August 20, 2025 • 35 mins
Original Release Date: September 6, 2023
Today's Mystery:Steve goes to a South American country where an American is wanted for killing the leader of the Fascist Party in order to prevent the election of an anti-US Government.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 3, 1951
Originated in HollywoodStars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, William Conrad, Betty Lou Gerson, Tony Barrett, Paul Frees, William Johnstone.
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Today's Mystery:Steve goes to a South American country where an American is wanted for killing the leader of the Fascist Party in order to prevent the election of an anti-US Government.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 3, 1951
Originated in HollywoodStars: Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell, Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, William Conrad, Betty Lou Gerson, Tony Barrett, Paul Frees, William Johnstone.
Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net
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Now it's time for this week's episodeof Dangerous Assignment. The original air
date July third, nineteen fifty oneand the title is A Country's Democracy Threatened.
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Dangerous Assignment starring Brian Don Laviz SteveMitchell. Yeah, danger is my
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assignment. I get sent to alot of places I can't even pronounce.
They all spell the same thing,though, trouble. But when I walk
into the Commissioner's office, I don'trealize that this assignment's going to make a
flower hater out of me. Asunflower almost has me pushing up daisies.
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Morning Commissioner Bruce said, you hadan assignment for me. I do,
Steve, and plainly so. SoSouth America in one hour. South America.
Pretty hot down there this time ofyear, Isn't it not as hot
as will be after you get downthere? Now send me off to get
shot at. On a note ofgaiety, I always say, Okay,
what's the deal. Here's the deal, Steve, This country right here on
the map. Yeah, yeah,I might have known. What do you
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mean? I read the newspapers too, you know, then you know the
background of the deal pretty much.That particular country's on the fence politically.
There's an election coming up next week. The party in power is democratic and
friendly to us. The Minority partyis fascist and not friendly to right.
Last night Borego, head of theMinority Party, was murdered. Why and
what's worse? The man the suspectof murdering Borego is an American named Hartley.
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Oh fine, has he been arrested? No, he'sn't hiding somewhere in
that country it's a mess. SteveHartly did Kilberego, the resulting tension in
anti US propaganda will be enough toswitch the election over into the hands of
a hostile minority. Yeah. Look, you say, if Hartly killed Barrego,
I kind of get the idea thatyou think the whole deal might be
a frame, do you. Idon't think anything, Steve. I'm sending
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you down there to do my thinkingfor me. Well, just one think,
Commissioner, you take it. What'sthat Suppose it isn't a frame.
Suppose Hartly really did kill Borego.In that case, Steve, where lick
we haven't a leg to stand on. But that's just what you've got to
find out, one way or another. Get down there, Steve, and
do anything that's necessary to get tothe bottom of this whole rotten mess.
Well that's it. You've got yourassignment. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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I know. Good luck and goodluck to you too. A National Broadcasting
Company is presenting Dangerous Assignment, starringBryan Don Levy in the role of Steve
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Mitchell, colorful two fisted government agent. At all those places of the world
where danger and intrigue walk hand inhand, there you will find Steve Mitchell
on another dangerous assignment. Sure,I get my assignment, fly down to
a Latin American country and find amurder suspect named Hartley, then proved that
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the charge against him is just aframe to swing an election. And all
of this a course in the faceof the few characters from an opposing team
will be trying, no doubt,to take me out of the ball game
for keeps. It's Friday when MCplane lands at the Capitol City. I
always figure, if you don't knowwhere else to start, start at the
top. So I head for theoffice of the Prime Minister. A worried
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gent named Valdez. Does it bedsituations in your nature? An incident this
series could easily be enough to starta landslide that would carry the Fashes into
power in the election. Yeah,that man Borego supposed you tell me a
little about him. Well, itis my secret belief that he had almost
outlived his usefulness to his party,his reputation. That becomes so bad.
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But now, of course it isquite different. Now he's a big,
fat martyr. Precisely. One ofthe newspapers here in the city is controlled
by Borego's party and They, ofcourse, are busy convincing everyone that Borego
is the greatest man who ever lived. Well, I guess that's all I
need to know about Barrego. Butwhat about this murder suspect Hardly where does
he fed? End of the picture? That is the mystifying parts in your
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meature. Hardly has lived in hiscountry for several years. He represents a
group of American financial interests. Herewhat you might call a lobbyist. I
don't suppose you'd have any idea whereHardly has hidings in your valles. Notice
Lightest and your Unfortunately, the factthat he is hiding looks somewhat bad for
him. Come in the great man. They're working tirelessly behind his desk to
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lead our country into slavery. Goodafternoon, Senior Ortic. I see that
are powerful northern neighbors have lotional timein sending one of their agents down.
Senior Ortigue is editor of one ofour newspapers. Senor Mitchell, three guesses
which one? And you visually necessaryorders to the so called head of our
government. Senior Steve Mitchell, sendyour artigue. Your insolence is by now
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familiar to me, but I mustask you, if you intend to converse
with us, that you observe thecommon courtesies. One does not speak with
him a full see you are rightyou Jesus, Senior Steve Mitchell, being
what they poor ignorant citizen. AndI'm not familiar with some of the refinements
of life. Oh brother, buthere preveryday two of you will share my
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simple full time senior days. Nocrosses, Senior Mitchell, I go,
and I have plenty in this paper. Baby, one are your what son?
Flower sees sunflowers? See? Jeman excellent nerve, Tannic, I
suspect your nerves could use it.Tannic at presence, Senior admit sure,
Hey, what do I have tobe nervous about? I see you are
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excellent bluffer, Senior. Look,I'm just down here the seat that this
Hartley guy gets a fair shake.Indeed, what kind of you say?
Fair shake? Do you think amurderer deserves? You know? I must
be behind the times. Last Iheard, the trial hadn't been held,
and he partly is not guilty.Why is he hiding? That's a good
question. Or take here's another.Any particular motive for Hartley too kill the
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Rigo. But of course I seeyou have not read my paper today.
I tell all there, suppose youtell all here very well. We haven't
done the best of authority. Thathardly went to the leader of our party,
Borego, with a most treacherous proposal. Oh what was it? Simply
that Borego sell our party out tothe American imperialist art they resented. Naturally
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Borego refused, partly killed him.Sounds real simple here, you tell it.
But there's just one thing wrong withit. Your party isn't in power.
How could Borego as its leader bein a position to make any deals
at the kind you describe? Youforget that after next week my party will
be in power. That is tobe decided by election artic a foregone conclusion.
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You seem pretty sure yourself. Isuppose you've already got a job picked
out for yourself in the new modelstate, Sure, director of maybe most
happy to serve in whatever capacity Ican. You better not cut your sunflower
seas before their hats to Artig andyou send your better than at count and
accomplishing anything by this tree at leastis guilty. You'll be captured sooner or
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later. And no amount of thisquite washing by you, and what this
party can change that, Artica,I want, that's sure. I will
give the nature of your mission whitepublicity. Mitch. Oh, look,
I see you do not want publicity. Then I shall be more they lighted
and ever to give it to you, Senior Artic. I am certain we
have nothing more to say to eachother. Yep, you are right,
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Senior. One days it's time fortalk is best. They cannot persuade either
of you to share my son flowerseeds. I leave some flower seeds.
Let's see they use those in chickenfeed, don't they. What do you
mean by let nothing? Nothing atall? I'll see a later, Artigue.
Indeed, you wait well. Anall time showman in the States once
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said he didn't care what they wroteabout him as long as they spelled his
name right. I guess that goesfor me, except I hope they spell
the name of my hotel right too. What I thought you did not want
any publicity? I just let Articthink that, so he'd be sure to
give me plenty. Ah, Iunderstand it is hardly wherever he is should
read in the paper who and whereyou are. He may try to contact
cats about the size of it.Well, I'll be getting along. The
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best of luck to you, SenorMitchell. But please remember, from this
moment on you are entirely on yourown, aren't that note of good cheer?
I leave Valdet's office and start walkingalong the sidewalk back to my hotel.
It's dark now, and then Inoticed a figure walking along the sidewalk
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on the other side of the street, parallel to me and a little behind
me. Just a hunch, butI speed up a little bit, so
does he. Then I slowed down. He follows suit. I'm sure he's
following me. Suddenly I turned downa side street. I hear scurrying steps
behind me. Then suddenly ahead ofme, I see another figure. It's
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a trap and ali opens up tomy right. I dive into it.
The slugs rustle my eyebrows. Thenit's quiet. I wait a minute,
then ease out of the alley.No one in sight. I turned in
the corner and there's a figure inthe doorway. I jump him. Let
two of me just stand stillbuster,I said, let go meet. That's
the same gun you were popping aboy at me with a minute ago.
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You'll take it there you have madethe misticks sigging Mitchell, I've made a
mistake. But you know my name. Don't give me that I know your
name because I have been following you, That's what I mean. But I
am not one of those who shoutat you a moment ago. Oh look,
you expect me to believe that youdidn't match all. I do not
feel abregated to prove what I sayto you. And yet, if you
will kindly place my gun under yournose and smell of it, you will
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see that it has not been firedrecently. Well, no, it hasn't.
Look if you didn't take that shotat me? Who did? Two
men were following you. They runoff before I could get to this scene.
Who are you? And how comeyou know my name? I'm Alfred
Goya, chief of Police. Whyprecisely? And now may I have my
gun back? Why? Yeah?But I still don't see why you were
following me. The warn you,senor Mitchell, I know who you are
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and why you are here. Ohyou want me to keep hands off?
You could not have stated it moreclearly. I guess that sort of tips
me as the which camp you're inYou're mistaken against Senior, I am in
neither camp. Then what is yourangle in this deal? My angle,
as you call it, is quitesimple. Politics is not my business,
but law enforce my is. Ihave the best police force in South America.
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At present. We are engaged inthe for a fugit different justice partly
partly I do not intend to letanything or anyone interfere without search, Senor
Mitchell, And by anyone, Imean chiefly you. Well, you've made
yourself pretty clear, Goya. Whathappens if I sort of getting your way
somewhere along the line. My policemenare quite zealous, Senor Mitchell, and
the penalty for obstructing justice is quitesevere. Need I say more? No,
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he doesn't have to say anymore.I've got the picture in this deal.
I've got no friends at all.Ortigue and his paper are out to
cut my throat. Baldi's can't lifta finger to help me. And now
Goya tells me that he'd be happyto steamroller me out of his way.
I go back to my hotel.The papers are out by now with a
story about me. So I waitin my room a couple of hours on
the chance that Hartly might contact me. But nothing happens. Finally I give
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up and I got down to thebar for a drink. Down at the
other end of the bar, SIT'sa dark eyed lovely and at least that's
where she is the first time Ilook. The next time I look,
she's right beside me. Hallo,I I have been talking to myself.
See, I say to myself,there he is drinking alone. Here am
I drinking alone? But why wedon't drink together? Or why don't we?
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Indeed, now I ask myself questions, Say you've got something going on
all the time, haven't you?I said the laws? What is this
boy's name? What is the laws? Saying? Oh, you don't get
it, honey, I am delors. Oh really, Steve Mitchell's mind laws.
See, I've thought so good.I had to be sure. I
must talk to you about Jack.Jack? Who's Jack? And how did
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he get into the action? JackHardley? I am his girl. We
read about you in the paper andknew you were a one chance. I
did not do a telephone your roomthe police, but be listening in.
So I came here to the barand waited, hoping it sooner or later
you would get thirsty. Well,for once my thirst stayed off. You
know where Hartly is. Oh see, I've been hiding him in my apartment.
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You come quickly up, there's notime to lose. That's the apartment
house up ahead us. See.Hey, what bunch of guys coming out
the front entrance. Yeah, andI've got a guy in the middle of
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Jack. That's Hartley video. Ohgreat, we have to look. Look,
I'm going down at the police headquartersand see if they let me talk
to him the laws. I'll checkwith you later. I find Doya in
his office with him as the editor. Ortigue smirking happily through a face full
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of sunflower seeds. Senor Metel,you're at treep down to our country was
quite in vain. Too bad,too bad? Well, try not to
cry, Ortigue. What is theJewish? Senor Mitchell? I'd like to
talk to Hartley? Or maybe you'drather I didn't. I see no reason
why you should not come. Iwill take you to his self. Okay,
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one moment, Senor, take whereare you going? M oh do?
I I thought I will go tothe cell, which you see no
reason for that, But you havealready interviewed the prisoner. I have given
you such facts as I possess,there is no need for you to accompany.
So on your Mitchell here do yousay? Go aheah, I'm sorry,
Chu, thanks for getting repulsive offmy neck. Go ahead, hardly?
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Sellis they want at the end?One thing? Maybe you wouldn't mind
telling me? And what is that? You and your boys did a good
job of finding Hardly and locking himup. Did it ever occur to you
this whole deal might be a frame? Who can say, well, what
if you found out it was,then I should work equally hard to free
Hardly. You intend to do anythingabout finding out there is this self?
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Senor Mitchell, you may have fiveminutes along with a prisoner. Hello Hardly,
Oh you Steve Mitchell, accomminated fromthe States. Oh what do you
want? Look, you probably knowthe deal better than I do. There's
an election coming up here next week. The minority part wants to win.
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They also want to discredit the UnitedStates, so they take a US citizen
you and rig a frame on you. Frame they charge you with the murder
of their party leader. Berego.Now, if you can just give me
some idea who might be in onit and make sure yeah, you're wasting
your time. What do you meanit's no frame? All right? I
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Dangerous Assignment and Brian don Labe,Steve Mitchell, let me have that again.
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Hardly hurt me right the first timeMitchell I killed Perego, so they
caught up with me like, Isay, you're wasting your time. Why
did you kill him? I wantedto cut Ferego in on a big business
deal his party won the election.I would have meant about two million pacos
to split, but he didn't seeit my way In trying to make trouble
for me. Do you mean thestory at Ortie Grand in his lousy paper
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who was true? Yeah? Ohno, I just can't seem to believe.
Hey, wait a minute, comeover here. You know it's a
matter. I want to look atyou under the light. Hey, what
are you doing lifting my eyelids?Just want to see something pupils and normal.
Okay, I haven't been drugged,Event's what you mean? Yeah?
Sure, I ought to know hardly. I don't know if you realize what
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this killing couldn't mean, A possiblesplit between this country and ours, the
beginning of a new fascist movement.Brother, you couldn't have done a better
job of selling us down the riverif you try lay up the sermon.
I got troubles enough about you,okay, Okay, I'll be seeing it
hardly. Yeah, why, that'sa good question. If I can think
of an answer, I'll be back. Guard leads me out of hardly selling.
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I start down the corridor wondering whatI'm gonna do. Then I spot
a little gentle massaging the floor witha broom. I get an idea,
Senor, ascuse me, please underyour feet against sweet you work here beneath
or Senor, you're most polite toput it the way you do. What
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do you mean I work here?See see for a six months sentence?
Oh, I'm what you call atrusty t Let me wander around with the
broom. Why did you get senthere? Benito? Can you beat this
for making the flowery speech? Floweryspeech? Oh you mean political romantic?
See I say like this? Isay, oh, Senorita, you are
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the most duty for the most wonderfulone of all of them? Will you
marry me? You mean they putyou in jail for that? How about
that? I don't get it.What's wrong with that? I make the
speech six times each time the Senorita, she say, see, well,
I still don't see what's wrong?Each time? Senuel was a difference,
Senorita, Oh brother, what aglutton for punishment. Hey look, blue
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Beard, I need a little information, sure, Senor, that prisoner down
at the end cell you mean hard? What about? Has there been any
rough stuff used on him? Youmean they've been pushing him around? Yeah?
No, see, anybody go inthat cell with a hypodermic middle.
No, Senior, this is reallyimportant, Panito. So I hope you're
sure about it, But I amSenior, I've been right here in the
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corridor ever since they bring sen You'rehardly in okay, Benito, thanks,
Oh look, Dolores, crying aboutHartley is not gonna help. I just
don't see what else I can do. I know, Senior mich you have
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been most kind of all you have. It's just I cannot seem to believe
it yet. I guess from thefirst time, why did he hide?
I kept asking myself, Yeah,I know, Well, I've done a
little checking before coming over here,and I guess in addition to his confession,
they've got a pretty good case againsthim. He was seeing entering Barrego's
house ten minutes before the killing,and he came out running after the shots
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were heard. And it's funny,though, Veniel. Oh, nothing,
just a feeling in a fit ofmy stomach. Why I do not understand,
wondering if I've overlooked anything, whatwould it be. It's just that
there's something about this deal. Itdoesn't quite sit right with me. Oh,
Senior Michi, do you think thereis any chance all that he could
be innocent? No? No,right now it looks real doubtful, Delores.
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I don't get your hopes up.But I just happen to think one
place I haven't looked for any newleads. Where is that his apartment?
Come on, there is Jack's apartment, Senor Meach. The door on the
right. Okay, maybe I canget the manager to let us in.
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And hey, wait a minute,the door is ajar. Well, come
in, Senor Mitchell, come in, my old friend, the chief of
police. A little surprised to seeyou here. Go aha, may I
ask laim. I thought you hadall case and evidence you will need it
against hardly that everything was all set. It isn't possible that you think the
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deal could still be a frame?Is it? As I told you before,
I'm interested only in sing justice stump, Senor Mitchell, Oh my god,
Yeah, that's why I came here, see if I could turn up
anything in the way of a lead. But if you've already gone over the
place, I arrived only a momentbefore you send your I see, but
what is it you are looking for? Seava? There, you've got me
the laws. I don't know.I'm just checking the tables and drawers and
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ash trays the rug. But saidMitchell, what did you pick up off
the rug? Go ahead, ifyou come here along. See has anyone
else been here since Hardly went intohiding, No, Senor. The room
has been kept locked an undergut atmy order. Why thanks, where are
you going? See you later?Why did you come back here? I
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told you you were wasting your time? Yeah, and you almost had me
convinced. Hardly, I don't getyou. It's all beginning to fall into
place. Finally, what are youtalking about? It could go together this
way? Hardly. Brego is leaderof the Fascist Party, but he's outlived
is usefulness. So why not getrid of them in such a way that
the cause of the party will befurther kill two birds with one stone.
I don't know what this is allabout, but you've just let me finish.
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So what the party needs is afall guy. You me get out
of here. Mitchell, you're notmaking sense. Oh you killed Arego?
The party gets you off the hook. Barrego is the only one of those
guys I know. They's had nothingto do with Look at this, Hardly,
what is it? Little gray andwhite husk or something. It's the
shell of a sunflower seed, andI found it in your apartment of sunflower
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See. Yeah, you know someonewho's always stuffing them into his big fat
face, and so do I Ortigue, the editor of the fascist newspaper.
Look, Mitchell, know how thatadds up to me? Ortigue was in
your apartment cooking up this whole dealwith you. You take the rap for
them and they get your wharf?Was that at No, you're a real
keen patriotic kid. Hardly get outof Okay I will, but first just
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let me leave a cheerful little thoughtwith you. Yeah, what is it?
You think you've been pretty smart inthis deal, but actually you're the
world's prize sucker. Yeah, okay, you've said just saying I'll get an
execution in this country is by firingsquad, isn't it? What did Artigue
tell you that he had connections wouldmake sure there are blank cartridges and the
gun. Shut up and get outof here. You know, from the
look on your face, I'd saythat was the gag? All right,
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blank cartridges in the firing squad.Gun you through? Now sure I'm leaving
and there's something to remember me by. You really think your beloved party boys
want somebody left alive who knows asmuch about the deal as you do.
What do you mean by that youreally think those are gonna be blank cartridges
mature So long, Hartly, Ileave him looking very thoughtful and slightly scared.
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I don't know how much of thedeal I've got figured out right,
but from his reactions I've hit themain points on the nose. I also
don't know how much of a dentI've made in him, but I do
know this is my only chance.I give him a couple of hours to
think things over, and then Ihonestly suggested Dolores that she pay him a
visit to cheer him up. Iwait outside the jail, and pretty soon
she comes out in a hurry.I follow her to a hotel and catch
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up with it just as she's enteringthe lobby. Just a minute, Dolores,
Oh, Stephen, com one,let's have it. What come on?
Come on, quit stalling. ButI don't know what you are talking
about. I arranged for you topay a visit the Hartley in his cell
so he'd have a chance to giveit to you a confession, Steve,
I don't understand. Look, Hartleyis now afraid the boys are going to
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sell him out, So what's thelogical thing for him to do? Write
a confession of the whole deal andsmuggle it out of the jail. That's
insurance for him. He gave meno such documentary. You want to help
him, don't you. You knowI do, But I'm telling you the
truth. He gave me no suchdocument Swarren, he would have. Don't
tell me. I've figured this wholedeal wrong. And what is the matter,
Steve, Ah, skip it,I'll see you around. What stopped
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me? All of a sudden there'sa guy outside on the sidewalk, beckoning
to me through the lobby window.I go out and follow him into the
alley. It's Benita, the littlejail trusty with a broom. Only right
now, instead of a broom,he's holding a piece of paper. Yeah
this is for you signor Hardly askedme to deliver. I was able to
get a ride on the laundry truck. Hardly say it's very important, goodbye,
got gone. Benito melts away intothe shadows by the flame from my
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cigarette light. I read the letter, and all of a sudden everything falls
in the place, But too late, because right then something else falls in
the place too, A gun barrelin my ribs. Such a nasty letter.
Steven. Well, you know theold saying dolores eavesdroppers always hear ill
of themselves. I guess that alsoapplies to reading letters over other people's shoulders.
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Fortunate for me that only you haveread the letters, Stephen. It
sure is. It says that youkill Beerego and sugared hardly under taking the
rap telling him he'd be taken careof. He would have been too sure
by the firing squad with real bulletsthat shuts his mouth. Your party has
rid of Therego and rides in thepower on a wave of anti us feeling.
You analyze our plan very well.Now I must thank you for mentioning
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the possibility of hardly writing such aletter as this, Steven. Otherwise I
might not have known about it.But when I saw the little man beckoning
to you through the window, I'vefollowed. Yeah, you can chalk that
bloomer up to me, all right? When I sent you to sea hardly,
I figured he'd give you the letter, but naturally he wouldn't. Well,
all of that does not matter nowI'm afraid it must be goodbye for
you. Just a minute, thelarson, What is the sense, Steve?
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You can't get away with this,you know. No, And why
not that little guy who brought methis letter? What about him? He
left? No, No, that'swhere you're wrong. He's still around in
the shadows right near here. Evenreally, you can do better than that.
There is really a policeman, specialpolice, when a Goya's man.
Really. We rigged that act inthe lobby window to draw you out here
in the alley. We figured youmight start shooting in the hotel and somebody
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get hurt. You have quite animagination, Steve, on that right hand
of yours. I see you bringingit up slowly, stopping better, dropped
the gun the lares Like I tellyou, Bernato is standing right over there
in the shadows, and he's gotyou covered. The oldest bluff in the
world. He is there. Thanksfor turning your head, baby, So
I'll take the gun. Thanks.You'll tricked me? Yeah, yeah,
so I did, as it turnedout. But believe me, it was
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as big a surprise to me asit was that you you were just bluffing.
I sure was, Yeah, thanksto a big assist from you.
You'll be interested in knowing that Ijust passed you off as one of goya
As special police indeed, that makesyou a quick thinker. Yeah. I
told the Laura as you rigged thatact in the lobby, when to draw
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her outside so nobody would get hurt. See very quick thinker. Also slay
psyche psychic. See that is whyI look her outside. Wait a minute,
who are you? You just saidit when I'm Goya's special police.
Now I've seen everything you see Goya, like yourself suspected a frame. I
was stationed at the jail when HartleyLosey's nerve and wrote the confession. We
know that we are right, butwe needed to catch us. And you
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read also, and now we haveCotta. It looks like go Ahead deserves
a lot more credit than I gavehim. He's a good man who incidentally
think the same thing about you.Oh he's interested in knowing what glue put
you on the right back. SunflowerSeed and Hartley's apartment. See that connected
Hartley and Ortigue. Yeah that's sunflowerSeed sort of ruined Artigue in his plan,
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which is quite fretting. He's apretty seedy character anyway. Dangerous Assignment
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starring Brian don Levy as Steve Mitchellwith Hert Butterfield as the Commissioner is written
by Bob Ryfe and Adrian John Doe, with music by Robert arm Brewster,
and is produced and directed by BillKarne. Others in the cast were Bill
Conrad, Betty lou Gerson, TonyBarrett, Paul Freeze, and Bill Johnstone.
Be with us again next week atthis time when Brian Don Leavey,
starring in the role of Steve Mitchell, will embark on another dangerous assignment.
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It's the Silver Jubilee on NBC WelcomeBack. This was a good episode with
an interesting solution. There were severalsolutions that to me seemed kind of obvious,
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and they didn't go with any ofthem, and I was pleasantly surprised.
Steve Mitchell, on the other hand, was not quite so pleasantly surprised
based on the big plot twist,but lives another day thanks to the quick
thinking of the local police. Againnot what you would typically expect, but
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I like them changing it up abit now. I will say that Steve's
statement that it's hot in South Americathat time of year is a really big
generalization since a large part of SouthAmerica is below the equator. However,
I guess it would be hard tocall him out on it if the commissioner
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said, well, Steve, actually, for the parts of South America that
are below the equator, it istechnically winter, and so in Argentina it's
actually the start of the coldest monthof the year. And Steve was say,
are you sending me to Argentina.No, I'm sending you to this
unnamed country. But my point isthat if it was Argentina, it would
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be very temperate, with highs inthe fifties. And with that note,
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Mister Chameleon, where this is stratefulthing, I'm good a weapon if it
is If I'm going mad. Thisis bad. Your sister Rose was found
in this room stab to death witha paper knight. You were the only
person in the room with them,and you admit that paper knight is yours.
Yes, but if I killed Rose, I didn't know I was doing
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it. I have done it ina dream and in a nightmare. That
might be very difficult to prove,Missus Blake. Mister Chamillion, you must
help me. I intend to ifyou're an innocent, But my job is
to find the murderer, whoever itis. And if I'm guilty, if
I killed my own sister, Iwant to be convicted. Tell me something.
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Did you and your sister live alonein this house except for Tompkins your
my plan. Yes, we livedhere alone. That is after my husband
and my son, Roddy, theywere killed in an automobile accident. Yes,
two years ago. But as Itold you, Roddy has come back
to me lately, back from thedead. I heard his voice right here
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in this room. Did your sisterhear it too. If she did,
she wouldn't have told me, misterChamillion. Rose didn't usually sleep in this
room with me, but she shewas worried about me, and that's why
she was here tonight. She hadreason to be worried. What is the
name of the man that you've beenconsulting. What this man who makes you
think that you're hitting your son's voice? What's his name? I can't remember.
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Now it's time for this week's episodeof Dangerous Assignment. The original air
date July third, nineteen fifty oneand the title is A Country's Democracy Threatened.
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Dangerous Assignment starring Brian Don Laviz SteveMitchell. Yeah, danger is my
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assignment. I get sent to alot of places I can't even pronounce.
They all spell the same thing,though, trouble. But when I walk
into the Commissioner's office, I don'trealize that this assignment's going to make a
flower hater out of me. Asunflower almost has me pushing up daisies.
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Morning Commissioner Bruce said, you hadan assignment for me. I do,
Steve, and plainly so. SoSouth America in one hour. South America.
Pretty hot down there this time ofyear, Isn't it not as hot
as will be after you get downthere? Now send me off to get
shot at. On a note ofgaiety, I always say, Okay,
what's the deal. Here's the deal, Steve, This country right here on
the map. Yeah, yeah,I might have known. What do you
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mean? I read the newspapers too, you know, then you know the
background of the deal pretty much.That particular country's on the fence politically.
There's an election coming up next week. The party in power is democratic and
friendly to us. The Minority partyis fascist and not friendly to right.
Last night Borego, head of theMinority Party, was murdered. Why and
what's worse? The man the suspectof murdering Borego is an American named Hartley.
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Oh fine, has he been arrested? No, he'sn't hiding somewhere in
that country it's a mess. SteveHartly did Kilberego, the resulting tension in
anti US propaganda will be enough toswitch the election over into the hands of
a hostile minority. Yeah. Look, you say, if Hartly killed Barrego,
I kind of get the idea thatyou think the whole deal might be
a frame, do you. Idon't think anything, Steve. I'm sending
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you down there to do my thinkingfor me. Well, just one think,
Commissioner, you take it. What'sthat Suppose it isn't a frame.
Suppose Hartly really did kill Borego.In that case, Steve, where lick
we haven't a leg to stand on. But that's just what you've got to
find out, one way or another. Get down there, Steve, and
do anything that's necessary to get tothe bottom of this whole rotten mess.
Well that's it. You've got yourassignment. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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I know. Good luck and goodluck to you too. A National Broadcasting
Company is presenting Dangerous Assignment, starringBryan Don Levy in the role of Steve
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Mitchell, colorful two fisted government agent. At all those places of the world
where danger and intrigue walk hand inhand, there you will find Steve Mitchell
on another dangerous assignment. Sure,I get my assignment, fly down to
a Latin American country and find amurder suspect named Hartley, then proved that
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the charge against him is just aframe to swing an election. And all
of this a course in the faceof the few characters from an opposing team
will be trying, no doubt,to take me out of the ball game
for keeps. It's Friday when MCplane lands at the Capitol City. I
always figure, if you don't knowwhere else to start, start at the
top. So I head for theoffice of the Prime Minister. A worried
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gent named Valdez. Does it bedsituations in your nature? An incident this
series could easily be enough to starta landslide that would carry the Fashes into
power in the election. Yeah,that man Borego supposed you tell me a
little about him. Well, itis my secret belief that he had almost
outlived his usefulness to his party,his reputation. That becomes so bad.
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But now, of course it isquite different. Now he's a big,
fat martyr. Precisely. One ofthe newspapers here in the city is controlled
by Borego's party and They, ofcourse, are busy convincing everyone that Borego
is the greatest man who ever lived. Well, I guess that's all I
need to know about Barrego. Butwhat about this murder suspect Hardly where does
he fed? End of the picture? That is the mystifying parts in your
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meature. Hardly has lived in hiscountry for several years. He represents a
group of American financial interests. Herewhat you might call a lobbyist. I
don't suppose you'd have any idea whereHardly has hidings in your valles. Notice
Lightest and your Unfortunately, the factthat he is hiding looks somewhat bad for
him. Come in the great man. They're working tirelessly behind his desk to
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lead our country into slavery. Goodafternoon, Senior Ortic. I see that
are powerful northern neighbors have lotional timein sending one of their agents down.
Senior Ortigue is editor of one ofour newspapers. Senor Mitchell, three guesses
which one? And you visually necessaryorders to the so called head of our
government. Senior Steve Mitchell, sendyour artigue. Your insolence is by now
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familiar to me, but I mustask you, if you intend to converse
with us, that you observe thecommon courtesies. One does not speak with
him a full see you are rightyou Jesus, Senior Steve Mitchell, being
what they poor ignorant citizen. AndI'm not familiar with some of the refinements
of life. Oh brother, buthere preveryday two of you will share my
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simple full time senior days. Nocrosses, Senior Mitchell, I go,
and I have plenty in this paper. Baby, one are your what son?
Flower sees sunflowers? See? Jeman excellent nerve, Tannic, I
suspect your nerves could use it.Tannic at presence, Senior admit sure,
Hey, what do I have tobe nervous about? I see you are
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excellent bluffer, Senior. Look,I'm just down here the seat that this
Hartley guy gets a fair shake.Indeed, what kind of you say?
Fair shake? Do you think amurderer deserves? You know? I must
be behind the times. Last Iheard, the trial hadn't been held,
and he partly is not guilty.Why is he hiding? That's a good
question. Or take here's another.Any particular motive for Hartley too kill the
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Rigo. But of course I seeyou have not read my paper today.
I tell all there, suppose youtell all here very well. We haven't
done the best of authority. Thathardly went to the leader of our party,
Borego, with a most treacherous proposal. Oh what was it? Simply
that Borego sell our party out tothe American imperialist art they resented. Naturally
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Borego refused, partly killed him.Sounds real simple here, you tell it.
But there's just one thing wrong withit. Your party isn't in power.
How could Borego as its leader bein a position to make any deals
at the kind you describe? Youforget that after next week my party will
be in power. That is tobe decided by election artic a foregone conclusion.
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You seem pretty sure yourself. Isuppose you've already got a job picked
out for yourself in the new modelstate, Sure, director of maybe most
happy to serve in whatever capacity Ican. You better not cut your sunflower
seas before their hats to Artig andyou send your better than at count and
accomplishing anything by this tree at leastis guilty. You'll be captured sooner or
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later. And no amount of thisquite washing by you, and what this
party can change that, Artica,I want, that's sure. I will
give the nature of your mission whitepublicity. Mitch. Oh, look,
I see you do not want publicity. Then I shall be more they lighted
and ever to give it to you, Senior Artic. I am certain we
have nothing more to say to eachother. Yep, you are right,
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Senior. One days it's time fortalk is best. They cannot persuade either
of you to share my son flowerseeds. I leave some flower seeds.
Let's see they use those in chickenfeed, don't they. What do you
mean by let nothing? Nothing atall? I'll see a later, Artigue.
Indeed, you wait well. Anall time showman in the States once
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said he didn't care what they wroteabout him as long as they spelled his
name right. I guess that goesfor me, except I hope they spell
the name of my hotel right too. What I thought you did not want
any publicity? I just let Articthink that, so he'd be sure to
give me plenty. Ah, Iunderstand it is hardly wherever he is should
read in the paper who and whereyou are. He may try to contact
cats about the size of it.Well, I'll be getting along. The
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best of luck to you, SenorMitchell. But please remember, from this
moment on you are entirely on yourown, aren't that note of good cheer?
I leave Valdet's office and start walkingalong the sidewalk back to my hotel.
It's dark now, and then Inoticed a figure walking along the sidewalk
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on the other side of the street, parallel to me and a little behind
me. Just a hunch, butI speed up a little bit, so
does he. Then I slowed down. He follows suit. I'm sure he's
following me. Suddenly I turned downa side street. I hear scurrying steps
behind me. Then suddenly ahead ofme, I see another figure. It's
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a trap and ali opens up tomy right. I dive into it.
The slugs rustle my eyebrows. Thenit's quiet. I wait a minute,
then ease out of the alley.No one in sight. I turned in
the corner and there's a figure inthe doorway. I jump him. Let
two of me just stand stillbuster,I said, let go meet. That's
the same gun you were popping aboy at me with a minute ago.
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You'll take it there you have madethe misticks sigging Mitchell, I've made a
mistake. But you know my name. Don't give me that I know your
name because I have been following you, That's what I mean. But I
am not one of those who shoutat you a moment ago. Oh look,
you expect me to believe that youdidn't match all. I do not
feel abregated to prove what I sayto you. And yet, if you
will kindly place my gun under yournose and smell of it, you will
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see that it has not been firedrecently. Well, no, it hasn't.
Look if you didn't take that shotat me? Who did? Two
men were following you. They runoff before I could get to this scene.
Who are you? And how comeyou know my name? I'm Alfred
Goya, chief of Police. Whyprecisely? And now may I have my
gun back? Why? Yeah?But I still don't see why you were
following me. The warn you,senor Mitchell, I know who you are
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and why you are here. Ohyou want me to keep hands off?
You could not have stated it moreclearly. I guess that sort of tips
me as the which camp you're inYou're mistaken against Senior, I am in
neither camp. Then what is yourangle in this deal? My angle,
as you call it, is quitesimple. Politics is not my business,
but law enforce my is. Ihave the best police force in South America.
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At present. We are engaged inthe for a fugit different justice partly
partly I do not intend to letanything or anyone interfere without search, Senor
Mitchell, And by anyone, Imean chiefly you. Well, you've made
yourself pretty clear, Goya. Whathappens if I sort of getting your way
somewhere along the line. My policemenare quite zealous, Senor Mitchell, and
the penalty for obstructing justice is quitesevere. Need I say more? No,
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he doesn't have to say anymore.I've got the picture in this deal.
I've got no friends at all.Ortigue and his paper are out to
cut my throat. Baldi's can't lifta finger to help me. And now
Goya tells me that he'd be happyto steamroller me out of his way.
I go back to my hotel.The papers are out by now with a
story about me. So I waitin my room a couple of hours on
the chance that Hartly might contact me. But nothing happens. Finally I give
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up and I got down to thebar for a drink. Down at the
other end of the bar, SIT'sa dark eyed lovely and at least that's
where she is the first time Ilook. The next time I look,
she's right beside me. Hallo,I I have been talking to myself.
See, I say to myself,there he is drinking alone. Here am
I drinking alone? But why wedon't drink together? Or why don't we?
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Indeed, now I ask myself questions, Say you've got something going on
all the time, haven't you?I said the laws? What is this
boy's name? What is the laws? Saying? Oh, you don't get
it, honey, I am delors. Oh really, Steve Mitchell's mind laws.
See, I've thought so good.I had to be sure. I
must talk to you about Jack.Jack? Who's Jack? And how did
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he get into the action? JackHardley? I am his girl. We
read about you in the paper andknew you were a one chance. I
did not do a telephone your roomthe police, but be listening in.
So I came here to the barand waited, hoping it sooner or later
you would get thirsty. Well,for once my thirst stayed off. You
know where Hartly is. Oh see, I've been hiding him in my apartment.
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You come quickly up, there's notime to lose. That's the apartment
house up ahead us. See.Hey, what bunch of guys coming out
the front entrance. Yeah, andI've got a guy in the middle of
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Jack. That's Hartley video. Ohgreat, we have to look. Look,
I'm going down at the police headquartersand see if they let me talk
to him the laws. I'll checkwith you later. I find Doya in
his office with him as the editor. Ortigue smirking happily through a face full
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of sunflower seeds. Senor Metel,you're at treep down to our country was
quite in vain. Too bad,too bad? Well, try not to
cry, Ortigue. What is theJewish? Senor Mitchell? I'd like to
talk to Hartley? Or maybe you'drather I didn't. I see no reason
why you should not come. Iwill take you to his self. Okay,
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one moment, Senor, take whereare you going? M oh do?
I I thought I will go tothe cell, which you see no
reason for that, But you havealready interviewed the prisoner. I have given
you such facts as I possess,there is no need for you to accompany.
So on your Mitchell here do yousay? Go aheah, I'm sorry,
Chu, thanks for getting repulsive offmy neck. Go ahead, hardly?
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Sellis they want at the end?One thing? Maybe you wouldn't mind
telling me? And what is that? You and your boys did a good
job of finding Hardly and locking himup. Did it ever occur to you
this whole deal might be a frame? Who can say, well, what
if you found out it was,then I should work equally hard to free
Hardly. You intend to do anythingabout finding out there is this self?
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Senor Mitchell, you may have fiveminutes along with a prisoner. Hello Hardly,
Oh you Steve Mitchell, accomminated fromthe States. Oh what do you
want? Look, you probably knowthe deal better than I do. There's
an election coming up here next week. The minority part wants to win.
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They also want to discredit the UnitedStates, so they take a US citizen
you and rig a frame on you. Frame they charge you with the murder
of their party leader. Berego.Now, if you can just give me
some idea who might be in onit and make sure yeah, you're wasting
your time. What do you meanit's no frame? All right? I
really did kill Beerego. It's theSilver Jubilee on NBC Tomorrow on most NBC
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most NBC stations. Hear it,You'll like it. And now back to
Dangerous Assignment and Brian don Labe,Steve Mitchell, let me have that again.
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Hardly hurt me right the first timeMitchell I killed Perego, so they
caught up with me like, Isay, you're wasting your time. Why
did you kill him? I wantedto cut Ferego in on a big business
deal his party won the election.I would have meant about two million pacos
to split, but he didn't seeit my way In trying to make trouble
for me. Do you mean thestory at Ortie Grand in his lousy paper
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who was true? Yeah? Ohno, I just can't seem to believe.
Hey, wait a minute, comeover here. You know it's a
matter. I want to look atyou under the light. Hey, what
are you doing lifting my eyelids?Just want to see something pupils and normal.
Okay, I haven't been drugged,Event's what you mean? Yeah?
Sure, I ought to know hardly. I don't know if you realize what
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this killing couldn't mean, A possiblesplit between this country and ours, the
beginning of a new fascist movement.Brother, you couldn't have done a better
job of selling us down the riverif you try lay up the sermon.
I got troubles enough about you,okay, Okay, I'll be seeing it
hardly. Yeah, why, that'sa good question. If I can think
of an answer, I'll be back. Guard leads me out of hardly selling.
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I start down the corridor wondering whatI'm gonna do. Then I spot
a little gentle massaging the floor witha broom. I get an idea,
Senor, ascuse me, please underyour feet against sweet you work here beneath
or Senor, you're most polite toput it the way you do. What
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do you mean I work here?See see for a six months sentence?
Oh, I'm what you call atrusty t Let me wander around with the
broom. Why did you get senthere? Benito? Can you beat this
for making the flowery speech? Floweryspeech? Oh you mean political romantic?
See I say like this? Isay, oh, Senorita, you are
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the most duty for the most wonderfulone of all of them? Will you
marry me? You mean they putyou in jail for that? How about
that? I don't get it.What's wrong with that? I make the
speech six times each time the Senorita, she say, see, well,
I still don't see what's wrong?Each time? Senuel was a difference,
Senorita, Oh brother, what aglutton for punishment. Hey look, blue
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Beard, I need a little information, sure, Senor, that prisoner down
at the end cell you mean hard? What about? Has there been any
rough stuff used on him? Youmean they've been pushing him around? Yeah?
No, see, anybody go inthat cell with a hypodermic middle.
No, Senior, this is reallyimportant, Panito. So I hope you're
sure about it, But I amSenior, I've been right here in the
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corridor ever since they bring sen You'rehardly in okay, Benito, thanks,
Oh look, Dolores, crying aboutHartley is not gonna help. I just
don't see what else I can do. I know, Senior mich you have
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been most kind of all you have. It's just I cannot seem to believe
it yet. I guess from thefirst time, why did he hide?
I kept asking myself, Yeah,I know, Well, I've done a
little checking before coming over here,and I guess in addition to his confession,
they've got a pretty good case againsthim. He was seeing entering Barrego's
house ten minutes before the killing,and he came out running after the shots
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were heard. And it's funny,though, Veniel. Oh, nothing,
just a feeling in a fit ofmy stomach. Why I do not understand,
wondering if I've overlooked anything, whatwould it be. It's just that
there's something about this deal. Itdoesn't quite sit right with me. Oh,
Senior Michi, do you think thereis any chance all that he could
be innocent? No? No,right now it looks real doubtful, Delores.
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I don't get your hopes up.But I just happen to think one
place I haven't looked for any newleads. Where is that his apartment?
Come on, there is Jack's apartment, Senor Meach. The door on the
right. Okay, maybe I canget the manager to let us in.
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And hey, wait a minute,the door is ajar. Well, come
in, Senor Mitchell, come in, my old friend, the chief of
police. A little surprised to seeyou here. Go aha, may I
ask laim. I thought you hadall case and evidence you will need it
against hardly that everything was all set. It isn't possible that you think the
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deal could still be a frame?Is it? As I told you before,
I'm interested only in sing justice stump, Senor Mitchell, Oh my god,
Yeah, that's why I came here, see if I could turn up
anything in the way of a lead. But if you've already gone over the
place, I arrived only a momentbefore you send your I see, but
what is it you are looking for? Seava? There, you've got me
the laws. I don't know.I'm just checking the tables and drawers and
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ash trays the rug. But saidMitchell, what did you pick up off
the rug? Go ahead, ifyou come here along. See has anyone
else been here since Hardly went intohiding, No, Senor. The room
has been kept locked an undergut atmy order. Why thanks, where are
you going? See you later?Why did you come back here? I
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told you you were wasting your time? Yeah, and you almost had me
convinced. Hardly, I don't getyou. It's all beginning to fall into
place. Finally, what are youtalking about? It could go together this
way? Hardly. Brego is leaderof the Fascist Party, but he's outlived
is usefulness. So why not getrid of them in such a way that
the cause of the party will befurther kill two birds with one stone.
I don't know what this is allabout, but you've just let me finish.
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So what the party needs is afall guy. You me get out
of here. Mitchell, you're notmaking sense. Oh you killed Arego?
The party gets you off the hook. Barrego is the only one of those
guys I know. They's had nothingto do with Look at this, Hardly,
what is it? Little gray andwhite husk or something. It's the
shell of a sunflower seed, andI found it in your apartment of sunflower
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See. Yeah, you know someonewho's always stuffing them into his big fat
face, and so do I Ortigue, the editor of the fascist newspaper.
Look, Mitchell, know how thatadds up to me? Ortigue was in
your apartment cooking up this whole dealwith you. You take the rap for
them and they get your wharf?Was that at No, you're a real
keen patriotic kid. Hardly get outof Okay I will, but first just
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let me leave a cheerful little thoughtwith you. Yeah, what is it?
You think you've been pretty smart inthis deal, but actually you're the
world's prize sucker. Yeah, okay, you've said just saying I'll get an
execution in this country is by firingsquad, isn't it? What did Artigue
tell you that he had connections wouldmake sure there are blank cartridges and the
gun. Shut up and get outof here. You know, from the
look on your face, I'd saythat was the gag? All right,
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blank cartridges in the firing squad.Gun you through? Now sure I'm leaving
and there's something to remember me by. You really think your beloved party boys
want somebody left alive who knows asmuch about the deal as you do.
What do you mean by that youreally think those are gonna be blank cartridges
mature So long, Hartly, Ileave him looking very thoughtful and slightly scared.
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I don't know how much of thedeal I've got figured out right,
but from his reactions I've hit themain points on the nose. I also
don't know how much of a dentI've made in him, but I do
know this is my only chance.I give him a couple of hours to
think things over, and then Ihonestly suggested Dolores that she pay him a
visit to cheer him up. Iwait outside the jail, and pretty soon
she comes out in a hurry.I follow her to a hotel and catch
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up with it just as she's enteringthe lobby. Just a minute, Dolores,
Oh, Stephen, com one,let's have it. What come on?
Come on, quit stalling. ButI don't know what you are talking
about. I arranged for you topay a visit the Hartley in his cell
so he'd have a chance to giveit to you a confession, Steve,
I don't understand. Look, Hartleyis now afraid the boys are going to
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sell him out, So what's thelogical thing for him to do? Write
a confession of the whole deal andsmuggle it out of the jail. That's
insurance for him. He gave meno such documentary. You want to help
him, don't you. You knowI do, But I'm telling you the
truth. He gave me no suchdocument Swarren, he would have. Don't
tell me. I've figured this wholedeal wrong. And what is the matter,
Steve, Ah, skip it,I'll see you around. What stopped
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me? All of a sudden there'sa guy outside on the sidewalk, beckoning
to me through the lobby window.I go out and follow him into the
alley. It's Benita, the littlejail trusty with a broom. Only right
now, instead of a broom,he's holding a piece of paper. Yeah
this is for you signor Hardly askedme to deliver. I was able to
get a ride on the laundry truck. Hardly say it's very important, goodbye,
got gone. Benito melts away intothe shadows by the flame from my
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cigarette light. I read the letter, and all of a sudden everything falls
in the place, But too late, because right then something else falls in
the place too, A gun barrelin my ribs. Such a nasty letter.
Steven. Well, you know theold saying dolores eavesdroppers always hear ill
of themselves. I guess that alsoapplies to reading letters over other people's shoulders.
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Fortunate for me that only you haveread the letters, Stephen. It
sure is. It says that youkill Beerego and sugared hardly under taking the
rap telling him he'd be taken careof. He would have been too sure
by the firing squad with real bulletsthat shuts his mouth. Your party has
rid of Therego and rides in thepower on a wave of anti us feeling.
You analyze our plan very well.Now I must thank you for mentioning
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the possibility of hardly writing such aletter as this, Steven. Otherwise I
might not have known about it.But when I saw the little man beckoning
to you through the window, I'vefollowed. Yeah, you can chalk that
bloomer up to me, all right? When I sent you to sea hardly,
I figured he'd give you the letter, but naturally he wouldn't. Well,
all of that does not matter nowI'm afraid it must be goodbye for
you. Just a minute, thelarson, What is the sense, Steve?
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You can't get away with this,you know. No, And why
not that little guy who brought methis letter? What about him? He
left? No, No, that'swhere you're wrong. He's still around in
the shadows right near here. Evenreally, you can do better than that.
There is really a policeman, specialpolice, when a Goya's man.
Really. We rigged that act inthe lobby window to draw you out here
in the alley. We figured youmight start shooting in the hotel and somebody
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get hurt. You have quite animagination, Steve, on that right hand
of yours. I see you bringingit up slowly, stopping better, dropped
the gun the lares Like I tellyou, Bernato is standing right over there
in the shadows, and he's gotyou covered. The oldest bluff in the
world. He is there. Thanksfor turning your head, baby, So
I'll take the gun. Thanks.You'll tricked me? Yeah, yeah,
so I did, as it turnedout. But believe me, it was
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as big a surprise to me asit was that you you were just bluffing.
I sure was, Yeah, thanksto a big assist from you.
You'll be interested in knowing that Ijust passed you off as one of goya
As special police indeed, that makesyou a quick thinker. Yeah. I
told the Laura as you rigged thatact in the lobby, when to draw
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her outside so nobody would get hurt. See very quick thinker. Also slay
psyche psychic. See that is whyI look her outside. Wait a minute,
who are you? You just saidit when I'm Goya's special police.
Now I've seen everything you see Goya, like yourself suspected a frame. I
was stationed at the jail when HartleyLosey's nerve and wrote the confession. We
know that we are right, butwe needed to catch us. And you
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read also, and now we haveCotta. It looks like go Ahead deserves
a lot more credit than I gavehim. He's a good man who incidentally
think the same thing about you.Oh he's interested in knowing what glue put
you on the right back. SunflowerSeed and Hartley's apartment. See that connected
Hartley and Ortigue. Yeah that's sunflowerSeed sort of ruined Artigue in his plan,
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which is quite fretting. He's apretty seedy character anyway. Dangerous Assignment
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starring Brian don Levy as Steve Mitchellwith Hert Butterfield as the Commissioner is written
by Bob Ryfe and Adrian John Doe, with music by Robert arm Brewster,
and is produced and directed by BillKarne. Others in the cast were Bill
Conrad, Betty lou Gerson, TonyBarrett, Paul Freeze, and Bill Johnstone.
Be with us again next week atthis time when Brian Don Leavey,
starring in the role of Steve Mitchell, will embark on another dangerous assignment.
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It's the Silver Jubilee on NBC WelcomeBack. This was a good episode with
an interesting solution. There were severalsolutions that to me seemed kind of obvious,
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and they didn't go with any ofthem, and I was pleasantly surprised.
Steve Mitchell, on the other hand, was not quite so pleasantly surprised
based on the big plot twist,but lives another day thanks to the quick
thinking of the local police. Againnot what you would typically expect, but
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I like them changing it up abit now. I will say that Steve's
statement that it's hot in South Americathat time of year is a really big
generalization since a large part of SouthAmerica is below the equator. However,
I guess it would be hard tocall him out on it if the commissioner
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said, well, Steve, actually, for the parts of South America that
are below the equator, it istechnically winter, and so in Argentina it's
actually the start of the coldest monthof the year. And Steve was say,
are you sending me to Argentina.No, I'm sending you to this
unnamed country. But my point isthat if it was Argentina, it would
(31:42):
be very temperate, with highs inthe fifties. And with that note,
we turned a lesson our comments andfeedback, and we have a comment on
our four thousand, one hundred andfiftieth episodes special Fragile Content's Death and over
on YouTube Lessen our Riots. Whattriggered me in the story was when they
destroyed the Little Boys Watch. Assomeone who ordered from finger Hut and Service
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merchandise as a kid, I countedthe days until I got that package,
and if it didn't show up ontime, I would bug that mailman until
he looked into it. Well,thanks so much for the comment. I
can definitely see that I didn't orderstuff often by mail, in part because
we moved around so much when Iwas a kid. Until after my eleventh
(32:29):
birthday, but it would definitely beupsetting if he ordered something special and it
got destroyed by the post office,even with appropriate reimbursement. So many folks
don't know how easy they have itwith all the two days shipping and such
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Mister Chameleon, where this is stratefulthing, I'm good a weapon if it
is If I'm going mad. Thisis bad. Your sister Rose was found
in this room stab to death witha paper knight. You were the only
person in the room with them,and you admit that paper knight is yours.
Yes, but if I killed Rose, I didn't know I was doing
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it. I have done it ina dream and in a nightmare. That
might be very difficult to prove,Missus Blake. Mister Chamillion, you must
help me. I intend to ifyou're an innocent, But my job is
to find the murderer, whoever itis. And if I'm guilty, if
I killed my own sister, Iwant to be convicted. Tell me something.
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Did you and your sister live alonein this house except for Tompkins your
my plan. Yes, we livedhere alone. That is after my husband
and my son, Roddy, theywere killed in an automobile accident. Yes,
two years ago. But as Itold you, Roddy has come back
to me lately, back from thedead. I heard his voice right here
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in this room. Did your sisterhear it too. If she did,
she wouldn't have told me, misterChamillion. Rose didn't usually sleep in this
room with me, but she shewas worried about me, and that's why
she was here tonight. She hadreason to be worried. What is the
name of the man that you've beenconsulting. What this man who makes you
think that you're hitting your son's voice? What's his name? I can't remember.
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I only went there once. Godremember his name. I hope you'll
be with us then. In themeantime, do send your comments to Box
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