 From Hollywood it's time now for Johnny dollar inspector Mucklin's office Gino Romero. Oh Gino. What did you find out? Did you locate any of them beneficiaries of the crash of flight six? Yes, sir It was an affair most simple a matter of making the telephone call to the airport Then they've left Mexico City. Yes, sir. Yes, you need the Marvel Terrence has taken the 10 o'clock plane this morning to a capulco Senor Blakely has taken the 1130 plane to a copulco Senor Ramon de Lagos has taken the two o'clock plane to a capulco. What about Don Serrano? Oh with him is different at 245 is depart from Mexico City in a special charter plane Look Gino is there another flight to a capulco this afternoon, but of course that 430 already I have two reservations good. I'll meet you at the airport. What's the flight number? Gino I'm scared to think of it. This one is also called flight six 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 investigated Johnny dollar location, Mexico City to the home office guaranteed transport insurance company Hartford, Connecticut Assignment the flight six matter expense account continued Item nine sixty three dollars and forty five cents incidentals in Mexico City and plane for to a capulco One more of the sharp contrasts of Mexico We left the stiff formality of the city behind us the cool thin air of the high plateau and Fifty minutes later. We stepped off the plane and into the steaming heat of the tropics Barefoot tourists in shorts and barefoot natives in white cotton dungarees Soft brown skins and flashing teeth mangoes papayas and the heady scent of tropical flowers Blue sky blue Pacific and a burning sun and a bay so bright and beautiful it breaks your heart a capulco General Maro of the Department of Civil Air Transport knew his way around so I waited for him while he checked his contacts Airport police custom agents limousine drivers and in a few minutes. He'd made his rounds and rejoin me in front of the terminal It is an affair more simple, sir a million matter of ask the question and listen to the answer What did you find out, you know, the seniorita miss Terence is there the hotel Los Flamingos, so Senor Blakely is also steder Ramón de Lagos is go to the hotel Caleta and Don Serrano is stay at the club de pesca. So you see yeah, I see All right, you know, let's get going and where we are going is to the We'll put up at the Los Flamingos. That is what I'm expecting. Oh, she's very beautiful, sir True, but there are even better reasons for staying there. Okay. This is well in some way And I'm not yet sure how I think this whole thing centers right around Marvel Terence You think it's possible. She are guilty of the crash of the flight six to collect the insurance Maybe or she might have been used or maybe. Oh, I don't know Gino, but it's about time. We found out Expense account item 10 a dollar and 50 cents limousine fare from the airport to the hotel The Flamingos is built on a point near the far end of the peninsula set on a headland high above the white smother of surf below And they are just before dusk with the western sky a yellow blaze of glory beyond the far rim of the Pacific I found her she was sitting on the open terrace by the edge of the cliff and once again. She was alone Thanks, I Suppose I should be surprised, but I'm not really I guess I rather expected you Then wasn't it a waste of time to run away from Mexico City? I've always run away. I guess most of the time I imagine you've been followed or maybe I wanted to face you here where it's so beautiful Or perhaps you'd be able to understand me a little better Is that what you want marble to be understood? Doesn't every woman I thought it was more often the man And usually it's his wife who doesn't understand him, isn't it? I see this isn't going to be just a social chat No, I doubt if it could ever be just a social chat not with you You've got too much impact for that a compliment. That's a fact There's no place else in the world with sunsets like the ones here every evening It's like there's another land way off there in the west the strange bright golden land And it keeps calling coaxing Only in a little while and it'll disappear And everything will be dark off there in the west. Maybe you do understand me Johnny Maybe that's why I'm half afraid of you Another reason I ran maybe I Can be a fool easy Sort of hereditary defect you might say That's a common affliction Rarely fatal rarely doesn't help once is enough You know something When I die I want to be buried up there in the middle of a sunset Had to be kind of lonely one. I think I've always been lonely Do you know I haven't a single living relative in the world not one? I Was 14 when my parents were killed in an auto accident I stayed in a boarding school and the bank handled the estate when I was 21 They turned it over to me and since then I've I Guess that's not what you want to know though is it not exactly Want to tell me about it Marvel No As a matter of fact, I don't I don't even want to think about it. It would be better if you would for whom for me I doubt it. I Feel dirty Johnny telling wouldn't change that it might Anything I'd tell you would be only suspicion not fact what in? Unless of course you're expecting a confession Do you have one to make no But you know who caused flight six to blow up and why don't you know I? Can make a guess that's all like to tell me that guess You'll find out soon enough Johnny, and I'd rather it didn't come from me 11 people have died I know ten on the plane that crashed and the baggage handler who was murdered later And you don't have to remind me of it. I couldn't forget it if I wanted to I told you how I felt And I'd wrap it Johnny all right all right, I didn't know that's all I can claim. I just didn't know What do you mean? Nothing look It's dark out there now And Sunset's gone There's always another one. I wonder have you ever met Don Serrano brother-in-law Ramon de Lagos? No, but he was pointed out to me. Did you see him at the airport the night flight six was blown up? I don't remember I don't think so did you see Ramon? No, did he know you'd canceled your reservation that night? He didn't even know I had one Have Ramon and Bill Blakely ever met Yes, they met and Detested each other on site. Well, that's understandable and view of the circumstances. I guess but Why are people like they are? Did you arrange for Blakely to follow you here? I didn't tell anybody I was coming and he was a good guess So was Ramon and Don Serrano, I know they're all here Why? They don't even know me. They don't want to know me not in any real way, but they're here Oh, yeah, they're here, and I think you ought to tell me what you know Marvel Tomorrow maybe not tonight Let me have just one night Johnny Take me to dinner dance with me laugh with me Give me just one evening. Will you Johnny? Sure and thank my lucky star for the chance you're sweet I'm saying it now Without any strings No matter how things work out I'll still mean it You're a sweet guy Johnny Give me time to change I went to my room and made two phone calls while I waited for The operator at the club de Pesca informed me that Don Serrano was not in The clerk of the hotel Caleta said the same thing about Ramon de Lagos I didn't leave my name with either of them Bill Blakely was staying in room 23 a few doors on down the terrace So I decided to go have a talk with him before I went out to dinner with Marvel Terence But as it happened, I didn't have to go to that much trouble. Yeah, who is it? Blakely? I'd like to talk to you come on in always cover your visitors with a gun only when I spot them listening outside my door I don't know what I saw your shadow against the shutter there You've been standing outside for the last five minutes Blakely you listen to me make a couple of phone calls Did you learn anything you wanted to know dollars? Suppose you were suspected of sabotaging an airliner and killing 10 people wouldn't you want to know what kind of a Case was being built up against you it makes you think you're under suspicion Blakely I know I am Ed Palmer and Jim Rourke were my partners when they died on that plane I became sole owner of the firm. There's the motive. I've got a warehouse full of dynamite in Mexico City There's the method I can go even farther than that What do you mean you mentioned one motive? Why didn't you mention the other one? What other one? Marvel Terence That crash not only eliminated a pair of business partners. It wiped out a couple of rivals Just one thing wrong with that dollar Marvel had a reservation on that plane herself She only decided at the last minute not to go I wouldn't have been gaining much if I'd killed her along with my Rivals as you call them. Uh-huh. Maybe that's why you cornered her at the airport and argued her out of going Yes, I I did talk her out of the trip, but not because I planted an explosive on board How do you feel about her Blakely? I'd give my left arm I wouldn't do any good. I'm just not the guy. I never have been and never will be Maybe you are she says she's having dinner with you tonight. That's right. She is How do you feel about her dollar? I don't know Expense account item 11 $26 and 40 cents taxis dinner drinks and dancing for two The Copacabana with its blue lights and the surf right at your feet the minion star is low enough to touch The warm water of the bay lapping softly at the parlings The Las Americas the Casa Blanca music champagne and the tropic nights and then finally much later Good night Johnny. Thank you Tonight for the first time I can remember. I wasn't alone And then only an hour afterward. I was waking out of a sound sleep Right with you Gino What was it? She's a number eight. Come on, but she wasn't a number eight her door was standing open and the room was empty We searched the terrace out toward the edge of the cliff where I talked with her at sunset We saw the broken section of railing and found one of her slippers in a pack of her cigarettes lying nearby In pitch darkness we slid and scrambled down the steep path to the beach and there by the edge of the surf We found the long foam reached out for as though to carry her away To that last sunset. She'd love so much She looked very beautiful but very much alone as Alone and as lonely As dead now here's our star to tell you about the final intriguing episode of this week's story Tomorrow a desperate killer is cornered and strikes back in a deadly counter attack final showdown Join us. Won't you? Yours truly Johnny dollar or is truly Johnny dollar starring Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood Written by Les Crutchfield. It is produced and directed by Jack John stone Be sure to join us tomorrow night same time and station for the next exciting episode of yours truly Johnny dollar Roy Rowan speaking