WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:10.000 Stand by for crime. 00:10.000 --> 00:21.000 Hi, I'm Chuck Morgan, newscaster at station KOP here in Los Angeles. 00:21.000 --> 00:27.000 You know, there's nothing that strikes terror to the heart of a city more than the knowledge that there's a maniacal killer at large. 00:27.000 --> 00:33.000 Especially one who kills just for the sake of killing, with no apparent motive or reason. 00:33.000 --> 00:36.000 Now, we had one here in LA a while ago. 00:36.000 --> 00:45.000 The press dubbed him the sniper, used a rifle to pick off his victims from dark alleys or upstairs windows or even automobiles. 00:45.000 --> 00:50.000 Five murders were credited to him without the police getting a ninkling as to his identity. 00:50.000 --> 00:54.000 And it was at this point that the guy began warning his victims. 00:54.000 --> 00:59.000 He'd make a phone call and say, you're next, and hang up. 00:59.000 --> 01:07.000 Sure, the police gave the warned victim protection, but you can't assign a couple of cops to standing guard over a man forever. 01:07.000 --> 01:09.000 This the sniper knew. 01:09.000 --> 01:16.000 He'd merely wait until the cops were called off the job, even if it took six months, and then cracked down. 01:16.000 --> 01:20.000 Well, this was a deal that I was thinking about last Tuesday. 01:20.000 --> 01:27.000 I was sitting here in my office mulling over the situation when my blonde secretary, Carol Curtis, came in with some stuff. 01:29.000 --> 01:30.000 Hi, Chuck. 01:30.000 --> 01:31.000 Hi. 01:31.000 --> 01:33.000 Here's the stuff on the mayor's talk last night. 01:33.000 --> 01:34.000 I'll leave it in the basket. 01:34.000 --> 01:35.000 Okay. 01:35.000 --> 01:37.000 Hey, what's the matter with you? 01:37.000 --> 01:40.000 Oh, this sniper gag is getting me down. 01:40.000 --> 01:42.000 Yeah, it's pretty serious. 01:42.000 --> 01:45.000 Let's see, that blonde girl who was shot last week made the tenth victim, didn't she? 01:45.000 --> 01:48.000 Yeah, and her warning came in four months ago. 01:48.000 --> 01:51.000 Well, one thing you can say about this sniper, he's got patience. 01:51.000 --> 01:52.000 He's got more than patience. 01:52.000 --> 01:57.000 He's got the cunning of a warped brain, the heartlessness of a man who doesn't know the meaning of human emotions. 01:57.000 --> 01:58.000 You think he's nuts, huh? 01:58.000 --> 01:59.000 Sure he's nuts. 01:59.000 --> 02:02.000 All his predecessors were nuts, like Jack the Ripper and all the others. 02:02.000 --> 02:07.000 You know, honey, the trouble is there's a type of insanity that only a psychiatrist would recognize. 02:07.000 --> 02:10.000 Criminals like the sniper are the most dangerous. 02:10.000 --> 02:12.000 The police are taking an awful beating from the taxpayers. 02:12.000 --> 02:13.000 I know. 02:13.000 --> 02:15.000 I talked to Bill Megsdown at headquarters yesterday. 02:15.000 --> 02:16.000 He's about ready to throw in the sponge. 02:16.000 --> 02:19.000 He won't. Bill talks about quitting, but he never will. 02:19.000 --> 02:22.000 Dog, garnet, glamour, puss, what are we going to do? 02:22.000 --> 02:24.000 What are we going to do? 02:24.000 --> 02:29.000 Now listen, Chuck, if you begin sticking your chin out on this, I'll divorce you. 02:29.000 --> 02:32.000 I absolutely refuse to give you a divorce until after we're married. 02:32.000 --> 02:34.000 Hmm, very funny. 02:34.000 --> 02:36.000 Okay, so I'll break our engagement. 02:36.000 --> 02:38.000 We aren't engaged. 02:38.000 --> 02:39.000 We are, too. 02:39.000 --> 02:41.000 You proposed to me two weeks ago, and I accepted. 02:41.000 --> 02:42.000 Oh, that. 02:42.000 --> 02:45.000 It's official and final, and there's nothing you can do about it. 02:45.000 --> 02:50.000 I'm even making payments on a ring, which Pappy Mansfield has agreed to deduct from your salary. 02:50.000 --> 02:51.000 He what? 02:51.000 --> 02:54.000 Well, you certainly don't expect me to be engaged without a ring. 02:54.000 --> 02:57.000 Oh, do you want it to become known around town that Chuck Morgan is a che... 02:57.000 --> 02:59.000 I give. Answer the phone. 02:59.000 --> 03:01.000 Chuck Morgan, you don't seem to realize... 03:01.000 --> 03:02.000 Answer the phone, I said. 03:02.000 --> 03:04.000 Oh, all right. 03:04.000 --> 03:05.000 Ring. 03:05.000 --> 03:07.000 Chuck Morgan's office. 03:07.000 --> 03:09.000 Who? 03:09.000 --> 03:10.000 Chuck. 03:10.000 --> 03:11.000 Hmm? 03:11.000 --> 03:12.000 It's the sniper. 03:12.000 --> 03:13.000 Give me that phone. 03:13.000 --> 03:15.000 Morgan speaking. 03:15.000 --> 03:17.000 I see. 03:17.000 --> 03:19.000 Now listen up. 03:19.000 --> 03:21.000 Chuck, what did he say? 03:21.000 --> 03:24.000 He said just two words, glamour puss. 03:24.000 --> 03:26.000 You're next. 03:26.000 --> 03:46.000 Well, it looked like I was going to stick out my chin on this deal, whether I wanted to or not. 03:46.000 --> 03:52.000 Now I knew how those other victims had felt when they heard the warning come to them over the phone. 03:52.000 --> 03:54.000 Wasn't a pleasant feeling. 03:54.000 --> 04:02.000 You thought of yourself walking along a street some night and hearing the bark of a rifle, feeling the impact of a bullet between your shoulder blades. 04:02.000 --> 04:05.000 You wondered what night it would be. 04:05.000 --> 04:08.000 And you thought of all the nights in between before it happened. 04:08.000 --> 04:12.000 And you wished you were a million miles away living in a desert island. 04:12.000 --> 04:15.000 The voice that came to me over the phone was neither young nor old. 04:15.000 --> 04:18.000 He could have been 16 or 60, but it didn't matter. 04:18.000 --> 04:20.000 What he said was what mattered. 04:20.000 --> 04:25.000 And the implication of it was still ringing in my ears when I hung up the phone. 04:25.000 --> 04:27.000 Chuck, this is horrible. It's awful. 04:27.000 --> 04:30.000 All right, don't get excited, glamour puss. I'm not dead yet. 04:30.000 --> 04:33.000 Well, you will be. All of the others are. Every single one of them. 04:33.000 --> 04:34.000 That's a cheerful picture. 04:34.000 --> 04:36.000 Oh, I'm sorry. Only I couldn't bear it. 04:36.000 --> 04:40.000 Now listen, little one, on the way. Let's cut out being so morbid and do some constructive thinking, will you? 04:40.000 --> 04:41.000 Okay. 04:41.000 --> 04:42.000 Do you remember Danny Yates? 04:42.000 --> 04:47.000 Oh, sure. He was a little bookmaker, a couple of racketeers for him for a job he didn't do. 04:47.000 --> 04:48.000 That's the one. 04:48.000 --> 04:51.000 And you saved him from a five-year stretch by proving him innocent. 04:51.000 --> 04:54.000 Right. Now our first move will be to go down and have a talk with Danny. 04:54.000 --> 04:55.000 Are you crazy? 04:55.000 --> 04:56.000 Huh? 04:56.000 --> 05:01.000 The only place we can find Danny Yates is on Skid Row. And Skid Row is where the sniper hangs out. 05:01.000 --> 05:04.000 Oh, that's only theory, glamour puss. Nobody knows where the sniper hangs out. 05:04.000 --> 05:07.000 Besides, it's the last place he'd expect to find me. 05:07.000 --> 05:09.000 Come on, come on, come on. Get your bonnet. 05:09.000 --> 05:14.000 I had a theory about our friend the sniper. You know, usually guys like him follow the pattern. 05:14.000 --> 05:17.000 The pattern stemmed from frustration. 05:17.000 --> 05:22.000 Killing was the release of the same pent-up energy that warped their brains. 05:22.000 --> 05:30.000 And because of this frustration, they all had the same weakness, a desire for recognition, all of which didn't prove anything. 05:30.000 --> 05:36.000 But if Danny Yates reacted the way I hoped he would, then he would be dead. 05:36.000 --> 05:41.000 But if Danny Yates reacted the way I hoped, I might get a lead. 05:41.000 --> 05:45.000 It was getting dark when Carol and I reached Skid Row. 05:45.000 --> 05:51.000 The place hadn't changed much since my last visit. Skid Rows never do, except to grow bigger. 05:51.000 --> 05:55.000 I still don't see why you didn't tell Bill Megs and get some police protection. 05:55.000 --> 05:57.000 If I had, they wouldn't let me come down here. 05:57.000 --> 06:00.000 But that's what I mean. Oh, I hate this place. 06:00.000 --> 06:01.000 Then why did you come? 06:01.000 --> 06:05.000 Well, if you're going to be shot in the back, I want to be on hand to catch the body when it falls. 06:05.000 --> 06:09.000 Ouch. Ah, you're a cute kid, Glamourpus. 06:09.000 --> 06:12.000 Well, here's the joint. 06:16.000 --> 06:19.000 Joint is right. What crummy-looking characters. 06:19.000 --> 06:23.000 The time has come for you to stop talking, Glamourpus, so shut up. 06:23.000 --> 06:25.000 Oh, sometimes I wonder why I don't hate you. 06:25.000 --> 06:27.000 Oh, let's take a look around. 06:27.000 --> 06:35.000 Yeah, yeah, there's Danny at the corner table over there playing his usual game of solitaire. Come on. 06:35.000 --> 06:37.000 The black six goes on the red seven, Danny. 06:37.000 --> 06:40.000 I like hoist playing the... Oh. 06:40.000 --> 06:41.000 Hello, Morgan. Hi. 06:41.000 --> 06:45.000 What's on your mind? Social visit, Danny. Mind if we sit down? 06:45.000 --> 06:47.000 Ah, go ahead. 06:47.000 --> 06:52.000 How about buying us a drink? Sure. What do you have? 06:52.000 --> 06:55.000 Smyrnaf vodka and soda for me. How about the chick? 06:55.000 --> 06:58.000 The chick isn't drinking. She's particular. Now, listen, Glamourpus... 06:58.000 --> 07:01.000 Don't blast her out, Morgan. She's cute. 07:01.000 --> 07:05.000 That's what Chuck just told me. And you can both keep your compliments. 07:05.000 --> 07:07.000 Hey, Mike. Yeah, Danny. 07:07.000 --> 07:11.000 Two smyrnafs and soda. All right. 07:11.000 --> 07:15.000 What's it all about, Morgan? Want a tip on a horse? 07:15.000 --> 07:21.000 Yeah. The eleventh race is coming up, Danny. The horse's name is Sniper. 07:21.000 --> 07:23.000 There ain't no such horse. 07:23.000 --> 07:27.000 Oh, yes, yes. He's been running a lot of dead heats lately. 07:27.000 --> 07:31.000 What do you think his chances of losing the next one are, Danny? 07:31.000 --> 07:35.000 I don't know what you're talking about. Here's your drinks. 07:35.000 --> 07:38.000 Yeah. Put them on my tab, Mike. Okay. 07:38.000 --> 07:41.000 Danny, you have the reputation of being an honest bookie. 07:41.000 --> 07:45.000 You always pay your debts. And you figure I owe you something? 07:45.000 --> 07:50.000 Five years is a long time to be locked up for a man who likes his freedom as much as you. 07:50.000 --> 07:56.000 Yeah. This tip on your horse kind of important to you personally, Morgan? 07:56.000 --> 07:59.000 Practically a matter of life and death. 07:59.000 --> 08:02.000 I get it. Wait here. 08:02.000 --> 08:04.000 All right. 08:04.000 --> 08:07.000 I didn't know you were so good at double talk, Chuckie boy. 08:07.000 --> 08:09.000 Danny prefers it that way. 08:09.000 --> 08:15.000 Well, you're not silly enough to think that he or anyone else down here actually knows the identity of the sniper, do you? 08:15.000 --> 08:19.000 Nobody down here wants to know the sniper's identity. Then they can't talk. 08:19.000 --> 08:22.000 Well, suppose he began sniping at some of the local characters. 08:22.000 --> 08:28.000 He'd be surprised how quickly he'd be found out. 08:28.000 --> 08:31.000 You got a pencil and paper, Morgan? 08:31.000 --> 08:33.000 Right here. 08:33.000 --> 08:37.000 All right. Write down this number. 222 Front Street. 08:37.000 --> 08:42.000 There's a chick lives there named May. She's got a kid brother named Tony. 08:42.000 --> 08:46.000 Kind of a wild kid. Likes to play horses. 08:46.000 --> 08:48.000 Got it. 08:48.000 --> 08:49.000 Danny, your pal. 08:49.000 --> 08:54.000 Step it, Morgan. By the way, you figure we're square now? 08:54.000 --> 08:57.000 The slate's wiped clean, Danny. Thanks. 08:57.000 --> 09:10.000 The Front Street was an alley that divided a city block. 09:10.000 --> 09:13.000 The streetlight burned in the end we entered. 09:13.000 --> 09:17.000 The buildings on either side were old and seemed to be mostly deserted. 09:17.000 --> 09:21.000 Our shadows marched ahead of us as we advanced into the gloom. 09:21.000 --> 09:24.000 A figure peered out at us from the darkness of a doorway. 09:24.000 --> 09:26.000 We heard the step and whirled around. 09:26.000 --> 09:30.000 But whoever it was must have gotten cold feet when he saw my hand reached her le poct. 09:30.000 --> 09:34.000 Footsteps pounded away down the alley. 09:34.000 --> 09:37.000 I began to wish I hadn't let Carol come with me. 09:37.000 --> 09:43.000 Then I remembered what an important role she was playing in this drama, much more than even she suspected. 09:43.000 --> 09:49.000 We stopped before a door. I let a match. Saw that it was 2.22. 09:49.000 --> 09:51.000 Well, this is it. 09:51.000 --> 09:53.000 May and her brother must like to live away from things. 09:53.000 --> 09:56.000 Low rent is probably the answer to that one. 09:56.000 --> 10:01.000 Now look, after we've talked to May a few minutes, I want you to remind me of something. 10:01.000 --> 10:02.000 For instance? 10:02.000 --> 10:04.000 Well, make it go something like this. 10:04.000 --> 10:09.000 Hey, Chuck, don't forget that you're meeting Danny Yates at the corner of Wilshire and Rossmoor at 11.30. 10:09.000 --> 10:13.000 Stop me if I'm wrong, but didn't we just leave Danny Yates? 10:13.000 --> 10:15.000 Will you do as I say and don't ask questions? 10:15.000 --> 10:19.000 Okay, okay. Well, suppose May isn't home. 10:19.000 --> 10:21.000 We'll just have to think of something. 10:21.000 --> 10:27.000 The girl who answered the door was the homeliest email I'd ever seen. 10:27.000 --> 10:32.000 She had a hoarse face and bucked teeth. Her skin was pockmarked and her eyes were crossed. 10:32.000 --> 10:34.000 Then we got another shock. 10:34.000 --> 10:40.000 She spoke and her voice was the antithesis of her looks. It was low, resonant, and rich. 10:40.000 --> 10:41.000 Yes? 10:41.000 --> 10:43.000 Are you May? 10:43.000 --> 10:46.000 Yes, I am. Won't you come in? 10:46.000 --> 10:48.000 Thanks. 10:48.000 --> 10:50.000 I suppose you're the police. 10:50.000 --> 10:52.000 What makes you think that? 10:52.000 --> 10:54.000 I knew it was bound to happen sooner or later. 10:54.000 --> 10:57.000 You're after Tony, aren't you? I suppose you have a warrant? 10:57.000 --> 10:58.000 Tony, your brother? 10:58.000 --> 10:59.000 Yes. 10:59.000 --> 11:00.000 What do you think he's done? 11:00.000 --> 11:01.000 I don't know. 11:01.000 --> 11:05.000 Will you wait here a minute, please? 11:05.000 --> 11:06.000 Tony? 11:06.000 --> 11:07.000 Yeah? 11:07.000 --> 11:11.000 Will you come here a minute, please? 11:11.000 --> 11:14.000 Hey, who's the broad? 11:14.000 --> 11:15.000 That'll be enough, Tony. 11:15.000 --> 11:18.000 No kidding, sis. She's got class. Introduce me, will you? 11:18.000 --> 11:20.000 They're from the police, Tony. 11:20.000 --> 11:23.000 Are you kidding? This baby ain't no cop. 11:23.000 --> 11:24.000 Hey, how about a chick? 11:24.000 --> 11:27.000 If you don't mind, I don't like being poached. 11:27.000 --> 11:32.000 Aw, don't be so hard to get along with. I go for blondes. Honest, I do. 11:32.000 --> 11:34.000 Keep your hands off her, son. 11:34.000 --> 11:36.000 Well, listen to him. 11:36.000 --> 11:38.000 Sure you're a special property or something? 11:38.000 --> 11:40.000 Could be. Let go of her. 11:40.000 --> 11:44.000 Sure I will. And just what do you think you're gonna punk? 11:44.000 --> 11:49.000 I'm going to do this about it. 11:49.000 --> 11:52.000 I'm sorry, May, but your brother doesn't seem to have any manners. 11:52.000 --> 11:56.000 He's always been that way. I'm glad you had any deserved it. 11:56.000 --> 12:00.000 Tony's all the family I have, and I try not to blame him too much. 12:00.000 --> 12:05.000 Oh, you poor kid. Here, sit down. 12:05.000 --> 12:08.000 Oh, my jaw. What happened? 12:08.000 --> 12:10.000 He ran into something that didn't agree with him. 12:10.000 --> 12:13.000 Get up on your feet. Now sit down on that chair and behave yourself. 12:13.000 --> 12:18.000 Keep your hands off me, jughead. So you're a cop, huh? 12:18.000 --> 12:20.000 Well, you ain't got nothing on me. Nothing. 12:20.000 --> 12:23.000 I don't imagine it'd take very long to get something on you. 12:23.000 --> 12:25.000 But since I'm not a cop, we'll skip it for now. 12:25.000 --> 12:26.000 Not from the police? 12:26.000 --> 12:30.000 No, I'm Chuck Morgan, newscaster in KOP. This is my secretary, Carol Curtis. 12:30.000 --> 12:32.000 Oh, then Tony hasn't gotten into trouble again. 12:32.000 --> 12:33.000 That's a matter of opinion. 12:33.000 --> 12:36.000 Oh, thank goodness. Lately, every time there's been a knock at the door, 12:36.000 --> 12:38.000 it's been someone looking for Tony with a complaint. 12:38.000 --> 12:42.000 Oh, will you quit your blubbering, sis? I ain't done nothing. 12:42.000 --> 12:44.000 If you're Chuck Morgan, what are you doing here? 12:44.000 --> 12:48.000 Came down to see a friend of mine, Danny Yates, and gives me tips on horses. 12:48.000 --> 12:50.000 Someone at the saloons said I might find him here. 12:50.000 --> 12:51.000 Well, he ain't here. 12:51.000 --> 12:52.000 So I see. 12:52.000 --> 12:53.000 What difference does it make, Chuck? 12:53.000 --> 12:54.000 Huh? 12:54.000 --> 12:58.000 Hey, didn't you leave word to have Danny meet you at the con of Rossmoor and Wilshire at 1130? 12:58.000 --> 13:01.000 Yeah, but meeting him here would have simplified matters, that's all. 13:01.000 --> 13:03.000 All right, let's get going. 13:03.000 --> 13:05.000 May, I'm sorry if we troubled you. 13:05.000 --> 13:07.000 Oh, it's all right, Mr. Morgan. 13:07.000 --> 13:10.000 I'm just glad that Tony hasn't done anything wrong, that's all. 13:10.000 --> 13:12.000 Well, I wouldn't count on that too much, May. 13:12.000 --> 13:15.000 Kids like Tony usually wind up behind bars. 13:15.000 --> 13:16.000 They get ideas. 13:16.000 --> 13:19.000 They get away with one or two jobs and think they're smarter than the cops. 13:19.000 --> 13:21.000 But it never works out that way. 13:21.000 --> 13:25.000 A fact that Tony, I believe, is going to find out sooner than he thinks. 13:25.000 --> 13:46.000 Well, I'd been shooting arrows into the air all evening without knowing for sure where any of them were going to fall. 13:46.000 --> 13:50.000 I'd learned a couple of things for sure and was guessing it a lot more. 13:50.000 --> 13:55.000 Everything now depended on who was listening to my 11 o'clock broadcast. 13:55.000 --> 14:02.000 Carol and I got back to the studio about 1030 and found Pappy Mansfield, owner of KOP, waiting for us. 14:02.000 --> 14:04.000 Hi, Pappy. 14:04.000 --> 14:06.000 Say, where in the devil are you two been? 14:06.000 --> 14:08.000 Don't you realize you've got an 11 o'clock broadcast? 14:08.000 --> 14:11.000 No, no, no, no, Pappy. It's only 1030, plenty of time. 14:11.000 --> 14:12.000 Plenty of time my foot. 14:12.000 --> 14:16.000 There's all that wire stuff that's got to be gone over and the script written. 14:16.000 --> 14:18.000 Carol, you get into the newsroom. 14:18.000 --> 14:20.000 No, no, no, wait a minute, hold it, glamour puss. 14:20.000 --> 14:24.000 We can forget the wire stuff tonight, Pappy. Carol and I have dug up a better yarn. 14:24.000 --> 14:26.000 Mmm, that's really a honey, Pappy. Wait till you hear it. 14:26.000 --> 14:29.000 It better be good. Well, what is it? 14:29.000 --> 14:32.000 Your favorite newscaster had a call from the sniper tonight. 14:32.000 --> 14:38.000 What news about that? There's a lot of people that should get... What? You mean the sniper called you? 14:38.000 --> 14:39.000 Right. 14:39.000 --> 14:41.000 I don't believe it. He wouldn't dare. 14:41.000 --> 14:46.000 Don't be so sure, Pappy. I'm no different than anyone else if the sniper wants to call me. He has every right and word to call me. 14:46.000 --> 14:51.000 Chuck, this is serious, my boy. You act as if you're delighted at the prospect of being shot in the back. 14:51.000 --> 14:54.000 Well, that's what I've been telling him all evening. Only he won't listen. 14:54.000 --> 15:00.000 Eh, Pappy, I'm delighted about two things. First, this is going to be a knockout of a story for my broadcast tonight. 15:00.000 --> 15:02.000 And second, it's going to be the end of the sniper. 15:02.000 --> 15:08.000 I suppose you figure that when your dear public learns their favorite newscaster has been picked for elimination, 15:08.000 --> 15:11.000 they'll demand that the sniper give himself up. And he'll do. 15:11.000 --> 15:13.000 Mmm, amounts to the same thing, I hope. 15:13.000 --> 15:15.000 You sound pretty sure of yourself. 15:15.000 --> 15:18.000 I'm just whistling in the dark, Pappy. I'm really scared stiff. 15:18.000 --> 15:21.000 You would be too, Pappy, if you knew somebody was going to shoot you in the back. 15:21.000 --> 15:25.000 Well, you don't have to apologize for him, Carol. Have you notified the police? 15:25.000 --> 15:32.000 Well, he wouldn't let me. Instead, we took a trip down to Skid Row. Chuckie Boy got a tip on a horse race. 15:32.000 --> 15:35.000 Then we called on May. Oh, it was loads of fun. 15:35.000 --> 15:39.000 All right, all right, Glamour Puss. Your sarcasm isn't helping the situation. 15:39.000 --> 15:43.000 Pappy, look, as usual, I've got to ask you to give me a hand in this. How about it? 15:43.000 --> 15:47.000 Well, you know you can count on me, Chuck, but first I'd like to have you cut out all this double talk 15:47.000 --> 15:52.000 and bring me up to date on the facts. I know you've been up to something. Now, what is it? 15:52.000 --> 15:56.000 Good. Carol, get into the office and start knocking out tonight's script while Pappy and I go into a huddle, hmm? 15:56.000 --> 16:00.000 Okay, but just remember, I'm in on this too. 16:00.000 --> 16:04.000 Pappy, the first thing I want you to do is call Bill Megs at headquarters. Tell him that I... 16:04.000 --> 16:16.000 I did my broadcast as per schedule, making a big thing of the fact that I was next on the sniper's list. 16:16.000 --> 16:22.000 The telephone began ringing almost at once, and Carol had a time of it, assuring everyone I had ample police protection, 16:22.000 --> 16:25.000 and for the time being at least was safe. 16:25.000 --> 16:32.000 Well, Carol and I left the studio a few minutes after 11.15 and drove out Vine to Rossmar. 16:32.000 --> 16:38.000 Just beyond 6th, we parked at Jaloppy and walked up towards Wilshire on the west side of the street. 16:38.000 --> 16:45.000 We came to a driveway with a hedge and stopped in the shadows. Wait here a minute, Glamour Puss, I'll be right back. 16:45.000 --> 16:46.000 Where are you going? 16:46.000 --> 16:49.000 Keep your eye on the corner up there and don't move. 16:49.000 --> 16:51.000 Okay. 16:51.000 --> 16:56.000 I went up the drive and around the garage and checked on the street in the next block, 16:56.000 --> 16:59.000 then I came back to where Carol waited. 16:59.000 --> 17:01.000 Anything happen? 17:01.000 --> 17:05.000 Well, a car just drove up and parked beyond the bus stop on Wilshire. 17:05.000 --> 17:09.000 The car, Carol pointed out, was an old convertible. 17:09.000 --> 17:13.000 The top was up, but there was no glass in the back window. It was headed west. 17:13.000 --> 17:18.000 Anyone sitting inside had a clear view of the benches that were placed at the bus stop. 17:18.000 --> 17:22.000 I wasn't sure, but I thought that the convertible's motor was idling. 17:22.000 --> 17:25.000 Chuck, look at the crowd gathering at the bus stop. 17:25.000 --> 17:28.000 Gee, that's an awful lot of people to be waiting for a bus at this time of night. 17:28.000 --> 17:32.000 I hope the sniper, if he's waiting and that convertible doesn't think so, he might get suspicious. 17:32.000 --> 17:34.000 Suspicious of what? 17:34.000 --> 17:36.000 Most of those people are cops. It's all part of the plan. 17:36.000 --> 17:39.000 What plan? Why aren't I in on it? 17:39.000 --> 17:42.000 You're in on it more than you think, Glamour Puss, and I'll tell you all about it in the morning. 17:42.000 --> 17:45.000 Why, you... Do you mean I've been a guinea pig all evening? 17:45.000 --> 17:49.000 Mm-hmm, more or less. Now listen, will you stop asking questions? 17:49.000 --> 17:50.000 Okay. 17:50.000 --> 17:51.000 And maybe I'll tell you what's going to happen. 17:51.000 --> 17:52.000 Oh, you're better. 17:52.000 --> 17:57.000 Look, in a minute, Danny Yates is going to come walking up Wilshire towards the bus stop. 17:57.000 --> 17:58.000 Uh-huh. 17:58.000 --> 17:59.000 He'll mingle with the crowd. 17:59.000 --> 18:03.000 A minute after that, the bus will come along and everyone will get on but Danny. 18:03.000 --> 18:04.000 What will he be doing? 18:04.000 --> 18:08.000 He'll be left sitting on the bench alone, a perfect target for the sniper. 18:08.000 --> 18:09.000 Who's in the parked convertible? 18:09.000 --> 18:11.000 Yes, well, at least that's what we're going to find out. 18:11.000 --> 18:16.000 If he is, he'll probably take a shot at Danny and then head up Wilshire. 18:16.000 --> 18:20.000 Now, unless I miss my guess, he'll turn right on Muirfield to get out of the traffic. 18:20.000 --> 18:23.000 Wait a minute. There's something cockeyed here. 18:23.000 --> 18:27.000 Why is the sniper going to sniper Danny Yates when you're his boy? 18:27.000 --> 18:31.000 Muirfield Street makes a turn after it leaves Wilshire and swings back to Rossmoor. 18:31.000 --> 18:36.000 Now, I'm counting on the sniper not knowing that because there's a police blockade over there right now. 18:36.000 --> 18:38.000 Which doesn't answer my question. Why is the sniper... 18:38.000 --> 18:42.000 Shh, keep quiet. Here comes Danny. 18:42.000 --> 18:48.000 Danny came briskly up to the bus stop, timing his arrival with the arrival of the bus itself. 18:48.000 --> 18:52.000 He mingled with the crowd and for a minute I lost him. 18:52.000 --> 19:00.000 Then the last of the people got on. The bus swung away and Danny was left sitting alone on the bench. 19:00.000 --> 19:02.000 Then something happened I hadn't counted on. 19:02.000 --> 19:05.000 The bus as it passed the parked convertible began to backfire. 19:05.000 --> 19:09.000 I glanced at it and then back to Danny. Danny was gone. 19:09.000 --> 19:13.000 But I could see one of his legs sticking up over the back of the bench. Then Carol yelled. 19:13.000 --> 19:15.000 The convertible, Chuck, it's moving away. 19:15.000 --> 19:17.000 Wait here, glamour puss. 19:17.000 --> 19:22.000 I ran up the driveway, cut across a patch of lawn and fought at a five foot fence. 19:22.000 --> 19:27.000 I landed on my hands and knees just as a pair of headlights swung around the corner of Muirfield. 19:27.000 --> 19:28.000 It was a convertible. 19:28.000 --> 19:32.000 And the driver saw the blockade of police cars at the moment I was getting to my feet. 19:32.000 --> 19:36.000 It slewed into the opposite curve with a squealing of brakes. 19:36.000 --> 19:41.000 The door opened and a figure got out and sprinted across the lawn. I followed. 19:41.000 --> 19:43.000 The figure disappeared around the house. 19:43.000 --> 19:48.000 The lights sprang out on the house. Their reflection showed me a shadow climbing over a back fence. 19:48.000 --> 19:50.000 I took a running jump. 19:50.000 --> 19:52.000 The two of us landed on the other side at the same time. 19:52.000 --> 19:55.000 Something swished through the air and I caught the gleam of a rifle barrel. 19:55.000 --> 19:58.000 The blow struck me glancingly and I went down. 19:58.000 --> 20:02.000 I saw the rifle barrel coming again and I made a lunge to the guy's legs. 20:02.000 --> 20:05.000 I hung on for dear life, dodging his blows with the rifle till my head had cleared. 20:05.000 --> 20:07.000 Then I reared up and dumped the guy. 20:07.000 --> 20:11.000 I grabbed him by the shirt front, pulled him into me and then I gave him a hard right. 20:11.000 --> 20:14.000 And he crumpled up like a coke dropped from a hook. 20:16.000 --> 20:19.000 Well, mister, I guess this is the end of the trail. 20:19.000 --> 20:21.000 Chuck, Chuck Morgan, where are you? 20:21.000 --> 20:22.000 I must have gone over the fence. 20:22.000 --> 20:23.000 I'm over here, Pappy. 20:24.000 --> 20:28.000 I got out my lighter and knelt down and pulled out the guy's hat. 20:28.000 --> 20:32.000 A mass of hair spilled out from under that hat. 20:32.000 --> 20:37.000 The face that was revealed by the rays from my lighter was pockmarked and ugly. 20:37.000 --> 20:41.000 It was the face of May. 20:41.000 --> 20:43.000 You all right, Chuck? 20:43.000 --> 20:44.000 Sure, sure I'm fine. 20:44.000 --> 20:46.000 So that's the sniper, eh? 20:46.000 --> 20:49.000 Well, he had... Holy smoke, it's a girl. 20:49.000 --> 20:51.000 It's a girl, Pappy. 20:51.000 --> 20:54.000 What a lousy break life gave her. 20:54.000 --> 20:57.000 And what a lousy break she gave all her victims. 20:57.000 --> 20:59.000 I don't mean it that way, Pappy. I was thinking of something else. 20:59.000 --> 21:01.000 Oh, you were? What? 21:01.000 --> 21:04.000 Don't think you'd understand, Pappy. 21:04.000 --> 21:09.000 But remind me to tell Carol to congratulate herself the next time she looks into a mirror. 21:19.000 --> 21:25.000 Carol and Pappy and I dropped into Nicodels for a beer and a sandwich before saying good night. 21:25.000 --> 21:29.000 Seemed good to see some bright lights and pleasant faces again. 21:29.000 --> 21:33.000 To know when I parked my car in the lot behind my apartment house later on. 21:33.000 --> 21:39.000 I wouldn't have to worry about a sniper peering through the sides of a rifle at my shoulder blades. 21:39.000 --> 21:42.000 I knew that Carol and Pappy had a lot of questions they wanted answered. 21:42.000 --> 21:46.000 And that neither of them was too happy about the way I'd handle this affair. 21:46.000 --> 21:50.000 Now, let's see. We don't want to offend this mighty genius, Pappy. 21:50.000 --> 21:55.000 But wouldn't it be just dandy if he broke down and told us the secret of his great success? 21:55.000 --> 21:58.000 It would indeed, my dear. It would indeed. 21:58.000 --> 22:02.000 Now, look, I was only doing my duty as a good citizen and as a news reporter. 22:02.000 --> 22:05.000 Ha ha ha. Well, why didn't you let me in on it? 22:05.000 --> 22:06.000 Yeah, me. 22:06.000 --> 22:08.000 All right, all right. Here's the way it was. 22:08.000 --> 22:12.000 In the first place, I figured out this frustration angle. 22:12.000 --> 22:16.000 It had to be someone like May. Only, of course, I thought it was a man. 22:16.000 --> 22:20.000 Well, think of that. The great mind made a mistake. 22:20.000 --> 22:23.000 You see, May was enjoying her publicity. 22:23.000 --> 22:27.000 Even though she remained anonymous, it was the only recognition she had in her life. 22:27.000 --> 22:31.000 So when I announced over the air tonight I'd received a warning from the sniper. 22:31.000 --> 22:34.000 It burned her up to think that someone else was stealing her stuff. 22:34.000 --> 22:35.000 Someone else? 22:35.000 --> 22:36.000 Yeah. 22:36.000 --> 22:37.000 Glamour, puss. 22:37.000 --> 22:38.000 Beer? 22:38.000 --> 22:41.000 You didn't actually think that the sniper had called me, did you? 22:41.000 --> 22:42.000 Well, why shouldn't I? 22:42.000 --> 22:44.000 Yeah, who was it then? 22:44.000 --> 22:45.000 It was Danny Yates, Pappy. 22:45.000 --> 22:46.000 No. 22:46.000 --> 22:51.000 You see, Danny had been wanting to repay me for the favor I'd done him, so I gave him his chance. 22:51.000 --> 22:54.000 He pretended to be the sniper for Carol's benefit. 22:54.000 --> 22:58.000 Then he pretended that he was giving me a tip on the races for Carol's benefit. 22:58.000 --> 23:01.000 Then I let May know I knew Danny Yates. 23:01.000 --> 23:04.000 At 11, I broadcast the fact that I'd been warned. 23:04.000 --> 23:07.000 May heard the broadcast, and she put two and two together. 23:07.000 --> 23:10.000 She figured it was Danny who was trying to muscle in on her act. 23:10.000 --> 23:12.000 Chuck Morgan, do you mean that all the time I... 23:12.000 --> 23:14.000 Look, I had to do it, Glamour, puss. 23:14.000 --> 23:18.000 If you thought I'd been warned by the sniper, Pappy, Bill Megs, and everyone else would be convinced. 23:18.000 --> 23:20.000 I had to make the whole thing look like for real. 23:20.000 --> 23:24.000 Neither one of you would have helped me with a crazy idea like this if you thought I was pretending. 23:24.000 --> 23:26.000 And who was that sitting on the bench at the bus stop? 23:26.000 --> 23:29.000 It was a dummy dressed up to look like Danny. 23:29.000 --> 23:30.000 Pappy helped with that. 23:30.000 --> 23:35.000 Danny himself boarded the bus, got in with the crowd, crouched down, and rode away. 23:35.000 --> 23:39.000 Oh, I don't know whether to feel mad or glad that the big lug's alive. 23:39.000 --> 23:41.000 Pappy, what would you do? 23:41.000 --> 23:43.000 Why don't you just order another beer and forget the whole thing? 23:43.000 --> 23:45.000 I'll tell you what I'd do, Carol. 23:45.000 --> 23:50.000 I'll tell you, I'd skip a couple of payments on your ring that he's paying for. 23:50.000 --> 23:52.000 Now, that ought to fix you, hasn't it? 23:52.000 --> 23:54.000 Oh, Pappy, that's a wonderful idea. 23:54.000 --> 23:55.000 That's just what I'll do. 23:55.000 --> 23:56.000 Then he'll have to... 23:56.000 --> 23:57.000 Now, wait a minute, wait a minute. 23:57.000 --> 23:58.000 Now, I didn't order any ring. 23:58.000 --> 24:25.000 I'm sorry, I can't afford to have a ring.