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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hello, Yes, this is the Falcon speaking. Oh I'm glad
you called.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'll have to have a rain check against I'm leaving
tonight for Italy. Yeah, I just heard. When it comes
to murder, there's no place like Rome. Once again, the
National Broadcasting Company brings you the transcribed Adventures of the Falcon,
(00:33):
starring Less Damon. The Adventures of the Falcon dedicated to
private investigators everywhere, those hard hitting detectives who like Mike Wearing,
risk their lives to aid law enforcement agencies. So join
him now when the Falcon solves the case of the
Running Waters. You ever wondered why Rome wasn't built in
(01:02):
the day, Maybe I can explain they didn't news American labor.
I take a craftsman like Steve Waters. Mister Waters is
the rugged looking citizens sundering down the eighth floor carter
of the Hotel National.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
He just arrived in Rome an hour ago, without baggage.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Without friends, and already he's got a gun.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
And a girl. And that's what I call a fast worker.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yuh you, Marie Antonescill That is right. Well, I must
say this is a pleasure on Steve Waters.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
I beg your pardon.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
You never heard of me. No, Well, that's funny. I'm
an old friend of your family. Matter of fact, I
just saw your father yesterday, saw my father. Yeah, any sense?
It's luck, But that is impossible.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
My father is in Boca.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
I do not understand Romania is behind the iron curtains.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah, yet, apparently I can get in or out any
time I want. I guess I must be a magician.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Huh, you are a coming tern agent.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
That's a possibility. What have you done to my father? Nothing?
Absolutely nothing? That's real fine, you'd think prison agreed.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
With he is in prison?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Or didn't you know? I'm sorry, but you don't have
to worry. He won't be there long either way. Cigarette. No,
you sure I want nothing from you, not even your
father's life.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
What do you want, mister water?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
All right, I'll make it short and sweet. Now, you're
kind of friendly with a boy named Kirby Patterson. How
did you learn that? Well, I probably know more about
Kirby than you do. For instance, that you know he's
with American intelligence.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
No.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Yeah, yeah, he's a spy just like I am, only
he's working the other side of the street, and his
current assignment is to meet a man in Rome named
Mike Wearing. Only he's not gonna make it. He isn't. No, No,
you're going to see to them. Okay, Oh well anything
you wanted to tell your father? Right?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Well, what is it you wish?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
What do you expect to see Kirby again? When I
suppose the too? If you have a drink up here
before you go out, only when you pour Kirby's add
the contents of this.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Bottle, you expect me to poison him?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
No, let's not jump the conclusions. Now. This won't kill him.
It'll only put him out long enough for me to
keep his appointment. You'll be like Wearing.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
You are going to pretend to be Kirby.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I will not do it. Look, Marie, let's not argue.
We both know you will.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Just take care of that bottle. Where are you going?
Speaker 6 (03:36):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
I don't intend to you see. I figure you and
Kirby need a chaperone, what with this drinking and such,
So I just keep an eye open to see that
you don't get into trouble.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Really, I don't like the way you look.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
You're sure you feel all right? I see fine?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Kirby makes you say such a thing with your hands
are like ayes I'm going to get your coat.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Where is it in the bedroom? Don't go in there.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I hate to be treated like an infant.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
That soon someone would think I was helpless.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Show I tell you, I'm all right.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
I just need a drink? All right?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Where do you keep t never mind, I've.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Fixed it myself.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
You're not going to let me do anything tonight?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
What would you have?
Speaker 6 (04:34):
H Herby?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
You know I love you certainly. I hope you do.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I would die if anything happened to you.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Now what brought that them? I just hope you understand
sometimes we cannot help her. Okay, Marina, tell us what
are you trying to tell me?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Nothing done?
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Here's your drink?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Thanks well, salute, salute?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Hey, where'd you get this stuff? Here's something wrong.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
A peculiar taste. It's your imagination. You know you haven't
even tasted yours.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Oh no, it is fine.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I still say it's got an off taste here. You're
trying your trying to be ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
They were both parts of the same bottle.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Are you getting so streamed up about it? All? I said,
what Orry?
Speaker 6 (05:42):
What?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I you can't catch my breath?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Maybe sat down, give me some water.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Sorry, I I feel like I'm gonna.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Sagre. What did I do?
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I'm just an in spies? Then no, no, no, he's
gonna be fine. Now, why don't you just sit down
and relaxed? To Mike Wearing, his train pulls into room. Eh, oh,
I sure hope it's on time. We'll have to give
Kirby another treatment if it's late.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
All right, pal, what do you think you're doing?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
I look for my friend.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
They tell me he's in this compartment.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
And did you think he was hiding in my luggage?
In case you hadn't noticed, that's my bag you're handling. Oh,
I want to see if this is his suitcase?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
What does the tag say?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Michael Wearing another that we've got me identified? How are
you or Roberto Stefani, Roberto Stephanie?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
What were you doing with my grip? O? Are you
making a mistake? No? You did? You should have closed
the straps.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
All right, I tell you the truth.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I have to make sure you really are a micro wedding.
Why you work for American intelligence?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
You know?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
How did you find that out? Did they not tell
you in London?
Speaker 2 (07:24):
And man would meet you in the room express to
give you your next assignment.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
No, maybe they are you say double check.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
You want to go to the hotel Nation now.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
And meet the Kirby Patterson there?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Am I right? Keep talking?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
You are supposed to deliver some information to him which
can be used by our friends in Romania.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
How come you know so much?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
I work for American intelligence too.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
You do not believe me?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
What a question?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
See your wedding.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
You please stand still? Oh you pack a gun. I'm
not surely in our work. Yeah, tell me more about
your work, Roberto? I see you does are paid up
to August?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I listen, mister membership card in the Italian Communist Party. Oh,
with that I can explain to this senor.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
I'll bet you can't tell the comrades. I enjoyed my
entrance to Romony.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Next time, let me choose my own welcoming committee.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Let me get this straight, Warry.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I mean this, Roberto Stefani actually had the nerve to
poses one of our boys.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Yeah, I even though I was supposed to meet a
Kirby Patterson in Rome.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
You're going to hand it to the bums. They don't
miss a trick.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Oh lucky.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I'm suspicious by nature. He used to say, I wouldn't
trust my own mother.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
So I actually you.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Want to see micro I was wondering when he'd get
around to it.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Yeah, Herby Patterson five nine hundred and seventy two pounds,
brown hair, brown eyes, birth mark and left temple.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
I just certainly fit the description I ought to.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I wrote it myself. When are you leaving for the
States as.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Soon as I finished this assignments?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Now there's no time like the present.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
And there's the dope right here in this notebook.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
That's in code.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
What did you expect that? The only think you can
get it to your contact Romanian.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I'll have it by Thursday, maybe wednesday.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Expected to no, put the note book away, right, I
come in. That's right my code O far Natchie Hotel National.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Now I'm going to run along Mike, Okay, lots of
lot Yeah, same to you.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Oh, look one for me when you get back to
Times Square.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
I'll do that.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
What can I do for you, Julian? I am what
you call the house detective here. Oh, I'm glad to
meet you on these old minds.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Great pleasure to greet my opposite number from the great
democracy across the Atlantic as that again, Well, are you
not the private detective they called the.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Falcon Only when I can take of anything worse?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
You are here on business, No.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I retired, Julian.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
What the pity I had hoped to be allowed to cooperate.
No one knows the criminal mind like Julio Farige Natch.
I trust you will forgive me for mentioning it. But
as one in the profession.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
You will understand what the senior who was just here
you call him Kirby?
Speaker 3 (10:35):
What about it?
Speaker 1 (10:36):
It is an unusual American name?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
No, not too Why in the lobby yesterday I heard
a foreign lady college gentleman Kirby.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
He did not look like your friend you sure?
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Yes, he was a tall blonde man. Was Kirby his
first last name?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I would have no way of knowing, Julia.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
This is very important.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Have you run across this other Kirby again and let
me know. I'd certainly like to meet him.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Senor Waters, what's the matter with you, Roberto? I'm the
senior Patterson here, he's opening his eyes. What's about time
to give him some water? You're senior? Huh drink kV?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Who are you?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Well? Generally I go under the name of Steve Waters.
Steve Water. Yeah, though lately I've been using yours. I
I don't understand. Oh, oh your headache with Marie. Marie
Marie had an escue in this her room? Yeah, yeah,
(11:51):
I did you mention that? I believe it is. Where
is she or one of my associates took for a ride.
I didn't think this was any place for a woman,
especially if we wanted to have a little man can talk?
You recognize this? Oh it's a notebook I got from
Mike Wearing. Mike Warring, Yeah, you're only it's in code.
(12:11):
Would you happen to have the key? And let's see
now must touch? I got a mickey? And did you
hear that? Roberto? He thinks he was drugged.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
But who will do such a thing.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Well, I wonder if I'm not the world's prize shops.
I put down that phone, Kirby, Operator boy, don't make
me do something you'll be sorry for Operator Senior Waters
shang up the phone, But he is dead, and then
he certainly won't want to use it. Hang up, Roberto.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
We got work to do, you and your children and
can expect to live long, thanks largely to better medicine
and surgery. But you could expect to live even longer
(13:06):
were it not for the danger of automobile accident. If
driver education could be taught in all of our high
schools instead of only a third of them, it might
someday help to save the life of your own son
or docty. Your schools don't have these courses. Demand driver
education for your children. If your own automobile is not
in the good repair it should.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Be be sure to have it fixed.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Remember to drive as though your life depends on it.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
It does.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Now back to the Adventures of the Falcon.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Well, that's life y and when minute you got it,
the next you haven't.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Miscaby Patterson learned the hard way. But I had no
idea what was going on, And first I knew it
was some eight hours later I just finished tangling with
the Messa Bragiola and Angelo's on the vehicle, or when
I looked up and saw a gentleman dressed in blue
standing over me.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
If his uniform wasn't a giveaway, his feet were, they
were flat.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
He was a cop, all right.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
The name was Emilio Baubo, and he was a captain
in the Carabineri. He seen the Capetano had heard of
me and wanted to show me the local sites. It
was a deluxe fifty cent tour. He started with the
Morgue and that was my finish. He would be good
enough to observe seeing your reading, I'm observing.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
I would be most interested in your deduction.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Well, man, I say it was either English or American.
Probably American, judging by his pose. He must have been
pretty handy with his fists.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
And what do you base this?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
The broken knuckles on the right hand. Now come as
closest a wet that you can get. He fished him
out of the tider exactly. And he wasn't in there long,
maybe four or five hours for me.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Would you care to venture a guest just to his identity?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
No, I'm afraid not the death clerk at the ho
if that's your and he said he visited you this
afternoon and he's out of his mind that fans they
can refresh your recollection.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
His name is Kirby Biston.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
What that's impossible?
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Where is it?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
If he's Kirby Patterson, who's the other one?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
What the other one? The boy Will called me yesterday
and I gave him the listen Capatano. You're positive this
is the right Kirby Patterson. Absolutely, he was identified by
a member of the American embassy.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Old devil.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
You have no idea who killed him?
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Yes, I've got a big idea.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Who the fellow who called himself Kirby Patterson? What if
you're confused, think of me? But maybe I know the
man who can clear up this mess? Who the house
stick at the Hotel Nationale.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
I'll let you know how I make out some more kidding?
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I know, thanksually right now, I have more pressing problems
my years at your well, you told me you saw
a woman with a man named Kirby in the love
of the Nationale.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
See are you sure about that?
Speaker 1 (16:06):
The memory of Julio Faranacci is not to.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Be doubted, or it has been said?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Okay, okay, who is the girl? Let's me say she
might have been a guest at the hotel.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
How do you arrive at that conclusion?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Well, you said she was an Italian?
Speaker 2 (16:23):
There was a good better she met Kirby at the Nationale.
She must have been living there because he wasn't beauty before.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
He reso, well you know who she is?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
It escapes me at the moment Okay, we'll start with
the hotel register.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
I ought to give us a lead.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
And wait, wait, I believe I know the very woman.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Yeah, sweet eight thirteen Marie antone.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
School, Maria and Nesciune.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
She's from Roomania.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
I believe thanks a lot. You know, perhaps I can
act say no, No, you've done your share. From here on.
It's up to me. Let's hope I do as well. Hello, Marie,
(17:09):
how dig your pardon? Whyn't you?
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Marie? And to nesk you?
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Yes, Garry Patterson sent me around. Kirby sent you here
in a manner of speaking.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Please come in.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
I imagine Kirby's feeling very angry with me.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
As a matter of fact, he isn't feeling a thing. Oh,
I am surprised, and he's dead. No.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yes, I do not believe you. You are lying, but
they promise you now we're getting to it.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Why do they promise you nothing? Look, Angel, you're in
a jam. Stop talking.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I know nothing.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
You know my name is wearing.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
You said no, I didn't hevery much have told you
about his apartment with me. Kirby Patterson showed all right,
but he wasn't the right boy.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
How do you know? Because I saw the.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Genuine article down at the mallue. They just dragged him
out of the tiber. He wasn't pretty either, fish, Stop it.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
What's the matter getting sensitive all of a sudden? Why
did you do take a walk while I killed him?
Speaker 5 (18:07):
He wasn't killed here.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
No, what's that rust colored spot on a rug near
the farm? It ain't boshed, But.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
He told me would only put.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Him to sleep.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Who told you that Steve.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Waters doci land brown hair, A little birthmark over his
left temple?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Is how much did he pay you?
Speaker 4 (18:25):
But you don't understand.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Mister Waters came here yesterday.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
He told me they'd arrested my father in Bucharest and
if I didn't cooperate, you'd never see him again. Oh
come on, angel, you can dream up a better story
than that.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
I swear it is the truth. You must believe me.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
That was the first time you saw this Steve Waters. Yes,
he had just thrown in from Roumania. Then he might
be out of Italy. But no, no, he wouldn't. That
material is worthless unless it's decoded. Nothing. I was just
talking out loud. He's got to stay in wrong un
till he saws it. We're all behind the eight ball.
If mister Waters is gone two.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
It goes a seventeen designed in twenty three would have
to be h're ain't a word to be so.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
You Roberto for a second?
Speaker 1 (19:26):
I bring you something to eat, Well put it down
on the table when he got there, faster resign you mean, lad,
looks good. My wife make my compliments to the little woman.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Senor Steve.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
You know they are looking for you to tell They
ask the questions everywhere. My wife, she's a very nervous.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
We have a little one on the way. And what's
your excuse?
Speaker 1 (19:52):
You're nervous too, And maybe it should be because when
the Chief hears about Mike Wearing napping you on the
Rome Express with a party.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Card and you would not tell him, it would have
killed me. Senor, I beg of you for the sake
of my wife and my children.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Yeah, we've got to consider them.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yes, well my youngest is only two years old.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
There, and you've got another bambino on the way. See
that does there's a problem, Hi, got why don't you
quit the party? You think the chief would let buell?
Of course, what didn't you know?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
The parties like a social club.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
You can resign whenever you please.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
That's just let me talk to the chief.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
I can guarantee your trouble the rover.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Yeah, that's right. I wanted to find out, Julian.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
You find Stephen Waters came to room by way of Bernie.
There is no airplane service direct to he added a giant.
What's the next flight of tomorrow morning at eleven?
Speaker 3 (21:08):
And that's a good chance that Waters might still be
in Rome.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Yes he is.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
According to my information, he's living with a despicable type
named Rob Stefi.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
That's the comrade. I ran into an a room express.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
What's the address on Solitorio number twenty three?
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Got it?
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Thanks a lot, Julian. The greatest house deck the side
of forty second Street. Anytime you want to jump at
the walled off let me know.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Apparently there is no one here, Julium. Could it be
my informant mis led me.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Let's find out.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Wait, Senior Wadding, what do you call that?
Speaker 3 (21:57):
An English called skeleton keys? Anyone coming up landing and
not to like this?
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Cities against the law.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
I was murdered. You think they take a note not
to use open water when they join the Communist party.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Those things they considered unimportant.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
And what's behind the curtain? Oh that is where they sleep.
You're yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:23):
That that is Stephen Waters.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
And was Stephen Waters.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
He's dead and well I didn't think that extra hole
in his head was for ventilation.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
We should not be all right, take it easy to
you you.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I want to look around. He has some papers that
belong to me. Help me turn them over, if the
senior will excuse me. Now, what do you know? Here's
a little item that did the trick. He is a German, Luca,
That's what it is. I do not think the cab
he will approve of this. No, I do not think
they will.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Ye're way meet again.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
I know this sounds any social capitana, But you're the
last man I wanted to say. By entering for the
triple premature a triple what it? I could have timed
it to give you an opportunity to wipe your fingerprint
of the wedding.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
He Now, wait a minute. You don't think i'd do that?
Speaker 6 (23:14):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (23:14):
I know appearances can be deceasing. Would you like to
convince me here?
Speaker 6 (23:20):
Oh, wait till we get to my office.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Every day last year on the highways, an average of
one hundred and three Americans like yourself or those in
your family were killed in automobile accidents, but a lot
of highway deaths don't seem to bother as much unless
someone in our own family is killed. You can do
your part in helping to fight disaster on the highways
by being a safer driver and by working in your
(23:58):
community and state for strict lawn forcement. That means safer
traveling for all of us. At all times. You must
remember the drivers, though your life depends on it.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
It does.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Bow back to the Adventures of the Falcon. If you
know anything worth in being discovered standing over a cold
corpse with a hot gun in.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Your hand, I'd like to hear it.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Just drop me a line and carry the Italian police
in Rome. They don't know where to reach me, they
don't have far to travel. Let me congratulate you.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
You relate to very interesting story.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
It will help me. It's the truth that's Julio here,
see Capitano, I take canos.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
He does not lie.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
I was with him every minute of the time from.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
The moment I please bible clack.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Hey, hey, Taviscu. In fact, you're wearing my apologies.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Huh you too, Julia I do not understand that makes
two of us.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
You will be.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Pleased to learn we have third decay you have you
are interested vitally. The murderer your Callie, Kirby Patterson, is
an O mystery. He was killed by the communist agent
Steve Water.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Agreed, agreed. The who killed Waters?
Speaker 1 (25:23):
You care to venture again?
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Roberto Stefano graun.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
It was his apartment that Roberto had no reason. The
death of Water was motivated, by the way I don't
say it. You are forgetting the woman in the case,
Marie and.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Risk ran Nescio. She was in love with Kirtie.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
You think she kills Steve Waters.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Yet never then, how do you account for the fact
that the murder gun belongs to her and her finger
prints were found on the bed near the body.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
There must be some mistake, I hope not for your
sakes in here.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
If there is, we shall have to return to you.
But let us see what the lady has to say
for herself. I tell you you are wrong, Capitan.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
I did not kill Steve Waters.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
I was in my hotel all.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Evening and the gun you say was stolen from your room.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Yes, Julio, I reported to him this morning.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
She tells the truth, Capitano.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Our show signs the first entry.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
No, then she was mainly preparing an alibama.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
No, it is not true.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
How do you explain your finger printing found near Steve
Water's buddy?
Speaker 6 (26:31):
I cannot.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Maybe I can.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
It would be most interesting here.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
That's simple. He was there.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
No, Marie, got to stop lying your panicking. You're not
thinking clearly. You can buy that stolen gun routine, but
not the finger prints. You had to be in that room.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
I tell you, don't bother. That's it's the truth. You
went to Roberto's flat and.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
June yes, but when I got the Waters was dead.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
But I did not kill him, I swear. How did
you learn where it was? It was a telephone call
who she would not give?
Speaker 2 (27:03):
All right, give her a chance, capitality. You don't believe it,
or why not? It's so hard to believe about an
anonymous phone call. You got one me or you just
didn't blunder into Roberto's place. Someone must have tipped you
off through there you are. But if she did not
give Water, did aren't you forgetting someone? O deean Oh,
he's a possibility, Julio. Let's see if he means the tests. Now,
(27:26):
this whole case is tied up with politics. Steve Waters
was brought to Rome to do a job. When accomplishing it,
he killed Kirby. That made him a liability to the comrade.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
They had to get rid of him.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Then the order to liquidate him must have come from
a higher functionary here is true, that's right.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
But who could his superdio be?
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Well, that's a good question, Capitano, to ask yourself who
knew are was looking for Steve Water? Who was in
a position to remove Kirby's body.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
From Maurie's room?
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Who alone had the opportunity to steal her gun?
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Obviously someone employed by the hostel nationality.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Obviously you you are referring to me? Who else? It's
this nice piece of work, Julian. I'm sure the party
appreciates your efforts.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Maybe when you join Steve Waters you can start a
new communist cell. We find a lot of hot prospects
down there. It on it, Oh, no.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Gun shallow, no Saint Quinn please my ninety one.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Oh, I guess that means me before you go, you're
waiting and behav of my colleague.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Let me thank you again for your valuable actition my pleasure.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Come.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
I know it is a diplomatic of me to inquire,
but that notebook of yours? Did you ever find it
in Julio's?
Speaker 3 (29:04):
You know I couldn't answer that. I don't bother looking
for it.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
I understand, but I'm just sorry you could not visit
with that song.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Oh, I'll be back.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
If only for one reason. They tell you one in
Rome who was the Romans?
Speaker 3 (29:16):
That I never got a chance to find out just
what it is the Romans do this. I got to
learn where.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
The case of the King of Club, The Case of
the King of Club. That's the title of next week's
Adventure of the Fulk and when Mike Welling learns that
when trumps are led, the game can be murdered. The
Adventures of the Fulk and are based on the famous
character created by Drexel Drake, but he's been transcribed by
Bernard L. Schubert, written by Eugene Wang, and directed by
(29:58):
Richard Lewis less Damon Darn as the Falcon with Susan
Douglas as Marie. This program came from New York. Brad
Collins speaking
Hello, Yes, this is the Falcon speaking. Oh I'm glad
you called.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'll have to have a rain check against I'm leaving
tonight for Italy. Yeah, I just heard. When it comes
to murder, there's no place like Rome. Once again, the
National Broadcasting Company brings you the transcribed Adventures of the Falcon,
(00:33):
starring Less Damon. The Adventures of the Falcon dedicated to
private investigators everywhere, those hard hitting detectives who like Mike Wearing,
risk their lives to aid law enforcement agencies. So join
him now when the Falcon solves the case of the
Running Waters. You ever wondered why Rome wasn't built in
(01:02):
the day, Maybe I can explain they didn't news American labor.
I take a craftsman like Steve Waters. Mister Waters is
the rugged looking citizens sundering down the eighth floor carter
of the Hotel National.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
He just arrived in Rome an hour ago, without baggage.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Without friends, and already he's got a gun.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
And a girl. And that's what I call a fast worker.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yuh you, Marie Antonescill That is right. Well, I must
say this is a pleasure on Steve Waters.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
I beg your pardon.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
You never heard of me. No, Well, that's funny. I'm
an old friend of your family. Matter of fact, I
just saw your father yesterday, saw my father. Yeah, any sense?
It's luck, But that is impossible.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
My father is in Boca.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
I do not understand Romania is behind the iron curtains.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah, yet, apparently I can get in or out any
time I want. I guess I must be a magician.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Huh, you are a coming tern agent.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
That's a possibility. What have you done to my father? Nothing?
Absolutely nothing? That's real fine, you'd think prison agreed.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
With he is in prison?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Or didn't you know? I'm sorry, but you don't have
to worry. He won't be there long either way. Cigarette. No,
you sure I want nothing from you, not even your
father's life.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
What do you want, mister water?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
All right, I'll make it short and sweet. Now, you're
kind of friendly with a boy named Kirby Patterson. How
did you learn that? Well, I probably know more about
Kirby than you do. For instance, that you know he's
with American intelligence.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
No.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Yeah, yeah, he's a spy just like I am, only
he's working the other side of the street, and his
current assignment is to meet a man in Rome named
Mike Wearing. Only he's not gonna make it. He isn't. No, No,
you're going to see to them. Okay, Oh well anything
you wanted to tell your father? Right?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Well, what is it you wish?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
What do you expect to see Kirby again? When I
suppose the too? If you have a drink up here
before you go out, only when you pour Kirby's add
the contents of this.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Bottle, you expect me to poison him?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
No, let's not jump the conclusions. Now. This won't kill him.
It'll only put him out long enough for me to
keep his appointment. You'll be like Wearing.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
You are going to pretend to be Kirby.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I will not do it. Look, Marie, let's not argue.
We both know you will.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Just take care of that bottle. Where are you going?
Speaker 6 (03:36):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
I don't intend to you see. I figure you and
Kirby need a chaperone, what with this drinking and such,
So I just keep an eye open to see that
you don't get into trouble.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Really, I don't like the way you look.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
You're sure you feel all right? I see fine?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Kirby makes you say such a thing with your hands
are like ayes I'm going to get your coat.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Where is it in the bedroom? Don't go in there.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I hate to be treated like an infant.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
That soon someone would think I was helpless.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Show I tell you, I'm all right.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
I just need a drink? All right?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Where do you keep t never mind, I've.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Fixed it myself.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
You're not going to let me do anything tonight?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
What would you have?
Speaker 6 (04:34):
H Herby?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
You know I love you certainly. I hope you do.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I would die if anything happened to you.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Now what brought that them? I just hope you understand
sometimes we cannot help her. Okay, Marina, tell us what
are you trying to tell me?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Nothing done?
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Here's your drink?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Thanks well, salute, salute?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Hey, where'd you get this stuff? Here's something wrong.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
A peculiar taste. It's your imagination. You know you haven't
even tasted yours.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Oh no, it is fine.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I still say it's got an off taste here. You're
trying your trying to be ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
They were both parts of the same bottle.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Are you getting so streamed up about it? All? I said,
what Orry?
Speaker 6 (05:42):
What?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I you can't catch my breath?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Maybe sat down, give me some water.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Sorry, I I feel like I'm gonna.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Sagre. What did I do?
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I'm just an in spies? Then no, no, no, he's
gonna be fine. Now, why don't you just sit down
and relaxed? To Mike Wearing, his train pulls into room. Eh, oh,
I sure hope it's on time. We'll have to give
Kirby another treatment if it's late.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
All right, pal, what do you think you're doing?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
I look for my friend.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
They tell me he's in this compartment.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
And did you think he was hiding in my luggage?
In case you hadn't noticed, that's my bag you're handling. Oh,
I want to see if this is his suitcase?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
What does the tag say?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Michael Wearing another that we've got me identified? How are
you or Roberto Stefani, Roberto Stephanie?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
What were you doing with my grip? O? Are you
making a mistake? No? You did? You should have closed
the straps.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
All right, I tell you the truth.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I have to make sure you really are a micro wedding.
Why you work for American intelligence?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
You know?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
How did you find that out? Did they not tell
you in London?
Speaker 2 (07:24):
And man would meet you in the room express to
give you your next assignment.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
No, maybe they are you say double check.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
You want to go to the hotel Nation now.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
And meet the Kirby Patterson there?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Am I right? Keep talking?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
You are supposed to deliver some information to him which
can be used by our friends in Romania.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
How come you know so much?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
I work for American intelligence too.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
You do not believe me?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
What a question?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
See your wedding.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
You please stand still? Oh you pack a gun. I'm
not surely in our work. Yeah, tell me more about
your work, Roberto? I see you does are paid up
to August?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I listen, mister membership card in the Italian Communist Party. Oh,
with that I can explain to this senor.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
I'll bet you can't tell the comrades. I enjoyed my
entrance to Romony.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Next time, let me choose my own welcoming committee.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Let me get this straight, Warry.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I mean this, Roberto Stefani actually had the nerve to
poses one of our boys.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Yeah, I even though I was supposed to meet a
Kirby Patterson in Rome.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
You're going to hand it to the bums. They don't
miss a trick.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Oh lucky.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I'm suspicious by nature. He used to say, I wouldn't
trust my own mother.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
So I actually you.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Want to see micro I was wondering when he'd get
around to it.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Yeah, Herby Patterson five nine hundred and seventy two pounds,
brown hair, brown eyes, birth mark and left temple.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
I just certainly fit the description I ought to.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I wrote it myself. When are you leaving for the
States as.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Soon as I finished this assignments?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Now there's no time like the present.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
And there's the dope right here in this notebook.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
That's in code.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
What did you expect that? The only think you can
get it to your contact Romanian.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I'll have it by Thursday, maybe wednesday.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Expected to no, put the note book away, right, I
come in. That's right my code O far Natchie Hotel National.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Now I'm going to run along Mike, Okay, lots of
lot Yeah, same to you.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Oh, look one for me when you get back to
Times Square.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
I'll do that.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
What can I do for you, Julian? I am what
you call the house detective here. Oh, I'm glad to
meet you on these old minds.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Great pleasure to greet my opposite number from the great
democracy across the Atlantic as that again, Well, are you
not the private detective they called the.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Falcon Only when I can take of anything worse?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
You are here on business, No.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I retired, Julian.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
What the pity I had hoped to be allowed to cooperate.
No one knows the criminal mind like Julio Farige Natch.
I trust you will forgive me for mentioning it. But
as one in the profession.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
You will understand what the senior who was just here
you call him Kirby?
Speaker 3 (10:35):
What about it?
Speaker 1 (10:36):
It is an unusual American name?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
No, not too Why in the lobby yesterday I heard
a foreign lady college gentleman Kirby.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
He did not look like your friend you sure?
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Yes, he was a tall blonde man. Was Kirby his
first last name?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I would have no way of knowing, Julia.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
This is very important.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Have you run across this other Kirby again and let
me know. I'd certainly like to meet him.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Senor Waters, what's the matter with you, Roberto? I'm the
senior Patterson here, he's opening his eyes. What's about time
to give him some water? You're senior? Huh drink kV?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Who are you?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Well? Generally I go under the name of Steve Waters.
Steve Water. Yeah, though lately I've been using yours. I
I don't understand. Oh, oh your headache with Marie. Marie
Marie had an escue in this her room? Yeah, yeah,
(11:51):
I did you mention that? I believe it is. Where
is she or one of my associates took for a ride.
I didn't think this was any place for a woman,
especially if we wanted to have a little man can talk?
You recognize this? Oh it's a notebook I got from
Mike Wearing. Mike Warring, Yeah, you're only it's in code.
(12:11):
Would you happen to have the key? And let's see
now must touch? I got a mickey? And did you
hear that? Roberto? He thinks he was drugged.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
But who will do such a thing.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Well, I wonder if I'm not the world's prize shops.
I put down that phone, Kirby, Operator boy, don't make
me do something you'll be sorry for Operator Senior Waters
shang up the phone, But he is dead, and then
he certainly won't want to use it. Hang up, Roberto.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
We got work to do, you and your children and
can expect to live long, thanks largely to better medicine
and surgery. But you could expect to live even longer
(13:06):
were it not for the danger of automobile accident. If
driver education could be taught in all of our high
schools instead of only a third of them, it might
someday help to save the life of your own son
or docty. Your schools don't have these courses. Demand driver
education for your children. If your own automobile is not
in the good repair it should.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Be be sure to have it fixed.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Remember to drive as though your life depends on it.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
It does.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Now back to the Adventures of the Falcon.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Well, that's life y and when minute you got it,
the next you haven't.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Miscaby Patterson learned the hard way. But I had no
idea what was going on, And first I knew it
was some eight hours later I just finished tangling with
the Messa Bragiola and Angelo's on the vehicle, or when
I looked up and saw a gentleman dressed in blue
standing over me.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
If his uniform wasn't a giveaway, his feet were, they
were flat.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
He was a cop, all right.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
The name was Emilio Baubo, and he was a captain
in the Carabineri. He seen the Capetano had heard of
me and wanted to show me the local sites. It
was a deluxe fifty cent tour. He started with the
Morgue and that was my finish. He would be good
enough to observe seeing your reading, I'm observing.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
I would be most interested in your deduction.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Well, man, I say it was either English or American.
Probably American, judging by his pose. He must have been
pretty handy with his fists.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
And what do you base this?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
The broken knuckles on the right hand. Now come as
closest a wet that you can get. He fished him
out of the tider exactly. And he wasn't in there long,
maybe four or five hours for me.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Would you care to venture a guest just to his identity?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
No, I'm afraid not the death clerk at the ho
if that's your and he said he visited you this
afternoon and he's out of his mind that fans they
can refresh your recollection.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
His name is Kirby Biston.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
What that's impossible?
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Where is it?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
If he's Kirby Patterson, who's the other one?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
What the other one? The boy Will called me yesterday
and I gave him the listen Capatano. You're positive this
is the right Kirby Patterson. Absolutely, he was identified by
a member of the American embassy.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Old devil.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
You have no idea who killed him?
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Yes, I've got a big idea.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Who the fellow who called himself Kirby Patterson? What if
you're confused, think of me? But maybe I know the
man who can clear up this mess? Who the house
stick at the Hotel Nationale.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
I'll let you know how I make out some more kidding?
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I know, thanksually right now, I have more pressing problems
my years at your well, you told me you saw
a woman with a man named Kirby in the love
of the Nationale.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
See are you sure about that?
Speaker 1 (16:06):
The memory of Julio Faranacci is not to.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Be doubted, or it has been said?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Okay, okay, who is the girl? Let's me say she
might have been a guest at the hotel.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
How do you arrive at that conclusion?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Well, you said she was an Italian?
Speaker 2 (16:23):
There was a good better she met Kirby at the Nationale.
She must have been living there because he wasn't beauty before.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
He reso, well you know who she is?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
It escapes me at the moment Okay, we'll start with
the hotel register.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
I ought to give us a lead.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
And wait, wait, I believe I know the very woman.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Yeah, sweet eight thirteen Marie antone.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
School, Maria and Nesciune.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
She's from Roomania.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
I believe thanks a lot. You know, perhaps I can
act say no, No, you've done your share. From here on.
It's up to me. Let's hope I do as well. Hello, Marie,
(17:09):
how dig your pardon? Whyn't you?
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Marie? And to nesk you?
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Yes, Garry Patterson sent me around. Kirby sent you here
in a manner of speaking.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Please come in.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
I imagine Kirby's feeling very angry with me.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
As a matter of fact, he isn't feeling a thing. Oh,
I am surprised, and he's dead. No.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yes, I do not believe you. You are lying, but
they promise you now we're getting to it.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Why do they promise you nothing? Look, Angel, you're in
a jam. Stop talking.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I know nothing.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
You know my name is wearing.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
You said no, I didn't hevery much have told you
about his apartment with me. Kirby Patterson showed all right,
but he wasn't the right boy.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
How do you know? Because I saw the.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Genuine article down at the mallue. They just dragged him
out of the tiber. He wasn't pretty either, fish, Stop it.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
What's the matter getting sensitive all of a sudden? Why
did you do take a walk while I killed him?
Speaker 5 (18:07):
He wasn't killed here.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
No, what's that rust colored spot on a rug near
the farm? It ain't boshed, But.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
He told me would only put.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Him to sleep.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Who told you that Steve.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Waters doci land brown hair, A little birthmark over his
left temple?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Is how much did he pay you?
Speaker 4 (18:25):
But you don't understand.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Mister Waters came here yesterday.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
He told me they'd arrested my father in Bucharest and
if I didn't cooperate, you'd never see him again. Oh
come on, angel, you can dream up a better story
than that.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
I swear it is the truth. You must believe me.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
That was the first time you saw this Steve Waters. Yes,
he had just thrown in from Roumania. Then he might
be out of Italy. But no, no, he wouldn't. That
material is worthless unless it's decoded. Nothing. I was just
talking out loud. He's got to stay in wrong un
till he saws it. We're all behind the eight ball.
If mister Waters is gone two.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
It goes a seventeen designed in twenty three would have
to be h're ain't a word to be so.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
You Roberto for a second?
Speaker 1 (19:26):
I bring you something to eat, Well put it down
on the table when he got there, faster resign you mean, lad,
looks good. My wife make my compliments to the little woman.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Senor Steve.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
You know they are looking for you to tell They
ask the questions everywhere. My wife, she's a very nervous.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
We have a little one on the way. And what's
your excuse?
Speaker 1 (19:52):
You're nervous too, And maybe it should be because when
the Chief hears about Mike Wearing napping you on the
Rome Express with a party.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Card and you would not tell him, it would have
killed me. Senor, I beg of you for the sake
of my wife and my children.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Yeah, we've got to consider them.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yes, well my youngest is only two years old.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
There, and you've got another bambino on the way. See
that does there's a problem, Hi, got why don't you
quit the party? You think the chief would let buell?
Of course, what didn't you know?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
The parties like a social club.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
You can resign whenever you please.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
That's just let me talk to the chief.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
I can guarantee your trouble the rover.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Yeah, that's right. I wanted to find out, Julian.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
You find Stephen Waters came to room by way of Bernie.
There is no airplane service direct to he added a giant.
What's the next flight of tomorrow morning at eleven?
Speaker 3 (21:08):
And that's a good chance that Waters might still be
in Rome.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Yes he is.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
According to my information, he's living with a despicable type
named Rob Stefi.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
That's the comrade. I ran into an a room express.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
What's the address on Solitorio number twenty three?
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Got it?
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Thanks a lot, Julian. The greatest house deck the side
of forty second Street. Anytime you want to jump at
the walled off let me know.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Apparently there is no one here, Julium. Could it be
my informant mis led me.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Let's find out.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Wait, Senior Wadding, what do you call that?
Speaker 3 (21:57):
An English called skeleton keys? Anyone coming up landing and
not to like this?
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Cities against the law.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
I was murdered. You think they take a note not
to use open water when they join the Communist party.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Those things they considered unimportant.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
And what's behind the curtain? Oh that is where they sleep.
You're yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:23):
That that is Stephen Waters.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
And was Stephen Waters.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
He's dead and well I didn't think that extra hole
in his head was for ventilation.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
We should not be all right, take it easy to
you you.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I want to look around. He has some papers that
belong to me. Help me turn them over, if the
senior will excuse me. Now, what do you know? Here's
a little item that did the trick. He is a German, Luca,
That's what it is. I do not think the cab
he will approve of this. No, I do not think
they will.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Ye're way meet again.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
I know this sounds any social capitana, But you're the
last man I wanted to say. By entering for the
triple premature a triple what it? I could have timed
it to give you an opportunity to wipe your fingerprint
of the wedding.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
He Now, wait a minute. You don't think i'd do that?
Speaker 6 (23:14):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (23:14):
I know appearances can be deceasing. Would you like to
convince me here?
Speaker 6 (23:20):
Oh, wait till we get to my office.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Every day last year on the highways, an average of
one hundred and three Americans like yourself or those in
your family were killed in automobile accidents, but a lot
of highway deaths don't seem to bother as much unless
someone in our own family is killed. You can do
your part in helping to fight disaster on the highways
by being a safer driver and by working in your
(23:58):
community and state for strict lawn forcement. That means safer
traveling for all of us. At all times. You must
remember the drivers, though your life depends on it.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
It does.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Bow back to the Adventures of the Falcon. If you
know anything worth in being discovered standing over a cold
corpse with a hot gun in.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Your hand, I'd like to hear it.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Just drop me a line and carry the Italian police
in Rome. They don't know where to reach me, they
don't have far to travel. Let me congratulate you.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
You relate to very interesting story.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
It will help me. It's the truth that's Julio here,
see Capitano, I take canos.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
He does not lie.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
I was with him every minute of the time from.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
The moment I please bible clack.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Hey, hey, Taviscu. In fact, you're wearing my apologies.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Huh you too, Julia I do not understand that makes
two of us.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
You will be.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Pleased to learn we have third decay you have you
are interested vitally. The murderer your Callie, Kirby Patterson, is
an O mystery. He was killed by the communist agent
Steve Water.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Agreed, agreed. The who killed Waters?
Speaker 1 (25:23):
You care to venture again?
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Roberto Stefano graun.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
It was his apartment that Roberto had no reason. The
death of Water was motivated, by the way I don't
say it. You are forgetting the woman in the case,
Marie and.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Risk ran Nescio. She was in love with Kirtie.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
You think she kills Steve Waters.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Yet never then, how do you account for the fact
that the murder gun belongs to her and her finger
prints were found on the bed near the body.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
There must be some mistake, I hope not for your
sakes in here.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
If there is, we shall have to return to you.
But let us see what the lady has to say
for herself. I tell you you are wrong, Capitan.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
I did not kill Steve Waters.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
I was in my hotel all.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Evening and the gun you say was stolen from your room.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Yes, Julio, I reported to him this morning.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
She tells the truth, Capitano.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Our show signs the first entry.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
No, then she was mainly preparing an alibama.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
No, it is not true.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
How do you explain your finger printing found near Steve
Water's buddy?
Speaker 6 (26:31):
I cannot.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Maybe I can.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
It would be most interesting here.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
That's simple. He was there.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
No, Marie, got to stop lying your panicking. You're not
thinking clearly. You can buy that stolen gun routine, but
not the finger prints. You had to be in that room.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
I tell you, don't bother. That's it's the truth. You
went to Roberto's flat and.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
June yes, but when I got the Waters was dead.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
But I did not kill him, I swear. How did
you learn where it was? It was a telephone call
who she would not give?
Speaker 2 (27:03):
All right, give her a chance, capitality. You don't believe it,
or why not? It's so hard to believe about an
anonymous phone call. You got one me or you just
didn't blunder into Roberto's place. Someone must have tipped you
off through there you are. But if she did not
give Water, did aren't you forgetting someone? O deean Oh,
he's a possibility, Julio. Let's see if he means the tests. Now,
(27:26):
this whole case is tied up with politics. Steve Waters
was brought to Rome to do a job. When accomplishing it,
he killed Kirby. That made him a liability to the comrade.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
They had to get rid of him.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Then the order to liquidate him must have come from
a higher functionary here is true, that's right.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
But who could his superdio be?
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Well, that's a good question, Capitano, to ask yourself who
knew are was looking for Steve Water? Who was in
a position to remove Kirby's body.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
From Maurie's room?
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Who alone had the opportunity to steal her gun?
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Obviously someone employed by the hostel nationality.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Obviously you you are referring to me? Who else? It's
this nice piece of work, Julian. I'm sure the party
appreciates your efforts.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Maybe when you join Steve Waters you can start a
new communist cell. We find a lot of hot prospects
down there. It on it, Oh, no.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Gun shallow, no Saint Quinn please my ninety one.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Oh, I guess that means me before you go, you're
waiting and behav of my colleague.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Let me thank you again for your valuable actition my pleasure.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Come.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
I know it is a diplomatic of me to inquire,
but that notebook of yours? Did you ever find it
in Julio's?
Speaker 3 (29:04):
You know I couldn't answer that. I don't bother looking
for it.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
I understand, but I'm just sorry you could not visit
with that song.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Oh, I'll be back.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
If only for one reason. They tell you one in
Rome who was the Romans?
Speaker 3 (29:16):
That I never got a chance to find out just
what it is the Romans do this. I got to
learn where.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
The case of the King of Club, The Case of
the King of Club. That's the title of next week's
Adventure of the Fulk and when Mike Welling learns that
when trumps are led, the game can be murdered. The
Adventures of the Fulk and are based on the famous
character created by Drexel Drake, but he's been transcribed by
Bernard L. Schubert, written by Eugene Wang, and directed by
(29:58):
Richard Lewis less Damon Darn as the Falcon with Susan
Douglas as Marie. This program came from New York. Brad
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