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Well, what's so different about that chief? Do you remember Clark Kirby Kirby or that Engineer friend of yours. Yeah, he's working on a practical economical method of converting seawater into freshwater now think of it Fresh water in limitless quantities Every desert on earth turned into fertile soil. Oh sure can I know but what's that got to do with this sea monster business? I just got rid of him Kirby. He says the experiments are progressing well He sure is on the right track only now. He's afraid that as he puts it Some unbelievable fantasy might put an end to the entire project unbelievable fantasy now. Wait a minute, Ken Where's Kirby making these experiments? That's what I chief in Kangaroo Bay, Australia I never thought I'd make it. Hey, what are you doing here? Miss Brooks at the Bureau? She just happened to let slip you were going on a trip. I'll relax. This is one time You're not going with me. Mr. Thurston. I just thought you maybe could use this movie camera What makes you think I want a movie camera? Oh Justin ID Mr. Thurston, have you heard from your old friend Clark Kirby recently? He writes every now and then Maybe you saw this thing in the morning paper all about some kind of a sea monster down in Kangaroo Bay, Australia What are you driving at Pagon? Well, he happened to be going down under to visit mr. Kirby and we're wondering maybe about the sea monster I guess you could tell if it was a fake or not if I took some movie pictures You might have something there if you have the price of affair to Australia. Well, do you see my oldest dearest? Yeah, that's what I thought so long Pagon. I have to pick up my reservations. Well, don't bother mr. Thurston. I picked them up for you. I See two tickets for Brisbane, Australia charge to my account. They are Now, how do you suppose that stupid ticket agent made such a mistake? Oh, well, shall we get aboard? Hey, what a joint nobody's around not even kangaroos thought you sent a wire from Brisbane. So Kirby would meet us. I did Something must have held him up at the laboratory Let's see with a phone in that tobacco shop across the street Now yourself rather warm to be daydreaming in the middle of the square, isn't it? Well, perhaps you're just lost Can I help? Maybe you can We're looking for transportation Why anyone would want to travel around this ghastly place? I can't imagine but I'll be happy to give you a lift That'll be appreciated. I'm Margaret Williams. My name's Ken first, and I'm Pagan zelschmitt That handles the proprietors nicely hop in. Thanks. You want to know where we're going? That's hardly necessary Oh, there are only two places to go the desert or the cove of kangaroo Bay. You're hardly the desert type Well, thanks Americans a naturally can't you tell by our accents? Americans should come down here I'll never know with New York to live in Paris in London only an overnight trip away Why mr. Thurston just visiting an old friend of mine Clark Kirby Clark Kirby you know him miss Williams Are you another fool dreaming of turning sea into fresh water? I didn't know that only fools dreamt of then there's nothing sensible about wasting a fortune trying to bring dead land back to life When the money might be better spent in enjoying life that's Available I'd call it a rather short-sighted attitude call it what you will If you want my advice you turn right back for the states in a particular reason for saying this yes, mr. Thurston, you made your trip for nothing last night Clark Kirby was drowned in kangaroo Bay Laboratory pig on boy with a gloom-looking place nothing happening here, but seagulls Are you going in there? Yeah? Take the camera down to that code Shoot some test film of the Bay Maybe we'll get some shots of that sea monster to make the trip worthwhile. Okay, mr. Thurston. I'll meet you later Stand right where you are, please You always greet guests this way who are you? What do you want here? My name's Ken Thurston, and I'd like a little hospitality Without firearms in Thurston Clark Kirby's friend. That's right. I'm sorry mr. Thurston, please come in I am George Llewellyn Clark Kirby's associate here Please pardon the melodramatics, but I too have no desire to be murdered murdered I thought Kirby had drowned while he went for a swim in the bay. It was a strong swimmer Yet he made only one dive and never came up his body hasn't been recovered. That doesn't spell murder Llewellyn No, I Guess not but after all the trouble we've had here that the possibility our laboratory might close I I guess I just can't think straight any longer Suppose you tell me a little more about it. Didn't Clark write to you about Lee Williams Lee Williams Who's he is a very wealthy man first and he's the one who's financing our laboratory here any relation to Margaret Williams She's Lee's niece his only heir The one person who's liable to put an immediate end to our experiments Well, how could she do that by getting her uncle declared mentally incompetent by the courts because she feels he's squandering money That's rightfully hers on these experiments Surely she isn't getting anywhere on that basis. No, but Lee is elderly. His mind's not as keen as it once was So when there's sea monster story, I was wondering enough when that was coming out Lee Williams is the only one who claims to have seen it. No one else has I see and Margaret figures that his fantastic story or hallucination may be the final proof she needs exactly Certainly one more insert of any kind involving him would be enough That would mean this laboratory would be closed and it can't be thirsty and we're too close I commit murder myself to keep it going What happened captain, how'd you get that wound it was a boomerang the well and boomerang yes Coming here from my house someone someone tried to kill me. You have any idea who it was captain But I'm sure it was Lee Williams Think for the code of any way captain mouth first now. I wanted to hear more about that attack Well, I've told you all I can no reason for it. I know of I was figured old Lee was a good friend still do for that matter That's my place now hear that inlet How'd you happen to settle down here to retire captain seemed like a pretty lonely spot? Oh spot of dry land is too lonely for a man who's been sailing for 30 years Now I have a little oyster bed down there keeps me busy Vinus eating oysters and this side of the equator So quiet and peaceful here or was until the last few days. Yeah Too bad about Kirby was a fine man Only hope the well and can carry on I'd like to see those experiments work. It's a great thing. I didn't know you were interested in captain The first in my days at sea I've known too many men who've died of thirsts and untrinkable water stretching to the horizon all around now That's a pretty good reason for having an interest best. I know Well, I'll be saying goodbye now Drop around to my dick and any time like to shoot breeze with you. Bye best Goodbye captain big on What are you doing hiding behind those rocks? Watching a crazy man. That's what crazy man. Sure. Look at him over there Staring it out at the ocean like it was a chorus girl or something and he keeps muttering about that sea monster a real screwball That must be Lee Williams. Let's have a talk. Good evening. Mr. Williams. Oh good. Good evening, sir You you haven't seen it. Have you see why the sea monster? No, mr. Williams. No, I haven't but someone has to see it Someone besides me. I I have to prove that it rarely exists. Do you understand or do you do think? I'm crazy. I wouldn't say that tell me What does a sea monster look like oh it it must have been over a hundred feet long Undulating like a snake a ferocious head with with horns that could go around to death like a vicious bull It was just this time of day Twilight some 50 yards out to see 50 yards out But it's getting so dark you can hardly see even that log that just was for sure. It could be anything. It could be a it could be Mr. X That's no longer. Let's go over there Mr. Thurston it It's a dead man. Yes, big on That's the body of Clark Kirby But what happened to him? He looks like he was He was gored to death maybe by a boo or by yes, my friend Exactly or by some strange monster of the sea Just a moment we returned a frigid airs man called X created by J. 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He found Clark dead His body gorge as though by a ferocious bull or some monster of the sea Now later that night Ken is in the laboratory talking with George Llewellyn Kirby's associate when the door opens Shelter from the tears of the night your dramatic possess little humor Margaret come in I trust you take more delight in my presence than George does Mr. Perston. Why so happy this evening Miss Williams Why haven't you heard about my uncle's little boomerang throwing party the attack on Captain Malquist? Well, why are we so elated about that? Who would suddenly and without provocation attack anyone with a boomerang unless the attacker were insane? Insane not just a moment. You can take your breath George between sea monsters and homicidal attacks I'm afraid Lee Williams is totally incompetent to handle his affairs Constable's looking for him now to place him in custody and what happens to the laboratory if you take over the estate You know the answer to that mr.. Thurston There'll be no more money thrown away on ridiculous experiments like this one There's nothing ridiculous about wastelands being made fertile about fields of grain replacing rocks and sand Foolish greens mr.. Thurston not nearly as practical as mine Paris London, New York living the way I want to live No, you can forget about this laboratory And now on its Margaret Williams first and flowers blooming in the desert behind Only a minute captain I just wanted to tell you that Lee Williams is going to be arrested Because of that attack on you last night why that's nonsense mr.. Thurston I won't press charges against him. I didn't think you would but Margaret Williams will oh the insanity hearings again. That's right She thinks that attack will be the clinching argument. Yes, perhaps it will and she'll have the money and Clark Kirby's dream Well, there's nothing we can do about it. I See you quite a collection of mother-of-pearl articles captain. Yes. I make them mr. Thurston Knife handles buckles keeps a man busy during the off-season now now This one here just finished it yesterday The sea serpent with a horned head. Yes. I made it from poor Lee's description What do you think about that? Did he really see it? Your guess is as good as mine. Oh Something like that could have gored Kirby to death. Couldn't it? If there was any way to prove it or maybe that would be proof that Lee isn't crazy after all good theory captain except for one thing Kirby was not God to death. What the autopsy shows the horn wounds were superficial Death was caused by a blow in the head No sea monster killed Kirby. He was murdered But who goes swimming at seven o'clock in the morning mr. X I never heard of such a thing that water looks like liquid ice What do you care? I'm going in your nose. Sure, but the very thought of diving into that stuff gives my goose pimples Just keep your eyes open. I Want to learn what Clark Kirby run into and I don't want any trouble from above the water. Don't worry mr. X. I'll keep my Clark Kirby is this the place you took a dive. That's right. So watch it How can you do things like that? The spot where the body is buried Oh miss williams don't say things like that. Yeah, and where did you come from? I came down here looking for my uncle. He seems to have disappeared I thought he might be down here trying to see that imaginary monster of him That story smells like fish to me mr. Sessions coming up now and as soon as he Hey, what's going on there? He's not coming up. He's fighting something under the water under the water Hey, the sea monster maybe do something you idiot. He'll drown down there Only if I know only had a gun or something come up I can't look save your tears pay gone Succession you you're all right. Yeah Hello Margaret come down to watch the fun. What happened down there mr. Veston something came out of a bed of grass behind me Didn't see it but whatever it was You make quite a bump on the head before it left and that's what happened to Clark Kirby not quite He didn't come up again. You remember However, I've learned enough to take your advice this Williams I'm going back to Brisbane Pagan's alchemy speaking. Hello Pagan. Mr. Sessions. Are you still in Brisbane? Yeah, that's why just what happens I left practically nothing that screwball Lee Williams is still missing and so is my exposed movie film some no good crook stole all of it Yeah, I know look Pagon I'm coming back tonight Have Margaret Williams And Captain Malgrist at the laboratory what do you want them for they got I'm going to show them the worst monster they ever No one forced you to come Margaret. Mr. Lou Ellen's right, baby must be pretty interested in what mr. Thurston is going to spill And from what I've seen of this person. He'll not be wasting our time when he shows up. Perhaps captain. Don't worry Lou Ellen I won't waste it. Oh Mr. Thurston I see you got here. All right everything set. Oh sure the movie projection machines already fine put this Wheel of film on William. It's good as good. Mr. Thurston. Come on in mr. Williams No, oh Williams himself My host in Brisbane these past few days how sweet of him and he's going to prove to all of you that I am not insane Isn't that right mr. Thurston? It's quite right. I see no examining board of the Tiatris with you. All I need is to show you a few feet of film ready Pagon everything is high as early mr. Thurston. Good Then turn off the lights we get started That's the film of that Cove along kangaroo day, isn't it? Hey sure is that's the film I shot the stuff Some dirty crook stole from me. Nobody stole it. I Took it to Brisbane for processing. I might say it hardly seems worthwhile light for photography rather amateurish Let's go take on shot that film near Twilight the villain the same hour of the day that Lee Williams was wondering near the Cove The same hour of the day he looked out toward the sea and saw something something strange weird swimming out there in that haze Something that looked like it might be There it is He's right there is nothing out there. Thank God. It's like a snake a huge snake swimming out at sea. All right, Pagon Stop the projector turn on the lights They are right on the film. Just as I thought that evening the rest of you sort to Didn't you? Yes, they saw it mr. Williams, but I didn't take no pictures of anything like that Of course you didn't it was all a trick admitted mr. Thurston. It was a trick wasn't it? Yeah, it was a trick But I proved that the Williams didn't have to be insane to see a sea monster He saw what all of you just did a herd of sea cows see cows. He's serious. That's right women There was no travel on shot of a bullmanatee leading his herd It was processed with Pagon shots of the bay and those eight creatures swimming single file Seen at a distance in twilight like one giant sea serpent. I should have thought that myself In the many times and you have to be that might explain my uncle's hallucinations Mr. Thurston, but it doesn't explain Clark Kirby's death or the attack made on you and the coal No, Margaret another kind of monster was responsible for those One that walks on two feet that sounds strangely like some human being you're referring to If you can call anyone human who killed Kirby tried to kill me and was willing to destroy an experiment that could open new errors of prosperity for the entire world and Just to preserve a secret Mr. Best Must be very valuable one valuable. That depends on how you look at it judge for yourselves Mr. Thurston, that's the pearl you trust in the table. Yes, take on a pearl The answer to the secret that Kirby discovered There's a fabulous pearl oyster bed lying in the cove of Prangaroo Bay Isn't there Captain Malchrist? You'll never prove it Yes, Margaret my old friend everything he did even to faking that boomerang attack Is to close the laboratories so that he had the cove all to himself But how did you know thirsty his mother pearl handiwork gave him away? Thick layers like that have found only in pearl building oysters, and it took someone with a diving rig to stage those underwater attacks So there wasn't any seam under after all no But there was something else I'm even more frightening Malchrist would have denied the world a chance to live in security Would have sacrificed the future of millions to satisfy his own personal greed You know Pagon No sea monster ever conceived as a brain of man can be as frightening as a monstrous As a man whose soul is possessed by greed Robert Marshall will return just a moment Frigidaire's man called X has presented each week with the best wishes of your frigidaire dealer Invite you to come in and learn about the famous line of frigidaire electric appliances refrigerators, rangers, water heaters, home freezers, the new automatic washer, dryer, ironer, and many other Frigidaire refrigerating and air conditioning product for homes, farms, stores, offices and factories. Mr. Niles How does the Frigidaire electric range compare with Frigidaire refrigerator? Lady, it's just as good at making things good to eat as the Frigidaire refrigerator is at keeping things good to eat It's fast. It's easy to use. It's a beauty. I hope you'll see it soon at your Frigidaire dealers And our Frigidaire star Herbert Marshall Saturday, September 18th has been designated as Air Force Day in recognition of the first anniversary of the Air Force as an independent arm The celebration reminds America that air power is peace power and stresses the importance of air power in this nation's security program We salute the Air Force Thanks for being with us next week Dangerous Island, a story of science and murder. As usual, Leon Balask will be along as Pagan Zelschner So join us won't you. Next I return to the man called X. Good night Frigidaire's man called X is directed by D. Engelbach The music composed and conducted by Johnny Green Tonight's story was written by Marie Zim and Sydney Marshall Don't until next week, same time, same station This is Wendell Niles speaking for Frigidaire made only by General Vokers All characters and incidents used on this program are fictitious Any resemblance to actual persons is a CVS to Columbia, broadcast in September