 From Hollywood it's time now for Johnny dollar Randy singer Johnny. How you feeling? Thanks to you and having got me here pretty good I'll be released within the hour so my friend and I'm going down to the glad hand rescue mission to straighten out a few things with Deadly bill sounds to me like it ought to be police business Johnny. I'll be right over. No, no, let me handle this alone You got your gun. You bet you're a sweet life. I have Johnny. I'll report to you later Tonight and every weekday night Bob Bailey in the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. That's truly Johnny dollar Expense account submitted by special investigator Johnny dollar location New York City to the Lakeside Life and Casualty Company Following is an accounting of expenditures incurred during my investigation of the indestructible Mike matter Item 16 190 cab fare for Mike Flynn and myself Bellevue Hospital to the dingy Hotel Brickley Both of his head are heads still swathed in bandages With the help of the room clerk I installed Mike in a small room on the fifth floor with instructions to keep his door locked In my own room room 203. I picked up my 38 and on the old clothes. I'd bought Item 17 55 cents taxi to the neighborhood of the glad hand rescue mission for obvious reasons I walked the last couple of blocks When I got there the big front assembly room was empty So was the soup kitchen in the back of the place I called daddy Bill's name a couple of times and got no answer and Finally decided to wait for him in the little room back at the assembly hall that he used for an office I Still felt a little shaky from the blow on the head so I didn't mind just sitting a while But I left the door open a crack and a few minutes later heard the street door open. It wasn't daddy Bill But I recognized him as a newcomer to the mission whom I'd seen on my first visit He made directly for the little office Well, you ain't daddy Bill sir. Oh Do you know where he is? I was shopping at least that's where he say he was going Didn't I see you in here the other day? Yes, sir. I guess you did. My name is Emory. I just rid the rods in from Ohio Boy, I had to I got myself in a jam back that it Yeah, I guess I just got me too much muscle But they won't catch up with me here daddy Bill promised me that See I should have known what you wasn't him in here. Oh Sure, he said he wouldn't be back for another hour You plan to wait for him sure do he promised me a job I wouldn't money on it enough money. He said it gets clear out the country and he'd help me do it Doesn't this take you funny bud that a guy running a place like this would help you skip the country? Man when you're like me and you get a helping hand you just don't ask no questions You see Mike Mike Flynn. Yeah, he come back. No, why daddy bill left me a package for him for him or Johnny if they come back here Well, I'm Johnny. Well here. I'll get it right outside the door here Yes, sir. Look at you say it and Maybe you let me have some here see I'll take it Lick it did you say that's what he said? Let's open huh? No, no hands off. Look here man Oh Mike always shares this stuff with lefty skill Lefty skillman it was lefty who'd run us down with a truck whose body was found on the river Lefty one of daddy Bill's poor Unfortunates here at the mission Things were beginning to add up and this package left for Mike and me Liquor he said but it didn't curgle Henry listen to me sure Johnny, but not get this package. I'm taking it with me back to the Waldorf Waldorf, yeah, that's right. That's where I'm staying. Don't let these clothes for you Thought there was something funny about you the way you talk so fine You a dick never mind if daddy bill wants me. That's where I'll be Old Mike. He won't find because I got him in room 203 at the breakley hotel room 203 forget it. He's still recovering from that accident shouldn't be disturbed. He's all doped up anyway That's why I took him to the breakley where nobody will find him Yeah, room I said forget about that room 203 if daddy bill wants me tell him to call me at the Waldorf Item 18 10 cents phone call from a booth in the street to sergeant Randy singer Item 19 five bucks even for a fast but gentle taxi ride to the 18th precinct where Randy had promised to have the lab boys Alerted for me. Is this it Johnny? Yeah, handle it softly Okay, you're gonna stick around. I'm going back to the breakley to To make sure Mike is all right and I'll look here John call the Waldorf for me Get me registered there and struck the desk that if there are any calls for me I'm eating lunch or something and it'll be back in my room and say an hour do it. I'll see you later Item 19 taxi back to the breakley hotel to the service entrance in the alley For five bucks the freight elevator operator swore he tell no one he'd seen me take the back stairs to room 203 My room not Mike's as I told emory at the mission room click. That's right. This is Johnny dollar and 203 Listen listen carefully if the police call me put them through very well to anyone else who calls it comes looking for me I'm not here. I never was here. You never heard of me understand. Oh, yes indeed, mr. Dollar We've worked with police and private investigators before okay, but if anybody wants to know about Mike Flynn I want Flynn. Yeah, the old bum. I had you put in the room up on the fifth floor Oh, yes, if anybody asked for him tell him. He's in this room 203. Oh very well. You sure you got that straight. Yes, sir Time was on my side. I hoped emory back at the mission It said daddy bill wouldn't return for an hour, but I couldn't be sure As quickly as I could I spilled a half bottle of whiskey around the room and I hope it would give the effect Oh, Mike was there then I pulled on all the shades and drew the drapes tight across the windows I turned on the bed and must have the covers so it would be ready for me My watch said I still had time to kill so I ran upstairs to Mike's room on the fifth and carrying a fifth Bless my soul Johnny and look what you brought me on one condition Mike Oh, yes, Joe anything you saw you've been so good to me I want you to promise that no matter what happens You'll stay right here in this room until I come back why of course Johnny of anything you say Especially now that you brought me this bottle of the kind of keep me company Say wouldn't you like a little nip before you go? No, no, thanks. So and keep this door locked now You're sure you wouldn't like just one no, I hate to think of me having it all alone when you probably need as much as I do No, oh say Johnny. Yeah When are you and I gonna be able to take these awful looking bandages off our heads? We'll talk about that later I got to get back to my room now. You're sure I can't I'm sure Now lock this door Quickly and quietly I went back downstairs to two or three and cautious of let myself in leaving the door unlocked Nobody been there. I'd made it in time But now all I could do is wait Here Andy better make it fast. Oh, what's the matter? What you call about that pretty little package you dropped off for the lab land Yeah, you sure we're right about a bomb, huh? If you were Mike had opened that package by now, you'd be spread all over the island and tiny little pieces look Johnny Come on. Let me in on it. Huh? What are you up to down there? I'll tell you when it's all over that is if what I think is gonna happen does happen Are you sure you don't want some help? No, I think I get it gotta go I'd hurt footsteps out in the hall quickly I slid into the bed leaving nothing but my heavily bandaged head showing The footsteps passed and then far down the corridor. I heard a door open and close But I still am waited And lying there thinking I began to wonder if I'd been right in turning down Randy's offer of help Yet, how could he help with them? Footsteps again And this time they stopped outside my door that voice was daddy bills and he wasn't alone He's in here. All right smell that booze. He's there on the bed asleep. I mean drunk close door Hey, Sam dead to the world Are you sure this is going to be safe Dutchie? Why do you suppose I took so long to case the job? Yeah, but what about dollar? I told you Bill at the wall dog. You sure you talked to him No, no, he was in the coffee shop. I shut up get this over with Always we do that dirty work for you. All right. This one. I'll do myself Who's Wait a minute that's Mike who's on that bed Shut up All right dollar you can get up out of that bed and take it in the chest or lay there and get it in the back All right, Cosgrave Touching both hands up high drop that gun sure Shut him up out there bill. Yeah daddy bill Quiet dollar you'd better do something cause gravy. Well, you have two witnesses the man who always kept his skirts clean, huh quiet Bill let him in we'll lock them both off make it look like a fight between them something on our way boss Johnny is something that I'm coming in. Oh, no, you Randy hey, you're real rough. Aren't you now wait a minute there Mike? Get up off his chest. I Want to see what your dear friend daddy bill looks like? What'd you hit him with anyway? Oh? Yeah, the poor bottles are broken. Let's think it happened to you Mike. Ah This is Dutchie Gordon alias J. Wesley Cosgrave He won't be for long. All right. Well, what's that daddy bill you feeling better? He always hung it on somebody else What are you talking about lefty shortly all of them this one need to hung on me? Well, not this time Randy Cosgrave dead as a doorknob When daddy bill comes to after that sock on the chin you can tell him he's cooked his own goose my Well will be a bit better without Dutchie Gordon alias J. Wesley Cosgrave and of course the courts will take care of daddy bill I can plenty Mike Indestructible Mike Well, he'll probably outlive the rest of us. I hope I can get out of see you now then talk over our great adventure together Expense account total 1126 50 which is a lot less than the 50,000 you might have had to pay off on Mike Yours truly Johnny dollar Now here's our star to tell you about next week's intriguing story next week the heady romance of moonlight on a lonely beach in Mexico Moonlight from a killer's moon Join us. Won't you yours truly Johnny dollar yours truly Johnny dollar starring Bob Bailey's Described in Hollywood it is produced and directed by Jack John stone who also wrote this story Heard in this week's cast were Howard McNair Lawrence Dubkin Harry Bartel her by grin Allen Reed and Roy Glenn Musical supervision by a marigol marino and Carl for Tina Be sure to join us on Monday night same time and station for another exciting story of yours truly Johnny dollar Roy Rowan speaking