Episode aired Nov 29, 1960
Stars: Robert Lansing • Whitney Blake • Elisha Cook Jr. • Conrad Nagel
A man fleeing from an attempt to assassinate a political candidate puts a small bomb in the bag of a woman in an elevator. The police spend the evening looking for the mystery girl and the bomb.
Stars: Robert Lansing • Whitney Blake • Elisha Cook Jr. • Conrad Nagel
A man fleeing from an attempt to assassinate a political candidate puts a small bomb in the bag of a woman in an elevator. The police spend the evening looking for the mystery girl and the bomb.
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01:26 [PHONE RINGING]
01:30 [PHONE RINGING]
01:36 Hello?
01:38 Hello?
01:40 I want to talk to Walker Wiley.
01:43 Well, listen, Wiley, who's this?
01:44 You know what time it is, Mr. Wiley?
01:47 Yes, it's 5 o'clock in the morning.
01:49 Did you wake me up to tell me what time it is?
01:51 No, Mr. Wiley.
01:53 I called to tell you your time is up.
01:56 You're not fit to live.
01:59 You'll never live to be mayor.
02:00 You'll never live to see tomorrow.
02:02 Come on, wait a minute. Who is this?
02:06 Hello?
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02:13 Hello?
02:25 Herald dispatch?
02:27 Give me the city editor.
02:30 I got a story for you, and get it straight.
02:36 Walker Wiley will never live to be mayor.
02:39 He won't live to see tomorrow.
02:42 A phone call in the night, a threat to kill,
02:48 and then a public announcement that the killing will take place.
02:52 Is this man just a publicity seeker,
02:55 or will he be driven to kill?
02:57 Will he succumb to the impots?
03:00 That's the name of our story, the impots.
03:04 The principal players are Mr. Robert Lansing,
03:07 Miss Whitney Blake,
03:09 Mr. Lance Fuller,
03:12 Mr. Elisha Cook,
03:14 Mr. Steve Brody,
03:17 and Mr. Conrad Nagle.
03:19 For very long, one of these girls unwittingly
03:24 will be carrying a deadly bomb through the crowded city.
03:28 As sure as my name is Boris Karloff,
03:32 this man's impots will paralyze a great metropolis
03:36 for six terrifying hours.
03:39 I do hope you're not addicted to biting your nails,
03:43 because this, I'm quite sure you will agree,
03:47 is a thriller.
03:50 (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
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04:10 We want to see Mr. Wiley, Lieutenant Rone,
04:28 Sergeant Hannigan, Police Special Squad.
04:30 Mr. Wiley said when you came, you should go right in.
04:34 (DOOR OPENS)
04:36 What are you doing, Mr. Wiley? Asking for it?
04:43 Who are you?
04:46 That's just what I mean. You have a threat like this,
04:48 and then you have your secretary send somebody in here without any verification.
04:51 If I happened to be the guy who made that threat, Mr. Wiley,
04:53 you'd be dead by now.
04:55 You're Lieutenant Rone.
04:57 Fortunately for you, this is Sergeant Hannigan.
05:01 How are you, Sergeant?
05:03 Lieutenant, Chief Pepper told me he was sending you over,
05:06 so I told the girl outside just to...
05:08 Look, Mr. Wiley, I don't want to sound like cops and robbers,
05:10 but you've got to take a threat like this more seriously.
05:13 Hmm. You can go, Carol, and we'll finish this later.
05:16 Look, Lieutenant,
05:18 this man didn't just call me.
05:21 He phoned every radio station and newspaper in town,
05:23 gave them the same song and dance.
05:25 I can't take a man like that seriously.
05:27 You think he's a crank, a publicity seeker?
05:29 Well, doesn't it look that way?
05:31 Killers don't advertise in advance.
05:34 Oh, no, no. That's theory, Mr. Wiley.
05:36 Sometimes they do.
05:38 Hannigan here can tell you about sweet old Mrs. Krause.
05:41 Yeah. She wrote letters to her relatives
05:44 telling them they were going to be poisoned.
05:46 What happened?
05:48 They got poisoned.
05:49 Oh.
05:51 All right, boys, sit down.
05:54 How do we begin?
05:56 How do you suspect anybody?
05:59 Faintest idea.
06:00 Who'd want to kill me?
06:02 You've come a long way up, Mr. Wiley.
06:04 Isn't there somebody whose toes you might have stepped on,
06:07 somebody who might nourish a grudge?
06:09 Not enough to kill me, no.
06:11 Absolutely no. I can't think of anyone.
06:15 All right, no suspects.
06:17 And you just cooperate with us.
06:19 We'll have two of my men at your home,
06:21 one in your office, and one with you personally.
06:23 And I mean all the time, 24 hours a day.
06:26 We'll also keep a guard on the building.
06:28 Hmm.
06:29 That's going to be a little tough, Lieutenant.
06:31 I've got, gee, a hundred appointments today,
06:33 some in the city, some way outside.
06:35 All right, just keep them,
06:37 as long as you've got one of my men with you.
06:39 A moving target is harder to hit.
06:41 All right. The sooner I get moving, the better.
06:44 Oh.
06:45 Say, there'll be one time today I'll be a sitting duck.
06:48 What's that?
06:50 I'm on TV tonight, the Paul Willis visit.
06:52 Can you cancel?
06:54 And prove to everybody how scared I am?
06:57 Not on your life.
06:58 Besides, this is too important to my campaign, Lieutenant.
07:01 Willis has a big audience.
07:03 All right, the Paul Willis show, that's 11 o'clock.
07:06 Where's it going to be, your home?
07:08 No, no, right here in the office.
07:10 All right, I'll have the place covered, starting right now.
07:13 Good.
07:15 Now, your job is to go on about your business, Mr. Wiley.
07:17 And ours is to try to keep you alive.
07:25 At 4 o'clock this afternoon, the leading story
07:27 is still the anonymous threat against the life of Walker Wiley,
07:29 commissioner of Water and Power, prominent businessman,
07:32 and candidate for the mayorality of our city.
07:34 While it is still possible that the whole thing may be an elaborate hoax,
07:38 police are taking no chances.
07:40 Although Mr. Wiley is insisting on carrying out his regular schedule,
07:43 full protection has been provided by the police special squad
07:46 under Lieutenant Brian Roan.
07:48 Mr. Wiley will go through with his scheduled TV appearance
07:50 tonight at 11 on the Paul Willis program.
07:53 According to Police Chief Pepper, complete precautions
07:55 have been enforced since early this morning.
07:57 It is safe to say that no unauthorized person
07:59 will have any chance of getting near Wiley
08:01 for the duration of his television broadcast.
08:04 What a hassle.
08:12 I hope his honor doesn't make a habit of this TV bit.
08:16 Mr. Hannigan, you're in the police.
08:18 Is someone really trying to kill Mr. Wiley?
08:21 I don't know, honey.
08:23 Where there's a threat, there's always a risk.
08:44 They told me to change the light bulbs
08:46 in Mr. Wiley's office for the TV program.
08:50 They told me to change the light bulbs
08:52 in Mr. Wiley's office for the TV program.
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09:33 What are you doing there?
09:52 They told me to change the light bulbs.
09:59 What did you just take out of that drawer?
10:01 I've never seen you before.
10:06 You don't belong here.
10:08 Hannigan! Hannigan!
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10:16 Stop that.
10:38 Help Hannigan.
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10:42 Hello?
10:44 Hello. Emergency.
10:47 Get me the building superintendent's office.
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11:40 Keep trying. I must get something. Never mind.
11:43 What is it?
11:45 Lieutenant, thank God you're here.
11:46 What happened?
11:48 I caught a man putting a package this big in Mr. Wiley's desk
11:50 when he saw me. He grabbed it back and ran.
11:52 [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
11:55 You can't mistake him. Those maintenance coveralls are white.
12:05 Excuse me.
12:08 [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
12:10 What about the man himself? Any outstanding feature?
12:26 He limps.
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12:37 [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
12:39 All right, take her down. Police, special. Come on. Let's go.
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13:24 Get out of the way.
13:25 All right, everybody back off the street. Come on.
13:28 [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
13:30 What that package you tried to put in Wiley's office?
13:35 It's a bomb, isn't it?
13:37 Where is it? What did you do with it?
13:39 Girls.
13:41 Bag.
13:43 Elevator.
13:45 Put it in some girl's bag in the elevator?
13:47 When's it set for? What time?
13:49 Tonight.
13:51 -11. -The girl, who was she?
13:55 What did she look like?
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14:31 Come on, hold it, will you? All right.
14:33 All I can tell you is that this bomb meant for Wiley
14:36 was slipped into some girl's bag in the elevator this afternoon.
14:39 According to the operator, there were 12 or 13 girls in that elevator.
14:42 Out of all of the women who work here or were visiting this building this afternoon,
14:46 we have to find the right one.
14:47 As far as we know, the bomb is set for 11 o'clock.
14:50 That means we have five hours to find the girl, so let me go do it, will you?
14:53 [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
14:55 [DOOR SLAMS]
14:58 [DOOR CREAKS]
15:00 Did you hear from the hospital about Hannigan?
15:02 Yeah, they said his eyes would be all right.
15:04 Lieutenant, I have station KQAY on the phone.
15:06 Yeah.
15:08 Yeah, hello, who is this?
15:10 Mr. Stanley, this is Lieutenant Rome. Now grab a pencil and take this down.
15:14 A bomb, three or four inches square, was slipped into the purse of a woman
15:18 in an elevator in the Heinz building at 5 o'clock today.
15:21 Yeah, that's right, a bomb.
15:23 All women who left the building at that time should examine their pocketbooks.
15:26 If such a package is found, telephone the police immediately.
15:28 Put the purse out in the yard and keep everybody away from it
15:30 until the police arrive. Have you got that?
15:33 All right, good. Now I want it repeated every half hour.
15:36 Some girl walking around this time with a bomb.
15:39 You can save her life.
15:41 George, what about that list of telephone numbers of the business offices?
15:45 Just about ready.
15:46 All right, let's take what we got and get back to headquarters.
15:48 There'll be a battery of men working telephones as soon as we can get there.
15:51 Right.
15:52 Oh, Lieutenant.
15:55 That right what I just heard?
15:56 A man with a bomb got chased out of here, slipped the bomb into some girl's purse,
15:59 then got himself killed by a truck. That right?
16:01 That's right. Brundage, you're off, Mr. Wiley. You go on back.
16:03 According to his driver's license, the man's name was Harry Elser.
16:07 You ever hear of him?
16:09 Elser, Elser, that doesn't mean a thing.
16:11 Well, that certainly takes me off the hook, Lieutenant.
16:14 Fine, fine.
16:16 Oh, yeah, that's just peachy.
16:18 Oh, I'm not forgetting about the girl, Lieutenant.
16:20 Watch, you fellas will find her in plenty of time, I'm sure of that.
16:23 Yeah, thank you for the faith, Mr. Wiley.
16:25 Come on, knock it off.
16:36 Now, Bernie here has a list of all of the business offices in the Heinz building.
16:39 You get some guy in each office who can give you a list of all of the girls who work there.
16:42 Find out whether their girls leave at 5 or 5.30.
16:45 The girls who leave at 5.30, you can skip.
16:47 Now, the girls who leave at 5, you start contacting them.
16:49 If there are no phones, get their names and addresses to Bernie.
16:52 He'll relay them to men in the squad cars.
16:54 Also, find out what women visitors left the offices at about 5 o'clock.
16:57 A woman with a bomb in her purse may be somebody who doesn't even work in the building, but was just visiting.
17:01 All right, now get on the phone.
17:03 Lieutenant?
17:12 Yeah.
17:14 What did the bomb experts tell you?
17:16 Well, they say with the type of bomb you described, it didn't...
17:19 strong enough to knock over a building or anything, but it could kill maybe 12 or 15 people in a group.
17:23 Could it contain a timing device?
17:25 No, not a clock anyway. It's too small for that.
17:28 But it could contain a chemical timing device.
17:31 They say the OSS during the war had an incendiary pencil.
17:35 It had a timing device in it that was accurate up to a half an hour.
17:38 What time is this thing supposed to go?
17:40 11 o'clock.
17:43 I figure maybe a half hour before or a little later.
17:47 Oh, with this type of bomb, I say if it gets shaken up and all, it could go at any time.
17:53 That's good to know.
17:57 Hey, George.
17:59 George, we're not going to do any good here. Let's drive out to Elsa's and see what we can find out, all right?
18:03 All right.
18:04 Bernie, if anybody wants me, get me in the car.
18:06 So if you're on that elevator at that time, just about 5 o'clock, this is what you must do.
18:16 Do not touch your handbag.
18:18 Telephone the police immediately at City 1-2000.
18:21 Repeat, City 1-2000.
18:24 I seem to be on the job.
18:29 Seems like I should have been this afternoon.
18:32 You're blaming yourself worse than usual on this one, how come?
18:36 I had one of my lousy hunches.
18:39 Went over to Wiley's house.
18:42 I thought maybe the bomber might pull the switch and show up there.
18:47 If it hadn't been for that, I would have been at Wiley's office,
18:49 and some girl wouldn't be walking around with a loaded bag.
18:52 Where do you think we'll find it, Elsa's?
18:55 I can't get some specific information on what kind of a bomb it was.
19:00 You got the whole town on an uproar, we might find out it's a false alarm.
19:03 Impossible.
19:04 Could be he's an amateur and he bungled it so the thing won't even go off.
19:07 Just don't bet on it.
19:09 Those visitors are going to bug me. We can miss one of them easy.
19:12 Yeah.
19:14 So she doesn't turn on her radio, she doesn't turn on her TV.
19:16 She doesn't look in her purse.
19:19 So we can't help her.
19:21 Just like that.
19:24 Just like that, George.
19:27 Some innocent girl blown to pieces and I had to have one of my lousy hunches.
19:30 You take these things too personal, Brian.
19:32 I've noticed lately you take it on yourself for every case we work on.
19:36 What's with you?
19:37 Maybe I just don't live right.
19:39 You sure don't. It's been six years since Amy passed away.
19:42 I'll bet you haven't been out with a woman in that whole time.
19:44 Come off it.
19:46 All right, Amy was the greatest.
19:47 But life goes on, a guy's got to keep punching.
19:50 Look at Jenny and me.
19:52 When we lost her little girl, I thought the whole world had been kicked right out from underneath me.
19:56 We had to pick up the pieces and keep going on.
20:00 Now, we got the new little one and everything's great again.
20:12 That's so funny.
20:13 Wouldn't it be great if you found this girl with a bomb in her purse
20:16 and she turned out to be a big, beautiful, luscious thing?
20:19 Well, the two of you decided to...
20:21 Hey, wouldn't that be something, huh?
20:23 George, my boy.
20:25 You ought to write for TV, you know.
20:29 [SIREN WAILING]
20:31 - What, neighbors know anything? - Nothing much.
20:49 The lady says he lived alone, kept pretty much to himself.
20:52 - What did he work at? - Nothing lately.
20:55 She said he was some kind of an engineer with a water and power company.
20:57 - He got fired about two years ago. - Yeah, that's it.
21:00 That's his motive. Wiley, water and power commissioner.
21:03 - He probably blamed him for losing his job. - Uh-huh.
21:06 All right, I'll look over the house. You check the garage.
21:09 Fine.
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22:12 You see George's wife?
22:19 Yeah, I...
22:23 I stopped by for a few minutes.
22:27 What can you say?
22:31 Yeah.
22:33 Lots.
22:35 She's with her mother now.
22:40 Why would a guy booby-trap his garage?
22:42 I don't know. I don't know.
22:44 With a twisted mind like that, maybe he was set to hold up there if we came for him.
22:50 All right, what's the score?
22:54 We're down to 16. Not a clue, though.
23:07 Hi, Lieutenant.
23:08 Nary a balm, nary a balm.
23:10 So, here's five names you can cross right off your list.
23:13 I wish you could have seen some of the things I took out of those women's handbags.
23:17 You wouldn't believe it.
23:18 Yeah, that's perfume.
23:21 Lieutenant, I think you better write me a note so my wife won't clobber me.
23:24 You know, sometimes, son, you just kill me, you know that?
23:27 Hey, what's the matter with him? I never saw him act that way before.
23:34 George Dumont's dead. Blown up.
23:37 You know how close they were.
23:38 All right, what's with this first one, Kimball?
23:46 She's a commercial artist.
23:48 An agency in the building handles her stuff.
23:50 Never mind the biography. Why can't you reach her?
23:52 Sorry.
23:53 No answer from her phone. No one home when I sent a car.
23:57 But I got some more stuff from the agency.
24:00 10 to 1, she'd be dining out with her boyfriend.
24:02 That's a Robert Larimore of Northern Lithograph.
24:05 His favorite restaurants are Mazarin's and Angelo's,
24:08 and the Seventh Heaven if he's in a dancing mood.
24:12 Okay, okay, that's nice work.
24:15 Now what about Delacroix's?
24:17 She was a name on an appointment pad in Miss Rogers' office for 4.30 this afternoon.
24:23 The Heinz building super phoned it in.
24:26 Miss Rogers is a young architect.
24:28 No secretary, and he can't be located.
24:33 I'd leave Brundage in charge from here on in.
24:34 You and I better do the legwork.
24:36 Okay, starting when?
24:37 Starting right now. I'll take numbers 1 and 2, you take 3 and 4.
24:39 Keep in constant touch with me on your car radio.
24:41 Right.
24:43 Bernie.
24:44 Yeah?
24:45 Listen, the experts checked over this garage.
24:49 This stuff is the latest in high explosive.
24:52 And don't just be careful.
24:54 You be very, very careful.
24:58 Okay.
25:01 [door opens]
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25:09 Did you enjoy my company?
25:11 [laughter]
25:13 Of course, I always do.
25:15 Now Miss Kimball, for the hundredth time,
25:17 may I beg for the supreme honor of your hand in marriage?
25:20 Bob, you promised not to tonight.
25:22 Well, I can't help it. I'm crazy about you.
25:25 Look, Jane, why don't we take the plunge?
25:28 If it's your work you're thinking about.
25:29 Excuse me, Mr. Larimore, Miss Jane Kimball?
25:31 Yes.
25:33 Who are you?
25:34 Police. Lieutenant Roland, Special Squad.
25:36 I have to talk to Miss Kimball.
25:38 Well, here I am.
25:40 What did you want to talk to me about?
25:44 Miss Kimball, is it correct that you were at the Hines building this afternoon
25:49 and you left at 5 o'clock?
25:51 Yes, that's right.
25:53 You took elevator number 1 on the west side, is that correct?
25:55 Yes, yes, I did.
25:57 Quiz game. Tell Miss Kimball what you want and let's get it over with.
25:59 Is that the same bag you were using then?
26:01 Oh, yes, as a matter of fact.
26:03 Now, wait a minute.
26:05 Bob, I'm sure Lieutenant Roland knows what he's doing.
26:07 I wish you'd explain it.
26:09 Explain it, but just don't react.
26:11 I don't want to cause a panic in the restaurant.
26:13 This afternoon, a man was caught trying to plant a bomb in Walker Wiley's office.
26:17 It's a little thing, but it's very powerful.
26:19 He got away, took elevator number 1 on the west side.
26:21 On the trip down, something, a fear impulse,
26:24 maybe he didn't want to be caught with it.
26:26 Made him slip it into a woman's handbag.
26:27 But, what are you going to do about it?
26:31 Well, I'd just like to borrow your handbag for a little while.
26:35 Oh, I don't know about this.
26:37 You want to see my badge again?
26:39 Bob.
26:41 All right, now I'm going to take that thing from outside the window.
26:43 It'll be safer that way.
26:45 I'll go through the side door.
26:47 Don't do anything to attract any attention.
26:49 I expect you both to cooperate.
26:55 He is on the level.
26:56 He could be killed at almost any moment.
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28:19 It's all right. It wasn't in my bag.
28:22 That's a man.
28:26 That's a man with...
28:29 guts.
28:30 Well, it's his job. He's a cop.
28:32 Could have been saving my life, you know.
28:36 Maybe, but the odds are about a thousand to one against you having the bomb.
28:41 What's the matter with you?
28:43 You be nice to him when he comes back.
28:45 Oh, here comes Dick Pricey.
28:47 That's all yours. You found everything intact.
28:50 No bomb.
28:51 I know. I was watching.
28:53 Oh, it's all right, Lieutenant.
28:55 I wasn't disobeying orders. I was very careful not to draw attention to myself.
28:59 Nice work, Rome.
29:00 Maybe the lieutenant would like a drink, Paul.
29:03 How about it? You want a snort, Rome?
29:07 No, thanks.
29:09 Miss Kimball,
29:10 you got on that elevator at the top floor.
29:14 Yes. What do you want me to remember?
29:16 The number of stops the elevator made and the floors, possibly.
29:19 Oh, I doubt it.
29:20 Three or four stops.
29:23 If it was faces you wanted me to remember.
29:25 What about faces?
29:28 Well, I have almost total recall on faces. I make a living by drawing them, so...
29:31 You mean you could draw every face on that elevator?
29:33 Well, everyone I happen to look at, yes. I could try.
29:36 Try.
29:38 Oh, yes.
29:41 Here.
29:42 There's three.
30:07 That's the man. That's Elser.
30:11 The man with the bomb.
30:12 He was standing right next to me.
30:15 The poor girl who really has it walking around not knowing.
30:20 You'll find her, won't you?
30:23 Let's keep that thought.
30:25 We have an hour and a half at the outside.
30:27 I'll take this if I may. Thank you very much, Miss Kimball. Good night.
30:30 Lots of luck, Rome.
30:32 Oh, I wonder where the waiter is.
30:36 I need another drink.
30:38 Rome.
30:39 Rome.
30:45 Try to get Jane Kimball. Anything for Bernie?
30:46 Yeah. There's two more canceled out.
30:49 He's looking after number five. We ought to be getting closer, huh?
30:52 Yeah, further away.
30:54 I'm going after the Delacroix's woman now.
30:57 I told you I'd be home at nine.
30:58 It's only a quarter past now.
31:00 Why all the questions?
31:02 What were you doing between four and six this afternoon?
31:05 I was shopping with Gladys Rubin.
31:07 I phoned the Rubins at 545.
31:09 The sister said that Gladys had just left to meet you.
31:11 Now, what were you doing?
31:13 I was shopping with Gladys Rubin.
31:15 I phoned the Rubins at 545.
31:17 The sister said that Gladys had just left to meet you.
31:19 Now, what were you doing?
31:21 I was shopping with Gladys Rubin.
31:23 I phoned the Rubins at 545.
31:25 The sister said that Gladys had just left to meet you.
31:26 Now, what were you doing between four and six?
31:28 All right. If you must know, I was at the Bridge Club.
31:30 But I didn't lose any money.
31:32 You're lying. I phoned the Bridge Club, too.
31:34 You were with Rogers, weren't you?
31:36 No!
31:37 You spent most of the afternoon with young Rogers
31:39 and you weren't discussing architecture.
31:41 You're a filthy suspicion.
31:43 If you think you can put anything like that over on me,
31:45 you're out of your head.
31:47 I don't have to stay here and listen to this.
31:49 I'm getting out of here and I'm not coming back.
31:51 You're staying here until I get the truth.
31:54 Dahlquist?
31:55 Is there a Miss or a Mrs. Dahlquist here,
32:02 first name Marjorie?
32:04 I'm Mrs. Marjorie Dahlquist.
32:12 What do you want?
32:14 Police Special Squad, Lieutenant Rome.
32:16 Well, what is it?
32:18 Something about my car? I haven't done anything wrong.
32:20 It's nothing like that, Mrs. Dahlquist.
32:23 You're a detective, aren't you?
32:24 Yes.
32:26 Were you visiting the Heinz building this afternoon
32:28 and did you leave about 5 o'clock?
32:30 What right do you have to question me?
32:33 Mrs. Dahlquist, this is a matter of people's lives,
32:36 maybe yours.
32:38 Now, when you left the building,
32:40 did you take elevator number one on the west side?
32:42 Of course not. I wasn't in the building
32:44 or anywhere near the building.
32:46 What makes you think she was there, Lieutenant?
32:48 Well, her name was on an appointment pad
32:50 in one of the business offices.
32:52 She was a woman named Rogers, an architect for 4 p.m.
32:53 Why, that's impossible.
32:56 Oh, I think I know what happened.
32:58 I did make an appointment last week,
33:00 but then I called and canceled it.
33:02 Well, Mrs. Dahlquist,
33:04 we're not concerned with the appointment,
33:06 just with the elevator trip.
33:08 On west elevator number one at 5 o'clock today,
33:12 one of the passengers was the man escaping from the police.
33:15 To get rid of a bomb he was carrying,
33:17 he slipped it into an unknown woman's handbag.
33:19 So far, we haven't been able to locate that woman.
33:21 The bomb is set to explode at 11 o'clock.
33:23 A sharp movement could set it off any time.
33:26 Hold it!
33:29 So you were with him, so you don't care what I do with this?
33:31 Don't!
33:33 Dahlquist.
33:35 You were with him.
33:37 Dahlquist, give me the bag.
33:39 You were with him!
33:41 Dahlquist!
33:44 (sobbing)
33:45 No bomb.
34:11 It's okay, Mr. Dahlquist.
34:12 Yeah.
34:15 It's fine.
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35:33 Now you can call your mother. And don't say I don't look after you.
35:36 You're wonderful.
35:38 Hello. Will you get pleasant 88866 for me, please?
35:43 You know something? You look beautiful even when you're phone-ing.
35:47 All right. Thank you. I'll try again later.
35:53 Mother of mine. I never know where she is.
36:02 Did you get a load of those glasses? If a high wind got on them, he'd fly.
36:06 Glasses.
36:08 Glasses.
36:10 That girl.
36:13 Pop, I've just thought of something. I've got to call Lieutenant Rome at once.
36:17 It might be terribly important.
36:20 Here. Take a look at this.
36:24 See if you recognize either one of those two women's faces. Both of them were on the elevator.
36:29 Yeah, that's Mrs. Houser, the last one I got.
36:32 The other one's one of my first lot.
36:34 Special Squad.
36:38 Yeah, sure. He's right here. Just a minute. Jane Kimball for you. Says it's urgent.
36:44 Hello, Miss Kimball.
36:46 Lieutenant, did you find the girl yet?
36:48 No. Why?
36:50 I just remembered someone else who was in that elevator.
36:52 Can you draw her face as well as you did the other two?
36:55 Better. She's an easy subject.
36:57 Well, then get drawing. Please. Are you still at that restaurant?
37:00 All right. I'll be right over.
37:03 Come on, Bertie.
37:04 That's her, Lieutenant.
37:11 Thanks.
37:13 Thank you very much, Miss Kimball.
37:17 Well, that's the last of Prince Valiant. I hope.
37:25 Most unfunny.
37:27 Mother? Where in the world have you been? I've been worried about you.
37:46 I was home for a few minutes at 5.30. There wasn't a sign of you.
37:52 My dear, if you wouldn't talk so much, I'd be able to tell you what's happened.
37:55 I'm going off with Martha Bailey for the weekend.
37:58 Yes, I'll be back on Monday. Goodbye, dear. Have fun.
38:03 There now. Let's see. You have my suitcase. I have my coat and... Oh, dear.
38:11 Hurry, Agnes. We have a train to catch.
38:13 You see? That's typical of Janie. Such a brilliant child.
38:18 But she's so untidy. She comes in, throws down her drawings and forgets all about them.
38:23 I'll just put this in her room. And then we'll be off.
38:27 Agnes, will you please hurry enough?
38:29 Don't be impatient, Martha. Here I am.
38:35 (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
38:37 -Ms. Snyder? -Yes, what is it?
39:03 Police. Special Squad. Lieutenant Rome.
39:05 Ms. Snyder, your mother told us where you were when you left the Heinz building this afternoon.
39:08 Oh, this is that bomb business, is it?
39:10 Well, you're wasting your time, Lieutenant. I heard the broadcast at 6 and checked in both my bags.
39:14 There wasn't any bomb.
39:16 And you couldn't take five minutes out to let us know?
39:19 Why should I call? I mean, how should I know? There was no bomb. Period.
39:25 Did you say both your bags?
39:30 Both your bags.
39:31 Purse miscellaneous. Attaché case, work.
39:36 Where's the phone? Who's gas-faced anything?
39:43 There's a couple of booths in the corner of Almond Wedgewood.
39:59 -It's Jane Kimball, after all. -How come?
40:01 That's my fault. Elsa said, "Girl's bag." Me, I give out handbag.
40:05 I'm not smart enough to figure some girl might have another bag besides her purse.
40:08 She told me she had a bunch of drawings with her.
40:11 20 minutes, 11.
40:27 Call our house numbers in there. I'll get the rest.
40:29 [Cell phone rings]
40:30 [Cell phone rings]
40:32 [Cell phone rings]
40:34 [Cell phone rings]
40:36 [Typing]
41:04 Went to the restaurant a few minutes ago.
41:06 Yeah, went home with the house.
41:09 Look, you figure she's taking this other bag around with her?
41:17 She might. How would I know?
41:19 Maybe she dropped it off at the house before she went out.
41:23 All right, that's where we're going. Let's hope she's on her way there. If not, we're sunk.
41:28 [Suspenseful music]
41:29 Now, don't go on being mad at me.
41:46 Let's just forget about it, hmm? Shall we?
41:50 Oh.
41:56 [Suspenseful music]
41:57 There won't be a newscast until 11.
42:00 Oh, there might be a special bulletin.
42:03 [Knocking]
42:05 Who in the world?
42:07 I'll get it.
42:09 [Knocking]
42:10 I have to see Miss Kimball right away.
42:15 I'll tell her you're here.
42:17 Miss Kimball.
42:19 Well, Lieutenant, what...
42:20 When you left your agent's office this afternoon, did you take any pictures with him?
42:22 Yes, the ones he didn't want.
42:24 Well, why didn't you carry them in?
42:25 Well, my portfolio, of course.
42:26 Oh, but you said handbag.
42:28 I'm stupid. Where is it now, the portfolio?
42:30 Oh, let me think. Um...
42:31 I put it down in here. I'm sure I did.
42:35 Mother must have put it away somewhere.
42:38 It'll be in my room.
42:41 Oh, wait a minute. Don't go in there!
42:42 All right, now, you just reach inside and turn on the light.
42:46 You show me where it is.
42:48 [Chuckles]
42:49 There it is, on the table over there.
42:55 All right, now, you two get as far back as you can.
42:59 I'm going to take it outside.
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43:35 Please be careful.
43:41 Honey, you really don't think there's a bomb in that case of yours, do you?
43:46 [Honk, honk, honk]
43:49 Okay, Brian?
43:52 You're another blank.
43:54 [Kissing]
43:56 [Suspenseful music]
44:01 All clear, Miss Kimball. No bomb. I'm sorry to have troubled you.
44:03 [Door slams]
44:05 Lieutenant!
44:08 He's gone.
44:21 No. No, I won't say I told you.
44:26 I'll apologize.
44:28 And politely this time.
44:30 Cut out the post mortems, Bob, please.
44:32 I'm sorry.
44:34 Look, I'm awfully tired. Why don't you just say good night?
44:38 Now, have a heart, darling. Don't I even get a drink for the road?
44:42 All right, if you must. One. You mix it yourself.
44:45 Okay.
44:48 You want one?
44:51 No.
44:52 No.
44:53 Just think of that man, Bob.
45:05 He's running around trying to save a girl's life.
45:08 She doesn't even know.
45:11 It's eleven. Now I can hear that newscast.
45:21 [Door opens]
45:22 Despite my jesting, my lady, my love which I bear for you is boundless in this lowly aching heart.
45:30 Bob, you flounder!
45:32 I know.
45:34 Please, I want to hear the newscast.
45:35 Come on now, Jane. Let's get serious.
45:37 [Knocking]
45:39 Miss Kimball!
45:40 Oh, no. No. Not again.
45:42 [Knocking]
45:43 [Knocking]
45:44 Miss Kimball, I just thought of something. You said that your mother moved that case?
45:52 Yes, she did.
45:53 Well, the bomb could have dropped out when she moved it. Now, where did you put it when you came home?
45:56 Oh, I don't remember.
45:58 I think I put it in that chair.
46:03 Rome, don't you think we've had about enough of this?
46:07 No.
46:08 No, I put it... I put it there, at that end.
46:12 Under that coat.
46:13 That's it.
46:27 It's eleven. That thing's going to go off.
46:31 Come here.
46:36 Come on, move! Go!
46:37 Come on, move! Go!
46:38 [Suspenseful music]
46:39 [Explosion]
46:55 [Explosion]
46:56 [Suspenseful music]
47:01 [Suspenseful music]
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47:31 It's all over, and suddenly I'm shaky.
47:33 Yeah.
47:37 Well, there's no reason to shake now.
47:42 Of course not.
47:43 Must have been an awful day for you.
47:48 I'll sleep tonight.
47:50 Well, that explosion will probably bring a crowd. I guess I better get out of there.
47:55 Um...
47:56 Do you have to go?
47:58 I mean, can't you stay a while?
48:01 Have a cup of coffee.
48:02 What happened to your boyfriend?
48:06 It's funny how you think you know someone, and suddenly you don't.
48:12 I told him to keep running.
48:15 Yeah, well, I...
48:22 I guess my sergeant could take care of the crowd.
48:25 Then you'll stay.
48:29 [Kiss]
48:30 Now suddenly I feel a great need for a cup of coffee.
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