August 4, 2025 • 26 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hello, Yes, this is the Falcon speaking, Oh Iris, you'll
have to include me out tonight.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Angel, I'm leaving for Vienna.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
That's right, Vienna, City of Wine, women in song.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Now there's a combination that's bound to be murdered once again.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
The Transcribed Adventures of the Falcon starring Les Damon. The
Adventures of the Falcon dedicated to private investigators everywhere, those
hard hitting detectives who like Mike Wearing, risk their lives
to aid law enforcement agencies.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
So join him. Now.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
When the Falcon solves the case of the vanishing visa.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
They say people are the same the world over. It's
only the places that are different. Now, I guess whoever
it is that does all this saying has a point.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
There.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
You take the bar of the Hotel Imperial and Vienna,
and the boy behind the mahogan.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
He is a citizen named Al Romano.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
And to prove my original thesis, Al could hold on
the same job in New York. Come to think of it,
he once did, but you'd never guess it from his approach.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Time, Honey, and let be.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
I would like your brandy.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Please, one brandy coming up?
Speaker 6 (01:22):
How much is it fifteen shillings?
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Then?
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Here.
Speaker 6 (01:28):
You are tough when a doll like you has to
buy our own. Maybe you'd like me to introduce you
to a couple of rich tunists.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Oh, I would very much.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
What's in it for me?
Speaker 5 (01:38):
One hundred chillings?
Speaker 6 (01:40):
I'd rather work kind of percentage basis? Come about a
fifty to fifty splod?
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Agreed?
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Yeah, I think we have to do? Okay, what are they?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Could you?
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Honey?
Speaker 5 (01:49):
Truthy? Trudy Brown?
Speaker 4 (01:51):
I don't know your truthy?
Speaker 6 (01:53):
I'm al Romano. Let made you try the Imperial.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
A friend of mine recommended it, and mister Steve.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Laurima you're a friend of that.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
You know Stephen, he's practically a fixture around here.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
He's in the back room.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Now I must say hello, you're wasting your time. You're
getting nothing out of that lush No.
Speaker 7 (02:10):
Wait, I'll be right out, go you out? No, Oh truly, Hello, Stephen,
I've been looking all over the ring Stresser for you.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
How'd you know i'd be here? And you always come
to think? What I am?
Speaker 6 (02:23):
I wonder what there is about this place that fascinates me.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
I couldn't possibly guess you got something for me?
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Yes, well, wait till I lock the door. Okay, let's
have it here you are.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
Hey, this looks good, Trudy, real good. Who are your
contacts in Romania?
Speaker 5 (02:43):
You should know better than to ask me that.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Sorry, I lost my head. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
I bet the boys and the Kremlin will give plenty
to get their hands on this information. Okay, I'll see
it gets to the right people.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Oh drink, No.
Speaker 7 (02:55):
Thank you Tell me something, Stephen, Why are you doing this?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Why are you?
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Austria is my country, but a.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Man without the country. Huh.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
I didn't mean that.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Sorry, you didn't hurt my feelings.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
It's true, But then why are you doing it?
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Maybe I'm trying to justify my existence. Maybe this way
I can kid myself into believing I'm not a drunken.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
But you mustn't say that.
Speaker 8 (03:18):
Why does it frighten you?
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Why I might give you away? Never? I am weak,
truly real.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
Week the comrades got their hands on me.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I'd crack in a minute.
Speaker 8 (03:27):
I'm not worried, well I am.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
I hear mister Vaughan's in town, Rabbet Vaughn. Yeah, cause
Love's right hand man. I thought he was in According
to my dope, he's here all right, monocle and all.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Like to meet him. Maybe I can arrange an introduction.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Should not joke about such things?
Speaker 6 (03:43):
Makes you kind of nervous, doesn't it? Putting your life
in the hands of a.
Speaker 7 (03:46):
Lush Stop tormenting yourself. You are one of the finest
men I have ever known.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
Well, it's not kid each other's sweetheart. It's much too
late in the day.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Are you expecting someone?
Speaker 4 (03:57):
No, who's there?
Speaker 9 (04:00):
There's a lot of money.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Who wants him?
Speaker 9 (04:03):
I doubt whether my name would mean anything to you,
But it's Robert Ball.
Speaker 8 (04:07):
Give me a match. I gotta burn this stuff.
Speaker 9 (04:10):
Please over that I should hate the course of the stuff.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
Take it easy, fellow lasts longer.
Speaker 8 (04:15):
Listen truly, there's a door behind the screen that leads
to the kitchen.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
What about you?
Speaker 4 (04:19):
I can take care of myself and I'll hop to it.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
Already, I said, just a second, What are.
Speaker 8 (04:24):
You waiting for, Trudy afraid I'll give you away?
Speaker 7 (04:28):
No, I'll be then, Steve, I'll feed I said, Oh, man,
if you don't open this door within five seconds, I
should be compelled.
Speaker 8 (04:38):
Ana, who keeping this wrong?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I don't know?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
You just use it?
Speaker 9 (04:44):
Oh no, we don't stand that like a bloody fool.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Get a doctor.
Speaker 8 (04:49):
He's wasting his time.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
There was a girl in here, who wash he? Come on?
Speaker 8 (04:53):
Man speaking, you're missing the point. V.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
That's that's why I did this so I couldn't speak.
Speaker 8 (05:00):
Imagine she trusted me.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
I guess she knew what she was doing.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Oh well, never mind the doctor.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
He's dead. Hello?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Is that your toy?
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Who is this?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
What is the meta aption? Don't you recognize the voice? Oh?
Speaker 5 (05:33):
I'm so glad you called.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Are you going to be home this afternoon? No?
Speaker 7 (05:37):
No, As a matter of fact, I was just leaving.
I've got to go to lead and it's mane Bertha's
very ill.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
You needn't spare me, Tody. I know that you are
planning to run away with that American.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
You must take me for a fool.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Don't you think I've seen you with that Stephen Lavama?
You followed us many times?
Speaker 5 (05:55):
How dare you?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I love you, Tody. No one's ever going to take
you away. I wouldn't be too sure I would. Your friend,
mister Laarama committed suicide. What obviously you haven't seen the tape.
I I will read it to you. Shamed by his
country's warmongering tactics. Step and Larama, expatriate American, committed suicide
(06:19):
this afternoon in the Imperial Hotel July.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
They're using him for propaganda.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Then why did he kill himself?
Speaker 7 (06:26):
I can't tell you. You've got to trust me, Eric.
You know that I love you.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
If you do, you will prove it by way.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
I'm sorry I can't.
Speaker 10 (06:35):
Hello Tody, Tody, Yes you might wearing that's right. My
name is Leon Bryl. I wonder if you could spare
me a couple of minutes. I got a proposition for
(06:56):
your business. Yeah, sorry, mister Brill, I'll quit the racket,
come again and no longer hand.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
In Grivaten investigation. Well that's swell, huh.
Speaker 10 (07:03):
I'd hate to feel I took you away from anything. Say,
why don't I sit down?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Like? I think of one good reason you're not staying long?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
I might surprise you.
Speaker 10 (07:10):
Are you were one of Donovan's Cloak Dagga boys during
the war, weren't you?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Well?
Speaker 10 (07:13):
Your serial number was ninety eight two three four seven six.
On your first mission, your parachuted into Yugoslavia. Second mission Austria.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
How the devil did you find that out?
Speaker 10 (07:20):
I'm one of the kids myself like to see my credentials.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
What do you know?
Speaker 10 (07:25):
I know you're going back on active status.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Now, wait a minute. You can't do this to me
at ween. Yeah, I guess you can.
Speaker 9 (07:31):
All right.
Speaker 10 (07:31):
Now here's the pitch. You're going to Vienna. What we've
arranged passage for you.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
You leave from.
Speaker 10 (07:35):
LaGuardia tomorrow morning at six forty five. You'll be in
Paris on Thursday, Vienna on Friday. Listen, Brell, you're a
register at the Imperial Hotel.
Speaker 8 (07:42):
We've made a reservation for you.
Speaker 10 (07:43):
Oh thanks to hey, my pleasure. I had to contact
a girl named Trulie Brownheim.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
You've got that, and I got it.
Speaker 10 (07:48):
I should be waiting in the bar at the Imperial
on Friday at one o'clock. She's a blonde, about five three,
blue eyes, little birthmark on the right cheek. I just
pretend it's a casual pickup.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
How do I sell myself?
Speaker 10 (07:58):
I just tell you from New York. She'll reply, she's
got a cousin of Milwaukee. You answer, that's practically a suburb.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
He got that in.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I got it.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (08:06):
All you got to do is get her out of Austria.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Get her Are you crazy? My psychiatrist doesn't think so.
How am I supposed to manage that?
Speaker 10 (08:12):
If I knew the answer, I'd do it myself.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Maybe she could fit in that hole in my head.
Speaker 10 (08:16):
Well that's an idea, but we're not fussy. Anyway you
want to work it is okay with us. Just get
her to the embassy in Paris.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Any other practical hints you care to offer?
Speaker 10 (08:24):
Yeah, look out for Robert Vaughan.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Who's Robert Vaughan.
Speaker 10 (08:26):
He's the boy the red used as a troubleshooter.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I was English.
Speaker 10 (08:29):
I don't bother to find out. Just keep out of
his way. If you get caught, you're on your own.
We'll have to disclaim you.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I understand. We'll have to throw you to the wolves.
Thanks a million, brother, don't mention it.
Speaker 10 (08:40):
I have a nice trip, kiddo.
Speaker 8 (08:41):
We all got to go sometime.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Now.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Back to the Adventures the Falcon.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
I don't know why people are so good to me.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Take Leon Brull.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Two minutes after we met, he was sending me to Vienna.
Send me two hours later. I was dodging cars and bicycles.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
On the rings.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Trust I last o'clock on the corner of step arms
plots and realized it was trying to keep my appointment
with truly brown eyem So I hustled over to the Imperial.
I parked myself on a stool, made to deal with
the bartender.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
While I bent my elbow, he could bend my ear.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
I'm telling you, buddy, give me this time, anytime you
can have New York.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Right now, it's going to have a smoon off, Martine.
Do you know how to make it? You take four
points about.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
The worst fella you're talking to, Al Raman of the
greatest bartender this side of forty second Street.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
How am I mistake?
Speaker 4 (09:43):
You know around here?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Let's get off the plane this morning, and maybe you.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Can tell me something.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
How the bum's doing they're out in front.
Speaker 8 (09:51):
I knew that giants would full.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Just don't have it that sill?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
How long you've been here else?
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Since the war?
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Everythink's going home?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
What for?
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Shilling goes a long way here back home? I was
just a punk here. I'm a big man.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
You must know Vienna pretty well?
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Yeah? Interested in meeting a chick?
Speaker 9 (10:09):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
There's a blonde that drops by every once in a while.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
I could send it. I'm trying real down her name?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Heel, well, speak of the devil.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
Hi you, Trudy, I was just telling this gentleman about you.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Well, how nice you too?
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Ought to hit it off real swell.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
I'm sorry that I'm expecting a friend all I do.
Perhaps some other time.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I always say, there's no time like the present. Why
don't we try to tell me?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
No?
Speaker 6 (10:33):
Thank you?
Speaker 5 (10:33):
Really?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Come on, Angel? Now, don't you like that?
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Trudy?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
I want to tell you all about New York.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
You are from New York?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Yes, would you like to go there?
Speaker 5 (10:43):
I would like it very much. I have a cousin
in Milwaukee.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
That's practically a suburb. So you're the one. I'm the one.
My name is Mike Wearing.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Sorry, mister Wearing, I did not know.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Oh could you, hey, el, how about serving us here?
Speaker 9 (10:59):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Fake?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Well, you got any ideas? How about what how he
can get out of the country.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
I think it would be better if I remained.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Look, Angel, that's not for you to decide. The powers
would be think it's too dangerous. I suppose I rent
a car and we try to bluff it through the border.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
But I don't have a passport.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I got a couple of complete with visas. You're going
to be a missus Michael wearing. You got a small snapshot.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
If they would recognize it is a forgery.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Immediately you've got a better idea. No, then we're stuck
with this. And here's what I want you to what's
the matter? Don't look now, but we're being watched a
boy at the bar. He's wearing a trench coat. Okay,
you can take a peak.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
He's moving off. Oh Eric, you know?
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Yes it's Eric Housman.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Who is he? A very dear.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Friend of mine?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
You think he followed you him?
Speaker 5 (11:44):
I'm afraid so could I?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
No?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Absolutely not? Those are orders.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Where do you live?
Speaker 5 (11:49):
He approached that number six.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
That's across the Daniel Canal.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Yes, it's riding the left back.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
All right, words come to words. I'll swim open okay, Angel,
get yourself packed. I'll take you up in an hour.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Now where did I put that? Who is it?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
The open? Up?
Speaker 5 (12:17):
Just a moment?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Eric?
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Hello, what are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I just stropped by to wish you a pleasant journey?
Speaker 5 (12:26):
A pleasant journey?
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Why aren't you leaving Vienna?
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Well? What gave you such an idea?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Bags for one thing?
Speaker 7 (12:34):
Oh, I'm learning and digretchen are very heavy.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
You're learning her You're clothes to you seem to have
developed a fetish for Americans. Hir first, Stephen Lorma, Now
this new one?
Speaker 5 (12:45):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I saw you at the Imperial? Who is he?
Speaker 5 (12:49):
It's just a tourist?
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Are lying you?
Speaker 9 (12:51):
Look, you don't tell me this tour You are going
away with him, you aren't you?
Speaker 11 (13:00):
Well eh, eh, come in, all right, boy, you can
take those bags.
Speaker 9 (13:14):
You mean you'd actually trust me? Mister Wedding?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Who the devil are you?
Speaker 9 (13:18):
Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Robert Vaughan.
Well it means nothing to you, should it, i'd hope.
So I'm in charge of security for the Soviet sector.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Look voughn I'm very busy.
Speaker 9 (13:31):
I can appreciate it, mister Wedding, but I'm afraid I
must take up your time, perhaps a great deal of it.
You know a girl named Judy brownhim No, well that's on.
I have it on excellent authority that you met her
at the bar of the Impitial today.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Your excellent authority is wrong, and of course it would
be have no interest to you that she was murdered.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
She what.
Speaker 9 (13:49):
Pity isn't it is that on the level I can
assure you I never jest about murdered. I find it
in horrible taste.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
How did it happen?
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Parented?
Speaker 9 (13:58):
She was first choked, but that wasn't the cause of death?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Or what was this?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
She was shot twice with it at close range. That's
a cold automatic, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Yes? What do you make of the inscription for the falcon?
A real straight shooter?
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Now I've only knew who.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Or what the falcon was? Where did you sign that gun?
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Right next to her body?
Speaker 9 (14:22):
You doubtless heard something about the Soviet penal system.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
That's a great deal.
Speaker 9 (14:26):
Well, let me congratulate you. You're in a position now
to check on it firsthand. I do hope you appreciate
the honor. Oh welle, please slow down. I'd like the
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gentlemen to see our city. Yea, all Now on the right, mister,
wedding a Saint Stephan lovely, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
The spire is.
Speaker 9 (14:55):
Four hundred and fifty feet high. It's considered one of
the finest examples.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Of gor I never mind the cooks to born I
went for.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Might be interested.
Speaker 9 (15:02):
It's probably the last time you'll see Viennam.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Look, I tell you you're making a mistake.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
I didn't kill Trudy Brownheim, but you did meet her
this afternoon. You've been talking to Al Romano, who the
bartender with the Imperial Isn't that where you got your information?
And if it is, and he must have told you
it was just a pick up when I ready, Miss Wearing,
you're insulting my intelligence.
Speaker 9 (15:21):
Trudy Brownheim was working for the American government as you are.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
More than where's my motive?
Speaker 9 (15:25):
You were afraid she'd fall into our hands and divulge
the names of her associates.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Oh that's pretty cute. Talk about killing two birds with
one stone.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Pardon you murder? Truly inframe me for it or you're not?
Why not? I can build as convincing a case against
you as you can against me.
Speaker 9 (15:43):
Aren't you forgetting this gun?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
No it's not mine. It's described to the falcon Any
local and graver could have done that. Let's see it
and not just a montsting. All right, Vaughn, behave yourself.
You won't get hurt now you're being childish, mister Wearing.
You wouldn't dare shoot? And what have I got to lose?
They can only hang me once.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Yes, I suppose that's true.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Or now I'll tell your boy to stop the car, Willie,
Will you please stop right here?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Tell them to get out and walk to the corner.
Speaker 9 (16:10):
You heard the gentleman, wille But here, boy, don't argue
now you you are making a serious mistake.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
You on get out? Are you coming with me?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Just to get in the front. I think it's about
time I was in the driver's seat.
Speaker 8 (16:24):
It's very amusing.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
All right, hold it, it's fine. Oh, thanks a lot, fellows.
I'll be seeing you.
Speaker 9 (16:31):
I'm sure you will in the meantime. Please take care
of that car. It's my pride and joy.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Well, Willee, what do you think.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
I'm constantly amazed at your knowledge of psychology. For a moment,
I was afraid he would not seize the gun.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Yes, I was too.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Aren't be lucky?
Speaker 9 (16:50):
Americans are so impulsive. How many cars are following him?
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Three?
Speaker 9 (16:54):
It's a pity one of them couldn't have stopped and
picked us up. Well, it looks like we'll just have
to take steps.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Who is it?
Speaker 5 (17:13):
Who is it?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I'm looking for? Eric Hoffman. Yes, shut the door. You
cannot come in here like this. I got a gun
that says I can. What's the meaning of this? And
what they call hot?
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Eric?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Real hot?
Speaker 1 (17:25):
By this time, half the Soviet garrison must be looking
for me.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Who are you, mike wearing?
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Obviously it rings a bell. Yes, you was the one too,
he was going away with. How did you know that?
She told me, so, you're lying.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
I gave a strict order to keep her mouth shut.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
I made her talk. How I choked her? You what?
I don't know what came over me?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
So Samir thought that.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
She was deceiving. It tore me out of my mind.
So you killed her? Oh? No, she finally told me,
it's a whole story. I don't believe you. Well, how
else would I know that an American known as the
Falcon was taking her away? Uh? Then what happened? Nothing?
I apologized and left and she was all right? Then? Yes,
But who do you think killed her? I have no
idea ever.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Hear of a man named Robert Vaughan. No, he's a
big shot among the Ruskies here. He knew about her
work with us.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I can't believe it. Toody was very careful. No one
suspected her activities, not even an eye. She must have
slept somewhere. What does she hang out? Sometimes at Schnitzl's,
but mostly at Imperial.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Wait a minute, you know the bartender there? No, Well,
you must have seen him, tall, thin boy with black hair.
His name is A Romano. I got a hunch he's
working for the Reds. See if you can find out
where he lives.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
You expect, yes, I do. All you got to do
is follow him home when you find out, give me
a jingle. I'll wait here. Hey, buddy, buddy, guess got
a match? I think so?
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Thanks? Eric?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
How do you know my name?
Speaker 8 (18:59):
Do you beefing about?
Speaker 2 (19:00):
You? Now?
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Mine?
Speaker 1 (19:01):
No?
Speaker 6 (19:02):
Come off a m you've been telling me ever since
I left the Imperial? What and a pretty lousy job
you did too?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
You know?
Speaker 6 (19:07):
If you're shadow and a guy? I don't mean you
have to breathe down his neck.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
I don't know what you are talking about.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
Okay, But just in case you are interested, my name
is al Romano and I live in Gitten now twenty
three Wallenstein Strasser.
Speaker 8 (19:18):
But give me a call before you drop by. I'm
very seldom home.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Four to the eighth Where the devil can he be
keeping himself? Said? No?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Yeah, wearing what's a good word, Eric.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Ah, I'm afraid I didn't do so well. Didn't you
let Johndre Romano? Yes, but I was very clumsy. He
knew he was being followed. He even knew my name,
and that proves he's working for the Reds. Did you
find out where he lives?
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Imprigate now Vallenstein Straser number twenty state Where exactly is
that on the left bank.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I don't suppose he that new subway runs out there,
for I beg your pardon. Skip it up, manage somehow.
Thanks for the hospitality, Eric, I'll see you real.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Soon mine in Hell.
Speaker 9 (20:11):
The water is fine, but you might be in over
your head well if it isn't, Comrade Vaughan, Yes, fancy
meeting me here.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Eh, let's keep your hands where they are. Oh not ready,
old man.
Speaker 9 (20:23):
I think you've melt this bit for all it's worth.
I'm not clowning neither than my This building is surrounded
by my won shall we say, henchman?
Speaker 2 (20:30):
He just grants out the window.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
You see what I mean?
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Yes, but you're in here, and I've got the gun.
Speaker 9 (20:35):
I hate disillusion you miss wedding, but it's loaded with blanks.
What after all, I couldn't trust you with live ammunition.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
You might have hurt yourself. Then you let me escape.
Speaker 9 (20:44):
Of course, I was hoping you do exactly as you did,
lead us to all your confederates in Vienna.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
And that's where you're wrong. I'm not working with anyone. No,
what about Edie Kaufman, He was just a guy I
bumped into.
Speaker 9 (20:54):
You seem to bump into a lot of people, Edie
Kauffman to the Brownheim and now Al Romano.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Well, I can explain.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
I wanted to get a recipe from him. He makes
the greatest march.
Speaker 9 (21:02):
Sure you dropped in unannounced.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Hill, I didn't think aled mind. He's from New York too.
Speaker 9 (21:06):
I think i'd better tell you something about mister Romano.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
What that he killed? Truly? What makes you say that
to figure I got to hurt. He's working for you people.
Speaker 9 (21:15):
And following my orders. He murdered miss Brownheim. Yes, it's
a very interesting theory, mister wearing a pity. You'll never
be able to prove it. You see, mister Romano has disappeared.
Sure you took care of that, and I wish I had.
I just learned he was an agent for your government.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
What.
Speaker 9 (21:31):
It's very clever of your mister Brill to plant him
at the Imperial but he got away. Yes, but you didn't.
I guess we should be grateful for small favors. However,
suppose we discuss it on the drive over to my office.
I think you like this car even better than the last.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
My mother once told me there be times when I
didn't pay to get.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Out of bed.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Unfortunately, my bed was some four thousand miles away, and
even on a clear day, you couldn't see it from
Bourne's office in a Hatburg.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
All I saw was trouble ahead. I guess vorn at
the same view, you looked real pleased about it.
Speaker 9 (22:22):
You might be interested to know, mister Wedding, that I've
informed your legation we're holding you.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
What did you do that for?
Speaker 9 (22:27):
Well, I wouldn't want you, mister Bill, to think we'd
molest an innocent American citizen.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
I am innocent.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Oh, now come, Michael, I may call you Michael.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Look, I tell you I didn't kill Trudy Brownheim. Too bad,
you can't prove it, so maybe I can't. Yeah, sure,
why didn't I think of that before? I've got an alibi?
I'd love to hear it.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
How long will I take it? Latch out of Trudy's boyfriend?
Speaker 9 (22:47):
No, time told, Well, then will you bring in Edie Coffman?
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Please? Well, you don't believe in wasting time.
Speaker 9 (22:53):
Never, I hate loose ends. You expect Eddie to give
you an alibi?
Speaker 1 (22:57):
That's exactly what I expect.
Speaker 9 (22:59):
Oh, come in, he Huffman. Will you get the gentleman
in a chair?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Yes, sir, Oh, what what do you want of me?
Speaker 9 (23:05):
What arez I think you know what's wedding?
Speaker 1 (23:07):
No? Might as well tell the truth, Eric, They know everything, Yes,
we do. They think I killed Trudy. I told him
you were my alibi me. Well, you know I had
no motive or rail man.
Speaker 9 (23:16):
This is getting us nowhere. You said that he could
give you an alibi.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
He can.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
After I met Trudy, Eric followed her home.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
He was jealous.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
He thought she was going away with me. He was right, yes,
but for the wrong reason. He thought it was romance,
especially when Trudy wouldn't talk, so he tried to choke
the truth out of her. What That's how she got
those marks on her throat.
Speaker 9 (23:34):
And I suppose at this point the murderer entered and
finding her unconscious.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Killed her with your gun. That's exactly how it happened.
Speaker 9 (23:42):
And where was your alibi, her huffman doing all this time?
Speaker 2 (23:47):
I was standing right over what Yes, you killed her?
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Eric?
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Who are insane? You were jealous of me?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
No, Wody told me everything about you. How did you
know an American call a falk And was going to
take her out of Austria? She told me so she
couldn't have. Nobody over here knows that's my norm, de gear.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
I knew it.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
How did you find out from the engraving on the
murder weapon? Now that's the same way Eric discovered it,
only he handled a gun first. He got it out
of my room at the Imperial after he saw truly
and me together. Oh no, that's not true, all right,
Willy take him away.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Come on, I don't mean it. I couldn't mean it.
Speaker 9 (24:18):
I swear I could never go.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
I was afraid.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Willie, Willie, Willie Willie. Please, no violence.
Speaker 9 (24:26):
What will our mister Wedding think my apologies?
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Sir? That's quite all right.
Speaker 9 (24:33):
I'm afraid I owe you an apology too.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
We'll skip it. Cigarettes.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
No thanks, I've taken all I intend to from you people,
and I go. Oh, but of course, after all, I
did notify your allegation. I was holding you for murder.
When they learned that and Rik Hoffman is guilty, they
might send someone around to ask embarrassing questions.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
I am afraid I was a little hasty.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
I'm afraid you were.
Speaker 9 (24:55):
I'll have Willie arrange for your immediate departure from Vienna.
You can leave tonight on the patis SI hurry, I am.
I think we'll both be happier with you in France.
I know I will give my regards to mister Brill.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Yeah, what is it?
Speaker 5 (25:20):
I'm sorry about you, mister Brill, but there's long distance call.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
For you collect collect who.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
From a wearing in Paris.
Speaker 10 (25:27):
Put them on all right, operator, We'll accept their charges.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
You got your nerve making a call like this.
Speaker 8 (25:35):
I just thought you might like to know I got
out of.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Oust you all right.
Speaker 10 (25:37):
Well you could have dropped me a line that's so impersonal. Well,
I already got the scoop.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Well, I'm leaving for New York in the morning.
Speaker 10 (25:44):
What do you want to do that for? As long
as you're in Paris, you might as well make the
most of it. I'm sure we can find something for
you to do. I wish I could afford too, but
this call is costing the taxpayers money, so just stay
close to your phone.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Are you here from me in a week?
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Hip point you know
Hello, Yes, this is the Falcon speaking, Oh Iris, you'll
have to include me out tonight.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Angel, I'm leaving for Vienna.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
That's right, Vienna, City of Wine, women in song.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Now there's a combination that's bound to be murdered once again.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
The Transcribed Adventures of the Falcon starring Les Damon. The
Adventures of the Falcon dedicated to private investigators everywhere, those
hard hitting detectives who like Mike Wearing, risk their lives
to aid law enforcement agencies.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
So join him. Now.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
When the Falcon solves the case of the vanishing visa.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
They say people are the same the world over. It's
only the places that are different. Now, I guess whoever
it is that does all this saying has a point.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
There.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
You take the bar of the Hotel Imperial and Vienna,
and the boy behind the mahogan.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
He is a citizen named Al Romano.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
And to prove my original thesis, Al could hold on
the same job in New York. Come to think of it,
he once did, but you'd never guess it from his approach.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Time, Honey, and let be.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
I would like your brandy.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Please, one brandy coming up?
Speaker 6 (01:22):
How much is it fifteen shillings?
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Then?
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Here.
Speaker 6 (01:28):
You are tough when a doll like you has to
buy our own. Maybe you'd like me to introduce you
to a couple of rich tunists.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Oh, I would very much.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
What's in it for me?
Speaker 5 (01:38):
One hundred chillings?
Speaker 6 (01:40):
I'd rather work kind of percentage basis? Come about a
fifty to fifty splod?
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Agreed?
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Yeah, I think we have to do? Okay, what are they?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Could you?
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Honey?
Speaker 5 (01:49):
Truthy? Trudy Brown?
Speaker 4 (01:51):
I don't know your truthy?
Speaker 6 (01:53):
I'm al Romano. Let made you try the Imperial.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
A friend of mine recommended it, and mister Steve.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Laurima you're a friend of that.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
You know Stephen, he's practically a fixture around here.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
He's in the back room.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Now I must say hello, you're wasting your time. You're
getting nothing out of that lush No.
Speaker 7 (02:10):
Wait, I'll be right out, go you out? No, Oh truly, Hello, Stephen,
I've been looking all over the ring Stresser for you.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
How'd you know i'd be here? And you always come
to think? What I am?
Speaker 6 (02:23):
I wonder what there is about this place that fascinates me.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
I couldn't possibly guess you got something for me?
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Yes, well, wait till I lock the door. Okay, let's
have it here you are.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
Hey, this looks good, Trudy, real good. Who are your
contacts in Romania?
Speaker 5 (02:43):
You should know better than to ask me that.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Sorry, I lost my head. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
I bet the boys and the Kremlin will give plenty
to get their hands on this information. Okay, I'll see
it gets to the right people.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Oh drink, No.
Speaker 7 (02:55):
Thank you Tell me something, Stephen, Why are you doing this?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Why are you?
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Austria is my country, but a.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Man without the country. Huh.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
I didn't mean that.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Sorry, you didn't hurt my feelings.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
It's true, But then why are you doing it?
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Maybe I'm trying to justify my existence. Maybe this way
I can kid myself into believing I'm not a drunken.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
But you mustn't say that.
Speaker 8 (03:18):
Why does it frighten you?
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Why I might give you away? Never? I am weak,
truly real.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
Week the comrades got their hands on me.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I'd crack in a minute.
Speaker 8 (03:27):
I'm not worried, well I am.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
I hear mister Vaughan's in town, Rabbet Vaughn. Yeah, cause
Love's right hand man. I thought he was in According
to my dope, he's here all right, monocle and all.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Like to meet him. Maybe I can arrange an introduction.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Should not joke about such things?
Speaker 6 (03:43):
Makes you kind of nervous, doesn't it? Putting your life
in the hands of a.
Speaker 7 (03:46):
Lush Stop tormenting yourself. You are one of the finest
men I have ever known.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
Well, it's not kid each other's sweetheart. It's much too
late in the day.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Are you expecting someone?
Speaker 4 (03:57):
No, who's there?
Speaker 9 (04:00):
There's a lot of money.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Who wants him?
Speaker 9 (04:03):
I doubt whether my name would mean anything to you,
But it's Robert Ball.
Speaker 8 (04:07):
Give me a match. I gotta burn this stuff.
Speaker 9 (04:10):
Please over that I should hate the course of the stuff.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
Take it easy, fellow lasts longer.
Speaker 8 (04:15):
Listen truly, there's a door behind the screen that leads
to the kitchen.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
What about you?
Speaker 4 (04:19):
I can take care of myself and I'll hop to it.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
Already, I said, just a second, What are.
Speaker 8 (04:24):
You waiting for, Trudy afraid I'll give you away?
Speaker 7 (04:28):
No, I'll be then, Steve, I'll feed I said, Oh, man,
if you don't open this door within five seconds, I
should be compelled.
Speaker 8 (04:38):
Ana, who keeping this wrong?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I don't know?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
You just use it?
Speaker 9 (04:44):
Oh no, we don't stand that like a bloody fool.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Get a doctor.
Speaker 8 (04:49):
He's wasting his time.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
There was a girl in here, who wash he? Come on?
Speaker 8 (04:53):
Man speaking, you're missing the point. V.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
That's that's why I did this so I couldn't speak.
Speaker 8 (05:00):
Imagine she trusted me.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
I guess she knew what she was doing.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Oh well, never mind the doctor.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
He's dead. Hello?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Is that your toy?
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Who is this?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
What is the meta aption? Don't you recognize the voice? Oh?
Speaker 5 (05:33):
I'm so glad you called.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Are you going to be home this afternoon? No?
Speaker 7 (05:37):
No, As a matter of fact, I was just leaving.
I've got to go to lead and it's mane Bertha's
very ill.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
You needn't spare me, Tody. I know that you are
planning to run away with that American.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
You must take me for a fool.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Don't you think I've seen you with that Stephen Lavama?
You followed us many times?
Speaker 5 (05:55):
How dare you?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I love you, Tody. No one's ever going to take
you away. I wouldn't be too sure I would. Your friend,
mister Laarama committed suicide. What obviously you haven't seen the tape.
I I will read it to you. Shamed by his
country's warmongering tactics. Step and Larama, expatriate American, committed suicide
(06:19):
this afternoon in the Imperial Hotel July.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
They're using him for propaganda.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Then why did he kill himself?
Speaker 7 (06:26):
I can't tell you. You've got to trust me, Eric.
You know that I love you.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
If you do, you will prove it by way.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
I'm sorry I can't.
Speaker 10 (06:35):
Hello Tody, Tody, Yes you might wearing that's right. My
name is Leon Bryl. I wonder if you could spare
me a couple of minutes. I got a proposition for
(06:56):
your business. Yeah, sorry, mister Brill, I'll quit the racket,
come again and no longer hand.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
In Grivaten investigation. Well that's swell, huh.
Speaker 10 (07:03):
I'd hate to feel I took you away from anything. Say,
why don't I sit down?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Like? I think of one good reason you're not staying long?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
I might surprise you.
Speaker 10 (07:10):
Are you were one of Donovan's Cloak Dagga boys during
the war, weren't you?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Well?
Speaker 10 (07:13):
Your serial number was ninety eight two three four seven six.
On your first mission, your parachuted into Yugoslavia. Second mission Austria.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
How the devil did you find that out?
Speaker 10 (07:20):
I'm one of the kids myself like to see my credentials.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
What do you know?
Speaker 10 (07:25):
I know you're going back on active status.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Now, wait a minute. You can't do this to me
at ween. Yeah, I guess you can.
Speaker 9 (07:31):
All right.
Speaker 10 (07:31):
Now here's the pitch. You're going to Vienna. What we've
arranged passage for you.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
You leave from.
Speaker 10 (07:35):
LaGuardia tomorrow morning at six forty five. You'll be in
Paris on Thursday, Vienna on Friday. Listen, Brell, you're a
register at the Imperial Hotel.
Speaker 8 (07:42):
We've made a reservation for you.
Speaker 10 (07:43):
Oh thanks to hey, my pleasure. I had to contact
a girl named Trulie Brownheim.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
You've got that, and I got it.
Speaker 10 (07:48):
I should be waiting in the bar at the Imperial
on Friday at one o'clock. She's a blonde, about five three,
blue eyes, little birthmark on the right cheek. I just
pretend it's a casual pickup.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
How do I sell myself?
Speaker 10 (07:58):
I just tell you from New York. She'll reply, she's
got a cousin of Milwaukee. You answer, that's practically a suburb.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
He got that in.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I got it.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (08:06):
All you got to do is get her out of Austria.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Get her Are you crazy? My psychiatrist doesn't think so.
How am I supposed to manage that?
Speaker 10 (08:12):
If I knew the answer, I'd do it myself.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Maybe she could fit in that hole in my head.
Speaker 10 (08:16):
Well that's an idea, but we're not fussy. Anyway you
want to work it is okay with us. Just get
her to the embassy in Paris.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Any other practical hints you care to offer?
Speaker 10 (08:24):
Yeah, look out for Robert Vaughan.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Who's Robert Vaughan.
Speaker 10 (08:26):
He's the boy the red used as a troubleshooter.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I was English.
Speaker 10 (08:29):
I don't bother to find out. Just keep out of
his way. If you get caught, you're on your own.
We'll have to disclaim you.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I understand. We'll have to throw you to the wolves.
Thanks a million, brother, don't mention it.
Speaker 10 (08:40):
I have a nice trip, kiddo.
Speaker 8 (08:41):
We all got to go sometime.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Now.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Back to the Adventures the Falcon.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
I don't know why people are so good to me.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Take Leon Brull.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Two minutes after we met, he was sending me to Vienna.
Send me two hours later. I was dodging cars and bicycles.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
On the rings.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Trust I last o'clock on the corner of step arms
plots and realized it was trying to keep my appointment
with truly brown eyem So I hustled over to the Imperial.
I parked myself on a stool, made to deal with
the bartender.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
While I bent my elbow, he could bend my ear.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
I'm telling you, buddy, give me this time, anytime you
can have New York.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Right now, it's going to have a smoon off, Martine.
Do you know how to make it? You take four
points about.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
The worst fella you're talking to, Al Raman of the
greatest bartender this side of forty second Street.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
How am I mistake?
Speaker 4 (09:43):
You know around here?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Let's get off the plane this morning, and maybe you.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Can tell me something.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
How the bum's doing they're out in front.
Speaker 8 (09:51):
I knew that giants would full.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Just don't have it that sill?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
How long you've been here else?
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Since the war?
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Everythink's going home?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
What for?
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Shilling goes a long way here back home? I was
just a punk here. I'm a big man.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
You must know Vienna pretty well?
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Yeah? Interested in meeting a chick?
Speaker 9 (10:09):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
There's a blonde that drops by every once in a while.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
I could send it. I'm trying real down her name?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Heel, well, speak of the devil.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
Hi you, Trudy, I was just telling this gentleman about you.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Well, how nice you too?
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Ought to hit it off real swell.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
I'm sorry that I'm expecting a friend all I do.
Perhaps some other time.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I always say, there's no time like the present. Why
don't we try to tell me?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
No?
Speaker 6 (10:33):
Thank you?
Speaker 5 (10:33):
Really?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Come on, Angel? Now, don't you like that?
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Trudy?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
I want to tell you all about New York.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
You are from New York?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Yes, would you like to go there?
Speaker 5 (10:43):
I would like it very much. I have a cousin
in Milwaukee.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
That's practically a suburb. So you're the one. I'm the one.
My name is Mike Wearing.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Sorry, mister Wearing, I did not know.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Oh could you, hey, el, how about serving us here?
Speaker 9 (10:59):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Fake?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Well, you got any ideas? How about what how he
can get out of the country.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
I think it would be better if I remained.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Look, Angel, that's not for you to decide. The powers
would be think it's too dangerous. I suppose I rent
a car and we try to bluff it through the border.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
But I don't have a passport.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I got a couple of complete with visas. You're going
to be a missus Michael wearing. You got a small snapshot.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
If they would recognize it is a forgery.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Immediately you've got a better idea. No, then we're stuck
with this. And here's what I want you to what's
the matter? Don't look now, but we're being watched a
boy at the bar. He's wearing a trench coat. Okay,
you can take a peak.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
He's moving off. Oh Eric, you know?
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Yes it's Eric Housman.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Who is he? A very dear.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Friend of mine?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
You think he followed you him?
Speaker 5 (11:44):
I'm afraid so could I?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
No?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Absolutely not? Those are orders.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Where do you live?
Speaker 5 (11:49):
He approached that number six.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
That's across the Daniel Canal.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Yes, it's riding the left back.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
All right, words come to words. I'll swim open okay, Angel,
get yourself packed. I'll take you up in an hour.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Now where did I put that? Who is it?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
The open? Up?
Speaker 5 (12:17):
Just a moment?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Eric?
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Hello, what are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I just stropped by to wish you a pleasant journey?
Speaker 5 (12:26):
A pleasant journey?
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Why aren't you leaving Vienna?
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Well? What gave you such an idea?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Bags for one thing?
Speaker 7 (12:34):
Oh, I'm learning and digretchen are very heavy.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
You're learning her You're clothes to you seem to have
developed a fetish for Americans. Hir first, Stephen Lorma, Now
this new one?
Speaker 5 (12:45):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I saw you at the Imperial? Who is he?
Speaker 5 (12:49):
It's just a tourist?
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Are lying you?
Speaker 9 (12:51):
Look, you don't tell me this tour You are going
away with him, you aren't you?
Speaker 11 (13:00):
Well eh, eh, come in, all right, boy, you can
take those bags.
Speaker 9 (13:14):
You mean you'd actually trust me? Mister Wedding?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Who the devil are you?
Speaker 9 (13:18):
Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Robert Vaughan.
Well it means nothing to you, should it, i'd hope.
So I'm in charge of security for the Soviet sector.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Look voughn I'm very busy.
Speaker 9 (13:31):
I can appreciate it, mister Wedding, but I'm afraid I
must take up your time, perhaps a great deal of it.
You know a girl named Judy brownhim No, well that's on.
I have it on excellent authority that you met her
at the bar of the Impitial today.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Your excellent authority is wrong, and of course it would
be have no interest to you that she was murdered.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
She what.
Speaker 9 (13:49):
Pity isn't it is that on the level I can
assure you I never jest about murdered. I find it
in horrible taste.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
How did it happen?
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Parented?
Speaker 9 (13:58):
She was first choked, but that wasn't the cause of death?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Or what was this?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
She was shot twice with it at close range. That's
a cold automatic, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Yes? What do you make of the inscription for the falcon?
A real straight shooter?
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Now I've only knew who.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Or what the falcon was? Where did you sign that gun?
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Right next to her body?
Speaker 9 (14:22):
You doubtless heard something about the Soviet penal system.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
That's a great deal.
Speaker 9 (14:26):
Well, let me congratulate you. You're in a position now
to check on it firsthand. I do hope you appreciate
the honor. Oh welle, please slow down. I'd like the
(14:47):
gentlemen to see our city. Yea, all Now on the right, mister,
wedding a Saint Stephan lovely, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
The spire is.
Speaker 9 (14:55):
Four hundred and fifty feet high. It's considered one of
the finest examples.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Of gor I never mind the cooks to born I
went for.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Might be interested.
Speaker 9 (15:02):
It's probably the last time you'll see Viennam.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Look, I tell you you're making a mistake.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
I didn't kill Trudy Brownheim, but you did meet her
this afternoon. You've been talking to Al Romano, who the
bartender with the Imperial Isn't that where you got your information?
And if it is, and he must have told you
it was just a pick up when I ready, Miss Wearing,
you're insulting my intelligence.
Speaker 9 (15:21):
Trudy Brownheim was working for the American government as you are.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
More than where's my motive?
Speaker 9 (15:25):
You were afraid she'd fall into our hands and divulge
the names of her associates.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Oh that's pretty cute. Talk about killing two birds with
one stone.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Pardon you murder? Truly inframe me for it or you're not?
Why not? I can build as convincing a case against
you as you can against me.
Speaker 9 (15:43):
Aren't you forgetting this gun?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
No it's not mine. It's described to the falcon Any
local and graver could have done that. Let's see it
and not just a montsting. All right, Vaughn, behave yourself.
You won't get hurt now you're being childish, mister Wearing.
You wouldn't dare shoot? And what have I got to lose?
They can only hang me once.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Yes, I suppose that's true.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Or now I'll tell your boy to stop the car, Willie,
Will you please stop right here?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Tell them to get out and walk to the corner.
Speaker 9 (16:10):
You heard the gentleman, wille But here, boy, don't argue
now you you are making a serious mistake.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
You on get out? Are you coming with me?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Just to get in the front. I think it's about
time I was in the driver's seat.
Speaker 8 (16:24):
It's very amusing.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
All right, hold it, it's fine. Oh, thanks a lot, fellows.
I'll be seeing you.
Speaker 9 (16:31):
I'm sure you will in the meantime. Please take care
of that car. It's my pride and joy.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Well, Willee, what do you think.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
I'm constantly amazed at your knowledge of psychology. For a moment,
I was afraid he would not seize the gun.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Yes, I was too.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Aren't be lucky?
Speaker 9 (16:50):
Americans are so impulsive. How many cars are following him?
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Three?
Speaker 9 (16:54):
It's a pity one of them couldn't have stopped and
picked us up. Well, it looks like we'll just have
to take steps.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Who is it?
Speaker 5 (17:13):
Who is it?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I'm looking for? Eric Hoffman. Yes, shut the door. You
cannot come in here like this. I got a gun
that says I can. What's the meaning of this? And
what they call hot?
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Eric?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Real hot?
Speaker 1 (17:25):
By this time, half the Soviet garrison must be looking
for me.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Who are you, mike wearing?
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Obviously it rings a bell. Yes, you was the one too,
he was going away with. How did you know that?
She told me, so, you're lying.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
I gave a strict order to keep her mouth shut.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
I made her talk. How I choked her? You what?
I don't know what came over me?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
So Samir thought that.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
She was deceiving. It tore me out of my mind.
So you killed her? Oh? No, she finally told me,
it's a whole story. I don't believe you. Well, how
else would I know that an American known as the
Falcon was taking her away? Uh? Then what happened? Nothing?
I apologized and left and she was all right? Then? Yes,
But who do you think killed her? I have no
idea ever.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Hear of a man named Robert Vaughan. No, he's a
big shot among the Ruskies here. He knew about her
work with us.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I can't believe it. Toody was very careful. No one
suspected her activities, not even an eye. She must have
slept somewhere. What does she hang out? Sometimes at Schnitzl's,
but mostly at Imperial.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Wait a minute, you know the bartender there? No, Well,
you must have seen him, tall, thin boy with black hair.
His name is A Romano. I got a hunch he's
working for the Reds. See if you can find out
where he lives.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
You expect, yes, I do. All you got to do
is follow him home when you find out, give me
a jingle. I'll wait here. Hey, buddy, buddy, guess got
a match? I think so?
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Thanks? Eric?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
How do you know my name?
Speaker 8 (18:59):
Do you beefing about?
Speaker 2 (19:00):
You? Now?
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Mine?
Speaker 1 (19:01):
No?
Speaker 6 (19:02):
Come off a m you've been telling me ever since
I left the Imperial? What and a pretty lousy job
you did too?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
You know?
Speaker 6 (19:07):
If you're shadow and a guy? I don't mean you
have to breathe down his neck.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
I don't know what you are talking about.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
Okay, But just in case you are interested, my name
is al Romano and I live in Gitten now twenty
three Wallenstein Strasser.
Speaker 8 (19:18):
But give me a call before you drop by. I'm
very seldom home.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Four to the eighth Where the devil can he be
keeping himself? Said? No?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Yeah, wearing what's a good word, Eric.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Ah, I'm afraid I didn't do so well. Didn't you
let Johndre Romano? Yes, but I was very clumsy. He
knew he was being followed. He even knew my name,
and that proves he's working for the Reds. Did you
find out where he lives?
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Imprigate now Vallenstein Straser number twenty state Where exactly is
that on the left bank.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I don't suppose he that new subway runs out there,
for I beg your pardon. Skip it up, manage somehow.
Thanks for the hospitality, Eric, I'll see you real.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Soon mine in Hell.
Speaker 9 (20:11):
The water is fine, but you might be in over
your head well if it isn't, Comrade Vaughan, Yes, fancy
meeting me here.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Eh, let's keep your hands where they are. Oh not ready,
old man.
Speaker 9 (20:23):
I think you've melt this bit for all it's worth.
I'm not clowning neither than my This building is surrounded
by my won shall we say, henchman?
Speaker 2 (20:30):
He just grants out the window.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
You see what I mean?
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Yes, but you're in here, and I've got the gun.
Speaker 9 (20:35):
I hate disillusion you miss wedding, but it's loaded with blanks.
What after all, I couldn't trust you with live ammunition.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
You might have hurt yourself. Then you let me escape.
Speaker 9 (20:44):
Of course, I was hoping you do exactly as you did,
lead us to all your confederates in Vienna.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
And that's where you're wrong. I'm not working with anyone. No,
what about Edie Kaufman, He was just a guy I
bumped into.
Speaker 9 (20:54):
You seem to bump into a lot of people, Edie
Kauffman to the Brownheim and now Al Romano.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Well, I can explain.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
I wanted to get a recipe from him. He makes
the greatest march.
Speaker 9 (21:02):
Sure you dropped in unannounced.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Hill, I didn't think aled mind. He's from New York too.
Speaker 9 (21:06):
I think i'd better tell you something about mister Romano.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
What that he killed? Truly? What makes you say that
to figure I got to hurt. He's working for you people.
Speaker 9 (21:15):
And following my orders. He murdered miss Brownheim. Yes, it's
a very interesting theory, mister wearing a pity. You'll never
be able to prove it. You see, mister Romano has disappeared.
Sure you took care of that, and I wish I had.
I just learned he was an agent for your government.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
What.
Speaker 9 (21:31):
It's very clever of your mister Brill to plant him
at the Imperial but he got away. Yes, but you didn't.
I guess we should be grateful for small favors. However,
suppose we discuss it on the drive over to my office.
I think you like this car even better than the last.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
My mother once told me there be times when I
didn't pay to get.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Out of bed.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Unfortunately, my bed was some four thousand miles away, and
even on a clear day, you couldn't see it from
Bourne's office in a Hatburg.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
All I saw was trouble ahead. I guess vorn at
the same view, you looked real pleased about it.
Speaker 9 (22:22):
You might be interested to know, mister Wedding, that I've
informed your legation we're holding you.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
What did you do that for?
Speaker 9 (22:27):
Well, I wouldn't want you, mister Bill, to think we'd
molest an innocent American citizen.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
I am innocent.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Oh, now come, Michael, I may call you Michael.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Look, I tell you I didn't kill Trudy Brownheim. Too bad,
you can't prove it, so maybe I can't. Yeah, sure,
why didn't I think of that before? I've got an alibi?
I'd love to hear it.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
How long will I take it? Latch out of Trudy's boyfriend?
Speaker 9 (22:47):
No, time told, Well, then will you bring in Edie Coffman?
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Please? Well, you don't believe in wasting time.
Speaker 9 (22:53):
Never, I hate loose ends. You expect Eddie to give
you an alibi?
Speaker 1 (22:57):
That's exactly what I expect.
Speaker 9 (22:59):
Oh, come in, he Huffman. Will you get the gentleman
in a chair?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Yes, sir, Oh, what what do you want of me?
Speaker 9 (23:05):
What arez I think you know what's wedding?
Speaker 1 (23:07):
No? Might as well tell the truth, Eric, They know everything, Yes,
we do. They think I killed Trudy. I told him
you were my alibi me. Well, you know I had
no motive or rail man.
Speaker 9 (23:16):
This is getting us nowhere. You said that he could
give you an alibi.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
He can.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
After I met Trudy, Eric followed her home.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
He was jealous.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
He thought she was going away with me. He was right, yes,
but for the wrong reason. He thought it was romance,
especially when Trudy wouldn't talk, so he tried to choke
the truth out of her. What That's how she got
those marks on her throat.
Speaker 9 (23:34):
And I suppose at this point the murderer entered and
finding her unconscious.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Killed her with your gun. That's exactly how it happened.
Speaker 9 (23:42):
And where was your alibi, her huffman doing all this time?
Speaker 2 (23:47):
I was standing right over what Yes, you killed her?
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Eric?
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Who are insane? You were jealous of me?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
No, Wody told me everything about you. How did you
know an American call a falk And was going to
take her out of Austria? She told me so she
couldn't have. Nobody over here knows that's my norm, de gear.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
I knew it.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
How did you find out from the engraving on the
murder weapon? Now that's the same way Eric discovered it,
only he handled a gun first. He got it out
of my room at the Imperial after he saw truly
and me together. Oh no, that's not true, all right,
Willy take him away.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Come on, I don't mean it. I couldn't mean it.
Speaker 9 (24:18):
I swear I could never go.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
I was afraid.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Willie, Willie, Willie Willie. Please, no violence.
Speaker 9 (24:26):
What will our mister Wedding think my apologies?
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Sir? That's quite all right.
Speaker 9 (24:33):
I'm afraid I owe you an apology too.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
We'll skip it. Cigarettes.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
No thanks, I've taken all I intend to from you people,
and I go. Oh, but of course, after all, I
did notify your allegation. I was holding you for murder.
When they learned that and Rik Hoffman is guilty, they
might send someone around to ask embarrassing questions.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
I am afraid I was a little hasty.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
I'm afraid you were.
Speaker 9 (24:55):
I'll have Willie arrange for your immediate departure from Vienna.
You can leave tonight on the patis SI hurry, I am.
I think we'll both be happier with you in France.
I know I will give my regards to mister Brill.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Yeah, what is it?
Speaker 5 (25:20):
I'm sorry about you, mister Brill, but there's long distance call.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
For you collect collect who.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
From a wearing in Paris.
Speaker 10 (25:27):
Put them on all right, operator, We'll accept their charges.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
You got your nerve making a call like this.
Speaker 8 (25:35):
I just thought you might like to know I got
out of.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Oust you all right.
Speaker 10 (25:37):
Well you could have dropped me a line that's so impersonal. Well,
I already got the scoop.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Well, I'm leaving for New York in the morning.
Speaker 10 (25:44):
What do you want to do that for? As long
as you're in Paris, you might as well make the
most of it. I'm sure we can find something for
you to do. I wish I could afford too, but
this call is costing the taxpayers money, so just stay
close to your phone.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Are you here from me in a week?
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Hip point you know
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