 Stand by for crime Hi Chuck Morgan CLP newscaster speaking You know for the most part people associate deeds of crime with the male of the species Unfortunately, that isn't always the case The story you're about to hear concerns a woman One of the most ruthless and cunning of any of the hardened gangsters I've ever run afoul of during all my years as a reporter here in LA The opening incident of the story took place in a deserted warehouse some weeks ago a Man and a woman were target practicing with a revolver Okay, Nick. Wait a minute. Take a look at the target How am I doing you're doing all right, Nicky boy Eight bulls-eyes out of ten shots. Yeah, not bad a tree. See not bad at all I figured you'd get better with a little practice Guess we can handle that bank job anytime now bank job. Yeah first national trust remember. Yeah. Yeah, I remember Look, Trixie, let's forget the bank job, huh? I got an in on the numbers racket with Bugs flamble Bugs flamble that's small-time punk. Okay, then we'll get into something else Banks is out of my line Trixie on they're gonna be in your line from now on chum Get that and get it straight. Oh listen Trixie you listen Trixie tell but don't waste a time on nobody and then Walk out of the sea nobody Okay, Trixie. Okay, you tied up with me. So I'll get you out of the small time. Okay So I went to work and began teaching you the angles. All right So now we're ready to move and you ain't welsh and see you didn't say nothing about a bank job. Didn't I well? I'm saying it now. It's the first national trust tomorrow at noon What do you still want to go back to the numbers racket? Trixie you wouldn't wouldn't I Nicky boy? I guess you don't know Trixie Talbot Say what I mean Yeah, I see four of them right in the bullseye. You're good. All right, Trixie. You're doing right. I'm good I got a reputation and I'm keeping it Nobody ain't gonna say they walked out on Trixie Talbot She can't afford to have that kind of talk going round. I get it Trixie. You got your reputation to think of I like you Nicky boy I figured you were smart. I figured we could go places together. That's why I'll let you come in with me Sure, Trixie. You give me a chance. All right. I ain't forgetting it. Come here, Nicky boy. Yeah, Trixie Put your arms around me Yeah See what I mean, Nicky boy. Yeah Yeah, all right Trixie I'm crazy about you. That's better We'll get along sure Trixie We get along all right tomorrow at noon. We begin moving it on the big time. We start going places You and me tomorrow at noon This is it Nicky boy. Yeah, I'll set sure sure I'm all set. Let's get going. Take it easy. Don't get nervous Remember what you're supposed to do. Yeah. Yeah. We've been through it enough times. What are we waiting for? All right, Nicky boy relax now Hold the bank book in your left hand like he was gonna make a deposit keep the other hand on the heater in your pocket. I know I know Okay, let's go Shut up that guy'd fall over in a thing to be thought that was gonna be a stick up Here we are dear give the man your book. Yeah Okay, pal. This is a stick up. Don't move. We are getting it. Yes, sir Well, what do you want? What do you think we want chump shove that folding green stuff this way? Yes, ma'am Okay Now go into the vault and bring out everything you can carry forget that Trixie. We gotta go on you Yes, ma'am, and don't forget. There's a gun pointing at your back Trixie. Look that car forget the car I said he is on us. It is. I hate you too. Drop those guns. Why you dumb flat-foot Trixie Grab that door and let's get out of here The tenant bill mags of police headquarters dropped into my office to tell me about the robbery and the murders a Cal Curtis my secretary and I have known Bill a long time We both suspected the purpose of his visit was more than to just give me a good news story Well, that's the story in a hole up Chuck. You got any ideas Chuck's always got ideas What we want to know is what idea of you got up your sleeve never mind grandma post What is your file records bill? Check the files and records in every daylight bank robber in the country. This pair didn't follow the customary pattern at all More than a week my boys have been bringing in and questioning every known daylight hole of man in the city So far they they haven't even made first base Now the way I see it. They've been looking in the wrong places for the wrong kind of guy That makes sense. Yes today young trooper Sydney Richards in an upstate town You notice some smoke and some signs of life coming from what he supposed wasn't abandoned house Went up to investigate and hasn't been heard from since wait a minute If he hasn't been heard from since how do you know he saw signs of life? And how do you know he went up to investigate stands to reason we found the tire marks of his motorcycle in the lane It leads to the house But none returning. Yeah, so you figured that whoever was living in the house prevented him from returning. That's exactly what we think Well, why don't you go up there and find out for heaven's sake if you use your head GP? You wouldn't ask such a nutty question. It's like this Carol suppose The people who are occupying the house are our bank robbers and that they've taken trooper Richards prisoner and holding him as hostage Well, suppose they are they can't hold him forever What are you going to do just sit around and wait for the life of one state trooper Carol is worth the lives of a dozen criminals We have a plan whereby we can keep young Richards alive here. It comes. Let's have it Bill two days ago The San Francisco police captured one of the most ruthless killers this country's ever known. Yeah Now you've probably heard of me. It's called a professor. The professor. Yeah, I did a story on him a while ago Huh another professor is being held in Communicado by the San Francisco police Chuck We we want you to go up there and look him over What's the gimmick? I'll bet you wish you'd never asked Assuming that the people in the abandoned house are our bank robbers and that the holding trooper Richards There's only one person who could get to them without arousing their suspicions I get it. You want me to assume the identity of the professor and make a call on the fugitive? No, that's it Chuck You will you look a little bit like the professor and I think you could get away with no I said you stop getting in a sweat glamour post. There won't be any danger. No danger Are you out of your mind? The first thing those two are going to ask is how did you know they were hiding in the house? We've taken care of that Carol two days from now. There'll be a daylight hold up in the neighboring town of Bolton Crime will be laid to the professor the professor But you said I'm will only be attributed to the professor Newspaper radio broadcasts will attest to that fan. It's a good idea. I could use the story myself You see glamour person will be only natural for the professor to take refuge in the abandoned house That's it. Now these two fugitives didn't why not the professor? I still say it's crazy What if they've met the professor before what it isn't likely that any small-time Operators would know a big shot like the professor by sight. He'd be careful not to let him know I won't buy that Chuck can't go listen to her Listen GP, don't you realize a man's life's at stake yours will be too if you suck enough to agree to this plan Anyway, your birds might have flown by the time you get this not a chance The house has been watched night and day. You're out for a GP. Suppose you pipe down, okay? Go ahead. Get yourself murdered. See if I care if I don't go trooper Richards will be murdered. Well, and I'm going to No, isn't that bright you sit down at that tie brighter and get the work Morgan. Don't you man? I haven't touched you. Come on bill. Let's catch a plane for San Francisco, right? Chuck no come back here. Hello GP take it out on the pipe rider Dizzy idiot if he thinks that I Well, I'm not but I won't and he'll wish he hadn't Hi, Nikki boy. Come on in I was trooper Richards this morning. Okay, I guess Look Trixie. Do we have to keep that guy tied up all the time? Oh, we have to keep him tied up Nikki boy. Sometimes I think you've got softening of the brain. Okay. Maybe I have Maybe having a stay here cooked up in this lousy dumps driving me nuts. Maybe shut up No, I want to go out of here. I was a sucker to listen you in the first place You got anything else to say Nikki boy. Oh, Trixie put that gun away. Yeah, I'll put it away One more crack out of you chum and the next time I won't miss. Okay, Trixie Okay, you don't need to worry about me. I better not need to worry about you You're dumb punk Why if it wasn't for me you'd be cooling your heels in the cell right now. I know it could see you're right Forget I said anything will it if we could only get out of here get out when the heat's off not until but suppose they find Don't be a dope I've had this hideaway case for weeks. Nobody won't find us here the motor cop did all right So the motor cop found us why because you were dumb enough to light a fire Why just for that I ought to shoot your ears off. Okay. Okay. I already admitted it was my fault, didn't I? That's a big help admitting it. How do I know you won't pull some other dumb trick? I won't fix it So help me you wouldn't want to How long do we have to stay here anyway? Oh, maybe tomorrow maybe the next day depends on how things look two more days Look Trixie that cops gonna be missed. I'll come looking for it. Let him Where in the driver's seat no matter which way you figure it Anybody comes here looking for that cop. We make a deal with him his life for hours now quit worrying will you we're doing okay? I guess you're right Besides if they was looking for the cup we'd have heard it on the portable radio. Sure. We would Turn it on. Let's have some music. Okay, Trixie Now become definitely established that the lone bandit will shot and killed the pay master at the Roberts oil fields With the gangster known as the professor State police are making an intensive search of the countryside near Bolton Well, how do you like that? The professor's operating again and then Bolton to the professor I thought he was laying lower after the Chicago job. Looks like he got tired of laying low Them dumb cops thinking they can catch the professor Mickey boy, there's a character. I'd like to meet him and me could go places together Yes, sir. There's a guy who's got what it takes. You ain't never met him Trixie. Of course. I ain't in this few that have He's a smart operator that lad Mickey boy, you ought to study the professor's technique. Maybe you'd get some place. All right, Trixie, and I do an all-right That professor. Yes, sir. Him and me could really go places together Hey Trixie listen, it's an automobile Look it's coming up the lane. It's the cops. I knew they got up. Don't get us. We're into the chance I knew that up. I said you dumb clock that ain't no cop. What do you mean? It ain't the cops cause there's only one of them You think a cop would come driving up here in broad daylight like that a trooper did nuts This is some punk who's lost his way or maybe want to drink a water or something What are we gonna do this? He's a trooper. You won't see no trooper Go on over and open the door What are you gonna do? What's the idea of the gun? Never mind go on and do as I say You ain't gonna ain't I Nikki boy, you got a lot to learn in this business and you might just as well start now open the door No, I'll talk to him. Maybe I can send him away only don't you jerk you do like I say or I blast you too Okay, Trixie You're the boss the conclusion of stand by for crime With the help of Bill Megs and the San Francisco police I had met the professor and talked to him He was a tall soft spoken man with an excellent command of the English language Which I suppose was responsible for his nickname The fake bank robbery was pulled and my broadcast on it recorded. I Was then given a black bag full of money Which I was still carrying when I knocked at the door of the deserted house Yeah, what do you want? Oh? For a moment you rather startled me. I thought there was no one at home. What do you want? I was wondering if I could use your telephone. You see Come on in of course Thank you. Oh I beg you pardon. I didn't know there was a lady here. You guessed right. They're right Okay, who sent you Sent me I I don't believe I understand you see I was on my way. Come on. Come on. Quit stalling before I bump you off I want the answers to a few questions Bump me off Do you mean you intend shooting me you catch on fast copper? My dear young lady. Are you referring to me as a police officer Buster? You sure put on a smooth act Hey, Nick, yeah, Trixie see what he's got in that bag. Okay Give me the bag, but no just a moment give him a bag, but Very well, here you are my man. Thanks What's in it Nick? Cheapers well, what is it? What is it take a look? Well, I'm Greenbacks bundles of them. Oh come there isn't so much there I call that my small change purse small change See, who are you anyway Trixie? I know that radio broadcast the professor wait a minute wait a minute Let me look this lug over did the radio broadcast give a detailed description of the professor Trixie How do you know my name my dear girl? You're a Associate here has called you Trixie at least three times since I entered the house. Oh, he did and you referred to him as Nick Trixie and Nick Could it be? No, no Trixie Talbot would never allow herself to become involved with Forgive me. I I've said too much. You ain't said nothing. What's the matter with Trixie Talbot? There's nothing the matter with Trixie Talbot. Oh I get it Hey, Nick. Yeah, Trixie go on outside and take a look around. Oh, look, ain't I go on go on quit arguing? Okay, Trixie. You don't have to get sore That's better Now shall I finish what I was about to say Trixie? You don't need to I know So you're the professor, huh at your service my dear I like that at your Service he says Yes, sir. Professor. You're just like they said a real gentleman. Thank you my dear Sit down professor over here. Thank you We got a lot to talk about Yes, sir, we got to get acquainted Can't you drive a little faster bill Chuck may be dead by now if he's dead then there's no need of driving faster Very funny you cops are all alike cold-blooded. Take it easy Carol your boyfriend can take care of himself I'm worried one of those hold-up artists was a woman. Don't forget. Ah So that's what you're worried about all that and other things What other things well suppose Chuck doesn't get away with his elect Suppose they know he isn't the professor in that case as you yourself pointed out. He's dead Oh Sorry, but there's no need getting into a sweat until we know there's something to worry about bill makes your heartless Either that or you've never been in love Well, there it is there what is oh the house You sure sure. I'm sure I've checked it enough times during the past few days What are we stopping for? Aren't we going up there and save Chuck oh sure sure we'll drive right up the lane blowing the horn so they know we're coming You don't have to be sarcastic Bill I'm scared so am I Okay, how'd you get what we're going to do don't know yet Let's let's take a look around Professor I got a handle to you you're done all right for yourself You flatter me Trixie and Now about the proposition you mentioned a few minutes ago. Yeah the proposition Professor how much dough is in the small change purse of yours? Possibly ten thousand dollars Just like that ten G's and you don't bat an eye Brother you killed me Now look see that bag sticking out from under the couch Mmm, not unlike my own it's just like it and what's in it is just like what's in yours, too Only there's more Yeah, there's more than 15 grand in that satchel professor. You don't say yeah, I'm saying You add that 15 to the 10 you got and it makes a pretty good steak done it Deed it does Yes, a very good steak Trixie. You get it then we start out with 25 grand see you and me together But my dear girl, I have only ten sure so I chip in five more than you okay You got brains. You got fancy tool. You're a smart operator. I Need a guy like you we could go places together. Is it a deal? It seems fair enough, but there's one tiny item. I'm afraid you forgot yeah Nick Nick Oh, don't be a dope professor. You and me know how to handle guys like Nick Why when someone gets in our way, we just a guy in a base peeking up through the woods what they're coming here cops Let me see Hey, professor, come here. You see something Trixie. I'll say I do Look out there. I'll do it Good heavens it's something wrong professor. Yeah I mean put the gun away Trixie. You can't friends are yours. Maybe yeah, they're a couple pals of mine. I mean that What was that it sounds like it came from the next room it did it's a state trooper Maybe he's getting loose. Shall I go look Trixie young Sydney Richards a so he's still alive How'd you know about him? I read about it in the newspapers heard it on the radio You never it wasn't in no newspapers, and it wasn't on no radio. Trixie. Shut up Nick So mr. Professor You thought you could put one over on Trixie Talbot, huh Trixie my girl I think the time has come for us to be frank with each other. Yeah Nick yeah, Trixie go out the back way and take care of them two outside stay here Nick If you do as Trixie says you'll regret it. I'm telling you right down you Go on Nick do like I say listen Trixie You gonna obey orders Nicky boy, I'm going Trixie you don't have to get sore Now Professor this is going to be a pleasure You'll get twice as much pleasure if you let me explain who I am for a guy who's gonna be rubbed out You've got a nerve mr. Who are you anyway? The name is Morgan Chuck Morgan the newscaster Chuck Morgan well, what do you know? I thought that voice sounded familiar, but Well, that takes care of your friends mr. Morgan You got any prayers you want to say before you join them. I've got a lot of things up that you Nick Come on in. I want you to watch this Tough Trixie that guy behind you isn't Nick. No, don't try to kid me pal All right, Nick speak up. The name is a Nick lady drop the gun. Why you too bad You'll have the situation well in hand Trixie was considerably messed up in the friccest of follows Nick was no problem at all We found Trooper Richards uncomfortable, but unharmed Karen I got back to the office with only an hour to go before my late broadcast So I started dictating the facts at once Wait a minute Chuckie boy. Well, you don't expect your listeners to believe that stuff. Do you what stuff that it was a woman who Influenced Nick to turn bank robber. I certainly do if it hadn't been for Trixie's influence Nick never would have nuts How was that? I said nuts Women never influence men to do anything Men a stubborn and self-centered at the absolute Come over here glamour first Well, I am about to demonstrate that your theory is cock-eyed no kidding no kidding Now I planned I'm going bowling after tonight's broadcast Why don't you influence me to take you out dancing instead? Hey, that's a good idea Hmm Pucker up influenced I'm influenced We go dancing