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00:00:01The End
00:00:36The End
00:01:10The End
00:01:52Tell Melody to come here
00:01:54But get moving
00:02:03Somebody wants to see you, Melody
00:02:05So tell them to look
00:02:07Yeah, well, you'd better look
00:02:08Standing right over there
00:02:17Grossom, grossom, I'm so glad to see you
00:02:19Why don't you get out?
00:02:19Relax, kid, relax
00:02:21Wrote the rods all night to get here
00:02:23All swelled it
00:02:24Did you break out?
00:02:25Good behavior
00:02:27Where can we talk?
00:02:28Outside, come on
00:02:30Hey, you, where are you going?
00:02:31Outside, this is my pal
00:02:32You're on the ivories
00:02:33Yeah, yeah, I know
00:02:34I'll be back
00:02:35Maybe
00:02:36Be back in ten minutes
00:02:37Or you're out of business
00:02:40With you in town
00:02:41That piano job don't mean nothing
00:02:42Do you have anything in mind?
00:02:44Yeah
00:02:44Something really big
00:02:46Where is it?
00:02:48Eight, fryer
00:02:49Only the big boy
00:02:51Ain't okayed me yet
00:02:52He'll okay me
00:02:53Yeah
00:02:55That's what I figured
00:03:11Sounds like an interesting setup
00:03:13With you in on it
00:03:14It's worth a million
00:03:21Big stuff grows in strange places
00:03:24Here it goes out of test tubes
00:03:30What do you want, Melody?
00:03:32I want to see the doctor
00:03:33I got the right guy
00:03:34To handle that job for
00:03:36What is your friend's name?
00:03:38Gruesome
00:03:41Isn't he?
00:03:43Come in
00:03:50Our employer is in the midst
00:03:52Of an experiment
00:03:53Your friend will have to wait
00:03:54Go back and finish your job
00:03:56I don't need that job now
00:03:57Go anyhow
00:03:58I'll handle the doctor
00:04:00Okay, I'll see you tonight, huh?
00:04:01Boy, am I glad you're in town
00:04:03Make yourself comfortable
00:04:05But please don't touch anything
00:04:07No?
00:04:08Why?
00:04:08It isn't advisable
00:04:20Go home
00:04:22Wait a minute
00:04:27I'll see you tonight
00:04:27What?
00:04:29To be free
00:04:30I'll see you tonight
00:04:35Look before
00:04:45Let's go.
00:05:07Let's go.
00:05:40Come on, come on, Mac.
00:05:42Oh, come on, come on.
00:05:44Get up out of there.
00:06:03What's the trouble, Carney?
00:06:04Oh, just another drunk.
00:06:05This is the fifth time I've called a wagon tonight.
00:06:08I'm on my way down to headquarters to pick up Big Tracy.
00:06:10Can I take him along for you?
00:06:12Don't doubt I'd appreciate, Pat.
00:06:13Well, where is he?
00:06:14He's lying in the doorway, that joint back there.
00:06:16Let's go.
00:06:27Let's go.
00:06:38Let's go.
00:06:58Oh, that's funny, Pat.
00:07:01Not enough alcohol to have killed him.
00:07:03He had no pulse and no heartbeat.
00:07:05So what did the big lug die of?
00:07:07A broken heart?
00:07:08I don't know, but Doc Ross can tell you tomorrow after the autopsy.
00:07:11I've been in this racket a long time, but I've never seen anything like this before.
00:07:15You say he was limp when you picked him up ten minutes ago?
00:07:17Limp is a playboy's alibi.
00:07:19Ten minutes later, he's like this.
00:07:21Then it wasn't time for rigor mortis to set in.
00:07:23No time at all.
00:07:24Want to take a guess at what's eaten him?
00:07:25Yes, I could guess, but it wouldn't mean anything.
00:07:27Except I think it's the case for homicide.
00:07:29Careful of your language, Frankie.
00:07:31He died in my car.
00:07:32But he didn't get whatever is wrong with him in your car.
00:07:34Right.
00:07:34So a corpse coming out of Hangman's knots has got to be murder, huh?
00:07:37Probably.
00:07:39You say you found this on him?
00:07:41Loaded for bear.
00:07:42And his suit had the feel of a big house hand-me-down.
00:07:45That's sharp observing.
00:07:46Ain't it?
00:07:50Why don't you have Tracy take a look at him?
00:07:52I think I will.
00:07:53But if he has the answer to a drunk turning to stone, I give up.
00:07:59Do you think there's any danger, Doctor?
00:08:01I tell you, gentlemen, it has happened not once, but several times.
00:08:04Hi, Sarge.
00:08:05I wouldn't go in there now, Pat, if I was you.
00:08:07You mean I shouldn't go in?
00:08:08Nobody.
00:08:09Dick's got a VIP in there.
00:08:11VIP?
00:08:12Dick?
00:08:12A very important personage.
00:08:14In that case, I'll knock.
00:08:18Excuse me, Dick, but I think I just brought in a homicide.
00:08:21Anyway, he's a mighty funny stiff.
00:08:23Funny?
00:08:24I'll be right with you.
00:08:25Come over to the morgue, huh?
00:08:26Right.
00:08:29I'm sorry, Dr. Tomick.
00:08:30Go on.
00:08:30Well, for instance, when I'd arrive home at night, I'd find figures lurking in the shadows
00:08:35near my house.
00:08:36Why didn't you report this sooner?
00:08:38I, well, I hoped that my wife and I were wrong.
00:08:41These people weren't really stalking me at all.
00:08:43What makes you so sure how they were?
00:08:45And two attempts were made within the week to run me down by car.
00:08:49We have a lot of reckless drivers in this town, Doctor.
00:08:51Yes, I know, but...
00:08:52Why do you think someone wanted to kill you?
00:08:55I don't know.
00:08:56I've no idea.
00:08:58Of course, like many scientists, I'm working on new and rare formulae at the university.
00:09:02Very little we can do for you, Doctor, but offer you police protection.
00:09:06I just like troubling you, but...
00:09:08I am worried.
00:09:10Well, Chief, this isn't a case for me, so if you don't...
00:09:12Run along, Dick.
00:09:13We'll take care of the doctor.
00:09:14I'm sorry I can't stay, but my assistant has a slight case of homicide on his hands.
00:09:18Good luck.
00:09:19Now, see here, Doctor.
00:09:21Let's review the facts.
00:09:51Let's review the facts.
00:10:10Let's review the facts.
00:10:10Let's review the facts.
00:11:33Did you get his number?
00:11:34Sure, sure.
00:11:35What happened, Pat?
00:11:36Oh, you're asking me.
00:11:40I'm sitting here, see, writing out this report on the stiff.
00:11:43All of a sudden, blackout.
00:11:45Something hit me here.
00:11:47A crowbar, maybe, or a small bulldozer.
00:11:49I don't see how anybody could have got in here, Dick.
00:11:52Frankie put the stiff on this slab.
00:11:53He was out cold, just like he is now.
00:11:56The stiff, the mug, where is he?
00:11:58Looks like you had a drunk who woke up, Pat.
00:12:00He just outfoxed you, that's all.
00:12:01Outfoxed me, huh?
00:12:02I tell you, he was dead.
00:12:04Oh, don't look at me like that, Dick.
00:12:05You know I haven't had so much as a short beer since I joined the force.
00:12:08I tell you, I brought in an absolutely dead stiff.
00:12:11Okay, but if that's true, then you're just confused.
00:12:13There's a stiff in the other room.
00:12:14What?
00:12:15Why didn't you say so?
00:12:16Come on.
00:12:17What I want to know is who moved that stiff.
00:12:21So he outfoxed me, did he?
00:12:23What's that make you?
00:12:24I admit it, Pat.
00:12:25He tricked me, too.
00:12:25One minute he's dead.
00:12:26The next he slugs me, tricked you and Bam Moost.
00:12:28Smart man.
00:12:29Smart?
00:12:30He's weird.
00:12:31I tell you, if I didn't know better, I'd swear we were doing business with Boris Karloff.
00:12:34Looks that way.
00:12:38Valade.
00:12:40Did you find him?
00:12:41Would I be back here without him if I did?
00:12:45Oh, that stuff he got must have killed him.
00:12:48Nonsense.
00:12:48It was one of the early experiments of the doctor's medical formula.
00:12:52But what did it do to him?
00:12:53Potent but harmless.
00:12:54It just rendered him helpless.
00:12:56Helpless?
00:12:57Oh, that's great.
00:12:59Cruisome helpless and the cop's hot on his trail.
00:13:01Exactly.
00:13:02So he is of no use to us any longer.
00:13:05If he does come back, you must tell him the deal is off.
00:13:07What are you talking about?
00:13:08That guy knows his way around.
00:13:09He is no good to us now.
00:13:11We must be rid of him.
00:13:13The doctor...
00:13:13The doctor will be disturbed by your stupid chatter.
00:13:16You'll get rid of who?
00:13:17No.
00:13:17Please.
00:13:17Please, Grosom.
00:13:18He didn't mean it.
00:13:19He needs you.
00:13:19We all need you, Grosom.
00:13:20Please.
00:13:20Exactly.
00:13:21As the doctor just said, you know your business, but I know mine.
00:13:25You...
00:13:26You mean you spoke to the doctor?
00:13:29Yes.
00:13:29I've had a talk with him.
00:13:33You're a disgraced doctor of science, correct?
00:13:35Yes, but I...
00:13:36No buts.
00:13:37The doctor stumbled on a great racket, but he needs me to make it work for him.
00:13:41So from now on, you two will do exactly what I say.
00:13:44Now get in there.
00:13:45Keep your mouth shut and listen.
00:13:47Tomorrow is the most important day in your stupid lives.
00:14:09Two and a half minutes to go.
00:14:28Hey, Harry, come here.
00:14:29I told you to get that cat out of here.
00:14:31Now get him out.
00:14:32Psst.
00:14:33Psst.
00:14:34Psst.
00:14:35Psst.
00:14:37Psst.
00:14:37Psst.
00:14:39Psst.
00:14:39Psst.
00:14:39Psst.
00:14:40Psst.
00:14:41Psst.
00:14:57Psst.
00:14:57Afternoon, Mr. Quillard.
00:14:58Hello, Mr. Stone.
00:14:59Ten, twenty, thirty.
00:15:01How's Mr. Tracy?
00:15:02Well, he's fine, thanks.
00:15:04Bye.
00:15:04Goodbye.
00:15:04Come back.
00:15:36Look at him. There's something wrong with him.
00:15:42And him.
00:15:48You heard me.
00:16:21X-ray timed it perfectly. The air is clear. Lock the door.
00:16:25Hey, gruesome, I want of you look as silly as they do.
00:16:27Lock the door.
00:16:53Let's go.
00:16:53Pardon me, Mac, do you mind?
00:17:04What's the matter, buddy?
00:17:08Mallory.
00:17:08Yeah, come and, gruesome.
00:17:28The End
00:17:30The End
00:17:34The End
00:17:55Dick Tracy, homicide, quickly.
00:17:59Hello, Dick.
00:18:00Listen, I'm inside the Grove Street branch of the First National Bank,
00:18:03witnessing a robbery.
00:18:05Dead? Frozen?
00:18:08Uh-huh.
00:18:09Okay, honey, don't lose your nerve. We'll be right there.
00:18:13This is Tracy.
00:18:14Notify all cars in the area of Fourth and Grove.
00:18:17Bank robbery. First National.
00:18:50That's actually, let's get out of here.
00:18:53Of course, but there was a dam in that box.
00:18:54Well, walk. Get going.
00:18:55Get going.
00:18:57Get going.
00:19:09Oh, my God.
00:19:28Probably died before he hit the ground.
00:19:29Move these people back.
00:19:30Move back a little, folks.
00:19:31Come on, move back now.
00:19:32Come on, move back.
00:19:33Take care of everything, Jim.
00:19:34Okay, Jake.
00:19:46Tess.
00:19:46Tess, come out of it.
00:19:47Come out of what?
00:19:48I'm all right.
00:19:52Well, she's alive anyway.
00:19:54If I hadn't been in the booth, I'd have gotten it, too.
00:19:56But you see...
00:19:57Wait a minute.
00:19:58Payment on Thursday or the bank will be forced to foreclose.
00:20:01But I tell you, I can't.
00:20:05You heard the man say they want a cash bonus?
00:20:07Oh, that's it.
00:20:10Mr. Crandall.
00:20:11Mr. Crandall.
00:20:13The dollar's worth of change, please.
00:20:15Yes, of course.
00:20:33You'll have to leave now, sir.
00:20:34It's three o'clock.
00:20:40You see, pal?
00:20:41You were only half dead.
00:20:43I don't question your word, Mr. Tracy.
00:20:46There undoubtedly was a bank robbery, but not here.
00:20:49Not here.
00:20:50They sent you to the wrong bank.
00:20:51Mr. Banks.
00:20:52Mr. Banks.
00:20:53Over $100,000 has disappeared.
00:20:55Oh, that's right.
00:20:56Right under our noses.
00:20:58What?
00:20:59This is the most amazing thing I've ever seen.
00:21:01Two minutes ago, everybody was paralyzed.
00:21:04Frozen, stiff, and now look at them.
00:21:05They're perfectly normal.
00:21:07No one leaves until everybody's been questioned.
00:21:10Line them all up over there.
00:21:11Right.
00:21:12This way, folks.
00:21:14How many men in the stick-up crew?
00:21:16Two.
00:21:17Did they wear masks?
00:21:18No.
00:21:18One was coarse-looking, and the other one was...
00:21:20Fine.
00:21:20Tell me later.
00:21:21How long was it between the freezing act and their entrance?
00:21:24About a minute.
00:21:25You mean this knockout stuff was instant?
00:21:27Instant?
00:21:28Right away?
00:21:28Well, it couldn't have been more than two minutes at the most.
00:21:31How do you feel?
00:21:32All right, Mr. Tracy.
00:21:33That's what's so darn queer.
00:21:34I still can't believe I was out cold for 12 or 14 minutes.
00:21:37Just wait till I tell my wife.
00:21:39All right.
00:21:39Right now, I'd rather you told me what you were doing and how you felt when this stuff hit you.
00:21:42Sure.
00:21:43You bet.
00:21:43Like I was telling your sidekick here, I'm standing right here watching the clock, see?
00:21:47Not that I'm a clock-watching guy ordinarily, but...
00:21:48Skip it, pal.
00:21:49Get to the pale.
00:21:50Huh?
00:21:50Oh, yeah, sure.
00:21:51Like I was telling your sidekick, you see, it's my wife's sister's birthday, and I says
00:21:54to myself, I says, Humphrey, when you get home...
00:21:56He was pulling down the shade.
00:21:57Yeah.
00:21:58That's right.
00:21:58How'd you know?
00:21:59Here.
00:22:00Like this.
00:22:01Like this I was.
00:22:02At it about there.
00:22:03No.
00:22:04Here, maybe.
00:22:04Oh, did you feel yourself slipping?
00:22:06Nah, positively no warning at all.
00:22:08Do you think you were the first one affected by this gas?
00:22:10No.
00:22:10Oh, the first man to go was standing right over there.
00:22:13Well, show me how he was standing.
00:22:14All right.
00:22:16As I remember, he was standing right here with his coat open, like this.
00:22:20Well, that's enough.
00:22:20Take him with you, Pat, and see if you can find that man.
00:22:22Come on.
00:22:23Or was it like this?
00:22:24Relax, Gabby.
00:22:24Let's find the guy.
00:22:25I don't know if I had one hand sticking out.
00:22:27Now, let's see.
00:22:28You've had everyone in the bank checked on.
00:22:30Everyone.
00:22:31They all have legitimate addresses.
00:22:33No suspicious characters.
00:22:34And you're having this screwy gas analyzed.
00:22:36Fred has what was left in the shell casing.
00:22:38I expect to report any minute.
00:22:39And the getaway car was stolen.
00:22:40Picked up on the turnpike.
00:22:41No distinguishable fingerprints.
00:22:43The banking commission is panicky, Dick.
00:22:45If this gets to the papers, they're afraid of a wholesale run on every bank in town.
00:22:51I told you Tracy was busy.
00:22:53It's okay, Sarge.
00:22:54Tracy wants to see me, right?
00:22:56Dick has nothing to say to the press, Dan.
00:22:57No?
00:22:58In that case, the press has a hot word for him.
00:23:00It's headlines.
00:23:00Shall I go?
00:23:01It's okay, Sarge.
00:23:02Thanks.
00:23:03What I have to say should be private, boys, for your sake.
00:23:05Spill it, Dan.
00:23:06We're busy.
00:23:06I know, and stumped.
00:23:07Fellas, I was the only news hawk to get to a certain bank before you had everybody's
00:23:11mouth buttoned up like a West Pointer on inspection.
00:23:13How much do you know, Dan?
00:23:14Remember the bank guard or the end of gab?
00:23:16You can't print a word of it, Dan.
00:23:17Look, Dick, I play ball usually, but not with gas bombs.
00:23:19This will be the biggest thing hit the streets since George Patton broke the bow.
00:23:22This is a war of a sort, too, Dan.
00:23:24A war on small investors.
00:23:26If you break silence before we can move in, no bank in the state can escape a run on it.
00:23:29How long do you want?
00:23:3024 hours.
00:23:31I'll settle for the four.
00:23:32That'll get me in the final edition.
00:23:33We don't have a thing in four hours.
00:23:35That bad, eh?
00:23:36Right now, we haven't got a lead to the interest of bloodhounds.
00:23:38So?
00:23:38Then I think my readers should know what they're up or give us till morning at least, Dan.
00:23:42Say, Dick, this is an absolutely unknown chemical.
00:23:44We've given it every hour.
00:23:45Why don't you look before you yap?
00:23:47Unknown chemical.
00:23:4820 people frozen to the spot by absolutely unknown chemical while bank is casually robbed
00:23:51of at least 200 grand.
00:23:52It was only 100.
00:23:53Thanks.
00:23:53That much I didn't know.
00:23:54Until morning, Dan, please.
00:23:56We don't sell a morning paper, Dick.
00:23:57Exclusive, Dan.
00:23:58You can sell it to the syndicates.
00:23:59To hit the morning rags, I'd have to have all the details by 2 a.m.
00:24:012 a.m.?
00:24:02You hidebinder.
00:24:03Well, that's only 10 hours from now.
00:24:04You're quick, Chief.
00:24:05Okay, Dan, it's a deal.
00:24:062 a.m.
00:24:07Good luck.
00:24:15I'm sorry, Chief.
00:24:16Forget it.
00:24:17That ferret could dig salt out of Big Rock Candy Mountain.
00:24:20This chemical is so new, it isn't even registered.
00:24:22Is that it, Fred?
00:24:23Yeah, that's right, Dick.
00:24:24Think Dr. Tomek at State University could spot it?
00:24:26Sure, if anyone could.
00:24:27Tomek?
00:24:28That's the man who was complaining about threats on his life.
00:24:30Yes, top-flight physicist.
00:24:32Look, Chief, with only 10 hours before the panic hits, it's about...
00:24:34It's worth a try.
00:24:35What else have we got?
00:24:36Well, there's always Pat's living corpse.
00:24:38Oh, that.
00:24:39A shot in the dark.
00:24:40So is this.
00:24:41If Tommy can tell us what it is, we at least have a lead.
00:24:53Oh, may I help you?
00:24:55Yes, I'm Dick Tracy from headquarters.
00:24:57I'd like to...
00:24:57Oh, I'm so glad you've come, Mr. Tracy.
00:24:59Have you any news of him?
00:25:01Of whom?
00:25:02Of Dr. Tomek.
00:25:03Isn't that why you're here?
00:25:05But I came to see him.
00:25:06Is anything wrong?
00:25:08Well, yes, but I...
00:25:09I thought you knew.
00:25:11He's disappeared.
00:25:13When?
00:25:14He left home early this morning and hasn't been seen since.
00:25:17His wife was very worried, and I thought she reported his absence to you.
00:25:21It's the first I've heard of it.
00:25:23Are you his assistant?
00:25:24Yes, I'm Professor Learned.
00:25:25You will find him, won't you, Mr. Tracy?
00:25:28We'll certainly try.
00:25:29Can you think of any reason why Dr. Tomek would want to disappear?
00:25:33No.
00:25:34What did you have in mind?
00:25:37Nothing in particular.
00:25:39Still, I'd like you to check any special or secret formula he might have been working
00:25:42on, just to make sure they haven't been removed.
00:25:44Of course.
00:25:45Will you wait here, please?
00:25:46I'd rather come along if you don't mind.
00:25:48Oh, not at all.
00:25:51Dr. Tomek always keeps his most valuable formula in that locked cabinet.
00:25:54They're quite safe there.
00:25:56You have the keys, of course.
00:25:57Yes, but I'm certain nothing has been disturbed.
00:25:59Would you open it anyway, please?
00:26:01Very well.
00:26:14Do you know what each of these bottles contains?
00:26:16I know they're chemical symbols, if that's what you mean.
00:26:19Not exactly.
00:26:20Could any of them, say, mixed with another chemical form a dangerous gas?
00:26:24I hardly know.
00:26:25These particular ones aren't experimental stages.
00:26:28Only Dr. Tomek could tell you that.
00:26:31How about this clear liquid on the end?
00:26:33What's its purpose?
00:26:33I really don't know.
00:26:34It's so new, it doesn't even have a name.
00:26:37New, huh?
00:26:38Is that so?
00:26:39But I'd like to...
00:26:40Oh, please don't touch anything, Mr. Tracy.
00:26:41At least until Dr. Tomek returns.
00:26:44If he returns, huh?
00:26:45You mean there's a chance that he won't?
00:26:47It's part of my job to see that he does.
00:26:50You won't mind my taking a little of this for testing?
00:26:52Well, I hardly know what to say in Dr. Tomek's absence.
00:26:58Perhaps we can test it here.
00:26:59In fact, I'd be glad to test it for you.
00:27:02I'd rather take it with me.
00:27:03Very well.
00:27:07You see, there was a bank robbery today.
00:27:10Some strange chemical was employed.
00:27:13Everyone in the bank was transfixed.
00:27:15Frozen to the spot.
00:27:24Startled?
00:27:25Shocked.
00:27:26You see, I work so close to science,
00:27:28I have every reason to dread the creation of such gases.
00:27:31I didn't say it was a gas.
00:27:32Well, what else could it be?
00:27:34I don't know.
00:27:38But it was a gas.
00:27:40Doesn't seem to stain or burn the surface, does it?
00:27:43No.
00:27:44Anything in it that will hurt me if I taste it?
00:27:46I think not, but I can't be too sure.
00:27:48Let's see.
00:27:52Tastes like water.
00:27:54Many chemicals do.
00:27:55Get me an empty bottle and a rag, will you?
00:28:01Professor Lerner.
00:28:02Yes?
00:28:03Could a man in Tommy's position be leading a double life?
00:28:06Hardly.
00:28:07He's one of the most respected men in his profession.
00:28:10Yet he came to headquarters complaining of attempts on his life
00:28:12the night before he disappeared.
00:28:15It's been my experience, Professor,
00:28:17but that could be the act of an innocent man.
00:28:21Or of a man covering his tracks.
00:28:24Perhaps.
00:28:24But not Dr. Tommy.
00:28:26His whole life is an open book.
00:28:28Beyond suspicion.
00:28:29I guess you're right.
00:28:31I know I'm right.
00:28:32Well, thank you, Professor.
00:28:33I'll be back when I have this analyzed.
00:28:35Very well, Mr. Tracy.
00:28:36But it isn't Walter.
00:28:38Probably not.
00:28:44You've been a big help.
00:28:46Goodbye.
00:28:47Goodbye, Mr. Tracy.
00:28:57I still say you didn't have to shoot him.
00:28:59But Goosomey saw us coming out of the bank.
00:29:01Seeing and identifying weeks, maybe months later,
00:29:04are two different things.
00:29:05But I still...
00:29:06You're just a trigger-happy young mug.
00:29:07You always were.
00:29:09Better get over it.
00:29:10You're a fine guy to be bawling me out.
00:29:12Useless killing is dangerous.
00:29:15Well, it's about time.
00:29:17Yeah, we thought maybe you took a party.
00:29:19Hardly.
00:29:20That's good.
00:29:20Goosome hates Welch's.
00:29:22I don't hate dead ones, Melody.
00:29:23Our employer is a man of honor.
00:29:26There's one for you.
00:29:28One for you.
00:29:29What are these?
00:29:30Valentines?
00:29:31The doctor is very businesslike.
00:29:33That is your remuneration.
00:29:35Mine's kind of thin, is it?
00:29:36Not much, then.
00:29:38Goosome got the bonus for not killing a policeman.
00:29:42How do you like that?
00:29:42We don't like it.
00:29:44We don't like it at all.
00:29:45Go back and tell your employer I'm not an employee.
00:29:48I'm a partner.
00:29:49I want 50%.
00:29:50What about me?
00:29:51I'll pay you more than you're worth.
00:29:53Goodbye, X-Ray.
00:29:55Well, I'll ask him.
00:29:56No, tell him.
00:29:5750% on everything.
00:29:59Very well.
00:30:01Oh, our employer told me to tell you
00:30:04he wishes you would not come to the laboratory anymore.
00:30:07At all?
00:30:08At all.
00:30:09I see.
00:30:10Tell him I'll do what he says for exactly 15 minutes.
00:30:14Oh, please.
00:30:14Unless, of course, you're back within that time
00:30:16with half the take.
00:30:17Better hurry, X-Ray.
00:30:20Goosome, you're terrific.
00:30:22Remember that, Melody.
00:30:24Sure, Goosome.
00:30:25Sure, sure.
00:30:28We found him right about here, Dick.
00:30:32Let's take a look around inside.
00:30:33Maybe we'll get a line on something.
00:30:41Listen to the pulse.
00:30:42Let's go.
00:31:07Hey, you.
00:31:11It's him, Dick!
00:31:21Oh, what's happening?
00:31:23Yeah, that's the guy, all right.
00:31:24Oh, what's happening?
00:31:33Oh, what's happening?
00:31:41Oh, what's happening?
00:31:42Oh, what's happening?
00:31:54Oh, what's happening?
00:32:18Melody! Melody!
00:32:36I'll take you, Dick. I owe him something.
00:33:02I owe him something.
00:33:38I owe him something.
00:34:10Pat, where are you?
00:34:11Here.
00:34:13Are you all right?
00:34:15Yeah. It was him, Dick, that drunken stiff.
00:34:17Where did he go?
00:34:18He got away.
00:34:19Well, that's a lead, anyway. What happened to you?
00:34:21What happened to me?
00:34:22I was standing right over there, and all of a sudden, I...
00:34:28No. I'm not gonna tell you.
00:34:29Come on, Pat. What happened to you?
00:34:32Okay. I was bit by a tiger.
00:34:36Oh, that tiger!
00:34:40You're sure that you can identify this man, Tess?
00:34:42Yes. I'm positive he's one of the bank robbers.
00:34:45Good. Now if he'll only live long enough to start talking.
00:34:47Dick, we've rounded up some of the people who were in the bank.
00:34:50They're out in the hallway.
00:34:51Okay, Pat. Bring them in.
00:34:52Tess, you better wait in the chief's office.
00:34:54All right.
00:34:55Tess did identify him.
00:34:57Yes, but that's not enough.
00:34:58You've got to find one of those bank witnesses who saw him in or around the bank about 2.45.
00:35:02Why 2.45?
00:35:03Couldn't he have planted the bomb at 2.30 or even before that?
00:35:06No. The janitor emptied the waste baskets at 2.45.
00:35:09So if anyone saw this bird in the bank after that time, he'd planted the bomb.
00:35:12Nurse!
00:35:13What's wrong?
00:35:14Oh, he can't die on us now.
00:35:15Get those people in here, Pat. Quick.
00:35:18Okay, folks.
00:35:24Sorry, Dick, you'll have to leave.
00:35:25He's much too ill to have anyone in here now.
00:35:27But just two minutes, Doc.
00:35:28I can't do it.
00:35:29He only had the 50-50 chances it is.
00:35:32Well, that's that.
00:35:33Have those people go to my office, Pat, and we'll do what we can.
00:35:36Okay, folks. Let's go.
00:35:42First of all, I want to thank you people for coming.
00:35:44Now I'd like to ask you a few simple questions.
00:35:46Does anyone recognize this man?
00:35:47I'm sure. I never saw him before.
00:35:49Well, now, I'm a bank guard, you see.
00:35:50We know that.
00:35:51Of course you do, and you know that bank guards have to be observing.
00:35:53Now, if that man was at the bank, it stands to reason I'd remember him, don't it?
00:35:56It does, do you?
00:35:57No.
00:35:57I could be wrong, Mr. Tracy, but I think that man passed me at the bank door.
00:36:02I think he was coming out as I was going in.
00:36:04Do you happen to recall what time that was, Mr. Paul?
00:36:06Yes, I do.
00:36:07I looked up at the clock as I came in.
00:36:09It was exactly ten minutes to three.
00:36:11Good.
00:36:12Turn around, Luke.
00:36:15Obviously, this man wearing the bandit's clothes is not the bandit.
00:36:18This is a drawing of the actual man.
00:36:21Would you say you'd seen this man before, Mr. Paul?
00:36:24I'm almost certain that's the face of the man who passed me at the bank door.
00:36:29Anyone else see him?
00:36:30No.
00:36:32All right.
00:36:32That's all.
00:36:33Oh, one thing more.
00:36:35Please don't any of you discuss this case with the newspapers.
00:36:37That's very important.
00:36:38In fact, I'd rather you didn't discuss it with anyone for a day or two.
00:36:41And thank you again.
00:36:42Yes, sir.
00:36:46We're going out now, Bob.
00:36:47Ah, but I'm coming.
00:36:49I've still got six hours, Dan, and nothing to say.
00:36:51Nothing to say about a top flight scientist who's missing?
00:36:56Hello?
00:36:56You're talking Greek, Dan.
00:36:58Yes, Chief.
00:36:58Don't give me that.
00:36:59You knew Tomek was missing before I did.
00:37:01Just a minute, Chief.
00:37:01I've got the human ferret in my office.
00:37:03Tomek?
00:37:04Who's Tomek?
00:37:04A physicist, my boy, with an assistant named Learned, remember?
00:37:07I'm giving his disappearance a buildup tonight, Dick.
00:37:09Wait a minute, Dan.
00:37:11I'll call you later, Chief.
00:37:13You gave me your work, Dan.
00:37:14And I still have six hours left.
00:37:15Then you do think Tomek is involved in the bank robbery?
00:37:17I honestly don't know.
00:37:19But if he is, and you publish his disappearance, it might spoil everything for me.
00:37:22All right.
00:37:22Six hours.
00:37:23But I get first break at anything you uncover, right?
00:37:25Right, Dan.
00:37:26Keep your nose clean.
00:37:27Hello, Tess.
00:37:28Hello, Dan.
00:37:29What's new?
00:37:30Ask your boyfriend.
00:37:31Take this one.
00:37:31Hold it, Fred.
00:37:33Oh, you again.
00:37:35Goodbye, Dan.
00:37:36Be seeing ya.
00:37:37In about five hours and 22 minutes.
00:37:42Take this one.
00:37:43Quiet.
00:37:52I think I know what you were going to tell me anyway.
00:37:54I should see a certain professor at State University right away, correct?
00:37:56Correct, and quick.
00:37:57See you later, honey.
00:37:59But we had a date for dinner.
00:38:01I'm having mine with a professor.
00:38:02Oh.
00:38:03Well, since it's only a professor.
00:38:04A beautiful, feminine professor.
00:38:06And you expect me to be here when you get back?
00:38:08No.
00:38:09Then I will be.
00:38:10That's what I thought.
00:38:11Goodbye, Dick.
00:38:12Goodbye.
00:38:37Oh, Lee.
00:38:38Where have you been?
00:38:39It's over an hour since I talked with you.
00:38:41I'm sorry.
00:38:41I had important business.
00:38:43You look worried, dearest.
00:38:44What's the trouble?
00:38:45That chemical I stole for you.
00:38:48What did you do with it?
00:38:49I?
00:38:51I used it for my anesthetic experiments.
00:38:53What do you suppose?
00:38:56I suppose you either gave it or sold it to a gang of bank robbers.
00:39:00What are you talking about?
00:39:01The police are analyzing the water I substituted for the formula I stole for you.
00:39:06Well, what of it?
00:39:07The moment Dr. Tomek returns, they'll know I substituted the water.
00:39:12Oh, we'll be far away by then.
00:39:14What if he returns now, tonight?
00:39:17He won't, Irma.
00:39:18You've done something to him.
00:39:20He's perfectly safe.
00:39:22He'll return home in due time.
00:39:24Quite unharmed.
00:39:28I can't.
00:39:30I can't go through with it.
00:39:32That detective, I can't go online to him.
00:39:35I don't know how.
00:39:36It won't be for long.
00:39:38He had hardly left when a reporter came.
00:39:41He asked me so many questions, I didn't know where I was.
00:39:44Did he ask about Tomek?
00:39:46Of course.
00:39:48Splendid.
00:39:49His disappearance will make headlines.
00:39:51Tracy and his cops will be forced into a manhunt that will leave us in the clear.
00:39:55I won't help blacken the character of a decent man.
00:39:58I can't.
00:40:02Very well.
00:40:04Tell them.
00:40:06Tell them everything.
00:40:07Is that what you want, Irma?
00:40:10Darling, no, it isn't.
00:40:11But can't we do something?
00:40:14Can't we go away?
00:40:15Now?
00:40:16Tonight?
00:40:17Police have requested that I don't leave town.
00:40:19Your friend, Tracy.
00:40:21Tracy?
00:40:21Do you think I'd put that formula in the hands of thugs?
00:40:24I placed it in the bank myself.
00:40:27You didn't.
00:40:28You couldn't.
00:40:30I had to, Irma.
00:40:32I tell you, with Tomek missing, we're in the clear.
00:40:35There isn't a thing to worry about, dearest.
00:40:38I'll drive you to within a block of your house, huh?
00:40:41No, I'll walk to the cab stand.
00:40:43We can't lispy the scene together.
00:40:59Good evening.
00:41:01Well, Mr. Tracy, how did you get here?
00:41:04It was easy.
00:41:05Illegal, too.
00:41:06Illegal?
00:41:07What is?
00:41:08My breaking into your place and searching your things without a warrant.
00:41:11I should think so.
00:41:12Why did you do it?
00:41:13Why did you tell me I wouldn't find water in that bottle?
00:41:17You didn't.
00:41:18You're a biochemist.
00:41:19Why try to pretend you didn't know what was in that bottle?
00:41:22You forget, Mr. Tracy.
00:41:23You tasted whatever was in it, not I.
00:41:26I was so sure it wasn't water that I...
00:41:28Why?
00:41:31Why?
00:41:33Because I can see no reason why Dr. Tomek would make such a substitution.
00:41:37Neither can I.
00:41:38In fact, I don't think he did.
00:41:40But obviously he had to.
00:41:42He and I are the only two people...
00:41:43Who have the key to that lock.
00:41:46So I say you made the substitution, not Tomek.
00:41:50If what you found in that bottle really was water,
00:41:53and you're not just trying to trick me because of some fantastic notion that I mixed up with bandits,
00:41:59then all I can say is, Dr. Tomek put it there.
00:42:02I didn't.
00:42:04And, uh, might I suggest that you spend your time looking for him instead of badgering me?
00:42:10I'm badgering you because I think you know something about his disappearance.
00:42:14Either you're shielding him or you're shielding someone else.
00:42:17Why? Why should I?
00:42:18Do I look like the kind of person who goes around shielding bank robbers and murderers?
00:42:22Frankly, no.
00:42:23But I think you got in over your head.
00:42:25And now you don't see any way out but lying.
00:42:28I'm not lying.
00:42:30I think you are.
00:42:31Consider this, Professor.
00:42:33Whoever got hold of that formula will stop at nothing to keep it.
00:42:36Murdering a bank guard is only the beginning.
00:42:39Right now they're accused of murder.
00:42:41If you're involved in it, you're an accessory to murder.
00:42:43And your only chance of getting less than hung is to play ball on the right team.
00:42:46But I tell you I don't know anything.
00:42:48I heard you the first time.
00:42:50Just the same, when I leave here I advise you to get in touch with someone.
00:42:54Who?
00:42:54Whomever you're shielding.
00:42:56Tell them that no amount of money or fame or love or whatever it is you're doing it for is
00:42:59worth putting your neck in a noose.
00:43:06It's a nice neck, Professor.
00:43:07But that murdered bank guard had four kids.
00:43:10They liked his pretty well, too.
00:43:36You cover the back.
00:43:37If she doesn't come out in two hours, go back to headquarters.
00:43:40Right.
00:43:47Hello?
00:43:47Hello, Lee.
00:43:49You may have been called here.
00:43:50And don't call me by name.
00:43:52I can't stand it.
00:43:54You've got to take me away.
00:43:57I tell you, there's nothing to worry about, dearest.
00:43:59You'll feel better after you've had some sleep.
00:44:02I can't, Lee.
00:44:04I'm going to tell them the truth.
00:44:06You can't do that.
00:44:08Not yet, dearest.
00:44:09It's risky, but perhaps we'd better leave town tonight.
00:44:12But I thought you said you couldn't.
00:44:14Perhaps I can find a way.
00:44:16But you must meet me at once and talk this out.
00:44:18I know you.
00:44:19I know too much.
00:44:21Very well, Irma.
00:44:22If we don't figure a way out, I'll...
00:44:25I'll go to the police with you.
00:44:27But we must talk first, Irma.
00:44:29I'm not in this alone.
00:44:31Meet me at 6 and Park in 10 minutes.
00:44:33Walk there and be sure you're not followed.
00:44:35Goodbye.
00:44:37You can't meet her, of course.
00:44:40What are you doing here?
00:44:41I told him...
00:44:44You can't meet her.
00:44:45The cops saw you in the bank.
00:44:46This is a frame-up between the girl and the police.
00:44:48Oh, Watson, she...
00:44:49She is frightened and so are you.
00:44:52Listen.
00:44:53I'll meet her.
00:44:54You're known to the police too.
00:44:55I've handled them before.
00:44:56Give me the keys to your car.
00:44:59All right, but don't bring her here.
00:45:01No, sure not.
00:45:03Say, you spoke of a cottage on Brand Lake?
00:45:05Yes, that's it.
00:45:07Take her there.
00:45:08Route 76, Cottage 14.
00:45:10Just off the road.
00:45:10Terror will be up later tonight.
00:45:12You'll convince her she mustn't go to the police?
00:45:15Oh, yes, I must do that.
00:45:16You're right.
00:45:17We must.
00:45:20Gruesome.
00:45:22Take care of her.
00:45:24She's all I have.
00:45:25Sure, sure.
00:45:27I understand.
00:47:01Better get rid of that car quickly.
00:47:03Why? What's wrong with it?
00:47:04Where is she?
00:47:05Picked up some bullet holes on the way.
00:47:07She is dead.
00:47:09I told you to get rid of that car.
00:47:11You...
00:47:12You...
00:47:13You killed her.
00:47:17You killed her.
00:47:18What do you suppose I do?
00:47:19She was leaving Tracy directly to you.
00:47:21No, no, she wouldn't.
00:47:22I say she was, but right now we've got to get rid of the evidence here.
00:47:26All of it, you understand.
00:47:27Now go start that fire.
00:47:28Must there be more killings?
00:47:29Yes, we have to.
00:47:31We've got to get Melody out of that hospital tonight and then clear out of here.
00:47:34I've been to the hospital.
00:47:36He's in a coma.
00:47:37The doctor wouldn't even let him be seen.
00:47:39He'll be dead by morning.
00:47:40You're certain of that?
00:47:41Certain as I can be.
00:47:43Good.
00:47:44And we're in the clear.
00:47:45You don't care about anyone, do you?
00:47:46Listen, if you want to stay alive, you'll do as I say.
00:47:49Now start that fire.
00:47:50I'll be inside.
00:47:51You expect me to use that fire?
00:47:52Call me when it's ready.
00:47:58What would you do without me?
00:48:02I'd even find Dan and romance him if you thought it would give you a little more time.
00:48:06Thanks, but he's already married to a typewriter.
00:48:10As one consolation knows, those crooks are just as worried as I am.
00:48:13That killing that girl was an act of cold-blooded desperation.
00:48:16Do you think Dr. Tomek had her shot?
00:48:18That's anybody's guess.
00:48:19You trace the license number, sure, or stolen plates.
00:48:22But if you put two bullets into the back end of that car, we'll pick it up in no time.
00:48:26Time is something I'm fresh out of.
00:48:27If Dr. Carver could only fix up those other two crooks so they could talk.
00:48:31Said he'd call me in ten minutes.
00:48:33It's been fifteen.
00:48:38This is Tracy.
00:48:39What about that smashed-up piano player?
00:48:41Uh-uh.
00:48:42What?
00:48:43When?
00:48:44About ten minutes ago.
00:48:45Thanks.
00:48:46Oh, no.
00:48:48We could have sweated it out of that guy.
00:48:50But he had to go die on us, too.
00:48:52Well, dead men tell no tales.
00:48:55What did you say?
00:48:57I said dead men tell no...
00:48:58But sometimes they do, Tess.
00:48:59Sometimes they do.
00:49:00Where are you going?
00:49:01See the chief.
00:49:02Get an old Cale an idea that'll make Dan and his papers think I'm a prime heel.
00:49:07Well, I'll tell you.
00:49:07Well, I'll tell you.
00:49:10Well, I'll tell you.
00:49:39Here he comes.
00:49:40Now's the time.
00:49:40Isn't there some other way to...
00:49:42No.
00:49:42Not unless you want to end up joining Tomic.
00:49:44Come on.
00:49:45Come on.
00:49:46Come on.
00:49:56Come on.
00:49:59Come on.
00:50:00Come on.
00:50:01Come on.
00:50:02Come on.
00:50:02Come on.
00:50:05Come on.
00:50:06Come on.
00:50:18where's the good doctor why in there call the hospital yes no change good i'll stay here
00:50:26we know if he's alive or dead it's dangerous to hide you here dangerous for whom all of us
00:50:31please will try to trace the driver of my car uh i'll stay here very well there's a small bedroom
00:50:40in there you may use it and there's whiskey in my desk true hospitality oh doctor why did you
00:50:49close that window the smoke from the incinerator i see won't you join me in a drink i never indulge
00:50:57uh-huh doctor yes come on in and join me won't you no thank you come on in both of
00:51:05you
00:51:13listen doctor the smoke is blowing away from that window now what are you trying to pull
00:51:18all right all right gruesome hold everything x-ray get rid of that bomb don't move x-ray
00:51:29don't show me gruesome please newsflash dangerous bank robbers expected to be rounded up within 12
00:51:35hours homicides famous nick crazy has just revealed that one of the robbers of the grove street branch
00:51:41of the first national bank has been captured after suffering severe injuries in a wild chase by the
00:51:46police he's alive five minutes ago tracy reported that the injured bandit will be able to talk by
00:51:50morning he added and i quote when this man talks we will round up the most dangerous gang of criminals
00:51:56in this city's history we now return you to the pm
00:52:01that announcement saved your life x-ray what i need you we got to get melody out of that hospital
00:52:07but that's a police hospital why not leave him there yeah to talk and spoil a perfect setup
00:52:13no we got to risk it what about him what about him he's dead and melody isn't worse luck go
00:52:19on
00:53:00evening evening got a corporal document 312 we came to pick him up uh wait a minute
00:53:09what's the name of that surgeon again major allen 291st general he's new to me so are you fellows just
00:53:19been transferred from out west oh well going up now do you know how to work it like the fingers
00:53:26on my hand
00:53:38that's the gorilla all right they came in army ambulance give me the phone pop
00:53:47this is it they're on their way up roger don't stop them coming down either pop
00:54:04you wait here if anybody questions you remember where you're from 291st general right
00:54:22i'm sorry no one allowed in there i have orders to take his temperature every four hours
00:54:27yeah that's right well in that case i'll go in with you
00:54:36how are you melody why do we bother getting birds like him well just so we can kill them
00:54:45odd isn't it yeah
00:54:51lost me oddly just waiting for them to uh just waiting oh
00:55:06hey what's the matter this man is running a dangerously high temperature
00:55:10you better send for the doctor not me buddy my orders are to stay right here
00:55:18in that case i'll do it myself a good idea
00:55:33what happened it's in the wastebasket tim you want me to throw it out no leave it there i know
00:55:37but if this stuff makes people freeze the way you say it does i won't be of any help to
00:55:41you
00:55:41that's right i know but you're unarmed i don't like this
00:55:45hey this stuff has started to smoke it should
00:55:53mr tracy i'm beginning to feel funny so am i jim so am i
00:56:13it should be clear now
00:56:29yes i understand mr patten told me to let them go huh you're right here they come
00:56:37oh sure patten saw the ambulance right sir bye
00:56:43i see you got your man thanks we did
00:56:50say who do you guys think you are parking here can't you read sorry we didn't see the sign
00:56:55didn't see the sign what kind of excuse is that who are you guys where are you from 291st general
00:57:00hospital what 291st will you please step aside general huh that was my old outfit and they sold
00:57:06these 41 crates a month ago where'd you pick it up look here this man is dying yeah and i
00:57:11got a rush
00:57:11call so what you know what i think i think you guys are a couple of cadaver snatchers i'm gonna
00:57:16take a look
00:57:16look at this thing now wait the other one but this is ours that one won't be spotted so quickly
00:57:24put him in that one
00:57:25i hope nothing went wrong what good tim would never leave dick hey here comes an ambulance out
00:57:34i don't know
00:57:39shall i flash the rest of the boys no they're driving an army crate that one belongs to the city
00:57:44hospital
00:57:50that was a clever piece of work gruesome it almost misfired fall told you that corporal's name
00:57:55was joseph duggan it was really john
00:58:16how is he he's still under the effects of the gas start up the fire
00:58:24what melody too start up the fire
00:59:15What's the matter, bud?
00:59:17I asked the guy who stole this crate.
00:59:20Yeah, and mine.
00:59:21Yeah?
00:59:21You mean a big mug and a little guy with glasses?
00:59:24Yeah, with a patient on a litter.
00:59:26Well, I'll be a...
00:59:27That gorilla outsmarted me again.
00:59:31They pulled the switch.
00:59:33We've got to follow that white ambulance.
00:59:35How do you know where it went?
00:59:37Huh?
00:59:37That's right.
00:59:39Sparks, this is Patton.
00:59:41Put all cars on the lookout for a White City Hospital ambulance.
00:59:44Get that?
00:59:45Yeah.
00:59:46It's carrying two killers and Tracy unarmed.
00:59:49Who's that?
00:59:58I'm going to take a watch.
00:59:59Go krypton.
01:00:00Stay no...
01:00:01Come on.
01:00:02come on.
01:00:09Come on.
01:00:10Come on.
01:00:13Come on.
01:00:14Come on.
01:00:15Come on.
01:00:16Come on.
01:00:16Come on.
01:00:23X-ray.
01:00:47X-ray.
01:01:34You're ending up here, Tracy.
01:01:49I'm not going to come in after you, or don't have to.
01:01:53Remember the bank?
01:01:59You've got about 60 seconds left.
01:02:04There's no other exit, Tracy.
01:02:06This is the end of the line.
01:02:08I'm not going to come.
01:02:11I'm not going to come.
01:02:17I'm not going to come.
01:02:47I'm not going to come.
01:02:51I'm not going to come.
01:02:53I'm not going to come.
01:03:12I'm not going to come.
01:03:15I'm not going to come.
01:03:19I'm not going to come.
01:03:29I'm not going to come.
01:03:53I'm not going to come.
01:04:17So this is the baby that caused all the trouble, huh?
01:04:20Yes, that's the last of those devilish gas bombs, Pat.
01:04:23Soon as Dan has had a look at it, we'll follow it in the archives of lethal weapons.
01:04:27I want to see you, Tracy.
01:04:30Well, take a good look, Dan.
01:04:31That's the idea of selling me out to those radio vultures.
01:04:33You made me a promise.
01:04:34Promise?
01:04:35Who is this fellow, Pat?
01:04:36Don't know.
01:04:37I never saw him before.
01:04:38You promised me an exclusive story.
01:04:40Story?
01:04:41What story, sir?
01:04:42He could mean the story of the capture of a gang of bank robbers, Dick.
01:04:45Capture?
01:04:46When?
01:04:46Where?
01:04:47It's all here and it's all true.
01:04:48Give me that.
01:04:49Okay, Dick?
01:04:50In about 25 seconds, Pat.
01:04:51Sorry, can't wait.
01:04:52Maybe I ought to tell you about it, Dan.
01:04:53Some other time.
01:04:54Aren't you going to read it?
01:04:54Gotta make that deadline.
01:04:55This is the biggest story I've ever had anything to do.
01:04:59Do it!
01:05:02The End
01:05:02The End
01:05:04THE END
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