 The Blue Beetle Weeping down upon the underworld, a smash ganglin' comes The mysterious, all-powerful character who is a problem to the police But a crusader for law In reality, Dan Garrett, a rookie patrolman Loved by everyone, but suspected by none of being the Blue Beetle As the Blue Beetle, he hides behind a strange mask And a suit of intendable blue chain armor Flexible as silk, but stronger than steel Today's episode of the Fox Feature, The Blue Beetle Is the second part of the story entitled The Underworld Goes Underground Reginald Dunlap, head of the Dunlap Construction Company Has asked his friend, Dan Garrett To make a private investigation of the many mysterious accidents That have occurred during tunnel operations Under the Eastern Valley River Due to certain political angles involved Dan tells Dunlap he'll get the Blue Beetle to do the job As the Blue Beetle, Dan Garrett, disguised as a tunnel worker Makes an investigation, but is discovered And after a fight, is ordered into the airlock By the superintendent of the job To be decompressed before ascending to the surface With the Blue Beetle in the airlock Is a man named Burke, a faithful employee Whom Stanley the superintendent dislikes And has just discharged As the first episode ended Stanley and some of his harlings Are decompressing the air in the chamber More quickly than is safe In the hope that the Blue Beetle and Burke Will be killed as a result As our story opens, we are in the airlock With Burke and the Blue Beetle What are we going to do, Blue Beetle? What happened? The air pressure's gone down so fast I can feel the crabs coming out in my legs I'll grit your teeth, old man, and bear it as well as you can Just as soon as I can locate the valves in this darkness I'll stop the decompression There must be some control inside As well as outside this chamber I think there is Only there till you're right I've found them Lucky I had my flashlight with me It's getting cold in here That's caused by the expanding air It draws heat from surrounding objects I hope you can get a shot of here quickly That's just what I don't want to do There I'm shutting off the valves here What about standing in a gang outside at the tunnel end of the airlock? They can't get in here now The door opens outward and the pressure from their side is too great We'll just take it easy for a while And let our bodies adjust themselves to the reduced pressure Then I'll let the little more air out Until the pressure inside is the same as that in the elevator shaft At the other side of the chamber But the cold, I'm freezing Here, put on this sweater of mine What about you? I don't need it, I can stand the cold I've conditioned myself to it Well, thanks, then This is going to feel grand How's the bends? Better I guess it must have been my imagination A little more air out That's more like it That'll give us about 15 more minutes in here Then it'll be safe to get out of here Point will I be glad Hey, Burke How many of the men do you think are loyal to Mr. Dunlap? Most of them Only the muckers then are new on this job Them and Superstead and Stanley The muckers are the men who shovel or haul away the muck That's drilled away from in front of the shield Yeah, that's right We sand hogs, that is, the drillers Gave them that name Certainly fits that bunch of cutthroats who attacked us Yeah, they're a pretty slimy bunch Did you ever work under Stanley before? No, never Know anything about him? Only that he's the son of Assemblyman Stanley From the third election district His last job, I believe, was a sporeman Of a job on a west coast How'd you like to do young Dunlap a favor? Oh, sure He's always treated me all right as his father before him What do you want me to do? Keep your mouth shut about this whole thing Well, what about my job? Let them fire you Mr. Dunlap will take care of you Until this matter's all cleared up Then you'll get a real job If I have anything to do with it Okay, I don't know nothing Well, that's on the shaft side I'm going to open up Give me my sweater back I want to put on my disguise again Okay, yeah Here it is And thanks a lot You're welcome What? Yeah, just a minute Found out the tunnel, but we didn't get the answer Oh, nothing's wrong There was a fight, and me and Burke got fired Yeah, Stanley fired us We won our pay I didn't get it at the office I'm going to find out what's wrong in the tunnel Nothing's wrong Except there's a few of the wrong kind of rats in it Come on, Burke We need some fresh air Well, here's the blueprint of the entire project And here is a detailed print of the air system in the tunnel Sprag, our engineer in charge of the pumps Will know what to do when I give him the go ahead Now, your job, Fluckey, is to see that the steel emergency curtain is jammed So it won't fall when the explosion blows a hole through the roof And lets the river flood the tunnel Sure, I got you Well, you want to make this accident a good one You can count on me, boss But make sure you get into the airlock as quickly as possible I don't want to lose any of our men Well, how are you going to work it? Some of us are working up at the shield I'll be right there where the water will break through first Well, I'll see that they get a signal in advance They'll suddenly decide to strike They don't like the conditions under which they're working Now, all of you men, those that I've hired Start back toward the airlock to the decompression chamber Before coming up out of the tunnel When most of you are near the airlock I'll give the signal And Mr. Reginald Dunlap's construction company Can wind up its affairs Hey, what's that noise? Blue people Blue people Yes, and he's going to nip You're unwise to get in my way again, Blue Beetle I failed last time, but this time I'm going to make sure Missed me But I won't miss you, Stanley That's for Dunlap And that's for Burke Hey, don't let this guy get through here Hit him with something fluky Bullets ain't no good against the Blue Beetle Here's a chair I'll hit Sit in it And that takes care of you I'll just take these plans and be on my way I don't think there'll be any more accidents, Mr. Stanley Boy, what a wallop he backs Stanley What about it? He's got our plans and the Blue Beetle exposes Ah, let him try it He's an outlaw, wanted by the police He doesn't dare appear in any court to testify Besides, those blueprints are meaningless after the danger's done Well, what are you going to do? Pwn scrags and tell him to pull the job at once Hello, the little apothecary shop Hey, Doc Pwn the police and have Assemblyman Stanley's home surrounded And he and his son arrested immediately Tell them to have Central Record any conversations from either house Okay, Danny Where are you? On my way to the Mid-City Tunnel to try to stop a sabotage job Anything else? Yes, phone all hospitals to have ambulances and pool motors sent over right away Got that? Yes, yes Okay, the Blue Beetle has to work fast Goodbye, Doc Goodbye, Danny What's the matter? Here has been an accident blow, explosion Blow the hole through the riverbed Anybody hurt? Well, I don't know yet Blue Beetle's down there What's he doing? Rescuing sand hogs, I heard Well, he can do it without anybody, can't he? I've read a while back where he says 15 miles Well, let me in Let me in the water I'll see you first I've got a wife and kid Hey, kiddies, one at a time Now, back up there Let him through rock with you The water! The water! It's around my feet One at a time through that door There's room for all in the airlock The river's breaking through The emergency door came away Here comes the water In you come That's the last man, isn't it? Good Now, help me with this door Got it? Well, we're safe now Saved! Saved! Every man saved by the Blue Beetle Well, Danny, how do you feel after your strenuous battle today? I feel fine That Turek's formula certainly puts the vitality in this old carcass of mine You did a brave and noble thing tonight, Danny Saving all those men That was the Blue Beetle's work, Tucker Yes, yes But the Blue Beetle is Dan Garrett And Dan Garrett is vice versa And you know who's a happy man tonight? Uh, Reggie Dunlap, I suppose Now that his enemies have been exposed Yes, yes, I guess he's happy But don't mean him I mean Burke Burke? Yes, Burke A man who got fired when Stanley discovered my Blue Beetle disguise in the tunnel Well, what about Burke? Well, Burke took over the operation of the pumps And as a reward for his work Reggie has given him that job permanently Ah, that's splendid Well, what are you going to do now? Well, Doc, with the compliments of the management of Dr. Fran's little apothecary shop I'm going to make myself a great big strawberry ice cream soda Oh, fine, fine, Danny That's a great idea And you know, I think I'll have one with you Come out in front of the store We'll sit up at the counter and be our own best customers And so the Blue Beetle performed another noble deed and brought some dishonest crooks to justice The moral of this story is that loyalty such as that of Burke and the Sandhog brings its just rewards What further adventures await the Blue Beetle in his one-man crusade against crime? 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