Good morning, Professor Lopez.
Buenos dias.
New York Botanical Gardens.
Yes, ma'am, the Rose Gardens will be in bloom in about a week.
It has to be here.
I think we're wasting our time.
I think he found it.
If he did...
Shh!
We will go upstairs and examine the specimens of the descendants through geologic time of the plants that turned to stone.
Now, if you'll follow me this way, please.
We will go upstairs where we can examine some of the specimens of the descendants through geologic time of the plants that turned to stone.
Let's go.
Dios mio.
Who are you and what do you want?
It doesn't matter who I am, Professor.
We are experimenting with these coconuts.
Please leave.
By any chance, have you seen a bag of diamonds?
What diamonds?
If you know something, tell me or I'll kill you.
Hold it, Martinez.
Talk English, both of you.
I want to hear what he's saying.
My friend, he does not trust me.
You will speak English so we can both hear if you know anything about the diamonds.
Speak.
You idiot.
He is unconscious.
Now he cannot talk.
He'll keep.
Come on, let's peel some more coconuts.
We got a few more to go.
If we can find him before he comes to.
If we do find him.
If we don't.
Come on.
I'm getting tired.
Hey.
Lopez, he's trying to escape us.
That bob on the head, he ain't getting far.
We'll find him before somebody else does.
You look upstairs.
I'll look around down here.
Yes, sir.
Mike Bonnett to see Mr. Lopez.
Professor Lopez.
He was here just a few minutes ago.
He asked me to meet him here in the administration building.
How are we?
He's fine.
But he can't go on very far.
He may be in the greenhouse if you care to look.
Oh, what's he look like?
He's kind of cute.
Chubby, tan, mustache.
Wears a white laboratory jacket.
Okay, thanks.
If you see him first, tell him where I am, will you?
All right.
I'll be right there.
Excuse me, do you know if Professor Lopez a botanist?
No, I don't, but there was a fellow wandering around here a while ago just talking to himself.
Professor Lopez?
Professor?
I'm Mike Barnett.
Hey, what's the matter, pal?
Buenos dias.
Yeah, if you say so.
I think you better sit down.
Ay, que me dormí con Los Angeles.
You were with what?
The Angels?
Hablar un little inglés, señor.
I don't dig you.
No entiendo, amigo.
¿Han encerrado el mundo con vidrio?
The world's covered with glass.
Sorry, yo still no entiendo nada.
I beg your pardon.
I speak Spanish.
Perhaps I may assist?
Frank, I think there's something wrong with him.
And with my poco espanol, it doesn't make sense.
¿Cómo se llama usted, señor?
No me recuerdo.
He does not know his name.
He's Professor Lopez.
His accent sounds South American.
Who around here might know the professor?
Well, I mean...
Well, Mr. Williams is over in the lab.
He's the superintendent.
We can call a doctor from over there, and he needs looking after.
See if he's up to a little walk.
¿Por qué no está en la...
Let's get him over to the office.
I see you've found him.
Good morning, Professor Lopez.
¿Profesor?
What's the matter, Mr. Barnett?
Some kind of an accident.
Where can we find Mr. Williams?
The first office across the way.
I hope it's not serious.
I don't know, but you better phone a hospital and get someone right over to look at him.
Yes, sir.
In here.
What in the world is the matter?
I don't think he can tell you.
Well, the receptionist just called.
The doctor will be right over.
My name is Barnett.
This is Mr....
Gilberto Martinez, para ser real, señor.
Well, he seemed to be in a state of shock.
Where'd you find him?
He was wandering around on a phone.
In the tropical greenhouse.
Well, you better sit down.
Come along, old man.
Este...
Este de la de cabeza.
Talking about his head.
He complains of a headache.
There's a swelling there, all right, but no laceration.
He must have been hit hard.
He's not rational.
Could be emotional shock, fear.
Well, he had no reason to be afraid.
Did he?
I don't know.
If you could hear that, you'd know more.
You don't hear yourself?
Get it?
Well, I'm gonna know.
Head beard.
Head beard?
You mean old hair?
Very straight.
First figure, only fiberglass, face is finished.
Very well?
Looks like it's done well.
I mean him.
Thetest has covered up our conclusion of what I found.
He was usuallyget troyer.
Amnesia is usually temporary.
If it was brought on by a great shock,
we might ease him out of it with a lesser shock.
How, senor?
It's a gamble, but empty his pockets.
What?
All right, I will.
I want to witness that I return everything I take out.
Está bien, profesor.
I thought I meant to experiment, though.
Now...
All right, tell you,
hold those things in front of him one at a time.
You mean the contents of his pocket
might stir recognition, get his memory functioning?
Sometimes works.
It's worth a try.
Ready.
Any photographs in it?
His wife, I believe.
Why are you taking his pulse?
Might get a pulse jump.
Subconscious reaction.
Try the watch.
Inscription on it?
Presentation from the Ministry of Agriculture.
That should be important to him.
Not impressed.
What's left?
Come, pens and change this.
That's not Spanish.
No, botanical that and the species of plant,
the sturgeon from South America.
If you have no further need of my services,
I will rejoin my tour party.
Yeah, thanks for your help.
I have done nothing.
Adios, senores.
What do you know about Lopez?
Why, he was sent up here from South America
to help us arrange an exhibit in coconut culture.
He's one of the leading experts in the field.
You see, there's some mystery
about the spread of the coconut fruit.
Some fall into the sea
and are carried along by the ocean current.
Lopez had been applying oceanography
to back trail the coconut to its point of origin.
And his work concerns coconuts.
Oh, he had a big shipment set up here for his exhibit.
He had been preparing everything
from the germinating seed to the adult palm.
Where is this shipment of coconuts?
Stored in the basement.
Why?
I'd like to look at it.
Can you get someone to sit with the professor?
Well, yes, I believe so.
Oh, Smith, come in here, will you?
I'll take you down there myself.
Oh, Smith, you heard what happened.
Yes, sir.
Well, just bring your work in here
and keep your eye on him until the doctor comes.
If he comes till before that,
don't try to explain anything.
Just keep him here.
We'll be back in a while.
I'll be back in a while.
What in the world?
It's like somebody's been milking coconuts with an ax.
It looks like every one of them has been split open.
Well, this is the work of a lunatic.
You don't suppose that Lopez...
...sabotaged his own project
and hit himself in the back of the head?
No, he's hysterical, but he's not crazy.
Why would anyone say anything of this?
I don't know.
Unless he was looking for something.
Coconut milk?
Meat?
Commercial value of the entire shipment was less than $100.
That the customs valuation?
No, Department of Agriculture.
You mean these things don't have to clear customs?
Oh, no.
Scientific material is admitted duty free.
International customs.
Those are the coconut eyes.
This is what made Lopez's pulse jump
when I showed him this piece of coconut.
Look at those edges.
They're saw-cut.
You're right.
If you cut out those eyes
and emptied the milk out of the coconut,
it'd have a nice hollow container
with a stopper to plug it up again.
Container for what?
Something small.
Something valuable enough to smuggle.
Something that had to be followed
and recovered at this end.
The smuggler didn't recover it.
It sure looks like he tried.
Yeah, and if he didn't find it in the coconuts,
he might have tried to take it out of Lopez's hide.
Then you think that maybe Lopez
accidentally found some contraband
and the smugglers found him?
Yes, I do.
Now, he would have lumped his head
trying to get him to talk.
Well, if that's true, then why didn't he call the police
instead of a private investigator?
He must have hidden the loot
and called me instead of the police
to avoid any publicity
that might react unfavorably on his exhibit.
Anyway, I think we better have the law around
when the old boy gets his wits back.
Call the doctor.
He just arrived, Dr. Fenton.
He's in the office now.
Good, now call the police.
The police, yes.
You're Mr. Williams?
I'm Williams.
How is he, doctor?
A slight concussion.
He's just regained consciousness.
He wasn't unconscious when I left him.
Was he wearing an iron holder
wrapped around his skull when you left him?
What?
Hello, Mr. Williams.
Smith!
Are you all right?
I feel rather slow.
Where's Lopez?
Was there another man here when you came in?
No, just this fellow.
Smith, I told you to watch him.
I did.
Maybe if I hadn't, I'd have seen him slug me.
That it wasn't Lopez?
Couldn't have been.
He was sitting right in front of me.
Somebody's kidnapped him.
There can only be one reason.
How do I get to receptionist?
Just ask for the lobby.
I'm in the lobby, please.
Somebody's trying to get him to talk.
If he ever makes sense, he's a goner.
Hello, I'm calling for Mr. Williams' office.
Have you seen Professor Lopez
since we brought him in here?
Are you sure?
Good.
They may still be in the building.
Get some help and search the place.
Call McGateman and tell him to watch all exits.
Allure all the park attendants
and leave word for the police.
What is all this?
Stick around, doc.
Might be a busy day.
I'll be back.
Nothing.
He's hidden them somewhere.
Old man, crazy.
For the last time, where did you hide them?
Now, wait a minute.
I told you to cut the Apache talk.
I want to hear this.
Think.
Think hard.
The little shiny rocks, where did you hide them, huh?
Tropaio long coronata.
What's he saying?
It is Latin.
I do not know.
I think you're lying.
You, you old crock,
I don't think you're punchy at all.
You got rocks in the head.
I don't have rocks.
You don't talk, I'm going to kick your head out.
We cannot stay here.
Soon they will be searching for him.
Let him alone.
Maybe he will lead us somewhere.
Tropaio long coronata.
He's really flipped his frigging poses.
He must not talk, Trent.
Maybe he is eating sense.
What's that mean?
We will see.
Tropaio long coronata.
I found them.
Good God, you're a monkey.
I found them.
Good God, you're a monkey.
I found them.
You're a monkey.
You know Professor Loughbry, sir?
No, sir.
I want you to see this red spider here.
It's buzzing all the leading girls.
It's a bitter spray of the tropaio long coronata.
Yes, it's a phylum of coronata.
That's what Lopez kept muttering.
Is there any other name?
Other names, yes.
Jungle Jewel, Diamond Root.
Jewel, huh?
Maybe he's trying to tell us something.
There any more of these plants?
Well, yes, right there in the tropical flora group.
There were three men in there a few minutes ago.
There are police on the way.
They're all in here.
Who's up there?
It was stabbed.
He hid whatever it was in these nasturtiums to turn over to me and the smugglers found
it.
What's this in his hand?
Well that's just an eerie and trickish form.
You think that's another attempt to say something?
What other name is it?
Well it's called Four Eyes in the States, in the tropics, I think it's false countryman.
Does that say anything?
Four Eyes, a man with glasses.
False countryman?
Another South American maybe, with glasses.
He was coming out of a shop, maybe he's trying to tell us who it is.
Martinez, the man who helped us take him to the office wears glasses.
Come on.
Come on, let's go.
Let me keep traveling, I'll give you half the diamonds.
Your traveling days are over brother.
You smuggled in more than diamonds in those three eyed tropical nuts.
That's right brother.
This is Mike Barnett. Turn to this same channel next week for another exciting
case from The File I Call Follow That Man.