 From Hollywood it's time now for Johnny dollar would you ask John was there some doubt about it? He's out of his office at the moment. What's the matter Burton somebody's shooting at you again. That's not funny mr. Dollar who's laughing I said who's laughing and except for the wind get at this moment And that's really why you're upset isn't it Burton because it might have been you you're not really concerned about Al's death Extremely fond of the boy. You were no fonder of him than he was of you So save that good old lovable Charlie business for your television audience. I never did buy it myself I know my position in it I'm an insinata to protect your life because some company was crazy enough to write a half million dollar policy on you All right, you're still alive aren't you goodbye Burton? Tonight and every weekday night Bob Bailey in the transcribed adventures of the man with the action packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator yours truly Johnny dollar From special investigator Johnny dollar location in Sonata, Mexico to the home office Union States casualty company Hartford, Connecticut assignment the laughing matter expense account final page Item 12 50 cents two bottles of beer one for myself and one for Capitan Peral We sat in his office in the commandant sea a day police and drank them slowly and watched the Sun sink behind the headlands across The bay and we waited The daytime heat reluctantly loosened its grip and the town pushing off the lethargy of afternoon stirred to the quick and pace of evening a Sprinkling truck passed slowly sweeping the dusty rutted street with a spurting broom of water Gleeful kids ran out behind it and splashed in the puddles squealing happily Spanish squeals. They were The commandant CS off the tourist beat and all the while somewhere back inside the building an autopsy surgeon worked on a corpse Well, no, sir. Yes, the list of the medical is all finished now. Well, what's the verdict, bro? It's what we are thinking. It's a matter of a man. Oh, he was some how you say Poison what kind of poison and this a senior how you call it cyanide. This is in your cyanide And he are say also are very much cyanide in this bottle which you has give to me. Yeah. Yeah I thought it smelled like it I'll drink a glass and a half out of it and then drop dead right in front of the camera and You are said the wrong man has drink it the wrong one is get killed. No, that's right Charlie Burton was supposed to play that role himself But this morning at breakfast. He agreed to let Al have the part. I was there. I heard it So if he was not do that a he is one who will be dead now Sure, Charlie Burton himself and it figures for all he's been the target all along that threatening note That was slipped under his door somebody firing a shot at him last night. See say guru then when they finally got their punch in They tagged the wrong guy I'm no understand what has happened to this Nacho Morales Valena's husband the maid at the hotel that Charlie kept annoying it's another noise one big place It's very small this town and we are look every place on your butt. We are no fun this man I don't know parole and yet. I got a hunch. He's the key to this whole thing We find him say you are he's no way for us get this down. We funny muy pronto now. You bet your life Item 13 a dollar 40 taxi back to the hotel Lights were coming on a cool breeze was starting to blow in off the Pacific and the whole town was brightening up to the challenge of the night but not me Technically, of course the job I'd been sent here to do was still under control Big-time comedian Charlie Burton a great big lovable scream to his public have been insured by his television sponsor for a half million bucks Then Burton had received the anonymous note threatening his life. So I was here to protect the insurance company's investment I didn't care personally what happened to Burton. It was just a job, but I did care about Al Johnny oh Hello, Gloria. What is it Johnny? What happened? No one seems to know anything definite about it. Al Shriver's dead poisoned That's all I know about it Come on in the lounge. I'll buy you a drink. All right, Johnny Have they found that man who was missing? What's his name? Not your Morales. No, he's still missing this table. All right, sure waiting To margaritas Frank malts at something about Charlie and Al changing parts. Yeah Maltz got Charlie mad and he made the switch to prove a point what point that Al wasn't ready for a starring role Oh, that's right. You didn't come down for breakfast this morning. No, I wasn't in today's scenes So I just slept in it's just as well. It wasn't a very pretty sight. Oh, it's a rotten shame. I was a real swell guy Here Boy the irony in this world Johnny. What do you mean? Charlie Britton who's been a rat all his life makes his usual crude play for the maid here in the hotel And what happens her husband hits back at the wrong man Al gets killed a kid who'd never harm anybody in his life And Charlie gets off scot-free. I was with captain parole last night when he talked to the Morales girl not just wife She doesn't speak any English Gloria and she says her husband doesn't either Well, he wouldn't need to what eat a poor trigger or poison a bottle of water Maybe not, but he would in order to write a threatening note in English Forgotten about that if nachos in it. He's not in it alone, and I've got a hunch. She's Thanks Johnny dollar What is it bro? Good, I'll be right down But Johnny, do you think Frank Maltz might have not if he was after Charlie Burton? He knew that Al not Burton was going to drink out of that bottle, but didn't everybody know that no not everybody Gloria You didn't Nacho Morales was sitting alone in the starkly burned detention room of the commandant seal He was a small man, maybe a few years older than his wife A field worker with narrowed hands and a bent back He was waiting patiently quietly gripping the brim of a sombrero in his hands trying to hide the fear the terror that laid just behind his eyes His eyes flickered slightly as Baral and I opened the steel-grilled door And then he waited Buenos dias, hombre. Buenos dias, capitán Tu eres Nacho Morales, es verdad? Sí señor. Y eres tu esposa de Belina Morales. Sí señor Como pasó la noche hombre? Locked off by the barrier of language I watched while Paral questioned stopping now and then to translate Then Paral asked the question that started the avalanche Why did you try to kill that man last night? An answer to Paral's accusation, Nacho's story poured out in a flood of Spanish And as I stood there listening to it translated I began to feel sick inside I'd been blind All the facts were there all the evidence and I'd still failed to spot the play Nacho's story was the key of fit and I knew he was telling the truth He'd been hiding out on a friend's fishing boat since the night before he knew he'd be accused Because he had been at the hotel when the shot was fired through Burton's window He was hiding in the shrubbery by the terrace and he'd seen the whole thing The shot had been fired by Charlie Burton himself Johnny dollar I Want to talk to you Burton? All right, just a minute. What is it dollar? Have they caught that killer yet? Nacho Morales, you mean? Yeah, but I'll picked him up about an hour ago. I just came from there has he confessed No, he hasn't they ought to beat it out of him. That's the only way to make that kind talk. It is Sit down Burton. I think you do for a shock What are you talking about? Not sure didn't try to kill you. Well, then who did nobody They're crazy. What about Al Shriver? I suppose he's not even dead. Oh, he's dead. All right. You ought to know you killed him There was your whole plan wasn't it Burton to kill Al Shriver and get away with it Everything else was a preliminary build-up. Oh, that's very funny You ought to be on television. Well, there's gonna be an opening soon You wrote that threatening letter yourself what and then tore it up after malts had seen it So it couldn't be traced back to you you get better all the time you fired that shot through your window from the terrace They're more build-up then you made your play that phony argument this morning Switching parts with Al putting him on the spot making it look as though somebody had tried to poison you and missed It was fairly clever Burton, but you're still going to be tagged for it. There's parole. No all this Why don't you ask him? I'll be glad to step all right dollar Don't move Get your hands up now Real slow is that the same gun you use last night you're wrong, you know I'm not going to be tight relax Burton. There's no capital punishment in Mexico. You can star in all the prison shows you're too smart dollar You're like Al and you know what happened when he got too smart I started to tell you I'd be glad to call him that he was listening out there in the terrace Mira senior I am not sure too bad. I think no No, not bad at all, bro Well, he asked for it. I am see he is go to pull these trigger So I are to shoot much fast bum bum bum and tell you he's looked very surprised and you're yeah It's too bad. He couldn't have seen the look on his face a Comedian would have really appreciated it Why he'd have died laughing Item 14 $462 and 30 cents hotel and miscellaneous and ensign on transportation back to Hartford Expense account total $791 and 55 cents end of account end of report remarks Ray policy on the life of Charles Z Burton deceased refer clause 34 sub paragraph C quote If the insured dies while committing a felony this policy is null and void unquote The Superior Court of Baja California rules that Burton was shot while resisting arrest and committing an assault with a deadly weapon So you can keep your half million bucks yours truly Johnny dollar Now here's our star to tell you about next week's intriguing story next week a Frantic chase across the country after a girl who couldn't possibly exist Then suddenly turned up Join us. Won't you yours truly Johnny dollar? Yours truly Johnny dollar starring Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood Written by Les Crutchfield. It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone Heard in this week's cast were Virginia Greg John Daner Lucille Meredith Lawrence Dubkin Gil Stratton Harry Bartell and Don Diamond Musical supervision by Amarigo Marino and Carl Fortina Be sure to join us on Monday night same time and station for another exciting story of Yours truly Johnny dollar This is Roy Rowan speaking