 The Blue Beetle. Sweeping down upon the underworld to smash Janglin Cum. The friend of the unfortunate, enemy of criminals. A mysterious, all-powerful character with a problem to the police. 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 impenetrable blue chain armor, flexible as silk but stronger than steel. Today's episode of the Blue Beetle is entitled, Sabotage and Liquidation. Will the Blue Beetle Proof smart enough to checkmate the clever and ruthless band of international saboteurs who are planning to sabotage Uncle Sam's new fighting plane? As our story opens today, Dan Garrett, who is also the mysterious Blue Beetle, is discovered entering the little apothecary shop run by his friend, Dr. Frans. He seems to be in a hurry. Doc! Doc Clark, are you alone? Hello, hello, Dan. Why, what's the rush? Yes, yes, I'm alone. Good, will you do me a favor and look over my Blue Beetle armor and see if it's okay? Why, certainly, my boy. You might have that mysterious rain machine you invented for me that once over. Is the Blue Beetle going to do a little nipping again? Well, I don't know yet. But I'm assigned to the flying field police to tail and you never can tell what'll turn up. Well, I'll have everything ready for you whenever you get back. Thanks, Doc. Go on. Have you noticed, Danny, nearby, that the chief gives us the best professional statements? You're right, Menagan. You know why? Maybe he likes the way we wear the uniforms. No, that ain't it. The commissioner likes you, Danny, and he's given the chief orders to give me and you the good assignments. So, you all have the advantage of my superior wisdom and experience in handling ticklish decisions. Oh, so that's it. Sure. Like for instance this one today. I'll take it at the flying field. They're testing out one of the new fighting planes for the United States Army. Yes, I know. They fail out flying out quite any flying ship in the world. Well, now, suppose some of them fallen agents or maybe the Blue Beetle was to sabotage... Sabotage. Yeah, that's it. I suppose they was to do that. And that plane up there was disabled and crashed. Well, it would be up to us to make an investigation on the squad. And keep the crowd back and look for clues and interrogate Menagan. Yes, interrogate witnesses and mechanics and people. What about it? Well, I'd be in more experience than you. I'd know how to take charge. It looks like you'll have the chance to do your stuff, Menagan. That plane is in trouble. Yeah, that's right. Hey, look. Luke, his motor's carrying news. His wings are breaking in two. He's trying to do it for me. Hey, where are you going, Dan? That plane is going to crash. I'm going to save that pilot if I can. Hey, you can't do that. When are you going to be killed instantly? He's going to crash, King! Everybody stand back. Stand back. Hey, wait for me, Daddy. You'll be born to a syndrome if that plane catches fire. I'll have to take that chance. You stay and hold that crowd back, Menagan. That's what my son is going to do! He's piloting you, hear me? Oh, you're alive all right. Come on, buddy. Put your armor on my neck. I'll lift you out here to fully fry. Hold tight. How's she going? Now, to get you away from this firing first. It comes to crash, Henry. They'll fix you up. You'll be OK over here. I'll just lay you here on the ground and go help Menagan with the car. As soon as that wreckage cools off, I'll come back and examine it for everybody. Several hours later, the heroic police officer, Dan Garrett, came back and examined the wreckage of the plane. His investigation brought to light several peculiar facts. That evening, he called upon his friend and confident Doc Brown of a chemist who had a little apothecary shop in one of the city's side streets. Look at these boats, Doc. I got them from the wreckage of that new pursuit plane. They've been camped with, all right. So on halfway through. Let's put them under the microscope. What do you find out? Very interesting. Very interesting. What is it, Doc? They've been sawed halfway through with their mayor hacksaw. A mayor hacksaw? Yes. The invention of a man named Mayor. They're made of a special type of steel, and sawed teeth are set just to be some ordinary hacksaw. Therefore, they have a very distinctive mark on everything they cut. Also, the blade of the saw is so thin that it is sometimes difficult to locate the cut they make. They're usually called cut mayors for short. Only one airplane company in this country used them so far. Let's know who made the Darrell airplane company. Then this must be an inside job. Yes, Daniel. Yes, it looks like it. They had the contract to make several experimental planes of different lengths. This pursuit plane was one, and the suit of bomber, which was to be tested tomorrow, was another. Okay, Doc and Fred, I've got to change into my other costume. This is a job for the Blue Beetle. You take some terrible risks, Fanny. I worry about you. I worry about you. Don't worry about me, Doc. That secret 2X formula you gave me at the hospital certainly pet me up. Oh, that was nothing, Danny Boy. Nothing? That impenetrable blue steel chain armor you made for me has saved my life many times. But someday something may go wrong, and you'll be killed. Why don't you give up this Blue Beetle character and stick to regular police work? You're popular with the commissioner? Someday you might be chief of police. Doc, I've dedicated my life to helping the underdogs and cracking down criminals and bringing them to justice. And no matter how great or how powerful they may be, I've got to do it my own way. I must work alone. You're the only one who knows who the Blue Beetle really is. I value your confidence, my boy. You're doing a grand job. Thank you, Doc. I better get going. I've got a lot of work ahead of me tonight. How do I look? Very mysterious and very terrifying. How does the magic rain work? As well as... How's that? Everything's worth your conscience, I've heard. But that sound and the little blue beetles I dropped in front of those I used to impress. Certainly knocked the ground out from under their feet. Have you got your flashlight with the blue beetles on the ground? Yeah, it's right here. That's those are powerful beams. I'll lead it tonight. Whom are you visiting tonight? I'm visiting the experimental construction department of the Darrell airplane company. I want to look over that super bomber. I want to make sure it doesn't crash tomorrow. Be careful, Danny. Be careful. Don't worry, Doc. I will. But I think the Blue Beetle will do a little nipping before this night's over. Meet the wings of the giant bomber in the experimental construction department of the Darrell airplane company. A shadowy, sinister figure moves, guided only by the light of a small pocket flag. Slowly, he climbs the scaffolding directly under one of the powerful motors. Any hand, he holds a hatchet stall. In a holster at his waist, protrudes the butt of a .45 Colt revolver. Silently, he mounts to his goal. That pursuit, gentlemen, is dense today. Tomorrow, this bomber will crash. This sure is an easy way to make... The Blue Beetle! Oh, yeah, we'll see. Practice the Blue Beetle! Got him. The Blue Beetle's not so invulnerable at all. Lucky, I was healed already. Got me. Better beat it until Captain X-13, somebody's wife was. But the other workmen find the Blue Beetle's body here in the morning. Out into the night ran the treacherous workmen, the saboteur who had caused the wreck of one of the newest planes intended for Uncle Sam. In a fast motor car, he speeds away to report to the mysterious X-13 the discovery of their secret. As he reaches his destination, he comes to a stop before an iron gate. The silent figures look forward and bars his way. That too, Slug? That's right. This is Butch. Let me through. I gotta see Captain X-13. It's important news. But if it's good news, we know the Captain... He'll get a kick out of the news I got for him. Eh? Yeah. I plugged the Blue Beetle. The Blue Beetle? Where? At the ship. He caught me at work and I let him have it. That'll make the Captain happy. Well, good luck. Wait for me, Butch. The Blue Beetle. Drop that gun, Butch. You better hack me than you are with a coat. I just swore I got you. You fired at that flashlight, but I wasn't behind. You won't get away with it a second time. I'm going up. Let that be a lesson to you, Butch. Never lead with your right. There's dynamite in my left. I'll just tell you what the state's keeping an end. I go to Captain X-13. Okay, Mr. Blue Beetle. That's what you get for mixing in things that aren't any of your business. Hey, Butch, are you all right? Oh, what hit me? Blue Beetle here. I sneaked up and sucked him when he started to tie you up. Come on, give me a lift. We'll carry him into the house. And let Captain X-13 decide what to do with him. So that is the so-very famous Blue Beetle you have there, huh? Yes, sir. He caught me working on the bomber. I threw a couple of 45 slugs at him, but I must have missed. When I got out of the car, he jumped me. He must have been in the back seat all the time. The rat there copped on my beaner when he was starting to tie me up. You must be liquidated. My seat brain is in the river. Put him aboard. We take him out to headquarter ship, but they break and execute him. Then we come back here and finish the job. All right. Bring the thing in here. You better let me go. My father will make it hot for you. Who is this woman? Jane Darrell, Chief. I caught her snooping outside. Oh, so you are the daughter of Sidney Darrell of the Alcliffe factory? Yes, and you better not harm me. He'll get the whole United States government after you if you don't let me go. I am not the fool, young lady. To release you would be suicide for me. I choose not to die until my work is done. You will stay here. I won't stay here. My yelling screams you'll everybody hear. Take her away. Find that old gay girl and quill her with the other one. What are you going to do with me? Take you for the ride in my sea plane out to the headquarter ship. In the morning, you will play the feminine lead opposite is a blue beaker in a double liquidation. At daybreak, Captain X-13 and his crew of nefarious saboteurs and conspirators with their two prisoners bound and gagged, take off down the river in their sea plane and head toward the sea.