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00:01:50How was the take tonight?
00:01:52Not bad, Mr. Hennessy.
00:01:53Almost 20 grand.
00:01:54Good. Tell the boys I'll be with them in a few minutes.
00:02:36Mary for deposit tomorrow, 142 $100 bills, $150 bills. The rest, 5, 10...
00:02:49I told you I'd come back.
00:03:00Remember Buchanan?
00:03:02Would you hear not, Buchanan?
00:03:05I don't look like him, but I am him.
00:03:09Don't you recognize the voice, Jim?
00:03:12I promise to see you die, and I will.
00:03:24Hey, boss, what's the matter?
00:03:25Hey, boss, let us in.
00:03:26Hey, boss.
00:03:27Hey, boss, what's the matter?
00:03:29Hey, boss, let us in.
00:03:31Hey, boss.
00:03:32Come on, come on, come on!
00:03:47Come back home. Come back home.
00:03:59Get in the automobile.
00:04:03Get in the automobile.
00:04:07In the automobile.
00:04:11Get inside.
00:04:15Turn on the ignition.
00:04:20Bravo. Drive home.
00:04:23He got hit when they shot at him. He might not be able to make it.
00:04:26If his brain is still receptive, he can be directed.
00:04:28Well, what if it isn't? What if the bullets hit one of the brain electrodes?
00:04:31As long as he has an ounce of liquid in his veins, he will return home.
00:04:35I've told you these creatures automatically try to return to their source of feeding when their energies run low.
00:04:42Well, your creatures helped us get rid of the first one.
00:04:48I see them all die before I'm through.
00:04:51If I had only known when you first offered to help me financially.
00:04:55Dr. Stag, if it weren't for my money, you'd still be experimenting with cats and dogs in that flea-sized
00:05:00lab of yours in Europe.
00:05:01I made it possible for you to prove your theory with human beings.
00:05:05That is true.
00:05:06But my theory was to use these creatures to help people live.
00:05:10By doing everything that was difficult and dangerous.
00:05:14You just want to see people die.
00:05:16Not just people, Stag.
00:05:18Particular people.
00:05:21And I'll get them.
00:05:23Every single one of them.
00:05:25And after you do what?
00:05:28There'll be nothing we can't do or have.
00:05:31Nobody will be able to stop us.
00:05:47The other one?
00:05:52There'll be nothing.
00:06:08There's nothing you do.
00:06:08There's no way to get the water.
00:06:08But there's nothing you do.
00:06:09There's nothing you do.
00:06:13You just want me to stop.
00:06:14It's got some sleep.
00:06:14It's just finally your day.
00:06:25can't you keep him going any longer no i can't keep them breathing longer than a few days
00:06:31then the glands deteriorate they just disintegrate is he dead he never was alive
00:06:49different parts of the body die at different times my next problem is how to keep them working as long
00:06:56as the heart is beating does the brain still die first always the brain always dies first
00:07:27aren't you boys home in bed hello dr walker i gave him exactly 19 000 821 all right wait outside
00:07:33will you please follow chet hey hiya dave what does it look like i guess it's as good as mine
00:07:38robbery behind it could be yet whoever did it left over six grand in the safe maybe he didn't want
00:07:42to
00:07:42get into a higher bracket oh brother how did he get it how didn't he get it neck's been broken
00:07:50and
00:07:50also a spine just by twisting it the murderer must have had the strength of an ape hennessy's guards
00:07:55saw him so he'd look like any other man don't tell me he bent these bars that's what hennessy's boys
00:07:59say killer came in and got out that way i'd hate to meet him on a dark night bullet holes
00:08:04huh
00:08:04hennessy's boy shot at him hit him too look at the trail of blood we found some blood on the
00:08:08road
00:08:09you know there's something screwy about this whole thing he must have been hit bad to lose that
00:08:13much blood yet he made it to his car and got away whoever it was was certainly careless these
00:08:17fingerprints are perfect that's strange what is uh turn out the lights for a minute with you
00:08:25see it yeah the fingerprints are luminous yes and the footprints and the blood
00:08:32uh turn on the lights again what do you make of that huh i'm the district attorney not a chemist
00:08:37ask chet what about it chet wish i knew
00:08:44let's take this bag to the lab and make a test on it i'll send the fingerprints to
00:08:47washington maybe they can trace them there
00:08:51don't let anyone in there have you got any idea who did it was a robbery what's he inside
00:08:55got nothing to say now boys doctor how did anybody break through those bars in there
00:08:58maybe he had all these vitamins vitamins
00:09:25look diluted solution of hematin
00:09:27two absorption bands between the fraunhofer lines oh cut the double talk chet and break
00:09:31it down to plain english take a look this so-called blood is a chemical composition
00:09:36must take a bunch of crystals to me exactly there are crystals in that concoction
00:09:40now what do you mean concoction i'll show you
00:09:54adrenaline
00:09:58sodium hydroxide
00:10:03blood sugars
00:10:11throws the beam to the right dexterous no hemoglobin traceable no hemoglobin but it
00:10:17isn't blood right like i said before it's a chemical composition
00:10:21here i'll put it in the centrifuge and we'll see what else it's made of
00:10:42why is that stuff luminous that's right why is it luminous chet
00:10:56just as i thought this so-called blood is highly radioactive dangerously so plus nine is that a lot
00:11:05i'll have to kill a man if he's exposed to it long enough
00:11:10well that's about all we can do for tonight
00:11:13let me know when you hear from washington on those fingerprints
00:11:19well what'd you find out yeah how about giving us a load on it yeah give us a
00:11:22lead will you you want the truth yeah all right then according to the evidence
00:11:27hennessy was murdered by a creature with adam rays of superhuman strength and a creature
00:11:32that cannot be killed by bullets creature you don't expect us to believe that no big joke
00:11:40just for that i'll misspell your name i don't blame them i don't believe it myself and i was with
00:11:46you
00:12:09dave come on in where's chet sleeping sleeping at this hour yes at this hour 7 30
00:12:17well don't blame me joris i don't ask him to be a cop get him up we it's important
00:12:20where's penny having breakfast
00:12:22uncle dave oh that's my little sweetheart this morning huh i feel fine uncle dave
00:12:27there's some coffee in there dave thanks i can use it
00:12:30well penny and me gonna have a little tata tata aren't we huh
00:12:33i never tasted a tata tata before
00:12:40chet chet chet
00:12:51chet not now oh name a better time dave's here
00:12:57oh you can wait like you smile chet you'll hear us
00:13:03so what we're married but he's not well then let him find out what he's missing
00:13:10oh jett he says it's important important
00:13:16mm-hmm
00:13:20you felt that murder last night yeah must be
00:13:27you didn't tell me anything about it
00:13:30i don't believe in talking sharp when i'm home
00:13:33you probably read all about it anyway when you do you won't believe it
00:13:38i'll tell him you'll be right out
00:13:41oh there are door sticks
00:13:47remember mrs walker you had your chance
00:13:52come on open up tell me a story first
00:13:55oh it's too early in the morning for stories
00:13:57i always tell a story to my dolly do you like her oh i'm crazy about her what's her name
00:14:02henrietta henrietta i used to go with a girl named henrietta
00:14:06what happened to her what happened to her shouldn't happen to your doll
00:14:10she married a con man
00:14:12that's not the kind of a story to tell kids
00:14:14hiya penny hello daddy
00:14:16hurry up penny you'll be late for school
00:14:18come on
00:14:20oh hi that girl
00:14:22goodbye now
00:14:22goodbye daddy
00:14:24bye uncle dave
00:14:25have fun penny
00:14:26that's the story of a cop's life
00:14:28hello daddy goodbye daddy
00:14:32what's up
00:14:33you'd better sit down first
00:14:35hmm
00:14:37i just came from the bureau
00:14:38and checked the murderer's fingerprints
00:14:40his name is willard pierce
00:14:42they let me have it from the files
00:14:44petty theft fraud
00:14:46three months in prison
00:14:47tubercular
00:14:49how could a tubercular man have strength enough to break those bars like that
00:14:53you think that's something
00:14:53answer this one
00:14:55how could a dead man have strength enough to do it
00:14:57deceased
00:14:59yeah and i used to think scrabble was tough
00:15:01when did he die
00:15:03according to that 24 days ago
00:15:05well that doesn't make sense
00:15:07you're the smart one
00:15:08it doesn't make sense to you imagine how it sounds to me
00:15:12they got a file on this guy
00:15:13yes i copied it
00:15:16died of asphyxiation on the 22nd of last month
00:15:20body delivered to the city morgue
00:15:22copy of coroner's report was attached
00:15:24have you checked with the morgue
00:15:25i got two of the boys doing it now
00:15:27does mcgraw know
00:15:28i called him at his home
00:15:29he told us to meet him in his office
00:15:39hello
00:15:41oh yes he's here
00:15:42for you there
00:15:44yes
00:15:45uh-huh
00:15:46be right over
00:15:47remember that cylinder we took out of hennessy's dictaphone
00:15:50like to hear it
00:15:51sure
00:15:55bye penny
00:15:56now perhaps we can all relax a little
00:15:58bye honey
00:15:59call you later
00:16:00chet you didn't have breakfast
00:16:01no
00:16:02chet it's not healthy to
00:16:03bye chet it's not healthy to see you
00:16:39what are you doing in here
00:16:40i'm from buchanan
00:16:43if you know that
00:16:45you know why i'm here
00:16:48it's no use mcgraw
00:16:54i said i would live to see you die
00:16:57i am watching you now
00:17:09come back home
00:17:11come home
00:17:12come back home
00:17:17mary for deposit tomorrow
00:17:19142 100 dollar bills
00:17:22150 dollar bills
00:17:24the rest 5
00:17:2510
00:17:27i told you
00:17:29i'd come back
00:17:32that's when the dictaphone was knocked out of his hand
00:17:34or he dropped it
00:17:36anyone recognize that voice
00:17:39i do
00:17:40and i don't
00:17:41i just
00:17:43just got a feeling that i've heard it before
00:17:45it'd be hard to place it anyway but
00:17:48the killer's voice sounded more
00:17:50mechanical in hennessy's
00:17:51did you notice it
00:17:52yeah it's like a
00:17:53like a recording of a recording
00:17:55i told you i'd come back
00:17:59not much to tie on to there
00:18:01i could have been some big loser who swore to get even
00:18:04or some gambler he rousted around
00:18:07anyone on anything
00:18:09anyway there's no doubt that he
00:18:10bent the bars and came in through the window
00:18:12we could hear the sound of the glass crashing
00:18:14listen mcgraw must be waiting for us now
00:18:17oh but that's the d.a. tell them we're on the way up
00:18:20hello
00:18:21yeah
00:18:22mcgraw
00:18:26mcgraw was found in his garage
00:18:27murdered
00:18:30i'll meet you down there
00:18:31i want to pick up some equipment first
00:18:45looks like the same job pulled on hennessy
00:18:46did you find any prints
00:18:47plenty
00:18:49i asked the brewer to call me here as soon as i got a line on them
00:18:56how long has he been dead
00:18:57about an hour
00:18:58must have happened
00:18:59just as he was getting ready to go to the office
00:19:00who found him
00:19:01his wife
00:19:02she's in the house now
00:19:03i had to give her a sedative
00:19:04take him away boys
00:19:07captain harris
00:19:07i can't figure this
00:19:09your jaw's broken
00:19:10neck too
00:19:11it wasn't a weapon
00:19:13the bruises look to me as though they've been done by a fist
00:19:17mcgraw was a husky guy
00:19:18i've never seen a case where a man's neck was broken by the sheer force of a grip
00:19:32should anyone want to kill mcgraw
00:19:34no he was a district attorney
00:19:35a lot of guys must have hated his guts
00:19:37mcgraw's enemies were usually friends of hennessy's
00:19:41and yet they were both killed in the same way and by the same person
00:19:45but thing
00:19:47thing
00:19:48how about a statement captain harris
00:19:50about time we had something official
00:19:51as soon as we have something to say we'll say it
00:19:52you tie up mcgraw's murder with the hennessy murder
00:19:54not until we know more about it
00:19:56you want on the phone captain
00:19:58it's in the house
00:20:05geiger counter
00:20:05i want to check the car for radioactive emanations
00:20:08emanations
00:20:15hey dr walker didn't you find radioactivity in the hennessy killing
00:20:18well then that would connect the two murders wouldn't it
00:20:20well yes and no
00:20:22it's not a conclusive fact just an approach
00:20:24that story you gave us last night about a creature charged with atom rays
00:20:27it's on the level then huh
00:20:28i told you it was
00:20:29hey we had a scoop and didn't know it
00:20:30let's get out of here
00:20:36it was the bureau
00:20:37the prince belonged to a vernon dunn
00:20:40he died a few weeks ago
00:20:41and that's not all get this
00:20:43the boys just checked the morgue
00:20:44eight bodies have disappeared
00:20:47call the inspector and tell him i want to talk to him
00:20:49as soon as possible
00:20:50and ask him to have the mayor there
00:20:51and the commanding general of this military area
00:20:53general
00:20:54we're going to need all the cooperation we can get on this one
00:21:03how do you do ladies and gentlemen
00:21:04this is dick cutting with today's commentary on the news
00:21:08well as you know today's big story hinges around the killing of district attorney mcgraw
00:21:14whose body was found today in his garage
00:21:16murdered in much the same manner as hennessy was
00:21:20what connection the murder of mcgraw can possibly
00:21:24have with hennessy a gangland boss
00:21:26is unknown at present
00:21:28dr chet walker of the police laboratory
00:21:31has given out a fantastic story
00:21:34so incredible that one can lend it little credence
00:21:37dr walker is of the opinion these crimes are being perpetrated by dead men
00:21:43yes i said dead men
00:21:45restored to life in some unknown manner
00:21:48by being charged with atom rays
00:21:51which give them superhuman strength
00:21:54and makes them impervious to bullets
00:21:58well if you want to believe that story you can
00:22:03this walker must be a pretty smart cookie
00:22:06he has imagination
00:22:07the kind of imagination that may prove dangerous to us
00:22:11you mean the kind of imagination that could prove dangerous to him
00:22:15about time to feed them isn't it
00:22:30hello walker
00:22:32captain
00:22:32captain
00:22:32mayor bremer general saunders
00:22:35this is captain harris and dr walker
00:22:37walker's in charge of our lab
00:22:38i hope dr walker you've called us here to assure us
00:22:41the stories about dead men walking our streets is only a hoax
00:22:44i wish they were
00:22:47what'd you find out about those bodies stolen from the morgue
00:22:50according to the records they're to be cremated
00:22:51they were placed in coffins and delivered to the city crematory
00:22:54may i ask how this concerns me
00:22:57you can be of great help to us general as i'll explain in a moment
00:23:00but first i'd like to give you and the mayor a picture of what's been taking place
00:23:04so that you can understand exactly what we're up against
00:23:08couldn't those bodies have been stolen by some of those creatures on or before arrival
00:23:12well they could have but that wouldn't explain them coming back to life
00:23:16what makes you so sure they were alive
00:23:18what makes me so well they were walking around weren't they
00:23:21it says you found fingerprints
00:23:23you yourself said these dead people committed the crimes
00:23:26yes those are the facts
00:23:28but i'm afraid we'll have to depart from our usual approach to get anywhere in this case
00:23:33i wish dr walker you'd make yourself a little clearer
00:23:37well let me give you a very primitive example
00:23:40do you remember faraday's experiment with a frog's leg
00:23:43i flunked chemistry one three times
00:23:46i remember faraday's experiment
00:23:48good then you'll remember that faraday applied energy
00:23:51in that case electricity to the leg which had been severed from its body
00:23:54it moved
00:23:56frog legs
00:23:57i don't see the parallel
00:23:59people of that day wouldn't believe that the leg of a dead animal could move
00:24:04but faraday proved it
00:24:05we know why
00:24:06yes now we know why and take our knowledge for granted
00:24:09in our case which is as mysterious to us as faraday's was in his time
00:24:14we found traces of energy
00:24:16energy which would increase the strength of any animal tremendously
00:24:20radioactivity
00:24:20well you've lost me
00:24:23all right chet what you're trying to do now
00:24:25is throw away everything we've learned so far about life and death and start from scratch
00:24:28and just how'd you propose to do this
00:24:30well we have certain clues one very definite one
00:24:34in both of the murders radioactive emanations were found
00:24:37now that's where you come in general
00:24:39we'll have to find the source of these emanations
00:24:42now i want to use air force planes and trucks equipped with instruments which can track down that source
00:24:47i'll see that you get the trucks and i'll call colonel roberts at monroe air force base about the planes
00:24:52he'll give you all the cooperation you need
00:24:54we'd certainly appreciate that
00:24:56tell him i'll be down to talk to him at say three o'clock
00:24:58goodbye dr walker
00:24:59thank you
00:25:00good day gentlemen
00:25:01on all things to happen under my administration
00:25:04keep me posted on this
00:25:07and suppose we do find the source
00:25:09then we'll be able to find the cause
00:25:27that car in front
00:25:28get it
00:25:31wreck it
00:25:32drive into it
00:25:50what's he doing at the airfield
00:25:52better wait and find out
00:25:54it may concern us
00:25:58come back
00:26:03stop
00:26:04stop
00:26:05I don't know.
00:26:37Oh, it's you.
00:26:39Oh, who did you think it was?
00:26:40Don't tell me strangers are in the habit of...
00:26:43I was wondering if you'd be home in time for dinner.
00:26:55That's not true, Chad.
00:26:57Is it?
00:26:58Better hide it from Penny.
00:27:00But how can I hide a thing like...
00:27:02Please, Joyce.
00:27:03I'm tired and I'm hungry and...
00:27:06Frankly, I don't know how.
00:27:08I don't know any more about it than it says right there.
00:27:11Look, how are we fixed for a nice cold martini?
00:27:14Coming right up, Chad.
00:27:17Penny's outside playing.
00:27:19Well, what about it?
00:27:21Well, is it safe?
00:27:23Well, there seems to be some sort of a definite pattern.
00:27:26Can't put my finger on it, but I do know that Hennessey and McGraw were killed for a reason.
00:27:31What's all right, then?
00:27:33Well, for a while.
00:27:34I don't think they've gotten around to indiscriminate killings yet.
00:27:38Yet.
00:27:42Hi, Daddy.
00:27:43Hiya, Penny.
00:27:47Where's the paper, Mommy?
00:27:48I want to read the funnies.
00:27:49Oh, it didn't come today, dear.
00:27:51Oh, then I'll put it on TV.
00:27:53Uh, no, Penny.
00:27:55It's broken, Penny.
00:27:56We'll have to have a man over to fix it.
00:27:58Yeah.
00:27:59Look, why don't you play with Henrietta?
00:28:01She's a bad girl, and I'm punishing her.
00:28:03Oh, did you spank her?
00:28:05I put her in her bed and told her she can't look at TV.
00:28:09I'll wait.
00:28:10You're a tough one, you are.
00:28:14Ah, thanks, honey.
00:28:16I've been looking forward to this all day.
00:28:21I'll go!
00:28:24Hello, Uncle Dave.
00:28:26Hi, Penny.
00:28:26How are you?
00:28:27Oh, it's you.
00:28:28Oh, you don't seem particularly happy to see me.
00:28:30There comes a time in every woman's life when she'd like to be alone with her husband,
00:28:34if only for a few minutes.
00:28:35How come you never got married, Uncle Dave?
00:28:38He'd be a bigamist, Penny.
00:28:39He's already married to your father.
00:28:41Want a drink, Dave?
00:28:42No, not while I'm on duty.
00:28:44Well, I'm not on duty.
00:28:45You will be when you hear what I've got to tell you.
00:28:49Penny, will you please go to your room?
00:28:51Why?
00:28:51I didn't do anything.
00:28:52I know, dear.
00:28:54It's just that Daddy and Uncle Dave want to be alone.
00:28:57I won't bother them.
00:28:59Go to your room this minute, Penny.
00:29:01All right, but I always let you listen when I talk to Henrietta.
00:29:07Okay, let's have it.
00:29:09Look, I'm not a child, and this is my house.
00:29:12You're not going to put me out of it.
00:29:13The only time my wife talks is when I'm ready to go to sleep.
00:29:17All right, I'll get dinner.
00:29:20Remember you said this morning that you were thrown because Hennessey and McGraw were both killed
00:29:24in the same way and by the same thing, yet they were always on opposite sides of the fence?
00:29:28What about it?
00:29:29Well, that worried me, too, so I checked back on both of them
00:29:31and found that they were on the same side of the fence once.
00:29:34When was that?
00:29:35About ten years ago, when you first came in at the police lab.
00:29:38Hennessey and McGraw helped convict Frank Buchanan.
00:29:41Buchanan.
00:29:42The name rings a bell, but not too clearly.
00:29:46Buchanan was a top mobster around these parts.
00:29:48He practically ran the city.
00:29:49When McGraw became D.A., he took out after him.
00:29:52Well, where does Hennessey come in?
00:29:53Well, Hennessey was Buchanan's number two man.
00:29:54He wanted the number one slot, so he turned on him.
00:29:56I remember something about it now.
00:29:58Wasn't Buchanan shipped off to Europe?
00:30:00That's right.
00:30:00He got five years in deportation.
00:30:02I don't get the connection.
00:30:03Listen to this.
00:30:04I got it out of the newspaper files.
00:30:06No sooner was sentence pronounced than Buchanan leaped to his feet screaming to McGraw,
00:30:09I'll get you for this, you and everyone who squealed on me.
00:30:13I'll come back and see you die, every single one of you.
00:30:16Get it?
00:30:16That voice on the dictaphone.
00:30:17I told you I'd come back.
00:30:19That's right.
00:30:19It's the first thing I thought of, too.
00:30:20Yeah.
00:30:21But you just said he was deported.
00:30:29I'm not saying it's him, but it's a lead.
00:30:30It's the only connecting leak I could come up with.
00:30:33Why, any guy should want to kill both McGraw and Hennessey.
00:30:35Did you check with the authorities over there?
00:30:37Well, I cabled them and just got this answer.
00:30:44Frank Buchanan resided in Rome, bailed at Chula number 11, house vacated, left no forwarding
00:30:50address.
00:30:50Well, he could still be anywhere in Europe.
00:30:52I cabled the chief of police in Rome, asked him to investigate further, and cabled me as
00:30:56soon as he had a land on him.
00:30:57Were there any others who helped convict Buchanan?
00:31:00Two others who were in with him, and the fellow who was the assistant district attorney, Lester
00:31:04Banning.
00:31:05He's now in private practice.
00:31:06Think they should be warned?
00:31:07I'm having the boys round them up now.
00:31:09They should be in my office any minute.
00:31:10Well, let's go.
00:31:16What about dinner?
00:31:18Oh, keep it warm, honey.
00:31:19I'll be back in an hour or two.
00:31:20Sorry, Joyce.
00:31:21I'll bet you are.
00:31:23One for the road?
00:31:25Oh, no, no, dear.
00:31:25I'm back on duty.
00:31:40Oh, nice to see you, Mr. Banning.
00:31:42Hey, Kevin.
00:31:42This is Dr. Walker, head of our crime lab.
00:31:44Okay.
00:31:45And this is Jason French.
00:31:46I used to be Buchanan's accountant.
00:31:48And Don here used to be his gunsold.
00:31:50I don't like that word.
00:31:51Paid killer.
00:31:52Like it better?
00:31:52Look, I've been traveling straight, and I don't know what I was brought here for.
00:31:55But it's a bum rat.
00:31:56I want to see a lawyer.
00:31:57Now, tell me, Captain.
00:31:58What's this all about?
00:31:59I called you here to warn you that your lives may be in danger.
00:32:03Is Buchanan back?
00:32:05What makes you say that?
00:32:07At first, Hennessy, then McGraw.
00:32:09He said he'd get us.
00:32:10But I didn't know he was back in the country.
00:32:13His sentence wasn't changed.
00:32:15How could he be back?
00:32:16If he's in this country, he's here illegally.
00:32:18Now, if you take my advice, you'd all go to jail for protection and stay there until we can find
00:32:23out whether it's Buchanan or not who's behind all this.
00:32:25Not me.
00:32:26I worked too hard to get out of jail.
00:32:27It's for your own good.
00:32:28Think my wife would believe that?
00:32:30She'd think I went back to packing a rod.
00:32:31What about you?
00:32:32I have a good business now.
00:32:34Tax auditor, public accountant.
00:32:37If I went to jail, my reputation would be ruined.
00:32:40I don't think it's necessary, Captain.
00:32:42Particularly since there's no proof that Buchanan is back in this country.
00:32:46All right.
00:32:47But I am going to give you protection 24 hours a day, no matter where you are.
00:32:50Got that, Tom?
00:32:51Right.
00:32:51Have some of the boys drive them home.
00:32:59Now, if an attempt is made to get any one of them next, then we'll know for sure it'll complete
00:33:03the pattern.
00:33:04It's the hard way to find out.
00:33:07This is from the chief of police in Rome.
00:33:10Attention, Captain David Harris.
00:33:13Buchanan's house converted to laboratory abandoned for over six months.
00:33:16Arrival cages with dead dogs, monkeys, etc.
00:33:20Discovered Buchanan not to have been associated with German scientist named Steig
00:33:23in lab operation who also has disappeared.
00:33:27If I find any additional information, I will advise.
00:33:29Rome's chief of police.
00:33:31Dogs, cats, monkeys.
00:33:33That's the way experimentation usually starts.
00:33:36Starts?
00:33:37To only one step from animals to human beings.
00:33:52Captain Harris sent me to relieve you.
00:33:56a little early, but...
00:33:58Why complain?
00:34:22And with the murder of Jason Franchot last night, I must apologize for my recent skepticism regarding...
00:34:28these radioactive creatures.
00:34:30It seems they do exist, and they are prowling the street.
00:34:35Police Chief Camden assures us that they are doing everything in their power to get to the source of these
00:34:40beings.
00:34:41With the cooperation of the military, planes and helicopters, equipped with radium finders, are now overhead.
00:34:48And strange-looking trucks, similarly equipped, are now, at this moment, prowling through the streets of our city to track
00:34:55them down.
00:35:17Well, if you, as close to the police chief in the hall of
00:35:48Excuse me, please.
00:35:50Let's ask a beer, please.
00:36:10Hey, you forgot your chain.
00:36:12This is a sawbuck.
00:36:14Two bits in the till, $9.75 in my pocket.
00:36:19Now, that's what I call a tip.
00:36:25You from Water and Power?
00:36:275.2.
00:36:32What's this all about, anyway?
00:36:34I'm probing for radioactivity.
00:36:36Is there uranium around here?
00:36:37I'm going to call my lawyer and find out if I own the mineral rights.
00:36:40Who is sitting here?
00:36:41Search me.
00:36:43He went out the back way.
00:36:44Hey, you know who he is?
00:36:45Never saw him before.
00:36:53Hey, don't watch that class.
00:36:55He never watched them, anyway.
00:36:58Do you leave anything else here?
00:36:59No.
00:37:04Just this.
00:37:09This ten spot hot?
00:37:11Hotter than you think.
00:37:20This is an international who's who of the medical profession.
00:37:24Here's what it says.
00:37:26Wilhelm Steig, born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1893.
00:37:30University of Berlin, Zurich, Milan.
00:37:331948 Harman Prize for his research in amygdala stimuli.
00:37:37Amygdala stimuli.
00:37:38What's that?
00:37:39Ultra-shortwave stimulations to specific parts of the brain,
00:37:43producing involuntary movements of the body.
00:37:46That's highly specialized stuff.
00:37:48Yeah.
00:37:48A number of stories have been published about amygdala stimulation of monkeys.
00:37:52Here's one of them.
00:37:55Appropriations have been made for research and development.
00:37:57And there's a doctor in Madrid who's made great advances
00:38:00since this article was published.
00:38:02Have you been conducting any experiments here at the hospital?
00:38:05No, but I have a short film that I told you about.
00:38:08Would you like me to run it?
00:38:09I'd appreciate it.
00:38:10Fine. Draw the curtains, will you?
00:38:32This animal looks content, doesn't it?
00:38:34You wouldn't suspect that it has 18 electrodes inserted in its skull.
00:38:38Turning this switch releases a small amount of ultra-short waves.
00:38:42Those electrodes are tuned to specific frequencies.
00:38:44As long as the impulse is released, the dog barks.
00:38:50By applying another impulse of different frequency,
00:38:53the dog immediately falls asleep.
00:38:55It will lie there as long as the stimulus is active.
00:38:59Another impulse will make it vicious.
00:39:05Docile.
00:39:07Hunger can be induced.
00:39:10Or it can be made to resent its food.
00:39:20Amygdala stimulations,
00:39:22somatomotor and visceromotor effects.
00:39:28Does this demonstration satisfy your curiosity?
00:39:31Almost.
00:39:34Try my special mixture.
00:39:36Thanks.
00:39:38This experiment was done on live animals.
00:39:41Of course.
00:39:43Do you think it could be applied to dead ones?
00:39:47Dead ones?
00:39:49Offhand, I'd say no.
00:39:52The command impulse is so small.
00:39:54Less than a millionth of a watt.
00:39:56That only the animal's body energies could supply the reactions.
00:40:00If you could replace the body energy from an outside source,
00:40:04say, with radioactive energies,
00:40:06do you think you'd get the same results?
00:40:09Well, your question is much too abstract
00:40:11to be answered at this moment, Dr. Walker.
00:40:15Do you think an experiment on humans
00:40:17would have the same result as on animals?
00:40:24We haven't arrived at that stage of our experiment yet.
00:40:29Could it be possible that somebody else has tried
00:40:33and already succeeded?
00:40:37Are you trying to connect the experiments with animals,
00:40:41with mysterious events of our city?
00:40:44It would answer the riddle, wouldn't it?
00:40:47Remote-controlled creatures,
00:40:49their brains powered by atomic energy,
00:40:51roaming the streets,
00:40:52directed from a central point.
00:40:55Utterly fantastic.
00:41:02Yes?
00:41:03Yes, he's here.
00:41:04It's for you, Doctor.
00:41:06Yes?
00:41:08Oh, yes, Dave.
00:41:13Send the glass and that bill over to the lab at once.
00:41:16That bird must be radiating in the dark.
00:41:18I don't understand how he can stay alive
00:41:20with all that radium poisoning in his system.
00:41:24German accent.
00:41:26Better have them search every house
00:41:28within a ten-block radius.
00:41:32I didn't even get that close to you.
00:41:34What did you ever leave here for?
00:41:35The pain, the pain in my hand was killing me.
00:41:38If I hadn't gotten some medicine to relieve it,
00:41:40I would have gone crazy.
00:41:42From now on, just hide in here.
00:41:44The walls and the shutters letter,
00:41:45they'll never find us.
00:41:46I'm not so sure.
00:41:48Those creatures, they leave radioactive traces.
00:41:50Sooner or later, they will be picked up.
00:41:57Plates.
00:41:58How low they're flying.
00:42:00Oh, I think it was a mistake
00:42:02not to get rid of that walker
00:42:03when we had a chance.
00:42:04It's a mistake we can remedy easily enough.
00:42:07I'll stop them.
00:42:08I'll make them ground every plane
00:42:09and pull out every truck looking for us.
00:42:12Go in there and fix up that stoolie.
00:42:14I want to send one of them out.
00:42:39And you feel certain it's Buchanan who's behind all this?
00:42:41For my money, it is.
00:42:43Killing Franschot completed the pattern.
00:42:45What about those other two?
00:42:46Banning and whatever his name is.
00:42:48I'm done.
00:42:49We put them in the county jail.
00:42:50They'll be safe there.
00:42:51It's the first time that gunsill ever beg
00:42:52to be put into jail.
00:42:53He was scared stiff.
00:42:55He isn't the only one.
00:42:57Yes?
00:42:58Call for you, sir.
00:42:59Personal.
00:42:59The party says it's important.
00:43:02Hello?
00:43:03Yes, this is Chief Camden.
00:43:05You will stop all planes and trucks
00:43:07searching for radioactivity.
00:43:10I will give you until three o'clock this afternoon
00:43:14to do this.
00:43:15If you do not,
00:43:17many people will be killed
00:43:19exactly one hour later.
00:43:21Who is this?
00:43:21Who is this?
00:43:22There will be no other warning.
00:43:28Hello?
00:43:29Hello?
00:43:29Hello?
00:43:30They hung up before I could put a tracer on it.
00:43:32There is a warning to withdraw all our planes and trucks
00:43:34equipped with radioactivity by three o'clock.
00:43:36Or else.
00:43:37What do you mean, or else?
00:43:38He or whatever it was
00:43:39practically threatened mass murder one hour later.
00:43:42What did the voice sound like?
00:43:43Sort of mechanical.
00:43:44What do you think, Dr. Walker?
00:43:46Could he or they or whatever these creatures are,
00:43:49could they do this thing?
00:43:50There is no definite knowledge
00:43:52as to what they can or cannot do.
00:43:53Then they must be stopped.
00:43:55How?
00:43:56But our only chance is to find their source.
00:44:00But if we pull back all the planes and trucks,
00:44:02we will never find the source.
00:44:03Give in to Buchanan now
00:44:04and there is no telling what he will ask for next.
00:44:08You think they are bluffing, Chet?
00:44:10They could be, but I doubt it.
00:44:12Captain, alert the entire force.
00:44:14Put every available officer on duty at four o'clock.
00:44:18I wonder just what they're trying to do.
00:44:21We'll find out in two hours.
00:44:54We'll find out in two hours.
00:44:57as governor i am declaring a state of emergency all police facilities have been alerted to protect
00:45:05us against any further crimes by so-called atomic creatures the state militia will assist in
00:45:12patrolling all traffic all scheduled transportation shall be cancelled until further notice if you
00:45:20must go outside have identification papers with you the radium-finding planes and trucks will
00:45:26continue to operate since this is our best hope of locating the source of these beings do not be
00:45:32alarmed as we are confident we will soon pinpoint the origin of these emanations all possible
00:45:39measures for your safety are being taken but you better dismantle the panel right now and get out
00:45:45of here while we can until i'm finished there are two more yet say nothing of that bright boy dr
00:45:51walker
00:45:52but you don't even know where they have hidden banning and don walker'd know if we got him well
00:45:58as a creature he would have no memory you know that he's a cop isn't he we can use him
00:46:03to get
00:46:04the information for us bring one of them out right now
00:46:40oh hey dave will you do me a favor and take my car over to the lab have one of
00:46:43the boys take a geiger
00:46:44counter out of the trunk needs a little adjustment all right you can drive mine home thanks bring it
00:47:02back to the back in the morning
00:47:05hey what's the big idea identification oh yes of course i forgot
00:47:39i think we've made our first real mistake
00:47:42a dangerous mistake a dangerous mistake i don't think so
00:47:47what will you use captain harris for the same thing i was gonna use walker for
00:47:53he's a cop too isn't he get him in shape as fast as you can
00:48:06you ready yes let's take a look at him
00:48:20come in
00:48:21come in
00:48:37closer
00:48:38closer stop why doesn't he see us what's wrong
00:48:48look at us
00:48:54see how the ceiling cells transmit the image the creature sees on the screen and with him i have
00:49:00actually succeeded in stimulating the muscular impulse of the larynx so that i can activate him to speak
00:49:14look at him
00:49:15make him say something to me what do you want him to say his name and make him look at
00:49:23me
00:49:25look at him
00:49:31say my name is david harris captain harris homicide squad
00:49:37my name is david harris captain harris homicide squad
00:49:50i think we can finish up all our unfinished business by tomorrow
00:50:20say my name is david harris
00:50:25I'll go.
00:50:26Penny, ask who it is first.
00:50:30Who is it?
00:50:32I am Captain Harris, homicide.
00:50:36It's Uncle Dave.
00:50:39Why so formal?
00:50:41I'm Captain Harris, homicide.
00:50:44Hello, Uncle Dave.
00:50:46Daddy isn't home.
00:50:48He just left.
00:50:49I'm baking a cake for Penny.
00:50:51It's her birthday.
00:50:52I'm seven today, going on eight.
00:50:55Excuse me, will you?
00:50:55My cake will be ruined.
00:51:01Gosh, your hand is cold.
00:51:07Sit down, Uncle Dave.
00:51:09I want you to see what Mother got for Henrietta.
00:51:14See?
00:51:15She got him a dress, panties, socks, and shoes.
00:51:19Don't you think they're beautiful?
00:51:22What's the matter, Uncle Dave?
00:51:24Cat, catch your tongue?
00:51:26Where is your father?
00:51:28I don't know.
00:51:29Ask your mother.
00:51:33Mommy, Uncle Dave wants to know where Daddy is.
00:51:36You went to see Chief Camden, Dave.
00:51:39Something about those two men involved with Buchanan.
00:51:42Those two you're keeping in the county jail.
00:51:47What are their names again, Dave?
00:51:49You know who I'm talking about.
00:51:51Banning and Dunn.
00:51:52That's it.
00:51:54You sound terrible, Dave.
00:51:56Are you sure you feel well?
00:51:59Penny, keep away from him.
00:52:00He may be coming down with a cold.
00:52:03Here, hold Henrietta for me.
00:52:06Time to feed her.
00:52:11Chet had a brainstorm this morning, Dave.
00:52:13Something about giving out phony information as to where those two men were hidden.
00:52:17He thinks Buchanan will send out one of those creatures to kill them,
00:52:20and then you can capture him.
00:52:22But he'll tell you all about that when you see him.
00:52:24Penny, what are you looking for?
00:52:26Where's he in this bottle?
00:52:30Here it is.
00:52:31Now, please stay out of the kitchen.
00:52:33I'm busy enough as it is.
00:52:41Mommy!
00:52:44Penny!
00:52:45Penny!
00:52:46Mommy!
00:52:50Penny, baby!
00:52:51What's going on?
00:52:53Honey, what's the hell?
00:52:54Come on, darling!
00:53:07I told you I'd make you suffer me.
00:53:09They were going to trick you with false information.
00:53:11We're about to pull a needle trick ourselves.
00:53:14Tell them to hurry up.
00:53:15Faster.
00:53:16Faster!
00:53:22Dr. Walker's trying to locate you, Captain.
00:53:24He said to get in touch with him immediately.
00:53:36This is 13F1, calling from frequency 2.
00:53:40Inform Dr. Chet Walker
00:53:41that Captain Harris is at the county jail.
00:53:44KMA 367.
00:53:48Oh, Captain Harris.
00:53:50Glad to see you again.
00:53:51Yeah, we're getting tired of looking for one another.
00:53:53How long do we have to stay holed up here?
00:53:55Being with him is like being in solitary.
00:53:57Well, if we can judge by the progress the police are making,
00:54:00we may as well resign ourselves to spending the rest of our lives together.
00:54:04That may not be as long as you think.
00:54:06What's wrong, Captain?
00:54:09Captain!
00:54:11You off your rocker?
00:54:12I'm Frank Buchanan.
00:54:15You're cracked.
00:54:16You ain't Buchanan.
00:54:17You're Captain Harris.
00:54:18I am Buchanan.
00:54:20I told you I'd see you die.
00:54:44Hi, Dave.
00:54:45Joyce called me.
00:54:46Why in the world did you...
00:54:53Hey, Dave, wait a minute.
00:54:54What's the last?
00:55:04What have you got, Walker?
00:55:07For Pete's sake, Dave, what's eating you?
00:55:16Slow down, Dave.
00:55:18Attention all cars.
00:55:21Lester Banning and Tom Dunn found murdered in county jail.
00:55:25Police Captain David Harris suspect.
00:55:28Proceeding south with Dr. Chet Walker in yellow convertible.
00:55:32License number 27H4926.
00:55:36No.
00:55:42Proceeding south with Dr. Chet Walker in yellow convertible.
00:55:46License number 27H4926.
00:55:52Smash up that car.
00:55:55Smash it up.
00:56:06Did the car crash?
00:56:07It must have.
00:56:09And both are dead.
00:56:10Only one can die, Mr. Buchanan.
00:56:14Dr. Walker, you all right?
00:56:16Yeah.
00:56:17Have Chief Camden rush a helicopter to pick up Captain Harris and take him to the city hospital.
00:56:21Yes, sir.
00:56:22And tell him to have Dr. Norton stand by.
00:56:24Right.
00:56:32Muscular movement extremely strong.
00:56:35Extraocular reactions missing completely.
00:56:38Reactions similar to those of animals subjected to strong amygdaloid stimulations.
00:56:43Got that?
00:56:59The x-rays of the skull.
00:57:01These will bring us a few steps closer to the solution.
00:57:04Will you follow me to my office, please?
00:57:07The doctor, stay here and let me know should the patient's condition change.
00:57:12Amazing.
00:57:12What are the small protrusions on the end of the dark lines?
00:57:16Electrodes.
00:57:17As you see, they are grouped in patterns.
00:57:19Everyone is connected with an amygdala circuit.
00:57:21You used that word before.
00:57:23What does it mean?
00:57:24The small lobes projecting from the underside of the cerebellum.
00:57:27All our body movements originate from there.
00:57:29These nerves stimulate muscular impulses.
00:57:33That's how the body gets orders from the brain.
00:57:36Muscular impulses.
00:57:37The larynx is a muscle, isn't it?
00:57:39We certainly move it by muscular contraction.
00:57:41That's why those creatures are able to talk.
00:57:44If the right stimulation activates the amygdala circuit, they will speak.
00:57:48There's no question about it.
00:57:49But they're not aware of what they're saying.
00:57:50They're not aware of anything.
00:57:52Those discs in front of the eyes are sealant cells.
00:57:55What makes you think so?
00:57:56Electric impulses produced by light.
00:57:58They could very well be transmitted back to a, well, let me call it a receiving station.
00:58:02What would that mean?
00:58:04If the image on the retina could be transmitted,
00:58:07then someone would be able to witness whatever this creature is seeing on a screen.
00:58:11That's impossible.
00:58:12Look here.
00:58:13What is it?
00:58:14You see?
00:58:15A few of the very fine wires have been broken loose.
00:58:18That's why the creature is impassive.
00:58:21He's moving.
00:58:22He's trying to get away.
00:58:28We can't get through to him.
00:58:29See?
00:58:30Some of the electrodes must have been broken, but he had that accident.
00:58:34The oscillograph doesn't register the impulse.
00:58:38His eyes are open.
00:58:40Does he see us?
00:58:41I don't know.
00:58:42We don't go any closer in case the sealant cells can still transmit light images.
00:58:46Maybe you can lead us to them, Dave.
00:58:48Maybe you can...
00:58:49It's just a hunch, but I think he's trying to return to his source of energy.
00:58:54Look, see how he turns?
00:58:56As if trying to find a certain direction.
00:59:00Watch it!
00:59:01Let him go.
00:59:01I'll follow him in the helicopter that brought us.
00:59:06Tell your men not to interfere with Captain Harris if he takes a car, even a police car.
00:59:10Let's hope he leads us to the source before his energy runs down completely.
00:59:14Try to contact him.
00:59:19If he has any energy left at all, he'll return to replenish it from the radium in this tube.
00:59:24Wherever he is, this will attract him like a magnet.
00:59:37Captain Harris, leaving hospital area.
00:59:40Important.
00:59:41Do not apprehend.
00:59:42Over enough.
00:59:47Over enough.
01:00:24I can see 557. Have your men keep out of his way. He can only see what is in front
01:00:32of him.
01:00:32Clear. Over and out. Take her down. Fly about 500 yards behind 557.
01:00:48Patrol car 557, passing 3rd Street area. Important. Do not apprehend.
01:00:58557 turned on to foothill. Proceeding south. Caution them to follow and not interfere.
01:01:04We'll advise when 557 reaches destination. Over.
01:01:1551. Oh, yeah, ain't nobody.
01:01:1952. Oh, yeah.
01:01:2452. Oh, yeah.
01:01:2553. Eh?
01:01:2753. Oh, yeah, I'm sorry.
01:01:3453. Oh, yeah.
01:01:3453. Oh, yeah.
01:01:3554. Oh, yeah.
01:01:3754. Oh, yeah.
01:01:41Oh, my God.
01:01:44Oh, my God.
01:02:14Notify all eight. Over and out.
01:02:17Okay, set her down.
01:02:31In a little while, the police and soldiers will be here.
01:02:36Come with me.
01:02:39I've had enough bloodshed. I will not let you commit any more.
01:02:42Try and stop me. Life is work, but I'll destroy it first.
01:03:16I'll destroy it first.
01:03:30Don't bring up some incendiary. Burn the place down.
01:03:33No. There must be radium in there.
01:03:35A fire would burn off its protective lead shield.
01:03:37Yes, once the radium is exposed, the gamma rays might spread over the entire city.
01:03:41We can't even blow open the door or the windows.
01:03:43It would be too dangerous to try it because of explosion.
01:04:03Come in. Come in.
01:04:18Well, then, kill them.
01:04:21Kill them.
01:04:36Good grief.
01:04:37Look at them.
01:04:37Those are the bodies that were stolen from the morgue.
01:04:47Kill them.
01:04:49Kill them.
01:05:13Bullets have to sever the electrodes to stop them.
01:05:19Kill them.
01:05:34Kill them.
01:05:36Kill them.
01:05:37Kill them.
01:05:37Kill them.
01:05:40Kill them.
01:05:41Kill them.
01:05:41Kill them.
01:05:41Kill them.
01:05:42Kill them.
01:05:43Kill them.
01:05:43Kill them.
01:05:44Kill them.
01:05:45Incredible. With the last ounce of energy remaining, he's still trying to reach the source.
01:06:23Oh, my God.
01:06:50Oh, my God.
01:07:15Oh, my God.
01:07:22Oh, my God.
01:07:28Oh, my God.
01:07:29Oh, my God.
01:08:00Well, I wonder what we've got here.
01:08:04Look at that.
01:08:05A birthday present from Uncle Dave.
01:08:08Isn't that pretty?
01:08:11Oh, but isn't it coming?
01:08:13No, no, I'm afraid he'll have to be away for a while.
01:08:17Why? I'm not mad at him anymore.
01:08:20It's not that, Penny. It's business.
01:08:23Look, Penny, why don't you name your new dolly Henrietta II?
01:08:27No, I'm going to call her Dave.
01:08:30Dave? Dave's a boy's name. That's a girl doll you've got there.
01:08:34I don't care.
01:08:36I know. I'll tell all my friends she's a tomboy.
01:08:40Well, guess that ought to do it, huh?
01:08:42All right, Penny. See if you can blow these out now.
01:08:46Here, Daddy. Pull a knife for me.
01:08:48All righty.
01:08:53Take a deep breath now.
01:08:59Come on.
01:09:00Come on. Oh, come on.
01:09:02Come on.
01:09:04Come on, everyone.
01:09:05Come on.
01:09:06Come on.
01:09:07Come on.
01:09:08Come on.
01:09:08Come on.
01:09:09Come on.
01:09:09Come on.
01:09:09Come on.
01:09:11Come on.
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