00:19:14Sergeant Brennan turned to the modus operandi file.
00:19:17A criminal, like any human being, has his own habit patterns,
00:19:21unconscious traits that can lead to his downfall.
00:19:29Well, there you are, Junior.
00:19:31List of burglars that use pick locks for entry.
00:19:34Oh, great.
00:19:34This narrows it down to just a couple of hundred suspects in this area.
00:19:38Give me a match, will you?
00:19:42That may not be so bad.
00:19:44This guy's improved on the system.
00:19:45Maybe he's left his trademark on some other job.
00:19:48Well, here we go, legging it all over town, asking a million questions.
00:19:52What you paid for, isn't it?
00:19:53Am I paid to associate with you, too, Junior?
00:19:56You could do worse.
00:19:57Not this year.
00:19:58Come on.
00:20:13Car 12.
00:20:14Car 1-2.
00:20:16In the 10,000 block on Mississippi.
00:20:18A 394-15 disturbance.
00:20:26Car 80-K, code 1.
00:21:00All units, on the broadcast of the suspect arrested in the shooting of Patrolman Rollins.
00:21:05Cancel the cancellation.
00:21:07Suspect released from custody.
00:21:25Oh, hello, Mr. Martin.
00:21:27You'll find Mr. Reeves in the machine shop.
00:21:46Hello, old Roy.
00:21:47Glad to see you.
00:21:49How are you, Mr. Reeves?
00:21:50Why, I was hoping you'd drop in.
00:21:52I wanted to thank you for showing us how to handle that repair job.
00:21:56Helps a lot.
00:22:05Well, what have we got this time?
00:22:13Silvergrass.
00:22:18There are plenty of these around, Roy.
00:22:21Not like this one.
00:22:24Yes, I see.
00:22:25I suppose, as usual, you've added your own improvements.
00:22:30You know, it seems wrong that a man of your talents should bother consigning equipment for rental.
00:22:37I'd like to see you devote yourself entirely to experimental electronics.
00:22:43It'll come one day.
00:22:45I'll live a place like this.
00:22:47Well, why wait?
00:22:49I've got a pretty good setup here.
00:22:51I'd have modern equipment to work with, a lab, and my confidence.
00:22:57Thanks, Mr. Reeves.
00:22:59I have other plans.
00:23:00But, Roy, you can't tell where to lead.
00:23:03You might even work your way around to a percentage of the business.
00:23:08I like it this way.
00:23:10You just rent out my equipment.
00:23:12All right, Roy. All right.
00:23:14What if you should change your mind?
00:23:16I'm not likely to change my mind.
00:23:19I suppose you want me to set this up for rental, too.
00:23:24Mr. Reeves, you've already got five pieces of my equipment.
00:23:29And you'd like to know what results I've had from the rental so far, hmm?
00:23:33Well, I can't say as I blame you.
00:23:36I think you'll find this satisfactory.
00:23:41Satisfactory.
00:23:43Goodbye, Mr. Reeves.
00:23:44And you'll come back again soon, won't you?
00:23:46Sure.
00:23:48Oh, incidentally.
00:23:50How's that television projector coming along?
00:23:52The one you said would reflect a 12-foot image.
00:23:54Still working on it.
00:23:55I just wanted you to know I've already set up a rental on it.
00:23:59In fact, I think they'd like to buy.
00:24:02It'll come pretty high.
00:24:03Oh, money's no consideration with this customer.
00:24:11Tell him he can pick it up tomorrow.
00:24:13I thought you said it wasn't finished yet.
00:24:15It'll be finished.
00:24:24It uses an image fixer and then projects by ordinary incandescence.
00:24:29Roy?
00:24:32This is the best television projector I've ever seen.
00:24:35Let's hope that your customer thinks so.
00:24:37He will.
00:24:42Yes?
00:24:45Send him right in, Charlotte.
00:24:48There.
00:24:49You see, our customer is here.
00:24:51Begging for the privilege of buying.
00:24:54Better be running along.
00:24:55I'm not much good at business.
00:24:56Oh, but Roy, he'll want to congratulate you.
00:25:00Just see that the price is right.
00:25:03All right, Roy.
00:25:04I'll get you a good deal.
00:25:06So long.
00:25:07See you.
00:25:13Well, Mr. Dunning, come in.
00:25:18Isn't it a beauty?
00:25:32It's a beauty, all right.
00:25:33You like it?
00:25:34I certainly do like it.
00:25:36You see, it's mine.
00:25:37What do you mean?
00:25:38Let me have the police.
00:25:40I built it.
00:25:41Spent years on it.
00:25:42Oh, you must be crazy.
00:25:44Roy built this machine himself.
00:25:46Your friends are crook, Paul.
00:25:47You've been taken in.
00:25:48Hello.
00:25:49Give me the burglary detail.
00:25:52Dear Jim.
00:25:54Regarding your inquiry on a 38-caliber Smith and Lester Rimbabas...
00:25:58Oh, come in, boys.
00:26:00The burglary detail just sent this report through.
00:26:03It's a man named Dunning who reports tracing a stolen television projector to the Reeves Electronics Lab.
00:26:10Think it's a tie-in with the Rawlins case?
00:26:12Well, take a look at this fellow Reeves and see what gives.
00:26:14I'll notify burglary. We're following up on it.
00:26:17Right.
00:26:18Come on, Junior.
00:26:22What else did he place with you for rental?
00:26:24Oh, a number of things.
00:26:26All war surplus that he bought on his veteran's rating.
00:26:28Oh, is this more of his equipment?
00:26:30Yes.
00:26:30Yes, he left it here on consignment.
00:26:34I'm sure that Roy can explain everything.
00:26:37Well, maybe he can, Mr. Reeves, if he'll tell us where he lives.
00:26:40But I don't know.
00:26:41Mr. Martin's on the phone, sir.
00:26:45I'd better talk to him.
00:26:46I think so, Mr. Reeves.
00:26:48I'll take it in the superintendent's office.
00:26:58Tell him that you sold the set.
00:27:00And his money's waiting for him here.
00:27:01Find out what time he's coming by.
00:27:07Put Mr. Martin on.
00:27:13Hello, Roy.
00:27:17Yes, yes, I've sold it.
00:27:19Your money is waiting here for you.
00:27:23Yes, I'll be working late tonight.
00:27:25What time will you be by?
00:27:27First thing in the morning.
00:27:29Well, maybe you better come in tonight, Roy.
00:27:31A couple of things I want cleared up.
00:27:34Like what?
00:27:36Oh, technical things.
00:27:38Besides, I don't like to leave the money in the plant overnight.
00:27:45How about 8.30?
00:27:46Fine, fine.
00:27:48I'll see you then.
00:27:50I'll leave the front door unlocked.
00:27:57You'll be here at 8.30.
00:28:08Well, I'll just run along home and get some dinner.
00:28:10Uh, we'd like you to stay too, Mr. Reeves.
00:28:13Why?
00:28:14For company.
00:28:15You want to cooperate, don't you, Mr. Reeves?
00:28:17Certainly.
00:28:18Good.
00:28:18Now, you just wait in your office.
00:28:20We'll be around.
00:28:22Very well.
00:28:24This way, gentlemen.
00:28:51Good morning.
00:28:58You're waiting for me.
00:28:58All right.
00:29:00Let's go.
00:29:00Let's go.
00:29:00Let's go.
00:29:48Freeze.
00:29:54Is that you, Roy?
00:30:03Go outside and block that alley door.
00:30:20Where are you, Roy?
00:30:27Who's in here?
00:30:29No one.
00:30:30I'm alone.
00:30:37Come on in.
00:30:38I've got your money for it.
00:30:40Bring it out here.
00:30:44All right.
00:30:48Just a minute.
00:30:49I'm alone.
00:30:51I'm alone.
00:30:54I'm alone.
00:31:00I'm alone.
00:31:04I'm alone.
00:31:12I'm alone.
00:36:49Sure.
00:36:50Sure you would.
00:36:52You can go now.
00:36:54Oh, thanks.
00:36:57Thanks.
00:37:08I think he's telling the truth, Marty.
00:37:09I think he's just gullible, like he said.
00:37:11What about the stolen stuff he was trying to peddle for Martin?
00:37:14We'll use it for bait.
00:37:15Maybe Martin will come back for it.
00:37:17Then we can ask him.
00:37:20Here.
00:37:21Nevertheless, I want a 24-hour tale put on Reeves,
00:37:24and I want to watch on his home and his factory.
00:37:26Right.
00:37:28You can keep those.
00:37:30Okay, Captain.
00:37:36And now the killer changed his tactics, his modus operandi.
00:37:41It would baffle the police.
00:37:42They always expected burglars to remain burglars,
00:37:45not go in for stick-ups.
00:37:47They never tie this up with him.
00:37:50So wearing a variety of disguises,
00:37:52coming and going like a shadow,
00:37:54ready to kill of cornered,
00:37:56he struck the bottle stores in a one-man blitz
00:37:58that had the robbery detail dizzy.
00:38:19The killer, always resourceful,
00:38:22always thinking along lines that would baffle his hunters,
00:38:25had discovered an ideal avenue of escape.
00:38:27Under Los Angeles is a vast and intricate system
00:38:30of huge storm drains built to siphon off
00:38:32the flash floods of the rainy season.
00:38:35Many of the tunnels are large enough
00:38:36for two cars to drive abreast.
00:38:39Here were 700 miles of hidden highways.
00:38:42Ideal for the use of someone
00:38:44who needed to hurry from place to place
00:38:46without being seen.
00:38:48Ideal as a hiding place for guns and supplies
00:38:50in case of emergency.
00:38:55Well, this is Lee.
00:38:56Well, the reason I asked you to come over
00:38:57is I think I've hit on something.
00:38:58An identification?
00:38:59No, not quite, but a tie-up.
00:39:02Now, these are the shells
00:39:04from the gun that killed Rawlins.
00:39:06These were fired in the liquor store holder
00:39:08in which the bandit got away.
00:39:10And these were fired at Chuck.
00:39:13Now, as you know,
00:39:14every ejector, even in guns
00:39:16of the same model and caliber,
00:39:17is different.
00:39:18Each one leaves its own markings
00:39:20on the cartridge casing.
00:39:23Now, look at these fine striations.
00:39:26This deep gouge.
00:39:29The same on all three.
00:39:32Hmm.
00:39:35In other words,
00:39:36the man who killed Rawlins
00:39:37and the man who shot at Jones and Brennan,
00:39:40the stick-up who's blitzing the liquor stores,
00:39:42are all the same man.
00:39:43Right.
00:39:44All we need to know
00:39:45is what that man looks like.
00:39:50Get me Chandler in robbery, will you?
00:39:53I've got an idea about that.
00:39:56Also, it'll give us a chance
00:39:57to see if Reeves is on the level with us.
00:40:00Uh, Steve.
00:40:01Green.
00:40:02About those blitz holdups you're on.
00:40:05Round up all the victims
00:40:06and have them down here tonight, will you?
00:40:09Oh, it's just a little scheme.
00:40:12Thanks, Steve.
00:40:16Hmm.
00:40:17That's good.
00:40:18Now sketch another one of the same type,
00:40:20only this time thin it out a little, huh?
00:40:21All right.
00:40:22Hi, Lee.
00:40:22How's it coming?
00:40:23You ready for tonight?
00:40:24We'll be ready.
00:40:25Think it'll work?
00:40:26It should.
00:40:27When'd you get the idea?
00:40:29From a kidnapping case in Chicago.
00:40:31But I thought these slides
00:40:32might be an improvement
00:40:33over the method they used.
00:40:35Could be.
00:40:36Captain thinks so.
00:40:42Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
00:40:43May I have your attention for a moment, please?
00:40:46You've all been asked to sit in
00:40:47on a little experiment tonight.
00:40:50We're going to try to build a picture of a face.
00:40:53A face of a man who's cunning,
00:40:56resourceful, and deadly.
00:40:58He's a man who killed a police officer.
00:41:01Now, some of you,
00:41:02he held up at the point of a gun.
00:41:04You may have seen his face,
00:41:06remembered something about it.
00:41:08And we want you to tell us
00:41:10exactly what you remembered.
00:41:13Whether it's his hair, eyes, nose, or mouth.
00:41:17And we're going to try
00:41:18to put those pieces together
00:41:20so that they add up
00:41:21into a picture of the face
00:41:22of the man we want.
00:41:25Now, you can see how we're depending on you.
00:41:28Right?
00:41:30Now, first,
00:41:31we're going to concentrate
00:41:32on the type of hair our man had.
00:41:35And if the picture looks anything like his hair,
00:41:38I want you to speak right up.
00:41:40All right, the first slide, Lee.
00:41:49His hair had waves in it.
00:41:50Well-groomed.
00:41:51That's the idea, Miss Smith.
00:42:00Is that any closer?
00:42:03No, it was parted on the side.
00:42:10Oh, that's more like it.
00:42:11Except it was thicker.
00:42:21Oh, that's very close.
00:42:23Yes, that's the way his forehead looked.
00:42:25It was broad and high.
00:42:27All right, hold that slide.
00:42:29Now, the next series of slides
00:42:31will take into account his eyes.
00:42:41Oh, one minute, please.
00:42:42Wait, one minute.
00:42:43His eyes were a little like that.
00:42:46Maybe a little smaller.
00:42:48Like beads.
00:42:50Go on, Lee.
00:42:58Now, now you've got it.
00:43:01Now, hold that slide, Lee.
00:43:03Anyone else?
00:43:06That looks like him, only a little madder.
00:43:09He had a patch over one eye
00:43:10when he come into my dive,
00:43:11my place of business.
00:43:12I remember noticing that the one showing was blue.
00:43:15Well, the guy that stuck me up
00:43:16had on horn-rimmed glasses.
00:43:18He was wearing a Band-Aid across his nose
00:43:20when he knocked me over.
00:43:22Uh-huh.
00:43:24All right, hold that, Lee.
00:43:26Well, so much for the eyes.
00:43:30Go ahead.
00:43:46Mr. Capitán.
00:43:48Yes, Miss Montalvo.
00:43:50Ay, ¿cómo se dice en inglés?
00:43:53A sus órdenes, señorita.
00:43:54Ah, qué bien.
00:43:55En este bandido, la nariz fue chata.
00:43:58Como aquella.
00:43:59Pero un poco más chata y más ancha.
00:44:02Like that, Captain, but more snubbed, wider.
00:44:05Try another one, Lee.
00:44:10Como aquella.
00:44:12Casi la misma.
00:44:13She says that's about it.
00:44:15Thank you very much, Miss Montalvo.
00:44:18Get Reeves.
00:44:20Any more comments?
00:44:22That's pretty close, all right.
00:44:23Pretty close.
00:44:24Perfect.
00:44:25All right, now we'll start on the mouth and chin.
00:44:27The next series, Lee.
00:44:32I think his lower lip stuck out more.
00:44:34The mouth was thin and mean, like it never laughed.
00:44:40Go ahead.
00:44:42Something like that.
00:44:43But thicker lips.
00:44:48There.
00:44:49That's it.
00:44:50That's him.
00:44:51All right, now hold that right there, Lee.
00:44:54Oh, come in, Mr. Reeves.
00:44:57Good evening, Captain.
00:45:00Did you ever see that face before?
00:45:05Why, it's Roy.
00:45:07Except for the hair being a little lighter and the eyebrows heavier.
00:45:11It's Roy.
00:45:13You're sure?
00:45:14I'm positive I'd know him anywhere.
00:45:18Lee, I want a retouched photograph.
00:45:21Now lighten the hair and give more body to the eyebrows.
00:45:24Right.
00:45:25Lights.
00:45:29That's all.
00:45:30Thank you very much.
00:45:31You've been a great help.
00:45:31It's positively amazing how you found out what he looks like.
00:45:35Well, we're looking for an amazing criminal, Mrs. Johnson.
00:45:38Thank you and good night.
00:45:39Good night, Captain.
00:45:41And so the face of the unknown killer, built up from fragments of evidence, was sent out
00:45:46all over the country.
00:45:47To chiefs of police, to sheriffs, to county constables and county jailers.
00:45:53To the wardens of prisons.
00:45:56To all postmasters and postal inspectors.
00:46:00To the agents of the treasury department.
00:46:04To the FBI.
00:46:06They showed that picture to the inmates of jails and prisons.
00:46:10To men with a wide acquaintance among the cat burglars and the violence boys.
00:46:14Informers and conmen and sharpshooters were quizzed.
00:46:17Those on the fringe of crime and those deep in the rackets.
00:46:21Many wanted to help.
00:46:23Nobody could.
00:46:24No one in the underworld recognized that mysterious face.
00:46:28He was as unknown as if he had lived in the 16th century.
00:47:07They were in the 8th century.
00:47:12And they wanted to escape from his tiny pottery.
00:47:13He had después ofeleriand seç marshes.
00:47:13One minuteên't�를してた huntingů.
00:47:14For more figures, I've forgotten the fashion people
00:47:15Baby, he's dirty on this far.
00:47:15How well is the terrible city that had been taken?
00:47:45Let's go.
00:47:50It's up.
00:48:05Reeves!
00:48:08Roy!
00:48:10Listen carefully, Reeves.
00:48:14Control yourself.
00:48:16I know you're alone in the house.
00:48:19Act like you're alone.
00:48:21Cops are watching every move you make.
00:48:23The police here?
00:48:25They got you staked out like a muskrat hide,
00:48:27watching you around the clock.
00:48:29Here, at your plant, tailing your car.
00:48:33Sit in that chair.
00:48:39Pick up three books.
00:48:45Don't look up and don't answer me.
00:48:49All right.
00:48:52A glance at the books.
00:48:59Pick one of them.
00:49:05Okay.
00:49:07Now, that's the book you want to read before you go to bed.
00:49:11Now.
00:49:12Get up and turn off the lamp.
00:49:20Come here.
00:49:22Come here.
00:49:32Go in the den.
00:49:40Pull those drapes tank.
00:50:06Pull those drapes tank.
00:50:13What do the cops know about me?
00:50:16Not very much, Roy.
00:50:19No fingerprints.
00:50:20They haven't even got a picture of you.
00:50:21They're trying to make one.
00:50:27How much cash you got in the house?
00:50:31None.
00:50:31I never keep any cash in the house.
00:50:33It isn't good business.
00:50:35I suppose you think it was good business,
00:50:37letting me walk into that trap.
00:50:38No, Roy, no.
00:50:39Don't do anything you'll regret.
00:50:40Now, listen to me.
00:50:41It isn't too late.
00:50:42Give yourself up.
00:50:43Come to your senses before you kill someone else.
00:50:53What do you mean, someone else?
00:50:56Nothing.
00:50:57The two officers, they said one of them might die.
00:51:01He's still alive, isn't he?
00:51:06Reeves?
00:51:07I never thought you'd stooge for the police.
00:51:12You almost got me killed.
00:51:13Roy, you know the police are right outside.
00:51:15You'd never get away with it.
00:51:23That's right.
00:51:25Now you're being sensible.
00:51:31I know there's money here.
00:51:33What is it?
00:51:33Don't worry.
00:51:34I'll get it.
00:51:56It's not enough.
00:51:57The stuff you've got in mind is worth thousands.
00:51:59I'll get more.
00:52:02Get it.
00:52:03Keep it handy.
00:52:04I'll be back next week and next month.
00:52:07But get it.
00:52:07And have it ready.
00:52:09Just give me time.
00:52:17Oh!
00:52:20Look.
00:52:21I don't want policemen outside my house following me around.
00:52:25That's what made Roy suspicious.
00:52:28I'm leaving in the morning.
00:52:30I'm afraid I'll have to disappoint you, Paul.
00:52:33Unfortunately, you're our bait.
00:52:35I won't do it.
00:52:37I've done enough.
00:52:39Look, no one's done enough until we find this killer.
00:52:45I asked you to keep a sharp lookout on this house, Marty.
00:52:48I did.
00:52:49Two of the best undercover men of an apartment were assigned here.
00:52:52That didn't keep Martin from getting in.
00:52:55What's the matter?
00:52:55You tired?
00:53:06You got any idea how long you've been on this case, Marty?
00:53:10Months.
00:53:11Long enough to have come up with something by this time.
00:53:16You know any more about the Rollins killer than you knew the first week?
00:53:20Yeah.
00:53:21And he's about the toughest nut I've ever had to crack.
00:53:25That's what I told the Chief when he called me in this afternoon.
00:53:28Wanted to know why the case hadn't been broken.
00:53:32Look, Captain.
00:53:33Rollins was a friend of mine.
00:53:36So's Chuck.
00:53:38I've got a bigger stake in this than the Chief knows.
00:53:41I'm doing everything I can.
00:53:45Well, I'm afraid it's not enough, Marty.
00:53:50Maybe you're too close to it to see it clearly.
00:53:54Maybe it needs a fresh team, a new viewpoint.
00:53:58I think you better take a couple of weeks off, Marty.
00:54:02Starting tomorrow.
00:54:06Anything you say, Captain.
00:54:07I'm going to have to go with him.
00:54:08I'm going to have to go with him.
00:54:22Hiya, Marty.
00:54:24Hiya, Chuck.
00:54:24Meet Miss Scanlon, my new bodyguard.
00:54:27He's the one I've been telling you about.
00:54:28Oh, you mean the one with the steel trap brain?
00:54:30How do you do?
00:54:31Hello.
00:54:32Has this guy been behaving?
00:54:33After a fashion.
00:54:34See, she takes me out in my go-kart, puts me to bed, wakes me up, dresses me.
00:54:38You're perfectly capable of dressing yourself now, Mr. Jones.
00:54:42I'll be back in a few minutes.
00:54:46Well, how's it been going, Junior?
00:54:49Oh, pretty good, Chuck. Pretty good.
00:54:52Is that why you're off the case?
00:54:55How'd you know?
00:54:56Breen was in to see me this morning.
00:54:58Oh.
00:54:59I suppose he also told you they'd put a new team on the case.
00:55:02He told me everything.
00:55:04Yeah.
00:55:04Let's see what his new boys dig up.
00:55:06Well, maybe they'll examine the facts of the case a little more carefully.
00:55:10What facts?
00:55:11That our man's sharp?
00:55:12That he's intelligent and works alone?
00:55:14That he has no record, never leaves a fingerprint in those every move we make?
00:55:18Sure, plenty of facts, only they add up to nothing.
00:55:20Sure, forget it.
00:55:21You got yourself a ten-day vacation.
00:55:23Go on down to the beach, get a suntan.
00:55:25By the time you get back, the case will be broken.
00:55:27Isn't that what you want?
00:55:29You know better than that.
00:55:30Oh, I know is what I hear.
00:55:31You sit there batting your gums about how the old man let you down.
00:55:34Maybe he's trying to wake you up.
00:55:36He's got a funny way of showing it.
00:55:38There you go, flying off the handle, always taking things for granted.
00:55:41I wish I could get up and boot some sense into you.
00:55:43He knew what this case meant to me.
00:55:45He still does.
00:55:46That's why he's trying to get you mad enough to do something about it.
00:55:52You don't really figure that's his idea, do you?
00:55:54I know it is.
00:55:56Ah, that's a tough case, Chuck.
00:55:58Not an angle, nothing to go on.
00:56:01You'd know what I meant if you were out working with me.
00:56:03I have been working with you.
00:56:05That's all I've had to do lately, just sit around studying what little facts we have.
00:56:09Trying to figure out who we might be.
00:56:11I didn't know the kind of a guy we're up against then.
00:56:14I tell you, Chuck, this guy's a genius the way he operates.
00:56:17As if he were right there with us every time he'd go out after a lead.
00:56:20Oh, sure.
00:56:21Breen's been tipping him off just to make you look bad.
00:56:23They almost like that.
00:56:25Boy, he beats us to the punch every time.
00:56:28There's your angle.
00:56:29You just hit it on the head, but you don't see it.
00:56:31Look, start at him.
00:56:32One, he's unknown to the underworld.
00:56:35Two, he beats you to the punch, right?
00:56:37And three, it's almost as if he were with you.
00:56:39Isn't that what you said?
00:56:41Yeah.
00:56:41Well, tie that up with a lot of other little things, like the fact that he uses a police gun.
00:56:45And the accuracy of his shooting.
00:56:48Well, anybody could buy a police gun, and the army could have taught him how to shoot.
00:56:51Yeah, but who taught him how the police operate?
00:56:56Oh, I know what you're driving at, Chuck.
00:56:58But a cop.
00:57:00Those things happen.
00:57:02Yeah.
00:57:03Now, if I were still in the case, I'd start with our own department first.
00:57:06Then Santa Monica.
00:57:07Cover City.
00:57:08Burbank.
00:57:09Pasadena.
00:57:09See you later, Junior.
00:57:10Hey!
00:57:11Don't let him out of your sight, beautiful.
00:57:13It's the first time in years he's used his head.
00:57:24But you get a print of every mug we take.
00:57:25We always send L.A. a copy, Sergeant.
00:57:27It's personnel photos I want.
00:57:29You mean of our boys?
00:57:33That's Roland's killer, isn't it?
00:57:35That's right.
00:57:36You've checked your own department.
00:57:38We did that first.
00:57:44And so the tedious quest went on.
00:57:47Sergeant Brennan wore out his shoes and his patients going from police station to police station.
00:57:52Checking photos until his eyes were blurry.
00:57:55For police work is not all glamour and excitement and glory.
00:57:58There are days and days of routine.
00:58:02Of tedious probing.
00:58:03Of tireless searching.
00:58:05Fruitless days.
00:58:07Days when nothing goes right.
00:58:09When it seems as if no one could ever think his way through the maze of baffling trails of criminal
00:58:14leaves.
00:58:15But the answer to that is persistence.
00:58:18And the hope that sooner or later something will turn up.
00:58:21Some tiny lead that can grow into a warm trail and point to the cracking of a tough case.
00:58:41Well, that does it, boys.
00:58:42Can't say I'm sorry you didn't find him in here.
00:58:45I'd hate to think it was a cop.
00:58:47Doesn't seem to be anybody.
00:58:50Just a lot of pieces of a face that never existed.
00:58:53Would you mind if I see that again?
00:58:55Sure, Raymond.
00:58:56Put it on your dresser.
00:58:58Wait a minute.
00:58:59He wasn't a cop.
00:59:01He was a radio technician right here in our dispatch office.
00:59:04What did you say?
00:59:06I'm saying he worked here in 42.
00:59:08Well, come on. Give.
00:59:10I remember the kid well.
00:59:12It was sort of strange.
00:59:13Never bothered with anyone in the department.
00:59:15Just kept to himself.
00:59:17But he was in line for promotion when he was drafted.
00:59:20Where was he living at the time?
00:59:22I don't remember.
00:59:24Try the dead files.
00:59:30Never asked for his job back after the war.
00:59:33I remember writing to him about it, though.
00:59:34He was an excellent worker.
00:59:36Oh, yeah. Here we are.
00:59:38Yeah, this is it.
00:59:40Took a while before he answered, but like he says in the letter, he wasn't interested.
00:59:52Postmarked Hollywood.
00:59:54No return address.
00:59:56What do you want us to do?
00:59:57All the work?
00:59:59Thanks a lot, Freddy.
01:00:01Remember, he was a civilian employee.
01:00:13Well, how about it?
01:00:14Anybody recognize him?
01:00:16Not on my route.
01:00:19I never saw him before.
01:00:22Yeah, okay, fellas.
01:00:23Thanks very much.
01:00:28I thought for a minute...
01:00:32No.
01:00:34And yet that face...
01:00:36I wonder.
01:00:37Yeah?
01:00:38Well, this may not mean anything, but he looks like a guy that's on my route.
01:00:41He never gets any mail, but I see him around here all the time.
01:00:44He lives in one of the courts.
01:00:46Where?
01:00:47Come on, I'll show you.
01:00:49It's not that easy.
01:00:51What time does your route take you past those courts?
01:00:54About nine o'clock.
01:00:55What?
01:00:57Just thinking.
01:01:12You got any chocolate milk?
01:01:13Sure have, buddy.
01:01:16There you are.
01:01:17Thanks.
01:01:19Which apartment?
01:01:21Straight down back.
01:01:25Second in the Yelp.
01:01:28Number seven.
01:01:29Right.
01:01:31Had a warm today, huh?
01:01:33Oh, it's not too bad for this time of the year.
01:01:40Good morning.
01:01:42Morning.
01:01:43You're new and you're out, aren't you?
01:01:45We had a substitute.
01:01:46What happened to the other fella?
01:01:47Sick.
01:01:48Oh, what's the matter, really?
01:01:50I don't know.
01:01:52I catch everything.
01:01:53Hear about it on the radio, and next morning I got it.
01:01:56Too bad.
01:01:57You aren't very social.
01:01:59The regular fella always stops and talks to you.
01:02:01Sorry, Betty.
01:02:01I'm a little late this morning.
01:02:03I was hoping maybe you were there.
01:02:04If you could help me.
01:02:07There's something very funny going on in this court.
01:02:10Yeah?
01:02:10I was scared to go to the police with her.
01:02:12I thought maybe I might get poisoned.
01:02:15What?
01:02:16Yeah.
01:02:17By the manager.
01:02:18She's a witch.
01:02:20She's a what?
01:02:21A witch.
01:02:22She puts poison in my milk.
01:02:25Oh, I see.
01:02:28Look.
01:02:29You switch the bottles when she isn't looking, see?
01:02:31Drink her milk.
01:02:33Then you'll be safe, right?
01:02:55I'll be right back.
01:03:06Well, I had a little accident.
01:03:08Got a mop.
01:03:08I'll clean it up.
01:03:11We could be.
01:03:12I'll clean it up myself.
01:03:15Okay, mister.
01:03:45The place is called Bellevue Court.
01:03:47I drew this to memory, but it's pretty close.
01:03:49That's where he's hiding out, right there.
01:03:52You sure he's our man, Marty?
01:03:54Captain, I couldn't go wrong on that face.
01:03:56He's our man.
01:03:57I'll be right back.
01:04:01I'll be right back.
01:04:03Now, there are five cottages in this area.
01:04:06And two, number six and seven, in the L at the end of the row.
01:04:09Our man lives in number seven.
01:04:11This building department plan will show you the whole layout.
01:04:14It's bounded on three sides by Fuller, Santa Monica, and Poincettia.
01:04:18Now, the court is partly surrounded by a high wall.
01:04:23Breen, homicide.
01:04:26Good.
01:04:27You keep your eyes open until we get there.
01:04:29Morgan has just gone into his bungalow alone.
01:04:32Any questions?
01:04:33All right.
01:04:34You all have your instructions.
01:04:35Let's go.
01:04:54Good.
01:05:00Good.
01:05:02Good.
01:05:16Good.
01:05:36Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
01:05:58Oh, oh, oh, oh.
01:06:15We're out on time.
01:06:17Wait five minutes.
01:06:19Go around and block the side entrance.
01:06:20Keep your lights off.
01:06:27Oh, oh, oh.
01:06:29Oh, oh.
01:06:35Oh, oh.
01:06:36Oh, oh.
01:06:38Oh.
01:06:40Oh, well.
01:07:13Oh, well.
01:07:40Oh, well.
01:08:17Oh, well.
01:08:18Oh, well.
01:08:19Oh, well.
01:08:20Oh, well.
01:08:20Oh, well.
01:08:28Oh, well.
01:08:33Oh, well.
01:08:44Oh, well.
01:09:01Oh, well.
01:09:04Oh, well.
01:09:09Oh, well.
01:09:11Oh, well.
01:09:23Oh, well.
01:09:25Oh, well.
01:09:26Oh, well.
01:09:31Oh, well.
01:09:53Oh, well.
01:09:54Oh, well.
01:09:55Oh, well.
01:10:16Oh, well.
01:10:17Oh, well.
01:10:17Oh, well.
01:10:17Oh, well.
01:10:25Oh, well.
01:10:29Oh, well.
01:10:33Oh, well.
01:10:35Oh, well.
01:10:44All units.
01:10:45All units in the vicinity of Santa Monica and Fuller.
01:10:48The murder suspect in the Rawlins killing is at large.
01:10:50Oh, well.
01:10:54Oh, well.
01:10:58Oh, well.
01:11:22Oh, well.
01:11:22I want a map covering the storm drain system in this area.
01:11:25Get it and meet me at Venice and Garfield.
01:11:27Jones, Miller, you stay here in case he comes up for air.
01:11:30I want a man at every other drain entrance along this line.
01:11:33He's got to come up somewhere.
01:11:35Come on, Marty.
01:11:36You're driving.
01:12:02Keep this drain covered.
01:12:03It's liable to pop out anywhere.
01:12:09Okay.
01:12:09Look at that.
01:12:18Okay, Captain.
01:12:20Oh, my God.
01:12:20Oh, my God.
01:12:29It's the main intersection of the system.
01:12:31We can head him off that way.
01:12:32A. Decay to control one.
01:12:34We're at frequency seven.
01:12:35This is an emergency.
01:12:36Control one, to the a.
01:12:37to all cars on frequency seven, stand by.
01:12:39Control one to 80K, go ahead.
01:12:42Notify homicide, send the following
01:12:43to Venice and Garfield.
01:12:45Four squads, battle lanterns, gas mask, tear gas.
01:12:49Urgent, this is a code three.
01:12:51Control one to 80K, roger.
01:13:15And he'll probably head down this main drain
01:13:17to where it comes out at the Rio Hondo.
01:13:19Now, you take your squad and cover that exit.
01:13:21Right.
01:13:21Keep all spare radio cars cruising back and forth
01:13:23along this main street.
01:13:24Watch the curb inlets.
01:13:26We'll go in here.
01:13:40Any kind of them?
01:13:41No.
01:13:41We've searched every foot between here
01:13:43and the Rio Hondo outlet.
01:13:44Then he must be up ahead.
01:13:46Let's go.
01:14:07Let's go.
01:14:08Let's go.
01:14:46Let's go.
01:15:07Let's go.
01:16:09Let's go.
01:16:38Let's go.
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01:17:15Let's go.
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01:17:23Let's go.
01:17:44Let's go.
01:18:17Let's go.
01:18:18Let's go.
01:18:19Let's go.
01:18:27Let's go.
01:18:27Let's go.
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