 My name's Jeff Regan. I get ten a day and expenses from a detective girl run by a guy named lion Anthony J. Lion They call me the lion's eye Jack Webb starred as Jeff Regan investigators stand by for trouble suspense and adventure in tonight's story of the man who liked the mountain Well, this is the way it started It was about six o'clock last Monday night. I Was home cooling myself off when the phone began jumping around on top of the desk I'm out you can't find me Melody you can tell me all about it tomorrow morning. So long Look, I worked hard all day. I'm tired Building right by your place Name of Colin's night Colin's night what rock did you look under for him? And gets himself disbarred and re-entered and tied up with every piece of gambling from here to Reno Colin's night attorney at law's half building turned out to be a medium-sized man about 50 Loud tan sport coat and black and white polka dot tie The good tailoring on his shoulders didn't cover up that 45 year old stomach, but it didn't seem to bother him Smiled when I walked in his office pulled out a bottle of bonded stuff and a couple of tall glasses Don't really make yourself comfortable Say when When I'm a forefinger man, too. I don't use them. Do you don't mind if I do I want you to find a big head kid Been missing three days according to his wife From pictures. I've seen a big yet. He'd be a hard man to miss now I figure the same way Regan, but he's been gone for three days and I think someone's either cooled him off or he's lamb Why do you think somebody cooled him? Oh Man like they get bound to have a lot of enemies for one reason or another Why do you think he lambs for one reason or another? Friend or enemy these I just know the guy one of my people. I handle a couple things for a wife. It's worried about him. I Didn't know people like big-head headwives. Well, they do at least that does and a darn cute little girls. He is I know Yes, they're pretty little girl. Tell me about him. He's gone. What about his wife where he meet her Wendy Marrier? I gotta have something I don't Well, I'll have to see her. Okay see her You don't much care whether I find bigger than I do you know Thanks for the drink Are you uh, don't like me do you Regan? No, most people don't So long shammers keep in touch The name on the door said mr. And mrs. Edward titridge Was a clean door and a clean hall with a nice new carpet on the third floor of an apartment house over on Franklin I Figured a hundred bucks and up the back pretty Red hair the mahogany kind green eyes 24 maybe But she could look 16 just coming off the beach and wearing those gold sandals. Yes, miss Kittred Hi, my name is Kittred My name is Regan. I'm a private detective Collins night hired me said your husband's missing come in I told him I'd want to talk to you Okay, if I sit down I'm sorry Can you tell me anything about him his friend business? You ever heard a big-head Kittred? Oh, yeah, he's been around makes the papers now, man You know what kind of friends he might have What about his business? I love to regan. I was hopping cars in Glendale three years ago The movie contract they brought me out from Iowa to keep wasn't anything more than a lot of talk and I had to eat One day a big man come in a weighted on him big yet. Yeah After that he kept coming in Again going out with him When he asked me to marry him. I married him. I didn't ask him what he did for a living. I always spend his time He was good to me. He's always been good to me Now he's gone. Mm-hmm He's never been going more than five hours into a marriage You give me everything done everything for me, then you don't ask questions. I don't ask questions, but There's one thing yeah, yeah Partner here's a man named Ackman was here two nights ago. That was the night Ed left. He never come back Ackman. Yeah There was my kitchen. I was in the bedroom. I thought I heard him quarrel and when I came out Ackman had his hat in his hand He was leaving Ed went with him Mm-hmm read it Yeah, I see Anything's happened to him you think he's all right I think you want to tell me the truth what all the pictures I seen in the paper a big ed Kid who drove a big man with a pipe in his face I don't think he pipe racks around here, but I see where they might have been Why are you and if I went to that closet, I wouldn't find any Ed's clothes around here either now come on Tell me about that argument. All right, you win paper the same thing. We've been arguing about for three years He drinks too much. He plays the horses too much. Yeah, besides he sucked me I finally got set up Go on the gal only now you want him back. Why just long enough to save him some divorce papers and get a property settlement I thought it'd be something like that. Oh, no, wait a minute bring women but actually I wasn't lying You hate that even if they are pardoned Some of them the old days Action walked in when Ned me was having a knockdown. He saw it all You wanted a bump it you could do it to my fix it so it look like I done it. He's a kind You think you'd make a good witness? X-men's a smart guy my It's a dormant and the clerk down there. They heard Ed me arguing We get kind of loud. Ah, I might have said some about killing Ed She'll make me look sick if Ed turned up dead somewhere Yeah wood You're gonna help me. I'm already hired lady Thanks I put on that act Are you're pretty good? Wrong process. Oh, I'd try that studio again if I were you yeah That bunch of slog they would give no gallop break, maybe you're right You ain't bad for people well, this is all over. Let's do me. Have a drink somewhere, huh? Yeah Like to meet a nice guy a real nice guy just one Two minutes later in front of the apartment house I was lighting a cigarette and thinking over what I need This is you just told me when a soft hand belonging to the soft arm body and face of a little thug I knew named Louis Pacheco settled on my arm All right punk, what is it? I've been waiting for you again. Yeah, then with big-edge wife, huh? Nice dish, huh? I've seen it. Yeah, I got some business with you Regan. Yeah. Yeah You're looking for big Ed Kitteridge, ain't you? Maybe yeah, then I could tell you something to help All right, go on tell me ah ah now without you give me something to trouble How much can you tell me? Ah, maybe what big it is Okay, five Tell somebody else vote yourself punk. Yeah, wait a minute Wait a minute Regan. Well, he shagged up the mountain town. Yeah Has a place up there called hideaway. You're not many people know about it. Not even his wife Yeah, he went up with a guy named Aksman three days ago. It's got some slot machines and stuff like that up around there That all yeah, that's enough for you gum shoe Okay, here Keep it. I don't need your lousy saw-buck. Keep it your children's cheapskate I don't care what kind of people are involved. I told you that before and I'm telling you again They play rough let him do it just so we get paid. All right fatso then get yourself somebody else to take over I quit No, no, no just a minute Regan just a minute Let's not fly off the handle about this thing. I'll be hasty. There are a bunch of bums in you know it. Well Now perhaps I was a bit indiscreet accepting a client like Collins Knight with his reputation all that it isn't only him It's the man I'm supposed to find and his friend Aksman and anybody else who knows now Jeffrey I'm sure that a man of your talent could locate Ed Kittredg without any trouble For all Jeffrey you dealt with people like this before and always handled it admirably Very admirably, I don't like it Knight hires me to find big Ed Kittredg only doesn't care whether I find him or not big Ed's wife only wants to find him So she can slap a court order on him and both of them tell me that big Ed might be dead Well, now let's not jump at their conclusions Jeffrey After admit the whole thing looks fishy Jeffrey I Want you to find big Ed Kittredg just who she can look I just told you that I know I know but the fact of the matter is I Have an agreement with Knight in writing you have what you know what kind of a man he is He's very tricky. He could close into national if we don't stay on this case If you don't stay on the case Okay, you win Thank you, Jeffrey. Thank you Spences of course of course drive up to Mountain Town might find big Ed up there. Mm-hmm Be careful Jeffrey be careful and oh don't give me that phony line about calling it. I reckon yeah Call me if you run into any trouble I Hear pilgrim. Hmm. This is it That's black place over there's the lake and that's black place over there Happens round the lake no one round the town Fill her up. Yeah, fill her up. We're gonna get some coffee I've been driving half the night 30 feet to your right and inside the door. Jane. He'll fix you up. We're open all night Thanks, no trouble. No trouble at all. You better look at that oil flat to tires and water glad to And move it if you want to I'll be in getting coffee. Don't worry Don't get enough business at one in the morning to stay open Hey Hey Kind of like that for I thought you was ease. I didn't know it was a customer. Who's he? He's holding the rent the station What's yours What's my what name? Well as long as they're being formal it's Regan Jeff Regan. Oh You're Janie. Well, hey, how'd you know that? He he told you Well, hey, how about some coffee Janie? Oh sure sure You've been traveling for Los Angeles Right here You don't tell me you're gonna be here this summer Little while well I'm often an hour. I got a little cabin on other side of the lake. That's nice too much fishing Thank you Yes, I am No, thanks. I'll take it black And what you gonna do here look for a man Yes Say what man? You might be able to help me Janie cottage called hideaway man named Kittridge They get Kittridge your friend of his Cars already cars already from thanks Janie, don't you think you ought to go see how the fire is doing? Fire make one Righty for right The girl takes a job Janie's too friendly. I like friendly people Keep the car here. Will you hmm? I'm looking for a hideaway cottage. I don't see any road going around the lake there I guess I'll have to hope it hideaway He's sure of the lake About half a mile from here. You're right. There's no road. You'll have to walk. Thanks. Don't mention it pilgrim Don't mention it Now the cottage turned out to be an all-white phony log cabin affair. I Pound it on the door. Nobody answers. There was a sick kind of oil lamp burning inside So I found out on the door some more and some more people didn't answer it when I put my hand on the latch The door opened people are no people so I went in Well, you can believe this or not, but somebody was there right in front of the fireplace only was dead One whole side of his head was dark and shiny It was still warm Nope, you're wrong It wasn't big-head Kittridge. This was a man. 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You'll be glad you did And now back to the story of the man who liked the mountain and Jeff Regan investigator I stood there and looked at what was left of whoever he was Wasn't anything in his pocket labels cut off his suit no laundry mark And I began looking around for a poker or a hammer or something What I found was a heavy piece of kindling wood and one end of it was stained And I heard somebody come in the door. I saw striped overalls flashlight and 45 Colt revolver held by E. Fulton. Uh-huh Mm-hmm, I looked at the dead man looked at me looked at the piece of wood in my hand Dead Yeah And do you Never saw him before in my life I did Yeah, he's Axman Tom Axman friend of big Ed Kitteridge friend. Why'd you kill him? I'll just take your gun Mm-hmm Say for this way you always wrap a gun in a handkerchief only when I want to keep finger So it's that way, uh-huh it's that way You kill him You did There was a big fight You can't them with that piece of wood then shot him in the head. I saw it my gun my bullet That's pretty neat, but he was still killed with this who's gonna be able to tell a good corner We got a lousy corner up here. He don't know from nothing That makes me the fall guy you're it pilgrim Let's go find ourselves a cop if wave his gun at me and I started ahead of him for the door Oh, he was good at doing frame ups and he was good at running things But he was only an amateur when it came to pushing a man with a gun I Waited to feel it in my back by the time I got to the door. It was there and that was his mistake I shoved him up against the wall He didn't drop the gun before he could do anything. I was running for the black place that he told me was the lake I ran till I was out of breath Me Hey, listen, he's looking everywhere for you. I know I know you killed a man Tom Axman over in Kitteridge's cabin No, you didn't kill him. I know that. Yeah Come on. We can't talk here. Someone will see us. This is my place Boy, I got some things to tell you Mr. Regan. I don't like this place. I don't like people holding on like anything It's been going on You got to get out of here get out fast Come on in. I quit my job tonight. I didn't want to get mixed up in any of this any of what this killing and She I don't know what all I'm gonna pull the curtain In here you say, you know, I didn't kill Axman how well I've been working in Mountain Town couple of weeks now I think a lot of screwy things like what I keep holding he works for Big Ed Kitteridge and Big Ed ain't no saint Have you seen Big Ed? He drove up a couple of nights with that Tom Axman. I think it He's been drinking a lot and they both talk a lot these and Big Ed and Axman went over to cabin I didn't think anything of it till they didn't show up for something decent next morning. Ain't nothing even a captain that helps Janey go on Well, he's been going up around that mountain taking a look every day for no reason at all Yeah, sure he has but when he isn't looking at the mountain scared Look, mr. My jalapes out in back from filling station take me with you I'll tell everything I heard and seen it and we can let some cops figure out all that What's that? Was a hand firing a gun at her figured to be my gun I hit the oil lamp and went down to the floor and I heard somebody outside in the porch I crawled in the dark till I found a wall and a window it wouldn't open so I took half it with me Come here you I look punk. I just drove 85 miles and 100 minutes seven o'clock in the morning And I haven't been to bed all night I saw one dead man and one woman made it easy on that stuff Some of your playmates up in Mountain Town trying to make sure that I get hooked with it now wait a minute Start talking punk wait a minute. What do you want me to say? I don't know nothing about no stiffs in All right somebody like you come siding up to me and tells me where to find my man and doesn't take five bucks for it That means he's already got dough That's friggin. I'm the only give you a dough for work Regan you know I wouldn't mix up and I'll kill him. I can't stand that kind of thing punk Who paid you to tell me to go to Mountain Town? Who paid you to send me up there and make a patsy out of me? I'll tell you Regan. I'll tell you It was night the lawyer. Yeah, yeah Colin's night. He's let me fit you to pay me and give you the dope nice I might have known go on. That's all honest. That's all there is to it I tell you over the big heads apart and you talk to his wife and you know the rest I tell you why You know, I never asked any question. I just do what I get paid for Nobody ever let me in on something big. I didn't know it was no frame Okay Listen if night ever finds out I told you shut up What are you gonna do? Hi Regan? Hard night He made me tell him. He made me tell him tonight. Sure Don't worry about it. I got up early Regan kind of figured you'd be looking up the punk here He found from Mountain Town said you lambed out on him twice Pretty tough boy, aren't you? Yeah, punk buy yourself something and forget you ever saw Regan, okay? Oh sure sure sure mr. Night sure Okay, Regan, let's get going Got a long drive out of it. I'll be able to drive it blindfolded someday someday I'm still your passage. Mm-hmm. I take you back there and we call a cop Come on people are getting anxious Well, you can't say I didn't find my man Even if I did find him sitting in that same cabin with a couple of corpses on the floor Big Ed Kittridge Needed to shave. He was sitting there looking at Ackman's body and Janie I guess if it brought her over from her place He was there to holding my gun against big Ed's back We're still wrapped in that handkerchief night. I thought you'd never get here. Come on. Let's get this over with I don't be nervous Eve And I want you to meet Jeff Regan He killed you. Hi your boy. You're the fall guy, huh? When you find it, well, I said I find him at the punk Still using my gun to kill people not quite finished pilgrim to down One to go very easy to figure. I'm next to yeah, sorry Ed has to be business Me and he for takeover where you and Ackman leave off. Hey boy We're gonna let him rub me out and pin all this on you. We're gonna do something about it Take it easy Ed. I think we ought to do something about it watching me Oh Big Ed was good Stopped the first two slugs from Eve's gun And the first two out of night by that time I got a hold of a poke and I brought it into night's face Be the kind of second went down without a sound And I looked around big Ed was twisting the gun from Eve's hand blood pouring Where's your phone around here? I'll get you doc Yeah, that's all bone gonna help me save yourself a trouble never knew they burned like it. What's your name? Regan, I'm a private detective with international Lion still run that dump. Yeah, he does. Oh Bombay night. How you'd find me? Yeah, that's the other you anyhow. Look Regan, I done you a favor Thanks, it's a deal for me. You're in sure. I got a wife named. I know that matter really look good Tell her I wasn't so right. I didn't really leave it. I Just came up here to let it cool off. I Kind of like the mountain It's why I had a place Sure, I'll tell her this is a bug in it. I'm here Ed Yeah Yeah The buck says lines won't give you no bonus for it Called the sheriff who had a face like a boiled beet. He listened to the whole thing and Then we kind of pieced it out together You see the day I got there big Ed killed axman I guess they got him to some kind of an argument and Ed picked up a piece of kindling one About that time Eve Holton showed up and saw what had happened and he figured he had something Oh, he pulled a gun on Ed and stuck him in a cellar somewhere Then he phoned night down in Los Angeles. It was a good chance for night and needs to take over So they figured to kill Ed and get a fall guy for both murders me Didn't come out quite that way You've had to kill Jeannie to All with my gun You know the rest Oh lion cash night check. He was happy Hey, that sheriff up there's going to call you for the corners in Chris this afternoon. Yeah, I know technical charge a manslaughter Yeah, they're clear you in a couple of hours. Yeah So big Ed liked the mountain today Imagine that big Hey, where you going? Remember you got to be up in Mountain Town this afternoon. I'll be there I got a govind see big Ed's wife first. He asked me to tell her something big Ed's wife. That's right Forget it Regan. She's glad he's dead same as everybody else I'm going over to see big Ed's wife. Why do you want to go sticking your nose back into it because Ed was dying? And he asked me to do it lots of guys ask for lots of screwy things when they're dying They wouldn't bring them up unless they were sure they didn't have to stick around and see what had happened Make sense Make sense Where you going? Over to see big Ed's wife Time in our nation's history has been more important to develop an outstanding army medical department Without an adequate nurse corps, this can't be accomplished and nurses are still needed to fill the estimated requirements for 1948 If you are a graduate registered nurse over 21 and under 45 You're invited to apply for a commission in the army nurse corps reserve If you are selected you may choose either active duty or inactive status apply to the adjutant general Washington 25 DC Back web is starred as Jeff Regan with Wilms Herbert as Anthony J. Lyon It's CBS same time next week for hard-boiled action and mystery with Jeff Regan investigator Also heard on tonight's program was Jeff Chandler Betty Lou garson Edgar Barrier William Conrad Sydney Miller and Laurette Philbram Jeff Regan investigator is written by E. 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