Charlie's investigation of a phony psychic during the 1939 World Exposition on San Francisco's Treasure Island leads him to expose a suicide as murder.
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00:00:00You
00:00:30Oh
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00:01:16Care to join us. Mr. Chan. No, thanks. I got a walk
00:01:20Taking a little stroll. That's a spirit, please. I'd like my parachute now. Oh, hi. These planes are perfectly safe. Mr
00:01:27Chan and besides San Francisco reports clear weather ahead. How far ahead? Oh a few hours a few hours
00:01:35You're not worried are you mr. Chan?
00:01:38Huh? No, no more statistics prove that you're far safer in a modern plane and you would be in your own bathtub
00:01:43I I'd rather be taking a bath
00:01:46Tell me how old are you?
00:01:4721 21, huh?
00:01:49If I reach my next birthday
00:01:51Well, according to my insurance figures you can expect forty five point one six more years of life
00:01:59Barring, of course fatal accident. Oh
00:02:05Hi Jimmy, give me a hand. Well, yeah, I'm on the last chapter of this young
00:02:09What would a fellow do a fellow like you if faced with certain deaths? Oh
00:02:15pop
00:02:17pop
00:02:18Before it's too late. I think there's something you want to know number two son resembled criminal about to make confession
00:02:24I don't know whether I've told you yet or not, but I think you're the swellest Papa fella ever had
00:02:30Humble parent thanks unsettled weather for expression of love from favorite offspring
00:02:35Oh, but I mean it pop honest then do not let fair skies tomorrow change restless mind
00:02:41Oh, I won't I'll get right on the train and go back to school appreciate decision one scholar in family
00:02:48Better than two detectives. Well, Charlie, this will make a lot of people's hair stand on end
00:02:53Don't tell my readers but the real mystery in this whodunit is how I ever finished it
00:02:58Only diligent workmen can survive Hawaiian hospitality. What a vacation Stella was right this trip blew the cobwebs out of my head
00:03:06There's one wife in a million Charlie
00:03:09Correction, please also have excellent wife in same million wife after giving you 13 kids. She's an institution
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00:03:20Sorry, mr. Gregory, I don't want my manuscript mixed up you can buy a copy after publication. It'll cost you $2
00:03:27I go to a lending library
00:03:32Friend
00:03:33pest
00:03:34Says he's an insurance actuary had the bungalow next to mine at Waikiki when he wasn't annoying me
00:03:40He was shooting little birds with a 22
00:03:42Strange for a man who gambles on life for business to cause death for pastime
00:03:47Well, can't anybody talk about anything but death? Don't worry Jimmy. It'll so be over radiogram for you. Mr. Essex. Thanks
00:04:01Oh Papa, I feel silly most usual
00:04:04Unhappy news sometimes correct self next day. What month is Scorpio Scorpio?
00:04:15October tomorrow is first day of scorpion symbol in Chinese calendar
00:04:22You believe in astrology
00:04:25No
00:04:27No, this is something else
00:04:29Could old friend help relieve distress. No, thanks Charlie. I've got a sender radio
00:04:40Well, I hope that isn't bad news, oh what is that bad news that radiogram he just got
00:04:47How did you know mr. Essex received message
00:04:51Well, the steward brought it to me by mail. He said it was a message from Mr. Essex
00:04:56Received message. Oh the steward brought it to me by mistake
00:05:03Why pop he's a race
00:05:09This is the only way to travel in San Francisco already, there's a World's Fair at Treasure Island
00:05:15Oh, it looks like a big wedding cake. What's that big tower out there? That's the Chinese Pagoda
00:05:20No, that's the Tower of the Sun. It is the Chinese Pagoda the smaller ones the Tower of the Sun
00:05:26Oh, I see that. Oh gee Papa. Hope mr. Essex isn't missing any of this
00:05:34Don't miss the view. Mr. Gregory. It's the fair. I'll wait to see the one on New York if you would I'll take, California
00:05:41Hey, mr. Essex come over on this side. Maybe you can see your wife from here
00:05:46Hey, mr. Essex wake up
00:05:50Paul Paul
00:05:53Pop hey pop something's wrong. Oh
00:06:00He must be sick take your seats, please we're landing your seats, please something wrong
00:06:07Is he dead must have been his heart what's the truth go back to your seats, please we're about to land please be seated
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00:06:20Look pop the radiogram was on the floor
00:06:24Sign of Scorpio indicates disaster if zodiac obligations ignored unsigned
00:06:32Zodiac
00:06:34Isn't that the chart astrologers used to tell fortunes and Scorpio? I believe is the unfortunate symbol of death
00:06:41Not correct, but thank you
00:06:45You
00:06:58All luggage to be inspected at customs all luggage to be inspected at customs
00:07:06Say pop have you seen Paul's briefcase? No, it was here a minute ago
00:07:12Where's Gregory
00:07:15Perhaps we'll find same holding briefcase in customs. I'll take care of him
00:07:20Say pop. I I just thought Paul's wife if she's there to meet him. What are you gonna tell her?
00:07:26Only that which comes from her
00:07:41I'd better go back to customs and try to find Gregory pop
00:07:46Hello Charlie, it's grand to see you again. Where's Paul? Oh what you don't know my uncle. Mr. Redley
00:07:52I've heard a lot about you. Mr. Chan. Thank you
00:07:54Stella
00:07:56Wish tongue could find words to tell you what keeping Paul. Oh, you have no idea how I've missed in this past month
00:08:03Impossible to miss someone who will always be in harm
00:08:06Why everybody's gone I don't see him. Where is he Charlie Stella?
00:08:15Is that someone from the plane most unhappy accident
00:08:22Something's happened to Paul strength of heart not equal to homecoming Paul's dead
00:08:29Paul's dead
00:08:36I
00:08:39Knew there was something wrong his strange radiogram. It came last night. We couldn't understand it
00:08:45Can't escape Zodiac. Goodbye. My love Paul
00:08:50Mercy, please
00:08:52We don't know what he meant by that word Zodiac Paul certainly didn't believe in astrology
00:08:57Think best you take mrs. Essex home. Now. We'll join you there. Oh
00:09:03Did he finish the manuscript? There's a check waiting for it from his publisher
00:09:07Please what is your interest in saying why I handled his business affairs
00:09:13Better to consider mrs. Essex at this time
00:09:17Yes
00:09:20Cab sir, thank you. May reserve one, please
00:09:27Get in must wait for Sun that's all right, sir. You can wait in the cab
00:09:41Excuse please have no wish to intrude
00:09:44Wanted private cab never mind what you wanted. Stay put and don't try anything funny
00:09:50Something very funny in being taken prisoner in broad daylight in city renowned for hospitality
00:09:56You're going to get plenty of hospitality
00:10:02Hope hospitality will have same generous size as shoes of brother policeman
00:10:10We couldn't put anything over on you Charlie
00:10:17Recognize your hand in joke, mr. Kilvane. Well, we just couldn't let you slip into town without a welcome Charlie
00:10:23Appreciate most hospitable welcome, but have matter of importance which need attention first. Oh, don't give me that come on into my office
00:10:30It's been a long time since I've seen you Charlie
00:10:35Anybody stealing pineapples, what are you holding it for Charlie doesn't want to be interviewed interview my eye
00:10:39I've known Charlie ever since I started covering the police platter at the old power street station police reporter Pete Lewis friend of many years
00:10:46Well, I'm on time. Oh, it's you say isn't that sign private on my door big enough for you? Forget it
00:10:51I told her to meet me here Fred. I want you don't tell me Charlie Chan
00:10:54I'd know that face anyplace can return compliment. You are magician named Rodini
00:11:00Cannot forget what you borrow five years ago for trick and returned in many pieces
00:11:07You're gonna back at all
00:11:08Regina's improved now Charlie's a big shot has his own theater the Temple of Magic on Treasure Island and my papers backing him in
00:11:14An expose of fake psychics. Would you like to see some of my press clippings?
00:11:18Pete's papers offering a thousand dollars to any psychic phony or otherwise who stunts
00:11:23I can't duplicate on the stage of my theater and so far. No one's collected not even the great. Dr. Zodiac
00:11:30Zodiac yeah, he's the big shot in the spook racket around here. The only trouble is he won't fall for our challenge
00:11:35He won't come out in the open where I can get at him now
00:11:37Listen, you two mugs if you don't mind I got Charlie up here for a little private conversation
00:11:43He's heard all he wants about black magic
00:11:45No, no most interesting
00:11:48Sometimes black magic very close relative to blackmail now who said anything about blackmail?
00:11:54Why don't you get it those phony psychics dig up the dirt?
00:11:58Handed over to the customers in the seance then hold them up. That might be the reason for those three suicides recently
00:12:04Say they all happen to be clients of dr. Zodiac. Yeah, but they're dead
00:12:08They can't help us prove anything and the living ones won't talk because they're afraid of rattling the skeletons in the family closets
00:12:13You're talking show your hat if there was any evidence connecting Zodiac with those suicides I'd
00:12:19But what can I do without evidence?
00:12:21Very little perhaps
00:12:22But we'll ask coroner to perform autopsy on the body of Paul Essex who died most suddenly on China Clipper this morning
00:12:30Essex mystery writer. He took a trip to Honolulu about six weeks ago to write a story about the spook racket
00:12:36Say we were talking about Zodiac or does that connect up it might if Essex was a client of dr. Zodiac's come on Charlie
00:12:42What are you holding back? Did you speak to Essex before he died? Did he tell you anything?
00:12:45Was he a client of dr. Zodiac? Did he commit suicide? Please please cannot answer question now
00:12:50But in humble opinion suicide induced by blackmail is murder. So sorry
00:12:56Must leave now to meet unfortunate widow. Mrs. Essex
00:13:02excuse please excuse
00:13:08Outside this is for official business
00:13:11Hey Charlie said he was going to meet Paul Essex wife won't get you ten
00:13:14He's on his way to Zodiac's right now and he'll get in. Come on
00:13:17What are we waiting to get my head start then? We'll crash Zodiac skate with him
00:13:22Hey pop the taxi starter at the airport told me a couple of fellas brought you here
00:13:26What's up, they merely brought greetings from old friend deputy chief Kilvain. Oh, I didn't find Paul's briefcase
00:13:33Gregory gave me the slip of customs
00:13:34But if we could get a hold of that manuscript, please remember have given trusting parent promise to apply mental ability to school books
00:13:42Got a message for you. Oh
00:13:47What is it
00:13:55What is it pop
00:13:57Yeah
00:13:58Engage rums at st. Francis Hotel and when mrs. Essex call say will be delayed
00:14:04But what's in the note ancient Chinese proverb?
00:14:08badly misquoted
00:14:10should read
00:14:11Do not challenge supernatural
00:14:13honest armed with sword of truth
00:14:34Wait for us nothing doing. I know the spook joint full of dead people talking their heads off
00:14:41Well, Charlie fancy meeting you here I'd anticipated fancy surprised you did not arrive first
00:14:47Oh, let me introduce professor Bixby of Berkeley great psychologist. Mr
00:14:51John most happy to meet eminent professor of magic hiding under psychology
00:14:55I'm a professor of magic hiding under psychology. I'm a professor of magic hiding under psychology
00:15:00I'm a professor of magic hiding under psychology
00:15:02Eminent professor of magic hiding under psychological whiskers quiet Charlie
00:15:06I told you we couldn't fool him if Zodiac finds out regime. He's with us. He'll never let us in
00:15:10Yeah, he's thrown me out a dozen times, but I figured I could sneak in this time under the hair mattress
00:15:15We'll make first test of dr. Zodiacs mystic powers on penetrating false whiskers. Let's go
00:15:21Excuse please may consult with dr. Zodiac. Dr. Zodiac will be happy to receive the celebrated detective Charlie Char
00:15:29and his friends
00:15:31Thank you so much
00:15:34It beats me Charlie that face of yours can open more doors than a passkey
00:15:37Thank you so much it beats me Charlie that face of yours can open more doors than a passkey
00:15:51Dr. Zodiac is native of San Francisco. Dr. Zodiac is a native of the universe
00:15:57He knows all things about all people
00:16:00Follow me, please
00:16:03In this room gentlemen
00:16:09Make yourselves comfortable, please. I
00:16:14Will announce you to dr. Zodiac
00:16:19Or what a layout I
00:16:21Couldn't put on a better act myself. He's got all the props incense music
00:16:25Advice caution even draperies may have ears what a lot of people
00:16:30No, very genuine and valuable antiques table lamp of ancient Egypt
00:16:35Ramesses dynasty
00:16:37This is Persian sacrificial knife
00:16:41Also, very very old
00:16:46Dr. Zodiac the eye of Allah mata
00:16:56Mr. Chen
00:16:59Mr. Chen, I am honored. Thank you privilege is mine
00:17:06It certainly is a privilege dr. Zodiac I'm Pete Lewis of the Chronicle. How do you do? Mr. Lewis? I
00:17:12have heard of your campaign to expose the
00:17:15charlatans who prey on a
00:17:18Susceptible public I heartily agree with it and I'm professor Bixby of Berkeley. I'm profoundly interested in your work doctor
00:17:25Thank you
00:17:26Be seated gentlemen
00:17:30You will make a most intelligent and unusual circle
00:17:35How can I serve you
00:17:37Humbly request you penetrate beyond the mystic veil of life and
00:17:42Communicate with friend recently departed. That is the supreme demonstration
00:17:49Please join me in silent meditation
00:17:51While I seek my control an Egyptian priestess who passed beyond 3,000 years ago
00:18:22I
00:18:29Do you have a message for mr. Chan
00:18:32There is someone
00:18:35Newly arrived in the spirit world
00:18:38Who wishes to get through to mr. Chen? I
00:18:42Will help him
00:18:44He is a man who was named Paul
00:18:48Essex
00:18:52Ask the question that fills your mind mr. Chan
00:18:57Paul old friend
00:18:59Charlie Chan most grieved
00:19:01Cannot understand death which struck so suddenly
00:19:13Who drove you to suicide
00:19:18Then you were not victim of blackmail
00:19:22There was no blackmail
00:19:25What was meaning of radiogram cannot escape zodiac
00:19:31Stars were against me
00:19:36Can explain more clearly, please
00:19:38Do either of the other gentlemen care to ask a question
00:19:43Yes, I'd like to know something about a girl and she's not in the spirit world either
00:19:47You want to know about a girl named Eve Cairo?
00:19:53You must not think of marrying her. She is psychic
00:19:59She is a woman
00:20:02So that's what you've been telling me, oh, I know she comes here well, you might have her Buffalo, but you don't fool me
00:20:07Oh, I've had enough of this faker. How can you sit there and insult our intelligence? I'm going to expose your tricks
00:20:12Stay where you are. Mr. Adini
00:20:15So you thought that I would not see through your childish disguise
00:20:19I would have let it pass
00:20:21But I'm not going to let it pass
00:20:23I'm not going to let it pass
00:20:26I'm not going to let it pass
00:20:28I'm not going to let it pass
00:20:30I would have let it pass in respect to mr. Chan had you not shown your hand
00:20:35I'll leave this house
00:20:36Why you cheap foreflusher i'll give you a blast and print
00:20:39I'll run you right out of this town with the rest of the gyp fortune tellers
00:20:42If you do, mr. Lewis
00:20:44Your paper will pay me a large sum for damages
00:20:47I do not predict the future
00:20:49What you witnessed here was a scientific demonstration
00:20:53Regret most sincerely unfortunate termination of seance. I accept your apology. Mr. Chan
00:21:00I know these two
00:21:02Gentlemen forced their company on you when you entered my house
00:21:06My servant will see you out
00:21:08Good day
00:21:10Are we gonna let him get away with that?
00:21:12We ought to take the place apart would not recommend violence have no authority to intrude on privacy without search warrant
00:21:19the fee
00:21:21For the consultation gentlemen will be twenty dollars. What try and get it
00:21:26If request music must be willing to pay for fiddler
00:21:31I could get your whole orchestra for that price should not complain received most enlightening message concerning lady frank
00:21:38Well, even I am going to get married no matter what that faker had to say
00:21:42Eve car is part of my act charlie. Pete met her through me. She's tops and mind reading
00:21:47Mind reading she's on a level charlie. Her stuff's no gag and i'm gonna have a showdown with her tonight
00:21:51She's not coming here anymore
00:21:53very wise
00:21:54Dr. Zodiac man of great ego enjoys using power to dominate lives of others
00:22:00Advice caution to destroy false prophet must first unmask him before eyes of believers
00:22:16Yes, please
00:22:18Oh, hello, mr. Kilvain you get autopsy report
00:22:22You had a hunch charlie. There was enough poison in paul essick's stomach to have polished off 10 men
00:22:27Think it was plain suicide or fancy murder voice of crime still very faint
00:22:32Think it best you tell newspapers coroner reports suicide
00:22:36Pete tells me you sprung the blackmail angle on zodiac
00:22:39What's up, charlie? Was he squeezing paula six hunts say yes, but facts say maybe
00:22:45We'll keep you informed
00:22:47Goodbye
00:22:53Good evening, mr. Chan
00:22:56May I have a minute of your time?
00:22:58Do you have a son named?
00:23:00jimmy chan
00:23:02Wearer of this guy's only full chambermaid
00:23:05Oh gee pop
00:23:07Father who depends on son is happy or foolish according to son, please job
00:23:18Hey, this is my tie my best tie
00:23:21Little mouse lucky his clothes do not fit elephant
00:23:25You haven't asked me where i've been looking for mr. Gregory
00:23:29Yeah
00:23:30I checked at several hotels and I found him too. He's registered at the walling and he's got paul's briefcase with him
00:23:37But when he saw busybody's son, he vanished. That's right
00:23:41When he saw me he ducked out of the lobby and then I lost him. What time was this?
00:23:46Gee pop, i'm awfully. Sorry. I didn't look at the time
00:23:49Was gregory at hotel walling at four o'clock?
00:23:53Yes
00:23:54No, uh earlier, I think
00:23:57Yes earlier
00:23:59No, i'm not sure
00:24:01But if it's important I can check
00:24:04Right now check into dress clothes
00:24:06Where are we going? I have invitation to a small party. Mr. Radini gives on treasure island. You don't like parties
00:24:12You don't like parties i'm anxious to make acquaintance of girlfriend of newspaper man
00:24:18girl who believes and obeys
00:24:20Dr. Zodiac, but i'd like to help out
00:24:23We've got to find that briefcase can best help out by disguising self as obedient son for a few hours
00:24:30Come
00:24:43Come
00:24:45Don't wait for me pop. See you later
00:24:48What you say
00:25:03Hello, how are you? This is well of you to come glad to see you make it up at home, will you?
00:25:13Why aren't you serving you told me to act like a guest didn't you now look elmer
00:25:17I only asked you to be helpful. Now leave the food alone. What's the matter? Isn't it any good?
00:25:26Okay, I got
00:25:35I've been anxious to meet you. Mr. Chan. I'm so happy to meet future wife of old friend very future
00:25:41I'll have a long white beard down to here if she keeps holding out
00:25:44He told me what you're up to. Mr. Chan and you're wrong
00:25:47Dr. Zodiac's a genius. You'll never expose him as a fraud. Don't stop a fellow from trying
00:25:53Pete if I have any gift for reading minds
00:25:55There's no argument about that and others can be gifted to read the future can't tell if anything is on mind of that young man
00:26:12Oh
00:26:20Darling hello, mr. Sibley still monopolizing. Mr. Chan. Won't you give poor little me a chance to talk to him?
00:26:25Here he is talk your head off. Tell him what a great guy zodiac is now Pete none of that
00:26:30Sometimes I think she steers for him. What on earth do you mean?
00:26:33You got even to go to zodiac. She was saying till then darling. She didn't make me go
00:26:38We never had a rival you met him you better get ready if you're on soon, yes, excuse us, please
00:26:45Well, bessie I see you've cornered mr. Chan you better watch out charlie, mrs
00:26:49Sibley thrives on scandal and husbands never let one go around with the must-have time
00:26:54You uh better not let my wife catch you doing this
00:26:57She knew she was marrying a popular man, didn't she? Yeah, she hasn't asked for a divorce yet either
00:27:03Well, let's sit down
00:27:08Oh hello myra darling, where have you been behaving myself, you know, mrs. Rodini we met
00:27:14Now who on earth must you up? Huh? Oh, does anybody want some of this stuff? It ain't bad. No
00:27:21Well, I just said it ain't bad that's all the people my husband picks up anything for a laugh
00:27:26Myra darling, you're not looking a bit. Well, hasn't dr. Zodiac been able to cheer you up
00:27:31I wouldn't believe that faker under oath. Then why go to it? It was mr
00:27:34Sibley's idea. Oh, but you were so worried about rodini and his popularity with the girls
00:27:40Darling let me worry about him you worry about that husband of yours who died
00:27:46What do you mean didn't his sudden exit have the district attorney bothered oh now myra it's awfully stuffy here
00:27:53Excuse me, please
00:27:55Why that jealous gutters knife?
00:27:57Don't ever pick a knife for a wife. Mr. Chan sharp words from sharp tongue. No, I mean real knives
00:28:04She used to be in vaudeville think she's an actress
00:28:07Dr. Zodiac can't help her. She's too conceited
00:28:10I beg your pardon. Are you mr? Rodini? No, there's mr. Rodini over there. Oh, thank you. Excuse me
00:28:16What uh, excuse please I said she's too conceited
00:28:21Good evening, mr. Rodini. It's awfully nice of you to invite me here tonight
00:28:24Oh, i'm glad to have you make yourself at home. Give the house a good name. Thank you. I'll do my best
00:28:35Say better, you know everybody who's that fellow over there
00:28:38Thank you
00:28:40He's a new one to me
00:28:42But he looks interesting
00:28:44You do not know on gust. I never laid eyes on him before. Pardon me. Mr. Chan. You're wanted on the telephone
00:28:50I'll show you the way charlie
00:28:52Excuse, please
00:28:53Hurry back. Mr. Chan. I want all the news about honolulu
00:28:59Oh, excuse me a minute charlie the phone's right over there you can't miss it
00:29:05How many times do I have to tell you didn't you say I could be a guest
00:29:09Well, I didn't tell you to make a pig out of yourself. Well, if you invite me you gotta invite my tapeworm
00:29:17Yes, who please
00:29:19Who it's only me pop jimmy
00:29:22I've looked at gregory and he's registered right here in our hotel. Mr. Gregory here at party now
00:29:28I know it. I sent him a fake invitation so that he'd leave his room and I could search
00:29:33You invite gregory
00:29:36Keep an eye on him. Will you goodbye?
00:29:43Mr. Chan, I thought I recognized you
00:29:45Good evening strange. We should meet again. So soon ours are about 40 to 1 against travel mates meeting within 48 hours
00:29:52I've made a study of it even here you pursue art of statistics
00:29:56Everywhere even in my sleep
00:29:59So
00:30:01Charlie he was just about to go on and I don't want you to miss her
00:30:06Now look if you folks will bring your chairs up a little closer
00:30:08We're going to have a little entertainment for you by one of the finest personages, uh professors
00:30:13He's a magician. I know you all know him needs no introduction to you the great rodney
00:30:21Thank you, thank you now before we go any further, uh, erma, would you mind holding this cage for me, please?
00:30:27Oh just a sample as you all know, I give two performances a day at the temple of magic
00:30:32I didn't ask you to come here tonight to watch me perform
00:30:35I want to introduce a little lady from my show whom I consider the world's greatest living mind reader
00:30:40It gives me great pleasure to present miss eve cairo
00:30:48Would you mind putting out the lights, please
00:30:51Thank you
00:30:52Now ladies and gentlemen, I must ask for absolute quiet
00:30:56Under hypnosis miss cairo becomes a delicate radio receiving apparatus tuned to every forceful mind. Thank you
00:31:08Your eyes close you will sleep I am your control
00:31:18You will seek the mind I name I will seek the mind you name
00:31:26All right, give me something anything
00:31:30What have I in my hand
00:31:32It is a ring
00:31:34a gold wedding ring
00:31:37In it are engraved words
00:31:41Bopsy loves toots
00:31:44Okay
00:31:46All right, how about you no
00:31:48Very clever. How does he give her signals? I tell you it's real. They don't use any code. Would you care to try it?
00:31:55I would
00:31:59What again
00:32:01I've been asked a question. What is it?
00:32:04the lady
00:32:06wishes to know if
00:32:08If she will marry again this year
00:32:11Oh, that's wonderful. That's right. Will I i'm sorry. She cannot predict the future
00:32:16There's nothing supernatural about miss cairo's powers
00:32:19They've been recognized by scientists as extra sensory perception or the sixth sense which we call mental telepathy
00:32:26Go on charlie test her
00:32:39What have I in my hand
00:32:41a card
00:32:43there are
00:32:44Chinese characters on it
00:32:47Possible to read characters I tell you what you do charlie you concentrate on the translation and eve will read it from your mind
00:32:57The chinese words mean great happiness follows great pain
00:33:07Is mine still open book to young lady, can you tell us what else mr. Chan is thinking
00:33:13Dr. Zodiac, I hear the name. Dr. Zodiac in his thoughts
00:33:20most uncanny
00:33:22All right. Now let's have something real hard this last demonstration proves that she doesn't read my mind alone
00:33:28She can read any strong dominant thought would anyone else care to try it?
00:33:33Will you please concentrate miss cairo, what do I hold in my hand?
00:33:38It is
00:33:41You there's someone else
00:33:46I can't go on. I can't
00:33:49I hear death among us
00:33:52I'm frightened
00:33:53There's evil here
00:33:55Someone here is thinking murder
00:34:11So
00:34:14Okay
00:34:36That was charlie, all right, he came in this way, are you sure sure?
00:34:40Hey charlie come out come out wherever you are, please
00:34:43Quiet charlie, don't do that. You left in such a hurry like a bloodhound on the trail
00:34:47I knew you were up to no good. He had a hunch you were coming this way
00:34:50Do not need brass band to commit simple burglary burglary. Which window do we use?
00:34:56Better to ring bell like law-abiding citizen to make sure house is empty
00:35:02Suppose the church here that'd be a break. He'd either talk or take a punch in the nose
00:35:06I think we ought to try a back window. No try bell first
00:35:10Oh
00:35:20Oh only honorable sprout gee pop I wasn't expecting you
00:35:26Surprised mutual you scared the daylights out of me can't explain presence here
00:35:32I wanted to find out who the doctor is for you. How'd you get in through an open window upstairs?
00:35:37Where's the light switch? No, no lights
00:35:40please
00:35:41remove disguise
00:35:54Gee nothing but black curtains. This must be the spook room
00:36:00So
00:36:09What was that
00:36:21Hey look
00:36:24Oh
00:36:26Ectoplasm most interesting ghost filled with hot air
00:36:31But what about paul essex voice?
00:36:33Proof, dr. Zodiac knew paul essex
00:36:36Dr. Excellent ventriloquist
00:36:38Uncle maybe to charlie mccarthy. Yeah, what makes all this operate?
00:36:43Mechanical spirits respond to buttons concealed in floor
00:36:48Dr. Zodiac sit here with feet hidden underneath table and conduct spook show like leader of orchestra
00:36:56observe
00:37:00Oh, boy, whoever rigged this up as a mechanical genius
00:37:03I could use him to design some illusions for my show. So this is how he fools his customers
00:37:07Favorite pastime of man is fooling himself
00:37:11Huh
00:37:16Get beside door
00:37:41You
00:37:43Will please drop revolver to floor
00:37:46Mr. Chan makes empty command man with gun stand behind you drop it
00:37:54Search him now, don't try to put anything over on my part
00:38:00Please lock door. Go ahead pop ask him anything you want
00:38:11Finger of death fit glove perfectly. What are you getting at? This weapon sought my life at party tonight
00:38:17Did he try to kill you?
00:38:19Believe gentleman to be same. Gee pop. You got him for attempted murder
00:38:36Where's that light button
00:38:38Where's the church, where's my pop now, wait a minute people can't vanish into thin air. Come on. We've got to find him
00:38:46That door's still locked
00:38:48Oh, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Look
00:38:57Gentlemen what are you doing in my house?
00:39:01What have you done to my pop
00:39:04You have search warrant come on zodiac open up and talk fast
00:39:09Thank you so much. Appreciate bravery
00:39:13Where's charlie pop?
00:39:17Pop don't ever do that again. What have you got there face rubber beard false
00:39:25Massive body an illusion
00:39:28Elaborate disguise indicate dr. Zodiac
00:39:31Two other people wait a minute. Do you mean to say that wire framework is used to make a person appear taller?
00:39:37Exactly, then zodiac could be a woman or the turk
00:39:41Anything possible? But where is the turk?
00:39:44Make disappearance like ghost ran into closet found blank wall, but no turk
00:39:51Zodiac disguise hang here. One of these walls must be false
00:39:57That's right
00:40:03Ah, that's it
00:40:18This is the office
00:40:20He certainly did a good job of concealing this place. Did you find something charlie?
00:40:23I found a lucid manuscript of Paul Essex, one taken by Gregory.
00:40:28Oh, that. I brought that here.
00:40:30I got it out of Gregory's room at the hotel and left it here when I broke in tonight.
00:40:33You brought it here?
00:40:36Yeah. You didn't give me a chance to tell you before.
00:40:39If befriend donkey, expect to be kicked.
00:40:42How you get in here?
00:40:45Through here.
00:40:47I couldn't find my way out of this place, so I went back out through here, same way I came in.
00:40:52Then I saw you from the window and let you in.
00:40:54Get a look at the size of this safe.
00:40:57I wonder what a fortune teller's doing with a safe this big.
00:41:01Wish we could open it.
00:41:04Suggest you start zero.
00:41:07Are you kidding?
00:41:08No.
00:41:11Make two turn to left to five.
00:41:15One turn to right to 18.
00:41:19Two turn back to left to 21.
00:41:22Back to zero.
00:41:26It works.
00:41:27How did you get the combination?
00:41:29Found same among possessions of Turkish gentlemen.
00:41:34Oh, it's dark in here. There must be a switch someplace.
00:41:37Here's one.
00:41:40Boy, what a setup.
00:41:42It's a fireproof room.
00:41:46What kind of a business is Zodiac in anyway?
00:41:49Reason for presence here.
00:41:52All kinds of dope about all kinds of people.
00:41:58Please, do not touch.
00:42:07Suspicion confirmed.
00:42:09Unfortunate and illegal experiences of many people hidden in these boxes.
00:42:15Information collected from false psychics in many cities.
00:42:19Organized blackmail.
00:42:21We'll get Kilvain to seize that stuff.
00:42:23Gee, Pop, here's one on Honolulu.
00:42:25People who've lived there.
00:42:30Here's something on somebody named Bessie Sibley.
00:42:37Mrs. Sibley DARPA supply information on many others to buy Dr. Zodiac's silence.
00:42:43I bet he had plenty on her.
00:42:46What have you got there, Charlie?
00:42:48Envelope on Paul Essex.
00:43:04This letter written by Paul Essex, positive proof Dr. Zodiac demand money under threat of exposing past misdeeds.
00:43:12Now we can nail him.
00:43:13Must punish Dr. Zodiac without betraying Paul Essex's secret.
00:43:17The widow.
00:43:19Suggest the research of office first.
00:43:22Dr. Zodiac desk.
00:43:24Okay, what a yawn.
00:43:25This dynamite will blow the whole town wide open.
00:43:27We ought to phone Kilvain.
00:43:29I'll yell if I find anything, Pop.
00:43:47How to tell fortunes by cards.
00:43:49Maybe that's how he got his start.
00:43:51Almanac, horoscopes, astrological charts.
00:43:53Oh, what a lot of trash.
00:43:55Say, we better get out of here before the turd comes back.
00:43:57We are about ready to leave.
00:44:00Hey, something's burning.
00:44:02I'm asking flames to keep secrets of many unfortunate people.
00:44:06But Charlie, the evidence.
00:44:07It is best.
00:44:09We are destroying web of spider.
00:44:11Now let us find spider.
00:44:27Oh, good morning, Pop.
00:44:29Your bed's still made up.
00:44:30Didn't you turn in at all?
00:44:31I've just read most interesting story.
00:44:34Paul's book?
00:44:35Yeah.
00:44:36Any clues in it?
00:44:37Possible truth disguised as fiction.
00:44:39Secret of Pygmy Arrow is story of fake psychic who blackmail clients.
00:44:44Swell, how does that help us?
00:44:46No help.
00:44:47Last page containing crime solution missing.
00:44:50Yet we know Paul finished same.
00:44:52Then Gregory must have it.
00:44:54Say, I can't understand why you don't arrest that guy.
00:44:57Please, do not ignore telephone.
00:45:00Hello.
00:45:01Who?
00:45:03Gregory wants to see you.
00:45:05Well, what you wait for?
00:45:07Here is man ready for arrest.
00:45:10Please come up, Mr. Gregory.
00:45:12Boy, am I gonna pin it on him.
00:45:15Would favorite son like to make personal pinch?
00:45:19Oh, you're kidding, Pop.
00:45:21Say, we'd better have a gun.
00:45:30Good morning, Mr. Chan.
00:45:31Good morning.
00:45:33Say, didn't I see you yesterday at the hotel walling wearing glasses and a false mustache?
00:45:38Oh, that.
00:45:40Good morning, sir.
00:45:41Please accept humble hospitality.
00:45:43Thank you very much.
00:45:44Have cup of coffee?
00:45:45No, thanks.
00:45:46Mr. Chan, I've come to lay my cards on the table.
00:45:48Yes?
00:45:49First of all, I'm not an insurance actuary.
00:45:51Please continue.
00:45:52I'm a private investigator for the Granville Insurance Company.
00:45:55A detective?
00:45:56That's right.
00:45:57Gee, Pop, he's one of us.
00:45:59If I were one of Mr. Chan, I shouldn't be so worried.
00:46:02Modesty forbids acknowledgment.
00:46:04Mr. Chan, I need help.
00:46:06Cooperation possible, Mr. Gregory.
00:46:08If you will answer one question.
00:46:10With pleasure.
00:46:11Why did you remove Paul Essex's briefcase from Clipper?
00:46:15I thought it might furnish me with some leads.
00:46:17I was unable to make head or tail of it.
00:46:19Somebody took it from my room last night.
00:46:23You follow Paul Essex to Honolulu?
00:46:26Yes.
00:46:27Why?
00:46:28My company's already had three suicides down there.
00:46:30I thought the islands might furnish the motives.
00:46:32There's a blind alley.
00:46:34The only thing I discovered was that Dr. Zodiac had told Mr. Essex that he would die this month.
00:46:39Dr. Zodiac predict Paul Essex's death?
00:46:42Certainly.
00:46:43You knew I read that radio that came to Mr. Essex.
00:46:46I've been trying to see Zodiac.
00:46:47I can't even get an appointment.
00:46:49Please, what can I do?
00:46:51You get to Zodiac and make him talk and my company will take care of you.
00:46:54Always willing to cooperate with insurance company.
00:46:58We'll keep you informed of developments.
00:47:00Oh, that's fine.
00:47:01I'll let you know if anything turns up.
00:47:03And I'm awfully glad I came to see you.
00:47:05Thank you. Pleasure is mutual.
00:47:06Thank you very much.
00:47:07Goodbye.
00:47:10Oh, not at all.
00:47:12Gee, Pop, I certainly had him pegged wrong.
00:47:14You did?
00:47:16The manuscript. He's taken it again.
00:47:18Hey!
00:47:22Morning practice for the track team?
00:47:24Young man imitate puppy dog chasing bumblebee.
00:47:27Well, Charlie, where do we stand?
00:47:28Did you read that mystery story?
00:47:29Get any leads?
00:47:30Crime never solved by books.
00:47:32I lost him.
00:47:33But the chambermaid said he checked out this morning.
00:47:35Gee, now that manuscript's gone again.
00:47:42Gee, Pop, you're a magician.
00:47:44What was in the briefcase?
00:47:45Very comprehensive San Francisco telephone directory.
00:47:49Gee, nice going, Pop.
00:47:51Hey, what's this all about?
00:47:52Say, I've got an idea.
00:47:53Let's call up the Granville insurance company
00:47:55and find out if Gregory's on the level.
00:47:57Telephone all insurance companies yesterday.
00:47:59No one ever heard of Mr. Gregory.
00:48:02I knew it.
00:48:03I knew he was a phony.
00:48:05Say, he might even be Zodiac.
00:48:07One who'll get your 10 will never see Zodiac with his whiskers on again.
00:48:10Not after the way we went through his place last night.
00:48:12It is possible.
00:48:16But Dr. Zodiac not ordinary criminal.
00:48:19He is man of great ego,
00:48:21with disease known to science as Pseudologia Fantastica.
00:48:28Is it serious?
00:48:29Listen, pathological liars and swindlers
00:48:33suffer from exaggerated fantasy,
00:48:35unleashed vanity, and great ambition
00:48:38which robs them of caution known to sane men.
00:48:41Or as Pop would put it,
00:48:42Correction, please.
00:48:43Swellheads sometimes give police
00:48:45more cooperation than criminal mistake.
00:48:48Say, I'll buy that.
00:48:49We might trip Zodiac through his vanity.
00:48:51Criminal egotists find pleasure in laughing at police.
00:48:55Say, if we could only give him a chance to laugh at us,
00:48:57that might bring him out in the open, innit?
00:48:59But how are we going to work it?
00:49:00Suggest artful flattery
00:49:02in form of special challenge from Rodini
00:49:05to demonstrate that he is a man of great ego,
00:49:08with disease known to science as Pseudologia Fantastica.
00:49:11And how are we going to work it?
00:49:12Suggest artful flattery
00:49:14in form of special challenge from Rodini
00:49:17to demonstrate powers before men of science.
00:49:20That's great, Charlie,
00:49:21and I know my paper will go forth.
00:49:31Say, Amato's on Rodini.
00:49:32Who do you like?
00:49:33Oh, I like Zodiac
00:49:34because Zodiac is a very nice man.
00:49:37He's the dullest kind of thing in the world.
00:49:40He's the dullest kind of thing in the world.
00:49:48Charlie, you were right. It's happened.
00:49:49Zodiac took it hook, line, and sinker.
00:49:50Come on.
00:49:54Please, folks, step aside.
00:50:05Gee, that's a funny-looking knife.
00:50:07Balance weapon.
00:50:09Used by knife throwers.
00:50:14What is it, a P.S.?
00:50:27This is missing last page of Paul Essek's manuscript.
00:50:31Note was written on back of it.
00:50:33What do you mean?
00:50:34Say, then Gregory must be Zodiac.
00:50:36Unless you dropped same in Zodiac house last night.
00:50:39Gee, Pop, maybe I did.
00:50:42Carelessness may prove blessing in disguise.
00:50:45Hey, I bet you we'll have a full house tonight, I'll bet you.
00:50:47What does it say, Charlie? Does it help us?
00:50:49No.
00:50:50Merely that murder was not caused by sword cane, as suspected,
00:50:54but by poisoned pygmy arrow.
00:50:56Pygmy arrow?
00:50:57We got a pygmy arrow.
00:50:59Where?
00:51:00Over here. I'll show you.
00:51:07The bow and arrow's gone.
00:51:09I know it was here this morning,
00:51:10because when I was sweeping up, I went by it, and it stopped me.
00:51:13Maybe some souvenir hunter took them.
00:51:15If Zodiac left the note, then he probably took the arrow.
00:51:18At least we know where to find it.
00:51:21Oh, Charlie, what a house.
00:51:23I socked Zodiac's acceptance across the front page,
00:51:25and look at that sell-out.
00:51:51We've got every door in the place covered.
00:51:52Good.
00:51:53Now, when Zodiac gets here, seal the place up.
00:51:56Don't let anyone out until after the show is over.
00:51:58And be ready for trouble.
00:52:01If we don't see a show tonight, we'll never see one.
00:52:03What's your plan, Pop?
00:52:05Expect to witness most interesting performance.
00:52:08With attention not distracted by too much conversation.
00:52:12Well, we're all set, Charlie.
00:52:15Well, is Dr. Zodiac here yet?
00:52:17No, I don't see him.
00:52:18But a fine spot I'll be in if he doesn't show up.
00:52:20But a fine spot you'll be in if he does,
00:52:22and you don't show him up.
00:52:23Oh, don't even think it.
00:52:24Places, everybody.
00:52:25All set, Mr. Houdini?
00:52:26Yeah, okay.
00:52:27All right, clear the stage, folks.
00:52:28Clear your house, please.
00:52:45Ladies and gentlemen, as you all know,
00:52:47the famous Dr. Zodiac has accepted a challenge
00:52:49to meet me here tonight.
00:52:52Is Dr. Zodiac in the house?
00:52:57Not even the ghost of a whisper,
00:52:58or the whisper of a ghost.
00:53:01So, while we're waiting for the renowned
00:53:02Doctor of the Occult to materialize,
00:53:04I will endeavor to entertain you.
00:53:06Professor, please.
00:53:08Of course, I'm just an ordinary magician myself,
00:53:10one of the old-fashioned kind
00:53:11whose hand is quicker than the eye.
00:53:13Now, watch very closely, ladies and gentlemen.
00:53:15Empty.
00:53:17Empty.
00:53:19That's what you thought.
00:53:23Flowers for madame.
00:53:29Nothing in here.
00:53:30Nothing in here.
00:53:37Empty.
00:53:39Empty.
00:53:41What a fix for a sphinx.
00:53:43Alma, would you please?
00:53:44Rotate.
00:53:54Well, there's life in the old sphinx yet.
00:53:59Miss Eve Cairo, ladies and gentlemen.
00:54:01A very charming and mysterious young lady
00:54:03who will assist me in deceiving you.
00:54:05Excuse me, please.
00:54:06Now, ladies and gentlemen,
00:54:08for our first illusion,
00:54:09I will require some witnesses here on the stage.
00:54:11Are there a couple of good witnesses in the house?
00:54:13You know, the kind you like to have
00:54:14when you bump into the other fellow's car?
00:54:16How about you, sir?
00:54:17Oh, no, thank you.
00:54:18Come on, don't be bashful.
00:54:19Leave your watch and wallet with your wife.
00:54:21Oh, she's not your wife.
00:54:24Well, spotlight.
00:54:26Charlie, stand up.
00:54:28Come on, go ahead, Charlie.
00:54:30Ladies and gentlemen,
00:54:31I want you to meet Mr. Charlie Chan,
00:54:33the world's foremost whodunit celebrity.
00:54:38I'm going to ask Mr. Chan
00:54:40to honor my performance
00:54:41by acting as a witness of my illusions.
00:54:43And if I can trick him, I'm good.
00:54:46This will give you a chance to watch Zodiac while he works.
00:54:48Hey, pass.
00:54:49And you too, Jimmy.
00:54:50And Jimmy Chan, ladies and gentlemen,
00:54:52a chip off the old chopstick.
00:54:55And this gentleman completes our gold panel jury.
00:54:58Deputy Chief Kilbane
00:54:59of the San Francisco Police Department.
00:55:06Now stand wherever you wish.
00:55:10Stabs please.
00:55:31Dr. Zodiac, I believe.
00:55:33Spotlight.
00:55:35Would you care to come up on the stage, doctor?
00:55:38I was just about to toss off one of my best illusions.
00:55:41I'll give you a chance to unmask me, doctor,
00:55:43before I unmask you.
00:55:45That would be a pleasure, Mr. Ardini.
00:55:48That's the spirit.
00:55:54Stand wherever you wish, doctor.
00:55:56Now, ladies and gentlemen, before I continue,
00:55:59I want to say in fairness to our distinguished guest
00:56:01that I do not intend in any way
00:56:03to ridicule his faith in the supernatural.
00:56:05But I will prove that I can duplicate anything he does
00:56:08with the same old bag of tricks
00:56:10that have been mystifying gullible humanity
00:56:12since the first magician laid an egg.
00:56:16My initial endeavor will be to nullify
00:56:18the law of gravity through levitation,
00:56:20an art practiced by the holy men of Tibet
00:56:22who are credited with being able to project
00:56:24their bodies through space.
00:56:28Now watch, Miss Cairo, and particularly the table.
00:56:31We are under observation
00:56:33by a supercritical jury of witnesses.
00:56:37There's nothing below, a beautiful lady above.
00:56:40No wires connected to the table,
00:56:42no mechanical devices.
00:56:44Yet, unless your eyes deceive you,
00:56:46the table and the young lady
00:56:47are rising into the fourth dimension of space,
00:56:49supported by nothing but terror.
00:56:52Levitation was a religious rite of the ancient world,
00:56:55known to the priests of Chaldea,
00:56:57a guarded secret in the temples of Babylon.
00:57:01A fearsome ceremony of the pagan gods
00:57:03who cried for sacrifice,
00:57:05and before whom victims vanished and disappeared.
00:57:18Eve!
00:57:24An arrow!
00:57:26Stuck directly in her.
00:57:28Death instantaneous.
00:57:30Boy, what a finish for Dr. Zodiac.
00:57:32Who is he, Pop?
00:57:38It's the Turk.
00:57:39Wait a minute.
00:57:42Everybody stay right where you are.
00:57:44No one is to leave this theater.
00:57:48Have everybody go back to their seats.
00:57:51Please, remote body, out there.
00:57:55Back to your seat, lady.
00:57:56You have no right to keep me here.
00:57:57Let me by.
00:57:58Sit down.
00:58:01Look.
00:58:02Somebody threw this bow in here.
00:58:05Get bow, please.
00:58:09This is what he was shot with, all right.
00:58:12Gee, Pop, I didn't mean to do that.
00:58:15No matter.
00:58:16Accident proves arrow not shot from bow.
00:58:19Weatherbeaten wood too old
00:58:20to put driving force behind bowstring.
00:58:22Well, that's from my exhibit in the lobby.
00:58:24It's the pygmy bow.
00:58:25Problem number one, then.
00:58:26How was arrow, which killed Turkish gentleman,
00:58:29projected into his body?
00:58:31Someone must have been close enough to stab him.
00:58:33It must have been done from the stage.
00:58:35Maybe, maybe not.
00:58:36The lights were out long enough for anyone
00:58:38to come up on the stage
00:58:39and then gotten back to their seat.
00:58:40Makes problem more difficult.
00:58:42Takes in entire audience.
00:58:44Suggests confining selves to one
00:58:47who could have been within striking distance of victim.
00:58:51When did you leave stage, Mr. Rodini?
00:58:53As soon as the lights changed.
00:58:54I follow the table down the aisle.
00:58:55I'm at the back of the house
00:58:56when Eve makes her entrance.
00:58:57Rodini must have been in the aisle.
00:58:59He dropped this wand beside my seat in the second row.
00:59:03Hello, Stewart.
00:59:04What are you doing here?
00:59:06Duvane?
00:59:07Say, do you know him too?
00:59:09Sure.
00:59:10Charlie, I want you to meet Stewart Salisbury,
00:59:12the investigator for the Granville Insurance Company.
00:59:14Then he is a detective?
00:59:15But now his name's Salisbury.
00:59:17That's why the insurance company
00:59:19didn't know anyone named Gregory.
00:59:21May chalk up one error against blundering parent.
00:59:24Mr. Salisbury, you were sitting in second row?
00:59:28I was interested in watching you work, Mr. Chan.
00:59:30I knew you were on the stage for a purpose.
00:59:32I wanted to be nearer to you and Dr. Zodiac.
00:59:35Thank you so much.
00:59:36May see wand, please?
00:59:40This is wand used in floating table illusion?
00:59:43Yes, I guess I dropped it in the aisle
00:59:45as I ran back to the stage.
00:59:46Silver tip wand more prolific than silkworm.
00:59:49You're stealing my act, Charlie.
00:59:51Perhaps have extra wand handy?
00:59:53Up sleeve, maybe?
00:59:55Say, I shouldn't have let you watch me so closely.
00:59:57An orchid for you, Charlie.
00:59:59Thank you so much.
01:00:01Miss Cairo, please.
01:00:03Just when you ceased to float on flying table.
01:00:07I wasn't on the table, Mr. Chan.
01:00:09I was in the wings waiting for my entrance.
01:00:11Not on table?
01:00:13Very mysterious.
01:00:14Just a minute, Charlie.
01:00:16You don't mean to say that Eve had anything to do with this?
01:00:18Please.
01:00:19I'm merely trying to place positions of people on stage
01:00:22to get clear picture of crime.
01:00:25Well, I don't quite get you, Charlie.
01:00:27But let's place them all in the positions
01:00:29they were in before the lights went out.
01:00:30Very excellent suggestion.
01:00:32Would request, Mr. Verdini,
01:00:34you start act all over again
01:00:36from point where Miss Cairo is placed on table.
01:00:39Right.
01:00:40Now, you people in the audience,
01:00:42please settle down and be patient.
01:00:44We're going to stage Verdini's act again.
01:00:47We want all the cooperation you can give us.
01:00:52The person sitting next to you
01:00:54might be the murderer we're looking for.
01:00:59We'll need volunteer to take place a victim.
01:01:03You will oblige?
01:01:04What?
01:01:05Me be the murdered man?
01:01:07You will oblige?
01:01:08What?
01:01:09Me be the murdered man?
01:01:10But I ain't a good subject, Mr. Chan.
01:01:12I ain't.
01:01:13No.
01:01:15Can request you assume humble position, Mr. Lewis?
01:01:18To break a story, I'd do anything, Charlie.
01:01:20Thank you so much.
01:01:21Miss Cairo, it will be necessary for you again
01:01:24to take place on table.
01:01:26No, no, I can't do it.
01:01:27What's the matter, honey?
01:01:28No, I wouldn't advise you to use Eve, Mr. Chan.
01:01:30She's different from the rest of us.
01:01:31High-strung, nervous temperament,
01:01:33sensitive to things like this.
01:01:34One moment, please.
01:01:35Have thought.
01:01:36Will not be necessary to use, young lady.
01:01:39Let everyone assume original positions.
01:01:42You, Miss Cairo, were in wings.
01:01:45Mr. Radini, you were on platform.
01:01:48Please.
01:01:50Who's going to ride on the table?
01:01:52Number two son.
01:01:53He long have weakness for displaying histrionic ability.
01:01:57Here is opportunity to disguise self as sleeping beauty.
01:02:01Who, me take a ride on that table?
01:02:03Oh, but flying makes me seasick, Pop.
01:02:05Go.
01:02:06All right, Jimmy, come on.
01:02:07Come on, pop up.
01:02:09You're going to get a lot of surprises.
01:02:11OK, Charlie.
01:02:14Lights.
01:02:17Watch Miss Cairo, and particularly the table.
01:02:21We are under observation by a supercritical jury of witnesses.
01:02:25Nothing below.
01:02:27No wires connected to the table.
01:02:29No devices.
01:02:33Yet, unless your eyes deceive you,
01:02:35the table and the lady are rising into the fourth dimension of space.
01:02:38Supported by nothing but thin air.
01:02:40Levitation was a religious rite of the ancient world,
01:02:43known as the Feast of Chaldea.
01:02:45A goddess secret of the ancient temples of...
01:02:50Something's wrong.
01:02:51Radini didn't finish his speech.
01:02:53Lights.
01:02:54Lights.
01:02:55Turn on the lights.
01:02:56Ah!
01:02:57There's a red light.
01:03:00How did that happen?
01:03:01Do something.
01:03:02All right, take it easy.
01:03:03Be quiet.
01:03:04All right.
01:03:05Get him to his dressing room.
01:03:07Why, he's wounded.
01:03:08Get him to his dressing room.
01:03:09Call a doctor.
01:03:12Now, keep calm, folks.
01:03:14Go.
01:03:15Get everybody out of that aisle.
01:03:17Lady, lady, sit down, lady.
01:03:19Be calm, be collected.
01:03:20Don't get excited.
01:03:21That won't get to anyone.
01:03:26Take his coat off.
01:03:27He's bleeding.
01:03:28Come on, come on.
01:03:29Get him to his dressing room.
01:03:35Well, Charlie, if this don't send me back to Billy Goat Hill pounding pavement,
01:03:37I'm an Eskimo.
01:03:39Not necessary to take such icy view of situation.
01:03:42Matter's progressing most interestingly.
01:03:45Interestingly?
01:03:46For who, Radini?
01:03:47Fortunately, only wound in shoulder, induced by this knife.
01:03:51Where did you get that?
01:03:52On step.
01:03:53It is brother to one used to pin Dr. Zodiac's note to door of theater.
01:03:58It's a cinch.
01:03:59Whoever threw that knife is the same one who knocked off the Turk.
01:04:01That's right, and we're through playing theater.
01:04:03If I can only figure the angle that knife was thrown from,
01:04:05it'll give me a clue to where the killer was standing.
01:04:07Position of killer not so important to anxious parent
01:04:10as position of number two son,
01:04:12who took trip on mysterious flying table.
01:04:15Well, he's in the cellar.
01:04:16All he has to do is come upstairs from downstairs.
01:04:18Oh, show way, please.
01:04:19Shirley, come on.
01:04:20I've got an idea.
01:04:23I've been trying to figure out the angle this knife was thrown from.
01:04:26I figured...
01:04:32Captain Kilvain, will you tell your stupid cops
01:04:34that they must let me be with my husband?
01:04:36Now, just a minute, young lady.
01:04:38Nobody can talk to him until after I've questioned them.
01:04:40And I have a few questions for you, too.
01:04:42You're a fine detective.
01:04:44Letting one man be murdered right under your eyes
01:04:46and then setting the stage so they could try to kill my husband.
01:04:49I've tried to be calm.
01:04:51Come out of there!
01:04:52Come out of there!
01:04:53Jimmy!
01:04:55Jimmy!
01:05:01Did not know theater provided elevator service.
01:05:04That comes from inside this face.
01:05:05Mr. Chan, I want to go to my husband.
01:05:07The detectives won't let me see him.
01:05:09Thought Rodini's dressing room was on stage.
01:05:11It is, but there's an entrance from down here, too.
01:05:14Son seems to have disappeared as completely as flying table.
01:05:17Maybe he went up into the boss's dressing room.
01:05:19Come with me, Mr. Chan. We'll see.
01:05:22I hope somebody sees something around here pretty soon.
01:05:25I wish I was back with my train seals.
01:05:28You could try a cross stitch,
01:05:30the kind we use in appendix operations.
01:05:37Please explain absence of pants and stuff.
01:05:41Gee, Papa, I had an accident.
01:05:43Get dressed quickly.
01:05:45Disappearance take one year of father's life.
01:05:47You are doctor?
01:05:49How is Mr. Rodini's shoulder?
01:05:51Not too bad. It's only a flesh wound.
01:05:53He's suffering from shock right now.
01:05:55I fixed him up, and I think we'd better let him go home as quickly as possible.
01:05:59Most fortunate escape.
01:06:01Can offer no solution as to who make attempt on life?
01:06:05I haven't the slightest idea, Charlie.
01:06:07I just reached the bottom of the steps, and I felt a blow,
01:06:10and my shoulder seemed to be on fire.
01:06:12That's all I remember.
01:06:13It must have been thrown from the audience, and if it was, I...
01:06:15Recommend we remove cells from dressing room
01:06:18and allow Mr. Rodini needed rest.
01:06:21Excuse, please.
01:06:23Now, look here, young woman.
01:06:24You knew all about this even before the lights came up.
01:06:26Before anyone else knew that Rodini had been clipped with a knife.
01:06:28How did you know it?
01:06:29I've told you before. I can sense things like that.
01:06:32I had a mental vision of him lying there with a knife stuck in his shoulder.
01:06:35Mental telepathy confirmed by scientific investigation.
01:06:39I'm convinced, young lady, strange power
01:06:41can be of utmost assistance to us in apprehending murderer.
01:06:45Better to probe through penetrating mind of one girl
01:06:48than try to sift contents of whole theater.
01:06:51All right, then go ahead.
01:06:53I'm in this with you. I might as well stick.
01:06:55I'll tell the audience, Pop.
01:06:57One moment.
01:06:59Refrain from showing to audience seat of pants, please.
01:07:03Oh, I'll take care of that.
01:07:06I'll wear this coat.
01:07:09Ladies and gentlemen,
01:07:11Ladies and gentlemen,
01:07:13my father has requested me to...
01:07:19My father has requested that I call your...
01:07:26My father has requested that I call your...
01:07:42Oh, gee, Pop, this isn't my fault.
01:07:45Recommend you imitate excellent example of sphinx
01:07:48and keep silent.
01:07:50Ask you will please excuse
01:07:53amateur exhibition of magic by ambitious offspring
01:07:57and request you will again lend most necessary cooperation.
01:08:02With assistance of Miss Cairo,
01:08:04we'll try to find solution of most perplexing problem
01:08:08We'll try to find solution of most perplexing crime.
01:08:12Can assure you will witness most scientific
01:08:15and remarkable demonstration of mental telepathy.
01:08:19Electrician, you will turn off all lights
01:08:22except one on mirror, please.
01:08:28You will read thoughts in my mind
01:08:30until dominant thought of killer comes to you.
01:08:39Concentrate.
01:08:44Close eyes, please.
01:08:53I'm now your control.
01:08:55You are my control.
01:08:58Your lips will speak my thoughts as they come to you.
01:09:02I will speak your thoughts.
01:09:06I will speak your thoughts.
01:09:13I get the impression of a strange, mysterious room.
01:09:17There is a man.
01:09:19It is Dr. Zodiac.
01:09:21He has learned secrets of people's lives
01:09:23and uses his information to blackmail them.
01:09:27I see one of his victims.
01:09:29He's in an airplane.
01:09:31He commits suicide because Dr. Zodiac
01:09:34threatens him with disgrace.
01:09:37That man's wife is here in the theater.
01:09:40Her heart is filled with bitterness.
01:09:43There is another woman here
01:09:45who is helping Dr. Zodiac,
01:09:48but she fears him.
01:09:50Only his death can bring her freedom.
01:09:54I see another man here,
01:09:57a rival who has staked his reputation
01:10:00on unmasking Dr. Zodiac tonight.
01:10:03I see another who fears the loss of his position and prestige
01:10:07because Dr. Zodiac has outwitted him.
01:10:11And a young man who believes Dr. Zodiac
01:10:14is interfering with his romance,
01:10:17trying to separate him from the girl he loves.
01:10:22There's someone confusing our contact, Mr. Chan.
01:10:26Go on, please.
01:10:29Yes, I have your control again.
01:10:32There is a woman who is filled with jealousy and hatred.
01:10:36Dr. Zodiac is trying to influence her.
01:10:42Mr. Chan, there's a mind here that is fighting me,
01:10:46trying to keep your thoughts from me.
01:10:48Continue, please.
01:10:50He is frightened, desperate.
01:10:53It is... it is Dr. Zodiac.
01:10:56He is not dead.
01:10:58He is here in this theater.
01:11:01Zodiac here? Then who was the trick?
01:11:04We'll soon learn.
01:11:06Concentrate, please.
01:11:09The man who was murdered was Dr. Zodiac's servant,
01:11:12who is impersonating him here tonight
01:11:14to throw the police off the trail.
01:11:16What was motive for murder, please?
01:11:19The servant was the only one who knew his master's secret.
01:11:22Zodiac killed him to silence him
01:11:25and make the world believe that Dr. Zodiac was dead.
01:11:28Who is Dr. Zodiac?
01:11:31It is... it is...
01:11:34Something is keeping it from me.
01:11:36A control stronger than yours.
01:11:39Killer is trying to prevent you from reading my thoughts.
01:11:42Make effort, please.
01:11:44I'm trying.
01:11:46It's coming closer.
01:11:48It's filled with evil, with thoughts of murder.
01:11:52It's Dr. Zodiac.
01:11:54He's ready to strike again.
01:11:57Lights! Lights!
01:12:01It's Rodini!
01:12:02Fred!
01:12:03My boss!
01:12:04Otherwise known as Dr. Zodiac.
01:12:07Very clever to have Turk impersonate you at seance
01:12:10and thus avoid suspicion.
01:12:13Nice work.
01:12:15But you'll never convict me of killing the Turk.
01:12:17Contradiction, please.
01:12:19We'll demonstrate.
01:12:21Silver-tipped wand used in floating table illusion
01:12:24not same as this one,
01:12:26which you carry up sleeve from which you produce orchid.
01:12:30Mechanism, make most potent murder weapon.
01:12:34Observe.
01:12:40Easy for magician to confuse picture of crime,
01:12:43even to inflicting wound in own shoulder
01:12:46to avert suspicion.
01:12:48All right, men, take him out.
01:12:54So sorry.
01:12:55I didn't know, Mr. Chan.
01:12:57I never even suspected.
01:12:59Rodini sure was covered up, but we nicked this case.
01:13:02Appreciate valuable assistance,
01:13:04but please remember obvious clues like tricks in magic
01:13:08usually prove deceptive.
01:13:09You bet.
01:13:10From now on, I'll be just like you.
01:13:12I'll keep both feet right on the ground.
01:13:24THE END
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