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Out in the desert mountains of Mexico they heat his long since destroyed all life except high in the air the ominous circling of great bloodthirsty birds of prey and On the hard sun cracked earth a small group of men with one woman Moving slowly to the base of the cliff very well We stop here Senora Senora Listen to me Senora And you men you will listen to You have all worked for me for some years. I Pay you well No one in Mexico can deny that But you know to I will not allow anyone to betray me and live This woman this miserable wretch and her husband one of my most successful operators in narcotics tried to sell me out her husband He is already there And now this woman shall die here. No Death will be a lesson to all of you never to talk Senora look Above you in the sky You see the birds The birds of death Do the rest of you understand I see you do now, Senora Now gentlemen, we shall leave Some weeks later at midnight in a cafe in the Mexican city of Córdoba a trim alert-eyed girl sat drinking alone As a young roughly dressed Mexican entered at the front door and approached her She glanced down into her open purse and drew confidence from the 25 caliber revolver in Essling there Hola, guapa Keep it clean Junior. Haha In Mexico guapa means pretty pretty what pretty nifty. I know Americans like to know No, but then you teach me Teachers not in the mood. Oh, you have a little temper, but I sit down and help the mood to change Sonorita You are as beautiful as the tops of my native village. Take it easy Buster. You'll weigh yourself out All I'm also those are business Good to see you again, baby. You have news He's taken a ranch house 20 miles outside the city. We need you'll call me Ella Thomas and the boss mr. Jones, I'm ready to work with you The man we're after is Manuel Rodriguez the Manuel Rodriguez careful the waiter Happy tell me what you know about Rodriguez He's one of the richest most fantastic most powerful man in Mexico and one of the cruelest an International broker of secret information On his enormous ranch not far from here. He gives bigger fiesta's. Hey, hey when American dancing shows come here He invites everybody. He may keep guests for a week people from all over the world and When America on his ranch are said to be large puppy fields for opium is a big dope smuggler Most of his enemies disappear. He said he takes them into the desert and murders them Others remain silent out of fear. It'll be a great thrill. What's Martin? You have a plan first You're to get an ordinary peon's job on the Rodriguez ranch. That ought to be easy At this time of the year. Yes In my hand under the table in small packages Taken I have them The drug in the blue paper will cause large blotches on your skin just meal now they're harmless The drug in pink paper will make the pupils of your eyes dilate and the one in white paper You'll run a quick high fever without any bad results and then In two weeks, Mr. Jones and I will visit Manuel Rodriguez and ranch We will explain that we are agents of the United States government Count the surprise or not And that we have come to arrest you. Oh Very good. Now another drink. Hey, hold on. What's wrong? What's wrong? Yes now What did you say your business was a mr? Joan oh, I didn't say but I will mr. Rodriguez Miss Thomas and I are agents of the United States government counter spot on Mexican soil We've just rented a place nine miles from your ranch here. The old Gomez place. Oh, all is right and The reason we're in Mexico to recover a quantity of a new uranium compound with over a million dollars It was stolen from one of our atomic plants And you think I have it mr. Jones. We think it's here on your ranch. I Do not enjoy jokes of this kind we'd already recovered the stuff and ship the criminals back to the state for punishment But before we could leave to the uranium compound was stolen again and again I asked do you think I have it? Well, you know how to handle it Oh, Pete's sake, let me finish a sentence once in a while Mr. Rodriguez is miss Thomas says you would know how to handle uranium, but the thief were afraid is not Incredible you see it was swept up along with some money a watch few papers out of a safe in my room How did you learn that mr. Jones? One of our pay-ins confessed that two weeks ago. He and another man got drunk and ransacked my room The peon with a guilty conscience mr. Jones used the whip That's how we found out about peppy Ramirez. Peppy Ramirez. Ah, then he is working here Follow me to his track, please the question I Must tell you however. He is very ill my ranch doctor is back. Have you seen him yourself great? Is his skin badly blotched people from the eyes dilated. You're running a high fever How did you know his symptoms? Those are the early symptoms of uranium poisoning that crunches the theft on Peppy mr. Jones Through this door, please Mr. Jones, do you mean that this miserable peon is hiding a million dollars worth of a new uranium compound? How else would he get uranium poisoning right here? under my very nose The shack is down this way These people want the truth. Let it talk to me. I'm sick. I'll make you sicker Peppy, where did you hide the arena? One more chance peppy. We beat it out of your good. The whip mr. Jones. I think he's cracking now See in this funk Rip out the mattress put on your glove for it John. Love special gloves the only safe way to handle this stuff Now the mattress Try the board. Yeah, is there anything? That little bottle Worth a million dollars. Maybe more to some government abroad Yes, I can imagine Now may I offer you both some refreshment back in the house. No, thank you. We've got work to do with our own Perhaps I may call on you in the next few days Business, mr. Rodriguez a purely social if you don't mind mr. Thomas not at all He fell for it two thousand percent a perfect trick And he thought that little vial is hung hung out like a hound dog a million bucks He thought right under his nose and he hadn't known it Jones hmm Behind us on the road the car following then the one is Rodriguez Following to see where we go with a bottle Maybe find out if we really are counter-spies or not He's clever enough to where he thought that he was really thick lucky those drugs you gave that people the doctor I think I do now but get back to the gomal place and see what happened with guns handy and backs to the wall My car's still following Thank you. Maybe Rodriguez will pay that social call of his right away He felt for you hard. Yeah You notice you and I don't get along I'm betting he makes a try for this little vial He won't stop at anything if he thinks he can get away with it And he may start tonight. Somebody's lurking around outside the ranch house. I've seen a shadow several times Rodriguez She'd either go away or come in. I don't like this offense. He may shoot stay away from the windows Can't we pull something on him? We might Yeah, let's try what get out of suitcases start packing as if we're leaving. Maybe that'll hustle him into action My bag's in the closet Hello, I think if we drive the rest of the night, we can make our path go by daylight Here's your briefcase, you know, it's a darn shame. We got that call to leave so soon. I like this part of the cut Oh, Mr. Rodriguez, come in. Mr. Jones, you forgive this unexpected visit sooner than I planned Summer's out charming you look. Yes, and haven't I changed in the last two hours? Packing Mr. Jones, I understood you were staying some days more. Well, uh, we got a hurry call Let's give me no time to cultivate the acquaintance of Mr. Thomas. I'll come back some day, Mr. Rodriguez But perhaps you are not even leaving either of you. What? You are not United States compass fires You yourselves are the thieves of that uranium material. Mr. Rodriguez, you're all wrong further. You yourselves intend to sell it We don't know anybody with a million dollars. Shut up, Ellen. You never let me talk. Miss Thomas Suppose you did know someone with a million dollars. We're American agents Rodriguez. You are not You're a pair of crooks Now suppose that vial contains the uranium compound and you knew someone with a million and a half dollars Well, that's shut up. Ella Go ahead Rodriguez. Can you prove it as the real uranium compound? Let's say we couldn't Then in three days I can raise a million and a half cash American dollars And then you'll resell the material abroad for ten million. That would be my risk Take the deal, Jonesy Okay, Rodriguez We'll prove it's the uranium compound Six drops plus certain other ingredients can be set off by a cap attached to a fuse Uranium is not set off that way. I told you this is a new secret development. It can be used dozens of ways It will show me now if I let you know where the stuff is hidden our lives wouldn't be worth a nickel Cautious aren't you Very well Where and when we'll pick you up tomorrow afternoon at 2 30 and lead you to some deserted spot in these mountains around here Good until tomorrow. Mr. Jones. Miss Tom. Oh, you won't see me then I'm going over to Gulf City and wait for a phone call from Jonesy and you it shall come from me Miss Thomas one had better come from Jonesy to Mr. Rodriguez Or I tell the Mexican police that you left him in the mountains with those Man-eating birds you've got around here You are both very clever Good night Back to counters by in just a moment But first Pepsi cola hits a spot two full glasses That's a lot lots more value lots more zest why take less when Pepsi is best more and more among fellows and girls Among mothers and dad you hear that scene and sensible question. 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Why take less when Pepsi is best today tomorrow always Get america's biggest cola value take home a carton of six big big pepsi bottles Insist on pepsi at the store and say pepsi at the fountain Say pepsi at the stand say pepsi Whenever you reach for refreshment remember Why take less when pepsi is best and now back to counterspy It is hot blazing noon in the desert mountains of mexico Rodriguez we're 40 miles from any other human being Now here's where I've set up the experiment It'll be fairly safe, I hope A few drops of the uranium compound plus the other ingredients and diffuse If you're ready mr. Jones Look at those birds of prey circling above us in the empty sky I guess we look like a meal to them. We call them birds of death They're cruel powerful bloodthirsty If you try to cheat me mr. Jones I will break both your legs with bullets and leave you here alive for those birds Cute ideas you have don't you Like the fuse now run we have eight seconds Mr. Jones I fell help me out Up with you three seconds lost come on behind these rocks just minute Jones I apologize for my suspicions I will have the money for you in 48 hours. Where your ranch house fine And I'll be ready to show you where the material is until then mr. Jones I'm driving away Come on out. Hello coming. Sure. He saw that wire under the battery. I didn't luckily for us his greed's making him blind What if he followed us out here last night when we set up this Fake uranium explosion when he fell down. He was really scared. He never suspected it was fake, but all for this Three cents worth of harmless powder posing as uranium six charges of ordinary tea and tea stop worrying. Ella We've got Rodriguez hooked come on. Let's get to our ranch Ranch life may be great jonesy, but I don't like cooking only another day to wait For a vegetable you want Mexican beans or Mexican beans. I'd rather have Mexican beans. Good. That's all we got and then I Put out the lights Got it at the back window I saw somebody coming Rodriguez ahead of time Get just beyond the doorway to the dining room I'll stay here. You're covering it with your gun right Mr. Jones Yeah I'm David Harding United States counterspied May I come in? Can't stop you. Can I? You alone? Yes, yeah Okay, Ella, come on in Harding, am I glad to see you. Hello, Ella. Sorry to put you two through this rigmarole David Rodriguez around safety first is the best motto. Oh, peter's, I mean, uh, mr. Jones Can we use the shortwave radio? All right here, mr. Harding hidden in the color I want the mexican secret police in cordoba. What's the frequency channel 18? Harding to sx channel 18 Come in channel 18 Hello, peppy Rodriguez has fallen for our cock and bull story about that stolen uranium Now all we need is one break so we can get other people to talk to us about Rodriguez You'd better stand by in case they need help Washington Harding to channel one Come in channel one Edwards from now on keep this channel open 24 hours a day. I may want instantaneous check on fingerprints Right. I'm with Peters and Ella in Mexico in their ranch house. I flew in this morning when things got hot We're getting the best line yet on our old friend Rodriguez the espionage broker I hope you land him this time, sir We've got a baited hook out for him, but with that man, I'm not going to wait for him to bite I'm going to climb up down his throat. Yes. It's awful. What's happened? I had a fight with jones You know my camera. I hit him with a paperweight. I think I killed him. Please help me Of course, Ella Where did you leave him back in our ranch house? He's on the floor all bloody Mr. Rodriguez. I don't know what I'm going to do My dear Ella, I'll look after you but the police they may discover the murder and look for me If need be I can hide you forever What don't worry. We must go there at once. I don't want to go back there My dear I was planning to buy that uranium compound Now can't you and I get it for nothing? Come It's dark in here. I know I cut the light and telephone wires when I left. You have a candle. Uh, yes. Yes There's one beside you on the piano Ah Here's our friend mr. Jones Live thank heavens. He's alive, but not very much alive Now the uranium compound. I know where it's hidden get it. Just a moment Hidden behind a picture on the wall What an obvious place it was safe You're the only one that even knew we have Let me have it here Watch how you handle it Now to arrange matters for you me You will leave all your clothes here except what you actually need On the shallow grave of a woman I had to Dispose of not far from here. I will It was enough mind being impersonated by the bones of a dead woman. I don't get it And we will smash this place up a bit This bookend What are you doing planning your death, mr. Thomas? I've got a gun Rodriguez You're apparent death in this house burned out by an accidental fire Oh, well you hide on my ranch until we go to europe secretly That's how to finish off mr. Jones. You're gonna kill him before you set the fire, of course This other bookend Hands in the air. Rodriguez. I'll take that bookend. Rodriguez. You're under arrest by the united states carerspire. He makes a connoisseur police Ridiculous one charge violation of the international agreement covering the safety of atomic material and information I was not in this alone this woman this man jones by the way, jones. Are you okay fine Only tired of lying on the floor. Rodriguez meet mr. Jones or let's call him harry peters my assistant But you have no evidence. No one will dare to speak against me. Rodriguez. You're a murderer You kept people silent by fear the gunman and narcotics runners who worked for you were afraid to talk Now that you're under arrest. They'll be free to tell everything they know by the way, mr. Harding Here's the uranium wrapped up in his pocket. He earned that l I let him keep it It's only a few cents worth of harmless powder I'm sorry. Rodriguez, but illegal possession of uranium is the one charge. 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