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Ricky?
I won't admit a thing.
Last person who called me Ricky sold me stock in a bubble gum factory.
Whole deal blew right up in my face.
Ricky, this is Pat.
I'm in trouble, bad trouble.
Somebody steal your last name?
This is Pat Stens.
Pat Stens, an old friend of several years standing, blonde, attractive, and the owner
of a plan to eliminate cranium luster.
To the aging juveniles of the world's biggest city, she might easily be called the mother
protector of hairlines.
In other words, like the sign says in the front of her uptown salon, she grows hair.
You've just got to come down to the place.
Honey, I've graduated, you told me so yourself.
Another treatment and I'll be wearing a snood.
Ricky, I'm on the level, I'm in trouble.
Something's happened to one of my customers.
What's the matter?
Did he sprout feathers?
Well, almost.
He sprouted wings.
He's dead.
Now, phone gains with Pat weren't a hobby.
She might kid a customer about the condition of his scalp, but when she called me to say
she had a corpse on her hands, I knew she hadn't been sampling her hair tonic.
I told her I'd be right down, call Helen, rope for Dave, lock the office, set a few
traps for impatient clients, and 15 minutes later I was in Pat's office talking to a pretty
frightened little blonde.
Oh, Rick, I just don't know what to do.
Well, now honey, first calm down.
Now, who's dead and where?
A man named Wiley.
John Wiley's on the vibrating table.
Why didn't you call a doctor or the police?
Because I think he's been murdered.
Murdered?
Looks like his neck's been broken.
I didn't know what to do.
I was afraid of calling the police.
Well, baby, if one of your customers got his neck broken in here, you're going to get mixed
up with the law sooner or later anyway.
The publicity will ruin my business.
Honey, murder always ruins something.
You got any idea who might have done it?
No.
Who was in the place when you discovered the body?
My usual three girls and two customers.
Anybody leave or come in?
No.
How many people know about it?
Just the girls, neither one of the customers.
Oh.
Well, first we lock your front door.
I don't want anyone to leave.
Then we'll take a look at the dead man and find out if his neck really is broken.
If it is, we call homicide.
We locked the front door and Pat let me down a hall with booze on either side.
In two of the booze, I spotted the customers relaxing as girls in white uniforms worked
on their receiving foreheads.
At the end of the hall, we stopped at another booth, enclosed by a white curtain.
In there, Rick.
Okay.
The vibrating table was centered in the middle of the room, an enclosure about six by 14 feet.
The table was built in an angle so that when a patient climbed up and stretched out on
his back, his feet were elevated a good 16 inches above his head.
The angle and the vibration increased the flow of blood to the scalp and under normal
conditions, it's considered very healthy.
But the man lying on the table now wasn't getting the full benefit of the treatment.
His shoulders extended over the end of the table, leaving his head hanging down at a
grotesque angle, rolling from side to side with a monotonous rhythm of the vibration.
Oh, Rick.
Not very pretty, huh?
I forgot to turn the table off.
I think I'm gonna faint.
Just take it easy.
Was I right?
You had to be.
A circus rubber man would need vulcanizing if he turned his head that far.
Busted neck, all right.
Yes, we better call the police.
Can you keep the customers out of here?
What if one of them gets inquisitive?
Tell them the table's out of order.
I'm gonna call homicide and tell them Mr. John Wiley's in the same condition.
As frightened as she was, Pat played it pretty well.
She tipped off the girls and started swapping jokes with their balding clients to keep them
happy.
I went in the office, put in a fast call to the 5th Precinct Homicide, and 10 minutes
later, Lieutenant Walton Levinson and Otis, his trained anthropoid, were looking at the
late John Wiley.
Sure looks like murder.
I guess it would be better if he had a knife in his chest with a sign on it.
Who was in the place when it happened?
Pat, three girls, two customers, and a dozen assorted gay gypsies.
Oh, for Pete's sake.
Pete has an alibi.
What was the dead man doing on the table, anyway?
Trying to grow hair.
Oh, that's silly.
Whoever heard of anybody growing hair on the table?
Ha ha ha ha ha.
Sergeant Loveland.
Well, I thought it was pretty funny.
Go out and round up everybody in the place and take them into the office.
Then call the precinct and get the coroner down here.
Then, if you're a good little boy, you can go out and play in the traffic.
Well, a murder is a mess anyway you look at it.
A man lying on a table with his neck broken.
Four women and two men, the only ones around when it happened.
Bad publicity for a nice little working gal named Pat Stens.
Butch can't hide it when it happens.
Someone gets killed, someone gets hunted, and everybody concerned gets mixed up in it.
People herded everyone into the office and the questioning started.
The men were very unhappy.
And bad publicity couldn't be helped.
Mr. Robert Wells, songwriter.
Look, I don't know anything about it.
I never saw the man before.
Surely you can't possibly suspect me.
Why in the world would I want to kill him?
It's ridiculous.
And the other, Mr. Jacob Green, jeweler.
Oh my goodness, my head is still wet.
John Wiley?
I never saw him before in my life.
Not in my whole life.
Hey, Pat, give me another towel.
Will you kill him?
For what?
I got a mother-in-law.
First things come first.
Yes.
Now you see?
You see?
My debt I'll catch from J-
Two prosperous men, two prosperous denials.
The girls came next.
Three girls who worked for Pat.
First Mary Carroll, the girl who had worked on John Wiley.
The one who had helped him up on the table and massaged his neck and forehead for five
minutes.
I didn't come on the table, but I left him, like always.
We let them lie in there and relax for about ten minutes, don't we, Pat?
That's right, Lieutenant.
That's the way it works.
Mary left him when we went over to start on Mr. Wells.
That's right, Lieutenant.
She did.
Mary's a pretty strong girl, isn't she, Mr. Wells?
Yeah, she could break-
Break your neck?
Oh, now, wait a minute, Lieutenant.
You think she could, Mr. Wells?
She's pretty strong, I guess, but she wouldn't do that.
Any one of us could have gone in that back booth at one time or another, Lieutenant.
You found him, didn't you, Miss Stens?
Yes.
Do you usually go back to see how your customers are?
Sometimes.
Sometimes they go to sleep and the girl who left them's too busy with someone else, so
I wake them up.
Next girl, Lillian Wooster.
Yes, I went back by that booth several times.
Why?
Wants to make Mr. Green some coffee.
You're black and strong.
She bronzed it to me.
And the other times?
Wants to get some hair formula later to get a clean comb.
A clean comb for him?
Don't laugh.
I got a few left.
Look, up here on top, you see?
You're fairly new here, aren't you, Lillian?
Three weeks.
How'd you know that, Rick?
Well, I completed my treatments last month.
Lillian wasn't here then.
You mean you?
No, no, no.
People laugh at psychiatrists too, Walt, and some of them end up playing canasta with Lady
Macbeth.
We were rejuvenating his spit curls.
Thank you, Patricia Stens.
They've been spitting better than ever.
All right, all right.
You.
You're the last girl.
What's your name?
Nancy Cummings, Lieutenant.
The last girl in her story was no different than the others.
Yes, she had left her customer and walked down the hall past the last booth.
No, she had not slipped in and popped Mr. John Wiley's neck while he lay resting.
The coroner arrived and the whole party went down to the precinct to sign formal statements.
They were then all released and sent home, pending further investigation.
I took Pat home to her apartment.
Did you drink, Rick?
Oh, yeah, yeah, sure.
Water?
Mm-hmm.
You didn't kill him, did you, Pam?
Don't be silly.
He's grown hair.
You'll love my advertising.
Here.
Thanks.
You got any ideas?
No.
How long has John Wiley been coming to the shop?
Oh, about six months.
What do you know about him?
Not much.
He was a wolf.
By your standards or Kenzie's?
He got grabby occasionally.
Put him straight.
Know what business he was in?
Well, whatever it was.
He had a lot of money.
Big tipper.
Oh, excuse me.
Yes?
Oh, yes, that's me, Lieutenant.
For you, Rick.
Thanks.
Hello, Patty.
I got something on the dead man.
Got a record, blackmail.
Oh, know where he lived?
We're checking.
Now, wait a minute.
Pat, you wouldn't by any chance know where John Wiley lived, would you?
Well, I send a bill to him every month.
I've got a duplicate set of books here in the apartment.
I'll get you a copy of the book.
I'll send it to you.
I'll send it to you.
I'll send it to you.
Well, I'll send it to you.
I'll send it to you.
I'll send it to you.
John Wiley.
709 East 45th Street.
I told Walt I'd meet him in Wiley's place down at my drink.
gave pat pat half hour later we were carrying ms john while his apartment
pieces
nothing
no well i i at least turned up a kazoos grab a call me some tissue paper will do
a fast course of swanee
no tissue paper
now has a date
good good may we've been working on a holiday
here's a name nancy
that comes after april doesn't it
same name on some of the other pages here the twenty eight nancy six o'clock
again on the twenty second
nancy eight o'clock
again on the eighteenth and and and the twelve one of the girls who works at
pat's name nancy and i know it
well do you think we should go over and see her
sit down on a card table hold hands and make her pop out of the wall
someday i'm going to get very mad at you rick
only when you find somebody prettier
come on grouchy let's go over and see nancy coming
now here's her apartment
she lives with that new girl
let me know sir
and stop flexing your claws
ah please
open up a wheel huff and we'll puff and we'll
my what big noises you make grandma
the better to scare them and out of your closet my dear we'd like to talk to you
miss cummings
certainly that's an income and
it's making from lemonade would you like them
thanks it's pretty hot out
if you'd like something
uh... let it find i'm on duty he's on duty about to give him some torpedo juice
miss cummings you didn't tell us that you would date at john
back to the minute
uh... medium
thanks
i never asked me if i did john wiley
the lieutenant found a name written on while his date book
not with them
six seven times i think
you know what his business was never discussed
ever meet any of his friends now
did you ever mention any of the other girls in the shop
i don't think so
you were
delivered with the most of the
who's uh...
whose pictures on the piano
rolling spot
yes still don't have any idea why anyone would want to kill
out of the union was to have to move in with you
if you want to work for that she was living in a terrible place
one small room
i told you she could come in with me and share the rent
how well did she know john wiley
he's in the shop
he's in here when he came to pick me up
where's lillian now
shopping i think
well thanks miss cummings we'll be talking with you again
more lemonade
or later maybe
when things start getting a little hot
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three in the afternoon out of nancy school apartment down in the blistering
street
the thermometer crowding night here the humidity sticking to us like a steaming
blanket
i feel awful
terrible day to solve them
i want to go look through some newspaper files one point
that picture on the piano
million was his father
i've seen that someplace before
news story connected with it
i'll drop you off i gotta get back and see if it is found the safety deposit
box that fits john wiley's key
all dropped me off the newspaper and i went out of the mordenfale to do some
hunting
the air conditioning made the job easier and by four o'clock i walked into waltz
office with an interesting bit of information
we found the bank and the safety deposit
anything turn up
while i was doing some pretty fancy blackmailing
here's a bundle of evidence on the list of names
uh...
uh... i can understand why someone would pay to keep these out of
circulation while the photography
and what did you find out
well here
newspaper clippings
picture of lily and was just one of them pictures the well the piano
prominent banker leaps to death
william banker
william baker
girls name is worst that's what she calls herself
william banker
give me that list we got out of the deposit box i've just been looking at it
but in bakers name is on your all right
but cutting i just gave you mentions that he left the daughter and a wife
uh... let's go pick up lily and waster or baker or whatever her name is
well it might not have met a thing
but at least we found one person who had a strong connection john wiley other
than socially
the girl who called herself lily and waster was the daughter of one william
baker deceased
and one of john wiley's blackmail victims
they climbed in the squad car and hurried back to nancy cummings apartment
where lily and waster lived as roommate
let's go
hey wait a minute
hold it
lily and waster coming out of the building
all right we pick her up on the street
the doorman's hailing a cab for her
let's see where she's going
wouldn't it be easier to just ask her
oh stop trying to ruin my afternoon
there's nothing more relaxing than the pleasant drive through quiet peaceful
little old manhattan
we started telling lily and waster's cab
across town along the river
and across the george washington bridge
she's headed for jersey
now you look at your compass it's not fair
we kept going through hackensack
past the outskirts and on out route seventeen
pretty expensive makes it pretty important
we kept following like that
lily and waster's cab a good quarter of a mile ahead so she wouldn't notice us
they're turning off on that road
oh you're absolutely amazing fanny i probably would have missed it completely
we took the road to the right off the highway and spotted the cab up ahead
pulling into the entrance of a large white building
the sign of the tall iron gate red
would use sanitarium
she's getting out of the camp and going in
uh... what if she gets inside
then let's go up there and find out who lily and waster's visiting in the
would be a sanitarium
yeah
and i'm doing you i'm looking for a girl you know honey something that doesn't
look like a man now you stay out of this time and don't you start getting me
confused again
he gets confused at the drop of a hat
watch out about my hat are you stop that
he doesn't like it doesn't call it nearly drives him with
uh... you understand
where you're going
i think you better talk with dr gersen all right run him out
temper temper temper temper i swear if you don't stop these confounded routines
routine where you know what i'm talking about
who was on first base all don't you know who's on for a time dr gerson
uh... my friend here is given to uh... mass demonstrations in the aisle or
shut up right
i'm a little time left on that you with the cavalry
you'll get wise with me mac and i'll bust you one extreme persecution complex
ever since i go to just a great man well we have some lovely mandolins here
i am lieutenant levenson new york police now now now it's more fun in the
cavalry maybe you think it was more fun in a cell well it's wonderful we have
some very nice ones let me show you know that some i am lieutenant levenson new
york police fifth precinct homicide and if you don't lay off this foolishness
out there you'll tell him from them
i'll get some help you won't get anybody got away from that farm book i i i think
you better
let him tell you why is here calm him down i'm here trying to catch a girl
uh... wreck
that's right he's here trying to catch a girl certainly why don't we all trying
catch one lock would you do me a favor friend why of course lieutenant take a
look at those credentials certainly
all my goodness
i'm afraid he's a real place i need no help from you mister
grouchy all my goodness
satisfied
onto a little out of your territory that i am not making an arrest
and just trying to catch a girl i am following a girl she may be a murderous
she came in here a few minutes you mean miss baker
and baker is a right man
who she's seeing
what's wrong with her mother
mrs baker is seriously ill
have anything to do with the husband suicide
everything to do with it
i doubt mrs baker will ever recover
we went back out of the car and try to put it all together
lilyon's father had jumped off a roof
he was being blackmailed couldn't take it
the shark had driven mrs baker into a permanent breakdown
and john wiley had been responsible for the whole thing
motive enough for lilyon to get a job with pat stand so she could get her hands
on john wiley's neck
we waited until lilyon's cab turned out of the driveway and headed back to new
york
we stayed close watched her get off her apartment
then we went over to see pat stands
you can get a hair treatment tomorrow rick that's right honey i i want you to be
sure that lilyon takes care of me
did she do it rick
i uh...
i think so
why
you seem like such a nice girl
uh... she had pretty good reason but we need a confession and rick's got an idea
how to get
i want that in working on me through the whole treatment
especially when i get on the vibrating table
your scalp looks pretty good mister diamond
on spend it's a little
losing any from
uh... i'll pat looks pretty good mister and
use both solution okay i feel it
like your very nice
have you found out anything about mister why he did
all the place of going to your news
the lieutenant month see a roommate
and she told me
i hope you don't suspect her she rather like mister wiley she wouldn't have any
reason to kill him
let's go down to the uh... other booth
you mean
you're gonna stick me on that vibrating table
not if you don't want to
well full treatment that's what i came here for
let's go
you don't mind going in there do you
no why should i
or some people are funny about rooms where a murder has been committed it doesn't bother me mister diamond
give them a good rub and let them relax for about ten minutes lilyon yes miss dince
all right i think that
side
i don't think
uh...
what did you do before you went to work pat
all not much
school
finally decided to look for a job and found one
ever studied a song thing
there's really not much to it
pat shows us how to wash apply the formulas and
read the neck and shoulders and all you need is a
wrong pair of arms and i guess uh...
your family live in new york
and i was the picture of your father on nancy's piano
i'm a good man
he's dead now
mother still living
no uh...
marabing to have so k
that the strength of the job
did the police find out anything about mister whiny
uh...
he was a blackmailer
on terribly sorry
i'm little nervous today maybe i'd get one of the other girls are not on our
that's okay
this little tied up
next year
time
i guess i keep thinking about why i mean it
think i might break your time
well wouldn't be hard
i was good relax to snap in the middle
yes i could
so much to why they were blackmailer
had a record
at the fall of people on earth
and certainly are
you think he was
blackmailing someone here in the shop
necessarily
uh... he wasn't been known in the shop at have a motive for killing him
well i've got a
theory about that
i think someone in the shop hated him so much they waited
to know what is looking at
girl was out of this booth
and they slipped in on him and twisted his neck until it broke
why would they hate him that much if he wasn't blackmailing them
somebody else he might have blackmailed
someone very close and dear to the killer
maybe the person while he was blackmailing couldn't stand it and
committed suicide
interesting theory
take your family for instance
you aren't relaxing
supposing while he was
blackmailing a member of your family
your father for instance
i can't rub your neck unless you relax more
maybe your father couldn't take him
maybe he couldn't pay him anymore instead of disgracing his family he committed
suicide
just turn your head a little to the side mister diamond
better
much
well if that happened to my family mister diamond i guess i'd kill mister
wiley and mind it a bit
think of the shark
i even put the wife in a sanitarium
it probably would
how did your father die a million
he jumped off the roof
now if you turn your head a little more i'll try to pop your vertebra
we followed you out to jersey yesterday
i'm going to adjust your neck mister diamond it's better if you relax so it
won't hurt
well if you wanted to you could pop it anyway i couldn't stop you in time
i don't guess you could
now the other side
did you kill john wiley?
yes, relax
alright
let's go down to the police station
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richard diamond private detective stars dick powell in the title role and is
written by blake edwards with music composed and conducted by frank worth
featured in tonight's cast were mary jane croft, ted decausia, wilms herbert, virginia greg,
b benadarad and larry dobkin
richard diamond private detective is transcribed in hollywood by heimei delvalle
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