 My name's Regan. I work for Anthony J. Lyon International Detective Bureau. They call me the lion's eye Jeff Regan investigators starring Frank Graham as Regan with Frank Nelson as Anthony J. Lyon So stand by for mystery and suspense and adventure in tonight's story of the man on the hook What the newspapers said George McDonald was the way to get LA's racket boss Eddie Slogan Only George McDonald was around he'd been hiding out a week The cops wanted him grand jury wanted him to testify the Eddie Slogan mob wanted him Eddie Slogan was what the grand jury wanted him to testify against So I had to be the one that found him That made me a popular guy like a clay pigeon at a skeet shooters convention The thing got rolling at a bowling alley on Vine Street my lucky day looked like I bowled a strike I went back to the bench to mark the strike in my score pad only something was written on the score pad in lipstick Regan coffee shop counter hurry and Pin of the score pad with a bobby pin was a $100 bill Well, I'd be missing coffee. Yeah, that's okay. I know cream Mind if I sit on this stool Regan. Oh No sit down thanks Mine's Joe too, Sunny You call coffee Joe you must have been in the Navy sure duty Regan open your hand under the counter. I'm gonna put four one hundred dollar bills in your hand with the one pin of the score pad that makes 500 For which I do what? Fine George McDonald listen lady have the cops in town are looking for McDonald not to mention Eddie Slogan I'm Eddie Slogan's wife Lady, I'm not a finger man. It's not that I don't want McDonald for Eddie. What do you want him for for me Regan? I love the guy sure you do. That's straight. I love him. Get another shama system. Don't be so special I'll see you around Regan 500 Yeah, that is an argument. Hey mister your name Regan. Yeah Phone for you. Okay. I'll be right there Regan. We can't talk here. Your cars parked out back in the alley You know a lot. I've got eyes baby blue We'll get around to that. Yeah Okay, see you my car in five minutes Answer the phone or do I hang it up? I got it. This is a place of business sure sure sure yeah So you've located me Jeffrey a splendid client has come our way wants to pay us 500 bucks, but well, yes Jeffrey That's right offers to pay our international detective bureau $500 to find a missing person land Yes, that's right guy named of George McDonald Jeffrey you astound me a client has baby blue eyes Well, I can't say that I know this Jeffrey and good legs nice slim good legs land Jeffrey what are you talking about? You didn't notice the legs that so you're getting old Mr. Heligan had his trousers on Jeffrey. How could I see his legs? Give me that again? Give you what again? I don't think I understand you Jeffrey. You mean a guy came to the office to hire us to trace George McDonald Well, certainly Jeffrey. Mr. Happy Heligan the used car came and gave you 500 bucks. That's right You're gonna go see him right away. He said he's used car on Beverly Boulevard. He wants you to hurry Jeffrey My boss Anthony J. Lyon didn't have anything more on Happy Heligan So I hung up the phone and went out back to the alley where my car was parked Now we had two clients and a thousand bucks in the kitty All I had to do was find George McDonald the guy every cop in LA and the Eddie slogan mob had been looking for for a week It'd be easy. Mrs. Eddie slogan was waiting for me in my car. All right But those big blue innocent baby eyes were out of place like a couple of lambs in a den of Tigers Cigarette not my brand Mind if I do? Light is on the dashboard. Thanks So you want me to find George McDonald mr. Slogan my name's Naomi Yeah, I want you to find There's your light. I've got it If you know a guy named Happy Heligan, I know him Reagan sure What's Halligan's angle? George McDonald's a used car salesman for Halligan. You must have read that in the papers Go on Halligan got in touch with your office today. He wants you to find George First names now. I told you I was in love with a guy Why does Halligan want McDonald? Halligan's got ideas too big for his two pants. Halligan in the rackets. Mm-hmm dime style and he wants to put on weight That's it So he'd like to get his hands on McDonald and put the squeeze on your husband You're real quick Whose side are you on? My side. I heard Halligan was hiring you to look for George You heard So where do you hear it? And he's got the kind of door around town that's got fast here. I believe it Well If you do find George McDonald I Want him first Here's your 500 so long. What's the matter people scared listen sister. I've got your number. Have you? Well dial me Regan Just to make sure Why not worry That's your busy signal you mean George you said you loved him You can I'm not a one-party line come and see me got a place of my own Beverly Hills What do you want McDonald because when they get him Regan whoever gets him Maybe you'll talk you mean he might talk about you and him Eddie wouldn't like that that adds That's why you got to get to McDonald first Regan, I'll see you later. Hey. Hey, hold it. Hey She slammed the door and started to run There was a back entrance to the bowling alley and she ducked in and disappeared Then I looked up into my rear vision mirror and I saw why Mrs. Eddie slogan had run a Black sedan had pulled into the alley five guys in it hat brems down I gunned out of the alley and turned left on fine. The black sedan turned after me There was plenty of traffic on fine, but I felt conspicuous like a giraffe in a flea circus Below Melrose I dodged into a side street to try to duck the black sedan. I Shouldn't have done that the black sedan crowded me over to the curb And then a guy with a couple of cold sawed-off gray eyes got out and opened my car door Leave town Eddie slogan says cost him something for my time sure Hey You want something extra for expenses come around? Anytime will be No use giving him his change with those four other hoods in the car But wouldn't I care a thousand bucks could buy a lot of bandages I Drove on a happy Halligan's used car lot on Beverly Boulevard Only after a couple of blocks the blacks had and picked up my trail again. I Slowed down in front of happy Halligan's the blacks at and slowed down behind me Then I got an idea I drove right on into the lot you happy Halligan, okay No, you should get now to that piece of junk no trading value. I'm Regan International detective bill Lion's eye, huh? That's it. I gave you a boss half a grand says you find George McDonald for me No 500s a big fee. He was a good use car salesman sure he was They used to come in here customers Vegas to sell them a car price no consideration What do we do we slug them we and sell them we give my hot foot and they apologize for putting us to so much trouble Yeah, then was the war years Now what about McDonald even now he could sell an Essex hot rod to whistle his mother. What about McDonald? Yeah, you're right Regan Ain't why I want him He cleaned out my till 4700 bucks that why you want him that's why I want him Eddie Slogan's wife said different Eddie Slogan Seem to read that name in the papers Okay, how they can what can you give me on McDonald? 12 gray temples 43 athletic Heard he was a South poor pitcher in the miners once. Oh, yeah serve time for larceny anything else Car over there is the one he beat it in English model Demonstrator we sell him by the picture people and McDonald must have ditched the car cops picked it up San Bernardino Okay By the way, there are back way off your lot. Halligan Yeah, sure. Well, how about letting me drive something in good condition? We went to the back of the lot and Halligan gave me the keys to a job with white sidewalls. I drove out the rear exit I crossed Beverly Boulevard a couple of blocks up and the black sedan was still out in front of Halligan's I Headed for the press room downtown at police headquarters I was looking for a little reporter name of Gabby who's usually got answers to what goes on around town and parts with them For cash Hi, Reagan. Hello, Jack. Gabby around over there. Oh, yeah, thanks Hey, Gabby. Oh Hi, Ray. Hi, what's it information? Eh cash or credit? Here's 20. Hey, hey, thanks Rick. Thanks. What do you need? I want to know about George McDonald Huh? What you guys are writing in the papers is plenty of nothing. Well cops won't let us print what we know They're afraid we'll tip slogan not that he don't know more than we know What do we know? Slogans mob got a place up past San Bernardino where McDonald's car was found. Yeah, yeah, yeah Places up in the canyon. Well slogan and his little playmates took a business competitor up there about a week ago You know, Ray. They took him up, but they didn't bring him back The business competitor made the mistake of getting very depressed all of a sudden and shooting himself Only it turns out there was a witness McDonald McDonald How did the cops get there? Well, there's only one road up the canyon gas station guy at the junction saw McDonald that all of it All I know rig McDonald in the rackets in and out work for slogan, but that busted off about five or six months ago What about a guy named Halligan happy? He's in a racket So I drove back out to happy Halligan's I like to have my clients tell me the truth it helps me get my work done But Halligan wasn't around neither were the five slogan trigger men in the black sedan So I took my own car picked up the evening papers to see what they had on the hunt for McDonald They didn't have much, but what they did have was peculiar The cops had released the fact that some stuff was stolen from the slogan mob up in the canyon But what was stolen didn't make sense Phone number pad gold cigar holder table cigarette lighter About nine o'clock at night. I pulled into a gas station in the hills up past San Bernardino Fill her up only um, wait a second. Yes, sir I'm looking for George McDonald Yes, sir. You saw him, huh? About a week ago. Well, I There's 10 bucks in it for you. Yeah, I did see him. How'd you know it was McDonald? I Described him to the police after they found the dead man up in the canyon And you identified the car the English right-hand drive job McDonald was driving you'd remember that Yeah, it was right in here into the station in the right-hand drive car He was very nervous and I guess maybe I acted funny because he pulled a gun on me leaned out and stuck it up against me But I had OSS training in the war and you pivoted and grabbed his wrist You get the gun Yeah, police said that was positive identification they traced the serial number to McDonald but he got away He'd left his motor running. Okay. I owe you 10 bucks. Fill up the tank and we'll see what the total comes to I Couldn't go up the canyon to the slogan mob place cops had the canyon blockaded They had a road check halfway down back to San Bernardino to Highway patrolman stopped me and flashed his light around the car Then he went back a couple of cars pulled up a little ways behind me Everybody looking for George McDonald. I Stuck a cigarette in my mouth and reached for the dashboard lighter. But all I got was the hole I was out of matches, so I bent down and fell around the floor That was when the car door jerked open and the guy shoved in on the front seat beside me All right, drive. This is a gun in your guts drive like the devil. You're giving the orders McDonald I had a thousand bucks worth of George McDonald in my car 500 if I delivered him to Happy Halligan the used car king that was trying to get fat in the rackets and 500 if I delivered him to Naomi. This is Eddie slogan Only Eddie slogan big boss of the LA rackets was looking for Mac and every cop in LA was looking for Mac And that thing max left hand kept shoving into my side had some eager bullets of it We exchanged some polite conversation around Azusa, but we didn't get any place till we're pulling into LA Hey, hey slow down. Will you that's a cop car. We just pass you want us to get stopped you got the gun Mac That makes you the captain Pull over listen Reagan One you up out of you and you'll get it see sure Mac. Maybe the cops won't know who you are baby They went past that They're after somebody else All right, if I drive now captain. Yeah Yeah, yeah, sure Only take it easy sure We bound for a Mac. I I don't know they got nice rooms at the Biltmore Cut it out Regan lesson McDonald if the slogan guys get to you you'll get it like a rat in a gutter Shut up And a funny part is you weren't the guy that was up there in the canyon and witnessed their killing How do you know that we'll get the how I know it? Listen Mac. I'll give you a break. I'll hide you out. Well Regan if you're trying to pull anything out Yeah Got a better offer Why doesn't he come? Why doesn't he come he's coming? He's sure I'll be okay here better in my place slogan mobs under me Well Jeffrey hi lion a late evening holiday week call come in come in welcome sure thanks Hey sit down both of you I was just sitting smoking a Christmas corona and meditating on the peace and boundary of the holiday I'm them like to have you meet George McDonald. How do you do as I was saying I was meditating on the peace and Jeffrey Stay here at your house with you for a couple of days line Jeffrey. You can't you you couldn't you wouldn't yet He's slogan mobbing the cops are after him. He's got to hide out Jeffrey putting a thing like this on a sick old man There's a thousand bucks in it for international detective. It's thousand bucks Yes, yes, so there is But why can't we turn him over to our clients in no offense to you mr. McDonald, but this is business There's another way McDonald wasn't a guy who witnessed the slogan mob killing I Find the guy who did what I thought McDonald was the way well. He wasn't he's left-handed watch every McDonald's left-handed Happy Halligan said something about that said Mac used to be a Southpaw pitcher once And when Mac held me up in my car tonight. He kept the gun in his left hand It may all be very well But the fellow the gas station guy identified as the witness to the slogan robot was right-handed How do you know that he drove into the gas station in the demonstrator car McDonald had been using an English Right-hand drive car and he stuck his right hand with a gun in it out the car window and the gas station guy grabbed his wrist and got the gun Was McDonald's car and McDonald's gun, but it wasn't McDonald Yeah, let's see steering wheel on the right side right hand window right hand out the way. Yes. Yes, that's right Well, were you that night McDonald? I Don't remember look you better give me all I help you can Well, I Was pulling the job Burglary I got sent up for it once and I laid off that part You didn't take the right-hand drive car on the job. Is that right? I did the job with another guy who used his car I left the demonstrator in front of my place never to got home the right-hand car was gone Next morning a guy. I know that's with slogan gave me the tip slogan had just put out the word to get me So so I land your boss Halligan have duplicate keys for his demonstrators McDonald sure. Well, how did your gun get into it? Maybe you'd left it in the car. I Saw the serial number in the papers. It was an old one. I lost six eight months ago Or maybe it was stolen from you That might fit. What do you mean Jeffrey? McDonald your ex-boss slogan he the kind of leave important stuff around maybe written on a phone pad I Never worked for Eddie slogan. I got a friend Gabby knows what goes on around town says different Okay, but but I busted with Eddie five months ago Over Naomi, how did you miss is Eddie slogan? She told me she was in love with you. Yeah for six months. He stuck with him Well, I'll see you fellas. It's your free. You can't leave me here Good care of them lion. I don't let the cops already slogan shoot up the place if free I left the two happy pals side-by-side in front of the lion's molding Christmas tree Maybe when I told the gas station kid up at the junction of the Canyon Road the guy on McDonald's car with McDonald's gun wasn't McDonald He'd come up with something that had lead me to the guy who was But it was too late to go up there to morning So I went to my place on Taft to get some sleep. Give him something extra for expenses that a slogan says They don't leave town like he stole It was one of Santa's slogans little helpers the one with the gray eyes He'd been waiting and he came at me only this time. He didn't have his four hits with him. So I didn't have to miss I'll have one before gray eyes got started, but when he got started he was hard to stop He had something white and fisted up and the cards in the ends of his sleeves that kept exploding in my face Like it had been imported from Oak Ridge, and then I kicked him in the stomach He landed in the middle of the coffee table When he when he came up, he had a hunk of the coffee table in his hand. All right When I opened my eyes gray eyes was gone Somebody was coming toward me out of the kitchen Or was I dreaming Regal you are I Can't stay in the open The next morning I went into the kitchen to make myself orange juice and coffee I Had a head Couldn't find the juice squeezer so I got in my car and started for the gas station up past San Bernardino I could get breakfast along the road. I Picked up the morning papers at a corner, and then I pulled over in the next block and stopped. It was a headline The gas station guy had been murdered three hours ago And all the papers reported something queer The guy's military Coleman brush set his wrist watch and his toothbrush had been stolen by whoever it was that killed him When I got back to my place on tap the phone was ringing Yeah, Jeffery Jeffery I'm glad to get you what a night I've spent you spend a message unit to tell me that Yeah, but Jeffery there was someone lurking lurking around the house Eddie slogan social worker, maybe I think so Jeffery and George McDonald Must have thought so yeah, because Jeffery he became so nervous and worried that suddenly he Well, he slipped out of the house and left left half an hour. Why didn't you tell me I did Jeffery? I just yeah You did well that's how I got business song I hung up the phone stopped long enough to put on the new gold tie clip the lion gave me for Christmas and drove to Beverly Boulevard. I Did some arithmetic on the way Phone pabbed plus a gar holder plus cigarette lighter stolen from the scene of the slogan mob killing Plus wristwatch toothbrush brush and comb set stolen when the gas station guy was murdered. I Stuck a cigarette in my mouth absent mindedly reached down from my dashboard lighter what I got was a hole I Added another item dashboard cigarette lighters stolen from Jeff Regan a Couple of blocks ahead on Beverly Boulevard was the happy halogen use car lot where I left my car the day before to ditch The black sedan full of slogan mobsters I mentally added one more item to my list and drove past happy halogens car lot not on to Beverly Hills Reagan Come in. Thanks. I Make sure drink. No, thanks Reagan last night you walked out on me after your husband's helper sapped me. Well, I came to see you. I Wanted to To talk then the mug showed up and you had to hide I Had in the kitchen. Yeah, but after he left you beat it case somebody came back. Well, I had to if Eddie you want to talk now Yeah Guess that gives you about the complete collection lady. Hmm. What toothbrush phone pad cigar holder Wristwatch McDonald's gun. I don't know what you're talking about my dashboard cigarette lighter when you were in my car I'm behind the bowling alley yesterday. My orange juice squeeze it from my kitchen last night I didn't steal anything. What's my new gold Christmas tie-class doing in your hand right now? Thinking louse baby. Maybe a racket boss's wife can afford to be a kleptomaniac, but she shouldn't mix it with murder That wrapped it up Naomi was the same as signed her name to the gas station guys murder once you figured out the key. I Called the cops and they picked her up. It was a big morning for them. They'd already picked up George McDonald in North Hollywood I dropped by the lion's house to see if he'd survived He'd had 10 pounds scared off him, but there was plenty of them left Although silly useless odds and ends stolen by that woman Mrs. Logan because she was a kleptomaniac Imagine yeah, imagine ever Jeffrey even with the fact that she had McDonald's car and gun How could the gas station fellow have mistaken Mrs. Logan for McDonald when she was a woman? He didn't Didn't the slogans used to go up the canyon often the gas station was at the road junction The attendant was a young good-looking guy. Oh You mean Naomi stole McDonald's car to go up to see that gas station guy. She talked him into helping her frame McDonald's You probably never intended that the kid lived long enough to give the frame away Well, a very sweet girl Jeffrey. Yeah, but the case is over now. Oh, yeah, have a cigar Christmas Corona. Oh, thanks Yeah, right. Thanks Seems to be out of fluid. Well, I've got my lighter. Oh, fine right here in my Huh, I had it one. It's not in your pocket Jeffrey. Yeah, but I had it this morning when I left to go to see Naomi Oh Jeff Regan investigator is written by William Frug and William Fifield produced by Sterling Tracy Directed by Gordon T. Hughes and stars Frank Graham as Regan with Frank Nelson as Anthony J. Lyon Original music is by Dick around