 My name is Jeff Regan. I get ten a day and expenses from a detective bureau run by a guy named lion Anthony J. Lion I'm the lion's eye With Jack Webb as Jeff Regan investigators stand by for hard-boiled action and mystery and thrilling adventure in tonight's story of the diamond quartet Well, this is the way it started Melody called about six o'clock that night. She gave me the name of a restaurant out on the strip and Said that lion was waiting for me I drove out there and found him squatting at one of the corner tables He had a big white napkin tucked under all of his chins. He was working on a plate of crab louis and a bottle of beer a Tall peroxide blonde and slacks and dark glasses were sitting across from him watching a meat And a couple of ball-headed waiters were just sort of standing around looking at the ceiling Well, well Regan, I see you got my message You're out on time sound sound I Want you to meet miss What did you say your name was young lady mad? Just plain mad Fatso Regan, this is mad. I hate gum shoes. They all think Okay, where'd you find her mad? Oh Um Madge works for mr. Daley. Mr. Pete Daley. He's no client of ours. Isn't that right there mad all gum shoes are nosy That's why I don't like them mad just going to drive you out to mr. Daley's Residents Regan whose daily very nice chap very nice chap. I spoke with him on the phone. What's the job? Well, it's rather delicate matter, and I think mr. Daley himself can explain it better than I Guess man getting us nowhere the boss is waiting gum shoes talk too much. Yes, we can yes I told mr. Daley you'd be there by seven o'clock. You just run along with Madge here and see what it's all about Nice to have met you mad Call me Regan call me if you're running any trouble Just plain mad who was carrying a 25 automatic in her purse Well, we got into a Cadillac. We went out the past turned off a hill and bag of Burbank Daley's residence was at the end of a private road a nice old Southern style place with two or three private patrolmen guarding the entrance They all needed shade they kind of nodded when we got out of the car and went up to the front door Naturally, there was a peep shutter there is real southern Yeah, me this is the private peeper the boss wants to see okay me At your peeper is peep Flat feet and all his name is Regan. Okay, man. That's all Sit on Regan sit on Don't mind mad. She's kind of anti-social nice place. You got how's the gross now? I do all right to crap tables to pharaoh games little roulette in the living room But I have to be careful I noticed that driving up has lots of money thrown around here every night somebody might get some ideas You know how it is what about the law law No trouble with them. I just don't let them know I'm in operation In my business, I haven't much use for private detectives I don't generally like them neither does Madge, but I happen to need one right now Why don't you do a little job for me? You seem to have plenty of help around here Wasn't that Felix Frazier at the door there last time I saw him he was shadowing a banker up in the Sacramento Yes, that was Felix. All right, but it's a little different Now never say this before now That's a little bit of necklace called the diamond quartet worth quite a chunk of cash These four diamonds are good stuff. So dame named Annabella Calland. I left it here a week ago She was in kind of deep at the roulette table and was wearing this she left it for security How much did she lose about five G's I guess kind of screwy little dame She's a widow with a lot of money and a boyfriend named Teddy Silcoe. He paints or something. They come here And she loses steady every time Well, she sent me a check today for the full amount of what she lost Yeah, and I want you to take this thing back to it tonight That it that's it. I got my dough. She gets a little diamond necklace back just business sounds simple It's simple your licensed investigator bonded and sure don't want any fuss about this You just take it back very simple. Okay. Now you told me how simple it all is. Suppose you give me the hook Did her check bound you want to drink? There wasn't any check I thought it'd be something like that. Yeah She called me a couple hours ago said if I didn't have this thing back by tonight She'd go load of cops and come out and get it. That's such a dumb name. It's that as you're telling me If she comes here with cops I'm closed for the season and this dump cost me a pile of dough Felix was running the roulette table that night. I didn't know he'd taken this as security until we counted up I should have pushed his mushroom or something letting a dame like that makes it set up Maybe you'll do better next time. They're gonna be no next time Reagan. Here's their address Here's the ice to take it to her and I'll chalk it up to experience You better get yourself a new boy at that table. Yes, you're telling me Well, I took a taxi over to the restaurant in Hollywood picked up my Buick and drove to an apartment house near Pico and Beverly Drive Couple of men in a little gray coupe were sitting in front of the building smoking cigarettes and pulling on their hat brims I figured daily was making sure I got the right address Upstairs on the fifth floor. I leaned into the buzzer and waited to see what Mrs. Annabella calendar looked like Teddy, I thought you'd never get here. The performance begins at 815 and you know the track You want to you Annabella calendar Who are you my name's Regan? Oh Well, I'm only waiting for Ted to get here so we can make first curtain at the Belkmore We've seen Carol so and we're going to be late if he doesn't get here you can understand that Yeah, that's figures and I'm already and he hasn't shown up her white ermine cape and the black strapless thing needed to touch But she had it That necklace I had in my pocket or a very good copy was hanging around her neck And it looked like four cleague lights at a Hollywood premiere What's the idea you want to push down the door you're drunk or something I've been pounding on this door for five minutes Well, that's stupid Can't you read the signs? It's still as close as grand drift push off flow. You got a jeweler in this building named tartaglia Yeah, we got a jeweler named tartaglia only don't want to see nobody because it's nine o'clock at night the joints closing in here All right slow down. He lives someplace, don't he sure there's a lot of houses that way Why don't you try knocking on doors? There wasn't any residents listed in the phone book I thought maybe if I came down here to his office. You could tell me where I might see him I ain't going to tell you nothing Look, I'm a private investigator. I gotta see him tonight Oh How's little old expense account program? That'll do Let me see pal The name's freddy leech Your boy's a federal pilot blubber with a lot of talk in this new white hotel 208 three blocks straight ahead. Thanks freddy Anytime pal For the store but can't tell you his girlfriend. They said it was a matter of jewelry therefore but tartaglia is at your service Yeah, sir What is so urgent? I came to see you about a diamond necklace. I found your name stamped on the inside House of tartaglia most respected name in diamonds as in all the lapid area most respected And the last of all sons all Continue mr. Regan Take a look at this You come into possession of the diamond quartet, sir A man named daily who runs a gambling club hired me to take it back to a lady named calendar Gambling house And how did mr. Daily acquire it? And she lost at a roulette table. She left it so she could raise the cash Deflorable deplorable conduct on her part Annabella calendar a very indiscreet young lady to be sure to be sure Lovely body propelled by a ridiculous man I tried to take it back to her tonight It's beautiful. Isn't it mr. Regan? I want to know if it's real or not real of course it's real You sure mr. Regan do you doubt my abilities as a gemologist once in a lifetime, sir Only once in a lifetime does an artisan have the opportunity to create the perfect necklace How much will it pull priceless in the amount of work roughly $65,000 see here and with the like See how carefully each stone is mounted Without reservation. I pronounced the diamond quartet in incomparable masterpiece Well, I saw one just like it tonight. Huh? I didn't quite follow you, sir No one could create another diamond quartet except for totalia. Well, and somebody made up a pretty good imitation The finest workman at best could Create only a crude resemblance. This kind of work demands an artist mr. Regan an artist, but it could get by Well Do the unpracticed art yes to the layman perhaps yes That's all I want to know later to nanguas hobo, hey What was that like a sneak in the graph, hey Maybe Your expression tells me you're concerned for the safety of this piece I have a safe here in my room if you care no, it'll be all right Well, then You leave satisfied I trust yeah, thanks See nothing of it mr. Regan think nothing of it Just remember the house of totalia when you want fine, jure Good evening, sir In the lobby. I got two three cent stamps from the clerk He watched me put the diamond quartet in an envelope address it to myself and mail it right there He blinked a couple of times, but I didn't tell him about my two pals parked across the street in the little gray coop And they were sitting there still sucking on cigarettes and pulling on their ad brims When I walked outside they got out of the coop came over to where I was lighting a cigarette The tall one tapped me on the shoulder Here's the paper george when I asked him for a match Georgie's nearly excited. That's too bad. That's him daddy Got a match paper george. Yes, if you got a match paper Is it dummy george? Don't talk Got a match paper But I tell you it's a dummy. You don't look like no dummy. Why is it dummy all right, ain't you people? See he's a dummy george. I told him about you being near side and he said it was too bad didn't you people Still don't talk go on people tell george how sorry you are about him being near-sighted I told you he was a I told you he was a dummy george. I'll private eyes like you Georgie asked you a question. He wants to know if all private eyes is like you Danny boy says you're dummy. You're dummy george asked you another question. He wants to know if you're dummy See no answer. I don't like dummies. We asked three questions already and he ain't said nothing That makes him a dummy Maybe we find something if we went through the dummies pockets. Yeah, even a dummy's got pockets Ain't that right dummy hold him george Hey move just like a dummy What do you want? Hey talk. Yeah, yeah make him talk again george Make it talk bigger george Talks real nice, but he don't say much Maybe stuff george. He might thank you stuff But then again See, yeah, it's a tough now. It's my turn Hey They don't talk no more Danny This people ain't no pretty picture george Why you want to hold them up? You were listening to the story of the diamond quartet tonight's adventure with jeff reagan Investigation Nurses are needed now to join the new army nurse corps officers reserve For the first time in history qualified nurses are given the opportunity of receiving a commission in the regular army reserve These nurses will remain on inactive status ready to serve their country in the event of an emergency 4 000 of them if they wish may choose active duty Inactive reserve status will out interfere with the nurses civilian life But the educational opportunities offered her by the army medical department Will be of a great advantage to her in her work So don't wait If you're a registered graduate nurse between the ages of 21 and 45 drop a card now for complete information to the adjutant general Washington dc And now back to the story of the diamond quartet and jeff reagan investigator He had quite a bit of a flyer and he's coming around reagan reagan reagan Reagan can you hear me? I think he's with us now It's me reagan. What happened to you? I didn't you call Regan, do you understand me? What's this that's your head and it isn't very pretty. Let me tell you that I'll be my dad. All right Come on. Give it to me. What happened? Hour ago the receiving hospital telephones means they picked you up in some gutter I come down to see what's what you lay there and ask me. What's this? Oh, it's a wrong job another punk client as long as they've got the dough. We love them all Who are you fighting with a couple of boys named? Danny and georgie a couple of boys named Danny and georgie But would you mind telling me just where you've been while you should have been doing what you were high to do I was out with Danny and georgie sure you were out with Danny and georgie But what did you do before that and what did you do with the necklace that diamond quartet or whatever it is? I mailed it you mailed it you were hired to deliver that thing personally and you'll mail it. Where's my clothing? Regan, I never understand you. I never understand you were the way you do things I send you out in a simple little job All you have to do is take a necklace back and what do you do you wind up bleeding all over the city street Here's your pants What time you got three o'clock in the morning It's always three o'clock in the morning when somebody telephones me that you're in trouble somewhere Well, why don't you go home and go back to bed? I haven't been to bed. I haven't had one wink of sleep tonight You know why? Because on top of all my other couples some day move sounds like she has a suit full of Has been calling my place every half hour asking for you My place. Why didn't you tell her to call my place? I did tell her to call your place I told her a couple of hundred times to call your place Then I told her to shut up coat Yeah You look terrible terrible She'd give you a name Annabella something or other. I don't know. Uh-huh. But what I want to know is hey, where you going? Who's going to pay this hospital bill? Well a cab driver circled twice before he picked me up But he got me out to her place in 20 minutes when I got upstairs her door was halfway open And the light from the hallway kind of seeped in she was Sitting in a big chair right through the door. I don't know why but she was holding a phone on her lap Just sitting there looking at nothing Oh mr. Wiggins It's you You came back. Yeah, I don't think you're gonna need this Oh Well then mr. Wiggins Well, and I suppose you've met some people tonight and know a great deal about me some A gambler a jeweler And of course they told you how I carry on with money and all that Everyone seems to know that yeah daily told me You know about Charles Charles and I had so many things together It was so much fun being alive with him You like that fun mr. Wiggins I I do think he enjoyed being alive with me. I mean I I cried when Charles was killed. I really did I cried I I didn't know what to do How long ago was that? Charles was killed three years ago But now I have Teddy He's really a dear you should meet him. We should all have a drink together or something Teddy's a fine artist Very fine artist I think you'll be very prominent someday. I I do I I really do think teddy will be very prominent some this Of course, it wouldn't make any difference now They tell you that I Did they tell you You need to get my tongue adjusted to my mouth That ever happened to you mr. Wiggins Sometimes Eddie asked me to marry him tonight. He did. Yes. I I I've been very lonely since Charles died and this is my money that Teddy's interested in. I'm I'm certain Teddy has some money of his own although many people don't know it Like his money What would you say my my Money I go into that business about my tongue You think I should see a correction Why did you call me tonight? You're the only detective I know And I really don't know you it's just that Mr. Daly said you were detected. Why did you want to see me? I really can't understand money I know it must sound strange to you Some people love for it Some people What is it come on I really believe that's all I need to a black spot across the room. I found the light switch and turned it on Oh, yeah, they looked funny. All right. It was daly and his dumb roulette table man felix and both of them were as dead as you can get Your name's silco My name's reagan. I'm a private investigator. I'm calling from her apartment. Now listen There's been a couple of murders here. What she's had quite a job She's gonna need you and all the help she can get I called homicide and Well, it might be kind of rough for I'll bring a doctor and a lawyer. I've got a good one I'll be there in 10 minutes. Thank you Well, he showed up about the same time when daddy and the homicide boys got there by that time She couldn't even talk and they had to put her to sleep I told when daddy what I know about it He said we'd get it straight and around as soon as she had something to say It was about eight o'clock in the morning when I got home I didn't expect my boy to show up so soon. He was already there Thank you. Come in sir. Come in with your chess board. Oh, we meet again Brother a hectic night our wager your boys were pretty rough Georgia and Danny Two men of another world Reagan not our world Allow me to apologize for their action And so unnecessary too I underestimated you Reagan There's an ingenious method of protecting the diamond quartet Why sir by the simple expedient of placing a three-cent stamp on an envelope Mailing it to you yourself You hired as guardians the entire united states personal service not to mention the army navy and marine corps You want one of these? No, thank you, Reagan much too early in the day But go ahead and be close to admire you again, sir I'm one of those faint hearted persons who cannot abide liquor until five o'clock in the afternoon All right, what happens now My god, I admire your directness mr. Regan When I met you last night, I promised myself you'd give me trouble and you have Who's in on it? Search starting in answer, sir That is a method to be explained Double cross if you can bear my vanity. I have invented a new word triple cross It does have a ring to it, doesn't it? Sounds familiar I guess I like your daily in on this daily No, no, of course not a mere instigator But when mad explained to me that he was returning the diamond quartet I first conceived the plan Just plain mad she and her friends have been very valuable to me They knocked off daly and felix and planted them in the girl's apartment right With two cadavers in her living room with this calendar was very unlikely to discuss missing jewelry with the police But it was a phony. She was wearing and she didn't even know it, huh? Then it caused all of this If you had merely returned it it would have been simple to remove it from her But then and you'd just sit here and wait for the mail We wait for the mail mr. Regan What about your playmates? You do act your role, don't you and I like you for it mr. Regan I wish you and I could have worked out something together An unbeatable team In answer, sir, I'm afraid I should be sought for murder to do this night. Danny and georgie and Madge Does that name bother you as much as it bothers me? Give me a woman with a name like celeste or josephine or ruxan No, sir, our proper name is for the creature But madge Where are the police gonna find all these bodies in my hotel room, which I departed hastily I know a man down at central homicide named win daddy. Do you? He's the best cop I've ever seen. You'll never get away with it. Allow me to correct you, sir I don't intend to get away with it Observe me well You see before you a man advance in years Attached to a destitute and bankrupt jewelry firm with nothing more to look forward to Then a grim few years and finally the end Now an opportunity to live like a king and by god, sir, I've taken it They'll pick you up before you can pack a bag. I'll risk that I shall turn the diamond quartet into cash and with a well laden purse I shall be satisfied to elude the police over half the world Oh, yes, they'll get me In two years three years perhaps By night time I shall have spent the money Then what more could a man ask than a perfect fulfillment of all his wishes There's one gentleman to another What more could a man ask? You have company answer it tell him to go away I'll be right back Of course, my dear. I have a gun too I've been shot I need a gun to hold my feet They're much worse than messy Burn them or There's your second year letting escapes you Speak well Of the dead was a lousy idea Wasn't anybody left for windeddy to arrest so we sat around and looked at each other windeddy agreed that mads double-crossed daily Tartaglia double-crossed mads in her boys. Yeah triple-cross Well the lion had something on his mind He wanted to know Was I satisfied with what I got out of this case? I didn't answer him I need the job Army nurse corps reserve still has commissions available If you were 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 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 If you believe you qualify for a commission in the army nurse corps reserve Apply to the adjutant general Washington dc Jack Webb is featured as jeff reagan with wilms herbert as anthony j lion The role of burt tartaglia was played by barry croger Marine tuttle was anabella calender It's cbs same time next week for trouble suspense and thrilling adventure with jeff reagan Investigator written by e jack newman produced by gordon t hugh directed tonight by cliff howe This is cbs the columbia broadcasting system