 From Hollywood, it's time now for Bob Bailey as Johnny dollar. I told you that's my name What do you want an affidavit? I've got to be sure look you've got me out here in the middle of the jungle with a gun in my back Don't turn around. I can't even see you. You think I'd be kidding you the time like this any move any move at all And it'll be your last Tonight and every weekday night Bob Bailey and the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator yours truly Johnny dollar Santo Tomas, Mexico Expense accounts submitted by special investigator Johnny dollar to the home office northeastern Fidelity and bonding Hartford, Connecticut The following is an account of additional expenses during my investigation of the Alvin Summers embezzlement of $75,000 Item 12 2 cents just what I figured my life was worth at the moment Gloria Harris had taken me down the beach and ended the jungle to show me the hut where Alvin Summers had been hiding out There was no sign of them But I heard a noise outside in the underbrush and went out to investigate I didn't see a thing but I felt something a gun barrel pressing against the back of my neck I want to talk to you dollar. You've got a quaint way of arranging a conversation. Believe me I could do better if you take away that gun don't answer who's answering wait Well Be in your hotel room in exactly one hour. Look, what's this all about? You're looking for Alvin Summers, aren't you? Oh, am I? I've got some information about him for you. Let's have it now now I've got to talk to you alone be in your hotel room in town in an hour understand look you as I say and be sure you're alone alone Okay Just keep looking straight ahead. Don't turn around and don't tell anyone about this anyone Understand you make it pretty clear. I'll be watching the dollar. You won't see me, but I'll see you I can believe in Yeah, why didn't you answer me I came out here looking for a guy remember how am I gonna find him if I start shouting at you But I got worried when you didn't come back to the hut. Yeah that noise you heard outside. Did you see anything? No, I didn't see a thing Johnny didn't you find anything to give you a lead on where Summers might be I don't know But you said if I helped you find him You'd see what you could do about getting me a passport back to the States. Yeah, sure. Come on. Let's get out of here Suits me fine. This place gives me the creeps all these trees and vines Broad daylight, but you can't see a thing. I know my imagination still working over time But that feeling we're being watched again Funny isn't it? Yeah real funny We kept on toward the beach Gloria was fidgeting because she thought somebody was watching us. I was fidgeting because I knew somebody was And I had a strong hunch He was the man whose long-distance phone call to the States brought me down to Mexico in the first place We got back to the beach I took Gloria up to her hotel and went down to mine in town as I crossed the lobby toward the stairway to the second floor I'll pop to familiar face Carson Lieutenant Gomez let you out of jail, huh? Now let's get one thing straight friend I never was actually in jail. Well, you're lucky. I've seen the jail, huh? Oh Well, I just had to pay a fine and that judge they got in this Berg read me the riot act But then they let me go. Well good. So now it's back to selling zippers, huh? Sure is and I'm behind schedule to check it out right now as a matter of fact a lot of territory to cover Like I always say half the world's waiting to get zipped up. Yeah, you told me I did Say dollar hmm. I'd like you to do me a favor That little trouble I got in the last night up at the planet on Mar Hotel I'm sure appreciated if you'd keep quiet about it when you get back to the States You mean you don't want anybody to know you got plastered grabbed a Serapi and did the Fandang No dollar a guitar over the musician's head. Now, can't we just forget about me? I had until you reminded me Now Carson, I'm reasonably sure we don't know the same people. I won't be seeing each other again I'd say the secret of your lurid past was pretty safe Well, I sure hope so friend but about not seeing each other in the States I was planning on looking you up. Goodie. Yes, sir. I got a deal for you Sorry, but I have all the zippers I can use at the moment. No, that's not what I mean friend I've been trying to get you into a cribbage game. Remember how can I forget instead? I'm gonna look you up in the States and let you teach me to play gin rummy. How could I be so lucky? Oh, sorry, I think that's my phone so long Carson I'll sure look you up back in a good old USA friend Hello Hello Hello Keep your hands on the table what oh My shadow again anybody follow you not that I know of your early. I know and I searched your room That's become an old Santa Tomas custom to make sure you really were Johnny doll. So now you know what about it You can turn around. Oh, maybe you'll tell me what? Wait a minute a Decent shave and you'd match that photo I have in my suitcase Alvin summers. Yeah I'm Alvin summers. I don't get it I had you figured for the man who made that long-distance call to the states that tip me off to come down here You're right about that too You put the finger on yourself if you want to call it that oh What happened your deal goes sour on you, maybe Yeah Okay, sit down take it easy. Tell me about it. I'll turn on the overhead fan pretty stuffy in here Dollar that phone call you got just now hung up clerk downstairs must have rung the wrong room or somebody was checking to see if you were here could be Okay, suppose you start from the top What was that relax bloody just one of the charming features of this room Why turn on that big overhead fan it slams the balcony door. Oh Well turn it off. Well, yeah, I'm kind of edgy. Yeah, sure Asked me if my deal gone sour. It went very sour. Oh, I had it all figured out. I was planning it for a year I was gonna embezzle a 75,000 and really live live big. Yeah Instead of that I spend all my time hiding Mexico City, Guenobacca, Tampico. You name it I was there always undercover always hiding Did you ever spend much time hiding dollar? No, not much. Oh, it's a great life great Every time somebody looks at you on the street, you're sure he's after you tailing you you wake up in the middle of the night You see a shadow outside turns out to be just a bush, but you spend the rest of the night sweating Finally, I I just couldn't take it anymore the rest of my life that way You know summers a lot of guys figure that out before it's too late Too bad you didn't Yeah So finally I won the bonding company long distance. I knew they'd send an investigator. They sent you I Thought if I could talk to someone like you See What could be done There's only one thing can't be done at this point summers come back with me to the States bring back What's left of the money 60,000 help? But you know there can't be any deal Yeah, I Guess I always knew that Here take the gun Thanks Now what about the money? It's in a safe deposit box in Mexico City Here Here's the key One thing I don't get those summers. Yeah, you wanted me to contact But you were sure playing hard to find I had to be careful. I Got a look at you the first day you arrived. I wasn't sure you were the one So I decided to come to your room that night, but then I saw somebody else coming here So I gave up or was it the bell boy, but he don't Hey That'll be just before he got knifed. Oh, no, I wasn't the one who killed him dollar I'm no killer just the fool who runs away with somebody else's money. Remember Anyway, I didn't have another chance to get to it'll today I had to keep undercover so they wouldn't find me wait a minute wait a minute. Who's they? The man who arranged for me to come down here and the girl who was going to make it all worthwhile the girl Summers don't me Gloria Hello, baby Here, let me leave the gun right where it is Johnny That safe deposit key on the table, I guess you're calling them Thanks, and it all adds up You found out summers here was planning to turn himself in You didn't want that money to slip through your fingers But summers disappeared from his hideout you couldn't find him so you figured it let me find him for you That's right, and it worked And you're so right about that money. You think I'd give it up now Keep out of it Alvin if you want to go back and be a boy scout. That's your business. The money stays with me Johnny, yeah This doesn't have to be the end of it for us. Oh Oh So now we get the pitch about making beautiful music. I'm not kidding Johnny 60,000 is a lot of money You know you put on quite an act Maybe I believed a little bit of it But if I did I quit the moment you walk through that door just now. Okay, Johnny. That's enough I thought maybe you'd be smart, but if you want you leave me no choice. No, Gloria. Don't Gloria I'm in the balcony Right where you are friend. Oh shut up She's dead She crossed me you and she were working against each other She wanted me to lead it a summer as you wanted to find them yourself. That's right and Summers you took a lot of fine. That's why you killed beneath of the bellboy to shut his mouth Then you went up to the big hotel and plowed around so you'd get arrested and that way set up an alibi for the evening I was pretty proud of that little idea dollar and it's all worked out just the way I wanted it You see right from the start Carson was holding all the trumps. They were made out of lead and I knew he was gonna start dealing them any second Then I remember the overhead fan the switch was right next to my elbow the balcony door was open and Carson had his back to it What are you doing? Just turning on the fan. I need some air. Can you blame me? Yeah? You're sweating aren't you dollar? What's the matter you losing your nerve? Well, it really doesn't matter The door slammed Carlson's world and I knocked the lamp on the table by the time I hit the floor my gun was out. I Picked up the lamp and let it again Summers was crouched in a corner across the room sitting on the floor was Carson staring stupidly down at the red bullet hole in his side I picked his gun up Summers call the police station lieutenant Gomez. Yeah, all right Dollar hurt. Yeah, it hurts, but not as much as it hurt Benito and Gloria You finally got me into a game didn't your friend and you lost Expense account item 13 double the amount of item one four hundred and forty dollars Transportation back to the States for Alvin Summers and me And you know I turned them over to the authorities as soon as we got back. That's the way he wanted it Gloria Well once in a while I get to wondering if she really meant some of the things she told me Not that it matters Conclusion of report expense account total nine hundred and twenty three dollars Yours truly Johnny dollar Remember, please there'll be a new exciting story on Johnny dollar beginning next Monday next week the Valentine matter and believe me It's not the kind of Valentine you'd wish on even your worst enemy Jonas want you yours truly Johnny dollar Truly Johnny dollar starring Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood written by Robert Reif It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone heard in this week's cast where Virginia Greg Marvin Miller Don Diamond Tony Barrett and Parley Bear Be sure to join us on Monday night same time and station for another exciting story of yours truly Johnny dollar Roy Rowan speaking