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Tonight, a Gestapo agent has arrived at the Mexican ranch from where he'll be flown over the border and dropped into Texas. The airplane has been pushed out. There's about to take off from the ranch. Yeah, I need to take off at the Texas border, Herr Borger. This is a case. Put it in the cockpit. Yeah, what is it? Do not go yet. Why not? A very unusual thing has just happened. Yeah, yeah. No one ever comes this far from the main road, but the ranch house has just arrived. Counselor Carlos Costello. Costello? He is taking a long trip by horseback for his health. See, senior, make him leave. We do not want this place to scabot. Oh, but I have a very interesting thought. So suppose I tell him you are a wealthy American down here with your plane. You are going to take a little ride under the moon in the sky. I invite him to go with you. Yeah. When you cross the border, you will fly very low. It will be very unfortunate, but his feet and hands will be tied very tight. The door of the airplane will open. He will fall out. He will be killed. He will find him with his hands and feet tied and dead on American soil. Ah-ha. I see. There will be quite a strain between the Mexican and the United States governments. A prominent government official murdered on American soil. Yeah, yeah, hello. It is a good thought. Then they picked you to run this ranch. They picked the right man. You like my little idea, huh? If you get stuck, we shall hear about this. You shall be rewarded. Please, not by medal. I prefer my rewarded money. Go, hello. Invite the official to join us. Then we will see what happens. They are so glad you could take this little flight with us, Counselor. Ah, so beautiful. I was never in an airplane at night. With the moon. I hate it so romantic. You are there, Counselor. They have crossed the border between Mexico and the United States. No. Is it not against the law? Oh, I am sure no one will object by they have such a distinguished gentleman of the Mexican government. What is the meaning of this? Oh, you did a health worker. Yes, sir. Tie his feet when I tie his hands. You're bold. Who are you? Just a gestapo, if you would like me. No. Why are you kidnapping me? They are going to open the doors of the plane, and you are going to fall out. No, you cannot. You will be found on American soil in a very delicate international situation should result. You are a fool. All my bones will be broken. They will know I was thrown from an airplane. The gestapo is not so stupid. They will fly very low, so you will not be killed, but your body will not be mangled either. Drop as low as you can. So in Mexico, like the United States, you belong to Germany. And you will be glad that you are dead. You beak! Laugh! Laugh! Now, Chancellor, I shall open the door, and we will make ready for your big experience. Yes, sir. Me put them. They quieted at me. They brought me the hospice. What are you doing? Train to Fulma. I cannot fight. I am tired. Therefore, I must pray. Pray to whom? Ful superstition. I will not hear such dribble. There are no no fans. Here, why do you have a crayon in your hand? Give me that. Please, senor. Give me a chance to leave. Now I shall push you through the door. Screw you. Hala, gone! So, here's it. Put the blame back on the cost. This is Harding speaking. I'm the testing laboratory of the Walker Optical Company. In an hour, I shall take a plane for Washington. Set up my appointment for me at three o'clock with Colonel Marvin. Tell emergent. Emergency. Yes, sir. You wish me to continue, Mr. Harding? Ah, yes, Mr. Walker. And this is a grave emergency. Now, those light bulbs you have lined up over there. Are they lit now? Yes. But naturally, as they are high-frequency lights, you cannot see them with your naked eye. Ah, I see. You cannot see the light, Mr. Harding, unless you are wearing this green, hypey lens in your glasses. This is a 5-3-1. Now, look through it. All right. Yes. As I can see, the left light's burning, but I can't tell whether the one on the right is burning or not. Well, you would need another specially colored lens to see that one. In other words, Mr. Harding, these high-frequency lights can be burning, but you cannot see them unless you are wearing specially prepared lenses. Well, Mr. Walker, as I explained to you, this is a case of great emergency. It involves an international incident with Mexico. I see. How soon could you make me 12 pairs of each of these two different lenses? I believe by 8 in the morning, Mr. Harding. Good. I'll have a Navy plane waiting off Pier 3 and a government car here to deliver them to the plane at 8 sharp in the morning. Right now, I'm going to fly to Washington. What can I do for you, Mr. Harding? Well, Colonel Marvin, we've known for some time that certain Gestapo agents have been getting into this country by flying over the border from a ranch in Mexico. Now, they're landing in a deserted section of Texas, where they usually stay for several days before leaving for different parts of the United States. In other words, you've allowed them to enter this way because you know how they're entering, and that's better than stopping this route and forcing them to find some other method which may take you months to discover, that it? Exactly, Colonel. Harding, you know we'll do anything possible to help you. Now, Colonel, tomorrow night I'd like to have about eight Army planes from Field A-46 fly all over the state of Texas and into Louisiana. I'll be at field headquarters in Texas with a map to get their reports. What information are you looking for, Harding? Now, one house which we recently rated had up the chimney a high frequency light. Well, that light can't be seen at night when you're flying over the house unless you have a certain colored lens in your glasses. I feel sure that there are a certain few houses for let's say 200 miles in Texas which have these lights hidden up the chimney. I see. Now, the pilot who's flying these foreign agents in wears these special colored glasses. You can see these high frequency lights placed in the chimneys and these help keep him on his course. And you want to locate every house which has such a light, huh? Yes, and it's vital. I'll have a plane ready to leave in two hours, Harding, and I'll fly down with you to see that you have everything you need. Thank you, sir. Our colonel, if we can have the houses which have these invisible lights spotted from the air, we'll know the exact route the plane's flying which brings in these spies. Right to the ranch where they land is safer a few days. When that time comes, we'll be able to make a mass raid. I see, yes, yes. But, Harding, what are we doing about that prominent Mexican official found tired and murdered on American soil? That's a very embarrassing situation. Well, colonel, there's something about that murder that I can't tell us yet. I want to check in certain additional facts before I speak. All right, Harding, you're doing a wonderful job and I'll see that eight army planes will be flying over the designated section of Texas tomorrow night. Thank you, sir. Just look at this chart, Mr. Harding. That last report mentioned this house. Southwest, square 411. Let me have that other chart, Kelly. Yes, sir. Yes. Notice how this route's beginning to shape up. Come in. I'm flying over Sanville, chart square TS4, chart square TS4. Here's the square he's talking about, Kelly, this square. North-east beam intersection, main highway, two miles from Conor. Can you locate on your chart? Yes, yes. This house right here. 42P. We have located it. 42P signing off. I've got that mark. Your signal, I don't tell you the upper frequency. Yes, sir. 42R. Come in, 42R. Come in, 42R. Chart square. I've got that one too, it's right here. Cross check with field light. Southeast, 2R signing off. Kelly, these houses being spotted are on a perfectly straight line from the border right to the ranch we've been suspecting. Now tomorrow night we'll fly this route. Check all of the houses we're marking and go right to their landing field. I'll bring a short wave set along with you in your suitcase. We've seen every light the pilots reported last night, Mr. Harding. As we should spot that ranch in their landing field most any minute. Yes, sir. Kelly, I'm going to tell you something that nobody else knows. It sounds pretty serious, Mr. Harding. You know that high Mexican official found murdered on American soil? Yes, sir. Well, he was murdered by members of this fire ring we're after right now. You mean they got him in Mexico, flew him over the border and dropped him from a plane? Yes. Well, that is null. It wasn't the body of a high Mexican official. But his papers, he was identified. I did the identifying. And who was it? It was one of our own counter spies, Kelly. Tato Zalli. Tato? Yes. I was working with the Mexican authorities. We suspected this Mexican ranch so the Mexican conflict was taken into our confidence. He went into hiding for a few days. And Tato, posing as a counselor, visited the ranch. But he was evidently surprised by them and he dropped out of a plane. Good Lord. But how do you know he was dropped from the plane, Mr. Harding? No trick. When Scott only got a pencil from his boat and hit it in the palm of his hands. While his hands were tied together, he was able to write on the palm of one hand the word air. There's the landing field, Mr. Harding. Yes, there's a large ranch house, the two barns. Ah, it's barren all right. Tato. We'll land and I'll have the pilot take off immediately. Hold it in. Land as far as in the house as you can. We'll hide the suitcase with the short way set out in the field. Perhaps they won't hear us land. We can get to the house before they know we're here. What do you want? Who are you? BR2. We want to stay a couple of days. My name is Mr. David. This is Mr. Kelly. Where did you come from? Hacienda Pedro over the border. We've been traveling a long time. We want to rest a day and then go on. Yes. I have a room for you. You can have food here too. Are you empty now or do you have any more guests? We have an Italian and oh and a Japanese. I did not want to take him in but we are on the orders. And your husband? He is out in the barn. He will meet him when he comes in. Is the Japanese of the Black Dragons? Yes. And the Italian of the Obra? Yes. I'll hit her. I'll hit her. Now I ask, or one must be most careful in our work, do you expect any more guests tonight? Not for several days. You wish to go up to your room now? Just to clean up. Then I think I'll take a walk around and get a look at things. After you are washed you will find my husband in the barn. You will again identify yourself to him. 42B calling 42B calling 42B calling from field at location specified. Locate for me immediately German couple about 60. One couple opposed to Nazi rule. Check my file numbers for names of couples already examined. Fly this couple to our present location. 1130 tomorrow night. Check. Report sufficient. That is all. All right Kelly, close the case, slip none of the bushes again. Yes, that Nazi woman in there was a brutal looking character. Well let's get right back to the house. I don't want them to notice that we've been gone too long. What did you think of our husband? I'll answer that a little later. If I'm not mistaken, I've got a complete report on him in Washington. You're a fanatic, isn't he? Aren't they all? Would they be Nazis if they weren't? Well, if you weren't in on the inside of things though, you could stop at the ranch and not guess anything was wrong. Oh yes, they're clever. What was that? Quick, get back to the house. Where is everybody? I heard footsteps upstairs. Let's get up there. I was in a Maya room at the other end of the house. I heard a scream from this room. I come running. This Italian guy got here just at the same time. I, uh, I was at the other end of the house in a Maya room. You'd better fix your collar. It looks like someone had grabbed it and turned the button off. Here comes my husband. He'll be very angry. Where were you may I ask when this happened? And the other gentlemen? We were walking toward the house. We heard the scream. We ran in here as quickly as possible. Very pleasant, that'll avoid. What just happened? Why did one of you scream like that? By your standing side of the neck? Oh, I see. He was evidently stabbed in the back while he was sleeping. I am not angry because the Japanese is killed. I hate them that you should have been killed somewhere else. Who did it? None of us seems to know. Did you? I was at the other end of the house in the Maya room. And you? I would not have done it inside the house, you know that. You too? No. Oh, we were outside walking toward the house. You left me 20 minutes ago. There have you been since. Why did you not come right back to the house? Because we were all cramped up from traveling. We wanted to stretch our legs, take a little walk. So, if I was so many ways it could have been done to leave no telltale. It's a river out of a plain. Yes, like possibly you would do with a Mexican. Thank you to say that. Hello told me of it, the house he underpaid row in Mexico. They all thought it very clever. That man hello talks too much. Here, let me get him up on my shoulder. I will take him out and bury him in the field. Gladly. Yeah, come with me. They'll bury him to leave no traces. I will go with you and hold a lantern. Do you too wish to come? Not interested, thank you. Kelly, will you do me one favor? What, sir? Kick me just as hard as you can. Why? Well, the minute I saw that chap had been murdered, by habit and instinct I started to ask questions. I knew the Italian had killed him. And all I had to do was ask about three more pointed questions, and there'd have been plenty of trouble. Come to think of it, you're right. You didn't think the woman killed the chap's spy? I think they were all in on it. It was planned before we got here. But that teaser you put off, Mr. Harding, you got results, didn't you? Yes, he fell for it. He's the one who thought Zolley was the Mexican official and threw him out of the plane. What's our next move? Just sit tight until the army plane arrives at 11.30 tomorrow night. Mr. Harding, that's the army plane, all right? Yeah. Take these glasses. Get signaled with the invisible light, just to the right of the moon, see? Yeah, good. Good. Now we've got to work fast while the plane's landing. The German couple and the Italian are in the sitting room. Let's go in. And your leave? I will be leaving in the morning. For the American money, which I will supply you with. If you two gentlemen don't mind my intruding, and if it's all right with you, madam, I'm going to have to ask you all to get your hands up. We both have you covered. You won't have to do much persuading for me to put a bullet right through you. Mr. President, I beg you. Please help me, sir. I'm an enemy for the love of your time. Them throwing fool. We don't operate like your Gestapo, Berger. We give them a chance, according to our laws. Why do you call me Berger? That is not my name. The name I have you listed by in Washington. You forget your activities in the boon before the war broke out. And, incidentally, the Mexican government official you threw from the plane wasn't the Mexican consular. I don't know what you're talking about. He was an American counter spy, one of my assistants, posing as a consular. I'll promise you, Berger, you're going to pay for that and pay plenty. They're going to kill us. I'll give you money. I'll tell you all I know. Enough of that. An army plane just landed outside. Now march out that door to the plane and keep your hands up. Mr. Harding, that's a sweet old couple the plane brought down. Yeah, motherly looking soul, isn't she? You wouldn't think that this couple who just arrived and the other couple who we took out to the plane were both German. Some Germans who are not Nazis. Well, I'll let them finish looking around the house and we'll leave in the army plane with those others we're taking with us. Then, I believe we have seen it all, Mr. Harding. It is quite a please. Now, do you too feel that you can live here and pretend to be Nazis? And run this place for the spies who come over? Yeah. Mama is a great actress when she needs to be. But so is Papa. I will run to house and he will look after the outside and deliver the radio station to send you the information. Good. Now, as soon as the spy arrives, we shall want his complete description, something that he's touched so we can get his fingerprints, knowledge of where he's going and any information about what he has in his bag. We shall see you have it all, eh, Papa? We shall do everything. We shall give our lives to see the Nazis crushed and wiped off the face of this earth. You too must have had a terrible experience from the report. We lived just outside of Hamburg. We were happy and our two boys had graduated and were the ministers of the German Lutheran Church. It was in the middle of the night. Oh, Papa. The Gestapo broke in the front door and dragged our two boys out of bed. Then they came and got numbering me. You forgot. They beat our boys because they were ministers of the church. They dragged them outside. They tied our boys to the fence. They made us watch. The Gestapo stepped back and took aim and shot them for youngest boy Hans. He did not die. So the little Gestapo put a pistol to his head, spit at him, and fired. The little Gestapo tore the crucifix that Hans bore around his neck. He threw it on the ground, stepped on it. Then he raised his arm at the Nazi salute and said, Heil Hitler, the fear of the rude world! He left Germany. Mama and me. It took us four months to escape across the border, but we did it. Now we are in this country. God bless it. Then you know what it means to have the Nazi rule. We are here for a step. Somebody's coming. Careful, there may be trouble. Ja, komm in. I am a traveler, X-4 from Mexico. From the Hacienda Pedro. You have arrived at the right place, X-4. Good. Our plane was forced down. I had to come the last hundred miles by motorcycle. Heil Hitler, the fear of the rude world. The fear of the rude world. I remember. I shall show you to the room. What, these men? We don't ask questions like that around here. Yes, you are right. Take my bag. Ja, Mama, bring your light from the mantel. We will show this gentleman to his room. Ja, Papa. This way, please. I don't think, Kelly, that we're needed here anymore. No. Let's go to the plane. Look how bright the stars are tonight, Mr. Hardy. Yes, Kelly. Well, they're one of the things in this world that are permanent. Permanent like the faith of Christian people. At the time of the Crusaders, barbarians tried to crush faith from the face of the earth. But the Christians rose up and pushed those hordes right back into the sea. Well, a great Christian army has risen again. And Nazism will be wiped from the face of the earth. I have spread a great army of counterspies. Men whose names may never be known or their deeds ever revealed. But twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, these counterspies are the guardians of our home front. Counterspies will not be heard next week, June 29th. 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