 My name is Jeff Regan. I get ten a day and expenses from the detective bureau run by a guy named Lyon Anthony J. Lyon They call me the lion's eye Jack Webb is Jeff Regan investigators stand by for hard-boiled action and mystery and thrilling adventure in tonight's story of the man who came back Well, this is the way it started It was a hot Tuesday afternoon about four o'clock melody was sitting at her typewriter watching a Tired-looking fly crawl across the ceiling. He didn't say a word just waved an arm in the direction of his door Certainly we will mr. Brondack. Absolutely certainly Yes, of course coming Yes, it's all right, mr. Brondack. Yes, you'd be there in an hour. All right half an hour. Goodbye Regan, you're it. I'm what here's his address names. I'm a brand I guess the real estate office in Aledina She came by a special messenger half an hour ago. It was late, but the bank tells me it's good. So you're it You know, that's what I like the fishes. It's so hot to be funny I want you to hop out there and see what it's excited about didn't he tell you Hey, it's one of those nasty old coots. He didn't make much sense on the phone something about someone coming back Besides his teeth were slipping around. Yeah Anyhow it's a job. This has been terrible lately, you know, I still want my expenses on that tartaglia thing Have you ever come up short with me? Yes, I have you'll get all that's coming to you when as soon as melody gets a bill from that hospital Because that's coming out of your check now beat it out there and find out what this guy wants and call me if you're running into any trouble Brondike Manor was a brown white cottage on the edge of tenacres of dusty land in back of foothill drive It was a big sign right in front of it telling you how easy it is to own your own land and have your own home on Brondike estates Well, I parked across the highway and it was just about then that a big heavy set man wearing a dirty white Panama hat Suit that didn't fit him around the stomach crawled out of a 36 Ford sedan Jander cigar in his mouth and came over to my car He had hair in his ears. Yeah Good afternoon in it. Yes, sir. Sure is hot Sure as a hot afternoon. Yeah, it is if you spend it sitting in a car pulling on a bottle Smelling huh mile away just trying to beat the heat. Okay. You've been parked in a car beating the heat Yeah, you win. Ain't much good trying to look like a guy who wants to buy a house Yeah, who do you look like? Yeah, it's a little greasy, but it's me Marty Anderson Confidential investigation. I guess I ought to have no one's printed out All right, you're a sleutre house business Marty punk too bad you going to see old man brondike The nose is getting sunburned Marty I was just going to go and see myself when I spot you pull up Recognize you from pictures in the paper last week on that taglier thing I figured maybe you and me ought to talk. Yeah Hey, you make it tough for a guy rigging with we're in the same rocket What you're gonna see him about you said you were going in to see him Well, I kind of changed my mind when I seen you this is where I came in Ah, you're a tough guy rigging you're a real tough guy a lot of people know it But Marty Anderson's bet near a dumb guy too a real dumb guy See you're on Marty I'm an old conch, huh? A fat old slob who couldn't get a trick as a housekeeper or a tailor in a bunk, isn't it? Well, you don't get too close. That's a real bad label. You gotta hold up Okay, rigging. Okay, you're young and tough, but you just keep my card wise guy You don't want to see me You don't want to see me before it's all tied up Mr. Brondike, please Elmer Brondike. He's expecting me your name, please rigging rigging. All right Yeah, no, no, no, you don't have to write it down lady and your business private I'll say we'll have to know a little more than that. Mr. Reagan It's always this hot in here. Yes, and I'm sick and tired. Look just flip your switch and tell him I'm here What do you sent for me? Wait a minute, please Well, what is it, honey? Mr. Reagan here daddy says he's expected I don't find him listed on your appointment. Don't be an idiot. Send him in. Send him in Let me go in now. Mr. Reagan. Yeah, thanks. Is he always like that most of the time other times. He's bad High blood pressure. You've got it high low and in between. I hate him a winner, huh? I'm sorry, Connie That is your name, isn't it? Oh on in before I quit Don't just stand there. Come on in and shut the door. What took you so long? You're Jeff Regan, huh? You don't look much like a private detective to me. Sit down. Why not put that thing over there by the ink well? Oh Now then Regan About this collar. He's a no good tramp. You understand that? No good tramp I'll see that he goes right back up to Sam Quinton if I have to I'm a dangerous man to play games with he found that out once and if he keeps up this business He's got to find it out again. All right. You're dangerous. He's a no good tramp Sam Quinton Hey, are you mocking me? No, I'm not. I'm just wondering what you're talking about. I just told you everything You got ears. Can't you hear I don't hear anything but a lot of blubbering and that doesn't make any sense Too big All about your high blood pressure. You better watch that. She did did she or Connie talks too much That's what the matter with her. She talks too much. Oh sure and you'd fire only She's your daughter and you'd have to pay somebody else three times what you pay her to take everything She has to take I Never mind Just hot Heat always gets me. Yeah, me too Now do you want to tell me about it? He's an ungrateful scoundrel. Who told me call here. Who else? I took that boy in as my junior partner in brawn dyke estate When he was nothing more than a car washer in a filling station and how does he repay me? Hey, hey, hey, you're letting the heat body again It isn't the heat reagan. I'll tell you that those phone calls phone calls telling me to beware and watch out A lot of other nonsense. Now we're getting close. They let him out of san quentin last week You think he'd go somewhere where people didn't know him and wash cars again or something But no he has to start telephoning my office telling me he's back and he's going to get me What was he doing in san quentin to attend on an embezzlement count How long ago was that three years ago? And I guess he got time off or something Why is he so right? I had to testify against him. It was my firm. He was chiseling So now he's out of the clink and he's calling you and trying to throw a scare on you, huh? Maybe out that he isn't scaring me or anybody else. I'll kill you that. Yeah I want you to find him wherever he is bring him here All right Then I want to tell him like i'm telling you If he keeps bothering me with those phone calls if he persists in threatening me and I'll hold out some stuff I have in my safety deposit box and send him back up there on a swiveling wrap Just to get him out of my hair. You withheld evidence at that trial. I withheld nothing Just be a new charge and I could make it stick if I wanted to all right. Tell me the rest of it What do you mean tell you the rest of it? I'm gonna tell the punk. He's gotta get in trouble. Where'd marty anderson figure What? Anderson marty confidential investigations big dirty-looking ape who shaves every other day Yeah Oh That romp I How'd you know about him tried to shake me down outside your office? He would Yeah, he's just a second rate gum hill. I called in three years ago when I thought collier might be fixing my books I think it's the only job he ever had He's been pestering me ever since did he testify against collier. Of course. He testified against collier. That was part of his job Is there anything else you want to know? Yes, there is. Why'd you call international instead of the police? You're pretty nosy, aren't you? I'm a lot of things now come on white because every time you call a cop around this town There's always some stupid reporter hanging around the sergeant's desk I gotta have a million dollars tied up in this here gravel pit I don't want anybody who's gonna buy into it thinking that I might get knocked over by some loony That's why I want it all quiet Let's satisfy you. Oh, it'll do for now. You'll probably come up with something better later on. All right. Where's collier? If I knew I wouldn't have called you in. Do you have a family here home a wife something? He was all alone. He had a mother somewhere, I guess Pictures Okay, I'll keep these And we're gonna hear from you when I find something you bring him to me. I'll ask him to come He doesn't have to yeah, you just spring that swindling wrap on him. He'll come Yeah, and if it's no good, he can turn right around and slap a slander suit right in your face And I wouldn't blame him. Don't you forget you're working for me here, man. I won't Regan Begin you you've got a nasty way of talking People don't talk to me like that. Well, this is a brand new crowd of people frosty top and we talk just like we feel Now at the city hall, they didn't have anything on toby coddier except that he'd been released from san quentin august 10th From there I went to the parole board office, but it was closed by that time So I did the next best thing and I sent a wire to the officer in charge of parole prisoner san quentin Asking for collier's address and I dropped into the times office and I looked up the story of the trial It was a page three item for two days a second section filler for a week after that nothing There were no pictures, but it did give the name of collier's lawyer a man named alan nordale The phone book gave him an address over on king's lane Now that's you millie. Hold on just a minute. I was trying to get my dinner over before you Who are you mr. Nordale? My name is rigan. I'm a private investigator. I'm trying to locate a former client. He was a man named toby collier Come in come in come in. I was expecting millie, but come in. Thank you I always fix my own dinner poached egg in half and half. I I have ulcers Uh Name's rigan. Yeah, you want an egg? No, thanks. You mind if I finish? No, no, go ahead. Thank you What's what with toby collier? Well, I'm just trying to locate him. That's all I found out that you were his lawyer He was released from san quentin 10 days ago. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're sure you won't have an egg And you get used to him after a while You work for rigan international detective bureau the line's still there. Yeah Well, so you're the line's eye, huh? Yeah Lines is a bandit, but who's kate no more brondike. Mm-hmm What you want to be for the ball? I'm out for making threatening phone calls. Are that all far as I know Yeah, toby was a nice kid But a calendar job born with one more going one depression on deck and a new war starting makes different Now the calendar got him and he wound up in san quentin. Well, everything was against him at the trial, too He was pretty mad at old man brondike and that type of dick and me and everyone else before it was all over I tried to talk to him from what brondike tells me. He's still mad. I I did all I could but he didn't have a chance He tried to lift a lousy couple thousand bucks and they caught him. Well, he's out now. Do you handle his pearl? No You know who did no You don't know where he is in town. No Brondike said he had a mother no Okay, I'll leave you to milley. Yeah, if we we play records milley used to be a violinist Sorry, I'm no help Regan if you find Toby, I'd like to see him Why? I don't know. Maybe I just want to see what three years in the pen does to a man like that Yeah, I'll bet you do I'm calling from home home. What about kaya? I didn't find him yet. Well get busy. What are you waiting for a telegram morning? Couple of things listen. This old schmo is plenty tough and if he thought you were low look at nine o'clock at night I'm tired. There's nothing I can do till tomorrow morning He saw us especially about you Blown up and said you call him a lot of names. He has a lot of names I don't care what he is. You don't talk to a client like that Besides, I haven't cast his check. I go on out find that guy and get this thing settled. Good night, Regan Besides, I haven't checked Well, I just sat down the phone and started at the door when it happened Connie brandyke was standing man. She didn't waste any time. She didn't say a word. Just pull the trigger The first three brought down plaster on the suit The fourth one ruined the shoulder on my suit The fifth gave me a haircut. I made a grab for and I missed. I took the empty gun in my face Next thing I knew she pulled off one of those high spike heels and raised it above my head I tried to stop her but my arms wouldn't work. That's all I remember You were listening to the story of the man who came back tonight's adventure with jeff reagan investigator They're still available for qualified nurses. 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I'd never get there before it stopped ringing Hello Yeah Something like that. You wash your face yet. What made you think that? Half an hour some money Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm fine. I'm All right, jake, let her go let her go. She's a friend of mine. Sure. It's all right Hey, you're breathing look at the plaster food. I'm a shot because they were shot Jake jake, let her go. Will you huh sure? I was cleaning a gun Funny time to clean the gun 10 o'clock at night. Well, I do a lot of funny things come up and have a drink sometime. Will you jake? Okay, mr. Egan, okay Good night. Oh no, you don't lady stay right where you are No, we're gonna talk you hurt my arm. I'll rough you up good if I have to now come on Save it lady So you come over to get them and you take five shots at me and slam a gun on my face Why don't you finish the job with your heel? All right? I was going through your wallet looking for the picture It's all your license The private detective You're looking for toby, aren't you? That's why you had a picture Collier your boyfriend. Yeah, we were gonna get married only he went to the pan, huh? Those pictures That's all I had left of him. He didn't write No, you know, he's out now Yeah, so you got in touch with it Why should he? He thinks I was in on in on what the whole daddy rotten thing. Toby was framed Dad hired that muddy Anderson to help him do it. How do you know he was framed? I've been working for my dad for five years. I see things. Yeah, I'll bet you do That's the truth. Oh, yeah, everybody's full of the truth. All the liars are dead Look at me Go ahead and look at me mr. Regan. I know what you'd call beautiful I had even prettier Corky, no man would ever look at me twice Toby looked at me He loved me, but You're gonna do them when you find them. Well, he's been threatening your father on the phone I'm just gonna take him there. Yeah, would you bring him to me for it? Would you let me talk to him? Why? because maybe I Maybe I can hold him in my arms and make him forget all his hate Everything he's gone through Maybe he'll still love me we Go away together and get married You know where he is. Can you find him tonight? Maybe you're gonna help my mate? I gotta see a man. I guess I went kind of crazy tonight, isn't it? I don't know I've been thinking about him so much lately. Yeah, well next time. Give me a little thought, will you? Good night, lady Well, marty anderson's office was a dirty room hanging over a shoe repair shop on sunset near alvarado You could tell it belonged to him the glass on the door hadn't been washed for 10 years He didn't answer when I knocked so I tried my keys on the door the third one worked Inside it smelled like a pile of wet gunny sand The only light was kind of a sick green from a neon sign going on and off outside the window With an old army caught in one corner and right in front of the window a big black roll-top desk and a cracked leather chair He was sitting there looking at the neon light. He couldn't see anymore One dirty hand was on top of a scratch pad near the phone and the other was inside his coat And I pulled it out. It was covered with blood and the rest of a kind of cheap whiskey I found a 38 cartridge case on the floor. He didn't have anything in his pocket except some keys and a plug of chewing tobacco There wasn't anything in the desk drawers either When I started to call homicide, I had to move his hand. The name collier was written on the scratch pad And it was not dressed to go with it Extension 2521 please Lieutenant windeddy Officer tonight who's calling all right take this down sergeant shoe shop sunset near alvarado Yeah, one flight up Yeah office belongs to a private detective named marty anderson Yeah, got all that Yeah, he's dead. Why the Santa Monica fog was all over flower street on the 1300 block south The streetlight didn't do much good. Just kind of hung around and watched everything get wet I used a half a pack of matches finding my address Out kind of late tonight. Aren't you pilgrim? What'll it be? Toby Collier here He was here All right. I'll wait. He ain't gonna be here no more Your friend is never met the guy. Yeah, it's midnight beat it. All right. Wait a minute. Wait. Oh like that Anyway, you want it? I'm gonna do you a favor. I'm gonna tell you something. All right, Santa Claus before I turn night watchers They call me the candy kid 64 pounder 200 300 It'd be assault with a deadly weapon if I slapped you in the mush, but you're tempting me Don't be all right. Wait a minute. Be in the night. Watcher inch would be down. All right now. Maybe this will I just came from marty anderson So what he's dead so what what and in about a half an hour the cops are gonna be here looking for toby collier Yeah Well, they can just dig him up and talk all they want dig him up Are you blind or drunk or something? This outfit buried him this afternoon This is a mortuary Oh and I got home She wasn't there But a telegram was there was a long answer from san quentin telling me how collier had been Brought to los angeles on a stretcher and the hospital that he was in and a lot of other things It took me 20 minutes to get out to aladina, but I was too Well, her aim was a lot better this time by the time I got through the door The old man had dropped his gun and was kind of hanging onto a piece of drapery by the window got me Got him Turned into a real anne oakley, haven't you good to see him like that Real good you want to give me that gun it's empty sure why not He had it coming for a long time You read my telegram. I read it and I fell in the hospital and they told me toby was dead Bad heart Wasn't that bad heart that killed toby Him He killed him. You don't have to make those faces. They don't make him any deader You think i'm nuts don't you no i'm not a lawyer lady you can plead any way you want Well, I'll never tell it to a court don't bet on that You aren't such a bad guy. I'll tell it to you all of it How many tramps you met in your life ringing real tramps some some just thought they were tramps Well, you met that genuine product today Take him for 10 years. He's been packing away money When the income tax people got closer He goes out and he finds toby in a filling station and makes him a junior partner. Yeah works an embezzlement frame up It's like Don't be the fool guy that way he doesn't have to straighten out any books Tramp number one genuine, huh? And then his number two a private dick named Marty and Pete Oh, he's dead somebody shot him tonight. Yeah, he did it only decent thing he ever did in his life Marty was in on it. He testified against toby in court, but marty wanted money all the time for the old man killed And it was supposed to look like toby only toby was dead Toby was dead He couldn't kill anybody When you find out about toby you come back and you do some shooting yourself, don't you? He killed toby at the morgue. They told me it was his heart His heart sold Everything that made him The only written and told me he's gonna take me down. Yeah Don't make no difference now This toby you must have loved the guy That had died before Here you are lady. I guess you will That's the way it came out Bondi killed marty anderson because marty was trying to sell me what he knew about collier's trial Marty was a lousy private detective making those phone calls and trying to make bondi think it was collier Well, the lion was mad because I phoned homicide and then ran away. He said it would give the agency a bad name Then he began talking the way he does The funny thing about all this regan most two going for each other. Yeah She was nothing to look at Him he was a smart guy. You went up in prison didn't he? Yeah. Yeah, but he was a smart guy He was just afraid not many smart guys get framed. What do you mean? I mean collier sold out to brandyke and then he made the frame deal How do you know collier left a will you think any made it go over? I mean dr. Merida something if all this hadn't happened. No, why not? She went for him and he went for her say he didn't serve much time on a two-to-ten ramp He must had a smart lawyer. No, you mean dr. Well, he had a heart condition. He was dying And they paroled him They let him out to die. Well, they do things like that Sometime No wonder he didn't write that name Yeah, what do you know about that? Nothing You work on it. I'm tired. Good night Are you a registered graduate nurse? 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