 My name is Jeff Regan. I'm the lion's eye his private eye Gum shoe paper shamus, whatever you want to call it. I Work for Anthony J. Lyon international detective bureau He's a guy who likes to make money, but when he makes money I get into trouble Here's the kind of adventure you've been waiting to hear hard-boiled action and mystery as told by Jeff Regan Investigator so stand by for trouble stand by for suspense Stand by for adventure in tonight's story the lonesome lady And now here's Jack Webb as Jeff Regan. Well, this is the way it started Everything was routine Melody was at her typewriter working on the usual sheet of paper backed by the usual four carbons routine The smell of the lion's 50 cent cigar hung in the room routine and the air conditioning was out of order all routine. I Looked over Melody's shoulder and read the memo attention international detective bureau Anthony J. Lyon from the American Insurance Company claims The business here you are keep the original for yourself and give the others to Mr. Lyon I guess you're going to be on me Beautiful thing you Yeah Yeah, don't do this somebody my phone Delilah, I'll tell you all about it There's no boyfriend This is live waiting for you. Okay. I'll talk to you later Regan Ever heard of a guy named John are in zoop. Nope. Dr. Neymarie suede. Nope French name named Marie Rochelle courtier. Nope. Should I? Maybe I don't know yet It's all routine stuff on that American Insurance Company contract They want us to do a little work for them their claim man came in about an hour ago all excited about Renzo He kicked off early this morning. I Can't very well meet him. There's a time and a place for wisecracks and this isn't it The Renzo kicks off and the American Insurance Company is going to have to kick in with $35,000 Who has beneficiary and that's Marie Rochelle courtier? No relation girlfriend, I guess It's almost a bank buster for AIC So you want me to see her? No Particularly if it turns out to be legitimate Now you better look at the other angles before you see her AIC has to pay off to that dame. We might just as well say goodbye to their business I can't stand much treatment like that You mean you want me to find a way for him to get out of it I didn't say that If it's legitimate, they'll pay. That's nice What I want you to find out is how a guy carrying 35,000 dollars worth of life insurance Wines up croaked in a hotel on Main Street with two dimes and three pennies sitting on the dresser. It could happen Sure, it could happen, but you find out why it could happen Rentals worth 23 cents alive and 35,000 dollars dead and the county's gonna have to plant them Insurance company doesn't like it and I don't like it Howdy-Dye. Yeah, the coroner says it was a hard job Insurance company? Insurance office has Renzo applied for the policy three weeks ago It was approved ten days ago and he kicks out today Everything's fine on paper. So what am I supposed to do? Find out what isn't fine about what that physical Renzo passed Now you can start with the insurance doctor named a Maurice Wade you get on him first and Call me if you run into any trouble The place I was looking for turned out to be a brand new three-story building on Wilshire Boulevard in the hall I could still smell wet plaster and cement There was one name on the neon lighted directory dr. Maurice Wade Internal medicine diagnosis and the numbers 310 Sign on the self-service elevator said do not use so I climbed the three flights of marble stairs The first door at the top was 310 Enter A blonde girl in a white uniform sitting at a small desk smiled up at me through sharp white teeth showed me one Well-shaped leg and two well-manicured hands all routine stuff. How do you do? Have you an appointment? No, I know and I was hoping I could see dr. Wade without an appointment. Well, that's almost impossible He's so busy these days. I miss Porter as nurse perhaps I can help you my name's Regan, but I'm afraid I'll have to see him Oh If you don't mind, I'll just stick around and wait for him. He isn't in just now and I was just about to go to lunch Mr. Regan, well, that's fine. We'll go together Dr. Wade will be in at two o'clock. You can come back then I get it two o'clock Was right then that my day began to change I stepped outside the office door and walked over to the brand-new stairway of that brand-new building now get this I Stopped a minute because I thought I heard somebody opening the doctor's door I turned around to take a look when I felt something brush my arm The stairway suddenly turned upside down began to walk up me There's a lot of noise all around it. I was trying to yell for somebody to shut it off I got louder and louder and louder It was then I decided this wasn't routine Thanks for helping me tow them upstairs. He'll be all right now. I'll take care of it He'll be all right. He'll be all right. I was lying on a leather couch at a point below Tall thin man with a hooked nose seemed to be running things He was waving an arm at a vague crowd of people near the door Then somebody I couldn't see shoved a bottle under my nose There you are I think you'll be all right now Now then can you hear me mister? Oh Try to move yet nothing broken, but you had quite a tumble for yourself my friend quite a tumble you might have been killed That's what I was thinking Somebody shoved me was that I was shoved That's crazy. I was on the second landing when you come falling down. Wasn't anyone around How I'd anyone want to shove a man down a flight of stairs. I don't know You just plum bruised and battled mister When you get to thinking about it, you just got dizzy from the heat or something. I didn't you Maybe I should May I hand me that like a good girl? Here you are. Yeah, I'll try a little of this Thanks That hell Yeah, have another You want me to call you a taxi mr. Regan. No, thanks. I got a car out in front Let it you rest up a minute or two longer friend. My name is Wade. Dr. Wade. This is my office Wade you're the man. I came to see I don't believe I know you you one of my patients Mr. Regan doctor, I explained that you took patients only on appointment Well as long as you're here mr. Regan, what can I do for you? I'm not a patient I've been retained by the American insurance company to investigate a claim concerning a former patient of yours Man named Lorenzo a private investigator. We're checking on a policy that was issued on him You were the examining doctor. You don't represent the district attorney's office or anything like that. No I'm with the International Detective Bureau You don't have a warrant that says I have to show you my files No, I don't I thought that as long as you were employed by the insurance company and you conducted the examination It's you let me back my bottle mister, and then you can get on out of my office and get out fast If I don't know you was something like that. I wouldn't have drugged you up here in the first place now get on out of here before I throw you out Well, you can see how things stood between Dr. Maurice Wade and me I Walked out of the place with as much dignity as I had left. I had other plans There were other files to look at and other people in the city. I could talk to Detective Sergeant Salvatore Wendetti morgue detail was sitting in his office chewing on a cold cigar Reading a traffic bureau memorandum on the new liability laws Well, well, well, well, well if it isn't Jeffy the Regan. How are you Jeff boy? I haven't seen in a long time pull up a chair What happened? It's all down a flight of stairs. You ought to be more careful. Lots of people get killed doing things like that So what can I do for you? Sally I want you to find out about a man named John R. Renzo for me. He died this morning and your office is handling it John Renzo Johnny Renzo. Yeah, sure. We got him in the icebox now. I want to see him handle it myself No, thanks. I know he's dead. What else will never really a bad actor never really a good one either Mind you all the boys the beat knew him. Why tell me some more They made Lincoln Heights Jail about nine months out of 12 on a vague rap one thing or another routine Vagrancy just one of our laziest citizens. So he's dead now. So what's to her? He was insured for $35,000 Yeah, that's what I'm thinking so somebody's mighty glad to see little Johnny dead who gets it Her name's Marie Rochelle Portier No relation a hot time in the old town tonight for her Tomorrow night insurance company has 24 hours to investigate. Ah, that's what you're doing. All right Regan. What else? Well, you got the coroner's report. Oh sure Right here came in an hour ago. It was a hard job You sure positive. No one deader than Johnny Renzo was bound to happen the way it did sooner later Was he an old man 45 50 maybe you can never tell on that kind, but all of us around here knew it Knew what that a sticker's been bad for years every time he made the heights that give him a soft job couldn't take a chance Hey, look Sally. Are you telling me it was chronic heart condition? I'm telling you it was a chronic heart condition Well, I need that telephone not this one only inside calls try try the one across the street This is me. I ran into some trouble the kind of trouble Well, you you'll have to get me a warrant or something so I can get in that doctor's office What he wouldn't play ball. He threw me off Now the coroner's report shows that Renzo has a chronic heart condition that he never should have passed a physical I thought that it gets through to you But we'll have to find out what's in that doctor's office before we can do anything about it Now look get a hold of one of those double-breasted lawyers and rig up a thing. Will you hey melody get my lawyer on the phone They may take the rest of the day to get you in there legally and we haven't got the time So get busy. I just told you I can't get in if I can't get in I Can't get in I hung up the phone stepped out of the booth and crawled into my car I was sitting there fumbling with the keys Wondering how I was going to get to those files when somebody else figured it out for me It was a big man in a brown sport coat Take it easy pilgrim. I just want to talk to you a minute That's tough pilgrim because I don't want to talk to you. I've had a busy day and I Wouldn't try anything like that pilgrim. I just got here Ain't no lot of holes. Come on. This one's just basic I can tear your arm right off if I have to Why he's up shameless. I'm here on business Yeah, what kind of business you've just been in to see when daddy sure I've been in to see him He's a friend of mine by the muscle act just to make sure you don't start hollering when your brain's out Is something I'll tickle off. Okay, so what do you say? What do you say about what you know what rinzo Well the county's gonna bury him more shameless keep talking Only makes sense. He's dead for good More He died of a heart attack this morning somebody gets 35 000 bucks because of it and you've been seeing people at doctor when daddy uh Day next on your list Maybe Is that what you want to know? Yeah You're a good boy Now here's what you want to know You forget everything you know about anything you don't say a word to nobody no one understand no one Not even your own mother Just All right, no remember Not a word to anybody Or else I wonder if you do as good without a gun I'll see you later pelprimer Sure you will sure you will But in case we miss connections And so as you won't forget me here's something to remember me Sell on pilgrim We'll return to jeff brigham investigator in just a moment The army nurse corps reserve still has commissions available If you're a graduate registered nurse between the ages of 21 and 45 You may be eligible for a commission in the army nurse corps section of the regular officers reserve Those who meet the high standards and qualify to serve with this fine organization may elect active or inactive status Nurses requesting inactive status will continue with civilian nursing but stand ready to serve in time of emergency In addition, they have the opportunity to take advantage of special training courses Nurses who request active status enjoy the same pay and privileges as all other officers Graduate work is provided at the army's most modern teaching centers And the nurses obtain educational experiences that benefit them in both civilian and military nursing Now if you believe you qualify for a commission in the army nurse corps reserve Applied to the adjutant general Washington 25 dc. That's the adjutant general Washington 25 dc And now Back to the story of the lonesome lady and jeff reagan investigator This wasn't a routine either it was brass knuckles a big man in a brown sport coat in the front seat of my car I guess I fell onto the horn into my steering wheel. I couldn't seem to sit up straight and get away from the noise Hey, don't you like peace and quiet? Come on sit up What happened to you I don't know exactly. I don't know Gee Yeah, your face is cut up a little bit You have an accent or a smash up Yeah, something like that You want me to call a cop? Oh, no I'll handle this myself Yeah, but don't you think you ought to go home and get some rest? Uh, maybe you ought to find yourself a saw bone or something Huh? Maybe you ought to find yourself a doctor to kind of fix you up You're right. You're absolutely right That's a good boy you take care of yourself Says doctor on the door doesn't it the office is still opening it Yes, but I thought dr. Wade told you that he didn't want you here I heard him, but this is different If he doesn't see me now I'll phone the state medical board and the lawyer and anybody else who's handy and make him a first class Simon LaGriefe or infusing me emergency treatment now Cut him out. Oh, you heard mr. Eden. Oh, please sit down Sit down right here Where's your doctor lady? He isn't in here. He's already gone for the day Let me see What happened? You tell me lady. Just a peaceful citizen looking for a doctor Sit still Yeah, I got some better ones where a man tried to cave in all my ribs Oh still lift up your face to the light That's better Tender First the stairs now this you've had quite a day mr. Regan Maybe you ought to quit Uh, hold that right there All I touch up this cut on your chin Who'd you say you worked for? International detective bureau I'd resign if I were you They're working you too hard What's happened lately isn't exactly routine What happened lately? Well, I found out that the man who died this morning at a chronic heart condition and he should have never been insured Your doctor's in this up to his ears for passing him Go on A big man in a brown sport coat doesn't want anybody to look into anything. He's the one who did this That's right That should hold you Thanks. Oh, wait a minute. Where do you live? Huh? Your address? I'm coming over to your place tonight You are If what you say is true, my doctor is going to get five to 15 and San Quentin Are doing a fix on an insurance examination and I might be dragged into it And I wouldn't want that to happen So So I'm digging up that file and bringing it over to your place and we'll see what's what Why not look at it right now isn't here We just moved to this place three days ago and half the stuff is still in the old office All right, I'll buy that Try 1720 north tap 308 in about two hours. Why so long? You need some rest Besides your shirt's bloody Well, what was that name? John R. Renzo R. E. N. Z. O. All right. You can expect me Feel better now Much better You know you freeze me lady your boss throws me out you fix me up you help me Maybe I wouldn't have fallen down those stairs if you hadn't sent me out to eat alone Call me mary if you like Thought it'd be something like that. Mine's jeff. I've had a hard day mary. I know But maybe it'll be a better day for now on jeff You know I had a feeling I was gonna like you Was just about then that I remembered the beneficiary. She was my last call I bucked beach traffic out wilshire and pulled up in front of the Beverly Hills address lion given me A row of brass mailboxes on the outside of a four-unit court told me that marie rochelle portier lived there The man in overalls watering the lawn blinked at me frowned at the cut on my chin pointed to his own and shook His head I nodded back wondering what marie rochelle portier whoever she might be whatever a racket might be look like I found out Yeah It was the big man without his brown sport coat this time it was swimming trunks and he looked as big as the super chief I threw my whole arm into his face This dagger backwards into the room trying to get his balance. I let him have another one in the stomach He was out of condition one more and his chin was cut Oh He went down taking a lamp a card table and a glass of warm lemonade with him Yeah, it's real good to see you again pilgrim. All right. She's all right. You're the champ. Come on get up get up I'm gonna know I was gonna find you here. Where's your girlfriend? I'm not not just a minute I said, where is she? In around In no one around but me honest, okay, you give it to me What are you talking about you I've met citizens like you before Now come on make it straight. Oh All right. All right Oh, you busted my head Oh make it straight Where's my girlfriend? She calls me today tells me what you look like Tells me where you'll be tells me what to do. I do it She knows who an insurance stick will go to all right go on catch you at the boy your nosy She says to rough it up a little bit make you forget what you're doing for a while Find you like she says and do what she says Nothing personal in it. What about the docker? He's split with you and her ain't no doctor in on it. Just me and mori How'd she fix it for renzo to get insured? I don't know. She's got connections. She gets around smart guy Come on spell honest honest. That's it chamis. That's all and that's all there is to it We worked at a couple of times before I don't know how she fixes it, but she does I do all the heavy work and we get along fine Now and then somebody gets excited and I have to cool them off for a time, but But well, that's it straight honest Hey, what are you doing shut up? Well now don't call the cops. Give me a break. Will you shut up and me Regan, where have you been? I'm calling from the address of marie rochelle port of here I told you not there's a big ape hero rough me up today trying to put me out of commission I don't care about that. We have only 12 hours. Come on out and pick him up and get a statement for a warrant warrant for oh for marie rochelle port of here This monkey can give you enough to have her picked up. She's the one we want you sure about that I found out that the doctor who wouldn't let you into his office isn't a lot of trouble Got a wife suing him for divorce and he might have been trying to support here dame We want as soon as you get a warrant on her it'll make that insurance policy invalid I still don't trust that doc. It's early yet. Why don't you hop over? You're bringing the cops out here? Look shamans, I got a little dough in it. It'd come to more in the ton of day and expenses You're getting up here now you Stay here pilgrim. I'm tired. I'm going home Waiting for you Forget about me. No The janitor let me in I told him you were my brother That's nice You didn't come straight home and get some rest You know I had a couple of things to do first No sit down I fixed you a drink Hot day and all Thanks Tell me about your doctor Some things I know already his wife suing him for divorce trying to get every penny he's got He doesn't like me That's it Or Maybe he just doesn't like any private detective or anybody else who might be working for his wife, huh? Maybe Uh, if I can spot a man who's being taken to the cleaners, he's one He's pretty touchy these days about all the trouble. She's probably caused him. What's this got to do with us Stars are coming out just straight Well, if that's the way things are with him and my job's finished good Now we can relax You've been working much too hard Jeff put your arms around me Feels good Good to have arms around you in a big city like this Such a big city So many people You're nice Jeff Sometimes it's so lonely And sometimes it's Like this sure Sure, Marie Darling Marie port here. Mary Porter. It's all the same to me. No, I don't reach for it. Lady I took it out of your purse. You I know I tricked you I've been wanting to trick somebody ever since you shoved me down that flight of stairs this morning ever since you shagged your big boyfriend on me I'll kill you. I'll kill you. Not today. You won't. I'm not insured. All right. Take it easy Oh, let me go. Jeff. Let me go. Please. You were so lonely in the big city that you just sat down and Past time making out phony medical reports and counting the insurance checks that you collected on bad bed Please Jeff. I Oh, just let me go Please so you have me thinking that a doctor's phony when the only thing that's bothering him as a wife and a Divorcer Jeff listen to me and when I start getting close you try to scare me off and when I get really close You figure to drop over and put on a good act Jeff listen to me. They'll send me to prison. Don't still make me grow old and ugly there Oh Jeff, please. Please. Let me go. I'll do anything You can let me go. You can you can Me again. I got that warrant. Yeah, he spilled. Where we're gonna find that dave. She's probably skipped. No, no She's in my place. What? I'll do anything anything. Get somebody over quick, will you? Get him over what you're still here Well, I told it all to the lion and he told it all to the american insurance company and They renewed our contract She's being arraigned next monday What happens after that is up to the jury Melody had a question Jeff What do you think they'll do to us? You'll get about 10 years I guess If um If mr. Lion hadn't had that contract with a I see Would you have turned her in? Sure, I'd have turned her in. It's my job, isn't it? It's a big city A lot of lonesome people down there They allowed her one call when they took her to jail She called here asking for you Jeff Why did she do that? I don't know melody I don't know the easiest way to save for the future is to buy united states savings bonds Your nearest post office bank or savings and loan association can accommodate you or you can buy bonds on the payroll savings plan Just ask your employer to start deducting for a bond a month a bond a month is good security for the years to come For money in the future by united states savings bonds now you will be glad you did Jack Webb is starred as jeff reagan with wilms herbert as anthony j lion eve mcvay was heard as mary porter and ken christy as the big man It's cbs same time next week for hard-boiled action and mystery with jeff reagan investigator As he tells the story of the lady with the golden hair Jeff reagan investigator is written by e jack newman produced and directed by gordon t hughes with original music by del castillo This is cbs the columbia broadcasting system