October 17, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
The Columbia Broadcasting System presents a Thrilling You adventure series
starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I'm an insurance investigator. My name is Johnny Dollar. What
you heard me, Johnny Dollar? And I can add an
expense account of the best of.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yea.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
If I'm a freelance insurance investigator and I live in Hartford, Connecticut,
at least that's where I pay rent. My works used
to it that I really live anywhere except at home.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
If you're interested in buying me Christmas presents.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I take size forty two, soup shirt, fifteen and a half, collars,
leave length thirty three. My hat size is seven and
eight except when I wind up a successful case, then
it runs about seven and three eighths that insurance investigation.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I'm just an.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Expert at making out my expense account. I'm an absolute genius.
Expense account submitted by investigator Johnny Dollar to home office,
East Coast Underwriters, Terminal Building, Hartford, Connecticut, Attention Austin Farnsworth,
(01:30):
General Manager. The following is an accounting of my expenditures
the investigation of Milfred Brooks.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
The third for your company expense account.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Item one cab fare to your office and answer to
your original call. Seventy five cents tip to driver one
dollar expense account item two shoeshine twenty five cents. You'll
remember I got my shoes Scott when I unsuspectingly walked
into your private office.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Dollar that window.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
You don't know? You don't call me.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
They called me.
Speaker 6 (02:09):
You won't.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
They're better ways of making a big splash in life.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Get a worry.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Wow, nice priest, turning now, pay attention to teacher. Oh
I didn't know I had it end me.
Speaker 7 (02:24):
Openness, gracious? Dollar, Did you have to hit him so hard?
I hope you haven't killed him. He isn't too strong,
you know.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Don't worry.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Ah ah, mister Farnsworth, would you mind telling me on whose.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Head have I the dubious pleasure to be sitting?
Speaker 6 (02:40):
That?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Sir is Milford Brooks the third. His policy with.
Speaker 7 (02:43):
His company is in the amount of two million dollars.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (02:46):
Yes, and the boy seems bent on committing suicide.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Dollar, I want you to stop him. What do you
want me to do? Threaten him with death anything, anything.
Speaker 7 (02:55):
The conditions of his policy are such we would be
forced to meet with the claim in the event.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Of his suicide.
Speaker 7 (03:00):
Oh I say, dollar sitting on his head that way?
Aren't you in danger of smothering the boys?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Smothering him doesn't worry me. But these crue haircuts done
the very comfortable cushions.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I'll move down a little.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Oh now there, okay, okay, So far I know this
kid is insured the two million, and that his policy
plays off on suicide.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
What else?
Speaker 7 (03:19):
One half hour ago, Milford Brooks walked into this office
and changed the beneficiary in his policy. M m then, sir,
he proceeded to demand not request, mind you, but demand
alone a five hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Quite a touch.
Speaker 7 (03:31):
When I explained to him that there were no provisions
for a loan in his policy, he threatened suicide.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Which would cost you two million.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
So all we have to do is keep him alive,
and he's managed to make that no small problem.
Speaker 7 (03:42):
His choice of a new beneficiar is downright frightening. One
of the most notorious gamblers in the East.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
His name is Hatcher. Harold Hatcher out. Oh do you
know him? Sure?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
That kid's been a post office pen of boy for
a lot of years.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Well, that's the situation.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
I'm engaging you to protect mill brooks future dolla. I
want you to protect the boy, give him something to
live for, you know, an interest.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
In life and interest in life.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
That's let's let's see. Oh I know here, that should help.
What's that you got there?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
And that's what's commonly referred to in the.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
More successful bachelor circles as my little black book.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Well, let's let's see. Mm hmmmmmm ruby.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
No, no, her favorite expression.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Is about dead.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Uh Bernardine. No, she'd be the new beneficiary by midnight.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Oh here, now.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Here, here, here's the one, butter say Farnsworth, would you
mind passing me that phone, the one with a long cord?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Oh no, I still our little friend here showing signs
of life. Here you are.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Maybe you should let him breathe a bit more.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Don't worry, I don't worry. He'll be all right. Hello.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Oh hello, I want to call a new Yeah, yeah,
Hudson two four two nine two dollar.
Speaker 7 (05:04):
You're not thinking of taking this boat in New York.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Are you? Well?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I'm going there myself. You want me to keep an
eye on him, don't you?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Nah? Don't pret fines Worth all is not lost? Do
worry me?
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Sitting on his chest that way?
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Hello, Oh, budd it is Johnny. Yeah, I'll be in
town and I don't want to see you. And look,
here's what I want you to do. Yes, yes, it's
all right to say over the telephone.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Now, I want you to reserve a table at the
hatchery and my name for ten o'clock tonight.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Will you do that?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Okay, I'll see you at your apartment in a few hours.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Well, honey, I can't make it any earlier. I'm sitting
up on a sick friend. Okay, goodbye. I'm not sure
that I agree with your methods.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Out.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
What's the matter? Did he hit you? Hit me? He
bit me?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Expense account item three liquor eighteen dollars keeping Milford Brooks,
the third Peaceful seemed to be the immediate problem, and
a bottle of rare old brandy seemed to be the
immediate answer.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I poured most of it into him, and with the
time he started to tick.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Again, he'd gone through the unusual process of going to.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Sleep sober and waking up and chatted. I loaded him
into my car and we headed to New York.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
As we passed through to Haven, he opened one eye,
looked up, saw the Yale.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Bowl, and gave three cheers for all Eli.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Ray Ray Ray.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Old Yale would sure be proudilable.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Why anybody would want to ensure you for too million
dollars is more than I can figure.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
My daddy loved me very much, and my mother loved.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Me very much. That's nice.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
And not only that, but I love somebody very much.
And not only that, but I hate somebody.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Very That's interesting.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
And also next to one other guy, I hate you
oher than anybody else.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Oh here, luferboy, it's a cocktail arm again, Time for
your bottle.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Rolling along the.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Merrit Parkway, I felt very much along with my thoughts
and believed me they weren't very pleasant company.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
The way it stacked up for me. Brooks had built
up a fat.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Gambling debt with Harold Hatcher and had been forced into
making him his beneficiary. The suicide threat that he was
holding over the insurance company was a little tougher to figure,
unless he was trying to finance a trip for himself
to get away from the man with a murder motive Hatcher.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
My hungry little mind nibbled away on those.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Unsavory morsels of food for thought all the way to
Butter's apartment.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Hey, Hey, where are you taking me? I want to
go to New York.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
If you don't behave Buster, I'll punch your tickets.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Johnny Darling, welcome to New York.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Well that's the fastest ship I ever had.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Quiet, Well, where did you find this? In a box
of Crackersjack? Let us end here.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
I don't know about you.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Some men bring me flowers, some bring me candy.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
What do you bring me?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
A boiled owl and a Brooks Brothers suit? Please to
beat you.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
Let's try him into the bedroom, Honey, look more at
home in the bathtub.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
I mean to pull down the cup. All right, I
come on, Buster, lie down.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Charm, charm, charm.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
That kid's liquor. Sure can hold him. How long have
you been playing nursemaid? Did this bottle? Baby?
Speaker 8 (08:45):
Get behind that bar suitep, and I'll tell you all
about it.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Horrible examples? Don't think to bother you?
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Do they?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
If you knew how that guy has been bothering me?
Speaker 8 (08:53):
What did he do to you?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Let's just say he put the bite on me. Cush.
The rivers looked pretty tonight. Please anything but brandy.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I've been sniffing that second hand all the way from Hartford.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Butter see that big boat out there.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I sure would like to be on it with you,
sailing off the far away romantic places.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Get with it, darling.
Speaker 7 (09:19):
That's one hundred and twenty fifth Street, Fairy, Oh as
you drink, Come on now, tell better all about it?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
So, friend Bourbon, and I proceeded to tell her all
about it. It wasn't easy.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Everything about it kept flagging down my train of thought.
The longer she looked at me, the less I wanted
of Milford Brooks the third, and the more I wanted
a beautiful butter the first and only. She was a
sympathetic listener to my story until I gave her the
answer to her first and only question.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
And where do I didn't do all this? Baby? I
thought you understood.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
My job is to give this poor, misguided boy something
to live for.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
That's you, honey, hold.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Everything, don't go get in your carn all part.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
You you misunderstand. I really mean it.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I thought, if you'd just got to look at you
and realize that things like you exist, why.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
You'd make any man glad to be alive. A come
on now, got her mouth a little. I wouldn't let
anything happen to you. You know that did I hurt you?
Oh no, I'm getting used to it. People have been
taking pokes at me all day. I'm sorry that you
want to Mordred, I want some more. You well help yourself.
Speaker 8 (11:03):
Honey, it's getting laid. Let's make this the last drink.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
What time is it?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Oh it's it's twenty to ten. My reservation that the
hatchery is for ten?
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Here? Thanks figure it?
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Oh some more out in the other room market.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I'd love to answer this slow boat to China.
Speaker 9 (11:24):
Johnny coming, he's got what well he can't be he
is the windows wide open?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Oh, the fire escape. What a smart guy.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I am trading three drinks of bourbon for two million
bucks on the hoof. Oh, that's the biggest barcheck I
ever picked up.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
That's a big bar check for anyone to pick up.
As a matter of fact, it's a bigger barcheck than
you've ever heard of anyone picking up people. And that
should give you an idea of what to expect in
the second act as you follow this new CBS series
starring Dick Paul in the title role. Yours truly, Johnny Dollars.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Well, nobody could say I wasn't working fast. I don't
have been in town for an hour, and.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I'd already succeeded in losing.
Speaker 10 (12:25):
Though that books at fair, I spent another hour of
his all too short life expectancy, unsuccessfully taking down the
neighborhood for him, and then, feeling very much like a
bloodhound that had flunked his snipping exam, I went back
but his apartment.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
No luck, Johnny, Oh, sure, plenty of luck? All bad?
Speaker 6 (12:50):
Is there anything I can do to help?
Speaker 3 (12:52):
A kiss for luck? Nothing? Just a little Hong Kong
police headquarters. This is Johnny Dollar. Give me a missing persons,
any particular one.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Don't be a wise guy, Lieutenant Fisher, Yes, Lieutenant Fisher.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Fisher, there's Johnny Dollar. Love Dollar. Who would you lose one?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Man?
Speaker 3 (13:19):
My mind?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
And if I'm not careful in my professional reputation, the
guy's name is Brooks. No for the third got anything
on him?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
All right?
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Don't look at me like that wasn't all my fault, Taler.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yeah, we haven't found him yet, but we think we
know where he is. Huh Hudson River at eleven fifteen tonight.
It's top coat, complete with identification, was found taking a
ride on one hundred and twenty fifth Street.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Ferry, Oh, anything else? Nothing much.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
A package of matches was found under the coat monogram.
You don't happen to know anybody whose initials are rag
h do you?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Ahhh, there's always horse height. He thanks Fisher. I'll check
back with you later.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
H Harold Hatcher, are you mumbling about bad news?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
It looks like about two million bucks worth.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
They found Milford's code one hundred and twenty fifth Street, Ferry.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
You and your far away romantic places.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Very funny. Now I'll see you later, honey. Maybe about eleven.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Expensive count item four nightclubs twenty eight dollars. Harold Hatcher's
Hatchery was in a cellar and a hotel, but the
prices were.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
High enough to rate a pehouse.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
The club was draped in too much satin, it's lady
customers and too little that.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
The core was French provincial.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
The music was Brazilian and the food was from Dixie.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
The drinks look.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Weak, and the way this looks wrong fall in all
the joint was insightful, sore.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Eyes for making him sorry.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
It's the only pretty thing in the place was a blonde.
She came strolling up to my table, her hips unconsciously
sending some little messages back to the rumber band.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
She opened her mouth, slid her tongue over her laurer lip,
and let a few warm, soft words slide out looking
for someone, and you'll do until the real thing comes along.
So I'm thanks. I won't have a drink. I didn't
ask you. My name is Sanelle. You know, Wow, it's
(15:35):
a nice name.
Speaker 9 (15:36):
I understand you were asking about mister Hatchet, and I asked.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
If he was in the way to say he Wasn't
you know him.
Speaker 9 (15:42):
More than someone?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
What do you want to see him by a mutual friend?
Milford Brooks? Uh? Huh.
Speaker 9 (15:50):
I know most of the quiet clothes boys around here,
So you want a cop. You don't look like the
typele would be a society friend of the Brooks family, So.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
What are you a do that on his hatcher around?
Speaker 4 (16:02):
He might be?
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Then come on, where's his office the top of those?
Can I expect any trouble getting in? You won't have
any troubles. How do you know?
Speaker 9 (16:10):
Because Harold sent me down, he had to look you
over all.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
I think you're all right. So I won myself the
good housekeeping seal of approval. Huh. Keeping a house with
you and meet.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
With my approval. I ran for my life at a
slow walk up the stairs. When I located the door
to hatches off, his id knocked once and what amd.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Come on in?
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Thanks? So I'm Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I was hired by East Coast Underwriders to protect the
interest of a kid named Milford Brooks the Third.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Oh what's that supposed to mean to me?
Speaker 3 (16:43):
You know him, don't you?
Speaker 5 (16:44):
He isn't exactly one of my boozing buddies.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
How much money does he show you? Now?
Speaker 5 (16:49):
We've got him on the books for a few Bob.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Why they picked up.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
His top coat tonight on one hundred and forty fifth Street, Ferry.
He wasn't in it. It might have been suicide. It
might have been a knockover. It made to look like
a suicide. What's your true?
Speaker 6 (17:00):
What do you get off asking me about my choice?
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Where were you between eleven and eleven thirty tonight? What's
it to you? Now?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
I thought you might like to rehearse some answers. The
law will be asking some questions real soon.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Now.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
I don't know why I should tell you, but I
was driving around in my car.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
Get think something.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Oh, now you'll have to do better than that they
found one of your match folders on the Brooks coat.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
You're out of your mind. Let me ask you. The
kid ought me a couple one hundred thousand. You think
I'm going around knocking off my own assets.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Hatcher, I don't know whether you're stupid or bright.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Don't worry about it.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
I know what about that insurance policy?
Speaker 5 (17:32):
What insurance policy?
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Now? Look, Hatcher, we're big boys.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
We both know the changing of beneficiary and an insurance
policy is a legal transaction.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
That means witnesses. That means it isn't secret.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
But you and the East Coast underwriters?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Now I know all all know that Books made you
the beneficiary and his policy, and that you stand to
come into two million bucks when they fish.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Out his body.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
I don't know anything about it.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Motives don't come much bigger.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
I'm telling you this is all news to me and
you and nobody else is going to make me move
off that story.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I feel the same about mine. It doesn't take a
genius to know that Brooks didn't love you two million
dollars worth. There's only one logical reason for his making
you the beneficiary. You forced him into it. Who'd believe
anything else?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Who cares. I'd have to prove it.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
Brother, that can't be done, now, how would you?
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Okay, Rocket, thanks for the news.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
Take the inspector into the bar and buy him a drink.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
I'll be right down.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Dollar.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Did you turn me in?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
They're here? Huh? Yeah, No, I didn't turn you in.
I'm not a cop.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
Well, come on, maybe they just want to sell me
some tickets to the Policeman's Ball.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
For a guy in a hot spot, Hatchie was certainly
a cool customer. I followed him out of the office,
down the stairs and back into the club. Janelle was
sitting there right or where I'd left him, and I
thought to myself.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Now there's a gal who should never sit down. She
looks so pretty standing up.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
General, I'll buy mister Dollar a drink. I have to
go play twenty questions with some fellas in a bus.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Y baby, anything you say anything, I'll see it. Hell,
I'd make god. You can never tell about a guy
like that. He's a smart boy, strong, silent type.
Speaker 9 (19:11):
Wouldn't talk a real close mouth act about what.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Oh just a little dude, dad, two million dollar life
insurance policy.
Speaker 9 (19:19):
Wait a minute, a young Brooks kid, that's right.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
I knew it.
Speaker 9 (19:22):
Tried to tell him me to get into trouble, but
he wouldn't listen to me.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Oh you knew about it, huh? I suppose you also
know what was behind it.
Speaker 9 (19:29):
Sure, Milt owed him some money, a lot of money.
It's in writing.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
What kind of writing? The personal note that Brooks.
Speaker 9 (19:35):
Was going to get back if you made Harold beneficiary?
Speaker 3 (19:37):
So where is this note? So?
Speaker 9 (19:38):
I look like the kind of girl who put the
finger on her boyfriend.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
You look up like the kind of girl to do
anything if she wanted to.
Speaker 9 (19:46):
Thanks.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
I'll give you a slight hint. It's in his office.
Speaker 9 (19:50):
You'll find it me inside pocket of one of his suits,
in the wardrobe.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
What are you waiting for? I watched the bar nothing,
sweet eyes, nothing at all.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Whatever her reasons, mister Harrold, Hatch's little female playmate was
trying awful hard to send him up on.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
A murder rapp and I was going to try awful
hard not to let her down.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Back in Hatch's office, I found myself alone in a
room with a telephone, and being a guy who can
never resist a free call, I unleashed the magic wonders
of the at and.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
T This better be you, Johnny dollars. Quiet, butter, I've
only got a few seconds. That's all you ever have
for me. You look, just another hour, I'll get you
a nice presence. I don't care if you're another century.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
And as for presents, the last one you brought me
was a drunk, and you even let him get away
from me.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Good night.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Life presents a gloomy picture ever downward toward the tomb.
Having wasted those few precious moments of an already misspent youth.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Decided I had to get on my pony before mister
Hatcher showed up. I found Milford Brooks's personal note in
one of had your suits all right?
Speaker 2 (21:07):
As a matter of fact, I found something in all
his suits, A great big glimmer of light. Expense account
Item five taxi fare ten dollars. I left the office
in the hurry, Janelle at her table and.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Hat Her at his bar. I got out of the
club and into a taxi park a half bluck down
the street.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
There I waited until my favorite suspect left the Hatcherry
and piled.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Into another cab, and off we went on a chase
and would have made ben Her look like a plowing game.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
We skittered over to Lexington and headed uptown. At seventy
second the cab turned right and pulled.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
To a stop. My driver was on his toes, and
his toes were on his break.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
We stopped two half a buck behind at you wait huh?
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Now I hear you? Are I keep the change? Okay day.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
It was a garage that belonged to a residence on
the parallel street a block away. The living quarters upstairs
were dark enough to look interesting. I indulged in a
bit of geneel breaking and entering.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Entering that old barn didn't take much breaking. I crept
up the stairs.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
It sounded like they were left over from an old
ghost story, and so did the first voice I heard
when I stopped halfway up.
Speaker 7 (22:37):
We've got to be careful, especially about that Johnny Doller.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Are you sure he didn't follow you?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
That voice sounded awfully dry to be coming from a
guy who supposedly had spent most of the night snoozing
at the bottom of.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
The Hudson River.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
It was Notlfred Brooks, the third.
Speaker 11 (22:56):
You are feet Brooks, but not wait a minute, ire,
I started this thing slugging you, and I might as
well finish it the same way, pulling the class angel
and sat on his lap.
Speaker 9 (23:10):
You hard for me?
Speaker 3 (23:11):
How kids you get off of me?
Speaker 4 (23:14):
I try to know better than to get mixed up
with a low class female like you.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Why are you? I'll hold it.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
We pushed the lady around enough books tell.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Me to be careful for you. Why didn't you think
of that before you let him here? What your nose?
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Little boy?
Speaker 3 (23:26):
I won't you go getting fat at it? Gorgeous.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I'm only interested in one thing, saving the insurance company
two million dollars and buster, I think you've done it
for me. Dollar Riatis is insurance fraud. It has been
ever since you put on that fake suicide attempt trying
to start five hundred thousand bucks out of the company.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Dota. Wait a minute, time, come on, we're leaving. You'll
heard him? Hell catch? He said? Wait a minute?
Speaker 5 (23:49):
He wants to talk.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Yeah, everybody wants to get in on the how did
you get here?
Speaker 6 (23:54):
And the police in this town think maybe a guy's
jumped off a ferry boat and nobody's said him to it.
They checked the carters on the turnstile to each in
case of Brooks. As many people got off that boat
has got on.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
It doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
They hardly hold the guy because somebody lost the top coat.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Huh, how did you know we were here?
Speaker 6 (24:09):
You know me, baby, you never go any place I
don't know about. Okay, Brooks, you felt like talking, now
I feel like listening.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Get it up.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
I don't know what you mean.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
I know what you mean.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Hatcher one, he gave you a big fat, two million
dollar motive for murder. Untwo he did his best to
make it look like you did murder him with that
broken down match cover plant of the ferry boat.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
It's just that simple.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
And you, baby, Harold, please, you put.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
Him up to it, didn't you, You cheap little muscler
trying to get rid of me.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
William, I'll calm down at you. You don't need any
gun around here. They're tame. Well, maybe I'm not.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
Since so many people have gone to so much trouble
to hand.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
Me a nice easy way to make two million dollars,
maybe I'll just go ahead and make it. I'll show
these amateurs how these things are really done.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Come on, Brooks, would.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
You like to go for a nice, cool half a
ferry boat ride?
Speaker 3 (24:58):
No, Hatcher, No, okay, it's careful. I can do anything you.
Speaker 6 (25:02):
You're wrong, sonny boy. You're gonna give me everything.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
No, no, you can't let me out of here. Brooks
bolted for the door. Hatch just snapped a shot at him.
I hit Hatcher with a floor and I tackle from behind.
The gun flew out of his hand.
Speaker 11 (25:17):
Though you don't, I'd bet into it and swung its
springs with skulf.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Half the people were lying in the room, bleeding, Brooks
from gunshot, Hatcher from gun butt, and Janelle and I
both stood there panty.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Ah, but believe me, not for each other. We stood
that way until the police arrived. Dollah, it's beyond me.
(26:00):
I sent you out to protect the life of a
very important.
Speaker 7 (26:02):
Policyholder, and now where are we standing in a hospital
corridor worrying about whether he's going to live or die?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
As far as I'm concerned, mister Farnsworth, you're only half ride.
I'm just standing in a hospital corridor.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Dollar, you're helpless.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
If you'd been bit where you bit me, you wouldn't
care if you'd lived or died either.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
I'm getting out of here. Where are you going?
Speaker 2 (26:21):
It'll be explained in my expense account on the miscellaneous expense. Now,
don't fall over when you come to an item for
three hundred and eighteen.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Dollars, three hundred and eighteen dollars for what.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Not, for what fine's worth, for whom expense account total,
And it all adds up to a little matter of
eleven hundred and eighty two dollars and twenty three cents.
What you may say, mister Farnsworth, is a lot of
(26:51):
money for one man to spend in two days. But
you must bear in mind that the amount of mistake
was two million dollars, and you know the price of
stake these days. It might comfort you to know that
I just returned from the hospital.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Brooks was strong enough to make a full statement, which
you will find and close.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
This in itself should prove sufficient to establish evidence of
attempted fraud against your company, allowing you to immediately avoid
his policy. It boils down to one sentence to it,
Brooks and Janelle wanted to get rid of Hatcher so
that they could live happily. After knowing those two, they
never had a chance. And oh, yes, that that miscellaneous item,
(27:35):
the one for three hundred and eighteen dollars, It was
a bracelet for a certain party who made this special
investigation for me very special. Or if you want a
receipt for this item, I'll send you a lock of
her hair. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
So, with the final signature on his expense account, Dick
Powell as Johnny Dollar, has just closed the books on
his first adventure in this new CBS series. Be sure
to tune in again next week when the expense account
(28:30):
covers special investigation Singapore, another unusual adventure starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
In Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.
The Columbia Broadcasting System presents a Thrilling You adventure series
starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I'm an insurance investigator. My name is Johnny Dollar. What
you heard me, Johnny Dollar? And I can add an
expense account of the best of.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yea.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
If I'm a freelance insurance investigator and I live in Hartford, Connecticut,
at least that's where I pay rent. My works used
to it that I really live anywhere except at home.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
If you're interested in buying me Christmas presents.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I take size forty two, soup shirt, fifteen and a half, collars,
leave length thirty three. My hat size is seven and
eight except when I wind up a successful case, then
it runs about seven and three eighths that insurance investigation.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I'm just an.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Expert at making out my expense account. I'm an absolute genius.
Expense account submitted by investigator Johnny Dollar to home office,
East Coast Underwriters, Terminal Building, Hartford, Connecticut, Attention Austin Farnsworth,
(01:30):
General Manager. The following is an accounting of my expenditures
the investigation of Milfred Brooks.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
The third for your company expense account.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Item one cab fare to your office and answer to
your original call. Seventy five cents tip to driver one
dollar expense account item two shoeshine twenty five cents. You'll
remember I got my shoes Scott when I unsuspectingly walked
into your private office.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Dollar that window.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
You don't know? You don't call me.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
They called me.
Speaker 6 (02:09):
You won't.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
They're better ways of making a big splash in life.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Get a worry.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Wow, nice priest, turning now, pay attention to teacher. Oh
I didn't know I had it end me.
Speaker 7 (02:24):
Openness, gracious? Dollar, Did you have to hit him so hard?
I hope you haven't killed him. He isn't too strong,
you know.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Don't worry.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Ah ah, mister Farnsworth, would you mind telling me on whose.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Head have I the dubious pleasure to be sitting?
Speaker 6 (02:40):
That?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Sir is Milford Brooks the third. His policy with.
Speaker 7 (02:43):
His company is in the amount of two million dollars.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (02:46):
Yes, and the boy seems bent on committing suicide.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Dollar, I want you to stop him. What do you
want me to do? Threaten him with death anything, anything.
Speaker 7 (02:55):
The conditions of his policy are such we would be
forced to meet with the claim in the event.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Of his suicide.
Speaker 7 (03:00):
Oh I say, dollar sitting on his head that way?
Aren't you in danger of smothering the boys?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Smothering him doesn't worry me. But these crue haircuts done
the very comfortable cushions.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I'll move down a little.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Oh now there, okay, okay, So far I know this
kid is insured the two million, and that his policy
plays off on suicide.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
What else?
Speaker 7 (03:19):
One half hour ago, Milford Brooks walked into this office
and changed the beneficiary in his policy. M m then, sir,
he proceeded to demand not request, mind you, but demand
alone a five hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Quite a touch.
Speaker 7 (03:31):
When I explained to him that there were no provisions
for a loan in his policy, he threatened suicide.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Which would cost you two million.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
So all we have to do is keep him alive,
and he's managed to make that no small problem.
Speaker 7 (03:42):
His choice of a new beneficiar is downright frightening. One
of the most notorious gamblers in the East.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
His name is Hatcher. Harold Hatcher out. Oh do you
know him? Sure?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
That kid's been a post office pen of boy for
a lot of years.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Well, that's the situation.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
I'm engaging you to protect mill brooks future dolla. I
want you to protect the boy, give him something to
live for, you know, an interest.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
In life and interest in life.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
That's let's let's see. Oh I know here, that should help.
What's that you got there?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
And that's what's commonly referred to in the.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
More successful bachelor circles as my little black book.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Well, let's let's see. Mm hmmmmmm ruby.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
No, no, her favorite expression.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Is about dead.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Uh Bernardine. No, she'd be the new beneficiary by midnight.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Oh here, now.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Here, here, here's the one, butter say Farnsworth, would you
mind passing me that phone, the one with a long cord?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Oh no, I still our little friend here showing signs
of life. Here you are.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Maybe you should let him breathe a bit more.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Don't worry, I don't worry. He'll be all right. Hello.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Oh hello, I want to call a new Yeah, yeah,
Hudson two four two nine two dollar.
Speaker 7 (05:04):
You're not thinking of taking this boat in New York.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Are you? Well?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I'm going there myself. You want me to keep an
eye on him, don't you?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Nah? Don't pret fines Worth all is not lost? Do
worry me?
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Sitting on his chest that way?
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Hello, Oh, budd it is Johnny. Yeah, I'll be in
town and I don't want to see you. And look,
here's what I want you to do. Yes, yes, it's
all right to say over the telephone.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Now, I want you to reserve a table at the
hatchery and my name for ten o'clock tonight.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Will you do that?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Okay, I'll see you at your apartment in a few hours.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Well, honey, I can't make it any earlier. I'm sitting
up on a sick friend. Okay, goodbye. I'm not sure
that I agree with your methods.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Out.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
What's the matter? Did he hit you? Hit me? He
bit me?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Expense account item three liquor eighteen dollars keeping Milford Brooks,
the third Peaceful seemed to be the immediate problem, and
a bottle of rare old brandy seemed to be the
immediate answer.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I poured most of it into him, and with the
time he started to tick.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Again, he'd gone through the unusual process of going to.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Sleep sober and waking up and chatted. I loaded him
into my car and we headed to New York.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
As we passed through to Haven, he opened one eye,
looked up, saw the Yale.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Bowl, and gave three cheers for all Eli.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Ray Ray Ray.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Old Yale would sure be proudilable.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Why anybody would want to ensure you for too million
dollars is more than I can figure.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
My daddy loved me very much, and my mother loved.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Me very much. That's nice.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
And not only that, but I love somebody very much.
And not only that, but I hate somebody.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Very That's interesting.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
And also next to one other guy, I hate you
oher than anybody else.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Oh here, luferboy, it's a cocktail arm again, Time for
your bottle.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Rolling along the.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Merrit Parkway, I felt very much along with my thoughts
and believed me they weren't very pleasant company.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
The way it stacked up for me. Brooks had built
up a fat.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Gambling debt with Harold Hatcher and had been forced into
making him his beneficiary. The suicide threat that he was
holding over the insurance company was a little tougher to figure,
unless he was trying to finance a trip for himself
to get away from the man with a murder motive Hatcher.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
My hungry little mind nibbled away on those.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Unsavory morsels of food for thought all the way to
Butter's apartment.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Hey, Hey, where are you taking me? I want to
go to New York.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
If you don't behave Buster, I'll punch your tickets.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Johnny Darling, welcome to New York.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Well that's the fastest ship I ever had.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Quiet, Well, where did you find this? In a box
of Crackersjack? Let us end here.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
I don't know about you.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Some men bring me flowers, some bring me candy.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
What do you bring me?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
A boiled owl and a Brooks Brothers suit? Please to
beat you.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
Let's try him into the bedroom, Honey, look more at
home in the bathtub.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
I mean to pull down the cup. All right, I
come on, Buster, lie down.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Charm, charm, charm.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
That kid's liquor. Sure can hold him. How long have
you been playing nursemaid? Did this bottle? Baby?
Speaker 8 (08:45):
Get behind that bar suitep, and I'll tell you all
about it.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Horrible examples? Don't think to bother you?
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Do they?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
If you knew how that guy has been bothering me?
Speaker 8 (08:53):
What did he do to you?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Let's just say he put the bite on me. Cush.
The rivers looked pretty tonight. Please anything but brandy.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I've been sniffing that second hand all the way from Hartford.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Butter see that big boat out there.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I sure would like to be on it with you,
sailing off the far away romantic places.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Get with it, darling.
Speaker 7 (09:19):
That's one hundred and twenty fifth Street, Fairy, Oh as
you drink, Come on now, tell better all about it?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
So, friend Bourbon, and I proceeded to tell her all
about it. It wasn't easy.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Everything about it kept flagging down my train of thought.
The longer she looked at me, the less I wanted
of Milford Brooks the third, and the more I wanted
a beautiful butter the first and only. She was a
sympathetic listener to my story until I gave her the
answer to her first and only question.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
And where do I didn't do all this? Baby? I
thought you understood.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
My job is to give this poor, misguided boy something
to live for.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
That's you, honey, hold.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Everything, don't go get in your carn all part.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
You you misunderstand. I really mean it.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I thought, if you'd just got to look at you
and realize that things like you exist, why.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
You'd make any man glad to be alive. A come
on now, got her mouth a little. I wouldn't let
anything happen to you. You know that did I hurt you?
Oh no, I'm getting used to it. People have been
taking pokes at me all day. I'm sorry that you
want to Mordred, I want some more. You well help yourself.
Speaker 8 (11:03):
Honey, it's getting laid. Let's make this the last drink.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
What time is it?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Oh it's it's twenty to ten. My reservation that the
hatchery is for ten?
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Here? Thanks figure it?
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Oh some more out in the other room market.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I'd love to answer this slow boat to China.
Speaker 9 (11:24):
Johnny coming, he's got what well he can't be he
is the windows wide open?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Oh, the fire escape. What a smart guy.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I am trading three drinks of bourbon for two million
bucks on the hoof. Oh, that's the biggest barcheck I
ever picked up.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
That's a big bar check for anyone to pick up.
As a matter of fact, it's a bigger barcheck than
you've ever heard of anyone picking up people. And that
should give you an idea of what to expect in
the second act as you follow this new CBS series
starring Dick Paul in the title role. Yours truly, Johnny Dollars.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Well, nobody could say I wasn't working fast. I don't
have been in town for an hour, and.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I'd already succeeded in losing.
Speaker 10 (12:25):
Though that books at fair, I spent another hour of
his all too short life expectancy, unsuccessfully taking down the
neighborhood for him, and then, feeling very much like a
bloodhound that had flunked his snipping exam, I went back
but his apartment.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
No luck, Johnny, Oh, sure, plenty of luck? All bad?
Speaker 6 (12:50):
Is there anything I can do to help?
Speaker 3 (12:52):
A kiss for luck? Nothing? Just a little Hong Kong
police headquarters. This is Johnny Dollar. Give me a missing persons,
any particular one.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Don't be a wise guy, Lieutenant Fisher, Yes, Lieutenant Fisher.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Fisher, there's Johnny Dollar. Love Dollar. Who would you lose one?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Man?
Speaker 3 (13:19):
My mind?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
And if I'm not careful in my professional reputation, the
guy's name is Brooks. No for the third got anything
on him?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
All right?
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Don't look at me like that wasn't all my fault, Taler.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yeah, we haven't found him yet, but we think we
know where he is. Huh Hudson River at eleven fifteen tonight.
It's top coat, complete with identification, was found taking a
ride on one hundred and twenty fifth Street.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Ferry, Oh, anything else? Nothing much.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
A package of matches was found under the coat monogram.
You don't happen to know anybody whose initials are rag
h do you?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Ahhh, there's always horse height. He thanks Fisher. I'll check
back with you later.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
H Harold Hatcher, are you mumbling about bad news?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
It looks like about two million bucks worth.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
They found Milford's code one hundred and twenty fifth Street, Ferry.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
You and your far away romantic places.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Very funny. Now I'll see you later, honey. Maybe about eleven.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Expensive count item four nightclubs twenty eight dollars. Harold Hatcher's
Hatchery was in a cellar and a hotel, but the
prices were.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
High enough to rate a pehouse.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
The club was draped in too much satin, it's lady
customers and too little that.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
The core was French provincial.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
The music was Brazilian and the food was from Dixie.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
The drinks look.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Weak, and the way this looks wrong fall in all
the joint was insightful, sore.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Eyes for making him sorry.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
It's the only pretty thing in the place was a blonde.
She came strolling up to my table, her hips unconsciously
sending some little messages back to the rumber band.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
She opened her mouth, slid her tongue over her laurer lip,
and let a few warm, soft words slide out looking
for someone, and you'll do until the real thing comes along.
So I'm thanks. I won't have a drink. I didn't
ask you. My name is Sanelle. You know, Wow, it's
(15:35):
a nice name.
Speaker 9 (15:36):
I understand you were asking about mister Hatchet, and I asked.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
If he was in the way to say he Wasn't
you know him.
Speaker 9 (15:42):
More than someone?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
What do you want to see him by a mutual friend?
Milford Brooks? Uh? Huh.
Speaker 9 (15:50):
I know most of the quiet clothes boys around here,
So you want a cop. You don't look like the
typele would be a society friend of the Brooks family, So.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
What are you a do that on his hatcher around?
Speaker 4 (16:02):
He might be?
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Then come on, where's his office the top of those?
Can I expect any trouble getting in? You won't have
any troubles. How do you know?
Speaker 9 (16:10):
Because Harold sent me down, he had to look you
over all.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
I think you're all right. So I won myself the
good housekeeping seal of approval. Huh. Keeping a house with
you and meet.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
With my approval. I ran for my life at a
slow walk up the stairs. When I located the door
to hatches off, his id knocked once and what amd.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Come on in?
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Thanks? So I'm Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I was hired by East Coast Underwriders to protect the
interest of a kid named Milford Brooks the Third.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Oh what's that supposed to mean to me?
Speaker 3 (16:43):
You know him, don't you?
Speaker 5 (16:44):
He isn't exactly one of my boozing buddies.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
How much money does he show you? Now?
Speaker 5 (16:49):
We've got him on the books for a few Bob.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Why they picked up.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
His top coat tonight on one hundred and forty fifth Street, Ferry.
He wasn't in it. It might have been suicide. It
might have been a knockover. It made to look like
a suicide. What's your true?
Speaker 6 (17:00):
What do you get off asking me about my choice?
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Where were you between eleven and eleven thirty tonight? What's
it to you? Now?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
I thought you might like to rehearse some answers. The
law will be asking some questions real soon.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Now.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
I don't know why I should tell you, but I
was driving around in my car.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
Get think something.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Oh, now you'll have to do better than that they
found one of your match folders on the Brooks coat.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
You're out of your mind. Let me ask you. The
kid ought me a couple one hundred thousand. You think
I'm going around knocking off my own assets.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Hatcher, I don't know whether you're stupid or bright.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Don't worry about it.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
I know what about that insurance policy?
Speaker 5 (17:32):
What insurance policy?
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Now? Look, Hatcher, we're big boys.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
We both know the changing of beneficiary and an insurance
policy is a legal transaction.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
That means witnesses. That means it isn't secret.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
But you and the East Coast underwriters?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Now I know all all know that Books made you
the beneficiary and his policy, and that you stand to
come into two million bucks when they fish.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Out his body.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
I don't know anything about it.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Motives don't come much bigger.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
I'm telling you this is all news to me and
you and nobody else is going to make me move
off that story.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I feel the same about mine. It doesn't take a
genius to know that Brooks didn't love you two million
dollars worth. There's only one logical reason for his making
you the beneficiary. You forced him into it. Who'd believe
anything else?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Who cares. I'd have to prove it.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
Brother, that can't be done, now, how would you?
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Okay, Rocket, thanks for the news.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
Take the inspector into the bar and buy him a drink.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
I'll be right down.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Dollar.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Did you turn me in?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
They're here? Huh? Yeah, No, I didn't turn you in.
I'm not a cop.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
Well, come on, maybe they just want to sell me
some tickets to the Policeman's Ball.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
For a guy in a hot spot, Hatchie was certainly
a cool customer. I followed him out of the office,
down the stairs and back into the club. Janelle was
sitting there right or where I'd left him, and I
thought to myself.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Now there's a gal who should never sit down. She
looks so pretty standing up.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
General, I'll buy mister Dollar a drink. I have to
go play twenty questions with some fellas in a bus.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Y baby, anything you say anything, I'll see it. Hell,
I'd make god. You can never tell about a guy
like that. He's a smart boy, strong, silent type.
Speaker 9 (19:11):
Wouldn't talk a real close mouth act about what.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Oh just a little dude, dad, two million dollar life
insurance policy.
Speaker 9 (19:19):
Wait a minute, a young Brooks kid, that's right.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
I knew it.
Speaker 9 (19:22):
Tried to tell him me to get into trouble, but
he wouldn't listen to me.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Oh you knew about it, huh? I suppose you also
know what was behind it.
Speaker 9 (19:29):
Sure, Milt owed him some money, a lot of money.
It's in writing.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
What kind of writing? The personal note that Brooks.
Speaker 9 (19:35):
Was going to get back if you made Harold beneficiary?
Speaker 3 (19:37):
So where is this note? So?
Speaker 9 (19:38):
I look like the kind of girl who put the
finger on her boyfriend.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
You look up like the kind of girl to do
anything if she wanted to.
Speaker 9 (19:46):
Thanks.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
I'll give you a slight hint. It's in his office.
Speaker 9 (19:50):
You'll find it me inside pocket of one of his suits,
in the wardrobe.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
What are you waiting for? I watched the bar nothing,
sweet eyes, nothing at all.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Whatever her reasons, mister Harrold, Hatch's little female playmate was
trying awful hard to send him up on.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
A murder rapp and I was going to try awful
hard not to let her down.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Back in Hatch's office, I found myself alone in a
room with a telephone, and being a guy who can
never resist a free call, I unleashed the magic wonders
of the at and.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
T This better be you, Johnny dollars. Quiet, butter, I've
only got a few seconds. That's all you ever have
for me. You look, just another hour, I'll get you
a nice presence. I don't care if you're another century.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
And as for presents, the last one you brought me
was a drunk, and you even let him get away
from me.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Good night.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Life presents a gloomy picture ever downward toward the tomb.
Having wasted those few precious moments of an already misspent youth.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Decided I had to get on my pony before mister
Hatcher showed up. I found Milford Brooks's personal note in
one of had your suits all right?
Speaker 2 (21:07):
As a matter of fact, I found something in all
his suits, A great big glimmer of light. Expense account
Item five taxi fare ten dollars. I left the office
in the hurry, Janelle at her table and.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Hat Her at his bar. I got out of the
club and into a taxi park a half bluck down
the street.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
There I waited until my favorite suspect left the Hatcherry
and piled.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Into another cab, and off we went on a chase
and would have made ben Her look like a plowing game.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
We skittered over to Lexington and headed uptown. At seventy
second the cab turned right and pulled.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
To a stop. My driver was on his toes, and
his toes were on his break.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
We stopped two half a buck behind at you wait huh?
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Now I hear you? Are I keep the change? Okay day.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
It was a garage that belonged to a residence on
the parallel street a block away. The living quarters upstairs
were dark enough to look interesting. I indulged in a
bit of geneel breaking and entering.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Entering that old barn didn't take much breaking. I crept
up the stairs.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
It sounded like they were left over from an old
ghost story, and so did the first voice I heard
when I stopped halfway up.
Speaker 7 (22:37):
We've got to be careful, especially about that Johnny Doller.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Are you sure he didn't follow you?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
That voice sounded awfully dry to be coming from a
guy who supposedly had spent most of the night snoozing
at the bottom of.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
The Hudson River.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
It was Notlfred Brooks, the third.
Speaker 11 (22:56):
You are feet Brooks, but not wait a minute, ire,
I started this thing slugging you, and I might as
well finish it the same way, pulling the class angel
and sat on his lap.
Speaker 9 (23:10):
You hard for me?
Speaker 3 (23:11):
How kids you get off of me?
Speaker 4 (23:14):
I try to know better than to get mixed up
with a low class female like you.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Why are you? I'll hold it.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
We pushed the lady around enough books tell.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Me to be careful for you. Why didn't you think
of that before you let him here? What your nose?
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Little boy?
Speaker 3 (23:26):
I won't you go getting fat at it? Gorgeous.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I'm only interested in one thing, saving the insurance company
two million dollars and buster, I think you've done it
for me. Dollar Riatis is insurance fraud. It has been
ever since you put on that fake suicide attempt trying
to start five hundred thousand bucks out of the company.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Dota. Wait a minute, time, come on, we're leaving. You'll
heard him? Hell catch? He said? Wait a minute?
Speaker 5 (23:49):
He wants to talk.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Yeah, everybody wants to get in on the how did
you get here?
Speaker 6 (23:54):
And the police in this town think maybe a guy's
jumped off a ferry boat and nobody's said him to it.
They checked the carters on the turnstile to each in
case of Brooks. As many people got off that boat
has got on.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
It doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
They hardly hold the guy because somebody lost the top coat.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Huh, how did you know we were here?
Speaker 6 (24:09):
You know me, baby, you never go any place I
don't know about. Okay, Brooks, you felt like talking, now
I feel like listening.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Get it up.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
I don't know what you mean.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
I know what you mean.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Hatcher one, he gave you a big fat, two million
dollar motive for murder. Untwo he did his best to
make it look like you did murder him with that
broken down match cover plant of the ferry boat.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
It's just that simple.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
And you, baby, Harold, please, you put.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
Him up to it, didn't you, You cheap little muscler
trying to get rid of me.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
William, I'll calm down at you. You don't need any
gun around here. They're tame. Well, maybe I'm not.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
Since so many people have gone to so much trouble
to hand.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
Me a nice easy way to make two million dollars,
maybe I'll just go ahead and make it. I'll show
these amateurs how these things are really done.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Come on, Brooks, would.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
You like to go for a nice, cool half a
ferry boat ride?
Speaker 3 (24:58):
No, Hatcher, No, okay, it's careful. I can do anything you.
Speaker 6 (25:02):
You're wrong, sonny boy. You're gonna give me everything.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
No, no, you can't let me out of here. Brooks
bolted for the door. Hatch just snapped a shot at him.
I hit Hatcher with a floor and I tackle from behind.
The gun flew out of his hand.
Speaker 11 (25:17):
Though you don't, I'd bet into it and swung its
springs with skulf.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Half the people were lying in the room, bleeding, Brooks
from gunshot, Hatcher from gun butt, and Janelle and I
both stood there panty.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Ah, but believe me, not for each other. We stood
that way until the police arrived. Dollah, it's beyond me.
(26:00):
I sent you out to protect the life of a
very important.
Speaker 7 (26:02):
Policyholder, and now where are we standing in a hospital
corridor worrying about whether he's going to live or die?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
As far as I'm concerned, mister Farnsworth, you're only half ride.
I'm just standing in a hospital corridor.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Dollar, you're helpless.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
If you'd been bit where you bit me, you wouldn't
care if you'd lived or died either.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
I'm getting out of here. Where are you going?
Speaker 2 (26:21):
It'll be explained in my expense account on the miscellaneous expense. Now,
don't fall over when you come to an item for
three hundred and eighteen.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Dollars, three hundred and eighteen dollars for what.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Not, for what fine's worth, for whom expense account total,
And it all adds up to a little matter of
eleven hundred and eighty two dollars and twenty three cents.
What you may say, mister Farnsworth, is a lot of
(26:51):
money for one man to spend in two days. But
you must bear in mind that the amount of mistake
was two million dollars, and you know the price of
stake these days. It might comfort you to know that
I just returned from the hospital.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Brooks was strong enough to make a full statement, which
you will find and close.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
This in itself should prove sufficient to establish evidence of
attempted fraud against your company, allowing you to immediately avoid
his policy. It boils down to one sentence to it,
Brooks and Janelle wanted to get rid of Hatcher so
that they could live happily. After knowing those two, they
never had a chance. And oh, yes, that that miscellaneous item,
(27:35):
the one for three hundred and eighteen dollars, It was
a bracelet for a certain party who made this special
investigation for me very special. Or if you want a
receipt for this item, I'll send you a lock of
her hair. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
So, with the final signature on his expense account, Dick
Powell as Johnny Dollar, has just closed the books on
his first adventure in this new CBS series. Be sure
to tune in again next week when the expense account
(28:30):
covers special investigation Singapore, another unusual adventure starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
In Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.
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