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00:01:41home. You'll read about it tomorrow. This is the true to life story behind one such headline.
00:02:40You'll read about it tomorrow.
00:02:43I wonder if you could help me. I imagine. What's the trouble?
00:02:47My sister is missing. He came to the right place. I'm going off duty in a few minutes,
00:02:52but if you want to fill out this form and leave that picture, Jones here will put it on the
00:02:56wire.
00:02:58Form? Just give us all the details. Oh. Well, you can fill it out at home and bring it back
00:03:05in the
00:03:06morning. Yes, I think I'll do that. Well, I ought to drop in here more often.
00:03:14Hiya, Mark. What are you doing here? Oh, well, looking for evidence of incompetence among city
00:03:19employees. You're out of luck. I'm only incompetent during working hours. What's your sister's name
00:03:23and physical description? Mary. Mary Considine. She's about my build. Well, already I'm interested
00:03:32in the case. Huh? Kid sister? Fifteen months older. She's been living here about a year.
00:03:39His face is familiar. Did you check the morgue? They're open all night.
00:03:43Do you recognize the picture? Oh, easy now, easy. That's just one of his routine questions.
00:03:53Um, where are you from? Beaverbrook, Pennsylvania. Well, sounds like a nice place. Lots of brooks,
00:03:59beavers, things like that. Miss, when did you last hear from your sister? She wrote two weeks ago
00:04:05from a hospital here, but I checked. They say she was never there. What was wrong with her? I don't
00:04:10know.
00:04:11Let's see the matter. I don't have it with me. Well, give me a picture then. I'll run a story
00:04:15on it. I'll help you out. Min? Please, not in the newspaper. Hold it, Mark. Until this case is on
00:04:20file, it's not for publication. As a gentleman, the presser give me my word. Which is as good
00:04:24as getting a point ticket on the atomic bomb.
00:04:53Hiya, Mrs. Holmes. Do you know that you're married to a crusty monster? How are the kids?
00:05:01Bad and good, Mark. See, I'm sorry we can't stop to talk, but I've got the children home
00:05:05without a sitter. You come in in the morning, Miss Considine, with your sister's letter.
00:05:09Thank you. Don't let him get lost.
00:05:21Hey, Considine!
00:05:25To ease your mind, the, uh, morgue's just around the corner. Let's check. Wait a minute,
00:05:31wait a minute. I'm on your side. Look, it's awfully late, and...
00:05:34Exactly. Well, you shouldn't be out alone. Incidentally, uh, do you know anyone else in
00:05:39town besides me? I don't even know you, and I'd appreciate
00:05:42it if you'd leave me alone. Always a good idea to have a friend.
00:05:45I promise you there's no story in this, at least not one that you'll get from me.
00:05:49Well, I'll live in the hope that you'll change your mind. In the meantime...
00:05:52Mark, what are you doing?
00:05:56Let go of me. Don't look now, but you're being followed.
00:05:59What do you mean?
00:06:00Be a good girl and be quiet, and we'll see what's up.
00:06:03Let go of me.
00:06:04Just a minute. By the way, I don't think we've met.
00:06:07My name's Sitko. Mark Sitko.
00:06:29I know. You couldn't sleep, so you just decided to take your gun out for a walk.
00:06:34I'll take that back. You want to bet?
00:06:36What's the idea of skulking around after this young lady?
00:06:39I couldn't sleep, so I just decided to take my gun out for a walk.
00:06:43You got a license for this?
00:06:44Sitko, quit the clowning.
00:06:45Did I say something funny?
00:06:47By the way, have you met the young lady that you're scaring after that?
00:06:51Miss Considine, meet Mr. Carrick.
00:06:53Cheapest private detective in town.
00:06:55Specializes in framing divorces and frightening little children.
00:06:58Carrick?
00:06:59You know him?
00:06:59Sorry, lady, you've never seen me before.
00:07:01No, but when Mary first left home, my father long-distance, an investigator named Carrick,
00:07:05kept sending him money to find Mary.
00:07:07Any comment?
00:07:08The phone book's full of Carricks. At least seven of them.
00:07:11All of them private eyes.
00:07:12Come on, give me the gun. I gotta go.
00:07:14You really got a permit for this thing?
00:07:28Very pretty girl.
00:07:30You recognize her?
00:07:31Well, that's me. That's my picture.
00:07:33Collecting pin-ups, Carrick?
00:07:35I thought you were supposed to be after the other girl.
00:07:37Not that it's any of your business, but...
00:07:40Well, her old man did hire me to find a sister.
00:07:42But I'm not wanting to spoil a perfect record. You fail.
00:07:44Why my picture?
00:07:45Two days ago, your father sent me a picture of you.
00:07:48He tipped me off and I met your plane.
00:07:50Why, Daddy?
00:07:51You're not very smart, Sitko.
00:07:53He thinks maybe this one will lead me to the other one.
00:07:56But you ruined that.
00:07:58Maybe. Maybe not.
00:08:00Incidentally, when did you start going in for honest money?
00:08:03I know you're considered a very funny guy, but I'm not one of your fans.
00:08:07You going legitimate is like a vulture turning vegetarian.
00:08:10You're still not getting a smile out of me.
00:08:12You never found Mary?
00:08:13Not a trace.
00:08:15And join the searching party and start earning your price.
00:08:19Come on, come on.
00:08:19Come on, come on.
00:08:51Come on, come on.
00:08:52Basement of Paradise Hills unfinished building development.
00:08:56No articles of identification.
00:08:59Cause of death, carbon monoxide poisoning.
00:09:03She wouldn't do it.
00:09:05I know she wouldn't.
00:09:10Autopsy report.
00:09:11Female, age about 20.
00:09:13Hair brown, eyes blue.
00:09:15Recent childbirth.
00:09:16Coroner's finding, probable suicide.
00:09:21Yes?
00:09:23Number 67324.
00:09:25Oh.
00:09:40Well, that just about winds up the case.
00:09:42I can report to your client now and have him take you off the gravy train.
00:09:46I'll report to my client and let him make up his own mind.
00:09:51There won't be any need for you to follow the young lady anymore.
00:09:54As I said, I take orders from my customers.
00:09:59Good night, Carrick.
00:10:00And if you can possibly arrange it, let's make it goodbye.
00:10:05Careful of this thing, it's loaded.
00:10:15Where are you staying?
00:10:16At the Fenwick.
00:10:17They got a nice little coffee shop over there.
00:10:19Come on.
00:10:20He looked like he could use something.
00:10:31Not a very nice welcome to the city, was it?
00:10:37You knew about the baby?
00:10:39Yes.
00:10:40She wrote you that from the hospital.
00:10:43And you say you checked there.
00:10:45They've never heard of her.
00:10:51Do you want to talk about her?
00:10:55I don't know.
00:10:57Might help.
00:10:59Why did she leave home?
00:11:03Neither one of us got along with my father very well after my mother died.
00:11:07Mary was older.
00:11:08She got away first.
00:11:10I see.
00:11:12What did she do when she got here?
00:11:14I don't know.
00:11:15She never wrote much.
00:11:17That's why my father hired the detective.
00:11:20Oh.
00:11:20He wanted her back?
00:11:22I don't think so.
00:11:24He just would never leave either one of us alone.
00:11:27Did she send for you?
00:11:29No.
00:11:30She just said she was in the hospital and I got worried.
00:11:37Well, I, I know it isn't much consolation, but they say it's not a hard way to go.
00:11:46She didn't do it.
00:11:47She never would have done it herself.
00:11:49What makes you think so?
00:11:50I knew her.
00:11:52I'm afraid they wouldn't carry much weight with the corner.
00:11:54Stolen car, carbon monoxide.
00:11:57That's what doesn't make sense.
00:11:58She didn't even know how to drive.
00:12:03Well, you can learn a lot away from home.
00:12:05She didn't kill herself.
00:12:09You better go upstairs, try to get some sleep.
00:12:12I can't sleep tonight.
00:12:14Well, get some rest anyway.
00:12:17You're not going to put any of this in the paper?
00:12:19Not a word.
00:12:20Now you stop worrying.
00:12:22You think she killed herself, don't you?
00:12:26Why don't you just stop thinking about it?
00:12:28Come on, I'll walk you to the elevator.
00:12:29Come on, I'll walk you to the elevator.
00:12:41Hey, school.
00:12:42Why don't you do something for me?
00:12:44Mr. Sitko, I'm on my way home now.
00:12:46You'll never win a Pulitzer Prize that way.
00:12:48Check the motor vehicle department.
00:12:50See if there was a driver's license issued to a Mary Considant.
00:12:53Dig up all the back issues of the paper for the past year
00:12:55and see if there was a marriage license issued to that same Mary Considant.
00:12:58Well, look.
00:12:58While you're at it, run over to the Bureau of Vital Statistics.
00:13:00I want a list on all the babies born dead during the past month.
00:13:03Well, Mr. Sitko.
00:13:04Charlie.
00:13:04Mr. Sitko.
00:13:05This will take the rest of tonight and tomorrow.
00:13:07Tomorrow's my day off.
00:13:08What better way to spend it than by working?
00:13:10Why don't you do it yourself?
00:13:12Oh, because, Scoop, I'm old and I'm tired.
00:13:15Because, well, I've reached a position in life where I can order you to do it for me.
00:13:20Now, go on, get it done.
00:13:22Charlie, if a baby didn't die, when else could it go?
00:13:27I only know where they come from.
00:13:28I don't know where they go.
00:13:30Give me everything you got on babies.
00:13:32Everything?
00:13:34You know, little ones.
00:14:09You got bells in your head?
00:14:10It's two o'clock.
00:14:11Harry, get Mrs. Donner up.
00:14:13Come back later.
00:14:14Hold on later.
00:14:15You don't push me around, Punchy.
00:14:16This is important.
00:14:17Nothing is so important for you ever to disturb me at this time of the morning.
00:14:23Absolutely nothing.
00:14:24That's what I said.
00:14:25Absolutely nothing.
00:14:26Go back to bed, Harry.
00:14:27Yes, ma'am.
00:14:35She's identified her sister's body, and now she's shooting off her mouth that it's not a suicide.
00:14:40It wasn't very bright of you to let her get to the morgue.
00:14:43It wasn't very bright of you to have something there for her to find when she did get there.
00:14:47Well, what did you expect me to do?
00:14:49Let her write her letter to the district attorney?
00:14:51She was a troublemaker.
00:14:53She wanted her baby back.
00:14:54I'd be just as happy if we committed our murders in a state that doesn't have capital punishment.
00:14:59Don't talk like that.
00:15:01I've told you before.
00:15:02You've told me a lot of things.
00:15:05They all add up to a short walk from the death cell if this thing breaks.
00:15:08Why should it?
00:15:09I haven't told you the most interesting part.
00:15:12No?
00:15:13She's teamed up with a reporter from the mirror.
00:15:16We were all down at the morgue together.
00:15:18Did you serve tea after you told them the whole setup?
00:15:22They don't know anything yet, but I don't like it.
00:15:25What happens if she starts looking for the baby?
00:15:27Have you ever looked for a needle in a haystack?
00:15:30I'm afraid she'll have a little difficulty finding it.
00:15:35I don't think you're as smart as the others think.
00:15:38Maybe not.
00:15:39But I'm smart enough to know that you're sitting in the same box with the rest of us.
00:15:43You threatened the girl with exposure.
00:15:45You pocketed your commission for the sale of her baby.
00:15:48If there's a short walk from the death cell, you and I will take it together right in step.
00:15:56What's the next move?
00:15:57Watch her.
00:15:58Find out what she's doing.
00:16:00I don't think she'll get very far.
00:16:02If she does, we can take care of her.
00:16:05Your solutions are getting monotonous.
00:16:08Always the same.
00:16:10Perhaps monotonous, but effective.
00:16:13From now on, she's in your department.
00:16:15I have a lot of back orders to fill.
00:16:21Well, what's the matter?
00:16:23I was just thinking how nice life used to be when I stuck to blackmail and petty larceny.
00:16:56I hear you've been working all night.
00:16:57What are you up to?
00:16:59To what are you up, I believe is correct.
00:17:01All right.
00:17:01To what are you up?
00:17:02Big stuff.
00:17:04I may decide to put this paper on a map.
00:17:06That'd be kind of you.
00:17:07No kidding, Nolan.
00:17:08It really is big.
00:17:09I'll need a few days.
00:17:11Go ahead.
00:17:12How much can I spend?
00:17:13How much have you got?
00:17:14Funny fellow.
00:17:16Don't walk through any open drawbridges.
00:17:24Good morning, sweetheart.
00:17:26Will you get me the Fenwick Hotel?
00:17:31Good morning.
00:17:32You look like you haven't had any more sleep than I have.
00:17:36Sleep is for the upper classes.
00:17:38Only toil and weariness for peasants like us.
00:17:41My marvelous little brain has been busy uncovering several pertinent facts.
00:17:45Your sister was never issued a driver's license.
00:17:48And she didn't kill herself.
00:17:50That's an interesting fact.
00:17:51Not necessarily proof.
00:17:53Also checked on all the babies born dead in the past month.
00:17:57All accounted for.
00:17:58Good, legitimate families.
00:17:59She's still alive.
00:18:01How do you know it's a she?
00:18:04Mary told me in her letter.
00:18:06When was she born?
00:18:07February the 22nd.
00:18:11You know you could save someone a lot of trouble if you told me all this last night.
00:18:16Let's go.
00:18:18Where are we going?
00:18:19That's a good question.
00:18:20Come on.
00:18:24Call for Mr. Fork.
00:18:34Do you mind if I take a look at that letter now?
00:18:37Yes, I do.
00:18:40I take it you're not interested in finding the baby or what happened to your sister.
00:18:43Of course I am.
00:18:45But I'm not interested in having our personal problems splattered all over the front page.
00:18:49Who said anything about that?
00:18:50Nobody.
00:18:51But you don't deny it.
00:18:53Granted that I'm after a story.
00:18:55And if I get it, I'm bound to find out things that will interest you.
00:18:59I don't want the baby starting out in life with a bunch of press clippings for a birthday present.
00:19:08Supposing, supposing I can promise you not to use any actual names in the story.
00:19:12How good is your promise?
00:19:15It's always been pretty good.
00:19:18Oh, I don't know.
00:19:20What if I told you that I already have a pretty good idea of what was in that letter?
00:19:26You see, I checked the marriage licenses for the past year.
00:19:32There wasn't one issued to your sister.
00:19:34She could have been married someplace else.
00:19:38Was she?
00:19:42No.
00:19:45Who paid her expenses?
00:19:47Some lady, she said.
00:19:49And the lady promised to put the baby out for adoption?
00:19:53Yes.
00:19:53Don't act so surprised.
00:19:55I've been reading stories like that all night.
00:20:00Well, I guess you might as well have the letter now.
00:20:03I don't need the letter now.
00:20:05You and I are on our way to see a friend of mine.
00:20:08This is a lot bigger than just marrying her baby.
00:20:13I'm I'm I'm out.
00:20:24I'm out.
00:20:26I'm out.
00:20:42I don't know why all of a sudden you're so excited about this, Mark.
00:20:45Why, you read the clippings?
00:20:47Well, sure, I've known about that for months.
00:20:49Have you been to read your own paper?
00:20:50I only read my own stuff.
00:20:52That way I know the quality of literature I'm getting.
00:20:55I'd like to help, Miss Considine, but you just don't have any evidence.
00:20:58Mac, did you ever know Carrick to be mixed up in anything that didn't smell up the place?
00:21:02I've never gotten anything on him yet.
00:21:04Mary Considine didn't even have a license to drive. How about that?
00:21:07A lot of people drive without licenses.
00:21:09If you'd give me a couple of men for a few days, I could...
00:21:11A couple of men? Half my force is tied up 24 hours a day closing down pyramid clubs.
00:21:17The other half is so busy, I couldn't even get myself investigated without a priority.
00:21:21You can't ignore that letter.
00:21:22It's perfectly clear that she fell for a smooth line of charity talk right into the hands of a baby
00:21:27broker.
00:21:28A line in a letter isn't much proof.
00:21:30Maybe she abandoned the baby before she...
00:21:32She wouldn't have done that.
00:21:37Making me feel like a first-class heel, Mark.
00:21:40I want you to feel at home.
00:21:42Mark, I don't have the men to throw out on anything as slim as this.
00:21:44What about the fact that she wrote from the Bimini Hospital that they never heard of her?
00:21:47Maybe she swiped the stationery.
00:21:49You checked on this yourself, Miss Considine?
00:21:51Yes, she'd never been registered there.
00:21:53And nobody recognized her picture?
00:21:55I never thought of the picture.
00:21:58You didn't show it to them?
00:22:00Well, why didn't you tell me?
00:22:02I don't know.
00:22:03Well, let's get going.
00:22:04You don't mind if tonight I look into this myself?
00:22:07Not at all.
00:22:07Glad to have you on the staff.
00:22:09If I come in with this whole thing worked out, will you move in?
00:22:11That's what the taxpayers hire me for.
00:22:13So that's it.
00:22:15You learn something every day.
00:22:17Our records show there were five girls born here the night of February 22nd.
00:22:22Miss Tripp tells us you nurses attended them.
00:22:24Kelly, Korchek, Rabin, Spence and Trent.
00:22:29Was this girl one of the five mothers?
00:22:31No, Mrs. Korchek or Mrs. Rabin.
00:22:33I could never forget them.
00:22:34No, that wasn't Mrs. Spence.
00:22:37Kelly or Trent only wished they looked like that.
00:22:39With the birth rate around here, I couldn't recognize any face and connect it with a name.
00:22:44Grace.
00:22:45Are you positive that none of you have ever seen my sister?
00:22:49I'm terribly sorry.
00:22:51Well, thanks.
00:22:52Thanks very much.
00:22:53We're sorry we bothered you all.
00:22:55All right, girls, you can go.
00:23:04I don't understand it.
00:23:06Your sister writes you everything you wouldn't expect her to and does it on phony stationery.
00:23:10Why?
00:23:11If I knew that, I'd know what to do.
00:23:13By the way, what do we do now?
00:23:16Turn at the bottom, work our way up.
00:23:18How do we do that?
00:23:19First, we go to a little place that I know and have a drink.
00:23:22Wear your cast iron stomach.
00:23:24Then, if I get the information that I expect to, we put on our track shoes and start running in
00:23:28all directions at the same time.
00:23:30Okay?
00:23:31Cast iron stomach and track shoes.
00:23:33Anything else?
00:23:35Just start smiling like that a little more often.
00:23:37Mint.
00:23:44I'm seeing around sometime, Mark.
00:23:46I've been patronizing the bars with the uncut whiskey.
00:23:49Are they still operating?
00:23:50I'll have to take it up with my union.
00:23:53Eddie, I got a problem.
00:23:54I should be so lucky as to have your problem.
00:23:57I got a friend.
00:23:59Gonna fool me.
00:24:00I got a friend who wants to adopt a baby.
00:24:03Solid citizen.
00:24:05He doesn't want to go through all the rigmarole, you know, uh, investigations.
00:24:10Well, being a friend of yours, he couldn't stand an investigation.
00:24:12I told him I thought there were a couple of corners he might cut.
00:24:16You don't have no friend who wants to pay me.
00:24:19No.
00:24:21Well, supposing I did, where would he go?
00:24:26You're working on a story?
00:24:27Uh-uh.
00:24:28Working on a drink and listening to you.
00:24:32It's big stuff, Mark.
00:24:34Well, who's afraid of the big, bad stuff?
00:24:36These kids don't play.
00:24:38They take their work seriously.
00:24:39Bully for them.
00:24:41Where do I go?
00:24:44The whole business is run by one syndicate.
00:24:46Believe me, they're dangerous.
00:24:48So I'll pay my life insurance.
00:24:51Did you ever hear of Moray the Boogie?
00:24:53No.
00:24:55Don't tell him I sent you.
00:24:57Oh, where can I reach him?
00:24:59You have to find that out for yourself.
00:25:05Look at that man.
00:25:06Drank a good, strong drink.
00:25:08Not so strong, Eddie.
00:25:10Load it up a little bit, will you?
00:25:12Sure.
00:25:14Ray speaking.
00:25:16Mac, this is Sitko.
00:25:18Don't tell me you're yelling for help already.
00:25:20A little.
00:25:21Do you ever run across a character named Moray?
00:25:23Runs a Boogie joint?
00:25:24Sure.
00:25:25We have him down here about once a month.
00:25:26You know where I can catch up with him?
00:25:28Yeah.
00:25:28Yeah.
00:25:28I'm going to raid him next week.
00:25:30What's the address?
00:25:30In just a minute, I'll check.
00:25:32The address on Moray the Boogie.
00:25:38Mark?
00:25:40Yeah?
00:25:41277 East 6th Street.
00:25:43Got it?
00:25:43Yeah, I got it.
00:25:44What do you want with Moray?
00:25:46I want to put a bet down before you guys get to him.
00:25:53Tomorrow morning, we'll start bright and early.
00:26:11Where can a guy find Moray?
00:26:14Guys would walk right in the back room and find him sitting there.
00:26:17Stay in about ten minutes.
00:26:20Nice shot.
00:26:22Want to run with you?
00:26:23Well, sure.
00:26:24Two bits a shot?
00:26:25It's okay.
00:26:27Well, thanks.
00:26:29Go ahead.
00:26:33Uh, 15, side pocket.
00:26:39It's one for me.
00:26:41A little out of practice.
00:26:45At the finish.
00:26:46Falling star by an O.
00:26:48Falling star by a schnoz.
00:26:52That cost me money.
00:26:54Quit worrying, Moray.
00:26:55I'll make it up to you.
00:26:56Tell me what I want to know.
00:26:58Why do you want to throw your money away on children?
00:27:01Play the races.
00:27:02Tell you what I'll do.
00:27:04You name a connection, I'll make a bet.
00:27:07I watched it lost yesterday.
00:27:12Shoeshine, Sammy, the number's right.
00:27:14Don't tell him I sent you.
00:27:16Todd, fella.
00:27:27Sure, man.
00:27:28I got a head for figures.
00:27:29I just can't think of the personality you want.
00:27:36Sammy.
00:27:38Did this give you any ideas?
00:27:40Well, man, that's my lucky number.
00:27:42And it leads my mental processes to night coat.
00:27:46Yes?
00:27:47And Delaney to bail bondsman.
00:27:49Thanks, Sammy.
00:27:51Don't tell him I sent you.
00:27:54Oh, Sammy.
00:27:59I don't know what you're talking about.
00:28:01Baby broker.
00:28:02B-A-B-Y.
00:28:04Now, look, pally.
00:28:05Me, I tell you, I couldn't fix it.
00:28:06Not for love, no money.
00:28:08Well, who said anything about love?
00:28:10Like all the rest, you think you can buy me for money?
00:28:13Yeah, Delaney.
00:28:15Well, you're right.
00:28:15But it takes more.
00:28:17Who said anything about no more?
00:28:19Who said anything about Doc Tilson?
00:28:22Maybe a blast of a phone call couldn't fix.
00:28:26Uh, let's say, you got another tent.
00:28:29I'm fresh out of nickel.
00:28:35Illegitimate enterprises work hand in pocket with every shady source of revenue.
00:28:39One racket leads to another.
00:28:42And finally, to an unlicensed doctor practicing behind the front of a Turkish bath.
00:28:57I guess that means me.
00:29:05Mrs. Donner?
00:29:07They're at Doc Tilson's.
00:29:08He just went in.
00:29:10She's waiting outside.
00:29:11Stay on the line, Carrick.
00:29:17Hello?
00:29:18I'd like to speak to Decolla.
00:29:20Mrs. Donner calling.
00:29:22Decolla speaking.
00:29:23Mrs. Donner.
00:29:24I've just received...
00:29:25Why, yes, Mrs. Donner.
00:29:27I was just looking over your check.
00:29:29As payment for protection.
00:29:31I have no intention of worrying whether I'm getting it.
00:29:34Now, if you expect...
00:29:35I don't expect any complaints from you.
00:29:37You stayed open for several years.
00:29:40And you'll continue to remain open as long as I handle things.
00:29:43That's not what I meant.
00:29:44I've just received information that a newspaper man and his stooge are at Doc Tilson's.
00:29:50That probably means only one thing.
00:29:53Unfavorable publicity.
00:29:55Unfavorable.
00:29:56I hear you made four sales last week.
00:29:59They don't seem to be included in my check.
00:30:02Perhaps.
00:30:03I've been so busy.
00:30:04Yes.
00:30:05Yes, I'm sure it was an oversight.
00:30:08Just don't let it happen again.
00:30:10Now, if you'll hold on, I'll call Doc Tilson.
00:30:16Well, with those references, something might be arranged to...
00:30:25Decola speaking.
00:30:26Do you have someone with you trying to buy?
00:30:28Why, yes.
00:30:30I assume you intended to check with me first?
00:30:32Very definitely.
00:30:34Hold on, Doc.
00:30:37You worry needlessly, Mrs. Donna.
00:30:40And don't forget your check.
00:30:45Hello, Doc.
00:30:47Tell them there's nothing available now but to keep in touch with you.
00:30:50And say, Doc, let me know if he bothers you again.
00:30:58As I was saying, with those references, we'll have to do a lot more checking.
00:31:05Everything was going fine there for a few minutes.
00:31:08Had him wrapped up and ready for delivery.
00:31:10Phone rings, progress stops.
00:31:12Are you sure we're on the right track?
00:31:14We're on the right track, all right, but somebody's throwing a switch.
00:31:17Take a good look at a discouraged man.
00:31:19You're not going to quit, are you?
00:31:21Quit?
00:31:21I don't even know how to spell the word.
00:31:23This means so awfully much to me, Mark.
00:31:25The baby's the only thing that's left of my sister.
00:31:28Oh, we'll find it.
00:31:29I mean her.
00:31:30But we've got to start being a lot smarter.
00:31:32That's pretty difficult, considering I'm already about the brainiest guy in town.
00:31:38Why were you at the missing persons bureau the other night?
00:31:41I'm looking for some people I missed.
00:31:43Lucky for me.
00:31:45No, not yet.
00:31:46We haven't even started.
00:31:48What do we do now?
00:31:49Oh, we use psychology.
00:31:52Whatever that means.
00:31:54Let's suppose you were in Mary's position.
00:31:56What would you have done?
00:31:57Afraid that the folks back home might find out?
00:31:59No job, no money, no one to turn to.
00:32:02Yet Mary found a way.
00:32:04The Pimini Hospital stationery and the woman to pay the expenses.
00:32:08Maybe a small private hospital.
00:32:10No, that costs money.
00:32:13Unless she offered to work part of her way.
00:32:16Papers are full of deals like that.
00:32:38Here we are.
00:32:40In return for light work, the mother to be offered home and medical attention.
00:32:44A private nursery home will exchange services for blah, blah, blah.
00:32:50Any girl in trouble needing friendly advisor, call Mrs. Ellen Ross Salvation Army Home.
00:32:55Dr. James, private...
00:32:56Wait, the one you just read before this last one.
00:33:00Salvation Army Home.
00:33:03Any girl in trouble needing friendly advisor.
00:33:06Yes, maybe, Mary.
00:33:08What's the matter?
00:33:09Our friend Carrick.
00:33:11He's over there hiding in the bulrushes.
00:33:13No wonder everything's gone sour.
00:33:16I don't think he's the reason.
00:33:18No?
00:33:19I called my father last night to tell him about Mary.
00:33:22Carrick had already told him.
00:33:24Oh, you mean he's still on your father's payroll.
00:33:27Mm-hmm.
00:33:35Well, anyway, I'm tired of having him chaperone us.
00:33:41Hey, fellas, you come over here, please.
00:33:48Ah, playing cowboy and Indian, huh?
00:33:51So what's it to you?
00:33:52There's a guy hiding behind a tree about 100 feet up this path.
00:33:56He's a big guy, kind of fat.
00:33:58For a buck, he's an Indian, am I right?
00:34:00For a buck, we burn him at the stake.
00:34:01No, no, no, no, Bernie, just tie him up for a few minutes
00:34:04until we get out of the forest.
00:34:06Okay.
00:34:06Spread out, man.
00:34:07Let's go.
00:34:08Right, guys.
00:34:18Indians, one dollar.
00:34:22Give me Mary's picture.
00:34:23You go back to your hotel and check out.
00:34:25I'll meet you in about an hour at the Salvation Army home.
00:34:28Here, take this.
00:34:59I'll meet you in about an hour at the Salvation Army home.
00:35:11We've hit it.
00:35:12They recognize the picture.
00:35:13Mary was here.
00:35:14This is the other Miss Considine.
00:35:15How do you do?
00:35:16Major Ross in charge here, Paula.
00:35:18Won't you sit down?
00:35:20I was terribly sorry to hear.
00:35:22You knew Mary?
00:35:23Yes.
00:35:24But Mary left our home just before she had her baby.
00:35:27Oh.
00:35:28Major, as I've explained, we're trying to do an impossible thing.
00:35:32Any threat of information.
00:35:34That's against our policy.
00:35:36We don't even share our girls' secrets with the FBI.
00:35:39The young lady that you mentioned to me, the one that was friendly with Mary, do you suppose
00:35:45that Miss Considine...
00:35:46I do want to help.
00:35:48And I know Dottie would like very much to talk to someone from Mary's family.
00:35:52But, oh please, in a way you'll still be helping my sister, protecting her baby.
00:35:57That's all I want to do.
00:36:00Excuse us.
00:36:49She used to tell me quite a lot about you.
00:36:53And she said that if the baby was a girl, she was going to name it Paula after you.
00:36:58Paula.
00:36:59Paula, she used to try to get me to care about what happened and she didn't like it
00:37:04when I used to say to her, I thought we'd be much better off if we never even saw our
00:37:08children.
00:37:09Then she did want to keep her baby, didn't she?
00:37:11Oh yes.
00:37:12She used to lie in bed at night when all the lights were out.
00:37:17She'd tell me her plans.
00:37:20Do you...
00:37:22Did she ever mention who the...
00:37:24When you don't want to talk about something yourself, you don't ask somebody else to.
00:37:29Did anyone visit her while she was here?
00:37:32Well, yes.
00:37:35One night we were taking our regular walk outside and this man came up to us.
00:37:39And he was with a lady.
00:37:41She walked with a cane and she passed out Bibles.
00:37:45Why haven't you mentioned this before, Dottie?
00:37:47There was no reason to.
00:37:49Please go on.
00:37:51Well, Mary nudged me to keep walking and she stayed there, talking with this man she knew.
00:37:58Dottie, could you describe him?
00:38:00No.
00:38:02I guess when you don't like someone, you don't remember them.
00:38:07But once he raised his voice and I heard him say something like,
00:38:11I know what's best for you and you'll do it or you know what.
00:38:15And later when I asked Mary about it, she just said I was better off being an orphan.
00:38:22And she cried all that night.
00:38:26And then...
00:38:28When Mary left our home, she insisted upon paying for her stay with us.
00:38:33Now I can understand where she received the money.
00:38:35She had very little when she arrived.
00:38:37And she left some money for me, too.
00:38:42Me, she just met here.
00:38:44She was so good.
00:38:48Major Ross, would Dottie be allowed to speak to the district attorney?
00:38:51Our girls are not prisoners here.
00:38:55Would you?
00:38:58A change.
00:38:59And there must be a change.
00:39:02Costing our girls?
00:39:03Luring them away with big promises?
00:39:06Can you tell the boys what those promises are?
00:39:08Well, I always hate to say this to a newspaper man,
00:39:11since I can't speak for the entire Salvation Army.
00:39:14This must be off the record.
00:39:16Well, Bren has to department ruling paperwork.
00:39:19Not that it's your fault,
00:39:20but there's been too much paperwork and not enough legal work.
00:39:23The chicken comes before the egg.
00:39:25Well, promises.
00:39:29A private room in any hospital the girl chooses.
00:39:32Better food.
00:39:34Special nurse.
00:39:35Go right on.
00:39:37A liberal clothing allowance for the girl after the baby is delivered.
00:39:41And some money for a fresh start.
00:39:44Well, Major, what's so bad about that?
00:39:45Nobody gets hurt.
00:39:46Well, because, Dott, they are just promises with a catch to them, obviously.
00:39:50Yes, and here's something you evidently don't realize.
00:39:53No girl ever emotionally releases her baby.
00:39:58Before, she may think she doesn't want it.
00:40:01Afterwards, two weeks after.
00:40:03Major Ross, are you making an official charge
00:40:05that this woman is a front for a baby brokerage ring?
00:40:08No, I am not charging that she's a front.
00:40:10I am personally charging that she is a baby broker.
00:40:13But the girls go to her of their own free will.
00:40:15That's a technicality.
00:40:17They don't know what they're getting into.
00:40:18It's a question of whether a girl in that state of mind
00:40:21is competent to make a decision.
00:40:22With these people, there are no restrictions.
00:40:25The only qualification needed for getting a child is money.
00:40:28It's not like a licensed adoption home.
00:40:31It's the worst kind of slavery, Mac.
00:40:33For a price, anybody can buy a human being.
00:40:35Exactly.
00:40:37Why, if this girl hadn't found out about the death of her sister
00:40:39and the missing baby,
00:40:41not an eyebrow would have been raised.
00:40:45You said if we did the legwork that you'd move in.
00:40:49Mark, that would mean some girl endangering herself.
00:40:52I'll do it.
00:40:54No, Dottie.
00:40:56I don't want you to go into this with any false solutions, Miss Jensen.
00:40:59You'll be in a certain amount of danger.
00:41:01I understand.
00:41:03We'll give you all the protection we can, but...
00:41:05It's all right.
00:41:06You see, I want to do it.
00:41:11Doug, Wren,
00:41:13this calls for a stakeout detail.
00:41:18Stakeout is a police term meaning trap.
00:41:21The teeth of the trap are well concealed.
00:41:24In the window of the home,
00:41:25a district attorney's investigator
00:41:26had his elbow a recording machine.
00:41:30With hidden microphones ready to pick up any information
00:41:32that could be used as evidence.
00:41:34In a nondescript truck across the street,
00:41:37a plainclothesman, the handyman of the detail.
00:41:41Around the corner, in a garage taken over for the purpose,
00:41:43are three scout cars,
00:41:45manned by detective personnel,
00:41:46trained for automotive shadowing.
00:41:48In a convertible,
00:41:50parked like any romantic couple ending a date,
00:41:52are a newspaper man and a girl,
00:41:54waiting for another kind of rendezvous to begin.
00:42:15I always figure there's a time to stand still
00:42:17and a time to move ahead.
00:42:18That's what you figure, is it?
00:42:19As far as I'm concerned,
00:42:21we ought to lay low for a while.
00:42:22Now you're giving advice.
00:42:23Did you know Mrs. Donner is figuring
00:42:25on taking care of more girls?
00:42:27That's her business.
00:42:28What happened to those two
00:42:29you were supposed to be watching?
00:42:32I got tied up with something else.
00:42:36Ticola, did Mrs. Donner tell you
00:42:38who that girl is I'm tagging?
00:42:39Sure, she's a plant.
00:42:42A stooge for the newspaper guy.
00:42:44She's a sister of the dame
00:42:45you took care of for Mrs. Donner.
00:42:49Her name's Considine, too.
00:42:51Who said I took care of anyone?
00:42:53Forget I said it.
00:42:54I can't.
00:42:56Because you might say it again.
00:42:58You know too much
00:42:59and you talk too much.
00:43:01Not when I'm involved.
00:43:03And I'm in this up to my neck.
00:43:04Maybe deeper than that.
00:43:08Who told you to go
00:43:08messing around the Spencers?
00:43:10Why?
00:43:10I know what's going on.
00:43:11That's how I stay alive in this business.
00:43:14I just called them up
00:43:16and asked them
00:43:17if they'd change the Considine baby
00:43:18for another kid.
00:43:19Why?
00:43:20Are you going in for social work now?
00:43:22Or are you starting your own Sally Ann?
00:43:24I'm just doing what I think
00:43:25is best for all of us.
00:43:26If this girl starts kicking up
00:43:27too much dust,
00:43:28we can buy her off
00:43:29by giving her back
00:43:30her sister's kid.
00:43:32Any kid would do the trick
00:43:34if we need a trick.
00:43:36Kerrick,
00:43:37I don't like you
00:43:38butting in.
00:43:39I was only trying to...
00:43:40There's a rumor going around town
00:43:41that I'm getting soft.
00:43:44Whenever that happens,
00:43:45I always cut a couple of throats
00:43:47just to prove a point.
00:43:48Now look, Ticola,
00:43:49I'm...
00:43:49Who do you think would miss him, Hoppy?
00:43:51Nobody.
00:43:53You look like a good candidate
00:43:55if you don't keep your nose
00:43:57where it belongs.
00:43:58All right.
00:44:00No need to get tough.
00:44:01I'll do what I'm told.
00:44:02I'm telling you to mind
00:44:03your own business.
00:44:04Okay.
00:44:06Keep in touch.
00:44:08Yeah.
00:44:10Yeah, I will.
00:44:11You'd better.
00:44:27Here we are
00:44:28with all the help we need
00:44:29and nobody to chase.
00:44:30Do you think she'll show up, Mark?
00:44:31Can't stop it.
00:44:33It's waiting's the worst part,
00:44:35isn't it?
00:44:36Not for me.
00:44:38What a way to make a living.
00:44:39Parked every night
00:44:40with a beautiful girl.
00:44:43Tell me something
00:44:43about Beaverbrook.
00:44:45Not that I believe
00:44:45there is any such place.
00:44:47Oh, it's there, all right.
00:44:49What's the population
00:44:49that counting the beavers?
00:44:51About 5,000.
00:44:53Mm-hmm.
00:44:54Not many boyfriends
00:44:55to choose from
00:44:56the town that side.
00:44:57Well, there's always been
00:44:58enough to go round.
00:45:00Oh, I see.
00:45:02You know, I, uh,
00:45:03I don't think you'd look good
00:45:04with a small-town boy.
00:45:06No?
00:45:06No.
00:45:07What you need is a
00:45:08city fella
00:45:09so to show you off.
00:45:12Where are you from
00:45:13originally, Mark?
00:45:14I'm afraid you're gonna ask that.
00:45:16Ash Fork, Kansas.
00:45:19Yes, but it's,
00:45:20it's mostly worn off.
00:45:22And, uh,
00:45:23how big is Ash Fork?
00:45:24Three Ash Trees,
00:45:25one fork.
00:45:30Look.
00:45:38It's up to Dottie Jensen now.
00:45:41Keep your fingers crossed.
00:45:51Oh, young ladies.
00:45:53Good evening.
00:45:54Hello.
00:45:54I'd like to give each of you
00:45:55a little Bible.
00:45:57Would you?
00:46:00Mrs, uh...
00:46:01My dear,
00:46:02names are not important.
00:46:03You see,
00:46:04I represent
00:46:05a religious organization.
00:46:07Yes, ma'am.
00:46:07We also take care of children
00:46:09and find nice homes
00:46:10for them quickly.
00:46:11Of course,
00:46:12on the other hand,
00:46:12if you want to keep
00:46:13the child yourself,
00:46:14it can be arranged.
00:46:16Keep it.
00:46:17I don't want it.
00:46:18Oh, my dear.
00:46:19Please, please,
00:46:20don't cry.
00:46:22I'm here to help you.
00:46:24If you like,
00:46:25you can leave with me
00:46:25right now
00:46:26and we'll send back
00:46:27for your clothes.
00:46:28Our organization
00:46:29has a lovely home.
00:46:31But how can I?
00:46:32I owe so much money already.
00:46:34We take care of that.
00:46:35You don't have a worry.
00:46:36And you can feel certain
00:46:38that your child
00:46:39will be placed
00:46:39with people
00:46:40of unquestioned character.
00:46:42Come.
00:46:48SSC 1 to 3,
00:46:50roll them.
00:46:51SSC 2 and 3,
00:46:52take positions.
00:46:54SSC 1,
00:46:56tag black L,
00:46:58license.
00:46:59Number 3,
00:47:00Paul 3670.
00:47:16Mark, she'll see us.
00:47:35Our friend in the cab
00:47:36will romance the heavies.
00:47:38Let's give a lift
00:47:39to the law.
00:47:39The law is at the time.
00:47:40Oh, my God.
00:48:10S.S.C.1, tailing Black L, approaching underpass near Torrance.
00:48:26S.S.C.3, waiting, over.
00:48:29S.S.C.2 at Brandon.
00:48:32Make a stenographic transcription of this record.
00:48:35S.S.C.1, turn off now.
00:48:37C.S.C.2, take over.
00:48:38S.S.C.3, proceed to cutoff point.
00:48:42S.S.C.2, check.
00:48:44Picking up Black L at Brandon.
00:49:04S.S.C.3 to Baby.
00:49:06Black L at destination.
00:49:083.30 Bula Drive.
00:49:10Repeat.
00:49:113.30 Bula Drive.
00:49:13Standing by.
00:49:14Contact.
00:49:15What's a code book on 3.30 Bula Drive?
00:49:17Baby has 3.30 Bula Drive.
00:49:18Full detail deploy.
00:49:19S.S.C.3 Park, hold house in view.
00:49:21Not bad.
00:49:22It checks with the license tag and her name is Mrs. Leona Donner.
00:49:25You make a point you have a central eye bureau?
00:49:26Right.
00:49:27Make sheet shows no police record.
00:49:29Yet.
00:49:30She looks like us.
00:49:37With this ring, I do the warns.
00:49:39I know.
00:49:40No slip-ups or Mrs. Donner will come between us.
00:49:42Not so fast.
00:49:43What about the references?
00:49:44We'll get to someone who knows her very well.
00:49:46By tomorrow night, we'll have a letter of introduction to Mrs. Donner.
00:49:48We have to go to the penitentiary to get it.
00:49:50Mrs. Considine, can you act like a married woman?
00:49:52I think so.
00:49:53Hey, Mark, you try to look like a respectable businessman.
00:49:56How do they look?
00:49:57A white shirt, neat suit, and the socks match.
00:50:01I'll go to a costume and get outfitted.
00:50:09Take my word for it.
00:50:10Things are getting tighter and tighter.
00:50:12Me too.
00:50:14All right, kid about it if you want to.
00:50:16But things aren't being handled right.
00:50:17Mrs. Donner does my thinking for me.
00:50:19I hope she thinks of something real funny.
00:50:23Answer the door, Harry, and put on your butterscope.
00:50:25Okay.
00:50:26I hear you've been talking to Decolla.
00:50:28I'm sure popular.
00:50:29Everybody knows everything about me.
00:50:31You've been doing an awful lot of talking out of turn.
00:50:33First with the Spences, and now with Decolla.
00:50:35I've got a neck I'm awfully fond of.
00:50:36Well, don't stick it out, then.
00:50:37If I could get a couple of grand, I'd clear the town for a while.
00:50:41You might sell your mother.
00:50:42It's the only thing you haven't tried.
00:50:43I mean it.
00:50:44I need the money, and I need a rest.
00:50:46You couldn't get bus fare to the corner out of me.
00:50:48It might be handy not to have me around.
00:50:51It might.
00:50:52At that.
00:50:53Well, Mr. and Mrs. Morse, they say they got an appointment.
00:50:56Keep this out of sight.
00:51:07Fine woman, Mrs. Daniels.
00:51:09I haven't seen her for so long.
00:51:13But she always did recommend the nicest people.
00:51:15Thank you, Mrs. Donner.
00:51:17Mrs. Daniels suggested that I bring all our papers just to expedite matters, so I brought
00:51:22the marriage license.
00:51:24Never mind the red tape.
00:51:26I'm delighted to help.
00:51:28A home is never complete without a child.
00:51:31Would you care for something to drink?
00:51:33Oh, uh, no, no thanks.
00:51:35I can't.
00:51:35Wall Street lining.
00:51:37Of course you'll have something.
00:51:39Oh, thank you.
00:51:40No, no, we're on a wagon bill for two.
00:51:42I don't drink myself, but I like to be tolerant.
00:51:45Yes, indeed.
00:51:46As I was saying, Mrs.
00:51:48Morse.
00:51:50My dear, you'd make a perfect mother.
00:51:54Haven't I seen you somewhere before?
00:51:57I hardly think so.
00:52:00The ladies' club or the women's auxiliary?
00:52:03No, no, I hardly think that's probable, Mrs. Donner.
00:52:06As you know, we're visitors in town, and maybe it was Palm Beach this past winter.
00:52:10No.
00:52:12I've been so busy.
00:52:13Yes, yes, I'm sure you have.
00:52:15And now, uh, not to take up too much of your time, when can we expect to, uh, adopt a
00:52:22baby?
00:52:23Well, we have a waiting list, but we possibly could make some arrangement.
00:52:28You'll pay anything, Mrs. Donner.
00:52:32I do have a young lady upstairs now.
00:52:36Oh, we'd, uh, we'd be very grateful.
00:52:39The girl chosen will register at the hospital in your wife's name.
00:52:44Oh.
00:52:45In my name?
00:52:46Yes.
00:52:47Your name will be on the birth certificate as a child's mother.
00:52:51Well, that's very clever.
00:52:55This way, we avoid the bothersome details of a legal adoption.
00:53:00I wonder if we could see the mother.
00:53:02I think I'd feel more secure.
00:53:04Certainly, my dear.
00:53:06This is one of the many advantages we have over the other adoption homes.
00:53:14Great.
00:53:15She's gonna show someone through tonight.
00:53:17Can't we lay low for five minutes?
00:53:18You seem kind of nervous.
00:53:20We'd be, too, if you had any sense.
00:53:21I only let certain people call me dumb.
00:53:23I know.
00:53:24You told me.
00:53:25I hear she's bringing in a batch of kids from out of the state.
00:53:28What do you know about that?
00:53:29I know it ain't none of your business.
00:53:31Thank you, Miss Jensen.
00:53:33Good night.
00:53:34Good night.
00:53:41She's very nice looking.
00:53:43It ought to be a beautiful baby.
00:53:46Just going down the stairs.
00:53:48I'll take a look.
00:53:48You stay put.
00:53:49You got us in enough trouble.
00:53:52Yeah.
00:53:52Polly, stand off.
00:53:53I'll lock the door.
00:53:59I'd be very happy to give you a check now, Mrs. Donner, and close the deal.
00:54:03I'm sorry.
00:54:03These money matters are always so embarrassing.
00:54:06We prefer cash.
00:54:08Oh, well, uh, well, I have some money with me.
00:54:12I have $500.
00:54:14Well, I could give you that on account.
00:54:16We were staying at the Presidential Hotel, and then later I could send the pencil.
00:54:20That will be satisfactory.
00:54:23You can't imagine how much we appreciate this, Mrs. Donner.
00:54:27In my work, there's such deep satisfaction.
00:54:30I should be calling you within 24 hours.
00:54:33Presidential Hotel.
00:54:34Good night to you, both of you.
00:54:36Good night.
00:54:41I says once you got us in enough trouble.
00:54:46Quiet.
00:54:47You were spying on you, casing this couple.
00:54:48You must be getting sloppy with your references.
00:54:51It was the concertant girl and the reporter.
00:54:53Oh, I thought her voice reminded me of someone.
00:54:55Get out the back way, Harry, and see if the house is being marched.
00:54:58Now they know a little bit more.
00:54:59Did they see you?
00:55:00No.
00:55:00Good.
00:55:01They probably mocked down all the serial numbers.
00:55:03I don't like the way things are going.
00:55:05You never do.
00:55:06I want to get out.
00:55:07You'll stay here until I speak to Decorah.
00:55:34Anybody watching?
00:55:36No, dead as a morgue.
00:55:38Hey, where are you going?
00:55:40Mrs. Donner sent me to do something.
00:55:43Ask her.
00:55:44I will.
00:55:51In a vacant house across the street, another meeting had been arranged for Mark and Paula.
00:55:56So that's the setup.
00:55:58They registered the girl under the name of the couple buying the baby.
00:56:00Mm-hmm.
00:56:01It's a neat trick.
00:56:02It means that Mary could have been registered under any one of the five names that I have here.
00:56:07That's Kelly, Spence, Korchak, Raven, and Trent.
00:56:10Don't have all five of those women brought in tomorrow with their husbands.
00:56:12One of those nurses at the hospital must have been lying.
00:56:15Sure, but which one?
00:56:16Oh, that's just routine from now on.
00:56:18How about Dottie Jensen?
00:56:19Oh, she's in no danger as long as they still want the baby and they're not suspicious.
00:56:23Come on, we can get out of here.
00:56:24Are you sure you pulled it off?
00:56:26We're up for an Oscar next year for our performances.
00:56:29All right, go on back to your hotel and wait for her to call you.
00:56:32And let us know the minute anything breaks.
00:56:33Why would I keep it a secret?
00:56:34I rented a bungalow cabana for you.
00:56:37You're posing as a wealthy couple who's costing the taxpayers 25 bucks a day.
00:56:41Don't I know it?
00:56:42Part of those taxes are mine.
00:56:49We've come a long way since Ash Fork and Beaverbrook.
00:56:54Boys in the pool room could only see me now.
00:57:01What's the matter?
00:57:03I hated to leave Dottie in that place.
00:57:05She'll be all right.
00:57:08Mark.
00:57:11Mrs. Donner had Mary killed, didn't she?
00:57:16Works that way.
00:57:17When she comes up for trial, everything about Mary will have to be brought out, won't it?
00:57:24You wouldn't want Donner to get away with her, would you?
00:57:27I don't know.
00:57:28Maybe I would if it would make it any easier on the baby.
00:57:32People forget.
00:57:34By the time she's growing up, nobody will remember a thing about it.
00:57:37Maybe.
00:57:39I keep wondering how Mary would feel about it.
00:57:43It's out of our hands now.
00:57:45Dottie's over there taking a big chance for you.
00:57:48Police have been called in.
00:57:51I don't suppose you could keep Mary's name out of it.
00:57:54Mrs. Donner goes to trial.
00:57:56I won't be the only newspaper man there.
00:58:01Good night, Mark.
00:58:03Why don't you come down to the bar and have a nightcap?
00:58:06No, thanks.
00:58:07Good night.
00:58:10Good night.
00:58:16I'm sorry to tell you this, Mrs. Spence, but it looks as though the whole thing has gone sky high.
00:58:22I don't understand.
00:58:24Somebody's gotten on to the deal.
00:58:25We're all about to get a call from the police.
00:58:28But Mrs. Donner assured me it was perfectly safe.
00:58:31It's too bad, Mrs. Spence.
00:58:33There must have been a leak somewhere.
00:58:35But what can we do?
00:58:37I couldn't give up the baby now.
00:58:39She's almost like our own.
00:58:41That's why I called you.
00:58:43I know how you must feel.
00:58:46I have a few connections around town.
00:58:48I might be able to quiet things down.
00:58:51Yes, Mr. Carrick.
00:58:52Please, you must.
00:58:53Of course, it'll take money.
00:58:55How much?
00:58:56Oh, a couple of thousand anyway.
00:58:59But we couldn't possibly.
00:59:01Why don't you let me talk to Mr. Spence?
00:59:04He's away on a business trip.
00:59:06But I know we don't have the money, Mr. Carrick.
00:59:09You know, you're in this as deep as any of us.
00:59:11I can't help it.
00:59:12We simply don't have it.
00:59:14Maybe we could raise some.
00:59:15I'll need it tonight.
00:59:17But that's absolutely impossible.
00:59:19All right, Mrs. Spence.
00:59:22All right.
00:59:24I may call you later.
00:59:25Mr. Carrick, please.
00:59:27Good night.
00:59:28Mr. Carrick.
00:59:30Mr. Carrick, please.
00:59:51Presidential Hotel.
00:59:52Mrs. Moss.
00:59:53Just a moment, please.
01:00:02This is Carrick.
01:00:03Carrick.
01:00:04Is Sitko there with you?
01:00:06Of course not.
01:00:07Are you alone?
01:00:08Yes.
01:00:09How badly do you want your sister's baby back?
01:00:12I'll do anything.
01:00:14Maybe we can make a deal.
01:00:16I know you were at Mrs. Donna's tonight.
01:00:20Are you there?
01:00:21Yes.
01:00:22You're not to talk to anyone.
01:00:24Do you understand?
01:00:25I understand.
01:00:27I'll know if you cross me because I'm having you watched.
01:00:30You needn't worry about that.
01:00:32What about the baby?
01:00:34It's going to cost you.
01:00:36I have about $1,500 in traveler's checks.
01:00:39Get them cashed at the desk there.
01:00:41Bring them with you.
01:00:42Where?
01:00:42I'll need about an hour.
01:00:44I'll call you back.
01:00:45All right.
01:00:46Now get this through your head.
01:00:48I'm really desperate, so don't try any tricks.
01:00:51I won't.
01:00:52If you do, I'll take it out on the kit.
01:00:54I said I wouldn't.
01:00:56Please don't hurt her.
01:00:57She'll be all right.
01:00:58If you behave.
01:01:11How can this Kirk expect to stay healthy, keeping such late hours?
01:01:16Well, talk.
01:01:17You don't pay me to talk.
01:01:18I don't like waiting for people.
01:01:30What do we do now?
01:01:32Just keep driving around the block.
01:01:34We've been around three times already.
01:01:36Please do as I tell you.
01:01:37Okay.
01:02:06Stop.
01:02:10All right.
01:02:11Hurry up.
01:02:13That okay?
01:02:14Yeah, sure.
01:02:15Beat it.
01:02:23Where is she?
01:02:24I'm taking you to her.
01:02:26Did you bring the money?
01:02:27Yes.
01:02:27Is she all right?
01:02:28She's fine.
01:02:30Where was she?
01:02:31Don't ask too many questions.
01:02:33I'm sticking my neck out a mile each way in this thing.
01:02:35It's worth every penny.
01:02:37I'm not complaining.
01:02:39Well, here we are.
01:02:40I'll be quiet when we go in.
01:03:07You left her here alone.
01:03:10She wasn't going anywhere.
01:03:12Now, how about the money?
01:03:17You're to stay here until tomorrow morning.
01:03:19Don't try to get out.
01:03:20This place is owned by friends of mine.
01:03:22They'll tell you when you can leave.
01:03:45About time.
01:03:46You'll have to make better last words than that for Mrs. Donna.
01:03:49Let's go.
01:03:51Let's go.
01:03:59I...
01:03:59You'd better stop talking, Carrick.
01:04:01I don't know anything about it.
01:04:03Sure.
01:04:03You always go around with $1,300 in your pocket.
01:04:07Mrs. Spence called, Carrick.
01:04:08We know everything that you've been up to tonight.
01:04:10I tell you, I don't know anything about it.
01:04:13Stop that noise.
01:04:14I told you I had somebody else here.
01:04:16Be quiet.
01:04:17Stop marking him up.
01:04:18What's another mark?
01:04:19He can be a hit-and-run victim.
01:04:20Be realistic.
01:04:21Where's the child?
01:04:22And where did you get the money?
01:04:24Let him talk, stupid.
01:04:27The money's mine.
01:04:29I've been saving it.
01:04:30I was going to clear out of town.
01:04:32You should have started sooner.
01:04:34Hold up his arm, Moppy.
01:04:42This is a little game we used to play after Sunday school.
01:04:48Ah!
01:04:52Stay here.
01:04:56What is it, darling?
01:04:57Mrs. Donna, it's time.
01:04:58Well, get back into bed.
01:04:59Now, call an ambulance.
01:05:00I'm sorry.
01:05:01I just got up to turn on the light.
01:05:03Well, that's all right.
01:05:04You stay in bed.
01:05:04I have a patient in the next room.
01:05:13Here comes the jackpot.
01:05:14Truth, the consequence.
01:05:16All right.
01:05:16All right.
01:05:17I took the kit.
01:05:19Where is it?
01:05:21I gave it to the concert iron girl.
01:05:24She gave me the money.
01:05:26I parked them in the boarding house.
01:05:2942-11 Argyle.
01:05:30What room?
01:05:32Eight.
01:05:33Anything else?
01:05:34It's all there is to it.
01:05:37Believe me.
01:05:38We'll see.
01:05:39Leave him alone.
01:05:41He told you.
01:05:41Why, Harry, we're just having a little good, clean fun.
01:06:02Have all of you gone crazy?
01:06:04Yes.
01:06:04Crazy enough to find out where the kit is.
01:06:06Harry, watch Carrick.
01:06:07Come on, you two.
01:06:08Looks like he won't never come up.
01:06:12We have to get over there right away.
01:06:14We can get rid of the body later.
01:06:16Our only chance is to pin the whole thing on Carrick.
01:06:18Have the girl and the baby found in his car.
01:06:21The baby, too?
01:06:21You're throwing away good money.
01:06:22I'm paying the bills.
01:06:24All right.
01:06:24So Carrick tricked up the suicide.
01:06:26And in the same place.
01:06:27Exactly.
01:06:28And we'll follow in my car to see that you do as good a job as you did the last
01:06:30time.
01:06:31Mrs. Donner.
01:06:34Mrs. Donner, please.
01:06:36All right, Dotty.
01:06:38It has to happen now.
01:06:39So you'll break even.
01:06:43Operator, Bimini Hospital, emergency.
01:06:46Anybody got a match?
01:06:51Hello?
01:06:53Nurse Sully, please.
01:07:04Yeah?
01:07:04Mark?
01:07:05Just got a break in the case.
01:07:06We won't have to wait any longer.
01:07:07Spence baby was kidnapped tonight.
01:07:09Who?
01:07:10Spence.
01:07:11She's one of the women on your list.
01:07:12She's in our office now.
01:07:14Just giving us a full confession about buying the Constantine baby.
01:07:17What do you mean the baby was kidnapped?
01:07:19I don't know how that figures into it.
01:07:21But we've got enough now to move in on the whole gang.
01:07:23We're going over to Downers.
01:07:24You want to be there?
01:07:24Sure.
01:07:25All right.
01:07:25I'll give you ten minutes to dress and then start.
01:07:28Meet us there and hurry up.
01:07:29Is everything set?
01:07:30All set.
01:07:31We'll leave in ten minutes.
01:07:33We'll leave in ten minutes.
01:08:34I said, we don't want to wake up the neighbors.
01:08:47Nurse, you've got to get me a telephone.
01:08:49I sent for one, Mrs. Moss, but I don't think you'll have time to place a call.
01:08:52Somewhat ice cream, lobster, tomatoes, strawberries.
01:08:57This one, a phone call.
01:08:58What did you want, Mrs. Moss? I'll get it.
01:09:00The district attorney, Chief McRae, please.
01:09:03Get that telephone away from her.
01:09:05She's in no condition to be making a call.
01:09:08Well, after all, Sally...
01:09:09This is a private case, and I'm in charge.
01:09:11Now take the telephone out of here.
01:09:14But please...
01:09:25Pardon me.
01:09:28Hiya, Mark.
01:09:29Nobody home.
01:09:30I think I got a reason for the kidnapping.
01:09:33Carrick must have been planning to double-cross the rest.
01:09:35He stole a baby and then made a deal with Paula.
01:09:37Does he have any money?
01:09:38Some, I don't know.
01:09:40Carrick isn't planning anything.
01:09:41He's in there dead.
01:09:43Dead?
01:09:43Mm-hmm.
01:09:44Beaten to death.
01:09:45I think you figured it right.
01:09:48How about Paula?
01:09:48Not a sign of her.
01:09:49Or the Jensen girl.
01:09:50They must have taken him along when they decided to beat it.
01:09:52Well, come on.
01:09:53Let's get going.
01:09:54Now where?
01:09:55I got a call out on Donna's car.
01:09:57You think of anything else?
01:10:00Yeah.
01:10:01Yeah, the woman.
01:10:01The nurse at the hospital.
01:10:02The one that lied to us.
01:10:03All right.
01:10:03It's better than doing nothing.
01:10:05Now, please stay here until homicide gets here.
01:10:07Okay.
01:10:20It was Miss Sully took care of Mrs. Stance.
01:10:22Would you tell her we'd like to see her?
01:10:23I'm afraid she can't be disturbed.
01:10:25She's on a private case.
01:10:26We'll have to put someone else on there.
01:10:27We want to talk to her right away.
01:10:33Send Miss Sully down.
01:10:37I'm sorry, you can't see her now.
01:10:39Her patient is just ready for the delivery room.
01:10:43Do you mind if we wait?
01:10:55Wait a minute.
01:10:55What's that patient's name?
01:10:58Moss.
01:10:59Dottie, Miss Tripp, take us to Miss Sully.
01:11:01We're arresting her.
01:11:05Meet you in the car, Mark.
01:11:07Dottie.
01:11:08Dottie, what happened?
01:11:09I tried to reach you.
01:11:11Carrie.
01:11:12They forced him to tell where Paula.
01:11:14They're going to kill her and the baby
01:11:16and try to make it look like suicide.
01:11:18Where?
01:11:19They said the same place they took Mary.
01:11:22Thanks.
01:11:22You take good care of her.
01:11:23You'll be all right.
01:11:24All right.
01:12:15It's all rigged.
01:12:16We can leave.
01:12:17We're not leaving here until the whole affair is finished.
01:12:20I'm not being paid by the hour.
01:12:21You're not being paid until I'm sure.
01:12:29Staff 44 to Control 1.
01:12:31Requesting assistance.
01:12:33Paradise Hills unfinished country club development.
01:12:35Code 3.
01:12:41I don't like waiting.
01:12:44Wait 10 minutes more?
01:12:48Didn't I tell you no smoking?
01:13:09This is it.
01:13:10Yeah.
01:13:21Hey, we're getting company.
01:13:22Take your hands off, Funchy.
01:13:26Poppy, kill those headlights.
01:13:27Throw them down the motor.
01:13:28Here we go, Funchy.
01:13:42Funchy, huh?
01:13:43I don't like nobody calling me Funchy.
01:13:45Where's the fire, Funchy?
01:13:46No matches on this ride, mister.
01:14:03Kill the headlights.
01:14:04Kill the headlights.
01:14:17This is Donna and the chauffeur.
01:14:20Come on.
01:14:31Stay on the cover, Mark.
01:14:33No deal, Mac.
01:14:34I gotta get to Paul and that kid.
01:14:36I gotta get to Paul and that kid.
01:14:52Only one guy's shooting.
01:14:53There were two.
01:14:54Cover the car.
01:14:55He's going to be on the car.
01:15:30Oh, my God.
01:15:57Oh, my God.
01:16:28Oh, my God.
01:16:55I needed your deposition to prepare my case.
01:16:58Of course.
01:16:59How's my visitors?
01:17:00Oh, come in.
01:17:01Hello, Paula.
01:17:02Well, see you've already read it.
01:17:05Once again, you've crept into the headlines hanging on my coattails.
01:17:08I'll sacrifice a small stake in your honor tonight.
01:17:10How's the baby?
01:17:12Well, he hasn't started to talk yet, but he looks like he might have something pretty bright to say when
01:17:16he does.
01:17:17Dottie, I don't have to tell you how much.
01:17:18No, you don't.
01:17:20How's Mary's baby?
01:17:21We're looking for a handsome young couple to adopt her.
01:17:23I'll look around the room and see if I can find one.
01:17:26Come in.
01:17:28Hiya, McRae.
01:17:29Girls.
01:17:31Congratulations, Sitko.
01:17:32A nice little piece of work.
01:17:34Well, if you say so, it must be true.
01:17:36A little note for you from our boss.
01:17:39You and I may be working together now, Sitko.
01:17:41I've been promoted.
01:17:43Great.
01:17:47Well, now, just a minute.
01:17:49Why, he can't do this to me.
01:17:50I've been working night and day on this thing.
01:17:52I've got two weeks off coming.
01:17:53Why, you'll never win the Pulitzer Prize that way, Sitko.
01:17:55You shut up and get back and tell him I'm leaving on my honeymoon.
01:17:57And what better way could you spend it than working?
01:18:04Why, you little bitch.
01:18:06Well, there goes our honeymoon trip.
01:18:08What do we do now?
01:18:09Well, start at the bottom.
01:18:11Put on your cast iron stomach and we'll spend our honeymoon at Eddie's.
01:18:15Interesting people, these small town girls.
01:18:24But whatever the time or wherever the place,
01:18:28this did happen in a city which may be your home.
01:18:38I don't know.
01:18:41Bye.
01:18:51Bye.
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