Episode aired Dec 6, 1960
Stars: Jack Carson • Charles McGraw • Jeanne Cooper • Nan Leslie
A recovering alcoholic who can not remember his past finds himself confronted by criminals and killers looking for a man who may or may not be him.
Stars: Jack Carson • Charles McGraw • Jeanne Cooper • Nan Leslie
A recovering alcoholic who can not remember his past finds himself confronted by criminals and killers looking for a man who may or may not be him.
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00:00 (phone ringing)
00:02 - Hello.
00:20 - Bert?
00:21 - Hello, Eva.
00:24 - You better get down here as soon as possible.
00:26 I've got a customer for you.
00:27 - How bad is he?
00:29 - Bert, I'm sorry to bother you,
00:31 but there's something about this guy that scares me.
00:35 - Forget it, I'll be right there.
00:37 - Why is it always in weather like this?
00:43 - It's like babies.
00:44 They never come when it's convenient.
00:47 - Well, I had bibsy on a fine afternoon.
00:51 - Well, it's an AA's duty to go when he's called.
00:54 You know me.
00:57 Drunks visited day and night,
00:59 hospital arrangements made,
01:01 family fights settled, reasonable rates.
01:04 Oh, but a lot of other guys in AA
01:06 hadn't done as much for me, Midge.
01:08 There'd be no you and me.
01:09 And no bibsy.
01:27 - I told you not to drag Doc out.
01:29 - Well, I had three hours sleep last night.
01:32 That's my quota.
01:33 - Name's Adams, George Adams of New Orleans.
01:41 At least that's what it was in the register.
01:43 Was plastered when he checked in.
01:45 - How bad, Doc?
01:46 - Not good.
01:48 He better have enough money
01:49 to get him into the clinic for a while.
01:50 It's that or the municipal.
01:51 - Oh, he's loaded.
01:52 Take a look in his billfold.
01:54 (papers rustling)
01:57 - He's loaded all right.
02:04 - Oh, come on, put it down.
02:05 That makes me nervous.
02:06 - You don't have to worry, Doc.
02:14 He can buy your clinic.
02:16 - See if you can find some identification.
02:18 We may have to notify somebody.
02:20 - Mm-hmm.
02:22 (papers rustling)
02:24 (gentle music)
02:30 - Our friend is in big trouble
02:44 because his name is Bert Lewis.
02:47 Was he also once a man named Bill Logan?
02:50 He doesn't know because until he took the cure,
02:54 he spent two years in an alcoholic blackout
02:58 when for long periods of time,
03:00 he couldn't remember anything.
03:03 Did he do something at that time
03:05 for which a man with a gun has come to get him?
03:08 He doesn't know.
03:09 All at once, his big blackout has caught up with him.
03:14 That's the name of our story, "The Big Blackout."
03:19 And our principal players are Miss Nan Leslie,
03:24 Mr. Charles McGraw, Miss Jean Cooper,
03:28 and starring Mr. Jack Carson.
03:33 As sure as my name is Boris Karloff,
03:38 I advise you to slide back in your chair
03:41 and take a firm grip on it,
03:43 for this, my friends, is a thriller.
03:46 (dramatic music)
03:49 (dramatic music)
04:09 (dramatic music)
04:12 - You might as well have coffee with me
04:18 till the ambulance gets here.
04:19 There's your coffee and me, I need a drink.
04:32 (Boris moans)
04:36 (glass clinks)
04:38 You sure this won't bother you?
04:40 - No, no, go ahead.
04:42 - You look tensed up.
04:43 - Well, I'm always this way when I see a guy like that.
04:46 I know how he's gonna feel in the morning.
04:48 - Is that all?
04:52 - What else should there be?
04:54 - Hmm.
04:57 (Boris moans)
05:03 (glass clinks)
05:05 - You know, this weather keeps up,
05:08 I'm not gonna be able to make the payments on the boat.
05:11 - Bert, you're pretty hot up, aren't you?
05:15 - Who isn't?
05:16 - Well, I've got a couple of dollars
05:19 I won't be needing for a while.
05:21 - What is this, Heather?
05:22 - You sign a note, it'll make you feel better.
05:25 - A note?
05:26 For all I owe you and the boat,
05:28 all I owe you and Hal Mar,
05:29 you think I'd take money on a note?
05:32 Okay, I just--
05:33 - No, no, no, no, why this sudden offer of a loan?
05:35 - Well, we're partners in the boat, aren't we?
05:38 And besides, you know how I feel about you.
05:44 - Oh, I always have, even when Hal Mar was alive.
05:47 (Heather chuckles)
05:51 Like a schoolgirl, you touch me
05:54 and I go to pieces just like a schoolgirl.
05:56 - You know, this is no good, Ethel.
05:59 - Good?
06:00 Oh, I'm not proud.
06:02 (Heather sniffles)
06:05 Midge is my best friend.
06:06 Here I am making passes at her husband.
06:11 - You still didn't say why the offer of a loan.
06:17 - You want it straight?
06:20 I saw you take some money from that guy, Adam's wallet.
06:25 - What kind of a heel do you think I am?
06:30 - Look, Bert, if you roll that guy up his last nickel,
06:32 I'd still be with you.
06:34 Only you told me that you had to be strictly honest
06:36 in this AA and I don't want you doing anything
06:38 that'll work up a thirst.
06:40 - Well, I didn't take any money, Ethel.
06:42 If I had, I'd tell you.
06:46 - Okay, okay.
06:48 (gentle music)
06:51 There's something strange about this one, the way he talks.
06:54 He said that Wellington Beach
06:57 could stand a little excitement.
06:59 He was here to furnish it.
07:01 And then he asked me about you, where he could find you.
07:04 Do you know that man, Bert?
07:08 - Never saw him before in my life.
07:10 - Not even up at the, while you were away?
07:14 - I was sober when I was up at the pen.
07:17 I'd remember if I'd seen him up there since.
07:20 Before then, when I had those long, drunken blackouts,
07:25 maybe.
07:29 (gentle music)
07:31 Well, I don't like him.
07:32 Please be careful, Bert.
07:36 And there's the ambulance.
07:40 - Bert.
07:48 What happened?
07:49 You feel like you've got to have a drink, don't you?
07:54 Bert, listen to me.
07:58 I'm gonna repeat one of the AA lessons you taught me.
08:01 You're afraid of something.
08:03 If you keep fear locked up inside of you,
08:06 it's gonna make you try to fight it by drinking.
08:09 But you can't hide from fear, darling.
08:11 When the alcohol wears off, you'll still be frightened.
08:14 You've got to face it.
08:15 You've got to bring it out in the open.
08:17 Talk to me about it.
08:20 It'll be easier for you.
08:22 (gentle music)
08:25 I found this in Adam's wallet.
08:34 (dramatic music)
08:37 (fire crackling)
08:39 (gentle music)
09:09 - Come on, there, Kalusha.
09:11 (gentle music)
09:13 - Morning, Captain.
09:18 It's a nice boat you got here.
09:20 - Thank you.
09:20 - Paul Hawkins, captain, Alberti tech.
09:23 - Bert Lewis.
09:24 - Boys up there tell me you can take me fishing.
09:28 - Not today, Mr. Hawkins.
09:29 Too rough for comfort, too roiley
09:31 for anything but trash fish.
09:33 - What about tomorrow?
09:34 - Fine, if the weather clears up.
09:36 - Okay, tomorrow then.
09:38 - I'd better pay you now.
09:40 - Oh, that's not necessary.
09:41 - Well, I don't want somebody to hire you ahead of me
09:44 in case the weather clears.
09:45 - How much do you charge?
09:48 - 65 usually, but--
09:50 - No, we won't haggle, Captain.
09:51 There's 250s as a retainer.
09:55 Might want you for more than one day.
09:57 I'm staying at the K-Rib Hotel.
09:59 Give me a call there tonight if the weather clears up.
10:02 If I'm not there, leave word at the desk.
10:07 Oh, I meant to ask you,
10:10 you ever hear of a boat captain around here
10:11 by the name of Logan?
10:14 Logan?
10:17 Bill Logan.
10:19 Oh, there's no Logan sails out of Wellington Beach.
10:23 There's a line that gets sails out of Clearwater.
10:27 No, Logan.
10:28 Logan.
10:29 (dramatic music)
10:31 (water splashing)
10:34 (dramatic music)
10:37 (water splashing)
10:40 (dramatic music)
10:43 (water splashing)
10:45 (dramatic music)
10:48 - Hello, Bert.
11:10 - Oh, hi, Sue.
11:11 Making the round of your parishioners?
11:13 - Just one particular one.
11:14 Fellow named Adams, he was brought in this morning.
11:16 - Ah, that one.
11:18 From the Paradise Motel?
11:20 Doc put him in the back room.
11:21 - Well, that's him.
11:22 - Ah, Bert, bad shape.
11:24 Doc Malloy gave strict orders
11:25 he wasn't to see anybody till tomorrow.
11:27 - Oh, well, the doc didn't mean me.
11:28 We made that call together.
11:30 I just want to see him for a minute.
11:30 There's something I want to ask him.
11:31 - I've seen that, Bert.
11:33 Tomorrow.
11:34 He's had a sedative.
11:35 - Yeah, but Sue, I--
11:36 - Look, tell you what, honey.
11:38 As long as you're here, why don't you go see old Charlie?
11:40 - Charlie? Is he in again?
11:42 - You know Charlie Pringle.
11:44 He can't stay away from me long.
11:45 I'm his secret pasha.
11:46 - Sure.
11:47 - Go on, talk to him, honey.
11:48 Nobody ever talks to old Charlie.
11:49 - Well, not today, Sue.
11:51 (mysterious music)
11:55 (mysterious music)
11:58 (mysterious music)
12:01 (mysterious music)
12:30 - Bert.
12:31 - Huh?
12:34 - Charlie.
12:35 - How do you feel?
12:36 - How do I feel?
12:36 You ask me how I feel?
12:38 You know how I feel.
12:40 How about steal me just a little nip?
12:42 - No, no, no.
12:43 Come on, Charlie.
12:43 - Give me a drink, Bert.
12:44 I won't tell anybody.
12:45 - Charlie, why don't you go in and wait and see?
12:47 Maybe I'll bring you something later, huh?
12:48 - I told everybody at the Pelican Bar
12:50 that you was the best charter skipper in Florida.
12:53 I offered to fight anybody that says you wasn't.
12:55 Now you won't even give me a little drink.
12:56 - Charlie, I didn't say I wouldn't.
12:57 I didn't say I wouldn't.
12:58 Now, come on.
12:59 You go on and rest and wait.
13:01 Maybe we'll see you later, huh?
13:03 Mr. Adams.
13:11 Adams, I've got to talk to you.
13:15 Adam.
13:16 He's dead.
13:20 (mysterious music)
13:23 (dramatic music)
13:26 (dramatic music)
13:29 (mysterious music)
13:40 (door opening)
13:52 (mysterious music)
13:55 (mysterious music)
13:58 - Sue.
14:03 - What's the matter with you, Bert?
14:05 - Sue, that man Adams, he's dead.
14:08 Murdered.
14:09 - Back there in his room? - His room.
14:11 Shot in the head.
14:12 I just saw him.
14:13 - Did you go back there after I told you you couldn't?
14:16 - Yeah.
14:16 And he was dead.
14:18 - You'd better come inside.
14:23 (door opening)
14:25 You mean to tell me
14:26 that you never saw this Adams guy before?
14:28 - Like I told you, I don't remember.
14:31 - Supposing I told you that we found letters on him from you.
14:35 - Then I'd say that you made a mistake, Officer.
14:41 - Nevermind that, Officer Bull.
14:42 You rolled Adams for this hunter that we found on you.
14:46 Isn't that what you went to the clinic for?
14:50 Come on, Lewis.
14:52 We're not gonna stand around here all day and play games.
14:55 - I got that money for a charter.
14:57 Man named Hawkins, he's at the Carib Hotel.
15:00 Call him.
15:01 - I'll call him when it suits me.
15:02 Didn't the nurse at the clinic tell you not to see Adams?
15:06 Then you did.
15:07 - Now look, Reitz.
15:08 You made that paraffin test.
15:09 If you found any powder stains in my hand,
15:11 book me for murder.
15:12 If you didn't, like I know you didn't,
15:14 you know I didn't do it no matter how much you wish I had.
15:18 So why don't you go find your murder
15:19 instead of wasting time with me?
15:22 Reitz?
15:23 - Why am I glad to see you?
15:26 - You're free on bond, I just fixed it.
15:28 Here's the receipt.
15:29 - Oh, isn't this just dandy?
15:33 We can't do enough, can we, for the sweet, innocent ex-con?
15:40 - Nothing but the best.
15:42 - I understand there are no charges against this man,
15:44 so let's go, Bert.
15:47 - Don't go far, Mr. Lewis.
15:51 - I won't.
15:52 - When did a guy like him become a lush?
15:59 - He was married once before.
16:02 His wife and kid were killed in an auto crash.
16:04 He went off the deep end.
16:07 - I can understand.
16:08 - Yeah?
16:09 Well, don't waste your sympathy on that ginhead.
16:12 See this scar?
16:13 That's what he did to me when I took him in a few years ago.
16:17 (sad music)
16:20 - Where's Bebsy?
16:39 - She's taking her nap.
16:40 Ethel's here, she came as soon as she heard.
16:42 - Hi, Ethel.
16:43 - Hi, Bert.
16:44 Pretty bad day, huh?
16:46 Reitz give you a rough time?
16:47 - Could have been worse.
16:48 - Did they give you anything to eat?
16:50 - Not exactly a banquet.
16:51 - I'll fix you a sandwich.
16:52 - Good.
16:53 - How's your drink, Ethel?
16:54 - Listen, don't bother fixing me another one.
16:57 Now that Bert's home, I think I'll take off.
16:59 - What happened?
17:01 - Somebody shot Adams at the clinic.
17:04 I found him.
17:06 They held me for questioning.
17:07 Doc came up with a bail, so here I am.
17:11 - Why the hurry to see the guy?
17:13 - I guess you felt responsible for him, didn't you?
17:15 - Yeah, yeah.
17:15 So, thanks.
17:17 - Well, I wish I'd only called somebody else last night,
17:19 but I got in the habit of dialing you
17:21 when I needed help with the drugs.
17:23 - He's glad to do it.
17:25 - Listen, I've gotta go.
17:26 Midge, give me a call if you need me for anything,
17:29 any kind of help, like, you know, babysitting, anything.
17:32 - Thanks a million, Ethel.
17:33 You've been wonderful.
17:34 I'll see you, Bert.
17:35 - So long, Ellen.
17:36 - Bye-bye, Midge.
17:37 - Bye.
17:37 Bert.
17:41 - Baby.
17:42 Hey.
17:46 I got a charter.
17:48 Look.
17:49 - Real money?
17:50 - Yeah.
17:52 It's real money.
17:52 Oh, baby, there's nothing to worry about.
17:56 Well, well.
18:00 Nice and cozy.
18:06 What are you doing here, Fisher?
18:08 - This is my old pal, Bert Lewis from State Pen.
18:11 You see what I tell you?
18:13 There's no trouble finding him.
18:15 - What do you want?
18:16 - My friend here, he's got something to ask you.
18:19 He wants to know how are things with Bill Logan.
18:23 (dramatic music)
18:25 And if I was you, I'd tell him.
18:28 'Cause my friend here,
18:31 he's not a very nice guy when it gets sore.
18:33 - That's a real nice girl you got there, Lewis.
18:37 - You touch her and I'll kill you.
18:39 (dramatic music)
18:45 (woman moaning)
18:46 - You scream, we make hamburger out of you.
18:48 Sit down.
18:50 - Start talking, we don't have all day.
18:53 - Don't!
18:54 - Now, now.
18:55 You don't wanna hurt him, sweetheart.
18:56 All we want is for him to tell us
18:58 how are things with Bill Logan.
18:59 And I'll talk.
19:05 You don't wanna see your wife get pushed around.
19:07 - Wait.
19:08 Fisher, look.
19:11 You got something wrong here.
19:14 - I don't know any Bill Logan.
19:16 - You must've changed quite a lot since Rayford.
19:19 You wasn't the guy who would've knocked off Adams then.
19:22 - I didn't kill Adams.
19:23 - No.
19:24 Nobody never killed nobody.
19:26 But it still figures.
19:28 Adams came here looking for Bill Logan.
19:30 Same as my friend here, right?
19:32 - Well, I--
19:32 - Somebody got stoned, you'd knock them off.
19:34 So where's Bill Logan?
19:36 - Yeah, what about him?
19:39 - Wait a minute, Fisher.
19:40 You know, Louie Ramirez?
19:43 - Yeah.
19:44 - He's not gonna like this too much.
19:47 - What about Ramirez?
19:48 - I don't know.
19:51 He was pretty close to him at the pen.
19:54 You think he's got a call on Louie?
19:55 - I'll show you what I think.
19:58 I think he's stalling us until--
20:01 - Hold it.
20:02 They're coming here.
20:05 Get out the back way.
20:06 We've seen you, pal.
20:08 (sobbing)
20:12 (door clattering)
20:15 - What's going on here?
20:21 - We had company.
20:22 Easy there.
20:24 Everything's gonna be okay now.
20:25 - What happened, Lewis?
20:27 - You got me.
20:28 Two guys pushed in and roughed us up.
20:30 They're talking about somebody named Bill Logan.
20:33 Ever hear about anybody by that name?
20:35 - What about him?
20:36 - All I know is they wanted me to tell them
20:38 about somebody by that name.
20:39 - Do you recognize them?
20:41 - Might've known one of them.
20:43 Up at Rayford.
20:44 - What's his name?
20:45 - That was a long time ago.
20:47 And if it's the same guy, he's a real mean boy.
20:51 - But you didn't recognize him good enough
20:54 to sign a complaint, huh?
20:55 Mrs. Lewis.
20:59 Mrs. Lewis, did you recognize either of those two men?
21:06 Or did you hear your husband call them by name?
21:10 - I don't remember.
21:12 I was too frightened.
21:14 - But your husband remembers.
21:17 And he's so scared that those two hoods
21:19 will come back at him that he won't even tell us
21:21 who roughed up his own wife.
21:23 Some husband you've got there, Mrs. Lewis.
21:27 - You ought to be ashamed of yourself, Cliff Wrights.
21:31 You were hateful to him.
21:32 And to think you went to school together.
21:34 - Okay, honey.
21:35 - And to think he almost killed me once.
21:36 Don't leave that out.
21:37 - He was sick then.
21:39 Don't you understand?
21:40 Don't you understand anything?
21:42 - Mitch, go and see if Bibbs is all right.
21:45 - But I...
21:45 - Bibbs, come on.
21:46 - We found the gun that killed Adams.
21:54 Brute, show him.
21:54 (dramatic music)
22:01 That gun wouldn't be yours, would it?
22:05 (dramatic music)
22:08 - Well, come on.
22:34 - Yeah, he's trying to remember.
22:37 - I could just see you telling us it's yours,
22:39 even if it was.
22:41 - Where'd you find it?
22:42 - At the clinic with a side entrance.
22:43 - It's none of his business.
22:44 Now, if it's yours, you might as well tell us,
22:48 'cause we can trace it.
22:49 You still won't tell us who beat you up, huh?
23:01 - No, I'll take care of that.
23:04 - Walk easy, fellow.
23:07 Between those hoodlum friends of yours from Rayford and us,
23:10 I don't envy you, Mr. Lewis.
23:13 (dramatic music)
23:15 (dramatic music)
23:18 (dramatic music)
23:21 (baby cooing)
23:43 (baby cooing)
23:45 - She's famished.
24:00 (baby cooing)
24:02 - Me too.
24:06 I never did get that sandwich.
24:12 - Coming up.
24:13 - Couple more callers like that, I'd need a drink.
24:18 - I'll get you something to eat.
24:21 (baby cooing)
24:26 - Bibsy, you sure picked yourself a prize of an old man.
24:31 (gentle music)
24:35 (baby cooing)
24:37 - Did that louse hurt you, baby?
24:54 - Uh-uh, I was only scared.
24:56 - Now, Mitch, you and Bibsy have to get out of here
24:58 until it's over.
24:59 I mean, go and visit your mother for a while.
25:01 - Only if you come too.
25:03 - I can't, I'm out on her bond.
25:04 - I better warm her milk.
25:07 - Listen, you've gotta go, Mitch.
25:11 - Bert, what's this all about?
25:16 Why did those men come here?
25:18 What do you know about this man, Logan,
25:19 that they keep wanting you to tell?
25:21 - I mean, not you two.
25:22 You think I'm holding out?
25:23 - No, but I don't--
25:24 - You think I am this Bill Logan and knew him?
25:26 Mitch, you gotta trust me, you gotta go.
25:29 I have to do this alone.
25:31 - Bert, you know the pressure when you're alone.
25:33 You can't take it.
25:34 - I won't start drinking, I swear I won't.
25:37 But I know these guys.
25:39 They'll try to get at me through you and Bibsy.
25:41 - Are you sure you can't remember anything
25:47 about this man, Logan?
25:48 - No, no, don't think I haven't busted my brains trying,
25:50 but maybe I am Bill Logan.
25:52 But if I am, what did I do that Adams was sent here
25:55 to knock me off?
25:57 You know, when I went over there,
25:59 I was so scared I was gonna beat the answer out of Adams
26:01 if I had to.
26:02 And I saw old Charlie Pringle sitting there
26:04 and we got to talking and...
26:05 What?
26:08 Charlie.
26:10 He was sitting in his room and the door was wide open.
26:13 He couldn't have missed seeing anybody
26:15 going down the hall to Adams' room.
26:17 And that's where they found my gun.
26:18 Right near the side entrance.
26:20 - Your gun?
26:27 - Yeah, my gun.
26:29 It was my gun that killed Adams.
26:30 - Oh, Bert.
26:31 - Reitz doesn't know it yet.
26:32 Somebody swiped it off the boat.
26:34 Hello, Sunset Clinic?
26:36 Can you bring Charlie Pringle to the phone right away?
26:38 It's important.
26:39 He...
26:42 Oh, he did, huh?
26:43 Well, thanks.
26:45 Yeah, thanks anyway.
26:46 Charlie's gone.
26:47 He just up and left the clinic.
26:49 Usually hangs out at the Pelican Bar.
26:53 - Oh, darling, don't go there, please.
26:54 You haven't been there since you stopped drinking.
26:56 - I have to talk to him.
26:57 I have to find out if he saw anybody.
26:59 - Listen, you call your mother.
27:01 Pack a bag.
27:02 - Bert, Bert, I've been thinking.
27:03 Why don't Bibsy and I go to Ethel's?
27:05 We'll be safe there, and I'll be close if you need me.
27:08 - Need you?
27:09 I always need you, Midge, but I...
27:10 Okay, okay.
27:15 I'll drop you at the Paradise
27:17 and go see if I can find Charlie.
27:18 (sad music)
27:21 - Well, well, look who's here, boys.
27:39 Long time no see, Bert.
27:41 Some other time I'll drink you guys under the table.
27:44 You seen Charlie Pringle around?
27:45 - Charlie?
27:46 Yeah, he was here a little while ago.
27:48 Said he'd be back.
27:49 He had to see somebody about some big deal.
28:01 Said when he got back, he'd have enough dough
28:03 to pay off his tab and buy a carload of whiskey.
28:07 - Where would he find that kind of dough all of a sudden?
28:09 - Oh, you know Charlie.
28:10 Do anything to get drink money.
28:12 Lewis!
28:15 (people chattering)
28:18 - You know you ain't allowed to drink when you're on parole?
28:21 - You need a new calendar.
28:22 I've been off parole for a long time.
28:25 Anyway, I'm not drinking.
28:26 - And what are you doing here?
28:29 - Just looking for somebody.
28:30 - Who, some of your friends from the pen?
28:35 - No, Charlie Pringle.
28:37 - Oh, is that a fact?
28:40 - Yeah.
28:42 - So why would you be looking for Charlie Pringle?
28:45 - Oh, I figured I'd get him before he got loaded
28:46 and got himself into trouble.
28:48 - You're a mite late, Lewis.
28:49 He got himself into trouble.
28:51 Charlie Pringle's dead.
28:52 - What happened?
28:57 - Hitting a run.
28:59 You know, it seems kind of funny
29:02 that you should be looking for Charlie Pringle.
29:05 Lately, everybody you look for seems to get dead.
29:09 (people chattering)
29:12 - Was Charlie loaded when he left here?
29:20 - Loaded?
29:21 I wouldn't let him have any more on the cuff.
29:23 He was cold sober.
29:26 - That's what I thought.
29:27 See you.
29:34 (dramatic music)
29:37 - Operator, Tampa 48101.
29:57 Wellington Beach 387.
30:01 - Hmm?
30:02 Hello, hello, Mrs. Ramirez?
30:07 Well, you don't know me, but my name is Bert Lewis.
30:10 I'm over here at Wellington Beach,
30:11 and it's very important that I get in touch
30:13 with your brother-in-law, Louie, as soon as possible.
30:17 Hmm?
30:17 Yeah, well, I think he will, ma'am.
30:19 You see, he told me to get in touch with him right away
30:22 if I ever needed him.
30:24 That's right.
30:25 My name is Bert Lewis, Wellington Beach 387.
30:29 Yeah, I knew him when we lived
30:32 in the same place five years ago.
30:34 Thank you, ma'am.
30:38 (dramatic music)
30:41 (sad music)
31:10 - Hello, Carib Hotel?
31:11 Mr. Paul Hawkins.
31:13 Hmm?
31:14 Well, he told me to leave a message if he was out.
31:17 Tell him Bert Lewis said tomorrow morning,
31:18 six o'clock at his boat.
31:20 The Calusa.
31:21 C-A-L-U-S-A.
31:24 Calusa.
31:26 That's right.
31:27 (phone ringing)
31:37 Hello?
31:39 Yeah, Louie.
31:41 Yeah, well, look, I didn't know if you really meant it
31:43 when you told me to get in touch with you
31:45 if I was ever in trouble, but just took a chance.
31:48 - You are in trouble, my friend?
31:50 - Ah, big trouble, Louie.
31:53 I gotta find out something about a guy
31:55 who called himself Bill Logan a few years ago.
31:58 Some people sent a hood named Adams down here
32:00 to get Logan, and somebody got him.
32:02 - Yeah.
32:03 I hear that you have something to do with that, huh?
32:06 - No, no, I didn't, Louie.
32:07 The cops think I did, but I didn't.
32:10 And I had a visit from Nick Fisher and some other hood.
32:12 They're looking for Logan, too.
32:13 - I know a little about this Adams.
32:16 Also about these others.
32:17 I will call you.
32:19 - Thanks, Louie.
32:20 (somber music)
32:26 (sniffling)
32:28 (sniffling)
32:31 (sniffling)
32:35 (sighing)
32:41 (somber music)
32:44 (sighing)
32:46 (somber music)
32:49 (phone ringing)
33:08 (water splashing)
33:15 - Yeah?
33:16 Oh yeah, Louie, go ahead.
33:19 - I have found out a little for you, Mr. Lewis.
33:22 First, the people who sent Adams to Wellington Beach
33:26 are very big people, very bad.
33:29 They are in narcotics, Mr. Lewis.
33:31 - Narcotics?
33:33 - Your Mr. Logan is a very bad man, I'm afraid.
33:37 He smuggled narcotics into this country
33:40 and double-crossed the people who work with him.
33:42 - Oh, great.
33:44 - They just found out lately about the double-cross.
33:47 He fakes a hijack.
33:49 $700,000 worth of stuff.
33:53 So if you have any connection at all with this B. Logan,
33:58 cut yourself loose.
33:59 - Thanks, Louie.
34:02 Thanks a lot.
34:05 (somber music)
34:09 (car engine rumbling)
34:12 (car horn honking)
34:15 - There, there we are.
34:41 - Well, this is real nice.
34:42 - Sure hope we get some fish.
34:45 - You know, Captain, I ain't really a fisherman.
34:48 Captain, I wonder if you gave any thought
34:51 to what I asked you about yesterday,
34:53 about that man named Logan.
34:55 - Yeah, I asked.
34:58 Nobody by the name of Logan has sails
35:00 out of Wellington Beach.
35:02 - Well, this was a few years back.
35:03 - You can tell me to mind my own business if you want to,
35:08 but just why do you want to find this Logan?
35:12 - He killed my son.
35:14 - You know this for certain, do you?
35:19 - Roy got mixed up in some kind of a racket
35:22 working on Logan's boat.
35:24 When he tried to quit, they killed him.
35:26 I guess Logan thought he knew too much.
35:29 - Well, maybe you got Logan mixed up
35:33 with something somebody else did.
35:36 - I never gave up hope of finding that rat.
35:38 You know, I even had agencies working on it.
35:42 I got a report last week that Logan was running
35:45 a charter boat down here in these waters,
35:48 using a phony name.
35:50 - But if Logan's using a phony name...
35:53 - I'll know him when I see him.
35:55 - How's that?
35:57 - Roy sent his mother a snapshot of the boat
35:59 he was working on with Logan.
36:01 That louse didn't know his face was in the picture.
36:05 It came out as plain as a portrait.
36:08 - Have you got that picture with you, Mr. Hawkins?
36:12 - Well, no, I ain't, son.
36:13 I'm mighty careful of that picture.
36:16 I put it in the key rib safe.
36:18 - Does he look anything like me?
36:23 - Like you?
36:24 Nah, he's a big blonde buzzard.
36:28 You know, I like you, Lewis.
36:30 I trust you.
36:31 I want you to help me find him.
36:34 - Sure will, Mr. Hawkins,
36:36 but first I think you ought to give me a look
36:37 at that picture.
36:38 - Yeah, well, maybe I better.
36:40 - K6KID calling Colusa.
36:44 - That's us.
36:45 This is K6KID, the Colusa.
36:53 Go ahead.
36:55 - We have an emergency call for you.
36:57 Hello?
36:58 Hello?
36:59 Hello, Lewis?
37:00 Lewis?
37:01 - This is Lewis on the Colusa.
37:02 Go ahead.
37:03 - Lewis, Sheriff Wright says to get in right away.
37:05 It's bad news.
37:07 Your wife and kid, they've been kidnapped.
37:09 Hello?
37:12 Hello, Lewis?
37:13 K6KID calling.
37:14 (dramatic music)
37:30 (helicopter whirring)
37:33 - We'll get 'em back, Bert.
37:47 - What happened?
37:48 - Bert, four guys walked into the Paradise Motel
37:50 this morning and beat up Ethel and took your wife and kid.
37:53 They told Ethel you'd be hearing from.
38:00 - You said not to call us, your wife.
38:03 - I'll see you, Mr. Hawkins.
38:04 Come on, Doc.
38:05 - I'll drive.
38:06 - Wait a minute, Bert.
38:07 If you need us, we'll be at headquarters.
38:09 We won't make a move until we hear from you.
38:11 We don't wanna do a thing
38:12 that'll scare them into harming your family.
38:15 - Thanks, Cliff.
38:16 - You think whoever killed Adams killed old Charlie?
38:26 - I'm sure of it.
38:27 The old man must have seen who killed Adams.
38:30 Shows you how bad a drunk can get.
38:31 For drink money,
38:32 Charlie must have been trying to shake down the killer.
38:36 - Hey.
38:37 - He made a call from the Pelican.
38:38 Told the bartender he was going out to get a lot of money.
38:41 Then he went out to meet whoever it was
38:42 and got himself killed.
38:44 Ah, another thing.
38:48 That was my gun that killed Adams.
38:49 - What?
38:50 - Yeah.
38:51 It was left so it would be found.
38:53 Now, no guns will ever do that.
38:55 Must have been left by somebody who hated my guts.
39:00 Or someone who figured
39:01 that you were a made to order for guy.
39:04 With your record.
39:05 (phone ringing)
39:09 - Hello?
39:15 Yeah.
39:16 Yeah, this is Lewis.
39:17 Oh, Doc Molloy's with me.
39:19 - Now listen.
39:20 You drive down to the old racetrack.
39:22 Drive past the track exactly one mile.
39:25 Then you park.
39:27 You sit there till you hear what to do next.
39:29 Got that straight?
39:31 - Okay, I got it.
39:34 Yeah, yeah, I know where it is.
39:35 I'll be there alone.
39:37 Okay, I said.
39:39 No cops, nobody.
39:40 But if my wife and kid ain't there,
39:42 you'll never find out where Bill Logan is hiding.
39:45 And you'll never get your hands on that stuff he stole.
39:47 - You think you ought to go there alone?
39:49 - I gotta.
39:50 I gotta play it their way.
39:51 Otherwise, Midge and Bibsy will be...
39:53 - Yeah.
39:53 - Hey, one more card though.
39:56 I'm gonna make one stop first at the Carib Hotel
39:58 and see Hawkins.
39:59 - Get up.
40:14 Walk straight ahead.
40:24 (dramatic music)
40:27 - Okay, Lewis, talk to us.
40:38 Tell us about Logan.
40:40 Tell us about that stuff he hijacked.
40:41 - I wanna see my wife and kid before I say anything.
40:44 - Suppose we already took care of him.
40:46 What are you gonna do about it?
40:47 - Then you just did yourself out of what's left
40:49 of 700,000 bucks worth of H.
40:52 - Okay, bring him in.
40:53 - Come on.
40:57 - Bird, look out.
41:01 - You all right, Midge?
41:02 - In good shape, you saw.
41:04 Take him back inside there.
41:06 Come on, sit down.
41:10 - Now, start talking, Lewis.
41:12 - All right, but I got something I wanna show you.
41:15 It's in my pocket.
41:18 - Okay.
41:20 - What?
41:21 - Okay?
41:22 - Yeah, go ahead.
41:24 - That the man you're looking for?
41:29 - Yeah, that's him, that's Logan.
41:32 Where is he?
41:34 - Well, that man's dead.
41:36 Three years.
41:37 His real name is Halmar Bankstrom, Ethel's husband.
41:42 - Ethel?
41:44 You mean that dame at the motel?
41:45 - Yeah.
41:47 You guys been looking for a dead man.
41:49 You were taken in by his widow.
41:50 - Talk, this guy's a great talker.
41:53 - Oh, wait a minute.
41:55 Halmar stole the stuff.
41:57 And Ethel must've known where he ditched it,
42:00 and she wants to keep sitting on that 700,000 bucks
42:03 of stuff that your boss thought was stolen, hijacked.
42:07 - That's true, you must've been in on it.
42:09 - Well, no, Halmar and I were only partners in the boat.
42:12 He used it when he was working for your boss.
42:15 - We know that.
42:16 Why do you think we came after you?
42:18 - Well, Halmar and I weren't partners on this deal.
42:20 You see, those days I was a big drunk.
42:24 That's how Ethel was able to get me jammed up in it.
42:27 - How do you know all this, did she tell you?
42:28 - I didn't know it until I got that picture
42:30 from a guy named Hawkins.
42:32 And I recognized Halmar, and I sort of all fell into place.
42:38 You see, when Adams came down here to get Logan,
42:43 Ethel got him loaded, and then she sent for me
42:45 like it was a drunk call, you know?
42:47 And she put a note in his wallet
42:50 to make me think he was after me.
42:53 - You were suckered up to fall for this?
43:03 - Ethel knew that if I thought I was Logan
43:06 and Adams was down here to kill me,
43:09 she was pretty sure that I'd try to do something to Adams.
43:12 - And so you did.
43:14 - No, she had to take care of him herself.
43:18 She must have gotten my gun from the boat and planted it.
43:22 - Well, I guess we go talk to the dam.
43:34 - Eddie, you stay here.
43:41 If anybody makes a move, fix 'em up.
43:44 - Give me a break, huh?
43:56 I didn't do nothing.
43:57 You heard what happened.
43:58 - Sure, I'll tell 'em to let you and your wife live
44:02 so you can tell the cops who we are and what we look like.
44:06 - We wouldn't talk.
44:07 Why should we talk?
44:09 What good would it do us?
44:11 Look, I don't like the sheriff anymore.
44:13 (gun fires)
44:16 (thudding)
44:18 (thudding)
44:20 (thudding)
44:22 (thudding)
44:24 (thudding)
44:27 - Bird, Bird, stop, you'll kill him!
44:54 (dramatic music)
44:57 - Give me the police, emergency.
45:15 Hello, police?
45:20 Give me Sheriff Wrights.
45:23 Oh, Cliff, get down to the Paradise Motel.
45:25 The Hoods have gone there to get Ethel.
45:28 Yeah, that's right.
45:30 Yeah, call me here at the clinic.
45:33 - What's the matter?
45:35 You better sit down.
45:38 (phone ringing)
45:45 Sunset Clinic.
45:48 Yeah, it's for you, Bird, it's Sheriff Wrights.
45:50 - Hello, Cliff.
45:51 Did you get to her in time?
45:53 Oh, they did, huh?
45:55 Yeah.
45:56 Well, can she talk?
45:57 Well, listen, you tell Doc to keep her alive
46:00 'til I get there.
46:01 He has to.
46:02 I've got to ask her one question.
46:05 Yeah.
46:06 The Hoods were trying to get the truth out of Ethel
46:07 and Wright Scott that it was a gun battle
46:09 and that Fisher and the other one are dead.
46:11 - Ethel?
46:12 - She admitted about the dope.
46:14 - Well, that lets you out.
46:16 - No, no, it doesn't.
46:18 There's still something I've got to know.
46:21 Sue, would you take care of Bibsy for us?
46:23 - Sure.
46:24 - Oh, sure.
46:25 And can we use your car?
46:28 - Of course, keys are in it.
46:29 - Thanks.
46:30 Come on, ladies.
46:31 (upbeat music)
46:34 Can I talk to her?
46:50 (dramatic music)
46:52 - Guess it won't make any difference.
46:54 - It will to me.
46:55 - Ethel?
47:06 - Edge?
47:09 Did you know that
47:17 I was carrying a torch for,
47:19 for your husband?
47:22 - Ethel, there's something you've got to tell me.
47:26 - Sure.
47:29 - When I was on the juice,
47:31 was I ever mixed up in that dope racket with Halmar?
47:34 At any time?
47:35 I've got to know.
47:39 - You never had the brains
47:42 or the guts
47:47 to get mixed up in a deal like that.
47:50 - Thank you, Ethel.
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