Charlie Chan investigates the theft of government radar papers (the laboratory is located in the same building as a radio station!) with the help of Number Three Son Tommy and comic sidekick Birmingham Brown. Written by Marty McKee
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00:03:13Chan!
00:03:15Gee, I'm mighty glad to see you again, Charlie.
00:03:17Captain Flynn, most happy to meet old friend.
00:03:21You work fast as usual.
00:03:23I'm in town only an hour,
00:03:25and yet already you have telephoned me.
00:03:27Why, the minute I got your telegram,
00:03:28I started watching all trains.
00:03:30You contact mysterious Mr. Roush?
00:03:33Sure, picked him up the minute he got off the train.
00:03:35And Hodge, that's one of my men over there,
00:03:37he and I have trailed him for seven hours.
00:03:40Roush know you follow him?
00:03:42He couldn't help it.
00:03:43I figured you were about to make an important arrest,
00:03:45so we've kept close to him.
00:03:47He's on that tug over there now.
00:03:51I did not want to arrest him yet.
00:03:54You? You didn't?
00:03:58Roush is agent in pay of someone
00:04:00trying to steal radar secrets from our government.
00:04:03Really wanted you to locate him
00:04:05so I could observe him myself.
00:04:08Oh, so you could trail him to the head of the gang
00:04:11who's trying to steal the radar, eh?
00:04:13Oh, gee, I'm awful sorry, Charlie.
00:04:17Oh, no matter, no matter.
00:04:20Perhaps we arrest him anyhow.
00:04:23Then we put him someplace where you not be sorry anymore.
00:04:27Oh, thanks.
00:04:36Roush, use this car?
00:04:37Oh, no. No, that was parked when we got here.
00:04:44He's still on the boat.
00:04:46All right, let's go.
00:05:14No, there's no one in there.
00:05:29Blood on the floor.
00:05:44It's Roush.
00:05:57He's dead. Stabbed within the last 20 minutes.
00:06:05Here, Fred.
00:06:07Here.
00:06:10Here, Fred.
00:06:12Someone stepped in blood. Leave print.
00:06:28I'm afraid, Captain,
00:06:30murderer arrive and depart in car on dock,
00:06:34which just leave.
00:06:36And I didn't even look at the license plate.
00:06:40I look.
00:06:46Get me the coroner.
00:06:49Hello, doc? This is Flynn talking.
00:06:51We just brought in the homicide. Get me a quick report, will you?
00:06:54Thanks. Sit down, Charlie.
00:06:57Come on. Give me the radio room.
00:07:01This is Flynn talking.
00:07:03Check on a stolen car numbered...
00:07:069B2X54.
00:07:089B2X54.
00:07:10Yeah?
00:07:14That car's been reported stolen by Miss Diane Hall,
00:07:17a radio actress of the Cosmo Radio Center.
00:07:20Cosmo Radio Center.
00:07:22They broadcast by television.
00:07:25Yeah, their offices are on the 10th floor.
00:07:2710th floor.
00:07:29Same floor as Hamilton Research Laboratory.
00:07:32Yeah. And say, doesn't that fellow Hamilton experiment in radar?
00:07:36Radar, radio.
00:07:40Believe we'll soon meet Miss Diane Hall.
00:07:43Tonight.
00:07:45If he ain't a black market man, my name ain't Birmingham,
00:07:47and I can prove it is.
00:07:49He's right. That man's business is as dark as a...
00:07:51It ain't exactly that dark.
00:07:53Can you identify him from a picture?
00:07:55Yes, sir. As mad as I am with that man,
00:07:57I hate to think of what I think of him. It makes me blush.
00:08:01Here, look through this.
00:08:03If it's in here, I'll sure find it.
00:08:05And I hope it's in there, too.
00:08:07Now, let me see. No, no.
00:08:10That's a funny little character, ain't it?
00:08:13No, no.
00:08:15That is Uncle Nicodemus.
00:08:17Now, I wonder what he's doing.
00:08:19Look at that zoo suit he got on. That's killing him, ain't it?
00:08:21Yes.
00:08:22Big House sure makes some funny suits.
00:08:24There he is.
00:08:26Now, let's see.
00:08:28I don't know. Here.
00:08:30There.
00:08:33Let's see. Now, no. That ain't him.
00:08:35Why did you turn that page over so quick?
00:08:37Oh, that page? Oh, that's a desperate character.
00:08:39You don't want to see that. Come on. We want to look over here.
00:08:41Now, right here. He's right over here.
00:08:42Well, I want to look at it.
00:08:47Uh-oh.
00:08:49Well, what do you know about that?
00:08:52What do you know about that?
00:08:54Well, you see, it's a little, uh...
00:08:56It's a little error.
00:08:58You see, I had that suit made for a masquerade.
00:09:00I went to a ball, you know, and I win the contest.
00:09:02And you should have seen me dance.
00:09:04I jumped up. Here's the step I did.
00:09:08Do you expect us to believe that?
00:09:11Well, uh, it could be.
00:09:13Are you two trying to kid us?
00:09:15I'm going to run you both in.
00:09:17No, wait a minute. You can't do that to us.
00:09:19I came here looking for Pop. Yeah, you don't know who he is.
00:09:21Hey, hey, hey. Wait a minute. What's going on here?
00:09:23Who are these two? He says he's Charlie Chan's son.
00:09:25Well, so sorry I must apologize, Captain.
00:09:28What he say is true.
00:09:30This is number three son Tommy.
00:09:32And this one, his second assistant, Birmingham Brown.
00:09:36Both, at times, often feeble-minded.
00:09:39All right, boys.
00:09:42Now, you two supposed to take baggage to hotel.
00:09:45We did, Pop. Then we came looking for you.
00:09:47You know we have to look after you.
00:09:49You look after me until I'm out of sight.
00:09:52Oh, Pop, you know we're a big help to you.
00:09:54Your worries are our worries.
00:09:56In fact, no trouble is too big for us.
00:09:58Some of your trouble too big for me.
00:10:01Come, we must investigate slight case of murder.
00:10:04Murder? Well, here I come.
00:10:06Here I go.
00:10:12Uh-oh. The end of the line.
00:10:14Now, she can't do that to me.
00:10:16I paid her my alimony this morning. She can't do that to me.
00:10:18Mr. Chan, Mr. Chan, come get me out, please.
00:10:21I done changed my mind.
00:10:23Mr. Chan!
00:10:37Mr. Brett, the manager's coming right out, Mr. Chan.
00:10:43I'm Mr. Brett, Mr. Chan. So happy to meet you.
00:10:46I'm sorry to keep you waiting, but we've just finished a broadcast.
00:10:49Now, why do you wish to see Miss Hall?
00:10:52Is she in trouble?
00:10:53I wish to speak to Miss Hall regarding her automobile.
00:10:57Oh. Oh, well, right this way, sir.
00:11:04I mop and mop and mop, so why you walk on the floor
00:11:07till my nerves go jingle-jangle?
00:11:09Well, we haven't learned to walk on the ceiling yet.
00:11:11I speak serious stuff and you speak yokes.
00:11:14Who are you? What you want here?
00:11:16I'm Tommy Chan. This is Birmingham Brown.
00:11:18We're assistant to Charlie Chan, the world-famous detective.
00:11:20Hold her. Miss Swenson.
00:11:22You're benign. Sorry, Mr. Brett.
00:11:25Right this way, Mr. Chan.
00:11:29They told me to advertise on the air.
00:11:31Well, any program that smells like the one you people just put on
00:11:35needs the air, and you think I'm going to continue paying you?
00:11:40Well, this is radio.
00:11:43I try to put on a program and the manager himself
00:11:46lets in tourists to gape at us like goldfish.
00:11:49Mrs. Marsh, these people... Herbert.
00:11:51Herbert Sinclair.
00:11:53You were supposed to definitely inform the management
00:11:56that I wanted no sightseers in the studio
00:11:58while my actors were either rehearsing or broadcasting.
00:12:00Quiet! Never mind making excuses.
00:12:03Mrs. Marsh, these people are not tourists.
00:12:06This gentleman is here because, well,
00:12:09it's something I'm sure won't happen again.
00:12:11You've said that before, and so have you.
00:12:14Don't talk back to me.
00:12:16Well, what do you want?
00:12:18Really wish private conversation with Miss Diane Hall.
00:12:22You wish to see me?
00:12:24You are Miss Hall?
00:12:25Yes.
00:12:26Permit me to introduce myself.
00:12:28Permit me to depart.
00:12:30Breaking into conferences that I'm paying for.
00:12:33Come, Herbert.
00:12:38I am Charlie Chan, representative of federal government.
00:12:42Federal government?
00:12:43The law?
00:12:44Oh, well, when the law arrives, Willy Rand departs.
00:12:47Too little.
00:12:55Miss Hall, tonight you report car stolen.
00:12:58Oh, that.
00:13:00But it wasn't stolen. It was merely borrowed.
00:13:02By whom, please?
00:13:03Well, I... I don't know.
00:13:06You see, Gloria and I...
00:13:08Oh, excuse me.
00:13:09This is Gloria Bain, Mr. Chan.
00:13:12After rehearsal tonight, Gloria and I went out to the parking lot.
00:13:15And Diane's car was gone.
00:13:16So I, uh, telephoned police.
00:13:18Then we went to a restaurant.
00:13:20Ate, talked with some friends, and came back up here.
00:13:23And there was Diane's car right back in the parking lot.
00:13:25Your car missing about 8.30 tonight?
00:13:28That's right.
00:13:29But how did you know?
00:13:31And why should the federal government be interested in a stolen car that wasn't completely stolen?
00:13:35That is all.
00:13:36I'm most fortunate to have met such charming radio ladies.
00:13:40Hope to meet you again.
00:13:42Very soon, perhaps.
00:13:57Oh, I beg your pardon.
00:13:59Sir, to meet a gentleman who apologizes for bumping you in these days
00:14:03is a rare thing indeed.
00:14:05He is either a coward or a gentleman.
00:14:08I give you credit for the latter.
00:14:10Uh, Mr. Chan.
00:14:12This is Mr. Horace Carlos, the Shakespearean actor.
00:14:15Now, motion pictures and radio.
00:14:16And television, Mr. Brett.
00:14:18Of course.
00:14:19Yes, once the foremost Shakespearean actor of my time.
00:14:23But now, char.
00:14:26Now I am known only for the mask behind which I hide
00:14:30when I play the mad monster.
00:14:33On radio, screen, and television.
00:14:37Still, it is a living.
00:14:40And so, good night to you, one and all.
00:14:46Ah!
00:14:49Carlos acts on and off the stage.
00:14:52Did you learn everything that you came to see us all about?
00:14:55Yes, thanks for our kind assistance.
00:14:57Well, good.
00:14:59Now, if you will excuse me.
00:15:00Certainly.
00:15:02Pop, I don't get it.
00:15:04We came all the way from New York City following a man named Roush.
00:15:07Roush was murdered.
00:15:09Who killed him?
00:15:10Same person who leaved that heel print on the floor.
00:15:14Right shoe.
00:15:16Print is duplicate of one found in cabin
00:15:19at scene of Roush's murder.
00:15:22Killer, someone who walked here recently.
00:15:28Perhaps someone we all see.
00:15:32Most interesting place.
00:15:35We'll visit here tomorrow.
00:15:44Good night.
00:16:04Manager, please.
00:16:06Who's calling?
00:16:07This is Brett.
00:16:08Roush was contacted.
00:16:10He was scared.
00:16:11Said the police were after him.
00:16:13He was ready to blab because Jolly Chan was after him too.
00:16:17But he can't talk now.
00:16:19He's dead.
00:16:31I borrowed Diana's car last night to go meet Roush.
00:16:43I'll get it.
00:16:45Five dollars.
00:16:46Five dollars.
00:16:47Give me one moment.
00:17:11Information?
00:17:12No, sir.
00:17:13I want the address of the telephone number Harding, 2535.
00:17:17Yes, I know, but this is Inspector Grady, freezing station 27.
00:17:27Where?
00:17:30Office 211.
00:17:32Algon building? Thank you.
00:17:44Next on list, please.
00:17:46That's Gloria Bain, radio actress, small time,
00:17:49until she made a hit on Mrs. Marsh's program.
00:17:52She used to be a gold digger, but she's a hard worker, no records.
00:17:56Diane Hall, radio actress from the legitimate stage in New York,
00:17:59came here two months ago, nothing definite on her,
00:18:01except that she lives with Gloria Bain.
00:18:03Well, thank you so very much, Captain.
00:18:06You're welcome.
00:18:07Nothing definite on her, except that she lives with Gloria Bain.
00:18:10Well, thank you so very much, Captain,
00:18:12for your excellent report on my list of suspects.
00:18:16Charlie, you mean to tell me that you really think
00:18:19that one of these people here is a murderer?
00:18:21Not only think so, but firmly believe so.
00:18:25But which one?
00:18:27We'll go now to try and find out which one is guilty person.
00:18:32That's easy, Pop. The murderer will be the one with the guilty look.
00:18:36Number three son have excellent head.
00:18:39Question have always been what it contain.
00:18:47Well, if it ain't...
00:18:49Ben Carter is my name.
00:18:50Benjamin Carter, yeah.
00:18:52Boy, it's been a long time. I haven't seen you since...
00:18:54Longer than that.
00:18:55Yeah?
00:18:56The last time I saw you, you was living...
00:18:58Oh, I moved from there.
00:18:59Yeah?
00:19:00Sure, I moved over to...
00:19:01How can you live in that neighborhood?
00:19:03I don't know.
00:19:04Where I'm living, I only pay...
00:19:05It ain't that cheap, is it?
00:19:06Sure it is.
00:19:07Hey, look here.
00:19:08What?
00:19:09Is you still married?
00:19:10No, I divorced her.
00:19:11Yeah?
00:19:12Sure.
00:19:13I know you have a lot of...
00:19:14You got me wrong, you got me wrong.
00:19:15I got married again.
00:19:16No kidding.
00:19:17I sure did.
00:19:18Yeah?
00:19:19Say, not changing the subject, have you got a...
00:19:21No, I don't smoke.
00:19:22No.
00:19:23Hey, look here.
00:19:24Wasn't you in the...
00:19:25Yeah, but I got an honorable discharge.
00:19:27You did?
00:19:28I sure did.
00:19:29What was the matter?
00:19:30Well, I developed a kind of...
00:19:31Oh, that's a terrible pain.
00:19:32Yeah.
00:19:33It starts right along...
00:19:34No, more in the back.
00:19:35Yeah?
00:19:36Mm-hmm.
00:19:37What are you doing for it?
00:19:38Well, I was taking some...
00:19:39Don't take them, Ben.
00:19:40They'll make you sleep.
00:19:41Yeah?
00:19:42Sure.
00:19:43Not what you should have taken.
00:19:44I did.
00:19:45You know what?
00:19:46What?
00:19:47That's how come I like to talk to you.
00:19:48Yeah?
00:19:49Because me and you seem to agree with each other.
00:19:50We sure do, don't we?
00:19:51Yeah.
00:19:52I wonder...
00:19:53Oh, it's about...
00:19:54Is it that late?
00:19:55It sure is.
00:19:56Well, thank you.
00:19:57I'll be seeing you, huh?
00:19:58I'll revive.
00:19:59I'll revive.
00:20:00Who's your friend?
00:20:01He didn't say.
00:20:02Huh?
00:20:03No, he didn't say.
00:20:04You know, Pop, I've got an idea about this case.
00:20:05Yes, well?
00:20:06Well, I had an idea, but it's gone now.
00:20:07Possibly could not stand solitary confinement.
00:20:08Quiet, please.
00:20:09Quiet.
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00:20:29Quiet, please.
00:20:30We go now to watch studio rehearsal.
00:20:35No, Walter.
00:20:36You've broken your promise to me.
00:20:38Just when the landlord has broken our lease,
00:20:41and Grandmama has broken her leg.
00:20:44Oh, Grandmama, what are we to do?
00:20:47Well, tears are all right to wash out your eyes,
00:20:50but they used up too many handkerchiefs.
00:20:52So face the future with a smile, my children,
00:20:55for tomorrow is bound to be another day.
00:20:58It is just bound to be.
00:21:03What does the future hold in store for Jean
00:21:06and her so lovable family?
00:21:09Have you tried a Marsha's mellow mixed waffle
00:21:12covered with just oodles and oodles of melted butter and...
00:21:15Shut up!
00:21:16You too.
00:21:17Oodles and oodles of butter.
00:21:19With butter rationed so strictly?
00:21:21Who wrote that in?
00:21:22Well, I thought it sounded nice.
00:21:24You thought?
00:21:25That's a lie.
00:21:26The whole program sounds as stupid as you.
00:21:28I should cancel my contract here
00:21:30and give my account to some other network.
00:21:32Mrs. Marsh, if that's how you feel about it,
00:21:34why don't you...
00:21:35Why don't I what, Mr. Brett?
00:21:37Let us change the script and the announcement.
00:21:40Then do it instead of talking about it.
00:21:42And you, learn how to talk like a human instead of a gloop,
00:21:45or I'll change announcers too.
00:21:46Also, I...
00:21:50Sorry to interrupt again.
00:21:52You're sorry.
00:21:53If you want to speak to Miss Hall again,
00:21:55you'll wait till we're finished.
00:21:57So sorry.
00:21:58Must speak to everyone present.
00:22:01All of us?
00:22:02But why?
00:22:03Regarding a murder.
00:22:05Murder?
00:22:06But yesterday you said you were investigating my stolen car.
00:22:09Person who steal your car commit murder.
00:22:12But who was killed?
00:22:13A Mr. Rauch.
00:22:15I never heard of him.
00:22:17Thank goodness.
00:22:19You know what, Toby?
00:22:20I'd like to get on the radio sometime.
00:22:22If I could get on...
00:22:23Oh, excuse me.
00:22:26Tommy!
00:22:29What's the matter?
00:22:30I got a urge that I want to leave,
00:22:32but my legs won't cooperate with me.
00:22:35You want to leave for where?
00:22:36I just saw something go in there.
00:22:38It's a combination between Dracula and a zombie.
00:22:42Just fresh out of a graveyard.
00:22:44A graveyard?
00:22:45Mm-hmm, but an old one.
00:22:46Well, that I got to see.
00:22:47Well, go ahead.
00:22:48I ain't no hog.
00:22:51What is that?
00:22:53What is that wish, laddie?
00:22:55Oh, nothing, sir.
00:22:57Excuse me.
00:22:58A friend of mine was seeing things.
00:23:02Did you see it?
00:23:03Yeah, it's hanging right on the door.
00:23:04It's hanging?
00:23:05It ain't natural.
00:23:06Let's go.
00:23:08One moment.
00:23:10We go 10th floor.
00:23:12Come.
00:23:22Come.
00:23:39He follows us.
00:23:40They're always connected.
00:23:42Well, Charlie Chan.
00:23:44It's good to see you again.
00:23:45I'm most happy to see you, Mr. Hamilton.
00:23:47This is number three's son, Tommy.
00:23:49How are you?
00:23:50And Birmingham Brown.
00:23:51These boys are second team assistants.
00:23:55You receive my telegram and follow instructions?
00:23:58Immediately.
00:23:59All of our radar equipment has been taken away by the government.
00:24:02What about record of experiments and copies of secret patents?
00:24:07The government has the originals.
00:24:08I have my own copies in the safe.
00:24:11Contents of safe only secure so long as someone outside watching safe.
00:24:17You know, since receiving your wire,
00:24:19I found evidence of several attempts to break in here.
00:24:22Do you think I ought to hire special guards?
00:24:24No.
00:24:25Now that I am present, contents of safe becomes trap
00:24:29and papers inside are only bait with which to catch enemy rat.
00:24:35Sure a lot of gadgets in here.
00:24:37Yes.
00:24:38Useful gadgets too.
00:24:40Right here we began the work that today allows our night fighters
00:24:43to hunt down and destroy enemy airplanes without even seeing them.
00:24:46Gosh.
00:24:47That sounds spooky.
00:24:50Nearly radar.
00:24:52Radar?
00:24:53Radar?
00:24:54What is radar?
00:24:55Well, radar is a...
00:24:57Well, it's sort of a...
00:24:59Birmingham, don't you know anything?
00:25:01I know as much about radar as you do.
00:25:04Do I know anything?
00:25:06Now, you ought to know I studied radar.
00:25:09What is that?
00:25:10A temperature or climatic tunnel.
00:25:12You make weather in tunnel?
00:25:14Yes.
00:25:15That is the extremes of heat and cold.
00:25:17To test the reliability of radar and television
00:25:20in all sorts of climatic conditions.
00:25:22The tunnel has two compartments, one for heat and one for cold.
00:25:25That light works flashing whenever there's a foreign body in the tunnel,
00:25:29no matter what the weather in there.
00:25:31Now, this is a funny thing.
00:25:32You know, what is this?
00:25:36Help!
00:25:37Help!
00:25:38There's lightning and shrapnel all over me!
00:25:40Help!
00:25:41There's lightning and shrapnel all over me!
00:25:43Help!
00:25:44Mr. Chan!
00:25:45Mr. Chan!
00:25:47Help!
00:25:48Help!
00:25:49Mr. Chan!
00:25:50Help!
00:25:51Help!
00:25:52Help!
00:25:57Mr. Chan!
00:25:59Birmingham, when in strange laboratories,
00:26:03do not poke nose into strange machines like these.
00:26:10Also, keep finger out of safe.
00:26:12Goodbye, Mr. Chan.
00:26:13Goodbye, Charlie.
00:26:14Thank you for coming in.
00:26:15Goodbye, Mr. Matthew.
00:26:16Hope to see you some more.
00:26:17Goodbye.
00:26:18Goodbye, gentlemen.
00:26:21Come in.
00:26:30May I speak to you for a moment, Mr. Brett?
00:26:32Mr. Brett?
00:26:34Why all the formality, Gloria?
00:26:36I'm here on business.
00:26:37I want better parts and more money.
00:26:39Starting tomorrow.
00:26:41You say that as if you were ordering me to give them to you.
00:26:44I am.
00:26:46Now look here, young lady.
00:26:48Instead of getting more parts,
00:26:49you're liable to lose those you already have.
00:26:51I wouldn't be so hasty, Mr. Brett.
00:26:53You'd better let me finish.
00:26:54Please, Gloria, I'm busy.
00:26:56Remember these.
00:27:00Remember them?
00:27:01What do you mean?
00:27:02That's the last pack of my private matches, Mr. Brett.
00:27:05And I gave them to you yesterday morning in this building.
00:27:07Well...
00:27:09Was that entitled you to order me to give you better jobs?
00:27:12Diane's car was stolen last night.
00:27:15I found these later in the seat.
00:27:19Well?
00:27:23Is this blackmail?
00:27:25Blackmail?
00:27:27Oh, that's bad, isn't it?
00:27:29Perhaps I'd just better give these to Mr. Chan and see what he says.
00:27:32Wait!
00:27:33I'll see that you get better jobs.
00:27:37Thank you so much, Mr. Brett.
00:27:53The manager, please.
00:27:54Who's calling?
00:27:55This is Brett talking.
00:27:58Listen.
00:28:00Listen.
00:28:01Gloria Bain, an actress here,
00:28:03knows that I used Diana Hall's car last night.
00:28:06She's blackmailing me.
00:28:07What'll I do?
00:28:21Personally, I think the program needs an entire change of personnel.
00:28:25However, I'll listen from my office, and then I'll decide.
00:28:28What did you say?
00:28:29Then don't say it. Come along.
00:28:34Pop, how can we solve a case just by watching people through a glass?
00:28:38What detective needs is great patience.
00:28:41Oh, I know that.
00:28:42When it comes to detective work, I know my P's and Q's.
00:28:46But are you familiar with the rest of the alphabet?
00:28:50Oh, Walter, to drink when your wife's in trouble.
00:28:53To say nothing of my broken leg.
00:28:56Drink?
00:28:57It seems as though I've heard that word before.
00:29:00What are we to do?
00:29:02Trouble?
00:29:03Nothing but trouble staring us in the face.
00:29:06We must move by the first of the month, and we've no place to go.
00:29:11Why can't we settle down and be like other people?
00:29:16Now keep your chin up, Mary, and look on the brighter side.
00:29:22Of course, Grandmama, you're always right.
00:29:25Always.
00:29:28I never had such a sudden headache in my life.
00:29:31I was all set to do some fancy ad-libbing myself.
00:29:34Uh-oh, the battle acts.
00:29:36Well, it wasn't bad.
00:29:38That is, not as bad as usual.
00:29:40You sounded poorly toward the end.
00:29:42Better stop gadding about.
00:29:44Come along. Do you want to stand here talking all night?
00:29:48Can I get you anything, Gloria?
00:29:50A cigarette might help.
00:29:52Oh.
00:29:56Will you give me a light, Mr. Brett?
00:29:58Why, of course.
00:30:08Oh, that's better.
00:30:19Gloria, what happened?
00:30:21Get young lady to dressing room, quick.
00:30:23Hurry, bring her in here.
00:30:40I beg your pardon.
00:30:41Yes, please.
00:30:42Why is it that whenever anything happens around here, you're always on hand?
00:30:46That's just what they always tell me down at the office.
00:30:53Hey, Tommy, I know the cigarette shortage is tough,
00:30:56but that ain't no reason why you should snitch a cigarette butt from that old lady.
00:31:00You know I don't smoke,
00:31:01but what other people try to grab often turn out to be valuable clue.
00:31:04Clue to what?
00:31:05Well, that's what we'll have to find out.
00:31:08You're just including me out.
00:31:10Did anybody call a doctor?
00:31:13Doctor no use now.
00:31:14Young lady already dead.
00:31:17Dead?
00:31:20The coroner was right, sir.
00:31:22Well, he said Miss Bain was poisoned.
00:31:24Toxic reaction proved she was,
00:31:26but I don't know what type poison was used.
00:31:28I've never run into it before.
00:31:30Say, do you suspect any of the people who were present when she died?
00:31:34Suspect everyone on general principle,
00:31:37but two assistants already watching person who interests me most.
00:31:43Thank you so much, doctor.
00:31:45Good night.
00:31:46Good night.
00:31:52Good night.
00:32:13Well, what do you want?
00:32:15Why, Cooper.
00:32:18Brought.
00:32:19How are you?
00:32:20Not brought now.
00:32:22It's Brick.
00:32:24Come on in.
00:32:41So it's Brick now instead of brought, huh?
00:32:44It was Brick when we worked in France together, remember?
00:32:47Seems like we're working together again.
00:32:50Thought I recognized your voice on my phone.
00:32:52Asking for the manager, please.
00:32:54Oh, so you're the manager.
00:32:56The head man of the party, huh?
00:32:58Not me.
00:33:00I just answer the phone.
00:33:02Someone else, someone unknown to me listens in.
00:33:06If the caller is okay,
00:33:08the caller is switched away from this line.
00:33:11I see.
00:33:15What do you care if we don't know who our boss is?
00:33:18We've worked that way before.
00:33:20I've got to know, Cooper.
00:33:22There's been two murders on this job already.
00:33:24Two murders?
00:33:27Yeah.
00:33:30I see what you mean.
00:33:32We should know the name of our boss to protect ourselves.
00:33:37Listen.
00:33:40Hello?
00:33:41Who's calling?
00:33:42Manager, please.
00:33:44See how it works?
00:33:46Yeah, I see.
00:33:49Well, if you learn anything, let me know.
00:33:53We'll need a lot of information.
00:33:56We have to squeal.
00:34:01What's the matter?
00:34:02Someone's coming. I'm going.
00:34:04You hear nothing which is said inside Strange Office?
00:34:07Just a mumble and a jumble, Mr. Chan.
00:34:10But outside in the hall, you overhear Mr. Cooper
00:34:13call Mr. Brett, Mr. Brott.
00:34:16That's right, Pop.
00:34:17Mean anything to you, Charlie?
00:34:19British intelligence secretary,
00:34:21Mr. Brott.
00:34:23Mr. Brott.
00:34:24Mr. Brott.
00:34:25Mr. Brott.
00:34:26Mr. Brott.
00:34:27Mr. Brott.
00:34:28Mr. Brott.
00:34:29Mr. Brott.
00:34:30Mr. Brott.
00:34:31Why?
00:34:32British intelligence seeking espionage agent
00:34:35named Ralph Brott.
00:34:37Ralph Brott.
00:34:38Oh, and the radio station manager
00:34:40calls himself Ralph Brett.
00:34:43Nothing in office except table, chair, and telephone, huh?
00:34:47Yes, sir.
00:34:48It must have been a race booker's office
00:34:50because it was just as clean as I is when I make a bet.
00:34:54Captain, please detail a man to check all people
00:34:57coming and going from Office 211, Algard Building.
00:35:00Right.
00:35:02Believe we make Mr. Brett surprise visit.
00:35:05Come.
00:35:06Boy, here we go again, surprise visit.
00:35:08No surprise me.
00:35:19Brett absent downstairs, also here.
00:35:21Do you think he's run away, Pop?
00:35:24Is that the heel print you're looking for?
00:35:27Person who wear this shoe kill Roush.
00:35:31By gosh, you mean Brett murdered this fellow Roush?
00:35:53Must locate Mr. Brett at once.
00:36:33Manager, please.
00:36:34Oscar.
00:36:35Brett.
00:36:38Listen, Charlie Chan knows all about the Roush murder.
00:36:42He's after me.
00:36:44You've got to protect me. What do I do?
00:36:53Right here in this building.
00:37:23Mr. Brett.
00:37:45Doorman say Mr. Brett still here.
00:37:47Has not left building.
00:37:53Mr. Ryan.
00:37:54Yes.
00:37:55You see Mr. Brett lately?
00:37:56I saw him eavesdropping outside of his own office.
00:37:59As if there were a couple of ex-wives in there
00:38:01waiting to collect alimony.
00:38:04Not funny, huh?
00:38:06When you see this?
00:38:07About 20 minutes ago.
00:38:08Pop, that's when we were in there.
00:38:10Must ask police to guard all doors.
00:38:13Police?
00:38:14Why?
00:38:15Because Brett is a murderer.
00:38:16Brett a murderer?
00:38:18That kills me.
00:38:20Nice people I'm working for.
00:38:22Now we've got to find Brett.
00:38:23But what's the rush?
00:38:24Because he's a killer.
00:38:25Yeah, it'll just be my luck to catch up with him.
00:38:27Come on.
00:38:30Say, it's eight hours since Brett has been seen.
00:38:32You know, he must have a hideout somewhere in this building.
00:38:35You have men posted at every exit?
00:38:38Sure. He can't get by them.
00:38:41Think we'll take a look on various floors.
00:38:43Good.
00:38:52I'm going to change the batter
00:38:53before I'm cleaning some more.
00:38:59You know, Birmingham,
00:39:00everywhere we go, we bump into that woman.
00:39:02Oh, don't be so suspicious, Tommy.
00:39:04After a while, you'll be telling me I did the murder.
00:39:11Now, look here.
00:39:12Did you see...
00:39:13I'm the last 10 minutes.
00:39:14No.
00:39:15No, but there was a fellow here.
00:39:16Him?
00:39:17Yes.
00:39:18Oh, he ain't the one.
00:39:19No.
00:39:20No, the fellow I'm looking for here.
00:39:21Why don't you wait until I...
00:39:22I ain't got time.
00:39:23No.
00:39:24But maybe if you could...
00:39:25I'm busy that night.
00:39:26Oh, sure, man.
00:39:27Yeah.
00:39:28Say, look here.
00:39:29What?
00:39:30Do you think that...
00:39:31Ah, no, it's getting late.
00:39:32Yeah.
00:39:33Why don't you...
00:39:34I ain't got a phone.
00:39:35No.
00:39:36But I could if you...
00:39:37Well, my car's in the shop.
00:39:38Oh, it is?
00:39:39Mm-hmm.
00:39:40Well, I'll see you there.
00:39:41I'll be...
00:39:42I'll be seeing you. Call me, huh?
00:39:43Okay, kid.
00:39:44Okay, so long.
00:39:45All right, goodbye.
00:39:46Do you know that he...
00:39:47He can't be that bad.
00:39:48Look, the laboratory door's open.
00:39:49Yeah?
00:39:50I'm tired of tangling with them gadgets.
00:39:54Well, it ain't no use being this lonesome.
00:39:57Uh, nobody home.
00:39:58Let's go.
00:39:59Wait.
00:40:01Oh!
00:40:02What's the matter?
00:40:04Look, the safe's been robbed.
00:40:05Perhaps the robber's still in here.
00:40:07Robbers and murderers.
00:40:08Why, this is a regular cleaning and dying place.
00:40:10Let's get out of here.
00:40:11Come on, come on.
00:40:15Could have been a little light around here.
00:40:17Shh.
00:40:18Mm.
00:40:20Uh-oh, I'm surrounded.
00:40:21Come on.
00:40:25Say, this looks like a good hiding place.
00:40:27Let's take a look.
00:40:29Let's take a look.
00:40:30If nothing will do here, we're going to take a look.
00:40:34Uh, you know what, Tommy?
00:40:35When you're hunting a killer,
00:40:36you're supposed to have a guard on the outside,
00:40:38just in case.
00:40:39So I think I'll stay on the outside, just in case.
00:40:42In case of what?
00:40:43That the killer's in here.
00:40:44No, you stay with me.
00:40:46All right.
00:40:47Gosh, it's dark in here.
00:40:48It sure is.
00:40:49Wait, I'll turn on the light.
00:40:54Hey, turn it down.
00:40:55You're standing in the light.
00:40:56Turn it down more.
00:40:57That's good.
00:40:58That's way too good.
00:40:59That's great.
00:41:00Go on.
00:41:01Whoo-hoo.
00:41:02Ah.
00:41:03Yeah.
00:41:04Good bucket.
00:41:05That's it.
00:41:06All right.
00:41:07That's it.
00:41:08All right.
00:41:09Ah.
00:41:10Ah.
00:41:11That's it.
00:41:12Keep going.
00:41:13Keep going.
00:41:14Keep going.
00:41:15Keep going.
00:41:16Keep going.
00:41:17Ah.
00:41:18Ah.
00:41:19Ah.
00:41:20Ah.
00:41:21Ah.
00:41:22Ah.
00:41:23Ah.
00:41:24Ah.
00:41:25Ah.
00:41:26Ah.
00:41:27Hey.
00:41:28Hey, who turned off the heat?
00:41:30Who turned on this cold?
00:41:32Ain't this something?
00:41:34Oh.
00:41:36Hey.
00:41:37I sure wish I had some snow shoes.
00:41:39I wish I had a long underwear.
00:41:41Boy, Eskimos is crazy to live in this kind of stuff.
00:41:49Hey, looks like the place has been robbed.
00:41:52Looks, in this case, not deceiving.
00:42:00Flashing light indicates someone in tunnel.
00:42:04Hello?
00:42:05Someone in here?
00:42:06Is that someone calling?
00:42:08Uh, I guess.
00:42:10Yes.
00:42:11That's him.
00:42:13Sounds like him.
00:42:15You hear that?
00:42:17Yes.
00:42:18Yes.
00:42:19That's him.
00:42:20That's him.
00:42:21You hear that?
00:42:22Yes.
00:42:23That's him.
00:42:24That's him.
00:42:25Yes.
00:42:26That's him.
00:42:27That's him.
00:42:28That's him.
00:42:29That's him.
00:42:30That's him.
00:42:31That's him.
00:42:32Well, well, what a little tunnel, Pop.
00:42:37It ain't a place to get a suntan.
00:42:40What you two doing here?
00:42:42Anybody else in tunnel?
00:42:45Go away, Pop.
00:42:47Was flicker light working when you coming here?
00:42:56Should we go again?
00:42:57We will.
00:42:59Look at me, man.
00:43:01I tell you, Pop, there's no one else in here.
00:43:04But the papers are missing from Hamilton's safe.
00:43:07Somewhere besides the cisterns, is this true?
00:43:29We've got Brett, but he's dead.
00:43:41Coroner's just finished, Charlie.
00:43:43He says Brett wasn't poisoned.
00:43:45He died of a fall from a great height.
00:43:49Brett last seen alive on the second floor of Cosmo Building.
00:43:54Later, he found dead on 10th floor.
00:43:59Someone would have us believe victim fall eight stories up.
00:44:15Hello.
00:44:16I'll look at the telephone now.
00:44:18No one sent for you.
00:44:19Isn't the name Cooper?
00:44:20Why, yes.
00:44:23Go on with work.
00:44:26Mr. Cooper, alias Carper, alias Cowper.
00:44:31Charlie Chan.
00:44:33I remember you since last time I arrested you.
00:44:37Six years ago in Singapore, remember?
00:44:41Yeah, I remember.
00:44:44Very great pleasure to arrest you again, Mr. Cooper.
00:44:48For whom you work now?
00:44:50I'm not talking.
00:44:52You talked with your friend, Mr. Brett, yesterday.
00:44:55Now he is murdered.
00:44:58Brett murdered?
00:45:00I had nothing to do with it.
00:45:02I don't know who I work for.
00:45:03I only answer the phone.
00:45:05Someone else switches the calls.
00:45:07I never hear a thing.
00:45:10What did you find out?
00:45:12There's a cut-in relay installed here, Mr. Chan.
00:45:14Calls can be switched.
00:45:15Can you locate place where calls switch to?
00:45:18Yeah, but it might take a couple of days.
00:45:21Keep working.
00:45:23You gentlemen will remain with Mr. Cooper.
00:45:26He will continue to answer phone calls, as usual.
00:45:30Mr. Cooper.
00:45:32Mr. Cooper.
00:45:34Mr. Cooper.
00:45:36Mr. Cooper.
00:45:38I'll do it.
00:45:39I'm not getting mixed up in murder.
00:45:41Good.
00:45:46Mr. Dixon?
00:45:47Yes, the radio impersonator.
00:45:49Glad to meet you, Mr. Chan.
00:45:51Radio impersonator, good.
00:45:53You know what you are to do?
00:45:56Death of Mr. Brett not yet made public.
00:45:59Wish to try experiment.
00:46:01I'm ready, sir.
00:46:08Hello?
00:46:10Who's calling?
00:46:12This is Brett calling.
00:46:14Hurry it up.
00:46:15Brett.
00:46:16Brett.
00:46:17I've got to see you.
00:46:22He hung up.
00:46:26Dead.
00:46:27Dead.
00:46:28Dead.
00:46:29Dead.
00:46:30Dead.
00:46:31Dead.
00:46:32Dead.
00:46:33Dead.
00:46:34Dead.
00:46:35Dead.
00:46:36Dead.
00:46:37Dead.
00:46:46Use service elevator.
00:46:50Come seventh floor.
00:46:54If I not there, come tenth floor.
00:47:01It's the unknown leader, Charlie.
00:47:03The one you're after, the killer, Pop.
00:47:06Thank you so much.
00:47:07Please say nothing of this to anyone.
00:47:09I understand.
00:47:18No one's in sight, Pop.
00:47:20We go tenth floor.
00:47:27Wait.
00:47:29We go tenth floor by stairs.
00:47:31You go in elevator.
00:47:33We have killer between us.
00:47:41Still didn't walk in.
00:47:47There's a long way down.
00:47:51Oh, goodness.
00:47:53Help.
00:47:54Come here, somebody.
00:47:55Help.
00:47:57Elevator already arrived.
00:48:01Birmingham, come out of there.
00:48:03Is that you, Mr. Chan?
00:48:05For heaven's sakes, come get me out of here.
00:48:07Well, well.
00:48:08Get down.
00:48:09Get down yourself.
00:48:10Get down.
00:48:11Oh, not without a parachute.
00:48:12One drop and this is certain death.
00:48:14Birmingham, what are you talking about?
00:48:16Mr. Chan, what is you standing on?
00:48:19On the floor.
00:48:20The floor?
00:48:21Get down.
00:48:22Where did that floor come from?
00:48:24Well, what do you mean, what floor come from?
00:48:27Mr. Chan, when I was down on the seventh floor,
00:48:29that elevator floor went out from under me
00:48:31and left me standing on nothing.
00:48:33You can sure imagine things, Birmingham.
00:48:35Imagine?
00:48:36No, I ain't, Mr. Chan.
00:48:37When I went in that elevator, the elevator door closed.
00:48:39That floor went out from under me just like a trap door
00:48:41and left me hanging on my fingernail.
00:48:43I was looking out eight or nine floors, straight down.
00:48:46You mean to say bottom of elevator fallout?
00:48:49Yes, sir.
00:48:50Bottom of elevator fallout.
00:48:52Bottom of elevator fallout?
00:48:54Yes, sir.
00:49:00Perhaps Mr. Brett received same message we get.
00:49:03You mean come to the seventh floor, then to the tenth, Pop?
00:49:06Believe fate, save us from dying same way Mr. Brett died.
00:49:10He was killed by fall from great height.
00:49:15We descend to basement.
00:49:16Yes, Pop.
00:49:17No.
00:49:18Not by elevator.
00:49:19Come.
00:49:23Bloodstains on floor of shaft.
00:49:26This is where Mr. Brett fall to death.
00:49:34You're getting to be a habit,
00:49:35coming in here and interrupting my program rehearsals.
00:49:38It's an outrage.
00:49:39Murder also outrage.
00:49:42Do you know what I pay for my programs?
00:49:44I'm interested only that murderer shall pay
00:49:47for killing of Miss Bain and Mr. Brett.
00:49:50You are present when Miss Bain die.
00:49:53You're stupid thinking these people would murder anyone.
00:49:56They're too busy murdering the English language.
00:49:59Testimony is Miss Bain say she expect more work and more money.
00:50:04Gloria did say something like that.
00:50:06That's right.
00:50:07Who can give her more work and more money?
00:50:10Mr. Brett?
00:50:11Certainly, he's the slave driver.
00:50:13Or rather he was.
00:50:17Very friendly with Mr. Brett?
00:50:19Gloria couldn't stand him.
00:50:20She detested him and...
00:50:22Oh.
00:50:23Yes?
00:50:24I just remembered.
00:50:25Gloria did say she talked with Brett.
00:50:27Gloria said he'd promised her a lot more work.
00:50:30I was surprised because I knew he liked her no better than she liked him.
00:50:34Wait.
00:50:35Gloria did say something like that.
00:50:37Something about...
00:50:39Oh.
00:50:40She say what, Mr. Brett?
00:50:42Oh, I don't recall.
00:50:44You see, I gab a lot and other people gab back at me.
00:50:48I can't remember half of the things I hear.
00:50:51Please try to remember.
00:50:53Might be most important clue.
00:50:55Yes, surely.
00:50:56It'll come back to me.
00:50:57And when it does, I'll tell you right away, sir.
00:51:01That is all.
00:51:02Thank you so much.
00:51:03Thanks indeed.
00:51:04Come, Herbert.
00:51:09Well, what do you make of it, Charlie?
00:51:11So many fish in fish market.
00:51:14Even flowers smell same.
00:51:18Much confusion.
00:51:25We go on in 20 seconds.
00:51:30This is television experimental station WXK9X...
00:51:34...presenting Willie Rand, ace comedian...
00:51:36...in his own conception of the dance of the spirit.
00:51:48What you do here?
00:51:49Pop, we were just about to go out to look for you.
00:51:51So it seems.
00:51:52Honest, Pop.
00:51:53Mr. Rand said he remembers something important.
00:51:55He wants to see you right after this show.
00:52:18Oh!
00:52:20Real flowers.
00:52:33I gave paper, didn't ask for it.
00:52:40I...
00:52:42I...
00:52:43I...
00:52:44I...
00:52:45I...
00:52:48Now, ladies and gentlemen...
00:52:49...we transfer you to telestudio number two...
00:52:51...where Miguel Moreno and his marimba band...
00:52:53...carry on during the second portion of the program.
00:52:58Willie, what happened to your closing speech?
00:52:59Did you forget it?
00:53:00Yes, Willie, what happened?
00:53:01I...
00:53:02I don't know what happened.
00:53:03You got a cigarette?
00:53:07Thanks.
00:53:15Mr. Rand.
00:53:16Number three's son, Tommy...
00:53:18...tell me you remember something you wish to tell me.
00:53:21Now I remember what Gloria told me.
00:53:23And I've got a lot of other good information for you, too.
00:53:26Yes, yes.
00:53:27This afternoon when I was up on the seventh floor, I saw...
00:53:31I...
00:53:33I...
00:53:36What trouble, Mr. Rand?
00:53:41Charlie, he's dead.
00:53:43Dead?
00:53:45Get cigarette, he smoked.
00:53:47Have same analyzed quickly.
00:53:49Mr. Chester...
00:53:51...you come with me.
00:53:58Mr. Chan, my office is never locked.
00:54:00The people on television and radio are in and out of here at all hours.
00:54:16Mr. Chan, I've never seen that thing before in my life.
00:54:18One moment, please.
00:54:20This is obviously control switch...
00:54:23...for mysterious trap door and service elevator.
00:54:27Mr. Chester...
00:54:29...we visit police headquarters.
00:54:34Rand was poisoned by the same stuff that killed Miss Bain.
00:54:37But there is no poison in the cigarette he smoked.
00:54:39They said Miss Bain smoked a cigarette just before she died, Pop.
00:54:42Yes, also given her by Mr. Chester.
00:54:44That janitor, she picked this up right where Miss Bain fell.
00:54:46I took it away from her.
00:54:48This is cigarette smoked by Miss Bain?
00:54:50Yes.
00:54:51Test it.
00:54:53Why you not mention this before?
00:54:55Just to slip my mind, Pop.
00:54:57Oh, slip mind.
00:55:01There's no poison in this either.
00:55:03Release Mr. Chester.
00:55:05Oh, but Charlie, the gadget that worked the elevator is in his office.
00:55:08Sure, he must be the unknown espionage leader we're after, Pop.
00:55:11Person who send messages to Mr. Brett on teletype machine...
00:55:15...must have similar machine at other end of line.
00:55:19There is no teletype instrument in Mr. Chester's office.
00:55:24Release him.
00:55:32What are we to do?
00:55:34Trouble?
00:55:35Nothing but trouble.
00:55:37Daring, isn't he?
00:55:39Why, this program is strictly slush.
00:55:42It is transcription of last program made by Miss Bain when she died so strangely.
00:55:48Only wish to hear end of program.
00:55:51We must move by the first of the month and we've no place to go.
00:55:55Why can't we...
00:55:57Hey, she must have stepped nearer the microphone.
00:55:59She did. Please, turn up volume.
00:56:02Now listen very quietly.
00:56:04Down and be like...
00:56:10You hear strange noise?
00:56:11Yes, a popping noise when she was sobbing.
00:56:15We hear same noise on record of Mr. Rand's voice made during television broadcast.
00:56:22Believe now know how both Miss Bain and Mr. Rand were killed.
00:56:27We'll need assistance of radio technician to prove it.
00:56:31Please.
00:56:32Right away.
00:56:44Hey, those look like bits of glass or gelatin used in making capsule.
00:56:52We have only part of proof.
00:56:55Now we visit studio C downstairs.
00:57:02Murderer ready to do more business.
00:57:05This what we look for.
00:57:08Thank you so much.
00:57:11Doc, my radio man says that the studio microphones were rigged
00:57:15so that a short wave radio beam sent from some part of the building
00:57:19it would explode those capsules.
00:57:22There is some sort of colorless gas in the capsule, Mr. Chan.
00:57:25But it certainly is not poison.
00:57:28Cigarette, please, doctor.
00:57:30When did you start smoking, Pop?
00:57:31Quiet.
00:57:33Would you kindly light same, please?
00:57:36Now, you will blow some smoke into the beaker.
00:57:42What is it, Pop?
00:57:50It's a gas.
00:57:52Gas?
00:57:53Yes, gas.
00:57:54Gas.
00:57:55Gas.
00:57:56Gas.
00:57:57Gas.
00:57:58Gas.
00:57:59Gas.
00:58:00Gas.
00:58:01Gas.
00:58:02Gas.
00:58:03Gas.
00:58:04Gas
00:58:12Well, that's it, Mr. Chan.
00:58:14Alone either the gas or the cigarette is harmless.
00:58:17But if someone first inhaled gas and then pretty soon smoked cigarette...
00:58:21The combination of gas and nicotine becomes a poison and kills instantly.
00:58:26Thank you so much, Doctor. That is exactly what I wanted to know.
00:58:30My men are at every exit with orders not to let any of our people leave the building.
00:58:34Good. Mrs. Marsh, Mr. Sinclair, and Miss Hall, already here.
00:58:42Well?
00:58:43Chester, Nelson, and Carlos are in the building, Pop. Even that wacky janitor's.
00:58:47Good. All suspects on hand. Come.
00:58:52Believe leader of enemy agents and killer of Roush have office somewhere on this floor. Office containing teletype machine.
00:59:07Okay. We'll soon find out.
00:59:14Birmingham, you take another office.
00:59:16No, not me. I like company.
00:59:23Look.
00:59:24Pop, Captain Flynn, we found one.
00:59:35You suppose this is the machine we want?
00:59:38Could be.
00:59:52Here is shortwave radio set used to explode death capsule.
01:00:22Pop, he's going up the stairs.
01:00:38Warn guards at exits.
01:00:40Right.
01:00:41I go other end of tunnel. We catch murderer between us.
01:00:56Yes, Pop. We'll catch the guy while Pop's waiting for him. Come with me.
01:01:00Sure.
01:01:01Whoa.
01:01:02I think I'll stick with Mr. Chan.
01:01:05Now listen, Birmingham. When we see him, I'll hit him high, you hit him low.
01:01:10Understand, Birmingham?
01:01:17Birmingham.
01:01:19Birmingham.
01:01:21I don't know what happened to him.
01:01:41Okay, son?
01:01:42Sure, Pop. The guy couldn't hit the side of a body even if he was inside of it.
01:01:46Come, hurry.
01:02:00The elevator is at the first floor, Pop. He must have gone down.
01:02:10Charlie, he tried to come down the stairs as I went up. I fired and he came back this way.
01:02:34Again, we just escaped death by elevator.
01:02:37Pop, there's someone in office 703. The door's open.
01:02:39Go, quick.
01:02:48Murderer not travel without costume disguise. Come.
01:03:01What?
01:03:03Killer caught in own trap.
01:03:07We find murderer in basement. Come.
01:03:10Then you're not a Swedish janitor's at all.
01:03:12This is Miss Janet Carter, government investigator.
01:03:16I came here a month ago at Mr. Chan's orders.
01:03:18To keep eye on people coming and going from radar laboratory.
01:03:23No one suspected the janitor's of being a government operative.
01:03:26No one suspected the janitor's of being a government operative.
01:03:29You are a very great assistance, Janet.
01:03:32No, please, do not look at her.
01:03:35Her?
01:03:36Mrs. Marsh.
01:03:38No, I'd never believed.
01:03:40Hey, Pop, what about the stolen radar papers?
01:03:43Papers she stole are worthless.
01:03:45Real radar secrets removed some time ago at my suggestion.
01:03:50What's the matter? What's wrong, Charlie?
01:03:52As usual, at end of case, I have discovered everything
01:03:56except whereabouts of my second assistant, Birmingham Brown.
01:04:00Yeah, where did he go?
01:04:12Hey, which way is out?
01:04:14I want to get away from these faces, they're scaring people.
01:04:16Oh, right out this way?
01:04:18Oh, that's me.
01:04:20Let me see this thing.
01:04:24I think I'd rather take this one.
01:04:26Goodbye.