 Time now for Edmund O'Brien as Johnny dollar. Why in the world are you down here dollar your trade leads in 45 minutes? Well, I'm taking a quick refresher course in ancient history. You're sending me out to find a missing archaeologist, aren't you? Well, I want to be able to talk his language in case I find him alive Edmund O'Brien in a transcribed adventure of the man with the action-pact expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator yours truly Johnny dollar Submitted by a special investigator Johnny dollar to great Corinthian life and liability company Hartford, Connecticut The following is an accounting of my expenditures during my investigation of the disappearance of Bruce Lambert The archaeologist who never should have left his tomb Expense account item one seven dollars and fifty cents railway and taxi fare from my Hartford apartment to room 317 Brighton arms, New York City a hotel whose front rooms had a depressing view of an 81st Street Mortuary as Lambert. Yes, please come in. She was tall without awkwardness at the physique of an athlete But still with softness and a golden pan made a seam out of place set against the snow heaped on the sill outside the windows Thank you for coming mr. Dollar. I Realize that mine was a rather unusual request to make of an insurance company not at all Miss Lambert the company doesn't want to lose a policy holder any more than you want to lose a brother But there are a lot of good private detectives in New York. I couldn't afford one I had thought of notifying the police, but I realized that Bruce's case would be just one of many to them They're so impersonal There's a chance of any notoriety Miss Lambert if you mean that for some reason you'd rather the police didn't find him you'd better tell me about it Yes, of course. I was going to I Don't see how it could make any difference Please sit down Maybe we'd better start way back at the beginning, huh? That would be in Egypt, wouldn't it? Yes In the desert some hundred miles west of seeds My brother's an archaeologist and he'd uncovered some ruins. It was quite an important discovery something about the 12th dynasty I I don't know much about it. You were with him. Yes, I didn't spend much time at the excavation side I stayed in the village But the reason the police might make it difficult is that Bruce discovered some relics that he didn't declare to the authorities there. You mean he swiped them And if you're in the habit of using extreme bluntness, I suppose you could put it that way all right I'm sorry. Please Mr. Dollar. This is quite unpleasant for If Bruce had stolen all the relics you wouldn't expect it to make any difference now. I felt about his disappearance, would you? Well, I'm afraid I can't do anything for you. I've got to know these things that I'm gonna help you wait I'm I'm sorry I'll tell you everything. I know All right What were those relics that your brother didn't declare? Well, I'm not sure how many there were With some statuary An obsidian head of some old king and then there was a scarab It was supposed to have been the official seal of this king You know how valuable this stuff is. I'm afraid that it might be very valuable in some circles That's what I was afraid of that Someone harmed Bruce or even But there's so many things to be afraid of he isn't strong Maybe even his mind He was injured quite severely in a traffic accident in Alexandria just before we left Egypt I've got to find out What could have happened to him? Come on. We can't find out this way. What does your brother look like? Is he light or dark? Here's a snapshot. He's blonde His hair is straight and was quite long when I last saw him and that was four days ago. Yes They are ship docked. I was arranging for my luggage He just disappeared What else what's his bill slight medium heavy slide? I'd say what about his clothes? Well, he was wearing a dark blue suit and a gray overcoat the right sleeve of both would be empty Because his right arm and shoulder in a cast a traffic accident. Yes both were fractured. I Wish I were able to be more help But I've told you everything I know he just Vanished did he did he have any enemies that you know him? No, there's not even that I Can't let myself lose hope But what can we do? How do you start looking for somebody with so little to go on? Before I answered a question we started at the beginning again the second run-through was pretty much like the first But disappearance from a foreign ship in the port of New York is not as easy as the telling of it I left the troubled Marsha Checked into an eight-floor room in the Brighton arms where a phone call told me the North Fleet had already sailed No hope of information there. So I headed for the US customs office No, Mr. Nixon. Yes. My name is dollar. I'm an insurance investigator. The girl outside said you could help me I'd like to get some information on a passenger who arrived from Alexandria on the North Fleet and North Fleet Well, I'd have to know the day of arrival and the name of the line. I was four days ago. They'd made it That would make it the 20th. It's a British ship in North Fleet What was the passengers name Lambert Bruce Lambert? The Clarence luggage through customs Bruce Lambert Yeah Witness the examination of one piece of luggage a suitcase Personal effects one piece of statuary purchased in Alexandria. No duty What address did he give you Bruce Lambert? No street number the hotel the Brighton arms right now Well, don't count on that Expensive on item two thirty dollars which with my ID card Helped impress the cab drivers who worked the entrance of the pier with a North Fleet at dock Checking these cabs took the whole afternoon and midway through it. I Realized I wasn't the only one interested in that particular hack stand I wasn't sure at what moment I'd actually noticed him He was doing a very bad job of hiding behind a journal American on the other side of the street All I could see was the lower half of an overcoat the same of some razor-sharp trousers and some pointed shoes But I began to feel his eyes looking at me as I went on with my questioning That finally paid off through the mouth of driver number 782 You know you meet all kinds in this business Some you forget and Some others you remember well, do you remember a guy with his arm and shoulder in a cast and something you learn in this business? That's to read people's faces you get to know a deadbeat before he gets a chance to deadbeat you and You catch on if the guy is scared of something. Well, if he was afraid of something. It's not me He's been reported missing by a sister. I've been hired to find him How much is ten bucks by you know? Maybe he don't want to be found Is that what you think sure? He paid me more to clam up than you often. I've got more What are you going to do with him? I want to talk to him. I want to find out if he's all right He wants to stay lost. That's his business not mine I was 25 Get in my boy Get very far from here Our destination turned out to be an old red brick hotel Near 39th Street between 10th and 11th Avenue and it occurred to me that as an archaeologist Lambert was running true to form He even used some ruins to hold up in One five dollar bill bought the information from the room clerk that Lambert was out of his room and Another bought a pass key that let me in thing to catch my eye when I switched on the light Was a black piece of statuary Shining dully on a chipped bureau a crowned head with exaggerated features Sculpted and obsidian. I Posed myself this riddle if it was so valuable. Why didn't Lambert take better care of it? But before I had a chance to try for the answer a Footnotch the door opened behind me as might be expected. It was wearing a pointed shoe It was followed into the room by a slight yellow ivory skinned man who rather resembled the black statue I must thank you for leaving us to the hiding place Where is he all that depends on who he's hiding from it looks like it's you Perhaps it is that you do not know where he is. Yeah Perhaps I followed your taxi after you talked with those drivers. That was very smart Where did you think I expected you to go? What's your interest in Lambert? You were employed by the girl to find him How much does she pay you? I never talk money with a stranger or perhaps we will not be strangers for long The point of importance is that you have not yet found him Mr. Drummond will pay you $2,000 to do so Mr. Drummond is generous, but what makes you so sure I haven't found Lambert Because he is not here. Well, that only means he someplace else, please. I Have no wish for violence Then put that thing away the first place gunfire even in this neighborhood is going to bring the law The second place that's a lady's gun one of those handbag jobs, you know, you ought to be ashamed of yourself for carrying please I have no wish to use it and get rid of it I hate little men who try to play bully There was more than that behind my fist. I figured I could learn to know him better if he was quietly stretched out on the floor I was half right an Egyptian passport told me that his name was Amon Hicksus hometown Alexandria There was nothing else I Could turn Hicksus over to the police on in the soul charge or I could wait until he woke up and try knocking some information out of him But I didn't do either I Left him there in the lobby. I gave a message to the room clerk for Lambert telling him to stay out of his room When he came back and to phone me at the Brighton arms Dollar oh just a second. He's the rainy news Did you learn anything Mr. Dollar? Yeah, I made some progress I Met Amon Hicksus You told me your brother didn't have any enemies that little Egyptian is out looking for him with a gun. Why'd you lie to me? I have no right to ask you to believe me now. That's so true, but I wish you would Please come here and sit down. No, no, thanks. You sit there and I'll stand here I think I'll be less inclined to believe you from here. That's not fair. I Know I Wasn't fair with you. I Want to be But there are some things I just can't tell you Why not? Well, I can't tell you that I've gone nuts women like you make everything tougher than it should be You demand all but you give nothing you ask to be trusted and you won't trust You make yourselves look soft when you're as hard as steel You've got warmth, but you're you only turn it on when you get something out of it. You're wrong. I Was trying to help him or us. I Had to lie look I started this thing wanting to help you There was something personal about it But you wanted me to do things your way and not mine. Well, we just stopped doing that Please leave me alone Go back to Hartford to get you wherever here. I wish I could I'm working for an insurance company looking for a missing policy holder I'll be up in my room if you decide to help me find Marsha called your insurance company when you took the run out they hired me good for Marsha Is she all right? Well, that depends on your point of view. I suppose she's being the helpful sister to you But for me, she's done nothing but act mysterious. I don't get it You won't tell the truth about you. I hope you do better Sister sure she did. Why shouldn't she it? Oh, I can't see why she do that. She isn't your sister Where is she I better talk to her that's a good idea room 317 Brighton arms. I'll be there with her waiting for you Except that I waited for him in the corridor outside her room. I left Marsha where I found her She was on the bathroom floor Why she died from wounds inflicted by the proverbial blunt instrument Where her lies had died with her In just a moment we will return to the second act of yours truly Johnny dollar But first and now with our star Edmond O'Brien We return to the second act of yours truly Johnny dollar Take it on a get here with your phone from just around the corner bar. What do you ask? Where's Marsha Marsha's dead I? Don't believe you I want to go in there. She isn't dead. Let me in there Come on use your head. Well, yeah, there's nothing Look, you don't want to go in there. Believe me. You don't there's nothing you can do She can't be dead. She can't be come on Where why I want you to come up to my room with me. You've got to do two things First give me every reason you can think of why this should have happened And then before the police get here, you'd better start rehearsing a story of your own Or is that she wasn't in thieves while you were working on your ruins. That's right I didn't even know her then I met her in the hospital in Alexandria after my accident I was there for two months. You see she was my my nurse But she did know about the relics that statue and the scarab that I haven't seen. Oh, yes Yeah, here it is. Uh, this is the scarab. Oh, yes, she knew we talked about my my little deceit Well, how little is it really you you talk about two attempts on your life now. We have actual murder You'd better let me have that scare. Oh, yes. Yes, of course But surely you don't think the relics are at the bottom of this they're rare but not valuable enough for this Unless someone knows more about them than I do I doubt that I have made a thorough study of the 12th Dynasty And King amendment the third it's a carving of his head What do you know about a man named Amon Hicksus and another whose last name is Drummond Hicksus Amon Hicksus, you know him. Does it ring any kind of a bell? No, I'm afraid not Drummond means nothing Let's try the two attempts on your life. What about them? Well They happened on the nights of the 17th and the 18th both of them could have been accidental except that Well, the same small man stood near me both times It would be too much for me to hope you you could describe him I suppose. Well, he was dark With both times I was on the promenade deck and something heavy was thrown or pushed from the deck above I Reported the second one and the ship's officer apologized for the Carelessness, but you thought enough of it to disappear. Oh, I certainly did instead of going to the police. Yes Oh, I suppose it was wrong, but you must understand I was desperate We'd better go down to the third floor. I I hope the police think more of your story than I do In 20 minutes room 317 really looked like a murder scene The place was swarming with New York's finest white wood fingerprint powder and blinding with flashboats The lieutenant to whom I made my statement looked as if he thought I was as crazy as I thought everybody else in the mess was But then he changed his mind Hey, where is that insurance thing? Here I am in the bathroom find a suicide note or something. What do you say that name was a man? Hicksus. Yeah Well, I guess there aren't too many ways to spell that one. So this must be it pill box Let me see that prescription from Alexandria. Dr. I'm in Hicksus. We'll put a tracer on that phone number. You took off and first thing in the morning Yeah Hey You're gonna take landed in for questioning. I guess we'd better routine. He's clear as far as I can see We'll do something with me. Will you have your doctors run a test of that plastic ass of his and call me in my room Huh a test for what? I'll just look it over. It would make a handy-blunt instrument of nothing else fancy got item three seven fifty a few late cocktails or a steak and coffee in the Brighton arms dining room After which I picked up an armful of extra additions so I could catch up and what I'd been doing I Self-operated my way to the 8th floor and started toward my room. I Was looking forward to a hot shower, but I didn't get it. I was still looking forward But into a familiar gun muzzle. This is the one guy. Oh, yes, mr. Dollar May I introduce myself sir Garrett Drummond at your service. Our meeting has been postponed too long Well, there's a difference of opinion on that you will please open your door How can I refuse that pint-sized invitation? You're still carrying? After you sir and I need to remind you that my friend here is prepared for any rash move on your part Look, I'm tired. I don't have a rash move left in me close the door. Amen. I Suggest that you sit there mr. Dollar in that on sightly straight-back chair. Thanks a lot And now sure I shall plunge right to the point. Where is that scoundrel Bruce Lambert? Well I think I just decided that I don't know we have no wish for violence. You always say that with a gun in your hand Well, let's get started you make your pitch. I'll make my refusal and we'll see where we go from there I have already made what I consider to be a generous offer for so one important to be the information as merely the Awareabouts of Lambert two thousand dollars, but if it will expedite matters I am prepared to expand my offer by another thousand on the spot Sir the higher you bid the greedier I guess What makes land that's so important a problem, which is entirely out of your province my boy How much do you know of Egyptian legends? Oh, no more than a dollar's worth The first needing subject well, sir Bruce Lambert has in his possession a certain object of great importance both culturally and economically Certain landowners in Egypt hold it in such high esteem, sir that as a reward for its return to them They would throw open to exploitation Untapped oil fields the richness of which would shake the very foundations of world economy. Are they shaky enough as it is my boy Think what it would mean to a civilization fast approaching the depletion of its petroleum sources new horizon, sir A brave new world Lambert owes to us all relinquishment of this object so it may serve humanity You're right And it may be easier than you think it's plenty sir. Where is it? Which relic is it the black statue your playmate could have picked up for free It is king a manumit scarab that I would discuss with Lambert. I demand to know where he is Why waste time on him? I've got the scarab Find that most difficult to believe mr. Dollar. I'll show no no no keep your hands away from your pockets Ammon will save you the trouble Ammon, please remain still mr. Dollar. My wish is for peacehood. Sure Right coat pocket. He speaks truly Garrett What's the matter Garrett you don't have that brave new world look anymore I should be the first to admit sir that the lie has been put to the tail I created upon this useless ski car But mr. Dollar now that we are forced to fall back upon the truth. I remind you that it sometimes hurts Your position has nothing the desk knows. I'm up here answered mr. Dollar But be cautious Unfortunately, I do not share Yeah Say was that a hunch you had about that cast of Lambert's what do you ask? The doctors won't let us take it off, but we cut into it It was put on in three layers The middle one was wrapped in our cuttics. Yeah, there must be 300,000 bucks worth No, sometimes it's a whole month before we get that much looks like the work of your friend dr. Ammon Hicks's yeah I'll wake up dollar. I want to check Lambert statement with yours. I'll have you there in 10 minutes. Goodbye Okay, then choose her upon your show of intelligence. Who was it? The police they're looking for Lambert. Oh, oh, and what did they give us their reason? narcotics The story of a man bound for America who cracked up in a car and while he was unconscious and being patched Said narcotics were put in his cast by a dr. Ammon Hicks's Probably assisted by a nurse named Marsha, but there's no proof. I'm on you waste no time on evasion Yes, we use the boy a courageous scheme, but for that silly goose of a girl She was the true conspirator and the traitor as well She happened to fall in love with a guy are the romantic Atlantic crossing an empty proposal of marriage suddenly becomes more important than actual Coin of the realm but enough of that the police are looking for him and Teeth so am I where is he? I don't know Ammon call us hotel and 39th Street. No wait my friend a police must be watching that Are they mr. Dower? Well, that's where his personal things are if I were the police. I'd be watching. Yes We seem to find ourselves in such a position that we must at least pretend to see eye to eye Very well. We should we tear the chips are down so to speak Ammon yes, got it take the pistol Into the bathroom with you with the door slightly a jar you shall have a splendid command of the arena as it were And remember Stakes are high Yes, I will remember now mr. Dower would seem that little remains but to waiting Drummond settled himself under bed facing the door his pudgy hands folded over his bulging waist I was still in the desk chair facing him Usual the police were late 20 minutes past before we heard the knock on the door Come we should go to the door together Keep your back to me. It's your party drummond Lambert not labored the police. I'm a shooting man. He's excruciating as his call for help The doctors report that his shoulder will be in a cast that as soon as the state of New York and gather a jury He will stand trial on the charge of first-degree murder the body of Ammon Hicks's was taken to the morgue As an insurance company, you are probably less interested in that than in the fate of your policy holder Bruce Lambert That's explained an expense account item for $280 hospital bill paid in advance and view of the possibility that there may be others interested in that $300,000 cash of narcotics he has to carry around with him until his arm is okay I thought it would be safer to keep him under wraps. Oh, by the way while he was lying there Helpless, I sold him a policy for you covering the scarer than that carved head expense account total $456.90 Yours truly Johnny dollar Johnny dollar stars Edmund O'Brien in the title role and is written by Paul Dudley and Gildowd with music by Leith Stevens Edmund O'Brien can currently be seen starring in Harry M. Popkins United Artists production D.O.A Featured in our cast where Virginia Greg, Jane Avello, Ed Begley, John Daener and Pat McGeehan Yours truly Johnny dollar is produced and directed by Jaime Del Valle Join us again next week when Edmund O'Brien returns in another adventure of yours truly Johnny dollar $54,000 is burning a little old hole in that little old jackpot of sing it again this week Just waiting for somebody to light up the right answer and drop the cash and prizes in his lap or her lap Dan Seymour gives the gals the same chance He gives the fellas when he starts putting in those calls from coast to coast So be listening this Saturday when singing again and the $54,000 Phantom boys come your way on most of these same CBS stations This program was transcribed in Hollywood Roy Rowan speaking This is CBS where yours truly Johnny dollar meets adventure every Friday night the Columbia broadcasting system