1039 - Fire For The Axis (Green Hornet)

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
A journey into the realm of the strange and jellifi.
I hope you will enjoy the chap, that it will
thrill you a little and kill you a little. So
settle back, get a good grip on your nerve. Where
are we going? You'll find out when we get there.

(00:31):
The Green Hornet.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
He hunts the biggest of all game, public enemies who
try to destroy our America. With his faithful valid Cato,
britt Reid, daring young publisher, matches wits with racketeers and saboteurs,

(01:07):
risking his life that criminals and enemy spies will feel
the weight of the law by the sting of.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
The Green Hornet.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Ride with britt Reid in the thrilling adventure The Corpse
that Wasn't There. The Green Hornet strikes again. Miss case

(01:54):
And and Lowry were returning to the Daily Sentinel after lunch.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
The streets were crowded.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
And as they took their last corner, a man hurrying
from the opposite direction ran into them, somber, Hey.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Why don't you watch where you're gone? You, I said, you, Casey,
Sometimes I think they need traffic lights on a sidewalk too,
Are you okay? Yes?

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Except for my Handbagga, here there is on the sidewalks.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Hey, it's yours too. What this letter? No, it's not mine.
It's already been mailed.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
Hasn't it mailed and unsealed?

Speaker 5 (02:28):
I'll Lowring never mind. Your reporter instincts not right to
look at other people's mail.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
Not so, I wasn't going to open it. Well, what
do we do with it? Throw it away?

Speaker 3 (02:38):
May be important, mister Ernest Kigler. It's probably the joker
bumps into you. Why should we bother with it?

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Give it to me, Lowry. I'll call him up in
the office.

Speaker 5 (02:49):
Look at the time. We better hurry.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Ms case. Oh, good afternoon, mistery importance.

Speaker 5 (03:07):
You know it's been pretty quiet all morning.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Here's your meal?

Speaker 3 (03:10):
Oh thanks? Wait this one? This isn't my miscase.

Speaker 5 (03:15):
Oh yes, that's a letter that someone drunk on the street.
I've been trying to reach him by sooon. Do you
mind if I try now?

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Right ahead, I'll glance at my letter.

Speaker 5 (03:24):
Hello, switchboard, Yes, this is Leonora Helen. Will you try
that number again?

Speaker 3 (03:29):
It's yes, that's right, it's a letter from Clicker Betters.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
He's a second officer in the Wags. Now, uh, huh
in North Africa that posted on a bulletin board. Yes, sir, yes, Helen.
Oh hell okay, thanks.

Speaker 5 (03:43):
Maybe he does work in a factory of some place.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
No, no, I won't bother goodbye. Why not just put
it an envelope and send it to him? I guess
that's the easiest thing. Is the address?

Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yes, that's righting my way home. I thought he was
at miss Case. I'll drop it off there myself.

Speaker 6 (04:01):
I'll there's house. I come back to one woman, mister.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
Print, Well that didn't take you long, it shadow, you've
still got the letder.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Mister pritz priest, I see something through window? You come,
TH's priece? You come as me? All right? Look there
see it? Gito, try the door. I'm knocked, mister prick,

(05:00):
Come on, watch out easy Now what do you think
it's obvious?

Speaker 4 (05:14):
All we needed was one Look where's the phone?

Speaker 1 (05:26):
What's the matter? I don't get a dial tone? Kato?

Speaker 3 (05:32):
Hmm that's hod oh I thought so, Kato. This telephone
wire has been cut. Oh that's very bad. I got
to the nearest phone and call the police. If you
stay here, Kato, this is very sad, too bad for him. Yes,

(06:00):
mister brick. Hell, mister Brit, mister.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
Brit, that's you. That's the bride. You know you're all right.
Come on, you're all right. That's it. Come on now,

(06:32):
mister Brit. What happened?

Speaker 3 (06:34):
That's what I want to know. FANDU in the hall
and we got here. Got a bump on the top
of your head like an egg. That's like a black chack.
Who was I don't know what happened where.

Speaker 6 (06:45):
I waited in the room like you said, and then
I hear a door CROs I think it's you.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
I call and come out, mister Bridge. I hear voices,
voices back in the room, just the police, kid and
checking on the body. Forget it, I go on. It
came out the store and then.

Speaker 7 (07:02):
What somebody close by me say, get him? I tried
to see who it is, but something hit me, unhead.
That's all. That's all except where's letter?

Speaker 1 (07:14):
The letter we came here to deliver where you had it?
I had it?

Speaker 3 (07:16):
No more letters gone, So that's what they wanted. Hey, yes,
what is it?

Speaker 1 (07:23):
Officer? Hey, what kind of a joke is this joke? Murders?
Know a joke? Sure, that's what I mean. What was
the idea?

Speaker 3 (07:31):
Calling up the police and having all ready what do you?

Speaker 1 (07:35):
What are you people doing in my house? What are
those cars are said to do? Who are you?

Speaker 8 (07:40):
Who am I? Who am I? I live here? My
name is a miss Kingler. What does this mean? I
come home in just a moment. Mister, my name is Reed.
I am publisher for Early seven. Tell me what's a
dead man doing in your living room? Kind of privacy?

Speaker 1 (07:57):
Can I put? That's a good man in my living room? Yes?

Speaker 9 (08:05):
Murdered?

Speaker 1 (08:06):
Well, put a hold on.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
Wait a minute, one thing at a time, One thing
at a time, Bester read.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
If you're playing a joke, you're carrying it too far. Joke.
What are you talking about? I'll tell you what I'm
talking about. Take a look in that room. There's no
murdered man. There's nobody at all. Right.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
In this case, I had noticed myself. When I got
back there, Katy was lying in the hall. I didn't
go into the living room at all. The police went in.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
It's the strangest thing I ever heard of mytery.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
The body was gone, no trace of it. But I
hadn't been for the broken telephone where I met who
believed it was a.

Speaker 7 (08:43):
Dream and Katy when you both had the same dream.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
What are the police going to do? Take you to
the psychiatrist?

Speaker 3 (08:51):
Quite after all, I realized I wouldn't phone about nothing.
They decided that Kata when I walked in on.

Speaker 5 (08:56):
A practical joke, someone was just playing dead, that's it,
got up and beat it after Kato left the room.
I suppose what about using the black jack on Cato
that to make the joke more practical.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
I haven't figured that one out yet.

Speaker 5 (09:09):
Oh, good grief, all this because you delivered a lost letter.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
It reminds me the letter was gone too. Cato had it.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
And then when a bossy Hello, Laurie, Well, Laurie Bill
blank Boss.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
You stayed with the police, didn't you sure?

Speaker 3 (09:22):
And like you said, I hung right on their shoulders
while they checked up on this. Ernest Kegler Gay don't
own the house, but that's on the level. It is
his house. He's on the level all the way. Name's
Anes Kegler. He does own the house. And he's even got.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
Fingerprint proof of identification. Seeing you, Prince, mister Rita a
criminal wreck. That's casey, don't jump the gun. This guy
works in a war plant.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
That's how he had fingerprints oh, Simon Purrer as the
driven snow. I don't know, Boss, Maybe you and Kato
walked in on opporternity initiation.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
It seems so somehow.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
I was sure that when the police investigated Ernest Keckler
they'd run into something.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
Oh are you so yeah? Did he look like the
man who bumped into Miss Case on the street.

Speaker 9 (10:04):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
I didn't get a close look that time.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
I asked Keagler about a letter, and he said yes,
he'd lost one, but it wasn't important. Well, it looks
like the end of what might have been a good
story for the Sentinel.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
I see a letter, Misscase. Mister Reed, you just arrived
and I'm leaving. Ah, I'll tell you something else.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
Kegler and the man I saw lying on the floor
looked almost like twins. But holy micro, say Casey, maybe
the boss is crazy, mister Bridge.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
I think about it all day.

Speaker 6 (10:48):
If it were not for bump on my head, I.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
Would not be sure.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
You and I are the only ones who were positive
Keto with a letter missing. Yes, there's something strange going on,
I'm sure. Yes, sir, We've been wrong before, may be
wrong again, but at least we're going to find out who.
So you're sitting around talking about it. Maybe we can
use the role of the Green Hornet. Get the mask
in the gascon. We're taking a black Beauty.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
A few seconds later, stepping through a secret panel in
the rear of a closet in his bedroom, brit Reed
and Kato went along a narrow passage built within the
wall of the apartment house itself. This passage led to
an adjoining building which fronted on a dark side street.
Though supposedly abandoned, this building served as the hiding place
for the sleek, superpowered Black Beauty streamlined car of the

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Green Hornet. Britt Reid pressed the button, the great car
roared into life. A section of the wall in front
raised automatically, then dropped into place as the gleaming Black
Beauty sped into the darkness.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
Will we go, mister Brittay and place Kato? Where's home? Where?

(12:22):
Where is this? Keigler's house is down at the far
end of the block. You can gave the black duty
here in the alley, here's the street. It's good in
the dark room, basile, Kato. Did you see that? Yes, sir,

(12:42):
somebody go in Keebler's front door and look like Larry.
I might have known. Larry is a swell reporter. He
always keeps sticking yes. But in this case, that's that's
so good for us.

Speaker 3 (12:53):
No, it might turn out all right, Kato, and the
fact it might be very helpful. Come on, we'll get
into the house quietly. We'll be there when Lowry leaves.
You might get something. No, no, there isn't anything special

(13:17):
I want to see about, mister kay Levitt. I just
can't help feeling that the boss did run into something.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
The level headed guy.

Speaker 8 (13:23):
Yes, I understand. I read the sentinel myself, a good
loose pitch.

Speaker 3 (13:27):
He just stopped off to do your favor and return
that letter when you dropped when we bump them, I'm.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
Like, who, Yes, but it wasn't important. Please where don't
you forgive thee or you know as reporters? Maybe there
was somebody here.

Speaker 8 (13:40):
I don't know. Maybe it was a practical joke, but
whatever it was.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
It wasn't. It's overdone with.

Speaker 3 (13:46):
Okay, okay, say you've got your letter, haven't you?

Speaker 8 (13:50):
No?

Speaker 1 (13:50):
I haven't. Oh, yes, yes, that's right, Well didn't.

Speaker 10 (13:54):
If you didn't show you to the door, you don't.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
Go of the door. Kiddle yes, sir, we learned nothing yet,
you know, back behind the tripes.

Speaker 8 (14:11):
Oh so take good talkie, the reporter will he I'm worried.

Speaker 1 (14:30):
Okay, all right if.

Speaker 8 (14:34):
You say so, Yes, yes, I understand. There's nothing to
worry about it.

Speaker 6 (14:47):
So what.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
All right? This story? The letter at once? Good? Ray? Okay?
Keke lear him over that letter he has gotten.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
MM In a house in the suburbs on the other
side of the city from Kegler's home, a man named

(15:36):
Bolton hung up the phone and crossed to another room.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
That was Yeah, the reporter from the Sentinel was nosing
around again. I told him to forget that. Nothing's going
to go wrong. He's nervous man.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
You can't blame him. It was pretty close.

Speaker 10 (15:55):
Yes, it's a lucky thing, that fellow. He sloped at
the letter. I lifted it a light from his hands,
and I told Kegler to burn it.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
We read it already.

Speaker 10 (16:05):
Let's see, you've got to do something about Uh sure
that that man sure share maybe the over I.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
Was shot up with him.

Speaker 3 (16:13):
I was thinking, uh, hey, right now, uh, I want
to double check. And then it called kay, good, make
sure he burned that letter. And it's five minutes he's
had plenty of time, said letter with me not finishing

(16:34):
with gout my long hands.

Speaker 9 (16:35):
Yeah, uh, it's funny, no way.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
Answer what what happened? Still no answer? Yeah, still no answer.

(17:06):
How many times is that?

Speaker 1 (17:07):
I don't know? Ten?

Speaker 3 (17:08):
Maybe it's been almost an hour, maybe event out already
went out. But why it's almost midnight? He said nothing
to me on the phone about going to say, yeah,
come on hello, So you came here. Here is the

(17:32):
way you've been. I've been calling you.

Speaker 8 (17:35):
I didn't burn another booth, and there's somebody who knows
about it.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
Now that's eating You'll come in here, start out there,
Come on in.

Speaker 3 (17:45):
Right there, let's have it. What happened to the letter?
What do you mean somebody knows about it? I can
tell you a bulletin your mask? The green hornet dobb it?
Leave it there?

Speaker 10 (17:56):
Pait for that gun on?

Speaker 1 (17:56):
I pulled astray? What's that sort of kag? You'll pull
the fast on? Blame him? He shot at me. It's
just his tough luck that he missed. That's all. Oh,
how much is this letter worth? Bullton? Nothing? Why?

Speaker 3 (18:11):
And what happened to the man was killed in Kegler's house?
What about the man.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
Don't kid me, bullten.

Speaker 3 (18:18):
You've covered up pretty fast, but I've got ways of
finding things out.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
Who was that dead man rough to be?

Speaker 3 (18:26):
Was he somebody who knew your set up? Maybe this
Keckler is a fake. Maybe the dead man was the
real Kegler.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
You're pretty smart, aren't you. The police might think. So
don't give me that with a horn that you wouldn't
go to the police. I can't get it from you.
Maybe I can get it from your stooge.

Speaker 11 (18:44):
Here.

Speaker 3 (18:45):
Come on, come on, we'll let Bolton think about it.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
Stay here. He's coming with me. I don't think you
can handle him the right way. Me and Mannheim can
do that. We'll now get that gun. I can't see you.
What can I say?

Speaker 11 (19:01):
I'll take it one side, can get him.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
Comment didn't make a sound?

Speaker 3 (19:12):
Okay, come along and close your mouth. You look like
a fish. Hold what's back there?

Speaker 1 (19:32):
You courage? All right?

Speaker 3 (19:35):
You go first, we'll take the driveway.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
Hell right here, just a moment, caglar, walk up to
the garage.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
Stand there with your back to us, and remember you
make a perfect target against that white background.

Speaker 11 (19:56):
So don't try anything. What is it, mister b I
look in the garage. I look in the back. There's
a big heavy trunk. You were right, mister Brigan was fine. Fine,
that's all I want to know.

Speaker 3 (20:12):
I will even note for Bolton and Mannheim, and we'll
see the Kegler gets back to his home and keeps
his mouth shut until tomorrow night.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
Then I then I.

Speaker 3 (20:31):
Wake up, come on, snap out of it and come on,
come on, wake up?

Speaker 1 (20:37):
Where's my gun? Where's my gunner? Oh? It's you? Is
he gone him? And take the boat? I found this?

Speaker 10 (20:48):
H it's got the horned seal on a task. Right,
I'll give you one more chance to talk money. Don't
try anything to call. She will be watched.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
I guess he means business. Yes, what about the gash?
And everybody do like he says? Man, I am we
just sit tight. Wait?

Speaker 8 (21:25):
Hello, Yes, this is Kigle. No, I'm sorry. I won't
be to work today. No, I'm not feeling well. Go boy,
I'm not feeling well with.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
Any roam at light on? What's that? Yeah? What about len? H?
Say who is this? I said?

Speaker 4 (22:10):
Who?

Speaker 1 (22:12):
What is it? Long?

Speaker 3 (22:12):
Some guy said if I wanted a story, I should
go see keg Lear again again.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
Yeah, tonight around midnight and I don't even know who called.

Speaker 9 (22:30):
Hello?

Speaker 1 (22:32):
Is that you Bolton? I saw you last night? Remember
that's right? Sure, stick around.

Speaker 3 (22:40):
I'll see you again, I'll say around nine and nine thirty,
and no tricks this time.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
I've been watching from the knows. I haven't seen a thing.
He'll be around, he said, So what are you going
to do? I don't know.

Speaker 3 (23:07):
I get the money for him, but that's pretty tough. Yeah,
we'll see what happens.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
Yeah, we should be.

Speaker 3 (23:14):
Taking care of said, you know, in the tounk in
the garage, and have that hornet find out about that.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
Maybe he already knows. Maybe I'll tell you one thing
we gotta do. Do you mean, Kidler?

Speaker 3 (23:27):
Yeah, he's scared silly. He's already talked to the hornet.
How much we don't know, but he might talk to
the police if the pressure gets strong enough.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
I gotta take care of him, kill him. Huh.

Speaker 3 (23:39):
Yeah, we gotta do it soon. We can't go that's
the back door, the hornet hare.

Speaker 1 (23:44):
Who else can't get done out of sight? Man, don't dwell.

Speaker 10 (23:48):
I don't take chances with that, d fella. Well, what
are you reading for? Open the door? Look at the
glass man it's his shadow looks leaning right against hers.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
You can't tell it. It's that glass that you can't
see through. And there's something peculiar. Oh well, look up.

Speaker 6 (24:21):
It's the body from the tonque in the garage, popped
up against the door.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
Who'll put it there?

Speaker 12 (24:25):
How did I do it?

Speaker 1 (24:26):
The hornet? You'll know about it. I want to know
a lot more. This man's dress something like Kegler. He
looks like Kegler. Who was he? What was his name?
I get it on it. This doesn't could say I'm
mixed up in something. I want to know all about it.
Come on, who was he? He'skeler Kegler? Oh I get it.

(24:50):
You mean the real Kegler.

Speaker 3 (24:52):
Yeah, your friend who calls himself rest Kegler.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
He's her mind. I can figure it.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
He took this man's place, didn't he took over his?
This man was kept a prisoner in his own house,
isn't it right?

Speaker 1 (25:03):
Yeah, that's it. And when that.

Speaker 3 (25:06):
Newspaper publisher told the police he found a dead man there,
this was the man who saw Yeah. That was while
we were out of the house getting the car. And
when we got back, we stuck the man we found
there and took.

Speaker 1 (25:19):
The body out fast. What was the reason for all that, Buldon?

Speaker 3 (25:23):
I wanted our man to get a job in a
war plant by using this one's references.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
He got a good job.

Speaker 3 (25:29):
Preparing for sabotage, eh, something like that. But something went
wrong and you had to kill him. The letter came
with a code message. Somehow the real cake and got
hold of it. He got out of the house and
was on his way to the police. He saw us
trailing him and got scared. He dropped the letter.

Speaker 10 (25:47):
He got up with him a couple of blocks further
on and took him back to the house. So that's
why the letter was important.

Speaker 9 (25:52):
Yeah, look on it.

Speaker 3 (25:55):
There's two things we gotta do. We need that letter
and we got to take care of this body. It
will cost your money here, there's plenty, and.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
I'd give you. I'll take it all. Thanks. What about
your partner? Okay? Okay?

Speaker 3 (26:12):
Calling that for convenience. He's nervous. You might spill everything.
Certainly we got to get rid of Iwa was working
on it. I haven't got any ideas.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
I have an idea, Polson, I might as well learn
this money.

Speaker 3 (26:28):
It's a good idea, all about making it look like
murder and suicide. Murder, yes, with your friend as the
murderer who commits suicide. I'll explain it later when let
me get the Kegler's house. Of course, I suppose you
would take this man over there in your car.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
No tricks. I'll be driving right behind you.

Speaker 12 (26:57):
The course.

Speaker 3 (26:58):
I was britten master joining the car. Now, don't follow them.
Turn here in the alley. They'll stop the house.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
All I come on, we'll go into that house the
backway and be very careful.

Speaker 3 (27:13):
Allow we ought to be prowling around nearby.

Speaker 1 (27:22):
Worry, isn't that Kidler's house here? Casey, it's too worthy
for me to make my calls. Look, two men going
toward the front door. They're carrying another man. That guys
either had one thing too many? Oh mean macro? Wait here, Casey,
all right, where you're going, I'll be right back coming.

Speaker 12 (27:39):
Look in the window, Casey, what is it?

Speaker 1 (27:49):
What did you see it?

Speaker 3 (27:49):
Fumby there inside? Now that man they were carrying was dead.
He's on the living room floor, and the hornets there too.
Good great hockey watching.

Speaker 12 (27:55):
You get to go on and get the cops here
as fast as you can. And don't understand I don't
understand why you brought him back here.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
I don't see what okay, Kegler will clear it up
for you. Man, I haven't give me here again.

Speaker 3 (28:12):
Wife the prince off first you are, Thanksgler. This is
the gun man. I'm used to kill that man. The
idea is to use this gun on you. Leave it
in your hand. Yes, leapear that you murdered that man.
And now that you've committed suicide, I'm not don't measure.
That's the way we want makes a safe.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
Get it then? Of what it gives us? That letter?
We burn it? Hey, what's that? Please? Hurry up?

Speaker 6 (28:42):
Shoot him?

Speaker 1 (28:43):
Shoot I will put him, not with your gun, with mine.
Take it kind of it? What puts that?

Speaker 6 (28:48):
It does gas?

Speaker 3 (28:49):
You'll wait, you'll wake up and talk to the police,
and you'll go to jail, hold and be been fooled.

Speaker 1 (28:53):
Get him, get him, be your void.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
Shot it, greedy says kid about the back way. Remind
me to send us money to the US O.

Speaker 1 (29:14):
Break your door down A right. You can't hear this
from well, I'll be Are they all dead? No? No,
just one of them.

Speaker 3 (29:28):
I saw the whole thing from the windows, hunch and
unless I'm not you'll have a.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
Spy story that will hit my headlines.

Speaker 13 (29:33):
That's fine, But what happened to the Green Hornet this MI.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
You've just heard the adventure the Corpse that wasn't there.
These exciting dramas are sent to you each week at
the same time the copyrighted features of the Green Hornet incorporated.
All characters, names, places, and incidents used in this drama
are purely fictitious.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
Bob I speaking.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
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